Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA COLLEGE Page 14 COLE FORWARD... E OOKING back over the history of the Loyola College Contingent C. O. T. C., and taking in the broad outline, it can be seen that, rising out of the results and lessons of the Great War, it has progressed steadily and surely, though often under difficulties, towards that position it held and has continued to hold since the outbreak of the Second World War. It was first instituted at Loyola College after the Armistice, and has reached its culmination and period of usefulness in the necessities and demands of the present War. During those twenty-three years of its existence, the Loyola Unit has proven its worth, not only in deen military training, though in that соо it has made numerous and rapid strides, till now its courses rank high among O.T.C. training centres, but also in keeping with the policy and system of training of Loyola College itself it has proved its value in the development of character, leadership, and those qualities of a gentleman which the Faculty of the College has as its aim in training its young men. No less valuable has been the direction given by the C. O. T. C. to the Alumni and the Students of Loyola in the field of Military activities. This has resulted, not only in the large percentage of Loyola Alumni now in the Service of their Country, but in the sensible and suitable disposal of Loyola men in those branches of the Canadian Army, Navy, and Air Force for which they are best suited and qualified. That has been the task of the C. O. T. C. and it has accomplished it worthily. Since its establishment twenty-three years ago, at the close of À Great War when Loyola's sons displayed such loyalty to their Country's Flag, till the present time, when Loyola's sons are again showing the same courage, and serving with the same fealty and in the large percentages, the C. O. T. C. has carried on its system of training and preparation for any emergency. That emergency has arisen now, and it has found Loyola prepared. That has been the fulfilment too of the task of the Canadian Officers' Training Corps, and the Loyola College Contingent can proudly show, with facts and figures, that it has done its share nobly TRADITION ... Їл times of stress, tradition is а grand thing. It is something solid and гє- assuring on which to lean and in which to find comfort in the knowledge that other men with whom we are connected by ties that run thicker than water, once faced the same decisions, once acquitted themselves nobly, and left a glorious heritage for us. Loyola College has such a tradition, and the Loyola College Contingent C. O. T. C. is the embodiment of the glorious part that Loyola Alumni played in the last War, for the Unit is the continuance and commemoration of the Irish Can- adian Rangers in which so many Loyola men served. It is likewise, though not in name, the continuance and outcome, of practical necessity, of the large number of Loyola Alumni and Students who served elsewhere in the Services, and of those, again large in number, who were called upon to make the supreme sacrifice.

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гээл” 7” کک‎ лу унын LOYOLA Page 13 COLLEGE REVIEW The expedition, ably captained by Paul de Maisonneuve, was primarily spiritual in its intent. Its immediate aim was the establishment of three religious communities: one of priests and two of nuns, who were to work in this new field for the aggrandizement of the Kingdom of God upon earth. Thus, with the first Mass on May 18th, 1642, was founded the Village of Ville-Marie. The question has often been eeneg what caused the tiny village of УШе- Marie to grow to the greatness of the Montreal we know today? Men will list as elements contributing to this growth, numberless advantages of location. But I believe that one important factor in this success story has been overlooked. This circumstance is concisely and og wipe summed up in Tennyson’s well-known words: ‘‘More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.” Let us take a few moments and travel back into the past, to the early days of Ville-Marie. We stand on the mountain-side and look downward through the clear wintry air into the tiny village. The scene is beautiful beyond description with the weird beauty of a world of shapes and shadows lighted by the flickering glow of the Northern Lights. Away down there in the valley we see a single light, and from that spot the sound of music drifts up through the quiet air:—Vespers: Like strangers’ voices here they sound In lands where not a memory strays Nor landmark tells of other days But all is new unhallowed ground. It is clear that the great English poet was not thinking of this picture when he wrote those words, but their appropriateness is striking. If one were to bear this scene in mind and to give it any consideration, he could not help but be convinced that here is to be found the key to the success of Ville- Marie. The toils and sufferings of the founders have borne fruit. Indeed more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. ' Metabolism The sun can draw the humblest rain-drop Muddied by the April thaw; Raise it to a mountain top, of it make The shiny flake of chill, icy, Alpine snow That year-round sparkles in a gleam-light Beam-bright, spotless-silvered glow. God's grace can win Earth's blackest soul Fallen by Hell' s vilest sin; Call him to life's honour-roll, and he'll own The highest throne in the happy balo-borde Who have lived as heros in the life-blest Heaven-rest service of the Lord. James MELL, 43.

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LOYOLA Page 15 COLLEGE REVIEW The history of the Alumni of Old Loyola, as it is known, who died in the | Service of the British Empire during the last War, graduates from as far back as | 1896, and graduates up to, in some cases, 1917, shows that Loyola was certainly not found wanting in all that is courageous and unselfish. The Larei of Students and Alumni who served, in proportion to the size of the College then, was the reatest of any educational institution, and the fine record set by Old Loyola is feine ably carried on in the present crisis. That is the Loyola Tradition, and, com- memorating it today, for the full recognition and due glory that Loyola owes them, the Old Loyola men, are the Memorial Tablet in the Junior Building, with its long list of those who fought and died, the Irish Canadian Ranger flags, that hang above the Sanctuary of the Loyola Chapel, and the Memorial Window in the rear of the Chapel. Loyola students, looking at them, can have some significance of the tra- dition of Loyola College borne upon them, can realize in some part the role the Irish Canadian Rangers, and their successor, the Loyola C. O. T. C., have played and are playing, and can gain courage and reassurance and just pride from them. Data :— 1. Two hundred and seventy-seven Loyola men volunteered in the Great War. 2. Decorations:— М.С. and Cross of Legion of Honor:—then Maj. Geo. Vanier, later Canadian Consulate to France. Old Loyola, '06. M.C. Capt. H. O'Leary, 14 М.С. Capt. Е. O'Leary, 07 M.C. Capt. W. Morgan, '07 M.C. Lt. J. De Gaspé Audette, 13 Military Medal. Cpl. Stanton Hudson, '14 Croix de Guerre. Ft.-Lt. Arthur Dissette, '08 D.C.M. Pte. Leo Le Boutillier, '15 5. Charles Gavan Power, '07, returned from overseas, with a credit of 22 wounds. Returned as Liberal Member—Opposition—for Quebec South. Now Canada's Air Minister. 4. Air Commodore G. V. Walsh, '14, O.B.E. O.C. No. 3 Training Command R.C.A.F. H.Q. Montreal. R HISTORY OF THE UNIT... Preliminary to the actual formation of a C. O. T. C. Unit at Loyola College, was the existence of a Cadet Corps at Old Loyola. On April 24th, 1915, the Cadets joined the Irish Canadian Rangers in a review by H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, and on May 16th, they took part in the Irish Canadian Rangers' Church Parade. It was after this that Old Loyola ceased to be. The former building was leased as a Military Hospital and Lo yola College began to take shape as we know it today. In June, 1918, Capt. the Rev. William H. Hingston, S.J., who was to brin into actual existence the C. O. T. C. Corps, and to give it its first impetus, age from ten months’ overseas battle-front service, where he had accompanied the Duchess of Connaught's Own Irish Canadian Rangers in England and France. Under the auspices, then, of Fr. Hingston, and as a furtherance, of a kind, of the Cadet Corps already in existence, but intended primarily as a perpetuation of the Irish Canadian Rangers, on February 18th, 1919, the Loyola College Contingent of the C. O. T. C. was established.