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

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PAPIN AERIAL PHOTC COLLEGES

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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

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CJie Kjollecje of Ofrh ana Sciences Rev. Wilfred M. Mallon, S.J., Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Rev. Thomas M. Knapp, S.J., Dean of the College of Arts and Sci- ences and Chancellor of the University. The preservation of things of enduring value has long been man ' s most difficult task. Time and man ' s own destructive folly bring to decay and ruin his most vaunted material achievements. We know the ruin in which the traveller found the statue and the realm of Ozymanidas, meant to be everlasting; and we can but wistfully imagine the glory that was Greece reconstructed about the exquisite frag- ments that we call the Elgin Marbles. The genius of man has, perhaps, been a little more successful in the realm of intellect; and, since the coming of Christ and the foun- dation of His indestructible Church, has been far more successful in the field of spiritual values. And it has been the good fortune of the ever-increasing treasury of human thought to be preserved through the centuries in the strong arms of this custodian of the Divine. Human learning owes an inestimable debt to the Catholic Church. The source of man ' s spiritual wealth, she has with fitness been at the same time the fostering mother of the natural enrichment of man ' s intellect, of what may be summed up, with the enlargement of the phrase, as the best that is known and thought in the world. She has cultivated and stimulated the arts and the sciences, indeed the whole field of human knowledge. In the crude frontier city of St. Louis at the beginning of the last century, it was quite natural that the authorities of the Church should have been the first to establish an insti- tution of higher learning, a College wherein Christ ' s mandate, going, therefore, teach ye all nations , could be carried out in the fullest sense in which the Church has always accepted it. And it is equally natural and appropriate that during the next hundred and twenty years there should have grown from and around this College a great Catholic University with its 24