Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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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.

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U01 THE ASHBURIAN SCHOOL NOTES li Rlilililfl' to record the departure from the Stal? of Ashbury of Messrs. B. K. T. Howis and K. B. Castle who have returned to Fngland to take up positions there. XYe welcome to the Stat? Mr. A. ll. Brain, late of Oxford and the University of Toronto. Klr. Brain has inaugurated a series of short lectures on the Italo- lithiopian situation delivered by himself or by a boy, each morning in the week. before Chapel. XYe congratulate ll. D. l.. Snelling on heading the Bowling Averages of the O.Y.L'.C. last june. This is the Hrst time an Ashbury boy has led the list since the founding of the club. As a stimulus to literary activity among the boys The Ashburian offered this term a series of cash prizes for the best and second best articles, stories, poems, and one-act plays submitted to the Editorial Board, and gave also two prizes for photography, on the understanding that any pictures that were awarded prizes might be reproduced in the magazine. Below is given the prize list for this issue:- Articles: 1st prize awarded to XY. A. Vrant for his articleiion Radiationg 2nd prize to G. Brown for The Silent Hen. Stories: lst prize to ul. C. Tyrer for Food from the Skiesug Znd prize to A. Dunning for Murder at Hillcrest Manor. Poems: lst prize to KY. A. Grant for In Days of Old 1 Znd prize to tl. C. Tyrer for Perseverence. Photography: lst price to F. Burrows, 2nd to R. Musk. The prizes for the best and second best short one-act plays were not awarded. The Ashburian wishes to express its most sincere sympathy with Norman McCormick, whose parents died recently. SCOUTS N OCTOBER Znd. the first meeting of the Ashbury Scout Troop was held in the gymnasium. Mr. Brodie kindly consented to be Scoutmaster and we feel sure that he will be an excellent leader, with his knowledge of sig- nalling and out-door life. Mr. Brodie has by now become acquainted with the routine of a scout meeting and in the mid-term break. took the troop out for a hike. We have had several meetings. and the patrols are now completely organized. The Troop Leader and Scribe are F. Burrows and H. Baker respectively. The members of the Eagle Patrol are as follows: l'atrol Leader, Y. XYilgress: Second, ul. llyndman: and li. Forde, M. Crerar. R. Bailey and M. Curry. The Owl Patrol consists of I'. Yiets, Patrol Leader: li. XYilgress, Second: and B. Lawrence, IJ. Klacl.aren, S. llopper, and I. Macllonald.