Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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jyM A Eogola ®oUfae Annual. 1 J (i;hf (£1300 of 1914. I N September, of the year 1906, almost eight years ago, our class, the class of 1914 was formed. Looking ahead, the eight years of study we were to follow seemed a terrible ordeal, our now fast approaching graduation a goal, that perhaps, might never be reached. But now those all-too-short years have rolled by, and the race is almost run. Close before us looms the goal of our endeavors ; and it is with hearts full of gratitude to “Alma Mater,’’ and the kindly men of learning who have labored so unceasingly to train our minds and wills, that we are now preparing to fare forth into the busy thor- oughfares of life. When in 1906, we first entered Loyola, the present First Year High Clas.s was known as Fourth Academic, and here it was that we began our course of studies. To Father M. A. Purtell, our teacher in this first year, is due a debt of gratitude for the thoroughness with which we were introduced to the study of the Greek and Latin classics. His methods, though always kindly, never relaxed in strictness. Forty strong were we in this delightful class, and forty “stronger” were we in will and intellect on our first commencement day. Due to the illness of our professor, Mr. Charles Henessy, now Father Henessy, our second year was not as peacefully spent as the first. During the absence of Mr. Henessy, how- ever, we had the great good fortune of being under the tutor- (9)

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AUGUST J. BOURBON, President.

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ANDREW J. HARRISON.