1960 Yearbook
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Title
1960 Yearbook
Description
THE SEMINARY
In a loosely connected group of architectural relics called
Ambrose Hall the seminarians spend their philosophy days. Removed from
the main flow of campus life, they go about their rigid routines for
the most part unobserved. The lay student knows the seminarian
only as a curve breaker in a philosophy class or as somehow related to
the eerie tones of plain chant that issue from the music building
in the late afternoon.
But the "church department," like the building it bravely inhabits,
in principio erat. Seminarians no longer are a significant percentage of the
student body; physically, Saint Ambrose no longer centers on
the seminary. But the spiritual center of Saint Ambrose still is
and must be the seminary.
It is obvious that the seminarians represent the principles on which
the College is founded in their daily schedule of activities.
But, more subtly, their presence on campus as a closed group of scholars
living and working together under a discipline closely akin to the
classical gives Saint Ambrose an advantage remarkable
among modern liberal arts colleges.
In a day of scattered, commuting student bodies and of the part-time job
and the automobile, this stabilizing influence is invaluable.
In a loosely connected group of architectural relics called
Ambrose Hall the seminarians spend their philosophy days. Removed from
the main flow of campus life, they go about their rigid routines for
the most part unobserved. The lay student knows the seminarian
only as a curve breaker in a philosophy class or as somehow related to
the eerie tones of plain chant that issue from the music building
in the late afternoon.
But the "church department," like the building it bravely inhabits,
in principio erat. Seminarians no longer are a significant percentage of the
student body; physically, Saint Ambrose no longer centers on
the seminary. But the spiritual center of Saint Ambrose still is
and must be the seminary.
It is obvious that the seminarians represent the principles on which
the College is founded in their daily schedule of activities.
But, more subtly, their presence on campus as a closed group of scholars
living and working together under a discipline closely akin to the
classical gives Saint Ambrose an advantage remarkable
among modern liberal arts colleges.
In a day of scattered, commuting student bodies and of the part-time job
and the automobile, this stabilizing influence is invaluable.
Date
1960
Rights
St. Ambrose University, 518 W. Locust St., Davenport, IA 52803
Identifier
http://cdm16810.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16810coll2/id/2932