Brentwood College School - Brentonian Yearbook (Mill Bay, British Columbia Canada)

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Brentwood College Magazine Brentwood My School — such words are often heard; We, too, shall use them later on, When memories are rather blurred, Of happy school-days, come and gone. The pride we have in our Old School Is born of many qualities ; Of pride in work, respect for rule, Of manliness in jollities. If we take pride in all our acts, We ' ll build tradition first of all ; And then we ' ll add to all the facts That make our Tower of Honour tall. So let us each do what we can, To pass the torch of learning on, That by it, boy may turn to man, And think of Brentwood when he ' s gone. P. H. KkElinc,. Page Nine

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Brentwood College Magazine Oh, replied the little man, Twenty twelve, twenty twelve. This conveyed little meaning to us except that there might be a number of men on the island. And it was our duty to investigate their mysterious presence. That some white men should be on the island was strange in itself, but that they should ask for magazines instead of for a passage to civilization was most peculiar. So, too, thought the captain. Without delay he ordered two of the crew to lower away the lifeboat and row the three of us ashore, leaving the mate in charge of the ship. The nearer we came to the little island the more impressed I was by its beauty. The white, sandy beach, tall coconut palms and green undergrowth were fascinating. When at last we were carried up on to the beach by a foam- crested breaker, I felt that I could live here for ever, playing in the sands, swim- ming in the clear green water, or lying under the trees eating the fruit as it fell and drinking from the coconuts. Leaving the two seamen with the boat and led by the four kanakas, who had followed silently in our wake, we made our way along a well-beaten path into a grove of royal palms. We passed the little native village, and further on came to a spring of fresh water which bubbled up in the sand. Beyond this we came to a clearing where we discovered the men. In various attitudes they lay sprawl- ing on the grass, some with hardly any clothing on and all looking very dissipated. As all the men seemed to be in a drunken stupor from which nothing could arouse them, we carried them down to the sea, and one after the other pitched them into the ocean. The shock of the cold water brought them to their senses and they climbed into the big boat very shamefacedly. All we heard from them as we rowed back to the ship was some muttering under the breath as if they resented the interruption of a very pleasant life. It was a few days after we left Nukulailai that the story came out, for Douglas had once been the bos ' n of the three-masted barquentine Mary Lang, which had been wrecked on a coral reef to the east of the island in a terrible hurricane two weeks before. The ship had pounded itself to pieces against the reef, and Joe and barely half the crew had reached the shore. Soon the spell of this island paradise passed over the little party. The natives had left them alone, only exchanging their home-made liquor, extracted from the fermented pulp of the coconut palm, for the clothing of the new arrivals. Douglas had been the last to succumb to this lazy life of luxury and had asked the chief to get some news of the outside if any ships happened to come near. He was quite satis- fied with his present condition, but did not want to go to the dogs like his mates had, and thought it would help to have something to read. He had made friends with the chief, and soon they had been able to talk with each other fairly well. Then the old man, who had taken his friend ' s request to heart, had kept a good look-out for passing ships in hopes that the mysterious papers would save the white man from the pitiable fate of his comrades. R. LATTA. Page Eight

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Brentwood C o liege Magazine UR first season was successful, but our second was even more so, as will be seen from the following pages. We failed to win the Intermediate League by only a very narrow margin, going down to defeat before the shock troop tactics of heavy and worthy opponents, the Oak Bay Wanderers. Our opponents in practically all the League and First XV games were heavier than ourselves, and our success may be attributed to team work and spirit. The Second and Third XVs did as well in their games as the First, and will provide very promising material for next season. In the following notes on those who played regularly for the First XV, an absence of criticism will be noticed. This omission was undoubtedly justly earned. First Fifteen Events The College versus: Points for: Points against 24 0 — ' ;■ 35 3 J. B. A. A 17 0 6 0 Victoria College 8 0 . .: 15 0 n 3 J. B. A. A 3 3 United Services 24 6 0 8 11 0 1925— The Navy 6 6 22 0 The Navy 11 3 11 0 0 6 14 0 Total 218 38 Games played, 17; won, 13; lost, 2; drawn, 2. Page Ten