Humberside Collegiate Institute - Hermes Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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KY? I N ow. 1 df' W'anted--- W'z'sa'om Night has come, the stars peep out And giant shadows Hit about. A vvise old ovvl in the glen Watches the sleeping vvorld of men A fairy prince, passing that way, Stops a moment just to say, VVhy do the stars burn so bright? Are they really the eyes of night? Why do all the Howers mass In the thick green, verdant grass? Vxfhen stars are shining overhead, Vvfhy do mortals go to bed? Give me wisdom please, I pray, And gifts I'll bring you every flayf 73 Y

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Tv-15 I'lEIQlVll2f 5 - . -. - - . - - if Zaiifiw- XXX admit that Virgil was a master of his art or that there was any sense at all in ancient legend. We did not even admit to ourselves that we were changing, and yet we could feel a gradual difference. Taking less for granted, we began to burrow a little below the surface before advancing an opinion, to trace our ambitions to their sources, and to wonder in just what proportions energy was rewarded later on with success. Yet we spent our time in a whirl of work and sport, Hermes and Literary Society, tea- dances, championships, and examina- tions. VVe thought that we knew how to work but we had no systems and very vague ideas of how to study. Yet we were trying to think for our- selves and that was sufficient. 'lune passed again like a shadow and Sep- tember found us sifted and scattered. Many, for reasons beyond their control, were forced to leave school. Yet they were just as much a vital part of our class as those who returned to begin a iifth year, which involved the work of a first year in the University. The following june, vainly trying to ignore the urgings of baseball, golf, and tennis, and the buzzing of flies and younger brothers, we sat down before piles of books and notes, expressed the vinegar of exist- ence on our faces, and entered the slaughter halls on the appointed dates of execution. XVe listened to the shouts of the free on the tennis courts just outside the windows and under- stood that fate was cruel. But with the end of August came the matriculation results. Many of us were surprised, many others quite surprised. Now we have scattered. We should like to direct a remark at each one of the teaching staff who has helped us along the torturous road, but time forbids as well as caution. Although we have returned to Humberside for the last official time and stand before you as graduates, we have found out in the last few months that we are merely beginners. It is rather fortunate that we can begin again once in a while. VVe have our High School education behind us as a background and as a source of judg- ment. lf we have made the best use of the past live years, it will not take us long to readjust ourselves in a new world, and, if we have not, we stand as a warning to those who follow. In such a large school as ours, we make no claim that all has been per- fect. Yet, looking back and looking forward, we have no complaint to advance, but rather a word of grati- tude. Vile have enjoyed our years at High School, and we realize now how fortunate we have been in our friends and in our teachers from whom, sub- consciously, we have learned to think and to reason. The highest aim of education is not to stuff students with methods and other people's ideas, but to draw them out and to give them a chance to understand their own interests. This High School has accomplished for most of us. But it has done still more. Education in itself would mean little to us unless we had a sense of value and proportion and were able at times to see over and above the walls of ordinary life. And, therefore, as we leave High School, we like to remem- ber it is a centre of balance which has helped to develop in us this moral foundation and a feeling of remem- brance and of gratitude which will continue to grow. It is in this spirit that we say farewell. -Henry Noyes.

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