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1 Two SKYSCRAPER A Retreat Can Be Victorious Retreats, like wars, are of various kinds. One is the retreat of necessity, occuring when almost defeated forces must go backward in order to save themselves. Such a retreat is considered ignominious, something to be resorted to only when all else has failed. Another type is the strategic retreat. A brilliant general realizes that merely to go forward is not always to advance, so at certain times he withdraws his troops to another sector to await reinforcements, to clarify his plans, or to outwit the enemy. Ours is the retreat of strategy. The time, a brief lull between two major of fensives, sometimes called semesters, is propitious. It affords the pause needed to marshall spiritual and intellectual forces against problems ahead. It provides a chance to study the enemy, his wiles, his plan of attack, his vulnerable spots. Retreat is also a time of long-range planning. In proportion as we use it well, we will be stronger, better motivated, steadier in our method, surer of ourselves and of our aspirations when its three days of quiet are ended. They're Talking About... lVAOST striking of the ideas presented in * the Christmas message of Pope Pius XII concerns democracy, and the conviction of the Holy Father that sound democracy is a potent answer to the totalitarianism in the world today. A ringing refutation of the charge that the Vatican supports Fascism blazes in the words: State absolutism (not to be confused, as such, with absolute mon archy, of which we are not treating here) consists in fact in the false principle that the authority of the state is unlimited and that in face of it even when it gives free reign to its despotic aims, going beyond the confines between good and evil to appeal to a higher law obliging in conscience is not admitted. DESULTS of recent polls asking if col- leges with accelerated programs will go back to the summer vacation schedule after the war reveal that 67 per cent of the stu dents questioned answered Aye Teach ers are even more anxious for freedom since 86.4 per cent desire a change from the ac celerated plan. Questioned about the desira bility of a post-war curriculum which com bines both cultural and vocational training as opposed to one which is primarily vo cational, or one primarily cultural, students voted 90 per cent for a combination of the two, being eager both to learn how to live, and to earn a living. Ordered Spontaneity Blueprint For a Way of Life Even to secular eyes, it becomes increas ingly clear that the romance and fancy that cloud a sharp-etched view of the Mid dle Ages veil a deep and fundamental truth. For all the vagaries and conflicts of the time, those people of nine centuries ago possessed a simplicity of purpose that made the known world a unity a many- colored multiplicity in unity, to be sure a unity in which each man measured the hours of his day by the duties, hardships, and joys of his own lot whether exalted or lowly. How. then, a unity? In this way. The oneness of the hidden ages emerged from the universal acceptance of and wonder at the Supreme End. In the Middle Age imagination, the way of life became a road, sometimes rocky, often tortuous but a path to be walked firmly, steadily, and courageously. For always in sight was the goal possession of All Good, Total Truth, and Encompassing Happiness. With charm and penetration, Father Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., has woven the philosophy of that age into his Foreword to the eleventh volume of Quest. To use his words, the touchstone is ordered spon taneity. In its fullest and richest sense, that phrase, ordered spontaneity char acterizes the standard, not only of fine Catholic verse, but also Of true Catholic education. Paradoxically, the concept is one of complex simplicity, simple in itself, com plex in its overwhelming implications. Stated in imperatives, the fundamental is this: Let God and His Love be the End of your existence, the Limit of your under standing, the Measure of your decision. And let this Single Reality color every act of your days. With that principle in view, each pass ing event assumes a special shape and sig- It's Readable, Religious, Revealing pcAn N w With The Morning Star by Thomas Kernan, completed in March, 1944, during the author's intern ment in Germany. Brother Nicholas, one of the monks driven from Maria-Mor- genstern, an abbey in the Black Forest. He is forced by the Nazis to return to civilian life and to seek work, though he has lived in seclusion from the world since the end of the first World War. Later detected in his courageous effort to smuggle messages from the archbish op's chancellery to Switzerland, Brother Nicholas is sentenced to 10 years' impris onment and is brought to his former abbey, Maria-Morgenstern, meanwhile converted into a Nazi labor camp. Brother Nicholas, however, finds free dom, not beyond his prison bars, but in his unconquerable spirit. To him Maria- Morgenstern is not a German prison camp but, once again, it is the beloved abbey from which he has been exiled too long. To him the farm lands of the prison are not acres of drudgery, but a mission field where he may comfort those less fortu nate than he; to him the convicts are not men to be despised, but his brothers in Christ; he does not hear the shrillness of the German siren, he hears instead the soft echoes of the old monastery bell which has so many times summoned him to Ma tins with the morning star; his lonely cell is not unbearable confinement, but a chapel of prayer; and in the confusion of a Brit ish air raid, his prison's severed bars present, not an avenue of escape, but the revelation that he must remain forever at Maria-Morgenstern because he is the promise of the future. LEARN *'le s' n'I'cance f tne dissolu tion of monasteries and convents in Nazi Germany, the only victory Hitler has achieved in his brazen attack on the Catholic Church. This is not only the story of German decay, it presents also an in sight into the many irreparable personal tragedies which can never be undone, and, by contrast, the undying miracle of faith and love of God. MEET nificance. And all of the happenings of hours, days, and months fuse in a brilliant kaleidoscopic pattern, glimpsed from the perspective of God's love. Other human beings are illumined in that aura, and their untold value is silhou etted in bold relief holding a door that someone may pass through is a shining act, making a trip to the library with someone's overdue books is a singular privilege. Silver-shot moments of exaltation with threads of depression interwoven, humble tasks, the ordinary routine of study all of them, dull or glittering though they may be in themselves, are abidingly satisfying in reflecting the Truth. Hidebound as such a standard may ap pear, there is, yet no inflexible, hard- pressing restriction in such ordering of life. That discipline is, for another para dox, the source of an iron-bound freedom a soaring spirit, an overflowing gaiety, a joyful trust that is bounded only by Him Who is without confines. To quote Father Gardiner, His chil dren are happy ones. How could they be otherwise, secure in the knowledge of the rightness of their Standard, guided by It to live simply and splendidly and bravely through every moment Catholic education has in myriad ways, again and yet again, led us to the brink of realization of ordered spontaneity. It is for us to grasp and assimilate it in all its magnificent simplicity, that we may be truly His children. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE Chicago, 40, Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charitv, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30. 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3. 1897, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. XV January 22, 1945 No. 6 Member ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chief Mary Grace Carney, Jayne King Associates Mary Burns, Jerry Stutz, Mary Catherine Tuomey Copy Editors Eleanor Arends, Joan Templeman Associates Viola Brennan, Mary Martha Cooper, Dolores Hartigan, Lois Hintze. Patricia Hollahan, Audrey Mc Donnell Feature Editors Mary Beecher, Patricia Curran, Sheila Finney, Alice Marie Horen, Genevieve Urbain News Editors Regina Bess, Florence Jankowski Associates Celeste Boudreau, Patricia Lee, Dolores Toniatti, Gladys Sulli van Club Editor Dolores Toniatti Sports Mary Cannon, Dolores Cervenka, Colleen Rettig Art Editor Mary Jane Smith Reporters: Mary Ann Anderson, Ruth Casey, Adelaide Costello, Stacy Diacou, Joyce Evans, Lorraine Gross, Muriel Hasten, Lois Hayhurst, Maureen Honan, Rosemary Kelly, Mary Catherine Langdon, Adeline Laschi- azza, Catherine McAneney, Marilyn Mc Grath, Margaret Monckton, Virginia Neff, Rosemary O'Connor, Jeanne Ondesco, Mary Catherine Quinn, Jean Roche, Geraldine Stack, Mildred Stanek, Dorothy Watters, Ruth Yegge, Patricia Harmon. 'If At First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again . . / The wise swimmer in a half-mile race uses a fairly slow but steady stroke, and at the end of the race he still has enough ener gy and vitality to gather a last burst speed to win. The unwise swimmer goe so quickly at the beginning of the racetha he is tired out before it is half-way com pleted. At the end he is so fatigued that he forfeits the race to his opponent. Most New Year's resolution-makers fol low the course of the unwise swimmer. Wt plunge into too many reforms reforms that would tax the strength of a Hercules or the patience of a Job so that a few days after New Year's we are too exhausted to keep any. much less all, of our newly made and newly broken resolutions. By the mid- die of January even the memory of these resolutions is usually so distant that we may forget we actually made any at all. This is the time to take another ami clearer view of ourselves. This is the time to rally our forces and begin again, but this time to begin less spectacularly anil more sanely. Rather than label them with the awe-inspiring title of resolutions, let's just call them attempts. Instead of for a year's duration, let's just take them week by week Instead of firmly resolving not to miss a class for the rest of the year, let's try I* ing on time for every class for one week, At the end of the week, let's try it again fot another week. By that time we may besutj prised to discover how much of a habij punctuality has become. Let's not make a blanket resolution not to get swamped with past-due assignments. Instead, let's try doing every paper, ead outside-reading report, every 10-minun oral assignment as soon as possible afte it is assigned. Again, we will probabh, be surprised at our success. No one's allowance can stand a Wit1 Bond a month, but a 10-ccnt Stampadaj or every other day will gradually add to a Bond, and will help finance the final victory march into Berlin and Tokyo. Let's try playing the game according to the rules of the wise swimmer. We probably find it much easier and morel profitable. What is more, it may even be fun Take a Look at The 64 Question There is an old examination-time motto to the effect that for good marks the best policy is to work as if everything depend ed on you and pray as if everything depend ed on God. It's still good advice and never more apropos than at this moment. More universal in application would be a catch-line in which sacrifice substitute for the work of the first phrase. Glibly as they roll from the tongue, those 15 words embody the only magic formuh to bring about a just and lasting peace the only answer to robot bombs and secret weapons. Part of that sacrifice includes nylons gasoline, and butter and part is pleasure money invested in War Bonds and Stamps Let's look over our war record. Hare we overlooked our share of sacrifice? Paging Through If you are thinking of using a ouh) board just for the fun of it or because others are doing it don't, cautions Win- frid Herbst, S.D.S. in an article Nix oj the Ouija Board. reprinted in the Januan) issue of the Catholic Digest. Father Herbst, while warning of the danger that may come from a seemingly harmless pastime, quotes Father Edwin Ilealy, S.J. from Mori al Guidance, text used in sophomore rel gion classes, as to just what constitutes tht evil in the use of the ouija board. Once again this country is experienrin a man-power problem. It is still the uw solved problem of supply and demand asn concerns men for military service and foe service in industry. As the result of extenJ sive research on this topic, Newsweek foe Jan. 12 gives a special report on ObstacB Facing Government.
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