Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE © Раде 6 REVIEW Fiftieth Anniversary Review The spirit of thanksgiving inspired by half a century of effort and achievement prompts us to make this Fiftieth Anniversary Review conform as literally as possible to its name and purpose. We have tried to make it a review of Loyola activities for the current year and for the past twenty-five years. Its accounts of individual organizations complement the historical outline. Together they give a picture of Loyola’s second quarter century. The first was covered in the 1922 Review. Unlike most previous issues we are not publishing any purely literary efforts—essays, short stories. The contents of this Review are descriptive and historical, not creative. On one point only have we varied from this policy. We believe that the authentic poetic spark can be glimpsed from time to time in our last twenty-five numbers and we have taken advantage of this Anniversary Volume to reproduce a few. The choice is neither exhaustive nor necessarily representative. We have simply chosen some we like and are reprinting them in the belief that they will please in repetition. We have dedicated this Review to the memory of the ninety-three Loyola men who died in two World Wars. Their heroic sacrifice paid our assessment that Justice and Freedom might not perish from the earth. We think too of those other dead, of whom there are two hundred and ninety-one more on Loyola lists, sixty-two of them Jesuits; we think of the thousands of the living: students, faculty—Jesuit and lay, who have been and are Loyola, who have made Loyola what it is. For a college is a living thing, based on a continued student-teacher relationship. Not Jand, or stone, or brick, not even libraries, lecture halls or laboratories, constitute its essence. The mind and character of man are spiritual. Education needs material facilities as in this life men need their bodies. But it is their souls which make them men and mark them for eternity. Men,—students and teachers—, not matter, make a college. Into the making of Loyola have gone several thousands of studen ts, two hundred and forty-five Jesuits and possibly more than a hundred lay teachers. All have given to Loyola, all have received from Loyola. In gratitude and hope that God's favour and blessings, so divinely generous for half a century, will continue, we respectfully submit our Fiftieth Anniversary Review. Loyola’s War Record Loyola's record in World War II was worthy of the best of her traditions. For twenty years prior to 1939 the Loyola Contingent, C.O.T.C. had existed as a compulsory organization in the College. Without making the student military-minded, it prepared him for such emergencies as Canada and the world have been forced to face during the past six years. The outbreak of hostilities found a trained Corps Reserve of Officers, many others with qualifying certificates and a large number with memories of drill, tactics and manoeuvres. The Loyola Unit was the first in Canada to establish an Officers’ Refresher Course. During the early difficult years of war it prepared our own alumni and other reserve officers for commissions in the Active Army. The striking number of commissions in any Loyola list of the Armed Services js in some measure due to their C.O.T.C. training. Clearly its chief reason was their native endowment of character and intellect.

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1 ` ` . Kë TER Loyola College SZ Address all communications to LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW, SHERBROOKE STREET WEST, MONTREAL Price: ONE DOLLAR THE Copy, paper bound. All subscriptions will be gratefully received. 1916 MONTREAL, CANADA No. 32 Edit al Fifty Years Fifty years in the life of a man are a long time. In the history of a se at of learning they are only a beginning. A college may be said to exist in three dimensions: the length of its service, the volume of its product and the quality of its training. Some of the great universities of Europe reach back through almost a thousand years. The eternity of truth finds tangible expression in their continuity. Empires are born and die. Civilization changes in its material aspects from foot travel to jet propulsion and radar and television. But the search for truth goes on. For man is made to seek God and God is Truth. It is the high dignity of the teacher that he lights the way to Eternal Truth in teaching anything that is true. For half a century Loyola College has been dedicated to the task of making known the truth and of forming men prepared to live it. In that time some thou- sands of students have attended her classes and learned the meaning of life and how to live from her teaching. The volume has not been large by any numerical standard. Annual registration rose from 151 in 1896 to 223 in 1907, to 348 in 1922, to 401 in 1930, to 433 in 1940, to 925 in 1946. Loyola has never striven for mere numbers. She has always tried to grow, to keep pace with the demand of those who value her message. But just as the spirit of man is frequently hampered by the limitations of his body, so too is the teaching of truth conditioned by the material equipment of buildings and libraries and laboratories. The “gold and silver of large endowments and the extensive facilities they permit, Loyola has never had to give. But what she has she gives gladly: an under- standing and love of Christian principles and Christian culture. Father Gregory O'Bryan and his first faculty and their successors could have no higher aim. Men of principle is the world's greatest need. Christian principles bear the authentic guarantee of Christ Himself. In a world of shifting and unstable values they alone give certainity and security. For Christ is the Light and the Life of men. It has been Loyola’s unchanging purpose to develop in each student a well-ordered personality in whom emotions and intellect form a whole—a real synthesis. One for whom life is not departmentalized but rather integrated as the activity of the same responsible person. From this right integration results Christian Culture, which is nothing less than a steady view of the whole of life from a single fixed position, clearly defined by the teachings of Christ. However long Loyola may continue to exist, however many or few the sons she sends into the world, if she remains loyal to this ideal, through teaching the truth she will lead many to Truth Itself,

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LOYOLA Page 7 (9. d UR Fifty-seven Loyola men were killed in action. Their heroic sacrifice was made that justice and peace might prevail. It was not adventure or bravado that prompted them to leave loved ones and home and Canada. It was the convic- tion that the time had come for all men of courage to rally in the cause of the right. They hoped to live. They went prepared to die. And as patriotism plays an honoured role in the larger virtue of charity, they gave their lives that other men might live. Neither sentiment nor platitude can restore them to us or to their young families. Unyielding fidelity to Christian principles in our personal, national and international lives can alone make sure they have not died in vain. The total of all ranks who served is difficult to compute accurately. When Montrealers entered the forces, we were able to follow them. But our students come from the whole of Canada, Newfoundland and the United States. A moderate estimate, based on careful research, would put the number between twelve and fifteen hundred. This total includes one Rear Admiral, one Major-General, one Air Vice-Marshal one Brigadier, at least one Group Captain and twelve Colonels and Lt.-Colonels, several Wing Commanders, Naval Commanders, Majors and a long list of other officers. Among the thirty-one decorations known to us which they received there are 1 C.B., 1 D.S.O., 7 M.C.'s, 6 D.F.C.'s, 1 D.F.M., 1 C.B.E., 4 O.B.E.'s, 3 M.B.E.'s, 1 George Medal, five American and one Polish decoration. Loyola is proud of her sons. Their record will remain an inspiration for generations of students yet to come. Veterans’ Refresher Courses A wise government has made it possible for every | veteran to complete his education. The measures which have implemented the Department of Veterans’ Affairs are not merely the expression of a nation’s gratitude. Their purpose is to assure that years of training for war will not be lost in peace. It is hoped that the discipline and technical knowledge that fit men to be modern soldiers can be turned constructively towards making them good citizens. This hope, we believe, is well-founded. Given the initial endowment, military training and battle experience will mature young men and help correct their sense of values. Teachers and business men alike testify they find returned men serious-minded, energetic and courteous. The Dean of Veterans at Loyola has repeatedly stated in public that their classes are a veritable teacher's paradise . The men realize why they are back on the benches and advancing age warns them they have little time to profit from it. During the academic year of 1945-1946 a Veterans' Refresher Course leading up to college entrance was established at Loyola and members of the Staff taught in courses held elsewhere in the city. Responding to the wishes of the Department of Veterans' Affairs and in close collaboration with McGill University the curriculum was drawn up jointly with the authorities of that University and the examination results will be recognized by both McGill and Loyola. Eighty-nine veterans were enrolled in the course. A large number were turned down because of lack of space. More than forty veterans are following regular college courses, the majority in Freshman Science. Two more courses, Senior and Junior Matriculation, will begin on June 3rd of this year,