The Ubyssey
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issued: 2016-01-18
issued: 1945-10-23
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note: UNDERGRAD BALL FEATURES KING dii ~ Canadian campus A CUP FEATURE • FOR FIVE SAD years we've been hearing about the lonely Canadian coed and many and tro- gic have been the tales of the manpower shortage. But . . WAS there a shortage? The trans-Canada response to the return of the campus men have set us to wondering. UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK REPORTS The manpower shortage is something strange to us. The New Brunswick campus has never suffered from one. Even during the war the men have outnumbered the women four to one—so the influx of veterans doesn't mean the expected new lease on life for wallflowers. Actually it aggravates an already serious coed power shortage. The typical coeds are saying: "Everywhere we go we lead a parade of desperate men." "It really is an awful strain." "We never get time to work." ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY REPORTS "Once there was a fella who wore a pork-pie stuffed yellow sacks into a pair of ancient mocassins. He'd come from high school back home just as we had. We had fun with that fellow ... he v/as ambitious, too. He went away for a while and now that he's back he doesn't wear a pork-pie any moe. He's a man now . . . he's here to work, to learn of all the good there can be in the civilization he's fought so hard to preserve. He seems glad to see us, and we . . . well, we think he's tops!" QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY REPORTS There was never a shortage here. Coeds, however, are thrilled at the increased number of men. Veterans are making a big hit. Edith Kent, news editor of the Queen's Journal, says, "We've had lots of men all along but the more we have the better." UNIVERSITY jOFjrORONTO REPORTS " Men by far outnumber the women on the campus this year and the typical coed comment seems to be: "We're not against it." Male opinion is somewhat harder to catalog. "It's grim" seems to be a frequent remark. One thing, however, is certain—the campus wears a brighter look this season. UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA REPORTS Coed reaction is not evident her…
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spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
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language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : Students' Publication Board of the Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia
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