The Aquinas 1934-10-12

              VOL. iV, NO. 2 ST. THOMAS COLLEGE, SCRANTON, PA., OCTOBER 12, 1934
Notice
All Catholic students of the
college must attend every exercise
of the annual students' retreat.
Cuts equivalent to scheduled
class hours will be given
those who fail to do so.
Papers Read At
Second Session of
Chemical Society
The second regular business meeting
of the St. Thomas College Chemical
Society was held last Wednesday,
October lOin the junior science
classroom. In charge of the session
was Thomas Toolan, senior science,
who was recently elected president of
the society. The meeting was well
attended, with a great number of upperclassmen
of the science group in
attendance.
After the regular order of business
was discussed, two scientific papers
were read. The first was given by
Carl Sullivan, a member of the junior
science class. The title of this
paper was "The Purification of Cleveland's
Water Supply"; an interesting
survey of the city's sources for drinking
water. The second paper was
given by Mr. Toolan, president of the
society. The title of the article was
"Value of Margarine."
At the next meeting, motion pictures
will be shown that will prove
most interesting and beneficial to science
students.
On October 2 in the junior arts
room, the St. Thomas Dramatic Society
held the first of a series of
meetings designed to reorgani2;e fully
the activities of the group. Charles
Bourke of the senior class presided.
The membership of the society was
augmented by the appearance of
many new men from lower classes.
Last year, it will be recalled, the Dramatic
Society did not produce its
scheduled play. The discussions bordered
on this and other plans for the
completion of the full-year program.
All future meetings will be held on
Tuesdays at 2: 30, it was decided,
with the reservation, however, that
this day meet with the approval of
the Student Council.
LaSalle Auxiliary
To Open Annual
College Drive
The annual La Salle auxiliary drive
will open the week following general
student retreat. The procedure of
book distribution will be that followed
in previous years. The distribution
of pri2;es will also be the same.
The drive, since its organization, has
had for its primary object, the securing
of financial aid for the buildings
housing the young men preparing for
the Christian Brotherhood. The students
of St. Thomas are expected to
give the same generous support as in
previous years.
Announcement
Observation periods for members
of the educational department
will begin on the Monday
following student retreat: All
senior members following the
Course will be assigned schools
shortly.
St. Thomas Evening
School of Business
And Finance Opens
The St. Thomas evening school of
Business and Finance opened its fall
session on Octobe~ 3. Dean Johnson,
who heads this department in the day
school, is in full charge of the evening
course.
The course this year included Retail
Merchandising, Principles of
Economics, Financial Policies of Corporations,
and Business English.
Probably the most valuable course is
that in Retail Merchandising. In this,
Professor Johnson for his first two
lectures chose "What, Where and
How to Buy," and "Computations of
Mark-ups and Mark-downs." These
lectures were originally prepared by
Dr. Wingate of New York University.
There were about one hundred and
twenty-five students on the opening
night, and this number was augmented
by twenty-five more at the next
session.
Mr. Willging Explains Arts Men Emerge AnnualSt.ThomasDay College To Have Social Science Forum
Library Improvement Victors in Senior C~leb~ated By Local Booth At Times Accept.ed Members
To Faculty Members CI EI e KlwanlsClubMembers P E hebe At MeetIng Yesterday ass ectlons --- rogress x 1 It .
Clipping Collections On Current Members of Football Team and Different Phases of Club's Ac-
Affairs Included Among Orchestra Are Luncheon tivities Explained By
New Projects James Powell Elected to Guests of Club Many Outstanding F ea- Senior Group
At a faculty meeting held on Octo- Class Presidency In tures Planned for An~ The Scranton Kiwanis Club cele- At a meetm. g f h S . 1 S . 0 t e OCla Clence
ber 1, Mr. Willging, College librarian, Close Contest brated its annual "St. Thomas Day" Dual Exposition Forum held yesterday the general
read a paper which acquainted fac- plans of the organization were out'
ulty members with the library re- last Wednesday at a luncheon held in 1· d f· h· D ff
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True to the traditioo<l.l rivalry the Crystal Ballroom of Hotel Casey. October twentv-second .marks an- me or t e commg year. i erent
sources, especia y with improvements h h bAdS The memb<>rs of the St. Thomas foot- h k· h h· f phases of the society were explained
undertaken since January, 1934. Va- w ic exists etween rts an ci- - ot er great wee in t e lstory 0 by the senl·or membe d
rious other matters of iJ;Ilportance ence men, class-politics played the ball team and the college orchestra Scranton, when the SCRANTON TIMES, members were wel~~~:d~~~; n:~
were discussed at the meeting which major role in the election of officers were the guests of the members of together with the business and other club.
was presided over by Bro. Flami·an, for the senior class. This year the the club. interests in the city, brings here for Ross Tarantino, vice-president of
vice-president 0 f the co11ege. Arts men have overpowered the Sci- John H . Dyer, Superl·ntendent of the second time a Progress Exposition. the Forum, upon being introduced by
The new projects include an index Public Schools in Scranton, acted as the chairman, gave a brief talk on
to current Catholic magazines which toastmaster and introduced Coach the purpose of the organization, stat-are
not indexed in Readers Guide Jack Harding. Coach Harding de- ing that the Social Science Forum
and other indexes, and pamphlets and livered a blackboard talk on football was founded to discuss, outside of
clipping collections on current affairs. and explained the parts played by the class work, social problems and ques-
These cover such topics as N. R. A., various members of a team in execut- tions relative to them, which concern
the Religious Situation in Germany, ing several ordinary football plays. both our own and other countries.
Heredity, Sterili2;ation, and the like. The college orchestra entertained Mr. Tarantino, who has been ap-
In connections with the informative with selections of dance and classical pointed chairman of the Wilkes-file
of pamphlets and clippings, the music. The members of the football Barre district radio programs of the
librarian urged that he be given ad- team were introduced to the club. Society, also gave a resume of the
vance notice on essay and debate top- The local Kiwanians are already club's activities in the lower valley
ics, so that he could have a sufficient busy making preparations for the St. last year and expressed what it hopes
amount of well-selected material avail- Thomas-Bucknell game which they to accomplish this year.
able for the students. are sponsoring. The various commit- Other members who took part In
During the past year, debating tees have been appointed and are explaining the different activities of
teams made considerable use of li- working in co-operation with the the Forum were Ralph Winkler, who
brary resources, and Mr. Willging authorities of the two colleges. spoke on the way in which the meet-hopes
that this year they will be able ings of the Forum were conducted
to use this library almost exclusively. and stressed the different parts of the
He also pointed out that the numbers Educational Club club's constitution. Mr. O'Malley,
of student assistants has been in- secretary of the Forum, explained the
creased from four to twenty-four, and Formed By Men use of the Forum's rack of books in
consequently the library staff would JAMES POWELL Of Senior Class G. H. PRITHAM the Library and said that he had just
have more time to devote to compila- This year's Exposition is to be held receivc:d word from the Carnegie
tion of bibliographies for members of cnce men in every department except again in the Colonel Watres Armory, Foundation that a new set of books
the faculty. The suggestion was also that of vice-president. Members of the senior education which will be richly decorated for were being sent to the club and that
made that when students asked for James Powell was elected president class formed an educational club last the occasion. he expected to have them on the
books that a faculty member was us- of the senior class, while Edward Fee- Monday for the purpose of studying shelves in a week. The next meeting
m. g, the facuItybmem er be notl·f·Ied ney, runner-up, was automatl.caIIy methods of teaching throughout the The Progress Exposition has for of the group was set for Thursday,
so that he could return the book as elected vice-president. United States and in the majority of its purpose the presenting to the October twenty-fifth.
soon as possible. There were no ob- Other seniors elected to office foreign countries. people in this area the many benefits
jections to this suggestion, and there- were: Ross Tarantino, treasurer; PIC that may be had under the National
fore it was adopted as a library pol- Thomas Gill, secretary; and James d au ohx was elected to the presi- Housl·ng Act, and the promoters WI·11
icy. Rafferty, student council. ency at t e meeting, and Paul Suppy leave nothing undone to attain this
Mr. Powell IS well fitted to lead to the vice-presidency; for treasurer, end.
h f h b . f h Peter Tabone, and secretary, Umbay St. Thomas, always one of the
t e ourt year men, emg one 0 t e Burti. Plans for definite meeting
more popular seniors and a speaker schedules and an appropriate name greatest examples of Scranton's prog-of
no little abilIty. He is actively for the society were discussed. ress, is again going to have a booth
associated with the Dramatic Society at the Exposition, and will put forth
and the Pre-Legal Club. All the The work of ·studying the various what the college is doing as its part
other officers are also capable of suc- method~ of education will depex:d. to for the progress of the Community.
cessfully carrying out their duties, a certam exte~t uJ?on the Chn~tl.an Dr. G. H. Pritham, of the Chernmost
of them having had experience B~others. Their wlde-sprea~ actiVIty istry department, together with Dr.
in holding .class positions. I;-v111 ena~le the club to obtam all the Reinhard and Bro. Faber, will take
In his speech of acceptance, Mr. mformatlOn nece~sary. The w~ys and an active part in the planning and
Powell declared, "'I will do every- mea?s 0'£ ~ollectmg the matenal and preparation of the college booth.
thing in my power to bridge the gap placl1:g It m the hands of the ~tudents Last year, the St. Thomas booth was
between the arts and science men." IS bemg planned by a committee se- called the House of Magic, and was
It is expected that inter-class rivalry lected for the' purpose. regarded as one of the best presenta-will
be cast aside and that the com- tions of the one hundred sixty dem-bined
group will cooperate as a uiit. onstrations at the Exposition. Many
There has always been intense rivalry Dramatic Society scientific experiments were carried on
between arts and science men, but it Plans Activities at daily and these coupled with the ar··
is hoped that this tendency will even- tistic picturizations of the art of
tually be overcome. First Meeting learning were amongst the most inter-esting
features of the Exposition.
One that drew particular attention
was the cut-out design of the Tree of
Knowledge. The tree had for its
roots the basic studies necessary for
a foundation in learning. Its trunk
represented the combination of the
Arts and Sciences and the branches
and foliage the subjects which are dependent
on the basic subjects.
This year the college hopes to put
forth a booth that will excel, if possible,
that of last year. The heads of
the various departments, together
with the public relations manager of
the school, are working on a project
that will offer to the people of this
community a truly representative picture
of progress of the youth of this
community and the part that St.
Thomas College has played in it.