St Thomas Aquinas High School - Maraquin Yearbook (New Britain, CT)

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ai eff? It is interesting to note that man has two lan- guages: first, his use of words, second, his use of mathematics. Both words and number-symbols are used to communicate thoughts. However, it is probably true that man learned to count before he used words more complicated than ugh!',g that he recognized the circle before he used word sym- 2x+y:...Howabout that! The answer clicks. Carolyn Kvedas points out the solution of a linear equation to Diane Pezzone. bolsg that even today there are some ideas of math- ematics that can be expressed only by number sym- bols: words complex enough to express these ideas just do not exist. Mathematics is at times esoteric g the first step to understanding is to learn the native tongue. No, it's not a suspension bridge. Bob and Joyce are just proving that a quadratic equation results in a parabolic curve. s 1

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74e Way, I , n I I I To paraphrase Francis Bacon, some subjects are to be tasted, as a diversion, others are to be swal- lowed, as a training for a voca- tion, some few to be chewed and digested, as an incentive to men- tal growth. Religion goes even beyond these limitations. As quotation suggests, religion truth, and as such, must be de- fended and explained - the sci- ence of Apologetics. Religion is more than truths to be memo- rizedg by Christ's own admoni- tion it is the way, the life. If that knowledge has been instilled in us, then our school is successful, without that knowled e we waste our time. g the 1S By means of diagram Yolanta clearly explains Mary's role as the spiritual Mother of the MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST of which each one of us is a member. Diane, Victor and Don are three of the seniors at Aqui- ration Course to learn how to meet the responsibilities nas who have the opportunity in their Marriage Prepa- and obligations of Catholic family life. 20

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, , , 5,911 E522 t L, ,YQ . I K .X endow! That the pen is mightier than the sword has now become a cliche. It is less often noted that just as a sword ham- mered from faulty steel will crack at a stroke. so a pen placed in a hand misguided by an untrained mind will make nothing more than ineffectual scratches on paper. The steel of the mind must be cured and hardened by constant exposure to the works of the past. It must be hammered into shape by incessant practice of the funda- mentals of rhetoric. The point of the steel must be sharp- ened by increased knowledge of vocabulaiy. When the task has been completed, our pen shall be like the sword in strength and mightier still than the swords of an army. Oi doen't wont to tawk grawmah. Oi wownt to tawk loik a lydyf' The occasional acting out a scene from a great play lifts our English class above mere book study. Here Liza Doolittle Clkiargie Carbonej protests against the teaching methods of Henry Higgins CDick Reidb in a scene from Shaw's PYGMA- LION. The eagle feasting on the unfortunate Prome- theus reminds the English Class that this, and many other mythological tales, have influenced the world's greatest authors. 22 ir- i. 51, 5'