Girard College - Corinthian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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To Our Benefactor Dear Stephen Girard: In a short while fifty-one of us, your charges, will go forth to meet an embroiled world, the problems of which we shall face with confidence, for we have been skillfully trained and well armed to combat them. We leave with con¬ fidence in our hearts.. In this incomparable school, which your foresight and God’s help envisioned and materialized, we have formed the closest associations and friendships. We have grown up with these friends, we have shared our joys with them. In so do¬ ing we have been trained as today’s citizens of Girard and tomorrow’s citizens of the world. Before long we must leave these lifelong friends with sorrow in our hearts. We cannot thank you adequately with words alone for the excellent oppor¬ tunity offered by your school. Here have been fostered and inculcated the Amer¬ ican principles of good citizenship, political and religious tolerance, fortitude of spirit in the face of overwhelming personal problems; and so we leave with the American way instilled in our hearts. Before us have gone thousands of other boys who were the grateful recipients of your bounteous goodness; they, too, tried ineffectively to thank you, even as we now try to do it. They were proud to be Girardians; proud to be called the sons of one who loved his country as unreservedly as you did. They were proud of the life you lived, and they emulated it in every way. We, too, will undertake to emulate you, and in molding our lives we hope to be of benefit to mankind as you were. We leave with purpose in our hearts. We have been schooled in the highest principles of morality, and in those qualities which you profoundly exemplified—truth, tolerance, duty, and justice. These are the qualities that those before us have so splendidly displayed in their relationships. We enter the world with the name of Girard to clear the pathway for us, a name which you in your foresight saw to it that we would be able to use; and so we leave with pride in our hearts. We thank you with words incapable of revealing the depth of our emotions. You have been our life. You took us as lost, little boys and made us into men. Though we leave with this gratitude, we leave with one emotion in particular— pride. We are proud to be Girardians. We thank you for the opportunity to have an American education. We thank you for the opportunity to go into the world with high ideals. Above all we thank you for the opportunity to be men. With sincerity, THE CLASS OF JANUARY, 1945 1945 [5J fflarmtijian

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Almighty God we praise thy name for the founder of this institution and for his life of industry, honesty, temperance, and public spirit. We thank thee that thou didst move the heart of the founder to establish this College, and to bequeath his wealth for its endowment. May we cherish the memory of his benefaction and be inspired by his example to do more for thee and thy world in our own day and generation. Founder’s Day Prayer.” School Prayers —Cheesman A. Herrick. Corinthian January

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