Xavier University - Musketeer Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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jfigufe , , I Rev. Michael I. O'Connor, S.-I. Rev. Albert A. Dierckes, S.j. Rev. Joseph Grimmelsman, S.J. 2 11897-l90lD Ql901-19085 C1908-19111 . V H w N Q , t Q I, 'ki . N T I ' Rev. Francis Heiermann, S.-I. Rev. James McCabe, S.-I. Rev. Hubert F. Brockman, S.-I. C1911-19171 C1917-l922D Q1922-l930D . - -r' 1: ri av- Rev. Hugo F. Slocterneyer, S.-I. Rev. Dennis F. Burns, S.-I. Rev. Celestin J. Steiner, S.J. C1930-19345 ' C1934-19405 C1940-19492 To Xavier's past and the men who made it a stimulating example, the Musketeer pays tribute. The nine presidents who .guided the 'fortunes of the University during the first half of the Twentieth Century exemplify Xavier's past. As priests, educators, administrators, friends ofthe students, 'ands patrons of athleticsthey represent all that the school has been. Their policies guided growth and consolidation. The ideals that they enriched during their adminis- trations are part of the living tradition of Xavier, a sturdy Jesuit university. I

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XAVIER'S PRESENT EVANSTON CAMPUS WAS THESE SPACIOUS GROUNDS OF THE AVONDALE ATHLETIC CLUB IN 1900 already the victor in many a fight against bigotry, poverty, and natural dis- aster. Its growth led to the move to the more adequate Evanston campus in 1920. In 1950, consolidation was taking place. The administration laid plans to keep Xavier a substantial force in the Cincinnati com- munity. This called for maintaining its high enrolhnent and enlarged curriculum, improv- ing physical facilities through a ten-step de- velopment program, and encouraging a faculty as alert as always to instill the principles of Christian living. , The year recorded in the Mid-Century Musketeer was one which undeniably ad- vanced the position of fthe University. The graduation rosters included the names of more than four hundred and fifty students, a far cry from the twenty who were awarded their diplomas fifty years earlier. The Mid- Century Musketeer records for all friends of Xavier, past, present, and future, the signi- ficant activities of 1949-50: academic, spiri- tual, co-curricular, and athletic. Some of the glory of Xavier's past is caught in the Mid-Century Musketeer in the words of alumni and others who have watched Xavier's work during the first half of the Twentieth Century. The spirit of the present CThe following statement was made by the Rev. James F' Maguire, S.-I., president of Xavier University, to The Mus- keteer, with regard to the approaching start of the second half of the Twentieth Centuryj PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE, 1950 If we could be cynical about man, we would smile knowingly and shake our heads over Presi- dent O'Connor's message. How well We have shattered his dream with two of history's most destructive wars and untold human misery since the dawn of the Twentieth Century. American education has fed on the pragmatic and materialistic philosophers whose ideas brought men to turn the nation's resources to their own purposes and not to God's greater honor. As a result, the Twentieth Century has run up some staggering statistics about family break-downs, divorce rates, salacious enter- tainment, organized vice, and juvenile delinquency. Or was Father O'Connor wiser than would appear? I think so. He knew that cynicism about man in any century is an easy pose. He had faith in God and faith in the ultimate goodness of man. Those of this generation who hold, along with Father O'Connor, that the welfare of man hinges on the principles of truth, justice and fidelity to God, find encouragement as they look down the long vista of the years and see his bright torch of idealism burning aloft. As we place our new marker mid-century, our sights are still clearly, unshakably set on the goals of life that Father O'Connor sighted fifty years ago. We of the Twentieth Century still have time. There are still fifty years before us-to right our- selves, to purge ourselves of our sorry past by a new pledge to the ideals that flow from the Father- hood of God and the brotherhood of man. is evidenced in the comments of the seniors on what four years at Xavier has meant to them. The past and the'present speak re- assuringly for the future XAVIER UNIVERSITY, 20007 XAVIER UNIVERSITY, 1950

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leabcafion The Mid-Century Musketeer is dedicated to the future of the Xavier family. The Very Rev. James F. Maguire, S.J., president of the University, will exercise a paternal spirit over the Xaverians entrusted to his care as priest and educator during the early years of the -second half of the century beginning after 1950. That future necessarily includes continued contribu- tions to Cincinnati, to the nation, and to the world by the Xavier family in the spirit of President Maguire and the Society of Jesus, Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.