Trinity College - Trinilogue Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Brianna ELIZABETH Rox.-x, PHD. Uranium, penicillin, sulfa drugs, atomic energyewords which have be- come as familiar to us as household phrases during our four years at Trin- ity. ln our up-to-date Science Build- ing, we have been taken behind the scenes in our study of the development of the wonders of science. When we recovered from the realiza- tion that salt was made up of two strange sounding elements, sodium and chlorine, we were ready for bigger things. In chemistry we learned what a differ- ence one-tenth of a cc. could make. But undaunted, we looked aheadeand there we found carbon in chains and carbon in rings. In short we learned that C stood for something other than Cosgrove lt was not until we were seniors that we were entrusted with uatomicu details. Dr. Rona gave us all but the top secret information. Some of us turned to biology. We learned to know the lowly amoeba and the paramecium, and our interest in animal life extended even to the bron- tosaurus, with his forethought and his afterthought. We also ran the gamut from dog C-fishj to cat. In histology we learned that 'skin-deep covered a great deal. Our course in embryology could well be called The Egg and I. When we were seniors, Miss Rich helped us to divide our time between ELIZABETH JANES, AB. 138

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to speak of with awe and reverence, and, oddly enough, complaints about reading assignments were forgotten. I-ler enthusiasm and wit radiated her teaching of I Promessi Sposi, and even the grammar classes ceased to be drudgery. Sister Eugenie and Sister l-lelen Denise offered interesting courses in French civilization, poetry, and drama. At Christmas time Sister Eu- genie waved her magic wand and trans- formed us from American students into French peasant girls. By way of a course in French conversation, lvl. Sam- xl,-XRIAN Louisa PIIQRCE, AIX1. 371 son took us with him to his own be- loyed France and made the life and customs and culture of the great French people very real to us, Miss Pierces interpretation of the CARMI-11-1xA Ciiizyoxi, AM. uproarious adventure of Don Quixote and his inimitable squire, Sancho, has made Cervantes one of the Ugood com- panions who will serve us in later years when it will be a delight to turn from the affairs of a work-a-day world to the literary friends of our college days. This year we were very happy to welcome Nliss Ceryoni. whose able tu- telage has comforted many a Spanish beginner.

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the Lilliputian world of the microbe, and things such as the heart interest Cphysiologically speakingj of the frog. lt took physics to teach us what work really meant! Heat became more to us than something one gets from a radiator, and sound was not merely something to be avoided be- tween eight and eleven at night! And MARY Louise Cosoizovri, AM. when we went about muttering A'Adam, Baker, Charlie . . . it was not a list of prospective beaux we were quotingg our minds were on our radio course. Mrs. Treacy guided us in our mechani- cal drawing, and we found that even 391 EILEEN CoLL1Ns TREACY, A.M. though we had used ink for fourteen years, we were not above a slip of the pen at a crucial moment! EDITH M. RICH, MS.