Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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H01 THE ASHBURIAN of self-government thot school-boys con be given. lt is not very much, prefects oct under the orders ond occording to the policy of the mosters. They ore chosen by the mosters, ond the greoter moss of school-boys ore left with no voice in their fote ot oll, On the other hond, too much freedom must not be given to boys. l-lumons ore noturolly lozy, ond this is especiolly true of boys. So the pupils in o school do need some sort of supervision to keep the system running smoothly. Whot is needed is o prefect system with further, but not complete, seporo- tion from the control of odults ond some body representing the rest of the school -some sort of students' council thot could decide whot policy the prefects were to pursue, thot could review comploints ond suggestions ond poss on the more reosonoble ones to the l-leodmoster, ond thot could serve os o nucleus round which the vorious octivities of the school could form-plonning of societies, excursions, etc. :,: :,: :,: Self-government in o school is o highly dongerous thing to meddle with. lt is common knowledge thot mojor politicol upheovols ond revolutions olwoys occur in o country not when the period of suppression is ot its height, but when reforms ore mode. As soon os o repressed people feel the iron hond slockening they ore reody to put it off foster, The some could be true of o school, not thot the pupils ore suppressed, but once they ore encouroged to think of things they think ore wrong with the school, their comploints will come in for foster thon they ore justified. As on educoting system, the formotion of something like o students' council in o school is highly to be commended. lt teoches the pupils o number of things. lt teoches them self-expression. lf the stoff represented ore owe-inspiring enough, it con teoch toct ond diplomocy in o difficult subejct. It shows the pupils thot the orgonizotion of o school is not just writing out o set of rules ond thot there is o lot of orgonizing to be done. The very thought of such o system omong boys is indeed o dongerous one. lf we could be sure thot every boy would think ond do his job such o system would be excellent, but the overoge boy is inclined to think in terms of personol friendship rother thon for the betterment of the institution. .i. .-. -1, .,. .,. .,. One of the chorocteristics of the British people, is thot they stubbornly refuse to be oppressed in ony woy whotsoever by on outocrotic government, but they will submit to the greotest hordships willingly, if they know thot their own representotives hove opproved them. Likewise in o school, boys should be given the reosons for oll the mony rules, ond there should be on ossembly of boys to discuss ond propose them. V An importont function of this ossembly, would be the question period, in which prefects ond members of the stoff would be osked questions concerning seemingly pointless or unfoir rules ond octions, which they moy hove mode. The ossembly would hove little or no reol power, but the very foct thot they would hove to onswer for their deeds, ond give sensible reosons for rules, before the

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U21 THE ASHBURIAN We are sorry to lose the services of Hugh Huggins, who has played the organ for us for so long. We are grateful to Mrs, Baker, who substituted for him. Miss Shorter continued to play for Sunday Morning services, and on Sunday Evenings we were helped by Eliot I and Pegram in turn. A successful innovation, Eliot I played, with success, at the Leaving Service, while Grant l, Darby, and Grant ll sang. The Bishop of Ottawa, Right Rev. Robert Jefferson took the Confirma- tion service, on Ascension day, assisted by Mr, Poole, and Mr, Wright, curate at the Cathedral, There were l6 Ashbury Candidates and 3 from Elmwood, who had been prepared by Mr, Poole. The confirmation class presented the chapel with a Hymn Book suitably inscribed. Elmwood, to whom we are already indebted for the prie-dieu in the chancel, are giving us a prayer-book to match the Hymn book. Chapel clerks this year were Hatch and Shenstone, who both did a good job. We were glad to see Dr, Woollcombe, our Founder taking part in the Leaving Service at the closing in June. ' -lg-Q-3-. HON. H. H. DAVIS Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada We are very sorry to record the death of Judge Davis in July l944. A governor of Ashbury College since l93B, he took a keen and active interest in the school in spite of ill-health, and was at all times available for consultation and ready to give sound advice, His sound common-sense and high principles made him a very valuable counsellor, and his place on the Board will be hard to fill. We offer our sincer sympathy to Mrs, Davis and her daughter Diana.