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The Black and Red was the magazine of University School. The November 1914 edition documents the elite school's sporting and lesiure culture, but also the jubilant feelings of the boys soon to be called up to the front. Source: Image Courtesy of The Wilson Archives, St. Michaels University School. Date: November 1914.

The Black and Red was the magazine of University School. The November 1914 edition documents the elite school’s sporting and leisure culture, but also the jubilant feelings of the boys soon to be called up to the front (click to view PDF).
Source: Image Courtesy of The Wilson Archives, St. Michaels University School.Date: November 1914.

A letter from a University School alumni describing his participation in the Second Battles of Ypres, published in the school magazine. Source: Image Courtesy of The Wilson Archives, St. Michaels University School. Date: May 1-2, 1915.

A letter from a University School alumni describing his participation in the Second Battle of Ypres, published in the school magazine (click to view PDF).
Source: Image Courtesy of The Wilson Archives, St. Michaels University School.Date: May 1-2, 1915.

Students put on a brave face despite the growing cost of the war in these editorials from the University School magazine (click to view PDF).Source: Image Courtesy of The Wilson Archives, St. Michaels University School. Date: November 1915 and March 1916.

Students put on a brave face despite the growing cost of the war in these editorials from the University School magazine (click to view PDF).
Source: Image Courtesy of The Wilson Archives, St. Michaels University School.Date: November 1915 and March 1916.

The diary of J.C. Barnacle, the headmaster of University School, intersperses news from the war with news from school. Source: Courtesy of The Wilson Archives, St. Michaels University School. Date: March 1915

The diary of J.C. Barnacle, the headmaster of University School, intersperses news from the war with news from school (click to view PDF).
Source: Courtesy of The Wilson Archives, St. Michaels University School: 1998.31. Date: March 1915

High School Entrance Exam, 1915. Source: Image Courtesy of Royal BC Museum, BC Archives - Library item: Forty-Fourth Annual Report of The Public Schools of the Province of British Columbia 1914-1915 by the Superintendent of Education. Date: 1915

High School Entrance Exam, 1915.
Source: Image Courtesy of Royal BC Museum, BC Archives – Digital call number J-00126 – J-00133 Library item: Forty-Fourth Annual Report of The Public Schools of the Province of British Columbia 1914-1915 by the Superintendent of Education.

Date: 1915