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Page forty-three Page forty-two Lecture Room, Sixth Floor LIBERAL ARTS THE College of Liberal Arts holds out to its students two great ideals of usefulness and culture. It accepts the student newly emancipated from the routine of high school, teaches her reliability, self-discipline, and poise, and fits her to make her way in the world, equipping her with tools for the building of her life work when the time has come for concentration in a limited field. This is accomplished through study of the fundamentals of those branches that have contributed most to the well-being of man. If we step off the elevator on the sixth floor, we are greeted by the faint aroma of one very important complement of a liberal arts course. This is the science-mathematics floor, where theorems and logarithms hold tyrannical sway, where the crawling things of earth and sea are prized, and where even amoebae are at a premium. Chemistry, organic and inorganic, biology, zoology, bacteriology, embryology, physics, all hold out their attractions to students who are seeking a needed credit in laboratory science, as well as to those who are majoring in science. Two floors below is another important rendezvous of liberal arts students the social science and English floor. Here students of survey courses take on the learned air worthy of those who see spread out before them the pageant of the world, and hear its voice lifted in the song and story and oratory of all the ages. Here medievalists and modernists join issue, Elizabethans, Victorians, and Celtic Revivalists compete for the crown. Here latent poetry is aroused, and some who wad write, but canna, discover that they had best major in another field. On descending a flight of stairs, one hears a strange new tongue. Now and then there is an accent with a familiar ring, but the total effect is somewhat vague and mysterious. Can it be Esperanto? No, it is only the aggregate of sounds issuing from beginning language classes. Other class-rooms, however, emit more encouraging sounds snatches of animated conversation in French or Spanish, a passage of German prose, the limpid, musical flow of a Greek ode, the power and clarity of a Latin phrase. The liberal arts curriculum provides room, too, for fascinating electives dealing with the fine arts, such as history of music, and the appreciation courses. Science, mathematics, literature, history, art, all pass across the stage of college life, pausing long enough to attract the eye and fire the imagination, pointing the way to a richer, fuller existence, then vanishing, but not before they have stimulated the thirst for knowledge that points the way to scholarship. The title of the course was chosen wisely, suggesting as it does that versatility and breadth of view that it is the aim of collegiate education to foster. The Tower Skyscraper Staff Rhea Moustakis, Editor-in-Chief; Glenna Mae Hoctor, Athletics; Do is Barnett, Sky-Line; Margaret Roche, News Editor; Irene O'Con- nell, Features; Janet Ruttenberg, Society Editor. JOURHALISM CLEAR-EYED sportswomen and businesslike students with the important-looking notebook of the stage journalist sit side by side with dainty aspirants to the society reporter's standing invitation, listening to theories about leads and heads, and learning to temper loquacity with discretion. Theirs is the cub class, Fundamentals of Journalism. Some students are laying a foundation for advanced courses in the department, while others are studying the subject merely to gain knowledge of the high lights of newspaper work. They have been spurred on, perhaps, by the appearance of the first issue of the Skyscraper on registration day for the second semester. Leads, types of stories, essentials of newspaper style, shop terms, proof reading, headline writing and makeup all these are explained and practiced to a necessarily limited extent in this crowded section. Newswriting, the second step in the would-be journalist's career, affords thorough theoretical training, supplemented by study of leading newspapers and particularly by actual experience on the Skyscraper. It involves all the problems of ferreting out the news at short notice and handing it m on time, ready for use. News values are considered and sifted, and that mysterious quality known as the news sense is developed. Proof reading for which the publications offer ample practice develops skill in swift, accurate reading of galley proof and in the use of the time- saving symbols used in making corrections. The course in Magazine Writing includes study and analysis of the various classes of periodicals, but more specifically the actual writing of non- fiction articles of many types, finally developing the individual technique of the student in the special field for which she is best fitted. All the devices for advertising the news, as well as those for arranging it conveniently and attractively, enter into the highly technical but fascinating work of Headline Writing and Make-up. Not the least feature of this is the art of compressing the lead into the few characters that the large type allows the make-up editor. Since the work of molding public opinion is entrusted to the editorial writer, his training must be doubly careful and thorough. He must be able to sense the attitude of the public toward a vital issue, and to present his own opinions tactfully and convincingly. As interpreter and teacher, he must form his judgments deliberately, basing his decisions not upon prejudice or doubtful evidence, but upon mature and honest reflection. Of all courses in journalism, Special Feature Writing is, perhaps, the most human. It seizes on the unusual, often the almost trivial in the news, and weaves into it some of the laughter and tears and adventure of man's life. The feature writer must be philosopher and psychologist, as well as the most human of men. f 19 3 1
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tower1931021
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Women and Leadership Archives http://www.luc.edu/wla
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Mundelein College Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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There are eight total Mundelein College yearbooks: 1931, 1932, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, and 1985.
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Mundelein College Collection
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Reading Room
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Print
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