St Thomas Military Academy - Kaydet Yearbook (Mendota Heights, MN)

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. . . . leaning into the west wind, the Academy Building . . . . the homely warmth of a big family or a small town where everybody knows everybody else, all pulling together with a common bond of compactness .... Academy Building . . . . rising from a setting of wide carefully barbered lawns, is massive and beautiful Albertus Magnus Hall whose bright buff Mankato stone, complemented by that of the Arts Build- ing, forms a handsome entrance to the campus ....

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There is one fraternity of St. Thomas and that is good fellowship. Boys come from mountain and prairie, from the teeming cities and pastoral vil- lages, from over the seas and the romantic lands south of the Rio Grande. They come together to this city of St. Thomas where Christ is ever present in the Blessed Sacrament and where the grandeur of nature is resplendent; and here they live, not as strangers, but as brothers.

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. ... on a Saturday afternoon when the air is crisp, and the leaves are turning brown, the cadets march to victory on the gridiron of O'Shaughnessy Field . . . . . . . the Armory honeycombed with blaring bassoons, the rhythmic tramp of feet, the ranting of embryo thespians, the milling of cadets in the book store, the eagle's nest, the chow line, the Dean's well-worn carpet, et cetera, et cetera . . . .