Mount St Marys College - Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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President: YK14 Sister Magdalen Coughlin During Horizons '78 and on other occasions we have focused on the liberal arts nature of Mount St. Mary's College, as we focused last year on its Catholic nature. Elizabeth Sewell used her days with us to probe and enliven our delight in the life of the imagination and other dimensions of the life of the mind-characteriied by far too many moderns as impractical, ln reflecting on the reason that the Founders of the College must have had in folding into its birth and then into every stage of its growth this pervasive attention to liberal education, one is led to look beyond content and even beyond enjoyment. ln the initial catalog of the College, these first Mount women made it clear that they had some- thing in mind that went well beyond the rich cultural orientation and the training in critical thinking traditionally expected from liberal study. The purpose . . . is to offer young women the opportunity of receiving a liberal education in an environment conducive to the development of sound Christian principles. Then they proceeded to establish a form of education that by its very nature led students to questions of moment and to those larger meanings that can give birth to values that then direct one 's life and action, knowing that one cannot study the humanities and sciences in any depth without delving for the meanings of reality itself. And since these meanings and their resulting principles and values take root in individual lives, it was clearly the intent of the Founders that the development of the mind and spirit of the individual student was to be the central concern of this college. Surely an education that impacts on the very direction of individual lives and thus the contour of civilrkation is the most practical education imaginable. A curriculum was established, therefore, that required the study that draws students beyond chronology and data and analysis to the inevitable questions of larger meaning. ls there such a thing as a beginning and an end of time? What of eternity? What can we expect of human nature? What of divinity? What is freedom? And how free are we? Can we, after all, love? Once these issues are addressed and meanings gleaned and absorbed, these meanings inevitably assign values. l t is, then, these personally assumed values that shape individual lives by evoking one's very best and directing it way beyond the narrow, too personal, too immediate world, to the needs of others, the world, the universe. As we reflect on these fifty-four years of Mount education, then, and the hopes and reasons that charted its growth, we thank God for the vision of these founding women - and we ask for the insight and the wisdom to chart an equally enriching, challenging, and enlivening future. Sister Magdalen Coughlin

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