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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Strains of Chopin . . . Pierce Iron Curtain All over the country, and here at Mun delein, lovers of great music are honoring Frederic Chopin, who died 100 years ago this month. Chopin, like Artttr Rubin stein and Ignace Paderewski, was Polish by birth, and he has caught the spirit of his nation in his music. Today Poland needs more than our thanks for her great musicians. She needs our prayers, and our active interest in improving her perilous situation behind the Iron Curtain. Poland is a bleeding member of the Mystical Body of Christ. Ninety one per cent of the Poles are Catholic. Yet in her parliament of 444 members, only three belong to the so-called Catholic party. Five hundred priests are imprisoned in Poland. Catholic education is severely re stricted. The Catholic University of Lu blin, the only Catholic university in the central area, is no longer permitted to have a faculty or students of law, according to a recent order issued by the Communist minister of public relations. The Communist government has pointed out that religion in education must not cooperate with Anglo-American imperial ism or disturb the minds of the child ren. Solitary Vigil Today the people of Poland are living Chopin's music. They have come to know the measured heartbreak of his Funeral March, the despera'te passion of his Pol onaise. The centennial anniversary of the death of Chopin can be the beginning of a great crusade of prayer to save Poland for Christ. What Goes On . MEXT Sunday, the class of 1950 will don caps and gowns for the first time. At subsequent formal assemblies, its members will file in solemn procession into the au ditorium, while the other classes stand at attention. The freshman will look on, awestruck, and ask herself, Will I be able to with stand three more years of school so that I, too, can wear a cap and gown again? The sophomore takes a more hopeful at titude. She tries to identify as many senior faces as possible, while saying, I'm al most at the half-way mark. It won't be long now. And the junior, from her lofty height, looks down on the myriad black squares and thinks confidently, Well, I'm next and it hasn't been such a hard climb But the most querulous minds of all are under the black mortarboards. The sen ior says, Senior Sunday is only the begin ning. From now on I must earn the right to wear this gown on Graduation Day. * * * TTIE most inspiring sight of the month is the group of Mundelein and Loyola students who gather every day at 11:54 around the grotto on the Loyola campus for Rosary devotions in honor of the Moth er of God. * * * Now that it is possible to walk erect in the freshman locker rooms, we feel that it is time to commend the freshmen on the Spirit displayed in their election campaign It was edifying to see the exercise of good citizenship shown by the candidates, cam paign managers, and the entire freshman class.When a group can undertake such a project and astutely choose girls for offices for which they are best qualified, it is a step in the right direction. They become valuable citizens of the college commun ity, now, and later they will become ex emplary citizens of their city, state, and nation. * * * Another word of praise is in order for officers and committee members of the NFCCS leadership conference, held here Oct. IG. Critics of the apathetic college attitude might be less vehement if they at tended such gatherings. * * * Most enthusiastic praise of all, however, is for the Alumnae, who gave all Chicago, Mundelein students included, a cultural opportunity when they presented Christo pher Lynch in concert at Orchestra Hall, Oct. 18. They deserve congratulation, too, for their contribution of proceeds from the benefit to the Mundelein Scholarship fund. * * * The original Black Hills Passion Play will be staged at the Civic'Opera House from Monday, Oct. 31 through Nov. 12. A tradition begun in Europe and trans planted to the United States in recent years, the play is the dramatic enactment of the passion and death of Christ. Adapted from the Teutonic and spoken in English, the story is told in 22 scenes. Here is a production guaranteed to pro vide entertainment and inspiration. See the Service club about tickets and see your friends about attending a perfor mance. Death of a Gentleman Tells Lively Story of Growing Mind Book titles sometimes say exactly what they do not mean. Death of a Gentleman could more correctly have been termed Life of a Gentleman. Few novels can boast of being truly alive, since it is the excep tional book that haunts the reader long after it has been crammed back onto the shelf. Death of a Gentleman is one of the ex ceptions. The book is a collection of the letters of Robert Fosset. You've never heard of him. Nor had I. He was a middle-class Englishman, born in the country, educated in the city, ma tured in the army, disliked in parliament, and killed in the second world war. His letters are all that remain to tell us his story. Author Christopher Hollis summarizes Fossett's life in a rather lengthly introduc tion. The reader can excuse any tedium on the author's part, as he ultimately states the conclusion in less involved paragraphs. The letters themselves tell a story, not of a man, but of a mind growing beyond the man. They begin with one that Fossett wrote to his grandfather when he was 8 years old, in which he said; Dear Grandpa, Thank you very much for a pound. I am eight. How old are you ? A merry New Year. bobby They conclude with a letter to his wife, in which Fossett tells her he intends to join the army: Words that lead to no action are a futility, and those who have not found an action of their own should be the first to accept with humility the action that is forced upon them. Fossett's letters are clear, well-written, and dotted by touches of wit and wisdom. Death of a Gentleman draws a specific pic ture of a modern man, guided by his own ideals and individuality. It provides a fas cinating study of a product of twentieth- century environment. Have you ever entered the chapel and found you were the only student who had thought at that moment of talking to God? Kneeling alone in the chapel is a pro foundly thrilling thing, but often it is even more thrilling to worship God surrounded by your fellow students. A primary value of a Catholic education stands rooted in the opportunity of study ing close enough to the Blessed Sacrament to permit frequent visits. Bishop Sheil Opens Catholic Radio Station The Apostolate of the radio, the morn ing offering intention for October, is find ing expression in Chicago's first Catholic radio station, WFJL-FM. Opened by His Excellency the Most Rev. erend Bernard J. Sheil, D.D., on May 22, WFJL aims to offer programs of cultural, religious, and entertainment significance. It has no commercial sponsorship. Because Chicago stations carry large network shows, WFJL has contracted for local programs, and uses Chicago person alities, ideas, and activities. In contrast with the other stations, WFJL has a comprehensive list of relig ious programs including the Rosary hour, the Ave Maria hour, and the Story of Fa tima. Bishop Sheil conducts an evening de votion program at 10:15 and closes the station with a prayer at 11:55 p.m. The daytime shows include sports and news broadcast, teen-age programs, sym phonic and classical music, a disc and data hour, and other shows. There are 20 professionals on the staff but WFJL also uses volunteers and priests and religious from the Archdiocese of Chi cago. The station operates on 93?1 kilocycles and is under the direction of Jim Anieche. Tune in. Students-Eye View Of World Affairs The terrifying situations in George Or well's novel 1984 and their implied warn ings seem to have a foundation in reality. Reports from Prague claim that the doc uments pertaining to Thomas Masaryk's 1918 Philadelphia proclamation of libera tion have been removed from an historical exhibit in the capital. In their place the Communist Czecho slovak government has put new documents intended to prove that the country's lib eration was a result of the Russian revolu tion of 1917. In a recent address to German Catholics, Pius XII expressed the hope that, through a change in the industrial environment, trade unions would become vessels for pro moting the educational and social welfare of workers rather than functioning merely as engines of economic warfare. Contem plation on this philosophy might well be beneficial to American unions and manage ment. Week Moments Today: United Nations Day. sponsored by the International Relations club. Tomorrow, 7:00 p.m.: Junior Class Party. Wednesday, Oct. 26, 4:00 p.m.: Science Forum in room 405. Thursday, Oct. 27, 1:00 p.m.: Assembly, Donald Attwater lectures on Catholics and the Liturgy. Friday, Oct. 28, 3:00 p.m.: League of .Women Voters meeting. Sunday, Oct. 30: Senior Sunday. Tuesday, Nov. 1: All Saints' Day. No classes. Thursday, Nov. 3, 1:00 p.m.: Assembly. Dr. G. L. Clark talks on X-rays in the Art Gallery. Friday, Nov. 4, 11:30-12:30 First Fri day Holy Hour. Interested People . . . Pose Inevitable Question To College Student Stop me if you've heard this one before but What are you going to he when you get out of school? This question is probably asked of college students more often than any other, and; ordinarily the questioner is satisfied onlj when a definite profession is named. A great many people seem to forget that a college graduate, regardless of the profes-j sion he or she may choose, will go on be- ing a thinking individual with an immortal soul. That's where liberal education and es pecially Catholic liberal education has value. Catholic psychology considers both the .spiritual and the material aspects of man's nature. Christian philosophy proves that it is more important to be a successful Catholic than a successful teacher or scien-l tist or business executive. Catholic teaching does not deny thati even successful Catholics get hungry and must strive to keep their immortal souli united with their mortal bodies. But Catholic education insists that it in essential for a person, after the six or eight) hours a day of being whatever you'rego- ing to be when you get out of school to be ecpiipped to appreciate the beauties aroundj him, the tremendous progress of men be- fore him, and the spiritual destiny that lies) ahead. True richness of life, sound values he long to people who have learned to btj PEOPLE, thinking human beings, intell igent children of God, rather than -mere money makers, public servants, or caretrj girls. Many of us want to be successHj career-wise; but all of us, to be truly cessful people, need religious and cull as well as professional and practical studies. MUNDELEIN COLLEG Chicago, 40, Illinois Under the Direction ol . THE SISTERS OF CHARITY, B.VJL Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, M at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under tt Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to Mi inclusive by the students of Mundelein Collef 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Vol. Oct. 24, 1949 X All-Catholic Honors All-American Honors Telephone AM bassador 2-8100 Co-Editors-in-Chief Joan Me Patricia 01 Student's Eye Views Juanita Gil Leona What Goes On Xancy Peggy Skyline Patricia Rosemary Simec, Mary Kay Wageman, Mar Coughlin, Sheilya Neary Skyscrapings Marguerite K i Dorothy Campbell, Louise Milazzo, Marl Carey. Mary Kay Gill, Joan Kares, Judy La henry Books Rita BresM Mary Kllcn VI Pictures Peggy Bat News Editors Jeanne Andfl Barbara Bidwell, Kvelyn Donahoc, Ban Heintz, Jane Kenealy, Mary Jane I.amb. Sports Mary Kay Har Margaret X: Artist Joan Blak Reporters Mary Kllyn Donna Fox. Kaye Hacfel, Joan Holland McGarry, Patricia McHugh, Marion 0j Mary Helen Ryan, Barbara Shaughnessy, Di cs Scheres, Betty Shoemaker, Grace Trad Marion Whelan, Mary Shelley Young
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1949-10-24 (2)
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