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1922: The Golden Age
‘The Class of 1922 entered the University during the war, saw the
“flu,” rejoiced over the Armistice, were carried upward and onward with the
flood of Students that swept over the land in 1919. They saw the older order of things and lived in the new.”1
- President Murray.
The prevailing view at the U of S in 1922 was one of optimism. Though
the memory of the carnage of the war was still fresh, there was a feeling that
we were no longer in the tunnel but had emerged into the light. It was with a guarded optimism that the
university community viewed the future. The signs were everywhere. The Physics Building and Engineering
Addition had been completed. The new
Department of Ceramics was underway.
The College of Law had become the sole means of legal education in the
province.2 Agricultural
researchers were making strides in the war on cereal rust. The University’s focus was on a new and
better tomorrow. It was the dawn of
what U of S historian, Michael Hayden has called “the golden age.”
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1922a: The Keystone,
1922.
1922b: Literary Supplement to The Sheaf, 16 March 1922.
1922c: Rugby
football, 1922. Photograph Collection,
A-6289.
1922d:
Saskatchewan Hall and Qu'Appelle Hall, [ca. 1924]. Photograph Collection, A-8842.
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1. The Keystone,
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask., 1922. p. 5.
2. The Sheaf, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask., 13 October 1922.
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