Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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16 g Yi TRgIT'r'gggCOLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD LETTERS TO THE EDITOR llear Sir: Your editorial on the subject of pronunciation and spelling of English takes no account of the fact that America has set herself to remove certain faults in the English language which England is content to put up with. English is a notoriously difficult language for foreigners to learn and the Americans, realizing that such difficulties bring no profit to the country which speaks such a language, have set themselves to simplify it by removing some unnecessary inconsistencies. The spelling thru for through, to which you object, is an instance of this, as is catalog, honor and others. The American language can no more be blamed for Governor Al Smitli's Foist come foist served than the English for the Cockney Ity-ite , for eighty-eight. The Englishman will find more variations of pronuncia- tion in his own country than in any part of America of the same size, but he is only intolerant, it seems, of the American pronunciation. Every other is pictures- que . Yours faithfully, -P. E. R. Editorial Note: The editorial in the last issue of the Record did take account of the American efforts to remove certain faults and welcomes them provided the improvements are substantiated by rules of deriva- tion or phonetics . Honor, catalog and program are not objected to, but to thro there is an objection because it is an abbreviation, and in any case does not pro- nounce through : and to thru , because the final u , pronounced properly, has a narrower sound than ou in through , tExam candidates, note that whatever your own feeling in the matter may be, the English examiners have decided to mark thro, thru' and thro' as spelling errorsl. Our correspondent does not take us to task con- cerning refered for referred , so we assume that he agrees with us. U The pronunciation foist come foist soived is probably the outcome in the beginning of peculiar cli- matic conditions and a different regimen in nutriment, and no blame is attached to anyone so speakingg but just as the Cockney child learns with difficulty that t'paper is not piper , and painfully says payper to show that he is no longer a Cockney, so we expect educated men in English-speaking countries to say first and not foist after the manner of Calvin Cool- idge and Herbert Hoover. After all, in the educated classes of Britain the picturesqueness arises from variety of intonation and not false pronunciation. Dear Sir: I note with interest the position you are assuming in an attempt to amalgamate the English and American languages in a logical manner I will refrain from making any comment as to the Gargantuan nature of the task, but will pass on to a point suggested fpronounced sujestedj by your ob- jection to the abbreviations tho and 'tthru . Far be it from me to defend such a habit, any more than one which would spell through as Uthropmorganbor- ough while still retaining its present pronunciation. You must admit, dear Sir, that even this might have supporters who bear in mind the well known name of Cholmondeley , and base their defence on its pronun- ciation. To come to the point. In the interests of foreign- ers particularly. who wish to master our difficult tongues tEnglish and Americanj, could nothing be done to make it an easier task by standardizing the pronunciation of the syllable Hough as in plough cough , through , and thorough , I must admit that I do realize the supreme difficulty in attempting this. If the syllable were always pronounced as in plough some confusion might arise as to whether a patient were suffering from a mild disease or from that domesticated quadruped which supplies us with cream Cpronounced milkj If, on the other hand we as- sumed its pronunciation as in cough while ploff might sound all right, on attempting to pronounce through some malicious individual would be sure to suggest that the speaker had been over indulging in froth-blowing If tl apologize for all the ifs l, on the third hand it were pronounced as in through , there would always be the danger of the speaker being ac- cused of being a Scotsman, though, undoubtedly this is preferable to the other evils. I will leave it at this, and conclude that it might be better to pronounce it silently Cas the P in FISHJ. Yours, hoping that this germ will bear fruit, but very much doubting it. WAHNSINN . Editorial Note: VVahnsinn is evidently replying in the spirit in which the editorial in queston was writ- ten, that of harmless banter, therefore no comment need be made except this: that his last conclusion is not the least of the three evils, as he says, in witness whereof consult the nationality of the majority of Lon- don Editors. MATHEMATICS, OR LANGUAGES, OR BOTH? Dear Sir: Why should a boy who has no ability in the pursuit of mathematics be obliged to do them, and why also should a boy who cannot make anything of languages be obliged to do them? There you have the question to be discussed. Of course, up as far as the Junior Matriculation, all subjects should be compulsory. By the time that the average boy has passed his Junior Matriculation, he knows what he likes best, and what he is best at, and so do his instructors. When he proceeds further, and begins to work for his Honor or Senior Matriculation, he should be allow- ed to specialize in the type of work which he has prev- iously shown himself to be best suited for . As far as I can see, it does a boy absolutely no good to spend so many unwilling hours every week at French verbs or Latin proses, when it is manifest to all concerned that he would be a better-employed and more willing scholar if he were busy in the Science lab. Again, what on earth is the purpose in obliginf, a boy to learn long pages of Trigonometrical ratios, or puzzle over Geometry riders, when the master who is taking him knows that not only is he not even interest- ed, but that he hasn't even a mathematically-inclined brain? Of course, there are those who will say that when I make the above statements, I say that in other words no boy should be made to do that which he doesn't like, and that if that were to be allowed, no characters would be formed, but that is not what I mean. At most schools, the examination-marks are kept, I should imagine, or at any rate, should be kept, as should all reports, so that by the time that a boy has been attending a school

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g TRINITY cottage: gsfnooi. Rnconn gg in FOR BUGHOUSE l tHave you seen The Collegians? l No , said the physician gravely, the boy cannot play for another minute. His skull is cracked right up the back . Can't I, Dr. Jenkins , said Art. Benson faintly, there is only 5 minutes to go and Bughouse needs my kicking . The doctor turned hastily away and buried his head in his black hand bag. Will he be able to do his Algebra study, tonight? asked the Principal. You know, Benson, you are very much behind hand with your work . Gee, Sir , said Coach Jones impatiently, forget- ting his habitual respect, you drive them too hard . You're fired , snapped the Principal, and turn- ing on his heel he walked away. A hush fell upon the little group. Coach Jones fir- ed! and the great athletic week with Midvale beginn- ing in two days! The spare men on the bench looked incredulously after the retreating figure of their Princi- pal and from him to their beloved coach, who stood with bent head and clenched hands. Don't tell the fellows playing , he said suddenly, looking up. It would take all the pep out of them . The game was over and won and the battered team limped off the gridiron. Who should tell them? All hung back. It was the Coach himself who first had the courage to speak. Bad luck, chaps , he said, manly and unselfish as always. Why do you say bad luck, coach , said Red O'Hara, we've won, haven't we? Yes , said the Coach sadly, but for the last time , and with halting words he told them of their im- pending loss. Five minutes later a group of angry boys were standing at the door leading to the Principal's apart- ments. Art Benson, his head covered in plaster of Paris, was at their head. They knocked and were admitted. The Principal sat at his desk facing a bust of Euclid. Well, he said, what do you want? I'm busy. Busiest man around here . We demand, sir, that you immediately recall your rash and utterly unfair dismissal of Coach Jones , said Benson fiercely. I will do nothing of the sort, sir , stormed the Principal, and what is more, you shall go with him . But I am the best all round athlete in Bughouse, sir, and the most popular soph in the college . Yes, sir, and the worst mathematician. Go, sir, and take all these oafs with you . Just let me tell you first, sir, that you are killing the spirit of Bughouse , said Bensonmand with a low gurgling sob he rushed from the room, the team follow- ing With its hand on his shoulder. - - - - That night the boys held a big dance to give their dear coach a fitting send-off. There was not a dry eye as that great man, the hero of all Bughouse men past and present, spoke his farewell speech. He told the simple story of how he had come to the college four years before and found it in a backwater as far as sport was concerned, a nest of candy-fiends and cigarette smokersg how in one year he had made it all different, had kept them to their training and raised them to the first rank in the athletic world. He promised to coach them by correspondence, though, of course, he knew well, he said, the emptiness of the offer, for it was in his personality that lay the secret ot' his success. They gave him a clock. The Athletic week against Midvale began in blaz- ing sunshine. The first event was Ili-avy Apparatus work in the Gymnasium , and Bughouse were cont'id1-nt that Benson's substitute, Sid Fairbanks, could lift a heavier weight than the Midvale representative. Now Sid was a good fellow, while Coach Jones was around. but when the coach had gone he had shut himself in his room with a bottle, saying that he didn't care what happened to him. After a day or so, he didn't know either. They got him as far as the arena and he won the toss. He elected to lift the first weight, but after three attempts Midvale's representative had to lift him and the weight as well. Oh well! The next event is ours at any rate , said the Bughouse boys as they went to watch the chess. Hank Harvey will pull that off . But Hank knew he could do nothing without the coach. He was a good chess-playerg not much inferior to Benson, whose place he was taking, and he was in excellent training. But from the start he was outclassed, not himself . He struggled bravely enough. Twice, when defeat seemed certain, he brought his knee up underneath the table and upset the pieces. Twice the pieces were arranged again and he lost his Queen after the second move. Check , said the Midvale representative at length, hastily lifting the table in the air, Hank's pow- erful kick met nothing but air, and the jar sprained his knee. The game was tip and the 2nd event went to Midvale. Come next week and see the next events in this great sporting contest, the boat-race. the egg-and-spoon race, the tug-of-war, and the girls' tunder sixteen! hammer-throwing contest. Film Star: They offered me 100,000 dollars to stay in America. His Partner: Who offered it, America or Eng- land? Continued From Page 13 quite enjoyable. The Britisher laughs at him because he hunts sparrows and starlings and occasionally appears ridiculous in the light of British ideas of sport, but the Frenchman has just as much right to laugh as we have. It is because he isn't shy of playing tennis on the sands across a piece of string that his countrymen have swept the board at Wimbledon. If we could get our younger generation occasionally to face a rough tennis court or a football ground on a slope, we might produce champ- ionsg not that that is of much importance when com- pared to the other advantages, moral and physical, which exercise has over driving aimlessly around in a fool-proof, noisy and wasteful machine.-Old 'I'n. Although anonymous, we have published the fog going because it has its points, we daresay. from the Old 'Un's point of view. But rather are we inclined to think he has a bee in his bonnet, or his is not an elab- orate set of today or that it is quicker and safer to walk than drive in HIS car. If only for the sake of your and our Radio Corporation and General Motors hold- ings, we should like to see him utterly confounded. What do you say?

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD IT for two or more years, the staff are in possession oi' considerable data pertaining to his work, Again, I con- tend that if a person is occupied in doing sofnething which is congenial to him, it will do more to t'orm his character than if he is sitting watching the clock, loaf- ing, and paying no attention to what is going on. Ot' course. people tell of strong characters molded by ad- versity and all that sort of thing, which is all very fine in its place, and which I do not intend to belittle, but we are talking about the scientific formation of charact- er by carefully selected and supervised studies. There are those who will say that if either a Ma- thematical or Classical course is to be chosen, the aver- age boy will naturally take whichever seems easiest. whether he really likes it or not. lVell, if marks and re- sults of previous years are produced, and these 'things put before him in a logical way, he will at once realise the common-sense of the matter, and sign-on for that which he feels he really should, whether it be the eas- ier or not. Yours, etc., -C. F. H. PUZZLES DOUBLE ACROSTIC N. 5 For uprights here's a popular boy. In body-checking far from coy. 1. My first, as a sea, is a rivulet, That sometime went by Gennesaret. 2. The christian name of Gasoline, That boosts the price three cents, I've seen. 3. My third's the entrails, tubes and gall, Yet only awful after all. 4. Our favourite way of eating boeufs : It's French, but known to more than chefs . 5. A mythical monster with snaky hair: Cut off her tail, she'll suit you here. 6. Behead the tiny poacher of rabbit: Or let it wander in Rome: there you have it! ONE MINUTE TEASERS Q13 A boy sold 22 tickets for a concert. The tick- ets were priced at S51 and S2 each. The money amount- ed to 332. How many of each did he sell? Q21 Tom and Dick had been to the range. Togeth- er they made 34 bull's eyes, but Tom got ten more than Dick. How many did each register? Q35 Jimmy bought a toy aeroplane, and a few day later sold it for 32.75 and half as much as he gave for it-gaining 75 cents on the deal. How much did he pay for the toy? C45 Can you read this marriage equation? Love marriage love-armour marriage armour. Q51 Is it possible to take one syllable from a word of five syllables and no syllable is left? Solutions to last issue's puzzles. DOUBLE ACROSTIC No. 4 1. C O G 2. H O O V E R 3. R E T R I E V E 4. I O L A N T H E . S C O T . T A U R I 5 6 7. M O R M O N 8 G 9 S . S 3. Retriever, without his tail, Hr . 6. Lat. Taurus , a bull. 8. Lady Godiva of the long tresses. 9. Morse Code: S O S: ... --- .AVIDO O THE ARABS AND THE MONKEY 14121 nuts. A takes 255 and leaves one for the monkey: ll takes 191 and leaves one for the monkey: C' takes 1-132 and leaves one for the monkey: lb lakes 107 and leave- one for the monkey. All take so each 1:3210 and leave one forthe monkey. FOR BUDDING OFFICERS 301 men. Two deep, 1511 ranks and l over: three deep, 100 tanks and I over: four deegx 75 ranks and 1 over: five deep, 60 ranks and 1 over: six deep, 50 ranks and 1 over: seven deep, 421 ranks exactly. HOCKEY T.C.S. Firsts vs. Ridley Firsts, at St. Catharines, Feb. 2. Ridley: Goal, Fischer: Defence, Subosits, Sea- gram: Forwards, Bell, Hayes. Griffiths: Subs, Innes. Carson. T. C. S.: Goal, Howard: Defence, Johnson, Ni- chol: Forwards, Cameron, Roper, Elliot: Subs, Vi'ily, Robertson. The School journeyed to St. Catharines to play in the first home and home games, and it is also the first time the two schools have ever met on the ice. We play- ed on Ridley's own rink, which is very much smaller' than the one we have been used to, and so our forwards' combination play was rather demoralized. The game was very fast and the checking and rushing of both teams was a treat to watch. Ridley outscored us 9-4: but up till half-way through the third period, it was anybody's game, then the school cracked and Ridley drilled in four goals. For the School Elliot, Cameron and Nichol played best, and for Ridley, Bell. Hayes and Subosits were outstanding. First Period: Ridley broke away fast and Bell and Hayes got through out defence and Howard made a nice stop. Nichol came back with one of his solo efforts that was stopped at the Ridley defence. Hayes and Griffiths came back with a nice combination play which was broken up by our defence. Johnson stick- handled his way through the Ridley team, and Fischer made a beautiful save. Bell came rushing down the left rail, and drove a hard shot into the corner of the net 1-0. The school came back very strong, and kept the play in Ridley's end, and Elliot on a terrific shot from the blue line evened the score, 1-1. Hayes at centre for Ridley was worrying the School attackers with his checking. Seagram came down alone, and fooled our defence, giving Howard no chance to save, 2-1. A few moments later, Nichol came back with one of his spec- tacular solo rushes, and lost the puck near the Ridley net, but managed to get it again and shoved it over. 2-2. Both teams were rushing well. T.C.S., 2: Ridley, 2. Second Period: The play kept around mid-ice for awhile, and then Bell got the puck, and got as far as the defence. but was stopped. Seagram came through again and got a goal on a back hand shot from scramble in front of net, but it was not counted. Ridley were pressing very hard: Howard made lovely save off Bell's hard shot. The School were stopped at centre and Rid- ley came down three abreast and Hayes. receiving pass from Griffiths in front of net, scored, 3-2. Johnson, Cameron, Elliot broke away, but Fischer made a nice save. Ridley's defence was very hard to get through and the School were shooting from the blue line. Elliot was breaking up the Ridley rushes nicely at centre. Bell and Hayes got through again, but Beil shot high. Ni- chol broke up some promising rushes. Bell came down