Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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THE BRANKSOME SLOGAN 31 will read in crossword puzzle form — Best for all the family — Take one home to the children 1 Dr. A. Wordie ' s Dictionary of the English Language ! The authors that we call worthy of fame will still be well-known, not, however, for the merits of their works, but as definitions. Those chldren will know Wordsworth only as the definition for a child, and Shelly for that of a skylark. Tennyson will, no doubt, be used frequently to define princess. ' It will, indeed, be a strange sight to see the school-children learning geometry, that they may create better designs for their crossword puzzle competitions, and literature solely to enlarge their already prodigious vocabularies. Art, too, will not escape, for future men of genius will receive many commissions to illuminate crossw ord puzzles and paint the portraits of prominent crossword puzzleists. It will be a strange world, indeed, if something is not done. So, as we are the people who must accomplish this great task, let us immediately unite all our efforts in a world-wide campaign to abolish the crossword puzzle. For we do not want our descendants to place the initials B.(C. after our names, to mean, not Before Christ, but Before Crosswords ! PHYLLIS HARVEY. Peg Stafford HelEn Innes HeleN Home Muriel Munn Susan ROss Jean PiRie Margaret Smyth. Marian Ainslie Margaret DoNald EDith McKay Helen SPence Jessie W Right No rah DEacon Mary DuFf Kay E. Wilson Helen Chitty Margaret AiTken Marjorie JoneS Ruth GOulding Gwynneth ScholField Peg TurnBuU Dorothy Henry Honey LawSon

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30 THE BRANKSOME SLOGAN Dinner is always an interesting event in a boarder ' s day, and speculation as to the menu is a favorite pastime en route to the dining-room ; how ever, even if there isn ' t ice cream for dessert every night, there is sure to be mail afterwards — for some people! Another brief — all too brief — respite, then a bell informs us that the big event of the evening is about to take place, and everyone rushes downstairs to engage in same. Oh, study, of course ! Nothing could take the place of study, and without it, our lives would be empty — of trouble ! Study speaks for itself, even if we can ' t speak in it, so why dwell on it? However, eight o ' clock finally comes, and with it — relief ! For, study over, we can now spend the rest of the evening in the pleasant occupation of talking, or of reading — or even of eating, if w e haven ' t already consumed all our edible possessions. Nine-thirty comes all too soon, and darkness and quiet actually reign once more in Branksome ; and as we drift to realms of slumber, the thought comes to us that it certainly is a fortunate thing to be a boarder at Branksome — even if one has to study occasionally! MURIEL MUNN. Form V. SHALL IT BE THUS? The crossword puzzle — how innocent it sounds ! But what will it to do the world if its popularity continues to increase with such vast strides as it has in the past year? Even description or definition fails to give one the full significance of it. As a result of the great vogue of the crossword puzzle, it would be w-ell if we looked into the future, say a century from now, to see what the world will be like, if this ever-increasing vogue is not completely checked before it becomes a menace. Therefore, let us view the lives of the people living one hundred years from now, and see to what extent they have been influenced by the crossword puzzle. We all know how interested the children of our day have become in crossword puzzles, and so we should not be surprised to find the children of 2025 being taught in school by the means of the puzzle. Their history will, of course, be very different from that which we groaned over in our youth. To them William the Conqueror will not be noted for his conquest of England, but as a definition for Normandy, his birthplace. Cleopatra will no longer be known for her famous wooing of Anthony and Caesar, but as a definition for the Asp, which, no doubt, will read in a manner somewhat like this — A three-letter word, the means by which Cleopatra ended her life ! The definition for cherry tree will, of course, include the celebrated name of George Washington. How ever, that he figured in the American Revolution will hold no interest for the child of the twenty- first century. Literature, too, will be changed. Instead of Pilgrim ' s Pro- gress, the dictionary will become the most widely read book in the world. And, as a result of this, the signs along the highways

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32 THE BRANKSOME SLOGAN Basket Ball Team Hockey Team