Hamilton Collegiate Institute - Vox Lycei Yearbook (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)

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41 Z Z 5 f 1 Xx - 4 0 Q? F. KORTSMAN, Editor. N january 6th the Girls' Athletic Association was re-organized, Games were played in the gymnas- ium, after which a pleasant evening was enjoyed by all, lVliss Brown, lVliss Eclwards and lVliss Christie being present. Our lnterscholastic League has been playing a series of interesting games in the Collegiate gym. The first of these was played on Friday, january 7th, The Collegiate Uppers won from Grimsby High School by two points, the Grimsby girls playing uncler protest, as' our girls were playing with the captain of their other team. Continued on page 61 i GIRLS' BASKETBALL TEAM M. Walker. lCaptainl: A. Wingfield. G. Ross. L. Davidson. E. Gillies. R. MacDonald. F. Kortsman. G. Russell. Miss M. Edwards. Coach. For perfect developing and brilliant prints take films to

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, R' Q x ' gl. . , ,. if ' . .I- .. , - .x U .7 X J if X J p 5. xx . T iii . 5L.. X V! IX 'F .ti it ,fi-, - .1 a. T Q aw- i ' .yy X V 'V 0.3 -TT ' . rf H MILITARY I 4 W N I it 5 X WSW' 5 QW 1 -4 T. 2:- MATTERS URNBULW MAJOR ciao. R. ALLAN, Jr., Editor. -Q. HIS column should be written for the New York Sun, as we are chiefly concerned with prophecy and Thr: Prophet is not without honour :ave in his own country. There has nct bein rrtuch activity since the last issue of this pnper, but there is plenty of action pioriiccd for the near future. However, we will First speak of what has taken place. The place of greatest activity has been the rifle-range. Every day, after tour o'clock, the crack of the .22 rifles can be heard in the gallery in the basement. The Board of Education has bought us two new rifles, and good use is being made of them. The teams for the lmperial Challenge Shield Compe- tition are being chosen and we are getting a good idea of where the promising ma- terial for the future lies. Five of the prominent men of this city have established a trust fund and the in- terest from this money is to be used to pay the expenses of the five best shots in the school to the Ontario RiHe Association meet in the summer. Needless to say, there is very keen competition for these places. The Ordnance Department has sent us ten service rifles for outdoor shooting, and as soon as the weather is suitable we will be practising on the ranges at West Ham- ilton. The conditions for practising shoot- ing have improved greatly in this city of late, and there is no reason why the Col- legiate should not be well represented at the rifle meets this summer. The officers ol' the lfth Regiment have been very kind to us in the past, both in allowing us to practice on their ranges and in loaning us rifles. We take this opportunity to thank them and assure them that we will always be truly loyal to the Regiment. Another place where great things have taken place is the Stores Department. Upon the advice of our new quartermastf cr, james Houlden, we asked the Board of Education to fix up the armory. They took hold of the matter with characteristic energy and we now have an armory, the like of which was never dreamed of in this school before. And we might say at this point that the room is not the only excellent part of that department. We have a quartermaster who is absolute per- fection. Speaking of officers' uniforms they play the leading part in the biggest sensation of the year. We have new ones. They are the regulation army officers' material and cut, and are made to order. This year we will have two inspections, one in April and one in May. ln April we will be inspected by Sir Henry Birdsall, lnspector-General of Canada. This will be merely a straight military inspection. Continued on page 60

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5 ,vm W it if? me 7 ffl -'M ' Q 1 'L ' c f r' lX7w W Nm 1 T7' f J K . 41 A X, e- , ,f,,f.--f' , X 1 ff- 'a x hi -. ,iv fin.-:gy .ty ,S , f. . Y Y 3 - M., .J Af. R 5 . X- f -f 7--as lf! Na- 'WQWW X- ' 1 - N V f' 4- ' .- L' .V A,. 4,A' I I 1 I I .ff -5,1 V K ' ' . X THORA MclLROY, Editor. A Girls Retrospect OUR years in the Collegiate! What a Hood of sensations surges over one as she thinks back, and ponders what it will mean in the coming years. Who can forget the temerity with which she first crossed the Collegiate thres- hold? lt seemed the gateway of a life so full with promise. Soon the feeling of awe melted into a delightful abandon, and realization of a larger self. A sense of de- liverance from the autocracy of one teach- ed accentuated this sense of abandon, and as each master appeared in turn to give instructions for his class, one felt she had outgrown the narrow confines of the pub- lic school, and had entered into a new world whose boundaries were vaster than of anything yet dreamed. Then election time camel How grown- up she felt to be able to vote and have some say in the government of the Lyceum. This, truly, was her first step towards final independence and self-reli- ance: and to the one who was nominated as candidate, the sense of leadership was born within her soul. Oh these delightful thrills of early Collegiate experience! As in childhood days one climbed a tree, and on reaching the place where the trunk divided, looked out in wonderment among the branches, so. in entering the Collegiate, when one has Finished her First day, and has been introduced to the vari- ous avenues of study, she realizes that she has stepped from the basic rudiments of the Three R's, to the breadth of oppor- tunity, which lies hidden in the world of science and the beauties of the classics. For the first time her initiative, judgment and self-reliance are called into being. But as she goes from year to year, she finds more and more that propriety gentleness and decorum are demanded of her, in place of the irresponsible, but much-loved tom-boy pranks. But the final year has its compensations. One of the most consoling is that growing sense of seniority, which makes her feel she has left behind the swaddling clothes of in- tellectual infancy, and gives her a grow- ing feeling of kinship with her teacher. Now social ideals spring into life and the desire to be the most Winsome type of young womanhood possesses her. This social development is indeed an important factor in a girl's school career. To many it is the last opportunity of living constant- ly in a group of people with kindred ideals and aspirations. Later in the pursuit of her career, the touch of the outside world too soon seeks to tear away these beautiful ideals and flights of fancy of the student life. Thus the real value of her education is her strength of character to maintain these ideals. And so- Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make life, death and the vast for- ever One grand, sweet song. W. E.. HILL St BRO., 90 King St. West, Kodaks 8: Supplies