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THE ; ADEfc :-- -. Vol X MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO. ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY 16, 1940 No. 8 Composer Plays Original Violin Opus at Musicale Romantic and Modern Music To Keynote Wednesday Program The premiere performance of Cather- ine Keller's Adagio, solo for violin, will lie played by the composer, a senior piano major, at the Wednesday Musi cale. which will be presented in Studio 7(13 mi Feb. 21 at 3 p.m. Debussy. Ireland, Levitzki, Rach maninoff, and Grainger will represent the moderns on the program, and Bee thoven. Chopin, von Weber, and Cham- inade will represent the romantics. Ruth Perry will play Sonata, Op. 31, No. 2. First Movement by Beethoven. Virginia Parr will play Chopin's Etude, and Marianne Donahoe will represent Chopin in the Preludes. Nos. 4 and 18. The Finale from von Weber's Con- terto in C major, arranged for two manos, will be presented by Grace Man- nebach and Dorothy Schreck. Compositions in a light mood will be presented by Betty Jane Barnes, playing Chaminade's Pas des Amphores, Dorothy Schreck-, Grainger's Country Gardens, and Genevieve l.ocaitis, Levit- ski's Valse, Op. 2. Of a more somber spirit is Rachman inoff's Prelude in G minor, played by (Catherine Barton. An interesting mod ern number, Island Spell by John Ireland, will be presented by Harriet Ashton. Rita McLean will represent Debussy in his dainty Second Arabesque. A'Students Find It Pays; Qet Dividend According to a new Faculty ruling, announced at the opening of the semes ter and effective at once, students who re- ceive semester grades of A in subjects which they continue through a second semester are not bound by absence penal- lies in these subjects. Students so exempted from absence regulations are, nevertheless, required to be present for all announced tests and are responsible for all material covered dur ing class periods. The exemption will continue until the quarter, at which time the student must retain her A or forfeit the privilege. Except in the case of A students who continue A subjects for a second sem ester, the absence penalties listed in the Student Handbook remain operative. Appointed to Harvard Virginia Woods, summa cum laude graduate in 1935, has been appointed a member of the Institute of Classical Studies Alumna Sails for Home; Eyewitness To Polish Putsch After four months spent under So viet rule, Wanda Pater '38, who has been studying at the University of War saw on a scholarship since her gradua tion from Mundelein, fled from Poland last month, and is now- en route to the United States. Miss Pater was one of 31 Americans who arrived in Bucharest, bringing the first eye-witness reports of the German troops in Lwow. The refugees traveled across Russian Poland and entered Ru mania on Jan. 23. The Chicago Tribune, recounting the escape of the Americans, observed that they told gloomy stories of disorgan ization in Russian Poland. According to a telegram sent to her mother, Miss Pater sailed from Genoa vesterdav for the United States. Stairs and Pa Students nes Bring Stares, Pains If four frenzied freshmen and a soli tary sophomore were observed during the past week mumbling on the staircases and counting on their fingers, it was not because of the mathematics depart ment or the new course in personal finance. They were staff members and report ers, fulfilling an assignment counting all the stairs and all the windows in the sky scraper building. Passersby were astounded to sec the frozen few standing on Kenmore avenue, ion the L platform, on the Loyola I campus, or on the lake front, staring lit a sea of glass and enumerating audi bly, until the brightest of the freshmen turned penny-wise, dashed to the book- Islore, and bought postal cards of the binlding from various viewpoints. Re sulting count showed 873 windows. Meanwhile, the lonely sophomore sli thered up and down the fire escape (north stairs to you), discovering that an asbes tos curtain, artfully concealed in the wall and windows, will drop if the temperature rises to a dangerous degree Fahrenheit, thus protecting all fire escapees, who will probably never need it in the fire proof building. She discovered too. that Mundelein has 570 steps more than the Washington Monument. Including the east, west, and north stairs, the hallowed grand staircase, the two spiral staircases in the seminar on four, (he mezzanine stairs, and all the others, the grand total is 1468. The freshmen are still wondering how many miles of Venetian blinds and how- many miles of drapes would cover 873 windows. The sophomore is riding the elevators. Graduate Named to Classics Institute Observe Catholic Press Month in Writers' Inc*, Sodality, and Library Virginia Woods, who received her Bachelor of Arts degree Summa Cum Laude in 1935, left for Harvard uni versity last week, where she has been appointed a member of the staff of the newly organized Institute of Classical Studies. A classics major at Mundelein, Miss Woods won a half-scholarship in Greek to the University of Chicago, where she took her Master's degree and began work toward her doctorate under the direction of Dr. Warner Jaeger, distinguished classical scholar. Dr. Jaeger left Chicago this year to organize the new Institute at Harvard, first work of which will be a critical edition of the works of St. Gregory of Xyssa. Miss Woods will collate the man uscripts of St. Gregory, and continue her work on her dissertation, returning to Chicago next winter to take her final ex aminations. While attending Mundelein. Miss Woods was prefect of the Sodality, pres ident of the Classical club, and editor of the literary magazine. During her undergraduate days she also edited the Cisca page of the New- World, won several Creative Writing awards, and had poems and articles published in Common weal, America, and The Queen's Work. For the past year and one half she has been assistant dean of women and in structor in Latin at De Paul university. Publishes Articles On Child Psychology Dr. Miriam L. Rooney, of the psychol ogy department, recently published an ar ticle in the Catholic Family Monthly on aspects of child psychology. Dr. Rooney is also the author of an article which appears in the current is sue of the International Federation of Catholic Alumni magazine. Posters, Pamphlets Promote Reading; Department Sponsors Contest Posters, displays of new books and Catholic magazines, arrays of pamphlets, and sounding typewriters in the publica tions offices proclaim that February is Catholic Press Month and that the mem bers of Writers' Inc. arc Catholic Press conscious. Together with the emphasis on Catholic reading, there is a campaign to recruit freshmen writers for the campus publica tions. Freshmen are urged to submit an article, poem, story, or American Scene item to the Spring issue of the Review and to work for staff positions on the Freshman Edition of the Skyscraper. The English department is also an nouncing its annual Creative Writing contest, for which awards will be given at Commencement. Open to all students in the College, the contest includes five divisions: essays, short stories, editorials, verse, and con temporary criticism. All entries arc to be submitted in Room 506 on or before the deadline. April 10. Betty Vestal, co-editor of the Sky scraper, won last year's poetry award with Wagon Train, and Virginia Coffey, staff member of the Review, won the story award with Footnote To History. Currently announced, also, is the short story contest sponsored by Kappa Gamma Pi, national Catholic honor society for women's colleges, deadline for which is March 15. The Queen's Work is offering 50.00 for the best one-act play w:ritten by a Catholic collegian. Deadline for play wrights is March 15. Other writing contests, including the Redbook short story competition. Har per's writing competitions, the Prize Pday contest, the Guignol Theatre con test, and the Stanford university awards in dramatic writing, are described on the bulletin board in Room 506. Editor, Authors, Reporters, Star in Contests, Print And Radio Liberty Founded On Religion, Says N. D. Professor That religion and freedom are insep arable was the thesis of Clarence E. Manion, Ph.D., in an assembly address yesterday on Democracy Yesterday and Today. Dr. Manion, professor of constitutional law at the University of Notre Dame, stated that freedom is the root and stem of Christianity because of God's creative purpose, and that the Declaration of In dependence, essence of American patriot ism, is predicated on the existence of God. Democracy in itself, he insisted, is a conveyance, not a destination. Because God is the theological reason for free dom, belief in God is a prerequisite for the comprehension and enjoyment of free dom. The relation of God and liberty is lost in some countries, Dr. Manion re marked, speaking of the several nations under totalitarian regimes. Liberty can not be capsulized or secularized because when civilizations lose cognizance of God, they are ripe for the rule of tyrants. The fault lies not with the aims of the dictator, but with the people, whose state of mind negates belief in the God who is the source of freedom. Fulfilling the promise of poems and articles printed in Quest, the Review, and the Skyscraper, student and alumnae writers are now reading their works in national publications. Annette Specht's article on Agnes To- bin, entitled Lady of My Delight, pub lished in the autumn issue of the Review. is being run serially in the San Fran cisco MOXtTOR. Another former Review writer. Joanne Dimmick '38, interprets one angle of the current labor situation in a poem. Line in the Morning, which appears in the Dec. 29 issue of the Commonweal. Writes for Commonweal Miss Dimmick penned a nostalgic lam ent for non-career days entitled In the Office, and subtitled Lucky June Grad uate Speaks Mind, which appeared in a June issue of Commonweal. America and Rotary International have also published writings by Miss Dimmick during the past year. Forty stories sold to American and Canadian magazines in -10 months is the record of Joan Quilty '34, according to an interview printed about her in The Catholic WJoman's World. Miss Quilty, in turn, interviews a col lege friend, Mary Agnes Tynan '35, in the February issue of The Queen's Work. Miss Tynan, who is now Mrs. William Schroeder, plays the lead in three original radio shows every week, writes scripts, and helps in the super vision and production of 12 programs as a member of the Radio Council of the Chicago Public Schools. Both Miss Ty nan and Miss Quilty wrote for the col lege publications during their school days. Wins Essay Contest Charlotte Wilcox '36, who is now Sister Catherine Joseph in the Providence novi tiate, won the prize in a nation-wide essay contest held in connection with the centennial of her community. Catherine Ann Dougherty '38 is the author of the Valentine Day story in the Chicago Daily News. A former Sky scraper writer, Miss Dougherty is a teacher in the Chicago public schools. The Damsel with the Dulcimer, whose verses appear in Donald Douglas' column in the Chicago Daily News, stands revealed as Gertrude Fecny ex '38. Rosemary Anderson '43, who won the national poetry contest sponsored by the Catholic School Press Association as an Immaculata senior, also has had poems published in Mr. Douglas' Sharps and Flats. Mrs. Frances Woods Donates Scholarship A scholarship, which will be avail able to students entering Mundelein next September, and which will be known as the Frances Hope Woods Memorial scholarship, has been established by Mrs. Frances Tighe Woods, in memory of her daughter, who was graduated in 1935, and who died last November. Miss Woods, during her college days, was active in class, sodality, and depart ment affairs, and in her senior year won the prize in an essay contest sponsored by the National Catholic Welfare Council.
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