Timmins High and Vocational School - Porcupine Quill Yearbook (Timmins, Ontario Canada)

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37 - The PORCUPINE QUILL - To her amazement it turned a most beautiful blue. She was elated and set off happily to the ball. . 4 Miss PbCNO372 had been same dimculty as her friend. was old and shabby, but her father absolutely refused to buy her a new one. Mrs. Gossip, helpful in every emergency, suggested that she send it to the KI cleaners. Miss PbCN03J2 was really astounded at the transformation. Her dress had changed to a glimmering yel- low, and it made a very pleasing contrast to her white wig. The Florence Flask was Fairyland! The crystal gleaming in the light showed all the tints of the rainbow. PbCNO3D2 was mvore admired than ever and Miss CuSO4 was in a whirl of happiness. But before the end of the evening she became very sad. 'I'he colour was gradually 'fading from her gown! She danced harder than ever, but as she danced the colour faded visibly, and to her mortiflca- tion, all eyes were turned on her. She went home like Cinderella, humiliated and heavy- hearted at the sudden change in her finery, in much the Her dress, too, all unaware that her escort Water was sadly tagging along behind. For most of his guests Mr. CuO's party was a very happy oneg and when the host saw O's smiling face he was very glad the party had been so successful. EVELYN LUCAS Shakespeare Comments on the Lab. How much doth chemistry enthrall this class! Here do we sit, and let the sound of symbols Creep in our earsg test-tubes and crucibles Begin to rattle with sweet harmony. Sit, chemists: Look, how the floor of twenty- one Is thickly stained with vile experiments: There's not the smallest stain which thou beholds't But of sulphuric and explosions sings, Still quiring to the maz'd, bewildered Fifthg Such harmony is in the laboratory g But whilst this sad demand for note-books neat Doth clamor loud within, We Cannot Hear It. M. A. E. Scene VIII: THE 250-FOOT LEVEL Literatures work with us is to make us awake and aware: and not only awake and aware, but highly responsive also. Great Literature . . . wakes desires you may never forget, Shows you stars you never saw before. Our School Library All the students of our school are very proud of the school library, and most of them are fond of it. Although the number of books is not as ex- tensive as at the public library. yet the books are so well chosen that, for students, more pleasure and education can be obtained from these few books, than from the larger cal- lection of books at the public library. How 'pleasant it is for tired students who have had seven or eight long periods to come to the restful atmosphere of the library! Here, they may read light fiction to rest their tired brains 5 they may look over some of the illustrated magazinesg or they may read some serious book on science, biography, or travel. It is very interesting sometimes, to sit back in ones chair and look at the expressions on the faces of students who are reading in our library. Where their minds are travelling one cannot know, but it is certain that they are very far away. So our school library is not only a place where we may rest from text books, but is also the starting point of our voyages through space to distant lands, and of adventures which cannot be ours in any other way. JACQUES SAUVE Don't miss the fun in the advertising section.

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1, i t X 'asa fN NX MW Zflfl SSE! Ea EQ mknexff us 3 - 3 . fi--fffial-. - .n n ,ffA - ., f- ,y-- ,I-,ll lvl - ,,...- if S X: ' - - f- jf. I ..1lA VJNEAQ--4: JL-- .. is - .. f e . if e l -- gg -. - an if ' f ifgff . o I , TQ gg uri ang -Q -l i- f i f . , 'f tgp ,, A Message to Science Students of T. H. stV. S. from Mr. E. L. Longmore, Superintendent of Surface Workings Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines The fundamentals which underlie real and lasting suuccess are, character, judgment, average mental ability, imagination and sus- tained enthusiasm. Character includes integrity and steadfast- ness of purpose, the courage to face disagree- able facts and hostile opinions, the grit and perseverance to overcome obstacles, and the generosity of disposition that induces willing co-operation. Judgment implies the ability to appraise, to discriminate between things that are of pri- mary a.nd those that are of secondary impor- tance, and by deduction to arrive at sound conclusions. Mental ability is given third place, because without the two preceding fundamentals, in- tellect produces little of lasting value. Aver- age mental ability is stipulated because a 'i' youth, possessed of an exceptionally keen intellect, finding mental concentration un- necessary- is deprived of that discipline which results from diligent mental application alone. Natural brilliance of mind can not compensate for such lack of discipline. Without imagination no advance is possible. The vision of what might be must precede achievement. Sustained enthusiasm is necessary to in- duce the required co-operation without which no work of any magnitude can be accom- plished. Eminence and success are not synonymous terms. The fundamentals enumerated above apply to those achievements which contri- bute to the general good and not only to the credit of the individual. E. L. LONGMORE Scene VII: T HE 1000-FOOT LEVEL Life is not a science, but science is for life. -Herbert Spencer Mr. Copper Oxide Entertains After Cu's marriage to O in the Combus- tion Tube Church where Heat was the pre- siding minister, O became very sad when she remembered her first husband Hydrogen. Cu himself was feeling black and pulverized and wanted to have a party to cheer up both. Now, the best place in which to give that party would be the Beaker Ball Room. But as Cu had met his wife in the Florence Flask Hotel he decided to hold his party there. So many of his own and O's acquaintances had to be asked that he really d.idn't know where to beging but neither his cousin, Miss CuSO4 nor her friend Miss FbfNO3J2 must be for- gotten. Miss CuSO4 was quite thrilled with the thought of a partyg only, she would have to wear her old dress and it was such a queer tone-greyish White. The onlyzthing for her to do was wash it. She did very carefully.

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38 l.l The PORCUPINE QUILL i LIBRARIAN S Behind-Miss Carthy. librarian, Second Row, left to right-Geraldine Beaudi-n, Dorothy Abraham, Catherine O'Nei11, Annie Marshall, Rita Forbes, Jean Scott, Ennie Honkala, Annie Domenico, Front Row, left 'to right-Marion Ostrosser, JOyCe Chester, Jessie Ramsay, Barbara Lucas, Louise Abraham. Annie Koretz, Muriel Finney fpres.J, James Veitch, Wild Life at Our Doors Animals are sub-personalities, sharing with us the mystery of life and mind. Sir J. Arthur Thomson, in Biology for Everyman Ever since I caught my first pike and brought him home for the family bath-tub, I have been intensely interested in wild animals. My parents fostered this interest and from then on I was allowed to keep as many pets as I wished, provided that I no longer utilized the bath-tub. When I could swim, my father gave me a little red canoe, and with it the key to the river. I learned to paddle and I believe the prsw of my little craft penetrated every hid- den waterway within a ive-mile radius of the town. Although few people realize it, a swamp is a storehouse of knowledge. To Watch a bittern is fascinating. This big water-bird stands as upright and motionless as a stick, seeing everything. A frog swims byg there is a lightning stroke of beak and a short gulp: the frog disappears and the bittern resumes his motionless posture. The bitterns warn the marsh of the approach of danger, for they are always on guard, these sentries of the sedge flats. Later in the day great blue herons Hy to their nests in the trees. How they ever land in a tree is a marvel, for their legs are Very long and un- suited for grasping limbs. Their nests are built in hundreds on large trees, the great birds revisiting and repairing these heronries every year. Beside this particular swamp stood a red- pine forest. Wandering through the pines and listening to the wind singing through the needles was an experience I have never for- gotten. Every tree was full of rollicking little chickadees with black-capped heads and im-