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Vol. xxxvi. No. 7 June, 1929 University of Bishop's C o lle g e FOUNDED 1843____ROYAL CHARTER 1853 THE ONLY COLLEGE IN CANADA FOLLOWING THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE PLAN OF THREE LONG ACADEMIC YEARS FOR THE B.A. DEGREE Complete courses In Arts and Divinity. Post-Graduate course in Education leading to the High School diploma. Residential College for men. Women students admitted to lectures and degrees. Valuable scholarships and Exhibitions. The College is situated in one of the most beautiful spots in Eastern Canada. Excellent buildings and equipment. All forms of recreation including golf. Four railway lines converge in Lennoxville. For information, terms and calendars, apply to: REV. A. H. McGREER, D.D., PRINCIPAL OR TO THE REGISTRAR, Lennoxville, Que. The Alumni Association of the University of Bishop's College Pr e sid e n t : G. F. Savage, M. A. V ice-Pr e s id e n t : A. M. West, B. A. S e c r e t a r y -T r e a su r e r : L. F. Martin, B. A. The Secretary will be glad to receive commun ications from any graduate or other friend of the University, and suggestions for the advancement of the work of the Association will receive the careful consideration of the Executive. Address: L. F. MARTIN. P.O. BOX 46. ST A T IO N B . MONTREAL. J. S. MITCHELL & CO., Limited _____ Wholesale and Retail HARDWARE Wholesale Distributors in the Province of Quebec for Spalding Sporting Goods Orders taken for Club Uniforms Special Prices for Schools, Colleges and Clubs 76 - 80 WELLINGTON ST. NORTH SHERBROOKE 2 5 New Ideas in Summer Clothes 1. Notice the belted back suit-coat in the illustration. It’s distinctive. This suit has coat, vest, trousers and plus-fours, all for $35.00 2. The Tennis Shirt-Sweater. It’s really a fine all-wool pullover sweater, with a shirt collar. It has all the advantages of both shirt and sweater. Made by Arrow. $5.00 3. Woopee hats for sport wear. A ll- wool crushable felts in a large as sortment of colors. $1.5 0 4. Hand painted ties in attractive summer colorings. Uncrushable. $ 1 .5 0 5. Swim suits with diagonal stripes. These come in the Life Guard style, with navy blue flannel trunks. $5.0 0 There’s a new straw hat that will look good on you. W H E R E Society B rand C lothes A R E S O L D Rosenbloom’s Limited THE YOUNG MEN’S STORE SHERBROOKE, QUE. 3 DRUG STORES "The fin est in Drug Store Goods" The bewitching aroma of Lavender fields, the spirit of Old England and of the English garden is brought to you in YARDLEY’S Old English LAVENDER TOILET SPECIALTIES LAVENDER BLOSSOMS TALCUM POWDERS COLD CREAMS BATH SALT CRYSTALS FACE POWDERS TOILET WATER SHAMPOO POWDERS SMELLING SALTS TOILET SOAPS DUSTING POWDERS BRILLIANTINES COMPACTS SACHETS Come in and see these famous toiletries. Our stock is complete. W e will be glad to show you the entire range. Ansell’s McKindsey's DRUG STORE DRUG STORE Sherbrooke, Que. Lennoxville, Que. 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TABLE OF CONTENTS Letters to the Editor - 7 Address of the Governor-General 33 A Review of Student Activities , 8 Four Distuinguished Alumni (Illust.) 34 Beauty in Poetry - 9 Address of the Prime Minister of Quebec 36 Immutability (V erse) - 1 3 Address of the Chief Justice of Quebec 36 The Wedding Breakfast I 5 Woman Students’ Association 39 Collecta Curiosa - 17 Alumnae ...... 41 How to Catch a Rabbit 19 Maths and Science Club - 41 The Coal Problem in Canada 21 Annual Meeting of Mitre Board 43 The Chancellor (Illust.) 27 C .O .T.C . Notes .... 43 Bishop’s University Glee Club (Illust.) 29 Births ------ 43 Students’ Council (Illust.) 29 The Tragedy of Hicktown - - - 45 Mitre Board - - - - 30 New Appointment at Bishop’s 57 Special Public Convocation 31 Personals ...... 57 His Excellency Signing Register (Illust.) 32 Trinity Ordinations - 59 Chancellor’s Address - 33 Obituary ------ 59 The Editorial Staff is not responsible for opinions expressed by contributors. c T H E MITRE Letters to the Editor The Editor of the Mitre, M ay 20th, 1929 Bishop’s University, Lennoxville. Dear Mr. Editor: I wish to congratulate you and the Mitre Board on the great success which you have achieved in making the University paper a monthly publication. The success of your venture has inaugurated a new era for the students’ magazine and I am confident that the succeeding generations of Bishop’s undergradu ates will carry on the good work which you have begun. I should like to remind the students that the interest of the Mitre for graduates depends largely on the thoroughness with which the activities of the student body are reported. W e older graduates are anxious to be kept informed of the increasing variety of activities in which the students engage and of the success with which they carry them out. Such reports help us to appreciate the numerical growth and the increasing talent of the students. They will strengthen the ties which bind the alumni to their Alma Mater. The list of your subscribers should include the names of all our former students and graduates and I hope you will not rest content until it does so. Yours sincerely, (S ign ed ) Frederick E. Meredith Chancellor. To the Editor of the Mitre, M ay 21st, 1929. Bishop’s College. Dear M r. Editor It gives me great pleasure to know that you intend to send a copy of the last issue of the Mitre for the session of 1928-29 to every former student and graduate of Bishop’s so far as their names can be dis covered. The Mitre Board is to be congratulated on the success with which they have conducted the magazine this year. It is no easy task for a student body, not quite 160 strong, to publish a monthly magazine. That task has been performed this year and every number has been an interesting one. I would appeal to our graduates and former students to subscribe to the students’ magazine of their Alm a Mater. By so doing they will be kept informed of her progress and they will discover ways in which they can increase the rapidity of her growth. This year I have been in communication with several hundred graduates. They are scattered over a wide field. In England, in India, in Japan, in Australia, in New Zealand, in Egypt, in South Africa, in the British West Indies and in the United States of America, Bishop’s men and women are to be found. Many of them are occupying positions of great responsibility and all of them are performing useful service tor their fellow men. W e shall endeavour to keep in touch with them all and to maintain a personal section in all issues of the Mitre wherein readers may find information about their classmates and other alumni. Bishop’s University has entered upon an era of development which I am convinced will eventually give her a commanding position in the educational life of Canada. The number of Canadian citizens rallying to her support is steadily increasing. Her appeal is certain to win a response from an ever growing constituency because of the educational ideal for which she stands. That ideal demands the development of the whole personality in allegiance to "the beautiful, the good, and the true.” In supporting your appeal to our Alumni and Alumnae to become subscribers to the Mitre, I know I may confidently assure them that this ideal will be reflected with increasing clearness in succeeding gener ations of Bishop’s students. f Yours very sincerely, (Signed) A. H. McGREER. Principal. 7 THE MITRE A Review of Student Activities - ’28-’29 A s the end of the academic year approaches it is In all spheres of sport we are on the whole satisfied fitting to review the activities in which the students have with the year’s activities. The inter-building rugby games, been engaged and the events which have transpired in con inaugurated as a joke, soon outgrew the purely farcical state nection with student affairs, in order that some idea may be and developed into earnest struggles, where lack of skill was obtained of what has been accomplished, of what we have made up for by hard work. By the end of the Autumn failed to accomplish, and of the instances where in future there were scarcely half-a-dozen men in the College who greater success may be obtained than has this year crowned had not played rugby of some sort during the season. our efforts. In inter-year hockey, a well arranged schedule was Though we cannot claim to have won great stores somewhat hampered by the vicissitudes of the weather, but of laurels in inter-university competition.