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

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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 AN UNPUBLISHED FRAGMENT FROM THE VOYAGES OF SIR JOHN MAUNDEVILLE, A. D. 1322 e .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

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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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without horses, and of these they have great store. Some have bars of iron laid upon the roads to guide them, and they are great chariots, in which any man may travel if he pay the smallest piece of silver of the country, but others they have which are without guides, and these hurtle hither and thither at will, wherefore men call them bubbles. I was myself nigh- hand slain by one of them, whereof the charioteer was a man right felonious and foul, and of an evil savour. In this city I lodged my company in an inn of incredible bigness, and they call' it the hostel of the Empress, though I know neither king nor queen that hath so fair a palace. They make light their houses with certain small bottles of glass, which by their enchantments they fill in an instant with ex- ceeding bright light, which is a great marvel. And in that land a man may speak with his friend, though he be many leagues distant, if he but say Hello to a hole in the wall, and this I have essayed many times, wherefore I know it to be sooth. And many of their arts are the just con- trary of ours, for whereas we build our houses of stone, and kindle fires of wood therein, in this land they build very many houses of wood, and burn on their hearths a kind of black .stone, which they find in great abundance in the ground. And this I have seen with mine own eyes. Now it fell' on a certain day as I walked abroad in the city that I encountered a youth, very green of countenance, who held in his mouth a burning stick, and smoke issued from his mouth as he were possessed of a fiend from the Pit. And when I drew near to see .this marvel, he spake to me and en- treated me, saying, Cut it out l And when I would have drawn my sword to do his bidding, he made great outcry and fied, and would have called the watch: wherefore I departed from him. And in another place I came upon a great house, having before the gate two cannons of iron, -exceeding great, and by the gate stood a tall youth of ruddy countenance, dressed as a soldier, in garments of the colour of dust, and on his helmet he bare a band of black and of red: and from within the house came the noise as it were of a great battle. And I addressed the youth, and he spake me right courteously, and told me they did but exercise with musketoons in this house. And he told me many marvels, hard to beli-eve, namely, that in battle these musketoons would throw a ball many hundreds of yards, and slay ten men arow, and make no smoke withal, so that a man was oft slain before he so much as saw an enemy. And he told me that on a mountain nearby dwelt a great en- chanter named Gonzales, who had set up a tall mast, and as he sat at the foot thereof, the winds told him all' that happened in that land, yea, and what ships were on the sea manv days ere 1 8 '