Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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THE VOYAGEUR 25 1 Qd no fi Qu p The Staff Editor-in-Chief-H. BAXYNE CUMMER Assocmte Editor-LLOYD BELL Sporting Staff-R. H. PERRY, K. A. COWAN, J. S. OSBORNE ATf-FRED TOLLER, J. MACDONALD Assistants-DoNALD CLARK, J. BTILLICHAMP Advisory Board J. MCCULLEY, G. N. T. VVIDDRINGTON, R. E. K. ROURKE Spring PRING is here! Past are our frigid vigils in an Arctic cot, past the gloomy sorties through a Polar blast at the beginning of our day 's endeavour! At every turn we meet fresh evidences of spring's benign presence. The ily, her unfailing harbinger, has heralded her arrival from every hidden niche. The Venetian canals in our streets, the mud-strewn corridors of our homes are mute testimonies to the death of winter. Finally, the interment of our racoon coats and the resurrection of the remnants of our lighter garments which the moths have kindly spared, have removed the last doubt that Jack Frost has relin- quished his supremacy to the kindlier Zephyrs, the Plutonian realm to mother Ceres. Let us then rejoice, for the choicest season of the year is back again. Let the thick incrustations of the sombre past drop from our souls to give us freedom to enjoy a kindlier future. Just as the latent powers have lain, stored up within the seed to thrive more abundantly when the genial warmth unloosens the encasing coat, so have we been bound by the hampering connnes of Despondency that we may revel more wantonly through the wide expanses of Joy. The world is fresh about us, growth has burst her torpid haunts and infused all nature with her seething vigour. May we also mount to the utmost bounds of cherished dreams and forge ahead with newborn inspiration, eager to carry to a majestic fruition the protoplasmic urge of the Creator 's plan. -H. B. C.

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THE VOYAGEUR 71' was in this building at Pickering, Ontario, that the Work of the school was carried on for many years. On its destruc- tion by fire in 1905, a site was chosen at Newmarket and the present commodious building opened in 1909.

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26 THE V-OYAGEUR Wider Horizons INCE we are living somewhat aloof in our own separate community, there is a tendency for us to ignore the great events that are taking place in the world outside us. Our own immediate interests assume so great proportions in our perspective that we forget we in the future will be called upon to face intelligently the stupendous problems that harass nations, cause international strife, and create irreparable grievances. Most of the mistakes that nations have made have arisen from the fact that the majority of their citizens have been too engrossed in their own petty affairs to give a thought to the wider interests of the state. Let us then prepare ourselves, now that we have the time and the opportunity to develop a broad, unprejudiced outlook, to assume the full responsibilities of the citizenship that is ours. One of the greatest condemnations that has been made of the modern age is that our social evolution has not kept pace, with our scientific development. Mediaeval selfishness has persisted, and has acquired powers of alarming pro- portions. Wealth is becoming more and more concentrated on the few who have the .peculiar ability to amass it and to exploit it, poverty oppresses the masses and denies to the pauper one of the basic rights of man, the right of moderated self-expression. Nations squander their resources on war, inflate their citizens with self-destructive patriotism, and defy the unfailing retri- bution reserved by nature for those who flaunt her eternal laws. Yet reform, slow to perform her titanic changes, is slowly moulding the fabric of the nations' wants, and seers in every country are awakening to the far-off visions of a land where men shall live as brothers, and happiness, like the gentle beams of the calm moon, shall bathe the people of the world in radiances of joy and understanding. -H. B. C. The Graduates OCKEY and basketball seasons are over. Rugby is only reminiscent. Now . comes warm weather. baseball, tennis, andi- the stiff silence of examin- ation time with wailings and meanings of the futility of crammings in these last, sultry hours. Examinations will come and go, but one thing that will not go is the memory of Pickering. It is all right for those, who are going to return to go away for the summeriwith gay farewells. But those that will no longer participate in Pick- ering's activities are not so gay in bidding their adieux. Those that probably will never see the Colonial pillars of our school again, have no small lot in leaving forever. Bright days are with us at last. We lie on the grass studying, play tennis and baseball in the bright, warm sun. We take part in the closing exercises, pack up and leave. You, who are returning, can leave without emotion. Oc- casions sueh as that of Davison, plunging through for a touchdown, of Peace stick-handling up the ice for a goal, of Mason scoring innumerable baskets, of our defeats also, of the revelry of our At-Home, these are yours for a while longer, but to us they are lost. We will only be able to hear the faint starting of P-I-C-K-ll and then everything will be lost in a dream. It will only be the locomotive yell in that, it will take us to distant thoughts. Inasmuch as we do not like to think of it, we must depart, only hoping that some day we may return to see the school, the campus, the surroundings where once we spent so many enjoyable days. -LB,