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Pafce Two SKYSCRAPER 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. XII Friday, October 24 No. 2 ALL-AMERICAN HONORS 1940 Member 1941 PUsocfcrted Colle6iate Press ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briarfeate 3800 Co-Editors-in-Chief Dorothy McCarthy, Joan Morris Associate Rosemary Lanahan Feature Staff. .Jean Bemis, Alice Breckinridge, Patricia Gould, Rita Ann Mulhern, Rose mary Shanahan. Club Editor Marie Norris News Staff Helen Egan, Rae Haefcl, Bernice Hones, Beatrice Johnson, Mary Kay Jones, Joan Leach, Marie Nordby, Margery Rowbottom. Sports Editor Geraldine Hoffman Reporters Perle Brauii, Bernadette Jones, Jane Kowalski, Jacqueline Michelson, Jerry Stutz, Lorraine Super, Mary Lou Pimsner, Lee Neesen, Virginia Newton, llene Maher, Rita Guinane. Laudate Dominum . The present national crisis has shaken our world and forced us into serious thought about the future. We are con scious of the history being made all around us; we share the anxieties and deep responsibilities formerly left to our more mature contemporaries. Let us not forget, however, in our con centration on the larger things of life, the thousand small blessings which make existence merry, thrilling, glamorous. It has taken Brian McShane, a young seminarian, to remind us of these in bis refreshing Lauds for Loretta, printed in THE CATHOLIC WOMAN'S WORLD. In this gaily sincere poem, a young girl offers to God her orchids rare, nylon hose, parts in plays, and all the other small things that make her happy. To quote Lauds for Loretta: Praise the Lord, the putts I've downed; praise the Lord, I've lost a pound, Praise the Lord, my apple pies; praise the Lord, my laughs and cries, praise the Lord . . . Accept, dear Lord, these little hu man things; bless them each and grant to me, Grace to use them for Thy Glory now and in eternity. Amen. During October, the month of the Holy Rosary, we are praying for peace and for what is perhaps even more important the world when the war is over. Reared in a generation of crises, we need, cer tainly, a prayer for strength. But we mustn't allow ourselves to be come enmeshed in the peril of pessimism. We must try not to dissociate the thou sand joys of our daily lives from the larger and more serious pattern of living. Let us pray for the things that mould our time but let us remember also to voice our lyric lauds for the joys of our college days. Woolgathering? Or Seeking A Sheepskin? Responsibility? Oh, la, A little lamb to me said, 'Baa,' was one of the more charming English nursery rhymes, but we are out of the nursery now, and must leave the lamb's wool behind us in order to attain the coveted sheepskin. A not-too-remote cause of the present crisis is the lack, in many of our con temporaries, of a sense of responsibility to their God, their country, and them selves. Eventually there will be a cessa tion of hostilities in the world, and. dur ing the peace that follows, it will be our task to mould the destiny of the nation. If we want to avoid the repetition of the terrible errors which resulted in today's unfortunate situation, we will cultivate in ourselves, now, a sense of responsibility in even the smallest things, developing it so that it will be capable of coping with our heavier duties later on. The correlation between developing a sense of responsibility and being careful about the little things is high and ob vious. For instance, the students of a college are directly responsible for its reputation. A heedless phrase of baseless criticism, a slighting word cast here and there, will destroy the picture of beauty and faith mirrored in the eyes of the ad miring outsider, and impress upon him a distorted image of an institution of drud gery and boredom, complete with un pleasant surroundings and cruel profes sors. This is an unfair description of any institution, but particularly is it ridicltt- lous in regard to our own College, where Freedom, Friendliness, and Wisdom alone police the corridors. When we consider the comparative few who have the privi lege of a Catholic college education, we find reason enough to change the depre cating word into one of appreciation, to sing our song with enthusiasm and a light heart. On Activities Day, to cite another of our responsibilities, we signed away a part of our free time as we joined the three clubs to which we are. fortunately, limited. Now that we are actually upon these rosters, we have the responsibility of attending the meetings, bringing with us fresh ideas and the will to propagate the aim of each organization. The student who finds that all of her affiliations have simultaneous meetings must resort to one of three courses: spend 20 minutes at each, and upset the programs of all; be come schizophrenic so as to attend at least two of them; be sensible about the whole thing, choose the one club in which she is most interested, and concentrate on it. Then there is the little matter of re turning library books. The fines, par ticularly for reserve books, may seem exorbitant, but, without them, the neces sary literature would never be available to us and to the other 40 students who must use the same material during 48 hours. If we do slip up, and owe a slight sum, equivalent in our eyes to that involved in the Louisiana Purchase, we can at least console ourselves with the thought that our allowance is buying li brary books for us to read. However, why not avoid this contingency, and be responsible about returning les livres on time? These are but samples of the numerous little responsibilities that our flesh is heir to. Being courteous in the elevator, banding in assignments on time, being present at assemblies but why go on ? We have by now persuaded ourselves to cast off the insouciance coincident with the connotation of the noun collegian. YowYe the Critic YOU LEARN YOU RFAD Hi:R,'IN Diary' by 1KJU KCAU William L. Shirer. A popular non-fiction book. Vr- M I KACCT A f(,rci corres- TUU WCCI ,OI1dent, a man of letters, a man of integrity and principles. It is men like Shirer, with his compre hensive grasp of international affairs, who are the hope of America in its striv ing toward the breaking down of na tional barriers and the establishment of world order out of the chaos that sur rounds us today. bow a young Ameri can living in Berlin with his Viennese wife strove to uncover the truth which lies behind totalitarian coercion, propaganda, and bravado. WM I CM mv lmm a ri,issi(le seat gt; T U CINJVJT a close-up of the Eu rope of the last decade, written with the power and beauty, the anger and pity that come straight from the incandescent mo ments through which the author lived and wrote. Vf I DCAh N ' c A D E M * c TVjU KtAU Courtship Letters of Alice Freeman and George Herbert Palmer. y vi I ypr-r the second president TUU Mtt I of Vvellcsley college, -Mice Freeman, and George Herbert Palm er, professor of Harvard university, whose romance told in these beautiful letters is comparable to the romance of those great literary lovers of England. Elizabeth Bar rett and Robert Browning. Vr I I C ADM ' ''ll' ear'y struS IvU LtAKIN fries of women, espe cially one woman, in the field of education, and the success and prestige that came to Alice Freeman, and Wellesley college, as the result of these struggles. YOU FNIOY llR' p c,k nature' TVJU CINJV gt;T the iove f(ll-all things beautiful, the complete devotion to her presidency, the strong and valiant spirit, and the gentle ways of .Mice Freeman ex pressed so vividly in her charming letters, and the brilliant and sensitive mind, the endearing simplicity, the chivalrous love, the strength and honor that is found in the letters of George Palmer. YOI I PC AH Defense for Amer- TWU KCML ICA a collection of opinions. The Right Reverend John A. Ryan. D.D., Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, Rupert Hughes. Louis William Douglas. Grcnville Clark. President Roosevelt, and nine other author ities in the field of national defense. the views of the ex perts on the present world situation and their proffered solu tions to the conflict of the philosophy of force and tyranny with the philosophy of neighborly kindliness that we call democ racy. VfV I CM irW l increased knowl- IWU CINJVJT C(1rc ()f present af fairs and a background for an understand ing of future events in the critical situation that daily grows closer to our shores. YOU MEET YOU LEARN Points of View Americas Unite, As Rivals Peril Western Hemisphere To keep us from being too disillusil over the present world situation, we nf reflect that peril from outside may I the American nations in friendly dc matic and commercial relations. The new trade agreement belweenj U. S. and Argentina, the first since la illustrates this hopeful prospect. Mailed in administration circles I major victory over the attempts ofl eign powers to penetrate the A mem the move is the culmination of 10 jf of effort on the part of the trade* countries to improve economic relaf with each other. Ii 1; Bachelor Degree Increases I Earning Power, Says Time I In a 1941 report on the activity the U. S. College Graduate, publisher Time. Inc., it is revealed that, by I most materialistic test of a capiB economy, college training leads tol cess, since the college graduate, oil average, earns more dollars annual does the average American. The survey concludes, also, thai large number of college graduates* ployed even in the midst of national employment a few years ago cvidfl the graduates' ability to adapt tL selves to the needs of their environs Liberal arts training, too, seaF of decided success value, since, i though only 15 per cent of the gn uates surveyed were trained in vo. tional or professional schools, I other 85 per cent, graduated wi liberal arts degrees, found their gt eral cultural education an adeqtu ' equipment for the job of life. ... . ss It is particularly interesting to in what types of employment the H women have found careers. Eighfl per cent of them are in the professft 68 per cent of these are teachers; 5j i cent are in government service; 4.9 cent are in medicine and dentistry* per cent are in arts and sciences. anC per cent are in the other pro fen The remaining 17.3 per cent of the I en graduates have entered the hufl world and occupy executive, propritin technical, and merchandising posit1 lt; )f interest to those who debate , question of coeducational school I the college for women is statistical deuce to prove that the percental women married among the gradual** colleges for women differs so si?8 from the percentage of those I tied among graduates of cocducafl schools that the discrepancy is neglije Magazine Goes to Weddinge LIFE went to a wedding in a M issue of this startling picture magfc' The commendable point of the M was not the series of pictures illusH the mechanical procedure of the i ceremony, but, rather, the innate C tian philosophy which permeated the scription of the meaning of a man In a country whose press usfl would have one believe that R with its divorce mill is a humar tarian enterprise, LIFE boldly sta? that marriage is the uniting of o2' man and one woman until death p lt; them part. The editors deset J praise, not merely for stating fat, but also for the solemn method., handling a subject which has too latl been treated with flippancy and da' regard. I
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1941-10-24 (2)
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