from Albert....our class motto - "Contendere Et Non Cedere"

Our class motto is:

“Contendere Et Non Cedere” or perhaps:

Conitor, quaerere, reperire, et non cedere


The full quote “Contendere, Explorare Et Non Cedere” is a translation of “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield,” the last line of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Ulysses.” It’s about old warriors growing older, and ends thusly:

“We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”