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GREGORY CLARK, IN TIIE STAR WEEKLY
Vii 'sit • :- ie c ' • hats
i, men la not lift their is s
Y.
to their memorial tower.
They are too practical for such os-
turing'.-There is the school of prac-
tical
iae-tical science and -the various-collebes
1
of the practical arts, and the several
P -t3
institutes of practical theology.
Toronto University -- sometimes
known as the University of Toronto=.
ispL'actical extolas the people ef'
Y o1
P
Ontario asa whole are practical.
But with so beautiful a memorial, so
nb
ripe for practical symbolism, it is an•
y
believable that some form or tragi-:
tion has not as yet shown -itself at
Varsity,
The tower joins University ,College
1 4
.to Bart House. It straddles .one of
the few roads khat, serve the univer-
sity grounds. At the foot of the tim-
er, in, a sort• of cloister, is -a wall on
which are carventhe names of the
,619 Varsity men who are buried in
shallow'. graves,, scattered over Rel—
giant and France, _
Ofe tradition is imposed
on the.
students ley the builders ,of? the tower
er. Everyone has to walk on foot to
pass ,under • the tower. `-No, .wheeled
traffic may pass. •:There was the -hope
doubt, inhe :earns ,he`
no do t h of t wild-
Ir.
ers that by causing the students • who
use this mainhighway' within the un-'
iversLty• grounds to go on foot,' they
would' be. forced to go slawly enough.
to see the tower and the cloister be-
yond it "where swords,their' hilts up-
permost,
P-
permost, guard a fen' hundred names,
But this was too impractical. No
doubt there has been practical resent-
ment that a perfectly good liighevay
should have been closed to traffic in
this age of congestion, At first it
was intended that the passageway
under the Rawer. should :be' kept wide.
open and' free, ands that no physical
barrier but onlyesei tinent would keep
it sacred;-; . It wee not long; however,
until a,plain beerier, such as is tom
nnonly used to keep .traffic from .fel-
ling into a sewer exeavation,,had to
be placed .in. the tower gate. The]
students and professors have beeen
parking their ears, right up against
the tower, the noses of their cars of
'ten poked almost within the cloister.
The university ,newspaper pretested
vigorously against this praetice re-
cently, and last week "No Parking"
signs were placed about the .tower,
A. barrier, and. "No Parking" signal
The Almni Federation of the Un-
iversity built the memorial tower, It
was the idea of those who dedicated
it andhanded it over to .the univer-
sity that the students—there are 5,000
of them—would not merely 'undertake
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;Mit demand the. right to hold the'
meinoi'Jal Services each Armistice Day
and to esta2is customs securing.
t
le-
��uiu s ae i
revereiice so be" t fi l a ym 1e-
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quires..
11t only dothe stlici
ets fail to
0u ,
inssin the taw e not en•,
uncover•. pa a b the v ,
It' hassthere been no tradition aroused
and rather a.sort;or disrespect estab-
lished in the --careless indifference
scars and con. iiowninthe arlcin , of i
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duct in general in the iminediate vt-
e t6 r
cinity of .th Lowe ,,but the 'Alumni
'Federation has railed entirely to in-
terest the stridents, officially and_un=
officially, inthe singiall "1e matter of tak-
ing over the ,-.Memorial service for
Armistice Day.
WAR IS NOTHING TO STUDENTS'
Tris'year's memorial service will
be conducted as usual by the aiuinni.
The students will be •officially'repre-
sented'by the ` University Officers'
Training Corps -a unit of some 840
students.
• "We
once had the hope,"
said.one
of the leading'figuresamongst t -
e al-
umni,
li 1
omni, "that it would become the .duty`
of the5senior class, year after year,
to carry out the : ceremonies at the
tower on Armistice Day."
With the intention of .arousing .in
the students ,some -interest in the
war; there will bethis year, in%,addit-
ion to the eleven o'clock service`•at the
tower on Armistice'Day a meeting 'in
OInvocation Hall 'at-'night,when ad-
dresses will be given on thgpaet Cane.
ada ,played 3n the war•, and the effect.
of the war on world polities.
The aiuumi will be interested to see
how :the students respond to this
meeting. •
Action speaks louder .than • words,
yet tithe yiaexs, of the etudorits are . ini-
portant, •
!What 'is the feolin • of the students
�
as a whole towards the war?" we
asked one of the,n'xost active of the
undorgredeates: •
';What war?'' asked the student,
with pardonable humor,
"Pretty complete indifference,"
was his sincere answer, "But this is.
certianly not peculiar to students. We
aLe merely a peat of thepublic as a
whole in that respect. There has been
.1 should say a complete collapse of
emotional interest in the war. Nee,
body that I know is interested. I ;sec
a Perfunctory gesture on Armistice
Day. Ae forthe rest of the year, it
simply does not enter into daily af-
fairs."
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The ton -
ecce
re
iytixliouid students be expected to
b1Iib$r the war any more than
kjody else'? Yet that expectation
its and , there isc some grounds
itStadeir s re ai, anag'e when
i' is ni 4ittgal to have isa emotional in
terest m life. They are organized,in-
to a body,and• ceremonies, ,parades
andcelebrations come: easily to them.
Aside altogether from the fact that'
they are, students and, therefore, in
duty' bound to;inake themselves aware
of such tremendous facts in history'as
the war, it is somehow in keeping with,
student tradition that they work ;out.
a feritula''for the 'remembrance of
:them e'own : i
almar zter's �'lor •
n y.
"I havetried.," saws'one
ofthe most
actio e 'alumni "tq di a little below,
g,..
the suitace.and $mI, caus"�of this at-
titude
-tit 1e an ongar the under taduatcs.:
find that even as;soon''-as this, the
vat'`lra.': eo ie'ib re' ois
� n n •lienf hu g,,at'all
to' -the undergtaduatc. = They have no
conceptiot>.ot':the parf`Canada played
in -the tir, and ve u S irtl
e conception-
of who' the• War meant to the'histesk
f•
othe world. This'is ;a; tonis'hisig but
literally true"
'The Alumni ,+oder
T ai ton got in tvueh.
with 'one of Canada's greatest soldiers,,
a man unique' in his war and after -the•
-
war performaisces. They wanted hie.
advice and assistance in the-pi'obleni
that (aped them --not in getting rid of
their' responsibility regarding `the
Memorial tower, but in nseeticsg hat
seemed, to then an extrordinary'eon_
dition•amongst,the students.
The great soldier made a very sim-
ple suggestionin'reply
"Might it not be that the returned'
men, due to modesty; on all occas-
ions. belittle
ccas-ions.:belittle -their efforts and ex-per-
'iences overseaes' talking only. of the
amusing and; pleasant''featdres oily"?:.
'The result hes'•lbeeci that' those ,who
died -pot - go:' overseas'are under the,
false impression that a' "good time
was had by all," arid that they missed.
recruits, The 'number of Varsity!
inert and graduates of .Varsity who',
served in the war Was 13,180; half .i
division of intantr 3=
•
But just as Toronto's ' cenotaph
stands alone and - unheeded in Inc
Midst of ,the ;city, Varsity's splendid
tower seems to mean little to the
e
thousands of students who see.it
overt' day.
' If you standand watch the centap:x
n front of the City hall long`enough,i
you will see a few ;salutes:: Mostly!
;elderly men, men incapallle;of affect
,ioc, wi11.-quietly and unostentatigusly,
lift their"'. hats' as they pass the pillar,
There is one unite old�
1 lady who, When
she', a se . lays her � 1? ss s,,hand ' on her
heart—astral e beautiful, g , b ti ttl, stiiutation
surely l
It is a awat 'he Uni .t, -
} t ivtrsa.v novva-
days that3 'start
m' efore a student s
b a t
`a riot; he must secure theP
-resident's
per=mission in 'Writing..
It times have; so`ehanged,dancl
s
o-
brest have `15ecome'.tre 'Powers 'ef
thene authorityat the,rivexsitYr
there Can be, a' •cgs why a n ' s"oix t$ cannot'
be` made a;='law fis : every• stu en `
at-., d t
sl 11 •'uncover `. in' assin -'. he . tower,
?� P, �' t .tw•,
and every` wo1iiati student , shall .lay'
hes hand on,her heart,'P It slioinld he
the. duty of every freshman to stand
and'read,,those (320 names within the
cloister.
There are hundreds of students tak-
ing the course of military' studies hi
place of -some liege deadly fall se-
condary study, No man's military
education may be said to have begun
untie he has stood .sentry lir fair
weather 'and foul,
What is torevent the'Varsit
l)t'
Of-
ficers' Training -:Corps w';hieh drills
and =wears :