Editorial Page
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty. I woke, and found that life was Duty. (from 'Life of Duty' by Ellen Sturgis Hooper) Once a traveller walked for a long time. Finally he stopped to rest; he slept; he dreamt; His imagination brought to his sleep-rocked brain the vision of a horse to relieve him of his long tramp and to save his weary body from more pain. In hope and expectation he awoke but all that he found was the long road ahead and the realization that the dream of a ride went out with his sleep. A mediocre football team, which had seen better days and even championships tended to give up hope for victory and spent their time dreaming what would ever happen to them if they were to receive some players from former years. The great backs and linesmen from years before would really 'mop up' the league now and they would be members of a championship team once again. But when the team played its games the miracles never came and they too realized that to win they had to work. They found out that life was not always Beauty but more often Duty. And so it is with our own personal lives. There were many students who suffered the humiliation of failure in the recent Easter examinations and, by the time that this is read, there will be many more who will undergo the even more serious setback of failing the final examinations. Perhaps we had hoped that the exams would be easier or that suddenly we would undergo a period of amazing brilliance when we could answer any question with the necessary accuracy. Too late we discovered that we were not exceedingly brilliant and that the exams were not as easy as we had hoped. For many of us each set of examinations is a crossroad, a time of decision, whether to leave school and go to work or to 'exist' in school a little while longer. It might be well for us to be aware that life after school is going to be very much more difficult than going to school, living off the bounty our parents or guardians and amusing ourselves when studies are completed. There will be a greater distinction between Beauty and Duty. With this theme in mind we congratulate the Bantam basketball team for their excellent showing this year. We all remember how the team did last year. They won only one game in the whole season's play. For the good fortune of not only the Bantam team but to the entire school the coaches and players realized that Duty was necessary to attain success and Beauty. So the team worked and practised and sweated until the last game of this season, with the result that they emerged victors of their league and also conquered the champions of a much larger league. To the individual or the team who can wake up to the fact that life is more Duty than Beauty the problems of life will be more easily conquered and only then will it be evident that underneath life's Duties lie life's Beauties. The Editor  Jack Schoon
8 King Street Port Hope, Ontario 17th February, 1960 Dear Blue and White: I have enjoyed reading the two plays, and am sorry that there weren't more to have made a contest. Writing a play is indeed a very difficult thing and I think the two writers who did attempt it made very good efforts. I have made a few comments which I have attached to the plays. I hope this is the sort of thing you wanted. Yours sincerely, Olga Kershaw Dear Sir: During my few years of attending PHHS. I have noted that the emphasis is on the army cadet corps, giving little if any focal recognition to the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps Skeena recently chosen first for general proficiency in Ontario and third in Canada. I think that this should demand some sort of recognition. I realize that the army cadets have won numerous 'Minor' awards but none that compare to the above awards. These awards have been won by sea cadet corps Skeena in the past five years: General Efficiency at SMCS Acadia from 1955 to 1959; 1956 Dinghy sailing championship; 1957 Whaler sailing Championship, 1959 - Baseball Championship; four boxing and one swimming championship, 1958 - one boxing and two swimming championships; 1956 baseball and boxing championships; 1955 boxing and swimming championships. I am not trying to take anything away from army cadets but I feel that these awards that the sea cadets have won should be acknowledged. Sincerely yours, Cadets of Skeena