Quigley Preparatory Seminary - La Petit Seminaire Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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V Whot did you soy you got thot demert for? is then transferred to the seminarian s personal file his card is then marked after the last figure thereupon with the date and he is assigned his de tention or Jug These files are kept on each student for the length of nis stay at the seminary and are important in deciding each year whether or not he should be allowed to continue Good sound character in the super natural order is a must for one who would follow in the footsteps of Christ The truth of this statement is obvious lt is within the province I I Fr Dufficy odvice on staying out of trouble Fr Smld Senior Dlsclpllnorion of the spiritual director to root out the flaws from this essential ingredi to know the faults of the seminar'an9 He teaches so few of the lad s classes and has no sources aside from this save occasional corridor chats office conferences and information h gleans from other priests who teach a particular youth Sometimes a fault can be entirely unconscious even to the most introspective That s where the Discipline Office comes into play again The things a boy is sent there for are relayed to the spiritual director if they are of a nature grave enough to warrant it lt is impossible to conceive of the Blessed Virgin correcting anything in the character of the Boy Christ but we the fallen sons of Adam are often sorelv in need of it Thank God for an other instrument of l-las providence 2 Q .K gg lggc . . . 'S 1 . . . . .- s ent. But how is the spiritual director so ' I . v . . e ll - '11 ' . ' . . . . O5-

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Father Duggan rnetes out lustuce sentence 60 mln at hard blockboords The uppermost fngure In the mnnds of many semunaruans at Qungley IS not sylloglstlc nor ss lt algebranc geo metric or trugonometruc nt as the three dngut numeral 205 the address of two of the most amuable men on the faculty Th congenualutyof Father Frank Smnd and Father Edward Duf flcy however IS not the reason for the popul rnty of the second floor East cubncle 205 ns the offnce of the Pr fects of Dlscxplune The dubuous pleasure of running coupled wltn the task of assigning a different locker to each stud nt an nually and carune for thelr respectuve keys keepnnv records on absenteeism and tardnness Inspecting collars fun ffernauls hanr shoes sultcoats and s lth s mn the lunc lnne lfafellowfauls topass thus Inspection he goes to end of th f Ie J pensrng street car cards and keepnng the records thus entanled collectnng parent marrnage .ecords baptnsmal and confnrmatnon records all go to make up the thankless 1ob of the Dlsclpllnarlans Thelr prnmary task though ns to keep the demernt system smoothly an operation Qulgley has long employed thus dlscnplune procedure wuth flne results Each student carries a conduct card bearing hrs name In the center and frnnged on three sides with twen ty fuve small squares When a boy commlts a mnsdemeanor he receives from whatever pruest notices at the thenumber ofsquaresfllledln and the number wlth whnch they are fllledl of the penalty ascrnbed on the reverse side of the demerzt card At every multuple of five the prnest concerned takes the boys card from hum and guves It to the Dnscupllne Offnce The student must then go there to redeem the card l-le tells one of the pruests Fr Smnd or Fr Dufflcy from whom and for what he recenved each d merit The unformatnon I the seminary's lost-and-found bureau. quantity and quality ldesignated by . O . . . I 3 K, . tie i ' h ' ' ' ' ' the e i . 3 dis- .

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The penance for the fault admitted in 205 is exacted at this well known address The room con notes assembly to some to others it means Polish class the non swimmers have a study period here while theirclassmates take theweekly plunge in the pool downstairs the first year scripture class is held here but despite all these uses most stu dents know this hallowed lecture han first and foremost as the Jug Father Duggan the present Jug master has succeeded Father Jones a former faculty member Father Voss and Father Graff to the place of authority in one of the school s best known if not best loved departments It is Father s enviable duty to sentence 0 the blackboards with oiled plates or dust the tops of the seven hundred lockers Thank the Lord for the recessed ones Father has those for whom he can find no man ual labor write sermons or meditations on three stations from the Way of the Cross The picture painted here may seem bleak that is hardly the case For some fellows keep coming back o d st ll collect ere B t Fcithe gets lugged too the miscreants who have pleaded guilty to the upstairs court Some are assigned basket duty these unfortunates consider them selves as being in one of the lower circles of Dante s Inferno They must empty the wastebaskets in one wing of the building or lif there be a short age ofcriminalsl in both Others wipe Will these boo ds ee be clean? ff