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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Christmas It's Almost Here You Begin to Feel It When You're Coming Home from school and the snow crunches hard and firm under your feet, and your hands are cold, and suddenly you stop. A blinding realization brings a gladness to your heart, and you want to run and shout: It's almost here You're happy and giddy and gay, and there's a reason why. You're on your way to Midnight Mass and a mystic, spiritual realization engulfs you. You stop in front of the brilliantly-lighted Christmas crib and you watch the crowds reverently entering Church. You whisper exultantly to yourself: Nothing is wrong with the world at least not tonight. The joyous season means a little less very little shoving on the el, an eighth-grade choir valiantly attempting to sing the Christmas carols on key, a Nun worriedly pondering the fact that the Christmas play's leading cherub's black eye may look a little less than angelic. It is a Mother's cheerful smile and excited thanks for her first-grader's gift, as she's wondering where on earth she can put the frightful vase and not hurt her tot's feelings. Christmas is the Santa Claus on every corner, the colorful decora tions which brighten the downtown area, the snowman in the corner yard, the holiday songs blarring from numerous jukeboxes. It is the festive formals and parties, the turkey slowly roasting in the oven, and the brilliant lights that indicate a Christmas tree in every home. A sobering thought springs to your mind, and you stop and stand very still, and your smile slowly fades, and the jostling crowds pass you by, and still you stand. You wonder where is He He who is the Cause of this merri ment? You search the sea of faces and they seem somewhat vacant and the streets and stores turn into a blur of whirling light. You search wildly, looking for a sign of Him Who is the Beginning and the End. For every 99 posters of Santa Claus there is but one of the Infant, and there are only occasional cribs in the stores. A little of the gaiety and merriment is gone from you, and you have a strange feeling in your heart, and you won der. Is He an outsider at the hour of His jubilation? Is he being forgot? You wonder. Hmmm...l Could Qet Her a Book. No She Has One Kegardless of whether or not a per son already has one, a good book is always a joy to receive. Appropriate for the family is a new Holy Bible, especially edited for the Marian Year by Father John P. O'Connell. With a section on the family rosary and a Catholic encyclo pedia, this book is illustrated by the great masters. Any friend would enjoy The House That Nino Built, entertaining new book by Giovanni Guareschi, author of the popular Don Camillo books, telling stories of his own delightful family. People with literary and historical interests will find Mary Tudor, by II. F. M. Prescott, absorbing. Author of last year's famed Man On A Donkey, Miss Prescott brings style, imagina tion, understanding, and sound schol arship to this new story of old Eng land. Auleen Bordeaux Eberhardt creates a charming picture of the life of a parish priest in her new book, Aunt Minnie, The Pastor's Housekeeper. This, and Bing Crosby's Call Me Lucky, an entertaining story of the best loved crooner in America, are ap propriate for any reader. For children, In Clean Hay, by Eric P. Kelly, is an imaginative tale of a family of puppeteers and how they What Goes On . . . A Wise One Once Said, College Is like a pot of gold, and everyone of us is given a shovel to dig out just how much she wants. We may take a very small portion or we may dig till we reach the bot tom. Contained in this pot of gold are not only knowledge of mathematics and science, literature and history, and scores of facts, but spiritual and so cial values as well. Here at Mundelein, the locale of our pot of gold, we are equals. We are given equal opportunity to use our shovels as we please. Granted, we have different abilities still, much of our success depends directly upon our own work. We must use a tremendous amount of intellectual and moral effort in the cultivation of our taste and judgment, in the acquiring of knowledge. The first effort to dig out knowledge with our shovels is extraordinarily dif ficult. But the second effort is easier and before we know it we will have a sur prising amount of gold. found a way to serve the new-born Saviour. The First Catholics, by Marigold Hunt, captures the adventurous move ment and meaning of The Acts of The Apostles in terms of the juvenile un derstanding. Anacondas and Boa Constrictors from South America Indian Rock Pythons all grades all specimens all lengths all prices. A bulletin from a Florida Reptile institute, arriving just in time for Christmas ordering, has set us to thinking. What do people really want for Christmas? We have left behind us the days of wanting marbles, cowboy guns, dolls, miniature table-and-chair sets, and various other toys. At the age of sev en, all we had to do was write a letter to Santa Claus and leave it in Father's desk. With age has come, supposedly, a realization of the difficulties involved in getting what is desired. What do we want? Good grades? Dates? Clothes? Friends? Approval? Security? We realize that these things are never unpaid for; they must be earned if not always by the receiver, then by the giver. Clothes must be made or bought be fore they can be given. Good grades, dates, friends all are rewards which cannot be attained without merit. you can't tell your father to go downtown and buy you a straight A report card or a true friend. Christmas comes but once a year, but the things you really want do not come with just a little rushing around for a few weeks before the merry day. Christmas isn't Santa Claus. It's Christ and Mass. They point the way to the security we desire for ourselves and for the world. Never mind your letters to Santa. Send your prayers to Christ to carry out the true idea of Christmas. Then you will be sure of getting the all-important gift peace of soul. You needn't worry about the security you wanted you'll have it. Student View . . . Mysterious Black Clouds Threatening wars, Tension in Indo-China, Hostility in Morocco and on tb Suez, Deepening shadows of Communis in India and Iran, Confusion resulting from political exposees in our own country, The high cost of living and the cor. ruption of youth These conditions shroud our world in darkness. Each succeeding day brings nel grief to an already overburdened world, but its burden is neither pcci iar to our time nor limited to all time. Fifteen hundred years ago the Bai barians were storming the fvontiei of Rome. To the youth of the Roma world the situation seemed dark. Bi the Christian youth of that empil realized that Faith Avould guide then When Vikings marched, over 100 years ago, the same sense of uth abandonment filled their victims. Yt the Christ Child lived in their heart and many of them survived what tbf tbought could never be survived. With the coming of Advent, in 195 the world began to pulsate witli ne hope. Peoples of all nations turnt Israel. Tbey see, not the birth pan of the newly formed country, but simple lowly stable in the Bethlehe of 2000 years ago. The blazing star which illuminate the first Christmas night still radial a glorious light, promising hope f the future and the eventual dispellii of now frightful black clouds. As the world, with its huddle anxious masses who suffer from hm ger and cold, With its arrogant, unthinking; loj ers-of-self who seek a half-interest I the atom that may wipe out civiliJ tion, With its college students who son times think that their immediate preJ ecessors have ruined the future-1 As this world turns to the Crib.,1 peoples see on the horizon an effi gence that will never dim out. They may hope for better times I come in this world, and for the pJ session of the Light of the Worldf the life to come. Jke *3 udcraper Vol. XXIV Dec. 14. 1953 Xf Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, II at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to inclusive by the students of Mundelein Cola 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. FRESHMAN ISSUE CO-EDITORS-IN-CI11EF Mary Arrowood Shirley Bonuso Maryami Burke Chandra Camp Rosemary Carrell Toni Cassaretto Nan Conger Margaret Couglilin Kathleen Cummings Maripat Day Mary Drever Theresa Dudek Dagmar Elsnic Dolores Ferraro Anne Furlan Mary Jo Valentino Laurene Gianninil Norma Indovina I Joanne Jans Mary Clare John Eugenie Lavigntl Mary Lyons LaVellcMcBridtl Mary Lou Moral Maribeth Naugta Wendy Neel I Suzanne U'Mara I Catherine Packard Marilyn Rice Carol Sachtleber.S Arlene Sykes tV
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1953-12-14 (2)
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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