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Our Band (With apologies to the shade of Lord Macauly) The Principal of Shawnigan, By the nine gods he swore That the great house of Lonsdale Should have an orchestrore. By the nine gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade the music stores send forth East and west, and south and north, For instruments to play. Soon sackbut, harp and psaltery, And things of fearful shape, And fiddles of enormous size, With strings on which to scrape; And clarionets and flutes and horns, And anything for sale From which a sound could be produced, Came crowding in the mail. Then up spake our Headmaster, A flautist bold was he: Oh! who will stand on my right hand, And play the bass with me? So then were nights of wailing, As the band got under way, Each striving hard to burst himself Before the concert day. But, lo! the band begins to play; The concert has begun. We cannot, even if we would, Open the doors and run. No sound of joy or sorrow Is heard on either hand; But friends and foes, in dumb surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stand gazing at the band. 24
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ably carried it through, but also to those who lent iheir cars and services as drivers, as well as our hostess of the Island Hall, even if they have to split an infinitive to so do. It is rumoured that Campbell River Falls or Banff may be selected for 1925, but the author would like to suggest Wembley, if it reopens, as being more educative and suitable to the day. Examination Results S. E. Morres took his Senior Matric and successfully entered the R. M. C. in September. Townsend Moore passed into Tacoma University. J. H. B. Watson passed the Junior Matriculation. J. K. Halley, W. G. Roaf, J. L. Roaf and J. D. Ross took the Department Examination and passed into third year High School. R. R. Alexander and R. Hodgson passed into second year. The best marks were obtained by J. L. Roaf (80%) , and Watson (78%). July 2nd came too soon after the Exams for us to feel energetic enough to have a formal Prize Day with all its mul- titude of arrangements and expenses. The Head gave us his usual happy and unvarnished crit- icism for the past year and then gave away the prizes. A notable feature of the Sports was a long-distance swim- ming race across the lake for a cup given to us by Mrs. F. Crisp. PRIZE LIST Form VI. — Watson. Form I. — Deming. Form V. — Roaf ii. French — Watson. Form IV. — Hodgson. Maths — Hodgson. Form III. — Griffith. Music — Malkin. Form II. — Wace. Gen. Progress — Barnard. Reading — Neel. Efficiency — A. Macdonald, Neel, Neel. Photography — Lake i. Natural History Collection— Moore ii. Long Distance Swimming — Alexander ii. Snap Shooting — Roaf i. Dormitory Shield No. 1 — Crisp ii. 23
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The audience darted forward, The orchestra fell back; When suddenly beneath their feet, They felt the timbers crack. But with a crash like thunder, Fell every loosened sill; We nearly lost our band that time, But no! they ' re playing still. M. A. E. Answers to Correspondents F.H.T.B.— No, we think you are mistaken. An optimist is not necessarily a man who mends glasses, nor is a pessimist a man who puts on a pair of braces and wears a belt as well. Motorist — We quite agree with your idea, but believe there is no truth in the rumour that 1925 Fords are to be fitted with a device to show which way they are going; still, of course, the Buena Vista is quite a steep hill. Sportsman — We think you must have been attend ng too many baseball matches. A refugee is not a man who keeps order at a football match. Neither, for that matter, is a bliz- zard the inside of a hen, as somebody tried to inform us the other day. T. W. — No; to find the area of a floor, you must do some thing more than add the four walls; besides, what hap- pens if the windows are open? Anyway, you will probably agree with our correspondent, who tells us that a problem is a figure which you do things with, which are absurd and then prove them. Worried — No; Sodom and Gomorrah were not des- troyed by brimstone and treacle; on the contrary we are assured on the best authority that brimstone and treacle, if taken in proper quantities, might have done the citizens of these two cities quite a lot of good. Hunter — No; the shooting season for clarionet and cor- net players has not been declared open yet. We don ' t mind saying that we have laid in a large stock of shells, and believe that good bags will be obtained near the music room shortly after dusk. 25
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