United Colleges - Vox Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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IF I MAY PARNASSUS We thought this month that a check list of our best biography would be appreciated. These books are interesting and guaranteed to chase that spring fever away. Batho, Edith C. Blanchard, F. T. Brooks, Van Wyck Chesterton, G. K. Colquhoun, A. H. V. Connelly, Willard Cook, E. T Cooper, Duff Edgar, Pelham Faussett, H. L’A. Fay, Bernard Froude, J. A Garvin, J. L. George, Lloyd Gosse, Edmund Grube, G. M. A. Hobhouse, Christopher ... James, Henry Legouis, Emile Matthews, Brander Renwicke, W. L. Roy, J. A. Sitwell, Edith The Later Wordsworth. Fielding the Novelist. -Life of Emerson. Chaucer. Press, Politics and People, the life of Sir John Willison. -Brawny Wycherley. Life of Ruskin, 2 vol. Talleyrand. Henry James. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Roosevelt and His America. Thomas Carlyle, 2 vol. Joseph Chamberlain, 3 vol. War Memoirs, 2 vol. Congreve. Plato’s Thought. Charles James Fox. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Chaucer. ..Moliere. Spencer. Joseph Howe. Alexander Pope. For a Superior Haircut Pictures, Frames and Calendars BOULEVARD BARBER SHOP Etdrariunnt Hhm. 477 Portage Ave. (Just west of Colony St.) (galterafi First Class Barbers Phone 37 496 332 Main St. Phone 96 851 [ 26 ]

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denced but another realm in which its disintegrating influence is apparent. The fact that the American brand of democracy has given a greater scope to the journalist, also means that the quality of the readers, taken as a whole, has deteriorated. Greater numbers have been given the advantage of a newspaper, and as a result of this a cheaper newspaper has been created. Since democracy admits equality in each individual’s right to determine policy and content, one person’s dollar being quite as good as the next’s, policy and con¬ tent have suffered. Instead of the increased circulation of the modern newspaper providing increasing opportunities and means for a quality product, the reverse is true. It is the accepted and easy role for the student, to assume an attitude of contempt for the efforts of the world at large. The aca¬ demic easily condemns the “lesser breeds without the law,” but with what justification? When one turns the critical faculties upon academic journals, a startling realization of their own inadequacy on the same counts is manifest. These “select” publications have followed the same trend. Student journals are quite as poor in con¬ tent as those of the outside world, student journalists quite as char¬ acterless, and student readers quite as docile and inane. These pub¬ lications, bred in the atmosphere of “sweet reasonableness” are not “the intelligent man’s guide to” journalism. They do not set a standard to which the press of the real world may look for inspira¬ tion. The intelligentsia of Canada is utterly unworthy, in this re¬ gard, of the “high calling to which it is called.” The tendency to deterioration of the press in the modern student world has been so outstanding as to warrant “viewing with alarm.” Student contribu¬ tions to the local dailies of late have not been calculated to raise the quality of material to be found in those newspapers, much less to raise the opinion of the public as to the students themselves. Manitoba’s faculty magazines in recent years have, with few excep¬ tions, pandered to a lower mentality than might be expected. The type of material appreciated by University groups, as evidenced in the aforementioned publications, leave much to be desired, if not indicating a hitherto unsuspected depravity among the “future leaders of the nation!” The increase in journalistically inclined students who are willing to deal in unmitigated trash would make a sensitive person bury himself for solace in the works of the Fathers of Canadian Journalism. M00re S - fpenall night including Sunday [ 25 ]

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IGNATIUS LOYOLA A GENERAL OF THE CHURCH MILITANT By Robert Harvey, M.A., B.D., D.Th., Bruce Publishing Co., Milwaukee, 1936, 26 5 pp. By W. A. McKAY “ ' AN THE eve of the Annunciation, March 24th, 1522, he carried out a project that had formed in his mind. When it it was dark he divested himself of his rich raiment and gave it later on to a beggar. He clad himself in coarse, sacklike clothing that he had previously bought, and took his place before the altar of Our Lady. There throughout the night he kept his vigil, alternately kneeling and standing in prayer. ‘He had read that the knights of the new chivalry kept in the church an all-night watch over their armor, and he desired to imitate them.’ Christ was indeed calling him as captain in his sacred army and his life of holy warfare had begun.” If one is safe in saying that few world-wide organizations have been so powerful as the Society of Jesus, one may also say that few organizations have been so misunderstood. Most Canadians when asked what order of churchmen did the first missionary work among the Indians in Canada will reply unhesitatingly, the Jesuits. The truth of the matter is that the Jesuits were preceded in Canada by the Recollet fathers, and did not come to Quebec until 1625. How¬ ever, they soon supplanted their predecessors, and within a few years were in undisputed control of the spiritual life of Canada. Champlain’s approval did a great deal to strengthen their position. He assisted them to the utmost of his ability and at his death be¬ queathed to them a part of his estates. They set aside a definite part of the Canadian wilderness, which they called Huronia, in which to protect the natives from a too sudden contact with foreign influ¬ ence. This project which had succeeded to a degree in Paraguay, was signally unsuccessful in Canada, a result no doubt of a combina¬ tion of circumstances, chief among which may be placed the Iroquois raids upon the peaceful Jesuit colonies. In spite of the fact that a too rigid adherence to a method wrecked their plan for Christianizing the natives, the spirit in which they endured hardships for their cause, and their work of exploring the St. Lawrence and Mississippi basin has reserved them a place in the Canadian Saga. Brebeuf, Chaumont; Rageneau, the discoverer of the falls at Niagara; Le Jeune and Vimont, the chroniclers of Nicolet’s voyage to the upper reaches of Lake Superior; Fathers [ 27 ]