Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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ROY OLA COLLEGE REVIEW A Ship at Sea LOVE to watch a grand old ship Go sailing down the bay, Swept by the winds as she carves her path Athwart the flashing spray. Out where the sea-gulls dip and wheel Her sail gleams from afar, Like to the ray in a sky of blue Of пау ту morning star. With yearning eyes I scan its course - Till it is seen no more, | Then I am left amid wistful dreams Silent upon the shore. And while the sea-winds whisper low, While waves beat o'er the strand, I feel within me a longing throb That would my fate command. W bene er I see a grand old ship Set proudly out to sea, It carries far with its cargo then The very soul of me. SS J. Cummins, '28.

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d LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW —+ — A few short years for many of us, a day or two for s ome of us, and we shall no longer be able to call ourselves students of Loyola. The scenes on our stage of life will shift, and we, its actors, shall find ourselves undertaking a new róle in the drama of existence. The question now arises, what is to be our attitude after this change of affairs? How then shall we regard Loyola, now an actual factor in our lives, soon to be only a memory, albeit a fond one? Ta For the present, the College is the focus of all our activities. Here we live, sleep, study, play, so much so that we and not the Faculty, nor the friends of the institution, nor the buildings and grounds, but we, the students, are the necessary elements of the College. True, the Faculty teaches, the friends provide, the build- ings shelter, but what is the purpose of all this enterprise if it be not the education of the student body. When prominence comes to Loyola in academic and intellectual circles it is through the students and the way in which they respond to their training. When Loyola triumphs on the gridiron, the track or in the arena, again it is through the efforts of the students. Loyola, then, is something very real in our lives, and it is so principally because we are the greatest factor in the life of Loyola. Thus it follows that, although we may sever academic and formal connection with the College by graduation or de- parture, yet we cannot dissociate ourselves entirely from it unless we are to undergo an almost radical change. Loyola Now and Afterwards. No! We are as the waters of Niagara, the falls of which always exist in the same place, far-famed and unmatched in splendor and magnificence, and yet are formed by the everchanging stream of water, here for a moment, then passing on- watd, to flow in many channels and between many shores, for the enrichment and benefit of the world through which it passes. But here the analogy ceascs, for Niagara's restless waters do not return to that majestic cataract, nor do they bear any imprint or distinguishing mark as a result of that glorious display for which they were the prime requisite. The students of the College, however, do bear a special stamp and characteris- tic, impressed upon them when they passed through Loyola, and formed an essential part of the College, while preparing to go forth into the world. Therefore, the answer to the question as to what our attitude towards the College is to be when we have left its immediate sphere is transparently clear. We, who were once an integral part of Loyola, cannot dissociate ourselves completely from it. The leopard would more easily change its spots. Long and intimate contact with Loyola will forbid a complete break. Gratitude for the innumerable benefits we received will demand some sort of return. A legiti- mate pride in the institution and our connection with it will cause us to spread its fair name to the four corners of the earth. And, over all, Memory will spread its sanctifying, ennobling mantle, and old Loyola, glorious as ever, shall continue to reign supreme in our hearts! 13

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EQ. Y ОБА COLLEGE REVIEW HE peninsula of Yucatán, КА once the seat of a mighty М empire, projects into the BY blue waters of the Gulf 994 of Mexico, under the warm rays of the tropi- y) calsun, alasting memori- | al to the culture of the Maya race. Its aboriginal inhabitants have disappeared, its splendour is hidden under a dense and variegated veget- ation, its past is clad in mystery, but the piercing eye and adven- turous heart of the explorer and the untiring efforts of the scholar and hilologist have unravelled its secrets, y opening to the world the treasures of the proudest, most interesting and probably the most ancient race in America, and by deciphering the Calculi- form hieroglyphics which reveal to us all the splendour of its romantic civili- zation. Our purpose is not to show the analogies between the Maya and Egyp- tian or Oriental ruins, neither do we intend to make a deep and scientific investigation into their hieroglyphic script. The sole aim of this article is to give a broad view of Maya culture, as revealed to us from the five sources of information known to the modern archæologist: The architectural re- mains, including temples, palaces and stelæ—the literary evidence exhibited on these monuments—three native man- uscripts: the Codex Dresdensis, which is the earliest one; the Codex Peresianus kept in Paris, and the Codices Troano and Cortesianus, subsequently proved to be parts of the same manuscript which are to be found in Spain. All of these were written in pre-Conquest 57 Maya Civilization times. The third is the Codex Dresden- sis, which exhibits the closest relation to the most antique hieroglyphics. Our next chief source of information com- prises the native traditional records reduced to writing in post-Conquest times, including the books of Chilan- Balan, of Popul Vuh, and of Kachikel; and last, but not least in importance, the accounts of the early Spaniards. Landa, first Bishop of Yucatán, wrote his ' 'Relación'' іп 1566,—this work was discovered only in 1863. It deals with the Mayas as he knew them and with the calendrical system used at the time of the Conquest. The first attempt in deciphering the script exhibited on the walls of the monuments consisted in an application of the calendrical system as presented by Landa, to the hiero- glyphic writing as exhibited on the ruins. Our brief summary of the history, of the institutions, habits and learning, and of the colossal architectural remains of the Mayas, is based on these five sources. What is known about the Maya of to- day? To-day there are about two thou- sand Mayas scattered overa territory of sixty thousand square miles, including the Mexican provinces of Yucatan, Chiapas, Campeche and Tabasco, as well asBelize, Guatamala and Honduras, where monuments may also be found. In the provinces of Vera-Cruz among the Totonacs, and among the Haustexs in the Pánuca Valley, Maya is also spoken, but there is no evidence of any archi- tectural effort. These people, two- thirds of whom are of pure Maya stock, speak twenty different dialects. Some are hunters or trappers, but the majority 15%