Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Hence, such studies are chosen as will further the end proposed. These studies are selected, moreover, only in such numbers as are sufficient and helpful to ensure a gradual and natural development of the students’ powers. A student will not be forced, in the short period of his college course and with his immature faculties, to study a multiplicity of the languages and sciences. If two or more sciences, for instance, give similar training, that one is chosen which combines the most effective training, with the largest and most fundamental knowledge. The purpose of the training given is not proximately to fit the student for some special employment or profession, but to give him such a general development as will enable him to be successful even in the unforeseen emergencies of life. The studies, therefore, are so graded as to be adapted to the mental growth of the student; they are so communicated that the student shall gradually and harmo- niously reach, as nearly as may be, that measure of culture of which he is capable. It is fundamental in the Jesuit system that different studies have distinctive educational values. Mathematics, the Natural Sciences, Language and History are complementary instruments of education to which the doctrine of equivalence cannot be applied. The specific training given by one cannot be supplied by another. The acquisition of Language especially calls for delicacy of judgment and fineness of perception, and for a constant, keen and quick use of the reasoning powers. A special importance is attached to the classic tongues of Rome and ARCHITECT’S SKETCH OF THE CHEMISTRY BUILDING 7

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THE GARRETT MANSION Now Temporarily in Use for College Class Rooms GENERAL SCOPE AND STUDIES. The College course which leads to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts consists of four classes — Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior. It embraces the study of History, Mathematics and the Natural Sciences; the English, Latin, Greek, Ger- man, Spanish and French languages; Rhetoric, Poetry and Elocution; Logic, Metaphysics, Experimental Psychology, Natural Theology and Ethics. Catholic students are required to attend weekly lectures in Christian Doctrine and the Evidences of Religion and to make the annual Retreat for three days. From these exercises non-Catholics are exempted. SYSTEM OF EDUCATION. The educational system of Loyola College is substantially that of all other Colleges of the Society of Jesus. Education is understood by us as the full and harmonious development of the intellectual, moral and physical powers of man. It is not, therefore, mere acqui- sition of knowledge. This is a secondary, or a concomitant, result of education. Learning is an instrument of education, not its end. The end is culture, and mental and moral development. 6

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