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

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Wilson Aldridge, S. J. James IJ. Kassel! Augustine K. Kerti Major William ( . Brey, l.'.S.A. Alexander Krill Raymond I.. Butler, S. J. Paul A. Carrico Alexander J. Cody, S. J. John J. Coleman. S. J.

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losophy is one of the most invaluable products of Jesuit education. It reaches the student how to analyze, how to discriminate, how to distinguish, how to detect the true from the false, how to detect sophistry, how to define and clarify, how to discard the irrelevant. This cargo grounds the student pilot in the Christian beliefs and principles that concern his ultimate destiny, that lay down the rules for his conduct in the attainment of his last end. Jesuit training aims to produce a well-balanced personality, a well-balanced education, in the student. The one-sided, one-track-mind specialist is not the product desired by the Jesuits. Man, they believe, is a being who possesses latent powers for the pursuit and attainment of many intellectual pleasures. Man, they believe, is capable of greater intellectual achievement, of greater understanding, of more harmonious living. Phe ideal student that the Jesuit system of training aims to turn out is pretty well exemplified in Cardinal Newman’s Ideal Man: “He is at home in any society, he has common ground with every class; he knows when to speak and when to be silent; he is able to converse, he is able to listen; lie can ask a question pertinently, and gain a lesson seasonably, when he has nothing to impart himself; he is ever ready, yet never in the way; he is a pleasant companion and a comrade you can depend on; he knows when to be serious and when to trille, and he has a sure tact which enables him to trifle with gracefulness and to be serious with effect. He has the repose of a mind, which lives in itself, while it lives in the world, and which has resources for its happiness at home when it cannot go abroad. He has a gift which serves him in public, and supports him in retirement, without which good fortune is but vulgar, and with which failure and disappointment have a charm. Phe art which tends to make a man all this is in its idea as useful as the art of wealth or the art of health, though it is less susceptible of method, and less tangible, less certain, less complete in its result.” 'Phe Jesuits aim to approach this Ideal Man. However, while aiming to develop all these human attributes and virtues in the student they have in mind the last end of the human being, the most important end, the end to which all other ends are subordinated. So Jesuit training disciplines the mind and will of the student, builds strong moral fibre, develops self-control and volitional habits that teach the student to do what he is supposed to do in spite of any discomfort or pain it may bring. Thus equipped the student is sent out into the world, fitted to meet the tasks that come before him, fitted to become a useful and loyal citizen of domestic, civil and state society. Into the fields of labor, of business, of professional life, of government and of every phase of human activity the Jesuit student is sent, armed with knowledge and discipline that seeks to ennoble and to benefit human society. The aim of Jesuit training is deep and wide and embraces the whole man. The world will be made a better place to live in because of it.

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 illiain J. Dillon William Dowling I.!, i ol. !•’. Drake, U.S.A. Peter M. Dunne, S. J. Dr. Clark Kagan Rev. Gerald J. Geary