Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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THE LOYOLA ANNUAL 5 will ever grow entirely forgetful of the kind word and priestly bearing that everywhere characterized our late beloved presi- dent. Charles S. Lerch, ’ll. OIuio One road that leadeth up to God Is steep, indeed and narrow, With thorn-trees growing by the side, Whose fairest buds are sorrow. Too weak, my soul, to tread that path — My heart, too gross with leaven. When he, the Shepherd, taught my feet Another way to heaven. The gentle way of charity. Where hearts ne’er feel the wounding Of blackening lips or vengeful words. For there is love abounding. “Forgive, as ’tis forgiven you,” Behold his simple teaching. Yet hath it shown me that my goal Is not beyond the reaching. Jos. M. Scanlan, ’14.

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4 THE LOYOLA ANNUAL iFatIjer Ira n aa (HalhQt l uBxhmt Reverend Francis Xavier Brady, twelfth president of Loyola College, died suddenly on Sunday, March 12th, 1911, on the feast-day of his patron saint, and in circumstances somewhat like those that surrounded the death of the zealous Xavier. Father Brady had just finished giving the famous Novena of Grace, to which he had for seventeen years devoted the energies of mind and body. And the fatal attack that ended his life is now acknowledged to have been brought on by the unusual heavy labor of the last novena. In life, as in death, he gave himself for his flock. When pastor of St. Ignatius’ Church, no time or distance deterred this zealous priest from the work of caring for the sick of his con- gregation. And the constant call for him in the church and residence by the rest of his people never found him absent or inattentive. The same spirit of self-sacrifice made beautiful his office of president of the college. No boy was too small for his inter- est. No college entertainment or display went on without his inspiring presence. He found Loyola College awakening with a new spirit of life, and by his own personal effort and con- stant attention, he developed that spirit into full growth. And under his masterful guidance, Loyola reached the zenith of her career thus far, both in numbers and activity. And what the loss of so great a man meant to the teachers and students alike, was shown in the sorrow and silence that fell over Loyola’s corridors on the morning after his death. He made Loyola College what it is and of his students, from the boy in preparatory to the college senior, not one, we daresay.

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6 THE LOYOLA ANNUAL Irabg mh f nmtg Mm. On June 12, 1908, the Rev. Francis Xavier Brady, S. J., was installed as president of Loyola College. To the Baltimore community, in which he was so well known, not only as a priest and a profound scholar, but as an administrator of marked executive ability and a man of the most attractive personality, the appointment was a source of gratification. From the date of his appointment to succeed the late Rev. W. G. Read Mullan, S. J., as president of Loyola, Father Brady did not begin to build up Loyola College. From that date only he began with renewed vigor and vim to put into more successful execution his continued efforts of years — as pastor of St. Ignatius’ Church — to put new life into our Alma Mater, and his efforts have raised a substantial monument to him, though he will need no material monument to preserve the memory of his personality and good deeds. His death Sunday night, March 12, came as a shock to the city and state at large, but especially brought sorrow to hundreds of students who have been trained under his direc- tion. Father Brady’s influence as a priest and devoted church- man is already told, and in a few words I will try to write of that beloved man, who has gone to his eternal reward, as the President of Loyola College. When he was installed as president of Loyola the class of 1908, of which I a member, was on the last lap of its college course. In the few days, we were under his guiding hand, we learned that his labors in behalf of the student body as a whole we re unsparing and those labors ought and surely will remain with us forever as an incentive to higher and