Committee Members
No editor given
Old Pupils' Editor: Edith Kelly
Secretary: Alice Lamb
Treasurer: Nita Woodhouse
Form representatives:
Upper VI: Lily Harrison
Upper V: Lottie Wroe
Intermediate: Gertrude Dawes
Upper IV: Millie Gumpert
Lower IV: Rose Tyndall
Upper III: Maud Allison
Middle III: Jane Parker, Agnes Tonge
Upper Probationary: Isabella Dewhurst
Middle Probationary: Florence Fowkes
No author
School Work
Essay on the value of academic work and the importance of other activities, eg reading novels and travel.
Alice M. Lamb
Festivals and Pastimes in Lancashire
Description of folk festivals in Preston, Manchester, Rochdale, Didsbury, Ashton-under-Lyne, Knot Mill, Whalley, Eccles and Liverpool.
Describes stool ball, ten pins, hot cockles, stag, cross and pile, treacle dipping and duck apple.
A. Crompton
Madame d'Arblay
Continuation from June 1884 Magazine of an essay on the author Frances Burney.
Rozinante
A Haunt of the Piries
Poem about a firgrove.
Rozinante
A Poet
Poem about the author's aspirations to be a poet.
Rozinante
A Picture
Poem about a Winter landscape.
No Author
The Journey of Life
Story based on The Pilgrim's Progress about a journey through life in which experience is depicted as a "dark and gloomy valley," the traveller's guide is an old man who represents Learning and the town to which the traveller is going represents Wisdom.
Sidney Smith
Short advice about how to avoid unhappiness.
Anon
Short epigram about foolishness.
Rabbi Ben Azal
Short advice about marriage.
Violette
Grange
Description of Grange-over-Sands and the area around it.
Rozinante
Sunrise
Poem about sunrise over a landscape.
Girls' Botanical Club
Special meeting to try to encourage support. Attended by about 70 guests. Demonstration of "curiosities" and a lecture by Miss Hodgkinson.
Description of excursions.
Delile
Epigram about a fool and a wise man.
Walpole
Short advice about marriage.
Manchester High School Tennis Club
The following participated in a tennis tournament [details given]: C. Smith, M Winlaid, E Montgomery, L Woodhouse, R Miall, G Taylor, A Leach, R Tindall, M Sykes, N Woodhouse, E Baker, E Eckersley, E Windsor, N Harrison, E Anstruther, M Birley, A Birley, A Crompton, A Stagg, L Harrison, M Roby, A Mawson.
Mr Day made the net.
Miss H Day provided the balls.
Puzzles
Examples of puzzles
Queries, Sales, Exchanges etc
For sale and wanted adverts.
Correspondence, a Subscriber
Letter complaining about the accuracy of information in the article Our Canine Friends in the June 1884 Magazine.