Galt Collegiate Institute and Vocational School - Specula Galtonia Yearbook (Galt, Ontario Canada)

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SPECULA GALTONIA 45 4b RECORDINGS With Miss Weatherill's consent, we are enabled to present here a verbatim steno- graphic report made by a Commercial Special student of what would appear to have been a class in Latin Authors. Plfblffk Mr. MacLennan, after long stare out the back windows, enquires portentously: What is the theme of the Aeneid, Rich- mond? The story of a guy whose mother's father's wife had it in for him, and he sailed away and everybody got drowned except himself and all his crew and slaves. . Well, what did he do after he was drowned? Sailed to a burg in Africa and fell in love and then shook her oil' and beat it. How did he come :to this place, Miss Roung? In a fleet and a wet blanket. Eh? What kind of a blanket? Of mist, marvellous to relate. Well, what dee see from the top of the hill, Miss Tait? . . . Oh, yes, Miss Wright, what's the Latin word for 'hill'? Call us, call us masculine. Fine. Well, what dee see, Miss-Tait? Some bees and Dido taking her seat on high. . All right, so much for the theme. Now, the translation . . . Oh, by the way, re- member to forget all about Aeneas. He's not a bit important at all. What I wan.t you to get is this. QA long pause.J The Aeneid is the story of the fall and rise of the Romans themselves. Here's what Pro- fessor de Witless says: 'The story of Aeneas himself should be taken extremely frivolously and more attention paid to the story of the elevation and downward dis- placement of the Romans themselvesf Now, on page 57 . . . fourth line from top, nineteenth line from bottom, third word from left and second from the right, what is that word in, Miss Sheldon? In Virgil. Yes, any fool in 4b might know that. What else is it in, Gregor? In line 631. Yes. I guess you guessed that, eh? Well, what's the Latin for Aeneas, Miss Anderson ? Vacant stare at his left ear from Miss Anderson. 'UI think it's more than lack of industry that ails this class, he offers with heavy sarcasm. Well, let's look on page 58. tHe looks, ,they look.J Miss Thompson, how did Aeneas stand when he first saw his lady love? Uh-on 'his feet and 'rooted in a gaze'.H Oh, come Miss Thompson! I'm sur- prised when you take Greek, too. To make such a rotten-er-bad translation as that. To whom is Virgil indebted for' this passage, Carothers? Carothers fthinking of Literature per- iod- Bernard Shaw. UNO! NO! NO! Strides to window and fiddles furiously with blind string. Oh, yes, that reminds me. Who WAS Aeneas, Miss Macdonald? The guy whose grandma had it in for him and- Yes. Who was his grandma, Miss McQueen? Carthage Scott . . . Who wrote Virgil? Scott fbrightlyjz Horace Homer? A buzzer buzzes in south-east corner of Wall. Zat the bell? . . . All right, dismiss . . . Prepare another coupla lines for next day. He casts another long stare at the side windows this time. P.S.- Supply all the commas and ques- tion marks I've omitted, Gwennief' -H.L.A. nw 1: as 4a GAZETTE EDITOR'S NOTE: Publication of this paper has been suppressed by order of the Censor who acted upon a complaint lodged by the president of the Hi-Y Club. The editor, Marion Stuart, said in an exclusive interview granted the SPECULA: He's a nasty, mean thing and I'll never offer him a second helping of scalloped potatoes again! Pk Pk Pk FORM 3 Our form had planned a Weiner roast for October 1 last but the weather man failed us. Miss Molly Sheldon invited us to her home and we all gathered there instead. The weiners proved just as ac- ceptable when eaten indoors as in their proper environment-out of doors-and the evening passed very pleasantly with games and other diversions. Mr. McKee entertained us with some of his delightful stories.

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46 SPECULA SO DO THE ADUATUCI Wilbur Eaton, asked to write his version of a sentence in Latin on the blackboard, started to write the English as well. Mr. McKee interrupted this as taking up un- necessary time. Eaton desisted in the midst of a word and his sentence read thus: The Helvetians hop- fkvkgk SEMPER PARATUS MISS CORRAN- Thornton, who ap- pointed the Governor of Upper and Lower Canada? THORNTON fasleep at the switch but prompted by Comrade Archerl- The Governor, m'am. , Pkvkalc THE FORM CYNIC MR. TANCOCK-- What did Brian, the hermit, prophesy? THORNTON- Anything-for ,two bits. ting WHEN 2a PLAYED Did we hear some one say that our pro- gram for the Literary Society was the best offering of the series? Why shouldn't it have been, with such talented artists as were found in the Kitchen Orchestra? Monsieur Slater's .talent could not have been surpassed and the most melodious chords issued from his deftly manipulated instrument. Miss Trott also showed unique talent in the handling of her wash- board. No doubt, our various artists will receive many offers for engagements from the Metropolitan Opera Company. The pierreftte dance by Mary Wardlaw was graceful and dainty. 231212 OVERHEARD IN FORM 2c MR. CHALLEN- We'll start with something fresh to-day. Francis, go to the board. 28842 ATHLETIC 1d Last fall our form contributed two players to the Junior Rugby Team: George Roelofson, the husky kicking half 3 and Jim Robertson who, while used chiefly in relief roles last year, should catch a regu- lar place this fall. In basketball, the boys of this form beat 2b in the semi-finals after staging a garrison finish. They were badly swamped, as was to be expected, by Fifth Form in the finals. GALTONIA SOME YEARS HENCE JOE SPRING-Iron magnate, paying a tenth of a cent more per pound than Lun- enfeld. MARGARET COOPER--Still trying to catch some bright, young lad. SANDERSON-Head man of the Metro- politan Opera with ROELOFSON singing the leading part in his overgrown bass voice. JIM PETERS-Playing the organ in Preston's largest theatre while HELEN WILLIAMS keeps everybody amused with her dancing. GEORGE HIPEL - full-fledged coal- shoveller. 'll Pk Ill ' VOICE OF C2a fAnna Spalding announcingj Our form party, held Friday, March 1, at the home of Jessie Leeds, was attended by four of .the teachers. Miss Pooke showed us some real acting when she stopped little Johnny Leeds from crying after she had taken his tricycle from him to go for a ride. Miss Musgrove and Miss Snider arrived rather late and they mis- judged the time badly for the eats were about gone. But they had some bundles with :them and we were soon eating ice cream which set off our very tasty lunch. iii It's getting to be an interesting subject, bookkeeping is. Recently a girl brought a Five Roses Cook Book to school and never noticed it wasn't her bookkeeping book until so informed by Miss Musgrove. POME Miss Pooke baked a cake. Its life was at stake When in the oven she put it. And I haven't a doubt, When she took it out, She thought it was part of .the oven. That cake was as hard as a brick- Now the lady of the house is sick. lk fl' Pk TIDINGS OF C3 A few of our girls have left us. Dorothy Biehl is down in the office. Olga Bauer is working in Hespeler and Edith Lane is with the Bell Telephone, ringing wrong numbers. We thought we were going to lose Eleanor Schultz but she changed her mind. Our form, C3, obtained an average per- centage of 78.1 at the February examina- tions, breaking the record of former Com- mercial years.