Loyola University - Wolf Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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Presiding at graduation ceremonies is His Excellency the Most Rev. John P. Cody, apostolic administrator of New Orleans. No place is quite so remarkable as a university in fall, when the impact of new ideas is first felt. Never again are freshmen so outrageously green and young. Never again are sophomores so discouraged. Never again are juniors so sure of their latent genius. Only the red-brick walls, the statue of the Sacred Heart in the horseshoe, and the faces of the seniors seem the same, giving comforting familiarity to a place always in flux, never quite th e same from year to year. Yet the seniors have changed most of all. They are quieter, more subdued. In the midst of their many activities they have somehow withdrawn from the whirlwind of campus life, as if steeling themselves for the break they must at last make with the only way of life they have ever known. They fill their class schedules with as many courses as they can handle and for the first time they really listen to convocation speeches about their places in the world. They are mellowing, learning to love the knowledge they have often resisted in earlier years. As graduation approaches they are beginning to grow wise at last. II

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Quest Of Knowledge Is Student Purpose Students busily scribble notes as they listen to Father Lemieux expound philosophy during a warm October afternoon class A wide-eyed child studying the dewdrop of a leaf has begun to question his world. He started his education long before when he learned the power of a whimper; he will continue to learn long after his interest has slid from the dewdrop to the leaf, from the leaf to the plant, from the plant to the Earth. He will not cease to learn at death. It is for so profound a truth that Loyola university exists: that the things of God, when divorced from the plan of God, have no more importance than statistics gathered diligently for no reason at all. Loyola is the largest Catholic university in the South. As a uni- versity, she has much worth; as a Catholic university, she is price- less. For under the respected Jesuits her students learn that knowledge is not a hobby to mark time on Earth, but meaningful steps in their destiny to the never-ending source of knowledge, the Beatific Vision. 13