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1 Pa e Two SKYSCRAPER Time Out For Thought SMALL, lone airplane flies steadily eastward across the bleak Atlantic, over grey water, through grey skies, above grey clouds. It reaches Paris and an unknown young man achieves the impossible, which for him is only the prelude to greater adventures. An erect, tired soldier leads the com bined armies of three great countries to victory against a seemingly irresistible foe. A terrible responsibility that would have broken stronger men has called forth his highest abilities. What did these two men possess that made them great Charles Lindbergh and Marshal Foch? Why are they out standing in their generation? Achieve ment is too complex a thing to be rele gated to a single cause, but they both practiced one daily exercise which we find in the lives of many successful peo ple they set aside a certain period of each day for quiet thinking. Surely a practice so often connected with success must be valuable and worth transferring to our own lives. A certain amount of time, however small, spent each day in thinking will clear up much that is muddled and uncertain. Obviously only he who thinks can act to best advantage. And life in 1938 is so swift, so exciting, so multi-colored, that without thought it will be for all of us only a splendid, rather meaningless pageant. A daily exercise in quiet meditation has enlightened and enriched the lives of thousands of people saints and statesmen, soldiers and students. Quiet thought about our own faults or antipathies may lead us to find the causes for them and the means of over coming them. Concentrated attention to admirable traits of character or personal ity in others may enable us to acquire these traits. Well-regulated thinking may reveal in us abilities of which we were not pre viously aware. By thought, we may ac quire that tolerance which is a hallmark of culture and intelligence. But most of all, thought, meditation, on the purpose of life and the truths of religion can bring strength like cool, clear water drawn from a deep well. And with this strength will come the vigor that results in accomplishment. Do you think it is worth-while? Peo ple who have tried it say, Yes. While Thousands Cheered Points of View On Life The age-old question of the religious cynic Is Life Worth Living? was an swered by the Reverend James M. Gillis, C.S.C., editor of the CATHOLIC WORLD, in the first address of his cur rent series over the Catholic Hour. If this life is the only life, No Father Gillis declared. But if there is a life to come that shall be revealed to us, this life is a boon, a blessing, a presage of Divine happiness. On Memory That the place of memory in educa tion should be reduced to a minimum is a grave mistake, according to many mod ern educators who stress the importance of such mental activity. The Most Rev erend Richard T. Guilfoyle, Bishop of Altoona, Pa., a Catholic leader who firm ly believes in memory training, requires his choir boys to memorize the five psalms of Sunday Vespers in order to develop the faculty of memory. p EORGIA JEAN snuggled deeper into her fur collar and watched a sun beam slant across her yellow chrysan themum. The university students in the cheering section directly across the 50- yard line from her were shouting them selves into a frenzy, and at the far end of the field a band was playing martial music. Football 1 How perfectly atune it was with the bright, cold weather, the aroma of coffee, the blaze of uniforms, and the grim determination on the play ers' faces. If only, she thought, Thanks giving would be a day like this a day of cold, symbolizing difficulties over, a day of sunshine, bringing promise of the future. Thanksgiving She rose with the crowd to cheer a touchdown for Ted's team. It was wonderful to go to games wonderful, she reflected, to live in a coun try where thousands cheered at football games. That was something to be thankful for the light-hearted laughter, the ear nest loyalty, the grand, free Americanism of it all. There wasn't any football, she reflected as someone called Time Out, when the Pilgrim Father's offered thanks three centuries ago. For a moment the gridiron was blot ted out of her consciousness and she visualized a group of Pilgrim Fathers and Mothers, and Daughters offering thanks in their little church on that first Thanksgiving day. Funny, she reflected, that the things they were most thankful for were the things she took most for granted today freedom, security, the right to worship THE SKYSCRAPER Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 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 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. IX November 17, 1938 No. 4 1937 Member 1938 (Associated Cb le8iaie Press ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briarfeate 3800 Co-editors.....Kathryn Byrne, Frances Geary Associate Editors Geraldine Ferstel, Angela Kospetos News Editors.. .Clare Anderson, Betty Vestal Assistants Mary Elizabeth O'Brien, Margaret Mary O'Flahetty Feature Editors Margaret Glecson, Adelaide Nilles Assistants. La Vonne Hayes, Joan Kaspari Sports Editor Frances Sayre Reporters Mary DeAcetis, Margaret Good will ie, Mary Lou Bell, Eileen Mahoney, Mildred Mahoney, Mary Margaret Mitch ell, Helen Murphy, Jean Perkins, Ruth Schmid, Marie Von Driska. God according to her own conscience, a home, friends, opportunities. A sudden cheer went up from the crowd as a lonely figure caught the ball and raced zig-zag through an army of players to the goal post. The cheering section went wild Ted's college band was playing its cheer song Thanksgiving Georgia Jean's fin gers were numb in her smooth suede gloves, but she was suddenly warmly, radiantly grateful for the game, but more especially for her home, her family, her country, her friends, her opportuni ties at school, the promise the future held, the faith which gave purpose to her living. The sunlit chrysanthemum brushed her chin as she fastened the collar tight er and pushed along with the crowd why, one day a year wasn't half enough, she reflected, her feet keeping time to the victory song she'd begin right now be ing thankful, right here, while the thou sands cheered. 'Round Town There is something particularly fes tive about the Thanksgiving season and, with the four-day week-end it brings to collegians, there is opportunity for much about-towning. For the American spirit, which Thanksgiving immortalizes, there is probably no better current theatre at traction than PROLOGUE TO GLORY, at the Blackstone. The great-grand- niece of Ann Rutlcdge plays the heroine in this historical drama of Lincoln's early romance, the scene of which is New Salem, Illinois. In I'D RATHER BE RIGHT, George M. Cohan as Franklin Delano Roosevelt delighted New York theatre goers last season. On Nov. 21 the ori ginal cast of this humorously good-na tured satire by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart opens at the Auditorium. And a week later Ethel Barrymore ar rives at the Selwyn for a pre-holiday en gagement in WHITEOAKS, a dramati zation of portions of Mazo de la Roche's cycle of Jalna novels. THE MIKADO, at the Great North ern, brings the charm of Gilbert and Sul livan with the novelty of an all-Negro cast, guaranteed to enrich the inimitable operatic airs. Hollywood offers, for those who failed to see the stage hits of last sea son, the cinema version of ROOM SERVICE, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, and BROTHER RAT, which brings the glamour of military school to the screen. The Charles Carroll forum announces its second lecture of the current season, at the Palmer House, Nov. 20, when Abbe Dimnet, author of The Art of Thinking, will lecture on the topic, Has Christianity Failed? Tonight, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra appears at Orchestra Hall; Sunday afternoon, the Vienna Choir Boys give a matinee in the college the atre ; Sunday evening Fritz Krcisler plays at Orchestra Hall, and every Thursday evening is student night at the Chicago City Opera House. VUIZ SKVLLNH Remember the resident student we told you about a few weeks ago ihe one who sent home the following letter: Dear Mum y, Dad y, i ter u ie: I imply love School; it lot of fun. Next week I mu t buy three new book . Gue what I need mo t of all. That' right. end it along and oblige, Your loving Liability. Well, the poor Student ha been waiting, and waiting, and finally ju t the other day came the reply. Here it i : Dear EliNOr (That' the tudent' name): Nothing ever happens here. We kNOw that you love school. Why the NOm de plume? Write us aNOther letter aNOn. ArNOld sends his best regards. NOw we have to say goodbye. Mumsy, Dadsy, Sister Susie. That's parental subtlety Skyline And by the way, we were thrilled no end when our favorite columnist reprinted our first little message in the Tribune about a week ago. In fact it look half the Skyscraper staff to persuade us not to change Skyline's name to Back Views and Outlines or somethin'. Orchids to June Provines. Skyline One of the funniest we've heard in ages happened on Senior Sunday. A prospective grad was introducing her dad to a second p.g.'s Dad. She had just completed the honors when the first Dad leaned toward the second and said, confidentially, As one paymaster to another ... (Our ears burned, so we didn't wait to hear the rest.) Skyline Loyola is grateful to the Mtindeleinites who contribute to Ho-Hum's sparkle, and we're rather grateful ourselves to the indignant archer who couldn't take our little word of reproof and left the following retort on our bulletin board. At our archery you jest, True, our aim may not be best, But your verse arouses fury CASE WAS NOT TRIED BY WRY I Why not be ncio William Tells, So say you, a la II. G. Wells, But tec don't deserve your scorn We refuse to be forlorn. While YOU cram from sun to sun, But your verse arouses fury, While you for class honors strive, We take off in a jack-knife dive. Our strea iiliucs don't need a diet, (Editor's note: Catsl) And our grades aren't quite a riot, Missed a target once? Oh well, We still think archery's pretty swell, Tish the Fish (Now if Tish would just encourage Aggie and Lizzie to write us fan letters, we'd be happy about the whole thing.) Skyline The current examination blunder stories, including the one about the history student who recorded that the Crusades came to the very shores of the New World, but didn't stay long, recall the story of the collegian who learned little about the poets in her Roman ticism course, but memorized Shelley's To a Skylark. The examination baffled her, but she resourcefully wrote her favorite poem Hail to thee, blythe spirit . . . to the very end. The instructor returned the paper, with one line of comment. Fail to thee, blythe spirit.
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1938-11-17 (2)
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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