Aquinas Institute - Arete Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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GEORGE ODELL SIMMONS '‘Simmie” 37 Engle Terraco Bleaned Sacrament Simmie. without a doubt, in one of our best debaters and thia he h«a demonstrated to ua. Beside being a debater he ia an all-around handy man, and on the whole a Rood stenographer He ia certain to be a aucceaaful buainoaa man. EDWIN LOUS TYRRELL Ed 670 Arnett Boulevard Immaculate Conceptic n Ed ia one of the amall members of the class If Ed doea decide to settle down to work he will be highly successful. Ed will probably be head floor walker in some big department store in the future. Here one minute, there the next, that’s Ed twenty-five

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CLARENCE ROBERT PALMER Dirk” 113 Scager Street Blessed Sacrament Dick, a he is called by his classmates, is rather fond of outdoor sports. Although he has not entered into any of the school teams he will probably be the second Babe Ruth. Dick can also do typewriting and shorthand very well and he has our best wishes for a successful future ns a stenographer. JOSEPH THOM AS ROSSITER Joe” 348 Gregory Street St. Boniface little Joe is in a class by himself when it comes to staying out of school and getting away with it. When not absent. Joe is generally in school. Great life if you don’t weaken, eh, Joe! ARTHUR FRANCIS FRAUEL Art” 30 Doran Street Immaculate Conception Art is a Happy-go lucky fellow who studies when he feels like it But when he does study he is always there with the gtxtd Art and the girls have no trouble at all He is generally the center of humor of the class and his pleasant voice iiinkes his listeners interested in his talks A bright future is in store for him as a salesman. We hope you succeed. Art. twenty-four

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T H E A I! E T E €nglt$fj €bucatton anti tljc business ttibcitt HE young man of to-day who wishes to be successful in the business world must have a thorough knowledge of English. A good foundation in this subject should be laid in the grammar school and high school. It is true, of course, that the more English education the business man possesses the better will be his opportunities for “getting ahead”, for nothing is more embarrassing to one in a commercial position than is the lack of words or making a mistake in grammar. In almost every city in the United States, and particularly in our own city of Rochester, there are excellent opportunities to obtain a good English education. Study words, words, words and their uses, until such a vocabulary is worked up that we do not have to stop regularly to refer to Webster, or to any other standard dictionary. My advice to the student of business without a thorough knowledge of the English language is to obtain it as soon as possible or give up the idea of ever becoming a successful business man. Students of language state that the working vocabulary of the average person contains a scant three hundred words. You, the future business men of Rochester, are intimately acquainted with the three hundred old cronies who inhabit your craniums; but what do you do when you meet strange and unfamiliar words? What course do you pursue when you run across possible recruits to the battalions of words already at your beck and call? Do you pass these new comers by with a blank stare or do you hail them, find out their meaning, and place them at your tongue’s end, ready to be called upon when needed? When you stumble across a word you do not know, stab it with a mental pin and stick it in your memory. By all means gain an English education, even by dint of hard labor, and do not be doomed to disappointment as so many others have been in the past who tried to rise to high position without a supply of good English at their command. James Culhane, Commercial Department. § § Clap A war-lord quelled and gyved the world. Great pelf was his; his banners wide He flung from Rome to Zion-side, In regal splendor ever furled. Remaining years he spent in sin, In bouts of wassail, plunder, wrong. His realm was shook, he ruled not long— The worms of earth devoured him. A serf who tilled his land by day Trod the dirt that made the king. Spurned the slime that was the thing, And built his house with that same clay. O. t irml n-nix