St Marys College California - Gael Yearbook (Moraga, CA)

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Uliransitiun OUR years ago when it was announced to the Student Body that definite steps were to be taken towards the construction of a new Saint Mary's, the usual pessimistic opinions con- cerning the time that would elapse before anything was accomplished were expressed, and as semester succeeded semester and no results were apparent, the pessimism of the few became quite widespread. The day when the Old Brickpile would be abandoned was regarded as a sort of millennium- it would probably come, but it wasn't certain enough to look forward to. Even when a signboard was prominently erected on the first proposed location, announcing that here was to be the site of Saint Maryls College, the rather permanent appear- ance of a farm right in the middle of the future campus precluded any very sanguine hopes. And then all at once events occurred in such comparatively rapid succession that the confirmed pessimists of former days were somewhat disconcerted, and even now when it is a certainty that the Brickpile will soon cease to be the home of Saint Mary's, it seems hard to realize the significance of this, the greatest single event in the history of the College. Times of transition are invariably hard because of the natural reluctance to leave familiar places and form new associations elsewhere. For this reason, next year will be a difficult one, but not as bad as it might be, for the affection of the most loyal student in the College would hardly cause him to overlook the failings of the Brickpile. But it is of the greatest importance that the traditional time-honored spirit of loyalty experienced by every man who calls Saint Maryls his Alma Mater be preserved when the new College enters upon its career. Ordinarily, when a university or college first begins, the advantages of traditional atmosphere are lacking. Everything seems tremendously new and every class acts in a way that only freshmen should act. Something of this spirit may creep into Saint Mary's next year. Undoubtedly every- one, from the greenest Frosh to the most superior Senior, will experience feelings greatly undesirable in the former and most injurious to the dignity of the latter. i It will be but a short time before the last bell sounds for the last class in the old Brickpile, and when its strident echoes fade away in the dim and narrow corridors, they will have marked the end of the old and the beginning of the new much as the shouts of the populace long ago when the King had died: Le Roi est mort, Vive le roi! And so we look forward to a new era in the history of Saint Mary's with some regrets for the past, but with a firm purpose of preserving all that is best in the old for the new, and of remembering the great things done in the past so that greater may be performed in the future. -A. H. S., '29.

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BROTHER U. LEWIS, F.S.C., M.A. BROTHER V, HENRY F.S.C. M.A. President of the College Vice-President ofthe College BROTHER V. RALPH, F.S.C., A.B. Dean of the Schools ofthe College BROTHER AGNON, F.S.C., M.A. BROTHER Z. LEO F.S.C. L.H.D. LL.D Head of the Department of Philosophy Head of the Deggartmerlt ofLite1'atu1'e