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MONTREAL, SUMMER 1963 VOL. VII, No. 2 ADVANCE NOTICE Reserve Thursday, September 12th, for the Annual GOLF Tournament A new location has been chosen offering an interesting course and good cuisine - the Belle Vue Club. Complete details will be coming your way in the near future. In the meantime, mark the date on your calendar ... Thursday, Sept. 12th . 0 ." H. ;·."·:.\.-::':'.··"•· y. ;.•... ,· ,,..<:.:: ..,....,,,.........;>: ,; " ..-:,, ,w.....:?'. ...... ~...... ......... DON'T FORGET ! CONTENTS Vol. VII No. 2 LOYOLA ALUMNI 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 : Limitless Horizons J. DONALD TOBIN, '36 3rd Vice-President 3 Higher Education Tomorrow ARCHIBALD J. MacDONALD, Q.C., '26 Honorary Secretary 4 President's Acceptance Address Maj. Gen. FRANK J. FLEURY, 5 Annual Meeting CBE, ED, CD, '34 Honorary Treasurer 6 Time Out KENNETH F. CASSIDY, '56 7 Campus Profile Councillor 8 Convocation 1963 PAUL GALLAGHER, '50 Councillor 9 Challenge and Acceptance EDWARD F. LENNON, '32 Councillor 10 A Christian Sense of Responsibility DONALDJ. NEWTO~~O 14 The Lookout Councillor Very Rev. PATRICK G. MALONE, S.J. Rector Rev. THOMAS M. MOYLAN, S.J. Moderator EDITORIAL BOARD Leo MacGillivray Editor ROBERT J. BRODRICK, M.D., '43 Mrs. Dorothy McGee ........ ... ................................. .. ............. Managing Editor Past President Larry Boyle, '57 ............................. ..... ........................ Advertising Manager PATRICK J. KENNIFF, '6·1 Phil Content '63 ............................ ... ..................... .. .......... layout Manage 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: PRINTED BY LA TRIBUNE INC., SHERBROOKE, P.Q. Scale model of the Loyola of 1964. LOYOLA ALUMNUS - LOYOLA COLLEGE - MONTREAL 28, CANADA Auth,:,rized as second c1ass mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. - POSTAGE PAID AT MONTREAL -1- Editorial THE late Holy Father was a man upon whom people foundation is tmth, whose measure and objective is liked lo confer titles. He was variously the Pope of justice, whose driving force is love and whose method the People, the Pope of Peace, the Pope of Unity; he if attainment is freedom." was even tabbed the Protestant Pope by Protestants to whom he had endeared himself. One title that he m erited NotiJLg a lack of Christian motivation among even beyond dispute was " the Pope of Optimism." Christians engaged in secular enterprises of one sort or another, Pope John found a lack of consistence which he John XXII[ was the r.omplete optimist. He could attributed to "the lack of a solid Christian education." not bL£l grieve al conditions ancl silL£alions that obviously were coJLtrary lo God's plan, bL£t he refused to abandon " It is indispensable, there/or e," he wrote, "that in himself to grief. Rather he expressed confidence that the training of youth, education should be complete and people of good will cot£ld and would make the neces without interriiplion, namely that in the min.els of the sary adjtistments. H e was aware of divisions and was yonng, religious values should be cultivated and tl_,,e con.f idenl that unity coL£lcl be achieved. He was aware moral conscience rejiJLecl in a manner to keep pace with of the prevailing warlike spirit and was confident that the .::ontinuous ancl ever more abundant assimilation of peace coL£ld be attained. He was aware of social distress scientific and technical knowledge." and sL£f f erin g ancl was confident that jL£stice coL£ld be made to prevail. He was aware of hate and pinned his Pope John admits the difficulties of applying prin hopes on love. ciples io concrete situations, especially in view of the pronoL£n ced dynamism of our times. "For this reason," he added, "the problem of bringing social reality into Nowhere was this optimism better expressed than line with the objective requirements of justice is a in his last great letter to the whole world, Pacem in problem which will never admit of a definitive solution." Terris, where he tackled the problem of peace from every angle, always having in mind that every man is Still lookiJLg onward and upward, he cautions people a person with rights and <luties. Peace to him woL£ld be ap.ainsl relaxing ancl feeling satisfied wi;;h what has been possible when each person respects the rights of others achieved. " In fact," he wrote, "all human beings ought and performs the dL£ties inherent in his membership in rather Lo reckon that what has been accomplished is bnt the human family. little in comparisoJL with what remains to be done. This is so because organs of prodt£ction, trade unions, as Pope John devoted a whole section of his letter to sociations, professional organizations, insurance systems, the dL£ty of taking part in public life. "We deem it legal systems, political regimes and institutions for cul opporlt£ 11 e," he wrote, "to remind our children of their tc1ral, hea!th, recreational or sporting purposes must be rlL£ty to take an active part in public life and to con a~ljusted to the era of the atom and of the conquest of tribute toward the attai11me11t of the common good of space, an era which the hwnan family has already enter the entire ht£man family as well as that of their own ed, wherein it has commenced its new advance towards political community." limitless horizons." The fulfilment of this duty requires formation: There is 1h e challenp;e of the times, the challenge to scie11tif ic competence, technical capacity and professional be accepted by men of i11tep; raled scientific and spiritual experience as well as a synthesis between these element., for111alio11 , by men who have been formed in such schools 0 11 the one hand and spiriltial values on the other. of higher learni11 p.: as Loyola. A nd there is the futtire as Genuinely human rclalionshi/JS require "an order whose vie11•ed by !h e greatest oplimist of our times. -2- HIGHER EDUCATION TOMORROW by GEORGE W. JOLY '38 HEN LOYOLA opened its doors at the end of W the nineteenth century, it offered only one degree as did almost any other college at the time -a degree based solely on the humanities. In 1996 GEORGE W. JOLY when it celebrates its century it is highly likely that -A'ssistant Dean of Engineering at Mc:Gill it will still be offering only one degree as in the beginninc-. But it will not be the same one. It will be a new award based on science-engineering-human different from that of society in the past. In the ism. nineteenth and the early twentieth century a man If one examined the curricula of 19.63, one of intelligence and initiative, though formed in the might be tempted to say that such a development humanities, nevertheless could grasp, control and had already taken place, because a science-engineer develop any industrial enterprise. Today, it takes ing-hum2.nism type of program has been offered since more than intelligence and initiative to grasp the about 1945. But this would be a misunderstanding meaning and the operation of Telestar, nuclear of the prophecy. The prediction is not that there power, the orbiting of man-made satellites, planetary will be such a curriculum when the twenty-first exploration, automated production. Professor Parkin century arrives but that it will be the only one. son has epitomized the helplessness of today's leaders This prophecy is founded on the dynamic nature in his story of the Board of Directors meeting of the of education. Natural Gas Heating Company. The meeting w1.s Broadly speaking, education seeks to civilize called for eleven o'clock and there were two items man, to make him more human and less animal, to on the agenda. The first was the opening of tenders make him self-conscious of himself and his environ for a nuclear heating plant. There were two, one for meht, and ot his destiny, temporal and eternal. This 20 million dollars and one for nineteen million. The i_s the prima1 y aim of education and it looks to the Chief Engineer spoke in favor of the higher bid. Then development of man himself. But education has a Brown whu alwa)[S spoke up on finance, came out secondary aim - one which lies outside of the student for the lower bid. After a remark by the chair, the himself. This aim is the formation of leaders for the higher bid was adopted. It was now a quarter past welfare of the society of which the student constitutes eleven. The other item on the agenda was then a part. Only those who go to university participate taken up. It had to do with authorizing the expense in this secondary objective of education, and, with of the employees' coffee at the morning break. When a rare exception all the leaders of society tomorrow the chairman finally brought the matter to a vote, are in college today. The university cannot free itself it was one o'clock. The meeting then adjourned. of this care unless it says that it is indifferent as to Those who lead today are increasingly being how its graduates govern, or unless it rejects the very placed in the same position as che directors in Profes duty of having to form society's leaders. sor Parkinson's example. For a man educated only in If then, the university must organize itself to the humanities, it is not a decision he is making but prepare society's leaders - secondary though this very often only an act of faith in his scientific adviser.

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