Cathedral High School - Orbit Yearbook (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)

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STudenT Divide your attentions equally between books and men. The strength of the student of books is to sit still--two or three hours at a stretch eating the heart out of a subject with pencil and notebook in hand, determin- in to mastre the details and intricacies, focusing all your energies on its difficulties. Get accustomed to test all sorts of book problems and statements for yourself, and take as little as possible on trust. The question came up one day, when discussing the groovesleft on the nails after fever, how long it took for the nails to grow out, from root to edge. A majorityof the class had no further interestg a few lookedit up in booksg two men marked their nails at the root with nitrate of silver, and a few months later had positive knowledge on the subject. They showed the proper spirit. The little points that come up in your reading try to test for yourselves. With one fundamental difficulty many of you will have to contend from the outset--a lack of proper preparation for really hard study. No one can have watched successive groups of young men pass through the special schools without profoundly regret- ing the haphazard, fragmentary character of their preliminary education. lt does seem too bad that we cannot have a student in his eighteenth year sufficiently grounded in the humanities and in the sciences preliminary to medicine--but this is an educational problem upon which onlya Milton or a Locke could discourse with profit. With pertinacity you can overcome the preliminary defects, and, once thoroughlyinterested, the work in books becomes a pastime. A serious draw- back in the student life is the self-conscious ness bred of too close devotion to books. A man gets shy, dysopic , as old Timothy Bright calls it, and shuns the looks of men, and blushes like a girl. The strength of a student of men is to travel--to study men, their habits, character, mode of life, their behaviour under varied conditions, their vices, virtues and pe- culiarities. Begin witha careful observation of your fellow students and of yourteachersg then, every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers. Mix as much as you possibly can with the outside world, and learn its ways. Culvtiate systematically, the social circle will enable you to conquer the diffidence so apt to go with bookishness, and which may prove a very serious drawback in after life. I cannot too strongly impress upon the earn- est and attentive men among you the neces- sity of overcoming this unfortunate failing in your student days. It is not easy for every- one to reach a happy medium, and the dis- tinction between a proper self-confidence and cheek , particularly injunior students, is not always to be made. The latter is met with chiefly among the student pilgrims who, in travelling down the Delectable Mountains, country of Conceit, the Country, in which you remember, the brisk lad, Ignorance, met Christian. Sir William Osler tThe Student Life! THE PATRIOT Hawk, hawk ye, hawkers! Oh! sell thy measly wares Look, look ye, gawkers! I'll hold thy cold, cold stares. Dance, dance ye, dancers, Thy raucous, reeling tune. Ride, ride ye, lancersg I'll have my laugh yet, soon. Pipe, pipe ye, pipers: Oh! pipe a long sad dirge. Build, build ye, builders! Ye hear my hearts-blood surge? Pary, pray ye, eldern, Oh! pray to your cold God! Come, come ye, hangman, I've a liking for the sod. Mourn, mourn ye, citizens, Oh! mourn throughout all Eire. Down, down ye, Englishmeng Ye've stripped my green land bare. Quick, quick ye, butcher! Oh! quickly tie thy knot. Laugh, laugh ye, teacher, So dies a patriot! my S. Snow is falling all around, Falling silent to the ground, Sent to earth by God's great hand To cover up a barren land. Even though it causes woe, To go out and shovel snow, We love to see a land so bright, That the Lord has painted white, t'l.B.

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X i ii Wbefe eaglheefs- O 0 O . Engineers come from High Schools, like yours. The High School student with a Hair for maths and science . . . and the vision and energy to put his ability to work for himself and for Canada , . . is the successful engineer of tomorrow, And where do Engineers go? The answer to that is easyg an engineer with talent will go a lon , long way in Canada today. New demands, new acfvance- ments in engineering are making more and more opportunities for engineers in t e planning and direction of Canada's expanding future. So when ' h sing a course at University, give a good you re c oo long thought to Engineering. YOUCANBESURENJFWQ VW-:stin house

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