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

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine Stewardship is the one great lesson to be learnt by all boys. For life itself is a stewardship, and it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful. Your school is an off-shoot, a younger branch of the original nine Great Public Schools. It has the same ideals of training. Ideals which inspired Wellington to say that ' The battles of England are won on the playing fields of Eton and it holds a place in national and Imperial life which gives everyone who passes through it a start- ing-place of which he should not only be proud, but thankful. It is a privilege to have the advantage of such a School. You already have Old Boys who have made their mark and of whom the School is justly proud. They have taken the spirit of the School with them which will be felt by others with whom they come in contact. You have the spirit of the old Public Schools of England among you, handed down by forefathers. It is this for which your School stands, namely, to carry on that spirit so that it may be handed down ; to teach boys to be loyal and faithful ; to play for the side and not for self, which is tantamount to putting duty before pleasure, and to give of their best without expectation of material reward so that when they go out into the world they may do things with the right spirit. So, in order that the trust be handed down, let us all who have the welfare of the School at heart realize our responsibility and stewardship and strive for the greater honour of the School by help- ing to create that spirit of loyalty and devotion to the School which in the days to come will become a tradition. Sir Percy Lake, Chairman of the Board of Governors, thanked Colonel Slater for his speech. FORM PRIZES Form VII— C. R. Day. Form IV— G. E. B. Nixon. Form VI — W. N. Bell. Remove A — M. Rattray. Form VU — J. P. Ogilvie. Remove B — O. J. A. Cavenagh. Form VL — A. B. Hammond. Form III — G. Archer. Bishop of Columbia ' s Reading Prize — R. M. Day. Efficiency Cup: Michaelmas Term — J. G. Mven. Lent Term — Summer Term — J. W. Reynolds. SPORTS Junior Sports Cup — O. J. A. Cavenagh. Middle Sports Cup— G. D. Fix. Senior Sports Cup — D. F. J. Mcintosh. Senior Tennis Cup — A. R. Smith. Junior Tennis Cup — A. B. Fleck. House Rowing Cup — Groves ' . House Sports Cup — Ripley ' s. Sportsmanship Cup — A. R. Smith. — 10 —

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine It may be of interest to some of you to know how our Public Schools of England came into being. England had in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries a number of Grammar Schools endowed by philanthropic individuals for the purpose of providing free education for poor boys. The education of boys whose parents were well-to-do or whoi belonged to the aristoc- racy was provided by tutors and by Palace schools. With the break- down of the feudal system these schools, i.e., these old Gramar Schools admitted paying pupils, and so popular did some of them become that their status of free schools was all but lost. Nine of them took on the character that caused them later to be called ' The Great Public Schools. ' That is, Public in the sense that they prepared boys for the service of the State, and that enrollments were not entirely drawn from local sources, but rather from a wider area. ' The Great Public Schools ' included Winchester, Eton, West- minster, St. Paul ' s, Merchant Taylors, Shrewsbury, Charterhouse, Rugby and Harrow. In those schools we have the beginning of our Public Schools in England. Winchester was the first, founded originally as a grammar school in 1382, over 550 years ago. Eton came next, founded by Henry VI in 1410, and somewhat naturally became the school to which sons of the aristocracy went. Harrow and Rugby, founded as local free Grammar Schools, came in time to draw boys not only from all England, but also from every region under the British flag. These Great Public Schools developed a distinctive type of character training both through their sports and through the train- ing in manners which boys received from the traditional esprit-de- corps of their particular school. And there we have probably the most potent reason for the popu- larity of the English Public School system of training shown collect- ively by the numerical growth of such institutions and individually by the esprit-de-corps of individual schools which has become traditional. The meaning of tradition, or, at any rate, one meaning is ' The transmission of any opinion or practice from forefathers to descend- ants by oral communication, without written memorials. ' The esprit-de-corps of a school is the trust to which the Dean of Rochester refers, and which is so important to foster and encourage in order that it may be handed down. The responsibility for this rests on parents and on Old Boys as much as it does on the governing body, on the Head Master and his staff ' , and on the boys present at the School. This is the stewardship as far as an individual school is concerned.

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine EXAMINATIONS At the end of the year the School entered five boys for Senior Matriculation. Of these, four passed in all subjects and the fifth was accepted for entrance to the Royal Military College at Kingston. Ten boys entered for Junior Matriculation. Nine passed in all subjects, and the tenth has now passed all his supplemental. One boy won a Scholarship to Harvard University, another a Scholarship at Alberta University. One boy has entered the Univer- sity of Manitoba, two the University of Washington, one the Cali- fornia Institute of Technology, and four the University of British Columbia. The ten boys who passed their Junior Matriculation were : N. A. W. Bell, F. D. L. Crofton, F. H. Davis, B. L. Fowler, A. Gardner, J. D. C. Holland, D. F. J. Mcintosh, P. J. Paterson, A. S. Rendell, and J. P. Torland. The four boys who passed Senior Matriculation were : C. R. Day, D. P. Oakes, J. W. Reynolds, and F. H. C. Taylor. John Oldham has been accepted for entrance to the Royal Mili- tary College, Kingston. D. P. Oakes won a Freshman Scholarship to Harvard University. J. W. Reynolds won a Scholarship at Alberta University. MILESTONES THE senior division showed a marked improvement in the delivery and organization of their speeches. The topics chosen were ex- tremely varied, and almost all were interesting. Some of the speakers who may be given particular mention were: Davis, who dealt with Sulphur Mining ; Day ii, whose topic was the Dodo ; Day i, with his advice on buying a second-hand car, and Bell, who spoke about dia- monds and diamond cutting. Hicks gave a very carefully prepared talk about the aeroplane flight over Mt. Everest, and Hartnell illu- strated his account of the Chevrolet assembly plant by means of a plan of the works. Possibly the most effective of all was McCreery ' s explanation of Colour-printing films. This was well-organized, with clear diagrams, and was a really interesting explanation of a tech- nical process. Several quite good speeches, as well as those mentioned, were delivered by other members of the division. The Middle School is also showing an improvement over last year. This is largely due to increased confidence gained by experience. Fewer of the speeches have been obviously learned by heart and greater care has been taken in selecting interesting subjects. The best were The Russian Polar Empire by Derby, The Great Trek of the Chinese Communist Army by Forrest, Blood Transfusion by Fraser, and Modern methods of setting broken wrists by Gandossi. — 11 —