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

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Miss Irma Pattison tl'irr-Prex.b, E. G. Smith KPVFXJ, Miss Agnes Hodgctts Llsxl. Ser.-Trruxj, R. II. Perry fS'f'c.- Trvasj History of the Class of ZT6 University College the Fall of 1Q22 a large, although not the largest.. freshman class y Wm entered University College. This class of.2To battled its way through ETS-A-If e the barbepiwire eiitangjlements of exaniinzaticfns with colmparatixiely I ,' sf: 5 , ew casua ties unti to- ay it is pro JaJ y t e argest grac uating c ass J in the history of the largest college or faculty in the University. 'Iheennerpdshughrstpreddentof2IY3enghufredthesphtexecudwezurange- rnent. 'This hnwned a precedent mdnch revolutunused student goyernrnent hi the CQoHege, 'The systeni of spht executives has been prodtunive of greater eHhjency,if kms convhdahty,in sodalfuncdons ku bodiinen and umnnen. Iicnvever this Pldl the executives of our year cornbined to hold in the Iuruor Connnon Roonia Sunday eveninginusuxde. Iiusivasthefhstewxialeventcn its kind to be held in any year. Our other social functions comprised all the usual snnokers,theatre pardes and ciass pardes. In athledcs the nien ancliyonien of 2IY3liave given of their best for the Cohege and the kdue and udute. 'The ckms has ahvays contnlnned several members to both the Intercollegiate and Q.R.F.U. Rugby teams, to say nothing of the Interniediates, juruors arui hlulock Cfup tearns. IIocke5m liasketbalL basebah, sudnnning and the track teani have ah rnade then ckunm. In our Senior year winning true to forni 2IY3rnen captured the Inter year Shiehi and the mmnnen the Inter year Basebah channnonshnm A number of the class have won scholarships. As for the rest, the fact that the reghtran endidned nilns HCWfSUffOUHdIHgS at ShncoeIIaH,recognhms us as members of the graduating year, is ample proof of our academic ability. ZT6 has generously contributed members to both intercollegiate and inter- faculty debating teams. In dramatic circles our name has been notably upheld byinen and umnnen ahke hithe LI C.IdayersC3uHd. Iduzquahty ofthe work of our debaters and actors speaks well for their future prominence in the political, legaland dranunic arenas. journahsnizdso uih nocjoutn be benehted byfthe training that many of our members have received as workers on the 'fVarsity staff. E211

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To the Graduating Class of University College By Principal Hutton A HE men who graduated in the seventies have reached iff? a time of life when they are tempted to contrast agar A 7.15 2 -- T the manifest follies of the present day with the dignity,sobriety, and restraint of their own undergraduate days: and if they want to strike this familiar note, familiar always on the lips of age, they can find material enough in the luxury and pretentiousness in the advertising materialism and the taudry aestheticism of the present moment: in the beauty parlors and the other devices for dazzling the public which are part of the craze of publicity in which the age has lost its head. The students of other days, though better read and better readers than their successors, were very ignorant of and very indifferent to the largest aspect of life, which is, has always been, and always must be, character, and con- duct. Because University College was not a denominational college they seemed to assume that it was a secular college: that it took account neither of denominationalism nor of Christianity itself. I can imagine no more deplorable hiatus in education than this indifference to the chief source of character. It has passed away, the student of to-day receives, if he wishes it, an intelligent and undenominational treat- ment, the right treatment, of the greatest monument of literature -the Bible. Further, the student of to-day, if he wishes it, and he does not wish it half as energetically as he should, has the opportunity in his four short years at the University of hearing at Convoca- tion Hall on Sunday the very best intellects of this continent, and not always of this continent only, fso far as the best intellects of the continent have persisted in the study of Christianityj giving expression to the results of this study. I have admitted a large qualification to the phrase the best intellects but even with this qualification the speakers have deserved a better support from undergraduates than they have received, and there are literally scores of undergraduates in my judgment, who, in the years to come as they look back on opportunities neglected, will regard this special neglect with particular regret. They will have wakened up too late to the pretty obvious proposition that all great things belong to youth and to youth's idealism, and that first and foremost amongst the idealistic instincts of youth, greater even than patriotism, honour and love, come the primary idealism and instinct of religion. They will not easily hear later in smaller cities, thinkers as eminent and characters as sound, as they are neglecting now. . There are other virtues, as there are many vices, peculiar to the present times. There is much less hypocrisy in the worldg much more franknessg people say what they think, even such thoughts as would have shocked their ancestors. It is best that they should. It is the only means by which a real knowledge of the fundamental needs and qualities of human nature can be ac- quired, hypocrisy and conventional silence hid the realities of life in the seventies from most students. The conservative or orthodox argument was discounted off-hand as hypocrisy and convention 3 any superficial and half-baked heterodoxy passed as philosophy and science, no atmos- phere more fatal to serious thought and therefore to the formation of a sound character can be imagined: it has all gone now practically, thought is free again, and with this freedom of thought disappears the preposterous and calamitous sense in which those words free thought used to be interpreted. The student of to-day is not imposed upon in anything like the same degree as he once was by catch-words that beg the question at issue and darken counsel by phrases ill-conceived and unscientific. The student of to-day has a better chance of thinking soberly, of thinking rightly, of thinking for himself, which is the best reason for his attendance at the University. E201

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i i Ive s L GE - GORDON K, D. ALDERSON XVILLIAM MATHESON Q, ANDERSON Thr rt1,tflf K gust' ulom' YIll l't'j'X Thr NIHIYN UIt'J'I-lllfllll rfvIw1u'o1n'. C'Ile',gfalel CuU1'gI.t1ft'i Yer we are' Collegiate. Slim haled from Ingersoll in 1021 - with a Carter scholarship and fond Born in XViI1l1iDGg twenty YCHYS 5120- ' . ' hopesfwliieli philosophy and Eng- Came from Oakwood C.l. with first 'ie .4 up lish has not dampened. A good Edward Blake scholarship in mathe- 'A friend and a conscientious student. matics and entered Honour Maths. - he has found time for the Philosophi- First class honours every year and Q15 cal Society. the Players' Guild and three Actuarial Society exams. ' the Modern Language Club exeeu- Believes in Foster and four card tive. Next year will see him at suits. Vanity Fair and four-button H.t'.E. Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. sacks. his profs. and four dimensions, and College Humour four Weeks a month. Day-dreams, night-hawks and stokes a ponderous Dunhill. Member of Psi Delta Psi Fraternity. ELIZABETH JOSEPIIINE ALLIN MARION RUTH APPLEBE Su1l1I1l,lIi'f!i'4l', xor0n1pox4'1I11 mind. Never known to worry. Elizabeth does everything at the logical time. An A.A.A.S. scholarship in mathe- matics and physics is one result. W'e prophesy that she will discover something remarkable in the future but to her friends she is noted for il dimpled smile, patience and Sanity. M. and P. executive and head girl ill No. U. KENNETH E. ALLEN Il iv 71Of ,qrnivizzg like U Ire? In hulk, doth mulci' men lwllw' iw. Achieved prominence for the first time in Dunnville, December, 1002. After the usual preliminary training Ken entered XVelland High School from which he matriculated. Four years at Varsity complete the record of his scholastic education. Having journalistic ability, it is lliltllffll he was il member of the 102-l l'lIl'YI.f-V staff. RACHEL MAE ANDERSON E1'v1z lliouglz T'lIl1ljIlf.W11l l1 Shi' raw 111114116 .x!1ll. A native of Toronto. Rae's interests at Varsity, apart from study, were in gymnastic work, being one of the pioneer members of the P.T. diploma course and winning her T in baseball. Also warbled with the Glee Club for three years. Energetic, determined. with an analytic mind and :L sense of humour. For Z0 know lim' belief I5 Im! I0 low' her more. Born in Detroit, Marion showed her good judgment by early moving to Canada. After attending Havergal she came to University College and took advantage of the opportunity to display her executive ability as vice-president of her second year. Her four years at College have left an impression of a vivid and charm- ing personality. A. EDXVARD ARCHIBALD , Hlrlifflll' ilxvlf .srapes no! ralznnniozls Slrolces. Among Areh's qualifications for a place with Newton and Descartes are: a variable aptitude for mathe- matics, a stern advocacy of longer skirts, and a pronounced antipathy to prulliliitions. PERCY THOMAS ARMSTRONG I 1lor1'! reroIZf'r'l arzylhirzg Ilia! I l1am'fo1'go!1vn. Born in Toronto, 1903. After spend- ing five years incarcerated in Hum- berside Collegiate, where he showed his wares as a student, Pere came to University College to study commerce and finance. In spite of this, he has found time to interest himself in photography, rowing, wrestling, and skating. He is a confirmed bachelor as a matter of course. I 22 1