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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Credo of a College Student Emphasizes Hope for 1951 Credo of a College Senior . . . New Years, 1951 We believe . . . that tomorrow will be better . . . that beauty and truth and good can yet be found in the world . . . that life is what we make it and happiness comes from within . . . that life will somehow go on despite A-Bombs and H-Bombs and Red hordes and bungling pol- ticians and indifferent electorates . . . not only that we can save the world, but that it is worth saving. We believe in big things ... in Faith and Hope and Charity . . . in the necessity of the ultimate conquest of might by right ... in the undeterminable value of the Mass ... in praying with confidence and working with zeal ... in saving the world by saving ourselves for eter nity ... in Peace ... in the perishability of material comforts ... in belief in a better life We believe in the little things in the laughter of children . . . in the beauty of a sunset... in the smile of a pretty girl and the impish grin of a happy boy ... in football games and college spirit ... in fra ternity pins and diamond rings ... in good books and beautiful music ... in the magic of love ... in bright clothes and gay parties ... in the necessity of a sense of humor ... in ourselves. What Goes On . . . WE'RE BACK THE WONDERFUL, effortless days 'and fun-filled evenings are gone. Term papers, assignments, and 9 o'clock classes have once more, thrust their ogre heads into our idyll-like exis tence. Now we must content ourselves with daydreaming of dances, faces, show ers, and all-day dates The glorious Christmas-spirit glow is gone. We re member with a sigh the perfect peace of Midnight Mass; the mad frenzy of last- minute shopping, the pleased look on Mother's face when she opened our gifts. Even the more shallow, tinsel-like gaiety of New Year's is over. Our spirits were taken down with the Christmas tree. But it was wonderful while it lasted the gay festive wrappings of life. It was VA CATION TIME. IN THIS GOLDEN ERA OF SCHED ULE MAKERS and time economists, hu man beings, from the moment of their first glimpse of the world until their last social security check, have discovered thair days and hours channelled into neat packages. Some have the gay festive wrappings, others have provoked The Thing, and still others have the staple look (the basic necessities). In other words we are making out our second se mester schedules. WE HEAR VAGUE RUMBLINGS FROM THE outer world that life is still going on, but to 769 Mundelein girls the fact is utterly inconsequential. Stalin could become a capitalist tomorrow, steak might sell for a penny a pound, the draft might be dipping into the 12-year-old group, and manna might fall from heaven every hour on the hour, and Mundelein wouldn't bat a collective eyelash. The Thing is here it's EXAM TIME WHEN THE ORDEALS ARE OVER WE WILL BE IN an all time state of I exhaustion and ready for a complete and long-enduring rest. The clatter, the bab ble, the frantic rushing all will sudden ly be gone in the peaceful harmony of introspection. The joys of the spiritual life include intimate honest thoughts, strenuous mental activities, challenging promises, and a radiating after-glow. The package is one of the staple necessities of Catholic life, the rejuvenation of the soul. It's RETREAT TIME WE WILL HAVE BARELY CAUGHT A FLEETING glimpse of our second se mester texts before we're kneeling for the cross of ashes. The lines of daily communicants and the number of daily rosary recitations in the chapel will in crease as the church cycle of penance ex torts its firm resolutions. Luxuries will go by the board, and we will wait and hope that our sacrifices will result in the fruit of a truly joyous Eastertide. This is an other of the staples of the soul it will be LENT Student's View . . . U.S. Diplomacy Suffers Because of Inconsistency VV/hile voicing his contempt for Franco, President Truman has appointed Stanton Griffis as our Ambassador to Spain. Although fearing moral contam ination if forced into too close an alliance with Franco, the U. S., whose choice of allies in 1941 was not notably select, ap parently couldn't resist Spain's secure perch in the Mediterranean and its 22 di visions. Other nations, following our ex ample, are also resuming relations with Spain. / riffis seems to have an aptitude for getting along with unpopular gov ernments, since, as ambassador to Argen tina, he became friendly with the Perons. He will have to establish friendly contacts with a government which his country is materially aiding but morally denouncing. Franco's great crime is that he accepted Hitler's aid against the Communists. On similar grounds, couldn't Franco denounce us for consorting with Russia during the last war? I ast week, Great Britain's ambassador to the Vatican died. This was probably the first time most Americans were even aware that Protestant England is offi- ially represented at the Holy See. Var- rious religious sects in America have been barraging President Truman with requests not to send an American diplomat to the Vatican. They completely ignore the fact that 50 nations, not all of them Catholic, are represented there. Time Out . . . Next Week We Have Time To Think, To Pray Like the Arabs, wc must fold our tents and get away from it all. Christ calls us to watch with Him for three days. For three days, three out of 365, we are exposed to sanctity. We have been called u gt;on to strengthen our defenses build up our forces. This is a frequent de mand of our President; it is an even older plea of Christ. Retreat is rather a forbidding word. Yc wc know that a retreat is merely a prepara tion for a new advance. Another half century has begun. Are we prepared to fight the evils facing us in 1951 ? Chances arc we should retreat more often from the zvorld. We must prepare for a greater advance today. IVe arc floundering in indecision and fear. We have forgot where to turn for courage and adincc. Christ and his mother are wait ing to talk to us. Slam the door of the zvorld behind you and listen The Time is Short . . Prepare Now By Prayer The headlines darken, the special front line dispatch stories temper the humor of the funny pages, and the sobering gloom of possible disaster brings us to our knees. But how do we reconcile prayers of hope with actions of despair? There is no sense in studying. Who knows? We might all be blown to pieces in a few years? The Blessed Mother made a promise. If we pray, she will not go back on her word. Who knows? In a few years we may be called upon to be the mothers of another, more Christ-like generation. But only if we prepare now. Preparing now means fulfilling our vo- . cations as best we can. Catholic college girl of 1951 . . . occupation: student, not lime-waster. Too little time is left. Wails of Rabble Rousers Incite. Reformers to Act It's about time a distinction was made between progressive collegians and the campus equivalent of a rabble rouser. Much as the latter term disturbs us and actually it is far too strong for any col legians we know -still we all know the spreaders of discontent. It is, of course, a universal trait of collegians to bemoan their fate assign ments, endless papers to write, examina tions, reports, not to mention assemblies, Most of us just moan now and then and let it go at that. A few try to reform stu dent attitudes. And a few follow the rab ble rouser technique. The rabble-rousers greatest weapon is the tongue. They inform all whom they meet of the terrific conditions in which they wallow. And isn't it about time wc did something about them? . . . Their cry is for the impossible or the impractical. They say change everything. The real reformers attack differently. They attempt to make their friends happy with what they already have. They build up their likes and refrain from complain ing about dislikes. Put yourself in one of these groups and make a decision. Which is the more ma ture attitude? Divertissements . . . Mundelein College Presents The tidings brought to Mary, soon to be presented at Mundelein, is a mystery play in a mediaeval setting. The author, Paul Claudel, is best re membered by Americans for his production of Tidings by the Theatre Guild in 1923. Like Rostand and Maeternich, Claudel is a romanticist. I lis plays, though put in a particular setting, are universal and time less. In the Satin Slipper Claudel himself says, the scene is the world but more particu larly Spain in the sixteenth century. The Hostage is a story involving from the French Revolution yet the characters could exist in any age and country. Tidings Brought to Mary was written in 1901 and revised in 1912. In many ways it is Claudel's most dramatic and perfect play. Though Joan of Arc moves in the background and the heroine's father-is on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, interest cen ters on Violaine, an injured martyr. In this dreamy play the beauty of the moral substance is given beauty of form through free verse and prose. Claudel's characters struggle, not with the usual complications arising from pre judices, hut rather with those involved in simple human conflicts, Pjerre and his lone liness, Violaine's betrothed and his doubts, Mara and her jealously. In the final act of the play, Violaine's father returns from Jerusalem to find his wife and daughter dead. The circumstan ces of the miracle and the murder of Vio laine gradually come into focus with his re turn. The play achieves its purpose as the father, seeing his dead daughter, realizes what the pilgrimage failed to teach him, and cries Is the object of life only to live? It is not to live, but to die, and not how to hew upon the cross but to mount upon it, and to give all that we have, laughing The knowledge Claudel acquired as a French diplomat stimulated, colored his poetry, and helped to make his style among the richest in French history. He was trained in the school of symbolism but his chief inspiration is Catholicism. Besides dramas, Claudel has published several volumes of poetry and a few books, but his genius is most evident in his dramas. Scattered Thoughts? Organize Them Now; Church Unity Octave Here we are, a confused humanity . . . scattered about. In an age of collectiv ism, mankind stands as the most in-con- foundable argument for free will witness the variety of beliefs. In the past 2000 years many pagans have become Cath olics. But many have remained pagans, and many have abandoned Catholicism. To combat this division, the Church this week prays earnestly for the enroll ing of all men in the fold of Christ. Jan uary 18-25 we celebrate the Unity Octave of the Church, emphasizing in our prayers the hope that those separated from the one Church will receive the light to see and the strength of will to accept as the only basis of unity in religion, the Cath olic faith. Jhe -3 udcraper Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30,193 at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the 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. Vol. XXI January 22, 1951 No. 7 Co-Editors Maribeth Carey, Sheilya Neary Associates Peggy Barrett, Mary Kay Gill, Judy Langhenry Student Views Rita Bresnahan Jane Kenealy What Goes On Paula Long, Barbara Heinti 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, Grace Trauscht, Marion Whelan, Gina Moran, Nona Arnoldi, and Bette Guilfoyle I
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