Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW 17 Pocatiére in the days when board and tuition cost only ninety dollars a year. That ven- erable building had lately been burned down, and the generosity of the Catholics in this Province was manifested by the immed- iate subscription of four hundred thousand dollars to rebuild Sainte-Anne. Moreover the Quebec Legislature had recently voted REV. THOMAS BRACKEN Newly Ordained. four million dollars to encourage university education by repairi ng the damage caused by fire to the Université de Montréal in this city and by furnishing funds for that Univer- sity as well as for Laval and for McGill. He could safely say that no country in the world isso well provided with higher educational facilities as is the Province of Quebec. Later on, that evening of May 16th, a banquet was tendered to Sir Charles in the largest dining hall of the college by the Rector and Faculty, supported by many devoted friends of Loyola. The distinguished guest, finding a congenial audience, spoke with more than his usual incisive eloquence, emphasizing his points with an earnestness that was positively irresistible. He insisted upon the fact that Loyola was now. the only college in the Province of Quebec where Catholics could secure a perfect English training. Formerly a few of the many French-Canadian colleges of this province made some attempt to give an equal chance to the dominant language of Canada and the neighboring States; but now Loyola College is the only one in which young men are properly prepared by the highest kind of education to cope with the English-speaking enemies of the Catholic Church, whose name is legion. His practical conclusion was the imperative duty of English-speaking Catholics in this Province making every effort to develop this institution themselves and then making others realize the claims of this Catholic. minority to a fuller recognition of its position and oppor- tunities. Ф + At the time of penning these editorials we have not yet seen the press work and photo- engravings of the Herald Press, which is get- ting out this edition. We have reason to hope it will be excellently done. But this we can already say, that to outdo this firm, and in particular its representative Mr. Kieran, with whom we have to deal, in attention and in courtesy, is an impossibility. Plans For The Future In life's great fight be mine the right Of doing nought save justice То ev'ry man for whom I can Accomplish something righteous. On this great road to our abode Beyond the curving sky, May I aid all, e'en those that fall While fighting, e're they die. In foreign lands, on distant sands, By friend or foe forsaken, Be mine the part to soothe the heart By woe and sorrow shaken. Horatio P. Phelan, Arts '25.

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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

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