Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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SKLWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE chants populaires. Les representations de la piece rustique le 44 Bouquet de Perlesv nous montrent le village hongrois rendant visite at la capitale et realisant par la-meme cette unite hongroise qui fut le but supreme de la politique de Saint-Etienne, premier roi de Hongrie. I.e I9 aout, il y eut une fete nautique et des canots ornes de fleurs paraderent sur le Danube qui deploie Bude-Pestli plus de eharmes et ajoute plus aux beautes du paysage qu'en aucune des autres cites riveraines. Il 5' eut aussi des Concours athletiques entre l'ltalie et la Hongrie, des courses d'aviron sur le Danube, des courses de chevaux et autres activites sportives. La nuit de la Saint-Etienne est celelwree par un feu dlartiliees traditionnel qui eclaire la ville de sa feerie resplendissante. Mais les fetes atteignent leur point culminant quand la procession religieuse quitte le 20 llllflf, de grand matin, le Chateau Royal de Bugle et passe at travers des vieilles rues cle Vaneienne ville, portant solennellement, dans un reliquaire d'or, la Main Droite Sacree, relique miraculeusement eonservee du premier roi de Hongrie. Toute la Hongrie omcielle prend part 51 cette procession dont les vieux et magniiiques costumes evoquent les mille annees de passe glorieux. On peut aussi voir parmi les rangs presses de la procession la bourgeoisie et la paysannerie hongroises. Une place predominante est naturellement reservee a l'eglise catholique dont la Saint-liltienne est une des fetes les plus remarqunbles et dont le saint roi lui-meme, qui n'est pas un personnage mythique se perdant tlais les brumes des Sagas prehistoriques, mais qui fut couronne par le Pape Sylvestre ll apres avoir repousse les paiens cle l'Europe orientale en l'an mille, fut un des plus ardents soutiens. R' B. G. J. CSQI-LS., 1928-33.5 jaumher 307 N Illllbfl' 307, was IZ Ll'0kL'7I !l0'ZUl1 Fowl, IV01'lh 1101 1IlIlt'h1 more fflllll I1 111111: I I 'w11.ff1.ve1l fogfflm' wifh 1111il,f 1171111 foul, lflllll Il f0IlI7lt' Qf P0lc'.f4f0l' ll 1'111111i11g-ho111'11', .ind l1111'11'li' ever 106111. If had lo he f1'1111lef1l 1'z'1'11v qznzrlvz' Qf Il mile, For .flop il Ill'lC'llVV.f would l .Jud 11.1 for ilr hnzlcfxv, Ihr-v were .fimplv :ile .' If 111111 11'0w11hill 111 pfzjffrf .rf-vlf, B111 11p if 111':'v1' ronlfl. The 7't'Il.f07I-f.0l' iff .vloppillg whvzz -2'0iII.Q' uphill, 115 owner C't'llX' ,lA00'1uf0H,lll7, The gzzf 1l1'ipp1'1l 0111 Qf the mgizze fill If all hml gout' 111111 the mr .fmofl xfill. S0 he went up the wrong way roznnl. .ilfhongh th1'.v 5111- ronlfl hnrfllv go, lt ,ff'1':'f1lf01' Iwo week: well: 'Till it went too-fax! when if .vhoulfl have gone slow, .ind .thot off Il 1'lQ'f to Il 1'i:'1'1' helow. . . .iml the raft I'fl hare to fell ! M. L., Form VI. l 34 l

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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

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1955-1936 The Cincbanteh wunhlanhs In a distant country stood an immense wood, standing far from human life. It was an immense and unimaginable wood, divided into three parts by two rivers, which flowed gently along, shining and beautiful. And there in that enchanted wood, Wihere every kind of beauty stood, Where every sort of flower grew, Where birds of lovely colours Hew, Where trickled little silvery brooks, Filled with fishes, not with hooks, Was nature, which no man had seen, Where human life had never been. And in this Heaven rabbits ran, lintroubled by the fear of man, Because no human foot had trod fpon this green enchanted sod. In the middle of this wood stood a tiny house, hidden by the huge trees which sur-- rounded it, and made to look as gold by the straying Sunbeam which reached it through the velvet green foliage. From this house drifted voices raised in singing, and the play- ing of music. For in this house there floated to and fro the spirits of the dead, And although they were not able to be seen, they made themselves felt in a magical way which no man has witnessed. Why weren't they able to be seen F Because there were no dead. And in this house also were hidden the joy, grief, happiness, and wickedness of the world. Then we will continue to the far side of the wood, where there stood a large man- sion, in which the souls of those who are about to be born dance and sing in merriment. YVhy do these people play and laugh 3 Because when they reach the world they will work and cry. Yet they will eventually leave it, and happily return to the enchanted wood. ln another part of this enchanted wood is the hidden entrance to Hell where go those who do evil to their brothers, and there, in Haines, they toil and work in grief and agony, until, after they have expiated their crime, they are let out, to run away and hide themselves. ln yet another part of the wood is a large cavern, filled with weeping souls, who cry and tear their hair. For this is the place where come those who commit suicide. Why do they cry F Because they wish they had stayed on the earth. But undoubtedly more strife would have been their lot, if they had. And in the last corner of this wood stands a huge golden palace, which glitters in the sun. Its spires reach almost as high as the enormous trees. And in that palace the souls of heroes, who died for their country, dance and sing in laughter and delight. For these people deserve the most. Can you wonder that the wood is enchanted F l 25 l