Toronto Teachers College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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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

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THE ELEMENTARY PHYSICAL TRAINING COURSE HE whole nineteen of us took the course and we all were as enthusiastic at the last class as at the first. These words, spoken by a Form I man. express concisely, our appreciation for Mr. Bartlett's efforts on our behalf during the course. Any in- struction which can hold for four and a half months the enthusiasm of so sophisticated a group of students as the Form I men must. have the goods and this was no exception. Nineteen bonny young athletes tripped lightly into the Jarvis Collegiate gymnasium practically every Saturday morning for four and aihalf short months. And now would begin the practical work. Apparatus work, calisthenics. games. and club-swinging. all coming in quick succession. provided such strenuous work-outs that even we Form I stalwarts were often hard pressed for breath. The games in particular were popular. Who of us did not enjoy Swat the Coat, when Harry Henderson would chase Lorne Burkholder and vainly try to caress Lorne's elusive legs with the swatteril Who of us did not appreciate getting a first-rate crack at Tom Bradford and Edgar Shunk. running the gauntlet? I t was in the high jump that Ronald Froud convinced us that he was the human coil-spring and Art Wigg gave demonstrations lo prove that long legs were not a necessity for good high jumping. Hur weekly splash in the pool was every bit as enjoyable as our dry land activities. ln the shallow end tieorge Stewart. Frank Dingwall. and Doug. Nlct lhee would give an excellent representation of the far-famed Niagara whirlpool while those under the impression of being good swimmers splashed about in the deep end. Our theoretical work took place every Wednesday evening at the ,Normal School. Ilere Nlr. l5artlett's delightful habit ol' putting the men and girls together for most ol' the lectures converted all the lirst. class men to the doctrine of co-education. lt was very notice- able indeed how the more aggressive of the men appreciated this blending of the sexes. Another factor which aided in our en- joyment of these Vtiednesday evening sessions was the series ol' first-aid lectures by Dr. Hilliard. Dr. Ililliard's extensive use tml' developing questions as well as her witty vv ay of putting things. helped to make these lectures noteworthy. The course ended on Nlay IT. lt is expected that quite a number of us will take the Supervisor s Certificate in the summer. Iv ENNI-ITII Nl. Nltrlx ICNZIE. GIRL'S PHYSICAL EING offered an opportunity to reduce or gain those needful pounds. some thirty-three or four of the T.N.S. girls taking First Class Certificates enrolled in the Physical Training Course given at Jarvis Collegiate. Ivnder the capable instruction of Miss Bryans and Miss F enwick, miracles were accomplished. When the girls appeared in their green rompers and short socks they scarcely recognized themselves: and on Wednesday nights these costumes were a source of interest which was a constant diversion from lectures-to the boys at least. It was in the swimming that the chief miracle was wrought. From the class, of whom twenty-five could not swim a stroke, there was developed a school of mermaids-in grey cotton bathing suits- who could cross the tank without a tow rope. How the apparatus creaked and groaned under the strain! But it survived and so did the girls. although it took the united efforts of the class to get some of the more portly damsels over the much-abused horse. In spite of repeated injunctions. the girls TRAINING COURSE persisted in doing forward rolls sideways: but in time. all these mistakes were corrected due to much practice. many still' muscles and the helpful adviceeand shoves -of Niiss Fenwick and the 0.C.E. students. We learned many new dances but none suitable for the ballroom. By dint of much labour we finally were able to distinguish Tantali and the Danish Greeting dance: and to master the more intricate steps of the Irish Jig and the Highland Schottische. The one thing we never learned to do. however. was to march in a straight line. Dr. Hilliard's interesting VVednesday evening lectures in First Aid are worthy of mention: and we must not forget Nliss Campbell who so willingly played upon every request. This course was a novelty to most of us and not a girl is sorry that she gave up her Saturday mornings and II ednesday nights to the work. To our instructors we wish to express our appreciation and thanks for their tlntiring efforts on our behalf, Gmovs BI. Snsrnox.