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

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UX GLEBANAGXQK- QAQPALERE FLAMMAM SCfIO0L I-IT 5 CDUR VISITORS T H0 1sN r pleased and interested when, sitting in the Assembly Hall on a dull, dreary morning, he sees Mr. Atkinson enter followed by one or more visitors? The pupils clap heartily and sometimes enthusiastically even go as far as cheering. Quite noticeably, too, the orchestra's time-hallowed selections take on a livelier tempo as we welcome our visitors. Nor is it because, as so many of our guests good-humouredly suggest, that we like to have the time taken from our classes. We are always glad to make contact with the outside world through our visitors, many of whom come from far distant places, and we welcome the opportunity of broadening our education and getting away from the traditional three R's or their confining equivalents. - PRESENTATION OF COLLEGIATE COUNCIL PRIZES- Dr. A. H. McDougall. The Hrst visitor of the school year was fitting- ly our highly esteemed former principal, Dr. A. H. McDougall, on the occasion of the pre- sentation of the Collegiate Council prizes early in September. Although Dr. McDougall is now a stranger to the majority of Glebe students, there are a number of Glebites in the upper forms to whom it seems only a short while since Dr. McDougall was regularly on the platform three days a week fthe other two days being spent at Lisgarj. How tempus fugits! We hope that Dr. McDougall will be with us many more times in the future, as we are always glad to see him. VISIT OF ENGLISH MASTERS-Mr. Thos. B. Tilley. On Thursday, October ioth, our second visitor, Thomas B. Tilley, Director of Educa- tion for Durham, England, visited us. Mr. Tilley, along with other English masters, was on a tour of Canada and told us a few of his impressions of the Dominion and drew some comparisons between Canadian and English school life. The schools and houses in Canada are kept excessively hot , observed Mr. Tilley, and even as he was speaking to us he said the 463 perspiration was trickling down his neck from this unaccustomed heat, whereas in England the schools were kept at 55 and many even had no heating equipment at all! Mr. Tilley humourously told us that he found our rugby games amusing, because he didn't know what the players could be whispering about so much in the huddles. In regard to Canadian sports he was surprised at the attitude taken by the spectators in booing at a decision or play that did not please them. ln England , said Mr. Tilley, the spectators maintain a complete silence to show their disapproval of referees' decisions . He said that Canada was far more vast than he had ever imagined and hinted that we, on this side of the ocean, had a mania for greatness and speed. England was small, and our visitor pointed out that you could motor the length of England in a day and the width in two hours. FIRE PREVENTION DAY-Mr. Grove Smith. On Friday, October 1 ith, we were visited by the Dominion Fire Commissioner, Mr. Groves Smith, on the occasion of Fire Prevention Day. Mr. Groves Smith gave us the startling statistics that there had been an average of a tire every ten minutes and a life lost every day throughout It

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UX GLEBANAGH9 the last fifteen years in Canada. The principal causes were cigarettes, over-heated furnaces, defective wiring, and carelessness - the latter ranking as the greatest contributing factor of them all. He warned us against putting cent pieces in fuse boxes in place of the suitable fuse. My objectn, said Mr. Groves Smith, is to impress on you to be extremely careful at all times. It was only by doing this that fires and the consequent loss of life and property could be reduced, stated our visitor. COMMUNITY CHEST DRIVE-Judge J. F. McKinley. The raising of funds for the Ottawa Com- munity Chest was the 'purpose of a visit to the school by Judge J. F. McKinley on October zist. Mr. Atkinson told us that only twice during the year-for the Community Chest and on Poppy Day-were visitors allowed to solicit money from the students. judge McKinley stated that the greatest joy is only realized when we share with others, and he urged us to sup- port the appeal for funds for the Community Chest which would supply a number of useful charities with the necessary funds to carry on for the ensuing year. POPPY DAY-Captain Whalen. On November 5th, Captain Whalen visited the school and in a humourous address, during the course of which the Assembly Hall many times re-echoed with the gales of laughter and outbursts of applause, urged us to remember Poppy Day. He stated that the soldiers came back from the last war and found nothing to do. The Legion was created for them and they do not complain. He said that no old soldier wants war again but pointed out that the United States was a source of danger to the peace of the world because it was not doing sufficient to prevent war. He urged us to buy as many poppies as possible and thus support these re- turned men. MRS. ATKINSON. On November 19th, we were visited by Mrs. Atkinson, our principal's mother,who, although she declined to address the pupils, drew much applause from the Assembly. PRESENTATION OF GRADUATION DIPLOMAS- Dr. J. H. Putman. The presentation of Graduation Diplomas and Special Prizes on january 6th was the occa- sion of a long list of visitors at Glebe. Dr. J. H. Putman, Senior Public School Inspector, was the guest speaker. Other visitors were Dr. A. H. McDougall, Mr. W. A. Graham, Mr. R. G. QHDALERE FLAMMAM Knox, Mr. R. A. Sproule, Mr. D. O. Arnold, principal of Nepean High School, Mr. F. G. Patten, principal of the High School of Com- merce, Mrs. Rudolphe Anderson, representing the University Women's Club, and Mrs. C. H. Thorburn of the Collegiate Board. Dr. Putman dealt with the question of What is Education? He said it would be interesting to see what reply the students would give to that query, on being asked by a visitor from a far away place. f'Matthew Arnold once said that education was for the purpose of influencing one's conduct , said Dr. Putman, '-'While john Ruskin believed that education was not to teach people to know something they did not know, but to teach one to behave as one would not otherwise, without education, behave. Dr. Putman thought that Ruskin's definition would be the common de- nominator of the opinions of all the students. The test of any subjectls value in education is its ability, therefore, to influence behaviour. In regard to the present curriculum, if music influenced behaviour more than something we now study, then there should be more music and less of something else. Likewise, if hand work influenced behaviour more than some- thing else, there should be more hand work and less of the other subjects. Dr. Putman stated that the school subjects were a means to an end and that the end was good citizenship, and be- haviour had everything to do with citizenship. MISS WILLIAMS. On Friday, January 24th, Miss Williams, the secretary of the Ottawa Welfare Bureau, visited Glebe for the purpose of giving infor- mation about the Welfare Bureau to those who were writing Fisher Essays, so many of whom had visited The Bureau that they had inter- rupted the running of it. Miss Williams first pointed out the difference between the Wel- fare Board and the Welfare Bureau, the latter of which is a private organization, operating with its own staff of highly trained oflice and field workers, and financed by the Community Chest. The Bureau had in times past looked after all relief work, but when the relief prob- lem became acute several years ago, it was taken over by the city, leaving the Bureau only the problem cases to deal with. Miss Williams stated that there would always be a need for the Welfare Bureau because there were always problems, even in good times, and that the primary object of the Bureau was to give ser- vice to those who were in need of it. ' lConlinued on page 101 4641