Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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26 THE AsHBU1c1.4N CATULLI CARMEN LXXXIV Arrius, a fool, said S iootable when he meant suitable, Hinsidious when he meant insidious: F-attered and flapping the While He had spoken so well. I believe his mother spoke like that, AQso an uncle And his motherls people. Tien, thank God, he was sent to Syria: XVe all had a restg Had just begun to forget the dissonance XYhen back came the word, That from old Arrius' passage XVe now had the damn'd Hionian she. M. P. Howes PRESENT TENSE The town lies on a flat Wasteland by the side of the river. The river is dirty and so is the town. All through the summer the river smells, dirt lies in the streets of the town. The paint on the houses peels off in strips. The wood underneath is grey but the sky is blue. Then it snows and all the dirt is covered. The sky is grey but the river is frozen. The air smells clean. The snow embraces the wasteland with maternal concern, pleasantly shadowed lumps mark the site of the dirt. The winter wears on and the snow is criss-crossed with hundreds of self-important footprints. The dirt mingles with the White of the snow and a horrible brown oozing slush, interspersed with pickets of white, masks the town. The snow catches in the cracks of the paint and hides them. Pleasantly tapered icicles hang from broken eaves and an ivory tracery on the windows covers the cracks in the panes. The children of the town play in the snow and their teeth stand out yellow against it. ln the local store the floor is covered with the brown slush. The white dress of the big woman at the counter is spotted with it. The paint on the church is whiter than snow. Christmas tree lights hang from the fits by the door - and it's February. The snow melts, the ice on the river breaks up - spring thaw. The brown slush gives way to brown puddles. Sodden dirt emerges from its long winter sleep. The clothes of the children are no longer white when they get up from the ground. The ground is wet and brown. The sky is grey and so is the river. lt starts to move sluggishlv. The season of hope is upon us. i P. G. Loftus ln School, including Margaret and Mr. Alexander's pigeon hole. Photographs by A. E.

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JN THE ASHBURIAN SIIUULD STUDENTS XYORK IN THIS SUMMER? AN UPINION FROM 9A One of the major questions, perhaps problems, confronting society today: should students work in the summer? My mission is to find some answers to this puzzling issue. In the solution of a problem of this nature, we must obtain certain specifics about it. If you Want to take the word student in its general meaning, it means any person of any age going to any institution and being taught by qualified teachers. The age differential could range any- where between 5 and 50, and more in some extraordinary cases. But let us assume people in junior high, in more detail in senior high. Those in colleges should be especially concerned. Now that we have established what levels of a student body we are talking about, let's discuss. each category of the above mentioned. Get this clear: I do not think it absolutely essential for a person of junior high age Qusually 14 or 155 to try to find an occupation in the summer vacation. If he desires it, his summer can be hot and lazy. But I will say this: a young person who does get a job in the holidays is laying a solid foundation from which he will get experience, probably dealing with people and likely with money matters. The student in senior high is a bit different. During the summer most of them have nothing to do. They never think of getting a job and doing something useful or constructive. Consequently, breakage of the law in these months is not infrequent, a good percentage of lawbreakers being senior students. I think it is quite easy to draw a conclusion from this. It is not utterly mandatory to get a job at this age, but, unless you have something else that is really Worth while, your best summer will be spent doing a task of some kind. Finally, we come to the controversial and much talked about college student. In most cases it is only fair on the part of the student to earn some money to help pay for his tuition. If not working, what are they going to do with their time: smoke, read poetry, have a baby? They need experience in jobs at this point. Only in too short a time they will be faced with the unenviable prospect of being completely self-sufficient, paying taxes and all the rest of it which is politely called the 'rat race'. I sincerely hope that I have given you some outline on whether you should get a job or not in the summer. In conclusion, then: let all your summers be prosperous ones. I. M. D. Smith