Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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DEDICATION To Marquette men and women who have fought the :ond World War to maintain the clear requirements of id to restore a Just order in the World, this book is dedicated tumble gratitude.

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As a pebble dropped into a pool creates a series of encircling waves, so a man born into this life creates a series of relationships which, like the waves, grow more inclusive and more effective, centering about the individual and extending to the family, the community, the nation, the world. To have these societies harmonize in such a way that each will effect the most good for itself and benefit men without infringing upon the rights or jurisdiction of other societies, all of them must be properly ordered. What orders them is the virtue of Justice: that constant and abiding disposition to give to others whatever is due. It is the individual man, however, who must practice Justice and who is responsible for that order. The relationships created by man's birth begin for him duties toward each society, for the society toward him, and for all individuals toward one another. Therefore, man, qualified by Justice, determines the quality of order within all societies. The better he is. the more good he contributes to them. The greater his respect for the

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rights of others, the more effectively will he contribute to the harmony within them. The more he contributes, the better will be the society and the more good will he and his fellows derive from it. The University is a society. It has parts and involves relationships. If its common good is to be achieved, harmony must exist among its members. The good of the University demands, therefore, the practice of Justice. W Our obligations — those of the students, the faculty, and the administration—toward the University as a whole are governed by General Justice; the University's duties toward us are governed by Distributive Justice, and our relations with one another as individuals or individual organizations are governed by Commutative Justice. The University will be great only if her members maintain the clear requirements of Justice and understand, after seeing it at work in the University, how it should order all his social relations, how necessary it is to the social order of the world.