McGill University - Old McGill Yearbook (Montreal Quebec, Canada)

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annual! 65111-was 1 LT.-Col.. Bovey, 0.B.E. Born in Montreal in 1882. Graduate of McGill C1-Xrts '03j3 won the Chapman Gold Medal in Classics. Studied Law at Cam- bridge, Member Inner Temple, London, and of the Bar of the Province of Quebec. Col. Bovey is an oarsnian of distinction, having rowed in Trinity Hall Crew in 1905 and 1906. In 1906 they defeated Argonauts at Henley. He has a distinguished war record, his honors include the Reconnaisance Francaise and The Order of the British Em- pire. He was appointed Secretary to the Principal on October 1st, 1923. Vanished Days A TRIP BACKWARD THRCUCH MCCILL Wvitteii for tlie Annual by Lt.fCol. Wilfrid Bovey E SCME convenient Time Machine could be found in a cupboard of the Physics Building and if the readers of the Annual could take a trip backward through the history of McGill, the voyagers would not travel long before they found themselves in very strange surroundings-always, of course, excepting the Arts Building. We must start off in low, for lately changes have been coming very fast. Looking out of our windows we see the stones dropping away from the new Electrical wing, then the Pathological Institute begins to fall and by 1922 even the Biological Building and the new Library addition are gone. 1921, Centennial Year, we might slow down, stop and walk up to the Stadium with its record crowd watching McGill and Toronto battle for the football championship. Here and there we hear people talking about the Centennial Fund Campaign which raised 5B6,ooo,ooo for McGill, and of all that could be done with it. But we cannot waiteback to our machine again and turn on a little speed. 192o, 1919, IQI8, 1917, again we stop our ship. It is the month of April, all around us oihcers and men are learning to play their part in the great war overseas. Two of them are speaking of the noble death of Percival Molson, perhaps McGill's most famous undergraduate, an officer of the P.P.C.L.I. in whose memory the new stadium is to be built. Colonel Charlie Martin, Colonel Eric McCuaig, Colonel Herbert Molson, Major Macmillan and Major Tait are overseas. Doug. McGregor is in the Flying Corps while Basil MacLean is tapping signals on a wireless and wondering when the next torpedo is coming. There are hundreds doing their share as best they can, many have gone to their rewards. Many more, three hundred and fiftyfsix in all, shall give their lives. This autumn is to see Talbot Papineau give up his position on the staff of the General who is to be Principal of McGill and die with his regiment in the iight for Passchendale. Now in 1917 another Principal, who has been at McGill since 1895, Sir Williani Peterson, walks slowly down the campus, thinking, we may be sure, of that son who is to be Ambassador to Japan in IQZS, and thinking too of all the changes that have come since McGill has been under his guidance. But we are delaying too long, we must get aboard again and turn the dials for our backward start. 1915-the stadium is gone, 1911-the Medical Building, the gift of McCill's chancellor, Lord Strathf cona and Mount Royal, commences to fall. 19o9eit is gone and the new Engineering Building is sink' ing quickly, till all that remains is a pile of ruins left by the IQO7 fire. 19o8--the Chemistry Building goes. April IQO7, ten years since our last stop, let us slow down, this time at night. A great blaze is lighting the campus, the Engineering Building is aiire, and the fire engines are not working properly, a few puny streams cannot stay such a conflagation. Dean Bovey, who has been head of the Faculty

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T , .y p .... ... . A H gdwryf fly, 1 flfpff 1 I 5 mi fi 3 J. ii. Morsox DR- CRAIK Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Donor of Ulil Medical Building: for a minute While the Principal hands us a copy of his report and We read it on our Way. We are interested in seeing it. i'The University is still Without a gymnasium Worthy of the name, and the want was painfully felt by our athletes when they received on a recent occasion the representatives of athletics at Qxford and Cambridge, previous to their visit to the United States. These gentlemen will have seen much at Harvard and Yale which is still a long way from being realized at McGill ..... the vvant of residential accommodation for our studentsea Want which is not known at Oxford and Cam' bridge-must also have struck them forcibly, and we trust it may not be long before some of our wealthy citizens who have not hitherto been approached with reference to the needs of the University undertake to supply this vvant. It comes second only to a new and vvellfequipped gymnasium on the college groundsf' Will some echoes of these Words be heard in the report of a Principal twentyfone years on ? In rooo we have just time to take a peep into the Arts Building and see the urushf' Tvventyfiive years on it will seem most unlikely that all the students of the first and second years in Arts could collect inside the building on the Western staircase, but this is what is happening. Dr. Lomer and Cc'm1l1'r1zzed on page 3.195 ,c gt. flllll W cm lllllll ll ji NI.Xf'DUN,Xl.D ICNCQINIQFRING BUILDING liii-ttml 180.4 Dvstroycil 19-07 L., av ,J ! l l l l l ' Eg..