Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute - Acta Nostra Yearbook (Guelph, Ontario Canada)

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88 ACTA NOSTRA, 1926 BOYS OF THE JUNIOR COMMERCIAL B. VVe know we're clever. we know we're good. lVe always behave as good boys should: Obey our teachers. study hard. KYe'll all have our names on an honour card. Yes! Maybe! In Literature and History too. Miss Pigtott will tell how well we do: In Sten-ography. too. Miss Blyth will say. That we all get perfect. every day. Yes! Maybe! In French. Miss McDonald will tell. That we'll be famous. she knows full well: In .-Xrithinetic, Mr. Hastie too. Admits there is nothing' we cannot do. Yes! Maybe! The swim is where we show a lot. You don't believe it? Maybe not: And in bookkeeping. Mr. Langford declares. lYe learn with ease most difficult affairs. Yes! Maybe! .-Xh. yes. we're clever. yes. we're good: lVe always be-have as good 'boys shouldg Obey our teachers. study hard. XVe'll soon have our names on an honour card. Yes! Maybe! T. H. Reed. Ir. Com. LT. H. Reed is our 'boy from Scotland. who has :travelled round the world. We shall hear more from him next year. we hope.j SMILES Miss P.- Small, explain the Family Com- pact. Small-i'Er-er. XVhat part don't you un- derstand?,' Dentist- XYliat kind of filling do you want in your teeth. son? Ford- Chocolate please. Gray- Mr. H.. will you buy me a mi- crobe? Mr. 1-I ptrithmetic teacherj-l'lY.hat for? Gray- Because I read in the paper that they multiply quickly. Black tsmall boyj- Please bring me a chair. Rapp tbig boyl- XYhat for? Black- I want to whisper in your ear. Qi Thircl Year Commercial GENERAL REPORTS ON THE MASC. SEX OF III COM. Some say that this form has the best re- presentation of the above mentioned in our school-and some say otherwise. Don. G. H.. ex-captain and member of the basketball team. member of the rugby squad. and actor. is the leading light of the form. the boy's representative. etc.-this by unanimous acclamation. But when all is said and done, Donald is a boy of valour. daily wending' his lonely and perilous way through the jun -' le of feminism in III Com. However. to mar -these enviable character' istics Donald has a certain peculiarity. which we cannot wholly understand. XYe wonder why the worthy boy is so often discovered wandering down a certain corridor that leads to the threshold of II C. Donald isxalso a reputed Romeo. For confirmation of this statement. refer to the aforesaid form. Good things come in small parcels. How trite that is of Ill Com. There are not very many of us, but. oh boy. everybody knows we're here. You said it. son! YOU KNOW HER Her eyes are dark. hair is brown. Her Shes a real girl. The talk of the town. Ask Short 22 Special Commercial 1. Preface. Please hearken while we give to you in poem. line on line. Some information up to date. in which some names shall shine: XY'hile others not so brilliant, reasoning' out the why and wherefore. Do take their part. with all their heart. of course that's what they're there for. 2. Verse. Miss McDonald. nrst of all. will get a word of mention. A.bility's rnquestioned. so we give her rapt attention. lYe couple him who's called Glynne Jones and Latvrfne Love so quiet. XYith Charlie Moore. a sunny chap-he lo-ses nothing by it.

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ACTA NOSTRA, 1926 87 U -T'--M - +7-W 2 A TheCentr1al Book Store ' The best Values in T Fillers, Work Books, Scribblers, Notebooks, Fountain Pens, ink, Pencils, Rubbers, Erasers, Paints, Brushes, Mathematical Instruments, Etc. We are right on the Square and ready to serve you Phone 256 53 Wyndham St. C. Anderson C? Co. CThe Place. to Select Your Gifts I f QP o S S so CQLLEGIATE STUDENTS Will find it a pleasure to Insure with the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada HEAD OFFICEAMONTREAL The Leading Life Assurance Company in the British Empire ASSETS , Three Hundred Million Dollars a W. E. i Bill D Hamilton District Manager S 20 Douglas Street Guelph, 0llfUfi0 Y ,N - 4

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ACTA NOSTRA, 1926 FUR BUYS MID GIRLS INTERIIIIIG T0 The Guelph vocational School FULLUW A BUSINESS, INDUSTRIAL offers splendid opportunities . 1 Tr . . Zlonieitiie iii? FOR THE BOYS FOR' THE GIRLS there are departments in: there are departments in: Stenography, Steno?-Taphy, Typewriting, Typewriting, ACCOUUWHCY, Accountancy, Machine Shop Practice, Mechanical Drafting Household Science, Woodworking, Power Machine Operating, Auto Mechanics, Sewing , Electricity. Home Nursing. t Any boy or girl with Entrance Standing can secure enrolment in these courses, and a boy or girl, 14 years of age, in a 4th book class, can, with he: consent of the Principal, enroll in the Prep. Class of the Vocational School and qualify for the Entrance while at the same time obtaining a course in vocational training. EXCHHNGE PPIGTGGQHPHS WITI1 YOUR SCI'l0OL FRIENDS PRICES REDUCED T0 STUDENTS The Kennedy Studio LOWER WYNDHAM ST. GUELPH .lli-1 Makers of the Portraits and group photographic illustrations of this book. x - Ae-U f-if - f ff e J