University of Toronto - Torontonensis Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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The Board of Torontor1ensis, 1913 J. C. THOMSON, P. T. DOWLING, Bus. Mgr. Ed.-in-C'l1ief. Cartoonists C. A. NICKAY Qlfniv. CalI.J. S. M. ADAMS LTrinilyJ. A. P. MCKENZIE Q Viflorial. J. F. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, M155 A. MCNEELY. M155 H. G. SME1.1.1E. M155 F. S. Toon. M155 E. E. TRo'r'rER. H. N. BARRY. J. A. D1cK5oN. J. H. PEDLEY. W. R. SM1T1-1. APPLIED SCIENCE. L. R. Bmznxzrou. E. R. GRAY. K. L. NEWTON. Representatives VICTORIA COLLEGE, M155 E. M. HENDERSKDN. A. D. BANTING. E. M. MURROW. W. J. L1'rTLE. TRINITY COLLEGE. R. C. BERKINSHAW. V. O. Bov1.E. FORESTRY. I-I. R. C1-1R15T1E. DENTISTRY. K. M, JOHNSON. C. R. IXTINNS. H. M. SCHWEITZER. I3 M. DENISON, .flrl Edilur. H. F. BURDEN 1.lppId.Sf.p. Woon fO.V.C.J. ST. MICHAEL'S COLLEGE L. M. FORRISTAL. MEDICINE. B. F. KEILLQR. G. A. YVATSON. H. W. WOOKEY. WYCLIFFE, G. W. TEBB5. O. A. C. G. G. BRAMH11.L, A. M. CAMPBELL. O. V. C. W. W. FORSVTH. J. F. Woon.

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The Torontonensis HE TORONTONENSIS is the last achievement of our graduating year. lt is just when with our hand on the latch, ready to open the door and leave our little undergraduate world, that this record of our undergraduate existence is placed in our hands, A month hence, one might say a moment hence, we open the door and depart forever. Only through the ,FORONTONENSIS can the old life be recalled, and the former familiar faces be visualized. All that the year has accomplished is put down in this book. Evil indeed, is it to that year, if its past be marred in the telling. We have said that the TORONTONENSIS is the last creation of our graduating yearfit is also the most ambitious. No other task to which the Class of Thirteen put its hand has involved so much labour and so much expense. Moreover, although an under- graduate production, the 'l'oRoNToNENs1s is a permanent and an abiding work, lt is a monument to the year, by which our year will be measured in the days to come. The TORONTUNENSIS contains the individual photograph, with the subjects signature beneath it, of every graduating student in all the Faculties and afhliated Colleges in the Universityfand Toronto is one of the largest Universities on the Continent. Alongside of every individual photograph is at least a seventy-live word-length biography. Besides this there is in it the pictures of all the societies, executives, clubs and athletic associations among the undergraduates, with names underneath, and the whole book is sprinkled with features and cartoons. The management and editing of this book lies wholly with the undergraduates, hnancially, the book must be self-supporting, it being aided by no University grant, while the students who produce it must fultil precisely the same requirements in their academic work as does any other student who holds no office whatever, Yet we are informed on creditable authority the TORONTONENSIS is not only perhaps the largest, but in every respect the most complete and artistic of any Year-Book in America. Whether the HTORONTONENSIS, 1913, measures up to its predecessors or no, is not for us to say. Suffice it to be remarked that the management not being appointed until the middle of October, there was left very little time to adopt innovations which could be practicable.

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I 'Varsityv HE liles of a newspaper are its best biographer. Its history is told in the way it tells the history of others, and, like many institutions and persons, the less it says of itself the better it is liked. So ephemeral are its interests and its pursuits, its periods of exultation and of despondeney, that a summing-up at the end of a year must of necessity treat of dead things. Tliings die so soon. When did it happen ' asks the editor. Yesterday? Put it on the inside forme with the other stale stuff. llay before yesterday? Kill it. The editor scowls darkly and we drop our contribution into the waste-basket. Yet there may be a few events worthy of record: a few inci- dents of quite minor importance, which escaped notice in the tri- weekly columns. Incidents worthy of record only in so far as they are milestones on the road which l'l1f 'l'i1rxiIy has been travelling nnw for years--the road which will find its goal on that day when the Iirst issue of the Tnrnuln Daily 'lllrxfly will come off the press. To this end the cry for two years now has been 1'lrganizel and Tin' 'l'urxil,v has ortganized and organized until it is the most organized institution in thc University. The visitor is inclined to scoff at the array of editors which graces the editorial page-A editnr-in-ehief, inzinaeing editor, associate editors, news editor, sporting editors, local editors, How do you keep them straight? he asks. How are the tasks of issuing a tri-weekly four-page, live-column sheet portionerl out among so many? TIM 'l'ar5ily'x apologist must needs answer that he and his fellows are building for toamorrow. Better too many editors now than too few after we have lukru Ihr .vlz'p. But division of labour, as the political economist delights to say, works for greater business efiiciencyg and so The 'Varsily has printed more news this last year. More news and less litera- ture. For tl.e tJnlooker and the Highbrow did not, as had lgeen prophesied, come to life, and their successors, the Tra- gcdian and the Anthropoid Ape, were delicate plants, bloom- ing only at long intervals. Plainly speaking, there was no room for them. Even to the very end of the newspaper year, when news becomes a rarity of rarities, one rarely found the local editor pleading for copy, Organization and the attendant decay of the race of Iillerulvzrrx has its compensations. Pastcd on the office wall in yellow ugliness is a C.P.R. night letter from Kingston-The 'l'arsily's first despatch. It arrived in Toronto on a Sunday afternoon, three hundred words of it, and Mondays paper exulted in the parenthesized announcement: Special despatch to The 'Varsily by courtesy of the Quevrz's .li:ur1mI. at the head of its leading article. Another step away from provincialism, rivalling in importance even the revolutionary abolition of the Around the Halls column. Since, what with night letters, tiled exchanges, an ever-open assignment book. and the clattering typewriter. the office became more and more a place of business, the stah' banquets, of necessity, partook more of the nature of enjoyment. On these evenings, when the Monte Carlo -or the K'Teapot Innnfwere chartered, and the brain, brawn and industry of academic newspaper-work met together, it was to feast, not to discuss. On two occasions the ladies of our staff were present-made speeches, like true newspaper-women, and turned in better copy ever afterwards. There the ways and means of tri-weekly existence were forgotten, and the members of the staff showed forth that, under the painted mask of business absorption, remained the true spirit of idealism- the spirit that made The 'Vurxily what it was in years gone by, and which will stand out more clearly once again when the awkwardness of adolescence has ripened into mature grace, and The 'l'arxily's growing pains 'become a thing of memory.