1944 Magnet Yearbook

30
THE MAGNET, 1944
or less uniform budget. Several pupils
complimented the Council on their work,
but one or two sounded like the following:
“We are told, not asked.” “The raising of
money is too ambitious. We had to give
a dollar for the latest drive and it was all
I could do with my father’s help to get it.
I don’t mind Nickel Days and T-dances,
but there is an extreme at Jarvis sometimes.”
Perhaps a Student Council would
solve the problem.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
This is aptly shown
by our question: Are
xb you in favour of seeing
j student g o v e rnment
{ ' practised to an even
k greater extent in Jarvis?
J The exact percentages
’ are: pro 49.38 per cent,
con 23.45 per cent, and undecided,
did not answer (those who did not
understand) and those who wished a
50-50 council, 27.17 per cent. Practically
eve^ student wishes to have a student
council, although we came across such remarks
as: “No, it would only make a
clique!” “Absolutely not. This sort of
government leads to student dictatorship
where one individual can possess too much
control over others of his own age. This
destroys social equality. Present method is
a satisfactory compromise.” Yet, we found
several answers such as the following:
. “Yes, good idea, but if it is started, only
partial authority should be given to the
students the first year, and more responsibility
later on.” This questionnaire was
not written for the purpose of developing
further a student government movement.
REFORMS
Well, Jarvis, stand firm on those foundations
because now you are going to be
bombarded with demands. More assemblies
and dancing at noon are highest on
the list, with dancing lessons for the boys.
The library is considered excellent, although
some adherents clamour for more
advanced reference books, and lower and
middle school still beat their fists in vain
on the “senior special” section. (Do these
objectors realize that the seniors pay fifty
cents a year towards this library?). A
nine o’clock opening of school would be
acceptable by everyone, especially if we
got out at 3.15.
Other suggestions include: omission of
beans in the cafeteria, a school band with
popular music, chesterfields in the lunchroom.
A boy actually wants a new mirror
in the boy’s washroom! Moving staircases
and elevators are still the ideals of
dreamers and teachers. Yet, we find one
person who declares: “Jarvis does not
need reform. It’s just some of the people
going there that we should work on!”
LOVE-LORN COLUMN
Oh, to have a little house,
To own the hearth and stool, etc.
We have come to the end of our investigation.
We' end with marriage as the fate
of 95 per cent of our Jarvisites. Our students
are resigned to their fate, and have
frankly admitted that “funnier things have
happened!” We have actually found one
brave male who is going to marry as many
times as possible, but, according to one
cynic, he is mad, for “no man wants to be
married; he is caught”.
We are touched by the problems of every
shape and form which have been submitted,
although the majority will have to be
answered in private. By the way, whoever
sent in an algebra problem ought to
be ashamed—it took the committee two
periods to figure out how not to do the
question.
Q.—How do you teach a man not to
leave his shoes in the middle of the floor
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