The Old Clay Patch

This year C.U.C. has celebrated her Jubilee; and in doing so has issued an anthology of College Verses (which we review elsewhere in this issue). On this subject the April number of the C.U.C. "Review" has some words which appeal to us strongly. Substitute for the words "Jubilee Anthology" in the following extract "The old Clay Patch," and you will see our meaning:—

"Undergraduates of to-day! Your College has a past. If you would live your present College life to the full, you must identify yourself with this past. Can you do this? You may at least make the attempt if you possess a copy of the Jubilee Anthology, for you cannot know the best that can be produced in College life if you know your own time only. A history of the College is not enough. That is a skeleton merely. We must have also a history of its ideas, in order to perfect and round the form.

"For is it not an atom in eternity—this College life of ours? The individual may pass on; but, whether we see it or not, he leaves his mark upon the enduring life. Some of the visible marks have been collected and preserved by the compilers of the Anthology. For the spirit of the past might have skipped away in the varied interests of to-day, had it not been embodied in these literary selections now published for you, and for all time, we hope, by the Anthology Committee."

There are still plenty of copies of "The Old Clay Patch" for all who thirst for the waters of the spirit, for the miserable sum of 3/6. Will every student who reads this note get one, if he hasn't already got it'? It is quite worth while.