University of Bishop's College J. S. MITCHELL & CO., Limited Lennoxville, Que Wholesale and Retail FOUNDED 1843 ---- ROYAL CHARTER 1883 THE ONLY COLLEGE IN CANADA FOLLOWING THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE PLAN OF THREE LONG ACADEMIC YEARS FOR THE BA. DEGREE HARDWARE Wholesale Distributors in the Province of Quebec for Spalding Sporting Goods Complete courses in Arts and Divinity. Post-Graduate courses in Education leading to the High School diploma. Residential College for men. Women students admitted to lectures and degrees. Valuable scholarships and Exhibitions. The College is situated in one of the most beautiful spots in Eastern Canada. Excellent buildings and equipment. Orders taken for Club Uniforms A ll forms of recreation including golf. Four railway lines converge in Lennoxville. Special Prices for Schools, Colleges and Clubs For information, terms and calendars, apply to: REV. A. H. McGREER, D.D., PRINCIPAL 76 - 80 WELLINGTON STREET NORTH OR TO THE REGISTRAR, Lennoxville, Que. SHERBROOKE i T h e M itr e ESTABLISHED 1893 YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION TWO DOLLARS. SINGLE COPIES FIFTY CENTS. PUBLISHED BY BECK PRESS. REG’D.. LENNOXVILLE. QUE. The Mitre Board declines to be held responsible for opinions expressed by contributors. r T H E MITRE BOARD 1 9 3 0 -3 1 1 j President - - H. L. Hall Hon. President Rev. Prof. F. G. Vial, M.A., B.D., D.C.L. | Hon. Vice-President Prof. W. O. Raymond, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief C. W. Wiley, B.A. | Secretary Treasurer | Advertising Mgr. ------ E. Osborne Ass’t Advt. Mgr. ------ R. Turley ! ....................... ------ A. Ottiwell i ....................... - - - - - G. H . Tomlinson 1 Circulation A - ----- A. Anderson Circulation B Miss G. Seale, B.A. Lady Editor Miss E. Montgomery, M.A. Ass’t Lady Editor - - - Miss H . Wright, B.A. Ass’t Editor ...................................................F. P. Clarke Art Editor ----- T . Matthews Divinity Editor R. Thatcher TABLE OF CONTENTS Athletic Editor ------ G. Dyer The Mitre” Board ...... 4 Book Reviews ....... 29 Exchange Editor ------ Miss Jackson Editorial - - - -....5 Destiny ( V erse) - - - - - .-29 Alumni .............................................................J. Ford Associate Editor A Visit to Palestine ------ 6 Alumni L e t t e r ....................................................................31 - ----- W. Humphrey i The Refrigerator Case ..... 7 Society N o t e s .................................................................... 33 |ji •* •• ................................................... C. W . Hall Thoughts While Walking ..... 8 De Alumnis - - - - - - - 37 Varied Verse ( P o e m s ) ..................................................9 The Formal D a n c e ......................................................... 37 Queen High - - - - - - - 11 Exchange - . - - - 4 7 Sports Section - - - - - - - 1 3 Sage, Mostly Savory - - - - - - 49 3 4 THE MITRE iEditorial A Visit to Palestine i By Frank D. Adams, D.Sc., F.R.S. CONTINUED FROM DECEMBER ISSUE. YOURS SINCERELY ■- Talking, in times of peace, to the ignorant foreigner higher land forming the opposite edges of the Plateau and These words with numerous variations and super who is in such desperate need of enlightenment — “Our Continuing on this road further south Hebron is overlooking the lower valley land, were encamped the armies lative additions form one of the commonest conclusions to country or our government acts along these lines and pos­ reached — the earliest seat of civilized life in Palestine. of Israel and of the invading Philistines, respectively. Every business and friendly letters as everyone is well aware. But sesses these superior natural resources, those well-conducted Here the country becomes more fertile owing to the pre­ morning Goliath, the champion of the latter, came down how often do we attach our signature below and give no institutions,” only to develop, if possible, an ignorant wonder sence of numerous springs of water. Here is situated, and into the valley and, approaching to within easy hearing thought to the true meaning of the sincerity to which we and an inferiority-inspired respect for the marvels of “ our may still be seen, the Cave of Machpelah, which Abraham distance of the Israelitish army, shouted defiance and insult pledge ourselves by that action? “Sine cere,” i.e. “with land and our people.” How we pat ourselves on the back bought from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a to “Armies of the Lord of Hosts.” The stripling David out cement,” was the Roman way of certifying to the flaw if we rouse in him sufficient enthusiasm to imitate us in his burying place.” And there they buried Abraham and Sarah came down the steep slope into the lower valley to meet less stones and material put into the framework of a building. own country or invest his wealth in ours! His inevitable dis his wife, Issac and Rebekah his wife, and there Leah was the Philistine, but before he could reach him he had to W e may often ask ourselves with justifiable qualms how appointment doesn’t matter a brass button. Within the buried — and to this cave at a later time Joseph brought pass over the little brook, whose bed is floored with rounded much filling and superficiality there is included in the frame national circle itself narrow policy persuades us “ Buy goods up the body of Jacob from Egypt “with chariots and horse­ pebbles of white limestone rock. When in the depression work of individual and national character. made at Home,” “ Keep foreign hands off our Money.” men a very great company” and laid it here. A crusaders occupied by this brook he would be invisible to Goliath. The Polite hypocrisies and political pretenses are the All that is very well within certain limits, but its logical ex­ church now converted into a Mohammedan mosque situated writer when visiting the spot selected “ five smooth stones narrower and broader application of plain prevarication of tension would cause any nation to become economically high above the road on the eastern slope of the little valley out of the brook,” of a size which he thought would form truth for the sake of personal or national prestige. But marooned, with vast stores of unwanted over-produced sup­ in which Hebron lies, now encloses the cave, a spot sacred the most effective missiles wherewith to kill a giant when prestige so sought rests on very precarious bases. The world plies in some warehouses while others would be stark empty alike to Jew, Christian and Moslem. thrown from a shepherd’s sling such as that which he had seems full of this pusillanimous pastime of lying, but the of the goods which that country was incapable of producing. Taking another road which runs off to the west on obtained a few days previously from a shepherd at Ain more there is the worse off we become. Let’s laugh at Finally we boldly, not blindly, dare to state the the outskirts of Hebron, one may return to Jerusalem by Ferain, who with it had that morning killed a jackal which ourselves and our polite hypocrisies while admitting the within the international circle, unless those who are the another way, passing a number of other well authenticated had been prowling near his feeding flock. His guide, how danger; but let us not continue to ignore the grave conse leaders in the nascent federation of the world that is to be, Biblical sites of the highest interest. ever, informed him that the stones selected were too large— quences of political prevarication. lay aside on behalf of their countries the desire for pre The first of these is Mamra. The “Oaks of that the shepherds consider a stone about an inch and a half “ How do” or "Hello there,” we repeat a hundred carious prestige and the hypocritical distrust which paves the Mamra,” a grove of terebinths, the descendants of those in diameter as the missile best adapted to secure the most times a day, sometimes with and sometimes without a bright way for further murder-madness, the present state of civi­ which grew here in the time of Abraham are still to be deadly results, taking into consideration the strength of a smile or grin; although we wouldn’t be greatly concerned if lization will be aggravated to annihilate itself. seen, representing a forest growth which at that time pro­ man’s arm and the character of the sling which they employ, the majority of persons whom we thus salute were to act Unemployment and economic distortion in world- bably covered a larger area than at present. The trees which is woven of goat’s hair. David, then, on reaching like soap-bubbles, blow-up and disappear. “ Isn’t it a great trade act as a double fuse attached to the millions of dolla are low with widely spreading branches affording an the brook, selected five stones as amply sufficient for his day?” we begin a conversation which we sometimes con­ of destructive armament piling up every year. Only when excellent protection from the burning rays of the sun at purpose and putting them in his shepherd’s pouch ran to­ tinue but at others leave it suspended. Yet so long as we politicians and statesmen, national and international, give noon. W e had lunch beneath one of these trees and look­ ward the giant. He appeared to carry no weapon but his feel that we have expressed our own appreciation of fine sincere attention to the expenditure of money so as to con ing about tried to realize that it was on this very spot, or staff, which led Goliath to exclaim “Am I a dog that thou weather which puts us in good spirits, we welcome the reply vert these fuses into the rope-ladder of secured employment within a few hundred yards of it, and beneath such a tree, comest to me with staves!” He had only a short distance as heartily as a mud-puddle does another rain-drop. Our and sound economic systems working in international h; that Abraham pitched his tent, possibly one of the same to go and before Goliath or his shield-bearer had time to attention is feigned and merely given to swell our own muddy mony will the danger of the most violent and destruction pattern as those now employed by the Arabs everywhere in recognize the form in which David’s attack was to be made, importance.