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

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ACTA NOSTRA, 1926 63 GREEK AND LATIN IN RELATION TO AN APPRECIATION OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. Ancient themes have frequently been used by the great English poets such as Milton, Shelley. Keats. Browning and Tennyson. They display in some of 'their shorter poems 'the same prospective as had the classic writers. and have filled their poetry with classical spirit. lYe find this exemplified in Milton's p-oem. LI-Xllegro. which is being studied this year in the Upper Forms. 'On the second line we find reference made to Cerberus in Sty- gian cave forlorn. who was the three-headed dog that kept watch at the entrance to the lower world. to prevent the living from enter- ing and the dead from escaping back across the river Styx. Mention is made of lovely Yenus, with two sister Graces more, who give beauty and charm to nature. XYe .hear also of Zephyr. the west wind, playing with his molth- er. .-Xurora. Milton speaks of the nods and becks. and wreathed smiles. such as thang on Hebe's cheek. She was the daughter of Zeus and Here. and the .goddess of eternal youth. He concludes his poem by referring to the beautiful legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. The student of Horace immediately recalls to mind: Quod si Threicio blanclius Orpheo, Auditam moderere arboribus Hdem. Num vanae redeat sanguis imaginif' In translating the works of the Greeks and Roman writers, the student becomes familiar with the classic legends. which in turn help him t-o appreciate English literature. Thus the'time and 'labour expended in studying Latin and Greek justifies itself even for this purpose. lFrom an Essay by Dorothy Drever IYJ Some that's Latin and more that isn't. CAESAR IPSE lCum 'omnibus aipologetibus to Miss 5.5 Oh! the Roman was a rogue. He erat was you bettum. He ran his automobilus. And smoked his cigarettum: He wore a diamond stu-dibus. And elegant cravattum. A maxime cum laude shirt. And such a stylish hattum. He loved his luscious hic-haec hoc: And bet on games and pugnae. Sometimes he won. at others though He got it in the nequae! He winked tquo usque tandem?l at Puellas in the Forum And sometimes. too. he even made Those goo-goo oculorum. He frequently was seen At comba-ts gladiatorum. And ate enough to feed. Ten boarders in memoriam, He often went on sprees. And said on starting homus. Hic, lalbor-opus est! Oh! where's my hic. hic clomus? D. M. D. ii Forum IV DRAMATIS PERSONAE Princeps Roseus tThe Magisterl .............. Eltonius Yolcerius fThe Captain of the Crew Lucius Silvanus ............ .. ............. .... Brutus Langerius ............ Gobbo Hullus KRugby Stark ....... ...... .-Xrtemidora tTeacher of Cicero Latin l...... Miltonio Yastus 1Servant to Artemidoral ....... Davidonius tPresiding Teacher in Forum IYl Students of Forum IY. SEEN THE FIRST A street corner in Guelph ncar the Capitol. Curtain rises-Eltonius. Lucius and Bru- tus stand on street corner talking about the picture in front of Capitol. Enter Princeps Roscus. unexpectedly. .-AML-I.F.R055 -.- - - - Elton lYalker - - - Louis Silver ...Robert Laing --A George Hull ...Miss E. Sinclair .. Milton lYatson . ...Mr. J. Davison Prin. Ros-:us-Hence! to school. you idle creatures! Get you to school! Is this a holi- day? lYhat! know you not. being students. you ought not go to matinees on school days and miss a half-day of study? In what Forum are you. Eltonius? Speak! Eltonius-lYhy. Princeps Roscus, in solid form. as a glance would show.

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64- Prin. Roscus-You mean you hy answering me thus? Do you not go to Collegiate? In Eltonius Iturning pale and his teeth chat- teringt-Oh. pardon fourth forum. Roscus-Then. where is your Latin book? XYhat mean you hy skipping school when you are on detention list for Latin. You ton ot worthless tlesh. get you to school! You Luc- ius, what work do you? Lucius Silvanus-XYeltl-tlong pause!- well-with due respect for the rest in my forum. I am. as you might say today. but 11 truant. Prin. Roscus-But what is thy work? .-Xnswer me directly. Lucius Silvanus-It does me no honour. Princeps. for when everyone in the forum is quiet on account of keeping late hours with Caesar and Cicero. l continue to work on with greater vigor. You can learn from my classmates that I sit not idle the livelong day but on the contrary I work at more than one task while one is in discussion. Prin. Roscus-XYaste no time in idle de- monstrations hut rt-move that gum and tell me what you do Lucius Silvanus-I do anyone. no one in particular. Prin. Roscus tin exasperationl-Thou naughty knave: in its worst meaning of our day. even then far too good a name for thee. what meanest thou hy that? Lucius Silvanus-I pray you. do not be so angry with me: what I mean hy doing one. is drawing his likeness. Prin. Roscus-Therefore thou art a car- toonist hy trade. considering pictures thy fancy. and sleep thy pass-time. not classify- impudent rascal. what what forum are you? Princeps, I am in the ing the pleasure thou dterivest from chewing that gum accursed by teachers. As for you. Brutus Langerius. I hold opinion of you, to be likewise one of this truant triibe whose com- pany you are now keeping. So none of you appeared within those venerated walls of learn- ing this afternoon. Now. do explain why the holiday. and bear the consequences of t-his day's idleness. Brutus Langerius-But. noble head. come thither and behold this twalks to one of the signs in front of the Capitolj. Here is that beloved Gobbo Hullus who was carried in triumph after he had cleared a touchdown -in the rugby game. Today he appears on the screen and we have come to do him honour and make holiday. Eltonius-Hold! more than that. for that sage old Francois. foreteller of the future. is also here and to me in private he has fore- told my success in the june finals. Surely that was worth making holiday Princeps Roscus-Enough. enough. you blocks. you truants. you worse than hrainless things! XVhat knowledge seek you here? Many a time and oft thave I been misled hy ACTA NOSTRA, 1926 your repeated declarations whereby you have vowed that from overstudy your brows did ache with pain. and now the secret of your false accusations has been overdrawn when I find you at the Children's Hour hard hy the Capitol. Daily with patient expectation you await the time of this reproduction of Vour own foolish faces on a screen of deathly white which soon will mock your examination paid- if you have one. Be gone! Run to your mothers. tell them your failings and your own intended mistdeeds of time and time again. Go! go! and for this fault assemble all the wretched students of your kind to the bantks of the noble Speed triverl and weep such hitter tears that Goldie's dam will he over- flowed and thus appease the god of the falls to gain you forgiveness. Go no more down to the Capitol. but pray now upon your knees that your lessons you may know and bring tomorrow to the Collegian Stator your notes of explanation. SEEN THE SECOND lIn Forum IX' at nine o'clock. Willem curtain rises Daviclonius is filling out the reg- ister anrl looking down at the scarcely-filled room.l Davidonius tholding a narrow slip of paper and a few papers under his arm. has a fore- boding frown!-Good students and lovers, ldoor opens. enter Eltonius. who walks noisily to his seatlh hear me, for your -own surprise and he silent that you may hear. tDoor opens again. enter Silvanus who goes to his sea-tl. Friends. students. lend me your earsg I have some news to read you. No news is good news. but put by your work and list. The scandal that it may bring about will 'live on through the years of forum history. but the good will have its revenge and hear- ing. lDoor opens again. while rest of absen- tees crowd in. amazed at the surprised look of all the studentsj A few of the class-Read. Davidonius, we will hear it. read! Davidtomis-Have patience, gentle stud- ents. I must not read it yet. for ambition should be made of sterner stuff: yet Artemi- dora says you have ambition and Artemidora is an honourable woman. I will not speak what I did only hear. but what I do know from this. You all did love it once. not with- out cause. what cause witholds you it-hen to mourn it now? O Artemidora! I fear you will he sought out if they lose their reason over it. My sympathy is with y-ou who-take Cicero and soon I will read your misfortune. Eltonius-Methinks. Lucius, some dark cloud o'erhangs me. I ain not superstitious hut the Ides of March are come. Lucius-Aye. Eltonius. but not gone. If there he any wrong upon us. we shall stand 'hy and bear it up. See Brutus, his eyes are red as tire with weeping. Hark, David-onius speaks again. Davidonius-Yesterday your ambitions