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Page Two SKYSCRAPER. False Thinking Veils Woman's True Worth Our world is so permeated with the germs of false thinking that we have become relatively immune to its infectious powers. But when that false thinking reaches out to touch us personally, the scales fall, even from our sleepy eyes. False thinking about women's place in the world has done this. It has touched our very being and integrity of person. We, as women, are being relegated to a lower step on the metaphysical ladder. Cardinal Stritch, presenting the Magnificat Medal, said There are two kinds of false thinking about women, feminist thinking and lazy thinking. Both types of thinking are dangerous and, unfortunately, popular. The feminists make the mistake of demanding that women be equal to men. If some women are foolish enough to accept that idea, thank goodness, men are not. All men, insisted the Cardinal, want wom en to be better than themselves. The lazy thinkers, rejecting the obvious mistakes of the feminists, merely swing the pendulum to the other side. They relapse into the easy bromide of a woman's place is in the home. Therefore, they say, woman has no place in activity outside her home. She must put her self in her ivory tower and live in ignorance. She is not to leave her home even though she sees a force attacking it. We reject this type of thinking, both because it is personally in sulting and because it is false. We are spending an important period of our lives being educated as women, we want to be able to apply our college training to community problems. We believe that woman has-a definite task to perform, and that it must be done in a womanly way. She must take care of her family, but she must also make every effort possible to secure that family against those who would destroy the home and its standards. What Goes On . . . SOMEONE HAS SAID THAT MUN DELEIN GIRLS ARE TYPICAL. THAT we are a cross-section of young America. Nearly every racial and economic group is represented among us. We have the privilege of a college education and we cherish that privilege. For some of us that priviledge is not a thing easily come by, for others it was presented on a sil ver platter. Some of us spend our Sat urdays in study and well deserved rest and play; others spend the precious free days, and after-school hours as well, work ing to pay for the wonderful privilege. MOST OF US FIND AT THE VERY CENTER OF OUR ACTIVITY ADEEP- rooted, practical Catholicism, but there are representatives of many creeds among us. We are tall and short, thin and not- so-thin, blonde, brunette, and everything in between. Our homes are in all sections of a great city and its suburbs, and a few of us call the other- side of the world home. WE ARE INTERESTED IN THE NEWEST PLAYS, BOOKS, SONGS, and movies. We are fascinated with new clothes and with the Kefauver investiga tions, the draft situation, local elections, Korea. BUT WE ARE AFRAID AND THAT TOO IS TYPICAL. FOR WE ARE being swept along to an unknown goal by a distrusted force. The world and its events are moving faster than our minds can follow. It's been a long time since we have been able to grasp the full mean ing of world happenings. Now we can only feel their impact. Our lives have been touched and changed because some one, somewhere is causing trouble, for some reason. We are not even sure that changing and sacrificing our lives and our futures will accomplish anything. We be lieve that we are being made to suffer for something for which we are not respon sible. We fear for our world. WHAT CAN WE DO? AGAIN, WE ARF. TYPICAL, AS WE FEEL THE urge to do something about a bad situ ation. But there is little to do. We can accept our responsibilities for a deplorable situation and try to remove the cause from our lives. In the reality of the Mystical Body every person who has evil within him shares responsibility for a physical or spiritual manifestation of evil anywhere. NONE OF US IS ENTIRELY FREE FROM EVIL WE TYPICALLY HAVE our share of both good and bad. But and here we are above the norm we are will- Library Offers Reading-List'By- Mail for Summer Vicarious experience gained from read ing enriches our lives, not merely with a vast store of miscellaneous items which prompt us to shout aloud while listening to quiz programs, but also with a genu ine talent for understanding, appreciating, and helping other people. To insure to all students and alumnae a guide to a systematic reading program, Mundelein issued the College Reading List in 1948. The list has three divisions, Religion, Literature, and Special Fields. Although each student is required to read during her four years one book from each of the 16 Religion sections, she may learn much from reading more than one. The first six sections of the General Literature section are required for Fresh man English supplementary reading but everyone should read many books from all 10 sections. The Special Fields section was prepared by different departments primarily for non-majors. English majors, for example, can discover from the List which books about science the Science department be lieves they will enjoy. Home Economics majors can discover which of the politi cal science or history books those de partments recommend for the general read er. Last summer the library decided to make the Reading List a summer mail order catalogue for vacation readers. Students who want to receive books by mail during vacation check the list, choose the books they would like to read on lazy summer days, file requests with the li brarians on May 29 and June 4, deposit 15 cents for postage, and wait for the mailman. Incoming sophomores and juniors are especially encouraged to use the Reading List this summer. No need for lowerclassmen to sit idly by while their senior colleagues discuss the intricacies of Integration courses. They may be able to help ing to accept our share of this responsi bility. We have made a quiet but firm resolution that we will make constant ef forts to remove the evil from our daily lives, and pray that it may be removed from the world. If we can manage to per form our daily routines perfectly, un doubtedly the evil will diminish in the world, and typical may someday be syn onymous with holy. Manners Maketh Man Also Woman Men have for centuries written maxims of good manners. Men then as now knew and valued a woman according to her com posure, perfect courtesy, soft, refined way of speaking, radiant goodness. Codes of behavior can be set down, and they can be learned. But always their val ue is recognized as they come from the heart, from kindness, gentleness, sensi tive understanding, good will, and self- respect. These are not rules. They are attitudes that are understood in the heart. They come from inner virtue. Attitudes are made up like life itself. Daily attitudes in school become attitudes in the enriched woman. Literature ac claims her: NO COMPLAINTS Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life for smooth do ye make the road of it. Laurence Sterne NO LOUDNESS, BOISTEROUSNESS Her voice zvas ever soft, Gentle, and low, and excellent thing in woman. Shakespeare NO AFFECTATION. NO PRETENSE For munners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal nature and of noble mind. Tennyson NO PROCRASTINATION Courtesy is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. Samuel Johnson The enriched woman, the Catholic ideal, lives in the grace of God. Of Courtesy, it is much less Than Courage of Heart or Holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me . That the Grace of God is in Courtesy. Hilaire Belloc The refined, courteous woman is saint like when she works for the right reason. Choose Your Frolic Skip to My Lou HURRY HURRY HURRY Make your plans now to come to the com munity Box Social Every member of the family welcome Join all your friends and you'll have a wonderful time Wanted: signs like this in Chicago. 1951. Here we are in college and we've never known the hilarity of a taffy pull, the jovial companionship of a Sunday even ing sing. What a shame that we are slued to movie seats and television screens Can we allow ourselves to grow any older in this pitiable state of ignorance? How about a popcorn pop, or a charades party, or a group-produced drama this weekend? We moderns with our lively imaginations could far outshine our pred ecessors (and go rings around the profes sionals) in making our own fun if wc would only try. Why continue to backslide and rob our selves of companionship and real enjoy ment ? Let's have a family picnic the next nice day Vol. XXI April 23. 1951 No. 11 Co-Editors Maribeth Carey, Sheilya Neary Associates Peggy Barrett, Mary Kay Gill, Judy Langhenry Nelson Student Views Rita Bresnahan What Goes On Paula Long, Barbara Heintz SAC Speaks Up Peggy Butler, Leona Adams' Divertissements Joan Kares, Mary Ellen Ward, Elaine Ivory, Barbara Bid- well Skyscrapings Marjorie Coughlin, Mary Jane Lamb, Patricia McHugh, Barbara Shaughnessy Art Joan Blakeslee, Doris Kuhlmann Sports Editor Margaret Reidy Reporters: Rosemary Burns, Eileen Duhig, Florence Granet, Arlene Gorgol, Kaye Haefel, Claire Healy, Agnes Hoff, Irene Johnson, Sibyl Lillie, Donna Merwick, Jane Roach, Jean Schae- fer, Helen Stewart, Marion Whelan, Nona Ar-J noldi, and Grace Benedetti. Divertissements . . . Double Feature Toasts Pretty Peg And Hoffman Peg O' My Heart, the play that made the late Laurette Taylor famous, and vice-ver sa, plays the Mundelein boards on April 27, 28 and 29. Author J. Hartley Manners wrote the play for his wife, Laurette Taylor. It was first produced at the Cort theater in New York in 1912. Breaking all records, the play saw 600 consecutive performances in New York and 500 in London. At the same time, five companies or more were touring the U. S. for several seasons. Peg O' My Heart was subsequently trans lated and successfully produced in France, Italy, and other European countries. The play revolves around Peg, an Amer ican girl sent to England to find culture. The complications that ensue make the play one of the best Anglo-American com- edies produced in the U.S. Author Manners produced many arti ficial comedies of English life but is best remembered for Peg. I lis other works in clude The House Next Door, Great John Ganton, and The Girl in Waiting. * * * Lest we forget . . . the Tales of Iloff- man are being told in Chicago at the Zieg- feld Theater. Studded with the stars of the English ballet and musical world, Tales of Hoff- ' man promises to be a dazzling successor to . Red Shoes. Directed and produced by Michael Pow ell and Emeric Pressburger, the origin ators of Red Shoes, this latest movie boasts j Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tcherina, Rob ert Helpmann, Leonide Massine, and Sir j Thomas Beecham with the Royal Philhar monic orchestra. The story is based on Jacques Offen- I bach's romantic opera of the fairy-tale ad- j ventures of Hoffman the poet. Hoffman, sung and acted by Robert j Rounseville of the New York City Opera, tells his friends of the three unhappy loves in his life. In each of the tales, Hoffman j loses the girl to a bitter enemy. Unlike the j opera, wherein each successive sweetheart j and rival is played by the singers, the mov- ie version presents Shearer, Tcherina, and Ann Ayers as the three loves, with Mas- ; sine and Helpmann as the villains. Tales of Hoffman is in technicolor, presented by the London films. Jhe hudcraper Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30,1933, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under tie Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40.
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