Father Christopher Nulty S.J. (Rector): “He was remembered as an earnest, if dour, man. He had few qualms about associating pain with learning, and he preferred to urge his students along learning’s path with a stick rather than a carrot.”
Father Philip Gleeson, S.J. (Prefect of Studies and Rector): “For all the thirteen years he was at Xavier, before being made Rector, he was Prefect of Studies. He filled that office with dignity and used only moderate violence to legitimatise its authority and sanction its rules.”