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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER October 21, 1957 President Outlines A Labor of Love by Ann Coe Mundelein, your students were having benefits long before most of us ever thought of attending college. Do you know why we are following their ex ample this year though? Just because it has always been been done? No It would be wonderful if we could have conceived the idea of a trib ute to you on our own. Of course, we realize that it would have been im possible since your benefit is now an annual affair. It has become our own, too, however, since we've reviewed our basic aims. First of all, we want to present a tangible gift to our college; it's our way of saying, Thanks for everything you're doing for us, iMundelein. Secondly, as members of an educational institution, we are eager to offer to the Chicago audience an opportunity for a few hours of genuine cultural entertainment. Thirdly, the busy work which is so vital to a successful benefit gives many of us a chance to learn some of those important things that are not in the books. There is a side to learning that involves working with people, sharing success and failure, becoming more womanly as we learn to give of ourselves. In this way the benefit is a vehicle for bringing students closer to their Mary-like ideal of Chris tian womanhood. Mundelein, the many truths which you are teaching us are becoming in tegral parts of our distinct personalities. One of the most important les sons we've learned is the value of doing things together. Long after we have left our skyscraper building, we will cherish memories of laughing, studying, working, and praying together. As we work to ready our benefit, we perform a labor of love, for our college, Mundelein, for our city, Chicago, and for our selves. Student View Thinking Involves Challenging- Are You a Master of Your Trade? New York Critics Acclaim Williams Clever, Delightfu Emlyn Williams The New York critics had much to say about Emlyn Williams after his opening night appearance at the Long-acre Thea tre as A Boy Growing Up from the stories of Dylan Thomas. These are a few of the quotations from their columns which appeared in the New York newspapers last week-. IN THE ROSE-COLORED, rqrN away prose of Dylan Thomas, Mr. Wi liams is triumphant. Thoroughly de lightful Walter Kerr, Herald Tribune EVERY PHRASE DOES A COMIC TlIHClCSS WCctDOtl PANCE- Jt is not onlv entertaining. It t ' is a revelation. Brooks Atkinson, Times All that we are is a result of what we have thought. These words of Buddha lead us to the obvious question, How much do we actually think? At least ten times during the average day, we are likely to preface our re marks with the phrase I think. It is interesting to note that in answering the Student View question, nearly everybody interviewed had a different interpreta tion of what the word think actually means. Mary Stauffer, freshman, claimed that emphasis is placed very strong ly on achieving good marks. Be cause of this emphasis, she feels that the student's goal is to get this assignment done, to get an A , rather than to think this problem through. It is her opinion that students therefore do not think to their full capacity, although the re lationship between studying and thinking is a close one. A different slant was provided by a freshman who claimed her goal in col lege was to get somewhere in the world financially.'' Senior Ruth Charlton pointed out that there is no single or easy an- Jhe hu udcraper Vol. XXVIII Oct. 21, 1957 No. 2 Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Co-editors-in-chief Maureen Connerty. Geraldine Battista Associate Editors Beatrice Hoang, Marcella Brown Artists Virginia Muzika. Jean Rieck Assistants Marguerite Phillips. Mary Gart, Barbara Guderian, Alice Bourke, Judi Pciniger, Mary Therese Walsdorf, Judith Angone, Margaret Nicholson, Mary Mertock Skyscraplngs Lynda Rousseau Staff News Reporting Class swer to this question. Even between the classes, there is a distinction in the amount of thinking done. Her interpretation of thinking is that it involves two things, analyzing and understanding. On this basis, she credits the average college stu dent with two hours of thinking per day, and considers this a rather gen erous allotment. Ruth's explanation of this is that she feels real listening is neglected in classes. We tend to memorize rather than to an alyze because we are trying to reach a time limit, whether that limit is a dead line or a test. But what you really get out of a class can not be always measured in terms of factual data remembered, Ruth claims. The sopohomore interviewed, Marilyn Vetter, considered think ing to be a creative process not to be confused with simply mastering a given amount of material. She felt that this type of thinking is neglected by the average college student. If real thinking is crea tive, not repetitive, then most stu dents do not think more than a few hours a week, Marilyn says. Some of them, she feels, do not even think that often. We think all the time, is the view of Margaret Printen Kaepplinger, jun ior. To her, thinking involves solving a problem, and we are met by problems daily. However, she feels that solving problems is only surface thought, and not the fulfillment of our goals as college students. Since all thinking by this def inition stems from a problem or a chal- enge, then it is up to the students to challenge themselves. No matter how we interpret the proc ess of thought, everyone interviewed agreed that more thought is necessary. Before we think, however, we need a stimulus. Most of our time admittedly is spent on class assignments. If these assignments are the challenge we need, then the average college student will think. Seven centuries ago, it was the Albi- gensians; now, the Materialists. That was in the thirteenth century; this is the twentieth. Then they preached the ex istence of two gods, one of good and one of evil. Now they preach, There is no God. Nature must rule all. Seven hundred years ago, St. Dominic was the great apostle of the cause. To day, the great apostle is YOU. The weapon his and ours is fragile in ap pearance, a link of beads and a cross, but it is infinitely priceless in value. At Lourdes, almost 100 years ago, Mary pleaded with the human race to say the rosary those familiar prayers to save the universe from eternal dam nation. Sixty years later, she warned us again at Fatima of our problem of con quering communism. The solution is all so simple. The 15 minutes spent each day in vanquish ing the enemy is a small portion of our busy 24 hours. People have been asked to do far more to give even their entire lives to fight the enemy. We can profit from the past. One heresy was conquered by the rosary. It must be done again. AN EVENING OF IRRESISTIBLE CHARM Memorable for the beauty and humor it evokes. The London epi sode is a delightful lunatic fantasy. Chapman, News A WONDERFUL WORLD OF WACKLNESS Thomas' descriptions sing of the joy of life and Williams has perpetuated that joy in brilliant measure. This is one limited engage ment that should be extended for the throngs who undoubtedly will want to savor it. Gilbert, Mirror GOOD SHOW Plausibly, briskly, pleasantly, he peopled his stage for three acts with these figures, thereby pulling one of the better tricks of the current theatre. Atson, World Telegram IF YOU HAVE TENDED to think of the late Dylan Thomas as chiefly a rather esoteric poet, it may come as a pleasant revelation that he was also a fresh and delightful humorist . . and Mr. Williams handles it superbly. Watts, Post Collegiate Life Include a Sense of Values College, U.S.A. is a strange place. It is crowded with people all trying, at least theoretically, to become educated. The development and refinement of knowledge forms the essence of a college education. But let's not talk about that. Let's talk instead about the football team, the Junior Prom, the ivied halls, and the latest fashions. These are the general ideas the word college connotes. Certainly they are a part of the total picture, but only a small part. They are a necessary, but not the most necessary aspect. The atmosphere created by the ivied halls is not as important as the at mosphere of the classrooms behind them. The number of touchdowns made by the star halfback is not really as important as his scholastic average. Some how, in looking at College, U.S.A., America has turned its pyramid of values up-side-down and made the essence of a college education less important thatr the trimmings. This concept of college affects the students' intellectual stand ards. The excitement of college life is there, but often too little of it seems to be intellectual excitement. Mediocrity is a suitable goal. A challenge is too much work. Yes, College, U.S.A. is a strange place. People go there to learn, but don't want to talk about learning. Leaders are trained there, but not many strive for intellectual leadership. Education is implicitly recognized, but it is less known than the campus social life. This is the picture the word college frequently connotes, yet we know the picture is out of focus. Intellectual activity is the core of collegiate life. The added attractions are important, belong there, but are only secondary to the major goal.
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1957-10-21 (2)
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