Providence College - Veritas Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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ABILITY T0 persevere soon produces the senior wearing his cap and gown. The late spring also gives the senior some time to relax and enjoy a baseball game at Hendricken Field. Now the senior reviews the last four years and discusses future plans. The senior's final spring is the last chance to rerninisce with soon-to-be-separated friends.

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IN OUR .daily schedules, there exists a constant juxta- position of the disparate elements of gaiety and spiritual peace. The Military Ball and the Pershing Rifles Ball are two major events of the social season. The etlicient brigade has its opportunity to show that it does more than merely march. Then again, on many an evening, the vibrant Words of a Dominican-perhaps the President of the Col- lege-may be heard intoning the age-old formula for peace from a pulpit in the Grotto. The message of Christ adds its abiding warmth to the hopes and aspirations of the P.C. man who hears it. ' K s.:.:1R- f - :sa f 'vt -- -N , mx, ws ' 2, gag A 1 . er a :sis fe -is 'T 1 :7 at ,.. t -.fu W2 1 09 , X-. :Y e?ww'zza:2v: f61a- ff

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'l5 'HUEHCE LIVE WITH HONOR, vested with material prosperity and moral integrityg that is the challenge represented by the Providence College man's diploma. Thoroughly exposed to the fourfold ideals of a balanced Christian education-academic, athletic, spiritual, and social-the graduate can be proud of a career Well begun. His parents are also proud of an able, accomplished son. In donning his traditional cap and gown, the P.C. manhas every right to feel that he Wears a robe of honor, daily bought with many long hours of intellectual toil. Four bitter-sweet years have passed, rich both in labor and in laughter. The graduatels parting thoughts are many but, most of all, the P.C. man bears in mind that, where he came a boy, he departs in the fullness of his manhood.