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

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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.

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A ,, M Q9 'lt l .. 1 -sy U- 'iQt , ., A 1 I N ' ,file vi' x ,4 1 iw 1 mizifi f. ff l . . . ,. . -ff' VI, gf ,lI,. 4 vrwwlnx Inf mirably suited for a student audience. lhe -.W vw 'li , - ,Atl -fl' sparkling wit of De l.Volf Hopper as I 4,,l. A ' 4, XQQZ'-ii1z.'7?', !:' YE' W - J -' ii 1 -1 Ko-Ko caused the freshmen and sophomores 3 fi' 1-'F' '-A -'U i ' 1 V1 Y Y i' Yi- to couvulse with laughter, the juniors to Y V v i lilly W V , V Y grin, and the faces of the seniors to break J g 7' f forth into smiles. i l' ' i The guests of the evening, safely en- o Til ui V seonced in box seats, and hence out of the H15 illlllllill Tlwillfi' ii l I range of the showers of peas, wheat and Niglll WHS llvlll UH illl' i i' ty other ilcbrix, entered into the spirit of the evening of February 1 l N K' occasion so heartily that we would almost believe that they were amused 3rd, atlthe Royal Alexandra, k l lf' at the spectacle of the embarrassed gentleman attempting to disentangle The occasion was marked by X himself from the paper streamer which coyly wound itself around his and a very commendable decrease ' N her neck, or his useless attempts to protect her from the other fellow, in the usual attempts at wit l, 4! , who, seated in the front row in the gods, drank to the dregs his cup and humour from thc top ' 6' 1 of revenge, through the instrumentality of a pocket of peas and a pea- galleries during the progress of W W 'V ,i gun. The Lieutenant-Governor, the President, and the Mayor, did not the play, Cowbellgautohorns, l XS fail to compliment the rooters' brigade on their good behaviour, the imd Ufhfl'111450-Pff'fll1l'il1L! CHU' ii i' i ladies on their beauty, and the escorts on their dignified air of ease and trivances, so conspicuous in l xl 4 nonchalanee. Eight young men, known to the University world as the past years, were not in cvi- Y, fl, ' Science Octette, added to the pleasure and amusement of the evening by dence, The secret of this ex- lx X singing college and ragtime songs, The peculiar manner in which the U'30fdlU11 Y 9 llVL'fail'l' WHY EM- Uctette wandered about the stage may have been due to nervousness or have been the Wflfk Uf UIC N i the presence of so many pretty girls, or it may have been caused by the Parliament,underwliosedirec- iiyx , fear lest a fellow Toike Hiker might test the accuracy of his aim tions the arrangeinents for the ,gr i 'U X with a lemon or some equally moving missile. CVCYUTILI WCW mlldf- hm UU 3 if.. i X , One is apt to grow philosophical in attempting to explain the popu- rather suspects that the fas- a. i, i' larity of 'Theatre Night or to enter into a microscopic examination of the i cinating beauty of the old ,N I 0 Gilbert and Sullivan's .7 -T, 1 x X .-Q. ff 'bf 9 it ,Qi Mikado played a still more important part in subduing the eyuberance iil'4Cnlll:gi2il1 youth. wr.. W ll lhis play, which carries one to the land of the Rising Sun and into the atmosphere off lriental lll jj ,ijt , i t fi . Q l N if If IX- ff, i i, x -My light iligl beauty and splendour, was ad- x ' ' my 16 factors that differentiate it from other nights at the theatre, The fact that it is our night alone suffices. Although our fathers, when in reminiscent moods, dilate upon the glorious days of old, when they went to the theatre and poured flour and sawdust down from the top gallery, we in this degenerate age flatter ourselves that our milder methods of giving vent to our student jovialities is more in keeping with the present laws of the land, and reflects with greater fidelity the true spirit of the University. , W. J. BEAToN.