Loyola University - Wolf Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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ince, according to tradition, summoned the Reverend Albert Blever, S. J., Loyola ' s first president, gave him a dime for carfare and told him to go uptown and found a university. Today, the miracle of Father Biever ' s dime Is Loyola University of the South which ranks among the prominent universities of the Amer- icas and the leading educational establishments In the Southern part of the United States. It Is one of the two hundred Jesuit colleges and universities In the world, twenty-four of which are In this country. Loyola consists of three colleges and two schools, all conducted under the famous Jesuit principles and practices — formulated over decades of experience — the Ratio Studlorum. Here Is inculcated a philosophy of life and an intellectual Catholicism, founded on rea- son and confirmed in revelation. Here Is taught the fundamentals of American Democracy and the responsibilities and privileges of American citizenship. Western Hemisphere solidarity is stressed and the vital Importance of closer relations with the republics to the South of the United States has long been one of the university ' s major topics. Though they come from many states and several foreign countries, Loyola students do not live in dormitories. They are the neighbors of the university, living In private homes and fraternity houses. For- merly, Loyola ' s athletes lived In several residence halls on the campus known as ranch houses. Today, only two ranch houses remain, the others having been converted into classrooms and for other purposes needed because of the university ' s continual expansion. Campus life at the university Is not dormant. Sixty-six campus organizations, twenty of which are fraternities and societies, are ample channels for extra-curricular activities, and social and Intel- lectual entertainments are copious. Tradition at Loyola flows through the life of the university as the blood through human veins, but the spirit that permeates Its atmos- phere Is the same spirit that four hundred years ago moved the heart of a wounded soldier who arose from his bed of pain to proclaim to the world the teachings which he later embodied In the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuit Order. Standing today in the horseshoe that fronts the campus of Loyola University, which faces St. Charles Avenue, is a symbol of this spirit. There In the solidity of stone and the warmth of love is a statue of Christ the Redeemer. With outstretched arms, the Teacher of Teach- ers bids the student enter and to learn of Me for I am meek and humble of heart. This Is Catholic education: That in all things God may be known, loved, adored, and glorified. In this lies the sancti- ficatlon of one ' s soul and eternal redemption. Looking from the avenue, on the left of the horseshoe, stands in Teutor Gothic majesty the McDermott Memorial or the Church of

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L Y L H OF THE SOUTH IS A CITY UNIVERSITY FOUNDED UPON A DIME AND A CAR RIDE L ut New Orleans ' historic St. Charles Avenue, an Azalea trail flanked with consular headquarters of nnany a foreign nation and mansion homes of the city ' s prominent personages, is Loyola University of the South — a tower of higher learning thriving in the heart of one of America ' s most interesting cities. A guiding light amid a darkened world, stricken by war and subver- sive philosophies which are today threatening the very foundation of higher learning and Christian education, Loyola University shares in a noble heritage of four eventful centuries In that it is an estab- lishment of the Jesuit Order which was founded by Ignatius of Loyola — a soldier who was born about the time that Columbus discovered America. Since the Jesuits came into the territory, now the United States, shortly after the middle of the Sixteenth Century, the work they have accomplished in colleges and universities constitutes an extremely important chapter in American history of education. Fact and not fiction has labeled them the world ' s greatest teachers. Jesuit ideals and teachings profoundly influenced the Founding Fathers of our Great Republic and their first student to come into prominence in this country was the colorful Charles Carroll of Car- rollton, the wealthiest man among those who financed the American Revolution, outstanding for the bold manner in which he signed the Declaration of Independence and the last survivor of the great colo- nial patriots. Inseparable are the early history of the United States and the chronicles of the Jesuit Order. It was the Jesuit Father Marquette who first sailed down the Mississippi river; the Jesuit Father Pedro Martinez who first carried civilization and Christianity to the Indians in Florida in the I560 ' s; the Jesuit Fathers Isaac Jogues and John Brebeuf and their companions who preached to the Iroquois in New York In the I640 ' s; the Jesuit Father Rene Menard who planted the Cross In the midst of the Sioux Indians in Michigan In the I660 ' s. The Jesuits were in Virginia In the I670 ' s, and the Jesuit Pierre Aulneau braved the Indians in Minnesota in 1763. The first Jesuit to establish himself in the Louisiana territory was Father Paul Du Ru who founded a mission in 1700, and in 1723 the Jesuits were estab- lished In New Orleans with Father Francois de Kereben as first superior. Jesuit theologians were prominent in the Council of Trent. Jesuit philosophers have led the world in their study of the ultimate causes of things u nder the light of human reason. In the arts and sciences. In human relations and understanding Jesuits have been a vivifying Influence, and the roster of Jesuit saints — from Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Aloysius Gonzaga, John Berchmans, Francis Regis to the more recently canonized North American martyrs, has gained for them the name: Militia of FHeaven. Is it any wonder, then, that when Pope Paul III confirmed the Order in 1540, he exclaimed: The finger of God is here! From its earliest beginnings in February, 1849, as the College of the Immaculate Conception at Baronne and Common streets, Loyola has been a center of culture and educational activity. It has occu- pied its present site, opposite Audubon Park, since 1904 when the Reverend William Power, S. J., then superior of the Southern Prov- A popular resting place Is the arcade along- side Holy Name Church. Catholic education . . . . . . that In all things God may be known, loved, adored and glorified.

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the Most Holy Name of Jesus. Here are conducted the spiritual exercises of the university. Here the school year opens and closes with invocations and blessings amid scenes of baccalaureate splendor and academic processions with faculty and upperclassmen in caps and gowns. Here doctors and masters and bachelors in the arts and sciences match the shades of their hoods with colors of the rainbow and kneel in the soft rays of sunlight creeping piously through stained-glass windows. Here professor and student dally visit the Great Councilor and levites and prelates ascend the steps to the altar to offer the Clean Oblation of nearly two thousand years as voices from the choir loft chant the ancient liturgy of the Church. Tradition . . . flows through the life of the University as blood through human veins.