Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Man to by The Very Reverend Michael P. Walsh, S. J. To the Class of 1962 : Farewells strike a chord of sadness in the music of life. Yet the packing up and going away from the walled town of university life brings its own lasting rewards in the aware- ness of an apprenticeship completed, a mystery made one ' s own, a new adventure beginning. Your Class has been distinguished for its devotion to Alma Mater and for its faithful discharge of the tasks of academic training. While we congratulate you for your genuine preoccupation with those humanistic studies, we assure you of our boundless confidence that the strategy of life which you have plotted in your university years will direct you into paths of godly integrity and sacrificial alle- giance to duty. One thought from a recent book by Christopher Daw- son suggests itself as you leave Boston College: It is not enough for Catholics to maintain a high standard of re- ligious practice within the Catholic community, it is also necessary for them to build a bridge of understanding out into secular culture . . . This task of witnessing unto Christ in all the labors and encounters of your career is your charge and your opportunity, a resonance which will give profound meaning and imperishable worth to all you do. While I set my hand and seal, as President of Boston College, to your academic letters of credence, I promise you my prayers and beg God ' s blessing on you through all the days of your years. Yours faithfully in Christ, V iP( H S f Michael P. Walsh, S.J. President

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Spreading out for more than two hun- dred acres, the towers, the buildings, and playing fields of Boston College stand as a finely chiseled monument to the struggle for the growth of learning. For ninety-nine years strong and dedicated men have carved their marks upon the granite of time and then quietly departed to leave the University a little closer to the ideal envisioned by the Jesuit founders. They looked ahead to the day when the Heights would stand as the great gold and white capitol of Christian scholarship. If the founders of the Univer- sity could see the embodiment of their dream as it is taking shape, they would be amazed at the advancement made from their hum- ble legacy. In the beginning there was only a dream and the dedication to truth, good- ness, and beauty, but the dedication was strengthened by toil and prayer, joined by valor and then allied with growth. Growth permeated the campus, filled hearts and minds, and finally welded all the elements that compose a university under the banner of progress. That banner has never been furled and as long as it flies the work of ful- filling a dream will continue to its culmina- tion through the bettering of each aspect of University life.