St Francis Xavier Academy - Xavier Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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Our Class Motto Spes Nobis in Te Dominc. Our Hope Is in Thee, O Lord. Spes Nobis In Te Domine ! We hope in Thee, O Lord ! Spes Nobis In Te Domine— What peace these words afford. Spes Nobis In Te Dominc We've pleaded through the years; Ah, now we l(now 'twas not in vain. For fled are all our fears We forward step with high resolve With confidence and cheer. For He in Whom we've placed our trust Is changeless, year by year. Though friends be many or be few. Though paths be bright or drear, Though plans may falter or prove true. We’ll trust without a fear. With childlike trust, O Changeless One, We give our lives to Thee this day; We place our future in Thy Heart, Spes Nobis In Te Dominc! Elizabeth J. Giblin. The Xavier Page Twenty-five

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what matter! All had acquired the S. X. A. spirit, and thus the year sped quickly by, and all departed with a sigh. Chapter II September eight, 1924, found our girls once more at dear old S. X. A., eager to renew old friendships and to form new ones. This year they felt obliged to lay aside all childish views and to assume the important air of Sophomores. They crossed the Rubicon with Caesar, joined his tenth legion, and rivalled even Labienus in the campaign work of the year. I he Senior Sale gave them a splendid opportunity to prove that they had grasped the full meaning of being responsible. And this spirit, responsible loyalty, was manifest in all they did, but no where so manifest as in the final tests. So successful were they in the examinations that they fell they rightly earned a long vacation. Chapter III Pink ties! the sign of the Junior Class! How eagerly they donned them! And with what dignity they wore them! Nothing seemed too difficult for these determined students. Geometry complications to them were recreation; Spanish pronunciation, just sweet harmony; Cicero’s orations, only delightful pastimes; English classics, a method of cultural training for the future. During this year, too, our girls gave evidence that they were “dainty trippers of the light fantastic,” as well as diligent students. After displaying their singular and combined abilities in the observance of the Diamond Jubilee of the Sisters of Mercy, the Juniors departed with high hopes of returning after the vacation as “the observed of all observers”-—Seniors. Chapter IV 1 he summer months dragged on! Would September ever come! Yes, everything comes to him who waits! The sun rises gloriously on September twelfth! Our girls are Seniors! Seniors, with all the privileges that the word implies— assembling in Room I, wearing red ties, the responsibility of giving good example to the undergraduates, sailing the deep with Aeneas, joining the literary club with Dr. Johnson, discovering the mysteries of the laboratory, deciphering the hieroglyphics of phonography, etc. Then a tornado of events took place—election, Hallowe’en Party, Sale, Retreat, the Alumnae Ball—at which they made their debut—and hosts of minor events. And now Commencement Day draws near! Our girls are sad and glad—sad, because their high school days at dear S. X. A. are over and they must part; glad, because of the honor of being graduated from St. Xavier’s, and of becoming a member of that splendid body of Catholic Women, The St. Francis Xavier Alumnae Association. Always will the happy memory of the four years at S. X. A. be a stimulus to greater good! Harriette Z. Keough A. Loretta Nugent Page Tiventp-four The Xavier

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Our Chapel How beautiful thy altars rare. Thy stained-glass windows, loo. The flow’rs that ned their heads so fair Before His Presence true! All these ive leave, O Chapel, dear. For we must go our way; But lil(e thy little lamp sincere. Our faithful hearts will slay. Elizabeth B. McMann. Page Twenty-six The Xaoier