Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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tendency of Americans to accept the principles that there is a democracy of brains and the majority will profit by higher education; second, big business methods have been introduced into education, standardizing it and neglecting the individual. Even as the president of a university,” he declares, I say that not all can profit by a college education. Many have not the ability nor the drive to attain high ideals and goals. If a person is to be happy he must meet with moderate success at least.” An educated person, according to Father McCarthy, is one who can integrate, unify and harmonize his own powers to his own as well as the advantage of others. Speaking at his first convocation in the University Gymnasium on Wednesday, Dec. 16, before a record audience of 3,500 students and faculty members. Father McCarthy said that we are suffering from a wrong philosophy of life. There are moral and social ills gnawing at the heart of civilization and attempting to destroy it. The economic crisis harrowing us today is not the greatest evil affecting us, nor is it the gravest. he stated. Confidence in our democratic institutions has been shaken; class hatred has been stirred up among the masses. Hut the real cause of the evils which wrack the world today is not to be sought in social, political or economic faults. The real trouble is forgetfulness of the principles of God. The lust for power has made men forget charity. Human selfishness, the selfishness of the individual and the selfishness of nations have replaced the love of God and of one’s fellow men. Man is following the principles of man and not of God. Father McCarthy further condemned the idea prevalent in the world today that material production, cog wheel employment and achievements of science rather than spiritual values represent true progress. He asked whether modern science, seemingly so important in the material aspect of the day, truly increased the happiness of life. Under the worship of this catch-word it has become impossible for a man to rejoice in his work. He is simply a cog in the machine. I should be the last to discredit or disparage modern achievements, but it seems to me that we have increased the comforts of living and decreased physical pain, which is not an unmitigated evil but a good which has done much to inspire and force men to greater efforts and greater heights.” To the students who are being graduated from the University this June, Father McCarthy emphasized the necessity of leaders with clear and definite ideas to understand the true meaning of progress. He stressed too the necessity of a rebirth in God and faith in men. Further urging the graduates to strive for eminence in the world and to rise above mediocrity, Father McCarthy counseled them to keep in mind the desire to learn and the will to progress. And remember this, he cautioned, you cannot buy success in future life by sacrifice of principles and spiritual values which you have been taught to cherish and which give meaning and dignity to life. First of all, seek the kingdom of God and His justice. Do not stoop to the cheap, the tawdry that deceives the crowd. You go forth from this school with our hopes pinned upon you. In whatever community or station of life you shall be, practice fearlessly the principles of Marquette—the principles of God and Christ. THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS

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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

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F. J Scnjcnbrcnncr Gen. Otto H. Falk. Chairman of the Board of Governor Dr. Charles H. Albright BOARD OF GOVERNORS The University Board of Advisers, which is responsible for the scholastic and cultural advancement of Marquette University, is comprised of a group of fourteen representative citizens who act in an advisory capacity to the Boards of Governors and Trustees and assist in University projects. The Hon. August C. Backus, Milwaukee, is chairman of the Board. The members include: E. R. Bowler, Sheboygan; William George Bruce, Milwaukee; Herman Fehr, Milwaukee; George Flynn, Madison; Walter Kastcn, Milwaukee; Gustave Keller. Appleton; the Hon. John C. Kleczka, Milwaukee; John A. Kuypers, Dc Perc; William R. McGovern, Milwaukee; Oscar Stotzer, Milwaukee; Francis X. Swietlik, Milwaukee; Roy P. Wilcox, F.au Claire, and W. J. Zimmers, Milwaukee. The Board of Governors which provides for the normal growth and the efficient business administration of the University is composed of six of the outstanding leaders of the State, headed by the Rev. Raphael C. McCarthy. The lay members are: Gen. Otto H. Falk, chairman, president of Allis-Chalmers Company and vice-president of the Falk Corporation; Dr. Charles E. Albright, social representative of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company; Albert C. Elscr, director of the First Wisconsin National Bank; Harry S. Johnston, president of the Robert A. Johnston Company, and F. J. Senscnbrcn-ner, Neenah, president of the Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Some of the enumerated duties and powers of the Board of Governors are: They shall be provided annually, at the meeting ending the year, with a comprehensive report on all aspects of the University, physical, financial and educational; they shall set the amount of tuition, provide scholarships and regulate the salary scale for instructors. Pace l