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

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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.

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UP at L Sm aaa X Q, 3' X X l . F 3:5 ff: in Q . A . ,,,, J l . . i Z . i 'tg' +xi f T gi - 4- ' xx U U s- V 1 ' s f -s- 't T lim' V i Ali , fd' , 4 ft . , l, Nxt' r- ' . ' 'I '. l A ' . - 1 I X . I fn.. , -I Q9 en LES .e ,, s .. ll M TAYIJ IIE dawn of the twentieth century marked the establishment of that clnbgso mysterious to the 'ACU-eds. -the Undergraduates' Union. Only those initiated can realize the value uf this institution, which is an asylum for scholastic refugees from boring lectures, The eordiality ensuing from the association of students from all the faculties is fostered here. This modern idealistic monastery has three distinct stratial orders. The novice. on entering the sign-herlecl-:ed oaken door, is ushered into a long, narrow room in which the soft glow of crimson rugs is in startling contrast to the severe classic an':mgement of dusty encyclopaedias along bleak walls. Tluit every other volume is missing does not at all mar the effect, But the Mecca of Sultan Nicotine's subjects is in the mid-world-for those not too bad and not too youll. Everything here suggests the vanished splendour of an Augustinian age. Nowhere could the term union he more paradoxical. Morris chairs, out-of-date magazines, and Life itself have hopelessly disintegrated in anticipation of the future Utopia. But this material ilcczulency is far outhalanced by the animated but grotesqucly rambling discussions interpolated ht-twccu the strains of Il Trovatore and the helchings of the Yiddisher Ball. From religion, atheistie and orthodox, to theatres, classic and otherwiseg from athletics to lectures, from terpsiehorerxn revels to drill shedsg from the personnel of the faculty to the latest frcshette clebutuute, and from the merit of the XVest to the culture of the East suggest the wide scope for original observations. Sunday post-serrnonie reflections are particularly scintil- lating, partly due no doubt to that inward complaisance which only a lamb dinner of the llining llall can produce, The third degree of this miniature world places the final academic imprint on a man. It is a sniff of modern elevated Sheol, where the attenuated hulks of men wander about in a murky fliaphanous ether arising from two aquariums. Closer olfactory examination, however, determines that it is only clouds of smoke incense exhaled by Shoals of fish, In the beginning was the 'fColonel, who yet as 'Apresieling spirit hovers over the boys with paternal solicitucle. He, who can number as his personal friends many of our foremost Canadians, who knew him as undergraduates, shall ever be for us a keynote to many pleasant memories. Would that there were more opportunities in academic life for students to come together as they do in the L'nion. J. F' DA IS