Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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To Mrs Heard, our new Dean, whose help in solving our problems, and ever-present good nature has been greatly appreciated in the past year.

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rincipal 5 Iflfjedda I have just concluded the re-reading of a Roman play written about 200 B. C. In this play a father ' s son, stolen by a slave andl sold, returns as a slave to serve in his own father ' s house. The unfolding of his real status gives the play its intensely human touch. The author has given the young man a learned tongue and a polished phrase: his utterances often bear a timeless quality. This is the way you ' ll find most folk treating you: Until they have The boon they crave They ' re as kind as can be; but success makes the knave! When they have got it, they set to work cheating you! I wanted to wish you success -but now the word is dishonoured. We have clothed it with material grandeur in our day and yet robbed it of all but an enticingly gilded exterior. For many, success is coveted because it elevates the self: it grants a boon of distinction in much the same way an epaulette lifts up the nose! -and by do doing it destroys an essential grace our world must have, or it will perish, -the grace of humility. Yet, nevertheless, I shall dare to use this word, ' success ' , but only after I have pruned it of its perishable dross and grated into it again the glory it never ought to have lost - the pure joy that arises when one achieves the greatness the world cannot see. May all of you who are here this year have that ' success ' . He and she who die for it will never perish. S L Osborne