Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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DEDICATION

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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.

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The progress made by the University is due in no small part to the efforts of men like Father Martin Harney, •whose career epitomizes the realization of an ideal through a complete devotion to what he believes is right. Here is a man who has seen what can be wrought from a common effort. When Father Harney first came to Boston College as a student in 1915, the University was synonymous with Gasson Hall. He brought with him a love of history and a devotion to God. When he returned to teach as a newly ordained priest in 1930, they were as much a part of him as they are now. Since 1930 Father Harney has delivered more than six hundred historical lec- tures throughout the world, ■written innumer- able books and articles, and held key positions in such organizations as the American Jesuit Historical Conference, and others. It has been estimated that since 1941 Father Harney has taught more than twenty thousand seniors in the College of Business Administration. Father Harney and Boston College have come a long way together since 1915 and we have been the beneficiaries of their progress. We wish to acknowledge a debt to him by paying tribute to a man whose devotion and humility are only outweighed by the sincere interest that has marked his every contact with us. Thus, we dedicate the 1962 SUB TURRI to Rev. Martin P. Harney, S. J. , Professor of History. mMffMllKiSXil