It Starts With the Basics: The Formula for the Best of Lives

It Starts With the Basics: The Formula for the Best of Lives
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F. Washington Jarvis (1939–2018) was an Episcopalian priest who for 30 years served as the headmaster of Boston’s Roxbury Latin School, the oldest school in continued existence in North America. Jarvis frequently delivered inspirational talks to the boys in his school, and 40 of these addresses were collected in “With Love and Prayers: A Headmaster Speaks to the Next Generation.”

In one of these, “The Spiritual Dimension,” Jarvis closes with these thoughts:

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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