Show ACADEMY ACADEMY FULL EDUCATION Institution for Girls Pre Prefers Pre Pre- Prefers fers Well Tested l ds e cf of Sacred Heart emy emy my are arc set tet 1 forth la 1 this artl article t i prepared for thlu edition I Standard Standard of o The Standard Standard- Nicholas Murray putter BuU r president dent prest-dent dent of o Columbia university In addressing the Newman Neman club con con- held In New York City on January 10 had this to Lay cay In this world the two great enemies of ot real progress are Ignorance Ig- Ig Ignorance norance 1 norance and a Pack fack of ot appreciation tion of real values values- Sometimes I think that the second of these Is Ismore Ismore Ismore more Important than the tha first for tor knowledge can go cro buta but a very ery little way If It It Is not by byan byan an appreciation of values which means an appreciation of what what Ii ie really worth while of of what IS 11 first rate rata of what Is 2 f of o what Is permanent of ot what Is eternal We We e speak of human Interest we e speak of ot national Interest but time and again these thue phrases re- re recall recall re recall call to us and to those who use them only Interests that are phys phys- physIcal physical physical ical or material or seeking gain Kain But the higher interests the life lite of the mind the tha life lite of the spIrit life the life the life In contact with what Is beautiful and worthy In the past and In the all present present all these are possible only to those who can form torm judgments of worth who base o standards ot of o value and who tan distinguish between the gold touches the tho and the dross In what emotion and end the voluntary side ot of our human life MOST DESIRABLE Hero Here Is b s the tha Quiet deliberate doctrine of spiritual realities and alms from one of the foremost educators educator In America at a time when every form torm of pedagogic experiment and even een anarchy are clamoring for places In and politics alike It Itis ItIs Js is assuring to schools of the type of Sacred Heart academy For practically 50 SO years ears Sacred Heart academy has hIlS lived with beautiful and robust vigor this life lICe of the mind this life Ute of ot the tho spirit this Ute life In contact with the worthy and the tine fine through the eminent and versatile teachers who sInce the foundation have distinguished Its staff and even en more potently through the thousands of students who have ha taken from rom It Into the world orld that same refinement of heart that culture of soul that most desirable of all forms Corms of education It has always appreciated appreciated the necessity of mental dle- dle dis discipline and has provided for such training of mind by a practical and an energetic curri curri- curriculum curriculum culum of ot academic studies Their values alues has never ne been measured by the possibility of conversion con Into either cither wages or credits though Incidentally they maybe may be beI turned Into either or both Sacred I Heart academy never ne has and never n er will wilt propose to It pupils a plan or purpose In education The training of the nand mind for tor Its own on sake the development de of the soul for Its own Immortality are alms But But- suf sufficiently exalted and ambitious Trusts so tremendous cannot but be sacred and are regarded so The characters the souls the lives of Its children are a heritage In- In In to Sacred Heart academy They have never been made the subjects of uncertain or dangerous educational 1 experiment they have always been made the Inheritors of oC the tested riches of past and present In the world of though hough and nd culture Their evera everlasting and Infinite Interests have been safe sate safeguarded safeguarded guarded first and to these all 1111 other goods are added HIGHEST VALUES ALlEg Through definitely organized groups and courses of ot study the academy carries on Its Ih old old against Igno Ignorance ance It es both the formation and the Information of the minds of its pupils In fields academic com com- commercial commercial com commercial mercial cultural c It offers otters courses leading to high school graduation commercial certification musical This training It ac- ac accomplishes accomplishes ac accomplishes in an environment ot of home refinement In an atmos atmos- atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere phere of religious faith Under these conditions It supplies the elements conceded by al thought thought- thoughtful thoughtful thoughtful ful persons person to be most needed In the of ot youth today At the same samo time It Is Js able to stimulate In those entrusted to it that appreciation of real values that can come only out of ot its own rich continuity of experience its Ita own dependence on what is per per- permanent permanent per permanent manent its own profound rever rever- reverence reverence reverence ence for tor what hat Is eternal In these thue days dan when the tho prom girl Is glori glorified fled fied above the plain little plodder and the he swimming pool Is ts by all odds more popular than the library Sacred Heart academy takes a II simple pride In that con con- con conservatism ser holds that build build- buildIngs buildings ings do not make a school and credits do not make a student that beyond these there are men men- mental mental mental tal and spiritual altitudes cultural and artistic planes to which It Js Is the bu business of the teacher to lead and of the pupil to follow ollow |