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Pa e Two 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 of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly Irom October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. IX Thursday, Jan. 19, 1939 No. 7 1*37 Member 1938 PUsocided Cbllebicde Press ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briarfeate 3800 Co-editors Kathryn Byrne, Frances Geary Associate Editors Geraldine Ferstel, Angela Kospetos News Editors.. .Clare Anderson, Betty Vestal Assistants Mary Elizabeth O'Brien, Margaret Mary O'Flaheity Feature Editors Margaret Glccson, Adelaide Nilles Assistants La Vonne Hayes, Joan Kaspari Sports Editor Frances Sayre Reporters Mary DeAcetis, Mary Lou Bell, Eileen Mahoney, Mildred Mahoney, Mary Margaret Mitchell, Helen Murphy, Ruth Schmid, Marie Von Driska, Marjorie Fess- ler, Jean Fraser. Vivian Steinberg. The Ego in Indecision or Intellect vs. Inclination Intellect: (matter of fact) There's a retreat at the end of the month. Inclination : Yes. 1 : Yes, you're making it. I: (naive) I? Why? I: It's the thing to do scheduled by Ihe Administration, and all that, and be sides do you really want to know why? 1: Yes. Care to tell me ? I: I'll let you tell yourself. Ready for a quiz? 1 : Ready. I: (challenging) Does your life make sense? Are you directing it toward a definite goal ? I: (hesitating) Well, not too much, (brightly) It's fun, though. I: Ever tried to figure it out ? What ou are going to do with it, for instance? I: (remembering) Yes, 1 have one rainy night last spring. I: Good idea. You might do a better job of living if you realized, practically, what it was all about where you are where you are going the way you can get there best . . . I: I suppose so. I: (dogged) A retreat would give you time to think about these things prob ably do you a lot of good. I: (enthusiastic) So would Florida. Now, 1 thought if I left right after ex ams . . . (blissful) It's so much warmer in Florida. I: (pointed) Nothing like being accli mated for eternity. By the way. that leads us to question two Where will you be 100 years from now? I: (regretful) Dead. I: Wrong on that one. Materially, yes, but spiritually you'll be very much alive pleasantly, or otherwise. I: True enough. I: (determined) Question three: How much time do you spend with a view to preparing for life 100 years hence I mean in prayer and meditation ? I: (uncomfortable) Well . . . morning prayers ... a visit or two to the Chapel . . . night prayers . . . that amounts to about 20 minutes a day more on Sun days. I: (driving home) Why did God make you ? ? I: (tripping) God made me to know Him. to love Him . . . (trailing) to serve Him in this world . . . 1: Catch on ? I: I'm afraid so. I: (iood. See you in retreat. SKYSCRA PE How to Keep Friends R A FTER months of popularity, Dale Carnegie's not-too-heavy book How to Win Friends and Influence People is absent from the New York Herald- Tribune's listing of best sellers. Per haps it is because Mr. Carnegie only told us how to win friends. It seems that the time is ripe for a plan by which college students who have won friends may learn to keep them. This proposi tion might be fulfilled by a supplement ing of the heavy classroom reading with reading for pure enjoyment, for vicarious experience, and, incidentally, for the purpose of being interesting people. We all cry out, aghast we have no time Where is the magic formula which will enable us to read for pleasure, for imaginary experience, for brightness in social contacts? There is no magic at all it is just a plan devised by a college president, and not so recently, either President Eliot's plan for spending 15 minutes a day in worthwhile reading. (Eliot of the Harvard Classics.) Now to find the 15 minutes Too many of us feel that we haven't 15. or 10, or five minutes a day but we could find as many as 60 minutes if we really tried. Read Ferdinand the Bull before breakfast, and chuckle all day over the aesthetic bovine who sat in the grass all clay smelling the pretty flowers. Have Why Was Lincoln Murdered? or My Sister Eileen with you on the bus going to and from school. Take out Ethan Frome between classes. Spend the last 15 minutes of Friday's lunch period with Booth Tarkington or Belloc. While your nail-polish is drying, try Lord Jim or Ogden Nash's verse. If you are a home economics major, don't miss a single book of the Hundred Million Guinea Pigs type, and if you have journalistic leanings, read Three Rousing Cheers, Turbulent Years, or Ladies of the Press. History students will like the Bounty books. Noel Cow ard's Cavalcade, Tolstoi's War and Peace, and Wildes' Valley Forge. To the student interested in English, we suggest Kipling, Chesterton, and Keats. Just form this habit of 15 minutes a day for pleasurable reading, and see how the 15 minutes will stretch to 20, to 40, to an hour and a half. It's sur prising how many minutes can be lifted out of an apparently full day, and to what better use can they be put than to reading? Read something, read many things, read, read, read After Lima - gt; - 17 YEN those of us who confined our holiday newspaper reading to glimpses at the headlines are aware that 21 Amer ican countries convened in Lima, Peru, in December for the Eighth Pan-Ameri can Conference. Led by Secretary of State Cordell Thill. 11 representatives of the United States joined the delegates of the 20 Latin and South American states to re- afirm their continental solidarity and to pledge themselves to defend their prin ciples against any foreign intervention or activity that may threaten them. Though political commentators have decried the conference as a failure in that it fell short of expectations, it is significant in that it reminded American citizens anew that there are in the Western Hemisphere other peoples and other powers. Press attention is ordinarily centered upon European nations, partly because European nations have been, since Co lonial days, the chief export market for American goods. With Euorpe in a state of unpredict able chaos, however, it is encouraging to reflect that there are valuable markets and valuable allies in the Western Hem isphere, and that a tightening of the bonds of interest and friendship that unite North, Central, and South Ameri can nations may insure enduring peace in the Western Hemisphere and demon strate to the world in general that inde pendent nations may share a continent prosperously and harmoniously. 'Round Town Points of View On Early Catholicism Catholic influence upon early American history was stressed by the Reverend Raphael Hamilton, S.J., of Marquette university at a recent meeting of the American Catholic Historical association. The order and efficiency in existence in the days of the early American frontier, Father Hamilton pointed out, was due almost entirely to the Catholic Church. (ailing attention to the work of the French and Spanish missionaries, an in fluence which many historians have over looked, Father Hamilton noted that many generations before the Lewis and Clark expedition the Church was a well estab lished organization. The play's the thing in the collegians list of musts in her round towning this next fortnight, with amateur and profes sional talent sharing the spotlight. As a Step forward in collective Cath olic action, following the plan suggested by Emmet Lavery in an address to the student assembly last spring, the Loyola Community Theatre is presenting the Tower Players of Winnetka in THE CURTAIN RISES, a romantic comedy in three acts by Benjamin Kaye, on Jan. 23 and 24. Concetta Alonzi '38, winner of the Laetare Golden Rose last year, plays the lead. The Cisca Alumni Players are present ing The PATSY, a three-act comedy, by Barry Convers, at the Providence High School auditorium, on Jan. 29. Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer prize play, OUR TOWN, opens at the Selwyn, Jan. 23. The drama is played on a bare stage, with only an occasional suggestion of a property or two. As the stage manager, Frank Craven explains things genially and informally to the audience, indicat ing who is who, interspersing his re marks with witty comments as the action progresses. Fresh from her success as the author of DITHERS AND JITTERS, a series of satirical sketches, Cornelia Otis Skin ner reveals another side of her versatile self starring in George Bernard Shaw's comedy masterpiece, CANDIDA, opening at the Grand Opera House. Jan. 24. The Chicago opening will be the American premiere of the production, and at the same time the first appearance of Miss Skinner in a standard dramatic play. Other stage appearances by the actress have been confined to monologues. Your musical taste can be satisfied at a pop concert at Orchestra Hall, on Jan. 21; or, by Frank Bishop, an Amer ican pianist, in his first Chicago recital, on Sunday afternoon at Orchestra Hall. Read It and See Pertinent in view of current world af fairs is GERMANY AND ENGLAND by Raymon J. Sontag. Though the treat ise covers the background of the conflict between these two nations from 1848 to 1894, he suggests here that as the states man of England and Germany negoti ated in the nineteenth century, they still negotiate today in a room darkened by misunderstanding and haunted by ghosts of men and actions long past. i-fci KVT-UMIZ We hope you're fine in '39 But life begins in '40. HAPPY NEW YEAR and how are your resolutions today? Ours are fine. We've rapped them in cellophane and packed them in moth balls, and we're sure they'll keep be cause we've been using the same set for the past four years. We hope you're fine in '39 But life begins in '40. Dear Santa : You certainly came through with the Christ mas presents all we asked and more to wit: 1. The fur coat: see Geraldine Ferstel, Marj Miiellinan, Marjorie Thomas, and as sorted others. 2. The chiffon formal we especially liked Editor Kay Byrne's. 3. The smart housecoat: recipients too nu merous lo mention. 4. The football tackle to go to the Sky scraper Ball: June Provines may she have the most glamorous of New Years informs us that Notre Dame's star tackle showed up to take Peggy Jordan. 5. The Christmas hosiery: you did your part, Santa, but we danced our way right through it. (Memo: Write the Easter Bunny today.) 6. The various and sundry small acces sories : This is where you really shone, Santa Clans, what with a pipe organ for Virginia McGiiin. liquid lipstick for Georgette Thoss, and a bookcase for the erudite columnist who writes Scrapings. Gratefully, The Skyliner We hope you're fine in '39 But life begins in '40. And now to a story being circulated among students in education classes who are learning the good and the bad about progressive educa tion. A small boy who attended one of those let- the-eliild-exprcss-hiniself schools was told by his teacher of creative art to take home with him a piece of black paper and a piece of white paper and to make some sort of picture on each piece during the holidays. The small boy put the pieces of paper care fully in his desk and proceeded to forget all about them during the Santa Claus season. Blue Tuesday (the day one returns to school after the holidays) the teacher called for the pictures. Suddenly inspired by memories of the vaca tion and by a picture he had once seen of a snow storm, he whipped out the two pieces of paper, and held them up for inspection. But Hubert, the teacher protested, amazed, as teachers always are, to learn that he had not spent the entire vacation on assignments, You have no picture. Whereupon Hubert demonstrated the really progressive values of progressive education. Holding up the black sheet of paper, he an nounced : Oh, yes, I have. This is a picture of an Ethopian shoveling coal in a mine at mid night; and this, holding up the white piece, this is a picture of an old lady with white hair, wearing a white ski suit, and riding a white horse in a snowstorm. We hope you're fine in '39 But life begins in '40. If you're off to a Hying start for the New Year, don't be like the senior zoology major who boarded the train at Irving Park that Tues day morning and then went back to sleep. She dreamed right past Mundelein and on up to How ard, where a kindly conductor turned the train around and started her back to school. We hope you're fine in '39 But life begins in '40. Just thought of another resolution: Resolved: That we should persuade the Faculty to send the semester examinations to the Information Please program and have the experts answer them. If they're good enough for the experts, they're good enough for us We hope you're fine in '39 But life begins in '40.
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