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

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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

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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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Chemistry. Our physics instructor was Father Joseph M. Kelley, S. J., who had taught us the same branch in Fourth High; while in the chemistry lecture-room and laboratory Father McLoughlin reigned supreme. Of the eleven who began Sophomore, but six returned the next September as Juniors. Leonard Doran entered St. Mary’s Seminary, Frank Griffin returned to Holy Cross, while Roger Davis, James Ryan, and John Schonowski left school. It was with a feeling of awe and trepidation that we entered upon the study of philosophy, the science of sciences. For we soon discovered what former classes had discovered before us; namely, that all our previous knowledge was as so many individual columns in the structure of knowledge, incomplete in themselves unless joined together at the top by the superstructure of philosophy. Moreover we soon found that in Father Justin J. Ooghe, S. J., we had the ideal professor of philosophy. Lucid in his explanations, sympathetic in his treatment of difficul- ties proposed, ever ready to extend a helping hand whether in class-room or out- side, how shall we ever sufficiently express our gratitude to him? But we intend to show that all his patient and untiring efforts in our behalf, all his labors to form and sharpen our intellect, to train our will and to strengthen our character have not been wholly in vain. During this year we continued making our trips to Calvert Street, on Monday and Wednesday afternoon for Analytical Chemistry, and on Tuesday and Friday afternoon for Physics. Another summer passed and we were seniors. Here our ranks were strengthened by the addition of three new members. During Senior we took Organic Chemistry and Biology, but we did not have to travel to Calvert Street any more, as the Science Building was now completed. It is fitting that we express here our tribute of gratitude and of affection to Father Francis M. Connell, S. J., who was dean during Freshman Year on Calvert Street to Father Finegan, who occupied the same post during our three years spent at Evergreen and who did so much to make our school days as pleasant and profit- able as possible, and to Father Rector under whose wise and far-seeing leadership Loyola made such great strides along the way to greatness and fame. And so our story is ended. But one short month and the class of 1924 will pass out of the doors of Loyola— -never again to return as students. It is with a feeling of sadness that we prepare to say farewell to our Alma Mater who has sheltered us under her protecting arm during the last four years. But with the sadness there is mingled a note of joy — joy because the long course is at last completed and we are now fitted to go out into the world and apply the principles learned at college. We feel that by constantly keeping before our minds those axioms of goodness and truth instilled into us by our Jesuit professors, we will be able to decide judiciously and wisely the issues which will confront us in after life and thus attain the ends for which we are striving both here and hereafter — “ad majorem Dei gloriam.” F. Joseph Manns, ’24. 23