Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW 15 which are daily unfolding new secrets of un- imaginable depth. Ф Ф Though we are naturally inclined to think our own year the most important, we must, however, concede that the coming year will rank in importance above that which is just so happily passed. For September next will REV. ED. .LESSARD, S: J. witness the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first beginnings of Loyola College, and with this year then beginning will be the College's Silver Jubilee year. What festivities will mark this year we do not profess to know, but we surmise that the spirit of the present boys, the pride and affection of the Old Boys for their Alma Mater and the deep interest of the friends who have watched the develop- ment of the college, and expect greater things for the future, will not allow these twenty- five years of devotedness and of success to pass unnoticed. Ф Ф The Old Boys’ Association has not yet developed as it should. It is yearly becom- ing easier to organize into a body of respect- able size because each year adds to thenumber of Old Boys. Moreover, the need of uniting together makes itself more urgently felt each year. Letters reach us from so many parts, and interest is manifested from so many quarters, that a really active Old Boys' Asso- ciation is bound to come. It simply has to. The wonder is that it has not developed sooner. The President of the Loyola Old Boys’ Asso- ciation, Major George Vanier, D.S.O., etc., etc., places the blame upon himself and upon his prolonged but unavoidable absence from Montreal. Rev. Father Rector, Moderator of the Association, also blames himself; but others exonerate him on the score of so many other duties. Our secretary, John Fitz- Gerald, who has sufficient energy for several ee а « СРС REV. Н.Е. BARTLEY, C.S.S.R. men, has expended enough for five in his Merchants’ Association, of which he is the soul. Meanwhile ours drags on. But just wait till September. Ф Ф The Boys' Retreat, preached, from Sept- ember the 29th to October 3rd, by Father William J. Stanton, of New York,is one that has left a lasting impression. Father Stan- ton, who is well on in the sixties, brought to

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14. LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW pleted a few months ago and. which provides sufficient accommodation for the time being. Ф Ф Another motive for gratitude to God 15 the generally good health of the students, due in part to the exceptional mildness and shortness of last winter, the early and fine spring and summer. Not only has there been по epidemic of any sort among the dwellers in this college; but we rather proudly chro- nicle the fact—which reflects credit on the college commissariat—that two of our young athletes, at the recent inter-school meet arranged by McGill University, have been disqualified on account of overweight. fervent members of the Administration who are more interested in crops than in athletic sports, and who realized that the only draw- back to this beautiful summer was the thirsti- ness of the soil through the prolonged recep- tion of dry days. But should we not all re- joice that our temporary inconvenience has inured to the general benefit of the surround- ing farmers, on whose lasting prosperity we all depend. Ф Ф Ап immeasurably greater grief is the loss of those three distinguished and devoted men whose career, briefly sketched in this issue, was intimately bound up with Loyola: Father STAFF OF REVIEW C. Scott, C. Carroll, J. Quinlan, J. Hebert, E. MacCaffrey, Т. Walsh, Wm. Brennan. In the matter of weather the only unto- ward event was the great downpour of rain on the afternoon of our projected and widely heralded Field-Day on the eleventh of June. 'This necessitated our postponing the great event to the fifteenth of themonth, which, had it not been for the printers’ strike, would have been too late for this year’s Review now at last appearing with satisfaction to Mr. Kieran, who has proved himself so able апа skilful a representative of his enterprising firm. Some disgruntled Loyola wags have, іп their disappointment, gone so far as to lay the blame for the heavy shower on the efficacy of the prayers of Mr. Kieran and particularly Kavanagh, Dr. McCarthy, and Father Alex. Gagnieur. Аз all three were pre-eminently men who walked with God, our mourning is more for ourselves than for them, though of course we should pray that they may soon enter into everlasting rest. One was a great physician who realized the power of the human soul as a curative factor. Another was skilled in pointing out how that factor could itself be cured of its weakness and strengthen its heavenward course. The third, just as deeply religious, aimed at exhibiting the creative and constantly energizing power of God as reveal- ed in the heavens that show forth his glory, ànd in those marvels of physics and chemistry

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тб LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW bear on the student soul the rich and varied experience of a man whose reputation as a preacher of missions is among the greatest in the United States. And yet there was not the slightest attempt to touch the high and inevitably screechy keys of what is often called. popular oratory. He simply talked heart to heart with the boys, in the most natural and earnest way, buttonholing the very youngest with his appeals to their vivid though limited experience of life. The re- sult was in the first place keen interest on the boys' side; secondly, honest self-examina- The most important and impressive visit Loyola has been honoured with is that of the Rt. Honourable Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, P.C., G.C.M.G., Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec, accompanied most grac- iously by Lady Fitzpatrick. The afternoon of the sixteenth of May, 1921, was blessed with the finest kind of bright weather, provi- dentially worthy of this first visit of any Lieutenant-Governor to Loyola College. On his arrival his Honour inspected his guard of honour. supplied by the L. C. Officers' Training Corps, and then met the Very NEW PRIESTS FROM LOVOLA Rev. A. MacDonald, tion; and finally strong resolutions which, as the past year has proved have borne abun- dant fruit. | + + А special word of thanks is due to those who laboured in the advertising department of the Review. Results were very satis- factory. It is odious to make any distinction, but we are especially grateful to J. Hebert and E. McCaffrey for their untiring and persevering efforts in a work that was not at all times pleasant. Ф Ф The group photographs in this Review are due to Mr. P. J. Gordon, to whom also we are indebted for the excellent portrait of | Fr. Kavanagh. Rev. Jos. Bergin, Rev. W. MacManus, Rev. F. J. MacDonald, Rev. R. Cloran. Rev. Fr. Provincial and the College Faculty, after which he reviewed our Cadet Corps on the splendid ten-acre campus behind the col- lege buildings. Then was read in the open air to Sir Charles an address which delicately hint- ed at his having resigned the Chief Justiceship of Canada—an office which entailed his be- 'coming the King's direct representative when- ever the Governor-General of Canada was temporarily absent from the Dominion—in order to identify himself more closely with that mother-province of Quebec in which he was born and began his exceptionally brilliant career. То this address His Honour replied that he was proud of his native province and her Catholic colleges. He himself had been educated at the Collége de Sainte-Anne de la