Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE Page 2 REVIEW withal, the lot of the working class has not been benefited materially. Leo XIII in his Encyclical clearly and boldly stated the social and economic evils that afflict every nation. The cure, he declared, could be found only in a practical application of the teachings of the Gospels. Pius XI showed how these principles applied to problems which had become pressing since the days of Leo. He urges the training of lay apostles for the mission of spreading the social teaching of the Church, and of aiding in applying them to actual conditions. He recalls that ALL are concerned and none are excepted; the aim is ‘‘to unite all in harmonious striving for the com- mon good, when all sections of society have the intimate conviction that they are members of a single family and children of the same heavenly Father, and further, that they are ‘one in Christ and everyone members one of another.’ May his wish be realized and may the anniversary of these great Encyclicals mark a renewed effort of Catholics, of the laity in particular, under authorized direction, to establish a Christian social order in Canada. F Lé Y Alumni Successes Congratulations to the following who will be raised to the Holy Priesthood this summer: Rev. James R. Danaher, '37; Rev. Matthew D. Dubee, '36; Rev. Joseph Regnier, OMC, '36; Rev. William Connor, S.J., 29; Rev. Thomas McNamara, '37. To Hon. Leon Mercier Gouin, '11, who was raised to the Senate; to Hon. Robert Laurier, '13, who was made Minister of Mines in the Ontario Government; to Col. George Vanier, '06, who was appointed to the Permanent Joint Defence Board for Canada and the United States; to Air Commodore G. Victor Walsh, O.B.E., '14, air officer commanding No. 3 Training Command, R.C.A.F.; to Hon. Charles G. Power, '07, Minister of National Defence for Air. To the following who were highly successful in their studies at McGill: Brock Clarke, B.A. '39, who again led his year of Law; to Graeme Bailey, В.А. '34; Guy Joron, B.A. '36, Alphonse Verdicchio, B.A. '37, who gained their degree of M.D., C.M.; to James O. Kelly, '38, who won his degree in Chemical Engineering; to Victor Savage, '39, who won his degree in Mechanical Engineering; to Olegario Molina, H.S. ‘39, who led his year in Second Year Medicine at the University of Mexico; to Eugene Gavin, H.S. '39, who led his year in Freshman Arts at Fordham University.

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(ERATION aee RADE NUA DE ete et NE IIIS NIA DI ete NITION! EN ) i Loyola Colleoe Review gek A OCARINA Address all communications to LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW, SHERBROOKE STREET West, MONTREAL Price: ONE DOLLAR THE Copy, paper bound. All subscriptions will be gratefully received. 1941 MONTREAL, CANADA No. 27 EDITORIAL Our New Rector Loyola continues to be blessed with excellent Rectors. The Loyola Faculty and Student-body were delighted to welcome Father Edward M. Brown, S.J., as their Rector last year. Father Brown is no stranger to Loyola, and former students will recall his teaching here as a scholastic. After many years of study in Canada and Europe, Father Brown comes to us with breadth of vision and with an understanding of the problems that beset higher Catholic education. In him we have an indefatigable Rector whose sole concern is the progress of Loyola, and a Catholic humanist whose chief aim is to educate for life. We feel confident that under the aegis of such a broad-minded, talented and competent Rector, Loyola will rank as one of the leading Catholic colleges in the New World. During the past year we have learned to know, respect and love our new Rector. During a year which had its peculiar difficulties, Father Brown showed a happy combination of a rare good sense, a high courage, a keen sense of humour, and a great willingness to co-operate with all the activities and desires of the student-body. The gratitude of the students in their college days is ordinarily inarticulate, hesitant, self-conscious, and stammering. The Review takes this opportunity to extend the corporate gratitude of all Loyola students, Alumni and friends to Father Rector. The best compliment we can pay Father Brown is to hope that he may be with us longer than the customary term of office. b 4 م‎ Anniversaries In 1891 the calm placidity of the hopelessness of the inevitable, into which men had allowed themselves to fall, was ruffled by the clear stentorian tones of the Supreme Pontiff, His Holiness, Pope Leo XIII, by the publication of his now famous Encyclical entitled ''On the Condition of the ышы. Classes . Forty years after, 1931, his worthy successor, Pope Pius XI, reaffirme the principles of that Encyclical by the publication of an equally important document entitled ‘‘Reconstructing the Social Order . This year, throughout the Catholic world, we are celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the first Encyclical, and the tenth anniversary of the second Ency- clical. Many changes have been wrought in the world since first Pope Leo spoke upon the condition of the working classes. Many have been the new governments that have come into power since that day, many, too, have been the new inventions to assist the workingman. But with these new inventions, with the latest methods of manufacture, there have remained, despite the warnings of that sane and far- reaching Pontiff, the old and insidious abuses to which the labouring class has been heir. True, great and humane legislation has been passed to benefit the working- man; laws have been passed for the safeguarding of factory employees, etc., yet

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re er “LOYOLA, AVE ATOUE VALE! By ARTHUR WELBOURNE (Author's Note: One of my first Loyola activities was to write the following editorial for the then-mimeographed ‘‘ News ` (October 1st, 1937). It was my first impressions on entering Loyola. I take the liberty of reprinting it here with a companion piece I have written as a farewell toast to our glorious Alma Mater. Long may she reign!) “Оп Entering Loyola for the First Time. Your mind goes back, as you walk for the first time in these hallowed pre- cincts here at Loyola, to those days when you were a little boy in Prep. School, when morning rode the sky and all the world was young, and you feel and know that you're standing at the threshold of a new and greater life, a life, a stewardship whose value will be equally shared between the book and the ball, the laboratory and gymnasium and the classroom and campus. As you are held spell-bound by the majesty of the Retreat you feel that a base has been laid upon which you will build the imposing edifice of true, deep, and militant Catholicity, and you are reminded of those Pom the lips of the Great Teacher, Seck ye first the Kingdom of God and all else shall be added unto уе.” You thrill with that grand sense of camaraderie as a d Loyola cheer echoes up from some hundreds of throats and your ears ring, and your heart throbs as you attend your first Pep Rally”. There is a responding echo in your eager young heart to the clarion call of the great duties that beckon towards you to buckle on the armor that girt you in all those boyish triumphs and victories,—shining faith, unbounded hope and flaming, fiery courage, and ro take up the torch and going forth unafraid, to meet your problems and to conquer them. As you read and hear of the fine deeds of former Loyola men, you are reminded that at present you are serving the squireship to that great knighthood of Catholic leadership, and that the accolade is your gown of graduation; your shield, the Eunice go you acquire and your sword the sharpened mind of educated Catholic manhood. You may rest assured as you enter upon the glamour and chivalry that is Loyola, and sense its sincerity and purpose, that under the guiding hand of Ignatius the soldier and through the intercession of Ignatius the Saint, victory will follow your standard. And as you think of the vaba ова of Loyola's cavalcade, there comes to your mind the sentiment expressed in the lines penned by that great dean of clean, true sport, Grantland Rice: And when the last Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He'll ask not if you won or lost But how you played the game!