Manchester High School For Girls
search click here to search

Database : School Magazines, 1883 -1952

1885 October

Committee Members

No editor given

Old Pupils' Editor:  Edith Lang

Secretary:  Ruth Lamb

Treasurer:  Nita Woodhouse

Form representatives:

Senior:  Fanny Tedsham

Upper VI:  Margaret Taylor

Lower VI:  Gertrude Dawes

Upper V:  Dorothy Cornish

Middle V:  Annie Truscote

Lower V:  Marian Alcock

Intermediate:  Maud Williamson

Upper IV:  Jessie Headridge

Middle IV:  Mabel Swindells

Lower IV A:  Augusta de Jong

Lower IV B:  Janet Harlow

Upper III:  Ada Carboll

Middle III:  Norah Wahltuch

Lower III:  Lilian Hollingworth

 

A. F.

Our Holiday at Grange

Description of a holiday in the Lake District.

 

Rozinante

Failure

Poem about not being overwhelmed by failure.

 

Daisy

Industries of the Lake District, Part I, Bobbin Making

Description of how bobbins such as those used in the cotton industry are made.

 

Mechante Minette

A Hindoo [sic] Fairy Tale

Story about a magic parrot and a king.

 

Per Ardua

Short Sketch of Irish History, from 1066-1702

Essay on the Irish rebellions during the reign of Elizabeth I and the Civil War. [Continued in Magazine for December 1885].

 

Sappho

On Board The Great Western

Description of a visit to the ship The Great Western.

 

Hearteane

Shakespearian Quotations from Every-day Life

Moralising quotations from Shakespeare's plays.

 

Girls' Botanical Club

Description of their excursions.

 

Sappho

Cloud Fancies

Poetic descriptions of different types of clouds.

 

Still Waters Run Deep [An old girl]

The Stormy Sea

Poem about sailors who are drowned at sea and the consolation which religion provides for their widows.

 

Puzzles

Examples of puzzles.

 

School News

The following were successful in the Cambridge Local Exams [details given]: Jane Harwood, Nellie Gumpert, Fanny Evington, Nita Woodhouse, Edith Eckersley, Mary Scott, Henrietta Parker, Ada Smith, Fanny Bevan, Celine Walsh, Alice Mitchell.

Caroline Coignou was the only candidate in England to achieve First Class in Natural Science. She was offered a scholarship to Newnham but was unable to accept.

Other Further Education scholarships have been won by the following: Alice Crompton, Jane Harwood, Victorine Jeans, Adelaide Trevor, Emily Johnson.

School scholarships have been won by the following: Adeline Allison, Nora Gutenberg, Gertrude Tafel, Gertrude Windsor.

Announcement of the marriages of the following: Rosa Rayner, Lucy Balshaw, Anna Clark.

 

Correspondence

Still Waters Run Deep [An old girl]

Letter complaining about the problem of paying subscriptions. 

 

Ruth Lamb

Letter in reply to that from Still Waters Run Deep.

[Continued in Magazine for December 1885]

 

In this section
1883 December
1883 July
1883 March
1883 October
1884 July
1884 June
1884 March
1885 December
1885 May
1885 October
1886 April
1886 December
1886 July
1886 October
1887 December
1887 July
1887 October
1888 December
1888 June
1888 March
1888 November
1899 February
1899 June
1899 October
1900 February
1900 June
1900 November
1901 July
1901 March
1901 November
1902 December
1902 July
1902 March
1903 December
1903 July
1903 March
1904 April
1904 December
1904 July
1905 April
1905 December
1905 July
1906 April
1906 December
1906 July
1907 December
1907 June
1908 June
1909 December
1909 June
1910 December
1910 June
1911 December
1911 June
1912 December
1912 June
1913 December
1914 December
1914 June
1915 December
1915 June
1917 December
1919 April
1921 March
1922 April
1923 April
1923 December
1924 April
1925 December
1925 June
1926 June
1927 December
1927 March
1928 December
1928 July
1929 July
1930 December
1930 July
1930 March
1931 December
1931 June
1932 December
1932 June
1933 December
1933 July
1934 December
1934 July
1935 July
1936 December
1936 January
1937 July
1938 December
1938 March
1941 September
1943 July
1945 May
1946 July
1947 July
1948 May
1949 June
1950 May
1951 May
1952 January
1952 July
   
designed and created by mlsMEDIA