Loras College - Purgold Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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MORALLY | Indoors and outdoors, spiritually and bodily, Lorasmen prepare for the future during their college life. A solid base of moral values and physical stamina will serve well in the life in the world. AND PHYSICALLY ...

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MENTALLY ... To go to college is an ambitious task— and perhaps a necessary one to him who has the ability. Maybe one has to be a visionary, for the prospect of losing some $16,000 in possible income confronts the student. But the values in learning and insight and understanding far outweigh material advantage. As the student registers for the courses he will take, he makes an important de- cision. For each class, each learning encounter, will make its mark upon him. The responsibility of putting talents to their best and proper use sometimes weighs heavily on the student before registration time.

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TO BECOME... LEADERS OF MEN. The Lorasman is well trained in a par- ticular field of endeavor; this field will be his profession. Leadership in this area will be expected of him, for through his education he is a qualitatively better man. Yet, in the world our graduate will find his ideals and basic convictions constantly ignored or assailed. The college life has prepared him for this, however, through a disciplined approach to the liberal arts and sciences. In fact, the main goal ol his education has been to produce the whole man, the good man, who has a com- prehensive view of reality. As a leader it will be part of his duty to purge the world of its materialistic out- look. He will probably not go about this in any grandiose or evangelistic way. His very life will be his weapon. For the matrix that nourishes his everyday life is enriched with the Christian ideals of truth, love, and justice. It seems simple, but we know life is difficult. Our graduate must be patient, persevering and prudent. Our graduate must be idealistic. Thus New- man outlines the goal of college training: It aims at raising the intellectual tone of society. at cultivating the publie mind, at purifying the national tastes, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobricty to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power and refining the intercourse of private life 14