Aquinas Institute - Arete Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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THE ARETE Ci)t Hast 32)iU anb Testament of tijr (Has's' of 1025 HE pleasant years of Academic school life are almost ended. We are sad to feel the ties that have bound us together slowly severing. We are about to say “Farewell” to our youthful school-world and enter into a new life. Therefore, considering the approaching dissolution, and being of sound mind and memory, We, the Class of 1925, do make and publish in due form and before witnesses, this, our last Will and Testament, bequeathing all our earthly possessions in the manner and form as follows: I. To our dear Alma Mater we bequeath a brilliant page in her history, which will increase in glory as the years go by. II. To the Junior Class we leave a perfectly good piano (save for two or three soundless keys), which may be found in a corner of a room on the third floor of our Institution, with the understanding that it be played whenever the students become brain-weary from their struggles with Shakespeare. III. To the Sophomore Class we bequeath a small book entitled “Arts of Artifice,” containing successful ways of cutting classes, producing excuses, and enjoying oneself in study periods. This book is positively safe and reliable, as it has been written by a trustworthy member of our class, who is a past master in the “Arts.” IV. To the Freshies we leave a store of knowledge and good sense; likewise all our rejected pieces of composition in literature to be preserved by them until they enter the storms and trials of Junior and Senior years. This is no small donation for an extensive collection of said pieces is preserved in the class archives. V. To our teachers we leave a store of patience and sympathy that they may be to other classes what they have been to ours. They were ever ready to extend to us their most sincere aid, and have proved themselves our true friends during our happy years at Aquinas. VI. To our beloved Principal, Reverend Father Napier, we bequeath a finely cut jewel whose facets gleam with the varied light of the noble qualities fostered at Aquinas—firm faith, righteous ambition and manly character, set in the fine gold of the devotion and appreciation of the Class of ’25. Having thus disposed of all our earthly possessions, with the intention that those receiving them may be benfited thereby, We appoint as our executor. Father John E. Napier, giving him the right to enforce the terms and conditions before set down. In Witness Whereof, We hereunto set our hand and seal this 30th day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five. Testator—The Senior Class of ’25. Witness I —Llewellyn Meier. Witness II—Leon Wittmann. L. Meier. twoit -four

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THE ARETE Cfje £ lt) Stamping @rounb Alas! Alack! What shall we do, We boys carefree and gay, When northward we must turn our steps And lakeward wend our way? We’ll find we know a building fine, Its like ne’er was before; But often shall we yearn for The happy days of yore. For days when in the study hall From porous ceiling fell The liquid regularly found Within the much sung well. For days when in Brown Square we played, Its mud seemed campus grand, Before we knew the blessings Of a spacious, verdant land. We’ll miss the paneless windows Through which blasts came so cold And the desks so deftly hand carved Which kindled memories old. We’ll miss the tiny bulletins Where we jammed to view a sign “I’ll see those at two-thirty Who were not here at nine.” We’ll miss the dreaded office Where our Principal held sway And pointed out the perfect path The narrow, righteous way. We’ll miss that store of Bridgie’s, Its counters and their rails, O’er which was graciously exchanged Our money for his sales. In truth we’ll miss ’most everything We had at Frank and Brown; But we’ll never miss an honest chance To add to its renown. C. Martin. twenty-six