Saint Benedicts Academy - Benedicta Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Learning: new icleas and strange eustoms of Spain 'lihe 9:45 bell signals the beginning of another busy tlay-a clay that will IZIX the mental ability and exercise the l.Q. of the stuclents. Vllith arms full of books, the girls file to their respective rooms. livery class opens with prayer. 'lieaehers and stuclents invoke in unison that their every prayer and work may begin with fiocl ancl through llim be happily ended. Various interests ancl goals loosely separate the senior class into acaclemie ancl eommercial cle- partments. Stuclents, whose outlook rests on a college eourse or the nursing profession, eontinue their aeaclemie course in their -iunior ancl senior years. 'lihe solving of seientiiie problems in the physics ancl ehemistry hlilllul Vlibe analysis of a knotty problems in alggebra. geometry, ancl solicl geoinetryl the translation ol' a passage in Cicero or Yirgilg transposine an lfnglish passage into l.a!iu, Spanish. lfreneh, or Gi-rniang interpreting the eharaeters in Shakespearian clramag clebating problems eonlirontin,g our :Xinerieau l3emoeraey-- all require effort, eoneentratiou, anal quiet stucly, lfager chemists reveal the seerets of seienee ancl rlelve into the mysteries ol the elements.

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Biology students discovering the intricate structural char- Stid ' 0' F BL'l.4 V6l y dy ,412 CUCLSSI' 00172 irc Il test you will zilwziys fiml crzunim-rs liku this. If l ranch emphasises nur fricnzlly relationship acteristics of life. with Ifrgmqe,

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.dlzfeffiqence an servmzce Juniors studying the hrieli forms of the English language Sophs try to figure out this proposition in Geometry. Working side by side with the academic students are those girls whose future lies in the commercial held. Typing a perfect budgetg transposing from shorthand to longhandg balancing a set of booksg filing cards and papersg adding columns of Figures correctly are just Z1 few of the requisites that beset the commercial student. The Benedictine girls are fully aware that there is no shortcut to education. VVhcther their choice embraces the academic, the commercial, or the general course, hard work lies ahead.