"The only skyscraping girls' school in the world'' is small (600 students) Mundelein College, which is lodged near Lake Michigan in a 15-story building on Chicago's North Side. A popular teacher of physics and botany at Mundelein is Sister Mary Therese, member of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary, daughter of a Chicago contractor. When Mundelein moved into its skyscraper in 1930, it was seen that only two of its three elevator shafts would be needed for vertical traffic. This gave bespectacled Sister Mary, who was then in her late 205, an...
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