Malvern Collegiate Institute - Muse Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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T H E JI FSE' W Y g BILL: Well. who wants a red cover and who wants a gray one? IRV: How's the humour going. Ralph? RALPH: I don't know. Pretty dumb. But I got a couple of good ones to-day-. DAVE: Please address your remarks to the chairman. EVERYBODY: Buzz. buzz. ED: I've got a new magazine in the Exchange. DOT: How many words must I write on the Alumni? SOMEBODY: Seven hundred and fifty. GEORGE: Make it an even thousand, Little Woman. DOT: Oh. yeah? DORIE: Say. why don't you let Dave speak once in a while? GENERAL MURMUR: Gosh. we're sorry. Never thoughtl. DAVE: Well. I was just going to say this: About getting our pictures taken. We've got an appointmenti. Buzz, buzz. DOT: Is he blonde or brunette. Ruth? RUTH: I'll tell you later. DOUG: He quoted me a price on the printing and engraving. GEORGE: You explained to him that there was a depression? Buzz-z-z-. Enter Mr. Horton. Comparative silence ensues. ACT III Scene: Same Committee Room. , T:z'me.' About 4.30 P.M. DAVE fin a respectful silencel : Well, I believe we've discussed just about everything we need to discuss for to-day. Is there any- thing else that anyone wants to say? fSilence and many negative shakes of the headlsb from the staflib Then I move that the meeting be adjourned. Will somebody second the motion? SOMEBODY: I second the motion. Exit Mr. Horton--and bedlam breaks loose. CURTAIN. And now, Gentle Reader. as you may have already guessed. Mr. Horton is the hero of this little play. If it were not for his guiding influence and calming ability. bedlam would still be breaking loose and you would not now be reading the 1932 Muse. If you find anything in this magazine that you like particularly, give Mr. Horton a large share of the credit for it. If you find some- thing you don't like, why. blame it on bedlam for breaking loose. Besides, we had to make mistakes so that next year's staff would profit by them. 'And in closing, let me state that our Editor-in-Chief is also, for various reasons. the hero of this play. It's a unique drama, isn't it, Xvlth txvo heroes ? I13l

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I THE MUSE A STUDENTS COUNCIL USEFUL innovation for Malvern Collegiate would be a Students' Council. What is that '? you may ask. VVe will give you a detailed explanation. The Students' Council consists of representative members from each society and organization in the school. The president is selected by the teaching staff. the remaining officers elected by the members of the Council from among their own body. Two members of the teaching staff are included in the Council as advisory officers. This completes the board. The Students' Council could now take care of a large amount of work with which the staff is now heavily burdened. The office and teaching staffs have gladly borne these school burdens for a long period. They have willingly granted us their valuable time in organ- izing school activities. It is now time for the pupils to take up their own burdens, which the staffs have capably carried through the past years. and organize and conduct our own affairs. School entertain- ments, dances, plays, athletics. etc., would be controlled by the Stu- dents' Council. The Students' Council also could secure a greater degree of co-operation among these branches through the representa- tives of' the different organizations. For the numerous cases where discipline is required in school activities, the Students' Council forms a court of inquiry. Let us take a hypothetical case. The student stands before the seated judges who are to consider his breach of conduct. He assumes an outward appearance of nonchalance while inwardly he, if guilty. is quaking with fear of the impending justice which awaits him. He stands thus while the council study him in silence, giving him time to reconsider his plea. Information gleaned from his teachers and fellow-pupils regarding his character and work is read to the Council. The defendant is allowed tosay anything he wishes in his own defence. If he is found guilty, the transgressor may have to pay a fine or may be punished in such other way the Council sees fit. These courts would have a restraining influence on the pupils and would help to maintain discipline. They would be more effective than the court now operated by the teachers, for a student is always more deeply affected by the judgment of his peers than by that of his superiors. In its many branches of scholastic, athletic and social endeavour, Malvern would be greatly benefitted by a Students' Council. -IRVING PHILLIPS. I 14 fl