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THE ? / Volume V. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JANUARY 25, 1935 No. 6 Bishop Sheil Gives Legion of Decency Plaque to College Awards Essay Contest Prizes to Three Students A beautiful silver plaque, mounted on ebony, became the prized possession of Mundelein College on Dec. 17 when His Excellency, the Most Reverend Bernard J. Sheil, D.D., presented it to the College as an award for taking first place in the collegiate section of the Legion of De cency Parade on Sept. 27. Virginia Woods, prefect of the Sodal ity, greeted the Bishop, and the College orchestra played a Christmas overture, after which His Excellency addressed the assembly, congratulating the students upon their unit in the Parade and urging them to continue their militant support of the Decency crusade. Mary Ann Walsh, president of the S.A.C, received the plaque in the name of the College. Designed by Charles A. Molitor of the New World staff, it de picts the good ship Innocence, flying the banner of Purity and carrying a host of girls and boys. The ship is threatened by the Movie Octopus, whose tentacles, slime, immorality, atheism, etc., have al ready overwhelmed several of the pas sengers. Above the frightened youths stands their Guardian Angel, warding off the attacks of the Octopus with the sword of.the Legion of Decency. (Continued on page 3, col. 3) Senior Composes Recital Numbers Ruth Hottinger, a senior music major and a member of the Piano club and the Glee club, will present a recital of her own compositions some time during the second semester. On Christmas day, one of Miss Hottinger's compositions, a motet, was performed at Holy Cross church by the boys' choir, and several of her arrange ments have been sung at the Convent of the Sacred Heart where she is teaching. Among Miss Hottinger's recital num bers two are especially noteworthy, Menuet, a melody in the Dorian mode, and a two-piano arrangement of The Fisher's Horn-Pipe. Juniors to Hold Annual Prom At Stevens Hotel on Feb. 15 ASSISTS PROM CHAIRMAN lt;3 gt; CarolineHolland,Chairman, To Lead Grand March At Formal Dance Julia Hagerty Student Charities Help City Orphans With every department in the College doing its part to make Christmas a day of real joy in the lives of Chicago or phans, the record of Mundelein's holiday charities is varied and extensive. Sociology students had general charge of the activities and opened them with a food and clothing drive. Members of the home economics department concoct ed delicious dainties to accompany the more practical food stuffs, and contrib uted, besides, dresses, coats, and other garments which were made in their own department. Members of the commerce department collected and dressed a variety of dolls for the children, and the drama depart ment entertained 500 orphans at a holi day presentation of the Children's The ater plays at the College. As their part in the activities, mem bers of the French department presented their puppet shows at Angel Guardian orphanage, and a number of students, on their own initiative, gave one day of their vacation to the entertainment of a homeless child. Faculty Members Attend Professional Conventions Representatives of the Mundelin Fac ulty attended a number of professional conventions for which educators from all over the United States assembled in Chi cago during the Christmas holidays. 'Che tenth annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Asso ciation was held at De Paul university on Dec. 27 and 28. The first session opened with a dis cussion by Robert F. Pollock on Cause in Modern Philosophy and the Tradi tional Arguments for the Existence of God. Numerous topics of modern philosophy were treated throughout the convention, the concluding discussion being concerned with the teaching of philosophy in the college and university. Discussing current problems facing the nation from all view-points, some 2,000 sociologists, economists, statisticians, po litical economists, government officials, and college and university professors, held a four-day session during the holi days in Chicago. Here the various alphabetical divisions of the New Deal came in for criticism to be met by equally strong responses of defense. Abandonment of direct relief for Public Works, probation treatment in relation to Juvenile Delinquency, Edu cation under Communism, Fascism, and Capitalism, breakdown of family life, and changing beliefs of college students, were only a few of the many timely dis cussions treated. Of particular interest was the paper given by the Reverend Frederick Sieden- burg, S.J., head of the School of Social Service at Detroit University. (Continued on page 4, col. 4) The Boulevard room of the Stevens Hotel will be the scene of one of the most colorful of Mundelein social events, when the juniors assemble for their for mal Prom on Friday evening, Feb. 15. Caroline Holland chairman, and Julia Hagerty, class president, will lead the right and left wings, respectively, of the Grand March. The selection of the room was voted upon at a class meeting on Jan. 11, fol lowing the report of the hotel committee. Bill Gardner's orchestra will furnish the music, and the bids will go on sale the latter part of this week. General arrangements are being made by Miss Holland, assisted by Miss Hagerty and the following committees: Hotel: Dorothy White, chairman; Jane Spalding, Margaret Egan, and Roma Murphy. Orchestra: Violet Kil- bane, chairman; Jean Devaney, Mary Moss, and Margaret Mullen. Bids: Helen Lynch, chairman; Eileen Hettinger, Francis Mikkelson, and Mary Frances Petrie. Publicity : Mary O'Brien, chairman; Ella Jamieson, Joan Limburg, and Don hy O'Donnell. Staff Abandon Pencils; Light Four Birthday Candles Instead One-two-three-four blow I And the four tiny candles on the Skyscraper birthday cake flickered and went out. It was the fourth annual birthday party of the College newspaper, held in the tea room on Jan. 15, with Ann Lally, editor- in-chief presiding, and Marion Mulligan, chairman of the party, in charge. Founded in 1931 at the close of the first semester in the history of the Col lege, the paper was issued monthly under the editorship of Rhea Moustakis, whose cousin, Nona Mae Linton, is now a re porter on the freshman staff. Margaret Roche ex '34, who is now Mrs. Richard J. McNellis, Jr., spending her honeymoon in Bermuda, edited the paper in 1931-32, after which it was man aged under the joint editorship of Eve lyn Lincoln and Justine Feely, both mem bers of the Charter Class. Miss Lincoln is now a senior correspondent at Sears and Roebuck and Miss Feely is em ployed at a law firm downtown. Ann Lally, who carries a double major in art and English, is the present editor- in-chief, and is assisted by three mem bers of the senior class, Irene Lavin, Virginia Meagher, and Marion Mulli gan and by eleven sophomores and jun iors. Calendar Semester Examinations: Jan. 21-28. Annual Retreat: Jan. 29-31. First Friday Close of Retreat: Feb. 1. Registration: Seniors Feb. 1. Juniors Feb. 2. Sophomores-* Feb. 4. Freshmen Feb. 5. Second Semester Begins Feb. 6. Junior Prom Feb. 15. LEADS JUNIOR PROM Newman Class Hears Dream of Gerontius The solemn music of Sir Edward El- gar's musical accompaniment dinal Newman's Dream of Gerontius vi talized the poem for members of the Newman class last Thursday, when the College Glee club sang the Oratorio. Frances Mikkelson sang the part of Gerontius, the just man approaching death; Evelyn O'Brien took the part of the priest ministering to him at his death bed ; Rose Hurley sang the stirring words of the Angel of the Agony, and a Glee club chorus, composed of Cecilia Wasis- co, Mary Ann Kirschten, Charlotte Wil cox, Loretta Brady, Catherine O'Connor, Ruth Janisiewski, Lucille Pidgeon, and Mary Herlihy chanted the sonorous lines of the poem. The presentation, beautiful in its en tirety, reached special excellence in the musical interlude, the fierce dance of the demons, and in the first solo of the Guardian Angel. Father Lebuffe,SJ. To Give Annual Student Retreat Exercises Open with Mass At Nine O'Clock on Jan. 29 The Reverend Francis P. LeBuffe, S.J., will conduct the annual three-day re treat for the students of Mundelein Col lege on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs day, Jan. 29, 30, and 31, the exercises being given in the College auditorium. Father LeBuffe is the author of the My Changeless Friend series and is well known to Sodalists for his active inter est in Sodality projects. Especially mem orable for many of them is his address to the delegates at the Sodality Conven tion last July. The retreat day will begin with Mass at 9 o'clock in the auditorium. There will be four conferences each day, two in the morning and two in the afternoon. Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacra ment will be the closing exercise of the day. Mass on Feb. 1, First Friday, will close the retreat. The exercises will comprise instruc tion on the principles of the Catholic faith, the responsibilities of educated young women, and suggestions for bring ing Catholic action into modern life. Alumnae, friends of the College, and students of other schools are cordially invited to attend the exercises. Reserva- ar; ptions should be made by Monday, Jan: 28. Winter Clepsydra Issued Next Week The winter number of the Clepsydra will be ready for distribution this month, according to an announcement by the editor, Virginia Woods. The frontispiece and the illustrations throughout the text are especially note worthy, as are, also, the articles by Ruth Tangney and Mary Agnes Tynan. Ann Lally has written and illustrated an article on Church Architecture in Chicago, and Roberta Christie and Jane Malkemus have contributed interesting short stories. The alumnae section is especially inter esting with an account of her travels in South America by Rita Eppig. Cardinal Mundelein Qives Incunabulum to Qlee Club By Mary Catherine Rose As the last strains of Silent Night floated through the Cardinal's home, His Eminence, George Cardinal Mun delein descended the stairs to greet the College Glee club, which in keeping with their annual custom had sung for him the age-old carols on Christmas Eve. Assuring the singers that his Christ mas would not be complete without the waits from Mundelein, His IEminence complimented the members of the Glee club on their training, and then showed them his crib and Christmas tree. As a gift to the College, Cardinal Mundelein presented the Glee club with an incunabulum edition of the Latin Bible published in Venice in 1492, just 25 years before the Reformation and at a time when all Europe was Catholic. It is one of eleven that were printed between 1477 and 1500. The binding and the title pages are missing, but the body of the book is carefully bound and corded. A topical index precedes the Book of Gen esis, and an index of proper names, in tact to the letter M, is played at the end, after the Apocalypse. Mr. Flandorf, director of the Glee club, upon the Cardinal's request, played an organ solo, Ihr Kinderlein Kommet. Asking in his kindly way if the students would sing the German carol for him, His Eminence told how it had been his favorite Christmas hymn since he was a small boy. A final Silent Night, this time with the organ accompaniment, an exchange of Merry Christmases with Cardinal Mun delein and Bishop Sheil, and a prayer in the tiny chapel completed the Christ mas Eve visit.
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1935-01-25 (1)
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