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

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of these voters feel they will be able to follow their picked calling, but the less fortunate feel they must follow in the ranks of teachers, 13, stenographers, 8, nurses, 8, men of commerce, 3. It is interesting to note that five out of the nineteen doctors to be will be girls. Followers of sundry and divers followings drift around Central in a daze. Would you have imagined we had a terpsichorean dancer in our midst, or an electro-chemist, or a militarist, or an horticulturist, or an economist? Only one aspires to be a secretary, only one to be a machinist, only one to be a dentist. Strange to say the civil service is represented by a social worker, a policeman and a fireman. The passage of the years will bring the verification of those answers. In any case let us hope that the final response to the call of What will I do? will not be of a kind to bring disillusionment and despair to the questioned one. SCHOOL TRIP TO EUROPE This summer the Overseas Educational League sponsors the second annual visit of secondary school students to Great Britain. Last year ninety secondary school students visited Great Britain for the two summer months and included in their itinerary the Empire Holiday School of English at Eastbourne, inaugurated by the late Mr. Rudyard Kipling. This year the programme will be devoted entirely to secondary school girls who will leave Montreal on July 3rd to spend fifty-three days visiting the most interesting and import- ant points in England and Scotland, including the Empire Holiday School of English. The students will arrive at Glasgow and proceed from there to Edinburgh. Other points where the students will visi tare Stratford- upon-Avon, where they will attend two performances at the Shakes- peare Memorial Theatre. Then, on by way of Oxford, to London where ten days will be spent visiting places of literary and historic interest under experienced guide-lecturers. Visits will be made from London to Windsor, Eton, Kew Gardens and other well known places. The group will then proceed to Eastbourne, visiting en route Canter- bury and Rye. At Eastbourne the Canadian girls will be joined by girls from the Scandinavian countries, from France, Germany, Italy and the United States as well as girls from the British schools and from other parts of the Empire. Mr. Ernest Raymond, an author of note, will direct a series of informal talks on English Literature. During their travels the girls will often be accommodated in private homes and at girls' schools where they will have an excellent op- portunity to learn about the country of which they have heard so much. Transportation will be by special train or by motor coach and through- out the visit the Group will travel under very privileged conditions. It can easily be seen how such a trip will widen the knowledge and sympathies of the youth of Canada and it is hoped that this yearls visit will set a high standard to be lived up to in future years. 11

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A SWIMMING POOL FOR CENTRAL QOh, Mr. Aberhardtj INCE these venerable halls of learning were nailed together, changes have taken place in aims and methods of education. Amongst other things which this school lacks in order to accommo- date these changes are proper facilities for Physical Education, the foremost amongst these, a swimming pool. Swimming is a sport which is more refreshing and more invigorat- ing than any other. Because it calls every muscle and sinew into action it soon whips a body into condition resulting in greater health, strength and gracefulness. A properly managed pool, if built in Central, would give an opportunity of learning to swim to those who normally would not get it, would provide excellent recreation for all, and would erase the fear of water Cdon't take it too literallyj that an alarmingly large number of students possess. Ah, yes, the cost! Do you think that we would bring forth a suggestion of such dignity if it could not be financed? Certainly not. The descent of the disciples of the prophet of the foothills into our province has suggested to us the way this noble aim can be accom- plished. The first batch of Social Credit dividends paid to Central students will be confiscated and conscripted to the cause. To pay the small balance the Student Council, having been established as a state credit house by the Government, will print social credit dividends themselvs. Think of the possibilities of a State Credit House in Central. Is it any wonder some of the seniors are such ardent sup- porters of five year plans. We must confess while the 31st and one- seventeenth reason for voting Social Credit is inscribed in the tablets of the Gods that this cannot be accomplished till the minions of the evangel of Alberta are enthroned in the Seats of the Mighty. Until that time our natators will have to practice their flutter kicks in the bath tub. QUESTIONNAIRE F AN ALUMNI society were formed by- the graduates of Central this year, one thing of interest that it might do in five, ten, fifteen, or twenty years is to check up on the whereabouts and occupations of the class of '36. The results of a survey of this nature would be the more interesting because the hopes and ambitions of this year's seniors in this connection have been recorded. The results of the questions: What profession do you wish to follow? and What profession will you be able to follow?H were published in the Christ- mas issue of the Perroquet and are herein transcribed so that posterity may sermonize on the lofty ambitions and oftentimes shattered hopes of youth. Doctors headed the poll of desires, getting 19 votes, others follow: Nurses, 18, engineers Ccivil, chemical and miningj 16, teachers, 15, dieticians, 8, lawyers, 8, physical training instructors, 6, hopes are low for commerce, 6, art, 3 while architects, musicians, account- ants, dramatists and druggists will leave Central in couplets. Thirteen students are undecided and three have no aspirations to glory, 61.472, 10 IHISISI INIU R110 '16 O40

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ART IN CENTRAL HERE is no national Art Gallery in Regina. If great paintings are to be enjoyed they must be purchased by the individual who scorns the common and multitudinous reproductions. For an individual to do this is costlyg for a corporation a light imposition on the pocket-book. Without possessing a true appreciation of great paintings one can hardly claim to be fully educated. Few students can afford trips to the Louvre, Paris. It would then seem that centres of education would endeavour to amass an art collection to place at the disposal of their students. This assumption is so. Central possesses many valuable, beau- tiful paintings which have been contributed from year to year by the Elgar Club and Dramatic Clubs. The Students' Council promises to co-operate in such donations to the school so that art is well sponsored. The drawback is, however, that before a small gallery can be started the cold bleak walls of this institution must be embellished and the requirements of such adornment are usually that of pictures. Before an art collection may start, the walls must be decorated. Could they not be enlivened with tapestry and thus save the notable works from the oblivion of the engulfing grey walls? The true value of a picture can not be determined as it hangs high above. Thus an art gallery is a prerequisite to appreciation. The pictures of Central colour the walls in the auditoriumg they fit into empty wall space in the library 5 they hang in the more conspicuous positions in the corridors. Their true value, however, remains un- detected by all with average perspicacity. The lighting is poor, the pictures are enshrouded in such deep gloom or so placed as to cause a bright reflection on their glass covers, that one forsakes their beauty in avoiding eyestrain. Few students realize there are several paintings in Central worth over two thousand dollars. Studying a picture, its balance tends to lend balance to its peruser, its contrast so vividly outlined causes him to be a hero in the strife, his attempted interpretation lends him initiative. The possession of a private gallery would permit art students to revel in the environment of their ambitions. Art in Central is off to a good start. If the various organizations, the Students' Council and the Alumni continue to make in the future such welcome contributions, Central will boast an art collection un- challenged in merit by any secondary school in the Dominion. ARCHIVES FOR CENTRAL HE SCHOOLS of the Old Land are founded on tradition Q they exude traditiong they live on traditiong they are tradition itself. And no wonder. Many were founded before Columbus discovered America, others earlier, others later. 1 Tradition in the schools of Western Canada is an unheard of thing.. Precepts are established only to be broken. The new schools are founded on novelty and they subsist on novelty. Central does likewise today. It is impossible to prognosticate as to her action fifty years hence but when the plaster begins to fall and the roof leaks like a sieve it is safe to say the old school will have 12