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

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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS Troubled — In answering questions in your exam., don ' t write on more than you are asked. Your query brings to mind the candidate for an exam, who, on being asked for the comparative of bad, wrote worse, and wishing to show that his knowledge did not end there, gave dead as the superlative ; at the same time you must use your dis- cretion in these matters. In answering a question as to where the kings of England were crowned, it would be insufficient to say on their heads. H. J. C. — No, I think your suggestion that Caesar in his dying agonies burst into French is quite wrong; some people think it was English, because of the immortal remark of the woman who said, Eat two, Brute? when she found her husband had eaten both the eggs prepared for breakfast. No, H. J. C, things are seldom what they seem, and sounds and appearances are often deceptive. For instance, Sardine is not the feminine of Tsar, and guerilla warfare does not mean up to their monkey tricks ; nor yet does vacuum refer to the large open spaces where the Pope lives. Harassed — Yes, you are quite right, a man who eats his father and mother is a cannibal, he would be an orphan, too, incidentally, and several other complications would arise. Junior — No, the sausages you get for breakfast are not shot ; the best way to get them is a hand line or strong trol- ling rod. Ignorant — You say that parallel lines are the same dis- tance all the way and do not meet unless you bend them. Well, we have no desire to bend them, so they will remain parallel as far as we are concerned. Sixth Former — I think you will find that Socrates died of an overdose of hemlock — not wedlock. Third Former — Yes, you are quite right ; Mrs. Euclid is reported to have burned some of her husband ' s books, but your presumption that she did so on the grounds that they were too frivolous, lacks corroboration. Naturalist — We regret these columns can not be thrown open to an argument as to whether grass is a vegetable — the theory that a grass widow is the wife of a dead vegetar- ian is an ingenious but a wrong one. Page Twenty

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all his blandishments availed him nothing. She jibbed, she fretted, spat and foamed, and as though unable to endure his attentions any longer, she had hit him with stunning force in the face — (What else did he expect from a twenty-year-old, second- hand electric lighting plant? — Editor). BOXING The finals in the Boxing Competitions were fought off in the Summer Term and not in the Lent Term as in former years. Some alteration in the arrangements had become necessary owing to the unavoidable absence for several weeks of Commander Kingscote. While preliminary rounds were not so full of thrills as they might have been, the discovery amongst some of the Juniors of an unsuspected punch in their right or left hand was as entertaining to us as it was surprising to them. The semi-finals provided some stiff fights, and in at least two cases, the landing of a lucky punch very nearly reversed the order of things. The finals were contested in a manner which was cer- tainly spirited, if perhaps, in one or two cases, it was unortho- dox. In the heavyweights (Adamson vs. Moore I.) the ad- vantage of weight and height was distinctly with Adamson, and Moore deserves every credit for making such a good fight of it. Sanderson, with all the advantages, on the other side, proved a good loser in the light heavies and fought all the way ; while in the middles, Cotton got in some very telling punches but appeared unable to follow up his advantages. The fight for the light-weights was a hard one, and the feather-weights, in which Garrard lost to Roaf I., provided a very pleasing three rounds. The final for the bantams had to be abandoned. Results : Weights Between Winner Heavies — Adamson and Moore I. — Adamson Light Heavies — Morres and Sanderson — Morres Middle— Neel and Cotton— Cotton Light — Osier II. and Schwengers — Osier II. Feather- — Roaf I. and Garrard — Roaf I. Best Loser ' s Cup — Slade Page Nineteen

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Student — Perhaps in the throes of the. French Revolution Louis XVI. ' s death was not attended by that peace and lov- ing-kindness which he may have looked for to surround his last days, but we do not agree that he was gelatined. Lover of Peace — Yes, the noise, as you call it, which emanates frcm the Common Room on Thursdays is author- ized — your request for a sound-proof room has aroused a feeling of dull resentment in local musical circles. Sportsman — Psyche was not the name of the black boxer who fought Carpentier. Everyone knows it was Siki. This is an old joke anyway ; it ' s almost a chestnut. Financier — Yes, perhaps you ' re right ; but would you say that a perfectly sound officer, after only a week-end visit to the States, would be so influenced by this business atmos- phere of America that on his return bought $800 worth of dry goods with his assets — or was it a deficit? standing at $7? A LETTER FROM FORM I. For some time Form I. has watched with anxious sym- pathy the troubled aspect of the Editor. It saw that his goat had apparently been got, but it knew not how, until a lumor came to its ears that a new star was to appear over Shawnigan, a literary light which was to shed its searching- beams upon Shawnigan Lake School and all that therein is. In short, that the unfortunate man was to be held responsible for the punctual appearance of a magazine of the highest class and most aesthetic type, and that he would be expected to write most of its contents. When Form I. was informed of the Editorial perturba- tion, it understood that matter at once. It has done things like that itself. It has often been compelled by an unfeeling task-master to portray in words the deeds of Jaques Cartier, Samuel Champlain, and other long since dead and, therefore, useless persons ; and well it knows the anguish of the throes of literary composition and the still more agonizing conse- quences of failure. Well might the Editor walk with his mighty shoulders bowed, like the ancient Johnny whose name unpleasantly reminds the Form of maps ; and the Form is of the opinion that the gentleman with the geographical name, and the large-sized terrestial globe upon his shoulders has Page Twenty-one