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

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ARTS AND SCIENCES SltdGmH Uni(rtMi£u The graceful use of the Gothic arch, which acts as a theme in the architecture of the majority of the University buildings, is strik- ingly illustrated in this unusual view of the Administration Building. meteen

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TIE COLLEGE OF t i Liberal Arts education aims at the development of those elements which designate a man as a morally, intellectually, physically, socially, and aesthetically sound individual. Rev. John J. Flanagan, S.J., Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Rev. Wilfred M. Mallon, S.J., Dean. SECOND only to things divine in God ' s design of man is the spirit of man expressed through his mind, his heart, and his will. To the develop- ment of these the centuries-old institution of liberal education is dedicated, and is dedicated again in 1939 through the University ' s College of Arts and Sciences. The College exists not to train in technigues, but to build a spirit; not to increase power of earning, but to increase the power of being. Its graduate is measured not so much by what he can do, as by what he is, what his mind and his heart and his will have become in his four years of transition from youth to manhood. Towards the attainment of this objective, the perfect Christian in the wholeness of his being, the College designs its curriculum, guides its teach- ing, directs its libraries and laboratories, stimulates its activities, and inspires its faculties. To the College, residence within its walls, attendance at its classes, use of its libraries, participation in its activities, and contact with its faculties, are not only a preparation for the future, but more imme- diately an experience of the present. Page Eighteen

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ARTS AND SCIENCES Left — Miss Elma Poole, reg- istrar for the non-professional schools of the University. Right — Courses in history are essential requirements for all students in the College of Arts and Sciences. Left — To prepare students excelling in Latin for the an- nual Intercollegiate Latin Con- test, Rev. Otto J. Kuhnmuench, S.J., conducts informal classes in his room. Right — Rev. John J. Flana- gan, S.J., adviser to Arts freshmen and sophomores, discusses a studies program with one of his charges. As each agency of the Church has its distinctive area of emphasis, the college, in Catholic thinking, exists to impart knowledge, an essential in the eguipment of an educated man; to provide experience designed to cultivate to relative perfection the intellect, the will, and the emotions; to produce, in fine, the educated man, possessed of broad knowledge, a trained mind, a taste for beauty, and a sense of values; to foster an intellectual Catholicism and the effective Christian philosophy of life needed in field-marshals of the renaissance of Christian principles in modern living. Knowledge, however, is but part of the aim of the College of Arts and Sciences. More significant even than a high level of knowledge is the whole set of habits and attitudes and judgments developed in the course of mastering knowledge. The College chooses its studies, its literatures and languages, mathematics, natural and social sciences, not for their content alone, but for the habits and attitudes of the penetrating, thorough, critical, Page Twenty