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Page Two SKYSCRAPER 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. Vol. X. Friday, November 3, 1939 No. 3 ALL-AMERICAN HONORS 1938 Member 1939 Associated Collegiate Press ALL-CATHOLIC HONORS Telephone: Briar ate 3800 Co-Editors Clare Anderson, Betty Vestal Feature Editors Frances Sayre, Mane Von Driska Assistants Mary Lou Bell, Dorothea Cwik, Eileen Mahoney Club Editor Joan Kaspari Assistants Patricia Ellis, Myrffa Lamont News Editors Helen Murphy, Ruth Mary Gamber Assistants Elaine Hartman, Dorothy McCarthy, Evelyn Nelson Copy Editors Lavinia Cole, Anne Marie O'Rourke Reporters JoaW Morris, Audrey Joyce, Patricia Byrne, Genevieve Dieters, Patricia Gould, Rosemary An derson, and Rosemary Shanahan. So You're Going to College A new radio program, aired on WCFL through the cooperation of the Occupa tional Research Bureau and the Radio Council of the Chicago Board of Educa tion, carries the challenging title, So You're Going To College, and presents the many aspects of college life which the pros pective student and his parents should con sider. On last Sunday, the focal point of the program was The Means of Selecting The College. As-possible goals which the stu dent might have in mind in selecting a col lege, one speaker suggested Athletic Fame, Social Life, Broader Knowledge of Life, Cultural and Personal Development, Vo cational Training, or a combination of these. Because National Education week is in the near future. Mundelein students might well take time out to consider the purpose which motivates their collegiate study and the special type of training offered by Mundelein College. Because it is a Catholic college for wo men, it is concerned, primarily, with train ing for successful Christian living, and, secondarily, with providing its students, if they so wish, with the means of adequate self-support. With these objectives in view, the entire curriculum is gauged to prepare the stu dent for intelligent, well-poised living, for social and civic leadership, and for service to Church and State. The wise student may well supplement the uncomfortable ordeal of mid-semester examinations with a much less painful and an equally profitable analysis of her own reasons for attending college, and may also attempt to measure her progress in the cul tivation of these ideals. After some thought, the serious student will find that each of her classes, each of her activities, and each of the multitudin ous contacts of collegiate life can help her to achieve them. University Students Set Pace In Catholic Action (Because the interview with Isabel Mol loy, delegate to Ihe International Pax Ro mana Congress, which ?vas published in a recent Skyscraper, created consider able interest in the objectives and activities of the international peace group, we are printing sections of the report which Miss Molloy gave lo Ihe Student Activities Council, and adding a comment on peace activities by Ciscans. Begun in 1921, Pax Romana for the past 18 years has been striving to unite the leaders of Catholic Action throughout the world. There were representatives from all the European countries which were neu tral in the last war at that first meeting in Fribourg, Switzerland. At this year's congress there were 36 countries represented and a total of 400 delegates. The influence of Pax Romana in the past has been far greater in Europe than in America. Possibly Catholic leaders there take their duty a little more seriously than we do here. The purpose of Pax Romana is to at tain greater solidarity in the elite, that is, in the leaders, the university students, who will, in virtue of their position in society, influence the mass of the Catholic laity. In an Apostolic letter made public the very day of his death, the late Pope Pius XI wrote: 'The university students deserve special attention from Catholic Action . . . they, in fact, represent the future leaders of so ciety, commerce, industry, and public af fairs ... It may seem a very difficult un dertaking to try to penetrate and exercise a salutary influence in university life, but the very difficulty of the task should be an incentive to set out on this work with great generosity of heart, and a complete aban donment to the help of divine grace, which can triumph over all obstacles.' Taking the words of Pope Pius very seriously, Pax Romana has worked stead ily in its attempt to bring the laity of the Catholic world into greater solidarity. No longer can we say that there is no adequate means of penetrating society quickly. Now we must say that we fail to avail our selves of it, the means existing. Catholic Action is by no means an achieved thing. There is still one great problem facing it: to bring Catholic lead ers generally to inform themselves on Catholic Action and to direct their leader ship into the new channels it opens up. The place for this problem to be solved is naturally in the university, where the lead ers are formed. If their formation ignores the spirit of Catholic Action, then the future of the movement is bound to lie one of slow and imperfect development. But if that for mation is in the spirit of Catholic Action, then the successful future of the movement is assured. The Chicago Inter-Student Catholic Ac tion group is now considering the theme ot this year's Pax Romana Congress: The role of the university student in Catholic Action. At bi-weekly Sunday meetings Chicago collegians are studying their role of intellectual, spiritual, and social leader ship. They have realized that the Chris tian Apostolate is a personal responsibility. Read It and See * * * Something Old (Comparatively Speak ing) The Golden Book of Religious Verse, compiled by Thomas Curtis Clark- Garden City Publishing Company. Exercise your powers of abstraction on this compilation of poetry on God, nature, and man. Its famous contributors will stir your emotions, but won't always appeal to your reason. Some flounder in the mystic and pantheistic till you long to pull them out, while others utter lofty, inspiring thought in classically simple verse. Between Arnold, Bryant, Emerson, Whittier, Tennyson, the Brownings, and many lesser lyrical lights, you're bound to find some satisfaction. Though many of their postulates are false, you will sense their universal groping for truth. All in all, The Golden Book of Religious Verse will provide more aesthetic enjoy ment than spiritual comfort for you. Something New Murder in Stained Glass, by Margaret Armstrong Random House. Doing an about-face on us, the author of Fanny Kemble lays her scene in a New England village and pens a murder mystery that is urbanely run-of-the-mill except for the stained-glass angle. You'll keep wondering whether Mary Roberts Rinehart hadn't a hand in the tell ing, but you will welcome a detective story that gives you, the reader, a fifty-fifty chance at detection, and breeze happily through the smoothly-written, amusing narrative. The murder itself won't keep you awake all night; neither will the author put you to sleep. By Frances Sayre And Something In-Between for You America Now, edited by Harold Edmund Steams. It takes an extensive carpet to cover the whole of America's present civilization, so Mr. Stearns concocts a patchwork quilt in stead the patchwork being a collection of individual essays on American Arts, Busi ness, Education, Religion, and so on, by authorities in these fields. With such a wide range of subjects and contributors, America Now is unavoid ably spotty and imperfectly coordinated. Still, it realizes its objective amazingly well under the circumstances. The evils of per sonal theories and ballyhoo are offset by such worth-while selections as Radio and Movies by Louis R. Reid, and Catholicism in America by Francis X. Talbot, S.J. If you are going in for photography As a working manual for the beginner, Mr. Jacob Deschin's Making Pictures with the Miniature Camera Whittlesey House covers the three major depart ments: Taking the picture, making the negative, and making the picture. It is adequate, and not too complicated. If you contemplate dabbling in color, consult Keith Henney's volume of advice Color Photography for the Ama teur Whittlesey House. Purporting to sound the death-knell of plain black-and- white photography, it is more technically presented than Mr. Deschin's manual. Or if you only enjoy effective photog raphy stroll visually through the Deschin miniature camera gallery, brush up on your terms in his glossary, and don't miss Mr. Henney's truly lovely color plates espe cially the dwarf peppers .- .- : SKVLUMII MONDAY LINE (Apologies to Pepys, anil to all plagarists) 8:50 Life at its worst 10 minutes of missed elevators, endless stairs, and aching, weighted limbs. Locks brace them selves stubbornly, clamp tight, and open to no combination of numbers, however tricky. 9:00 Miss elevator, start climbing a frenzied delirium of steps. 9:10 Made it but at what price? Well, on to history . . . history is so soothing ... Its characters are resting peacefully now why shouldn't I? Despite the fact that my book is also resting peace fully at home. 9:55 Drift gently on to charming conti nental French, puzzled by nagging pre monition that trouble awaits me there ... I know vocabulary test, with me totally unprepared Too late I gallop to the room and thumb through the book too late Let us pass on in sym pathetic silence to 11:00 English, In grim despair I prepare to blot out all memories of French voca bularies in the gracious ease of light essays and verse. What matters it that I entirely miss the point of the poem? Its lilting description of the carefree, harmless birds (THEY wouldn't talk to me in French ) lightens my spirits. How lovely it would feel to be a bird (an albatross? or perhaps a lark is more my type) a soaring meadow lark, flying up, up down to earth with a jerk as some one calls my name clearly, firmly. Grope hazily for answer to question I didn't hear as bells rings for 12:00 Sigh with grateful relief, rush out for whole hour of sweet freedom. Waste it luxuriously, chatting at tea-room table and quibbling over relative calories of a second ice-cream cone. Maybe if I omit dessert tonight horrors, its 12:55 Race down to lockers, arrive weak- kneed, switch books, catch that ever- elusive elevator in triumph of close timing. Reach sixth floor with ten derer respect for mechanical age. Now on to 1:00 Science . . . GOOD old Monday double lab period Am comforted by thought that completely writtcn-up experiment papers reside smugly in notebook. Won derful feeling must try it oftener much oftener. Breeze into lab with head up, shoulders squared. Attach Bunsen Burner to water tap slight er ror; ensuing dampness spreads over notebook table floor. Mop floor with one hand, search frantically for home work papers with other. Spend rest of hour rc-copying experiment sheets double lab period becomes sad triple. 4:00 Descend from sixth floor much dis heartened will never be a scientist. Must be artistic type. 4:03 Coca-cola in lounge restores tottering equilibrium. Calms ruffled spirits. Why worry? Tomorrow is another day to morrow is Tuesday duesday with this thought, for obvious reasons, I close my Monday Line.
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1939-11-03 (2)
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