Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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E VORHER CAPTAIN BERNARD (1; AND HIS SHIP THE “TEDDY BEAR” (2)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVLEW 21 Captain Bernard | ipie cannot yet boast a large museum, but she is on the way to acquiring one of which she may well be proud. The latest contribution to this department gives us an exhibit which is unique in the museums not merely of this country but of the world. For this we are indebted to Captain Joseph Bernard who is shown opposite with his sturdy ship the “Teddy Bear” in which he, first of all white men, visited many regions of the far north. Though yet comparatively young, Captain Bernard is referred to in the United States as “опе of the world's most resourceful Arctic navigators and “опе of the greatest and most daring explorers of the age. Captain Bernard was born at Tignish, Prince Edward Island, a little more than forty years ago. A roving disposition carried him, just turned twenty, across the continent to Nome in far-off Alaska, to engage with his uncle in trading along the Alaskan and Siberian coasts. Twenty- two short years in all he spent in the Arctic, but his work has been so systematic that great universities of America con- sider his scientific collections, archzologi- cal, ornithological and ethnological, to be among the most complete and the rarest in the world. In 1920 he returned from the North, bringing with him his valuable collections which were distributed between the University of Washington, the Victoria Memorial Museum, The University of Pennsylvania and Loyola College. Loyola has been fortunate in obtaining a generous share of his ethnological collection which is valuable not merely because it represents a race little known but especially because many of the objects are the work of tribes which are now extinct. Unfortunately the detailed catalog of the exhibit, which by the way may be seen in one of the corridors of the Administration building, is not complete, as the “Review” goes to press. However we hope to give an exhaustive account in our next issue of this interesting collection. Captain Bernard has hazarded much for small personal reward. He has worked without the blare of press agents and of public appreciation to spur him on. He has protected innocence, honored virtue and his record is one of integrity, daring and courage. He has even gone further for hehascarried the ideals of true Canadianism to the remotest outposts of his country. THE SAGUENAY When on thee borne, O Stream of Mystery, We mortals strive thy secret soul to know, What truth dost thou convey, what pur- pose show? Mere nature's rugged power? It cannot be. Inquiring men have searched incessantly, And thou hast but revealed the endless flow. Of mighty waters. E'en the winds that blow From towering cliffs seem empty harmony. But is this so? Have none thy message read? To those who called thy cape Eternity Did'st thou with cogent clearness not convey The thought that gave it name? And shall we say А Untaught were those who named Саре Trinity? Then why to others soulless as the dead? Horatdio P. Phelan, 25.