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Page Two SKYSCRAPER SO YOU'RE GOING TO COLLEGE . G Our Hearts Were Young and Gay as we entered these hallowed halls of learn ing, and so they remained for the first weeks of school. We found ourselves during this time the acknowledged guests of the College. Our key to any and all of the activities of Freshman Week was the magic phrase: We're freshmen But alas, all of this changed After a week or two, we were granted our rightful place at Mundelein. We felt ourselves privileged to be called Mundelein fresh men, but, we learned, with every privilege comes a responsibility. It was our responsibility, we learned, to keep up to the scholastic rating of former classes even to surpass it, perhaps It was our responsibility and our pride to take part in college activities; it was our re sponsibility to have assignments in on time, to contribute something original to class discussions; to gather material for panels; to think our way through compli cated problems. Our hearts were young and gay but we had our qualms during quarterly and se mester examinations; during long battles waged with bi-weekly chemistry or biol ogy quizzes, rhetoric term papers, social science forums, book reports. Three quarters are now behind us and we have survived We have had fun and fears as freshmen: we have almost reached the first of the four goals of our college years and more than ever OUR HEARTS ARK YOUNG AND GAY Problems of War And Peace Rome's critical situation, and the perils menacing the Vatican have caused His Holiness Pope Pius XII to allow the fa mous Swiss Guards to carry rifles instead of their traditional weapons, halberds. . . . William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston and Dean of the Catholic Heir- archy in America, died last week at the age of 84. He was an outstanding church dignitary as well as an accomplished mu sical composer. He also wrote his biogra phy. REFLECTIONS OF SEVENTY YEARS. . . . The new Italian State arising from the defeat of Fascism is expected to respect the Lateran Treaty of 1929 which settled the Roman question and established the present position of the Holy See towards Italy and the world. . . . Last week the Very Reverend Norbert de Boynes, S.J., was elected vicar general of the Jesuits at a meeting of the Jesuit Gcneraliatc at Rome. Strong opposition to any federal con trol of schools was voiced at the closing session of the National Catholic Education association. Poets and Pilgrims And Advertisers have gone to war Advertisers, who once used superlatives, arc now specializing in negatives. Don't drive your car Don't use the telephone Don't have that second helping We speak of the hardships of the men in the service, but what about the bewild ered advertising copywriters? They, too, have been drafted drafted to unsell their products. They are victims of the confusion of war. Only a short while ago they were saying Travel is educational Every family should have a piano Never go anywhere without your car Now they are reversing all their old ad monitions. They tell us to wait until after the war for a family airplane to spend our vacations at home to make it do, or do without to buy their product, if we can find it, but to buy a War Bond first They are typical of the reverse order in which we find ourselves as Americans in wartime. Thunder on The Left And Sometimes on the right, depresses the freshman, but there's always a silver lining. For instance life is like this: No one seems to recognize your charms and talents. You do an extra-special job on your assignment, then go to class only to find that you were EXPECTED to do extra-special work. You spend all your free hours and half of all your lunch periods slaving over some committee, but no one seems to realize that nothing would have been accomplished without you. You sprinkle your conversation with twinkling eyes, engaging smiles, and clever bits of wit, only to find that your escort is a dull date. You keep a chapter ahead in social sci ence. Your listless expression and sleepy countenance day after day are the results of all the outside reading you are doing, yet a certain supplementary examination clay finds you back for a retake. Something funny happens to you at school; you are hysterical all the way home. Between gales of laughter you manage to relate the incident to the fam ily, which looks on solemnly, unamused. At work on Saturday, you graciously straighten stock for the steady saleswom an, only to have her blame you for the cluttered confusion that springs up on your own counter. Yoii spend the entire week-end writing and rewriting a theme until you can almost see an A formed in the corner. Well, who are you to complain? C is average Just because you did the shopping last week, you are blamed for the disappear ance of a ration book. Life is cruel until you finally finish typing the last footnote on your term pa per; your story is accepted for the SKY SCRAPER or the REVIEW; you get an A in Spanish, and YOU ARE INVIT ED TO THE MIDSHIPMAN'S BALL THE SKYSCRAPER MUNDELEIN COLLEGE Chtcago.Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charitv, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3. 1897, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. XIV May 5, 1944 No. 12 jmfiz Member ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS Telephone: Ambassador 9011 FRESHMAN STAFF Editorial Board Regina Bess, Kathleen Egan, Dolores Toniatti Feature Editors Florence Jankowski, Gladys Sullivan Associates Celeste Boudreau, Coletta Clifford, Nancy Donnellan, Phyllis McGrath, Mary Catherine Quinn News Editors Patricia Lee, Diana Satkus Associates Adelaide Costello, Patricia Howard, Rosemarie Meyer, Donna Jean Powers, Margaret Mary Trcndell Sports Dolores Cervenka Reporters Marge Buyse, Marialyce Dunne, Joyce Evans, Rosalie de Florio, Mary Therese Gullo, Kathryn Hangs- terfer, Muriel Hasten, Patricia Heath, Mary Jane Lynch, Betty Maloncy, Betty O'Connor, Colleen Rettig, Maryalyce Sullivan, Helen Williams To Have and to Hold These Fruits of a college education are within our reach: CULTURE the indefinable quality that you absorb in college, including the ap preciation of beautiful things and beauti ful actions, the desire to go on learning, always, more and more. UNDERSTANDING the quality which distinguishes every truly Christian wom an, lifting her above intolerance and preju dice, bestowing upon her vision, sympathy, patience. LEVELING the process that balances likes and dislikes into a well-regulated, reasoned viewpoint, whether on religion, on politics, or on fashions. TRUTH the goal that many seek and that too few really find. UTILITY the term which covers a variety of things the means of acquiring a good job or a ladder to professional success; of managing a happy, well-run home; of developing countless spiritual and material advantages. RELIGION which consists in know ing our ultimate END and in doing our best, through exemplary Catholic living, to achieve that END. ENRICHMENT which deepens the joy and the meaning of life and which re veals the value of everything worthwhile, however difficult. A Qoodly Heritage is that of the Paulist Choristers, who will appear in concert at Orchestra Hall at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 7. You can hear them and return to Mundelein for the Mosaics of 1944 at 8 p.m. Organized by Father Finn, in 1904, the choir of 100 boys and men, directed for the past 16 years by the Reverend Eugene F. O'Malley, made a European tour in 1912 and had a private audience with Pope Pius X; won the prize in the Division of Honor at the International Competition in Paris; presented a series of concerts at the Chi cago Century of Progress in 1933; and has performed for Presidents of the United States and rulers of European countries. The concert on Sunday will include com positions of two Chicagoans, Felix Borow- sky and Eric De Lamarter, who are among the many composers who have written selections especially for the Choir. Justly Dear to the hearts of all freshmen are all needs of the Faculty and, since springtime brings to the Faculty the need for making out final examinations, the freshmen pre sent the following test recommended for any and all courses: I. Fill in the blanks. a b c II. Contrast an Ibid and a Locus (phyl um: citato.) III. How diminished is the Law of Di minishing Returns? IV. On what diet does iron go, when it is reduced? V. List some of the qualifications of a phyla clerk. VI. What is a multiple choice test? (Omit the sixth question.) VII. If two apples equal two thesauri, how many would be concerned were Charles V playing shuffleboard at the same time ? (Keep in mind that Charles V lived during the fourteenth century. If you can't keep that in mind, write a para graph on chemical unknowns.) VIII. Using the Pythagorean principle, find the square root of three Greek verbs. IX. Who gets the bird in badminton? X. Decline the nouns la note and l'ex- amen. If you can't, decline. Therefs a New World A'Coming and concerning it there are two vital lupial which have evoked little discussion, la which are prime requisites for a bettt world the duties of women as horn makers and as citizens. America's foremost educators have rtfl peatedly reminded us that the future our nation lies in the home. Forcigra have pointed out that foreign women, b cause of their proximity to the realities war, are more aware than we of natiouj and international problems. Required courses in social science ox tribute to our equipment as citizens, no amount of classwork or lectures substitute for a personal interest in loo national, or international affairs. Few us will ever become deeply involved i politics, but we can, through the study reliable periodicals and the cultivation unprejudiced minds, discriminate bet rumor and fact. If we as citizens take an active inti in our nation, through voting and keepi abreast with the news, our nation, in will take an active interest in the rights its citizens. Our job in the home, however, is d to us. Most of us will ultimately be hi makers, and May is an especially apj priate month in which to petition Our for guidance in this vocation. By enri ing our religious and cultural backgri we can learn to mold the lives of others patterns of beauty and integrity, of our Catholic college education, weshi be outstanding Catholic homemakers. We should be able to share in the work of rehabilitating the American in accordance with Catholic ideals of ily life, and we should realize the irq tant fact that we must permeate with ideals our own sphere of influence x we can disseminate them more widely. We can, in other words, cooperate structively with post-war plan makers resolving to do what we can to rebuild world under Christian banners and by ginning at home and radiating our Iosophy therefrom, by osmosis. Fish on Friday Will Make You STOP ... at your local library andpH for a copy of THE LKON'AI FEENEY OMNIBUS. You'll want tot this book, the contents of which are) plete with wit and humor-tinged wisdi LOOK . . . with unrestrained glee atl Table of Contents, and a yourself a hint of wonders to come reading the author's Preface, a delight piece from which we must quote: T book contains the things I like best of 1 I have written up till 1943. It doesi contain the things I hope to write fn now on. And so, though it is called i 'omnibus,' it is not to be taken as 'obituary.' LISTEN ... to the gay, nostalgic me. of Father Feeney's musings rhyme. From the shortest poem: Sra obey the Holy Will of God slowly -- the tallest, Song for a Listener, the authc scampers up the ladder of verse, touchq on the spiritual and sublime, the sweet i sad, and the down-right funny, with plea ant accompaniment of good sense, goo taste, and good humor. LAUGH ... at Father Feeney's dij course, Fish on Friday, ana swer to those who have dubbed the Catbi lie as a possessor of an icthyophagi esophagus. Linger over his eulogy Paris Peter of Little Slipper Street ...1 wheezy, one-cylindered altar-boy ; recoi nize the typical American Catholic in ti description of Charlie Maloney . . . tl gelatine salesman. When the author td you of the Blessed Sacrament Explaii to Barbara, your heart will nod in urn standing, while it will stand up at atti tion when Father Feeney devotes profot thought to an analogical definition of mystery of the Blessed Trinity.
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1944-05-05 (2)
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