Sydney Academy - Record Yearbook (Sydney, Australia)

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PRINCIPAL 'S MESSAG-E ' Students who read this, the Record for 1.950, will be interested to know that the students of the year 1900 also published a Record. Even then the Record was an institution of some year 's standing. The Academy of 1900 could well be proud of its initiaitive and enter- prise. The school was small. Twenty-two pupils were enrolled i11 Grade Ten. CThis year's enrolment is 258.D The Grade Eleven class numbered eight. QThis year's class numbers 211.5 T'here were no Grade Twelve students, but thirty-two students in Grade Nine were of the student body. Small though it was, the Academy of 1900 could publish a school paper that will bear compar- ison with this issue of 1950. Tfo students of today the year 1900 may seem incredibly remote in time, and the Academy of that year to have more in common with Plato 's Academy than with Sydney Academy of 1950. But I suspect that the student of 1900 was much like his mid-century counterpart. At any rate, I am sure the Editor of 1950 could rightly have written the following, taken from his predeccssor's Editorial written fifty years ago. It would be a good practice for our students to favour the Record with contributions to a greater extent, and not leave the whole work to be done by the Editors. The Editor of 1900 had something to say o11 Athletics. The following extract has a modern ring: I In Athletics we miss one- thing in particular. NVhen will we have a gymnasium? When will some enthusiast come forward and suggest, and agitate and get us a gymnasium? 'When indeed! And when will it cease to be argued, as a contributor of 1900 forcibly argued, that Apart from the physical, the intellectual training derived from football playing deserves notice. l like that phrase intellectual training as applied to football. The same contributor ends his article as follows: We had a very good team out of the Academy last year and the year Ibefore. There is no reason to believe that, witlisuch a large number of able-bodied students as we have this year, we should not have a still better team next summer. Let everyone play who can, there is no better cure on earth for that attack of the blues which are so liable to seize one after a long day 's grind in sclhool than a lively game of football. The sentiment, the grammar, the sentence structure - all alike point to the Academy student of 1950 as the probable author. But in truth the article was written by his grandfather, fifty years ago. One is reminded of an un- translatable French proverb ........ Plus ca change, plus c'est la 11161119 chose. Let us hope as we mark the half century that the year 2000 A. D. will find Academy students still playing football, still arguing that the game can provide intellectual training, and still making plans for next season's game. And - who knows? The Academy may by that time have a gym- nasium. ' Q S