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VOL. XXXII. DECEMBER, 1946 No.8 ACADIA BULLETIN
Vol. XXXII Wol1v1Ile, Nova Scotia., December, 1946 NO.8
DR. PATTERSON, RT. HON. J. ILSLEY, and DR . C B. LUMSDEN at the Foulld"rs' T .blet ill University Hall. FOUNDERS' D,L\ Y Nearly fourteen years ago Dr. H . T. ·nthusiasm; it was the day set apart for DeWolfe, now Emeritus Professor ll i: the dedica rion of the War Memorial New Testament Language and Literatur Men's Residence, and the University was at the University, suggested that the time honoured by a visit from one of her dis had come when the Acadia family should tinguished Alumni, Rt. Hon . James Lor meet annually at a Founders' Day imer Iisley, B.A, '13, D.CL., '37, Can Memorial Service to honour those who (; adian Minister of Finance. foresight, wisdom. and sacrififes had made Dedication of War Memorial Residence possible the fcunding of Horton AcaJemy and Acadia College. The executive of [he Promptly at 10:30 AM., on Friday, Associated Alumni promptly adopted Dr. November 15, the Alumni and friends of DeWolfe's suggestion. The [lrst Found Acadia assembled in front of the War ers' Day was observed on November 15, Memorial Residence for the dedication 1933, with the then President of the As service. President F. W. Patterson pre sociated Alumni, Dr. G. C Warren, ' 1 ided, and read a short historical state·· as the special speaker. In the evening a ment explaining the manner in which the dinner was enjoyed at the Dining Hall a. rzsidence was planned, and finally com which Dr. DeWolfe gave a humorous and pleted, in spite of war-time restrtctlons inspirational address. Since 1933 Found and shortage of materials. The base ers' Day has been observed anllualiy. ment was constructed in the s.ummer of Acadia's fourteenth Founders' D ay 1943 to care for Acadia's No. 2 Canadian was celebrated with more than th e u S ll ~ l .A.rmy University Corps. The next year ACADIA BULLETIN
the basement was used to shelter nearly Capt. Lewis Sutherland, Hz. '41. Capt. Rev. William T urner, '35. sixty civilian students. Last year the first Lieut. Jobn W atson, '39. Roor was completed, and, with the base After the names were read, Flight n ent, cared for over 100 students. The Liwt. (Chaplain) Rev. Emerson L. building is now practicall y complete ; is Curry, '24, led in a Litany of Thanks· has three stories and two wings. At gLvmg and Dedication. Flight Lieut. present about two hundred and thirty Hinson Macleod, Ex. '40, and now a men arQ living in it. student in Theology at Acadia, gave the Po\.l owing D r. P atterson's address, the D edicatory Prayer. President Patterson P residenr of the Student's Council, Ron pronounced the benediction. ald C rosby '47, read the names of the grad uates and former students of Acadja Memorial Service who lost their lives in World W ar II: Immediately after the dedicatory ser Sge.·Obse rver Joh n Armstrong, Ex. '3 5. vice at the Memorial Residence, Paculty, P.O O rlay Bligh, Ex. Eng. '37. orp. W illiam Boggild, 2 c.A.U .c., '44. Alumni, and students assembled in U ni P.O. Hundey Brander, '34. vefSlty Hall for the Founders' Day apt. Rev. Charles Blealcen ey, Ex. '26. F.O. Everett Cameron, '40. Memorial Service. A few minutes before Sgr. Herbert ook, Ex. '40. eleven o'clock (he faculty, in gowns and F.O. Francis Dennison, H. A., '10. Lie ut. Jobn Edwards, '37. hoods, marched to the platform. Pro Capt. W illiam Embree, Ex. '35. fessor B. Lumsden, '21, President of Sgt. onald Fiske, Ex. '1 1. C. Wing Com. Sydney Ford D .F.C. and Bar, '43 . the Associated Alumni, conducted the Instr. Pilot H arvey Freeman, '11. Sgr. Observer Berna rd Fullerton, '38. service and gave the call to wor bip, The Sge. Pilot Gerald Gates, Ex. '10. congregation then stood and sang heartily F.O. Ivan Gillis, Ex . '3 9. Lieut. Ronald Goddard, '42. the words of the familiar hymn, " W hen Sgt. Pilot Frederick Gullison, Hz.. '42. M orning Gilds T he Skies." Prof. E. A. Sgt. Pilat Gordon Hagan, '38. Trooper T bomas Henry, Ex. Eng., '13. Collins, D ean of the Acadia School of Sgt. Winston Hovey, Ex., '42. Music, presided at the organ, and led the Lieut. Ronald H udson., '34. Lieut. W ilbur Ingraham, Ex. '44 . singing, Dr. F. H. Eaton, '07, gave the Sgr. Lloyd Kerr, Ex. '42. Invocation. P.O . John Latnson, El( . '43. Lie ut. John Levine, '43. President Patrerson led the Res ponsive W3rranr Officer John MacNearney, Ex. '43. Leut. Ian MacIntosb, H . A., '1 1. Reading which was taken from Paul's F.O . Curtis McCann, '33. Epistle to the Philippians, Chapter II, PO. Karl Merriam, Ex. Eng., '15 . LA. Thomas Minard. Ex. Eng., '44. Verses 5 to 11, and Dr. Lumsden con r- O . H ubert Miller. 30. ducted the Litany of Thanksgiving and '.0. Douglas Moores, Ex. '41. r..0. John Morrison, Ex. '38. Intercession. PO lohn Murdock, Ex. '41. Sge. Elmer Munart, '3 9. W re;>.ths wtre pl ac~ d on the Foundl' rs' Sge. Chari 5 O 'Brien, Ex. '42. Tablet bv Dr. H. T. DeWolfe, '89, for Driver Mary Peake, A.L.s., ' 15. Cape. Weldol Perry. Ex. '42. the Associ.'lted Alumni, and by Ronald S~t . P il ot Jolm Redden, H. A., '40. Crosby, '47, on behalf of the Students. gr . Enest Robe rts, Ex . Eng., '40. Han. Norman Rogers, '1 9, Minister or National T he congregation stood during this ce re Defense. mony, and aft2r a few minutes of silen " Corp. W illiam Rose, Ex. '3 9 Lieu r. Frederi:k Seaman, H . A ., '41. joined in singi ng Joseph Addison s hym n, p.O . Harold "m',h, Ex. '33 . "T he Spacious Firmame nt Oll Hi~h. " A. PO. Ronald Sm ith. ' 3~ . Flir.ln Lieut . .'\ Ii,ed S purr, Ex . '4 0. 'luarrer compos-::d of Leslie Mil!s, '4Q,
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DR. PATTERSON, FUGHT-LIEU TE ' ANT EMERSON CURRY, and RONALD CROSBY at lhe Dedic"tion of lhe Memorial Residence.
Ross Webb, '48, Arthur Morse, '47, c;nd eighty-seven years ago_ In the rCCelVl11g Richard Kierstead, '47, sang very effec~ line were Dr_ and Mrs. Lumsden, Rt. ively, "Faith of Our Fathers,:' by Faber. Hon. J. L. Ilsle~, and Dr. Pattascll. In Following the announcements Dr. Lums strumental music was rendered by a trio, den introduced the distinguished guest Mrs. M. S. MacPhail, Mrs. W . J. Noble, speaker, Rt. Hon. ]. L. Ilsley, who de· and Mrs. L. C. Trites. livered the Founders' Day address. The address is printed in full in this number Professor M. V. Marshall, '2l, was of the BIILletin. After the address, the Master of Ceremonies, and announced the c::::gregation sang the well kr:own Welsh programme as follows: hymn, "Guide Me 0 Thou Great Je Solo-"Leezie Linsay," John Hand, '49. hovah," which was followed by "God Save The King." Dr. Patterson pronounced Magic-G. R. Dennison, '49. the benediction. 5olo-"Wirhout a Song," Mr. Hand. Alumni Reception In the evening at 7: 30 the Acadia Acadia Quiz-Amy Prescott, '24. Alumni, Faculty, and their guests as sembled at the Gymnasium for the Following the programme, a social hour Founders' Day Reception. Members of was enjoyed. Refreshments were served the Class of '47 were present as special under the direction of a group of the guests of thz Alumni Association, thus younger Alumni with Mr. Harcourt Cam maintaining a custom which began when eron, '37, as chairman. the Alumni organization was formed -R. S. L.
3 ACADIA BULLETIN FOUNDERS' DAY ADDRESS by
THE RIGHT HONORABLE ]. L. ILSLEY
It seems to me that the most interesting and enlists our admiring respect. Among Founders' Day address that could be made his other qualities was that of resource would be one by a speaker who personally fulness in practical and business matter~. knew some or all of the founders of His was the idea to build the first College Acadia. Apart from my friend Dr. Hall without money. Many times the Oakes, who in his youth perhaps had the story has been told of the successful ex· privilege of seeing and knowing some 0r ertions of this indomitable young founder. all of the founders, I do not know of any Nor can it be told too often. In these • of Acradia's graduates who would be in a days of frequent appeals for money made position to deliver such an address. In by the people to Governments and insti my day it was my privilege to come in tutions, as well as by Governments and contact with such stalwarts as Dr. Jones, institutions to the people, it is refreshing who spent sixty years, and Dr. Tufts, to recall historical instances of self.help, who spent fifty years as professors at instances of what people can do of them Acadia, and my indebtedness to these an.:! selves, by themselves, for themselves. Al1d others like them is impossible to overstate. not only for themselves,_ but for others, But the founders themselves belonged to for future generations and for a noble an earlier perio::l, for the knowledge of cause. which we have to depend largely on what Friends of Acadia should often turn we read. their thoughts to that courageous young In Dr. Longley's excellent history of man, riding about on his pony superin Acadia during the first hundred years of tending the building of the first Colleg~ its existence, he presents a thought.pro. Hall on this very site, building not wi[h voking word picture of the founders. money but with materials and labour From this picture, it is apparent that they freely given by loyal common folk actu· had many qualities of greatness, among ated by a common purpose and resolved which were faith, courage and determina that that purpose should not fail. tion. I do not wish to weary you with the It seems to me that among the founders, repetition of a story that is familiar to one has always had a special appeal to you, but should we not once in a while youth, perhaps because his work for this recall to our minds the free gifts of tim institution - immense and far-reaching ber and lumber, of boards and laths, of thOl.lgh it was-began when he was nails and paint, of glass and putty, of twenty· three years of age and terminated doors and bricks, that went into the build with his death at the age of thirty.nve. I ing? Should we not think of the free refer, of course, to Isaac Chipman, whose labour that was given, labour in the felling attractive personality shining through th~ of trees, in the transporting of lumber, in pages of history excites our imagination excavation and construction? Should we
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no ponder on the spontaneity and enthu tent to which he has the capacity to assume siasm with which supporters of.the College responsibilities, should assume responsibil who had no m:mey to spare gave what ities up to the limit of that capacity, and, they were able to give? as he put it, tax his powers to the utmost, yet so as to succeed. As Dr. Longley points out in his book, insight into the character of Isaac Chip It is that spirit which should actuate man is gained by examination of some of the undergraduates and graduates of to the statements which he made as a young day. It may be that in some cases they man. In 1837, he entered Waterville will try to take on too much work, too College in the S~ate of Maine as a junior many responsibilities, in which event they • and graduated in 1839. While he was a may have to relinquish SOme of them later student at Waterville College, he was in in order to maintain their health. But it vited to succeed John Pryor as Principal is far better to run that risk than to settle • of Horton Academy. He wanted to come back into as easy a life as they can arrange back to Nova Scotia and perform his life for themselves, getting as much as they work here but he said, "If I leave collegp. can and giving as little. This principle now, I shall comparatively go limping is applicable to the generality of mankind, through life. If I take all I can carry for but I think it is especially true of univer one year more, I shall feel competent to sity people who, if the difficult problems do something and to be a man among of the future are to be solved, must throw men." themselves whole-heartedly into the solu tion of these problems. There have been many undergraduates since that day who have been confronted There is another sentence in one of with the necessity of a decision in similat Chipman's letters of a different kind and circl-lmstances. Generally speaking, the with a iocal bearing. Understanding, as decision ~hich Chipman made is the kind he did, the inspirational value of history, of decision which all of them should have he said, "The history of this county has striven to make and which those students been remarkably eventful considering its who are here today should make if like small extent and limited population." conditiolls in their cases should arise. Many of us who were born and brought up in this part of Nova Scotia have often On another occasion he wrote these had the same thought, and it seems to me word~. "In choosing a permanent employ that the friends ()f Acadia have cause for ment I wish to be in a situation which will gratitude to the founders {or selecting as tax my powers to the utmost, yet so as to the site of the College a spot which not succeed; as what will most improve myself only has much natural beauty, but has the will best benefit others_" In other words, advantage of inspiring historical associa· he had not the slightest intention in the tions. world of simply trying to get by. He had n@t the slightest intention in the world of Think of what has happened in this concentrating on what he could get out of part of Nova Scotia. The founding of life as distinguished from what he could Port Royal by Champlain; the struggles give. He realized that a young man, between the French and the English for particularly one of mental calibre and possession of it; the coming of the French capacity, while carefully gauging the ex settlers and the building of the dykes;
5 ACADIA BULLETIN their tragic expulsion in 1755; the coming by the authorities to be a liberal subscrip of the pre-Loyalists, and later of the Loy tions. Many of the Old County names alists; the battles and skirmishes not very may be found in the list of subscribers, and far from here during all the wars in which although the amounts they subscribed Great Britain was engaged, whether with were small, and although the total amount France or with her American colonies; the for the Township was only i342-some political controversies between the Loyal what less than the Victory Loan subscrip ists and the pre-Loyalists, and later be tions for rhe Township of Cornwallis in rween those who believed and those who the recent Victory Loan campaigns-it did not believe in responsible Government. must be remembered that these men were These are some phases of the history of giving their money, not lending it, and for the locality which Chipman must havt: the purpose of carrying on a war in Europe had in mind. and on the high seas the bearing of wh ich In this post-war period of almost in on their future welfare might ve ry well --I soluble problems-many of them interna not have been understood. The people tional in their character and global in their here of that day, like their descendants, extent-the influence of purely local histor have, however, always been alive to the ical factors may by some be discounted. hatefulness of dictatorship and to the But it seems to me that the study of locai preciousness of liberty, a tradition which history should not be left to the leisurely cradled Acadia and has ever since bee n and the elderly, but should be a concern followed by her. of the young and the active as well. Beamish Murdock's History of N ova In the midst of one of our Victory Loan Scotia, while hardly more than a diary or campaigns, when we were appealing to tht: scrapbook in form, contains many' in people of Canada to give unstintedly their stances of stirring events in this district, financial support to the war, I was inter all fitting in to a hisrorical background ested to find that in this very district one which abundantly justified Chipman's re hundred and fifty years ago, the farmers mark that "the history of this County has of the community, although they werr been remarkably eventful considering its very poor in this world's goods- not only small extent and limited population." by present standards but by the standards My recollections of Acadia go back to of that day-were in large numbers baking the year 1909, when I entered as a fresh free gifts, small, it is true, but doubtless man. I gradl1at~d in 1913, dmost exactly as much as they could afford, to the win one-third of a century ago, and it occurred ning of the war against Napoleon. From to me that it might be profitable for us the Report of the Public Archives of Can to reflect today upon some of the develop ada for the year 1940 it appears that in ments which have taken place during that June, 1798, no fewer than one hundred period in the thought and outlook of stud and thirty-three residents of Cornwallis ent bodies. When I was at Acadia, much paid in sums as a voluntary contribution interest was taken in the debating of cur for rhe support of the Government in rent questions. I have obtained a list of carrying on what was described as "the the resolutions that we debated. Among present jw;t and necessary war against the resolutions which were the subject of His Majesty's enemies." The subscrip inter-class debates between 1909 and 1913 tion from Cornwallis was acknowledged were these:
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Resolved that combinations of capital adoption of the Swiss system of initiative in restraint of trade should be prohibited. alld referendum. Resolved that Home Rule should be ex· On the other hand, a few of the ques tended to Ireland. tions alive on that day are still unsettled_ Resolved that the confederation of For example, the question as to whether Great Britain with her self-governing col it is in the best interests of Newfoundland oniesis desirable. to join the Dominion of Canada remains Resolved that it would be in the best in unanswered. There are many who believe terests of Newfoundland to join the and many who do not beJieve that capital Dominion of Canada. punishment should be abolished. There RESolved that the Government should are many who believe and many who do own and operate the railways of Canada. not believe that the Government should Resolved that capital punishment should own and operate all the railways of Can • be abolished . ada. There are differences of opinion as Resolved that military training in public to whether military training in public schools and colleges of Canada is unde schools and colleges is desirable; and the sirable. protective tariff is still an issue, although Resolved that the present protective politically speaking an extremely mild and tariff is better for Canada than a tariff for a t times almost undiscoverable one. revrn ue only. But the changes of opinion through the Resolved that a single tax on land is years are perhaps best ill ustrated by the better than the present system cf taxation. subjects of the inter-collegiate debates. Resolved that it would be in the best There were four of these debates between interests of Nova Scotia to adopt the sys 1909 and 1913, and the subjects debared were these: tem of initiative and referendum rather than the present system of legislation. Resolved that the suffrage be extended to women. It is apparent that many of the ques tions which were live questions a third of a Resolved that it is in the best interests century ago are no longer alive. They of Canada that ::he Intercolonial R:l.ilway have been settled either permanently or be owned and operated by a private com pany. for the time being by the court of public opinion. For instance, everyone now Resolved that Canada should contribute agrees that combinations of capital in re financially to the British Navy rather than str::tint of trade should be prohibited in a build and maintain a Navy of her OWll in competitive economy. The debate has accordance with the policy of the late now shifted to the question as to whe;:her G overnment; and there should be a competitive economy. Resolved that trade unions are more Home Rule for Ireland has been removed beneficial than detrimental. to society. from the area of controversy. The con There is no substantial body of public federation of Great Britain with her self opinion today that would regard any of p.overning colonies is by common consent these subjects as now debatable. The admitted to be out of the question. A suffrage has been extended to women. It single tax on land is generally regarded as would be manifestly out of the question beyond the purview of practical states to dismember the Canadian National Rail m 7 ACADIA BULLETIN way to a private company. The principle are, in an institution such as Acadia. It of a separate Canadian Navy has been was said during the war when the N azis solidly established; and the utility, indeed were seeking to gain world domination the necessity of the existence of trad~ that they were attempting to ove rthrow unions is not disputed. and destroy three principles upon which The development of public opinion in Western civilization is founded - the the last third of a century is dead>, indi Christian ethic, the scientific spirit, and cated by the facts that I have given. What the rule of law. The Nazi philo ophy has happened is this : Through causes repudiated the Christian ethic, having no which may not be altogether clear but use for mercy, humanity, brotherhood, which his~orians might be able to identify, equality, and the like. It repudiated the t public opinion has developed so that great scientific spirit: although it fostered tech problems have been solved in certain nical ef!iciency, it did not permit the free ways. This process goes on all the time, pursuit of truth when the conclusions and Governments must of necessity con reached would be injurious to the gang • form to trends in public opinion which ap that ruled t'he State. And it repudiated 'pear to have a reasonable degree of per the rule of law, substituting for it the manency_ I have always believed that capricious decrees of the dictator backed public men should not be merely followers up by brute force. We, on the other of public opinion but should use their best hand, upheld these three principles and efforts to mould and guide it. When believe them to be fundamental and right. they exert these efforts, their responsibility The contribution which universities, becomes a serious one. And it seems to such as Acadia, have made to the main~n me that among the functions of higher ance of th~se principles is massive and educational institutions is the fitting of pervasive, and if they can be thoroughly students to make the right kind of con understood and made part of their phil tribution to these great and irresistibl~ osophy of life by the student bodies which currents of public opinion. pass through our universities in the years There are two ways in which univer to come, I have a considerable degree of sities can do this. One is by the encour confidence that the problems of the future agement and promotion of discussion and will be rightly solved. debate by students of public questions. Statesmanship in practice involves There was much of this at Acadia a third much drudgery. It involves the meeting of a century ago and I hope there is much of crisis after crisis, the racking of brains today. But a more important way is by in to decide what to do day after day with culcating certain principles or standards situations as they arise. Governments of judgment by which those who pass krww that they cannot in their decisions through university halls will make their run counter too often or too long to public decisions through life on the issues that opinion. That public opinion be enlight arIse. ened, that it be based on sound principles, It would be impossible in the time at that these principles be inculcated in the my disposal, indeed it would 1:,"; beyond my universities-these are essential to the ef capacity, to enulIlerate all these principles, fective working of a democracy. but I would like to suggest that three Canada will continue to be a country to should be kept to the fore, as I know they be proud of if we meet our difficulties, 8 ACADIA BULLETIN which will be many and complex, in an seriousness, It may also be, although I enlightened way. In this enlightened do not know, that having made history soiutiol1 of problems, the universities have themselves, manv of them can see little tbeir part to play. point in harking hack on an occasion such T here is a feature of university life to a ~ this to the history of early days. How day which did not exist when I was at ever, I venture to say that theri: is a value Acadia, and that is the large proportion in thinking from time to time of the of ex-service men and women who are here struggles of the founders and of the brave now. The Government's programme for and successful efforts of Acadia to sur the education of ex-service me,n and wo mount the obstacles in the pathway of its men is one which creates some difficulties ~'rogress and make itsel f a powerful factor • for a Minister of Finance, as you can well in Canadian higher education . . Students appreciate, but I have been reconciled to may for some years, perhaps many years, these difficulties by the ~ne showing which after they graduate, think very little about these ex-service people are making in the their days at Acadia, but as the years go universities. en and they reach the stage in life when Dr. Sidney Smith, President of the Un experience has had its effect in developing ivusity of Toronto, recently said: " All maturity of outlook, they will have a my staff tell me they have never worked growing sense of indebtedness to a college with a finer group of stlldent~. The record ,·;hich has always stood for the high prin of achievement of returned men has been ciples which have animated the activities higher than that of adolescents who came of Acadia. They will think of and re to the university directly from high school. member their Alma Mater with increasing They have been working hard and ali their appreciation and admiration. They will endeavours have been characterized by a say, as I once heard a distinguished former seriousness of purpose gratifying to every President of Acadia say in the words of one. These men who fought for Canada the Psalmist from this platform, "If I and are now being given the chance to con forget thee 0 Jerusalem let my right hand tinue their studies will provide many of forget her cunning; if I do not remember the leaders of ' our coun try twenty years thee Jet my tongue cleave to the roof of my fle-nce_" mouth." And they will always have with My information is that a similar situa them the inspiration of the stead fastness tion exists in universities other than To and devotion, not only of the Founders, ronto, that the proportion of those passing bur of all the others whose work has made with honours is higher among veterar.s the story of Acadia a record of formidable than among non-veterans, that their pass difficulties dauntlessly overcome. standing is better, that the failure rate among students as a whole has been re ACADIA RINK TO GET duced because of the good standing of vet ARTIFICIAL ICE erans, and that the positions they are being offered upon graduation indicate the high All graduates and former students of quality of their academic standing and Acadia will be glad 'to know that the con, work_ It may be that the experiences tract has been let for the installation of through which many of them have passed an artificial ice plant in the Acadia rink. have added to their resourcefulness and Acadia, for many years, has had an ex 9 I . ACADIA BULLETIN cellent rink of steel and tile construction but the vagaries of Wolfville weather have made t"he ice uncertain both for On behalf of the .Acadia family skating and scheduled hockey games. "On the Hill," the BULLETIN ex· The new plant will guarantee Ice throughout the entire skating and hockey tends to all of its readers best wishes :season and will provide much needed for a Happy Christmas and a Pros recreation facilities for the unusually large number of students registered this yea>:. perous New Year. It is hoped to have the installation com pleted by the first week in January, 1947. • .. FINE ARTS PROGRAMME ENGLISH DUO PERCY GRAINGER, Pianist Viola Morris, soprano, and Victori:. After hearing Percy Grainger's magni Anderson, contralto, gave their third re ficent program on November 27, the larg~ audience was moved to wonder at his ap cital at Acadia on November 14, a very proaching retirement. Here was no de· pleasant prelude to the Founders' Day clining virtu0so about to creep into the festivities of the following day. In a well chimney corner. The grandeur of his tone balanced and unusual programme, they and the excit-ement of his rhythm are every quite charmed their audience. In the bit as thrilling as when he visited Acadia duets, the two voices blended beautifully, about ten years ago. From his opening and in the solos, each proved to be of dis m:mber, the Bach G minor Fantasia and tinguished quality. Songs by Schumann Fugre, through the Chopin B minor and Brahms, and a group of Shakespeare Sonata and a group of five Brahms pieces songs by English comp03ers were particu to Balakirev's "Islamey," Mr. Grainger -larly popular. held his audience entranced. His own !lay arrangements of pieces like "Molly ·,n • Mr. E. A Collins, Dean of Music, was the Shore" and "Country Gardens" were the able accompanist for the Duo, as he added attractions. It was truly an eve has been at ec:ch of their concerts. ning to remember. -F. P. M. 10 ACADIA BULLETIN ATHLETICS Each November sees the conclusion of a Senior t ~ am, and naturally gave our Inter foctball season. Many of the Alumni, mediates stiff competition. Kings scored both old and young, watch the reports of six points to our thirteen, and in the clos the various games, and wish to know ing game of the season St. Mary's made what sort of a season we have had. With it very close, losing by the score of six ;:0 this in mind we have asked Coach Kelly five. to give us a report. As usual Mr. Kelly Injuries unfortunately kept some of oul' is silent about the coach, but those of us regular players out of the game. These who have been on the campus know that boys missed the fun of playing with a he has spent a very busy October; the re grand team. Bill Cunningham and Bo::' suits speak for themselves. Martin, who played in 1945, were hurt in early practices, and did not get into any Kef's Report of the League games. Cyril Harriott English Rugby, played under League went out in the first game in Wolfville rules, suited this year's squad nicely. How which was against t~e Navy. "Tarazan" well we would have done under Union M;:cLeod was hurt in the game with Dal rules is hard to say. The boys were smart, housie at Halifax, and Eric Demont at the good ball handlers, and worked well to Dalhousie game in Wolfville. John gether; but they lacked weight, which "Sailor" Bateman, the last to be in jured, would have been a more apparent disad was a victim of the Navy game in Halifax. vantage under Union rules. The more The Intermediates had better luck, as they open game helped to make this season one came through the season without serious of the most successful we have had In a Injuries. long time. How will we do next year? Prophecies The squad played thirteen games, and are never safe, but this is certain; the won twelve of them. Our only loss was players who return in 1947 will have the to Caledonia, for the Provincial Senior desire to repeat the success of 1946. If Championship, in a keenly contested game they win the Halifax City League next at Glace Bay. The Varsity team went year, Caledonia would come to Wolfville through the City League without a defeat, to play for the Senion Championship, and In the six games played, they scored sixty the boys feel that another game with the two points, and had only eleven points Cape Breton team might be different. scored against them. The Intermediates They learned quite a bit this year, and also had six wins in six starts, and scored with most of them returning, who k~ows fi fty-five points to a total of eleven by their -they might be the first team to defeat opponents. Four of their games were Caledonia since 1934. shut-outs, two against Dalhousie Inter -F. G. K. mediates, and two against Wanderers' CALEDONIA 6 - ACADIA 5 Intermediates. The other two members "f the Intermediate League, Kings ColI~ge After winning the Halifax City League and St. Mary's College, each used its one Championship Acadia tackled the exper and only team, which was in reality 3. ienced Caledonia 13 in the MacCurdy 11 ACADIA BULLETIN Cup playdowns and there met their first campus during the Rugby season just defeat of the season. The game was past. It is hoped that some of his readers played in Glace Bay on a raw windy after may be interested in his impressions, recol noon, but despite the weather was on the lections and forecast. whole a good exhibition of football. My first impression was that of speed. Acadia had somewhat the better of terri In English Rugby, of course, there is little tory but Caledonia paid off in touclc or none of that regular and enexorabl downs, securing three to Acadia's one. march to the goal line that one often sees None of the touchdowns were converted, in the American and sometimes in the Acadia's extra two points coming from a Canadian game. No · long rest periods penalty kick. On a number of occasions called huddles. Scrimmage pauses give the Acadia boys were stopped on the very the backs a breather, but scrimmages are, edge of the Caledonia goal line but lacked I suspect, of little relief to the forwards. that little extra that turns opportunitie::; Some who read this will know. Not onl y into realizations. The Caledonia team on was Acadia ~ugby last season much the other hand, outside of an inability to faster than the American and Canadian convert trys, took advantage of all the brands, but it is faster than the game as opportunities that presented themselves. played in my day. It was a hard driving, close marking game It is faster because we of old played which made it exceedingly difficult for the game more carefully, too carefully, it either team to show what they could do in may be said. In those days we had big, the matfer of ball handling though both beefy, fast forwards, while the backs were put on good exhibitions when the oppor much less effective. So we made it a for tunity offered. The game was a hard one ward game. The new zeal and scrum to lose for Acadia but the team should be formation, 2-3-2, made it easy to swing very well satisfied with the season as a the scrum and dribble. The quarters (we whole. A light, fast aggressive team they used three) kicked the ball back into the have consistently carried the game against scrum if it wandered out. In case the far heavier opponents and for the most enemy (he was an enemy in those days) part have been q~ick to capitalize on the got the ball (it still happens) the halves breaks their aggressiveness has forced. marked their men closely and said enemy -C. B. L. often lost ground. One feature of the game today that Thinking that our readers might like amazed me was the breaches of what we a comparison between the Rugby of today called the fundamentals. Acadia was and the game of an earlier period, we then strong, in .forum as in field, on the asked Professor Joseph Howe, '06, to give fundamentals. Never kick a drifting his impressions. ball unless the field is clear; never pass blind; seldom kick when near one's own RUGBY THEN AND NOW goal line. I have a deep-seated conviction The writer graduated at Acadia in 1906. that these are not now among the Rugby He played four years on Acadia teams. fundamentals. Since then he has seen something of both Another impression. In 1906, forwards the American and Canadian games. He were forwards and backs were backs. has been watching the games on the Acadia Now forwards are general purpose 12 ACADIA BULLETIN players. Today, apparently, a forward cause to deplore the decadence of the may without indecorum, become a back. modern Acadian. The decadence does not exist. Acadia plays a better game than The 13-man team seems to clutter the we of 40 years ago. Donning the field less. A II-man team might clutter prophet's mantle (not that of Jeremiah) it still less. A clear field is a joy to the I wish to foretell the day when the Rugby ball carrier. capital of the Maritimes will be moved I feel that Acadians today (and others) from Cape Breton to Acadia. not only handle the ball more but better -J.E.H. than the 1906 vintage. There is much morr passing. I have asked older fans the reason. One answt:r was-Cape BASKETBALL Breton. The scarcity of High School Rugby in my day I would also mention. With the Rugby season ended, interest Forwards and backs alike were close to the has shifted to the Gymnasium where inter farm in the early 1900's. class basketball is being played. At the time of writing there is keen rivalry be Another and an important change is in tween the Seniors and Juniors. Gamts the coaching. In the old days paid played are as follows: Juniors 33, Engin coaches were "honest." We "learned" eers 19; Seniors 22, Sophomores 17; Sell ourselves. A patriotic Rugby Alumnus iors 38, Horton 12; Engineers 39, Soph might be obtained for a week-end or more. omores 20. In the Girls' League games "Lorry" Hall was the standby in my day. played are : Seniors 18, Juniors 18; Juniors And "Lorry" not only knew and loved 37, Horton 8; Seniors 45, Freshettes 21: the game but he was inspirational. Sophettes 42, F reshettes 14. In both the I wish to mention another weakness or Girls' and Boys' Leagues the Seniors and my time due to lack of a coach. Th:: Juniors are tied for first place with two captain was supposed to run the team. wins each in two games played. He was an imposing personage-to the co-eds. Players might pick their own Horton Academy position. I recall a season in which the best full-back in the league insisted on The Horton team also en joyed a suc playing in the half-line. The full-back cessful season. In guest of the Head of that year was one by courtesy only. We master's Trophy, emblematic of the High lost to Mt. A. A team needs a Kelly. School championship of the province, the Horton team won from all opponents on I have mentioned beef once. At Acadia the mainland, and met Glace Bay High this year it is in the bleachers and on the School for the final game at Wolfville, sidelines. If I may be pardoned for November 23. Nearly 900 fans watched merely a slight exaggeration, I shall in the game which produced some fine tack form the readers that the Acadia players ling and stout' defensive plays. Two over of 1946 barely turn the scales. It may be time periods were necessary to decide the that this fact (?) explains their speed. contest. In the second overtime Glace They need to be fast. Bay scored two tries in guick succession. All in all, Acadia Rugby Alumni have no The game ended 8-0 for the visitors. 13 ACADIA BULLETIN Registration The total enrolment in the regular 34 of those enrolled in Arts and Scienc'! .courses at the University this year is 900. are taking Applied Science; 44 of the Arts The registration by departments is given and Scie!lce ar.e taking Secretarial Science, below. It should be noted, however, that and 21 of the Arts and Scie~ce plan to the figures give only a general picture, for take Theology. Applied Secretarial Education Arts & Home Ec. Music Theology Science Science Total -- Science Graduates 7 II 13 31 Fourth 120 Yrs. 100 18 2 --- 184 Third 122 25 3 26 8 Years 15 57 241 Second 154 2 4 8 Years 31 First 153 3 1 95 13 295 Years -- 2 29 Special 17 10 31 900 Total 7 557 89 20 18 178 14 ACADIA BULLETIN Our Alumni Fund 45 64 10 .00 Facts and Figures about the Alumni 46 107 I 2.00 Campaign for the Memorial Residence. Academy 25 450.00 Seminary 37 t.270.64 Amount, No. Living No. Contrib· in Pledge , Total _ $28,05 1.57 Class M embers utillg and Gift; 18 71 In addition to the foregoing amounts, 1889 13 6 $ 2,664.00 90 4 2 1,06500 some $ 13,761.57 was contributed by 9 1 17 6 275.75 Alumni previous to June 1945 and abour 92 10 5 150.00 93 10 I 25.00 ~13 , 200.00 in specials, not credited to an y 94 10 2 165 .00 particular class, has come In; making 3 95 14 3 1,005.00 96 15 3 110.00 total of $55,012.89 from the Alumni for 97 15 3 135 .00 the Memorial Residence. This leaves ap 98 23 9 1,08730 99 12 3 560.00 proimately $20,000.00 to be raised between 1900 13 -I 13 5.00 now and the end of May if w,~ are to ob, 01 20 6 213 .20 02 17 8 1,26190 tain our objective. 03 26 5 190.00 An analysis of the figures in the above 0-1 1-1 -I 245 .00 05 26 5 185 .70 tables reveals that, outside of speClal gifts, 06 14 3 18600 only some 18.6(i of those approdcned h a v~ 07 19 6 292.30 08 16 7 1,706.50 contributed, and that the mean cOlltribu· 09 26 -I 1,138.00 tion is slightly in excess of $50.00. 10 32 9 1,355.5 0 II 30 7 900.00 We realize that there will always be a 12 36 10 1,15 200 significant group of our Alumni who will 13 31 3 360.00 14 33 8 264 .00 feel unable to make any contribution. 15 29 10 565.00 People who have retired and are trying '.0 16 28 8 297.00 17 20 7 673.00 live on inadequate pensions in these day:> III II I 10 .00 of rising costs, rural pastOrs, missionaries, 19 23 II 325.50 20 32 12 816.00 country school teachers, and others who 21 47 ~II 1,430 50 have invested their lives in service whi'c;, 22 49 7 20500 23 41 13 38150 brings slight financial returns, cannOl be 24 49 10 33888 expected to make large contributions to 25 39 10 249.50 26 56 4 70.00 our memorial, but having made full al 27 6C) 10 10660 lowance for this group, the figures would 28 70 10 607.5 0 29 89 ') 8360 indicate that there must b~ a large number 30 69 1-1 352 50 who through neglect or some other reason 31 87 28 2750 32 90 5 C)O 00 have not yet made their contribution. 33 104 18 270. 0 Frequently we have be ~ n asked as to 34 119 1-1 156 50 35 65 7 130 Of) how much We expect from an individual. 36 82 9 9 00 That IS a question we cannot answer 37 116 13 320 50 38 82 12 26800 The figures given above would indicate W 121 15 26,., nf) that an averag ~ contribution of around 4:) 106 26 379 ' ; l) 41 82 13 16 'i .50 thirty dollars w0uld be required if every 42 77 16 Ie) 00 body contributed. It is obvious from tile 43 71 8 C)d Of) 44 82 15 67 .00 reasons aln:?dy g iven that we Call110t ex 15 ACADIA BULLETIN pect anything like a 100 I e. response ; It is We feel sure that the vast majority of equally obvious that of the classes most those who have not subscribed really have recently graduated many are pursuing the interests of Acadia at heart and that graduate work and others are seeking to simple neglect has robbed us of very sub get established. Hence, no great response stantial sums. Might we ask you to obey can be expected from these, so that the that impulse and without delay send in contributions of those who can afford it your cheque and pledge card to the Secre should be much higher than $30. We would tary of the Associated Alumni, Acadia suggest as a rough approximation that University, Wolfville, N. S. where conditions permit an individual ob jective for this special gift should be ap -C. B. Lumsden, '21, proximately 1% of the taxable income for President, Associated Alumni. each of the two years, 1945 and 1946. Our University Acadia is one hundred and eight years teacher of outstanding ability," became old, and has graduated 101 classes; yet we Professor of Classics and held the position are a youthful Alumni, for over 50% of until 1860, when he returned to the United our number belong to the classes from States. His successor was Professor 1926 to 1946. James Demill, son-in-law of Dr. Pryor. At the Centennial in 1938 it was appar In 1864 Demill accepted a position at ent that the younger among us are not Dalhousie University. He 'was succeeded weJl acquainted with our history and by Robert Von Clure Jones, Acadia '60, traditions. It therefore occurred to the the first graduate of Acadia to occupy the writer that a short account of the origin chair. and growth of our different departments Professor Jones was thirty years of age might prove of interest. Let us begin in when he began' teaching at Acadia, and as this issue with one of the oldest, Classics. he did not retire until 1913, he was Pro Acadia's first Professor of Classics wa~ fessor for about fifty years. In those Rev. John Pryor, a graduate of Kings days two years of College Latin were re College, then at Windsor, N. S., and a quired for an Arts degree. Then, as member of an old Halifax family. Pryor now, there were those who did not like was Principal of Horron Academy from Latin, and casualties were inevitable. 1830 to 1838. He taught Classics from However, the gentle and courtly Dr. Jones the opening of the University in 1839 could usually detect the earnest student, until 1850, when he resigned to accept a and was known to temper justice with pastorate in Massachusetts. In addition mercy. to being our first Professor of Classics, he Dr. Jones was succeeded as John W. was Acadia's first President, holding the Barss Professor of Classics by a young office from 1846 to 1850. graduate of Yale, Dr. Wilmot Haines From 1850 to 1855 Classical study a~ Thompson, who came to Acadia in 1911. Acadia was in the hands of tutors. In He has taught Acadia students for thirty 1855 Rev. Artemas Wyman Sawyer, "a five years. 16 ACADIA BULLETIN For twenty years he was Junior Dean of span the long period from 1864 to the the Faculty of Arts and Science; he is now present, more than four-score years; the Dean of the Faculty. It is worthy of nOl~ Classics department can boast of great that the two men, Jones and Thompson, teachers. at times with assistance and at times alone, PERSON .l\LS 1871 Mrs. Enid Guest in Sydney. Interment was in On November 16 Dr. Ingram Burpee O.kes, our the Wolfville cemetery. oldesr living graduate, and Secretary Emeritus of the Bo~rd of Governors, celebrated his 98th birth 1904 day. The word a/(brated is used advisedly, for Dr. Mr. Carroll P. Charlton retired on OClOber 31 as Oakes had a busy ~nd enjoyable day. During the purchasing agent and chief accountant of [he afternoon he was at home to his many friends. Those Britannia Mining and Smelting Company, Ltd ., who ailed were cordially and graciously received by after twenry-four years' service in British Columbia the host. After enjoying a social hour, the guests and New York. He is now residing at 6370 Sper were ushered to the Dining Room where ice Cream ling St., Vancouver, B.C. and cake were serv~d. And what birthday cakes! The Bullttin extends congratul'~tions and best wishes 1907 to Aoadia's "Grand Old Man." Mr. and Mrs. Clarence M. Harris are spend ing the winter at Glendale, Arizona. Their ad· 1883 dress is 2 Kiser Court. Dr. O . C. S. Wallace, Pastor Emeritus of the 1909 Eutaw Place Baptist Church of Baltimore, and for mer Chancellor of McMaster University, on Novem Rev. G. S. Weaver, Ex. '09, died on Oct. 29 at ber 28 celebrated his 90th birthday. CO:lg:'Jtu\nt:ons the Masonic Home in Windsor, Nova Scotia. Mr. to another of Acadia's "grand old men." Weaver had been an invalid and a great sufferer for many years. His mother, who is over ninety 1886 years of age, and his sister, Mrs. A. A. Hovey (Viola Weaver, Seminary, '09) of Lewiston, Maine, We regret to repOrt the death recently in Win· were present at the funeral service. niprg of Rev. H. H . H~II, at the age of 83. For the past twenty years Mr. Hall has been retired 1911 from Ihe active ministry. He is survived by his Dr. John Stuart Foster, Professor of Physics at widow, Mrs. Stella Hall, one Son and one daugh McGill University, directed the construction of a ter. new 25,000,000 volt atom -smashing cyclotron and radiation laboratory for that University. The cy 1890 clotron and laboratory which cost $275,000, will be Dr. Charles Aubrey Eaton was re-elected re used in Ihe study of Nuclear Physics with the view cently to the House of Representatives, United to stimulating research and encouraging the prac· StMrs Congress. Mr. Eaton, who has held his tical application of atomic energy. New Jersey seat since 1925, received a majority Dr. Foster has been associated with McGill for of more than 2 to I. As the senior Republican in twenty· two years. During the war . he was engaged the H.use he now assumes the responsible position in scientific research at the Massachusetts Institute of Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. of Technology. He is a Fellow of the British Dr. Elton has always been a staunch supporter Royal Society and of the Canadian Royal Society. of international co-operation. The Bulletin con gralulates Dr. Eaton on his well-deserved honor. 1915 Mr. Ralph A . Harris, for many years organist and Mr. John E. Eaton of Boston, was recently choir director of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in chosen President of the Acadia Alumni Association Brooklyn, New York, has accepted a position as of New England. He succeeds Rev. Frank Ride organist and choir director at Grace Church, Provo out, '09. idence, Rhode Island, and head teacher of music at 1903 St. Dunstan's Choir School of Providence. We regret to report the death on Wednesday, 1916 November 6, of Miss Hilda Tufts, Ex. '03, daugh Dr. Lillian Chase, formerly of Regina, after sec. ler of Ihe late Professor John Freeman Tufts of vice in the R.C.A.M.C., wirh the rank of caprain, Acadi.l. Miss Tufts, who had been ill for some has retired from the army and is now engai1,ed in months, passed away at the home ot her sister, the practise of medicine in Toromo. 17 r ACADIA BULLETIN 1922 At Moore Haven, Florida, November 17th, to Rev . Gordon S. Vincent has recently completed Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Morrison (nee Dorothy ten years as pastor of the large West End United L. Lockhart) a SOn, Bruce Lockhart. Baptist Church of Halifax. Congrarulations! 1933 The following children of members of the Class of 1922 are now registered at Acadia: Kathleen and Rev. Earl DeLong has accepted a call to be Carl Atkinson, Marion Brinton, Alexina Corey and come pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church of Helena Marshall. Winnipeg. He will begin his work in W innipeg early in December. 1926 George T. Eaton of the Kodak Industrial Photo. Curt;s L. Newcombe has resigned from the Vir graphic Sales Division of the Eastman Kodak ginia Fisheries Laboratory, College of William and Company of Rochester, New York, has been aw ,d.d Mary at Williamsburg, Va., and is now on the staff high America n Photog raphic honours at the annual of the Cranbrook Institute of Science at Bloomfield Convention of the Photographic Society of America, Hills, M ;chigan. His present address is 287 Oak held at Rochester in November. Mr. Eaton is a land St., Birmingham, Michigan. son of E. Scott Eaton, '03 of Digby. 1927 1934 Miss Hortense F. Richardson, librarian of the Rev. R. R. Winchester of Chegoggin, Ynrmouth New York State Department of Commerce, has County, was recently elected Grand Worthy Pat been loaned to the United Nations Library for cwo riach of the Grand Division of Nova Scotia. months tc assist in organizing the reference work 10 their new library. The nomination to the 1934 United Nations tour of duty came through Charles Be rn to Mr. and Mrs. Royd E. Beam:s!l (nee A. Gosnell, State Librarian. Miss Richardson com M3rio n Lewis) on October 27, at the Private Patie nts' menced her new work at United Nations Head Pavil ion of the Toronto General Hospital, a son, quarters, Lake Success, N . Y., on Monday, Novem John Lewis. ber 17th. 1936 1928 Rev . Byron Manzer of New Glasgow, has been A. M . Chipman, formerly of Middleton, has made President of the Nova Scotia Temperance joined the staff of the Nova Scotia Department of Federation. Industry and Publicity as Economist Statistician. Prior to this Mr. Chipman has been in the Civil Murray G . Ross, former secretary for the young Service in Ottawa. men's work of the National Council of the Y .M . M iss Margaret I. Brady was married on October CA.'s, has been appointed secretary of the Per 26th to Mr. Eric Burns at St. Andrew's Church, sonnel Services of the Council, and took over his Westmount, Montreal. They are residing at 260 new duties on October 1st. Metcalfe St., Ottawa. M e. Carrol E. Charlton in August was elected member of the American Institute of Mining and 1930 Metallurgical Engineers. Rev. Arthur Ackerley has accepted a call to the Garden City Baptist Church of Montreal. Mr. 1937 Ackerley has been pastor of the United · Baptist Church of Campbellton, N . B., since 1944. Miss Mary I. Powers who has been Assist,nt Superintendent of Women's Institutes fo r N ova 1931 Scotia, has been promoted to the position of Sup erintendent to succeed Miss Helen ]. MacDougall, Miss Marjorie Warren, who resigned last Mayas who retired a year ago. Miss Powers is a member head of the Secretarial Science Department at of the Canadian Home Economics Association and Acadia. was mar'ied in Toronto on August 6 to the Nova Scotia Home Economics Association. Mr. Lloyd G. Ricl,ards, formerly of Glace Bay. Mr. and Mrs. Richards are living at 94 Charles 1938 Sr., West, Toronto. Mr. Ric ha rds is doing grad uate work at rhe University of Toronto. Born at Dartmouth, N . S., November 4, to Wing Commander and Mrs. C A. Willis, " daugh Rev. Byron Linton was inducted recently into th., ter, Linda Lawrence. The BullNin extends con pa.Horate .)f the Clarke's Harbour United Baptist gra tula tions . Church in Shelburne Co., N . S. Wing Commandeer Willi. who won the D .F.C in the war, was at one time reported mIssI ng. H . 1932 was a prisoner of war for some months. H e is Miss Marion Gilroy, formerly of the staff of the still in the Air Force, and is now stationed at Nova Scctia Archives and more recently with the Dartmouth. Nova Scotia Government's Regional Libraries staff, Rev . D . F. MacDormand resigned recently aJ has moved to Saskatoon where she has accepted pastor "of the United Baptist Church of St. George, the position with the Regional Libraries of Sask N . B.. and has accepted a call to the United Baptist atchewan. Church ()f Petitcodiac, N. B. 18 ACADIA BULLETIN 1939 Born November 1, at Eastern Kings M emori al Mr. Sidney WeICOn is a member of the scaff of Hospital, Wolfville, to Mr. and Mrs. Ross Maidand Wagner College, New York. (nee Renee Rolling, E, . '43) n daughter, Merecede Thibaulr. Dr. Ronald Branoen, afrer three years' service in the R.C.A.F., has recurned to his home in Bar·· 1942 rington Passage where he will practice medicine. Miss Anna Hamilton is now in Toronto, where 1940 she is a member of the staff of Haverga! College. Rev. H . E. Colpins· wa. recendy installed as minister of the Canso Bapcist Church. 1944 Dr. Allison Barss who served with the R.C.AF. Mi s Jean Glabais who r ~e i v e d the degree of during the war and has recendy been stationed at Master of Science from Iowa St<1re U niversity W e Goose Bay, Labrador, has recently returned co June, has been appointed to the faculty of the Nova Scotia, and has opened a medical practice University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon. in partnership with his father, at Riverporc and Rose Bay. 1941 Cong atubtions to Mr. and Mrs. H . A . Ric of Lieut. M. G. Wanamaker, Canadian Intelligence .anso on reaching their Golden Wedding Anniver Corps, has been for some time attached to the q ry. Mr. Rice has been for mnny years a member British Army for Japanese language work. At of the Acadia Board or Governors, and is an elected present he is stationed in Burma. member of the Associated Alumni.