Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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JAMES MCKEAGE Prefect, Sodomy GERARD BUD PATTON Editor-in-Chief, Loyola News AtD h . w . ll . . ZOLTAN CSANK President Science Students Association GEORGE GRIFFIN President, Boarders' Flat 10 DINO NARIZZANO President, Dramatic: Society EMMETT MARTIN Secretary, C.S.R. External Affairs WILLIAM FORBES President, C.S.R. The Council of Student Representatives, top organization on the Loyola Campus, had another busy and successful year. High spots were F reshman Week, the Cafeteria cleanup drive, Christ for Christmas cam- paign, N.F.C.U.S. controversy, and the new blazer crests, along with such tradi- tional events as the PhiIOSOphersa Banquet, WILLIAM HABERL C.F.C.C.S. Representative v . ttttttt .77.;- . '1 - n1 '. ....................... A! J : ..... ; '1: mi '. '23. . ' 3... , '7' t . D 4? -.:.: 1:.J'55Q31 , FRESHMAN AND SOPHOMORE CLASS PRESIDENTS: Left to right, back row: John Cullen, Sophomore Arts; Bob Gaudet, Sophomore Science; front row: Chick Amey, Freshman Commerce; Michael Lafontaine, Freshman Science; Michael Keating, Freshman Arts. Missing: Peter Sosnkowski, Sophomore Commerce.

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ZMat 7m 9m 7m. 8664: 776m .7 Reprinted from the LOYOLA NEWS of April 4, 1952. Anyone baek-stage at last Saturdayls performance might have reasonably wondered why this sleepy, wizened old workman of Canterbury sat in the wings listening with such marked interest as the Four Knights apologized for murdering their be- loved Archbishop for the umpteenth time. But I had learned in the months of rehearsal that every recitation brought a new meaning to certain phrases and a deeper insight into the ultimate meaning of the whole work. I listened avidly to those speeches because I knew that up to that time the meaning, the true moral of the play, had eluded me and because I also suspected that there, in those queer, intimate epilogues lay its secret. If anyone had been there and known these things they would have realized, when they saw me suddenly straighten in the Chair as the last Knight finished his apology; that I had found it. Some have said that the play interprets Beeketis murder as the death-knell of the English Church. On the other hand Mr. Eliot argues that Thomas martyrdom laid the foundations of the long light between Church and State which ended in the separation of the English Church from Rome in Henry the Eighthls reign. To anyone who has read any of T. S. Eliotls poems this statement seems lueidity itself. I believe he is actually being more obscure than ever, Although there is a great deal of waste verbiage llanguage used the right way at the wrong time, to be more exaetl in the play, it does make two points Clear to even the dullest listener. The first and most obvious is Beeketis sanctity and courage; no one doubts that he is the hero. Secondly and almost as a baek-ground to the martyrdom is the clash of Church and State; but the baek-ground in this play isnlt a painted curtain. It more closely resembles a rnob-seene in which the mass tends to drown out the principals. Thus the obscurity. Becket has no elear-cut per- sonality. At one moment he is tempted to the most human weaknesses, those of the flesh; yet the next brings hope of temporal power; and the one follow- ing even introduces a baron, not a personification like the first but an actual political personage. It is true to say that Becket is hardly himself all through the play. He is the Church and what kills him is the State. One can say that Hamlet died, and Romeo and Juliet died, but itis impossible to say that Becket died and feel at all conclusive. It is equally wrong to say that the English Church died, for Mr. Eliot gives no reason for such a statement. He believes in the Anglican Church. He believes so firmly that he is willing to stand up and attack it, in his own esoteric fashion, when he thinks it has taken a wrong step. In short, Mr. Eliot has written this play because he wants to reform the Anglican Church. The secret lies, as I mentioned above, in those mysterious and often-eritieized apologies given by the Four Knights after the murder, T. S. Eliot it a clever enough playwright to be conscious of their ineongruity; clever enough not to destroy the unity of his work without a purpose that warranted it ; clever enough to break his mood to broaeh his moral. Donit think that the Four Knights are delivering his prose speeches to the twelfth-eentury congrega- tion that saw their murder. All the poetry is gone. Romance and fiction have dimmed out ; the cruel light of actuality beats upon the Four Knights as they address an audience of twentieth-eentury An- glican. Listen: First Knight: ii . . . You are Englishmen . . . your sympathies are all with underdog . . . but you will not judge anybody without hearing both sides of the ease? Second Knight: I . disinterested . . . ll Third Knight: ii . . . You are hard-headed sensi- ble people . . . if you have now arrived at a just subordination of the pretensions of the Church to the welfare of the State . . . we have been instru- mental in bringing about the state of affairs 'that you approve . . , if there is any guilt in the matter, you must share it with us? . . We have been perfectly Fourth Knight: ii . . . Render a verdict of suicide while of Unsound Mind. tContinued on Page 60l

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i. t t Mt c h MICHAEL MCMANUS MILTON SWEENEY Vice-President, CS.R. Treasurer, CS.R. Editor, Loyola Review President, Commerce Society President, Debating GIL DROLET President, Loyola College Athletic Association I t I I 4M ?! ; fmxfu'tiq .e ' ' f 'i'u't'flf IL. WM. ' i 4'?! 1' 'f i t. I 1213;, l 1 v I! I 5. : J. VINCENT O'DONNELL Editor-in-Chief IFirst termt Loyola News 17:117-1in Night, Sophomore and Convoca- tion Dances, and numerous other projects of which space forbids further mention. A big year in 52353 was assured with the election of genial but businesslike Frank Ramspergcr to the post of CS.R. president for the coming term. T0 Frank and Co., good luck from the CS.R., 52 edition. t; m. , '- lORNE O'BRIEN Editor, The Amphora JOHN POUPART N.F.C.U.S. Representative ROBERT DOONAN President, Arts Society 'I j. .. t 4 J, t w ,i w; - JUNIOR AND SENIOR CLASS PRESIDENTS: ten to right, back row: Michael GEORGE FRAYKOR AH-Activity Letter McManus, Senior Arts; Emmett Martin, Senior Science; Gerald Conlon, Senior . . Committee Chaarman Commerce; front row: Frank Ramsperger, Junior Arts; Andre Laliberte. Junior Commerce; Missing: Stan Matulis, Junior Science. 11