Loyola University of Los Angeles - Lair Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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ln spite of all that has been said about it- books, stories, and dramatic produc- tions written with it as a background- motion pictures filmed around it, and public buildings and the like commemorating it- too many people have begun to forget the world war so few years past us. And, for- getting it, they have forgotten its dead. Yet we cannot pray for those whom we do not remember. We cannot pray TO those whom we do not remember. And, that we should pray FOR our war dead is scarcely more certain a fact-- lt is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead -than that we should pray TO them- Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends. So it is that both humbly and proudly, and with deepest reverence, the LAIR takes this year of Our Lord l95O as occasion to remem- ber all those who fell in the late war, bring- 'ihg them to mind by means of its special dedication to Loyolans who gave their lives for their country and for their God. lt is easy enough to discover that thirty- seven Loyola men died in World War II, to read the plaques commemorating them, and to recall the relatives or friends whom we number among them. But it is extreme- ly difficult to fully realize the implications of these things. They are too apt to remain mere facts-unless we reflect upon them. Think, then, of Loyola's war dead as your own fellow classmen, think of them, perhaps, as yourselves. Just as you, through the academic year l949-l95O, sat in the Lair 'between classes and pleasantly talked the time away, browsed and stud- ied by turns in the library, or passed lunch hours in the sunshiny breezes of Loyola's campus, just so, in an academic year only a short while earlier, did certaintothers just like you sit in the Lair, stand in the 'li- brary, and pause on this windy hill-top campus awhile, before -moving on to the war and to their deaths. These men were just like us. We are just like them. And just as they died, so could we have died, so may we yet die. We may die just as much in the midst of human plans and ambitions, may we but die as bravely. 5

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The Complete Man is an able man, clear in thought, rich in vision, vigorous in act, he is a man learned in the arts and sciences, a student of history with a sharp, sound view of his own times, a right interpretation of the past, a true concept of the future, he is a man who lives fully and vividly, gladly ac- cepting the challenge of life, exulting in its adventure, finally-and most important- he is a good man: warm of heart, gentle, seeking the right, charitable in thought as well as deed-in a word, a Christian gen- tleman. Loyola develops the Complete Man by training his faculties-his mind, his imagi- nation, his will, by instructing him in right knowledge, by making him at home in the arts and sciences, by preparing him for serv- ice to his country and his fellow-man, teach- ing him his rights and duties as a member of society, and, by inspiring him to right liv- ing, making him aware ofthe obligations of his immortality, and setting before him the teaching, the example, and the divine bene- ficence of Christ. Loyola approaches this difficult fOSK of developing the Complete Man with four cen- turies of the experience of Jesuit education behind it. Loyola is modern but not experi- mental, scientific but not mechanistic, cul- tural but not visionary, youthful but not erratic, realistic but not pagan. Loyola aims to train a man for success and possible greatness, but whatever a man's worldly achievement, Loyola's training in- sists that his design of living include the ful- fillment of his obligations toward God and his own soul, prepares him thus to be in the best sense, a Complete Man, a Citizen of Two Worlds. 7