Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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Ee Re Loyola College Review d o rs Address all communications to: LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW, SHERBROOKE STREET WEST, MONTREAL Price: Two DOLLARS THE Copy, paper bound. All subscriptions will be gratefully received. 1949 MONTREAL, CANADA No. 35 EDITORIALS “Ме New Rector Тооуоа, іп the past year has set а precedent while still following a time honored tradition. The precedent is the appointment of a graduate of Loyola to the highest position of this college. Never before have we had the benefit of the experience, judgment and advice of a Rector who is a former student. Fr. McCaffrey however, graduated from Loyola with a B.A. in 1927, and the following year entered the Society of Jesus. Part of his studying, prior to his ordination, was completed at the University of Toronto in the field of advanced mathematics. Following this he was ordained in 1940 and then taught at the Jesuit Seminary in Toronto until his recent nomination. His appointment coincided with the largest student registration in the history of the College. It is fitting that we should have a precedent-setting Rector at the head of a precedent-setting student body. The time-honored tradition adhered to is the appointment of a Rector possessing a clear and comprehensive intellect, paternal judgment, strong principles, a personal interest in all students and their activities, a generosity and willingness to give sound advice and con- structive criticism, and commanding the admiration and respect of all students. Fr. McCaffrey has displayed in the past year all these qualities and talents to a high degree. They are no passing show. They are deeply rooted in his nature and form his inspiring personality. We will benefit from them during his entire stay here just as we have during his first term of office. For the first time then, we have a Rector capable of combining past experience at this College with the many qualities of former Rectors, and because of this unique advantage the Review wishes to express in a special way, on behalf of all Loyola students, their appreciation and recognition of Fr. McCaffrey’s initial successful year, and assure him of the spirit of good will and co-operation that he may expect from all students in the future.

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REVEREND J. F. McCAFFREY, S.J. — RECTOR — Loyola Graduate 1927

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Loyola College Review “I have said that all branches of knowledge are connected together, because the subject matter of knowledge is intimately united in itself as being the acts and work of the Creator. . . . NEWMAN A UNIVERSITY therefore, Cardinal Newman states, which instructs in many faculties rather than specializing in one is the better seat of learning in the treatment of its students. An adequate university needs a multitude of courses to insure against its students receiving a stunted education, and a narrow, biased outlook on their particular field of endeavour. To give one branch of knowledge more attention than is its Just claim, he continues, is to be unfair to the other sciences. One faculty cannot stand apart and instruct students, except to their own detriment, unless they are subject in some fashion to the influence of other college courses. That college which does not cater solely to one phase of knowledge but interests itself in all, is well proportioned, gives its scholars a fuller education and moulds them into mature men. In such a college the young men with different turns of mind and pursuing different courses, meet, discuss, and study together, participate in the same activities, and in this way are so influenced by each other and the numerous professors, that their divergent attitudes necessarily converge to give a well rounded healthy education. They cannot follow one parti- cular bent alone to the exclusion of all others, for they must breathe the university atmosphere common to all and formed by all, in which floats a most varied cluster of opinions. They draw from this ether that attitude and those principles according to which they will live their lives. In a college teaching diversified courses the attitude will be broad and the principles sound. With the inauguration of a commerce faculty at Loyola, this college now more closely approaches Cardinal Newman's idea of a university. It is possible to study here the three basic courses of a real college — Arts, Science, and Commerce, from which all other branches of knowledge stem. In such an institution as Loyola where the student body is not too large, the preceding theory is more easily and efficiently put into practice. If it applies to large universities, and it does, how much more so must it function at Loyola where the ratio of contacts among the students themselves is considerably higher. Loyola, with the addition of the commerce course, injected into its lecture halls in the past year a fresh new stimulus which had an invigorating influence on all students and courses and which will be better appreciated with the passing of time. This is a significant fact.. It might serve to impress upon the students the quality of education that they obtain. It is also significant of the fact that Loyola is growing. In the past six years she has added a science and commerce faculty to her pre-existing arts course. This is a considerable development in such a short interval of time, and if it is a portent of things to come Loyola may well be a university within the next five years. We deserve it and are capable of it.