University of Victoria - Tower Yearbook (Victoria, British Columbia Canada)

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K T Q Y 4,,,,....-.M- ' 'Tl' No more. Just before Christmas the remaining students with lectures at the old Vic College campus picked up books and pens, scarcely felt the hidden gaze of the busts of Goethe and Shakespeare in the auditorium and descended for the last time down the worn steps of the 53-year-old Young Building. With the move from the old Provincial Normal School, another era ended in the 64-year history of the College, which saw four diflerent locations and ceased to exist during the lfirst YVorld Wlar. 'X'ictorizi, College had seven students when it first opened in the print ipal's ollif t- in Victoria High School in iqojg. l ormer diplomat, llr. li, B. Paul, was principal and students, including L7Yicw's first chancellor, llr. li. tlleariliue, took first year university courses alliliatrd with Mt Cill University. 'l'he in-things then 1ii 1 . , apparently were parcheesi and guessing games. Dancing was 'fdeemed wicked. In 1921, local demand forced the College to re-commence, this time as a UBC afhliate, and 89 students moved from Victoria High School quarters to a former soldier's convalescent home at Craigdarroch Castle. There was plenty of spirit for HOld College among the one or two hundred students and less than a dozen faculty at the castle. The Wfednesday noon Pep,' rallies, with wild antics of the rugby team, generated a strong feeling for campus sports. At Christmas 1933, there was a student- faeulty party, where, Yuletide trirnnzings and a sparkling tree laden with ,breseizis for the Faculty fof 121 brightenefl zz room which held such haunting memories of an . . . exanz.

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editorial A N N UH L l923'21l E Victoria Gollege dll Rlflllldol VIII ll. D. BJ VIGTQIII, B. 8. . Tower '67 is the forty-fourth annual published by this institution. The first few, printed in the twenties, were called simply, The Victoria College Annual. In the thirties the yearbook was re-named The Craigdarroch, after the nineteenth-century castle that housed the College, it was given its present name when the College moved in the late forties to the Normal School. When we leafed through some of theiold annuals lwhich, incidentally, are difficult to locatej, we felt a glimmer of sentimentality, particularly when we noticed the Old Collegew spirit and realized that with our gigantic size, we'll probably never have it quite the same again. We discovered that there are loads of interesting facts waiting for some person to gather and write the definitive work on the Collegels history. Some of these facts we have printed in this year's annual, along with reproductions of old photos and write-ups. The intention is simple: to pay a small tribute to our past.

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Q2 it-frm 'yiggg Ili JQQSK xiffgtit ..S' 'A if '75 lil FROSH, SOPHS TOOK UBC COURSES, JOINED ONE OF THREE CLUBS, ALL GOT THEIR PHOTOS IN THE ANNUAL Crowded into the Castle, the students Qwho were either freshmen or sophomoresj took first and second year UBC courses in science and arts. In 1923, the College published its first annual, later called The Craigdarroch. Faculty, including E. B. Paul, P. H. Elliott, A. Cunningham, and VV. H. Cage, and others, could be listed - with photos - on one page, and everyone got their picture in the annual. Only clubs listed in the first annual are the Players, Club, which presented c'Two Crooks and a Ladyj' the French Club, which allowed Second-year students to meet and speak French, and the Student Christian Movement, whose write-up concluded: There have always been many more men at our meetings than ladies. Surely this augurs well for the movement. There were few clubs, but according to the Vic College annual write-ups each one invariably had 'ca successful yearf' In the late twenties, the Literary Society had a mock parliamentary debate, Resolved that comic strips should be abolished from the newspapers. The Players' Club, under the direction of Major Bullock-Webster, presented uCreen Stockings? The , newly-formed Science Club was conducted through the engine rooms of the C.P.R. steamer Princess Marguerite, listened to a talk entitled The Advances in Glider Construction. The other club, the Victoria College Christian Union, decided to conform with the national organization and re-named itself, The Student Christian Movement.