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Page Two SKYSCRAPER European Plan? Student's Only Solution Lies Between Two Worlds e to take only two examinations dur- ds too good to be true? Well, students animation after freshman year and one r steamship tickets to Europe. the freshman examination you must amship ticket cancellations, d be if you never had to show up for ducation is simply a matter of going to e course will cover. And, of course, Think how wonderful it would b ing your entire college career Soun on the European continent take one ex after senior year. The line forms to the right fo Oh best you know. If you fail take the entire year over again. The line forms to the left for ste Imagine how boring college woul classes In some European schools e your professor and finding out what th taking the examination ultimately. Time Out For Reflection . . . Recollection Day Offers Retreat From Worldliness There comes a time in every collegian's life when she should stop com plaining about heavy assignments and loss of sleep, and begin recognizing her blessings, regardless of what form they take. Three days a year, Mundelein College suspends academic operations and turns its mind completely to God. A girl can get a good night's sleep beforehand, forget about assignments, put on her best dress and hat, and come to school in search of spiritual and mental composure. On Recollection days she can stop taking notes and simply sit, listen, and absorb. Even the student who has devised an almost perfect schedule, fitting everything into its proper element, can find life pretty difficult after the first six weeks of school. There is always an unexpected research paper popping up, or we run in to a little more difficulty than expected in one of our major courses. Book reports start piling up, and we find ourselves becoming recluses on weekends, always hoping to clear things up. The average college girl hits not just one of these snags annually; they keep appearing during the course of each year. How many times have we said: If I had only a day just one day when I could forget all about it Three days a year Mundelein College suspends academic operations and turns its mind completely to God. These three days are spaced out one in November, one in February, one in April. How many of us take advantage of them? How many of us sneak in a textbook when we should be doing spiritual reading or just plain re-eval uating our goals, hopes, ambitions? How many of us take advantage of a day on which no one will be hurt if we do not speak to her, when silence is the thing we should be seeking? Endless chatter in the tea room, Phoenix room, Union, and lockers is fine but even that becomes rather hectic after a while. We should look forward to a Day of Recollection as a different day, a definite and legitimate break from routine. Three days out of nine months we stop, we pray, and we listen to whatever God may tell us. So let's put on our best dresses and our best hats and leave all our texts behind for it really can be a great day Culture Corner . . . City Qoes High Brow As Qrand Opera Arrives Grand Opera returns to Chicago this year under the auspices of the Lyric Theater. The season, which be gins today and continues through Dec. 3, will include selections from famous operas, presentation of guest soloists, and ballet productions. Aida, II Trovatore, La Boheme, Ma dame Butterfly, The Merry Widow, and Rigoletto are among the operas to be presented at the Civic Opera 1 louse. A chorus of 75 voices will support the voices of such world renowned singers as Marie Meneghini-Callas, Bjoerling, Dorothy Kirsten, and others. The Lyric Theater will present three gala ballet productions starring Alicia Markova, Vera Zorina, and Oleg Briansky. All In Favor Motion Carried? All in favor say 'Aye,' All opposed motion carried. How many times we've heard those words when a vote is taken at an as sembly. No one is opposed that is, at the time of the assembly. What about afterwards? Then we hear complaints about the matter. But let's face reality. We have no right to complain. We were given a free choice and we voted for it. That is some of us voted. The rest just followed the crowd. How often we are shallow enough to fall into the crowd of yes peo ple. We answer yes to every thing whether we agree to it or not. It is difficult to understand why we act this way. We dare to be different in our clothes even in our hair styles, but when it comes to more serious matters, we sometimes sit like mechanical dolls. Of Kith and Kin . . . Family Tree's Shining Young Star May Need More Polish Brothers come in all shapes and sizes ranging from two feet nothing to six feet anything. At their most interesting phase of life, they are long-armed, hunched over, and wear size 11 shoes. A brother is a girl's staunchest friend, her most vehement critic. He can find in her character, her manner, and her figure flaws that she had overlooked in her most scrutinizing self-inventory. But if anyone else, inside or outside the family circle, criticizes her too sharply, he is at her side like a knight in shining armor. You can ask him a simple question like What lucky member of the fair sex have you chosen to escort to the fall dance? and he'll probably tell you to mind your own business. And 10 minutes later when you're in your room steeped in a French as signment, he '11 suddenly pop his head in the door and volunteer more infor mation about his love life than you ever would have dreamed of seeking out. For the most part, a brother is afraid of almost nothing famine, the dark, strong-armed thugs, and certainly not work. He would fall asleep right beside the latter. Almost means not entirely. Page him for a telephone call with the an nouncement, It's a girl, and he folds up like an accordian. Most brothers belong to the we- never - get-dressed-up-unless-it's abso lutely-necessary cult. The uniform is faded blue jeans, a ragged T-shirt, and a pair of tennis shoes. It is most impressive when your best beau comes to meet the family for the first time. Brothers have an amazing sense of modesty. They may hold any office from president of the Glee club to class valedictorian, and, chances are, you won't know a thing about it until three years later. But when the old jalopy gets up over 60 mph. the whole world knows about it. It is virtually impossible to stay angry at a brother for longer than five minutes. He always chooses the exact moment when you are most pur ple with rage or most blue with de jection to do his funniest Jerry Lew is imitation. And you become secret ly convinced that he could put TV's most successful comedian out of busi ness if he half tried. Vol. XXVI Nov. 1, 1955 No. 3 Why don't we say what we think? Aro we afraid of what others will think if we don't have the same opinion they have? The chances are that they will ad mire us for having the courage they didn't have. At student assemblies few of the motions proposed deal with world- shaking matters. Even so, intelligent consideration of them, open discussion, gives us valuable experience in self- expression and in the honest examin ation of our own beliefs and opinions. A brother can give more advice than Dorothy Dix, but he never take? any, at least not while you 're looking. ; He will probably forget your birth day, but, forget his, and he is wound ed to the core. He may hide behind axle grease, football padding, and nat ural male conceit. But when, for the fraternity pledge dinner, he emerges, spotless and debonnaire in a white tux or when he greets plumpish Mom with a Hi, Slim you pause in grateful ad miration of this most amazing of creatures. Jne )nu5craper Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30,1931, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under Uk Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to Miy inclusive by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Co-editors-in-chief Jean Kielty, Marie Kobielus, Nancy Mammoser Associate Diane Letoumein Editorial Assistants Chandra Camp, Marilyn Santini, Genevieve Teutsch Student View Rita Caprini Skyscrapings Maribeth NaughtM Of Mud and Men Alice Bourkt Fluctuating Fashions Marguerite Philipps Cheery-Otis Sandra Marek Culture Corner Patricia Gulino Artist Joyce Kuhlmann Reporters Mary Lou Doherty, Geraldine Battista, Michaella Burton, Bea trice Hoang, Maureen Connerty, Marilyn Devereaux, Jeanine Dwyer, Dolores Fer raro, Barbara Guderian, Marilyn Jensen, Sandra Marek, Gloria Mrazek, Marguerite Phillips, Alice Raczak, Lynda Roussean, Diane Scifres, Lynne Sheeran, Kathleen Slattery, Dorothy Strzechowski, Alma Swea- ton, Ann Toland, Jean Vetterick, Mary- therese Walsdorf, Joan Zander, Janice Zum- wait.
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1955-11-01 (2)
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