Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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T H f f u n D f fi S Of COLLEGE OBSCURE THEIR MEMORIES IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE THAT KNOW THEM. THE POR- TRAITS OF THESE MEN CAN BE SEEN BELOW. THEY ARE THE REV. JOHN McELROY, S.J.. THE REV. JOHN BAPST. S.J., THE REV. ROBERT FULTON, S.J., AND THE REV. THOMAS I. GASSON, S.J. THEY WERE LEADERS IN THE CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENT, AND THEY WERE PARTIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RESPECT AND ADMIRATION THAT IS GIVEN TO CATHOLIC COLLEGES IN NEW ENGLAND TODAY. FOR SEVENTY- FIVE YEARS THE PRODUCT OF THEIR FAITH AND WISDOM HAS FLOURISHED AND GROWN, UNTIL TODAY IT ASSUMES MAJOR PROPORTIONS. BUT STILL WE FIND TIME AND SPACE TO HONOR THESE MEN WHO GAVE US THIS OPPORTUNITY, WHO SACRI- FICED THEMSELVES TO AN IDEAL. WHO WERE STRONG ENOUGH TO REALIZE THIS IDEAL.

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D £ D I C fl T £ D TO B S T n WHEN AN INSTITUTION HAS REACHED A DEFINITE STAGE IN ITS DEVELOPMENT, OR WHEN IT PAUSES TO COMMEMORATE THE DAY OF ITS BIRTH, JUSTICE DEMANDS THAT AT SUCH A TIME DUE CREDIT AND HONOR BE GIVEN TO THOSE MEN WITHOUT WHOSE EFFORTS THAT INSTITUTION WOULD NEVER HAVE EXISTED. THIS YEAR BOSTON COLLEGE IS COMMEMORATING THE SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS FOUNDING, AND IT HAS ALSO REACHED THAT POINT IN ITS DEVELOPMENT WHERE IT IS RECEIV- ING NATIONAL ACCLAIM. IT IS, THEREFORE, WITH THE DEEPEST HUMILITY AND THE GREATEST PRIDE THAT WE DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO THE FOUNDERS OF BOSTON COLLEGE. THESE ARE THE MEN WHOSE NAMES WILL LIVE FOREVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE. NOTHING CAN ERASE THEIR DEEDS FROM THE ROSTER OF HEROES, NOTHING CAN

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-HIS BOOK is at once a memorial and a guide. Il is a memorial to those men who, in the sphere of education, have by their selfless striving reared monuments of lasting fame; it is a guide, we trust, to future achievements in the realm of high ideals and unfaltering en- deavor. Thus gratcfnilv we give you the foimders of Boston College who blazed the trail for Catholic education in this vicinity, and the Reverend Joseph R. N. Maxwell. S.J., who bv the force of his inspiration has built for Boston College further roads lo glorv.