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Rose Polytechnic:
ROSE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, a privately endowed engineering and science collegt for men. It is located five miles east of downtow Terre Haute, Indiana. Rose Polytechnic wa founded by Chauncey Rose, a philanthropist who helped build Terre Haute and who saw the need for a private engineering college in the area. Ro;-was incorporated in 1874, and the first da-graduated in 1885. The college offers a liberal education in engineering and science with seven degree-granting departments—chemical, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering; chemistr mathematics, and physics.Ever since the Middle Ages the pope has, on Laetare Sunday, blessed a golden rose which he bestows on some beneficiary. Some Italian writers have declared that the term sub rosa is derived from the fact of consecrated roses being placed over the confessionals at Rome to denote secrecy, the rose being a symbol of silence. In legend, Saint Dorothea, who suffered martyrdom under Fabricius, made a convert of Theophilus by sending him some roses from paradise. The rose is an attribute of Saints Casilda, Elizabeth of Portugal, Rose of Lirna, Rose of Viterbo, Rosalia, and others.
In heathen mythology the rose was dedicated to Aphrodite and was claimed either to have been created from the blood of Adonis or to have been caused by the sea foam dropping from the newly created Aphrodite bursting into bloom. In mythological evolution the rose became a symbol of Eros, later of the Muses and of the Graces. Dionysus (Bacchus) also had a rose as attribute, hence this flower decorated the guests at banquets. In this context it may be mentioned that the rose has always been the queen of wreath flowers and ornamental expression of beauty. In antithesis the rose was a symbol of decay; hence an emblem of death.
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