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

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4 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD importance until it becomes one of the strongest institu- tions of the School. With these words We leave THE RECORD to fight its own Way, fully assured that Trinity College School Will give it a loyal and unwavering support. Honour Matriculation Success The School had the best record in its history in the Upper School or Honour Matriculation examinations held last June, and the record seems to have been the best in the Province. Mention is made elsewhere of the Scholar- ships won by del Rio and Mackie, and the Honourable Mention Won by MacCallan. del Rio tried eleven papers and won eleven first class honoursg Mackie Wrote eleven papers and won ten firsts and one secondg MacCallan tried nine papers and Won seven Iirsts and two secondsg Bovey tried nine papers and won eight firsts and one third. Those four boys therefore won thirty-six first class honours. The final analysis of the results is as follows:- Number of Candidates .,...................... 49 Papers Written ........................, ....... 3 43 Papers Passed .......,........... ....... 3 14 Papers Failed ......,................... ....... 2 9 Percentage of Passes ............... ....,.. 9 1.55 Percentage of Failures ........... 8.45 1st Class Honours ................,. ........ 9 2 or 26.811 2nd Class Honours ........... ........ 6 1 or 17.8W 3rd Class Honours ........... ....... 5 2 or 15.171 Credits ......................................................,.,......... 109 or 31.776 Total honours .........,......,.................,.....,....... 205 or 59.7Wi Much credit is due to the Senior boys of 1942-1943 and the Staff for these excellent results, unprecedented in our past history. .

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 3 The first number ever made up of The Trinity Col- lege School Record , volume 1, number 1, was put together forty-tive years ago on February 25, 1898, at 6.55 p.m. Eight pages in length, it contained the following editorial which is of pertinent interest to-day: The Trinity College school Record It is with feelings of deep satisfaction that we are able to present to the School the first number of the T.C.S. Record. As the name implies, it will be the Record of the Schoolg not only of all that takes place within her walls and playground, but of the doings and careers of that larger and ever increasing body, who are just as much a part of the School, the Old Boys. We do not mean that our columns will be closed to articles of a more ambitious nature, but our main object is to chronicle the history of the School. There are few, if any, schools of importance which do not publish a magazine of some kind, and such names as the Meteor , the Elizabethan , the Wyke- hamist are well known the world over and form not the Weakest link in the chain that binds men to their Old School. We venture to say that Old Boys of T.C.S. have often felt the loss of such a magazine to keep them in- formed of what is being done here, and we feel confident that they will welcome the RECORD with open arms. These are the reasons which have led to the establish- ment of the paper, and they are such as to appeal to all who have the School's welfare at heart. Some five years ago a School paper was published under the title of 'Red and B1ack', but it died out with the departure of the first editors. The present magazine is issued with the sanction and approval of the Head Master and will be directed by a Committee chosen from the Masters, so that once established it is not likely to fade away, but rather, we hope, to grow in usefulness and

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 5 IN MEMORIAM ROBERT FREE OSLER Lieutenant, 48th Highlanders of Canada Bobs Osler came to the Junior School as a small boy of eleven in September, 1921. He was the third boy in his family to come to the School and a younger brother fol- lowed him. His father, F. Gordon Osler, was here from 1887-92 and for many years has been a kind friend and Governor of the School. Bobs was a most appealing lad with a ready smile and constant good humour. He made friends very easily and seemed to fit naturally into the school life from his first days hereg it was doubtless in his blood, as so many of his family had been at T.C.S. He moved steadily up the School from the lower forms of the J.S. taking an enthusiastic part in all the activities if our life. The twinkle in his eye always bespoke a readi- ness to get fun out of life and many were the schoolboy jokes in which he participated. He became a very good cricketer and was a member of the First Team for two years. He also played on Bigside football and hockey, winning second team colours. He left from the Fifth form and entered the firm of Osler and Hammond, investment brokers, Toronto. After a serious illness he decided to practice farming and he attended the O.A.C. in Guelph doing very well in his course. After several years he returned to the financial business gaining experience in New York and Londong later he joined a firm in Montreal. When war broke out he enlisted with the 48th High- landers and went overseas in 1940. He trained in England until the invasion of Sicily. In that campaign he conduct- ed himself with the utmost gallantry and devotion to duty. Several times in the early days he was mentioned in Press despatches as having led his men successfully and bravely through encounters with the enemy. He was in D Com-