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P ot-L uck ...... 18

Is Marriage Possible? ...... 22

D iscussion G roups a n d t h e G ood Li f e 24

Jo h n La n e M a k es t h e M in u t e s C o u n t 27

2T7 A b r o a d ...... 29

O f C onversation ...... 32

O u t of the W ilderness ...... 34

M onocle ...... 35

M e n ’s A t h l e t i c s ...... 38

W o m e n ’s A th letics ...... 42

P erso na ls ...... 43

Locals ...... 44

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Ask your groctr for ACTA VICTORIANA 11 WINTERS IS ANOTHER RANT WINTERS was reading in a deep chair at his club B when the two men came up behind him. “Branderson going with us?” asked one. ‘‘Yes. But keep it quiet. He wants to slip away without any one knowing. There’s a girl with whom he is trying to make a good impression. She objects to drinking and she thinks he does drink on these week-end fishing trips of ours.” Winters crackled his paper and coughed, so that the men moved away. But as they went he could not help but hear: “I promised to pick up Branderson at four this afternoon.” Winters tried to continue his reading; but he could not do so. For he was in the process of being tempted. It was a strange temptation: it prompted him to forsake his own personality for that of another. All his forty-one years he had been sedulously developing his own personality. He had set out to do this on the principle that such a course was the only one which would allow him to live abundantly. Instead of cultivating friends he had cultivated himself. He had avoided marriage lest the compromises peculiar to that state weaken his own individuality. He had attained to some esteem, position, wealth, and he was happy. There is, however, a back-water eddy in many characters. Brant Winters sought to escape from the monotony of progressive egotism by submerging himself in the personality of another. He was tempted to be some one else. He had never surrendered to this peculiar allurement; but the cajolery of it was aided by a natural talent which he possessed: he was a born impersonator. Indeed he might have been one of the great impersonators of his generation, if he had not thought he could live more advantageously at another profession—that of architecture. One man in particular had attracted him: Eric Branderson. How­ ever much the two differed in temperament, they were alike in size— in height, in girth of waist and span of shoulder. Both were brunet. Their features were not dissimilar. Winters had noticed these basic likenesses and mused over them. He had gone so far as to make a mustache like Branderson’s rather full one and secretly to practise the other man’s mannerisms of carriage and gesture. He had pur­ chased and put by duplicates of the other’s rather elaborate wardrobe —or such pieces of it as he chanced to see from time to time. And, although the two men were bare acquaintances, Winters had tried to 12 ACTA VICTORIANA keep himself posted as to the more outstanding of Branderson’s domestic arrangements. These mild secrecies pleased Brant Winters, for he felt himself to be a potential Eric Branderson. He felt that he had at hand another personality, into which, escaping the world of reality, he could disappear. .... • , , This Saturday he was inundated with ennui. He was bored with himself. And the opportunity of relief suddenly lay open before him—Branderson was going quietly out of town, for the week-end, fishing—and Winters had a complete duplicate of the other’s fishing outfit. The temptation was too great. Winters quit the club and drove rapidly up town to the (as he thought) rather too large house where he lived alone with three servants. At five-thirty p.m. a man emerged from a rear door of that house and, walking quickly along an alley, attained the side street. A block further he took a taxi and alighted at the hotel where Eric Branderson kept a suite of rooms. The man walked into the hotel, put down the small bag, creel and encased steel fishing rod which he carried, and asked, coughing, for his keys. The day clerk gave him Mr. Branderson’s keys, a bell-hop secured the luggage and the man followed by elevator and corridor to Branderson’s suite. He did not hesitate at the door, but unlocked it, entered, paid the boy, closed the door after the latter, looked carefully about him— and then hugged himself. He had really done it! He could hear no one in the apartment, so he made a thorough tour of it, familiarizing himself with every feature. This expedition was barely completed when a key turned in the lock and a man entered. The two men faced each the other. The newcomer said: “You gave me a start, sir. I thought you had gone away, sir.” “I came back,” coughed the man, “I’ve caught one of these summer colds.” He felt that he was having an excellent time of it. “There was a telephone call just after you left, sir.” The new­ comer, whom the adventurer recognized as Branderson’s valet, name of Roberts, seemed embarrassed. “Who was it?” snapped the other in a staccato voice he had heard his double sometimes employ. “Miss Philips, sir. I told her you were down town, as you instructed. She gave me a message for you, sir.” “Well.” ACTA VICTORIANA 13 “She positively instructed me to repeat every word of it to you, sir.” “Out with it then.” “She said as how you could go and sit on a tack. ‘On a tack’— those were her very words, sir. And besides she said she would have you thrown out if you ever came around her place again, asking to marry her.” “You may lay out my dinner clothes, Roberts,” said the interloper. He waited until the valet had gone into the bedroom before he com­ menced to rummage through a desk in the drawing-room. Shame­ lessly he looked into a dozen letters before he came to one with the name of Audrey Philips at the end of a few lines. He read those lines and saw that they said: “Dear Mr. Branderson: “I should be delighted if you could take a little trip all by yourself to Patagonia and not come back until spring. “Yours truly, “A udrey P hilips. “P.S.—Any spring.” At the top of the page he read: 98 Glamis Road. He slipped the letter back into the desk. “I am dining out to-night, Roberts,” he called, coughing. “Have the Marmon around at 6.30. And reserve a table for two at Dorans’.” He dressed. And presently Branderson’s chauffeur was driving him to 98 Glamis Road. He found a fashionable residence in a fashionable quarter. But without hesitation (as became a true adventurer) he alighted, left the chauffeur in the car with the engine running (to facilitate retreat if necessary) and went up to the front door. A butler came at his ring. No. Miss Philips was not at home to Mr. Branderson. “But I must see her. It is a matter of life and death—a person is dying.” As he stood there with his right shoulder drooping after the manner of his double, he looked like Eric Branderson, he tried to think like Eric Branderson and, indeed, he almost felt that he was Eric Brander­ son. Then she came and he rather wished he were Eric Branderson. He judged her about twenty-eight, five foot eight inches and one hun­ dred and twenty. He noted light brown hair and blue eyes. But it was an airy, adventuresome, ‘Treasure Island’ manner of her that made him rather wish to be Branderson. “Well,” she said, “who is dying?” 14 ACTA VICTORIANA

“Of course, I. For lack of you.” “Did I, or did I not tell you to stop coming around here with that silly kind of twaddle?” “You did,” he lied. “Well, then,” said the lady, “get out and stay out.” “Just one more evening,” he pleaded. “They are waiting at Dorans’ to serve us dinner. Let me propose to you but once more. And if I fail I shall quit this land for England." He felt delightfully like Branderson now. And the vision of him­ self wandering as Branderson, self exiled from his country for love of the lady whom Branderson loved, quite met the demands of his peculiar imagination. So that he looked at her wistfully. And whether it was this wistfulness, or whether it was that she simply had nothing better to do that evening, she said: “Oh, very well.” “Ah, are you ready now?” “Quite ready! I’ll be down in about an hour.” So when in Branderson’s curved limousine the shadows had flocked thickly and master and man had grown older, she came. At Dorans’ the adventurer’s mind performed in the following man­ ner and proceeded through the stages herewith set down. First he made a judgment: he judged the dinner excellent. Next he pondered on his present state and the possibilities of future trouble with the owner of the dinner clothes he wore. But Branderson on a fishing trip, or Branderson immediately after a fishing trip, he dismissed as harmless. He recalled a remark which that gentleman had once made in his hearing. Branderson had said to a large company crowded in the locker-room of a local golf club: “The trouble with these fishing parties, there is usually some son-of-a-gun who wants to fish!” In all probability, by Monday morning, Branderson would not be able to recall whether he had spent the preceding Saturday evening in a camp by a lake, or—well, dining at Dorans’ with Miss Philips. The borrower would return to Brandcrson’s suite, change into his own fishing outfit, walk out from the hotel— and the adventure would be done. And in the third place he began to notice her eyes, which were blue eyes. He had been observing them for some time, but now he vaguely caught his opinions of them up into words. And he let the words lie vaguely in his mind. The words were something like this: ‘ Her eyes are blue eyes. Many girls have blue eyes. But she is not a girl, she is a young woman. Well, many young women have blue eyes.” This began to sound like a syllogism; and a ACTA VICTORIANA 15 syllogism, however useful it may be to the disciples of Aristotle, is just so much extra cumbrage to those of Aphrodite. So he changed his tack. And he put these words by in his mind, vaguely, carelessly, the while he spoke to her of motor cars and flying fish, theatres, mush­ room growing and the oil-dressing habit. He put by these words: “Her eyes are blue eyes. They are blue as the sky is blue. Living blue!” He wondered if he had just now evolved that phrase, or whether he had read it somewhere. He decided that he must have read it some­ where. His love phrases were only the echo of some one else’s emotion. He himself was only the echo of some one else. He was Branderson’s echo. A walking echo! Not so bad. Walking echo! By and by, the while they agreed about the barbarity of beauty contests and funerals, and disagreed about the cultivation of mush­ rooms, he began to commend himself for his lack of genuineness. His clothes didn’t belong to him; his name didn’t belong to him; his emo­ tions didn’t belong to him. He was pleasantly bogus. With the coffee, he began to luxuriate in the sense of having done wrong. He planned to keep on doing wrong. He liked it. It was a glorious dissipation for him to have successfully submerged his identity in that of another. He was Branderson. And Branderson loved this woman who spoke so deliciously of the right (i.e., her way) and the wrong (i.e., his way) methods in mush­ room cultivation. So Branderson’s double must love her too. At this moment Branderson would be proposing marriage to her, futilely. He too must propose marriage to her, futilely. He leaned forward a little, across the table. “Here it comes,” he said, “this is it—Branderson’s last futile effort: will you marry me?” “The ink-caps, on the other hand,” she was saying, “require differ­ ent treatment. What do you say ? Oh!” For a moment she looked at him without any expression at all. And then she looked at him with an adventuresome, “Treasure Island” expression. She said: “I believe so.” “You w ill?”he shouted. He sprang up. He struck his right hand into a finger-bowl so violently that the water rose in a compact ball, described a parabola in the air, and thudded down into her lap. She had practically accepted— Branderson. He stared down at her. He looked into her eyes, clear blue in her white face, like bits of sky in a cloud. And suddenly, in a flash of realization, he visualized her marrying that fellow Branderson. He pictured them at the altar, kneeling together .... 16 ACTA VICTORIANA

. cn that the head waiter came running. “N ° r he t un ^ cheeks. She sighed as if relieved from The whltey C cernedly she shook the water from her dinner gown. a“B tension, y the way, unco snesaiu, name— Mr. Poor-lmpersonator."

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HE OLDEST UNDERGRADUATE came once more to see us. He hobbled to a pile of magazines and slowly lowered himself T until he sat upon them. “Death,” he said, “is a matter of degree.” He asked a question. “The possession of what faculty,” he asked, “marks a very much alive person from a very nearly dead person?” We smiled as if we knew the answer. We had been exposed to the Oldest Undergraduate before this occasion, so we knew that the answer would not be an obvious one. We smiled therefore as if we knew the answer. The Oldest Undergraduate did not seem to consider us of much assistance in the discussion. He looked at us steadily for some time and then he said: “The faculty which distinguishes a very much alive person from a pretty nearly dead one is the faculty of wonder. Had you thought of that?” We had not thought of it. He said: “Those alone who wonder are really alive.” He leaned suddenly toward us. “Consider the Church,” he cried. He waved his arms excitedly. “Consider the possibilities of wonder­ ing which the Church possesses. For the Church is not bound in its contemplation to this world, but has as its range the whole hypo­ thetical other world. The function of the Church is to seek that other world and orientate us with it.” The Oldest Undergraduate twisted up his face. “Day and night I wonder,” he said. “It is life to me. When I ponder on the universe I seem to feel at times the beat of it, I seem to feel, during tremendous moments, as if I were caught up in the rhythm of it.” ACTA VICTORIANA 17

He half rose from the stack of magazines. “But, too often, in the Church,” he said, “they do not wonder; they state. I hear sermons on the immortality of man, sermons which begin with the major premise that there is a future life for man; I hear sermons on sin which begin with the assumption that there is such a thing. Why does the Church not discuss more these first principles ? Why does not the Church join in the general wondering?” He rose and hobbled to the door. He was bent, we mused, as if by the burden of his own rhetorical questions. He turned, a dolorous expression upon his face. “In wonder,” he said, “the Church might not retain its entity. It employs a power more centripetal than wonder: it employs belief.”

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We presume it an inevitable anomaly that this magazine cannot be filled with other than such stuffs as forever constitute college magazines. Yet, although we undergraduates may not well hope at this time to escape from the fetters which our non-age sets upon us, we may at least struggle gloriously. As a special inducement to struggle A c ta VICTORIANA offers a prize of ten dollars each for the best poem and the best short story submitted by an undergraduate registered in Victoria College. The poems should not be long and the stories within the two-thousand-word margin. All entries must be signed with a pseudonym, which, together with the contestant’s name, should be enclosed in a sealed envelope attached to the manuscript. Place en­ tries in the A c t a post-office box in the college hall. The contest will positively close on January 15th. 18 ACTA VICTORIANA POT-LUCK B y J. D. R o b in s WAS on the wharf in the little north channel fishing village of Killarney, waiting for the Soo boat to take me on down to Ow en I Sound. On an empty fish-box I sat, and whittled at a new spool for my troll line, even though I knew perfectly well that I could not pos- sibly use that roll before next September. (As a matter of fact, I have already lost it.) But I had to do something to counteract the mood of hopeless suffering of the infrequent traveller who is w aiting for a train or boat. A magnificent launch tore insolently up and down the narrow chan­ nel of the harbour, its head upreared like a sea-serpent’s. The splen­ did ruthlessness of its appearance was marred, to be sure, by that part of its bottom which was lifted out of the water in the mad rush, and which left the ridiculous suggestion of a broad, white throat, belonging to a croaking frog. Slower, less aristocratic, fishermen’s boats lagged enviously behind, or, if they were mere skiffs, moved sullenly aside to escape the swell. Three small children rowed adventurously along the shore, the steering paddle in the hands of a skipper some seven or eight years old. An Indian family was getting on board their small sail-boat; the father was slowly raising the characteristic henna- coloured sail. Across the channel a woman was hanging out a wash­ ing of white and pink and yellow; a young chap reeled a net on the drying-frame; another was shingling on the roof of a shed. “Is you-all waitin’ for the M anitou?” I looked around. A white-haired, beaming negro was standing just behind me. As he took two or three steps to come around in front of me, I could see that he limped. Two bad scars disfigured a face which, except for them, was really a pleasant one. “Yes,” I replied, “I am. She’s due at four-thirty, and they said she would likely be on time.” “What time you-all got?” he asked. I looked at my watch. “Five-forty-five,” said I. “She ought to be here any time now. “Reckon you ain’t been use’ to boat travellin’, is you ?” He looked at me with just the beginning of a quizzical grin. “If that there boat gets here by eight-thirty, she’s on time.” I laughed. At that, the old man promptly swung the end of an empty tar barrel around, propped a fish-box against each side, and then sat down on it. “ ’S funny, ’bout waitin’ for boats,” said he. “Now I minds me one ACTA VICTORIANA 19 time I was waitin’ for a boat in Prince Rupe’t, B.C.— ’scuse me, boss, this ain’t a upholste’d seat enough for me. You has got betteh judg­ ment on the seat question.” He discarded his barrel, piled one of his fish-boxes upon the other, and then sat down again. Killarney and Prince Rupert were utterly foreign, both of them, to my ideas of the lines of travel of his race, and my new acquaintance must have guessed my thought. ‘‘That’s betteh,” he said. “Yass, you-all didn’ spec’ to see a colou’d man in Killa’ney or Prince Rupe’t, less he was a-stevedorin’. Mo’n that, I’m a minin’ prospecteh by profession.” “A prospector?” I cried. ‘‘Yass, seh, a minin’ prospecteh. Now, if you-all is interested, seein’ as how you mos’ decidedly has the time for to listen, I’ll be mighty glad to tell you how I come to go a-prospectin’.” I was interested, of course. “Well, it was all on ’count of religion an’ bones.” “On account of what?” “Religion an’ bones. Now, I’ll tell you how it was. You-all knows that the Lawd made us colou’d folks pow’ful religious in ou’ make-up, mo’ specially ou’ mas. Well, my ol’ motheh was e’en about the mos’ religious woman you eveh saw. An’ the religion she got wa’n’t one of these heah praise-the-Lawd-Sunday, steal-a-chicken-Monday kin’s. No, seh, it lasted all the week and it wo’ked when she was sellin’ aigs, an’ all the time. But, all the same, she done got all het up in camp- meetin’ time, an’ reviv’l time, an’ then she’d get afteh me wuss’n eveh ’bout my undegenerate condition, mo’ specially ’bout my shootin’ crap. Foh I’m a-tellin’ you, boss, I ce’t’nly could roll a wicked bone in them days. Camp-meetin’ time I’d get religion with the res’ an’ quit my behavishness, meanin’ mos’ly rollin’ them bones, but in a few weeks the voice of grace would be a-gettin’ feebler an’ feebler in my soul an’ the rattle of them bones’d get loudeh an’ loudeh, an’ the soun’ of the fiddle in a hoe-down get mo’ sweeter then the soun’ of the golden ha’ps of heaven. Fus’ along, I’d be singin’ that ol’ song ’bout: ‘I got a home in-a that rock, Don’t you see.’ But it wouldn’ be long befoh I’d be singin’ otheh songs, like that ol’ one: ‘I danced with a gal with a hole in her stockin’, An’ her heel kep’ a-rockin’, An’ her heel kep’ a-rockin’, I danced with a gal with a hole in her stockin’, We danced by the light of the moon.’ 20 ACTA VICTORIANA or thet otheh one: ‘Jack o’ Diamon’s, Jack o’ Diamon’s, Jack o’ Diamon’s is a ha d bone to roll.’ ”

“Well, it kep’ on that way, till one day my ol’ motheh up an’ died. An’ that religion of hern was right with her to the las’, an’ she wasa- singin’ an’ a-lookin’ at me, an’ I upped an’ promised that I wouldn’ gam’le an’ booze no mo’. An' so she died, an’ if she ain’t got a place on the Ladies’ Aid in heaven, I misses my guess. “An’ that was the causation of my move, boss. Foh when 1 come to get oveh the religiousness of my motheh’s dyin’, I jus’ got so dog­ gone lonesome I didn’ know what to do. Them bones was jus’ a- hollerin' at me to roll ’em. So I jus’ got to fin’ somethin’ that was gamblin’, but wouldn’ break my promise. Well, I thought of all the things. Theah was mattermony, which shoh is a gamble, but didn’ seem to meet my case, besides my gal done went off an’ took anotheh man. There was farmin’. But there ain’t much to it when you figger it out. If crops is bad, you can blame it on yoh bad luck all right, but when they’re good, a man don’t think of his good luck, but jus’ lays it to ha’d wo’k, an’ that’s what stuck me. I don’ min’ diggin’ in the groun’, even with a hoe, but it’s this evehlastin’ goin’ up one row an’ down the otheh, an’ then cornin’ back nex’ week an’ doin’ it all oveh again that sticks in my crop. Then I thought of these heah stock ma’kets in New Yo’k like, but what’s a man goin’ to do with fifteen dollahs an’ a qua’teh. “An’ then it all come to me like in a flash one night when I was playin’ on the mouth-o’gan. Prospec’in’ was as godly a fo’m of occu­ pation as my ol’ motheh could ’a’ wished, an’ it was gamblin’ enough foh anybody. So I took to prospec’in’, an’ that’s how I come to be up in B.C. I went there on account of a’ ol’ song, went somethin’ like this in the ’sponse:

‘Wil’ animals aroun us, an’ tigehs was in full view, Still we kep’ up our courage foh The mines of Cariboo.’

“That song was that pretty that I made up my min’ to go theh, an I went. Is I a-wearin’ you out, boss, with all this foolishness?” I assured him that I was deeply interested in his story, and that the boat did not seem to be putting in an appearance round the light­ house bend as yet. ACTA VICTORIANA 21 “I ain’t a-lookin’ for that boat for quite a spell yet,” said he. He took advantage of the break to light his corncob pipe, and then went on with his story. “Course, there wasn’t nothin’ doin’ in Cariboo. That rush was oveh long befoh I struck them pa’ts. So I drifted aroun’ B.C. foh yeahs. I went way up no’th to the Skeena country when they was nothin’ but Indians anywheres theah. I done a lot of prosperin' aroun’ a big Indian place they called Chickliquak. Them poo’ heathen Indians didn’ know what to make of me. An’ no wondeh’, foh I’m a-tellin’ you, boss, that I, Abraham Washington Colfax, was the fust white man eveh in them pa’ts aroun’ Chickliquak. That’s many a long day ago, course, an’ there’s lots of ’em now. “Well, I puttehed roun’ theah foh yeahs, in fac’ till this heah Red Lake ’citement ’gun to get hot, an’ then I headed down Ontario way, only I went up the Algomy Central to the Goudreau country when I did get heah, that was las’ yeah. “Oh, but they is one comical thing I fo’got to tell you-all ’bout, that happened in B.C. They was one time them Indians had the mighties’ ba’becue I eveh seen in my bo’n days, an’ eveh expec’ to see. It was a feas’ that would ’a’ made ol’ Belshadrezza’s feas’ way back in Babylon is failin’ look like a white trash han’ out, I’m a-tellin’ to you. Gentermens, she was a layout for eats an’ presen’s. Man tol’ me afterwa’ds it was jus’ a pot-luck. But oh, honey my love, if that was jus’ pot-luck, I jus’ like you to show me a real meal. But talkin’ ’bout pot-luck, I mus’ tell you what happen’ to me up in Goudreau. Then I’ll come back to this big pot-luck out in Chickliquak. “Maybe you notice’ that I kinda favours my lef’ laig a little. Well, I’ll tell you-all how come that. I went up the Algomy Central in this here Goudreau country a-prospec’in. Well, they was one day I put on my beans to soak in my bean-pot, an’ went out a-scourin’ the lan’. But it wa’n’t no use, an’ I come home that night feelin’ pretty well all done, jus’ done, an’ I took an’ put on my bean-pot careless like oveh the fieh, an’ then went away an’ come back in ’bout ten minutes, mo’ o’ less. I was a-walkin’ up to’ds that bean-pot—an’ the nex’ thing I knowed I woke up in the hosp’tal in the Soo, an’ the nuss tol’ me they had me cha’ged up with two weeks boa’d a’ready, what I didn’ get no good of. You know what I’d a went an’ did. Well, they was two pots that I had, an’ they was both jus’ alike, ‘cept that I kep’ my beans in one of ’em an’ my dynamite in the otheh one. “Well, foh Pete’s sake, if that outrageous ol’ Manitou ain’t a- 22 ACTA VICTORIANA sneakin’ roun’ the ben’ this blessed minute. I didn’ evpn l u w’istle, boss. I got to be a-moseyin' along, an’ you w o n ’ l the much time if that ol’ a’k is goin’ to come in ahead of time Ai** way. I bids you good-day mos’ kin’ly, boss, an’ I sure h L f a this conve’sation.” ' enJoyed

IS MARRIAGE POSSIBLE?

E WERE standing, she and I, waiting at the south-west corner of Bay and Bloor for a street car. And while we waited we Wtalked to each other; she would speak and I would listen, then I would speak and she would listen. We were getting along nicely. She was speaking, seemingly intent on her subject, threshing out this matter of beauty contests. I want you to appreciate that she appeared to be quite sane. And for that space there, conversing on the side­ walk, we seemed to understand each other. And then she looked past me toward a window on the south side of Bloor Street. Her eyes gleamed, became fixed. Her lips con­ tinued to move, but no words came. She slipped by me and ran to the window. I stood alone watching her as one might watch a being from some other planet, for her actions were entirely foreign to my world of experience. She stood before the window, her hands clasped as in ecstasy. Twisting from side to side she peered into the window. She bent forward in adoration. She seemed to have forgotten everything except the window and its contents. So I went after her to find what was in the window: it contained one ladies’ dress. “Elsbeth,” I said to her. But she did not hear me. She con­ tinued to gaze into the window. “Elsbeth,” I shouted, “here is our street car.” She turned a little toward me. She stared at me vaguely. “Street car?” she said. Now I ask you: is marriage possible? R. L. Stevenson set it down that for marriage the parties should have a common interest. All philosophical treatises on the matter stress the need of a mutual understanding. Our sages say that Lap­ landers and natives of the Zambezi should not marry, nor should Cambridge graduates and Hottentots. Such people, they say, lack a common ethical interest and understanding. And yet, consider- ACTA VICTORIANA 23 ing the facts, is any marriage possible? How can two such entirely different classes of people as men and women ever hope to get along together ? Take my own case. And it isn’t a matter of clothes alone. Elsbeth and I were driving along Wellington Street in the city of Ottawa. Elsbeth seemed to be rational, she was chatting about this and that, laughing and remarking what a line fellow I was. In fact she was displaying high good sense. But suddenly she looked down a side street; she clutched my arm: “Stop the car,” she cried to me. I applied both brakes, guided the machine expertly in a long skid be­ tween a bread waggon and two bicycles, turned twice completely about and came to rest with a slight jar against a telephone post. “W hat is it?” I gasped. But she did not answer me. Instead she began to clamber out of the automobile. I caught one glimpse of her face, it was set with wild anticipation, her eyes gleamed, her mouth was a straight line. She flung out of the car and hurried to the side street. Down this she disappeared. I took the towing chain from under the front seat and ran after her, holding the hook at the ready, prepared to nab her if she became violent. I sprinted to the side street and raced down it. I saw her. She was standing, her clasped hands pressed against her chest in delight, her neck stretched forward in interest; and she was looking at an awning-made tunnel which joined the front door of a house with the sidewalk and from the mouth of which came, showered with con­ fetti, a bridal couple. Now what can one do with a woman like that? And the real trouble is that they are all the same. They will go blocks to look at a new dress, they will travel miles to see a wedding. They will go to a wedding of people whom they have never seen. Just to see the wedding! The aggravating part of it is that when they are sane they are rather adorable. At least I find it so with Elsbeth. But when that gleam comes into her eye! 24 ACTA VICTORIANA DISCUSSION GROUPS AND THE GOOD LIFE B y J. A. I. A Fantasia in the Irish Manner on Victorian Themes TES,” SAID the sad-eyed introspective Russian brothers, Half- Y Off and Quite-Off, “it was a good play, we will have it per­ formed over again." And so, having submerged English literature in the quagmires of introspective and psychological analysis these sardonically gleeful Russians, bearing in their pouches docu­ mentary credentials from Leo Tolstoi and Sigmund Freud themselves emigrated to North America. Here they pitched their camp-fires in the very citadel of the enemy- organized religion. Within a week the religious population of North America surrendered unconditionally. After nine days they had formed a local men’s section, a women’s section, and a federal cabinet. The enthusiasm was overwhelming. Within two weeks the gusto and abandonment was so universal that nineteen discussion groups, six provincial conferences, three national conferences, and two interna­ tional conferences (Helsingfors and Lahore) had been arranged. The sad-eyed, introspective, sardonically, gleeful Russian brothers, Half- Off and Quite-Off, surveyed their activities and pronounced them “good,” in true traditional fashion. After ten years opposition developed from a most unexpected quarter. A stately son of an English peer, who was at once educator, philosopher, mathematician, prophet, suddenly returned from the classical universities of China. Impressions were immediately solicited, so the distinguished Englishman, having already written five philo­ sophical works which had had no sale, now produced a sixth, called “Dumb-bells and Cold Baths.” (It ran into nineteen editions and netted him immense profits, all of which pleased his American wife mightily, in spite of the fact that it was a cynical satire, a “travesty” almost of the work of the Young Men’s Christian Association in China.) You would suppose that after this reactionary outburst, Messrs. Half-Off and Quite-Off would be completely discouraged. Not a bit of it! They simplified their organization and gave up the dumb-bells and cold baths—in short they ceased to sell books (second-hand), to provide university graduates with “jobs,” to deal out room-lists, to serve neo-free suppers, to edit Freshmen’s Bibles. The supreme stroke of the Quite-Offian genius was the change of name. “If,” said ACTA VICTORIANA 25 Mr. Half-Off, “we are to accomplish anything, we must no longer call it the Young Men’s Christian Association.” “Quite,” said his shrewd brother, who immediately “christened” it the Student Chris­ tian Movement. (In after years the blase wits of Burwash Hall said it was neither one of the three, but they were merely irritably sophisti­ cated, and it is well to consign them to the oblivion of posterity’s judgment!) Under such renewed and favourable auspices (you will, in your cleverness, note that I am a victim of the journalistic tradition—thank you!) the discussion group, formerly a scrawny child, experienced the full flowering of its genius. Taking their cue from “Dumb-bells and Cold Baths” they now discussed such “problems”— (perish the word— I did not mean to use it, but the communion of long memories is indeed gripping)—“issues of civilization,” I mean, as “What Should We Educate For,” “Why Men Fight,” “Sociological Religion,” “Why and What is the Church,” “The Family as the Social Unit,” “The Psy­ chology of National Conferences,” “The Pathology of the Average Christian.” One of them, more broad-minded than the rest, while not holding to personal immortality, was yet assured that “Economics” would salvage civilization. The most “tolerant” of them all was certain that “divine philosophy” would effect the rescue. Still another (a little more “revolutionary” and tumultuous than the rest) was willing to concede an ultimate place to “Modern History,” “Harper’s Magazine,” “The Christian Century,” “The Golden Book,” and an “Objective Deity.” (His “interests” were so vigorous that I confidently expect that he will soon supplant both Half-Off and Quite-Off.) The key-word of all these discussion groups was freedom. “We must,” said Half-Off, “abolish the present system of education. It moulds the innocent child into an iron system, it makes him conform to traditional standards, it makes him orthodox. It. . . .” “No,” said Quite-Off, “it is institutional religion that is the devil—we want more personal religion, we want a life of devotion, we want . . . .” Then the weary but divine philosopher spoke up brightly—“Life will never experience itself in its complete fullness until we learn to consider it as phases of an experience, which is related in the forms of the unifying judgment.” This deliverance prolonged the issues indefi­ nitely. Everybody became self-conscious; it was a major case of self-revelation. Human motives were stripped bare; the crevices of the human spirit were prodded to their farthest depths; the full cup of the life-blood of experience was drained to its dregs. Every- 26 ACTA VICTORIANA

where was a turning of the soul inward upon itself Hideous intro- Section and noisy self-conscious analysis .... threw personality unnn the strewn wreckage of human history .... Youths and maidens, sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, Inot knowing that the static methods of eighteenth century life died hard in a biological and dynamic age, found themselves torn, tossed completely at a loss to define the “meaning of life.” They were dilettantes in everything, specialists in nothing, in an age when a deep academic knowledge of the foundations of human culture and civilization was the very warp and woof of life, the only basis of progress “How,” I asked, “can youth, or if you will the spirit of vouth ’ transform that writhing octopus, W estern civilization, if it has only that amount of creative intellect possessed by a dilettante?” in 1770 Goethe and his Strassburg friends read together that con­ summate expression of the “Age of the Enlightenment,” Holbach’s “ W e m of Nature.” They found the book not so much wrong as irrelevant Goethe has delivered himself as follows: “If after all this book had done us some harm, it was this— that we took a hearty dislike to all discussions about life .... and remained in that dislike- while on the other hand, we threw ourselves into living knowledge, experience, action, and poetizing with all the more liveli­ ness and passion.” (Goethe— Dichtungund Book XI,

Walking softly along the road of evening, alone, lost in the beauty of nature suffused by a thousand lights from the monuments of human civilization, I bowed my head reverently as the genius of the good life” confided to me its secret: “If a man were to enquire of nature the reason of her creative activity, and if she were willing to give ear and answer, she would say -A sk me not, bu. unders.and in silence, even as I am silent, and am not wont to speak. ACTA VICTORIANA 27

JOHN LANE MAKES THE MINUTES COUNT T 1.15 p.m. John Lane, barrister, solicitor, etc., hurried into the Log Cabin Tea Room, set his hat upon a glass shelf, and Asat down at one of the small, round tables. “Soup, please,” he said to the waiter, “and trout.” He drummed quietly on the table and reflected that humans wasted large portions of their lives in eating. What vistas of increased exer­ tion would be open to them if a tablet lunch were practicable! Con­ sider himself now: at 2.00 p.m. he was to meet that important client, Mr. Jeiff; and if for lunch he could slip a tablet into his mouth he could spend the next three-quarters of an hour in reading law books on the subject of their proposed conversation. “What a quantity of time I am wasting,” concluded Lane, and he continued to drum with the fingers of his left hand. At that moment an Englishman, two tables away, sat back to masticate a difficult piece of steak—and he no longer obstructed John Lane’s view of her. Lane sat staring, and the fingers of his left hand, halted in their drumming, remained poised, at all angles, in the air. He might have been thinking: “Her hair is brown and her eyes a velvet brown. Her teeth are small and white like bits of glazed white paper.” He might have been thinking these things, but, as a matter of fact, he was not thinking at all. His fingers remained suspended above the table. His soup was brought; it began to cool. The Englishman leaned forward to cut his meat into many small pieces and John Lane no longer could see her. John Lane’s fingers remained rigid. Trout replaced the soup. And then the girl rose and left the luncheon house. John Lane came out of the establishment only a few paces behind her. He saw her step into a small roadster and drive away. With sudden animation he ran out into the street and sprang at the side of a passing taxi cab, caught wildly at the door and somehow scrambled inside. He found an occupant of the tonneau—a woman. “I’ll give you ten dollars for the running rights of this car,” said John, “and I’ll pay your fare.” “Stop the car,” cried the lady, “this is no place for a respectable school teacher.” She took the ten dollars with her. 28 ACTA VICTORIANA

Then began as unobtrusively as was possible, a pursuit. The road­ ster soed through the city, the cab followed. Presently the two motors were traversing country roads. Miles and miles of country roads. About four in the afternoon they came to another city. They hummed alone the streets of this city, turning corners at twenty-five and thirty miles an hour. Then, suddenly, the roadster stopped, the girl sprang out and ran into a house. John Lane went up and rang the door bell. The girl opened the door. “What do you want?” she enquired. Lane swallowed. He took out a small note-book and a thick foun- tai“l*am taking the Dominion census,” he said in a low voice. He looked at her: ‘‘Number living in this house?” he roared. She spoke softly, “Four.” “Names ” This word can be articulated in English as if the speaker were trying to bite some one. John Lane seemed to be trying to bite

S0IShP0IJaid- “Mr. A. E. C. French, age 57; occupation, husband to Mrs A E C French; Mrs. A. E. C. French; Mr. A. E. C. French Junior, age eleven, occupation, boy scout.” And she went to pull the door to. . , “Anv more,” asked Lane, his foot in the way. “Miss French,” she said. She added, “We have a bulldog here too, age two years, occupation, tramp biter.” She shut the door severely. Lane began to put up his writing materials and to go down the steps. He heard a voice from the direction of the door. He looked back, but the door was closed. The voice said, “Too bad you couldn t eat your luncheon.” Then he saw that the mail-slot cover was tilted up. So he did not go down the steps just then. He went back, set his hand on the knob and pulled the door open. The girl had been kneeling at the slot. She now fell out on to the verandah. She sat there. “Absurd 1” she remarked, not referring to the story. “But jolly,” remarked John, not referring to it either, Iffl afra|d- And the important client, Mr. Jeiff, continued his futile wait in office of John Lane, barrister, solicitor, etc. ACTA VICTORIANA 29 2T7 ABROAD (K . J. L a m o n t) Villa Jules Janin, 12 Ave. Jules Janin, Paris. June 7, 1926. Dear Mary: O-DAY I really feel that vacation has commenced. This was the first morning that I have not had to do something, if it was T only to stagger around the deck. Even yesterday, we were wakened at half-past five, that we might get to Paris by lunch time— but to-day is a holiday. At eight o’clock a little maid brought in a little breakfast; (the French have never acquired the art of breakfasting). After a considerable time spent over chocolate and a roll, I prepared to spend a rainy morn­ ing in this domestic interior of a French pension. I curled down on a lounge, with a laundry parcel behind my back, and read a book of French poetry, skipping all the words I didn’t know, and everything that looked as if it had ever been on a course anywhere. By lunch time the weather cleared. The lunch was good— all but the cheese. In fact the cheese, and the formalities about baths, are my only objections to this place. It is the dinkiest thing in the line of boarding-house I ever was in. Our room is on the ground floor, with French windows opening on to the street, and rose-coloured draperies. There is a large curtain hung on the wall for no earthly reason, except to be picturesque and to catch the dust. There is a mirror in the dressing-table, and a mirror on one of the three large cupboards, and, there being a bare wall space, there is a mirror there, that I am sure is five feet by seven. I do not think I should like to live with French furniture; and nobody here even thinks of having a garden in front of the house, so we can drop our breakfast crumbs on the passers-by in the street. If my chocolate gets too bad that is where I shall put it. Paris is nicer than I remembered it, especially the smell. No other city, so far as I know, has just that smell, or anything like it. We tried to analyse it yesterday, but when we had figured out tar, and pastry, and wine, and straw, and cheese, and perfume, and a few others, we had to give it up. Just to smell it, you would know that it was made to induce one to be delightfully lazy. This afternoon we went to the business section and did some shop­ ping (I loved even the horrid M6tro-underground trains), and there 30 ACTA VICTORIANA

we sat down in a cafe, out on the sidewalk, and stayed for an hour drinking lemonade, and watching it rain— sort of lotus-eaters effect My Scotch, dour ancestors all rise up in protest, but I do like it. I hope that at 28 Rue de Quatre Septembre, I shall not always inquire in vain for mail. Affectionately, Kay.

Villa Jules Janin, 12 Ave. Jules Janin, Paris. July 24, 1926. Dear Mary: I have seen so many places since I last wrote you. Amboise was an earthly paradise. From the window of the Hotel du Lion d’Or, I could have thrown something into the Loire—and the country was beautiful. Everything seemed to grow without any effort, and I never saw so many climbing roses in my life. The hotel, moreover, was a pet. There were pink roses on the wall and French windows opening on to a little balcony, and it was ever so clean and fresh, and slightly provincial. (At Blois we had pink and green striped wall-paper, and yellow and blue striped curtains, and a Turkey-red portiere.) Blois was the dearest, shabby little town on the river-bank, all up hill and down dale, with very narrow, old streets, and the best chateau we have seen thus far— have I remarked that we “did” the chateaux country? The first night at Blois Mother sat opposite a window in the dining-room, and instead of looking at the river and an old stone bridge, and the landscape beyond, she looked at a blue tin sign, “Visitez economiquement les chateaux de Chambord Chaumont, et Amboise par tramway.” The next morning we hunted up the tram­ way and bought return tickets for Chambord. We were turned off at a station called Malines prfcs Chambord, but it turned out that “pfes” was nearly four kilometers. Malines, itself, consisted of white plaster, and part of it advertised itself as “hotel, restaurant, cafe—Voiture pour Chambord.” We took refuge in this part, and after a period of dra­ matic silence, the owneress appeared from the cellar, and said that we could have the voiture, and lunch, and that the tramway didn’t go back until six o’clock, but that their au-to-mo-bile would take us to Blois, at so much per. When we realized that we would have to wait for the tramway for over two hours, in this charming little village, which is like every other quaint French village in that it is much more ACTA VICTORIANA 31 charming at a distance, we meekly agreed to all the terms, feeling not quite sure whether this was a mess or an adventure. We went to Chambord in the voiture. Chambord is Francis Fs notion of a hunting lodge, and it took eighteen hundred men fifteen years to build. There is a double staircase which two people can go up and never meet which I can neither draw nor describe, because I am not quite sure that I understand it. When we got back to Malines the au-to-mo-bile was waiting—one of the most disreputable Ford coup6s that ever went on wheels. Then we realized the French peasant isn’t as dumb as he looks. It was mentioned in the terms that the driver had to come back, which seemed quite reasonable. The little household collected on the steps and told the driver all about the butter and asparagus and things that he was to bring back. Moreover, on to the top of the flivver, that we had chartered, they did tie three crates of garden stuffs, and another they did put inside. To that they added two live ducks with their hind feet tied together. At that point I protested. They were just where my feet would have to go, and the least jolt would have sent me into their open mouths. They were accordingly taken out, put in a basket, and tied on top. We got into our taxi and returned to Blois. Our last travelling was a week at Avignon, near the mouth of the Rhone. In the first place it was hot, yes, very hot, from the middle of the morning until after dinner. When it was cool, however, the air was beautifully soft; if I had stayed long enough I think I should have become a dormouse in the daytime and a peripatetic philosopher in the evening. We and every one else in Avignon went out and wandered about. There were supposed to be about forty thousand in the city, but I would swear there were forty million in the park by the river, on the evening of the fourteenth, which is, as you may have heard, the French national holiday, an incidental result of the Fall of the Bastille. They had a band concert and fireworks—they drank drinks in cafes, and danced in the square till after midnight. The French seem to have a much better time than we do, because they enjoy little, inexpensive things. During our week at Avignon we visited Tarascon, and saw the mill where Daudet wrote “Les Lettres de Mon Moulin”; and we spent four hours at Arles. Since our return to Paris there has been nothing to write about. Affectionately, K ay. 32 ACTA VICTORIANA

OF CONVERSATION ONVERSATION is the finest of the fine arts: it is the most delicate, the most rapid, and the most personal. These three Care the essential characteristics of fine art, greatness is another matter. The first permits nicety and accuracy of execution; the second necessitates the utmost skill and sureness on the part of the performer, and the third is what differentiates the artist from the artisan. Nothing more is required of fine art than that it be capable of delicate effects, requiring considerable skill of execution, and leaving scope for personal inspiration. If then conversation be shown to possess in unequalled degree these characteristics, it is manifestly the finest of the fine arts. In conversation are employed at once three most powerful and effec­ tive forms of representation, significant speech, which connects it with literature, non-articulate sound, in the tones and inflections of the voice, where the influence of music is felt, and visual representation by gesture and play of feature, which allies it to dancing and in the second degree to the plastic and pictorial arts. Through the co-opera­ tion and mutual support of these three, the art of conversation has at the same time a wider range, and is capable of more precise and subtle delineations than any one of these alone, since there is no matter of emotion or of intellect that is beyond its powers. The drama alone, which combines the same three modes of representation, and might almost be called a variety of conversation, can vie with it in effect, but conversation is more powerful and convincing through its greater intimacy and particularity. Great skill on the part of the artist is necessary on account of the rapid and irrevocable nature of the form. The ear cannot take in at once the general import and main outline of a speech as the eye can of a picture, or even of a printed page, but one word must follow another, nor can it ever be recalled when it is uttered. Therefore the words must be cleverly chosen and arranged to produce the desired effect by their successive and cumulative action; and as a painter who is to work very swiftly and never remove or obliterate a stroke once made must be a man of great ability, so the utmost artistry is necessary in him who would be a true conversationalist. A mis-stroke may indeed be rehandled and retouched, though it can never be erased, but this checking and disruption of the natural flow of conversation is in the highest degree awkward, bungling, and inartistic. Indeed, not only in the ideal and finished conversation is the natural flow of the ACTA VICTORIANA 33 stream never interrupted to seek back in correction of a previous fault, but the most brilliant observation, or the most profound judgment, must not be thrown in noisily with a great check and splash so that men’s minds are astounded and carried back as the ship of Ulysses by the Cyclops’ stone; rather by imperceptible degrees should the theme be so turned, guided, and developed that the witty epigram or the weighty maxim evolves naturally and organically into its place, gaining from the justness of its position and the propriety of its environment an emphasis and true authority much beyond all that may be procured by the meretricious and stunning artifice of surprise. Besides this, a remark out of place betrays not only a most raw and undisciplined spirit, lacking in all true resource, artifice, and ingenuity, but also a very grievous discourtesy towards the person whose natural pace of thought is thus roughly disrupted and disregarded. The art of music, on the part of the performer at least, for the composer can improve and correct at leisure, demands a somewhat similar rapidity, though the harmonies sound simultaneously, yet a slight mistake is not so easily noticed, nor by so many, nor has it such an effect, as in conversation. That the art of talking is the most personal of all needs little proof. For the composer expresses himself, as it were, through the musician, and the musician through the composer, the painter through the material accessories of his art, the author through the printed page or the actor and likewise the actor through the author, but the talker speaks himself, for himself, at short range and under intimate conditions. Thus it appears that in the sum of the three qualities that are the distinctive characteristics of fine art, conversation has a peculiar advan­ tage and eminence over all other arts, and deserves, surely, to be very highly esteemed and very carefully cultivated. Laletes. 34 ACTA VICTORIANA

OUT OF THE WILDERNESS

B y W ilson M a c D o n a ld * (Reviewed by Pelham Edgar)

R. WILSON MACDONALD’S new volume, “Out of the Wilderness,” has been published by Scribners in the United MStates and also by the Graphic Publishers, Limited, at Ottawa in two forms: namely, an author’s edition, decorated by the author’ numbered and autographed and limited to fifteen hundred, and a trade edition for those who neglected the opportunity of securing the sub­ scription edition. The American edition is on the usual commercial basis; the subscription edition in Canada pays for the whole manu­ facture of the book, and the author consequently owns all the rights in this and subsequent trade editions. It is an interesting way to publish but one not to be recommended to untried authors. I should not wish even for the glory and independence to be acquired to substitute my energy and my ineffective habit of persuasion for the smooth-working machinery at the author’s disposal. But we are not all Wilson Mac­ Donalds, and I wish him every success in his novel enterprise. He desires evidently to test the possibilities of poetry as a profession, and proceeds on the logical, though dangerous assumption, that a country is under as much compulsion to support its poets as its lawyers, its doctors or its bankers. He will have to write a great deal of good poetry, and a more difficult thing still, a great deal of popular poetry, to prove his case; and let those who think that the writer is a legitimized loafer be under no delusion— he will have to work very hard and often. Mr. Wilson MacDonald has probably the energy and genius to succeed, for he has the requisite vitality of phrase to command the admiration of the attentive reader, and his lapses from power are not of such a nature as to jeopardize his popularity with a public incapable of subtle discriminations. For them, too, he can write in the swinging style of a Kipling or a Service, and can furnish for their delight poems of such simple, yet genuine value, as, “These Friends of Mine.” It is possible, too, that he may ultimately find his public for the part of his work that he most highly values— the rebellious and denunciatory section with which the book closes. The protesting temper is stronger in most of us than the acquiescing spirit—anger at least is more energetic than acceptance— but you must be certain that your grounds of protest are valid, and if you insist on being a prophet you must wait for your disciples. ACTA VICTORIANA 35 If I were asked to name from any reputable volume of new poetry the pieces upon which I set value my choice would fall upon a scanty number. Here at no one’s request I name the following poems and am surprised at the large proportion they bear to the whole: “A Song of the Unreturning,” “A Song to the Valiant,” “The Call,” “The Loon,” “These Friends of Mine,” “Laranowa,” “Muskoka,” “The Berry Pickers,” “The Song of the Winding Road,” “Oaks,” “In a Wood Clearing,” “I Love Old Things,” “In Howard Park,” “The Maker of Dreams,” “Come Here Nevermore,” “The Unsung Passion,” “You Are a Haven,” “Exit,” “Sea Harvest,” “The Toll-Gate Man,” “He Has Kept Faith With Beauty,” “Centre Street,” “The Shoe Cobbler in Heaven,” “O Sweet Translator,” “Ghost Hornpipes,” “The Gypsy Song,” “The Last Portage.” Mr. Wilson MacDonald’s lyrics, like most of the memorable lyrics of our language, are mood pictures, passionate rather than reflective, and intimately subjective in tone. His mastery of the lyric phrase is unmistakable, though one sometimes misses the infallible word and finds the incorrect one; and his sense of cadence rarely betrays him. He has a talent that will support the burden of many errors, and however one may cavil at occasional banalities in thought or phrase he is unquestionably one of the best lyric writers of our day.

MONOCLE STUDENTS’ PARLIAMENT spirit should be opposed to a widened The first meeting of the Students’ college, or a university outlook. After Parliament was held in Alumni Hall on much heated argument votes were taken Thursday evening, October 21. as to the merit of the debating, and, President Daly called upon Dr. as to personal opinion on the subject. Bowles to give the opening address. In both cases the result was a decisive The Chancellor in his happy, informal victory for the negative. way outlined the aims of the Parlia­ Before the meeting dismissed a tran­ ment and expressed his hope that the quil frame of mind was restored to all year’s activities would be carried by an excellent musical programme, con­ through successfully, receiving the en­ sisting of a piano solo by Mr. Davidson, thusiastic support of all the men under­ and vocal selections from Mr. Walker graduates. and Mr. Plumstead. A lively debate followed on the sub­ ject, “ Resolved that it is in the best in­ FRESHMAN RECEPTION terests of Victoria College that Fresh­ men live in one house.” Many points of Members of the Freshman class of view were expressed, serious and other­ 3T0, arrayed in all their glory, were wise. The vital point of the discussion, tendered a most successful reception in however, centred on whether or not year the college on Friday evening, October 36 ACTA VICTORIANA

29. The grey and sombre halls of Vic­ In front of Dean DeWitt’s office was toria were, for a few brief hours, trans­ a table with a sign “The Witches’ Brew - formed into a scene of colorful festi­ As the “Monocle” passed by he was vity. Decorations were in keeping with astounded to see several kegs of (o the spirit of Hallowe’en. Pumpkin temporal Omores!) cider, being sir faces leered from the walls in cynical reptitiously rolled into the corner superiority and eery witches turned A la s! indeed for our degenerate wines from the gaiety and scintillation in hor­ when such temptations should be rible dismay. brazenly thrust before our unsuspecting The “ Monocle” arrived to find a freshmen. Even a sophisticated senior cluster of immaculate Freshmen lurking was covered with confusion in discover­ timidly behind the stairs peeping across ing. all too late, that she had broken her at the ''phantom of delight” in the north­ solemn temperance pledge! west comer. Apparently they were Supper! The fourth promenade was awaiting the leadership of some fearless the usual stampede for refreshments. senior. Finally a few daring spirits, led The “Monocle,” much against his theo­ by Mr. John B. Moore (not to mention logical principles, was forced to stoop the “ Monocle” himself, who of course, to dissimulation in order to secure pie has recognized prerogatives), ventured and ice cream without being trampled into “ no man’s land” and the battle for under foot. promenades was joined. The scene The remaining four promenades car­ which ensued reminded one of the way ried to a successful culmination an even­ the water comes down at Lodore. ing in which merit and joy were uncom- hined. Finally, after singing the cus­ “ Recoiling, turmoiling, and toiling, and tomary Nunc Dimittis and rendering a boiling, medley of raucous yells, the decora­ And gleaming, and streaming, and tions were ravished, and the Victorians steaming, and beaming, departed in peace. And rushing, and flushing, and brush­ ing, and gushing.” CHARTER DAY At length a truce was declared and On the evening of November 2 the two by two the opposing forces filed into nineteenth Charter Day Convocation the chapel. was held in the college chapel. Prof. Under the happy chairmanship of Mr. A. J. Johnson, D.D., opened with prayer, Robins an interesting programme was after which Dean DeWitt made a pre­ carried through. Mr. Bill Lockwood, sentation of medals to fourteen mem­ although on the casualty list, spoke 011 bers of last year’s graduating class. The behalf of the graduating year. Dr. names of all undergraduates receiving Johnson presented V ’s to three sopho­ prizes and scholarships was then read. more athletes. Miss McCulloch, ’29, In presenting his annual report, the gave a lively rendering from Dr. Drum­ Dean drew attention to problems attend­ mond’s “ Vieux Temps” (assisted gra­ ant upon the large increase in registra­ tuitously by a stray fox-terrier). The tion. Six hundred and ninety-three programme closed with a much-appre­ students are enrolled in the faculty of ciated solo by Miss Ferguson, ’27. Arts alone. In the future measures may Strains of jazz music (?) ascended have to be taken to restrict the number from the orchestra in the lower hall. admitted. It was encouraging to note, The second promenade began. however, that the college was rapidly ACTA VICTORIANA 37 regaining its pre-war standard of gullibility, become the most inexorable scholarship. skeptics, regarding with utter suspicion Before calling upon the speaker of the any one who chances to engage them in evening, Rev. Canon H. J. Cody, D.D., the most innocent conversation. LL.D., the Chancellor spoke briefly Year spirit reaches its highest peak about the founding of the college in at the Bob song practices, which are Cobourg, in 1836, “ within sound of the always scenes of hilarious enthusiasm. axes” of Canadian pioneers. Reputations are made over night, even Dr. Cody gave an illuminating and as that of Rouget de Lisle. Expecta­ dramatic address on his trip to Geneva tion runs at flood-tide. Then the great last summer, where he preached before night comes .... the League of Nations. In a brilliant The Bob this year might have been historical summary he recalled the great a fitting climax to all this pent-up zeal fights for political and religious freedom and exertion. The “ Monocle” is bound which had characterized the city of to confess, however, that he shares a Geneva. Not only has it been the feeling that the Bob Committee let us stronghold of Calvinism, but it had wel­ down. This is the more regrettable, as comed such radical spirits as Voltaire the plan of the skit which was presented and Rousseau. Ever a home of toler­ was, in itself, original and even admir­ ance, it was fitting that it should be the able. A professor at the Vic At Home seat of the League of Nations. becomes weary meeting so many fresh­ Dr. Cody pointed out that in order to men and falls asleep. He first dreams admit Germany to the League, the that he is in the pre-historic age; neo­ council had been increased from ten to lithic youths are coming to register with fourteen permanent members. Since the patriarch professor, who has great this change in the constitution meant difficulty in restraining their barbaric that Great Britain secured only one vote uncouthness and egotism. The scene in fourteen, the question was raised then changes to the present day. A first- whether the overseas Dominions should year class organization meeting is be­ not now be considered eligible for a seat ing held in which it is seen that freshmen on the council. If this should be ac­ have changed very little since 9999 B.C. cepted Canon Cody had no doubt that In fact the following scene in one of Canada would be the first elected. By the freshman’s rooms, would indicate working with Great Britain she would that they had even retrogressed. In his secure for the Empire control of the dream the professor then imagines he two votes which her status in the world is in the futuristic era. There it ap­ justified. pears that freshmen have degenerated beyond all hope of reclamation. Fin­ T H E BO B ally music is heard, a full-piece orchestra For freshman and sophomore alike, is playing the latest popular “hits.” the event which looms above all others The professor awakes and, to his con­ in the first two weeks of college is the fusion and embarrassment, realizes he annual Bob. Members of the second has been sleeping at a college reception. year are busily engaged in practising all This is, perhaps, an idealized sketch the finer arts of deception in order to of the “ plot.” I believe it does indicate, beguile the freshies into some un­ however, that there were potentialities guarded confession, while these unfortu­ in the skit which might have been car­ nate persons in order to conceal their ried out in a very effective manner. As 38 ACTA VICTORIANA the president of the Bob Committee “ Monocle” wishes to be entirely fair. points out, insufficient time was allowed He realizes the handicaps under which for gathering the required material, com­ the committee in charge were working. posing the dialogue, and rehearsing. That there was much good humour in There was an air of the impromptu and the Bob he freely recognizes, and he consequent lack of finesse about the does not believe that there was anything whole performance. in it subversive of the morals, even of Acting on the whole was awkward the first year. and self-conscious; some of the cos­ The singing between acts was on the tumes and make-ups were, to say the whole excellent. The freshmen had least, overtly realistic. The badinage difficulty in keeping time with their very was usually weak and in places even energetic leader and were outshone by sickly. the sophomore choir, led by Miss Rosa­ In making these criticisms the mond McCulloch.

MEN'S ATHLETICS RUGBY downed Senior U.C. by the overwhelm­ ing score of 22 to 2. Vic really did Tied for group honours, Vic’s Inter­ not have a great deal of opposition, the faculty representatives in rugby are in play being rather one-sided, and the line for great things this fall, unless Sterlingites showing superiority all fate steps in with an unexpected re­ round. Meeting Trinity for the second versal of some sort. To date, all that time, the Vic team proved that the first stands between Vic and the group game was not a good example of what championship is a sudden-death game they could do, for this time they with Trinity, which is sharing the top trounced their opponents to the tune of rung of the ladder with the college team. 21 to 2. In this game, condition seemed On the showing these two teams have to tell as much as anything, since Vic made in the group, Vic stands an excel­ appeared to better advantage as the lent chance of being in the semi-finals, game continued, showing that they are and then—but at this point no more for in the hands of capable trainers. the present. The fourth game of the season, which In the scheduled Mulock Cup games, tied the locals with Trinity for group Vic has won three out of four games, honours, was a second victory over and all three have been by overwhelming Senior U.C. by the score of 18 to 0. scores. At the outset of the season Vic Vic’s first touchdown came within a got a bad game out of its system, when few minutes after the start of the game; it lost to Trinity by 10 to 9. Even at that, on the play the game should have U.C. lost the ball on a forward pass, and gone to “Wally” Sterling’s proteges; Vic then bucked twelve yards to cross Trinity’s touchdown came as a result of their opponents’ goal-line. The locals a Vic fumble, while the local team made secured three touchdowns in all, but at theirs on regular gains. Added to that the same time it must be said that is the fact that Vic gained yards more fumbles were prevalent with the U.C. often than did Trinity. squad. A decided reversal of form appeared When the Vic representatives met the in the second game, when the locals Old Boys, in the annual game, they were ACTA VICTORIANA 39 able to win out by the narrow margin of tilt, when they vanquished S.P.S. by the g to 5- Steadiness and good tackling score of 4 goals to nil. However, it by the undergrads gave them the game, must be stated that School were short but they were often in danger. The three of their regulars, but at that Vic Old Boys opened up the game consider­ forwards played a superior game, and ably, featuring it with brilliant end runs, S.P.S. were unable to penetrate the local and long, risky passes. With such defence. former stalwarts on the line-up as In the next game came Vic's first re­ Vaughan Pearson, “ Gunner” Hames, verse to date, the soccerites losing this and Cliff Marr, the Old Boys put in time to S.P.S. by 3 to 2. School were some fine work and nearly took the playing a better game than in their first game. appearance, and besides, Vic met with By virtue of their 6 to 2 victory over some hard luck. Vollett, their centre 2T8 in the final game, 2T9, the sopho­ forward, did not play, and Norman in­ more year, are crowned inter-year jured his knee early in the first period, champions. The great work of the and was off for the remainder of that 2T9 backfield may be mentioned to ac­ period, forcing Vic to play only ten men. count for their win; the halves were A sweeping defeat was handed Dents playing a faultless game, and not one when Vic met them in the fourth game, fumble did they make. It was the good the locals securing a 6 to o verdict. The fortune of 2T9 to get a break in a game was played on a mud-covered field, fumble by their opponents; George making real good soccer impossible, but Dunn, of the sophs, grabbed the ball and Vic was satisfied in that they wiped out went over for a touch. their defeat by Dents in the heart-break­ The Interfaculty team has had plenty of material available this fall, and there ing final of a year ago. is some talk of organizing a second Vic have been without the services of team. Among those who are playing one of their star performers, as George for Vic are Spooner (captain), Crosby, Shields has been out of the game thus Douglas, Frame, Cannon, Armstrong, far, due to an injured knee sustained in Searle, Service, W. Addison, Ogden, practice, but he may be back before the McCulloch, Dunn, Howe, Turnbull, season is over. Those who have com­ Shaver, Lindsay, Gilbert, Starr, P. Ad­ posed the team are Kenny, Simpson, dison, Neild, McDonald, Lawrence, Cryderman, Ayres, Beacon, Snell, George. Moore, Houston, Allen, Vollett, Nor­ SOCCER man, Hendershot, Turner, Hall. With a record of two victories, one TRACK defeat, and one tied game, the soccer team is still in the running for group The Vic track meet, held on October honours, having gained five points out 7th, was mainly remarkable for dis­ of a possible eight. Should they take the covering some excellent material in the remaining two games with Meds, they Freshman year. If this material is de­ are in a fair way to head their group. veloped properly, Vic will have fine The team started the season by playing prospects for some years to come. The a scoreless draw with Dents; they were Freshmen won the meet with forty- apparently very evenly matched, and three points, holding a fourteen-point the play was close throughout. Vic margin over their nearest competitors, showed to better advantage in the second third year, who were second with twenty- 40 ACTA VICTORIANA nine points; second year came next ROWING with eleven, and fourth year and The­ ology each gained five points. Crosby Interfaculty rowing reached its cli­ was the individual point winner of the max at the Annual Regatta, held Octo­ meet, having eighteen to his credit, with ber 23rd, along the waterfront. After Lautenslauger a promising freshman, but a few weeks’ preparation the Vic second, with thirteen points. The mile crew took to the water in the first heat and half-mile events both provided good drawn against S.P.S. As it turned out’ races, and perhaps the best of the day Vic was rowing against the eventual was the inter-year relay which third year winners of the regatta, and considering won only by inches. this, their showing was very good. Vic In the Interfaculty meet on October lost the heat to School by three lengths; 15th, Vic had three men entered, but on the race was from Church Street to John account of the excellent track men V ar­ Street—a good mile—with the finish in sity possesses this year, the Vic entries front of the club house. The cham­ pionship was won by S.P.S. when they were not able to rank for points. defeated Meds in the final heat by four The results of the Vic meet follow : lengths, a bigger margin than they had 100 Yards—1, Partridge; 2, Osborne; gained over Vic. In the light of this, 3, Crosby. it might not be too much to say that the Vic crew were a possible second; how­ 220 Yards—1, Lautenslauger; 2, Part­ ever, we will say—better luck to next ridge and Atkinson (tied). year’s crew. Those who rowed in the 880 Yards— 1, Lautenslauger; 2, H all; regatta are as follows; Hoare, Thom, 3, Stevenson. Kenny, Barley, Foley, Hunter, Moore, Mile Race—1, Stevenson; 2, Sanderson ; Young, and Scott. 3, Hall. Training for the Varsity crews com­ mences in January in Hart House and 440 Yards— 1, Atkinson; 2, Lauten­ it is hoped a goodly number of Vic stal­ slauger. warts will turn out. Even if a place is 120 Yard Hurdles— 1, Hendershot; 2, not made on a Varsity crew, the experi­ King; 3, DeHose. ence gained stands in good stead in the Discus— I, King; 2, Crosby; 3, Atkin­ following fall for the Vic crew. son. WATER POLO Javelin—1, Crosby; 2, Tiflin; 3, Atkin­ son. At the present time, Vic’s chances of success in water polo are brighter than Shot Put—1, Graham; 2, Crosby; 3, tor many years. Some good freshman Leslie. material has put in an appearance, and High Jump—1, Tiflin; 2, Crosby; 3, a fine spirit is being shown, which Partridge. augurs well for the future. So far, Broad Jump— 1, Snell; 2, Crosby; 3, three games have been played in the Tiflin. Interfaculty series, with a record of one win, one loss, and one protested game. Pole V'atilt-—1, Snell and Stanley In the first clash of the season, Vic met (tied) ; 2, King. Junior S.P.S. and lost by the score of Inter-year Relay—1, Third Year 3 (Hall, to o. The Vic team showed a fine Sarjeant, Stevenson, Crosby) ; 2, fighting spirit, and were pressing often, First Year. but were unable to bulge their opponent s ACTA VICTORIANA 41 nets. All the new players showed signs Progress has also been made in the of water polo ability, and before the sea­ doubles, and to date one pair of finalists son is over Vic should possess a good have been decided. Pyne and Magee team. Encountering Junior Meds in are the successful ones, and they will the second fixture, the Vic aggregation face the winners of the semi-final match won out by a 3 to i score. In this game, between McCallum-Balfour and Nor- which was close, the Vic forwards man-Ayres. Mention must be made of proved faster and more experienced the brilliant game Johnson and Ramsay than their opponents, and their aggres­ played in losing to two such aces as Pyne siveness was rewarded by a victory. A and Magee. 4-4 draw was the result of the third In the Interfaculty tournament, Vic game played against Junior U.C., but did exceedingly well. Both Pyne and Mc­ as the latter have successfully protested Callum reached the eights, but were put it on the grounds that the periods were out by the finalists; however, they en­ not equally divided, it will be replayed tered the challenge round, and both got at the end of the season, if necessary. to the finals. There Pyne won out, On the forward line, Vic has three thereby making a place for himself on experienced men in Murray Thomson, the University team, where he made a Glover Howe, and “ Stu” Perrett, while good showing in the Intercollegiate Harold Kirby, of 3T0, is showing up matches. He was Vic’s only repre­ well. “ Stu” Thom, “ A l” McCulloch, sentative on the Varsity team. In the Nelles Starr, and Bryden are doing duty doubles also Vic was not inconspicuous, on the guard line, and Fred Wans- as McCallum and Martin reached the brough is watching the nets. The water finals but were forced to concede victory polo games are played on Monday, and to Nunns and Gunn. the team appreciates all the support the college can give. HANDBALL Enthusiasm over handball is growing TENNIS from year to year, and this year is no exception. A singles tournament got Although the college tennis tourna­ under way with about thirty entries on ment has been nominally under way November 4th, and it will probably take since the middle of October, the finalists a week to declare a champion. In the in both singles and doubles have yet to Inter-year competition, first year won be decided. Abnormally wet weather without much difficulty; they possessed has prevented playing off the matches, a strong and experienced team in Frost, and if it continues, it may be necessary Powers, Burns, and Farmery, all of to finish the tournament indoors. whom came from U.T.S. where they There was an entry of about thirty in formed a team last year. The freshman the singles. When the tournament got team should form a fine nucleus for a down to the eights, some surprises were proposed college team, which is to chal­ sprung by Johnson defeating McCallum, lenge St. Michael’s College for the In­ and Norman losing to McMullen. terfaculty Handball Trophy. St. Mike’s Pyne, Magee, Johnson, and McMullen have held this cup for practically ten were successful in reaching the fours, years, and it was won by Vic only once and in a semi-final match, Pyne beat several years ago. Such a competition Magee to qualify for the finals. The re­ should bring out many excellent players, maining semi-final between McMullen and would serve to develop a keener in­ and Johnson has not yet been played. terest in the game within the college. 42 ACTA VICTORIANA

WOMEN’S ATHLETICS

BASKETBALL Frances Service, Eleanor McCabbin, This year a new ruling came into Ruth Ruggan and Jean Murray, who force, by which University and Victoria won her place from Helen Shaw by a challenge game. Colleges are to enter two teams in the Inter-Faculty League, the senior team Evelyn Craw, Audrey Carveth and to be from the 3rd and 4th years, and Ruth Pearson were outstanding players for 3T0. the junior team from the 1st and 2nd years. On this account one or more The Interfaculty tournament was members of last year’s team will not postponed till the third week in October be allowed to play with the senior team; on account of the rain. Although U.C. however, Coach Bob McDougall is won first place the Vic girls were their quickly and efficiently rounding the most formidable opponents for the position, and ranked a close second. teams into shape. Probable line-up for Seniors: Flora Mooney, Mary Addison, Marion For­ BASEBALL ward, Ede Buchanan, Jean Bateman, The baseball season is well on its way Grace Keffer, Alma Wales, Helen Shaw, and already half the series has been all of last year’s teams, while Frank Ser­ played. In the first, two encounters vice, K. Mundy and Margaret Claire with O.C.E. and St. Mikes, Vic won have been showing up splendidly in easily, but due to loose playing defeated practice. St. Hilda’s with a more nearly equal The Juniors expect to have a good score. The most exciting game was team: Al. Muckle, Jean Snider, Mamie the last one, when U.C., last year’s inter­ Rieder, Doris Doyle, Jean Bullis and faculty champions, met our team. Not Dot Ker are back at the game and in till the final score, 14-11 for Vic, could 3T0 there is some splendid material. one tell which was the winning team. Marje Beattie, Bertha Hedges, Jeanie O f last year’s team we have with us: Auld, Ruth Moore, Helen Beal and Dot. Carver, Frank Service, Marj. others look very promising. Snider, Helen White, K. Ferguson, Lulu The inter-year basketball games Bates, Sunny Peacock and Laureen created interest, and made good fun. Gibson. This year’s recruits include 2T8 defeated 2T7, 3T0 defeated 2T9 Marion Forward, Helen Hilliard, Myra and the freshies were victorious in the Jarrett and Maude Lindsay. play-off. League games commence November 10th. SWIMMING TENNIS Swimming at Vic has aroused a great In the games for place on the Victoria deal of enthusiasm this year and more tennis team, competition was keen, and than usual interest has been shown. At the players showed very good form the initial meeting life-saving classes after the summer months. were organized. Another new feature In order of place, the members of the is the proposed inter-year swimming team are: Lulu Bates, Glad. Robinson, meet to be held early in January. ACTA VICTORIANA 43

PERSONALS

This column depends, for its exis­ ’23. Mildred Taylor is nursing at tence, on the information which comes Johns Hopkins. to the ears of its editors, through under­ '23. Helen Baycroft is a dietitian in a graduates and others. Any communica­ hospital in Montreal. tions in regard to graduates or ex­ '23. Winifred Snyder has a secre­ students will be gratefully received by tarial position in the office of the Social either Mr. Jack Stevenson or Miss K. Service Council of Canada. Cobum. '23. Nina Yeomans is doing an ex­ BIRTHS cellent job as Dean at Alma Ladies* College, St. Thomas. Gertrude Metzler ’23. To Mr. and Mrs. Henry Street and Louise Addison, both of *23 are back (nee Rena Grant), a daughter. there again this year. Others who are bringing up the youth of the country in MARRIAGES the way they should go are: Jenny ’25-24. Florence Gertrude McMullen Harris, at Tweed; “ Flo” Green, on the to Andrew Gladstone Finnie, at “ Ku- occasional staff in Toronto; Dorothy shog Kottage,,, Haliburton, Ontario, on Shannon at Kincardine; Dorothy Mars- September 1, 1926. Mr. Finnie is ton at Belleville; Dorothy Miller at Director of Religious Education at Bracebridge; Anne Elgie, at home in Highland Ave. Congregational Church, Ottawa; Kathleen Crosby at New Lis- Orange, New Jersey. Their residence keard; Marjorie Craig at Peterboro; is 504 West 123rd Street, New York Rena Kendrick at Port Arthur; Meta City. Clare, Mildred Harley, Helen Van '28. Louise Barnett, ex-’28, to Paul Alstyne, and Vera Hogarth, all at Ham­ Drake, at Toronto, on August 11, 1926. ilton; Eleanor Howard on the staff of They are living in Toronto. the High- School of Commerce, To­ ronto; Dorothy Pearson at Lucan. NOTES *26. The budding lawyers of *26 are, '23. Kathleen Jeffs has moved to R. S. Atkey, J. E. Goodison, H. E. Montreal where she is in charge of Harris, W. S. Lane, E. R. Peacock. Eaton's Georgian Room. Bess Hubbell, *26. These are at O.C.E., H. K. Blair, '25, is with her. C. S. Patterson and K. P. Watson. '23. Norah Lavelle is at home, and '26. W. S. W. Breese, J. E. Graham expects to go to New York to study and T. R. Turner are back in our midst after Christmas. taking theology. ’23. Eva Pooke is Executive Head of *26. The following are continuing in the Industrial Department of the medicine: R. P. Becker, G. H. Hames, Y.W.C.A. in Detroit this year. A. F. Hollinrake, and A. E. Perry. '23. Dorothy Toye has been awarded '26. R. H. Armstrong is in Toronto a scholarship in the Department of with the T. Eaton Co.; likewise W. H. History at Bryn Mawr. Limbert. '23. Edith McGillvray is back in ’26. George Mathers is in West To­ China. ronto with the I.T.S. Rubber Co. 44 ACTA VICTORIANA

’26. Clayton Baxter is doing post­ C harles Street, and Dorothy Forward graduate work in philosophy at the at 100 Charles Street. Both are doine University of Toronto. post-graduate work. s ’26. Karl S. Bernhardt is teaching in 26. Bill Junkin has become a cele­ Regina. brity as a Fellow at Cornell. ’26. K. Burns is the Assistant Dieti­ tian at Wymilwood. ’26. Ken. Wilson is on the staff 0f the ’26. Alice Skinner is don at 104 Financial Post.

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Faithful to the ideals and traditions of their Colleg seventy-five students of Victoria College gave their lives in the Great War that Justice and Truth might prevail.

0 Valiant Hearts, who to your glory came, Through dust of conflict and through battle-flame, Tranquil you lie, your knightly virtue proved, Your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

Proudly you gathered, rank on rank, to war. As who had heard God’s message from afar; All you had hoped for, all you had you gave To save mankind—yourselves you scorned to save.

Splendid you passed, the great surrender made, Into the light that nevermore shall fade; Deep your contentment in that blest abode, Who wait the last clear trumpet-call of God.

Btrtnria (Mlrtjr November 11th. 1926