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THE SKYSCRAPER CATHOLIC ACTION DISPLAY FEATURED COLLEGE ORGANIZATIONS It is a delightful experience to step into the calm of the college library and to be greeted by an especially attrac tive display of enticing volumes vol umes a trifle too alluring, perhaps, when the semester examinations are in the offing. However, such a display greeted the students during the week of January 10 to 16, Catholic literature week, observed in accordance with Cis- cora's new policy of devoting one week of every month to literary activity. Monday, the initial school day of the literature week, was devoted to Catho lic fiction. This is a term which al ways evokes a just pride in our clever and renowned literateurs. Ayscough, Borden, Dinnis, Baring, Belloc, each name recalls novels of distinct enjoy ment and gives promise of further pleasure in additional reading of their works. For those interested in personalities Tuesday was remarkably interesting. It is in the line of biography, perhaps, that Catholic writers reach their best in modern literary effort. The chief exponent of this type is probably Hilaire, Belloc, who has but recently published a biography of Cranmer. With the dawn of an exhibit of Catholic poetry on Wednesday, the term Catholic literature became a definite reality and an intensely vital one. The most colorful little book in the collec tion was the small volume of Chester ton containing the Ballad of the White Horse. Quite appropriately to the left of this was a copy of Belloc's Sonnets and Verse. Kilmer, Maynard, Patmore and other favored poets were repre sented. The last two days of the week were set aside for Catholic essays and his tory. Again one found works of such merit and eenuine interest that it be came doubly hard to concentrate on the respiration of the crayfish or the conjugation of a Greek verb. Nor was this the only means by which the Literature Committee kept alive the interest in Catholic litera ture. The Sodality bulletin board be came crowded with suggestions and sloeans in resrard to this phase of work. Gay posters announced a new feature, Pamphlet Day, a special day designated monthly by the Committee for a momentous sale of the little book so very much in evidence in the first floor corridor and bookstore. Ciscora Plans Activities During the first month of the new year, Ciscora, the Catholic Student Conference on Religious Activity, in troduced a new program of administra tion and one which promises to be the most efficient and effective means of unifying the sodalistic action of the schools in Ciscora. Each week of the month will be de voted to the work of one of the four main committees of the organization, namely, the Eucharistic, Mission, Literature, and Catholic Action Units. This is how the plan works out. On the first Saturday of the month, the Literature Committee, of which Mun delein holds the chairmanship, meets at the Loyola University Downtown College. At this meeting arrangements and suggestions are made in regard to the week that will be devoted to litera ture, that is, the second week of the month. In like manner each commit tee will meet on designated Saturdays in order to aid the schools in their preparations. Mundelein also pos sesses the chairmanship of the Mission Committee, which is under the direc tion of Catherine Manske. Her com mittee will have its meeting on the last Saturday of the month. Although the Girl Scout Committee is a subcommittee of the Social Action division, Mary Jane Sullivan had her initial Girl Scout meeting on January 16. Fifteen schools of Chicago were represented, a very fine number for work of this nature. On the same day the board of directors met for the pur pose of planning for the fifteenth Con vention of Ciscora, which will take place on Monday, February 22. The scene of the conference has not yet been determined. Both Longwood and Trinity High Schools have kindly of fered to act as hostesses to the Cis- corans. ALPHA OMICRON HAS STRIKING DISPLAY The students in the Home Economics Department prepared one of the most attractive student exhibits of the year in the form of a buffet supper, given in the Model Apartment on Thursday, January 21, from 12 until 5 p. m. The table, covered with a beautiful lace cloth, was decorated with tall crystal candlesticks, and exquisite talisman roses in a large silver vase. Ebony dishes provided a striking contrast and the delicately moldea foods completed a dainty and attrac tive display. Ingenious sandwiches resembling French pastry, clover-leat rolls, molded butter roses, decorated fruit and vege table salads, savory spiced baked ham, a variety of cakes, mints, and nuts comprised the menu. An interesting novelty was presented in the form of a cake, an almost exact replica of the college building, even to the angels at the entrance and the set backs on the fourth, eighth, and eleventh floors. The cake was about twenty-five inches high and propor tioned accordingly, and the cellophane windows completed a most realistic picture. In addition to the other features of the display, Mrs. E. B. Ransome, of the Wesson Oil and Snowdrift Company, gave an interesting and instructive salad - demonstration, accompanying her lecture by producing in a surpris ingly short time a variety of attrac tive and appetizing salads. Classics Students Try Lexicography A new interest is claiming the atten tion of some of the students in the classical department lexicography in the field of medieval Latin. The work consists of the listing of non- classical words with their meanings. Their first venture into this field has been in collaboration with the Rev erend F. S. Betten, S. J., of Marquette University, in reading for the Diction ary of Late Mediaeval British Latin, a project sponsored in this country by the American Council of Learned So cieties, under the chairmanship of Pro fessor J. F. Willard, of the University of Colorado. The two pioneers from Mundelein College, Margaret Grace and Mary Margaret Morrissey, found their first assignment most interesting, and are eager to delve further into the mys teries of medieval Latin. Two new members, Theodora Alexo- poulos and Helen Driscoll, were for mally admitted to the Eta Phi Alpha classical society at the regular meeting of the club, Monday, January 18. STYLUS CLUB HEAR EDITOR-PROFESSOR FRESHMEN ELECT CLASS OFFICERS The elections of the freshman class officers were held on Tuesday, Janu ary 12, and the following Tuesday, Janu ary 19, during the assembly periods in the college auditorium. Marion Walsh, a student in the School of Com merce and an Immaculata graduate, was chosen president. The vice-presi dent, Mary Dick, and the social chair man, Alice Yocum, were members of the 1931 class of Marywood High School, and are now taking a liberal arts course. Margaret Grace, who comes from Immaculata, is secre tary, and Elizabeth Gorman, a former student of the Academy of the Sacred Heart, is treasurer. The president and vice-president are also freshman repre sentatives on the Student Activities Council. Debaters To Meet University Squads The final tryouts for the debate squad were held on Friday, January 8, in the Little Theatre, resulting in the selection of six debaters to represent Mundelein College at home and abroad. The contestants were rated upon knowledge of the current ques tion under debate, the method of argumentation, and ease in speaking. The chosen squad were the following: Katherine Brennan, Genevieve Doon er, Sallie Agnes Smith, Mary Jane Sullivan, Ruth Tangney, Mary Agnes Tynan. Research has already begun for scheduled debates with Purdue, North western, and possibly Kentucky Uni versities, and Kent College. Dominion Status for India, which is a compara tively new topic, will be argued pro and eon before the completion of fur ther debate orations. Aiding the squad are members of the Debating Club, who gain points by offering assistance on these questions. Further activities of the club will be posted for the stu dents interested in the fate of Munde lein's competitive debating. The question, Why Write? was in formally answered by Mr. John T. Frederick, editor of the Midland and author of Green Bush, when, on Wednesday, January 13, this distin guished gentleman ad'lressed the mem bers of the Stylus Club. The college scribes were enthusiastic over the fact that Mr. Frederick had returned to Mundelein especially to talk to them on a subject so near to their hearts. Wake up to the beauty around you, he said, urging the aspiring writers to make themselves keenly conscious of details, to learn to discriminate ju diciously between the really important and the superficial happenings of their daily lives, and to develop an absorb ing interest in the people they meet and the things they see. Then, he added, when you have learned to ob serve intelligently, you must learn to record and to interpret your observa tions accurately and sincerely. And why? Not alone, he asserts, that we may gain fame as writers, for the road to fame is long and steep, but that we may gain the full richness of living and learn to help others to share in the beauty around them. It was an inspiring ideal, set forth with the intense sincerity of a man who has devoted his life to the devel opment of really worthwhile genuine talent among young people, and the Stylus Club members were unwilling to have the quiet, informal, editor-pro fessor bring his lecture to a close. Mr. Frederick gave great pleasure to the Stylus Club hostesses by graciously consenting to become an honorary member of this organization. Students Perform At Mother's Club Two Mundelein dramatic students were guest entertainers on Monday, January 18, when the St. George's Mother's Club held its regular month ly meeting at St. George's High School. The students were Virginia Sweeney, who gave James Whitcomb Riley's Grandfather, and Kathryn Walsh, who read Aunt Dilsey Sees Othello. Both are dramatic students of fine ability. Besides these readings, a violin solo was given by Miss Mildred Piegza, accompanied by Mrs. Joseph Allitto. The Reverend George F. McCarthy, pastor of St. Margaret Mary's Church, as guest speaker, commended the high standards of the school, which come as a result of the generous, self-sacri ficing labors of the Brothers. Glee Club Plans Retreat Choruses The glee club has been devoting its regular class period to the prac tice of retreat hymns. The well known songs have been varied with new ar rangements of both Latin and English versions. Presentation has been ar ranged so that trios, quartets, and solos introduce the choir and assembly sing ing, besides accompanying Mass and Benediction. A program has also been drafted for the new semester work, fea turing unusual attempts at part sing ing under the direction of Professor Otto Singenberger. RAISA'S DAUGHTER GUEST OF COLLEGE The schools in Italy are much more strict than those in America, declared Miss Raffaella Rimini, daughter of Rosa Raisa, famous artist of the Chi cago Civic Opera Company, in an inter view which she granted while touring our building on January 18. Miss Rimini has attended boarding school all her life, having just recently com pleted four years of training at the College Reale in Milan. The work in the Royal College qualifies the students as teachers of children up to twelve years of age. The college students at Milan, according to Miss Rimini, are required to write and speak in several foreign languages, since no woman in Europe is considered educated unless she possesses this accomplishment. However, Miss Rimini asserts that the European educators are most eager to learn and to profit by the American methods of education. A mere mention of Rome made her enthusiastic about her native country. Rome is beautiful, she said, but one must appreciate art to appreciate it. Although she has spent her life in Italy, her visits to the Eternal City have been too hurried for her satis faction. However, when she returns to Italy in February, she will reside at Rome for a month and she plans to see the Pope, the King, and Mussolini. And just before departing Miss Rimini made another enthusiastic, typically Italian, and genuinely youthful re mark. She wants her baby sister to be educated in America I shall want her to come to Mundelein. Honored Members Birthday Observed The Reverend John Rothensteiner, censor librorum of the archdiocese of St. Louis, who is so well-loved a friend and benefactor of Mundelein, was not forgotten by the students on the occa sion of his seventy-second birthday, January 21, 1932. Mass was said for Father Rothen steiner in Stella Maris Chapel on that day and Die Rothensteiner Gesellschaft, the German literary society which bears Father Rothensteiner's name, and of which he is an honorary mem ber, sent a telegram of good wishes reading: Recht herzliche Gruesse an unsren lieben Vater zum gluecklichen Geburtstag The Club also gave a pro gram in honor of Father Rothen steiner. Selections were chosen from his various books of poetry, German and English. Clever and interesting was the one act play entitled Der unglueckliche junge Arzt, in which Miss Beatrice Marshall took the part of the inexperienced young doctor who tried in vain to convince his first pa tient, Paul Schnurr, played by Ann Lackner, that the only cure for his malady was exercise, only to discover that the gentleman was a mailman. His efforts with Fraulein Eva Petersilia, Gloria Barry, proved equally unsuc cessful, for when he advised her as the last recourse to attend the theatre and enjoy the acting of the great come dian. Marguerite Dunque, he was told that the patient was the great come dian herself. His failure complete, he went off to lunch to hide his chagrin. Father Rothensteiner, who has con tributed more than five thousand vol umes to the college library, has visited us several times, and each time both the faculty and the students were equally pleased. STUDENTS AT BUFFET SUPPER DISPLAY Economist Speaks To Commerce Club P. T. Snauiah, FlK D., ploi'OooOr oC economics at Loyola University, gave an informative, clear-sighted lecture on Current Problems Facing Soviet Russia to the economics classes, on January 7. Clearly and briefly, Dr Swanish out lined the measures undertaken by the Soviet government of Russia, the problems which perplexed it, and the problems which do, and will, perplex it. The conditions before and during the Five-year Plan were shown, and it is worth while to note that, although production has increased since 1929, the per capita production has de creased, and what is of far more im portance, the standard of living has noticeably declined economically, po litically, and morally. Of the problems mentioned there were the lack of ability to inspire the ambition of individual enterprise; the refusal of men to accept serious responsibility; the inability to extin guish the old mentality ; and the ab sence of the confidence of the middle peasant class, who are powerful in number. Dr. Swanish believes that the collectivization movement will fail, and that there will be State farms, and, alongside of them, individual farms. Dr. Swanish's lecture bespoke the knowledge and opinions of a man who is familiar with every detail of his material, instigated by a keen interest in it, and enlightened by a personal contact with it. Linguistic Typist Gives Exhibition Frances Rockleman, Rosemarie Horky, Mary Irving, Morel Farmer. Music, tongues, and typing such seemed to be the gifts of Miss Olga Elkouri, of the Remington Rand Com pany, who gave a rather extraordinary demonstration in the Commerce De partment on January 11. Miss Elkouri was introduced by Mr. Sulspar, and after stressing the necessity of rhythm in typing she proceeded to demon strate, starting to write at a speed of thirty words a minute, and increasing her speed to two hundred and four words a minute with astounding ease. She then sang an accompaniment to her typing, maintaining perfect rhythm. The strange feature of this musical demonstration was that she did not confine her songs to English compositions, but included songs in the Spanish, Arabic, German, and Egyptian tongues.
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1932-01-29 (3)
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