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

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» » » » » »» «« « « « « « CONTENTS STORY OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS FACULTY AND CAMPUS VIEWS UNDERCLASSMEN ORGANIZATIONS ATHLETICS SENIORS

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« c k ¥ ¥ V V WITHIN THESE PAGES ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ oyola College of Baltimore identi- fies herself even more emphatically than in less commemorative years with the Society of Jesus. She commemorates not only her own anniversary but that of her sister schools, colleges and universities, members of the Jesuit family scattered over the continents of this tight little globe of ours. The man who teaches in Stonyhurst or Georgetown today may teach at Loyola tomorrow. It has happened. 1540-1940, it is the 400th birthday of the Order. And when all is said and done these teachers and preachers are a part of us. They came from the laity of the Corpus Mysticum and work for the laity. We will tell their story briefly. We will conclude this story with a word about that modest child of the Order, Loyola of Baltimore. Then we shall go on to show you pictures of Loyola in action during a typical Ameri- can school year, 1939-1940.

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ERIEF STORY OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS and a word about the beginning of Loyola College of Baltimortj F ounded 400 years ago and still very much alive today, the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, numbers 26,000 in the world, of whom over 5,000 are citizens of the United States. It is a vital organism. Men of vari- ous types and differing characters, yet some impressionable Catholics claim they can recognize one as such. But our brief summary cannot afford to indulge in romantic wanderings. Neither Macaulay nor Thackeray may serve as our model. However, it should be that we their students know them in part as they are. What are our editorial impressions after some study of Jesuits in the past and a more prolonged acquaintance with live Jesuits? Here is the starting point: we will never understand the St. Ignatius Loyola 11