Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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“Before a society can be considered well-ordered, creative, and consonant with human dignity, it must be based on truth. And so it will be, if each man acknowledges sincerely his own rights and his own duties toward others.” Pacem in Terris At some moment in every college student’s career, he will look up from a textbook or term paper or examination to ask himself, for the first time, “Why am I doing this?” His response to that moment of critical truth will indicate, perhaps more than anything else he might accomplish in college, how ‘free’ liberal education has made him. Like any other freedom, the liberalizing education which Seattle University offers can unfetter the student’s mind only if he assumes the sometimes terrifying responsibilities of losing his chains. What is truth? No one has answered Pilate, but the answer is inconsequential, somehow, compared with the desire to know. No curriculum or faculty can do more than induce in its students that desire, that inquiring curiosity exercised in dialogue, lecture, experiment, and responsible controversy. However veiled and infinitesimal the truth we pursue at S.U., the pursuit is free. Yet part of what is found, in the end, is the duty to bear witness in our own lives and in the world to those personal visions which liberal education can open to us. Once the seed is planted the harvest of knowledge waits upon the fruition of being able to say “I want to know,” and the courage to remember that, because of the responsibility in his right to know, man is not what he knows nor even what he wills, but what he does. 16

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Esther Gregory, B.S. Reference Librarian Librarians Nancy Gross, M.L. Assistant Librarian Lee Hodson, M.L.S. Education Librarian Jeanette Hulbert, M.L. Catalog Librarian Henrietta Loudon, M.L. Periodical Librarian Sr. Mary Helen Roscovius, O.P., M.S. in L.S. Reference Librarian Morris Skagen, M.L. Order Librarian Eunice A. Spencer, A.B. Chief Catalog Librarian In Memoriam MR. HARRY E. KINERK, PH.D., professor of physics and beloved teacher of engineering, mathematics ami physics, served the students Seattle University for 22 years. Horn March 31, 1909 Joint’d Faculty September 1912 Died October 18, 1961 15

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17 ACADEMIC