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

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THE VJIFSE - We wish to thank Bob and Jim Buckham especially for their splendid art contributions. some of which are appearing in this magazine. Although we could not have a regular Form News section, still, some of the contributions were too good to let go to waste. Conse- quently they may be found throughout these pages. A It has been the object of the various MUSE staffs for several years back to have a Form News section. and we believe that we have come closer to having one this year than the others did in previous years. We present our apologies and explanations along with our hopes that next year's staff will at last realize this ambition. We have been particularly fortunate this year in securing a con- tribution to our magazine from the popular writer Gregory Clark. lYe wish to express our appreciation to Mr. Clark for his most inter- esting article. Our old friend Ted Reeve gives us his usual write-up. which we all regard as one of the most enjoyable features of THE MUSE. We are very grateful to Marjorie Beer and Hasel Hammond, both graduates of Malvern and past editors of THE MUSE, for their assist- ance in making the magazine a success. We also wish to thank the many others who gave of their time and knowledge to help us produce a MUSE worthy of Malvern. -DOROTHY BELL. LETTERS T0 THE EDITOR Dear Editor:- The easiest practice in the world is to criticise present methods, but when you take Algebra every day you welcome something easy, thus I send in my letter. I think that inter-form sport is not encouraged enough at Mal- vern. I know there is a certain amount of competition along these lines among some of the girls' classes and a few of the boys' classes, but it is not general. A schedule of games should be drawn up in which all Forms should have a place. We could have basketball and hockey in fall and winter respectively. A baseball schedule could be started in the gym after the ice had disappeared. This could be continued outside when the weather became warmer. Pennants could be presented to winning teams. to be held for a year. This house league would promote good-fellowship, give many students a chance for healthful exercise and fun which they other- wise might not get, and also give us material for interscholastic com pci ition. A -JOE PITT. l16l

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THE JIFSE MEMORIES T IS with sincere regret that I pen these few lines, for they seem like a message of farewell to the school where I have spent my time for the past live years. I won't say that those five years have not been without trials. No one who had sat for approximately one hundred and forty-three examinations and innumerable tests during his course could possibly make that assertion, but I will repeat the age-old phrase that they certainly have been the happiest days of mv life. It is with a secret smile that I can now recall tasks of school life which at one time or another have caused me considerable worry. I think I may safely state that the prominent place among this group is occupied by the history orals which were required of us daily in First and Third Form. My days at this period seemed to me a culmination of all life's hardships, the time before the famed orals being spent in nervous apprehension and the after-hours in recuper- ating. However, school life has brought about many friendships and has provided many pleasures and good times, the memory of which I shall always treasure. And no matter how steep the path has seemed. how dark the way has loomed ahead, the teachers have always been at hand to give unstintingly of their time and knowledge and to pilot us over the sea of learning. When I leave Malvern. I know that I finish one chapter of my life. a chapter filled with cherished memories of my association with the school, and I'm certain that even the time will come when I'll long for those glorious, light-hearted days when history orals were my chief anxiety. -DOROTHY BELL. E regret the absence of a section labelled Form News from this year's MUSE, for we had fully intended to have such a sec- tion. Unfortunatelv we did not receive enough contributions lol make it worth while. We did not hear from some of the forms at a . The first formers who contributed are to be heartily praised for their attempts. We hope the same people will help uphold second form in next year's magazine. Form 3C is deserving of special com- mendation for their contributions, and the response from some of the fourths was gratifying. But if an award were to be presented to the form which has given us the best co-operation with consistently good and pleasingly varied contributions ever since we first asked for them, that award would go to form 2A. The contributions of 2A have brought many a happy smile to an editorial face. E151

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THE MUSE Dear Editor:- Every year the Muse staff is chosen from Fifth Form and their term of office is one year. Any of you who have ever had anything to do with editing a magazine will realize just how much work it is when one has had no experience. I think that the senior members of the staff should be from Fifth but I think the junior editors should be chosen from Fourth Form. They should be elected with the idea of being the senior editors the following year. In this way you always have someone on your staff who knows what it is all about. I hope that due consideration will he given to this problem in the picking of the next Muse staff. -D. L. Dear Editor:- I have desired for some time to express my views regarding the annual school song. Due to this practice, the school has never devel- oped a traditional anthem. In my opinion, the prize-winning song written in 1931 by Miss Barbara Roberts should be instilled in the hearts of the First Formers till it becomes a very necessary part of their school lives. The upper school students should familiarize them- selves with it. It would be one more link in the consolidating chain of school spirit. The Maids of Malvern could continue to enter the yearly con- test, but I believe the song mentioned above should be made a school tradition and should become as sacred to the students as the Varsity Alma Mater to the University of Toronto. I heartily advocate this and believe and hope that those in author- ity will sponsor it. I would like to see something done in this line before I leave school in June. -A FIFTH FORMER. Dear Editor:- Say, why don't you have a column or two of notes, etc., from, for or to each Form-from 1A to 5Z-you know, to console the First Formers, who might tlike I didj thinkt?J that the Hon. Muse was written, published and owned and read by the old-timers only. -2A. Dear Editor:- When I attended Public School, I once looked into the Daily Register and saw printed there that for the opening exercises every morning there should be read a suitable selection from the Bible, then the Lord's Prayer should be repeated. I am glad to say that up to the Third Form this form of opening was carried out, but for the last two years all we have done, unfor- tunately, is to repeat the Lord's Prayer. I do not think this good old custom should be considered obsolete. Yours sincerely, HROBESPIERREH. I 17 l