St Josephs University - Greatonian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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ITS GROWTH IN AMERICA ESUIT influence, since IGB4, has spread gradually from the Continent to America, I-lere was a new country, vast in its boundories and in dire need ot a SYSIGIWW Ol pedagogy. They hoped to dot this land with colleges and preporatory schools, so a few Jesuits, in Sltraitened circumstances, humbly began to lay the lvlans ot accomplishment, With undaunted courage and high hopes, they set out from Maryland to spread IIWGIV CJOSpel ot true learning from shore to shore. TVUIY Their success is inspiring, tor today, as we travel from state to state, we come upon their universities, COHGQQS and high schools at every turn ot the road. Everywhere we see them skillfully molding the plastic intellects ot youth with the talented fingers at faith Gnd SCICWCG. JCSUII DGCIGgOgy, at the completion ot ITS tour hundredth year, still shines like a beacon IIQIWI Ofid guides the vovager sately around those frothing roclqs ot false thought, so rampant in present America.

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THE JESUIT INFLUENCE Mill the turbulence at the Retormation and the Renaissance, Jesuitry sprung into being with a system of education haying no parallel in history. Its origin was unique, the system being based on the stolid practicalities ot the soldier-saint Loyola. l-le and his associates drew only the best from antiquity and the scholastics. Thus did they organize the ratio studiorumf' During the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries, the gradual aggrandizement ot Jesuit colleges and teachers reached its culminating point, lt was through the period ot these years that the domination ot Jesuit influence gained its zenith in Europe. While the student pursues the sciences and belies-lettres, they emphatically demonstrate to him, the proper relations ot man to God, to his fellow- man and to himself, as the lesson of prime impor- tance, l-lence, from the yery outset, their domina- tion has been absolute, not only oyer the minds, but also over the hearts of their students during tour com- pleted centuries. lair lvl l I i l i

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FOREWORD N the compilation of this volume, we, the Senior Class, have attempted to digress gracefully from the cus- ' tomary procedure of confining these records solely to the Activities of the Senior Class. We have endeavored to recount every project that has been sponsored by each Class of the Student Body during the past year, in pref- erence to the traditional method of featuring each enter- prise of one Class, the Seniors, during their four years at St. Joseph's College. For our theme, we have chosen to demonstrate the growth of the Society of Jesus in Amer- ica. This will not be disclosed by a use of flowery rhetoric, but, rather, in accordance with Jesuit ideals, it will be done simply. Confucius said that one picture is worth a thousand words. Hence, we shall use pictures-pictures of present Jesuit insti- tutions of learning. By recalling their humble beginning, we can readily discern, through contrast, their valiant advance.