Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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And now, after a short diversion to dedicate our efforts, we proudly present...

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Let’s go. We can’t. Why not? We're waiting for Godot. Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the gravedigger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener. At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. Can you get up? I don’t know. Try. Not now, not now. waiting for godot Cynicism and pessimism among the educated constitute their self-contradiction : After their experience of learning the educated cannot validly negate belief in the mind’s ability to comprehend. After the impact of one truth, of a single good, men cannot reject belief in the possibility of discovering truth. If men create, it cannot be to postulate impossibility of creation. To Godot we dedicate this yearbook —an achievement, thus a statement of man’s ability to work affirmatively for a goal of worth. To a positive Godot, and the future, the working (and not the waiting) of each of us for the realization of our individual ultimates; to the inquisitive and creative, those always open to learning.