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

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FOREWORD : Owing to local labor troubles, the Annual for 1921 contains only the notes of the College Class- es and Fourth Year High School. We are grateful to the students who prepared essays, stories, poems. Class Notes and Athletic Notes for the larger Annual we had in mind. Our sincere thanks are also due Mr. Frank Vinton of the Baltimore City Printing and Bind- ing Co., without whose kindly interest and active co-operation, even this abbreviated Annual could never have been issued.

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(2ll|p (ClaBB nt The sun is sinking to its rest. School days are drawing to a close and anon the moon of future years shall shine by reflected light of righteousness inculcated in us while we served our apprenticeship as students. This is the last, the twilight of our happiest times and presently we shall enter upon that period we all must encounter, must combat and, must conquer. Through all these years have we yearned for the days when We would separate ourselves from the protecting hand of our Alma Mater and by our own self confidence compete with the world. And now the time has arrived. Yet before we enter upon this life of success or failure, let us retrospect, let us draw aside the veil enshrouding the days of the past and for a moment revel in the joys of our happiest moments. Like the fledglings in the nest of the mother w e timidly took our places as “Freshies” in High School. Here under the guiding influence of the kindly spirit of Fr. Delihant we improved rapidly. How fortunate we were to have the moulds of our future characters entrusted to the hands of this skilled soldier of Christ. So pleasantly and profitably did this first year pass that before we realized it Mr. John Murray was calling our much enlarged class to order. Mr. Murray beheld a gathering of some fifty freshly tanned, eager faces. Who can forget the many fruitful hours we spent that year? Hours that were it not for our able teacher’s peripatetic method of instilling the fundamentals of Greek would have indeed been dull. It was also our good fortune that year to have as our instructor that quite, unassuming, patient, generous gentleman, Mr. James J. Becker, S. J. It was due to his ability as a teacher that the abstract principles of algebra became concrete and interesting. Even through the more theoretical subject of geometry, this interest held and our knowledge increased. The autumn of 1915 found us sustaining an avalanche of work that had rolled upon us. Then did the words of Fr. Delihant return, “Hard work, fellows, that is the secret of happiness.” And happy we were during the next two years under the guiding influence of that eminent professor and sincere friend, Mr. Francis W. O’Hara, S. J. No time of day was too early, none too late to call upon 5