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Vol. 79

To Meet Navy Vandals Smear In Big Game Redlands Park

Gold and Black are the predominaat colon at the Wanderers Dalhousie'• Fichtinc Football Ticera hammered -d pounded cnfunda this week, ratller than the Red aad Black colora of the City the IUcbly-rated Dartmouth Air Station aquad iato aubmiaaion at club. This ia due to ao daance in policy loy the Wanderer& organiz­ Wanderers crouada laat Saturday, led by the brilliant, -metime•• ation, but rather to the act of aome -yandal, or oyaaclala, who smeared "abelie•able work of the "beef tru.at," ADd the hard runninc of Bob yellow aDd black paint on practically e'Yery wooden aurface in the MacDonald. and Bob Wilaon. park. In the last quarter the Air The Wanderers Club officials Arm squad folded up like a tent. BURCHELL BAND are of the opinion that the paint- before a hurricane, and the ram­ LIBERAL CLUB TO ing • "WllS done during the late pant tigers ripped through their RATED EXCELLENT HEAR PREMIER l1ours of Friday night. Whenev~r oisorganir.ed forward for the work was carried out, it was. ioDg gains. Seven Air Station t'~rried out efficiently. playen were removed from the Angus L. MacDonald, Neva First of a series of tea danct 11 Even stripes of yelk>w and field for repairs before the Burk­ Swtia Premier, will addrees an to be held in the Common Room black were painted on the goal Mrt machine was e~topped by the Plr.e.roa Editor - au

~..t.GE TWO '!'HE DALHOUSIE GAZETTE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1947 .. MILLSTONES BEAT ACADIA .• by McStoop , . One night we were going to GAzETTE the show. We had only forty CANADA'S OLDEST STUDENT PUBLICATION Editor-in-Chief cents. Forty cents is not enough. LEW MILLER V\"e asked ourself what we :Managing Editor Business Manager might do. Ourself answered: we BRUCE LOCKWOOD AL RUBIN can , or we can see the Sporta Politburo. This sounded good, so News Features BOB TUCK we went to the Politburo We .JACK LUSHER ART MOREIRA KEN PHELPS went to the Henry Farmstead, KARL WEBBER JACK WILCOX where his body sits, and entered. CLAIR KNIGHT 1HLL LOVATT C. U. P. Editor This body is very important: JOHN TRIM AL LOMAS people bring- up things there. As Exchange Manager Circulation Manager Ass't Business Mgr. we entered, several people PETER SEDERIS JAN THOMAS ROBIN MacLEAN thought we were a person from D. SADOFSKY the paper, and brought up a lot Co-ed Sporta Photographers of things. Then they gav ~ Proof Readers RENY FISHER us their names, and were very HARRY PATON SOMERS PRIKLER disappointed when we told them DANNY SOBERMAN DON WALLER Co-ed Editor we hadn't taken their speeches ERIC RICHTER JOHN PARKER FRAN DOANE down. CONTRIBUTORS AND REPORTERS THIS WEEK Then a man came to bring up hob MacDougall, Shirreff (.iris, McStoop, Bob Bezanson, a budg-et. He came from the Ath­ letics Bureau; they asked if the Vol. 79 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1947 .. No.4 man from the Glum Club was ... there but he wasn't. So they took the man from the Campus Ad­ CHEERING SECTION · vertiser-- a very fine paper. The man from the Advertiser brought Tile GAZETTE staff has taken the trouble to ask up his budget. Then the General a number of the University athletes if the cheering of Secretary interrupted:-- their supporters helps them to fight harder, and unani­ "Our time is valuable," said Dal Off Hours the General Secretary, "so I will mously the answer ha.s been YES. We spectators, there­ be brief. If you are not familiar Can Be Very Profitably Spent at the fore, can actually take part in our games. with the proceedure I have an At present our cheer-leading ection numbers only illustration which may serve to three persons, and it was noticed last Saturday, at the enlighten you. In 1898-- I was Maritime Business College Wanderers' Grotmds, that this number is quite inade­ then Editor of the Advertiser-­ we had none of these modern 73 College Street quate to controL the specba.tors in one section. I~ wa_s also noticed that there was a lack of adequate plannmg m the troubles. Our costs were low, we Students who do not desire a complete course in any of the were always out on time ... After seven courses are admitted as General Students. cheering programme. vVhen the team most neede~ sup­ a fine speech, with lots of long The evening classes are held on Monday and Thursdty port - that is, when the other team had the ball 111 our words, he stopped, and the Ad­ 7.30 to 9.3{) • Tuition $5 per month trrritory - there was no rallying cry, to l!'!t our athletes vertiser passed its budget. · laww that we were not merelv £air-weather upporters. Then the man from Glum Club SHORTHAND and TYPEWRITING ·And when our team had the ball with few yards to go came in late. He was a good will be valuable aid in future years for a touchdown, seldom did we get behind the team to speaker, too, and had rather a Enter any day. Tuitien counts from date Gf Registration "push ther:n over." .. . . cvntest with the General Secret­ This fault, however, was not due to a lack of spmt. ary; "In the matter of mustard plasters," began the Glum Clnb '"E-\rci;Y Dulhousian in the stands felt proud of the mag·- man, whose voice was lost in .the • 11ific~tnt team that bore the Gold and Black colors; and boom of the General Secretary, ·J few in.dct'd were the supporters who did not haYe lwar')e "the proceedure on this matte1· THE NOV A SCOTIA .. .voices after the ga.me \\That, then,. is the answer? was simplicity itself i111899 when \Ve feel that, first, the cheer-leading section shoulcl I was President of the Glum TECHNICAL COLLEGE· ''tlc inci·cased to at least six members, to he clothed sim­ Club .. .'' The General Secretary Offers Degree Courses In won to the extent of a half hour's Cl'ii,L, ELECTRICAL, MECHANICAL, CHEMICAL ilarlv. atlld commanded bv one captain who lmom; the I oratory. TJ:te man from the Ath- ~t!.T ALLURGICAL, AND MINfNG ENGINEERING · gmt;~, reasonahlr well eno~tgh to lead the cheering at the letics Bureau looked, we thought. Twenty Scholarships of $75. each are Offered To Nova most necessarY times. X ext, although most students are a little weary by this time He Scotia Students holding Engineering Diplomas: taught the ;miversity yells during their frosh years, received the sign from the . Pre­ Modern Eq~ipment, Ins•ructional Staff with Iudividual many students do not know them all. Also, among the &ident, ~vho was woken reg-ular!y Experience. fans are lllanv non-student Da:l . upporters who woulll for the purpose of introducing APPLY FOR CALENDAR gl:ully ioin in. to support our team, but refrain because new bu!'

COL. LAURIE AND DEAN WILSON A SING SONG WAS HELD AT THE ALUMNI SMOKER DR. KERR AND RUGGLES PRITCHARD -- Cokea-- -- The Weaver-- -- Good Cheer -- G AZETTE CANADA'S OLDEST STUDENT PUBLICATION VOL. 79 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1947 HALIFAX, N. S . NO.4 Students F r m s es Retur Of Takes The Air chool Spirit

GJt,;.tm::. ~· vr um, the national Members cf the Dalhousie Alumni Association were haggard dJ::.CU;:,.>ion 01 Hi"~t!c;:,-.ug aud im­ McGILL STUDENTS hosts to the brawling, shouting, singing undergraduates at the an· .1-'0l'cduL bi>Ut:b1 '""""' tne air BUILD RED ROAD? nual Alumni smoker held last Thursday evening in the Dalhou~ie aga,n \\' eune uay, Oct. 22, at gymnas~.1m. 9.45 P.m. Due to an inappropr­ There was many a rosy-cheek­ iate topic (something to do with A controversy has been ed f r eshman puffing on his first 1·aising children), and the ne~d carried on in the of the Offer Aid ci g-ar, and many an old boy grun­ for organization and publicity, l\lcGILL Daily with some heat ted and grumbled at the wild the Dal Citizens' Forum dbcuss­ over the past two weeks. ,It was <·ntl.usiasm with which the stu­ ion group will begin its meeting-s To Pipe Band c ents attacked the food, drinks. occasioned by the report of a with the second broadcast Wed­ and smokes. nesday, Oct. 29, to deal with the t1·ip made to Jugoslavia by a Resulting m the announcement Dr. A. E. Kerr, president of' highly debatable question: "Do number of McGILL students dul'­ 1 ade last week that Dalbting reading if only from +he that he still feels like a boy, cussions on European relief. Ir.­ ~ to potential Col. K. C. Laurie, chairman d)versity of their viewpoints. but thinks he will be retiring on teresting guests will again be n­ J. ~ t...... :: " ·- -.1-.:"' ...... ;.. rs. of 'he I 0arrl. r f governors, and a pension before too long. vited this year, and the prac, :~ e According to the article in s:_ilnc'· c: atic'l' 'lP e briafly and was c;uestion, a number of students law student Vince Morrison, a a half-hour movie on a related h< ·;r•ily re ~.:e · 'T d. representing different McGILL Cape Bretoner from 'way back, tc,plc may be resumed. COMMERCE clubs and societies attended the realized that there was highland L u! .ng tl.~.- 1Jrogram, the Dal­ The Citizens' Forum group will talent on the campus kept under­ hc.usie Chorus under the direct­ meet regularly on Wednesda,• World Youth Festival in Prague, SOCIEl'Y cover. He managed to round up ion of Geoffrey Payzant present­ evenings in the Murray ­ after which they proceeded to ~ix pipers and with these plans ed a fine group of choral t~tead. A radio will be supplied J ngoslavia. Here they joined a ELEC~fiON to add -a squad of drummers selections, a number of which fot the broadcasts, the campus group of Canadian students called were incorporated in a broadcast experts will bore into the matters from the brass band, and a flash­ the "Beaver Brigade" in working Planning a banner year the, of proceedings over a local radio· under discussion, probably braced ing foreline of highland lassi~s on a railroad being built from Sa­ Commerce Society under the station. by refreshments (tea, sanwiches, as drum majorettes. r.1ac to Serajevo in Bosnia. The newly appointed president 0. etc., that is), served by Mrs. line was being built entirely by Gardner, held their first meeting .Sykes. Watch the notice boards ers, Frannie J u bien, Byrna Le ~­ tending the annual Dalhousie Al­ youth organizati<>ns of one kind last Thursday. Plans for a ban­ for time of meetings, and current ine, P. Hunt, B. Creighton anrl umni Smoker. Smoker, it was - and another, particularly student quet and a hotel dance to be topics. 0 Gardner. t•very student and old boy pu~­ organizations. l1eld near the end of January Those on the sports committee fed vigorously on his black cher-· were discussed, and a committee include: R

I . . . , ... I>ALBOUSl'E GAZETTS TIGERS TRIM DARTMOUTH · FLYERS FORWARDS PROMINENT AS DAL SPO RT RACKS UP THIRD STRAIGHT WIN REPORT Feron Tops Scorers BY BOB TUCK Pete Feron of the Dal Tigers is the leading scorer in the City Canadian Football League with Last Saturday it was the unsung heroes that won the football 22 points. He leads Taff Hullah g-ame. It was the unsung heroes of the front line that largely beat of the Dartmouth Flyers by <::ix Dartmouth and preserved Dal's unbeaten and untied record in Can­ points in the scoring race. The adian football. After Feron's touchdown in the first quarter, the c,nly other Dal player with over Ti~ers concentrated on the lighter Dartmouth line with the idea of ten points is tricky Bobby Mac­ ~o~ , wearing it down. And by the time the game was over, the team from D•.nald. acro::;s the Harbour had a set of forwards that were almost dizzy The first six in the scoring from the knocking and blocking about they had received. lists are; Vince Morrisson, allumus of English Rugby, mentioned one air­ Feron (Dal) ...... 22 man who played across from him in the line as an example. Vince Hullah (Dartmouth) ...... :!.6 r bit him time and time again all through the first three quarters of Young (St. Mary's) ...... 13 the game, and each time this character would emerge at his position MacDonald (Dal) ...... 10 with each down, seemingly unruffled and unbowed. But by the time M;;.cLeod (Navy ...... 10 the last quarter rolled around, Vince's friend was beginning to show Waters (Navy) ·······'········ ········ 10 the heB:vy going. Each time be dragged leaden feet as he took his D·a lhousie also holds first place position. This was approximately true all along the line. Dal scored in the League standings by virtuu 6 of their 11 points in this final quarter, and sewed up a hitherto of their win over Dartmouth Sat­ tight game The Dartmouth line juat didn't have it in their battered l ··day. However, Navy has play­ bodies to ;top the Tiger attack. • Shown above is a shot from the Dal-Fleet Air Arm game of last ed one less game than Dal and The same Vince Morisson is, incidentally developing into one Saturday. Tiger Kenny Reardon is in possession of the ball as Charlie :..re also undefeated. ~f the best forwards in the League. And Coach Bill Burkhart is con­ Greco of the Airmen tackles him. Dalhousie won the game 11 - 3. The standings are; vinced that Pete Mingo is the best snap this side of Montreal. In weather more suited to baseball than football, the Dal Tigers W L F A Pta. The doughty Mingo played every minute of the game Saturday - defeated the Dartmouth Air Station, 11-3, at the Wanderers' DALHOUSIE 3 0 47 10 6 a game in which the going was especially heavy. The stellar playing Grounds last Saturday afternoon before 3,000 fans. The temperature J'I.AVY 2 0 38 14 4 of Bert Cull is also worthy of special mention was near 80 as the Tigers won their third straight game in the ST. MARY'S 1 2 14 31 2 That aame Saturday a aombre note was struck at Studley Field Halifax Canadian Football League, and now await the clash with DART. A. F. 1 . 2 33 27 .2 a• a Dalhousie team loat its first game of any kind this year. The Navy on October 29 for the .league championship. WANDERERS 0 3 0 so 0 diarespectful outfit that committed this act waa the Acadia inter­ Saturday's game, a bruising, bitterly fought contest, resolved mediate Hatcbetmen, and they beat the English Rugby League Tigers itself into a punting duel, as the lines consistently bottled up the by a score of 8 - 5. It was no doubt inevitable that somebody or ground attack, and the passes seldom went for long gains. Kenny K. C. S. something around here should eventually take a trimming, but it Reardon of Dal and Taff Hullah, the brilliant punter for the flyers, All KCS Old Boys was nice while it lasted - having an unbeaten record. Well, the did most of the booting, with Hullah getting off one 50 yard kick, who wish transportation Tigers ca.n. do something about this defeat by taking the Valley team and another for 45 yards. back to the school for on their home field next Sat.,(arday. But Acadia ia tough to trim at Dal got a break in the opening minutes of play, and quickly any time, and when they're at home, they're doubly so. capit~ized on it. Pete Mingo recovered a Dartmouth fumble on the Old Boys Day, Nov. 1, As for the game itself, it was a typically Acadia performance. Air Station's7 yard line, and on first down, Pete Feron, the Tigers' please contact Mac Durin~ the first half they acted as if they hadn't been introduced big scorer, went around right end for the touchdown. Feron's at­ Grant, 112 Young Ave., J to their team-mates, and their play bordered on the inept. So, at tempted conversion was wide, and there was no more scoring in the or phone 2-3741. half time, the score stood 5 - 0 for Dalhousie. The Tigers looked first half. like winners at that point. But during the intermission the Acadians \ mu.st have got to know each other_ a little better, for at the opening In the furiously contested third wh1slle they started a well co-ordinated attack that gave them the qu~¥tdr, the Silver and Black, initiative, and in the last few minutes, the football g·ame. We saw fig·hting to tie the score, counted them do exactly the same thing against Navy just a week before. a safety and a rouge within a Navy led them 7 - 0 at half time, and consequently were supremely minute of each other. ·with Dal De Gustibus confidant of winning the game. Acadia won 8 - 5. in pos::;ession of the ball on its own 34 ya1·d line, a fumble was l;icked into the Tigers' end zone, Non ~cadia Hands Dalhousie where Reardon fell on it, givin.g the sez·vice team two points. A Disputandum* moment later Dal'tmouth scored First Rugby Defeat its third point when Hullah, at­ tempting a field goal booted the A determined Acadia English Rugby squad met and turned back pig~kin into the dead part of the There's no law against go­ ·a just as detcr~ined Dal team by a score of 8 - 5 at Studley on end zone for a rouge. That was ing around dressed in seven Saturday. The game featured a fight for every inch of ground from thtance paid off when: tor Acacl!a. to its second touchdown. Fer'J!l Wit!, 5 minutes to go in the game, l,erfectly converted the extt"a Might as well get a match­ .Phillips took advantage of a point, and the day's scoring was ing handkerchief while lovely pa.;, ing play to go over BL.hlCT GARDINER ended. you're at it. Then your get· the Dal line for their first score. cu ..)J!. ..UERCE HEAD Demont tried the convert from In adk:lition to the brilliant up will be indisputably O.K. a aiffe1 cnt position but missed. A new slate of officers was play of the two forv;ard w':l.lls, Just a minutes later, on an­ selected at the regular meeting M::cDonal,!. Feron and 'P.~.Ardo . for the victors, and HuEa:1 and other p ~sing play, Bob MacDon­ vi the Commerce Association Art George for the service t=am *There is no disputing .1bout tastes. ald took tJ,c ball and ran 20 yds hdd Tiu.K~(Iay afternoon Oct. 9. wt>1·e t:1e standout pcrform'!r:< to touch it benind the Tiger g-oai Thvse elected were; President, 0. I•ost::;. I lemont kicked and made Gardner; Vice-Pre5ident, S. D. er::;, r ra:~ Jubien, Byrna Levine, good tl•c o?nvert. Again the ball Milne; Sec. Treas. P. Hunt; D.­ R. Cam;>be!l. Mana;.rers; fo >t!'Jall. went into Dal territory and sta v­ A. A. C'., L. Devine; Social Chair­ ARROW SHIRTS ancl TIES Roy !lhc~I !!an; Hocky. \'\. alla<'e ed there for the final 2 minut~s. UNDERWEAR • HANDKERCHIEFS • SPORTS SHIRTS l and scored from the an excellent performance. With fifteen. FrcJm then on it was all more practice the Dal team will .Arts as the red and blue put on gain in team play and organiz­ the pressure with Bud Beer car­ ation which left something to b& rying the mail but all efforts to deSired in their nevertheless im­ lrreak the goose egg went for pressive display at Windsor. naught and the Engineers stag­ gered from the field unscored Dal lineup; Pat Snuggs, Fran upon. What the boys lacked in Doane; Nancy Jones, Yvonne Le­ finesse they made up in spirit. blaq, Gwen Lugar, Nancy Hen­ Engineers: Graves, Bezanson, derson, Janet Cameron, Jean Cowan, Stewart, Ferguson, Stee­ McLeod, Gloria Teed, Lois Ra.­ ves Brown, Harris, Morrow, W. lee, Bev Huntingdon. Roland Timothy, playing the finest competitive golf of his career, turned in a low gross score of G. Stewart, Bloomer, Page, Beck, 73 Friday 1\fternoon to win the first annual Dalhousie golf tournament. Timothy, who performed a Prowse. tremendons feat in defeating Eddie Crowell, who holds the Maritime, Provincial and Halifax Amateur DGAC BASKETBALL Arta & Science: Campbell, Car­ golf titles, featured his play with strong, true iron shots. SCHEDULE ~cn, Cousins, McGinnis, Gillis, C.r'>f.by, McKenzie, Bloomu, A 27 5 yard drive on the sixteenth hole which put Timothy within 10 feet of the pin was a sen­ Freshettes vs Sophc>mores Saunders, Sawyer, Beer, Fraser, sational play by last year's Dal varsity goalie. It was the opinion of John McCormack, Dal Physical Tues., Oct. 28, 7:30 L&timer. Director, that Crowell, playing like a champion all the way through, would have won but for the fine Juniors vs Seniors display of Timothy. Tues., Nov. 4, 7:30 The match wasn't decided until the 17tll hoi"· when Crowell "shenked" into the woods to lose Sophomores vs Seniors Notice three strokes, a handicap from which he didn't recover. Another piece of hard luck which struck a Tues., Nov. 18, 7:00 competitor happened on the 13th hole when Pete D oig, who had been matching stroke for stroke with Frcshettes vs Juniors The Council of Students an­ the leaders till then, hit into a bank at the side of the green. His ball rolled into the woods for a Tues., Nov. 18, 8 :0(} bounces that deadline for appli­ lost ball. Sophomores vs Juniors cations for busine.. manager <>f Tues., Nov. 25, 7:00 Pharos will be midnight,. Oct­ The meet was Dalhousie's initial venture into golf as a university sport. Said John McCormack, Phy­ Freshettes vs Seniors ober 31. sical Director, ·"Promotion of golf is a consistent p :ut of ow· policy to sponsor minor sports." Tues., Nov. 25, 8:00 "Dalhousie hopes eventually to inh·oduce golf as an inter-colleg­ iatt; sport," said McCormack. DAL SOCCERITES READY 'Other nniversities expressed · , terest at the last meeting of tht: FOR ACQUITANIA GAME il-L I. A. U. but could not take pa1·t this year because of the Dalhousie's soccer team meets its first teat Monday Oct. 27 ~hc.rt notice," he told the Gaz­ when it takes the field against a team from the Acquitania. The ette. "!\ext ~·ear may see an in­ Dal team has had many practices and the squad is in the best of shape ter-collegiate golf meet being for the. game Team manager Dennis St. Helene feels confident that held," he added. the Dalhousie. soccerites will give a good account of themselves, and believes that this year's squad is among the best that Dalhousie Plans for golf next year wiil has ever had. be made at a meeting in the spring." said McCormack. He Coaching for the team as well a~ playing, is Don Harrisson of INTERFAC RUGBY said he hoped that all those who, Bermuda. A great many of the The first game of the Dal­ were interested would keep '.;b" n'cn on the team are from New­ housie Interfaculty Rugby Lea­ tournament in mind and remem­ f._ undland, having played the gue was played Oct. 20 between ber to bring their clubs with the·n game in the Old Colony. John Engineers and Arts and Scien "' (story elsewhere on these pages). ·~·hen they came back next fall. Henderson, a Newfoundlander is or.:> of the stars of the team. All games are to be played a"t 1 t·,f ~ ing goal is Richard Bierhoff, :30 p. m. The Schedule: a Dalhousian from the United Oct. :!5 Engineers vs Commer~e States, who played for the Field­ Oct. 27 Arts & Sciencevs Law !The beat indoor and outdoor stone, New York team. Others Nov. 1 Commerce vs A. & S. sporting equipment are from Trinidad. Incidental:y, Nov 3 Law vs Engineers I there are also some Canadians N, v. 8 !Alw vs Commerce I ia found at I on the team KINGS WINS I THE SPORTS The soccer enthu!iastists are King's College Ruggers, win­ I l:'.nxious to bring the game before les:; in their first three starts re­ the attention of Dalhousians, and tUT ned to form a~ainst Navy Sat­ LODGE hope for full student support. urday with a crushing 24-0 The team lines np as follows: victory. Fergusson of Kings ran 86 GRANIIILLE ST. Coal - Bierhoff w:Jd, putting on an astonishin: FuJlhacl\s - Trim, Bastien running di:s?lay which carried him to three touchdowns. Row- "Play More - LiYe Longer'" Halfbacks - Rosenfelt, Loui.n, lie Frazee had two tries and St. Helene Dave Wilson scored the other Forwards - MeCullough, Hen­ c·r.e Mac Flewelling kicked con­ .ae.;;y, Harrison, Riggs, Geng"· vtrts. THE DALHOUSIE GAZETTE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1947 P~ Six FEATURES STUDENT .LABOR CAMPS THE LADIF..S' MUSICAL CLUB.

Dutch students had many schemes for the entertainment of Franees James foreign countries within the Netherlands this summer. There w_ere Once again we have the pleasure of welcoming tne Ladie::;' Musical Club to Dalhousie, Th~ first rt:creation camps, tours in tjalken around the waterways (a tJalk concert of this year's series was a most enjoyable one indeed. is an old Frisian barge) and even a summer se::;sion at the Univer- The performing artist was soprano Frances James whom many of us had the pleasure of hearing sity of Leiden. in Healy Willen's new opera "Deirdre of the Sorrows," broadcast last year over the C. B. C. In many c~untries of Europe it is impossible to take any cur- Miss James opened her programme with a group of three Haydn songs, all of which showed her rency across the frontier. To give an opportunity for students. in fine musicianship. However, a slight break was som times noticeable between the chest and head tones. such countries to visit Holland, the Netherlands Burean for Fore1gn The second group was composed of French !O ngs by Duparc, Debussy and Faue. The Faure songs, Student Relations (N. B. B. S.) with the assistance of the Dutch "Soir" and "Toujours," were particularlv fine In all five songs of the group, Miss James showed a fine Government arranged labour camps. A student could work in such understanding of the French art song.. The heavier passages in Duparc's "Chanson Tl'iste" were per­ a camp in Holland for three weeks, during which he would be taken haps a bit too heavy and dramatic. on excur~i b1t of acco:ll· day tour of Holland, living in Youth Hostels. }:airs of songs each of which was ~1gnt' ana "'1 w~:nty V\- teKs .l\ear 1 ~mcment 1rorn li'J.r. Nay lot·, The For girl-students the wo1 k was a Esisting with the fruit harvest. based on the same text, thereby .t'a&t" wt}'e periormed for tne cc llClUuing song, Gneg's "A The work for the men was much harder. showing the different conceptions 1nst time 1n public. Dream" was very well performed. In 1944 the R A F. bombed the dykes which protected the the composers had of the poems. As encores Miss James sang an island of Wa;cheren,. in Zeeland, from the sea, after giving the farm­ The last group of songs opened The singer was outstanding in amusing little French Canadian ing population one day's warning. For a year and a half, this once with "Old Mother Hubbard," the German songs by Schumann fl•lk song and "Summertim~" fertile soil was covered with about fifteen feet of sea, which brought something of a parody on earlier and Wolff on the text "Er ists," f:·om Gershwin's "Porgy and v.'ith it about two feet of sand. When the land was finally pumped musical styles, complete with ("Spring is Here"). Miss James Bess." Both selections were very dry, it was a desert, with no usable dwellings, no living trees, no gkrious trills and elegant sus­ shewed she had the power voc­ tained phrases on one syllable of well received life of any sort. · ally and . artistically to do full Nine million people live in this small country, Holland. Every text. This was perhaps a bit too It seemed unfortunate that Mr. justice to the Lied. Hahn's lovely Naylor was not allowed a solo square foot of space is urgently required for lebens-raum. That Js Ieotrained, and many members of "Si Mes Vers" was sung as an why, since the ninth century of our era, the Dutch have been great tne audience failed to recognize f.!'roup as his fine piano work ap-­ encore at the close of the group hydraulic engineers, leading the world in the reclamation of land thf spirit in which it was com­ p{'ared to warrant. from the sea. You may have heard the Dutch saying, "God made and it was one of the finest per­ posed. Rachmaninoff's very beau­ May we say congratulations 4;o formances of the evening. the world, but the Dutch made Holland." tiful and extremely difficult song th<' Club for such a grand start There was something idealistic in the plan of having foreign Following the intermi!'~ion M!s~. ''P.ere Beauty Dwells" showecl :md we hope the rest of the. seas- students come and help reclaim this salt-drenched, sand-covered soil. JP-mes sang song<: by two contel''­ the great vocal range and control 0n will continue to be as StlC· The work consisted of shovelling the tightly packed sand into bar­ porarv comno~erc:. Jean f'oulth­ pc·ss~sed by Miss Jam~s. The cessful. rows, and pushing the very rickety vehicles a hundred yards or so ard Adame:. al'!d Bernard -:\'avJr.r. song "The Brook" hy Dolor ~.:s T, K, BENTLY across the sand on planks four inches wide. The wheels being often eccentric, the barrows slipped off into the ~and several times each trip. As if the work was not hard enough, the blazing heat of Hol- lands hottest summer on the shadeless sand, and the very poor work­ ing conditions contributed to the failure of the scheme. Breakfast and lunch were each a few slices of bread. In the evening, after ten hours of back-breaking work in the scorching heat, the workers were expected to be able to eat a warm (never hot) meal of potatoes and greasy gravy. These were the conditions under which the ordinary labourers worked, quite happily, it seemed. The system of payment was fan­ tastic. The average depth of soil over a given area was computed, and that area given to a certain gang to clear. The gang was paid right now you're taking by piecework. The proportion of surface area covered by sea-grass was measured. The distance over which the barrows had to pushed was considered. So many Dutch cents were allowed for every tim~ hurdles in your stride ... the planks over which the barrows were pushed had to be moved one meter (the foreman under whom I worked would not allow the planks to be moved until they all had to be moved one meter, which but the ones ahead are tougher! meant that a worker over shallow sand very often had to carry hi.> loaded s;hovel quite a distance to reach his barrow on the plank.) From these factors, a wage for the whole gang was calculated, Not only tougher! They're sometimes very un­ and divided among the workers. The wage for each person was sel­ expected! And the man who clears them safely dom more than one Canadian dollar per day, and from this a certain and easily, while others falter, and fail the race, sum was deducted weekly for the maintenance of shovels, and for is usually the man who looked ahead ••• the administration. T~~re were, as can be guessed, many troubles over wages and The man who looked ahead in early youth, and working conditions. The entire fault could be boiled down to a fac­ charted a life insurance program that would carry tor which we seldom perceive. Most Europeans seem unable to achieve him over those unexpected hurdles ..• the man a happy medium in organization. The Work Camp was hopelessly over­ who determined that whatever the future might organized, I joined a gang one morning which had two Finns, both great hold- the responsibility of marriage and children, &trong men, both soldiers in the war against Russia. It is no exag­ the misfortune of sickness, accident, or loss of in­ l('eration to say that each did the work of any four others in the come-he would be prepared to take them in his woup. I asked them why they were working so frantically. They stride. grimly replied, "We are getting int

l:)eems as though anotner wee... enu 1s loommg up, and we do ROBINSON'S Last year an article appearing in the (un) official organ of a. leading American Institution read as follows: mean a weekena! '1 ms oig Acaa1a tnp is only suppo~a to last ;:,at­ -"Probing into the v.ery thoughts of man, the .Medica,l Instr11-, uraay, but li we rememoer anything from preVlo'us years, lt Will STRUGGLE taKe the re:;t of the weekend to 'recooperate By the looKs of things, mentation Lab ..at Tech has developed an amazing device called the.: the turn-out w1ll be colossal, and col!ege sprrit snould run hign, U: By Lew Miller cerebrumosci!lograph which will simultaneously record a person's. it contmue;:; to be as outsunding as it has been in tne home games. spoken word and the thoughts which occupy the innermost c,revices I was certainly a bitter disappointment (and we do mean bitter) In this, an era of chaos and of his brain. The machine can be made to operate at a distance of to see the rugby team eaged out by the Axemen, but just wait until hardship, prejudice and bigotry, 100 feet from the subject, completely without his knowledge, thua we meet them on their home field - we'll be out for blood, but def It is pleasing to hear of the suc­ suggesting innumerable possible uses." In case you don't know it, the co-eds are riding high, While Dal cess story of a person, who from vn re .. urnm~ to umvers.cy t,u:; C•Jrites too" (This is it.) was walloping Dartmouth Air Station on Saturday, the ground hoc­ the start has two strikes on him, yeaz· we u•~cl.lv~reu tn