The school motto is "Per Vias Rectas" – "By Straight Paths" – and the college aspires to produce "Men for Others". Students often write "AMDG" for "Ad maiorem Dei gloriam", "For the greater glory of God", the motto of the Society of Jesus, on the top left of pages of their copybooks. They formerly also wrote "LDSetBVM" or "Laus Deo Semper et Beatae Virgini Mariae" ("Praise to God forever and to the Blessed Virgin Mary") on the bottom right of the same page.