Saint Vincent College Preparatory School - Chimes Yearbook (Latrobe, PA)

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OF TODAY FOR THE IDEALISTIC Youth is a precarious time. During the formative years of adolescence young lives can often be directed to high ideals or baser levels by mere trilles. It is paramount therefore that boys of High School age be inspired with the loftiest ideals and trained to these soundest principles of right living. Not in fame, nor power nor wealth does success consist, but in always doing the best one can. Some are physical giants, some are intellectual geniuses, some are magnetic personalities, but unless each one directs his endowments to noble ends, his life will have been spent in vain. From far beyond this mortal life must come the criteria of living. Our guiding principles must be Heaven-born and God-given, as eternal and im- mutable as God Himself. Through these tender years our masters have been kind, while training our minds . They have drilled us to conform to the precepts of God, of school and of country, they have encouraged us when we have slipped, above all, they have set us a worthy example by their religious lives. Now we are willing to accept new responsibilities. We are eager to serve our fellow man. We are ready to accept the trust placed in us as The Americans of Tomorrow .

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Me 'Huzee Plxafiu OF AMERICAN IDEALISM THE CHRISTIAN The American of Tomorrow, just as the American of Today 111I.lSL love his God as he does his country. Religion is the only founda- tion for true patriotism. Pro Deo et Patria , For God and Country will ever be the motto of the class of 1940. THE SCHOLAR Civilization may be at the crossroads. The culture of Europe may vanish after the war of 1940. Perhaps we Americans of Tomorrow may be called upon to be the saviors of learning and culture like the monks of the Dark Ages. X'Ve Vincentians of 1940 will ever hold aloft the torch of learning. THE GENTLEMAN A man may have the mathematical genius of Einstein, the analytical power of a Shake- speare, the historical background of a Macau- lay, but if he is not a gentleman, his influence on society will be weakened. The graduates of 1940 will ever aim to harmonize the attri- butes of Scholar and Christian into what we so highly esteem and call-The Gentleman.