Loyola University Chicago - Loyolan Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Before the altar of the Maa'0mza Della Strada

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THE HERTTAGE THAT TS LOYOLAfLoyola is a jesuit school. its customs are jesuit. lts curriculum is jesuit. Behindiit lie four hundred years of jesuit thought. it is the product of the jesuit System of Educa- tion functioning through time. But it is more than that. lt is the epitome of the progress made by Educa- tion in its several-thousand-year history. For the jesuits did not invent their system of education, they inherited it. They did not discard the treas- ured experiences of the ancient world, but they shaped and organized them to a new spiritual and moral ideal. They organized what men had thought for thousands of years in its best, most useful and effective form. That form has come to be known as jesuit Education, and the rules for it were set down in the Ratio Studiorum, formally issued in 1599. lt has served to perpetuate the jesuit principles, to hand on to the modern jesuit school the same spirit that animated the jesuit coliege of the seventeenth century. Standing behind Loyola, then, as her predecessors, are the customs of Athens, the traditions of Rome, the foundations of the Renaissance, and the best developments of modern institutions of learning. This is the heritage ' la. T. hat is Loyo A

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IO To the Loyolans, past and present, who menndmsmvkeofmnlmkwulamnuy We deelicatei this hook. We offer them to the World i-+ Catholic gentlemen, brave men, Loyolans. In our just pride, We give them this, the Nineteenth Volume ofthe LOYOLAN