SACRED HEART.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 9

SACRED HEART.

OLD BOYS' RALLY. VALUE OF TRUE EDUCATION. MARIST ORDER TEACHINGS. High tributes to the splendid work of the brothers of the Marist Order were paid at the annual reunion of the Sacred Heart College Old Boys' Association at the week-end. The attendance was excellent and the enthusiasm displayed suggested that the association to-day is stronger than ever it was.

At a smoke concert at the college on Saturday evening goodwill messages were received from many parts of New Zealand, including Wellington, where a branch of the association is flourishing. e . president, Mr. J. McD. Coleman, presided.

m P ro P os ing the toast of Alma Mater, Mr. Coleman said that it would be expected that the great world developments in education, with the masses in many cases having education literally thrust upon them, would have resulted ui a better understanding among peoples, but actually nations were vieiug against nations in building .machines for defenee and for the destruction of mankind, trade was being sought not altogether incorruptly and with many people family life was not in every way what it should be.

There was, it eeemea, something lacking in education. People were not being taught the basic reason for education; they were not being taught why they lived and why they had education. Old boys of Sacred Heart believed that they had had that training. The college was linked with the great Order of Maript Brothers, and its masters were men who had separated themselves from much of the outside world and dedicated their lives to teaching not only the things which counted in the material world, but also the things which were the basis of true education—"why we were born and why we live." Old boys of the college had been taught definite principles to guide them. Need For Right Thinkers. Never has there been a time when the world has needed men who can think right and men who are prepared to act right more than it does to-day," he said. "We and all other old boys should be leaders; we should not be passive. We should explain to others what we know. If we do that we shall have done our share in fostering a better feeling among peoples. I appeal to all old boys to live up to what our Alma Mater expects of us by taking an interest in all social questions. We know how to live, and if we apply the principles that have been taught us we should have no difficulty in deciding what is right and what "is Wrong," he concluded.

In replying to the toast, Bro. Tarcisius, director of the college, said that proposals were continually being put forward for making the world a° better place to live in, but nothing definite advanced. For 2000 years the Catholic Church had offered a means for society to organise itself and to proceed along orderly lines. In Spain CO brothers had been shot by what the newspapers called the Loyalists, but by what they called the "Reds." Amid all the turmoil the definite aim of the Brothere was what it always had been—to build up. Examination Successes. -After referring to the generosity of the Government in providing additional bursaries, Bro. Tarcisius asked old boys ii e ° coura S® present scholars to derive all they could from education rather than rush into industry. At the last matriculation examination the college bad been highly successful, and the roll this year wa« over 400.

The toast "Kindred Associations" was proposed by Mr. P. Hackett and replied b J 98r8 - P R- Burton (Prince Albert College), A. B. Rainger College), A. Nicholson (Auckland Grammar), D. Sumner (Mount Albert Grammar), A. E. Taylor (Dilworth School), and L. J. Coakley (kindred Catholic associations).

A Memorial Mass was celebrated in > the college chapel yesterday morning, ' Bishop Liston presided and the celebrant was the Rev. Dr. L. F. Buxton. Speak - 1 mg at the luncheon which followed, Bishop Liston said the success of the methods employed by teachers in Catholic schools had drawn the attention of experts, and those methods would probably be incorporated to some extent in the proposed change in educational methods. The 'toast of. the Old Boys' Association jwas proposed by the Rev. Brother Borgia, Mr. W. Harris replying. A game of Rugby football between the past pupils and the college representatives resulted in a win for the school by 9 points to 3. The annual ball will be . held to-morrow night.