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r Page forty-four The Periodical Room, College Library LIBRARY SCIEHCE AUTHOR: Josephus. Title: History of the Jews. Name: Miss Freshman. And that is all there is to it. But no, it is not. Before giving you the information you ask for so glibly as to sources of enlightenment on some remote question of history, the librarian must know something of the date and the country in which the event took place; she must know when it was recorded by writers, and what writers were best qualified to discuss it. She can direct you, too, to interesting, unusual material in books and periodicals, besides the more laborious studies in the Encyclopaedia Brilannica or the Catholic Encyclopedia. You come, in time, to believe that she is a species of encyclopedia herself. But there is a more awe-inspiring phase of her superior knowledge. She does such useful things with what seems to be a jumble of unintelligible figures. The number of a book may cause you some delay if you try to return a volume to the shelves, but how long would it take you to find an unfamiliar book were it not for the neat little number on the binding? Did you ever stop to think that the number has a meaning other than that the book follows the one bearing the preceding number? And yet such is the case. For books have family numbers, as well as family names, and the librarian knows at a glance to which group a book belongs. Children's literature is another fascinating branch of a librarian's knowledge. If you doubt the existence of fairies, just speak to the librarian. She knows all about them. If you need a wizard, she can conjure him of Oz from his place on the shelf with one swift gesture. Animals that talk and oaks that are really princes are everyday people in library land, and where they live, and who made them, is all part of the librarian's fund of knowledge. And, wonder of wonders, she knows just the book for Elizabeth Anne or Richard, the moment a pair of bright eyes and a tilted nose appear above the loan desk. How do books get into libraries, anyway? Does the librarian simply say to herself, I'd like to read this new book by Chesterton, or A volume of poems in a pink binding would look nice on the 'new book' table ? No, the process of book selection is not so simple as this. The librarian has made a study of problems that have not occurred to you. That irksome matter of two-penny fines has its place in library science, as well as the checking system that makes it possible to trace that book which you just must have before Monday morning. These are some of the problems that the student of library science at Mundelein College must investigate. She need not fear, however, to find her work confusing, for it is given in organized courses, from Administration, Reference, and Cataloging, to Book Selection, Children's Literature, and Bibliography, and combining with theory laboratory practice in the workrooms and service at the charging desk. The Tower Page forty-five Sewing Room HOME ECOHOMICS HEARTH fires? In this era of automatic heating, when discussion centers upon the relative merits of anthracite and oil, rather than of spruce and hemlock, may we speak of a training that looks to hearth fires? Yes, if we recognize the lovely intangible things for which hearth fires stand; for while the hearth has no place in modern apartment life, the home-spirit embodied in its crackling flames and ruddy embers has not wholly disappeared. And in the Home Economics laboratories, the future homemaker seeks the components of that spirit; that theoretical and practical knowledge of household art that is the indispensable substratum of happy home life, and that more subtle quality shown forth in the charm of gracious hospitality. The students of dietetics begin with a study of the composition and preparation of foods. While knowledge of proteins and vitamins and calories is important, the practical experiments give vitality to the work of this class. The fundamentals mastered, the student is able to pursue more advanced subjects the chemistry of foods, meal planning, budgeting, household management, and the rest. Home Economics concerns itself quite as much with clothing as with foods. The young seamstress knows textiles their qualities, their costs, their relative merits from varied viewpoints. She studies the psychology of dress; for plainly the making of clothes is more than a matter of seams and hems, tucks and gathers. Then in the laboratory, as she sets to work on her first project, the importance of these mechanical details becomes evident. Practice, however, renders easy even the complexities of French and fell seams, and possibilities of the touch of originality in costume creation present themselves. It is in the Model Apartment that the science and art of lecture rooms and laboratories find full scope home No hearth fire is here, but the glow of the spirit permeates its charming rooms. Whether in the routine of sweeping and dusting and dishwashing, or on the occasion of a formal luncheon, where the obligation of maintaining pleasant conversation devolves upon the host of the day, there is here the genuine atmosphere of home. The hostess is gowned in a frock of her own making; the cook has concealed hers with an apron that, for all its simplicity, is a triumph of the needlewoman's art; a pillow here or a lamp there indicates the variety of the activities of the clothing laboratory. It is difficult to realize that all this the living room, combining comfort with a certain dignity, the dainty bedroom, the bath, in orchid and green, the intimate dinette, and the compact little kitchen with its gleaming porcelain sink of just the proper shade of green to banish all thought of drabness or drudgery is part of a department in a college, unless we remember the ideals and aims of the study of Home Economics, which ideals and aims we must vision in the light of the hearth fire. f 19 3 1
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tower1931022
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Women and Leadership Archives http://www.luc.edu/wla
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Mundelein College Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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There are eight total Mundelein College yearbooks: 1931, 1932, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, and 1985.
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Mundelein College Collection
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Reading Room
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Print
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