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

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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.

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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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f N 1' 5 1 Q ', g onlA'gol.T I-:G-g -Q, College! College! Raw! Raw! Raw! A Day in the Life of a Typical Freshman las Seen by Onlooker OJ 8:30 a.m. tAurea Mediocritasj. Then came the yawn-OOOOunkhaaak. liionerortlaterf-mtostly later: Oh, hthelbert, hurry now, your Einstein class gms in en mmu es. qi:1Itg1el3ert,.xx'ith nioltteiis roagng :ind tallskid,dragginggtaxis downstairs mic a . y us in -ow. ear t e et er stream, blats his Monovox. After iso- lating an atomic volume of protein out of something resembling cement he extracts the square root of a minus quantity of tea out of a red hot iron, re- tort at N. T. P. With reckless abandon, and with absolute disregard for the abstract theory of eggscration, he seizes his recipe book and sketching pencil. VVith ponderous str1des,. his locomotive appendages land him in the middle of Yates Street. He espies Faka s new Front XVheel drive advancing in reverse at the terrific rate of seven legs per second. He puffs his trusty howitzer vociferously for one-tenthvsecond, and spreads a dense smoke screen, causing Taka to stop at point Nearly wrenching the door off its trolleys, he jumps into the Grumble Eeatbwitxh Taka. ublgtd to see ya, Taka, ole boy. l-low come you're driving eizolac Iwardsutoday. . , , k. 1 got tired, takin these corners on three wheels, so I thought Id try ta in' em on two. lScene shifts to the, gravelly southern slope of the Portcullisj. U 1 - . Q . . . uBetter leave room for Mr. Gage to pm his Star to this hltchmg post. j5ez you. I sure need to get on the right side of that Prof anyway, 'cause I Cant PFOVC that ermf'tan theta equals Cuthbert over Oswald. Espying his :WP l:l'3tQl1.2 just in tipiekto hear what this old Einstein bozo has to say about ync romzmg a arm c oc s. .Pflfter rushing through the.box office without noticing the eggs in the UIC CS. these two young freshies are shocked and abashed when some curly- headed imp tells them assembly is all over. Groans of piety emanate from their crest-fallen gills as they bluster, Foiled. Fglithelbert hides his shame under the bluffet in the lower lounge tllooni SJ. Mpeg with the determination of a lumbricus, he mounts the musical stairs to e freek amphitheatre, or, as some smart sophs properly misnamed it, the ,glllrlesflllfh Barracks. On the second floor our hero is familiarly knownas f lpportunttyf' All is silent, except for the tittering and snoring descending lf0m,the library. Opportunity suspects an ambush from the water-bomb '05 S. so he darmgly knocks. The door is flung wide by Success, who greets him with loud and hardy jeers and How in health are ya? VVith ffllllvoczal repartee Opportunity finds air enough in his fountain pen to ar- lve at it ie illusion: ls vour wife entertaining todav? Not very. I HTil.11e passes, but a well-directed shot with .-X Kindergarten Ovid fails 'U 'ffl-Z'5lCf. Our hero regains self-conciousness at ll :59 a.m. tfkvant Mangerl, llpflleniits groans of dire despair as the Professor plasters extra homework H e cocoon fiends. 43 X J