Villanova University - Belle Air Yearbook (Villanova, PA)

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Tilli CATHOLIC IIIE.IL IIP LIFE FOR centuries, man has spent endless hours in searching his soul, studying nature and speculating on his own end. Countless books have been written, innumerable dissertations given, thousands of lives devoted to study, and frightful wars fought in varied attempts to attain or preserve a true con- cept of the creator and of man’s relation to Him and to other men. Reason alone is sufficient to enable an individual to learn of and to understand the spiritual relationship which links every man to God, as a Father. But to make certain that every man might more clearly and fully know and appreciate just what is meant by this divine kinship, Christ Himself came upon earth to teach men this truth through means in keeping with his nature. By combining in Himself both the nature of God and the nature of man. He gave a visible demonstration of the similarity of the divine and human nature. At the same time He gave man a rule of life, which if followed will lead man to eventual union with his Creator. Not in science, in economics, in false social theories do we find the correct principle of living, but rather must we look at ourselves as brothers and children of the same Father. Because the Senior Class of Villanova College is convinced that it is in this true concept of God and man that we find a solution for the evils so rampant in society, they have chosen to announce their entry into the world of affairs by reminding men to return to a mode of life founded on this principle of brotherly love. For this reason the 1941 Belle Air” portrays by word and in picture how Villanova College teaches the theory of the Fatherhood of God in class and fosters the practice of the proper concept of the Brotherhood of man in its collegiate life.

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IN DEDICATING the 1941 BELLE AIR we have in mind a group who, we feel, are ultimately more responsible for what we have received at Villanova than any others. True they have not administered to our spiritual, intellectual, or material needs. We have not been inspired by their lectures or influenced by their personalities, because we have not seen them or known them, except in the pages of Villanova’s history. But as we trace the growth and development of the College throughout its near-century of existence, we find that step by step they have laboriously built up what now exists for us as a Catholic educational institu- tion. Its campus and buildings are the monument to their energy and enterprise. It is to them that we owe Villanova, because were it not for them we would not have it. Their struggles and perseverance in the face of difficulties and discour- agement have borne fruit which has far outlasted their individual lives. Banded together in common cause for the greater glory of God, they chose to give rather than to receive, and we have been the beneficiaries of their efforts. So it is only fitting that we pay tribute to the deceased faculty members of Villanova by gratefully dedicating to them the 1941 BELLE AIR.