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Q4 Ghz 'Echoes son has expressed it best when she said: There is no frigate like a book to bear us lands away. Nor any courser like a page of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take without. distress or toll: How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul. The question then arises-how ought we to read? First. we might say, with affection. If we do not like reading, we shall get no pleasure from it. and reading is generally considered as a recreation or at least as a means of relaxation. Then. too, we ought to read with criticism. It does not always pay to agree eye to eye with everything. It does a person good to form his own opinion and to stick to it until he is convinced of his error by an authority on the subject. Lastly we ought to read with the aim of understanding. YVe ought to try and get at least some conception of the book and not wade through it because it is a prescribed authority and our duty or obligation to read it. To read is to add to our own experi- ences those of other people: to read is to discover the work and investigations of centuries: to read is to meet beauty and beauty-loving personalities that we learn to know in no other way. To read is to increase our knowledge: to divest our- selves of prejudices and improve our personalities. H. BI. Clarke. I think. summed it up nicely when he wrote: Some may live their fair dreams. costly, jewelled. rare dreams: Some may rove the luring world as free as homing birds: But still l'll find my all for IHC, close- waiting at my call for me. In my printed palaces. bright tap- estried with words. Thus a whole world can open up for us in a single book. MARG. PARKER, Vb Acad. my ffavorite Composer SECOND PRIZE YERYONE who studies music or at least is interested in it. has doubt- less a favorite composer. This particular musician may have been chosen because of one composition which appeals especially to the student. llodern song writers may find themselves in the musi- cal spot-light for a time but their popular- ity is usually short-lived. Only the old masters have undying fame. If I were asked to name my favorite composer I would say without hesitation. Handel. George Frederick Handel was born on February twenty-third. sixteen hundred and eighty-five. and lfarch twenty-first of the same year was the birth date of his great contemporary Johann Bach. Han- del's father wished him to become a boy lawyer but very early in life the showed a great interest in music. All music in the home was forbidden. but had Handel. with the help of his nurse, managed to smuggle a wheezy old harpsi- chord into the attic. When his mother and father were out. he often crept up to the attic and played the music with which his soul was overfiowing. Almost everybody has seen the picture showing Handel's father finding the boy playing in the attic, The father died in the year sixteen hundred and ninety-seven and then the Prince of Saxe-lfagdeburg. whose valet he had been, agreed to finance the musical education of young George. He accepted the post of royal organist and later went to London, where he wrote operas. Due to the strain of competing with a rival opera company. in the year seventeen hundred and thirty-seven Handel suffered a paralytic stroke and was obliged to take a rest. XVhile ill he read and studied the scriptures and de- termined to put his genius to the task of translating the Bible stories into music. It was then that his one incomparable oratorio The lfessiahn was written. The first performance of the Messiah was in Dublin on April the thirteenth, seventeen hundred and forty-two. During the last seven years of his career Handel was totally blind but his musical activities continued and he accompanied his ora-
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Ebe .fcboes 25 torios on the organ. Handel passed to the Great Beyond o1I Easter Saturday, seven- teen hundred Elllll fifty-nine at the age of seventy-four. Handelys music is somewhat solemn and slow but it expresses the struggle which he had during his whole career. first against his cruel father and later against ill-health. I-Ie finally triumphed just as the Hallelujah Chorus I1'Oll1 the lIessiah expresses the triumph of Christ over Death. Other great works by Handel are the famous funeral march from the oratorio Saul and the immortal and beloved Largo BPITTY Disrci-nan. Va. Kc-ad. Tube lwakening FIRST PRIZE Long years have we dwelt with slumber, Lone kings of a valley land Where the days passed by like shadows And the slow years came to hand. And our eyes are dim with dreaming III the years wl1e1I time stood still, Vilhen the winds were hushed and gentle From the shelter of the hill. But now. when across tl1e meadow Where drowsy poppies grow, Comes at last the hour we longed for, Shall we not rise Hlltl go? LIL,-XDYS H. XVATSON, VA Acad. i..l.. i TAS SECOND OR many yeaI's the hill behind our house has been a constant source of entertainment for me. Not only have I skied and tobogganed on it but I have spent many hours enjoying the view from it. In an autumn evening the scene to my mind is the most beautiful. From the western sky the sinking sun sends its rays over the countryside, bathing it in the soft crimson glow of sunset. Ill the distance one can see that the trccs in the woods are just beginning to colour and their dark green and yellow make a striking contrast against the brilliant sky. Farther down i1I the valley I see the creek which winds snake-like through the fields. At present all that remains of it are a few pools here and there among the luxuriant grass that 1na1'ks its for- mer course. The water reflects the sun- set and they appear as bright flaming pools of fire. Finally, in the distance I see the course widen, and the green marsh that marks its entrance into the river. I look again into the valley and direct- ly below I see cattle being driven to the pasture, for the night milking-time is over and they contentedly follow one the well-worn path. The let dowII the bars and se- another along driver having CQI12 PRIZE curely replaced them, whistles a merry tuIIe as he turns towards his home. From my post I can see the lights be- gin to blink i1I the windows of the farm- houses. As I climb down from my vigilant post on the fence. scarcely a tI'ace of colour remains in the west. A low-sweeping bat XVHFIIS me that night is slowly stealing over the mysterious wo1'ld. As I start LIOXVII the hill I see the first evening star and I think of the beautiful lines of Gray in his second stanza of H11 Elegy written iII a country church-yard - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his dron- ing flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant foldsf, RUTH ELLIS, Vb Acad. + + + I X N I ' 'XQX if ,su I - J ' -Ui If ,
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