The final statement in the CCA Honor Code is that we are to be “joyful in the face of difficulty.”  I suspect that, for many of us, this is the hardest provision of the Code to uphold.  We may have...

At the beginning of this week, we learned that to be dutiful in service is to perform what is owed (our duties) like slaves for a master (our acts of service).  The ancient Athenians ingrained that sense of duty to...

Yesterday you observed the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States.  That is good.  And while it is important to remember that day and to remember the lives lost because of the attacks, it is just as...

The Athenian Oath, also known as the Ephebic Oath, was recited by the young men of Athens, Greece more than 2,000 years ago when they became citizens at the age of seventeen.  It is one of the great historic pledges...

The Honor Code says that a CCA student is dutiful in service.  If you heard just those words, you might think this was a military academy.  After all, soldiers report for duty; and when someone has spent time working for...

The Honor Code calls us to be diligent…but not just diligent generally; we are to be diligent in study.  But why study?  Why not diligent in effort?  Or diligent in virtue?  Or diligent in action?  Well, those are certainly good things...

One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and...

We’re talking about being diligent in study this week.  But what is diligence in the first place?  Well, the dictionary definition is “having or showing care and conscientiousness in one’s work or duties,” and also being “attentive and persistent” in...

One of the marks of a CCA student is that he is diligent in study.  Now, you may think this is just stuck in there so that it is easier for teachers to tell you to do your schoolwork—after all,...