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

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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

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EDWARD JANNEY BRANNAN HIS picture, ladies and gentlemen, represents His Honor, the one, only, and original Mayor of South Baltimore; the individual who most of all, is responsible for the prosperity and beauty of that exclusive suburb of the great metropolis. Among his followers and subjects, he is known by the appellations “Multy”, “Oswy” or “Reds”, but these names serve only to emphasize the esteem in which he is held, it being the inalienable prerogative of the populace to nickname their great. Let not, ladies and gentlemen, his eminence as an executive over- shadow and obscure in your mind his prominence as the working member of the firm of O’Conor and Brannan, those leaders and authori- ties in the field of Organic Chem- istry. His position in the firm as working member has been the cause of the discovery of many new and unnamed gases, which it has been his unenvied delight to inhale and enjoy. His Honor has lately shown a tendency to spend his recreation hours motoring, and no one has been as yet able to ascertain if he has company on these nightly excursions, the speed which he at- tains rendering it impossible to distinguish forms as he passes, heading north. It has been rumored that he, with his partner in the chemical concern will sojourn in the North for the summer, there taking in the cooling breezes and being “taken in” himself, no doubt. If he does not succumb we may expect that in the fall, he will again, be a member of our community, ' pursuing his legal studies at the U. of M. preparatory to dimming, by comparison, the legal lights of this city. 25