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

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m m HR IP meeaaasmmwmmm 4W 5W H E O B J E C T O F the intellect is truth, and hence every normal student is desirous of knowledge. Too many, how- ever, desire its fruits without its pains; not so the lover of scholar- ship. She finds ioy in the acqui- sition of knowledge as well as in its possession. She is no blue- stocking, no mere foct-gatherer, who would carry much learned lumber in her head . Nor does she aim to know almost every- thing about something; she would know something about almost everything. The lover of scholarship gathers, from the vast abundance of learning, those treasures of learning which wise old Cicero calls the necessary food of youth, the consolation of age, the adornment of prosperity and the refuge in adversity . We choose for this ideal one who answers the description: She is a scholar and a ripe and good one, exceeding wise, fair- spoken and persuading . Qgg

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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!

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HUNESW tN AND H v $h9AWWWWWWWWWWW 74W 1W 0 N E S T Y I S T H E best policy declares the old proverb. But honesty without policy; honesty through and through without alloy must be the axiom of the student who represents our ideal of honesty in word and deed. For honesty is an element, not a compound. Being simple in its composition it is crystal clear, like the pool of water into which one gazes in order to count the pebbles of its bed. When the honest student gives her word she gives her bond of faith. There is no subterfuge, no subtle excuse, no mental reser- vation in her speech or action. With her, principle stands above expediency and justice above personal gain. God is truth, and since man- kind is made to His image, honesty in word and deed retiects in us the likeness of divinity. Well has Pope declared, An honest man's the noblest work of God . Q