Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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FACULTY

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CONTENTS 1 FACULTY K page nineteen I V SENIORS page forty-five ACTIVITIES page two hundred three SPORTS page two hundred eighty-one FEATURES page three hundred twenty-seven

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REV. THOMAS I. GASSON, S.J. Thirteenth President of Boston College Determination, steadfastness, and the courage of his intellectual convic- tions were the distinguishing characteristics of the Rev. Thomas I. Gasson, S.J. An immigrant to America and a convert to Catholicism while still in his teens, Father Gasson maintained a spirit of independent inquiry and action through all his life. These qualities, together with his broad learning and vigorous personality, enabled him not only to establish Boston College on its present site but also to establish in the secular conmiunity respect and admiration for the University and for the Church which fostered it. The ideals of Father Gasson are today reflected in the faculty of the Uni- versity, both Jesuit and lay. For it is they to whom has devolved the task of building intellectually where he built physically and of strengthening and confirming the position which he won. No less determined, no less stead- fast, no less intellectually courageous must we also be, for it is to us that the faculty has passed on this task and this challenge.