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Physician, Shawville, Quebec.

Arthur Meighen (1874-1960) was born at Anderson, Perth County, Ontario. He was educated at St. Mary's Collegiate and in law at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1896. He was first elected to the House of Commons in 1908 and entered Sir Robert L. Borden's cabinet in 1913. After serving in various cabinet posts, Meighen became Prime Minister upon Borden's retirement in 1920. His government was defeated in the election of 1921. He again formed a government for a short time in 1926, but was defeated in the general election later that year. He was appointed to the Senate in 1932 and led the Conservative Party again for a short time from November 1941 to the end of 1942. Meighen pursued a distinguished business career as President and general counsel of Canadaian General Securities Ltd., President of the London and Western Trust Company and a holder of various other directorships. He died at his home in Toronto in 1960.

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Student, Kingston, Ont.

Student, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.

Alexander Muir was a songwriter, school principal and poet, born in Lesmahagow, near Lanark, Scotland, 5 Apr 1830. He received his BA from Queen's University in 1851. His parents settled, when he was three, in Scarborough Township, east of Toronto, and he later taught 1853-60 in several Scarborough schools. He was principal 1860-70 at Leslieville School and in the ensuing years was teacher or principal of schools in Newmarket, Beaverton, and Toronto, including 1888-1906 Gladstone Avenue School, which in 1925 was renamed in his honour.

Although Muir's musical activities were on an amateur level, they were strongly emphasized along with athletics and patriotism during his teaching career. He wrote words and music for several patriotic songs including the famous 'The Maple Leaf For Ever' (1867). Others are 'Canada, Land of the Maple Tree' and 'The Old Union Jack' (both published by Suckling 1890), 'Canada Forever' (Whaley Royce 1894), and 'Young Canada Was Here' (Whaley Royce 1900). Some of his poetry was published in Newmarket and Toronto newspapers. Muir died in Toronto on 26 January 1906.

The Journal has been Queen's main student newspaper since it was founded in 1873. It appears twice a week on campus with a mix of news, sports, and entertainment stories, editorials, letters to the editor, and photographs. The paper is students' most important source of news and general information and has been a training ground for scores of Canadian journalists.

The Journal first appeared on campus on October 25, 1873 as the Queen's College Journal, a fortnightly magazine whose avowed object was to "foster a literary taste among students." It published a great deal of verse in its early years, and its prevailing tone was earnest and evangelical: typical articles were "Longevity and Work," "What is Preaching?" and "The Formation of Habits." There were also numerous verbatim reports of sermons and speeches.

By the mid-1880s, however, debates on purely college issues and columns of college jokes were creeping in. And by the early years of this century, the familiar news, sports, and entertainment sections were emerging.

During the golden years of Queen's football in the 1920s, when the team won three straight Grey Cups, the paper cheerfully turned itself into a sports sheet and other sections were relegated to the inside pages.

The Queen's Journal has existed in roughly its present format since the 1930s. There were a few departures from format in the late 1960s and the 1970s, however, when the paper reflected the change in times; it was not unusual at that time to see the photograph of a nude or a piece of psychedelic art taking up the entire front page.

In the mid-1980s, the paper introduced computers for writing and layout. The Journal is partly funded by the Alma Mater Society but run by an independent editorial board.

John Thorburn was Headmaster at Ottawa Collegiate in Ottawa, Ont.

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