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

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WE DO GET ROUGH DON T WE7 LOOK MA AT A BOY KEN Qurgley was exrstrng a surprrsrngly well devel oped Intramural system Then for the frrst trme he was Introduced to the everybody gets Into e act polrcy whrch was to prove so helpful rn s own case and In the case of many others found that the star and the begrnner shared e same ground In a system that stressed not so much the skrll of the partrcrpants but rather the number Involved Scarcely had he become acquarnted wrth the routetoschool than he drscovered that the Drvot Club was gorng out to try therr luck at hackrng up a nearby golf course When he returned from thrs excursron he was Informed that the color of the ball was no longer whrte but black and he could no longer use a club but must be content to use hrs hand Instead The fact that he never played handball before made It all the more fun Convrnced that he should have won though he farled to survrve the frrst round he saw the gym floor put to another use Now they were playrng as he thought that srlly game surtable only for grants Krng Basketball took overl It took trme and It took effort but eventually he was amazed to realrze that the ball wasn t any brgger than the basket a fact at frrst he refused to belreve and that If hrs 62 Inch frame shot rt just so It would swrsh through the net Apparently convrnced that he was master of the court thrs once shy and reserved lad now sought new frelds of endeavor Havrng decrded that hrs avrdness couldnt be overcome and hav Ing learned to swrm by the 500 year plan In volvrng bodrly rmmersron and a swrm or drown proposrtron he decrded to try the game In whrch strrkes were good When our rllustrrous young athlete found that the strrkes were too few and far between and after hrs quota of gutter balls he gave way to the crres of Strrke three you re out Abner Doubleday would have beamed rf he could have seen the enthusrasm that frlled our young frrend as he hustled out to the dramond to take part In Amerrca s greatest pastrme And thus hrs frrst year In the semrnary passes One rs rnclrned to ask What has he benefrtted from hrs avrd followrng of sports7 ln addrtron to e varrous contrrbutrons In the development of e body and the mrnd sports are rnvaluable In e educatron of the wrll Here rs the basrs for e formatron of many of the qualrtres that are to prove so benefrcral In hrs later every day lrfe as a prrest Sports In themselves are a school a school rn whrch a boy IS taught self drscrplrne by the rules he must keep frrendlrness by gettrng along wrth other youths and alertness by berng qurck In both thought and actron Sports are the means whereby the natural attractron of a boy teaches hrm rndrvrdualrty and co operatron re sourcefulness and enthusrasm sportsmanshrp and good wrll It IS on the sports freld that the sem Inarran has learned to be a good wrnner and an even better loser Here at Qurgley the by now well educated freshre had drscovered that sports were not an end but the necessary means Sports were rn tended to strmulate and refresh the semrnarran In order that he mrght be better able to fulfrll hrs oblrgatron of ora et labora For It was through the lrvrng of thrs motto that the prrestly asprrant advanced In the rmrtatron of hrs prrestly goal The Cure of Ars '9 th - . . . . hi . a . . He . . . th . . . , . ' .. . . . rh ' ' ' ' th . I . . . . . ' th ' ' . ' ' . th ' ' '

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