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Pafee Two THE SKYSCRAPER Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction or the Sisters ok 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, 1879. 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. VOL. VIII JAN. 21, 1938 NO. 7 SKYSCRAPER Georgia Jean Retreats January 21, 1938 ' 0?6 Mrmher l lt;Jt7 (Associated GoUe6iate Press ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briar ate 3800 EDITORIAL STAFF Edtior-in-Chief Annamarie Masterson Associate Editor Priscilla Moore Make-Up Editor Catherine Heerey Managing Editor Frances Geary NEWS AND FEATURE STAFF News Editors: Geraldine Ferstel, Betty Vestal. Assistants: Helen Finnegan, Frances Sayre. Feature Editors : Kathryn Byrne, Adelaide Nilles. Associates: Catherine Ann Dougherty, La Vonne Hayes. Reporters: Clare Anderson, Leda Castiodalc, Regina Demmer, Catherine Duggan, Lois Jane Flynn, Margaret Gleason, Joan Kaspari, Mar guerite Kelly, Angela Kospetos, Margaret Mary Kreusch. Violet Lasker. Marguerite Mc Nulty. Mary Molloy, Ruth Schmid. Behind the Headlines 11 '. headlines in the newspapers af ter fhe sinking of the Panay were strongly reminiscent of former head lines, and of former war?. And the American public in this age of haste has a tendency to read the headlines, and only the headlines. The impression given after that disas ter in the Far East -was one of mass shock, frenzied excitement, and thoughtless com ment. We have a word for this type of excitement we call it jingoism. Do you remember ? The college student, however, is sup posed to read behind the headlines. She is supposed to have acquired, or to be ac quiring, a background of social and poli tical and historical information which should help her to think clearly in such crises. She has. morever. the advantage of hearing class discussions, of reading thoughtful comments, of attending worth while lectures. Within the past two weeks, Mundelein Students have had an opportunity to hear a lecture on foreign affairs, replete with stories behind the headlines. Father Magner, in his thorough analy sis of the Sino-Japanese conflict, destroyed in the minds of alert students prejudices built up by scare headlines, and presented a fair picture of the Oriental war in its causes, progress, and inevitable results. as well as in its effect ujxm world civiliza tion. And alert students, hearing that lec- iiiii. reflected on (the value of careful study into causes, effects, and racial traits: on the breadth of vision and wise judg ment needed to determine the right and wrong of a conflict; and on the extra ordinary complexity of world affairs. Alert students reflect also that intelli gent comment and action follow careful study and analysis, whereas prejudice and excitement are the looms on which wars are made. GEORGIA Jean stood before the bul letin board and carelessly read the ital news of the day. Exams next week Stop, chaptering brain, she said Ito herself. If you lived through the quarterlies the semesters won't be fatal She looked at her Christmas wrist watch, and then back again to the bulle tin board. Retreat, Feb. 1-1. Georgia Jean thought of talkative Nan and witty Gin- ny seeing them every day and not talk ing to them would be practically impos sible. Where were they, by the way? She had been waiting 10 minutes, and they had promised to be here. She might as well relax. That's what a retreat is sup posed to be, she thought, a period of re laxation. Well, she would retreat and relax for the moment. Comfortable in her favorite student lounge chair. Georgia Jean thought again of retreat. Retreat at this very minute was meaning a number of different things to people all over the world. To the Chinese, fleeing before the guns of the Samurai. i:t meant temporary safe ty, and ultimate defeat, and eventual sub jection to the soldiers of the Rising Sun. The rattle of machine guns, the boom ing of 16-inchers, the swooping, destruc tive mechanical birds of the air pierced their every-day living, dynamiting it into a never-ending maze of insecurity and death. Poor Chinese, thought (Jeorgia Jean. Her retreat would be much like theirs if she maintained oral relations with her chums spiritual retrospection sprinkled with machine-gun chatter. Palestine Exhibit Recreates Past To chose of you who read the interesting account of the Meggido Exhibit at Orien tal Institute in the Line O'Type some weeks back: He it known that the follow ing notes were not lifted from a rival news sheet, but were, rather, wrested from the notelxiok of a junior Scripture stu dent, who, discovering her own private jottings, made some weeks ago, practical ly duplicated in the Line, decided again on the narrow gulf of great minds. Stu dents in the Scripture and geography classes have made field trips to the Exhibit. Here are cases of jewelry unearthed in Meggido, Palestine, by an expedition from Chicago in 1934. The original exhibition, led by the famous Dr. Breasted, founder of Oriental Institute, passed over the great stores of art treasures of histori cal value later uncovered in the subter ranean chambers of the palace by a mem ber of the original, 1924. expedition. The articles on display are the findings of the 1934 expedition. Among the jewelry, all of which is no table for the delicacy of its workman ship and the intricacy of its design, are found tiny scrolls and minute wheels of gold, each with a ring at the top by which they were evidently fastened to a bracelet or necklace. And we think Charm Brace lets are new Here is something of interest to Chica- goans. who arc hearing much just at pre sent of horses and racing. Solomon would have something to say on that score, since he was quite a horse-fancier himself. In fact he was interested in racing and kept one of the finest stables in Jerusalem. Even if she relaxed at 3 o'clock and came out of her spiritual retreat to say Hello. World the tenor of her spiritual thought would be destroyed. I: would be much better for all con cerned if she refreshed her inner-self in cool, contemplative, peaceful retreat. Life really had piled up this past year. Georgia Jean sighed. It would be a relief to be released from smart chatter, everlasting engagements, in cessant radios, homework, all the daily worries that somehow crowded in on her and fought against spiritual depth. She remembered how refreshed and se cure she had felt after Holy Hour on First Friday. The quiet of the Chapel, the beauty of ihe altar, the knowledge that Love, all-consuming, was present had re newed her vitality and softened the harsh edges of petty every-dayness. Three days of real retreat would be a strong astringent for her standard of val ues. It was time that she thought serious ly about what she was going to do with her life. After all, time was fleeting, and there was nothing so brainless as travel ing around in circles, purposeless and fu tile. Suddenly an image that had etched itself into her memory during Jane An derson's lecture Sprang into her conscious ness the image of a little flower girl dying a slow and terrible death because she believed in God. Quietly Georgia Jean arose, pressed the elevator button, and directed the operator to take her to two. It was Nan's turn to wait for her. She was going to the Chapel to thank the (iod1 of the dying flower girl for the privilege of making re treat. 'Round Town Circling the leisure offers of our metro polis this month, collegians with a flair for the unusual will Me in the audience alt the Loyola Com munity Theatre on Jan. 24 and 25 at 8:30 to see the Community Players' production of John Drinkwater's Abraham Lin coln. Hear the Glee Club of the University of Notre Dame, in the Grand Rail room of the Palmer House, on Jan. 23. Stimulate itheir conversational trends by switching the dial to W.MAO every 5 o'clock of a Sunday afternoon to hear Monsignor Fulton Sheen on the Catholic 1 lour. See a not-far-distant era called into be ing through the magic of Helen Haves' dramatic ability in Victoria Regina, now playing at the Erlanger. The stables were constructed (here they are reconstructed for our information) of undressed stone, with flat mud roofs. Lime plaster formed the paving of all the passages and stall floors, with rough stones interspersed. Of special interest ito students of the Old Testament is the fact that in Kings, 1, 10:26-29, we are told of Solomon's horse-trading with Egypt, Syria, and the Hittites. Now at Meggido, with the an cient trunk road from Egypt to Assyria running right past its gates, there is found concrete evidence of the activity described bv the Biblical writer. T-l-;i JSKVLIKHZ 'Twas tlie day after Christmas And all through the house Not a creature was stirring They were all down in the loop making exchanges. Skyline Upon the first of every year I make some resolutions To govern all my actions, and My mental revolutions, / 'or nigh on twenty years I've failed But now I have no fear. Because I cannot break the ones I didn't make this year. L'Envoi Hut I did promise faithfully With a countenance solemn. Not to take jokes Prom someone else's column. (Unless I need them.) Skyline Here is a story with a moral to end all stories with morals: Several weeks ago a student was out very late on a Wednesday night. The pavement was icy: the car overturned, and lh,c student crawled out of Ihe wreckage without a scratch. Meanwhile, al precisely the same time, a resident student who had gone to bed early to test the old proverb fell out of bed and fractured three ribs Skyline A special Baker's Broadcast, over the Na tional Bread Company, delighted the ears of collegians one recent blue Monday. Plead ed the Invisible Voice from the Public Ad dress System: Jeanne (iraham lane Kra- ker . . . please come to the office . . . Jeanne (iraham . . . Jane Kraker ... Skyline QUEST editors had their own time with poetic proofreaders they tell us. The poem. Drought Victim, has a particularly touching line, originally written Beneficent summer, nay The proof came back thus: Beneficent summer hay And an eagle-eyed proofreader corrected it thus: Beneficent summer, say Skyline Why go to college? A Los Angeles pa per is announcing a sale of the World's (ireatest Thinkers, three for 1.99. Skyline A freshman in the art department did a sketch of the human hand, submitted it to the instructor, and was informed that she had omitted two of the phalanges. Puzzled, the freshman studied the sketch sor rowfully until a knowing junior leaned toward her and said, help fully. You've missed a couple of joints. Skyline Another coast to coast hookup this one starring the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, whom an office typist insists upon spelling Singers. Skyline Mother: Is your Packard friend calling this evening? Sophomore: No, mother. Mother: One of the Dodge Brothers? Sophomore: No, mother, this is Willy's Knight. Skyline The peasant influence is driving us to verse. Can you take it? ifty mittens, reds, greens, blues Clumsy creamy skiing shoes. Woolen hoods that hide the curls Of our klassy kampus girls. Kerchiefs framing frozen faces. Bodice sweaters tied with laces. Darlings, please come back to normal, At least in time for the junior formal
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1938-01-21 (2)
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