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

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SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL MAGAZINE annoying- part of this episode was that I had to write to my well-meaning relation, telling her how pleased I was with the gift, and how useful I knew it would be. We often read in advertisements of new fountain pens that never leak, that always run smoothly and that give us every pleasure to write with. I, personally, have never had the good luck to have a pen of this type. Every fountain pen I have ever had the misfortune to own has been unsatisfactory. If it does not leak, it will not write. I must have spent hours thumping it on a blotter, swinging it around in the air, filling and emptying it, in vain attempts to persuade it to write. The only one of these tricks it ever responds to is the swinging one. Then ink will suddenly gush out and spread itself in pretty blue patterns over the plaster. If it leaks the only thing to do is to leave it empty. In this case you spend hours in a fruitless search for ink, which is never where you saw it last. Pens that have nibs which do not suit your style are only an invention to increase your vocabulary. In fact, I would even say that they rival golf in that function, for it is as dis- concerting to try to write with an unfamiliar type of nib, as it is to miss a two-foot putt. If you like a fine nib you invariably get a thick one, and so spend hours turning it sideways and writing at every conceiv- able angle. Sometimes you find that by turning the nib around it will give satisfactory results. In these cases, however, after one month ' s use, the nib is worn right away. If you like a thick nib and get a fine one, you either t end the ends of the nib apart by pressing too hard on it, or you try to have the nib changed. Finding that both these methods fail, you resort to the old way — via the ash can. I am sure that the only satisfactory answer to the unsatis- factory fountain pen question is to write in pencil. — J. D. Noswal. 12

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SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL MAGAZINE What can we ask more of the world than this — Great Nature ' s endless store of beauteous things, To fill our minds with thoughts, and make our life Flow smoothly through a world of love and art, And help us rise above all common lust, To reach before we die a point as near Perfection as we may, who are the sons Of countless generations of the earth Since first sin came. Our duty ' tis to see Through life ' s wide window one thing, only this — See Beauty, nothing else, and rise to life Of perfect harmony and lasting love. — D. I. FOUNTAIN PENS No child of to-day is ever content to write with ordinary, satisfactory, smooth-running pens and pen nibs, but always looks forward to the day when he may scrawl ugly characters with a real fountain pen. No boy wishes to go through life without a watch, about the merits of which he may continually argue. It is the same with a fountain pen. In spite of the fact that he never really believes any of them to be satisfactory, yet he never tires of showing the superiority of the Parker over the ShearTer, or the ShearTer over the Waterman ' s as the case may be. I well remember the first fountain pen I ever had. It was a Christmas gift from a well-meaning and loving relation. The first thing I did, naturally, was to fill it with ink and to scrib- ble my name on anything- and everything, including paper, furniture, and the kitchen pots. Soon, however, it was for- gotten and put in my pocket as my attention was turned to other presents. When I remembered it later I drew it forth from a soggy and inkstained pocket, as it appeared that I had used the filler instead of the clip as a fastener. Seeing ink all over my hands I immediately dropped and broke the pen in two. The 11

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SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL MAGAZINE Football 1932-33 FOOTBALL throughout the school this season has been of a very fair standard. The first fifteen in particular has played very good football, being undoubtedly the strongest side that the school has yet produced, mainly due to the fact that it was composed almost entirely of boys who have learnt their football at the school in junior years. The forwards, though almost all newcomers to the team and so being inclined at first to play as indivdiuals rather than as a pack, soon settled down and developed into a very useful lot of players. Particularly noticeable is the way in which they back up any member of the team who has the ball, whether another for- ward or a three-quarter : as a result of these tactics, a large number of the tries were scored by forwards. The three- quarters are very quick off the mark, and quite good at seeing any opening that is offered. At the beginning of the season there was rather a tendency to get out of position and be too flat in attack, but latterly Dyson has always kept them well in position. The handling has been very good, a particularly fine exhibition being given during the match against Nanaimo, when a very greasy ball was handled perfectly by all the three- quarters before a try was scored on the opposite wing. The greatest weakness shown has been in falling on the ball, there has been some hesitation about this, and when done it was not done whole heartedly enough. To singl e out individuals would be impossible, when the side has played so well to- gether as a team, but mention should be made of Lake who has captained the side very well and has always given it a splendid example in his own hard work. He has been very well backed up by his vice-captain, Bradford, whose play at scrum-half has been very good indeed. The second fifteen has also had a good season. Forwards have been plentiful and their play has been of a very fair 13