University of Toronto Schools - Twig Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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TH E T W' I G The short interval that follows is usually of cold water thrown from a distance near devoted to some ruse designed to snatch a enough to the door to expedite a hasty re- few extra minutes of rest. Jasper may treat. clutch his stomach, moan pitifully, and plead After this outrage, Jasper jumps out oi that he is sick to-day and could not possibly bed, trips over both his shoes, dashes across go to school. If successful, the patient will the room with momentary thoughts of fra- HUISC hiS illness till alJ011i n00n, mysteriously tricide, finally realizing that little Hilary is recovering in time for the rugby game. As by this time enjoying his favourite children an alternative, ,IBSPCI may sit up and con- programme under the protection of the pro- f1'0nt The ag8fCSS01' With H bold, fesefltf'-ll verbial paternal wing. There he is, standing expression, ClCCla1'ing in 6 cheated tone that on the cold floor in his bare feet ten minutes to-day is a holiday. Vvhen first attempted, before school begins. ln five minutes he is this gag not only netted Jasper a SinCerC loping clown the street, sufficiently dressed apology, but B150 an undisturbed day in bed. to be decent, although he could have used a As soon as the culprit has left the room, little more breakfast. A few old ladies are Our ' friend settles back On his pillow to hustled off the ste of the street-car as he P analyse the situation. lt is not essential that enters, The amber trafhc light flashes on he should get up for five minutes, and PCT- and the tram starts across the intersection 113195 he Could make it SVCD more if he did sending him sprawling through the crowd not shave this morning. frlihe idea of sleep- with his books far ahead' By a Stroke of mg in his clothes has often crossed his mind. luck he frmds a seat, but his joy is shorblived. Thls would not only Save a great deal of lsn't it to-day that he has to hand in that time in the mornings but would also justify Composition entitled --Dawn on a Wintex. the accusations too often cast at him., Morningus Resolutely he opens a note- Breakfast is not necessary, and if he picked . . . . , book, puts it on his knee, and begins writ- up his clothes and dressed on the street- , , ing, pretending that he cannot see the lady car .... , . , , . . . . who is elbowlng her way towards him. It Jasper s reasoning has becorre quite silly . f i ' I d d h h , , but it does not matter for by this time he is ls ten a ter mme a rea anh. E ' 355151055 asleep again' Sometime later his young of the headmaster. tearing IS air w en e brother is sent upstairs to see why brother Sees him late again' Once more he Vows is not up yet. He dampens our 1-1erO's en, to get up ten minutes earlier ..... and thusiasrn about remaining in bed with a glass HCVCI' C1093- f . I 'E ,pr 70

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THE TWIG Who with their happy chat Discuss this joke and-that! The east corner, there. -Steiner, Simons, Cameron and Hall Add their laughter too. Well there's really nothing else to do. Then we have the nlntelli-gents-ee-ah. Who win the laurels Ye-ah on ye-ah. Maynard, Abbot, Clute and Shiresg To greater learning each aspires. Rance and Wilson come well up Campbell R. and Campbell A. do well almost any day: Dale C.M.C. and McElheran N.B. All are wise, 'tis plain to see. But really the whole form is quite bright For they do their home work every night. lE.ditor's note, Oh yes l ll BAN6f I M so Let-5 ,nie 'izkani of 'H-1, gr-aoltLa'l'ton fho'1',,'! LIFE Every' time we open a magazine nowa- days we are faced with somebody's inside story. What Wallace Beery says when he puts his socks on inside out, the family life of Mickey Mouse, or any number of other astounding things are brought to light. W'e are not in the habit of reading such trash, but since it is so popular we decided to give this form news the personal touch by includ- ing a very intimate revelation of the home life of one of our scholars. The casual sub- scriber to The Twig may form the impres- sion that a U.T.S. boy is a sprightly lad ot high academic ability, a fine athlete, and a born comedian who says those funny things which are a scream in class and yet fall quite Hat when told at the dinner table or put in black and white. How little is really known about him. Our predecessors of twenty-five years tell us unbelievable stories of their younger and palmier days. We give a splendid example below. When l went to U.T.S., l used to get up at two in the morning for if it was rain- ing l sometimes used to lay abed till threel, put the cows in the pasture, ploughed an acre of new land, painted the barn, and walked forty-eight miles to school through the snow. After lighting a fire in the cloak- room ffor there was a stove therel, l swept the floor, and waited an hour for school to begin. Did l ever tell you about the time we hung the teacher up on a meat hook . . Times have changed, and with the times, schoolboys. Let us peek coyIy in through the back window of the home of one of our modern students and see how things are done nowadays. lt is almost any week day morning, and the sleeping form in the fore- ground is our friend Jasper. At about ten to eight, Jasper begins to show signs of uneasiness in his rest. Perhaps he is dream- ing that he is tied to a railway track at 7.51 with the 7.52 train reported on time, or possibly he is surrounded by savage bar- barians who are on the point of braining him-in any case he has a strange premon- ition that some dastardly action is to be performed, and that he is to be the victim of this crime. His dream is interrupted by a sensation of being inside a washing- machine, but it turns out that a relative fwho seems to resent being awake while others slumberl is arousing him. Jasper has often had visions of this sleep brigand stand- ing over his prostrate body, stop-watch in hand, gloating with bulging eyes as the sound of disappearing seconds announce our hero's doom. At the appointed split- second he is pounced upon like a cat attack- ing a doped mouse. His beauty sleep is broken, Jasper has been awakened but they have not got him up yet.

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THE TWIG r e ' 1 c all ff . Q , ' MWLQ7 1 X 1 6 , W N . 7 fl-eo' ' e NW f A -N X V ,F -7.2, 1 ' Q 1. ,s ., M , if ff nikki, -ff X 1. f'13?if 'r v X A l 91 XT?- l!1'l'jk' 'NR 'ls lfi-iig ,I I X,ltNx.LmTr5N N Xi L ll YH X, 5 :lm iw. . ' VJVX ill-I Niki' ll Form Captain: G. Southee Prefect: R. Telfer Athletic Representative: F. Dobson Form Reporters: W. Adamson, Mclntyre Although his imagination was very nimble Bill Shakespeare when he wrote his gay little tragedy Macbeth , and others, could not have foreseen that he was describing some prominent members of Form IV-A. A recent survey of his works revealed :- Telfer: And we petty men Walk under his legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Coutts: He draweth out the thread of his verbosity Finer than the staple of his argument. l-lunnisett: Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o'nights. Adamson Yon Cassius hath a lean and hungry look, He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. Southee: His manner is a sauce, to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words with better appetite, Mackenzie: My meaning in saying that he is a good man, ls to have you understand that he is sufficient. Farncombe: Young in limbs, in judgment old, A man of sovereign parts he is esteemed. Ames: Why, then the World's mine oyster Which I with sword will open. Powell: O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side. Stewart: Sigh no more ladies. Sigh no more. 71