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JUNE 23, 1956.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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Facts About
Belmont Abbey College
Belmont Abbey College is a
Catholic institution conducted by
the Benedictine Monks and ded-
dicated to the work of preparing
youth for the business of living
life to its fullness. Life is given
to man by God that it should
be used fully and completely and
effectively in the attainment of
man’s ultimate and eternal hap
piness. This end, the last in at
tainment, is the first in intention,
and as such, it colors and directs
the whole of living. Life, to be
full must be lived from a su
pernatural motive. An educative
process that prepares for living
must be motivated and permeat
ed with this principle. The train
ing of the body, the informing
of the mind, the strengthening
of the will, the developing of
habits and skills and attitudes,
all these must be for God and in
accord with God’s Will.
In its effort to attain this end,
Belmont Abbey College seeks as
immediate objectives for its stu
dents:
1. The habit of stud5' and re
flection in the search for knowl
edge and Truth.
2. The mastery of the curricu-
la-content leading to general
culture as well as to vocational
fitness for continued study or
for industry and business.
3. The appreciation of the good,
the true and the beautiful in
nature and art.
4. The development and ap
plication of virtuous living.
5. The love and appreciation
of physical well-being, and the
formation of habits of corporal
and mental cleanliness, neatness
and orderliness.
6. The love of cooperative com
petition and fair play.
7. The practice of tolerant
gentlemanliness.
8. The courageous pursuit of
American Democracy.
9. The persistent following of
a conscience made right and ver-
tuous by sound philosophy.
The college opens its courses
to all worthy youth regardless of
religious affiliations. There ft no
subject in the curricula that is
ever approached from the view
point of indefferentism, yet, no
effort is made to undermine re
ligious convections. God’s gen
tleman is the ideal of the Abbey.
“We must educate man first for
what he is and then for what he
is to do. We must educate him
for his ultimate end and then
the proper use of the means to
this end, i, e, full living.”
THE ABBEY CREED
To do this effectively, Bel
mont Abbey College, its faculty
and .student body, subscribe to
the following practical and fun
damental principles:
1. We believe in God.
2. We believe in the dignity
and sanctity of the human per
sonality.
3. We believe that man pos
sesses certain rights that are in
alienable because they come
from God and not from the State.
4. We believe that liberty is a
sacred right, and that law which
regulates liberty, is a sacred ob
ligation.
5. We believe in inculcating all
the essential liberties of Amer
ican Democracy and take open
and frank issue with all brands
of false “democracy.”
6. We therefore are opposed to
all forms of dictatorships which
holds that the “total man” be
longs to % the State.
7. We believe in the sanctity
of the home-the basic unit of
Society.
8. We believe in the natural
right of private property, but
likewise that private property
has its social obligations.
9. We believe that Labor has
certain rights but also definite
obligations.
10. We believe that Capital
(owners and managers) has not
only rights but also obligations.
11. We are vigorously opposed
to all forms of racism-persecu
tions or intolerance because of
race, color, creed or nationality.
12. In fine, we believe in
Jesus Christ, who taught that
morality must regulate the per-'
sonal, family, economic political
and international life of all civi
lization.
^ ULTRASONIC
Dr. Karl Herzfeld, head of the physics department, Catholic
University, and student Theodore Whyte confer on ultrasonic
measurements in liquids. (NC Features)