Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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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,

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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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LOYOLA COLLEGE XQ) Page 8 REVIEW Viscount Alexander Viscount Alexander of Tunis and Errigal, veteran of two world wars and many campaigns, of Dunkerque and Burma, of Africa and Italy, has been accorded a warm welcome as Canada's 17th Governor-General. Within the British Commonwealth of Nations that office and rank is unique in its significance. The words of the Balfour Declaration, adopted by the Westminster Statute, describe the Commonwealth as a “voluntary association of nations none of which is subordinate to any other”. The Governor-General in each of the Dominions is the personal representative of the King. Still the Commonwealth is not a Personal Union in the technical sense of the term. It is itself: a free association of free peoples, bound together through community of origin, language, history, interest, sentiment and mutual trust. Its like has not been known in history nor perhaps would it be possible in circum- stances nor for people other than our own. Canada's growth from the first measure of responsible government to the British North America Act of 1867, and through a series of Imperial Conferences to the Westminster Statute of 1931, was a natural one for reasonable men to foster. Our Prime Minister has described the Commonwealth relationship as one of allance rather than of dependence. Publicists may dispute the nature of our Sovereignty. We in Canada know that internally it is complete. Externally we may witness it operate in any number of ways: our established right of treaty and legation; our indicated refusal to declare war against Turkey in the early twenties and our free declaration against Germany in 1939; the circumstances surrounding the abdication and succession in 1936; the full and open consultation on matters of Commonwealth interest. This sovereignty, it is claimed, is insecure. What has been established by an Act of the Imperial Parliament may be changed by another Act of the same assembly. Technically this may be correct and any such attempt might force Canada to defend what it holds to be her acquired constitutional rights. But such an objection can only come from one who fails to understand the spirit and soul of the Commonwealth system. It is based not on conquest nor colonization nor fear, but on the stronger bonds that hold families together, bonds of mutual interest and trust. The objection further overlooks the utter improbability of any such attempt to change what has been accepted and exercised by the government of Canada and so incorporated into the very concept of our country. The Rt. Hon. Robert Borden once said that the Governor-General has ceased to be an imperial officer and has become rather a nominated President who fills for Canada the role of the Constitutional Monarch in Great Britain. His signature makes Acts of Parliament, law, but he signs only on the advice of Parlia- ment. We welcome Viscount Alexander as the representative of His Majesty the King to whom Canada owes allegiance. We welcome him also for himself, for what he is, for what he has done, and for what his presence can mean to Canada through- out the next five years. His leadership is proven. His gifts of statesmanship, skilled and sound. At the swearing-in ceremony in the Senate Chamber, soon after his arrival, he took the three oaths: of office, of allegiance, as Keeper of the Great Seal. On that occasion the Prime Minister stated: “We in Canada have sought to make the family and the home the foundation of our national life. In your Excellencies and your children, we recognize and welcome a happy family. Lord Alexander replied: “1 believe, as you do, that the family and the home are the very basis of a healthy, happy and prosperous people .