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life, received their early training at Catholic High. They
work and they live. Above all, they appreciate the good
things of life. Without stressing too much the financial gain
by which the world is wont to gauge success, they can still
find their pleasure in such old-fashioned things as cultured
conversation, good books, loving families and, by no means
least, the friendships they first made at the High School.
We of Catholic High absorbed something that our contem-
poraries who were educated elsewhere simply did not get.
We looked for it in vain when we went on to College or
the University; we do not find it in business or in politics.
It is a loving, sacrificing, far seeing spirit. It is the heritage
of a revered founder, entrusted to the faculty, to be trea-
sured by them and faithfully transmitted to us. It emblazons
our escutcheon so that everyone may read what is written
on our hearts: “Fides et Scientia.”
It is the members of the faculty at the old school to
whom we must turn when we seek the real reason why our
education was so pleasant and so fruitful. We shall always
cherish affectionate memories of the men whose Christian
patience and zeal led us through the classics and expounded
to us the undying principles of our religion. To this day, I
think wistfully of Room 21 and its cultured dictator, Doctor
Henry, when I so much as open one of Shakespeare’s works.
In my mind's eye, the good Doctor still limps up and down
the aisles, clutching the text which he undoubtedly long
since had memorized, and buries Caesar in a manner per’
haps more convincing than Mark Antony’s original effort.
Unlike most teachers, he succeeded in imparting to his
pupils the same love and appreciation of the classics that he
himself possessed. He had the ability to make the study of
Latin romantic, although at the same time he was able to
compress into the space of a single blackboard an outline of
all the declensions and regular verb parts to be found in the
Latin Grammar. I can still see that permanent Latin exhibi-
tion on the front blackboard. All the accents were indicated
and the entire display was set off by more colors than even
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