St Xavier High School - X Ray Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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W which reviews A MAN whose life has been acclaimed by men for four centuries is being especially honored this year. The occasion is the four-hundredth anniversary of the death of the founder of the Society of Jesus, St. Ignatius Loyola. The period from July 31, 1955 to July 31, 1956 has been set aside to celebrate this great event. Ignatius, born in 1492, grew up in the Spanish court where he was trained to be a grandee. His military career was thwarted when he led his comrades against the French and was wounded in both legs. During his convalescence, he read two religious books, the Life of Our Saviour and the Flowers of the Saints. After an intense internal struggle, he decided to devote the rest of his life to the service of God. , He did penance and began work on his book of Spiritual Exercises. In 1534 he gathered six followers about himself and together, they pronounced vows of poverty and chastity. In 1540 the Society of Jesus was approved and a year later Ignatius was elected General. Under the leadership of Ignatius, this small group of superbly dis- ciplined men became a mighty bulwark against the rising tide of Prot- estantism and was the nucleus of the Catholic Counter-Reformation. Because of the untiring efforts of St. Ignatius, Protestantism was forced to retreat in Europe. s The life of Ignatius has always been an inspiration and a model for Catholics throughout the world. In keeping with this year of renewed, intensified Ignatian spirit, the 1956 X-RAY is respectfully dedicated to the soldier saint of Loyola. ??cttl

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nnn-u-ummjmm u... THE PURPOSE of every yearbook is to record for the students, in pictorial review, their school yearis activities, personalities, and events. The 1956 X-RAY fuliills this requirement. Everything of importance that has occurred at St. Xavier during the past school year has been accurately recounted in the X-RAY. The most significant event at St. Xavier during the past year was the celebration of the one hundred and twenty-iifth anniversary of the schoolis founding in Cincinnati in 1831. For nearly one and one-quarter centuries, the Jesuits have instructed and guided young men who have come to Xavier. During this same period, the city' of Cincinnati has prospered and grown to its present size and fame. Since the growth of Cincinnati and that of St. Xavier have been synonymous, the 1956 X-RAY portrays the parallel expansion of the city and 0f the school through a combined history of the two, accompanied by appropriate photographs and engravings. Due to the anniversary, therefore, the 1956 X-RAY has been divided into two sections: The Past and The Present. In the first division of the book, the reader will iind a concise analysis of the schooPs growth, from 1831 to the present day. He will see a picture of the first structure, the Athenaeum, and several pictures of the present building. He will relive Xavier school life of the past, with the seemingly peculiar rules governing it. Intertwined with this brief history is a literary and pictorial synopsis of the'growth of the city during the same period of time. In the second section of the book, The Present, the reader will find the account of the life at St. Xavier during this past year. This account, we believe, is an accurate portrayal of the faculty, of the students, of the activities, and of the events which, when rediscovered in, the annual in future years, will evoke a hood of memories of happy times spent in work, prayer, and play. The 1956 X-RAY combines the old and the new, the past and the present. The staff sincerely hopes that it will meet with the approval of you, its readers. the long history of the school