Oakwood Collegiate Institute - Oracle Yearbook (Toronto Ontario, Canada)

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TH E OAKWOOD ORACLE The Qllripple A child, I sat with wondering eye And watched the bustling world go by. No happy children round me played, Nor notice took, save one wee maid Who pity in her heart discerned, And sympathized where others spurned. She led me up to hills on high, Where we watched clouds and men go by- All passing by '.,..,..... .. We two grew upg she to her friends. The wealth, the beauty Fortune sends To those on whom she smiles, but not To us who bear a bitter lot. My heart for her in love had burned, My inner soul had silent yearned ............ The one she chose was strong, and tall, They often pass within my call- Together ............ passing by ......... I'm growing old, I cannot see The things that once were dear to me: The towering hills, the billowing clouds That we had called the angel's shroudsf' In my imprisoning shack I stay, Thinking, brooding, each long day, Then I turn my sightlcss eyes again To the street whence comes the tread of men, Forever ............ passing by .......,.... -JONAHOLD. Clliseruein Qauintus Oh Fifth Former, why do you hesitate '? Why do you remain here and waste your time 7 How many times have you come here without your home-work done? I do not order you to leave school and go to work, but if you consult me, I ad- vise it. Your indifference to your many crimes of skipping school has thrown you very far behind in your work. Not only do you not pay attention, but also you disturb the class. Ilo you think that you will pass the examinations by just ljflfjl' T11 iffy sitting in the room for a year 'Z Moreover, oh Lazy One, you would think that I am the one who must write this examination. What shall I say of the fact that for the pur- pose of avoiding suspicion you slylv feign sickness? Nevertheless I will not cause you to understand what the teachers think of you. And yet why do I speak? in order that you may ever reform. Would that the mortal gods would inspire you with ambition! D.K. V.A.C.

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dimension surface by perspective drawing, we ought also to be able to represent four dimensions on three dimensions. This reasoning leads us nowhere for when we should have represented four dim- ensions we could still go on to a fifth and there would be no limit. An explanation or theory, to be satisfactory should not need other explanations to explain it. So far, Einstein's is the only theory that does not need an in- finite number of smaller assump- tions which we have no reason to assume. When we say there is a law of gravity, we have to look again for an explanation of gravity. But this is wandering from the theory. If the world was made up of one substance and only one, could we have any possible absolute method of measurement 'Z Perhaps you say yes. Now take two rods of exactly the same size of the one and only material and place them on a cir- cular plate of large diameter. Let this plate be hot at the circumfer- ence and cold at the centre. When we place the rods together at the centre their ends coincide, but when we remove one to the circum- ference it expands. What way have we of measuring it '? If you bring the other to it, it also will THE OAKWOOD ORACLE parently the original length. Now let us consider time. Some fine morning in the middle of a Latin lesson suppose every- thing happened a thousand times slower. You would be absolutely unaware of the change. Clocks would not show the change, nor the sun or movement, or in fact any- thing else. That is, you depend, for your ideas of time and eve1'y- thing else on some arbitrary meas- ure as a yard-stick, a watch, the sun or any standard selected and observations are relative to these. That is relativity. Of course there are more theories that follow di- rectly, such as that all lines are closed curves, but the dose to be- gin with should be small. The theory, like most was once declared impossible and the Ency- clopedia Brittanica, of the edition previous to Einstein fthe one in our libraryb condemns it. Scientists, by accurate observa- tions and calculations, based on the theory being confirmed are now al- most universally agreed that the mind of the genius Einstein has turned out a theory that more nearly fits our experience than any other and it may be that in the futu1'e children will be taught the theory and think our present con- ceptions strange. expand and they are still both ap- Llitt Bush H7115-11 Shadows fail and night B1'lI1g'llOStS Off01'g0ttQ1l U'L'?lSll1'PS. SlL9HlS OH, Yet strains that sound statelier To my window of dreams I come, Here, in the deepening twilift, To my heart is wafted a song. Joyously-gay dance measures, Faint echoes of happier hours, To my window, facing the sea note, Linger in the seas's foamy wake, Faintly, from the soft green of hills Far away, muted echoes float. H.b.Ix. V.B. Pagw Tll.'l'Ilfjl-N'fllG

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THE OAKWOOD ORACLE ilBnstir ililreroritp I am fond of writing poetry Iliatribe or homily With metaphor and simile llivine -Xnd I have yet to see a Piece of onomatopaea Like to mine, I adore expressing verbally, Synechdoche hyperbole, Or building' up the ecstasy Of a climactic line. I'm superb at writing dimiter, Iambic or pentameter, Anapaestic trimiter, Trochaic or hexameter, I admit. And tho' nothing bores me worse Like the moderns I am terse And can stoop to write free verse llooks of it, Give me a baby's bonnet, I can write a sonnet on it, Quatrain, lyric, epic, or an ode, I can be impressionistic, Archaic, futuristic, If to be obscure and mystic is the mode, QW W1 'tiixllif I 1 I can be Shakesperian, Tennyson- ian, Spenserian, Miltonian, Or Byronicg I can be prophetic, Soporific or athletic, Patriotic or pathetic, Or laconic, It is very sweet, To calculate the feet In a line, But I know of nothing sweeter, Than working out the metre, And the rhyme I make no pretention, If you ever mention Scansion, I'm a-hop, There is no limit to my art, And when once I start, I am so very smart, I can rhyme until I dropg But I shall not degrade my ditty. By condescending to be witty, Ineffectual or pretty, So I stop. I sms X if li i, ,fx l f Encf VA l lrD.- HIC HAEC Hoc HUJU6' FI u.1us........ Page Tlifrfy-out