Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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FOREWORD Undulating through life at Seattle University Is an essential theme: the attainment Of a liberal Christian education. The subject of Christian education Is that unity of nature which is man's body and A liberal education is one which enables man to develop Concerning itself About themselve: Offers courses of A man who has Can expand his The liberal arts Achieve this maul Activities which But yet are endor Also help accom Thus, student pal Such as sodality And service orgc And on the Spec Active competitu Golf and bowling Enable the Chri. j 7 temporal and eternal life. th what men should know id about the world, a liberal education west and value to everyone. I doped the full faculties of man with a poem as well as with a slide rule; iculum is designed to help students um development. outside the strict curriculum 1 and guided by those within the university h this development. ipation in activities and organizations, nces, student government itions; working on the Aegis )r; debate, choral and musical groups, n basketball, tennis, baseball, ims and intramural sports programs n to perfect and develop By coordinating thebe activities with his supernatural end He develops what is merely natural in life And obtains neu strength in the material, temporal order As well as in the spiritual and eternal one.

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soul united to body in unity of nature. . .

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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