Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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,U THE ASHBURIAN THE PGETRY READING CONTEST AMES XYRr:FoRD, Canadian poet of the admirable Of Time and the Lover , kindly agreed to be our adjudicator this year. The contest was held in the school chapel, and proved a most rewarding perform- ance-if only because there were twice as many contestants as last year, when the contest was inaugurated. The Senior School competitors read Edward Thomas, SWedes,' as their set piece, the junior School, Christina Rossetti's Uphill . The unseen passages were respectively, Herbert's The Pulley and XVilde's Requiescat . The Middle School read the junior set piece and the Senior unseen. ln addition each boy read a passage of his own choosing. Dr. XYreford expressed great amazement and pleasure at the number of contestants and at the high quality of their renditions. He found it most diflicult to choose two prize winners, therefore it was decided to award three prizes. liven so, the third prize had to be split, because of a tie. The winners were: lst prize, presented by Prof. A. Edinborough of Queen's Univers- ity-j. Fraser. 2nd prize, to be named in honour of Dr. TYreford, the XYreford Prize-S. lYoollcombe. 3rd prize, presented by C. C. Dayton-D. Alexandor and T. Finlay. XYQ are most grateful to Dr. XVreford for his interest and good judgment.

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'I HE .JSHBURIAN Iv THE SKI CLUB Ni-iw function was added to .-Xsliliiirfs winter sports this year, that of a Ski Club. The Club was formed by boys of all ages and the only qualification one had to present to become a member was a keen desire to ski. Our Headmaster obtained a cabin for the club, which was situated only a short forty minute hike from Camp Fortune itself. lt was divided into four rooms. three of which were used for sleeping quarters, and the fourth as eommon room and mess hall. lt was equipped with two stoves and sixteen bunks. Needless to say of course the sixteen bunks were slept in regularly on week-ends of skiing weather. A committee was formed by the fellows in the club and the cabin was extremely well managed through- out the season. johns' Fripp was hired as an instructor for the Ski Club aswell as the school's Ski Team and many of the members of both groups profited greatly from his instruction. We would like to thank Xlr. Perry for taking such an interest in our skiing and for helping us the way he did by getting our club started. Our thanks are also due to Xlr. Polk for his co-operation in helping us make the arrangements without which our ski trips would have been impossible. 1

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