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

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The History of a Year E shall begin our chronicle of 1923-24 by a narrative of the closing hours of 1922-23 — the 71st Annual Commencement, Tuesday, June 12. A platform was erected in front of the Garrett Mansion, so as to form a continuation of the portico of that building. A large audience gathered on the lawn, while on the platform besides members of the Alumni Association and the faculty, were Mr. George C. Jenkins, donor of the Science Building, Rev. Joseph A. McEneany, S. J., President of Loyola, his Excellency Albert C. Ritchie, Governor of Maryland, who addressed the graduates and his Grace Most Reverend Michael J. Curley, D. D., Archbishop of Baltimore, who presented the diplomas and other awards. Governor Ritchie in his address to the graduates advised them to enter public life and to run for political office. “You young men,” said His Excellency, “have had high ideals held before you throughout your high school and collegiate courses. Your training has fitted you for the taking up of affairs of public life. With such ideals and such training you are well prepared to help your fellow-men. You have been taught to be unselfish, to love your country and your state; you should prove that your educa- tion has not been in vain. “The country ' has a right to expect service from you and you have a right to render that service. Go forth, today, prepared to do all that you can do in the interests of country, state and city. Enter the public arena — enter it imbued with the desire to serve humanity. 12

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To Start New Unit at Loyola College (From The Baltimore Sun, June 1, 1924) ROUND for the $200,000 alumni building and gymnasium of Loyola College, Charles Street Avenue and Cold Spring Lane, will be broken June 12 in connection with the commencement exercises of the institution. The ceremony will mark the completion of a successful campaign for a building fund that was conducted under the direction of the Rev. Eugene DeL. McDonnell and Francis X. Milholland, president of the alumni association. Invitations to attend the ceremony have been sent to all contributors. The alumni building and gymnasium constitute the second unit in the building program of the new Loyola College at Evergreen. The first unit, the George C. Jenkins Science Hall, was completed last summer and was opened to college classes in December. This structure is said to be one of the most complete of its kind in the country. A library, lounge, smoking and billiard rooms, gymnasium and swimming pool will occupy the east section of the first floor and will have a spacious bay window overlooking the athletic grounds. West of the main entrance on the first floor will be the loungeroom, the largest room in the building, with frontage south and west. This room also will be used as an entertainment and lecture room, as well as for a meeting place for executives of the alumni association. The smoking and billiard rooms will be in the east section of the second floor. The gymnasium will house swimming pool, shower baths, locker rooms, hand- ball courts, team dressing rooms, trophy and college athletic committee rooms. The floor of the gymnasium will afford space sufficient for two basketball courts. An indoor running track, level with the second floor of the alumni building, also will be provided. This may be utilized as a gallery for spectators during the basketball season. In the new college group the Jesuit fathers plan to give Baltimore an institu- tion similar to Georgetown, Fordham and Holy Cross universities. Work on the new unit will be pushed under the supervision of the Rev. Joseph A. McEneany, president of the college; the Rev. Father McDonnell and the Rev. Joseph I. Ziegler, moderator of the alumni association. 11

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“Some there may be among you who may shrink from the thought of the criticism that may be hurled at you. You may consider the criticism that other officials have had to endure. Remember this : If all the things that are said of some public men were true, they would not be worthy to be sons of their mothers. You must expect criticism — unjust criticism, but if you are honest, if you are loyal and true to your conscience and your convictions, you will forget the unjust and the unkind words and you will find real joy in rendering service to your fellow-man. “That should be your chief incentive to enter public life — the rendering of service to humanity.” Archbishop Curley told the graduates that they must be prepared to give to the world generously of the education they had received. They had been afforded exceptional opportunities, had received wonderful educational facilities, had been taught by a distinguished body of scholars. They should see to it that the world derived the benefit. They were not to be miserly and to hoard up their learning while the world looked on, deprived of the benefit of their education and the ideals which they had been taught by their Jesuit professors to follow. Section of Library and Reading Room 13