Midland Secondary School - Yearbook (Midland, Ontario Canada)

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M. H. s. REVIEW Page Eleven message jfrum the Rrtnnipal This is the fifth occasion on which I have been invited to take my pen in hand and make my contribution to the pages of the Midland High School Review. This publication, laden with interesting news of the High School on the hill, is now making the fifth voyage of its young life, and I. hearing a large share of the cares, worries, joys and pleasures of being princi- pal and accompanied by a crew of nine as- sistants, am attempting for my Hfth time to steer the old ship, carrying some three hundred students, safely into harbour by June, 1928. During these years, we have had a Varie- ty of experiences, have seen a number of changes and have enjoyed many successes. Among these changes we might notice the great increase in the number of pupils in attendance as it has steadily grown from one hundred and ten in 1920 to two hun- dred and forty-seven in 1923 and finally to three hundred in the present year. Along with this increase on the part of the students, the staff has doubled in num- bers from what it was in 1920. and now we are ten. In 15323, the school building itself was enlarged to about twice its former size and at the present time we are badly in need of another sub- stantial addition to our High School accommodations, if we are going to care for the steadily increasing numbers of pupils coming to us from the public schools of the town each year. Some of the successes that we might mention are: 119 The relative- ly high percentage of papers that have been passed by the pupils on the departmental examinations each year. 121 The success with which our Track Team has met as it has won the M. B. Tudhope Trophy four times in the last five years as well as having made a remarkably good show- ing at the Provincial Track Meets in Toronto. fill Each year,the school has been well represented by a good boys' hockey team and also a good girls' basket-ball team. This year the boys' basket-ball team has done quite well so far, as a Junior team was entered in the O.A.B.A. and it has won its own district already. These changes and successes are pleasant to look back upon, and they should be suficient to stimulate our actions to greater effort for the pre- sent and future in order that we may bring- our work to a successful termination. May I wish the Editorial Stati' uf the M. H.S. Review every success with this its fifth publication, and to the pupils as a whole may I exhort you to do the work that is at hand whether it be as leader, helper or what- ever you are, so that 1927-28 may he on a par with the successful years of the past. We can't all be captains, we-'ve got to be crew, There's something for all of us here. There's big work to do and there's lesser to do, And the task we must do is the near. If you can't be a highway, then just be a trailg If you can't be a sun be a star. It isn't by size that you win or you fail- Be the best of whatever you are. J. .I. ROBINS. J. J. ROBINS, Principal.

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Page Twelve M. H. S. REVIEW ltunk Qhut for the ltahuzsl By Mr. R. S. McLaughlin, Chairman of the ,Board of Education. Some day, just a few generations on, there will be a big ship in dis- tress at sea. Above the roar of the storm as the rush is made for the life- boats, a student- female voice may call out : Men and children Iirst ! This is not offered as a certain prediction. A few generations may not be long enough to otfset the trend of the ages. But one thing is a certainty ! Within a few generations star women athletes will give their male rivals real battles in many competitions, especially those which call for speed and agility instead of shear strength. Women's advance in sport, business, art, and sciences has been re- markable. If you visited the Canadian parliament buildings a few years ago, you could not have found a women acting as secretary to a Minister with Portfolio, but to-day it is common to 'rind women filling these important positions. The vital statistics will show that in spite of a late start the women have now moved up to within twenty-five or thirty per cent. of matching the best of the males. How much better is the male to-day in athletic competition ? The margin runs from ten to forty per cent. but it is gradually being chopped away. We had May Sutton and a few good women golfers fifteen or twenty years ago, but there were not many stars. And there were few women who amounted to anything at swimming, track, Held or any other sports, where to-day they are constantly setting new records. You can hardly turn around before some girl has set a new mark at swimming, running, jumping or throwing the javelin. This has all come without the help of heredity, without the develop- ment through generations which the male has known. If women had been athletic competitors for several thousand years and the men had just started, the diiference would be just as big as it is now upon the other side of the sex border. 1 There are competitions now where the women are not outclassed by the best of men. Only a few years ago Harold Kruger set a new back- stroke swimming record for the 440 yard range at 6 minutes and 28 seconds. That record has been considerably lowered since, but only last year Sybil Bauer, a co-ed of Northwestern University, travelled the same back-stroke route in 6 minutes and 23 seconds. The girls have come closer to masculine records in water than they have on land. They have been shattering records for all distances for the last two years. This alone shows how swift the improvement has been. In fancy diving it is quite doubtful if any mere male could wrest the laurels from Aileen Riggins and Betty Becker, who have both been Olym- pic winners. It must be remembered in golf and tennis that a far greater number of males are playing these two games. Yet there are not so many males -very, very few, in fact-who can beat Miss Suzanne Langlen at tennis or Miss Joyce Wethered at golf. In all divisions of sport there is sufficient evidence to show the re- markable advance made bv women in the last few years. They have women Rugby teams in France and England and they have a number of girl boxers and wrestlers in Germany. The male has almost reached the limit of his record-breaking. Not quite, but he is at least down to a matter of split seconds and half inches. The other sex has only started. Records will be improved year by year, and by 1050 the margin will be nothing like as wide as it is to-day.