Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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The Holy Year (continued) The present great powers, leaders of Christendom, are not those nations who have known deep suffering; they are judges, not penitents. They proclaim material comfort and security, and faith in a threatened culture, though nothing temporal is secure, and their culture only mirrors back themselves. Weakened by atheism, Communist or earlier, they lack the strength of secret Russian Christians—the Yurodivy or born fools . Our leaders raise up arms against a physical onslaught, and they can not be sure of physical victory; yet by answering the real challenge we can ensure the real victory. In vigilance of spirit we will more sharply see, not only enemies of the spirit, but also the traitor within; at this time of the Great Return and the Great Pardon, ere the eastern prodigal may return, we must first seek pardon for ourselves. The Great Return is open to us, and to the enemy. Amid present wars and rumours of war, as we respond to Pope Pius XII in his call for purification, so can we join in his prayers for peace, wherein lies the sole victory. Like Yurodivy we should aim to win the enemy, not imitate him. Were we morally strong enough for war we would gain the enemy, not crush him in self-protective fury; and as much can be done in peace. Peace between nations is the fruit of Justice and Charity, and inward peace springs from purification; the one cannot be had without the other. Let us, then, answer the summons to a Jubilee, and the challenge of the enemy; and if we go not as pilgrims, let us watch and pray”. CT не year 1950 marks for us a jubilee other than the Holy Year. It marks the golden jubilee of Father John Milway Filion, S.J. On February 2nd, in the presence of relatives, friends, college officials, and students, Father Filion celebrated a special Mass of Thanksgiving to the good Lord who had granted him fifty years of service in that corner of His vineyard cultivated by the Society of Jesus. Father Filion has been associated with Loyola for many years. Both he and his father attended Loyola's mother college, Collége Ste-Marie. He was vice-rector in 1917, and as Father Provincial, first of all Canadian Jesuits, and later of the Upper-Canadian Province, he guided our destinies. To Father Filion, who is now at the age of 71 still doing a full day's work in the lecture halls as professor of Sacred Theology, the Review extends its heartiest congratulations, and best wishes for many more years in the service of his Master.

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REVEREND MAURICE STANFORD, S.J. Loyola Graduate 1931 Recently appointed Rector of St. Joseph's College Darjeeling, D.H.Ry, North India.

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Loyola College Review The Changing Review Тооуол has undergone a considerable trans- formation within the last ten years. To the Arts faculty have been added those of Science and Commerce; while the high-school enrolment has nearly doubled, and that of the College nearly quadrupled. The Loyola Review, whose proper function is to record the organized activities of the student body, both of the High School and of the College, has been particularly sensitive to the transformation which has come over Loyola; for it has had to record the increase in number, size and importance, of Loyola's organizations, and yet, has not been able to undergo a propor- tional expansion, and at the same time retain its traditional form. As a compromise, then, with the demands imposed upon it by development of the College the Review has been becoming, over the years, more and more exclusively reportori al, gradually eliminating its “Belles Lettres department. This change that has been taking place within the Review in recent years, became increasingly apparent in the 1948 and 1949 issues. This situation has been viewed with concern for some time by many around the School; a solution to the difficulty has been long sought and, at last found, in the form of the new College quarterly, The Amphora”. This periodical is devoted solely to publishing the better literary efforts of the students. The idea of the “Amphora” originated with Fr. MacGuigan, a year or two ago; but it was not possible to experiment until the second term of this past school year. The two issues published this term furnished more than enough proof that the Quarterly has justified the faith of its founders. Thus the literary talent of the College has found a new means of expres- sion, since the Review has been unable to publish their work. The “Review”, meanwhile, has been devoting itself more and more to fulfilling the purpose implied in its name—i.e., a review of the events and organizations of the year and the men behind them. This year, before beginning work on the Review, those concerned consulted Year Books from many other Colleges and Universities of Canada and the United States. The tendency in almost all of these schools seems to be towards making a year book a factual record of acti- vities. Thus, following the trend which had been started two years previously, it was thought best to continue along this line, the reason for this being twofold. The first reason is one of necessity; the second is, that the reception given by the students seems to indicate their pref- erence for this kind of Year Book. Hence, the neglect, in recent times, of the College’s literary potentialities promises to be compensated for in the future by the New Loyola publication, The Amphora”, and the events of the year will be covered more completely in the Review. Therefore, we can look forward to two annuals in the coming years, a strictly literary annual and a strictly factual Review.