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

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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

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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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TIE SCHOOL OF It is the duty of a commerce school worthy of the name to prepare men of principle and of charity, who will give to the dealings of the business world the unselfish and bene- ficial tone of a science. Rev. Joseph L. Davis, S.J., Regent of the School of Commerce and Finance; George W. Wilson, Dean; Walter F. Gast, Assistant to the Dean. THE constant presence and pressure of economic, industrial, financial, and correlated factors in present day life are impressively evident. There is no cloister so secluded as to be immune from their reactions. There is a world-consciousness of a realism reaching even into the higher strata hitherto considered too tenuous for the mundane and the prosaic. There is an ever-increasing importance placed upon them as the troubled times leave little room for anything other than the mad rush for accumula- tion of possessions. It is the purpose of the Catholic school of business to counteract, as far as possible, the evil effects of this system and to substitute for it the sane methods advocated by Leo XIII and Pius XI. Logically enough, a center of thought and life, such as a university, must take cognizance of these factors and grant them a welcome and suit- able abode. Their significance and true value must be clearly appreciated and fully presented. To ignore them, to relegate them to the background, or to bring them under a panoply of antique cerements, would deprive an institution of higher learning of a form of expression and a type of service, which should be quickly responsive to the clear and unmistakable appeals of vibrant life. Page Twenty-six