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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Alert Library*Goer Has Key to Cache Of Limitless Wisdom National Catholic Book Week, Nov. 3- 9, might inspire a treasure hunt to dis cover the secrets of beauty and truth be queathed to the world in the creations of genius and Book Week is a good time to plan a campaign for organized recrea tional and cultural reading. Since it is superfluous to urge the Mun- deleinite to visit the library casually dur ing quarterlies, the -smart collegian will use Book Week to concentrate on the formation of planned reading habits to ex tend beyond the limits of academic life. Stretching the frontiers of the intellect and adding to the richness of the soul is the work of great literature. Each book so empowered makes a unique contribu tion to the richness of living a richness that no other experience can duplicate. To acquire the depth of understanding and appreciation imparted by fine books, the prospective reader must be acquainted with them. Recognizing the claims made on students' time and conscious that-those demands will be multiplied after gradua tion instead of diminished, the strategy of Hook Week might provide for the adop tion of a regular reading program, guar anteed to give the classics a dynamic place in the students' life. . To accomplish this, we recommend that you take advantage of enforced trips to the library during examination week; no tice the display of new books; employ your well sharpened pencil to draw up a list of novels, biographies, plays, and poems that you have always wanted to read but never DID read. Keep the list in your notebook and refer to it on subsequent trips to the library, enlarging it each time, and scratching off a title now and then as you make time to read. By the end of the year, you'll be aston ished at the number of books you CAN find time to read and you'll be on your way to discovering the treasure at the end of the library rainbow. Adventure Novel Has Wide Appeal Wilderness Adventure is the latest of Elizabeth Page's absorbing historical nov els. While this book is not the superb work that her Tree of Liberty is, it is both entertaining and instructive. Based on the famous Virginian expedi tion to the West Indies about 1742. the book contains only one fictional character lovely Lisel Sailing, daughter of John Peter Sailing, historical figure whose diary is only one of the numerous authentic doc uments that Miss Page used in writing her book. Her careful references are an im portant factor in making this novel a true picture of eighteenth-century British- America. We meet many familiar characters and incidents from the days when George III ruled this country, as we follow John Howard and his party through the wild prairies in search of Lisel. who has been captured by Indians and must be found before the expedition proper can start. Two men, handsome Irish Red Sin clair and bashful young Josiah Howard, of the famous Virginia family, are rivals for the girl's hand. Another problem in volved in their journey is the circumstance that they, all but one English Protestants, must pose as French Catholics to avoid Suspicion and distrust. The lone French man in the group, Jean Louis Pettit, is their only help with the language and customs of the French-owned territory. Their harrowing adventures and narrow escapes from tragic and horrible deaths make this a book full of suspense and thrills. Miss Page holds the reader's in terest until the surprise ending in the last few paragraphs. Wilderness Adventure is to be recom- friended to any reader, regardless of age, occupation, or habits, who enjoys a well- written, gripping, and exciting romance and who likes to learn as well as to be entertained. UNESCO, Backed by Moral Law, Merits Our Cooperation The immediate aim of UNESCO is to study how to restore the culture and edu cation destroyed by the Axis powers. UNESCO is to be an international or ganization dedicated to the proposition that free, unrestricted education of the peoples of the world and the unrestricted interchange of ideas and knowledge are essential to the preservation of peace. The ideas uppermost in the minds of the men who formed the constitution of UNFSCO are three-fold. We must pro mote mutual international understanding and trust, and promote the collaboration of nations through mass communication in education, science, and culture. We must banish all prejudice against nationality, race, and creed. Mr. Louis J. A. Mercier has recommend ed the insertion into the UNESCO consti tution of two paragraphs that are too per tinent to be overlooked. UNESCO should recognize that a just peace depends upon the fact that the aims and actions of peo ple and states are to be judged by a law of universal justice, which is a moral law superior to others, and that education must conform in aims and actions to that law. UNFSCO should cooperate with and seek the cooperation of all cultural groups including the churches. The church is one of the civilizing and culturing agencies of the world, and UNESCO, as a secularist organization, could, by ignoring the church, endanger and disorganize Chris tianity. Archibald MacLeish has referred to UNESCO as a kite lying on the ground. It has yet to rise. Our kite cannot rise unless it has the stabilizing tail of the ob servance of the natural moral law, and the spirit of cooperation with all agencies, in cluding the churches, which work for the promulgation of that moral law. During American Education Week, Nov. 10-16, the American schools might well consider their part in perfecting the UNFSCO program and in promoting na tional and international understanding. A step toward such understanding is being taken by all schools which try to achieve in different ways the common purpose by imparting to us the practical training necessary for active interest and participation in the aims and final actions of UNESCO. We can do what is expected of us after the completion of our training by making every effort to inject the correct ethics in to the specialized fields of our choice, by striving to banish international prejudice. and by doing what we can to raise the morality of the methods of mass communi cation the radio, press, and motion pic tures. As Catholic students we must remember that education in itself is not an ultimate end. but rather it is the means that devel ops us for the end of living together with God. This Is Mundelein College Unity ' Depends on ' Teamwork When the kick-off whistle punctuates, crisp autumn afternoons, 22 men vie for a battered pigskin. The victor depends, not on grand-stand players, but on teamwork. A half-back can be the star punter aw sprinter on the team, but, if he doesn't have, the ten others running interference, he'lj, never even see the opposite goalposts. The need of teamwork, evident in sports, is just as imperative in family, community* and school life. College life should mirror a harmonious integration of student and Faculty. Pj should be a blending of the best in each., group to perfect its gift to society. Someone has described the common good, as a heap of all things needed by mankind, to which all contribute, and from which everyone receives what is necessary to pro-, tect the dignity of man. I In a college community the common good, is not attained merely by an essentially co-j operative school spirit it involves unity of action and attitude in college regula-j tions. projects, and student relations. This, contributing to the good of ffl whole, was actualized in the SAC Book, Exchange, which provided for all-student' service last month. It can be fostered fur*j ther by compliance with the anti-noise cam-, paign and the elevator and stairway regulac tions. It is each of the students, working wit* the Student Activities Council and thv Faculty, that makes up the winning combina-j tion. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE V Chicago, 40, Illinois 1: Undkk tub Dikection Beyond a metal cast screen . . . through a plate glass door . . . close it, please ... a Tiffany stained- glass window ahead trails its woodland hues down pol ished dark stairs . . . cup ping the stairway at bottom is the shining charging desk . . . card catalogues to the right . . , reserve desk, left. En route to the periodical room, left, notice the wood- carved antique bench, Flor entine, cushioned, elegant . . . through the double doorways . . . here the tables point to center . . . current magazines lie in slender slots in the paneled walls . . . newspapers hang over the racks . . . bound periodicals line the shelves . . . last month's magazines are tucked away behind se cret drawers in the walls, floor to ceiling. Reference rooms? . . . To the right are long angu lar tables with long rec tangular lamps wearing yel low glass lids . . . tap estried walls are lined with shelves of books . . . red plush seats in the wide bay windows invite lake-gazing ... a great wood fire place dominates this room . . . Variety? The next room . . . gold-leaf ceil- inged . . . lake-side-lined with windows, stained-glass topped . . . refill your pen here, one penny, please. Stop . . . catch your breath . . , and browse through books a while . . . five huge windows are the walls, Venetian shaded, framing the ever-living lake . . . note the domed ceil ing, the white mosaic floor with grape-vine border . . . Thoroughfare for a mighty population . . . with emphasis on the written word . . . this library is Mundelein. oLJld Ljou J now Paul Martin, Secretary of State for Canada, who has been elected president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council's Committee on Refugees, is a leading Catholic member of the Canadian government ? Fight thousand, nine hundred and three church bells, weighing three and a half million tons, are still kept in storage near Hambcrg where they had been collected under Nazi orders during the war? They were to be melted down and used for guns, but fighting ended sooner than expected, so the bells were saved and can now be returned to their rightful owners, parishes in Germany and in countries occupied by (lermans. At the request of a committee of rela tives of deceased Japanese soldiers, a Sol emn Pontifical Mass of Requiem was of fered in the cathedral in Tokyo for Amer ican soldiers who lost their lives in that diocese? The pattern of a complete Huron In dian village has been unearthed in dig gings near the Martyr's Shrine at Mid land, Ontario, and will serve as a guide to further excavations to find the village chapel where it is believed that Jesuit mis sionary Saints John di Brebeuf and Ga briel Lalmant lost their lives at the hands of the Iroquois 300 years ago? Proceeds from showings f the film Pastor Angelicus which was photographed in the Vatican and brings to the screen glimpses into the daily duties of His Holi ness, Pope Pius XII, will be used by War Relief Services NCWC to purchase food for the world's starving? Way Back When . . . Sheridan's The Rivals rolled off the presses; Burn's Tarn O'Shanter had gob lins and witches running across its pages; and Washington, in the silence of the night, crossed the Delaware, a form of re laxation was The Cotillion. Its original meaning, peasant girl's jupon of French origin, was given in the eighteenth century as a name to a dance for four or eight persons. It was par ticularly a series of elaborate steps and fig ures, similar to a round dance. So, Mundeleinites, a fortnight hence, don your bonnets, full skirts, and soft slip pers, and prepare to turn your pardner round and round for Mundelein is hav ing a Cotillion. OP THE SlSTEHS OP Chahity, B.V.M. e li / Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1934 at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the'1 Act of March 3. 1897, 175 the year. m Published semi-monthly from October to Maj inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. XVII November 4, 1946 No.l All-Catholic Honors All-American Honors Telephone: Sheldrake 9620 ';, Co-Editors-in-Chief Florence Jankowski,11 Colleen Rettig Associates Regina Bess,( Lucille Cook, Mary Em Harrigan, Dolores5* Toniatti. Feature Editors Katherine Burwiti,*1 Frances Wager0' Associates Cynthia Knight Jerianne Mangold, Mary Leona Merrick Jeane Ondcsco, Mildred Stanek. L Copy Editors Ellenmae Quan, Marilyn TamburrinotJ Associates Rita Buckley, Patricia Dannehj lt; News Editors Barbara Fallon- n Jeanne Marie Horan I Associates Dorothy Daniels. 0 Eileen Dolan, Geraldine Grace, Jeanne Jahrke, Patricia Nealin, Peggy Roach. I'1 Sports Editor Beatrice Goldridcc Associates Claire Johnson-1' Joyce Saxon1 3 Art Editor Margaret Mary Campbell Reporters: Rosemary Benigni, Isabel Cox, Joan-a Cribari, Patricia Czarnecki, Bernadette ' Krnak, Marguerite McDonnell, Janet Mc-01 Ginn, Mary Catherine O'Dwyer, Mercedes ' Parker, Patricia Runkle, Joyce SchmidtW1 Rita Szacik, Lois Willard, Patricia Trudeau, I* Veronica Walsh, June Kopal, Mary Lou f Farrow. I
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1946-11-04 (2)
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