James Walsh, Class of 1912

James Patrick Walsh was born January 9, 1890 to John J. and Mary Katherine Walsh. He attended St. Mary’s in the Govans neighborhood of Baltimore before he enrolled at Loyola in 1903, where he was assigned to the freshman high school class, “Fourth Academic.” James made steady progress at Loyola while being tutored by alumnus James L.D. Kearney. In the 1910-1911 catalogue James Walsh is listed as a “Special Senior,” an uncommon designation that isn’t defined in archival material. And in the following year catalogue he is listed as a senior. James graduated from Loyola College in 1912 and went on to the University of Maryland Law School, from which he graduated in 1914. He later went on to work for the law firm Hinckley and Singley in Baltimore. Walsh was the president of the Loyola alumni association from 1932-1934 and was awarded the Carroll Medal in 1959 “in sincere appreciation for his demonstrated devotion to Loyola College.” James died between 1970-1984; no records of his death appear in the Loyola University Maryland archives (1).

 

The College Class Listings, showing James Walsh's special senior status in 1910-1911.

Some time before his death, Walsh donated to the Loyola Archives a collection of the material he used during his years spent at the college, including grade reports and lecture notes. The collection of English Literature material demonstrates the minimal influence the novel held in the early twentieth century curriculum and classroom.


James Walsh’s English Literature Collection

The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Joan of Arc and the English Mail Coach by Thomas De Quincey
Joan of Arc by Thomas De Quincey
Selections from Wordsworth, edited by James Dillard
Skylark, Adonais, and other Poems by Shelley, edited by James Dillard
The Snow-Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Vision of Sir Launfal and other Poems by James Russell Lowell
Eugene Aram: A Tale by Edward Lytton
An Essay on Addison by Thomas Babington Macaulay
L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, and other Poems by John Milton
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare
Macaulay’s Essays on Milton and Addison by Samuel Thurber

Books studied freshman year

Books studied sophomore year

Where are the novels?

Sources

1. Varga, Nicholas. Shelf List found in the Loyola University Maryland Archives.