University of San Francisco - USF Don Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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12 THE 10S AT IAS architectural embellishments that are so conspicuously prcv alent on the Church. And yet, the architect, under the direction of the donor and with the desire of the Fathers in mind has succeeded in constructing: a home that is majestic in its simplicity and agreeable in its severity. Following the general style of the Italian Renaissance he has very artistically and with great delicacy adorned the front of the building in a manner restful to the eye. The main entrance surmounted by a cross and two shapely vases, is a little masterpiece of chaste grandeur. On the other side there is a portico running parallel with the main wing enclosed by arched windows set gracefully between pilasters of Doric suggestion. It is part of the main structure, a one-storied projection, serving the purpose, as we shall see on entering, of offices and reception rooms. Above this portico and set in from it, the main building of two additional stories rises in unadorned severity. At either end there is a two-storied wing running south, toward Fulton Street, thus forming an incomplete quadrangle. The arrangement is admirable. The morning sun will flood the eastern side of both wings, and in the afternoon the western side of tin wings will be bathed in its warm rays, while the front of the house will be assured of the golden flood of light throughout the day. The building is so tinted that its color scheme harmonizes with that of the Church, and further strengthens the suggestion that the two are but units of a greater whole. As we enter we find ourselves in a spacious vestibule and we pause to read the inscription above the door that leads into the cloister: “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam”,—To the Greater Glory of God. It is gracefully inscribed in letters of gold on a white marble plaque and tells the visitor the purpose of the building and of the lives of the men who are to make it their home. God’s glory is sought by all who serve and reverence their Maker. God’s glory is proclaimed by all Ilis crea-

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NEW FACU LTY W ILDING 11 Golden Gate, they symbolize another guidance through another Golden Gate. “On the other side, from nearly every portion of San Francisco and irom the transbay cities, the building presents an equally majestic appearance. Sometimes it is seen through clusters of trees, a stately outline in the distance; at other times, like the tall cliff of which Goldsmith speaks, it rises above the rolling log and stands alone in its sunlit glory; again, as when viewed from the Oakland side of the bay, it takes the topmost position in the imposing skyline of the city, lilting its graceful dome and prayerful towers out of the tangled and rugged mass of the downtown skyscrapers. And thus while its monarch-like magnificence proclaims the rapid growth and heralds the future glory of the new and greater San Francisco, its heavenward-pointing spires appeal. with mute but forcible eloquence, to all men of every creed and of every condition in life to join hearts and hands and to work together for tin realization of a better and in consequence a more enduring San Francisco.” “St. Ignatius Church . That is not the complete name of the old institution. It was St. Ignatius Church and Col-lege that was of twin birth with tin city of San Francisco, it was St. Ignatius Church and College that was blotted out of existence by tin fire of 1906, and because the new Faculty Building is a complement of the Church and a prophetic promise of the College, it has aroused unsual enthusiasm and occasioned much joy among the friends of the Institution. Standing before it we may notice at once tin' contrast between tin Church and the new building. The latter has not the same splendor, tin same ornate style as the Church. Xor would lavish ornamentation become the home of men who lead a life of renunciation. They themselves have spared no expense in building their wonderful church, they will spare no expense in building their College, when the occasion is at hand; but on their own home they desired none of the

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AFAY FACCLTY JW1LDIXG 13 turcs. rriic- pines wave their tops in the breeze to do Him reverence, “the birds that sinking: up to heavens gates ascend” bear on their wings and in their notes 11 is praise. Alan has power to make the universal hymn of nature vocal. He does so by giving glory to Hod. 'Phis is his destiny here and hereafter. St. Ignatius, the founder of the Jesuit Order, a soldier of chivalrous Spain, introduced into the service of God some of his ideals of military service and among them was what we might call a desire for distinguished ser-vice. Not satisfied with seeking the glory of God. he was determined to seek ever for His greater glory and for this reason he adopted the motto: “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam”. It is not a boast of what be or bis followers have done; it is only a high ideal which I hey set before themselves as an inspirational incentive to greater labor and more enthusiastic resolve. Appropriately then is this motto inscribed in the new Faculty Building entrance. On either side of us are corridors, leading to the parlors, nine in all, where part of the Jesuits work is carried on. Passing on to our left we reach a spacious room, on the ground floor of the west wing. It is to serve as the working quarters and distributing center of the Francesca Relief Society. This Society composed of ladies who devote some time each week to sewing for the poor and whose charity cheers thousands of children annually, has become part of the Jesuit Institution. Its honorary President, and for years its active President, Airs. Berthe H. Welch, to whom the College is indebted for the building itself, thought it befitting, and befitting it most surely is. that the ladies who bore with the inconveniences of the home on Hayes Street should enjoy the advantages of more commodious quarters in the new residence. We have now visited that portion of the building which is outside the cloister. The parlors and the Francesca room will be frequently visited by men and women even after the building has been occupied by the Fathers; but only on rare