Regis College - Ranger Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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LJ0J !V F ' V- yotewccJL St. Ignatius of Loy- ola, Founder of the Society of Jesus. The fourth centenary of the Society is com- memorated this year. The statue whose pic- ture appears here is located on the Regis campus. The Ranger of 1940 attempts to epitomize the past school term in providing each student with a permanent record of his com- panions and associations at Regis. That it may in future years serve to recall more readily scenes and events of a not-to-be-forgotten period of his life on the crest of the west is our since wish. J aqe

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' L 1940 iZ. anacc t Published by the Students of REGIS COLLEGE Denver, Colorado

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lAJe a. once: Very Reverend Father General WLODIMIR LEDOCHOWSKI of the Society of Jesus who this year celebrates the Fiftieth Anniversary of his entrance into the Society and the Twenty-fifth Anniver- sary of his election to the Generalate. OF GREATER MOMENT THAN LEARNING •n By W. J. McGucken, S.J., Prefect General of Studies of the Missouri Province Nothing is more difficult for a Jesuit, his critics notwithstanding, than to sing the praises of the Society he loves so well. He may and does think with justifiable pride of the temporal and spiritual glories of this least Society of Jesus and its four cen- turies of work and prayer, of its long roster of saints, martyrs, doctors, missionaries, sa- vants, and its vast army of unknown sol- diers — brothers, scholastics, priests who have fought during these four hundred years ad majorem Dei gloriam. What Jesuit, moreover, does not thrill at the memory of all these glorious golden deeds for Christ, his Captain and Leader! A Jesuit who could remain unmoved at the thought that he, though all unworthy, has been called to membership in this branch of Christ ' s army would be, as calumny repre- sents him, a dead corpse indeed. From Bacon on The Jesuit contribution to the history of education during these four centuries has been not inconsiderable. Men from Bacon to Fulop-Miller, some grudgingly, some willingly, have paid glowing tribute to the work of the Society in this field. It would be impossible to deny it. Ever since the foundation of the Society the whole pattern of secondary and higher education has been influenced by Jesuit ideas. From the sixteenth century on, wher- ever the classical tradition persisted in the schools — and until a generation or so ago it was the only tradition — Jesuit theory and practice were factors to be considered. The lycee and college of contemporary France, bear astonishing resemblance in curriculum and method to the seventeenth century Jesuit school. And little wonder. For in the days before the Suppression of the Society in France in 1762, the Jesuits had almost a monopoly of secondary education. Many traces of Jesuitic influence, says Fulop- Miller, no friendly voice, remain in the schools. It should not be overlooked that the advantages as well as the disadvantages Page 5