Chicago College of Dental Surgery - Dentos Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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of Ignatius took their flag. To India, Ceylon, Yapan, China and lllalacca went the heroic band of ffesuits under Francis Xavier, bringing uncounted thousands to the banner Q' the Leader. Into the wilderness of the New World went the soldiers of Ignatius to build a vast spiritual empire. Into the desolate reaches rj northern Canada, into the fertile plains and valleys wi the llflississippi marched the Black Robes. Through the almost unendurable agony of harsh winters, through the dis- integrating heat M the summers, through the perils Q' wilderness and through the savagety cy' many Indian tribes these priest heroes fought their way to write a glorious chapter in flmerican history. They explored the new lands, painstakingly made maps cy' the routes which their hardships had opened for them and left the invaluable source book of carb 1-Imerican history that we know as the Jesuit Relations. The history of our own Midwest could not be written except in terms of the achievements of these early Yesuits. Mar'quette-who made his perilous journey down the hVisconsin and Mi.r.rissippi rivers, through the Illinois, touching very close to what is now metropolitan Chicago. Brebeuf-who closed his days of exploration in the New World under the tomahawks ty' the red men. ffogues-whose sainted hands bore the cruel marks Q' Indian torture even btyfore the tomahawks brought him to his death in the country to which he had dedicated his lye in the service of his Leader. Alnd there are many others in whose debt the New lforld will . always remain. In the far lands the same story was being written. 4 The gentle Xavier died alone in Sancian after bringing the faith to more than one million souls s and to fifty-two kingdoms. In Mexico schools and colleges were established long before the English colonists had even begun to settle along the .fitlantic border. In South America the 7esuits established what was probably the finest type of communal We in modern centuries-the Reductions rj Paraguay. Wherever the Black Robe marched, there arose hospitals and charitable centers, schools and colleges, until his contribution to this development fy' civilization becomes inestimable. Even in this modern day, the heroic traditions cy' the members of the Company M -'Tesus remain unchanged. There are t-wentyyive thousand soldiers of Ignatius scattered over the world, with more than Jive thousand 'f,5fxf ! frfaiieisiieifu. I ft 0 ,J o DEQ 0 0 . G

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the tradition of sound scholarship in theology and the arts, and the careful mental training in philosophy and the sciences, which has been the heritage cy' the Yesuits these last four centuries. In the earbf days of the Society when Renaissance and Humanistic studies were the inspiration of scholars, the :fesuits came to formulate their cultural work on the foundations W' Humanistic studies. The Yesuit system U education is embodied in the Ratio Studiorum-fl Method of Study, the first printed copy of which was circulated as early as 1586. Its whole spirit-and the whole spirit cy' fesuit education-may be reduced to two old proverbs: Mens sana in corpore sano-a sound mind in a healthy body and Non multa sed multum-not many things but afew well known. The matter comprising the studies in Yesuit schools is therefore humanistic and includes the ancient classics-Latin and Greek, the Sciences, Mathettzatics and Histoty. Less cfort is made to read widelyq rather the idea is to analyze, interpret and appreciate. In the yield cy' intellectual endeavor the fesuits have been outstanding during the past four centuries. Twenty thousand members of the Society have been writers who have enriched worthily the cultural content W' the race. The topics covered by these productions are as various as the possible jield zyf learning from theology, through the arts and sciences, to the lighter forms :yi belles-lettres. One Q' the carb! ffesuits, Father Athanasius Kircher, did such lasting work in the sciences that geophysics, physics and medicine are still under obligations cy' respect and veneration. Bellarmine, Suarez, the Bollandists and countless others have enriched the treasury qi the World's knowledge fo a degree rarely, ever approached by any similar organization. In addition to their educational activities, the 7esuits devote themselves to missionary and retreat work. For four centuries these soldiers of Ignatius have gone out not to conquer a wilderness fy' the material kind but the hearts and minds W men who had strayed far from moral paths. This the ffesuits have done through the Spiritual Exercises formulated by Ignatius of Loyola. These are an organic training in the laws of spiritual life and, since the time qt Ignatius, have been the staple form of intense religious reawakening in missions and retreats. Not to the temples of learning or religion did this Company of Yesus conjfne its activities. It was founded at the zenith cy' an era of discovery. A new route to the Indies and to the Orient had shortbf before been opened. Two huge continents, North ana' South America, had just been discovered. sind to this New World, as well as to the far corners of the old one, the soldiers V ,Q '99 O K-3290 K Q1

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in the United States. In this country alone there are thirtytfour high schools and twenty-three colleges and universities taught by the Order. American ffesuits operate the foreign mission jields of Pata, India,q' the Philippines, British Honduras, jamaica, fllaska, Iraq, China, Ceylon and among the Indians on our own Western Reservations. More than one hundred W' the members W' this order have been raised to the heroic dignity Q' saints and many hundred more are still awaiting the pronouncements cy' the Congregation cd Rites before they too join that saintly company. Many of these were men of heroic virtue in the ordinary execution of their routine life. Many more are nzen who have made the final sacri- jice of martyrdom. At one time the Society of 7esus operated in many parts ry' the world 669 colleges, 176 seminaries, 273 missions and 32.5 residences. In 1870 the yesuits founded St. Ignatius College on the West Side of Chicago. Later that institution became Loyola University cy' which the Chicago College of Dental Surgery is one of eight schools. 0n the shores of Lake Michigan, whose waters had once borne the canoes cy' the early ffesuit explorers, the present Campus of Loyola University stands. Its cluster Q' buildings, dominated by the slender loveliness Q' the Chapel of Maria Della Strada-Our Lady of the Wayside-gives living testimony q' the work 4 ffogues, Brebeuf, Damen and Marquette. Its name is that M Ignatius cy' Loyola, first leader cy' the Society who sent these men to all corners cy' the earth. When the shadows deepen along the western curve W' the lake waters, when the noise of the city comes but faintbf to the ear, the figure of a black- robed father may be seen pacing the peacdul campus as he tells his beads. Through four hundred years the tasks and dreams and ideals of Ignatius Q' Loyola have come down to him. He is a follower in the steps U the Spanish knight who jirst sent the Company cy' Yesus to do unceasing battle in the service of the Eternal Leader. 1 ew N' --nfgbmw M QL' OX' v ca