Girard College - Corinthian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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3n A rpprei iation Dear Mr. Girard: Because you worked hard and successfully, and because you were a generous man we are graduating from your school. Girard College, which for more than 100 years has developed good citizens for this great country. Thousands of your boys have had fuller and better lives and we are of them. For ten years we have lived and moved and been a part of all that you believed and for which you worked so devotedly. We have absorbed advice and instruction. We have come to cherish the principles of morality and of benevolence, and to believe in your love of truth, sobriety, and industry.” We thank you for giving us this opportunity to share in die purposes of your school and to contribute our portion to its enduring strengdi and influence. We will do our best to make each of our lives a reflection of what you have done for us. Class of 1966