Lakehead University - Yearbook (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)

Text from Pages 1 - 88 of the 1955 volume:

CANADA ' S FfRSr , CHO Cef becauAe ( tke be t milik cliecotate mode dlsom . me quautv chocolatb bars LAKEHEAD TECHNICAL INSTITUTE YEARBOOK • 1955 THE NOR ' WESTER Yearbook of the akehead Technical Institute LORENA STAPLES — editor 31439 volume: 6 session: 1954-55 PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO Published by the students of the Lakehead Technical Institute 1955 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This volume of the Nor ' Wester — the sixth — has been a rather ambitious experiment. We have tried to present a yearbook worthy of our prospective status as a junior college — a book that would set a high standard for those in future years. Our success in this venture may be attributed to the combined and cooperative efforts of many people — above all, our advertisers and contributors, and the staff: James Mitchell, Charles Farr, George Reguly, Ian Kingston, Rochelle Kostick, and advisors Dr. Miller and Mr. Fisher. Photography by Pouncy ' s Studio and Charles Farr Published in 1955 at Port Arthur by the Lakehead Technical Institute Printed on Multifold Enamel made by Provincial Paper Limited, Set in 11 point Cornell type and printed by CUEIGIITON SHERLOCK LIMITED PARK STREET THE Table ofQontents Editorial 6 Chairman ' s Message - -- -- -- 7 Principal ' s Message ------ 7 Student ' s Administrative Council - 8 Faculty --------- 9-10 The Student Body ----- 15-22 Extension Class — French and History 23 Convocation — 1954 ----- 24 Social Pictures ------ - 27 Social Events - -- -- -- --28 Sport Section - -- -- -- --29 L.T.I.— L.C.A.S.T. Diagrams -------39 L.C.A.S.T.— Sketch by M. W. Bartley - - - - 40 Ring in the New by Ian Kingston ----- 41 Poems D. Moziar, K. Craig - - - 42 Sechs Jahre in Canada by Sadie Miller - - - - 43-45 You Figure it Out, by Roy Hartviksen - - - 51 Charlie by Duane Howes - - - - 51 On Education by Gordon Murray - - - - 53 On the Art of Writing by M. Krenta ------ 57 The Dog by Carl Anderson - - - - 63 And Fve Met the President by G. Reguly ------ 65 An Overwork Trauma by ]. L. Beedell ----- 67 The Turning Point by R. Exell ------ 69 The Case of the 64 Bees, by G. Reguly ------ 75 Injuns, by E. Geiger ------ 79 L.T.I, in Pictures ------- 81 More Pictures -------- 83 Index of Advertisers (back Fly-Leaf) EDITORIAL Variety may be the spice of life; it may take all kinds of people to make a world. But do we not overdo these platitudes? Most of us can concede that life is in- teresting because it has variety; that excite- ment comes from repulsion and attraction to variations in individuality. Personality traits, national and racial characteristics, regional customs, and religious traditions are part of the sum of individuality that gives us our manner of living. Revert to the individual, however, and it is essentially the opinions and outlooks expressed that make him distinctive and separate. Such distinctiveness is precious. Are we protecting it? Are we not in danger of shap- ing ourselves from the common and com- monplace mold? Do we not force ourselves into the path of mediocrity through fear of being different; through fear of rising above, or falling below, the level of the average? The development of personality is sel- dom consciously regulated; this is a dem- ocratic country; we are free to express our opinions; to be different! Why, then, do we impose artificial restrictions upon ourselves? Why do we hesitate to commit ourselves on even the most trivial points of controversy? We, as students, should be eager to con- tribute our fresh, if not new, ideas, to a society which — we should have the naivete to believe — is eager to hear them! The fear of criticism and bold analysis will be evident in this very book. It should be a showcase for tale:it and a medium for more than laudatory words and encomiums. There is so much to criticize in ourselves; there is much that we could say construc- tively and analytically about our school and its professors. Our building may be little more than a dump. But we may hesitate to say so. Some of our lecturers may be brilliant; others we know reflect an ordi- nariness like our own. Do we minimize appalling physical conditions or personal mediocrity by ignoring or glossing them over? Perhaps we think we do. We tend to make feeble excuses in an attempt to soften the sharpness of unflattering detail. We plod along under the weight of an affable reticence; we make no effort to rise above our situation. We cannot expect to grow and mature under such conditions if we close our minds to them, refusing to ac- knowlege their existence, except in the gos- sipy intimacy of the smallest group. The truly sad fact is that there is no need for this shyness, this diffidence. We need only to realize that we should be assertive, vigorous, demanding. Certainly we shall be knocked down. Of course, we may sound shrill. But we will develop individuality. To draw the best from our environment; to re- ject the worst — only thus can we stand out as individuals and begin to achieve truly interesting lives. X (i THE lanman s ESSAGE Since 1948 when the Lakehead Techni- cal Institute was opened, the need for this school has been amply proven. The con- tinued growth of the area warrants the ex- tensions planned over the past few years by your Advisory Board. Last year prelimi- nary plans for a new building were drawn and submitted for approval and further work on these plans is now going forward. The financial objective is well within our reach, thanks to the generous support which the project has received from Lake- head citizens and from industrial and com- mercial concerns interested in this area. Splendid co-operation has also been achieved with the cities of Port Arthur and Fort William in making arrangements for adequate maintenance. The Department of Education has continued its support and we are now engaged in making final ar- rangements for the Department ' s participa- tion in actual construction. The Advisory Board feels that excellent progress has been made during the past year and it is our hope that these plans and fi- nancial arrangements may be completed at an early date so that the new building may soon become a reality. To that end we are bending all our efforts. We bespeak your support in this task and we trust that the excellent record of our students and the growing interest en- gendered in the community will more than justify the plans now underway for the Lakehead College of Arts, Science and Technology. % CHAIRMAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE THE r Principah s ESSAGE To the Graduates: I am privileged to extend to the graduat- ing class sincere congratulations and good wishes for the future. You are our seventh graduating class; if all our plans materialize for the coming year you may be the last one to graduate from the Lakehead Technical Institute. During the course of the next few months the Lakehead College of Arts, Science and Technology should become a reality. A new building on a spacious campus should replace our converted army barracks. You, more than others, will appreciate the eager way we anticipate this move. But I am sure that in the years to come we shall often reminisce on how the student body rose above the limitations of the phys- ical surroundings. During your brief period here you made the most of our limited facilities. Your Students ' Council and Athletic Society or- ganized and carried through an extensive programme which evoked your whole- hearted participation and approval. This Yearbook is witness of your interests, abil- ities and willingness to work. I have every confidence in your scholastic attainments; you should measure up to the high stan- dards set by those who have preceded you. It is my hope that as our school grows and expands in permanent quarters we shall be able to retain as fine a spirit of friendly interests and co-operation as that demonstrated by the Class of ' 55. We of the staff shall continue to take a keen interest in your progress and attain- ments. We wish you Godspeed. J C avoid S. rami PRINCIPAL 7 Back: F. Harrison, W. Tuisku (vice-president), W. Beaton (president), J. Beedell, J. Mitchell Front: K. Craig, R. Kostick (secretary), L. Staples (treasurer), K. Nelson. THE S. A.C. Presidents Now that our school year is almost finished, it is perhaps time to look back and see what it has brought to us and what we have brought to it. The Student ' s Administrative Council has tried to provide an adequate social pro- gramme for the student body. Many have taken an active part in all phases but others have simply shrugged it off and let the greater part pass them by. A social life is not designed primarily to furnish the stu- dent with diversion from his everyday work but to provide a valuable opportunity to learn to meet people. There is no phase of life in which a man is completely independ- ent of the elements surrounding him. No matter what his situation or business, he must always be part of a team. In our school, because of the small en- rolment and the short time many of us spend here, it is difficult to form any kind of efficient team or any single spirit which binds us to the school. The degree of par- ticipation demanded of each individual for extra-curricular activities is therefore greater. For any administrative body to hope for success in any venture, there must be the co-operation of all the members. Our small student body does not lend itself to any large scale achievements and the for- mation of smaller organizations within the school is not always fruitful, but, neverthe- less they could serve a definite purpose. It MESSAGE is for future administrations to try to form such groups as the Precambrian Club in order to draw more students into outside activities. L.T.I, is said to bridge the gap be- tween high school and university. For those of us who are going on to university and even for those who go into business, there will be no one to help us bridge the next gap. This we must do alone, and one of our few materials is the experience of meeting people and cultivating friendships which we have garnered in the smaller, more relaxed atmosphere which we have been fortunate enough to have here. In a large university, the individual can become one of thousands churning in the remorse- less activity of a large machine. A student who comes to this with a background of close social relationships within an educa- tional context should adjust himself more readily to the different life. A university must be more than an in- stitution which doles out sheepskins. Cer- tainly, it is a proving ground for our later achievements. Success usually goes to that man who is more than an engineer or to a doctor who has proven himself with people. By taking part in a school ' s activities, by living outside of the small shell of oneself, by striving to become part of a team, thus we can find some augury of success. William £ THE Faculty of lt. HHBHMMMMHiHflflHHHSSSill 10 MARATHON CORPORATION OF CANADA LIMITED Manufacturer of bleached Sulphate Pulp Mill at Marathon, Ontario Head Office Woodlands Division TORONTO, ONTARIO PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO 1 I MADSEN RED LAKE GOLD MINES LIMITED -[NO PERSONAL LIABILITY]- Off cers an J 3b. irectors J oarJ of Cbtrectors JOSEPH McDONOUGH .... Toronto, Ont. MARIUS MADSEN Toronto, Ont. 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THE BANK OF NEW YORK 48 Wall Street - - - - New York 15, N.Y. 12 THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA announces the Opening of the 1955-56 Session Qourses will be offered leading to (Degrees in AGRICULTURE ARCHITECTURE ARTS COMMERCE EDUCATION ENGINEERING FINE APPLIED ARTS (Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics) HOME ECONOMICS INTERIOR DESIGN LAW MEDICINE PHARMACY SCIENCE SOCIAL WORK And to (Diplomas or (Certificates in AGRICULTURAL APPLIED ART EDUCATION MUSIC NURSING EDUCATION • Valuable scholarships • Excellent athletic and recreational facilities in the new University Gymnasium • Residences For Free Particulars Write to: THE REGISTRAR The University of Manitoba, Fort Garry, Manitoba Telephones: 44-9211, 44-9212, 44-9213, 44-9214 13 GARDNER-DENVER COMPANY Hittory Back: M. Krenta, R. Thomas, L. Bruzas, N. McArthur, G. Murray Front: R. Parsons, M. Fronais, O. Watsyk THE Qonvocatioru 1954 At the close of the sixth session the Lakehead Technical Institute presented its annual convocation on May 6, 1954 in St. Paul ' s United Church. The ceremonies opened with O Canada. The Reverend S. M. Craymer delivered the invocation. The address of welcome was given by the Principal, Mr. Harold S. Braun. Diplomas and certificates in the Tech- nical Division were conferred by Dr. M.W. Bartley. Certificates in the University Di- vision were presented by Mr. W. G. Tam- blyn. Mr. P.V. LeMay, the chairman of the Advisory Committee, introduced the guest speaker, Dr. David Owen, Professor of Pnilosophy at United College, University of Manitoba. After the address to the graduates, scholarships, trophies and awards were presented. The convocation closed with God Save the Queen. SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario Scholarship Presented to Garfield Nuttall by Mr. D. I. Nattress City of Fort William Scholarship Presented to Donald Martin by His Worship, Mayor Carson City of Port Arthur Scholarship Presented to Desmond Annala by His Worship, Mayor Robinson Marathon Paper Mills of Canada Limited Scholarship Presented to Donald Gildner by Mr. P.V. LeMay Northwestern Ontario Timber Operators ' Association Scholarship Presented to Gayle Leachman by Mr. T.S. Jones J. P. Bickel Foundation Scholarship in Mining Presented to Robert Foster by Mr. T.W. Page Lakehead Technical Institute Book Fund Scholarship Presented to Kenneth Craig by Mr. R.B. LeCocq University of Toronto Alumni Scholarship, Lakehead Branch Presented to Garfield Nuttall by Mr. W.R. Rogers Jessie Mackey Memorial Scholarship Presented to Miss Irene Kauhanen by Miss Isabel Mackey Principal ' s Prizes in Forestry and Mining Presented to ]ohn Pohanka (Forestry) John Bayko (Mining) Prizes to Part-Time Students Presented to Miss Elizabeth Westover, Gordon Murray, Miss Nara-Therese Bulluz by Dr. F.A. Blatchford 24 With the Compliments of the THE CORPORATION of the CITY OF PORT ARTHUR Mayor — FRED O. ROBINSON Aldermen: EUNICE M. WISHART ALBERT J. HINTON RONALD V. WILMOT GEORGE NEILL ROY N. FREEMAN ANGELO MAURO THOMAS J. McAULIFFE, O.B.E. CHARLES DILLEY WILLIAM BRAYSHAW GEORGE E. BENDELL City Clerk — ARTHUR H. EVANS, O.B.E. STEEP ROCK IRON MINES LIMITED Mine and Head Office STEEP ROCK LAKE, ONTARIO ' Producers of High Grade Open Hearth and Blasl Furnace Ores Sales Agents PREMIUM IRON ORES LIMITED 80 KING STREET WEST TORONTO ONTARIO 26 27 at home „ Y NOVEMBER « . 77 7 ? w ' ' s es to iTechn, iistttute a nnoun ce th AT T E FRIDAY m -i CLUS 0 1 C N G 9 TO J ji tubents ' (Aonrintsirattut (Council of tlje Eakeljeao ®ecl]mcal ,3lnstttittc cnrotally nitrite you to tijeir at the fort JVrtljur (lolf anh Countrg (Club (©n rthag, February 4tJtj, 1955 3)oe (Horner ' s ©rchestra Saucing 9 ' til 1 o ' clock omission §3.00 per cuuwle tss TUr Intitule  «o ENr eooy To 4 TUESD T THE P ° RT « TH UR ' 954 NN nd-U P Dance M THE cMopEB CLUB THE Sports SECTION THE D. C. CLARK TROPHY PRESENTED BY THE MEN ' S ATHLETIC SOCIETY TO THE OUTSTANDING ATHLETE OF THE YEAR THE Year IN BRIEF This has been the season of Richard ' s blow-up and the Montreal riot; the year in which the Yankees lost the pennant; the winter Penticton whipped the Russians at the world hockey tournament. From the wide prospect to the narrow: our small sporting world moved along. Mother Nature, by bringing an early snowfall, kept the rugby team from official matches against local rivals, but in an intra- mural way, there were many good matches amongst the fellows down on the ball field. We are grateful to Mr. C. J. Campbell, who got us the equipment, and to Danny O ' Gor- man for his coaching. The boys got together their own basket- ball team this year and, considering thai there were no practices, their 2 to 2 record against some tough competition was com- mendable. The hockey team had a fine record: 3 wins, 2 losses. The highlight of the season, was the trip to Duluth to play the University of Minnesota. The Americans were too sharp for us ( 10-3) but we managed to keep the game interesting, largely due to the coaching efforts of Mr. Campbell. Curling, as always, was a tremendous success at L.T.I. Ten teams were entered in the school league and it was touch and go to the last rock. Many thanks to Messrs. Braun, Campbell, Haggerty, Miller and McKinnon for helping the beginners get off on the right foot. Table tennis was played throughout the session with the entire student body taking part. The L.T.I. Trophy was won by David Burrows with Herb Sage runner-up. In general, the sporting year was fun, a lot of students played and few watched. Informality and friendliness must attend our sports because we are so few, and to achieve these is worthwhile. 29 Men ' s Athletic Society Executive G. Mills (vice-president), K. Geddes (president), D. Burrows (secretary), R. Milton, ( treasurer ) HOCKEY Back Row: R. Milton, . Beedell, G. Mills, E. Maki, D. Burrows, ]. Glowachi, B. Kitching. Front Row: . Hicks, H. Demuth, I. Kingston, R. Exell, J. Mitchell Missing: R. Bannon, Mr. Campbell (coach). 30 31 CURLING 32 FOOTBALL - • Ik % ■ lA ■ - Top Row: W. Beaton, J. Beedell, D. Burrows, H. Crichton, E. Faris, L. Faris Second Row: K. Geddes, F. Harrison, P. Houge, I. Kingston, G. Mills, R. Milton. First Row: . Mitchell, K. Moulds, R. Rae, G. Reguly, D. Sinclair, W. Tuisku. BASKETBALL 3 Back Row: . Beedell, D. Burrows, L. Faris, E. Faris, K. Geddes. Front Row: . Hicks, P. Houge, 1. Kingston, D. Moziar, H. Sage. 33 McMASTER UNIVERSITY with which is affiliated HAMILTON COLLEGE REGULAR COURSES in Commerce (B.Com.) General Arts (B.A.) Nursing (B.Sc.N.) Physical Education (B.P.E.) Science (B.Sc.) POST GRADUATE COURSES leading to the M.A., M.Sc, and Ph.D. degrees A WIDE RANGE OF EXTENSION COURSES, credit and non-credit A COMPLETE PROGRAMME OF ATHLETICS For Detailed information concerning Fees Scholarships Residence Student Employment Service Apply to etc. THE REGISTRAR, McMASTER UNIVERSITY, HAMILTON, ONTARIO. Compliments of INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE 21 Tomlinson Block Port Arthur R. W. HUBIE, Broker Architects F.W. Watt, M.R.A.I.C. W. A. M. Kyro, B.Arch., M.R.A.I.C. 34 Saskatchewan Celebrates Saskatchewan is celebrating its Golden Jubilee. The people of the province are marking 50 years of progress and ex- pansion, progress made possible by early settlers, who with foresight and vision, laid foundations designed to support an even greater future. This year the people of Saskatchewan honour the memory of the men and women who pioneered the great agricultural development of the prairies and laid the basis of the tre- mendous flow of grain eastward through the Head of the Lakes. One visible sign of their success is to be seen in the grain elevators which dominate the skyline at the Lakehead. The continual flow of grain from west to east links the destiny of Saskatchewan with that of Fort William and Port Arthur. 1905 1955 SASKATCHEWAN 60 LO EN JUBILEE Saskatchewan Wheat Pool HEAD OFFICE Regina, Saskatchewan It ' s Just Common Sense! EM Just plain, ordinary, everyday, common sense! Keeps forest fires from start- ing . . . Keeps lands, waters and forests ripe for hunting, fishing and other outdoor recreation, out- door wages, profits and a host of other things that are good for people . . . You Can PREVENT FOREST FIRES— Try It! ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS HON. CLARE E. MAPLEDORAM Minister F. A. MacDOUGALL Deputy Minister ONTARIO ssisting the Editor and his associates in the preparation of the College annual is one of the happiest assign- ments which come to us. We appreciate the opportunity of participating in the publication of this one to the extent of pro- viding the printing plates. 7 COMPLETE PLANTS IN: MONTREAL - TORONTO - WINNIPEG Winnipeg Plant: 290 Vaughan St. k ONTARIO A Great Opportunity . . . An adventurous spirit has always been a part of the Canadian way of life, for it is the character of our people to move where opportunity knocks — where the going may be tough but where abundant returns are promised as the reward. That is the spirit which during the past hundred years has transformed an unproductive wilderness into one of the world ' s richest mineral areas and which has built Ontario ' s mining industry to the giant we know today. Although great things have been accomplished in the past, still greater things are expected for the future. In this respect the many fields of endeavour which comprise the mining industry are worthy of investigation by those who are seeking a career which offers great opportunity to the enterprising. HON. PHILIP T. KELLY, Minister of Mines. 38 H. C. RICKABY, Deputy Minister. Progress toward the establishment of the Lakehead College of Arts, Science and Tech- nology is more rapid than had been antic- ipated. It is hoped that construction on the inter-cities site may commence before the end of 1955. The building committee, of which Mr. W. G. Tamblyn is chairman, has its plans well organized and is ready to take concrete steps once the myriad details are clarified. The first structure will consist of a two- storied building designed to accommodate 250 students in the courses presently offered, or which may be offered in the future. The plans call for six lecture rooms, six labora- tories for instruction in chemistry, physics, forestry and mining, a large drafting room, general offices, a students ' common room, and a library. The first unit is designed to permit additions as enrolment increases. The building will be so placed that it will fit into an ultimate arrangement of multiple buildings, set attractively on the spacious site. Such an expansion may be decades away, but it is being taken into account. The plan finally selected will entail an expenditure of approximately $350,000. This sum covers con struction, servicing facilities, and minimum furnishings. The Province of Ontario, through the Department of Edu- cation, provided a sum of $250,000 in its 1955-56 budget. This is to go towards the new building. Originally the Department agreed to put up half the cost if the district to be served by the college would raise an equal amount. The announced figure means the school may be a bit larger than ex- pected. The original local appeal for funds was made to the major industries of the reg- ion, and the response was very encouraging. Naturally, the Committee had to seek a wider support and a limited local campaign addressed to individuals has been carried out. Again the response was splendid and the Advisory Committee has been en- couraged to undertake plans for a general canvass. The minimum objective for the local campaign was set at $65,000. At this time the objective is in sight with $40,000 subscribed in cash and pledges. The local Campaign Committee, chaired by Mr. E.L. Goodall, assisted by Messrs. E. M. Jellett, by Dr. M.W. BARTLEY VICE-CHAIRMAN M.W. Babe and D. I. Nattress, is optimistic, believing that those who will benefit the most from the establishment of the new college, that is, the average parents of the average family, must see that their share of the obligation is a small one in relation to the total cost of $350,000. The Lakehead Technical Institute, as it now exists, is a provincially-sponsored in- stitution, controlled and administered by the Department of Education with the assistance of an Advisory Committee of district representatives nominated by the Minister of Education. The Lakehead College of Arts, Science, and Technology, the heir-to-be of the Lakehead Technical Institute, will be an incorporated body func- tioning in a manner similar to other Can- adian colleges and universities. That is, it will be a private institution drawing general but partial financial support from the Province of Ontario. Another financial re- source will be fees paid by students. Some time ago a plebiscite of Fort William citizens approved an annual grant of $10,- 000 to the proposed college, and the City of Port Arthur has reconfirmed a minimum annual grant of $10,000, which will increase to a maximum of $20,000 as enrolment increases. This municipal support is specifically for maintenance purposes. The new college will be administered by a Board of Governors, either elected or selected periodically. The Board will be representative of the Lakehead area. The manner and mechanics of its operation will be determined by the articles of incorpora- tion. At present, these articles are being drawn up by the legal advisors of the Advisory Committee, working with the cognizance and assistance of governmental officials. Whatever the details may be, the Board of Governors will have a large responsibility in administering the financial and educational aspects of the Lakehead College of Arts, Science and Technology. From its own experience, the Advisory Committee is sure that such responsibility will be buttressed by the strong interest and co-operation of Northwestern Ontario as a whole. e y V cvv Ian Kingston The diagrams on page 39 can only partially illustrate the extent to which the projected L.C. of A.S. and T. will be an improvement over the present L.T.I. — they can give no idea of the appearance and set- tings of the two. The present Lakehead Technical Institute is a U-shaped building constructed of old army huts slapped to- gether at the corner of Cumberland and Victoria Streets in Port Arthur amidst any- thing but an academic atmosphere. The building, wnich looks like a long- used factory or warehouse, is in harmony with the surroundings. The walls are covered with mud-splashed, white asbestos. The trim, where it is not worn off, is a dark green. The windows, coated with a scum of soot and dust, are at best only semi- transparent. The inside of the building is cleaner than the outside, — anything but a show- place. The lower portion of the wall is natural-stained plywood, the rest a dirty pastel-green Ten-test. The floors are dark, badly-worn hardwood. The halls, which are so narrow that people have to turn sideways to edge past each other, are lined with small lockers. These lockers are only big enough for two or three books and a lunch. In spring the natural hazards are increased by the tubs, pails and barrels which have to be arranged to catch the water that leaks through the roof. None of these details can be included in an arch- itect ' s plan and the last, at least, should form no part of the new structure. The diagram of the present institute shows a well-equipped chemistry lab, but cannot indicate that students must wear rubbers to keep out of the water running from the pipes draining the sinks. It shows an assay room, but not the piles of dust from which the students must excavate their equipment, a drafting room but not the age of the drafting boards, which in- deed only expensive radiological tests could determine. There is a library, as well- stocked as it is underhoused, a physics lab. with excellent experimental equipment, a large biology lab., a drab but adequate geol- ogy lab., a dark room, indeed little darker than the rooms not designed as such, and two lecture rooms. The latter, although fur- nished with squeaking unfolding chairs and black-topped army surplus tables which tend to collapse without notice, manage to fulfil their purpose. The only other class- room in the school cannot be named. It is used by anyone for anything at any time and looks it. At the back of the school there is a common room. It contains a well-worn ping pong table, two dilapidated arm chairs, a Coke machine and a radio which belies its appearance by running very well. One side of the front of the building is divided into offices for the teachers, three teachers per office and three cubic feet of air per teacher. The other side contains the principal ' s office and a stock-lunch room. Across the hall from the last two are the wash rooms, both in need of a washing. The school is heated intermittently by hot water, and all rooms are equipped with the type of fluorescent light which usually flickers for five minutes after being turned on. The new school, the Lakehead College of Arts, Science and Technology, will be sit- uated on 80 acres of land between Port Ar- thur and Fort William. It will be erected on an escarpment overlooking the Lakehead cities and Lake Superior, and will be vis- ible to everyone traveling on the two main highways which pass close to the property. The corridors will be broad and unob- structed, the rooms, assay, milling, physics, chemistry and geology labs, drafting and survey rooms, library, common room, tuck shop and offices will be large, light, well- decorated and adequately furnished. Materially the new building will offer far more than the present one. We have at present, however, one unique feature which all other colleges in Canada would like to have — very few students who leave this school to further their education at another university ever miss a year : a fine record for L.T.I, and its teachers and one, let us hope, which will carry on after they vacate these shambles and move into their new home. 41 TWO Poems Sonnet I Dan Moziar In retrospect, fools often say A wise man always ruins the day Look back they cry Its always true It is the wise Who brew the brew, Who set the quest surmountable To which no odds are countable Yes! Yes! You fool; They strike the bell That summons you To burn in hell, But while you fools must all pass on The wise man sees another dawn. Ode to an UrtL Ken Craig The reagents were mixed with unscrupulous care, With the hope that ions of metals were there. Precipitates formed which were reddish and white, So I knew the procedure was going alright. Oxides and Nitrates and Sulphates galore, Burned my hands brown and made my eyes sore. Holes were appearing in my shirt and my pants, Some spilled hydrochloric or nitric perchance. Precipitates were washed and refiltered again, Our procedure was going according to plan. Until after days of immeasurable toil. — The very last filtrate was put on to boil. On this precious filtrate, a test would be made, To determine the precentage of copper and lead. So what did I do; believe it or not, It ' s easy to drop a beaker that ' s hot. ec is alirQ in C anacfa Sadie G. Miller, MA A century and a half ago, when Fort William was the inland capital of the Fur Empire and its traders were the proud lords of lakes and forests, the literature of the fur-trade contained two outstanding nar- ratives of overland journeys to the Fort, and graphic descriptions of the Fort itself. These were Adventures on the Columbia River, by Ross Cox, and Relations d ' un voyage a la cote du Nord-Ouest de l ' Amerique septentrionale , by Gabriel Franchere. A volume quite as significant, but until now little known since a translation has never been published, is Sechs Jahre in Canada , by Friedrich Von Graffenried, a Swiss soldier of fortune, who visited Fort William in 1816. Friedrich Von Graffenried, a member of the Swiss nobility, left Switzerland in 1810, during the Napoleonic War, and managed, in spite of the French blockade, to make his way to England. Two years earlier his brother had joined the de Meuron Regi- ment, then stationed at Malta. In England, Von Graffenried was presented to General de Meuron, who offered him the rank of Ensign in his Regiment. He travelled to Malta, where the de Meuron Regiment was sta- tioned, with a motley group of new recruits, consisting of Germans, French, Swiss and Poles taken prisoner by the English in the Peninsular War. Von Graffenried trained for two years with the Regiment in Malta. In 1813 the Regiment — 1,100 strong — was ordered to America to assist the Can- adians in their war against the United States. Landing first at Halifax, they pro- ceeded by boat to Quebec and Montreal. Here Von Graffenried was quartered with Swiss compatriots. He had his first ex- perience of warfare in the disastrous British attack on Plattsburg, on Lake Champlain. All the de Meuron soldiers were confident that the outcome of the battle would have been different if their Regiment had been given the opportunity to attack the fort. Von Graffenried saw no more of actual conflict in the War, although he was en- trusted with the mission of transferring some hundreds of thousands of dollars from Montreal to Kingston, to the larger village of York, and to Fort Niagara. When news of Napoleon ' s downfall reached Montreal, where the de Meurons were quartered, Von Graffenried could have returned to Europe; but he chose to accept an opportunity to make what he expected would be an interesting journey. Lord Sel- kirk, to whom Von Graffenried had talked several times, and who he describes as a man of forty-five tall and thin, and of poor health, wanted to travel to his Red River Colony to straighten out the difficulties be- tween his colonists and the Nor ' Westers. He had received permission to hire a body- guard, and he asked Von Graffenried to take command of it. The guard was to consist of 100 soldiers, who would be paid from eight to ten dollars a month, and an equal number of voyageurs, guides and interpret- ers. The trip from Lachine to Kingston took a week. Here a number of recruits from the de Watvill Regiment joined the de Meuron volunteers. York was reached a week later. Von Graffenried considered it by no means 43 a city, and hardly a town. A few houses, surrounded by gardens, were dispersed among stumps of trees. The men camped near their boats, Von Graffenried and the other three officers lodged in a miserable inn, and Lord Selkirk was entertained by a government official. The expedition travelled from York to Holland Landing over almost impassable roads obstructed by stumps of trees, rocks, and abandoned wagons. At the Landing they took to their boats again. They reached Lake Superior by way of Lake Simcoe, the Nottawasaga River, Lake Huron, and the St. Mary ' s River. At the foot of the Sault Rapids, Selkirk conferred with a group of Indians who had assembled to receive presents from him. From one of the chiefs Selkirk learned of the Nor ' Westers ' attack on his Colony, of the massacre at Seven Oaks in which Robert Semple, the Governor, was killed, and of the dispersal of the colonists. After receiving this disheartening news, the expedition pressed on westward, with part of the brigade detailed to visit the south shore of Lake Superior in order to trade European goods for wild rice and dried meat, while the main body of the brigade proceeded along the north shore to Fort William. On August 10th, 1816, the expedition reached Thunder Bay, where an encamp- ment was made on a dry beach. The follow- ing day Lord Selkirk arrived, and the ex- pedition, crossing the Bay, entered the Kaministiquia River. They passed Fort Wil- liam tauntingly, drums beating, bugles sounding, pipers skirling. The Nor ' Westers flocked out of the fort to watch, but with interest rather than hostility. Selkirk ' s party camped opposite Fort William on the banks of the Kaministiquia, which Von Graf- fenried mistakenly thought to be American territory. On August 12th, a delegation of Nor- ' Westers visited Lord Selkirk. Von Graf- lenried and a fellow-officer were commis- sioned to return the visit. At the Fort, Wil- liam McGillivray received them hospitably, and gave them the official Nor ' Western ver- sion of the Seven Oaks affair. According to this, only the Indians and the Metis had played any part in the destruction of the Red River Colony. Lord Selkirk appointed himself a justice of the peace and issued warrants for the arrest of William McGillivray and other prominent Nor ' Westers. As the constables named by Selkirk were proceeding with the arrests, a bugle sounded within the Fort. Von Graffenried thought that this was a call for help, and hastened to answer it. As a matter of fact, there had been almost no resistance. The gate of the Fort had been found barred. One of the constables, with the help of the soldiers assigned to him, had broken it open. There was a brief scrim- mage, with a speedy capitulation. The bugle call had been a victory signal, not an alarm. Lord Selkirk, after questioning the di- rectors, set them free. Von Graffenried with twenty men was sent to guard the Fort with its five hundred Nor ' Westers. The next day, the latter appeared to be making preparation to defend the Fort. Lord Sel- kirk entered Fort William with his troops and re-arrested William McGillivray and all the other partners except one. From this one remaining director — who was seldom sober — Lord Selkirk bought the Fort and all its pr ovisions. Von Graffenried, already gravely doubtful of Selkirk ' s good judgment, felt his earlier misgivings confirmed, al- though his doubts about the innocence of the Nor ' Westers were equally grave. Von Graffenried later recorded his im- pressions of the Fort William of 1816. Abridged somewhat, the translation is as follows: Fort William lies on the left bank of the Kaministiquia River, which forms the border between the United States of America and Canada. The Fort consists of thirty buildings: houses, storage barns, a 44 workshop, a community hall, a blacksmith shop, a powder magazine: all well arranged and divided into streets and forming a square. Everything is surrounded by gardens and a palisade. Outside are a large number of huts and wigwams belonging to the Indians. In spite of the fact that the land is marshy, agriculture has been begun by the North West Company. Potatoes, grain and vegetables are grown. Seven horses, thirty-two cows and bulls and a large num- ber of sheep are kept. The stores are full of furs and European goods. Two small bastions equipped with three-pounders over- look the entrance. From a tall observation tower, the Lake and any approaching boat can be easily sighted. The North West Company usually employ 2,000 to 3,000 Canadians, who trade with the sourrounding Indian tribes. Those who spend the winter in far-off places like Slave Lake or Athabaska are called ' hivernants, ' and consider themselves su- perior to those who trade only during the summer. It is natural that the North-West Company should consider itself master of the land and regard the Red River Colony as an infringement upon its prerogatives. When the French traders and explorers came here, plenty of game existed, but, ow- ing to the effects of fire-water, the Indians have killed off nearly all, and they them- selves are in poor physical and mental con- dition. There is another post eighteen leagues from Fort William, on this side of the Grand Portage. I went there, and we found a single house, and we built another one for our men. This used to be a fur-trading station, but has been abandoned because of difficulties with the Americans. Back at the Fort, nothing new had happened, and I passed the time carving pipes and hunting. From a nearby moun- tain, we got a good view of the surrounding lands, which consisted of marshes, bush and rocks, and offered no evidence of habitation. Fish is plentiful here in autumn. Over 100 barrels of fish were caught, which were salted down, and frozen, and kept that way in the stores. Trout, weighting from 30 to 70 pounds, are caught here. Tired of the Fort after a stay of four and a half months, Von Graffenried with twenty other men set out, on December 31st, 1816, to join one of the de Meuron officers who had gone on to Fort de la Pluie, a trading post on Rainy River. The second night, the party camped near a great fall of the Kaministiquia River. The journey (by way of the Thousand Lakes Region and Lake Lacroix,) proved extremely arduous. The cold was intense, and nearly everyone suffered from frozen feet or hands. When the food supply ran out, they chewed roots, and drank tea made from pine needles. Leaving Rainy River on May 12th, Von Graffenried and a party of twenty-two travelled by way of Rainy River, Lake of the Woods, and the Winnipeg River to the Red River, which they reached on June 5th. When Lord Selkirk, after spending the summer in the Red River Colony, left for Montreal, he asked Von Graffenfried to stay on for another year, in charge of the Red River. Von Graffenried had hoped to return to Europe in the fall; but he re- luctantly consented to remain, and spent a lonely winter, in return for £400, his trip to Europe, and the promise of further compensation from the government. Leaving the Red River on September 30th, 1818, and travelling for fifty days, Von Graffenried reached Montreal, which now seemed to him almost like a second home. A month later he began his home- ward journey, via New York. 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EATON C9, PORT ARTHUR BRANCH V _ , SPECIALIZE Compliments of from ALLOYS - ALUMINUM MILDSTEEL - STAINLESS THE DAY COMPANY of Canada Limited Head Office and Plant: Fort William Branch: Toronto 50 Charlie scurried down the two flights to the street floor of his tenement building. Shouldering the door open and running a hand over his grease-spotted tie he stepped out into the mid-morning street traffic. Charlie was firm in his belief that a gentle- man never faced the day before eleven. The years were beginning to show on Charlie ' s rather city-worn features and the black hair showing beneath his hat was streaked with grey. At first glance Charlie appeared to be a fairly prosperous man but the second glance did not substantiate this impression. The collar of his white shirt was slightly frayed, the result of countless contacts with an iron. The blue, pin-striped, serge suit which hugged his rather portly figure did little to flatter it, if indeed it could be flattered. Not that his suit was in need of a pressing. On the contrary, it has been pressed too often; its rectitude was too proper for Duane Howes its shiny, threadbare nature. The last touch to Charlie ' s appearance was a nondescript, black cane, invariably hooked in the crook of his arm. He hurried up the busy street, stopping only once to hug up against a pretentious building in order to light up a small butt of a cigar. Charlie smoked rare- ly, except on his trips in public; the cigar, he believed, gave him an air of importance which raised him with, and above, the sea of faces flowing along the busy streets. I did not know where Charlie was going but, knowing him, I don ' t believe he was going to do anything exciting. He might have been off to sit on a side bench at Poulot ' s barber shop with other con- versationalists. He might have been on his way to pick up his weekly unemployment check. Let us leave him hurrying down the street. No happy ending, no tears or pathos, just Charlie hurrying down the street. I have always wanted to attempt to write an essay on nothing at all. By this I mean that I am not coming out with an essay that will stir the imaginations of the readers or that will even tell a little story or an event. This will just be a conglomeration of words with no point behind them, reveal- ing nothing new nor startling to the reader. To choose a title leaves me somewhat baffled (for this essay leaves me a little baffled). If I were to use the title Noth- ing or Nothing at All I would prick the curiosity of the reader and he or she would immediately want to read the story to see if the title lived up to it. This is not Ray Hartviksen what I set out to do; after all the reader is not supposed to gain anything by reading this essay as the main topic in mind is . . . well, what is it? You can ' t say that it is nothing because nothing is nothing in any man ' s language. Maybe I should revert to French and call this essay Rien but when this is translated into English you are left with nothing again. These few paragraphs show how futile it is to write on nothing because I am actually not saying anything and no one will be able to say he learned something new from it, which brings us back to noth- ing again. Oh what ' s the use . . ., nothing ventured, nothing lost. 51 Compliments of G. H. GODSALL EQUIPMENT LTD. Cat S ft a w s ENRICHED WHOLESOME BREAD Scandinavian Home HOME-COOKED MEALS 147 S. Algoma Street Port Arthur Phone 5-7442 52 On £ , i cat ion Too much democracy, perverted aims, and emphasis on the wrong elements — these are the disabilities from which education suffers. As a political system democracy is be- yond doubt the best; as an economic theory it is at least tenable; in educational admin- istration it is highly desirable; but as a means of producing the best possible human being it is debatable and as a method of higher education it is palpably wrong. Plato suggested that the human race could rise to higher levels by means of a caste system of philosopher-rulers; Nietzsche and Shaw favoured the breeding of a race of Supermen; modern education believes in fitting learning to the capabilities of the learner rather than fitting the learner to the learning. If the learner hasn ' t learned, it holds, the teacher hasn ' t taught. Plato ' s theory was implemented for some centuries in Europe under hereditary rulers and a class of aristocrats; not, admit- tedly, a precise application of Plato ' s sys- tem, nevertheless the closest approach the human race has ever made to putting it into practice. It proved politically impracticable and eugenically unsound. Nor is Nietzsche ' s and Shaw ' s theory better. Any attempt to implement it must presuppose political dictatorships, which have been proven, time and again, to be unworkable over a long period; witness Germany and Italy. Moreover, to depend on a partly prearranged, partly fortuitous disposition of chromosomes to raise the level of the human race is mathematically fantastic and emotionally grotesque. It is the search for Truth which alone may raise man, and it is unthinkable that fitting learning to the learner will aid man- kind in this search. In the matter of method, there is no question but that improved tech- Gordon Murray niques will produce better results, just as better techniques of carpentry will produce better frame houses. No amount of improve- ment in carpentry, however, will change a wooden house to brick. Mass education has forced a search for material which may be learned by individ- uals of any capacity. One cannot quarrel with the view that an individual can learn only within his powers, but with general and broad curricula the tendency is to low- er the standard to embrace the slightest cap- abilities. The consequent danger is that many individuals may assume that be- cause they have muddled through various schools they are educated whereas they have only acquired facility in diversions and found a wide variety of ways to avoid boredom. Viewing the present state of human affairs it is questionable whether this system of education is producing fav- ourable results. A further fallacy arising from a blind faith in democracy is the belief that a mul- titude of opinions or a concensus of opin- ion is necessarily more correct than an in- dividual opinion. Politically, policies ar- rived at democratically tend to be both ex- pedient and practical: to assume that such policies are necessarily correct is quite mis- leading. In an emergency at sea would we expect a majority opinion of the ship ' s pas- sengers to be as good a guide as the opinion of the captain? The danger of this fallacy is that it engenders an attitude of mind prejudicial to true education. We begin to believe that by meetings, discussions, forums (the bigger the better) ' ad infinitum, ' we may solve all problems. Some problems can be fruitfully attacked in this manner, but others demand a different treatment. The matter of money enters the argument here. It is axiomatic in a democracy that if the citizenry wants sewers and is willing 53 J fie Cramer a THE HOME OF THE WORLD ' S FINEST CAMERAS Fred G. Lovelady and Son George 10 S. 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The top of the hit parade must be the best music, the popular breakfast cereal must the best tasting and most nutritious, the religion with the most adherents must be the closest to Divine revelation, the most popular course in the University must be the highest form of education. Even if we discount the fact that the records of such opinion may be falsified or slanted for propaganda or advertising purposes, the falsity of such conclusions is apparent. If faith in democracy has led us to this impasse and dictatorship is impractical as well as repugnant to free people, what is the solution? Not, certainly, in abandoning democracy in education but rather in an appreciation of what democratic methods can and cannot accomplish. Therein lies the task of education — to produce better individual units of society. Educational leaders must strive to give what is best, not what is most popular; to give direction to the best of their ability, not to receive it. The leaders should be better informed than the followers. The opinion of the better-in- formed must, ' ipso facto, ' be more nearly correct than the opinion of the worse- informed, so for good or ill, for better or for worse, our only hope lies in an acceptance of the opinion of the leaders. Perversion of the aims of education, although by no means a modern phenomenon, must be corrected if we hope to raise the human race. The truest form of education has always been education for its own sake. Socrates did not aspire to be educated for anything in particular — he just sought the truth. Today our educational system is geared to educating people for something. We must suffer the pangs of an educational process so that we may be a doctor, lawyer, beggarman, or thief. That education could be an end rather than a means to an end is incomprehensible to most of us. Techniques must be taught to enable us to earn a living; that education outside and beyond those techniques must be acquired is not so self-evident. Even when the need for such education is admitted the tendency is strong to educate for something. The most comprehensive aim would probably be to produce a Christian gentleman — usually it is much narrower. Just why we should aim at a Christian gentleman rather than a Mohammedan scoundrel is difficult to understand unless it is that most of us presently fancy ourselves in the former role and naturally we consider our stereotypes of ourselves as the prototype of the best possible human. In any case one difficulty in pursuing that aim lies in the fact that there is no agreement as to the specifications of either a Christian or a gentleman. There is more agreement on the qualifications of a Mohammedan scoun- drel — he is the opposite of what we are. The other difficulty is that we do not know what the Divine purpose is in that direction. Unless we admit that man is capable of rising we are presuming that we are now in the image of God. Since we fondly believe that we have progressed relative to past ages would it not be presumptuous to maintain that we have reached the limit of progress? Since we are ignorant of the Divine purpose for man, and totally unaware of the stature to which man may attain, are we justified in teaching rule- o f thumb morality, religion, politics and all the rest? Let us insist on each person being taught, insofar as he is capable of learning, the wisdom of the human race up to the present, and then let each new generation make what progress it can. In no other way can man become little lower than the angels. The directi on of emphasis in education depends on two things: the end and the means. 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Is the man who has utilized our educational system solely to acquire certain skills, in order to make a better living, trained or educated? If the purpose of our schools is to educate, as well as to train, emphasis must be directed towards the particular subjects which will educate. The emphasis has swung from purely educational subjects to purely training subjects and usually hovers some place between the two extremes — actually neither one nor the other, in an absolute sense, is possible. The pertinent What an honour! To be asked for an article for the year book. You can imagine how this idea thrilled me. Do not censure me severely for this. Does not each college student warm to the prospect of seeing his work in print? I was fascinated. Would that I had been more cautious! First I had to get a clear idea of what I wished to accomplish. Unfortunately three topics of equal value appealed to me. The subject of national interest: How to combat the pernicious effect of American atomic blasts on our national capital, might catch question at present is: has the pendulum swung too far towards the training subjects? Would not the lessons of history, the ex- periences of politics, the truths of phi- losophy, the tenets of religion provide more useful keys to working out a better life than super-techniques in specialized practical fields? If we place the emphasis of education on training subjects we are doing a double disservice to succeeding generations. Firstly, we are attempting to set out the direction in which the human race should advance, which we have no right to do and which we cannot possibly do anyway; secondly, we are placing those generations at a disadvantage by not providing them with the only available key to the solution of future problems, viz. the study of the educational subjects. Are not our techniques of production as much in danger of slipping out of our control as are our techniques of destruction? The human spirit may be destroyed by being buried under an avalanche of goods and services as easily, if not as abruptly, as by being inundated by the tidal-wave of radioactivity. M. Krenta the attention of high authorities. The topic: Some sound suggestions for the develop- ment of the Lakehead, would surely recommend me for a future sinecure. Yet the subject: Whose baby was really the first born in Fort William in 1955? could finally settle a long dispute and make me popular with local readers; needless to say, the circulation of our year book would thereby increase tremendously. 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Raleigh who convinced me that We (the beginners, I think) are to write not to display our talent, or to tickle the sense with sounds, but to persuade, or con- vince, or inform. How comforting a thought it is that almost the whole of my course in English Literature 10 is purpose- less; every attempt to attune my style to that of the great writers would be classified as jargon! It is much easier to call a spade a spade if I wish to impress my images on the wax of other men ' s minds . In other words I had to use the language of common speech and to employ the exact, rather than the merely decorative words . To do so I decided to draw further inspiration from those for whom I was writing. Peculiarly enough, my fellow students, mis- understanding my exploratory activity, took me for an expert on matters of literary taste. For the sake of my own improvement, I could not refuse them the information which they sought. A student, inspired by love, confessed to me that he was eager to picture his ad- venturous midsummer night spent on Boulevard Lake with his red, red rose, bonny lass, when the moon rose over the cliffs of the Sleeping Giant and bathed in the silver of Lake Superior. Moved by his emotions, I did not have the nerve to discourage him with the dictum tnat Romanticism lost its significance long ago. Instead, I warmly advised him to give full expression to his experience in the idealized form of days gone by. In order to give it an everlasting appeal and to kindle the imagination of his readers, I urged him to replace abstract meanings with more tangible symbols. Then too, he should either leave every other line out or reverse the whole order. Only this haphazard form of symbolism will live through generations. A young lady moved by pity for a wounded moose, killed cruelly in the heart of Port Arthur last autumn, decided to air her idealism. Even in Chaucer ' s dark ages, she argued, people showed a great deal of pity. A whole village rose to rescue their Chantecleer. No less then she, I was horrified by the brutality of our compatriots How was it possible in an age when man was master of all the forces of nature that a panic-stricken community could commit such a crime against an innocent animal which confidently looked for their protec- tion? When I pointed out to the lady that the incident was merely in opposition to her idealism, she insisted that by picturing life at its worst she would give an example of the moral fall of man. I praised her for her zeal and to make her article foremost among all others I suggested some modern tend- encies of dramatic representation. Should she not remain behind the stage and let the moose and its persecutors speak for them- selves? After this pure representation she could step forward with her reflections, setting out what she feels and thinks about the incident. 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Congratulations o and Good Wishes from PORKY ' S 46 St. Paul St. - Port Arthur Where Fine Foods Are Unsurpassed Simpson St. Fort William BO colony in the loft of our school. I barely talked him out of his foolish enterprise. Appealing to his patriotism I pointed out that his disclosure might entail the drainage of one more national asset southward. The United States is always a magnet to our finest accomplishments. Therefore, I di- rected his attention to the natural aquarium in our corridor which would soon hatch tadpoles. There lies the chance to represent the recapitulation of racial history in heroic couplets! He might even modernize the Doctrine of Evolution and picture the future dangers to Mankind in its struggle for existence. By the way, our janitor has finally adopted the opinion of the staff that Man (read: student) is a modern brute, guided simply by the action of physical and chemical laws. Instead of a futile struggle against human determinism in the Men ' s Toilet, the janitor, forgetting such untidy detail, is going to contribute an essay on his naturalistic experience. A future scientist dislosed to me his formula of thermo-nuclear reaction by which the nucleus of our college might instantly be converted into a modern establishment worthy of the age. Concealing my mathematical ignorance, I declared that his imaginative effort had nothing to do with creative art and referred him to Pro- fessor Einstein and Strauss (and for security ' s sake to Senator McCarthy). Even a would-be prospector became in- terested in intuition; it might guide him to a fortune, more effectively than all the science of geology. This selfish approach aroused such fury in me that the incident must have ended unhappily if the phi- losopher had not appeared. The poetic ex- pression on the face of this idealist quietened me. With a respect he merited, I warmly advised him to draw inspiration on the verge of the white field and the dark forest, provided he avoided a certain spot where he might be mistaken for the inmate of a neighbouring institution. As to the tech- nique of his poetry, I recommended vulgar Anglo-Saxon words for transitory enter- tainment and flowery, polished Latin ones for lasting value. The experience thus gained from the preceding interviews assisted me greatly in working out my own topic. The choice also appeared easier to me. I now realized that in spite of the painstaking instructions of my muses I should still be inclined to follow the modern tendency of writing which my literary authorities condem ned for its inconsistency in the flow of thoughts and ideas. My conscience warned me from stepping on the slippery ground of national problems. Anyone would erroneously infer from my article that I, as well as the American atom bombers, had aimed at the brain of our country. After discarding the first subject I gave up the third one as well. The problem with the latter was that I could not include in my outline the main topics. Apart from that the question loses its future significance since the Fort William General Hospital has resolved to provide itself with a stop- watch. Thus I was left with only one promising subject. With active voice and concrete words I started my masculine argument as follows: Instead of fighting single- handed, Fort William should have elimin- ated all local rivalaries by joining forces with Port Arthur. The fusion of both cities could be crowned by renaming the future capital of Aurora as ' Superiora ' . I am sure that such a united front would wheedle more concessions and prove superior to all federal or provincial machinations. Just think, we might have bestowed upon us, not only a breakwater, but a spruce- decked promenade along the waterfront. I might have carried on this theme with a swing, writing according to all prescripts of language and style had not a sudden thought stopped me. How can you expect some kind of decent employment during your summer vacation from those to whom you must be bitter because of their lack of imagination and foresight with regard to Aurora? This negative, but brilliant, idea saved my future career. Damn the creative writing. Rather will I prey on other people ' s literary efforts. It is easier and safer. 61 MacLEOD - COCKSHUTT Gold Mines Limited HEAD OFFiCE MINE OFFICE 357 Bay St., Toronto Geraldton Best Wishes! pouNcrs STUDIO Excellency in Portraiture ' ' 58 N. Algoma St. Dial 5-9152 u, Co A University of Toronto offers INSTRUCTION IN ALL COURSES LEADING TO THE DEGREES OF BACHELOR OF ARTS AND BACHELOR OF COMMERCE 50 ADMISSION SCHOLARSHIPS OF A TOTAL POSSIBLE VALUE OF $48,000.00 Bursaries for entrants and students in course RESIDENCES FOR MEN AND WOMEN A copy Col lege reques;. to of the illustrated University Bulletin will be mailed on For further information write The Registrar UNIVERSITY COLLEGE University of Toronto Toronto 5, Ontario 9L jb ' 3 Carl Anderson He ' s a good dog but you ' ve got to watch him. If he hits a good trail, you or even the good Lord ain ' t gonna stop him. That ' s how Grumpy got it. Last time I saw him he was going hell bent for election after that old buck. Followed their tracks till dusk and picked them up again the next day. I tell you boy, that old buck carried Grumpy away on his horns. The dog ' s tracks just ended and a dog don ' t just up and take off. These words were the only thing that broke the numb silence of his mind. He had heard the old man tell the story time and time again and each time he heard it, it became a little more exaggerated and he became a little more sick of it. But now, alone, he was aware of nothing but the cold and the painful reality of the story. The day had begun perfectly with a cold, crisp sunrise that made the tingling frost clinging to the poplars glisten. Right away they had found fresh signs and the un- controllable desire to hunt pierced their every nerve. Even the dog sensed the excited atmosphere as he stood straining his leash, the muscles in his hind legs quivering and his hair standing up in a lump between his broad shoulders. They made quiet and hurried plans. He would stick with the dog and the others would circle and settle themselves. The others left; he sat down, finished his cigarette and then he and the dog began to hunt. Up till noon they had managed only to scare up a rabbit and tree a couple of birch hens. He was begin- ning to wonder if the country had been evacuated. There was plenty of sign but no life. He walked to the top of a rise and scanned the adjoining ravine for several silent minutes. When he turned there was no dog. He whistled but the dog did not return. He called and his answer was a grieving distant howl which seemed to echo his name in all directions. The first thoughts that came to his mind were that the dog was either in a trap or on a trail. He released the thought of the trap from his mind when he heard the faint,( abject howling mak- ing a wide indecisive circle. He cut across country in an attempt to head the dog off but the beckoning howl always seemed to be over the next ridge. Suddenly everything broke loose. There was a mingling of howling, snorting and crashing and he saw a gray figure arch over a windfall, a white flag tail spinning like a windmill. This all happened so fast he had only time to release the safety on his Savage. His whole body was trembing with excitement. The dog ' s hysterical, howling was enveloped by the hills and then it stopped altogether. He listened and whistled. One of the members of the party answered. He whistled for half an hour but the dog did not return. His body which was a while ago trembling with excitement was now frozen with fear and the old man ' s story echoed and re-echoed in his brain. That ' s how Grumpy got it. His mind filled with these words he, some- times running, sometimes walking, followed the dog ' s trail and at intervals gave a hope- ful whistle. The grey mist of the early winter night was slowly creeping among the trees before he stopped. Sweating and covered with snow from repeated falls, he felt like a movie hero as he said a wordless prayer. He thought he heard a slight noise. He clasped the box of shells in the chest pocket of his shirt to stop them from rattling with his heartbeats. He strained his eyes in the dusk. Everything dropped into the pit of his stomach and his knees turned to water as the little fellow appeared out of nowhere into the middle of the trail. With his head tilted slightly to the side, his questioning eyes seemed to say, What ' s the matter? You look beat. 63 Compliments of THE ' r cat = d a L e s per C o yn p a n y =f i m i t e d FORT WILLIAM, ONTARIO Compliments of McKINNON ' S STORE Algoma St. Port Arthur Compliments of 2). J Suu The Progressive Men ' s Store YOUR HEADQUARTERS FOR EVERYTHING THAT ' S NEW 46 S. Cumberland St. 64 G. Reguly I was ushered in to meet the president of the university. Welcome, welcome son! he boomed. Sit down, won ' t you. But there are no chairs sir, I lisped somewhat timidly. What ' sa matter, the floor too good for you? he sneered. I seated myself cross-legged on the floor and my eyes quickly swept the room. It took a few moments before I could get the dust out of them. Next time I ' ll use a vacuum cleaner. Then, I noticed a strange thing. A huge dog lay on his back, his four legs pointed towards the ceiling and his glassy eyes stared quite intelligently at the chandelier. What ' s that? I pointed. A dead dog, son, said the president. Oh, why did he die, sir? I ventured again. Oh, we went flushing grouse and the poor mutt flushed so many that in the ex- citement he drowned. It took the plumber hours to get him out. Isn ' t he getting slightly ripe, sir? I asked, slipping a clothes pin to my nose. Yes, I suppose I shall have to get rid of him someday, and then he continued, Son, do you want to hear a story, I tell it to all my freshmen at the beginning of the school year. Well speak up lad, speak up, do you or don ' t you? I nodded assent. It was the only thing I could do as he had one hand around my throat. As I tried to catch my breath he con- tinued, I like the fair, opened-minded, con- siderate lads like you. Son, you may go places. Yeah, I ' ll go places, I thought to my- self. I ' m going to another school while 1 can still walk. I would have left too, if I could have figured out the combination lock on the door. Well, son, he continued, as he untied the lasso from around my neck. I once had a very dear friend named Sam. Sam, poor misguided Sam, did not go to college like I did. Instead he entered the contract- ing field, building highways in one of our fair provinces. About three years ago he sent me an invitation to a party that was to be held at his home. You should have seen the shack! One hundred and eighty-seven rooms and one hundred and eighty-eight bathrooms and three, mind you, three, swimming pools! Why the three swimming pools, sir? I asked. Well, one was filled with hot water, the other with cold and the third was empty. Why was it empty? queried I. Some of his friends don ' t know how to swim you know, he growled, and quit interrupting me boy, I don ' t like it. He gave me a brotherly kick in the face. Yes sir, but I was just wondering, I grunted as I pulled myself off the floor. That ' s quite alright. Well anyway, he had hundreds of servants and six one- hundred-and-ten piece orchestras. The drinks were flowing freely and all were making merry. Then came a dramatic moment. A little girl looked dreamily into my friend ' s eyes and asked, ' How many chapters are there in the Uzbek authorized version of the Koran? ' Well, for all his money my friend was unable to answer that question. See how much a college eclucatior would have helped him? Oh heaven, I sobbed, wasn ' t it just 65 Compliments of NORTHERN WOOD PRESERVERS LIMITED A Lake head Institution Conserve the Forests — Preserve the Timber LOUIS HELPER LIMITED Established 1900 MANUFACTURER OF HIGH GRADE FURS 209 Arthur St. Port Arthur ghastly. The reason I sobbed was that he had given me an unexpected kick in the stomach. Yes it is son. You will find that sort of thing all through life. People come up to you on the street and ask, ' does a Paramecium beat its flagella? ' or ' who was the third emperor of the Manchu Dynasty? ' and if you haven ' t been to university you cannot answer them. Now can you? he said as he clicked the safety catch of a sten gun off and on. No sir, I quickly replied. Now have you chosen your course of studies, young man? he drooled and then quickly rasped, Give me that tuition fee! Just then the door was kicked over and two men lumbered in. They picked up the dead dog, muttering something about smells and peopl e complaining. In their excite- ment they took me along too and so I left without even saying goodbye. vervvor rait ma J. L BEEDELL Oh, my aching head! Do other students at other places bear our burdens? Here, the weekend, and a mass of work faces me. Do our teachers not feel remorse? Probably not — but it is a pity they do not turn from their gossip about us and use their tea-times for apportioning fairly the amount of homework. Imagine, a fifteen- hour Physics Lab mixed with problems for Armstrong and Braun, a Chemistry Lab task for Page, a traverse and detail drawing for Mackinnon, and several essays for Miller! Will it never end? And yet, this is not abnormal; can I dream of going out some time on the town? Perhaps the pace is breaking me. How one envies the ease and slot h of the Campbell-Haggerty foresters and Page ' s miners. But to hell with this! To sleep, sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care, death of each . . . My goodness, morning already, but where was I? Where am I? Same school; it still looks like a factory — a small one. I ' d better go in; may be late already. I walked inside and was quite mystified by the vivid colours, but what seemed even stranger was the small, sprightly man who came toward me and impetuously an- nounced, I am the principal here; may I help you? By this time, I thought that I needed help and so we started towards his office. Just then, a boy came bursting out of a door, yelling at the top of his lungs that someone had hooked his bead of silver. He slammed into us, excused himself hurriedly and ran on. That is Trev H.C.L. Waiter, quite a boy really but sometimes I think he has rocks in his head. He is never still, and you cannot keep him quiet. A real cowboy fan, some Idaho Kid is his idoL and if he is not thinking of him, he is ' dry-tabbing ' in his Chemistry. The principal guided me into his office and I was just seated when a boy walked in without knocking, helped himself to the cigars and sat on the edge of the desk. Who ' s this, Prince? he asked, Another sucker for the Faculty of Applied Drips, or it is an (Ugh!) Artsman? Let me in- troduce Harry E.M.F. Weekly II, the principal muttered to me as he bowed to the boy and struck a match for his cigar, One of our very best and brightest students. His father gives $100,000 a year. The student spat coldly into the Principal ' s left eye, sneered at me, and strolled off. We visited one of the classrooms where a lecture was in progress. They were discus- sing How 17th Century culture affected the sex life of the butterfly. The instructor, a Mr. McKinnsky, was putting up an im- passioned argument that it was in the book, and then, either bored, beat or em- barassed, he walked out. The principal and I followed, not however before the former pointed out two problem students: Tommy Van Dyk (obviously a devotee of the famous Smut Brothers cough drops) and a slight anaemic individual named Dour Fishbait. They were having their own discussion at the back of the room. With their legs up on the desks and with their corn-cobs smok- ing secretively behind their big feet, they were discussing How the sex life of the butterfly affects the butterfly. Stroking his chin thoughtfully (he had heard it prom otes growth) Tommy said, Shall we turn to their teenage life as caterpillars? When we come to their reproduction and procreation, replied Dour, I ' ll take over, — that ' s my special field. I decided I hadn ' t reached this high plane of thought and I asked the principal 67 IF IT ' S GOOD FOR NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO . . . WE ' RE FOR IT Compliments of Dominion Motors Pontiac - Buick - Vauxhall Cars G.M.C. Trucks Port Arthur — Fort William 68 to show me some more of this interesting school and we went over to the Arts section. Here the principal told me about two boys who were not interested in anything but the betterment of mankind. We went into a room and met Colin Camdonald, a quiet gentle lad, hewing at a stone sculpture, depicting a gold brick. The better things of life, he said, cannot be bought. Johnny Rembrant, an assertive, noisy chap was with Camdonald. He was finishing his latest masterpiece, Cold feet can ' t be brought in bed. He eagerly pointed out other of his paintings, the most striking of which, a tree without leaves or roots was suspended in space. It was labelled The Forester. He was still talking, gar- rulously, when we slipped out. Abruptly we met a Marlon Brando type of lad with the euphonic name of Billy Cos Weaklimbs. He seemed a little dense but otherwise all right. Between the football season and the hockey season he managed to get a little homework done, I was told. Billy asked me to come into the room where he was doing caculus. Perhaps he over-estimated my knowledge for, like him, I couldn ' t understand how you could take little bits of this and little bits of that. The principal showed him as best he could and then took the exercise, gave it a five and then divided by two, because it was five minutes late. Gee whiz boss, in a toss, I guess I ' m a loss, said Billy. Yes, Weaklimbs, you sure are, re- marked the principal, but you ' re a poet and don ' t know it, but your feet show it. Tennyson ' s, aren ' t they? Vomiting as unobstrusively as possible, I turned to leave . . . when suddenly every- thing went black . . . ... I came to and picked myself up from beside my bed, cursing such high beds and hard floors, and hoping that these characters I had dreamed about would never come together again, at least not in one school. Jltc J liming r j oint B. EXELL The street was long, bordered by small, crowded buildings. Every aspect was famil- iar to him, for every night he walked its length and returned. He liked to fancy that these strolls were an inspiration to him; many questions arose during them which preoccupied his thoughts, and he believed in and enjoyed thinking just for the sake of thinking. If he saw his reflection in a window, again he would decide that he was less handsome than he was intelligent. Some- times he ' d wish it were the reverse because he knew that external qualities gained quicker recognition than intellectual ones. He reasoned that his superiority was in- conspicuous probably because he had not reached the point of perfect maturity (if such a point was finite). Often he found that ideas he had held but a short time before had reversed themselves, and he imagined his mind would function in the same way on the day he died. His curiosity about life was greater than his concern with death. He wanted to see the future, perhaps to be part of it. But he realized that one night there would be no return. Some evening he would reach the end of the street. 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We sat in silence for a few minutes and then Bill said, You know what, Bill, my sister is going to marry a guy with no nose. Oh, really, how does he smell? Terrible, chuckled Bill and he rolled merrily across the room. Yes sir, that ' s Bill, he ' s more fun than a keg of monkeys. Then the phone jingled. I picked it up. It was the chief. We had a double murder on our hands. We drove down to the scene of the crime. A patrolman showed us in. The corpse was lying on the floor. There was a rope around his neck, two knives stuck out of his back, and there were a few holes in his head. Unless he was a librarian they were probably gunshot wounds. A half- empty glass of nitric acid was at his feet. His right hand clutched a book. Bill ex- amined the book. Must be some sort of Science Fiction , he said. ' Why? I asked. ' Look at the title, ' Life is worth living. ' Compliments of ANDREW INSURANCE AGENCY LIMITED INSURANCE 204 Arthur St. Port Arthur J. L. McCormack, President It didn ' t take us long to find out the stiff ' s name. It was Bill Race, a famous Compliments of C Perciante (St s£apracle SPORTING GOODS LIMITED 9 S. Cumberland St. Guy Perciante Edgar Laprade 75 Compliments of The New SIMPSONS-SEARS Family Store AMPLE STORE SIDE PARKING FOR EVERYONE ISABELLA STREET AND FORT WILLIAM ROAD PORT ARTHUR TOURTELLOT HARDWARE COMPANY LIMITED Arthur St. Port Arthur Compliments of £. 07, HJJ lute ley OPTOMETRIST Cumberland St. Port Arthur 76 English concert pianist. I looked at him again. Then I noticed a piece of paper clutched in his hand. I picked it up and read it. It said: Dear Bill, I think your music is crummy. I also think it smells to high heaven. If you don ' t stop beating your mother, you too will smell to high heaven, you emasculated cur. Yours respectfully, an Ardent Admirer. Still no motive. We were about to leave when the patrolman asked if we wanted to see the other body. We said we did and he took us into a small, dark, drab, dull, alcove. A little old lady lay slumped in her wheel- chair. She had been brutally beaten to death with a large candle stick holder. I put two and two together and asked to see the butler. He was a real shifty critter, a real rip, had a face like a torn pocket. We told him to empty his pockets. He had three million Chinese Nationalist dollars, one- half an O ' Henry bar, one I like Ike button, a map showing the deployment of all NATO air bases in Europe, a pair of cotton gloves, a piece of rope, one-half a gallon of nitric acid and a revolver. Darn it, this case was getting stiff. Still no definite clues or suspects. In desperation I went through my pockets for my flask, found it and drained it to the last drop. Then it hit me. I looked at the butler: What ' s your name I said. George, he said. Why did you kill him? He always mistreated his mother, in- sulted her, beat her with a whip twice a day, made her eat his cooking and then yesterday, the last straw, he cut off her beer ration and television privileges. I ' m glad I did it, he gurgled. We took him in and booked him. On the way home Bill asked, How did you figure that out? That the butler did the killing, I mean. The fellow writing the story was run- ning out of paper. He wanted to finish it quick. Compliments of sL eC OCq tire florist Port Arthur Fort William AQUA TEL Automatic Waterproof Watches Sold Only By BIRKS STITT CREDIT JEWELERS LTD. Arthur and Court Street, Port Arthur A BUSINESS COLLEGE IS A SPECIAL SCHOOL Business school men were the first to sell business men on the idea that girls should be employed as stenographers. The masterful selling job that they did, 75 years ago, brought about a veritable revolution in business offices. Business school men think of their insti- tutions as training schools for business. 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I thought all evil spirits had been let loose. All the braves jumped to their feet. Some engaged in sharpening their tomahawks and knives. Others laid the sharpened ends of green rods in the fire. But all of them looked at me with satisfied, or rather, triumphant expressions on their faces. Now I understood. Bewilderment seized me. Would they carry it so far? I was practically hanging on the tree, helplessly. Turning my head, I could see my horse standing patiently at another tree. If only I could reach it! What happened next I shall never for- get. A shower of knives and tomahawks rained down on me. I bent my head down to avoid wounds on my face. Then I heard the chief say, Let ' s do the other part. He tore my shirt open and laid my chest bare. All went to the fire to fetch the glowing rods. Desperately I tried to break the bonds that confined me. At once my feet were free. They were hurting. And now, how lucky I was! My hands came free too. Red streaks showed upon my wrists. 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Godsall Equipment Ltd. 52 Great Lakes Paper Company Ltd. 64 Hansen ' s Billiards _____ 82 Louis Helper _______ 66 C. D. Howe Company Ltd. . 74 A. M. Hurtig, Furriers _ _ 58 International Transit Ltd. _ 54 Jessiman Motors _____ 79 King ' s Business College _ _ 78 Lakehead Cleaners _ _ _ _ 49 Lakehead Motors _____ 56 LeCocq, The Florist 77 Lowery ' s Limited _____ 69 Lowney ' s Chocolate Bars _ _ 73 MacLeod-Cockshutt Gold Mines Ltd. 62 Madsen Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. 12 Mahon Electric Co. Ltd. _ _ 73 Marathon Corporation of Canada Ltd. ______11 Marshall-Wells 70 McCartney ' s _______ 84 McFarlanes _. 86 McKenzie Red Lake Gold Mines Limited _____ 74 McKinnon ' s Store _____ 64 McMaster University _ .. _ _ 34 McNulty ' s Limited _____ 69 James Murphy Coal Co. _ _ 60 Neilson ' s Chocolate Bars _ _ 1 New Idea Sheet Metal Works 74 Newaygo Timber Co. Ltd. _ 49 News Chronicle ______ 68 Northern Wood Preservers Ltd. 66 Ontario Department of Lands and Forests ______ 36 Ontario Department of Mines _________ 38 The Ontario Paper Company Limited ________ 72 Perciante Laprade Ltd. _ _ 75 Peterson Electric Co. Ltd. . 56 J. T. M. Piper, Hardware _ 73 Porky ' s, Restaurant _ _ _ _ 60 Port Arthur Motors _ _ _ _ 87 Pouncy ' s Studio 62 Provincial Paper Ltd. _ _ _ 46 Queen ' s University _____ 47 Rapid Grip and Batten Ltd. 37 Russel-Hipwell Engines Ltd. 85 Ruttan-Bolduc-Adderley Ltd. 82 Saskatchewan Wheat Pool . 35 Scandinavian Home _ _ _ _ 52 Shaw ' s Bakery 52 Simpsons-Sears Limited _ _ 76 Steep Rock Iron Mines Ltd. _ 26 Birks-Stitt Credit Jewellers Ltd. 77 D. J. Stitt 64 St. Lawrence Corporation Limited ________ 48 St. Michael ' s College 60 Superior Agency ______ 34 Thunder Bay Lumber Co. Limited ______ 71 Tomlinson Bros. _____ 86 Tourtellot Hardware _ _ _ _ 76 University College, Univ. of Toronto ________ 62 University of Manitoba _ _ 13 University of Western Ont. _ 80 Van Peteghem Henry _ _ 80 Victoria College ______ 58 Watt Kyro 34 E. Thompson Whiteley _ _ _ 76 Willport Realty Limited _ _ 48 Willson Stationery Co. Ltd. . 82 Wilmot-Siddall Co. 79 Gavin H. Young ______ 70 Zeller ' s 46