Providence College - Veritas Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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lm ' . f- , .' ,Q if -.1 Q ,ig , A221991 .Zia TW' OF LIGHT moments, nevertheless, the P.C. man Hnds no lack. Couples relaxing in the cafeteria after a Friday night mixer find themselves sere- naded by a guitarist playing their favorite folk and popular ballads. The serious business of education must have its well-planned coffee breaks and that girl from the local campus or hospital seems to be just the one to share it with you. Perhaps too, it could be a sunlit sail on a quiet afternoon that is the scene of a pensive mood inspired by an awareness of growing maturity. Somehow, a man can feel a difference in the way he thinks and fmds his opinions changing as the stimulus of college life works hard to make him a man of decision. A college such as ours is founded for this reason and it lives only because it can continue to form such a man. But the cost of education continues to keep pace with the valuable goods dis- pensed. The first trip to the Bookstore is a memorable experience because, although the stacks of texts and paperbacks are impressive, so also are the prices that appear as the cash registers tinkle.

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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.