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

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The Alumni Library HE Library will occupy the East section of the first floor and will face Loyola Parkway and Evergreen Avenue. A spacious bay window will look out on the Athletic Field. This room will be made very attractive with its splendid collection of books and current magazines and periodicals. The Library will undoubtedly be the most frequented and most used room in the Alumni Building. 24

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To the Alumni and all Former Students of Loyola N these pages you will find pictured your future home and the home of all Loyola men, the first home indeed they have had, and a home in every way worthy of you and them. In it will be combined every convenience and comfort that could make a home attractive. Herein you will sing and dance and play your games, exercise and enjoy a cool plunge in the big pool. Here you will meet old friends and make new ones. Here too you will come from the heat and bustle of the noisy town, to forget your troubles amid the flowers and the calm soothing silence of the fresh country air of Evergreen. Here you will enjoy the intellectual, social and athletic activities of Loyola men, learn only what is good and wholesome and grow young again in body and mind. Look at it, gentlemen ! The Beautiful Alumni Building facing Loyola Parkway, and the spacious Gymnasium back of it. Whether a graduate or a student at Loyola for only a short period, this beautiful home can be yours to enjoy, if only you help us to build it for you. You are hereby given the opportunity of joining Loyola men all over the country in raising this monument of their affection for Loyola. It is an opportunity you should be glad to accept and one which all who appreciate the work the Society of Jesus has done in Maryland during the past year, and can and will do in Maryland during the years to come, will accept. This building will be the contribution of the Old Boys towards the rearing of The Greater Loyola College which The Fathers of The Society of Jesus have had the courage to begi n and which you are invited to help them finish. 23

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The Lounge Room HE Lounge Room will occupy the first floor of the Alumni Building, west of the main entrance. It will have a frontage on the South and West, facing Loyola Parkway, now known as Cold Spring Lane and will be the largest room in the building. Here, when tired out, or in pensive mood, you will rest quietly and undisturbed away from the smoke, the dust and the noise of the city. This room can serve as a Reception Room, a Lecture Hall, or an Alumni Meeting Room, and on Entertainment Evenings, can be used by the Ladies of the Alumni. East of this room an entrance will lead directly to the Gymnasium floor. 25