Michael Earls

He studied literature at Georgetown University from 1896 to 1897, earning an MA and then served as a tutor on a trip to Europe, after which, in 1898, he entered the Grand Seminary at Montreal, Canada.

He was Professor of Rhetoric at Holy Cross from 1916 to 1926, Father Minister of the community from 1926 to 1929, and taught English from 1929 to 1931.

In addition to these academic roles, he also held a number of other church positions, including parish priest at St. Mary's in Boston's North End from 1933 to 1935.

Over the course of his life, he was frequently drawn to leading literary figures and counted among his friends and correspondents Louise Imogen Guiney, Joyce Kilmer, and G. K. Chesterton.

As director of the Holy Cross Alumni Association, he was struck by a heart attack in New York City while boarding a train to Cleveland.