Spring Hill College - Torch Yearbook (Mobile, AL)

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i . i 1 . i REV. F. I. RTACDONNELI. Dmn nf Studirs REV. G. MCI'IARl7X', SJ. S1'U'1'tary REV. Jos. E. FARRELL, S.J. Treasurer REV. K. A. KNOXAVLAN, S.J. Matllfmalics REV. VV. F. OBERING, S.J. History The College Faculty The officers and teachers in the College are for the most part members of the Jesuit order, an organization which from its origin has de- voted itself to the education of youth. It con- ducts high schools, colleges and universities throughout the United States, and has more than twenty-five thousand students in its va- rious institutions. The principles of education which have made the Jesuits successful in education work throughout the world, and which are followed at Spring Hill as in every Jesuit institution, are set forth in the Ratio Studiorum, a body of rules and suggestions outlined by the most prominent Jesuit educators in 1599, revised in 1832, and attended up to the present day with unfailing results. Truly psychological in its methods, and based upon the very nature of man's mental process, it secures on the one hand that sta- bility so essential to educational thoroughness, while on the other, it is elastic, and makes lib- f'i +f

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4 ' W Rev. foseflz M. Walsh, S President 2I

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The College Faculty eral allowance for the widely varying cir- cumstances of time and place. -While retain- ing, as far as possible, all that is unquestionably valuable in the older learning, it adopts and incorporates the best results of modern pro- gress. It is a noteworthy fact, however, that many of the recently devised methods of teaching, such as the Natural, and Inductive and similar methods, are admittedly in reality mere revivals of devices recommended long ago. in the Ratio Studorium. As understood by the Jesuits, education in its complete sense, is the full and harmonious development of all those faculties that are dis- tinctive of man. It is more than mere in- struction or the communication of knowledge. The acquirement of knowledge, though it nec- essarily pertains to any recognized system of education, is only a secondary result of educa- tion itself. Learning is an instrument of edu- cation which has for its end culture, and mental and moral development. . REV. ROBERT BRYANT, S.-I Dean ofDi5fiplir14' Rev. joHN MURPHY, SJ. Latin, Grrvk Rav. C. RUHLMAN, SJ. Physics Rev. CHARLES QUIRK, SJ. English REV. D. CRONIN, SJ. Mathvmatifs 23