Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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forward and offered to stay in prison While Damon was allowed to go home. The King was very much surprised, but he had given his word, Damon was therefore permitted to leave for home, while Pythias stayed in prison. Many days passed, the time for the execution was close at hand and Damon had not returned. The King went. to the prison to see Pythias. Your friend will never return, the King said: 'tYou are wrong Pythias answered, Damon will be here if he can possibly come. But he has to travel by sea, and the winds have been blowing the wrong way for several days. However, it is much better that I should die, I have no wife and no children, and I like my friend so well that it would be easier to die for him than to live without a friend. So I am hoping and praying that he may be delayed until my head has fallen. The King went away more puzzled than ever. The fatal day arrived but Damon had not returned. Pythias was brought forward and led upon the scaffold. My prayers were heard, he cried, I shall be permitted to die for my friend. But mark my words, Damon is loyal to his friends, you will yet have reason to know that he had done his utmost to be heref, Just at that moment a man galloped up at full speed on a horse covered with foam. It was Damon. In an instant he was on the scaffold, and had Pythias freed. He said the Gods be praised for your safety. NVhat worry I have suffered in the fear that my delay was putting your life in dangerfl There was no joy in the face of Pythias, for he knew the loss of his friend would be great. But the King had heard all. At last he was forced to believe in the unselfish friendship of these two. His hard heart melted at the sight., and he set them both free, asking only that they would be his friends and c' . Perhaps this story is a. little far-fetched,but the Idea, Be loyal to your friends is not. You don't have to stand in on a death sentence as Pythias did. There are many other ways in which you can show loyalty. Perhaps you have heard one of your friends insulted or criticised by some one behind his back. And because you want to be one of the boys, you agree, but shouldn't you have the loyalty to stick up for your friends? If you are loyal to your friend you should stand up for him, no matter what the consequences. If your friend is in the wrong, the truth will eventually come out. But be loyal to him and show him your friendship. There are two more virtues which you probably have picked from this story. Loyalty to yourself and loyalty to your Ideals or school. -IoHN RENWICK. C0ll llyQ oU'LL BE A MAN MY s0N! A man in the words of Rudyard Kipling had the will to enter difficulties and conquer them - He had the will to speak individually in a. crowd. - he also had the will to live every minute thoroughly and not falter - All these in one man make him a courageous man! - We often think of courageous men as those who fight bravely in the pitch of battle or men who explore the great unknown. But we have courage too if we think about it. Will power is courage - courage raging inside one's mind, whether to do a job, or, as we often do, leave it for later. Loyalty is courage - Twenty

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can I possibly do anything that will change the world. To expalin this point I would like to make a comparison between the human body and the world. If you break your wrist, you are in pain and your body is the less for it. If a group of people or a person kill or cause destruction the world is in pain and is the less for it. Thus we must strive for excellence in all we do. In this way our life will become better and if we become better we will probably affect our friends. In our academics, in our athletics and in our relations with others we must always strive for peace, harmony and understanding. We all know what things about us are not good, are not as they should be. But do we ever do anything about our bad ways. Tennyson says in his poem It may be that the gulfs will wash us down . The gulf for our purposes is that we will cease to strive, to seek for excellence, and will fall by the wayside. No longer will we be useful. We will be like a ship without a crew floating, aimlessly in never ending sea, until at the end we sink into a. dark abyss, our life a waste. But Tennyson also says: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles . The happy isles that we must seek are those of peace and understanding. If we find these Isles in ourselves surely we can help others find them. Therefore take a long look at yourself, a critical one, and when you see that all is not well try to change. At times we all are prone to slip gently along on life's stream not striving or seeking but always yielding. If we do this too often we will never find any- thing of consequence. In future years we will pay for our lack of courage, of inner fortitude. NVe will be cowards. We will not wish to face the obstacles which lie on the path to success in academics, athletics, or relations with others. We will be people who hinder the community. And in these days we must not produce people of this character. But we all can help to make our community and the world we live in a better place. If we strive always for a goal, seeking it with courage we will no matter what odds. But if we yield for too long a time the task will e t at much grea.ter. Therefore, lift your head up, smite the sounding furrows and become a man. When this is done the world will become the better for it. CHARLES BEER. loyalty NVOULD LIKE T0 TELL YoU A s'roRY which I hope will illustrate for you, one of life's most important virtues - Loyalty. Loyalty to your friends, parents and country. If every one could practice this, the school, and the world for that matter, would be a much better place in which to live. The story starts in the city of Syracuse in Sicily. The King of Syracuse who was a hard and wicked ruler, heard of a plot by the people to overthrow the throne. The King then commanded that all leaders should be put to death. Une of these leaders, named Damon, lived far from Syracuse. He asked the King if he would grant permission for him to go and say to his parents and family, promising to return within the appointed time of execution. The King did not think he would keep his word and said I will let you go under one condition, if you find a friend to stand in your place until you return. If you don't retum your friend will die. The King thought to himself, surely no one will ever take the place of a man condemned to death. Now Damon had a very dear friend named Pythias, who at once came Nineteen

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courage to stand beside a friend or belief in a time when he or it has been challenged. And prayer is courage - courage to accept and ask for forgiveness of one s sins. I would now like to talk of a. different kind of courage - The courage of Pickering. In the years I have been at Pickering, I have seen this courage many times. The courage to accept a man no matter what his race, colour, or religion - All we have to do is look around us to see this phase of Pickering. Pickering also has a. courage of patience and understanding for each in- dividual. At times, when a. boy has come into some difficulties his problem is discuwed and thought out, rather than immediate punishment. This method has often been criticized by other schools but it certainly leaves a better under- standing between staff and students. Another type of courage is when a boy who has left Pickering praises his old school. XVe often are accustomed to hearing the same type of boy speak badly of the school when he is he1'e. It is heart warming to hear this new man now speak in praise of the things Pickering has given him. In conclusion, the things at Pickering which demand our courage must be in academics - to come out at the top of the ladder in Jtme, - also sports require our courage and we witnessed a good example this year in our Senior Football team. The final courage is in the need to trust, to be honest and to be faithful to our fellow men. - If you have these ideas in your mind and try to use them Well you will be a courageous man. DAVE BEER. C C lf dlsclp une HERE ARE Two TYPES OF DISCIPLINE - external and internal. External dis- cipline is the discipline we experience as children or in some eases as adults. This type of discipline is exerted upon a person who cannot control himself inwardly. It may take the form of a bawling out or in most extremes cases a jail sentence. Internal discipline is the discipline We experience within ourselves. It is the direct result of the external discipline we experience as children. This means that we are disciplining ourselves instead of having other people, discipline us. This is most important as it is the sign of a person maturing and able to conduct himself in the society around him. Examples of persons not being able to control themselves are evident all around us. The Newspapers are full of stories concerning people who have taken the wrong turn. This wrong turn may have started when they were young and had no one to discipline them. Last year in Pickering a student had trouble himself. The staff tried various methods of external discipline upon this unhappy soul for a long time. He was given a. number of chances but he continued on in his actions. As a result of these actions a few studentsvlives were made so miserable that they left Pickering. This forced the College to enforce more external discipline and the particular student was asked to leave. Had this person only learned to give himself a bit of internal discipline he would probably be here today. He had the intelligence to make a. successful career out of the rest. of his life but because of his unwillingness to grow up he ruined his hopes for success, in Pickering. Twenty-one