Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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16 The Branksome Slogan frequency modulation radio, and recordings on strips of thin wire which will play for a whole evening. They will cook your food in seconds, in- stead of hours, by means of radio waves. Much of your food will be dehydrated or kept in refrigerators which generate just the right cold and humidity for each item of food and which also sterilize and tender- ize meat by ultra-vioiet light. You all know the strides that have been made in aerial transporta- tion. You have heard the slogan A plane in every garage, and know that we will be able to reach any place in the world within a fevv hours. But medicine is the field where the greatest progress has been made. Perhaps the most important discovery is the wonder drug, Penicillin. This will probably be synthesized soon, that is to say, the exact chemi- cal formula of the molecule will be discovered and a method found to build it artificially. The day of this achievement will be one of the mile- stones of medical science. Scientists are certain that the penicillin mole- cule will provide a foundation from which a whole new family of drugs can be evolved, not only more potent than the sulfonamides, but also far less risky to use. Out of this may come medicine ' s great hope ' — the all purpose serum that protects against all germs at once. This lict cculd go on ?.nd on, but I hope I have proved to you that the post-war world will be a better world — a world worth fighting for now regardless of the cost. ALTHEA McCOY. Badminton Wizards!

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Fifth Form

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The Branksome Slogan 17 An Evening in the Mermaid Tavern Voice: Searching- the annals of the past, we find no age to exceed that of Eh ' zabeth in glory; it has been compared to the glorious age of Pericles in Athens. It was a time of dreams, of un- bounded enthusiasm; it was a time when England ' s explorers were searching the new world for the fountain of youth, and her poets were creating literary works that were young forever. The most popular meeting place of the period was the Mer- maid Tavern. There the wits and writers would gather at all all hours of the day and night. This scene takes place in the year 1609, several years after the death of Good Queen Bess. ' ' Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known Happy fields or mossy cavern Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern. (A gong is heard.) (There is talking and laughter. A piano is softly playing ' ' Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes. Glasses are clinking merrily.) Sir Walter Raleigh : Come on, Annie, give us a song, won ' t you ? Annie: (giggling coyly) I couldn ' t really, sirs. I (Loud protests. Annie is pushed to the piano.) Sir Walter Raleigh: The author will accompany you in person. Give her a chord, Ben. (Annie sings the first half of Drink to Me Only raucously. The men join in the last half enthusiastically.) You were superb, wonderful Annie! (He kisses her.) Annie: (slapping him with spirit) ' Ere, ' Ere — you can ' t do that to me. Sir Walter. I ' m a respectable married woman, I am. But, h ' if I wsis tv enty years younger, dearie (Sir Harry, a rotund and jolly courtier, coughs and splutters.) Ben Jonson: (laughing heartily) Having a little trouble Sir Harry? Raleigh, exactly what is in this obminable weeds- you brought back from the New World ?