Vaughan Road Academy - Acta Studentium Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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ACTA STUDENTIUM Page 51 CAESAR! Now Caesar went out with the Romans, His pen and his ink in his handg He went forth to conquer and pillage And write a new tale of the land. He first met the excellent Belgae Who turned out a hard nut to crack: But Caesar just rattled 'em under And stood where they couldn't hit back. The Britons indeed were a problem, But Caesar was chewing his peng And shortly he started to scribble And landed with numerous men. The island was grim and foreboding, And Caesar quite lost his fine art. He buckled on sword, belt, and helmet And ordered, Please, Jimmie, my cart! Now Boadicea was brilliant, Thugh Latin was dead to her, toog She rallied her far-scattered forces And taught him a new thing or two. Unfortunately for Caesar, His pen and his ink and his war, The senate just tickled his giblets And the great man existed no more. Now this is a sad little story, And, sadder still, Caesar lives on With poets like Homer and Virgil And every old son-of-a-gun. A ustin Edward, 4-A 1 1013 IIIA aime le mieux la classe de fran- Qais le vendredi parce que ce jour-la le francais est pour les eleves, surtout pour les garcons ce qu'est l'eau pour un canard. Les autres jours nous travail- lons fort a la gramniaire et au livre de lecture, mais le vendredi nous avons seulement quelque formes de verbe a preparer et nous passons tout le temps a lire des contes de fees. Nous sommes naturellement trop grands pour lire en anglais les contes de fees mais pas trop grands pour les lire en franeais. En franeais c'est different. Nous tenons tellement a les lire que quelques etudiants oublient quelquefois de les remettre et, malgre la surveillance de Thompson, les petits livres disparais- sent l'un apres l'autre. Nous avons peur qu'un jour il n'y ait pas de contes de fees at lire et ce sera bien vrai si IHA ne cessent pas de les emporter. Les garcons, qui y sont les plus interesses, sont Bates. McDonald, O'Shea, Mc- Keoen et Rowney. Mlle. Roach croit que IHA est sa meilleure classe en frangais de la troisi- eme annee parce que c'est sa seule classe en frangais de cette annee. Malgre sa grandeur, son bruit et ses garcons c'est une classe qui travaille bien a l'ecole mais pas toujours a la maison en pre- paration pour la classe. En verite, Hutt, jackson, McLean Tonkin et Saunders sont les meilleurs travailleurs. J. Rowney et Bert Day, 111.4

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Page 50 ACTA STUDENTIUM tContinued from Page 48? Mr. Antonio was then asked if he had anything to say. He replied But little, fand then talked for eighteen linesj. Mr. Bassanio, as a last resort tried to trade in his wife for Antonio. The bench would not permit it. Mr. Gratiano ffruit vendorj said he wished his wife were in heaven. f'Why not Reno, commented the judge. The court then awarded Mr. Shylock a pound of Mr. Antonio's flesh, and the law gave it to him. Justice Portia reminded Mr. Shylock that he was to be careful not to shed any blood when he cut the steak off for it was not provided for in the bond. The prosecutor became confused, for he realized that it would be a rather diffu- cult thing to do. He replied that he would accept three times the value of the bond. It was being handed to him when the judge interrupted by warning Soft CShakespeare for Nix J Therefore prepare to cut off the fleshfl Mr. Shyolck, whimpering with a Win- some whine, begged for the principal, as he did not wish to risk his life by exact- ing the forfeiture. But his petition was refused. f'He had refused it in the open court. Mr. Shylock, f'Then the Devil give him good of itfl fEnglish expurgatedj. He preferred to proceed to perform the operation on Mr. Antonio. But the judge, grabbing hold of Shy- lock, said 'fTarry, Yid, the law is still hanging on to you. She then informed him ,that, much to his surprise, he was trying to take Mr. Antonio's life, which is against the law. Therefore he had to give Antonio half his goods, the other half to the privy cougher Qloudest cough- erj, of the States. Therefore he had better ask the Duke for his life. The Duke replied, before he asked him that he was given his life free of charge. But the disappointed, disgruntled, de- jected, disillusioned dumb-bell, dolefully replied, HYou take my clothes prop: you might as well take my house and all. Kill me, see if I care. justice Portia, What mercy can you render him, Antonio? Mr. Gratiano, Only a halter gratisf' Mr. Antonio replied that he was will- ing to let him have half his belongings to hang himself with, provided that when he died he would become a Christian and leave his entire wealth to Lorenzo and Jessica, his eloped youngsters. The Duke, He shall do this, or else I do decant the pardon which I late pro- nounced herefi Shylock, It's O.K. by me. But I don't feel so good. I need an Aspirin. So long, I'll ring you up laterf, Exit Mr. Shylock. After an exchange of engagement rings, the rest of the occupants of the courtroom departed, got married, and lived happily ever after. Spencer Piper IIID Goop ADVICE Thou art a fool, said his head to his heart. Indeed, the greatest of fools thou art To be led astray by the trick of a dress, By a smiling face or a gleaming tressf' Then Ruth came by and her face was fair, The light gleamed soft on her golden hair, And her lips were blooming a rosy red. Then his heart spoke outg this is what it said, Be a fool while you're young, Soon enough you'l1 be dead.

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Pa ge 50 ACTA STVDEXTIUM INTERSCHOOL Under the able direction of Mr. Nose- worthy our debating team of Kenric Marshall and Spencer Piper won the debating competition for the County of York , thereby bringing another cham- pionship to Vaughan Road. ,The subject of the debates was: Resolved that government control of armaments is the most practical and desirable plan under present world con- ditions for the promotion of world peace . Upholding the affirmative side of this question our loquacious team defeated in quick succession York Memorial: Earl Haig: Uxbridge. 'tResolved that there are more prac- tical and desirable means of preventing DEBATING international war than by government control of the manufacture of arma- ments , was the subject allotted for the semi-final and final debates. To prove their versatility this inimitable pair defeated Etobicoke defending the affirmative and then entering the final against Long Branch the continuation schools' champions, sucessfully defended the negative side. The debaters feel indebted to Mr. Noseworthy for the hours he spent with them and without whose support they would not have been so successful also Mr. Evans and Mr. Mclieown for their kind assistance. 110-11 3-B DRAMATICS This year the girls of 3B decided to try their hand at dramatics. Consee quently the schedule for the English periods was arranged so that one Friday each month would be set aside for this purpose. The subjects of the plays chosen by the groups, seven in number, were varif ous: Canadian History,love,comedy, and mystery. In spite of the fact that girls met with all the inconveniences of amateurs and had no 'help from the teacher, the performances were quite successful and in many cases a good deal of acting ability was shown. SALES CHAMPIONS - FORM II-F