Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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FOR THE SCHOOL YE.-KR 1935-1936 are few, if any, big headlines, but in one section we read that some deaf and dumb people have clubbed together and bought a tank for the army, in another we see that some girls have qualified in a machine shop to supervise the automatic lathe, in others we see that new municipal sand-piles are going up for children, that the Russian women parachutists have been achieving great things, that a reward has been offered for the best architectural design for some new building. Each of these newspapers reflects a different civilization. In the former the unpleasant aspect of a too free country, and in the latter, the smooth and pleas- ing surface that cleverly conceals the steel shackles of a censored press, a press that shouts freedom and liberty to a people that are ensnared in a closer prison than ever the middle ages boasted, whose hands and feet are bound and whose children do not belong to the mothers but to the country itself, and to whom religion is denied. There is another thought which ought not to be overlooked, and that is the subject of advertising. In any local newspaper one would find these advertisements as the most common: Sure cure for bald-headed meng rub salve into pores three times a day , or Lose ten pounds a week, no tiresome dietg just take one good dose after each meal, and watch the fat melt Everybody knows it won't, but they buy it and use it three times a day. The 11df.'e1'li.vi11g !Zg'E?1t'iF.V rezzliv 01621 the AlU'6.f.V, and someone, somewhere, should interfere, a stronger powerg but is there any power as strong F We need only turn back the pages of history, back to the so-called dark ages, and note the conditions throughout Europe in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Practically speaking there was no art or literature. The ignorance of the masses was so profound that it threw its shadow across all the aspects of life. Their religion was steeped in superstition, and what knowledge they had was only such as was handed down by word of mouth from father to son. Then suddenly out of the sombre and ignorant background, a young printer named Gutenberg, a native of Germany, gave the world its first printing press. And in H55 the first books were published by this press. Previous to this time the monks were the sole tutors of Europe, but with the in- venting of the printing press, and the spreading of printed books and pamphlets throughout the continent, two great movements were set afoot, namelyf the Rqformtztion and the Rfzztziufzrzre. These have had unimagined, unlimited influences on the entire civilization of the world up to the present day. In a word, the irzzwztiorz of the printing prime, the mother of our modern newspaper, fjfrd Europe out of the dark agar. Books made men think- made them rub their eyes, and dimly feel the loveliness of Greek and Roman art, and of literature. It is a long reach downward from this lofty classic height to our news press of today, yet it is the direct descendant. .-Xnd though it is so full of ugliness and weakness, yet it has strength and beauty, for it is Life. It records the ebb and How of the tides of human progress, the incredible meanness of man, and his magnificent courage, the golden thread of Ideals, the sordid dross of Lifeg Inventions, Art, Music, hatreds, losses, and loves. - In short, Netc.r- Knowledge .' And so, it is good. Without it we would once more be steeped in Ignorance. And Ignorance, as Confucius put it, is Night without A141011 or Starr. W. H. fS.H.S. 1927-19351. l9l

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FOR THF SCHOOL YF.-KR 1935-1931s The Scout meetings were held on the mountain during fine weather, and on rainy .5'11111f11f'z' Tmvlz, 1935. days at Scout Headquarters. The Troop celebrated King Georges -Iuhilee on May nth, at Fletchers Field, where, in company with other troops of Montreal district, the colours were dipped as the Troop paraded past the reviewing stand. On Nlay I-lth. the Troop attended the annual Scout Rally at the lforum. The rally was honoured hy the presence of the Chief Scout, l-ord Baden-Powell. A squad of scouts from our Troop demonstrated the Signaller's Badge, and another group of our scouts put on a compass marching drill. The eagerly awaited appearance of the Chief Scout in Montreal was a source of great pleasure and inspiration to the Troop, as it was to all scouts in the city. r I l F . 'vn- X Patrol Leaders Johnson, Hodge, and P. Mackenzie were invested as members of the Sphinx Patrol on May 28th. The annual scout half-holiday took place on June llth., on the mountain. Patrol relay races, and a game of prisoners' base extending over a wide area of the mountain, were held. Following this, the Troop regaled itself with quantities of ice-cream, sandwiches and other comestibles. l ll l