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Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 30: November, 1906I. A compact college life in a commodious and beautiful modern building, provided with all the latest conveniences for healthful work.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstr...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 38: November 1913I welcome you to the chair of Dr. Samuel S. Nelles, the acute metaphysician, the widely read scholar, the gentle satirist, the kindly and loving father to all his troubled students for life is thorny and youth is vain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important hist...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 38: November 1913I welcome you to the chair of Dr. Samuel S. Nelles, the acute metaphysician, the widely read scholar, the gentle satirist, the kindly and loving father to all his troubled students for life is thorny and youth is vain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important hist...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 36: April, 1912Olland, the land of dykes and canals, is so unique, both in its natural and cultivated features that it is a haven of delight, even for the sated tourist. Artists never tire of pic turing her quaint windmills, canals, and costumes, while her great museums afford them a rare opportunity to study and enjoy an art which is unequalled in original conception and masterly execution. Architects seek i...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 30: March, 1907Notice by candidates for the District. Cer tificate. Junior and Senior Teachers' Ex aminations. University Matriculation and Commercial Specialist Examinations. To Inspectors. Due. Victoria day.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Boo...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 31: Christmas, 1907I. A compact college life in a commodious and beautiful modern building, provided with all the latest conveniences for healthful work.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconst...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 38: February, 1914I have often wished that one of the genial fellowship of essayists would write for us an essay on that most tyrannous of literary laws, the Statute of Mortmain. One can imagine Mr. G. K. Chesterton rev-elling in a riot of paradox as he described the relentless pressure of the dead hand of the past upon those luckless mortals whom necessity or the itch of scribbling com pels to write.About th...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 38: October, 1913If thou hast learned through heart-felt grief The sacred fellowship of woe, To weep with weepers, share each blow, And sharing, minister relief, Then hast thou learned how best to live, And here, or there, or otherwhere, The Master's crowning joy canst share.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis bo...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 36: January, 1912One rainy day a sturdy youth, off work because it was a church holiday, happened in. I gave him a chair at the back of the room, and said, This is fine, Metro, you can keep on the fire. He look-ed up and said, Am I woman to make fire? Another very cold day I came in at noon to find a circle of boys warming their feet at the stove. The girls had been sent out to bring more wood. This is just w...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 38: December, 1913In silver wheels across the sky. The stable - doves they cooed to them, Mary and Christ in Bethlehem.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the orig...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 35: November, 1911The stream of water issuing from the nozzle can then be regarded as being pinched in on all sides by this elastic skin and it has been discovered that so soon as this cylindrical jet of water reaches a length greater than its own circumference the pinching tendency becomes so marked that the slightest uneven ness or dent in the cylinder immediately begins to grow, and a (limp of water is pin...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 33: Toronto, October, 1909Those silent cataracts of frozen splendor Singing the eternal praise of God.The trail to the Great Glacier is about two miles and a half in length. The climb is at first quite easy, but gradually becomes rougher and steeper until, at last the vast sheet of ice is reached, which, it is said, could engulf in its bulk every icefield of the Swiss Alps, and is the nucleus of a glacial bed...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 31: November, 1907We are sole Canadian agents for most of the big English Hatters and carry a full line of College, Dress and Sporting Hats.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 36The sun was scurrying down the western sky, and the curves on the homeward road seemed endless. In our hurry we bumped into every bend as we passed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruc...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 30: February, 1907The sun, however, invites you out, and joyfully you respond to his invitation. Once outside, without thought of hesitation you turn to the Piazza. No one will ever forget his first View of St. Mark's, with its gilded domes and gorgeous mosaics glowing in the sunlight. Irresist ibly one is drawn toward this Splendid Byzantine Temple with its soft tinted marbles, bright mosaics and gleam ing g...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 26: June, 1903N writing an appreciation of the work exhibited at the Toronto Camera Club's Salon, a brief review of the position now held by pictorial photography may not be out of place.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-a...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 38: January, 1914Before the appointed hour of the first session the east hall was well filled. The Canadian delegation occupied seats of honour directly before the speaker's table in the front of the main floor. The gavel in Chairman Mott's hand brought silence and order to the thousands before him. The great con ference was now open.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare a...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 35: December, 1911A moment's reflection will bring to our minds, for example, the international reactions Of thought which characterized, in Europe, the century which has just closed - German ideas bear ing fruit in English philosophy, English romance, incarnated in Scott and Byron, making its triumphal progress through Europe, and Scandinavia and Russia paying at last in rich measure the accumulated debt of ...

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 24: February, 1901Nor was this immense labor a mere matter of the satisfaction of her own personal conscience. It is a well-known fact that, in more than one of the greatest crises in modern English history, her judgment turned the scale and shaped the destinies of nations for good.Perhaps, after all, the most precious memory of her people is now her faith in God and truth. In all her Empire there is not a Ch...