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« Editorial » IN OFFERING to the small, but critical, circle of our readers the 1939 number of the School Magazine, we crave their sympathetic indulgence if they find that the new copy is somewhat restricted as compared with the fine effort of last year ; but we have to cut our coat according to the cloth. Now that the uneasy peace since Munich has been broken, and Canada, with the rest of the Empire, is once more at war, the School can hardly expect to escape all the consequences of such an upheaval. The first of these to affect us has been the loss of some valued members of the staff, who have joined the army. To these, together with all our Old Boys who are in the fighting services, we wish a speedy and safe return to civil life after the successful conclusion of the great crusade in which they are engaged. Our readers must not imagine that the School has been reorgan- ized to adapt itself to a war economy, or that its members have developed a Avar mentality to the exclusion of all activities proper to the conduct of such an institution. On the contrary, everything goes on a usual, and in the profound peace of Shawnigan Lake, and British Columbia in general, except for the occasional uniform seen on the streets, it is hard to realize that the co untry is at war at all, and man goes about his lawful business unmolested and unafraid. The year past has been memorable for other reasons, of which the visit of the King and Queen to Canada is the most noteworthy. For this unique occasion the School was given a long leave to enable us to see Their Majesties, and to show our loyalty to the Crown. This feeling seems to have been genuine and spontaneous, and we still are unable to solve the problem as to who saw the royal visitors the largest number of times, or who was nearest to the King, or, still more important, nearest to the Queen. Loyalty to the Crown is the binding force which unites the many and diverse parts of the Empire ; but the King, while he symbolizes in his own person the ideals of freedom, justice and fair-play for which the British Commonwealth stands, cannot preserve them without the co-operation of his subjects. It is the duty of the citizens of each state to hold fast to these ideals, and by ' collective pressure to force the government to base its policies on such ideals. In a school things are rather different. It would be obviously impossible for the Middle School, or for any other group, to dictate the management of the whole; but this does not imply that no boy should have a high standard of conduct because perhaps he feels unable to compel its general adoption by the prefects and the default- ers. There should be the same personal standard for all — clear-cut and unmistakable — unswerving loyalty to all good influences in the school, and uncompromising opposition to all harmful ones. The pursuit of such an ideal, though we may never measure up to its full [ 3 ]
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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine height, would be, for each who tries, an adventure of the spirit into new and unexplored regions of human usefulness. Two thousand years ago was born at Bethlehem the Child Christ. As a boy He worked at humble tasks in a carpenter ' s workshop. When the time came for Him to leave home, led by the clear vision of a better world, the fulfilment of which could be won only by His Own Sacrifice, He set out, not without gratitude and not without sorrow, to undertake the greatest spiritual adventure in the world ' s history. It is through such visions, renewed from age to age, that the slow evolution of the human race has been achieved, and, in the light of them shining through the long years between, man can still hope that, when the present tragic struggle is ended, the nations of the earth will at last find enduring peace. « Schoo l Notes » HE School Prefects this year are Yates Hickey, W. T. S. Pearce, R. H. Leir, H. C. Wilkinson, S. D. Ashby and A. B. Fleck. A Foundation Scholarship has been awarded to GL Spencer Elliott. Congratulations to all Matriculation Candidates, who did much better even than they anticipated, only one boy still having supple- mentals to take and he preferred a tour to England ; also to Doan Hartnell on successfully passing into the California Institute of Technology; to E. A. Wheeler, avIio passed with exceptionally good marks (there were 550 candidates, of which 166 were successful, and Wheeler was in the first 75) ; to T. N. K. Beard, who passed the Navy Entrance Examination and is now at Dartmouth. Tony Slater is now in H.M.S. Conway, and we all hope he will emulate the great successes of Robin Hayward, who has left and passed into Dartmouth. Our grateful thanks to many benefactors for their generous gifts, which include the much-needed new Boathouse, given by Mr. Hart- nell ; a mace which was originally presented in 1858 T)y the Imperial Government to the government of Vancouver Island, and for which we have to thank Mr. Bruce McKelvie ; a very fine Buffalo head, for which we are indebted to Mr. Grote Stirling, the Dominion Govern- ment and Mr. John Burns ; and to Mrs. Ripley, Mr. A. B. Ripley (who has just written to tell us of his engagement and approaching mar- riage in January), Mrs. Emma B. Stimson, Mr. L .A. Grogan, Dr. B. E. Mckells, Mrs. Groves, Mrs. P. A. Woodward and Mrs. Blanken- horn. The sinking of the Athenia came as a shock to the School which was mitigated only when we heard that Sir Richard and Lady Lake had reached Ireland in safety. And on Armistice Day we were able [ 4 ]
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