1952 Magnet Yearbook

70 T HE )lAGSJ-;T
He-hu m ! Another Easter is about
to go by and that means an ot her yea r
of school is gone beca use the Summer
holidays come so Quickly once S pring
sets in .
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Th e summer holidays ca me ... and
went. By Sept ember. the re we re so
many in ches added to you J a rvis ltes
that I could sca rce ly belie ve my eyes.
J up it er was gl ad t hat so many st u­
dents returned to this hall of fa me
and didn't linger on the ways ide or
drop off. )I y. but it w all good to see
you aU back ! When you left fo r your
va cations. the halls were :\0 d ull a nd
dark and cold that I had t he urge to
scamper off to some holiday resor t too
.. . then. the nooks an d cranni es rang
out with sweet voices and boomed
bass note s at me and I was glad I
didn 't go. J udgi ng from the brawn
and beauty around. Venus must be
having a busy time, which reminds
me, I must ask her if the arrival of
our two new an d ha ndsome teachers
:\11', Pickering and :\11', Duncan had
anyt hing to do with the increased
en rolment of fem mes this year,
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Hot-dogs and cokes ! When I thi nk
of initiation now, it was more f un
than a circus ! Those poor first form ­
ers ! I remember the dread ed hours of
my own ini tiation and. tha nk good.
ness, t hey a re memories. As yet Initiation
involves only t he gi rls. I wonder
if the boys will ever IJt> ca ug ht up
in its vices. (. , . then t here would be
bedla m I) or if this "torture" will be
confined to the weaker sex.
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I have to smile when 1 think how
ridiculous Juno was at t he beginnin g
of the vear. She ca me to me, you
know, wor- ried , . . that :your school
spirit wall dy ing out. 1 wish she
hadn't had to go a way so soon. It
would have been sheer pleas ure to
han seen her face, lit up wit h surprise
at t he row t he impending st u­
den t council elections brou ght up.
You couldn 't get away from it ~
Eve rvone talked about it everywhere.