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

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To the Graduates of LOYOLA UNIVERSITY Receving a Degree for academic study at the undergraduate level sometimes signifies the completion of one's education. In reality, it is but the beginning, From thence the student commences to learn the application of the lessons to be drawn from the experience of the past as he has studied it, and the invoking of the unchanging principles of revelation, philosophy and history. These principles and studies supply a spring-board for the learning to be acquired from con- tacts with men and circumstances. The mind of man and his habits may change, but the fundamental principles upon which right and error are determined, are unchangeable, It is our earnest wish and prayer that your fundamental train- ing at Loyola will make you apt students of the world and leaders ' J. Francis A. Mc I ntyre ofa better world. Archbishop of Los Angeles

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Wisdom in administration--what is it? lt very probably constitutes the key need and the single quality most important to every phase of twentieth century society. For in an era characterized by forces and growth of titanic proportions but which is, at the some time, all too obviously tottering on the brink of chaos and revolution . . . in such a time it is the ability to channel forces and to guide growth to their proper ends that will save man and society from ruin. Thus administration has come to be the one great significant force in shaping the academic and financial destinies of educa- tional systems and institutions. ln school systems all over the world, in every uni- versity under the sun, there must be the channeling and guiding force of adminis- tration. lt is ever present, its culmination in the classroom, channeling the floodwaters of fact and guiding the delicate process of growth in the learner. lt is ever present to make college or kindergarten-any college or any kindergarten-what it is. But at Loyola University in particular is the role of administration a weighty one. For administration at Loyola must be di- rected not only towards the maintenance of such things as academic and financial integrity, but also towards the nourishment of an intangible, nevertheless distinctive moral atmosphere. It is administration for the Citizen of Two Worlds. After they have left Loyola, her gradu- ates will look back upon her often. Then, with the advantages conferred by perspec- tive and bases for comparison, they will see with a clarity that increases with the years exactly how the administration of their Alma Mater was directed towards a dual goal, that of dual citizenship for Loyola's sons. Then they will remember. They will remember that Loyola's Presi- dent, who sat at the council table of many a learned and important association through many a long morning or afternoon, began each day by saying Mass. They will remember that Loyola's deans and department heads, absorbed as they were in questions of curricula and credits, began their day and lived it with spiritual overtones. They will remember that at Loyola an annual retreat was fully as important as a final examination. Then they will real- ize what the men upon these pages strived for.

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TO THE CLASS OF l95O Throughout the length and breadth of our land graduating seniors of hundreds of high schools and colleges will be warned this June in many a commencement ad- dress that they are entering upon a troubled and uncertain world. The threat of the H-bomb, the uneasy international situation, these are but samples of the indications which will be brought forward in proof of the thesis that we live in trying times. If there is cause for alarm, there is also reason in your case for a quiet confidence. You have majored in different fields of study, but'in each instance an effort has been made to integrate human learning and human life through the highest of the human sciences--philosophy. As philosophy itself is incomplete in the order established by God, some study of the divine science of theology has been introduced to give a coherent, unified world-view. To this speculative information practical training in the formation of character has been added. One who has profited from this discipline should be pre- pared to meet the tests of life, however difficult and exacting they may be. He should be ready to live this year and every year as a holy year. He should approach Loyola's ideal of the complete man-a citizen of two worlds. The members of the faculty of the University join me in congratulating you on the occasion of your graduation. They join me, too, in expressing the hope that the spiritual and intellectual weapons in your arsenal will carry you successfully through holy years into everlasting holiness and happiness. J ,fy REV. CHARLES S. CASASSA, S.J. President