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

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THE STUDENT A Portrait of the Scholar as a Young Man A s FAR BACK AS 1600. one Will Shakesj)eare was describing the ordinary student as ' an unhappy l)reed of human “creeping like a snail unwillingly to school.” Not much has happened in the meantime — atomic power and jet propulsion notwithstanding — to increase the rate of speed of a young scholar from breakfast table to that first Monday morning class. The American college student is one of the most unique bipeds currently extant — nothing quite like him is to be found anywhere else in the world. His activity. “ , WE HAVE MADE A VOW TO STUDY, LORDS . . . “ e smiles valiantly — does he not — O yes. an ’twere a cloud in autumn AND IN THAT VOW WE HAVE EORSWORN OUR BOOKS.” “His tears run down his beard, like winter s drops from eaves of reeds.” then, especially as seen in the Loyola man, is worth some looking into. The one quality most characteristic of the college student is his laughter, which is spontaneous, irre- pressible, contagious. He laughs at the incongruous, the pretentious, the irreverent. He is a master at en- hancing the truth, not altering it mind you, hut merely flavoring the facts with enough of his own imagination

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and then there was Loyolci Night P erhaps the most popular event on the campus social calendar is the annual musical and variety show, Loyola Night. Students from all classes write and produce comedy skits, monologues, song parodies and other hits of entertainment. Always well-attended, this year’s Loyola Night was particu- larly successful. Peter D. Stewart, of the senior class, coordinated the produc- tion. Held under the auspices of the Mask and Rapier Society, Loyola Night is open to all students. Ray Gaeng was master of ceremonies. Frank Vonasek and Carl Jelenko did monologues. John McGrain wrote a take-off on the McCarthy Senatorial investigations. A dance followed the show, with music hy Skip Moring’s orchestra. BELOW, LEFT, Bill Jones and Tom Griffith go into a show was Ken and Dave Jacobsen’s hillbilly rendering song and dance to start off the program. Kay Gaeng, of a few popular tunes, center, was master of ceremonies. A highlight of the A BOP KICK AND A BIT OF ANTHROPOLOGY The Baltimore Jazz Kings took off into Dixieland and almost didiit come back. At the piano is Lee Russo; clarinet, Charlie Supik; guitar, John Hajely; trumpet, Don Sacha; trombone, Ferd Mainolfi. Torn Volatile, a non-union man, vamps discreetly at the skins in the absence of regular drummer Ed Ellison. Loiver pic- ture: Frank Vonasek, Hal Sanks and Joe Tivvis regis- ter alarm at the simian-like individual in the bowler. Thafs Joe Quimper under the bear rug. John Cani- marata, who wrote the routine, also appeared in it.

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IP to make a good story — and good stories are an im- portant commodity in college life. Affectation is something the American college man — the Loyola man — does not understand. He is straight- forward himself in his dealings with his friends and expects the same in return — and usually gets it. One universal trait of students is their constant declarations of how little they study. These loud alle- gations must be taken with a grain of salt. One eager young scholar justified his apparent lack of academic verve by insisting: “It’s not how much we learn but how well.” This, he claimed, was an adaptation of a motto from the shield of a Bosnian National. What of the world situation into which the Loyola graduate is to be summarily projected? The average student has had time to develop a philosophic attitude toward the most volcanic events. Realizing his four years of sanctuary are at an end, he is heard from time to time yowling good-naturedly, self-mockingly with his friends: “Give my regards to Pusan Remem- ber me to Oujongbu. Tell all the gang at Changjin Reservoir That I’ll soon be there too.” And all the “THE SPRING, THE SUMMER, THE CHILDING AUTUMN . . . “Now melt with ivoe that winter should cut off our springtime.” ANGRY WINTER, CHANGE THEIR WONTED LIVERIES ’ “Take heed, ere summer comes or cuckoo birds do sing.” time he’s voicing the apparent carefree-ness that makes youth fly planes and drive tanks and win wars, not because they don ' t know any better, but because they believe in something. At any rate, most of them have a healthy attitude toward things academic. Rumor had one student enter- ing the bookstore and ordering a complete set of Mark Twain in the handi-six pac. Other evidences of erudi- tion are easily found. The graduate of 19.53 is concerned, as is everyone else, with finding security in the world when there doesn’t seem to be enough to go around. He doesn’t talk about it, but the happiness of marriage is never far from his mind and stolid declarations of “It can’t happen to me” fade one by one into the nether regions. The married man’s college degree is testimony to the lengths to which he is willing to go for his family. As the sun sinks slowly behind Alonso’s, The Stu- dent looks once more about the campus and mildly dis- believes that the study, the laughter, the activity of four years is finally, summarily at an end.