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The Small CollegeThe Small CoHege
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MAN is educated for good or ill by all his associations. In
a special way he is educated in the schools. Among the
forces in a school that contribute to his development are
the students and activities in which he engages and the per­sonalities
with whom he associates. In the smaller college both
the range of studies and the number of persons met with are
limited. On first thought this would seem to be a disadvan­tage,
but observation and study will confirm the opinion that
the opposite is the case. The student in the smaller college will
likely enter into closer living relationship with his instructors.
he will possibly receive more guidance in selection of studies
and in methods of work. and he will in all probability find
himself in greater sympathy with the whole of which he is a
part. The clamant enthusiasm shown in demonstrations on
the field of sport or at commencement exercises will never take
the place of friendships that can be built up in a group that is
not too unwieldy to feel its unity.. Someone has said that a
man's education consists in all that remains after he has for­gotten
what he learned in the class-room. What one can never
forget is the spirit of comradeship. the joy of friendship. This
seems to find its highest expression in the small college.
Principal of the Normal School, Winnipeg, Man.
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Vol. III Editorial Staff MARCH, 1930 No. 2
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Honorary Editor -:... .PROF. G. B. KING, M.A., B.D., PH.D.
Editor-in-Chief ------------------ CLIFFORD S. MATCHETT, B.A., Theo. '31 
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itor-in-Chief Assistant Editor HARTLEY J. HARLAND, '30
Literary Editor c E. NORA MAUNDERS, '30 (Hons.)
Religious Editor SCOTT LEITH, Tbeo. '31
Exchange and Reviews ---------------- RUSSELL A. PEDEN, '30 Excbangeand Reviews.. Athletic Editor ~ ~------------ERNEST A. BIRKINSHAW, '31 (Hons., Sc.)
Bulletin Board Editor . B. HAROLD STINSON, '31
Alumni Editor -.:,- .~--..----------..---CARL N. HALSTEAD, M.A.
Business Manager --------------- KENNETH A. MCKILLOP, '30 Business Manager IS. J. B. PARSONS, '31
Class Representatives S.J.B. PARSONS, '31 KENNETH DOWNES, 32 BROCK KING, '33 COLIN 2
. COLIN JACK, Grade XII
JACK FIDLER
CO~TE~TS.
EDITORIAL.
LOOKING AT CONTEMPORARY GERMAN LITERATURE..
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY.
THE REGISTRAR'S REPORT. PROMINENT GRADUATES.
REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS.
MY LIFE IN PERSIA.
THE CHALLENGE TO THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY.
LITERARY RELIGIOUS.
SOCIETIES. LOCALS AND PERSONALS.
ATHLETICS. ALUMNI
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The Small College
_00;;=-9 HE question of the small college versus the larger unit or uni­versity
is not a question of the Church college versus the
secular provincial university. In Canada the Churches were
forced into the higher educational field largely through for­tuitous
historical or political circumstances. Or they entered--especially
in the West-.-as the pioneer provider of these higher educational facili­ties,
and having entered and having gathered buildings and endow­ments,
have remained in it. No matter what might have been true in
former generations, no one who lays any claim to knowledge of the
present attitude of the Churches to higher education and to the men
who conduct it would hold that they are in the university field because
of opposition to the type of teaching in a "secular" institution. The
question is one of the aims and ideals of education. If the aim of
education be the old one of imbibing knowledge alone, and that
as much as possible in a given time, then the larger the classes and the
fewer the teachers, the more economically can the process be carried on.
In our public schools and high schools the large class is being given
less and less countenance. If in the formative university period the
contact of professor and teacher counts for anything, then the small
class must be the rule in the college and university also. It is significant
that the larger universities in the United States are making the first
question regarding important appointments to the staff, what con­tacts
has he with his students? But the student gains much from con­tact
with his fellow-students. As the registration of a university in­creases,
those relations tend to be more and more dissipated and con­fined
to the student's own year. Just such a situation Harvard Uni­versity
is endeavoring to meet by a system of buildings each of which
shall house its own quota of students', that' quota being drawn from all
the years. In the separate building they will receive much of their
teaching, but especially will each have a corporate life. The effect is
that of a series of small colleges. There is decidedly a place for the
small college in the university. It may be indeed that the best work is
done by professors and students alike in the university composed of a
number of smaller units.
What Makes a Student?
HERE are four qualities among those that sit before the wise,"
once upon a time said a wise old Jewish rabbi who had seen
many companies of students come and go during his many
years of teaching: "they are like a sponge, a funnel, a strainer,
or a sieve: a sponge, which sucks up everything; a funnel, which lets
in at one end and out at the other; a strainer, which lets the wine pass
out and retains the less; a sieve, which lets out the bran and retains
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the fine flour." He is not a student who absorbs without any question
everything taught him. He may take the medals and the scholarships, it
is true. for he has a memory that operates at capacity and he gives out
as readily as he takes in. But it is the same material that he took in. It
has not been distilled in the alembic of his own mind. It has received
no purification and no enrichment. Such a one is by way of being a
human encyclopedia. He. on the other hand, is the true student who
thinks along with his teacher, who compares this with that. He comes
to his own conclusions, not alone by a study of what other men have
written. but by a study of the facts upon which they based their con­clusions.
He may not always get the gold medal, but the fine flour of
knowledge will be his, a satisfying nutriment to his own soul and to
others.
What We Owe Our Alma Mater g..LL that a college has been or will be is not due solely to the
. . organization behind it, nor to the professorial staff. but to the
contributions made by members of the student body as well.
. ' . College, without athletics, dramatics. debating and other activi­ties,
would be a concept devoid of meaning for the average individual.
With the passing of years the college has been enriched by those who
have brought victory and honor to her portals. The laurels were not
won for individual glory, but wre coveted for our Alma Mater. Thus
the college has come to mean more than a building of brick and stone­she
has "personality" and can rightfully say, "I am a part of all that
I have met." .
Graduates testify in subsequent pages of this number as to the
part the college has played in the development of their lives. They
have tapped numerous springs that have aided them in making life
more meaningful. They entered the college with circumscribed minds.
but during the four years of tutelage the ,environmental influence of
the college's heritage gave life a different color and a new direction.
Life was interpreted in terms of service and on that road alone was true
greatness to be found. Disraeli once said. "What is a great man? Is it
a Minister of State? Is it a victorious General? A Field-Marshal covered
with stars? Is it a Prelate, a Prince, a King. even an Emperor? It may
be all these. yet these as we must daily feel, are not necessarily great
men. A great man is one who affects the mind of his generation." H.
G. Wells would add to that his comment on his list of the six greatest
men of history. "They did not get; they gave and in giving. gained
eternal influence."
Long lines of graduates have emerged from Old 'Toba and Wesley
to take their places in the ranks of national life imbued with the domin­ating
ideal of Service. Individual honor has become of secondary im­portance-
the welfare of the group and society at large has absorbed
their attention. They are making their influence felt in the improve­ment
of social conditions and in the measure in which they improve
the life of the people, they achieve greatness.
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It is difficult, however, to understand how anyone can share this
outlook on life if the sense of obligation is not first felt in the college.
There is in the attitude of some students an apparent need of a new
orientation on this question. The idea seems to be prevalent in some
minds that the payment of tuition fees relieves them of all further
obligations to their Alma Mater. This is a decidedly false conception.
in addition to the tuition fees, which by the way only. partially
pay for the instruction given, other demands are made unless a para­sitic
attitude has obscured and nullified them. Students may rejoice in
the fact that they are in attendance at a college which has a great past
and which has much "to offer" them. Mental horizons are widened,
new interests aroused and old ones cultivated, life is expressed in terms
of Truth, Beauty and Goodness-terms that relegate the closed mind to
the dim past. The college offers much, but what have those students
"to offer" it? What contribution can they make to enrich her "per­sonality"
in return for her influence on them? This should be a vital
question for the careful thought of every student. The college is largely
made by the contributions of her students.
Faced with this tremendous debt to our Alma Mater, what student
can conscientiously avoid participation in college activities? The acquisi­tion
of knowledge alone may reflect favorably on an institution of learn­ing,
but if that is the aim of a student to the exclusion of all other
interests at college, there is little honor due him. The athlete, the
debater, and others who spend days and weeks in training and prepara­tion
in order that they may win honor and glory for their Alma Mater
are far more worthy of commendation even though their academic
standing may possibly be a little inferior. They give, the other takes.
The College Yell
VER since the Union of the Colleges there has been agitation
for a new yell. An editorial in Vox Wesleyana, December,
1926, reads: "As all our readers know, the union of Wesley
and Manitoba makes it impossible to use the time-honored
'Buka Iaka.' and it is now necessary to adopt some other yell." Prizes
have been offered, from time to time, by Vox and by the Students'
Council for a suitable war-cry. The prizes have never been awarded
as no satisfactory yell has been offered.
After one has done his best with "Buka laka" for a few years,
he tends to lose enthusiasm for it. In spite of its unvaried repetition
it is hard to enunciate, being without a natural swing, and has no con­ceivable
meaning. Let us formulate a yell which will be suggestive
of our life as a faculty, Don your meditating bonnet in your spare
time and let your college have the fruit of your labors, that we may
exercise our lungs without feeling that while so doing our faces are
apologizing for a worn-out aggregation o,f repeated syllables.
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Pictures of Prominent Graduates
T IS a source of inspiration to all students to recognize in the
pictures of the graduates people who are filling positions of
importance in the world today and to know that they, too,
shared the heritage and privileges of Old 'Toba and Wesley.
The ancient Romans were accustomed to place the statues and
busts of their distinguished ancestors in the vestibules of the houses
that they and their children might be reminded of and led to imitate
their noble deeds. There is no doubt that the influence of this practice
was most happy upon the living, awakening in many hearts high and
noble aspirations. The young grew up to reverence the worthies whose
statues they daily saw, and to emulate the qualities which gave to their
ancestors such lasting fame. In much the same way are we impressed
by the pictures of the graduates and athletic group pictures in Convoca­tion
Hall and in the halls of Manitoba College. They recall to mind
the achievements graduates have made and are making.
There may be a tendency, however, on the part of undergraduates,
to fail to realize the extent of this prominence which graduates have
achieved through service. We therefore deem it an honor and a privi­lege
to print a few pictures of some of those who have distinguished
themselves. It was not without great difficulty that the selection was
made, since the criteria differ so widely. The pictures in this issue do
not form a complete group-they are but a few of the many who merit
the recognition of this magazine.
It gives us much pleasure also to print the names of the graduates
of the first decade of Wesley College's history. We commend this plan
of printing a few names in each issue to the subsequent staffs of Vox.
A complete printed list of the graduates of the United Colleges would
shortly be the result.
Previous Numbers of Vox
~. UCH time and effort were expended a few years ago in collect­:
ing back numbers of Vox. A complete series was the result.
Unfortunately one of the volumes, containing numbers 7-11
of the period 1902-1907, has been missing from the Library
for several months. It may have been inadvertently mislaid-a condi­tion
that a careful search of one's possessions would rectify.
Since the compilation of these volumes the following numbers of
Vox have not been placed on file:
Vol. XXX, Nos. 2 and 3 (March and May, 1927,
edited by David Owens); Vol. I. No.1 (New Series),
December Number, 1927, edited by Harold Robson.
We are very anxious to procure these missing numbers and would
appreciate it if any of our readers would send us any of the above issues.
Your help in this regard may make possible a complete series for the
Library.
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Looking at Contemporary German Literature
By HERMAN WEINERT
(Mr. Weinert has studied in Munster and Berlin. Germany. He continued his
studies at Dijon, France. and received "Dipldme de la Langue Franeaise (University
for Foreigners). Paris. This year he is taking Fourth and Fifth Year Honors in Eng­lish
at Wesley College. It is his intention to return to his native land and resume his
academic work in Hamburg.-Ed.)
All the literary expressions of
the feelings of our age still must
be seen against their specific na­tional
background. Each par­ticular
nation has its own peculiar
difficulties. Economic and poli­tical,
as well as philosophic ten­dencies
influence the author's per­sonality
and are found in his
works. Therefore, to show first
the general hardships and struggles
is perhaps the best way to classify
the evolutions in contemporary
German literature and to make the
personalities of the, authors and
their works more understandable
to the foreigner. The younger
generation in Germany is perhaps
inclined to exaggerate the impor­tanc
of those external and more or
less common influences on the cre­ative
artist. Nevertheless, the at­tempt
to show briefly some of
those tendencies may help to give
a deeper insight into what is go­ing
on today in the life and liter­ary
world of Central Europe.
One can hardly dare to say
anything definite about Germany
as she is today, except rather nega­tively
that she is not a unity, and,
that she is struggling: struggling
against her enemies and-as dur­ing
other centuries of European
history-'-against herself. Her ene­mies?
Yes! Germany has the
distinct feeling, that she has at
least not a single friend in the
world; and that a large part of
the interest taken in her results
from the desire of economic ex-ploitations.
Parker Gilbert called
the country a "going concern!"­And
she knows that others openly
wish to oppress her. .
On the other hand, as to her in­ternal
struggles, observers fre­quently
state that the intellectual
and artistic life is nowhere as agi­tated
as in Berlin. The capital
'lacks Moscow's intensity as an
energetic creator of unheard-of
civilization, it admires the grace­ful
combination of the richness of
tradition and the' beauty of mod­ern
spirit and achievements of
Paris, it wants and praises Lon­don's
conscious form and political
wisdom. and yet it has obviously
the advantage of being more a free
forum for debates and experiments
of all creeds. This for the Ger­mans
themselves-unfortunately
--often results in their capital be­ing
a cosmopolitan centre of at
least agitation and excitement. if
not degradation. On the other
side. this capital (Berlin), which
sometimes characteristically i s
called an "American" (!) city,
happily has a certain refreshing.
awakened youthfulness. which
makes it possible for her to endure
the simultaneous experiments and
desires of apostles, representing
Socialism and reaction. Bolshe­vism
and religion. "modernity."
anarchy and nationalism. opti­mism
and resignation.
The majority of the interested
public today regards all these vari­ous
and opposed interests in con-
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temporary art and life as far more Leibnitz, (1700), Goethe. Herd­important
than for instance ques- er,\yieland; Schlegel (the Ro­tions
of poetic form or style. The mantIc!, ~anke. (the 19th. cen-
. . tury historian}, and Max Lieber-students
have, and take,. time to mann, (the impressionistic paint;
read- and understand hterature; er; president of the three sections
but before everything else they of the Academy) are connected
search for problems and, answers with this long. cherishe~ but only
for their personal and for the com- no~ fully rea~lzed proJect.: of. t~e
adding of a library and linguistic
mon future. section to the Academy of Fine
Taking this characteristic gen- Arts in Berlin. This present-eral
standpoint involves dangers. time' Academy of Poets" differs
it is true. that after all literature largely from the "Academic Fran­is
the expression of outlooks on caise" in Paris, whose grammati­life,
and thus the "political ap- cal work it neglects and whose
preciation" of poetry is justifiable, "spirit of mere representation" it
particular in Germany where pro- thinks "not at all corresponding
bably more than anywhere else to German nature." But it stands
in Europe the parties are formed for the social and cultural rights
on philosophical, rather than on of the world of national litera­economic
foundations; (e. g. ture, and of the creative thinker•
. "christian," catholic. liberalistic. trying to give conscious advice to
socialistic, bolshevistic parties!) the people. trying, simply, "to
But a deplorable tendency of par- help."
~ies exploiting the creative .a~tist In spite of a number of strong,
IS all too frequent and Vlslbl.e. broad-minded. in the best sense of
T~U5 the .fact must be kept.m the word, "leading" artists. this
mind that m a general ~urvey dif- nationally representative group of
ferent ~uth?rs of vanou~ ranks poets has a rather questionable
and merits, in w~om the dlffer~nt position. Taken as a whole. it
parts of the public are equally m- seems to be more conventional
terested". must be mentioned to- and limited than its name suggests.
gerber, Simply because they repre- The list of its 30 actual members
sent and express, more or less ef- includes some famous authors and
ficiently. and ~rtistically, all the in addition only publicly acknow­contrasting
desires of the soul of ledged writers. from not only
the German people. Prussia but also various other parts
As a contrast to this disunited of the country: Gerhardt Haupt­national
background of quarrels. mann, (creator of the naturalistic
jealousy and enthusiasm today we drama in. Germany). Thomas
find a representative body of ar- Mann, (Munich, Nobel Prize
tists such as Germany never before winner in 1929. partly because of
possessed. It is highly interesting his radically new fiction in the
that the definite foundation of the "Zauberberg" ("Magic Moun­10ng-
aiID;~d-at "Germ~n Aca?emy tain") and of his very popular
of Poets took place m the intel- th .. t : I "B dd n . . d bl doer grea nove: u en- lectually bewildering an .. trou e· ".;, . . .
years of the consolidation of the brooks (the disintegration of a
Republic (1926). The names of famil v"). and Walter von Molo
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(now president of the section).
Joseph Ponten (Rhineland). Lud­wig
Fulda. George Kaiser. Hein­rich
Mann, and others. But this
official group does not include the
opposing and radical personalities.
Outstanding writers remained­pardy
vol un tarilY» "independent."
But because they, too, and often
even more so, work for the future.
only along the line of their partie­ular
ideal of conscience, the. wres­tling
public misses their names.
and out of resentment and con­scious
neglect sometimes even likes
to overlook the whole "Academy
of Poets." Thus one has to look
all around the circle of "official
poets" and is likely to discover a
number of great and-which is
important- influential personali­ties
in the opposition.
There are idealistic lovers of
fatherland. home and soil, who.
like Maria Kahle. cry for help to
save the people from its material
and mental ruin. to awaken the
masses from their sleep in national
degradation. They also show the
renewed unhappiness of the Ger­man
people, of whose 100 million
"brethren" only 6Q million form
the nation. the state. the "Reich,"
Others come out of the depths of
old. historical German catholicism
and mysticism, to fulfil another
mission of peaceful redemption
and salvation. Leo Weismantel,
in southern Germany. and his
friends find symbols and hymns
and plays. out of which emerge
both love for strong. liturgical
religious feeling and love for the
blood. tongue and tradition of
the nation. Ernest Toller stands
out as one of the passionate, in-spiring.
condemned, proletarian
dramatists and poets, whose athe­ism
and internationalism cries out
and defends firmly the fighting
masses of factories and gigantic
cities. Almost heroic courage em­erges
from Franz Herwig's char­acters.
whose lives are a continu­ous
struggle on the shadowy pave­ments
of Berlin against the "new­paganism"
and the degrading mis­ery
of unemployment. Their
"modern," active spirit of Chris­tian
charity sees only one enemy
now: the satanic. brutal every - .
class war and the predominance of
the lowest spheres of life. This
realization means much in: a
country that 20 years ago still had
its practical "kulturkampf;" Pro­testants
against Catholics!
Untouched by material hard­ships
and helpless misery the lit­erati
of the remaining, but ap­parently
slowly disappearing
middle classes. praise luxury or
fine aestheticism, or criticize sati­rically
the actual state of things
as well as the noble or destructive
efforts of reforms. Jewish cosmo­politan
writers are praised in their
small intellectualistic circles and
often get usually the largest share
of printing, reading and perfor­mance:
the interested and influenc­ed
editors and theatre-mangers use
their power; Zuckmeyer, a pro­phet
of "sound. robust and natu­ral
feelings" and of "broad-mind­ed"
joy of life receives a classical
prize of German literature! Sen­timentally
striking epics on the
war and the sufferings of the sol­dier
at times overshadow the lit­erary
production; Remarque and
Renn as well as their follow­ers
and imitators are read. praised
and condemned by the millions.
Faithful optimists sing the hymns
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College and University
By PROFESSOR ARTHUR L. PHELPS,
Head of the English Department, Wesley College
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College and University. The
phrase should stimulate interesting
speculation. While the words "Col­lege"
and "University" are often
used carelessly and interchangeably
they should be used carefully and
in relation to functional distinc­tions.
In our community the word
University is the inclusive term; it
suggests activities and functions of
wider diversity and import than
does the more limited word Col-­lege.
The University stands for:
the organization of Graduate
Work, the prosecution of scientific
research, the establishment and di­rection
of the professional schools
of Medicine, Engineering, Law,
Pharmacy, Agriculture and Horne
Economics, perhaps ultimately of
Dentistry, Forestry and Commerce
and Finance; it involves also, in
effect, its own College of Liberal
Arts. The University is thus seen
to represent a widely diversified
(and, with us, ~idely distributed)
activity functioning to bring to an
intense and practical -focus the to­tality
of the community's desires
for higher education in the interest
of a more cultivated and civilized
life. Romantically viewed, a Uni­versity
President, as one under
whom all these activities cohere to
a single end, may be, as it were, the
symbol of the imagination of a
community kindled in the interests
of learning.
The Arts College, as organized
amongst us, operates within this
large scheme. The College restricts .
itself deliberately. The essential
genius of its constitution lies in
this: that it delimits its own field
and labors therein intensely while
intensely aware of the larger world
of University activity about it.
From its classrooms it sends men
and women to the professional and
technical Schools. It must never
be unaware. of those Schools.
Within its classrooms it prepares
men and women for the teaching
profession and the Church. To all
who come, whether for two years
or five years, the College offers the
ideal of a cultural synthesis which
is in its essence; by virtue of the
intellectual discipline and the vi­sion
of life involved, a spiritual
challenge. It is arguable that the
larger a University the greater the
necessity for an increased number
of Arts Colleges within the rami­fying
total scheme. It is the genius
of the University of today to mul­tiply
practical specialized services,
to establish techniques. to increase
diversity by attention to particular
ends. It is the genius of the Arts
College to keep the University
aware of its basic spiritual function
-that of envisioning the one. aim
of which the many aims are parts.
In these days of an increasingly
enlightened and catholic Church it
would seem particularly the oppor­tunity
of that Church to maintain
contact with education through the
Arts College. There is no other
contact which may be so authori­tative
in teaching power, so funda­mental
in its method, and so vital
in its ultimate effects in the na­tional
life. Such contact is ratified
by a noble tradition in English
and American and Canadian aca-
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demic history. Its, fundamental
basis is being reaffirmed today in
the most enlightened educational
policy of this continent.
This interest assumed by "the
Church in Arts education suggests
neither criticism nor a menacing
rivalry of the State University.
The teaching of Arts· work in a
small Arts unit is s imply the
Church's way of emphasizing cer­tain
basic aims of education; the
only possible function of the
rivalry with other Arts units with­in
and without the University is
to sharpen that emphasis 'for all.
In Toronto.. for instance. the
breaking up of the Arts work. as
exemplified in University College.
Victoria. Trinity. and St. Mi­chael's.
is simply the best possible
means of keeping that work true
to its own genius and aims. In this
.departmentofits activity the Uni­versity
is saved from the menace
of its own size. Students in too
.great numbers are ruinous to the
spirit of Arts University education.
The existence of Colleges guaran­tees
the small unit with its closer
personal contacts and perpetuates
the authority of the basic mandate
for all liberal culture.--a spiritual
view of life.
Itis conceivable: further. that
wherever the Church can organize
her theological work, which should
be in the main in essence graduate
work. in closer intellectual and
physical contact with her Arts
work, and so with the Universitv
as a whole, the gain is demon­strable.
That. however. is a ques­tion
whose ramifications go beyond
these paragraphs..
Memories of College Days
A broader outlook. a deeper intellectual life,
a higher ideal, and a few cherished friends-these
are my richest heritage from four years spent in
the fellowship of the small college. In my own
life the influence of greatest value has been the
impression made on my personality by the mind
and life of men and women of noble character,
whose influence made itself felt in the intimacy of
the class-room· circle, the congenial relationships
of social gatherings and the worship of the morn­ing
chapel service. Life has been made infinitely
richer to me by the friendships of college days.
both with members of the faculty-some of whom have already
become but a hallowed memory-and with fellow students facing
with me the challenge of life.
". This close personal contact of student body and faculty. and
of student with student, is possible only within the limits of the
small college, and to my mind is its greatest advantage over the
larger educational institution. where the individual is lost in the
mass and becomes merely a small part of a vast system.
ADA O'NEIL, Arts '26.
Valedictorian and University Gold
Medalist in English in 1926.
VOX 13 V'O Registrar's Report-Recognition Day,
March 7, 1930 March 7,1930
13
Mr. Chairman, Members of the
Board and Faculty, Friends of
the College:
. The object of this report is to
place before you such information
concerning our students as will lead
to a clearer conception of the work
of the College. the area from which
students come. the numbers which
have enrolled in each academic
year, the homes from which these
students have come. how each one
of the different racial stocks which
have come to Canada is represented.
. and how many have come from
each religious domination. and at
what age the students come.
On Recognition Day for the
past three years we have been able
to report an increase in our total
registration. This session our en­rolment
is 445. as compared with
448 for last session. However. this
is still an increase of fifty over the
session of 1926-1927. This figure
does not include the summer school
in Grade XL which had an attend­ance
of 41.
The unit system for establishing
credits toward a degree makes it
difficult to separate the students of
the First Year from those of the
Second Year. This applies to both
Junior and Senior divisions. How­ever.
so far as our records show. the
students find themselves studying
courses in the following years:
Fifth Year Honors 4
Fourth Year Honors. "~.'___ 6
Fourth Year General ~__ 6 1
Third Year c____________ 49
Second Year ~-__-------- 84
First Year +-~----.- 59
Grade XII •.:.__ 68
Grade XI __:_"~ __:__~__i...:..L ;.._ 46
Grade X ~L_s: :~~_~ ~ 34
Grade IX .: ~.__ . 34
Total Collegiate • 182
In comparing these statistics
with those of last year. we find an
increase of 21 in the Arts Depart­ment
and a decrease of 24 'in the
Collegiate Department. This de­crease
is more than accounted for
by one school district which for­merly
sent students in Grade IX
and Grade X withdrawing these
grades entirely. although they are
still sending students in Grade XI.
and by a limitation of numbers
sent from another school district.
The increase in the Arts Depart­ment
is accounted for by a larger
registration in all years except
TLird and Second. The largest
development is in First Year. where
the increase is 22.
Into all the classes in Arts come
students who are registered as Uni­versity
students. This year the
group is somewhat larger than in
previous years. Last year 54 came;
this year 85.
For three sessions we have been
teaching Grade XII in classes al­most
altogether separate from the
First Year in Arts. The registra­tion
has gradually increased until
now it is 68. According to a re­port
recently published, this is the
seco~d largest Grade XII in the
province.
The students who come from
homes outside the city still form
a large part of the student body.
While 198 give their home address
as outside the citj, it is quite clear
that some of the 247 who have
given a city address as their home
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have done so because their parents
have moved to the city for the con­venience
of their children during
the session.
There are 19 of the national
stocks which have come to Canada
represented in our student body.
Apart from Canadians who num­ber
204, the English stand first
with 79, the Scotch 36, the Irish
28, Ukrainian 26, German 8,
French 7, Polish 5, Icelandic 4.
Our students, in classifying
themselves according to religion,
have indicated that there are 23
sects represented. The United
Church of Canada stands first with
277. the Anglican is represented by
52, the Roman Catholics by 20,
Presbyterians 10, Baptists 8, Greek
Catholics 7, and Lutherans 7, and
soon through the remainder of the
list. ,
This year the balance between
the sexes is somewhat weighted on
the side of the men. Last year they
were lOin majority, this year there
are 33. The enrolment shows 239
men and 206 women. The ladies
have a majority in Grades XI,
Third, Fourth and Fourth Year
Honors. There is a considerable
increase in the number of men in
Grade XII and in First Year Arts.
The increase in the latter is due
partially to a large enrolment in
courses leading to Engineering,
Medicine, Architecture, etc.
There is a graduating class of
4 in Fifth Year Honors, and 28
in the Pass Course in Fourth Year.
To this 28 may be added the 6
who are pursuing the Honors
Course in that Year. This would
make a graduating class of 32.
Since the home from whence the
student comes has much to do with
the character of the contribution
the student makes to the College,
careful record is kept of the sphere
of life in which the breadwinner of
the family labors.
'The wide range of activities in­volved
in the specialized life of to­day
is reflected by the students who
have indicated that they come from
homes supported by persons labor­ing
in 91 occupations.. Last year
the list reached the total of 103.
This year, as usual. the homes
of farmers supply by far the larg­est
group. The farm is represented
by 52. The next largest group
comes from the homes of 39 mer­chants,
homes which have lost the
male breadwinner sent 25, minis­ters'
homes 22, railway employees
20, homes of those devoting them­selves
to managerial work 16, re­tired
15, teachers 9, laborers 8 and
lawyers 7.
In concluding this study, I
would like to present some details
concerning the ages of our students.
The enrolment for this year indi­cates
the continuance of the general
trend in the lowering of the age of
students taking Collegiate and
University studies. Last year, the
largest group was composed of
those who were 18 years of age.
The largest group---68-this year
is composed of those who are 17
years of age, and are distributed
through the work from Grade X
to Third Year, inclusive. There
are 7 registered in Third Year who
give their age as 17 yeats. The next
largest is the group of 18 years of
age, totalling 63. Those 16 and
19 have 58 and 57, respectively.
Out of 445 students 347 are be­tween
the ages of 15 and 21, in­clusive.
In our Collegiate Department
there are students who are quite
beyond the normal age of pupils
studying in that area. This group
numbers 24.
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In the Arts Department there
are 70 who are beyond the age of
21. and 8 who give their ages as
between 30 and 40 years.
All of which is respectfully sub­mitted.
A. S. CUMMINGS.
Registrar of Wesley College.
International Congress, University of Minne­sota,
Held January 30, 31 and
February 1, 1930
Three years ago a group of for­eign
students in the University of
Minnesota. Minneapolis, ap­proached
the Secretary of the Uni­versity
Y.M.CA. to see if some In­ternational
Group could be or­ganized
to discuss international
problems. The group was organ­ized
and held a conference that
year. while the second year they
doubled their numbers. This year
the Conference was more widely
advertised, and thirty-five delegates
from outside centres gathered with
approximately one hundred and
seventy-five regular delegates from
the University of Minnesota. The
Congress was sponsored by various
organizations, such as Foreign Pol­icy
Association. Cosmopolitan
Clubs, Diplomatic Clubs, Y.M.C
A. and Y.W.CA. Groups, Inter­national
Clubs and Forums, etc.
The theme under discussion was
~'The Dollar Abroad." Hiram
Motherwell in "The Imperial Dol­lar"
states: "Wherever dollar goods
penetrates, and whatever form
they may locally assume, they
constitute some element in the
fabric of the coming American Em­pire."
And so we gathered together
to consider the effects of America's
<hanged position in a changing
world.
Each morning and evening, lec­tures
were given which were fol­lowed
by discussion groups. The
particular theme of the first day
was •'The American Economic
Penetration of Europe and Can­ada,"
and Professor Jacob Viner,
of the University of Chicago.
opened the session with an address
on "The Pact and the Problems of
American Economic Expansion in
the Western World." He. stated
that quite the most importanr.m-,
vestment had been the import of
American ideas and skilled techni­cians
who would leave a permanent
effect on Europe-.-the loans were
merely for rescue, not investment.
The Caribbean area had been ill­vested
to satisfy American public
opinion, and in only one clear-cut
case did Americans penetrate to
force payment from that colony.
There had been intervention when
claims of possession of property
gave them the sense of right to in­tervene
on grounds that economic
interests were at stake. With re­gard
to Canada. only on two in­stances
had there been any friction,
and this was concerning the water
power, and pulp and paper. In the
latter case.· Canada wanted the
wood to be exported in the form
of pulp, and in the former, power
couldn't be exported because of a
policy of protectionism. The fact
that each shingle had to be stamped
before leaving Canada was an ex­pensive
process, but Canada and
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the United States were on friendly
terms. This address was followed
by six different discussion groups,
and being the only delegate from
Canada. I went to the group which
was to discuss the' question "What
have been the results. good or bad,
of American penetration in Can­ada?"
We wandered sadly from
the given topic, since during the
course of the hour we discussed,
prohibition, annexation. war and
the Public School history books of
Canada and the United States, and
the following conclusions were
drawn:
1. Canada is wet.
W. J. ROSE. B.A.• '05. Ph,D. (Cracow)
Rhodes Scholar. First Anglo-Saxon in
400 years to receive a Ph.D. degree from
the University of Cracow. Poland. Trans­lated
"Desire of All Nations." by August
Cieszkowski, Polish philosopher. politi­cian.
economist and social reformer. Dr.
Rose is now Professor of Sociology in
Dartmouth College.
, 2. The thought of annexing
Canada has never been farther
away than at the present time;
Americans do not consider: the
question-if Canadians do it is be­cause
they know their past history
too well.
3. If war were declared be­tween
Great Britain and United
States, Canada would be in a
"helluva fix."
4. Too much emphasis is
placed on Canadian. history in the:
public schools of Canada; "let by­gones
be bygones and live for the
present ..... (I was "set right" on
several matters which took place:
during the War of 1812-14).
That evening, Dean C. S. Ford.
Instructor in the Political Science:
Department of the University of
Minnesota. gave an address' on
.'The Responsibilities of World
Economic Leadership." He stated
that in the struggle for world mar­kets
"we need a new international
morality." All industrial rivalry
will go on unless war is outlawed.
Law does not end crime. but it
brands it. In regard to loans. "We
trust our dollar won't come back
covered with the blood of other
peoples." Leadership rests on po­litical
ideals and the "dollar
abroad" ought to be watched with
the same care that it is watched at
home.
The theme of the second day
being "American Economic Pene­tration
in Latin America. South
America. Africa and Asia'," Pro­fessor
1. J. Cox of Northwestern
University delivered a lecture on
"The Facts and the Consequences
of Our Economic Expansion to the
South of Us." The countries of
Latin America were' outlined, and
the products coming from, each
country noted. America gets cop-
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M. A. T., '30.
J. T. THORSON, B.A. '10 (Man.),
LL.B. '20, K.C.
Rhodes Scholar. former Dean of Mani­toba
Law School. member of the Do­minion
House.
BEGIN!!
The world is filled with dream­ers
of great deeds to be done. Days
pass and the dreamers stand still­wishing,
longing, fretting. George
Knox said, "Less wishing and
more doing would improve many
a vacant lot." So begin!
"If I only had your great fac­tory.
what couldn't I do!" And
the famous man thought of his
first work--carried on in an old
shed. "The way to begin-is just
to begin." he said. Why dream of
great things without commencing
to achieve them? "I will study
and get ready for my chance when
it comes." The speaker was Abra­ham
Lincoln. Why wait for influ­ential
names, backers, golden op­portunities?
. Begin to make op­portunities.
Martha Berry started
a school for neglected children in
a log cabin with two little tots.
Dr. Grenfell went to the Labrador
without money or influence.
The difference between folks
who do and those who dream of
doing-is spirit. The doers are
fired with determination and then
per from north Chile and Peru, begin. Pasteur rendered his service
petroleum from Venezuella and to mankind while other scientists
northwest Peru and any other state still dreamt about the possibilities.
where oil is found; sugar from Andrew Carnegie began life as a
Cuba, Havana, Porto Rico; coffee bobbin boy at one dollar per week.
from Brazil and the Caribbean His companions never achieved­area;
bananas from Central Amer- they dreamt. He began. Napoleon
ica; rubber from Brazil. As a re- stood forty-second in his class at
suit of American penetration, the military academy: but who ever
standards of living had been raised, heard of the other forty-one? A
sanitation given attention, and sal- dreamer is of no more use than a
aries increased. The United Fruit dead man-and he takes up more
Company; is doing many things to room; But he who turns his
be ashamed of. but also doing great dreams into reality-he cannot be
good. The Latin Americans natu- spared. S!J begin!
rally don't like t~is foreign pene- The thrill comes in the begin­tration,
but they re living on a ning, when you start out with
(Continued on page 47) empty hands and a blazing idea
and nothing more behind you than
your faith and courage, mount
your Pegasus and charge the
heights. "Hitch your wagon to
a star" and begin today some
worthy task.
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My Life in Persia
By Alfie Aliene Eshoo, '32 By ALFIE ALlENE ESHOO, Persia was my birthplace. The tumn is another season whi~his
first twelve years of my life were very. much enjoyed, because then
spent in that Oriental country. nutting begins and the fruit is
Hence this article in which I pur- picked in the orchards.
pose to tell you a few things about Having such a fine climate, one
Persia and one or two personal ex- cannot but expect a great variety
periences which were vividly im- of vegetation, and yet the wild
pressed upon my mind. trees, such as Spruce and Poplar,
Persia is very mountainous. It hardly exist there. Most of the
has some very high mountains trees, even those in parks and along
whose peaks are covered with snow highways, are fruit-bearing, such
all through the year. . However, as apple or almond trees. I' shall
there are places that may be called never forget our own orchard,
plains and mostly used as pastures. which was situated in the heart of
Though I have been nearly half- the large city of Tabriz, and in
way round the world, yet I have which fifty different' kinds of
not found any other country hav- grapes were grown in addition to
ing a better climate than that of other kinds of fruit. During the
Persia. One may think that the summer one almost lives on fresh
climate there would be warm be- fruit.
cause the country is so near the The cities of Persia are very pe­tropical
belt, but it is not so. The culiarly constructed. All the build­seasons
of the year are well pro- ings, which have flat roofs, are
portioned in length. Winter lasts built either of brick or stone. There
three or four months at the most, are no frame houses at all. The
but during these months it gets .yards, which are for the most part
cold and snows a great deal. How- lower than the level of the street,
ever, the winter days are bright. are surrounded by very high walls,
Spring, which lasts about three so that a person walking along the
months, is particularly the most street cannot see the houses. The
beautiful season of the year, because streets, which are not divided into
it is then when all the orchards are blocks, are narrow and paved with
in blossom. It is one of the most small stones. Coming into the city,
pleasing sights to stand on the roof one might think that there is noth­of
a very high building and look ing except mud walls and large
down over the city to see the gates, but if led by a guide one
houses, which seem to be floating would find oneself led through the
in an ocean ofpinkand white blos- narrowest and darkest streets and
soms. Summer is the longest sea- passages into the most beautiful
son of the 'year. During the day orchards, for each yard is in itself
it gets very warm, but at night a a small park or orchard. As there.
cool breeze, coming from the are no autos or street cars, the ve­snow-
capped mountains, lowers hicles used are either horse-carts or
the temperature. However, as there donkeys, and thus there are no stop
are no mosquitoes in Persia, one signs or speed limit posts on the
enjoys sleeping in the orchard dur- streets. Travelling is usually done
ing the warm summer months. Au- by horses, donkeys or camels.
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Now, perhaps it will be more
interesting to say something about
the people of Persia. The popula­tion:
of the country is about twelve
million, two-thirds of which are
Mohammedans, and the remaining
third are Christians, consisting of
different races, namely, Persians,
Arabs. Turks, Assyrians, Ar­menians
and Jews. The govern­ment
before the Great War was
an absolute monarchy. The ruling
king then was called Shah; but the
war brought many changes. The
National party became so strong
that it overthrew the old Shah and
in his place a president was elected
by the people. Thus at present
Persia has a kind of constitutional
government.
The Christian people in Persia
live and dress after the manner of
Europeon peoples, so there is no
need of describing them; but let
me say something about the life of
the non-Christian people, which is
very different.
The chiefoccupation of the Mo­hammedans
is rug-making. These
rugs, which are famous all over
the world, are woven by hand, and
they are usually made by women
and children. It takes a year or two
to make a rug about twelve feet by
ten; but when once it is made it
lasts for hundreds of years. The
older these rugs are the finer they
become. Not long ago an ancient
Persian rug, which was supposed
to be eight hundred years old, was
sold in Paris for one million Amer­ican
dollars. Besides making rugs,
the people are interested in agri­culture,
fruit farming and trading.
Mohammedanism is the prevail­ing
religion in Persia, and the Holy
Book, which is supposed to have
been written by Mohamed him­self,
is known as the Koran. Some
of the teachings of this book are
good, but the main idea of it is
the spreading of Mohammedanism
by means of the sword. The peo­ple
are very religious,· and they
pray four or five times a day. In
the evenings when the Molah
(priest) starts to chant, everyone,
whether in the street or in the
store, falls on his knees and starts
his long prayer. If it happens
that the dealer in a store is pray­ing
when a customer comes in,
the prayer is broken and it is
continued after the customer has
bought his goods. Once a year
the people fast for about two
months. I do not know why they
call it fasting when they only
change the day into night-that
is, they sleep during the day and
feast all through the night. One
day in the year is chosen during
which the people abuse their bodies
for the remission of their sins. At
this event all the public offices and
stores are closed and the Christians,
through experience, remain in the
house the whole day. It is a piti­ful
sight to see all the men and all
the little boys from five years up,
dressed in long white gowns, and
hitting their shaved heads with
swords. Their aim is to see who
can shed the most blood and stain
his white gown as a sacrifice to his
god. There are others who torture
their bodies by putting locks, nails,
mirrors and iron rings through
their flesh. The women are seen
weeping and throwing ashes and
straw on their heads. So by the
end of the sacred day many souls
are thought to have gone to heaven.
For a week after this great event
the men are seen with heads all
bandaged. So there is one day in
the year when a doctor in Persia
is sure of good business!
Education in Persia is not con­sidered
as important as it is in Can-
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ada. The Mohammedan girls, with
the exception of a few, hardly
get any education, while the boys
get only enough to enable them
to read and write. If a boy wishes
to continue his studies he must
either attend the mission schools
or go abroad to France or Ger­many.
The most interesting thing
about the Mohammedan is perhaps
his dress and his home life. As his
religion permits him, and if he can
afford it, a man usually has many
wives. I remember once visiting a
Prince who had ten wives besides
the four mothers-in-law who were
living with him. He had twenty­five
children and, counting all the
servants and maids, a crowd of one
hundred and fifty people were liv­ing
together in peace! The Persian
girls marry very young, sometimes
before they are ten years old. The
worst of it is that a girl so young
often marries a man forty years of
age. A young man who is going
to be married never sees his fiancee
until she has become his wife, and
then he can never get rid of her.
The matching and agreements are
made by the parents of the couple.
The dress is very peculiar, al­though
they are beginning to mod­ernize
it. The woman wears a long
black veil, which she begins wear­ing
at the age of ten, and she never
takes it off except in her own
home. Thus a woman is not seen
by any men folk with the excep­tion
of her husband and her broth­ers.
The men dress in long cloaks
with wide sleeves and they wear
a high hat, which is never taken off
except at night. They shave their
heads but grow whiskers. In the
home the wife is usually the one
who works while the husband ex­ercises
patriarchial sway.
Now to tell you some of my ex-periences
in Persia. My parents be­long
to the old Assyrian race. Both
of them were educated in the
American Mission School. My fa­ther,
when he was eighteen years
of age, had an opportunity to come
to Canada for a higher education.
After a stay in Canada of ten years
he graduated in Medicine from
Queen's College, Kingston. Then
he decided to go back to his native
country as a medical missionary.
As there was a great demand for
a physician, he went to Tabriz,
where he became the assistant of
Dr. Vanneman, the superintendent
of medical work in Persia. Besides
this, father had charge of a leper
colony about five miles outside the
city, where lepers were complete­ly
isolated.
Unfortunately, I lost my mother
early in my childhood. During
the war, when hundreds of refu­gees
were in the American Mis­sion,
typhus fever broke out, and
mother, with her heart full of love
for the affilicted and suffering peo­ple,
took upon herself the task of
nursing the typhus cases. After
nursing for three months, she con­tracted
the disease and died within
two weeks. So three of us were left
to our father's care-in those terrible
days of war. ~
One morning an order came
from the British Consul informing
us that we should leave for the
south, where the British troops
were, at once. The cause for alarm
soon became apparent: Mohamme­dans,
and the Turks from the
mountains, were massacring the
Christian people. It was an awful
feeling to be awakened in the
mornings by the sound of bullets
breaking the windows or by the
shouts of the wild Turks. When
walking down the street it was not
an unusual thing to be told by the
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Turks that our heads would
be cut off the next morning. My
father could not make arrange­ments
to escape on time, so we were
left behind, expecting to be mas­sacred
any minute. Thanks be to
my father's Mohammedan friends
who voluntarily hid us in their
homes!
One day a Persian Prince, an old
patient of my father's, carne and
asked us to go to his court. This
was more than a treat and we made
plans to escape. As it was a two­day
trip we had to hire horses and
carriages. But the next problem
was how we were going to pass the
E. T. LEECH. B.A.. '10
Acting Mayor of the City of Winni­peg.
Member of the Board of Directors.
Wesley College. and of the Joint Board.
United Colleges. Member of the firm of
Leech ~ Sutton. Barristers. Solicitors. Etc.
Turkish army, which was corning
to the city. Somebody had a bright
idea, and it was not long before
we were dressed in Mohammedan
costume and on our way. Sure
enough, we met this army about
ten miles out of the city, and it
was a relief to see the officers sa­luting
us because they thought we
were a Mohammedan family. The
court in which we were to live was
a beautiful one and the Prince had
a large family, as I have .said in
the beginning, so we did not feel
very lonesome.
After six months of hiding we
decided to leave the country alto­gether
and corne to Canada. This
time we hired horses and donkeys.
Two boxes were placed on each
side of a horse and it was in these
boxes, which were lined with
cushions, that my brother, sister
and aunt rode. For twenty-eight
days we travelled in this manner,
resting during the night in inns'
along the way. •
Our guides took good care of us
and we soon arrived in Arabia.
Then followed a few months of
travel in the Orient prior to tak­ing
up our residence in Manitoba
eight years ago.
The Lighting of the
Beacon
There we were on the roof top,
waiting rather impatiently for the
light, which is to direct the noc­turnal
flyers. to search the night
for the first time. From our stra­tegic
position we could view the
less fortinate who had nothing
higher than the pavement on
which to stand. Hither and
thither they were hurrying, trying
to find the best place from which
to watch the beacon become a
blaze of light.
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A false fire alarm threatened to
rival the beacon as an attraction,
but soon again the people settled
down to wait! The aeroplane
swooped around a few times, and
it too withdrew. The moon jeal­ous
of her rival soon to appear, or
weary of waiting, withdrew be­hind
a cloud. Even we felt like
withdrawing into a more shelter­ed
spot. But hark! A speaker is
addressing us! The roar of the
Portage Avenue street cars pre­vents
us from hearing him. As
he spoke, with one blaze of red,
the tower appeared in its glory.
The beacon shot its rays into the
night! From Portage Avenue
rose such a cheer that the ribbon of
light quivered and the moon bared
one eye to see her rival.
The beacon stands searching the
night. Its rays penetrate the gloom
to guide those who fly by night.
May it fill its function well, direct­ing
those who wing their way
through the darkness Of the night.
-H. J. H.
A. N. McPHERSON, B.A., '85 (Man.)
Solicitor for Winnipeg School Board,
County Court Judge, Member of Board
of Management and Senate of Manitoba
College.
What the Small College Means Means to Me Means toMe
Looking back to days spent as
a member of the student body of
a small College, I attempt to meas­ure
(with some degree of under­standing,
I hope) what my Alma
Mater means to me. I gladly pay
tribute to her for having given me
a foretaste of two rich blessings,
the •.comfort of books" and the
joy of fellowship. I feel that she
WINNIFRED BRADLEY
has assisted in the creation of what
one of my classmates has defined
as the "free mind." She has taught
us.' to .love Beauty, for beauty's
sake, and to seek Truth for truth's
own sake. The close, more inti­mate
and therefore more sympa­thetic
contact with your professors
was something we could scarcely
hope for except in the small Col­lege.
Each of us must of necessity
be somewhat more worthy to face
the issues and possibilities of life,
having shared. the intellectual and
cultural advantages of our College.
I firmly believe in the "personal­ity"
of Wesley College, and I am
proud to have had my small part
in the development of that "per­sonality."
WINNIFRED BRADLEY,
Arts'29 Lady Stick.
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Stunts
•
Year
1926-27
1927-28
1928-29
1929-30
1920-21
1921-22
1922-23
1923-24
1924-25
1925-26
A possible explanation of the excellence of the half-dozen per­formances
which, on February 7, delighted the untaxed audience in
the overtaxed Convocation Hall, may be found in the fact that the
shield, which annually submits itself to the tender mercies of actors and
judges, was concluding its first decade of association with Wesley
College stunt makers. Prior to 1920 there apparently was no permanent
award for winners of competitions, for the records tell us that when the
Senior class of that year won the decision they were awarded as a prize
"a red and blue cushion which went to Room II. occupied by Jack
George and Dwight Ridd." Now a cushion is an article which is not
readily given up to any claimant, and a recent careful search of Room
1L including both chairs, fails to reveal any evidence that the prize
of that year was left for other competitors. A permanent trophy, how­ever,
in the form of a shield, was provided by someone during the suc­ceeding
year. The history of the shield during the past ten years makes
clear two things; first, that one of the two Senior classes usually wins
the trophy, thereby apparently proving that students frequently benefit
by experience; and, secondly, that almost any topic or theme under high
heaven may provide the basis for a winning stunt. Note the following: "
Winning
Class Subject of Stunt
'23 A Rural Picture Show
'23 A drama of Love and Tragedy
'25 Family Portraits
'24 The Midnight Whisper
'26 Oedipus Rex
'26 The Pursuit of Happiness
'27 (tied) All the World's a Stage .;
" A Spanish Playlet of the Seventeenth Century
'29 Big Bill Thompson
'29 The Seven Sisters
'31 A 1930 Romance
The variety, originality, and quality of the 1929-30 offerings
were in no way inferior to the accepted or traditional standards of this
annual event. Possibly the claim as to "variety" should be qualified,
since one-half of the presentations had as their motif the prospective
raising of higher education in Manitoba to still higher levels, i.e., the
transplanting of the University to a point farther upstream on the Red
River.. Yet the treatment of the idea in each case differed so widely from
that by each of the others that each bore the clear imprint of originality.
The program was held under the aegis of the Social and Literary
Society, of which Mr. L. Swyers is President, and under the scrutiny of
three judges, Professors Moffit, Lower, and Pickersgill, and accompanied
by the college orchestra and by Mr. R. Greenway who rendered two
violin solos.
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When the curtains parted and
the lights were switched off. the
audience was confronted with the
Three Fates, seated on the plat­form,
enshrouded in mystery and
luminosity, and, with voices deep,
penetrating, and ominous, uttering
prophecies. These representatives
of the Matriculation Department,
who, because of their more limited
past are likely to experience a
more extended future, undertook
to peer into the utmost limits of
that future and to turn the search­light
of revelation on each of the
members of the Senior Class, in the
situation which fate and time have
decreed that he or she shall occupy.
The Sophomores, ever zealous
in works of supererogation, pro­vided
four stunts in one, each pur­porting
to be the finished product
of one of the remaining compet­ing
groups, and each representing
a stage or incident in the estab­lishing
of the University at its
new home. A new stage device,
which promises to supplant the
old, moth-eaten, dust-ladened,
cumbersome, drop-curtain, was in­troduced.
It can be used where the
performance is staged in close
proximity to a meadow or a farm­yard.
It consists of nothing but
a sportive, but ferocious-looking.
Jersey cow, which, with clanging
cow-bell, scampers merrily across
the stage at appropriate intervals
during the performance, and clears
the stage for the succeeding act.
The Freshmen, out of the rich­ness
of their inexperience, gave
their conception of the University
site situation in a cleverly devel­oped
allegory. A town council
meeting, discussing reports of com­mittees,
hearing delegations, and
considering various proposals for
a suitable site for a new nuisance
ground or garbage dump, sug­gested
its own parallels. The rich­ness
of humor, the subtlety of sa­tire.
the depths of emotion, and
the histrionic capacities exhibited
in the stunt, demonstrated the ver­satility
of the Freshman class.
Grade XII, spurning the contro­versial
and the contemporary. pro­jected
two of its feminine mem­bers
forward into the realm of
comfortable old age, and then
backward again into the world of
romance. Chatting over their
cups of tea. they related to each
other the love experiences of their
youth, while at the time across the
stage were being enacted in panto­mime
the incidents of which they
spoke. The presentation. .less
elaborate perhaps than some of the
others. was well conceived and well
acted.
The Juniors, possibly somewhat
dismayed at presenting a third
portrayal of the university site
situation, seem to have concluded
that it was too late to devise a
new stunt, so they risked all and
went "on with the show." They
introduced an element into the
site question which apparently the
committee of the Legislature had
overlooked - that of romance.
Miss Una Varsity, living with her
aunt, Moll Broadway, was com­pelled
by her uncle. Mr. Tex
Payer, to reject the proposal of
marriage from Mr. Tuxy Dough.
She later accepted the hand of an­other
suitor, Mr. Agry Kulture,
the marriage being conducted by
Rev. J. Bracken. While the reg­ister
was being signed everyone
sang lustily that touching old bal­lad,
"How're You Goin' to Keep
'em Down on the Farm?"
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In the opinion of the judges,
the efforts of the Juniors sufficient­ly
measured up to a criterion which
someone has set up--that of "com­petency
and taste" to be awarded
the shield for 1929-30.
The Seniors took the audience
sufficiently into their confidence to
show them that the choosing of
an idea for a stunt is not as
simple a matter as the finished pro­duct
might seem to indicate; in­deed,
they designated it as a
"dilemma." They did, however,
raise the curtain on each idea which
was submitted. The audience was
carried first to a remote spot in
the frozen north where Henry
Hudson and his son had dwelt
alone for over 300 years. Then
the son was thrown for the first
time among those strange creat­ures
of the South-women. Fin­ally,
Henry Hudson witnessed the
amazing evolution, or at least the
transformations, which woman
and her garb had passed through
during the period of his solitude
in the North. "The Dilemma of
Class '30" was a close competitor
for the shield; altogether a very
• creditable performance.
-A.D.L.
Marg.--"Say, you write some-thing
for V ox."
K.C.-"What will I write?"
Marg.--"Your inspiration."
K.C.-·-"WelL you're it."
Retrospect
An appreciation of old Wesley in one hund­red
words? Impossible! The memory of a won­derful
six years is all too vivid for such limita­tion;
but the value of their experience is one of
the greatest things in my life. Well do I remem­ber
that morning of my first registration: the
anxious waiting about the office door; the emo­tions
of wonder and expectancy; the youthful
fear of all the terrors imposed upon the innocent
freshman, which were so soon to be relieved by
the friendly greetings of professors and students.
. The months that followed were treasures of ex-perience.
The merry round of college activity; the broadening of the
social attitude; the development of organizing ability; the wealth of
friendship and withal the splendid preparation for. the duties of the
larger fife. As my mind reverts to the activity of those student days,
I have no hesitation in attributing the greatness of my opportunity
to the advantages of a smaller college. In recent years I have had
occasion to observe the active life of a larger-institution and I am
convinced that for intense participation in those worth while purusits
which gives college education its greatest value, one can make no mis­take
in choosing a smaller college with first class academic standing.
Wesley and her traditions have a grip upon my being.
F. E. HOWLEY JAMES, Arts '24, Theo. '26 Editor of Vox, 1925-26.
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The Carpenter and the College Graduates
This article was published from the pen of Alexander Irvine in the
Teacher's World, reprinted in Public Opinion and then in the Sentinel.
The article as it appears in Vox is abridged from the Sentinel: '
Perhaps certain phases of the article are not as timely and fitting
today in Canada as they would have been in England twenty years ago.
However, the article is not altogether meaningless for Canadian students
of today. Many with false ideas of education maintain that ra ditch­digger
does not need a university training. Many think education to be
that something which fits a man for a particular task, and associates
education with- mere vocational training. They forget that an Arts'
training or a general education is really not a preparation for some par­ticular
job in life, but rather that all round development which enables
even a ditch-digger to rise to a nobler, fuller and more comprehensive life,
tapping a thousand sources of life-enriching material, and drawing out
potentialities which extract the very essence from the existence upon
which he finds himself thrust. Hence it is his right even as a ditch­digger.
The article also combats the dying but not dead idea-that superior
talent and intrinsic values of character and service are all inclusive with
graduate life. Perhaps it is well for us to remember as college students
that -
"The rank (of learning) is but the guinea's stamp
The man's the gowd for a' that."
-S.J.B.P.
About one hundred and fifty
students who had just received
their degrees met for a final din­ner,
before they separated to go
out into the various parts of the
world, probably never to meet
.again.
Of the college professors there
was one man whose criticism of
college addresses was well known.
He had never made an address in
his life, and it was suggested. more
as a joke than with any serious
intent, to invite him to deliver the
address. If they had imagined for
a moment that he would accept
the invitation he never would
have been asked. He accepted,
however, and the committee de­cided
to let the class grin'and -bear
it.
The dinner took place in one of
the world's greatestfiotels. The
banqueting hall ~as known far
and wide for its artistic arrange­ment,
and luxurious furniture.
The young men were dressed in
conventional full evening dress ...
When the dinner was over the
chairman rapped for order and
introduced the speaker.
"Gentlemen," he -began, "I have
never made a speech in my life,
and I don't intend to begin now.
I have something to say, however,
and in saying it will follow Lu­ther's
threefold rule: 'Stand up
straightly, speak out boldly, and
sit down quickly.'
"We are in one of the most
famous banqueting halls in the
world. No such furniture ever
graced the walls and floors of the
hall of Belshazzar as grace these.
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"Take this tablecloth, to begin
with. It is of the most exquisite
workmanship. It involves weav­ing-
to go no further back­bleaching,
smoothing, designing.
It is damask linen, beautiful and
most pleasing to the eye. I want
to ask you a question: 'Is there
anyone here who knows from
personal experience anything about
the labor involved? Have any of
you ever contributed to the manu­facturing
of table linen?' I am
serious, gentlemen, if any of you
have I would like him to say
so!" There was absolute silence.
"I understand, then," he con­tinued,
"that the making of such
a thing is beyond your ken.
"Let me draw your attention
to the samples of pottery here.
Surely the men and women who
produce such beautiful things are
artists! What a joy it must be for
a man to hold such a thing in his
hand and say: 'I made it!' ... If
there is any man here who has
touched this form of labor, let him
answer." But no answer came.
"These are samples of the most
exquisite, and I know most costly,
cut glass. That also involves much
labor and great art ... I will not
detail the process; we see the re­sult,
but the various forms of la­bor
involved are' practically un­known
to us. I would be rather
surprised to find a man among
you who had ever touched this in­dustry
at any angle." In this way
he went over the silver, dwelt ra­ther
len gthil y on the subject of
mining and the life of a miner.
Nothing escaped his notice. He
drew attention to the carpet and
rugs on the floor, to the curtains
and drapery of the great windows,
to the mural decorations, executed
by the greatest living mural pain­ter
....
Then he turned to the table
again. "There are cut flowers,"
he said. "Most of you spent some
years in the study of botany, but
I don't think any of you could
give us a complete classification of
what we see and enjoy on the
table." There was a disposition to
laugh, but he continued quietly
amidst smiles. "Perhaps you are
to be congratulated that you are
at an age when a sense of humor
covers a multitude of sins, but per­sonally
I cannot enjoy that which
gives me pain.
"I am a representative univer­sity
man myself, seriously asking
myself and you whether the sys­tem
we call education educates?"
The silence became oppressive.
"Perhaps I should have put you
more at ease by telling you . . .
that I have never experienced the
joy of fashioning articles with my
own hands. Here we are then a
E. W. MONTGOMERY, B.A., '86,
(Man.). M.D., eM., '92
Former Professor in Manitoba Medical
College, Minister of Public Health and
Welfare for the Province of Manitoba.
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vox
group of men, upon whom a uni­versity
has set its stamp. We pro­duce
nothing we eat, we could not
lend a hand in the making of any­thing
we see around us, and truth
compels me to venture the sug­gestion
that in ninety-nine cases
out of a hundred the chief motive
of a college education is to escape
actual participation in just such
work as gives or ought to give joy
to the worker.
", . . . I t has been truly said
that if ten Bachelors of Arts were
wrecked in mid-ocean, they could
not build a pontoon to save their
lives! They would be equally
helpless in any other critical emer­gency
where practical knowledge
of the ordinary things around us
was imperatively necessary....
"You certainly are not to blame.
YOu are the victims of whatsoever
system we have. I cannot say that
I am blameless. I do not believe
that a smattering of languages, of
mathematics and history is educa­tion.
I believe the system of cram­ming
these things to pass an ex­amination
is pernicious. . . .
"Education is to prepare and
equip for the duties and responsi­bilities
of life-not to turn out in­dustrial
and commercial bosses,
gaffers, timekeepers and cash regis­ters.
. . . Most of you are destined
to be masters of men. You will
mobilise and organize their labor,
you will oversee it.
"When you see men around you
actually creating beautiful things
with their hands, I would like you
to remember that it was my opin­ion
that actual labor in the arts
and crafts and industries is an in-finitely
nobler contribution of the
happiness of mankind than clip­ping
coupons and living upon the
sweat of other men's brows.
"It will not. come in our day,
but the world will ultimately come
to understandthat the. training of
the mind is as necessary as the
training of the body. Why should
it be thought an unthinkable thing
that the blacksmith and the car­penter
should need an education?
Why should college men consider
it degrading to handle tools and
make useful and beautiful things?
(Continued on Page 38)
E. D. HONEYMAN, B.A .. '09 (Man.)
Alderman of the City of Winnipeg,
ex-member of the School Board. member
of 'the firm McWilliams, Gunn ~ Honey-man.
vox
The Little Thing Called Education
29
In the good old days of our
grandparents, when social events
were rare, the fair day was the
height of jollity. Apple cider, Pelee
Island grapes, gay booths and horse
races each claimed their share of
attention! But among this multi­tude
of counter-attractions was the
familiar and persistent vendor of
patent medicines. For everything
from rheumatism to hiccough he
possessed an infallible remedy. The
venerable Chief Hoopla, who was
still surviving at the age of 200,
guaranteed it to cure everything it
didn't kill. AJI for the modest sum
of 25 cents.!
Nowadays we regard our fore­fathers'
naive gullibility with so­phisticated
amusement. How could
anyone believe such arrant non­sense,
For our. part, we would
never accept such delusions "in the
raw." They must be refined and
imprinted with the name of Dr.
Ballyhoo, F.R.C.M., S.C.M., etc.,
etc. Nevertheless, we still believe
in a panacea for all ills.
Education has become our shib­boleth.
It will cure poverty, change
the economic foundations of so­ciety,
eliminate war, and so ad
infinitum . . Most of us accept the
slogan gladly, but if questioned,
have only the vaguest notion as to
its nature or methods. \Ve turn
loose thousands of graduates on an
uneasy world, comforted with the
thought that, with their superior
.advantages and intelligence, they
will form a thinking public.
The ideal object of education is
presumably the stimulating and de-veloping
of man's capacity to think
for himself. The means that adapts
itself best to this purpose seems to
be discussion. The lively inter­play
of ideas tends to destroy fal­lacies
and discovers new truths. In­deed,
we are taught that the na­tions
which encourage the freest
discussion are most likely to sur­vive
and enrich civilization.
That this is imperative at the
present day with its mass propa­ganda
and "big interests" cannot
be doubted. Not only do we need
to think for ourselves but we also
require a working knowledge of
contemporary world problems and
their origin.
How far are we approximating
the educational ideal? The univer­sity,
which is regarded as the most
suitable institution for the. end
in view, attracts students for
various reasons. It is a valuable as-
Hon. J. T. M. ANDERSON, B.A., 'II.
M.A., '14, LL.B.. '13, D. Paed
Premier of Saskatchewan, President bf
the Council and Minister of Education for
that province.
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set in the trades or professions. It
provides a good social standing. It
gives a rather uneven surface "cul­ture."
Social activities and athletics also
have their devotees. To be sure,
there. are students who honestly
wish to abstract the last ounce of
value from their opportunity, and
any other considerations occupy a
minor position.
But isn't there something more?
It has been said that no institution
survives unless it supplies a real
need in the community. The uni­versity
must, therefore, make some
genuine contribution. It is to a
certain extent a smaller and more
real democracy within the state.
SKULI JOHNSON, B.A. '13, M.A. '17 SKULl JOHNSON, B.A. '13, M.A. '17
Rhodes Scholar, sometime Professor in
Classics in his Alma Mater, now Assist­ant
Professor of Latin and Greek in Man­itoba
University.
There is freer expression of ideas
and less danger of authority laying
its heavy hand over the mouth of
annoying thinkers. Yet, it does
not go far enough in encouraging
discussion and awakening students
to the duties of contemporary life.
In the Arts our eyes are turned to
the achievements of the past, and
in the Sciences the emphasis is laid
on the internal structure of things.
Undoubtedly such knowledge is
necessary to understand and im­prove
the present, but most of us
are still in the fact-collecting stage
when we acquire, our .scraps of
sheepskin. We feel no responsibil­ity
as to the duties of a world citi­zen.
We may have acquired a taste
for Browning or Plato, but we ac­cept
the collapse of the peace con­ference
with a certain philosophic
calm. Que ooulez-oousi Trouble
is brewing in India, but what can
you expect from such benighted
creatures who criticize our Western
industrialism!
While most of our time is spent
in absorbing a chaotic jumble of
facts we do have the opportunity
of enjoying certain discussion
groups which fortunately accom­pany
the university course. The
only criticism concerning them is
the fact that they include a small
minority of the students, and time
does not permit an adequate study
of the subjects. They leave on un­comfortable
sense of incomplete­ness.
Various suggestions might be
made with a view to improvement.
If the curriculum were modified to
include a study of modern condi­tions
it would mean the elimina­tion
of other subjects, judged by
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the criterion of relative value.
Greater expense would be involved
with the development of discussion
groups because a. larger faculty
would be necessary to handle the
many small groups of students in
place of the large classes. Innumer­able
objections might be urged, but
surely if education means so much
it is worth the money spent.
-An. Undergraduate.
Tommy Tomms-«'You never had such
dreamy eyes before."
Anne--"And you never stayed
so late." J/
E.B.-"I am going to have my
grandchildren take up architecture.
I want them to get the job of
designing the new: University
buildings.' ,
LOOKING AT CONTEM­poRARy
GERMAN
LITERATURE
(Continued from Page 10)
of pacifism, 'others the glory
of heroism and hero worship.
Foreign influence extends from the
international society-triangle com­edy
to the play of unwholesome
problems concerning youth and
crime. Young 'Germans in Berlin
adapt the ideas, in their turn, suc­cessfully
exploiting the mystery
and miseries of metropolitan
abysses, the questionable reformist
Peter Martin Lampel here feels the
competition of Ferdinand Bruck­ner,
who, accusing and undermin­ing
'official justice, prefers to re­main
anonymous.
All these influences today are
-for the first time in German his­tory---
concentrated in and on Ber­lin.
The development--or at
least the changings-s-of this in
earlier times only big, but scarcely
great city was and is very fast and
surprisingly intense. The capi­tal's
influence on German life is
increasing rapidly. Its domina­ting
role in German literature seems
to begin now---centuries behind,
for instance, the national rule of
Paris in France. There is some­thing
of a "new country" in this
"American" city, which literary
pioneers are "trying to get." In
Alfred Doblin's novel "Berlin
Alexanderplatz." we find some­thing
really new, both in form
and contents, which through this
member of the Academy became
authorized. Franz Herwig, a
young Catholic, created before
him the legendary figure of "St.
Sebastian vom Wedding" (the
holy man, who suffered for his at-
J. T. HAIG. B.A. '01 (Man.)
Ex-member of the Winnipeg School
Board. member Provincial Legislature,
member Board of Management, United
Colleges.
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tempt to realize Christendom, in
the metropolis, in Wedding ("the
Whitechapel of Berlin") .which
dominates "Die Eingeengten'
(translatable into: "the limited,
bound-down people"), a novel
built on and around the former
legend.
The tendency as a whole may
be characterized as. a rapid move­mentof
"modernization" in the
province as well as in the capital
of an awakened country. The
"youth movement," explicable as
the present day phenomenon of
"Faust's" problematical spirit,
worked for decades quietly in op­position
to everything which was
official and settled. It prepared to
a large extent modern architecture
and new religious art, the revolu­tion
of the stage and proletarian
poetry as well as a reformed prose
style. This last is more or less
common to most of the contemp­orary
authors of the various ten­tendies.
We find the short, strong
verbless sentence for instance in
Lion Feuchtwanger's novel "Jud
Suss" (translated: "Power") ,
and already. many years ago the
style of Heinrich Lersch's work­man
poetry adjusted itself to its
unpretentious, but powerful sub­jects
and his-often-simple
audience. A revival of the inter­est
in poetry through the "Sprech­chor"
(poetry spoken by a mass­chorus)
, which is particularly
popular with proletarian literary
societies and various parts of the
youth movement, brought about
a simple, strong style with a choice
and formation of words adapted
to the purpose. Here too, Berlin's
influence is visible: the "tempo,"
the exciting rythrn of the modern
"world-city" demands a new style.
HON. R. A. HOEY HON. R. A,. HOEY
Minister of Education. Provincial Gov­ernment
of Manitoba. Pioneer worker in
the Farmers' Movement. took active part
in the organization of the Western Wheat
Pools. former Progressive M.P. for
Springfield. Graduate in Theology from
Wesley in "15. .
The "Apostle of the metropolis,"
Karl Sonnenschein, cried out his
gospel of "anti-materialism," heard
of thousands, who. tired, nervous
and desperate, would not have
listened to anything but his con­densed,
appealing and forceful
language: out of his "Notizen"
grew the unique "Sonnenschein­style,"
that lives after the tragic
disappearance of a focus of the
metropolis.
But in spite of all this new life,
or often mere external agitation
("Americanism"?), an aristocra­tic
spirit of beauty, pure art and
philosophic stillness prevailed in
a few German minds. Aloof
from everyday struggle and pas­sionate
working for an imaginary
future, remairi· the shadows of
Stephan George and Rainer Maria
Rilke. When Rilke died, a few
vox 33
HON. J. S. WOODSWORTH, B.A. '93
Member of the Dominion House for
Central Winnipeg; was a brilliant student
and medalist at College. For many years
Supt. of All People's Mission, Winnipeg,
under the former Methodist Church.
years ago, Germany lost an "ans­werer,"
who in his masterly form.
expressed things that had never
been said before in German langu­age.
The classical. untouched,
beauty of George's, Rilkes or
Hugo von Hoffmansthal's works
is sure to influence the definite as­pect
of today's artistic life in Ger­many
and cannot be overlooked
even in a short survey of contem- '
porary German Literature.
Lecturer-Friends, if we were
to turn around and look ourselves
squarely in the face, what would
we find we needed most?
Tense Silence. Then .from
Chas. C; A rubber neck, sir!
There was a young fellow called
Sneath,
Who sat on his set of false teeth;
He cried with a start
I~O Lord, bless my heart,
I've bitten myself underneath,"
Nicking Time
By SEESAW
One often wonders what this
life that we are living is all about,
why are we here r What are we
here for? Where are we going?
Is there an end? Is there eternity?
Is there a Life After Death?
And then, sometimes, when we
are in an especially despondent
mood, we ask the question, "Is
Life worth while after am"
Would it not be better to try the
cure for this condition that was
tried by John Smith some time
ago?
Poor John grew tired of Life in
general and his nagging wife in
particular, Deciding to end it all
he bought a -phial of poison, a
coil of rope, and a small pistol.
With these articles in hand he
dragged his weary feet to Mary­land
Bridge and made prepara­tions
to visit the Stygian shore.
Knotting one end of the rope to
the rail of the bridge, he fastened
the other end around his Lillipu­tian
neck. Then, carefully noting
that the pistol was properly load­ed
and cocked, he mounted the
rail and drew the phial of poison
from his pocket.
"Now," said he, "we shall do
this thoroughly. I have been
shot at and missed; I have eaten
Limburger cheese, no effect; I
have swum every channel except
the Atlantic; I have worn stiff
-collars all my life; not yet has
Death's blunt arrow pierced my
leathery hide. What each cannot
do alone, all may do together,"
and he raised the purple poison to
his lips.
The summer's moon smiled a
sardonic smile.
John quaffed the deleterious
liquid, closed his eyes, jumped,
34 vox
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fired the pistol in the direction of
his head, and began tumbling
through space. The next John
knew he was scrambling up the
river's bank for dear life!
It appeared that John in his
haste had missed his head and had
hit the rope (John never was a
good shot), the water had washed
out the poison, and being a born
swimmer he had quickly made for
the shore in spite of his efforts to
do otherwise.
Now do not hastily think that
John said: "What's the use" and
went home under the light of the
silvery moon. No sir, John mere­Iy
said. "Well. by gum." Then
he began to think. next he burst
into laughter, then he shook him­self
and started home.
Today this same John is known
as John Smythe. Esquire. His
wife calls him, "John. dear." She
lets him smoke in the parlor. dip
his toast in his coffee, eat with his
knife. even 'go to bed with his
socks on.
What did John do?
He wrote' his failure into a joke
and retailed it for ten cents a
copy.
Morals:
A man learns little from victory­much
from defeat.
Win now while the wind is
blowing.
Fall seven times, stand up the
eighth time.
More than one highway leads to
Rome.
The wife was going through
his pockets.
"Hey there!" cried Mark, "that
money belongs to me."
"It won't belong now," she re-plied,
.
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Secrets
35 3Z;
Man. beyond all creatures of
the earth. is lonely. Hidden with­in
him are the secrets of his being.
always aching to be told; but the
human spirit has no gift of
tongues. Man remains stranger to
man-a baffling secret. He tries to
pierce the veil that divides him
from his brother; but there is al­ways
something he cannot fathom.
Behind the screen of his own
personality lies his own soul. It,
too, is an elusive thing to his bro­ther,
and none may look upon a
soul's depth in life's travails, for
the depth is shrouded by secrecy.
So man misunderstands man
and is unkind in his judgment.
Often because the other has cher­ished
behind the veil a sacred
secret. "If we had only known!
Why didn't he explain?" An old
bundle of thumbed letters or a
creased paper hinting of long sor­rows-
hidden in secrecy. Who,
then, are we to judge? Who is to
say he should have done this. that
or the other? Do we know 311 the
secrets of that soul? How can we,
since even ours has its secrecy we
fathom?
M.A. T .. '30.
36 vox
Rj Staples, Senior Stick-Elect
-L.A.S.• Hons.: 3 r.
Rj Staples was the recipient of
the highest honor which his fellow
students could confer upon him
when he was recently elected Senior
Stick of the United Colleges for the
year 1930-3 L The ovation given.
following the announcement of his
election. was sufficient indication of
his popularity in college circles.
Rj hails from Grenfell. Sask..
where he struggled through public
school and collegiate. His studies
during high school days were tem­porarily
suspended while he engaged
in banking, selling mgazines and
other "lucrative" occupations. Upon
his decision to invade the realms of
pedagogy. he entered Moose Jaw
Normal School. After two years of
========.teaching in Grenfell High School,
he acted as principal at Southey and
later at Fenwood, Sask. In conjunction with his pedagogical pursuits,
Rj has found time to develop a deep and appreciative taste of music.
His competency in the use of musical instruments is quite apparent to
all who have heard him. In the year prior to his arrival at Wesley he
played in the orchestra at the Hotel Saskatchewan, Regina.
In the fall of '28. as a freshie-soph., loaded down with musical
instruments. he sought admittance to Wesley. Although handicapped by
the lack of experience which a freshman class offers. he soon came to the
fore in student activities. His keen interest and ability in music gave
fresh impetus to the long cherished idea of a College Orchestra. The
Student Council and interested friends were instrumental in supple­menting
Rj's enthusiasm with monetary assistance. The .result was a
United Colleges Orchestra. under the capable leadership of Rj.
This year he has served as President of third year and Junior
Representative of the Colleges on the U.M.S.U. Council. His ver­satility
was further expressed this year at M.A.C. when he took the
leading role in the United Colleges' One-Act Play. And who will
ever forget "Mr. Ague Kulture" of Stunt Night fame?
Rj Staples will assume the office of. Senior Stick with the com­plete
confidence of the Student Body. His interest in everything that
pertains to United, his relationship with the U.M.S.U. Council and
his abiliy to lead. augurs well for a successful year for the United
Colleges.
vox
Miss Luella Sprung, Lady Stick-Elect
37
It is impossible, in the limita­tions
of a few paragraphs, to give an
adequate account of the life and capa­bilities
of Luella, the Co-eds' choice
for the office of Lady Stick for the
next academic year. From the infor­mation
at hand, however, we find that
Luella is city bred and has been away
from Winnipeg, her birthplace. only
for brief periods. Her early school
training was received at Laura Secord
School, after which the Isaac Brock
enjoyed her presence for a year or so
until the Daniel McIntyre School was
completed. Incidentally we would
mention the fact that Luella was edi­tor
of the first school paper (Mercury)
at the Daniel McIntyre School. First
class normal was the next mile-stone
in her pursuit of knowledge. .This led
to Luella's experience as a pedagogue in a little school not far from
Brandon where, on one occasion, under her guidance, the pupils won
fame for themselves in a musical contest.
With these experiences as a background, Luella came to join the
'31's in their sophomore year. She has taken a very active part in the
executive work of Class '31 and of the Student Body in general. This
year she is Vice-President of her class, Senior Cooed Representative to
the Student Council, a member of the Social and Literary executive, and
her interest in S.C.M. work found an outlet for expression as a mem­ber
of the, local executive.
Luella's ability is further demonstrated by the fact that she has
recently been awarded the Sir John C. Eaton scholarship for general
proficiency in the first three years in Arts. To her executive and scho­lastic
ability is added a charming personality which has won for her
a large circle of friends. These are qualities of leadership which insure
for the Co-eds a very successful year with "Lu" as Lady Stick.
-G.G., '30.
Our Cover
A picture of our Alma Mater is perhaps the greatest aid to mem­ory
in recalling the good old college days. Pleasant experiences are re­lived
and the graduate is once more at college. To make such an effect
more probable the cover of this issue is printed in "Toba's old colors,
Blue and White. The cover of Graduation Number will appear in
Wesley's former colors, Red and Blue;
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faces of the men and said: "The
Master says, 'Yes. I could make
the table-I am a carpenter.' "
MISS LILLIAN BENYON (MRS. A. V.
THOMAS), B.A. '05
Postgraduate work in the Short Story
at Columbia. Won a Maclean's prize for
short story and has sold stories to Col­lier's,
American, Red Book and other
Magazines. Teaches the Technique of
the Short Story, Winnipeg.
Convocation Hall, in its red
and white decortions, presented a
gala appearance to a large audience
of students and interested friends,
on the evening of March 7th. Re­cognition
Day. an annual feature
of Wesley College for the past
four years, was' again duly ob­served.
By this annual function the col­lege
seeks to recognize. those who
have helped to found the college,
and to aid in its dvelopment: to
do honor to those who have dem­onstrated
scholastic ability by pub­lic
presentation of scholarships, and
topresent to the graduating class
a token of approval and goodwill,
as they pass on to take up the
challenge of life beyond the college
walls.
Recognition Day
VOX
THE CARPENTER AND THE
COLLEGE GRADUATES
(Continued from Page 28)
"Why should a University per­petuate
such a revolt against na­ture
in which the man who does
no useful work at all is considered
a gentleman. and the creator of
wealth and beautiful things should
be considered of low estate in
Anglo-Saxon civilization. .
"I want to point out to you
that the highest form of culture
and refinement known to mankind
was ultimately associated with
tools and labor. In order to do
that I must present you a picture.
imaginative. but in accord with
the facts of history and experi­ence."
He pushed his chair back. and
stood" a few feet from the table.
His face betrayed deep emotion.
His voice became soft and irresis­tingly
appealing. The college men
had been interested; but they were
now spellbound. He raised his
hands and went through the mo-'
tions of drawing a curtain.
"Gentlemen." he said. "may I
introduce you to a young Gali­lean
who is a master builder­Jesus
of Nazareth."
It was a weird act. The silence
became oppressive. As if address­ing
an actual person of flesh and
blood he continued:
"Master, may I ask you, as I
asked these young men, whether
there is anything in this room you
could make with your hands as
other men make them?"
There was a pause; a brief mo­ment
or two, then with the slow
measured stride of an Oriental, he
went to the end of the table. and
took the table-doth in his hands
and made bare the corner and
carved oak legs of the great table..
In that position he looked into the
38
vox 39
The graduates filed in and took
the front section of the hall. fol­lowed
by the members of' the
faculty. and the' Board of Wesley
College. who took their places on
the platform. Following the open­ing
exercises which were ably con­ducted
by Rev. W. H. C. Leech.
Dr. Riddell. acting as chairman.
welcomed 't~e visitors on behalf of
the College. He then proved to
the satisfaction of the front sec­tion
of the audience. at least. that
this was the best class that ever
graduated from old Wesley. This
had been the best year in many
ways in the College's history.
Never before were prospects so
bright. Each year sees the College
in a better position to make its
contribution to the the young peo­ple
who come in search of higher
education.
The registrar's report was inter­esting
as usual, and appears else­where
in this issue. A vocal solo
by Miss Watson. added a touch
which was appreciated.
Grateful recognition was given
the life and influence of Sir James
Aikens. a faithful friend and bene­factor
of Wesley College. Miss
Luella Sprung, in a well prepared
paper. made mention of the many
activities which received his inter­est,
and benefitted by his indefatig­able
services. Sir James was the
first chairman of the Wesley Col­lege
Board. and served in that capa­city
from 1889 to 1907, but this
was only one of the many institu­tions
and organizations with
which he was associated. The in­fluenee
which Sir James exerted is
apparent in the high tributes paid
him: "A man who has left his
mark on the public life of the
country. who 'bad a wide circle of
influence and well served his day
and generation. a truly great man
of great mental power, and vigor­ous
force of character, helpful. a
wise counsellor and a warm
friend."
Dean Tier of the University aft­er
a very modest beginning brought
a message to the students which
was both interesting and appropri- <
JAMES ENDICOTT. B.A. '93, D.O.•
'10, LL.D. '27.
Ex-moderator of the United Church of
Canada. Honored by the D.O. degree
from ,Wesley and Knox colleges and the
LL.D. degree from Ithe University of
Manitoba.
ate. He traced the beginning of
the universities as centres of learn­ing.
Indeed. times have changed.
We noted with interest the inci­dent
of the students of Bologna.
establishing the first university or
guild of students. How efficiently
they laid down the rules for their
masters to follow! Many of the
old rules may well be practised to­day
by the Student Body. (We
noticed that Dr. Elliott was in
hearty agreement with the rules of
punctuality!) The evident inter­est
was indicative of the apprecia­tion
with which this address was
received.
40 vox
Hearty congratulations were
extended to the winners of scholar­ships.
The presentations proved
to be an opening for the exhibi­tion
of good taste and subtle hu­mor.
We wish especially to con­gratulate
the members of that fa­mous
Latin class! (The names of
those students receiving awards
will be printed in the Graduation
Number of Vox.)
One by one the graduates, in
answer to their names, came for­ward
and received from Mrs. Rid­dell
and Mrs. Anderson, the token
of approval and goodwill from
their Alma Mater. The coveted
graduation pins were presented­a
gift cherished by every graduate
" of Wesley.
During the afternoon the grad­uates
were called into Principal
Riddell's office, not to be brought
up on the "carpet," but to receive
from him his sincere blessing and
the Book which may be carried
through life as a guide. The
graduates certainly appreciate these
words and tokens of the fellow­ship
bestowed upon all who pass
through the college halls.
The National Anthem follow­ed
by the benediction pronounced
by Dr. McKay brought to a close
a very successful evening, one that
will long live in the memories of
those who were the recipients of
the goodwill expressed. May in­deed
they prove worthy of the
recognition thus given!
-H. J. H. '30
Notice observed on Room C
door at Wesley:
"Prof. Phelps will meet his
classes Monday, Tuesday, Wed­nesaq,
Feb. 3, 4, 5."
(The original is on view in the
Library.)
OF. EVERSHARPS
(With apologies to Bacon)
Eversharp pencils may be of
use, of delight to the eye, and of
annoyance. So they be operative,
they may be of convenience; re­flective
of bright colors, ornamen­tal;
but if they admit not of the
lead, they possess not utility. For,
without carbon, the pencil becom­eth
a waste piece of metal. The
column may be insertable at such
time or location when no obstacle
presenteth itself. Whereas, the
same machine, when actually re­quired
for advantage, would in no
wise conform to its natural habi­tude.
Therefore, take heed that
your pencil become accustomed to
the swallowing of its lead, in all
manner of places.
Pencils may be legally obtained
in three ways: By purchasing, by
buying, and by gift. The rich
man purchaseth his crayon at
Birk's, the poor man buyeth his
at Woolworth's, and the student
receiveth his by gift. Of these. the
first style is most like to function;
the second to be for a distraction,
and the third to serve as a decora­tion.
Bright colored pencils should
be worn conspicuously; for they
give the appearance of opulence.
Nay, they should be carried in the
left upper pocket of the suit coat.
Cheap pencils should be placed in
the cinder bed, and useful ones
carried secretly, else they will
disappear from the face of the
earth.
So we must become expert in
the mechanism of our pencils. and
should prize good ones when we
own them.
-C.B.
vox LITERARY 41 ~ lllTllEllQAllQY ~
41
Joseph Wiznuk Interprets the Ukraine ~I~:~
Joseph Wiznuk, a young Uk-is not alone for the unlettered, but
ranian student in Third Year for the educated. . .
Arts at Wesley College, has just The author proceeds to point
completed his translation of Wob's out that those who have criticised
"Struggle for Freedom of Reli- the old church and the old forms
gious Conscience in the Ukraine." of worship have done so from an
The author of the booklet is a altruistic and constructive point of
native Ukranian who spent most view, ever seeking to substitute
of his life in the old land, and is something better for that which '
conversant with the hopes and they seek to destrOY'.'-
aspirations of his people, especial- "The influence of the Reforms-ly
in this day when they are strug- tio is seen in the works of such out- '{....
gling for freedom of religious con- standing men as Skovoroda, Kos- ~
science. tomarov, Kulisch, Shevchinko and
The booklet contains a short others. They preached firstly the
~urvey of the struggle of outstand- freedom of thought. speech and
ing Ukranians for the freedom of conscience, and second.ly, broth~r-.
religious conscience in their native ~<><>?-the great essential of Chris- •
land, tracing this movement from tiamty. Thus they became advo-the
days before the Reformation in cates of democ?1cy. They stood
Germany, right up to the present. out boldly against the Pope and
Mr. Wiznuk's translation is made encouraged the people to do the
from the Ukranian edition of same. Most important of all was
January, 1930. their opposition to the Pope and
, . " Cardinals who taught that salva-
Religious freedom is an ideal to- tion of the soul could be purchased .,. f.
w~rd which the people of ~he Uk- with money. .:
raine .have been. struggling for The "Stundism" movement is I:,r.f~
cent.unes. There has bee~ an un- outlined, and the work of M.
ceasing search fo~ th~,real Apostle Drahomanov in Galicia.
fo Truth an~ Light -fl constant The aim of the reformers is
struggle against the :bondage.of stated as being "to create a new
worn-out creeds and ceremonies. church in the Ukraine on the'
Th~ leaders of the ,movement strong and durable foundations of
realized that the salvation of the justice and truth; a church that
people was not to be found.m would be free from the trammels
dogmas and worn-<;>Ut cere~omes of the state, totally independent of
of a~ead past. b.ut m the life and the old churches; a church that
teachings of Christ. would have the welfare of the
The Ukranians, as a people, are masses at heart." They seek to
profoundly religious and their fulfil Shevchinko's prophecy:
leaders have realized that religion "... the sepulchral church
42 vox
Shall shattered be,
And from its ruins
The Ukraine shall arise.
All thraldom's clouds
Shall scattered be,
And then the world of light
Shall shine upon us."
. The booklet throws light upon
a subject of which we in Canada
know little, but a subject i!J. which
we should be vitally interested in
since in an ever- increasing per­centageof
our population are
native-born Ukranians or of Uk­ranian
parentage.
Mr. Wiznuk is to be commend­ed
for his fine work of translation
which should do much to help us
understand some of the "strangers
within our gates."
In addition to making this tran­slation,
keeping up with his
academic work and supplying a
United Church mission on week
ends, Mr. Wiznuk is busily en­.
gaged in translating some poems
from the Ukraine, two of which
are reprinted below.
-B.H.S.'3 I
EVENING SONG
By ISIDOR WOROBKEVICH
The sun is hidden now,
Behind the hills so high;
The groves and dales all dream
Their dream beneath the sky.
A tinkling bell is heard,
Above, the moon glides on;
In gardens green we hear
The nightingale's sweet song.
The wind goes rustling by,
The brook is whispering,
The stars are shining bright,
Twinkling and glistening.
The pine tree is dreaming,
The birch trees now are mute.
A sound comes 0'er the breeze,
Of distant shepherd's flute.
The world's a church of GOB,
So peaceful, calm and loyal;
The weary peasant rests
From hard and irksome toil.
Guard-like across the sky
The moon does glide along;
Happy that all forget
Their cares, their woes, their
wrong.
-Translated by Jos. Wisnuk.
TARAS SHEVCHENKO
By HELEN KOMARIVNA
He knew no swaddling clothes of
silk,
Within a palace wondrous fair,
But born into a humble home,
He met but bondage, toil and care.
The hapless mother swaddled him
Amidst the daily round of care,
And throughout the live-long
night, for
The serf-born son she made her
prayer.
God heard the mother's pleading
prayer
And comforted her, bereft of joy,
And then the gift of matchless
song,
Bestowed upon the little boy.
When he grew up :and took the
lyre
And moved his hand the strings
along,
A flame of wondrous living song,
Came forth with tales of ancient
wrong.
The SOIJ.g of which he sang to all,
Was freedom, life and happiness,
It woke them from their sleep and
cried-
That soon their wrongs would
have redress.
VOX 43
He sang the peasants rightful
cause,
The shameful fetters of the day;
He did not grudge to spend his
strength,
Nor paused to wipe his tears away.
-Translated by Jos. Wisnuk.
AN EXPERIENCE
Each awful hour the torment of groaning
souls,
Assailed by doubts,
Battered by ghastly fears,
Across an evil desert we are come.
Now that the water's side is reached,
And we look back,
How foolish we,
To be afraid when still we knew that
each was nigh!
Let the dead past bury its own dead,
With faces front,
To seek the good that still may be,
Hand in hand we'll bravely march.
-CHARLES CLAY.
A BOON
Not wealth, nor pride of place,
I ask, 0 Life, of thee,
Nor sheltered ways;
Not these alone can give
A heart and mind at rest,
Nor happy days.
I would not ask for power,
Nor strive with thee for prize
Of selfish fame;
Nor shrink from humble toil,
And draw from thee apart,
A hermit name.
One boon, 0 Life, be mine,
As through thy ways I go
To journey's end:
Though rough the path, or smooth,
Be this thy greatest gift,
A faithful friend.
Thomas Payne.
Bill W.-Few geniuses wear
long hair now.
J. D. Mc.-No, it is the bald­headed
man that is coming out on
top.
Cloud Rifters
For distant beacons gleaming through the night,
Our tumbling waters sparkle in the light.
Night fires-though once, they flamed in haste for Drake­Soon
paled; while these, from constance never break!
Can we compare the valour of those hearts
With that of "Privateers" on local marts?
Our "Talkies" with their wisdom-pure and deep
As moss-girt springs that well where tendrils creep
0'er moulded leaves, and yellow, sifting beams
Illumine them for "seeking" tourist streams?
When first, with native steel from Cape to Sound
The Nine great Units into One were bound,
Upon each sunlit crest Strathcona wrote
Faint-curving lines-which, as the sledges smote,
Resolved themselves in shapely parallel,
To weld a land, where, striving long and well,
Had brought reward to those who live and hope
In Common Sentiment, and Freedom's scope.
But now-transcending legends old and dim,
Swift postal planes glide 'neath the rainbow's rim!
-C.B.
44 VOX \-T 0 X
The Poet's Complaint
'Tis vainly, 0 ye editors, ye seek a contribution
For the pages of your worthy magazine;
I am rising in rebellion, I am spreading revolution,
To overthrow the order that has been.
My masterpiece I offered you, you spurned it without pity
And coolly sent it back to me again;
You required of me an article both "topical and witty,"
And rejected all my efforts with disdain.
How many weary nights I've spent, the midnight candle burning
In searching fitting subjects for my skill,
But inspiration's fled and by experience I'm learning,
The Muse may not be summoned at my will.
So now I give you warning, in this eloquent effusion,
The poet's ultimatum ye have heard;
Your views on the poetic art are merely a delusion,
And poetry "to order" is absurd.
'Tis my firm determination to await an inspiration,
Until then I shall not write another word.
-ED.H., '31.
The Editor's Reply
To you, oh sweet and pretty maid, we answer most serenely
That the contribution you sent in was fine;
Your masterpiece returned to you, we know, has grieved you keenly,
But we did not mean to hurt you by design.
The reason we could not accept your "eloquent effusion"
Is something you, so modest, could not guess: .
The standard which would be set up by such a contribution
Would be an inspiration, we confess;
But others who have not your skill would be so much discouraged,
Since your contribution theirs would far outshine,
With "firm determination" they'd refuse to be encouraged,
And from them we'd never get a single line.
-Per B.H.S., '31.
vox
A Post-Graduate's Point of View
45
Until mass production methods
in industry. in comparatively re­cent
years, demonstrated that auto­mobiles,
silk hosiery, and sausages
could be produced more profitably
on a large scale than in any other
way, no one thought of a Univer­sity
in other than the ideal terms
of the small College advocated by
John Milton. The large Univer­sity.
exemplified in such corpora­tions
as Columbia University with
nearly forty thousand students. is
peculiarly an American contribu­tion
to educational practice. It
arises from some such principle as
"a degree for everybody and every­body
a degree," and offers a pint
or so of the jam of culture to each
and every individual in the coun­try
regardless of whether he or she
may be a gallon, quart, or merely
a half-pint individual. The con­tents
are duly certified, to whom it
may concern, by a nicely engraved
parchment-label. If the founders
of the ancient Universities hear
about this, I can imagine them
turning over in their graves.
The Editor of Vox has asked
me for an opinion on "the place
of the small College"-an honor
indeed, for who is not pleased to
find that his humble opinion is in
demand? In looking back over an
undergraduate career in a small
College from a present post-grad­uate
position in a large American
University, it seems to me that one
may get from a College experience
values which arise from two con­ditions:
first. a fairly close contact
with one's teachers, and secondly,
a fairly broad contact with the cul­tural,
social and athletic activities
of student life. Nowhere are these
conditions to be found more than
in the small College, where the stu­dent
body is selected, the instruc­tion
has individuality. and where
the atmosphere is cultural.
BURTON T. RICHARDSON,
Arts '29 (Hons.).
Senior Stick '28; first male Honoo
Graduate of Wesley; awarded a
Scholarship by the University
of Syracuse. U.S.A., where he
is now engaged in Postgraduate
work.
A COMEDY UNDIVINE
Paradise-.
Shaded room,
Open fire,
Cosy nook and
Your heart's desire.
Purgatory-
Selfsame room.
Lights just few,
Same little nook,
Ma there too.
Inferno-
The room, the nook.
The shade, the fire.
The greatest chance-
And enter Sire!
-Brandon Quill.
46 vox
When One Is Dumb -- By One Who Knows
When OneIs Dumb-By Yes, this is literally true, but
verbal expression fails to describe
it-when one is dumb.
Daybreak is coming. The roar
of a street car is heard. I stir in my
bed. A thought flashes over me-­I
hope my hoarseness is gone and
the cold is better. What a nice sleep
-but oh! is that a steel band with­in
my throat, tight and compress­ing?
What if I am dumb?
A sleepy voice from across the
room asks: "What's the time?" I
look at the illuminated dial of my
alarm clock nearby. It is five to
seven. I try to repeat the words
audibly-i-thev will not come. Yes,
it is true, I am dumb. The query
is repeated. I feign to be asleep to
avoid further entanglements. What
a long, silent day ahead; maybe
complications looming in the dis­tance.
The rising-bell puts an end
to further speculation arising from
this dumbness.
It is now breakfast time. Does
one's dumbness show in the face?
Of course, you can feel it 'way
down inside all over yourself, but
can the other fellow be aware of it?
All passes off smoothly; a seem­ingly
intelligent interest is kept up
in the flow of conversation by nods
and gestures. But whenever will
that milk jug come around? Ah!
here it is! Some good soul uncon­sciously
heard my internal yearn­ings
for the lactic fluid and passed
it on. Gratitude sparkles in my
eye-just dumb thankfulness. Oh
well, breakfast is over at last, but
what about classes?
They must be faced, even with
the roll call at the first one. The
professor has not forgotten to do
it yet. Will he forget to do it to­day?
No! The little book is on
the lectern. The buzzing and chat-ter
in the classroom stops.. He is
now three from my name. An ef­fort
must be made to break that
internal veil of silence. An effort
must be made to shatter the inter­nal
constricting ring in the throat.
One little word. out at last. hoarse
but audible. Such a struggle as the
mountain had to bring forth the
mouse. But is it successful? The
professor looks up-is he gO~:l.g to
repeat my name? No. What a re­lief!
The preliminary quizzing on
the former lecture begins. My self­consciousness
returns-s-do I look as
dumb as I am? Suppose he asks
me a question-what must I do?
Now for it, he is looking straight
at me, but his eyes shift slightly
and a query drops behind me on an
unprepared unfortunate. Thank
goodness! Regular dictation at
last. Now no further need of
strenuous but futile effort of try­ing
to formulate verbal responses
not externally utterable.
The intermission bell sounds.
Students gather in groups. From
animated throats chatter rises like
sea gulls from the crest of the
waves. While the Dumb One fades
like a philosophical fish in the deeps
of verbal silence, observing them.
To break from that deep even for
a second, what an exquisite delight,
but at how great a torture! But it
. is already time for the next lecture.
The day drags along. Yes. one
should be down at the final class
meeting arranging for Stunt
Night. But what can one do when
one is dumb? Perhaps it is better
to be scarce around the College. If
you are in your room someone
might come in and ask point-blank
if you are coming to the class meet­ing.
VOX 47
It would be better to go over to
the University Library and do
some reading there for work on a
future essay. The Dumb One goes,
with an inwardly guilty feeling,
avoiding meeting people directly.
The library is quiet; nearby a pair
of silly young things start an un­dertone
flirtation. I look enviously
at them. My gorge rises; philos­ophy
becomes uninteresting. An
afternoon at a show will pass away
the time even if a lecture has to be
skipped. Explanations can come
later. Besides, there is that meet­ing
to be convened about the next
discussion group. That is an im­possibility
now. Let it go! The
"Phantom of the Opera" is calling,
and he calls successfully.
The day wears slowlyon-sup­pertime
at last.' Chit-chat and gay
banter flow around the table. You
feel strangely isolated and alone;
as isolated as a silent rock in a
gently murmuring stream. When
will that milk pitcher move
around? An eager look into the
eyes of a fair maiden ismisinter­preted,
lips curl into a smile; but
the glass remains empty.
At last the day is done. The
Dumb One snuggles into the
. sheets. There is a rap at the door;
someone wishes to come in. What
a nuisance! 1 will not get up. Dark­ness
as well as silence covers me.
-B. F., '30.
INTERNATIONAL
CONGRESS
(Continued from Page 17)
higher standard now. It is doubt­ful
whether the people of Haiti
will be any more ready to govern
themselves in 1936 than they are
. now. Latin America is pretty well
under the control of Uncle Sam;
Cuba has to maintain a certain
amount of sanitation and can't
have a scrap over elections without
interruption from America; Haiti
is the same. Nicaragua is told how
much money it can spend, and
Salvador, "even spunky little Sal­vador,"
has Americans to collect
the tariff. In Panama the govern­ment
sits in a palace and watches
the expenditures as they are carried
on there. The government of Costa
Rica is virtually overshadowed by
the United Fruit Company-they
own the railways and close the
ports when any internal trouble
arises. If there is any question
about the Panama Canal it should
be answered by United States. and
United States alone. They will
guard the Panama Canal as a natu­ral
boundary line of the United
States.
The discussion group I attended
following this lecture was on
"Where Is the Search for Supplies
of Tropical Raw Materials Taking
Us?" Mr. J. C. Lawrence. Assist­ant
to the President, University of
Minnesota, at one time with the
Firestone Company in Liberia. led
the discussion. Conclusions were
as follows:
1. In Africa the French inter­married
and didn't get anywhere.
The British and Dutch tried piling
two or three white men on the back
of every black man. The American
mind doesn't work that way­they
do not go in to exploit .the
natives.
2. Ford enterprises in Brazil
are a great success.
3. The Filipinos have not self­government.
The evening address of the sec­ond
day was given by Chester Har­vey
Rowell of California. who
spoke on the "Kyoto Conference
48 vox
of the Institute of Pacific Rela­tions."
We learned that Honolulu
is the central pivot around which
the whole world tums-s-everyone
in Honolulu knows that. The In­ternational
Conferences were to
meet every two years, and the third
one met in Japan, 1929. At these
conferences they decided that they
would decide nothing, just talk on
friendly or unfriendly terms as the
case may be, get acquainted so that
different delegates understood each
other and could thus smooth out
difficulties, then go. home. At all
meetings they discussed heavy ques­tions,
such as immigration laws,
and psychology of race prejudice.
In 1927 the Chinese were boycot­ting
British ships, and the Chinese
and British delegates had complete
confidence in each other; in fact,
when the Chinese delegate returned
to China he took Fred White back
with him-and he's been there ever
since. The 1929 Conference to be
held in Japan was almost cancelled
several times but finally met and
even the Chinese and Japanese dele­gates
had great confidence in each
other. There was absolute freedom
of speech. Japan was told to get
out of Manchuria, but China
couldn't force this for twenty
years, and in the meantime there is
hope that some understanding of
a peaceful solution will be gained.
Manchuria Was declared to be the
place from which another world
war could start. Japan can become
a great modern nation only 'on the
raw materials of Japan and Man­churia.
Manchuria is theoretically
a part of China, and Russia, too,
has a port there.
Bolton C. Waller, Secretary of
the League of Nations Association
of Ireland, delivered the final ad­dress
of the Congress on the morn-ing
of Saturday, February l st, on
"Disarmament, Economic Facts
and the League of Nations." .He
outlined the policy of the League
and the work they had done so far,
and stated that the nations Were
disappointed when the United
States withdrew. He also gave rea­sons
why he thought the United
States ought to join the League.
The Americans had too high an
opinion of European cunning
statesmanship, but American lead­ers
have shown ability to stand up
against these cunning statesmen.
They ignored the decided swing
of the European countries towards
peace and had too poor an opinion
of European countries where in­creasing
good feeling existed in a
comparatively short time after the
war. The Kellog Pact was an im­portant
contribution towards se­curing
world peace, buthe doubted
its real value.
Our Congress was closed with a .
graphic story of the League of Na­tions
in motion pictures. called
"Hell and the Way Out," which
was followed by an all-Congress
luncheon, where impressions of the
Congress meetings were stated by
several speakers. and the possibility
of next year's Congress intimated.
In closing, I should like to state
how important it is that students
of today meet and converse with
students of other lands on interna­tional
problems. In this way we
create an atmosphere that can be
attained in no other way, an under­standing
which cannot be reached
through the press. and a confidence
which is essential to the principal
workings of the League of Na­tions.
EVA ROBSON, '30,
S.C.M. Delegate.
vox 49
TO A BADMINTON BIRD
By THOMAS PAYNE
Feathered circlet, resting snugly
In your long and narrow nest,
Let me draw- you forth and gaily
Let us play with youthful zest.
Now with sportive impulse, let me
Send you o'er the meshed divide;
There another, calmly waiting,
Murmurs softly, "Just outside."
Now above me lightly soaring,
-You aspire to realms above;
As I watch, you tum, descending
(Present score is just "One-Love:')
Down you fall; I raise my racquet
With expectant, eager cry,
Swing it, as you drop before me­Miss
you-swish I-but killed a fly.
Sweetly my opponent chortles,
Splits his face from ear to ear,
Ruefully his grins I mirror
(What I murmur none can hear.)
Once again you speed in mid-air.
Back and forth in rapid flight;
Up and down, now here, now yonder.
Lost at times within the light.
Back and forth the contest wages,
Flying feet and flashing frames,
Till at last you come to rest-and
We are tied "two-all" in games.
Now, 0 little feathered circlet,
.If you love me serve me now I
Do my bidding! Speed you truly!
Bring the laurels to my brow.
Blithely now I send you from me;
Whistle gaily o'er the net!
What! you're back? Why you surprise me!
Off I-and don't come back just yet.
(Then I turned its flight to follow,
Confident-I know not why­But
the pesky thing came, and
Landed~plop!-upon my eye.)
Nasty little feathered circlet!
'Twas no laurels that you brought,
But an unknown constellation,
Bright beyond my wildest thought;
Shooting stars and blazing comets,
Dark