College of the Holy Cross - Purple Patcher Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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hast M ia ei iilarw ier, r is 1 V: i -ur uf ei eii rcse- 1oUn :Xu LIT Nor, our Most Reverend Bishop, we iespectfully salute vou Ah eady 1 yeai his passed since y ou came to Wor- cestei and to Holy 01095, the first bishop of tlns newly constituted diocese. Witliin a few Weeks of youi aiiival, Holy Cioss Col- lege was privileged to welcome you to its campus. Faculty and Student Body joined to invoke the Grace of God upon our new Shepherd The Shepherd, in turn, addressed l11s Flock, and the fervor of his words and their wisdom long will live in our hearts. Your Excellency spoke, that day, of the liberal arts college, and particularly of the liberal arts college where religion and philosophy hold the doniinant places which are theirs at Holy Cross. You told of the re- sponsibility that is ours as a liberal arts col- lege. You deiined its task: 2-E. H 55 ug. l :QE 3 I - 'r A fri, f ' L H 1 , i . V i, ijll 2 is 1Q W QQ i. , i o ea i ' 'i rf i 'I fi g zz Y .rj J Ti, K. :' 1 -' L, . ' 1' 1- Er ii V. fr 3 'Fl fit Q: '4- 13521. fif' I A ,L -,Q gi X55 .Li iv 1 vr .22 5' '3 'if it P' r iii: if 3 we U: 1- wr--2. H Y 7 1 T-'F Y 7 ' . '31 U1 J 5 ' ' ' J ' V . 1 'I fl 1 . . U , 1 . -, . . . Y . C C L . , . i. , 1 . . C I t . f V . ' L ' W v-1 1 1 1 1 1 l . I 'fThe liberal arts college, particularly one in the Jesuit humanistic tradition, provides a philosophy which recognizes the historical interiningling of the natural and super- natural, and the consequent close inter- pendence of philsopliy and theology, of rea- son and faith, if either is to bring nien to their true last end of felicity here and here- after. And we will do Well to reinenlber Your 9 Most Reverend John J. Wright, Bishop of Worces'I'er, address- ing faculiy and sfudenfs at 'rhe Convocation held in his honor May I7, I950.

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il submit that pau lube iuljmfit the liberal arts trahitiuu bane a spatial hnratiuu in this action ui serial crisis aah murlh mans. ?uu are, or sinuulh lie, the custchiaus nf the truss, the gash, ana tba heaiititul-those things nl the spirit lnljinlj numprise human mlturr arm which trau- srruh all limes uf uatiunal, racial, aah linguis- tlr hlhisluu. ,Euan are the nzxpnsitnrs at all these scientific, artisan, arm cultural halues' lnlyrlj mute men amass lmuuharles at an smu- cmic, pulitiral, ur serial nature, EXcellency's description of human rather than the national scope of culture: It may be true that there exist such things as an American theory of government, an Italian population problem, an economic problem arising out of German industrialism, an English political interest, an Arab racial problem. But there is no such thing as an Italian truth, there is no such thing as Ger- man moralityg there is no such thing as British culture in the sense of a culture iso- lated from that of a human family. The genuine literary, a.rtistic, and scientihc patriniony of the race is one: VVe cannot speak, with literal accuracy, of an Irish mathematical system, a French criterion of truth, an American ontology. True it is, hereditary differences, circumstances of en- vironment, and like considerations may pro- duce civilizations, even t'cultures, acci- dentally differentiated one from the other. ailversa least. Still, the essential elements of both civiliza- tion and culture remain universal in char- acter, so much so that the more highly per- fected a culture becomes, the more truly human it is, the more it transcends the par- ticular bounds of a single people and identi- ies itself with the common cultural patri- mony of humankind in general. The essen- tial Work of the true philosopher is never purely national in characterfl It is our respect for Your Excellency, and our hope that We will be equal to the struggle ahead, ready for it in the Way you have so eloquently exhorted us to be ready, that has lead us to quote, directly, so much of what you said to us that afternoon in May, 1950. And lest those Words be lost from the general view, We have made sure to in- sert them here for all to read. Surely, as the leaves of this book grow yellow, and each of us has traveled far along his separate 0 0 0