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

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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

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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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The second semester opened on February 2. The students gathered in the Assembly Hall and listened to the reading of examination results. Father Rector gave his first address to the students in their new college home and his encouraging remarks were heard with attentive appreciation. February 29 brought the annual College Prom, held in the Southern Hotel, for the benefit of the Baseball Association. It was one of the most successful social events conducted by the students for many a long day. The outstanding event in March was the novena in honor of St. Francis Xavier. As every Baltimorean knows The Novena is the big religious service of the city. It was quite appropriate that the first religious service to be held in the new building should be in honor of Baltimore’s favorite saint and the patron of our own chapel. April 1st, the weather man fooled us all with eleven inches of snow, and this, too, as the first flowers of spring were appearing. Organic Chemistry Laboratory 19