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

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October glided quietly by, marked only by Columbus Day celebration. There was news of big things to come at the approach of November. Sunday after- noons of that month, students gathered in the library with their fair friends and discussed plans for the great bazaar to be held in the old gymnasium on Calvert Street, during Thanksgiving week. The great event came off in due time and was an unparalleled success. The boys were proud of their table, not only for its Christmasy appearance, but for the substantial sum it realized. This was due to the energy and untiring zeal of the students and their friends who took part in the work. The beginning of December found the laboratories in the new chemistry in operation. The non-chemists had to bide their time, while they felt it was only fitting and proper that chemists should be the first to occupy a building that will ultimately be theirs, exclusively. Christmas vacations were soon at hand and we were assured that the old year witnessed the end of our sojourn in the Garrett mansion. Fume Hoods — Chemistry Laboratory 17

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Kelly, Charles L. King, J. Maurice King, Julius J. Leyko, Francis K. Morris, James G. O’Neill, and Charles H. Yingling. Bachelor of Science — William R. Geraghty. Pre-Medical Certificates — T. Nelson Carey, A. Chase Thomas, Boniface A. Miller, and Thomas P. Doughney, Jr. The third year of Loyola at Evergreen began quietly but with an under- current of expectation on September 24, 1923. There was promise of a year of unusual activity. A marked increase in the student body, an awakened interest in Athletics, the new Science Building, which (from the outside, at least,) looked as if it ought to be ready for occupancy, all these things tended to renew the hopes of those who returned that morning to the old Garrett mansion. Old students and new were welcomed in the library by the President of the College and faculty members. There followed the time-honored “Schola Brevis”, and the scholastic year, 1923-24, had formally begun. Friday of the same week, there was the Mass of the Holy Ghost in the Chapel, so beautifully furnished by the first students at Evergreen, two years ago. The following Friday the ostensorium presented to the College Chapel by the Class of 1926, in their Freshman year, was used for the first time in the Students’ Chapel at the First Friday devotions. The first actual use of the Ostensorium was made by his Grace, Archbishop Curley on the previous Sunday, September 30, when Benediction was given a congregation of more than 10,000 devout worshippers assembled before a large altar erected on our athletic field at Evergreen. The ostensorium calls for a word of comment. It is 18 inches high and is made entirely of gold and silver gold plated. Above the luna is a medallion in silver of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; on either side, medallions of St. Ignatius, founder of the Society of Jesus, and of St. Francis Xavier to whom the Chapel is dedicated; below the luna, a similar medallion of St. Aloysius, Patron of Students. The cross at the top of the ostensorium is enriched by five precious stones, a beautiful diamond sparkling in the centre. Amethysts, clusters of rubies and garnets, with other stones, are artistically arranged on the column and face of the ostensorium. At the base are two large opals. All of these stones were taken from jewelry presented by the class and by friends. The “custodia” for the ostensorium was made from che melting down of this jewelry. The base of the “custodia” is of silver, and the upper portion of gold. Congratulations to tne Class of 1926 on their generous spirit. 16

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Friday, January 4, 1924! Red-letter day in the history of Loyola! We return after the Christmas recess and enter the “George C. Jenkins Science Building.” Yes, this is the place. The words are carved in stone over the massive oaken doorway. We enter. Shades of Calvert Street. Is this Loyola ? To the right there is a door marked “Information.” In the little room we notice a large clock which we learn rings all class and recess bells and regulates the clocks on each of the four corridors. To the left, we read on the glass paneled door, the inscription: “Office of the Dean.” Good things to know where that room is, anyhow. We pass through a double swinging door, which seems to be nothing but glass and hasten across the corridor and down the stairway straight in front of us. We turn to our right down the corridor and as we open the door, we wonder if we have dropped into the lavatory of some, big hotel. We will go back, but by this other door. It ushers us into the locker room. Conveniently situated, we think. Out into the corridor again and there facing us is the recreation room, where later came the Brunswick-Balke pool table, the piano, the richly upholstered furniture and other attractions. Adjoining this room is the students’ library, attrac- tively furnished and well supplied with books and the current magazines. And what is this large room to the east? Why, a regular cafeteria. Big lunch room chairs, and tables and everything. What would Johnnie Welch think of this? It is getting near class-time. We must hurry up stairs. We are back on the first floor again. The doors to the west are marked Analytic and Organic Chemis- try Laboratory, to the east, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory. We can only just look in. What equipment! What light! Three cheers for Father McLoughlin, who planned it all ! Here to the south is an immense room, marked “Assembly Hall.” To the second floor now. In front of us, to the north, is “Sophomore” and adjoining it, “Freshman” Class. This big room to the south, over the Assembly Hall, is for lectures in Physics, the inscription on the door to the east reads: “Physics Laboratory.” But what is this at the west end of the corridor? To our left, a class room, and straight ahead, the gem of the building, the Chemistry Lecture Room. Upstairs now — it’s nearly nine o’clock and we haven’t found Junior yet. Here it is to the south. Philosophy. It is flanked on the west by a small class room and on the east by a dissecting room for Biology. The laboratory for Biology occupies the entire north side of this third floor. Bells are ringing on every corridor. It is nine o’clock, the morning of January 4, 1924, and Loyola College is in full swing in the George C. Jenkins Science Building. January was an interesting month. The novelty of the new building helped to make pleasant a period that is often wearisome and that brings with it the grind from the mid-year exams. 18