Mercy Academy - Thesaurus Yearbook (Marshall, MO)

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THE COMMERCIAL CLASS THE Commercial Department is not the least of the activities at Mercy Academy. In this department one is trained for the duties in the business world. The touch system of typewriting is used and the Gregg system of shorthand. The scope of the training received in this department is the full and harmonious training of the body, the mind and the heart, and its distinctive feature is thorough- ness which aims at the complete development of the intellectual powers and the moral character. A most interesting and profitable form of activity in this class are the tests that the students take each month. Beginning in the first month of the school year with one, two, three, by Christmas the machines are keeping time with Sousa's VVashington March. Many awards have been received this year for accuracy and speed. The following have received pinsfor writing hfty words and over: Gwendolyn Daly, Mildred Castle, Frances Fitzgerald, Agatha Dormer, Edna Giger, Agnes McLaughlin, Felice Swisher, Eleanor Hall, and Marguerite Bryan. The following girls received pins for writing from forty to fifty words: Mary Malone, Bertha Mae Motzel, Rita McKay, Ruth Crow, Katherine Titterington. I 33

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WILL THE RADIO DISPLACE THE NEWSPAPER AS THE CHIEF DISSEMINATOR OF NEWS DURING THE NEXT DECADE By JOSEPH PATRICK SWEENEY This Editorial won second place in Missouri in the International Quill and Scroll Contest. TODAY the important news of the world is broadcasted through- out radio-land. It reaches the minds of forty per cent of the people. Today both the important and minor news is published in millions of newspapers throughout the world reaching the minds of seventy per cent of the people. The question is, will the radio displace the newspaper as the chief disseminator or distributor of news within the next ten years? It is believed that as long as the radio uses the concise, brief method of distributing news and only news that is of general interest to the world, it will never displace the newspaper. The newspaper gives news in a more complete more interesting way. There is a guarantee of understanding. The radio at present shows no pictures, and unless one under- stands the speaker the first time, he does not get the news. The radio announcer does not repeat until he is understood. A newspaper can be read at any leisure time, but one has to go to a radio at a particular time which is often inconvenient. Yet news can be distributed by radio to thousands of people less than two seconds after it occurs. If television is made practical and put in use as it is expected a combination with radio, the radio and television together may stand a good chance of displacing the newspaper. When that time comes, radio-televisions will be in every home, in public places, broadcasting and showing moving pictures at the same time, while the news is actually taking place. This may come within the next ten years and, if so, radio will displace the newspaper as the chief disseminator of news. Page 32

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First row -R. Chow, Associate Editor: R. ix'1CKAY, Assistant Editor: E. l',u'L1N, Reporter: l-I SWISHICR, Reporter. Second row Nl. I.. BARR, Associate Editor: E. BROAUHEAD, Associate Editor: M, Cixsru-i, Editor- in-chief: Nl. j. FRAIN, Associate Editor: A. DOKMIER, Associate Editor Third row fR. llixvon, Reporter: bl. SWEIQNIGY, Exchange Editor: l.. H.-won, Business Manager. THE MERCET BEAM AND THESAURUS STAFF HIC Blereet Beam and Thesaurus Staff organized this year with Sister Mary Agatha adviser and Mildred Castle Editor-in-Chief. The paper is published monthly for five months and then the annual is edited. For live years our paper and annual have been published successfully. This year marked a great improvement in our paper, owing to the cooperation of the staff members under the able guidance of their adviser. Page I-I