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

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 1' FEATURES Some of you may have turned eagerly in your ignorance to this section to read all the funnies and the latest gossip around the school. Well, sorry to disappoint you, but this is the old School News under a new title. Actually it is a little more than that. Chapel notes, Choir. Brief biographies, and anything else no one wants, are thrown over to Features . I hope at least it doesn't read like a pile of rejects. In the past, Write-ups tended to be more or less dull accounts of fact usually ending off with . . . a good time was had by all. Ugh! This year, We have tried to introduce a little opinion into the articles, a change which will probably be more noticeable next term when Debating and Career Talks come under fire, from the fierce, intelligent, roving band of Features reporters. So, if you want some laughs, turn to George's section, On Campus . If you, COld Boys in particularl, want to know about last year's illustrious Sixth Form or the extra-curricular events going on around here, or our new English whizz in Economics, read on. -J. P. M. BRINGING HOME THE BACON I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE -Millard

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6 TRINITY COLLEGE SCIIOOL RECORD ever had before. Thus, it seems to me inexplicable that so many people stubbornly repeated that they thought we had no school spirit. Surely school spirit is none other than the spontaneous interest of the students ot' a school in what their school is doing. And, surely this is exactly what The Record represents - the 'record' of what interest there has been in school functions and an index of the resulting school spirit. lt' we could only fill ten pages or so a year with trivial accounts of games and copious amounts of class pictures, then there might be grounds for alleging that our spirit was weak. But when we fill 387 pages Cthat is more than any other school magazine I know ofl, no one can dare even hint that we are not well endowed with spirit. The obvious question now is, Where does spirit come from? or What causes spirit? Athletically, spirit might come from victories and certainly, victories help. However, this is not the whole answer. We have not been as successful as some schools in some sports, but we still have the energy and drive to win our share of games. More likely, a better in- dication of spirit is the number of people trying out for a team. I could not sav that a school with only twelve men on its first football team showed much spirit, even if they won every game they played. Truly, the opportunity to participate in many extra-curricular activities plays a large part in getting people interested in their school. Very few boys will be content to do nothing from classes to dinner when all their friends are playing on teams or working with clubs. Some people will never play for a first team, but, if they have a chance to work with a club instead, they still can feel a sense of pride in having accomplished something just as valuable. Of course, the whole point of extra-curricular activities is that they are, for the most part, voluntary. I do not believe in the forced spirit which dictates that all members of the school will cheer at games, attend debates, and suffer if they do not. A team definitelv plays better if all the members want very much to represent their school and are not merely playing because someone said they had to. Similarly, any club wil be a failure if its members are conscripted and attend functions only in body and not in mind. It is a good thing, in some cases, to indicate the good points of a club or team, but the final decision to join or not must be en- tirely up to the individual. Two things, then create or at least help school spirit: the opportunitV tw contribute and the freedom to make the choice of contribution. Both these elements exist here and The Record is the medium by which they are represented and recorded. The Record might be considered the biggest 'club' in the school. So long as The Record exists as it does, never let it be said that the spirit of T.C.S. is not of the highest. -J. E. M. The Cover Thoae of you who are subscribers of old will have noticed that The Record has a new cover. Designed by Henry Bull, the cover represents the development and outward looking nature of the school. It also trcpi'es3-nts another step toward making The Record a product of the IOVS ll OIIC.

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