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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER May 15, 1936 THE SKYSCRAPER Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of M Li N I) E L E 1 X COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charity, B. V. M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. VI May 15, 1936 No. 12 ALL-AMERICAN HONORS 1935 Member 1936 Plssociated CblleSiate Press ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briargate 3800 FRESHMAN STAFF EDITORIAL BOARD Kathryn Byrne Adelaide Nillis Geraldine Ferslcl Dorothy Stalzer FEATURE BOARD Rosella Grace Rita McGuane Gertrude Feeney Virginia Gaertner NEWS BOARD France Geary Helen O'Neil Rachel Laughlin Merle Smith Marv Bernadette Molloy ASSOCIATES Margaret LaBine LaVonnc Hayes Marie Nack Roberta Molloy Marv Jane Hoene ' ART Betty Davenport A Birthday, A Baccalaureate, And A Breath of Life MAY 31 will be a day of special signi ficance to Catholics generally, since it is the feast of Pentecost, and, coincident- ally, the birthday of our Holy Father, Pope Pius XI. To the students of Mundelein College, however, the day will assume par ticular significance as Baccalaureate Sun day. It is especially appropriate that the Baccalaureate sermon be delivered on Pentecost that on the day when the Holy Spirit descended to breathe His gifts upon man, these students who have been privi leged to partake in abundance of the fruits of the Holy Ghost during their years of Catholic training be sent forth to use prof itably the harvest they have reaped. Particularly fitting is it that this import ant occasion likewise marks the birthday of the Prelate who issued the now famous Encyclical on Christian education just one year before Mundelein College was opened at the request of His Eminence, George Cardinal Mundelein, who had long desired that a college devoted exclusively to the Catholic education of young women be opened in Chicago, and at whose request the Sisters of Charity, B.V.M., built Mun delein. For, as if in answer to the plea of the Holy Father, who points out in his Ency clical that there can be no true educa tion which is not wholly directed to man's last end, and that there can be no ideally perfect education which is not Christian education, Mundelein is thor oughly Christian in its method and curri culum. Exclusively for women, the College is enabled to focus its attention upon the woman's viewpoint in scholastic mat ters. It aims definitely at permeating its entire system of education with that broad, tolerant spirit of Catholic culture, based on solid Christian principles, that makes for intelligent and profitable living, in both a material and a spiritual sense. Saluting Our Beautiful Lady in Blue CCORDING to a popular song writ er, a beautiful lady in blue caught him in a melancholy moment and gave him a lifetime of happiness by one fleeting in stant of her presence. There is tucked away in the heart of all mankind the memory of another Lady in Blue, about whom, likewise, music has been written, and who has immortalized that music merely by being a part of it, by having breathed a trace of her Son's divin ity into the soul of its creator. She walks the paths of singing skies, and, half shyly, tenderly stoops to caress the poor dark- entombed race of man that her Son has, given her to love. Her love is not a numbing flash of ec stasy, but the beauty of slow, warm strength, and clear, forward-looking eyes. Hers is the courage that can lie drawn from .the full, new-stirring earth, from freshly awakened waters, and from patches ripped from the sky to line man's heart. Hers is the simplicity of majesty, the majesty of God's mother pleading for a home. Paging the Specialist AST TUESDAY a poisonous snake was wandering through a Montreal hotel. Before the hotel managers knew it was there, the adder bit one of the guests. As the news spread, frightened people rushed out into the streets; but the man ager well, what do you think he did ? He called in a snake charmer, who captured the adder. The fact that he called in a snake-charm er, rather than a policeman, or a member of the Humane Society, is evidence of his policy of consulting specialists. Whether it is desirable or not, this is the age of specialists. Alas for the Jack-of-all- trades, for his day, if he ever had one, is past. Anyone who would have the world beat a path to his door must lie a specialist, an expert in some business. College students, if you would be suc cessful, specialize you must Of course it is boring lo have to choose a major, when there are so many interesting fields to ex plore, but the world wants the specialist, and the specialist it will get. If you are unwilling to limit yourself, there are others who will do so gladly, and you will soon find yourself on the outside, looking in. And fellow freshman it's up to us to get the background before we specialize. Shall we be back 200 strong to build it in September? We'll lie watching for you. Brother Anselm Checks , Coming of the Monster In New Dudley Book THE MASTERFUL Monk again en tertains and instructs in the fifth book of Owen Dudley's Problems of Human Happiness series. The narrative debate style carries a logical refutation of the monster, Communism, so well woven into a modern romance that the underlying anti- Communistic propaganda is unnoliceably absorbed. Action, shifting rapidly from Hollywood to Moscow and back to Lon don, complicated by a mad Russian, a French secret service operator, a beautiful English girl, and the nefarious Reds, pro vides attractive excitement. An unusual ending is achieved with an exorcism and a romance in a fantastically solved muddle. Although a slightly unworthy sequel to The Masterful Monk, Father Dudley's admirers will find The Coming of the Monster moderately entertaining and an effective antidote against the virulent com munistic poison. Why Keep Them Alive? That the present economic order is mur dering millions of innocent children is Paul de Kruif's contention in his latest book, Why Keep Them Alive? The entire work is a furiously bitter denunciation of a so cial system which reduces food production, thus causing starvation, and which gives money for laboratories but cannot distrib ute the national income adequately and cannot arrange that little children in need of medical care may secure benefits from those laboratories. The Dionne quintuplets, according to de Kruif, were born without a chance in a billion, but, because of their novelty, people showered them with life-saving food, cloth ing, money, and medicine wihch leads us to conclude that it is just too bad for those of us who are not novelties. Was It Murder? Was It Murder? James Hilton has again triumphed in adding to his list of popular novels this snappy and catchy mystery story. The young Englishman succeeds in captivating his reader from the outset and holding him to the startling conclusion. Hilton develops his latest yarn in his own inimitable style. In portraying Hugh Ra- vell, the leading character, the author seems to be giving us, perhaps, a little of his own li fe as a writer and amateur criminologist. And Another Year i-l-it: su OiiMiz Comprehensively Speaking Charlotte Wilcox, erstwhile and erudite editor of this journal, feeling not so erudite in the quavering moment before senior comprehensives, raised her eyes from Outlines ok English Lit erature, opened her Imitation' at random in search of the proverbial consolation--and read: All men are frail, but, remember that, of all thou art the frailest. And rumor hath it that Annamae Shinnick cut a wisdom tooth during that three-hour torture, which is our idea of suiting the action to the word, the word to the action, as Bacon would say or was it Bacon ? ***** Harriet Rec lt;l, rehearsing for her toast at the Mother's Day banquet, tried out on the family her tribute to Fathers. All except her father agreed that it was a gallant speech. Father would have it cryptic he would say, simply and with a flourish : Papa Pays ***** Having dealt with the seniors warmly (the toast) and comprehensively (the exams), we shall now turn the spotlight on ourselves, presenting a Theme Song from a rhetoric paper: The frisky puppy took the rattle from the baby, crawled under the bed, and began to chew it vigorously. Which, queried the long-suffering in structor, the baby, the rattle, or the bed? ***** Race Prejudice? Director, as the Tribune photographer is about lo snap his last picture of the coronation cere mony : All of you may go except the white girls. ***** Senior, (we can't keep away from them), read ing library notice on her locker: Frank Spearman must be the Spanish Lover I took out last month. ***** Companions in Misery? Instructor, in Dante class: Can you recall a parallel to that passage in the Purgatorio, Miss S , or were you with us when we took the Purgatorio last semester? Miss S.: Oh, yes, Sister, I was with you both in the Purgatorio and in the Inferno. ***** The same senior who wrote on her compre hensives that her chief association with Cam bridge was The Cambridge History of English; Literature solved the difficulty of front-page, aspirants for us. When the umteenlh request for a front-page story came in. said senior was typing the class history at the typewriter with the pal sied Y. I wish the whole paper were first page, groaned the harassed freshman make-up man, trying to please everybody. It is, replied the typing one. depending 011 where you begin to look at it. Look at the back page first, and it's first, isn't it? ***** We stopped grieving over the red pencil marks on our freshman themes when we read the head line in a recent copy of our fellow7 journal from the adjoining campus: guile presents you and I ON MONDAY. ***** Nigger in the Woodpile Dr. Rooney's small son contributed the remark of the week not long ago, when he announced to his mother that his baby sis ter's first words were not English but Ethio pian. Ethiopian, son? questioned our genial in structor, what makes you think that? Well, she said Addis Ababa, replied the lad, isn't that Ethiopian? ***** And then there -was the freshman who asked the instructor in commerce lo help her thread
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1936-05-15 (2)
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