The Grade and the Freshman Seminar
These are the first names of the instructors of the 9th-grade seminar.
What are Jeff and Matthew?
In boxing, this is the name of a quick punch with your non-dominant hand.
What is a jab?
In the lives of most people, this will be the main way they address the societal challenges of their time and address the needs of their country.
What is a professional career / a job / work?
The faculty by which we make free, deliberate choices based on reason and directed towards the good.
What is the will?
The location we visited for the topic of citizenship.
What is the 9/11 Museum?
These are the four pillars of The Grade
What are friendship, family, citizenship, and professional work?
Along with the body, this is the other co-principle of the human being.
What is the soul?
This is the middle name of JP Morgan.
What is Pierpont?
This is the transportation we used for our activity before the class on friendship.
What is walking? (or feet.)
We need to actively struggle against this mistaken outlook, by which we sometimes think only of ourselves.
What is individualism?
These are the names of two of the people currently on the other team. (Hopefully you have gotten to know each other!)
What are...?
According to instructor John Snow, these are examples of the virtues necessary to be a good boxer. (You may guess three, and at least two must be on my list.)
What are discipline and docility? (or prudence, patience, purity of intention)
This is the virtue by which man performs great deeds worthy of honor. It is a greatness of heart and of mind.
What is magnanimity?
The cardinal virtue that moderates our attraction to pleasurable goods.
What is temperance?
The name of the well-being of the society, which is more important than the well-being of any individual.
This is the name of this year's 9th-grade seminar.
What is "Men Fully Alive?"
Clearly, caring for the body is not just about appearance. It is about strength, capacity, and, ultimately, understanding that the body is this.
What is a creation of God?
This, according to Cal Newport, is bad advice.
What is "follow your passion?"
These are the levels of friendship that Aristotle described. (Must get two of three.)
What are utility, pleasure, and virtue (or good)?
The names of the study of the good life of 1) the individual, 2) the family, and 3) the nation. (Must get two out of three.)
What are psychology, economics, and politics?
These are three different snacks that we had this year at The Grade.
What are parfaits, cinnamon rolls, and ice cream sandwiches? (or ice cream, or panettone & peppermint bark, chocolate chunk muffins, banana bread/coffeecake(?))
According to Thomas Aquinas, this vice opposed to perseverance leads men to refuse to let go of what is pleasurable to do what is arduous and good.
What is effeminacy? (Or "softness")
What is 1907?
These are the two intermediate stages between vice and virtue.
What are incontinence and continence?
The number of firefighters who gave their lives on September 11, 2001. (Must be within 10.)
What is 343?