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

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SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL MAGAZINE Anyone who visits Shawnigan Lake School with its lovely grounds, its beautiful buildings, its aesthetic provision for the comfort and welfare of the boys will realize, said the speaker, that the dictum of Juvenal : There is nothing a father will spend less on than the education of his son, could never be applicable to the parents who send their sons to this school. Hence it may be concluded that the parents believe with the speaker that the education of their boys is an important thing and one which they may even be ready to make sacrifices to obtain. In times like these, we may well ask whether we should not save the dollars it costs to send a boy to school : why we should keep him learning impractical things out of text books — and yet boys are kept at school because parents want to give them a chance in life, or for some other reason which indicates that parents do think that a school education is an important factor in modern life. While the prime considera- tion of every true citizen should be the development of the natural resources of the country, it must not be forgotten that at the head and far out in the front of the list of natural resources are the boys and girls of the country. It is for the development of these that parents are prepared to spend their substance. They believe in the importance of education because of what they may expect their boys to get out of it. They may expect that in a good school their boys shall have a good time — but that is not the reason why they send them to school. What they do expect is that their boys shall get the stamp of the school on them. The spirit of the school is what makes the school, is what boys get by attending the school, is the stamp of the school and the boys of this school have reason to be proud of their school stamp. The school stamp, said the speaker, has, like a coin, two sides, different yet equally important in the boy ' s life, when he is younger and when he is older. The one side of the school stamp is character, the other the ability to think. Character rather than book learning was what Cecil Rhodes wished in the choice of scholars for his foundation.

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SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL MAGAZINE Speech Day N Friday, July 1st, a large number of parents and visitors were present at the School for Speech Day. After the Water Sports were over, the prize-giving took place in the gymnasium. The Headmaster in his speech reviewed the activities of the School during the past year. The School had headed the private schools last year, when there were no failures in senior matriculation and only one out of eighteen in junior matricu- lation. Games had been satisfactory, the cricket being particularly successful, both Bradford and Dyson having been selected to play against the Australians at Victoria. Old Boys were beginning to do thi ngs of note, E. Mus- grave winning his degree as Bachelor of Commerce at McGill ; F. Bradley just missing winning the Diamond Sculls; J. Groves winning a half Blue at Cambridge ; and A. Best having had sculpture accepted by the Paris Salon. He congratulated Mr. M. H. Ellis on becoming head- master of Brentwood College after five years ' valuable work at Shawnigan, and gave additional instances that others appreciated his staff. He reported that Mr. C. H. Henniker had secured $345 for the cricket pavilion fund. He then introduced Professor H. T. Logan, department of classics, of the University of British Columbia, by whom the prizes were given away. Introducing his remarks, Professor Logan said that he had one or two thoughts about this business of a boy ' s edu- cation to leave with all his hearers, and he purposed to speak particularly of two aspects of education : its importance and its objects — what it tries to do and what may be expected of it.

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SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL MAGAZINE The other side of the stamp, however, is equally impor- tant, insisted Professor Logan, if boys are to take their place in the life of the day. In a good school, if they have been well taught, they will have learnt to think out things for themselves — and that is what, more than anything else, uni- versities try to teach their students. Parents, then, have a right to expect that their boys ' char- acters will be developed and that they will be trained to use their minds properly — and a boy who has been well started in both these respects had already won more than half the battle of life, asserted Mr. Logan. Lastly, education, in the strict sense, will not teach a boy to make money. The object of education is to teach a boy how to live, not how to make a living. And if a school, con- cluded the speaker, has succeeded in beginning that process for a boy, and beginning it well, it has done all that school education can be expected to do for him. PRIZE LIST, 1932 Form VII— I. M. D. Fox. Form VI — B. L. Robinson. Form V-A— R. H. Hyde. Form V-B— R. C. Hayden. Form IV— G. W. Reed. Remove A — J. A. Davis. Remove B — R. L. Macleay. Form III— R. A. Kerr. Form II— J. H. Budd. Form I — W. E. Ridewood. French — R. C. Hayden. Mathematics— I. M. D. Fox. General Progress I — D. E. Bradford. General Progress II — C. R. Day. Music (Sight Reading)— M. R. F. Oliver. Drawing (Mechanical) — C. J. Henniker.