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(By Albert R. Hassardo-
varsity of Toro,‘
Very few. headmasto
advanced ichools hal*
prhue favourites with
throughout their en$
careers as was the
Henry J. Crawford,
timely death, yet in
lifes expectancy, occu
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fug career as classlital.:
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or thirty-five years
()this pupils there at
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tership of Dr. George
of thnlinest. teacher*
sided over a school.
Canada. He was a
teaming, both chissiesI
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lands touched upon in. -ons, un-
til the Greek passage'fir• the day
seemed to pass like a vistOtiary pano-
rama before the students:
When Professor Cranford went to
Belleville, he took part the close -
cal work upon himself; snd -followed
fast in the footsteps of,the master.
Mr. Crawford had not travelled much,
but he speedily, saw that the pictur-
ing of the lessons, as his_superior
had been in the habit 'of doing, was
of lasting benefit, and he.;.did it, but
in his own striking and euiphatic way.
During a translation exercise his
hands would be in motiOrt-a ship
would be out there, a galiary yonder,
an army of infantry would be here -
all would . be in motion., We boys,
who were in those .earl3e classes of
the late Mr. Crawford „would fight
these ancient battles in .the classroom
and our only regret vreuad be that
the .mysteries of what Was going to
happen next would be -painfully con-
ealed in tthe depths of a language
which we are doing our best to mas-
ter.
Professor Wheeler, of, one of the
great western American universities,
years later adopted some such similar
method of teaching the classics, and
indeed went a little further. For
Brandon Matthews Nsays that he
startled the teaching world by his
methods, when it :wagspublished even
in England of him that.mBen Wheeler
was teaching • Greek witik a tl,tupie 10B"
tent." Certatnly if Mr. traafferd did
not use the lantern, he did not make
the lessons less visible to the schol-
ars.
But with the end of the classes the
late Mr. Crawford's work with the
studentswas not complete. Just as
soon as the classes were dismissed
for recess, he would be out in the
yard with the boys. We indulged
much then in the game of football.
"Rugby" was not known, and we
played the only kind we did know,
namely "association football" as it
afterwards became designated. Mr.
Crawford would not thrust himself
forward as a captain of one of the
,sides, but would generally be content
with any place that was assigned to
him. But we would not, he playing
long before we saw that there was
only one real leader in the game, and
that was our classical master. Ile
'kept an eye on everything, insisted on
the most positive fairness in every
part of the play, and even taught
he boys to copy many an example of
his own. One of these was his meth-
od of meeting the ball when it would
be kicked towards a player and would
reach that player just in a position
where, if struck with the hand, would
produce much of an effect. But
touching the ball with the hand was
inadmissible. And our teacher would
on an occasion such as that, throw
his arms widely apart, and meet the
full force of the hall with the body,
the shoulder, the knee, or even /the
head. While the physical result was
not just what might have been de-
sired, at the same time the moral re-
sult was emphatic, and in the many
games which we played of that game,
seldom 'do I remember of a player
having been required to he warned to
play fairly or else incur the dis-
pleasure of the leading spirit of the
game, Mr. Crawford.
Even in those early days of teach-
ing, Mr. Crawford had a wonderful
command of language, and his wit
was of the brightest that is recorded.
He would seldom give commands or
directions as others were in the hab-
it of doing: His (+oh, epigrams
and- expressions were eagerly watch-
ed for even by those who, although
they were seated in the same class-
room where he was teaching, would
not be participating in the same les-
sons. On one occasion a youth nam-
ed -I remember the name s� well, but
let me disguise it by employing the
alias Smith in its place -Smith had
been lacking in his attentionto the
work under consideration and Mr.
Crawford noticed it very quickly. The
teacher paused in his \ VOrk, waited a
moment, but with his gaze fixed upon
the unfortunate Smith. Every one
followed the ga7e of the master,
Smith alone for the moment except-
ed. Presently amidst the painful
silence Smith too looked up, saw all
eyes riveted on hitn, and the master
gazing at him with merciless convic-
tion. Then the silence was broken by
the fiiiister's words to the confused
Smith, seated in the rear of the class
room:
"Smith, • arise, take up -not your
bed, but your books, and walk hither;
seat yourself in my presence where
the temptation to ressit instruction
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FOWL_SUPPER
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A Fowl Supper will be served in, the Metbeilist
Seaforth, under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid, on
TIIANKSGIVING DAY, NOVEitilltElt, gth. 4.
FrOm 6 p.m, till o'clock.
A verlexcellent programme will be given by titre following taien‘
BERTHA BRIGHT
Quartette of that city; the Choir, and a number of our first -o ,
Detroit's foremost Contralto and Soloist of the lithium tad
local talent.
Rev. H. D. Moyer, Goderich, a former pastor, Will give
address.
REV:R. FULTON IRWIN, Chairman.
Admission -50 Cents.
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will afflict you no longer."
Amidst an outburst of merriment
on all sides, which it was impoasible
to restrain, the abashed Smith com-
plied; awkwardly arising, he made
his way to a vacant seat in the front
of the class -room, where he sat down,
the most confused creature in the
city. Then the master, seeing every
Ole else enjoying his rich utterance,
proceeded to enjoy it himself, laughed
with the others, even induced Smith
to join in the merriment, of which
he had been the unfortunate source,
and then, with the suddenness of the
sun passing under a cloud, all became
composed 6nce more, and the lesson
proceeded even more vigorously than
ever, possibly improved by the mom-
entary and entertaining diversion.
Reverting again to the field of
sports, the late Mr. Crawford's lead-
ership was constantly self-evident. I
had been in another high school, it
only in this was a teacher constantly
in our out -door sports, essentially
"one of the boys." Outside of the
school there was one excellent set of
opponents that we came into contact
with quite frequently. Away to the
west of the city of Belleville and on
the high -ground overlooking the Bay
of Quinte was the deaf and dumb
institute of Eastern Ontario. At
times we would meet the students of
that institution in games -chiefly in
the game of football. The inmates
were excellent players. They played,
in fact, almost scientifically. Their
captain communicated by signs to his
team his instructions to them. The
last autumn I was in the Belleville
High School, our school played a
match with the mutes of the Deaf
and Dumb, Institute Before engag-
ing in the game Mr. Crawford gath-
ered his team together, and told its
members that they must pay atten-
tion to the signals given to the deaf
and dumb mutes, and learn, if pos-
sible, what they were, and he also in-
structed his team in a set of signs
which while perhaps not so elaborate
as those used by his opponents, would
at the same time help to put his team
on track of the signs of the team that
would be in opposition. He emphati-
cally urged on playing a game in
which signals would replace spoken
words, and when the battle came to
be fought, it was one of the most
s:lint games, in so far as vocal ut-
terances were concerned, as 1 can
ever remember. I do not recall now
which team was the winner, but I do
remember seeing, during its exciting
course, our team's captain constantly
watching the captain of the enemy,
studying his signals as best he might,
and taking every possible advantage
of the quick, and often accurate,
knowledge derived in this manner.
Many years afterwards I met the
late Professor Crawford on a field of
sport in Toronto. He spoke to me,
calling me by name, although I do
not know if he recalled me as one of
his former pupils, but I did recognize
in him, during the progress of the
game ill which he had just partici-
pated, the undaunted leadership, the
high spirit of fairness, and the won-
derful versatility, which were among
his leading characteristics when he
taught in Belleville High School,
when he was emphatically "a boy's
man."
As I say, I lost sight of Professor
Crawford during many of the long
years which followed my pleasant, ex-
periences with him in the Belleville
High School. But this was, of course,
by no means because of his inact)vi-
ties. He left Belleville mt. the end of
his first year there, and became class-
ical master of Seaforth High School,
where his interests were many and
his 'endearments not a few. He left
his mark in that educational institu-
tion, even as he had done at Belle-
ville, and as he was first, in the
realm of ancient learning, so he was
also first in the realm of sports. To
deviate frost generalities to particu-
lars. he was accounted in the latter
sphere of actitity as one of the hest
"forwards" on the football field in
the north-western section of the
Province.
He remained at Seaforth for three
years, after which he joined the staff
of Parkdale Collegiate Institute in
Toronto. There he also was the
same premier figure in the class-
room and on the field of sport that
he had been in other places. It is
said that he laid the foundation of
this last-named Collegiate Institute's
pre-eminence in sport during the
period that he taught tlse languages
of ancient renown in that educational
institution.
In the year 1907 he becarae prin-
cipal of the newly established River-
dale Collegiate Institute, situated in
a section of Toronto with was then
surrounded very largely by open
fields, later destined to become a resi-
dential centre of the most ample, and
even previously unimagined, propor-
tions. It is said that he drove from
home to home in order to secure
pupils for the new Collegiate Insti-
tute, and out -distanced the growth
of the surrounding locality in this
personally stimulated growth which
he gave to the new Collegiate Insti-
tute. That it speedily became a rad-
iating point of education Was in no
small measure due to the influence of
a master who mingled the mental
and physical development of those
who came beneath his almost magic
influence.
In 1910 he became headmaster of
the newly organized University
Schools which were established in
connection with the Faculty of Edu-
cation of Ontario. The venture in
establishing this novel branch of an
advanced school was looked upon
with much anxiety, but all fears for
its success were speedily dispelled
under the enthusiastic Professor
Crawford. At once the school swept
forward into a success that was al-
most beyond belief, and it is no Aks-
paragernent of others to say that he
was largely the source of the inspira-
tion which made the new venture so
magnificently successful, that they
surpassed the highest expectations of
their founders. To the pupils in the
new schools he lectured on Classical
Methods, a subject in which he had
few rivals on this continent.
"Let a teacher he seen at play as
well as at work, if you want to make
him effective with his pupils," was
his way to the hearts as well as to
the understandings of those who sat
before him in his classes. And at
the University Schools he was fore-
most in athletics as well as in class-
ics.
He held this position until his early
and lamentable death, which was pre-
ceded hy a long and painful. illness
And although he has passed away he
will live in the recollection of his
thousands of pupils, as well as of a
wider community, over which he ex-
erted a deep although perhaps less
easily defined influence, as one of
those giant characters that projects
itself far and enduringly into the fu-
ture.
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RURAL LIFE IN SOUTHERN
MANITOBA
The harvest is past and the summer
is ended, and last week we feared
that our usually short autumn was
over. The first severe frost came on
October eleventh; blighting the sweet
peas, nasturtiufs, asters, poppies,
gladioli, and dahlias. still in bloom.
This was followed by a light fall
of snow a few days later, which, how-
ever, soot% disappes;_red, hut the in-
creasing thickness of ice nn the water
barrel each morning gave rise to th:,
fear that. "freeze-up" was arriving
before its time.
The term "freeze-up" is probably
Western, and applies to the time when
the ground becomes frozen ton hard
for further cultivation. It usually
comes on the second week of Novem-
ber- --sometimes though not often,
later, -- and on the rare occasions
when it comes earlier the farmers are
(taught, with their fall ploughing not
completed. and as in the fall of 1919,
when it came unusually early, much
of the potato crop suffered.
In this western country the farm-
ers have a Marathon with the sea-
sons. The rush to got on with the
seeding as soon as the land is fit in
spring, seems hardly over when hay-
ing is in order. The growth is rapid
owing to the great amount of sun-
shine through the long summer days.
Much of the hay in this district is
from the meadows in the Turtle
Mountain Timber Reserve. These
meadows are covered with native
grasses on the dried bottom of what
had at one time been small lakes and
sloughs.
About the end of July the farmer
moves in with a camping outfit more
or less pretentions. It may consist
of a tent, cook stove, bed, and other
accessories to contribute to the com-
small 'lake', in the
nibt lairds and the ithigh,
gee wilt the dbitant Y
the coyotes in 'pursuitof sores,
"nod rabbit, and the lire Mem int
von; theAgitss saI tufa reds usd,
mese. by * water's edge.
the rqged Othel .of the, l'eleto*,
whose lakes and 'keg* are efiund-'
ant, the trails in summer naturally .
follow the ridges or hogs' bee*: but
in winter when practically alt the MY
is drawn, the water runs and lake*
are followed.
Harvest follows fast on the basis of
haying, and even before the last ate& 4,
le up, *reeking has started. The.aelPh
the autumn is usually dry, traismag -
in 1921 was seriously interrupted br
wet weather, and much of the PAU
sprouted in the stooks. This 'rear,
rain during the first half of.Stiptens-
ber delayed threshing, but the grain
did not suffer.
Though June was hot and dry, suf-
ficient moisture followed to produce
good crops of all kinds, especially
oats. There is an abundance of feed
in the country this year. Potat,cibs
and garden produce are- also very
plentiful.
When threshing is at last complet-
ed, the rush to get on with the work
is as great as ever. The root crop
must be gathered in, gain hauled out,
plowing done and general prepara-
tions made for the approaching win-
ter. The weather may be unpleasant
and the cold severe at times, yet winr
ter in Manitoba has its pleasant side.
There is now time for rest and recrea-
tion, reading and entertainment, skat-
ing and dancing.
But "freeze-up" is still to come.
Skies are bright again, the thermom-
eter has risen, wild ducks and geese
are still flying about, and lighting on
the stubble fields to feed, and yester-
day a magpie hopped gaily across the
lawn.
"This dreamy Indian summer day,
Attunes the soul to tender sadness;
We love -but joy not in the ray -
It is not summer's fervid gladness,
But a melancholy glory,
Hovering softly round decay,
Like swan that sings her own sad
story,
Ere she floats in death away.
The day declines, what splendid dyes
In fleckered waves of crimson driven
Float o'er the saffron sea that lies
Glowing within the witern heaven!'
Oh, it is a peerless even!
See the broad red sun has set,
But his rays are quivering yet
Through Nature's veil of violet,
Streaming bright o'er lake and hill.
But earth and forest lie so still
It sendeth to the heart a chill;
We start to cheek the rising tear -
'Tis beauty sleeping on her bier."
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CENTERIAN PASSES
Arthur Knox passed peacefully(
away on Thursday morning at the
home of Ins daughter, Mrs. J. E.
Swarts, Shuter Street, Wingham, at
the remarkable old age of 101 years
and nine months.
The venerable citizen was a native
of Ireland, and before coming to
Wingham, was a resident of Kempt-
ville and later of Clinton. Prior to
attaining the century mark he was
a familiar figure in the life of Wing -
ham. An enthusiastic amateur gard-
ener, he was always -happy among
his vegetables i)r flowers and consid-
ered this and other outdoor occupa-
tions in large measure responsible
for his longilife.
Mr, Knox lived in the reigns of six
sovereigns, and was always a loyal
Britisher. He was fond of relating
tales of earlier (lays and particularly
of the period in which he came from
I reload
In religion he was an Anglican and
politically a staunch Conservative,
The late Mr. Knox is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. J. E. Swart:, and Mrs.
Wright, of Toronto.
On January !ith. of 1921, a number
of the mon of Wingham called at
Mrs. Swart,' home and presented Mr.
Knox with a congratulatory address
and a gold headed cane. The able
manner in which the old gentleman
thanked them for their token of es-
teem was worthy of a man half his
years. Mr. Knox did not grow old,
but from outside appearance at least,.
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jut as he was when he stayed
with the Swart,: family in the Queens
Hotel.
The remains were interred in the
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family plot in the Clinton Cemetery,
nn Saturday morning. Rev. Mr. Snell
conducted the funeral services. The
pallbearers were Messrs, Fred Orr, L.
C...Young, L. Kennedy, J. W. McKih-
bon, Oliver Thompson and Reeve Tip -
ling.
CLINTON
Small Fire -Fire was discovered
nn the roof of the Collegiate Insti-
tute Monday morning, just as the
pupils were gathering at 9 o'clock.
The firemen responded promptly and
with good water pressure were able
to extinguish the blaze in short or-
der. It is not clear whether the
cause was a spark from the chimney
or a. defective chimney. Soft coal is
being burned at the school,