Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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о N LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW A New Venture in Music OYOLA has once again OO) made evident a realiz- fo) ation of her role in the (о) cause of Catholic edu- cation and in the service eee ed of the Church. For through her means the Justine Ward Method of teaching musichasbeenintro- duced into Montreal. This method is an educational movement of the highest value, evolved in order to make clear to the world and promote the ideas con- tained in Pius X’s far-famed Motu Proprio. Animated with the same laud- able purpose, the College authorities arranged for а normal course to be given at the convent of the Sacred Heart, St. Alexander St. The Directress was the Rev. Mother Stevens of the Pius X Insti- tute of Liturgical Music, New York City, while the demonstrations were made by a picked choir of seventeen young ladies of the same institution. The party was accompanied by Miss H. V. McGrath, Miss Agnes Amy, and Miss Emerson, all of whom assisted Mother Stevens in the demonstration of the method. The accompanist, Mr. Achille Bragers, a former student of Edgar Tinel in the Lemmens Institute, Brussels, showed himself a real master in the difficult art of accompanying in Gregorian music. About seventy persons attended the course, and all afterwards united in expressions of praise to Rev. Mother Stevens, and of gratitude to Rev. W. H. Hingston, S.J., Rector of the College, who brought the Schola to Montreal. The desire was expressed that the course should be repeated this summer, and arrangements are under way to put this into effect. The visiting choristers made their first public appearance here in St. Patrick's Lady Chapel before a highly appreciative audience. The following Sunday, they sang a Solemn High Mass, assisted by the senior choir of the College, composed of forty-five voices. The boys marched in procession from the sacristy, followed by the officiating clergy. The appearance of this red- robed choir in the sanctuary was, indeed, impressive, but more solemn still was the effect of the Mass sung in perfect Gregorian chant by this large group of young men alternating with the Pius X choir in the gallery. One felt that this was truly Church music, a music not detracting from, but rather enhancing the devotional feeling emanating from the ceremonial with which Mother Church has surrounded the most august Sacrifice of the Mass. The Loyola choir whose study of the Mass was confined to the five weeks that immediately preceeded its presen- tation, had looked forward to this, their first public appearance, with feelings of trepidation. The event, however, proved these fears to be groundless. Subsequent comments voiced nothing but whole-hearted praise. This suc- cessful demonstration of plain chant is due entirely to the devoted efforts of our music director, Rev. Father Senécal. On the evening of April twenty- second, a recital was given in the College Hall before Most Rev. Neil McNeil, D.D., Archbishop of Toronto, and Rt. Rev. Felix Couturier, D.D., . Bishop of Alexandria, and the members of the College Club. Every member . of the audience loudly applauded the young ladies’ exact rendering of difficult scales and intervals and their ready development of original themes in several parts. A repetition of the Mass was given at St. Michael's with no less success than at St. Patrick's. Everything considered, this new venture in musical education was an unqualified success, and we trust that a project so enthusiastically received will become an established fact. Francis J. MCNALLY, '26.

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW 31 His pencil was striking, resistless and grand, His manners were gentle, complying and bland. CUTHBERT SCOTT. Many pages would be re- quired to do justice to Cuth’s record. His activities cover every phase of student life. In sport he is a skier of great promise, a skillful lacrosse player --- and a member of last year’s Junior Canadian Champion team. Не has much talent for music, is a capable cartoonist and covered himself with fame by his interpretation of Catter- mole, Jr., in “Тһе Private Secretary.” For three years he has been a member of our successful Intercollegiate de- bating team. Excepting the Radio club, there is not an important society in the college of which he had not been an executive. The continued success of the Rewiew is in great part due to his work on the advertising staff of which he has been manager for the last two years. Upon his departure the C.O.T.C., of which he is the senior lieutenant, will lose a valuable officer, while the student body will loose one of their ablest leaders; one who by his genial disposi- tion and straightforward manner has achieved genuine popularity. Truly Loyola will lay the blade of learning's knighthood upon worthy shoulders when Cuth Scott receives his degree. Debating Society, '23, 724, '25; C.O. T.C. Lieutenant, ?22, 23, 24. 725; Dramatics, '23, 724, '25; “Private Secre ў” Senior Football, 723, 724; Review Staff, 721, 22, К.Р.5. Secretary, 723; Historical Societ Secretary, '25; Senior Lacrosse,23, 724; Review Ad. Manager, '24, '25.

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW 33 Mexican Antiquity ©) RITING on so extensive a topic as that of Mexi- can antiquity, it is neces- sary to set some limits to the ground to be меў covered, lest, becoming entangled in a labyrinth of details, we diverge further and further from the important points. First of all, we shall point out some of the analogies between Oriental civili- zation and that of the Aztecs. We shall then deal briefly with some of the majestic ruins that bear witness to the refinement and culture attained by the prehistoric races of Anahuac. In connection with early Mexican civilization, it might be well to point out that no writer on this subject can afford to ignore the store of valuable in- formation available in Prescott's “Conquest of Mexico.” Let us turn our attention to the strict analogies that exist between the cosmogonal tradition, the religious rites, and the scientific knowledge of the Aztecs and the Asiatics. At some remote time, according to the Aztec tradition, mighty rains fell upon the earth, until the waters cov- ered the whole world. No human being escaped except Coxcox and his wife, who had built a boat and had thus saved themselves along with a few animals. This Mexican Noah sent out a vulture which did not return. The little humming bird ''huitsitzilui was sent forth and returned with a twig in its mouth. The very striking resemb- lence in this to the Chaldean, Hindoo and Hebrew stories of the deluge is surely more than accidental. Sixty miles outside Mexico City, near the city of Puebla we find the pyramid of Cholula, once constructed, it is said, by giants who survived a devastating flood which spread over the whole earth. Unwilling to be the victims of the elements they erected a colossal monument the top of which was to reach to thesky. They were well advanced in their construction when the gods, jealous of the height of the building and fearing that its Summit would intrude upon their heavenly abodes, commanded fire to fall upon the pyramid. The workmen fled in con- fusion and left the work unfinished. Here, too, fortuitous resemblance to the Hebrew story of the Tower of Babel is surely out of the question. 'The traditions of the Aztecs and of the other races that inhabited Anahuac have some analogies not only with the historical events of the Old Testament, but with others as well which, at first sight lead us to believe that Christianity had at some time exercised an influence over these nations. It is said that an old man named Quetzalcoatl, came from the East. He was fair and had a long white beard. He took his residence at Cholula, taught a religion of love which abolished human sacrifices and commanded char- ity. The institution of ecclesiastical communities is referred to him, as well as the rites of confession and penance. He is generally identified with the Apostle Saint Thomas. This, however, is mere legend. Amid the ruins of Palenque in the State of Chispas there was discovered a perfectly carved cross. Ав a result of the find a group of enthusiastic clerics of the time of the Conquest too hastily concluded that the Indians had once possessed the true Revelation. Before accepting such conclusions ourselves we must remember that the Cross was the object of veneration in Syria and in Chaldea, long before the death of Our Lord had rendered it a sacred sign for Christians, and that the rites of penance and sacrifice were exercised by nations upon whom the light of Chris- tianity had never shone.