Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1937-1938 on the benches, when suddenly Skipper Owens slipped and fell on the metal floor, his arm pushing over the lever. There was a roar as the machine, suddenly and startlingly, came to life. They could see little of the scenery, only glimpses once in a while, as through a semi-opaque wall. Tliey saw huge forms looming up near the machine, but frightened by the noise, Qthey afterwards discovered that they were giant sauriansl, they would lumber away. At last, as suddenly as it had started, the machine stopped, there was a click and a slight whir and the semi-opaque screen vanished, and, for the first time, they could see the forest outside. But it was a forest so utterly alien, so diFferent from any forest any of them had ever seen. Then London, who had been conversing with Stillger in low tones, exclaimed: I think this is the vegetation that existed in the Jurassic Period of the Mesozoic Era, some 90,000,000 years ago. Skipper Owens gasped. Phew l murmured one of the men, 90,000,000 years before I was born l Stillger, who was well known in London as a naturalist and a palzeontologist, was in his element. He was expertly netting small specimens of the animal and insect life that abounded on the swampy ground. London, who was a mathematician, was sitting quietly in the shade, ignoring the buzzing insects, his pencil working at lightning speed. Skipper Owens, glancing over London's shoulder, saw nothing but a mass of weirdly arranged algebraical symbols and equations. Suddenly one of the men came stumbling blindly through the undergrowth, bleed- ing from a dozen CLItS and deep wounds on his arms and head. Look out , he screamed insanely, they're coming, alligators with wings! six yards longf almost got me... and he collapsed to the ground. Stillger cried out in a panic-stricken voice, To the machine, quick l or you'll be mincemeat. Here they come, pterodactyls, dozens of 'em l The men started for the machine, but before they half reached it, veritable hell broke loose l The men carried modern express rifles, but of what use is an express rifle when there are dozens of flying devils swooping down on one from all angles F By the time they got to the machine there were live of Owens' men missing. London pulled the lever back to its original position. Five missing, eh F Not a hope for them, poor fellows, he said. By some miracle of chance, they had pushed the lever back to its former neutral position, and as they walked back towards the ship, London was muttering to himself, VYhat a boost to science, warping the space-time continuum, this machine will have to be transported to London, to be used for scientific purposes. As to its origin, I won- der. .. D. H., Form 4. l39l

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Slil.VYYN HOUSE SCHOOI, NIAG.-XZlNla Qllbristmas in jlltlexitn. ln Mexico we had a boat made of cardboard. The people put nuts and candy into this boat. They would pull them up and down with a rope, then they would break the candy with a stick. Then all the children would run to pick up the candy. We'd do this after school. Our school was in a back yard where my Grandmother lived. :X lfrench teacher taught us there. XY:-'d draw squares there, as in arithmetic. All this was before Christmas. One Christmas my Grandfather gave me a pony: his name was Pinocchio. l often rode him at my birthday party. There is never snow in Mexico except on the high mountains. l went swimming in a pool in the open air on Christmas day. There is a beautiful park in Mexico City named Chapultepec. On Sunday mornings gentlemen riders known as Charros wearing large hats called sombreros are seen riding through the park. Often an orchestra is playing under the trees, and the Charros stop to listen to the music and to talk and laugh together while their horses prance. Many little boys in leather trousers and 'iackets like those of the Charros ride on ponies near their fathers. K. N., Form B. L.-Xge 73 The Utims Machine. lfor the second time within a year, the little schooner Toronto sounded her way carefully through the numerous reefs and shoals outside the large, uncharted, tropical island off the coast of South America. Two months ago they had sailed between the same dangerous reefs, with the Object of charting it. They had gone into the interior, and, in a small clearing in the dense jungle, they had found the Time Machine. They had not then known its purposeg and Skipper Aloe Uwens, the old salt who owned the Toronto , had produced a battered old kodak and taken two or three photo- graphs of the machine. These photographs he had shown to the Royal Society in London. None of these distinguishshed scientists had ever seen a machine that even slightly resembled it. Thus it was that Skipper Owens, as he navigated the reefs for the second time, carried as pas- sengers, two eminent scientists, Professor Stillger and Professor London. This time they had a little diHiculty in locating the Machine but after Houndering through the lusuriant vegetation for about twenty minutes, they saw the sun glinting on it, some distance away. The two scientists dashed up to it, followed by that part of the crew that had not stayed on the ship. There was a large covered platform beneath the main part of the machine with a huge leyer in the centre, and two or three low benches around. The men were cooling ofl l29l

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SEIAYYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE Q 3Bicture hp a tnelbknutnn Qrtist. The name of the picture about which I intend to write is The l.aughing Cavalier . I don't suppose anyone knows why it was called that, for its correct title is The Portrait of an Otlicer . It was painted by an artist named Franz Hals. His father and mother were very rich. Most artists, it seems, come from poor families, but it just happens that this great artist belonged to a rich one. He liked to paint simple pictures of children, or of people. This picture was painted in the early seventeenth century, about 162-I, just about the time when Pieter Paul Rubens was also painting some of his masterpieces. VI'hen I was over in Fngland last summer l visited many museums. One of these, in which is The Wallace Collection , is where the original portrait of The Laughing Cavalier hangs. The artist is very fond of auburn. He uses this colour mostly for hair. The pic- ture, as you know, is of an oliicer or cavalier. He is wearing very thick clothes. Starting at his head, and thence down to his waist, they consist of a very large hat, under which his hair shows. Here Hals uses the auburn hue. Then, around his neck there is a white lace collar. The rest of the clothing that he is wearing in the picture is a very heavy, em- broidered coat. He has lace around his wrists. The rest of his body and legs cannot be described, the reason being that the picture is only three-quarter length. Although he is called The Laughing Cavalier , his expression is not merry, but haughty and slightly sneering. I like the picture of The Laughing Cavalier because it looks so real, just as if he were looking in through an open window at you. No detail of any sort has been left out. The lace around his wrists and neck are painted so perfectly that the holes in the pattern of it can be distinguished quite easily. The whole picture was painted very in- geniously. Franz Hals was a great artist! C. .-X. Q. B.C.-Xge 115, Form 3. The jfigbt with Quliatb. Now the Philistines gathered their armies together, and said that they were going to send out their strongest man, and that the Israelites had to send out their strongest man, and the two would light, and if the Philistine won, the Israelites would be their slaves, and if the lsraelite won, the Philistines would be their slaves. The Philistines sent out a giant named Goliath, who was six cubits and a span in height. The Israelites sent out David, who was only a youth, and Saul armed him with a coat of mail, and he put a helmet of brass upon his head, and girded him with a sword and told him to go and meet Goliath, but David said to Saul that he could not go because he had not proved the armour, and he took it off. Then he took his stat? in his hand and took live smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, and his sling was in his hand, and then he went up to the Philistine. Then the Philistine said that he would feed David to the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the land, but David said to Goliath: You come to me with a sword, and with l30l