La Salle University - Explorer Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Over two hundred and fifty years ago, St. John Baptist de La Salle began to bring education to the masses held ignorant by law lest they rise up to wreak havoc on a system that enslaved them. This was the start of an educational process destined to stimulate learning throughout the world. The group-teaching principle of St. John Baptist de La Salle made pos- sible the wider spread of ideas and truths, primary weapons in the eternal war against injustice and oppression. To these sons of St. John Baptist de La Salle on their completion of a century of devotion in behalf of Catholic youth and in grateful appreciation for what they have accomplished for the Church of God in Am erica by keeping alive the ideals of their founder and of giving life to the lofty conception of educa- tion fostered by Cardinal Newman, we respectfully dedicate this book. lie C xnlorer S tail

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In a world not yet freed from the chains of i inor- ance, doubt and mistrust, St. John Baptist de La Salle and Cardinal Newman stand as two beacons lighting the way to intellectual franchisement and religious certitude. History often belies the meaning of the word progress , and it is only in the field of education that it can be accurately measured; for science has a way of destroying itself and men have a way of per- vertin their religion.

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yP.-i rs. A - U I Co eaium 9 he phenomenon of the ever-changing and the changeless existing side by side in the same institution is nowhere more apparent than in schools. Through our univers- ities and colleges pass legions of students eir minds grasping new ideas, their hearts supporting new ideals; yet, here at La Salle, we can see the ever-changing and the changeless existing Together. Throughout Li Salle ' s eighty-n%e years, the growth of the student body jind the expansion of the plivMcal plant manifest the dynamic aspect of our college. Concnrrent with this is the unchangmg aspect: a Catholic Philosophy of a Liberal Education. The pictures on the following pages show how La Salle has expanded to fulfill its declared aim of providing to thp s wl - ifciire it, .1 .oilge for Catholic higher education. of the necessar)- facilities and buildings, i!i tl c storJB the a er-c4»anging t.icet of La Salle. Cameras, however isti wiTtin 3]OSG- ' 411!---.-tO ciptuft: the spirit of a iireraj education which has %M , .,.:, , — . |j g5 ei hty-3 iq y rs. To..record that aspect of our je mSnts N ' -hich leePas ' tfle static 5 rrvuyz seajCou -to mi h. end in view. We ; createithi spirit and sustained it e teacT tjie cur culum, and-th« dli ' « ' faftDTj KaveV V it possible to drop in on ' clas ' ses comduaed at the original site of La Sa s, we would be conscious of many similanties between the The Christian Brother «4;pnductine the class — 5ay ar?||inspired with tht;.saiiie.|mr ose, would J Pb t be the immediate predecessor or the Brother of today rather than separated i) %ia|i yeai o ' e a liberal education, a■ eache needs ntorc than excellence of specialist ifl.iu ' field. He must have a id arr integrated ucation himself. These ' clothed - ' p Thali yeats ffo ! e a liberal educatron, a- Ir ' ■•»« cbolafihip; m dto or rnB t efmore than a I ' ■% ton ptett»kno ledt, ' e ' ;6l? ie ?!%l ire of rnan .and h stress into an educatloi tions and duties hicl1«te.ue. lett out imrortant jBubjeas, that have put too much ve prc n all the subjects with no effort to integrate them e said tq be completely educated if Jie has no idJa ' of hn Cfeator. ' 6ai a man been educatea% his setlboP ' it A. 4»