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

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mug Eileen Sova and Dick Verrano put the Finishing touch to their small-scale rep lica of a typical Elizabethan theater which they constructed as an adjunct to the study of Shakespeare. Although speed. comprehension. and ac- curacy are the aims of these industrious readers. enjoyment and interest play no small part in the Reading Lab program. --4--N,

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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'

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-,WE V I In . ,fV,f,iy.f fn,, 4 fr I4 2 N, ,, ,, Father and Sister Superior have every right to smile. and Tom. Carolyn. and Mary Ann have every right to be proud of the trophy they won in the annual Auxilium Latinum test. . fl, 4 Jn, 'u Q ww 41 -4 1 y il y