I Canadian HOMECOMING BIGGEST campus IN CAMPUS HISTORY By JEAN MacFARLANE A CUP FEATURE TfoeWt/MStt• ANOTHER HOMECOMING—and Saturday once again graduates and undergraduates joined hands across the Canadian Campus needs no in­ campus to take part in the most colorful and nostalgic affair troduction from us this week. Li Vol. XXVIII "VANCOUVER, B.C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1945 No. 15 the face of overwhelming evidence of the Varsity year. This homecoming was no exception to who are we to tell you that the tradition of college spirit which is always rampant at this INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORT fi time. BACK! The stadium was crowded to Dalhousie University overflowing as students and alum­ HALIFAX, N.S.-Qf the thrc • ni greeted each other and settled Dalhousie teams entered in th Karefa-Smart Maritime English rugby-footbail down to watch Chancellor E. W. only one. thc senior team in the Hamber kick off the ball at 2:30 city league, has so far met with at the beginning of a thrill-packed At SCM Party any degree of success. Both Dal- English rugby game. housie's senior team in the inter­ By ROBIN DENTON The crowd was definitely with collegiate league, and intermedia.a team in the city league, fell to tho the Veterans and the field re-echo­ • DR. JOHN KAREFA-SMART, cutting blows of Acadia's Axemen ed with approval as the 'Vets' brilliant Negro graduate of McGill, was the life of the SCM took the lead from the Seniors McGill University party held Thursday at thc Kcrris- MONTREAL, Que.—Most out­ and kept it throughout the game. dale home of Bob Fraser. Also standing result of the revival of The Varsity Tumbling Club gave present among the 35 members at­ intercollegiate sports on the McGi.l an excellent display of precision tending the Student Christian campus has been the great en • work at half time, but it was the Movement function were Sue ' thusiasm shown by all students of • PICTURED ABOVE are several (count 'em), member:-; little fellow on the end of the line Young, Chinese UBC student, and all years and faculties. of the infamous Joker's Club who provided a rather hil­ who really won the applause. a Japanese-Canadian soldier. A start has been made in inter­ EXHIBITION GAME collegiate football, track and ten­ arious half-time filler during the Senior-Vets rugger match Popular Dr. Smart had every­ nis; with il a definite uplift in th? in celebration of Homecoming Saturday. The stars, straight Another display took place at body calling him "John" by the spirit and morale of the players. from the Toilet Bowl, ran riot with the unbalanced line play, half time, this one of football 'as party's end. He told jokes, demon­ strated the Virginia reel, and sang Enthusiasm broke out in th-3 it should be played," given by sev­ the hidden ball play, and lots of horse-play. a song concerning the use of a form of an imposing array of eral membors of the famed 'Toilet Ford V-8 as a conveyance to heav­ cheer leaders, at the football gar.vj Bowl' team. The teamwork shown en. Shortly he is returning to on October 20, but McGill voicsd in this exhibition game in such as Sierra Leone in Africa to put a loud approval of the acrobatic girl PLAYERS REVEAL CASTS the 'Hidden Ball" play was, to say health plan he devised into effect. cheer leaders who were leadin; the least, novel. The crowd roared In June, 1939, during the visit of the Western cheers. its approval, The Mamooks, as usual, worked the King and Queen to Washing­ Queen's University FOR CHRISTMAS PLAYS hard with the cheering section. The ton, D.C., he dined with Their KINGSTON, Ont.-Queens plan • CASTS OF the three plays to be presented the 14,15,16, Jokers' novel yells were also ap­ Majesties. to enter teams in most intercol­ and 17 of November by the Players Club has been an­ preciated. The Japanese-Canadian soldier legiate competition. Rugby is al­ nounced by Jim Argue, business manager of the club. After the game the Alumni ga­ whose name cannot be divluged, is ready ln full swing and we are Orange Blossoms Is an English i thered in the B*rock for the Alum­ in Vancouver with 59 others to sending a strong track team to comedy directed by Christine ni meeting and banquet. study language interpretation and Montreal on November 2. Hockey liason work with the Canadian Chanater of the Little Theatre POTLACH FOLLOWS basketball, swimming, boxing and • MEMBERS OF the Tumbling Club did a little showing Women To Speak Army. He volunteered for service with George Baldwin, as assistant wrestling teams sporting the Tri­ Following the banquet, a Pot­ in the special corps before V-J off Saturday too. Pictured above is 'the little fellow on director, and Betty Pay men as color will enter the intercollegiate- Thursday Noon latch was held in the Auditorium. Day, and is attending classes at the end' sailing through the air in a beautiful swan dive off prompter. The cast consists of Ted Klrkpatrlck, chairman of the lists. The Board of Governors will • A TWO-MINUTE speech wiU Vancouver Tech, the spring board. Accompanied by the audience's abated Nora Bloom, Hilda Halp'n, Audrey committee in charge of Homecom­ settle these details on Novemb'.- be presented by each member breaths and sighs of relief the club went through their snappy Blanchard, Nell Willson, Gerry ing, in the opening address, ex­ FATHER CHIEF S. Queen's does not plan to enter of the Women's Public Speaking Webb, Isabel Gould, Isabel Mc­ tended a welcome from the 5000 Dr. Smart's father was one of the golf and tennis tournament.' routine of back-and-neck-snapping tumbling. Club at the club's next regular Kenzie, and Helen Wood. undergraduates to the many 'grads the head tribesmen back In Sierra meeting to be held Thursday noon University of Toronto CANADIAN ORIGINAL who were present. Leone, and his tribe only three TORONTO, Ont.—Intercollegiate in Arts 104. An original Canadian play, Arthur Delamont and his band generations ago was engaged in sports at the University of Tor* President Marguerite Byrnes ex­ "Rainmaker" is bslng produced by played selections from the music inter-tribal warfare. John studied President Promises tends a cordial invitation to all onto -are off to a flying start. With the Experimental Theatre, This of Stephen Foster to set the mood tropical disease prevention for two two football games under its bel', students Interested. play was first presented by the for the old-time minstrel show fol­ years at McGill, and joined the the football team takes a back At the first of the club's twice- Banff School of Fine Arts and is lowing. Through the combined ef. Canadian Army. He is now a seat to the golfers who swept both monthly meetings Dean Dorothy Pre-Med Progress a story of a certain Alberta chai- forts of the Musical Society and lieutenant. the senior and intermediate tour­ Mawdsley was unanimously elect­ arter named Hatfield who invented the Olee Club, the show presented Because he worked on a large- naments. Varsity tennis players • "I AND MY colleagues will do everything in our power ed honorary president. A social a rain-making machine. (They say numbers which varied from 'Short- scale health plan for his African won the intermediate tournament evening was enjoyed recently at to provide facilities for as much of a medical faculty in British Columbia objected). nin' Bread' to 'Going Home,' which countrymen he was flown from held at McMaster but their senior the president's home. 1946 as possible," stated President N. A. M. MacKenzie in an Arnold Watson, Birnie Reid, Ne.l were rendered by Jack Church, Canada to West Africa in a special brothers did not fare as well at Larsen, Max Power, Vivian Lat- Dave Holman, Burton Kurth, Gor­ bomber to make an official health McGill. Track ia another specialty address to the newly formed Pre-medical Undergraduate So­ souches, Norman Penson, Nancy don Wiles and the Olee Club. survey. He has been in 38 of the with which the Vanity hopes rest. ciety Friday noon. 48 American states, and has also Davidson, Ron Heal, Martin Ed­ Reluctant Artsmen Bob Nlcholls played a piano solo Plans for the future include an "I have found no one who does been in London, where he visited wards, Bill VeUutini, Dick, New­ of 'Old Man River' and Ted Bayles active participation in all inter­ not believe that a medical feculty the London School of Tropical man, Greta Ward, Allan Corey, Seem Camera Shy performed a tap dance. A jazz band collegiate sport. With the enarged should be established," said the Strowan Robertson, John Darling, Medicine. • THE epithet of "Lackadaisical" completed the minstrel act. enrollment, athletes of better thai president. Phrateres Feature Val Stewart, and Trish Rogers Dr. Smart addressed SCM Thurs- average calibre are made available bestowed upon Indolent arts- THAT SO, MR. BONES? VANCOUVER IDEAL make up the cast. D. Somerset is day noon in Union College chapel to the various coaches and when men last year seems to be fast be­ The whole affair was interspers­ Dr. Mackenzie asserted that Van­ directing with student Bev Wilso.i on "One World or No World." proper facilities are available, th? Waltztime Formal coming a tradition in that faculty, ed with battles of wit between the couver and the lower mainland assisting. Associate director is University of Toronto athletic according to Totem Editor Bill end men Jack Hough and Jeff possessed ideal conditions for the • WALTZTIME, the Phrat:re> Nancy Bruce.