Benedictine College - Raven Yearbook (Atchison, KS)

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CO-EDITORS Quintin J. Malone Joseph S. Thompson Photographic Editor of Editor Type matter and page make-up W. Gerald O'Shea Business Manager John B. Busch Joseph P. Gallagher Circulation Mgr. Asst. Bus. Mgr. It is pleasant to think just under the snow, That stretfhes so bleak and blank and cold, Are beauty and warmth that we cannot know, Green fields and leaves and blossoms of gold. -Hempstead AR T1 C LE S PERSONNEL by Joseph S. Thompson ......... ...,... 5 HAVE YOU MET- by Richard Kerr .......... ....... 6 EXECUTIVE by John J. 'rhimes .,.,.,.. ,..,. .lv FIGHTING TEAMS! AND THEIR GENERAL by William T. Dolan ......... ...,.,. 8 PIGSKIN by Henry R. Gonner ......,... .,..... 9 COURT REPORTER by Johnnie O'Mara .,...,.. ..,4..... 1 3 BIRDS OF A FEATHER by Jack Collins ........,,...... .,.....,, 1 5 MATCHES! by Thomas Morrissey ......,. .,.....,. 1 6 MEN OF '34 by Willard K. Tarrant ..I,.,,. ......... 1 8 HALL BOY by Patrick Fitzgerald ........ ,,.,,.,.. 2 0 HIGH SCHOOL GRADS by Robert LeCompte ...... DRIVE WHEELS . ...,.... 23 by Paul Kelly ..........,.,....,.,.. ....i.... 2 4 THAT CERTAIN THING by Charlie Briggs .,..........,.,. .....,... 3 0 S PE C I ALS INTRODUCTORY ......I..,,...A.......... ....... 2 JUST HOW MUCH?-Editorial ....... .......... 4 HIGH SEES OF THE YEAR .4,..., ...... . .17 Photography by Engraving Printed by STRATHMANN by ARTCRAFTS ABBEY STUDENT PRESS

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The Raven Magazine is the first of its line. It is not a yearbook though it embraces some year- book features in its magazine styleg its purpose, since there is no annual being published this year, is that of a link of continui- ty between the great Raven an- nuals of the past and those that are to be. Its editors hope that The Raven Magazine will not die after this first volume but will go forward with the other publications of St. Benedict's, filling its place, the magazine field. That there is a magazine field in college life is becoming more and more recog- nized by leading universities and colleges throughout the country, as a necessary unit in the writing and journalistic departments of progressive institutions.

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The whyfor of college and four short years - as it appears to the type editor Just How Much? HE discussion began in class. The professor, who, because of skill in thought provocation, justly deserved his title, often wondered whether a college of arts and sciences was of any particular benefit to its students, since, almost to a man, they would of necessity have to enter a trade or professional school upon graduation. Would it not be much more economical of money and the years of life to attend only a tech- nical school of concentrated training in a particular calling? Some classroom discussions are forgotten with the closing bell. This one was not. It provoked talk among more than a few, and, greater than this, it agitated collegiate thought concerning just how much benefit there existed in a liberal education. When the question was looked at coldly, was there any reason for such an education? Wasn't a technical school, after all, better from the very start? If college were only a place for one to spend four years while others progressed in their professions or trades, then a college education would be a detriment to the student. He would act far more wisely upon gradua- tion from high school, to enter at once upon his chosen profession, en- gineering, law, medicine, writing, and the rest, by entering a school where such subjects were concentrated upon. But it seems, after four years of college, that education is really more than a book-apprenticeship to some trade. Professional training is neces- sary, there is no escape from that admission, but if preceded by that which is really education, the profession itself becomes something alive, more than a mere means of livelihood, and the why of it all becomes under- stadnable. There will exist the same difference in the man before and after the why is discovered, as there exists between the reasoning of the technician building a machine by experiment, and the man putting it together on the assembly line. The first knows why a shaft is placed here, a cam there, the second knows only that it is to be so placed. The same rule applies to life. A highly skilled graduate in any pro- fession, unless he has a broad foundational education, will never realize the why of his work, will never live his work, will never derive from it- which is his life-the last measure of satisfaction, but will always be re- mote from it, knowing only certain physical laws, never realizing a com- plete education. Specialization emphatically is not to be frowned upon. It is the 1ife's blood of modern progress and makes for a high degree of perfection in all forms of endeavor. It sometimes, though, becomes identihed with the utilitarian side of a profession and then becomes the god of the specialist. Endeavor concentrated upon one phase of an object is certainly permiss- ible, but it can and should be built upon broad foundations, whose per- spective can still be seen even when seated upon the house-tops of special- ized work. 4