Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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A university exists to pursue and communicate truth. But its goal of intellectual excellence in the present finds an invaluable legacy in the past. Wise men of the past have given us great ideas for the present. We are their heirs: their searchings for truth embody our ideal. Their labors in knowledge brought forth the harvest which we are privileged to reap. Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Ignatius of Loyola are three men to whom we owe a special debt. From their considerations of reality we derive the fine synthesis of truth, of intellectual excellence of spiritual realism that comprise our present heritage. Hence we, the editors, dedicate egis 1962 to the great minds of these three men who personify in a variety of ways the ideal of intellectual excellence. decile 4

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rfW°Rd Man’s intellect is a power immeasurable, yet it labors beset by limitation. The intellect, ignorant, seeks the unknown, the unappraised. Truth, at once the requirement and relish of the mind, prompts pursuit, but accurate evaluations of reality elude the unknowing. Men, unacquainted with truth and unaccustomed to intellectual effort fall unwittingly into error. Perplexed by doubts and discouraged by difficulties, the intellect, unguided, may soon lose its way, grasping no more than prevailing half-truths. In its frailty, man’s intellect craves an exemplar: The Logos, the intellectual image of Christ, is the transcendent model of excellence demanding unconditional a 1 legiante. It is this intellectual perfection of the Logos which we choose for the theme Of Aegis, 1962. 6