Fordham University - Maroon Yearbook (New York, NY)

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TOTH A } Q X £ V f A y R £ V £ A £ (1 D and wide. Only a few years before, as a scholastic, he had taught the students of a Fordham to whose glorious work of man-making, name and fame, as measured in terms of newspaper headlines, etc., had not come. Now he returned as Rector to direct the affairs of a great university. To Very Rev. Robert I. Gannon. S. J., we dedicate this story of four years spent in acquiring the education of which he is a type. He lias promised us a Fordham dedicated to perpetuating the culture, fast passing from a pagan world, which Mother Church has nursed through the centuries. It must of necessity. however, be a Fordham founded on the old. the very old tradition with which he and his brother Jesuits the world over have become identified,— the tradition of manhood full) realized, of emphasis not morel) on Catholicism but on integrated Catholic life. T ill £ H T y - f I f T H RECTOR Of

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f 0 fi f ID 0 fi D II E CL I SS O i 10 3 7 is about to join some ninety-three others that hare gone before. Since the first student deposited his carpet bag on the porch of Rose Hill Manor, i'ordham has seen a world diforced from religion replaced by a world devoid of it. In all that time, the cross which teas pat in place above the Manor in I H I I has stood as a symbol and a challenge.—a symbol of what the world has lost and a challenge to those n ho glory in the losing. The class of '37. fully cognizant of the bitter conflict which lies ahead, has made this same cross its standard. To the hatred with uliich a godless generation regards the suffering Christ, to Communism, which is the crystallization of that hatred, we oppose the paradox of Calvary's joy. II e hare sat at the feel of Loyola and arier: ice hare heard them preach the crusade: and note we are ready to take oar places at the front.