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Page Two . SKYSCRAPER Victory Prayer if l Were a Freshman Again When news of victory reached the world on August 14, most of us realized that the war would not have ended so soon and so successfully if the' forces of prayer had not been behind the forces of men and mechanized equipment. But the same prayer requisite for vic tory is requisite for the attainment and-the- preservation of peace, secured through the dominance of the three great virtues cited for us last month by our College Presi dent the virtues of Truth. Justice, and Charity. Truth is absolute. Yet today's trend is to give credence to many kinds of half- truths and to outright falsehoods. Phil osophies are distorted, made relative, by individuals for individuals. Prayer is needed for a new popular attitude toward truth and the right appreciation of its value. 0 God Teach us to know and to love the Truth, to seek it unceasingly, to reflect it unerringly, to spread it universally. Justice is equity and it begins with the individual, works out from him to his neighbor, and will, if rightly understood and fostered, form a chain of justness and fair play which will, in time, encircle the world. Justice is an essential ingredient for a peaceful world, and wise are the men who strive for it in their daily living. O God Guide us along the paths of hon or and tolerance and impartiality toward a world in which Your Justice prevails. Charity is love. Love of God. and love for those whom He has made to His Image and Likeness is a foundation upon which all harmonious living is based. Oh God Enkindle in our hearts the Fire of Divine Love, and help us to love all men, since all are Thy children. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE Chicago, 40, Illinois 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 of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1897, 1.75 the year. . Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. XVI October 8, 1945 No. 1 All-Catholic Honors All-American Honors Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chief Eleanor Arends, Lois Hintze Associates Patricia Curran, Dolores Hartigan, Patricia Hollahan, Joan Templeman Feature Editors Florence Jankowski, Dolores Toniatti, Genevieve Urbain Associates Mary Beecher, Mary Em Harrigan. Muriel Hasten, Alice Marie Horen, Colleen ' Rettig, Mildred Stanek Copy Editors Regina Bess, Dolores Ccrvenka Associates Margaret Monckton. Rosemary Templeman News Editors Katherine Burwitz, Regina Milligan Associates Dorothy Doyle, Marilyn Tamburrino, Martha Wade Sports Editors Mary Cannon, Jean Ondesco Art Editor Margaret Mary Campbell Reporters: Mary Ann Anderson, Rita Buckley, Patricia Cardwell, Colletta Clifford, Lucille Cook, Mary Patricia Driskill, Jean Engbring, Jean Marie Hewitt. Grace Komornicki, Kath ryn Malatesta, Jeri Mangold, Ramona Ma rino, Janet McGinn, Ellenmae Quan, Jose phine and Maureen Roche,' Mary Louise Sullivan, Frances Wager, Grace Wurst. I'd be just four times as pleased as you are about being a freshman at Mundelein and I'd make every minute a 'real college minute,' never to be forgotten. Sheila Finney, Student Activities Council President. I'd be very proud of my greeness, bui I'd learn right away that the Chapel and classes would give a perfect start to my four years at Mundelein. Patricia Hollahan, S.A.C. vice-president. I'd start right in taking organ lessons, because I believe acquaintance with the fine arts is an indispensable part of education. Mary Frances Padden, Senior Class President. I'd get myself a detailed hall-map of the skyscraper building; equipped with that, I'd cease being a stea'dy customer at the Lost and Found. Regina Bess, S.A.C. Secretary. I'd know that you should learn to swim before you jump off the end of the diving board. Dorothy Gaffney, S.A.C. Treasurer. I'd try to squeeze more time into my program in order to meet and work with as many as possible of the wonderful Mundeleinites, and thus add a little more to the unilied spirit of the College. Maureen Roche, Sodality Prefect. I'd keep in mind that assignments are given every week to be clone every week and then I'd smile gaily when examinations came around. Marianne Peterson, Junior Class President. I would plan on having a definite lunch period for every single hour Betty Jane Crawford, Sophomore Class President. I'd believe what I was told about required courses, and I'd get on their trail long before I was an old and frenzied senior. Geraldine Thorpe, Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Review. I'd write for The Review. Irene Kenney, Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Review. I'd buy a helicopter, just a small one, and I'd land on our private fourth floor porch each morning after a speedy trip from the far south side. Eleanor Arends, Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Skyscraper. If I knew then what I know now I'd be studying for comprehensives. Lois Hintze, Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Skyscraper. Here Is a Path To Learning We students should be philosophers not in the impractical, visionary sense of the term, but alert young thinkers. And to be philosophers, to be able to think, we must seek the truth. Truth is to the student what justice is to the lawyer and a knowledge of healing is to the physician a goal to achieve, for himself and for others. To prepare himself for professional com petence, the prospective lawyer studies books of all types of law, not just books on criminal law; the prospective physician studies not just the hand or the heart, but the whole of anatomy and physiology. The student or philosopher must like wise pursue truth in its entirety. Describ ing the pursuit of truth as the vocation of the student. Cardinal Newman, in THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY, contends that study alone will not develop the mind fully that reading and attending classes will not, unaided, enable him to sift the wheat from the chaff, truth from error. He must glean new ideas, the Cardinal says, day by day. and judge them accord ing to his principles and rules. He must discuss them with his fellow students, who, imparting their knowledge, challenge him to weigh their arguments and to develop, thus, an integral phase of self-education. Supplementing classwork by opening many faucets of learning, the student finds that his early trickle of truth becomes a powerful stream that flows into many fields. He learns to form unwarped opinions and clear-cut judgments, and, ultimately, he is ready to aid society by attaining his end, the cultivation of his mind. Illustrating the truth of his contention, Newman, the intellectual leader of his day, was foremost of his Oxford associates in blazing a trail in search of religious truth. Through his study, his brilliant mind realized that the Catholic Church was the cradle of truth. Following his own coun sel concerning truth, he grasped the Faith 100 years ago this month, and became an outstanding mind in the Catholic world. His search for truth brought Newman into the Church and made him the spear head of the intellectual legion which met the world of his day on its own ground and used reason to fight for faith. Our search for truth can bring us, like wise, to the two-fold goal of our own in tellectual and spiritual development and the promotion of the common good through right thinking and practice in accordance with truth and reason. uPlease Don't Say 'No'. . . ty It Could Happen To You and it will, since club meetings are already in the air. and It's A Hundred To One you will be inspired to join one or more of the various college organizations. Academic things come first, of course, but the sensible student supplements her scholastic schedule with some extra-cur ricular and allied-curricular activities. If your interests lie in aesthetic fields and everyone needs aesthetic interests you'll enjoy the Cecilians, composed of the Glee club, the Orchestra, the Organ Guild, the Piano club; or you'll like the Art club, the Laetare Plavers, or the English Round Table. Prospective scientists be they biolo gists, chemists, or physicists in the mak ing may find avenues for enterprise in the activities of the Science Forum, while the Mathematics group of that organization attracts students nimble will numbers. The pros and cons of current problems are weighed by members of the Debate club and the International Relations club, and Mu Nu Sigma members discuss problems of philosophic depth. For those who have a flair for writing. Writers, Inc.. including Press and Stylus clubs and the Poetry society extends an invitation. For the prospective business woman, Nu Theta Epsilon, newly organized Economics club, and the Commerce club have a pro gram planned. Alpha Omicron appeals to home economists, and the German, French, and Spanish clubs welcome students with linguistic tastes and talents. The Women's Athletic association pro vides opportunity for sports enthusiasts and Terrapins and the Riding club hold out the lure 'of the swimming pool and the bridle path. Apart from the departmentalized activi ties, three College organizations elicit gen eral response. The Sodality, open to every student, has a type of activity suited to ev ery need and an objective personal for every college girl. The Red Cross unit appeals to the spirit of service and generosity, with a variety of work available, and the college unit of the League of Women Voters, of campus- wide appeal, aims to fit its members for practical citizenship. Think it over, and find one. maybe two, not more than three organizations which are Especially For You. So, Please Don't Say No. but Accentuate the Positive by READING THE BULLETIN BOARD FOR CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS and pledging clubs which offer most TO YOU. STUDIE. BociAl ACTIVITIES And Did You Know.. .1 Convinced that there is a great need for a pouular familv magazine, Our Sunday Visitor is editing 'HE FAMILY DIGEST, the first issue of which will appear this month. This 48-page, digest-size magazine will include articles and stories for the en tire family by Bishop Noll, Monsignor Sheen, Father Edgar Schmiedler, O.S.B., Father Frank Gartland, C.S.C., and many others. * * * Paying tribute to the work of the Ameri can press, the Very Reverend Monsignor Howard J. Carroll, General Secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, re cently stated that the American press can be a model for the press in other coun tries. Speaking in observance of National Newspaper Week, Oct. 1 to 8, Monsignor Carroll declared that There is reason to compliment those of the profession in our country who during the past year have worked with such effectiveness. * * * Women Workers and Their Responsi bilities was one of the subjects discussed at a two-day Catholic Conference on In- dustrial Problems in Cleveland last month. Wives and mothers will be freed of the compulsion to leave home for the factory and workshops if unions, labor legislation, and efforts to secure full employment mean a living wage for the bread winner, stated the Reverend James T. Cronin of Balti more during the conference. Have You Met Father Smith? He's Worth Knowing vyuQ Father Smith, with heart and soul as simple and unassuming as his name; his Church, which he hopes, by love and prayer, to protect from those in his Scottish city who hate him and his God; his friends, the scholarly Father Bonny- boat, the rough, explosive, kindly Mon signor Duffy, the uncomplaining French Sisters, the gentle Bishop, the wealthy Lady Ippecacaunha; his people, the j wholesome folk who bring their simple j lives to him for guidance, their aching' hearts for him to heal these are the peo ple who weave the fabric of Bruce Mar shall's tremendously popular and appeal ing book THE WORLD, THE FLESH, AND FATHER SMITH. WHAT World War I, in which Father Smith, as a chaplain, learns ter rible and beautiful things about human nature and about living; the years after, with their measure of laughter and tears when He sees the conversion of eccentric, golf-loving Lady Ippecacaunha, when he is witness at the marriage of young people I who were First Communicants at God's altar in his Church; when he sees sorrow and sacrifice grow into glory in the lives of his faithful friends; when he finds his life becoming more and more enmeshed with the lives of his parishioners; and World War II. when, his Church on fire from' bombs, he rescues the Blessed Sacrament, from the flames these are the things Father Smith looks back upon when he says his quiet farewell to a world he knows and prays for, and the people he always loved. WHY ,ly is Bruce Marshall's distinct ly Catholic book a best seller? Why do men of every creed love Father Smith and respect his views on Grace, and Sin, and the Sacraments ? Why because, even the most worldly critics find in it hu mor and wisdom unequalled, and an an- , swer to mankind's need.
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1945-10-08 (2)
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