St Michaels University School - Black Red and Blue Yearbook (Victoria, British Columbia Canada)

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The Mastev's r Tuesday Morning ranch Class The bell rings and everybody lines up after having a jolly good break Most of the boys groan as they enter the classfroom for two per' iods of French. Everybody goes to his desk and then the Master comes in and tells them to Be seated. Then he tears a number of pieces of foolscap into 'scraps' and tells the one he calls Useless , who seems well to know his nickname, to give them out. Then he writes a number of sentences on the board and bids the class transf late them into French. While the boys are working he wanders round to see how they are progressing. He comes to Useless , picks up his sscrap', looks at it right way up, wrong way up, sideways, all ways, and then asks what the language is meant to represent. Usef less declares that it is French, which is too much for the Master who -27-

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1f4 Mile Under 14. jones ii, O'Neil, Escobar. 1.14 2f5. 1f4 Mile Under 16. Sproule, Senior, Proudfoot. 1.06 2f5. Old Boys Race. G. Weiimaii. 13. 120 Yards. Hurdles Gpen. Field, Huff, Teagle. 17 445. 1f2 Mile Gpen. Field, Teagle, Boate. 2.29 15. Relay Race 400 yards. Wiiiiiers, The Gld Boys, G. Wenmaii, Rowe, Skillings, Leggat. 42. Sack Race. Senior. 1 Mile Open. Field, Nantes, Young ii. 5. '55 1f2. High jump Gpen. Jeanneret, Field, Spencer. 4'. 9 . High slump Under 16. Smith, Clarke, Proudfoot. 4'. SM. High .lump Under 14. Moilliett, Jones ii, Escobar. 3'. 11 . Braod jump Gpen. Teagle, Boyd i, Field. 16'. 10 1f2 . Broad Jump Under 16. Proudfoot, Smith, Senior. 13'. 4 1f2 . Broad jump Under 14. Jones ii, Young iii, Pike. 11'. 5 1f2 . Throwing the Cricket Ball. Spencer' 88 yards, 2 1f4 feet. CHAMPIONSHIPS. Since the reorganization of the School the Gld Boys have rallied to our assistance in a really splendid way, so that no school report would be complete without an acknowledgement of the work they have accomplished. In larger centres there are Regional Associaf tions. The parent body in Victoria has done an enormous amount of work on behalf of the school. They donated four cups on Sports Day, provided judges on many occasions, put up a Rugby Team, a Basket Ball Team, and ran the Incogs Cricket Club. We have in Victoria a group of Old Boys in whose minds the School is a very real thing. The real reason for going to school is to gain power and to learn how to use it. In this sense the schools are powerfhouses of physif cal, mental and spiritual power. The effectiveness of our country depends on the use that is made of these powerfhouses. Be known not only as good as your word, but a little better. I will now call on the Hon. Gordon Sloan, himself an Old Boy, the parent of a present boy, a Governor of the School, Attorney General for British Columbia, to address you. The list of Prize Wiiiriers was as follows : Vlth. Languagesg Massy ig English and History, Teagleg Math' ematics, jeanneretg Science, Spencer. Vth. First, Froudfoot. 2nd., Senior. IVth. First, Coe. 2nd., Soulsby. Srd., Usher. Shell. Upper, Young iii. Lower, Boyd ii. Scripture, Soulsby. Senior, Field. Intermediate, Sproule. Junior, Jones ii. CUQ6.,

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has practically decided on Early Arabic, and is dumbfounded at the suggestion that it is the language of Gaul. When deciphered the document is found to contain so many verily nonfFrench words that Useless is thoroughly bawled out , and working up from a diminf uendo of tears, bursts into the full fortissimo of a howl. At that an unfeeling form resorts to giggles and an infuriated Master ejects the fountain of tears from the room. Thereafter reigneth Peace. K. L. M. A Harmless Hoax During the early 80's I was at Bedford School whose Headmaster was james Surtees Phillpotts, he who raised our number from 25 0 to close on 1000 boys during his reign, , There were no movies in those days, but we small boys read Gaborieau's detective stories, Wild West , Dick Turpin's exploits and other hairfraising literature , either surreptitiously or openly. Near Bedford was Woburn Park where an immense hollow oak called Queen Katherine's Uak owing to its association with Henry VIII's first consort, spread its leafy limbs. After a picnic in the Park, I climbed this hollow trunk, carrying an old bottle, tightly corked, containing a scrawled piece of paper which read as follows: I, William Beveridge, hereby state that I murf dered Williani Smith on this spot, October 2, 1855. The bottle I wrapped in a dirty bit of cloth and pushed the recepf tacle well into one of the numerous holes which led from the centre to the outside of the bark. I left it for further discovery, casually telling my Mother of the incident. Two years afterwards I was met on the way to school by a friend who asked me if I had heard of the murder at Woburn Parkvr a guilty conscience caused me to avoid policemen and others of that ilk, as the ancient Gaffers of the village had been convened and the ground, inside and around the tree, had been overturned in the quest of Smiths body. The discovery of the bottle was due to the fact that a man had knocked down an owl on Queen Katherine's Oak, it had fallen into the hollow tree and then disappeared in one of the pockets. In his search for thc bird the yokel had happened on my precious bottle. On realizing the hubbub which her foolish son had caused, my mother communicated with the police and thus the matter ended. P. F. Begg,