Cathedral High School - Chimes Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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YOUTH SCHOLASTICALLY Youth at school! Mere attendance, mere cooperation with bare essentials is not enough! It would seem from the re- ports in the daily newspapers and the ef- forts of organizations to provide education for youth, other than that of the classroom, that something vital is lacking in the edu- cational system today. The various boards of education in the larger cities of the country are demanding a return to the three R's. It seems as though the funda- mentals have been cast aside as something superfluous and undesirable. New, modern tendencies have replaced the well-worn and so-called outmoded systems of yester- years. Why? As students, this is our im- pression! The events of the present day are moving along with such a velocity that educators are becoming frantic in an effort to keep up with the times. Conse- quently, the y ou t h of the age are the guinea pigs for the youth of tomorrow. The Catholic School has not lost sight of funda- mentals. Providentially, as is the custom of Holy Mother, the Church, they have moved very slowly and only adopted those new principles that have been tried and found worthwhile. No drastic changes have been effected, no revolutions begun. Certainly, the times must necessitate changes, but the fundamentals of the edu- cational system can never change-that is why the average Catholic youth is super- ior to the average youth of today-He knows the fundamentals!

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FRANK LUCHETTA President CHARLES SHAW Secretary-Treasurer Ji-e 44'