Upper Canada College

Old Times Upper Canada College

Excerpt from Old Times: January 1941 Slowly we learned the qualifications of a gentleman and saw that the thing was hopeless. A gentleman it seemed would take a bath (once a week on bath night) and never try to dodge it. A gentleman would not try to imitate Bishop Dumoulin or chew gum in St. George's. A gentleman, it seemed, couldn't tell a lie - not wouldn't, just couldn't. Limitations like these out such a swath through our numbers that in time we simply gave up. There was no use in it. Mind, don't mis understand me. Of course we could behave like gentlemen, - oh, certainly, -act like gentlemen. At first sight you'd mistake us for it. But we knew all the time that we weren't. I suppose you have the same prob lem still in what we call the new school, and even in the newest parts Of it. But, remember - where we failed, you may succeed. That School was founded to make gentlemen. Stick at it. You'll get there! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.