The High School MagazineMontreal, Canada . ecent months the sons of the schoolhave been offered an unique opportunity ofmaking history and, incidental y, of bringingfame to the institution which fostered their lasting honour, be it said, they havenot been slow to grasp it. May each of youprove himself worthy of these glorious pre-decessors, and, be it in w ar or be it in peace,may you too be ever prepared to do yourbit for the Empire, for the Dominion andfor the old High School of Montreal! 14 THE HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE Personally, I count it a great privilege and agreat honour to have b
The High School MagazineMontreal, Canada . ecent months the sons of the schoolhave been offered an unique opportunity ofmaking history and, incidental y, of bringingfame to the institution which fostered their lasting honour, be it said, they havenot been slow to grasp it. May each of youprove himself worthy of these glorious pre-decessors, and, be it in w ar or be it in peace,may you too be ever prepared to do yourbit for the Empire, for the Dominion andfor the old High School of Montreal! 14 THE HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE Personally, I count it a great privilege and agreat honour to have been associated withsuch a school, even for so short a time. Littledid I think five years ago, w hen I first enteredit as a member of the staff, that I should leaveit to become a soldier. Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis. Whether or when I return is on theknees of the gods. So, to quote the words ofthe noblest Roman of them all—If we do meet again, why, we shall not—why than, this parting was well made. D. H. THE WORK OF THE PAY OFFICE Tunbridge House,Liphook, Hants, April 24th, Mr. Gammell, When mother wrote me saying that youwanted some sort of a letter from me for theschool magazine, I said to myself, Whatsthe use^ I dont know anything about thewar. Now that is literally true because,after all, I am in more or less of a backwaterof the war, and although I have seen no endof preparations for war I have not seen any-thing of the real thing. As you know, I have been over in this coun-try about fourteen months and in that time alot of things have happened. It was a yearago yesterday that the battle of Ypres started—and it was the battle of Ypres that put anend to the hopes of the 23rd Battalion of goingto the front as a unit. We got word on the26th of April last year that we must send adraft to the front to replace some of the cas-ualties in the battle. By the first of May ourwhole battalion with the exception of theheadquarters staff w
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