Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW —— 4—— of correcting exercise books and so forth, they nevertheless, despite their difficulties, have gained a precious boon. President Hoover of the United States in an address delivered shortly before his inauguration stated that the art of handling men can be obtained only through actual experience. In giving students this opportunity for preparation for future positions of trust a great step forward has been taken in our educational facilities—one that should be productive of great results. Nothing that exists in the world to-day can continue living unless it is supplied with the necessary food upon which to support itself. The child requires food in the same manner as does the inhabitant of the forest and even material beings such as this ‘‘Revizw’’ need something to enable them to continue in existence at least and to grow. This sustenance is su plied us every year by those most generous of people—Our Adverti sers. They supply us with the money by which we are enabled to carry on and in return they ask but one thing, and that they have certainly purchased by their donation—your patronage. We appeal, in concluding these pages of editorial messages, to every student and friend of Loyola to support Our Advertisers. Spend your money, whenever possible, in those channels which will be of benefit to your College and yourself, and you will make for the greater glory of Loyola and the more ud progress of the Review. Our Advertisers To a Sanctuary Lamp T eve, the Angelus has rung, From bell in lofty steeple bung, And in the darkened church, the tryst, You keep before the throne of Christ. And through the long still hours of night You hold before his door a light; As flickering shadows cast by thee Keep my sweet Saviour company. No beacon с er on ocean shore Bespoke а haven, safer more, Nor ever light in palace shown That lit a grander, greater throne. Unending constant, light, blood-red As that our dying Saviour shed! Would that my love for Him may be Like you aflame unceasingly. Eanr Е. ANABLE, 32. {4}

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW joa Iml The age old question whether science and religion conflict and, if so, how, has again been brought into prominence by the indefatigable reporters of the daily press, жағаны О seldom let a week elapse without publishing some startling utterance ы ОЮ оп the subject. From the general tone of these '“$гагетепїз”” it appears ES that the policy followed in these matters is that a theory becomes news only when thoroughly discredited. An example of this type was furnished last December when Professor Barnes astonished the majority of civilized human beings by announcing that we need a new concept of the Supreme Being. The reason for this, as far as can be gathered, was the fact that the established idea of the Omni- potent One failed to harmonize with Professor Barnes' development of a branch of the evolution theory. By a simple process of assigning the task of forming a new concept to a leading divine and asserting the dominance of his unproved theory over established truth he gained headlines in every journal in America. It seems rather incredible that such a divergence should occur between the leaders of a search for knowledge (which is essentially truth) and the upholders of truth on earth. The only possible explanation is that, being unwilling to accept the logical deductions of posee and the revealed truths of religion, they are striv- ing to find a material explanation of the universe, a search that so far has proved impossible, and since it is fundamentally misdirected must ever remain so. Defend- ing the true concept of the universe and its inhabitants stands the Catholic Church, the protector of fundamental truth on earth. Strange as the fact may appear in face of the assertions of Professor Barnes and others as to the nature of Catholicity and its stand on scientific matters, the Church has always supported true knowledge and her sons have been among the greatest scientific leaders. Cardinal Hayes, 1n showing the absurdity of Professor Barnes' statement, not only demonstrated logically that no discovery has ever in itself been opposed to religion but also brought out the fact that among the adherents to the present concept of the Almighty were such men as Newton, Bacon, Mendel and Pas- teur. Their falas аа и have proved useful because they have not attempted to leave the path of conformity with truth for the uncertain fields of conjecture. It is impossible for progress to take place unless each step is firmly established. The theories that attempt, on the basis of fragmentary evidence, to attack the established truths of religion, are detrimental to scientific advance and must, in the eyes of thinking men, be regarded as distinct from it. и y Ап innovation at Loyola this year which has proved strikingly successful was the introduction of student teaching. This branch of educational effort, which is Südant carried out оп а large scale by Georgetown and some of the other American Teach Universities with High School facilities, was brought to Loyola this year caching (through the efforts of our revered Dean of Studies who assigned three Seniors to High School classes. Their duties followed the same general lines as those of the regular class professor, and the necessity of inculcating knowledge and enforc- ing discipline at one and the same time produced a very effective training in executive ability which should be strongly felt in after-life. Edwin Murphy, Eugene Savard and Quinn Shaughnessy were the three students who put themselves to a great deal of inconvenience in order to obtain this extra course. Making up lectures missed during spare time and undertaking all the burdens oe ОА,

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW Canon Sheehan of Doneraile ӨЗІНЕ most literary of Irish Й priests since the ‘Prout | papers” was what they ) were calling him back in | 1902, when all America ЖА was clamouring for inti- { mate gossip concerning the author of two such unprecedented triumphs as Му New Curate’ and “Іле Delmege. And twenty-five years ago this was con- sidered strong praise; nor is it strange that to us of to-day it should seem somewhat tame. Perspective, they say, gives all things their true value. We al- ways think of Fr. Prout as a nd of literary enfant terrible, much indulged in his pranks, but never caught doing any- thing very momentous. Yet his laugh- ter still rings down the corridors of time; for that we love him and forbear the thrust. Sheehan is Sheehan and Prout is Prout. May it ever be thus. I learnt only the other day that an- other Sheehan novel ' Trystram Lloyd’ by name, completed by a friendly pen, has been productive of some interest since its publication last year. Ad- ditions, however belated, are always welcome. Still it is generally agreed that the work upon which the Canon’s fame will ultimately rest was done prior to 1902, unless we except, of course, his ' Blindness of Dr. Gray’’ of 1908, marking as it did a last return to the type of novel which won him his unique reputation. “Тре Triumph of Failure’’ of 1898 was the author’s favourite work, surpassing the others in finish and erudition. A little too weighty for the popular taste, it belongs to the student's bookshelf, while those two clerical triumphs al- ready mentioned have placed their au- thor on the pinnacle of Catholic literary fame, ranking with such classics as Newman's ' Apologia, ' Gibbons’ '' Faith of Our Fathers,’ and Wiseman's “Ей- biola’’ among the twenty leading Cath- olic books of the century. It remained for an American ecclesi- astic to give us the long awaited Bio- graphy of the Canon in 1918, five yeats after the author's death; and no one was more qualified for the task than Fr. Heuser himself, who is justly known as the Canon's ‘‘discoverer’’ as well as his lifelong friend and intimate. Fr. Heuser has given us a careful and accurate study of a remarkable man, little known save through the medium of his works. A piece of literature in itself, the book was an appreciable supplement to Sheehani- ana. Guided by the same, we have attemp- ted a brief chronology of the Canon's life, a somewhat difficult task when much that is by no means superficial must be omitted. The novels themselves are strewn with autobiographical touch- es; characters so varied and true to life, experiences so vivid as rained from his pen, cannot be fictions. The man be- came an adept at covering up trails so that the most suspicious could never take direct offence. And the whole is so heartily mixed with melodrama that we surrender unconditionally. The drug fiend, the Magdalen, the dypsomaniac, Circe,—they strut across his pages in all their colours and trappings, with virtue invariably triumphant when the curtain descends. In the year 1852, was born in the town of Mallow, Diocese of Cloyne, Ireland, Patrick Aloysius Sheehan of future celebrity. Genealogy and early experi- ences we must omit. He was orphaned at an early age, and with two sisters and a brother passed to the care of their 45F