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

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The final touch-mechanical l,'Ollfilll13Ii0ll of the t?COIlOIHi5l-5 eiforts. Students in elernentury enluvation renew their long-lust ac-qllaint ance with geography. A pause to underscore.

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Complex problems of advanced chemistry demand patience and cooperation. of biological principles requires a synthesizing mind- a mind that has the initiative and the drive to theorize and substantiate those theories. By the same reasoning the art major in college arrives at a knowledge of art theory that has developed through the ages. Mere recognition of a work of art from one of the Egyptian stages and the dating of its composition is useless unless it is a facet in the overall picture of the field. This same correlation of knowledge is present in the Held of chemistry. The atomic structure of ben- zene. for example. is merely a fact to the chemist-but it is a fact that opens up the door to unlimited investi- gation. Through experimentation. diligent and pains- taking. the chemist, too, is able to theorize and to ex- plore new possibilities.

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Wh W Y The Atomic Reactor-latest addition to the campus-envisions scientific aspects of the future. ln all fields, lo think clearly is the principal require- nient and to coordinate the thoughts of the student is the purpose of the seminar course. In the College of Arts and Sciences nearly every major field requires the completion of such a course, for it is the seminar that solidifies the random gleanings and gives meaning to the whole process. Contrasting and parallel theories of economics, edu- cation, literature and philosophy are thrashed out and viewed from every aspect in the seminar. Yet at the same time. every faculty of the analytic mind is brought to bear on particular subjects and every general prin- ciple of the individual field is applied in order to criticize and evaluate the subject under discussion. 42