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

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Brentwood College Magazine Be Men (A talk given by the Headmaster in Chapel on Sunday, June YJth, and reprinted here by request of the Editor. ) Boys are naturally observant, so it won ' t surprise any of you very much when I tell you that, though I call myself Headmaster, it is not really I that run the School at all. Your lives here are directed by a very much more dis- tinguished little gentleman than myself, who, I ' m afraid, has to waste a good deal of his precious time in bullying me into doing the right thing. He is rather an attractive little man, still quite young and full of energy and enthusiasm. Some of you, I believe, know him fairly well by now ; all of you, I hope, have a slight acquaintance with him. He calls himself the Brentwood Spirit. Well, he came bustling into my study the other morning, and, leaning his hands on my desk, fixed me with those twinkling eyes of his and said : What are you going to say to the boys who are leaving this year? This Sunday will be your last chance, you know. Oh, I said, I don ' t think I shall say anything at all, because, you see the Dean is coming out on the last Sunday of the term and he will be able to say the right sort of things far better than I could. It is a great mis- take, said the Brentwood Spirit, to try to pass off laziness as modesty. You must care what becomes of the boys who go out from here, so isn ' t it up to you at least to try to say something that they might remember when they run into trouble — as they all do sooner or later, he added. Yes, of course you ' re right as usual, I said, a little wearily. But I never can think at this stage in the term. Couldn ' t you write something for me and I ' ll read it to them. Now the disconcerting thing about most spirits is that you can see through them, but the Brentwood Spirit is worse than that, because he always sees through you, so he replied rather sternly : I know you think you read rather well and I suspect that you wouldn ' t be above passing my work off for your own, but don ' t think that I am going to encourage your vices. I will do one thing for you, though, I ' ll give you a text ; what about ' Be Men. ' And here ' s a picture you might care to look at. Then muttering something about being off to see what the boys were doing, he hurried out of the room. So there I was, left with a text but no sermon. Be Men , I said to myself. As I began to wonder what the Spirit would look for most in Brentwood men, my glance fell on the picture postcard which he had left behind on the desk. It was a rather conventional desert scene, lit by a single bright star, and across the desert, marching toward the star, were three men. At first I thought it was just an ordniary picture of the Three Wise Men, but when I looked more carefully I noticed that each man had a dog with him, which was unusual, and after some time I woke up to the fact that the Spirit had done my sermon for. me after all, because he had drawn me a picture of the three great friends who, with their dogs, will help you most in your march towards that bright lone star. Page Sixteen

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Brentwood College Magazine Basketball very successful Basketball this year was taken up very seriously and had a season. The team included : S. J. NEWCOMB (Captain): A good back, who could always be relied on for some points in a game. E. M. WILLIAMS: The left forward; a very good shot and a good defense player. G. P. KIDD: The right forward; did not get into his best stride till after Christmas, then became a deadly shot under the basket. D. AKIN: His height was his great advantage. As centre forward he was very useful. R. W. WEST: Was out due to injuries in Christmas term. He was a good defense player, though rather an awkward shot. Eddy, Symons, Rhodes and Davidson also rendered valuable service to the team. Brentwood won five of their ten matches. Brentwood Brentwood Brentwood Brentwood Brentwood West West West West Road 27. Road 34. Road 25. Road 32. -University School 32. Brentwood 36 — University School 26. Brentwood 33 — University School 32. Brentwood 20 — Kingham-Gillespie 35. Brentwood 22 — Kingham-Gillespie 52. Brentwood 32 — Old Boys 10. ist BASKETBALL TEAM. Pag6 Fifteen

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Brentwood College Magazine The first friend, of course, was Courage. He wasn ' t physically very power- ful, but there was that about him which made you certain that he had within him the moral courage which makes a man unbeatable ; the courage that keeps you running at the end of the race and rowing at the end of a course ; the cour- age that knows fear, but overcomes it. His dog was a charming Cocker, proclaiming in every line of his lithe little body, from the tip of his nose to his stump of a tail, that his name was Cheer- fulness. And I thought to myself — the Spirit knows, for a man who starts on life ' s journey with courage, dogged by cheerfulness, will never find the way too long. The second friend was Strength, a fine, big fellow, but not, you could see, the sort of strength that wastes itself in becoming a prize-fighter or a profes- sional athlete ; rather the sort that spends itself in helping the weak, the unlucky and the unpopular. His dog was a huge St. Bernard, called Kindness. And last came Uprightness, a man you would trust with your friendship and your confidence; fair-minded and frank. His dog was a staunch old Bulldog whose name was Loyalty. And that is the message which I have to give to you. If you have been true friends of the Brentwood Spirit it bequeathes you these three companions on your journey through the world. Cheerful courage, kindly strength and upright loyalty. Make these a true part of yourselves and you will indeed fulfill the requirements of the Spirit and Be Men ! Page Seventeen