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

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tories, splendidly equipped amphitheatres for lectures, arranged to best advan- tage, library, club-room, lunch room, all was as expected. From top to bottom all was as perfect as ceaseless planning and toil could make it. Mr. Jenkins’ magnificent gift to Loyola now stands, a monument to his generosity and love. He was the one who made it possible, but having done this, it was the work of others to carry on and assure that all would be done in a fitting manner. The wish of the donor was the satisfying of those who would be the future users of the building; as a result the man was chosen to control and direct the interior design of the building, for whom such detail would have the most interest. Primarily intended as the Chemistry building of the future Loyola group, no one more fitted than Father Henry McLoughlin, S. J., could have been found to perform this office. Enthusiastic over the prospect and willing to undertake what he knew would be a difficult task, he immediately threw himself whole-heartedly into the work. The end is not yet but he still continues with the same enthusiasm that marked his entrance into the project. Not only the faculty, but every student, considers that a great step forward has been taken, along the road to future greatness for our Alma Mater. The first, the hardest, was to obtain Evergreen; the second, nearly as difficult, as events proved, was the completion of the building in which we now gather. In the normal order of things the worst is over, the next achievement will no doubt be the early completion of the Alumni Building and Gymnasium. While it may have its unforeseen difficulties, these cannot approach in magnitude the trials which beset the way of those who were striving to give Loyola its new hold on life. As building after building rises to grace the growing institution and to accommodate the increase in student body which will naturally follow, perhaps the fact will be lost sight of that we owe the greatest debt to those interested and able persons who made the foundation firm and lasting. It is hard to realize as we hark back that four short years ago the College department of Loyola occupied three or four small rooms in the downtown building, which, large as it is, is already being pressed to provide room for the rapidly growing enrollment of the High School. The history of Loyola, however, is the history of Jesuit institutions throughout the world; ever humble in origin, it is not long before the good which they spread about them begins to reap its harvest of good will, and with good will growth is the natural outcome. As the years go on and Loyola takes its place among the larger institutions of the East, the George C. Jenkins Science Building will be remembered as the corner stone of the edifice which will be builded about it, an edifice of educa- tion, to which Youth will flock, there to be molded in the proper lines and sent forth again to add to the glory of Alma Mater. 9 W. T. B.

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The Green and Gray ' (Formerly “The Loyola College Annual”) ' The Green and Gran is the only publication issued by the students. Its purpose is to encourage literary efforts and to chronicle matters of interest pertaining to the Col- lege. Ordinarily it will be edited by the Junior Class. 1924 Editor-in-Chief W. Taylor Bouchelle, ’25 Assistant Editors Frank C. Horigan, ’25 Malcolm E. Rennie, ' 25 L. Leo Ireton, ’25 Gerald S. O’Brennan, ’25 James A. Penn, ’25 William J. Taymans, ’25 Business Manager Francis E. King, ’25 H 5 4 The Founders of The New Loy ola No one not intimately connected with the College could possibly appreciate the feelings of all concerned when at last on January 4 the doors of the George C. Jenkins Building were thrown wide for the first time to admit the student body, to continue their work therein. Long months we stood about and watched one stone rise above another, unable to speed the work except by thought and desire, until at last our dream was a dream no longer, but a reality. Built in such a manner and of such material as to draw admiration from those capable of judging of such things, as well as from the lay mind, it must be confessed howevei that the students’ interest was rather on what was inside. Accustomed and pleased as we were with the opportunity to pursue our studies at Evergreen, and to use the mansion which graces the grounds as a place of class-rooms, we realized that this arrangement was but temporary. Always before us we had f he picture of what was to come, and it was to this that we turned with pent-up expectation when at last it became a fact. No disappointment was in store — everything was as promised, and the promises had been large. Spacious labora-

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Thec lumni Building and Gymnasium On June twelfth, ground will be broken for another unit in the new and greater Loyola. What more fitting occasion than this to say a few words of praise and gratitude to those who made this accomplishment possible? In existence since 1852, although at no time a large institution as the term is usually conceived, our College has an Alumni Body of some 5,000, of which a large number are active members of the Association, or easily accessible. It is to these that we turn when we need assistance or advice from more experienced minds, and they never fail to respond. When Loyola felt new life course through her veins at breathing the clear air of Evergreen for the first time, the Alumni Body was the first to rejoice that advantages such as they had never known were going to be the lot of future students. What could they do to help? Could they not give something to their Alma Mater as a lasting reminder of their love? The Alumni Memorial Building and Gymnasium was the outcome of thought upon the subject, and a mammoth drive was started to raise the necessary funds. Under the enthusiastic direction of Father Ziegler, Moderator of the Alumni Association, of F. X. Milhollana, the president, and of Father McDonnell, himself an old student of Loyola, the Alumni rallied to the occasion, and in a short time enough funds were obtained to warrant immediate starting of the work. Every stone that rises above another as the building nears completion, will be one more bond of fealty between College and past students, between past students and present ones, between all who ever have or ever will come under the benign influence of Loyola. One had but to attend the rallies which were held every week during the drive to realize that here was something new in the annals of Loyola. Old grads mingled with new grads and with undergraduates. A new spirit had entered into the whole body, a spirit of co-operation, destined, we are sure, to last as long as Loyola lasts, and to grow as she grows. One saw pledges of material assistance pouring in, not only from those who had been long in the field of commerce or profession, but from men who were scarce started on their career, yes and from those who were yet students of both high school and college. It is a well known fact that the success of any institution of learning depends in great measure upon this union, and with such union so apparently assured, there is no one who does not look to the future but with the greatest confidence. W. T. B. APPRECIATION The editors express their sincere appreciation and thanks to the following members of Sophomore Class for their valuable assistance in the publishing of this issue of The Green and Gray: to Joseph V. Abromaitis, for the clever cartoons of this year’s Senior Class; to Leland G. Frierson, for the attractive cover design; to J. Paul Coolahan and George E. Urban, for aid furnished the business management; also to Francis Ireton and John Spellissy, of Freshman Class, for helpful co-operation. 10