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Page Two SKYSCRAPER True Culture Embodies Christ'Like Living Some people find culture in high tea and pink petit-fours, some in the opera or painting, others in the etiquette book and the social register. In our scientific era of dials and buttons, many Americans buy their culture at the five and ten or the movies. Culture today is a garment of flimsy material, hurriedly styled according to the latest advertisements and worn as the occasion de mands. But, manufactured in Hollywood or in the Stork club, the guise becomes inadequate and outmoded. And we Catholics are products of our age. We are not immune to bright lights and glitter. Our environment is cluttered with pa gan institutions and mundane habits, to which we have developed no allergy. The key to culture is not found in an art gallery, at a party, or across a counter. We do not have to search very far. To find our Holy Grail, we merely have to look down down into our hearts to find Christ. And having found Him, we must live in, by, and for Him. Here is the essence of true culture. It is a daily living and breathing of the Christ life. As Catholic college graduates, we must interpret our jobs as artist, teachers, journalists, mothers, in terms of the doctrine of the Word made Flesh. We can overcome the false veneer that is dis integrating the lives of others, only by supplanting it with some thing better. It is we who must be the propagandists of Christ by making our own culture by writing Christian books, by painting Christian pictures, and by dramatizing Christian plays. Man must attain heaven in spite of his surroundings. We are responsible to see that he attains it because of his surroundings. The key to culture is in our hands. Are we going to unlock the door? Tolerance, Understanding Build Faith and Charity For sonic of us this summer will mark I he close of four profitable years in a Cath olic college, and for others it will be a sunned, fun-packed interlude between the k-rms of serious studies. Xo matter what our summer pursuits, we shall come in contact with all types of peo ple those who will arouse our indifference, love, respect, or antagonism those who will (liminsh or increase our prejudices. Teach mc, Lord, to be sweet and gentle i'i all the events of life . . . let me put my self aside to think of the happiness of others . . , may no one be less kind for having come within my influence ... Now is the time to spread Catholic action, to give each per son a measure of God's infinite Love. It is ours to give, if we do not discriminate. Tolerance is the strength and fuel of faith, the solid groundwork upon which un derstanding is built. Prejudice shows a lack not only of intelligence and integration, but also of foresight and charity. It is the universally sown seed whose fruit is hatred, dissension, vengeance. Prejudice is a cancerous sore that eats away the rationality and leaves angry, un healing marks on both the object and the germ. It causes the deterioration of the ob ject against which this unreason is hurled. ( lass, political, and racial prejudice bring about an almost despairing hopelessness, a doleful discouragement that drags the in dividual to the darkest depths. ... and the greatest of these is charity. Christ urged us to love our fellow men and in such love there is no room for exclusive- ness. MUNDF1.F.IN COI.J.F.GF Chicago, 40, Illinois I'niikk the Direction (if i in: Sisters of Chakitv. B.V.M. -Ars a Cjra.dua.te Jr gt;oiemniij f iedge tr/udelf . . . Kiin-n-d as Sec I Class Mallei Nov. 30. 1932. .it lh lt;- I'osl Office of Chicago. Illinois, under tin- Ad of March 3, IM97. 1.75 the jcar. Published semi-monthly from Ocloher l M;i gt; inclusive hy the students nf Miind'vli-iu College. Vol: XVII May 22, 1947 Xo. 13 All-Catholic Honors All-American Honors To hold my degree as a sacred trust: It is only through God's blessing, my professors' un derstanding guidance, and my parents' unselfish sacri fice that this privilege of education is mine. May I always keep faith with them, and remember that my ac complishment is more right ly theirs, and that this precious gift must be used wisely since the tools of truth, knowledge, service, and love are given in trust. To serve God and keep my honor untarnished: Whatever the future holds for me. let me always set the service of God and man before inv heart as the end of all my work. Let me cherish truth before dishon esty, diligence before ease. spirituality before wealth. Let me live up to the ideals of Christian womanhood and forsake any thought or word that weakens them. To be loyal to my country and to my flag: lopes for lasting peace involve my country and its principals to such great ex tent that whole nations look to her for guidance. Let me find my place in serving my country, that her democratic ideals may be upheld and strengthened, that freedom and justice may prevail, and that all factions of Com munism and Fascism may be forever kept from her shores. To be faithful to my Al ma Mater until death: Let my loyalty be in creased with the years as I remember the standards, the love, the wisdom, which 1 so freely took, and for which 1 gave so little in re turn. May my voice uphold her in constant praise, mind ful that greater friendship and spirit will never be found outside her halls, which hallow God's name. May my life be reflective of the Christian principles she holds aloft, that these may become a little more at tractive to all whom I meet. The Point of Being Collegiate Is to 'Belong' Wholeheartedly Like most other activities engaged iff the human race, the process of acqu? an education, of going to school, J various manners of approach. s ()ne may study by lamplight far I the night for many nights, and aoj a fact-filled and erudite mind. This is good. Up to a point. ()r one may be a blithe spirit that ci casually to classes, because classes F to be an integral part of the educati1 process, and are put up with only stepping stone to the more important pz' to the blithe spirit of meeting and gl ing friends. It is good to be friendly. Up to a pf ()bviously. the ideal student attl would be a combination of these two.l would like now to add one more ingredi For lack of a better word we will ci.. participation. To study well and consistently and* joy a full social life is the task of al student making much of her oppoiif ties . gt; There is more to be gained, bona The up-to-date extra activities on cunt events, and the substantial cultural ei scntations of a modern, education* aware college, vitally interested in proe ing the best for its students, are not lightly appraised. s It is true these opportunities ana no means unappreciated, but, in an eql certain manner, they are not taken fill vantage of by many students. Mundelein offered the UN Institute first concerted and organized effort oC: kind to present to college students, inf own school, by means of internation8 known speakers, statesmen and educafr the ideas and ideals of the United Nai lt; trganization. Student participation was excellent.1 could ask for no more. It was exact type of appreciation and cooperations tpiired. Let's have it for ALL actia next year. Telephone: Sheldrake 9620 Co-Editors-in-Chief Florence Jankowski, Blanche Schwepper, Colleen Rettig Associates Regina Bess, Lucille Cook, Mary Em Harrigan, Dolores Toniatti. Feature Editors Katherine Burwitz, Frances Wager Associates Cynthia Knight, .lerianne Mangold, Mary Leona Merrick. Jeanne Ondesco. Copy Editors Ellenmae Quan, Marilyn Tamburrino Associates Rita Buckley, Patricia Dannehy News Editors Barbara Fallon. Jeanne Maiie Horan. Patricia Runkle Associates Dorothy Daniels, Eileen Dolan, Geraldine Grace. Jeanne Jalirlie. Patricia Nealin. Peggy Roach. Sports Editor Beatrice Goldrick Associates , Claire Johnson. Joyce Saxon Art Editor Margaret Mary Campbell Reporters: Rosemary llenigni. Isahclle Cox. Joan Cribari, Mary Lou Farrow, Janet Mc Ginn. Mary Catherine O'Dwycr, Rita Szacik. Lois Willard. June Kopal. Bcrnadette Krnak, Katherine Malatesta, Patricia Trudi.au, Noreen Roche. Jam- O'Neill. Lorraine Stajdohar, Jo Ann Figticira. Margaret Mary- La Vaque, Patricia Shanahan, Patricia Frey. Joan Merrick, Mary Lee Kasten, Mary No lan, Blanche Schwepper, and Dorothy Gaughan: True Realism Counteracts Blind Idealism It is interesting to note among the latest recruits to the never-iinclerestimate-the- power-of-a-woman school, the name of John Eppstein, expert on international law who lectured here during UN' Week. In a recent article in the British Survey, Mr. Eppstcin recognizes the influence of American women as a force to be reckoned with in international affairs. More import ant, he descries a predominantly feminine tendency to over-idealism. Since Mr. Epp stein is British, and a man at that, his opinions carry the weight of impartiality. Granting that we have a goodly say-so in politics, are we letting a Pollyanna com plex, like a -razy mirror in a fun house, distort into lopsided optimism our view of the United Nations? Mr. Eppstein offers an alternative con structive realism. he calls it. lt is an at titude which reconciles what exists, with what we would like to have exist, while working to change the former into the latter. It is an attitude which calls for facing the facts. Certainly it is worth act ing upon. A comiiioiisense partnership of head and heart in the American woman could well :. ive a new meaning to progressive fem inine thinking on political issues. While the Seniors S all srk WCLU special How can anyone effectively word a senior-to-senior and insure delivery without tears? You see, this isn't the time for a cloudy parting, a sailing awi on heart-tugs. Not when there's a new world ahead. Not whe there's an hour free for mingling laughter with memory. Not when there is still a wonderful moment to exchange th gifts our College has given us gifts belonging to all of us, yet irc dividually expensive, perhaps because they are purchased only wuV four years of working together, living together. o Safe within the bright wrappings of happy hearts, they are th j simple things like warm-tempered friendship like respect an*i understanding, tendered without envy, without prejudice. They are the necessary things like a gentle nature, a gentl manner, a gentle tongue like the soft discipline of quietness, wfl it is time to think, to listen, and to do. They are the progressive things like grateful willingness learn like gracious readiness to teach like joyous pride in beiifr able to help . . . and to be helped. They are the fundamental things like faith, deep-rooted-' like making each day a living reason for confident prayer like thl ever-abiding habit of Christ. How perfectly they can mean bon voyage these gifts that an ours to keep and to share Even more, they mean taking with us, on Commencement Da a precious bit of everyone and everything we love.
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1947-05-22 (2)
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