Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW C == 1—4 alone and reflective, man grasps how utterly alone he must be, he really 15. How well, then, to be alone with Christ! And a chapel built from the estate of one who left all to follow Him is indeed a doubly sacred and doubly inspiring shrine. ки 4 The thirty-seventh convocation was held at Victoria Hall on the second of June. The salutatory was given by Jacques Kemner Laflamme; the valedictory by William Edward Daly; the address to the graduates by John D. Kearney, K.C., a former class-mate at Loyola of Father Bartley, C.SS.R., who had preached the Baccalaureate sermon at the solemn high mass that morning. We give the following extracts from the Reverend Rector's report. “Хус аге зарру to announce that the Board of Regents of the Education Depart- ment of New York State has formally accepted the Loyola B.A. degree for admission to all ide schools of Medicine and Law in the State of New York.” I desire to express here and now in a public manner my own deep gratitude and that of the whole College Community to those who under God have enabled us to realize the dream of many years (the College Chapel): to Father Francis Smith, 5.)., to whose generosity we owe the chapel; to Mr. T. C. Gorman, who contributed $1000.00 towards furnishing the same; to the Altar Society of St. Ignatius Parish, who gave $1275.00 for new vestments; to the Business Women's Sacred Heart Asso- ciation, who contributed $1000.00 for the main altar, tester, tabernacle and crucifix as a memorial to the late Father Raymond Cloran, S.J., their founder and first chaplain; to Mrs. E. A. Collins of Copper Cliff, Ont., who gave the pulpit and the statue of the Sacred Heart; to Miss Mary Murphy and Miss Margaret Cascy, who gave the chancel window; to Mrs. Leo McKenna, who gave the sanctuary lamp; to Mrs. Noah Timmins, Mrs. L. G. Gagnon, Mrs. Chabot, Miss T. Connolly, Miss Alice Sharpe, Mrs. Domville, and Mr. Augustine Downes who donated various accessories of divine service. We thank them опе and all and shall daily pray God to bless and prosper them in all their works.”’ The Loyola Alumni Association has been exceptionally active this year, due in large measure to the energy and whole-hearted devotedness of the retiring President, Mr. John King, '16. We congratulate Dr. Brannen on his unanimous election as President of the Association and found great hopes on the splendid executive with which he is surrounded.”’ Within a few days Loyola will see four of her graduates raised to the Holy Priesthood for the Archdiocese of Montreal. This will raise the number of Loyola men among the English-speaking priests of the city to the number of nineteen. То these young levites: Gerald Britt, Edgar Feeley, George Foley and Michael Healy, Loyola offers her maternal congratulations and heart-felt wishes ad multos annos.” “Хус are happy to say that ou r graduates at the universities continue to give a good account of themselves. To mention only the most outstanding: at McGill, Timothy Slattery, '31, this year received the Alexander Morris Exhibition for high- est standing in Second Year Law and the Lieutenant-Governor's Silver Medal for Roman Law. He also took first honours in Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Law and Municipal Law. In first year in the same faculty Brendan O'Connor, 32, took first honours in Civil Law and second honours in all other subjects; Henry Hemens, 32, first honours in Criminal Law and Procedure and second hon- ours in other subjects. In chemistry, Raymond Boyer received the degree of Ph.D.” The Sodality of Our Lady,—an organization centuries old in all Jesuit colleges —has been unusually flourishing and active this year in spiritual stimulation, missionary effort and social work. I wisk to take this opportunity of heartily thank- ing the Sodalists for their gift of our Lady's statue for the new chapel. ' а Convocation

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW —————————— MÀ À——— ТР it is the concretion of a living tradition, something at once old and new. The frank utilization of materials that belong distinctively to the machine age and the subordination of all parts to their need, make the chapel a child of the time, as does the fusion of styles to take advantage of modern structural simplifications. Yet how strikingly does this square with the Periclean epigram, “Ме love beauty without expense. Gables that might rise above the canals of Ghent, round windows that might belong to a Gothic cathedral, a nave that suggests the romanesque, an altar to recall Byzantium and Rome—these blend not only in the skilful design of the architect but also in the spirit. For we are at one with the culture of the West and we deprive ourselves of none of its manifestations in three thousand years. We bring what we have of the Athenian’s keen perception of measure, of the Roman’s love of order, of the mediaeval passion for logic, of Renaissance enthusiasm for man, of the scientist’s control of nature, and watch them cast off what they have of extravagance and crystallize into unity under the synthetic influence of the universal religion that comes from ancient Palestine and encircles the world. Yet ancient as is the lineage and cecumenical the sources of the culture that is integrated in the chapel, it remains that we have no mere monument of times gone by. “Уошг creeds are dead’’ they say; but if so, what is alive? We hold no brief for sixteenth century heretics, commended neither by valid thought nor winning characters; nor did we ever expect the naive Bible religion then foisted upon the populace with many a tirade against carnal knowledge to survive the inroads of sophists, or even the advance of science. But there is singularly lacking any evidence of life, of a power to unify and coordinate, in international leagues, in parliamentary government, in experts, in competition, in merchant prices, in nationalistic catch-phrases, in technocracy—that brilliant product of practical education—or in Soviet Russia, the logical goal of dogmatic liberalism. On the other hand there is patent an exuberance of vitality in the papal encyclicals that stand four-square eat eternally central тн the shifting dus of opinion; there is magnificence and inspiration in a faith that possesses the loyalty of millions of hearts in every land without distinction of race or rank or attainment; there is rennial endurance in a philosophy too profound to be swept away by the dazzlin а of new ideas in complacent minds, too accurate and rigorous to be Mitre by contemporary Pilates who ask ‘һаг is truth? and do not stay for an answer, too realistic ever to be ignorant of what it is about or whither leads the intellectual mistiness of self-appointed oracles. But it is not merely in historical associations nor in the impalpable realm of ideas that is to be found what constitutes the actuality of the chapel. The problem of education is not a problem of machinery, of devising curricula and securing professors, of buying libraries and getting the books read. That is all possible enough. But if the modern mi nd does not know what education should effect or how it should be effected—as it openly confesses it does not—we have no ground for surprise: such nebulosity marks its utterances on all questions that cannot, and not a few that can, be solved by the arts of exact measurement. But the real problem of education is the problem faced by the teacher who displays the heritage of civilisation with what skill he masters, who watches and waits with conscious helplessness for the fecundation and blossoming and growth of that seed that can easily be sterile and easily be monstruous but not easily be fine and delicate, stout and sound. The mystery of individuality confronts him and faced with it he can only quote: “Раш plants, Apollo waters, but God grants the increase. The course of life is enlightened and largely guided by its highest moments—moments when, {2+

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW The Seniors Bovnozors, Jacques de Lorimier СА physician is а man who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which be knows MD Voltaire. Jacques came to Loyola two years ago. His perpetual smile and contagious good humour soon won the hearts of us all. Jimmie possesses that rare quality, versatility, and his excellence as a brilliant student, a wary hockey-player and a splendid skier marks but a few of his successes in the intellectual and athletic spheres. While gossip has it that Jimmie wields a formidable golf club, he is a recognized authority on lamps in series and in ae and on the proper care and handling of thermo- meters. Close contact with Jimmie in the Biology Laboratory gave positive evid- ence of his adeptness with the scalpel— a proof that blood wil l tell, and that his choice of the medical profession is a wise one. It would be quite safe for us to predict a high place for Jimmie among the great surgeons of the future. Activities: Scientific Society; Intramural Hockey 1932-33; Loyola College Literary and Debat- ing Society 1931-33; Loyola C.O.T.C., Section Commander 1932-33. Воснев, Clemens Joseph “Тре less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it . Bacon. During Clem's six years at Loyola he has amply proved that in the North Country the men are big, wise and genial. Football coaches have scouts seeking players of his calibre, and for four seasons Clem has been a triple threat man if ever there was one. The class of '33 owe in afgreat part their championships in the Intramural Hockey League to Clem’s scoring ability. 14}