Alvernia High School - Alvernian Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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PAGE 98 THE ALVERNIAN l Che Annual CRetreat ROM her beginning Alvernia has held tenaciously to the sound principle that religion and education should go hand in hand, that neither should be segregated from the other, and that together they make for the certain welfare, both of the individual and the community in which he lives. With this as an ideal, the School Sisters of St. Francis fostered regular religious instruction as well as the establishment of religious societies. To them religion became an integral part of a systematic education and as indispensable to the young lady as her academic studies. So important did the founders of Alvernia deem religious training in conjunction with a broad intellectual education that in 1925, during Holy Week, one year after the school cornerstone was laid, Sister Mary Archangela, then principal, invited the Reverend George Thomas, CssR., to conduct the hrst retreat. Traditionally, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of Holy Week are the three days during which all thoughts of class routine and school activities are entirely for- gotten, for on those days approximately 630 students give themselves up to contem- plation and meditation in keeping with the annual retreat, conducted this year by the Reverend Edward Mangan, CSSR., of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. To further the keeping of silence during the intermissions--a prime requisite of a good retreat-spiritual books as well as pamphlets were placed at the disposal of the students. By employing their time in reading matters pertaining to their faith, the girls were better able to keep silence and fulfill the requirements of the retreat. The three days did not lag. The aid of the Reverend Edward Mangan, the sympathetic director, made the time so helpful that all were sorry when the days were ended. THE CLIMAX OF STUDENT LIFE WITHIN FOUR WALLS. TURN ABOUT IS FAIR PLAY, ON