Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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‘Once the Jargest campus in Canada... Note the still unfinished Administration Building at right. if We hadsomvenyetiourishingesmowshoe club, and Very of- teh, spent @ full Saturday purposely losing our way around Westmount, Gnd sometimes Mount Royal) and inevitably required ten-daymperiodmofs recovery, under the healing care of Brother Soucy S.J) whose name inever dppeared ag @ member of the Staff, [BUF whose impoftance will hever be forgottén, nor jwill any of the! other brothers Who not only gave the spirit, but @ degree of humour and comedy to the College atf@esphere,; in those pioneer days=such ag Brother) Rowell) Who drove the|College |horse and team to Bonsecours Market for provisions, and dffer a full day's trading forgot thé Wagon and horse, and eame|back to the College by streetcaranawhGa to return, only fo find the horse, Wagon and contents stolen, without too much sympathetic Consideration from the Rector, althoUgh the good brother related his many bargains.

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My dear Son. . Forsan et Haec Olim Meminisse Juvabit YOu hoVesisteenteredelLovoldaCollegennow Loyola of Montreal, or what next, and | recall a similar event which | Hadin 1918) bur Undoubtedly with much fess comfUsion. My brother andebssicitecdouietorunal education at the same time, and in}no time at all we knew the first name of leVery boarder amd day-scholar, and in ihe prodéss ear- mdtked respectfully seme of the members Of the) faculty with Ricknadmes, which wérelonly descriptive of! Certain traits: The war Was on Gnd raging from all) quarters, and many students were still in Uniform, pledging allegiance to Fa- the Hingston's Irish-Canadian Rangers, of Which [he was thé guiding spirit, nd later gave [Birth to |the cadets and thé €.0.1.G, with lifS two famous: Sergeant-Majors, White and Murtagh, teal old soldiers of the British Imperial Army. Coming from the country as we did, the) big city Was a bitlof a nightmare edsteoteMictonicmAwenwer DUT our natural and fetiring attitudes found a normalcy, in due course of time, Morelor less comparable with an established mean between those of Westmount and those of Griffintewn, with the happy and ultimate findings, over the years, that both classes have unwittingly outmatched each other in theif Several pursuits, through confusion and integration an@ migration, and the measurement of their successes and@ fajlures has afforded a degree of concern and interest ever since, from different or the same causes. The student activities of an extracurricular nature were as numerous as they were varied, always with that hu- man pathos in all its applications. 10

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Starting around the first of May to the end of the year, Baseball and Lacrosse were the order of the day, and while you may never see these games at Loyola now, as then, we had excellent ballplayers, such as Martin Pye, Sarto Gain, Irish Lonegan, Joel Valadez, Bill Donovan with his 12 chocolate-loving Red O'Connor, and of course the Fregeau battery; when Ray lost his arm and his temper, he would catch at the plate until recov- ered, and then exchange positions and battle along for hours on end, with ‘‘Fat’’ trying to keep pace.