The Aquinas 1932-10-28

              VOL. II, NO. 3 ST. THOMAS COLLEGE, SCRANTON, PA., OCTOBER 28, 1932
REV. JAMES L. WARE
Conference of College
Registrars Will Take
Place Thursday.
F. ]. O'Hara
to Attend Meet
Of Registrars
It is not so much news today when Iance to succeed. Age makes no difa
father sends his sons to college, but ference-it only adds to the sensibilit
is news when the father makes up ity of. t~e person in va~uating an~
his mind to join his sons in studying appre~lat111g what educatlOn offers.
the higher, polished college forms of " It IS no~, every father who has
readin', 'ritin', and 'rithmetic. St. h~mework to do. Mr. Mahoney
Thomas can boast of such a father, sml1ed.
for he is Daniel J. Mahoney, of Poring over books makes me feel
Wilkes,Barre who is enrolled in the like a boy again. But this time the
night school 'classes in the Bachelor differ~nce is that I enjoy my home-of
Arts course. work.
Mr. Mahoney, .principal of the Tho~as and Fra.nk, the sons, are
.. respectively a Juruor and a Fresh-
Conyngham school 111 ~llkes'Barre, man. Thomas, who has been an "A"
apparently does not beheve that he student for the past two years is in
is too late to obtain his egree. the Arts class.
"There is no demarcation line in Frank is enrolled in the Freshman
education," Mr. Mahoney said. "All Science class.
the requisites necessary are the will, The Mahoney's live at 5'89 Carey
the determination, and the persever- avenue, Wilkes,Barre.
of Central
High School Also
Wins Intelligence Test
Graduate
The reorganization meeting of the
Association of Class Presidents was
held on Friday, October twenty,first
in the Senior class'room. Officers
were elected and plans for the coming
year were discussed.
The elections were unanimous and
resulted in the following men being
chosen to hold office. James E.
O'Mara, Senior, was elected President;
William Vanston, Junior
Science was made Vice,President;
Anthony Granahan, Junior Arts was
chosen as Treasurer, and Robert
O'Brien of the Senior Class was
selected as Secretary.
The members of the association
and the classes they represent are:
Senior, O'Mara; Junior Science,
Vanston; Junior Arts, Granahan;
Sophomore Arts, Quinn; Sophomore
Science, Patrick; Freshman Arts I,
Reap; Freshman Arts II, Shukwit;
Freshman Science I, Loftus; Freshma.
n Science II, Roche.
"St. Thomas Day," a new event
on our calendar, will be observed by
the Kiwanis Club of Scranton at
their dinner at 12:05 P. M., Wednesday,
November second, at the
Hotel Casey. The varsity football
squad, one of the greatest gridiron
machines ever to play under "Tommie"
colors, will be guests of the
Kiwanians on this occasion.
The dining-room and lobby of
Hotel Casey will present a real collegiate
atmosphere, St. Thomas banners
and pennants serving as decorations.
Other extra-curricular activities
will find an important place in
this program. The college orchestra
will play during the dinner; a miniature
cheering section will be on hand
to give favorite college yells, and vocal
and instrumental solos by the students
will add to the entertainment.
A feature will be the par~de of
the college band from the main building
of the institution to the Hotel
Casey. They will march into the
lobby and there play the alma mater
of the college and a variety of typical
collegiate songs.
The Kiwanis Club, ever conscious
of the strides made by St. Thomas
in her rise in the athletic and cultural
world and cognizant of the benefits
derived from the possession of a
winning college football team, will
endeavor to show the "Tommies"
Frank J. O'Hara, Registrar, will they are worthy of their new title,
represent St. Thomas college at the "The Pride of the Anthracite."
Joint conference on College Admis- The prime purpose of the observsions
and Guidance Problems, under ance of this day is to show that St.
the auspices of the committees on Thomas college is a vital part of this
Personnel Methods and on College community, serving, as it were, as the
Testing of the American Council of nucleus of the intellectual life of this
Education, held in conjunction with region. Leaders-past and presentthe
Second General Meeting of In- in the religious, political, and ecostitutional
Members of the Educa- nomical life of this valley are numtional
Records Bureau. bered among the products of this in-
The conference will be held at the stitution of learning. The Kiwanians
Hotel St. Regis in New York on desire to impress upon the public its
Thursday, November 3, 1932. The debt to St. Thomas along this line,
purpose of this meeting is to make and to stress the importance of a
an effort to bring about a uniform closer connection between local comsystem
of admission to college. munity life, and college life and ac'
Many men prominent in the fiele' tivities at St. Thomas.
of education will speak. Dr. William The growth of St. Thomas in enS.
Learned, of the Carnegie Founda- rollment and its progress in the intlOn
for the Advancement of teach- tellectual way will be traced by staing,
will preside during the first tistics presented through cards posted elass Lead e r s I_s_es_s_io_n_. a_Io_n_g_t_he_w_a_ll_s_o_f_th_e_r_o_o_m_. _
Outline Plans Father and Sons Attend
Classes Together Here
Cyril Endfield, of the science de'
partment, led the field in the psychological
and intelligence tests given to
the incoming students during Freshmen
week, according to office reports
released. Endfield, a graduate of
. Central High School, won a scholarship
at Yale, and will in all probabilIty
enter that institution upon the
completion of his studies at St.
Thomas.
Endfield's achievement is really
commendable. In the psychological
test he scored two hundred seventy
nine out of a possible three hundred;
in the intelligence, seventy'three out
of the possible seventy'five point.
Martin Tracy, valedictorian of St.
John's School of Pittston, with a
score of two hundred sixty-two in the
psvcholoaical and sixty-nine in the
intellige;ce tests, merited second
place honors. Other leaders in the
psychological tests and their scores
are: John Kehoe, valedictorian of
St. Leo's, shley, two hundred sixty;
Tames McAndrew, honor student at
Central High, two hundred fifty~
even; John Ritsko, valedictorian of
thea 1932 class of Taylor High, and
Paul Lilly, valedictorian of St. Ann's
High School last graduating class,
two hundred thirty-four.
Freshmen, whose score in the in'
telligence test exceeded sixty-five
points out of seventy-five are: Endfield,
Tracy, Eckersley, Kirst, Loftus,
Hughes, Kehoe, Cawley, O'Malley,
Curran, McAndrew and Lilly.
The results of these tests will ful,
fill a three-fold purpose. They will
serve first, as a medium for limiting
student enrollment, by revealing the
undesirable element (selective func'
tion). The study of these results
will determine the rank of the various
high schools represented in our
enrollment, according to their output
of students capable of college work.
The third and important purpose is
the use of these results by professors
as a method of judging the individual
student's work with some consid,
eration of these facts.
DIRECTS DRIVE
REV. BROTHER·PHILLIP
Bishop McDevitt Is Host
to Representatives of
Catholic Colleges.
Pres. Attends
State Meeting
Of Educators
Rev. Bro. Denis Edward, president
of St. Thomas college, attended an
executive meeting of the Catholic
Educational Association which was
held at the home of the Most Rev.
Phillip R. McDevitt, D. D., Bishop
of the Harrisburg diocese on Oct. 20.
The purpose of the meeting was to
make preparations for the next an'
nual convention at Altoona in April.
Among those present were repre,
sentatives of sixteen Catholic colleges
and superintendents of the Parochial
schools of six dioceses of the state.
Following the meeting a dinner banquet
was given in honor of the guests
at Bishop McDevitt's residence.
Mr. Frank O'Hara, St. Thomas
registrar, accompanied Rev. Brother
Edward on the trip, which was made
by motor.
'Tuesday, October 25
Horan, Farrell, Gallagher; Aff.
Motsay, Clark, Speicher; Neg.
Wednesday, October 26
Clark, Hart, Mittleman; Aff.
Laster, Eisner, McDermott; Neg.
'Thursday, October 27
Figlan, Freedman, Mahoney; Af£.
Corbett, Gallagher, Cary; Neg.
Friday, October 25
Gibbons, Missett, Gallagher; Aff.
O'Mara, McCaffrey, O'Brien;Neg.
Each speaker was allowed si..x min-utes
for constructive argument, and
five minutes for rebuttal. The aforementioned
debates were all held at
;, :30 P. M. The teams when chosen
will consist of three men on each,
one team to uphold the affirmative
contentions and the other to uphold
the negative.
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Bro. Phillip Director of
Cajmpaign This Year.
La Salle Auxiliary Cyril Endfield Local Kiwanians To
Drive Under Way First in Psycho.. Hold St. Thomas Day
logical Tests @
KIWANIS PRESIDENT Club to Honor College
in Special Program.
Last Tuesday, at a pep meeting in
the college chapel, the La Salle Edu,
cation Fund Drive was started in this
region with BrothE'r Phillip in charge.
The usu~tl selling of tickets was once
more instituted. Both high school
and college will again unite in the
task of making this drive a ·success.
The object of the drive is the ac,
cumulation of a fund to be used in
educating young men who desire to
become Christian Brothers.
Brother Phillip, in opening the
campaign, stated that he is well
aware of conditions existing in this
valley at present. He knows the ex"
tent of the want, in and around
Scranton, yet he feels sure that the
people are not so impoverished that
they cannot subscribe sufficiently to
this cause.
In making the connection between
the people and the brothers, the stu'
dents will come into the' picture. It
is the task of the St. Thomas under'
graduate body to sell the tickets,
which comprise the means of obtain'
ing money for the education fund.
These tickets entitle the purchaser
to a chance on the general prizes of
two hundred, one hundred, fifty,
and twenty,five dollars, as well as'
the local prizes of fifty, twenty,five,
ten, and five dollars. The tickets
will sell at ten cents each.
As an inducement to the students,
a special prize of twenty'five dollars
is offered to the most popular stu'
dent of the school. Each class will
select a student for whom they will
vote and the members of the class will
be entitled to one vote for each book
of tickets sold.
The contest will undoubt~dly be
a spirited and hotly'waged battle.
Moreover, Brother Phillip has an'
nounced that if over four thousand
tickets are sold the Christmas holiday
vacation will be' lengthened two days.
This will also prove to be an incen'
tive for action on the part of the
student-body.
The drive will last for three weeks,
Brother Phillip's mode of procedure
bc-ing a maximum of effort put into
a minimum of time-a method which
bodes success. '
Last week at a meeting of the de..
bating society, final plans were formulated
for the annual trials for
varsity squad. The competitive point
system adapted last year will be applied
again this year. Aspirants will
be judged from an oratorical and
logical standpoint. The judges for
the trials are Richard McNichols,
coach and moderator, and Attorney
Joseph English, both men thoroughly
acquainted in methods of sound forensics.
The subject for discussion
is: "Resolved that "The United
States Should Cancel All War
Debts." The following schedule of
debates took place within the past
week:
Monday, October 24
Creagh, Cefola, Haggerty; Aff.
Tarantino, Connors, Helring; Neg.
Thirty Seek Places on
Varsity Debating Squad