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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Seniors See College Years in Swift Kaleidoscope WHEN THE LIVING WAS EASY most conducive At the moment when each senior tri umphantly transfers the tassel of her cap from the right side to the left, the pano rama of her four years at Mundelein will pass before her eyes. She will remember the uncertain days of freslimanhood . . . the bewildering ar ray of classes, schedules, and term papers . :'. lunch-time, with the gay and sparkling chatter of lively classmates. She will remember, too, the swift pass ing of each year . . . the strengthening of friendships . . . the heavenly beauty of Candlelighting . . . the magnificence of Sk scraper Hall- . . . the gentle loveliness of May-Crowning. There will pass through her mind the memories of Senior Sunday ... of the ten sion of Comprehensive Day ... of majors and minors and matters material . . . and of the blessedness of Retreat . . . the sat isfaction of Rosary said daily in the Chapel. All these things she will remember. As each Senior accepts her diploma from His Excellency, Archbishop Stritch, she ThuS'Summertime . . . The carefree strains of (iershuin's music sum up all the lovely ideas we have about the season to relaxation blue and golden days of June, July, and August. which meant long, lazy hours on the beach, travel to distant places which added new leaves to our books of memories, daylight- to-dtisk days of sports, tall-lemonades, and sunshine, PLAYTIME his rear P'a.vtinie w' ',e taken in a smaller dose than ever before by the conscientious collegian, for playtime seems unimportant when measured against the yardstick of sacrifice and heartbreak preva lent in this third year of war. The idea of doing nothing doesn't fit into the mind of an American in this year of unlimited striving for victor -. But playtime is nec essary, in small amounts, to tinkink tan gled nerves, to provide a gathering of en ergy for the tasks to come, to pave the way for clear, straight thinking about re sponsibilities ahead. WORKTIME summer job once meant a bit of extra money and a great deal of extra fun and companionship. Now it means prepar ing for an immediate wartime life, by us ing the surplus savings to buy Bonds and Stamps or it means donating time and service to the Red Cross and to other such organizations. Perhaps your summer job will be Civil Service, or helping the Land Army on a farm, or taking over the house hold while a war-busy family works. Whatever the prospect may be. college girls everywhere will do their bit to aid in the shortening of the war. No longer important are easy jobs, with short hours and little to do but put nickels into coke machines. ()ur righting men have an all- day, and in many cases an all-night job. upholding our ideals of freedom. This summer will be an extremely important one in the annals of our armed forces. It must also be an important one in the lives of college girls ELECTIONTIME The second wartime ... election in American history will find many new voters going to the polls. These vot ers will be the youth of the nation, upon whose shoulders will rest the responsibili ties of a peacetime world. And the youth of the nation must be ready to vote intel ligently, must be infoimed of the issues, clear on the qualifications of the candi dates, convinced of the value of the fran chise and of the power of an intelligent voting public. Summertime, 1( gt;44, will be replete with opportunity to study national problems and to prepare for national re sponsibility in November. THUS contains the promise SUMMERTIME nf satisfying: work, en- joyable playtime, op portunity for thought ful study of national and world problems. There are three months ahead in which we may realize these promises. Let us make the most of them. will think what this day means to her . . . the culmination of four years of fun, work, and, .sometimes, sacrifice . . . the day she has dreamed of since first she knew the meaning of college. She will reflect that this day is an end and a beginning . . . the end of a well- loved life . . . the beginning of a new one for which she has prepared in the best way she knew. On these things she will reflect. lien each senior turns to the audience, degree in hand, her eyes will be looking into the future. She will be unable to see all that is waiting for her. but she will know that before her lie joys and heart' aches . . . little things and big things . . . life and the challenge it promises. She will know, too. that she can live her life as the Great Teacher taught us all to live . . . with God in her heart . . . the light of conquest in her eyes. . . . Grateful for her opportunities . . . con fident of her own strength . . . and trust ing in God, she will look gallantly into the future. Loyola Promotes Knowledge of Latin American Culture Politically and economically the United States and Latin America are bound by steel-strong commitments. Their futures are interlaced irrevocably in matters of government and groceries. I'm real harmony in the Western Hemi sphere depends upon a foundation based on something sturdier than necessity or advantage. It demands understanding and a mutual knowledge of tradition and cul ture. With those ends in mind, Loyola univer sity sponsored this month a conference for the promotion of inter-American re lationship through a survey of I atin American material and of methods of its integration into school curricula. Springboard of the conference, held in cooperation with the coordinator of Inter- American affairs, was Loyola's newly founded Institute of Inter-American Af fairs. Through the Institute, the university offers an intensive course in many phases of Latin American problems and culture, leading to a Certificate, a Bachelor's de gree, or a Master's degree. At the Institute's conference, literature, drama, history, and progress in Latin America were highlighted in their bearing on inter-American friendship and their possibilities for presenting to students in North American schools instruction about the lives, customs, and backgrounds of the people beyond our southern boundaries. To the outstanding educators who at tended the conferences, inter-American education is the guidepost to permanent peace and a well-knit western world. With out it. ties in politics and economics have small strength, and the hope of a real I titer-American handclasp of aims, ideals, and amity is but wishful thinking. With authorities proceeding along the lines of incorporating Latin American study into our schools, Loyola university's conference may well be an initial step in a national effort to associate more than the Samba with Latin America. Read it and See STEP into your seven-league boots and join Brother Peter in a search for the legends of his native land. STOP with Brother Peter as he visits Ludgvan Village, the Kingdom of Kent, and I.ooc. You will be delighted at the thought of meeting not one or two, but three dragons, Necton the Sail or's Saint, and the legend of a Giant and his wife. LOOK through Brother Peter's eyes upon Cornwall's blooming coun tryside. Learn with him thai the tales which play such an important part in the lives of the Cornish are not foolish and un founded, but serve rather as a firm foun dation for the strong faith of these peoples. READ ONCE IN CORNWALL by S.M.C. for a thrilling journey that will take but an hour or two. You'll Find These In the Magazines A REPORT on Religion and the WAC is ** the subject of an article in the CATH OLIC DIGEST for May. Written by a reporter for a southern newspaper syndi cate, Elizabeth McStea, it tells of condi tions that prevail at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Stressing the fact that the Masses on Sundays and on three week-day eve nings are among the best attended religious services at any military base in the coun try. Miss McStea concludes that women are not changed fundamentally when they don uniforms. Clk WILLIAM RKYKRIDCK. noted British economist, is the author of an article entitled The Needs of Peace, ap pearing in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY for May. Sir William lays emphasis upon the necessary economic basis upon which effective peace terms must be built, and then considers the fact that justice, rather than force, should be an arbiter among na tions and should be a prelude to interna tional trust. Fall Registration Will Begin on Sept* 11 The College will open for its fifteenth academic year on Monday, Sept. 11, when Freshman Week begins. Incoming seniors will register on Tues day morning, Sept. 12; juniors will register on Wednesday morning, Sept. 13; and sophomores will register on Thursday, Sept. 14. Freshman week will close with fresh man registration on Friday, Sept. 15, and classes will begin on Monday. Sept. IS. Ticker Tape Turns to Trivia Signs sprouted on bulletin boards like flowers on the campus fronting the Lake . . . one bewailed a freshman's loss of an ensign's pin . . . close inspection revealed the deletion of a part of the plea by a pencil line . . . the result, Lost . . . one ensign. . . . The Stylus club stole the show with a time schedule poster supreme ... a fair- haired damsel pulling out locks by the handful, with the caption, Use your head, save your hair. . . . Add note on hair . . . heat, humidity, Or a combination of the two ushered in the spring influx of braids, this year garnished with mite-sized bouquets. . . . Like a minor miracle to over-worked janitors are rope soles on collegian's shoes . . . happy result of rationing, they leave terrazzo floors unmarked, unmarred. . . THE SKYSCRAPER MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 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. 30,193? at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3. 1897, 175 the year. I Published semi-monthly from October to Maj inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. XIV May 29. 1944 No IJ Member ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chief Mary Kay Jones, Marie Nordby Associates Helen Nicholsoi Frances Wilkinson Feature Editors Jayne King. Jerry Stutz, Mary C. Tuomey Associates Mary Beecher, Mary C. Burns, Alyce Jeanne Kiley Copy Editor Mary Gtace Canitj News Editors Eleanor Arends. Patricia Ilollaban, Joan Templeman Associates Patricia Curran, Sheila Finney, Dolores Hartigan, Dellamat Laughlin, Julia Woodford Sports Editor Jeanne Kiltj Art Editor Dorothy Schaar Business Manager Madeleine Courtney Reporters: Viola Bieiiiian. Lois 11intze. Audrey McDonnell. Kegina Bess, Dolores Toniatti I Alice Marie lbre-n, Nancy F.nzwcilcr, Helen June Maloncy, Gladys Sullivan, Margaret Mary Trendell, Celeste Boudreau, AdelaiM Costello, Uosalie De Florio, Nancy DoaJ nelley, Joyce Evans, Mary Lou Guliek, Pa-i tricia Lee, Patricia Marmitt, Donna JeaiJ Powers. East and West Meet in Wartime Strange outcomes of ;t global war art being wrought, as the scattering of its citi zens has knit more closely together than ever in its history the families, feelings and friends of a nation that took its heri tage for granted. From the scene of the infamous attack that plunged our country into bloody con flict comes the Pearl Harbor BANNEH brave journal of the American workers ia the Navy Yard at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Joseph Ferrante. former houseman at I Mundelein. who left to serve Uncle Sal in March. 1943, sends the special Decern her 7 Edition, the cover of which portray the Army-Navy E for Excellence award. The little magazine in 24 pages defies the cowardly intrusion on its peaceful shores, and resolves that, before too many months, IVarl Harbor will have its re venge. Correcting a popular impression that only the Americans lost men and shin that day. the BANNER shows pictures of) Jap airships, submarines, and miiie-layen lying annihilated on the beach at Oahi Other photographs lepresent Eleanor Roosevelt, late Secretary of the Nat Frank Knox, and Admiral Furlong coin mending workers at the Navy Yard upon their splendid accomplishments. In direct contrast is another publication which Mundelein received this month, de scribing Dotiai Abbey and School in End land, established in 1674 as an item of ilit English Benedictine revival, which is I day a refuge from war. The booklet de-1 scribes the early persecution of the monk and recounts the story of the Order from the time that the cornerstone for the tiny parent monastery was laid at Paris, tint: today when the present site of the English school covers 150 acres at Woolhampton in the county of Berkshire. The Chapel where today American soldiers attend Mass was opened in 1849 by Cardial Wiseman.
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1944-05-29 (2)
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