Fairfield University - Manor Yearbook (Fairfield, CT)

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s PER D P t Though ideals differ with individuals, though their par- ticular interests dictate variety, though personal faults destroy intended execution-all men have ideals. Education, instruction, and initiative are the elements we use to develop these ideals. To master these elements properly it is important that man learn to recognize his limitations. This awareness proposes to him his first opportunity of overcoming his weaknesses. The freshman enters college in autumn, the season when disrobing nature casts aside her adornments. The barks of trees stand naked and cold, no longer embellished by the clustered leaves. Alone the bare essentials remain, stolid in a silhouette of nature's grandeur. The student too, within himself, experiences this stripping away. He learns to evaluate his ideas and to disci- pline his judgments. To accomplish this, tlzere must follow a time of intellectual searching and a tasting of many valuable subjects. His mind must purge itself of its ornaments. ln winter the snow protects the barrenness of the earth. Birds flee their cold habitations, animals seek shelter,' each .species adjusts according to its needs. The winter of the student is more than a three month period. It is college in all its facets of books, theories, and surveys. He is cloistered in scholarship, preserving his remaining barrenness and preparing for an expan- sion of thought. To unite his narrow world with the vaster world

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of all creation is his vocation. As the new semesters succeed the old he discovers a greater consciousness in his thinking. This season also terminates. The snow melts. Green blades of grass begin to spot the brown ground. The day of graduation nears and the student begins to bud into his intellectual spring. Behind him is a world of essentials from which he is now able to draw sources and reasons for his thinking and judgments. His former attempts lead to Commencement, the spring of his future and the beginning of his new strivings. He must now utilize his preparations, apply them to all things, smooth their ragged edges, perform the things prepared. So from the planting of this springtime he comes at length into the bloom and burgeoning of summer, into the further autumns of his harvest. And so begins again the eternal cycle, the abundant wheel, the circling of the seasons unto the circling ofthe stars. And in the center of this ring, in the midst of the enfoliate rose, may he come at length to the One about Whom all the circling of the seasons and the hours, all the orbiting of the planets, all the widening choirs of the angelic hosts, do equally revolve. Y 1 YI g VERITATEJYI Q MCMLX