Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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FL Message Flrom Obe Rector HAVE been requested by the Editors to address a few words to all the Boys, past and present, who hail Loyola as their Alma Mater. The Rector speaks in the name of the Faculty, as well as in his own, and on an occasion li ke this he speaks not merely for the present but also for the past. All but one of the six who preceded me in this office, and in whose name I speak, have passed to eternity. To the Old Boys I would say: “Hold fast to the lessons you have learned at Loyola, be loyal to one another and to your Alma Mater. Years bring their changes to a Faculty, but not to the spirit of the College, which remains the same. Keep in touch with the College and remember that a warm welcome awaits you there.” To the Present Boys I must repeat what I so often tell them in my monthly talks: ‘You are the College; not bricks and stones, not play- grounds, not books and apparatus, not even the staff, but you—the student body—with your esprit de corps and your traditions, make up the College. To the Boys of past generations I can truthfully say that you are worthy of them.” ord

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G Th c G Lopola College —— Review EDITORIAL Nineteen years have flown by since Loyola College first opened its doors to a little band of eager students. Many are the faces that have since then gazed upon its class-room walls, first in the old building on the corner of Bleury and St. Catherine Streets, then in the present structure on Drummond Street. Many are they who have gone forth ‘rom Loyola to take their places in the various professions and the many departments of trade and commerce. Loyola Old Boys are scattered’ throughout Canada and the United States. A good number are at present fighting the battles of the Empire in Flanders, while others are even now on their way to the scene of combat. It is to create a closer bond of union among the Loyola Old Boys by keep- ing alive in them the spirit and memory of their College years, and to stir up among the present students a greater eagerness for literary production, as well as a certain amount of emulation, that the “LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW” is intended. Though the difficulties met with in getting out this first number of the REVIEW cast many a dark cloud over the project, our confidence never wavered for a moment that in the end our efforts would meet with some measure of success, that the “Loyola College Review,” if once fairly launched, would receive a hearty welcome from Loyola boys, past and present. We shall not only record the events which take place yearly within the College circle, but shall strive to make the REVIEW a medium of information wherein the Old Boy may find facts of interest about every other Old Boy who is making his way in the world. The first part of our task will, we feel, grow easier from year to year, as the students through practice gain experience and confidence. For the second part we need the co-operation of the Loyola Old Boys’ Association and of all past students of the College, wherever they may be. Any news item, great or trifling, will always be gratefully received and will help to add interest to our pages. We have tried to make the REVIEW representative of Loyola in all its departments. In its columns will be found contributions from the Old Boys, the College Course, the Grammar Course, and even from the lower classes. We have full confidence that with the ready and willing spirit of Loyola all will continue to respond generously and do everything in their power to make the “LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW” a success. wh ORENOY THE EDITORS. eecre 1 Contemporary Introduction f By Ann Morency ’72

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— STRIKE, AUTUMN 1969 December 6th, 1972. Dear Student: Everybody tells a college president that he is a fool, a kamikaze pilot, a utopian or something else uncomplimentary. When I say everybody , I mean government, business, radicals, be ginners, veterans, patriots, students, senior professors, thinkers, freaks, anti-intellectuals, foreigners, well, everybody. There is nothing personal in this as I read it. It is more a judgment against the university, its penchant for substituting rhetoric for record of achievement, the irrelevance of its goals and the ineptness of its methods. Actually, most people care little about the university. Those who want structures destroyed over in their corner of campus are zealous beyond belief in imposing restrictions on others. For example, students have argued for freedom and maturity of students by opposing the grading system, curricular patterns, compulsory courses but they, and their allies, do not hesitate to lay mandatory regulations on professors. And those who want structures retained at the height of barriers vote for their own acquired privilege. Thus, the specialist in any academic discipline raises his knowledge and experience to the status of dogma. Structures provide only one example, there are count- less others. What is disturbing about the debate on structure, or decision- making or any other phase of university life is that answers fly furiously, slick with sophistry; and there is no time to hear, let alone ask, questions about higher education. No matter whether we pursue the traditional methods of education or strive for new ones, no matter whether our education is structured or unstructured, there will always remain some basic questions for each one of us to answer. Some of these questions I leave with you in their barest outline. What is the nature of man? Who am I? What do I believe in? What do I want out of life? How can I best contribute to the good life or the just society or the Kingdom of God? Patrick G. Malone, S.J., President. he ; Tat ele 4 ariel