St Agnes Seminary School - Agnesian Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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THE CIE UE IME HAS WITNESSED man's advancement from epoch to epoch of exploration and discovery. Progress in the arts came in spurts, having its moments of glory, its long periods of decline and finally reaching its apex during the Renaissance. The pace of the scientific march however, was more uniform and deliberate. It commenced thousands of years ago, when gifted people of the Nile, using rule-of-thumb formulas and simple measuring sticks to determine the angles of a pyramid or the height of a figure gave us the rudimcnts of mathematical computation. In the six- tenth and seventeenth centuries there was a recognition of the possibility of scientific truth. Men freed themselves from medieval superstitutions, used observation-experimentation techniques and bared many vital facts about the physical world. The present age contributed such celebrated theories as the doctrine of relativity which stimulated scientific investi- gation of physics, astronomy and chemistry. Having gained momentum from this orderly accumulation of knowledge and truth, science now stands erect in the light of the world, cool and disengaged, capable of achieving almost anything. Its precepts will now be the keynote behind practically every move that man will make as he ventures farther and farther into space. A knowledge of it will trigger every lunar rocket that takes off in blasting ascent, blithely disregarding all earth's boundaries. An appre- ciation of its value will be the impetus behind the literary works produced by the creative minds of the future. Science inquires for the sake of knowledge . . . and Knowledge is the wing wherewith we Hy to heaven.

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tg E if by Welt T' vt 'Q'- Sister Grace Xavier Miss Elizabeth McCaffrey Professor Earl Atkinson Music Art Instructor Dancing Instructor Orchestra and Glee Club Moderator Mrs. Edith P. Conlon Mr. Salvatore Cangelosi Physical Training Orchestra Conductor Consider that I labor not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.