St Marys College California - Gael Yearbook (Moraga, CA)

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U gi ' il ITH deep respect and ad- miration. our dedication to the man is made to Brother Claudius. To those familiar with the sons of Saint Iohn Baptist de la Salle it would suffice to qualify this dedication with the state- ment- because he is a real Christian Brother. Our continued contact with these men. who wear the funny- looking white collar. has led us to stamp them with four great qualities - religion. scholarship. humility, and Christian democ- racy. Brother Claudius is imbued with a sincere religious feeling. He is possessed of a wide and deep scholarship. He is marked by an unstudied humility. I-lnd he has. in an eminent degree. that quality which singles out all Christian Brothers-the common touch. It is not without a feeling of pride that we dedicate the 1936 GAEL to Brother Claudius. - -. fl

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I A 1 ' EDICATION may include the dedi- cation to the ideal as well as the dedication to the man. Any dedication to an ideal on the Saint Mary's campus must necessarily be made to the spirit of the liberal arts college. That spirit consists. in the main, in the complete education of the whole man. It rails in an adamant way against too early specialization. Saint Mary's College has stood ever for arts and lette1's. A glance at her roster of graduates will assure one that her lawyers know something more than the law: her business men, something more than economics: her doctors. something more than medicine: her public servants. something more than politics. To possess the broad cultural back- ground, against which successful specialization is possible, is the ideal of the Saint Mary's Man. This ideal finds a counterpart in the period known as the Renaissance-a counterpart which we propose to trace in the GAEL theme. That the ideal is worthy of our sincere admiration is obvious enough. From the depths of that admiration. we dedi- cate the 1936 GAEL to the spirit of the liberal arts college.

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if ii is li BROTHER GREGORY, F.S.C l I Z1 ll lv ll i t I f li ' 1 I! I Il l Qft on a summer evening, cool and fair, When stars are gleaming softly in the sky, We lay aside our weight of troubled care, And spare a thought for days now long gone by. We see in one-most beautiful oi all- The vision of a soul in sweet content, Where once was death, enshrouded in its pall, There now stands life,-with bearing eminent. The mists evaporate, behold the face Of one belov'd of all who e'er him knew! No wind or wave of time can e'er erase The mem'ry of this countenance we view. No martyr in the ordinary sense, l-le made by tar the greater sacrifice, Where saints had died, and to their recompense Had gone 7 he lived-and paid a dearer price. F or death is but a period to life And not the utter end, as some men say, lt marks the swan song of all earthly strife, And to the gates ot l-leaven points the Way. -FRANK MARTIN, '37.