Summer Program Blog

Art at the Clark and Beethoven with Yo-Yo Ma at Tanglewood.

On the heels of a busy Thursday night came a pensive Friday morning, as members of the New England High School Summer Program began the day considering various arguments for the existence of God.

Upon emerging from Thursday’s classes on Pascal and Kierkegaard, the 2021 New England High School Summer Program students were ready for whatever lay in store that evening.  

At Thursday’s class, students contemplated Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling and Pascal’s famous “Wager.”

Wednesday held many novel and marvelous experiences for the students on the 2021 New England High School Summer Program.  

After Mass, Chaplain Rev. Miguel Batres, O.Praem. (’08) offered a blessing with a relic of Bl. Stanley Rother, an American priest who was martyred in Guatemala 40 years ago on this day. 

Having grappled with the writings of Empedocles, Democritus, and Epicurus in their second class of the day, the 2021 New High School Summer Program students spent the remainder of Tuesday afternoon in bouts of soccer, volleyball, and Spikeball.