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Database : School Magazines, 1883 -1952

1886 October

Committee Members

Editor:  Margaret Taylor

Old Girls' Editor:  Edith Lang

Secretary:  Dorothy Cornish

Treasurer:  Nita Woodhouse

Form representatives

Seniors:  Maggie Lea, Maud Vernon

Upper VI:  Milly Gumpert

Lower VI:  Rose Tindal

Upper V:  Jessie Headridge

Lower V:  Janet Harlowe

Upper IV:  Ada Corbett

Middle IV:  Nina Wahltuch

Upper III:  Grace Mellin

Lower III:  Lena Booth

 

Dido Dumb

Sophocles, The Electra

Essay on the life of Sophocles and outline of the story of Electra.

 

Betsy Jane

Advertisements

Essay on the inadvertently humorous way in which adverts in newspapers are phrased.

 

Rosinante

Madge Bryce and I

Continuation of a story begun in the Magazine for July 1886. Two girls on holiday together get lost in the snow. One is ill as a result. They spend the Summer together enjoying the countryside.

 

Nemo

The Sleep that is among the Lonely Hills

Poem in which the poet dreams of a peace long gone.

 

Furze Blossom

Savonarola

Conclusion of the essay begun in the Magazine for July 1886. Describes the circumstances of the death of Savonarola.

 

Old Girls' Association

Nannie

I, A Visit to Stonyhurst

Description of a visit to Stonyhurst school

 

No author

II, [No title] 

Description of visits to Whalley Abbey, Stonyhurst and Mytton Church.

 

Girls' Botanical Club

Description of excursions.

 

Nannie

Anagram

A puzzle.

 

School News

The following were successful in the Higher Local Exams [details given]: Victorine Jeans, Alice Cooke, A Smith, A Trevor, F Evington, C Lloyd.

Scholarships were gained by [details given]: Maud Vernon, Annie Truscott, Effie Bullock, Mary Johnstone, M Gill, A Mullock, Lucy Baker.

The Mary Bradford Scholarship has been awarded to Edith Johnstone.

Miss Leach has left to become a teacher at Plymouth High School where Miss Turnball is Headmistress.

The Magazine's previous Secretary, Ruth Simpson, has married.

 

                     

 

           

 

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