Word: shawnigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amused by your write-up on my old school, Shawnigan Lake, and its headmaster [TIME, Nov. 3], although I question whether the article properly belonged under "Education." As a pupil I always had a vague feeling that I was sharing a common experience with Mr. Lonsdale's German shepherds, and am now glad to learn from the Head's own lips that canines and humans are equally amenable to his educational methods. Rousseau and all these other modern pedagogues may think that boy-training is a somewhat subtler process than dog-training, but that's obviously poppycock...
...wooded wilderness of Vancouver Island, B.C., Lonsdale began with six boys. Today Shawnigan Lake School has 100 boys and 27 masters. One-third of the pupils come from the western U.S. They are easily distinguishable when they return home by their habit of sirring adults and by their preference for "rugger" and cricket. Shawnigan Lake's spartan Tudor dormitories, school ties, daily chapel and iron discipline are still modeled after the England Lonsdale knew 35 years...
When a new boy arrives at Shawnigan Lake, he is known as a "shadow" and is placed in the hands of an older "substance." At first, the shadow can do no wrong and his substance is punished in his place. But the shadow soon learns to stand at rigid attention whenever he meets his headmaster, and to make his bed without a wrinkle...
Last week, with the Michaelmas term at Shawnigan Lake under way, Christopher Lonsdale patted his German Shepherd Judy and pointed a moral: "If I had let Judy run wild and do as she damn wefl pleased as a pup, she'd be a vicious, savage beast today. You can't develop leaders by letting them do as they damn please when they're boys. If nothing else, we're training boys to be less obnoxious...