St Michaels University School - Black Red and Blue Yearbook (Victoria, British Columbia Canada)

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, . The College buildings and grounds are splendid, the Mac- donald Engineering Building, which has just been completed, is a magnificent erection. I like it here very much, the fellows are splendid. You would be surprised at the number of Englishmen here. There are a number of Victoria and Vancouver men also, several of whom I knew-Goldie Anderson and Gibbins from the Vancou- ver McGill, and Bannerman and Bob Green from the Victoria High School are among them. The Rugby they play here is the Inter-Collegiate game, it is a mixture of American and Canadian Rugby. I don't like it nearly so well as ours.' I do hope our boys will get a good team this year, and wipe out the Schools in Victoria and Van- couver. I wish you would tell the Old Boys that I should like to hear from any of them. I am very busy, or I would write first. Yours sincerely, W. DI. PEARSE. .1l111 V HISTORY OF THE TWO SCHOOLS s Part I. The Queen's School There are still a few boys at the University School whose memories will carry them back to the founding of the old Queen's School' in Vancouver, ten years ago. This institution was opened in 1898 by- Mr. I-I. W. Cole- brook, at the corner of Georgia and Bute streets, and among the boys who attended in the opening term, the names of Bell- Irving, Harrison, Kinmond and Stoess are still familiar to many of us here. Two years later, when Mr. Harvey came out from England to join Mr. Colebrook's staff, the School numberedover sixty boys. Gwen Sawers was head-boy, and captained the Rugby fifteen, which, even at that early date, played and defeated the Collegiate boys in a well-fought game at Brockton Point. In IQOI Mr. Colebrook left Vancouver, and Mr. Harvey took over about 30 of the junior boys. But an- other two years brought the numbers up again, and in 1904 a new building was occupied at 16oo Barclay street. Cricket matches were not yet possible, for lack of local opponents of our own calibre, and Rugby was not played again until the end of, IQO5, but the 'Athletic Sports were held every year at the end of the Summer term. In 1905 the School was strong enough to play a regular series of cricket matches, under the captaincy of C. W. Stoess, 'winning four Cincluding two with the Collegiatej, ,losing two, and drawing one. 16

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get in some very big hits. He was Colour-Sergeant in the Cadet Corps. - OLD BOYS' COLUMN Note.-After each boy's name the date is given in brackets on which he left the Queen's or the University School. J. Holland C065 is in the Fifth Form at Haileybury, Eng-- landg S. F. Sweeny C025 is leaving Haileybury at Christmas, and returning to Canada, R. Ker C085 has just entered that School. I F. Waterfall C085 has just been entered at a Private School at Ealing, near London, where there are at present his brother, C. Waterfall C065, H. Roberts C065, R. Archibald COI5, and M. S. Hayes R. W. Dickinson C085 has joined the staff of the Bank of Montreal, in New Westminster, which already includes R. Baker C025 and H. Harrison C055. F. Foster C075 has been made prefect of St. Andrew's College, Toronto, where he is also Secretary of the Athletic Association. J. G. Thomson C065 is at the same School. R. H. Tupper C065 is Captain of his year at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, Isle of Wight. Ivor jackson C075 and the two Colemans C075 are at Uppingham School, England. W. J. Pearse C085 is taking the first year in Arts at McGill University, Montreal. B. L. Sawers C065 and G. Farrell C055 are taking the first year in Arts at the Vancouver McGill College. . A. B. Irving C085 and H. C. V. Macdowall C085 are Cadets at the Royal Military College, at Kingston, Ont. R. F. Winch C085, K. Bryan C085, and C. D. Harrison C085 are working in offices in Vancouver. J. McCaul C045 is a prefect at Upper Canada College, and a member of both the football and hockey teams. Burns C065 and E. G. Langley C075 are at the same School. 11. OUR McGILL LETTER 301 Prince Arthur Street, Montreal, Que. Dear Mr. Barnacle,-I have been leaving my letter until I had some news of the College and of my course to give you. The session opened on the 21st of September, th-ere is a large enrollment of Freshmen this year, 210 in Applied Science, 80 in Arts, and about 80 in Medicine. I am going in for a double course in Arts and Law. 8 15

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An addition was built' to the dining-room in january, and in the same term the School Gazette was started, which was issued regularly up to the time of leaving Vancouver. At Christmas, I9o5, we gave two plays at the Speech-Day, one of which was in French. Our first season at Rugby resulted in two victories over the Collegiate School, while with the Van- couver High School we won three games and lost five. In the Summer term of 1906 we entered our cricket eleven for the Nelson Cup, but were unsuccessful, the trophy going to the High School. In the Christmas term we managed to defeat the University School at Rugby, and at the Speech- Day gave a very creditable performance of The Rivals. The early part of IQO7 was notable for the completion of a new wing to the School building, and by the commencement of regular military drill, which eventually led to the formation of the Cadet Corps in the following October. In the Summer term we were successful at cricket, carrying off the Nelson Cup against the High School and VVest End Clubs. We again beat our old rivals of the Collegiate by a narrow margin, but were badly defeated by Mr. Barnacle's team. At Christmas the Barclay Street School was closed, and in january the Queen's School re-opened in Victoria, with a view to the amalgamation with the University School, which took place last August. ,..i.11,. AN UNPUBLISHED FRAGMENT FROM THE VOYAGES OF SIR JOHN MAUNDEVILLE, A. D. 1322 e . . . Now to the eastward of the land of the Khan of Tartary lieth the sea of Ocean, the which hath no man crossed, saving only the present writer and his company, and of the marvels we beheld on the farther side thereof I will now set forth the true history. Having departed from the island of Zipangi we sailed with a fair wind for many hundreds of leagues, and came at last to land where there was a great city and a fair harbour, all en- compassed with high houses and palaces of stone, and the name of this city in our tongue signifieth the City of Victory, but some say that it was so called after an ancient queen of that land. And the people of that land are for the most part white, but there are many of the men of Cathay, and of the men of Zipangi, and of the men of Hind, but the people of the city love them not, and some would fain cast them out, but their rulers suffer them not. And these people are without doubt pos- sessed of the greatest enchanters of the world, and yet they regard not magic, and seem to hold it of small account. And one of the greatest of their enchantments is to make chariots to go ' 1 7 . x