Catholic University of America - Cardinal Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Admetus laughingly succumbs to Heracles' veiled term of friendship. Americas armed forces. Discipline of the mind and the hody through military procedure will ensure this reliabil- ity in A1nerica's youth. Practice makes perfectw is possihly too trite a maxim to apply to the development of the student in Speech and Drama. But whether it is trite or not. it more than adequately describes the intermediate years of the drama student's college life. The show's the thing is the golden rule of the drama major. whether the studentis participation is centered on technicality or creativity of production. Set-designing. method of makeup. lighting, hlocking and prop-handling seem minor studies or tasks in themselves, hut in the totality of the whole play they may spell success or failure. With this principle in mind. the Department develops in its students an understanding of the whole realm of theater. A vital element of the finished production is the art of applying: make-up. 36

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the apex of education ' . . the eorrelatioii of all into a unified whole . With the culmination of the preparatory and develop- ment stages of the college Career. the real work of educa- tion ln-gins. The student enters his major field in his last two years with well-laid foundations in every field of knowledge. The cfoordination of facts and principles and the correlation of all into a unified whole lmegins. The student takes courses that seem almost isolated from his main interests. yet the aim of education has not lreen at-liiexed if that student Cannot fit this nisolatedi' study into a SLl1'Yl'3' xii-w of his field. The importance of oltserving and amassing data Cannot be deserilaedg hut lo what avail if the student Cannot analyze and syn- thesize the data he has galliered? To teach a man to think it ith precision, with clarity and with originality is the purpose ol college and it is this purpose that is emphasized most in the last two years. ln the tit-ld of lviology lo know all the muscles of the eat is merely to know a Conglonieration of fact. Ilut to go ln-youd this knowledge. to relate this data to other ltiologieal specimens and to arrive at a knowledge Assimilation and coordination of four years' work-the biology seminar