Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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Very REVEREND GERALD F. LAHEY S.J. Rector of Loyola College

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Our Lady of Lourdes On the eleventh day of February of this year, the centenial anniversary of the miracle of Our Lady of Lourdes was celebrated with a world-wide pilgrimage to her Shrine. On the eleventh day of February in the year 1858, a poor child, Bernadette Soubirous, while gathering firewood by the river Gave, saw a vision of the most beautiful Lady in the niche of a rock, known at the time as the rock Massabielle. In all, there were nineteen apparitions, the last of which took place on July 16th of the same year. Her story was met with incredulity and scorn by her parents, teachers, and the clergy. Posses- sed with the greatest of faiths, she refused to change her claim, after persecution, ridicule, cross- examination and intimidation from her superiors and equals. It was during the ninth apparition that the first miracle occured. Bernadette was told by the Lady to “Go drink from the Spring and wash there”. Although she knew of no nearby spring, she suc- cumbed to her wishes and dug with her hands in the patch of damp ground that the Lady had indi- cated. Slowly water filled the hole. This Spring still flows to this very day, and here thousands of believers are cured of known incurable diseases, under the careful scrutinization of noted Doctors. During another of the apparitions, Bernadette at the request of her parish priests, asked the Lady who she was. She replied; “I am the Immaculate Conception”. It is to this Lady that the staff of the ‘58’ Loyola Review dedicate this edition with the firm hope that those who read it, believers and non-believers, will realize that this miracle of the last century, is not a fable as it is often made out to be, but in reality a stimulant to faith. — JOHN WATERS —

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Editorial The year 1958 saw a resurgence of school spirit at Loyola. This was evident from the very be- ginning of the year through the enthusiasm displayed in the Freshman week and in the Freshman elections. Football was still absent from Loyola but followers of that sport turned their energies to touch football which enjoyed a highly successful season. In a poll taken in the fall over a hundred students said they would try out for the team and many more stated that they would support one at Loyola. Then in a dramatic announcement, released through the News, the Rector declared that football would return to Loyola next year. The Winter Carnival was once again a great success, the hockey Warriors walked off with their eighth Ottawa-St. Lawrence Conference championship in nine years and Teahouse of the August Moon was a smash hit, one in a long line of outstanding Loyola stage successes. The Sodality, the commerce Society and the News also enjoyed banner years. The year 1957-58 at Loyola also saw the birth of two new societies at Loyola, the Political and Social Club and The Society for the Advancement of Management. The Review is unique in two ways this year. The first being the May 12 publication date, a goal which has not been achieved for years, and the second, its organization. The Review editorial staff consisted largely of Sophomores and Freshmen, with Mike Callan of Junior Arts the lone exception. To thank all those who aided in the production of this year’s Review would be impossible but special credit must go to Rev. G. MacGuigan, S.J. for his excellent photography and all round assis- tance. Thanks go also to the contributors from the various societies and the many typists who aided the Review staff in the last frenzied hours of activity. Good Luck. — JAMES LANTHIER — vi