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Dignidad, Poder, Resistencia // Dignity, Power, Resistance, Michael Munoz, Alanis Gonzalez, Tallie Spencer, Isabelle Marin, Lesly Juarez, Christopher Reynoso, Antonia Garcia, Abigail Goad, Athena Martinez, Ruth Gomez, Angel Vazquez, Jazmin Quezada, Jasmine Segovia, Jordyn Wedell, Yulisa Gonzalez, Laura Mena Hernandez, Keiri Fernandez

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

First To Go Abroad" is a partnership between the Loyola Marymount University First To Go Program, LMU Study Abroad, and the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), which seeks to increase study abroad opportunities for first-generation college students. In May 2017, fifteen first-gen students and two first-gen faculty mentors traveled together to Santiago, Dominican Republic, where they spent ten days exploring the country and learning about the local cultures, customs, and histories of the people who call the DR home.

Travel is a privilege not all students have the same access to; for some students, this trip was the first …

Aptitude Tests, Bob Dyer

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One of the ,devices most commonly used by universities to overawe incoming freshmen and to make them conscious of the tremendous amount of knowledge connected with the institution, is the college aptitude test. The test, presumably, is to serve as a key to the student's ability along various lines. How this purpose is served remains a mystery to the poor subject. The average college freshman cannot see how such a garbled mass of nothing can lead his instructors to a better understanding of his educational needs.

Broadening Your Education, Dean E. Wildman

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American minds have been coddled in school and college for at least a generation. There are two kinds of mental coddling. The first belongs to the public schools and is one of the defects of our educational system that we abuse privately and largely keep out of print. It is democratic coddling. I mean, of course, the failure to hold up standards, the willingness to let youth wobble upward, knowing little, and that inaccurately, passing nothing well, graduating with an education that hits and misses like an old typewriter with a torn ribbon. America is full of "sloppy" thinking, of …

Educating For Democracy, Fred W. Michel

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Education in a democracy must of necessity be of a type which will perpetuate that democracy. This being true, our problem automatically resolves itself into the discussion of three questions: What is education? What is democracy? What elements must be present in the ideal educational system which will further the democracy that nourishes it?

The Purple, April 1898

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Reading Biography
• Easter Morn
• On the High Seas
• In March
• One American Essayist-Miss Repplier
• The Maine
• The Castle of Rhinefel Isle
• Remorse
• Charlemagne and the Revival of Learning
• The Sailor's Hymn
• The Violet
• General Rosecrans
• A Protest
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Advertisements

Volume information appears on p. 267.

The Purple, January 1898

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• De Quincey on Literature
• Life in Death
• The Story Runneth Thus
• The Combat Between Hector and Achilles
• Tennyson's Biography
• The Voyage
• A Chemical Success
• Here in the Gloom
• Frederick Ozanam
• Memories
• "Bores, With Suggestions for Their Extermination."
• On Christmas Morn
• The Old Year and the New
• Catholic Papers and Magazines
• Educational Evils
• A Correction
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Editor's Table
• Advertisements
• Photograph of Holy Cross 1897 Football Team

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