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

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Contents InitJcrsitp Administration Colleges Graduates Underclassmen :?lctitoitics Society Publications Oratory and Debate Music and Drama Religion Features : tl)letics; Football Basketball Baseball Track Minor Sports OrganiBationsi Fraternities Clubs

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Jf oretDorti Saint Louis University confers on her graduates an education profoundly Christian, profoundly humanistic. The graduate must integrate this into a genuine Christian humanism. The synthesis of the vast realms of arts and science and philosophy, even though it may issue into classic liberal education, is not yet Christian education until it is per- meated with the sublime precepts of the Gospels, the sacerdotal wisdom of the Fathers and Doctors — not until Christians manifest what they profess in thought, word, deed. Today it is exceedingly difficult for Christians without stamina to live in a bitterly anti-Christian world insisting on compromise at every turn. Many of us are tormented by the problem of recon- ciling a legitimate life of security with a courageous manifestation of uncompromising Christianity. We are driven to ask: Are we really required to be uncompromisingly heroic Christians. ' ' When we make this plea we betray our utter failure to grasp the spirit and purpose of Christian university edu- cation. We cannot expect every man to strive for extraordinary heroism soaring toward sanctity. We can expect every man to strive w ith might and main for Christocentric humanism, for purposeful litur- gical living. The vsisdom and inspiration of Saint Ignatius should still imbue those fortified with Ignatian education. He called, and still calls, for counter-revolutionaries, integral humanists, uncom- promising apostles to reconquer and rebuild a shattered Christendom for Christ and the Church. Ar- mored by this example we can really and heroically forward Christocracy.

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Situated in quiet South St. Louis, Maryville Colle.ne is devoted to the education of women. It is the oldest of the three Senior Corporate Colleges. Among the imposing buildings on the campus of the School of Divinity, located at St. Marys, Kansas, is Loyola Hall.