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(what follows is an extract of the entrance examination for that year (total time: 12 hours…)
Write an essay on one subject from each of the following categories:
I GENERAL
- The Outlook for Parliamentary Democracy.
- A Radio Policy for Canada
- Is there a Distinctive Canadian National Type?
- Education in the Machine Age.
II INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
- “Major Failures but Minor Triumphs”. Is this a true valuation of the work of the League of Nations?
- Compare the Nazi revolution in Germany with the Fascist revolution in Italy. What are the main obstacles which have so far prevented the Disarmament Conference from concluding a signed agreement?
III ECONOMICS
- Outline the history of the fur trade in Canada and discuss its importance in the development of the country.
- Give an account of the anti-trust movement in the United States.
- Write a brief account of the modern economic development of one of the following countries:
(a) Japan (b) Argentina (c) Union of South Africa.
- Summarize the development of two historically important theories of wages since Adam Smith and discuss
each in reference to the general problem of distribution among the factors of production.
IV SPECIALIZED TOPICS
(answer one question from part A or one question from part B)
PART A: POLITICAL SCIENCE
- “Nationalism is the great enemy of Federalism.”
Discuss in relation to Canada or the United States.
- Explain the historical service of the doctrine of sovereignty and consider its present usefulness.
- What has been the distinctive contribution of each of the following to political thought?
- Hobbes 3. Rousseau
- Bentham 4. Gottfried Feder
- “Clear doctrine and rigid purposes that apply to a whole nation have to be paid for: the price is the suppression
of individuality and the regimentation of opinion.” Discuss
PART B: INTERNATIONAL LAW
- “Canada is an international entity in the fullest sense of the term.” Comment upon this statement.
- By a Treaty concluded in 1816 between two adjacent seaboard States, Mauretania and Ruritania, it was provided that all the islands north of the line drawn due west from the mouth of the Black River should belong to Mauretania. The Black River was subsequently discovered to have three mouths, so that there was some doubt as to where the line was located. It was ultimately delimited by an International Boundary Commission in 1864. Otter Island was actually north of the line as delimited, but it was part of an archipelago, the other islands of which were definitely south of the line, and the main channel from the Black River ran north of the Island. In 1826 Ruritania established a lighthouse on the island and has maintained it ever since. The island is so small that it is incapable of any other type of use. It was thought that there were no fisheries in the waters surrounding the island, but recently it has been discovered that there are valuable oyster beds within three miles of its shoreline. You are asked to advise the Government of Mauretania whether its fishermen can be excluded from the oyster beds in question.
- A Canadian Government patrol boat captures a vessel engaged in smuggling liquor into Canada. At the time of
seizure, the vessel was hovering at a point eleven miles from the nearest land, off St. John, N.B. The vessel was
registered in Gloucester, Mass., in the name of Thomas Jones, a United States citizen. It was actually owned by
a British subject domiciled in New Brunswick, Thomas Jones being his agent.
You are asked to advise the owner as to the steps that should be taken to protect his interest.
Now tell the truth — aren’t you glad you didn’t have to take that to get in? (No marks will be awarded for answering this question.)
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