Shawnigan Lake School - Yearbook (Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia Canada)

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we only had very occasional glimpses of the form shown on that day. In the first half Tryon scored 2 and Neel 1 for the School. In the second half the Scouts improved, and were unlucky not to score. Neel scored another goal for the School in this half and the game ended 4 — in our favour. Teams Shawnigan — Garrard ; Schwengers, Homer ; Morres, Hodgson, Best; Edmonds, Neel, Osier II., Tryon, Osier I. Duncan Scouts — Mayea ; Weeks, Bradshaw; Lansdell, Dixon, Macdonald ; Craig, Harris, Bradshaw, Roome, Brook- bank. School Thirds vs. Leinster School Played on March 28th on our ground. The game was keenly contested and both teams showed a useful knowledge of the game, which resulted in a win for the School Third XI. by 3—0. Teams School Third XL— Moore II.; Wollaston II., Macdonald I.; Moss, Bastin, Weld II.; Williams L, Slade, Grieve, Roch- fort, Noble II. Leinster School — Griffin; B. Noble, H. Noble; Hurley, Forshawe, Capt. Barry. THE LIGHTER SIDE OF MATHEMATICS Mathematics do not readily lend themselves to humour except in the hands of a genius of literature. The ponderous old joke about the problem in Dynamics beginning: A small elephant whose weight may be neglected, can hardly be ap- preciated except by those who have attempted to solve such problems. Teachers of many years ' standing with experience of many types of boys in England and elsewhere agree that it is almost funny to notice how, no matter the class in life or the meridian of birthplace, the boy will make the same mistakes in the same places ; even such things as oe+ar oc 1 and oc+gc = 2x being perpetrated elsewhere besides Shawni- gan Lake ; and the question as to which of two trains travel- ling at different speeds between London and Manchester will be nearer to London when they meet, is heard of not only in England and Vancouver Island, but even in Jamaica. Page Nine

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Shawnigan Lake School vs. Oak Bay Rep. Team Played on March 31st on our ground. The School put up a splendid fight against the Representative team of the Oak Bay Schools. The perfect understanding amongst our for- wards gave the opposing goal-keeper a bad time early in the first half, Osier II. having very bad luck in hitting the cross bar. Near half time Oak Bay opened the scoring with a goal from a scrimmage in front. In the second half the game opened out more and showed fine kicking on the part of the backs on both sides. After several good attempts by our forwards, Osier II. succeeded in scoring for the School, to be followed a few minutes later by a second goal for Oak Bay, and a very fine, keen game ended in our defeat by 2—1. Teams Shawnigan — Garrard; Adamson (Capt.), Schwengers ; Morres, Hodgson, Best; Edmonds, Tryon, Osier II., Neel, Osier I. Oak Bay Rep. — Mair ; Goodacre, Nixon ; Morrison, Kaye, Haynes ; Weston, Lowndes, Symons, Ivens, Lowndes. Shawnigan Lake School Football Team, 1st XI. School vs. Duncan Scouts Played at Duncan for the Duncan Business Men ' s Cup on April 2nd, Easter Monday. The effects of the previous Saturday ' s match against Oak Bay soon became evident and Page Eight

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The question about preference for a sack of half sover- eigns or half a sack of sovereigns has elicited from several headmasters a remarkable indifference to this world ' s wealth in as much as they appeared unconcerned as to whether they should have a sack of gold or only half a sack. Then again, the boy who wrestles so unsuccessfully with geometrical or algebraical problems and exercises would be the last to endorse the derivation of rider as being from ridere — to laugh. Ag ' ain, in how many different places has one met the stranger or fond parent who enquired of schoolmasters what they teach, and on being told Maths., have said : Oh, Maths. ! I was never any good at it, sometimes adding I was so badly taught ; well, perhaps many boys who read this will say the same thing one day to their boy ' s master and they will find several masters who would endorse this statement, some would even give them a certificate to that effect if they were asked for it. But Maths, are changing; more so, perhaps, in the Old Country than out here. The introduction of the graph and graphical methods, and measuring to scale and such-like contrivances have provided a chance for the boy without Maths, ability, who can use his fingers neatly. During the war we often said t hat to pass into Sand- hurst a candidate only needed to be able to draw about one graph correctly, after he had discovered what the question meant, and he was sure to get in. But for the poor real mathematician who never conld multiply correctly, more humane times have permitted the use of log. tables to help him to find rapidly the value of 7x9 and have given him a delightful toy called the slide rule — generally having also printed on it all sorts of useful infor- mation hard to remember — for more intricate and lengthy dealings with figures. Nowadays also even those former giants of English money addition — the bank clerks — are spoon fed with the cast iron accuracy of the adding machine. P.S. — If the Editor suggests this article is too long, or too short, the writer undertakes to prove to him here (1), that it is only half as long as it really is; (2), that it is twice as long. For, as most mathematicians know, two can be easily proved equal to one, and hence (1) and (2) follow. Page Ten