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

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twisted like the vine which lingers on the bland blue oak. he has anticipated just that stroke so there on the level of his knee low he breaks its twittering elasticfshuddering flightg not only saves a four or three but, darkhaired Wight, brings off a eatehg is praised most highlyg though he grins and grins and still is . . . silly Midfvvicket. Form IV has this Plaint-- The ball is as round as a hole in the ground, And hitting tofday is the crazeg But silly MidfWieket is up to each trick. It Can never find him in a daze. The pitch may be humpy And bumpy and lumpy: But any catch does for P. The Shell does it this way- Peter played a cricket match On the level ground. Peter got a little catch. Peter's hands were sound. And the Latin.Class has- Ballo propulso, strocum tune fortiter is made. Catchus erat magnus sed Peter easily cepit. And may ther be no money at the bar When I put out to sea . . . -Shell C. There were four loaves and six fishes and it had to fill a lot of people, and it did fill them. - Shell B. 19

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the age of seventeen and a half, having completed his Junior and Senior Matriculation. He is a candidate for the Royal Canadian Naval College and hopes to be in attendance there next September. During the past year he has been O.C. Cadet Corps, a member of the First Cricket XI, a sturdy forward on the 'First Rugby XV, and a long distance runner on the Track Team. Beckton entered the School in 1940. His academic ability is well up to the average for he is sixteen and is completing his Junior Matriculation this June. This year he was quite outstanding as Sgt. Major of the Cadet Corps, a valuable forward of the First Rugby XV, Captain of the Cricket XI, and a member of the Shooting VIII. We are looking forward to having him back with us next year to complete his Senior Matriculation. IN LIGHTER VEIN QSome remarkable fielding has evidently crept into the classrooms, for the following extracts were found in discarded note'books.j From the VIth- Our fielding is a sleep and a forgetting: The catch that rises to us, our great chance, Hath elsewhere had its batting, And cometh from the bat: Not in entire unconsciousness And not in utter hopelessness, But spreading hands of valor do we try To send the batsman home. From the Vth, who have been doing a course of Modern? Poetry- the modern poet writes his verse and even Form V couldn't do worse fbut, if I were really modern, badder I'd say: for worse rhymes and it is madder or realistic not to rhmej. grand he drops his fingers 18

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