St Johns Ravenscourt School - Eagle Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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H dm tm Jomuod The tumult and the shouting died, the Phoenix arose in all its splendor, and that intrepid band of young men who comprise the Lower School trooped into the beautiful new building which was to be their modern house of learning. It is a fine building, a convenient building, a spacious building, a well-planned building, a thoroughly utterly likeable building — the Lower School’s pride and joy. Gone are the pile drivers, gone the jack drills, gone the wild dashes to the gym through the frigid winter, and gone the challenge of physical hardship. From September onwards we have gazed in comfortable contemplation at our new surroundings and carried on the day to day routine of school with wondrous ease. But ' as flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods’ and they have grown jealous of our pride and our com¬ placency. They have grown angry and assailed us repeatedly. Their first attack was arrogantly straightforward — a series of — 40° temperatures creating new records even for Winnipeg. Their second was more insidious — an indiscriminate sowing of influenza seeds. Their third was vitriolic — a snowstorm of unparallelled fury: and all these were withstood manfully, and in the last case even gleefully by the day-boys who were unable to attend classes. And now with pure malevolence they are launching an ever more sinister assault; for they have inveigled the old man of the Red River to rise; and rise he has done; inch by inch and foot by foot up the sloping shores of the school: a surly, lurking, watchful, cold-hearted creature who cares little for mere entreaty, but who is to be met with a wall of mud and a massive wall of sandbags filled by the school at the rate of 9000 bags per day to deter his envious attempt to inundate our fine new building. Whatever befalls, the Eagle will be printed and you will be reading this in retrospect and inevitably one thing or another will or will not have happened. The water will have swept the dykes or it will have been fought back or the water will have slunk away unimpressively: but whatever the case those who rose to the occasion and laboured to fight the threat of a flood will have the lasting and memorable satisfaction of knowing that they did all they could to help. Jom on BACK ROW: Malcolmson, MacMurray, Barnes, Edwards, Webster, Menzies, Beech, Kiddell. CENTRE ROW: Hammond, Gallagher, Mr. Beare, Mr. Kiddell, Mr. Shepherd, Heffelflnger, Stein. FRONT ROW: Boult, Saunders, Newman, Briggs, Morris, Boyd. MISSING: Henderson.