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4 2 THE SKYSCRAPER THE SKYSCRAPER Official Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE Chicago, Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College for Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charity, B. V. M. Application made for entry as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Chi- cago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 1.25 the year. VOL. 1 FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1931 No. 1 Editor Rhea Moustakis News Editor Margaret Roche Assistant Mary J. McGivern Society Editor Janet Ruttenberg Feature Editor Irene O'Connell Athletic Editor Glenna Mae Hoctor Sky-Line Editor Anita McGovern Business Manager Mary J. McGivern Reporters: Marjorie Dee, Louise De Tamble, Genevieve Dooner, Justine Feely, Irene Galvin, Jane Gramlich, Evelyn Lincoln, Bertille McEvoy, Angela Maher, Helen Orvis, Emer Phibbs, Mary Jane Sullivan, Mary Tileston. Telephone: Briargate 3800 THE COLLEGE NEWSPAPER As the first edition of The Skyscraper goes to press, it carries with it all the hope, enthusiasm, and labor of the editorial staff and its assistants. The outcome is awaited with eager anticipation. We feel confident that the paper will accomplish its aims: to strengthen and foster school spirit; to promote and encourage interest in col lege activities; to create mutual interests which will result in closer contact among students, and to promote cooperation between faculty and students; to make our college better known by presenting news and events in concrete form. It will also be a means of fostering journalistic endeavor and of giving the students opportunity for self- expression. The Skyscraper is the newest venture of the newest college in Chicago and, as in all infant enterprises, difficulties will be encoun tered and organization come slowly. Beautiful as is our college building and complete as is the equipment, we need before all things j i yaLfo i-Jeyalty OH thg part of the entire student body, loyalty to the religious principles that form the foundations of our college life, loyalty to the faculty ; nd to every student enterprise, the newest of which is the The Skyscraper, our college paper. We, the initial staff of The Skyscraper, propose for ourselves certain definite ideals to be obtained through the medium of our newspaper. We look to you, the student body, to help us with your cooperation, your sympathy, and your good will, and to aid us in upholding The Skyscraper's platform, which is: 1. A greater Mundelein, 2. One hundred per cent loyalty, 3. Support in athletics and all student activities, 4. Every Catholic student a sodalist. RETREAT AND REINFORCEMENT Retreat A time of prayer? Perhaps, but what do we mean by prayer? We are all quick-thinking young moderns. We take prayer in the broad sense of the word, so that it includes lively in terest, new ideas, constructive reflection, everything up-to-date even in our spiritual world. You know, some of us have the idea that only nuns and priests reflect. It's really worth trying out. We never know how truly interesting our minds are until we look into them. Our material world travels a mile a minute, so to speak. If we keep up with the times, life is never boring. We are interested in what is going on around us. We learn something new every day. We are alive, glowing and stimulated by new ideas. Isn't our spiritual world the same? It is just as modern as we are. It is bubbling over with splendid ideas waiting just around the corner for us. Then the smart thing to do is to walk faster and catch up with them. Some of us will be surprised and a little envious at what we have been missing. Some of us will just smile with satisfaction at what we have had a part in accomplishing. All of us will wake up and want to stay right up there at the head of things. Now, of course, at some time or another during retreat, we are each going to say to ourselves, That doesn't apply to me at all. It probably doesn't at the time, but then it is always a good idea to tuck these things away in some little corner of our minds, and some day we may have occasion to use them. It has been said that every thing we hear or read crops out sometime, maybe years later when it is least expected and there you are Just a little precaution for our own use. Precaution is a good word and comes in handy now and then. Precaution and retreat are very much alike, anyway. When a gen eral orders his army to retreat, it is to give them time for reinforce ment. He uses this time to construct new plans or reconstruct old ones, to obtain more ammunition, to heal the wounded, and to bury the dead. It is the same with our retreat. We take a little time out of our busy everyday lives to reinforce our spiritual strength. We sit down and, with the help of the retreat master, construct new plans for our future. After all, the retreat master is there to guide us and offer suggestions, but it is we ourselves who must do the actual work. Then in this time we have taken off, we try to heal all the bruises and wounds of mind and soul. We wash them out. doc tor them up, and make them almost as good as new. Our past faults and mistakes are our spiritual dead; so these we safely bury some place where we are not likely to encounter them again. And so we prepare to begin our retreat. We have all decided to go into it with determination and with open minds, ready to catch up on anything good we may have been letting slip by us. Let's wish ourselves good luck AFTER EXAMINATIONS We sigh with relief that examinations are over Work along many lines has been completed with the closing of a semester. Our marks are what we deserve. But are they what we expected? One half of the school year is over, and a new semester is about to begin. As we look over the months of our past work, we see in the reveal ing light of the examination questions, the many points we neglected to stress. We may have vague or perhaps definite regrets. But it is over and Before us lies the open way It has been said that the human race is divided into four classes. There are those who seek fame. There are those who seek money. There are those who seek character and culture. And there are those who go through life seeking nothing, seeing nothing, attain ing nothing. Examinations sum up what we are supposed to have learned. They are not only the means of arriving at credits and grades for our future graduation from college, but they are also a test of our present acquirements. Let us begin our work now, while we have a new semester ahead of us to prove our worth to ourselves and to all who believe in us. Examinations are not given for the teacher's use alone; they are given to us as a standard by which to measure ourselves. You may say that ten years from now the grades you received in the last test will not matter perhaps. But are we going to col lege for grades alone? No, education is a moulder of character. All through our lives we shall be facing examinations of one type or another. We are what we are because of our dreams, and it is only by working from the wrong to the right side of the pattern that we can expect to achieve success. In setting out after anything, aim your arrow at the sky, and even though you fall short and only reach the top of the steeple, keep your dream-vision always ahead of you. The only thing really worth while is the glory we get through work hard-earned, and the satisfaction of duty well performed. SCHOOL SPIRIT There is keen fascination about the very expression, school spirit. It brings to mind all the highlights of our scholastic life; but it goes still further and recalls those quiet, uneventful days spent in planning and in anticipation of those paramount interests. The idea is not new. It has been impressed upon our minds ever since we were old enough to appreciate the better things in life, and should be foremost in our minds, now that we are climbing the lad der of learning to higher education. Having been given the opportunity to attend school in such an ideal environment, and in such a beautiful, modernistic building, we must feet afi/the more deeply excited to gratitude. The building is a twentieth-century institution in the heart of one of the finest sections of Chicago, and thereby calls for twentieth-century spirit. The spirit of the day is a fine one, if we take it at its best and give it a chance for expression. Upon us, the pioneers of this skyscraper college, is conferred the honor and responsibility of founding ideals and establishing a record which will make the reputation of the school. Each and every student should cooperate with the faculty in making the first year a banner year. Not only should this be done to make the im mortal history of the college more worthy, but also for the better ment of the student herself. If environment means anything in the life of the student, she must be enthusiastically inspired by her sur roundings at a college so beautiful and modern, yet which clings to the age-old principles of the forming of young womanhood. Our attitude should be: Our school first, last and always School spirit at Mundelein should not be of mediocre caliber. It should be spontaneous, but, like the school which it represents, a powerful force. It is difficult to undertake such a weighty project as opening a great college of this kind, and the faculty is to be con gratulated on its achievement. The rest lies with us, and we feel sure that with such facilities at our command, and with generous loyalty on our part, we shall make history, just as did the unknown soldiers on the Western Front who cooperated with their com manders to the lasting glory of world historv. THE NEW SEMESTER Following upon retreat, the class work for the second semester will commence. For the freshmen especially, it will be a smoother, steadier beginning. They are now accustomed to the routine of college life, to which they have so admirably adapted themselves. We are now an organized student body, no longer strange to the faculty or to each other. Classes will begin without the uncertain ties that prevailed in the first part of the year. With the new semester, the many school activities will assume a more vital interest for the students. The basketball teams are being organized, and the squads are practicing for the coming tournament. The clubs of the various departments are attracting much attention. Everyone is interested in that organization, the Laetare Players, which did such splendid work in the formal opening of the auditorium. The mem bers of this group have been earnestly striving to gain points for the pins that will soon be awarded. With the retreat behind us, but with its resolutions dominating our course of action, we look forward to the work that lies before us. The scholastic standard of this skyscraper college should be set high by the charter students of Mundelein. The friendships founded here at school will last, not only for the few short years we are here, but will flourish and grow in the years to come. The friendly spirit shown by the students this first semester is to be commended, and we feel sure it will continue and develop, so that in future years there will exist in the alumnae association, of which we shall be the foundation, an enthusiastic Mundelein spirit that will knit us to our college in enduring bonds of loyalty and love. uAe v/cy-oCine A ballad (With apologies to Sir Patrick Spens) A maid sate in her bower Thinking darke and deepe, Oh, whaur will I get gude grade points? Oh, tain, fain wad I weepe. The term end fast approacheth, And I wad graduate. So I must gather credit Ere yet it is too late. The deane has writ a letter And signed it wi' her hand. And sent it to the maiden, The saddest in the land. Oh, wha has done this ill deed, This ill deed done to me, To give me E's this time of year? And the tear blinded her ee. Then up and spoke her comrade. Sate at the maid's right knee, Oh, a text book is the best rede That I can give to ye. So she has oped her text book. Let's hope she's not too late. Or P on her report card Will surely be her fate. * * * Nemo. We've just heard the sad story of the girl who cut Economics and learned later that the class didn't meet. And then there was the girl who was so busy reading the bulletin board that she forgot to go to assembly. * Towering, massive against the gray, Alone, above the sleeping town, While sifting snow drifts softly down The terraced skyline at break of day. She who cuts her classes often finds that she has sliced off more than she can spare. * * * A symphony of imperishable stone sweeps to the clouds in lines of power, grace, and abounding strength. It stands, the symbol of dauntless cour age and foreseeing wisdom, the in spiration of future ages. Here dwells that peerless beauty of which the poet has said: A thing of beauty is a joy forever- Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness. * * * Gretchen. Semesters end but twice a year. Examinations bring good cheer When they are o'er. I may not pass, I cannot tell; But I can only think, Oh, well, I've flunked before. * Nemo. Do you remember way back when: We spent most of our first class periods wandering up and down the corridors and riding the elevators searching for the class? The entire student body tried to lunch in the cafeteria at the same time? The sound of a voice over the broa'.- - casting system was like a summons from the spirit world, and almost caused nervous shock and hysteria? The name of a faculty member was but a name and nothing more? * * Peter. Professor Subordinate? Yes, and what other kind of clause is there? Freshman Insubordinate. * * * An education is like bread. We often prefer it with jam or marma lade, but it's better for us with just a little butter. * * * Peter. The social rooms are empty, The gym is left forlorn, The library is brimming full With students every morn. Books no more are dusty. Brains no longer lax; Energy is all about As we our brain cells tax. Notebooks now are priceless. Study hours most dear, Students so industrious Why? EXAMS ARE HERE The Unknown Quantity. * * * Freshman Now that examinations are over, we can heave a sigh of re lief, and look forward with satisfac tion to receiving our grades. (The body was interred at Rosehill ceme tery.) * * * Don't you think it would be fine To find your joke in our Sky-Line ? Then jot your thought upon a paper And send it quick to The Skyscraper. tL
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1931-01-30 (2)
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