Providence College - Veritas Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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PRAYER AND prudence are the spiritual oiferings of the cam- pus, white-robed Dominicans, steeped in the rich traditions of eight centuries in the service of God. The P.C. man brooks no obsessive Ivy fear of an alma materis benevolent paternalism when he has learned to penetrate the true meaning of the priestly title Father, Indeed, the analogy is apropos even in the translation of the Latin alma mater,'l the 'lkindly motherv from whence the P.C. man imbibes nourishment of mind and soul and body. Our lay faculty is of course also of the highest caliber and the College would not have been able to achieve its high standards without their labors. The intent faces in a science lecture hall serve to mirror each studentls realization that education should be a very serious busi- ness. There is no room for those who wish merely to float their way through the studies of the four years. At this College, a diploma means more than a piece of ornate parchment to be later used as a decoration in an executive's office. Nu...

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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

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it PROWESS in sports, in entertainment, in comradeship-these are the paints and pigments which color any sketch of college life. Coach Mullaney's UFab- ulous Friarsv of basketball renown hold court in the environs of Alumni Hall, but their reputation for athletic skill and sportsmanship constitutes a good will ambassadorship whose effects a-re more far-flung than the team itself can ever hope to physically travel. Nationally famed recording groups such as the Brothers Four have filled the campus with the strains of song, but no sound quite so mellifluous as the murmer of friendly voices in a late night gab-fest, making the conversational rounds of subjects from L'il Abner to the problem of predestina- tion. These are the hours which give body to the skeleton of an education. The mass magnetism of a Winning athletic team or a big-name entertainment attrac- tion Works its magic in union with the cohesive force generated among P.C. men who merely meet, singly or in groups, in classrooms, corridors, and residence halls of their college environment. The product of the College is that nebulous being, the Educated Man, and nothing could be clearer than the fact that the ingredients of his manufacture are many and diffuse.