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THE SKYSCRAPER April 16, 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 APRIL 16 No. 10 Editors-in-Chicf 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: Marie Bushnell, Roberta Christie, Mary Geigcr, Gladys Henry, Eileen Hettinger, Lorraine Horn, Jane Malkemus, Jean Mc- Keever, Bernice Meany, Fuller O'Malley, Mary Frances Petrie, Mary Catherine Rose, Mary Catherine Schmelzer, Mildred Sperry, Harriet Steigelman, Louise Teich. Telephone: Briargate 3800 REST IN PEACE THERE is in each of us a reluctance to open the secret chambers of our hearts and bare to a world that may not under stand that may smile at our sentimental ity with pitying tolerance those hidden feelings that we treasure there. Perhaps that is why we find it so difficult today to put into words exactly what Sister Mary Angelita, B.V.M., meant to those of us who knew and loved her. Her relationship with us was not only that of the mind, but that of the heart as well. During the three years she was at Mundelein College, Sister Mary Angelita was counsellor, teacher, kindly critic, and beloved friend to all who came to her. She could not seem to do enough to help along the pathway of true learning and cre ative zeal each student who manifested but the faintest spark of honest endeavor often taxing herself to the limits of her endurance. She opened our eyes when we were grop ing vaguely for beauty, and she fired in our hearts a belief in our ability to express that loveliness. Then, too, she was intensely human; we loved the twinkle in her eyes at a gay bit of humor, the spontaneity of her laugh when some comic situation occurred. We have a record of her life before us as we write. Parts of it leap from the page, entered the congregation of the Sisters of Charity, B.V.M., in 1898, author of Starshine and Candlelight, head of the English department of Mundelein College, continued her work though in failing health. It was a full life, brimming with service to God in prayer, teaching, writing and pain. The torch of her life burned with a great brightness, and how many thousand dull bits of humanity were kindled to a glorious flame from that torch, only He knows. We do not weep because she has gone. A STRAIGHT A ? A S last minute plans are being completed for the third annual all-school card par ty, the affair itself is occupying the con versation of the entire student body, and it is also calling forth whole-hearted coopera tion. This can result in only one thing success. Depending as it does upon the support of each student, an event of this kind is an almost infallible indicator of school spirit, and a most efficient test of loyalty. In this light it is gratifying to note that from the busiest alumna down to the youngest fresh man, there has been evidenced a spirit of willingness and cooperation of the type which expresses itself in action rather than in words. By the system employed, each student, as well as the indvidual classes, will be credited with whatever support she gives to the event. During the coming week, then our home-stretch let us exert that extra spurt of energy which will bring in those possible last-minute patrons, door prizes, and tickets. Expressed in social and financial terms, the third annual all-school party promises to be a splendid success. Graded on the basis of united student and class support, let us merit for the Mundelein student body an honor rating a straight A. BY THE WAY T T is an old quarterly custom that all of one's friends and relatives are burdened with gruesome tales of impossible examina tions. Any student is more than willing to vouch for the crushing weight that quar terlies impose. However, we were slightly puzzled whether to consider as advice or warning, the notice that appeared on the general bulletin board last Monday: No tumbling till after examinations. It was just an ordinary meeting of the Sodality, one of those ten-minutes-after- assembly affairs that are tucked in solely by the efficiency of its officers and the good will of its members. Yet during that brief space they managed to enroll over fifty stu dents in the Confraternity of the Knights and Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament, an astounding amount of dues were col lected ( ), and over thirty sodalists volun teered to attend the coming Ciscora confer ence. Just another instance of achieving quietly. Our latest contribution to the follies of youth concerned the high school gradu ate who was being properly awed by our explanations during a tour of the building. Pausing in the Faculty room to admire the display of original documents, her eye hit upon one familiar name. Overlooking the explanatory second title, Mark Twain, under one letter, she exclaimed, And this one is from St. Clemens As we go to press the sophomores are leading the classes in ticket returns for the Student Activities party. The alumnae are a close second followed by the seniors, jun iors, and freshmen. We know how frail she was during the last years of her life and how wonderful release was to her. We only whisper Rest in Peace, and pray that we may do as nobly with our lives as she did with hers. : . , H AVE you had a birthday this year? Well, don't tell anybody if you have. A Columbia University psychologist, after collecting statistics on the months of birth and intelligence quotient of 22,427 school children over a long period of years, has discovered that people born during Janu ary, February, and March are not as in telligent as those born at any other time of the year. THE prediction of earthquakes is now possible, declares a professor at Regis college, Denver, in The Brown and Gold. A change in the taste and external appear ance of the water in wells of a district is generally considered an ominous sign, ac cording to Father Forstall. THE Dramatic club of Columbia college, Dubuque, gave the premiere western showing of Eugene O'Neill's play, Days Without End, shortly before Easter. The play was so enthusiastically received that the club is seriously considering showing Days Without End in neighboring cities in Iowa and Illinois. The Sky-Line CHEMISTRY AND I By Jane Malkemus To begin with, it was a dangerous curi osity that lured me into taking chemistry, curiosity as to just what those cute little formulae and cunning little arrows meant, and the belief that you tucked yourself in to a dainty apron, mixed chemicals as you would a cake, played around with test tubes, and made a tentative effort to remember what color your dear concoctions turned. False and fatal error Instead I must listen to long and dreary and utterly be wildering lectures, and in a state of mental indigestion, swathed in rubber, go in to the laboratory to pick up casually blazing test tubes, to dabble my fingers merrily in nitric acid, to surround myself with heaps of shattered glass, to attach the hose of my Bunsen burner to the water faucet instead of to the gas jet, baptizing the surprised instructor and mysel f in the resultant foun tain. When that most intricately phrased of all books, the laboratory manual, tells me cautiously to sniff the fumes issuing from a villainously smoking test tube, I quaff deep draughts of the miserable stuff that leave me choking and coughing with smart ing eyes and burning nostrils. The too- late discovery that I was avidly inhaling a poisonous gas only serves to terrify me with the fear that I shall some day mys teriously and unpicturesquely leave this world of chemistry. Tests are a bi-monthly occurrence dur ing which I stare stupidly at the board and wonder if I haven't wandered into a quan- titive analysis, or a calculus class that con ducts its studies in Sanscrit or hierogly phics. My waking and sleeping hours are haunt ed by little devils impersonating electrons in oxidation and reduction reactions, taunt ing me with questions of valence and atomic structure. My life is reduced to the terms of a chemical equation. Unfinished homework plus unsympa thetic teachers equals public embarrass ment plus unflattering grades. Chop suey plus a chocolate soda for lunch equals a physical discomfiture. Going to bed at midnight plus tardy response to the alarm equals being late for school. But if you should ask me why I do not free myself from this chemical bondage I should mentally throw up my hands in hor ror and say But I like chemistry. THE AMERICAN NURSERY Little Bo Peep lias lost her sheep And doesn't know where to find them. Rezcard offered. Simple Simon met a pieman Going to the fair. Said Simple Simon to the pieman, Good morning. (Note: We are sorry to differ with the editor of Ho-Hum about Simon's reply. Perhaps it teas another morning.) * * * Q How far can a man walk into a woods? A. (At the bottom of the column.) * * * First art student: When I write a book, I'm going to have it illuminated. Second, cruelly: Yes, you'll need to. * * * ROMANCE Soft amber light, Moon and star bright; A loved one near, Alas and so dear, Soft April rain At casement pane, Hut he is here Heart's joy so dear; And tranquil love As from above, We two enjoy. My dog, Sun-Toy, And I. * * * Reforesrrarion? (Found in a rhetoric theme) When the botany student goes ont for a walk in the forest, instead of being inspired by its beauty, instead, of recalling beautiful poems about it, he picks it up, examines it, recollects its life cycle, and places it in his pocket. ANOTHER FRESHMAN STORY ' An earnest little freshman intent on material for debate solemnly walked into the Tribune office and politely inquired at the Information desk.: Could you please tell me if this is the Daily News Personal Service Bureau? * * * For the benefit of those Faculty members who perplexed us unduly with particular tests last -week, we present the following general test, with apologies to the author of 1066 And All That. The first five Faculty members turn ing in answers to all the questions will merit places on the Honor Roll. I. Fill in some of the blanks: a b c d. e II. Contrast Peter the Great or Sir Walter Scott or both. III'. Do you remember any of the material in the textbook? Why not? IV. List seven worthy uses of leisure, if any. V. Arrange the following in order: a. The beginning. b. The middle. c. The end. VI. How do you account for the Firth of Forth, or mulberry trees, or neither? VII. Would you say that Romeo or Melpomene was responsible for the Fall of the Bas tille? If not, what would you say? VIII. Do you believe that Columbus discovered America, or vice versa? IX. Do you think the Pythagorean principle is a good thing, or versa vice ? X. What do you think? XI. Does it matter? * * * A. to Q. above: Half way. After that lie is walking out.
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1934-04-16 (2)
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