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Pafee 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. X. Friday, February 16, 1940 No. 8 ALL-AMERICAN HONORS 1938 Member 1939 PUsocided Cbllettfcite Press ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briarfcate 3800 Co-Editors Clare Anderson, Betty Vestal Feature Editors Frances Sayre, Julia -Mary llanna, Marie Von Dnska Assistants H Lou Bell, Eileen Mahoney Club Editor Joan Kaspari Assistants Patricia Ellis, Rosemary Lanahan News Editor Helen Murphy Assistants Elaine Hartman, Dorothy McCarthy, Evelyn Nelson Copy Editors Lavinia Cole, Anne Marie O'Rourke Reporters Joan Morris, Patricia Byrne, Helen O'Day, Ann Dempsey, Mary Joe Fahrendorf, Marie Rudd, Ruth Tentler, Betty Grimm, Patricia Gould, Flor ence McDonnell, Geraldine Hoffman. Peace Through Revolution? Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in an article in a recent Reader's Digest, calls for peace through revolutionized mental and moral attitudes. That the world must change, must have a new order, all think ing people, she contends, will agree. And Mrs. Lindbergh appeals for reflec tive thought on the problems of life, for unprejudiced judgments, for faith in the future, and for prayer that the faith may find fulfillment. A parallel to this constructive Prayer for Peace was propounded at the student retreat early this month by the Reverend Richard Rooney, S.J., when he declared that a positive, constructive approach to life and to one's own development is im perative. Throughout the retreat, Father Rooney emphasized the need, not so much for a what's-right-with-the-world-attitude as for a wbat-am-I-doing-to-uiakc-the-world-rigbt attitude. Mrs. Lindbergh, oddly enough, offers the two solutions which Father Rooney offered to the problem of modern living- prayer and study. . . . the world might come to its knees today, she writes, ' it might have its vision . . . and, again, We can keep our minds and our hearts open . . . by reading philosophy and history. Lent, and Catholic Press month, occur ring simultaneously this year, offer special opportunity for prayer and study. A deeper concentration on the spiritual, through Daily Mass, Holy Communion, Lenten de votions will provide the spiritual impetus, and consistent study of Catholic philoso phy, in books and current periodicals, will provide a sound intellectual impetus. The means are within our reach, and upon our use of them will depend the development of our attitudes and the ex tent of our influence upon the future of our civilization. Rue These Days? It's all in the way you look at it. Look at it some morning about 7:00 or any afternoon at 2:30, see a grey sky topping an insipid landscape, and you'll be con vinced that February is the stepchild of the calendar. But wander down wind-swept Michigan avenue, see the florist shop windows filled with narcissus, pink hyacinths, and white tulips, or make a sight-shopping excursion for spring clothes, and the rue drops out of February. This is the month of prelude to spring, when magazines present articles on how to build a vacation cabin, and on what to wear 'when spring brings back blue days and fair. There is fresh snow on tree branches, but Dache's new hats are appearing; ice holds the water-wheel at the beach, but the ads are featuring chintz. Be a stay-at-home and notice the excel lent paintings on Mundelein's second floor and the pencil sketches that line the eighth- floor corridor. From the browsing room, watch the lake, grey and sullen, or drifted over with steam. Stand on the east porch of the library and feel the mist blown from waves that break against the sea-wall. The next time this month seems to need a course in personality, pick up your skates (unless, of course, boredom should come in the middle of class) and trek down to Montrose and the Marine Drive. There waltz music glides through a microphone over a square of smooth-skating ice. February means Hurray for the red, white, and how can a month be dreary when the flags are waving and the shop- windows trimmed with patriotism? Lin coln and Washington were born this month (we know you know) and so was the columnist just below. Need further inspiration ? Remember the twenty-ninth Round Town With Betty Vestal For Lent we offer a balanced entertain ment diet, a little more intellectual, a bit more serious, perhaps, but stimulating and recreating none the less. First on the list is the series of lectures presented on Monday afternoons at the Woman's Athletic club. Dr. Clarence Man ion of the political science department at University of Notre Dame, and the Rev erend Martin d'Arcy, lecturer on philosophy at Oxford, will speak at two of the pro grams, and members of the Chicago City Opera company will present a recital at another. Big news Jeannette McDonald will appear in Chicago next month. Miss Mc Donald gives her concert at Orchestra Hall on March 29; tickets are on sale already and must be procured soon. The Annual Hoosier Salon exhibit of paintings by Indiana artists is now show ing at Marshall Fields. Note particularly the landscapes, which are traditional enough to be normal and modern enough to be original. The popular American Symphony or chestra, repeaters on two years of assembly programs at Mundelein, opened a new- series of concerts last Friday, which will continue on alternate Fridays through out the spring. The next program will be Feb. 23 at the Illinois Music Project headquarters, 632 N. Dearborn. Next Sunday the Daniel Saidenberg Symphonietta will be heard at the Good man theater. The group specializes in an cient compositions and musical forms, and in those which were written specifically for a smaller number of instruments than are usually included in a full symphony or- orchestra. You're the Critic ByFrances Sayfe Vitamins plain and plus have sky rocketed to popularity in recent years, sim ply because of modern man's solicitude for his own physical well-being. Keeping fit and thwarting disease are the principal aims of this particular solicitude: and there it stops. It is precisely at this point that F. J. Sheed, accpiired certain wrong tendencies. He (modern man) is not fully responsive to the true values . . . before he can set about the serious study of life, his mind needs certain corrective exercises ... It must pass some time in company of minds fully emancipated and thus fully Cath olic. The modern mind has, according to Mr. Sheed, acquired certain wrong tendencies. He (modern man) is not fully responsive to the true values . . . before he can set about the serious study of life, his mind needs certain corrective exercises ... It must pass some time in company of minds fully emancipated and thus fully Cath olic. Sheed proposes an excellent plan to counteract certain current isms an ag gressive campaign with three main points: The Preliminary or Tonic Reading; Read ing for the Total View; and Sectional Reading. Press Month seems the ideal time for the college student to review the plan, and, in fact, Mr. Sheed directs certain of his passages to collegians. Fducation, he insists, only prepares the way, it ploughs the ground. The college, will have done its work nobly if (the stu dent) leaves it educable.'' A definite read ing program is needed to complete the job of education. Since Catholic educa tion comprises a comprehensive view of the whole, it requires a special compre hensive program. Hence Mr. Sheed's out line, which is given here in abbreviated form. A. PRELIMINARY to clear the mind's atmosphere and prepare it to de rive the most from what follows: Ortho doxy, by Gilbert K. Chesterton; Now I See, by Arnold Lunn; The Path To Rome, by Hilaire Belloc; Life of Our Lord, by Vincent McNabb, O.P.; A Map of Life, by F. J. Sheed. B. COURSE OF READING FOR THE TOTAL VIEW: W:hom Did You Say? by J. P. Arcndzen, D.D.; The Son of God, by Karl Adam; The Unknown God, by Alfred Noyes; Christ in the Church, by Robert Hugh Benson; The Pursuit of Happiness, by Waller Far- rell, O. P.; Religion in the Modern- State, by Christopher Dawson; A Saint In the Slave Trade, by Arnold Lunn; Ax Essay on Development, by John Henry Newman. C. SECTIONAL READING FOR THE UNIFICATION OF THE TOTAL VIEW: St. Thomas Aquinas, by G. K. Chesterton; Psychology of Character, by Rudolph Allers; The Making of Eurofe, by Christopher Dawson; Characters of the Reforma tion, by Hilaire Belloc; Life of New man, by Wilfred Ward; The Age of the God's, by Dawson; Ways of Christian Life, by Abbot Butler; The City of God, by St. Augustine; The Satin Slipper, bv Paul Claudel. VI-1IZ SU i-UMH MIDWINTER MISERY Why does justice slight collegians Prom September until June? Here, on a midwinter day, While others sivim mid ski and sleigh, I study morning, night, and noon. Chorus Others tan and bask in snow At Shu Valley, Idaho. Life for them is Marvelous, While I am riding 'IJ and Bus. In a lovely southern clime Some relax on raft and beach But term papers absorb my lime, And Florida's beyond my reach. No ivonder I am maladjusted, L'Envoi Goodbye, goodbye to sail and ski Vacation joys are not for me I'm stuck with midwinter misery. * * * The second number on the Skyline Shot is the saddest story of the month. Tt concerns the senior who was reminded at the opening o: the new semester that she had a lew swimming; credits to acquire before June. Not content to be one of the five of sill seniors who are slated to exercise gently in the gym or pool for from four to six hours a week, she determined to evade the issue by flaunting a doctor's certificate (magic phrase l. But the kindly family doctor, upon examin ing her, came forth with the reassuring state ment : The only thing the matter with yon, my dear, is lack of exercise. * * * Does-Democracy-Encourage-Originality. or- well, you can name this yourself alter you read it. One of the freshmen resident students en closed this clever bit in a homeward-bound package: Oiven More left tozvn one day Owen More had debts to pay. Owen More came back, they say, Owen More. Needless to say, the family enjoyed the hu mor, but not the government announcement which accompanied it . . . first class postage rates were requested for the excessive jingle baggage. * * * LOST One oil painting, of inestimable value to certain senior art student. Disappeared from eighth floor exhibit, a la Arsene Lupia Finder please return, as it is sad to see art desert college. * * * And now for a dissertation on the well- worn cliches: t gt;i may change the way you wear your hair, you may turn from glamor girl to in-1 Senue and back again, but Some Things Art Sacred You can't evade the issue; you must face the facts and suffer the consequences cliche- will go on Conversation after conversation. day after day, it's one word after another. You turn green with ... Or course you do, everybody does. Keel like crying? Von can do one of two things with tears cither burst into them or shed them like a duck sheds water. Launch offers a little more leeway it mi; be anything from a battleship to a tirade. But inevitably one throws a fit and strikes an alti tude. What do you tell time? Doesn't it know? And do you know what? Charming fellow You put down a receiver and call it hanging up. oil let him down by standing him Up. A door flies open, but why do you fly oJ the handle? When a professor lectures you hang upon his every ..... or else you are bored If you don't know the answer. you pass the buck. What's a buck? Are you living in cramped quarters? Throu a parly and raise the roof, (jetting in deep water? Then the time has come to stem the tide. on might as well throw out your chest; hope is gone, even though Leap Year is just beginning. That's all. Now you think up your own. As for us, we're drawing to a close.
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