Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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Page 8 growing accustomed, if not reconciled, since, for the last four years, the growth in numbers has been really phenomenal. This can best be judged from the fact that in 1942 a whole holiday was granted to celebrate the coming of the five hundredth pupil. Not the least worry of the College authorities is to plan for a future in which no one at present, can foresee whether this tremendous influx of students is to con- tinue, There is the obvious danger of over-expansion with the possibility of large, empty buildings to be paid for out of diminishing revenues. With confidence in Divine Providence and counting on the support of Loyola's friends, the College has committed itself to the construction of the new Central Building. The next few years will tell whether that confidence was solidly based. If the choice has been the right one, the prospect of a greatly enlarged sphere of activity for Loyola is bright indeed. On October 8th further concrete proof of Loyola's growth was given at the Faculty Dinner which brought together all the members of the College and Hizh School Faculties. Sixty-one assembled and spent the evening getting acquainted and, by their numbers, gave proof of the multiplying activities housed under Loyola's roof. Loyola to India On December 9th there took place in the College Chapel a ceremony which inaugurated a new era for the Upper Canadian Province. Hitherto, the field of missionary activity assigned to the Province was in the Homeland: our missioners exercised their zeal among the Canadian aborigines. A new field of endeavour has now been thrown open to the members of the Province. Тһе ceremony of December 9th marked the departure of the first missioners to the new mission field, which is situated in Darjeeling in Northern Bengal, an area of seven hundred thousand square miles inhabited by Hindus and Mohammedans. Four graduates of Loyola College, Fathers William Daly, S.J., William Mackey, S.J., John Prendergast, S.J. and Maurice Stanford, S.]. were given the solemn missionary mandate by Very Reverend John L. Swain, S.J., Provincial of Upper Canada. Along with them, to share in their labours, went Brother Paul Robin, S.J. Father Martin Reid, pastor of St. Augustine's Church, delivered the sermon and His Excellency Bishop Whelan gave solemn Benediction and bade the missionaries “God-speed, in the name of the Archbishop of Montreal, in his own name and in the name of the clergy and laity of Montreal. The missionaries sailed from Halifax to England on December 12th, then to Bomba y whence they still had a two thousand mile journey to Calcutta before starting on the last lap to Darjeeling. It is a coincidence worth recording, that while Loyola was thus entering the religious life of India, it was also entering into the diplomatic life of the country. Mr. John D. Kearney, K.C., Loyola 716, who had been Canadian High Commis- sioner to Eire and then Canadian Minister to Norway and Denmark, was recently appointed Canada's High Commissioner to India. Loyola fondly hopes, that, in their respective fields of endeavour, her sons may attain outstanding success. It is to be expected that in the normal development of our missionary endeavour, many future graduates of Loyola will follow in the footsteps of these pioneers. It is not beyond reasonable possibility that in the future the diplomatic life of India may likewise witness the activity of some Loyola successor to Mr. Kearney. To both him and them, Loyola wishes all possible measure of success. Ап old friend leaves us On April 10th as he was elevating the chalice at the Offer- tory of the Mass, Father John Cox, S.J. suffered a heart attack and a few moments later ended a long career in the Society of Jesus. On August 4th next, he was to have celebrated his Diamond Jubilee as a Jesuit. For the last two years Father Cox had been at Loyola where he had come back to spend his declining years. Partially blinded and much enfeebled,.he was practically confined

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SOLEMN BENEDICTION THE ‘МАМРАТОМ” Left to right Rev. Wm. Mackey, S.J. Rev. John Prendergast, S.J Rev. Wm. Daly S.J. Rev. Maurice Stanford, S.J.