Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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Despite the fact that the first month of the new year had a Friday the thirteenth in it, we Branksomites have managed to put superstition aside, and, armed with the usual number of good resolutions, we have walked forth, undaunted, into an unknown future. The times are rushing forward, and forward we must go. As members of the generation which is to mould the future, few of us realize the grave responsibility which now rests on our young shoulders. Some of us sense a feeling of apprehension when we look ahead. What is it that we dread so ? War — a small word — but oh — so powerful and it becomes increasingly so as science develops more and more instruments of destruction. Our generation must learn how world peace can be maintained. We must practise deliberation, cool judgment, tolerance, and above all, do our part towards keeping up a friendly attitude with everyone. This year we think a step is being taken in this direction by our school in the plan to send abroad, for the first time in Canada ' s history, a group from a girls school to compete in games with the schools of England and Scotland. We expect to play basketball, tennis and to enter swimming, running and jumping meets. Our main thought in these competitions is not the 17