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Page Two SKYSCRAPER What Goes On . THE FIFTH-FLOOR ELEVATOR DEMAND IS HEAVY, AND A ragged line of stragglers is left behind to catch the 10:55 special to the lounge and lunch. Inside the speeding cubicle, con versation' merges, with a stray phrase catching a clear channel. A high soprano voice demurs, Quo Vadis, not yet, while a senior crammed in a corner presents a dramatic soliloquy on post-comp drud gery. THE FAMILIAR CLICK OF THE GEARS AND THE RUSH OF FRESH air are agreeable, as you manage to evade the crowds destined 'for another hour of pre-noon knowledge. They are gone, and you thread your way easily through a booth-less lounge, strangely devoid of the eye-catchers beloved of campus publicity chairmen, THE TAP OF LOAFERS ON THE WEST STAIRS IS A SIGN OF GOOD weather and heavy Union traffic. A quick dodge around a group of juniors brings you face to face with the senior bulletin board, scarred with reminder notes, but oddly cleared of signs offering many things on many dates for many reasons and at varying degrees of sacrifice. You re flect on the number of times you have succumbed to their messages. The note on your locker offers a tem porary diversion a reminder from the chairman of the Hostess committee a sub-conscious tab to wash your white gloves tonight. YOU MANAGE TO CATCH THE THINNED-OUT PORTION OF THE tea-room and finds a singularly depopu lated table, which accumulates conversa tional partners as the hour progresses. One of them, inevitably, has a freshly typed volunteer list pressed beneath the corner of a cross-the-table-tray. You are not curi ous. If tickets are involved, one of them will eventually rest securely in your wal let; the list will know your signature. MENTALLY REVIEWING FOR A TEST, YOU WALK ALONG THE corridor to your next class, help someone retrieve the scattered pages of a term paper, pass a Freshman muttering formu lae. Study and service the supplements to classes and extra-curriculars. Remind ers of the former are all around you here. Reminders of the latter fill the lounge. But there is no monument inscribed to the mind, the heart, the hand behind the scenes. You suddenly realize that the microphones, the newsprint, the leaders' meetings in every corner of the college have only scratched the surface of your real service. THE CLASSROOM IS CROWDED, BUT ONLY THE NORMAL PROPOR- tion of eyes light up when you cross the threshold. You unite yourself with your classmates in the sign of the Cross and are exceptionally at home in the words . . . Behold the handmaid of the Lord. . tYm A Second Who Are You? Nobody cares Here I am, flitting away at this very instant. See, already I'm gone. One second, another Born and then dead, just like that. Life certainly holds no optimism for me. And there yo.u sit daydreaming. Gaz ing out the window in complete oblivion. It's my murder. Only nobody pays for it but me. I'm my own death row. Why can't you say, Praised be God or Thank you, Lord, for answering that prayer, or just plain, I love you Bles sed Mother, instead of losing me. I want to be elevated to a prayer . . . I want to go to God ... I want to be an eternal second. Don't think I'll be an egotist if you help me. Oh no, I realize the Mass and the rosary and serious daily meditation which stretches into minutes are impor tant. With all humility I'll still be just a second as you often say. People in eternity, especially the Holy Family, like to be talked to all of the time, you know in a very personal way. There isn't a minute that a second isn't available. Love Walks In Life's Work Where Failure Fears To Tread What the sun is in the material order, love is in the moral order. As the sun shines on the tips of mountains, and converts the seas and rivers into liquid gold, making a paradise where a moment ago there was cheerlessness and darkness, so love casts a charm over the com monest life, and infuses warmth, color, and beauty into the most or dinary humdrum existence. Cod is the Creator and Author of love, and He has singularly blessed each of us by opening up three highways of life upon which we can travel in the various callings of our individual choices. March is vocation month. During these troubled times the Church needs Christian mothers who will by their example bring the love of Cod into their own hearts, and to the hearts of their families and friends. Cod also needs salf-sacrif icing unmarried women who in true piety and humility will spend their lives sacrificing for others. No matter what be their careers or professions, caring for aged parents or per forming good deeds in the business world, Christ's love must be strong within their hearts. Most needed in Cod's Church are Sisters for teaching and nurs ing in both home and foreign missions. Itself a mission country until only a few years ago, today the United States carries much of the burden of the missionary conquest of the world. Taking part in this tremendous work are many former students and alumnae, who have offered their lives to Cod that others may come to know and love Him. Girls who once studied at Mundelein are now represented in 20 different religious communities. Most are in the teaching orders 93 in the B.V.M.'s but four have entered the Carmelites, one has en tered the Poor Clares, and one the Little Sisters of the Poor. The Church needs more women in religious vocations, to spread Cod's all-embracing love to people of all ages, races, creeds. The ser vices they render are limitless, and the blessings God bestows upon them are beyond calculation. They kneel in the consciousness of their nothingness and rise dedicated to God forever. In all vocations, no matter which is our choice, Cod needs our unending example of sincere Christian love and action. By considering the problem of vocations, and trying earnestly to discover which one is for each of us, we may learn to use our lives fully, to offer them generously to God, and to reveal our love of Him in action. Divertissements . . . Lenten Activities Offer Quality, Harmony For Diverting Hours You are shunning the movies, you say, during Lent, and have time on your hands? Take a look at the local offerings below, and write reserved on your calendar. Father Leo Trese, author of Vessel of Clay, will be guest at an autographing party at the Thomas More Book store on March 20. Father Tracy will discuss his new book, Many Are One, explaining its meaning and applications in the lives of Catholics. On March 23, at 3 :30 p.m., Father Gus- tave A. Weigel, S.J., will be guest of the Charles Carroll forum, lecturing on The Meaning of This Moment., at 3:30 p.m. at the Morrison hotel. Also on March 23, Richard J. Daley, Cook County clerk, will lecture at Our Lady Help of Christians Parish hall, at Iowa and Leclaire, on the topic Citizen Politician. On March 30, Clem La*ne, city editor of the Chicago Daily News, will lecture at Help of Christians on Apostles for Truth. If music is on your agenda, try the Chi cago Symphony student-rate concert on March 20. On the program are two com position by Tcherpenine, Symphony Num ber 2 and Concerto for Piano, with the composer as soloist; also on the program is Prokofieff's Symphony Number 5. If you are shunning only secular pic tures, see The Ten Commandments, an Italian film with English subtitles, which will be at the Cinema Annex, 3210 W. Madison, until March 21. Forty Italian stars appear in the movie, which is di vided into 10 episodes. And if you have economic interests ' and who hasn't try the Catholic Labor Alliance John A. Ryan forum, at the Mor rison Hotel, March 28 'at 8 p.m. Speakers will include Robert Vander- poel, financial columnist Of the Sun- Times; Father William O'Connor, chair man of the Sociology department at St. Ambrose college; Nicholas M. Di Pietro, AFL labor member of the Illinois Indus trial commission; Harry Becker, direc tor of the United Auto Workers-CIO So cial Security department, and Theodore Lownik, Chicago attorney and labor re lations consultant. * * * Augustine, the saint, is indeed flaming, tempestuous, inspiring. Augustine, the character in Louis De Wold's The Restless Flame, is an interesting shadow of the real man, flickering, impulsive, sometimes insufficient. This modern biography of the saint is comparable to a great many such efforts, in that the author is incapable of captur ing the spark,, the vigor, and the depth of his hero. To constrain the fire of Augus tine between the covers of any book is indeed a challenge to an author. While De Wohl fails fully to meet this challenge, his interpretation and presenta tion of Augustine are both laudable and agreeable. He creates a character who is interesting and perplexing, if not entirely convincing. We follow Augustine through adolesence, his brief bout with Manicheanism, his pursuit of truth, and his eventual realiza- timrthereof. It is an imaginative and fan ciful journey, sparked with bits of bright philosophy and clever writing. For one who wants a quick-moving, light biogra phy of the saint, this book is quite good. If, however, one has delved into Augus tine's Confessions, and expects to find the true character of the man exposed in this book, she will be disappointed. The Restless Flame will send this reader away restless, and dissatisfied. Student View . . . A Twice Told Story: Imperialism Poses New US. Problems Reluctance and resignation usually characterize the well established nation who watches her colonial wards slip into freedom even though it is often an un stable form of freedom. The United States is frequently, looked upon as the exemplar of success in this field, and the twentieth century colonies have glanced at her foi approval in their similar struggles. The 1898 world public, however, watched with interest as she assumed the new, unaccustomed role of a mother country. The Philippine island chain had lain quietly in the southwest Pacific un der Spanish dominion until Commodore Dewey sailed into Manila Bay. The Pro testant U. S. then carried denominational ism to the Filipino who had a sixteen century tradition of Catholicism. American representatives also brough the power of education, the relief of medi cal aid, the pleasures of good living, am the tenets of democracy. Yet it wa the economic interests of the 1920's that finally focused sharply upon the ques tion of independence; cheap Filipino pro ducts and labor had found their way to ou coasts. Days of partial freedom waned, an 1946 brought complete liberty not to I land steeped in 48 years of democracy but rather to a country just released front the tentacles of war. Five chaotic years, marked by unem ployment. depression, and growth of th communistic Huks, seem to be checkeJ by the results of the recent Philippine elections. The little republic has the mal chinery, but does she have the statesmen to run it? The United States can give its adopteil colony a sound democratic heritage or shl can be typically twentieth century and rel gard such a materially profitless endeavotl with scorn. The world public again watches wM interest. Week Moments .. Tuesday, March 18, 1:00 p.m., Junior-Seil ior class meeting, lecture by Fathell F. P. Biestek, S.J. Thursday, March 20, 3:00 p.m.. 405, N.SjI Tours Friday, March 21, 3:00 Racial Justice, 40E Monday, March 24 Friday, March 2T Mid-semesfer tests Friday, March 28, 10:00 a.m., Bloodmobik* 1 *Jhe ku craper S( Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, I931a at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under th Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to Mr inclusive by the students of Mundelein Collegr 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. w Vol. XXII March 17, 1952 No. lg lt; Co-Editors Barbara HeinU51 Mary Jane Laraj8 Student View T Arlene Gorgoff Donna Merwkf' Cornerstones Peggy Reidr Marion Whela lt; SAC Speaks Up Patricia McHugJc Clare Hillyawa Divertissements Helen Steward Barbara BidwcD Skyscrapings Rosemary Bunu lt; Barbara Shaughnessy, Irene Johnson, Janjf Roach, Sybil Lillie Art Doris Kulilmaiu Sports Gloria Valentin Reporters Marjorie Duffj Catherine Lamb, Audre McCarthy, Catlir lt; Sncll, Vivian Spitali, Norine Ryan, Mafl Schweitzer, Maureen Kenny, Mary Lbfe Rohlfing, Peggy Winslow, Ruth McIIugh.il Circulation Lucille Boldti Mary Fellegi, Shirley Geiser, Mary Be J Hemmer, Lola Hill i
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1952-03-17 (2)
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