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

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Loyola College FOUNDATION. Loyola College was founded in September, 1852, and is conducted by Fathers of the Society of Jesus. In April, 1853, the institution was endowed by the General Assembly of Maryland with full power “to confer any degree or degrees in any of the Faculties, Arts and Sciences,” which are usually permitted to be conferred in any colleges or universities of the United States. On July 6, 1921, the estate known as Evergreen, Jr., was purchased as a site for the College department of Loyola. The property is situated in the most exclu- sive residential section of Baltimore. It has a frontage of over 500 feet on Charles Street Avenue, 1250 feet on Cold Spring Lane and about 670 feet on Reservoir Avenue, the fourth boundary touching the Garrett estate, known as Evergreen. An area of nineteen acres gives ample room for future buildings and extensive athletic grounds. A beautiful mansion, built in the Elizabethan style, provides lecture halls and faculty offices sufficient for present needs. The new college has an elevation of almost 340 feet above sea level. It is three and a half miles from City Hall and easily accessible by the York Road car and by the Guilford car, the terminus of the latter being but about three minutes walk from the school. An attractive feature of the property is an Elizabethan garden, its long lane bordered with mounds and pyramids of boxwood, leading to an avenue of Lom- bardy poplars. Parallel with the eastern end of the garden will be located the chemistry building, work on which will begin immediately after Commencement. The architect’s sketch show ' s a structure in the Collegiate Gothic style. The central portion, which is of three stories, and two wings of tw r o stories each, give a total frontage of 147 feet. The depth of the building is 64 feet. The first and second floors have an area of over 8100 square feet each, and the third floor, over 4200 feet. The plan provides for laboratories in Inorganic, Analytic and Organic Chemistry, in Physics and Biology, as w ell as lecture rooms for all of these branches. The building will be ready for occupancy by the mid-year. The completed plans for the new Loyola include a gymnasium, provision for the erection of wffiich is being made by the Alumni, a college chapel and other buildings. The athletic field, wffiich will be ready for use by the opening of school ,is a tract of over six acres, surrounded by a quarter mile track.

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PROPOSED PLAN OF NEW COLLEGE

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THE GARRETT MANSION Now Temporarily in Use for College Class Rooms GENERAL SCOPE AND STUDIES. The College course which leads to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts consists of four classes — Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior. It embraces the study of History, Mathematics and the Natural Sciences; the English, Latin, Greek, Ger- man, Spanish and French languages; Rhetoric, Poetry and Elocution; Logic, Metaphysics, Experimental Psychology, Natural Theology and Ethics. Catholic students are required to attend weekly lectures in Christian Doctrine and the Evidences of Religion and to make the annual Retreat for three days. From these exercises non-Catholics are exempted. SYSTEM OF EDUCATION. The educational system of Loyola College is substantially that of all other Colleges of the Society of Jesus. Education is understood by us as the full and harmonious development of the intellectual, moral and physical powers of man. It is not, therefore, mere acqui- sition of knowledge. This is a secondary, or a concomitant, result of education. Learning is an instrument of education, not its end. The end is culture, and mental and moral development. 6