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THE RAPER ?olume I. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APRIL 30, 1931 Number 4 LEADER OF CATHOLIC ACTION IN MEXICO VISITSMUNDELEIN Father Miguel Miranda on Way to Rome; Takes Copy of Clepsydra. The Reverend Doctor Miguel Dario lliranda, of Mexico City, and the Rev- Bend William F. Mullally, of St. Louis, Missouri, paid Mundelein College the honor of a visit on Thursday, April 9. Doctor Miranda, who is the leader of a great movement for Catholic ac- na in Mexico, was on his way to Rome to see the Holy Father. He was particularly gracious to the reporter Bom the Skysckapeh who interviewed aim, and not only told her of his work ii Mexico, but sent, through her, a message to the students of Mundelein College. He is evidently a student of languages, for he was easily able, after Jkussing the message in Spanish with Father Mullally, to give it to the reporter in English. He says: The best aim of Catholic education must be taken from the words of Pope Pins XI, which he expressed some fears ago, before an important meet- pig of Catholic women in Italy. It is, that the center of women's activi ties is in the family, and therefore all educational work for women should be centered around the preparation, development, and defense of the Cath olic home. Father Miranda expressed himself as delighted with our college publica tions, and took with him, at his own request, a copy of the Clepsydra for the Holy Father. Father Mullally explained in detail the extent of Doctor Miranda's work in Mexico. It is an intensive move ment toward Catholic action, and it might be compared to the sodality movement in America. The situation in Mexico is grave, for the clergy have no civil rights whatsoever, the teaching of religion in elementary schools is forbidden, no religious demonstrations may be car ried on outside of the churches, and the great Catholic institutions have been taken over by the State for its own use. The need for immediate action is great, and the Catholic peo ple have risen admirably to meet it. The movement which Doctor Mir anda sponsors is highly organized and has a national association with which district branches are closely allied. It was begun (luring the last year of the persecution, with the full approval of the Holy See. The entire organiza tion is under the direction of the President General, who is a layman appointed by the Archbishop of Mex ico. The lay organization is advised and guided by the ecclesiastics, who form a definite group that functions smoothly in conjunction with the Action Catolka. as it is called. There are already twenty-one- parishes con nected with the Accuin. The movement is concerned, not only with the development of Catho lic action, but also with the prepara tion of Catholic leaders among the laity. Men, women, young men, and young girls, all are members of this (Continued on Page 4. Column 1) WINNERS IN INTERCOLLEGIATE DEBATE Plan Student Prom at Drake in May Who? The juniors. What? The Prom. Where? The Drake. When? May 22. How? Every collegian knows. Why? To provide an evening of de lightful entertainment for Mundelein students and their friends. The Junior Prom, the first public social function of the college, will be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Drake Hotel. Johnny Maitland and his all-collegian orchestra have been engaged for the occasion. Bids have been issued in expectation of over three hundred and fifty couples, and are procurable from members of the junior class. Arrangements are being made under the direction of Vera Carson, Prom chairman, assisted by a capable corps of committee members from the junior iclass. MARY JANE SULLIVAN LEONORA STAHR, Chairman KATHERINE BRENNAN DISTINGUISHED POET DISCUSSES MODERN CATHOLICWRITERS Notre Dame President Compares Contemporaries with Earlier Group. Student Orchestra in Final Concert It was with a stirring and tuneful program that the Mundelein College orchestra welcomed the crowd of ap preciative patrons who filled the col lege auditorium on Wednesday evening. April 29, on the occasion of the first annual orchestra concert. Although the orchestra has played for various events throughout the year since its organization last fall, it was the first time that the group, under the direc tion of Mr. H. J. Beringer, presented a program alone. The numbers were varied Mid well chosen and revealed both tne rhythmi cal skill and shading quality of the players. Bandanna Sketches, which included two negro spirituals, was par ticularly appealing with its soft, minor tones, and the gradual dimming of the lights to a dull red glow lent a color atmosphere which intensified the effect of the haunting southern melody. The Mundelein string quintet, con sisting of the viola, 'cello, piano, and first and second violins, offered Moz art's Menuett with fine musical in terpretation; and Elizabeth Boyle's violin solo proved that this promising group of musicians is developing talent as individuals as well as concert play ers. Elgar's majestic Pomp and Cir cumstance, which has been suggested as the theme number for the orchestra, concluded the program. PROGRAM Youth Triumphant Gibb Melody of Peace Martin Laughing Eyes Silberberp Scene de Ballet De Beriot Elizabeth Boyle Mary Helen Boyle at the piano. The Mill in the Forest Eilenberg Bandanna Sketches: Clarence Cameron White (a) Chant (b) Slave Song ISTKKMISSIOX The Forge Master O'Hare (Continued on Page 4, Column 4) IRISH FREE STATE Mundelein College took another step forward in intercollegiate relations this month when her three delegates. Vera Carson, Eileen Gleason, and Irene O'Connell, were accepted and given a country, the Irish Free State, to represent in all world problems dis cussed at the meetings of the Inter collegiate Model League of Nations Council. The purpose of the Model Council is to bring the League of Nations Coun cil, its procedure and problems, before the people, and to create an interest in it through a thorough knowledge of the matters handled by them, the prob lems presented for solution, and the procedure followed in such matters, and to work jointly with the annual Model League of Nations Assemblies held at the University of Chicago. With these aims in view, the Model Council of Chicago has selected its members from among the future lead ers of the city today's college stu- (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) HAS WOMAN A PLACE Loyola and Mundelein Teams Hold Debate on the Question With the clang of martial music from the orchestra ringing in their ears, the valiant warriors of the Mun delein Debating Club wrested a hard- won victory from the invading forces of our gallant neighbor, Loyola Uni versity. The attack mi.de by Mr. Joseph Walsh and Mr. James Rafferty, of Loy ola, upon women's right to emerge into public life was repulsed by Mary Jane Sullivan and Katherine Brennan, whose emergence on this occasion was most effective. The students from the neighboring campus availed themselves of the op portunity generously given by the Reverend Joseph A. Reiner, S. J., Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, to follow their team to the wars, and flocked in numbers to the scene of battle. The rich tones of the organ, Cardi nal Mundelein's gift to the college, played by Mr. Albert Sieben, organist of the Holy Name Cathedral, sounded for the first time through the audi torium, announcing that this was to be no petty conflict, but a significant event in an age-old struggle. Coate's melodious overture, played by the col lege orchestra, under the direction of Mr. H. J. Beringer, soothed somewhat the taut nerves of spectators and com batants. Then Leonora Stahr, chairman of the debate, welcomed the two teams, introduced the first speaker on the affirmative, who stated the question, Resolved: That the emergence of women into public life is to be de plored, and the battle was on. The constructive speeches of both sides were clear and forceful, and the arguments were both logical and en lightening. So enthusiastic were the listeners that the speakers were in terrupted from time to time by bursts of applause. The last constructive speech of the affirmative was but as the smoke of battle to the first speaker of the nega tive, who took up the rebuttal with a right good will, setting a precedent that was speedily followed by her op ponents and colleagues. There was a swiftness and enthusiasm on both sides that showed thorough mastery of the subject under discussion, a re serve fund of information which was reluctantly abandoned because of time limitations, and an enthusiastic inter est in the question. While awaiting the decision of the judges, the Reverend Vincent Kloos, of Holy Name Cathedral, Mr. Maurice J. Costello, LL. B., A. B., and Doctor A. O'Callaghan, Marjorie Cramer, president of the Mundelein Debating Club, expressed the gratitude of the club and of the entire college to Mr. William H. Conley, the coach of the debate. It is to the earnest efforts and long suffering of Mr. Conley that the debating team, no less than other (Continued on Page 3, Column 5) Noted Sociologist Shows Us Mexico The Reverend Frederick Siedenburg, S. J., Dean of the Loyola School of Sociology, endeared Mexico, the land of contradictions, to every Mundelein student when he spoke of that country on Thursday, April 16, in the college auditorium. Father Siedenburg has traveled ex tensively in Mexico, and to add to the fascination of his word pictures, he flashed on the screen the exquisitely colored slides that he collected while there. According to Father TieJenburg, little is required to make the Mexican happy: all he asks is enough to eat, a few clothes, and some kind of shelter. He has no desire to follow in the foot steps of his Yankee brethren, who are continually in pursuit of dollars and more dollars. Perhaps this accounts for the fact that although Mexico has a backbone of silver and ribs of gold, she is nearly bankrupt. Next, a succession of bewilderingly lovely panoramas was flashed before the students' eyes, while Father spoke of Mexico's wonderful climate that is almost eternal spring; of the immense haciendas that were once her pride and joy, but are now covered with weeds and the ruins of beautiful villas; of the great pyramids that cradle the altars on which, in the days of the Aztecs, thousands of human beings were sacrified to the heathen deities; and, finally, with deep admiration and reverence, he disclosed the crowning glory of Mexico her cathedrals. He spoke of the great love that had inspired the people of Mexico to give gold, silver, and jewels to adorn these vast buildings; he touched on the hun dreds of years that it took to build one cathedral, and of the men who had worked year in and year out that the Infant King might have a worthy habitation when He came to earth. Then when he told of the ravages of (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) Representatives from Mundelein Col lege breakfasted with members of the Calvert Club, Sunday noon, April 12, at the Blackstone Hotel. The guest of honor was the Reverend John A. Ryan, Ph. D., professor of sociology at the Catholic University of America, at Washington, D. C. The Calvert Club is a local branch of the Calvert Associates, a national membership society which publishes The Commonweal. The members dis cuss art, science, and literature, study Problems through the giving of lec tures, debates, and public discussions, and form study clubs. The Associates are for the most part Catholic laymen and women, although non-Catholics are also listed on the membership roll, which includes such prominent names as Ralph Adams Cram, Dr. James J. Walsh, and Carle- ton J. H. Hayes. The Mundelein representatives were Mary Emily Garvey, Mary Loyola Hogan, and Clare Allender. The Reverend Charles L. O'Donnell, C. S. C, president of the University of Notre Dame, delivered a lecture on Catholic Literature in the Last Two Decades to the students of Munde lein College on Thursday, April 16, in the college auditorium. Father O'Don nell, who is president, too, of the Catholic Poetry Society of America, is one of the foremost of contemporary poets. He is the author of three volumes of poems, the latest ol which is A Rime oj the Rood and Other Poems. Perhaps the most outstanding char acteristic of Father O'Donnell as a lecturer is his immediate and delight fully simple disposition of the formal role of lecturer. He would talk to us, he said, about poetry, and he proceeded to do just that in an easy, unassuming, yet withal a scholarly and very interesting manner. It is his belief that the remarkabls work which has been done by Catholic poets within the last twenty years is not a revival, but merely a continuation, an attempt to keep up to the high stand ard of quality and to the quantity of the Catholic poetry produced in the preceding twenty years. Father O'Donnell remarked the evi dent influence of Francis Thompson, Coventry Patmore, and Lionel John son upon the poets of the present pe riod, noting that Patmore especially was generative of poets. Of these later poets, he discussed briefly the great Catholic writers, Belloc, Ches terton, and the Kilmers. He com mented charmingly upon the works of Francis Carlin, Alfred Noyes, Theodore Maynard, Sister Madeleva, C. S. C, and our own Sister Mary Angelita, B. V. M. A note from a distant but none the less progressive land is sounded in the works of Eileen Duggan, the youthful artist who sings exquisitely beautiful songs and inter prets themes of religious idealization in terms of her native land. New Zea land. With these solemnities finished, Father O'Donnell turned to the read ing of poetry. The selections, which revealed the poet's love of the beauti ful in nature and his dominantly re ligious preferences, were chosen from among the less widely known poems of prominent writers. The Arena, a poem which Chesterton wrote as a tribute to Notre Dame, after his first visit to the university, headed the list. He read, too, Chesterton's poem about the legendary meeting of The Two Maidens in Sherwood Forest. Eileen Duggan's A New England Christmas he characterized as one of the finest productions of modern poets. In conclusion, Father O'Donnell de lighted his audience by reading some of his own poems, quietly, unassum ingly, yet with the same note of un derstanding that characterized all his reading. He modestly discredited his own writings in contrast to those of (Continued on Page 4, Column 3) His EminenceTakes Gift Flag to Rome Irene O'Connell and Mary Emily Garvey, president and vice-president of the junior class, visited His Emi nence, Cardinal Mundelein, at his resi dence, 1555 North State street, on Thursday afternoon, April 9, bringing with them a large silk American flag. This flag His Eminence took to Rome with him, and presented, as the gift of Mundelein College, to the College of the Propaganda, at whose dedica tion he officiated. Pops Pius XI has long dreamed of moving the College of the Propaganda to a more suitable location. Financial conditions, however, prevented the dream from materializing, until Cardi nal Mundelein offered to help the en terprise. As a result of his aid, the new college was dedicated on April 24. 1
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