Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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6 VOX COLLEGII AVheelbarrow Race. — Florence McGil- livray and iVIargaret BlaisdeU. Three-legged Race — AVinnifi ed Hamb- ly and Irene Carse. Relay Race — Hellen Pulling ' s Team. Junior Race. — Lila AVillinsky. Tng-of-War. — Helen Wai ' d ' s Team. Margaret Blaisdell was the holder of the highest number of points, Marcelle Smith coming second. After the sports a baseball game was played between the Commercial and Col- legiate Department of the College. It was a very exciting game, and gi ew ' es- pecially so towards the end. It closed vrith the final score of 22-12 in favor of the Collegiate Department. At the close cake and lemonade were sold to the hungry and thirsty s]iortsmen by the Seniors and Juniors respectively. ■ This closed the athletic activities for the year, and eveiyone feels that great praise is due the executive of the Ath- letic Association for their enthusiasm and work to make the athletics of the college a success. On Saturday evening the pupils of Miss Gott and Miss Brush gave a con- cert. It was the first public perfonnance of many of the girls, and they did credit to themselves and their teachers. Pro- gramme f ollpws : Kiisseiir Dance of the Wood-Nymphs Irene Carse. WentJierhj - - Danny Boy Jean Gates. GeeJil - - 0 Bird of Heaven Margaret Olmstead. Meyer-Hehmtnd - Arabesque Maud Mitchell. Batli - The Call of the Wood Freda Myles. Dorel - The Garden of Your Heart Aleda Mitchell. Waclis - - Pervenche Lauretta Irwin. Ware, Harriet - Persian , Serenade ' Tis Spring Eleno McLelland. Binet - - Nuit d ' Ete Jean Leckenby. Chaminade - - In Happy Mood Ronald - Love, I Have Won You Dorothy Keough. Sibelius - - Romaaiee Irma Wigle. Elgar - - Pleading Clougli-LeigJiter - Api-il Blossoms Maiy Clark. SUNDAY, JUNE 9th. Sunday is always looked forward to with rare plcavsure by the entire school, as Baccalaureate Day. This year the church was beautifully decorated by the Juniors and Trafalgar Daughtera. The baccalaureate sermon Sunday evening in the Methodist CTiurch was de- livered by Rev. E. W. Halpenny, B.A., B.D., General Field Superintendent of the Intenaational Sunday School Asso- ciation, and was greatly enjoyed. In part it was as follows : Text.— James 4 : 14, What is Your Life ? For ye are a vapor that appear- eth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. St. John 12 : 24, Verily, ver- ily, I say unto you, except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth by itself alone; but if it die, it beareth much fruit. He that loveth his life loseth it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eter- nal. This twenty-fourth verse of John 12 is a striking utterance of Jesus. It seems to have been occasioned by the approach of the Greeks who desired to see Jesus. ' ' Eusebius narrates that he found in the archives in Edessa a record of a message sent to Jesus by Abgarus, King of Edessa in Mesopotamia. The king had had a long illness. He sent for Jesus, and in his communication inti- mates hearing that they of Jemsalem were not using Him well. Abgarus also offers Him a safe home in Edessa. Such an occurrence is quite within the limit of possibility. To prescribe death as a condition for life does seem to be a strange contra- diction of terms. As a youth I do not recall any text that made such a sad im- pression upon me. I could not under-

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vox COLLEGII Graduation Exercises 5 FRIDAY, JUNE 7th. First came the contest for the gold medaljgiven for proficiency in swimming and life-saving, open to students holding the Award of Merit. The contest was very keen and interesting between the three competitors, Morden Busby, Jean- ette Higginbotham and Marcelle Smith. The events in the competition were as follows : — Breast stroke, 25 yards ; back stroke without the use of arms, 25 yards ; speed swim, 25 yards ; illustration of methods in release and rescue of the drowning; swim and object dive; for- ward dive from spring-board, plunge and sculling. The medal was awarded to Marcelle Smith, holding 33 points, with Jeanette Higginbotham coming a close second with 31 points. The longest plunge was 33 ft. 11 in., taken by Mor- den Busby. There were three competitors in the contest for the silver medal which fol- lowed, open to the students holding the Bronze Medallion. The events were the same, with the omission of the plunge and sculling. Hellen Pulling was the winner of this medal, holding 35 points. After these two contests came the sports open to all swimmers. There were races, showing various strokes ; a relay race, which Droved to be very thrilling ; a candle race, and a cork race. The cork race was highly amusing as the corks seemed to be very elusive, and receded slowly but surely before the expectant mouths of the girls. Hellen Pulling, the holder of the highest number of points, was awarded a silver A by the Ath- letic Association, and honorable mention was given to Marcelle Smith. At the close of the afternoon, Mr. Winterburn, the swimming instructor, from the Central Y. M. C. A., of Toron- to, who was judging the sports, gave a very interesting and instructive exhibi- tion. He showed very clearly the differ- ence between land and water breathing, and the absolute necessity for a swim- mer to use the latter. He illustrated the crawl, trudgeon and several back strokes. Following that, he showed some new methods in life-saving and release. On Friday evening, Miss Winifred Symington, our post-graduate student in expression, delighted her audience by her rendering of The Dawn of a To- Mon ' ow. She was called back by en- thusiastic applause and read the charm- ing little selection, Who ' s Afraid. Miss Georgian Smith, our postgraduate student in piano, assisted in the program in her usual brilliant style, and was very much appreciated. The program was as follows : Etude in G Flat - - Chopin Prelude G Minor - Rachmaninoff Georgian Smith. The Dawn of a To-morrow Frances Hodgson Burnett Winifred Symington. Midsummer Night ' s Dream Mendelssohn-Liszt Georgian Smith. SATURDAY, JUNE 8th. This year it was thought well to hold a Field Day in the Spring as well as in the Autumn. It took place on Saturday, June 8th, as part of the closing exercises. In the morning the tennis finals in doubles were played off, Irene Tarlton and Irma Wigle being the winners. The semi-finals in the singles were played also, but it was found that the time was too short to play the finals. They were left over until the following Monday morning, when Irma Wigle proved to be the winner, after very long and closely contested games. At half past two o ' clock in the after- noon the sports began. The winners of the various events were as follows: 50 yd. dash, 15 years and over. — Mar- celle Smith. 50 yd. dash, 14 years and under. — Ruth Blaisdell.

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vox CO stand it, and felt a sense of rebellion against its implication. Life ! largest life ! is the goal of every- body. It may not be unreasonable to assume that all are seeking it, and im- agine they are finding it. The key will be found in the interpretation we place on life or the point of view from which we regard it. The individual who thinks in terms of his body only, will very nat- urally have one view, and a limited one at that. The man who interprets in terms of mind will find limitations, while the spiritual view is boundless. The apostle James in our text has set us thinking, and Jesus in John twelve, twenty-four, offers the solution. Two principles are involved. We will turn our thought to an investigation of these. 1. The living force in any life reaches its proper value and influence through death and self-denial. A careful and modest estimate justifies the statement that every Christmastide in North Amer- ica we sacrifice one hundred millions of years of evergreen tree-life to gratify our desires and tastes. At first blush we are horrified by the thought, and yet is not that just what they are for? They also thus serve. Every time we take food, we kill to sustain. There is not a particle of food that does not represent death unto life. It is remarkable that we ' ' kill and eat, kill and eat to sustain the body, but the process is inverted in soul de- velopment. In this it is crucify the flesh with its affections and lusts. It was thus that Jesus, who for the joy that was set before Him, endured the cross despising the shame. The joy set before Him was the joy of serving others —you and me. This is what He meant when in John ' s setting He said, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit. By living for others our interests are widened, our desires for life increased, and the results and ends of life enriched. Observe the influence of selfishness in any life as it bears fruit in the latter half of that life. Who does not abhor the home that is wilfully childless and L E G 1 1 , 7 lovingly yearn for that empty ann and heart where the longed for family does not come, or coming has so soon been snatched away. I repeat to you the val- ued testimony of an experienced friend who once said to me, ' ' There is nothing in life calculated to develop the manhood in man and the womanhood in woman like the sacrifices that are demanded by the presence of child life in the home. He was right. The law of the seed is the law of hu- man life. Use your life for present and selfish gratification, and you lose it for- ever. Renounce self, yield yourself to service, spend your life for the common good irrespective of recompense or lack of it, personal pleasure or the absence of it, and although your life may seem to be lost, it is finding its best and highest development and passes into life eter- nal. Your life is a seed now, and it can be- come a developed plant, only by your taking heart to cast it from you and sow it in the fertile soil of other men ' s needs. B} ' this means you set free the vital forces that are in your life. The man who most freely uses his life for others, keeping least to himself and living sole- ly for the common good of mankind has the most enduring influence. He sets in motion forces which propagate fresh re- sults eternally. The only permanent in- vestment possible in life is wha.t we in- vest in the soul life of other people. In relation to others, people are divid- ed into three classes : ( a ) Those who seek — by using others. In this class are grafters, those who steal, slanderers, oppressors, gossipers. Jealousy of others can only lead to ill- treatment. It is easier to weep with those that weep than to rejoice with those that rejoice. If you don ' t believe it, try to be glad with the person who is surpassing you in influence, in society, on exams., etc. (b) Those who seek — without molest- ing others. In this class belong those who go a- way back and sit down and who won ' t play at all if things can ' t go their way. (c) Those who seek — by aiding others.