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

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EDITQRIALS--...-i Edifed by JAMES WELD A Students' Parliament OR MANY years, as our school has been increasing in size, our school spirit has become less and less active. We must restore it to its former power when every copy of the magazine was dis- posed of, and more were wanted 5 when every ticket for the Concert was sold,rand standing room was at a premium 5 when Glebe teams were spurred on to victories by a gallery of enormous proportions. We have a Collegiate Council, the governing body of the school. The average student scarcely knows that it exists, can it be aught but useless in the promotion of school unity? An idea has been coalescing for some time and it would, perhaps, be not inappropriate to give it form here. If a students' parlia- ment were formed, would it not materially assist in the development of a new spirit of co-operation in the school? In the ap- proved parliamentary manner, one student Would be elected by each form to represent it in parliament. These members, not of necessity belonging to the form they repre- sent, would be, together with the present Collegiate Council, our House of Commons. The Head Boy would be Premier and the Collegiate Council his cabinet. A Senate, the teachers, would have a suspensive veto, the President, the principal, an absolute veto. Such is the bare outline of a student parliament. It could discuss matters of school policyg it could debate the expendi- ture of money now passing through the hands of the Collegiate Councilg and it could appoint various committees, one cor- responding to an English school's prefects, to assist the teachers with discipline, another, a visitors' committee. It would, beyond doubt, be a fine conjunct to the History and Civics, and English lessons, it would, from the experience the students would gain in such an assembly, greatly help them no matter what their future occupation might beg and, by drawing a greater number of Page 8 students into the school administration, it would be no little force in the rebuilding of an active school spirit. rkvlfvls Letters to the Editor? CHOOL magazines live and progress on new ideas. If this were not so our present-day year books would not differ much from the first one published at Eaton in 1785. Each year the editors must scratch their respective heads waiting for a kind Muse to inspire them. Some scatter their own pet schemes throughout the book with the result that the whole is a reflection of one personality. Others try to act as executives and allow each staff head to carry out his own ideas for his particular depart- ment. This though it may impair the form of the book enriches the matter with the colour of different individualities. Al- most all editors borrow ideas from here and there, and do not by any means scorn the Exchange Department as a source of sug- gestions. It has lately occurred to us that our own 1,724 students would yield a rich crop of bright and novel ideas, and we propose to our successor that he garner them in by means of Letters to the Editor . Some students have ideas which would benefit the school as a whole upon which they could not be induced to write a formal article, but which we might all find inter- esting if expounded in a Letter to the Editor . Then, too, constructive criticism of the previous year's LUX would be both welcome and instructive. This year, for example, we would like to know how the students feel about the Old Boys' Column for distinguished alumni 5 whether they approve of the language pages, and why the graduates proved so indifferent to the suggestion of graduating pictures. Let us hear from you, Glebites. LUX GLEBANA

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LUX GLEBANA EXECUTIVE was .... 1939 Editor-in-Chief ....... Assistant Editors .... . . Advisory Editor. Literary Stajf. . . Poetry. . .... . . . Language Pages. Art ..,........ Candid Shots. . . Exchange ....... Humour. .... . . . Form Humour. . ..........................JAMESWELD . . . .FRANCES PARKER, NEIL MAODONALD . . . .JOHN W. MAOLENNAN, M. A., Ph. B. ELEANOR TILLEY, MYRTLE VVALLINGFORD, EDWARD RETTIE, IAN MOPHEE. ....,...................FIRLENAYLOR . . . . . .EILEEN AOTON . . . . . . . .KEITH FRASER . . . . . . . . . .KATHERINE DRAYTON . ........ . ............. ELIZABETH SERSON . . . . . . . . .HARRIET HALL, HAROLD WILLIS .5th Form-LOIS OGILVIE 4th Form-MARY ALICE ARCHIBALD 31-d Form-ELIZABETH DRAYTON 2nd Form-STANLEY METOALFE lst Form-MARY MCINTYRE,. WILLIS ALLAN Alumni ....... 5A-BLYTH YOUNG 5B-KEITH ATKINSON 5C-MARJORIE COKE 5D-FREDA YOUNG 4th-J EAN FOWLER Boys' Athletics ..................... ...... J AMES MOCALLUM Girls' Athletics ......................... ELIZABETH GLASSFORD lEditor's Note: Several sections have had to be dropped or curtailed because of lack of space. The Editors regret this, and wish to thank those whose work does not appear, for their time and energy.1 Business Staff Advisory Business Manager ......... MICHAEL F. MCHUGH, B.A. Business Manager ........... Q ........... NEIL MACDONALD Assistant Business Manager .................. THOMAS WESTON Advertising Manager ...... ..................... G ORDON SHAW Advertising Solicitors. . .MARY FINLAYSON, CHARLES COLQU- HOUN, KENNETH MACLEAN, GEORGE . MOLEAN, HERBERT ARMSTRONG. Collegiate Institute Board MR. JAMES VVARREN YORK, K.C. .................... Chairman MRS. C. H. THORBURN, O.B.E. ................. Vice Chairman MR. H. P. HILL, K.C. DR. W. C. MAOARTNEY MR. J. A. MCGILL MR. PHILIP PHELAN MR. A. E. PROVOST MR. J. J. SLATTERY MR. J. ALBERT EWART, B.Sc. ........................ Architect MR. F. A. STUART, M.A. ................ Principal, Lisgar C. I. MR. W. D. T. ATKINSON, M.A. .... .... P rincezipal, Glebe C. I. MR. CECIL BETHUNE ......... .... S ecretary- Treasurer LUX GLEBANA

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What the World is Looking For HE WORLD today is looking for men who are not for sale, men who are honest, sound from centre to circum- ference, true to the heart's core, men with consciences as steady as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right if the heavens totter and the earth reels g men who can tell the truth and look the world right in the eye g men who neither brag nor rung men who neither flag nor fiinchg men who can have rcourage without shouting itg men in whom the courage of everlasting life runs still, deep and strong, men who know their message and tell itg men who know their place and fill itg men who know their business and attend to it, men who will not lie, shirk or dodgeg men who are not too lazy to work, nor too proud to be poor 3 men who are willing to eat what they have earned and wear what they have paid forg men who are not ashamed to say No with emphasis and who are not ashamed to say I can't afford it . Mr. GARVIN. bk ak 214 Speeches E STUDENTS who have to listen to your appeals begging for some activity or other, feel we cannot urge too strongly that you, our orators , obey at least a few rudimentary rules of rhetoric. In the first place, do attempt at least a semblance of using your mother tongue correctly. English as it is mur- dered becomes trying after the first hu- morous moments. Secondly, forbear to force your witticisms upon our unretaliating heads. We are not permitted to tell you how soon they pall on us. Again, do make some attempt to let the back rows hear what you say, if the subject is Worthwhile making a speech about, surely we should all be able to hear it. Finally, be brief and to the pointg your verbosity is some- times wearing on the nerves. Do these things and you shall be honoured, ignore them, and We shall be in Bedlam. N. M. LUX GLEBANA lThe following has been slipped past the vigilant eyes of the Editor, to comply with numerous requests for its publication.- The Assistant-Editors.l RIEN DS, teachers, Glebites, lend me your ears: I come to ask a question, not to praise you. Do you as Glebites want a magazine, Or will you after all these fruitful years Forsake the LUX GLEBANA, light of Glebe, And leave our dear school's name in ig- nominy? Nay, brothers, nay-I still cannot believe it! Do Write a bit and show me 'tis not so: For if we in our purpose lack success, And are scoifed at by Lisgarites, Yet will the blame not be upon our head For we have done our part: in our fat cup- boards On the lower floor lie contracts signed and sealed Wherewith we get the best of paper for Our missive. Yea, and more we have Pages illumined with the faces fair Of our most noted men, and pictures Of the concert o'er four score 5 To these From our field men in every form We have some pearls of witg and more: Ourselves have laboured long on lines Of an ennobling sentiment. But all's too Weak: ' For, brethren, without you all is but toys, And we must either break the bond of con- tract, Or give you that-the which you most de- serve- Like to a child's book-with nought but pictures And small grains of wit- Now if ye be my friends-so help ye me- And if not, so help the grand tradition of the school And write-upon your present trials and tribulations, Or former travels, or yet some poetry. And do ye this-in such a way that all may shout 'Tis the best LUX that has so far come out. PLUCK THE FLOWER OF TODAY Quid sit futurum cras fuge quaerere . Brief is the sunshine for to-day: To-morrow's clouds will take away The laughing light that warms my play. Now is my feast, so let me dine: To-morrow dregs-to-day the wine: Brief is this moment that is mine! In careless sunshine now I'm basking 3 To-morrow's sneer to-day is masking 3 What's to be I shrink from asking. Quid sit futurum cras fuge quaerere . 77 Page 9