Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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18 THE ASHBURIAN On January 6th, the club met again to discuss a motion for the disposal of the Canadian Merchant Aiarine. Since the last meeting, Mr. Belcher had found himself unable to carry on in charge, and Mr. Drayton had taken over. The motion was carried. It had been planned to have a debate against B.C.S. on March 5 and Ashbury was to have carried the negative end of a motion resolving that: the election of a Socialist Government in Canada would be a national disaster . Unfortunately, however, the epidemic of mumps at the school made necessary the indefinite postponement of the debate. Better luck next year! THE POETRY READING CONTEST THIS year marked the commencement of annual poetry reading contests at Ashbury College. It is a welcome innovation and offers wonderful training for those that are concerned. The com- petition was held in the chapel, and the number of entries gave evidence of the students ' interest. Mr. Drayton convened the contest and was the moving spirit responsible for its inception. It was through him also that we were fortunate enough to have Professor Edinborough of Queen ' s University as our adjudicator. Being the assistant professor of English at Queens, he was more than qualified for the position. To adjudicate any type of competition is a difficult task at any time, but Professor Edinborough made wise and popular decisions in choosing Pierre Langevin and Alex Urbanowicz as the leading Seniors, in first and second positions respectively. John Hutchison and Geoffrey Carne tied for the leadership of the Intermediate Class, and Stephen Woollcombe was second. Mr. Drayton deserves the appreciation of the school for his un- selfish work which made the contest possible and it is the hope of The Ashburian that future competitions will be as successful.

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THE ASH BU Rl AN 17 THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB At eight o ' clock on the evening of Friday, January 20, the Honor- X able Christopher Hart, Speaker of the Ashbury House of Com- mons, walked into the chamber, followed by Sergeant-at-Arms Scott Price. The House was in session. This was the climax of several days ' activity and many notices on the school boards. The Government, headed by Prime A4inister J. M. Fraser, had many important bills to introduce, all of which the opposition, headed by Walter Sudar, opposed vigorously. First, the A4inister of Recon- struction and Supply, Mr. Gilbert, brought in a bill which would add several useful pieces of equipment to the school. The Minister of Indian Affairs— Mr. D. Fraser introduced a bill for the construction of a Junior Butt Room, for candy, cigarettes, etc., and Mr. Dalrymple, Minister of Health, brought in a bill for chocolate flavoured milk of magnesia. All these were passed. Two other bills, Mr. Hall ' s Equal Rights Bill (Justice Dept.) and Mr. J. Eraser ' s Distribution of A4arks Bill (Education? Dept.) were ruled defeated in a voice vote by the speaker; there was no time for a counted vote. Then came the private bills. They were of all sorts by Opposition members, and were not opposed, on principle, by the government. One of them, proposed by A4r. Genesove, resulted in a rare united front of the two parties to defeat it. It was to propose educational reform (compulsory German, hours from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., no talking, prefects having caning privileges and many similar ideas). In the course of his speech, Mr. Genesove had to be ' named ' for unparliamentary conduct. The house adjourned so that the junior school page boys could retire, and it was the end of a most enjoyable evening. Many thanks to Mr. Polk and A4r. Belford, as well as to all the others who helped in the organization. THE DEBATING CLUB Although the big debate with B.C.S. never came off, the debating jfX, club had an active year. On December 2, the club had its first meeting, in which the subject under consideration was a motion pro- posed by Genesove to legalize mercy killing or Euthanasia. With Genesove on the affirmative were Grimsdale and Younger I, while Scott I, Busk and Fraser I opposed the motion. After the formal debate, there was some discussion of the matter from the floor— the motion was not carried.

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