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

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Sophomores in Arts and Sciences The anguish of the time that the College is preparing Catholic youth to meet is the conflict of Communism, Capitalism and Catholicism — and Communism and Capitalism are but different aspects of the same thing. The vital issue is the subordination of man to the economic machine. ■ The College student is, or should be able, to realize the futility of controlling the state or busi- ness by external means, no matter how Catholic the means may be. Secular culture will use Catho- lic solutions to its own end. It is not the business of the Church to create social and economic and political schemes, or to solve social, economic and political problems, except in so far as they become moral and religious. It is a mistaken idea that we must create a Christian state and establish Chris- tian economics before we can begin to live a Christian life. ■ The answer is in the dynamic activity of indi- vidual Catholics as Catholics. It is not enough just to be Catholic. The apostolate of its sons is the answer of the College to the challenge of change — an apostolate that is not defensive, but a positive force in the creation of a new spiritual atmosphere and eventually of a Catholic civiliza- tion. The mission of the College is to put forth pioneers in this true movement of world revolu- tion (to use the words of Christopher Dawson) that we may not be enslaved to the weak and beggarly elements of the past nor limit ourselves to finding solution for the problems of an order that IS essentially transitory, but should rather devote our energies to the task of laying the spiritual foundations of a new order and a new world. THERESA CANNON Kansas City, Missouri Bachelor of Science in Vursing EUGENE J. CARLIN. A.B. San Antonio, Texas Doctor of Medicine R. MILTON CARRON Bloom sdale, Missouri Bachelor of Science in Commerce JOHN ELMER CARSSOW Lewiston. Idaho Doctor of Medicine BOLEN J. CARTER East St. Louis. Illinois Bachelor of Science in Education JOHN EMMET CASEY. S.J. Denver, Colorado Bachelor oj Arts FRANK MAURICE CAVANAUGH Fort Dodge. Iowa Bachelor of Arts Cannon Carlin Carter Casey augh 127 1

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Juniors in Arts and Sciences light of Christian philosophy, with a basic training in the humanistic studies of philosophy, literature and history, the student is, or can be, elevated to a vantage point; he is given a breadth and depth of vision that will enable him to evaluate the multiple factors of our chaotic times. ■ It is precisely here that the College differs from the other schools of the University. The College cares for the individual personality in its spiritual and intellectual development toward God. It is not concerned with methods and procedures as it IS with heart and mind. But this is not enough. The mere intellectual apprehension of the truth about God and man and man ' s relation to the world is insufficient; there is a greater obligation, a higher moral duty on the shoulders of those who have the privilege of a liberal arts training. An examination of the studies and an inquiry into the guiding principles of the College of Liberal Arts of St. Louis University clearly show that the materialistic and sentimental spirit of the times has not been damaging there. The College trains the man to ascertain the truth. It holds before him the lesson of the eternal, that man has his beginning and end in the unchangeable; and at the same time he is brought to an understanding of the world about him, and what in it is deserving of his loyalty and love and hatred. It is in the harmonizing of attitudes that the College achieves its particular virtue. This har- mony is vitally necessary. The danger that the College avoids is the confusion of adherence to the eternal with adherence to the past. This danger has been better appreciated in more recent years and today the student is trained to perceive the errors and deficiencies of the present moment in the light of divine truths. ■ But an even greater advance on the part of the College and of the student is necessary to grapple with the fresh problems of Communism and Capi- talism. The evils of the times are in our blood. Catholic thought, says Mantain, must be raised with Christ between heaven and earth, and it IS by living the painful paradox of an absolute fidelity to the eternal closely united to the most sedulous comprehension of the anguish of the time that it is invited to work for the reconciliation of the world and truth. ' Freshmen in Arts and Sciences , Xt ' SP: -WS; 7 r. ; 1261

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ir p- i 1 r- • ■■ n The courtyard of the School of Commerce and Finance. . . lis library offers ithe prospective business man special information on economic affairs. . . Students gather in the courtyard for a smoke between classes. . . Accounting classes form an important part in the Commerce student ' s curriculum. 128