Entries tagged with ‘axel steuer’

Words of Wisdom

“We have the newest roofs, trees, carpets, and playing fields of any college in the country. We just wish the refurbishing could have been done in a less dramatic form.” Gustavus President Axel Steuer, welcoming students back during chapel service for the 1998-99 school year after the devastating  March 29, 1998 tornado

Words of Wisdom

“Gustavus, by almost any measure, strikes this observer as an outstanding college. Nearly everything about it bespeaks of a commitment to excellence.” Axel Steuer as quoted in the Gustavian Weekly, September 13,1991

Words of Wisdom

“We need not fear that diversity will somehow dilute our sense of community…While similarity of purpose, mission, and of vision, as well as of basic values, are integral to community rightly so called, diversity in all forms of nature and artifice is something to be desired, something to be sought, something to be celebrated.” Former […]