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

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T e Black and Red September, 1951 VICTORIA, B.C1 NO. 81 Managing Editor-The Headmaster assisted by Masters and Boys CONTENTS Page Editorial 11 1 1 5 School Notes 11 1 6 Confirmation 11 11 1 9 Academic Results 11 1 1 9 Speech Day 1 11 11 1 10 Prize List 111. 1 11 11 Annual Sports 11 12 Rugby Football 11 11 15 First XV Matches 11 111.1 16 Rugby Characters 1 26 Cricket 11111 1 11111 11 27 First XI Matches 11111111 27 Cricket Characters 111111 1 31 Cross Country 1 11111 1 1 32 Grass Hockey 11 32 Tennis 11111111111 33 Swimming 1 1 11 33 Boxing 11.11111 11 3-1 Rowing 11 1 3-1 Riding 11111111111111 11111111111111 1 1 35 The Gymnasium 1111111 35 Cadet Corps 11111 1111111 3 6 Shooting 11 11 11 11 -10 Wireless 1 1 41 Scouts 11 1111 1 1 -12 Photography Club 11111111 1111111 -1 -1 Debating Society 11 1111 1111111 -1 -1 Music 11 11111111 11 1 1 -15 The Vivat Players 11 1 11111 1 1 -16 'Candidates Are Urged To Use Ink . . . 46 'Fir Winds, 1111111 11111111 1 1111 1 1111 1111 49 'Shakespearian Sonnet' 11 111111 1 50 Old Boys, Notes 1111 11111 1111 1 5 0 Correspondence 11111 1 11 11 1 1 53 Acknowledgments 111111 11 1111111...1 53 3

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ll-ED TORIAI. September 15, 1951. Up betimes and early to the School Office, this being the last day before the Magazine must go to the Printers and an unconscion- able busy twelve hours of labour before me. And do suppose that with a measure of application I may in no very great length of time make a fair enough piece of writing to do bravely for an Editorial. But, Lord, when I do consider the multiplicity of our operations during the past year, and the many Clubs and Societies and Matches and Events and Alarums and Excursions Cboth within and withoutj upon which I must make comment, I am at a loss where first to make a beginning, and of a truth can but with difficulty envisage my poor little wood of an Editorial for the multitude of the trees. Then of necessity rllust come the same little Devil that doth haunt all writers of Editorials to whisper in my ear his reminder that all these aforesaid Clubs and Societies and Matches and Events Cyea, and the Alarums and Excursions to booth are dealt with in full, each in its own and proper quarter of the Magazine, and that, though as it were I am given leave in passing to touch upon them lightly, yet I must go no further, which would be a trespass upon the offices of the reporters who are therein concerned. SoI do once again, this year, find myself reduced, in a moment of reflexion, from a plethora of matter very near to poverty and want, and know not whether in its place merely to treat aerily of the year's weather or, as I have known one Editor do aforetime, boldly leave the first page of the accursed Magazine blank, in publick protest that an Editorial be an untimely, unnecessary and altogether plaguy thing. So I begin to fret and to fume and to chew my quill and to utter harsh and unseemly words against the first begetter and in- ventor of Editorials, until good Mistress McDonough, toiling over against me, be hard put to it to attend to her secretarial duties and must fain request me to put off my Editorial travails until a later time of the day, and so I do. Thus at night I do sit in my study until twelve of the clock with a fair white sheet of paper empty before me and no more mat- ter in my mind than a mouse, when of a sudden comes my Good Hlife from her bed to make inquiry why I am so prodigal of electrick light at such an ungodly late hour ffor 'tis a pesky sexi. But, when I tell her that I am but another Editor at my very wits' ends for an Editorial, she berates me roundly, saying that the business is easy enough in all conscience, and bids me merely to put down that the School goes well Cwhich, in very truth, it doesd and, to my Readers fsupposing that I may have anyl, Good Greeting and as Merry a Perusal as they can get from these pages, and to add that if they desire the rest of the matter they will find the same by a turn or two of the leaves: and for myself to make all dark and to come to my rest, it being very near midnight. The which without further ado I decide to write, with as good a countenance as I can raise, and then do switch off the offending electrick light and so to bed. C.F.G. 5