Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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“Intellectual has many connotations in our age. Some of them are not flattering connotations. They arouse the image of the ivory tower, the man separated from his fellow man, the “egghead the aesthete. We at Seattle University take another view. The intellect is a high and stirring faculty, part of the best of man. It hungers for the Truth, seeks new horizons, thrives on speculation, finds harmony in the vast panorama of the universe, in nature, even in the endless ocean that is a single human soul. It is not a dry and lifeless thing. The intellect and the truth are partners in a changing age, facing the challenge of Marx and materialism, Einstein and energy, the cold war and collectivism, destiny and human dignity: recognizing and reaffirming the glory of learning, thinking, knowing. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge, yes, • • but more than this: knowledge for the sake of man. Seattle University has always recognized the value of a liberal education. The Age of the Specialist need not be| the Age of the Narrow Mind. For this reason we open wide the door of knowledge to the humanities: Philosophy, with its endless probing into the how and why of being itself; History, with its gift of the past as a key to the present and future; Theology, which grants a firm place on which to stand; Literature, which sounds a lyrical note for passion and reason, yielding the best

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dedication Education is an expansion program. Education is the most demanding of all expansion programs, for education must equip man for all else. A man’s way of looking at life, of reacting to its exigencies and of fructifying its challenges will be the result of his education. The sacred trust of forming minds and wills belongs to men of vision who are grounded on the bedrock of principle, who can instill a desire for excellence with a realization of what it means to be. ryy , The faculty of Seattle Universi the men of the Society of Jesus by the nature of their profession, and the lay men and women are as an unspoken challenge to develop that firm principle, technical excellence and liberal balance which so characterizes these educators. Seattle University’s development in the first decade of the Space Age will be manifested by the filling out of skeletal structures with brick, steel and glass; but the fundamental application of the expansion, as well as the need for it, must originate with the men and women who are the custodians, the transmitters and the prompters of the heritage of ideas which make up education. To these, the faculty of Seattle University, the I960 Aegis is dedicated.

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