Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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адаб амс сада сан са сас сына сы бэлиг nsn IIE 1 Loyola College Review JRI DIC ору ореол‏ ام دی ہام26 Address all communications to LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW, SHERBROOKE STREET WEST, MONTREAL ALTER) Price: ONE DOLLAR AND Twenty-Five Cents THE Copy, paper bound АЙ subscriptions will be gratefully received 1934 MONTREAL, CANADA No. 20 EDITORIAL Following close upon the building of the College chapel came the construction of the auditorium, which was opened shortly after the return of the students last Autumn. For years past the need of a suitable academic hall had made itself increasingly evident, and at length the realization of what had been so long desired more than met the expectations of everyone. Elsewhere in this year's Review will be found a photograph which conveys a fairly accurate impression of this important acquisition. The new auditorium is situated beneath the chapel and is now complete, except for the entrance lobby. It consists of a large hall ninety feet long, fifty-six feet wide and twenty-four feet high and has a seating capacity for nearly nine hundred persons. It has a full-size theatre stage, comprising complete equipment for the production of the most elaborate plays. Needless to say it is entirely fire-resistant (the word “fireproof” being a misnomer), and all necessary precautions prescribed by the Provincial by-laws for the safety of the public have been ا ا‎ followed out. One of the major problems encountered in the building of auditoria is to obtain acoustic properties that will make hearing easy without going to the extreme of so deadening sound as to make it utterly inaudible. This effect has been obtained by the architect, Henri S. Labelle, by using a reasonably high sound-absorbing material on the ceiling and a low sound-absorbing material on the walls. These materials were employed to obtain decorative effects with a small proportion of highly- coloured plaster work for the proscenium arch to give the necessary relief to an otherwise simple design. When funds will be available the entrance lobby will be completed thus providing an additional hall, measuring fifty by fifty-six feet, which will help further to develop parochial activities. This material addition to the College equipment is not our sole source of satisfaction. As the past year has already shown, there has been a decided impetus to dramatic and oratorical endeavour, which, without a doubt, is but a faint presage of what may be looked for in the future. The New Auditorium тя At this date our statesmen seem to have talked the world very near to another major catastrophe. In Europe people are extremely uneasy and the merest bomb- : ‚ throwing and paper-tearing episode can light a blaze now that may A Senior Studies : : : Е : a not be so easily extinguished. This is an alarming result of all our the Situation NE Е : peace conferences, but it is not one which need surprise anybody who takes the trouble to read international history of the past fifteen years where it is plainly written. It is always a hard task to assign responsibilities for cvents still ТТ

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW Е ЕЕ ЕЕ ЕН ge ЕАН close at hand, but there is one fact which cannot be ignored, a fact which seems to be at the base of all the trouble. It is the failure of the Allies to keep certain pledges made to their adversaries at Versailles. There has been much parleying among naval nations about the reduction of fleets, but everyone has been willing to scrap someone else's type of warship and never his own. Since this has been the spirit shown not only as regards warships but as regards every other type of weapon, offensive and defensive, it is a plain fact that not the slightest progress can be shown to account for all the breath wasted and all the ink spilt. After a lapse of fifteen yeats the Allies can hardly expect from their erstwhile foes a peaceful and unques- tioning submission to a treaty of peace which is in many ways arbitrary and un- natural. It is a strange and brutal nationalism that has arisen in the new Germany, but one which is an almost inevitable result of the selfishness of those who have loudly called for ‘‘guarantees’’ and 'security'' and so on, of those who had rights that had to come first, no matter what, of those who, in the first place, demanded strategical frontiers, and who, having obtained them, proceeded to build fortifica- tions thereon, in anticipated self-defence. Nationalism and aggressiveness are both the cause and the result of what is going on in and out of Geneva. At the League of Nations the members attend, not to promote world understanding, but to obtain advantages for themselves over the other members. The result is that there can be no concerted action of any kind. A member of the League can invade the territory of another member, he can burn, bomb and massacre, he will in time receive a gentle, though wordy, rebuff, but he may retire from the League with nothing bruised except his official feelings, and losing nothing for being out since he gained nothing in the first place by being in. Can we wonder that countries like Japan are causing trouble when we understand the spirit that prevails in those countries? In Tokio recently, a minister of the Crown was ejected from office for having ten years ago sanctioned a rebellion which occurred in the fourteenth century. But we are not surprised at what happens in Japan where democracy and freedom of speech are not even words; nor need we look so far for ridiculous examples of tyranny and nationalism which, in international politics inevitably mean intolerance and aggressiveness. In Italy, for example, you cannot have yo ur name too frequently in the newspapers if you expect to remain a member of the Cabinet. In Rumania, you must not have helped the King to be crowned, else beware. In Germany, you cannot be a Jew and at the same time dare to write a book, or sit in an orchestra, or participate in games, or act in a play, ог hold office, or own a business, because these are activities reserved to Christians and Germans; you cannot even tread the Gentile sidewalks with perfect assurance that you will not at any moment be accosted by brownshirts and batted over the head for assuming such a privilege. As we have said, this state of affairs in Germany was bound to come about because the Allies made it their business to see that it would. What of the Great American Experiment? What is going to result from this gigantic recovery movement? Nobody seems to know, not even President Roose- velt. Recent reports, however, have it that financial and industrial men have become frankly pessimistic, and if this is so it is a serious matter because the recovery pro- gramme depends essentially for its success upon the increased confidence of the people. But what is the cause of their pessimism? Mr. Roosevelt has regulated banking, de- ciding what banks should operate, what investments these banks should be allowed to make and so forth; вары objects to that, it was а much-needed reform. Не has also taken up the question of moncy, he has seen its worth at face value, he has seen what the general ds reciation has made it worth, and he has corrected the injustice thus done to the ries class by clipping off the difference. The result has been a 12}