Cranwell Preparatory School - Bell Tower Yearbook (Lenox, MA)

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St. Ignatius and St. Francis Xavier at Paris When he was thirty-four years old, Ignatius began the study of Latin with boys of high school age. Later at the University of Paris he roomed with a brilliant, proud, unmoneyed, in- domitable Spanish nobleman, Don Francisco de Xavier Y -Iaxu. Ignatius, moulder of men, said later that the stiffest clay he ever had to handle was, at the outset, Iirancis Xavier. The young, handsome, athletic professor of the great university laughed flippantly when the older Ignatius questioned his am- bitious dreams with the query What shall it profit a man if he gain the Whole world and lose his soul? But after a long struggle Xavier surrendered his titles of nobility and abandoned his hopes of ecclesiastical and scholastic eminence and offered himself to follow Christ. Xavier never forgot Paris and he often mentioned the university in his letters. There he grew from Loyhood to manhood. There he passed through all the crises of body and spirit, of temptation, of grace, of conversion. Life was new, friendships were different, everything was beginning, the future was one great promise. For us memories, dreams, and hopes will cling 'round the towers and trees of Cranwell. We, the Seniors of '41, will not easily forget the friendships we have made, the trials and joys, the happiness and sadness we have shared. Here we have studied and prayed, here we have matured and now we leave. With us we take the principles, traditions and spirit of Cran- well. Our work is to honor those traditions, practise these prin- ciples and nourish that spirit as we follow the careers we have chosen. Pzge 7 uenty-mu'