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

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UX GLEBANAGEQQ QEPALERE FLAMMAM PYRAMIDS HE GREATEST mystery, and oldest chronological records in Egypt, if not in the world, are the Pyramids - about seventy of which are still stand- ing in the Valley of the Nile. They belong to a pre-historic age, are among the earliest monu- ments of man, and stand on hard rock about one hundred feet above the overflow of the Nile. Even the earthquakes of forty centuries have failed to move them from their Hrm foundations. Pyramids were evidently erected as tombs for powerful kings or gods. The ancient ISABELLE MITCHELL 4-E feet five inches wide and three feet eleven inches high, situated fifty feet above the base. It appears to have been cut after the pyramid was built. On entering this passage one may descend several feet before progress is halted by a granite plug, which closes up the entry entirely. By taking a short detour to the right and clambering through a narrow hole, torch Egyptians believed thought that the pre- servation of the body was necessary to en- sure an entrance to the second world. The most elaborate precautions were taken to preserve kingsandgods. Gods totheEgyptianswere cattle and alligators. Many pyramids have been opened contain- ing the embalmed bodies of these ani- mals. Although it seems preposterous, these simple animals often explain the pre- sence of the huge mountains of stone which stand along the Nile. The largest pyra in eternity, but they in hand, about stifled with dust, one em- erges into the pass- age ascending to the king's and queen's chamber where no- thing is to be seen ex- cept the empty, lid- less sarcophagus of the once mighty, but now unknown build- er of this vast sepul- chre. With the aid of a few Arabs one can ascend to the top of the Pyramids. From any of them a niag- nificent view may be seen. I have a clear picture of what I would see, and of what I would think from this strategic point. Beneath our QA 5 lr - ...fg deux as n V' 31 . :ffl A I lffi. , ' I I .L Er., , -..W - yi' 1- ..., -. '.'f?,.a,- vi. ,.'.- P --Q' f--- , i. ffjlp -f ' -- my ,A+ ,x , , aw -ttffe''f?i?vff34QTQf.,,--ffe '7 A ' e 5. ---. :lf ' .,..:-ff? if'Lf f7 f fe . I , 2- 'V T ff Eu' M- . A 1 , 'ig-, 5912 Zi ' ft ' E.. ,,f.. r I -.-- frvzidf' of . I 5-'fHXafe,4?gi2eiQ.,-Q 11 , fi '- ..:j-xg, feet repose the dead of f mid, known as Cheops, orty centuries. The covers an area of more than thirty acres, and rises to a height of four hundred feet. It is made of huge stone blocks, some being from twenty to thirty feet long. This pyramid con- tains enough material to build a city twice as large as Ottawa, including all public edihces. It is recorded that forty thousand men Iaboured for twenty years to complete this monument. But how the huge stone blocks were carved and put in place with the crude instruments of the day remains a mystery to the world. The entrance of the Cheops Pyramid, which was originally closed, is a narrow passage three majestic Nile meanders to the north, to the west stretches the desert with its drifting sands and its waving palm-trees. The wind moans around the astounding height of the pyramid. Far down on the sands below, tiny specks are approaching. They are camels carrying more casual observers. How many generations these pyramids must have seen! How many famous men! I envy them their knowledge. They must have enjoyed seeing men like Napoleon marching in their shadows. And yet while more generations pass, they stand in the Valley of the Nile, silent, unmoved, and watchful. 424k '

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UX GLEBANAGEQQ L 1211 3 THIRD PRIZE, JUNIOR ANG! Y Es, it was a blow-out. Redf haired, freckled-faced Jack Hast- ings looked down sadly at the flat tire. I might have known this would happen I 'I he exclaimed. It's just my luck to have every little piece of glass on the road find a place in my tire. jack?s father had been dead for five years and his mother and three little sisters depended on a small allowance which they obtained from the firm in which his father had been employed. jack had set his heart on entering the race for the Osthern Cup, a race in which all the leading cyclists of the district were entered. Now he had little chance of being able to compete, for he had no money to buy a new inner tube. After a fatiguing walk, the lad drew up finally before a low, dull-coloured wooden house of only one floor. This house, which was his home, contrasted greatly with the neigh- bouring residences, all nestled in the same valley, the others towering above it on either side. Oh, jack, I am so glad you are back! You know I am always afraid you will be hurt speeding on that bicycle of yours , said a pale- faced, motherly woman. I have had bad luck to-day, mother , mur- mured jack. I have a flat tire that can't be fixed. I guess I won't be able to enter the race. That evening as the dejected Hastings family were seated about their small table eating sup- per, a quick knock was heard at the door. Bill Hamilton, one of jack's chums, entered. Don't ,ED ' Er w,i'3,f ALERE FLAMMAM ff! 571 ff ffm 5 X f i ,,Q2 . f l . ff ZM2.aF, 2, I I 7 fl ff ' ' I M' If X, fffi 4 if X f f fi' 1 f 'K If ff, M i...,' V at ff ff fr HERBERT WANLESS 2-E go for your usual walk along the river to-night, Jack , he blurted out excitedly. . Why, Bill, what's the matter? Have you been chased by a bear, or has your little brother swallowed a pin? asked jack, jokingly. Be sensible, jack. Don't go for your walk to-night , he repeated persistently. Why not? asked jack. This morning, when you were practising at the track, I was sitting in the stand watching you. Not far from ine sat Cragstone, the star 'pedaller' from Middletown, and one of his cronies. From what I could make out'of their conversation Cragstone thought that you could beat him. , 'Well, what is so exciting about that? inter- rupted Jack. I haven't finished yet , rejoined Bill. Lis- ten! as they were getting into their car, I heard Cragstone say 'We'll get him to-night'. I think he meant they are going to kidnap youn, con- tinued Bill. f 'fReally! You are no better than a nervous girl , laughed Jack. It was a cloudy, dark evening, and very ghost- like under the trees which lined the river. jack took no heed of Bill's warning, but set 'out for his usual training walk. Suddenly he heard a rustle in the bushes 'at his side, the next instant a cloth was flung over lConlinucd on Page 59 f23f

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UX GLEBANAQEQQ- fog'-QPALERE FLAMMAM HOW SILLYFIRJIQHESOLSK AN EGG T A FTER CAREFUL research I found that Rugby football began with the kicking of an infl ated pigls-bladder, back in the Middle Ages. They have civilized the bladder into a leather ball but, apparently, nobody ever thought of modifying its nonsensical contours. And Columbus and Humpty Dumpty notwith- standing, to the contrary, you cannot make an egg behave in a logical manner. A soccer ball is round, a baseball is round, a basketball is round and so are golf balls, hand- balls, ping pong balls, polo balls, billiard balls and marbles. Lawn bowls are merely a trifle lopsided and there is a reason for that. Even a hockey puck is round, if you look at it in the right way. Only this rugby football thing per- sists in remaining an oblate spheroid, with all the idiosyncrasies of conduct for which the spheroid family is so justly celebrated. lt does not roll, like other balls-at least, not much. It hops, and usually it hops in the other direction. It is expected to do practically everything that all the other sporting balls, combined, are expected to do, and several things besides that no round ball in its right mind would think of attempting. That a thousand football coaches come forth, eager and starry-eyed, every September, with brand- new sets of blackboard charts designed to con- trol the conduct of this insane egg bears testi- mony to the unquenchable optimism of the human race. We set out to drop-kick, place- kick unt throw and carr the ludicrous GEORGE H. ASKWITH 4-D Many tales of exploding balls can be re- counted, even among these leather eggs. In a Canadian College game about ten years ago, a kicked ball went limp just as it dropped into the arms of the safety man. He grabbed it by the slack of the pants, and having both hands free for straight-arming, went the route to a touch- down. Another time a drop-kicked ball col- lapsed in the air and settled across the goal-bar. The kicking team claimed that the part hanging inside constituted a Held-goal, the defenders asserted that the outside half was a missed goal. They claimed a touchback. The referee, being quick in the seat of the intellect and much ,attached to his life, declared both teams offside and ordered the play made over again. No one can remotely estimate the number of football results that have hinged on the avid eccentricities of the ball. It is an every-game experience to see punts hop right up to the goal line and then hop away and snuggle down to rest, bringing woe and maybe a touchdown to the miserable defenders. Sometimes it seems as though, throughout a game, the ball was deliberately taking sides. However, the ball for all its cussedness is not always on the side of the unrighteous. Years ago when Helds were one hundred and monstribsity, high, wide and hahdsome on thirty thousand square feet of turf or -T Q mud, every Saturday or week day K-. A ,,.- t kfgfxa' f and then wonder that the rest of W lffffe wk fx? ' the week is too short to explain ' ! QQ K 5 Z mxll Q., the inexplicable things that happen. j E p t x Amt Footballs began acting queer 'X Ml' 'll right at the start. During the first 7 K -- B-,EZ - X Yale-Princeton squabble in 1873, the ball got XX N195- K X stepped on or kicked two ways at once. lt N ' said, Ol and collapsed. It was half an hour X N03 or more before the New Haven sports shops 'jgfis could be made to produce another example of X ' the rare genus. The ball, however, was one of the round, rubber things that blew up with a brass key. alz 5 . .,..,... , .....,........,.... ..,.n..'u11nil5E f' 1 le