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Page 2 THE SKYSCRAPER May 6, 1935 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 at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. V MAY 6, 1935 No. 11 Associated ffoUcfliatc ffircss -M 1934 QgBWOT xSglTgwco 1935 3- ALL-CATHOL1C HONORS Telephone: Briargate 3800 STAFF Editor-in-Chief Ann Lally Associates: Irene Lavin, Virginia Meagher, Marion Mulligan Managing Editor Charlotte Wilcox Assistant Dorothy O'Donnell News Editors: .... Jean McKeever, Mary Catherine Rose Features Jane Spalding, Jane Malkemus Assistant Genevieve DelBeccaro Alumnae Mary O'Brien Exchanges Virginia Meagher Athletics Irene Lavin Assistant Gertrude Rafferty Business Managers: Jane Spalding, Frances McCambridge ReiKirters: Catherine Ann Dougherty, Agnes Griffin, Julia Mary Hanna, Catherine Heerey, Laetitia Kalisz, Eileen Hettinger, Betty Kelso, Anna Marie Masterson, Ruth Quirk, Lilian Wasielewska, Mary Joyce Vail, Vir ginia Woods. Wanted A Courtesy Contest ECENTLY the Chicago Daily Trib une livened up its pages by giving a prize to the man or woman encountered during the day who impressed the reporter as the most deserving of the Courtesy Award. This is significant of the premium that our generation puts upon courtesy in a world that seems to have forgotten its thought fulness and neighborly regard in the rush of modern business and the pur suit of pleasure. Courtesy is something sadly needed to day. Contrary to some peoples' opinion, good manners are not dependent upon fashions or codes of etiquette. Like one's etiquette, however, they label tlie wearer for what she really is. During Victorian times courtesy or the so-called genteel- ness was over emphasized.. Now we have gone to the other extreme and forgotten practically all that the word courtesy implies. Yet good manners are important to us because they are in timately bound up with tile womanliness that we as college women are striving to attain, and they are a measure of sym pathy and imagination. But let us be specific. Being courteous means speaking graciously to all people with whom we come in contact whether they are our inferiors or our superiors. It means rising when older people enter the room, and allowing them precedence when passing from one room to another. It means respecting a speaker by maintaining silence during a lecture and refraining from comment. It means being kind and considerate of others, always. Our world would be a much more pieas- II Duce and Tradition TRADITION, which modern society has come to look upon as an almost to tally withered flower, was given a new in- vigoration last week by no less a personage than Premier Mussolini. On this occasion, the Italian leader enthroned a wolf on the Carpean Rock of Capitoline Hill in mem ory of the legendary animal who is reputed to have reared Romulus and Remus. The event was so unusual that newspa pers all over the world featured the story. Premier Mussolini realizes the value of keeping tradition alive. That is why he placed a dramatic value on the legendary tale of the wolf who succored the mythical founders of the Eternal city. Since this national drama has such an arresting effect upon the world at large, we come to realize the tremendous influence of traditional practices which are interna tional in scope. The celebration of the month of May gives ample opportunity for both Christian and Pagan to unite throughout the world. From the days when the barges of Rameses glided down the turquoise highway of the Nile, to today when an occasional May basket greets the city-dweller's eye, all countries have sig nalized this opening of the spring season. To Catholics the month has a greater significance for it is set aside in honor of the Blessed Virgin. Since the college is the birthplace of more traditions than any- other single institution, it is only natural that its ceremonies should be especially distinctive. In our own College the cus tom of crowning the Virgin has become an annual ritual, but we are urging some thing more than this. We should like to make it traditional at Mundelein for each student to adopt some single spiritual practice which she would perform daily throughout the month. By so doing, the individual would have an im portant part in the Mundelein May pag eant, and the spiritual benefits would doubtless be great. Aside from this, such a universal spiritual student endeavor would add to our College traditions, strengthen the Christian significance of the spring celebration, and bolster up the weakened structure of general tradition which lias been so rudely violated by mod ern barbarisms. ant place in which to live if we tried to re member this Code of Courtesy and the things for which it stands. The Courtesy contest is over now but each of us can keep our own score in the Courtesy Con test at Mundelein which will continue in definitely.. An American, A Russian And A Frenchman Qive Depth To New Books So many frivolous books have found their way into the spring listings that you will have little difficulty in finding some thing to read purely for pleasure. For this reason we are introducing you to three new volumes whose contents must be thought and mulled over in one's mind in order to appreciate the intrinsic value of the books themselves. ON VAST HORIZONS Things To Live For, by F r anci s Stuart, is an excellent book in which a young man who has lived on vast horizons looks back on the sweet and bitter progress of life. His is a fearless type of living in which he accepts the joys with man's natural effervesence and the sorrows with something more than man's natural gal lantry. Although they are poles apart, the auth or's work reminds one vaguely of Shelley, lor his style has the same soaring lift as that of the English poet. His outlook on life carries one back to the pure whimsical spirituality of Mr. Blue. Here, then, is a tonic for the depression which sets one's pulses pounding to a new rhythm that of exultation in life. EUROPE AND THE SAAR If you like to keep abreast ol the inter national developments, we recommend a reading of Michael T. Florinsky's, The Saar Struggle. This book gives a com plete analysis of the personal and the his torical background of the highly involved Saar struggle. The author also examines the political and economic consequences of the solution of this important European problem. If you are somewhat familiar with recent European history, this should please. Henri Gheon is again in the public eye. This time he has delved into music and emerged with a most unusual biography of Mozart. Although Gheon herein reveals himself as an aesthetician, the book was not written from historical or critical mo tives. Gheon calls it a labor of love, for he confesses to an almost incredible admira tion of Mozart's genius. He reveals the human frailties behind the musician, as well as the dynamic force of the composer. Here is a puissant and compelling story penned in the sure broad strokes of a dramatist. HONOR ROLL HIGH HONORS Ruth Tangney '35 Charlotte Wilcox '36 Helen Driscoll '36 Lorraine Manske '38 Jean McKeever '37 HONORS Helen Keenan '36 Justine Martin '36 Mary McManus '36 Frances Mikkelson '36 Ruth Quirk '36 Lillian Scholzen '36 Mildred Sperry '36 Lucille Barrett '35 Jane Flick '35 Agnes Gill '35 Margaret Grace '35 Ruth Hazle '35 Mary Margaret Morrissey '35 Marion Mulligan '35 Virginia Woods '35 HONORABLE MENTION Kathryn Weniger '36 Margaret Werlein '36 Genevieve DelBeccaro '37 Josephine Carton '38 Betty Lucas '38 Mary McMahon '38 Alice Young '38 Frances Burke '35 Bernadette Culkin '35 Mary Domes '35 Mary Elizabeth Kelly '35 Ann Lally '35 Jane Molloy '35 Marjorie Nichols '35 Rita Riordan '35 Margaret Egan '36 Julia Hagerty '36 Dorothy Turner '36 Elizabeth Wilcox '36 Roberta Christie '37 Mary Herlihy '37 Charlotte Heun '37 Lorraine Horn '37 Eileen Madden '37 Emily Poska '37 Gertrude Rafferty '37 Rita Smith '37 Ellen Birnbaum '38 Gertrude Brant '38 Nancy Butler '38 Marion Fogarty '38 Marion Gunning '38 Agnes Griffin '38 Elizabeth Higgins '38 Mary Jo Kennedy '38 Maurita Kelly '38 Betty Kelso '38 Dorothy Kullman '38 Elenor Loarie '38 Anna Marie Masterson '38 Jeanne McAuley '38 Adeline Nicdly '38 Catherine O'Connor '38 Catherine Ott '38 Ann Ellen Smith '38 KVLUMIZ How long is a piece of string? (answer at the bottom of column). Four out of five of the botany students sent to the Garfield Park conservatory on their annual field trip, chose the wallflower or one of the inflorescences which im pressed them the most. On valuable au thority it sent them into a veritable WHORL to discover shrinking violets even in the BLOOMING world. PON MY WORD Punning is bad. Really, there's no vice versa. We'll illustrate. A young lady hunted and hunted and hunted and couldn't find her compact. She searched high and low, so the saying goes, and fin ally her brother located it. With a chival rous flourish, he bowed deeply and said, Here, tools, more powder to you The Pryors Betty and Jane have a theme song. It's I Was Lucky (to be born at the same time as you ) Loyola had a style show, too. Ohl tres, tres elite It was put on by Hart, Schaffner, and the Marx Brothers. It's all in the mental viewpoint that is, it you are a freshman and believe in rhetoric. The class was describing what a college student and a college prof, would see at the same senior ball. The prof, wouldn't see anything, privately recited one young lady. He'd be too absent- minded. Play Director, to cast, about to begin lines after a musical interlude: Wait until Sister dies out with the organ. English instructor: Please answer roll call with :i quotation about a rose. Marion Fitzgerald, glibly: Oh, what is so rare as a rose in June. NOCTURNE The other night I had a fright That roused me from my sleep I seemed to fall, I tried to call, I prayed the saints my soul to keep. I clutched, I grasped, I choked, I gasped A chill upon me seemed to creep I faced a mountain rough and sleep. Its side was black and cold and bleak And while I knew I still did sleep I heard a voice both dear and deep. You darling girl, you. angel child. No zcall of English undefiled Shall yield to you the wisdom, wit, and truth That now sluill I impart. Your books are good, your teachers great. Your looks not bad, your features rate. Forget them all when'er I call, I am the voice upon the wall. I SAY, PROFESSOR The bonnie botanists were in the solarium, to watch the progress of the spring corn and peas that they planted with their own itty-bitty fingers, and to view numberless flowers. Apolo getically, their instructor remarked, You know-, girls, we use simply everything, but we can't seem to keep the insects out of here. Little Bo Peep has lost Iter slieep And doesn't knozv where to find them Leave them alone and they'll come home Mutton. ANSWER TO QUESTION ABOVE Twice the distance from the middle of the string to either end.
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1935-05-06 (2)
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