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Page Two SKYSCRAPER 'If I Were a Freshman Again . / I'd be grateful for Mundelein and for the first-year grassy greeness that covers several multitudes of errors. . . . Jerry Stutz, Student Activities Council President. I would learn that three tardinesses do constitute a class absence. . . . Mary Catherine Tuomey, Senior Class President. 1 would start my term papers earlier so they'd be ir. on time. . . . Jean Casey, S. A. C. Vice-President. I'd use the- library more for both the knowledge and the view it has to offer and I'd study more. . . . Sheila Finney, S. A. C. Secretary. I would especially like to plan for another four-year stay at Mundelein. . . . Regina Bess, S. A. C. Treasurer. I would be much more awed at the sight of a senior than I was three years ago. for now I know what makes a senior deserve her name; she has survived three years of college study and is facing the climax of her career comprehensives. . . . Rose mary Roeder, Sodality Prefect. I would start right away getting the habit of being on time, se thai when grades were sent Out I wouldn't be shocked to find out I no longer belonged. . . . Mary Frances Padden, Junior Class President. I'd remember that by doing my assignments during the week, I could leave my week-ends free for relaxation and entertainment. . . . Marianne Peterson, Sopho more Class President. I would be patient (actively patient as St. Monica was) believing that, among all the things that come, there will be an understanding of every piece of Catholic col lege life and its place an understanding that would make me Complacently gay. . . . Mary Louise Hector, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Mundelein College Review. I would spend some time each week in the periodical room of the library, keeping up with current events, recent books, etc. . . . Eileen Murphy, Co-Editor-in- Chief, Mundelein College Review. I'd do Mademoiselle assignments. '. . . Jayne King, Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Sky scraper. I'd charter a bus that would never break down, would always be warm, would always have plenty of seats, and would get me to school on time.' . . . Mary Grace Carney, Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Skyscraper. 1944 And a New Lepanto On Europe's and Asia's blood-drenched battlefields, two armies are locked in dead ly combat, and the world waits in hopeful but anguished suspense for the outcome. It is a time for action and prayer on the battlefield, and for prayer and action on the home front. This is not the first time that peoples of all nations have banded together to supress the tyranny of rulers who wanted to force their ideas on an unwilling world. This is not the first time that a Christian civili zation, centuries old, has been threatened by a power-maddened leader. This is not the first time that nations have turned to the Mother of God for aid. It will be 373 years tomorrow since the Battle of Lepanto. With the combined fleets of Spain. Venice, and Genoa, Don John of Austria, in that famous battle, repelled the attacks of Selim II, whose Turkish armies threatened to extinguish the torch of Christian culture kindled throughout the centuries. In that day of stress, the world turned to the Mother of God. through her Rosary. Churches were thronged day and night by the faithful who meditated on the mys teries of the Rosary. Public processions through the main streets and towns beseeched her aid, as Rosary beads slipped softly through ear nest lingers. Mary did not disappoint her faithful followers. Their cause, Christen dom's cause, triumphed. To celebrate this Christian victory, un der the influence of Mary, Pope Pius V instituted the feast of the Most Holy Ros ary, and added the title, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, to the Litany of-the Blessed Virgin. From that time forward, every country in which the name of Mary is loved and honored has celebrated the sev enth of ()ctober as the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary. October, the month of the Most Holy Rosary, is the month all Mundelein stu dents should re-dedicate to Mary. We should pledge ourselves anew- to visit the Chapel at the opening of the lunch hour, 11 or 12 o'clock daily, and to recite the Rosary, in honor of Our Lady, for the re lief of a suffering world. We should determine, through our faith fulness to the daily Rosary for Peace and for Victory, that the Cross of Christ will crush the crooked cross of Nazidom and the crossless paganism of Japan. The Mother of God heard the prayers of Chris tendom at Lepanto. She will hear our prayers today. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE Chicago.IUinois 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 of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1897, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. XV Friday, Oct. 6, 1944 No. 1 Member ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chief Mary Grace Carney, Jayne King Associates Jerry Stutz. Mary Catherine Tuomey Copy Editors Eleanor Arends, Joan Templeman Associates Viola Brennan, Mary Martha Cooper, Dolores Hartigan, Lois Hintze. Patricia Hollahan, Audrey Mc Donnell Feature Editors Mary Beecber, Patricia Curran, Sheila Finney, Genevieve Urbain News Editors Regina Bess, Florence Jankowski Associates Celeste Boudreau, Patricia Lee, Dolores Toniatti. Gladys Sulli van Sports Dolores Cervcnka, Colleen Rettig Reporters: Mary Ann Anderson, Ruth Casey, Mary Thcrese Gullo, Jean Halm, Joan Klene, Adeline Laschiazzi, Marcia Maloney, Ra- mona Marinelli, Patricia Meany, Regina Milligan, Rcsemary O'Connor, Jeane On- desco, Mary Catherine Quinn, Ruth Reyn olds, Rosemary Templeman. Looking at the World Through Freshman-Colored Glasses Right now, before I forget, before I lose the newness of beginning, before I really belong, let me remember what it was like. Mundelein that first week . . . tall, broad- shouldered, and big, big enough for the 412 of us with room left over for inciden tals like Faculty and upperclassmen; nice enough to pay attention to little things like me . . . dear enough to have a little walled garden near the library, to lay a break water against the Lake, to take a little tuck in our hearts with the chaste splendor of the Chapel, to face the world under Jophiel's Torch of Truth, and then to stop still at the Angelus bell . . . human enough to have elevators and long, long stairs that go up and up, to tell me I am lit erary and artistic and then suggest that 1 study economics, to leave me standing in the pool wondering what comes next, to let me meet the Dean as 1 unwittingly exit from the elevator on the first floor, to be next to Loyob . . . human enough to pro vide a fountain-pen filling station . . . and wonderfully human enough to have people, friendly, wonderful, heart-warming, hand shaking, smile-wearing Mundelein people who listen while I remember . . . that this is what it was like. You Can't Pronounce It, Perhaps, But You Can Read . . . PERELANDRA, by . nl CoSvLew1S,ls J pianct of love, ion share with him the thrilling experienced of his secret mission to this strange and wonderful world where a dragon becomes his first companion and a green lady actSi as hostess. Read of his almost overwhelm ing conflict with Mr. Weston, who, sinister and strangely inhuman, attempts to introj (luce horror and destruction into the Pani dise where love and beauty dominate and death has never sounded his bitter chord It is FANTASTIC fantas-v of g lden skies; UN tAoU(- k-;n,-o f hUes, houndlessl In it you see a fairyland and brilliant seas of green translucence. and floating islands, fragn.nt with iridescent fruit,' where the nights are moonless and impene trably dark. It is In it you enjoy the unique BIZARRE st gt;'e f a fascinating novel with depth and significance beneath its delightfully fantastic plot. A sequel to OUT OF THE SILENT FLAX- ET, this book is written by the author whose SCREVVTAPE LETTERS are fa miliar to many readers. Mr. Lewis' superb imaginative ability and striking word pic tures create an atmosphere of enchantment '. . . And They Lived Happily Ever After* Once upon an October in. let's say. 1944. some 900 shining-haired, fresh-faced students started on a won drous treasure hunt. These hunters inhabited a sky- reaching mountain of a building whose facade bore the inscription Mundelein College. Part of the treasure was given to each one of the 900, almost without a search. Each one sat in cubicles call ed classrooms, and Faculty- members placed before her a priceless portion of the riches with which to adorn her mind and her heart, and she visited each day a Cita del, a Sanctuary of Peace. Sometimes she received these treasures without knowing their worth. But ever after, they made her life and the lives of those about her more meaningful, more worthwhile. In one part of the moun tain, however, clues for a hidden part of the treasure were to be found to the hunters, the place was known as the Bookstore lounge, but in reality it was the Land of Opportunity, for the trail to a special hoard of riches began there. Lining the boundaries of the Land of Opportunity were rectangular bark-like sections of material known as bulletin boards. Each was marked with the name of what the hunters called a club. And tacked be neath every club name was a slip of paper, issuing (in strange script yclept typ ing ) an invitation to the shining-haired students to attend the initial meeting of the club. To most of the students, the white slips were nothing more than club notices, but to the wise and wary ones they were the clues to treasure the meetings wert the open sesame to a new wealth of knowledge, o companionship, of pleas ure, of give and take. The foolish students tried to grasp at every clue, and spent neither time nor pa tience on any one search. Their portions of each treas ure were scant and had nl lustre. But the wary and the wist chose the clues cautiouslj AH treasures are not fori every one. Each elected I follow only two or three and to the seeking out their rewards each bent her endeavors, until at lengj the riches she amassi shone and sparkled like thl sun, and pleased every eji that chanced to fall upoj them. They're Talking About . . . J70UR months ago today the historic in- * vasion of Europe began, flanked by the petitions of millions of Americans wdio prayed that their boys and their country might be victorious. Our armies advanced, spurred on by God's support, and will con tinue to advance at the same rate as the Christians of the nation entreat the King of Peace for aid. One minute of prayer at 10:00 a.m. every morning from every Mundelein student will bring triumph a few hours closer. C WITCH BOARD operators seem to be seized with a desire to express them selves beyond ? mere Good Morning, or recitation of the name of the company they represent. One loop concern offers some thing unique in a telephone greeting as the operator chant:- pleasantly, Back the at tack ; Buy more War Bonds; company; Good Morning. The greeting, while it almost floors the listener at first hearing, detracts from the usual unfriendly anonymity of a call to a large firm. * * * LJOW You Gonna Keep Em Down on 1 * the Farm may do an about-face when the World War II armistice is signed. NEWSWEEK reveals that bargain-minded GI's in France are bartering help with the farm chores for general good treatment by the farmers. * * * DECAUSE they want a voice in the Pa- Li cific peace terms, and because they be lieve that only by participation in the war can they achieve that voice, the Soviet peo pie. David M. Nichol, Daily N'ews corre-, spondent in Moscow, believes, will figbfj against Japan as soon as the German warjj over. pOUR days ago, 100 American airmen, * almost all of them wearing the Purple Heart, filled phone booths at the North Western station, eager to relay the news that their stay in a Rumanian prison camp was ended. The horrors of being shot down over the oil fields of that countrj left no outward traces; their faces regis tered only exuberance over their 30-day furloughs and impatience to get them started. HTHE Dumbarton Oaks 20-page agree- A ment, according to reports, needs more smoothing out. The United States and Britain agree with China that no natiot party to a dispute should have a vote ii settling that dispute. Russia, rumor say- claims that a major power should always have a vote on everything.
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1944-10-06 (2)
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