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

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UX GLEBANACXQQ QQPALERE FLAMMAM A FEW WORDS FROM OUR VISITORS t ow OFTEN we would like to recall some of the things said 'to us by our assembly visitors, but which have been somewhat obscured with the passing of time! That this desire may be, in part at least, answered, we have asked each person who called on us during the year to pen some few words of his own choice for the Lux. Nearly all of them readily res- ponded. Accordingly, we are pleased to pass on to our readers the messages of our visitors just as they handed them to us. - DR. A. H. M DOUGALL, 714, Ex-Principal, C ' A1 i Ottawa Collegiate Institutes. It is always a pleasure to attend a meeting of the Glebe Collegiate Institute and to take part M. SNSQ.. l ,Y - in the exercises, so also it is a pleasure to respond to the request of the Editor of the Visitors' Section for a contribution to his department. ' 5 , Q I i May I not ask to be considered, not so much as a visitor, but rather as a member of the family who returns from time to time to scenes with which he was long familiar. Many of the teachers are old friends but few of the pupils of the present time are personally known to me and naturally my thoughts turn back to occa- sions and faces that I have known in the past. s Public secondary education in what is now M X' 2 I l Ottawa began with the founding of the Dal- ' housie District Grammar School in 1843 and its history is now well on in the last decade of its first century. Growth and expansion have gone on with ever increasing acceleration from a small beginning to the four great schools with 0 overcrowded class rooms of the present day. Nor has the growth been confined to size or to numbers. New courses of study have been added, old and new interests developed bring- ing to a high degree that combination of happy V lives with serious purpose that is the ideal of school life, the ideal that involves preparation 5 for an active life, promotes self-support and encourages intelligent participation in human affairs. It is essential that the pupils should seek to discover and develop their own dominant interests and powers. What will be their voca- DVM- Cad W.. ' tions when school days are over? What is their physical, mental and moral capacity for the work they have in view? The activities of thc school, with the suggestions of teachers can help them to answer these questions. With best wishes for the continued pros- perity of the Glebe Collegiate Institute and of the Lux Glebanaf, A.H.M. 5 'i65l'

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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

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UX GLEBANAGXQLQ- THOS. B. TILLEY, Director of Education, Durlaam, E11 gland . CI'Vrittei1, in N ofvember, 072 hir return to England from Canada? The thought of your school brings back visions of Ottawa and the wonderful view of the hills from the top of your Government Tower, the wonderful War Memorial and the calm of the Government Buildings which seem to have set the tempo of the life of your beautiful town. The thought of Government and forms of Government must be ever pre- sent to thoughtful students of the High Schools of Ottawa-much more prominent than in the case of less fortunate scholars in other cities which are not the centre of Government life. And so I regard the scholars of the Collegiate Institute as being doubly fortunate in their Institute and in their town. The problem of Education is an age-old one, it is a problem which all the sages have attempted throughout the ages in various ways to solve. There can be no final solution to the problem of Education for new times change the setting for the on-- coming generations. Nevertheless, though the content of knowledge required by the on- coming generations ,may change and grow, fundamentally the more it changes the more it remains the same thing. Moreover, the world will always demand good citizens. The problem of the making of the good citizen - the man interested in himself, his fellows, his country and the world at large-is the problem educa- tional administrators, school-masters, principals and teachers are struggling with from day to day and the better the environment, the better the social products, and so I see great oppor- tunities for ex-students of your Collegiate Insti- tute to take prominent places in the control and guidance of the destinies of the great Dominion of which your City forms the heart. -T. B. T. DR. J. H. PUTMAN, Chief Inspector of Public Schools, Ozmfwa. And my last word is that whether you are studying Mathematics or English or French or Latin or Physics or Chemistry, you are spend- ing three or four or five years at the Glebe Collegiate to learn how to behave, how to con- duct yourselves during Life's journeyf' -J. H. P. 'fl QAQSPALERE FLAMMAM MRS. CHAS. H. THORBURN, Member Collegiate Institute Board. May I express through the medium of your School paper my great pleasure at being present at the opening of the School following the Christmas Vacation? It was a delight to assist in presenting' the Graduation Diplomas and Special Prizes and a privilege to listen to the splendid address delivered by our good friend, Dr. Putman. Incidentally, may I remark that the old conception of a reluctant attitude in returning to School was completely annihilated, as everyone, Teachers and Students, seemed so happy. just what one might expect in the Glebe Collegiate! I CMRSJ C. H. T. MRS. W. D. ATKINSON, Richmond Hill, Ont. I know I shall long remember my visit to the Glebe Collegiatef' -CMRSQ W. D. A. MR. W. A. GRAHAM, C Former Teacher of Glebe. ' I am very glad indeed to see that the Editorial Staff of the school magazine are in the van of progress and ready not only to avail themselves of all opportunities to improve and extend the scope of their magazine but also to create those 0PPOrtUI11t1CS. A When in Britain last year I was impressed by the solidity and strength of our great Empire. London, with its cosmopolitanpopulation hail- ing from the four corners of the earth, seemed to be the very nerve centre of the world. This Empire's strength was fostered during the past quarter of a century by the love of its people for their late lamented and gracious sovereign, King George V, who by his kindly Christian character endeared himself to all his subjects. VVe should all be proud to belong to the great British Empire, an Empire on which the sun never sets, an Empire which champions the cause of the weak and the oppressed, an Empire which seeks to banish from the earth the hideous spectacle of war and to establish the reign or Peace and good-will among men? Let us one and all aim to make ourselves citizens worthy of such an Empire. ' -W. A. G. 6659,