Aquinas Institute - Arete Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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-,ar Aggressive feaching in Sr, Hildegarde's Social Siudies class. Fr. Elli 3- ' REV. ARTHUR R. LOOBY. C.S.B. Direcior of fhe Department of Social Siudies Down in South America in The finger of God wrifing in fime. l-lislory is primarily a slory, a very inleresl- ing siory ol wha? man has Jrried in rhe pasl and is now frying, wha? he did and wha'r he failed lo do, where he progressed and where he regressed. lr is hoped 'rhar 'lhe sludy of hislory will help man lo profil' by whal he has learned from 'rhe pasl. The hisrory course here is exrensive, rouch- ing pracrically all fields of human endeavor bofh in lhis counlry and lhroughour fhe world. Social Sfudies, World l-lisrory, American His- rory, Problems of American Democracy, and American Governmenr give The sludenr ln- sighf inro 'rhe rnoiives of people, rhe iunclions of government and mosl imporlanl, lhe providence of God. A young Carholic is berrer able lo inlerprer lhe modern world and his relarion +o ir when he has digesied 'rhe iacls of hislory, l-le is capable of be- coming a good cirizen only when he under- srands rhe duries ol a cirizen, and lhe rela- rionship oi a cirizen 'ro 'rhe srare.

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REV. CHARLES P. DONOVAN. C.S.B. Director of the Department of Mathornaiics MATHEMATICS Menfol Discipline 'Harough equafions, proposifions. logarifhms, and permufofions. In ihe developmeni and progress of +oday's complex world, maihemaiics plays an im- poriani pari. The sciences of asironomy, aeronauiics, neuclear physics eic., all have maihemaiics as iheir basic foundaiion. Even ihough ihis would be reason enough io promoie The siudy of maihemaiics, There is +he iuriher ideal of inducing ihoughi ihrough clearer paiferns of ihinking. Anyone who has had some coniaci wiih maihemaiics will readily siaie Thai i'r iaughi him io ihinlc more clearly and more quickly. The mos+ irnporiani reason for 'rhis pursuii is ihe fad +ha+ 'rhe siudenl' can gei' a glimpse of G-od's plan in creaiion fhrough ihe siudy oi 'rhe logical order and consisiency of maihemaiics. The course a+ Aquinas includes elemen+ary, inierrnediaie, and ad- vanced algebra: plane and solid geomeiry, and plane irigonomeiry. li is 'lhe hope ihai ihe siudenis through ihese will begin io acquire a greaier knowledge of lhe world, and iis relaiionship wiih God. Hard af worl in Sr. Suzqnneg Elementary Algebra class. g'll Fr. Carter explains a spherical polyhedron in Solid Geomeiry. B Fr. Donovan's math wizards. A new proposition in Mr. McCarthy's Plane Geomeiry class

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THE LIBRARY Books, fhe daily bread of the intellect. Just as the body needs food to live and maintain life, so 'foo the mind needs intellectual nourishment in order to subsist. The source of our mental diet at Aquinas is the Library. Books' serve many purposes. Some we read lor factual knowledge, some lor the pictures they paint of real life, others for the answers to prac- tical problems which present them- selves. Another reason for reading was perfectly expressed by Emily Dickenson when she said, There is no frigate like a book to take us worlds away. This reason, often overlooked, is one of the most im- portant purposes of good reading. It is this type which takes us out of ourselves and places us mentally in lands which we otherwise cannot visit, and introduces us to peoples whom we may never know. The Aquinas library is a real and Friendly place, partially because of the fact +ha'r it is manned to some extent by the students themselves. The Library Club has for its primary function the humanizing of the library and making books friends, good read- ing good company. Where can one 'Find better conversationalisis than in good books, where the witliest and wisest meet to converse? Enioying silence and study in the library. M ISS JEAN CAPPELLINO Taking inventory. .,t WWTP l l gf 5 . Librarian Lowell McNally and Ed McDonald catch up on current events. Making use of the card catalogue.