Word: gloriam
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...devoted thinking men, in a crisis situation. They will often clash head-on because of a common devotion." Arrupe presides over a sometimes chaotic variety of individuals, whose special Jesuit intensity, a quality of the breed, often gives them individualistic interpretations of the society's slogan, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam (To the greater glory of God). Some examples...
Some of the greatest individuals the world has known dedicated their works ad majorem Dei gloriam. But it was really for the greater glory of man that they recreated the heavens and the earth in their paintings, molded the fiercest and the softest forms as if marble had become wax, and folded the world into their ledgers. For, as Will Durant said of the Renaissance, "first of all it took money, smelly bourgeois money...
Honorable mention was given to Frederic M. Kimball '55 for his story entitled "Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam," published in the Advocate...
...local magazine should have been enough to show the editors of the Advocate that only one good piece by one good writer is not enough to constitute a respectable issue. Such a glance evidently was not taken. For with the exception of its single solid offerings, Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, by F. M. Kimball, the present issue slips downgrade as the reader works his way toward the back, reaching its literary nadir in an excerpt from a novel in progress entitled The Sons of Darkness...
...resident staff, to be enriched next year by writer Thornton Wilder and several assistant professors, mixes enthusiastically with Dunster's 345 residents ad maiorem gloriam dinner table education. The House leads all others in the number of staff tutors with 11--enough for one in every entry...