Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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demanding, if we are to be strong physically. Intellectually, too, we must find ways to extend the capacities of our boys for long, sustained and demanding work. Recently I came across a book entitled Science Made Easy, I got rid of it quickly, but the title has stayed on to plague me. The idea of things being made easy represents so much that is wrong in modern education and in modern life that I cannot easily forget it. Science cannot be made easy. Science is an exacting discipline demanding all that there is of a man. It ought to be presented with all its interest and wonder and challenge, but never as something easy. What satisfaction is there in doing the easy? Indeed, while we do not want to expect the impossible from our boys and while we want to be ready to guide them through painful periods of learning and growth, we want them at the same time to know the fun of hard work intellectually, to know the experience of being extended to the limit, and to feel the satisfaction of meeting the difficult and overcoming it. What I have said may seem grim and hard; probably it is hard, but it is certainly not grim. In fact there is no greater fun than knowing the satisfaction which comes from developing strengths, and using abilities, to the fullest, and, if we can achieve this knowledge for our boys, we shall be taking full advantage of our new facilities. Further, and in a broader sense, we may be able to make a contribution to the educational community at large by doing something definite about common problems which face us - such as those related to the quality of teachers, the importance of the best possible standards in all areas, the need of a respect for hard work, the necessity of discipline, and the knowledge of values rooted in God. We might even - if we really try - become a small light in a rather large darkness. But for this we shall have to roll up our sleeves, become better informed, and dedicate ourselves with enthusi- asm, and determination,- and faith - to the task.

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The Headmaster ' s Message As I sit down to write a message to the Argus for this year, two facts with respect to our school - stand out much mote brightly than all the rest. The first is how very fortunate we are at Appleby to have so many Old Boys and friends, who have been so extraordi- narily generous in assisting us to provide outstanding educational facilities for our boys; facilities in fact which, as a whole, are second to none at the secondary school level in this country. The second is the great obligation, which the support of our friends demands of us at the school; the obligation to develop fully all our capacities so that we, as a com- munity, may make the maximum contribution, of which we are capable, to the training of future generations. We as teachers surely have specific roles to play in this. Our job must be to help our boys to grow, to stimulate and to interest them, to stretch them, to give them all the fun and satisfaction of using their capacities to the fullest, to give them a vision of greatness, and to nurture them into the fullness of manhood which God has planned for them. Specifically, as a basis for these objectives, however, we must teach them the need for a disciplined approach to any endeavour, and we must harden them up physically and mentally. It must be obvious that life in our country is not as hard as it needs to be for our young people, if they are to develop the robustness which will be required to meet the challenges of the years ahead. Physically, life today is hard for only a few. We do not work as generations not far re moved from us did; we do not walk and climb and carry and struggle as they did. In a sense possibly we can be grateful for this; but at the same time we must recognize that something valuable has been, or can be, lost - toughness, endurance, the ability to take it. We - both staff as teaching examples and the students who will respond to sincerity - need the hard, the difficult, and the

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The Argus Staff Editor R.K. MacFarlane Photography Art Advertising W.M. Gray W.J. Stone A.B.S. Johnston J.R, Smith A. Lee D.C. McAlister G.W. Graham J.K. Burns W.A.D. Colville T. Lam J. Hevesi M.G. Braden Junior School Sports Editors Contributors R.B. Carson S.H. Gudewill G.P. Casperd R.P. Smith J.T. Wetmore J. A. Slattery J.D. Keevil Staff Adviser E.L. Bott, Esq. R.N. MacFarlane C. Robertson J. A. Wright P.H. Day, Esq. M.A . Nightingale