Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LOYOLA Page 7 COLLEGE REVIEW REVEREND FRANCIS WAFER DOYLE, $.J. b. his four years’ teaching before theology Fr. Doyle had seen Loyola begun at St. Mary’s College, move to larger quarters at the south-east corner of Bleury and St. Catherine, and then, after a disastrous fire, move again to Drummond Street, the present site of Lasalle Hotel. After his ordination he returned to Loyola as Prefect of Discipline and Minister. From 1908 to 1912 he was stationed at St. Mary’s College, preaching and hearing confessions in the Gesu and teaching English in the classroom. In Se tember, 1912, he was appointed pastor of the Church of Our Lady, Guelph. For this parish he spent his talents. His friendly nature, his organizing ability, his wit and eloquence, his generosity, all were used to the utmost to further the interests of the people and their church. His kindly spirit, wise counsel and generosity were keenly appreciated, too, by the Fathers and novices at St. Stanislaus Novitiate, started a year after Fr. Doyle’s arrival at Guelph. On the establishment of the Jesuit Seminary eighteen years after his appointment as pastor he became its first rector, a position he held until 1934. For the past ten years, although in fail- ing health, he has been spiritual director of Regiopolis College, Kingston. From the June issue of Regiopolis’ “Garnet and Gold”, we take the following as an example of the interest he kept in his charges, especially the young: “His death was not a shock to us, for he told many of us after we had gone to confession to him on the Saturday evening previously that he was hearing our confessions for the last time. He had dropped many hints and often jokingly remarked that he had lived quite long enough, that eighty-two was perhaps an over-ripe old age. So he had prepared us for his going. His death was a disappointment and a loss. For in him the students lost a friend whose kindness and patience were remarkable. We used to wonder how he sat in his room all day long without showing signs of irritation and discouragement. His unruffled and cheerful manner always charmed us. In him we lost a counsellor whose advice most of us eagerly sought in all our big difficulties. We found him willing to hear our stories and earnest in offering us solutions to our problems. We are lonely without him. R.I.P. Сс

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LOYOLA COLLEGE Page 6 REVIEW REVEREND THOMAS J. MacMAHON, $.J. : F ATHER MacMAHON was born in Hamilton in 1874, the son of a prominent member of the police force. After graduating from Hamilton Col- legiate, young MacMahon was articled as a law clerk to the firm of Lynch, Staunton and O'Heir. At this time he also took part in the discussions of a Catholic Debating Society and gave promise of great things as a speaker. In 1894 Mr. MacMahon went to Montreal to teach English in a French Canadian College and there learn French. He did not like this position, however, and after two weeks went over to St. Mary's College. Shortly after arriving at St. Mary's he made the momentous retreat which made the budding lawyer decide that his vocation was not to the bar but to the priesthood and to the Jesuits. When Thomas MacMahon entered the Novitiate at Sault-au-Recollet, he was the first English- speaking subject in two years. As a novice he was much liked, showing then the characteristic for which he was to be noted throughout his life of being an excellent community man. In 1897 he was sent to the Missouri Province for a two-year study of the classics. Returning to Montreal, he spent seven years of conscientious study at the Immaculate Conception College, with six years of teaching at Loyola between his Philosophy and Theology. Father MacMahon was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Bruchesi wd 815%, 1910, and in 1911-12 made his tertianship in Canterbury, England. The early part of the following year he ably assisted Father Alex. Gagnieur, then Rector of Loyola, as Minister and Prefect of Studies and Discipline. When Father Gagnieur fell ill about the middle of the year Father MacMahon succeeded him as Rector. It was during the last year of his term as Rector that Loyola moved from Drummond Street to the present location in Notre Dame de Grace. Work had been begun two years before, and in 1916 the entire student body moved to Sherbrooke Street West. In Father MacMahon's second term as Rector, 1930-1935, he had the beautiful chapel building erected. The present Loyola may be considered almost entirely as a monument to his administration. The rest of the years that Father MacMahon devoted to the priestly ministry were spent on the Mission Band. During these years he gave very many missions in all parts of Canada and preached retreats to priests, religious, and laymen in this country and in the United States. He was extremely well-liked as he was a noble character, inaccessible to much of the petti- ness of human nature, unacquainted with selfishness and ambition and a complete stranger even to vanity and self-complacency. He was a fine manly man, a good religious who led a life of great singleness of purpose and unflinching devotion to duty. His fidelity to regular observance was ап inspiring example. On the social side he left the memory of sunny ways and witty sayings. Everywhere he passed he was remembered as an excellent community man. NI

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LOYOLA COLLEGE Page 8 REVIEW LAWRENCE TALLON | Tus accidental death of Lawrence Tallon on January 24th deprived Loyola of a son indeed. Last September Lawrence was assigned to First High B; his consistent efforts in the classroom and study hall assured a steady advance in school work. In his games he showed a manly spirit, at once energetic and restrained, which attracted the attention of many older students, one of whom paid Lawrence a boy's spontaneous praise, He was a swell little lad who knew his place! In Chapel, too, he “knew his place — on the evening of his death his missal was found marked for the next day's Holy Sacrifice. No doubt he knows another place: God's fitting re- ward for a boy's job well done. One of his best friends, Lorne Brown, was asked to tell us something about this youngster who had met such a tragic end. Lorne's obituary is eloquent in its simplicity: Lawrence Tallon was a friend of mine from Clarke eu which is a long way from Montreal. I think Loyola can be very proud of him for he went to Holy Communion every morning. He was an eg Ke hockey player, and his friends certainly miss Иш in their games. Не was quiet and had а deep respect for the Blessed Sacrament. boom all Lawrence Tallon was a gentleman. R.I.P. Van Gogb's Gachet I stood before a picture, rich and sad, And showing where Van Ce: in frenzy had With ragged, playing lines, boldly portrayed A silent, wistful man,—’Twas he who laid The genius in his grave. Gauguin had mocked The works of his wild, flaming art; men flocked Outside his House of Light and, jeering, cried “Madman!” And at Anvers, before he died, He painted this Gachet. Then darkness won Into his painting and drove out the sun. One day his weary mind recalled again His fathers rectory, the white linen, The grinning neighbours, Montmartre, the dread Sie insanity. And it is said That there he died, in the sunlight. Warm air Stirs the golden sunflowers growing there That with their gilded petals praise the day— This tribute planted there by good Gachet. . WILLIAM HARCOURT, 46.