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

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8 And he wanted it so. He wanted to advance civilization and culture, not to complete it. He was a Jesuit bringing to the Indians the beliefs of the Catholic Church so that they might advance and contribute to these beliefs. It was not a stagnant faith, but a dynamic one that advanced with the advancement of its members. Pere Marquette gave them the rock on which to build, the starting point from which they could strive to achieve perfection and thus do Cod's will. Is not this, too, a principle of a great university? ak vis bk I Visa' ' UT there was a challenge, a legacy left by Pere Marquette. His - Works and his hopes cried for a new champion. Who would dare to accept this challenge? VVho would pick up the work and push mm H 'Q 2 on to the horizons the French priest saw so long ago? g .4-J'sJ4w Pere Marquette's own order, the Society of Iesus, provided the answer to this question. They recognized the challenge and accepted it. In 1881 a group of Jesuit fathers summoned the tradition of centuries of Catholic education and founded a university in Milwaukee, inspired by the ideals of Pere Marquette. They, too, believed that the product of a rightly- ordered educational system was the whole man. They, too, believed that man's complex, many-sided character must be molded by solid Catholic principles before he could fulfill his position in the society of man and ultimately the society of God. To accomplish this they founded an institution of higher learning that was to overlook neither the natural nor the supernatu1'al. It was to make an attempt to perfect the whole man, intellectually, morally and socially to the fullness of his nature. It was to draw from both the discoveries of human reason and re- search and from divine revelation to offer a complete education. rs 61919 Q Ez' V M ,...., .:?,..:,lI' , ,--.2l 'J'. I, '., ., ,fn .. ..,. ,IIVJI 1, ,--- wr .1-- 1...1 1 I .,, I----r...fl-1.-,,,..lm ll'g:sana:s::-l. al Izs53335ififff5535f?f5is55ff f ' I l:'.!,l 1 I .Z I 35' ..... ::::zE:g:::E:gg:g. 'QII .' Hlfiiiii-51f55gg:2fM'i '1-if ifffffffffffsfaiiiifffr-' l'lIf3'ifi1iffiflfflif ll lg I, 1, Inlay:-alll I I I lv.. . ,,, , 'lilly I I Ili--Hit: I' ',,,,..,. I-I'lllllIi!!',g:fg1f:ggf:, .I',, 6 r i!'l,,,. Htl.. .1lii,, ,Ili IL . rrrii I it iir rf, ia , ,yy r t iiiir iiillllllllllllli, riff--, .sf ...,. :treat A '!ll1lI Il lv' ill '. 'l- fri i, if--. .'- 1 1 I 1 I ,Ir , - I .