The G ?\X Chronicle .cion ^ .V /L British Columbia VOL. I., No. 1 .VER, B.C., DECEMBER 15, 1938 8 Pages THE ALUMNI TWO NEW BUILDINGS MAY ELECT BE CONSTRUCTED KEN BECKETT ON UNIVERSITY CAMPUS PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE AND BROCK MEM­ OVER 200 ATTENDED ORIAL UNION STRUCTURES THE ANNUAL ARE PLANNED MEETING SURPLUS $277 COST IS OVER $425,000 ENTATIVE plans for construction of two new buildings on ENNETH M. BECKETT, retiring T the University campus were announced last week. If, as is K secretary, was elected president hoped, they are built within the next year, the acute overcrowding of the Alumni Association to suc­ ceed Milton Owen at the annual which has gravely hampered the institution will be considerably meeting in Hudson's Bay (jo. dining relieved. room on October 21. There was an First, Hon. John Hart introduced and the Legislature passed attendance of more than 200 mem­ KENNETH M. BECKETT a bill authorizing a building loan of $350,000, if and when the bers. At the annual meeting of the Alumni Associatoin in October, Ken Lieutenant-Goernor-in-Couneil decides to proceed with it. Hon. Other members of the executive in­ (T. M. Weir, in an earlier statement, announced the money woitld clude: Miss Ardy Beaumont, vice- Beckett, the retiring »secretary, was president \ Miss Alice Daniels of New elected president to succeed Milton be devoted to construction of the first unit of a department of Westminster, secretary; Fred Bol- Owen. preventative medicine. > ton,»treasurer.;;>Edjrar-N. Brown-, edi­ Second, construction of a,-.$75,000 Brock Memorial Union Building was tor of ^ublicaUonssfJBerjt^sStntthj.re^; ', regarded its; assured when thte'Board:,bf. Governors consented to petition the cords secretary, W. O. Banfleld, aud­ TRf Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council tor permission to allocate $2,500 annually itor. out of the University budget to retire a ten-year $25,000 bond issue to be Mr. Owen's annual report stressed ANNUAL floated on the credit of the Alma Mater Society. the increasing measure of coopera­ The preventative medicine building would provide increased classroom tion between the University adminis­ REUNION BALL and laboratory space for the departments of biology, bacteriology, zoology tration, undergraduate body and and chemistry, as well as providing a new headquarters for the Provincial alumni. The executive, he said, had The executive wishes to an­ Board of Health in Vancouver. No detailed plans or specifications are yet been particularly concerned with at­ nounce that plans are under available. tempting to alleviate overcrowding way for the Alumni Annual The Union Building, which has been planned as a memorial to the late on the campus and he expressed the Reunion Dance. It is to be hope that a building program would Dean and Mrs. R. W. Brock for more than three years, may yet strike a be laid down this year. held on Monday, Boxing Day, snag if the Board of Governors refuses permission for a Class B type of December 26th at the Commo­ structure, which is reinforced concrete exterior and a wood interior. Cost On motion of Tom Watney, retir­ dore Cabaret and dancing will of a Class A structure would be prohibitive. ing treasurer, it was agreed to set start at 9 p.m. Approximately $81,000 will be available if the $25,000 bond issue is suc­ aside one-half of the current surplus, cessfully floated. Students have pledged themselves to raise an additional A committee consisting of amounting to $277, and one-half of $15,000 on their credit, about $10,000 has been collected by women workers future income from life member­ Mr. Bruce Robinson, Mrs. for the furnishings fund, and "smaller amounts have been raised by alumni, ship fees for a capital trust fund, to Kenneth Ingledew and Miss faculty and other groups. be disbursed by vote of annual meet­ Gwen Pym are assisting the ings. It will be located on the East Mall, north of the stadium and not far executive in the arrangements. from the gymnasium. Paving and beautifying of the'mall at an estimated Dr. W. Ivor Jennings of the Uni­ Some rather novel entertain­ cost of $40,000 is expected to be undertaken by the Provincial Government. versity of London, visiting professor ment is being prepared by of economics and government, was Ian Douglas, which along with the principal speaker. He was in­ TO ALL ALUMNI troduced by President L. S. Klinck. yell-leading by Tommy Berto, Annual fees of one dollar (life membership is ten dollars) for Carson McGuire, president of the and a possible Alouette by Art 1939 are now due and payable to the treasurer. Please remit as Alma Mater Society, spoke briefly Lord, will lend an informal soon as possible. and welcomed all graduates to a touch to the supper intermis­ dance in the Hotel Vancouver as The Alumni Association is apparently launched on a new guests of the student body after the sion. program of expansion and vitality. It promises to be more pow­ dinner. Tickets may be obtained erful, more valuable to the university, and more beneficial to members than ever before. Ambitious plans are being formu­ from any member of the ex­ lated and some of these will be announced in the March issue of STUDENT DIRECTORY ecutive or committee, or from the Chronicle. A long-felt want on the university the treasurer at the door. We But, if fees are not paid, the executive and the active volun­ campus is provided for this year with expect to have a large crowd teers will be hamstrung. The Chronicle, for one thing, will be the initial appearance of a Student and as Tuesday will be a holi­ forced to discontinue publication. This appeal must not go un­ Directory. A complete file of names, answered. addresses, and telephone numbers is day for many lucky people— a real celebration will be in Please remit by cash or cheque to the treasurer, Fred Bolton, included in this useful little book, 1065 West Pender Street, Vancouver, B.C.; or to the president, available for sale at the Students' order! Kenneth M. Beckett, 800 Hall Building, Vancouver, B.C. Council Office for 10c. Two THE GRADUATE CHRONICLE December 15, 1938 MORE UP-COUNTRY WORK CONVENOR Students Urge National FEATURED Scholarships IN NEW EXTENSION PLANS Objective Is To Assist 1000 Students at $500 TRAVELLING SCHOOLS FOR FARM YOUTH Each HAVE BEEN EIGHT WEEKS ON ROAD University of B.C. students have Through its increasing progress this year in a new direction, agreed to support a national move­ U.B.C. establishes a closer, more helpful contact with rural Brit­ ment requesting the Dominion Gov­ ish Columbia than it has heretofore been able to do. An expanded ernment to provide $500,000 annual­ program of lectures, group-study, craft and educational training ly for scholarships in Canadian uni­ which reaches from the campus on Pt. Grey to Vancouver Island, versities. the lower mainland, upper country, and the north, is now in full The Canadian Student Assembly, swing as organized and directed by the department of University which has already presented a brief Extension. to the Rowell Royal Commission, will send a delegation to Parliament New features and new methods" distinguish the 1938-39 Extension pro­ to 5 days, and cover problems of the to press for national aid for deserv­ gram, under the direction of Dr. local theatre group: organization, ing but needy students. Gordon Shrum. Most interesting of production, casting, scenery, voice, The initial objective is 1000 schol­ them all is the educational Chautau­ and movement. Courses have recent­ arships of $500 each. At the present qua at present stationed in Wood­ ly been given at Courtenay and Ab- time, the Dominion Government fin­ pecker, with additional classes near­ botsford. They are offered at nom­ MISS ARDY BEAUMONT ances post-graduate work through by in Prince George. Mr. Kenneth inal cost to groups of about 30. Sup­ As vice-president of the Alumni fellowships offered by the National Caple and his staff have set up a plementary to the course is Miss Association, Miss Ardy Beaumont is Research Council but has never ac­ teaching plant to draw unemployed Somerset's catalogue of about 380 chairman of the committee in charge cepted responsibilty for matricula­ young people from rural areas for plays, which, along with children's of the Alumni Reunion Dance in the tion or undergraduate students. instruction in a dozen useful fields plays and reference books, are avail- Commodore on Monday, December of study. General farming, modern eble from the Extension Library to 26. Tickets may be obtained from ing to the Canadian Bar Association homemaking, general education and groups throughout the province. any member of the executive or at here last summer, predicted a fac­ ulty of law on the campus within a recreation are the three main lines Reading courses in specific top­ the door. year or two. The University's chan­ of subjects taught. The program is ics, drawn up by an authority in cellor, Dr. R. E. McKechnie, has long a part of the Dominion Provincial each field, have been outlined for urged establishment of a school of Youth Training Plan, operated in B.C. numbers of study groups up-country medicine. ., by the Extension Department and and elsewhere. Six courses have EXPANSION OF A department of home economics the Provincial Department of Agri­ been arranged, in Economics, Brit* was agreed upon several years ago culture. ish Columbia History, Practical Psy­ U.B.C. and was on the point of being set Mr. Caple, a U.B.C. grad (Aggie chology, History of the Theatre, and up when the project had to be aban­ '26) came down this year from Sum­ Modern Literature. These are divid­ doned because of lack of funds. merland for the new work in Ex­ ed under distinct topical headings BEING STUDIED Other groups have been campaign­ tension. The staff of five includes, in for group discussion, and each one ing for a department of pharmacy fact, three alumni: Mr. Caple, Miss supplies as thorough an analysis of LAW, MEDICINE AND for some time. Kathleen Milligan, and A. J. Rennie. its subject as the intelligent lay HOME ECONOMICS expert on soils. group is likely to achieve. Exten­ LAWYERS Over an eight - weeks period, sion Library service furnishes full SUGGESTED they have moved in car and trailer Lawyers: when advising your background reading to each group Expansion of the University of from Hazelmere to Prince George, clients regarding charitable bequests, registered with the Department. B. C. to include faculties of law, with additional schools at South- remember to include the University In the Vancouver program, Even­ medicine, pharmacy and home econ­ bank, Telkwa, and Vanderhoof. In of British Columbia. ing Lectures occuy the largest omics is being canvassed by com­ the new year, their route will likely place. Six comprehensive evening mittees of the senate. "I went back to my old job the be extended to include Kamloops, courses are currently in session. University authorities have stated other day." Salmon Arm, Armstrong, Vernon, Professor Thorlief Larsen directs a they do not expect any immediate "Been out of work long?" Penticton, Oliver and Okanagan new course in English Composition, action, due to lack of funds, but in "Thirty-six years." Palls, contingent upon the comple­ which has become instantly popular. the face of persistent demands for tion of plans at present under way. "Hadn't you forgotten how to do Mrs. John Creighton, wife of the facilities for advanced study here, it?" Men's courses include soils, field new Associate in the English de­ they are laying the ground work for "I managed it all right." crops, livestock, farm mechanics, partment, and herself an Old Grad the new departments. "What is your line?" farm accounting, horticulture, dairy­ (Sallee Murphy, Arts '23) is giving Senator J. W. deB. Farris, speak- "I'm a Coronation program seller. ing, poultry and marketing. Wom­ a series on contemporary English en's include nutrition, clothing, health, and continental Literature. Profes­ handicrafts, poultry, horticulture, sor F. G. C. Wood has charge of a ALUMNI MEMBERS farm accounting and marketing. The course in Playwriting, an innova­ age group is from 16 to 30, and the tion. The consistently useful lecture Contributions for the second issue of The Graduate Chronicle instruction of course free. series covering General Botany, Am­ must be in the hands of the editor not later than March 1, 1939. Another feature of the Extension ateur Gardening, and Poultry, are If there are no contributions there will be no Chronicle. program which brings the Univers­ given by Professor John Davidson, Following is an outline of the requirements: ity into close touch with scattered Professors A. F. Barss, Howell Har­ 1. Reports of branch meetings and activities. districts in the province is the Dra­ ris, and Frank Buck, and Professors 2. General news of Interest to university men and women. ma Course organized by Miss Doro­ E. A. Lloyd and Jacob Biely. 3. Brevities, including births, deaths and marriages, and thy Somerset. Director of the under­ Other services always available paragraphs of news of individual alumni. graduate Players' Club with conspic­ from the department include the Ex­ 4. Essays, poems, short stories. uous success for the past five years, tension Library, the complete Visual 5. Letters to the editor. she has also organized the Drama Instruction Service of Films, Slides, 6. Humor. School of the Air, a popular broad­ and Projectors, and Radio. Daily Send all contributions to the editor, cast feature, and the Summer School Broadcast of five-minute farm mar­ EDGAR N. BROWN, Theatre this year, whose chef d'oeu- ket reports from the University is The Daily Province, vre was the stately "Trojan Women" scheduled tentatively to begin at Ave Vancouver, B.C. presented in August. minutes before noon, Dec. 15, over The Drama Courses are from 3 CBR. December 15, 1938 THE GRADUATE CHRONICLE Three B. C. CANCER CLINIC Two Alumni DIRECTED 8 Visitors On Shaped BY UNIVERSITY MEN Summer The British Columbia Cancer In­ stitute, first clinic of its kind de­ Session Staff Trade Treaty voted to the treatment of cancer in Western Canada, is under direction Noted Professors Coming U. B. C. Graduates Played of a professor, a former student and Prominent Part in a graduate of the University of B.C. From Distant Agreement The clinic, located at Eleventh Colleges Avenue and Heather Street, is equip­ The Canada-U.S. Trade Treaty an­ ped with 260 needles of radium, com­ rj^IGHT noted visiting professors nounced last month, an eight-months prising one gram, and complete diag­ •" and twenty-one from the faculty job whose relation to Canadian busi­ nostic and treatment facilities. The will comprise the staff of the Univer­ ness and the Anglo-U.S. treaty com­ institute owns an additional two sity summer session in 1939 under pleted at the same time make it the grams of radium, which will be fit­ direction of Prof. Lemuel Robertson. most important national commit­ ted into a "bomb" for deep-therapy Details of courses to be offered at ment of the year, is the handiwork treatment as soon as funds are avail­ the session will be included in the of three Canadians, two of whom able. March Chronicle. have direct contacts with U.B.C. Dr. Gordon Shrum, head of the de­ Following are the appointments: Norman Robertson, L.D. Wilgress, partment of physics and director of Botany, Dr. A. H. Hutchinson, Dr. and Hector McKinnon are the three the department of extension, is hon­ Frank Dickson and Prof. John Da­ men. "These three," says the Fin­ orary secretary of the institute. With vidson, U.B.C. Chemistry, Dr. R. H. ancial Post of Nov. 26, "are the real Dr. B. J. Harrison, chief radiologist Clark, Dr. William Ure, U.B.C. Clas­ negotiators, the men behind but not of the General Hospital, he travelled sics, Prof. Lemuel Robertson, U.B.C. in the headlines." They likewise ne­ through Eastern Canada and the Economics and commerce, Prof. G. gotiated the 1936 Canada-U.S. agree­ United States to study recent devel­ F. Drummond, U.B.C. Education, Dr. ment and the subsequent revision of JACK DAVIS opments in cancer treatment before W. G. Black, U.B.C.; Dr. H. E.Smith, the Ottawa agreements. Jack Davis, of Kamloops, who will final plans for the clinic were ap­ University of Alberta. proved. Wilgress, who was brought up in graduate in chemical engineering English Prof. F. G. C. Wood, As radium therapist, or chief op­ Vancouver schools, attended the old U.B.C, and Dr. Edward Chapman, next May, was elected Rhodes scho­ erator of the clinic, the board of di­ McGill college in pre-U.B.C. days, University of Utah. Geology and lar for B.C. by the selection commit­ rectors chose Dr. A. Maxwell Evans, moving on to McGill proper for his geography, Dr. Gordon Davis, U.B. who took his pre-medical work at honors degree in economics. tee early in December. He is a mem­ C, and Dr. Eric H. Faigle, Syracuse U.B.C. and went from there to a Robertson, son of Prof. L. F. Rob­ ber of Sigma Phi Delta fraternity. University. brilliant career in radiology at Mc­ ertson, head of the Classics depart­ He is a member of Students' Coun­ Gill and Cambridge. He held a num­ History, Prof. F. H. Soward and ment on the campus, was Rhodes cil as president of the Men's Under­ ber of similar posts in English hos­ Dr. Sylvia Thrupp, U.B.C. Mathe­ scholar from U.B.C. in 1923, and lec­ graduate Society, a Big Block win­ pitals and clinics before returning matics, Dr. Ralph Hull and Prof. F. tured here for a year in Economics. ner as member of the U.B.C. basket­ to Vancouver last June. J. Brand, U.B.C, and Dr. R. L. Jef- Hector McKinnon is the present fery, Acadia University, and Dr. F. ball team, which won the Canadian Dr. J. A. MacMillan, one of the Tariff Commissioner at Ottawa. Wil­ C. Leonard, chairman of the depart­ championship in 1937, and a consist­ two part-time medical officers of the gress, who has served as trade sur­ ment of astronomy at University of ent winner of scholarships, from a clinic, is a graduate of U.B.C. and veyor in Mocow and Prague, and as California in Los Angeles. matriculation scholarship to the has practiced medicine in Vancouver commissioner in Hamburg, is direc­ Modern languages, Dr. D. O. Evans, Swan Memorial bursary for the past for several years. tor of Canada's Commercial Intel­ Dr. Joyce Hallamore, Dr. Deborah, two years. ligence Service. Robertson has tak­ A. K. Aish and Dr. Joan Dangelzer, en part in the Imperial trade nego­ Fourteen applicants faced the se­ FOUR FELLOWSHIPS FOR all of U.B.C. Philosophy and psy­ tiations of 1932, and the Canada-U.S. lection committee, presided over by chology, Dr. J. A. Irving, U.B.C; Dr. Lieutenant-Governor E. W. Hamber. GRADUATES treaty of 1935. He has lectured two Wilbur Long, Dr. Frank Davis, Uni­ years in economics at Harvard, a lu­ The. following four fellowships for versity of California at Los Ange­ crative interlude whence Mr. Ben­ BOOKSTORE graduate students have recently been les; Prof. J. A. Sharrard, University nett retrieved him for the Civil Ser­ A move of U.B.C. students to take announced by the University regis­ of Saskatchewan. vice by violating the Canadian Civil over operation of the university trar: Physics, Dr. O. E. Anderson and Service Act. He has been to Gen­ bookstore and cafeteria was stalled (1) The Edward Goodrich Ache- Dr. A. M. Crooker, U.B.C. eva with Sir Robert Borden and recently by veto of the Board of son gold medal and fellowship of with Hugh Guthrie. Last year he Governors at their last meeting. $1000 for noteworthy original work scholarship, character and promise. attended the Imperial Conference It had been proposed that the Alma in electrochemistry, electrometallur­ It is offered by the Confederation of held in London after the Coronation. Mater Society take over these two gy, electronics or electrothermics. University Women. Now, as a first secretary in Exter­ businesses on the campus as a means (2) The Edward Weston fellow­ (4) A fellowship of $1500 open to nal Affairs, he was senior trade offi­ to provide student employment, and ship of $1000 in electrochemistry for women for a year of research, pre­ cial of the Canadian mission at in addition to divert profits towards postgraduate work. ferably in science, in some country Washington, negotiating the pres­ the proposed Union Building. Applications for the above awards other than the candidate's, is offered ent tripartite agreement. Numbers of U.S. universities oper­ should be made to Dr. Colin G. Fink, by the American Association of Uni­ ate their bookstores and dining- secretary of the Electrochemical So­ versity Women. "No man can escape the Govern­ rooms as student-labor enterprises, ciety, Columbia University, New ment today." and it was this scheme that suggest­ York. "I have tried to understand mod­ "No, it either gives him all he has, ed itelf to the local Student' Council (3) A $1250 travelling scholarship ern music—but failed."—Sergei Ra­ or takes all he has!" as an aid to raising funds. open to women graduates, based on chmaninoff,

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CAPILANO BREWING CO. ANONYMOUS Four THE GRADUATE CHRONICLE December 15, 1938 GRADS...FAR and NEAR *• IIII HI HIM III Mlltlll III IHIIIHHIHIIHIIH III llll 1111111111111111111 From Ottawa APPOINTMENT BIRTHS New Officers Mill llltll 11III III MM 111111 •• HUH I imill III llltllllllllllllllltlltlHi/ From Ottawa, Ross Tolmie, Arts To Mr. and Mrs. Ken Campbell, '29, sends the following letter about Commerce '32, (Mary Dooley, Arts For Royal alumni in the Dominion capital. Ross '32), of Barkerville, in June in himself, an official in the income Vancouver, a son. City Branch tax division, is president of the To Mr. and Mrs. Robert McDonald, group. Miss Islay Johnson, of the Arts '34, (Mollie Eakins, Arts '35), NEW WESTMINSTER — Jack Streight was elected president of the department of agriculture, is sec­ of New Westminster, in August, a New Westminster branch of the Alu­ retary. son. mni Association at the annual meet­ "The Ottawa group of U.B.C grads To Mr. and Mrs. Dean Whittaker, ing recently. Other officers include: has high hopes for the coming year," Science '34, (Tessle Sadlier-Brown), Judge F. W. Howay, honorary presi­ he writes. "They will welcome any of Woodfibre, in Vancouver, in advance notice of a visitor to Ottawa dent; Arnold Armour, vice-president; February, a daughter. Ian Douglas, corresponding secre­ from U.B.C. or Vancouver who To Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Candlish would be willing to meet an informal tary; Barbara Watts, recording sec­ (Margie Greig, Arts '28), of Pio­ retary; Colin Cameron, treasurer. group of grads at a tea or luncheon neer, in January, a son. Twenty-seven members attended a and give them the latest news from To Mr. and Mrs. David P. Todd, Arts dinner meeting on November 23 in out west. Last summer Dr. Klinck '34, in November in Vancouver, a the Gingham Tea Shoppe. Dr. G. very kindly did this and the thirty daughter. odd grads who turned out to lunch G. Sedgewick, the principal speaker, To Mr. and Mrs. John Farris, Arts '31 gave the members for the first time on a few hours' notice were very (Dorothy Colledge, Arts '32), in grateful indeed." the point of view of the faculty and November in Vancouver, a son. the board of governors regarding Hugh and Katherine Keenlyside To Mr. and Mrs. Dick Hoffmeister present conditions and student de­ are the proud possessors of another (Donalda Strauss, Arts '27), in mands at the university. girl—their third child. Hugh seems Vancouver, a daughter. to spend as much time in Vancouver To Mr. and Mrs. Laurie Todd, Arts in Sault St. Marie. as he does in Ottawa, perhaps be­ JAMES A. GIBSON '35, (Jean Root), of Whitehorse, Phyllis Campbell, Arts '31, to Eric cause he is the only man on the The most notable recent appoint­ Y.T., in September, a son. Alexander, in August. Government service that thoroughly ment for a graduate was the selec­ To Mr. and Mrs. Earl Vance, Arts '32, understands the Oriental problem. tion of James A. Gibson, Rhodes (Florence Joyce), in Vancouver in Marion Sangster, Arts '33, to David D. Reeve, Science '33, in Septem­ This year the U.B.C grads in Ot­ scholar for 1931, as assistant prin­ November, a daughter. ber, in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Resid­ tawa plan to hold a dance in con­ cipal private secretary to the Prime To Mr. and Mrs. John R. Fournier, ing in Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario. junction with the McGill grads. It's Minister in the department of ex­ Science '22, (Margaret Robson, Arts only fitting that the old association ternal affairs, Ottawa. Shortly before '21), of New Westminster, in May, Rosemary Winslow, Arts '33, to Don­ of the two Universities be recognized the appointment, he received his a son. ald McAllister, in June. Nan Quelch, Arts '36, to Pat Bur- in this form of joint whoopee. doctorate from Oxford University. To Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pratt, Arts '33, Henry Angus is almost a resident He was a member of the faculty of rough, in June. —in fact he's almost an institution the University last year. in May, a son. Verna Galloway, Arts '31, to Geoffrey of Ottawa. We wonder if the Gov­ To Mr. and Mrs. James Osborne, Trant, Arts '32, last summer. ernment will let him go back to suggestions for names — but our (Gertrude Grayson), in Vancouver, Ruth Brandon, Arts '37, to Jack U.B.C. after he has finished the guess is that they will choose a son. Viner, in Noember. Commission report. We seem to re­ "Aulay" for one of them. To Mr. and Mrs. Stave Mellor (Dor­ Dorothy Marie Downing, Arts '30, to member a permanent "loan" of Dr. Phyllis (Gregory) Turner is prob­ othy Patmore, Arts '3D, in Van­ George Dobson, in May. Carrothers to the B.C. Government. ably Canada's most valued lady civil couver in October, a son. Muriel Goode, Arts '33, to Robert Ab. Richards is poing down the servant. She is secretary to the Tar­ To Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Shayler, Leeson, Arts '35, in November. home-stretch for his Ph. D. He is iff Board, and as such she watches Science '35, in August, a son. Audrey L. Hughes, Arts '35, to D. Ed­ at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. and guards such vital things as Can­ To Mr. and Mrs. Jeckell Eairley, Sci­ win Nunn, in June. Bob Keyserlingk isn't a resident adian labour, Canadian business and ence '34, (Aubin Burridge, Arts '3D, Cicely R. Hunt, Arts '31, to E. L. of Ottawa, but is he a resident of your and my cost of living. in Vancouver in May, a son. Pierrot, in November. Milshie Petrak, Arts '30, to Mary any city? Last news we had was Ab. Whitely did such yeoman ser­ To Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Farquhar, Malli, in Ladysmith last December. that he was moving from Vancouver vice for the Government in the Tex­ (Jean Mcintosh, Arts '30), in Vic­ Fiona Sutherland, Arts '32, to Rich­ to Toronto—but last week we had tile Inquiry that they voted him a toria in December, a son. ard Deane, Science '33, and living a most delightful dinner at his house handsome cash prize at the last ses­ To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Taylor, in Trail. in Montreal West. He works for the sion of Parliament. Now he is (Marion McLellan, Arts '3D, in British United Press, and contri­ engaged in trust-busting under the September in Vancouver, a son. Christine Millard, Arts '34. to Dick butes liberally to the support of our Combines Investigation Act. To Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Hay, Moore, Science '33, in Vancouver. railroads. Science '30, (Betty Mackenzie, Arts Margaret Wilson, Arte '35, to Philip D'Arcy Marsh appears to have Norman Robertson is back in Ot­ '30), of Regina, in November, a in Montreal. definitely abandoned journalism for tawa after nine months in Washing­ Eric Johnson, Science "34, to Anne radio broadcasting. He is with the daughter. ton where he was closeted with Am­ Dunn, in Wells, last summer. C.B.C. at Toronto. limit llllllll Hill HIIIII III IHIIIIIIIIIIIItlllllltlllllllHtlHIIHHIIII erican and British experts in the Betty Wilson, Arts '33, to Dr. L. S. gargantuan task of drafting the Bobby (Pound) Plaunt is almost Chipperfield, in August in New a settled Ottawan, and lives on a I MARRIAGES I Trade Treaty. For a reward Norman rHIIMIIMIIIMMlHIIIIIMIlMlfltflMIIIIIIIMHIIItltllltHIIHHIlim Westminster. Residing in Coquit- was given a write-up in the Finan­ nice quiet street in Rockcliffe, where Barbara Ashby, Arts '30, to William lam. cial Post when he returned and was she entertains Vancouver visitors Harvey, Arts '31, in September. Allan Webster, Science '33, to Edith called a "braln-truster." very competently. Donalda Carson, Arts '36, to David Madill, in June. Residing in New James Gibson is a recent addition Ottawa alumni of the Department Oppenheimer in September. Westminster. to the staff of the External Affairs of Agriculture were pleased to see Marjorie Hobson, Arts '37, to Mal­ Hugh Godard, Science '36, to Nina Department. He makes the third Dean Clement at the recent "Agri­ colm Hardie, in Hong Kong, in Foster of Montreal, in Montreal in U.B.C. grad on that staff: three out cultural Outlook" Conference. The November. May. Residing in Eustis, Quebec. of nine secretaries is a pretty good Dean found many of his former Kathleen Taylor, Nursing '38, to Tom Brock, Science '36, to Verna batting average for U.B.C. At pres­ students attending the meeting. Meredith Saunders, in June. Robson, in Vancouver a year ago. ent he is on the Prime Minister's Elza Lovett, Arts '36, to Alan May- Residing in St. Lambert, Quebec. staff. Peggy Fox, Arts '38, to Ken Ingle- hew, Arts 536, in Victoria in Sep­ Mabel Folkins, Arts '36, to Homer Louise (Morrison) Kerr announces dew. tember. Residing in Vancouver. Defieux, this month. the birth this month of a son. She Mary A. DePencier, Arts '36, to Allan Edward Merrett, Science '32, to Mar­ Connie Harvey, Arts '37, to Bruce L. and hubby John are busy receiving Tatum in August in Vancouver. jorie Brown, in October. Residing Robinson, Arts '36. December 15, 1938 THE GRADUATE CHRONICLE Five

lllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIMItlllltlllllMIIIIMIIllllllllllMt the campus after a year in London. Marion Casselman, Arts '32, is editor I PERSONALS I She is rather in favor of going back of the cooking pages for The Daily Alumni Players to London. Province Modern Kitchen. riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitittiiiiifiiitiiiitiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiTi Kenneth Grant, Arts '37, is a reporter Beth Evans, Arts '37, has her first Peggy Daugherty, Arts '37, is teach­ on the staff of the Vancouver Sun. teaching position in North Vancou­ Produced ing at Aspen Grove, near Merritt. So is Alan Morley, Arts '36. ver High School. She drives a horse to school and Eleanor Leach, Arts '34, Bella Weiss, May Peacock, Arts '36, is doing re­ says it is more fun than a 1939 Amusing Play Arts '35, Ronald Grantham, Arts search work with the tuberculosis Packard. '31 and Joe Andrews, are all teach­ division of the Vancouver General Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fullerton, Arts The Alumni Players, who have ing school in Ladysmith. Hospital. '29 (Althea Banfleld), spent last been cast together so often that they William Gibson, Arts '33, has studied Prof. W. O. Richmond, Science '29, is summer touring Europe. They re­ practically constitute a stock com­ medicine at Oxford, spent several in the department of mechanical turned via the Queen Mary, which pany, did well by their most recent months in Spain, and is now com­ engineering U.B.C, after postgrad­ they pronounced too large for com­ production of "Personal Appear­ pleting his medical work at McGill. uate work at the. Massachusetts fort. Harold is a member of the ance" on December 2 and 3. Direct­ Ray Brunt, Arts '32, is in charge of Institute of Technology and teach­ high school teaching staff in ed by Sidney Risk, late of London, library and guidance work in Na­ ing at the Case School of Engineer­ Quesnelle. Eng., the performance was crisp, ro­ naimo High School. ing, Cleveland. Reginald Bolton, Science '32, is a bust and funny. Russell Shaneman, Arts '31 and Mrs. O. K. S. Laugharne (Grace chemist and inspector for the Dorothy McKelvie Fowler display­ Comm. '32, is selling insurance in Smith, Arts '25), formerly in Osaka, Dominion Government in the can­ ed her versatility in a highly-colored Vancouver. He holds the rank of Japan, is now living in London and ned fish section in Vancouver. characterization that was the com­ major in the Army Service Corps. delivered a speech at the Glasgow Margaret Wilson, Arts '32, is teach­ plete antithesis of her swooning Rev. and Mrs. James Dunn, Arts '31, Exposition last summer. ing at Shalath, B.C. Susie last year (Boy Meets Girl). Her (Frances Robinson, Arts '3D, are Edmund Morrison, Arts '27, is teach­ Dr. and Mrs. Terence Holmes, Science languishing, malapropping, grandi­ busy as bees in the Canadian Pres­ ing English at U.B.C. after several '32 (Irene Ramage, Arts '32), are loquent Carol Arden was a delight byterian Mission in British Guiana. years on the faculty of the Univer­ living with their small son, Mar­ to eye and ear, and compared to dis­ They were home on furlough dur­ sity of California. tin, at Larder Lake, Ontario, tinct advantage with Mae West's por­ ing the summer. John Slater, Arts '34, won a prize in where Terry is consulting geolo­ trayal in the screen version (Every James Inkster, Arts '35, is principal the Irish Hospital Sweepstake last gist. Day's A Holiday). of Harewood High School, near spring. But he was not as lucky as Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Buckland, Nanaimo. Art Dawe, who graduated in 1938, Miss Alice Morrow and Mr. David Science '33, (Helen Jackson, Arts Mr. and Mrs. Tom Somerton, Science who won more than $400,000 in the McDonald, as a pair of rural heart­ '33) are living on Vancouver Isl- '32 (Betty Creighton, Arts '34), are same way several years ago. throbs, were likewise a joy to be­ and.where Alf. has a roving com­ living in Vancouver, where Tom Isabel Bews, Arts '32, was recently hold. Miss Morrow's moonstruck mission as engineer for Bloedel, teaches high school. appointed dietician to Essondale posturing and Mr. McDonald's quaint Stewart & Co. Mr. and Mrs. Hartley Sargent, Arts Mental Hospital. and wholesome bluffness, which Mr. and Mrs. James Beddall are '30 (Jean Fisher, Arts '29), are liv­ Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood Lett, Arts '16, made him look like a candied apple, spending Christmas i'n England. ing in Vancouver, where Hartley (Evelyn Story, Arts '17), are living were exactly in the spirit. Cyril They recently built a fine new is district engineer and Jean is quietly in Vancouver. Sherwood is Chave was an upright and faithful home in West Vancouver. teaching advanced mathematics at a member of the board of gover­ Tom Swift as the inventor, and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Stirling, Sci­ the University. nors and the senate of the Univer­ Eileen Griffin drew full value from ence '34 (Margaret Little, Arts '33), Mrs. John H. Creighton (Sally Mur­ sity and a prominent barrister. the meaty lines of her excellent who have been living at Premier, phy, Arts '23), is back in Vancouver Charlotte Dill, Arts '34, is the only character part (Aunt Kate). Other have sailed for southern. Rhodesia after several years in Toronto. She girl at the Royal Vancouver Yacht dependables in the cast were Wilmer and expect to arrive about Christ­ is conducting a highly popular Club who sails her own boat and Jlaggarty, Dorothy Mole Martin, mas. Andy is a mining engineer. course in modern literature for the during the summer she won the Betty Buckland, J. O. C. Kirby, Helen Reid, Arts '34, is teaching at University department of exten­ snipe championship and several Nora Gibson, and William Bucking­ Kimberley. sion. other trophies. George Parsons, ham. Arte '32, an insurance man and an­ Mollie Little, Arts '36, is studying Dr. William Frank Emmons, Arts '18, Executive for the Alumni Players* other yachtsman, won a number of commercial art in London. is one of the very few U.B.C. grad­ Club this year is led by president Zoe Brown-Clayton, Arts '37, arrived uates practicing medicine in Van­ trophies in the same club with his David McDonald. Vice-President is a week or so ago in London and couver. boat. Mrs. F. G. C. Wood; secretary, J. O. is planning to live in England and Ruth Cheeseman, Nursing '35, is do­ Russell Baker, Arts '30 and Comm C. Kirby; treasurer, Dr. Eleanor Ireland for some time. ing public health nursing in Ha­ '31, is assistant to Arthur Lord, Riggs; committee, Alfreda Thomp­ Isobel Harvey, Arts '18, now has one waii. Arte '21, in the city legal depart­ son. Selection of the Alumni Spring of the most responsible women's Betty White, Arts '37, is a social ser­ ment. Art is city solicitor. Play will be made in another week. positions in B.C. She is superin­ vice worker for the Children's Aid Joseph Chell, Arts '32, is principal of tendent of neglected children in Society in Vancouver. of the Toronto Star. the department of social welfare Clare Brown, Arts '35, is secretary for Lord Lister Junior High School. Neil Perry, B.A. '33, is in Victoria as for the Provincial Government. the Student Christian Movement at Gordon Hilker, Arts '34, is an impres- assistant to Dr. W. A. Carrothers, Dr. Allon Peebles, Arts '20 (Ph.D. the University of Toronto. sario in Vancouver and has been economic advisor to the Provincial from Columbia) is still chairman Jean Meredith, Arts '38, is attending responsible for bringing many in­ Government and a former profes­ of the health insurance commis­ Margaret Eaton School in Toronto ternational musical and theatrical sor of U.B.C. Neil is in charge of sion but there is no health insur­ on a scholarship. celebrities to the city. economic research and the statis­ ance. Isabella Arthur, Arts '33, is complet­ Mr. and Mrs. George E. Evans, Sci­ tical bureau. Tommy Peardon, Arts '21, who is ing her law course at Osgoode Hall, ence '31, (Myra Lockhart, Arts '3D, Elizabeth (Beth) Abernethy, Arts '20, lecturing in history at Columbia Toronto, this year. moved this summer from Port formerly assistant registrar of the University, was home during the Margaret Buchanan, Arts '35, is Moody with their two children to University, is principal secretary to summer. Sarnia, Ontario. President L. S. Klinck. Avis Pumphrey, Arts '27, is back on teaching in Trail High School. Asenath and Donna Leitch, both of Yvonne Brown, Arts '34, is in a divi­ the campus for social service. Marnie McKee, Arts '35, has com­ Nursing '37, are nursing sisters. sional office of the General Hos­ Margaret Ecker, Arts '37, is a mem­ pleted her training at Royal Vic­ Asenath is assistant superintendent pital. ber of the society staff of The torian Hospital, Montreal, and is at the General Hospital, Medicine David Brock is in London, apparently Hat, where she teaches forty stu­ Daily Province. She returned this nursing at the Vancouver General enjoying himself. He does consider­ dent nurses, while Donna is public week from Calgary, where she Hospital. able freelance writing and has con­ health and school nurse in Van­ worked on the Herald for three Evelyn McGuire, Nursing '37, is with tributed several poems to Punch. couver. months as exchange writer. the Abbotsford - Matsqui - Sumas Dr. Deborah Aish, Arts '35, is back on T. Wentworth McGinn, Science '37, James Sinclair, Science '28, Rhodes health service. the campus as instructor in the de­ scholar and former school teacher, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Taylor, Arts '34, is in the assay office at the Prem­ ier Mine. He was home for his holi­ partment of modern languages. is secretary to Hon. W. J. A.ssel- (Dorothy Barrow, Arts '32), have She recently returned from the stine. returned to Vancouver after a year days in Vancouver in November. Ross Tolmie, Arts '29 and a Rhodes University of Paris, where she Grace Hope, Arts '27, has recently abroad, while Chris was exchange studied under a French Govern­ been appointed case supervisor of teacher in Scotland. scholar, is a barrister but is not practicing. He is in the income tax ment scholarship. Her doctorate the family service department of Stuart Keate, Arts '35, is on the staff thesis, Metaphors in Mallarme, was the Episcopalian City Mission in division of the Dominion Govern­ of The Daily Province after two published as a book in Paris and Brooklyn, N.Y. years of work with the Toronto ment at Ottawa. received extremely favorable re­ Audrey Phillips, Arts '37, is back on Star. Cecelia Long, Arts '32, is on the staff views from the critics. Six THE GRADUATE CHRONICLE December 15, 1938 An Historic Congregation of the most eminent English philos­ the work of perpetuating this insti­ ophers of the 18th century, held the tution, and I am indeed gratified in faith that the movement of civiliz­ now finding myself brought more in­ FOUR NOTED LEGALISTS ation is a movement from East to timately within its academic walls. West and the same idea is expressed Then in the second place, I am HONORED in a famous line in Tennyson's proud to receive this deree because "Locksley Hall": 'Through the sha­ in so short a time the University of dow of the globe we sweep into the British Columbia has become a DURING BAR CONVENTION younger day.' great educational institution. "I rejoice that you have such beau­ "There is not to my knowledge a OUR distinguished jurists, representing the bar of Canada, tiful buildings the forerunners, I more inspiring site for a university F Great Britain and the United States, received honorary doubt not, of other fair buildings to in all the world than this campus at degrees of doctor of laws from Chancellor R. E. McKechnie at arise on this glorious site. The uni­ Foint Grey. The world today is in a special congregation during the annual meeting of the Canadian versities I know best are those of many ways an ugly place. The stu­ Bar Association in Vancouver last August. Oxford and Cambridge—Oxford, as dents of this college go forth into The brief speeches of the four recipients were each distinctive Mathew Arnold in a celebrated pas­ this ugly world with a love of beau­ contributions to the literature of the University and they are sage said: 'Steeped in sentiment as ty and sense of peace and glory reproduced below through the courtesy of President L. S. Klinck, she lies spreading her gardens to the which will influence their lives in all who made them available. moonlight, and whispering from her the years to come. Following are the addresses substantially as given before a towers the last enchantments of the "Then, too, this University has at­ noted audience: Middle Age.' tained an academic standing of the "Cambridge, with the immortal highest order. Its professors are re­ RT. HON. SIR LYMAN DUFF ereign gift, the world of thought, the beauty of that line of Colleges along cognized as scholars by other uni­ Chief Justice of Canada world of dreams. "Mine all the past, the Backs, by own University where versities and its students are receiv­ and all the future mine." But I am "I desire in my first sentence to I was once an obscure undergradu­ ed on a basis of equality in the fra­ inclined to think that the sovereign tender to you, Sir, and the Universi­ ate at that great college Trinity, the ternity of higher education. One gift from the university, upon those ty of British Columbia, my most sin­ college of Bacon and Newton. It is thing this University has lacked. It capable of receiving it, would be cere thanks for the distinction which indeed difficult to estimate how much has lacked the background of tradi­ really a gift of a different order. The you have been pleased to confer up­ the English people owe to the fact tion and an ivy mantled, past. But key to real knowledge, as well as to on me this afternoon, and for his that so many of the great centres of it has the great freedom of youth. temporal happiness, is, I believe, dis­ friendly expressions, all too kind to education in England are places of It is greater to make history than it closed to us in the phrase of that my old friend Judge Howay. singular beauty—Oxford, Cambridge, is to read history. Here in this new great man, Bossuet: "Le bon sens est "A famous man whom I hod the Eton, Winchester. . city, in these inspiring surroundings, proprement le maitre de la vie hu- honor—it was truly an honor—to the professors and the young men maine." 'Le bon sens' is, I believe, "Reflections such as these, speak­ number among my friends (it was and women of the University of Bri- the essential object of education in ing as I do in a place as beautiful Lord Haldane), used to insist in con­ ish Columbia are creating traditions its broadest conception. as this, might carry me far. I re­ versation that every true university for the generations to come. They "Mr. Chancellor, I hope you will frain, and I conclude by assuring exists for two great purposes: The you that as long as I live I shall re­ are conscious of a boundless oppor­ first of these purposes is the encour­ permit me to repeat the acknow­ tunity and their pulses quicken with ledgement of my sense of the great member with deep pride the honor agement, and the actual pursuit of you have done me today." the spirit of adventure. It is a great the higher learning; of the study of honor I have today received at your privilege to share in this adventure those profound things, life, thought, hands, and to express also the hope SENATOR J. W. deB. FARRIS and for my share I thank you with science, existence itself, of every —nay, the confident expectation, that Past President, Canadian Bar feelings of deepest appreciation." page of the wide book of know­ this university, the centre of intel­ Association ledge; the study of these deep things lectual activity, in British Columbia, "I am deeply appreciative of the ARTHUR T. VANDERBII/T for their own sake; and this, because will go on from strength to strength." honor done me by the University in Past President American Bar it is of the dignity of man to know. conferring upon me the degree of Association The other is to send forth a constant VISCOUNT FINLAY OF NAIRN Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa. I "This beautiful site, this splendid stream of those who, by discipline Judge of the High Court of Justice am sure the members of the Cana­ young University of the West, this and culture, are qualified to live the "It is not easy to express how deep­ dian Bar Association are apprecia­ distinguished company, and the worthy life; whose conduct as citi­ ly I feel the honor which you have tive of the honor done me as the spirit that prompted this Convoca­ zens and as men may be colored, in­ just conferred upon me. To anyone president. To be the recipient of this tion call to my mind the lines of spired and directed by the concep­ it must be a proud privilege to re­ degree is a great honor coming from Kipling: tions, and ideals, the habits of ceive a degree from this young Uni- any university of standing. There 'Hallowed river, most gracious treees, thought and of conduct, that have vesity of the West. May I say that are particular reasons why I am gra­ chapel beyond compare, germinated and grown, or have been to a Scotsman such an honor must tified to receive the degree from the Here be gentlemen tired of the seas nourished and strengthened during make a very special appeal? On University of British Columbia. —take them into your care. the days of their academic sojourn. such an occasion as this I cannot "My personal contact with this Far have they come, much have they "It is a commonplace to say that but remember how profoundly the university has been close. My four braved. Give them their hour of society is strengthened and enriched history of Scotland has been affect­ children are graduates. For twen­ play by the presence in it of large num­ ed by the devotion of her people to ty-five years my wife has been a While the hidden things their hands bers of those who are characterized the ideal of education. Through member of the Senate or of the have saved work for them day by by the habits of mind which it is the many stormy centuries the banner of Board of Governors, or of both. How­ day.' special business of the university to a humane culture was upheld by the ever, my relationship has not been As one of the gentlemen tired of foster. That, I am afraid, is a rather devoted labors of the masters in the entirely vicarious. From 1917 to the seas, may I be permitted to ex­ well-known theme, but it can scarce­ old Parochial School of Scotland and 3922 I was a member of the Govern­ press my sincere appreciation of the ly, perhaps, be repeated too often by the interest of the parents and the ment of this Province. At that time honor you have done me in welcom­ that, from this point of view, the pupils. I am proud of the part the the university was located at its ing me to this haven of light and special aim of the university is, not Scots have played in the world and temporary quarters in Fairview. learning. Not only have you adopt­ to store the mind of the undergradu­ not least am I proud of the part they There was a strong feeling in those ed me, but you have clothed me in ate with facts, but to train him in have played in B.C. I am proud that days against the continuance of the a coat of many colors, which I can certain mental habits. so small a country should have made university. The present Prime Min­ but hope will not arouse the envy of "The good fairy, imagined in Ma- so great a name in history. And I ister was then Minister of Lands. He my more drably clad brethren of the caulay's dream, who bent over his believe that of the many causes of and I were colleagues. It is no se­ American Bar. the greatness of Scotland none has natal cradle, after the queens of cret that if it had not been for the "The trail of destiny westward been more potent than the Scottish power and fashion had passed dis­ fight made by him and myself for the across the continent may be traced system of education. dainfully by—the good fairy, the university, other influences might by noting on the map the colleges glorious lady with the eyes of light "I am confident that before your have prevailed and the university that were founded as the restless and laurels clustering round her University of the West there lies a might not have been here today. I pioneers pushed onward. At first our lofty brow, granted him, as the sov­ great future. Bishop Berkely, one am proud of any part I have had in (Continued on Page 7) December 15, 1938 THE GRADUATE CHRONICLE Seven

dropped out of sight without even a yell, as if a hand had grabbed his legs from below. The rope yanked me THE CLIMBERS forward on my face—my axe was under me, though, and it gripped. A Story Pour yourself a drink and I'll tell howled like a wolf when the water Soon the strain eased off, and I could you. . . . licked over his boot-tops, and me, it hear Seamus tap-tapping under the BY ARTHUR MAYSE I didn't mention the diary in my took my breath away. ice. After a spell his hat poked out Between that pond and the main of the crevasse and he Jacked him­ / got Red located, Bill. He's up in story, because Seamus Burke, the one we saw the first clouds. They self clear. the Anglo-American with a mickey wild Irish logger who took me into the Tantalus country, burned it after came drifting over Terror Gap, white We lengthened our rope and kept of rum. we'd read it. puffs no larger than your hat. I had plugging, hoping to God we wouldn't I told him, 'You'd better lay off "Look you, Red Martin," he tells too many immediate troubles to pay run into a crevasse wide enough to before you start seeing things,' an' me, "you are my friend and all, but them much heed, but Seamus shook gulp the two of us together. he said, 'You can't see things where you will not be giving this to your his head when he saw them and be­ The storm was thickening and we there's nothing to see.' long-nosed editor." gan to stretch those long legs of his. were just about all in. But the shark- Then he takes another drink and No offence, Bill. But he was right. The next slough was a quarter- fin ridge was close, and in its lee we asks me, 'Or can you?' An' gives me I'd hate to think of our subscribers mile across and took us dam' near to saw a strange thing. A tent, small as an odd look. reading Inglis' last words among our necks before it shallowed. We the shelters kids rig up for play, Maybe you better go up an' see their brats of a Sunday morning. were so numb from it we could hard­ with the snow whirling over it. By a if you can snap him out of it. Me, Well, Seamus held the notebook in ly keep moving, and a wind that break of luck we'd happened on 1 can't do a thing with him. the flame of the primus stove until came from all directions at once Inglis' high camp. it charred to his fingers. whooped right through us. We managed a stumbling run. No, I'm not drunk, Bill; just mak­ We found that diary where Inglis Seamus cocked his head toward Fumbled the knots of the flap and ing up for a few I missed while I was had made his high camp at the head the gap. His lips were blue from cold. crawled through. There wasn't much away. Sure, the bonus was swell. of a glacier under the west ridge What with his snow-goggles and the in the tent. A rolled-up sleeping bag Everything was swell. It isn't any­ tucked into the pillow-pocket of his grease-paint on his face he didn't and a rucksack, with a primus beside thing like that. sleeping bag. look human. it. We worked over the primus till That was on the day we left Ice- "There is a word in Antrim that we got it going, and melted snow for AN HISTORIC CONGREGATION fall Point. once before the end o' thet world a tea. (Continued from Page 6) I remember how we started, in the man will give birth to a child," says It wasn't until hours later that we colleges served the indispensable dark, from Icefall. I'd hear Seamus Seamus, "and by the griping in my took stock—we were too ehausted to function of educating our youth, par­ rustling ahead of me through the belly I am for thinking that man is be curious. Seamus figured the sleep­ ticularly for the learned professions. heather, then he'd top a rise and myself. And yonder comes the end ing bag would be warmer than his of the world, Red Martin, and the They kept the torch of civilization stand out black against the stars, ragged blanket, so he began to unroll striding up and over and into the devil riding it home!" it, and the notebook slithered be­ burning. Judged by modern stand­ night again, until we came to the He pointed with his ice-axe. Away tween his knees. ards, the best of them were primi­ cairn Inglis had raised on the hog­ in the northwest, Terror Gap was a We huddled in our baks with a tive institutions with meagre equip­ back when his girl got killed. drawknife with a peak at either end candle-stub for light and the storm ment and slender resources, but We stopped to investigate it. Found for handle and an edge of ice. Clouds yammering outside, and read what judged by the men they produced a brass cylinder with a screw cap, were curling across it in long black Inglis had written, alone there, weeks they need fear no comparisons. The nraybe' the one in which they'd fig­ shavings. The three peaks of Tan­ ago. necessities of the time developed ured on leaving their record of a first talus were blanketed, and mist was I've handled some strange docu­ ascent. rolling down the glaciers toward us. ments. None stranger than the rec­ great teachers. It was with such an We opened it, at least I did, over "Musha," says Seamus, "this is the ord of this man Inglis, who'd re­ establishment in mind that Presi­ Seamus' protests. Only a yellowed way it comes! You will be taking turned for another shot at the moun­ dent Garfield remarked that his no­ scrap of paper inside. your foot into your hand, long man, tain that killed his wife. tion of an ideal college was Mark "Until I come," it said, and then or there will be two more dead under Not that it started out strangely. Hopkins on one end of a log and a "My darling," and that was all. the mountain." First few days it just dealt with in­ student on the other. The girl isn't buried there, by the We began to climb again, working cidents of his trip in from the salt way. The climber did the only thing up the farther slope of the bowl. The chuck. How a grizzly raided his camp "As some of our colleges grew to a man could do—wrapped her in a sun had gone coppery and was glar­ in the spruce. How the ice had re­ be universities, they assumed two tarp and lowered her into a crevasse ing down on us. The ice began to ceded fifty feet from the glacier ton­ new functions—the advancement of somewhere under Tantalus. The ice give off its fetid smell. Sure, like a gue in the years since he'd last come learning and its dissemination to the moves slowly. She's safe up there for morgue without the formaldehyde. this way. How he'd gone alone up public generally. To the responsibil­ all of a hundred years. Ice rots like anything else when it's the glacier, sleeping one night in the ities of teaching were thus added re­ We had a cigarette by the cairn, a few thousand years old. lee of a boulder on the medial mor­ search, university extension work looking cross-glacier to the peaks of Ahead of us, Tantalus Glacier aine with the homeless wind crying and, more recently, the publications Tantalus. Then we roped down a poured over a 2000-foot icefall. I over his head. of the university press. The gain to scree slope to the ice. know now we should have picked a The woman was first mentioned society therefrom cannot be over­ Can't remember much about the different route, but the icefall seem­ after he'd made base camp on Icefall estimated. But these advantages next few hours. Just Seamus moving ed a straight lead to the peaks. It Point under the cairn and was wait­ must never be sought at the expense ahead of me with the sag of the rope was deathly quiet. The ice crackled ing for settled weather before he of that intimate personal relation­ between us, and the point dropping under our boots, and the glacier rot tackled the peak. ship between teacher and student lower and lower in the south, and clawed at our breath. "I thought never to return to this which is the sine qua non of all real the big, godawful mountain coming mountain," he'd written, "but it has education. Then the sun went out and the no closer. storm broke and the seracs began to been calling me from one year to an­ "The mere physical presence of But I do remember the ice-sloughs. boom in the icefall over us. The snow other. I am neither glad nor sorry. youth intent at work and play is a The sloughs, and the storm that drove at us so hard we were half It was something I was compelled to sight to quicken the bloodstream. cracked down on us from Terror Gap blinded. We hacked our way up with do. Now I know why. Something of Why should it not be a function of when we'd crossed them. the ice crashing around us, not her remains in this place, and to­ the University of the twentieth cen­ We reached the bottom of Tantalus knowing whether the next leaning night I feel her nearness." tury to encourage leadership in Bowl and the first slough at noon. column wouldn't spread us thin. Next day no mention of her, but young and old alike? Why should You'd have laughed to see us fording Seamus kept me going. He was on the next, this: not our colleges and universities ev­ those ponds, Bill, but with ice-soup clean gey, howling into the storm— "I know beyond doubt that you are erywhere be a forum for the inter­ shrivelling my shanks I didn't feel dragging me along at his tail. I with me here." change of thought and inspiration like laughing. My feet get cold now hadn't any recollection of topping the Terry, we were watching a man go between the leaders of today and the when I think of it! Hand me the icefall. But all at once there was crazy. As we passed from day to day leaders of tomorrow? bottle. snow underfoot and we were stag­ we saw the sorrow that had been part "For admission into your mystic It's the sun does it, beating on the gering up a tilted snowfield toward a of him for seven years change to a circle of youth, of optimism, of ideal­ sides of the bowl. In the centre, ridge shaped like a shark's fin. happiness that glowed in his pencil ism, of courage for the future, your where there aren't many crevasses, Snow over ice is a wicked combin­ scribble. adopted son, not too proud, I hope, the runoff collects in pools. The first ation. The stuff on that hanging Seamus read on, with the fey look of his coat of many colors, is indeed was small, maybe as wide as from glacier was so soft we wallowed hip- on his long Irish mug. The chills deeply grateful." here across the street. But Seamus deep at every step. One time Seamus (Continued on Page 8) Eight THE GRADUATE CHRONICLE December 15, 1938

SENATE ELECTIONS The Graduate Chronicle LL alumni should bear in mind that fifteen members of Senate A quarterly journal owned by and devoted to the interests of A will be elected by convocation in the spring. Since the Alum­ The Alumni Association of The University of British Columbia. ni Association represents about 90 per cent of the membership of convocation—the balance being made up of members of faculty EDITOR: EDGAR N. BROWN and surviving members of the first convocation—graduates have ASSISTANT EDITORS: JAMES BEVERIDGE a direct interest in the elections. MRS. DORIS BARTON ROSS Of the retiring fifteen senators, all of whom, of course, are THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1938 eligible for re-election, six are graduates of the University of B.C. It is possible that the proportion may be increased for the forthcoming term. Opportunities for making nominations will Editorials be given in the usual way and ballots will be distributed by mail. BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION HE name has been retained but nearly everything else about T the old Chronicle has gone. It is frankly an experiment. LAMENT Instead of being an annual, the new Chronicle will be a quarterly By RONALD GRANTHAM and later, it is hoped, a monthly. Instead of being a magazine, it These high hopes — will be more of a newspaper, though some magazine features will like tall ships outward bound be retained. Instead of being distributed only to paid-up mem­ with a brave spread of sail, bers, the first few issues will be mailed free to all listed members deaf to the minute sound "of the Alumni Association. of fatally busy worms, If the experiment is successful, the Chronicle will be the med­ scornful of lurking storms ium by which the amorphous, potentially powerful association will or the boisterous gale. be fused into an effective force and a vital organism. It is not that now. It is a scattering of light without focus because it has These dead dreams — no voice. like rotted hulls The experiment will depend primarily on the measure of in­ bleaching upon the shore, terest and cooperation which it receives. The editors will expect white as the circling gulls voluntary literary contributions. They will expect a response to they will taunt no more. appeals. They will expect all members of the association to ap­ proach prospective advertisers. And they will expect that the request for payment of annual fees of one dollar will be loyally met. THE CLIMBERS It may be a forlorn hope. But there are more than 4,500 (Continued f rom Page 7) graduates on the rolls of the University and a majority of them chased up and down my spine, and bergschrund under the middle spire. are in British Columbia. They all retain, in varying degrees, a it wasn't the mountain cold. Life had no place in that hollow. fondness for Alma Mater. In late years, Alma Mater has sorely Sure, Inglis went crazy. He was The shadow of the spire stretched needed the support of an organized minority of her friends and crazy when he left Icefall, crazy across it, and I fought a panicky she had not received it. In the next five years, according to all when he set out, a man alone, to feeling as I* looked up. The sweep of indications, she will need it more. It will be the function of this cross Tantalus Bowl. Because to his the mountain, the sheer rush of that paper to make articulate, politically and socially, the convictions way of thinking, he wasn't crossing black pitch, made my stomach turn of a considerable volume of opinion. It will strive to advance the. it alone. . . . over. welfare of the University and of the Alumni Association, and to "We broke camp today and took to So I watched Seamus' back until provide something of interest to all graduates. the ice. Sheila led—she was always he stopped dead in his tracks, and Tuum est. Do you remember? more skilful than I at glacier work." fumbled his hat off in a slow gesture. When we read that, we knew his We'd found all that was left of the HON. MR. WEIR mind had cracked clean across. climber. HE record of Dr. G. M. Weir since he became minister of edu­ His last words, Terry, written in We dug him out of the snow. He T cation and provincial secretary in 1933 has been an impres­ the high camp the night before he must have been far up the spire sive one, particularly so in regard to the University. The increase came to the mountain: when the mountain tossed him off. in the appropriation of from $250,000 to $410,000 for the forth­ "She has no fear of Tantalus. Left His body was smashed to flinders, but coming fiscal year is one very tangible achievement for which he alone, I would accept what we learn­ his face when we turned him over is to be congratulated. Certain changes he introduced in connec­ ed on our first attempt: that it will wore a kind of icy peace. tion with appointments to the board of governors have been valu­ never be climbed. But she will not I'd brought a tarp in my rucksack. able in liberalizing that body. His fearless appointment of bril­ have us turn back. I fear this moun­ I was kneeling by Seamus, unbuckl­ liant young graduates to administrative posts in the social ser­ tain, more than any peak in Hima­ ing the flap, when his fingers bit into vices has been highly important in recognizing the value of such laya, in the Alps or the Andes, but my shoulder and dragged me to my graduates in government work. with her on the rope all will be well. feet. Apart altogether from politics, apart even from his effect on This time, she tells me, we \vill make He was staring at the summit. His the University, Dr. Weir's record commands the respect of think­ the ascent." eyes were wide and his mouth was ing persons everywhere in the province. Perhaps the best indi­ That was all. It was then that drawn open. It was the look he'd had cation of this occurred in the Legislature a year or so ago, when Seamus took the book from me and when we bucked the storm, when we Mrs. Dorothy Steeves, M.L.A., herself a brilliant university wom­ burned it. read the diary, but intensified. an, wistfully invited him to cross the floor and join the C.C.F. "God save the man," he said. "God He swung his ice-axe at the crest. and Mary pity him then, and her, Damn if I could see anything. Just DORMITORIES the poor children. But perhaps, as he black rock no man could climb, with Scheduled construction of a students' Union Building on the says, he has found her, and all is the sky dark blue above it. campus next year calls to mind the question of dormitories and well." "There!" he said, and his voice their value to a growing university. It was a night and two days before was almost a whisper, "... And Two distinct advantages in the establishment of dormitories at the sky blew clear. At noon of the themselves like the young gods of U.B.C. are these: First, it would attract a large proportion of up- second day we closed the tent as heaven. . . ." country students who are already faced with sufficient inducement we'd found it and set out on the last I stared at nothing while the hair to move Eastward to Alberta or Saskatchewan; second, it would lap. Angled around the ridge and crinkled on the back of my neck. supply the one function whose lack does much to impair the real struck the snowfield between it and Black rock and dazzling sky. But value of any university. Community of interest, of feeling, of the mountain, with the spires of nothing between. understanding, can arise only when students are in close daily Tantalus lifting through the mist. Seamus let his arm fall to his side. contact. The slope grew steeper, and the He turned to me like a man waking The day-school atmosphere which characterizes any institu­ mist fell away. It rolled down the from deep sleep. tion without student residences is a factor which consistently en­ long vertical faces of black rock un­ "Let us bury our dead," says he, dangers concerted, enthusiastic student policy. U.B.C. 's progress til the mountain stood clear. No "and be taking ourselves out of this in student administration is rather a credit to her undergraduate crevasses, but new snow made it place." leaders than to any unified college feeling. With residences on tough going. Then in the late after­ Don't ask me what he saw. Myself, the campus, a whole new attitude towards the college is created— noon the snowfield ran between dark I saw nothing. Give me another one whereby the institution has everything to sain. wings of rock and ended sharp in a drink.