Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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When a great leader is lost, the pain is alleviated only by the coming of another who is equally loved and equally great. When the Rev. William M. Magee, S.J.. was retired from the presidency of Marquette University last November with the quietness and simplicity characteristic of the Jesuit Order, he was succeeded by a short, thickset man with a winsome smile, profound culture and charming personality—the Rev. Raphael C. McCarthy, S.J. From the day of his appointment. Father McCarthy won a place in the hearts and the esteem of the students of the University. He assumed the reins of president of Marquette University with an ease and confidence that fitted harmoniously with the spirit of the school and that has characterized his every action ever since. Father McCarthy is the seventh president of Marquette University and the fifteenth since the school was founded in IKK I as a college. He received his early education at St. Peter’s Parochial School at Marquette, Michigan, continued at Spalding Institute at Peoria. Illinois, and St. Regis College, Denver, Colorado. After leaving St. Regis College, he received his bachelor and master degrees at St. Louis University and a doctor of philosophy degree at King’s College, University of London. He joined the Jesuit Order in 1906 and was ordained in 1920. Before coming to Marquette he taught psychology at St. Louis University where he gained wide distinction for his lectures. A recognized authority on education. Father McCarthy decries the tendencies of modern education. His ideas on education, by his own admission, are old fashioned. I haven't much patience with the tendencies of modern education that gives more concern to training for mechanical ability and even professional skill than to developing a person’s cultural side, Father McCarthy commented on coming to Marquette. He believes that the center of education should be the cultural activities emphasized in the Arts college. In his philosophy, if the cultural training is sound, you fish more from the stream of life as it passes by. Life is then much richer, and you are in a position to appreciate more fully the fruits of existence. Father McCarthy opposes mass education and the idea that a college career is desirable for any and all. He dreams and ardently hopes for a higher education which will take fuller account of the individual student’s needs and capacities. In regard to the American educational system, he sees two grave wrongs. First, the THE REV. RAPHAEL ( McCARTHV. S.J.. President of Marquette University Pack 2