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TROY, N.Y., Jan.2--They call hockey Canada's national sport and the Canadians certainly showed why this week. A smooth-skating Saint Francis Xavier sextet from the wilds of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, blasted three of the East's top-rated hockey teams to win Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's third annual invitation tournament...
...speaker was Boston-born, Nova Scotia-raised Neil MacNeil, who left Canada for New York in 1917, eventually became an assistant managing editor of the New York Times. Last week he turned up in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, to get an honorary law degree from his alma mater, St. Francis Xavier University. Said he: mass Canadian emigration to the U.S. should cease because in the atomic age "it may be necessary to abandon [the British] Isles and move the center of the British Empire to Canada. What remains of the British Empire [needs] reorganization and regeneration, and in both of these...
...Antigonish* is a tidy little Nova Scotian town (pop. 2,200) with a picturesque name and a unique university: St. Francis Xavier. To St. F.X., as Bluenoses call it, educators come from all over the world. Last week Jesuit Father Ralph O'Neill, of Philadelphia, arrived. Like the others, he had come to study the Antigonish Movement, to see how adult and cooperative education had bettered the lot of Maritime fishermen and farmers. He wanted to do similar work among the Filipinos...
...college's extension department: the Rev. Dr. Moses Matthias Coady. His ringing voice, ruddy features and muscular 250 pounds are familiar all over the Maritimes. He was born on a farm in a Nova Scotian village, tiny Margaree Forks, which had poverty aplenty. He studied in Antigonish, in Rome, and in Washington, taught school, preached, but never forgot his birthplace...
...small, predominantly Roman Catholic town of Antigonish in Nova Scotia, churchmen of three faiths last week made a great and happy to-do over cooperatives. At Antigonish's small Roman Catholic St. Francis Xavier University were 1,000 people-among them 250 clergymen and educators from the U. S.-to attend a Rural and Industrial Conference, to behold how the 100% Christian economics of cooperatives had put the whole region on its feet...