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

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2 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD However, there is a rarer, far superior type of courage, wliich few people can claim to have. It is the courage that religious martyrs had, when they sacrificed their lives at the stake, rather than recant their religious beliefs. It is the courage that makes people stand up for what they know to be right, regardless of the consequences. To put it briefly, it is the courage to be different. Such situations sometimes occur in a boarding school of this type. The ideal of too many of the boys here is to be the same as the rest of the group with whom they spend their time. Many of the boys will gladly do anything, whether right or wrong, to remain popula.r with the rest of their friends. It is a rare person who will refuse to fol- low the bad example of his comrades and say that it is wrong, therefore he will not do it. If he has the courage to do this, he will sometimes be shunned by all his former friends and will not have a happy time at school. He will then either admit defeat and, by surrendering his principles, hope to regain some of his lost popularity, or else he will def end his beliefs, and have the inward satisfaction or know- ing that he has the strength of character to be different. Such a man rarely has many friends, but the few that he has will be true friends because they respect him for his courage. It is only this sort of man that will achieve real success, the others will be condemned to a life of mediocrity. A boarding school like T.C.S. provides a severe testing ground for such a person. If he can stand up to any criticism here, he will gain the confidence and strength of character to surmount any obstacle he meets in later life. -H.L.R. -:.x '- 'r emi +A -X-what it if V 'A A wi!

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Trinity College School Record Vol. 57. Trinity College School, Port Hope, October, 1953. No. 1. Editor-in-Chief-H. L. Ross News Editor-P. W. A. Davison Sports Editor-P. M. Kilburn Features Editor-H. D. Molson Literary Editor-J. R. Cartwright Business Manager ........................................................ J. B. W. Cumberland Assistants ........ -B. R. Angus, M. J. Audain, J. R. Blaikie, K. A. Blake, J. W. Boake, G. L. Boone, W. F. Boughner, D. C. Budge, T. R. Carsley, L. T. Colman, R. G. Church, M. R. L. Davies, A. D. Donald, D. A. Drummond, D. L. C. Dunlap, D. I. Goodman, D. S. Kertland, R. H. C. Labatt, B. Leech, A. K. R. Martin, R. Matthews, H. R. A. Montemurro, D. S. Osler, J. A. Price, R. C. Proctor, P. F. M. Saegert, P. M. Spicer, E. H. ten Broek, A. A. van Straubenzee, D. M. Willoughby, R. I. K. Young. Typists ........ D. C. Hayes, E. A. Long, C. D. MacInnes, I. S. M. Mitchell, J. R. Ruddy, L. A. W. Sams, H. M. Scott, R. C. Sherwood. Illustrations ............................ J. F. deWattevi1le, P. H. Roe, C. H. Ruddy. Treasurer .......................................................................... P. R. Bishop, Esq. Managing Editor .... .............................................. A . H. Humble, Esq. The Record is published five times a year in the months of October, December, March, June and August. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Printed by The Port Credit Weekly, Port Credit, Ont. EDITORIAL In the newspapers every day there is usually a story about an act of heroism, perhaps a woman has rescued her child from her burning home, or a man has saved some- one from drowning. The reading public usually think of them as heroes, and as being uncommonly courageous. But in many cases these people are not possessed of any more courage or heroism than the average person. The woman would, in most situations like this, be driven by blind unreasoning fear towards getting her child out of the building, her love for it would outweigh any worries about danger to herself. By the same token, most men, if they knew how to swim at all, would at least attempt to save a drowning person without stopping to consider the risk to their own lives. These heroic deeds are caused more by blind instinct than by rational thought.

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 3 ll' S t ,,, lfflvl, I I -iii ii H112 ll IUWIIIJIIIIIINIIVW IIIIIHIIIIIHHIIIII llllllllllllllllllllIllllll If 1 aim. THE CHAPEL AND OUR LIVES On September 13, the first Sunday of the school year, the Headmaster addressed the School. His subject was the place of the chapel in our lives. He traced the history of the chapels of T.C.S. from the first, which was built largely by Doctor Johnson himself, to the present memorial chapel, which is our seventh. He also described the details of some of the furnishings of the present chapel and mentioned the generosity of the many people who made possible such a fitting memorial to the Old Boys who gave their lives for our freedom. All were glad to hear, too, that the lancet windows for the sanctuary, a memorial to all Old Boys who fell, would soon be installed. Mr. Ketchum then stressed the importance of the chapel in our lives. It is a place, he said, to which We can turn and forget the stress and strain of a busy world, a place for meditation where we may find how to be in com-