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THE CRAPER Volume V MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 11, 1934 No. 1 COLLEGE OPENS TWO NEW BUILDINGS Social Welfare Work Introduced Into Curriculum Students Will Cooperate With City Charity Bureaus A social service department has been opened at Mundelein College this semes ter at the request of His Eminence, George Cardinal Mundelein. The course, intended to give ethical knowledge and preliminary practice in social welfare, aims to train the student as a responsible social worker, especially for cooperation with Catholic social service organizations. Mundelein has the distinction of being the first Catholic woman's college in the United States to open a professional so cial service department. Has Distinguished Faculty Miriam L. Rooney, Ph. D., of the Catholic University of America, and the Very Reverend Monsignor William A. Cummings, director of the Catholic Charities, will be among the Faculty members who conduct the sociology courses. The new department has been enthusiastically received; sixteen upper classmen are majoring in sociology, and thirty-three sophomores are taking the introductory course. The students will do practical welfare work, under supervision, in the associated charities, the social bureau, and the child- welfare institutions in the city, and will thus gain experience invaluable both to graduate students and to professional workers. Plan Twenty-four Tours About twenty-four tours have been planned for the coming year, including visits to the Hull House, the Juvenile Court, St. Mary's Training school, John B. Murphy clinic, and the Social Service exchange. All students completing the course of study in this department will merit the degree of Bachelor of Arts with a major in sociology, and will qualify for admis sion in graduate schools of social ser vice. The student who elects to major in this department and to minor in edu cation will be equipped for the teaching of social service. Celebrate Jubilee Of Faculty Member Honoring Sister Mary Eutropia, B.V.M., well-known to the students as an energetic and inspiring teacher of his tory, the Reverend Nicholas A. Steffen of Columbia College, Dubuque, Iowa, read High Mass in Stella Maris Chapel, on August IS, and preached the Jubilee sermon. When a man has spent fifty years in a profession law, medicine, teaching his colleagues pay reverent tribute to his years of service. How much more fitting is it then that we pay tribute today to one who has spent fifty years of her life in the religious profession, consecrating her entire life to the honor and glory of God, declared Father Steffen, who is a former pupil of Sister Mary Eutropia. Sketching briefly Sister's life in the Congregation to which she belongs, Father Steffen enlarged upon her devo tion to the young, and her success as an educator. (Continued on page 3, col. 1) Marion Green Sophomores Hold Annual Cotillion At Drake Hotel Rita Smith, Marion Green To Lead Grand March At Informal The sophomores are already complet ing plans for the first large social event of the year, the Sophomore Cotillion, and have elected Marion Green, social chairman of the class, and Rita Smith, class president, to lead the grand march. The Cotillion will be held on Oct 19 in the Main Ballroom and Tower Room of the Drake Hotel, which will be gayly decorated with clusters of colored bal loons. Miss Smith and Miss Green were elected at a class meeting on Oct. 1, and will be assisted by a group of committees and by the other class officers, Betty Neil, vice-president, Mary Margaret Smith, secretary, Ruth Kees, treasurer, and Catherine Lindley, sergeant-at-arms. Dorris Brown, Ruth Kees, and Jean McKeever are in charge of bids, which are being sold for 2.50 and which may be secured from any sophomore. Bernice Walters, Betty Neil, and Mary Ann Kirschten, the orchestra committee, have engaged Jack Chapman's orchestra to play for the event, which will be in formal, and open to all students. Marion Green and Mary Margaret Smith are on the hotel committee, and Catherine Lindley, Mae Sexton, and Frances Joerger are in charge of the decorations. Non-Resident Faculty Has Ten New Members For the scholastic year 1934-35 Mun delein has added nine new members to the non-resident Faculty and introduced a number of new courses. The Very Reverend Monsignor W. A. Cummings will offer a course in family relations in the department of sociology. As diocesan director of charities and superintendent of the Central Charities Bureau, Monsignor Cummings is well known to Chicagoans. Garrett H. Leverton, Ph.D., of Columbia and Northwestern universities, (Continued on page 4, col. 4) Largest Student Body Registers In Current Year Day and Resident Students Number More Than Five Hundred When the College opened on Sept. 24 it was with the largest enrollment in its history, a total of 485 students, whose number has been raised above the 500 mark in the late registrations recorded. The freshmen, as usual, are in the lead with 204 students; the sophomores number 136; the juniors 76, and the seniors 80. For the first time in its history, the College is admitting resident students, and the following have the distinction of being the first occupants of the residence hall: Frederica Gleason, New Orleans; Eliz abeth Higgins, Milwaukee; Rita and Marcia Fay, Joliet, III., Veronica Kassis, Casper, Wyoming; Mary McManus, Graetinger, Iowa; Adelaide Nidley, Chicago Heights; Kathryn Pitman Wauwatosa, Wisconsin; Mary Margaret Smith, Geneva, 111.; Caroline Sikich, Gary, Indiana; and Virginia Green, Betty Haflner, Margaret Marleau, Frances Woods, Maurita Kelly, and Mary Coen, of Chicago. In addition to the regular classes, ex tension courses are being giver* at the College on Saturday mornings from 9:15 until 11:45. Wins National Contest Sodality Prefect Plans Academies In Catholic Action A new program of Catholic Action planned to enable every member of the student body to take part in at least one definite phase of Catholic activity is be ing inaugurated by the College Sodality, under the chairmanship of Virginia Woods, prefect. The Sodality has been given two as sembly periods each month for its meet ings. The first Wednesday, instead of assembling in the auditorium, the stu dents will go to one of the seven Catholic Action Academies into which the work of the Sodality has been divided. The proposed Academies are based on the Chicago Student Catholic Action catechism compiled by His Excellency, the Most Reverend Bishop Sheil, Direc tor-General of Cisca. The following division has been made, and chairmen appointed: Eucharistic-Our Lady's Aca demy, Mary Margaret Morrissey, chair man; Apostolic Academy, Julia Hagerty, chairman; the Literature Academy, Vir ginia Woods, chairman; Catholic Social Action Academy, Mary Ann Walsh, chairman. The Liturgical Academy, with Eileen Madden as chairman, the Braille workers, under Kathryn Weniger, and the Girl Scouts with Mary Domes as chairman, will also meet at that time. (Continued on page 4, col. 1) Will Present Twelfth Night The drama department has chosen Twelfth Night for its first major production of the year, and has ar ranged to present the play at 8:15 p. m. on Nov. 23, 25, and 26, and to give a matinee performance on Nov. 24. Charlotte Wilcox Publications Win Highest Honors In aS.RA. Rating Charlotte Wilcox Receives Editorial Award In Contest According to a recent announcement from the Catholic School Press Associa tion, the Skyscraper and the Clepsydra, literary quarterly, merited All-Catholic honors, the highest award given by the Association, whose membership includes publications from almost all leading Catholic colleges in the United States. At the same time, the announcement was received that Charlotte Wilcox, man aging editor of the Skyscraper and vice- president of the Press club, had received the award in the national editorial con test sponsored by the Association. Miss Wilcox's editorial, A Revival in Education, which appeared in the is sue of Jan. 19, 1934, commented upon the statement of Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago that raw empiricism had resulted in bewilderment, and the almost simultaneous statement made by Dr. Arthur H. Compton of the same university that faith in God might be an altogether scientific attitude. Miss Wilcox traced in these remarks an attitude of return to the educational principles of the Catholic Church, and expressed the hope that the convictions of two such men might deal a telling blow to the Science vs. Religion conflict. Donates New Volumes To Library Collection As if by magic, generous friends of the College realized that on the shelves in the new library there is room for many books, and kindly began to fill them. Nine beautiful volumes arrived re cently, the gift of the Reverend John J. Prendergast, pastor of Holy Cross par ish, Kansas City, Missouri. A set con taining four volumes of the Stream of History', and the Treasury for Book- lovers in five volumes are the books donated. The former is by Geoffrey Parsons and contains hundreds of illustrations in black-and-white and in colors. English students will revel in Charles Townsend Copeland's Treasury for Booklovers. New Library And Residence Hall Are Now in Use Stacks Accomodate 75,000 Volumes; Have Large Reading Rooms With the opening of school this year, Mundelein has thrown open the doors of its two new buildings, the beautiful white marble library and the adjoining red brick residence hall which stands between the library and the main building. Although the College is only four years old, it has already grown to such an extent that the addition of the library was imperative, and, owing to the in creasing number of requests for residence accommodations, the residence hall was opened likewise this fall. Campus Is Enlarged The two new buildings, with their wide lawns, extend the campus to the shores of Lake Michigan, and both are admir ably suited to the purpose for which they are used. The library is especially at tractive with its curving steps and its deep, vine-covered porch. The spacious hall just inside the main entrance makes an ideal lobby, and here are placed the charging desk and the card catalogue. To the rear of the desk, a broad staircase leads to the stack rooms on the second floor. To the left of the lobby are the oak- paneled periodical room, the reserve sec tion, and the librarian's office; to the right, three reading rooms open one into the other. Has Famous Madonna Among the treasures of the new library are the stained glass Tiffany window on the landing of the main staircase and the Madonna della Sedia which hangs in the lobby, and which is the oldest and finest copy in America of Raphael's masterpiece. Its finely patterned gold frame is an exact replica of the frame designed by Raphael himself for the original picture. The stack rooms on second floor accomodate 75,000 volumes, and one en tire room is given over to the Rothen steiner collection, the gift of the Rever end John Rothensteiner, censor librorum of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, which now numbers more than 9000 volumes, many of them priceless early editions, and a number of rare manuscripts and in cunabula. Faculty Members Issue Publications Sister Mary Rafael, B.V.M., head of the music department, has recently had several musical compositions published. The Caecilia, a magazine devoted to church and school music, printed in the September issue two hymns by Sister Mary Rafael, To Christ the King, and Hymn of the Little Flower. Both were printed through the courtesy of McLaughlin Reilly Co., Boston, who published the compositions. The same publishers are putting out editions of a Mass in Honor of Christ the King, also the composition of Sister Mary Rafael. The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. XV, no. 3, issued quarterly by the University press, Notre Dame, Indiana, includes a study of the Indiana Species of Scirpus, a research paper based on investigation of the material available in the various herbaria of the state and its vicinity, by Sister Mary St. Leona, B.V.M., of the science department.
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