Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW 27 Dr. J. С. McCarthy HE newspaper accounts which first announced the sudden death in New York of Dr. J. G. McCarthy, and those whichafew days later reported his funeral in Montreal, dwelt especially оп one characteristic ої the deceased, his gentleness. This, we think, is the trait of his lovable nature that will also live most vividly in the grate- ful memory of sev- eral successive gen- erations of Loyola boys who came under his indulgent care, and still more perhaps in that of the College Fac- ulty who reposed in Dr. McCarthy the most absolute confidence. Dr. McCarthy accepted the re- sponsibility for the health of the in- mates of Loyola in the first year of the existenceof the Col- lege, when after the fire at the corner of St. Catherine and Bleury Streets, it was transferred to 68 Drummond Street. Dr. McCarthy lived conveniently across the street, and thus nat- urally seemed destined by a kind Providence to become the first college physician. His name appears in that capacity in every college catalogue until last year's, when he is marked consultant. Failing health and his removal in 1913 to another neighbourhood, compelled him to give up much of his work at the college, but of his ever active interest in the college he continued to give abundant and most generous proofs. The college in its history will number few warmer friends than Dr. McCarthy. John George McCarthy was born fifty-eight years ago at Sorel, P.Q., а town some 45 miles below Montreal, where the picturesque Richelieu River flowing down from Lake Champlain empties into the Saint Lawrence. His father, Thomas McCarthy, sat in the first Parliament of Canada after Confederation, as member for Sorel. His mother, Mary Emma Tunstall, belonged to a family well-known in Montreal, which had given the Anglican Christ Church Cathedral its first Rector. John С. McCarthy gradua ted in Medi- cine from McGill ‘University in 1888. Two years later he became Assistant Demonstrator in Anatomy, becom- ing later Assistant Professor, until after nineteen years of teaching, he re- tired in 1909. . Of this phase of his life we quote the following from the Montreal Gaz- ене: .- Dr. НО З Birkett,: dean ої thé Faculty of Medicine of McGill University, de- clared last night that Dr. McCarthy had made the discovery of a new anatomical structure in the brain, which has received his name, and paid the following tribute: Dr. McCarthy was an exceptionally clear and interesting teacher. Тһе medical profession in Montreal have lost in him a very able and highly esteemed member, and his many close friends deeply deplore his removal. The news of his death was a great shock -to us all. То those who knew Dr. McCarthy more intimately, the news of his death, though a great shock, was not entirely unexpected. Не was a very sick man when, yielding to the persuasive requests of his brother, he tried the

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26 LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Jan. 8th 9th 14th 17th 18th 23rd 25th Diary for 1920-21 We return to Loyola three hundred strong by 9.15 p.m. Introduced to our professors and class begins. Regular order resumed. Baseball in full swing on the Campus. French tests for all except Philosophers. Intermediate and Senior Rugby practice. Many old forms replaced by promising new material. French classes begin. Rugby practice. Getting into shape for the first match. 29th to Oct. 3rd. Annual Retreat. 6th 9th 18th 20th 27th 30th 1st 9th. . 10th. . 11th. 13th. . 14th. 24th. 29th. First game of Rugby. Loyola Seniors 9; Westmount High School, 0. Seniors defeated by McGill on College Campus. Score 15-7. Thanksgiving Day. Full holiday. McGill again defeats our Senior team at McGill, score 35-2. Rain and electric storm. 4 .Another defeat оп the Campus. Donald College 5; Loyola 0. We retrieve our honour аё St Ann’s, Mac- . and return with a 6-4 victory over Mac- Donald College. Seniors leave for Ottawa with Fr. Mac- Donald and a few lucky supporters. Arrive back defeated 25-5. Grounds wet and muddy, so they say. Unusually large mail from Ottawa (from the boys' aunts). Intermediate defeat -Westmount High, 20-0. Junior Rugby Team defeat St. Leo' 5 on Campus; 15-4. Sanctuary Society and Choir süpper. - Sodality Day. Feast Conception. Banquet'at 6.30, followed by a very enjoyable and successful entertainment by members of 3rd Year High. ‘Loyola Senior Hockey, Team hold first practice on outdoor. rink. Officers of Snow-Shoe Club Movies. ‘elected. Open air rink in fine condition.-Look who was flooding it. No wonder. What's that ? Movies again ? Why yes, ої course.: Reading of notes for December. All leave for well-earned Christmas vacation. Senior Hockey Team wins first game from, St. Ann's in City League 6-3. Christmas holidays over. Back to College at 9.15 p.m. They told the Prefect they were glad to be back. Try-out for Junior Hockey: Team. Only two or three old players with us. 'They get busy and practice. Inter-class Hockey League starts. Second Year Arts suspected ої having Inter- mediate section. Seniors beaten in City League by Sham- rocks, 3—2. Mid-Term Repetition be- gins in all classes. juniors hold practice at Arena, fortified by the return of our last year'sgoaler, H. Decary. Another defeat for Victorias 4; Loyola 3. Juniors tie with McGill in Junior City League 3—3. Loyola Seniors. of Immaculate . Jan. 30th. 15th. 2nd. Jan. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. 5th. 8th. 10th. 12th. 26th. Mar. 3rd. Mar. 14th. Mar. Mar. 23rd. June 4th. June 11th. 12th. June June 1 3th. 16th. Loyola beats St. Laurent College ‘оп their own ice 5—4. Oral examinations begin. Full holiday in honour of Rev. Fr. G. Bradley, S.J., Prefect who takes his last yowe: M.—Juniors defeat Nationals Juniors tie with Catholic High 3—3. College Team goes to Ottawa and re- turns victorious 10—2. Loyola 3, Nationals 5, in Senior City. League. Juniors 1, Victorias 4. Juniors win from McGill in semi-finals. Score 5—4. Drive begun in aid of Starving Children of Hungary. Our big success this year. Forty minutes overtime against Lower Canada, score 3—3. Loyola now champion of the Junior City League loses to Lower Canada for Junior Championship of Quebec. Again ten minutes overtime. Never mind, Loyola, next time. Some fortunate people leave for home. Fr. Rector congratulates boys on their good will and success in the Drive for the Children of Hungary. Class begins again. We all receive birthday congratulations. Class Baseball League begins with ѕир- porters forall teams. Second Year High В will win the intermediate section. Annual public debate of the Arts course, with musical programme. Military Inspection from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m. Old Boys beaten at Baseball 17—9. Sir Charles Fitzpatrick is guest of the College апа attends Physics Demon- stration by Third and Fourth Year Arts. P.M.—Inspection of College O.T.C. High School hold their Public Debate, with great success. Boxing Tournaments begin on Campus. ‘Kenneth Keating terrifies us all. McGill holds ` Interscholastic Track meet. Emmet Foy and Jimmie Hogan do great work. Loyola ‘High School: comes fourth out of thirty-eight schools with fifteen points. Closing exercises of month ої May. Procession and devotions in honour of B. V. M. Rev. Fr. Rector's Day. Donald and Rev. Fr. Hoffmann, S.J., ordained in College chapel. We con- gratulate them on this happy occasion, after their hard and prolonged years of study. 161 entries for Field day. Semi-finals and finals in boxing on the Campus Ashton Tobin wins championship over Suinaga. Rev. J. Mac- “Water, water everywhere Field Day postponed til] 15th. D. Walsh and P Suinaga win Tennis Tournament. Singles begin to-day The Review goes to press and this diary ceases. E.M.S. N. B -—Owing to a printers’ strike the printing of this 1921 issue of the Loyola College Review has been delayed nearly six months

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28 LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW climate of Bermuda for the winter months. The change seemed to do him good, but he, better than anyone else, was aware that his was a malady for which there is no cure on this side of the grave. He had attended his very dear friend Father Gregory O'Bryan, S.]., first Rector of Loyola, and had been with him when the latter died, and he was often heard to repeat that his own death would be like Fr. O'Bryan's. It was, only the agony was longer; so very painful indeed, that to the loved ones who in powerless anguish watched him suffer, his death seemed almost a relief. It was remarked that even in those last mo- ments, his characteristic unselfishness did not forsake him and that in the midst of intense suffering his concern was not for himself but for those to whom he was causing so much trouble and pain. He died of angina pectoris, in the Hotel Commodore, New York, in the early hours of Passion Sunday, March 13th, fortified by the rites of Holy Church. A few hours later masses were being said for him at Loyola, and prayers were being asked from many of the pulpits in Montreal. The funeral took place from his parish church, St. Anthony's, on the following Wed- nesday, and though announced as private was largely attended, especially by friends of both families and by the medical profession. Apart from his own family, Dr. McCarthyis survived by a brother, Mr. James McCarthy, C.E., of Quebec City, Vice-President of Price Brothers Lumber Company, and by a sister, Mrs. W. G. Warner. Of James McCarthy it may be said, without fear of exaggeration, that there are in Quebec few, if any, more univer- sally esteemed and respected, or more prom- inent in leadership, or more unselfish in the judicious and generous bestowal of time and wealth in the furtherance of every good cause. Loyola had reason to know, in its campaign of April, 1918, of this ensemble of qualities. Dr. McCarthy leaves to mourn his loss a widow, younger daughter of the late Senator Edward Murphy, a daughter Miss Ursula, and a son Edward “Teddy,” who was at Loyola from 1903 to 1908, but since his return from the war, has been in the north country in the employ of the Laurentide Pulp and Paper Company. One little fact should suffice of itself to com- mend Dr. McCarthy to the remembrance of Loyola boys. Itisverylargely to Dr. McCarthy that they owe the lengthening of the Christmas holidays. In the early days of Loyola, in con- formity with the practice then universal in the Catholic schools and colleges of this province, two days were considered sufficiently long vacations at Christmastide. Dr. McCarthy thought otherwise, and he pleaded his case so well, that he (and doubtless others also!) had the satisfaction of seeing them lengthened. Dr.. McCarthy was pre-eminently a family man, one who sought and found his enjoyment exclusively in his own family circle. He was a man of study, of wide reading and varied in- terests; but shy and retiring and with a real aversion for public functions. А member of the University, the Mount Royal and other clubs, he maintained hardly any connection with them beyond the payment of his dues. 'To the suffering poor he was ever a friend in whom they were sure of a generous response. To all who came in contact with him. he was the gentle-man in the original sense of these words. To the Faculty of Loyola, he was, at all times the model of the college physician. Many of his good friends of the College Fac- ulty have pre-deceased him, the last ones being Fathers Isidor Kavanagh and Gagnieur, whose obituaries appear in this same number of the Review. May they all soon meet again іп unending friendship, and share together the reward of their good work, in which they had, while on earth, a common interest. At Loyola neither he nor they will soon be forgotten. R.I.P. То his sorrowing family the faculty and the students, past and present, offer their heart- felt sympathy. —W. H. Hingston, S.J. Father I. J Kavanagh, S.J REVEREND FATHER HINGSTON, S.J., Rector, Loyola College, Sherbrooke Street West, MONTREAL. Dear Father Hingston: I have your letter of the 29th in which you speak of a biographical notice you are prepar- ing for.the Review. There is no doubt that Father Isidor was much thought of by people here who are versed