Fenwick High School - Blackfriars Yearbook (Oak Park, IL)

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Nr' lil IQ filly Q 4 Q i V ff? , -QU 1 F1 ' MM ,Mfg 1 ff 2 If PROMCTING CHRISTIAN EDUCATION oreword Fenwick has always recognized it as her sacred mission and trust to educate men according to the Christian ideal. For ten years she has been carrying on a program destined to prepare men for what they must be and for what they must do here below in or- der to attain the end for which they were created. It is, therefore, essentially a Christian education that is imparted at Fenwick, and the Model held up before all is none other than He Who is the way, the truth and the life. In Him alone can man see all that he must be and all that he must do here below. Consequently the product of such a Christian Education should be a supernatural man who thinks, judges and acts constantly and consistently in accordance with right reason illumined by the supernatural light of the example and teaching of Christ. Conscious of the idea that it is the whole man that must be educated, Fenwick has built up a program that takes into consider- ation all the faculties of man. Her courses of study are so arranged that they, supplemented by instruction, supernatural truths, and the means of grace, will enlighten the intellect, strengthen the will, correct the many disorderly inclinations consequent upon fallen na- ture, and above all encourage and regulate the good tendencies in her students.

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lg! -X fy' msiuiismtlsi M 3 mmuiniuii Plllsl viiisim mst semi Ylllsl itsuuxc NASE EDUCATION CF THE WHOLE MAN tj llil qntroduction Be not surprised at not finding a section of this book devoted to the Moral Phase. Such a section has been deliberately omitted because Religion and morals are not distinct phases in the educa- tional program at Fenwick. Religious and moral instruction is giv- en by word and example at all times whether in the classroom, in the chapel, at social functions, or on the athletic field. It is the ear- nest endeavor of the Fathers to train men to be not intermittent but consistant Christian gentlemen. Consequently in preparing this book as a memento of the school activities of 1939 we have found it convenient to divide it into the above mentioned phases.