Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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The Headmaster

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expression within the school. and it is the magazines duty to encourage all THE ASHBURIAN l9l EDITORIAL H AN the lithiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Ynlike either of these The Ashburian has very definitely changed both its skin and its spots, and reappears now rejuvenated and ready for the kill. This issue of The Ashburian is published by the boys. ln the past the boys have played little or no part in the actual organization of the school magazine. and their interest in it was noticeably on the wane. They were ready to read it when it was printed but they did not seem sufficiently interested to write for it. and they criticized it because they had had no part in the making of it. True. contributions from the boys were always readily accepted, but the reports of the games and of the various activities of the school came from other sources. The boys failed to realise that the success or failure of The Ashburian must always rest with them and that it is printed just as much for their own interest and in- struction as for the interest of others, Their interest waned because. in the large sense of the word, it was not their magazine. It was with the determination to remedy this apathetic outlook that it was decided to reorganize the staff of The Ashburian, appointing boys to editorial positions. thereby definitely placing the responsibility of the School magazine on their shoulders. How they have borne this responsibility is for the reader of this issue to judge. for with the exception of a few official notes everything has been written by the boys. They have reported their own games. commented on contemporary exchanges, edited their own articles and stories, and. in general. have written the magazine. That, we feel, is as it should be. A school magazine is undoubtedly printed to give news about the school for others to read. That is the very reason for its being, But a good school magazine has another purpose to fulfil and, to ot1r way of thinking. an equally important one. It should be the medium for self- literary it print way to smaller talent that can be found within the school's precincts. Xot only should whatever suitable contributions it receives. but it should ferret out all latent ability. It should encourage, for boys to try their hand at writing by assuring them that go out of its example. the a story by a boy of nine is just as likely to be printed as a story by a boy twice his age. . Again, the magazine should distinguish between the various types of literary ability. The boy who cannot write two lines of verse may be just the one to describe a football match. and it is the duty of the magazine to see that that boy does not hide his light under a bushel and that he is made to feel respon- sible for the due exercise of that talent. Such, then. are the duties of a school magazine. XYriting. says Bacon. maketh an exact man, and if The Ashburian can only have the satisfaction of making boys appreciate the value and necessity of exactitude in the world today it will have surely justified its existence. If it can claim to have encouraged and brought forth any real literary talent it will have more than fulfilled its purpose.