Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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So he became an explorer in spirit as well as in body. His life of adventure made him an explorer of natural things, of the vast virgin lands of the Midwest and the great Mississippi River. But that merely opened the door to a far loftier exploration-a search through the mysteries of the soul. His spiritual discovefies gave him the patterns into which he constantly worked to shape the ideas and minds of his people. And his work with their souls never would have been possible without his preliminary physical labor. He loved the natives and the beauty of what he had to tell them too much to consider himself. The minds of savages must be freed from error, he thought, their savage customs curtailed, yet their heritage must be preserved, their thoughts must not be enslaved. Pere Marquette was an explorer, leading his people through a maze of new thought and new values. He had found the truth himself. He felt it was his duty to show it to others so they could live their lives by it. ls not this, too, a principle of a great university? ' PIC 34 PIC 1.411 N QI mst! .4v QF' A ' HIS is a seed, cast into the round, which will bear fruit in its time, I I I 1 g n Q, Pere Marquette wrote. 8 fl , Like all Jioneers of the infant nation, Pere Mar uette left to gd ij l fl 'D '. Y i future generations the work of reaping the harvest of Wisdom, virtue and oodness for which he ave his life. He entered new x S g lands, building outposts of culture and civilization as he blazed his trails. Left behind was the work of erecting on his foundation, however solid, a structure that would produce the results he envisioned. Throughout Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and down the Mississippi, he spread his energy and ambition and labor. But no matter how well his love and labor took root, there remained a challenge. This was a challenge for another generation to accept. I I I X X -----------I I X 'I' IIIII I, we . I ll I' I 5, 'III II I II I III' If II.'I', . :II.!.I:I' I III1,,II:II II In IIIIIIIIIIIL III' I I II I' MII' I III III MII II I I II 1 'Wil III' Iqlhl I .nu null ,I 'I I , . I '.l I I II x x X X I I x N X x X Ii xx I, .... -- - ,I 0 I Emillii It ll, - I , .. .... ... .. I I II X I 1' I I j I .1 I ,' , I 1 I I I .1 1 I I I I I I xx I I I