Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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BEC TE АС ЗАЛДЫ nee et tr etm net t negro : Loyola College Review 1 Т ААК АДАК УА АС ор ојачао Address all communications to LoyotA Совок Review, SHERBROOKE STREET West, MONTREAL Price: Ong ПоглАв THE Cory, paper bound. АП subscriptions will be gratefully received. 1940 MONTREAL, CANADA No. 26 EDITORIAL Anniversaries In ordinary circumstances the year 1940 would be a memorable one for members of the Society of Jesus, their various institutions, their friends and well-wishers. This year is the four-hundredth anniversary of the solemn declaration of Pope Paul III, on September 27th, 1540, in virtue of which the group gathered by Saint Ignatius became in fact a Religious Order in the eyes of the Church. Assuredly the completion of four hundred years of existence is worthy of notice in these days of kaleidoscopic change. A more intimate anniversary, a double one, in fact, occurs to mark this year for modern Jesuits. Fifty years ago the present well- beloved Very Reverend Father General entered the Society, and twenty-five years ago, on February 11th, 1915, his brethren bestowed on Wlodomir Ledóchowski the highest proof in their power of their esteem and confidence by electing him to the x life-time office in the Order, that of General. Fifty years of religious life and twenty-five years of successful management of the affairs of an Order such as the Jesuits, are, we believe, worth signalling out for special mention and acclaim. For the Jesuits at Loyola, and particularly for the Editors of the Review, this year brings still another anniversary worthy of record: the Review began its career in June 1915, so that this is the Silver Jubilee Number. We say, in ordinary circumstances, these events, great and small, would be worthy of remembrance: in normal times they would call for congratulations and rejoicing. The battle-scarred four-hundred-years old Society of Jesus should indeed be entitled to rest a while and look back with legitimate satisfaction on a past glorious with the blood of her Martyrs, illustrious with the holiness of her Confessors and Doctors, ennobled with the deeds of her missioners, the learning of her teachers and writers, the multiform zeal of her workers in every land, grand with the sweep and scope of her undertakings, and stamped with the seal of genuine- ness by the hatred of her enemies who have always proved to be those of Chris t and of His Church . . . But, these are not normal times, and celebrations of the quarter- centenary have been postponed for a year in the hope that times will then jn such that rejoicing will not seem out of place. The first issue of the Review carried two feature items: the new buildings into which Loyola had just moved from Drummond Street, and the first photo- graphs of Loyola Men at the Front, in the war which we have hitherto known as the Great War. It was too early then to record the first casualties. This issue is being prepared as the New War dashes against the tottering remains of Western Civilization and the world is filled with the tumult of their falling. No man dares say what to-morrow's news will be, the future both of the war and of the more frightening after-war is such in prospect that to rejoice now over the achievement of the past no matter how glorious would show lack of appreciation of the serious- ness of the moment.

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LOYOLA COLLEGE Page 2 REVIEW One ray of hope, however, gleams through the surrounding gloom, from the vety events we cannot now properly commemorate. From the humblest beginnings the Review has grown and prospered. Despite frail health and in the midst of world circumstances of unparalleled complexity, Very Reverend Father Ledóchowski has brought the Society of Jesus through his twenty-five years of Generalship, not only safe, but, gere the destruction of whole Provinces and the loss of hundreds of her children in bloody massacre and glorious martyrdom, to a record of growth and accomplishment unequalled in her annals. The Society of Jesus in her four hundred years has weathered storms from within and from without which at one time had obliterated her whole structure save one lone fragment in the heretical Russia of Catherine the Great, and yet, she stands to-day, 25,685 strong, in every part of the world, a living proof that the powers of evil are powerless in the long run against the transcendent sweep of truth and virtue. May we not draw from these thoughts strength and hope and the staunch, unflinching faith that, come what may, truth and justice, under the guiding hand of God, will prevail? Alumni Successes Congratulations to the following who will be raised to the Holy Priesthood this summer: Rev. Patrick Ambrose, 35; Rev. Maurice Bedard, O.F.M., 34; Rev. John McCaffrey, S.J., 27; Rev. Bernard MacDonald, 36; Rev. Patrick McHardy, S.J., 31; Rev. Edward Penny, '36; Rev. Joseph Regnier, O.M.C., 36. To Col. George Vanier, 06, Minister to France; to the Hon. Chas. С. Power, 07, appointed Minister of Air Defence іп the present Government; to Major-General Henri Panet, 14, commanding the British Forces in Hong Kong; to Major Victor Walsh, 14, in command of the Overseas Division of the RCAF To the following who were highly successful in their studies at McGill: to Dr. Frank Flood, 32, who won a scholarship to Roosevelt Medical School; to Bernard Cullity, 37, who won the British Association gold medal in Metallurgical engineering, the Jenkins Brothers Limited Scholarship, the Student Essay Prize, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy; to Paul Emile Grothé, '35, who fin- ished second in the final year of Chemical Engineering; to Elmer Shea 35, who gained his de gree of M.D.C.M.; to Brock Clarke, 39, who led the class of First Year Law. At. U. of Montreal, Lewis McKeown, 37, gained second place in the annual essay contest of the Chemical Industry; John MacDonald, 36, finished second in the final year of Dentistry. Ас. St. Mary s College, Brockville, Ontario, Joseph Kearns, H.S., 38, gained first prize in the Oratorical Contest. To John O'Brien, 39, who gained his sub-lieutenancy on board H.M.S. Berwick, and who represented Canada in the Empire broadcast from London.