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t- t HE word criticism to most individuals has an unsavoury meaning. Criticism is always difficult to accept, particOlarly if it is of an adverse nature. Our critic teachers have in a most admirable fashion changed our concept of the word. Their criticisms were so kindly given and so constructively help- ful that the name critic teacher and the word criticism have lost their ominous meaning and have assumed a more charitable purport. Still, we approached those F ' riday mornings with trembling knees and prayers in our hearts. What would the fateful white assignment slips contain? Anything from a Zulu dancer to a stock market broker might be required of us. As we approached the school such thoughts as these came tumbling into our troubled minds — I know I ' ll have a Rote song, I just know I will and I can ' t sing a note. That class, I hear, is just dreadful to manage. Fortunately such torturing thoughts came to an end when we reached the school and found, by the Question and Answer Method, the required room. The kindly person who said good morning in no way resembled the ogre which our overwrought imaginations had produced. Soon, too, those gloomy fears concerning our lesson assignments were dispelled or confirmed. Even if the dreaded Rote song had to be sung, the teacher benevolently refrained from mentioning the time your voice cracked. Criticism? Of course. But always given so that we felt that the next time we should know how to do better and would improve. Hence, out of our vague fears grew a more comprehensi e knowledge of the teach- ing art. I Iay we strive to emulate those principles which our critic teachers have so ably demonstrated, principles which will help to make us better teachers and our pupils more efficient citizens. — Margaret Braidford. Urban and Rural School Critic Teachers Governor Simcoe School Mr. F. H. (iiUpin Miss M. Lancaster Miss Z. Fawkes Miss V. Tisdak Miss I. McLeish Miss L. R. Hoffman Miss I. P. Cirahani Miss M. Buckk- Tecumseh Avenue School Mr. L. n. MrCanius Mi.ss E. I. Da (- ' v Miss G. Morris Miss H. Rogers Miss M. Gregory Wortley Road School Mr. V. H. W vatt MissS. E. McKone Miss Lena Dunn Miss C. S[)arling Mr.s. P. Smith jMr. T. A. Willis Miss A. Davidson Victoria School Miss G. Baptv Rural Schools Mr. V. C. Rigne - Miss L Loft Miss I L McLean Miss L. M. Insell Miss L Penhale Mrs. Paterson High School Critic Teachers Central Collegiate Sir Adam Beck Collegiate Institute Mr. J. P. S. Nethercott, M.A. Mr. V. C. lolinson, B.A., Princii)al Mr. C. S. Buck, M.A. Mr. R. L Blake, B.A. Mr. E. O. Hall, M.A. Mr. [ohn V. Dodd, B.A. Mr. W. R. Urlin, B.A. Mr. V. M. Herron, M.A. Miss D. McCann, B.A., B.Paed. Mr. W. E. Shales, M.A., B.Paed. Mr. R. G. Campbell, B.A. Mr. D. H. Strangways, B.A. Mr. E. A. Miller, M.A., Principal Mi.ss Agnes Vrooman, M.A. Mr. D. J. A. Wright, B.A. {10}
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EDITOR b b V V Y Ol ' R editor wishes to make an announcement and promises that this one will be the last. May we thank you for your co-operation in helping us to present The Spectrum dressed in a more substantial garment than it has ever before pos- sessed. The London Normal School publication is no longer a yearly magazine. It has reached the status of a year book in all respects. We hope that the contents are as pleasing as the cover. You have been persistent in your requests for an explanation of the appella- tion of your book. To grant this wish, we shall attempt to satisfy these queries. Eight years ago an enterprising editor changed the shape and the name of the magazine, but left no clue to the reason for the change to enlighten his successors. Nor has anyone since attempted to qualify the title; but probably it brought to them the same picture that occurs to us. The Spectrum is designed to focus our gaze into all aspects of our school year — to give a glimpse through one clear prism into a series of the most gaily coloured memories that we could select. Just as the colour spectrum embraces more than can be seen at a glance, so our spectrum pierces beyond manifestations of actual occurrences to include the expression of the thoughts of some of our students. In conclusion I wish to thank the Year Book executive for their fine co-oper- ation in our enterprise. Ve shall all long remember the many problems encoun- tered and overcome to produce this Year Book. — Anne Park. Editorial of Associate Editor We give you the Year Book of the class of 1938-1939. Between these two crimson covers are the accomplishments, the ambitions and the disappoint- ments of our class. We do not pretend that this effort has produced a literary masterpiece, but it is our own and of that fact we are proud. My mind lets go a thousand things. Like dates of wars and deaths of kings. — Aldrich. But we do remember the little happenings of our year at Normal. They have been so very important to us, and are here recorded so that in years to come we may not forget the smallest detail. Our contribution to the library of the world is a very humble one. But if this book gives a moment ' s pleasurable reflection in future years its end has been justified. — Marion McClafferty. Ill)
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