 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.