Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Voyage the Third PLEASANT, sunny days, and starlit, cool nights marked our flight, an uneventful flight on the whole, except that on one day we descended to allow a part of our company to leave us, some to become citizens of St. John ' s, others to journey in the future by themselves. All too soon the pilot announced that our next stop was at hand, so, in the middle of September, 1913, we again descended, this time into Junior, which we found to be pre- sided over by the pleasant and afTable Fr. Fortier. It was indeed a strange country in which we found ourselves; the dreaded syllogismi, ens ut sic, univer- sals, and alternating currents roamed about on all sides, seeking those whom they might devour. Had it not been for the protecting care of Fr. Fortier and the lucid instructions of Fr. Brock, very many of us must assuredly have fallen victims to their inappeasable fury. As it was, some of us had very narrow escapes, especially at the time of the midyears and the finals. However, notwithstanding these perils, we enjoyed a very pleasant stay in Junior. Especially did we experience this pleasure when one rainy night in February saw us gracing the ballroom floor of the Somerset, where our officers: Maurice Flynn, Joseph Norton, Frederick Wennerberg and James Hopkins, marshalled their compan}- in full uniform. The prom committee, composed of Edmund J. Brandon, John Allston, Frank Breath and John Walsh as chairman, had made diligent preparations for the affair, and despite the inclement weather we enjoyed ourselves to such an extent that the occasion remained in our memory as one of the most enjoy- able events of the year. In dramatics Wennerberg presented an excellent characterization of King Lear, his efforts being ably seconded by those of Duffy, Bradley and O ' Neill. Linehan, Casey, Brandon, McCarthy, Burke and Rogers figured prominently in the makeup of a football eleven which has seldom been equalled in the history of the college, while Edward Farmer as a member of the intercollegiate debating team, played a prominent part in the winning of its victories. In literary circles we were represented by John Lahive, Frederick Wennerberg and Maurice Flynn on the editorial staff of the Stylus, and John FitzGerald, who won the prize of twenty-five dollars in gold offered to the B. C. student who might submit the best essay on The Gyroscope and Its Applications. Thus it may be seen that the class of 1915 accomplished even more than its share in making the first scholastic year at University Heights a most successful one, so that when, in June, we departed to voyage in other lands, we went with that feeling of satisfaction which comes from the realization of duties performed and work well done. 26