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THE SKYSCRAPER March 7, 1934 THE SKYSCRAPER Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charity, B. V. M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. VOL. IV MARCH 7 NO. 8 Editors-in-Chief Evelyn Lincoln, Justine Feely News Editor Charlotte Wilcox Assistants Mary O'Brien, Dorothy O'Donnell Feature Editor Ann Lally Make-up Editor Jane Spalding Exchanges -...Marion Mulligan Sodality Virginia Meagher Art Joan Limburg Athletics - Irene Lavin Assistant Loretta Brady Circulation Manager Margaret Mahoney Reporters: Roberta Christie, Mary Geiger, Ag nes Grogan, Gladys Henry, Laetitia Kalisz, Jane Malkemus, Jane Molloy, Bernice Meany, Jean McKeever, Emer Phibbs, Mary Catherine Rose, Mary Catherine Schmelzer. Telephone: Briargate 3800 SHALL WE COMPETE? THIS issue of the Skyscraper carries the announcement of two creative writ ing contests open to students of Mundelein College, and in so doing recalls Father Burke's challenge to us, the college stu dents of today, as the writers of tomorrow. In England and America Hilaire Belloc, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Agnes Repplier, and a host of others are bearing high the glori ous tradition of Catholicity in literature. They have embodied broadness of view point and high ideals in all their works, and they are presenting them in a vital fashion to a public weary of modern real ism and cynicism. But who are to take their places? Who will carry on their work? The answer to that question lies with us. Courses in journalism and creative writing are offered in Catholic colleges and univer sities throughout the country, and recog nition of student talent is given in the ex cellent school publications produced in America today, and in various collegiate and intercollegiate contests. A number of Mundelein students have already merited high honors in scholastic literary circles, and there is no reason why such honors may not be within the reach of others. The success of our students has been a result of the fact that they did not regard the great writers of the past and the foremost literary figures of the present as a race apart but as contributors to a rich heritage which is ours to use, to add to, and to pass on. We need not be theologians to write wholesome Catholic books or stories. It is enough that what we write portray life in accordance with true and noble ideals and that the atmosphere permeating it be Catholic. To those who have entered the lists in WE RECOGNIZE A LEADER Books on Religion by Roman Catholic authors, read the placard. The tastefully arranged display included a variety of re ligious books, from the Summa Theologica to a short Way of the Cross, and frankly featured the current Catholic best sellers. Dudley, Chesterton, Undset, Connolly, Baring, were conspicuously in the fore ground. Surprisingly enough, the display was not in the show window of a religious book concern, nor under the sponsorship of en thusiastic sodalists. On the contrary, the display was in a prominent position in the book section of one of the foremost, yet most conservative, stores of the loop Field's. After a month of talking, reading, think ing, and almost praying Catholic press and literature, it was particularly refreshing to find such a practical and attractive realiza tion of one's hopes. Marshall Field and Company are to be commended for their splendid support of whatever aims at a general intellectual and cultural development. Once more, in this influential display, they have shown their readiness to cooperate; they are aware of the power for good that such a display can be. Again they have led the way. HAVE WE 'JUMPY' MINDS? There are various and sundry cures ad vertised for so-called jumpy nerves, but we never see any patent medicine for a jumpy mind. On first glance, this might seem to be an unusual ailment reserved for the mentally unfit, but after pondering over it we come to the conclusion that many, in cluding ourselves, are afflicted with this condition at times. We all have experienced extreme annoy ance when in the presence of a fidgety per son who squirms in her chair and flutters her hands from her face to her hair and finally wrings them in her lap. At this point we wish for a strait-jacket for such a stu dent, or we are seized with an inordinate desire to throw some cold water in her face in a vain effort to quiet her. This is all very distressing, but how much more exhausting is a person with the mental fidgets. In the course of an or dinary conversation, her talk races from Alaska to Timbuctoo in a split second. This same type of person has a dozen things to do in a very few minutes. She spreads her work out before her, moans and groans about the little time she has, gazes first at one thing and then at another, until finally her time is up, and she has accomplished nothing. Perhaps these instances are a trifle ex treme, but we all can recognize them in ourselves in some degree. The question is, can these mental fidgets be cured? Yes, but not by taking a little pill three times a day before meals. Rather it requires a rigid discipline in the form of mental gym nastics to keep on the straight and narrow path of one thought, for a time at least. A jumpy mind way indicate an active intellect, but it's better to be cautious than clever, we think, if cleverness means flit ting from one thought to another, arriving at no destination whatever. our College we offer congratulations, and to those who have heretofore held back through indifference or timidity we give a challenge and an invitation. Let us not fail those who look to us, the college stu dents of the present, to bear high the torch of Catholic learning in the future. Let us share our rich heritage, and let us cultivate the gifts which may be ours. rTlTE absent-minded professor must now share honors with the absent-minded student who was leading man in a dra matic peformance at White Water, Wis consin, State Teachers' college. He was among the missing as the opening curtain went up, and rushed down the center aisle many minutes later. P OLLOWING the lead of the old-fash ioned trend begun by the knitting coeds we chronicled here some issues back, we find the Northeastern University Players going back to melodrama and producing The Old Homestead. LTERE, fellow students, is food for thought. A member of the faculty of Louisiana State Normal college is of the opinion that students today are lacking in initiative in intellectual thinking, and are failing to apply their education in everyday living. What have you to say in your own defense? THE following is a commentary on what the public thinks of college professors. Six members of the faculty of the Iowa State Teachers' college have been named directors of three savings banks. The Sky-Line CORREGIO HONORED ON QUADRENNIAL By Ann Lally ( N March 6 of this year we celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of the Ital ian painter, Antonio Allegri, who has been called popularly Corregio because he was born in a picturesque little town of that name. This outstanding personality of the north Italian Renaissance is at all times the per fect craftsman, whose skill made his art popular even among his contemporaries. Curiously enough, it is this same unfailing craftsmanship which sets Corregio aside from the other artists of the Renaissance and leaves him standing within sight of greatness without ever enabling him to set foot upon its pinnacle. His contempo raries, undoubtedly less skilled, were yet able to inject some of the fire of their own imaginations into their work, but Corregio remained aloof from his almost flawless pieces. The masterpiece of Corregio's early pe riod, the Madonna with Angels in Glory, which was once ascribed to Titian, and pos sibly the fresco of the Assumption which adorns the Church of S Giovanni Evan- gelista in Parma are the only two pictures in which the talented painter managed to approach a spiritual concept of beauty. The products of his later period were almost wholly earthy in concept and exe cution. Corregio's compositions, however, were at all times striking in both originality and perspective. Had he been born three and a half centuries later he would most probably have been a great impressionist, since, like the leaders of that school, he believed in permeating his pictures with light, although his conception of light and shade was not in any way related to that of Manet, Monet, or Degas. Unwittingly, he followed another tenet of the school which was to spring up so many years later, for, like the impression ists, he painted just what he saw, and al though his themes were often sublime he never lifted his art above the level of phys ical beauty. SKY CHATTER A merry daring sunbeam Skipcd off a silvery spire, And danced with gay abandon Upon a telegraph wire. This merry, madcap sunbeam Then found a waterspout. And whizzed to earth full reckless With one long joyous shout It teetered on a cinder (Worst thing that it could do) And soon became all dirty, And likewise black and blue. Though Daddy Sky did chuckle About the sunbeam's plight. He sent a gentle shower Which put the dust to flight. With cleanliness the sunbeam Regained its merry ways. And flashing rainbowed-diamonds Rejoined the sun's bright rays RePorter. * * * It has been urged that student directors in the drama department be provided with horses. After all, what good is a stagecoach without a horse? The history examinations revealed that Henry VIII was married to Catherine de Medici. Now, that would have been a com- hinaton * * * MELODY Minmminm mimnmmm mm-mmm m mmm mm mminmm, Mmm-mmm mmm m nimmm m mmm mmm-mmm; Mmmm mmminmmin m mmm m mmm- mm mmm, Mm mmmm m mminmm mm-mmmm m mmm m mmmm. Mmmmin mm m mmmm mnimmmin- mm m mmm m mmm Mmm-mmmmm m mmmm mmm m mm- Mmmmm mmmmin m mm m mm m Mminmm mmm m mmmm mm-mmmm * * * A student scanned the short-story reading list, letting her eyes rest on No. 11. Optional. Ten minutes later said student asked the li brarian for Optional, a short-story by Anonymous. * * * And then there was the botany student who annotated her paper thus; 1. Blue hooks in the corner of the library. * * * We clipped the following verse from the Knox- ville Iowa Express, because it so thoroughly ex presses the staff's state of mind after an issue of the paper appears. When the Slip Gets By The typographical error is a slippery thing and sly, You can hunt till you are dizzy, but it somehow will get by. Till the forms are off the presses it is strange how still it keeps; It shrinks down into a comer and it never stirs or peeps, That typographical error, too small for human eyes, Till the ink is on the Paper, when it grozvs to mountain size. The boss he stares with horror, then he grabs his hair and groans; The copy reader drops his head upon his handt and moans The remainder of the issue may be clean as clean can be. But that typographical error is the only thing you see. * * * Then there was the student who remarked wisely: Ever notice all the woodwork in this building is metallic?
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1934-03-07 (2)
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