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

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1 resLoeni s Uylessacje Just a century ago on the t ' elfth of June, 1837, Senator Daniel Webster, so long esteemed America ' s greatest orator, delivered an address in the large library hall of the old St. Louis University, then on Ninth and Washington Streets. Turning at its conclusion to the President and Faculty he paid them tribute saying: The work of the painter will molder in time; the sculptor ' s cunningly wrought images will perish; but your work, gentlemen, though invisible to the natural eye, will endure forever, for its subject is the immortal spirit, which can never be extinguished. You form, you mold the intellect, the soul. They will survive the ruin, no matter what the destruction of the visible universe. Fifteen centuries ago St. John Chrysostom, the golden-tongued orator of all time, used almost these identical words, though in Greek, speaking to every Christian teacher whose high privilege it is to work upon the immortal minds of their disciples. Such words coming to me, not instantaneously from the telegraph office or by radio from the ends of the earth, but rolling down to me through the long centuries, thundering, as it were, an otherwise self- evident truth, startle me. They overwhelm me now that so many of you, after your years of preparation at the University, are about to set out on your careers in the world, for I fear that this privileged work may not have been accomplished with all that perfection that its supreme importance demanded. Let us see. Has St. Louis Universit) ' imparted to you an enthusiastic appreciation of Him Who has given you all that you have and all that you are ? Have you a picture of Him Who is One, yet stood before Abraham as three Angels; are the lineaments of all three faces just the same. ' What picture have you of Him Whom Moses saw with face averted; but Whom at last the whole world saw hanging on a cross, crying out in undying command: Love, love even your enemies. If the students of this University do not take something of that vision and of that lesson with them hence into life, they go out into the dark depths of a world of hate and war and death instead of into immortal life, and our work in its highest ambition has failed. But everyone of you, I am confident, will make good in whatsoever we may have fallen short. Be true to your Ideal and the fullest measure of success is yours: 21

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Very Reverend Harry B. Crim- mins, S.J., twenty-fifth president of St. Louis University, is now serving his second year in that capacity. President Crrmmins de- scending the steps of the Administration Building on Grand Avenue. 20

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Jjoaro of JJeam ana Jxecjenh Left — Rev. Francis J, O ' Hern, SJ., Dean of Men. Right — Rev. Vincent L. Jennemann, S.J., University treasurer; Rev. John A. Berens, S.J., minister. The world o£ today offers a challenge to anything like soundness or stability. Feeling that it is the peculiar duty of the university above all insti- tutions to offset the madness and instabilit) ' of the world, St. Louis University accepts that challenge and enlists all of her constituent parts to combat it. This is the theme, the idea, the ideal of St. Louis University. Serving as the cent ral governing power and the source of all authority in the University, is the President. He is at the head of the Board of Trustees whose duty it is to formulate the policies and carry on the administrative functions of the University. The Board of Deans and Regents which is headed by the Chancellor of the University and is the chief advisory council of the President, is composed of the Deans and Regents of all the Schools of the University. THE BOARD OF DEANS AND REGENTS IN SESSION Left to right — Rev. Joseph L. Davis, S. J.; Dr. John Auer; Dr. Thomas E. Purcell ; Dr. Leo R. Kennedy; Rev. Wil- fred M. Mallon, S.J.; Rev. Alphonse M. Schwitalla, S.J. ; Rev. Linus A. Lilly, S.J. ; Rev. J. Joseph Horst, S.J. ; Rev. Thomas M. Knapp, S.J. ; Alphonse G. Eberle. 22