Girls Latin School - Liber Annalis Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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lass Song Girls' Latin School, to you we sing Our praises, loud and strong. No matter what our lives may bring, Our hearts will hold your song. Through hardships we can persevere Our aims to seek anew. For you have taught us to revere 'The beautiful and true. Girls' Latin School, to you we sing Our praises, loud and strong. No matter what our lives may bring, Our hearts will hold your song. DAVIDA Horz I 38 l

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This knowledge gives him the ability to judge a man by his own merits and not by his color, creed, or nationality. In this way youth will be accustomed to probe, to reason out, to sift all the sides of a question before he presumes to form an opinion. In practical applications he can reach a decision without bigotry or intolerance. Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essay on Self Reliance said: Most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief and attached themselves to some . . . communities of opinion. Youth must tear off the bandage that has bound the eyes of previous generations. His education can and will teach him why. The history of peoples bewilderedly grasping at the wrong ideas or trying to solve problems without thought will open his eyes to the fact that decisions require study, penetrating thought, and an unclogged mind. Instead of hiding a new doctrine of government in a closet, youth must bring it out, lay it on a table for all to see, and examine it thoroughly. With his open mind, discrimination, and reason, he will be able to dissect it, probing and analyzing fairly its claims, its practicability, its advantages, its service. The study of Latin has also helped us meet these aims of education. In translating from the original masterpieces of literature one gains a deeper appreciation of human nature. In the study of Vergil, for example, the student meets the tragic and the heroic, the pathetic and the humorous, all stirring his imagination with vivid pictures of action, passion, and thought, and teaching him the power of discrimination. Having been taught to think clearly and to differentiate between sound and unsound, true and false, he will be a better and more useful citizen. What is true of Latin is true of English literature and modern languages. The latter have the added values of enabling one to understand better the nations of today. Science and mathematics should not be overlooked as important factors in fundamental education. In mathematics, the student develops methods of scientific thinking, powers of analysis and logic, and the ability to apply in a practical way his knowledge. Science keeps him alert and interested in dis- coveries that may change his whole life. No one would claim that only those taught in a classical high school are entirely prepared for the future and have covered all the necessary ground. In fact, schools of this type are generally deficient in the instruction of the fine arts. Yet that type of instruction stands firm only on the strong foundation that a classical education can give. Once the essential qualities of a trained mind are attained, the practical and the artistic can be learned more easily and retained with much more profit. A classical education does provide these essential qualities. It fulfills the requirements of education as defined by the Harvard Committee. Through its imparting of knowledge, this education does cultivate certain aptitudes and attitudes in the mind of the young 3 it does look both to the nature of knowledge and to the good of man in societyg and, most important of all, a classical education does aim at and produce the good man, the good citizen, and the useful man. LUCY MANUELIAN E 37 J

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