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THE SKYSCRAPER Freshmen Contest In Basketball PLAYERS SHOW FINE TEAMWORK The first game between the Fresh man Teams One and Two took place Monday, February 16, at three o'clock, in the Mundelein gymnasium, Team One winning by a score of twenty- three to thirteen. The first team was captained by LaVerne Waindle and the second by Marion Sifferman. The playing consisted chiefly of defensive action, and the two-court system was used. There were twenty-six points scored in the first half, seventeen of these being made by Team One, which shows that they kept the lead from the beginning. LaVerne Waindle of Team One started the scoring with a free throw at the outset, followed with a field basket. At the end of the first half, the score was thirteen to nine in favor of Team One. Marion Siffer man made three baskets, and Mar garet McKeon made two. The for wards on Team One displayed splen did team work, using some clever and fast passes. LINEUP OF FRESHMAN TEAMS Team One M. Pearson f L. Waindle (c) M. Lyon f M. Hora g P. Duzeski g G. Dooner g Substitutes M. F. Lang f M. Dee g Team Two E. Lincoln f M. Sifferman (c) M. McKeon f M. Mahoney g M. Farmer g M. J. Sullivan g Substitutes E. McGowan f E. Steinmiller g Maxine Garner Nelson, who re viewed Green Pastures, by Mark Connolly, for the students in the early part of the school year, has been added to the faculty of the English Department this semester. She is teaching the Survey of English Lit erature, and Public Speaking. Mrs. Nelson is a graduate of the University of Chicago, and later received the Master of Arts degree from North western University. SPLASH PARTY AT MUNDELEIN On Tuesday evening, February 17, Citizen Troops Numbers Seven and Eight, of the Girl Scouts, held their long awaited splash party in Munde lein pool. There were seventeen girls from the two troops there. Those present were: Miss Margaret McVey, captain of Troop Number Eight, Miss Mary Ellen Peckham, captain of Troop Seven, and the following troop mem bers: Helen Brocher, Miriam Brans- vitch, Mable Hales, Marie Kenning, Suzanne Levy, Rosemary McVey, Har riet Mares, Helen Meyer, Catherine O'Brien, Lauretta di Leo, Pauline Du zeski, Edna Schrubb, Mildred Stem- man, all of Troop Eight, and Miss L. Rackly and Miss J. Thurow of Troop Seven. They chose Mundelein pool on ac count of its superiority to those in the neighboring districts, its privacy, its beauty, and its general atmosphere of refinement as well as the size of its towels The girls enjoyed themselves im mensely. They found the springboard an excellent means of using up ex cess energy, and the surf balls, espe cially the large one, splendid for all kinds of water games. As they were leaving, several were heard to remark: This pool is keen Here's hoping we can come again, and soon, too Miss Margaret Ryan, recently from the cataloging department of the John Crerar Library, has become assistant cataloger at Mundelein College Li brary. Miss Ryan has spent a year and a half with the Public Library, and two years with the John Crerar Library, and this experience should qualify her for the somewhat formid able task of cataloging a library which has just come into existence within the last year. Miss Monica Reynolds, the resident nurse at Mundelein, is a graduate of St. Anthony's Hospital in Rock Island, Illinois, and for the past two years has been caring for World War Vet erans at the Veteran Bureau in Col orado. Miss Reynolds teaches Home Hy giene to members of the Home Eco nomics class and cares for the ail ments of all of the students. Her office is located in 507 on the northwest cor ner of fifth floor and patients are wel comed at all times. A large and richly-ornamented gold ostensorium was presented to Mun delein College by Mr. John T. Pen- dergast of Kansas City, Missouri, on the occasion of his visit to the college on Tuesday, February 3. It was used for the first time at the clos ing exercises of the Students' Retreat. The Home Economics Department has been enriched by an exquisite luncheon set of Italian cut work, the gift of Mrs. Katherine Pendergast, also of Kansas City. (Continued from page 1, column 2) from exposing ourselves unnecessarily to ideas which tend to lessen our hatred of sin, if not eventually to un dermine our faith. The speaker made his remarks concrete by discussion of particular authors and playwrights. Father Motherway did not condemn all literature which is not Catholic, but asserted that an intelligent per son is guided by intelligence in all things, including the choice of the books he reads. Father Motherway was formerly an instructor of . esuit scholastics at the University of St. Louis. The Terrapins, the Mundelein swim ming club, held its first meeting and its election of officers on February 20, in the swimming instructor's office. Elaine Krambles was elected presi dent, Mary Jane Sullivan vice-presi dent, and Marion Ryan secretary- treasurer. Pauline Duzeski was ap pointed chairman of a committee to draw up the constitution. Plans for club activities were out lined, and called forth much enthu siasm. The first piece of work before them is the supervision of try-outs for the Terrapin Juniors on February 28 at two o'clock. There should be more expert swimmers in the college, and the Terrapins are determined to find them. (Continued from page 1, column 4) is held by Lenore Manning. Mary Lyon is a graduate of St Mary's High School. She is an enthu siastic athlete and plays forward on one of the freshman basketball teams. Both Marion Jeffers and Mar- jorie Cramer are graduates of the Ini- maculata. The former was president of her class in her senior year. Mar- jorie is doing splendid work as chair man of the Publicity Committee of Mundelein College Sodality. Katherine Brennan, a graduate of the high school at Mooseheart, Illi nois, is a member of the Classical Club. Lenore Manning comes from St. Seholastica's. She has pledged the Press Club. Ciscora Meets at Providence The second conference of Ciscora (1930-31) was held at Providence High School, on February 21, under the able chairmanship of Douglas McCabe, of Loyola University. The program planned earlier in the month was definite and replete, thus insuring a full day of discussion and planning. The meeting, called at ten o'clock, was opened with a prayer by Father Donnelly, S. J., and a word of wel come from Jayne Shearin, of Provi dence High School. The debate which opened the dis cussion was both an unusual and ef fective means of gaining the inter est of the sodalists. The affirmative side of the question, Resolved: that the foreign missions have been fur thered to the detriment of the home missions, was admirably upheld by Marjorie Delaney, of Mercy High School, and Lawrence Leonard, of St. Ignatius High. Their opponents, Mar garet Bourget, of the Immaculata, and Frank Garvey, of Loyola University, won the audience to the negative viewpoint, however, and received the favorable decision. The arguments set forth in the debate led to a heated discussion, pro and con, from the floor. William Wilkins, of Loyola, chair man of the Catechetical and Social Service Committee, reported the num ber of catechists and made an appeal for more teachers. He remarked that Mundelein was among the leaders in this field of Sodality endeavor. The chairman of the Publicity Committee, Harriet Cahill of Marywood, proposed a plan to advertise Ciscora and put it on the map through newspaper publicity and a half-hour session over radio station WIBO. The Braille re port of Louise Lux, Alvernia High, was indicative of the vast interest Ciscora has in working for the blind. The books and magazines: transcribed into Braille are rapidly growing in number and the inspiring talk of Miss Lux won many more to the cause. During the afternoon session, Miss Bourget proposed that Ciscora pledge its support to the Religious and Edu cational Committee of the World's Fair of 1933. A site lias been offered for the erection of a log cabin to commemorate the hut of Father Mar quette and Joliet, while the Forest Preserve Commission has promised to furnish the logs for the building. Rus sell Olsen, of St. Ignatius High, sup plemented these remarks and offered the resolution that we pledge our support and co-operation with the World's Fair by buying tickets and by giving aid wherever possible. This resolution was adopted. Morality and the Theater was the subject of a talk by Betty Lapp, of St. Seholastica's. The keynote of the talk was, Clean out the movies, with further remarks giving arguments and reasons for so doing. The movie pro- PARENTS MAKE NEW TRADITION Parents, friends, and students made up the large assembly which was present at the final exercises of re treat, thus establishing a new and gracious tradition, as well as pro moting personal interest and contact between the faculty and the parents of the students. Father Keith extended a cordial in vitation to the parents and the mem bers of the family to attend the con cluding Mass and final conference, and to receive the Apostolic Blessing given at solemn Benediction at the closing of the retreat. As a consequence, the serious-eyed students arrived on Fri day morning with gray-haired fathers, smiling mothers, tall brothers, and lit tle sisters in tow. The entire Catholic student body and many of the parents received Holy Communion during Mass. After the Benediction, the students and their parents had breakfast together in the cafeteria, and the family groups felt themselves a real part of the college. Coffee, fruit, and rolls were served, and the students greeted their teach ers again after the three days of honest-to-goodness silence. The Laetare Players announce the formal reception of pledges into the club. This significant event will take place on Laetare Sunday, which was selected by the members in the be ginning of the year as the appropriate feast day for the Laetare Players. Members and pledges will hear Mass in the college chapel, and will break fast together in the caieteria. More detailed data have not been released, but we infer that this affair will be one of the most outstanding of the year. COLLEGE FEATURED IN SUNDAY WALKS Miss Ann Duggan, a member of the editorial staff of the New World, vis ited Mundelein College Monday after noon, February 16, while on a walking tour of the North Side. Miss Duggan, who is a member of the class of '24 of St. Mary's College, Indiana, is conducting a series of travelogues in the New World un der the title of Sunday Walks. She will feature Mundelein in her story of this week's tour. Miss Duggan's at tractive column appeals to readers of the New World who are anxious to know Chicago and to familiarize themselves with its Catholic history and traditions. Registration for the second semes ter showed that the enrollment for Mundelein College, in its first year, has passed the four hundred mark. Thirty-two new students were accept ed for the second semester, the ma jority of whom have enrolled for the liberal arts course. The Secretarial and Home Economics Departments have each acquired three new stu dents. Two students registered for the School of Speech, and three for the Art Department. ducers and directors have adopted a moral code for their i/ictures consist ing of three main points: (1) No pic tures shall lower the moral stand ards of those attending; (2) there shall be correct standards of life ac cording to the requirements of drama anu entertainment; (3) national and divine laws shall not be ridiculed nor their violation sponsored. This moral code will not be followed unless it proves satisfactory in regard to box office receipts. 'Inerefore, a resolu tion was offered and adopted that Cis cora sponsor a campaign for tne sup port of clean movies, and that a com mittee be appointed to review the pic tures filmed according to the moral code to report on their dramatic merit, and to sell them to the public. Several subjects which promised to be interesting, together with the pro posed amendments for the Ciscora Constitution, were dropped for lack of time. The meeting adjourned at three- fiiteen with a rising vote of thanks to Providence High School, and Bene diction of the Blessed Sacrament. PRELATES, PRINTERS, AND PRESIDENTS I had wondered why February is Catholic Press Month. I was not surprised that there should be a Catholic Press Month; but why, from the twelve months of the year, select February for the purpose? Because the anniversaries of our two best-loved presidents are in the month of February, the only presi dents' birthdays that are generally known or celebrated throughout the nation, we are likely to think of February as a month when presi dents were born. Not to mention the religious fes tivals of February, the first impor tant anniversary of the month is February 2, when the groundhog comes forth to seek his shadow. From the beginning of the year we may have been wondering how long winter will last, but on this dajr the groundhog, official oracle of the weather, decisively settles the ques tion for the next six weeks, at least. And indeed, for even longer For who does not know that if March comes in like a lamb, it departs like a lion? (I believe it is generally supposed that this proverb does not refer to a tame lion). When the groundhog speaks ex cathedra, we can have few weather surprises until April Fool's Day. Another well known anniversary that occurs in February is Saint Valentine's Day. I had thought Saint Valentine must have been a very queer and somewhat ro mantic saint, and had indeed begun to doubt his very exist ence. But after consulting sev eral reference books the student's short cut to wisdom I found that not only was there one Saint Valen tine, but the varying accounts would lead one to think that there were from three to eight saints bearing that name. The singular thing about the Saints Valentine is that they seem to have all died on the same day. Evidence enough, surely, to lead to the supposition that the very name Valentine doomed them to die on February 14 Not much is definitely known about Saint Valen tine, singular or plural however, except of two of them, one a priest of Rome and the other a bishop of Terni. They both lived during the reign of the Emperor Claudius, both died on the same day, ana were buried on the Via Flaminia, but at different distances from Rome. However, not one of these saints is responsible for the customary cel ebration of February 14. The prac tice of writing love letters and of sending love tokens arose from the belief that the birds begin to pair in the middle of February. Chaucer mentions this belief in his Parlia ment of Foules : For this was Seynt Valentine's Day When every foule cometh ther to choose his mate. It was an early practice for lovers to call each other my Valentine. February is rather a short month to be chosen for anything so impor tant as Catholic Press Month. This month once had thirty days, but it lost two of them because of the selfish greed of two Roman em perors. Julius Caesar, and after him Augustus, wishing to add another day to the month named for himself, each took a day from the god Feb- ruus. February's only compensation for the loss of these two days is a twenty-ninth day in Leap Year. In spite of the shortage of days, February brings the birthdays of many interesting people Charles Dickens, Cardinal Newman, Horace Greeley, and Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of printing from movable type. Then, too, Aldus Manutius, founder of the Aldine Press at Venice, died in February, 1515. What other month can claim the anniversaries of two famous print ers? Which, perhaps, is the answer to my query as to why February was chosen as Catholic Press Month. Miss Ida Jaeger, principal of the Clinton Elementary School, together with a delegation from the Clinton Parent-Teachers' Association, includ ing Mrs. Mollahan, its president, vis ited Mundelein College on February 17, for a demonstration of the central radio broadcasting system throughout the college. The faculty of the Clinton school realize the necessity for a central an nouncing system similar to that of Mundelein to take care of the Board of Education announcements and to facilitate the receiving of the edu cational programs broadcast through radio station WMAQ. The installing of this modern system would bring fewer interruptions in the daily class work, and a higher educational stand ard could be more easily reached. Members of the Faculty attended the requiem high mass at St. Ignatius Church Friday morning for the Rev erend William H. Agnew, S. J., who died in Rochester, Minnesota, on Feb ruary 13. Father Agnew was president of Loy ola University from 1921-1927. During his administration, as, indeed, during his entire career, he endeared himself to a wide circle of acquaintances. His wisdom and kindliness exerted a last ing influence on all those with whom he came in contact, exemplifying always the ideals of the Society he served so devotedly. BLACK MAGIC It would seem that Houdini had few powers compared with the girls of Mundelein College. He could free him self from all manner of iron-jackets, and he could produce something which apparently was not present, but it cer tainly was beyond his powers to spirit away, as it were, fifty or sixty people at one fell swoop, as we can do. Now this is our method: Take an assembly of some three hundred students, supposedly singing, and announce to that assembly that fifty or sixty of their number are not present because they lack copies of a certain song. Therefore they are not present, and if they are not pres ent, they must be absent. It would be a big task for any magician thus to remove a goodly number of people, but perhaps these same magicians, once learning the trick, can perfect it. For there is not yet perfection. Voices and bodies remain to belie the fact of the absent members. And, by the way, when we are not here, where are we? Marie Adelo Hager, the first postu lant, to enter the novitiate from Mun delein College, left for Mount Carmel on the feast of the Purification, Feb ruary 2. Continued from page 3. column ;i) whom she supports by her chosen work. She has been with the Peo ple's Gas Light and Coke Company for nine years, and is known through her daily broadcasting over radio station WENR. Mrs. Peterson is the author of Anna O. Peterson's Simpli fied Cooking.
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