Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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' udacf ;4ctco tcci standard period of time strictly enforced. If the programme of study and sport was made more flexible that activities could be spread out over the week, thus making more activities available to senior boys and enabling them to enjoy them in moderation in- stead of forcing them to indulge in a Bacchanalian debauch of ac- tivities on Thursdays. Also, since Toronto is the cultural capitol of Ontario, and, arguably, of Canada, it would be a good idea to relax the leave laws, as well as the evening programme to enable groups of chaperoned, or otherwise, students to enjoy some of the cultural life of Toronto. One of the best ideas, agree most of the Thursday programme is the flexible diimer programme. The only drawback to this is that if one is doing something any more vigorous than sitting at a desk, it is more comfortable to change into casual dress simply to eat diimer. I hardly think that people undergo a Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde change as they change from jeans to ties and jackets so it would not be asking much to have a casual dress rule for Thursday dinners. If the walls end up caked in raisin bread or the maids are covered from head to foot in meatloaf, then perhaps it would be best to go back to the old system. But otherwise, it ' s worth a try. So, all in all, for right or wrong reasons, the Thursday programme is good, and, as far as the boys are concerned, it should stay. And, after all, who is it for? On Activities Day. dispiays were made or oU Activities, among them gymnastics and boxing. Below, Don Green pours a cup o hemJock tea- a eature o the Northward Bound exhibit. AJso military dignitary hoJds haJ -eaten Northward Bound hot dog. Some think it good and worthwhile, others are disillusioned because it never reached the level idealists said it would ... As far as the boys are con- cerned, it should stay. And after all, who is it for.

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Cadet Inspection L!i It is sometimes amazing how the cadet corps can pull together and put on a spectacular in- spection, no matter how many errors the cadets have made in practices. This year, one platoon in particular was reprimanded for poor drill a mere two days before inspection, yet it had certainly come up to and in fact surpassed the standard of the other platoons when it was on parade before an audience, the Headmaster, and representatives of the Canadian Armed Forces. The weather was a mixed blessing; if it becomes too warm and sunny, the cadets sweat under their woollen uniforms profusely. This, however, was not a worry, for the morning was cold n n nil and rainy, and, by afternoon, it was just plain cold. The reviewing officer, Brigadier-General de Chastelain, the Commandant of the Royal Military College in Kingston, and his inspecting team, the Area Cadet Staff of the Canadian Forces Training System, did a thorough inspection of the ranks. After the inspection, the best cadets of each platoon did some very impressive manoeuvres in a drill competition. Major Dickens, the Commanding Officer of the corps, then armounced, without the aid of a pubUc address system, that the planned military exercise would be unable to take place because of the lack of blank ammunition. There were several ways to see all the activities on display at the inspection, and stopping fully to absorb each display is definitely not one of these ways: there are simply too many excellent presentations. Canoeing and sailing demon- strations were held at the lake, but the canoe-dumping and Scuba displays were done in the (much warmer) pool. At the Edible Plants display, there was a pot of hemlock tea brewing, and a display showing that clover and dandelion, the bane of any lawn, are quite edible and can save one ' s life. Boys were chopping and sawing wood, and there was a small shelter on view as an example of the shelters built at Northward