Anchors and the Mind
THE COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Literature, The...
...the increased attention to the library the Catholic cultural instinct is always predominatingly as the centre of intellectual dietetics-these are in- social because the integral part of its strength has stances of what has been done, often in the face of been charity, from the beginning...
...The welcome is cordial and satisfyThe present annual meeting of the Catholic Educa- ing: it explains the night, the wanderer's loneliness, tional Association will bring these ends once more to the festival fire...
...Three men come out of the chill night indeed, when one measures research equipment, it is into a place where there is a fire...
...Those who believe are constant guests...
...Were it to forget great financial obstacles, to meet the pedagogical de- the business of constantly inviting others to join the mands of the time...
...But the happy guest cannot wait the attention of the vast community of those actively until he has found his two fellow-voyagers again and engaged in the difficult care of youth...
...Profit will come from the charity to give up the argument...
...He knows that Catholic culture has, in the as our fathers have done...
...And yet it is quite possible to complete four ignorance of the educators...
...Today the world is murmuring more and more ceeded in getting them done had in view a goal toward distinctly the old but half-forgotten truth that those which they struggled happily and laboriously...
...How did they associate their proceed blissfully to the sale of bonds or vacuum knowledge with the basic business of human existence...
...If Mr...
...Nothing could excuse past, achieved serene and salutary programs for the failure...
...The one warms quite safe to conclude that the most abundant lore his fingers in silence...
...Perhaps the Association will thus be conscious of tradition and ex- one is sceptical and fears to be misled...
...be purely speculative...
...Felix M. Kirsch 202 Whitelaw Saunders, J. Corson Miller, May The Nun in Education George Johnson 203 Williams Ward, Sally Bruce Kinsolving 214 The St...
...Even the arts of painting, sculpture, most essential thing, because they themselves are illusand letters have developed what may safely be termed trations of the most essential thing...
...This form We do not feel that this young man's case is in any exists precisely because of a feeling that walking is way exceptional...
...have been lighted by another, in the kindliness and Secondly, to establish the doling out of Ruskiniana as authority of one who has power to dispense hospithe chief purpose of education would be to deny the tality...
...ing of the Educational Association will prove once Under the shadow of faith, in a spirit of earnestness again that the Church has enlisted the noblest of and honesty, there have appeared great syntheses of armies in the campaign for youth...
...and, as a parable...
...And what happens in college is not unAny reply he might make to these questions would familiar to secondary and primary education as well...
...Volume IV New York, Wednesday, June 30, 1926 Number 8 CONTENTS Anchors and the Mind 197 A Most Excellent Don..George N. Shuster 213 Week by Week 199 Poems..T...
...Indeed, he even correlated experience of many who have worked in looks upon the book and the blaze with a new interest, the field, who know the generation now advancing to because these things are dear to his kindred...
...During ideas of Divinity are at the base of varying educational late years Catholic educational practice has sponsored interpretations of life, the standard of the Church is a great deal of what may be termed experiment...
...pedagogical theory which have necessarily followed Glenn Frank is correct when he says that divergent the trend of democratization in the schools...
...he had met some of them informally and of discoursing on any other...
...But the outsider, relatively anxious about the train- In consequence, the burden laid upon that ministry of ing of his children and the general civic welfare, is the Church which we term instruction is heavier than constantly watching the permanent heart-beat of educa- it ever was before...
...And while his fellows are absorbed in themtruly important ends which Catholic scholarship is try- selves, he goes forward into the shadows and dising to achieve...
...cleaners...
...They who are rising to maturity need to see, in a firm and were not interested in merely doing something...
...He does not know what can be listens to education as to no other voice...
...Gavan Duffy, Sidney North, The Man Everyone Knows...
...Take period courses in litera- ing more important to do in this world than to imture, for instance...
...But collegiate life...
...But he who diverse new ways of adjusting practice to modern knows the house beyond has absorbed too much of needs and circumstances...
...If genius be wedded to infinite pains, sloth discipline of personality...
...No human being who actually press students with the fact that Ruskin was anticiloves literature would dream of confining his reading pated, in his remarks upon painting, by a number of 198 THE COMMONWEAL June 30, 1926 neglected German essayists, the existence of distinctly were fervently enthusiastic about doing one thing...
...Catholic schools would be a colossal joke...
...And while the tried to lead them forward with him...
...The Rule of Saint Benedict, is a synonym for mediocrity...
...THE COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Literature, The Arts, and Public Affairs...
...One might even go on others under the auspices of a public occasion...
...In the first What has this been...
...the fostering of liturgy as a part of ence...
...possibly the emplary activity, it will be no less concerned with the other is complacent with the ruddy glow...
...What he had missed all along was anything This, certainly one of the most humanistic aspects like an illustration of the kind of creature he himself of the educational scheme, is a matter at which a form would become after the sheepskin had been safely of mental training like that sponsored by the Catholic tucked away...
...The third reasons that the fire must by those who have money to buy books and time...
...Church may look with proud confidence...
...The meetthe soul which have grown authoritatively out of life...
...The at once set apart by reason of its dependence, not introduction of English methods in the conduct of sec- upon a theological concept, but upon the Real Presondary schools...
...and and add that the instructor in charge proudly takes it once in a while he had been regaled with anecdotes for granted, as a rule, that his students will concede concerning an instructor's eccentricities...
...These ago that the pilgrim needed nothing so much as a are genuinely achievements because those who suc- guide...
...Let us lift it and bear it gladly, tion...
...sciences...
...they radiant light, those who have gone before...
...Now, obviously, the world today be made speedily...
...maturity, and who are aware of the improvements in The significance of the parable is obvious...
...discoveries of science and the creations of the arts...
...Possibly the easiest way to place, there is nothing to guarantee the superiority of reply is through that beautiful, sacred medium known religious education in imparting this information...
...Academia is now usually a place more important than having legs...
...But how did the eminent difficulty of mastering his subject and all these people live...
...It would be futile for an out- tremendous circle which it has spanned before the feet sider to measure these changes by his own norm of of Christ, something of vital joy would have gone out excellence, or to suggest that definite others ought to from its heart...
...Its inspirational where one does all those things which will not have idea is a utilitarian, vitalistic idea...
...Louis Memorial Year The Play R. Dana Skinner 216 Gilbert J. Garraghan 205 A Communication 217 The Church and the World, II Books Mary Kolars, John A. O'Brien, Gonzague de Reynold 208 Bertram C. A. Windle, Ernest Sutherland Blowing Sand (verse) Power Dalton 210 Bates, Thomas Walsh 219 Jake's Guests Mary Fagin 211 The Quiet Corner 226 ANCHORS AND THE MIND A RECENT graduate from one of our best col- and meditation to the writers who appear between, leges said, not long ago, that the most impres- say, the first and the third quarters of the eighteenth sive thing about his education had been his complete century...
...If there were nothto be done later on...
...In the natural course of years in a liberal college without studying any other events he had heard many people talk and make as- literature and without meeting a man who is capable signments...
...Religious teachers thought like Neo-Platonism, Scholasticism, and Neo- and those associated with them can hardly fail in the Scholasticism...
...the Exercises of Saint Ignatius, and the sublime codex Nevertheless, the materials of education are secondof the liturgy are constitutions for the government of ary to the efficacy of instructive example...
...It was said long a form innately inseparable from Christendom...
...In so far as he was concerned, The daily page of Caesar becomes a memory, and the the numerous deans and dons were so many mouth- two years of amateurish French are triumphantly forpieces, relatively individual, for separate arts and gotten...
...Another opens a book and beabout Ruskin and his forerunners will be accumulated gins to read...
...There is a done, for the simple reason that he is unacquainted great desire for appropriate orientation toward the with what is being done...
...covers his host...
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