Central Collegiate Institute - Ye Flame Yearbook (Regina, Saskatchewan Canada)

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4F The different classes of the collegiate march on in an unending army. 1930, '31, '32 have passed on and now 1933 swings into colunin for the niarch past. Always we have four battalions under review. The receding niarch of the one just departed scarcely beconies inaudible before a new one in full strength appears. Each one suffers nunierous losses of unfit, of stragglers, of son'e delayed only, but caught up by later groups. VVith ranks diminishing in numbers but improving in discipline, efficiency and spirit it beconies third, second and foremost in the ranks of progressive students. The fact that you are now members of the class that marches on is evidence that you have interpreted aright and observed the principles necessary to irake progress. Co on! Seek to know furtherg you will encounter fresh difficulties but these will dissolve as you advance. Dark places will remain but who thinks of darkness as the light dawns and shines with increasing clearness? Co on! Plan to seek further knowledge, plan to invest in your future occupation your abilities, your integrity, your training and your scholarship. For four years the state has spent that you might be better citizens. In these years you have accepted these con- tributions. For the future it shall be yours to pay, profiting even further as you pay. On this march past, I salute with the hope that you nway become distinguished, not so much for what you know but for how you think, and that though confident of your own ability to think aright, you may be generously tolerant of the opin- ions of others. That is the test of true education. W. E. PERK1Ns. 4F Bunk Of course you've heard of 4F B school's pride and joy! The teachers hold us up as a shining example even to the dazzling lights of school. Why, we even won a basket- ball game against 3B! The shock was apparently too great however and we lost our next game against Mi, the near invincibles-score unknown twe hope.J After having our professors rake us with the withering gun-tire of their dis- paragjng sarcasm concerning our laziness and attitude of boredom we decided to get down to work in the annual sales and for two days we led not only fourth year butithe whole school. It must have gone to our heads for on the third day, 4-A passed us and kept the lead. Not a single drop of ice cream came our way to our intense mortihcation. But what a form party! This select function took place in the biggest hotel in town, tthree guessesjj The catering was done by Picardy's. Every one was required to have a special invitation before even being permitted to enter the sacred portals. To enter the ballr m it was necessary to have an average of 75Z with no'3up Needless to say none 33

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of the dancers were from 4F. At dinner there were corsages of orchids for the girls and boutonnieres of spinch and garlic for the boys, the latter being very odorous. The orchestra in attendance was the Saw Bar Seven from Regina jail. A perfectly charming evening was had by all, at the conclusion of which Mr. Campbell presented each couple with a slip which admitted them to a play Detention held every NVed- nesday and Friday. Cfan I help it if we didn't have a form partyj Just Supposin' Margaret was red instead of Gray. Frances stood instead of Lay. Ruth would take instead of Leavitt. Hilda 'would run instead of Leggett. Art was an iron instead of a Goldman. Mary was an o'woman instead of an Oman. Enid was a cook's daughter instead of a Cook son. Katherine was a glove instead of a Mitton. Melville would stop Kliman and fall. And seeing that no more rhymes, that's all. As 4F Studies Soliloquy a la Hamlet To skip or not to skip, that is the question. VVhether it is nobler in the mind to suffer The detention and words of outraged authority Or to stay and study literature And perchance learn something. To leaveg to stay No more, and by leaving to say we end the Homework, and the thousand other shocks That studes are heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To stay, to skip: To skip, perchance be caught, ay, there's the rub For in that stolen holiday what thoughts may come VVhen we have shuffled off from school, ' Must make us pause: there's the work Tdat makes calamity of so long periods For who can bear the whips and scorns of teachers Tae Geometry, the poor stude's VVaterloo Tae pang of despised work, the bells delay Tae insolence of office and the marks Tae patient merit the unworthy takes VVhen he himself might a pass make If he but study? VVho would stay and bear Al this-such a weary life, But that the dread of something after skipping Tae undiscovered office from whose bourn No skipper e'er returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have 1an fly to others that we know not of? 34 T,