Regis High School - Regian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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SAINT JOHN FRANCIS REGIS ZEALOUS guver of mlssuons and herouc lover of smners who mtercedes for the students and teachers of thus school named to honor his Chrnstlnke Ilfe and personallty a holy son of has great father In Christ SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA GREAT educator and tender father of hosts of souls the nnspured author of the book of has spmrntual exercnses and of the Constntuhons for the formation of a company of rehguous men the Socuety of Jesus

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FOUR CENTURIES OF JESUIT EDUCATION HIS essay mlght have attracted a few more readers nf we could have entntled at Jesult Education Results' But the hnstorlcal and factual test although It need cause no fear for the reputatnon of Jesult educatnon us even more beyond us than the subject of educational theory But a short year ago we here at Regus marked the completion of one quarter of a century of preemmently successful educatnon lt would be truly remarkable If an the short space of twenty flve years such a hughly flnlshed system of secondary schoolmg should have been brought into bemg The graduatung class of nineteen hundred and forty as not the newest frunt of a mere quarter of a century The system according to which we have been tramed ns not one which had nts bnrth nn nnneteen fourteen ln fnfteen hun dred and forty when he sought the confirmation of hls society Samt lgnatlus of Loyola dud not antend that the Jesunts should be as much of an educatlonal organnzatlon as they now are Hrs prnmary purpose had been to go unto the East to brmg the nnfndels to the true God He accepted the sutuatlon which rendered thus fond hope nmposslble with the good grace and realusm character nstlc of him Then he was led to begun has greatest work the establishment of the Jesults as teachers Under hum and hus successors the masters of the new Jesuit colleges buvlt up their own systematuzatlon of the mlllenua old tradatlon of liberal education and the Jesult code of liberal educatlon has never seen nts parallel to the present day tContmued on Page Ill . H . . 11 . . 1 1' ' I 1 1 1 1 I ' 1 . . . . ,, . . . H 1

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FOUR CENTURIES OF JESUIT EDUCATION uContunued from Page 93 Regus Hugh School us one result of four hundred years of thus peerless system As far as ut affects ummeduately the unduvudual Regus student the age old method must do so un four short years of hus young lufe The com plete scheme has applucatuon to hugher studues also un phulosophy scuence and theology but ut beguns at what we know as hugh school Thus hugh school us the grammar school of the more sugnufucant Englush termunology Stretchung over a peruod of four years uts three classes are the lower muddle and upper grammar classes fundamental un a classucal educatuon Obvu ously thorough study of languages and language utself must precede the study of the classucs of luterature Therefore the course of humanustuc studues beguns wuth the ars grammatuca and progresses to the humanutues the poetry and rhetoruc of college freshman and sophomore years Gradu atung from our classucal hugh school our natural untentuon us to go ahead un the tradutuonal arts course What have we and what are we when Commence ment day brungs us to thus fresh begunnung? What umpressuon does such a grammar school as Regus make upon us? Before attemptung thus apprausal let us stop to consuder that as Jesuut boys we are not merely graduates of a classucal school Humanustuc but supernaturally humanustuc us the vuew of lufe and educatuon accordung to whuch we are beung formed Catholucuty of the staunchest kund us worked unto our souls as unto our schoolung lt us an udeal combunatuon that of the ever renascent educatuonal udeal of ancuent Greece and Rome wuth Chrustuan educatuonal Ideals Catholuc and luberal educatuon un thus old world tradutuon has taken root un our new world Ameruca For our country and for our Church we have receuved such an educatuon at Regus To our country and to our God wull we return the fruuts of ut Thus socual aum of humanustuc edu catuon us not less characterustuc of ut than uts stress on the perfectung of the unduvudual Our cutues and States and natuon our famulues parushes and duoceses expect the benefuts of our formatuon Our own happuness un lufe and after lufe us knut up wuth our dutues as socual beungs At Regus we have been schooled under partucularly advantageous curcum stances In these four years our teachers have been teachers of scholarshup students only Our educatuon has been a premuum won by means of talents graces and opportunutues whuch God saw fut to guve us We wull have to render an account of our stewardshup May the account be as satusfactory as that of the one whose Chrustuan Charuty has afforded us thus pruze by found ung Regus Deo et Patruae May our accountung for these years be as satusfactory as Saunt lgnatuus of Loyola s accountung for four hundred years of hus Order s educatuon of youth for the greater glory of God - 1 1 1 . . - - II - 11 ' ll - ll ll - - - - ' 1 1 Il Il ' ' ' ' 1 - ' II - 11 ll - - Il I II ll II - 11 I ll ll - . . . . ,, . 1 ,, . . . ' 1 ' 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 - - 11 - II - , . . . . , . - 1 - ll II