Committee and Officers
Chairman: Miss Burstall
Staff Reps: Miss Slater and Miss Smale
OGA Reps: Edith Bell and Nettie Schlesinger
Seniors Rep: Jessie Clarkson
VI Rep: Mabel Huxley
Co-opted: Mrs Tout
Secretary: Miss Tafel
Treasurer: Miss Pollard
Editor: Miss Burstall
Sub-editors: Jessie Clarkson and Adela Pankhurst
School news editor: Lucy Geiler
OGA news editor: Miss Bell
Editorial
Appeal for more news from old girls.
Description of the importance of sport in the school and appeal for donations to pay for the rent of a field which is now being used but "the rent of it is a heavy burden on the Games Club."
Address by Mrs C P Scott at the Free Trade Hall Meeting, July 26th
Verbatim report on part of the speech of Mrs C P Scott in which she stressed the importance of imagination in education and of taking opportunities which arise without regret at losing others which are thereby lost.
Eva Dodge
Lorna Doone
Poem in praise of Lorna Doone.
Elizabeth Day
A Visit to the Great Exhibition in 1851
Description of Elizabeth Day�s visit to the Great Exhibition when she was 7 years old and the acceptance of the foreigners who visited it.
Amy Harvey
Afternoon Preparation in a Girls� School. An Exercise in Word Painting
Description of doing homework.
Sara A Burstall
Hymn to Varuna
Religious poem based on the Sanscrit Vedas.
Adela C M Pankhurst
Neptune's Wooing: A Fairy Tale
Story about a girl who refuses to marry Neptune and become the queen of the sea because she loves someone else.
Maud Venables Vernon
Cambridge Days
Poem about Cambridge in summer, autumn and winter.
Lynette
The Application of the Golden Rule to Politics
[Editorial note that this is an entry for a prize offered by Mr John Mather for an essay on this topic. See Magazine for June 1900].
Defines the Golden Rule as one should "Do unto others as you would that they should do to you" and explains how this is applied by different groups in society, eg societies for the prevention of cruelty to children. Also questions the motives of politicians who begin wars and describes the effect of war on ordinary people.
A Few Chemical Sparks from the Lady
Schoolgirl howlers.
No Author
Pilchard Fishing
Story about an expedition to catch pilchards.
Jill
The Two Unfortunates. A Catastrophe
Story about two cats one of which is arrested for killing a kingfisher.
No Author
The Victoria University School Examination: A Retrospect
Description of the exams and of the importance of working steadily through the year to prepare for them.
Blanche B Henry
The Importance and Growth of the Teaching of Domestic Economy in Schools
Explanation of the importance of teaching dressmaking, laundry work and housewifery in schools and description of the teaching of these subjects in schools in S England.
Kathleen Davison [IV A]
Some Legends of Ireland
Outline of various Celtic legends.
Lily Dodge [IV Upper]
Night
Poem about the fairies of the night.
Honours List
Details of the successes of the following:
Former Pupils
Victoria University: Isa L Hiles, Gertrude Dean, Mary Hall, Eva Dodge, Emily H Taylor, Hilda Johnstone, Grace Wigglesworth.
Cambridge University: Constance E Taylor, Mary C Barnes, Edith M Smith.
London University Intermediate Examination in Arts: Mary Kingsland Higgs.
Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board Higher Certificate: Cynthia Kelly.
Present Pupils
London University Intermediate Examination in Arts: Elizabeth A G Edwards.
Cambridge Higher Local Examination: Elizabeth A G Edwards, Mary E Hewitt, Agnes Collier, Agnes Priscilla Taylor.
Victoria University Preliminary Examination: Jessie D Clarkson, Ethel J Greengrass, Ethel J Harvey, Mary E Hewitt, Dorothy Lodge, Mary Reynolds, Mary E Taplen.
London University Matriculation: Dorothy Frazer, Sarah S Stenhouse, Edith Wainwright.
Glasgow University Preliminary Examination: Hilda Macalpine.
Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board Higher Certificate: Ethel Dean.
Oxford University Responsions [sic]: Irene Knowles.
Senior Oxford Local Examination, July 1900: Gertrude Geiler.
Junior Oxford Local Examination, December 1899: Gertrude Geiler.
College of Preceptors: Isabella Craig, Clara Walker, Jessie Evans, Dorothy Standring, Grace Crabtree, Beatrice Shaw.
Lancashire County Council, Senior Commercial Exhibition: Ethel Harvey, Dora Griffith.
Royal Drawing Society: the numbers of entries and successes given including Elsie Redfern Highest Standard, Division VI.
London Institute for the Advancement of Plain Needlework: the numbers of entries and successes given including Highest Standard, Division VI achieved by Dora Allen, Grace Ashworth, Lucy Sternfeld, Maggie Worsley.
National Society of Shorthand Teachers, Elementary Grade: Marguerite Sunderland, Elsie Collier, Grace Crabtree, Annie P Hewitt, Lilian Musham, Emily Ogden, Beatrice M Shaw, Muriel Vaughan, Beatrice Yeats.
Exhibitions: Elizabeth Edwards, Irene Knowles, Agnes Collier, Lilian Gray, Mildred Taylor, Mary E Taplen, Mary Reynolds.
Leaving Presents: Elizabeth Edwards, Irene Knowles, Ethel Dean, Isa Craig, Efi Horkheimer.
Free Trade Hall Meeting
At Speech Day the chair was taken by Prof Wilkins. He was supported by the headmistresses of the three schools, Sara Burstall, Miss Butcher and Miss Clark.
The chief guest was Mrs C P Scott [see above] to whom a vote of thanks was proposed by Canon Hicks and seconded by John Mather.
N. C. S.
Botanical Expeditions
Description of expeditions led by Miss Coignou, Miss Mitchell, Miss Hiles.
C. P. M. C
Visit to Rochdale Gas Works
Description of the visit to Rochdale Gas Works at the invitation of Mr Stenhouse.
Marriages
The marriages of the following have been announced: Emily Isabel Salkeld, Ella Horkheimer, Lilian Worsley, Lily Dux, Annie Whitehead, Sazie [sic] Eccles.
Appointments and Work of Former Pupils
Details given of the appointments of the following: Eleanor McDougall, Elsie Windsor, Mary Barnes, Gertrude Dean, Elsie Bessant.
Autumn Term
Many classes have been taking exams.
�A new class has been formed for the special study of the domestic arts, called the Housewifery Class, which is working with interest at cookery, household needlework and such practical matters as cleaning silver etc as well as the more ordinary arithmetic, French and history.�
The whole of the North Wing is now being used by the school. It has been "where the Owens College Women Students used to be."
There are now 388 pupils.
It is hoped to make the school concert an annual function.
Changes in the Staff
New staff [details given of their academic qualifications]: Miss Patterson, Miss Hetty Lee, Miss Helena Bourne, Miss Blanche Henry, Miss N Graveson, Miss K Montgomery.
A Geological Excursion
Description of a field trip to Derbyshire by Miss Coignou and four pupils.
Education Lectures
A new course has begun for practising teachers on the Theory, History and Practice of Education. Some of the school�s staff are attending and Sara Burstall is giving a course of lectures on School Organisation.
Women Students at Owens College
The women students from Owens College have moved from the North Wing of the school to a house in Oxford Rd which will be "a sort of Club House."
As You Like It
Several girls took part in a performance of As You Like It at Ashburne House. They included D Holme and R Taylor.
Visitors
Details given of visits by the following: Mr Le Marchant Douse, Miss Foxley, Miss Steedman, Mr Foster, Mrs Hyland, Prof Frederic Burstall.
Debating Society
The Debating Society has been revived thank to Miss Lee. The Committee is:
President: Miss Burstall
Vice President: Miss Lee
Secretary: L Geiler
Senior and VI Reps: M Hewitt, E Greengrass, Z Smith, A Taylor, S Stenhouse
V representative: R Sunderland
IV representative: A Pankhurst
The topic for the first debate will be �Novel reading is injurious to the mind.�[See Magazine for March 1901].
Tennis
The champions are Agnes Collier, Efi Horkheimer, Amy Greengrass and Ethel Greengrass.
Details of matches played.
The Handicap Tournament was won by Efi Horkheimer and the runner up was Ethel Grenngrass.
Description of the Lancashire Girls' Schools' Lawn Tennis League Tournament which was again won by the school.
Fives
Fives is now a popular game.
Two Fives tournaments were held. One was won by Rita Sunderland and Amy Greengrass.
Miss Slater gave a prize for an Open Tournament which was won by Efi Horkheimer, the runner up was Mabel Blackstock.
It is difficult to arrange inter-school matches because few other schools have a Fives court.
Hockey
Description of a match against the women students of Owens College.
The school teams can now practice twice a week on the Women's Student's field at Fallowfield.
Prefects
The school Prefects are: M Hewitt, E Wainwright, J Clarkson, A Taylor, L Geiler, M Hawcridge, C Taplen, M McNicol, D Frazer.
The Deputy Prefects are: E Greengrass, M Sheldon.