United Colleges - Vox Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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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;

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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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28 VOX In dance halls crowd the hot young men Who long to fill their arms with hen; While sheiks in Fords will sigh full sore, And neck, and park, and neck some more. In art the girl is on the throne: We sculp her bust in brass and stone; We paint her face to feed our flame— She paints it first, we’re not to blame. And so at last I end my verse. I trust you grant long words are worse; For I’m quite sure the short are best For Chink in East and us in West. More than one sound is much too much: Sesquipedalia and such Seem desuetudinous to me In polysyllabicity. We are pleased to note that there is more advertising matter in this issue of Vox than in any issue dur¬ ing some years past. It seems to be an indication of Western pros¬ perity, of the keen business policy of our local houses, and of their confidence in the quality of the goods and services they offer. It is for Vox readers to give them a trial. Support your adver¬ tisers. See how they support you! The Exchange Editor acknowl¬ edges with thanks the following exchanges: The Gateway, The Ubyssey, The Brandon College Quill, The Trinity University Re¬ view, The Managra-. Commenting on the Manitoba debating team, the Ubyssey makes the following comprehensive re¬ port: “At this point in the pro¬ gram, Mr. Paul Murphy introduced the debating team from Manitoba. Both of its members, Mr. Richard¬ son and Mr. Saunderson, gave sam¬ ples of Manitoba wit”! Statisticians state that Canada’s national wealth is $2,525 per per¬ son. We would like to know when we can collect our share. “I never felt so put out in my life,” said the student as he read the letter from the Dean. iHikado SUPPER DANCE PARTIES