Toronto Teachers College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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gm TOR6NwlI'O INTSHWIEEILL SCHOOL O0K Five Years From Now ' I l 'lf years ago. ' Alasf filas.' How shorl lhe lime has been Sinee I lefl sehool. ' I've lravelled mavh find lhis is whal l've seen:- Premier Red ford guards lhe land, Doe. Woodward keeps as well, While oul al Albion Park, V. King Calls pupils wilh a bell. nd .leans and Rulh, our only lwins, To lhe lhealre draw lhe erowd Whilsl before a erowd in Jflassey Hall Luey plays long and loud. C. W'allen's gone baek lo lhe farm And lhe old phrase Gel up, oWaude. ' Bal Eileen, Ivy, Bess and ,Hay Slill wield lhe old bireh rod. The Rev. lflelnlyre nods To avialor Harry, A nd il is even noised abroad Thai' Shank is going lo marry. Ilerningway is a grave JI.P., Sliver an underlaker And Verna Barllell of Form I A famous garmenl-maker. Then Sadie keeps a boarding house For sladenls now relurnin,'- Ardis, Vera, Emily, Grace, Helen, and Doris Darn in. So lhey have gone lheir various ways To seek a differenl shore. These are blll some of lhose I 've seen, For lhere are dozens more. And when I see lheir noble deeds, I know I 've done much worse For here I sit in perfeel bliss- Of cals and dogs-The Nurse. AULA H. JOHNSTON, F om The Would-Be Naturalists BLI Ili bird. robin. and a wren we've seen Allhough we rnusl eonfess lhal we're nol so keen. Un hanling birds alfiveflifleen. He hike by rirer, slream and dale, Whafs lhal we see? A handsome quail? And lhere's a blnebird on lhe rail. We ereep along by bush and lree Over lhisfenre, lhrough lhal lea Ohl look Jean, lhere's a Cliiekadee. We wrile lhenz in lhe lillle book, From Bob-o-l ink lo wily rook. Don'l slop yel, lookl lookl A jloek of wild geese overhead. Their noise would almosl wake lhe dead, How many? Oh! say half a hundred. Homeward al lasl we wind our way Concluding our lisl wilh a noisy Jay. ,Twas really quile a lhrilling day. 11

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Mp T 'sm TOIUEDNTO Nonmm. SCI-IOOLYEZIR BOOK o n i 'H umm. ummints g f, q tl VALEDICTCRY KIITIYGS should be brief. The fact that the partings of Nlaster and Students,and Students and Students are not the last partings generally experienced. may cause you to find reason to excuse this parting if there be not brevity, For we shall meet. again. ln hoping to graduate from this most historic institution. each and all of us will begin to practise the same pro- fession. Instead of each graduate branching oll' to enter some profession secluded from all his fellow graduates as is the case in many Graduations. each gradu- ate is merely putting the same foot forward as his or her fellow graduates. all of whom are entering the teaching profession. lnstead of drifting apart where lfarewells are said. we shall drift together in mutual understanding and sympathy where tlreet ings are given. Nevertheless. the hope of Graduation and its fulfillment causes the curtain lo drop upon one of the acts of the drama of the young teachers' lives. For in a few days. those who have worked together for a while will part from this lnsti- tution and its associations and that hall that is now so resonant with voices and so bright with smiles. will be dark and deserted. You, venerated and learned Ntasters. will find other prospective teachers to obtain from you the elements of Pedagogy instead of those whom your care has armed and equipped for the warfare of life and prepared for the still higher education to be acquired by intercourse with the world. Wie shall have to look to other counsellors and often trust in what may prove poor guides-ourselves. We came here weak. in doubt as to the after hour. Now we are strong with confidence in the present and hopes for the future. Under your firm hand, the steps that were feeble. have grown in to strides and we have acquired much of that learning which you have imparted to us from your ample store while it has not impoverished you. We have wandered with you by the seashore of learning and filled our scrip with pebbles. We are not learned teachers. even you have told us that you have something yet to learn,for the path of learning has no end, but we have at least mastered the most prominent truths through your kind guidance. ln losing your students you have gained friends in exchange. ln bidding you farewell, we have the ardent hope that your lives which are so useful and beneficient in their noon. may be gilded by the golden rays of ease and comfort as the sun is setting on your honoured lives. Farewell! and we beseech you to think on your students as they will think of you. Critic teachers: it is hard to part with you. We are to go forth. and you to remain with the pupils whom we had learned to love so well. We make way for others who at the next session will join you. You know the grand old maxim- W'elcome the coming. speed the parting guest. As you speed us on our journey with your wishes, comfort them who are coming with a warm heart. Farewell-and may your excellent example to your pupils and student -teachers continue as it has been, a credit to the Toronto Normal School and yourselves. Fellow teachers. it is for you and me to exchange farewells. We have not only to part from those around us but from each other. Here we are together, perhaps for the last. time hoping to wear our honours. I trust. meekly and with a justifiable pride, in a success won by diligence. patience and obedience. As a body we part. but as individuals we possibly shall frequently meet. lhen too, there is the ardent hope, that as a body we shall meet a few years hence to proceed to improve our methods that we may become the Teacher. Ah then, what memories shall we not revive. Wihat memories of mischievous pupils will not move us to laughter! What tender remembrances of some grief or trouble not moisten our eyes! And how often shall we talk of the Masters referring to Old This or Old That, the term OLD not being disrespectful or belittling, but affectionate and friendly. since what is old is venerable. and like the Old School House. the Old Homestead. and the dear Old Mother who nursed our childhood, is enshrined in our heart of hearts as our precious treasure. W'e are venturing our vessels beyond the gentle stream whose currents we know and with whose shoals and depths we are familiar, to sail on the Great Sea of uncertainty where what tempests we may meet or overtake us. what reefs we may strike, we cannot. know. lf we make a bon voyage. it will be mainly due to the sailing directions and the charts we have received from our Principal and his fellow Master-Teachers. How we shall recall their kindness to make us worthy teachers and good citizens! Ah! we only part to meet again. To others a farewell. but with each of us let. the last. words he Goodbye until to-morrow. And you, gentle reader, who should perchance open this book. to see and greet kmdly our ellorts, you have come to wish us Godspeed in our chosen Profession through Life, to you many thanks and full hearts. we bid a respectful farewell. SINCLAIR HE3IlNGNX'A!'. 25535423