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

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JEROME H. JOYCE, JR

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we shall continue to be loyal to her and her interests, and shall live to help her on in her mighty work. To “Alma Mater’’ and her professors, dear to us from long association, we pay a fond farewell. May their memories remain ever fresh within our minds, and may they, in turn, still continue to cherish the same pleasant memories of the class of 1914. William E. Mackessy, ’14. jFarpuirll ! Time’s up! The last bell Peals out The sad parting knell Of doubt — Give me thy hand, for well I know Through sun or shade, through weal or woe. Through breathless calm or heavy blow. On land — as ocean billows flow — Thy manhood kind will ever show A friendship true where’er you go — Fast friend of my youth. Do well ! Old friend of great truth. Farewell ! George B. Loden, ’16.

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alip i8paaanablettP00 of pparp. Speech delivered by JEROME H. JOYCE, JR., Winner of the Maryland Intercollegiate Oratorical Peace Contest. O much has already been said here and elsewhere on the subject of International Peace that it would be difficult and perhaps presumptuous to attempt to select a phase of the question which has never been treated before. However, there is one particular aspect upon which too much stress cannot be laid, namely: The Reasonableness of Peace — The Logic of Peace. This specific viewpoint penetrates to the very heart and sinew of the whole question, and can be treated and under- stood without the perusal and citation of tiring statistics. The peace movement, as we all understand it, is an organ- ized endeavor to substitute arbitration for force in the adjust- m ent of international problems ; to do between the nations what has already been done within the nations. And it is my pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, to endeavor to show you that this would be a reasonable and just means of settlement. During the ages when barbarism held sway, when one man offhandedly wronged another, the only redress was in physi- cal combat. As likely as not the aggrieved party was subject to the indignity as well as the pain and suffering of defeat and the loss of the object causing the contention. But in the present era of civilization, when one man infringes on the rights of another, the injured party does not employ the (17)