La Salle Academy - Maroon and White Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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Nlllllflll ' ' , ' f THE MAROONLLIAND wr-awe K GD f w D caaf - LJIIOI' firm-zofy 5 5 1932-3 honors are concerned, and their record this year seems to predicate that this distinction will be theirs again next year. just behind the juniors is the sophomore division, and following on the heels of this latter group are the seniors. Unfortunately, we have not the pleasure of mentioning the freshmen in this society. Cnly after the last quarterly examinations are finished, will the results indicate what freshmen are worthy of the honor to be conferred upon them. lt seems most proper at this moment to mention that membership in this scholastic society is not the sole incentive held out to the pupils as a means of emulation. They are instructed to attach themselves to good at all times, through pure motives and to desire for themselves, good order, industry, politeness, in a word, all that a good education supf poses. lt is the aim of the faculty to arouse in the student's soul, noble sentiments, sentif ments of a nature to inspire him with a love for duty and a desire to do it well. Filial love, a desire to please their parents, and a thorough realization of the sacrifices the parents make for their education inspire the boys to do well. Lastly, they are induced to do well, from motives of personal interest. They are made to realize that every good action brings to its doer a reward now or later and that there is a close connection between their actual conduct and their future happiness. One Hundred Seven ...,J

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Nlllllfllw it x - Z 'rr-lEmoNLIkAN -1-E KW A y JCI l I p cllmlasfic SDF ALL student organizations at La Salle, the Gold L Society is the most conspicf uous. Its membership represents the cream of the crop. The Gold L Society is the coveted honor for all students who desire to bask in the spotlight of brain supremacy. To qualify for membership, a student must be a member of the Silver L Society for the four quarters of the year. A failure to receive a Silver L at the end of any one quarter automatically bars the student from entering the sacred precincts of the exclusive Gold Letter men. A student of the freshman year, for example, who attains an average of So per cent or over during the four quarters of the year is awarded his Gold L the following Sepf tember. A repetition of this achievement during the next three years would keep his name on the roster of the Gold L Society and make him the recipient of four Gold L's. If, for some reason or other, he fails in any one year, his ambition to keep going is sustained and inflamed by the knowledge that there is still a chance every year to recoup his losses and gain a Gold HL. At the present time, the juniors of the school are in the lead as far as the Gold 'LLM One Hundred Six

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:lHIlllW - Z T H o N A N r E lub Cfilver oQeffe1ii' docriefy DUCATION in the United States Within the last quarter of a century has become as free as the air. Those who care to profit by an education are at liberty to take it or reject it. At a staggering expense state, city, town and village have vied with one another in providing for the child, the young and the youth all the facilities that are necessary to equip him for a World whose criterion of efficiency has long since changed from bravvn to brain. Since social legislation has removed the shadow of the vvorkman's bench from the life of the child, he must perforce, attend some institution of learning. As a result the capacity of our schools has been taxed, in droves each September, the aspirants for a higher educational polish storm the doors. Their numbers are legion and they embrace all grades of intellectual capacity. The problem of the educators, is not to provide a seat for every child, that is the easiest part of the task, rather is it to keep the child in his seat once he has been assigned to it, lest by failure he be removed to give room for someone more deserving. Student failure in the past was entirely out of proportion to what it really should have been. A World of alluring entertainment surrounded the Z- student, and the tempting complexion of pleasure trove often proved sufhcient to lure him from his books There was no counteracting influence to these sirens of youth, save the noble ideal of studyf ing for study's sake, and in a youth this was too , nebulous a thing to strive for. J Something more tangible in its nature had to be devised to sustain a student's interest in his books. At La Salle the Silver Letter Society is one means of arousing and stimulating the boy's desire to keep in the van of the successful students. Membership in this society is open to all ..,..., students who successfully attain an average of So -2 One Hundred Eight