Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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DEDICATION To Reverend William M. Boi.and, S. J., President of Seattle College, who has labored for over twenty years that his beloved boys” might receive the benefits of a Catholic education, we gratefully and lovingly dedicate this Echo of 1929. SIX I

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 -, j f J ; c; V - : 5 ’?V; V ”'■£? ''x « FOREWORD T7 ❖ ► A HE conquest of the great Northwest Ter-S ritory, whose history is the theme of our year-book, was not made without sacrifice, difficulty, and supreme effort. If this book, an r‘echo of the sacrifices, difficulties, and efforts of our high school years, may be a prelude to lives that shall unfold in religious, social and physical usefulness, as our great Northwest Territory has done, then its editors will feel that their work was not in vain. If the strong principles, the light-hearted joys, and the worthy ambitions of now may re-echo into the future years through the pages of this book, to strengthen and cheer our school associates in their hour of need, then our effort, the 1929 Echo, will have achieved full success.

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Father President's Message as a matter of course.” HE dominant issue before the American people today is, some tell us. the increase of lawlessness. It is more than an ephemeral crime wave,” to quote the recently spoken words of President Hoover; it is indicative of a subsidence of our foundations.” To meet this issue a 'rigid criminal-law enforcement” is proposed in order to instill respect and fear into the minds of those who have not the intelligence and the moral instinct to obey the law Does this mean that the need in our country is a multiplication of our penal institutions, bigger and better jails, an increase of our police forces armed with stouter clubs and deadlier machine grins, and a phalanx of judges void of all else but the spirit of vindictive and punitive justice? If such be the meaning, then it may not be presumptuous that we suggest another remedy against the evil that threatens us. Laws, when they are worthy of the name, when they are reasonable ordinances introduced by a sensible majority for the good of the community against an unreasonably recalcitrant minority, ought not only to be respected, but they ought to be loved. God is the wise, the prudent Legislator. Because His law is love, it is lovable. Owe no man anything but to love one another,” says St. Paul under divine inspiration, for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. For, 'thou shalt not commit adultery; thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not bear false witness; thou shalt not covet;’ and if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this word: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.’ The love of our neighbor worketh no evil. Love therefore is the fulfilling of the law.” (Rom. XIII, 8, 9, 10.) And, apart from its intrinsic lovableness, God’s law actually wins its portion of love when we analyze the fact that, in this world, at least, there is no violent enforcement. The concept of God as a super-policeman, waiting in hiding on high with club in hand, ready to swoop down on evil doers, is not true to the reality. God, who is the Legislator, is our Father, too. Having promulgated the law, He has abundantly provided us with helps for its fulfillment. The divinely instituted Church is one of the helps. Speaking as one having authority,” she tells us what is right and what is wrong both in the intellectual order and in the moral. Her sacraments, either by begetting in us the power to love, or, once begotten, by giving increase to that power, enable us to do what cannot be done by our human nature unaided. SP.VKN