Trafalgar School - Echoes Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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THE FOURTH FORM MASQUERADE On the night of February 4, the Fourth Form gave a masquerade for the two Third Forms and the boarders. On entering one hardly recognized the hall so transformed was it with hearts, balloons, plants, and other decorations. On this occasion the host was a handsome young sailor who met us at the door and introduced us to many familiar and unfamiliar people. In the grand march many costumes were seen, and we found many people of queer lands and times had come to visit us. There were people of long ago, people from nursery rhymes, ladies from foreign lands and even two people belonging to the land of Oz, the Patchwork Girl and the Scare-crow. After dancing, refreshments were served by bold brigands and dainty Quaker-maids as well as other costumed people. Three prizes were given, the first to the most original, who was the Patchwork Girl. The second prize went to the funniest, who was a clown, and the third to the well-known Mephistopheles. One of the most amusing things of the evening was dancing with unknown people and guessing who they were. One saw bold pirates and old-fashioned ladies dancing together as though it was quite the usual custom. Afterwards, before breaking up for the evening, God Save the King and Auld Lang Syne were sung; then we parted, after cheering the Fourth Form for their most delightful masquerade. — K.A.— III.-B S A SONG There is a school in Montreal whose name starts with a T, Round which all big and little girls will always long to be, And there each morn at nine o ' clock the heated pupils stream, For thoughts are bent with strong intent on school till one fifteen. Although the scholar turns his thoughts to French and Shakes- peare ' s plays. Like other mortals ' thoughts they run to June and holidays. Geometry lx)oks, and Latin prose will then be put away. Algebra sums, and history notes will in the dust turn grey. Reading we ' ll leave as a mem ' ry of school lest summertime prove too gay. F.W.— V. 21

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I? Well why did not someone come and put some cement in me? Or leave me alone? I could have lived for a great many more years! A voice which seemed to come from a lump of coal answered the log of wood. You would have come to the same end anyway. I was once a piece of a fine tree; but after lying under the earth for centuries I was dug up and for what? The same thing you were chopped down for! To keep these mortals warm! Ah me! seeing that the highest thing in life is service, if we can give that after we are dead, which few people can do, we should be satisfied and not complain. This conversation set me thinking and I became reconciled to the loss of the dear old walnut tree. G.B.J.— IV.A 3 20

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SCHOOL ALPHABET A has left us we ' re sorry to say, B gives supplies on every Tuesday, C signs slips behind a closed door, D means an hour spent in room four, E makes us take our baths far too cold, F keeps track of our debts, so I ' m told, G spoils our drawings with infinite care, H only boarders and prefects go there, I causes stains to be scrubbed off on Friday, J must enjoy our tres bon frangais , K is what we came here to get, L is queen of the Fifth Form set, M daily tells us that x equals y, N K.B. we obey and ne ' er ask why? O all clothes with that name you must mark, P their bite ' s not as bad as their bark, 0 we can ' t answer and too often ask, R to explain it — a holiday task. S we actu ' Uy learn from a man, T give bad marks whenever they can. U blows the whistle in basket-ball games. V who wins it never complains. W be careful to hide during gym. X fills us all with joy to the brim, Y is our editor- — she ' ll never grow old, Z is the end and our story is told. R.D. — VL TRAFALGAR GARDEN The garden is large, encircled by a gravel walk; between it and the fence trees and flowers grow plentifully. In 1920 the crowning feature of the garden was the two noble trees, which stood like sentries at each upper corner of the lawn. One was a walnut, the other a chestnut. They are the central figures in many snap-shots taken of the garden, and are well remembered by the old girls who rested in their shade on warm spring days. The old apple tree on the lawn and the small elm near the school will, doubtless, be remembered. In March of 1921, the scene is. entirely different, the flower beds are hidden beneath a half-melted bank of snow and the lawn is a miniature frozen plain with patches of brown, soggy grass just beginning to show. However these changes are not the greatest, for the chestnut and the apple tree have been taken down. Fate has decreed that the lives of the walnut tree and the elm must end. In an ice storm during the winter, they were split and torn and eventually fell to the ground, and will probably come to an unromantic end as fire-wood. The loss of these trees is felt by all who have been in the school for any length of time and who knew and loved them. R.M.— IV.A. 22