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

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OUI' TBSIC The task confronting modern youth is that of uniting all the nations of the world in a com- mon feeling of co-operation. Although the way be long, the burden heavy, and the journey dangerous, we, of the present generation, must forge ahead with this aim ever before us. We must begin our plans now, if we are to succeed in our attempt to link the nations of the world together. A necessary preparation is to begin to think clearly and broadly. Narrow, prejudiced minds which see only one side of life must be enlarged. We must think in terms of nations as well as in terms of our own com- mtmity. We must think, not only of the youth of Canada but also of all the youth of the world regardless of race or creed. To think clearly is just as important as to think broadly. The grief of sudden failure or the joy of quick success should not cloud our minds. We must keep cool and collected, at all times. We must weigh every issue carefully before acting, and when we do act, it must be with a strong conviction that the deed is right. To think clearly and broadly without being able to express our thoughts would be useless. Regardless of the field in which our life work lies, we must be prepared to impress upon our fellow men the necessity of a united crusade with international friendship as the goal. Youth must look to the future. It is our task to establish and maintain international accord and friendship. We must succeed where others have failed. Bitterness, hatred, jealousy, and greed must vanish and in their place the forces of love, friendship, co-operation and obedience must stand united. Petty disputes and jealous arguments must be forgotten if we are to achieve a successful union of the people of this world. We must begin to destroy these vices now, in our own communities and later apply our experience to the whole world. In looking toward the future, youth must not forget the lessons of the past. People whose slanderous tongues, underhand methods, and secret organizations endanger world friendship and co-operation must be prevented from spreading their doctrines of hatred and envy. We must profit from the mistakes made by our predecessors in allowing international gangster- ism to gain hold, and we must prevent such ele- ments from seizing control again. Although the real building of friendship must be done in the future, the corner stone has al- ready been laid.The League of Nations, although failing politically, showed by its Work in relief, health, and labour that such a union is valuable and might have risen to even greater heights of success if the feeling of understanding had not been lost. This spirit is reviving. The Pan- American Union offers another example of nations working together. As a result, age-old disputes have been settled amicably instead of by war and bloodshed. The task has been begun. We must finish the job. The dawn of a new day is steadily approach- ing. Youth's part will be to insure world-wide co-operation in this new era. The challenge is ours and we must take the torch of friendship and hold it high. BOB CARLEY Intramural Sports--Continued This is really a continuation of the editorial on intramural sports written by Frank Smoke in last year's edition of The Echoes. His sug- gestion has been followed up in part and we are advocating a still further and more intensive program of sports. This year Basketball and Volleyball schedules were drawn up and the forms battled it out in the gymnasium. Form V-A won the Basketball championship and V-A also won the Volley- ball championship and so We extend to them our most hearty congratulations. The fault here was the lack of spectators. Where were all you sport fans? This fault can be laid only at the door of the student-body itself. Well what about a baseball schedule this spring also? Hockey was played independently by the process of one form challenging another. Here the lack of organization caused contradictions as to the proper score and many arguments re- sulted and at the end of them all no one knew what the score really was. All this could be averted with a small amount of effort on the part of the B.A.A. and G.A.A. or some other organization to provide some team, sport, etc., for each member of a form. Those who, because of physical defects, could not take in these sports, might form a cheering squad. These in- terform games stimulate school spirit and are good training for the school teams. The number of different schools on our interscholastic schedules is steadily decreasing which makes intramural sports a necessity if we are to have sports at all. In our midst we have skating, bowling, swimming, baseball and tennis enthusiasts not to mention the woe-begone members of our late lamented fencing club. What are our Athletic Associations for if they don't organize our sports or are they just a little afraid to do some Work of real benefit to the student body? Re- ferees and umpires for these sports might be chosen from Upper School or from the teachers who might be prevailed upon to supervise them, as they do the school dances. The fencing equipment which was purchased last year at considerable expense is being put to no better Page Fifteen

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the engraving and the new-style photographyg Miss Thompson, the art supervisorg and finally Mr. C. S. Browne, who saw to the selling of the magazine. Although this year our staff was greatly re- duced, those who remained, by their hard and faithful work made it possible for us to produce this war-time ECHOGS. A special word of appreciation is due to Miss McGregor, our supervisor of printing, without whose interest and untiring assistance we would not be able to publish the magazine at all. HUGH KENNER Small Extravagances I have often noticed that almost everyone has his own small extravagance-some careless habit of wasting pennies-and ordinarily this does not call for too deep a frown. In fact a peculiar small extravagance often adds per- sonality to the individual. But does anyone need to be reminded that these are war days! Every extra penny is needed by the country- and there is also that bothersome theory in Economics that the value of the dollar is de- creased with the increase of money spent. Con- sequently small extravagances must be exam- ined under a more penetrating light. First a plea will be made to all soda fountain frequenters. After all, boys, perhaps that game of hockey at night would be snappier if that gooey, twenty-cent double hot fudge sundae was resisted after school. Girls, do I dare to mention that hundreds of calories are contained in such a concoction of ice cream, chocolate, nuts and whipped cream? An elderly lady of my acquaintance, for no good reason that I know, drinks a little tea with her sugar, and leaves, at the end of each meal, a not too small chunk of butter and a portion of buttered bread to keep the dirty dishes com- pany. After so many years of generosity, wouldn't this be the ideal time to deprive the tea cup of the saturated sugar in its base and the side plate of the slowly melting grease? Movie lovers insist that each coming attrac- tion is bound to be the best feature of the year. Don't waste time and money then - see the movie each December thirty-first to make cer- tain of complete value for your money! .lust what is the well-dressed lady wearing this year? With so many chic costumes on parade, that question is extremely difficult to answer. So please don't confuse the men fsecretly that is your excuse for such extravag- ancel with too many smart and still smarter outfits. How many of you can truthfully say that at least three nights in the week you don't drop Page Fourteen into your favorite lunch stand fjust to see how many of the gang are therej and Qjust for some- thing to dol order a coke and plug a nickel or two in the jute box to hear Tommy Dorsey or Glenn Miller in the latest tune? Let Grand- ma tell you that it would be greatly to your ad- vantage to turn on the radio and enjoy a cold glass of milk at home. Take it or leave it, but it would be a saving. Mothers no longer frown and say What is this younger generation coming to? when the lily comes down to breakfast obviously gilded. That is, if it is not too obviously gilded. Keep that frown from your mother's brow and that tiresome question from her lips by using those precious and expensive paints sparingly. I am not going to beg, or even suggest, that you human smoke-screens give up cigarettes, for you all have probably done so at one time or another and returned to them with renewed zest. However, I am told that to roll your own can become quite an art, and the cost of the annoying habit is cut almost four-fifths. Wouldn't that be a real saving? Day in, day out, we are reproved- Who left that basement light on? . . . Must the radio be on when no one is listening to it? . . . An- other run, no wonder-three thread chiffon! . . . What! More money for that expensive hobby of yours. . . . To the waste paper basket with that gum! Little heed have we paid to such trivial extravagances in the past. Have I convinced any of you-for I have my- self-that petty wastes, however pleasant, are really unnecessary? So, shall we say, - Till the Lights of London Shine Again begone, you small extravagances! MURIEL E. MCCARRELL. Purple Patches ulnceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis purpureus late qui splendeat, 'anus et alter adsuitur panmwf' H 071106, De Arte Poetica. Often to weighty enterprises and such as profess great objects, one or two purple patches are sewn on to make a fine display in the distance. The Echoes is primarily a record for the future, in the quotation from Horace, our weighty enterprise . The Literary Section, not contributing anything to the record, is only a purple patch sewn on to make a line display . Although no prizes were given this year, the display is indeed fine. It was always thought that contributions should be made for the honour of seeing them in print. Now we know that prizes are not necessary. School spirit is enough' llflnnckmsr WESTBYE.

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use than to provide something for the rust to accumulate on. Why not at least make use of what we have? We have definitely proved intramural sports can be a success at P.C.I. We therefore hope that the G.A.A. and B.A.A. will continue to organize a more intensive program of sports along the lines above suggested. LLOYD WILLIAMSON, The Echoes In Wartime Some students think that there should be no Wartime Echoes. Such publications, they say, are non-essentials and should give way to patriotic work. The advisory board and the student executive, after careful consideration, decided to publish the magazine as usual. The publication will be an interesting and valuable record of the school's war eifort. It is the one medium which unites every part of the school in a common interest, and what can be more important than unity in the great task which is before us! Having made our decision, we have tried to suit our publication to a war year. Plans were made to cut down the magazine-about one- quarter. The art and photography contests, the prizes for the literary competition, were abolished. The dance for the form selling the most copies of The Echoes was likewise abolished. The price of the magazine was de- creased about one-third. The advertisers were asked to take but half their usual space. The work has been done by a considerably smaller staff, and the effort required of each was greater in that his work was seldom limited to one department. In spite of the fact that the staff was small, The Echoes has undertaken its own piece of war work, the Active Service List. Newspaper clippings concerning ex-students, now on active service, have been pasted into a huge scrapbook along with the addresses wherever possible. These addresses are available to any organiza- tion and have already been used by two, for the sending of Christmas parcels. And so may our readers realize that The Echoes has endeavoured to use a Htting war- time economy. We hope to carry on through the war years, even though our magazine be re- duced to a small mimeographed copy. NORMA TrML1N. Page Sixteen Things We'll Remember We'll remember the long halls that stretch from one side of the school to the other, and the slippery marble steps on the front stairs,--the plum-coloured velvet stage curtains with their heavy gold fringe, and the inscription carved in gold letters on the white wall above. We'll remember the show-cases of interesting birds Cand a sparrowl on the top floor, and the bulletin boards with their business-like mes- sages. We'll cherish the memory of the gas jets in the Chemistry Lab, Cwas there ever one of us who didn't turn them on, just to be sure they worked?J and the odd collection of pickled beasts, birds and bugs in the Physics Room. CWe'll probably never forget those Physics exams we struggled through, eitherj. We'll re- member the click, click of the typewriters of the Commercial students and the odours from the Cooking Room that made our mouths water. We'll remember the sensational blue P.T. uni- forms and our huge gym with its cool brick walls. We'll conjure up fond thoughts of sliding down a bannister on an impulse, and of meet- ing a stern-faced teacher at the bottom. We'll talk about those Qwords fail us herej middies which seemed lovely to anyone who didn't have to wear them and iron them. Then we'll remember the awful rumour that went 'round to the effect that girls wearing ankle sox would be expelled. We'll remember the short-lived fad of pinning tiny silver bells to skirt hems and the dark, menacing eyes of teachers upon us. fTis said the fad came to a quite sudden and terrifying end-We shudder at the blood-curd- ling storylj Then how could we forget the time someone hid teacher's text book for two whole days, or the time we had the waste basket carried down the aisle to us fimaginelj when we forgot and visibly chewed our gum. We'll remember the thousand times we wrote Silence is Golden for talking in class, and the time, when for the same offense, we stood in a corner for a whole period! How we shuddered when the Inspector lurked stealthily in Latin class, and how we wished we were in China when it was our turn to translate in French! And we'll always and always remember Algebra, simply because we can't get its horrible memory off our minds. Weill remember the smiling friendly faces in the locker rooms, and the quarrels and even the tears! But above all, we'll remember the four most important initials in our school life, and every- thing so dear for which they stand: yes,- we'll never, never forget our P.C.V.S.! MARALDN' MUNRO.