GOOD-BYE FOR EVER

Northern Advocate, 8 December 1936, Page 2

GOOD -BYE FOR EVER

So you’ve buried it deep, the big bad Pro., And we’re all supposed to be glad. Maybe you’re right—l hope you are, Biit I feel a trifle sad.

For years'it has been the standard set For scholars, both grave and gay. Each did his best to win it, no doubt, ' Though some of them fell by the way.

Not all are clever, hut all can try And most of them do, I know, But will they get careless, and

say to themselves — Who cares? Now there’s no horrid Pro.

And I think that ivee scrap of paper Was worth a great deal after all; It kept children up to the mark; made them work. Even ivhen the great “outdoor” woiild call.

Maybe my views are old-fash-ioned, Bnt really, I’m anxious to see All children reach upward to get the best. The Pro. seemed an incentive to me.

But you’ve tolled the bell; you’ve buried it deep. I’ll try to think it’s better so. May we never have cause to regret the deed; Good-bye for ever, dear Pro. —lnterested.