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THE SKYSCRAPER THE SKYSCRAPER Official Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois MuNUELEIN Chicago's College for Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charity, B. V. M. Entered as Second Class Matter, May 1, 1931, at the Post Office at Chi- cago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 1.25 the year. Published monthly from October to May inclusive. VOL. II FRIDAY, MARCH 18. 1932 No. 6 Editor-in-Chief Margaret Roche News Editor P)ertille McEvoy Features Justine Feely Organizations Frances Davidson Athletics Evelyn Lincoln Reporters: Helen Blume, Mary Frances Burke, Rosamond Carney, Alice Duplantis, Anna Marie Erst, Mary Flannery, Mary Garrity, Mar garet Hoyne, Veronica Kearney. Magdalene Kessie, Ann Lally, Mar garet Ludlow, Pauline Madison, Majella McDonagh, Mary Mar garet Morrissey, Emer Phibbs, Mary Catherine Schmelzer, Ruth Tangney, Virginia Woods. Today our work is highly specialized. We must go forth to battle with our grim, got-to-be-convinced world, armed like knights of old with carefully polished weapons more or less sharp bear ing the familiar names of Liberal Arts, Home Economics, music, and dramatics. We must be ready to make the world conscious of our existence and of our intention to enter the fray. We may emerge victorious, or we may be defeated, as the world sees defeat. A scornful world may knock us about, batter and bruise us, or it may grudgingly get down on its rheumatic old knees and acclaim us. But whether we are successes or failures in our work, if we are loyal to our God, gentle, helpful, and gracious to our fellow beings, mindful of the work we have to do on earth, be it humble or glorious, we shall have done well. If we carry our Catholic womanhood bravely through the years, we shall have something more to be prized than all material success, for noble Catholic womanhood is the culmination of all that religion, educa tion, and environment can bestow upon us, and to possess it is to hold a treasure that will pave life's rough paths, and make success sweeter and failure more bearable. uhe Oky-jCine MARCHING TO MUSIC Telephone: Briargate 3800 The SKYSCRAPER'S Platform : 1. A greater Mundelein. 2. One hundred per cent loyalty. 3. Support in athletics and all student activities. 4. Every Catholic student a sodalist. HAEC DIES This is the day that the Lord hath made. Let us be glad and rejoice therein. Easter It is a gay season, isn't it? And how light-hearted and de lightfully debonair we feel as we walk briskly home from Church with our little straw hats tilted over our right eyes and our fragrant corsages pinned on our chic new suits. It is our right to be gloriously happy. This is the most joyous day in the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. Rejoicing is the keynote of all the liturgical rites. This is the day on which Christ rose triumphantly, leaving peace and happiness be hind Him, bringing joy to His faithful disciples. But as we approach Eastertide this year, we realize that under all this gaiety there is a note of sadness. There is suffering. There is poverty. There is distress throughout our land. We pause to give it consideration. Some of us are downcast. We may even feel that God has deserted us. But He has not forgotten. He watches our every action, lovingly, tenderly. For strength and hope we remember Good Friday. Think of the suffering He knew. And how small our troubles become in the face of the pain of God Tf He did that for us, can He forget us now? We must have faith. Faith The compelling force behind our religion The driving power that has sent countless men and women to their death When Christ took his thousands of followers out into the desert to preach to them, did they have doubts? No. they followed Him in blind faith, and when their hour of need came, He provided for them. Their faith was rewarded. So it is with us. But our faith is not blind. People have always put their trust in Him and He has not forsaken them. Remembering that Good Friday was His darkest hour and that Easter Sunday was. His most triumphant, we renew our hope, our spirits soar and we are/light- hearted and debonair as we walk briskly home from Mass. By Evelyn Lincoln America is marching to music. It is marching to the kind/of music that prompts nations to do great things, that prompts indiffe/mt men to thrill with love of country and realization of duty, that/Vstraightens weary shoulders and encourages their owner to face trouble, care, and hardships with head held high and eyes serenely unafraid the music of the marches that John Philip Sousa gave to America. Our country has always loved the militant swing of the march. Since the days at Valley Forge when food and warmth were not to be had, it has been such stirring music that has sent the blood racing through icy veins in hot, passionate streams America was right, and by her might she should conquer The Civil War, too, saw men marching, marching on to preserve the unity of our great United States, and again the thrill ing music of the march awakened slumbering emotions. And when the war was over, the United States was again, 'Many in One. After the Civil War, however, pride and love of country seemed to take second place in the hearts of our people. Pleasure at all costs seemed the cry. Frothy books, shallow music, and frivolous clothes were taken to the public heart one by one, then carelessly thrown away. Into this world of Self stepped War. But before the war had come Sousa. He raised his arm and there was a great quietness. And then from his mighty band came the stirring bars of The Stars and Stripes Forever. It penetrated deep into the hearts of all who heard it, and it gave them something fine on which to bear their hopes. A great nation called to them to uphold her honor and glory Because we're might, because we're right, we'll live forever, it cried, and each man who heard the vibrant words and thrilled to its martial swing formed a resolution in his heart he would be right that armed with might he could stand by Amer ica and uphold her and her decisions before the whole world. Into the great World War, our men and women carried this resolu tion, and whenever courage seemed to be failing or bodies seemed too weak to plod another weary mile, a voice humming, an old harmonica playing The Stars and Stripes Forever, renewed strength in tired bodies and faith and hope in tired minds. And we won the war. Sousa is dead. He has answered the final reveille. But his spirit lives in the work he has done and America still marches to his music EXCHANGES OUR HERITAGE We have heard much during Vocation Week aboult tfhe different fields in which women today are active'. Some of us/, An fact, have already decided upon our life's work and are industit/ously prepar ing ourselves to attain prominence in our special field. Many of us have not yet chosen a vocation or an avocation. Yet in all this dis cussion of qualifications that are necessary for entrance into busi ness, social and domestic, or religious life, one requirement seems common to all. It was the end we had in view in attending a Cath olic college the reason why Mundelein College was erected despite tremendous expense, labor, and worry that we may grow into women whose kindly dignity, graciousness, culture, and refinement will embody the beautiful heritage of ideal Catholic womanhood. The Catholic Church has shown us again and again how to combine gracious womanhood with all vocations. She has given us the Little Flower, cheerfully busy about her little things ; St. Cath erine of Siena, a great scholar, yet ever kindly and gracious; St. Jane Frances de Chantal, who will always be pointed out as a perfect example of true Catholic motherhood. There are countless others, nurses, writers, social workers, women whose duties and responsi bilities demanded and received more patience and tact and strength than can be measured. And she gently bids us follow their example. The Purple and Gray; College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. An unusual and highly entertaining feature in this publication is the column Contemporaries, which gives in short paragraphs the interest ing events at other colleges and thus keeps the students acquainted with contemporary college life. An especially good editorial, Our Advance, speaks of the erection and dedication of the new Arts and Science build ing. It points out the need for higher education and the imminent need for proper buildings in which to receive it. The Right Reverend John Gregory Murray performed the dedication services on March 7, the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas. The Torch; St. John's College, Brooklyn, New York. A glance at this interesting weekly would lead one to believe that the social life is preeminent, but with more careful reading it becomes evident that there are many other phases of activity. The sporting news was unusually attractive, although it seems remark able that three of the eight pages of the paper should be devoted to the actions of athletic students. One notes with satisfaction that an item of a more scholastic nature is found on page eight. The debaters are preparing for encounters with New Rochelle College and with Brooklyn College. We wish them success in both tilts. The Quadrangle; Manhattan College, New York. The editorials of the Quadrangle are especially good. We liked the spirit of sportsmanship expressed in A Square Deal. Another editorial explains a new scholarship plan in which a premium is placed on good scholarship and whereby the passing grade is lowered to sixty per cent, thus eliminating conditional examinations. The final phrase, to make Manhattan more than ever an educational institution of the highest scholastic standing, expresses a most commendable aim. The Hoya; Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. This weekly from the well-known institution of learning affords an engrossing glimpse into real university life. At Georgetown the opening of the celebration in honor of the bicentennial of Washington's birth was marked by a series of ten lectures by the Reverend Edmund A. Walsh, S. J., Regent of the School of Foreign Service. We who have read Father Walsh's books on Russia envy the students of George town their opportunity of hearing Father Walsh contrast the ideals of American Government with that of the Soviets. My Elephants Of ivory, silver, china, and jade. My thirty-four elephants march in parade, And they're named the nicest names I know, Oh, it took me hours to christen them so Sallie and Mike, Pansy and Jig, Annie, Murphy, and Brother the Big; And I'll cherish each one till death do us part Though to dust them almost breaks my heart. Paul. Student (dropping books for the third time): What kind of a bus is this* Neighbor (who has no books to drop): A rattling good one, I'd say. Et Quomodo. Since When? French teacher, attempting to help pupil infer the meaning of levez-vous: What do you do in an elevator? Student: Keep silence. Ballad of a Hard-Hearted Professor To Mundelein was a maiden come A month but barely ane, When the grades that she was getting there Did gie her grief and pain. Again deir prof and again deir prof. What wouldst thou have me doV Oh, thou shalt make a braid report Ere a grade I gie to you. She lookit o'er her left shoulder For the tear stood in her ee. And forth she's gone with many a sigh To the fourth-floor library. To the library she has gone Afar in the fourth-floor tow'r, O, There to prepare a long report To gie upon the morrow. All o'er, all o'er the library floor Fu fifty fadom deip, There stand the shelves of drumlie books; Oh, fain, fain wad she weep. Oh. she had been at Mundelein A month but barely three. When the teacher made a dire request And another dule she drie. Oh, again deir prof and again der prof How can I make my grader Oh, a term paper you shall write Ere your credit can be made. Oh, long, lang may she labor Wi' great books in her hand, Ere she has done her duty. And fulfilled his hard demand. Oh, lang, lang may that maiden sit Burning the midnight oil Ere she gets any credit For weary hours of toil. Nemo. * Among the royalty (according to latest accounts): The Duke of Q-eese, Mary Tutor, and Elizabeth VI. (And Luther taught at Whittenburg ) Student, cynically: Really, I won der that we are not aU confirmed pes simists. Other: Yes? Student: Yes. We no more than finish the semester examinations than the quarterly schedule goes up. I. Q. Minus. To Ah Monkey He's a tiny furry fellow With a wizened little face, Though his suit i3 red and yellow And hasn't any lace, He's won my heart completely With his broad contagious grin That welcomes me so sweetly Each night when I come in. Paul. P. S Ah's full name is Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life.
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1932-03-18 (2)
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