Trinity College - Trinilogue Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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English A comprehensive view of XVorld Lit- erature filled our freshman mindse and then we began to specialize. Slowly, at first, we moved to the realm of Englands literature, then gradually to the detailed study of periods and great writers. The intricacies of Anglo-Saxon were expounded by Sister Loretta with alacrity, and every part of moth-century poetry was made charming by lX4iss Zizzamias exuberant personality. Then Shakespeare and Milton appeared upon the scene, and finally, in senior year, we discussed the merits of Car- lyle, Ruskin, and Newman with Sister Angela. Simultaneously with our in- vestigations of the works of the great- est of English writers we became ac- quainted, with fear and great reserve, XN'li.i.1.-xtyi Foizcii Sruxo, ANI., BLITT. iOXox.l 351' IVIARGARET GIOXANNINI, Alvl. B.LlT'I'. COxoN.D with their slightly lesser imitators, our- selves. For while studying Chaucer we were writing our first essays, and often we interrupted the reading of Shelley to produce our own verse. The day of triumph came when Sister Therese re- turned a paper that needed only slight revision. But with our senior year came an added pleasure. the return of lvlr. Stead to our classrooms. ln his course on modern literature we learned not only to discriminate the Hgemsn from the trash but also that an original opinion might mean the difference be- tween a Beta and an Alpha.

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Ghurrh iflistnrg 'THE YERY REXEREND Niciiotixs A. XYEBER SM., ST .D. One of the many courses prescribed to us in junior year was Sister Car- melita's Church History. The size of Book l was enough to frighten us, but when we discovered that by November we had the theories of the early Church Fathers down to a canonical our minds were lightened considerably. Vxfe traveled mentally with Sister through Greece and Rome to Constantinople and Avignon. and at mid-years con- tinued the 'struggle' lin every sense of the wordj of the Creek schism. The second semester kept us busy with Book llefully as large as Book ll We refuted the Nestorian heresy with the ease of the theologian and followed the rise and fall of Henry Vlll and the Reformation throughout Europe. Sister Carmelita not only gave us a thorough course in the history of our Church in previous ages, but also kept us well informed on current events by calling our attention to articles in the more recent periodicals dealing with the place of the Church in the world of today. We have not had the opportunity of following a history course with either l7r. Vxfeber or Fr. Bourne. They might well have given us the finishing touches on the few details of Church l-listory Cand there were fewl which Sister Carmelita missed. THE REvEREND FRANK BOURNE CSP., PHD, ' 134

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ilanguagrs M. RENE SAMsoN, AB., BS. Officier d'Acad6mie For the future linguists, Trinity of- fered courses to please the most exact- ing. Those who were classically minded began Greek under the capable super- vision of Sister Margaret Mary. Sister julia led us through the Latin classics and brought to life the great authors of the Roman world-Cicero, Vergil, Hor- ace, and Tacitus. Then there were those of us who entered the German classes with eager- ness and enthusiasm and 'Lcame to with an awful jolt when command of our tongue was lost. But we were completely won over by Sister Mary Ellen's delightful manner of teaching us our Hunts' and 'laber's and looked forward to Friday classes when we vocalized German university hymns and folk songs. After a few hours with Miss Ziz- zamia, we began to share her love and admiration' for Dante and his Divine Comedy. lt was something we learned ALBA ZIZZAMIA, B.A., LITTD. 136