Monsignor Coyle High School - Review Yearbook (Taunton, MA)

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idea of the world, of man and of God just. But only that school system is good which makes the intellectual work subserve not only the growth of intelligence but also the development of will-power. Strength of will does spring from right- ness of view combined with the exercise of hard mental work. But will-power de- velops also from opportunities offered to Coyle students to develop themselves Physically: Vigour of limb is a most useful adjunct to vigour of mind and soul. A sound athletic program at Coyle looks to having the body developing its energies properly in contests demanding skill, force and endurance, for the school wants her graduates to be broken to bodily hardship and bodily strain such as her men are called to exhibit in those athletic contests that are waged with other schools. To endure reverses without admitting defeat is one of the essential qualities of manhood which Coyle wishes to see in her graduates. Another result sought for is unselfishness and the subordination of one's own ambitions to the interests of the team, whether in football, basketball or baseball, for that develops the spirit of modesty and corrects the tendency to individualism. Religiously by striving for their personal good as members of the Mystical Body of Christ. Christian education not only teaches but forms. Because of his membership in the Mystical Body of Christ the Christian alone knows unerringly the mental, moral and cultural disciplines requisite to form a man to be what this membership requires him to be, and he alone can understand and formulate a right plan of educa- tion. The Catholic Church, as the Mystical Body of Christ, cannot fail in her aims for she is not content with enlightening the mind: she commands mysterious re- sources for influencing the will. These are the Sacraments. Through their invisible effect the souls of the Church's children are developed in spiritual and moral vigour. By the potent and secret action of the Sacraments each Coyle student is gradually moulded in will and emotion to a pattern of true Christian personality. Finally, Coyle students are trained , Socially by learning to cooperate with their fellow-men for common good in the State. The Church teaches her members that it is only in organic union, each with the other, that they attain full Christian personality. This is the theory of the Mystical Body. Philosophy holds with the Church in showing that man achieves his full and proper development only through the State, for man is by nature a political animal and is formed to full human status by means of society. As ei member of the State, he has to work for the perfecting of the State life. Coyle students are taught the duty to work for and to procure the common good. The common good is nothing else than that social, and political, and economic order, which is most apt to promote the spiritual, intellectual, moral and economic well-being of the person. Therefore, Msgr. lames Coyle High School working in cooperation with the home and the parish, by exercising her students in vigorous intellectual pursuits, by her curriculum based on the correct estimate of man, the world and God, and by her physical program of intermural and competitive sports as well as by her social and especially Religious activities aims to establish the right kind of conditions and supply all the means by which her students can advance in wisdom, and age, and grace with God and man.

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Theme The end of man is to dwell here on earth as a member of the family, the State and of the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church, and hereafter in union with Christ in the very bosom of God the Father. Therefore, the Editors of CCYLE REVlEW have chosen as the theme of the l947 edition these Words from the Gospel of St. Luke: HAnd lesus advanced in wisdom, and age, and grace with God and men. Luke ii, 52. ln preparation for his temporal and eternal destiny, the student of Coyle must advance in wisdom, that is Mentally: He must have a clear notion as to the meaning and purpose of life. l-le must have fixed prin- ciples of thought and action: his thought must be accurate and clear, his expression careful and noble, his W' Q 7 'A 7 'G , ' VP ' la tiff ,V ri 5, 3 .,,,. , 43 , My 'f fig! -I at 2 ri,,et ' bfi 4 X N- 'fy f 151 . a'i f lf 1 - , t f H 'A

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Mother of Mankind