Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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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

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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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LOYOLA: COLLEGE REVIEW 29 in astronomy. Lately, I had asked one of our students to go up to McGill to learn the name and address of the secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. He saw Professor Weir and was told that, in his opin- ion, Father Kavanagh was “the only astron- omer in Canada.” Prior to that, again by a McGill man, a statement was repeated to me from one of the professors that Father Kav- anagh was the only Canadian whose work as an astronomer is known outside of Canada. Father Rickaby was an old friend of Isidor's, and. was at Stony- hurst when [Isidor was there. I have a photograph ої his which he sent to Isidor. Father Rick- aby would be able, І am sure, to give: you interesting in- formation about something in Isidor’s career while at Stonyhurst. For in- stance, hediscovered some fossil for which geologists had been long in search. The British Association was at that time in session somewhere in England, and a number of the geo- logical section went to examine the fossil in situ. The event was considered of such importance by the authorities at Stonyhurst that, I believe, they invited 500 members of the British Association, or at least a very large number of them to Stonyhurst, where they were entertained very splendidly. On that occasion, Sir William Dawson was among the visitors and expressed himself as very happy that this honor should come to a Canadian and hoped that Isidor would be sent to Canada where, as he said, geology was almost an untrodden field. On Isidor’s return to.Canada Sir William Dawson was very kind to him and made him welcome to use the McGill museum, which was found very useful. I mention all this to you, not because you can find in it anything sufficiently reliable to refer to in a biographical notice. I merely in- tend it as a suggestion that you may obtain the necessary information either from Father Rickaby or from someone at Stonyhurst, who perhaps would be able to provide information you would like to have, Father Perry, who as you know was in his time looked upon as the astronomer of Eng- land, came to Can- ada with the British Association and brought Isidor with him. With kindest ге- gards, І am, dear Father Hingston, Yours sincerely, HENRY J. KAVANAGH P.S.—Mr. A. Hill- iard Atteridge, some of whose writings you have seen in America,was afam- Шаг contemporary of Isidor's at Stony- hurst. А letter c o E. J. Bellord, 8 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, London, S.W. 1, England, would reach him. H. J. К. THE REVEREND ISIDOR J. KAVANAGH, S.J. LINGERING illness of eight years, А result of paralysis, preceded the death of Father Isidor J. Kavanagh. so well known to generations of Loyola boys. For sixteen years he taught physics and. chemistry in our college, and old. stu- dents will recall the many successful experi-