Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE +@ Page 2 REVIEW V-E Day The ringing call “Cease fire!” has once again been sounded throughout war-torn Europe. The call echoes and re-echoes from ravaged city to pillaged town, from shattered walls to leaning steeples, bounding and re-bounding, gaining in momentum as it goes, bringing with it an unfathomable relief, a strange relaxing of an eternal tension, and leaving be- hind hope-flooded hearts and minds, dazed tear-laden eyes, and an uncontrollable urge to shout and cheer, to weep and sob, to sing and chant, to kneel and pray. Here in Canada, our homes, our lands untouched by the furies of Mars' mad- ness, our hearts too are gladdened by that ringing call and we raise our hearts in thanksgiving, knowing we shall be spared much of the misery and destitution of mil- lions of our fellow human-beings. But our cup of happiness is embittered with sorrow over those loved ones who have been taken from us to satisfy the insatiable monster that is War. Many of our finest sons have fallen in that seemingly ever- lasting struggle for the peace and freedom that at last is ours. At Loyola, for those of us who have been allowed to continue our studies to en- sure a prosperous post-war world, our weekly Masses have not gone unanswered and many of Loyola's sons will return to give further honour and glory to her name. We shall never forget those who will not return; to them is owed a debt of gratitude that shall be exceeded only by our generous prayers and determined efforts to hold and maintain the peace-laurels won for us. To the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Five goes the great distinction of being the first post-war graduating class to leave Loyola and begin the work of reconstruction and reformation. They especially are indebted to Loyola's warriors, many of whom would be graduating with them had they not gone to do battle for the sake of others. The burden upon the shoulders of the Forty-Ninth graduating class is all the heavier for that; these few preferred ones must live up to the hopes and expectations of those who fell in the great struggle for freedom; they must do more than their share. Indeed the class of '45 shows such promise as to warrant the faith placed in them by their fellow students, by their friends, their parents, and their Alma Mater. e 1 1 Y Franklin Delano Roosevelt President of the Common Man” will, we believe, be a story s title for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Four times was he returned to the oval office in the East Wing of the White House, because John Citizen, in the greatest depression and the greatest war of history, found in him hope, inspiration and the promise of security. Popular rather on Main Street than on Wall Street, he was more closely attuned to the public mind than any of his predecessors. In this the times in which helived served him well. Instruments for measuring and forming public opinion he used continually and in a masterly fashion. Through the press, radio, opinion surveys and special advisers he felt personally the pulse of the nation. And in his fireside chats shared with it his problems together with the solutions the finest brains available could devise. His critics called him an opportunist. And so he was to the extent of progressively adapting policy, advisers and administrative organs to the accelerated tempo of a nation and a world in violent travail. Both friends and enemies proclaimed him the shrewdest politician of his time. And so he was, for his leadership stemmed from a genuine sympathy

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EEE TE, : 2 i Loyola College Review : TACININ GIANGI SJEAN NNEGA AMC ATGAS yN, ONE Address all communications t0 LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW, SHERBROOKE STREET WEST, MONTREAL Price: ONE DOLLAR THE Copy, paper bound. All subscriptions will be gratefully received. 1945 MONTREAL, CANADA No. 31 EDITORIAL Cardinal Villeneuve Another June has come and gone, and another class of Loyola's sons has bid farewell to the Campus. Twenty- three more Catholic men have been sent out as special envoys of the Faith and be- liefs; twenty-three, armed with no visibleweapons, yet each a potential congueror, a Galahad, a David, carrying with them a magic Excalibur—their Catholic educa- tion and Scholastic Philosophy—to enter the battle against prejudice, bigotry, mis- understanding, and ignorance: twenty-three against thousands. Year after year Loyola has slowly increased her high standard of education, turning out graduates attuned to modern ways and capable of taking their place to the fore as real Catholic gentlemen. The sheepskin scroll with the Latin script, which some may frame, is as nothing to what has been inscribed deep in the hearts and minds of these men; from the latter, not the former will grow the worth and value of these graduates to their Alma Mater and, more especially, to themselves. This year, in keeping with the occasion, and as a final heart-warming gesture of friendship and farewell to her sons, Loyola invited His Eminence, Cardinal Villeneuve, to come to Montreal and address her graduates who were about to step outside the protection of her halls into the dangers, fancied and real, of a cold world, that was in the final struggles of a universal war. In accepting the invitation, His Eminence has enriched the lives and gladdened the hearts of twenty-three new Loyola fledglings who had already been given the great honour of becoming the first post-European War graduating class. In his brief address the Cardinal paid high tribute to the Jesuit system of edu- cation, pointing out its high calibre against the so-called systematized standards that are slowly gaining prevalence in the pagan world. Deploring these false stand- ards, he expressed the hope that the present struggle against tyranny would bring humanity to its senses and that this year's graduates would follow in the footsteps of their forerunners in an effort to show by word, deed, and example the greater bene- fits to be had by the universally Catholic system of Education and training, thereby producing the fruits accruing from the long years of pruning. The future of Cath- olicism, the key to a happy. prosperous, peaceful era lies in the hands of few. May they carry their burden well.

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LOYOLA Page 3 COLLEGE REVIEW for his fellow citizens and his legislation was inspired by a sincere concern for their better welfare. And history will rank him among her great statesmen whose clear vision, fearless speech and skillful piloting, guide nations and the world in times of greatest need. Striking indeed was the way men of all parties joined his name with Lincoln's in the glowing encomiums given generously in the hours and days that fol- lowed his tragic death. Out of the conflict for federal supremacy, Lincoln led his people to the stature of nationhood. Roosevelt roused them to а consciousness of their international responsibilities. All men know our great American neighbour seeks no territorial gain at the expense of other people. Under Roosevelt, we hope, died for all time that misguided but persistent refusal to throw her vast weight into the scales of justice and world order. Christion gentleman and statesman, the world тошт the loss of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Never again will his warm voice stir a hundred million hearts with the vastness and courage of his plans. But his achievements and personality will live on in history and in the memory of many grateful lands. Central Building On February the 8th the completed first storey of a new unit, fitting into the Loyola plan between the Admin- istration and Refectory Buildings, was officially opened and blessed by His Excel- lency the Archbishop of Montreal, in the presence of the English-speaking Pastors of the city and members of the College Club. Space demands for the enlarged Scientific Department made the removal of all High School classes from the Ad- ministration BuiMing imperative. To facilitate this expansion application was made and a permit granted to undertake such construction as was reguired to meet imme- diate needs. The Central Building, the fifth in a block of seven called for by the original College plan, is two hundred and forty-four feet long with an average width of fifty-five f eet. It is joined by connecting links, each twenty-one feet long, to the Administration and Refectory Buildings. Eventually it will be three storeys in height, with an added storey over the central eighty-five feet. Matching the Eliza- bethan architecture of the existing buildings, it will be faced with similar brick and stone. The one storey structure already completed is built of re-inforced concrete throughout, with fundations, columns and full provision made to support and heat the future building. The exterior walls are, at present, concrete. It contains seven High School classrooms, a wash room, book-shop, storeroom and a gymnasium. Located in the centre of the building, the gymnasium is eighty-three feet in length, fifty-nine in width and sixteen in height. It is free of columns and beams. The floor above is supported by two upset beams running parallel the length of the room and forming the walls of the future second storey corridor. These beams have a clear span of seventy-three feet, the longest span for a re-inforced concrete beam used to date in this city. The interior walls and ceilings are of sand-finished plaster and the floors, except for terrazzo in the vestibules and wash room, are in asphalt tile. Heat for the new building comes from the central plant in the Refec- tory Building. The mains are carried through a concrete pipe trench under the floor and continue through to supply the Administration Building. The building was designed by Mr. Franco Consiglio, the general construction supervised by Mr. Albert Deschamps.