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

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Brentwood College Magazine Occasional Jottings A Confirmation Service was held in Victoria, during the Easter Term by the Right Reverend Bishop Schofield. Those confirmed were : Coleman ii, Young, Charlewood, Pitfield, Malkin i, Malkin ii, Deane i, Deane ii, Wolfe, Williams, Ricardo, Griffith, Nickson. The Bishop ' s extra half -holidays are still proving very popular. We were fortunate enough to have three visits from him this year. We should like to congratulate R. Scott-Moncrieff on being awarded his half-blue for golf at Cambridge. if. if if, if if We are glad that the skill of some of our prefects at catching fish is not quite equal to their ingenuity in disposing of the carcases. Our sincerest congratulations to Miss Hope on her recent engagement. We trust that she does not intend to leave us too soon, or how shall we get our stamps and our mail? A beautiful and very complete History of Canada, in twenty-one volumes, has been recently acquired by the School Library, and should prove most useful to those who are inquisitive about their own country. It must be comforting for Mr. Baumann to know that the first month ' s bi ll for repairs to his car is covered by guarantee. Considerable interest has been shown this term in Boxing and boys have had weekly training from a skilled instructor. Our latest excitement has been fire-fighting at night on the hillside. The fire, which broke out one night above Mr. Grant ' s house, looked very ugly for a while, but the valiant efforts of members of the lower dormitory very soon got it under control. Incidentally we greatly admired Mr. Grant ' s skill as an amateur plumber. Among the things we envy at Brentwood are Brock ' s and Hobson ' s tireless efforts to maintain their reputations as humorists, Gilbert ' s rendering of Dixie on the banjo, and Pugh ' s masterly representation of a motor horn. Of our visitors this year who are not mentioned elsewhere we remember particularly Dr. M. J. Rendall, the late Headmaster of Winchester, Dean Brock of the U. B. C, and Captain St. Claire. Page Eight

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Brentwood College Magazine candidate obtaining Honours in seven subjects, one in six and another in five. Five boys are taking the Senior Matriculation examination this year and twenty- seven are taking the Junior Examination. We hope they will all be successful. The sports record of the school continues to be very good, as the following pages show in some measure. The 1st Rugby XV again secured the Scott- MoncriefF Shield and also won the Heyland Cup for the Island Intermediate Championship and the Province Cup as Provincial Intermediate Champions. We are not sure that it is altogether a good thing to win so many victories. There are probably few boys who will agree with this statement. However, a boy who does not learn how to lose has missed a valuable lesson in life. During the past year the College has been fortunately free from epidemics of a serious nature. There have been a few cases of influenza and many colds during the winter term, but otherwise the boys have been very healthy. We should like to remind all boys who are leaving Brentwood this year, that in future the editors of this magazine would heartily welcome any contributions from them or from any other old boys. Up to the present we have found great difficulty in keeping in touch with boys who have left Brentwood. As the lives of old boys are the test of the school ' s ability to produce Men, we should like to know very much more about their activities when they leave here. Valete Smith Gray ma. Campbell ma Farrer Redpath Bryden Beevor-Potts Brock Wilson ma. Coleman ma. Coleman mi. Ker Curtis McTavish Miller Hamersley McLachlan Davidson Henstock ma. Hen stock mi. Eyres Forester Crease Pease ma. Pease mi. Peacock Jones McCarthy Field Page Seven

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Brentwood College Magazine Among the things we want to know are : — (1) How Smith and Simpson learned the Charleston? (2) Whether Furber has ever heard of a muffler? (3) How Brenty ' s larynx stands the strain? (4) How it is that a few boys manage to answer the Chapel Party Roll Call and then disappear so quickly? (5) Whether Nature will compel Catlin to grow a beard? (6) What is the record time to get down to breakfast on Sundays? (7) How many people alter the school clock in the course of a day? W r e look with mingled respect and pity on the hardy souls who opened the swimming season in mid-January. We have at last discovered that the unearthly noises which echo through the premises on Wednesday afternoons are to be attributed to our banjoists, while the constant moaning among the music rooms is the effect of several saxophones. Both species are reported to be harmless. jfc % The golf team that the College sent to Cowichan on June 19 were eight in number. As the opposing side could only muster four to play against us, we lent them two players. Can anyone inform us why these latter were the only two school players who won their matches? At the best of times, the taking of the school photograph is a trying occasion, but when we have to wait for the sun to set before the operation can be performed, and when the photographer falteringly utters S-l-o-w , is it any wonder that we could not control our emotions? Sonnet Deep lies the forest in perpetual gloom ; No sound is heard save babbling of a stream And last faint echoes of the panther ' s scream ; The mossy glades are silent as the tomb. Over the tree-tops, snow-capped mountains loom Still radiant in the sunset ' s dying gleam Amid the evening mist, as in a dream, Whilst in its folds darkness ensnares the coombe. Yet such a place, so free from worldly strife Would not attract the crowd ! Man would not give His bustling, roaring towns instead of life In Paradise itself. For him, to live Is but existing. The World and his Wife To Nature ' s charms are no more sensitive. D. H. Brock. Page Nine