. The Varsity war supplement 1916. Government Headquarters, Charlottetown The dead and wounded in our casualty lists tell howworthily they have borne their part among brave comradesfrom all parts of Canada and the British Empire. We there-fore share the just pride which all Canadians must feelin the patriotism, courage and endurance which Cana-dian soldiers havedisplayed and thelasting fame whichtheir valcur has ac-hieved. We also realisethe great import-ance and value ofthe hospital workat the front, whichhas proved to bemuch better organ-ized and far moreefficient than thelike service in any
. The Varsity war supplement 1916. Government Headquarters, Charlottetown The dead and wounded in our casualty lists tell howworthily they have borne their part among brave comradesfrom all parts of Canada and the British Empire. We there-fore share the just pride which all Canadians must feelin the patriotism, courage and endurance which Cana-dian soldiers havedisplayed and thelasting fame whichtheir valcur has ac-hieved. We also realisethe great import-ance and value ofthe hospital workat the front, whichhas proved to bemuch better organ-ized and far moreefficient than thelike service in anywar in which theEmpire has beenheretofore work must besustained withoutstint of money oreffort until the endof the war. I cantherefore veryheartily endorse theworthy objectswhich The Varsity has in view in issuing its Farming along N. River, Prince Edward Island 25 THE VARSITY MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENT The Divine Irony By Professor Maurice Hutton WAR like love, like religion—with both of which it hasmany affinities—makes all things new war has made new again everything Greek,everything which belongs to that youthful and evernew civilization of ancient Greece; this war which is but a newversion of the old struggle of Athens against Sparta, of libertyagainst discipline, of human nature against organization, oflife and joy and faith and hope against system and prepared-ness and paternal government. But in particular it has revived again the speculations ofthe Athenian dramatists about the Divine Irony: the Ironywhich seems to laugh at human endeavour and human science,after encouraging man just to the point where he has con-ceived the hope that he can replace the gods and govern theworld by his own science or his own organisations without anyfurther help from them. Sophocles has conceived the
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