Loyola University - Wolf Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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The Very Rev. Andrew C. Smith, S. J., university president, and the Rev. Edward A. Doyle, S. J., vice president, confer the honorary degree of doctor of laws on Mr. Hart Ponder at graduation Mr. Alex Voorhies reflects as the graduates pass II

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III ill Commencement — Long Awaited End . ■ -:,! ■ -:-! Smm-a fljiifl i 1 ■ ■ m 1 1 1 k ; - •■ JfH ■ ■ 1 w % HI - - - g j ■,4 H Ti H j 1 ■ 1 J-vBLmL . hsk The fieldhouse is hushed. Outside a Freret bus rattles by. Across the stage in a decisive tread march hun- dreds of young men and women garbed in traditional black. Diploma in hand, the long college grind is a thing of the past; the road ahead a reality that must be faced. An occasional tear falls for that son or daughter who is leaving the whirl- wind of campus life and entering the faster whirl of modern living. No longer will an F be the punishment for failure, an A the award for accom- plishment, a C the result of indiffer- ence. Life gives no grades. It must be fulfilled to the capacity of the individ- ual—a complement to the knowledge acquired through years of study. The seniors embark on its path. 10

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Mr. Daggett lectures to the future lawyers of America as some frantically take notes and others mark his every word College Goal Is To Learn To Ask ' Why ' A university and a quest for knowledge. With each class, each seminar, each new page of notes or new problem solved in math, Loyola students grow more mature, more able to cope with the problems of today ' s world, and if during this search they learn to ask themselves ' why ' then the long path shall not be in vain. For 53 years the priests of the Society of Jesus have imparted on their students the world ' s knowledge togeth- er with the profound truth that life, when divorced from God, is but existence. Learning is not a means to merely pass the time on earth, but a step to the ultimate source of all knowl- edge, God.