1924 Magnet Yearbook

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JARVJ::> S'T'REE'I Y
COI...LIfl in 1024, We are on the point of removing
from a building that has long outlived its usefulness. It luu; bccome far too
$lOlall to SH'comOlodate tnl' hUlldreds that fire now enrolled, It is out-of-date in
all its appointments. Its walls are crumbling to deen...·. Tt is being superseded
Ly fin edifice of distinctive heauty, commodious in the numlJcr, the size, and
thc f1r1·II11l!CllIenl.. of its rooms, and skilfull;V designed to mect the very latest
requirements of a strictly modern Collegiate Institute,
It. SCClng most appropriate that, coincidentI)' with the opening of the
new schoul, OUI' time-honourl'd school paper ShOllld IIppear in 11 form so
ehalJgcd in ehllraeter that it is scarcely reeognizBble AA c"rhe Magnet." It was
with no little courap-c 1hilt tIle pllblication ot this enlarged 1lI11gaz;ne was
undertaken by a slllall hflnd of I'lltl"rprising pupils. It 11/1S meant llIallY hours,
yes d1l.ys, of patient toil and persistent endea.vor. But the suceess that has
attended their efforts will 110 doubt be to them IIcleqtHlte compensation. What
they cflrnestly and resoltltely set Ollt to clo, they hfwe doue. They will consider
tlwir aehieycmeut their sufficient rcw{ll'd. At the stlme time, it behOO\'es
us to show ungrudgingly our flpprccintion of the zeal 'and the fidelity with
which lhey haye fulfill~d th/.1 arduous task elltrusted to t.hem.
It is to be hop~d that this issue will r('ach the hands of Illany former
pupils of the school. since till' specinl chnrnC'tl'I' of itf> contents cannot hut
appeal to them. Tt will assuredly (Iuicken their attnchment to their Alma
Mater and quicken their interest in its present-day activities. Doiug this, it
\\·ill prrform oue of the most usdul ser\"iccs l...-ing within the province of a
•I'lchool jonrnlll.
The IPrineipul.