Central Collegiate Institute - Analecta Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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PRESENTATION TO MISS MARY EVANS The whole student body of C.C.I. was delighted when word was received in the city that Miss Mary Evans, one of the most popular students in the senior grades had won the I.O.D.E. Scholarship for 1925. Mary, although brilliant and clever in her studies, has always been modest and willing to help others less talented than herself. She has also taken the keenest pleasure out of all the school activities. Naturally, every member of the school was pleased to see her successful. One afternoon, shortly after Christmas the students of Grades XI and XII gathered in the assembly hall of the school to see the scholarship of $250 presented to this clever pupil by Mrs. R. C. Marshall, regent of the provincial chapter of the I.O.D.E. and Mrs. Richardson. Mrs. Marshall gave a fine speech in which she congratulated Mary for her splendid achievement and also explained the purpose of the organization she was representing. The I.O.D.E. is a national institute with a national outlook and aims. It gives this scholarship to the Calgary student obtaining the highest marks in the Provincial Examinations whose father has been killed Overseas. Its aim is to give to the child of a heroic father a chance for educational advantages that through their bereavement might otherwise be lost to them. Also it helps to produce citizens strong in mind and heart, true, faithful, to produce a nation of kings and queens in character who will live above the fog in public duty and private life. Mary will, we know, continue her good work and become an excellent citizen. The best wishes of all the students go with her. Mary has a great heritage. The death of her father in such a cause as the World War may have brought the keenest sorrow and loss of material things, but he will continue all her life to be an inspiration to her. He had Christ for his evample. He has handed over to his daughter a trust not to be betrayed and which she is keeping faithfully. Mary is acquiring a liberal

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The Analecta “WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER” The maiden sat in the tower Weeping and tearing her hair; Outside were the bold, bad robbers, Who were keeping the maiden there. The maiden she was a student, A student of C.C.I. And the names of the bold, bad robbers, On their shields were displayed to the eye. There was “French Book” in dark green armour, With his shield right down to his knee. But the boldest and fattest and fiercest. Was the “Mowatt’s History.” There were “Physics” and “Latin” and “Comp” hooks. Oh, text books of all kinds were there. When suddenly a jangling of armour. And one hearty shout rang through the air. A knight-errant in bright silver armour Charged full at the whole robber band. They scattered and fled in a panic. Then he rushed up and grasped one soft hand. “Oh, fair one, my charger strays yonder. Come, he will carry us well. We will go far away from this prison. My name? It is ‘Four o’Clock Bell’.” She followed. He led to his charger, Over boulders of bright scarlet hue. He protected the girl from detentions, For he was a knight, brave and true. They came to his charger, “the Street Car,” To the saddle he lifted the maid. Then he mounted behind his dear maiden. And he whispered, “Dear, be not afraid.” They travelled along o’er the prairie. They passed through a long, deep ravine. Then looming up, towering before them A high dismal mountain was seen. They dismounted and started to clamber High up on that “Long Homework Mount;” The y scrambled and toiled bravely upward. Past caverns too numerous to count. Then at last they arrived at the summit, And before them on either hand Was, “Reward for the valiant conquerors Of Homework Mount—Happy Dreamland.” —PATRICIA PARKER, XA.

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The Analecta ll education in its best sense and so is preparing herself to live for her country although she may not be called to die for it. We do not wish Mary to build huge edifices of marble and precious stones to delight only the exterior eye. These might do much good and give much pleasure but some day they will be no more. We, her fellow students wish her to build up her sacred temple of character. In this way she will bequeath to the world her influence. This influence falling day by day on her schoolmates and all with whom she comes in contact will produce good that will never die. C.C.I. SCHOLARSHIPS Below we give a list of C.C.I. graduates who have won the Bennett, McKillop and I.O.D.E. Scholarships in recent years. These successes should serve as a stimulus to future classes entering our walls. 1922 Bennett Scholarship— Marshall Edward Manning, Grade XII. Donald Simmons, Grade XI. Leslie Lillian Calder, Grade XI. 1923 Bennett Scholarship— Leslie Lillian Calder, Grade XII. George Stanley, Grade XI. 1923 Archie McKillop Scholarship— Phyllis Collins, Grade XI. 1924 Bennett Scholarship— Isabel Lan dels, Grade XII. Wilbur B. Chellis, Grade XI. 1924 Archie McKillop Scholarship— Eva Kerslake, Grade XI. 1925 Archie McKillop Scholarship— Doris M. Field, Grade XI. 1925 I.O.D.E. Tan-nis-uk Chapter— Mary Louise Evans, Grade XI. THE SCHOLARSHIP NICHE The history of education is to a lesser extent the history of the pro¬ gress of ones own community. What its people are thinking and assimi¬ lating from books and magazines and colleges and many and varied forms of learning is the keynote of their standards of tomorrow. And in this sense the educationalist is a true to life painter working not with pen or brush but with the more elastic pigments of thought and leaving his indelible imprint upon the canvas of the mind. In the Greek world the threefold unity of physical, mental and aesthetic ideals revealed to them the measure of the well-rounded indi¬ vidual. In the middle ages the demand for the purely physical restricted to the monastries the pursuit of the higher learning. And so the pendulum swings now to one side, now to the other. Each deal of the bygone centuries has had its specific value, each had its day and ceased to be