Cedar Grove Academy - Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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sfzsa2.aamwm i womtayaf2a QB' The Christmas Sale E? awww QA7'C?55'iM1B?5mQ47QWmSQf9'C5'0'EbS5i' Oh, listen while I relate the tale Of the Seniors' wonderful Christmas Sale, There were committees for this and committees for that, Committees galore and nobody sat. Our busy hands fairly flew, For each one had plenty of work to do. Jule and Florence ran 'round collecting the cakes While Tootie sought candy, the kind that Ruth makes. As for the decorators, they, too, did their work And not once a task did anyone of them shirk, Mounted on ladders so shaky and high Stood Ginnie and Clare and Elsie and I With hammer and nails and needle and thread Putting up holly and big bows of red. The Christmas tree grand with its tinsel and lights Was Marion's work and little Dot White's. Mary Helen and Jane, our checkers so line, With Mary and Helen, kept the uests in a line While they put away with special care Each hat and coat of everyone there. Ethel and Kathryn and Ruth and Marguerite The numbers for lotto did loudly repeat, While brave Mary Whitehead ran 'round through the hall And quickly sold chances to one and to all. We had candy and cakes and novelties rare Which were sold and railled for prices quite fair. The juniors took charge of the novelty booth, While the So hs had those goodies which tempt a sweet tooth. The dear littll Freshies most clever did seem As they served all our guests with cake and icefcream. And we, twenty Seniors, had the edible booth Most ably conducted by Marion and Ruth. Our Sale proved successful from beginning to end Thanks for the kindness of many a friend. And before '26 adds much to its age, XV e hope to behold the new set on our stage. Gertrude O'Donnell, '26 l39l

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Why I Should Choose a Catholic College Liege!! 67 SHOULD choose a Catholic college because I am a Cath- Slllgil olic. As such, the sutpport of the institutions of my F Church is one of my rst duties. For twelve years I have attended parochial and convent schools. To choose a Catholic college is to continue my earlier education, to ,I usa: ygj., Lg f ' ' entire y different atmosphere with ideas and standards radically different QV choose a non Catholic one would be to enter into an from those I have known, to spend at least a year acclimating myself to new surroundings. In a Catholic college my thoughts and adtions would be understood, and would conform, with a few changes, perhaps, to the thoughts and adtions of those around me. To adjust myself to the standards of a nonfCatholic college either I must greatly change or the college greatly change, and in all the history of the world the mountain has never come to Mohammed. The moral tone of the Catholic college is inhnitely higher. It affords greater facilities for the frequent reception of the sacraments of Penance and Holy Communion. Its students cannot escape the influence of the religious atmosphere of the place. The Catholic colle e is often much smaller than our nonfCatholic institutions. This is a drawback in only one regard, it can never offer as many courses as the greater state colleges can. The smaller Catholic college, however, has this advantage- greater attention can be paid, and is paid, to individual differences. In the subjects taught Catholic colleges in this country are officially recognized and listed on a par with any others. Perhaps the greatest reason for the choice of a Catholic college is the one expounded y Newman in his argument for including theology in the curriculum of a university. Behind the world, mental, physical, spiritual, is the power of God. We attend colle e to advance our knowlf edge. We realize that we have much to learn og Latin, mathematics, the sciences, man, etc. If we choose a Godless collegiate education we imply that either we think we know all there is to know about God, or that we care to know nothing more about Him. This is a blind and mis' taken point of view. To build up a knowledge of a subjedt without any consideration or regard for the Power that is behind it, is to build a house of cards which the first strong breath of primal reasoning will destroy. Lastly we face that old, old uestion, What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and sufir the loss of his own soul? We can' not evade the fast that higher education pursued at nonfCatholic colleges has been the cause of many lapses of faith. Would it not be far better, then, to go through life without a sofcalled liberal education than to run risk of impairing or losing the priceless heritage of our faith? Mary Eleanor Whitehead, '26 l 33 l

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N XQEQ XCQ9 QQ9isZ RQUEDS E Color Clfzases the Blues mQ? 'C53'fb3 Cf55'5b3Q5Q55XQ67Q35'fER that some people awake every morning to End it dark r, and cheerless7 There are some people who live in -' pf rooms whose furniture is colorless. There are others ' 'five ' ..,rg! whose rooms are so overdressed and colored that- well, they just look like a crazy quilt. Color in regard to one's environf ment is a wonderful study. Let us consider for a moment the Spanish and their home decorations. They use massive furniture so beautifully carved that it was graceful beyond doubt. Heavy woodwork, beamed ceilings, gay floorfcoverings and an absolutely unblemished white wall. The whole effect was both astounding and subduing. Can t you see how a fieryftempered Spaniard would react to such a setting? Let us take the French at the time of Louis XIV, gay, pleasure-loving people who chose the grays, blues and rose shades, because they had to esta lish an equilibrium. The exotic person, as the Oriental, naturally uses the black and the darin colors. The early Italians carried out the same idea of simplicity, as dir? the Spaniards, but to a more marked degree. Their p1ainness was depressing. Undecorated walls, ceilings, and floors, and smallfsized furniture contributed to this gloomy atmosphere. Let us come a little nearer home, to the English with the grand old manor houses. From the earliest times Englishmen were sportsmen and this is revealed in their houses. The spacious rooms with heavy carved oak furniture, huge fire lace with blazing logs and reat windows are charadteristic of the English. These houses were buii and furnished on a lar e scale yet find a more comfortable home you could not. Do you see time color in this icture? You wouldn't if there were great bare rooms, but the beautifiil luster of the oak, the old tapestry han ings on the walls, the burning logs, and the glowing embers in the fireplace, the bowls of ay colored flowers, and last but not least, the windows with the sunlight, greatest color of all, streaming through. Thus we see what an im ortant part color plays in our lives. We are told by chromo athic healers that blue is a powerful nerve sedative, and that orange andp the other warm colors create enthusiasm and interest. So it is with this in mind, together with the temperament of the person who is going to occupy it, that we ought to furnish the home. See to it that when you awake on that gloomy rainy morning bits of gay color will greet you and make you happy the rest of the day. Elsie Harris, '26 ga 59,35 QQSX ID you ever awake on a dark, rainy morning and feel '-'J Zh, 4 v miserable the rest of the day? And did ou ever uess Y S lf, M53 LDL. if ' ' ff C 'td l 40 l '