Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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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

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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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16 SAMARA several persons in the hour of their great temptation, and how it seemed to them as God ' s own voice pointing out the way. Fellowship is closely allied with service. When people are serving their country they are bound together in a great fellow- ship. They are like brothers working for the common good. Chil- dren should keep the thought of fellowship before them in their school-life. They should not strive for individual honour, but as one body working for the honour of the school. They should be kind to one another and help to make the school the happy place it is intended to be. Fair play naturally follows fellowship. When working to- gether for a common cause, we learn to understand the other person ' s temptations and discouragements, his joys and sorrows, and so we learn to sympathize with him and love him. We feel that it is quite as important that he should receive fair play as that we would receive it ourselves. Service is the greatest of the three qualities in our motto. Our Lord taught that it is one of the first duties of every Chris- tian, and He, Himself, is our example. We must not stand aside and wait for some great opportunity to help, but each day do all we can to make someone else happier for our being here. It will not be hard to do these little services if we remember Browning ' s inspiring words : All service is the same with God — With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first. —Catherine Macphail. V Matric. fin tin tin vf vy EXAMS As I sat there in glum dismay, A frown upon my brow. I looked about, my fellows at, For work, I knew not how! I could not think, I could not write, My brain was in a whirl; And as I sat, in like distress, I saw another girl.