Georgetown University
Classics Department 
"What drew the Jesuits to the classics may well have been their seductive blend of politics and beauty. Apart from their completeness and their intrinsic beauty, they provide a distancing from the useful and non-contemplative learning which schools like Georgetown regard as distracting. The classics also teach to the young a lesson that is otherwise rarely acquired, the sure and certain knowledge that great civilizations, however rich in beauty and power, can perish from the earth."

-Timothy S. Healy, S.J.
President, Georgetown University (1976-1989)