Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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HUiLLili ■ ■ When they recognize this unity, They begin themselves to become more integral beings. This mass of form and color milling together on the mall, Pausing in the spring sunshine to watch the bees Rumble over the butter-colored crocuses, Held together in a united shout in the gymnasium, United in the fruitful silence of Holy Mass; Corrugating their foreheads as exams, obligations and tedium Sometimes loom as paper blockades To the truth which they sought to free them, and again Suddenly released by a lecturer’s passing sentence Into a new freedom of thought—this element picks up The fragments of external experience at Seattle University And draws them into a unified character, the discipline Of thinking, acting, and judging constantly and consistently In accordance with right reason and revelation. It is not a nameless crowd. It consists of individuals, Unique, unmatchable; each with something to contribute To the character of the whole school. These individuals are unities of nature, soul and body, Enlightening their minds and strengthening their wills In the process of Christian education. They are a mosaic made in the image of God And moving toward the perfection of Christ. The undulating theme of the 1959 Aegis is the student in action: The subject of Christian education. 7

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all his faculties, natural and supernatural. . . The versatility in man's nature demands, for fulfillment, A like variety of education; making a liberal education The only education in the full sense— The one which develops man according to his nature. In the light of the Incarnation Man has been shown that a true education Not only develops a balanced aggregate of capacities, But enables the individual, through reason and revelation, To attain his highest good. Seattle University is characterized by the spirit Of the Jesuit faculty and the dedicated lay professors, As well as by the fundamentals of Christian philosophy, And these form its basic character. But one element must give a university its final stamp Of character and social individuality; Its status as an entity. This element is Catholic, Protestant, Jewish; Some of the element do not recognize a personal God. They do recognize a destiny for man. They recognize That man's destiny is intimately bound up with education, Even with their education, for it is of a social nature. They merge momentarily in a liberal curriculum, Interrelating various knowledge Until it begins to emerge as wisdom, And the kaleidoscope of first principles, iambic metre And batting averages, hypotenuse and dance programs, As products and interests of the complete man Begins to make a pleasing and unified whole. 6

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the mind enlightened and the will strengthened by super 1