Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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14 LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW a 22----2------.-.---::Б БББББББ5:5::5:52-5:5:::-- as it is usually two degrees lower than in any other part of the city and the open layout leaves the Stadium unguarded against any wind that comes its way. The purpose set forth in the erection of the Stadium by the Loyola Old Boys' Association was threefold. First, it was to give some mark of grateful appreciation of and loyalty to their Alma Mater on the part of former students. Secondly, to raise а monument to their thirty-seven comrades who had made the sacrifice of their lives in the Great War, and to com- ` memorate the part played by the Loyola Old Boys in the great struggle, a part beyond all proportion to their numbers. Lastly, it was to give to the present genera- tion of students and to those who come after them a very much needed covered space for military drill, indoor games in the late autumn and early spring and for hockey and skating in the winter. There was also a reason of economy .The creation of another building, or even of a gymnasium and swimming pool seemed beyond their means, but the erection of a covered Stadium, was a much lesser finan- cial attempt. But even this would not have succeeded, had it not been for the generous donations of several friends of Loyola College. That the new Stadium accomplished its mission in providing for the students a rotected ice surface there is no question; a itdid even more. Class games and most exhibition contests with outside clubs were layed in the day time, so that the ice was free in the evenings. It was therefore ‘decided that the stadium should be made available to as many teams from the city as could be accommodated. So great was the demand that even be- fore the season opened all the available dates for the season had been filled and during the winter the schedules of six different leagues were played on the ice of the Stadium. Besides these league fixtures, a number of exhibition games and numerous practices were also held. The Leagues availing themselves of the Stadium were the Junior City League, Section B, and the Juvenile League, in both of which circuits Loyola had teams; the Montreal City Intermediate, the In- dependent Intermediate, the Commercial and Steamships, and the Commercial Leagues. The Juvenile games were played on Saturday afternoons and the others in the evening. Schedules were so drafted that three games were played each evening and thus in the course of a week over two hundred hockeyists were given the op- portunity to enjoy the great Canadian pastime. Another fixture of great importance was that between Winonas and Lachine for the Intermediate Championship of the pro- vince. Of equal importance was the play- off between M.A.A.A. Juniors and McGill Juniors, winners of the two City Junior groups. In spite of the late date at which it was played, a splendid sheet of ice greeted the players, and added greatly to the speed and interest of the warm contest. We must not close our account of the activities in the Stadium without mention of the series of skating parties successfully given on Saturday evenings by the Philoso- phers, in aid of sufferers of Central Europe. With such a successful opening season, we feel justified in predicting that the Loyola Stadium will in future years prove an inestimable boon to hockey and skating not only for our student circle but even for the city. J. A. KENNEDY, '25.

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW 15 Lord PCD HIS year, the literary world ` БЕ » is turning its thoughts back to Byron on the occasion of the one hundredth anni- a ge, versary of his death at Ow ч-н БГ in the cause of Hellenic freedom. George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron, a great English poet and one of the most remarkable figures in the litera- ture of the nineteenth century, was born in London on January 22nd, 1788. He was the only child of a profligate father and an equally unscrupulous mother. The latter, Catherine Gordon of Gight, an heiress of Aberdeenshire, was soon impoverished through the wild excesses of her husband, Captain John Byron, and taking her son, she retired to Aberdeen, where they spent several years in very straightened circum- stances. However, it was a very short time before the death of a great uncle made Byron heir to a huge estate, including one of the oldest: English baronies, together with the beauti- ful residence of Newstead Abbey, near Nottingham. He was then sent to Harrow School where a thorough education soon fitted him for that eminent seat of learning, Trinity College, Cambridge. His unusual talent was not long in making itself mani- fest at the latter institution and he grad- uated with high honours before he was yet nineteen years of age. He had already begun his literary career, having, in 1807, presented to the public his first production of a work entitled “Hours of Idleness.” The closing words of his preface to this volume are characteristic of his modesty and sense of humour: “With slight hopes and some fears, I publish this first and last attempt. To the dictates of youthful ambition may be ascribed many actions more criminal and equally absurd. It is highly improbable from my situation and pursuits here after, that I should ever obtrude myself a second time on the pub- lic.” This volume, however, received such fierce criticism from the Edinburgh Review, Byron that he did “obtrude” himself “а second time on the public and that in a manner long to be remembered, when, in 1809, he replied to this attack in “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers” in which he vigor- ously assailed nearly every literary man of the day. That Byron was possessed of determination can easily be seen from a remark he made with reference to this poem: “All my friends, learned and unlearned, have urged me not to publish this satire with my name. If I were to be turned from the career of my humour by “quibbles quick and paper bullets of the brain,” I should have complied with their counsel; but I am not to be terrified by abuse or bullied by reviewers with or with- out arms. I can safely say that I have attacked none personally, who did not commence the offensive. An author's works are public property; he who pur- chases may judge and publish his opinion if he pleases; and the authors I have endeavoured to commemorate may do by me as 1 have done by them; I dare say they will succeed better in condemning my scribblings than in mending their own. But my object is not to prove that I can write well, but, if possible, to make others write well. The opening lines give us an idea of what is to follow: Still must I hear?—Shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl His creaking couplets in a tavern hall? And I not sing, lest, haply, Scotch reviews Should dub me scribbler, and denounce my muse? Prepare for rhyme—T'll publish right or wrong; Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. Nor is he incapable of sarcasm. Hear him when he refers to his old enemies, the critics. A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure—critics all are ready made, Take hackney'd phe from Miller, got by rote, With just enough of learning to misquote; A mind well filled to find or forge a fault; A turn for punning, call it Attic salt; To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet. His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet; Fear not to lie, ’twill seem a luck fit; Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit; Care not for feelings—pass your proper jest, And stand a critic, hated but caress'd.