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Page Two SKYSCRAPER The Freshman Dilemma or The Syncopated Clock Throughout our high school days, col lege was glamorously portrayed for us as the portal to all learning and social life. Last September we embarked on this ad venturous career and were immediately enveloped in the maze of activities known as college life. Our days assumed all the problems of the New Yorker lost in a London fog. Thus: Here I am, bright and early on a Monday morning, all set for a satisfying week of school. Of course, today I'll be rather rushed because of four classes, and a meeting of the Hostess committee for the Freshman tea at 4, and a Math club meeting oh, dear that's at 4, too. Well, at least the staff meeting for the Fresh man paper won't be till 4:30, and should be over in half an hour. That will make me only 20 minutes late for work. I just can't be late again. Tomorrow will be easier, though. I'll have only three classes but there'll be two tests. Perhaps I can get the 24 overdue problems in Math done after class. Oh, no. The tea is tomorrow afternoon. Let's see I could do the problems Tuesday evening after I finish my book review, but then I wouldn't have time for my diction assignment for English. Guess I'll just have to wait till Wednes day but Wednesday after class I wanted to shop for shoes for the Frat dance Sat urday. If I don't get them then I won't have time till Friday, and Friday I'll have to rush home and do my hair for the par ty Friday evening. Well, I'll get the shoes on Wednesday and do my History at 10 on Thursday. Of course that means I won't be able to do my sketch for Art until Friday at 11, so I'll have to study for the History test after work on Thursday. I suppose I'll not be able to finish the argyles for Bob this week after all. I'd better spend my free periods studying . I really WANT to get the Math done, and the Art sketch, and the book review. If only there were two of me . . . So goes the week, finished before it is started, and, unless Congress passes a bill for a 12-day week or a 36-hour day, such a dilemma will continue endlessly and drive a person to distraction. What to do? That is the question. Shall I work on my assignments or buy shoes for the dance? Shall I finish the argyles or read a classic for my book review? There is no such thing as settling the dilemma once and for all. We must make a choice each day between the important and the unimportant things. Some things must be done regularly, like studying. Others knitting, shopping, dating, listen ing to records; enjoying family and friends, playing bridge in the Union must take turns in our lives. It's the OTHERS that really should perplex us. We just have to learn to see them, sometimes, as fiendish attempts of the little people to complicate further our already complicated lives. So it is that only when we have learned to manage our own lives will we have any reasonable facsimile of order. Then we will find that most of our troubles have vanished with the wasted minutes. (uedtioninci V llllndi. Questing minds are ours seeking Truth, trying to find our places in the pattern of life, confused about majors and minors, careers and in terests, but gradually discovering the paths we must follow. And to our questing minds you of Mundelein present possible an swers, steadying truths, new ideas. S oclelu f atln y 9 Mundelein social life is ours, too. We are guests and hostesses for teas and proms, finding new interests, new friends, sharing with others and learning from them the joys of college life. Ulpiifted rreartd Questing minds and social interests, study and relaxation all find purpose in the core of spiritual living inherent in our college. Here are the answers to our vague wonderings about life not just in classes, in Sodality, in Chapel visits, but in the very air of Mundelein. VJur Jnanhd *Jo Ljc ou Faculty Members, Seniors, Juniors, Sophomores by your teach ing, your guidance, your friendliness, your companionship you have welcomed us and integrated us into our new environment. Despite research papers, endless book reviews, tests, assignments, we have survived. We thank you for the prodding you have done to our minds, the gayety you have sown in our hearts, the widened inter ests and the aims you are giving to us. Why a Magnificat Medal? For behold from henceforth all gener ations shall call me blessed. Mary's humble song of praise is the namesake of the Magnificat Medal and therefore holds a special significance for us. In her own impeccable judgment, Mary breathed her thoughts of love and devo tion and in so doing left an example for women of every generation. The Virgin paid no heed to worthless trivialities nor did she lack astounding foresight. Her message was clear, summed up, strangely enough, in the first line of the Magnificat: My soul doth magnify the Lord. She is speaking to us of magnifying the Lord of receiving supernatural grace and through our own actions magnifying the goodness of God. The realization is both comforting and frightening. In her ageless prayer, Mary subtly pro claims the virtues that are intensely woman's: ... He hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their hearts . . . He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and hath exalted the humble. The Magnificat Medal, given annually to an outstanding Catholic college alumna, underlines the often neglected fact that a woman is successful if she magnifies not herself but the Lord; if she lives in His love, and radiates that love to others. Vve Heard The Name Oh, I've heard her name before but I don't know her. Familiar? Definitely, And the answer to that is not too bad. With a student enrollment slightly under 800 there is no reason why we shouldn't have at least a speaking acquaintance with almost every student. Friends are the best people in the world, and the only way to have them is to meet many people. Close friendships are made in much the same way that we choose a dress. What do we look for when buy ing a very special dress? Best friends are special, you know. First, quality; the very finest is none too good. Following this, long-wearing ability, the kind that will last and still be there, ready for more. There are many criteria on which to base a friendship, but you'll find that fol lowing these rules will make for the best possible friends. By, looking the field over, you'll also have made numerous ac quaintances and met the many wonderful people that are the Student Body. Student View ... , Politics On Television Divertissements . . . Italian Art . . Picture a small child with wondering eyes stepping through the pages of a fairy story. All objects around him from the playful clowns who peep from beneath benches to grinning images of Captain Kidd on the walls transport him to a magical world of make believe. You can experience this phenomana in Foyer for Marionette Theater, a repro duction of Fabrizio Clerici's deh'ghtful child's theater, which is one of the five interiors that constitute a major attrac tion at the current exhibit at the Art In- siute ITALY AT WORK. The display is a sampling of the best Italian production has to offer in furni ture, ceramics, glass, metalwork, textiles, and jewelry, and includes a collection of toys which captivates the hundreds of adults who view the show daily. A ceramic tile floor which depicts the Bay of Naples and boasts a brilliant Med iterranean blue is an outstanding piece. Cool green glassware from Emboli sets a housewife's eyes shining. Many of the items in the collection were selected by Meyric Rogers, curator of de corative and industrial arts at the Art Insti tute, who compiled the detailed handbook which describes the history of the exhi- hibition and Italian production compre hensively. Night Without Stars . . . The ingredients which make up the plot of a book make it either hard to pick up or hard to put down. In Night With out Stars, by Winston Graham, one finds the latter.' A man's sudden blindness and surpris ing recovery, a revengeful murder which seems almost just, the French black market in action are all intermingled with a real istic, unsentimental love story which makes reading this novel time well-spent. Giles Gordon, having come to the south of France for a rest, finds himself help lessly in love with a native who takes pity on his blindness, then disappears. Alix Delaisse, the French girl, has all the feminine frailities, including a great capacity for love and a sense of loyalty amounting to hero-worship. Her weak nesses can be traced to her childhood, While her virtues are inborn, making her the strongest character in the book. The intellectual and emotional struggle of English conservatism against French humanism is delicately shown and may be considered the underlying theme of Night Without Stars. New Recordings . . . Spring has inspired many artists and musicians. Numerous excellent recordings are scheduled for release in the next few weeks. Toscannini has recorded Schu bert's Unfinished Symphony, The Moldau, a symphonic tone poem by Smaetna, and Dance Macabre by Saint-Saens with the NBS Symphony Orchestra for release by RCA. A phrase which will probably become as much a part of American small-talk as Kilroy was here is the recent remark of Kefauver Crime committee witnesses, I refuse to answer on the grounds that it might incriminate me. The Kefauver Crime Investigating com mittee has created a sensation not only with Honest Ollie, the poor man's bookie, but also among housewives who are ne glecting domestic duties to watch the pro ceedings on television. The fact that the average American citi zen is at least or at last becoming aware of organized crime and political corrosion through graft may be enough to classify the Kefauver committee as a most en lightening congressional action, although there is room for discussion about the long- range wisdom and benefit of the action. If, however, the Kefauver investigation alerts Americans generally to the need and the constant effort required for positive ethical thinking and acting, not in politics alone but in all fields, it will have worked a near miracle in national life. Jke 0 lt; uAcraper Entered as Second Claw Matter Not. JO, 193 at tie Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to M y inclusive by the students of Mundelein Collejt, 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. FRESHMAN ISSUE Vol. XXI April 9, 1951 No. 10 Co-Editors in Chief Rosemary Anzona Mary Ann Arras Rosemary Bauer Yvonne Beaumont Barbara Brennan Joan Dawson Angela De Florio Patricia Fitzmorris Claire Gerbeck Rosemarie Graham Sylvia Grigul Marilyn Haas Beatrice Hector Rosemary Jones Doris Kuhlmann Catherine Lamb Rosemary Lind Marilyn Lyons Cleo McMahon Barbara Moran Mary Agnes Moran Mary Lou Rohlfing Dorothy Schneider Shirley Snyder Jeanette Vogt Mary G. Ward II lil
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1951-04-09 (2)
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