- Xaverian Weekly
"The Xaverian Weekly" is the student newspaper at
St. Francis Xavier University inAntigonish ,Nova Scotia .It is run by the Xaverian Weekly Publications Society, and prints 2,000 copies every Wednesday. The newspaper is a member of
Canadian University Press . The current editor-in-chief isAshley Fletcher .Originally called "Excelsior", the newspaper began as a monthly journal of literary essays and campus news founded in
1896 by M.A. McAdam and J.W. McIsaac. The high-minded editors changed the paper's name to the "Xaverian" in1903 , explaining that "Excelsior" had become "a cheap appellation . . . unhappily applied to almost every new [commercial] patent."Further reading
*James D. Cameron, "For the People: A History of St. Francis Xavier University" (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996).
*John Sawatsky, "Mulroney: The Politics of Ambition" (Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1991). An early chapter on Mulroney's freshman year at StFX in 1955 talks about his friendship with Pat MacAdam, then editor-in-chief of the "Xaverian".External links
* [http://www.xaverianweekly.ca/ The Xaverian Weekly Online]
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