Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School - Echoes Yearbook (Peterborough, Ontario Canada)

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terrified, triumphant, or desolate at a moment's notice fvery important for girlsb. During the play session, don't bother about homework, which fatigues the brain when you need it most. Even Browning says that over in- dulgence in deep thought swells the brain to an unnatural size. Put first things first-re- member, dramatics is your callingenever for- get that! Now, if you should fancy journalism, keep your fingers crossed and hope that some editor will be kind enough to invite you to be on The Echoes staff. Memorize the dictionary and know where the periods and commas go. But above all, be prepared to withstand hunger and fatigue during the long winter session in The Echoes Office. When you emerge from a lengthy executive session, you will have gained the endurance of a marathon runner! lf you shudder at the grotesque contortions of a candid camera maniac and even more at the terrifying results, fight that inferiority complex! Join the Camera Club and become the fiend yourself. Fight him with his own weapons and show him how he looks. Or better still, join the Fencing Club and learn how to avenge yourself. The valuable experience you might gain by a year on the Students' Council will fit you leaders of tomorrow for coping with govern- ment situations. Lengthy arguments deciding such problems as whether the Dark Room needs a new light, will develop your powers of oratory. lf you want to build up your somewhat doubtful constitution and at the same time help to wear down our venerable institution, join a Basketball team. When the four o'clock bell rings for practice, hop into your shorts and race up and down the stairs and along the halls at eighty miles an hour, playing follow the leader. Now for you who need to catch up on your sleep, there is the rugby team. Joining this gives you a good excuse to go to bed at nine o'clock, homework done or not. lt even gives you an excuse for sleeping from nine to four in the day time, Your teachers will always realize the superiority of rugby over Latin. There is the added consolation for you rugby heroes, that when you have completed your course in High School rugby, there will cer- tainly be some one to support such handsome healthy lads as you in college. If you can get in! ln case you have not already chosen your course from those which we have mentioned, there is still Badminton, the Glee Club, Orches- tra, or even that peak of musical harmony, the Bugle Band. And if none of these occupations interests you, we suggest you take the Special Latin or French classes-or join the Foreign Legion! MAR.u.IN Mrxnu Axim NIARG.-Xlil'l'I' Wrzsrsrs. Page Seventeen

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t'Then he said, 'I am going to my Father's, and though with great difiiculty I am got hither, yet now do I not repent of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a Witness for me, that I have fought his battles who now will be my re- warder' . . . So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side. Hum KENNER lntramural Sports Last fall the Garnet and Gray senior rugby team won their group and proceeded as far as the finals with Port Colborne. What kind of team will we have in 1940? Maybe you think that is too far away to worry about. But let me say unless there are a good many promising junior players coming along, prospects do not look very bright. Every year the school loses talent through players graduating, passing over the age limit, or this year, enlisting. Thus our ranks are greatly depleted. The same situation may be true for our senior boys' and senior girls' basketball teams. Also consider the abundance of hockey players in the school who, this year, were unable to play in any organized group because the City League did not function. Now don't these facts show that we need a general reorganization of sports in the school so as to incorporate more students who would play if they had the chance, and others who are just a bit timid about trying out for the school teams. Other schools throughout Gntario have drop- ped their interscholastic activities and are con- centrating on intramural sports. A very fine chance has been afforded by the introduction, in the last few years, of six-man rugby teams. Several teams could be selected and this type of game would allow more boys to participate as only five alternates are carried with each team. There are two possible methods of organizing competition within the school. The first is the customary one fused extensively by the Girls' Athletic Association of P.C.V.S.l of pitting one form against another-the winners, for ex- ample XI A over XI C, to meet the Fourth Form victors. Now some may laugh and say that that would be no match at all, but a bigger and more experienced team has been beaten before this by a youthful, fighting aggregation working in perfect harmony. A second plan might also be considered. Let the Boys' Athletic Association and the Girls' Athletic Association choose a certain number, say twenty students, from the senior forms as Page Sixteen captains. Then these twenty students, ten girls and ten boys, could meet separately and select the teams from the lower grades of the school. In this way the ability of the players on differ- ent teams might loe equalized. This scheme could apply to any of the many sports, rugby, basketball, hockey, badminton, volleyball, soft- ball, table tennis, and track and field, now being carried on in P.C.V.S. The two associa- tions mentioned previously could act as mediators in disputes, draw up schedules, help organize teams, and make sports an interesting and enjoyable pastime. The large enrolment of pupils presents a fine opportunity for introduc- ing intramural sports. In such an undertaking as this, time must be found for the games to be played under suit- able supervision. It might be possible to en- trust upper school students with the task of overseeing the students or it might be neces- sary to require the teachers' services to see that everything is carried out smoothly. This might easily be a deciding factor in the success or failure of the scheme. We have just laid the bare foundation in the hope that some club or group in the school will see it through to a successful finish and give the students a new deal in school sports. There is no doubt about this school's liking for sports, and this innovation might be popular with the whole student body. FRANKLIN SMOKE Modern Youth Chooses a High School Course Dear Modern Youth, Let's have a heart-to-heart talk! We of Form Five, who have profited by years of bitter ex- perience, will endeavour to solve your most serious and perplexing problem. For what problem is more serious and perplexing than that of choosing an extra-curricular activity? Our first word is this. Turn a deaf ear to the trivial discussions concerning the merits of Academic, Commercial, Household, and Indus- trial Arts. What's the difference whether you write Shorthand or Greek hieroglyphics? What you do from four to six is what counts. The framing of your character and your health de- pend upon that. Leave out extra-curricular work and your education lacks the most valu- able part. To guide you, Grade Niners, who are confronted with this baffling problem, we worthy sages suggest several possibilities. Do you imagine yourselves awing your audiences in the part of a crafty MacBeth, or a shrewish Catherine? Then your course is clear. Join the Dramatic Club and learn the necessary arts of looking sad, happy, angry,

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Im'vpli.v !fI'fll'TbllN pliwlnlzqzzcf vi nmynrz profi'.s.si.s IlI17'1lllI'l'I1.Y lute qua .vple21ffr'11f. 1111118 et alter IIIISIIHIII' jltlllllll-9... lInz'r11'0. Dv ,lrfv Poeticzl, Often to weiglity enterprises and such as profess great Uli.i1'f'lS. one or two purple patches are sewn on to make ai fine display in the distance. The heading Purple Patches has become very familiar to us. What exactly does it mean? By applying the quotation from Horace, we see that the weighty enterprises are sections of the magazine such as School News and Form News. The Purple Patches sewn on only to make a fine display in the dis- tance are the literary contributions. When Mr. Morris suggested the name perhaps he intended a subtle hint that this department is not read widely enough by students. The 1940 Purple Patches upholds the stand- ard of its predecessors and may even surpass Turns and The Stranger. The first is light and comical, the second historical. To our know- ledge it is the first time plays have been Printed in The Echoes. Special mention might be made too of the excellent senior short stories. Due to lack of space one or two which merited printing were omitted. Another new feature is the Junior Literary Section for Grades IX and X. This year the work of the juniors will not suffer by immediate compari- son with that of the seniors. At the Sigma Phi Convention in Toronto. Hugh Kenner won a prize for his story in the 1939 edition of The Echoes and Barrie Jack won honourable mention for his work. This year we have fine contributions from these boys. The work in Purple Patches is well done and worth while taking time to read. Look over the next twenty-odd pages and see for your- it. There are two plays this year. The Wor'm selves. BIARGARET Wusi-mn. 'T ll ..LiIlit: fi at .T ,, i V T Wi 'li T ' ' 0 I filly, .9 V xi ii' - 0 I .. ,fffl ,Q -'.,f , lx - E :NX fl' .f I fl X j 51,4 J fr ff 1:7 f 4 l f . i , X TM ll l.' -.-L ' - 4 .ttt T - -is ' ff f jf U' X!!! . I w I .V ef' . x . ,i lf. .5 X 1 . - Their song of joy, And peace, and love, Told that a Babe From realms above, The Saviour of Us all would be The Song OF Love by ARDYTH RICHARDSON, xi c Ac. It was long ago, One winter's eve, That angels from The skies did leave, To sing their song To shepherds there, Awaiting long The Child most fair. Then finally They disappeared. The host was goneg The sky was cleared. And then men Went To look for Him Who had been sent 1,9 And die for love A jk A Upon a tree. l X X X Q . 'v S T41 I XY 'PA - J y X it fl Ill ... .qi P0111 fzqlziven To Bethlehem.