Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute - Times Yearbook (Kingston, Ontario Canada)

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6 , FORM ZA Have you heard of the girls above all the rest? On the very top Hoor way up in the attic, You will never hear one of us called a pest, Now know one thing of our dreadful static. Though we are all girls our teacher is a man Who always stands at the door of our room, If we try to powder to cover our tan, We know by his stare we will meet our doom. In all of our classes we really excel Except in geometry we are very poor, Your homework please-I couldn't do it-Well You certainly could, so remain after four. If you chance by the room of these 33 girls, You can tell every one of them-happy and gay, The blonde ones, the tall ones, the ones with brown curls, The best on this earth are the girls of ZA. FORM 2B The girls of ZB, You will all see Their work they all do well, With a smile. And in play they start out With scores that are worth while, And do not pout When loss is near, but smile. 2B BOYS Before Christmas we just about held our own with the fair sex, but now we are greatly out- numbered by them. However, I hope we shall last until june. Our room is on the second floor of the new Technical School right next to the Principal's office. I wonder if fate or reputation placed us there. Which do you think? 2C GIRLS just beside the boys' door, To the right-step no more, For there is ZC On the very first floor. VVe girls of 2C Are eleven all told- Intelligent, clever, And each good as gold. And if yoy should wonder In what we do well, May your mind rest in peace- For in all we excel. 2C BOYS If you pass 2C do not be surprised ifiyou hear 2C's eighteen boys, small boys in short pants up to the big shots already in love. Scattered through this group of distinguished persons are KINGLITOSI ICSOLLEGIATE VOCATIONAL lN.fTl'ru1'e some red hot boys who send the thermometer up to the 80's and 90's at Christmas and Easter. Then the frigidaires who remain calm and cool way down at the 30's and 40's, but after june pro- motions suddenly become hot and bothered. 2C has its sports. Turned out a fair rugby team and a real basketball team, as yet undefeated. 2C boys are working hard for promotions and next year we all hope to tell you about our life in third. 2D BOYS This class has been broken up, and now, out of forty, only twenty-nine remain. These are supposed to be the pick of the class, but let the teachers decide. We are a rather airy class, and generally manage to keep the room below 680. We enjoy Geometry and Latin. French proves very amusing Cexcept for detentions which are frequentj. We indulge in no idleness, and are on the whole a good group of boys. VVe engage in all sports, including rugby and basketball. Vtfe all expect to come out 10021 in june and wish all the best of luck. 2E BOYS Stop! Look! Listen! We are the boys of 2E, twenty-six in number. We excel in all sports, especially basketball. We are perfect in all our subjects, but Latin and French are our favourites. For reference apply to Mrs. Lawson and Miss Tickell. With luck we all hope to be in third form next term. FORM 2K Every day eight boys and twice as many girls find their way to the classroom at the foot of the hall on the third floor, room 7. We are bright in our subjects, especially shorthand and arith- metic. We always have our homework done. Ask our teachers. The girls outshine the boys in French, but they come back with a bang in Bookkeeping. We have a very promising basket- ball team, although we were beaten once. The boys think they are quite lively, but the girls are just as jolly. They also claim to be the only hope of our teachers in their efforts to reform ZK. On the whole we are a very quiet class, except between periods. With the help of hard work, we expect to brighten a corner in 3K next year. FORM 2L In our form of ZL, there is not much to say about anything. Everybody seems to be happy, but the face doesn't always show what the heart knows. We seem to be enjoying ourselves by the way we act, but even a canary will sing in a cage. Enough of that. On the whole, ZL is a wonderful form, plenty of sunlight when the sun shines: always warm and comfortable, especially when compared with the form we vacated in the ollld school, and everyone will agree with me on t at. -23-

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KINGJTON CSOLLEGIATE VOCATIONALS INSTITUTE 3A GIRLS Will the Ladies' Aid please come to order, thunders the voice of our Chemistry teacher. Then silence reigns in the laboratory and the students of 3A begin to probe deeply into the mysteries of science. Although Chemistry is our favourite subject, we admit that we also excel in other studies. We are a delight to our Latin and French teachers. However we are doing our best and are trying to obtain the required sixty- six per cent. in all our examinations so that we will not have to grace Grant Hall with our pre- sence in June. A 3A BOYS just a dozen big, brave, and handsome men. Each of us has his own line of amusement in class. There is that Romantic artist, Jimmie Reid, who is always drawing pictures of a cer- tain one, on the other side of the room. Brother Allen also helps in his great way. Eddie Scott is always telling jokes to a particular one of the fair sex. The Donald Cain who is always try- ing to borrow a certain person's shoe. Mr. Sey- mour is forever sharpening that pencil of his, so he can use it as a weapon. All in all, we are an intelligent lot with big futures. 3B GIRLS Oh, we modern twenty-six Who provide the sex appeal Which emanates from each and every fille Who passes her days from woe or weal Over a studious desk of renowned 3B, Wherein many a dazzling future lies, Which K.C.V.I. will have begun to realize When, marching before its quickening eyes, We uphold those traditions which are forever K.C.I's. On no pretense whatever would we, With all our modern sophistication. Withhold from the needy of the nation What fines are exacted for gum-mastication. Oh, be sure to come and see the twenty-six. 3B BOYS Who has not listened with admiration to the deeds of valour of the boys of 3B! Some of us are old hands at the art of struggling to pass third form exams, but the majority of us are new models, taken from ZD, and other forms. The fair sex outnumber us by about two to one, and generally lead us in examinations-not because we lack brains of course, but rather because we be- lieve in the noble saying Ladies first. We have hopes of leaving SB at the end of the year, and we wish you the best of luck. 3C GIRLS The redeeming half of old 3C The girls? Why certainly! 'Our number is almost score Clt would be if we had two morel ln sports we've had no chance as yet, But we have the goods you can bet. Though the exams. were not just right None of us are in any plight. Next year you'll find us in form four, So we may have to move off the ground floor. 3C BOYS What more need be said than that? There are seventeen of us left from twenty-eight which started last fall. The others were reluctantly taken away to the Technical School. We had three representatives on the junior rugby team, one on the senior and also some hockey players were donated from this form, not water boys either. As far as academics are concerned all the boys have done their conscientious day's work and they will be right there in june. We would like to quote some- words from Tennyson Hitsman: We're bound by ties that naught can sever, Though The Times continue forever and ever. 3D GIRLS In the new wing is found the very airy form of forms, in which 27 girls occupy seats near the door. We are moderately clever in all our studies, and refuse to stay more than one year in third form. As examinations draw near, we are set- tling down to earnest studying. We send back cheerfully all the debris sent from the opposite side of the room. We have some good sports in our form, and altogether we have lots of fun mixed up with work, and are a good-natured set. 3D BOYS When asked what she thought of 3D boys, I heard one of our most esteemed teachers say, 3D might be compared to a machine, which takes knowledge in the book state and carefully dis- sects it, then arranges the facts according to practical use and the thoughts to merit. But as no machine runs perfectly, occasionally some unit ceases to function smoothly, kicks slightly, or even temporarily ceases work altogether with the result that there is-trouble. She said trouble, but doubtless she meant-fun. As to sport, when one mentions sport in K.C.V.I., one thinks of 3D -which is only right. si GIRLS We're only a few weeks old, and our form is called LSE, but if you can't find it look for Room 6 in our brand new school. Well, when you do find us, and have a peep at nineteen good-looking girls with lots of brains, and see them play basket- ball, you'll be more than satisfied with us, and I lgiow you'll join in wishing us heaps of good uc . - 3E BOYS For the first time in the history of our school has it been necessary to create a 3E form and we, together with our attractive co-eds feel ourselves fortunate in being the individuals singled out for this unmistakable sign of progress. We hardly know as yet, planted to our new territory how we shall pro- gress as a form toward the perfection that our teachers longingly look and hope for, but the spirit is already evident, and the ability, we know is there, so the results should be all our foster mother fthe old Collegiatej could reasonably ex- pect of her emigrant children of 3E. after being trans-