Committee and Officers
Chairman: Miss Burstall
Staff rep: Miss Slater
Seniors rep: M Wilson
VI Transitus rep: Lily Dodge
V Upper rep: Adela Pankhurst
VA rep : E Simon
Secretary: Miss Tafel
Treasurer: Miss Pollard
Editor: Miss Burstall
Sub-editor: Miss Slater
Editorial
There are 82 new girls in school and 410 pupils in all.
Prof A S Wilkins has resigned as chair of the governors due to ill health.
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The Cycling Pedagogue
Description of the pleasures of cycling with a tongue-in-cheek explanation of how cycling improves teachers' skills.
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Nightfall by the Sea
Religious poem.
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Two in Campania
Story about two small Italian boys who go to Rome and save their mother from poverty.
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Professions for Women: III Indexing
Description of the qualities and training needed for those who compile indexes for books.
Emily Howson Taylor
The Old Faun
Poem about the thoughts of an old faun.
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Master Humphrey. A Story of the Commonwealth
Story about a Roundhead who is reconciled with his Cavalier enemy when they are killed together in battle.
Barbara Wallace Fiddes [15 years, VA]
To the Chrysanthemum
Poem to the chrysanthemum which blooms in autumn.
Aelfrida Pyne
A Story of Handel
A story about the composer Handel as a boy.
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The Soap Baby
Poem about a baby which is made of soap and which perishes so that children can enjoy making bubbles.
Enid Grundy [Aged 12, Up III A]
A Lucky Mishap
Story about two children who are attacked by Indians in Canada.
Meeting in the Free Trade Hall [by kind permission of the editor, Manchester Guardian]
Description of Speech Day.
Dr Wilkins spoke of the increasingly close ties between the school and Owens College which will soon be known as Manchester University. As vice-chancellor he had presided over a degree ceremony at which the following received degrees: Ruby Palmer first pupil from North Manchester High School to receive a degree, Ruth Taylor old girl and now teacher at Manchester High School, Miss Adamson who received an honorary MA.
The school had been inspected by Owens College registrar and Dr Brodsky [see Magazine for July 1902]. He welcomed the beginning of "technical classes" in the school but was uncertain what this meant and he also welcomed the teaching of housekeeping and the compilation of a school hymnal [see Magazine for July 1902].
Miss Burstall welcomed the increased opportunities for women in further education especially through scholarships. There is an increasing trend for girls to stay at school longer and as a result the numbers in school have doubled in four years, being now 390. The housekeeping courses are well established and it has been decided to allow pupils to specialise in gymnastics if they wish to become gym teachers.
The school is still much handicapped by the lack of an adequate gym. Hockey is now being played twice a week at Rusholme.
The school hopes to forge closer ties with the Royal Manchester College of Music and a music exhibition will be awarded [see Magazine for July 1902].
Two more school scholarships have been established. "The family of the late Mrs Edward Behrens long a governor of the school and of the well known Primary School for Jewish Girls at Cheetham Hill had established the Abigail Behrens memorial scholarship to enable the head girl there to come to them." Two Behrens scholars came last September. There are not enough scholarships available for Manchester girls.
Details given of the entries and successes of the Royal Drawing Society and the London Institute for Plain Needlework exams.
Miss Penrose, the quest speaker and principal of the Royal Holloway College, criticised the over use of exams and the resulting focus on exams by teachers.
A Geological Expedition in Derbyshire
Description of an expedition led by Miss Coignou to Blue John, Speedwell and Peak caverns.
Old Girls' Association
It has long been felt that Association meetings should include discussions of important issues. A committee has been set up to organise this consisting of the following: Miss Burstall, Mrs Scott, Miss Crompton.
At the first of these meetings Mr E J Broadfield gave a talk of Women as Citizens [details given]. He spoke of the work of important women including Mrs Gaskell, Miss Becker, Mrs Scott, Mrs Pankhurst, Miss Dendy.
At the second meeting Mrs W B Worthington spoke about health issues [details given].
Later meetings [details given] will include talks by the following: Margaret Ashton, Miss Burstall, Eva Gore Booth, Alice Crompton, Olga Herz, Miss Zanetti.
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College Letters
Description of college life for women at Aberystwith including different corridors for men and women, sports, country walks and societies.
Mary McNicol
College Letters
Description of life at Owens College which is the natural place for pupils of Manchester High School to study. Describes the societies and buying academic dress for the matriculation ceremony.
Trixie Clay [aged 10 years]
A Country Village
Description of Wilmslow.
Dorothy Sutcliffe
My Visit to America
Description of the voyage on the Lucania, living in the country and in New York, the assassination of President McKinley, the visit of Prince Henry of Prussia, seeing the Brooklyn bridge, China Town and returning home on the Campania.
Daisy Vaughan [aged 12 years]
I Wish
Poem about what would make her happy.
Nora McNicol [aged 8]
The Bubble Fairies
Story that when bubbles burst they turn into fairies.
Junior School Competition
Details of a "common sense" competition organised by Miss Harrison.
Victoria Rofe [aged 12 years, II Up]
Autumn
Poem describing the changes in nature.
S L Dendy
In Memoriam Eliza Ingall from a Colleague
Appreciation of the work of Eliza Ingall as a teacher and friend.
Adeline Loesch [nee Allison]
In Memoriam Eliza Ingall from an Old Pupil
Appreciation of the work of Eliza Ingall as school librarian and as a teacher.
Honours List
Details given of the successes of the following:
Owens College: Gertrude Geiler
Westfield College: Edith Wainwright
Cambridge Training College: Gertrude Potter
London University Intermediate Examination in Arts: Dorothy Frazer, Dorothy Lodge, Edith Wainwright.
London University Matriculation Examination: Ada Neild, Eleanor Sheard.
Victoria Preliminary Examination: Gertrude Geiler, Edith Hewitt, Mabel Lakin, Nellie Meadows, Lizzie Phillips, Rachel Stein, Muriel Wilson, Marion Hargreaves.
Cambridge University Higher Local: Gertrude Potter, Mary McNicol.
Lancashire County Council Senior Commercial Exhibition: Amy Harvey, Nellie Meadows.
Lancashire County Council Junior Commercial Exhibition: Ella Harvey, Agnes Spaven, Jessie Parish, Winifred Woollam.
Glasgow Medical Preliminary Examination: Marcelline Ward.
Appointments
Details given of the appointments of the following: Lucy Sherwin, Nelly Horne.
Births
Birth to the following have been announced: Mary Tout [nee Johnstone], Margaret Harker [nee Stevenson].
Marriages
The marriages of the following have been announced: F Edith Smale, Ella Southern, Frances Oldham, Quenilda Shaw, Clara Jacoby, Annie Mountford, Hetty Luffman, Maud Eastham.
Death
The death has been announced of Eliza Ingall.
Changes in Staff
Details given of changes in form taken by following staff: Miss Adamson, Miss Slater, Miss Patterson, Miss Drummond, Miss Ruth Taylor, Miss Bottomley, Miss Moore, Miss Lee.
Leaver: Miss Garrett.
New staff: Miss Annie Nuttall.
Teachers� Diploma of Victoria University has been awarded to Miss Patterson.
Science Notes
There have been more classes and more pupils taking science so that "the practical botany class has overflowed into the passages and even invaded Miss Burstall's private sitting room." There is even more urgent need for a botanical lab. The Laboratory and Chemical Theatre have been redecorated and the contents of the museum have been catalogued. Miss Burstall has donated some books [details given]. The Field Club is very active. The school hopes to participate in the forthcoming Science Conference which is being held in Manchester.
Field Club
Committee:
President: Miss Burstall
Vice-Presidents: Miss Coignou, Miss Hiles, Miss Hartley, Elsie Collier, Connie Moakes
Secretary: Dorothy Dearden
Treasurer: Nellie Meadows
Description of rambles.
There have been talks [details given] by the following: Miss Hiles, W E Hoyle [Director of the Manchester Museum], Bessie Earnshaw, Nellie Hallam, Mary McLean, Lily Blackstock, Dorothy Sutcliffe, Trixie Clay, Edith Wheeler.
Field Club accounts.
Gertrude Geiler [Hon Sec]
Golden Rule Society
There has been an increase in membership although not every pupil is a member of the Society which is its aim. Details given of items made and sent to those in need.
The May Show [a flower show] was held and has become an annual event. The number of girls on the Visiting Committee has risen from 6 to 9.
I Hiles [Hon Treasurer]
Golden Rule Society Accounts 1901-1902
There is a shortage of money and economies can be implemented in the materials use [details given].
General Meeting of the Games Club
Miss Slater proposed changes to the subscriptions which were accepted [details given].
A Committee was elected of the following: D Bauerkeller, B Stenhouse, R Bauerkeller, A Neild, M Shepherd, M Boullen.
Tennis - the League
Description of the Eighth Annual Tournament of the Lancashire Girls' Schools Tennis League. The school was represented by Mary McNicol and Gertrude Geiler.
Withington won the tournament [details given].
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Hockey
Details given of match against Sale and inter-form matches.
School Calendar
Dates of school events.