Cathedral High School - Chaparral Yearbook (El Paso, TX)

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MOST REVEREND A. J. SCHULER, S.J., D.D Bishop of El Paso

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jforeworo Various are the motives why Faery Queen , the immortal epic of Edmund Spenser, was chosen for the theme of this issue of the Chaparral. But the fact that Spenser's genius lies no less in the element of moral seriousness, so forcefully brought out in his epic, than in his great love of beauty, makes it a fitting' thought to dwell upon. To give a moral basis to his ideal world seems to him necessary to render it complete even in its beauty. He attempts to supply this basis to the romance-epic wih his plan of the knights representing' so many moral virtuesf-virtues which, when raised to the supernatural level, constitute the Christian ideal, our ideal-and while he thus shows the nobility of his nature and his moral seriousness, by the masterly management of his verse and by his unequalled power of description, Spenser's sensibility to beauty and capacity for its expression appear most striking. His description of Belphoebe, the Huntress, is unsurpassed and although imperfect and inapplicable in some of its verses, it may be visioned, at least to some degree, as an allegory of our heavenly Queen and Mother, and of all the 'mothers' in the world. Nor are the vivid portraits of knightly virtues and of loathsome vices, depicted in the poem, ever to be forgotten. Worthy they are to be kept before our minds within a book of remembrances, to be an incentive to the hatred of evil and to the practice of the principles learned in dear Alma Mater. Thus while refreshing our minds with vivid examples of Temperance, Justice and other virtues from Spenser's famous epic, we endeavor to present in a pleasing manner in this, the 1935 Chaparral, a record of school life at CL H. S. as it is now, as well as a view int-o the untold possibilities that the future holds in store. May this edition of the Chaparral ever serve as a reflector of happy days and busy hours well spent, endear in our hearts high school memories, and ever keep alive the spirit of Cathedral High .