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

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SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL MAGAZINE Speech by Headmaster of Harrow HAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL was honoured on Sunday, April 27th, by a visit from three of the party of British Headmasters, who attended morning service in the School Chapel. Dr. Cyril Norwood, Headmaster of Harrow, preached the sermon, and the lessons were read by Mr. H. Grose-Hodge, Headmaster of Bedford, and Mr. Frank Fletcher, Headmaster of Charterhouse. In the course of his sermon Dr. Norwood gave an account of the origin of Harrow. Set on a little hill you may look one way to St. Paul ' s and the other to Windsor Castle. There, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, a farmer, who farmed two farms in the neighbourhood, thought it well that a little school should be built for the boys of the neighbourhood. He left his two farms for that purpose, and so a small school was built on the top of that hill. It had few resources. There was very little endowment, and yet it grew as the centuries went on and came to be largely bound up, through its boys, with English history. Among the boys were Sheridan, Byron, Peel, Palmerston, Stanley Baldwin, Cardinal Manning, and Randall Davidson. He said, Why do I tell you this? Don ' t think I am boast- ing. It is because it was a little school, and no one could have seen its great future ; because it is a school built into the ages and maintained by its own old boys. It was created by its sons. Dr. Norwood stated that Harrow owed its great chance to the fact that it was near London. You are far away, he went on, but wealth and power are moving over the At- lantic. Your school is in the dawning of its days and no one knows what it may grow into two or three hundred years hence. 28

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SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL MAGAZINE CHAPEL FUND Statement of Receipts and Expenditures Receipts Balance as per last Balance Sheet, Nov. 30, 1929 $ 397.04 Offertories 520.32 Donations 13,15 Donation from Strathcona School 100.00 Interest 1.57 Deficit 18.50 $1,050.58 Expenditures Synod. Offertory Dec. 1st, 1929 $ 23.41 General Expenses 149.36 Repayments on Loan 625.00 Hymn Books 27.75 Organ Tuning 30.00 Cleaning 23.95 Wire Mats 1 1 1 .08 Portfolios for Music 6.83 Synod. Dues for half year 100.00 Cassocks 53.20 $1,050.58 Liabilities Loan $1,031.60 27

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SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL MAGAZINE Everything will depend on the faith with which you build and the truth of the ideals you fo ' llow. You are builders. If I had chosen a text it would have been, ' Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but lost that build it. ' I have not been here long, but I have seen that you are builders, putting up your own buildings, making your own cricket and foot- ball grounds. In the same way, said Dr. Norwood, the boys had to be builders first of themselves. The youngest of them knew that inside him were instincts towards good and evil. He had the power of will, of choice. He could exercise that choice by hav- ing standards. What was he to judge by? There is a temptation to judge by what you can get for yourself at school or when away, by the dollar and all it can buy. You may think that education is something which has a cash value here. It is hard to escape from it because nine-tenths of life is getting enough to eat and build a house and meet material cares. All these things money can buy. The more you have the less there is for anybody else to have. He asked the boys to consider this in their own hearts. He said that each one wanted to be good, wanted to know the truth, disliked ugliness, desired the beautiful. Truth, goodness, beauty are in the hearts of all of you. These I want you to follow — rather than the dollar. The more you have of them the more there is for everybody else. The better they were, he went on, the better for everybody else, for the school and for all who come after. That is Christ ' s teaching, the teaching we are trying to follow in the schools of the Old Country. The reason you honour truth, goodness, beauty is that each of you is human and divine. You have a bodily nature but your spirit is akin to God. Those values you can not help turning to are spirit- ual values and this life is not all ; but the stage is set etern- ally. That is the religion not only of the school but the true religion Christ came on earth to teach us.