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

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v NO UNIVERSITY BUILDING IS COMPLETE . . . without its chapel. It is here that a student in the College of Arts and Sciences may spend a moment with God. SPITE all our problems the world marches on and there are future years. It will be a bright future for the youth of today if they are prepared to make it so. But they must prepare-prepare for what the future holds. The world is beginning to realize that there are things of such worth that they cannot be rated in terms of dollars and cents 5 that the word success does not begin and end with aidollar sign, but that it depends upon the usefulness and effectiveness of our lives 5 that through all the ages the educated man has been the effective man. The Greek philosopher Aristotle was probably the greatest exponent in the ancient world of what is signified by the term a liberally educated man. Yet the educational influences which contributed to the development of such an intellect declined, and the life work of the Philosopher was lost sight of through many centuries of Western civiliza- tion. There occurred, however, a re-flowering of the same type of educational influence which proved its value by bringing to maturity the intellect of a St. Thomas, and through him the perfection of the whole scheme of scholastic philosophy. V There is no denying the fact that we need technically trained men, but the recent past has taught us that we cannot hope to carry on even in a mechanized civilization without the thinker, the man who is capable of preventing the maladjustment which the merely technically trained specialist is so likely to create. The lawyer, the doctor, the teacher, the dentist, the banker, the financier, the professional man in any field whatsoever is so much the better lawyer, doctor, teacher, banker and so on, if in addition to his professional training he is an educated man. Surely the future will be brighter if, in the face of our present-day depression- intellectual rather than economic-and in reply to the false prophets of the dissolution of our Western culture, universities can raise up a group of intellectual and courageous vI9v

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REV. THOMAS M. KNAPP, S.I., Dean of llze College of zirzir and Science.r and Chancellor of lhe Unlveralfy. Galleqe of rls om cleizces X Y

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A 3'i gOPHOMORES fbelowD the College of Arts 1 Sciences. young men and women eager to re-assert and strive for the right objectives of civiliza- tion and culture and human effort. Obviously, to effect such an accomplishment, there must be many more liberally educated men. V The man who is truly liberally educated is the effective man, Who, as Cardinal Newman says in his Idea of a Un Zc1ef'.fZ!y, is at home in any society-has a common ground with every class 5-knows when to speak and when to be silent 5-can ask a question pertinently, and gain a lesson seasonablyf' Without a doubt, there is a lack today of men who have that education which teaches them to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought, to detect what is sophistical, and to discard what is irrelevant. In fine, Newman's idea of a university training must come to be more fully appreciated. We need more men whose education prepares them to fill any post with credit and to master any subject with facility. It is strange that educators have lost sight, to a great extent, of so seemingly elementary a principle. lt is strange that they have believed that almost any type of specialized technical training could form the background for a successful and effective man's life. The future, if it is to be bright, must be dominated more and more by educated men, by thinkers trained in literature and the classics and philosophy, in the social sciences, history and sociology, political science and economics, and all that goes to constitute the liberal culture of an advanced civilization. Perhaps it is too much to hope that the near future will find the great majority of the American youth ambitious for the things of the mind. Yet adversity may have taught mankind that not alone by bread does it live. For the dawn is red with promise of a day wherein we shall see v20v IUNIORS Cabovej AND