University of Santa Clara - Redwood Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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THE UHIVERSITU

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THE MODERN ACADEMIC UNIVERSITY CAN BE TRACED TO AND THROUGH THE GREAT UNIVER- SITIES OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE TO THE ACADEMY OF PLATO, FOURTH CENTURY, B. C, WHERE STUDENTS AND INSTRUCTORS LIVED IN CON- STANT AND CLOSE CONTACT. OF SUCH IS SANTA CLARA.

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I) A university does not run itself. The profes- sors are not self-appointed, the schedule of classes does not simply fall into order; the system of bells, meals, and lights out does not arrange itself; the boilers do not auto- matically know when heat is needed; the laundry does not wash clothes of its own arrangement; nor do the gardens plant themselves. Behind all these functions there are many minds at work, there are plans and sched- ules. The smoothness and efficiency of university life depends upon capable man- agement just as surely as the construction of the Bay Bridge depended upon miles of premeditated blue prints. That is why Father Rudolph, as President of a modern univer- sity, has gathered around him the men who can see to it that classes are held, that lectures are attended, that the formalities of registration are observed, that the rooms are at comfortable temperature, or that the grounds supply students with an adeguate setting for the works of the mind. Thus life goes on smoothly, the wheels of administration turn, and Santa Clara builds on the past for the future. PAGE 12 « THE REDWOOD • 1938