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

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2 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD master and a staff who, in the opinion of some around the School, have exercised and still do exercise, complete con- trol over all matters, ruling the School in the form of an autocracy. This idea is as foolish as it is shallow. The mas- ters are here because they are experienced and have ability to teach the boys, the boys are here to learn. Therefore it is obvious that the masters will control the scholastic end of the School life entirely without the aid of the boys. Classes, however, represent only one side of our education here. The extra-curricular life is to a large extent directly up to the boys themselves. All the teams, of course, have coaches but a coach can do little without the co-operation of his players. If the boys themselves are not willing to play and work with the coach and other players it is cer- tain that the team will be Worth nothing although it may have an excellent coach. ' More important than either the classroom or playing field are the lessons a boy learns on how to live har- moniously With others. Surely this cannot be done with- out the co-operation of the boys themselves. They must learn to adjust themselves to fit in with others, they have to be able to give up graciously some of their own personal desires for the good of the majority. There is also in the school life here a close co-operation between masters and privileges-House Officers, Seniors, and Prefects. These boys perform many duties about the School and a great amount of trust and faith is placed in their co-operation. In a way, the formation of these privileges tends to make certain cliques in the School which are resented by others. This should not be the case-that is, there should not be the cliques and also boys shouldn't resent these privileges. There has to be as close co-operation between the boys and the Seniors and Prefects as there is between the Seniors and Masters. A system of having the boys in the fifth and sixth forms vote for privileges was begun this year and seems to have worked out very successfully. Here,

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Trinity College School Record VOL. 50 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL, PORT I'IOPE, OCTOBER, 1946 NO. 1 EDITOR-IN-CI-IIEE ...... J. B. French NEWS EDITOR ..... .... I . B. Campbell LITERARY EDITOR .... ..... G . B. Taylor SPORTS EDITOR .... ..... A . C. B. Wells FEATURE EDITOR .......... ......... .............. T . W. Lawson BUSINESS MANAGER ...................................... M. F. McDowell ASSISTANTS ........ M. Armour, A. M. Barnes, S. Barton, R. D. Butterfield, T. G. R. BI-inckman, D. A. Campbell, G. R. Campbell, W. A. Curtis, R. H. Gaunt, W. K. Newcomb, A. Powell, D. Prentice, I. F. H. Rogers, S. Morgan, M. E. Wright. PHOTOGRAPHY ................................................ S. P. Baker LIBRARIAN ............ ............................... P . L. E. Goering TREASURER ........ ............................. A . H. N. Snelgrove, Esq. MANAGING EDITOR .................................... A. H. Humble, Esq. JUNIOR SCI-IOOL RECORD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ....................................... W. I. I-I. Southam ASSISTANTS ....... .... C . N. Pitt, P. A. C. Ketchum MANAGING EDITOR ............................. C. I. Tottenham, Esq. The Record is published .tix times a year, in the month: of October, December, February, April, May and fuly. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. EDITORIAL No doubt thousands of Words, good and bad, have been Written about boarding school life and its comparison to the ordinary high school curriculum. Although I am, in a way, going to increase this number, my object is not to debate these points one Way or another but merely to point out one advantage offered by boarding school life to those who Wish it, and to discuss this important factor directly as it applies to T.C.S. A school such as T.C.S. could not function without the co-operation of the boys. There is, of course, a Head-

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 3 the boys themselves are choosing their own leaders and thus they have no cause to resent the boys of their own choice. This voting for privileges is another instance where the co-operation of the boys is needed to run the School and keep it functioning properly. There are here as elsewhere certain boys who have little spirit of co-operation, but want only to get away with as much as possible and to get as much as they can out of the School while giving nothing in return. One big advantage of boarding school is that boys are not required to attend by law and thus it is not necessary for a boarding school to keep this type of boy. This seems the only sensible way to look at the problem for if the boy has no thought for the School but only fo-r himself he is not doing himself or the School any good. It is this essential and basic idea of living in close com- munion with others and co-operating for the good of every- one which a School like T.C.S. teaches a boy and so pre- pares him in no small way for his future life in society. -.J'.B.F. 4 Ax , El J X if I .Jimi - 'iii rag -1... g . . fa , 1 ' 1' ' : 5' - ' 1 , ' 115, 1 Q 'J:i'LL '1s fc l.:t -.LS Q . T' 'a7ln'12.