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MacKenzie, Bibbs Congratulate Arts FacultyBy PRESIDENT N. A. M. MacKENZIE

• I AM GLAD TO BE able to extend my greetings and best wishes to the students in the Arts Faculty and to congratulat ethem on their energy and initiative in arranging this week 's program of activities and events .You have a long and interesting history and great traditions behind you for the Faculty of Arts is the direct descend -

ant of the medieval universities and it continues to be the centre and heart of every modern university that is worthy ofthe name University .

Applied Science and the professional schools have become increasingly important in the modern world and thei rinfluence upon the classical or orthodox training provided i n our universities is very great . The reconciliation of thesesometimes contradictory trends is one of the most difficult problems confronting educationalists everywhere . I believe,however, that this problem will be solved and I am convince d that the study of the humanities, liberal arts and the pur esciences will continue to be of great importance and great value in the future .

THE ARTS UBYSSEY

By RICHARD BIBB S

• NO PLEASANTER task could fall to an AMS president

than to congratulate the Artsmen on their enthusiasm

and energy this year . Arts Week is showing the campus that

our largest faculty is taking its part in student activities with

spirit and taste . Particular praise is due Arts for supportin g

their claim to be "men of culture " by inviting Mr. Robesonto speak to us .

• ARTS WEEK pep dance sponsored by the Arts Under -graduate Facultyq as a special Arts Week feature will

take place as scheduled Friday noon in the Brock Lounge ifthe street car strike is cancelled by Friday .

Unusual entertainment Is pre-sented under the sponsorship ofthe Arta executive as a highlightfeature of Arts Week .

Fourteen pieces of Western Ai rCommand Band will be at theBrock Friday, January 12, from12:30 to 1 :30 to play for the noon-hour pep dance . There is no guar-antee that Joe Micelli will pla y"Annie's Cousin Fannie . "

The program includes a sotig an done or two yells calculated tomake every Arts student bubblewith faculty spirit. Don't be shygirls, there are lots of Artsmenand they will be there.

Every effort is being made tocontinue this pep dance.

The executive feel that a get-to-gether such as this would makeup for other events postponed be -cause of this emergency.

Admission will be by studentpasses which must be displayedat the door . Admission for Sot-encemen will be $1 .00

Artsmen Plan Friday Noo n"Pep" Dance Featuring Micelli

Parts Artsman Man oF Many

VANCOUVER, B .C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1945

No. 34

ROBESON SPEAKS TODA YIN UBC AUDITORIUM• THE SCENE IS universal .

Whether in Prague or London ,

Vienna or Moscow, New York or

Madrid, Dublin or Oslo, it is the

same. The great throng of peoplesit enthralled by a man who cap-tivates them with a magical charmand loftiness of spirit that defiesdescription . The man is PaulRobeson, as towering a symbol of

human freedom as this generationhas seen .

A man of tremendous physicalstature, he is actor and singer,speaker and lecturer, scholar an dathlete . Truly the twentieth cen-

tury representative of the Eliza-

bethen "man of many parts ."

Robeson's "Othello" Portrayal Reache sPerfection Claims Dramatic Criti c

▪Comes Tuesday

• EDITOR'S NOTE: Plans arein the offing to provide new

facilities and faculties for UBC .their fulfilment will allow the

University to achieve its prope r

place in the community and pro-vince by providing for profes-sional training and leadership i n

fields previously neglected ,

The University has another fun -

Frosh Postpon eClass PartyIndefinitely• FROSH DANCE scheduled to

take place Thursday night,January 11, in Brock Hall, hasbeen posponed indefinitely .

The Frosh executive felt that th elong walk to the Brock woulddampen enthusiasm for the affair,

The date bureau which was se tup for the dance will continue .Freshettes without dates are re -quested to get into contact withNosh Clarke or Teddy Knapp i nthe women's lower common room.

Non-freshmen who wish to at-tend the dance may obtain datesthrough the data bureau ,

Frances JamesWill Sing atUBC Jan. 16• THE SPECIAL Events Com -

mittee of the LSE will presen t

Frances James, distinguished so-prano, Tuesday, January 16, a t

12 :30 in the Auditorium. She wil lbe accompanied on the piano by

Miss Gwendolyn Williams.

Recently Miss James appearedm Washington, D .C., for the

Chamber Music Guild as the firstexchange artist under a new gree-

ment between the Guild and a

Canadian Committee heacfed bySir Ernest MacMillan .

ction to fulfull, the function o fcreative research in scientific and

social areas. The report on this

page admirably shows the divi -dends of scientific research evenon a small basis . Provision for so-cial and scientific research is an -other major gain for UBC that w ehope to see forthcoming from th edeliberations of the B .C. Legisla-ture,

By GERALD NEWMAN• IN THE history of the writer' s

theatre-going experience, ther ehave been few productions whic hhave touched upon relative per-fection: but the production of"Othello" currently playing atthe Strand is one of them .

The staging of the play, whic hwas composed of a Whit-stagewith a permanent set, used forboth Interior and exterior scenes ,and a for-stage being formed bythe curtaining of the rear portionwas admirably handled in an al -most Elizabethan manner . The in-cidental music, perhaps slightl ytoo modern for the ghost of Pur-cell, created an excellent back-ground for the drama .

EXCELLENT INTERPRETATIO NThe actors were no less satisfy-

ing than the machinery with whichthey worked. Othello, which wasplayed by Mr . Paul Robeson suit-ed our conception of that charac-ter as very few interpretationsof any character have in the past .Mr. Robeson's conception of th eman was precisely that of Dr . C .H . Hereford .

Othello is too magnanimous, to oself-confident, and too devoid ofpenetrating subtlety of brain, tograpple successfully with a diffi-cult situation .

"IAGO" OUTSTANDIN GIago, which was played by Mr .

Jose Ferrer, a native-born Cubanincidentally, is probably the out -standing character in particular .

By this statement we do notrnpan, however, that Mr . Ferrer'sacting was superior to Mr. Robe -son's : lago is the villian and forsome unexplained reason human-ity sides with the villain . Therehas been some criticism of Mr .Ferrer's performance on t h eground that at times his Iago wasnot subtle enough to completel yfool Othello. But did not Cassiu sand Antony dupe Brutus succes-sfully and cannot Brutus be com-pared with Othello ?

Unfortunately the role of Des-clemona, played by Miss Uta Hag -en, suffered In the opening scenes ,as Miss Hagen had a bad cold . To-ward the latter part of the play ,however, this difficulty was over -come and her scenes with Othelloespecially the death scene, were,in all sincerety, magnificentlydone .

SUPPORTING PLAYERSMr. Ralph Canton as Cassio and

Mr. Francis Compton as Brabanti ogave truly expert performancesin the true Shakespearean man-ner: we should like very muchto see them both in larger parts .Emilia was portrayed by MissEdith King, who was, however ,too much a product of the Amer-ican stage to be completely en-joyed .

There remains one importan t

point to be mentioned, one not di-rectly concerned with drama .

Since the middle of the last cen-

tury, the dainty hypocrisy of pop-ular morality has shuddered at

the thought of a member of th eNegro race playing opposite a

"white" woman .

As the original Othello playedin France during the seventeenthcentury shattered a decadenttrend in French drama, so Mr.

Robeson is helping to shatter a

decadent racial prejudice and ishelping magnificently .

• TO THE fireside news analys twar still seems to be con-

cerned with the ebb and flow of avast body of men across a line o nthe earth's surface . To the hyper -efficient little bureaucrats wh oare always with us the war i sbeing properly prosecuted only ifthe air is full of pieces of paperbearing the right date stamp an dfile number. However, to the av-erage man, it Is becoming increas-ingly clear that this war, what -ever its numerous origins, con on-ly be fought in one way—and tha tis by employing every possibl escientific principle and technolog-ical advance against the enemy .It is equally clear that scientifi cbrains and many peace-time prob-lems have somehow been kept a -part in the past . It is not merelythe urgency of war which hascalled forth such advances as je tpropulsion, penicillin, magnesiu mfrom sea water, etc . These ad-vances have come principally be -cause governments and industrie sand hospitals have a new faith inthe ability of trained scientific

UBC Library DisplaysFine Art Collection

By LOISE WHITE• A LIBERAL ARTS education demands if not a profound

study of the world's great works of art, at least a noddingacquaintance with the foremost of them . A splendid op-portunity in this connection is offered by the University o fBritish Columbia . Anything you want to know about art isto be found in the library, from pre-historic drawings to non-objective painting . Any country's art worth studying is in-cluded in the files .

For the excellent collection .of

books and reproductions in the li-

brary, we are greatly indebted toMr. Hunter Lewis, Dr . Lamb, MissSmith, and the Vancouver artist,Mr, J . Shadbolt for their foresightand untiring efforts,

BOOKS OBTAINABL EBooks on Art are not widel y

published, and often are very dif-ficult to obtain . Sometimes it isveers before an order for a bookis filled. Just such a book is "TheGrammar of Ornament," a bookwhich was well worth waiting for ,

A real treasure locked in th elibrary vault is John C . Fergus-on's book on noted porcelains . I tcontains the only authentic historyof the ancient porcelain of the Im-perial Palace, an earlier volume onthis subject having been lost. Acommentary in both Chinese andEnglish, side by side, supplementsthe color plates on the oppositepages. The tissue thin pages were

specially treated to endure long

to produce, in dilute form, sub-stances capable of arresting bee -the penicillin groups of moulds ,terial growth . It appeared at firs tas if every bathtub in Englandwould have to be turned over t ogrowing penicillin in order to pro -duce enough to cure even on epatisnt of a severe infection . Per-haps being an Australian save dFlorey. Far from being appalle dby this prospect, he at once setabout building up a team of re -searchers, one to find the bestmethod of growing the fungus ,another to increase its yield of"penicillin"—its active principle ,and others to harvest it and purif yit for human consumption .

Hitler's march into Vienna ha dbrought Florey's laboratory a tOxford a man of rare ability i nenzyme chemistry. The blitz onEngland had sent Florey's threeyoung children to America, sothat his wife, also a doctor, wa senabled to spend all her time i nthe laboratory . Medical studentsbecame a rarity, so that teachers

(Cont'd, on Page 3 )

Frances James . .

ARTS EDITORIA LBy GORDON CAMPBELL

• THE ARTS UNDERGRADUATE executive has concern:ed itself with the 1800 Artsmen who contribute $23,00 0

annually to the AMS coffers . Individually, an artsman re-ceives benefits like other students; collectively as a facultythey receive little .

The overwhelming success of the fall Arts pep meet ha sdemonstrated that the "sleeping bear" is wide awake . Twicerepresentations have been made to the Students' Counci lwithout success to have this energy channelized into some -thing worth while and constructive on,the campus .

Since inter-University activity is impossible in thes etimes there is a need for strong Faculty activity to replac eit . University courses, are not designed to provide everything.And if faculties pass this opportunity by, some other groupwill certainly arise to usurp it, Fortunately, the fraternitie sand sororities would be first to admit that greater activit yon their part on the campus would be ruinous to themselvesand to campus politics .

Arts Week has aimed at a new high in campus enter-tainment. It was just bad luck that the first street car strikesince 1919 should happen this week, Despite these difficultie swe have carried on in the hope that this beginning will lea dto something constructive for the future .

noteworthy amongsets on file are the "Studio YearBook of Decorative Art," L'His-toire de L'Art," and the Propylaencollection of the world's finestworks of art .ART MAGAZINES SHOWN

Current art magazines to be hadin the library review new exhibl-tions and discuss new trends incontemporary art. Timely sub-jects, like the army art exhibitreviewed in the April-May, 194 4edition of "Canadian Art" are pre-sented to the reader .

This art collection is a privilegenot to be missed .

after other books in the libraryhave turned to dust.

"The Vanity Fair Portfolio o fModern French Painting is on eof the most fascinating piecesin the collection: "Modem Am-erican Painting" Is another .Both are folios of large colou rreproductions with biographica lsketches of the artists repre-sented.Especiall y

Scientific Research Plays Decisive Role in Life

By G. BERTRAMminds to give us something bet -ter in a hundred different fields .In addition, scientists have aban-doned the academic pose of the"nicely balanced view" and theivory tower for a more humaneand progressive type of scientificendeavor, It is no longer "low -brow" to be engaged in useful re -search !

The story of the developmen tof penicillin for human use wel lillustrates what great human ben-efits may come even from piti-fully small expenditures on re -search . In 1936 a former Rhode sScholar from Australia set out t ostudy the antibacterial potency o fall known moulds . He was not dis-heartened by the enormous tas kand the comparative failures i nthis field In the past. He askedfor and received from the Rocke-feller Foundation $1280.00 for ap-paratus needed in the separationof the anti-bacterial substancesproduced by various types o ffungus . With this apparatus How-ard Florey addressed himself towhich Fleming, in 1929, had shown

EDITORIAL PAGE . . . .

. . . . THE UBYSSEY . .

UBC Spirit JANUARY 11, 1945

IN DEFENCE . . .

OF THE ARTSMAN

The war has limited most inter-university competition, and thus spirit a tUBC is at rock bottom. There is only oneway possible to revive this spirit—that is byinter-faculty spirit . Inter-faculty spirit no tonly increases the importance of his ownfaculty to the individual, but also reveals t ohim the aims and ambitions of the othe rfaculties .

If a student who believes he possessesonly faculty spirit should visit a city wher eanother university is prominent, he willuphold the entire university, not only hi sown faculty. A man cannot take four yearsat UBC and not be proud of it—if he wer eashamed of it he would have stopped befor ehis four years were up or seek anotheruniversity more suited to him .

When council suspended all Arts func-tions including the Arts-Aggie, due to lackof spirit, it provided the spark that rekindle dall the enthusiasm most Artsmen have—buried though it may be. Elections were

Closely related to the question of fed-eral jurisdiction over education, recently de -bated by the UBC Parliamentary Forum, i sanother vital and perhaps more immediatelyrealizable project, i .e ., The Establishment o fa National university for Canada .' Two ancillary questions arise :

Should such a University be situated atthe great portal to the Orient—at Vancouv-er, the home of the UBC? In the secon dplace, might not this National Universityultimately become one of the important af-filiated units in an International or Worl dUniversity that conceivably would functionas the intellectual correlate of a revitalize dpost-war League of Nations or similar or-ganization designed for maintenance of th e"peace, order and good government" of th eworld !

A. CHARACTER OF THE NATIONALUNIVERSITYMajor attention was given to the first

of the above questions (the primary questionof establishment) in a panel discussion re-cently conducted by the teacher trainingclass of UBC. The subject was defined a sfollows :

The establishment in Canada of a Na-tional University open only to highly qual-ified graduate students, selected by th esponsoring universities, and capable of doingadvanced research work ; this National Uni-versity to be financed by the Dominion andProvincial Governments and administere dby a National Board of University Gov-ernors free from politics. the proposed Uni-versity would probably absorb the presentNational Research Council. It should at-tract and retain in Canada the best type o fgraduate student as well as conduct researc hin such fields as :—public administration;aeronautical and other branches of engineer-ing; radio activity; meterology ; industrial ,agricultural, and health projects ; educption-al administration ; and social sciences .

In the brief space available it is not pos-sible to do more than summarize argument sadvanced by members of the panel .

B. PROBABLE ADVANTAGES OF ANATIONAL UNIVERSITY(1) Finance—This should be adequate .

the Federal and Provincial Governments a swell as by scholarships, on a large scale, fo rdeserving and highly competent studentswho might otherwise be financially handi-capped .

Since the Dominion Government has theultimate taxing power ; since the majorit yof the provinces are unable to support uni-versity education adequately ; since univers-ity fees should be reduced rather thanincreased if universities are not to becom ethe special preserve of the sons and daught-ers of the wealthy; since education, especial-ly research, is a matter of national concer n—it is essential that the Federal Governmentshould materially assist in financing th eproposed university .

(2) More Efficient Leadership in aca-demic, scientific, political, and administra -

Co-ed : Did I ever show youwhere I was tatooed ?

Boy friend (hopefully) ; No.Co-ed : Well let's drive down

that was .

r n * *According to a dispatch from the

Agricultural Department a wholefestive apiary got tight on a bush -el of cider apples. "Ilow cloth th ebusy little bee - -

held and an executive of the Arts Under -graduate Society was formed . This executiveput on a very successful pep-meet judgin gby the response of the crowds of studentsattending .

The executive then decided that as thisfirst pep-meet was so successful, there shoul dbe another in the spring term, The ide agrew and Arts Week is the result. It ishoped that Arts Week will become an annua laffair as it is a means of increasing the in-definable thing called "Arts Spirit" .

The Arts faculty containing more thanhalf of the students at UBC should be animportant factor in university spirit as awhole . After the war when inter-universitycompetition again comes forth (probably ona larger scale than ever before) UBC spiritmust be strong. It is up to each one of us—in Arts as well as other faculties—to keepUBC ' s spirit alive in these ' war yearsthrough faculty spirit .

By Dr. G . M. Weir

tive fields will be especially desirable inpost-war Canada. In great measure thes edesiderata can be developed by means of aproperly equipped and financed nationaluniversity .

(3) National Unity—The promotion o fmuch needed national unity by dissipatingprejudices arising from parochial attitude sof private and provincial institutions is de-sirable. Greater mutual understanding andsocial solidarity—between East and West ,French and English-speaking Canadians,sectarian groups, labour and capital—shoul darise from a more objective and scientifi capproach to the solution of Canadian prob-lems based on social need rather than o nthe foibles of petty groups "warring in thebosom of a single state."

(4) Adult Education—A National Uni-versity might well become the nerve centr efor the development of a more co-ordinatedand comprehensive programme of adult edu-cation and for consolidating various agenciesbest designed to promote this objective, e .g. ,a national library, national art gallery on atruly national scale, national theatre, na-tional conservatory of music, recreationa land health programmes, radio and televis-ion, and similar projects . Leadership in thepromotion of rehabilitation and reconstruc-tion measures should thereby become in-creasingly available ,

(5) Student Personnel—Our best stu-dents would not need to go abroad in suc hlarge numbers as at present to attend for-eign graduate schools; while more foreignstudents would be attracted to Canada . Anincreased efficiency, inspiration and dignit yfor the teaching profession on all levels, aswell as for other professions, should therebybe achieved .C. POSSIBLE, RATHER THAN

PROBABLE, DISADVANTAGE SThese might be summarized as follows—

Dangers from "nationalization" of education ;stripping provincial and private universitiesof their leading professors; possible "com-mercialization" of education through relativ eoveremphasis on industrial as comparedwith social research ; dangers of allegedwasteful duplication of research and grad-uate studies ; possible domination by themore populous central provinces .D. LOCALE OF NATIONA L

UNIVERSITY : VANCOUVER ?Vancouver, owing to its climatic and

scenic attractions, as well as to its strategi clocation at the terminus of the world's greatthoroughfares between Europe and thisContinent, on the one hand, and the teemingmillions of the Orient, on the other, mightwell be chosen as the most suitable locatio nfor the National University! Indeed the cen-tral provinces conceivably would com-promise on Vancouver as the most accept ..able site available and at UBC — the in-fant among Canadian Universities in pointof years but not of attendance or quality' o fachievement—as the fitting nucleus of agreat Canadian University worthy to rankwith the most famous educational institu-tions of the New World or the Old !

Dear Dorothy Dix :

Should a father of fifty marry

again ?

Dear Sir :

No, you've had enough now .

*professionalism

in scienceBy DR. A. P. MASLOW

• ONE OF THE socially signi -ficant features of modern civ-

ilization is the growth of profes-sionalism in science . This profes-sionalism has contributed greatlyto the progress of science, but, asA, N. Whitehead, a contemporar yBritish philosopher, points out, ithas also created some serious newsocial problem. "The dangers a -rising from . . . professionalism,"says Whitehead, "are great, par-ticularly in our democratic socie-ties . The directive force of reasonis weakened. The leading intel-lects lack balance, They see thisset of circumstances, or that set ,but not both seta together . . .In short, the specialized functionsof the community are performedbetter and more progressively,but the generalized direction lacksvision . The progressiveness In de -tail only adds to the danger pro-duced by the feebleness of coor-dination . "

With the increase of specializa-tion and the growing complexit yand changeableness of modernlife, each specialist comes Ito par-aphrase Bohr) to know nwre andmore about less and less, whilethose people who try to grasp thecomplexity of contemporary lif eand give it a sense of directionseem to know less and leas aboutmore and more. One of the verydistressing results of this situationis the series of world wars conduc-ted with more and more scientif-ic efficiency and with lees andless clearness as to their signifi-cance. Of course, professionalismin science is not the only factorresponsible for our present socialplight . There are other Importan tfactors involved, such as the econ-omic, political, religious and mora lcauses . But science Is the mostcharacteristic feature of our mod -ern ivilizatlon, It has played amajor role in shaping it, and hasa large share of responsibility fo rIts present confusion .

There are two important prob-lems involved here. First, thereIs the problem of bringing the sep-arate sciences into some sort ofintellectually comprehensible un-ity. And, second, there is theproblem of the direction of huma nlife in the world of growing com-plexity for which science is main-ly responsible . The second prob-lem, however is not the concernof science alone, especially sinc eit involves the question of huma nvalues . The connection betweenknowledge and values is ver ysubtle and obscure, and cannot b edealt with here . I shall, however ,say something regarding a possiblesolution of the first problem .

The reed of unifying science ha sbeen felt from the very beginnin gof modern science in the 17th cen-tury, and several attempts havebeen made to satisfy the need . Forexample, in the 18th century, th eFrench Encyclopedia was the pro -duct of an important cooperativ eeffort to coordinate the scientifi cactivity of the time. AugustComte's "Positive Philosophy" andHerbert Spencer's "The System o fSynthetic Philosophy" representwell-known attempts made in thi ssame direction in the 19th century .But of more immediate interest t ous is the contemporary movementa in o n g philosophically mindedscientists and scientifically mind-ed philosophers to bring some in-tegration into the scientific ac-tivity of our day . This movementfinds its organized expression inthe yearly International Congres sfor the Unity of Science, the firstof which was held at the Sorbonnein 1935. The purpose of this move-ment is indicated by the followin gextract from an authoritative dec-laration, "The extreme specialize .,tion within science demands as itscorrective an interest in the sci-entific edifice in its entirety. Thisis especially necessary If scienc eis to satisfy its inherent urge forthe systematization or Its resultsand methods, and if science is toperform adequately its education-al role in the modern world. Sci-ence is gradually rousing itself forthe performance of its total task,"The Third International Congress ,in 1937, was devoted to the plan-ning of "The Encyclopedia of Uni-fied Science," a work whose pur-pose is "to bring together mater-ial pertaining to the scientific en -

terprise as a whole, The wor kwill . . . be a series of monograph s

. , each . . . devoted to a particu-

lar group of problems . The col -

laborators and organizers of thi s

work are concerned with the an-

alysis and interrelation of centra l

scientific ideas, with all problems

By DR. S. A. JENNINGS• THE CURRENT attempt to

develop a spirit among Arts -men comparable to that which isfound among members of othe rfaculties is praiseworthy in so fa ras it is directed towards arousin gamong the students of this, th elargest faculty, a lively sense ofthe responsibilities of student self -government . It is my belief, how -ever, that attempts to go beyon dthis will be frustrated by the na-ture of the Arts Faculty itself .The average Artsman does no tfeel, and should not be expectedto feel that loyalty and enthusiasmtowards his faculty which causesthe Scienceman to avow that heis capable of drinking more beerthan any miserable Artsman . Adiscussion should make it clearwhy Artamen cannot be expectedto have that feeling of unity whichmost members of professionalschools enjoy .

Consider the situation in a pro-fessional course such as AppliedScience : a common curriculum forseveral years, everyone taking thesame sublets in the same class-rooms at the same time; everyone(or almost everyone) graduating

dealing with analysis of sciences ,and with the sense in which sci-ence forms a unified encyclopedic-al whole ." As a nucleus for thisEncyclopedia, twenty monographswere to be published dealing within the individual sciences and inscience as a whole . The war, ofcourse, has interrupted this work .Nevertheless, ten of the mono -graphs actually have appeared,the last one in October, 1944, andthe rest, we may hope, will followin due time . Any of the publishedmonographs may be obtained fro mThe University of Chicago Press ,at the price of one dollar each .There are a few copies of one ofthese monographs in the UBCBook Store.

No one, of course, can foresee

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with a big red B.A.Ss . as a signof the fact that he has at last be -come an ENGINEER! Small won -der that sciencemen feel a unityamong themselves, a sense of be -longing to their faculty that lastslong after graduation .

Contrast this situation with tha twhich exists in the Arts Faculty .Here we find no uniform curricu-lum. The student chooses his cour-ses to suit his own ends: the em-phasis is upon individual tastesand needs . In the properly bal-anced Arts course professionalis mis in the background, a liberaleducation the enduring aim. Theloyalty of the Artsman is to hisintellect, rather than to his fellowstudents.

There can be no excuse for anArteman's failure to assume hisresponsibilities towards his facul-ty and his Alma Mater, no excusefor the apathy and neglect of thepast . Let us, however, appeal tothe Artsman as an individual, ra-ther than as member of a group.For if the Arts Faculty is fulfillingits function, the typical Artsmanwill be a{t Individual first, and amember of his group afterwards .

how far this movement will suc-ceed, but at least it is a well de-fined and determined attempt,made in the right direction, at th esolution of the first problemraised by professionalism in sci-ence. Unfortunately as much can -not be said of our second problem,that of the direction of humanlife in the modern world. Thislast problem is both more impor-tant and more difficult than thefirst, and there is very little, i fany, agreement as to its possiblesolution. Perhaps It is the mostimportant and difficult problem ofour time. Fortunately for me ,however, lack of space precludesme from attempting to discussthis subject here .

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ARTS UBYSSE YI.ssued by The Arts Undergraduate Society in this special edition .

EDITOR . . . SIDNEY FLAVELLE

EDITORIAL BOARD . . .Gordon Bertram, Booty Hebb, Loise White, Bruce Yorke

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r men of the Services are looking to men and women of the U.B.G.

for 2,000 PINTS OF BLOOD• This campaign is an inter-faculty competition . Fill in the attached pledge and help your faculty over th e

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THE UBYSSEY, JANUARY 11, 1945 — Page Thre e

Personal Patter• YOU CLOWNS may not have realized it—or maybe yo u

have—that there 's more attraction to Varsity than classe sand labs. There's that popular pastime of dangling in th eCaf, gabbing in the social wing of the library, even strollin gon the mall . There are meetings, practices, social activities —tea dances, ball games, tournaments, pep-meets—in fac tthere 's a wealth of opportunity to sport new ensembles—consequently our campus has become quite the style centre

• HAND ME DOWN MY WALKING CANE—It takJs more than on estrike to retire these UBC Coeds, who dine amid the usual Caf muddl e

Wednesday . A shortage of Caf workers is being relieved temporarily b ystudents who mop tables, sweep floors, and help in the kitchen betweenlectures.

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We'ce been admiring BAGSJONES' kilt—the genuine thing .All measurements were sent tothe boy-friend somewhere in Scot-land and this is what happened. , . People have been wonderingwhere LORNA SHIELDS findsthose socks to match her sweaters. . . and speaking of sweaters, thatgal JOANNE ANDERSON — wh owe feel should be complimente don her amicability about partici-pating in campus activities—cer-tainly has a gay assortment . . .That cute blond Alpha Gomm init-ialed MARGE WEBER says youcouldn ' t possibly find anythingsmarter than the sequin-spanglednumber she whipped up In theHome-Ec lab (we'll believe it whenwe see it) . . . And if we coul dall go to Seattle, maybe we couldlook as chic as LIL McEACHERNin her matching plaid skirt andsweater or LORNA IRVING in herstriking suit of shamrock green. , . . In the accessory line we ar eallagog at the life-like lizard lapelpins made fashionable by PATBORGERSON and DOT WELSH.WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT

. , . . that BILL HACKING wearsyellow suspenders, the envy ofevery Joe College . . . that RO YWHITE would dare to appear 'ina mauve and white polkadot tie, . . that the reason for the BETA'Sconservativeness is 'cause theyburn those lovely Xmas ties . . .That BUZZ WALKER is wearin ga most significant tatoo on his leftarm . . . That TOM KEENLEY-SIDE stepped out of Esquire (we

By ELINOR HAGGART• GILBERT and Sullivan is not

the fulfillment of musical a-chievement at UBC. We shoul dhave more—We could have more!With the situation as it is there isno opportunity to develop musica labilities and talents to enrich ayoung and progressive Canada .Canada has reached that place inher nationhood where she has tim efor culture and the fine arts, bu tthere are all too few conserva-tories and schools of art to pro-duce and encourage this culture .There is an ever growing deman dfor music and musical talent inour own city . Witness the breath-less crowds at celebrity concert sand symphonies! But why is i tthat the majority of the talen tmust be imported? And why d oCanadians with talent have to turnto our neighbors of the south toachieve recognition ?

If a chair of music were to be

hear it can't be done) . . . Thatthere's something attractive aboutblazers and grey flannels especial-ly when ROB FILBERG or KEN -NY the PED happen to be insidethem—and that goes for ELDENUNDERWOOD'S pipe too . .

OUT OF TOWN TALES. , . . PHIL and JOAN GRAHAM

extended their honeymoon overthe festive season up MountTemple way . . . that grad BILLYLANE is expected home shortly onfurlough from an officer's trainin gcourse in the east . . . that MARIECONWAY L E G G sometimesknown as Mrs . Foot will soon em -bark overseas . . . . that ARTJONES and J . T. SCOTT on thei rway to a New York conventionmanaged to contact CHUC KCLARIDGE, PHIL ASHMORE,BUNBUN McBRIDE, DOUG ED -WARDS, JACK MINTY, and BILL(GOOBER) McKINNEY for a ga yNew Year's reunion in Montreal. . . . BAGS MacPHERSON holi-daying in Regina, returned t oschool with great messages fromJ 0 E Y CHENOWETH LIGHT-STONE now residing there . . . .HELEN MORGAN who "bussed "it to Seattle., tells, among othertales, of meeting AmericanizedDOREEN DUGAN, fiancee o fSANDY HAY . . . Banff was theXmas playground of DOUG BEL-YEA, CHUB CAMPBELL, JOHNMacDOUGALL, CORKY KIN Gand GORDY NEELES (who beetl-ed home for a pressing New Year' sEve engagement, There was "pots"of entertainment for all (especiall y

installed at the University it wouldprovide not only an outlet formusical talent in the west, but alsoa centre of culture that would addmuch to the splendor of BritishColumbia.

The University is expanding rap -idly and there is a pitiful lack ofcourses open to the student body .We hear repeated demands fo rfaculties of law and medicine .These are sorely needed . But letus also add music—and its as-sociate arts . Music essentially isa universal need. There is no na-tion that has not had its folk songsand dances. In moments of glad-ness, in times of strife, people turnto music for release. Embryo plan ,ists, soloists, composers, conduc-tors, may walk our campus un-noticed for lack of opportunity toexpress themselves . And Canad amay be losing great artists, wh owould otherwise with the prope ropportunities, training and incen-tive, be hymning her greatness ,and adding to her unity .

pow could this objective be a-chieved? One suggestion has beenoffered that a permanent sym-phony conductor be appointed inVancouver and that his duties alsotake in a chair of music at th euniversity. What an opportunityfor an ambitious and far-sightedperson! To shape and build a fac-ulty of music would present amagnificent challenge. There aremany groups in Vancouver who,if presented with this plan, would,I am sure, approve of it and bac k

it.Then, of course, a supervisor of

musical courses might be appoint-ed to work out a schedule dealingwith the University alone, In th ebeginning stages the young facult ymight have to be associated withsome recognized college or con-servatory until it had worked ou ta satisfactory and promising basi sof study. Finally, in fulfillment,the University in its own righ tcould confer a nationally recogniz-ed and sought-after degree—aBachelor of Music from the Uni-versity of British Columbia .

It is worth thinking over . If youhave any further suggestion tooffer why not come forward andexpress them. It is only in thi sway that we find out what th estudents really want .

Dears ReadersWe would just like to repeat our

motto—that old proverb—"Hear al levil, see all evil, and repeat sameand wish you complications of theseason and thank you for all theintrigue with which you havesupplied us .

Why do those D,G,a insist ondragging their dates to the Roofto watxch their-best girl-friend outwith their man. (an F.O. to bespecific), only to be embarassed.

It seems that fellows fromVanity driving taxis at Xmastime ought to be more discree tin their discussion of Varsitygirls and Zoology 6—especiall ywhen their female passengersARE Vanity girls and theyHAVE taken Zoology 6 .Maybe the name of Sanford Mills

(Cont'd . from Page 1)could now be spared for research .The Rockefellers were persuadedby the determined Australian that$5000,00 at that critical junctur ewould do wonders for the world .After what seemed an unbeliev-able amount of crude penicilli n"soup" had been reduced to afew ounces, the first patient wastreated with this doubtful potio nat the Radcliffe Infirmary in Ox -ford . For lack of penicillin thepatient died . Some wondered ifthe penicillin was worth the strug-gle . With redoubled efforts, Flor-ey's team put out more penicillinthan ever, and at last saved onelife at Radcliffe . The skepticswondered if the patient was notabout to recover anyway.

Florey's next step was to come .to America where large scale pro-duction was the watchword ineverything . He managed to in-terest American and Canadian re-searchers in the problem, and itwas not long until a worker a tthe experimental Farm in Peoria,Illinois, discovered that a by-pro-duct from corn would increase theproduction of Penicillin fifty times .Since that time the status of pen-icillin has increased in every clin-ical field, and daily its life-savin gqualities are being confirmed ,particularly in tropical countries .

This is but one Instance of alittle money going a long waywhen spent on research . Howmany of the millions of diabetic sthe world over realize that Ban-ting's original research in Toronto,which gave us insulin, cost lessthan $10,000.00 Another instanc eis the work of Edwin Cohn inbiophysics at Harvard, Man ywondered if his laboratory reallyjustified itself, as it probed int othe seemingly useless question ofthe complex and unpronounceableproteins in the blood. When thewar came, the military authoritiesran screaming for help to thislaboratory, which, when the dinceased, handed them in pure formthe eight individual proteins whichmake up blood plasma . Thus asafe basis was laid for plasm atransfusions the world over . Pro-fessor Cohn gave us another bloodproduct, for good measure. Heseparated from whole blood, th estringy substance "fibrin" in afoamy state . When moistened withthe purified blood enzyme "throm-bin," the fibrin foam would causeeven the worst bleeding to stopAmong the first cases treated withthe fibrin foam was a boy wh obled for 48 hours after having atooth pulled by a dentist who wa s

not aware of the boy ' s haemophel-

ia . Several blood transfusions

were required to keep the boy a -

live, until Dr . Cohn's magic fibri n

foam was placed in the tooth soc-

ket . In wounds of the liver an d

brain, fibrin foam is making its

greatest contribution, for thes gas -

holds some significance for ourreaders and maybe the date Jan-uary 27 holds more.

It wasn't very embarassing t ooverhear a campus cutie exclaim"Oh, I go out with L.S .'s boy-friend . "

When there's such a shortage o fman-power, why should one fresh-ettte chick have both D.U,'s thrust-ing pins at her and Alpha Doltlegacies thrusting attentions at her .

We regret not having bee ninvited to several of the morejuicy rendezvous this week astook place Saturday night withthat dark Victoria Theta andthat handsome Phl Dell navyLieutenant — The party wascontinued on the sands at th eWashout Monday afternoon a -long with half a dozen cokesand presumably some mixer .

cuter tissues bleed excessively .Packing wounds temporarily with

foreign bodies such as gauze andcotton wool has now given way t othe application of fibrin foam,which being normal physiologicalsubstance, a rapidly absorbed bythe surrounding tissues .

The discoveries so far discussedwill all have peace-time applica-tion of great importance . Thereare many others whose value wil lincrease once this destructive warhas stopped, and peace and plent ybecome our chief concern . Weshall then be able to apply th ewartime advances made in theproduction of magnesium, alum-inum and plywood to our every-day living . But this is not enough .We must set about increasing ourbadly depleted store of basicknowledge from which all grea tadvances have come . The reser-voir which university researcher shave built up over a period ofyears is being rapidly drained.Basic work today has had to giv eway to applications of yesterday'sbasic discoveries .

In a wealthy province such asBritish Columbia there is researc hwork crying out to be done. Ifwe can learn to "farm the sea "as we have done the land, withthe aid of scientific methods, w eshall do agreat deal to increase thewealth of the province .

To return to the subject of med-ical research—the annual cost o fsickness in Canada is several hun-dred times the amount spent oninvestigations on the basic natur eand cause of disease, The time lostto Canadian industry through ill-ness in one year is sufficient tobuild 2700 bombers, or fifty timesthe amount of time lost throughstrikes . Canada has approximatelyas many mental hospital beds asgeneral hospital beds, and yet theamount spent on finding out thecauses of mental disease is nextto nothing. As a country we spen d$36,000,000 a year on patent medi-cines, and yet money for medicaleducation and medical research ishard to raise . It is perhaps Russia' sprohibition of patent medicineswhich has given her money enoughto finance far-reaching program-mes of medical research, whichhave benefited all nations, notablyin blood transfusion, corneal trans-plantation in certain types . o fblindness, bone banks and nerv ebanks .

Dramatic as the results of medi-cal research may seem, they arebut typical of the results whic hmay be expected from all basi cscientific research done in uni-versity laboratories of high stand-ing. To promote scientific investi-gation and to make researchcareers possible for our best minds ,

should be the objective of all edu-

cated people, and in this develop-ment British Columbia must do its

share .

DEAR DOROTHY FIXI am 15 years old, dazzling look-

ing & awfully sophisticated butnevertheless I am not someho wable to hold my man whom I a mfond of which worries me quite .Mendell (my swetie) is 16 years ofage & is very hansum & tall &dashing w h i c h characteristicsthrill me to the marrow—Henc eif you could perchance be of ser-vice I wish you would whic hwould be appreciated by yourstruly no end .

It was really crazy how we met,me & Mendell, & got mutually mad .Ma sent me down to "Booble-baum's Pretzel Heaven" for todrag home the old man like usual& whom I could chin myself onhis breath like usual. Now 'tneHeaven" is a real classy hole—kind of a combination beer & pooljoint at which Sammy Schmatnik& his Bowen Island Hawaiiansmake with the hotsy & HoneySchapiro, the southern aristocratof song sends us one & all withthe singing of songs whilst thosewho wishes to dance of one wantsare permitted as they push thepool tables back & there's lots ofroom galore .

I spots the old man whom iswalking up and down the railingof the bar quite plastered & quicklike a bunny I hollers—"Hey you!—you better get home before theold lady busts your skull openwith a axe" & was ready to slipa leash onto the old blister whenall of a sudden--SOCKO! 1 —Isees big fat stars ,& such & myleft-hand eye swells up as big asa water mellon—I says "Well,we'll get out the red hot pokers &finish the job, Buster—it just sohappens I got my pencils & tin -cup in my pocket."—He says "I' msorry, sister, for practically goug-ing your eya out, hews about let-ting me buy you a beer . "

I says "Don't get gay with me ,fresh guy, I ain't as old as youthinks." Well—one thing leads toanother & he offers to help me lugthe old man home . We are nowharboring great waves of inter •passion & he is treating me cons-tantly all the time to movies &cuddle-phosphates (which is anyflavor phophate with 2 straws )& now & then I'd let him hold mystraw at which he would turn a

• "AND WHAT does that pre -pare you for?" Such is the

terrible question which confront severy student who is inadvertentenough to confess that he has re-ceived, or is preparing to receive ,a liberal arts degree. It is an em-barrassing question-embarrassingbecause it suggests to us the pos-sibility that we have spent, o rwill have spent, four years in edu-cational pursuits which ill fit usto find a useful and remunerativeplace in our economy .SACRIFICE INCOMES

However, admit it we must, forno matter what is said to the con-trary, it is undoubtedly a fact thata great number of students tak ea pure arts course on pain of sac-rificing their future earning pow-er, unless, of course, they entereconomic fields in which their lib-eral arts training is useful only asa background—that is, unless the yspecialize .

Indeed this fact is so universal-ly accepted by arts students that n oattempt is made to rationalize th ecase on economic grounds, but ra-ther is it rationalized on cultura lgrounds. For instance the artsgraduate is fond of saying that,although he is fitted to nothing inparticular, he has at least learne dto think or "reason." Often anartsman will elucidate on the mer-its of the liberal arts course givenat Oxford university, and pointmany great British statesmen ashistoric substantiation for hiscontentions.OXFORD "ARISTOCRATS"

And no doubt his argumen tbears some weight, but it is hard-ly applicable to the general prob-lem for just this reason—that a tOxford the men whereof h espeaks were aristocrats with as-sured incomes, schooled in the artof abstract reasoning, while mostof the universities on this conti-nent are developing the same ab-stract technique among groups o fproletarians who will do thei rpost-graduate work in the schoo lof "hard-knocks . "

The basic weakness of our libera larts course is that it has failed t otake into consideration the econ-omic realities which face the av-erage student when he graduates,just as the bade weakness of ou rscience course is th tt it fails to

violent red & would dig his well -formed toe Into the floor . Themwas the days, Miss Fix, Gee—whizz—& yet I got my memoriesas parting is such sweet sorrowas somebody once said once.

Mendell always had a rovingeye as what man don't—but jus tas long as you don't let it lighton anything it don't matter much—but along comes a certain girlfriend, of whose name I won' tmention & whom for I now have aadditional one which is being usedin all the best kennels this yea r& filches the little stinker rightout from under my nose (whic hall the boys say Is almost perfectin shape) . This certain double -crossing party, everybody says I snot half as glamorous as yourstruly, thogh I don't like to seemlike I'm bragging or nothing likethat. So when he asks me If I'mstill crazy for him (thinking I'ma beetle-brain & don't know he'schasing around) To coin an ol dphrase-"No" I says, & gives himback his roller-skate key.

"Perfidia" I continues (whichis Spanish for treachery) "Justhow big a cluck do you think Iam, I don't never want to havenothing more'to do with any jerkwhat lets some two-bit answer tothe meat -shortage jump myclaim." He says—"O.K. precious,if that's the way you want it, Iguess I've had it, tho I'm stil lnuts for you no matter what acertain other party of whom I amfond cares to proem" (whichmeans me)—He then wraps up thebox of bon-bons which he brungme, shoves it under his arm, &beats it—tom between rage & re-morse I might add. So I'm just Ina quarry about what decision Ishould decide on, that Is, whetherto lure him back under my spell,for which I have to much pride t odo & besides I'd have to put a pairof blinkers on him to keep himfrom roving the eyes, or let myrival damour have him for whichI have also to much pride . Pleasesolve my deep problem as quickas you can.

"Perplexed "Dear Perplexed

"I suggest putting a dynamitecap in each ear & jamming a hatover your head ."

"Dorothy Fix "

make provision for the acquisitionby the student of a frame of ref-erence in the field of culture andof the social sciences .EDUCATIONAL PROBLEM

The foregoing analysis Is ofcourse rather crude. Yet thesoundest solution yet offered t othe problem derives from economicconsiderations . It has been talkedabout in American educationalcircles for the past three years.Fundamentally it consists of a re -cognition of the need for special-ization in education to meet therequirements of a specialized ec-onomy, tempered by a desire tofurnish a broad cultural basisthrough a liberal arts course.What would actually happenwould be that the High schoolwork of a student and the workhe does at present for his arts de-gree would be accellerated to al -low him to later specialize in aspecific field . This, of course, isthe principle behind the presenttraining in law. A student maytake his B .A. degree and thenserve his time as an articled clerkor in specific law courses—a pro-cess of deriving first of all abroad basis in the liberal arts wit hsubsequent specialization .

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'BIRDS TACKLE WHIDBEYISLAND AIRMEN SATURDAY• VARSITY'S basketball fans are looking forward t o

Saturday night's feature casaba card at the UBC gymwhen the Thunderbirds tangle with the Whidbey Island Nav yFliers from Seattle in the nightcap of a triple-header . Battl-ing in the 8 o'clock contest, Higbies and the UBC Chiefsmatch baskets, while Higbies Inter B's entertain Port Al-berni's All Stars in a 7 o'clock preliminary .

The Navy Flyers boast one of the strongest service teamsin the Northwest, although their record shows only 6 victoriesin 11 games so far this season . But all 5 of their defeats havebeen close, none of them having margins greater than 1 0points .

One of the greatest triumphs was over the Universit yof Washington Huskies in the pre-season schedule, and an -other was over the Fort Lewis Engineers who recentl ydowned the top-notch Fort Lewis Warriors ,

Leading the Whidbey Island hoopers in basket-hangin gis little Lloyd Morse, 5ft . 10 in. cager who was too small toplay hoopla while attending high school . But since joiningthe navy, he has netted 117 points in 11 games for the Flyers .

Coach of the Navy quintet is

Lieutenant J. O. Stephens. He ex-

pects to bring nine players on the

weekend trip to meet the Thun-

derbirds. The starting lineup in-

cludes besides Morse, Don Wil-

liams, Jack Knoff, Jim Wilson, an d

Bob Often .

BASKET CHATTER

The basketball scene at UBC has

undergone several changes with

the coming of the New Year .

. One change findsBruce Yorke

playing for the UBC Chiefs an d

Art Johnson coaching the latter

bunch, having retired from the

active playing ranks . . . Johnson

thus takes over a post that he hel d

previously in 1942 and 1943 . . .

Yorke has been playing exhibition

games with the Birds but did not

accompany them on their tri p

down south . . . . The Birds hav e

made up partially for the loss o f

Johnson by signing Kenny Thomas,

former Higbie star, recently dis-

charged from the Airforce . . .

Kenny is a tricky forward, small ,

and ordinarily has an excellen t

shot . . . The Chiefs who wer e

extremely shorthanded up till

Christmas (they played the Birds

with only 6 men) have signed up

three new men . . . they are Ian

Blake, Jack Cowan, and Bill Mac-

Dowall . MacDowall formerly play-ed with Higbies, while Blake star-

red with last year's Inter B champ-

ions Heather Cubs . . . All three

are dischargees from the Airforce

. . . Gordy Sykes has signed aplayer form for the Higbie Inter-

mediate A team . Gordy thus re -turns to the man who has hadmost to do with his basketballcareer, Ted Milton . . . However ,he has already received his Armycall-up and will have to repor tnext Monday . . . It looks likeGordy may not be around long ,

. . . On the other hand Harry

Franklin has been in town and i ssigned to play with Lauries . . .He expects to be around for abou tthree weeks to take a meteoro-logical course before proceeding t oa position on the Alaska Highway

. . , Also around town recentlywere Harry Kermode and Dav eHayward members of the Thun-derbird team of 1943, which reach-ed the B .C. playoffs only to loseto Pat Bay . . . It is interestingthat the latter outfit defeated Se-attle Alpines in a game in Victori aover the week-end . . . This i sthe same team that doubled th escore on the Thunderbirds on theirrecent trip down south . . . TheBirds chalk up the Pat Bay vic-tory to more experience, the Vic-toria atmosphere, and on the fac tthat the floor they played on i nSeattle was so slippery that theirhigh-powered offensive roll couldnot function properly . . , At pres-ent writing it seems that theHarlem Globe Trotters will not b eable to make an appearance at th eUniversity . . . This is indeed ashame and all those interested i nseeing the hoop wizards had betterstart thinking about their onl yappearance here in the city Thurs-day night at King Edward gymwhen they tangle with the minorleague all-stars . . . From all in-dications Oregon seems to be doin gall right in the Pacific Coast Con-ference . . . It will be interestingto see how they finish in the fina lstandings as it will give an in-dication as to the possibility offuture Thunderbird participatio nin the Pacific Coast Conference.

THE UBYSSEY, JANUARY 11, 1945 — Page Four

EDITORIALBRUCE YORKE, SPORTS EDITO R

• THE RECENT showing of Varsity teams, particularly th ebasketball aggregations, dispels what little doubt there

was as to our actual playing calibre, but there is still con-siderable hesitancy on the part of the students to activelypromote sports on this campus . The big problem in pro-motion is, of course, finance . At present the only bodieswhich are in a position to do the necessary promotion arepowerless as far as money is concerned . It has always beenthe case that the president of the MAA and WAA are nothin gbut administrators for the treasurer, with no real executiv epower.

. Under the present set-up athletics in general are handledunder the pass feature set-up which means that the MADand WAD have not the power to charge money for athleti cevents, and incidentally, receive no record for the entertain-ment they perform . If the MAD and WAD were given theaverage amount of money spent on sports in the last fiv eyears and allowed to proceed on their own initiative th ecumulative effect could result in tremendous increase drevenue for the University which could build the suitabl egyms, stadiums, and other needed buildings .

If we are to gain our position in the sports picture o fthe Pacific Northwest it is essential that the MAD be givena free hand to finance and promote all sports on the campus .

• SATURDAY MORNING two Varsity grass hockey teamswill engage in their first battle of the season in a big

field day at Memorial Park . Playing coach Helen Matheso nand her two teams of stick-enthusiasts will invade the grassypitch at 49th and Fraser with every intention of defeatingtheir opponents .

The senior team this year has a good chance to brin ghome the silverware to their Alma Mater for they have notyet lost a game . They were however, once seriously threat-ened by their younger sisters the Freshettes, who the ydowned only 1-0 after playing a 10-minute overtime period .The more experienced seniors were greatly handicappedin their style that game because of a muddy playing field,so the freshettes more experienced mud-babies proceeded t ogive the confident seniors a set-back .

Marg Watt, starry centre forward on the senior team ,with the help of the rest of the forward line is expected togive the opposing goalie a stiff workout, while the Bea Inch-Helen Matheson defence combination will make it difficul tfor any prolific goal scoring. Big things are also expectedof the freshette teams who boast of some well known highschool stars . Yvonne French and Marg Gamey, capable half-backs will keep the forward line well supplied with chance sto shoot, while June Wilson and Kay Robinson will en-deavour to fend off rallying counter attacks .

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