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

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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

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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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E .li1E.,Blg'.Q-...c..-.iw I use JUST ONE MORE CHANCE By Gregory Cl-ark HAT shall I write about? I asked the editor of the Muse. Anything you like. said he, easily. Yes, but you're the editor. It is up to you to give the assignment. I How about this? he said, sitting forward with a jabbing finger, and all he needed was a cigar stub to look like Lou Marsh. How about-'If I had my high school days to live over again'? Sold, said I. If I had my high school days to do over again, now that my Har- bord days are twenty-live years behind me-texcuse me! Malvern was out in the country then: you don't mind if I went to Harbord, do you'?I I would do again many of the things I did. But I would play some game. I never played any game at Har- bord. Not even hookey. But now that I see the men around me, I notice that those of them who played games are not as lit physically as I am. They seem to have spent too much energy when they were young. Furthermore, most of them have a sense of the Manly Thing, the sportsmanlike thing, which I lack, and it gives me a fearful ad- vantage over them. If I had my chance over again, I would play rugby or hockey or something so as to be even with my fellow men. I hate to have the bulge on them like this. Then I would pay more attention to mathematics. The only way I got through mathematics-oh, well! Why tell such things. This isn't confession, and anyway I am a continuing Methodist. But here I am, nearly forty years old, without the slightest logi- cal sense whatever. And in a world filled with logic, with people whose brains work smoothly on the principle that a X b : c, I am terribly handicapped. They all said that what goes up must come down, and, like a fool, I believed them and did not spend one cent in the stock market. So I never had 350.000, as all the other fellows did, the ones who were good at mathematics. It would have been nice to have had S50,000. I said. have had. I had my chance, when I was young, to take a business course at high school. But I missed it. I would take that business course now, if I had a second chance, because everybody who knows about business knows what is wrong with business now. I'm different. l'm just ignorant. I don't know what is the matter with business. So it goes. Neglected, ignored, waved airily aside were all my chances to be a good, sound, knowledgeable Toronto citizen. owning my own home twith an 80 per cent mortgage on itj a good party man, voting the right way all the way-why, my goodness! I never vote the same way twice, and lately I haven't voted at all. And as for the mortgage on my house, I don't even own a house. The man who owns my house was good at trigonometry. CAnd rents are doWn.J E181