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

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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.

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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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4 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD CHARLES HENRY BRENT Ambassador of Christ By FREDERICK WARD KATES Vlfhen we recall some of the greatest modern builders of the reign of God upon earth, the name of Charles Henry Brent flashes instantly upon our attention. All who knew this rare spirit, re- fined in the furnace of God, recognized one who had offered up his life, as a living sacrifice, on the altar of the service of God in this world. At first a rather shy, diffident clergyman quietly exercising his ministry as an inconspicuous priest in a South Boston slum- area parish, Charles Henry Brent developed during the years into one of the most intrepid and gallant ambassadors of Christ the world has known for many years. When he died, the night of March 27, 1929, in Lausanne, Switzerland, a city which had be- come a symbol of his life, the Christian world mourned the pass- ing of a tall, somewhat austere, often deeply lonesome man who had grown during his lifetime into one of modern Christendom's foremost leaders, prophets, and seers. ' A consecrated Christian' spirit, mind, and willg a friend of hu- manity, a servant of God, a gifted writer and commanding preach- er, a missionary statesman, a Christian gentleman, a prophet of world unity, and the 20th century's greatest champion and apostle of Christian unity-Charles Henry Brent has been fitly called Everybody's Bishop. At home at different times in Canada, Western New York, Massachusetts, the Philippines, the Orient, Europe's battlefields, no corner of the world can claim him as its own. Though born a Canadian, Charles Henry Brent was an Ameri- can citizen for almost forty years, combining a deep devotion to British ideals and customs with a militant patriotism for the United States of America. He was born in Newcastle, Ontario, Canada, on April 9, 1862, the son of The Reverend Canon Henry Brent and his wife Sophia, in a parish where his father was rec- tor for forty-two years. From his earliest memory his mind was set on the ministry. At one time he said, I do not recall an instant of my life when I aspired to any vocation excepting that of the Ministry, but on one brief occasion when I faced the possi- bility of becoming a musician. As a boy at school the Ministry seemed to me the one vocation worth considering .... Were I again on the threshold of life I would choose as I have chosen. DU Preparation His education was carried out with a view to his calling. He prepared for college at Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, one of Canada's great boys' schools, and in 1884 he was graduated from Trinity College, Toronto, with classical honors. In school