Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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Vox Collegfii. Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit. Vol XX WHITBY, JUNE, 1902. No 7 Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit. VOX COLLEGII, Published Monthly Throughout the Collegiate Year by the Editorial Staff. STAFF LITERARY Honorary President, President, - Vice-President, Secretary, - - - Treasurer, Programme Committee: Milligan, Crabb and Knapp. Current Events of College Life. Miss F. White, Judge McCrimmon. Miss Oliver. Miss Parker. Miss Chown. Miss Badgley. -Misses Hall, Holden, EDITORIAL Advisory Board, Editors- in-Chief, Locals, Personals, Exchanges, - Y. W. C. A., Music, Art, . . - Domestic Science, Elocution, Business Managers. STAFF : Miss Copeland. Miss Paisley. A. G. Ogden. E. McWaters. M. McConnell. M. McKendry. H. Badgley. B. Stone. O. Biggs. A. G. Ogden. J. Sutherland. H. Merner. N. Webster. G. SiLCOX. M. Heal. L Dale. L. Richardson. Terms of Subscription : Per College Year, 35 cents. Single Copies, 10 cents. Extras (to subscri- bers), 5 cents. Vox COLLEGll will be mailed to any address on receipt of price. To ministers of all denomina- tions, only 25 cents per year. All communications and exchanges should be addressed to — Vox CoLLEGii, Whitby, Ont. CONTENTS. Editorials. May Day at Whitelands. Graduating Class of 1902. Domestic Science. Locals. Essay. Commencement Exercises. Examinations List. jebttorial motes, And now our day of parting has come soon to be mingled with yesterdays of our lives, so many of which were sweet to-days spent together in mutual cares and enjoyment. Looking down the long aisle of time lined with vague to-morrows we wonder what they will bring to us and what we will bring to them. Many are going out from the sheltered precincts of our college, not to return but to take up their posi- tion in life. To some it may be a busy one, fight- ing their battles in an uncertain, hungry world. A life of gayety may be the lot of another, and to others a quiet one— surrounded and guarded by dear ones. In whatever sphere we may be found, be it humble or exalted, calm or turbulent, shadowed or full of sunshine, may something of the good we have learned while together help us to live true and use- ful lives. In moments of uncertainty and perhaps despondency may there be recalled an act, smile or tone to encourage us and smooth the pathway. May errors made in these past months lead us on to future success that we may rise on stepping- stones of our dead selves to higher things : Like a piece of driftwood Tossed on the billowy main Another plank encounters. Meets touches and parts again ; So ' tis with us forever

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2 VOX COLLEGII. . A Famous . Hat and Fur Store. FINE FURS. It may se m a little early to talk furs for next season, but its not a day too early to make your selections. Our storerooms are open all the year round. We claim that there ' s big advance and the greatest satisfaction in buying when there ' s no rush on. You take no chances on styles for the new season ' s fashions are all set and what we ' re showing now are the very newest. We make everything we sell and we guarantee everything we make. We make a specialty of fine Persian Lamb and Alaska Seal Jackets, and fine fur sets, and novelties in RufFs, Scarfs and Muffs in Russian, Hudson Bay and Alaska Sable, fine Canadian Mink, Bear, Fox, Stone Marten, Chinchilla and Ermine. Drop a card for our new catalogue. J. W. T. Fairweather Co., 84-86 Yonge St., Toronto. All Kinds of Floral Work Can be Had at TIDY THE FLORIST -000- Conservatory and Show Rooms : 75 King-St. W., Toronto. SPECIAL ATTENTION TO O. L. C. STU- DENTS AND THEIR FRIENDS, Wedding Cakes are made for people who want the best. They are unequalled for fine quality and artistic decoration. We ship them by express to all parts of the Dominion. Safe arrival guaranteed. Catalogue free. THE HARRY WEBB CO., Limited. 447 Yonge St., Toronto.

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4 VaX COLLEGII. On life ' s most restless sea We meet, we greet, we sever. Drifting eternally. And so have we met, touched and parted, but in the encounter may it be that each soul has caught the reflection of what is best and noblest in the others — and now girls — good-bye. MAY DAY AT WHITELANDS, 1899. BY LADV MARJORIE GORDON. Since it is the intention to form a May Court Club in the College next year, it might interest the readers of Vox to read a description by Lady Marjorie Gordon, of May Day celebrated at Whitelands. A week or two ago when the birds kept telling us May Day was coming, we sighed, and wished we could celebrate it as we did last year. But as we couldn ' t make holiday with our own Ottawa May Court, we thought the next best thing would be to join the festivities at Whitelands College. You know this is a training college for teachers where Mr. Ruskin started the revival of the May Queen customs and ceremonies and where his gifts are still the central feature of the day. So at 9 a. m. on the ist of May, we drove off to Whitelands College, Chelsea. The way in which the song of the birds and the scent of the flowers filled the air in the streets near the park was enough to tell anyone it was May Day. Besidjes, all the ponderous cart-horses were covered with flowers and ribbons, and stepped along most gaily. The buses too, looked more jovial than ever, with pink- nd green ribbons flying from their whips. So we were quite in a May mood when we got to Whitelands College. Inside those doors the air was full of hushed excitement. We went straight to the chapel, which, like all the rest of the building, was fresh and sweet with many flowers. The organ began to play and we heard the sound of singing and of ootsteps growing louder till at last the procession entered the chapel — girls in white dresses and crowns of ivy, walking two by two, and singing the hymn For all Thy Goodness. Last of all came thp Queen, in regal rpbes, with last year ' s faded crown on her head and a basket of roses in her hand. She was followed by two ex-queens, and stood in the aisle in front of the altar ; and at the end of the service the Queen gave her roses to be put as an offering on the altar, and the prayer was read which they always have on i hat day for ' ' Thine aged servant — the giver of this day ' s pleasure. ' Then came the hymn All good things around us, ' ' and we slipped out into the cloisters to see the white procession wind out of the chapel door around the garden, while the glad music of the hymn rose into the sky. Of course the right thing would have been to have had the whole celebration in the garden, but unless we had all dressed in fur that would not have been possible. So wc assembled in a big room in which there was as much sunshine and a great many more flowers than in the real garden, not to speak of a beautifnl Maypole and a dias which had an apple-blossom throne and a sort of rustic reredos covered with yellow daisies. Queen Ellen ascended the throne and stood up to make her rather sad little speech of abdication. Her maidens lifted from her head the remains of the royal crown of apple-blossom, and replaced it with a wreath of tendef little forget-me-nofs. Then, amid enthusiastic applause, sho stepped down, and her reign was over. But she still had, and would always have, her gold cross as a pledge and remembrance that she had reigned among her fel[ow atudents as Queen of Love. There were several other of these royal badges to be seen — one worn by a girl who is now teaching at Whitelands. But now an excited whisper, followed by a hush, meaut that the ballot papers were being handed round and that each girl was writing the name of her choice. During the counting there was music ; it seems to be one of the features at Whiielands that every girl can sing, and sing well, too. The Principal came in — he knew the secret. The very flowers held their breath, The May Queen is Agnes Gourlay — wild applause. Queen Ellen sprang from her seat on the lower dais and ran to kiss her successor and lead her away to the robing robing room. The Principal took this opportunity to tell the girls of a visit he had made to Ruskin at his north country home. He had found Mr. Ruskin very well, surrounded by flowers and birds and full of interest in the Whitelands May Court. [To be continued ]