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

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Brentwood College Magazine Old Boys ' Notes 112 St. George Street, Toronto, March, 1928. To the Editor, Brentwood College Magazine. Dear Sir: — I am sorry I ' ve been such a bad correspondent this year. Perhaps my best excuse is that I ' ve really been busy. My exams, start in less than a fortnight, which isn ' t a very bright prospect. This year I ' ve enjoyed the life very much at Toronto in spite of a rather heavy course. There are always so many things to do all the year that one can seldom complain of being dull. This season, as I am manager of the Varsity Rugger Team, I had a great deal to do before Xmas as the season lasted much longer this year. Rugger isn ' t a very popular game in Toronto with the regular Canadians. There are several clubs in the city which give us some competition, but they are chiefly composed of Britishers. Recently, an English Public Schools ' and Universities ' Club was formed here and they are going to raise a team next winter, so that should help. We played McGill, and when up there I saw Redpath, Stirling, Scotty and Playfair. The former two played for McGill down here in the return match. I joined a very good fraternity my first year and am very glad I did. One gets to know a great many more people than one would if in digs somewhere. It is really, I suppose, the American substitute for the English college. You meet fellows from every Faculty and you meet their friends. Last Xmas I had a wonderful time in Ottawa, where I was staying with some friends. We did a fair amount of skiing. It is a great sport. This summer I am going on a geological survey with Capt. Odel, of whom you probably have heard. He is very keen on mountain climbing and was on the Mount Everest expedition in 1924 — the last man to see Mallory and Ewing before they were lost. We are going to work in different parts of Ontario and so I should see quite a lot of the country and the life in the mining districts. From what I ' ve gathered from lectures, by several quite important men, there should be a large boom all over Canada in the next quarter-century. Apparently Canada ' s natural resources are enormous, and although we have gone ahead wonder- fully since Confederation and extracted millions worth of metals, etc., we really haven ' t tapped more than a very small fraction of Canada ' s great treasures. I hope industry will go ahead as fast as expected. It will mean a great deal for the engineer- ing profession. At Varsity, among the eight engineering departments, perhaps the electrical, mechanical and chemical are the most popular lines. It seems that civil engineering is not being proportionately patronized. This is odd, as it is perhaps the most general course of them all. The great thing, I believe, is to get a broad and general training here rather than to specialize before graduation. If you specialize too soon, you are not adaptable enough to a change in your career later. This would be rather a good line to take up as there must be a large demand for civil engineers shortly if so few are graduating in it now. I have been trying to collect some news for your Old Boys column in the Magazine . I wrote to Playfair to ask for the latest about O. B ' s in Montreal and I enclose his reply. My news from Toronto isn ' t nearly so voluminous as his. I ran into John Reade a month ago. He is with the Metropolitan Life in Waterloo (Ontario) and is doing well. I don ' t see very much of Beevor-Potts. He is in 2nd Year Medicine and always seems to be hard at work and should get honours again this year. I don ' t recall hearing or seeing his name connected with any athletics yet. The only thing I ' ve managed to do so far is to have been elected Captain of the Varsity Rugger Team for next year. I must close by wishing your issue of the Magazine this year will be as good a one as the 1925 edition! Yours sincerely, R. M. B. ROOME. Page Thirty-one

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Brentwood College Magazine Brentwood College vs. Cowichan Cowichan F. C. Williams-Freeman, b. Mitchell i. . 2 Crossland, b. Mitchell i 4 Leggatt, c. Yorath, b. Pugh 7 Baiss, c. b. Mitchell i 1 Collison, c. Williams, b. Robertson . . 3 Carr-Hilton, c. Williams, b. Mitchell i 1 Parker, b. Mitchell i 19 Wilkinson, b. Mitchell i 0 Copeman, b. Appleton 1 Denny, b. Pugh 5 Craig, not out 7 Tye, 1. b. w., b. Mitchell 0 Weaver, c. Appleton, b. Mitchell i . . . 4 White, b. Mitchell i 0 Tisdall, c. Hanbury ii, b. Pugh 2 Gordon, b. Pugh 0 Walton, b. Mitchell i . 7 Mercer, b. Mitchell i 4 Begg, c. Robertson, b. Mitchell i 5 Clark, not out 1 MacRae, b. Mitchell 1 Hayward, b. Appleton 2 Extras 3 Played June 9th. Won. Brentwood College Hanbury i, c. Copeman, b. Baiss 4 Appleton, c. Pugh, b. Wilkinson 3 Robertson, c. Freeman, b. Collison . . 46 Wootten, b. Collison 2 Green, b. Collison 16 Hanbury ii, not out ... 17 Mitchell i, c. Wilkinson, b. Collison . . 12 Williams, b. Collison 0 Harrison, c. Copeman, b. Collison ... 1 Yorath, c. Freeman, b. Collison 9 Pugh, c. b. Collison 1 Extras 6 Hanbury i, b. Tye 8 Appleton, b. Tisdall 17 Robertson, b. Tisdall 7 Wootten, 1. b. w., b. Gordon 2 Green, c. Tisdall, b. Clark 31 Hanbury ii, not out 50 Mitchell i, b. Weaver 0 Williams, b. Weaver 1 Harrison, not out 4 Yorath and Pugh, did not bat Extras 4 124 Total 50 Total 117 Bowling — Mitchell i, 6 for 10; Pugh, 2 for 14; Robertson, 1 for 5; Appleton, 1 for 19; Green, 9 for 2. Brentwood College vs. University School Played June 7th. Won. University School Brentwood College

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Brentwood College Magazine A Few Notes Jrom McGill With the advent of Malkin this year there are now five Old Boys at McGill. Stirling is in his third year of Science and is expected to reach his final year without difficulty in the spring. He played rugger this season as forward and will get his M as a result of McGill ' s hard-fought victory over Toronto. Stirling is living at Strathcona Hall, a building close to the campus used for the residence of McGill students. Scott-Moncrieff, who is doing well in third year Commerce, did not turn out for rugby this year, but is an enthusiastic skier and also plays hockey for his fraternity, the Alpha Delta Phi. He distinguished himself by taking an important part in a Gilbert and Sullivan production of the Choral Society, displaying his vocal powers to a large audience in a Montreal theatre. Playfair is in his second year in Commerce and is doing his best to be optimistic about the spring exams. He was unable to turn out for rugger this season, as an injured hand kept him away until the season was over. He is at present rooming with Stirling at Strathcona Hall and keeps him busy with mathematical problems and doubtful music from a mouth organ. Redpath, who arrived last year and joined the Zeta Psi fraternity, played a great game of football this season as a wing forward, and in consequence will get his M : he quite lost his Brentwood reputation by completing the season without any serious battles with opposing forwards. Redpath is in his second year of Science and plugging along steadily with the ultimate goal of becoming a mining engineer. Malkin followed in the footsteps of Scott-Moncrieff and Playfair by going into Commerce. He was lucky enough to escape freshman initiations by getting straight into second year from Brentwood, though he is taking one first year course as well. A ' short time after his arrival here, Malkin became a flourishing member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, where he is now living. G. N. Money, of Qualicum, is now manager of the Qualicum Beach Hotel. The Editor acknowledges with many thanks a letter from R. Brindley, whose address is 1990 E. Orange Grove, Pasadena. He seems to be flourishing in a business house in California. Lack of space prevents printing the letter in these columns. M arriage Edward Lea Curtis (1923-6) to Miss R. Ballowe, at Washington, D. C, on Monday, the 9th day of April. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis will make their home in Boston, Mass. What ' s Become of It ? Page Thirty-two