St Louis University - Archive Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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■ Deans, regents and trustees of the University. Rev. Raphael C. McCarthy, S.J., regent of the School of Philosophy and Science; Rev. Vincent L. Jennemann, S.J., treasurer of the Univer- sity: Rev. Francis A. Preuss, S,J., associate dean of the College of Arts and ,Sciences at Florissant, Mo.; Rev. Joseph A. Zimmerman, S.J., superintendent of buildings, and Rev, James B, Macelwane, S.J. The whole educational system (of Fascism) is founded on these ideals: it is desired to create a definite type of Italian, the Italian of Mussolini, whose character and personality must be perfectly adapted to the ideal and practical necessities of Italy, for which he will shape, by his own tenacity of purpose, an independent future. — Odone Fantini The University and A Fascist State. The proper and immediate end of Christian edu- cation IS to co-operate with divine grace in forming the true and perfect Christian. . . Christian edu- cation takes in the whole aggregate of human Hfe, physical and spiritual, intellectual and moral, in- dividual, domestic and social, not with a view of reducing it in any way, but in order to elevate, regulate and perfect it, in accordance with the example and teaching of Christ. — Pius XI Christian Education. A radical change of the relations of capital and of property in land is next upon the order of the day. These are signs of the times, not to be hidden by purple mantles or black, cassocks. . . They show that, within the ruling classes themselves, a fore- boding is dawning; that the present society is no solid crystal, but an organism capable of change, and is constantly changing. — Karl Marx Das Kapital. However, if We examine matters diligently and thoroughly We shall perceive clearly that this longed-for social reconstruction must be preceded by a profound renewal of the Christian spirit, from which multitudes engaged in industry in every country have unhappily departed. Other- wise, all our endeavors will be futile, and our social edifice will be built, not upon a rock, but upon shifting sand. — Pius XI Reconstructing the Social Order. The national State must act on the presumption that a man moderately educated, but sound in body, firm in character, and filled with joyous self-con- fidence and power of will, is of more value to the community than a highly-educated weakling. . . Fortified by confidence in his strength, filled with the esprit de corps, . . . the boy shall attain to the conviction that his nation is unconquerable. . . The main stress should be laid on bodily training, and after that on development of character, and, last of all, of the intellect. — Adolf Hitler My Battle. A spirit of freedom, such as only a life from and with Christ can give, must inspire the whole uni- versity and blow away all pedantry and caste- spirit and tin-god service. The form of its life must be given not by an academic bureaucracy but by the spirit of Christ and the universal spirit of Catholicism. — Dr Dietrich von Hildebrand The Conception of a Catholic University. 14

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versity Board of Undergraduate Studies, composed of the dean of the College and the deans of the Schools of Philosophy and Science, Education and Social Service, is in charge of academic matters. Under this board and the dean are the depart- ments of instruction, each of which is headed by a director or chairman. ■ The School of Education, established for the training of school teachers and administrators, is under the Board of Undergraduate Studies which governs the College of Arts and Sciences, but possesses a dean and regent of its own. This school endeavors to instill in its students the principles of true Catholic education, for it is through the teachers of the future that generations to come will receive their knowledge, and it is through well- educated Catholic teachers that the chaos of the modern world can be supplanted by an orderly scheme of knowledge. Instituted to fill the need for social work train- ing, the School of Social Service is governed by the dean with the aid of committees on social wel- fare activities, family care and medical social work- The School of Philosophy and Science for the advanced training of scholastics is administered by its own dean and regent and conforms to the regulations of the College and the Graduate School. Administered in similar manner is the School of Divinity, which, though now situated at St. Mary ' s, Kansas, still retains its affiliation with the University. The School of Law is under the direction of its own dean, regent and secretary. Changes in modern conditions affecting legal procedure are given particular attention by this school. To meet the more strenuous demands on lawyers, the Law School has set a three-year minimum term for pre- legal students. The School of Commerce and Finance, adminis- tered by its dean and regent who are assisted by the secretary-registrar, recorder and committees on student welfare, admissions and curriculum, attempts to train its students in the fundamentals of right business practice and give them a firm foundation in the principles and particulars of business administration. By means of courses adapted to the needs of the present day, and by student placement training, the Commerce and Finance School enables its students to cope with the new problems presented to the graduate by industry. There are three senior corporate colleges. Font- bonne, Maryville and Webster, the regent of which IS the chancellor of the University. Three junior corporate colleges, Maryhurst Normal, Notre Dame and St. Mary ' s Junior College, are adminis- tered by an associate dean and by the regent of the School of Education. ■ St. Louis University is in man ' ways a multiple and physically disunited organism. But all the various schools of the University are bound to- gether in a common allegiance with a common end in view- to aid their students not only to cope with the problems presented by the challenging changes occurring daily throughout the world, but even to lead the way in solving the problem of this age, to bring order out of the existing chaos. ■ Rev. Francis J. O ' Hern. S.J., spiritual adviser to students: Rev. Aloysius C. Kemper. S.J.. dean of the School of Divinity: George W. Wilson, dean of the School of Commerce and Finance; Dr. Thomas E. Purcell. dean of the School of Dentistry, and Rev. Robert M. Kelley.S.J., assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, who was transferred to St. Regis College in Denver, during the course of the year. 13 1

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,v The university must accordingly be ... a Fortress against infection by all those heresies . . . which stiFle all deeper life, replace virtue by efficiency, have nothing but recreation and amusement to set over against work, leave no room for contemplation and meditation, make man into a spiritual cripple and life into a perpetual escape from oneself, which is at bottom nothing but a flight from God. — DR. DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND Catholic Conception of a University. CU«4 ICULAP