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February 17, 1958 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three I v L Paris-Inspired Fashions Pressure Madam To Buy Stacks of Sacks What's new in the fashion world? Some say the latest '58 Parisian chemise. But Paris claims that sack dresses have been popular since 8,000 B. C. As proof the fashion city has a mural from the Sahara sands showing two young girls wearing this latest fashion. Women of '58 will now flock to the stores to find the majority of dresses semi-chemise or sack. The manufacturers, designers, and de partment stores have fought brave ly for a Renaissance of style. They have supplied the stores with the creations, determined to set a new trend. The dresses are reminiscent of Empress Josephine. (Imagine Na poleon's reaction to the potato sack ) There's a resemblance to the twenties, the flowing baggy, Charleston age. And as modern madam flows down the street in her American adapted creation, she becomes the product of designer collaboration and department store scheming. Chemises are adorned with ingeni ously placed bows, Dutch boy col lars and shortened skirts. Is this ancient style here to stay ? Fashion experts doubt it, but the stores are still stocking. Their ad vertising angle? The sack is a new creation ... a boon to the world of style. Senior Sociologists Project Inquiries To Query Questionnaires Do you know who wrote the music for the ballet Graduation Ball? Is Emlyn Williams the author of Fern Hill? These and other questions are being put to members of the Sen ior class as part of a project con ducted by the Senior sociology majors. In this way, the sociology stu dents plan to test the validity of written questionnaires. The ques tionnaire, designed to reveal the senior's degree of cultural appre ciation, will be compared with findings made in personal inter views of each participant. Sociology majors taking part in the project are Joan Callahan, Patricia Callahan, Kathleen Cum- mings, Nancy Garrett, Jo Ann Perkovich, Elaine Reis, Maureen Sweeney, and Marsha Warman. Dads, Daughters Swing Their Dates Square dance lingo rocked the gymnasium Sunday evening, Feb. 9, as 125 father-daughter couples square-danced to the calls of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weiler, profes sional callers from Des Plaines. The square-dance was sponsored by the Father's Club. After a buffet dinner and in troductions by Mr. Robert Day, president of the Fathers' club, the girls and their dads aided digestion bv singing such oldies as Let Me Call You Sweetheart and Daisy. Then the couples square-danced to Swanee, Red River Gal, and Sol- omn Levi. At intermission, an impromptu skit, entitled The Meller Drama , was presented. Sister Mary Ann Ida welcomed the guests at the end of the inter mission. Scientists Sponsor Trio of Lecturers Dr. E. M. K. Geiling, professor emeritus, a pharmacist of the Uni versity of Chicago, and a distin guished scientist, will address the members of the Biology club on Feb. 17, in room 607 at 4:10. The subject of his lecture will be Med ical Importance of Radioactive Substances. He will also show a 12 minute movie and slides. Dr. Geiling is the first lec turer in a series of three scien tific programs which have been planned by the club for the second semester. The sec ond speaker will be Sister Mary Martinette of the chem istry department. The third lecturer will be Broth er Ignatius Vincent, F.S.C.. of both St. George high school in Evan- ston. and St. Mary's college in Winona. A collection of marine algae gathered at Puget Sound by Broth er Vincent is now on displav in the biology laboratory on the 6th floor. Brother Vincent collected the ferns while standing in 42 water in the Pacific. College Will Welcome High School Debaters For Forum Tournament Thirty-five high schools belong ing to the Chicago Catholic For um have been invited to attend the 11th Annual High School Debate Tournament at Mundelein. The tournament sponsored by Vital Speakers and Delta Sigma Rho, national honor ary speech society, will take place Feb. 22. High school speakers will debate the pros and cons of foreign aid. Committee chairmen responsible for organizing the tournament are June Chenelle and Barbara Brown, arrangements: Barbara Covey and Mary Jane Burns, registration; Sandra Marek and Janet Shields, hostesses; Joan Cirino and Sheila Callan, refreshments; Maureen Sweeney and Beverly McGuff, de bate schedule; Alice Bourke and Marguerite Phillips, debate scor ing; and Jacqueline Doyle and Kathleen Newman, mailing. Varsity debaters will debate for the Bronson Circle, today at 1:30. Miss Bourke and Miss Phillips will uphold the affirmative side of the year's issue, and Miss McGuff and Miss Sweeney will handle the nega tive. * Contest Nears End; 500 Award Offered Mademoiselle Magazine an nounces that prizes of 500, plus publication of prize-winning arti cles in its magazine, will be award ed to the two winners of its 1958 College Fiction Contest. Any woman undergraduate un der twenty-six is eligible to enter the annual contest. Entries should be from 2.500 to 5,000 words long, and will be judged by the Made moiselle editors. A contestant may enter more than one story. All entries must be typewritten, double- spaced, and mailed with a 9 by 12 manila envelope, self- addressed and stamped, before midnight, March 15. The contest rules are posted on the bulletin boards in rooms 404 and 506. The Juniors on the Skyscrap er staff, substituting for the Senior editors, extend their sympathy to the Seniors dur ing their Comprehensives. Father John J. Cronin States Need for Union Labor Courts The formation of a court for the settlement of union difficulties as a remedy for What Congress Should Do About Labor-Management Cor ruption, was the recent proposal of Father John F. Cronin, economist and professor at Notre Dame, discussed at the John A. Ryan forum held at the Morrison hotel. Present were many members of the senior reli gion class. This impartial court, a substitute for the right to work laws, judges the problems of employers, union officials, and union members with out being accussed of prejudices in any one's favor, contended Father Cronin. The court would lessen the work of the union officials who haven't time to hear an individual's prob lems adequately, rather than bur dening them further with detailed laws that only add red tape to the work. Kappa Provides Music To provide students with the op portunity to hear classical records, and thus gain an understanding and an interest in good music, the music department, under the spon sorship of Kappa Mu Psi, is initi ating a listening hour. It consists of two periods a week, 11:00 Tuesdays and 12:00 Wednesdays, in which students may come to the mu sic library either to listen to, or to discuss the recordings. Everyone is invited to all or part of these program, which are directed by Mary Ska- vounos and Elizabeth Casieri. The first program included Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture, Schubert's Unfinished Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, and Ravel's Bolero. Future programs will be posted in the book store lounge and on the seventh floor bulletin board. Marriage Lecture Ends Orientation With two assemblies devoted to the discussion of marriage, the Freshman class will come to the end of its Orientation Program. Marcella Violini Meyer, Ph.D., will speak to the class on the Bio logical Aspects of Marriage, Feb. 25, in the college auditorium. Dr. Meyer, who attended Mundelein for three years before entering Loyola Medical school, is a prom inent Christian Family Movement worker. A panel on the psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Marriage, will be presented Feb. 27, also in the auditorium. Sally Agnes Smith Bell '35 will act as chairman. Helen Sauer Brown '44 and Viola Bren- nan Lannon '45 will also be on the panel. Opinions Merit Prizes In Silver Competition Student opinions on china, crys tal, and silver patterns are being sought by Reed and Barton, sil versmiths, in their Silver Opinion Competition now in progress at various colleges and universities. Roberta Temple is the stu dent representative conduct ing the competition on this campus. Entrants are asked to name their favorite patterns and to tell, in as many words as they choose, why they like the particular designs. For interesting opinions, winners will receive five scholarships total ling 1050, and 100 other prizes of either a 25 savings bond or a starter set of silver, china and crys tal. Miss Temple announced that entry blanks may be ob tained in room 205 and that the closing date for entries is Feb. 28. Reed and Barton plans to com pile a library of expressions of young American tastes through opinions given by college women. Too, added Father Cronin, crooked union officials could be prosecuted with success by an impartial court, whereas in the confines of the union itself, the officials would decide only in their own favor. The speaker mentioned further that the formation of this would eliminate many of the abuses pres ently in force. Thus the Right to Work bill, designed as a protec tion for the worker against illegal unions, would not be necessary. In any case, concluded Father Cronin, the Right to Work bill should not be passed. He stated that such laws are an indirect means whereby the unions can be badly weakened and, in so doing, can cease to gain fair wages for the employees. Attend NRC Seminar The American educational sys tem, mental health, and foreign policy were topics of discussion at the Abraham Lincoln National Re publican Club seminar attended by history majors Diane Scifres, Vic toria Bomba, Geraldine Kirby, Mary Therese Lenihan, and Mary Lou Bartholomew, Feb. 7. The seminar was held in the Grand Ballroom of the Morrison Hotel. Sir Shane in Kilts Captivates Campus A kilted Sir Shane Leslie arrived on the campus Feb. 10 for his third visit to the college since its founda tion. Sir Shane related the story of the romance of George IV and Maria Fitzherbert to a group of students. In his narration, sprinkled with ancedotes, he told of nearly being run down by Queen Victoria's carriage while a student at Eton. He reminisced about child hood games played with his cousin, Winston Churchill and referred to conversations with George VI about Mrs. Fitzherbert from whom Sir Shane is descended. One of his stories concerned a gift given to him by the Stylus club during his visit in 1935. He received a letter opener engraved with his name and the college coat of arms. During World War II, as an officer of the home guard, he carried it as a weapon. After his talk, the 73 year old Englishman, dressed in kilts, high land bonnet, and weskit, posed dra matically for a news photographer in the sub-zero Lake Michigan breeze. The rest of the afternoon bonnie Sir Shane visited classes and other points of interest in the college. He recounted the story of his vis it to Tolstoy and advised the stu dents, If you ever like the writ ings of a man, avoid meeting him. Sir Shane is the author of The Skull of Swift, American Wonder land, an Anthology of Celtic Poe try, and numerous other works, most of which are in the Munde lein library. He visited Chicago to obtain information on American educa tion for his next book. KILTED SIR SHANE and Marguerite Phillips. Leslie steps out to sample Chicago's zero weather with Barbara Guderian (right)
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