Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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TRINITY COLLEGE sciaooi. RECORD THE HAPPY WARRIOR Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas: Qulque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari. O what a friend and what an enemy Thou gav'st, Prometheus, to humanity! That bitter day-begone ye hours forlorn- That bitter day with Aeolus forsworn To wreck and ruin and noble eifort iiout, Pagan thou wert and art that dealest out Destruction with blind consuming flame To none who fattened on thy flesh and shame. With fire thou gavest means to burn and build, The means to shape our ends just how we willed And nothing loth we'1l wield thy building power In compensation just, till hour by hour The thing takes shape, another monument To sacrifice and courage nobly blent. THE SNOW BIRDS While frost enfolds the wintry plain, Sw:-ct April comes at last 'IH visit us with buds and rain '-ml dress anew the past. Anil mst to yield is the frosted fir, If:-mi: the 1-olcl embrace is wrest, Then comes the happy harbinger From climates mild and blest. XVith silk:-ii vxing they wend their way To herald season's change, And. singing blithe the approach of May, We-r colder climates range,

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 7 Mnnhainrk. The purport of this article is to sketch to our Old Boys our new home. The name Woodstock recalls, of course, Sir Walter Scott's famous novel of that name, and in the Chapel of King John, a handsome Parish Church in the town of Woodstock in Oxfordshire, mutilated eifigies lie scattered about. 'Torn from their destined niche-unworthy meed Of knightly counsel or heroic deed! Such will be our fate if--, but there is no if, Trinity College School has to be the same all the world over, Port Hope or Wood- stock, it's.a1l the sam eg however, lfVoodstock is a name that con- notes many things peculiar to the achievements of T. C. S. Woodstock has accommodation for 150 boys in rooms to con- tain two beds, which might also be suitable for studies. The'eight or nine class rooms are completely fitted out and will occasion no delay in the resumption of our academic work. The dining-hall is really a building in itself with complete refectory appointments: it is spacious and dines the full number at tables to seat eight to ten. The gymnasium is larger than the ordinary with elevated running track, and a handsome swimming pool sets off the general surprise at our unforeseen good fortune. Chapel will be the Assembly Hall. In what was the Ladies' Building there are five separate suites for married masters, all self-contained. Although at present there is no place on our curriculum for manual training there are blacksmith's engineering and carpenter's shops. Since it is two years or thereabout since the College was occupied, the playing-fields have not been tended. but stout hearts with the aid of matting will enable us to carry on with our Cricket. As to location, it is within the town and but a quarter of a mile from the station. Taken all in all we are very fortunate to have been able to secure such premises, and we will always remember the Headmaster's untiring eiforts to give us of the best in our dif- ficulty. C

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 9 Sweet advent! many a. heart doth sing, But lately sad and weary, To see the flight of eager wing Dispelling all things dreary. And seeing, listening with our soul To Nature's harmony, We feel the sway from pole to pole Of a guiding Deity. Ed. Note:-This is the thought expressed in a contribution of F. J, N. in verse, which was unfortunately lost in the nre. The Ed- itor has endeavored to reproduce it from memory. -i THE AFTERMATH In the half-hour when salvage was possible the whole School worked with a will to save what personal effects and furniture they could. While the flames raged, bundle after bundle was deposited in the space in front of the Cross: every motor lorry m town was engaged in transporting etfects to the Armouries, and yet the shambles for hours showed no signs of diminishing. Early Monday, after the boys had been sent to their homes, the Staff and local boys set to the task of classifying eifects and pack- ing them in sacks and at the moment of writing are stifl engaged, while the Headmaster is as busy as man can be with the task of re- organization. The ladies connected with the School, with unexamp- led persistence and courage, continued for three days in bitterly cold weather to reduce the chaos to something like order. Badly marked and unmarked clothing rendered the task very, very diffi- cult, but at last the end was in sight, with only the unmarked cloth- ing claiming owners. Although the Lodge was saved, the contents suffered terribly in the awful hurry to save them from fire, and the sympathy of the School goes out to Dr. and Mrs. Orchard and also to the resident masters in their loss.