Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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SIEIAYYN HOUSE SCHOOL Nl.-XGAZINE Qu Zllintrutbful Sung tSee Songs from Books: :X Truthful Song, by the late Rudyard Kiplingj The Schoolmaster: I tell this tale, which is quite untrue, .lust by way of convincing you How very little, since boys were made, Things have altered in the teaching trade. Some years ago and how years pass I e We were reading Caesar in a l.atin class, When a dear old man, with snow white hair. Came in to hear us construing there. Now there wasn't a construction, or single word. Ut' the I,atin tongue that hr hadn't heard: There wasn't a Final or Consecutive clause, Gerund or Gerundive, that made lzim pause I Then the hth Form master up and spoke, Politely addressing the dear old bloke: Dic age, senex, die: quis es tu F lTo the uninitiated -H Sir, who are you F D, The old man answered kindly: Please, I might be, young gentlemen, Socrates, Or Plato, perhaps, but I'd have you know, My name it is really - Cicero. Your pronunciation 's rather queer: l'Vicissim' is now ' we kiss 'im', I hearl, But I think I could teach you many a trick Of the ancient tongues, . . with Ihr aid of zz ,ttirk .' I tell this fale, not strictly true, just by way of convincing you, How very little, since boys were made, Things have altered in the teaching trade I Spes. when the first snow falls When the first snow fell I put on my skis and went up the mountain. On the moun- tain the trees were bent with the heavy snow, and the ground, as far as you could see, was clean and white. The sun was shining and all the world was glittering. There were other people skiing besides myself who seemed to be enjoying it too. I had my dog with llll

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FOR THE SCHOOL YE.-XR 1935-1936 me, a Springer Spaniel puppy, who loves to race about and is a very good runner. Some- times I couldn't keep up with him, so then he sat down to wait until I was in sight, when OTT he went again at full speed. :Xt last when I was tired and breathless I skied over to watch the skiers taking the larger hills, but the puppy was a nuisance because he insisted upon running down behind them, so I had to take him away where things were less ex- citing for him. The sun had gone down bv the time I reached home, and in the dusk I failed to see my brother who was waiting for me with a large supply of snow balls. There followed a battle. As a result we were covered with snow from top to toe, but it was worth it. T. S., Form I. lla Sainteflitiznne en Zlanngrie Si vous me le permettez, -ie vous raconterai la plus grande fete nationale hongroise: la Saint-Etienne. Tout d'abord, je vous donnerai une breve description de notre arrivee dans la belle capitale de Bude-Pesth. Nous sommes arrives, le 19 .lout 1934, venant de Yienne, sur un bateau du Danube. En descendant le Heuve, les villes jumelles de Pesth et de Bude nous presentaient un spec- tacle que je m'en vais tenter de vous decrire: sur la rive gauche tc'est-a-dire a l'estJ est situee Pesth, la cite, lf die Industriestadt D, pendant que sur l'autre rive, se trouve Bude, ff die Residenzstadt D, batie sur des collines innombrables, avec sa citadelle qui domine toute la scene et qui est construite sur la plus haute colline, au sud. Sur les collines de Bude s'elevent plusieurs beaux ediiices: le Palais Royal, le Bastion des Pe- cheurs, l'eglise du couronnement, le monument Saint Gerard et autres. Lors de notre arrivee, il faisait deja noir et tous ces monuments de meme que le palais du Parlement etaient illumines pour les fetes de la semaine. , b Cette grande fete de la nation hongroise, la Saint-Etienne Q20 aoutj, permet at tout le peuple hongrois de se rencontrer, pendant la semaine solennelle du I5 au 20 aout, at Bude-Pesth, cteur et capitale de la I-Iongrie. Les provinciaux hongrois viennent visiter la capitale dans les nobles et pittoresques costumes des ditlerentes regions du pays pour rendre hommage a la memoire du premier roi de I-Iongrie et pour jouir des charmes de la capitale hongroise, devenue, en peu de temps, une grande metropole. Ce rendez-vous general reunit chaque annee les hongrois et il est evident que la fare nationale depasse de nos jours les modestes limites d'une fete de famille pour le peuple hongrois qui, avant la guerre mondiale, n'etait qu'une partie d'une grande monarchie et qui a subi, peut-etre de ce fait, des pertes plus lourdes que toutes les nations avant parti- cipe a la guerre, I Les ceremonies profanes de la semaine de la Saint-Etienne commencaient cette annee, le 1-I aout. Chaque soir du 1-L au 21 aout, on donnait au Theatre Municipal des representations de scenes populaires, tt Gyongyos Bokreta mi tee qui signilie ct Bouquet de Perles Dj. Ces scenes rustiques representees par des paysans et des paysannes de la campagne hongroise, ont deja acquis une reputation mondiale. Ces pieces rustiques sont l'image du peuple hongrois, tel qu'il se voit dans le miroir de ses arts multiples dans ses belles danses anciennes, ses usages antiques, ses costumes riches et originaux et de ses l23l