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

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine HOUSE NOTES RIPLEY ' S— During the past year we have excelled ourselves and, incidentally, the other Houses, the House Table groaning audibly under the weight of the result of our prowess. At the end of last Christmas Term our House XV battled its way to victory against Groves ' , due largely to the superhuman efforts of the forwards, Taylor, Paterson and Murphy winning their House Colours. Smith is to be congratulated on being awarded his 1st XV Colours this year. In the Easter Term we showed the good old English bulldog ' s spirit by winning five of the seven weights and the Good Loser ' s Cup in the Boxing Tournament. It seems also that the Spirit of Chivalry is not altogether latent in us, as Murphy, after several goodly cut and thrust encounters, won the Junior Fencing Tournament. We also made a killing in the Sports, Mackie winning the Senior Sports Cup, Murphy the Middle and Spencer the Junior. The total points for the House were considerably higher than the other Houses, thus winning the Sports Cup. We were not, however, so successful in the sculling department, losing the Cutter race to Lake ' s and the Shell race to Groves ' . In the House cricket we won a decisive victory over Groves ' , winning the cup for the fourth year in succession. We congratulate Taylor and Paterson on being awarded their House Cricket Colours and Moore on his 1st XI Colours. Newton won the Sportsmanship Cup and Mackie the Efficiency Cup. We arrived at the School at the end of the summer holidays to find that Tupper I and Mackie had forsaken us in favour of U.B.C., and that we should have to behave this year as, in addition to Niven I, who had succeeded Mackie as Head of the House and of the School, those stern pillars of law and order, Oakes, Reynolds, Newton and Taylor, had been appointed prefects. Paterson, Moore and Smith, being house prefects, completed our P.D. Nowadays, it seems that one can hardly stir a foot without treading on a Prefect somewhere. It is with great regret that we hear that Mr. Trotman, our assistant House Master, is leaving us at the end of this term. It will indeed seem strange to have, after three years of Mr. Trotman, some one else initiate us into the mysteries of fr Vcni, Vidi, Vici, Acta non Verba, etc. We wish him all success in his future life and sincerely hope that we shall hear from him often. LAKE ' S— This year we returned to find our prefectorial staff reduced almost to nil by the departure of Davis I, Wilson I, Gregory and Smith. This year our six House Prefects, Crofton, Holland, Day II, Davis, Oldham and Cooper, are running the house as we have no School Prefect. Our Rugby results were not as good as we had hoped for, since our fifteen was beaten by Groves ' in the first round of the House matches by a score of 11-0. Disappointing as the result was, our team played very well and Day II, — 23 —