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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine EDITORIAL » IN the Library there is an insignificant little green book, which is probably not taken off the shelf from year ' s end to year ' s end. It contains the letters, written forty years ago, of a merchant to his son. The father was a self-made man, having acquired his wealth by transforming pigs into bacon, hams and sausages at the Chicago stockyards. The first letter in the book is the one he wrote to his son when the latter went into residence at Harvard, where there was plenty of education to be got, and he urged his son not to be bashful when it was handed round, but to reach out and take a big helping; for education was the one thing lying around loose in the world that a fellow could have as much of as he was willing to haul away. The father ' s views become even more interesting as the letter proceeds. The first thing that any education ought to give a man is character, and the second thing is education. . . . I ' m anxious that you should be a good scholar, but I ' m more anxious that you should be a good clean man. And if you graduate with a sound conscience, I shan ' t care so much if there are a few holes in your Latin. There are two parts of a college education — the part that you get in the schoolroom, and the part that you get outside it. That ' s the really important part. For the first can only make you a scholar, while the second can make you a man. To the majority in British Columbia today the first function of a school is to pass boys through their matriculation, people being under the delusion that their children, having attained this standing, are educated. This year Shawnigan Lake School passes its twenty-first birthday. For twenty-one years this School has been passing boys through matriculation with increasingly higher results, which will stand comparison with any school in the Province. But matriculation has never been the sole objective. As this is a boarding school, the members of it, masters and boys, are thrown very much together outside the classroom, so that the part of education which boys derive from a community life is also developed — a side of their education often too little appreciated by them whilst actually at school. And it is true to say that for twenty-one years the primary aim and object of this School has been to give boys character: to enable them to graduate as men and gentlemen.
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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine His Majesty King George V. 44 T HAVE just heard the tragic news over the radio. ' The King is dead — long J- live the King! ' For over an hour I have been listening to the bulletins from London every few minutes. To us in Canada his passing means a great deal but to England it means an irretrievable loss. He was admired and revered but above all loved by every Englishman, Liberal or Conservative, rich or poor — they all loved him as a son loves a father. I do not think I will ever forget the sight or sound of two hundred thousand people singing ' God Save the King, ' as we heard it at the Military Review. We in Canada loved our King but not with the same intensity that he was loved in England. I have always been rather inclined to scoff at the rather demonstrative feelings towards him — until I saw and heard it at first hand and, believe me, it brought tears to my eyes, as it did tonight to hear the deep concern in the voices of the English announcers during the earlier bulletins, and the genuine emotion in their voices when they an- nounced the passing of the world ' s greatest monarch. The British Empire, the whole world, in fact, has good reason to be in mourning. ' The King is dead — long live the King! ' Fatal words but so true to the British characteristic of ' carry on! ' So Edward VIII takes over the reins of office with all the attendant worries and responsibilities. He succeeds to the throne at an awkward time in the history of the world. May he be as good a ruler as his father before him. (Extract from an Old Boy ' s Letter.) — 6
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