Providence College - Veritas Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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AND LEARNING is a process which bursts the narrow bounds of the classroom to perme- ate every area of the P.C. man's life from the chapel to the ballroom. Names like Lester Lanin, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie are headliners who are often part of our campus social life. Rollicking parties and dances have been and still are the traditional fringe benefits of the student regimen. But this is a campus on which Larry Elgart might be followed by Wil- liam Buckley or on which a Farmer's Festival precedes a lecture on the Catholic-Protestant Mdialoguef' Ask a Providence College student about the Honors Program or the National ln- stitute of Health sponsored Honors Science Program and he will tell you that these courses are symbolic of the quality of graduates that Providence is producing. Students here might also consider religious life as one of the fringe benefits too, were it not for the fact that con- cern for the spirit is too much in the picture of our campus to bear a t'frmge title. There is a Mass scheduled to conform to every student's class hours and the understanding ear of a priest is ever near to listen to every young man's problems. A BURNING pace warms the crisp autumn air as the P.C.,man emulates the distance- running exploits of a Spartan youth in the fabled days of Greece. Green-clad R.O.T.C. cadets also behaved like the militant Spartans as they made Fort Devens come alive with their six week summer camp. Not only did the cadets put into practice their classroom military sub- jects but they also made fast friendships with students from seventeen other colleges and uni- versities. Barracks life created an environment of cooperation and sacrifice that few cadets forgot in their return to civilization. These stu- dents were well versed in the arts of modern warfare and were prepared for their command positions in the cadet brigade and later in the Regular Army of the United States. Educa- tion, one can never forget, is a many faceted thing, a mellow mixture of the old and the new. Whether in his classroom or on the rolling ter- rain of Fort Devens or in the quiet of the chapel, the P.C. man is learning.

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APPRECIATION OF nature's wintertime artistry iinds itself oft occasioned by a billowy blanket of snow over Providence Collegels Smith Hill campus. Sleepily stretching a foot from the warmth of a bed into the nippy air of early morning induces many a man to reflect seriously on the value of his early classes or of breakfast. But life goes on, and the classrooms slowly fill and the laboratory burners begin the day's work of keeping solutions boiling and the coffee warm. The ice-encrusted lamps send their rays through winter's chill gloom and the cacophony of a touch football game is replaced by the click of skate blades against a shimmering sheet of ice. Lazily floating autumn clouds give way to the bullet- like flight of a hard-rubber puck, the shattering slap of a shot into an opponent's net. The colorful crowds, the clatter of the hockey sticks, the bustle of the inquiring scientists of Albertus Magnus-all these are in strange contrast to the quiet hush which prevails outdoors as nature settles her Wintery mantel over the campus. Life does seem calmer now and the routine is soon established. One learns to take leaps with seven league boots over the unplowed paths and accept with good grace the bruises resulting from a fall and the snow which somehow overcame one's overshoes. More are late to closs now but some- how the professors always make it and to miss a few words might mean a failure in an exam. 1. 3, J Y ., W If gp. 1 W 1 ' I .K