. The Varsity war supplement 1917. The authorities of the College had already decided onerecting on Queens Park a new college, that would be a creditto the University. They felt that with a college doing efficientwork and housed in a worthy building, the Roman Catholicsof the province would gladly second their efforts with financialassistance. This project had to be postponed. St. Michaels hascontinued in the pastand continues to-daywithout any endow-ment, without othersources of revenuethan students fees,solely because themembers of the staffcontribute their livesto the work withoutany moneta
. The Varsity war supplement 1917. The authorities of the College had already decided onerecting on Queens Park a new college, that would be a creditto the University. They felt that with a college doing efficientwork and housed in a worthy building, the Roman Catholicsof the province would gladly second their efforts with financialassistance. This project had to be postponed. St. Michaels hascontinued in the pastand continues to-daywithout any endow-ment, without othersources of revenuethan students fees,solely because themembers of the staffcontribute their livesto the work withoutany monetary remun-eration. Each mem-ber of the BasilianCommunity receivesan allowance of eightydollars a year for per-sonal expenditure. Imention this to makeclear that the staff ofSt. Michaels hasmanifested a spirit ofnoble generosity bygiving to every RedCross collection, outof its little all, a high-er proportion of theirsalary than any otherbody of men. Theyhave given till it hurt. Another very im-portant, if not themost important in-. fluence of the war which St. Michaelsshares with all other colleges is the taskof adjusting itself to changed conditionsand putting in the proper perspective theobjects and lessons of these years of freshmen were mere childrenwhen the war began. From now onstudents will never know as the staff will,the happy times before the war. On theother hand many a mistake will be madeby professors who fail to realize theoutlook of those who have not livedmature lives under both conditions. Itis one of the first duties of a Canadiancollege to teach that Canada entered this war with twentythousand men a few hours after England was engaged and haspoured them across the ocean in a steady stream ever since,not because she feared invasion and subjection, not becauseshe would be more prosperous, not even because Germany-violated sworn treaties, but because she was loyal to Englandand the British Empire. And to-day the Government of Canada,after the flowe
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