For four and a half centuries, the Jesuits have aspired to educational and intellectual excellence as the best path to meaningful lives of leadership and service. That sentiment is echoed by Loyola School students, alumni and parents. They know first-hand that a Jesuit education has been and always will be about using the best in education to develop the whole person. Whether it’s Loyola School or Georgetown University, a Jesuit education embraces the Ignatian philosophy of cura personalis (care for the whole person), free inquiry, the highest of intellectual standards, service to others and a life of purpose.

JESUIT SCHOLARSHIP IN A POSTMODERN AGE
A Boston College-sponsored site for material related to a conversation among Jesuits on the practice of scholarship in contemporary contexts.

BUSINESSWEEK (MARCH 2007)
Star litigator Theodore V. Wells Jr. '72, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas '71, and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Edward P. Jones '72 were among the young African Americans who arrived at College of the Holy Cross at a time when racial issues were tense on campus and across the country. This article probes how their time at Holy Cross shaped who they are today.

(Notable) Men and Women for Others
The Jesuit commitment to intellectual and academic excellence, as well as an emphasis on the life of the mind, has produced countless leaders in all fields-- ambassadors; heads of state; U.S. Senators and Representatives; noted philosophers and theologians; college presidents and educational leaders and many others. Those listed below graduated either from a Jesuit high school or university:
Robert Altman, film director
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author
Bill Clinton, former U.S. president
Don DeLillo, novelist
René Descartes, philosopher
Patrick Ewing, pro basketball player
Michel Foucault, philosopher
Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel prize-winning author
Robert Gates, U.S. Secretary of Defense
John Paul Getty, philanthropist
Mary Higgins Clark
Alfred Hitchcock, film director
Geraldine Ferraro, first woman Vice Presidential candidate
Pope John Paul I
Raul Julia, actor
John Kerry, U.S. Senator and 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate
Nathan Lane, actor
Wellington Mara, former New York Giants owner
Freddie Mercury, musician
Condé Montrose Nast, founder of Condé Nast Publications
Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, politician
Bill Murray, actor
Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live cast member and comedienne
Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court Justice
Maria Shriver, journalist and First Lady of California
Voltaire, philosopher
Denzel Washington, actor

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