St Joseph Academy - Sajoscript Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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SANDALPIION Zin flllrmnrinm - SISTER J OSEPHINE IGNATIUS The first issue of Sandalphon, the Saint Joseph Academy Annual, containing a brief resume of the work of the Sisters of Notre Dame in Columbus, ought not, it seems to us, go, forth to the many Catholic homes of our city without some word about our dear Sister Josephine Ignatius. For more than fifty years, forty-one of which were spent here in the Academy, she devoted herself to the education of the young. A beautiful tribute to her by Mrs. James A. Allen says: The city of Columbus owes her a debt of gratitude. When Saint Joseph Academy was opened in 1875, she was placed in charge and began the work of forming the minds, hearts, and characters of the young women of Columbus. Her personal influence permeated the family, her tender solicitude and earnest sympathy, which always brought her prayers to the bedside of the sick, found response in the hearts of the parents who were made to realize their responsibility in molding t-he youthful character, and consequently their obligation of meeting her efforts in their home ........ Her teaching was that 1ife's first task is service, and service means sacrifice. Faithfully and well through long years did she keep the vows by which she pledged herself in the springtime of life to labor for God in the training of girls to noble womanhood. Endowed by God with talents of a high order, Sister Josephine Ignatius, under the influence of religious life developed into an instrument well fitted to exercise a grand apostolate. In the classroom, she aimed, not only to train the mind, but also to instil into the hearts of her pupils an abiding admiration for the higher things of life, a real appreciation for all that makes life worth while. If the esteem and love which enshrino her in many hearts today be but the feeble reflection of her own great sympathetic nature, then surely her life work was a labor of love, and she herself a Religious whose name is worthy to be held in benediction. L-ii.l-1 SISTER MARIA JOSEPH A message from Cincinnati brings us word of the going home of dear Sister Maria Joseph. The cross of physical suffiering, which came to her eight years ago, withdrew her from the music room, in which she spent so many years, only to confine her to a sick room from which she went forth to meet the Master with Wjhom she would indeed sanctify the fiftieth year of consecrated service. A fitting tribute is due her memory for the many devoted years she spent in Columbus. This we are forced to resolve for our next issue. R. I. P. page ninety

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S A N D A L P H 0 N l..ife's 'Tournament DOROTHY HILL Grad uatc S we look back through the years to the time of the Crusades when all 'was aglow wih the spirit of chivalry, we find an admirable character, whose name and noble deeds will always remain symbols of real gallantry -the knight. When he lived up to his knightly vows, he was indeed the gentle- man of his time, and no truer type of noble lord can be found throughout his- tory. Ile was fitted for conquest, war, and adventure, and his life, one might say, was a series of conflicts on the battlefield. The youth who aspired to knighthood began his training a.t the age of seven, usually in the castle of his father's suzerain, where he was initiated in the duties of a page. Seven or eight years later, he became a squire and attended his lord in battle. At the age of twenty-one, if he had proved his courage and military skill, he was deemed worthy of being dubbed a knight. The ceremony by which he was admitted to the Order, besides being most impressive, was exceedingly beautiful in its symbolism. Courage, loyalty, purity, manliness, truthfulness, unselfishness were the ideals inculcated during the years he was in training. Throughout his life these virtues were to characterize his conduct. If wa.r was the noble's chief business, so the tournament was his principal amusement. It was fought in the open, in Hlists, and in the presence of thou- sands of spectators, who thronged the tiers of benches overlooking the field of contest. Each knight wore on his sleeve or helmet his lady's favor which he hoped to cover with glory in the day 's encounter. Apart from his lady 's approv- ing smile, the victorious knight received a reward commensurate with his op- ponent's wealth, as the latter's armor and horse were usually of the finest and his ransom sometimes a small fortune. Ilow like life is the tournament of bygone days, so picturesque in art, so thrilling in literature, so hazardous in reality! When we consider that we, too, are being trained and prepared to enter the scene of a long struggle, we halt a moment to think what it all means-this careful preparation. From the very early days of school life, when we learned the A, B, C, we have been in training. Each year we went on increasing our meagre store of knowledge. Not only once, but many, many times did we find a problem that just wouldn't work out, and often a short paragraph assigned for study seemed endless. These trifiing difficulties, to what did they lead? XVere they lost as we climbed the many- runged ladder of knowledge? Indeed no, and by no means have they been only passing trifies. By each little difficulty we learned, and failure left us more surely mistress of self, or more surely a victim of circumstance. One big difficulty faced and overcome will do vastly more for us than a whole series of easy triumphs. Whether or not studies have been of any real value rests with the individual. No doubt much of that learned from books, day after day, will be forgotten as time goes on. It is only natural that details slip from the mind, for the memory is limited, but certainly important matters, their consequences, and even the results of many minor happenings will remain with us. The real value of a school course is estimated by its success in bettering our lives, raising our ideals and developing character. Nest certainly the studies taken up in school have increased our knowledge of the things around us, they have shown us the past that we may read the future, but if we learned merely as a matter of form, without thinking of the lessons taught and realizing the effects produced in our own lives, we have lest sight of the most important principles underlying our Catholic education. page ninety-one