1916 Yearbook
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1916 Yearbook
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St Joseph's Literary Society
OF THE MANY opportunities conducive to a practical education at
the disposal of the St. Ambrose College student, there is perhaps none more useful than the training given in the literary
societies. Of these several societies having for their aim the
development of the student along literary lines, there is none
more enthusiastic in following out its aim than the St. Joseph's
Literary Society.
This society comprises the Academic English Grammar classes, and although
it is in the first year of its existence, yet it has already given evidence of energetic life in every department of literary attainment. The societies under the
direction of the following officers: Rev. W. L. Adrian, censor; Joseph Kelly, president; Matthew McAndrews, vice president; James Goodall, secretary, and James
Kelly, treasurer. Under such capable leadership the success of the society was
assured from the outset.
First of all in its meetings parliamentary order is insisted upon; in the readings and recitations correct English style is studied and clear enunciation is
sought; the member's literary ability, too, is brought to portray itself in the
writing of original stories, current events, essays and autobiographies. Proficiency in oral delivery is attained through extemporaneous and prepared debates
and recitations, supplemented by talks and drills, as well as in the fundamentals
of expression. A feature of the society that should prove of interest to its members in future years, is the writing by every member of an autobiography to be
preserved in the archives of the society.
When one now considers that to almost every member of this society, the
work undertaken was new and strange, and then listens to the argumentative
ability of a Kelly or a Nieters, to the literary composition of a McGivern, a Van-
der Vennett or an Allar; to the clearness of delivery of a McLain, an Ott, or a
Lew or to the eloquence of a Goodall or a Feeney, one feels that these and many
more have not wasted the opportunities offered; that they have laid well the
foundations of an art which to all will be a decided asset in later life and to some
few the real beginnings of future fame.
The officers and members of the society, therefore, ask of these future statesmen, lawyers, preachers and literary men, that, when they shall be sailing on the
road to success and shall be thrilling the hearts of men by their ringing eloquence
and literary worth, they will retain a kindly thought for their alma, St. Joseph
Society, which launched them forth on the sea of fame.
ACADEMICS OF '19.
OF THE MANY opportunities conducive to a practical education at
the disposal of the St. Ambrose College student, there is perhaps none more useful than the training given in the literary
societies. Of these several societies having for their aim the
development of the student along literary lines, there is none
more enthusiastic in following out its aim than the St. Joseph's
Literary Society.
This society comprises the Academic English Grammar classes, and although
it is in the first year of its existence, yet it has already given evidence of energetic life in every department of literary attainment. The societies under the
direction of the following officers: Rev. W. L. Adrian, censor; Joseph Kelly, president; Matthew McAndrews, vice president; James Goodall, secretary, and James
Kelly, treasurer. Under such capable leadership the success of the society was
assured from the outset.
First of all in its meetings parliamentary order is insisted upon; in the readings and recitations correct English style is studied and clear enunciation is
sought; the member's literary ability, too, is brought to portray itself in the
writing of original stories, current events, essays and autobiographies. Proficiency in oral delivery is attained through extemporaneous and prepared debates
and recitations, supplemented by talks and drills, as well as in the fundamentals
of expression. A feature of the society that should prove of interest to its members in future years, is the writing by every member of an autobiography to be
preserved in the archives of the society.
When one now considers that to almost every member of this society, the
work undertaken was new and strange, and then listens to the argumentative
ability of a Kelly or a Nieters, to the literary composition of a McGivern, a Van-
der Vennett or an Allar; to the clearness of delivery of a McLain, an Ott, or a
Lew or to the eloquence of a Goodall or a Feeney, one feels that these and many
more have not wasted the opportunities offered; that they have laid well the
foundations of an art which to all will be a decided asset in later life and to some
few the real beginnings of future fame.
The officers and members of the society, therefore, ask of these future statesmen, lawyers, preachers and literary men, that, when they shall be sailing on the
road to success and shall be thrilling the hearts of men by their ringing eloquence
and literary worth, they will retain a kindly thought for their alma, St. Joseph
Society, which launched them forth on the sea of fame.
ACADEMICS OF '19.
Date
1916
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St. Ambrose University, 518 W. Locust St., Davenport, IA 52803
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