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

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t '!:5? And so we talked-particularly as Seniors-of many things: of our own problems, of world affairs, of the world that awaited us outside our campus halls. And we found that Prep education had given us both balance and background. ian. zz .W y Q Q , fy, 4? We an 5 1 fr ,mf . !,z,.gp. MSW gif? wQ?af.:., .. . The tennis courts: half-sun and half-shadow in thc late hours of an autumn afternoon. Memorial Gymnasium can be seen on the left of this picture, and in the background Xavier Hall looms majestically, with its spire etched sharply against an October sky. 7 fr ...amps

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A stranger to Prep life must ask: What do the boys do all day? There is really no adequate answer. They pray, they study, they play, they attend social affairs, they go from one activity to another. And they GROW: spiritually, mentally, physically. They undergo that re- markable transformation whereby the ill-at-ease Freshman becomes the poised Senior ready for the life that awaits him beyond the Halls of Ivy.