Bishop DuBourg High School - Cavalier Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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The hearts and mintls of all nations are very much tlifferent and yet so alike. All peoples, no matter what the strange souncl of their languages, love antl laugh, have sorrow, tell their stories, and refount their adventures. Wfherever there is a group of people working together there will most likely arise disagreements -- sometimes petty, sometimes serious. Since such groups form the nation, antl in turn tlte nations make the worltl, one can see the importanee and the necessity for a mutual bond of understantling so that the worltl can laugh antl mourn together, can shake hantls antl make Llp. l.anguage is the way of expression antl communication with intlivitluals antl nations. lt is the expression of thoughts antl beliefs. To understand a foreign people, we must first untlerstantl their language. the key to the heart antl mintl. Latin, French, German, and Spanish, the four languages offered at Bishop Duliourg, will certainly eontlition our group for this world-witle need. 18 LA GUAGES

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Why study the language that we've spoken all our lives and should know by now? Why read poetry, plays, and stories when we intend to spend our lives in the business world or in a laboratory? Simply because to know literature is to know the minds of men. Any- thing that will help us understand people is necessary in life. And from poetry, plays, and stories we learn of life. Whether it warns us or inspires us, creates happiness or sadness, gives a moral or prompts a laugh, literature gives us an insight to the workings of the minds and hearts of people. Then, too, unless we can make others understand usg unless we can get our ideas across clearly, we can never win a point or make a sale or become a success. So we study grammar. We learn the everyday usage and the fine points of writing and speaking and are happy to express our inner thoughts satisfactorily. Our chances for happiness in life would be very meager without a language. 'I7 l Ni o E GLISH

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MATHEM TICS Mathematics is the tool by which we may discover wonders in the world God with infinite precision has created for us. Knowing and understanding mathematics, we can appreciate more fully the towering magnificence of a skyscraper and the breathless wonder of a suspension bridge. The chemist, the astronomer, the architect, the builders of ships, planes, and precision instruments have been using and will continue to use mathe- matics to evolve formulas responsible for the progress and development that we have seen and are still to see. Almost every aspect of our daily lives is influenced by mathematics. In whatever career we chose: scientist or engineer, businessman or craftsman, secretary or housewife - mathematics will be present. Wfe, at Bishop DuBourg High School, have a c orc mathematics curricula ranging from basic math to the more advanced study of algebra, plane and solid geometry, and trigonometry. Interested and dedi- cated teachers open to us this essential avenue of learning. h 'se of comprehensive Nl 1 3 .L WG' 19