Spires 19 5 2

SPIRES 19 5 2 Published by The Associated Students of Gonzaga University Spokane 2, Washington (I ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The production of an annual, as others before us have found, is not just an ordinary task. We realize that without the cooperation and help of a num ber of people, this book would not be possible. We wish to take this opportunity to thank those who have helped to make this publication a suc cess. To our moderator, Fr. St. Marie, S.J., we wish to express our appreciation for his advice and valuable assistance. We wish to thank the printers and engravers for their splendid cooperation. We extend a vote of thanks to all of the stu dents and faculty for their interest and support. We extend congratulations to the future staffs and wish them all the best of success. Staff '52. Cover—Maureen Walsh nmk. * At* GONZAGA • 1897-1952 % J"*?! Gonzaga Progresses With West In the summer of 1897 the site was selected for the New Gonzaga. The 1897 REVIEW stated, "The atten dance of the last year was so large that a new college has been started, which, it is hoped, will be completed for the fall term of 1898." With the first breaking of ground new vitality seemed to be infused into faculty and students alike. Every department from the different sodalities down to athletics manifested greater and healthier activity than ever before. Even in its unfinished condition the new structure presented a grand appearance, rising four stories above a massive stone foundation and granite base ment, with a frontage of 189 feet, its granite en trance and two wings 90 feet deep. The completed building cost $100,000 and was at that time the largest Catholic college in the West as well as being the largest building in the city. After the completion of the new college, the task of moving and enlarging St. Aloysius church was started. But the biggest moving task came in moving the Chemistry building. The massive structure weighing 2,500,000 pounds was moved 175 feet. No other building of that size had ever been moved in this part of the country before. This building had been the old college and was since then a parochial school, a high school and finally be came the Chemistry building. The rapid increase of students since the opening of the new college caused the need or greater facilities and in 1903 an extension was added to the main build ing. It included two complete gymnasiums and a swimming pool. The October REVIEW of that year stated, "The new gymnasium is an addition to the school of which the Jesuit Fathers may well feel proud. With its floor space of over 6,000 square feet, it is probably the larg est in the state. It will be equipped with all modern improvements, club rooms, billiard tables, swimming pool, shower baths, dressing rooms and lockers. A new infirmary was built in 1907. It had three wards containing twenty beds each and thirteen pri vate rooms. It was located at the "southern end of the quadrangle" now Goller Hall. The cornerstone of the present St. Aloysius Church in Spokane was laid October 24, 1909, and was used for public service for the first time on the day of its dedication, October 12, 1911. 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Permanent example of this is Gonzaga's shrine honoring Our Lady of Fatima, constructed by the Montana club. May 1 marked the first anniversary of its dedi cation. Special events included the an nual retreats for all of the stu dents. Toward the end of the year the Senior retreat was held. Stu dents also took an active part in the Novena of Grace. The Sodality is a campus club primarily interested in student's spiritual welfare. Redecoration of the Sodality club-room was a ma jor project with the club this year as was a stamp drive conducted to benefit Omak Indian Mission. The school library offers liter ature—books and magazines of a spiritual nature. Pamphlets are available to students and are lo cated just outside the office of Father Lee Teufel, S.J., university chaplain. Then too, the students have their own chapel. This gives them a chance for a quick visit as well as daily Mass and Holy Commun- 4 f S ^ L THE SPIRIT TOP any student on the campus the force of combustion will never be provided. at Gonzaga University and ask To realize an object one must be cognizant of not him the question, "What does only how he himself will be or has been affected by that Gonzaga mean to you." From the majority of students object but also the varied inter-relations contained within one would expect a dark look, a meaningful snort or a cyn the nature of the object. Without the latter a true picture ical retort. At any rate, his answer would prove unsatis of the former is impossible. Each faculty member, every factory to one who wished to hear the praises of the grand student with whom one has associated, each day of a stu old school extolled at great length. Few students deceive dent's life must be carefully considered before he can hon themselves into believing that here they have found a estly appreciate how his college life has affected him and home or they have been accepted into the much discussed give answer to the question of the meaning of Gonzaga. but non-extant Gonzaga family. Such ideological entities This answer provides the key to the Spirit of Gonzaga. actually do not exist in an institution of our size and the majority of college students are intelligent enough to re alize this fact. A far more thoughtful reply might be expected from a small minority of students who rather than attempt a concrete answer would simply state that they honestly did not know. It is a strange paradox that those things with which we are most closely associated are often the most difficult to evaluate. How may one properly appreciate a mother's love until he has experienced the absence of that love. Family ties often seem negligible until one is loosed UNIVERSITY'S reputation in from their sheltering hold. Unromantic stone walls of a scholastic circles depends in university appear cold and impersonal even while one is great part upon the worth of warmed unknowingly within their embrace. The fire of the faculty at that institution. This is a commonly recog love for an object is slowly kindled. It is fanned by an nized fact. Nevertheless, the role that the faculty plays ever-increasing knowledge but unless this knowledge is in the exciting drama of university life is sorely underrated complemented by appreciation, or better yet realization, by the students and, strangely enough, by faculty members as well.

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