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

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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.

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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 Reading (Bishop ' s Prize) — J. F. Lake. Sportsmanship Cup — P. S. Mallam. Efficiency Cup (Michaelmas and Summer) — J. F. Lake. Inter-House Sports Cup — Ripley ' s and Copeman ' s (a tie). Form I Race— O. B. McDonald. Old Boys ' Race — A. Playfair. MATRICULATION EXAMINATIOINS The following took the Departmental Examinations suc- cessfully in 1932 : Senior— E. A. Riddell, D. E. Bradford. Junior — R. F. Pearce, D. B. Savage, B. L. Robinson, C. H. Hyde, D. C. S. Barker, J. R. Doull, M. P. Larsen, D. J. Lawson, G. A. Pownall, P. N. T. Skrimshire, M. G. Stirling. LOOK THROUGH LIFE ' S WINDOW Look through the window, and the scene A placid, wondrous beauty holds, That charms the eye, and quiets the soul. Against the cloudless perfect sky the trees Hang in a lofty wall of green, which glows With the rich late sunshine striking down ; And many a soft shadow, or a gap Of palest blue blends perfectly, to form A pattern not outdone by Persia ' s best, And costing nought, for it is always there To be enjoyed, and no smooth merchant Makes profane its glorious shroud with talk Of money and exchange. The topmost branches Reach their stems towards the blue, as if They were uplifted to do honour to the sun Who clothes them in their cloak of light. Their soaring height gives majesty to all The view; their great trunks ' firmness lends An air of power : they glory in their strength. 10