Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE There is a canal behind them, on which two gondolas quietly glide. There is a church on the left, and a terrace on the right. They are joined by ll small bridge, so that people can walk from one side to the other, while the gondolas are passing underneath. On the tops of the roofs ofthe houses there are galleries, where people often go up to watch the boats go by. It is noon, and the sun is shining brightly upon the amber-coloured houses which are held up by supports which are driven into the bottom of the lagoon. The clouds are as bright as the heavy costumes of the Venetians who are standing on the piazzetta. All is going well, all is quiet, and everybody is happy. I. S. C., Form 3. iiaumetnurk. Poor Sonny hzzled homework, Sitzfe his life at School hegzzn, So to tzzlee the irlc from homeicorlc, Heformed zz little plzzn. I have zz horrid prohlem, Dear lllother , he would .fIZ'X', .ind zz zzzzxty little hezzdzzzhe Pirked up in Clzz.v,r today. 5 Iflfill-vozz help me with it, illzzter P It'.fjz1.ft zz little 511111, Iizsoltiing third dimeizfion, ,- ,ih l I k716iL'j'0Il'd help me, Blum. Or it might he Greek Izzmhizzf, Or Latin z'er.ve.v, or 4f7I euzzrx' or Frenrh exerrife, Set zzf his evening fhore. Of! he'd zzpprozzrh hi.ffzz1her.- Dad, ,vou't'e zz heart of gold: Yozz med to he so brilliant .it Szhool in zlzz-nv of old So Dzzd would do the verses, .ind Irv to make them Jnzn, .ind Q' they led to znrxex, Son ,fought out .fitter jmze. For .June was rezzllv rlerer, Her brain e.x'trzzordinarj': She never failed, oh never .' .11 the ladies .reminzulu X221

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 193'-1933 When a group of Fascists comes into power, their leader becomes a dictator, and his word is law. The Fascists do away with all unnecessary laws' and practically eliminate waste in government. Some of the weak points in Fascism, however, are that its methods are too drastic and that the freedom of the citizens is greatly lessened. There is, also, greater risk of war, because a dictator does not have to consult anyone but himself, and has no dread of an election in the near future. Usually when a country becomes Fascist, it regains its self-respect, and after every- thing has been put in order at home, the leader tries to enhance his prestige by fostering the country's ambition to expand, which usually leads to a war. Communism is very much opposed to Fascism in that it is a system of society in which common property is the recognized form. Fascism is national, while Communism is international, in other words Communism is the poor man against the man of property, while Fascism is an efficient but tyrannical form of government adopted by a particular country. Communism not only contiscates property to redistribute it as it sees fit, but con- scripts labour. Communism pampers the labouring masses, while Fascism shows no partiality to any Special class. :X Communist country is governed by the masses for the masses, while a Fascist country is willing to sacrifice the individual for the good of the state. Russia and Italy are, respectively, examples of the Communist and Fascist nations of the world. In Russia, the low type of man has triumphed, while in Italy the higher and more intelligent men are still at the head of affairs. For instance, Mussolini is a much better type of man than Stalin. The chief trouble about Fascism is that if the wrong man becomes dictator, life is liable to become as dreadful as it is in Russia. The chief trouble about Communism is COMMl'NlSNI. KI. C. Form 6. The Eesnriptinn uf a iBi:ture. The picture which I am going to describe is called Una scena in Venezia CA scene in Yenicel. It was painted by a Venetian artist, Francesco Guardi, who lived from the year 1712 to 1793. The size of the picture is one foot, two and a quarter inches high, by one foot, nine inches wide. The foreground consists ofa number of people standing on a piazzetta with gondolas tied to it. The people on the piazzetta have powdered hair, and very grand costumes with gold lining. l2ll

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FOR THF SCHOOL Yli.-XR 1937- H38 Nowfor the md awakmirzg, Iflzm Exam. time lzzzppfd llf0Il,,Q.' Poor Sonny mme zz fropper: Herclv the .fad par! of my .rang I .ifaxfor fifffr Sonny, Hii' pnrenls' pride and pet, H8,fHifFl7lil1 mein' paper Tlzoff frnef l7IIlJft'7',i' rat. I ablzor rerrizzzizzaliom, But when flzf bubbfe bzzrsi, In .vzzid e.wzn1i11ari011,v, Son mmf in Karl, not firrl .' N0 fe! me pain! the moral, Lzmls, pzzrv11t.f, .vi.vlw'.v 100: If S071 wozrfff uwzr the laurel, illnrlz lzffp zz! h0IIIt',.V fabon f Spes. Q Zllrip Buunh the worm. Not long ago I was fortunate enough to be able to take a trip round the world. On january 7th, 1936, I left New York with my parents and sister, reaching Bombay, India, on February Ilth. Ifn route we called at Funchal, Madeira, and Las Palmas, in the Canaries, where we saw all the important sights, and at Cape Town and Durban in South Africa. I thought both these cities very pretty, and especially enjoyed seeing the Zulu war dance and the Valley of IOOO Hills near Durban. Upon arrival at Bombay we saw the Towers of Silence, and then entrained for New Delhi, where we met Lord and Lady Hillingdon. We next went to Peshawar, and then drove up the Khyber, passing through Lundi Kotal, from which we could see Lundi Khama, a small village near the frontier separating India and Afghanistan. From Peshawar we went to Lahore, and then returned to Delhi, where I attended a duck shoot, and proceeded to Jaipur, where we stayed at the palace of the lNIaharajah. There was a tiger hunt here, but we had no luck. On March 2nd we went to Udaipur, where we saw the Peacock Palace and the Wlater Palace, and arrived at Agra on the next day. There we saw the famous Taj Mahal and its beautiful screen. Thence to Gwalior, where I attended two tiger hunts. Here is an extract from my diary: f as INIarch 7. This morning we waited until 10 a.m. for news of the tiger, and were so excited when we heard there was one in the beat. We soon left for a place 42 miles out of Gwalior. Our cover was situated on top ofa cliff, and we were looking down into a ravine on one side of which was a river and on the other a small jungle. just in front of us there were two openings cut in the jungle so that we could see the tiger. A few minutes after the beat started he came into the l23l