Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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 55 9? Hi The Rev, Raphael Charles McCarthy. S.J.. president of Marquette University. In his hands is the guidance of a great Jesuit place of learning. In those hands rests the control of educating more than four hundred graduates who every year pass the portals of Marquette and go out into the world. Author and educator, Father McCarthy accomplishes this task with the ability of a proven administrator and capable leader. I Pagi i

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Their exalted ruler , the sorority presidents, in an early semester meeting in the newly appointed Atlas Room at Drexcl. Circle- The campus parade in front of Johnston Hall The laugh seems to he on the hoys they're hanging over a sorority banner. The male Frosh. too, get acquainted after registration. At the evening gathering in the t’nion. Father McCarthy is introduced. Don't tell it»c- even the Marquette men have a style show. A volunteer model sIniws the merits of a coat to the assembled males. Mob scene! Wisconsin avenue before the march to the station to send the football team off to the Santa Clara game at Chicago, Everyone moved aside as Marquette went on parade. Further style notes. Curt Sisson, downtown hahcid.tshcr, caught iri the act of giving a finite to a luck) student The sea ot smiling aces indicates the novel award. ■ Pace 3

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Two nationally recognized Jesuits, faced by the largest group of Marquette students and faculty ever to assemble, brought to the annual convocation all the personality. spirit and zeal that emanates from great men. The Rev. Raphael C. McCarthy, S.J., quiet president of Marquette University, introduced the exuberant author, playwright, and composer, the Rev. Daniel A. Lord, S.J., who commented that this time it was the audience that stole the show. Serving his second year as president of Marquette, Father McCarthy has demonstrated with a firm and unassuming hand his preeminence in the field of education. Centering attention on educational trends of the day. Father McCarthy feels there is a tendency to overemphasize vocational training in the classroom, and that while such preparation is valuable and necessary, it can scarcely be dignified by the name of real education. In the present conditions. Father McCarthy condemns restriction of interest to vocational training as deplorable. One of the great needs of the world today is clear thinking, he declares. The uncertainties and confusions that abound at present are due in no small measure to absence of intelligent planning. He contends that a liberal education will provide a remedy for the ills that oppress us. It is the hope of the president that the sons and daughters of Marquette, as a result of their years in the University, will take their places among those who think clearly. He hopes that they will always keep themselves emancipated from the crowd that vaguely apprehends and faultily grasps the social theories, economic principles, and political doctrines. That they will not be among those who are afraid of that which is high is his confident expectation and blessing. Behind the doors of their offices m the Science and Administration building. Father McCarthy and Father Walters discuss the problems of finance, only one of the complex tasks that are part of the work of administrating over a University. Under the President's hand, cooperating Deans and Regents aid the officials of the school hi improving the University scholastically, making Marquette part of the mid-western system of Jesuit education which extends from the Gulf to the Canadian border and is known the world over. Learned laymen contribute knowledge gathered in other great universities to the instruction which makes Marquette a Class A” school. Pace 5