Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 19-ll -41 Members of the Troop sold seventy-four dollars worth of tickets to the Montreal Scout Spring Display. This money went towards a fund for the construction of shelters to accommodate sailors on leave in Halifax, many of whom have spent their leave at the Boy Scout Camp near Halifax. On the day of the Display, May 29th, the Troop marched to the Molson Stadium accompanied by our Troop Band. Members of the Troop set up pup-tents during a tent- pitching demonstration. Several of our scouts sorted silver paper for the Red Cross. .-Xt the School Prize Giving, outstanding members of the Troop were presented with the annual Scout prizes, an account of which may be found elsewhere in the magazine. Winlei' Ierm, I9-ll .' The Troop began the new school year with the following membership: SENIOR SECTION Cougars BIff71-IZXUFJ P.L. Currie P.L. Mathewson 2nd Moyse Ind Lehman Campbell K. Black Yass Redpath McMaster Fadie Miller Le Messurier ,IIINIOR SECTION B nz :'er.f Fonif Lio 71 .f Pl.. Gray P.L. S. Morgan P.L. Dollfuss Molson Kingman Timmins Ponsonby -I. Morgan Daubeny Rhea Levitt Whitehead Purse .-X. Black MacFarlane On Memorial Day, Nov. llth, the Troop performed its annual ceremony in front of the School. Buglers from the R.C.N.V.R. sounded the Last Post and Reveille. Eafler Term, I9-I2 .- In co-operation with the C.P.C. and the Montreal Fire Department the Scouts have undertaken to aid in fire-watching as part of the air-raid blackout programme. In order to get a better understanding of the operation of the I-'ire Department, the Senior Section of the Troop visited the Montreal Fire Headquarters at the invitation of the Department. Messrs. Durocher and Wilson and their staff were most generous with their time in showing us their intricate and efiicient system. In Scout Wlinter Uniform and wearing C.P.C. armbands, the Senior Scouts gathered at our designated Fire Station on the night of the last black-out, each scout proceeding thence to his assigned fire box and patrol area, ready to carry out the specific duties en- ll3l

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SELWYN HOUSI-I SCHOOL MAGAZINE trusted to him. Our Scouts may well perform a very worth-while function in times ofpublic emergency. We all hope that it will never happen here , but not content merely with that hope, the Scouts are living up to their motto, Be Prepared . The Troop has made a contribution of twenty-live dollars to the Chins-up Fund which helps Scouts in Britain who have been injured, or whose homes have been destroyed, in bombing raids. Patrol Leaders Currie and Mathewson have been acting as ushers at showings given by the Senior Film Society at the Montreal Art Association. Throughout the year, Scouts Mathewson and Lehman, and in particular Currie, have been most helpful in assisting with the meetings of the Junior Section. S. G. Rants in the Jfrunt line This rovvai lhI'07IF Qf kings, lhis sfepfr'd isfe, This earlh Qf nzqivsly, lhis serif Qf illars, This olhei' Eden, 1I'c'111i-pzzrarfise, This prerions slolze se! in the siirer sm, This hlessed plot, this earth, lhis rmhn, this Englrmd. 9 Ti O spoke Shakespeare, perhaps the greatest poet and dramatist that has ever lived. He too felt what is behind the castles, hedges, slums and villages. He knew A f that this, our heritage, is sacred to us, and makes England dearer to us than iiii many another part of the world. We are enduring hardships and making sacrifices 95' 5 that our heritage may live, and that the faith of centuries may not be lost in a moment of weakness and destruction. As Sir Walter Scott has written: Brezzflzrs fherf Ihr man ivilh soul so fiend Ifho izecer lo hiinsvy hizfh s1zi11', 'This is my 01311, mtv Malice Kami' .' Ilhose hear! hzzrh 11a'rr :cifhin him LIITHYIZI .is home his foofslvps he hzzfh ll!1'Ht'l17 From rc'rzmfei'z'11g 071 IZ-f0l't'if7l slramz' ? Prose and poetry are important, apart from their own literary merit, in the fact that they are history, and that they reflect the course of events through the ages. The poets, although they express their own thoughts, are the embodiment of the better and the newer elements of their age. The spirit of poetry is representative of the time in which it is written. Let us take the Restoration Comedies and the poems of the Romantic Revival as instances of this. The former were written in the frivolous, gorgeous days of Charles II, and the comedies themselves mirror the atmosphere of these times in their gay-hearted and happy style. On the other hand, the latter represent days of riots, turmoil and wars. There is something new and energetic in these romantic poems. In the words of Byron and Shelley, there is nothing of the old, stale, elegant poetry that went before them. These are the words of revolution and of turbid strife. They are the fore-runners of a tide that would sweep England from her complacency and red tape. It would set democratic ideals in her parliament, and bring them to its people. Byron and Shelley themselves left l14l