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

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the heavy black-and-red minute book and kept relatively safe from the prying eyes of the profane by Secretary Tim Thaler, while the burden of maintaining decorum in the hottest of these contests often demanded the combined talent of Father Bunn, student body presi- dent Frank Ayd, and Dr. Edward A. Doehler, Faculty Advisor. Philosophy Seminar Has Impressive Start Newest, but nonetheless prominent, society at Loyola this year, was the senior dominated Philosophy Seminar. Finder the direction of Father Joseph Donceel, the master metaphysicians glanced at the Crook, Barrett, Helfrich, Kaltenbach, Zacharski, Father Donceel (Moderator), May, Thaler, Haimovitz, Gunning, Canter. greater and deeper lines of Aristotle and St. Thomas and briefly but respectively refuted Plato, Thales, Spinoza, Descartes, Occam, Duns Scotus, and Kant. The analyses of the systems of these great thinkers exhausted the first semester as well as the seminarists. At midyear, the topic for consideration was shifted to the formation of the human will. Several juniors were admitted and the Seminar got down to the business of the year; viz., preparing for the symposium on the human 10

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BARNEY, Campus’ most prominent figure and Evergreen’s most energetic denizen; symbol of activity at Loyola. near-heads of the established (one year or more) clubs and societies. The Council convenes every Thursday noon in the Rev. President Edward B. Bunn ' s study to advise him on matters of student concern. These matters may and have ranged from the price of Prom tickets and the proposed abolition of the double cut to the suppression of the Benchley Society and the supervision of the boiling of the college cafeteria’s ill-reputed hot dogs. All discussion on these and other subjects of debate was recorded in 9

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will which was held on Parents’ Day. This symposium, in which Messrs. Thaler, Canter, Helfrich, Zacharski, O’Conor, Hemelt and Horka disputed the freedom and formation of the will, clinched for the Seminar a prominent place in the activities at Loyola. Accounting Academy Active Another activity to prove its worth this year was the adolescent Academy of Accounting and Commerce, which was formed slightly more than a year ago by two present seniors, Jack Helfrich and Earl Schmidt. Under the direction of President Paul Prosser and its co- moderators, the Academy had unusual success with its series of three lecture-socials. The accountants were fortunate in obtaining Mr. Charles W. Smith of the Public Utilities Commission, who spoke on “Utility Rates,” Mr. Edwin J. Stegman, Chairman of the Board of Examiners of the Maryland C.P.A., who examined the potentialities ACCOUNTING ACADEMY : Sitting — Prosser (President), Drs. Triplett and Jenkel (Moderators), Bock. Standing — Price, Boone, Goldberg, Helfrich. 11