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Page Two, THE SKYSCRAPER, Nov. 14, 1955 Pilgrims' Progress . . . Pioneers Hurdle Today's Frontiers I stand on the cold cement of Wack- er Drive and look at the memorial to the Fort Dearborn Massacre. I won der quietly if I am standing on the grave of a man who once had strength and aspirations. All over America, people like me tread with dusty feet over the dust of the pioneer. Here in Chicago, the Present rules. The heir to the throne is Tomorrow. We save Yesterday for history books and special occasions. It is only on this corner that I think of those who died, and those who live, and those who will live tomorrow. A man walks toward me. He pulls close his coat against the November wind. As he leans against the monu ment to light a cigarette, I think. He lights no Indians. He buys his turkey dinner in a restaurant. A fur-lined coat protects him from the frost. I do not know what he does all day. Perhaps he draws blueprints, mixes chemicals, files papers, or scrubs floors. Whatever he does, he is a pioneer. On Thanksgiving Day . . . Ponder Life, Liberty, Pursuit Of Happiness Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ... These are the gifts for which we give thanks on Thanks giving Life, a gift of God; Liberty, accorded us by God and by Govern ment, and the Pursuit of Happiness, made possible by Liberty to study, to worship as we wish. When we think of these things, we realize that Thanksgiving is not only a day of feasting and merriment. It is a day of remembrance of remem bering to be grateful to God and Coun try for the blessings we enjoy. Come to the Fair Jhe kudcraper Vol. XXVI Nov. 14, 1955 No. 4 Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Co-editors-in-chief Jean Kielty, Marie Kobielus, Nancy Mammoser Associate Diane Letourneau Editorial Assistants Chandra Camp, Rita Caprini, Maribeth Naughton, Marilyn Santini, Genevieve Teutsch, Marilyn Lindahl The REP's Report Virginia Leidinger Artist Joyce Kuhlmann Reporters Mary Lou Doherty, Geraldine Battista, Michaella Burton, Bea trice Hoang, Maureen Connerty, Marilyn Devereaux, Jeanine Dwyer, Dolores Fer raro, Barbara Guderian, Marilyn Jensen, Sandra Marek, Gloria Mrazek, Marguerite Phillips, Alice Raczak, Lynda Rousseau, Diane Scifres, Lynne Sheeran, Kathleen Slattery, Dorothy Strzechowski, Alma Swea- ton, Ann Toland, Jean Vetterick, Mary- therese Walsdorf, Joan Zander, Marcella Brown, Betty Weiss, Maryann Wilszynski, Janice Zumwalt. America is an endless frontier. There will always be foes to fight, starvation and cold, there will always be courage and death. Perhaps To morrow the man by the monument will be exploring the moon. With America, I render my re spects to Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, turkeys, and tomahawks on Thanksgiving. I thrill to tales of tribulations, and I smile again at the romance of John and Priscilla Alden. Sometimes, when I walk down State street, I wish they could have lived to see what we have done with what they gave us. Then I return to my college world and file away the for gotten heroes in my memory. We do not construct log cabins. Our buildings of glass and aluminum smile at the sky. We are different, but we are the same. We stand on the same ground and breathe the same air. They colonized our country. We are attempting to explore the uni verse. They fought the British to be free. We fight Communism to keep our freedom. We, too, must build a future for those who follow us. We are Amer ican pioneers. Wanted: People Who Really CARE CARE is an organization designed to help the needy on earth. The Heroic Act is an individual offering designed to help the needy in Purga tory. The Heroic Act entails offering the prayers and good works of one's life to God's care for the souls in Pur gatory, trusting that He will provide for the person making the act. Too many of us in the Church Mili tant ignore those in Purgatory and concentrate solely on ourselves. Since those in Purgatory cannot pray for themselves, they are dependent on us and on the Church Triumphant for an early release from their suffering. Were we to contribute more, this suffering would be caught in a cross fire of prayers and the souls would soon be released. Their war is over. A little help from us would give them their dis charges. Do we CARE enough to help fellow soldiers? Come to the Fair From the Vine Comes the Qrape . . . Halls Of Iuy Capture Headlines It is unfortunate that at times good ideas are buried under poor titles. Such is the case with Henry Morton Robinson's article entitled The Ivy League Colleges The Case for Their Natural Superiority, in the November issue of Holiday magazine. The title is poor, not because it is deceptive but because it may infuriate and alienate many who would profit much by reading the article. Just what does Mr. Robinson tell us? We cite one of his first statements Despite leveling influences that would 'democratize' the B. A. degree that is, bring it down to the level of a vaccination certificate the Ivy colleges cling to the somewhat mys tical notion that a candidate for the 800-year-old degree of Baccalaureus in Artibus shall be, among other things, a person of marked intellec tual promise. They hold further that he shall be capable of achieving a rigorous kind of excellence, not limited to the mind, manners or even muscles but pene trating into the very marrow and ma trix of life itself. They are penetrating words indeed for a generation of Americans who have been taught the democratic dog ma that everyone in America can go to college simply because he is an Americas and this is a democracy. Everyone with any academic ex perience will agree that success in college requires considerable intelli gence and determination. Further, it is realistic to ask: Will the student who would not exert himself to be come more than average in high school, suddenly come to life in col lege where assignments are far more difficult and demanding. We agree with Mr. Robinson about the academic superiority of the Ivy leaguers we would, in fact, wonder about students from Harvard, Yale, Penn, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell if they were anything but superior. It would be surprising if an educa tional system that selects 7500 su perior students from 400,000 superior applicants could produce anything but a superior product. The astonishing thing is that lesser colleges, with less promising material, manage also to produce some fairly superior graduates. We disagree with Mr. Robinson's apparent isolation of the liberally educated man to the eight Ivy league colleges and the half dozen other in stitutions to which he grants respect ful recognition. There are superior students on every campus in the country. Their numbers vary; the degrees of their superiority vary, but they exist, nev ertheless. The Ivy League has no monopoly on students who are sincere in their search for scholarship; students who sacrifice much for the 800-year-old degree of Baccalaureus in Artibus. There are students in smaller, less famous colleges who attempt to read 300-400 pages a day (the Ivy League freshman average) despite the fact that these students commute to school and many work part-time and have little time for such elaborate sport programs as the League colleges have. No, the Ivy League colleges have not cornered the market on the whole man. In fact we wonder if in the long run their students are not missing a great deal knowledge and understanding that we receive in our required 16 hours of religion and 12 hours of philosophy. Kate Hevner Mueller, Ph.D., who told us impressive things about our selves at assembly last Thursday, has other impressive things to say in an article in the September Mademoi selle. Entitled The Marriage Trap, it poses the question: Is the college girl really faced with a marriage dilem ma? Some college girls, we agree, do worry excessively about prospective marriage partners, although they will never admit it directly. Many are eager to exchange what the author calls the stigma of Miss for the security of Mrs., and society is cruel sometimes in its questioning of a young woman's single status. Perhaps because we study Marriage in our Religion classes, we have a somewhat different view of it than other college girls. Consequently, we disagree with some of Mrs. Mueller's points, notably about the importance of careers. Nevertheless, there is much that is true and valuable in the article, and we suggest that, if you have not read it, you read the reprint on the SAC bulletin board, and draw a few con clusions of your own. BEF0RE an6 AFTER DRESSIN6 TOR THE COTILLION
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