there are some suggestions about how you might do this at BC today.
     On the left-hand pages you will find a variety of readings: quotations from writers from different religious traditions, extracts from significant Jesuit documents, bits of BC history, classic Christian prayers as well as prayers from other religions, and short biographies of exemplary men and women.
You can use this book in several ways. You can just browse on the left-hand pages for inspiration. If you want to find out something about Jesuits and Jesuit education or about BC history, you can go directly to those sections. Or you might skip these sections for now and come back to them when you want answers to specific questions. If you would like to get the whole story in a continuous form, start with the first page and read right through to the last.
     The most important section in the book is the one that lays out the principles of Ignatian spirituality. Not only will it help you understand the set of ideas that inspired the founding of BC, it will also help you think about your own life and how you want to live it. Since this is a book to be used, not just read and tossed on the shelf, if you come back to any section of this book as you go through your years at BC most likely it will be to this one.
     Finally, as you probably now realize, the primary audience for this book is first-year undergraduates.

Graduate students, faculty and administrative staff who have recently come to work here, alumni, and parents of students may also find it useful, but they will have to translate some of the details into language that is appropriate for them. The reader we are addressing is a first-year student who has arrived here knowing not much more about BC than what could be read in the admission bulletin or heard on the campus tour. This young man or woman, we hope, will be curious enough about the university they are now part of to want to explore its tradition and its soul.

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