Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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SOLEMN BENEDICTION THE ‘МАМРАТОМ” Left to right Rev. Wm. Mackey, S.J. Rev. John Prendergast, S.J Rev. Wm. Daly S.J. Rev. Maurice Stanford, S.J.

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Page 8 growing accustomed, if not reconciled, since, for the last four years, the growth in numbers has been really phenomenal. This can best be judged from the fact that in 1942 a whole holiday was granted to celebrate the coming of the five hundredth pupil. Not the least worry of the College authorities is to plan for a future in which no one at present, can foresee whether this tremendous influx of students is to con- tinue, There is the obvious danger of over-expansion with the possibility of large, empty buildings to be paid for out of diminishing revenues. With confidence in Divine Providence and counting on the support of Loyola's friends, the College has committed itself to the construction of the new Central Building. The next few years will tell whether that confidence was solidly based. If the choice has been the right one, the prospect of a greatly enlarged sphere of activity for Loyola is bright indeed. On October 8th further concrete proof of Loyola's growth was given at the Faculty Dinner which brought together all the members of the College and Hizh School Faculties. Sixty-one assembled and spent the evening getting acquainted and, by their numbers, gave proof of the multiplying activities housed under Loyola's roof. Loyola to India On December 9th there took place in the College Chapel a ceremony which inaugurated a new era for the Upper Canadian Province. Hitherto, the field of missionary activity assigned to the Province was in the Homeland: our missioners exercised their zeal among the Canadian aborigines. A new field of endeavour has now been thrown open to the members of the Province. Тһе ceremony of December 9th marked the departure of the first missioners to the new mission field, which is situated in Darjeeling in Northern Bengal, an area of seven hundred thousand square miles inhabited by Hindus and Mohammedans. Four graduates of Loyola College, Fathers William Daly, S.J., William Mackey, S.J., John Prendergast, S.J. and Maurice Stanford, S.]. were given the solemn missionary mandate by Very Reverend John L. Swain, S.J., Provincial of Upper Canada. Along with them, to share in their labours, went Brother Paul Robin, S.J. Father Martin Reid, pastor of St. Augustine's Church, delivered the sermon and His Excellency Bishop Whelan gave solemn Benediction and bade the missionaries “God-speed, in the name of the Archbishop of Montreal, in his own name and in the name of the clergy and laity of Montreal. The missionaries sailed from Halifax to England on December 12th, then to Bomba y whence they still had a two thousand mile journey to Calcutta before starting on the last lap to Darjeeling. It is a coincidence worth recording, that while Loyola was thus entering the religious life of India, it was also entering into the diplomatic life of the country. Mr. John D. Kearney, K.C., Loyola 716, who had been Canadian High Commis- sioner to Eire and then Canadian Minister to Norway and Denmark, was recently appointed Canada's High Commissioner to India. Loyola fondly hopes, that, in their respective fields of endeavour, her sons may attain outstanding success. It is to be expected that in the normal development of our missionary endeavour, many future graduates of Loyola will follow in the footsteps of these pioneers. It is not beyond reasonable possibility that in the future the diplomatic life of India may likewise witness the activity of some Loyola successor to Mr. Kearney. To both him and them, Loyola wishes all possible measure of success. Ап old friend leaves us On April 10th as he was elevating the chalice at the Offer- tory of the Mass, Father John Cox, S.J. suffered a heart attack and a few moments later ended a long career in the Society of Jesus. On August 4th next, he was to have celebrated his Diamond Jubilee as a Jesuit. For the last two years Father Cox had been at Loyola where he had come back to spend his declining years. Partially blinded and much enfeebled,.he was practically confined

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Раде 10 The English-speaking Canadian Jesuits will be working in the territory indicated by the arrow and the dotted circle. to his room and deprived of what he looked upon as his greatest consolation, his breviary. Doomed to sit without reading during the long hours of е day, deprived of frequent contact with members of the busy teaching staff, he spent his days in loneliness, but never in despondency. Whenever a visitor came to see him, he found a pleasant greeting from a still buovant personality carrying the heavy burden of his infirmities with unfailing cheerfulness, always ready to find some spiritual aspect to a condition which, from the human point of view, must have been depressing and utterly discouraging. This particular aspect of his last months on earth must have been emphasized by the retrospect of his long and active career as a Jesuit.. Father Cox was born in Montreal on October 11, 1868 and studied at Collége Sainte Marie, which, at that time, had no English-speaking course. He entered the Society on August 14, 1887 at the Novitiate at the Sault-au-Récollet, and pronounced his first vows on August 15, 1889. Following the custom of those days for English members of the French-speaking Province, he went to Stoneyhurst in England to study the Humanities and Mathematics in 1891-1892, returning for his Philosophy to the Immaculate Conception in Montreal in 1892-1895. He then taught at Collége Sainte-Marie, the Juniorate at Sault-au-Récollet and at Loyola College, which had began its separate existence in 1896, returning to the Immaculate Conception for his Theology in 1900. He was ordained to the Priesthood on June 28, 1903, and the following year went to Mold in England for his Tertianship, returning to Loyola College where he pronounced his last vows on August 15, 1905. From then on till 1913 he taught, first at Loyola and then at St. Boniface College in Manitoba.