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

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RAREBITS 71 Q Highlights nf Glhirh Elinrm aEa. wtf? .ai Edifor-LODEMA DAGGETT On the eastern side of the Upper hall one will find a room which is filled from 9 a.m. to 5.-15 p.m. with the peppiest individuals of the high school. This is third forml We are proud of our athletes and we take pleasure in introducing to you, first of all, our two members of the Boys lunior Basketball team, Frank Elsam and Les Whetham. Frank is also a member of the Rugby and Track teams. Un Field Day at Qakville, Frank carried off all the honors in his class. Playing rugby in not easy, but he plays it as he does everything else, just to get all the fun that there is in it. Bill Galashan is another member of the rugby and track teams. Bill is more in the lime-light on the rugby field than on the track, but this does not mean that he is a slouch on the track because he showed good speed on Field Day. Another of our athletes is Charles Goodram, more familiarly known as Chuck. Chuck is our high jumper and it would take more than Lord Burleigh to beat him. Chuck may go to Africa to the British Empire Games yet. This has all been about the boys. Now to give the girls a break we intro- duce Elsie Hodsdon, the winner of the Iunior Girl's Sports Medal. Unless one has seen Elsie flying down the 75 yard course to the finish line, one would not believe that one so small could run so fast. But she does it and does it well. She deserves all the credit that she gets and we are very proud of her and proud also to say that she is in Third form. But of course we have studious people as well as athletic people in our form. Lodema Dagget is an example of this. She got the highest marks in Latin, History, Composition, Algebra, and Literature in the Easter examina- tions. Everything she does she does well. She worked hard for the Com- mencement, taking one of the leading feminine roles in the play. But this did not make any difference in the Christ- mas examinations because she came through with flying colours. Again we are proud to say She's in Third form. Then there is Murray Thorpe, the member of the Student's Council. How nice it must be to be wise enough and sensible enough to hold such a coveted positionl We all envy Murray, but hope that he keeps it and makes good. And last but not least comes Tom Leighton who is able to boast of the only moustache in 111A. We were wondering if his moustache had any- thing to do with the painting of the cover for the year book. It is so nice to know that we have an artist among us and also that: Tom is sprouting a moustache And it's coming along fine. It started out with one hair And now it's sporting nine. -11.L.S. IIIA7 ak 1: Pk Deama-I have an awful toothachel Pete-l'd have it pulled out if were mine. Deama--So would I, if it were yours. Pk Pk Dk Miss Eby- Put your French note books on the desk before you pass outl

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70 RAREBITS Now the year's social activities are almost over and Miss Shaw, our room- teacher, friend and adviser, has broken some dreadful news to us-the Iune examinations are looming up before us. We will now have to settle down to frantic studying to pass in Iune-and Ohl what we have to learn yetl So we leave you to struggle on and hope that when the examinations are over we will not be obliged to say, Hit might have been. 95 X 'k Sadie- When I leave school I will step into a nice job at 310,000 per. Annie- Per what? . Sadie- Perhaps.,' Little words of wisdom Little words of bluff, Make the teachers tell us, Sit down, that's enough. :lf wk PF Ferguson is growing a little moustache Beneath his patrician beak, Getting it on the instalment plan- A little down per week. Pk PF Pk A little bit of Caesar, A bit of Cicero, Help to populate the place- Where crazy people go. Elinurth Iliurm Plug Review There have been a great many critics and writers who have attempted to criticize Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night without results. I am neither a writer nor a critic, but only a student taking the play for the first time and thus cannot be expected to compete with these others. Twelfth Night What many colored characters and stories it brings back to my mindl First, there is the romantic Duke Orsino Y Illyna, who professes to be madly in love with the beautiful, although cruel, Lady Olivia. I wonder if all the noblemen of those days had their attendants do their wooing for them? If even this important matter was settled by proxy, one does not wonder at some of the results that fol- lowed. Then into the Duke's life comes Cesario, alias Lady Viola, who had been saved from a shipwreck by a sea-captain. Believing her twin brother drowned, disguised as a boy, she seeks a position at the court of the Duke Orsino, near whose territories the ship had been wrecked. Naturally, the Duke must send her to Olivia to pursue his suit and thus Olivia since feminine nature changes not from century to century, must fall in love with the Duke's handsome mes- senger, instead of the Duke himself. The Duke would have returned Olivia's love but Viola Ccesairo Dis obliged to refuse her love-making. Thus denied the prize, Olivia covets it greedily. Is this an experience, my dear readers, with which you are entirely unacquaint- ed? To this complication is added Viola's tCesair'sD love for the Duke. The eternal triangle is not a twentieth century complication for here we have- Orinso in love with Olivia, who is in love with Cesario, who in turn loves Orsino. Meanwhile in Olivia's household other troubles are looming up. Mischief- loving Maria must devise a scheme by writing a love letter, supposedly from Olivia to Malvolio, in which she tOliviaQ hints that she is in love with him. The dramatist must have Maria imitate Olivia's handwriting to bring the plot about. What a picture it must have been to see Malvolio finding the letter and falling right into the net. Poor faithful, conceited, innocent Malvoliol Beware, readers of the trap your own conceit may construct for you. Then, as in all good dramas, we have the element of the unexpected. Thus, Sebastian, Viola's brother, is also saved from the wreck and makes his way to Illyria. What follows is delightful comedy. If twins will look alike, according to coincidence of time im- memorial, who is there to blame if Olivia's girlish heart adopts the fur- iously reluctant Cesario as the object of its adoration? But the way of a man with a maid is not the way of a maid with another maid, so fortunately Sebastian is able to substitute for Cesario and accept greedily what she had refused. As all good fairy stories end, Viola meets her brother, complications are explained, the Duke drops his senti- mental vapouring and finds that the real love of his heart has been his humble valet for the past three months.-So all live happily ever after?-L.S.

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72 RAREBITS W Q' 1 EF ggi :Harm 1116 :amz Q Edfior-IIM FERR EY Though small in numbers we contend And most with us agree, When things are wanted done, why send To versatile THB. Those are our sentiments-but in case any may be skeptical the facts need only be presented to give authority to our point of view. 1 Academically we lead our contem- poraries. Phyllis Thomas and Muriel Metcaltie have headed examination lists and received scholarships in each of their three years in High School. lWuriel also represents the form at the meetings of the Students' Council. Donald Stadleman won the 1929-50 General Proficiency Medal, for in addi- tion to being a good student, he is one of our star athletes-excelling as a sprinter and basketball player. Now that we are speaking of athletics it could be mentioned that Eddie Har- shaw and lim Ferrey are on the Track and Rugby teams whereas Bill Ayliffe with his never failing good humour proved an indispensable water-boy and High School one-miler, while everyone helped to make points on Field Day. The feminine portion of IIIB was nobly upheld. Kathleen Sheppard and Betty Galashan proved to be such good Iunior Basketball players that when assistance was needed to win the Senior Championship honours, they made a good showing. Then too, Grace Virtue represented us on one of the Relay teams. Our year was saddened by the critical illness of Norman Barfoot, who with Grace Virtue represented us on the Literary Society Executive. He also brought honour to the form by a very well prepared speech when the combined third forms gave the programme at the Lit. We hope that in the near future he will return to his position in the class. Along literary lines-Did not IIIB, capably represented by Iim Ferrey and Eddie Harshaw, make a valiant effort to wrest the debating shield from the Upper School? And do you remember the Third Form Programme-why we were all in it. Are not Conrad Filman, Harold Lambs- head and Harvey Peart examples to the whole school for punctuality and regular attendance? And you have not for- gotten the Mammoth Denver Sandwich Chocolate Bar have you? Here we did show our real superiority to Fifth Form -yes, even to the President and the Literary Society himself, for did not Bill Ayliffe gladden the hearts of all the Form with huge sections of it? Why we can even compose poetry- It sounds a bit like the variety Ted Ayliffe, our would-be school teacher writes-but he didn't really-No doubt it will appear in the next Canadian Anthology. Phyllis is a pretty girl She keeps Bill Ayliffe in a whirl But when her book he tries to close She hits him with it on the nose. There's a girl in three B named Gracey, Who's driving us almost crazy And now it's happen'd as we fear't She's cast a spell o'er susceptible Peart. What the teachers think about our form, They say, would turn a worm, Yet we still think that we are good, But do not wear monkis cape and hood. The following episode occurred be- tween Stadleman and the doctor. Doctor- Your teacher is very sick.' Don- Ohl Doctor, doctor. Doc.- In fact she is at death's door.' D011- Ohl Doctorl Pull her through' I J