Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW Obituary Lr. Cor. С. Simms «ЧНЕ death of Сотомег MA Sims, the assistant Bur- М) sar, occurred unexpect- | edly on New Year's eve й ium damped the holiday MI spirit of all connected 9) with Loyola. During the autumn it had been noticed that he was not so regular as he had Бесп in his daily walks but this was put down to a passing indisposition. Accordingly, no one suspected when he was taken to St. Mary's Hospital short- ly after Christmas that a complete col- lapse was imminent. Born in Worcester, England, in 1872, Col. Simms was the son of the late George A. Simms of that city. He came to Canada early in life, but later joined the Imperial Army and was stationed for some years in Malta. He served in two Egyptian campaigns and in the Boer war, winning the Queen's Medal with two clasps. At the outbreak of the Great War he held the rank of captain, but before his return from overseas he had been made a lieutenant-colonel. He was appointed assistant bursar at Loyola four years ago and was a member of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association. His funeral, which took place on Wednesday, the fourth of January, in Halifax where Col. Simms spent the summers with his family, was marked by many impressive proofs of the esteem in which the dead officer was held. He was accorded full military honours by the members of his former unit, the R.C.A.S.C., and the casket was borne to Mount Olivet Cemetery on a gun carriage with a Union Jack flung across it. To his bereaved family Loyola expresses its sincerest condolences. КТР. гг 4 Reverend WirriAM А. МСТАВЈЕ, S.J. ATHER УиллАм МСТАВЈЕ had been ordained priest but three years when he died on Tuesday afternoon May 17th, at the Hotel-Dieu Hospital, Windsor, Ont. Last January, in the course of his first year of work after the long studies of members of the Society of Jesus, he suffered an attack of influenza which later developed into mastoiditis. After an operation for this at St. Joseph's Hospital, Guelph, Ont., he appeared to recover and was able to pronounce his final vows as a religious on the feast of the Annunciation of Our Lady. How- ever, while he was convalescing at Windsor, meningitis supervened and within two days he died without re- covering consciousness. Father McTague was born at Guelph in 1899 and entered the Jesuit Novitiate in 1916. Because of his special aptitude for classics, he was given an extra year study at St. Andrews’-on-the-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and then appointed Greek master at the Novitiate. His course of philosophy followed at the Immaculate Conception, Montreal; to- wards the end of the second year, his health failed and he did his third усаг at Mount St. Michael's га Spokane. Неге, after an operation for tonsilitis, heart trouble manifested it- self and, though at the time it was thought it might be fatal, it later ameliorated. Henceforth however, Fa- ther McTague suffered that most trying form of ill-health that neither in- i26k

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LOYOLA GOLLEGE REVIEW — Such was John Galsworthy, the novelist and man. As novelist, he is certainly one of the finest of our time, and one who should still further prove himself. As man, he has expressed senti- ments that reveal the truly great, the friend of all, the teacher of a generation. Just as he was a finely talented English- man, so is John Galsworthy, by his labour a universal possession to be sought and carefully studied. The Ч number of men that determine an age is very small, but with the passing of John Galsworthy we realize that this generation has been favoured with a gift, the value of which no other has yet had the privilege to enjoy; but, as I feel certain, it will be the lasting privilege of the future to read, admire, and respect, John Galsworthy. Ноон Ктевлмв, '36. Bereavement 4 Star is just a пат, they said, “The skies would twinkle were its light to close; One cannot have a flower-bed With just a rose. The full life knows the bleakest of despair Through gust and tempest' s might, And feels the grey dawn' s air After sleepless night. Other hearts shall come to cheer your heart, And you shall smile again before you die.” I murmured softly to their sorry art And passed them by. Emer SHEA, 35 {25}

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW — capacitates one nor permits a full and free exercise of one’s powers. Any great effort or concentration would result in an exceptionally rapid pulse, exhaust his energy, and cause insomnia. It was under these trying circumstances that he taught III High at Loyola in the year 1926-27, made his theological studies at Woodstock, Md., 1927-31, and went through his year of tertian- ship at St. Beuno's College, St. Asaph, North Wales. He had just returned to his former work of teaching classics at Guelph when his fatal illness occurred. By his marked ability, his energetic though retiring disposition, and his habits of accuracy and thoroughness, Father McTague was particularly suited to the life of a student. However, there is a suggestion of pallor in the word student and, to avoid such а false impression, it is well to add that his energy was of the type that could readily explode. His pupils never found in him any ground for suspecting that books were for the less vigorous members of the human family. On the contrary, his character was definitely strong and this, coupled with his “Бэр capacity for taking pains, made him a teacher who could be exacting without failing to command respect or to excite interest. Similarly, his utter aversion to all that was half-hearted was, so it seemed to his friends, what constituted the most grievous trial when ill-health would oblige him to take his work and re- creation in gingerly fashion. It is hard for the Canadian pes to lose a mem- ber of such undoubted promise, and it is harder still for those who had in him a staunch and loyal friend to realise he can be with them no morc. Yet his life which he dedicated fully and irrevoc- ably to God lies in deep harmony and firm consistency with our present, con- fident prayer. Requiescat in pace. Pitot Ковевт V. Котрн ПОТ Officer Robert Vincent Rolph R.A.F. (Loyola ех-33) was in- stantly killed on Tuesday February 28th at Tangmere, Sussex, England, in an aeroplane collision. He was piloting a Hawker “Ешу”, one of Britain's fastest fighting aircraft, and ran into a similar machine piloted by Pilot Officer Campbell McMullen who was only slightly injured. Although Bob's stay at Loyola was limited to his High School years, he was known throughout the College and High School as an ardent aviation enthusiast, a good athlete and a thor- oughgoing, hard-working student. Quiet and unassuming, he never im- posed his presence upon anyone—a quality which won for him the respect and goodwill of his former associates and friends. After leaving Fourth High in 1929, Bob spent a few months in Montreal learning to fly at the Montreal Light Aeroplane Club, and then left for Camp Borden to join the Royal Cana- dian Force. At Camp Borden he showed such promise that the authorities sent him to the Royal Air Force College at Cramwell, England, where he assumed the rank of Flight Cadet Under-Officer. On his graduation from the R. A. F. College he was presented with the Sword of Honour, awarded each year to the best all-round cadet in the Senior term, by Air Vice-Marshall R. R. Clark- Hall, Air Officer Commanding Coastal Area, this being the first time that the honour had ever been conferred upon a Canadian. Bob spent his Christmas holidays in Canada with his parents, and upon his return to England was assigned to the 43rd Squadron, R.A.F., with the rank of Pilot Officer. То the bereaved parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold V. Rolph of Lachine, P.Q., the Review extends it sincerest condolences. “Ord 427}