United Colleges - Vox Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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EDITORIAL . . . which will be neither lengthy nor wise. “Ask and it shall be given unto you, seek and ye shall find,” is the policy early formulated and later actively pursued through¬ out the year. If occasionally the pursuit did not end in capture, then so much are we the losers. Amongst all our potential young Miltons, Hemingways, and Leacocks we have searched for ma¬ terial, upon which, being received, the Editorial Board ruminated, meditated, and ate their lunches, under the patient eye of our faculty advisor. Attempts have been made to present only vital, interesting writing, and suitable art work. Much of the work is of a controversial nature; we hope none of it is platitudinous. But the judgment as to its success lies with you. Thanks are extended to our faculty adviser, to the assistant editors, who have made the task both light and happy, to the contributors from outside the student body, to the engravers and printers, who have been most co-operative. We wish next year’s Editor as much good fortune in his co-workers as we have had this year.

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INDEX Editorial ....... Dr. Graham’s Message .. The Dismal Case of Prince Blog . Forever Is Ending Today.. Pattern for Henry . The Question . Limericks . Song of a Modern (and Slightly Rebellious) Harem Girl . Sonnet . The Luxury Tax . Further Research Concerning W. Wordsworth .. Then . On the Death of Her Husband . Eulogy to the New Yorker Fortune’s Fool ... A True Appreciation of Murder ... Et A1 . . Competition or Co-operation . Harem to Mayhem . History Is for Half-Wits. Stephen Leacock .. The Romantic and Gothic Novels . Candids . Commencement Address . United College Dramatic Society Fourth Year President Speaks. Debating: The Voice of 49-50 . Athletics . Social Committee . Macalester-United Conference .... Valedictorian’s Address ... Graduation-—End or Beginning Graduates . Theology . Alumni—Hunted Out! . Dr. Millar MacLure . J. H. Dow ... Don Rodgers . Joe Fry .. Albert Schac ' ter. Donna O. Munroe . Paul A. Sigurdson .. J. H. Dow . .Helen Brekke .,. Donna O. Munroe. James H. Dow .... Lome Wallace . .Herbert V. Friesen. .Shirley M. Irvin . .Donna O. Munroe . .Gustaaf A. de Cocq . Don Rodgers . Prof. L. S. M. F. T. Queenbee .Ken Murphy . Don Plummer ..... .Mr. Ralph Maybank Barry McCorquodale Jerry Alexander . Keith Clifford . Carl Ridd . Cy Whitaker . •John Craig . Carl Ridd . Dr. Reid . Donna O. Munroe Page .. 4 .. 5 6 .. 8 ... 10 ... 12 ... 13 ... 14 ... 14 ... 15 ... 19 ... 21 ... 21 ... 22 ... 24 ... 27 ... 30 ... 31 ... 35 ... 39 ... 41 ... 43 48, 71 ... 50 ... 55 ... 56 ... 56 ... 57 ... 58 ... 60 ... 66 ... 69 ... 74 ... 86 .. 89 Page Three

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I BELIEVE that I can make no better use of the courtesy here extended to me by the editor of Vox than to set down briefly my views about the function ' this publication should serve in the life of the College. We should be able, through the contents of Vox, to measure the extent to which the way of life we follow here has released creative literary capacity in the student members of our college community. Liberal edu¬ cation should not only mature the mind but should also impart an inward urge to use the critical powers creatively in the delineation and inter¬ pretation of individual and community experience. A mind that is truly awakened not only has something to say but is under an inner compulsion to try, at least, to say it. Vox exists to afford to the student a medium for creative, literary self-expression. This is its most important function. I sometimes fear that there is not as much of this urge to creative impression among us today as there was a few years ago 1 . The task of literary editors of College and University publications now seems to be that of urging their fellows to produce rather than that of discriminating judgment of what they have produced. I hope that this does not mean that there is falling upon us the malaise of intellectual complacency and irresponsibility. What we receive from others comes alive for us only by virtue of what creative effort we make to pass it on to others, whether in literary form or otherwise. It is in seeking to give, not merely to receive, that we add to the riches of our own mind and being. I, for one, shall feel happier when I hear once more that the editor of Vox is deluged with manuscripts and hard beset to choose the best among them for publication. W. C. Graham, Principal. Page Five