College of the Holy Cross - Purple Patcher Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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154' ...gk .fc ',- . A , 3, -W. y .. .sg 4' -5 .,,,,5 .iw ' Q, ,M If Q N, f W ff ,. .x,J, W. -l A M Q 2,M-'f't In the mind's eye is an image. It is the reflection ot an idea. Because of who you are and what you know and feel, a unique bubble of energy bursts on the surface ot your awareness. A beginning. The most difficult process is the concretization, communication, or realization of the idea. At Holy Cross the fund of knowledge from which one's ideas will spring is built through a relationship

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Every year, a group of individuals come together at Holy Cross. They know they are new here, one can sense it, and remember it. In the beginning, they are very much alone, but assimilation is inevitable. Wedged in small crowds, they gather with their friends in Kimball for supper, or in the caf for a coke. Gradually, each one tailors a life style that tits him, and accommodates his friends. The outward appearance of aloneness is gone and you are just another student. But there remains an individual who is faced by prob- lems that must be answered alone. There is knowledge to be made one's own, and to make one aware. You come here incomplete and you leave here incomplete. Maybe you didn't know it was going to be like this.

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Dedicated Faculty, .lesuit Tradition Generate Intellectual Creativity with the faculty based on intellectual curiosity and mutual respect. That element of discipline, long a tenet of Jesuit philosophy, is introduced in the enlight- ened supervision and guidance of a more mature, de- veloped mind. It deserves a large share of the credit for whatever precision we attain in the transmutation of our ideas. T4 ,QQ lg 'Y '-