Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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Раде 6 New Central Building All during the summer months, the new Central Building was gradually assuming definite shape. Prac- tically obscured by a veritable forest of scaffolding, the building could be glimpsed from certain points of view and, with a bit of scrambling, the classrooms and study- halls-to-be, could be dimly visualized through the props upholding the forms for the cement. As we approach the end of the scholastic year, the progress made by the contractors and their men, is becoming more clearly discernible day by day. Construction has now reached the stage where our hope is firm that, barring unfore- seen stoppages of work or shortage of material, the greater part of the building will be ready for occupancy for early September. What can be seen now of the finished brick and stone work, makes possible the judgment that the new Central Building will be, not only of incalcuable use to College activities, but also one of the most beautiful, from the architectural point of view. The New General of the On September 15, 1947 took place an event, which, Society of Jesus though seemingly only remotely connected with Loyola, nevertheless had a profound significance for the institu- tion. The former General of the Society of Jesus, Very Reverend Wladimir Ledöchowski, died on the 13th December, 1942. In normal circumstances his successor would have been elected by a General Congregation, called soon after; the war interfered with this regular procedure. It was not until the beginning of September, 1946, that the various electors from the far-flung Provinces of the Society of Jesus, could be gathered in Rome. When the General Congregation was actually convened and opened, much speculation arose throughout the world con- cerning the new head-to-be of the Society of Jesus. The task of choosing the man who was to preside over the destiny and activities of 26,000 members of a religious organization scattered throughout the whole world, was indeed one to tax the wisdom and prudence of those whose function it was. The electors had come from the four corners of the earth. That they should come, early in the ballotting, to agree on a candidate and give him the necessary majority, was something few inside or outside the Society dared to hope, and, yet, on the very first ballot, one man was chosen by a vast majority of votes. He is Very Reverend John Janssens, S.J., who becomes the. twenty-seventh General of the Society of Jesus, an office which he will hold for life. Тһе new General was born in Mechlin in Belgium on the 22nd December, 1889. He entered the Society on the 23га December, 1907, and after the usual studies was ordained priest on the 7th December, 1919. He took his Doctorate in Civil Law at the University of Louvain and that in Canon Law at the Gregorian University. He was for a time Master of Novices at Tronchiennes and then taught Canon Law at Louvain. From 1929 to 1935 he was Rector of the Scholasticate at Louvain and from 1936 to 1938 he was Tertian Master. In 1938 he was named Provincial of North Belgium and during the war was Visitor of Belgium and Holland. To his Paternity, whose portrait forms the frontispiece of this Review, and to whom it is respectfully dedicated, we, at Loyola, offer our filial allegiance and sincerest wishes for a long and successful career. Ad multos et faustissimos! Registration Оһ September Sth, under а new system, registration opened in the High School and on September 12th in the College. On September 10th classes resumed in the High School and on the 17th in the College. When the registration cards and pupils had been duly checked and counted, it was found that Loyola had again increased its enrollment and reached the all-time high mark of one thousand and sixty students. This total included five hundred and eighty-three in the High School, one hundred and sixty-seven in the Veterans' Courses and three hundred and ten in the College. Needless to say, the buildings, the various classrooms, lecture halls and facilities were crowded to overflowing, a condition to which Loyola has been gradually

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Page 5 Rev. JosEPH MCDONOUGH, S.J. FORMER PROFESSORS ORDAINED 1946 Rev. Davip STANLEY, S.J.

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