Trafalgar School - Echoes Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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TRAFALGAR SCHOOL Our frontispiece this year is a photograph of a ivater colour painted by Mademoiselle Juge, and presented by her to the school, where it now hangs in the dining-room. [10]

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C ompiimenti CHESTER DAWE. IID. r. JOHN ' S — NEWFOUNDLAND

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EDITORIAL COLOUR, although we are generally unaware of it, produces definite psychological effects. If an artist wishes to convey an idea of heat, cold, tear or calm, he chooses his tone and colour accordingly. Through the ages certain colours have come to represent abstract qualities also. BLUE symbolizes truth. We must speak the trvith, for, as Keats said, Beauty is truth, truth beauty. If we cannot be believed, we are mistrusted and lose the respect that otherwise would be ours. We depend upon one another in our daily lives. Think of the sources of information we rely upon to tell us the truth — train schedules, doctors, our friends, and the books we consvilt for facts. Those who do not speak the truth believe no one else, and live a life of uncertainty and shame. Moreover, if we are honest with ourselves, it follows that we can have no fear of selfishness, and thus will work for the benefit of our friends, our school, our community, our country. In Shakespeare ' s words, To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. WHITE symbolizes purity. To give our utmost for the best, to set an ideal or a purpose before us and pursue it with determination, to prevent evil and its temptations, to forget selfishness and conceit, to have hope and faith, to be brave and sincere — that is purity. Tennyson expressed its power when he said, My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. BLUE and WHITE are Trafalgar ' s colours. They were chosen, as was our motto, SPEM SUCCESSUS ALIT , by those older and more experienced, for us to honour and support. We could have no better standards to uphold. You who will return to Trafalgar, do not take them for granted, but respect them. Let us who must break away from this shelter and guidance not forget them, but keep them as constant reminders, not only of our happy school days together, but, as indivi(hials in the world, of what BLUE and WHITE really symbolize — TRUTH and PURITY. 111]