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

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REV. JOHN M. HYNES, SJ. Academic Vice-President REV. JAMES A. KING, S.J. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences MR. O. ROBERT ANDERSON, A.B. Acting Dean of the College of Business Administration

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Salute to the Graduates of ' 53 Informally here on this page of The Redwood, in echo of much we have discussed before, I take occasion to commend you for garlands the world may never know you carry, for a victory the world may never applaud you for winning. It ' s funny, we say, when we mean to say it ' s sad. It ' s funny how one can never explain to otliers the meaning of the greatest hours of one ' s life; it ' s funny how futile are words to tell of those hours. It is fumiy even how little those momentous hours seem to show on the surface of.one ' s life. And yet they were our realest hours. The Battle of the Books is over. Yoti have won and the Books are yours. You are a college graduate. Who can describe what this means, and who can tell when it happened? It was, I would say, like a shell breaking or a cocoon cut away, or like coming up through water into gasping air — it was like anything in which a new life, a completely different life, is born. And the past, the former life seems an alien thing, a life that never could have been yours — because now you are so different. I shall not here try to map it out even briefly, shall not tr) ' to say what the Philosophy did to you, when the Literature first spoke to you, how the History shaped you, what the Theology formed in you, how the Political Science meshed into your mind, what the Physical Sciences revealed to you, how the Economics and Engineering and Law added to you. But I tliink you rea lize now how truly Newman spoke when he said Educa- tion is a high word. And now y ou see and from these heights. And you can never be a child again, the same again. For now you are a man. For the magnificence and the vastness of God ' s creation has been unfolded in all its complexity and yet in all its simplicity before you — and you are educated. And as you turn from your college days you realize with humbleness and pity the truth of the words : The fool sees not tlie same tree that the wise man sees — and you realize that trudi holds for seeing anything in life. For that Victory, for your long labors towards and finally catching up with that Vision, for the wotmds endured, for the silent hours of study and for the inches of stature you have added to your soul — our commendation. And our thanks! Our world is now a better place . . . because of you. God now go with you, and you with God Who has need of you by His generosity. Sincerely, Rev. Herman J, Hauck, S.J.

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REV. RAYMOND J. KELLEY, S.J. Vice-President in Charge of Student Affairs MR, GEORGE L. SULLIVAN, PH,D. Dean of the College of Engineering MR. EDWIN J, OWENS, LL.B. Dean of the College of Law