Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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TM | O ow 1917 MONTREAL, CANADA No. =] L W Address all communications to LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW, Sherbrooke St. W. Terms: One Dollar the Copy. EDITORIAL What, it may be asked, is the practical utility of such a Review as this ? What important purpose does it serve? In these progressive times of ours, when the cry of efficiency resounds on every side, it is but natural that some echoes of that cry should be wafted to our editorial sanctum, suggesting the queries that have just been proposed. The desire to give satisfaction to our inquisitive friends is our excuse for imitating the great Roman orator and figuring for the moment in the rôle of '' Cicero pro domo sua. That Loyola is no mere private educational concern, but a great public institution, pursuing its course on broad principles under the public eye, intimately associated in many ways with public interest and endeavor, and aiming in all things at the common weal, is what no one familiar with its true character will think of contesting. It strives—and not without a fair measure of success—to make its influence felt for good in every sphere of human activity—at the bar, on the platform, in the sanctuary, in our national assemblies, in the centres of commercial enterprise, and, as the pages of our current numbers can well testify, on the battle-field itself. Such a link calls for recognition; some suitable means of communication should unite the College with its hosts of friends and patrons, : and most especially, be it said, with those who have spent some years within its walls and still hail it as their Alma Mater. For them, as loyal and devoted sons, a faithful record of its fates and fortunes must ever appeal to their deepest sympathies. That such a Review is also a powerful stimulus to mental activity on the part of our youthful scribes is beyond all doubt and cavil. They are taught to note with keen eye the various events of interest that take place within the College bounds, and exercise their wit and wisdom in making suitable comments upon them, training themselves thereby for similar manoeuvres on a vaster field later on. For an institution such as Loyola may well be considered as a little world in itself, where the friction of minds, the clash of interests, the striving of ambition, the strenuous life begotten of emulation and rivalry are no less noticeable and no less acute than in the broad world rolling outside. It would indeed be a great fallacy to suppose that all the educational work of the

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2 LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW College is done in the class-room, for the theoretical knowledge there imparted must be supplemented by the practical training given in all other departments and notably on the play-ground, if the student is to qualify for the great battle of life that awaits him. In all this, a faithful record, open to the eyes of the public, of current College events from class examinations and wit contests in debate down to athletic contests on our spacious campus cannot but be a decided advantage. Nor let it be supposed that the range of subjects is limited simply to what might be styled contemporaneous history within College walls, for a casual inspection will show quite the reverse. History, poetry, philosophy, natural science, social problems and other similar topics help to make up quite an extensive menu in this intellectual treat we offer to our kind and sympathetic readers. Nor can it be doubted that in the process Shakespeare's dictum is fully verified, 'It blesses him that gives and him that takes. While the reader is blessed by enjoying the fresh and original conceptions of the youthful brain, the author himself is doubly blessed by developing through wholesome exercise whatever natural gifts he may possess. The proud consciousness that the wheels of the printing-press are eager to start and consign to the glowing page in choicest type the treasured products of his fertile brain, ‘‘the thoughts that breathe and words that burn, cannot but warm his fancy and give speed to his pen. Perchance, as has often happened, while calling forth for a supreme effort his best native resources, he may discover some latent talent of which he had no suspicion and a budding genius makes his appearance in the world of letters. As a great English poet wrote of himself, 'While yet a child and all unknown to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.” For in full justice to youthful effort it must not be supposed that the Muses are exclusive in their deeds of benevolence and reserve all their inspirations to bearded chins and hoary locks, passing by with disdain the youthful knights of the ball and the bat, or even the still more diminutive tribe with the unmen- tionable garment cut short at the knee. And thus it may come to pass as some enthusiastic patron of youth, or, better still, some affectionate mother scans the glowing lines, it may be given to her enraptured vision to behold another Daniel Webster or another Longfellow or another Washington Irving, or, better still, all three rolled into one, rise upon the horizon. These are but a few of many reasons, which, be it said with all due modesty, should give to the Loyola College Review its raison d'étre in the eyes of its readers. M T T Looking back over the scholastic year that is now drawing.to a close, we find it has been а memorable one in the history of Loyola, as it marked our entrance into the splendid new College buildings. After the boys left, in June last, for the summer vacation, the days of the old Collegeon Drummond Street were few. Almost immediately, the moving vans put in their appearance, and, in a short while, nothing remained in the old building but the ghosts of the past. It may interest the older generations to learn that 68 Drummond Street is P ————————— —