Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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14 SAMARA December 7th. — Horse Show. Our thanks are due to Mr. Hugh Carson and Mr. Norman Wilson. December 15th.- — Another match with Ladies ' College ' — 45-41 for Elmwood. December 19th.- — Christmas party. December 20th.- — Closing for Christmas Holidays. SECOND TERM January 9th.- — Return to school. January 18th.- — Mr. Campbell Mclnnis came and talked to us. January 21st.- — Beginning of exams. February 5th.- — University players. February 6th. — Rear-Admiral Gordon Campbell lecture. February 7th. — Hart House String Quartette. February 12th.- — -Lecture on Shakespeare ' s Plays and Who Wrote Them? February 13th. — L ' Alliance Francaise. February 15th. — Lecture on Architecture of Old Quebec. February 18th: — Junior Minto Competitions. February 19th: — Boarders ' Musicale. February 20th.- — Mrs. Brown on the Medici period in Italy. February 22nd.- — Free Week-end. February 27th: — L ' Alliance Francaise. Mile. Louise Arnoux and M. Leo Pol Morin. March 1st and 2nd. — Junior Minto Carnival. March 2nd: — Junior Drama League (Saturday). March 3rd: — Chapel at Ashbury. March 4th.— Mrs. Brown on The Dutch School of Art. March 9th: — Kingsmere Lodge (Saturday). March 11th: — Another visit from Mr. Campbell Mclnnis. March 13th— R.U.R. (Drama League). March 18th. — Alexander Brailowsky. March 20th. — The Masque of The Two Strangers by Inter- mediate Dramatics Cla s and U X = 0 by six of the Senior Class. March 22nd.— Old Girls ' play, Patricia Brent, Spinster . March 23rd. — Dicken ' s Recital by Frank Speaight. March 27th. — Easter Holidays. rlr» rlfc fa Vf vft vf

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SAMARA 13 The boarders ' Hallowe ' en party last fall was a great success. All the boarders dressed up in whatever they could collect and a prize was given for the cleverest costume. We danced, played organized games and were visited by some of the day girls dressed as thugs. About 10 o ' clock refreshments were served and when we had removed our war paint we all went to bed. Twice during the past term the boarders have entertained the Staff. First we had a musical evening and the programme consisted of piano solos and a poem and a mime given by some members of the dramatics class. Then a few weeks later we had a gym evening and with Miss Eliott in command, we attempted to demonstrate to Mr. and Mrs. Buck and the rest of the Staff our skill, apparatus work and Danish dancing. These were the first times for quite a while that we had entertained the Mistresses and we are expecting to do more in the near future. rfc fie Jy Jp wjv SCHOOL CALENDAR FIRST TERM September 12th. — School opened. September loth.- — Lafleche Caves (Saturday). September 28th.- — Old Girls ' Basketball Match. 18-10 for present girls. King of Kings. October 1st. — Westminster Glee Singers. October 6th.- — Visited Mrs. Smart at Kingsmere (Saturday). October 13th.— Wakefield for tea (Saturday). October 15th. — English School Girls ' visit. October 31st. — Archery contest. Boarders party for Hallowe ' en. November Ist.—Vc and VI Forms Basketball Match. November 8th.- — Songs of the Hebrides by Miss Marie Thomp- son. November 9th-13th. — Thanksgiving week-end. November 20th.- — Wilson MacDonald came to school. November 21st— Saw Cornelius Otis Skinner at the Little Theatre. December 1st— Angna Enters at Little Theatre. Basketball at Ladies ' College— 40-32 for Elmwood. December 3rd.- — Seniors went to hear Dr. Mercer lecture.

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SAMARA 15 SERVICE, FELLOWSHIP AND FAIR PLAY Service, fellowship and fair play! ' What an inspiring motto to carry through life! If we could always live up to that ideal our characters would be wholly beautiful, and when dying, it would be a great comfort to search through the recesses of our memories, and find there not one blot to stain the perfect story of our lives. But in order to fulfil the requirements of che motto we must first understand fully what they signify. There are many types of service. The most conspicuous is that of the king. Sometimes we forget that the king serves us but when we remember the motto of the Prince of Wales, I serve, we are reminded how great the services are which the king renders us. Then come the ministers of state, who serve us in greater or less degree. The poets and writers idealize heroes and immortalize their home-lands, thus inspiring us to serve our king and country with all our hearts. Consider Scotland, a bleak, barren country. But where are there found more loyal people than the Scots? It is partly due to the influence of her poets that Scotland is so dear to her people. But service does not mean only service to our country and people as a whole. There are also services done by one individual to another, sometimes so humble that only God knows of them. In Browning ' s poem, Pippa Passes, one recalls how Pippa ' s joyous song reached the ears of 3