Loyola University Chicago - Loyolan Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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FOREWORD Any student who has spent his college years under the direction of the Iesuits, and received the benefits of their long years of training and study, will testify to the fact that they are men of foresight and capability, ready to seize any opportunity to further the cause of youth and education. Back in 1870, Father Damen, Loyola's founder and president, showed the ingenuity and devotion which was to characterize the future directors of the policies of Loyola University. The school was known in those days as St. Ignatius College, and was situated on the out- skirts of early Chicago on west Twelfth Street. A rough and rarely used roadway separated the college building from the parish church. Father Damen went before the council and convinced the city fathers that the street was more of a detriment than an asset, and that it should be closed. When the council decided in his favor, after having made an investigation, he rallied his forces and by midnight had a shift of workmen construct- ing a fence by torchlight across both ends of the street so that the order of the council would be firmly sealed. It would be unbecoming to mention here the neighbor- hood riot which ensued the next morning. At any rate the west wing of the college was soon extended over the dis uted territory, and from that time the growth of the college was sure and rapid. The 1950 LOYOLAN is not intended to be an histori- cal account of the institution and the men who made it, but it does attempt to show that Loyola University is finishing its sixtieth year of progress-an asset to the city of Chicago and a realization of the dreams of its vigorous founder, Fr. Damen.

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