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

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ADMINISTRATION UNIVERSITY FORMAL PjjiL One

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L{m mversLtu jorma t Vf I ADMINISTRATION II UNIVERSITY III DEPARTMENTS IV GRADUATES V UNDERCLASSES

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Very Reverend Harry B. Cnmmins, S.J., twenty-fifth president of St. Louis University, was appointed late in December to that office. JTol .OLDING up to the educational world the ideals of Catholic principles as applied to the training of its students, St. Louis University has maintained a rigid standard of excellence in the one hundred and nineteen years of her existence. From the tiny academy founded by Bishop Du Bourg in 1818, she has developed by easy stages to the position oi eminence she occupies today as a complex, metropolitan institution, one of the outstanding universities of the Middle West and, in many respects, of the country. As conditions in the outside world change, a university must keep pace by meeting the new obligations imposed upon her by these changes or fall by the wayside. St. Louis University has met these new demands by altering her courses, modifying her methods of administration, while still holding fast to her fundamental UNIVERSITY FORMAL ♦ Page Two