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THE SKYSCRAPER Marathon Swimming Contest Closes FIFTEEN STUDENTS RECEIVE EMBLEMS The marathon conducted by Miss Magnuson for the swimming depart ment was finished on January 27, and those students who completed at least one-half mile are now the proud owners of the marathon emblems. Two students, Pauline Duzeski and Elaine Krambles, finished the ten-mile swim and three students, Grace Allen, Rosa mond Carney, and Elizabeth Gorman, finished the five-mile. Fifteen students in all received the crimson-and-gold emblems, which vary in shape according to the mileage of the swimmer. Preparations are now under way for the Water Cafnival to be given by the Terrapin Club in the spring, and com mittees for the various phases of the work connected with it have been ap pointed and practices begun. Terrapins Celebrate Birthday The activities of the Terrapin Club for the second semester started fes tively with a birthday party on Thursday afternoon, February 18, at four o'clock, in the swimming-pool room, given for the senior and junior members and the pledges. The initiation of pledges who passed the tryout tests on February 8 and 15 opened the afternoon's entertainment. The mock initiation took place first and consisted of the presentation of an impromptu play by the pledges, and the performance of a number of novel acts which were required of them. The solemn initiation by candlelight made the pledges full-fledged members and impressed upon them the respon sibilities of their position. The new Juniors are Clementine Paloney and Margaret Scannell, and the Seniors are Virginia Anderson, Louise Goebel, Vivian Murphy, Grace Allen, Lucia Mazurik, and Irene Lavin. The important business of the initia tion was followed by the party and spread, during which the newly-initi ated members became acquainted with the other students in the intervals be tween swims and dives. After several hours of strenuous exercise the deli cacies that make Terrapin parties so popular were most welcome. The cake was decorated with a single candle, since on February 18 the club was one year old. The occasion was a happy one for the Terrapins, in recalling memories of exciting games and con tests of last year and in the anticipa tion of bigger and better activities in the future. Physical Education Counts New Courses Tap dancing and advanced appara tus work are attractive new classes added to the curriculum of the Physi cal Education Department, and, to gether with the basketball tournament which will be concluded before Easter vacation, they will help to make the new semester a busy one, athletically speaking. The tap-dancing classes are held twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thurs days. The fundamental steps are learned first, and when these have been mastered the groups will begin work on regular dances. In the ap paratus class, all the intricate equip ment in the gymnasium is used and the exercise it affords, although diffi cult at first, is both interesting and invigorating. First Aid Course Given Students who are majoring in physi cal education are required to take the course in First Aid given by Miss Monica Reynolds, resident nurse of the college, one period each week. The work is indispensable to an athletic director, for it concerns the treatment of wounds, application of dressings, the proper methods of ban daging, and the proper first-aid treat ments in such emergencies as fainting or suffocating. Twelve students are enrolled in the course, and at the close of the semester they will be required to take the Red Cross test. Science Classes Enjoy iMovies Despite the Lenten season, the mem bers of the Science Department have attended two motion pictures in the lecture room during the past two weeks. But do not be alarmed the films were on purely educational and instructive topics. Through the courtesy of Professor Schmeing, who is the instructor in ad vanced chemistry at both Loyola and Mundelein, the two interesting features were presented. The first, a very vivid picture of the construction of X-rays, explained the power and influence of this great invention in the field of medicine. It was amazing to see the apparently inadequate tube-rays pierce not only human structures but cast iron, steel, and even an intricate alarm clock. The second film, of special interest to the chemistry students, was entitled Beyond the Microscope and dealt with the decomposition of water by means of electrolysis. The effect of the electricity upon the water, dividing the hydrogen and oxygen, was unusu ally striking on the screen. Even the members of the zoology class, who were also in attendance, were inter ested by the electrons, molecules, and atoms which were pictured. (Continued from page 1, column 5) skirts, those sweaters, their models, their lines, their colors, are chosen with all the consideration that an English debutante gives to her first court costume. Evening gowns will add a touch of the dramatic to the event. Molded as they are to the figure, and made of the most delicate and filmy chiffons, laces, and tulles, they are indeed fit for an empress or a stately court lady. The new zipper-backed gown is an innova tion that may or may not be popular; but, while we are speaking of popular ity, note carefully tomorrow the popu larity of white for evening dresses, whether it be the pure snow-white, the greeny ice-white, or the soft bluish- white. The students who will model these dresses are: Anna Armato, Mary Ber- gin, Adelaide Brost, Jeanne Combiths, Marie Combiths, Willie Donnersberger, Mary Domes, Morel Farmer, Margaret Farrell, Carlene Futter, Charlotte Hobin, Helen Horan, Rosemarie Horky, Mary Frances Kennelly, Marguerite Kullman, Mary McCabe, Mary Moore, Clementine Paloney, Mary Ramker, Frances Rockleman, Dorothy Rutstrom, Mary Surry, Lucille Turk, and Amber Wills. Who's Who Katherine Brennan is a busy young person around our college, and well she may be, for she is always in de mand. However, her numerous duties never prevent her from having a cheery word for everyone she meets, which is, perhaps, the secret of her popularity. First of all, Katherine is president of the sophomore class and she represents that class on the Stu dent Activities Council. She won laurels in the Mundeleln-Loyola de bate of last year, and she is on the team which will meet the debaters from Northwestern University tonight. Katherine is also president of the De bating Club. She is a member of Eta Phi Alpha, of which she has been treasurer for the last two years, and she is chairman of Our Lady's Com mittee of the Sodality. Katherine is carrying a double major in history and mathematics, which proves what an ambitious student she is, and she has, moreover, an interest in Greek. Although we might be tempted to pre dict a successful career for Katherine as a lawyer, being confident that any case entrusted to her care would be well handled, she has expressed her desire to do educational work in the line of clinical psychology, in which work she was employed last summer. Katherine comes to us from Moose- heart High School, Mooseheart, Illinois. Mary Jane Sullivan and Girl Scouts seem to go hand-in-hand in our minds, for she is quite the most enthusiastic Scout we have ever met. She was re cently awarded the Golden Eaglet, the highest honor given by that organiza tion. It follows that Mary Jane is a splendid athlete. She is an accom plished swimmer, basketball, and vol ley-ball player, a member of the Senior Terrapins and of the W. A. A. She is likewise vice-president of the sophomore class and a member of the Student Activities Council. She is much interested in science and in tends to major in zoology. Besides all this, Mary Jane is a free lance writer for the Skyscrapf.u and she has contributed a number of fine feature stories, notably one recounting her ex periences as a member of the Junior Council at Girl Scout summer camp. She is responsible, too, for the inim itable verses signed Peter, found ever so often in Sky-Line, and some sprightly poems in the Clepsydra tes tify to her artistic ability. Mary Jane is a debater, too, having distinguished herself in the defence of the place of women in public life against a valiant team from Loyola University last year, and she will represent Mundelein as one of the speakers on the debate I scheduled with Northwestern TJniver- Girl Sfa u t s Are Trai/ning Leaders Mund hjin's Girl Scouts and Girl Scouts-Wbe are quite active these days. For the students to whom the tenderfoot test is a thing of the past, training the future members of the Girl Scout organization is a responsi ble duty indeed. Two girls are serv ing as lieutenants in outside organiza tions, Betty Agnew in Evanston and Pauline Duzeski in Chicago; and, ac cording to the reports that have been forwarded to headquarters, they have been doing excellent work. The other girls who are already Scouts are busy aiding their fellow students in fulfill ing the requirements set down in the Girl Scout tests. Do not think, however, that all work and no play is the motto of the club, for plays, games, songs, and good times form a large part of the busi ness of each meeting and are thor oughly enjoyed by freshmen and seniors alike. sity this evening. Mary Jane comes from LaGrange Academy, LaGrange, Illinois. She is eager to do research work in science and perhaps experi ment in finding the cause and antidote for infantile paralysis. Mary Catherine Schmelzer, some times known as Paul and under that title ordinarily thought of in connec tion with Peter, just as Peter is inevitably associated with Girl Scouts, is a sophomore scribe of some repute. When the college publications appeared last year, Mary Catherine, a tall, dark-eyed girl with a flair for dainty verse and catchy features, broke into print, and that she has been doing rather consistently in the last two semesters, both in the Skyscraper and the Clepsydra. In accordance with her literary tendencies, Mary Catherine is a member of the Press Club and a pledge of Stylus Club. She is likewise an active sodalist and chairman of the Catholic Literature Committee. She is, moreover, a horse-back-riding en thusiast and may be seen on the turf at regular intervals. A hobby in which she takes peculiar delight is the collec tion of elephants of all sizes, colors, and varieties. To date she has thirty- four. Mary Catherine, with all her sprightly extra-curricular interests, is a serious student, planning to major in English and enter the teaching pro fession. The Lineal Ancesters of Chicago German Scholar Does Research Frau Bertil-Bihler, of Fribourg, Switzerland, is doing research work in the college library. Most of her work is in the German section in the stack room on fifth floor where she is gath ering material for a series of lectures on the contributions of German-Ameri cans to German letters, which will be given in the various Universities of Germany during the coming summer. That Chicagoland has always ad vocated the ideals upheld by the Great Emancipator is evinced by his torical records of our city and state. By the articles drawn up for the Northwest Territory in 1787, slavery was prohibited. Later, in the 1830's the people of Illinois voted against slavery in their state. And here, we note with pride, began the political career of Abraham Lincoln. These are well-known facts, but there is something else of a much earlier date that is not so much a matter of common knowledge, yet an early forecast of the cosmopolitan, demo cratic character of our great city simply this, that a French mulatto, was probably the authentic first set tler of Chicago. Beginning about 1650 there was in termittent French occupation of the portage of Checagou, but when the territory was given up by France the place was left to Indians and to the wilderness. It was used by occa sional travelers as a passage from Lake Michigan to the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers, but at the close of the eighteenth century the Potta- wattomies were the only real inhab- j itants. To this spot, about 1796, came a man who must have been a novelty to the Indians. He was Jean Baptiste Pont an Sable, a free mulatto from San Domingo, an adventurous spirit who came from a tropical to a north ern and not so temperate climate, from a land where life drifted lazily and peacefully to a place where one had to fight for existence. An alien in a foreign country, he settled on the north bank of the Chicago River as a trader. The Pottawattomies were peaceful and received the new- By BETTY SMITH comer well. Perhaps they found the personality of this soldier of fortune more attractive than that of many of his predecessors. At any rate, Au Sable got along fairly well, and soon built himself a little hut from which he carried on his commerce with the Indians. In the spring he would go in his canoe to Mackinac or a nearer post to secure ribbons, mirrors, combs, blankets, gaudy shawls, scissors, knives, gunpowder, tobacco, and per haps the forbidden fire-water. When the red men were preparing to go to their hunting fields in autumn, trading began. One might compare that activity with the fall openings of our modern dress shops. The women and men assembled to see the display of wares brought home by the trader. There was much wrangling over prices and credit, each side intent upon getting the better of the other. Probably Au Sable's strain of French blood, with its inherent zest for bargaining, helped him in such affairs. How ever it was, he prospered. He even began to aspire to the dignity of a chief as so many others of his time had done; but he was disappointed, and eventually the wanderlust seized him again and he was eager to set out for other territories. Au Sable disposed of his effects about 1800 or later, to a passing trader, a Frenchman named Le Mai. This man is of significance only as one of the line of Chicago's founders. Certainly he was not remarkable in himself and it is doubtful if he had even the enterprise of Au Sable. In 1804 Le Mai sold the house to John Kinzie, the reputed Father of Chi cago. Following in the footsteps of the former owners, Mr. Kinzie under took the fur trade. But what a dif ference there was in the conduct of the business With that spirit of go and I will which is charac teristic of Chicagoans, he increased his activities. He established a chain of stations the forerunners no doubt of the modern chain stores at Mil waukee, on the Illinois, Kankakee, and Rock rivers, on the prairie lands, and in Le Large, now called Sanga mon County. Engages collected the furs and distributed goods on pack horses. For this work they received a small salary and rations consisting of one quart of hominy and two ounces of tallow a day, if they could get it in the country through which they happened to be passing. The menu always consisted of whatever they could secure that was non-poison ous. These pioneers were known to have lived contentedly on fresh fish and maple sugar for a whole winter. It was a common saying, Keep an engage' to his corn and tallow, and he will serve you well; but give him pork and bread and he soon gets be yond your management. And as the business of John Kinzie increased, so our city has grown from a fur trader's hut built by a San Domingo mulatto, to the leading city of the Middle West, indeed to one of the leading cities of the United States and of the whole world. Is it not fitting that from our state should come the President who insisted upon malice toward none and charity for all ? Surely our history declares the justice of that tolerance which was his dream and ideal and which has made our country a melting pot of nations. STUDENTS ATTEND PSYCHOLOGY MEET The Mundelein students of psychol ogy were the guests of Loyola Univer sity at a meeting of the Robert Bellar- mine Club on Friday, February 12, at 3:15, in Cudahy hall. The club is composed of the stu dents interested in philosophy and meets weekly for discussion and de bate. Resolved: That animals have intellect, was the subject of an ex tremely interesting debate at this meeting of the club. Charles Mann and Roger Knittel upheld the affirma tive and J. A. Daly and Frederick Ludwig, the negative. The audience decision gave victory to the gentle men of the affirmative. Mr. Knittel opened the discussion with a definition of animal intellect as the ability of an animal to perform an act beneficial to itself, under un natural circumstances. Mr. Daly, first speaker for the negative, main tained that the so-called intellectual actions of animals are direct reactions of sense stimuli and that alone. Mr. Mann next took the floor and attempted to refute the negative argu ment with the idea that animals use concepts to form acts and therefore act intelligently, since that is the process of reasoning employed by man. The concluding speaker, Mr. Ludwig, gave two most forceful argu ments for the animal's lack of intel lect i. e., his lack of progress and his lack of language. The negative case was summed up in the fact that if animals were intelligent they would be capable of choosing and would be responsible to God for their actions. In the rebuttals begun by Mr. Daly the debaters dissected the speeches of their opponents and argued even more forcefully than in their constructive speeches. After the formal debate was finished and the decision announced, open forum was declared and the club members supporting both sides gave their opinions quite freely. It is a fine movement, this revival of the philosophy club and its consideration of pertinent subjects, and one that should be encouraged and commended. Statistics Class Compiles Reports A new mathematics course, Statis tics, which is the basis used in busi ness, education, and sociological work, is composed of a select senior and junior group, of whom it. is said that they make up in quality what they lack in quantity. These enterprising students, upon being told to gather some data, chose our own college for the scene of their activities and were able to unearth some interesting facts. One student set out to discover which department offered the largest number of courses and discovered that the English Department led. Another endeavored to find the number of seniors majoring in each department and found that in this respect also the English Department took the lead. Probably the former is a logical result of the latter. A third ferreted out the age of each student in the junior class and after some figuring was able to give the age average of the members of this class. The fourth student encountered not a little difficulty when she chose a rep resentative group of girls from each of the four classes and tried to ascer tain which group had the greatest number of cuts. After much persua sion and figuring on her part she was able to report that the freshmen were the worst offenders, while the seniors appreciated the advantages of attend ing classes more than their younger colleagues. The Commerce Department has kind ly donated the use of its comptometers for these busy statisticians, who make a permanent record of their findings in the form of a graph. (Continued from page 1, column 4) be in silk materials and in cosmetics. Mr. Blish explained that Lberty magazine, the only one of the four that is of post-war origin, was planned to meet the needs of the present day, and that accordingly it differs in policy and make-up from the other weeklies. He explained the Liberty plan of placing advertisements and outlined the advan tages accruing therefrom. Indeed, his entire lecture was a reve lation in the way of actual facts, and his explanation proved conclusively that the field is capable of scientific treatment and analysis quite as much as the more specialized fields.
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