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Page 2 THE SKYSCRAPER June 7, 1935 THE SKYSCRAPER Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN C 0 L L E G E 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois Mundelein 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 at 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. V June 7, 1935 No. 13 ALL-AMERICAN HONORS Associated. ffoUcgiatcJflrfss -vgp?S 355M3i gt; 1935 e -53 1934 ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briargatc 3800 STAF F Editor-in-Chief Ann Lally Associates: Irene Lavin, Virginia Meagher, Marion Mulligan Managing Editor Charlotte Wilcox Assistant Dorothy O'Donnell News Editors: - Jean McKeever, Mary Catherine Rose Features Jane Spalding, Jane Malkemus Assistant Genevieve del Beccaro Alumnae Mary O'Brien Exchanges Virginia Meagher Athletics Irene Lavin Assistant Gertrude Rafferty Business Managers: Jane Spalding, Frances McCambridge Reporters: Margaret Cleary. Helen Coleman, ' Colette Corbett, Catherine ArmDoughcny, Agues Griffin, Julia Mary Hanna, Catherine Heerey, Eileen Hettinger, Laetitia Kalisz, Maurita Kelly, Betty Kelso, Nona Mae Lin ton, Anna Marie Masterson, Mary Rita Murphy, Catherine Ott, Ruth Quirk, Mary Joyce Vail, Lililan Waseliewska. Challenge to Class '35 HUMORISTS and cartoonists through out the land have come to look upon graduation as a sort of mock manumission. That is our chiding elders' viewpoint, but to those of us who are leaving college in a few days the occasion is much more sig nificant, and this serious attitude is not voiced in a single monody, but is sung in the hearts of all of us. We have been approaching graduation for some time, and now the full realization of what is happen ing has burst upon us as swiftly as a splash of pyrotechnic stars. Four years ago, when we first enrolled at Mundelein, we set up a conscious goal of achievement. That goal was far away, and we encountered many valuable experiences in our long march toward it. Knowledge was acquired; new friendships were made, and our characters were strengthened by- contact with wise and sympathetic Faculty members and with one another. All dur ing this time the perspicuity of our vision has remained unclouded. We have kept our eyes on the goal, and now that each hour carries us closer to it, there is the sense of satisfaction which comes to each of us in the secure knowledge of a job well clone. After four years we have achieved some thing the thing we set out to do. Yet this consciousness of having arrived at a milestone also leaves us with a sense of fear. We must now look around for some new and concrete work to do. We must choose a vocation and set up a new goal to mark the pathway of our future lives. Let our choice not be thwarted by the at- Let's Read a Good Book During Summer Vacation The wise college lassie will meet the aftermath of examinations, leas, farewells, and Commencement with a smile on her face and a summer vacation reading list tucked under her arm. And the wisest of the wise will include in her list those old favorites which are always worth a leisure ly re-reading, together with those other worthy volumes that one has always meant to read, but for which, one somehow never quite managed to find time. We would suggest as a delightful pre liminary a trip to the juvenile section of the library to scan those favorites with perennial appeal: The Oz Books, Winnie The Pooh, Peck's Bad Boy, Alice in- Wonderland, and a first-rate edition of fairy tales. With your reading receiving such a pleas ant impetus, literally dozens of other old favorites will suggest themselves for re newing your acquaintance. There will be those delightful ramblings with Christo pher Morley in his Parnassus on Wheels with a happy landing in The Haunted Bookshop; those hilariously humorous happenings of Mrs. Wu;gs of the Cab bage Patch; the refreshing uplift of meeting Mr. Blue again; and the mellow Hold That Line WHEN the last ink-stained and dog-eared book has been re moved from your locker, when y-ou creep up the stairs to make a final visit in the serene peace of the Chapel, and when you bid farewell to your collegiate Triends for the summer months, arc yob going to leave behind all that has been inspired in you by your participation in true student Catholic Action? What Mundelein students have done during the past year in Sodality work is most commendable, but the test of its value will be ascertained by the con tinuance of this activity during vaca tion time. The Vacation Schools need teachers; The Waifs' Messenger and many other Catholic magazines will welcome your brain children; and last, but not least, the Legion of Decency needs intensified support. At the beginning of the scholastic year, His Excellency, the Most Rever end Bernard J. Sheil, D.D., gave a motto to the Catholic students of Chi cago. To fulfill the obligations imposed upon us by this motto is comparatively- easy when the entire student body is participating in the work of Christ and His Kingdom, but what are we going to do when left upon our own re sources ? On Ascension Thursday, Bishop Sheil supplemented his watchword by urg ing Chicago Catholic youth to hold that line during the summer months. Are we going to take Bishop Shell's motto for our own and carry on during vacation by do ing the impossible for Christ ? tractiveness of petty personal gains. Let the logic and the sense of worthwhile achievement which have ruled our college days guide us in this important decision. Now, while our ambitions are ebullient and youthful, let us fix our eyes upon the highest possible relative end which our in dividual natures are capable of attaining. Then, in the years of striving toward it, we can make our college proud, not only of our own small efforts, but of the traditional Catholic nobility of spirit which she has passed on to us. reflections following tea and cakes with Mr. Chips. There will be browsing among Alice Meynell's essays, and the writings of her friends, Thompson and Patmore. Tucked in on the edge of less strenuous afternoons will be, perhaps, a play or two from Shakes peare, a few mythological tales, and a bio graphy of the Belloc or Bradford type. Finally, there are those particular books, and for the majority of us. their number is legion, which one has always wanted to read but which have been forced to give place alternately to assignments, examina tions, social engagements, and the like. This list we would introduce with Dickens' Pickwick Papers; Thackery's Vanity Fair; The Betrothed, by Manzoni; Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice; Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield; and Quo Vadis, by Sienkiewicz. ihen, as a final stimulant, before you knuckle down to the serious business of bulletins and schedules and fall wardrobes, you will find a wholly satisfactory, happy ending to your summer reading, running through a few delightful plays: Mr. Pim Passes By, by Milne; Rostand's unforget table Cyrano de Berc-erac, and Shaw's Catholic Saint Joan-. lt; We're Always on Parade With the Legion of Decency plans, as outlined by Bishop Sheil, foremost in our summer program of Catholic Ac tion, it is particularly fitting that The Skyscraper reprint the following editor ial, which Monsignor Thomas I'. Shannon. editor of the New World, judged to be the best submitted in the editorial department of the Creative Writing Contest. The edi torial, written by Jane Malkemus '37, appeared in an early edition of the news paper, shortly after the Legion of Decency parade last Pall. TTH a thrill of pride in ourselves and in our College and a conscious ness of our own power as members of a strong and organized unit of American Catholic young people, we marched last week in defense of American idealism and patriotism. Each one of us was aware of some indi vidual responsibility and of the strength we gained from union with our fellow stu dents and with students of other schools. Each one of us realized the importance of the cause for which we were marching that day. We challenged others with the stand ard of our ideals. Now we must meet our own challenge. Are we going to keep marching in line, in step, with heads held high and banners flying? Are we going to maintain the mili tant spirit of loyalty to our Church, our Country, and our College that we paraded so bravely that day ? Are we going to keep marching to music, doing our part, cooperating, when the oc casion arises, with civil and ecclesiastical movements, and cooperating every day of the year with the principles and the prac tices of our College? We are always on parade in school, at home, on the trains, on the street, in the theatre; we are Mundelein students when ever we go. Do we carry the Mundelein banner, the banner of noble womanhood, of graciousness, of culture and idealism? If we do, and only if we do, our strength as a group will be great, and our influence will live in the world. vu KVLU lZ Statistical Comprehensives Population of the U. S 124,000,000 Old age pensioners 50,000,000 (Townsend bill) Persons prohibited by Child Labor Law and holding govt, jobs Unemployed 74.000,000 60,000,00(1 14,000,000 13,999,998 Balance to produce nation's goods Just you and me And I'm all worn out * * * Public Speaking Again The class was studying gestures. The in structor, demonstrating, drew her hand up to her face in a pantomime ot fear. Relaxing, she asked, Now, what was that?'' You were catching a beach ball, replied the irrepressible occupant of the back scat. * * * Reverie of Initiation Violets I might have plucked But I recalled the sign Whereon had stood in strict command. The words: You pluck a dandelion. And so that week I gaily picked, And writ a lengthy verse, And then I made the Stylus club, For better or for worse. * * * Instructor, dictating letter lo typing class: Mr. Theodire Baer . . . Irrepressible typist: Oh, dear, Teddy Bear * * * Accounting student, bending over ledger: I feel just like a bloodhound looking for a cent. * * * It was only a minute item at the bottom of the page. Perhaps it had small significance to the general reading public, but to the imag inative, yes, constructively imaginative students of Mundelein College, it was a momentous notice. * * * The five-line item merely announced the taking down of the famous Century of Prog ress skyride the passing of a hallowed land mark but in the mind of the imaginative the constructively imaginative student, it heralded the dawn of a new and sparkling era. * * * For years, she thought, industrious colle gians, athirst for knowledge, have trudged from the Loyola station through driving rain, blind ing snow, summer heat, and choking dust storms, on their way to Mundelein College. * * * But that day is past and gone. The assid uous collegian need no longer brave the raging elements. The skyride can be transported to Rogers Park, and erected, one tower on the L platform, the other on the eleventh-floor roof of Mundelein College. * * * Adopting a new slogan for our editorial policy, Ride the Sky, we are about to open negotiations with the Goodyear blimp for south-side students. This done, we shall install a miniature railroad between the locker rooms in the skyscraper building and the charging desk in the library for the quick return of 9 o'clock reserves, and the complexities of collegiate life will iron out on the rails. * * * With this cheery little fable, designed to encourage the sophomores, juniors and incom ing seniors, and to bring tears of regret to the eyes of the graduates, we wish you a jolly vacation and a skin-deep coat of tan.
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1935-06-07 (2)
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