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

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It may interest some readers to find the fallacy in this proof : X 2 — x 2= X 2 — w 2 - (This is a statement admitted by most). . : Factorizing : (OD — OC) (x+OC) = x(x — w)- Divided through by common factor x — X x + x=x- 2af = oo- 2=1- Q. E. D. — (Non demonstratum est. Ed.). AFTER THE PANCAKE The Pancake Greeze took place in the School Hall on Shrove Tuesday and was won by the Fourth Form represen- tatives, Halley and Crisp II. Adamson at first seized the whole pancake, but was later relieved of the biggest portion of it by Halley and Crisp. Where is That Pancake? EXAMINATION RESULTS Junior Matriculation — No. of candidates entered 2, passed 2. S. E. E. Morres, L. W. Neel. Advanced Course, Junior Grade — No. of Candidates en- tered 6, passed 6. V. G. C. Best, A. R. Adamson, J. H. B. Watson, E. P. N. Homer, B. C. Weld, F. D. Crisp. Page Eleven

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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

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Preliminary Course, Junior Grade — No. of candidates entered 8, passed 6. J. L. Roaf, W. G. H. Roaf, J. K. Halley, J. D. Ross, R. F. D. Phillips, A. G. Crisp. FROM OUR PARISIAN CORRESPONDENT I have not the pen of your grandmother, Nor yet the hat of your friend ; No idea where the gardener is, either; Heav ' n knows when this business will end. But in spite of all this, I endeavour To speak as much French as I can, And I always reply to whatever I ' m asked : Oui, nous n ' avons pas de bananes. M. A. E. SEMI-DETACHED Adamson became attached To sleeping in the Games Room, And there repaired ' most every day With forty winks the aim ; some Seccotine unnoticed lay Upon the floor there one fine day — Not only metaphorical his Attachment to the Games Room. Page Twelve