Fordham University - Maroon Yearbook (New York, NY)

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ST. • IGNATIUS • LOYOLA FOUNDER • OF • THE • SOCIETY • OF • JESUS

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We ARE come, at last, to the sunlit heights four years of toil have won for us, and we pause. Our hearts are full. Unuttered things stir our souls, swell to our lips, and falter into silence because we know no words to give our thoughts expression or cur emotions vent. Yet we must try, who want the world to know our gratitude to the members of the Society of Jesus ♦ It is, then, our aspiration to set forth on the pages of this, our final undergraduate endeavor, an expression, however inadequate, of our obligation to the Society of Jesus, of our appreciation of the ideals in education for which it stands, and of our esteem for the scholars and educators who are its boast. God grant we may succeed.

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IT is not our purpose to write at length of the founder of the Society of Jesus The familiar words Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam are an epitome of the character and spirit of Saint Ignatius Loyola. For, if greatness is the capacity to visual ze a worthy ob-ective and to strive heroically towards it, regardless of obstacles, then Ignatius was great, and great is the Society he founded. Glorious as have been the manifold successes of the Jesuits, in the sphere of education their prowess has displayed itself to best advantage. Here the same motive oredominates — the glory of God as the ultimate end of all human endeavor. The early fathers of the Society, imbued with the spirit of their founder, saw in the education of youth a most fertile field for their labors. With characteristic earnestness they set to work, under their general, Claude Aquaviva, to create a uniform code for the guidance cf future educators in the Society. After months and years of consideration, selection, rejection, the Ratio Studiorum was adopted as the Jesuit method of education, a systen which has remained essentially unchanged since its ratification in 1 599.