Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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f hapter One Administration ■ Marquette University, named in honor of Jacques Marquette, Jesuit missionary and explorer. is one of three Catholic schools listed by the American Association of Universities as institutions of complex organization, which rating includes international recognition of the degrees conferred. The Rev. William M. Magee. S.J., president of Marquette, is administrative head of the institution, the government being vested in a Board of Trustees composed of the president, the treasurer and the secretary of the University. Men eminent in financial and commercial endeavor make up the Board of Governors, which directs the business management of the University subject to the corporate rights of the Trustees, and a Board of Advisers, consisting of twenty representative citizens, acts in an advisory capacity to the other two boards. Completing his fifth year as president of the University, the Rev. William M. Magee, S.J., continues to direct Marquette with an insight gained through ten years' experience as a member of the faculty and with an interest and affection inspired by personal contact with the student body on the athletic field as well as in the classroom. Prior to his appointment to the office of president, Father Magee was dean of the College of Liberal Arts for five years. In his first convocation address to the assembled students in 1928 Father Magee said: Five years at Marquette have given me an insight into the viewpoint of the faculty and the students. Having learned to know-1 have learned to love Marquette. We have a loyal faculty here, men and women sincerely interested in the school and in the students, men and women to whom education is both an opportunity and a sacred trust, men and women whose own philosophy of life is not narrowed down to the material and temporal but reaches the spiritual and the eternal.” Further, he praised the fight- ing spirit” of the student as typified in its athletic teams—a spirit which stimulates to victory but which is man-sized enough to accept defeat courageously. ■ Father Magee has urged the students constantly to take advantage of the opportunity offered by Marquette for the development of their faculties and he warned against acquiring a false conception of liberty which leads many men and women to live entirely for themselves. Throughout his tenure of office the president has upheld the same opinions and ideals expressed in his first convocation address and has remained equally as interested not only in the welfare and accomplishments of the University as a whole but in the individual student as well. Under his competent direction Marquette has grown and prospered and the ideals of the University have more and more become identified with this progress. Because of his knowledge and love of the students, they have profited by his personal assistance and guidance here at school. With the cooperation of the other administrators of Marquette Lfniversity and of the deans of the various schools and colleges, Father Magee has encouraged modern developments in the systems of American and Jesuit education. He has, this past year, participated in many activities, helping to build up a wholesome University spirit. His personal attention to and enjoyment in student activities is nowhere more evident than in his ardent interest in Hilltop athletics. During Fall and in early Spring he may frequently be seen late in the afternoon standing in the company of one or more Jesuit fathers along the sidelines at the Marquette stadium, intently watching football or track practice. This year, when many young men and young women throughout the country were threatened with inability to attend college because of prevalent distressing economic conditions. Father Ma- Pace 1