Burlington High School - Rarebits Yearbook (Burlington, Ontario Canada)

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58 RAREBITS STUDENTS' COUNCIL Front Row, Left to right-lack Burnet, Enid Holtby, Bruce Lindley, Olive Carlton, Murray Thorpe. Centro Row-Iames MacF. Bates tPrincipalJ lean Leitch, Dorothy Sanderson, Miss E. L. Eby, Muriel Metcalfe, Reg. Cozens, Wes. Coombe . Back Row-David Harrison, Frances Taylor, Donald Stadleman, Clare Tory, Erle McCorn1ack. agiuhrnizi' Glnnnril By PRESIDENT BRUCE LINDLEY, V. This is the first year in the history of the Burlington High School that an attempt at student government has been made. The council, on the whole, has not been very successful, but it is hoped that better days are coming. A group of students consisting of two pupils from each room and the presidents of the different societies was selected as the council, in the fall, to assist in govern- ing the student body and to act as an overseer of the other societies. A con- stitution for the organization was formed and, although it was by no means per- fect, nevertheless it served the purpose S 1 U Pqflsl 4' ti . lr 1 lllw, Jllsql ul U pu I A, 4 ,N l P. tmru for the year and will give the incoming council something to improve upon. As a result of the council's brief existence its accomplishments are not very numerous. However, designs for both school and achievement crests were decided upon. The former were pro- cured and sold to the students by the council, while the latter were obtained by the Boys' Athletic Society. REPRESENTATIVES OF STUDENTS coUNc1L Form V, Leitch and B. Lindleyg form IV, E. Holtby and E. Mccormackg form III, M. Metcalfe and M. Thorpe, form II, O. Carlton and W. Coombeg form I, F. Taylor and I. Burnettg Com. I, D. Harrison, Com. II C. Torv. I

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RARE with furious mustachios, cut-throat pir- ates, swaggering cowboys. . whoop-lal Variations, of course there were. Apple-bobbing in the libraryl Dainty refreshments in the upper hall-very daintyl Fortune telling booths in the halls where lurid pasts and futures more vivid were revealed to those who wish for them. Cards were played on the balcony over-looking the gym. while a rather gay looking ghost piloted cur visitors through the graveyard of departed souls. The said departed later in the evening favored us with BITS 37 their own peculiar war-whoopslll Then Hades is not a Greek myth-but a Greek letter clubl Dance on. And on. . . to the jargon which only Phil knows how to juggle-on. . . till the inevitable and distracting balloons came, bobbing and bursting. . . and the trailers, gloriously mixing us up. No matterl for not until the last song was sung and the last waltz ended did we Hwend our way home Cquoting first form compositionsj tired . but happy. Refa Swartz IB. EIH- 9. At 1-Innw By RETA SWARTZ, V. Despite the fact that this year our big night came on Friday, the 13th, even those superstitiously inclined could not but call it a success. To begin with, it didn't rain as it had a year ago. A very slim moon stayed up just long enough to lend atmosphere to the occasion, and a moon, any kind of a moon, is a help. Inside there was another one but it was a jolly, full-faced thing designed especially to harmonize with the other decorations. The Hall lent itself very well to the St. Patrick's colours. At the very back stood a tall green light house from which vari-coloured spotlights circled the floor. Occasionally a beam caught on the mir- ror-sphere whirling above the orchestra, showering the crowd with flying light and shadow. Gage's orchestra, as usual, acquitted itself in a manner highly satisfactory. Lunch was served in the upper hall during the evening, with a trained retinue of lower school boys, sailor-clad, as waiters. It was good lunch, but when, may we ask, will we be sufficiently grown up to be allowed punch? The value of the high school At Home cannot be estimated. It is not just another dance, rather more is it in the nature of a reunion. We celebrate Hallowe'en with all due regard-and hilarity. But the At Home is our one formal affair. It is a pivot, socially speaking, for the whole year. And most important of all, it fosters that priceless thing-school spirit. f fr' - 4 T ' 'fl 'x A M ul W U gx - 'B 'X S Q I , '-gf. ff K- Y' f Q l XQQ ,fi n H '71 Q Y V 'yi .J A4 fr TQ! I , 1 it is 5 ' v .1 X1 - - f K - fffx H- Xwnlx ..-- .fx ' ,f 5 Aff QQ, IN IS f L-

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RAREBITS 59 aria Elf Miss EDNA SHAXV, B.A. Probably no city in the world has been more frequently the victim of the well meaning but trite lVly Impres- sions -by a Tourist, than has Paris. It has been rightly said that there is nothing new under the sun, so it is with no illusion that we are imparting new information that we venture to pass on a few mental etchingsu gleaned from a visit to Paris. Paris! VVhat a path that name has blazoned in historyl Does it recall to you the glories ofthe great Sun Monarch, that magnificent Bourbon who from the essence of his egotism voiced the most superlative expression of a superlative career: I am the Staten? Does it recall the lurid days of the Reign of Terror when a new France was slowly born under the crimson pall of the blood of French aristocrats? Does it recall a still later day when the pride of the splendid Second Empire was humbled to the dust and the clang of German armour re-echoed through the halls of Versailles-that proud palace of French kings? Or does Paris simply mean Ienny, Chanel, Patou-a row of glitter- ing shops along the Rue de la Paix from which French couturiers periodically issue edicts for a world of women? Paris means all this and more: in its very cosmopolitanism lies a great part of its charm. Let that sceptic who boasts himself suspicious of eulogies on Paris leisurely make his way along the Champs Elysees at the hour of sunset. On either side of him are located magnificent trees, reveal- ing between their gnarled old trunks far- flung vistas of gardens beyond. A mile ahead of him crowning the gentle slope of the avenue looms up theggreat gray Arc de Triomphe de L'Etoile, dark against an opalescent sky. Is there anywhere a greater monument to a consummate ambition than this arch of Napoleon, commemorating on the out- side his victories: Austerlitz, Iena, Wagram-names which made him al- most a world-victorg on the inside, the names of his generals, those of the Old Guard, men who were faithful to him even unto death. The arch is so placed that on the evening of the anniversary of Napoleon's death, the circle of the setting sun, when seen from the Avenue des Champs Elysees, is exactly framed