Toronto Teachers College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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TORONTO NORMAL SCHOOL, 1913 71 Henry S. O Neill was born in Elmdale, Renfrew County, where he received his early education. The later days of adolescence he spent in Montreal where he gained a good practical knowledge of French. From there he came to St. Joseph s Training College in this city. In spite of his modesty he was elected President of the Toronto Normal School Literary Society for the first term. Many of us have found him very obliging and useful when we needed help, and did not want to let a Master know it. He has peculiarly gentle ways of reproving our lack of both effort and skill in preparing to teach: e.g., that wigwam in the girl s primary. It will keep his memory green in that advanced Kinder garten long after ours has faded and gone. Ayton, a prosperous town of Grey County, claims Ambrose O Reilly as its representative at the Normal School this year. During his Public School Course a great deal of time was spent in the realm of Nature as shown by his weakness for shooting frogs, etc. He made his High School studies at St. Joseph s Training College where work, mingled with a cheerful, energetic spirit, won for him brilliant success. His skill in practice-teaching should make the Toronto Normal School proud to; send forth from its portals a person of such a promising career. At the beginning of the third term of the Toronto Normal School Literary Society, Ambrose was elected President. He proved himself worthy of the confidence placed in him. As through the Normal course we go, And grasp ideas great, We meet each day, one Peter Ray, Who often to himself doth say, Do not quot;procrastinate. quot; Old Waterdown, may call him quot;mine quot; And De La Salle may say How to her walls in nineteen nine Came little Peter J. In sports he takes a leading part, In class he has a teacher s heart. We wish him many happy days This lad of bright and winning ways !

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70 THEYEARBOOK gathered all his books together and took his journey to the Toronto Normal School where he probed the mysteries of Psychology and took an active part in quot;tilts. quot; It is his ambition, after applyipg the prin ciples of Pedagogy for a few years, to continue his neuronic culture in a higher course of studies. May success be his ! Charles Grant was born in La Sallette. He spent his school days in Toronto, and during this time he excelled in application to study. Charles always took an active part in sports yet without any detriment to his intellectual development. Last year he took his Lower and Mid dle School examinations within two weeks of each other. His pro gress through the Toronto Normal School was somewhat retarded by indisposition. However, concentration to work soon re-established him in the merry swing, and his success is thereby practically assured. V In that far-famed county, Simcoe, lies a village named Lef roy ; Tis not honoured by his birth ; yet while he was a boy Henry Gulstoii did delight to call its genial atmosphere his home, And mong its fascinating glades, he still delights to roam. Eleven years soon pass away: the Entrance opens to his touch, Forthwith a student he becomes at Bradford, and as such Attains his Normal Entrance shall I say, not yet sixteen ! Alas ! the door has ope d too soon, he may not enter in. Then straightway he becomes a teacher at Belle Ewart, Whose sandy shore Lake Simcoe s clear and limpid waters girt. His year expires ; before him glows the Toronto Normal School, And now he oft deserts his task, his fevered brain to cool. Brantford claims Basil MacGregor as one of her sturdy sons. His desire for knowledge and labour, not having been fully satisfied at St. Basil s School or St. Joseph s Training College, urged him to enter the Toronto Normal School. Here his literary talents were demonstrated by the able way in which he upheld the negative side of a debate. Remembering the adage often heard at Normal quot;Pupils imitate their teacher, quot; we are sure his will become as studious and as progressive as their master. Gladstone Murphy, Tossoronto, Simcoe County. I ve been asked by my friend whose name is above, To write him a sketch of himself, whom 1 love, Tis with pleasure I start on this work for my friend So these poor little verses I will to him send. He s quiet, obliging and never gets mad, Our Gladstone was always a popular lad; And as for his head he is clever and bright His answers near always are perfectly right. A joy to his teachers ; a friend to his foes, He s a gentleman from his head to his toes.

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72 THEYEARBOOK AN ACROSTIC. Through the Normal School s broad door Hied we all with Power in store Ev ry soul of One Eight Four. Thorough, thoughtful, thrifty, true, Ours a noble work to do ! Rushed were we for months scarce nine Oft we needed courage fine. Num rous books we conned with will, Taught and criticised with skill, Or with notes our brains did fill. Nature Study, Hist of Ed, Or Arithmetic and Drill, Reading, Spelling, Baking Bread, Music, Art, and Grammar skill, Algebra, Geography, Lit rature or History. Science, Sewing, Handling Tools, Composition, Manners mode, Hygiene, Management of Schools, Over Betts or Euclid s code, Oral Language, Work of Pen, Loyalty, Religious ken. No. 182. Warwick Bro s Rutter, Limited Printen, Toronto