Vol. xxxvi. No. 7 June, 1929 University of Bishop's C o lle g e
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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
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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.
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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. Bishop’s men have none the less a successful season resulted, and it will be nevertheless entered the conflict in every case with a wonder generally agreed that the Arts ’29 Team, winning the ful spirit of co-operation and determination, and they have MacKinnon Trophy, worked hard against strong opposition come up smiling when the odds were against them. In for possession of the prize. every field they have maintained Bishop’s position and in Inter-year Basketball competition came into official some cases enhanced it, showing clearly that Bishop's is a existence at Bishop’s for the first time this year. It was contender worthy of the most careful consideration, and that our intention to form an Inter-year league in any case, but but a short time must elapse before the victories which have the movement was greatly stimulated by Lady Meredith’s so often eluded her must fall to her share. The develop presentation of a handsome trophy, to be competed for an ment of the organization and the widening of the activities nually in this League. A double schedule of games was of a body similar to our Students’ Association, must of neces played in which the keenest of comptition was manifested, sity be slow, but its progress is none the less sure, and we and the final clash between Arts ’29 and Arts '31 resulted feel that this year quite definite advances have been made. in a victory for the latter team by a margin of one point. Last September more men turned out for rugby than Road-racing has for some time been popular at ever before in the history of the university, and as a result Bishop’s, and this year the number of students in both the. we developed an Intermediate team and a Junior team annual fixtures was if anything greater than ever before. which, if ultimately unsuccessful, were at the same time a In this sport it is the Divinity Faculty which turns out the credit to the College. A further good result, and one which greatest number of contenders, and in winning the race this will only become apparent later, is the fact that many pre year, A r,s '2 9 achieved what seemed to be the impossible. viously inexperienced men have learned the finer points of In one particular instance there is room for improvement in the game, and will be able to fill the gaps left by this year’s Inter-year running. Arts ’30 was represented this year by graduates so adaquately that our prospects for the fall of one man. It should be a matter of pride with the Class in ’29 look most promising. question to make sure of a good turn-out next year, and so When the time came for the hockey practices to make up for the apparent lack of spirit displayed last fall. begin, some doubt was felt concerning our prospects on ac On the whole it is safe to conclude from the in count of the comparative inexperience of the men (consider terest taken in athletics this year, that there is a bright future ed as a whole) who would in all probability form the team. for all fields of sport at Bishop’s, and for the sporting spirit Unluckily we started the season badly, suffering defeat at underlying the student life of the University. the hands of a team to which our own was undeniably The debating season has been an interesting one superior. Confidence, however, was finally established soon throughout. The informal weekly debates were for the after by the splendid w ay in which the men came into shape. most part well attended, and a very satisfactory number of A high standard of clean hockey was maintained through coming orators was revealed. the season, and the fact that Bishop’s was beaten was due The motions argued in the Inter-Faculty Compe to only one thing; there being a stronger team in the league tition of three debates were couched in a light vein, which — but not much stronger. made them humorous and deprived them of that ponderous By dint of hard play our Basketball team ended ness which so frequently tends to render a debate (where the season by winning the Sherbrooke City League Cham the issue is of importance) somewhat dull and over serious. pionship, for the first time since 1926. This was no small The Arts team won two of the three debates, thus securing feat, for some of the teams in the league were undoubtedly the Skinner Trophy. excellent, and Bishop’s men were forced to battle every In the Inter-University Debating League compe inch of the way to victory. Their final game was an epic tition, Bishop’s won the debate at home, against a team struggle of which we can justly be proud. CONTINUED ON PAGE 49 8 T H E MITRE
Beauty in Poetry B y W. O. Raymond. Ph.D.
De gustibus non est disputandum is a maxim to be ion that the psychological method of approach rather than borne in mind by any teacher of English literature who the metaphysical, “has thus far yielded, and is likely in the dares to make even a tentative sally into the debatable region future to yield, the more fruitful results.” Even where, as of aesthetic theory. If, perchance, he escape the censure of in the E stetica of the brilliant Italian writer, Croce, and in the artist in his attempt to define the elusive quality of Santayana’s The Sense of Beauty, (a classic of American beauty, the metaphysician and the psychologist lurk with aesthetic criticism) a metaphysic is presupposed, the trend subtle coil to entrap his unwary feet. to interpret man’s experience of the beautiful in terms of Part of the difficulty of a theory of beauty lies in modern psychology is unmistakable. the fact that it tries to give a reflective and analytic account Yet the very popularity of psychology as applied of an experience which, in itself, is largely intuitive and syn to aesthetics, involves the danger of its becoming an Idol of thetic. Consequently, the theorist, more particularly the the Tribe. A ll roads lead to Rome, and, though meta psychologist, too frequently treads near the perilous brink physics and psychology have claimed in turn to be the king's described by Wordsworth: highway, the vistas of beauty are universal and imperial; they lend themselves to a manifold approach. A t times in "Our meddling intellect deed there may be a positive advantage in forsaking the Misshapes the beauteous forms of things:- beaten path. Pater, in his P refa ce to The Renaissance, W e murder to dissect.” remarks that the value of aesthetic philosophy “ has most On the other hand the artist, richly gifted with the often been in the suggestive and penetrating things said by intuitive and imaginative power to create or portray beauty, the w ay.” may not have the reflective capacity to analyze or define it W hile the aesthetic activity of artistic creation has as a process. It is a paradox of aesthetic history that some been dealt with ad libitum by psychology, we need a fresher of the most basic ideas leading to an intellectual compre and more truly individualistic study of the objective record hension of the beautiful have been set forth in the works of of that activity as enshrined in great works of art. True, men prosaically minded. No eulogist, in the wildest flight that, despite Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads of fancy, could invest the Copernicus of modern thought, and Shelley’s Defense of Poetry, we do not go to the poet Emmanuel Kant, with poetic temperament. Yet the for a reasoned explanation of the process by which beauty Critique of Judgment will always remain a landmark in the has been brought to birth. Yet the insights and intuitions development of aesthetic theory. Contrariwise, a poet with of the artist are the indispensable material on which aesthetic such native sensibility to beauty as Burns, has contributed theory must be built. It is, after all, poet, painter, musician, little to a rational understanding of its peculiar essence. sculptor, men whose minds are most sensitive and finely Once, and once only, in the history of Western attuned to the influences of beauty, who have the most to Europe, has there been a man royally endowed by nature reveal regarding it. with the double largess of poetic and philosophic gifts of Parting company, therefore, with the psychologist, the highest order. But Plato, as fearing the envy of the who can be trusted to avenge himself in the long run for such gods, shrank from the twofold sovereignty, and, averting cavalier treatment, let us turn to the poet for a few sug the wrath of Nemesis, cast the golden ring of his artistic gestions regarding the nature of beauty as he conceives it. imagination into the sea of metaphysics. Yet, because Since we take now with Thomas Rhymer “the bonny road Plato was eminently a poet at heart, the gleam of that ring to fair Elfland” and have left our logical mentor with his in the Symposium and Phaedrus, has been more potent in rod in pickle, our course may be as rambling and impres man’s creative dream of beauty than a dozen systems of sionistic as we choose. Kunstwissenschaft. “Our ballast is a rose; Of the two natural roads which from a reflective Our way lies where God knows standpoint lead to a definition of beauty, psychology rather And love knows where.” than metaphysics has been the favourite highway in our day Enough if, in our brief wanderings, we cull a few and generation. This is in keeping with the swing of em wayside blooms, catch a glint of the blueflower, or hear phasis in contemporary thought from an objective to a sub “ the horns of Elfland faintly blowing.” jective conception of beauty. Since the development of the So far as English literature is concerned, it is in theory of Einfuhlung in the Aesthetik of Theodor Lipps the poetry of the Elizabethans, Marlowe and Spenser, that (1 9 0 3 ), Germany has teemed with books devoted to the beauty as a quality first becomes an object of aesthetic con psychology of art. In England, Henry R. Marshall, in templation. 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"W hat is beauty, saith my sufferings, then? "The One remains, the many change and pass; If all the pens that ever poets held Heaven’s light forever shines. Earth’s shadows fly; Had fed the feeling of their masters’ thoughts. Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, And every sweetness that inspir’d their hearts, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Their minds and muses on admired themes; Until Death tramples it to fragments. — ” ****** But Spenser has too much of the Renaissance ap- If these had made one poem’s period. preciation of “the value and significance of flesh” to fray or And all combin’d in beauty’s worthiness. etherialize the sensuous element in art in order to set free Yet should there hover in their restless heads its spirit. The description of the physical beauty of Eliza One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, beth Boyle in Epithalamion has a Rubens’ like gusto and Which into words no virtue can digest.” robustness, which Shelley would have regarded as incom The fire and passion of Marlowe’s lines, the ut patible with any corresponding beauty of soul. Yet Spenser terance of a poet who had in him “ brave translunary things” , passes without any feeling of disharmony from the bodily nobly express the truth that beauty is, in its essence, an charms to the moral loveliness of his bride; activity of man’s infinite spirit and can never be more than “But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, partially realized in finite form. The inward beauty of her lively spright, The influence of Plato upon Elizabethan literature Garnisht with heavenly guifts of high degree, and the metaphysical poetry of the seventeenth century is Much more then would ye wonder at that sight.” incalculable. It is, of course, Plato refracted through the Just as, in Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love, Enneads of the Alexandrian Plotinus and the T heologia figures representative of earthly and heavenly affection are P latonica of the Italian Ficino. The Symposium and the side by side, so Spenser links beauty of sense with beauty of Phaedrus are interpreted in the light of Christian and Ro soul. It is indeed the rich sensuousness of The Faerie mantic ideals. Fundamentally, this point of view presup Q ueene, so full of colour, languorous music and perfume," poses a sacramental conception of beauty. Earthly love that makes Spenser preeminently “the poets’ poet” . For, liness revealed through the senses is “ an outward and visible as Plato phrases it in the Phaedrus, “This is the privilege sign of an inward and spiritual grace.” It is a stepping of beauty, that being the loveliest, she is also the most pal stone by which man ascends through the sphere of the re pable to sight.” The primary elements of art lie in the lative and finite to the contemplation of an absolute and senses and, divorced from these, beauty loses its sacramental heavenly beauty discerned by the soul. character and ceases to be "human at the red-ripe of the The conjunction in the verse of Edmund Spenser of heart.” the naive and passionate sensuousness of the Renaissance But, as beauty is a spiritual activity revealing it with a through-going Platonic idealism, is one of the peren self through form, the senses furnish but the raw materials nial charms and enticing paradoxes of that delightful poet. of art and not its animating soul. Spenser and Shelley are both Platonists, but they wear their However enamoured the Elizabethan poets were rue with a difference. Shelley impetuously strives to ascend of the soft delights of sense, the inspiration of Plato kept into the realm of spiritual abstraction. His favourite themes them from being satisfied with a sensuous definition of are those in which the body of sense is thinned to its utmost beauty. Thus Giles Fletcher writes of the "Idea Beati- limit, - the cloud, the west wind, the skylark. The mourners ficall” , in quaint but exquisite verse: for Adonais are “ It is no flaming lustre, made of light; “Splendours and Glooms, and glimmering Incarnations No sweet concent, as well-tim’d harmonie; Of hopes and fears, and twilight Phantasies;” Ambrosia, for to feast the appetite. Not soft voices, but music that “vibrates in the Or flowrie odour, mixt with spicerie; memory” ; not sweet violets, but odours that “live within No soft embrace, or pleasure bodily; the sense they quicken” ; it is always the abstraction from And yet it is a kinde of inward feast, the physical and material world that kindles the cloud- A harmony that sounds within the brest, capped imagination of Shelley. Like his Skylark, “ scorner An odour, light, embrace, in which the soule doth rest. of the ground” , he is ever in search of a visionary beauty, “A heav’nly feast, no hunger can consume; ‘an ampler ether, a diviner air” , an ecstasy transcending A light unseene, yet shines in every place; anything that can be found within the bonds of sense and A sound, no time can steale; a sweet perfume form. The nerve of Shelley’s poetry is No winds can scatter; an intire embrace “The desire of the moth for the star. That no satietie can ere unlace.” Of the night for the morrow. In the poetry of Milton there is a wonderful bal The devotion to something afar ance between the sensuous and spiritual elements of art. From the sphere of our sorrow.” The verse of Spenser is often luscious and cloying, suggestive Finally, the romantic quest of an ideal beauty and of roses and sweetmeats, but Milton with all his vehement thirst for the infinite is given definitive expression in A donais: love of the beautiful is never crassly sensuous. W ith sense
11 THE MITRE perceptions of colour, form, odour, every whit as vivid as “Can burst Joy’s grape against his palate fine” those of Spenser, he continually irradiates the primary mater is a victory of the poetic imagination, only to be com ials of beauty furnished by the senses with the light of a pared with the triumph of art over gustation achieved by the sublime and spiritual imagination. In addition his steady connoisseur in tasting a wine of the choicest vintage. instinct for perfection, as understood by the Greeks, enables And if, in concluding our brief survey of the ele him to find the golden mean and set before his readers an ments that constitute beauty, we seek a passage in which the Attic banquet light and choice. Apollo rather than Dion marriage of soul and sense in A rt is mystically symbolized ; ysus is the deity whom Milton serves. Even where his verse in which the higher imagination like a creative spirit informs is full of splendour and glow derived from sense impression the flesh and blood of glowing sense impression; we can it remains hardly do better than quote from the lovely closing lines of Keats’ Ode to Psyche. “ — a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, “Yes, I will be thy priest, and build a fane Where no crude surfeit reigns.” In some untrodden region of my mind. I have reserved Keats for final reference because Where branched thoughts, new-grown with pleasant pain. he is, with the possible exception of Rossetti, the most sen Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind: suous of the great English poets. No reader of the poetry * * * of Keats can miss the opulence of his sense imagery, its dazzling pomp of colour, its luxuriant blending of light, And in the midst of this wide quietness fragrance, voluptuous verbal music. Yet it would be in A rosy sanctuary will I dress structive to show, did space permit, how that poet who With the wreath’d trellis of a working brain. longed for a life of sensations rather than thoughts was not W ith buds, and bells, and stars without a name. content to confine beauty to the plane of sense. W ith all the gardener Fancy e’er could feign. The delicates set forth by Porphyro, on St. Agnes’ W ho breeding flowers, will never breed the same: Eve, might be cited as representing an unadulterated sense And there shall be for thee all soft delight appeal: That shadowy thought can win, “W hile he from forth the closet brought a heap A bright torch, and a casement ope at night Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd, To let the warm Love in !” ' W ith jellies soother than the creamy curd. And lucent syrops tinct with cinnamon;” But notice, at this point, how the imaginative chal lenge of far off places and their romantic association light ens and transfigures impressions which have been merely sensuous. “Manna and dates in argosy transferr’d Immutability From Fez; and spiced dainties, every one Like purple lilacs in the dusk, old age From silken Samarcand to cedar’d Lebanon.” In silence melts to lingering fragrance — free The rich sensuous endowment of Keats was the And haunting as some clinging melody heritage of a youthful poet. Keats was beginning where Of half-remembered minuet — a sage Shakespeare began in Venus and Adonis and in A M id Old gardener shuffling through the ragged spread summer Night’s Dream. And, up to the time of his Of lone November’s flower-beds who sees death, he was steadily adding the spiritual qualities of The withered blooms as twilight memories art to his easy command of the gamut of sensation. H ad Of other days, and, knowing, shakes his head. he lived, who can doubt that he would have grasped, in his own way, the faculty of the higher imagination that en Rich youth, like fresh-burst peonies which spill kindles Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Wordsworth’s Tintern Ab Their scarlet tongues to sip the wine of dawn, b ey and Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner. No careful student Lifts eager lips to taste the golden pain of Keats’ artistic growth is surprised that the poet who laps Of dusty wisdom, deeply drinks its fill. us in “soft Lydian airs” has given fine expression to the H alf lists to age as it with creeds moves on. truth that beauty, in its essence, is an activity of the spirit, Then turns to drink a toast to youth again. transcending the pleasures that begin and end with the R. B. G. titillation of the senses. “ Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Acknowledgment is due to the Poetry Group, Mont Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; real Branch of the Canadian Authors’ Association on the Not to the sensual ear, but more endear’d. publication of the above poem. Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:" Taste is commonly regarded as the least aesthetic of the senses, but a line of Keats,
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14 T H E MITRE The Wedding Breakfast
It was a pleasant and inspiring sight upon which The orpingtons, (their grain consumed) goggled, the Colonel Mucklethorpe cast his eyes that sunny June morn Klaxon howled, the car literally hurled itself up his drive ing. Everywhere he looked orpingtons. Large orping- way, and stopped with a grinding and tearing of brakes at tons vied with small orpingtons in scratching at imaginary his door. The colonel uttered a loud and emphatic ex grubs and at one another. Clucking cockerels strutted clamation and started toward the house. On the way he their stuff magnificently and elegantly, and the hens ruffled bowled over a dozen or more orpingtons. They clucked their plumage coquettishly and dug ecstactically for worms. in dismay scattering before his bulk. Anger made him see It was no wonder the colonel’s bosom swelled with red. He could never remember having been so angry pride, and his eyes sparkled. On all sides were evidences before. He bit through the mouthpiece of his pipe in his of his success as a poultry-man. Henhouses dotted the rage, and hurled bowl and stem at a large cockerel balancing landscape Everywhere were chicken runs, watering-troughs, on one leg in the shade of a bush. He didn’t even look gravity-feeders and incubation-houses! The colonel glowed. to see if he had missed it. One minute after he had seen Far to the westward lay his granaries, and his fields lush the speedster stop at his house he was beside it confronting with their golden harvests of succulent grain. It was such his daughter. a gratifying sight, that the old colonel could not help chuck " W e ll?” he thundered. ling. Broadsides had been wrong again. H e’d wagered “Quite well, thank you.” Cicely burbled sweetly. he’d never do it, and now there wasn’t a trade journal in the “ Have you met Jam es?” Cicely could be too sweet at land which hadn’t carried a leading article on the qualities times. The colonel knew this to his cost, but this time he of the Mucklethorpe Orpington — a bird without peer. felt that she was simply not going to put it over. If Cicely The colonel expectorated. The orpingtons which had observed anything, she kept it to herself. The colonel clustered about his feet in an ecstacy of delight over the pressed on. prospect of a good feed, fell back affrighted. The colonel “ W hat do you mean by this extraordinary be smiled. Even the birds had pride. True it had cost a haviour?” His question was uttered in a voice so thunderous fortune; true he was badly in debt; but it wouldn’t be that it would have startled the neighbours a mile away. As long now before prices were right and he would recoup his a matter of fact it did startle a jersey cow ruminating in a fortunes. He was afraid of robbery no longer. He had field beside the house. The animal, alarmed at the com duped Broadsides beautifully on that piece of strategy. The motion, promptly proceeded to jump a five-foot fence. Her old fool had thought he would filch his prize birds. For a aim being rather higher than her ability, she achieved five time he had doubted if he could protect them. Then he feet but allowed nothing for clearance. The result was not had thought out a solution. He had simply swamped the pleasant to behold. She collapsed, as cows will at times, two prize birds in a regiment or more of common garden caught neatly on the long barbs placed on the fence by the variety of orpingtons and the cockerels were as safe as if thief-harrased colonel and being in considerable pain began they had been placed in the vaults of the Bank of England. to give vent to her feelings loudly. Her noise almost suc Only an expert could have selected them, and Broadsides ceeded in drowning out the colonel’s further remarks, but was no expert. It had been worth it. In fact it was worth not quite. Broadsides Junior was still able to catch most almost anything to be able to see old Broadsides spluttering of them, and what he missed, his imagination furnished. over his lost money. He’d teach him to make wagers he He leaned against the car and waited for the tirade to end. would! The old fool I Did he really think his hens could The colonel finally reached a full stop, and shifted beat aristocratic old game birds like this? Not by a jugful! his mind suddenly to bucolics. “Take that infernal cow The colonel flung a handful of feed to the expectant birds. off the fence!” They ate avidly, pressing on him, scratching madly. Life A passing farm hand paused, and getting the drift was good! Life was marvellous! Life was .... well — of things, began to wend his way towards the stranded cow, Life was superb! who seeing succour, began to bawl even more lustily. Upon this blissful scene sounded a jarring note. “What do you mean girl!” Somewhere a horn shrilled. It shrieked, it tore the very "Archer is a great friend of mine. Daddy. We ear-drums with its wild wailing. The colonel snorted and went for a drive.” turned about angrily. Far away across the fields he saw “I didn’t suppose you’d been gathering eggs!” his ivy-clad home, a monument to his capable financing, a The colonel nerved by his sarcasm, now turned his atten lovely sight in the bright morning sun. His eyes swept from tion to Archer. “And you, sir, what the devil do you mean this and focussed on the driveway, and then he saw it. It by abducting my daughter?” was built low for speed, and there were two persons in it, “We went for a drive, sir, and ...... ” Archer’s his daughter and Broadsides Junior. The colonel goggled. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5I) IB The New Sherbrooke
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A N A D A ’S most important manufac powers at hand for the development of elec turing industry, since 1803 always a tricity. The same waters that carry the logs C growing one and always a stabilizer from the forests in turn serve to pass them of our trade and our dollar. through the mills, yielding the basic power for Information... The value of this huge business to Canada every manufacturing operation. And improve cannot be measured in terms of its own great ments perfected in electrical devices have 1803 First Paper M ill in Canada ness— nor can it be weighed on ordinary kept pace with and made possible this un established. interrupted progress. 1917 853,000 tons; valued at 58 scales. million dollars, were pro- Its influence permeates all other business, and Thus, again, we see how intimate a part duced. to an appreciable extent the tremendous electricity plays in the development of our 1927 2,400,000 tons were pro purchasing power of the Dominion is due to duced, valued at more than great enterprises, and the Northern Electric 168 millions of dollars. the exportation of its manufactured paper. Company is pleased to be producing some of 1917 83 mills. The phenomenal growth of this industry in the necessary equipment for the proper ap 1927 114 mills. Canada is explained by the stupendous water plication of this power. I9t7 Salaries and wages; 20 mil lion dollars. 1927 They amounted to over 45 million dollars. Northern Electric 1917 23,000 employees. Company Limited 1927 32,000 employees. A National Electrical Service
248T 13 THE MITRE How to catch a Rabbit
Do you wish to know a way to entrap an unsus ample opportunity to examine its dental organs and thus pecting rabbit, a way that involves very little physical labour estimate the intelligence of the animal (D ia. II) and taxes the brain even less? If you really are interested The equipment for your rabbit hunt is extremely in this ancient sport, if you really are seeking a new and simple. In fact all one really needs is a piece of cord — ultra-modern method of catching these delightful beasts, most any length will do — a butterfly net, or maybe a and if you really are desirous of humanity, in all your game landing net, such as the fisherman is wont to use when he hunting, read, mark, learn and inwardly digest. But, if, on all but lands the largest trout ever caught in such and such the other hand, you are not interested in the matter, if you are a stream; and a small amount of patience will be necessary. not seeking enlightenment, and if you are reading for amuse Thus prepared for the fray you enter the wood stealthily, ment only, I would that you put aside this manuscript im your heart thumping with anticipation on your manly chest. mediately, for I do not write for the benefit of unsympathetic Now you pick out two trees; a small sapling will do [very] people. Far be it from me to bring to the ridicule of the ig nicely for one, and a large oak will be very convenient for norant multitudes this honourable and entertaining pastime. the other. You produce your length of cord from the pocket So therefore, examine yourself well before proceeding to the of your chic little hunting jacket (five dollars down, and next paragraph, to determine whether your imagination is in one installment already paid) and tie one end to the sapling a proper state to receive the information which I am about about two feet up the trunk. It does not really matter to impart. which end of the string, although I always used to prefer First and foremost you must find an intelligent the other end; but you must use your own discretion in this rabbit on which to practise your strategy, for if your ani matter — and you must have some discretion or you would mal is an idiot-rabbit it will drag its feet (idiot-rabbits al not have read thus far in this harangue, because I forbade ways do, you know!) and your game will be foiled. So it. Then the reverse end of the string, which you have not you must have an intelligent rabbit, and as this species always used, you tie, not too tightly, around your w rist.— personal have large wisdom teeth they are not difficult to distinguish comfort must come first always. Having done as I have from their less cultured brethern, in fact all you need do is just directed, you betake yourself behind the friendly oak, go out in the wood at the rabbit tea-hour, hide behind yon leaving the string lying slack upon the ground. majestic oak and await the entrance of your prospective Along comes M r. Bunny whom you have met pre prey, who will come trapsing along presently, to dine off viously at tea. He lopes along, perhaps to call on his lady
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The Coal Problem in Canada By F. M. Gray.
Canada is in a unique position as regards her coal Sydney to Montreal has already been proved. Thus the supply. In spite of the fact that she stands second among problem resolves itself into finding the best way of covering world countries in the extent of her coal reserves, these being the gap between Montreal and Ft. W illiam , at present de one sixth of the world’s total, there being no coal from the pendent on the United States for its coal. Mr. F. W . Nova Scotia field, with its unimportant extension into New Gray in his paper ‘‘The Development of the Coal Industry Brunswick, until one reaches the Saskatchewan Alberta in Canada” , refers to this as “the real national problem of border. Thus there is a distance of approximately eighteen coal supply” , and suggests, that there is a means by which hundred miles which has absolutely no coal. This stretch Canada can save herself from entire dependence on the of country, which takes in the provinces of Quebec, Ontario United States for coal supply, but yet not lose the advantage and Manitoba, contains by far the large majority of Can certain parts of Canada possess in their proximity to the ada's population, which is thus without coal. Since coal great central coal fields of the U. S. A .” The means is an absolute essential under our modern civilized condit which Mr. Gray suggests is as follows: “Nova Scotia ions, the problem of supplying this district is obviously one coal should supply all the coal requirements of the Maritime which affects Canada’s welfare very deeply, and must be Provinces, Quebec and that part of Ontario in the triangle considered as such. between the St. Lawrence and the Ottawa rivers, east of a The problem therefore is to extend the western dis line drawn from Ottawa to Brockville. It should also sup tribution of eastern coal and the eastern distribution of ply the district served by the Transcontinental Railw ay at western coal, and at the same time not unduly injure the least as far west as Cochrane, with coal sent to Quebec by business of Quebec and Ontario drawing its coal supplies water. from the United States coal fields, which are nearer to those The possibility of following out this suggestion has provinces than the Canadian coal fields. been greatly furthered by the action of the Federal Govern Canada has unfortunately only a negligible amount ment, in giving a subsidy of one fifth of a cent per ton mile of anthracite, so that any anthracite required must perforce on Nova Scotia coal delivered from a vessel to a railway be imported from the United States or Great Britain. When to any point of delivery west of Levis, Quebec. however, one considers that Europe manages to get along The St. Lawrence valley and its water route though with bituminous coal, it will easily be seen that anthracite is not of any great value in the distribution of western coal is really only a luxury and one that can be dispensed with quite of the utmost importance in the distribution of eastern coal. easily. A very efficient substitute for anthracite is found It holds the key to the real solution of bridging the “Gap in the Alberta ‘‘domestic coal", a smokeless lignite, or in of Ontario.” An all water route from Nova Scotia ports coke, which is made from bituminous coal. There is also to the point of unloading at a Great Lake port would offset the consideration that since anthracite coal is steadily di the preferred rail-rate from the American mines to the minishing in quantity, it will undoubtedly soon rise in price Great Lake ports, and thus make possible competition on so that it will be a luxury only available to the very rich. fairly even terms with American coal. Such a solution Therefore it may be assumed that bituminous coal could of course only be made possible by the deepening of can easily replace anthracite in Canada, and we have only the St. Lawrence channel, so as to give ocean going vessels to consider the distribution of the former. access to the Great Lakes. This project is now under con Western coal can be brought as far East as Winni sideration and its furtherance, in the opinion of the writer, peg and Fort Francis, where it can compete favourably with cannot be too greatly urged. If carried out it would offer the American product. Farther than that however it can to Canada the opportunity of becoming entirely independent not go, the transportation charges being prohibitive. The as regards her bituminous coal supply, and would enable the Alberta ‘‘domestic coal” which sells in competition with coal mines so to enlarge their output that production costs American anthracite at a considerably higher price than would be substantially lowered. the ordinary bitumnious, can of course be brought farther However the deepening of the St. Lawrence is not East. There is no obstacle to prevent that portion of Can an immediate possibility, for even if the project were com ada west of Fort W illiam becoming absolutely independent menced in the near future, it would take many years to of outside sources for her coal. There remains only to con complete it. 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there is also room for expansion of these markets. w ay, and the export trade could safely be increased with The main market for Nova Scotia coal is of course favourable results. The Nova Scotia mines are very favour- the St. Lawrence valley. This market is tending to become of ably situated for export trade, and though first attention more and more importance, while on the other hand the im must always be paid to the home market, there is no reason portance of the Maritime Provinces themselves as a market is why this market should not be built up so as to be one of becoming less. As the trade with the St. Lawrence valley is a the largest factors in evening up the disparity between the seasonal one, the difference between the summer and winter summer and winter coal production and distribution. The demand for Nova Scotia coal tends to increase. The pre main factor in evening up this disparity must of course al ceding facts make clear the truth of the statement made some ways be winter rail-carriage of coal, providing the cost is years ago by Mr. F. W. Gray, “The growth of the avail not prohibitive. The Federal Government’s action in giving able market for Nova Scotia coal should parallel the growth a three dollar rate on through carriage of Nova Scotia coal of population in the St. Lawrence valley.” This is another to Quebec points during closed navigation has already been way of saying that Nova Scotia coal can reach all those mentioned. This will enable winter rail carriage of coal to parts of Canada that are reached by the St. Lawrence become practicable, and supplemented by the locally avail waterway. Thus the importance of the St. Lawrence valley able outlet (in which is included the export trade, steel plant in its relation to Canada’s coal problem is again emphasized, consumption and the banking of coal) the present disparity for it is only through the medium of the St. Lawrence water between summer and winter production should become negli way that the “Gap of Ontario” can be bridged. gible. Such a state of affairs would carry in its train many The marketing problem of Nova Scotia coal is es advantages, such as, "steadiness of employment, cheapening sentially one of transportation and in the past there have of production costs, securer hold on established markets and been two main drawbacks affecting coal delivery, namely, better prospects for the expansion of those markets” . It the closing of navigation during the winter months and the must not however, be forgotten that winter rail carriage of lack of a rail-rate sufficiently moderate to enable the ship coal is only an alternative to what is and must always be ping of coal from St. Lawrence ports to. western points. Canada’s largest carrier of bulk commodities, namely, the Through the aid of the government partial remedies have St. Lawrence river. been applied to these problems. There has been arranged It must be remembered that the only true wealth is first, a subsidized rail-rate, already mentioned, applicable that which is an original property of the soil. The coal to water-borne Nova Scotia coal discharged at St. Lawrence miner is like the farmer, he is producing something from ports, and secondly, a three dollar rate on rail carriage of nothing. Coal mines are a free gift of nature, and a state Nova Scotia coal to Quebec points during the closed season which imports coal when it has adequate supplies of its own of navigation. It will probably be found that these remedies is like the man who buys apples when they are rotting in his are not sufficient in themselves and will need supplementing. own orchard. The coal consumers of Canada must realize H owever the importance of the government’s action lies in this fact, for though coal which is imported from the United the fact that it will permit actual testing out of the two States may appear to be cheaper than that produced by fundamental problems in the Nova Scotia coal trade. Up Canadian mines, the difference in price is misleading. Any to the present time, due to the inescapable fact of seasonally- thing which is imported from another country to the detri interrupted transportation, “ the operation of the coal mines ment of the home producers cannot be cheap. has resolved itself into a limitation of the expansion of the It is very gratifying to see that the government is summer markets by the amount of coal which can be dis beginning to wake up to a realization of the importance of posed of in the winter." In the past the steel plants have the eastern coal trade to Canada. Canada’s future wel been the greatest factor in evening up this disparity between fare depends, to a degree that can hardly be exaggerated, summer and winter production. Steel plant requirements on the continued and increased productivity of her coal are however, for coal of selected quality and in late years mines, and it is essential that the people should realize this. have been reduced owing to partial operation of the plants. Canada has more than enough bituminous coal to supply her It is of course an established custom to store winter- own needs, but she has never realized the importance of mined coal in banks, and this provides an outlet for much becoming entirely self supporting if she is to maintain her of the winter production. Banking of coal however has national independence. The people of the West realize distinct limitations, though present day banking has reached this fact more clearly than does the rest of Canada and take proportions far in excess of those attained in the early days a real interest in their coal industry. Owing to the vast of mining. nature of the western coal resources the West is in a position, The winter slackness in coal mining operations can not only to become self-contained in bituminous coal supply, also be further reduced by expansion of the export trade. but owing to the fact that there is no good quality coal to In view of the limited quantity of Nova Scotia’s coal re be found along the whole length of the Pacific seaboard of serves, this is not of course an outlet to be encouraged to a North and South America it can also build up a large ex point of national deprivation. This however has never been port trade. Coal mines are essential to the building up of the case, in fact the tendency has been too much the other an industrial nation, and “the coal fields of the W est are
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Seated — M iss M. E. Mo n t g o m e r y . M iss G race J ackson ( E x Ed it o r ). H a m b le y W h ite ( A d v M g r .). W. G. B assett ( E d it o r -in -c h i e f ) D r . W. O. Ra ym o n d ( H o n . V ic e-Pr e s ). W. H. D a w . B.A.. ( P r es.). J. C. A. C ole ( C ir c . m g r .). M iss C. M M a r t in . B A M iss H arriet W r ig h t .
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The Special Public Convocation held at Bishop’s University on Saturday, May 18th, 1929
On Saturday, May 18th, a special public Convoc Ladies and Gentlemen :- ation of the University was held at Lennoxville at 3.00 p.m. "A s one of those for whom Bishop’s University is with the Chancellor, F. E. Meredith, Esq., K.C., LL.L., a home and whose daily work is performed largely within D .C.L., presiding. the University precincts, I covet the privilege of saying just The degree of D .C.L., honoris causa, was conferr a word in support of the welcome which the C hancellor has ed on His Excellency, the Viscount Willingdon, Governor- extended to His Excellency and to the other distinguished General of Canada; the Honourable L. A. Taschereau, visitors who honour us with their presence to-day. The L.L.D., Prime Minister of Quebec; the Honourable Sir distinctive feature of Bishop’s University is its residential Francois Lemieux, Kt., L.L.D ., Chief Justice of the Sup life and perhaps the most important part of its work is per reme Court of Quebec; and Sir Herbert Holt, Kt., L.L.D., formed outside all official schedules, when Faculty and President of the Royal Bank of Canada. students are brought into intimate association, the one with Happily the weather was ideal and the Convocation the other. Such association is possible only in a residential was held on the lawn beside the Gymnasium. A temporary university. In accordance with the principles which guided platform was constructed and decorated with flags. our founder, the third Bishop of Quebec, the study of the A special train, provided by the Chancellor, brought history of religion has an important place in our academic His Excellency and a distinguished group of Canadians work. In accordance with the same principles we have our from Montreal to Lennoxville. The train arrived at Len University Chapel where the worst that is within us is re noxville at 1.50 p.m. cognized as the despicable thing it is, and the best in us His Excellency’s first act was to inspect a Guard of finds expression in worship and prayer. On no occasion does Honour provided by the Bishop’s Contingent of the the mind of Bishop’s University express itself more truly C.O.T.C. in command of Captain J. C. Stewart, M.C. than in our Chapel services when we pray ‘God bless the His Excellency was well pleased with the smart appearance Governor-General of this Dominion’.” of the Guard and with the precision with which they gave After His Excellency had received his degree and the royal salute. After inspecting the Library and the signed the register, the other distinguished candidates were Chapel he proceeded to the New Arts building through two presented in the following order:- The Prime Minister of lines of students, who greeted him with repeated shouts of Quebec, by the Principal; the Chief Justice of the Supreme “Vivat Legatus”, an adaptation of the “Vivat Rex” and Court of Quebec, by the Lord Bishop of Quebec; and the “Vivat Regina” heard in the ancient universities of the President of the Royal Bank of Canada, by the Principal. Motherland upon occasions of a Royal visit. The space at our command will not permit a verbatim report After an inspection of the New Arts residence the of all the introductory speeches, but in each a fitting tribute Convocation procession was formed, the members of the was paid to the candidate’s ability and the conspicuous ser Faculty, members of the Corporation, and members of Con vice he has rendered to the Province of Quebec and to Can vocation having places in it. McGill University was repre ada. sented by the Chancellor, E. W . Beatty, Esq., K.C., The speeches of three recipients of the degrees are L.L.D ., D .C .L., who is also a member of the Corporation given in extenso. They will long be remembered by those of Bishop’s University. Mr. Beatty walked in procession who heard them for the soundness of the advice they con with the Chancellor of Bishop’s. tained, the idealism which inspired the speakers and their It was a great pleasure to every one associated with delightful humour. the University to see our former chancellor, John Hamilton, Owing to the lateness of the hour. Sir Herbert Holt Esq., M .A ., D .C .L., in the procession. Dr. Hamilton was did not speak. Chancellor of Bishop’s for twenty-five years, and he and After the Convocation ceremony, tea was served on the members of his distinguished family have always been the lawn of the Principal’s house, the hostesses being Mrs. most faithful and generous friends of the University. McGreer, Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Boothroyd. After the Chancellor’s address. His Excellency Saturday, M ay 18th, will live in the memory of was presented for the degree of D. C. L. by the those who had the good fortune to be at the University, as Principal who introduced His Excellency with the following one of the happiest occasions we have known. remarks: ‘Mr. Chancellor, Your Excellency, My Lords,
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ities of mind and spirit, without which no nation can be The Chancellor’s Address great. Chancellor Meredith, M.A., D.C.L., LL.L, “ Furthermore, we have to remember that we Can L.L .D ., in welcoming the guests said: adians have as neighbours a people who have bestowed money on universities with a lavishness unparalleled in the “Your Excellency, My Lords Bishops, Mr. Prime history of any nation. In the United States, universities Minister, Ladies and Gentlemen: increase with magical rapidity. M any of them are within “The duty which I perform today gives me great a comparatively short distance of the Canadian border. If, pleasure and confers on me a great honour. It is the duty therefore, there are not adequate facilities for higher edu of extending a hearty welcome to Bishop’s University, to cation within our own Dominion, the natural and inevitable the Viscount Willingdon, Governor-General of Canada and result will be that young Canadians will seek their university representative in this Dominion of His M ajesty, King George training in the Republic to the south of us. This, I think, V. And with His Excellency I welcome most warmly the is a phase of the educational problem which is not fully re Honorable, the Prime Minister of this Province, the Chief cognized. For myself, I should regard it as a serious in Justice of the Supreme Court of this Province, the President dictment of Canada and the Canadian people, if one de of the Royal Bank of Canada and the Chancellor of McGill serving young man could say that he was obliged to go to a University. university in a foreign land because his own country failed “Bishop’s University is a centre of learning where to make adequate provision for him. In whatever other re our British connection is valued as a vital part of our national spect we may fail to meet our responsibilities as a nation, we heritage. Bishop’s College attained the status of a univer must not fail in respect of this vital problem of education.” sity in 1853, when Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, granted “ In Bishop’s University we are playing an important it a royal charter, which orders that ‘the said college shall part in the training of students for the task of building up a be deemed and taken to be a university, and shall have and greater Canada. The importance of this work is not de enjoy all such and the like privileges as are enjoyed by our termined by the numerical strength of the student body, so universities of our United Kingdom of Great Britain and much as by the character of the life into which our students Ireland.’ Our history, therefore, has its raison d’etre in a are admitted. As our Charter is a gift to us from the Crown, gracious act of the British Crown. Our loyalty is that of so we hope our work contributes to the preservation of those true Canadians, who value the protection and liberty which ideals of brotherhood, liberty and culture which it is a nat the Crown confers on all British Dominions. Our tradit ion’s duty to cherish and uphold.” ions embody those treasures of Anglo-Saxon and Latin cul ture which the two great races of this country have contri buted to our common life. “With other larger universities of this Province and The Address of the Governor-General of the Dominion, we share the responsibility for providing Being called upon to speak. Lord Willingdon beg higher education for the youth of Canada. That is a great ged to address himself especially to the student body, after responsibility, and it increases from year to year. One of expressing his pleasure and pride upon receiving the honour the outstanding features of the post-war period has been the bestowed upon him, which made him feel that he was close rapid increase in the number of students attending univer ly associated with the interests and the work of the univer sities. This is due in part to the action of many of our un sity. Being an old college boy himself, he had been partic iversities in adding new courses to meet popular demands ularly struck by the fact that Bishop’s is a residential for technical training. university. He hoped to visit the university from time to “ In my opinion it is doubtful whether the universities time, so as to get more intimately acquainted with the cul have been justified in going so far as they have gone to meet tural interests which apply very much to the university. these demands. The intrusion of technical courses into the “ M ay I add that it is with very considerable pride university sphere must be carefully watched, and where the and pleasure that I have my name associated with the three educational value of a course is questionable it should be very distinguished Canadian citizens who have done great rigidly excluded. Otherwise the true purpose of the univer service for their country. I refer in the first place to my sity will be obscured, and its responsibility unnecessarily en friend. Premier Taschereau, who has guided the destinies larged. It is further the duty of a university to uphold an of this great province for many years with distinguished suc educational standard which will admit only those who are cess, I refer to the head of the judiciary, who is honoured capable of profiting by its courses. But with these restrict and esteemed wherever he goes throughout the great pro ions, I think it imperative that the people of this Dominion vince of Quebec. In the third place I refer to my friend, should provide adequate facilities for higher education for Sir Herbert Holt, who has built for himself in this great young Canadian men and women. The demand for it is country of ours a leading position in the business life of an expression of a wish for fuller and richer life, and failure the Dominion.” to meet it will inevitably mar the development of those qual “I have had during my life in Canada many oppor
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tunities of visiting many of the universities of the country. the supreme sacrifice for the safety of the Empire and the I have had the privilege of receiving a considerable number good of citizenship. You have to make up that deficit of degrees. I have realized what excellent educational which, through their deaths, has been lost. I want to say establishments are situated in all parts of this country, and this, also, that it seems to me that those who in every branch I have had many opportunities— and I am glad— of meet of life have developed and administered this country in the ing students in all parts of this country, and of saying a few past, and are doing it now, have given you extraordinary words from time to time, which come from the lips of one high standards to live up to. Though it is now 62 years who is an old college boy himself, one who has worked since Confederation, and your population is still under ten for a considerable number of years on behalf of the British millions, you are now the fifth trading nation of the world, Empire, and one who wishes to give today, as he has done and have already arrived at a great international position, in the past, just a word of advice from his experience, and for you have a seat on the Council of the League of Nations. encouragement to those growing up to citizenship in Can Now I want you young students to throw your minds for ada.” ward for another 20 years, when you are going to be in His Excellency recalled that some time ago in the full flood of manhood and good citizenship. England he had been asked to address 1,000 university “Think how much greater the responsibilites will be students, but on arrival at the meeting discovered that he had for Canada in 20 years than now. You have to keep the lost his notes, and consequently had been forced to tell the standard up, as set for you by those who now administer this student body that he would be able to say but a few words, country. I am sure, I am confident, that you will undertake at which there had been tumultuous applause. that responsibility to the full. One or two words in con “ I see a sort of expression of gloom on the faces clusion. After many years of work— at the time I finish of some students here,” added His Excellency. "I have here I shall have worked for 20 years in outside parts of the my notes all right, but you need not be frightened. They Empire, away from my own home— I find I am very fortun are short. I have a vivid recollection of college days, of ate in arriving in Canada towards the close of my public ser friendships I made, the associations I felt, the success I may vice, for I feel that by the character of the people and the have had at work or play. I am rather afraid the successes geographical position, Canada in future years is going to have were generally in play, not in work. M r. Taschereau, an enormous influence in the world’s affairs. As I have I would like to tell you that I got a prize in French. Above stated, she is already important, and will look to the East. all, I remember the wonderful sense I have always had of You have a large interest in the East, which is called the how important my life at college was, what influence it had "unchanging East”, but which is changing very fast, partic on my life. I say seriously that if I have done anything ularly China and India. Some of you in your professional worth while in my public life it is largely due to the in life may find that your occupations, whatever they may be, fluence I received at college. may take you to India or China. May I give you a word of You are here studying for your professional careers. advice. Do remember that when you are dealing with an You are here forming your characters to fit you for citizen Oriental in an Oriental country that it is not the colour of a ship in Canada. You are here forming your friendships, gain man that counts, but the character of the man. If you do, ing your influences, having your success in play and work. and live in China or India.you will find this Oriental, as I Make the most of your time at the university. Let me know well, responsive, friendly and loyal to you in every give you that advice, if I may. Let it be clear in your way. I wish that I could put back the clock of time and minds that your life in the university is going to fit you for the help you in your tasks. future, for the citizenship of what is going to be one of the “ In conclusion, let me urge you to make the most greatest countries in the world. It has always seemed to me of your time at college to fit you for citizenship, and do that citizenship was a very much easier thing in my young nothing when you leave college which will bring any discredit days than today. Young countries have grown up since I on the college in any way, but let your ambition be to bring was young, old countries like China and India are trying to credit to your Alma Mater; secondly, give devoted service get young. Scientific development has increased and become to whatever you are doing for your Motherland, and build more efficient, and competition and rivalry have become more up the strength and influence of the British Empire, to pro acute day by day; and, therefore, it is all-important that cure and secure the peace of the world, and let my last word every student throughout the British Empire should be more be this,— let each one of you remember a few words which fully developed in his brains and body than ever before. The I have always tried to keep in mind during my public life, great feeling I have is that responsibility of citizenship is that ‘whatever thy hand finds to do, do it with all thy getting more serious year by year, and I do feel quite sure might’.” that responsibility of citizenship in this country is going to * * * be more important for the country than for any other coun Loud and prolonged applause marked the close of try in the world. I want you all to remember that you pass His Excellency’s address. ed through four years of the Great W ar with a small pop ulation, and that 60,000 of the flower of your youth paid
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those who give to a foreign land the benefit of the higher edu The Address of the Prime Minister cation which they have received at home? of Quebec Do they not owe some return to their native land which had given them life, vision and opportunities? Are Mr. Chancellor, Your Excellency, my Lords Bishops, they not running away with a part of our national wealth? Ladies and Gentlemen, I sincerely hope that Bishop’s University will retain I feel highly honoured at becoming a member of here the members of her family. W e expect them to stay this happy family called Bishop’s University, For several with us and help Quebec in her race towards progress and years 1 have heard your call, but I have delayed answering it* prosperity. knowing that 1 should grow wiser and more mature before Being a lawyer and a politician, I am necessarily joining the very distinguished men who direct this great in a man of very few words. I have perhaps said too much stitution. This year I said “ present” thinking that one in a sanctuary where learned professors have alone the privi- must not allow opportunities and good fortune to pass by too ledge to educate, direct and advise. I therefore hasten to often. I am deeply grateful to you, Mr. Chancellor, and to conclude by renewing my very deep and grateful thanks to the other members of your board for having opened to me the university for having placed on my shoulders the great the door of your University. W hy did you not do it sooner, honour which I have received, and I wish to assure this in during my school days - those happy and remote days, - stitution of my best wishes and sincere sympathy, whatever when I was capable of learning something? To-day I must these words may imply on the lips of a politician! I leave be satisfied with a degree “honoris causa” which, however, the answer to the imagination of the Chancellor and of my is the reward of governors, chief justices, ministers of the friend, the Provincial Treasurer. Gospel, captains of industry and worn-out politicians. It would be idle on my part to dwell on the part to be played by a university in the building up of a young country and the framing of the minds of our youth. The Address of the Chief Justice Education must proceed from top to bottom and not from bottom to top. In other words it is essential first of Quebec of all, to form an intellectual elite that will direct and inspire Mr. Chancellor, Your Excellency, my Lords Bishops, all educational efforts and achievements. Such is the role Ladies and Gentlemen, of the university. But, to be true to its mission, it must keep The honour which the Bishop’s University has con pace with the times, equip young men with the best weapons ferred upon me will add lustre to the end of my judicial to enter the struggle of life, and while respecting the past career and to my title of Chief Justice of the Province of with its teaching and experience, lead the students into the Quebec, and when one day I will knock at the gate of the paths, sometimes new, which are conducive to success in a Paradise, if, by chance, I am refused admittance for having modern world when competition, specialisation and new been a papist, I will appeal to St. George, exhibiting as horizons are the key to success. Evolution in university credentials this D.C.L. Parchment and shall forthwith num teaching must necessarily follow in the footsteps of modem ber among the elects. life. If this be true for law and medicine - perhaps not for I have already received several appreciated dis theology, but I dare not enter this field and burn my fingers! tinctions, but, with the exception of that of knighthood de - no one will deny that in our age of wonderful scientific livered to me by His Royal Highness, the Duke of Con discoveries and achievements, the study of applied science naught, none honours me more than this diploma of D .C.L. is perhaps the best opening for most of our young men. W hat enhances this title is that it is handed to me W e must build up our country on which Providence by my old friend M r. Meredith, Chancellor of this Univer has bestowed its richest gifts. Our natural resources are sity, a post which, at Oxford and Cambridge, the oldest untold. Quebec’s mines, forests, hydraulic developments and universities in England, is always held by a distinguished fisheries are attracting the attention of the world and, if some personage. of our liberal professions are overcrowded, perhaps not at I can pay no higher compliment to the Chancellor the top, I, without hesitation, invite our young men to devote than by stating that he is the worthy son of one of the most their brains and energies towards conquering these great eminent judges who ever adorned the Canadian Bench, Sir national assets. William C. Meredith, former chief justice of this Province, A few years ago I was attending the celebration of who was a living example of justice and impartiality, swayed the centenary of a great Canadian University. Those who by no influence save that of law and justice, who, when he had been educated by that institution came from all over the died, was entitled to receive the just and eternal reward of world and 25% of them lived in the United States. They long, steady, arduous services. had answered the call of the Alma Mater. But are they The honour bestowed upon me together with His true to Canada, to their parents, to the university, to their Excellency the Governor General, Lord Willingdon, is quite Governments who have largely subsidized the universities. of an exceptional character. His Excellency, besides
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being the great representative of a Great King, is the splen college, as a mark of high appreciation of his numerous years did friend of the Canadian people, having contributed by of service during which a vigorous mind won a continental his undeniable prestige and his personal distinction to tighten reputation. the bonds connecting Canada with the English Crown. In a young but progressive community like the Pro I shall say nothing of his gracious wife. Lady vince of Quebec, the authorities and the executive of the Willingdon, lest my supposed French gallantry would carry country cannot do too much for the cause of literary and me too far. scientific culture. Bishop’s University is a standing monument of the Praiseworthy indeed are the public men who call far-sighted patriotism and noble endeavour of great Canad upon the State to make the necessary sacrifices in order to ians and particularly of the Right Reverend G. F. Mountain maintain the Province of Quebec in the forefront of scien D .D ., third bishop of Quebec, from 1836 to 1863, who tific and literary progress. has left a reputation which stamps him as one of the most I shall therefore make bold to tell our present Prem eminent educators. ier, the Honourable L. A. Taschereau, who has won a It was indeed a heroic task which those men un golden opinion by his remarkable, fearless, and successful dertook when they decided on the foundation of this univer initiatives, that he will secure the gratitude of coming gene sity to provide a liberal education for Canadian students. It rations if he continue to be a practical protector of education was indeed a national enterprise to create a centre for class by granting generous subsidies to colleges and universities. ical, scientific and philosophical training in this part of the I have always taken a special interest in young men. country. Permit me to tell you, my young friends, that yours is in The names of the men, whose enlightened public deed a great privilege - that of belonging to a proud and spirit, thus undertook, at a time when Canada was yet noble nation. You are the hope of the future: later on, sparsely settled and poorly supplied, even with elementary you will be the leaders of society. Thank Divine Provi schools, to found such a college or university, which should dence for affording you the priceless advantage of being keep pace with the growing needs of the country, deserve to trained under the eye of devoted and enlightened professors, go down to posterity as among her truest patriots and bene whose teaching fortifies the heart and embellishes the mind. factors. Their names should be engraved on every stone This reminds me of a historic incident. of this graceful and attractive building with its classical In 1864, the great orator Berryer, the French lines. Cicero, was invited by the English Bar to take part in a This university is now the educational centre not great demonstration in London, on the occasion of his golden only of the Eastern Townships, but of the Province of Que professional jubilee. bec, and even of Canada. It has become the magnificent On this solemn occasion, Berryer delivered his last home of a triple liberty: liberty to know, liberty to teach public speech before a large audience, including the cele and liberty to study, thus fulfilling its simple but fitting brated Lord Brougham, Lord Lyndhurst, Chief Justice motto: recti cultus pectora roborant. Cockburn, the Duke of Wellington, and Gladstone, the then The chair of its professors is a shrine whence the Prime Minister. The last sentence uttered, with Berryer’s torch of science and truth is passed on from hand to hand impressive voice, thrilled the gathering: “ M y dear English without being dimmed or extinguished. The seed of the friends,” said he, “in the name of humanity, in the name of past becomes the harvest of the present. If the future may your national pride, may you preserve intact, to England, be anticipated from the past, the utility of this university the symbolical title of proud Albion, which your forefathers will, in the time to come, go on increasing, growing with have borne for centuries.” the growth of the country, and pervading all departments May you, my young friends, preserve intact your of useful and honourable occupations. title of Englishmen, and by so doing, you will contribute, This university has produced or trained many schol not only to the glory and greatness of our country, but also ars and brilliant students, who have held and still hold out to the glory of the King of England! This is one of the standing positions in Church and State, and are to be found principal duties of the Canadian youth. in every part of Canada, in civil, professional, religious and A s to the men of the old generation, we have entered even military employment. the last stage of our career, but happy, serene, full of grati I bow with deepest respect to an old student who, tude toward Divine Providence, for we are convinced that, among French Canadians in Quebec, is called “le Grand through our universities, our public institutions and our public Monsieur Anglais” , I refer to the Lord Bishop of Quebec, men, a splendid future is in store for our dear Canada, our the Right Reverend, Lennox W illiams, whose first name was fatherland, and we may add with the Canadian poet: the family name of one of our Governor Generals. These hallowed walls must conjure up in his mind Our mighty call loudly shall ring many cherished memories, chiefly that of his father, the Rev As in the days of old “ for Christ and the King” . erend J. W . Williams, later Bishop of Quebec, in whose honour a memorial window was put in the chapel of the
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large enough to build a nation upon” . George Stephenson once said, ‘‘The strength of Great Britain lies now in her iron and coal beds” and what is true of Great Britain also The Women Students’ Association holds for Canada. On April 1 3th, the Women Students’ Association Mr Leslie Thompson in his recently published paper held a The Dansant in Convocation Hall, with a view to “ The St. Lawrence Problem” , points out that through the augmenting the funds of the Association. When all ex industrialized section of Canada has no coal it has a con penses had been paid, the sum of forty dollars was realized. siderable amount of hydro power. He stresses, however, This was the first dance held in Convocation H all when an the fact that this power must be utilized as wisely as pos orchestra was not employed. Mr. Home kindly installed sible, for he says "to Canadians in the St. Lawrence basin his gramophone and an amplifier of his own manufacture hydro power cannot be looked upon as a mere alternative.” in the hall, and gave up the whole afternoon to changing M r. Thompson prophesies that in thirty or forty years time records and hearing requests for favourite selections from all the available water power in the St. Lawrence basin will temperamental dancers. The dance was in every way a be required to supply the Canadian demand. Thus it would success; we regret only the absence of the Principal and appear to be most inadvisable to increase our present export Mrs. McGreer. of power to the United States, since exported power is not The Women Students’ Association wish to extend recoverable. Otherwise in another generation Canada will their thanks to Mr. Home for the time and effort spent in be in an even worse position than at present, providing she perfecting, installing, and operating the gramophone, to Rev. has not by that time found a way of supplying her industrial C. Sauerbrei for the artistically printed tickets, to the section with Canadian mined coal. Faculty and to the whole student body for support in carry The Canadian coal industry needs the development ing out the project. of what Mr. F. W. Gray in his paper “Canada’s Coal W hat proved to be one of the most successful Problem” refers to as a coal-conscience. The people must parties ever held in the Club Room, took place on Tuesday be brought to realize the great national importance of the evening, April 23rd. On that occasion Arts ’30 enter coal mines. Complete political independence is impossible tained Arts ’29 at a bridge. The guests were received by until Canada controls her own bituminous coal supply. This Edith Swanson, the Junior Lady, as hostess. Luck in point is also stressed by Mr. Thompson who says, “ It must varying degrees attended on each of the five tables, at inter not be forgotten that Canada’s independent political entity vals the gramophone “discoursed sweet music” . When the is bound up to a remarkable degree in her economic posit sixteenth hand had been played, the tallies were collected, ion.” As things stand at present, in the event of a war with and the mystified Seniors were closed gently but firmly into the United States (fortunately a very remote possibility) the smaller sitting-room. Here they spent a few moments the whole country would be completely disorganized, due in conversing — presumably — on higher education and to our dependence on the United States for such a large the idealistic conceptions of modern literature. When they percentage of our coal supply. The public has awakened were recalled from their banishment, the energetic Juniors to some extent, but not entirely, to the danger of such a had completely transformed the outer room. The only light situation. If it is willing to pay a fair price for Canadian was supplied by yellow candles on each of the tables, and coal, and if the government will continue and increase its daffodils and ferns added even more to the attractiveness of efforts to aid the coal industry, our present humiliating de the scene. A t the close of a delightful supper, prizes were pendence on the United States can be considerably lessened. presented by the Junior Lady. The winners were Eileen The remedying of this situation is a challenge to our national Montgomery and Margaret Brewer; Phyllis Smith was con pride, and if our struggling coal industry does not receive soled for her lack of good fortune by the timely donation the help and co-operation it requires, then either the Canadian of a large package containing a small but toothsome prize. people do not understand the menace to our national inde Cheered with coffee and sustained with cake, the Senior pendence and humiliation to our national pride contained Lady, Eileen Montgomery, rose to thank the Juniors for in our present dependence on the United States for coal, or their hospitality, and expressed the appreciation of all the they are lacking in patriotism. Seniors for a very pleasant evening. The Juniors have a In conclusion, the desirability of deepening the St. flair for successful parties, and this one will linger long in Lawrence channel so as to give ocean-going vessels ad the memory of Arts ’29. mittance to the Great Lakes must again be emphasized. This c. appears to be the only way in which Canada can become absolutely self-supporting in bituminous coal supply. That is to say, the only way in which she can achieve complete The following have been elected to the Executive political independence. Council of the Women Students’ Association for 1929-30.
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A. Geraldine Seale — President |Senior Lady] It was then moved by Miss Martin, seconded by M. Phyllis Montgomery — Vice-President Miss Lipsey, that the meeting be adjourned. Carried. [Junior Lady] Respectfully submitted, Helen M. Smith — Secretary-Treasurer. D. J. Seiveright, A. Olga Jackson — Captain of Basketball. Secretary. Of the remaining four offices, the Senior Associate Editor of “The Mitre” is elected by the whole board of “The Mitre” , the Graduate representative by the graduates, the representative of the Debating and Dramatic Readings Club by the members, and the Senior Freshette by the whole The Maths and Science Club Association. These officers will be filled at the beginning The Maths and Science Club had an unusually of the Michaelmas term. good year as regards members. There has been an average Harriet E. Wright and Ruth E. Mead have been of 40 at every meeting. Our papers have been very in elected to the positions of Associate Editor of “The Mitre” teresting and diversified though I regret the fact that the and Manager of the Basketball Team respectively. student body has not turned out and done its part in giving These offices do not entitle the holders to a position on the papers of its own. The executive tried to put on a series Executive Council. of short topics by members, but were not backed up suf ficiently to put it across. I should like to suggest to the officers for next year that they try to arrange this. On behalf of the Maths and Science Club, I wish to thank Mr. Kuehner, Dean Carrington, Prof. Burt, Prof. Alumnae Richardson and Mr. Brett for their interesting and educat ing papers, and M r. Kuehner and Mr. Home for their help The following notice Was inadvertently omitted from the in arousing interest among the student body, as well as those, April issue. both in and out of residence, who attended our meetings Editor. regularly. I feel sure that this Society which had such a The fifteenth annual meeting of the Alumnae A s small beginning in November 1925, is going to advance sociation of Bishop’s University, was held at the New greatly in the next few years. Sherbrooke House, following the annual luncheon. Ten Officers for the year 1929 - '30 members were present and Miss Margaret Fuller, President, Honorary President — Mr. Kuehner. presided. President — G. H. Findlay. The minutes of the last meeting were read by the Vice-President — J. N. Brough. Secretary and adopted. In the absence of the Treasurer, Secretary-Treasurer — E. T. Henry. the financial report was read by the President and adopted. Committee. An informal report of the work done by the Women Mr. M. Home. Students’ Association, in furnishing and maintaining the Prof. A. V. Richardson. Club-room, in Lennoxville, was given by Miss C. Martin. Miss J. Knowles. It was moved by Miss D. Seiveright, seconded by Miss L. C. MacLeod. McKindsey, that a sum of $2 5 .0 0 be paid to the Women Students’ Association, to assist in this work. Carried. It was also announced that a tea would be held in the Club rooms on Thursday, April 4th, to which all the Alumnae were invited. It was moved by Miss I. Berwick, seconded by “ Lines written during the recent photographic Miss E. Farnsworth, that notices be sent, by the Treasurer, epidemic caused by the decision of the Class of '29 to pub to all members, asking for the annual fee of $ 1 .0 0 , and ex lish a Year Book." plaining that the money is needed, largely to help the Women (With apologies to Rudyard Kipling) Students’ Association in their efforts to place the Club rooms When the last year picture is taken. on a secure basis. Carried. And the proofs are printed and dried. The election of officers for the ensuing year then When seniors have looked academic. took place with the following results: And the youngest freshman has tried, President — Miss E. Aitken, “We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it.” — Vice-President — Miss D. Lipsey Bid vain self-glory adieu Secretary — Miss D. Seiveright T ill the day when artists from Sherbrooke Treasurer — Miss P. Van Vliet Begin to take us anew. Correspondent to the Mitre — Miss G Martin Anon.
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they are corrected at the War Office in London we shall Annual Meeting of the Mitre Board probably not hear for a few weeks. A t present a guard of honour chosen from the Corps On April 29th, the Annual Meeting of the Mitre is practising for the reception of the Governor-General when Board was held. The Circulation Department presented he comes here on M ay the 18th. to receive the Honourary a favourable report and showed a large increase in the num degree of D.C.L. ber of subscribers. Various suggestions were brought for The season was closed this year by a dance instead ward with the idea of increasing the circulation further, and of the usual Annual Banquet. Mrs. Worthington and the Principal brought forward several excellent ideas for Mrs. Boothroyd acted as hostesses. This was held in the expansion. Masonic H all in Sherbrooke and the music was supplied by The Financial Statement showed the Mitre solvent the Midnight Serenaders. The dance lived up to the repu and with a fair margin of profit. The Advertising Depart tation of O.T.C. parties and was a great success. We ment exceeded last year’s business by nearly fifty per cent. were very glad to have Col. Prower and Col. Worthington The Editor reported nearly 100% increase in the as our guests. number of student contributors. On the whole the reports showed a tremendous gain over last year, and it may be said that the policy of the TO BISHOP’S C.O.T.C. Board in instituting seven issues was more than justified. The O .T.C. is a wonderful show. And a wonderful sight to see — And here, if you listen awhile my friends. Is the song of the O .T.C. W e’re good at cleaning buttons. Though we don't all wear our boots — Did we hear the bandsmen say C.O.T.C. Notes They didn’t give three hoots? The Officers Training Corps has had a very suc The bandsmen don’t like uniforms; cessful year. W e started the year with a strength of sixty They don’t believe in drill. five, the largest in the history of the Corps. The instruct They play their martial music ion in drill this year was begun by S. M . Brown, but un And they think they fill the bill. fortunately he had to spend most of the winter in hospital. There’s a quartermaster sergeant W e were thus deprived of an instructor from Christmas until W ho’s quite a lot to do: a few weeks before the Annual inspection. The Officers He mixes up the uniforms. and N .C.O ’s. of the Corps had to do their own instructing, And lends them good as new. and great credit is due Capt. Stewart for the able way in Sometimes we march to Sherbrooke; which this was carried out. W e secured the services of Sometimes we go to see S. M . Auclair a little while before the inspection and he The “Queen of the Eastern Townships” was very efficient in adding the finishing touches to our drill, W ith the college O .T.C. and in training us in the ceremonial. Oh merry, merry men are we General King and Col. Prower came down for the — Y ou’d give a lot to be inspection and expressed themselves as being very well satis A member of this doughty corps. fied with our performance. The General said it was the The Bishop’s O.T.C. best exhibition he had seen put on by other than a regular unit. He, also suggested that we might be a little more ambitious next year and start a Lewis Gun Section and also a Signalling Section. BIRTHS The results of the Musketry practise were not quite as good as last year. There were one or two very good CALLAN — To Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Callan, performers, but the general average was not so high. In (nee Lois Margaret Skinner) Arts ’25, at the Laurentide the competition for the O .C.’s prize for the best shot S.M . Nursing Home, Grand’Mere, P. Q., March 25th, 1929, White and Cpl. Rocksborough Smith tied, and in the shoot- a daughter. off S.M . White won out. Ten candidates took the lectures for the " A ” Cer tificate and one for the “ B ” Certificate. Three of the " A ” ERRATA Certificate candidates did not write the exams. The re The titles of the illustrations on page 29 should be sults of the other papers have not yet been received. As transposed.
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THE TRAGEDY OF HICKTOWN By, O. A. B.
Little Mr. Pry and Mrs. Fat Pry. or Uncle "The tenth grade. Uncle Joshua.” answered Poppy Joshua and Aunt Cinda as most young people called them, with a smile. lived in a neat little cottage about a mile from Hicktown. "Yes, the tenth grade don’t have no readers, jest This was a town where every hour was zero hour and the study Greek, Latin, French, and sech likes.” quickly re last excitement was the draught. Beyond Mr. P ry’s house sumed Mrs. Pry. “ I remember when we lived in town I were many acres of untilled land that stretched to the foot boarded some school girls, and evenings they used to sing of Bear Mt. on which grew tons of raspberries and black French songs sech as ‘The Mayonnaise’, and ‘Allu-wet-eer’, berries. and others. I jest can’t think of ’em all now.” M r. Pry was a small, wiry man who spent most of “ There comes them city blokes who went up the his time in a big arm-chair on the front porch, smoking a brook this morning all dressed in white, with their fishing- clay pipe, talking to all who passed the cottage on their rods and baskets. Wonder how many times they fell in. way to the berry field, prophesying the weather, and warning Oh, the likes of them makes me larf.” cackled Mr. Pry. them not to go too far on account of the numerous bears of "Oh, that is Douglas McCormick and Robert large size and fierceness said to inhabit some caves on the Deering. I met them at Ellen’s party last night. They mountain. He had had more troubles than an epileptic are Harvard students and are going to spend the summer at bill-poster on a windy day, and many were the tragic stories Morgan’s Hotel,” said Poppy. he told of various encounters and narrow escapes on Bear "How many fish you caught?” queried Mr. Pry. Mt. “Well, they wouldn’t take hold, and when we Mrs. Pry was fat, and tipped the scales at 26 0 lbs. started hooking them up, the stones were so slippery we kept On this fatal afternoon as she sat down beside Mr. Pry she falling in.” shyly answered Robert, glancing at the beauti exclaimed, "H ow hot it is! There ain’t no a ir!” “ Of ful girl, (I think I have mentioned that she was one of those course there ain’t! How do you expect there can be any blondes who could burn down an orphan asylum, get caught air when there ain’t no wind!” wisely answered Mr. Pry. red-handed, and then have a male jury vote her a medal "T hat looks like Jim Parker’s daughter coming up the road, without leaving their seats; while the grizzled old judge Cindy.” banged with his gavel and asked her telephone number) "Sure its Poppy, the darling, she’s a ray of sun Mr Pry chuckled and said this world was full of shine.” slippery stones. “ I hear tell that her father is going to send her to "What kind of bait did you use?” asked Polly. the city to High School and that will spile her jest as it "Fly-hooks. The store-keeper told me to try red did her sister,” resumed Mr. Pry. flies and if they did not work to try green ones. W e bought "I don’t think education will ever give Polly a swel all the shades he had, and we tried them all.” answered led head” , responded his wife. Douglas. "Now you know Cindy, that Mrs. Parker was a “Ho! Ho! Ha! Ha! Ha!” cackled Mr. Pry. school marm and she is high-headed, don’t visit her neigh “The next time you fellers go a-fishing, put a little piece bours or no one.” of worm on the end of your hook.” "W ell her time always seems to be taken up with In the meantime Poppy and the two guys were busy those children of her’n. Jim says the boy is his’n but the trading grins. A huge butterfly lit on a rose near Poppy. girls are her’n.” argued Mrs. Pry. “What a beautiful butterfly!” she exclaimed. “A little larnin is useful but too much ain’t good “Yes very beautiful indeed.” answered Douglas. for no one no how. Our store-keeper here ain’t got quite "I am a scientist and have made a collection of insects, some enough, and he is awful slow figgerin’. Has to keep a wonderful and rare specimens.” copy of the multiplication table on the counter, and he says “ By the way, where do they keep their butter?” he’s awful slow with his sevens and eights.” asked Robert. By this time Poppy had reached the cottage. She “Well really I don’t remember,” answered Doug was one of those visions such as is seen by a dope-fiend las, "but in butter tubs I suppose.” after his thirty-fifth pipe; she would have made Adam eat "Ho! Ho! Ha! Ha! Ha!” laughed Mr. Pry. not one but ninety apples, and then holler for more. The young men turned red and looking somewhat embarras "Good afternoon Uncle Joshua and Aunt Cinda. sed, said good afternoon and went on. “Wall Cindy if This three days’ rain has wonderfully improved your flow that is education I’m glad I ain’t got none.” ers.” A few moments later the mountains reechoed with "I hear you are going to High School. I suppose shrieks of a child evidently in terrible agony or fright. Then you are going into the tenth reader.” all was quiet again. 4 5 46 THE MITRE
“A bear has caught a child!” cried Mr. Pry. “I “ Brijanne, what have you got in those stockings knew it, I expected it.” In a few minutes a crowd of berry- you are carrying?” asked Mr. Pry. pickers, shaking like hysterical leaves, hurried by. This “W hy berries. When we got our pails full, I crowd would have made it look like there was nobody at took me stockings off, tied a knot in the foot and put the the Battle of Gettysburg but Grant and a boy-friend. berries in. You see the more berries I have to sell to As they passed the Cottage they stopped to talk Morgan’s Hotel, the more money I get fer me Fam ily.” it over. “Have you a large family?” inquired Mr. Pry. Two strange children had been seen going up the “No, only four children and one husband.” side of the mountain. One man had seen the bear carrying “How old are you Larry?” asked Poppy. the child away and another had seen two cubs following “Don’t know, ask Mum.” the bear. Yes, they would hurry home to get their guns, “ He will be six this haying time; the twins, Pete ammunition, and a week’s provisions, and return to hunt the and Repete, were born in crab-apple time, and Molly-O, bears. the sweet thing was born in sugar time. W ell, we must “I tell you what!” ejaculated Mr. Pry. “I went be going, so good-day.” up there last week and the tracks were jest as plain and jest Mr. Pry refilled his pipe, muttering to himself, as thick; and it smelled fierce of wet fur. There are hun “ W hat a liar that woman is; she must be sister to old dreds of them.” Ananias.” Poppy sat waiting and watching for the brave men For M r. Pry the day had been spoiled by Brijanne; to return, hoping that Douglas and Robert would be in the and how he wished she wouldn’t tell anybody else that it posse. An hour and a half had elapsed, when the voice was only a small thing like a bee that had caused such of a woman singing “Bridget Donahue” was heard, and a screams, so much fear, and excitement. woman with a small boy came slowly out of the berry-field. “Who is that?” asked Poppy. “Why that is Brijanne, Patrick O’Connor's wife and boy; they moved on the old Blair farm last fall.” HOW TO CATCH A RABBIT (CONT. FROM PAGE 19) She had several pails tied to a belt around her waist love, and thinking tender thoughts of her (Diagram III) and in both hands she carried two long queer objects. One he steps unsuspectingly over the fatal string, and while his of the boy’s cheeks was badly swollen. hind legs are still on the other side, you dexterously pull “Why Brijanne, what have you been doing? the cord, hurling the rabbit into the air. (See Dia. III) Where have you been all the time? W hy did you stay so Now you bring your net into play. W ith your other hand long after the rest came aw ay? A in’t you afraid of bears? you place the net over the spot where you imagine the It might have been your boy!" Mr. Pry fired the questions rabbit is apt to fall, as in Diagram IV . When the little so fast that she couldn’t answer. Brijanne laughed and beast lands safely within the toils, you venture near enough said she wasn’t afraid of bears. to examine it, to see what it may be worth. But I just “ You see I had quite an adventure with a bear once, know you are a tender hearted person, so when you look at while I was picking berries on jest such a mountain as this. the little helpless animal, tears spring to your eyes. You Along comes a bear, so I jest stands with my back to a tree, cannot bear to see it lying there all tangled up in the meshes and I takes out my two hat-pins out of my hat; jest as the of the net, its ears twisted and the fear of death in its bear raises on his hind legs I jabbed both pins in both his beautiful blue orbs; you cannot bear the thought of it com eyes. He jest naturally falls down and growls, snarls, ing to such an untimely end, being cut off in the prime of rolls over, and rubs his eyes, while I goes on picking berries. life. So, blinded with tears, you open the net, the rabbit The next day, a neighbour went up and found him rolling, quickly springs out, and while you hide your eyes and do not snarling, and rubbing his eyes, so he shot him. I alius carries peak it makes its get away. hat-pins with me.” This is really a splendid method for catching rabbits Mr. Pry didn’t like Brijanne, because every time because you do not nead to kill then in doing so. Even if he told one of his wild stories, she always told one to cap you do regret your rash act in catching it in a trap you can it, so he changed the subject. “ W hat’s the matter with not release a dead rabbit — that is it would not do the your cheek Larry?” rabbit much good, and after a certain length of time it “A bee stung him. He screamed and yelled like a might even be a menace to society. fiend until I took a handful of dirt, spit on it to make a P.M. paste, and put it on his cheek. W e were picking on the side of the mountain where the berries are so thick and large. When I got him quieted, I looked down and every one was running. A t first I thought there must be a fire, then I said to Larry, says I, ‘I bet people think that a bear got you’ , and I larfed and larfed to see them go.”
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A REVIEW OF STUDENT ACTIVITIES IC O N T . f r o m 8 ) which will lead eventually to its becoming an important from Ottawa University, and lost at Loyola. The total publication. It will of course not run itself; hard work must number of points secured, however, did not warrant our always be expended in making it a success, but if workers inclusion in the finals. are always as easily found as was the case this year, no W e also had the pleasure of debating against the fear need be entertained on that score. team from the Universities of British Columbia, Alberta For a long time it has been felt that there was room and Saskatchewan, and, though we lost the debate, we en at Bishop’s for something in the way of a stable musical joyed the encounter with three such finished speakers. circle, and this culminated in the forming of the Glee Club, In using, above, the term "well attended” , we in February. The Club has already an almost surprisingly meant that in comparison with other years the attendance at large membership, and gives ample promise of becoming debates was good, that is, it had not diminished in com one of the strongest of the college organizations. The first parison with other years. But at the same time, it did not of the recitals which it is proposed to give annually was held increase to any very appreciable degree. The Debating in M ay (somewhat late in the season, due to the lateness in Society offers an excellent opportunity to all students to im organizing the club) and it was an entirely successful affair. prove themselves in the art of public-speaking, and the W e venture to think that we are not over bold in conceiving number of men who fail to take advantage of this oppor the possibility of future productions in which the Glee Club tunity is disappointingly large. The fact that one of the and the Dramatic Society will join forces. The day cannot most important sides of college life is by many men totally be far distant when the students of Bishop’s will be able to overlooked and neglected is greatly to be deprecated. present something in the way of light opera. W e are aware that this problem exists at practically Of the other activities in the college the year’s work all Canadian Universities, and at most of them to a far has been in general very satisfactory. The Chess Club has greater extent than at Bishop’s, but we hope that here at operated in its usual unobtrusive manner, but not without least this apathy on the part of so many students toward affording enjoyment to the devotees of the game. The debating will gradually diminish and that debating will be Maths and Science Club has held meetings regularly all given the large amount of attention which it so well merits. year, and they have been singularly well supported. Where The Dramatic Society has had a very successful the Cercle Francais is concerned we are disappointed to have year from every point of view, except that of financial to record that the season cannot be considered to have been returns, which, if important enough, is not after all the a successful one. It is true that some difficulties stood in “ raison d’etre” of the Society. The presentation of the the way of the Circle, but none of them were insurmountable. three one-act plays in the fall was of great advantage in Founded last year, the Cercle had a far more successful year uncovering unknown talent, and they enabled some twenty- during its first session than it has had during its second. five people to exercise their histrionic ability. W e can only express the opinion that this is an organization "You Never Can Tell", the major play and an which can easily have a beneficial and successful life at ambitious production, was well staged, well acted and Bishop’s, and the hope that those who may be connected splendidly received. Great credit is due to the Society for with its executive next year will start the ’29-’ 30 season its work. with the intention of making up for any ground that may The Society itself was remodelled this year, and have been lost in ’28-’29. placed on a more independent basis. Due to the growth of One other activity remains to be commented upon, the University, its former constitution was no longer com namely the C. O. T . C. Keenness and good spirit were mensurate with its increased scope and activity, nor did it evident in the Corps throughout the year and this increased adequately meet the exigencies which naturally arise from in pitch as the day for inspection approached. W ith equip them. ment in excellent condition, and with a ready and depend Another innovation was the founding and satisfac able knowledge of their drill, the Contingent went through tory operation, in connection with the Society, of the Drama the inspection in a manner which would not have been un tic Reading Circle. The meetings of the Circle were well deserving of commendation, had they been permanent force attended, and we may conclude that its successful con troops. W e hope that the career of the contingent next tinuance is assured. year will equal this year’s in efficiency, and that some of Where the Mitre is concerned, we reach the close the men (comparatively few in number) who neglected to of this year feeling well content. The proposal to publish join up this year for no apparent reason, will think better of seven issues instead of three was hailed by many with de it next fall. rision, by others with prophecies of certain failure, both The production of the Year Book will enable those financially and as a publication, and by the majority with who are graduating this year to take with them a momento feelings of doubt as to the practicability of the plan. To of the life they led at Bishop’s, of the friends they made cope with the extra work it was necessary to change the form and the activities they enjoyed, which helped to make their of the Mitre Board and add to its members. This was stay within her walls one of the pleasantest chapters of their done, and by dint of steady work the seemingly impossible lives. C. H . M . Church, was accomplished and the seven issues were published. Pres. Students’ Association. In our opinion the Mitre has embarked on a career 49 50 THE MITRE
It is with great regret that the Class of '29 depart west glorious, now turned its attention to Puddlecombe from the halls of Bishop’s, but they do so feeling confident Manor, with the result that its windows were flashing every that steady growth and great prosperity lie ahead of their colour of the rainbow, and attractive little high lights made Alma Mater. the green of the ivy lighter here and darker there, in an artistic ensemble which would have held a spectator spell bound at its sheer artistic beauty. Unfortunately there was no spectator, and the loveliness of the scene was completely lost on one lone orpington hen who had somehow stayed out rather later than her sisters, and was pecking moodily THE WEDDING BREAKFAST (CONT. FROM PAGE 1 5 ) at a large tuft of grass. tone was conciliatory, but if he had calculated this effect, A door opened suddenly and spilled a butler. His it was completely lost on the colonel. actions from that time forward were mysterious to say the “ Drive! W ho in the name of the Fur Bearing least. Availing himself of everything that offered itself Orpington gave you permission to take Cicely driving?” in the nature of cover from scraggy weeds to tall blades of The colonel’s oath though slightly mixed, still carried more grass, he stole towards the nearest hen-house. Every mom than a hint of his state of mind. ent or so he looked anxiously over his shoulder at the Manor. “Should I have asked you, sir?” All was quiet. “Should you have kissed a pig, you mean? Cicely! A t last after a long and tedious passage across two Get into the house!” barb wire fences, on both of which he left a little souvenir Cicely, seeing that matters once and for all had of his best Sunday-go-meeting-pants, he reached his desti taken a trend in which she was not likely to have much in nation. The door closed behind him. For a moment fluence, departed. The bang of the great door was elo (had one been standing by) one might have heard some quent of her feelings. Had one watched with some care plaintive duckings, and an occasional throaty crow, but soon the window of the inside hall, a face and a pink tongue a deep and portenteous silence fell. The butler presently protruding from it would have been apparent, but that was, emerged with two large white somethings under his arm, so to speak, Cicely’s last kick. which uttered frightened anxious little sounds, that had a “ You’re a fool, sir! You’re a brainless dolt! You trifle more than dismay in their tones. Having manoeuvred have no business whatever annoying my daughter, and ....!” the fences more or less successfully and having left only the he colonel paused, and waited for a split second for inspi best part of one trousers leg behind on the last climb, the ration. It came in the shape of a very small pig which had butler was about all in, and sighed with relief when he was somehow succeeded in getting away from its piggery, and able to close the door of Puddlecombe tightly behind him. taken to a more blissful environment. The colonel did not No one had seen him. No one would have been much in stop to think. He was not accustomed to obey adages. He terested had they done so. Upstairs somewhere the colonel acted and thought afterwards. In a trice he had the suck gloomed. He now realized how badly he had played his ing porker in his hand, and a moment later Archer, the cards, and was speaking to no one. A large cardboard sign suave, the handsome, the debonair Archer Broadsides had on his door attested to the fact. He sought no comfort received a porcine squealing body full in the face with a and wanted none. Below a conspiracy was afoot. force that completely bowled him over. In the kitchen Cicely stood looking down on a “A nd,” went on the colonel, “the next time you table on which lay two freshly killed cockerels. come around here. I’ll throw every pig I can find at you, “ Roast ’em, M ary,” was her sole comment. and a couple of cows too if they’re not all stuck on the “Then what. Miss?” fences! Now be off!” And with these words he stamped “ Make sandwiches out of ’em.” into the house, and banged the door even more eloquently “Sandwiches! M ary’s tone was incredulous, as than his daughter. if she had not heard aright. Ten minutes later Archer was speeding homewards. “Sandwiches No mayonnaise.” A little white pig lay, moaning and kicking feebly, on the “But, Miss, ’oo ever ’eard of myking sandwiches green turf of Puddlecombe Manor. out of two perfectly good chickens?” A deep gloom had settled on the sunny house of “You have, Mary. You’ve just heard it. Plenty the chicken magnate, a rift had appeared in the lute, and of pepper too, and mind you make us a good lunch.” the Puddlecombe news that evening carried large headlines “ But what will the colonel si. M iss?” ARCHER BROADSIDES ASSAULTED. YOUTH “ Oh, he’ll roar, but let him. W e’re going on this STRUCK BY SMALL SUCKING PIG THROWN picnic no matter what happens.” BY OUR WELL KNOWN CITIZEN, COLONEL “ ’Oo ever ’eard of a picnic starting off at one MUCKLETHORPE. AN ACTION AT LAW o’clock in the morning?” PENDING. “This isn’t an ordinary picnic, Mary. Sh!” It was evening. The setting sun having made the Cicely drew the cook towards her confidentally. I’ll tell you
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a secret. Archer and I are going to be married.” conscious of the fact. It took a long time for the idea to “Married! ’Oly Smoke, Miss! Married! What percolate into the thick cranium of the greedy tabby, but will the colonel si?” once it had lodged there (so to speak), the ghastliness of “He’ll probably tear out what’s left of his hair.” the situation struck her neatly between the eyes. W hat to “ ’e’ll swear ’orribly. Miss! I shouldn’t let you do was the question. Two courses were open to her, one do it! I shouldn’t! was to climb to the perch and pretend to be an orpington, "O f course you shouldn’t. But you wouldn’t stand the other was retreat. Both seemed equally impractical, in the way of true love, now M ary, would you?” Cicely’s as by this time the interloper had come in the door of the tone was suitably emotional. hen-house and closed it firmly behind him. There was “ No’m I couldn’t do that. I ’ad my di, once, I nothing for it but the perch. From the floor to a position did ’e was only a garbageman , and ’e ’ad to use scent, beside the hens was a bit of a feat, but it was carried out but ’e was a love, ’e was a duck — and, now ’e’s gorn, in consummate fashion. She crouched on the bar and wait ’e’s gorn.” The poor old thing wiped her eyes in a cap ed. A moment later she felt the chicken on her right seized, acious hanky and emerged from it tearful but determined. and had hardly composed herself afresh on the bar when “Yes, Miss. I’ll not tell. I’ll not tell.” she was scooped up in a pair of capacious hands and let Cicely sighed with relief, and kissed the cook, not down into the bag herself. The indignity of the whole quite relishing the task but realizing that it was expected of situation appalled her. She uttered a piercing wail, but by her, and promptly started upstairs. She must get a little this time the hen-house was aroused, and her cries passed sleep before setting out. One o’clock was still three or four unnoticed in the pandemonium that ensued. W hat tran hours off. She set her alarm for the hour, rushed out of spired from then on baffles imagination. The fact is (if her clothes, and in two minutes was enjoying the deep sleep we put a kind explanation on the story) that pussy eventually that only the young know, and the old envy. swooned. The significant point in the story is that when There was no moon. Possibly this was all to the she was removed from the bag twenty minutes later by the good. The night was still. The only thing moving on experts engaged by Broadsides, none of her companions the broad expanse of Mucklethorpe farm was a large tawny were harmed. The cat had been too terrified to protest, cat. Its motions were furtive. It placed its feet down on and she had literally had the stuffings kicked out of her by the ground firmly, and lifted them from the turf with a soft the restive captives’ claws and at no time in her many lived clinging motion indicative of extreme distrust. Its sole in existence had she realized so poignantly the meaning of the terest lay in the nearest hen house from which came muffled expression “ Letting the cat out of the bag” . She was no stirrings and rustlings, suggestive of good hunting and the easy sight to look upon, and once released, slid out into the prospect of a delicious meal. In the past pussy’s peregrinat wide and cruel world with no other idea in her mind than ions had all been more or less without success, but hope of avoiding all hens in future, and giving hen-houses as wide burned eternal in the feline heart, and this night she felt a berth as possible.. within her inmost that the stroke of luck must turn, the W hat had happened is this. Broadsides, realizing pendulum of fate slip a cog, and leave her the mistress of that court action was expected of him by the colonel, had the situation, facing an opening into her castle of dreams, used his brains, instead of calling in a lawyer. He had and a good rich supper of orpington freshly killed and lusc corailed every truck he could lay hands on and decided to ious. thieve every chicken he could find on the Mucklethorpe Her desire was gratified. The door of the hen place. He knew that the colonel was helpless. He knew house was still ajar, left that way by the butler, whose ad he could not be hailed as a thief. The sucking pig had ventures we have previously narrated. Pussy’s heart gave settled that question once and for all. He had moral right a leap, and her claws pushed their way from their velvet on his side. He used it. cushions. She was cautious however. A t the door she From twelve o’clock until twelve-twenty the hen paused and sniffed. There was no menace that her nose houses resounded to every known sound that the throats of could detect. She pushed in until she had accustomed her chickens could compass, but after twenty minutes had self to the lay of the land. A large satisfied feline grin elapsed a deep and deadly silence fell, that was only broken spread over her face. W hat she saw pleased her. Every by the tread of heavily laden men bearing large sacks to where were orpingtons. Big fat juicy-looking orpingtons the waiting trucks. with their heads tucked neatly beneath their wings, heavy When it was all over Broadsides took stock. So with sleep, rows and rows of them. Pussy expanded in far all was good. Then suddenly a horrible thought struck anticipation. Slowly, surely, and with no apparent evi him. Where had Archer been? His movements that night dence of motion, she sneaked forward, and at that precise had been, to say the least, suspicious. He had done every moment a great fear thrilled through her, for behind she thing he could to prevent the taking of the orpingtons and heard, or fancied she heard, someone trailing her. then he had barged off, sulking. He could not have warned It is one of the ironies of nature that the hunter is the colonel. That much was obvious or the expedition often the hunted, but it is rarely indeed that the former is would have met with opposition. Then what had he done?
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The mighty Broadsides slumped dejectedly in the "O w ! There’s another in me. W hy drop it?” front seat of his Rolls beside the diminutive driver and im “Did I hurt ums?” Cicely Was sorry but she was mediately regretted the slump. The front seats of Rolls- never able to miss the humour in any situation. She got the royces are not built for slumping, anticipating as they do, basket nicely settled below the window, when she heard a that the footmen sit bolt upright. Broadsides adjusted car. Without thinking she seized her suitcase and threw himself to correct rigidity the seat required and groaned. it out the window, and began the descent. The suitcase A t that precise moment a small car shot by, and in it was had evidently found its mark for she could hear Archer Archer. Broadsides almost grabbed the wheel in his ex moaning and swearing under his breath. She had perhaps citement. Then he thought swiftly. Cockerels were really covered about five feet of the distance when the ivy gave more important. Let Archer go to blazes! He could way, and she followed the suitcase and completely buried attend to him later. He tried to slump once more and fail Archer in the rose bush. This time it was no plaintive ing chuckled grimly. Half a cake was better than none. moan he emitted, but rather a startling and horrible howl He must proceed to the business in hand. The experts of agony. Upstairs a window was pushed wide and a would need his presence to encourage them. The two prize night-cap-shrouded head appeared, from which the deep cockerels must be sifted out. There were ribbons to be voice of the colonel boomed, “who’s there?” won. Archer could wait. Broadsides fists clenched. Later “Say meaouw,” whispered Cicely, “and he’ll think he’d show him what filial devotion was. it’s a cat.” Archer was romantic. No sooner had his car pas “ I’ll say more than that if you don’t get out of sed his father’s than he realized that the success of his even here soon.” ing get-away was very likely to be marred, should that good Archer had hardly concluded his remark before a man value his retaining his happy bachelor estate above blast from a motor horn could be heard from the foot of the possession of two prize cockerels. In an emergency he the driveway. realized that his father would think first of the family and W ith a wrench he freed himself from the rose bush, then of its possessions, and reasoned from that, that his and leaped for the car. A minute later he and Cicely were best course was to give her the gas. This he did and as aboard and just as the big Rolls-Royce drew up behind a result was able to cover the distance between the place them they had started. Cicely was still giggling. Look where his mind functioned and the Manor in slightly under ing back she saw a white clad figure descending the ivy. three minutes. Without delay he had slithered out of the A moment later, they had rounded a turn, and were on their car and was standing underneath her window. His heart way. was bounding merrily under his waiscoat, and his lips were “I wonder if they’ll fight?” Archer said. dry. He tried to whistle, and failed. No sound would “Fight nothing!” said Cicely. “In about two come. He sought for a pebble. There was none to be minutes they’ll have their arms around each other, and be found. Old Smiggs the gardner was too thorough-going driving like mad to get us. Just imagine pursuing the flee to leave pebbles in the matchless turf of Puddlecombe. ing elopers in a night shirt! Do you think we ll beat them?” There was still the ivy. W ith a mighty heave he began “ Hands down! This bus can beat any Rolls that the ascent. He had achieved possibly half the distance when ever blocked a road.” he heard the alarm clock go off. The sound startled him so much that he dropped, and was just saved a nasty fall A t dawn some eight miles separated the two cars, by a large and thorny rose bush. Upstairs a light showed, and a few hours later a bewildered and slightly befuddled and presently a head and shoulders appeared over the win Rector did what he could towards complicating the plot. dow sill and a soft whisper uttered his name. “There’s a bee on your neck,” remarked Cicely “That you. Cicely?” as she laid the luncheon cloth. “Yes, dear. Come on up.” “Smack it!” “Can’t, come on down.” “No. It’ll sting you.” “ W hy not?” “Swoosh it off then.” “Can’t get out of this infernal rose bush, and the “Alright.” The swooshing process ended in dis thorns are tearing me in pieces!” aster. Cicely’s entomology was not as good as it might “Jiggle it!” have been. W hat she had thought a bee turned out to be "Not on your life. Five of them are sticking me a hornet, and it objected strenuously to being swooshed, now, and I don’t want any more in me. Besides, Dad’s dug in its heels, adjusted its forceps and stinger, and stung. on the way, and may be here anytime. Archer rose in the air with a shout that would have “Shall I lower the basket?” done credit to a red Indian and clapped his hands to his “Y es.” neck, but his action was not well timed, for by this time Cicely dropped it carefully from the window. She the insect, somewhat unnerved by the whole proceedings, held the rope and let it down swiftly. The friction burned had buzzed off. Cicely smiled grimly. Life was not go her hands and she dropped it. Below Archer yelled. ing to be any rosy dream if Archer had any more accidents.
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He had bemoaned the thorn wounds most of the night, and " I have some whiskey.” now a bee’s sting would not add much to his peace of mind. “Produce it, man.” She shuddered when she thought of what would happen Broadsides slowed the car, and drew a bottle from when the respective parents came charging down the road a reticule in the instrument board. Drawing the cork proved in the Rolls. a difficulty, but necessity knowing no law, they finally man “If you’d put some mud on it, instead of howling, aged it by pushing it into the bottle with a stick. Muckle it might n’t hurt so much," she volunteered, as she deftly thorpe, having elected to be the pusher, received a good eye removed a fat slug from the cream-pitcher. ful as the cork slipped, but beyond that no serious damage “ M ud! W here’d I find any mud?” was done, and bits of cork having been fished out from the “ In a mud-hole, idiot.” drinking cups, the serious business of quieting ‘screaming Archer looked at the dry flat countryside critically. nerves’ was begun. Nowhere could be seen the smallest vestige of what might After an hour had elapsed both were good friends. be termed a hollow in which a mud hole could be nestling. The incident of the stolen fowl had been mulled over, but He turned to Cicely groggily and groped about for a suit it was not the conclusion of the story that fetched Muckle ably sarcastic question. His search failing, he tried the thorpe up with a jerk. realm of the obvious. “The experts went through the whole batch and we “You're damn casual, aren’t you?” had only a dozen left. W e looked them over and found “Damn! Now where did I put that pickle fork?” “ Yes, man, go on, go on — ” By this time Cicely had the four places set. That deft “ And found that there wasn’t one prize bird in little touch should work wonders with two apoplectic old the lot.” Its reaction was thoroughly natural to its species. It simply “ W h at?" gentlemen, she thought. “ Not a one. Have another spoonful?” “You might answer me,” Archer’s tone was plain “Not my prize orpingtons!” tive and a little hurt. He felt that he had suffered enough. “That’s where you diddled me, all right. I’ll ad “ I might,” answered Cicely, setting out sandwiches, mit it. W hat did you do with them?” “and then again I mightn’t. Now where is that mustard?” “Do with them?” "In the mud-hole,” answered Archer, and sat “They were there all the time.” down. He had just reached the stage when the romance “ There all the time! It was Broadsides turn to of an elopement seemed to be a far off forgotten memory. goggle. He did so quite artistically. W hat with bees and thorns and pursuing parents, to say “ There all the time. I have it — ! ” nothing of slugs, insects, and other nameless horrors, the “So’ve I. They've — whole business had been a nightmare. He stretched him “Taken them.” Put that bottle away, man. self out on the grass, put his hands under his head, swore W e’ll have to get ’em now.” In hot haste the bottle was softly at the hurrying ants that would presently be exploring packed, the car started and they were off, but had only his body and went to sleep. Cicely finding him asleep after proceeded a short distance when they saw ahead of them a moment or so, surveyed his placid countenance critically, a table cloth and Archer’s car drawn up by the road side. and seeing reflected there a calm look of happiness and Broadsides pulled up shortly and got out. Colonel Muckle peace, decided to confide her cares to Morpheus herself. thorpe clutched Broadsides overcoat over his nightgown and It was not long before the ants found her, and another descended warily. Bare feet were hardly in keeping with picnic idyll was ruined. Such is life. an officer and a gentleman, but he had had to bow to the The one or two hours of the drive had been rather inevitable several times lately, and mellowed by good difficult for Colonel Mucklethorpe. There had been no whiskey his task was becoming easier and easier as he pro conversation. Broadsides had had to watch the road care ceeded. In a few moments they stood over their sleeping fully, and having only for the moment declared a truce, was children. It was Broadsides who dug Archer with his toe. as silent as death itself. Archer sat up suddenly and yelled. When, after an eternity of watching the macadam, “ Mind those thorn holes,” he yelled. the sun finally made its appearance in the East, the colonel “W hat thorn holes?” questioned Colonel Muckle gave a sigh of relief, and made his first remark. thorpe. “W e ought to catch up with them soon.” " Y o u !! ! ! ” Archer could not repress his feelings. "Hm," said Broadsides, with no degree of con “ M e,” said the colonel emphatically and quite un viction. grammatically. “Now, young man what have you done “They wouldn’t turn off would they?” with my prize orpingtons!” “Not likely.” “Prize orpingtons?” Archer blinked, now what Conversation languished for a half an hour or so, the devil was Mucklethorpe driving at? and then an inn flashed into view. “They-have-been-filched.” It was Broadsides “Pity we couldn't get a drink!” turn to speak and he supplied the information in a tone that
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would have done credit to an undertaker. Whiskey had that effect on him. “Who-filched-them ? ” New Appointment at Bishop’s "That’s what we’d like to know. Perhaps, young Mr. Leonard F. James has been appointed as Assis man, you can supply us with the information.” The Col tant in the department of English at Bishop’s for the en onel was feeling cold and began to shiver. The car had suing year. been very warm. M r. James took his Bachelor of Arts degree at “Supply you with the information!” The guvner the Unversity of Bristol in 1926. He was appointed a swiped them, made off with them last night, didn’t h e?" Fellow on the Commonwealth Foundation and spent the “But they weren’t there!” year 1927-28 in graduate study at the University of Mich “Weren’t there?” But they must have been. igan. Testimonials, received from the Universities of Bris “Broadsides’ good humour was rapidly vanishing. tol and Michigan, speak in very high terms of M r. Jam es’ “Now look here Archer, where are those damn birds? scholastic and personal qualifications. In addition to his It was at that precise instant that Cicely awakened academic record, he was captain of the Lacrosse Club at and began to rub her eyes. “Did I hear something about the University of Bristol and played for the West of Eng orpingtons?” she quavered. land. He also was an editor of the student magazine at “ If you haven’t been sleeping with cotton wool in this institution. The Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the your ears, you did.” Broadsides by now had completely University of Bristol says of Mr. James: “He is a man of lost his temper. A s whiskey took firmer hold on him he all-round capacities and interests; prominent in the athletic became savage rather than dour. He showed both symp and social activities of the University, industrious as a stu toms. dent, and possessed of personal qualities which have won the Cicely was now fully awake. “What happened?” good opinion of all who knew him. I can think of no one she asked. more fully representative of the best elements in the student They explained to her every detail of the night be life of this University.’ ’ fore, and did so over the luncheon which no one had the presence of mind nor the humour to call the wedding break fast. It was a long time before the solution came to Cicely. Colonel Mucklethorpe had just started on his dozenth sand wich, when light flooded the girlish mind, and a happy smile spread over her face. “You’re eating your prize birds now,” she exploded. Colonel Mucklethorpe laid down his sandwich grim ly “Eating!” He could get no farther. He was inter PERSONALS rupted by Broadsides’ merry laughter. Amongst those who attended the special Convo “They’re in the sandwiches man!” cation on Saturday, May 18., were:- The Right Reverend “In the sandwiches!” Suddenly a light dawned the Lord Bishop of Montreal, The Right Reverend the in the colonel’s mind. The laughter annoyed him. His Lord Bishop of Quebec, A. J. Brown, Esq., K.C., L.L.D., pride did hurt, but the whiskey had done good work in his The Honourable Jacob Nicol, K.C., D.C.L., Provincial case. He smiled somewhat weakly, but nevertheless smiled. Treasurer, The Honourable J. E. Perrault, Minister of For a second or two he thought the situation out, and then Roads for the Province of Quebec, the Venerable Arch in a twinkling jumped to his feet. His army training stood deacon Scott, John Hamilton, Esq., M .A., D.C.L., former him in good stead. This he felt to be his supreme moment. Chancellor of the University, Ross McMaster, Esq., Pro The laughter had died. In a strong voice he lifted his fessor Oertel of McGill University, Grant Hall, Esq., chicken sandwich which enshrined all that was mortal of M . A ., D.C.L., Sir Charles Gordon, President of the Bank his two prize orpingtons, and intoned in the voice of the of Montreal, the Honourable Senator Smeaton White, F. after-dinner-speaker, the best toast he had ever made in his N. Southam, Esq., C. B. Howard, Esq., M.P., W. E. career. Paton, Esq., Florian Fortin, Esq., President of the Board “Gentlemen, the bride and the groom! Long life of Trade, Sherbrooke, His Worship Mayor Tetrault of and happiness!” Sherbrooke, Dr. J. B. Winder, J. A. Bothwell, Esq., Pres W . H . D A W . ident Brompton Pulp & Paper Co., W . B. Scott, Esq.’, K. C., B.A. ’08, Philip S. Gregory, Esq., B.A. ’08. Among recent visitors to the University have been G. M. Almond, B.A. ’24, E. R. Bell, B.A. ’24, A. M. West, B.A. ’24, H. S. Billings, B.A. ’27, J. D. Jefferis, B. A. ’27, H. J. McVety, B.A. ’27, T. A. Johnston, B .A . ’2 7 . THE MITRE
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Doak, both of whom are publication of the article until the first issue of the next recent graduates of Bishop’s, Mrs. Doak being formerly academic year. Miss Evelyn Bennett, B.A. *26, are living at 12 Oldfield Pictures of the abbey and the vicarage appeared Ave., Montreal. in the London Times of Saturday, December 29th., 1928. Mr. and Mrs. Doak were married at the Church The abbey was founded by the Augustinians in the twelfth of St. John the Evangelist by the Rev’d W . H. Davidson century and has been handed over to the Office of Works by at 6.00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24th. A large number Lady Cecelia Roberts, a daughter of the 9th. Earl of of Bishop’s graduates were present at the wedding. Carlisle, several of whose ancestors lie buried in the ruined The Mitre extends to M r. and Mrs. Doak its best choir. The priory of Lanercost suffered severely during wishes for a long and happy life. the Border Raids led by W allace, Bruce, and other Scottish Chieftains. The Mitre extends its very hearty congratulations to J. D. Jefferis, B .A . ’27 , on receiving his M .A . at the The Rev’d R. A. Cowling, B.A. ’00, L.S.T. ’02, annual Convocation of McGill University last month. is living at Lake Andes, S. D., U. S. A. The Mitre also congratulates Mr. Hugh Mont J. J. Edwards, Esq., M.D. ’91, is practising in gomery, m’2 7 , on receiving his B .Sc. from M cG ill Univer Rest Haven, Gale P. O., Jamaica, B.W.I. sity last month with distinction. James M acGregor, Esq., M .C ., M .D . ’0 2 , is the The Mitre also extends its congratulations to Mr. Principal Medical Officer of the Royal Air Force in Cairo, S. H . Francis, m’2 6 , on receiving his B .Sc. F. from the Egypt. University of Toronto. F. W . Mann, Esq., M.D. ’00, is living at Houton, Me., U. S. A. Dr. Mann received his F.A.C.P. this year. M r. H. E. Grundy, B .A . ’27 , stood well in the examinations for the Second Year in law at McGill Univer The Rev’d J. McMann, m'Divinity Class ’28, is sity, winning the Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal. meeting w'ith good success in his work in the parish of Mus quash, N. B. Extensive improvements have been made in W e were pleased to see the name of M r. S. M . the churches under his charge. Banfill, B .A . ’28 , in the list of successful candidates in the M. A. Phelan, Esq., K.C., B.A. ’99. B.C.L. ’24 First Year examinations of the Medical Faculty of McGill (McGill), has his office at 273 St. James Street, Montreal. University. The Rev’d C. C. Phillips, B.A. ’12, is living at The Mitre is pleased to learn that Mr. V. E. Lyon, Fitzroy Harbour, Ont. m’27 , has been so successful as a Chemist with the firm of Dr. D. J. Phillips, ’00, is living at 8 East Parade, Messrs. Price Brothers at Riverbend, Que., that his em Kingston, Jamaica. ployers are seeking another Chemist who has been trained at Bishop’s University. Dr. A. H. Silverman is living at 106 1/2 North Broadway, Holdenville, Okla., U. S. A. Mr. D. B. Ames, B.A. ’27, M.A. ’28, who was awarded a graduate scholarship at Yale University last year, The address of Dr. F. M. R. Spendlove is 1 Glad has won the Carroll Cutler Fellowship before the completion stone A ve., Westmount, Que. of his first year. The Fellowship has a value of $300., The Rev’d G. J. Sutherland, B.A. ’88, M.A. ’93, is tenable for one year, and is generally awarded to gradu is living at Black Mountain, North Carolina, U. S. A. ates of the second year only. W. G. Thorneloe, Esq., B.A. ’96, B.C.L. ’99 The Rev'd Professor Carrington, M .A., Dean of (M cG ill), is living in W atrous, Sask. Divinity, attended a meeting of the Board of Examiners for The address of H. D. Wells, Esq., B.A. ’14, Divinity Degrees in Toronto on June 1st. M.A. ’18, is 602 Girouard Ave., Montreal. Mr. A. L. Kuehner, M.A., Lecturer in charge of The Rev’d M. H. Wells, B.A. ’15, M.A., F.R. the Science Department of this University, attended the G.S., is the author of a book of which the title is “Old Convention of Canadian Chemists in Toronto during the Testament Days”. His address is Poole House, Durham last week in M ay. School, Durham, England. Mr. S. E. Read, M .A., formerly lecturer in Mod Dr. W . E. W ilson, ’9 3 , who took honours in his ern Languages of this University, has accepted a postion on Medical course at Bishop’s, winning the Chancellor’s prize the Faculty of Western University, after spending a year on graduation, is living in Brownstown, Jamaica. in post-graduate work at Chicago. A. Woods, Esq., C.A., m’82, is living at 1454 The Mitre has received an exceedingly interesting Crescent St., Montreal. article on Lanercost Abbey, Cumberland, England, from The address of the Rev’d W . Worthington, B.A. the Vicar, the Rev’d A. P. Durrant, B.A. ’09. Owing ’83, M.A. ’86, is 189 University Street, Providence, R.I., to lack of space in this issue we are obliged to delay the U . S. A . THE MITRE
Dr. H. P. Wright, B.A. ’09, is living at 40 guided the development of the Bank with the wisdom and Trafalgar Ave., Montreal. skill of a far-seeing leader. In the councils of men who have shaped the economic policies of Canada, and estab After the special public Convocation on May 18th. lished the credit of Canadian Banking institutions in the the Principal received a telegram from His Excellency, the world of finance, his influence and advice were eagerly Governor-General, expressing his pleasure in being closely sought because they reflected the thought of a man of shrewd associated with the members of Bishop’s University. In insight and sound judgment. accordance with His Excellency’s request the Tuesday fol Sir Vincent was a worthy representative of a family lowing the Convocation was a Free Day. whose history is a long and most interesting one. W e regret that our limited space will allow us to make but a brief reference to it. “This family”, says Playfair, “deduce their origin, TRINITY ORDINATIONS. in the most satisfactory manner, from the ancient Kings of On Trinity Sunday, May 26th., the following Britain. There is proof that this family is as ancient, and Bishop’s men were ordained:- trace their genealogy with certainty and credibility to as The Rev’d S. W. Williams. B.A. '28, B.Sc., was remote antiquity as almost any in Europe”. ordered deacon in the Cathedral at Quebec by his father, “Old chronicles relate that the original settlement the Lord Bishop of Quebec. of the family was situated on the W elsh shore, where the The Rev’d F. E. Jewell, m’Div. ’29, was ordered sea washed in with great force, from which they took the deacon by the Lord Bishop of Algoma in the Pro-Cathedral name of Meredith or Ameredith, which word or name im at Sault Ste. Marie. plies, in old British, “the roaring of the sea’ ” . The Rev’d W . H. Daw, B.A. (Toronto), m.Div. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth the family settled ’29, was ordered deacon in the Cathedral at Hamilton by in Ireland, and in succeeding generations many members of it the Lord Bishop of Niagara. held high positions in Church and State. They were closely The Rev’d B. T. Keith, B.A. ’26, L.S.T. ’28. identified with the University of Dublin, the Reverend and the Rev’d H. J. Hoyt, L.S.T. ’28, were ordained Thomas Meredith, grandfather of our Chancellor, F. E. priests in the Cathedral at Fredericton by the Lord Bishop Meredith, Esq., being a Fellow of Trinity College, in 1805. of Fredericton. From Ireland several members of the family came to Canada in the early part of the last century, where the traditions of loyalty to the King and service to the state are still worthily upheld, as they were in the life of the late NEWS NOTE Sir Vincent. The Mitre has much pleasure in making it known to On the occasion of the departure from Canada, on graduates and former students that the University grounds September 15th., 1916, of H .R.H . the Duke of Connaught, have been greatly improved this year. The woods Sir Vincent was created a baronet. So long as his health in the Golf Course are being cleared of underbrush and permitted it, he took a great interest in the affairs of the superfluous trees and presently we shall be able to enjoy younger generation, and established clubs for the promotion walks through them which heretofore have been impossible. of wholesome recreation for young people. As President of the Royal Victoria Hospital he was an unfailing friend to the sick and suffering. An account of his work for the sick, which he would not allow to be written, would reveal OBITUARY. a sympathy and a generosity towards the poor which only Sir Vincent Meredith, Bart., L.L.D., D.C.L. a man with a great heart could feel and practise. In recent years Sir Vincent was drawn towards this On February 24th. last, there passed away at his University. In acknowledging the honorary degree which home in Pine Avenue, Montreal, the distinguished Canadian, was conferred on him at the Annual Convocation in 1927, Sir Vincent Meredith, Bart. he expressed his appreciation of the ideal for which the For several succeeding days, the Press in many University stands, and his confidence in its future. The countries paid tribute to Sir Vincent’s character and work. sincerity of his words has been attested by the generous Few, indeed, have been the citizens whose life has won from bequest to the University in his will. the world at large such honour and respect for Canada, and To Lady Meredith, who was a devoted help-meet whose passing away has caused such universal regret. in all Sir Vincent’s philanthropic work and public service, W e shall not attempt to record the many responsible we extend a sincere and abiding sympathy. In her dis positions which Sir Vincent held. They were numerous tinguished husband she has known a mind and a spirit which and have been set forth in detail in many a paper. A s a live beyond "our bourne of Time and Place”. servant of the Bank of Montreal for more than sixty years, and as its President for sixteen years, he promoted and A.H.M. Read La T r ib u n e
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THE LOCAL, DISTRICT AND FOREIGN NEWS PUBLISHED DAILY IN LA TRIBUNE — IS THE BEST - BY READING LA TRIBUNE EVERY DAY YOU KEEP INFORMED ON ALL EVENTS. PRINTING
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QUOTATIONS GLADLY GIVEN LIST OF ADVERTISERS
Alumni Association - - - 1 McKindsey’s Drug Store - - - 4 Ansell’s Drug Store - - - 4 McMurray & Hall Reg’d - - - 52
A rnold’s Limited - - - 22 Meredith, Holden, Heward & Holden - Cover Barrett’s Reg’d. - - 42 Mitchell, J. S. & Co. - - 2 Beck Press, Reg’d . . . - 14 M ilford, John & Son - 5
Birk’s, Henry & Sons Limited - 25 New Sherbrooke Hotel - 16 Bishop’s University . . . - Cover Northern Electric Co., Limited - 18
Brown Montgomery & McMichael - 2 6 Pelletier, J. A. & Son - 4 0
Canadian National Railways - ■ 12 Quebec Central Railway - 54 Canadian Pacific Railway - 44 Riddell, Stead, Graham & Hutchison 54
Chaddock, C. C. - 52 Rosemary Gift Shop - - 2 6 Clarke & Stewart - - - - 54 Rosenbloom’s Limited - 3 Crown Laundry - - - - - 2 0 Royal Bank of Canada - 25 Dion & Rioux . . . - 4 6 Royal Candy Kitchen - 16
G ay, A l...... - 5 Sherbrooke Trust Company - - 48 Gustafson’s Studio - - - - 2 6 Sherbrooke Provision Limited - 2 4 Imperial Tobacco Company Limited - 5 0 Sherbrooke Laundry - - 10
Jackman, F. J. Limited - 38 Skinner, A. C. Limited - 24 La Tribune - - - - - 6 0 Union Grains Limited - 38 LaFlamme, Mitchell & Kearney - 2 6 Wark, Miss F. E. - - 16
MacKinnon Steel Corporation Limited - 42 W ippell & Company - - Cover McFadden, R. C. - . 38 Woodard-McCrea Boat Works, Inc. - - 48
Meredith, Holden, Heward & Holden
BARRISTERS & SOLICITORS
355 ST. JAMES STREET WEST. MONTREAL.
F. E. MEREDITH. K.C., LL.D. A. R. HOLDEN. K.C. C. O. HEWARD. K.C. R . C . HOLDEN. JR. P. P. HUTCHISON C. T. BALLANTYNE W. G. J. MEREDITH F. T. COLLINS Established 18th C en tu ry Clerical Tailors &. Robe Makers
CASSOCKS.
Individually Cut to Measurements. Single or Double-Breasted. RU SSE LL CORD - $ 10.25 $12.20 $15.35 % FINE A L PA C A . $ 11.70 and $15.35 ' A L L WOOL SERGE $ 10.25 and $ 14.15
GOWNS.
UNDERGRADUATES’ $4.25 $4.75 $6.10 (GRADUATES’ - $7.30 $8.75 $10.25
GATHERED LINEN SURPLICES, from *5.35 LENNOXVILLE COLLEGE— L. S.T. H oods . $ 4.00 $7.30 $ 11.60 B.A. „ . $ 19.45 $23.10 M. A . „ . $ 12.55 $ 16.10 $20.45
LOUNGE SUITS from *20.45
FLANNEL BLAZERS $7.90 $9.35 $10.25
TRO U SERS, G rey F lannel $5.50 $8.25 „ W HITE . $6.10 $7.75 $9.25 Cash Discount of 5% on Orders over $4.86. Wippell Patterns and Illustrated Catalogue on application. EXETER. MANCHESTER LONDON High Street and 32 Victoria Street (First Floor.) Duncannon Street Cathedral Yard Entrance:- Cateaton Street. Charing X. W C