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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Greece. In studying them the student is led to the recesses of language. They exercise him in exactness of conception in grasping the foreign thought, and in delicacy of expression in clothing that thought in the dissimilar garb of the mother- tongue. While recognizing, then, in education the necessity and importance of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences the Jesuit system has unwaveringly kept Language in a position of honor as an instrument of culture. Lastly, the system does not share the illusion of those who imagine that education of itself has a morally elevating influence in human life. Only religion can purify the heart, and guide and strengthen the will. And so, our system aims at developing, side by side, the moral and intellectual faculties of the student, and sending forth men of sound judgment, of acute and rounded intellect, of upright conscience. In a word, the purpose of Jesuit teaching is to lay a solid substructure in the whole mind and character for any superstructure of science, professional and special, as well as for the upbuilding of moral, civil and religious life. ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS. All applicants for admission to Loyola College must have completed a four years’ high school course in a recognized institution. They must also give satis- factory evidence of good moral character, and of honorable dismissal from the school which they last attended. Candidates who have satisfactorily completed the course of studies in Loyola High School will be admitted without examination. Graduates of certain high schools approved by the Faculty are admitted without examination on presentation of a certificate from the Principal stating that they have successfully completed the course and have attained the mark required by the school for certificate privileges. Those who are not able to furnish a suitable high school certificate will not ordinarily be admitted even on examination. Students may be admitted on probation, carrying the following conditions which, however, must be absolved by the end of the first semester of the freshman year: Solid Geometry, half year Latin, half year Greek, half year French or Spanish. Students who wish to enter a medical school but who are unable to follow the four years of College work may take a Pre-medical course of two years. Be- sides the required subjects of Chemistry, Physics and Biology, pre-medical students 9