Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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Refectory Building . Juniors’ Building NEW LOYOLA OLD LOYOLA

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW 3 ” LOYOLA : COLLEGE BRIEF ? OUTLINE » ОН?» TIS HISTORY For some years past, we read in the first Loyola College Prospectus, issued in August, 1896, “side by side with the French Course, an English Classical Course has been successfully taught and well attended at St. Mary's College, Bleury Street, Montreal. It has now been deemed expedient to separate the two courses and to have the English Course in a building apart, under exclusively English control and direction. In view of this, suitable buildings have been secured close to St. Mary's College, and to these, for the present, the lower classes of the English Classical Course will be transferred, and the School will be opened for the reception of pupils in September next, under the title of LOYOLA COLLEGE. The “suitable buildings referred to above, that formed the first home of Loyola students, was that building on the South-East corner of Bleury and St. Catherine Streets, now desecrated by a moving-picture theatre. We use the word “home” advisedly, as a home it had been for the boys since its opening on September 2nd, 1896. Тһе smallness of the rooms, the narrow play-ground, had necessitated a rather broad, home-like system of study and general discipline; and the special, almost maternal care given to the quality and cooking of the food, under the sympathetic eye of Brother Brown, allowed the boys to enjoy home comforts that are hardly ever met with, even in the oldest and best equipped colleges. Тһе chief interest of those early days centres around the first Rector, Father Gregory O'Bryan. His striking physique and personality, his wide experience in matters educational, his career as a missionary priest, his long and close intimacy with the English bishops and prominent priests of Canada, qualified him in a most unusual manner for the position of Rector of an English Catholic College. From the first, boys flocked to the new school principally because of its Rector; and both they and their parents found, as time went on, that their confidence had not been misplaced. Father O'Bryan was ably assisted in his difficult task by a devoted band of fellow-workers. Father Isidore Kavanagh, besides teaching Mathematics, fulfilled the duties of Minister and Bursar; Father Louis Cotter taught Music and presided over the first class of Rhetoric; Father E. J. Devine was chaplain, and Father Lactance Sigouin had charge of the study-hall. With these priests several Jesuit scholastics shared the labours of those early days. Mr. B. Hazelton was the first prefect; Mr. F. Wafer Doyle, zfterwards Prefect for several years, taught the first class of Rudiments; aud Mr. Alexander A. Gagnieur, a future Rector of the College, taught the class of Third Grammar and had charge of the Literary Society.