Loras College - Purgold Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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: Loras College has on its campus an institution which is found on. few other campuses in the country. The newest building at Loras houses what might well be called a “collegiate” seminary. St. Pius N Seminary ful- fills in every respect all the connotations of cach of these terms, so lot us deal with them one at a time. | The residents of North Hall are no less students of oras College than are the students who live in Keane. in Smyth, or off campus. The Nerth Hall student is encouraged to participate in all the college activities Which are not closed to him because of the second as- pect of his dual role, that of a seminarian. There are seminarians on every one of the college athletic teams, in the Loras Players. in such organizations as the Curia, the Sodality, Alpha Phi Omega and the Choir. The North Hall resident seeks the proper balance between recreation and study and learns to realize that it is as contrary tọ the letter and spirit of the rule to be in chapel saying his rosary during rec period as it is to speak during Grand Silence. It is through these activities that the North Hall resident prepares himself to be a well-educated. well-rounded, gentleman priest. The seminarian’s class schedule corresponds with that of any Liberal Arts student, directed toward the AB. degree. Tach graduation class includes clerics majoring in such subjects as English. History. Latin and Math or other sciences, while at the same time he has had the 30 hours of philosophy required of the pre-theology student. j . There is a certain intangible spirit of purpose which permeates the corridors and rooms of North Hall. It is perhaps a slightly higher and stronger bond than that which joins the residents of the ordinary college. resi- dence hall. It is a spirit which causes the students to say, one to another. You are striving to make yourself worthy to approach the altar for ordination, and I. as vour fellow seminarian. will do everything in my power to help you along this path chosen for you by God. John Paul Jones and James Duster pray and meditate in the Chapel which plays an important part in the life of those living in North Hall. The rule of North Hall include privations not required of other has as its purpose the drawing of greater love of God and a fuller realization of the sig- s chapel exercises and college students. It the student to a nificance and beauty of the liturgy o one day be so integral a part. It hel; for that sanctity so well summed up by Pius X in Haerent Animo: “There should be as much difference between the priest and good layman. as there is between heaven and earth, and therefore the priest's life should be free not only of the graver defects. but even of the least.” f which he will lps the student strive . Jerry Hickey, Fr. Vogl and Leroy Seuntjens discuss a problem which has arisen in one of Jer- ry’s courses, — — nn tive

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e four DEDICATION This photograph of North Hall gives a fi i lege campus, Overlooking the stadium пате 19 those who are studying to consecrate t ea of the setting of the newest addition to the col- and the grotto, this building provides a perfect atmosphere for heir lives in the service of God. We humbly dedicate this book to North Hall this house on our campus which is de Pope, Model, and Our Guide. and the living spirit it exemplifies dicated to God under the patronage of Saint Pius №. By coincidence, the sainthood of the i eat Pope Pius X : ning fiis all occurred in the very same year, great Pope Pius X and the opening of North Ha af the new Saint with tha rew inn a да prag wl which D the үш ager to propose to his students, ; 1 da = ү. ius X is a parron whom may rishop woul X eagt P he His nts, and his is a name which the students will be glad to have held iue de ra ps education was purchased by sacrifices of those who loved him. As a diocesan 9 hie | а гемо, һе cheerfully lived at the seminary and submitted to much of its routine. In his bishopric, even at the high patriarchal post of Venice. he was zealous for his students and his seminary, To the greater bishopric of the papacy. so many were his reforms and improvements that it is almost easy to forget his common human affection for priests and his living words which breathed new spirit into the houses which prepared and. trained. them. This was the pope who uttered one sentence which above all else is appropriate in this dedi cation, “Your priests will be Just as you have educated them.” (Enevelical Pieni L Anima. 1906 +. Loras College today, as it has for more than a century, makes every effort to furnish the best education possible to her future Ambassadors of Christ.

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7ا Ly A picture taken in the colle i x ge fieldhouse at th ies d Sarthe of Peking, China, presiding. T one о —— D.D., Bishop of Madison and th ; C.S.C., D.D,, Archbishop of Philadelphia, e Solemn Pontifical Mass with His Eminence, Thomas Cardinal Tm he celebrant of the Mass was His Excellency the Most Revenen hn F. e sermon was given by His Excellency, the Most Reverend Jo on this occasion of dedication. i | D., Archbishop of Dubuque, is shown in front of North Hall after rdinal Tien looks on. wi His Excellency, the M [ Е ost Reverend Leo Bi D. the blessing of the hall. His Eminence, Thomas Ca