SOCIETY AND PERSONAL

The Victoria College menagerie, sus., goat, tadpole, dickey-bird, frog, crab, nemo, bird of Juno, moineal, merle, grive, etc., assembled in due form Monday, December 11th, in their den.  After all were fed two of the smallest animals performed to the great delight of the assembled multitude.

One of the most interesting events of the season will take place on Wednesday, December 27th, when our popular Latin teacher, Mr. S.J. Willis, will be united in marriage to Miss Grace Elinor Nisbet, of Victoria West.  We join with the other pupils of the college in wishing Mr. Willis and his bride a long and properous vogage on the seas of matrimony.

Mr. F. Napier Dennison gave a lecture on "Volcanoes" on December 15th, which proved both interesting and instructive.

Miss Maud Baker entertained a number of friends at the home of her parents, Fernwood Road, on Tuesday evening, December 13th.  A drawing contest was engaged in, the prize being won by Miss C. Green. At 1:30 a dainty supper was served and shortly afterwards the gathering broke up, a very pleasant time having been spent by all.  Among those present were: The Misses E. Jones, I. Adams, F. Spencer, J. Gilbert, C. Green and B. Mowatt.

C. Pottinger has left school and is now working at Spencer's.

Miss Blackwood has left school for the remainder of the Christmas term.

Bennie Erb has been ill for the past week, but we are glad to say is now making rapid progress towards recovery and will soon be with us again.

...The many friends of Miss Kathleen Cockrell will be glad to hear that she is in the best of health and is heartily enjoying her work at McGill University, besides entering with jest into the social and literary life of the institution.  In a letter to a friend she thus describes her initiation into one of the college societies:  "We were taken one by one into a room hung with black, with no light save a fitful glare from a crucible, which showed the face of a sophomore near with startling distinctness, and lit up with a ghastly effect a skull and cross-bones (real) on the wall behind.  In the dim light I was made to kneel before the president, seated on a throne, and to repeat a solemn vow to aid and abet the noble sophomores.  At the door I was dismissed with a small doll, dressed in green, as a symbol of my freshness."

The debate held on the 6th inst. by Division VI. was very successful.  It was won by those who resolved that Sir Bedivere was justified in throwing away the sword, Excalibur.   Some very good speeches were made, showing the preparation made by some of the speakers.  The following gave speeches: E. Waller, Miss Hamilton, Miss F. Croot, K. Drury, J. Macrae, A. Graham and a few others.  The debate was closed by E. Waller.