Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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mature in every possible way. They are interested and curious in the class- room, open-minded in their dealings with fellow students, and sincere in their desire to learn. It is impossible to generalize about the typical Boston College student. He simply does not exist. If he did, this institution would have failed as a university. College, in the best sense, was never designed to turn out assembly line products. For every one who will fit a neat category, there are a thousand that cannot be classified. Besides, no one will ever act as a typical B.C. student, but as an individual, and that is as it should be. 11

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and he will leap to its defense. Though within its society he may find more to criticize than to praise, without he is loyal and proud of his alma mater. Most students on the Heights are concerned about the world they are living in and will help to form. Many have committed themselves to the social, political, religious, and service organizations on campus to pro- vide themselves with a forum for their ideas and a framework for con- structive activity. Many more are more generally committed to such ideals and will actively work for them in later life. So that they might aid them- selves and others, our students strive to become more knowledgeable and

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These young men and women were probably more alike upon entering the University than they will be upon leaving it. For in the interim, much in them has developed. They have become more mature, more sophisti- cated, more complex. They have become individuals rather than members of a type. They have learned much — from their teachers, from their studies, and, perhaps most of all, from their association with the other individuals that make up the Boston College community. 12