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

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 3 ' flllluair in thr Svrhnul. This Term has been an eventful one' with hard knocks all along. The singing in the Chapel was remarkably good from the com- mencement, a new method of singing rather than chanting the can- ticles was introduced and enthusiastically taken up by Choristers and School alike. U In the midst of our preparations for special music for the usual Confirmation Service and Easter Festival, that unromantic complaint known as mumps appeared in the Junior School, the necessary iso- lation of the Boys resulting in the disappearance of the Trebles from the Choir. We missed them very much but continued to make sat- isfactory progress by holding practices in both Schools until that ghastly coniiagration of March 3rd. destroyed both School and the magnificent Chapel. NOTICE T0 OUR FRIENDS The Headmaster has received so many kind expressions of sym- pathy that it has been quite impossible for him to answer them per- sonally. Through the Record he wants to thank everybody for the wonderful confidence reposed in us all. s i c nl fl ff

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2 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL The School extends its heartfelt gratitude to all those assisted in any way on that disastrous week-end of March 3rd, By our Wayside Cross and its memories Let's carry on, Keeping ever before us that admirable Trinity, Thoroughness, Courage, Sacrifice. All our friends know by now that the policy of our Headmaster is immediate reconstruction on a scale of nobility commensurate with the spirit shown by the School on that disastrous 3rd. March. No one can speak too highly of the courage and loyalty exhibited by the boys, and the institution which fosters such a group spirit should be a noble one in architecture as well as in ethics. Our readers have already guessed what we are leading up to: an appeal for help when the time is ripe. The sum necessary in excess of insurance to rebuild will be a large one, and through this medium we are anxious to present our situation as it really is. The traditions of Trinity College School must be kept alive, and that in a building in keeping with that noble monument to the courage of T. C. S. boys. the Junior School. With the sum recoverable from insurance this or even a very modest scheme would be impossible. So, readers, we arf- anxious to prepare your hearts and purses for contributing to an enterprise of national import built on the sacrifice synonymous with the name, Trinity College School. Our temporary headquarters at Woodstock, details of which are given later in this issue, have been definitely acquired to-day, and in such a way that mature thought can be given to our re-establish- ment in Port Hope. As will be gathered from the later account, we have been very fortunate in securing such a suitable building for our activities till we return to Port Hope. Co-operation and the same loyalty of March 3rd, are all that are asked for to transfer success- fully to Woodstock the whole Senior School and to carry on with a spirit that will announce our community as Trinity College School no matter where it is located. Y U11 li ll. .4' .: . .... - ,.. uae llil ... .F .1 ..- u' K' 5 fl! I iii 3- ... A.. .., ,,. :73.i 1 l ...... use .. . N.-I .- ' -1. 2221 f E a !t,i 'SEM , .,. l'::i ahah 5525 li l 1.1.- ::::: 142:22 -1.34 13:1 ill: 'ifzf 'NH .Lauri l 112.1 162:13 ' 512: Fill! time gigs 1 A . . F l 5: I gk? :sg E215 Lil: 52355 122552 Isis? 4 2 4 , ,. 4 II! -1254 4 I- 4.555 '-iii? .:,-. ll' . Fig Q1 5 ii .1. 'QIE 14:5 la Q1 fel SET? girl: VI.. :test Cffff ,i ir.. .:'ifi' 'chief 'Quiz 595541 UIQ: 52955 ziffif Mi' Tiff Fila ffifxi' .U .Fi rgiifli . ..:' 'I3l. ..,.1. rm: l .1 Row 1. 54 Mil 4 'Yi

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4 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD tlirrat Erahntustrrs. The subjects of this essay. Drs. Thomas Arnold and Edward Thring. Hcndmasters of Rugby and Uppingham respectively, were not born great nor had greatness thrust upon them, but achieved greatness. What we already know of Dr. Arnold through his famous son Matthew lvide - Rugby Chapel . Sixth-Formersll makes it little surprising that his was the nature and his the intellect and leader- nhin best fitted to reform and invent for the great Public Schools. Findlay's excerpts from intimate touch with the ter. Coming to Rugby was being expressed on encountered a field only Stanley's Life of Arnold give us a very thought and action of the great Headmas- as he did, at a time when dissatisfaction every hand of the existing institutions, he too open for improvement. And from our knowledge of the man we know that what he did achieve was the birth ot' a mind and soul crying out for a revolution in matters of Public School Education. His early years at Laleham, his love of tuition and the success which attended his small classes there, laid the foundation of the practical side of his reforms: what changes he made might be attributed in large measure to the suggestion he welcomed from all sides, even from former pupils of his School. He first established a connection between Masters and Boys and between Masters and himself, the lack of which had long been an evil ln Public Schools. He maintained that School business was to claim the undivided interest of the boys and yet they were to have suillclent leisure for self-improvement. In each Master he desired to see what he was in his own department. It was an increasing delight to him to inspire them with the general views of life and educ-tion. bv which he was himself so fully possessed. Ultimately, so thoroughly did the School depend on him that whatever defects lt had were his defects, whatever excellences it had were his excel- lences. As to School policy, his wish was that as much as possible should be dozic by the boys and not for them: hence arose his practice of treating the boys as gentlemen, and making them respect them-