Mount Royal College - Varshicom Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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s S3 H fflr the career opportunity of the year -J for high school students High School Students may now get a free college education while qualifying for the Queen’s Commis¬ sion in the Na y. Army or Air Force, under the Regular Officer Training Flan. Successful candidates will attend Royal Military College, Royal Roads, College Militaire Royal de Saint- Jean, or designated Canadian universities, as cadets in the Regular Forces. They will receive service pay plus board and lodging, plus tuition costs at college, will take paid training with their chosen service in summer months and on completion of academic courses, serve Canada Wp- ' ' ' as Regular Force officers with the option of release C after three years. Applicants must have Senior Matriculation or equivalent, except for College Militaire Royal de Saint- Jean, where requirement is Junior Matriculation. Age limits for College Militaire Royal de Saint-Jean are 16 to 20 on 1st January of the year of entrance, for all others 16 to 21 on 1st January of the year of entrance. Applicants must be single, physically fit, and meet officer selection standards. For full information write to the Regular Officer Training Flan Selection Board. National Defence Head- quarters. Ottawa, or to any of the following :— The Registrar, Royal Military College, Kingston, Out. The Registrar, Royal Roads, Victoria, B.C. The Registrar, College Militaire Royal de Saint-Jean, St. Jean, P.Q. ... -v ' v COLLEGE. CALGARY PAGE 21

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THE MESSAGE TO HIGH SCHOOL 1954-55 It is a pleasure to me to write a message to the high school. In the classroom I meet you as students; here as a friend. There ' s a difference. Here I do not have to raise my voice to call back your straying thoughts from basketball or the fascinating curls immediately in front of you. Nor shall you see any look blacker than the mild expression of inanity which photographers are so expert in catching. I will not even use italics. You can take me, or leave me, as you will. These years I have been at Mt. Royal I have pon¬ dered deeply on the student-teacher relationship. On first thought it would seem that this relationship is of the simplest nature. You (or your parents) find edu¬ cation a valuable commodity and are willing to pay money for it. We teachers are supposed to be able to deliver the goods. More than that: we usually love what we are selling you, and enjoy purveying it. Yet, in practice, it sometimes seems more like a drawn battle. Stern looks, little white slips, and little black marks are the darts and arrows that prick you into action. And the strange result of the battle is that both sides are winners—or losers—together. How could this ridiculous state of things be reme¬ died? I believe the answer lies in our concept of a school. Since the days of the birch rod and the fool ' s cap, a picture has been painted on our unconscious minds of a stern master beating knowledge into unwilling heads. Could we exchange that old picture for the pleasanter one of Mark Hopkins sitting on one end of a log and his student on the other, happily co-operating in the task of developing the student into the most valuable citizen and interesting person he is able to become? For you senior students, from whom I first learned (sometimes by the hard way, sometimes by your kind¬ ness and understanding) what Canadian students are like, I have a rather special feeling, and so I have written you some verses: You who are leaving Mount Royal, What things will you take away? Persistent pedagogue pedlars here Have badgered you with their display. Buy, buy! they have importuned you; The prices are not too dear: Just a few copper hours for lines and planes And a few nickel nights for the sphere; A silver semester for science, And for music a golden year. Here ' s a bottle of blood from old battles, A shaker of salt from the sages, And a few bright bits of beauty Snipped from the poets ' pages. Here ' s health .in a bargain bundle — Only sports and fun for the fee; Here ' s skill, and here ' s will, and here ' s friendship With a fifty-year guarantee. And here, in wrapping of stardust, Is the biggest bauble of all; What wili you give me in exchange For this great round conjuring ball? You who are leaving Mount Royal, How have your purses been spent? Have you picked up any good bargains here? And are you well-content? As you leave Mount Royal College, I wish you all the joy of a rich and useful life. My thoughts and my interest will follow you down through the years. KATHARINE WILLMOTT. COLLEGE, CALGARY PAGE 23