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; *-i-*--..; *- : : :V 'i ,-sIrtW:: Volume III MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MARCH 15, 1933 Number 8 COLLEGE PRESIDENT AND DEAN ATTEND NATIONAL MEETINGS Association of Deans and N. E. A. Hold Conventions In Twin Cities By Frances Davidson The President and the Dean of Mun delein College attended the seventeenth annual meeting of the National Associa tion of Deans of Women held Feb. 22 to 25, at St. Paul, Minnesota. The opening address, on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 22, was given by Dr. Ernest Watson Burgess, professor of so ciology, University of Chicago. Dr. Bur gess spoke on The Family and Person ality Development. Personality in Education Considered The part that personality plays in the process of educational development was one of the foremost topics for considera tion throughout the sessions. Before returning to Mundelein, the President and the Dean attended several sessions of the National Education Asso ciation of the United States, held at Min neapolis, Feb. 25 to March 2. The convention theme was New Frontiers of American Life, and differ ent aspects of the changing status of edu cation were considered in the discussions. Discuss Education and Economics The bearing of the present economic situation upon aims in education was dis cussed at the outset, and methods of ad justing the curricula to meet the Chal lenge of the New Frontier' 'were planned. Among the speakers were Harley L. Lutz, professor of public finance, Prince ton University, who spoke on the Chal lenge of the Present Economic Depres sion, and Howard Scott of New York who spoke on The Imminence of Social Change. Mr. Scott is the well-known advocate of technocracy. Introduce New Honors System This Semester A new system of honors, which will be put into effect at the quarter, was an nounced last week by the Registrar as a method of encouraging and recognizing high scholarship. According to the new system, those who have a three-point average, that is, those doing straight A work, will re ceive highest honors. Those with a 2.67 point average, which is higher than a B average and lower than straight A, will merit honors. Those with a 2.34 point average, a little better than a B average, will be given honorable mention. Every credit hour of A grade yields 3 points, while each credit hour of B means 2 points, and C grade, 1 point. Un til this system was introduced it was difficult to determine the students with the highest scholastic standing. Although the point system has been employed since the first semester of the college's exist ence, the only requirement for a place on the honor roll printed each quarter in the Skyscraper was to have obtained eight hours of A. This change has met with the approval of the students, since it serves as an in centive to superior work, and a definite indication of general scholastic ability. ECONOMICS GROUP HEARS DISCUSSION OF BANK PROBLEM William H. Conley, M. B. A. Talks on Two-Fold Aspect of Situation College Represented at Illinois Federation Meet Faculty members of Mundelein College attended a meeting of the Federation of Illinois Colleges on Feb. 28, in the Little Theatre of De Paul University. The Very Reverend J. W. R. Maguire, C. S. V., president of St. Viator's Col lege, Kankakee, Illinois, president of the federation, presided at all the sessions and gave the presidential address on Monday evening. lt;8 gt;- - A Scene from 'Antigone ft By Ruth Mary Heinz William H. Conley, M. B. A., assistant dean of the Loyola school of commerce and instructor of economics at Mundelein, spoke on the banking question before a group of students on Thursday morning, March 9 at 10 o'clock, in the lecture room. Mr. Conley began his discussion by stating that the government, at present, has two important problems to consid er the expansion of currency, and the reorganization of our banking structure. Explains Holidays and Moratorium Explaining, then, the difference between a bank holiday and a moratorium, Mr. Conley defined a bank holiday as a gov ernor's proclamation to legally close certain banks for a definite length of time. A moratorium, he said, is merely a partial or complete suspension of pay ments for a period of time. According to the Broderick proposal, Mr. Conley explained, the bank is given permission by the government to freeze a certain amount of deposits in propor tion to their frozen assets, assets which could not be turned into cash. Under this proposal, Mr. Conley con tinued, no bank could be required to pay more than five per cent of its deposits. The most you could legally require is five dollars out of your one hundred dol lars, should the five per cent measure be invoked. No bank is one hundred per cent liquid. Therefore, a moratorium is pure ly a defensive measure to save strong banks. Suggests Guarantee of Deposits How to get new deposits in the bank, and how to restrain people from with drawing their money are two more prob lems the government will have to solve, Mr. Conley stated. The guarantee of deposits would be one way to keep money in banks, but the guarantee of deposits should be a tem porary measure only, he concluded. Mr. Conley, however, was very opti mistic in his conclusion, and said The government is taking a very intelligent and a very conservative action. I do not think the situation has to be viewed with considerable alarm. Receive Gifts of Autographs and Valuable Books Through the generosity of the Rever end A. L. Girard, pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Momence, Illinois, valuable lit erary contributions have been received by the Spanish and drama departments. To the Spanish department, Father Girard presented a copy of Sevilla y la Semana Santa, written in Spanish. The drama department received an auto graphed picture, letter, and autobiogra phy of E. H. Sothern, noted actor. Sevilla y la Semana Santa tells of the Holy Week festivals of Seville. It con tains three sections, dedicated to the tra ditions, the art, and the confraternities. The confraternities, societies of men united in devotion to a particular saint, take an important part in Spanish Holy Week ceremonies. Colored illustrations are given of the various robes and coni cal hoods worn by the members of these societies.. The autobiography of E. H. Sothern, Shakcsperean actor and husband of Julia Marlowe, is entitled, The Melancholy Tale of Me. Father Girard himself re ceived the letter from Mr. Sothern. In the autographed picture, the actor is posed in one of the Shakesperean roles for which he is well-known. International Relations Club Discusses Japan Father Goodwin was besieged with questions after each of the discussion pa pers read in the meeting of the Interna tional Relations club on Thursday, March 3. Japan, with special emphasis on the Manchurian question, the racial charac teristics of different peoples of the nation, and the government proper was the topic discussed. At the close of the meeting, Mrs. George Brennan, wife of the late Senator Brennan, addressed the group. CLASSICAL GROUP PRESENTS VERSION OF GREEK TRAGEDY Cast Offers Own Translation of Sophocles' Drama Antigone By Marion Mulligan If you have been startled of late by shadowy forms moving about the halls of the college muttering lines from the classics in sepulchral tones, may we an nounce to you that the Greek students are presenting an English version of Antigone on March 24, in the Munde lein auditorium. An interesting phase of the presenta tion is that an individual translation of the text has been made by each of the characters in the play. Club Pledges Make Costumes The pledges of Eta Phi Alpha, the col lege classical club, are obtaining points for membership by aiding in the costum ing of the cast. Lighting of the play will be done by Mary Louise Berryhill and Marion Mulligan. Winnifred Greene and Ellen McSwiggin will take care of the cast make-up. The plot of the drama centers about Antigone's defiance of the edict of Creon, King of Thebes, that her broth er's body should not be buried, and the working out of the fate of Creon, bring ing ruin on him and others as a penalty for his stubbornness. Students of Greek Take Part The cast, chosen from the Greek drama class of the first semester, includes: Kath erine Brennan in the title role;Rita Rior- dan, Ismene; Barbara Petrakis, Cre on ; Justine Feely, Haemon; Ruth Tang ney, guard; Helen Driscoll, Teiresias; Lucia Mazurek, guide; Rita Riordan, Eurydice; Ruth Tangney, messenger. Theodora Alcxopoulos, Alexandra Prassas, Margaret Grace, Virginia Woods, Andromache Prassas, and Loret ta Brady, Theban elders in the role of a chorus. Students of Philosophy Present Program in Honor of St Thomas Rita Riordan as Ismene, Barbara Petrakis as King Creon, and Katherine Brennan as Antigone. DAILY NEWS SPONSORS SHORT-STORY CONTEST Short-story writers are Opportunity's favored children these days. A radio con test, sponsored by the Chicago Daily News, is open to aspiring authors, begin ning Friday, March 10, and closing on March 31. In accordance with the rules of the contest, any person registered as a student of Mundelein College is eligible to compete. The submitted manuscripts will be judged by a committee of three faculty members, and the accepted story will be printed in the Chicago Daily News and paid for by that paper at the rate of one cent a word. The drama department of Loyola Uni versity will re-write the story, making it suitable for radio presentation and it will be broadcast over station WMAQ. The length of the manuscript should range be tween 800-1000 words, the former length being preferred. The writer, if she wishes, may construct the story as a one- act play and recast it later as a short- story. On March 7, the six hundred and fifty- ninth anniversary of his death, St. Thom as Aquinas, Doctor of the Church and patron of schools, was honored at a pro gram in the college auditorium arranged by the members of the philosophy class. The climax of the program was an ad dress by the Reverend Arthur J. Kelly, S. J., professor of philosophy at Loyola and Mundelein, on St. Thomas and the Art of Living. In approaching his subject, Fatlier Kel ly said, To speak about a plan of life is as natural and as necessary as speak ing about a plan for the erection of a building. What is wrong with the mod ern world is just this very thing. It has attempted to build the house of life without any plan, or at least without a plan wliich is effective in sustaining the stress of actual living. The disease afflicting the world to day is essentially a disease of the mind. The mind, of its very nature, when con fronted with the white of truth must af firm it, and on the other hand, when brought face to face with the black of error, must declare it. The modern plan is to toy with the truth and error, to look so often, yet so quickly and superficially at the white of truth and the black of error that they become blurred into the sickly grey of compromise. Such a phil osophy of life is shifty and unstable. Referring to the principles of St. Thomas, Father Kelly continued, Thom- ism, as a philosophy of life, is alone ca pable of delivering the mind from this instability. There are, after all, just two possible plans in life. One is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit our principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The philosophy of St. Thomas be stows an immediate benefit upon human ity, because it brings the mind back to its proper object, orientates it toward its proper end, and restores it to its nature. Actual living is the acid test of the value of a man's philosophy of life. If it bears the stress and strain of life, it is by that very fact stamped and sealed with ap proval. No life, except the life whose hierarchy is reason, can ever hope to win. A man thus armed will walk through life with his feet set firmly on the ground of truth. The program for the afternoon was as follows: Prologue, Jane Lawler; St. Thomas, Doctor Angelicus, Violet Park; Leo XIII and Neo-Scholasticism, Rita Eppig; The Lutanist of the Blessed Sac- (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3)
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