Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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ч ) DUm L 77171 А eum quem hewn иг The men signed of the Cross of God Go gaily in the dark. Tue BALLAD or THE WHITE HORSE. The dawning of this Fifth Jesuit Century is sunless, as sunless quite as that first on which St. Ignatius looked out to see a Europe groping pitifully in the dark of a sick and almost decaying Catholicism. Into a world where the light of truth gutters and flickers before the gusty blasts of age-old heretics rejuvenated, go the graduates, High School and College, of 1941. They will find it harder than did their fathers to achieve that temporal peace and prosperity which God intended as the natural milieu wherein His sons and daughters should work out an eternal destiny. May Loyola's sons find inspiration, however, in the fact that their graduation coincides with the Four Hundredth birthday of the Company of Jesus, the Free Company of Ignatius of Loyola, who also in his day faced a crisis in Chris- tian civilization, and patterned the society which stayed the rush of the forces of darkness. That pattern has been presented to every Loyola graduate, a way of life which, despite exterior difficulties, leads surely to truly successful and fundamentally happy living.

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LOYOLA | COLLEGE Page 4 REVIEW “Vale, Loyola” The years pass by so swiftly and we stand at Convocation's eve. The day we have looked forward to so eagerly for four years is now at hand, and yet it brings in its train a vague feeling of sadness and regret. The moment draws near when we must bid a reluctant Adieu to the Alma Mater that has been our pride and joy these many happy years. O happy college days that shall live on in Memory's future hour, you pass away so soon! And he did not desert us, our Soldier-Saint, the great Ignatius. He was there to guide us and guard us and be our intercessor; and we are proud that the year of our graduation marks the Four Hundredth Anniversary of his founding of the great Society of Jesus. We walk along the hallowed halls and relive old memories, the campus, classroom, stage and “‘lab’’ and Stadium, . . . all have their special ghosts for us. The breathless glory of the moment has рес perhaps, but the happy memories, the associations, the friendships, these shall not pass away, these shal remain with us throughout life. We shall not forget. Our pulses shall quicken and our hearts take fire with the old fervour at remembered ancient glories. Time cannot take our victories from us, nor its passage the treasure of our friendships! And yet there is a sweet sorrow about the parting of our ways. A sorrow tempered with the consoling knowledge that as Alumni we shall be privileged to continue on in the greater service of Loyola. ‘Тһе glory of going on and still to be, as it were. For in whatever ‘‘corner of a foreign field Fate may chance to place us, there shall be a part of Loyola, for we are a part of Loyola, and where we shall be, there shall Loyola be, too, for better or for worse. God grant that it shall never be the latter! Then, Vale Loyola! Our pledge, each and all ''May Loyola ever be as proud to be our Alma Mater as we are to be her Alumni. Gentlemen, Loyola! y» 4 г Life Men look on life with different-coloured eyes. To some the world's a garden, filled with sweet, Forbidden fruit, a sensual Paradise Where fools go self-denied, and wise men eat. To others ‘tis a sea of boiling grief, Where shines no sun, and never sails draw breath, But storms sink hope, and sorrows’ grinding reef Brings evil-fated souls despondent death. But to the man who knows his princely worth Life is a narrow, all-important span That links his own, unprepossessing birth To open-handed God's eternal plan. And death, a gloomy portal, opening wide, Discloses Heaven on the farther side. James MELL, '43.

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` LOYOLA COLLEGE Page 6 | REVIEW | LEADERS A remarkable quality in the character of St. Ignatius,— | himself neither scholar nor genius save in the science of the super- natural life—was his ability to draw to himself and through himself, to God and to the work of God, brilliant and saintly men whom he met in the Universities of Europe, and in the Eternal City. Francis Xavier the most promising young professor of the University of Paris, James Lainez and Alfonso Salmeron, the gifted Papal theologians of the Council of Trent, Peter Canisius, Apostle of Germany and Doctor of the Church, such were his children, under God, the work of his hands. And within the lifetime of the saint they had carried the fight against heresy actoss the face of Europe, on a score of fronts, theoretical and practical, besides gaining new empires to Christ in the distant mission fields. The first two Jesuit centuries saw such names as Borgia, Bellarmine, Suarez, de Lugo, Vasquez, Bourdaloue, Campion, de Brébeuf, and many others, men extraordinarily qualified as leaders in carrying on God's work. Nor is it different today. The graduates of 1941 here pay grateful tribute to those devoted men who have shown them the meaning of a fibrous integral Catholic life, who have set their footsteps in the way of Truth. کہ