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THE SKYSCRAPER THE SKYSCRAPER Official Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE Chicago, Illinois Mundelein ' Chicago's College for Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charity, B. V. M. Application made for entry as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Chi cago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 1.25 the year. VOL. 1 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1931 No. 2 Editor Rhea Moustakis News Editor Margaret Roche Society Editor Janet Ruttenberg Feature Editor Irene O'Connell Athletic Editor Glenna Mae Hoctor Sky-Line Editor Doris Barnett Reporters: Alice Alexander, Katherine Brennan, Marjorie Dee, Genevieve Dooner, Pauline Duzeski, Justine Feely, Mary Hogan, Evelyn Lincoln, Bertille McEvoy, Anita McGovern, Corrine Murnighan, Helen Orvis, Emer Phibbs, Dorothy Riley, Mary Catherine Schmelzer, Mary Jane Sullivan, Marion Young. Telephone: Briargate 3800 LENT Stop a minute, everybody We have something vital to con sider Yes, it's Lent. Uninteresting, perhaps, but still Do you know that experimenting is a lot of fun? This is an excellent time to experiment on yourself for a noble cause. You possess a wonderful thing called a will. You all admire people with deter mination of character Commander Byrd, Colonel Lindbergh, Edith Cavell. Have you thought about your own will power? Is it strong and healthy, or does it need a little doctoring? Self-denial is the best medicine for the will, and Lent is the best time to start recuperating. Retreat is not so long past that we have forgotten the importance of the will in making us like rock. We must be like rock to work out our eternal destiny. It's like an algebra problem; a equals b, b equals c, therefore a equals c. Here's one way to solve that problem. Do you like candy, shows, dances? If you are normal and human, you do. Promise yourself and God that you will give up some one form of pleasure for these forty days. Dare yourself, and just see if you have character enough to do it If you persist, you can solve the problem that way. Most of us don't have to fast and that's the real penance of Lent but there are many ways besides fasting in which we can mortify ourselves. Why, we can even make a firm resolution to do our school work faithfully and well. Then at Easter, besides having made a deposit on our spiritual bank account, we shall have made progress towards a good report card. Lent is a good time to start in those works of charity we've promised ourselves so often. If we practice some form of charity for forty days, we'll probably acquire the habit by that time. When Easter comes, your experiment will be over. Maybe you will find you have slipped up a few times, but that's not complete failure by any means. The only complete failure is sitting down and giving up. Don't be a quitter Above all, don't give up before you start EVERY CATHOLIC STUDENT IN A CATHOLIC COLLEGE We should all be going around with bright, slightly complacent smiles on our faces these days. Of course, you're going to ask why, what with snow and dreariness one day, a little sunshine and warmth the next, only to make us more miserable again when it leaves. But really we have every reason in the world to be happy. Not because Easter is on the way, and we will probably get a new suit and a chic straw hat, nor because we know that he is going to send us a corsage, so we can promenade with pride; but because we are here, at Mundelein, in the splendid, beautiful city of Chicago, and, best of all, in the United States. All of this was brought forth by the intention for the month suggested by the Holy Father concerning university students in Catholic countries. Although this is not a Catholic country, we may apply some of its truths to ourselves. At a Catholic college or uni versity, we get everything that we would elsewhere, plus the atmo sphere and environment of Christianity. Whether we like it or not, we get or are exposed to Trig, Chemistry, Psychology, Zoology, Epistemology, and all the other ologies, besides something that we can hold on to for the rest of our lives, no matter where we are. We are taught the true philosophy of life, the true background and reason for the Faith, the true and unbiased interpretation of history, the sound and definite code of morality. We all like to think that nothing whatever makes any impres sion on us; that our own minds and characters are too strong to change. But we all know in our hearts, even though we don't admit it, that everything we do leaves some kind of a mark. Schools, universities, and professors, therefore, play a large part in our lives and in the formation of our characters, as we spend all but a few . months of every year under their influence. These impressions that we receive in our youth, then, when our minds are open and receptive, have a great deal to do with the moulding of our characters. We know that if we consistently do a thing, before long it becomes a habit. Well, it is the same with ideas that keep knocking at the doors of our minds, trying hard to get a place in them. Now that we have it definitely understood that we do get impressions, and that we do retain them, and that they are going to make a difference in our future lives, what about it? A Catholic college solves the problem. THEIR SPIRIT LIVES Modern biographers have ransacked history for condemning evidence of the characters of Washington and Lincoln, and they have, in part, succeeded. But only in part, for what American today does not feel a thrill at the thought of the fatherly solicitude of Wash ington's Farewell to the People, or at the kindliness of the Gettys burg Address? It was Washington who first made us America-conscious and who, in his Inaugural Address, implored the benediction of the Almighty on the new-born government of a free people. And in his own words, No people can be bound to acknowledge and address the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. It was Lincoln who carried us through the crisis of civil strife and united us by new ties when the old bonds were annihilated. Although he seemed crude and unprepared, his self-sacrifice and per severance preserved the Union he loved so well. He stood out alone against the radicals of the time for clemency toward the South, and had the assassin's bullet missed its mark, the history of the United States might have been spared the disgrace of the Reconstruction Era. Today we, too, face a crisis. Since the war, our ideals have been depressed, and a sordid materialism has crept into our lives. As college students who will soon form the active body of citizens, shall we not, like Lincoln, stand out alone for the cause we cherish and perhaps prevent a Reconstruction Era in our own lives? It is up to us to derive from our education intelligent attitudes of re spect, loyalty, and love toward God, toward the Flag that is ours, and toward society at large. In a word, it is our task to realize the dreams of Washington and Lincoln to be Americans. SIGNPOSTS If we are headed in the right direction, it makes little difference if the advancement is slow and we do make a few mistakes. We are, at least, getting something accomplished. One step on the wrong road may lead to quicker temporal gain, but each step toward a worthy goal is just so much gain in over coming obstacles that would have retarded true advancement. We study our own mistakes and experiences and profit by them, as well as by those of others, knowing that we will be no exception to the general rule. It has been said that we never stand still, so even though progress is imperceptible, it is real. Now and then in this game of life there are reverses, and some times we would like to pass, but, if we are worthy, we come back into the game with increased determination to win. To govern self is to govern others. Life withholds the future from our eager eyes in order to test our faith and make the game worth while. No matter how much we may do, at times there seems to be little reward for our efforts. But we should not allow ourselves to become so discouraged as to lose enthusiasm for the healthy con flicts and competitions with other human beings. These contacts stir us up and keep us alive. Fundamentally we are all alike, but by result of education and environment, we differ. Often we cannot understand other people, but that is merely an indication that there are differences in exterior characteristics. Sometimes those whom we little suspect of having any beauty in their lives, or of being able to appreciate the finer things, have what might be termed hidden gardens in their makeup, and it might surprise us very much if we knew their appreciative capacity and depth of feeling. By acquainting ourselves with different types of people, we overcome petty selfishness, rub off the sharp corners of our idiosyncrasies, and acquire a more liberal view of personalities that enables us to have a clearer understanding of human problems and viewpoints, which is an education in itself. A Ruminating Roommate Do you know where the cerebropleural ganglion is? bursts out my roommate, without any provocation at all on my part. Now, how is one to be. all a lady should be on an occasion like this? Good form would require that I assume an air of solicitude, glance anxiously about all four corners of our little dugout, then, having seen nothing that even remotely resembles a C. G., inquire sweetly, Are you sure you didn't leave it at school. Roomie? But no, let me warn all inexperienced roommates that that is not the thing to do. It is far more advisable to admit ignorance at once, and bear patiently all pitying and reproachful glances, while the wise ope carefully explains, with many gestures which only serve to confuse the listener, that the ce-re-bro-pleu-ral gan-gli-on is one of the nerve centers of a dear little clam. Then there is the matter of studying. Roomie does her work with a vim and vigor that makes me a lovely shade of pea green with envy. By the time I have just gotten well started, she has finished. Then nothing delights her more than to read to me in a highly expressive and extremely disturbing voice some rare bits of verse. If she cannot find a book of poetry to inflict on my attempted concentration, she treats me to a weird and wordless collec tion of songs, old and new, tuneful and tuneless, but all exceedingly annoy ing. When her repertoire is exhausted, and I also, she announces in a firm voice that she is ready, so let's go to bed; and there I am tucked under the covers before I can put up a worth-while battle to be allowed to complete a very pressing French assignment. All in all, she does her best to make my life one of trials and hardships, and manages to attain success at every turn. But in spite of everything, she has made herself absolutely indispensable to my happiness, for without her, ah, me I'd have to turn off my own alarm every morning. TJhe Sky-aCine MUNDELEIN MOTHER GOOSE Peter and Paul went down the hall To send a poem to Sky-Line; Peter slipped and Paulie tripped, And they made the dead-, not the high-line. Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your schedule go? With Trig and Greek each day in the week. And class after class in a row. Peter, Peter, little cheater. Says she thinks there's nothing sweeter Than to spend her time in school Splashing in the swimming pool. But Peter soon will learn it's better, If she wants to earn her letter. To study books her very best, For who e'er swam through Rhetoric test? Hickory, dickory, dock. She stopped to look at the clock. The clock struck eight For class she was late Hickory, dickory, dock. Paul. Doris Barnett, the diminutive but dignified vice-president of the sopho more class, boarded a North Side bus recently, and when she made a move to hand the conductor some money, she was greeted with, Half fare? FEBRUARY AND REPORTS This month has passed; Ah, sad my lot This month has passed But I have not. Elsie. The Skyscraper proofreaders are beginning to understand the meaning of the term galley slave. We hear that on one of the regis tration days, Willie Donnersberger, '34, came into the registrar's office with a rare frown on her usually bright face. What on earth is troubling you, Willie? queried a number of her friends. I'm worried, was the answer. Something terrible has happened. Tell us quick. Are you ill? No but I can't fit lunch into my schedule. Well, don't worry, Willie. We also heard that you have three free periods in a row on Tuesday. Couldn't you eat enough then to last for the rest of the week? A la Tien Bernie, it's a lonesome old town with exams not around. I hope you'll like it. Paul. First impressions are lasting, all right, sighed our typist, as she wore out the third eraser on her final pal impsest. I. Q. Minus. COMEDY OR TRAGEDY? (In three acts.) Time: The present. Five minutes after the hour for class. Place: Room 601. Characters: The Instructor, the Class, the Late Arrival. Act I Late Arrival arrives late. Receiv ing scant recognition, she effaces her self into a seat. Act II (10 minutes later) Instructor continues to instruct. Class continues to be instructed. Late Arrival registers faint symptoms of uneasiness. Act III (Three sentences later.) Late Arrival obstructs Instructor's instruction. L. A. Is this the trigonometry class? Instructor (pityingly) This is pub lic speaking class. L. A. (retiring in confusion) Oh, pardon me I never took trigono metry before. (And the class continued to smile.)
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1931-02-27 (2)
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