Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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8 VOX COLLEGII Merkel - Spring Song CLARICE PACKHAM. Janowski - - Djorah MURIEL COOK. Woodforde-Findin (a) Less Than De Dust; (Indian Love Lvric) , (b) Till I Wake. GRACE LINTON. Wach Pei ' venclie EVELYN COOK. Dengia Sing On FRANCES FRASER. Friml Staccato Etude Op. 37, No. 1 JESSIE LOVE. Stojoioski Prelude Ap. 1 No. 2 Jean McLelland. Ayhvard (a) Love ' s Coi ' onation (b) Rose in the Bud MARJORIE ROSS. Hensett Si Orsean J ' Etais MARY DEPEW. Lautz ]My Love is Like a Red Rose Goetz Melisandi in the Wood MALTD SHAW. Cliopin (a) Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 Coleridge-Taylor (b) Impromptu. GRACE LINTON. SUNDAY. For the Baccaulaureate sermon one of Canada ' s most foremost preachers, Rev. Dr. G. M. Milligan, pastor emeritus of Old St. Andrew ' s Church, Toronto, had been secured, and the Methodist Taber- nacle was crowded. The Presbyterian and Baptist Churches cancelled their evening sei ' dces, and all three congrega- tions joined in the splendid service at the Tabernacle. On the platform with Dr. Milligan were Rev. A. H. Foster, pastor of the Tabernacle; Rev. F. L. Farewell, Prin- cipal, and Rev. Dr. Hare, Principal Emeritus of the College; Rev. G. A. McLean and Rev. S. G. McCormack, each of whom took part in the service. During the evening the choir rendered an an- them, and Miss Gott, of the College Fac- ulty, sang ' ' There is a Green Hill. ' ' Dr. Milligan chose for his text Genesis 17 : 1 — And when Abraham was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abraham, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me and be thou perfect. He laid particular em- phasis upon the last clause — Walk be- fore me and be thou perfect. ' ' Abraham was called from his native plaee,Ur of the Chaldecs,to go to the land God had for him to found a nation for his own people, and through them for the good of all peoples. In Babylon men worshipped the powers of nature; they mistook them for gods. Abraham was quickened to recognize that the founda- tion of things was spirit, not matter. God he apprehended was spirit, and in Him all things lived and moved and had their being. This conviction was im- pressed upon Abraham and gave main- tenance and purpose to his mission. He Avas to walk as under the eye of God, and by being genuine to his real inner self was to know God, whom to know is life eternal. The career of Abraham, as set before us in Genesis, constitute many various pictures of an historic nature. The world iDecame his schoolhouse, and the exper- iences he realized in it his lessons for the life that now is as well as that to come. His heart was stirred when he saw the fate the Sodomites were bringing upon themselves. He learned, by praying for their rescue from calamity, how ready and full was forgiveness in God. In giv- ing Lot his choice in material benefits, he showed that a high purpose in life saves from the greed that degrades. The patri- arch seems not to have been clear about the sacredness of the relation of husbana and wife. Pharaoh, when he found the deceit Abraham practiced upon him by passing off ,Sarah as his sister, ordered his men to turn him out of Egypt and all he had. The lesson to Abraham was: Be genuine hereafter, and allow no words about Sarah to be other than those of truth and soberness. ' ' It was customary for chiefs adjoining Abraham in Canaan to offer children in sacrifice to their gods. The principle that our choicest treasure should be de- voted to Jehovah, if we make Him su-

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vox COLLEGII 7 Europena, or was it Australia, evinced a preference for green pups in mistake for cream puffs ; the frantic struggles of Mrs. Wiggs, entangled in her neighbor ' s ' eil, in fact the whole event, was very w ell presented by the reader. Marjorie Garlock, who was very suc- cessful in her exams, delighted the aud- ience with three very charming and, in one ease, very difficult numbers. Aside from a very charming personality, Miss Garlock possesses real ability in her de- partment. Mallei Sharpe and Georgian Smith, Mr. Atkinson ' s senior pupils, acquitted themselves admirably. In the former ' s playing, we appreciate her thorough knowledge of technique and brilliancy ; in the latter ' s performance, wonderful expression. Myrtle Fawcett read the story of David Copperfield ' s proposal to Dora. It was a very difficult reading, but even the dullest of us caught the subtle droll- ery of Dickens ' through David ' s love-sick raving. The immense amount of thought and work that Miss Fawcett must have spent on the selection was well worth while, for her interpretation of the read- ing was splendid. Another member of the Senior Class, Margery Moore, who is the Gold Medal- list in Expression for this year, read from Henrik Ibsen ' s Doll ' s House. The reading itself is very dramatic and contains a subtle pathos and depth of thought that demands careful interpreta- tion. Either the effect of that pathos or Margery ' s own reading of Nora ' s part (a personality which so aptly suits Iier own) reduced her audience to tears, and it was only when she bowed and smiled cheerfully three separate times that it consented to stop the applause and wipe its eyes. The concert was a very thorough pro- duct of the year ' s work, and was appre- ciated as such. FRIDAY. PRESENTATION OF tHE TAMING OF THE shrew by dramatic club. The time of the play was in the 17th century, and the scenes of action were laid in Padua, Italy. The story of the drama tells of the artifices by which the young man Petruchio tames the fiery spirit of Katharine, who possesses a pret- ty face and an abominable temper, and declares she will be subject to no man. Miss Catharine MeCormick as Pe- truchio, and Miss Myrtle Fawcett as Katheriiie, were particularly good, but the whole caste was worthy of praise. The admirable way in which the drama was presented showed much diligent applica- tion by the girls of the Club. The following was the cast of charac- ters : — Petruchio — Catharine MeCormick. Baptista — Gwendolyn Gauley. Veneentio — Etta Jackson. Lucentio — Mabel Sharpe. Gremio — Melva Hetherington. Hortensio — Madeline Preston. Tranio — Ida Dodge. Brondella — Frances Eraser. Pedant, Philip— Hazel Mill. Tailor, Nicholas — Eva Hutcheson. Haberdasher, Officer — Ada Snider. Branea — Margery Moore. Curtis— Mrs. Merkley. Widow — Winnifred Symington. SATURDAY. athletics and swimming. Saturday morning and afternoon were occupied by the students in participating in or witnessing athletic and swimming exercises. The aquatic side of the day ' s fun was particularly interesting. It was truly wonderful to see the ' ' stunts ' ' that the girls perf oi med in the water. The swimming pool has certainly become one of the most popular phases of college life. A recital was given by the pupils of Miss Gott and Miss Collins in the concert hall, in the evening. PROGRAM. Nollet - - Elegu Enid MacMinn. LoTir - Rose of My Heart winnifred SYMINGTON.

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vox COLLEGII 9 preme in our lives, tools, in Abraham ' s day, a cruel, idolatrous form. Abraham was led through an experience that in- duced him in sacrifice to offer up Isaac, his only begotten son, to Jehovah, with the result that he learned what genuine fatherhood meant. By making God our pattern in life we become our true selves. This is involved in the fact that we wei ' e made in the image of God. Thus when we make His presence in our lives a habit are Ave not thereby becoming transformed into His, likeness ? We see in this that religion does not cramp our natural powers of thought or feeling, or conscience, but rather intro- duces them into the path that shines more and more unto the perfect day. The sphere of religious action is not found in ascetic performances or merely ceremonial activities. Wherever a soul is striving to be genuine there is holy groiind, and there the living God com- municates His love, and joy, and peace. A great river, in Oriental phrase, was called a river of God ; a great mountain , a mountain of God; a genuine man, a man of God. Such was Abraham, and such are all true builders of a nation, Avhether they be high or low, masters or servants. The only secure nation is one whose people do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly Avith God. ' ' What we need as a people is to wake up. The natural man is dead in tres- passes and sins. AAvake thou that sleepest, and Christ shall give thee life. ' ' These words are addressed to individuals and especially at this time to nations. Clearer than ever before can we now see both by this war and the work of mis- sions at home and abroad the necessity of public education being in life and pre- cept Christian. Thus are we thoroughly furnished unto all good works. As it Avas in the beginning Avith Abraham, in- itiating religion into national life, may it be so now and forever. We are called upon, as Abraham, to become perfect, Avalking as in God ' s sight. To become perfect is to become thoroughly made, spherical in development, vitalized in all our faculties, and thus in ourselves and in our relations to church and home and college like a city set upon a hill that cannot be hid. And now a word to the graduating class. Every ending implies a begin- ning; every reaping implies a sowing. This college is to-day an end in your lire, but an end beckoning you on to begin another career Avith efficiency and dis- tinction in proportion to the success with which you close your course here. Youth is a rare time of advantages, be- cause of the features which characterize it. It is a formative time. With facil- ity you can give bent to your character now for untold good which Avould be beyond your power to accomp- lish if postponed too long. They that seek early in life its best eon- tents can find them. No such promise is made to one Avho, through indolence or cramping conditions, alloAvs herself to become a field where only weeds or nox- ious plants grow. Arrange after you leave here to pursue such studies with- out delay as will maintain and develop the advantages you have reaped here. Do it while memory is at its best; Avhile the heart is hopeful ; while intellect is quick; Avhen everything comes to you like the morning, and its voice is like the morning songs. This will give you a true optimism based upon a real and vital personality that hopeth all things and believeth all things. ' ' Thus jou Avill spread the influence of your Alma Mater in the best Avay Avhen you are living epistles, Avitnessing to its high and enduring educative realizations. I need not tell you, Avhat is not knoAvn as widely as it should be, of the salubrity and beau- ty and comforts of this College. It has so far begun its Avork so Avell and in such quarters as to Avarrant the hope that a great future in influence and develop- ment aAvaits it. Let all those Avho have experience of its worth, pass it on to oth- ers — its graduates, by giving it a high place in their hearts and memories through all their years by word and deed ; and the citizens of this toAAm, by furnishing accessibility to the institution among them by good roads to it ; by cord-