By Land and By Air

one asked a question in class to which the answer was

- ”You should have learned that in the lower grade schools.” Math was my favourite subject and I enjoyed arguing with Mr. Prowse, and I learned a few tricks of how I could get ahead of him in Physics. Was I ever glad that when I arrived back in fourth year, Ihad finished my Physics and the low marks, and his sarcastic remarks no longer counted against my good marks in Economics and the pleasant atmosphere of being in Mr. Murray’s class. In fact, after his teaching me for my first three years, the only salute I got from Mr. Prowse on my return in fourth year was to be ”thumbed” out of his room when, the first day back, I got into his room by mistake instead of the Chemistry room.

FIRST YEAR

It is, perhaps, that the school of 1930 may have had a higher standard for the knowledge of the day than is required of the students of today. But stop and think of all the advancements since 1930 - I remember stating to the professor when he said, ”You could keep halving a piece of cheese until infinity” that I said ”What when you get down to one molecule and split it into atoms?" Until then no one had split the atom. There was no atomic age. There was no radar or TV or computers. No one noticed that if you threw a stone in the water, the waves came into the shore or wharf in a circle and then returned backwards, but someone noticed this, and thus radar was invented — how

many of such common things occur in nature? As I read back to the Middle Ages, I note that many of our useful inventions were discovered by chance, and

by observations of nature. In first year, I learned that vast knowledge was

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