United Colleges - Vox Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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Jogues and Raymbault, who tried in vain to save the French colony by Christianizing the Iroquois themselves, all these are names known wherever Canadian History is read, and wherever deeds of heroism are admired. In most European countries of Roman Catholic persuasion and in England, th e Jesuits are remembered mainly for their political and religious intrigues, which culminated their final expulsion from these countries in the nineteenth century. Their position has only been partly recovered with great difficulty. The English attitude is summed up in Borrow’s “Lavengro” and the “Bible in Spain,” the attitude of a large body of French citizens in Eugene Sue’s “The Wandering Jew.” For a century the reorganized Society of Jesus has been trying to live down the evil results of adopting the attitude that “the end justifies the means.” The supreme driving force behind the fathers was their sense of duty and of dedication. In his book “Ignatius Loyola” Dr. Harvey has brought this phase of the Jesuit ministry into bold relief. The book is moulded on a definite plan which draws the attention of the reader to the fact that the Jesuit order was a military order, founded by a man who was aristocratic in the ancient sense of the term, an aristocrat when to be one meant being continually at the service of the state. Ignatius was reared at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella, spent his youth fighting against the French, and turned to religion after being wounded in an engagement at Pampeluna. Dr. Harvey describes in some detail the events of Ignatius’ con¬ version. Almost every page of Dr. Harvey’s book is haunted by ghosts of a bygone age, spirits known to the early days of the Jesuits come often to his aid in giving a lifelike and authoritative picture of the beginnings of the movement. However, other ghosts sometimes come to life and these, alas, are not so welcome to the reader. The use of ancient oblique construction and archaic words, “divest,” “raiment,” are scarcely to be met in any work of the last century, and, while they introduce at times a pleasing sense of the ancient, and a flavor of the original in Dr. Harvey’s work, one does feel after a continued repetition of these archaisms that a more modern style and language would appeal to a wider circle of readers. AAnnvo ’q Open all night IVIOOTG S including Sunday [29]

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THE COLLEGE OF TODAY IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW (Continued from page 9) discover the humanistic setting, the scholarship aim, and the apti¬ tude bent? Education, cultural and practical, can never be obtained by endless sipping through Coca-Cola straws or through nice choices of favorite nut-bars! No, my dears, life is more strenuous than that. Nothing less than classroom instruction, and library research, and home and community and church experimentation will suffice in the College of Today if we are to be the leaders of or even citizens of the World of Tomorrow. KENNEDY BROS, butchers CHOICE MEATS, FISH, POULTRY -r » SAUSAGE OUR SPECIALTY 569 Ellice Avenue Phone 33 213 A Memory of Graduation Day A GIFT FROM FLEDSTED’S WILL MAKE PERMANENT THE HAPPY MEMORIES OF GRADUATION. A fine Watch, Ring or Brooch will always be cherished. Come in and see our complete line of Quality Jewellry. fftmsrifr Quality Jewellers Enjoying the Confidence of those who know. 447 Portage Ave., Opp. the “Bay” Phone 26 224

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Dr. Harvey makes a careful an¬ alysis of the difficulties which the order encountered in attempting to establish itself, and his use of authoritative documents is a real contribution to the history of the period. Loyola’s work in attempt¬ ing to make his order a more Christian body than those in ex¬ istence at that time, has been overlooked. Here it receives ade¬ quate treatment, to say the least. Dr. Harvey lifts whole sections from the original works and in¬ corporates them in his book with¬ out judging his author from any but a purely Jesuit standpoint, and one feels that his work is the loser. Throughout the book one is impressed by the spirit of loyalty and disinterestedness shown by the early Jesuits, and cannot but feel that it was due in large meas¬ ure to the personal characteristics of the first and greatest of gen¬ erals. He has left the reader en¬ tirely in the dark concerning any later developments in Jesuit his¬ tory. Here would have been a point of contact between the Prot¬ estant author and his material, however, he has seen fit to close his study with the period which was also closed by the death of the founder of the order. An Interesting Fact Grace Moore’s Secretary was a student of the Dominion Business College, Winnipeg, just two years ago! “Not failure, but low aim is crime.” DOMINION BUSINESS COLLEGE THE MALL ELMWOOD - ST. JAMES - ST. JOHN’S AAnnrf « ° pen aI1 Night IViUUlCO including Sunday [30]