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

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine museum, photography, radio, et cetera. We hope to do our own printing and there will be a classroom for illustrating where illustration is desirable. For many of the ideas to be attempted in the future, we are most grateful to the Headmaster of Bembridge School in the Isle of Wight and to the great interest shown by Mr. Kyle of the Department of Physical Education. A forge is now in use and we hope to add shortly the practice of pottery. To quote the words of Mr. Whitehouse, Head Master of Bembridge School: Manual activities — using these words in their widest sense to embrace art and craftsmanship — should not be regarded as trivial extras or as pastimes for young children, but should be given a place of honour in every school as in every other community, and should be recognized as definite instruments of noble education. LECTURES ON WEDNESDAY evenings during the Easter term, instead of preparation the Upper School listened to a series of informal talks on a variety of sub- jects and had a debate with Strathcona. On January 24th, Ira Dilworth, Esq., spoke on Why Read Poetry? His conclusion was that if poetry was left out it was impossible to live life to the full. Mr. Dilworth began by giving Wordsworth ' s own definition of a poet, that he was a man speaking to men, but one who felt things more deeply: a man who wrote about the everyday things of life, but with an ability to give them an added glamour which the ordinary man could not in his description of them. To illustrate his points Mr. Dilworth read extracts from Wordsworth and from several modern poets. But apart from what Mr. Dilworth had to say and the poems he read, his talk would have been worth listening to if only to hear his command of English, which in itself was almost poetry. Count Jean de Suzannet on January 31st lectured on France and Her Foreign Policy. The speaker outlined the conditions that govern the foreign policy of his country and showed particularly how they differed from those of other coun- tries in that the background of the mass of the people, and hence of her rulers, is rustic. Her population is bourgeois, that is, a people possessing substantial savings, whose ideal is to own land. France is a land of plenty and is to a large extent independent of outside markets. France is not an industrial country; forty-five per cent of her workers are agricultural, while thirty per cent are engaged in industry. Moreover, France is a democratic country; life is governed by the rights of man and of citizens. One of the rights of man is resistance to oppression, hence, what savours of personal power is put down. The policy of France is not imperialistic; she is not seeking expansion, but she is tenacious of what is her own. She is acutely conscious of the ambitions of her neighbours; therefore she feels that her advantages in the matter of armaments must not be surrendered until there is some international guarantee of peace. France believes in the League of Nations because she believes in the equality

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine of hundreds of thousands of others less fortunate than they. They must remember that to whom much is given, of him much will be required. PRIZE LIST, JUNE, 1934 Form VII— P. F. Pullen Form II— L. R. Musgrave Form VI — J. R. Maybee General Progress I — A. R. Guthrie Upper Vth— D. F. H. Corbett, F.S. General Progress II — P. C. Musgrave Lower Vth— C. R. Day, Exh. Reading— J. F. Mackie Form IV — C. T. Corse Efficiency (Michaelmas) — J. F. Mackie Remove — R. M. Day Efficiency (Lent)— J. F. Mackie Form III — W. E. Ridewood Efficiency (Summer)— J. F. Mackie Sportsmanship Cup — G. W. Reed EXAMINATIONS The examination results were again very satisfactory. Nine boys wrote the complete examination from Form VI, seven of whom passed, with an average of 77.7 ( [ , the boys who passed being: J. I. Bird, W. B. Hyde, R. L. Lake, G. W. Reed, A. Wilson, P. E. M. Helliwell, J. R. Maybee. Six members of the Upper Vth Form decided to sit for the Matriculation Examination. G. F. Mackie passed, the others, as was expected, failed. Four boys took partial examinations. j. R. Maybee came top of our candidates, obtaining over S0 f ( in six subjects. SCHOLARSHIPS The Foundation Scholars this year are: D. P. Oakes, D. F. H. Corbett, J. D. C. Holland, and R. G. Reynolds. Exhibitioners this year are: R. B. Hay ward, R. L. Lake, G. W. Reed, J. W. Reynolds, and C. R. Day. THE HOBBY SHOP IN THIS issue of the magazine we reproduce a photograph of the new Hobby Shop. The building is the outcome of an idea to enable the boys to have somewhere in which to utilize their leisure time in an effort to do something of a creative nature. It is at present, of course, unfinished inside, and even when finished will be used more or less experimentally, but there is no doubt that it is possible to stress the academic side or education or the organized games too much and there is no question that arts and crafts should be valued instru- ments of intellectual education. The scheme should develop into a valuable branch of education which will enable a boy to develop his own personality, to discover a real interest through his own activities, and to enable him in later years to have a hobby which will enrich his whole after life. One room is to be devoted to machine work and gradually, we hope, will develop so that a boy may take the Provincial Government ' s Manual Training Course in Metal. Another room is to be used for woodwork, including wood- carving. There is space allotted for clay-modelling, a biology laboratory and

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine of all nations; she does not believe that the great powers should control the smaller nations. France is all that remains today in Continental Europe of democratic policy and ideal. B. C. Nicholas, Esq., on February 7th took as his subject The History of the Newspaper, briefly outlining its development from its origin in the hiero- glyphics of the caveman carved on rock, through the news-letter and Acta Diurna of Julius Caesar to the newspaper of today. He then went on to give some account of the machinery by which the modern paper can be printed at the rate of from thirty to sixty thousand copies an hour, and of the methods by which the news of the day is collected, illustrating also how quickly it is now possible to transmit photographs by means of radio transmission. A most instructive and entertainingly delivered lecture, at the conclusion of which Mr. Nicholas showed copies of newspapers as printed in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. On the afternoon of February 19th, 1934, Don Mario Colonna favoured the school with a surprise lecture on Italy. Giving us a succinct and clear account of the origin, growth and spread of Fascism, he went on to assure us that the Fascism of the early ' 20 ' s had died years ago. New ideas derived from the corporate state which II Duce had built up on the ruins of the war and the peace, had now displaced the original doctrines of Fascism. The corporate state, the co-operative state — that was the clue to present-day Italy. Though anxious to assure us he was making an apology for Italy and in no way advocating our adoption of her principles, yet that infectious salute Don Mario gave as he triumphantly descended the rostrum was significant, methinks, that he felt inwardly he could say — with the great Caesar he so closely resembled in feature and profile — Vent, vidi, vici. On February 21st L. A. Grogan, Esq., outlined for us the work which was covered by anyone who entered upon the career of a Chartered Accountant, showing that accountancy was not only a matter of dealing in figures, but that it gave scope for assisting businesses and institutions to trace their losses, thus fulfilling the two mottoes, Recte numerare and Plurimis prodesse vult. Having attained matriculation standing, the apprentice need only be conversant with simple arithmetic and study Macaulay so that his English may also be simple and lucid. The requirements for another profession were outlined for us on February 2 8th, when Judge Lampman spoke on Law. Only a graduate of a recognized university could be enrolled, and he then had to be articled to a lawyer for three years, in the course of which he took three examinations. Even then a lawyer had not finished his studying, as almost every case he handled led to more. (Here the Judge unwittingly cited an unfortunate example in speaking of the School Tractor.) Judge Lampman then went on to speak of criminal law, revealing him- self as an advocate of capital punishment: discussing t he aims of punishment: showing how maladministration of justice resulted in mob law and lynching: condemning third degree methods as practised in the States: proving that a counsel has a perfect right to defend a man he knows to be guilty: and plead- ing for a correct use of the word alibi. Wild Life in B. C. was the illustrated lecture given by F. Kermode, Esq., on March 14th. Actually Mr. Kermode covered a very much wider field.