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THE SKYSCRAPER Swimmers Enter Intercollegiate Races TELEGRAPHIC MEET IS SPRING EVENT Mundelein College has accepted the invitation of the University of Wis consin to participate, with other well known colleges and universities, In a unique type of competition, namely, a Telegraphic Swimming Meet. What You never heard of one? Well, live and learn. Early in March each college in the meet will stage the events in its own pool; that is, instead of having all the competitors present at one pool, each college will assume the responsibility of running off the races and then telegraphing the time made in each race to the University of Wis consin. The first five colleges having the greatest number of races swum in the fastest time will be sent telegrams in forming them of the place they won in the meet. Sounds thrilling, doesn't it? Well, the athletic honors of Munde lein College are at stake and unless the reports of the excellent progress being made by the Terrapins, both Junior and Senior, are greatly exag gerated, a messenger ought to be ring ing the doorbell of Mundelein some fine day next April bearing one of the winning telegrams. However, all Mundelein swimmers are encouraged to enter the meet, whether they are Terrapins or not. Miss Magnuson has kindly offered to coach all who are anxious to try out for the events and has appointed Wednesdays from four to five o'clock as a practice period during which time she will train the contestants. Another announcement comes from the pool to the effect that when the new semester starts two more tryouts for membership in the Terrapin Club will be held. Miss Magnuson will con duct these tryouts on the two suc cessive Mondays after the retreat, at four o'clock. All those who believe themselves capable of fulfilling the entrance requirements are asked to give their names to the instructor as soon as possible. St Mary's Mothers' Club Entertained The Mother's Club of St. Mary's High School, 1031 Cypress Street, were guests of the college on the afternoon of Wednesday, January 20, when they attended the trio concert given by Loyola University. St. Mary's Moth er's Club are the generous donors of a scholarship given to Mundelein Col lege last year, and they have distin guished themselves in their efforts to promote the interests of the college and of its sister school, St. Mary's. After the concert the guests were shown through the building, and re freshments were served in the cafe teria. The following ladies were pres ent: Miss E. Baechle, 5732 S. Marsh- field; Mrs. J- H. Browne, 939 N. Law- ler; Mrs. J. Cashman, 5044 West End Ave.; Mrs. Gertrude F. Cooney, 1012 S. Throop; Mrs. S. R. Crawford, 744 S. Kedvale; Mrs. Annie Cullerton, Miss Margaret Cullerton, 5117 W. Monroe; Mrs James Cunneen, 1866 N. Leavitt; Mrs. James Cullerton, 3518 W. 22nd; Mrs. J. Deering, 3037 Washington Blvd.; Mrs. James Donovan, 3831 Flournoy St.; Mrs. E. Fitzgibbons, 3916 W. Polk; Mrs. J. A. Henaghan, 1149 N. Lock wood; Mrs. Harrv L. Hewitt, 814 S. Elmw ood; Mrs. E. Hooley, 728 N. Latrobe; Miss Ann Rita Hooley; Mrs. Helen G. Johnston, 659 N. Laurel; Mrs. J. P. Jordan, 5242 W. Monroe; Mrs. Charles J. Macku, 2320 S. Ridge way; Mrs.. Mary Condon, 1931 S. Fiftieth. Cicero, 111.; Mrs. J. F. Maker, 3923 W. Polk; Mrs. D. A. Manning, 1431 W. 71st; Mrs. J. Mayer, 618 W. 18lh; Miss Catherine R. Meagher, 1439 Arthur Ave.; Mrs. Catherine McBride, 2512 N. Major; Mrs. Mary McKeon, 5409 Cortez; Mrs. D. Nulligan, 4353 Congress; Mrs. Edward O'Brien, 6638 N. Campbell; Miss Helen O'Heron, 4348 Jackson Blvd.; Miss Nellie O'Heron, 4906 N. Spaulding; Mrs. James J. O'Heron, 4348 Jackson Blvd.; Miss Catherine Pedigo, 3921 Grenshaw; Mrs. Walter F. Reilly, 4656 W. Monroe; Mrs. F. M. Ronan, 3845 Flournoy; Mrs. E. T. Ruska, 4928 W. 25th, Cicero, 111.; Mrs. Louis Severa, 929 W. 18th Place; Mrs. Mary Condon, 1121 Roosevelt Road; Mrs. Wm. Sullivan, 619 S. 9th Ave., May wood. 111.; Mrs. Catherine Woods, 2512 N. Major. Baketball Teams RJan Tournaments Basketball has come into its own again, now that winter has arrived. Sports classes welcomed it upon its arrival the week before the Christmas holidays, but a continuation of the acquaintance had to be put off until January, when plans for teams and tournaments began in earnest. Miss Marshall has planned two tour naments; the first of these, an inter- class tournament will give every girl a chance to play on one of her class teams. In every sports class two or more teams have been formed, de pending on the size of the class. These teams have been chosen impar tially so that the talent on each is about average. The members of these teams have been instructed to choose a captain and a color, the color being featured in the tams that the girls will wear during the tournament. From the class teams girls will be chosen for positions on the freshman and sophomore teams. Those so hon ored will compete for the great silver cup that is awarded to the winner of the main tournament. The fight be tween the freshmen and the sopho mores will not, however, decide the possession of the cup, for another for midable rival looms in the person of the junior class. After winning the cup last year, they will not be con tent until it is again awarded to them. They have been practicing daily, so, freshmen and sophomores, beware More sports news comes to us in Miss Marshall's anonuncement to the effect that tennis fans will have an opportunity to keep in form during the winter. During open hours a net will be put up in the gymnasium, and anyone who is free and who can find a partner to practice with, is welcome to go there and play. If Miss Marshall is present, she will be more than giaa to act as coach. Eligible freshmen will be interested to know that the W. A. A. is planning an initiation party in their honor. Those freshmen who have been in school a semester and who have ac quired the necessary fifty points by entering into athletic activities will be permitted to attend the party. Enter tainment, refreshments, and certain very mysterious initiation rites will be the main features of this important event. There also comes word to us of the folk-dancing class which has been gaily tripping through Russian, Irish, English, and Swiss dances this past, semester. For the rest of the year the girls in it will apply themselves to the intricate steps of the tap dance, under the able tutelage of Miss Marshall. Who's Who Dorothy Riley is well known to all the students as one of our outstanding scribes. Perhaps she is not known personally to all of us, for she is quiet and a bit diffident, but her signature to any article in the Clepsydra is warrant of genuine and worthwhile entertainment. The quaint sense of humor depicted in her short stories is a delight to all her readers, and often she affords her friends much amuse ment by her unexpected witticisms. Her poems, too, though decidedly mod ern, have a quaint unexpectedness about them. Of course Dorothy is a charter member of the Stylus Club, and she was its first president. She is besides, a competent literary editor of the Clepsydra. Dorothy made her freshman year at St. Teresa's College, Winona, 'Minnesota, and she also has a diploma from Iowa State Teacher's College. She is a conscientious stu dent, hut in rare moments she will provide entertainment by playing her harmonica, and she's really quite adept at it. Dorothy is a senior and an Eng lish major, and although she says she would like to teach, we might predict a successful literary career for her. In Elaine Krambles, we have the rare combination of a lover of science and an accomplished athlete. We won der if there is any sport in which Elaine does not excel. She swims beautifully, and is president of the Terrapin Club. She is also chairman of the entertainment committee of the Women's Athletic Association. She is a horseback riding enthusiast, a bas ketball player, and a member of the Girl Scouts. Her interests are also carried into the language department, since she was a member ot the Ro mance Language circle last year, and she belongs to Die Rothensteiner Ges- ellschaft. Elaine came here for the second semester last year from Crane Junior College. She is a chemistry major, and is president of the Chemis try Club. Elaine aspires to be a re search worker in medicinal chemistry and we know she'll .be a success. Margaret Roche, our tall, dignified- looking editor-in-chief, comes to us from Rosemont College in Philadel phia. She distinguished herself early last year in journalism and was chosen news editor of the initial SKY SCRAPER. She is a charter member of the Press Club and as its president for tbe past two years she has presided at all its functions in her characteris tic charming manner. Margaret rep resented Mundelein at the National Scholastic Press Association Conven tion held at the Palmer House in November, and she was chosen secre tary at the first meeting of the col legiate division organized at the con vention. Margaret has done excellent work for the Skyscraper and merits Lecturer Tells J Story of Orchid The lovely orchid was the subject of a most interesting lecture given to students of botany and zoology by Mr. E. C. Leamon, of the Central Scientific Company, on Thursday, January 21. With exquisite colored slides to il lustrate the impressively-named blos soms of which he spoke, Mr. Lehman pictured the life of an orchid from its earliest stages, when as many as five hundred seedlings can be planted in a tiny flower pot, until the day when those seedlings blossom forth in full perfection. The fact that it takes eight years of almost constant attention for this flower to attain the stage of blossom ing explains its exorbitant expensive- ness. It is much in favor with flor ists, however, Mr. Lehman explained, because if it is properly cut and kept in the correct temperature, it usually remains fresh for from four to eight weeks. (Continued from pase 1, column 3) The morgue, a long, low room filled with deep files, presented anything but a gruesome appearance, and the imagi native feature writers thought longing ly of the tales these files could tell of the warring 60's and the gay 90's. The process of transferring the type to the printed page was most interest ing. Enormous pressure on the frames, which are placed over matrix dummies, causes the impression of the type to be stamped upon these, and from these in turn, a cylindrical metal mold is made, which is placed over the presses. A number of such molds are made and placed upon different units in the press room, where 25,000 papers are printed, folded, and sent off within one hour. Huge rolls contain ing five miles of paper are placed be neath the presses and adjusted, and with only a touch of the button the intricate process is begun. Vast timber forests in Canada pro vide the Tribune with paper, and ac cording to the guide, a Sunday edition of the paper consumes the supply from 200 acres. Luckily, however, the lands are sufficient to supply paper for the Tribunes of the next eighty years. The tour was fascinating and educa tional, and the students were tre mendously impressed by the order and the harmony with which so enormous a project can be handled. They came away with a new respect, for the pro fession of the journalist, and with an eager determination to make the Sky scraper as important to Mundelein as the Tribune is to Chicago. SPECIALIST TALKS TO ZOOLOGY CLASS congratulation upon its first, birthday. She does not confine her writing to the newspaper, but she has contributed several lovely poems to the Clepsydra. EXAMINATION EVE Long, eerie shadows creep silently in and out of the darkened corners, dancing a terrifying macabre. With in the warm radiance of my desk lamp, all is as it should be; but just outside this cheery though narrow illumination, the room is dark and heavy with the presence of unseen but grossly palpable beings The stately timekeeper on the mantel, which seems such a pleasant fellow' by day, merrily ticking into eternity, now becomes a grim sentinel whose every heart beat is plainly audible. With unrelenting precision and ac curacy it tolls the death of each suc cessive hour. Twelve One One- thirty .... Each stroke brings me closer to the dread morrow. . . . Ex aminations Soon the printed characters begin curiously to merge, blur, and become confused. Realizing that further study is impossible, as well as unprofitable, I hasten to keep my appointment with Morpheus. Tonight, in addition to bringing his usual ration of sand for tired eyes, he has carried a bag of most horrible dreams. After pour ing in the sand, lie forgot to carry away his bag, and the following is the result. All the assiduous cramming has become mysteriously mixed, and what an historian's purgatory it turned out to be I saw two gentlemen talking excitedly together. The one dressed in modest doublet and hose seemed to have received the advantage for tbe minute over his oddly-smocked com panion. By Mary Agnes Tynan To be or not to be...that is the process of neutralization Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer, or to use an il faul clause with the sub junctive. Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a post hoc, ergo propter hoc But the quality of mercy is not strained; it falleth like tbe Fran- conian rlynasty, which was also called the Salian, and ruled 101 years. To thine own... Here the brief soliloquy was in terrupted by the other character, who brandished a huge test tube and waved on high an immense deflagrat ing spoon The reason, my dear Bill, that the oxygen atom has only seven elec trons in its outer shell is that Pope clung so tenaciously to classicism. Tbe reason that human nature is the proximate norm of morality is be cause Henry Plantagenet married Eleanor of Aquitaine. En forgcant, devient forgeron is just another way of saying, 'Is the cause to effect con nection complete?' Here the bran- disher was cut short by the timely in terference of Bill. Pasteur, old man, you know as well as I that Alexander's Feast' was written by the lack of cohesion in the Empire after Charlemagne's death. Why, you'd have me believe that the syllogism has three and only three terms becausp the electrolysis of sodium chloride equation is not re versible. Tosh man, tosh Pepys wrote his diary because one must ex ercise the tongue muscles in order to get a round, full a. We come to bury Caesar, not to scan Virgil's Bucolics. And furthermore, you can't tell me that you can execute the overhand free-throw by doing a front jack That only can be done tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, by the re duction of hydrogen on the nineteen appendages ot the monocotyledons, which necessitates the using of the false vocal cords to describe the Great Schism, which Gray immortalized in his enthymeme on the 'object, the circumstance, and the means ' At the conclusion of this remark able peroration, poor Pasteur finally recovered his power of speech, and as Shakespeare began to move off in the opposite direction, he quickly fol lowed him and tried to remonstrate, Now, Bill, there's no reason to be come peeved about all this. After all, we both agree that elementary bac teria, are nothing more than Milton's remarkable ability in shooting bas kets There are also other ways and means to prove.... At this point the gargoyles receded from my vision, and I awoke to find myself literally strangled by the blankets. The first faint rays of the morning sun were peering through my window shade. Never before was I so glad to see the sun (anybody's su (o) n ). The terrible phantasma goria which had so persistently haunted me had vanished and left me thirty minutes in which to make the L platform and neatly lose myself in the depths of an Evanston Express.. Dr. Castra Viejo, noted ophthalmolo gist from the University of Madrid, was the speaker at a most interesting lecture before the hygiene, zoology, and comparative anatomy classes on January 7, 1932. Dr. Viejo's topic was the anatomy and physiology of the human eye, and the talk which he gave enlightened many of us greatly in regard to that delicate organ and its common defects. Among the many technical facts that Dr. Viejo explained, perhaps the most interesting was his discussion of the causes for cataracts on the eye, which are not, as is commonly supposed, due to the dropping of folds of skin into the eye. Rather, they are due to the fact that the crystalline lens be comes opaque and no longer permits the light rays to pass through it to the retina. The only remedy for such a condition, according to the scientist, is a very delicate operation in wiiich the lens is removed. The place of tue lens is taken, after the operation, by thick-lensed glasses which must be worn always. Another point of interest to students and all young people was that every one may expect to wear glasses after his fortieth year. This is caused by the fact that with approaching age tiredness of vision occurs; that is, the eye muscles become stiff and can not make speedy adjustments, and glasses are therefore needed to sup plement their retarded action. Dr. Viejo has been engaged in re search study at the Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital for some time. Previous to that, he has at tended most of the major universi ties of Europe and-has been present at the most important clinics in this country. He intends to go to New York soon to establish a. practice there. Physics Classes Learn Acoustics Professor Walter Flandorf, well- known organist and representative of the Kilgen Organ Company, demon strated acoustics to the members of tbe sound class on Thursday, January 14, in the college auditorium. When the students were assembled, Mr. Flandorf, who is an able and in teresting instructor, spoke to them of the acoustical properties of tbe huge Kilgen liturgical organ, the gift of His Eminence to our college, and of the manner in which the auditorium has been constructed to reproduce the or gan sounds most advantageously. Next he explained the entire organ keyboard, which consists of a console of three manuals, and thirty-seven stops, which regulate the varied types of tone. His assertion that a pull of the stop would change the tones from the beautiful celestial to the rich basso astonished those members of the class more scientifically and less musically inclined. After the elementary operations of the organ were shown, Mr. Flandorf took the group to a number of the class and music rooms to explain the acous tical properties. It. developed that the rooms have been arranged remarkably well for class recitations, and that the studios in the music department are especially insulated to render them sound proof. On the afternoon of January 21, Pro fessor Flandorf gave the students a more detailed explanation of the or gan's mechanism, bringing them be hind the stage to investigate the pipes and the manner in which sound is pro duced through them. Both demonstra tions tended to give the class members a thorough understanding of the scien tific principles employed in the great organ, and a vital appreciation of the practical value of scientific knowledge. (Continued from page 1, column 5) University, and students in schools located conveniently near the college are cordially invited to attend any or all of the exercises. A delightful custom was introduced on the closing day of the retreat last year when the parents and sisters and brothers of the students attended Mass and the final conference and had breakfast with the students in the cafeteria. The custom will be contin ued this year, and both faculty and students look forward to the family reunions on Friday morning, Febru ary 5.
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1932-01-29 (4)
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