“On October 6, 1990, the Reverend Albert J. DiUlio, S.J., was inaugurated as the twenty-first president of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ. In his inaugural address, Father DiUlio called upon the assembled University community to continue to expand its dedication to the three fundamental Ignatian principles upon which Marquette was rounded: discovery, faith, and service.
It is particularly noteworthy that Father DiUlio’s inauguration and the Inaugural Lecture Series took place during the 1990-1991 academic year, for that year was also a worldwide Ignatian Year, commemorating and celebrating the five-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ignatius Loyola and the four-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of his founding of the Society of Jesus. In this context, these lectures take on a larger purview than that of a simple institutional Festschrift. They become a part of the legacy of Ignatius’s transforming vision and the most recent contributions to a centuries-old Jesuit ministry in education.” — From the Foreword by Francis M. Lazarus