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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER March 31, 1936 THE SKYSCRAPER Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charity, B. V. M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. f 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. VI. March 31, 1936 No. 10 EgSj ALL-AMERICAN HONORS 1935 Member 1936 Pissoc'ided Golle6iate Press ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briargate 3800 SKYSCRAPER STAFF Editor-in- Chief Charlotte Wilcox Associate Dorothy O'Donnell Managing Editor Jean McKeever Associate Catherine Heerey News Editors . Catherine Ott, Ann Ellen Smith Features Anna Marie Masterson Assistants -...Jane Spalding, Julia Mary Hanna, Catherine Ann Dougherty. Alumnae Mary O'Brien Athletics Gertrude Rafferty Exchanges Edythe Williams Business Manager ... Frances McCambridge Easter, Within, and Without HE EASTER Parade of top hats and boutonnieres is on The latest taffeta petticoats swish under new chic tailored suits. The heels of gabardine slippers click their way beside be-spatted black oxfords. Slim canes silver-tipped, gold-tipped, plain brown reflect the rays of the April sun. Violets and gardenias nestle on tweed and broadcloth shoulders. The solemn mien of Lent has given way to the joyous exhilaration of Eastertide. And the Easter parade goes by. Yet what of those solemn days preced ing this gay spectacle the days when Church ceremonies are the reenactment of a nineteen-hundred-year-old drama? The three-night Tenebrae, with its mournful chanting and ominous darkness of fourteen extinguished candles; the Holy Thursday Mass, birthday of the Blessed Eucharist; Good Friday Tre Ore will Mundelein students be present at these? Will they spend one short half-hour on Holy Thurs day in adoration? It is a tradition of the College Sodality to have student represen tatives taking adoration in their own Churches during every hour of the day on this great Eucharistic feast. A chart of adoration periods will be placed on the Sodality bulletin board, and students are urged to sign for turns in their own churches, thus insuring a Mundelein Guard of Honor on duty all over Chicago on Holy Thursday. With the beauty of Holy Thursday, the tragedy of Good Friday, and the expectant joy of Holy Saturday behind them, men, women, and children, smartly clad, march briskly in the Easter Parade. Where do they go ? With the peace of Easter deep in their souls, they go forth in quest of the Saviour, as His friends did on that Easter long ago, and their hearts sing the age-old melody as they bow their heads at the Communion rail Alleluia, Alleluia In the Market for Investments? Scribe Gives Tip COLLEGIATE editorials are wont, at times, to emphasize what our debaters call flag-waving, and what the textbooks call stock abstractions about service, loyal ty, and cooperation. But experience has taught us that collegians do not read such editorials not at all. When one stops to consider, however, the enthusiasm which an appeal to paci ficism or militarism or the demerits of the unearned increment can arouse in a read ing audience, it seems a bit extraordinary that pleas for whole-hearted support of a school project such as the card party some times meet with more or less careless in difference. What, we wonder, has paci ficism that loyalty lacks? We suspect that the answer lies in the fact that loyalty presupposes effort, while pacificism, etc., presuppose nothing at all in the line of activity. Our conclusion, therefore, is that the public disapproval of arguments founded on loyalty is the psy chological defense of an unwillingness to go to any trouble about anything not immediately or visibly profitable. Now we do not believe, by any means, that the students generally are material istic-minded, and, in consequence, we shall stress the loyalty point later, but we are inspired to prove that there will be im mediate as well as remote profit for each one of us in the success of the card party. There is, primarily, the benefit of the library few of us will contend that the library is not one of the most beautiful buildings in the city none of us will deny that the view of the lake from the windows is inspiring, that the approach to the marble steps is in itself refreshing, that the subdued luxuriousness of the lobby and the periodical room invite study, and that the courtesy of the attendants and the wide variety of reference material are decidedly helpful when an impossible term paper or an intricate assignment stares us in the face. Let us remember, then, that the pro ceeds from annual card parties equipped and continue to finance the library. And then, let us consider the party itself. There is the fun of planning and at tending it, the thrill of pride we shall feel in our College and fellow collegians on the night it takes place, the beauty of the style show with our own friends modeling, and the ultimate sense of well-being and pur- posefulness that will be ours, whether or not our class wins the coveted holiday. The material advantage is strong, un doubtedly, but so is the loyalty plea, if we value our education and take pride in the name of our school. Our College is an easy and generous creditor in loaning op portunities. It is making a real invest ment in giving us an education we are Mundelein students wherever we go, and the name of our school will bring credit to us if we can bring credit to it. In con sequence, Mundelein may expect to collect co-operation from us in school enterprises, without fear of prosecution for usury. Shall we see to it that the College receives adequate return on its investment made for us? Note to Personalities: Take Heart 'O LONGER do girls who have de pended to a great extent upon per sonality and charm as their magnets to friendship have to feel that they have been pursuing the wrong policy. A recent sur vey at the Louisiana State university re vealed that clothes no longer make the woman, and that collegians who spend a minimum of money on their wardrobes and a maximum of effort upon being charming and cultivating pleasing disposi tions are, in the majority, better liked by their fellow students than were their clothes horse sisters. This is the doctrine that has been at the basis of the Mary-likeness movement; this is the fact that Catholic teachers have been impressing, or trying to impress, upon their students for centuries that external adornments are not all-important, that true charm and loveliness lie in the building up of our inner selves. With this added sup port from an outside source, we could feel justified in holding up our heads and say ing, I told you so. Instead, we issue the clarion call of encouragement Personali ties, take heart At Your Service During the card party rush, the S.A.C. has a temporary office on the fourth floor, just west of the seminar, where students may secure patron or advertisement letters, additional tick ets, or information about door and table prizes. A Council member is present, too, at almost every hour of the day this week in the locker room, to receive returns or to assist student promoters in any way, and to distribute posters to anyone who may know ol* advan tageous positions for them. We're Viewing the World Through Campus Glasses (ACP.) Robert Maynard Hutchins, much-quoted president of the University of Chicago, voiced the sentiments of many of us when he declared, I believe in vig orous physical exercise for other people. At the University of Wisconsin (where they discovered recently that the annual crop of lipstick on the campus would paint a barn) student reporters discovered that the ordinary bottle of ink will enable one to write 191,600 words if you don't spill any. Which equals how many term papers and book reports? Paging the math, de partment The Roman Catholic church is the great est single obstacle to communism, accord ing to the Reverend Edmund Walsh of the Georgetown University School of For eign Service. Variety is the spice of speech as well as of life, says a professor at Boston uni versity, disturbed by attempts of American educators to eliminate American dialects. Amherst students once packed a town meeting and voted the erection of a new city hall to be one foot wide, 100 feet long, and made of glass. Let's go, suffragettes Progression a la undergraduate: Hesi tation, Trepidation, Interrogation, Infor mation, Investigation, Confirmation, Jubi lation, Graduation. We are uncertain as to whether or not Popeye the Sailorman ever went to col lege, but the ACP tells us that spinach is the most popular vegetable in the student cafeteria at Emory university in Georgia. .- .- : SKVUIMIZ The Glee club was rehearsing. She had three lilies in her hand, they sang. Isn't that the peace flower? quoth Mr. Flan dorf. No, replied the soprano, The peace flower is sweet peas. * * * * The height of education reached a new low the other day when an inquiring re porter asked a straight-A student, Have you a dog? Yes, I have three goldfish, was the an swer. * * * HOMER UP-TO-DATE Greek instructor, after carefully explaining that the thorax is not the same as the throat: And now what piece of armor would a war rior wear around his thorax? Collegiate Chicagoan: A bullet-proof vest * * * * Proofreader A to Proofreader B: I thought it was i, but it must be u. Editor: Not another mistaken identity story? * * * Editor, to Moderator: Sister, how do you make a break? Moderator: One doesn't learn to do that. It just comes naturally. * * * * CO-ED And then there was the switchboard op erator who called the Bursar the other eve ning and said, There is a man here to pay his tuition. * * * * Freshman, to Librarian: Sister, do you have HSH ON FRIDAY? Librarian, gravely: On Friday ? Yes, and on Wednesday, and sometimes on other days. * * * * HOW WE SPELL OR SCRIBBLE (from the ubiquitous freshman themes) A little two-haired lad smiled up at him. On the front lawn was a lopsided birdpath, * * * * Sally Ann is a paragon Site's pretty, sweet, and gay. She's slim and trim, and, say, You ought to see the gowns She wears, and hats, and how They all look up when Sally, Sally Ann, I mean, comes in. The studio is hushed at once And when the bond begins to play, Sally Ann is on the air And everybody listens in. I'd like to be dear Sally Ann So pretty, sweet, and gay With voice so calm, and eyes So clear, and teeth of pearly Whiteness, and tresses soft And wavy. My dimpled chin, My ruby lips, and ears so Neatly rounded, I'd show to Mique And every tike, around the station. I'd sing my songs, and say my words With care and great precision For, get this straight Direct from me, I'm just the type for television. Maque's Mique. * * * t Elizabeth Higgins, making out the liturgy chart for this week: Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent, Day of the Great Scrutiny. Great Scrutiny? Sure enough, 1 have four tests on Wednesday how nice of the book to note theml Portrait of a student who handed in all her term papers, book reports, notebooks, etc., etc,, on time.
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1936-03-31 (2)
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