United Colleges - Vox Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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VOX” EDITORIAL BOARD 1936-37 Honorary President Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor Bulletin Board Editors A lumni Editor Business Manager Circulation Manager . . A. R. M. LOWER, M.A., Ph.D. .CHARLES MACKENZIE, ' 37 —ROBERT J. LEIGHTON, Theo. r WILLIAM A. McKAY, Theo. . MARGARET McCULLOCH, ’37 A. D. LONGMAN, B.A. AUSTIN GAMBLE, ’37 R. W. BUNDY, ’37 Class Representatives ’37 HELEN JOHNSTONE ’39 JEAN LAVENDER ■38 DOUGLAS IRWIN ’40 JAMES DOW Matriculation —EARLE BEATTIE Vol. X MARCH, 1937 No. 3 CONTENTS Page Editorial 3 The College of Today in the World of Tomorrow 5 Ars Quixotica 10 The Poetry Contest 13 Ripe Fruit 15 Gentlemen of the Press 21 Revery (Poem) 20 If I May 26 Book Review—Ignatius Loyola 27

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Sditorial O UR recently deceased conte mporary, Volume 23 of The Mani¬ toban, in an editorial headed “A University Magazine,” regrets the fact that the literary talent of the University is being wasted on “little magazines, resplendent in colorful covers, containing an assortment of blank verse stanzas dedicated to spring, summer, autumn, winter, and mistress’ eyebrows, plus a thesis on the per¬ ambulations of the protoza together with a book review and an article on the love life of some eighteenth century bard,” in other words, the faculty magazine. In that there are only six such pub¬ lications on the campus of the University, three of which are the production of technical faculties, and hence ruled out, and one in French, and hence incomprehensible to the critic, the object of the attack is rather obvious. One must excuse the editor of The Mani¬ toban, however, on the grounds that he is governed by a seemingly innocuous phrase in italics under the name of the paper in the mast¬ head—“Fo r a Unified University.” The implications of the phrase have been somewhat ignored during the past year by The Manitoban, and it was probably felt that its inclusion must be justified in some manner—whence the zeal for a University Magazine. In all fairness we must confess that next year we too will change our tune. Mean¬ while, however, we are Editor of Vox. It cannot but be admitted that there is a great deal of justifica¬ tion for some of the criticism—“that the contributions are drawn from a class known variously as the ‘morons,’ ‘the cream of the intel¬ ligentsia,’ etc.,” that an endeavor is made to maintain a cultural atmosphere by the exclusion of jokes, that a good deal of the material content is made up of “sentimental claptrap and evanescent verbi¬ age.” Although Vox cannot admit the latter charge as frankly as it might wish, one can certainly agree with the first two, while plead¬ ing for a fair consideration of the circumstances surrounding the composition of a faculty magazine, and the system of student gov¬ ernment under which it operates. The editor of a faculty publication is subjected to pressure from three sides, pressure which medical men would stigmatize as a direct cause of dementia praecox. There are, in a faculty, a small group of reasonably intelligent students, contemptuously referred to as the “cream of the intelligentsia,” from whom contributions of a fairly high calibre are expected and received. It would be a joy were it possible to direct the editorial policy of a magazine with these in view as readers and critics. There are also one or two cap- 13 ]