United Colleges - Vox Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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26 VOX MISS GRACE GORDON this store of experience, her gracious manners and her interest in all col¬ lege activities we feel sure that next year will be a bright one for the Wesley Co-eds under the guidance of Grace. New Book by Manitoba Professor Professor Chester Martin’s new book, “Empire and Common¬ wealth: Studies in Governance and Self-Government i n Canada,” which was recently published by the Clarendon Press, will prove of great interest to all students of Ca¬ nadian history and Imperial rela¬ tions. It should at once take its place with the best and most au¬ thoritative books on the subject, being a thorough and scholarly piece of work embodying the re¬ sults of Professor Martin’s re¬ searches for many years past. The more extended notice which it warrants will be forthcoming in a future number of Vox. Man may now see himself as others seem him, and hear himself as others hear him. But he is still spared the pain of thinking of him¬ self as others think of him. Desolation Standing on the headlong edge of Life, My soul swathed round in Stygian cloak, I call in frenzy down the corridors of Earth For any trace of Beauty, Love or Light. I strive to glimpse a single saving ray And vainly clutch a hulkless mass of lifeless chaff. Inwardly the mocking echoes ring. No answer whispers from the barren world; And all around a charnel solitude Matches a dread abyss within, While the blind planet hurtles onward in the gloom. ■ —B.T.R.

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vox 25 Our Senior Stick-Elect When the student body of Unit¬ ed Colleges elected Mark A. Tal- nicoff as their Senior Stick for 1920-30, they added another laurel to a splendid collection which Mark carries so unassumingly. MARK A. TALNICOFF Mark is a late Victorian, and first became vocal in the great wheat belt, not of Canada, but of Russia. When still a wee toddler this young hopeful emigrated with his parents to the U.S., where they helped to swell the sociologists’ figures of the foreign-born population in Phila¬ delphia. Happily, however, they found their way to Winnipeg in 1913. Mark seems to have retained a wan¬ derlust, and in 1917 went over to England with the Cameron High¬ landers, no doubt as Private Mac- talnicoff! He returned to Winni¬ peg, worked in an office, and in 1924 went to Brandon College, where he matriculated, with a Gov¬ ernor-General ' s award. There he was active in debating and Boy Scout work, and indeed continues these interests. As is well known, Mark is President of Debating in United this year, and has recently taken charge of a Boy Scout patrol of one. Mark has shown himself worthy of our trust by his efficient work in debating, Vox, and as Secretary of the Student Council. We look for¬ ward confidently to a year in which his energy, idealism and quiet com¬ petence will distinguish his leader¬ ship and make its influence f.elt in all student activities. Grace Gordon Grace Gordon, Lady Stick-Elect, was born at Souris, Manitoba, sometime in the year 1909. When asked why she chose Souris as a birth-place, she replied that it was because she wanted to be near her mother. She is the daughter of Principal and Mrs. J. W. Gordon of the Manitou Normal School. As for her early training, we learn by devious methods that she matricu¬ lated with high honors from Mani¬ tou High School, and in grade XII won a scholarship for general pro¬ ficiency. Grace entered Wesley as a “knowing Sophomore” to join the ’30’s. Her class soon recog¬ nized her excellent executive abil¬ ity, for she was elected vice-presi¬ dent in her third year. She was also a member of the Dramatic Executive, vice-president of S.C.M. and vice-president of Co-eds. With

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vox 27 Monosyllables (“U” life as seen in Coll. Hum. —Ed. Note.) They say the Chink who rules the East Makes use of words that sound the least; But in our tongue we still can find No lack of words of that brief kind. Yea, for long words whose joints are six, Short can be found in each bad fix. Men have the con, the diph, the flu; The docs will make them good as new. We phone our ads to feed the Press, And next day find them in a mess; On that same page we pipe the news From Yanks and Japs, from states and stews; In lines of red or blocks of black We learn of all who jump the track; So, too, of czars and popes and kings We read the worst that each day brings, As bow in Rome the Chief Wop makes The rest eat dirt or pull up stakes. Small words will serve as well to show How we in class (and out) may go; At nine with sines and tans we play Or plot our graphs from day to day. At ten the profs may make us fume With Kant and Locke and Mill and Hume. Next hour, with hearts on fire, we grind At Bill the Bard, or John the Blind, Or Sam the dope fiend. One Lung Keats, Or lame Lord George with his bad feats. At twelve we damn the verbs of Gaul In words we should not use at all. At two we wipe the dust of time From kings and states and wars and crime. At three we read the tale of Troy In lines that lack the least of joy, Or curse at forms a noun might take W hen bards of Greece their pens might shake. While all day long our minds are set On skirts and hops and dates to get. For all our age is gone on girls With legs and teeth and smiles and curls. We buy them sweets and buds and drinks In hope to gain their smirks and winks; We fork out scads to feed their ears With jazz that jades us down the years; We throng the Met with hicks and coots To lamp the queens in one-piece suits;