Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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The class was well represented in the Marquette Debating Society. Joseph Comber served as president during the first term and Gaynor Wellings did the honors during the second term. Will you ever forget the banquet at which Fred Mandile presided and the introduction he made when presenting ex-Mayor James M. Curley? Or Olesen ' s imitation of Mandile? The prize debate was won that year by Joseph G. Crane, Class of Twenty-three. Jack Ryder ' s runners won the Eastern Intercollegiate Championship again this year, breaking five records in doing so and finishing seventeen points ahead of the runner-up, none other than Holy Cross. One of these record breaking performances was made by our own Billie Nolan in the running broad jump. JUNIOR There is only one word in the English language which fitly describes the Class of Twenty-three as it re-assembled to begin Junior year and that word is depleted. The rigors of Sophomore had taken their wonted toll, it is true, but we lost many men by transfer to St. John ' s Seminary. Owen A. Gallagher was re-elected to the presidency of the class. Joseph A. Comber was elected vice-president; Myles T. McSweeney, secretary: and Walter Dimmock, treasurer. Jack Heaphy was unanimously elected to represent the Class in the Student A. A. Junior year was made memorable by the visit of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Generalissimo of the allied armies in the World War. Feted by the entire na- tion and hurried from one consequential function to another, the great soldier, graduate of a Jesuit college, found time to visit the Heights and address the students. He was accorded a heart-warming reception and received a thundering ovation from the students. It was Rene Gingras of the Class of Twenty-three who on this occasion ad- dressed Foch in his native tongue in the name of the student body. We had a football team depleted by graduation that year. Tony Comerford, ' 23, captained the team which had rather a hectic season. Cav was beginning to build for another year. Further than that we will say no more. Blot the night- mare from your memories. To give the academic side of the year the cold respect of a passing glance, it is memorable for the philosophy in overalls made famous by the beloved Fr. Boehm, by Fr. McCluskey ' s philosophy in Shakespearian quotations, and Fr. Crowley ' s philosophy in copious notes. The daily portion of comedy was pro- vided by the Physics Class, tragedy being provided for by the oral exams. Many of the boys were on the inside of a taxi, looking out for the first time, when the Junior Prom took place. But if history has it aright, the boys didn ' t waste much time looking out. Argumentatively, the year was a great success. The Senior-Junior debate showed the greatest class up in great style. The Junior team was composed of Ownie Gallagher, Joe Crane, and George Olesen, who imparted his informa- tion to an eager audience in his usual secretive style. But the Seniors with all their Ethics had to swallow the bitter dust of defeat. The Class innovated the Junior Day at the second Fordham game. It was undoubtedly due in large measure to the efforts of such entertainers as Cec

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As Thespians several members of our class trod the boards in the college play. Owen A. Gallagher, Walter A. Comerford, Henry F. McKenna, Jr., George Olesen and William J. O ' Connell were in the play from ' 23. Coach Jack Ryder, a man loved by all who know him, took our runners in charge during 1919-20. Since that time Boston College has climbed higher and higher in the track world. Jack is a maker of runners. He does his great work on raw material. Men who never put on a track shoe before are his specialty. Under his tutelage Jake Driscoll broke the world ' s record for the indoor 500-yard run in 1920; our relay team won their class championship at the Penn Relays, with Billie Nolan, ' 23, competing; and the Eastern Intercollegiate championship was won at Springfield by a lone point. SOPHOMORE Second round; Frs. Keating, Becker, McGarvey, McQuade vs. Class of Twenty- Three; fight to finish. In Frosh we received our baptism of fire in the form of Analytic, otherwise known as the Sower of Death. While we were yet in the throes of said bap- tism, lurid descriptions of what awaited us were poured plentifully into our tired ears. Several baptisms of blood were ahead, it seemed. However we applied a little philosophy in observing that if the then upper classmen had survived the ordeal, it had no terrors for us. Into the maelstrom we plunged. The scholastic year of 1920-21 was unquestionably the very .greatest in the annals of old B. C. We were firmly established in athletic supremacy by the mythical eleven lead of Lukie Urban. The feats performed by that team have never been rivalled, to our knowledge, by an exclusively day college in the history of American Intercollegiate competition. Ever since that time B. C. has maintained that supremacy unthreatened and promises to do so for some time to come. Who does not remember the Odyssey of B. C. to New Haven? Personally we went in an overcrowded motor truck which made the journey in about fifteen hours. We patronized all the hot dog emporia and Waldorf Lunch rooms. Sleep was out of the question going down; and coming back it was raining. If you came back by train you may forget the rain, but if you came back over the road you won ' t forget it. But the joy of victory made the price light. In the middle of the football season, Father Rector announced that a Building Fund Drive would be made in the Spring. The objective was $2,000,000 for the erection of a chapel, library, gym and science building. By the enthusi- astic cooperation of Alumni, Philomatheia and Student Body together with that of a host of friends of Boston College throughout New England the Drive went over the top, the biggest cash drive ever held in this section of the country, not excepting the Liberty Loan campaign. We had a pyrotechnical class election in Soph. Several het-up speeches were made and the final returns showed Owen Ambrose Gallagher, president; Edward C. Dullea, vice-president; Jeremiah O ' Brien, secretary; Francis Hickey, treasurer; and Cecil McGoldrick A. A. representative. Page twenty-five

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McGoldrick that we defeated the Bronx collegians that memorable day. No history of Junior year is complete without mentioning the work of Owen Gallagher, president of the class, and the only representative in the oratorical contest. Owen showed that one Junior was more than equal to six Seniors of the class of ' 22 and one Soph, Class of ' 24, thus proving that though all men are created equal, they don ' t stay that way very long. SENIOR The men elected to lead the class through Senior year were: Joseph A. Comber, president; Thomas J. Cannon, vice-president; Louis M. Treacy, secretary, and Walter B. Dimmock, treasurer. Cecil McGoldrick was elected to represent the class in the Student A. A. It is customary to say that these men were elected to steer the good ship ' 23, but the aforesaid couldn ' t steer a ship to save their immortal souls. Father Corrigan thinks our class is the best he ever had in General Ethics. The class also thinks Fr. Corrigan is the best professor we ever had in General Ethics. Fr. Corrigan admits that the reason underlying this state of affairs is that he is getting better every year. The class was also fortunate in having the instruction of that rare man, Fr. Lyons, in Psychology and Natural Theology. Contact with his personality was an education in itself. Those class meetings! For a hodge-podge of parliamentary entanglements, they are certainly unparalleled in the history of mankind. A premium will be awarded to the person who can tell us just how many times we were forced to listen to the words, I think — . The list of perennial wranglers included Wild-eyed McSweeney, Meticulous Joe Crane, Ed Now Fellows Mulligan, The Rambling Rose, Pete Monahan; and Ed Davis, he of the thoughtful mien, and meaningless phraseology. The smooth-working Joe Comber with his oily diction was often called upon to calm the troubled waters. The football season was highly successful, culminating as it did with a trample on Holy Cross. No doubt the management of the infantile Jerry Coughlin was greatly responsible for this happy denouement, as was also the consistently su- perior play of Big Moose Comerford and Jack Herpicide Heaphy, all- America correspondent for the Boston Post. The hockey season was also an unqualified success, the consensus of opinion among the sport writers being that B. C. had the college hockey championship team. The big colleges prudently passed up the golden opportunity to take a beating from the little, light team from the Heights, led by Handsome Ed Garrity, Class of Twenty-Three and all-America salesman for the Pictorial Re- view. Len Morrissey ' s work as defence man beside Garrity was superb through- out the year and worthy of the highest traditions of the noble tribe of Morrissey. The Sub Turri was the pivotal work of the Class in Senior. It was also the chief high bone of contention, the contention being between Thomas Eccles and the sons of rest who didn ' t come through with their assignments on time. Tom couldn ' t lose. He ' d have to do it himself if he did. He often did. Stop that! There are a lot of things to write about in Senior Year but unfortunately they do not occur in time to get into the Sub Turri before it goes to press. There ' s Page twenty-seven