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ADVERTISING MANAGER TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial 5 The Divinity Column - - - - - 21 Rugby.............................................................. 6 & 45 Alumni & Alumnae Notes - - - - - 23 Lanercost Abbey - - - - - - 7 Woman Students’ Association - - - - 25 Rain (Verse) An Alliterative Romance (Verse) - - - 25 Rambling Through the West Indies - - - 10 Freshette Notes - - - - - - 27 Came the Autumn - - - - - - 1 1 Vision (Verse)-----U Freshmen Notes - - - - - - 12 Convocation ------- 29 N.F.C.U.S............................................................15 Personals - ....---29 A Voice from the Past - - - - - 19 Exchange - - - - - - - -31 EDITORIALS. ---------—4. fer as do individualities themselves and a definite answer is out of the question. Volumes well-thumbed and mellow “Whither Man” ed by the course of time are cherished possessions but an by W. G. Bassett ancient automobile is valueless to the individual and a laugh ing-stock to the community. It becomes obsolete junk. 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RUGBY Visions of victories and championship laurels that * * * have always been our fondest hope perhaps can be more A publication entitled “The Canadian Republic clearly visualized this year than ever before. With ten Magazine” has recently come into the hands of the Editor. of last years regulars back on the field and several new and He has noticed that the present number for October is Vol. excellent men, Bishop’s ought to go a long way before 1, No. 1 and he is wondering if it will be his misfortune meeting their superiors. to receive another. The magazine he admits affords a Joe Blinco, our star quarter and captain, is working little amusement although he cannot qualify the noun by the hard and if his knee will only hold out we will all know adjective ‘innocent'. The magazine takes not only a frank and feel that we have the pick of the team behind us, and but a blunt and aggressive anti-Imperalistic attitude which that’s a great help. cannot appear to be anything but ridiculous to the average Monty, in whom we have all had so much confi loyal Canadian. dence and who this year has more confidence in us than A few extracts from the first page which is headed perhaps ever before, is doing his best for us, and should any “Our Creed” may be interesting to the readers of the Mitre. thing unforeseen happen that will shatter our dreams of de “That Canada must become a Republic to become a great feating McGill and Loyola we will have no one to blame country.” It is rather uncertain just what Mr. Gordon M. but ourselves — and perhaps, but lets hope not — our Weir, the Editor, considers Canada now is but perhaps his support. definition of national magnitude is somewhat different from Bishop’s wins Opening Game of Intermediate ours. “That Canadians must become Canadians and nothing else if we are to be Canadians and nothing else.” Intercollegiate Series First appearances are somewhat deceiving but we find that Having beaten the Sherbrooke Athletics in an exhi this sentence is grammatically correct after all. Have we bition game on September 28th, by the score of 8 - 3 the been labouring under some delusion all these years and are University team met McGill on Wednesday, October 9th. we not Canadians and nothing else? Perhaps Mr Weir and turned the tide against them 16-5. According to thinks that if Canada were a Republic we might attain to the Montreal “Gazette”, “the winners showed superiority that ideal which we thought we had reached some few years in all departments of the game, and only in the third quarter ago. The next sentence is almost poetic in its vivid picturi did McGill hold their own”. zation, “that so long as we do not become a Republic, many Bishop’s secured their first touch almost directly who live here will spend much time climbing the golden from the kick-off when Blinco plunged across the line by social stairs of London instead of remaining here and de a few inches. In the second quarter Hobbs, former Quebec veloping this country.” To foreigners we might explain Swimmers star, kicked for three points making the score that running up and down golden stairs, or any other kind eight to nothing at half-time. In the third quarter ‘Bull’ for that matter, is not the national sport of Canada despite Johnstone, McGill outside wing and former L.C.C. captain, Mr. Weir’s words which might so imply. “That we take intercepted a pass from Blinco to Skelton and made a forty- England as seriously as we take modern Spain; i.e., that five yard dash for a touch which was unconverted. In the we forget that England exists, and get on with our work of last quarter Hobbs kicked for two more points and the game developing our Republic.” Here we agree with the Editor ended as it had begun with a Bishop’s man plunging across that England really is a small country after all but still we the line for another five points. Hobbs was responsible have doubts whether England would allow us to entirely for this five points and Fuller raised it one. forget her. United States is a Republic but she does not The red line held well but failed to make openings seem to forget England for any great length of time — we for the plunges of its back-field. The purple and white might even have Premier Ramsay Macdonald come to visit showed remarkable co-operation and this team work together us were we a Republic. That certainly is an ideal for with the kicking of Hobbs gave the home team a marked which to strive. advantage. The Bishop’s team came off the field unscathed There are many more interesting and highly amus and with a week and a half rest before the Loyola game ing passages but we regret that space will not permit us to should field a strong team against the Jesuit College on the comment on them.