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s . , ' tif 'f ir. 'ii'.'l'fff. f it nfl 1 QZAWOOI. - 30 4 x ,' v.,.. si l X .4-VL .7 1 1 7.4 'Q 5 , Q '-ia! . H A n f ' , RN-4195 4 L., di. 1 cided in 1946 that Boston University needed a coat of arms to reflect its proud history. In his Founder's Day Address in 1947, President Marsh spoke of the three dynamic purposive words of our Charter: We crusade for the promotion of virtue, - for total excellence, courage, loyalty, honesty, integrity, for goodness that is victorious through trial, temptation and conflict, for honesty tried and tested, especially in those things which go beyond the reach of legal requirements 5 for integrity W ich denotes more than super- ficial and convenient honestyp for the life that shines serene in the darkness and dread of night. We are Crusaders for the promotion of piety. Piety is a controlling reverence toward God. 6 ,It is religious devoutness, and includes filial honor and loyalty to parents, superiors and country. We are Crusaders for truth, but always in a spirit of affirmation rather than 6. of negation of reverence rather than irreverence We will be careful of far more than the instinctive worship of an awestruck hour. We must keep ourse- 6 Ives sensitive to life's tragic grandeur. fi In crusading for the promotion of learning and virtue and pi- ety, We will give the utmost for the highest, we will be loyal A to the royal within, for we know that the uncommon life is the child of the common day lived in an uncom- mon Way. - Because of the important part they V played in the development of the Uni- versity, President Marsh had the 6 words, Learning, Virtue, Pi- 1 ety incorporated into o the coat of arms de-
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e ' Besides the fact that Boston University's motto 'ao - Learning, Virtue, Piety Q tb - appears on paper cups and the bookstore's plastic bags, most people . know very little about its meaning and ori- in. Thise three words first appeared on a document dat- fi' ing back to the founding of the University, but it has only 6 been our official motto since 1928. In the Spring of that year, ot President Daniel L. Marsh wrote the Boston University Hymn, using the three basic rinciples stated in the charter granted to the school in 1867. He based the Kaur original stanzas fthere are now fivej on the clause me which reads: fi' The clear rents and profits of all the estate . . . shall be appropriated to the mainte- nance and endowment of said university, in such manner as shall rnost effectively promote virtue and piety, and learning in such of the languages and of the liberal and useful arts and sci- ences. . . Therefore, the second stanza of the Hymn reads, in part: O wonderful thy Charter's aim! High Learning's perfect flower! and Virtue's fruit. President Marsh was proud of the history and origins of Boston University. He often mentioned that the institution is descended from Oxford University in England. Because of this distinguished heritage, he de-
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