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November 14, 1935 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three History Classes Aspire to Careers As Archeoiogists Crystal gazers with powers of proph ecy and historical vision took possession of the history of civilization classes last week and turned the calendar ahead to the date some years hence when the Carioan Archcological Expedition of Mundelein College, numbering among its distinguished scholars members of the Class of 1939, returns to Chicago to re port on its investigation. Singularly enough, the Theban Auxil iary is scheduled to arrive on the same day and, in anticipation, the freshman historians conducted, on Oct. 25, a vividly picturesque travelogue, under the chair manship of Dorothy Fitzgerald. Illustra tive slides and a table of valuable exca vations added an authentic note to the program. The following students took part: Dor othy Foy, Agnes Rodell, Bernadette Mol loy, Mary Margaret Leen, Leona Michels, Mildred Rattier, Ruth Dunkleau, Vern- ette Artery, Alberta Savage, Virginia Pelletier, Frances Geary, Mary Rachel Laughlin, Terese Powers, Virginia Green, Marcella Windle, Jean O'Brien, and Dorothy Hess. Under the direction of Germaine Mul- holland, Section A of the history classes gave in a demonstration period an ac count of various aspects of Egyptian life and history. Dorothy O'Donnell, president of the International Relations club, was guest of honor, and the following students gave reports: Catherine Byrne, Ann Cahill, Eugenia Pilafas, Armella Ciemniecki, Geraldine Ferstel, Roberta Malloy, Mar garet Hanlon, and Mary Clifford Curry. Women Often Excel Men as Philosophers Lecturer Maintains Discussing women as philosophers, the Reverend Arthur Kelly, S.J., professor of ethics and honorary member of Mu Nu Sigma, was guest speaker at the meeting of Nov. 6. According to Father Kelly, women are frequently more acute, more practical philosophers than men. Following the lecture, Margaret Egan reviewed the current issue of thought; Charlotte Wilcox discussed the philoso phic background of Helen C. White's new novel, not built with hands; and Mrs. Joseph Elward read a paper on Plato, the Modern, pointing out similari ties in political conditions during the time of the ancient Greeks and in the twentieth century. In a joint meeting with the Philosophy club of Loyola university, the members of Mu Nu Sigma will discuss Ramon Lull, scholastic philosopher of the 14th century, on Nov. 20. The meeting will take place on the Loyola campus, and Jane Spalding and Rita Casey of Mun delein will read papers. At the meeting on Oct. 28, Ruth Quirk reviewed the current new scholastic ism, and Harriet Reed read a paper on Ramon Lull. Following a criticism of the philosophy of the Lloyd Douglas novel, green light, given by Jane Spald ing, the members held an open forum discussion. Argue Senate Veto Of 5 * 4 Decisions By Supreme Court The opening debate of the year on the Phi Kappa Delta question, Resolved: That the Senate should have the power to override by a two-thirds vote the five- lour decisions of the Supreme Court, was held at the Debate club meeting on Nov. 6, with Ruth Quirk and Caroline Holland successfully defending the af firmative against Catherine Ann Dough erty and Anna McCracken. The debaters have scheduled meetings with teams from Marquette university, St. John's university, Toledo, and the Illinois Normal college, according to Margaret Cleary, manager. In addition to the Supreme Court question, the club is preparing a case for the conference question on socialized medicine. Two Graduates Are Fall Brides Loyola U. Prefect Addresses Sodality Urging that due emphasis be placed upon the intellectual side of Catholic Ac tion, John McKian, prefect of the Loyola university Sodality and editor of the loyola quarterly, addressed the Munde lein Sodality, on Nov. 5. Mr. McKian suggested the establish ment of an intellectual Catholic review, written by and for young people, as an immediate means of stimulating intellec tual Catholicity, and recommended the direction of student interest toward the work of Catholic lawyers in the field of Christian jurisprudence and of Catholic historians in the almost unfilled field of scholarly American historical research. Following the talk, Charlotte Wilcox, prefect, turned the meeting over to Eil een Madden, chairman of the Liturgical academy, who presented a practical dem onstration of the way to prepare for the reception of the sacraments at home. Mary O'Callahan and Helen Driscoll described and enacted the procedure, after which Mary Rose Brown, chairman of the Eucharistic-Our Lady academy, re ported on the two-day school of Catholic Action and summarized Father Lord's lectures on the Mystical Body. Theme Song, Pledges Occupy Organ Guild Second only to the red, white, and blue, We to our colors will be true. Thus chorused the members of the Organ Guild, introducing the new theme song of the organization at the pledge reception in the Music Library, Nov. 5. Bridge and bunco preceded a musi cale, presented jointly by Piano club and Organ Guild members, following which Adelaide Pfister acted as hostess at tea served in the tearoom. Organ, Piano Clubs Honor St. Cecilia In Joint Musicale Among the interesting announcements from the alumnae are those of Mary Ellen Buchanan's marriage to Edward O'Hara in June and of the marriage of Madeline Palucci to Joseph Caliendo which will take place on Nov. 17. Mar garet Granger '33, has joined the roll of brides, too, having been married to Joseph Murphy on Nov. 1. Ruth Tangney '35 who was vice-presi dent of her class, managing editor of the quarterly, and manager of the Debate club, is enrolled in the graduate school at Northwestern, and Margaret Grace, '35, is doing part time graduate work at Loy ola in addition to her apprentice teaching. Marion Mulligan '35, an erstwhile scribe and Laetare Player, is teaching at Norwood Park, and Geraldine Gardi ner is instructor in English at Wells high school. Virginia Meagher '35 associate editor of the Skyscraper last year and a Gold Seal athlete, has recently returned from an extended vacation in Niagara Falls and Binghamton, New York. Study Procedure At Reserve Bank A tour through the Federal Reserve Bank and Chicago Clearing House on Nov. 1 began the series of projects which the Commerce club is sponsoring to ac quaint students with the business and commercial activity of the city. Approximately 70 Mundelein students made up the tour of inspection. In the cash department of the Bank, the girls were shown the manner of disposing of used currency and the method of pre paring insurance coupons in the bond de partment. At the clearing house the group was permitted to watch the mes sengers of the various member banks de posit and receive checks. Honoring St. Cecilia, patroness of mu sic, members of the Piano club and of the Organ Guild held a joint musicale in the auditorium, on Nov. 6, as a feature of the pledge tea of both organizations. Musical selections included Demarest's Fantasie, a duo piano and organ number by Kathryn Wolford and Rita Smith; Arabesque, Op. 39, MacDowell, played by Margaret Hanlon; Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu, by Ruth Perry; Borowski's Nocturne, by Veronica Kassis; and Brahms' Cappriccio, played by Jessie Kramer. Vocal numbers were Curran's Life, sung by Mildred Stelzer; Vilanelle by Delia Acqua, sung by Frances Mikkel son; and Cademon's My Desire, sung by Rose Hurley. Ruth Perry, Agnes Grif fin, and Mildred Sperry were the ac companists. Jessie Kramer, Margaret Hanlon, Jeanne Theis, Agnes Griffin, and Mildred Sperry entertained with piano solos at the first recital of the year on Oct. 29. Grace Mehren, who gave two readings, and Terese Powers, Rita McGreal, and Frances Mikkelson, who offered vocal solos, were guest artists. Ruth Perry, a freshman who was grad uated from Senn high school in June and who was awarded a scholarship in music to Mundelein, entertained 1,200 Senn juniors in a recital on Nov. 5. A.M. TO P.M. I .Jm . . , ., ;. I JI EADLINES Headlines President j * * oi Student Council interrogates First M Lady Forsooth, my friends, 'tis true, ji1 Our Julia, after a busy day at tlie Cisca .; Catholic Action school, hied herself to ; the Blackstone to hear Mrs. Roosevelt last Friday evening and became so en- ' thusiastic about the challenging address on peace that she asked the question of the evening ''You have made so many references to the young people of tlie na tion that, as one of the younger members of the group, 1 should like to ask just what program you have in mind for them to follow in promoting peace? Obvious ly pleased with the question, Mrs. Roose velt outlined her plan in detail, and later asked the identity of the questioner, and congratulated the College for its intellectualism. See you on the Bench, Julia, if the freshman pacifists don't wear you out with questions before June. Your Portrait in Soap Is Art Pledge Offering Initiation week for tlie future artists of Mundelein saw pledges parading to class in colorful smocks, with paint brushes, tubes, and cans dangling at their sides. To receive the 150 points necessary to become a member of the Art club, the pledges have been busily engaged in making posters, running errands, bringing art clippings, and attending art exhibits. Soap carvings and drawings of senior faces were two unique features of the week devoted to initiation of the pledges. Art club members who are illustrating the Fall issue of clepsydra are: Maurita Kelly, who has contributed the frontis- Story Book Figures Live at Stylus Tea Hamlet, the Little Red Hen, and a host of other characters from literary history came to life and recited poetry for both old and new members of the Stylus club at a pledge tea, on Oct. 25. After their adjournment from tlie tea room to the social room, the rookies added to the enjoyment of their elders by writing the first issue of the clepsydra in ten minutes. Agnes Griffin's poem, Worse a la Gertrude Stein, drew enthusiastic ap plause from her auditors and a noisy horn as first prize from the judges. The meeting adjourned with the singing of the club song under the musical direction of Miss Griffin and her new instrument. Marie Nack and Gertrude Feeney re ceived prizes for the cleverest introduc tions of themselves, as Juliet and Elsie ITH the seniors asking the prize questions, we hear the freshman knowing the answers these days or ven turing down the path to Punland and finding new ones. Helen Cole, being vital ly interested in her zoology course, has abolished the good old Good Morning to You favorite and applies a note of mod ernity by singing Life Is a Cell before each class. But the frosh hold no mon opoly on the pun-on-song craze. Anna McCracken's In My Soup is the junior version of Shirley Temple's latest song hit. EANWHILE Julia Mary Hanna has gone international on us and un covered this choice bit of League of Na tions fashion news. Edythe Williams, our cross-the-ocean-twice-a-year sopho more, possesses a dress (gray flannel to you) decorated with embroidered China men, which her mother bought in Austria and brought to England and which Edythe is wearing in America. piece, Virgina Gaertner, Lilian Krez, Rosemary Walsh, Ellen Birnbaum, Irene Dinsmore, respectively. Mary Catherine Waldron, and Florence Hayward. Rose was general chairman for the event. Brigadier General John V* Clinnin Derides War As Glamorous Pageantry hjt ENTION of Edythe reminds us that * Ruth Quirk, Margaret Cleary, Jane Spalding, Gertrude Rafferty, and other forensic stars are roaming around with Hope emblazoned on their brows. It hath been rumored that the Debate Manager is scheduling a debate with Notre Dame. This reminds us that we are VITALLY interested in the Supreme Court question and simply devoured with eagerness to have it debated here in stead of there. I Member Tells Club Of Mexican Travel Merrily Las Teresianas journeyed over foreign land on Oct. 28, when Edith Coyne gave a vivid account of the trip through Mexico and Central America I which she took this summer. The members of the Spanish club had assembled for their second meeting, and it was after a short business discussion that they embarked on the trip which j mentally covered a period of 17 days but I actually covered a period of one hour. Brigadier General John V. Clinnin, D.S.C., Retired; Catholic soldier, lawyer, publicist, and athletic enthusiast, has many claims to distinction. He has served in the Spanish-American and the World War, and in every grade from private to Brigadier General. He has many decora tions, among them the Distinguished Service Medal, and a citation by General Pershing. But when this eager interviewer from the Skyscraper entered his private office on the 32nd floor of the Roanoke Tower on Saturday, he bragged about one thing and only one thing My daughter, Muriel, you know, is a student at Munde lein. He spoke of the part that women played in the World War, women who were brave to be there in the first place, and who took the same chance as the men. In order to win a war, you know, you have to keep your men happy. There are three ways to do it. First, you must keep them well fed; then you must keep them clean; and third, you must keep them entertained. By Julia Mary Hanna When men come in from the grime and mud, the wounded and the killed, the rats and the dirt of the lines, the part that music can take in lifting their morale can not be overestimated. Women war work ers inspired the music and provided food and clean lodgings as well for the sol diers. Don't ever get the idea that there is glitter or glamor in war. I agree with General Sherman that 'war is hell.' But, when the sovereign speaks, the subject acts. I believe that war is the worst way to settle international disputes. The Ethiopian war? he remarked in answer to my query. There are two sides to that question. Those who live in a country where colonists drove back the savage, uneducated, nomadic natives of America, until they were conquered, have not much to say. Italy is only dorhg what England, France, and Germany have done. Ethiopia has the coal that Italy needs. Then, too, it is my opinion that Ethiopia will be governed by a mandate, and that France, Germany, and England will have part. Education and religion will be brought in for all, whereas now only a small number of Ethiopians are educated at all. That the General is so well informed is explained by the fact that he reads for at least an hour each evening in history or biography, There is better fiction in living than in books, he smiled. There are human interest angles in each of my law cases. I guess I've got what you'd call a 'nose for news'. The General is writing an autobiography. When would it be finished? I asked. Before I totter to the grave, I hope, he replied. I write on it when I have nothing else to do. The manuscript, written in a careful hand, was before him. It will include the story of his Irish ancestry and will nar rate the story of a thrilling prison riot, adventures in Mexican border service, experiences and responsibilities incurred as colonel commanding the 130th Infantry, 33rd division, in the World War, and ac counts of being wounded, gassed, and temporarily blinded at Consenvoye, France, less than a month before the Armistice was signed, 17 years ago. VU HICH brings us right back to the quiet little freshman who told the librarian at closing hour that she was just trying to find A Watch in the Night and some other book that the teacher had said Wasn't Built With Hands. Four teenth century eleventh century we might as well run back a few more to the time of Diocletian and watch Mary Rose Brown enjoy the play, lament Genesius' death, and nonchalantly watch the garden grow. Rita McGuane and Jane Malkemus want to be murdered right on the forestage they are thoroughly in agreement with the Madame Butterfly audience which resented the passing of the gory scarf. See you in the fourth century a week from Sunday night we'll all be there, Laetare Players. Polish Society Gives Pledge Welcome Tea We aim to please, could easily be a motto applied to the Polish society of Mundelein College, since there is no doubt but that the pledge tea of Oct. 17 pleased the new members in a two-fold manner, since they were not molested by such pledge tortures as autographing grapefruits, wearing huge signs about their necks, or carrying brooms. Present were, Mary Esther Derezinski, Laura Witkowski, Marcella Nowacki, Eleanor Rozanski, Armella Ciemniecki, Chestera Niewinski, Evelyn Adamowski, Mary Majewski, Helen Wroblewski, Mar tha Duda. Genevieve Kruzel, Sabina Slarzynski, Lillian Wasielewski, Jean- nette Kuzba, Adele Kash, Wanda Ja- worski, and Laetitia Kalisz.
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