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

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SCIENCE CLUB H. BOLTON SCIENCE CLUB EXECUTIVE Waller A. Runge Back Raw-W. GREEN, KEITH MCCAFFERY, DAPHNE NEVILLE, BETTY IYIAINGUY, MARGARET TURNBULL, JAMES NE'r'rLE-ron, Emo CowAN Joan WHITMORE, ROBERT CoLE. , Front Row-EDWARD RETTIE, BETTY FEATHERSTONE, HENRY BOLTON, SHIRLEY Mxi.LER, .Lxcx W1LsoN, MR. V. E. Bunnocx, QSPONSORQ. HE GLEBE Collegiate Science Club has become an institution of no small importance 'to the students. It is now in its seventh year and each year it has been increasing in usefulness. In the beginning it was a something extra to the classroom. To-day it has become a dis- tinctive institution managed by its members for the additional knowledge they may draw from membership in it. To many students it is still just a name 5 but that it is more than this will be realized from the statement concerning its activities which follows. The membership is limited to sixty students who, after the requirements of the constitution, must Cab take an Upper School Science subject, tbl have at least 2nd Class Honours in Middle School Chemistry, and Ccj have 5091. at all times during the year. Page 58 The sixty potential scientists are divided into ten groups of six members each. Meet- ings are held every other Wednesday after- noon in the Lecture Room. Each group has charge of one meeting. In this way each member participates in the c1ub's programme. The programmes are varied, consisting of experiments, illustrated talks and scientific demonstrations. The club is favoured at some meetings by having guest speakers. It has an up-to-date library with the latest scientific books, monthly magazines and digests from which the members may derive valuable information. Another phase of the club's activities is visiting industrial concerns and places of interest. To date in 1938-39 the club has visited the Filtration Plant, the Fuel Re- search Laboratories and Forest Products Laboratories of the Department of Mines Lux GLEBANA

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fthe Twilight of the Godsj. Those of you who saw The Big Broadcast of 1938, have an idea of what she looks like as Briinnhilde, but you can have only a faint conception of the beauty of her voiceg for no manner of reproduction has captured it in all its glory and magnificence. Just two days later I heard the strongest cast the Metropolitan has to offer-the best, indeed, that any opera company could offer-in Lohengrin. Flagstad sang Elsa g the title role was taken by Lauritz Melchior. During my visit to New York in March of this year I heard Flagstad seven times in eleven days. The first was as Isolde in Tristan and Isolde. The performance began twenty minutes after the arrival of the train in New York on March 1, but the mad rush from the station to theatre was amply rewarded. Ever since I have loved music I have wanted to hear Tristan and Isolde more than anything else 5 all that I had an- ticipated was realized., The world's greatest heroic tenor, Lauritz Melchior, sang op- posite Flagstad, as he did in seven of the eight operas I have heard over a period of two years in which she appeared. To hear Melchior sing the one word Isolde and to hear Flagstad reply, singing one syllable on F- Hal -is a thrill never to be forgotten. The love duet in the second act, music which many consider the loveliest ever written, becomes almost unendurably beau- tiful. There is magic in the opera house when these two sing Wagner. Another unforgettable experience was the singing of Briinnhilde int Gotterdaninierung, which I heard twice. Of this performance Olin Downes writes: Madame Flagstad's Briinnhilde is not only beyond the reach of any other living Wagnerian Soprano, but it is her own greatest part. This holds not only as concerns the magnificent voice and the technical resource of its employment, but also because of the sovereign nobility and pathos of her interpretation. . . The final scene finds Madame Flagstad with ample reserve of voice, and also with the stature, the gesture, the epic consciousness, which carries the vast music drama to its complete consummation. 'This is indeed the large utterance of the early gods! During Flagstad's professional career she has sung more than sixty roles in operetta and grand opera. America has heard only ten of these roles, all in German. Before leaving her native land she did all her sing- ing in the Scandinavian tongues. But the difficulties of language would not deter Madame Flagstad from singing Italian roles. Lillian Nordica, one of the great Isoldes of the past, rehearsed the ,role with piano a thousand times before she would consent to sing it in public. Flagstad studied this role for six weeks before singing it in public. She learned the Gotterdammerung Briinnhilde in two weeks. If the music-loving public did not insist upon hearing her so frequently both in operasand in concert, she would no doubt be able within a comparatively short time to encompass the difficulties of the Italian language and thus open upanother wide field of accomplishment. However that may be, of one thing we may be cer- tain-that she will be enshrined among the immortals in the halls of musical fame. , Sfvkvk Positive, means being mistaken at the top of one's voice. New Home Bank and Somerset Street From May First s GOWLING SCHOOL Will be Located atthe Corner of BANK and SOMERSET STREETS These fine premises have been com- pletely renovated and remodelled into the finest and most modern business college premises in Ontario. Large airy rooms well lighted and ventilated making ideal conditions for studying. Special Summer Classes During July and August W. E. Gowling, G. W. Braithwaite, President Principal LUX GLEBANA Page 57

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and Resources the E. B. Eddy Paper Mills, The Ottawa Dairy, the National Research Council Laboratories and the Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co. Plant. In the near future it expects to visit Beach Foundries, Connor Washers and the Canada Cement Plant. In addition, plans are being worked out for trips to Cornwall and Montreal. To finance these out-of-town trips the Science Club sponsors various activities. This year it has been host to the students at a moving-picture show and has arranged after-noon dances and the annual Science Club Dance. In conclusion it may be stated that the club, which came into existence through the initiative of Mr. Bullock, could not have continued to exist without his splendid support as sponsor. The officers of the executive for the current year 1938-39 are: Sponsor, MR. V. E. BULLOCKQ Assistant Sponsor, R. N. MC- 1 GREGoRg Pres., HENRY BOLTON, Vice-P-res., JAMES NETTLETONQ Secretaries, Miss SHIR- LEY MILLER, BETTY FEA'rHERs'roNg Treas- urers, FRED SHARPE, EDWARD RETTIEQ Li- brarian, JOHN WILSON, Assistcmt Lvlbrm'-ifm, ERIC COWAN. Sk S4 all The Montreal Trip T 6.30 a.m. of June 8th in a drizzling rain, 65 members of the Science Club ' with undampened spirits, left the Collegiate in two de-luxe buses for Montreal. Lead by our musical assistant-sponsor, Mr. McGregor, and our leather-lunged redoubt- able president, Joss Gordon, we engaged in lusty sing-songs and yells for the greater part of the way. This, no doubt, helped to chase the rain away for the sun was shining brightly long before we reached the first toll-bridge. About 10.30 a.m. at Montreal West a halt was made to re-arrange the gang. Forty boys in charge of Mr. Bullock piled into one bus and visited the nearby Con- sumers' Glass Factory, while all the girls and some boys along with Mr. McGregor proceeded almost across the city to the Fry-Cadbury Chocolate plant. Both parties were very courteously re- ceived and the various processes shown and explained in detail. The boys saw bottles of all sizes and shapes made. Theytraced the procedure through fromithe raw Ingred- ients of broken glass, special sand, borax, etc., to the great gas-fired furnaces from which the molten glass flows out Intog the blowing moulds. From these the red-hot bottles were carried away on huge moving Lux GLEBANA Page 59