Spring Hill College - Torch Yearbook (Mobile, AL)

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N response to a need of many of her students who intend to follow the teaching profession, Spring Hill organized, during the past year, a Department of Edu- cation. Shortly after the open- ing of classes in this new field, the Department of Education of the State of Alabama was form- ally petitioned to grant its ap- proval of the curricula of the college for the academic and pro- fessional training of teachers. Dr. B. L. Parkinson, Director of Teacher Training, Certification and Elementary Education, in response, personally inspected our institution and a few days later Wrote in part to Rev. J. M. Walsh, S. J., President: It gives me pleasure to inform you that the organization of your curriculum, your teaching staff and your student teaching, as well as your equipment, meet the requirements for preparing teachers for secondary schools, and that We shall take pleasure in certificating such of your graduates as you may recom- mend for the professional C and the professional B secondary cer- tificatesf' To follow courses in the De- partment of Education, the ap- proval of the Head of the De- partment and of the Dean of the College is required. These courses are not open to Fresh- men, and no one in any year who manifests a faulty use of Eng- lish either written, or spoken, or any other defect which, in the judgment of the Head of the De- partment, renders him unfit for high school teaching will be per- mitted to pursue a major in the Department of Education. REV. MICHAEL J KENNY S J PSYCHOLOGY AND SocIoI.ocv. REV. WILLIAM OBERING, S. J. S CIOLOGY, ETI-IIcs, RELIGION AND SPECIAL METAPI-I

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X mo0'HQl!Q9W'H::m:12w,ff REV. D. R .NEEDHAM. S. J., PREFECT OF DISCIPLINE REV, E. J. CASSIDY, S. J.. STUDENTS SPIRITUAL COUNSELLOR strengthened, the value of a proof is properly estimated, the vulnerable points of error are readily detected, and truth comes forth triumphant from every conflict of mind with mind. Finally, the Jesuit System does not share the delusion of those who seen to imagine that education understood as an en- riching and stimulating of the intellectual faculties, has of it- self a morally elevating influ- ence in human life. While con- ceding the effects of education in energizing and refining the student's imagination, taste, un- derstanding and powers of obser- vation, it has always held that knowledge and intellectual de- velopment of themselves have no moral efficacy. Religion alone can purify the heart and guide and strengthen the will. This being the case, the Jesuit Sys- tem aims at developing side by side the moral and intellectual faculties of the student, and sending forth into the world men of sound judgment, of acute and rounded intellect, of upright and manly conscience. It main- tains that to be effective, moral- ity is to be taught continuouslyg it must be the underlying base, the vital force, supporting and animating the whole organic structure of education. It must suffuse with its light all that is read, illuminating what is noble and exposing what is base, giv- ing to the true and false their relative light and shade. In a word, the purpose of Jesuit teaching is to lay a solid sub- structure in the whole mind and character for any superstructure of science, professional and spe- cial, as well as for the upbuild- ing of moral life, civil and re- ligious. I

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4... 95:19. . REV. P. J. KELLEHER, S. J. Dean of Discipline REV. D. M. CRONIN, S. J. Mathematics REV. R. J. WESTLAND, S. J. Physics and Spanish REV. G. G. McHARDY, S. J. Treasurer REV. P. P. O'SULLIVAN, S. J. Latin and English REV. P. H. YANCEY. S. J. Biology and Spanish REV. E. J. BERNARD. S. J. Secretary W. M. MASTIN. M. D., L.L. D. Consulting Physician E. THAMES. M. D. Attending Physician REV. J. ll. BASSICH. S. J. Head of Dept. of Education P. W, BROWNE Economics, Finance and Athletics REV. J. E. DePOTTER. S. J. Education, Philosophy, Librarian F. J. WASHICHEK German REV. J. HUTCHINS, S. J. Romance Languages