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

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STUDIES The other function is the advancement of knowledge or research. This does not mean the spreading of what is known, to an ever-increasing student body however advanced, but rather the gradual pushing back, by cooperative efforts of students and faculty, of the frontiers of ignorance which surround the existing islands of truth. It is a process by which the student is constantly endeavoring to discover hitherto unknown facts about the various subjects of study. It opens newer and more fertile fields to the mature minds of those who have completed the reguirements of the regular college courses. To train the student in the technigues, methods, and procedure of scholarly work, and more important still in its aims and in its opportunity, is the high prerogative of the Graduate School. Of course, even a mastery of the methods and technigues of research is not research itself; still less does it constitute a scholar. These methods and technigues are tools which will enable the person who possesses the gualities of patience, conscien- tious industry, intellectual honesty, and vision, to make greater progress in his study than he could otherwise make. Left — The laboratory of the Department of Geophysics, located in Sodality Hall, contains a science library of over one thousand volumes and has facilities for the reduction of earthquake data. Center — Individual research is particularly emphasized in the program of the Graduate School. Right — An important phase of the Graduate student ' s work is the regular attending of seminars. Page Twenty-jour

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s SjfcdGnuf UmiWi4(£u One of the oldest of the buildings of the University is Sodality Hall, which was built by a group of sodalists when the University was moved to its present location, and which now houses the offices of the Graduate School. £ fi

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S dfiuti LimiWtftJuf Such training implies the ability to think not in one direction but in many. It means a mind not helplessly teth- ered to one corner of the intellectual field, but a mind free to range with a certain ease over the entire realm of known truth and to be healthily curi- ous about what lies beyond. What such training does for the intellectual life it does, or should do, in a measure, for the emotional, the aesthetic, and even the religious life. It teaches us to live above the merely material and ephemeral realities of sense, to set up in our souls higher standards of achievement than the illusory ones of worldly success, to enter into fellowship with the great ones of the past, and to do this in true steadfastness to culture, to self-disci- pline, and to prayer. In short, such training must, while facilitating the acguisition of specialized knowledge, at the same time bear witness to the true hierarchy of values, and to the whole destiny of the individual and of mankind. Top — A Graduate student does some independent re- search in radio in one of the School ' s physics laboratories. Middle — Rev. Joseph Husslein, S.J., is Director of the School of Social Service, a division of the Graduate School. Bottom — Graduate classes, necessarily small to serve their purpose effectively, are usually very informal. Page Twenty- five