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

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XQHANLL Ediior-BERYL MCMILLAN IV. . . . Ctrrvtingn . . . The second publication of Rare1'1z'!.r brings with it a larger exchange than last year. YVC wish to welcome both the old and the new and send greetings to: Pk ik Pk HE LANTERN-Sir Adam Beck, Collegiate Institute-We enjoyed your magazine very much and especially praise your illustrations and cover design. Much credit is due to your editor and his staff. Pk Pk Pk ELLO-eBrantford Collegiate In- stitute. Your sports section is especially good but may we sug- gest some illustrations to improve your book? :if 7k :ic CTA VICTORIANA- Victoria College in the University of Toronto-Your articles are very good but we think that your book would be greatly improved if you would give your art staff an opportunity to show their ability. Pk Pk :uc ERAIES-Humberside Collegiate Institute, Toronto-NVe enjoyed your exchange very much. Your literary section is particularly strong and you have some good cartoons. We feel, however, that your jokes are lacking. C. S.-Bishop's College School. Xmas number4Your pictures are U very interesting and you have a striking colour design but we suggest a few more jokes. Midsummer Number -Your sports section is very good. You have some very clever verses in- corporated in your book. PIC P14 Pk HE HOWLER-No1'th Toronto Collegiate Institute.-This is one of the most interesting books on our exchange. We especially praise your short stories and your form news. Your cover design is Particularly at- tractive this year. Pk bk bk HE VOLT-Ingersoll Collegiate Institute-We enjoyed your ex- change very much. You have a unique cover design and a well-developed literary section. Pk Pk ik Daughter- They asked me to play this evening at M- and I did. Mother- Were they not entranced? Daughter- Huml When I played ' A Life on the Ocean Wave' with varia- tions half of them left the room. Mother Cecstaticallyj- That is won- derful. They must have felt sea-sick.

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RAREBITS -19 what 'ar ga 'htel 1111 NINA L. As the editor of Rlll'Cl7l.f11 first classics page, I have a difficult task ahead of me-that of con- vincing the majority of the students in this school that Latin has some practical value besides being necessary for passing their matriculation. It is an unfortunate fact that the spirit pervading most Canadian schools at the present time seems to be definitely anti-Latin. It is easy to under- stand this attitude for it is one which to-day is adopted by many older people and educational- ists. The twentieth century has seen a new division in education-the classics vs. science and every year science seems to gain ground at the expense of the classics. One extenuating fact must be mentioned. It is noticeable that those who question the use of Latin' are those who have not taken it to any great extent in either high school or university. Most university graduates acknowledge its X7alue. Now, what, exactly is the value of Latin? It is not, of course, a practical subject for the man in the street, but its main values are cul- tural. It is a well-known fact that fifty-six per cent. of the English language has been de- rived either directly or indirectly from Latin. In view of this fact we see that a person who knows Latin thoroughly has the key to the Eng- lish language. Another value of Latin is the contribution which it makes to the training and development of the mind. This value must not be discounted for it may be of great importance in the building up of character. Here we might put in a word for Greek. As is the case with Latin, part of the English lang- uage has been derived from it and it also develops and trains the mind. Greek is very popular in England where a man is not considered a real classicist unless he knows Greek. In the education of an English boy, Greek and Latin have the most prominent place and they start when he is at a very early age. He follows up the classics through his primary and secondary schools, and finishes his classical education at university. Compared with this education the little we learn of Latin and Greek in high school and university would be held in contempt. Hence, although we get Canadians to fill the science chairs in our famous universities, we have to go to England for our classicists. Those thoughts which I have advanced so far as proof of my argument have been the result of my own experience which, of necessity, has been rather limited. However, for confirmation of these statements we might refer to the cultured leaders of English literature at the beginning of the last century. That illustrious trio, Byron, Keats and Shelley are examples of the influence of the classics. Byron, who progressed through school in a laxadaisical, lazy manner, excelled, to the Iaaaira .aa EIJXVAIIDS, IV. amazement of his professors, in classics at Cam- bridge, and acknowledged the great debt he owed to his classical training. Keats, on the other hand, was not a classicist, but the effect of reading merely a translation of Homer was to cause him to write one of the most beautiful sonnets ever composed. XVhen a translation affected him to such a great degree, we may imagine what it would have meant to him to be able to read Homer in the original and thus to be able to appreciate the real beauty and grandeur of classic Greek verse. Shelley, the third in the trio, was first and foremost a lover of beauty. This love of beauty caused him to fall under the spell of the classics and he loved the beauty of the Greek verse. Another poet who was influenced by the classics was Matthew Arnold, the famous son of the well-known classicist, Dr. Arnold of Rugby. Arnold's poetry was so affected by his training that in parts it is an exact replica of the severe Greek style. Yvhile Macaulay, the poet and historian, was greater as the latter than as the former, he is chiefly known as a poet for that series of poems, the Lays of Ancient Rome, the material for which he secured from the reading of the classics. Two men of entirely different type from those whom I have already mentioned here, but who also are under the spell of the classics, are General Allenby, who took part in the Great VVar, and that mysterious figure, Lawrence of Arabia. Wlhere Allenby goes, there also go the copies of the classics he loves while Lawrence is so familiar with the classics that a line of Homer translation would to him be a novelty. IF Pk if Bill Hopkins went into a bookstore. . Vtlhen the clerk approached him Bill said, l'd like the Life of lulius Caesar. You can imagine his amazement when the clerk answered, Sorry SlI', but Brutus 'ot ahead K H . S of you. Jr wk :oz Miss Cannom in Ancient History class: Lockhart, what was lulius Caesar noted for? Osler: He wrote a Latin reader for be- ginnersf' ik Pk PF Fourth Formers are still wondering what for whoml Marjorie YVilkerson was thinking of when, after Bliss lxlarlatt asked her the gender of a certain noun, Marjorie answered: Ablative of the gerundf' Bk ak wk Ut jucundas Cervus undas Aestuans desiderat, Sic ad rivum Dei vivum Mens fidelis propera-t.

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RAREBITS 51 CAPTAIN ANDY HYSLOP of the B. H. S. Cadet Corps. Glzthetsa By CAPT. ANDY HYSLOP, V. The second annual inspection of the Burlington High School Cadet Corps took place early in Iune 1950 under the direction of the Commanding Officer, Captain Andy Hyslop. The musketry drill and military manoeuvres were carried out in splendid style by the cadets, and their platoon commanders, Lieutenants George Walker, Vic Har- shaw, Warren McNiven and Douglas Munger. The cadets gave a physical training demonstration under the direction of Sergt. Major Huggett of the Cadet Services of Canada. This is the second year that the sergeant major has been 34 PF Pk It is very hard to drive a bargain, said the fellow who had bought an old Ford for SIU. with the corps, and he has won the respect and admiration of all ranks. Col. McCrimmon, the inspecting officer, in his comments congratulated the in- structors, officers and cadets on their fine work. The one disadvantage pointed out was the lack of uniforms. He spoke highly of the Signallers under Lieut. Art Jones and the First Aid Corps under Lieut. VV. D. Clifton. Through the efforts of the School Board the corps now has uniforms. They were much in evidence on Armis- tice Day and will undoubtedly exert a great influence on the morale of the unit. ak wk Fk The absent-minded air man who for- got his parachute-isn't absent minded any more.