Villanova University - Belle Air Yearbook (Villanova, PA)

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What Js Through the use of quotes on the opening pages and section dividers, we try to show how John Henry Cardinal Newman’s greatest work, “The Idea of a University, applies to Villanova , University. In the four sections of the 1954 Belle Air by means of text and pictures we illustrate the ap- plied principles. JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN

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Applying the Mea of A University by John Henry Cardinal Hewrnan A University has the object of training students to fill their respective posts in life better and making them more intelligent, capable, active members of society John Henry Newman The Idea of a University

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University? “It is the place to which a thousand schools make contributions; in which the intellect may safely range and speculate, sure to find its equal in some antagonist activity, and its judge in the tribunal of truth. It is a place where inquiry is pushed forward, and discoveries verified and perfected, and rashness rendered in- nocuous, and error exposed, by the col- lision of mind with mind, and knowledge with knowledge. It is the place where the professor becomes eloquent, and is a missionary and a preacher, displaying his science in its most complete and winning form, pouring it forth with the zeal of enthusiasm, and lighting up his own love of it in the breasts of his hearers John Henry Newman The Idea of a University Villanova's founders believed that o trained mind and a critical judgment are of little avail unless controlled by a strong will and directed by a keen moral sense. They have supplied an atmosphere favor- able to the development of a sense of re- sponsibility and upbuilding of character, laying due emphasis on moral and reli- gious agencies.