Quigley Preparatory Seminary - La Petit Seminaire Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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I Languages play an outstandrng part rn the lrle and worlc of the prrest For that reason the semrnary hrghly stresses educa tron rn languages especially Latrn English and Greelc and one of the modern languages French Polrsh German ltalnan or Lrthuanron The really Important value ol languages lres rn Its durect assocratlon wuth the worlt of a priest Latm rs the language of the Church The priest then must lcnow the meanrng of the Latrn used rn the varrous prayers ceremonres and the sacrrhce of the Mass However Englrsh Itself has the most rmportant value as found rn the abrlrty of the prrest to spealt and preach Chrrst Hrmself went about preachmg After Hrs death He commrssloned Hs A ostles to carry on Hrs worlc It evrdent that the preachrng of the wisdom taugt by the Chrrstran relrgron rs the means drvmely employed to contrnue the worlc of eternal salvatron and that rt must wrth rust reason be looked upon as a matter of greatest and most momentous concern. if'

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A student for the prresthood must be aware of the need not only of vrrtue but also of learnrng an the prresthood Chrrst Himself commrssuoned prrests to teach Hrs truths when He told them to teach all nations The only way for a prrest to teach us to learn frrst and then teach He must lcnow the truths of the Church ltnow how to present them and lcnow the reasons behrnd what he rs teachrng A great step rn educatron rs the knowledge of phrlosophy The prrest obtarns the faculty of clear thrnlcrng largely through the study and lfnowledqe of philosophy And the best preparation for thus study of phrlosophy lres rn the study of mathe matrcs and scrence ln recallrng to mrnd our courses In these subjects durrng our trarnrng here at urgley we naturally turn frrst to frrst year There we wrll remember the apparent hardshups of berng rntroduced to Algebra under Fathers Manrola and Sreger whale at the same tame Father Dehnert trred to arouse an Interest rn eneral Scrence ln second year we contrnued the study of General Scrence and also turned our mrnds toward Geometry as taught by Father Schmrd before he was appointed rector ln thrrd year we plunged rnto hrgher Algebra wrth Fathers Grady and Marhoeffer The study of Mathematics ended rn fourth year where we studred trlgonometry under Fathers Godfrey and Braclcrn whale the study of scrence began anew with Physrcs Father Manrola and Father Prrmeau brought us through this most drffrcult yet most rnterestrng subject It rs true that we have already forgotten much of what we learned but the trarnrng of our mrnds was accomprshed by the very act of learnrng the matter and thrnlung rt out We remember rn general from these studres that certarn laws are true and must be followed and that a small mrstalte rn the begrnnrng usually malces a great error rn the end

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lhe study ol l'lrstory occupres a pre emrnent place n the currrculum at urqley rvrsrons covered ae the hrstory ol the ancrent world Amerrcan hrstory and the hrstory ol the Euro pean contrnent from 1500 to the present date upplementary to these courses are Crvrcs and the history ol educatron It rs throuqh a ltnowl edge of past events and srtuatrons that we come to have an understandrng ol present events and to a e a rty to lorecast the outcome present problems and crrses The comrnq ol Chrrstranrty marked o new era rstorrcol narratron lo Chrrstran phrlosop y came to color the who e scene People were convrnced that h story was from here on to be a rorectron ol the personalrty o rrst e comrnq ol the Protestant revolt rn the srxteent '4'1 century colored or perhaps blackened the unrversal character ol hrstory lor t became rmpreqnated wrth the currous doctrrnes ol vaque reformers and deluded phrlosophers The nrneteenth century brought another chanae rn e st ry of hrstorrans lor rt revolutronrz crvrlrzatron throuqh new drscoverres rn scrence an shrlted the locus lam ural to rndust ra society ow owever to s :Ft our qaze to rvrcs we eod ly see that rt rs a most approprrate study s nce rt he ps the student to be a better crtrzen through an understandrnq ol the otlrces and dutres of a person rn socrety Approprrate also s the :story ol ucatron For we as lu u e prrests vwrll be educators and rn th s held we must navc a solr well bu Ir loun atro l i , Q. I .. . t . I i S .. A th O . I . , fed 4 . , x - d . K r r l h V ur of N 'rr A h c , ' lj I s . r rn h V r ' ' h ., I . u . ' I ' 1 l l , tr p ' FCh . Th ' V W r 1 h 1 - - I d n.