Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW 15 exercises commenced on the morning of Wednesday, January 8th. Father Casey, S.J., of New York, gave the instructions. He inaugurated the custom of keeping silence during the Retreat. The boys gave him great cause for satisfaction in this respect. Father Casey called his retreat the “Noblesse Oblige Retreat, and he repeated this motto time and again. He tried to impress on our minds above all else the dignity of our posi- tion as Catholics and that we should do nothing that would be out of keeping with that dignity; the privilege we enjoyed in being allowed to serve God as Catholics; the duties which we should not shrink, because we were Catholics. From Father Casey's direct statements and also from the general tone of his instructions it seemed that he wanted us to bear in mind that to fight life's battle one had to be a man, courageous and resolute, and not a weakling. These were the two things that we especially took away from the retreat: “Noblesse Oblige and “Fight through life without shrinking”. The retreat closed with mass and general Communion at 8.00 o’clock, on Saturday, January 11th. Few preachers have so impressed us as Father Casey ` with his knowledge of the boys’ heart. He has left us kind memoriesof himself, but especially, kind memories of God and His Goodness. On the day of our flag-raising came the welcome announcement by Major General Wilson C.M.G., of the formation of a Canadian Officers’ Training Corps in the College. It was welcomed as a novelty, but now that the novelty is worn off, it is all the more welcome because of its utility. We are especially fortunate in the choice of our drill instructor, Regimenta! Sergeant-Major McClements, late of the 73rd Bn. C.E.F., and all kinds of bright hopes are entertained for the future. The Editors wish to thank those who have contributed to the Review and offer а special word of praise to Wilfred Noonan and his advertising staff for their untiring and suc- cessful efforts, as well as to Tom Day and his enterprising circulation staff. Top row—H. Smeaton, R. Kelly, Н. Domville, James Hebert. Bottom row—W. Noonan, J. Wolfe, R. Anglin, B. Bray

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14 LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW to our loss, still he will be able to exercise these same qualities in larger fields and the blessings that God showered on his work as long as he was with us, we hope He will continue to shower on bigger undertakings. Rev. Father Hingston was recalled from the battlefield, to take the place of Rev. Father Filion as Rector and to take part ina campaign of another kind less dangerous but possibly not less arduous. To him was entrusted the task of rescuing the College from a position of serious financial embar- rassment. The recent “Drive” proves the success of that undertaking. But what augers well for the College is the fact that Father Hingston, both as professor and prefect has had experience of almost every phase of College life. He knows Loyola as few others know it and claims personal acquaintance with most of those who passed through here. Hence all old boys who visit Loyola will be sure of meeting at least one old friend. The recent drive has proved one thing that there is a big future for Loyola. We think that the future is in safe keeping. We desire to offer our heartiest congratula- tions to Rev. Father Walter S. Gaynor on his elevation to the holy priesthood. He is but one more added to the forty that Loyola has given to the Catholic priesthood. Father Gaynor worked long and zealously at the old Loyola and has a host of friends in the city. Always very energetic he devoted himself heart and soul to the formation of the youngest boys in the school. It is not idle to say that in the crowning years of the classical course we misplace sometimes the merit of the success, but the boys whose good fortune it was to get under way with Father Gaynor, have never forgotten to attribute a part, at least, of their merit to their early formation. On leaving Loyola, Mr. Gaynor, as he then was, went direct to the English College, Valladolid, Spain, to study theology. He returned to England to be ordained priest on Christmas Eve, at Plymouth. He is now doing parish work in that diocese. It is giv- ing away no secrets to say that Father Gaynor has a very warm corner in his heart for Canada and that he looks upon Loyola as his second home. This feeling of affec- ` tionate remembrance is fully reciprocated. Few masters have made warmer and truer friends than Father Gaynor. In colleges conducted by members of the Society of Jesus, there must necessarily occur many changes, from year to year, in the administrative and teaching staff. This year has been no exception. Scarcely had the scholastic term ended when Father J. Milway Filion, last year's professor of phil- osophy and rector was named Provincial of the Society of Jesus in Canada and Father Hingston, lately returned from service over- seas, was appointed to the position thus vacated. Father John F. Cox, professor of Humanities and Rhetoric has been transferred to the mission field, and Mr. Demetrius Zema, S.J., last year's teacher of First Gram- mar, is now professor of History at Holy Cross College, Worcester. Messrs. F. J. McDonald, S.J. and P. J. McLellan, S.J., have begun their theology at the Immaculate Conception College, Montreal and Messrs. Breslin and Kennedy, S.J. are pursuing their philosophical studies at the same institution. Mr. F. S. Smith, S.J., went to the English Novitiate, at Guelph, as professor of Latin and Greek. The new men on the Loyola Staff are Father Daignault, former rector of the Immaculate Conception College, who is spiritual father, Father A. J. Primeau, who has been named bursar and parish priest; Father de la Peza, professor of philosophy. Messrs. J. Keating, S.J., W. Bryan, S.J., J. Holland, S.J., J. Howitt, S.J., from the Im- maculate Conception College, Messrs. J. Fallon, S.J.; J. Marchand, S.J. and J. Dalton, S.J. from Guelph and Mr. Robitaille, S.J. from Sault au Recollet. We desire to express on behalf of all our deep gratitude to Professors Shea for his con- tinued interest and devotion to our orchestra and choral classes, and to Serg.-Major McClements, instructor of our C. O. T. C. and Cadet Corps for the part he has taken in the physical training of our boys. Owing to unusual circumstances the annual retreat was given this year in January, instead of at the beginning of the first term. The

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1 8 tt tt) tt it et == n! | x Roll- of- onor x -| | Killed MAJOR TEMPLE MACDONALD CAPTAIN EDWARD DWYER - CAPTAIN MELVIN JOHNSON- CAPTAIN FRANCIS MAGUIRE CAPTAIN ARTHUR McGOVERN, D.S.O. (Boethumous) CAPTAIN JOHN P. WALSH . LIEUTENANT HENRI DE VARENNES LIEUTENANT ARTHUR DISSETTE, Croix de Guerre LIEUTENANT JAMES DE B. DOMVILLE LIEUTENANT JAMES GRANT LIEUTENANT R. B. HINGSTON LIEUTENANT RODOLPHE LEMIEUX LIEUTENANT FRASER MACDONALD LIEUTENANT FRANCIS McGEE LIEUTENANT SARGENT OWENS LIEUTENANT GUY PALARDY LIEUTENANT EDWARD PLUNKETT LIEUTENANT WILFRID SULLIVAN LIEUTENANT JOHN WILKINS LIEUTENANT MAURICE VIDAL SERGEANT-MAJOR GREGORY NAGLE CORPORAL STANTON HUDSON, M.M. CORPORAL ADRIAN McKENNA PRIVATE STUART BARNSTON PRIVATE HERBERT BUTLER PRIVATE HOWARD FARLEY PRIVATE LEO LE BOUTILLIER, D.C.M. PRIVATE DONALD McARTHUR PRIVATE DESMOND O'BOYLE PRIVATE LEO SHORTALL Died PRIVATE GLENDYN CLORAN PRIVATE EMMETT CONROY CADET PAUL CONROY PRIVATE W. A. PEARSON Distinguished Service Order COLONEL GEORGE J. BOYCE LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN JENKINS CAPTAIN ARTHUR McGOVERN (Posthumous)