Holy Trinity High School - Trinitarian Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Perfect schools are the result not so much of good methods as of good teachers, teachers who are thoroughly prepared and well-grounded in the mat¬ ter they have to teach; who possess the intellectual and moral qualifications required by their important office; who cherish a pure and holy love for the youths confided to them; because they love Jesus Christ and His Church, of which these are the children of predilection; and who have therefore sincerely at heart the true good of family and country. Indeed it fills our soul with con¬ solation and gratitude towards the Divine Goodness to see, side by side with Religious men and women engaged in teaching, such a large number of excel¬ lent lay teachers ... All these labor unselfishly with zeal and perseverance in what St. Gregory Nazienzen calls The art of arts and the science of sci¬ ences : the direction and formation of youth. — Pope Pius XI. Students and graduates of Holy Trinity High School will always be grateful for the priv¬ ilege of having been taught by the Brothers of Holy Cross. Founded in France in 1820 as The Brothers of St. Joseph, this order was the first com¬ munity of Brothers to establish itself in the United States when, in 1842, six Brothers and one priest set up a small college in the wilderness of northern Indiana. This college, like the community which founded it, expanded until to¬ day it is one of the finest Cath¬ olic institutions of higher learning in the world; the Uni¬ versity of Notre Dame. It is at this great center of culture and learning that the members of our faculty are trained for their important office. Since the greatness of Notre Dame is the glory of Holy Cross, we students who have been taught by Holy Cross men have imbibed those in¬ tangible qualities that go to make up greatness. For this, we shall always be grateful to our teachers, those splendid men of character: the Brothers of Holy Cross.

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edicaied . . . TO THE MEMORY OF BROTHER GEORGE, C.S.C. Whose ruggedness in practice of virtue was for thirty years an inspiration to Trinity students. May his soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God Rest in Peace

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Adfnln4Ai uitUi4i, Office Scene: Bro. Reginald, principal; Bro. Maximus, vice-principal, and Gene Daszkowski, ' 43, school secretary BROTHER REGINALD, C.S.C. Principal Hence every form of pedagogic naturalism which in any way excludes or overlooks super¬ natural Christian formation in the teaching of youth, is false. Every method of education founded, wholly or in part, on the denial or forgetfulness of original sin and of grace, and relying on the sole powers of human nature, is unsound. Such, generally speaking, are those modern systems bearing various names which appeal to a pretended self-government and un¬ restrained freedom on the part of the child, and which diminish or even suppress the teach¬ er ' s authority and action, attributing to the child an exclusive primacy of initiative, and an activity independent of any higher law, natural or Divine, in the work of his education. —Pope Pius XI Page 6