Glebe Collegiate Institute - Lux Glebana Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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UX GLEBANAGEQ w,Y5PALERE FLAMMAM COLLEGIATE COUNCIL PRIZES ODERN EDUCATION aims at keeping a nice balance between mental and physical development. It holds by the ancient standard: a sound mind in a sound body. However, many students forget this motto and make demi-gods of those who can carry the ball over the line for a touch, and scorn those who head their classes and carry home the prizes. You all study ancient history in the middle school. To those who worship the athlete and scorn the intellectual let us put this question: How many of you can tell the name of a single victor of the ancient Olympic games? Not one. To-day what remains of the individual memory of these victors? A few fragments from their statues which once stood in the Sacred ilex grove of Olympia-no more. But the names of Phidias and of others who made those statues still live. And green also are the names of Herodotus and Thucydides who won prizes for their histories which they read in intellectual competitions in those same games. lt is the brain rather than the brawn which gives lasting inspiration to a race. At no time in the world's history have capable leaders been needed more sorely than to-day,-not military leaders or hypnotic demagogues, but clear-eyed, logical thinkers, free from narrow nationalism, egoism, greed. The world needs men who have the wisdom that comes from knowledge properly assimilated, men who can teach people to avoid the ghastly mistakes of the PEISI. Modifications of the social order are surely coming. May countries find St21tCS1HCI1 who are ideal enough to avoid materialism and yet practical enough to remember that people are unequally endowed and essentially human. To whom should we look for such leaders if not to the more intelligent graduates of our schools and univer- sities? One hopes that the brighter products of this school will realize the grave responsibility of preparing themselves for the tasks of the future. It is no less than their duty to cultivate that intelligence with which they are endowed so that they will be ready when their generation needs them. They must realize that their gifts belong, not to themselves alone, but, indeed, if not to the world, at least to their own country. May they prosper in their studies till knowledge gives them sufficient wisdom to be useful.-B. M. G. ' UPPER sc:-lool. Mathematics Science 1. DUNCAN R. XVHITMORE 11. R. uouG1.As CARMAN 1. Ro11soN BLACK 11. noNA1,v CAPLAN English and I-Iixtory French and Latin 1. NIARGARET 11ouGLAs Il. BEVERLEY Dieu 1. 11oRo'r11v 11. JANSEN 11. GRETA 1.UcAs Girls ' Boys 1. MARGARET 11RENor II. MARGARET BURNETTE 1. NORINIAN 1-11rcH1v1AN II. JACK GREENE Four Firstr in Upper School Science JACKSON FLAY 'llliw

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UX GLEBANAGEQQ- MARGARET BURNETTE oU KNOXV, now that I look out at you, some of those fine phrases I thought of have been swept away. Maybe it is stage fright, but I think most of it is amazement and a little sadness too. There are so many of you, and you look so splendid here in this hall. It makes me think of the number of you who are .leaving and going out into-well, I just donlt know what, and perhaps you don't either. . This is the end of one lap in the journey and it is a good time to pause and look around. School has been a lot of fun-most of the time! We are inclined to slip along, not giving much thought to what we are getting out of our school days. It would be diflicult to deal with all the valuable lessons we have learned here. But the three that I have chosen really seem more important to me than a good many of our studies. The Hrst thing that everyone learns at high school is how to mix with other people. That may seem like a very easy and natural thing to do. But it is, oh, so very important! None of us can possibly succeed if we can not get along with other people. The second is honesty and truth. These are necessary I1Ot only for our own good but for the sake of those around us. I am going to quote a passage familiar to you all. It is from m5PALERE FLAMMAM OURTH FORM VALEDICTORY Shakespeare's Hamlet: To thine own self be true, and it shall follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. This was a father's advice to his son when he went out into the world. It is unlikely that this thought has since been put in clearer form. It is easy to understand that if we don't break faith with ourselves we can not break faith with others. This next idea is a little harder to explain. I am going to call it sight . When you have sight you won't be narrow minded or warped, it gives you the ability to see things properly, in their own light. And perhaps, too, when you are walking in the dark shadows it will help you to look up to the shining mountains . Perhaps you will even be able to laugh at your troubles. To illustrate this sight I am going to tell you a story. A blind man lived in a garret with his friend, an author. The author had not only a keen imagination but a deep sense of the beautiful. Every evening the two would stand at the window and the author would describe to the blind man what he saw. He would tell of the blue sky and dark green trees with their ever changing purple shadows. I-Ie told of the bril- liant sunshine, of the laughing brooks, and of silver fish. And the blind man was happy to live in such a world of beauty, for, through the eyes of his friend, he saw. Then the won- derful thing happened, a clever young doctor was going to operate to restore his sight. The blind man was overjoyed. At last he would see the fairyland the author had described. The operation was a success. Evening found the blind man standing by his window looking down into narrow dirty streets, and rows of brick houses veiled in black factory smoke. And he dropped on his knees and sobbed bit- terly- When I was blind I could see. Oh, God, give me back my sight. I hope you understand, and I hope you may keep your sight. In the words of Portia, I say, . 'fl 'wish you fwell, and so l take my leave. -fi12l