Roger Bacon High School - Troubadour Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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iWHEME I In I928. when +he Franciscan Fa+hers gener- I ously underl'ook +he obligafion of founding and I; conduciing a boys' high school in Cincinna+i, +he're I nai'uraiiy arose +he ques+ion of naming +he school. I AHer all sugges+ions were considered. if was fin- II ally and unanimously decided +ha+ our school be I l I I I named in honor of +ha+ eminen'i Franciscan friar scien'iisi'. Roger Bacon. He was +he pioneer in applying experimenta- fion 1'0 +he fundamental sciences. Roger Bacon was a man of ac+ion; he believed in doing raiher I I I II +han in arguing over unimpor+an+ and +echnical I I I I finepoin+s. His +wen+ie+h-cen+ury daring in +ha+ I I I medieval age led him info many difficuH'ies bu+ I I I . la+er +0 everlasfing fame. Today' he possesses +he I I cove+ed +i'He: Forerunner oi Modern Science. I This humble friar H was who asfounded +he learned I I dociors a+l +he grea+ schools of Oxford and Paris I by his revolu+ionary ideas. mosi of which were later I proven +0 be correct I I And so we believe +ha+ a more fiHing name I II II could nof be given our school +han +ha+ of Roger I II : Bacon. and +ha+ no +heme could be more appro-- I I I priai'e +han +ha+ of his life. I Deus Lux Mea our class moH'o reads. and I ius+ as Friar Bacon seven hundred years ago +urned I +0 God for enligh+enmen+. so do we. as members I oi +he Class of I937 and s+uden+s a+ +he schooi I which bears his name also lack +0 Him +o illumine- +he pa+h +ha+ lies before us.

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LIFE OF ROGER BACON Roger Bacon was born in llchester, Somersetshire, England in the year 1214. At the early age of thirteen, Roger enrolled in Oxford University, where he studied under the famous English teachers of his time until he received his Master of Arts degree. The famous University of Paris lured him on to further learning, but he was disappointed with the result. His teachers adhered too strictly to previously established factsV possessing no independ- ence or initiative, while Bacon himself be- lieved in proving teachings and his own theories by actual experiment. Bacon was so dissatisfied with this ubelieve everything that is told youl' method of teaching, that he was tired with a great ambition to begin a worldwide reformation in the method of education and in its proper classification. However, he remained at Paris until he had received his degree which empowered him to lecture. and then he set about de- Page Eight monstrating to the university faculty just how a teacher should instructeand he did so in no timid manner, sparing no one from his scorn and attacking his erroneous contem- poraries in no uncertain terms. His inex- haustible energy, his gifted pen, and his liberal progressive spirit overcame all his adversaries. In his zeal for learning, he worked from sixteen to eighteen hours a day, experimenting, calculating, and noting down his conclusions. During this time, he produced his First works, which described his findings concerning the physical sciences. F ervent and religious in all these works, Bacon endeavored to apply all knowledge toward the advancement of the Church, toward the salvation of men, and toward the greater glorihcation of God. In Paris, there lived only one man who thoroughly agreed with Baconis method of teaching. The man was the eminent Fran-