College of St Scholastica - Towers Yearbook (Duluth, MN)

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THE H L W Hit UJUWHH ...Cwagzma5czwztz THREE YEARS AGO it was decided that the college faculty would elect each year an aII-college woman. The person elected would be from the Senior class and one who had been willingly of service to the school, particularly in participating in extra-curricular activities. In addition she should approximate the observance of each of the nine ideals. This year Virginia Schultz was elected by a maiority vote.

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Chapel of Our Lady, Queen of Peace INTRODUCHON TO The nine ideals set by St. Scholastica to guide and direct her graduates take on new significance this year in the light of the territorial Centennial of Minnesota. As we look back over the history of our State we find these same virtues in her early leaders and builders. Though outward circumstances are completely changed the next hundred years depend upon the way the present generation builds for the future. We are living in a tragic period filled with potentialities for a richer life on one hand and armed with powerful discoveries capable of extinguishing the human race on the other. There is a challenge to human intelli- gence to demonstrate its true superiority over the animal instincts; there is an opportunity to make of our state, our country, our world, our life something more worthy of our heritage and of the generations which are to follow. Nothing is more important in education today than the furtherance of the belief that what we are and what we do counts; and that what we, individuals with God-given rights, do together counts even more. As the pioneers of a century ago did not allow their spiritual values to be dominated by the false riches of material possessions, so today the graduates of St. Scholastica should learn from the pioneers that implicit faith in God which enables them to face the forces of evil and of error, and to solve current problems in the light of truth. This is the Christopher approach needed to redeem the time, evil as it is. The second ideal, Love for Learning, has its counterpart in the history of our State. Scholarship has grown during the century as the institutions of higher learning manifest. Among them your College has contributed for many years to scholarship by training young women in the intellectual world to be very circumspect and alert. The events of the past years have brought us to the realiza- tion that in this world of science and advanced thinking the achievements of our Western civilization are no longer held as the great accomplishments of mankind. Other ideologies and cult- ure are contending with the Christian for supremacy in the modern IDEALS world. Deeply interested in the intellectual interests of the world, every graduate of the College should work and pray to acquire that Christian wisdom which the world needs. Honesty in Word and Deed, the imperishable Loyalty to relig- ious truth, Poise as self-possession were characteristics of the lives of those who were born, lived and died in Minnesota. As grad- uates and future leaders you can take fresh courage from the history of her people, for in this State blessed by Providence you render incarnate the ideals which the founders framed in the Constitution under which our Republic lives, and which makes it today the obiect of hope and longing for the world. Initiative every graduate can learn from Minnesota's unnamed pioneers- laborers, miners, farmers, merchants, homemakers, teachers and above all religious leaders. Courtesy, which is an outgrowth of charity, can make for understanding of racial, religious and national differences and thus mitigate social tensions which threaten to wrench the fabric of our society. As settlers came from Europe in the first half of the century to help build Minnesota so now we can again show our appreciativeness by helping the displaced persons of Europe. As graduates you should recognize your obligation to give aid to these suftering men, women and children who are without a place of refuge as the result of war. With this appreciativeness of the past and present, we should combine friendliness which will make these displaced persons real assets to our Minnesota communities and not obiects of charity. As we close the first century of Minnesota history I ask you, graduates of St. Scholastica, to give to your college experience the best you have as we move ahead to an even greater century in the building of a nobler Minnesota and by so doing to build a nobler nation, a nobler world. MOTHER M. ATHANASIUS, 0.5. B.

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VEGARD FOR THE spiritual is founded upon a cultivated religious sense. The spiritual woman knows her re- ligion and carries her knowledge into practice. In her, faith and good works vitolize each other. Her perspective of values lies not on the horizon of the ma- terial and finite, but on that of the eternal and infinite. She carries religion into her daily living. It illuminates her whole being, shines through her coun- tenance, speaks through her lips, inspires her whole behaviour. Yet she does not parade her piety; in fact she never mentions it. What is better she exemplifies it. For this reason, she wields beneficent, though silent power. Her inHuence on those around her is like the influence of the hidden stream of water flowing beneath the ground . . . unno- ticed, but making all the grass Ug- $04M 5W green. w ,Wmmmmmms M HE FIR!