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I-: :::; : : : Y*-.t v TlilEallfllP *a.v,c7. V;-- Volume VI. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY 14, 1936 No. 7 Debaters Meet Wisconsin Team I Tonight at Eight Central State Teachers College Returns for Formal Meeting The Debate club lakes the prize for pleasing combinations of social and in tellectual interests. In formal dress to night, before leaving for the Junior Prom at the Blackstone, they will debate a team from Central State Teachers college of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. The encounter, the second to be held with the Wisconsin team this year, will take place in the Little Theatre at 8 o'clock, with Margaret Cleary, and Ruth Quirk defending the affirmative of the Supreme Court question. On Monday of. this week Mundelein debated the socialized medicine question with De Paul university at the De Paul Law school, with Jane Spalding and Ann Ellen Smith representing the College. The debaters celebrated Lincoln's birth day by debating Marquette university at Holy Angels high school in Milwaukee. Preceding the debate, the team, Miss Cleary, Catherine Ann Dougherty, and Miss Quirk, and the coach. Mr. William H. Conley, were luncheon guests of the Marquette Intenforensics society al the Marquette School of Speech. Scheduled debates include a radio en counter with St. Viator college and home debates with St. Mary's college, Winona, with De Paul university, and with North western university. Presents Recital 'Hearts and Flowers' Star at Junior Promenade Tonight at the Blackstone Father Rodman, S.J. Commends Attitude In College Retreat Finds Students Efficient, Quiet, 100 Percent Attentive Dorothy White Engl ish Leads as Senior Major Field A survey of the major fields of mem bers of the senior class reveals that the English detriment leads with 11 per- suants of the muse, and that the music department follows a close second with nine majors. The English department, moreover, claims an additional four seniors who are arrying double majors, Charlotte Wilcox nd Dorothy O'Donnell with journalism and English, Marion Home with English nd library science, and Ella Jamieson vith English and drama. Sociology students place third with eight majors, while the following subjects ink in order: drama, six; commerce, four; home economics, four; education, lirce; Spanish, three; French, Latin, history, journalism, zoology, chemistry, nd mathematics, two; classics, one, and physical education, one. Student Writes, Enacts Original Pavlova Story Aided by a Mundelein Gilbert and Sul livan duo, Dorothy White, senior drama major, will present an original mono logue entitled the quest, which has for its central theme the life of the famous danseuse, Anna Pavlova, in the College theatre, on Sunday evening, Feb. 23, at 8:15 p.m. Miss White's monologue consists of three episodes, each of which will be interpreted in dancing by student assist ants, climaxed by her own performance of Pavlova's famous Swan Dance. Mary Francis Sullivan and Marion Gilbert will depict the childhood of the dancer. Helen Winiecke and Miss Sul livan will do a gavotte of the Empire I period, and Katherine Ott, Kathryn Wol ford, Miss Gilbert, and Miss Sullivan will be soloists for a gypsy group. In the ballet are Ruth Mae Amann, Betty Blichert, Helen Coens, Margaret Finnegan, Catherine Harrcr, Eileen Ken ny, Rita McGuane, Grace Mehren, Mary Muellman, Phyllis Scanlan, Joan Smith, and Marie Vonesh. Agnes Griffin .will assist at the piano, and Eleanore Solewska will play violin selections. Organ numbers will be played by Mae Murphy, Rita Smith, Betty Marsch, Veronica Kassis, Catherine Moran, Rose Hurley, and Carolyn Sikich. The story, which Miss White has written with swift, stirring movement, tells of Pavlova's quest for beauty and follows her career, beginning with her first triumph as the temperamental pre miere danseuse of the Imperial Russian (Continued on page 3, col. 1) The Reverend Benedict J. Rodman. S.J., president of John Carroll university, Cleveland, smiled cheerfully as two sky scraper reporters were ushered into the guest dining room after the final Retreat exercise, to disturb in a general way an otherwise peaceful breakfast by inter viewing the Retreat Master. Father had just finished conducting the annual three- day student spiritual exercises at the College on Jan. 2S-31. That was quite a diplomatic stroke you made yesterday afternoon, we began, referring to the now immortal confession that he had fallen in love with the Mundelein girls.'' Father turned serious for a moment. I sincerely meant that, he replied simply. Such momentous decisions, however, demand an explana tion. Father thought for a second. Well, he decided, what I noted es pecially was the absence of 'tatters and shreds' in the crowd of young women that faced me. Perhaps it was the effi cient and quiet way in which they went about their spiritual business of making a retreat. They were 100 percent on the job (Continued on page 4, col. 4) Eric Sagerquist's First Nighters Furnish Music for Valentine Party -'i i- i. Publications Staffs Attend Press Meeting gt;.A.C. President, Skyscraper Editor Are Delegates to Woman Congress Staff members of the Skyscraper and the Clepsydra will attend the second an nual Catholic School Press conference, which will be held under the auspices of Loyola university, at St. Ignatius audi torium on Feb. 29. Sister Mary Irma, B.V.M., moderator of the Clepsydra and of Quest, will pre side at the magazine round table, ses sions of which will be held both in the morning and in the afternoon. Opening with Holy Mass in St. Igna tius church at 9 o'clock, the conference will consist of lectures by prominent journalists, round table discussions for newspaper, magazine, and business groups, and a luncheon meeting at the Sovereign Hotel. Both the College magazine and the newspaper hold membership in the Cath olic School Press association from which both received All-Catholic ratings last vcar. Scores Defeatist Attitude; Urges Self'Confidence An indictment of the passive attitude toward life and the negative approach of the younger generation were keynotes of an address by the Reverend James A. Magner. D.D., of Quigley Seminary, on Feb. 6. Characterizing Hamlet's problem, To lie or not to be, as exactly the dilemma confronting the modern man and woman, Father Magner blamed a deliberate de featist attitude for much present-day discouragement. The speaker is of the opinion that in order to cultivate a positive approach to ward life, young people must orientate themselves adequately. This sense of direction, he said, should lead us to the building up of an ethical character which is founded on the principles of Christ. No amount of externals, he insisted, af fects this interior foundation. Among the factors in the defeatist at titude, Father Magner pointed out the unwillingness of many young people to assume marital responsibilities or even to assume the responsibility of continuing or transmitting their cultural information after leaving school. Father applauded the women, however, on their intellectual achievements. The cultural element in the United States is by far in the feminine gender, he de clared, adding that for this reason, it should be the obligation of the women to educate men along intellectual lines. The dilemma of youth, Father con cluded, is 'To be be or not to be'; to look on life as a thing mowing us under or as an opportunity to give the best that is in us. Marion Green and Jean McKeever, Officers, Lead Grand March What promises to be the most festive of Mundelein Junior Promenades will be held this evening in the Crystal Ballroom of the Blackstone Hotel, with 300 couples dancing to the music of Eric Sagerquist and his First Nighter orchestra. Marion Green, social chairman of the class, dressed in a classic gown of white satin, will lead the left wing of the Grand March, repeating her success as queen of the Sophomore Cotillion which she led last year. Jean McKeever, class presi dent, in white moire taffeta, will lead the left wing. Following the Prom leaders in the eve ning finale will come the assisting Prom chairmen, Rita Smith in royal blue velvet, Kathryn Wolford wearing quilted red taffeta. Mary Ann Kirschten in black velvet, Gertrude Rafferty in white satin, and the junior class officers, Wilma Roberts in peach satin, Eileen Madden in blue crepe, and Helen Bulchunis in pow der-blue chiffon. The Valentine's day atmosphere, the beauty of the exclusive Crystal Ballroom, and the music of Eric Sagerquist will make this sixth Junior Prom a highlight in pre-Lenten social activities. Chai gt;eroiies for the Prom will include Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Klein, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. McKeever, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. McCam bridge, Mr. and Mrs. J. V. O'Brien, Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Sexton, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Pfister, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Vail, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Walsh, Mr. E. S. Wolford, Mr. and Mrs. John Francis Rooney, Mrs. J. P. Donahue, Mr. Wil liam H. Conley, and Mr. and Mrs. George M. Schmeing. Two Mundelein students, Julia Hager- j ty, president of the Student Activities Council, and Charlotte Wilcox, editor of the skyscraper, are official College dele gates to the Third Annual Woman Con gress, which is meeting at the Palmer House yesterday and today under the auspices of the Chicago tribune. Authorities of national and interna tional reputation in the field of science, art, music, government, economics, and education are guests and speakers at the Congress, which represents one of the most cosmopolitan feminine gatherings ever held in the United States. Miss Lena Madsen Phillips of New York City, president of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women's clubs; Miss Mary Garden, prima donna, Miss Katherine R. W. Wil liams, president of the National Council of Catholic Women, Mrs. Grace Morri son Poole, dean of Stoneleigh college. New Hampshire are a few of the distin guished American women who will speak at the various sessions. Miss Wilcox and Miss Hagerty will be guests at a luncheon at the Chicago Woman's club at 12:30 today, where Mrs. Edward C. Higgins, president, will preside, and Miss Ruth DeYoung, wo man's editor of the tribune and chair man of the Congress, will be a guest speaker. THE WEATHER FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1936 Weatherman predicts continu ance of frozen noses and pedal ex tremities in the vicinity of Sheri dan road and the Lake. Breezes will persist, and collegians will chill to the bone. The variable winds and the continued cold shall disappear at 9:00 p.m. to accom modate Prom-trotting students. There will be a resumption of the cold wave, however, tomorrow. 4 and 20 Freshmen Argue Townsend Plan As we go to press, 24 members of the freshman class have declared their in tention to enter the Freshman Debate contest, registration for which will be opened next Monday, according to Ruth Quirk, president of the Debate club and general manager of the Freshman con test. Arguing the desirability of the Town- send plan, the freshman debaters will be assigned to two-man teams next week, and will meet on Wednesday at 3 o'clock for preliminary directions. The meeting will be held in the lecture room on 6. The first round of the contest will be run off in the week of Feb. 24, with critic judges rendering decisions. Inaugurated two years ago as a means of arousing interest among freshmen in debating as an extra-curricular activity, the contests have -been most successful, the winners in each case being awarded gold keys on Honors Day. Margaret Cleary, Agnes Grogan, and Mary Rose Brown won the medals in 1934, and Elenor Loarie and Ann Ellen Smith were winners in 193S. Last year, at the close of the tournament, the Mun delein champions debated the Loyola freshman team in a no-decision contest before the freshman assembly. English Instructor Merits Distinction First in the history of Loyola univer sity to receive a master of arts degree in English magna cum laude is Sister Mary Alisa, B.V.M., who was graduated from the university on Feb. 5. Sister was the only one of the 83 graduates to take her degree with honors. Completing her undergraduate studies at Mundelein, Sister Mary Alisa re ceived her A.B. in 1933. Sister wrote her thesis on Alice Meynell as a Critic of Literature and Art. At present Sister Mary Alisa is an instructor in English at Mundelein. Sociology Head Has Article in America The Feb. 1 issue of America, na tional Catholic weekly magazine, carried an article on The Trial and Punishment of Animals, written by Sister Mary Liguori, B.V.M., head of the sociology department at Mundelein. With scholarly precision and thorough ness, Sister Mary Liguori evaluates the imposing but irrelevant bibliographical data of those who insist that the Church in the Middle Ages recognized the moral responsibility of animals, and concludes that the pronouncements of St. Thomas Aquinas in the summa ttieologica are representative of the Catholic attitude ir the thirteenth century.
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