The Aquinas 1932-01-28

              St. Thomas college authorities announce
that the new courses in Edu,
cational Measurements and in Visual
Education, to be conducted by Professor
Paul Miller and Dr. Leroy
King, respectively, will begin during
the week of February first.
Unusual interest in the new courses
has been expressed by many people,
due to the fact that they are to be
::onducted by men who are eminently
fitted for their tasks. Dr. Leroy
King comes to St. Thomas college
with a national reputation. He is
Professor of Education at the University
of Pennsylvania and is a member
of the Pennsylvania State Council of
Education, which acts upon the recognition
of colleges in regard to education,
upon charter amendments, and
the like. This latter connection is of
particular importance in the field of
education. Dr. King's course will
consist of one two-hour class per
week, every Monday, from 2:30 P.
M. to 4:30 P. M. Anyone, whether
a regular student at the college or
not is eligible to enroll.
The course in Visual Education
will be conducted from 7 :00 P. M.
to 8:00 P. M., every week, on Tuesday,
Thursday and Friday evenings.
This course is open to anyone in the
vicinity who may be interested, male
or female. Prof. Miller, who is head
of the Department of Science at Central
High School of this city, is regarded
as one of the leading authorities
in Pennsylvania state on visual
aids to education. The authorities
feel that these two courses will not
emly round out to completion the
education course of the college, but
will fill a need urgently felt by a
great number of teachers now em'
ployed in the schools of Scranton and
vicinity.
Announcement was also made this
week by the office that two or more
members of the Senior class will be
given opportunities to assist in teach,
ing the French and Biology Courses
to the Freshman. Later on other
student teachers will be transferred
to different college courses to assist
in laboratory and research work. The
names of those students will not be
released until next week.
The International Relations Clubs
is a great chain of organi2;ations scat'
tered throughout the United States
and other countries. Today, its mem'
bership consists of 277 member clubs
in the United States, and 62 in other
countries of the world. The Carnegie
Endowment sends in to its
member clubs a number of books and
other literature twice each yearevery
October and February-which
books become the property of the
member organizations - in our case,
the Social Science Forum. The En'
dowment also sends regularly to its
members a Fortnightly Summary,
which summari2;es the outstanding
events of each two-weekly period for
which it is sent. In addition to these
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DR. LEROY A. KING
First Play of Year
Given By Dramatists
Social Forum. Admitted
To Carnegie Endowment
One-Act Drama Presented Over
Wilkes-Barre Station by
Dramatic Club.
On Thurscfa:y evening, January 21,
the St. Thomas college Dramatic So'
ciety presented the first of a series of
radio programs over station WBRE,
Wilkes,Barre. "If Lacking Only
Truth," a one'act play by Peter
Yates, was selected as the initial at'
tempt by the society.
This drama concerns an artist who
had painted a portrait of Death,
which he believed to be a masterpiece.
On his death-bed he discovered
that Death was not the gruesome
creature he had depicted, but a kind
and gentle old man, whom no one
would fear if his real character were
known. The artist died in remorse,
thinking that he had failed in his
life's work but, after his death, the
critics hailed his portrait of Death as
a m~sterpiece.
The cast of characters follows:
Pedro, an artist. .. Paul Gibbons
The patron Francis Burke
Johann Emmett Hart
Death Leon Harter
Officials of the Social Science
Forum of St. Thomas college take
great pride and pleasure in announcing
that their organi4ation has recently
been accepted as a member
club of the International Relations
Clubs, a world-wide organization,
sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace. Not
only does membership in so great and
worthy an organi4ation reflect credit
and prestige on both the Social Forum
and St. Thomas college, but it brings
to the service of the College Library
an invaluable service in the form of
regular contributions of boo k s ,
pamphlets, and other literature pertaining
to the always'vital problem of
international peace.
Social ForUlll Educational Courses
Offers Prizes To Start Monda
Essay - Oratory Awards Y
Open to Students of ~
All Classes. Measurements Teacher L a r g e Enrollment of
Students ExpectedTwo
New Teachers.
F acuIty Represented
At Ohio Conference
Saint Thomas college was represented
by a number of the faculty at
the annual convention of the A<;s::l'
ciation of American Colleges held at
Cincinnati, Ohio. The Convention
convened Tuesday morning, Janury
nineteenth, and continued u n til
Thursday afternoon, January twenty-
first.
The leading educational questions
concerning the improvement of college
methods and standards were discussed.
This convention has had at
all times an important bearing on the
methods of management in the different
colleges for the following year,
Saint Thomas college is a member
of this Association and endeavors to
co,operate with the other colleges in
the efforts to increase the efficiency
and to raise the standards of American
Colleges.
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. ST. THOMAS COLLEGE, SCRANTON, PA., JANUARY 28, 1932
Establishes Scholarships
party of the second part, and if reports
coming out of the New York
state city are true, little hope is, given
the St. Thomas debaters of placing
a blot on the escutcheon of the Buffalo
boys for that ever'present thorn
in the side of St. Thomas'platform
performers, namely Charles Wicks,
recognized as one of the leading col,
legiate debaters in the country today
is known to occupy a place on the
Canisian's roster. " _
Those who will make the trip will
be Messrs. Dell Amico, Laster, and
O'Brien, the former two' veteran
members of last' year's team", Prof.
Richard F. McNichols, Debate coach,
and Mr. Thomas ]. McDonn"e11,' Debate
manager.
YOLo I,' NO.7
Graduates of Catholic
S c h 0 0 I s EligibleExams
in June.
Scholarship Awards
Begin Next Fall
Debating Team Will
Open With Canisius
The St. Thomas college varsity
debating team will ring up the curtain
on another debating season when
it engages the Canisius college debating
team -at Buffalo, N. Y. on the
night of Feb. 11.
The subject for debate will be, Resolved
:-"That Capitalism as a System
of Economic Organization is
Unsound in Principle." The Tommies
arguers will uphold the affirmative
side in the discussion, while
CanisiusJ will endeavor to prove the
feasibility of the system.
St. Thomas debating teams in the
past, like St. Thomas football and
basketball teams have, almost without
exception, been on the short end of
contests in which Canisius was the
The Social Science Forum an'
nounces that it is sponsoring a com' I
Graduates of parochial hi g h bination "Essay' Oratory - Debating"
schools throughout the Scranton dio' Contest, offering four cash pri2;es, I
cese will have the opportunity of and open to all students in the col- '
competing for pri2;e scholarships at lege. This peculiar form of contest,
St. Thomas college next· June, accord- the first of its kind ever to be con'
ing to an announcement made re- ducted at St. Thomas, and the first
cently by the Executive Office. activity of its kind to be sponsored by
Bishop Thomas C. O'Reilly, D. D., any independent, extra - curricular,
Rev. J . J. Featherstone, J. V . D., student org_ani2;ation, proposes to dis'
Diocesan Director of Schools and .:over who, of all the students in this
Rev. Brother Denis Edward, Presi- .:ollege, is the best all-around essayist,
dent of St. Thomas, are collaborating debater, and speaker. The details ot
in the establishment of these new the contest are printed herewith:
scholarships. 1. Subject : "World Peace is 1m'
While there have been no definite possible to Achieve," or "World I
plans formed, it is understood that Peace is Possible to Achieve."
the scholarships, which are scheduled 2. Contestant must write upon
to go into effect next September, are BISHOP THOMAS C. 0 'REILLY anyone of these topics, thus
to be given as rewards for high schol- taking either an affirmative or
astic merit. The exact number to be negative stand on the question
awarded has not yet been decided. 3. Essay to be no longer than 1500
Most probably competitive examina- Double Quartet in words.
tions will be given to determine the F· A 4. Contestants must submit entry
winners and their selection will be Irst ppearance blanks to Brother Augustine 01.
under the direct supervision of Father or before February 15, 1932.
Featherstone. J 5. Essays must be in the hands of
The Scholarsh.ips, the first of their Half Hour Program of Song and the J.Udges on or before March
kind ever 0 f1r:ered to the Diocesan Piano Selections Rendered 15, 1932.
school system as a whole, and the Over the Air. 6. The two best affirmative papers,
first 'to be given under its super- and the two best negative pa-vision,
were established not only as The Double Quartet of St. Thomas pers, as selected by,the judges,
rewards for' scholastic' achievement college made its initial appearance of will be presented by their auth·
but as incentives for Catholic high the year 1ast Thursday afternoon, dorsb in the form of a regular
school pupils throughout the diocese, e ate, at some time early in
to contin'ue their education. Jan. 21, when they presented a half April.
Credit for the foundation of the hour recital of songs over Radio Sta, 7. The best all-around participant
scholarships goes to Bishop O'Reilly, tion, W.Q.A.N. The program was in this debate will receive a
who has always displayed a deep in- arranged by Mr. Oslaf Trygvasson, pri2;e of $10.00; second best,
terest both in the parochial schools director of the organi2;ation. $7.00; third, $5.00; and fourth,
and in St. Thomas college; to Father In addition to the selections ren' $3.00.
Featherstone, who is one of the most dered by the Quartet, the program 8. Winners in the final debate
prominent Catholic educators in the included a number of piano composi- will be judged on the basis of
state and to Brother Denis Edward, tions of the celebrated composer, material, rebuttal skill, and ora-who
has placed the faculties of the Greig, which were played by Mr. torical ability.
colleg~ at the disposal of the diocese, Trygvasson. As a solo, Mr. Harold Mr, Arnold I. Coplan, President
and who is endeavoring to raise both Wademan rendered the song, "Syl- of the Forum, has appointed the fo:
the student standard as well as the via." Among the songs included in lowing Committee on Arrangements
scholastic standard of the school. the, program of the Double Quartet to handle the various details con-
More definite information concern- were: Hail, St. Thomas, one of Mr. nected with this contest:
ing the exact number of scholarships Trygvasson's own compositions, Lit- Chairman, Mr. Frank R. Liberty,
to be awarded and the method of tle Cotton Dolly, and The Bells of Treasurer of the Forum; Mr. Walter
their distribution will appear shortly Shandon. Soya, Secretary of the Forum, and
in The Aquinas. Mr. Edward Corbett. Mr. Bernard
It was also made known by Brother Those participating in the broad, McGurl is Vice-President. The con-
Edward that' negotiations are under cast were Bernard McGurl, Bernarc~ test opens Febru~ry first; essays must
way to secure a number of scholar- McCawley, Frank Burke, Leon Hard· be handed in by March fifteenth:
ships for the members of the Senior er, Harold Wademan, Harry Mittle, Iand the date for the debate progra~
dass, who have distinguished them- man, Gerard Finnegan and Chester will be announced in the near future.
selves while at St. Thomas. !Wilga.