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

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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

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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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The annual retreat began on Monday of Holy Week, April 14. The exer- cises were conducted by Rev. William Stanton, S. J. A temporary altar was erected in the Assembly Hall, where the various exercises of the retreat were held and Mass offered every morning at nine o’clock. The Mass of Communion was offered by Rev. Father Rector, after which the students breakfasted in the library, and indulged in the usual speeches and cheers. There followed the Easter Recess until Friday, April 25. A beautiful May shrine is set up in the Assembly Hall, through the artistic efforts of Messrs. Gibson and Spellissy of Freshman Class. May devotions are being held each day at the beginning of the noon recreation. May 7, Rector’s Day. The Class Presidents called on him to offer the good wishes of the students and an expression of their appreciation of all he had done for the welfare of Loyola. Wednesday, May 21, the Annual Public Debate of the Loyola Literary Union was held at the College Hall, Calvert Street. The debaters were Messrs. Coolahan and Watson, for the affirmative, and Messrs. McWilliams and O’Brennan, for the negative. The judges awarded the medal to Mr. Watson. Wednesday, May 28, is scheduled for the Oratorical Contest. There will be solemn closing of the month of May on Saturday May 31st, with sermon by Father Delihant and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament by Rev. Father Rector. Examinations which are to begin that same day will continue during the ensuing week. Pentecost Sunday, June 8, will be the general communion in honor of St. Aloysius. Breakfast will be served on the lawn. Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- day evenings will be devoted to the festivities of a garden party. Thursday, June 12, at 4 P. M., ground will be broken for the new gymnasium. Commence- ment exercises will follow on the College Campus. 20