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

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§mm ClaHB The Class gf 1924 N the evening of June 14th, 1920, twenty-seven eager young men received the diploma which certified that “they had completed the prescribed course of studies in Loyola High School, had satisfied the usual requirements for admission to College, and had therefore been admitted without condition to the Freshman Class of Loyola College.” Of the twenty-seven, twelve returned in September: Edward Brannan, Peter Coughlin, Roger Davis, Leonard Doran, William Hisky, Irving Hoen, 21

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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

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Bernard Kirby, Joseph Manns, Robert O’Conor, John O’Shea, James Ryan, and John Schonowski. Our professor during the first year in college was the cultured and genial Father Hargadon, who strove to impart to us an appreciation of Horace, Euripides and Shakespeare, and to infuse some of his own poetry into our prosaic breasts. Who can ever forget the Trigonometry and Analytical Geometry classes presided over by that benevolent despot — Father Henry W. McLoughlin, S. J. ? There is not one among us who has not felt the barbs of his righteous wrath, who has not been pricked by the shafts of his kindly humor. But we also penetrated beneath and saw that under the stern exterior he presented to us there was a kind, a gentle, and a loving heart. Fathers Thomas J. Delihant, S. J., and John P. Meagher, S. J., were our professors in the class of Evidences, the former for the first, and the latter for the second semester, while Father William F. Jordan, S. J., lectured to us on Modern European History. Irving Hoen had left soon after the opening of school to take up an engineering course at the Catholic University in Washington, so that we numbered eleven at the close of Freshman Year. Ever since we had been at Loyola there had been talk about moving out to Guilford, and from time to time there had been rumors that the occasion was at hand. But after many disappointments we had begun to grow skeptical and hardly dared to hope that the change would be made during our time in school. Great was our surprise and delight, therefore, when in the summer of 1921 we read that the Jesuits had purchased the Garrett estate, Evergreen, Jr., and that the college department was to be located there in the fall. So on the 19th of September we journeyed out to Guilford for the first time and gathered on the campus to greet each other and to express our appreciation and satisfaction at this great step forward to what was to be a new era in the history of Loyola. William Hisky did not return for Sophomore, but his place was taken by Frank Griffin, who had made his freshman year at Holy Cross College, the great boarding college of the Jesuits at Worcester, Massachusetts. Sophomore year was begun under Father Philip M. Finegan, S. J., who was also the new dean at Evergreen; but after several months, the press of his duties as Dean being so great, Father Finegan gave over the class to one of ouit old teachers of High School days, Father Joseph I. Ziegler, S. J. Our history professor for this year was another old friend, Father Joseph J. Ayd, S. J. Since we were using the Garrett residence as a school-building there were no provisions for laboratories at Evergreen, and so we had to travel down to the old building on Calvert Street every Tuesday and Saturday for our Physics and 22