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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER February 19, 1937 THE SKYSCRAPER Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road 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, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. VoTviI February 19, 1937 No. 8 ALL-AMERICAN HONORS 1936 Member 10 3 7 Associated GollsSiate Press ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briargate 3800 SKYSCRAPER STAFF EDITOR - IN - CHIEF Jean McKeever ASSOCIATE EDITOR Gertrude Rafferty Editorial Staff: Laetitia Kalisz, Mary Joyce Vail, Lillian Wasielewska, Catherine Ann Dougherty, Catherine Heerey. Feature Editors: Julia Mary Hanna, Annamarie Masterson. Feature Staff: Kathryn Byrne, Rosella Grace, La Vonne Hayes, Mary Molloy, Dorothy Stalzer. News Editors....Frances Geary, Geraldine Ferstel News Staff: Ellen Birnbaum, Helen Holman, Ramona Blum, Muriel Clinnin, Rachel Laugh lin, Adelaide Nillis, Agnes Rodell. How Do You Form Your Opinions? HIS twentieth century is an age of cans. Our newspapers, in the spirit of progress, no longer confine editorial opinion to the editorial page, but inter sperse throughout the news articles can ned interpretations, which are absorbed entire by a gullible public, for the most part too lazy to form intelligent opinions for it self. A survey of the Voice of the People column of any newspaper will show the subtle effect of this propaganda in political controversey, in economic problems, and in moral questions about which seemingly obvious ethical standards should combat even the most clever propaganda. The rising generation has, according to a prominent Chicago educator, learned not to create but to advertise; not to be per sons but to copy the patter administered to the mob. Sweeping generalizations are always dangerous, but it is obvious that much of the propaganda disseminated in such gen erous measure by contemporary periodicals is biased and that much of it is erroneous. Yet its influence is incalctiable. Witness the part newspapers played in the World War and try to evaluate the importance of propaganda as a weapon of agression. Then try to determine how far your own opin ions and attitudes have been influenced by misinformation. What to do about it? Refuse to accept ready-made opinions. Learn to season what you read with a grain of salt. Develop the habit of reading regularly the political com ment in such intelligent Catholic periodicals as America and Commonweal; the liter ary articles in The Catholic World, The Sign, and Extension Magazine; the re views, in these publications, of plays, mo tion pictures, books; the philosophical and ethical discussions in Thought, The Month, and The Catholic Digest; and the editorials and columns in your own di ocesan newspaper, The New World. Will You Take Another Test? ,URING the World War, the Military Intelligence Division used a unique method of testing soldiers to be advanced as officers in tlie army. They were ordered to report individually at a specified time. Singly, they were shown into a tent adjoining the ante-room to the main tent of the examining board. Its walls were opaque; its sole furniture was a none-too-comfortable folding chair. Here they were told to wait for 10 minutes, apparently in privacy. They were not aware that what they did during that 10 minutes was part of the actual test, or that they were being watched. Some adjusted the chair, waited patiently, and rose promptly and with ease when call ed. Others shifted about, yawned, adjust ed their uniforms, attended to previously neglected grooming; some even stole a for bidden drag at a cigarette, or violated other rules of army decorum. They didn't know it, but they were writing their own records. It is apparent that men who had not completely attended to matters of personal grooming at the proper time, and who show ed a lack of poise while on parade (even though they didn't know it) were not the men the army desired and needed to pro tect a nation's destiny. How would you have rated? Are You Guilty? We lifted the following from the Saint Mary's Collegian, which lifted it from the Diplomate, and pass it along as a bit of advice worth remembering: HOW TO KILL A SOCIETY: 1. Don't come to meetings. If you do come, come late. 2. If the weather doesn't suit you, don't think of coming. 3. If you do attend a meeting, find fault with the work of the officers and other members. 4. Never accept office, as it is easier to criticize than to do things. Nevertheless, be hurt if you are not appointed to a committee; but if you are, do not attend the committee meetings. 5. If asked by the chairman to give your opinion regarding some important matter, tell him you have nothing to say. 6. After the meeting, tell everyone how things ought to be done. 7. Do nothing more than absolutely necessary, but when other members roll up their sleeves and willingly and unself ishly use their ability to help matters along, howl that the organization is being run by a clique. 8. Hold back your dues as long as pos sible; or don't pay at all. 9. Don't bother about getting new members; let George do it. Are you listenin'? ROUND TOWN ,NE DOES NOT have to sit home to achieve the Lenten spirit during the 1937 penitential season. Churches and study clubs have gone to special pains to compensate for a lack of secular entertain ment by a wealth of interesting programs along Lenten lines. LWAYS a favorite with the Catholic laity is the Passion Play,featured in Chicago this year first at the St. Alphon- sus Athenaeum, with a future schedule of appearances at various programs through out the city. Josef Meier is playing his traditional role of the Christus, and Mun delein students are particularly interested in the fact that the role of the Blessed Vir gin is taken by Mary Rose Brown, senior drama major. The play will be presented at The lmmaculata auditorium on Feb. 25, 26, and 27. AT Our Lady of Lourdes parish, the rec tor is sponsoring an old fashioned Lent, characterized by a novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help on Tuesdays, a theological instruction in which objections are presented by one priest and answered by another on Wednesdays, and regular Lenten devotions on Friday and Sunday. THE numbers who attended the clinic on Marriage, conducted by. Father Lord a few weeks ago, will be interested in the announcement of a new series of lec tures sponsored by St. Gregory's parish. The Reverend E. M. Burke, notary of the Diocesan Matrimonial, bureau, will give a series of Wednesday night lecturers con cerning the Church's laws and attitudes on marriage. N case Lenten repression turns your mind to thoughts of serious economic problems, you may be interested in a talk by the eminent author, Christopher Hollis, on The Money Muddle. It is sponsored by the Notre Dame club of Chicago and will be given at the Palmer House on Wednes day, March 3. ERHAPS too many of us have missed viewing the recently instituted religious art section on the third floor of Marshall Field and Company, just opposite the elevators. Displayed for approval are painted porceleins and art works of all de scriptions, with religious significance. The white statues of the Madonna, executed according to modern rhythmic modelling, which have found so much favor recently, can be procured in bright and pastel por- celein. HONOR ROLL High Honors Genevieve Del Becarro '37 Dorothy Fitzgerald '39 Honors Ruth Mae Amann '39 Florence Banach '40 Patricia Connor '39 Honorable Mention - Clare Anderson '40 Constance Campbell '40 Margaret Cleary '37 Virginia Gaertner '39 Mary Margaret Kelley '40 Rita McGuane '39 Jean McKeever '37 Ruth Kees '37 Margaret Mary Murray '38 Gertrude Rafferty '37 Mary Houlihan '37 Margaret Gleason '39 Margaret Hanlon '37 Lorraine Horn '37 Patricia Mack '39 Jane Malkemus '37 Grace Mehren '39 Bernice Walters '37 Dorothy Stalzer '39 Georgette Thoss '39 Kathryn Wolford '37 Dorothy Sigman '37 Catherine Mulvihill '37 Jane Spalding '37 Margaret Vendley '37 Cecilia Wasisco '37 - lt; gt; Just to prove that Skyline is a very brave column, we'll tell you a story that even the TRIBUNE wouldn't print. (We know, be cause we sent it to June Provines.) It seems that the traffic and auto editor for ye TRIB sent a TRIB photographer over to the city hall to take pictures of police squad cars with 1936 license plates. The photographer drove over, parked his car, and the policemen obliged by kindly stepping to the sidewalk while he snapped the pictures. But when he finished and had put his camera and plates away, the kind obliging policemen walked nonchalantly over to the TRIB photographer and arrested him. It seems that HE had a 1936 license plate on HIS car We cribbed these from Webster it's true what O'Henry says about him apple polisher everyone knows some of these. talkathon debate contest, such as the Freshman argued themselves into. U. S. Treasury no one but dear old Dad, who pays the college bills. invite a summons to the dean's formal, for a little chat concerning scholastic Standing. forget together a meeting of the Faculty, his highness none other than the dean of men. key man Phi Beta Kappa, for further de tails ask the editor of SKYSCRAPER, tin pan a very noisy freshman. PAGING THE MAKE-UP ARTIST OF CLEPSYDRA In the winter issue, a sports article told of a lady's rougish smile, when she was really supposed to be roguish. Nice make-up, we'd say Freshman (on examination paper): Rea soning may be inductive, deductive, or con ductive. (Take your choice ) The English Roundtable was in a gray and worrying mood at the last meeting The senior English majors had just received the syllabi for their June comprehensives and Mary Geiger was scanning hers to discover what would be the most profitable topics to discuss at the next meeting. With a flip of her wrist and tongue, she turned over a page and announced to the expectant group that that just deals with the English master pieces Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, Spen ser, and the Bible, we know all about them. FELLOW SUFFERERS? Jane Malkemus, to Director of Sodality skits: May I switch my role of St. Elizabeth for one in STORM TOSSED? Then I could be with Rita McGuane, and since we're both resident students we could be together. The Student (With apologies to Markham.) Boivcd by the weight of term papers, she leans Upon her pen and gazes on the lake. The emptiness of ages in her face And on her back the burden of daily assignments. The Sweetest Story Ever Told No school Monday.
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1937-02-19 (2)
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