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SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL l MAGAZINE l Vol. 15. FOR THE SCHOOL Tl .-XR 1942 - lf'-L3 Y.-XLE HOSE of us who were privileged to work with, or under, the late C. T. .-Xnstey will never forget his sterling qualities. Forover thirty years his wc-rla at Selwyn House School was an evample ot' high-minded schoolniastering at its best, which few masters could hope to emulate. let alone excel. The members of the Statl' who attended the annual Statl' luncheon with the Head- master last Christmas will always remember the thrilling description which he gave of the launching of H.Kl.S. Bacchante, carried out under the supervision of his father, then Superintendent of' Portsmouth Docl-zyard. We shall not here recount the story til' his varied lite -f this has already heen done in the newspapers- hut we reprint an editorial published in the Montreal Daily Star shortly after his death. We shall content ourselves hy saying that his lite was one of de- votion to the School which he served and the hoys so dear to his heart. lt would he difhcult indeed for any School to have a liner teacher. Nihil tetigit quod non ornavit : nothing did hc touch that he did not emhellish. c. R. Ai. CHARLES T. ANSTEY U ANY young men of Montreal learned with regret of the death of Charles T. .-Xnstey, for over thirty years a master at Selwyn House School. Mr. :Xnstey first taught at St. ,lohn's School, which was afterwards Lower Canada College, on hrst coming to Canada, then interrupted his teaching career to become travelling secretary to the first Lord Shaughnessy. When a physical inlirmity prevented him from travelling he joined the stall' of Selwyn House School on its estahlishment in 1909 by Captain Lucas. There were only seven students when the school opened, but it rapidly developed until it became one of the most popular and famous of private schools in the Dominion. Through Mr. .-Xnstey's hands there passed literally thousands of boys of Montreal and district, and many of them owe much of their later success to his wise tuition and wiser counsel. The secret of his success was his thorough understanding of youth and his sym- pathy with youth ef an understanding and sympathy which enabled him to get next to the students, gain their confidence and their trust. He gave liberally of the gifts with which Providence had endowed him. He was one of those who served unohtrusively. But ill
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SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE the value of his service cannot be measured in terms ol' words 3 it lies rather in the hearts ot' those he taught, and in their realiyation and recognition of what he did for them in their formative years. The teaching profession has greater need now than ever of such men as Charles T. .-Xnstey. Ullontrml Dailv Slar, 9f.5'f4.?.P 5F PF Hs 'Ii was during the last three years of his life that I knew Charles T. Anstey. He was already a patriarch, magnificently bearded, and there hung about him that air of le- gend, of unpredictability and eccentricity, which is so often the last and most becoming mantle of a considerable figure. His long experience had added something ofthe uncanny to his knowledge ot' boys. His judgements possessed the force of intuitions and even his prejudices had style. Study-steeped and taxi-borne he was popularly supposed to subsist on a diet of raw eggs and beer... I see him now standing on the steps of the School in racoon coat and fur cap, or teaching in the Sixth, the walls loaded with form photographs, and with a string of innumerable medals, one for each year, dangling on his waistcoat. He could he depended upon for a story or poem at the conclusion of the masters' Christmas dinner and for a peculiar-looking hat on Sports Day. He was capable of infusing school life with those expressions of loyalty, patriotism and school-spirit which, in lesser hands, so easily become sentimental and diffuse. I shall not forget his love for English literature. :Xs a small boy he had been taken to visit Tennyson g he told me how the poet had lain full-length on the hearth-rug, meets-V chaum in hand, heard in air, and chanted his verses. This Victorian memory no doubt re-inforced his impatience with some of the modern verse I showed him. He could not resist pencilling ll faint but determined bosh or piffle in the margin of books by twentieth century poets. Yet he once showed me how anxious he was to understand. 'I'here's a new language here, he said, and I want to learn it. Such unusual tolerance could be expected of an admirer of Blake. On one occasion he asked my opinion on a lyric he had copied out. I missed the twinkle in his eye and judged it to be of the Seventeenth Century. I was wrong. He had written it himself. Patriarchal in appearance, he remained young in spirit. He never spoke about his health. Only last summer, in the sweltering heat of the first day of the holidays, he in- sisted on taking the Sixth Form to Belmont Park -7 this was an annual affair for him. I can think of no better memorial than this picture, preserved indelibly in the minds of his pupils, of the old scholar and schoolmaster leading the revels against a background of Giant Racers and Ferris Wheels. 'l'o give up teaching was an impossibility for him. When he could no longer work, he died. I.et the last tribute come from one of his recent ex-pupils : I was very sorry to hear of.Ioe's death, but there is one great thing about his life - he left a terrific amount of good work behind him. P. A. Ill
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