St Johns Preparatory School - Spire Yearbook (Danvers, MA)

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ST. .lohn's Prep is a CATHOLIC school. lT is sTaTTed by The BroThers aT ST. Francis Xavier and endeavors To give iTs sTudenTs a CaTholic approach To liTe. ThaT does noT mean ThaT religion is crammed down The ThroaTs aT iTs sTudenTs, nor does iT mean ThaT oTher phases aT school liTe-The inTellecTual, The aThleTic, The social-are ignored or deemphasized. The Prep has a long and disTinguished scholasTic record. lTs graduaTes have aTTained loTTy posiTions in pracTically all 1 The proTessions. lTs zealous Teachers, boTh religious and lav, labor wiTh and Tor The sTudenT. To The complainT ThaT The scholasTic assignmenTs are long and The hours ol sTudy Tedious The Prep .A sl' MW I

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On May evenings, when Jrhe New England spring is a blessing on fhe land. lhe Prep sludenf galhers in lhe chapel wilh his fellow Prep men +o sing a paean of praise lo Our Lady. And +o 'rhe chapel, y in Jrhe course of his four years, he makes his way when lhe burdens of school life become wearisome. Xavier l-lall's spire, surmounfed by a cross. and slrelching 'rowards Jrhe slcy, is a filling symbol of lhe Prep s+uden+'s aspiralions. Under fhe ever-lenglhening shadow of +ha'r spire Jrhe Prep sludenf lives his Prep life, makes his friends and dreams his dreams, calches lhe spirijr O'l:S'l.JOl'1I'1'S, prepares for Jrhe greal, big world lhal awaifs him beyond lhe campus boundaries

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6 'I 'uf ni , Facully has lhe ancienl buf lrue response Jrhere is no easy road lo knowledge. And if langenls and declensions and lerm papers and coniugalions and irregular French verbs loom in enormous proporlions on The horizon of lhe Prep sludenl he realizes- if nor of Jrhe momenl' Jrhen in malurer years-lhal such inlelleclual aclivily is shaping and moulding him: is preparing him for life on a college campus and for Jrhe larger life beyond any 'rowers of ivy.