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MONTREAL. AUTUMN 1963 VOL. VII. NO. 3 35mm COLOUR SLIDES OF LOYOLA COLLEGE October 19th, Saturday - CAMPUS AND AREA. 'AT HOME' On campus day program and dinner-dance at Ritz-Carlton Hotel in evening. The Alumni Association and the c o 11 e g e are (See page l O for details) preparing to produce an up-to-date story of Loyola Co 11 e g e through this November 1, 2, 3, Friday to Sunday - medium. Closed RETREAT at Monreso. We believe many people have taken 35mm colour November 15th, Friday - slide pictures which would be most helpful to us in OYSTER PARTY. this project. Would you please lend CLASS REUNIONS or donate slides you have taken of Loyola over the past years. We will be Closs '38, '41, and '53 will be holding stag parties on Friday, sure to return them if you October 18th and attending 'At Home' day functions on campus so desire. and the dinner-dance Saturday evening, the 19th . .. .the best-tasting _filter cigarette CONTENTS Vol. VII No. 3 LOYOLA ALU MN I ASSOCIATION HARRY J. HEMENS, Q.C., '32 President DONALD W. McNAUGHTON, '49 1st Vice-President ROSS W. HUTCHINGS, '45 Page 2nd Vice-President 2 Editorial : The Articulate In College J. DONALD TOBIN, '36 3 Who's Afraid of Moby Dick? 3rd Vice-President 4 New Professors ARCHIBALD J. MacDONALD, Q.C., '26 Honorary Secretary 5 Golf Tournament Maj. Gen. FRANK J. FLEURY, 6 Travel Overseas CBE, ED, CD, '34 8 lnsignus Ductu Et Rebus Gestis Honorary Treasurer 9 Profile KENNETH F. CASSIDY, '56 Councillor 10 Loyola 'At Home' PAUL GALLAGHER, '50 12 Insured for Charity Councillor 13 New Appointments EDWARD F. LENNON, '32 14 Fifty Years In Review . Councillor 15 Time Out DONALD J. NEWTON, '40 17 The Lookout Councillor 20 Alumni Bursary Winners Very Rev. PATRICK G. MALONE, S.J. Rector Rev. THOMAS M. -MOYLAN, S.J. Moderator EDITORIAL BOARD Leo MocGillivray .. .............. .... ... ... ... .. ...... ..... ............................... ...... Edi tar ROBERT BRODRICK, M.D., '43 J. Mrs. Dorothy McGee .. ... .... .. ... ...... ...... ............•......... ... ... ... .. Managing Editor Past President Larry Boyle, '57 ......... .. ............................................... Advertising Manager PATRICK J. KENNIFF, '6'1 Phil Content '63 ... ............................. ..... ................. .. ........ layout Manag~r SAC Representative Maj. Norman Dann '40 ........ .. ............... ... ... ... .. .. ... ................... Chairman Donald W, McNaughton '49 Mrs. DOROTHY McGEE Dr. Robert J. Brodrick '43 Executive Secretary Address: 7141 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal 28, P.Q. PHOTO ON COVER : Father Noll turns first sod for Loyola's PRINTED BY LA TRIBUNE INC., SHERBROOKE, P.Q . new Vanier Library while Professor John Buell '50, Librarian E. Trowsdale, Father Rector and a few staff mem­ LOYOLA ALUMNUS • LOYOLA COLLEGE • MONTREAL 28, CANADA Auth,:rized a, sKond c•ass mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and bers look on. for poyment of postage in cash. - POSTAGE PAID AT MONTREAL -1- Editorial ·THIS ~EW academic rear, like ~ny other, is no e.t· da not here run down the "quiet" personality, but even ceptwn. It has left us pondenn-g a few problem.~ among the less frantic institutions of our society there with somewhat more attention than we have git-en them is ample room for the display of independence and creat­ in the past, and the one that has hit us particular/')' ive thought that makes those institutions dynamic. hard this year is the problem of articulateness or more aptly of the inarticulate and the frightened. Moreover it has always seemed in a university that students lose the fear of their own intellectual shadows The reason why we bring this problem up is that not by ones, twos or by threes, but by groups, in the it has haunted the English Catholic community in classroom or in extracurricular activities. They learn Montreal, and Canadians as a whole, ever since the')' in group mental combat and self -expression how to grew up neither here nor there, below the border or stand by their convictions. Providing their convictions across the Atlantic, in their way of expression. We have are sound, the universities should do everything to en­ often appeared complacent because we lacked the collec­ courage them. It is here, possibly, that the universities tive force of personality to present our case, and stupid of this country are open to blame. because we didn't know how to say what we thought. It is easy, of cour'se, to find people or institutions In the past few years there has been a tremendozts lo blame for our plight. We could blame our politicians movement towards political consciousness among students which might have existed earlier with more of jicial university encouragement. The impetus has been from the political parties. There has also been an awakening of interest by students in the meaning of a university and particularly its relation to the business and indus­ The editorial for this issue has been trial worl:l. Here again the universities themselves have guest written by a Loyola alumnus been vague. If some changes have come they have often whose close contact with colleges, been due to the pressure on universities of the student's teachers and students well equips position vis ci vis his job outside, and not to the far­ him to make these sound observa­ sightedness of educators. tions. The ideal is naturally impossible. There will never be a university everyone of whose graduates will be the model of articulation and justifiable self -confidence. On the other hand there is no reason why many university graduates across Canada should be as slow for misrepresenting us. But they are only part of our as they are at making an impact on their own fortunes, ,community and a reflection of ourselves. To blame our unless they only learn enough English to write exam­ colleges and universities is perhaps getting closer to inations and leave the detail of what they represent too the truth, if only that we expect these institutions to be obscure to be seen. There is such a thing as luck but self-perfecting. a country with as high a proportion of graduates in its population as Canada should be a bit more obvious We might stop and ponder this business of collec­ in knowing its own mind. tive self-perfection for a while. It belongs in a university because if a student doesn't experience it there or at In meeting this problem we can look to the univers­ least begin the process while he is in college, the chan­ ity for a solution without hesitation. It requires no finan­ ces are high that he will remain mute, wet and un­ cial campaign, no mass building program, no brealc­ moving, another graduate who somehow had the ability through in science or thought. Only a more vital attitude lo get a degree but la.eked the force and the articulation by professors and st1tdents to what they discuss and to show that he had ever learned anything at all. We how they judge its value. 2 WHO'S AFRAID OF MOBY DICK? THE OXBRIDGE CRISIS by TONY RASPA '55 CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND - Higher education in Britain is at a cross-roads in its history. On the TONY RASPA, B.A. Loyola '55, B.Ed., M.A. McGill, one hand there is a long, worthy estaLlished system of university education centred in Oxford and Cam­ has attended Cambridge University in England for bridge which is resisting change. On the other hand the past year as a research student in English. there is. the need in the country for a broader, more Prior to this Cambridge stint, Tony was with the comprehensive system which will grant professors and graduates of other universities the same attention English Department at Loyola and on the Editorial that "Oxbridge" receives. The struggle is intense, Staff of The Montreal Star. the battle-lines are not clear, and the result is un­ certain. There have been long soul-searching articles in psycho!ogical impossibility for some Cambridge dons, the newspapers and periodicals examining the pro­ for instance, to accept that any university in the blems which face British universities. In the univer­ world, with the possible exception of Oxford, could sities themselves professors have advocated radical give as good an education as theirs. They pride them­ changes, none of whkh has yet become a big enough selves on rejecting students from American univers­ reality for it to count. What is at stake is not only ities, and consider Harvard and Yale doctorates in­ the development of education but a change that finitely inferior to theirs." Yet there is nothing quite will broaden the scope, the type and the faci lities of as insular as an "Oxbridge" education. It starts a education beyond the fringe of the "Oxbridge" axis. student off on a specialized subject in freshman year, and he never sees anything else for the rest of his Until recent years Oxford and Cambridge shared degree. In addition, the subject matter itself is res­ the spotlight in British university life. With 700 tricted, at least in the humanities, and it is this years of tradition each behind them, it seemed that restriction which provoked history students at Cam­ they need have no rival because they filled what­ bridge to ask for a wider range of subjects, with ever educational requirements Britain had and filled less concentration on English history. In English them well. So it seemed. But the present struggle literature many graduate students think that "Moby has developed out of a change in society itself, as Dick" is a pleasant fish story, never having read it, writers and educationists have been quick to point thus dismissing what may turn out to be the "Aeneid" out. The social hierarchy of Britain has "Oxbridge" of Am~rica, and they know even less about the great­ at the top, and to change the system of education is est of English playwrights in this century, Eugene to change the hierarchy as well.

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