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

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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 Morris chairs, out-of-date magazines, and Life itself have hopelessly disintegrated in anticipation of the future Utopia.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

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