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The College
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to the libraries of college and university render efficient study possible.
With such advantages, there should be a great future for the college.
As yet we have been slow in realising our opportunities, but that slowness
was due to a variety of causes. For example, we have diffused our ener
gies, being content to give our best men to Alma Mater, rather than
restrict their activities by insisting on building our own house first. This
is no place for statistics; you will find their names in the handbook, on
class executives, in track and field athletics, in the musical society, and
in the several clubs of U.B.C.
The future appears bright. We have already completed our Stadium
fund quota, in which achievement Science is our only rival. We are
proud to be taking an active part in University life, and hope to do so
more and more. In the year 1931-’32 we shall compete in interciass
events on a really strong basis, if all reports are true concerning our new
arrivals.
In closing, we express the hope that the time will come when we
will be one of a group of colleges on the campus. How the other colleges
will be founded, one can hardly foretell. The inimitable Leacock gives
a hint when he says:
“The Carnegies and Rockefellers and William
McDonalds are the Cardinal Wolseys of today.
McGill University rests largely on a basis of
tobacco.
Perhaps U.B.C.’s colleges will rest on a basis of salmon tins or pulp
wood. First catch your millionaire, and then quote Leacock to him
“Students must live together and eat together,
talk and smoke together.”
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