Classical High School - Caduceus Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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N-Ill? I ' Miss Anmse B Kane DEDICATION To Nliss -Xnnise B Kane, whose retirement from Classic-al comes with the plllJllCiltl0Il of this hook, the tlasses of 1903 dedlc ate the LIXDLCEUS teacher to the student body Her constant friendliness, assistance, and vuidance have made her library a pleasant and restful retreat from the pressures of cl.:-sroom and study hall Out of appreciation for her wears of dexotion to the cause of vood educa lion, we honor her hy this 1lPlllfdllOl'l 5 X, 3 .4 . f .K ' H ki -. .h L, 1 - Miss Kane, our school librarian for many years, has been more than a .' ' 1 . f . ' l ,.'. ...f I., l , .' 7 i I ' f rv '

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F GREWORD tears of QtlldV1!lg and of lC3ClllI'lg have confirmed Ill, early hellef that the essence of the llheral educatlon IS lntellectllal perspeltlve, le, the Zllllllty to observe and Judge a sltuatlon WlfllOlll helng hllnded hy tlnle, place, amhltlon, lnertla, or hahlt There ls, I thlnk, for the purposes of human llalnlony and llHpplIlCSS no gleater lntellectual glft Perspectlxe characterlzes a son wllo can lmaglne the feellnvs of hls father, a father who can reconstruct llls own fillal attltudes a statesman who, ln tlme of war, can antlclpate the needs and de slres whlch wlll accompany the restoratlon of peace and any man who under WBFIOUQ clrcllmstances can dlstlnvulsh prlnclples from nlere detalls Notahly hroad and helpful 19 that perspectlve whlch 19 produced by understandlng the language and lllCI'3tlII'C of another tlme and place ls a path to perspectlwe, hut Latln 19 the lllffll road Wllat lanffuage, what llterature could he more reward lnv than those of a people who thousands of years avo and thousands of lllllPQ away recorded m rlch detall tllelf fallures and successes, lllell' amls and thelr meth ods? What lanfvuave, what lllCI'allll'C could he nlore l6W8l'lllIl' than that noble fornl of speech ln WlIlf'll the Romans Cgtilllllilltid lastlnfr crlterla ln many fields for the ffuldance of western ClWlllZZlll0Il9 Charles Arthur Lx nch, Ph D Professor of CIHSSICS Brown Lnlversltv 4 , . . ' 1 rx, I U A I I Ln I do helieve that the study of any foreign language x 1 A 1 f Y l I.. - u . P I I , xg ' n 1 Y A 1 L I.. is ri PQ . , . r N . . x , , . , , 1 n x A ni P , 1 -Y l xy V F Y fn , Y l T . .

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DR JAMES P McCAFFREY It has been sald, and wlth genulne lllslgllt, that we stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us, and that we see farther than they by the measure of the breadth of their constructlve experlence Tlus IS the mes sage of hlstory that those who cannot remem ber the past are doomed to repeat lt a costly lesson, indeed Not that the humanlst would resurrect the Colden Age, but rather he would and art, ln order to CIll'lCll hls own understand mg and hls own tlmes Now the key to thls bonanza of anclent c1v1 llzatlon lS language, and the tongue of Caesar and of CICCFO, of Vlfgll and of 0Vld IS the mother of the languages of Europe Latm Wfho would neglect, then, to turn the key that would admlt hlm to the lllJI'3l'y of the Classlcs, must see only the superficial excrescences, the cap tlvatlng, but translent, flower of our cxvlllzatlon, rather than lts true essence, ltS roots, those We are deeply zndebted to Dr A Charles Lynch Pro eseor o Classzcs at Brown Unwer stty, or having urltten the mspzrlng Foreuord o this Caduceus DR A CHARLES LYNCH DE LATI I hardy provemtors of the West, mtlmately and 0I'l0'lIlally lntertwlned wlth the cltadels of Greece and Rome Out of the chrysahs of the Craeco Roman era the splrltual values and the wlsdom of Arls totle, Auvustme, and Aqumas have lllumlnated the hearts of men, produclncf a joyous and frult ful Art, reflectlnv the trlumphant humlhty and unconquerable fortltude of a people of Hope Can we afford, ln an age of lI'lClpl8Ilt despalr, to throw away the key to excellence and under standlng ln order to be free to woo the termltes of medlocrxty and m1sapprehens1on9 Shall we be persuaded to mlstake llcense for freedom and sulclde for surv1val'7 In the tfallqlllllty of order that brmgs peace among men there CXlStS a certam primacy of the splrltual, a recovmtlon that the Soul lS more ennobled than the Body So 1n educatlon there 1S a prlmacy of the arts, for art IS the very sig nature of man, who IS a creator as well as a creature A Classlc IS a work of art of endurlng slgnlficance, a grant strlde along the roadway of progress towards a better world Those of us who are proud of and lndebted to Classlcal and they are many were nourlshed ln and shaped by the arts Classlcal Hwh IS the key stone ln the arch of the edlfice of secondary educatlon ln the clty of Provldence Its de emphasls would weaken, and ltS demolltlon I'lllIl, that structure, to leave our talented youth a prey to the adherents of a technology whlch IQ art vnthout soul creatlon for destructlon, Man wlthout Cod Heaven forlnd' DR JAMES P McCAFFREY 1 n Us - 1 n ' I 0 U . D . U' a ' . n u nl U u Q - rs . , u s . f n despoil it of its great treasures of knowledge ' , , ' - n u I 0 ' I L. . .C . - I . . Q U a 1 U 1 0 I ' . . , 2 I n ' n 1- 1 ' , ' , f - f ' ' '