Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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A Heritage Boston College is today the sum total of all that it has been in the past. It is what we have made it and what all who have preceded us have made it. For in passing through the gates and halls of this university we have not only drawn upon the traditions of its past but we have communicated these traditions to the future. And in doing so we have left behind something of ourselves. This is the great exchange known as education. But the participation of all in this exchange is not equal. There are some who, not content merely to inherit and continue the tradition, strive to put their own mark firmly upon it. In our own context there have been men whose influence is unmistakable, men who inherited the Western tradition, the Christian tradition, and the Jesuit tradition, and made of them something more than they were. These were the men who, through the force and energy of their own characters and intellects, shaped their tradi- tion into something other than it was, added to it, and gave it an effectiveness, a poignancy, and an actuality that it did not previously possess. They grasped the tradition which they inherited and of it they created Boston College. The accomplishments of these men will not be soon forgotten. For, in giving generously of themselves to the heritage which they passed on, they left on this university and on us, its students, a mark that will long remain — a mark that is as firm and as enduring as the very stones of the buildings which symbolize their achievements.