St Josephs Academy - La Lumiere Yearbook (Prescott, AZ)

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0nrt ltr0 League of the Sacred Heart. Sodality of the Children of Mary. Sodality of the Holy Angels. Eucharistic League. Crrturra 1908-1909 Weekly explanation of Christian Doctrine and Church History..................Rev. C. Mandin Tuberculosis.........................Dr. J. W. Flinn Medical Congress.....................Dr. C. E. Yount “Richard III”...............) Scenes from “King Lear”... ! “Taming of the Shrew”.......J- Mr. C. E. W. Griffith “Hamlet”................... ] “Merchant of Venice”........ J trrlurrH 1909-1919 Christian Doctrine and Church History (weekly).. ..................Rev. C. Mandin Physiology and Hygiene (monthly). .Dr. Flinn and other members of the Medical Association of Arizona Shakespeare.................... ) ,, . j)anfe j Mr. C. E. W. Griffith

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leyartntent a (ftmira First Semester Second Semester Eleventh Grade English—Essays Critical Study—“Macbeth” Required Reading — “Pope’s Iliad” Geometry—Books IV to VII Chemistry—Laboratory work, Note books Logic Latin—C icero, Orations against Catiline, I, II, III. English—Essays Critical Study—“Hamlet” Required Reading—“Views of Dante” Geometry—Solid completed Astronomy Chemistry—Completed Latin — Cicero, Orat'ons Against Catiline, IV; Poet Archius, Manilean Law Twelfth Grade English—Essays Critical Study—“Burke’s Con- ciliation Speech” Required Reading — Web- ster's Bunker Hill Oration,” “Lincoln’s Gettysburg Ora- tion” Physics — Laboratory work and note books Latin—Virgil, Scansion, Syn- tax, Grammar English—Essays Critical Study—“Dante” Required Reading — “L’Alle- gro,” “11 Pensoroso,” Par- adise Lost,” Books I, II Physics—Completed Latin—Virgil, Scansion, Syn- tax. Grammar Reviews s, Geography, Physiology. ;r. atin. Two periods and three periods each for other branches.

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Euruta Shakespeare reading: Mr. C. E. W. Griffith, America’s greatest reader of Shakespeare, interpreted four of the Master- pieces of the “Bard of Avon” for the Sisters, pupils and friends of the Academy. MIRIAM. RHODA. It has been said that “without Mr. Griffith’s rendi- tion of the ‘dramas immortal,’ the study of Shakespeare is in- complete.” The students of St Joseph’s say that “through Mr. Griffith’s rendition the study of Shakespeare is made possible.” A critic, in a Los Angeles paper, paid the following tribute to Mr. Griffith’s art “One evening in Rome, many years ago, I saw Salvini in the character of King Lear. I have heard many great actors since, but I have never wanted to hear any of them in King Lear. When I heard that Mr. Griffith would give this selection, I won- dered how a lone man, without scenery or costuming and with a small audience, could ever attempt such a drama. To my surprise and delight, what a beautiful sound the rather unmusical language assumed on his lips, and how quickly he changed his personages, and what a magnifi- cent King Lear he was! His fearful madness, his deep sorrow, his gruesome laughter, his silly jabberings, his thunderous commands—it was all there—and I forgot the lack of scenery, of costuming and of audience, and it seemed almost as if I once more heard the old master, Salvini. “I had the pleasure of also hearing Mr. Griffith in ‘Richard the Third,’ and his masterly rendition shook all his hearers out of the daily, dull routine and gave us true art, which made us hunger for more.”