St Hugh's College, Oxford - Chronicle 1928-1929

THE COLLEGE SEAL. The Design, which wRs engraved by Mr. G. T. Friend is a copy, taken as exactly as possible, from impressions of St. Hugh's Seal still extant on documents bearing his signature, 1186 -1199_

gounbretio DAME ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH, D.B.E., M.A., Hon. D.C.L.

g3enefactors: CLARA EVELYN MORDAN EDWARD GAY ELIZA MARY THOMAS CHARLES SELWYN AWDRY PHILIP MAURICE DENEKE MARY GRAY ALLEN

ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE

Association of Senior Members.

Chairman

THE PRINCIPAL.

Hon. Secretary

Miss H. T. McM. BUCKHURST.

Editor of the Chronicle, 1928-29 Miss C. P. GOODENOUGH,

Parson's Pightle, Coulsdon, Surrey.

Visitor.

THE RIGHT HON. EDGAR ALGERNON ROBERT, VISCOUNT CECIL OF CHELWOOD, M.A., Hon. D.C.L.

Council.

BARBARA ELIZABETH GWYER, M.A., Principal, PERCY COMYN LYON, M.A., Oriel, Treasurer.

CHARLOTTE ANNE ELIZABETH MOBERLY, HOD. M.A. EDITH ELIZABETH WARDALE, M.A. ELIZABETH ANNIE FRANCIS, M.A., Official Fellow.

MARGERY FREDA PERHAM, M.A., Official Fellow.

SYBIL MAUD GOULDING, M.A., Official Fellow.

MARY ETHEL SEATON, M.A., Official Fellow, Secretary to the Council.

EVELYN EMMA STEFANOS PROCTER, M.A., Official Fellow.

HELEN TERESA MCMILLAN BUCKHURST,

M.A.,

Official Fellow.

GERTRUDE THORNEYCROFT, Official Fellow.

CECILIA MARY Any, M.A. ANNIE MARY ANNE HENLEY ROGERS, M.A. JOAN EVANS, B.Litt.

THE REV. VICTOR JOHN KNIGHT BROOK, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln.

ETHEL HERDMAN, M.A. MAUD AGNES KENNARD DAVIS

(Mrs.),

M.A.

MARGARET GLADYS IRWIN, M.A. THE RIGHT REV. EDWARD DOMETT SHAW, D.D., Canon of Christ Church, Chairman.

JOHN LINTON MYRES, M.A., Fellow of New College.

THE REV. BURNETT HILLMAN STREETER, M.A., Fellow of Queen's College.

Principal.

B. E.

GWYER,

M.A.

Tutors.

Chemistry.

E. M. 0. FARROW, M.A. French.

E. A. FRANCIS, M.A. History.

M. F. PERHAM, M.A. French.

S. M. GOULDING, M . A .

English Literature.

M. E. SEATON, M.A. History.

E. E. S. PROCTER, M.A. H. T. McM. BuoutoRsT, M.A. English Language.

Classics and Philosophy.

M. R. GLOVER, M.A.

Lecturer.

D.

WRINCH NICHOLSON, M . A.

Mathematics.

Administrative Officers.

Librarian.

Bursar.

G.

THORNEYCROFT.

Assistant Bursar.

S. F.

SALT.

M.

F. PERHAM, M.A.

Principal's Secretary.

M. FOWLE.

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ST, HUGH'S CHRONICLE. ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR MEMBERS.

Statutes XIII and Xlv (s).

The following Bye-laws were approved by the Council on November 27th, 1926.

(a)

Elections and Meetings of the Association.

The Secretary of the Association shall hold office for two years and shall be re-eligible. She shall be elected in the same manner and at the same time as the Elected Members of Council. If a casual vacancy should occur, the, Principal shall arrange for the carrying out of the duties of the gecr etary until the next election.

The Secretary of the Association shall issue to all Senior Members, not later than the 14th April in each year, a copy of the Register of Senior Members made up to the end of Hilary Term, the Statutes and Bye-laws relating to the Association, a list of Members of the Council with date of retirement of Co-opted and Elected Members, and a notice inviting nominations for the office of Elected Member(s) of Council, and if necessary for the office of Secretary.

The election of the Secretary to the Association and of Elected Members of Council shall be completed not later than the last day of May, provided that in the case of an equality of votes the result shall be determined by lot at the Annual Meeting.

The Annual Meeting of the Association shall be convened in Trinity Term as soon as possible after the election of Elected Members of Council has taken place, provided that not less than a fortnight's notice of the Meeting shall be issued to all Members.

(b)

Dues payable by Senior Members.

A Member of the Association who being a, Graduate of the College desires to keep her name on the Books of the University and of the College, shall pay College Dues of 101- a year. These shall include the subscription, if any, due from her under Statute XIII. 2 (a).

A Graduate who compounds for University Dues shall compound for College Dues by payment of that amount, if any, by which the total of her previous payments of College Dues falls short of ÂŁ5.

No further payments of College Dues shall be required of persons who have already compounded for University Dues.

A Graduate of the College may retain her name on the Books without payment if she is certified to be paying her University Dues or to have compounded for them through another Society.

A further Bye-law was approved by the Council on March 5th, 1927.

The names of Members of the Association whose subscriptions, or University and College Dues, have not been paid by the first of March in any year shall not be included in the Register for that year

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Report of the Annual Meeting of the Senior Members' Association, 1928.

The second meeting took place on June 23rd and was attended by 14 members. Miss Herdnian's re-election to the Council was announced, and Miss Buckhurst was re-elected Hon. Secretary for two years. The Committee on the proposed Chronicle, appointed the year before, reported its proceedings and the report was accepted. Miss C. P. Goodenough, B.A., was appointed Editor of the Chronicle, 1928-29. It was decided to send out the Chronicle, together with the Annual Register.

Permission was accorded to the Hon. Secretary, under special resolution, to lend the Register to the Oxford Preservation Trust for the purpose of their appeal.

Undergraduates in Residence, 1928.29.

SCHOLARS.

W. A. PRONGER, 1927. Clara EveM. M. W. BONE, 1926. College. lyn Mordan.

K. C. M. GENT, 1926. Gilchrist.

M. ZVEGINTZOV, 1927. College.

P. M. HARTNOLL, 1926. College.

U. M. KEPPEL-COMPTON, 1926. Col- G. GAUGE, 1928. College.

E. M. LLOYD, 1928. College. lege.

E. M. M. ROBINSON, 1928. Ottley.

W. KNOX, 1926. College.

EXHIBITIONERS. M. A. BEESE, 1926.

R. M. CAMPBELL, 1926.

M. JAMES, 1926.

C. A. M. BARLOW, 1927.

G. G. DAHL, 1927.

M. F. EVANS, 1927.

G. A. JOEL, 1927.

N. E. V. LAWRENCE, 1927.

M. A. VINCENT, 1927.

H. J. BUTT, 1928.

D. CHELL, 1928.

M. F. HARDIE, 1928.

E. ILIFF, 1928.

P. M. TALBOT, 1928.

I. A. YARWOOD, 1928.

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Undergraduates in Residence, 1928-29.

Evans, M. F. (1) Kirby, M. G. Fourth Year.

Facon, E. A. Knox, W. (3) Fox, F. M. (M.T.) Hale, T. L. Makepeace, B. M. Hussey, J. M. Hare, F. W. Milner, E. K. Mott, B. Haslop, E. R. Morley, G. Osborn, M. Hellmann, O. L. M. Pritchard, A. D. M. Owen, M. C. Hicks, E. M. Page, K. M. (M.T'., H .T.) Huse, M. Van Boechoten, M. Ratcliffe, E. M. Jackson, K. Reynolds, E. W. A. (M.T.) Jeffrey, E. A. Roberts, B. H. Welch, F. C. Jobling, L. Roxburgh, H. D. Raper, W. M. (T.T.) Joel, G. A. (1) Scott Harston, E. Third Year.

Johnson, R. Shepherd, W. R. Aikin-Sneath, B. Kirkby, P. Stanbury, E. M. Barrows, N. Lake, J. M. Stopford, D. Battersby, M. L. Lawrence, N. E. V. (1) Stradling, M. Beese, M.A. (1) Lomax, A. Tostevin, E. M. Betts, M. E. Lowe, M. E. Watts, B. Bignall, J. M. Lowe, M. L. M. Whyman, D. L. Bone, M. M. W. (3) McDermott, C. R. Wilde, M. M. Bosward, W. G. Mclsack, M. M. Williams, Y. E. I. Campbell, R. M. (1) Mortlock, M. M. Wilson, G. L. Cocker, D. Nakamura, M. E. (2) Wood, M. D. Dencer, K. M. Oko, P. (2) Second Year.

Dick, J. M. Pickles, E. Alexander, B. H. Dixon, H. Barlow, C. A. M. (1) Pronger, W. (7) Elliott, E. M. Punter, E. M. Beattie, M. K. Ervine, G. M. Rees, M. M. (2) Bond, D. B. .(2) Gent, K. C. M. (6) Reeves, E. M. Bourne, P. C. Goss, B. M. Reeves, M. E. Braddick, L. Gray, C. M. Riviere, D. B. Brown, Ethel Gunter, R. Sherlock, M. (2) Brown, E. M. Harrison, J. M. Singleton, P. Buick, M. Hartnoll, P. (3) Stanes, M. L. H. Clarkson, C. M. Hatton, P. K. Stephenson, A. C. Coatman, Mrs. (4) Havergal, C. A. M. Vincent, M. A. (1) Corrie, B. L. Haworth, H. Williams, H. B. Dahl, C. G. (1) Herriot, R. M. (2), Winington-Ingram, J. Doherty F. M. (5) (T.T.) Duthoit, C. M. G. C. James, M. (1) Woodrow, E. J. Ellis, E. M. Keens, M. W. Zvegintzov, M. (3) Keppel Compton, U. (3) (1) Exhibitioner ; (2) Senior Student ; (3) College Scholar ; (4) Advanced Student • (5) Reading for B.Litt. • (6) Gilchrist Scholar • (7) Clara Evelyn Mordan Scholar ;• (8) Alice Ottley Scholar.

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First Year Students.

NAME.

SCHOOL.

College Scholars.

LLOYD, E. M. ...

•• • GAUGE, G.

•• • •• •

St. Leonard's School, St. Andrews.

North London Collegiate School.

Alice Ottley Scholar.

ROBINSON, E. M. M. ...

Alice Ottley School, Worcester.

College Exhibitioners.

TALBOT, P. M.

ILIFF, E.

••• ••

YARWOOD, I. A. HARDIE., M. F. CHELL, D. ••• BUTT', H. J. ...

•• •

••• ••• • -1

•• •

Girls' High School, Bath.

Queen Margaret's School, Scarborough.

County Secondary School, Clapton.

St. George's School for Girls, Edinburgh.

Kingswood Grammar School, Bristol.

Herts and Essex Girls' High School.

Belvedere School, Liverpool.

Wyggeston Grammar School for Girls, _Leicester.

BARBIERI M. C. D. C. Leeds Girls' High School.

BAXTER, E. M. J. Croydon Girls' High School.

BRADBROOKE, H. B.A. London University.

BROMLEY, I. J. R. St. Felix School, Southwold.

BROWN, E. N. Liverpool College, Huyton.

CATTLEY, L. M. R. Howell's School, Llandaff.

University College of St. Wales and Mon. CLARKE, H. R. Holly Lodge Girls' High School, Smethwick.

CLOUGH, E. ...

Grammar School for Girls, Bury.

COE, E. M. .

Girls' High School, Stamford.

COLLINGTON, M. E. County School for Girls, Harrow.

COOPER, E. I. ...

Central Girls' High School, Newcastle.

FAURE, H. A. E. Sherborne School for Girls.

Municipal Secondary School for Girls, FORTH, H. M. ...

Brighton.

GRAY, D. M. ...

Runton Hill School, West Runton.

HARMAN, K. ...

Wycombe Abbey School.

HOARE, F. 0. W. Abbey School, Reading.

Ladies' College, Cheltenham.

JONES, I. I. H. St. Paul's Girls' School.

LUCAS, C. V. M. MCNAIR, M. A. Diocesan School for Girls, Wellington, N.Z. MARTIN, M. ...

M.A., Wells College, and Columbia University, New York.

••• MAY-OUNG, M. S. M.A. University of Rangoon.

•• • MOTTRAM, K. R. B.Sc. London University.

•• • •• • PAPE, J. Grammar School, Rye. PENHALE, N. ...

Grammar School for Girls, Barnstaple.

•• • •• • Girls' High School, Lincoln.

SHARP, E. B. B. •• • St. George's School for Girls, Edinburgh.

SLEsioN, E. J. C. •• • Storms, Keswick.

SPEDDING, B. J. •• • Colston's Girls' High School, Bristol.

VILE, K. E. ...

Grammar School for Girls, Maidstone.

••• WITTS, G. A. ...

ASHCROFT, I. ...

••• ATTENBOROUGH, R. ...

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Degrees, T, T. 1928, M.T. 1928, H.T. 1929.

B.Litt. M. H. MACKENZIE. Subject of Thesis: " The Policy of Lord Palmerston in the Near Eastern Question from the date of his accession to office in November, 1830, to the date of his retirement in August, 1841."

B.Sc. C. M. PILKINGTON. Subject of Thesis: " The Regeneration of the Growing-Point of the Stem of Plants."

B.Sc. D. M. L. RIPPON. Subject of Thesis: " The Condensation of Amines with Cyclopentanone Cyanhydrin and similar Substances."

B.M. A. D. K. Peters.

MA. M. A. Bellamy.

H. M. Bryant.

M. A. Compston P. M. Cooper.

J. M. L. Currey.

A. M. Davies.

R Dean.

C. E. Dormor.

H. E. Fiedler.

M. E. C. Field.

E. Glenday.

K. M. H. Hoare.

F. M. Hopkirk (nee Perkins).

E. W. Hutton.

M. H. Mansell.

R. J. Mitchell.

J. M. Paterson.

W. M. Paul (in absence).

A. 0. Percival.

L. Sprules.

A. Wayment.

E. R. Young.

B.A. K. M. Abbott.

N. P. Abbott.

S. 0. Allison.

G. I. Barker.

E. M. Bone.

A. M. Cambridge.

E. M. Challons.

M. D. Chapman.

A. Cunningham.

D. E. Darker.

A. M. Davies.

S. S. Deacon.

H. F. Douglas.

M. R. Fookes.

W. A. Forth.

A. L. Fowler.

F. M. Fox. P. M. Fulford.

P. M. Graham.

J. Helps.

M. N. Hensman.

K. M. Hobbs.

C. M. Hobhouse.

0. J. Lace.

M. Lane.

L. M. Leonard.

C. C. McDonald.

H. J. Marshall.

D. T. McNeill.

M. A. Mathias.

D. B. Morgan.

I. Morris.

E. M. Power.

A. K. Robertson.

E. M. P. Scott.

L. S. Smith.

L. L. Stave.

U. Todd-Naylor.

H. M. Thrupp.

J. Tug-well.

M. W. van Boeschoten.

K. A. Walker.

K. M. Woods.

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Miss Moberly's Letter.

My dear Editor, It is an honour to be asked to speak a word of greeting in the first number of the new Chronicle of the Association of Senior Members of St. Hugh's College. Having been interested in the history of the College from its first small beginnings in 1886, through years of steady growth and development to its present important position, I appreciate how much it has always owed to the loyalty of its students. It is the daily wish of one of its first promotors that the College may, through its educational successes and national usefulness, justify itself as a worthy member of a great Christian University.

Yours sincerely, C. ANNE E. MOBERLY.

4 Norham Gardens, Oxford.

March 1, 1929.

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Historical Reminiscences.

St. Hugh's College was founded, under the name of St. Hugh's Hall,

by Miss (now Dame) Elizabeth Wordsworth, daughter of Dr. Charles Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln, and the first Principal of Lady Margaret Hall. The following is her own account of her reasons The foundation of St. Hugh's Hall in 1886 was due to two circumstances. (1) I thought it might be well to start a hall of a rather less expensive character than Lady Margaret. Experience has shown that it was in the long run an impracticable idea. (2) I had become possessed of a small sum of money besides what I had originally inherited from my father. He had guaranteed some thousands towards the foundation of the bishopric of Southwell and when the see was founded and the money raised the guarantee fund was restored to the family. My share amounted to about ÂŁ600 and this seemed to give the opportunity I had desired for trying the experiment of founding a new hall. My reason for the choice of the name was that St. Hugh was at one time Bishop of Lincoln, and Oxford was then in the diocese of Lincoln. There is a head of the Saint in St. Giles' Church, Oxford, and his figure with his favourite swan is on the spire of St. Mary's. I looked upon the Hall as a tribute to my father. The sum just enabled me to provide furniture and other things necessary for the first start in 24 Norham Road, a small semi-detached house, which held four students.

We were fortunate enough to secure the services of Miss C. A. E. Moberly as Principal, who generously crave her time and exceptional abilities for a nominal salary, and to whom undoubtedly much of the prosperity of St. Hugh's was due. In a very short time numbers increased and I was ,able in 1887 to take the next house. Still the numbers increased and when Mr. Thornhill's house (17 Norham Gardens) fell vacant I was able through the kind help of friends, who lent us money on very advantageous terms, in 1888 to arrange for the purchase of the long lease. " In this connection I should specially wish to record the name of Mr. Edward Gay, one of our most generous friends and supporters, and rge of his niece, Miss Wardale. In 1891, we found it necessary to enla the house. In 1901, 28 Norham Gardens was purchased, and in 1909, Fyfield Lodge."

At that time neither Lady Margaret nor Somerville made itself responsible for the education of its students. This was undertaken by an independent central body—the Association for the Education of Women in Oxford, commonly known as the A.E.W., which from 1879 to 1920 represented the educational interests of women students in Oxford, and during nearly the whole of that period provided lectures and classes open to members of all the Societies. It was therefore quite easy to establish a third hall of residence and St. Hugh's at once took rank with Lady Margaret and Somerville, which had been opened seven years before, and li ke them it gradually developed a tutorial system of its own. Unlike them, however, it had at first no Council and hardly any influential friends. In the first few years it owed everything to Miss Wordsworth and Miss Moberly ; and its development from a small household of a Principal and four students living in a semi-detached villa, into a College, incorporated by Royal Charter, with a Council, Fellows and Tutors of its own, providing for 150 undergraduates, and holding freehold property of over six acres, besides three leasehold houses, is one of the most remarkable things which Oxford has seen in the last half century. Two years before its foundation the -University had opened some of its Final Schools to women, but the full

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course was not opened till 1894, and separate Honour examination in English and Modern languages continued for some years longer. In the first year of the present English Honour School, the only Oxford women who obtained First Classes were members of St. Hugh's.

In 1890 Miss Wordsworth constituted a Council? the first Chairman being the late Sir John Hawkins, and he has had six successors, including the present Archbishop of Canterbury and the present Archbishop of York. Three other Bishops have also been on the Council. St. Hugh's is the only College in Oxford named after a Bishop, it was founded by the daughter of a Bishop of Lincoln, and its first Principal was the daughter of a Bishop of Salisbury. It owes much to its episcopal friends.

The following is an extract from the first minutes of the Council : " The success of St. Hugh's greatly depends on keeping the Study quiet in which so many students are working at once. There is a strict rule of silence throughout the day, which with, girls is always liable to be broken. We have this term, forbidden those students who work in their own rooms to enter the Study at all, and beg the others to go in and out as little as possible. The Library is common to all alike, and those who desire to talk can always sit there."

As the Library contained under 300 volumes and the subscription was only 11- a term, this is not as bad as it sounds. The early minutes contain further reference to minor disciplinary difficulties, though after a time more reserve is shown. On one occasion the Council was informed that three former students had married in the course of one week.

On November 27th, 1894, I was elected a member of the Council, and, with the exception of the academical year 1924-5, have remained a member to the present day. The year 1894-5 was an exciting time in the University, as the A.E.W. then committed itself to the move for the degree, which ran its course in 1895-6. I was in the thick of it, and we obtained a reasonable amount of support from St. Hugh's, in spite of the not very friendly attitude of the Chairman. Lady Margaret was a centre of opposition, while some of the chief friends were on the Somerville Council. The opposition formed a strong Committee which poured forth letters to the " " and appeals to voters. We, though not, I hope, of inferior quality in our literary output, worked after the first stage as individuals. The voting was 140 in favour of the degree, 215 against, but we succeeded in escaping the imposition of a. diploma, to be given for anything and everything, which might have checked further progress. St. Hugh's Council meanwhile, following the example of Lady Margaret, proceeded with the business of a Trust Deed. By this Deed, dated February 12th, 1895, the property of the Hall was assigned to four Estate Trustees, and, its objects, rules and regulations were formally set out and signed by the Governors. St. Hugh's was described as an Academic House conducted according to theprinciples of the Church of England. The Governors were all to be members of that Church, but though in the regulation issued with the annual report it was stated that the Hall was intended for members of the Church of England, there was at no time a denominational test for students or tutors. In 1896 the Council defined the conditions under which the names of old students could be kept on the books of the Hall as student members after they had gone down, but it was not till 1908 that it was decided to give them representation on the Governing Body. The election was made, as under the present Statute, by postal vote. Miss Deneke, now Fellow and Tutor of Lady Margaret Hall, was the first elected representative.

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In 1897 I was fortunately able to secure a benefactress. I had been invited to read a paper at a Conference of the Women's Emancipation Union on the position of women at Oxford and Cambridge, a subject with which I was well acquainted. In the course of it I said that as the work of Oxford women became better known they might hope for more scholarships, donations to libraries, and help of other kinds. I laid no special stress on this, but it attracted the attention of Miss Clara Evelyn Mordan, a strong suffragist, who wrote to me suggesting a visit to Oxford. I took her to see Lady Margaret, Somerville, and St. Hugh's, and she consulted me as to the College to which she should offer a scholarship. On June 9th, 1897, she wrote to Miss Moberly making the definite offer to St. Hugh's of ÂŁ10 to found a scholarship, the only condition being that the Scholar dcuring her tenure of the Scholarship should have nothing to do with vivisection. The offer was gratefully accepted, and Miss Mordan became a very good friend to the College. She made gifts to it in her lifetime ; she left it a. considerable sum of money at her death ; and Miss Gray Allen, to whom she left a large part of her property, carried out her wishes in bequeathing to St. Hugh's a sum larger than that which any women's College in Oxford has yet received from an individual benefactor.

For about ten years after the rejection of the degree proposal, women's education in Oxford, though it was steadily progressing, did not attract much attention in the University ; but in 1907, following on a request for women to be allowed to obtain the B.Litt. and B.Sc. Certificate, a movement began for the supervision of resident women students by a University Delegacy, which should take account of residence.

Almost at the same time Lord Curzon, Chancellor of the University, advocated, among other reforms, the admission of women to the degree, but suggested very limited privileges. A statute constituting a Delegacy was passed in 1910, the Colleges and the Home-Students became Recognised Societies and their students Registered Women Students.

This was a great step in advance, as so far the University had taken no responsibility for its resident women-students, and what was advocated as a. measure of control proved to be a step towards membership.

Fortunately the Delegacy included women. St. Hugh's Council took no part in the work for this Delegacy. It was, however, engaged in important business of its own. In the academical year 1908-9 it secured a very energetic Treasurer in the late Mr. Cronshaw, afterwards Principal of St. Edmund Hall, and a Chairman, Dr. Archer Houblon, who took a very warm interest in the Society. Miss Jourdain, who had been a student at Lady Margaret, was Vice-Principal and Tutor, and the Council contained several other persons of considerable ability and force of character. The status of the Tutors was brought under definite regulations, fees and salaries were slightly raised, a new chapel, now the Gunfield Music-room, was built on ground belonging to Lady Margaret, and the question of incorporation was raised. The form of incorporation adopted was that of an Association not for purposes of profit and with a limited liability, constituted under the Companies' Acts, and styled St. Hugh's College. It was a corporate body capable of holding the property hitherto held by Trustees, and had a Council elected partly by the members of the Association, who were almost entirely old students on the books, and partly co-opted, with the addition of a Principal, a Chairman, a Secretary, a Treasurer and a representative of the Heb do madal Coucil. The co-opted and elected members held office for a term of years. The denominational qualification was retained. This form of constitution was probably desirable at the time for St. Hugh's as well as for other Colleges, but it had disadvantages, as later events

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to prove. The members had power without real responsibility, and only a very limited number of persons receiving salaries and doing the work of the College could be members of the Council. Alterations in the Articles of Association which corresponded to Statutes needed the approval of the Board of Trade, and there was no Visitor to appeal to.

The first General Meeting was held. on June 27th, 1911.

In the following year the Council had under consideration the removal of the College to the site on which the main building stands. It had formed part of the unenclosed land known as St. Giles' Field, and had become the property of University College under the Enclosure Act of 1832. A house was shortly after built on it, but the neighbourhood was so unsafe that the occupant, who was the Town Clerk, took a dagger with him when he went into the town. Part of the hawthorn hedge on the east side still remains and the beeches on the west side, where it adjoins St. John's property, were probably also planted as part of a hedge. The large tree that was felled this year showed by its ring that it was about 110 years old. The yews at the south end probably formed another hedge. Elms and other trees had been planted or allowed to grow by the side of the road. Mr. Ball, the present head gardener, who has been employed in the garden for twenty-one years, remembers the planting of a good many of the smaller trees, especially the conifers.

The College stands to the north of the old house, which was entirely demolished. The line of the drive, now grassed over, can be seen. The garden is certainly one of the most attractive in Oxford, especially since the purchase of the Lawn from Lincoln College in 1927. The summer of 1914 was full of encouragement. Mr. H. T. Buckland had been appointed architect, the plans were approved and building was soon to begin. The admission of women to degrees, advocated by Lord Curzon, had become a practical question and, a statute was under discussion.

Suddenly England found itself at war ; and at first it was doubtful what would happen to St. Hugh's. Fortunately it was possible to go on with the building, and ultimately to dispose of the old Hall. Wycliffe Hall was occupied for one Term, but in Hilary Term, 1916, the move was made to the new College buildings, though they were far from complete, and on Ascension Day, 1916, a service of dedication was held. A considerable legacy was received in 1915 under Miss Mordan's will, but even so the College had to incur a very heavy building debt. It was soon plain that the war was increasing and not diminishing the applicants for admission to all the Women's Colleges, and also that the fees must be increased. There was some fear that the College would be claimed for hospital purposes, but fortunately this was not found necessary. In 1915 Miss Moberly resigned and Miss Jourdain succeeded her.

Under her Principalship St. Hugh's expanded, under financial pressure, somewhat beyond its strength and capacity. The Council had built for about 70 students, but by 1923 the number had risen to 150. There were three College houses and a considerable number of students sleeping outside the walls. Meanwhile women were obtaining fuller recognition in the University. In 1918 qualified women received the Parliamentary franchise, in 1920 the five Women's Societies obtained the right to present their students for matriculation and gradation. The Statute was passed with very little opposition and conferred privileges much greater than those originally suggested, or granted to women at Cambridge. Its success was no doubt an outcome of the War and the consequent political enfranchisement of women.

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wearing the academic dress with the soft square cap and the dark coat and skirt, white blouse, black tie, shoes and stockings, prescribed by the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors, appeared in the Sheldonian. Theatre to take their degree, and make their curtsey to the Vice-Chancellor. Before degrees were conferred in the ordinary way the Principals of the five Societies, on whom the degree of M.A. had been conferred by decree, walked into the building, headed by Mrs. Johnson, the venerable Principal of the Home-Students, and were received with great applause.

Admission to the University did not make a great deal of difference to the student. She had to pay more and to observe more rules, but she could feel that she really belonged to Oxford and Oxford to her, and that she could obtain full recognition for her University course by taking her degree. A good number of women were already qualified, a surprisingly large number of others completed their qualification and paid the rather heavy fees required, but such of the women tutors as were not fully qualified were admitted to the M.A. degree in consideration of their official position.

In 1923-4 St. Hugh's passed through an internal crisis which might have done serious harm to the College had. not the Chancellor of the University, at the request of the Council, kindly consented to act as Visitor and to hold an enquiry. In his award, which was published in the University Gazette, he laid stress on the need for constitutional reform. The affair was much discussed in the University, and it led to a requirement that all the Women's Colleges, if they wished to retain their privileges, should be incorporated by Royal Charter or Act of Parliament, and make provision for a Visitor with adequate power, and for the representation of the Officers and Tutors on the Governing Body.

A period of strenuous constitution-making followed. The Charter was granted and the Statutes drawn up and approved by the Privy Council and the Statutory Commissioner and the Hebdomadal Council of the University. The old Association was dissolved, and the Corporate Body, the title of which is the Council of St. Hugh's College, Oxford, took its place. There is now no requirement that any of the members of the Governing Body, except the Principal, must be members of the Church of England, but each person who becomes a member must undertake to carry out the objects for which the College' was founded, and which were set out in the superseded Trust Deed. The Council elects its members except the three who are elected by and from the body of Senior members and any woman Professor whom it may by University Statute be required to admit to a Professorial Fellowship. Tutors after probationary period of one or two years become Official Fellows and members of the Council. Miss Jourdain did not live to see this development of the College to which she had devoted many years of her life, and to the success of which she had very largely contributed. She died in March, 1'924, and was succeeded by the present Principal. During her tenure of office the staff of resident tutors has been increased and another College house has been secured. A large legacy, the bequest mentioned above, has made it possible to buy the freehold of the College, the Lawn, and an adjoining house, and to add the Mary Gray Allen Wing to the main building. This does not imply an immediate increase in the number of resident undergraduates. This was fixed at 150 by the Council before the recent limitation by the University to 160, and the new build-

ing will merely make it possible for more students to reside in College.

ANNIE M. A. H. ROGERS, Tutor, St. Hugh's College, 1909-1921.

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The Opening Ceremony of the Mary Gray Allen Wing.

On Wednesday, October 10th, members of St. Hugh's College gathered together to celebrate the opening of the Mary Gray Allen Wing, which had been built during the past year.

At S a.m. there was a celebration of the Holy Communion in the College Chapel, at which the Chairman of Council, Bishop Shaw, officiated, and at 3 o'clock members of the College, etc., assembled for the Dedication Service. The Bishop of Oxford and Bishop Shaw officiated.

After the hymn the Bishop of Oxford gave a. short address. Taking as his text the University motto, the Bishop spoke on the necessity of making all study a search for truth. This search for truth or " light " was the first duty of University students, and all should make it their aim. For Christian students, the search for truth should lead to God ; for each line of study showed up some new aspect of the all-embracing power of His Love. Life in a Church College such as St. Hugh's gave especial opportunities for the pursuit of such study, for in it the religious outlook of the community as a whole, combining with the search for truth in study, made it possible for every aspect of the life of the individual to be united in the service of God. At the conclusion of the service, the congregation proceeded to the new Wing, where the door was unlocked. by the Visitor, and after the singing of the National Anthem, tea was served in the new Junior common room. When the company had inspected the building, the Visitor, Lord Cecil of Chelwood, delivered a short address. Lord Cecil began by commenting on the great advance made in the position of women during the last forty years, and the many positions and privileges which were open to them. Speaking of the lapse in women's education, between the death of Queen Elizabeth and the present day, Lord Cecil ascribed it to the reaction after the Civil War. War, he said, was always prejudicial to women's interest, as it exalted the qualities of force and brutality. It was the duty of the young, educated women of to-day to create a strong public opinion which would make war impossible, thus consummating the work which his generation had inaugurated.The success or failure of the ideal of the League of Nations lay in their hands.

At 8.30 p.m. the Principal and Council were at home, and many friends of the College, including large numbers of Senior Members, assembled to meet the Vice-Chancellor, who had honoured the company with his presence.

The following inscription is engraved over the door of the new Junior common room : Collegio Sancti Hugonis Quod et viva et testamento donis ornaverat Clara Evelyn Mordan Heres instituta patrimonium legavit Maria Gray Allen Uncle home cedes exstructoe sunt A. S. mcisfxxvm.

With the construction of the new Junior common room, the old Junior common room has been divided into two, One part is used as a committee room, and the rest forms an additional space for meals, which can be separated from the dining hall if necessary. The larders -

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The Mary Gray Allen Wing.

The new building which has just been completed occupies the site of the old hard tennis court at the West side of the College, and is linked up to the old building by a covered loggia.

Independent access to the new buildingcan also be obtained from the gardens and from St. Margaret's Road from the latter by means of a new doorway which has been formed in the boundary wall. ,

The new accommodation comprises twenty-three students' rooms varying in size from 12 by 15 feet to 12 by 17 feet 6 inches, a Junior Common Room 37 feet long by 24 feet wide, Bathrooms, Students' Pantries, and a large Cloak Room and sanitary accommodation in the basement. While arrangements follow generally those in the present building, the floor areas, both in Students' Rooms and Corridors, are on more spacious lines. A new feature is a large asphalt flat on the roof, to which access can be obtained from the top floor, for the benefit of students who wish to sleep under the sky.

In the internal finish of the rooms and corridors a generous use has been made of decorative plaster work, which had been executed by Mr. William Bloye, the Sculptor.

Externally the building has been designed to match the old part, and although some slight variations have been made to meet altered conditions, the differences are not very apparent. H. T. B.

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St. Hugh's Day, 1928.

The Principal's Speech.

It is natural at any anniversary festival to think of the year which has just passed, and record, in however slight a form, one's sense of progress or the reverse. To take first the larger world of which we are a part : every member of St. Hugh's was gratified by the honours showered upon our venerable Foundress, who received from the King, at the hands of the ever-popular Duchess of York, an order, and from the University an Hon. D.C.L. We rejoiced with the senior women's foundation—to which, through Dame Elizabeth, and through that interchange of service which Miss Deneke and Miss Rowe so happily typify, we feel a specially close link, in these high distinctions, coinciding as they did with Lady Margaret's own milestone of felicitation—a jubilee. Somerville, a few weeks younger, is celebrating its jubilee festival quite soon.

Our own is eight years off—may we by then have as much to be proud of and as fair a prospect of future distinction as the two colleges to whose example and solid achievement all foundations for women in the Empire owe so much.

I think there can be no doubt that St. Hu h's has already much to be thankful for. First, in material things. any inconveniences have been abolished during the past year. The munificence of benefactors has tangible and permanent manifestation in the Mary Gray Allen Wing ; and more, dignity has been added to our outward life by more space, by added beauty in decoration and furnishing, and by the loan of some fine pictures, of which the new rooms are not unworthy. We owe to all who have given unstintingly of time and thought—our architects our builders, and among ourselves especially Miss Perham and Miss Thorneycroft—our thanks for the very happy result of all their labours. That the opening of the Mary Gray Allen Wing was celestially approved is indicated by the episode of the swan which (see the Oxford Chronicle for October 12th) alighted that morning in Carfax—only members of our Society, of course, knew whence. The bird, which was wearing neither cap nor gown, was driven off, you remember, by an officious police constable in the direction of Folly Bridge, but I have no doubt we shall see it again. We don't mean to stand still, ourselves. As you know, there are every year still twelve undergraduates of the College living outside its buildings, and it is a standing preoccupation of the Council how best to eliminate inconvenience for them, and ultimately to increase our accommodation till all are within our own walls.

And not undergraduates only. We need space for more than those twelve persons, for we want to see not only all our existing Fellows with rooms of their own in College, but an increase in the postgraduate work done here, which means—and here I touch on an object very dear to my own heart--Research Fellowships. In this particular, St. Hugh's really lags behind many other women's foundations, and should hasten to fill the gap by careful, energetic planning and looking forward. It is a great pleasure to me to be able to say, as it will be for you to hear, that the St. Hugh's Club, the unofficial body of former students, which has been in existence since 1892, and shows its vigour in this and other

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end, the Council has allotted to the same purpose the sum of £490 derived from the summer school for American Women Teachers and Graduates, 1928, and individual subscribers, with diligent workers for the cause like Miss Beatrice Moberly, have added from time to time sums which make the present figure—both funds being added together—over X1,100. I want to finish this by 1933. I want an endowment of at least £4,000 which shall for all time maintain one Research Fellow at St. Hugh's. I should like about the same date to see another building on the way, which shall contain rooms for her and her successors, and all the other accommodation we need. Well, all things will come in due season if we work and faint not. Every form of help that people can suggest will be gladly considered by the committee appointed by the Council to organise effort for these things, and I am only too glad to learn of anything which may be going forward. Five years hence we will remind each other of this day.

The Mary Gray Allen Wing, therefore, is to be regarded as but an earnest of future development—one to be most thankful for, but one to spur us on to the next milestone. The Council has celebrated the moment by an act which, if it makes small difference to anyone present, may be appreciated some day by your younger sisters, your nieces and your aunts : the entrance fee of 10 has been abolished. I am quite sure you will all put St. Hugh's in your wills when you make them. I would like the College, and its research work, to find a place also in your budget for the year, even the term. Small sums, with love-seed in them, are more fruitful than the unfelt benefactions of twenty millionaires.

To turn from material things to that much more congenial topic, in Oxford as elsewhere—persons. I have one piece of very good news for the College this evening. The sternest and most cautious of Miss Procter's three physicians—Oxford, London and Arosa all " calling "— has agreed with the other two that she may resume work in May. I hope all those now before me who are preparing for History and Law Preliminary will in that capacity have nothing whatever to do with her ! but the mediEevalists in general I entreat to be as brilliant and as diligent as they can, as one way of keeping their Tutor's weight up and her temperature down. She will, after all, be in at the death, if I may so put it, of Miss Hussey and others -whom she deserted five terms before, and no doubt looks forward to the affair quite as much as Miss Hussey and the rest can do themselves. The College cannot acknowledge too 'warmly its debt to Miss Rowe, whose work for us has been as competent as her society has been charming. If anything at all should turn up by virtue of which Miss Rowe felt herself justified in remaining in Oxford, there will be two colleges made much happier---her first home, Lady Margaret Hall, and her second by what I may call a temporary adoption, which is ours. Then, Miss Thorneycroft's election to a Fellowship, after three years' extraordinarily successful work, is a great satisfaction. Her gifts of judgment, patience and sympathy are well-known to junior members of the College. Her professional abilities as " Procurator and Guest Mistress " of this community are perhaps better realised by members of the Council, whose colleague she now is. The Governing Body is undoubtedly enriched by this latest addition to its ranks.

We have had two pleasant successes during the year : Miss Doreen Warriner's election to the Mary Somerville Research Fellowship at Somerville College, and Miss Joan Dick's to a Goldsmiths' Exhibition.

These must compensate us for another summer without one swallow !

In 1928, all the women together only won six Firsts. In 1924 St. Hugh's alone had five. I say no more.

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From things and people may I pass to " the imponderables " ? In the near neighbourhood of at least two, possibly more, occupants of the St. Hugh's College Junior Common Room presidential chair, there is great exhilaration in speaking of the art of government. I may be allowed one truism : if the powers of government of a College rest with the Fellows and other members of its Council, the smoothness of its administration depends, as elsewhere, on the consent of the governed, and not on the consent only, but on their conscious self-identification with the same purpose. We do not, at St. Hugh's, believe the individual to be the highest form of reality, nor the relationship of individuals to be only a self-devised, self-imposed contract between them.

A College is like other societies of men, profoundly natural ; and it reaches success in so far as its members have learned the art, and the science, of thinking in terms of society. Here, we are not administering a code, but evolving a law. In the law operating between men at any given period of their history lies the expression of their conception, at that period, of the right relation of men to one another. Our conception of it, please God, will never be stereotyped, but develop continually into higher, freer forms. For it is in and through that process that we establish the standard we are to observe as future citizens of a State, or of any larger association still. The world, they say, is shrinking, physically, very fast. Is the individual to shrink with it? or is he to grow firmer, clearer against that diminishing background? The answer lies with those associations of men which have learned to think in terms of society, who see that man is real because he is social, that families and nations, States and Empires, are not atoms in disjunction, but members one of another, of which when one suffers, all the others suffer with it.

I sometimes think there is a certain confusion of thought underlying a phrase often heard from the lips of persons addressing their juniors, epecially a. University audience: " You are the future leaders of opinion, or of action." Naturally, when everyone in front of you has been shot down you do find yourselves in the van of the host—just where you inevitably will be when we, your seniors, are all dead. But it takes more than that to make a leader. Is it not equally necessary, moreover, for every generation to produce a sufficiency of persons who are prepared to follow? I could wish the College to send forth always stout followers-up of worthy leadership—and keen detectives of the unworthy : people who simply are not taken in by the intellectual equivalent of " bread and circuses " : in whose presence the dogmatic, the plausible and the vain (not unknown amongst " leaders ") are silently shown up for what they are ; and who, above all, are clear beyond any possibility of mistake that nothing really worth while can ever be bought, is never, indeed, offered for sale. Perhaps we are by way of contributing to our generation a few of these good followers, as I call them. If Providence sends us in due course leaders also—and by a leader I mean somebody never to any serious extent a humbug, somebody capable of not merely an infinity of impressions, but of experience, one who looks neither to right nor left, and rallies to her all the true-hearted and the brave—well, may God send them causes worthy of themselves. Maybe we need not look far for either.

I now give you our remaining toast—Floreat Collegium Sancti

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Research Fellowship Endowment Fund.

The Fund at present stands at £633 9s. 4d., and welcome promises and contributions are coming in steadily. The St. Hugh's Club Fund for the same purpose, we are informed in a separate report, stands at £600, so that in our convergent tunnelling operations we are now, so to speak, £2,727 apart. The date at which enthusiasts are resolveid to witness the junction of hands—i.e., the £4,000 total—is 1933, which at first sight looks alarmingly near. But with a will most things are possible. The Committee wishes specially to commend the " group " method of contributing, between now and 1933, sums of X50 in annual instalments.

Gifts and Promises.

(Exclusive of the St. Hugh's Club Fund). £ s. d.

In hand October, 1928, balance of former Joint Appeal Fund ••• ••• of the four Women's Colleges 59 16 1 ••• ...

••• F. Thomas, Esq. ••• ••• •••, 5 5 0 ••• ••• ••• Miss Sparkes (in annual instalments of £10) ...

••• ••• 50 0 0 St. Hugh's College share of profits of American Summer ...

••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• School ••• 495 13 3 ••• Miss Weston ...

••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 1 10 0 ••• ••• ••• Miss Gossip ...

••• ••• ••• 2 2 0 ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 2 2 0 Dame Emily Penrose ••• ••• Share of four Women's Colleges dance profits ••• ••• 30 0 0 ••• ••• ••• 5 0 0 ••• ••• ••• Miss Dalgleish ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• •.• 5 0 0 Miss Kendall ...

Misses Martin-Hurst, Goodenough, Whittaker, Murrell, Huxley, Lace, Ellis, Watkins, Brunyate, Tyacke (in an••• ••• ••• ••• ... nual instalments of 10) 50 0 0 50 0 0 Misses Pope, Lacey and others (annual instalments of £10) ••• 1 0 0 ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• Miss Marr ...

••• ••• ••• Mrs. Buckler (proceeds of Lecture) ••• ••• 10 0 0 College Shop profits (five annual instalments of £10) ••• 50 0 0 ••• Miss Lim_pus (five annual instalments of 10) ...

••• 50 0 0 ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• • •• Miss Pilkington 10 0 0 ••• The St. Hugh's Club Fund for the foundation of a Scholarship stands at between £600 and £700, according to the Autumn statement.

Jourdain Memorial Fund. £182 has been contributed to the above fund by 71 donors. £17 has been promised by three others. It is hoped that more will be forthcoming.

(Signed) JOAN EVANS (Secretary).

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College as We See It from the Junior Common Room.

A categorical list of the many activities of College would be unreadable. There are, however, certain functions, games and societies generally, which go on as enthusiastically as ever, as new minds and spirits direct themselves to respond to the gay, full, joyous call of life at Oxford.

Some new societies sprang up last year. The Ping-Pong Club, which made praiseworthy endeavours to be noiseless ; the Ju-Jitsu Club, whose attraction includes a large and startling badge, and a fee for the plutocrats only. There is no rush to uphold our national reputation as " shopkeepers," but a great demand for the morning coffee instituted by the Students' Committee, which in two terms made a profit of two pounds, appropriated to answer the long-voiced cry of " deck-chairs to mend."

The College Play and the year entertainments were very good. And though the choir was not successful at the beginning of the year, it is hoped with the help of congregational practices, to make great improvements next year. The Students' Committee instituted a report which is issued each week to inform any intelligent member of the community that her wishes are being respected. They have had some stern problems to deal with, especially those concerned with late leave and the new Wing. Late leave was granted, its administration being in the hands of the Principal, with the co-operation of members of the third year.

There are three more " Blues " this year, Miss Buick for Lacrosse and Tennis, and Miss Zvegintzov for hockey.

The lighter side of College life showed great originality. The S.C.M. especially are to be congratulated on their ingenious, sports, which interested the whole of College and greatly helped Finance Week. The " Imp " has a new cover ; we think it has raised the standard of thought.

We have a new friend, the squirrel, who has decided upon the office as his dining room, and has so far escaped Ball's secret longings for his skin. There are some beautiful photographs of him and of College, which are being sold in aid of the Fellowship Fund. These are well worth buying, and all those who are interested should write to Miss B. H. Moberly, St. Hugh's College, with the request "to be forwarded."

Before the end of the account, " College as We See It," we must add a description of the children's party. It was held on June 2nd, and we entertained " North Oxford " children. It was a great success ; all the children made a great noise, a sign of real appreciation. But the greatest tribute was from the little boy who walked home silently ; he sighed deeply and said : " It was a lovely party—(pause)--it wasn't like a real party, it was so lovely." We value that tribute tremendously.

We hope that next year may be equally enjoyable and equally happy for those who follow on.

October, 1928.

F. M. FOX, President, J.C.R., 1927-28.

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The J.C.R., 1928-29.

In the Michaelmas term, 1928, at the instigation of the Principal, the Junior Common Room made a contribution of £28 to the Welsh miners, to be devoted to the education of children who would otherwise have been obliged to remain away from school.

An additional sum of £39 (one-half of the College general subscriptions) was sent by the J.C.R. to the Oxford branch of the Lord Mayor's Fund.

J. Dick was awarded a Goldsmiths' Exhibition in the Hilary Term, 1928.

The College play in the Michaelmas Term, 1928, was an abridged version of Aristophanes' " Frogs " (Murray), preceded by a tableau version of the ballad, " Binnorie."

The Fiction Library is now in receipt of a grant from the Junior common room funds amounting to 15/- a term.

The following have won their " Blues " : Hockey.—M. Hardie (plays for Scotland); R. Attenborough ; N. Beattie ; B. Roberts.

Netball.—O. Havergal is captain of the united Netball Team.

Swimming.--M. Ervin; E. Scott-Harston.

M. 0-WEN, President.

The Library.

The Library has been thoroughly reorganised during the past year.

A subject index had already been added in 1926, but it was generally felt that the library had outgrown a system of classification and notation that had suited it in its youth. This, in view of the great advance in the art of librarianship, has been al big task, as it entailed the building up of a new catalogue of a fuller type, and of a new shelf register.

Every book had to be reclassified, renumbered and relabelled. The system followed has been a modification of the Dewey scheme. This work has now been more than half completed, history, politics, economics, English and philology being finished, and classics well on the way to completion.

The work has been done by Miss Downie, a Liverpool graduate, with the certificate of the London School of Librarianship, under the general supervision of the librarian, Miss Perham. It has been made possible by the keen co-operation of a number of students and old students, who have stayed up in College for periods of the vacation, working under Miss Downie's direction.

Other changes that will strike the returning member of the College, will be the substantial show-case in which fine-art books, part of the Church bequest, are housed and displayed. Two large revolving bookcases hold the bulk of the reference books, and greatly increased shelving has been made necessary, because the books grow at an ever-increasing rate, and now number well over ten thousand. The diffi culty of adding to the shelf-room without depriving the library of light has been very successfully overcome by erecting shelves on the wall-space between the windows and the old shelves. These are reached by small ladders, which can be easly moved from bay to bay.

The past year has seen a great advance in the use of the library by students. This is due to the greater facilities for reading and investigation which the new organisation of the library has produced, and the Librarian and Miss Downie are much to be congratulated on the change.

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The Gaudy.

The Gaudy will be held during the week-end of June 28th—July 1st.

The dinner will take place on Saturday, June 2fth. Invitations will be issued early next term.

St. Hugh's Club.

During 1928 two social meetings were held in London. The annual general business meeting was held in July, but as there was not a quorum no business could be transacted. The attendance at all the meetings was very sparse, and the secretary would be glad to receive any suggestions as to how this may be remedied.

The committee consisted of Miss Batchelor, Miss Irwin, Miss Rosser, Miss Stallman, who retires in May, 1929, Mrs. Grigg, Miss Lagden, Miss N. Moller, who retire in May, 1930, the hon. secretary, who retires in 1931, and the President of the J.C.R. During the year the Club's investments were increased by the purchase of of Conversion Loan, and of Funding Loan.

On January 1st, 1929, the Club membership was : 328 life members, 40 annual members, 2 honorary members.

(Signed) JEAN GREIG, Hon. Sec. and Treasurer, St. Hugh's Club.

The St. Hugh's Club Scholarship Fund stood last autumn at between £600 and £700 ; it has not been possible to obtain a full statement before sending the Chronicle to press, as the Hon. Treasurer is abroad.

C. GOODENOUGH, Editor of the Chronicle.

University Women's Club 2, Audley Square, VV.1.

Students who have been in residence six terms are qualified for election to membership of this Club. The usual subscription is one guinea entrance and three guineas annual membership, but special terms are now offered to those joining within one year of leaving college.

Those joining during the first six months after going down (JulyJanuary) pay no entrance fee and only half the annual subscription for that year (one and a half guineas).

Those joining after the first six months (January to the following July) pay no entrance fee, but the ordinary membership fee of three guineas.

Further particulars and entrance forms may be obtained from the Secretary of the Club, 2 Audley Square, W.1.

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OBITUARY. SIR JOHN CAESAR HAWKINS.

Our first Chairman of Council, whose death at the great age of ninety-one took place at Oxford on January 18th, 1929, will long be remembered as an important contributor to the great subject of biblical studies in our generation the Synoptic Problem. His " florae Synopticae " is a standard work well known to all students of the New Testament, and his contributions to " Studies in the Synoptic Problem," 1911, a volume of papers written by members of Dr. Sanday's Seminar on the Gospels, has its own distinction among that series. He was also an enthusiastic student of Dante, and in 1909 published " The Use of Dante as an Illustration of Scripture." He was an Oxford man, taking his degree from Oriel in 1858, afterwards being ordained and working as a parish priest for seventeen years. His indifferent health bringing this work to an end in 1880 proved a great advantage to English theological scholarship.

Sir John Hawkins continued to follow College affairs till the end, and was just able to hear with sympathetic interest of the election of a scholar to the scholarship named after him. His work for us in 1890 was of a piece with his ready sympathy and genuine interest in all kinds of people and activity, and the memory of it will continue to be cherished by

the College.

DR. G. B. CRONSHAW. The late Principal of St. Edmund Hall was Treasurer of St. Hugh's 1906-1925, a period of great activity and expansion. Those in residence then recall his constant presence on the scene of the then rising buildings, his careful supervision and keen interest in our progress. His death so short a time after a happy marriage and election to a Headship was a shock to his innumerable friends in the University and City. To give in detail all his beneficent activities would be impossible here, but they included nearly every avenue of usefulness open in Oxford to a man of great administrative ability, generosity and sound sense. Our debt to him, among others of the many institutions he served with unstinting zeal, will be long remembered.

CHARLOTTE EMILY JOURDAIN.

The death was announced on December 1st, 1928, of Charlotte Emily Jourdain. Hers was the first name entered as a student of St. Hugh's in 1886. Her three companions for the first term were Constance Ashburner Headmistress of the Lincoln High School, who died some time ago ; Grace ' Parsons, for many years science mistress at Falmouth; and Jessie Emmerson (Mrs. Price).

Charlotte became a governess in several well known families and travelled much abroad with them. For some time she was teaching in the family of Lady Elcho, sister of Lady Grey of Fallodon, and enjoyed her work. Afterwards she joined the Community of the Epiphany.at Truro and as one of the sisterhood took her turn at their settlement in Tokyo,

Japan.

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Though at the actual moment of its occurrence she was in the north of the island, on hearing of the tremendous earthquake she hurried back to Tokyo and took a full part in tending the wounded and dying. It was a great experience and she was cognisant of the deep impression made on the Japanese by the fact that no Christian Church in Japan suffered any damage at that time of general demolition.

When her time was up Charlotte returned to England in 1924, and was met on the moment of arrival by the news of the sudden death of her elder sister, Eleanor Jourdain.

Two years ago Charlotte was summoned to Oxford to nurse her mother and invalid younger sister, who had, settled in Oxford to be near Eleanor, in whose charge they were. Eleanor Jourdain's death was indeed a great loss to this crippled household and Charlotte left her work at Truro to attend first one and then the other till they died. Finally, she nursed the nurse who had been in attendance on them through a bad attack of influenza and caught it herself. Charlotte never completely recovered this illness and, for the last years of her life was an invalid suffering from deafness and heart attacks. From Truro we learned that she was bright and patient to the last and then the call came.

Hers was a modest faithful life, which called for moments of strong courage and full Christian faith. In these she never failed, and St. Hugh's can rejoice that the first of its students was such a loyal member of the College (in which she had a double claim) and was so quietly effective in the different calls that came to her in this life.

Another ancient student of St. Hugh's, Eleanor Spooner, also a sister of the Community of the Epiphany at Truro, has this year taken her turn at their foreign settlement and is working at Tokyo in Japan. We trust that she will have good health and will come safely home when her work is accomplished. C. A. E. MOBERLY. GERTRUDE MARY MICHAUD SEELLY.

Gertrude Mary Michaud Seelly came up to St. Hugh's in 1903, and read English taking her Final Examination in 1906. From Oxford she went on to St. Mary's, Wantagehere she obtained her Teaching Diploma, gaining the CambridgeCCertificate. After a short time at the Dover High. School followed five years at the Truro County School where she was from 1909-19.14, and which she only left in order to be nearer her home at Keighley. Short appointments filled in the next few years, till in 1919 she went to the Stoke Park Secondary School at Coventry, Aaying there until in 1927 she obtained the Headmistress-ship of the St. John's High School at Newport. While at Coventry she found time to complete the necessary examinations and took her Oxford M.A. degree. She was however to have but a short career as Headmistress for on Christmas Eve, 1928, the end came suddenly ; she collapsed under the anaesthetic for a severe operation which had unexpectedly become imperative. Generous and warm hearted, Gertrude showed as a student the talent for friendship which won her her many friends then and in later years, and the depth and sincerity of religious conviction which was her mainspring of action through life and enabled her later to carry on her work with wonderful courage and cheerfulness under the difficulties of an injured ankle and the languor of oncoming illness. What one had no opportunity of foreseeing at college was the gift for teaching to which those testify who have seen her work, and the powers of organisation proved by the success of her short experience as Headmistress. E. E. W.

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ST. HUGH'S CHRONICLE. MABEL HUNTER.

The sad death last autumn of Mabel Hunter, at the early age of thirty, deprived her friends of a singularly gracious presence. She was one of those rare people who never seem to pass through an awkward age. Even as a student she combined in an unusual degree the pleasant enthusiasms of youth with a quiet maturity of poise. Accomplished rather than intellectual, she always took an eager part in the social life of the college. No personal antipathy ever obscured the instinctive courtesy with which she treated everyone—a courtesy of the heart. All these qualities, so richly hers at twenty, deepened beautifully as the years went on. Those who loved her will always remember her as a fine and delicate personality, loyal and serene. E. McL. DOROTHY MORGAN.

Dorothy Morgan (BA., 1925) died on November 1st, 1928, after a long illness. In J anuary, 1927, she went out to Lausanne to take a post in a school for a year, but was taken ill and had to be brought home in March. After that she was never able to get up again. Everything possible was done to save her and though the doctor hoped at one time that she would recover she might never have walked again. She suffered a great deal but was always cheerful, as those who knew her would guess; and until about a fortnight before her death she found much pleasure in books and letters. She will be greatly missed. F. C.

DOROTHY MARY LANGFIELD.

Dorothy came up in the Michaelmas Term, 1925, and during that year, while she was in the Lawn, and the next year in " 82 " she was a keen, vivid creature, deeply interested in her work, taking her full share in College life and always brimming over with fun and drollery. She played hockey and tennis but much preferred boating, and was boats captain in her second year. As an actress she was good : witness her interpretation of the doltish smith in " Thersytes," or of the maiden aunt in •' Make-Believe." She wrote clearly, with a style of her own, and whatever her essays may have been to her tutors, her letters were a source of sheer joy to her friends. They were so entirely characteristic of her, one almost heard her speaking. In every thing she undertook she infected others with her own enthusiasm.

This joyous, vigorous creature of our first and second years, was the real Dorothy, for when she came up in the autumn of 1927 she was ill, and although the old vigour flashed out again every now and then, yet the pain she suffered changed her very greatly. She went down in the middle of last Hilary Term, but no one knew she was so ill, and that she would die at the end of July at the age of twenty.

It is difficult to write of her, for one can hardly believe that it is all over ; but the memory she left with her friends was of cheeriness, quaintness and a great love of her subject and of her College. F. M. W. Members of the five bereaved families are joining in a gift of commemoration, which will take the form of altar-frontals for use in the College Chapel. They are to be made in the workrooms of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin at Wantage, and we hope will be ready for use at the Festivals of Trinity and Whitsuntide this year.

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MARRIAGES. MARY CLIFTON to Mr. P. D. PowER, of Follyfield House, Churt, Farnham. May 5th, 1928.

CATHERINE MESSENT to Mr. J. H. ALCO'CK, of Sunnycroft, Mansfield, Notts. May 30th, 1928.

NESTA BLACOW to Mr. GREASLEY, at Sedburgh Parish Church, June 4th, 1928.

MARY PHELIPS to Mr. J. DICKINSON, at Mombasa Cathedral, July 7th, 1928.

ELIZABETH SEROCOLD to Mr. GEOFFREY DIXON, at St. John's, Southwick Crescent, July 25th, 1928.

EUNICE MORSE to Mr. W. W. KENNEY, at Haifa, August 4th, 1928.

WINIFRED DINGWALL to Mr. W. GIBSON, at St. Bonif ace's Church, Isle of Wight, August 30th, 1928.

CAROLINE MCNIECE to Mr. J. NICHOLSON, at St. Nicholas's Church, Carrickfergus, October 18th, 1928.

ISABEL OTTER-BARRY tO the Rev. R. ALLEN, at St. Peter's, Worfield, October 30th, 1928.

MADELINE HORN to Mr. N. G. MACKILLIGAN, at Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, November 7th, 1928.

ERICA BARRY to Mr. R. W. THOMPSON, July 13th, 1928.

DOROTHEA KEBLE to Mr. A. DAVIES, at St. John's, Horsley Down, S.E.1, January 5th, 1929.

PHEBE WALKER to Mr. S. WALKER, January 31st, 1929.

BIRTHS. Mrs. J. CORDWENT CURRIE (Margaret Bown)—a daughter, June, 1924; a son, September, 1927.

Mrs. GAPPER (Loveday Wright), wife of Capt. Gapper, 5/10 Balud Regiment—a son, August, 1928.

Mrs. HORNIBROOK (Margaret Hemstock)—a son, October, 1928.

Mrs. LETTS (Eveleen Bonner)—a son, Richard Francis Bonner, May 1928.

Mrs. Alex. MURRAY (Zaira Lindo)—a son, Cecil Alexander Lindo, August 1928.

Mrs. PHILLIPS (Enid Varley), wife of Capt. Phillips, R.A. (retd.)— a son, May, 1928.

Mrs. SPALDING (Kathleen Patterson)—a daughter, Elizabeth Irwin, October, 1928.

Mrs. H. Keith ZIEGLER (Vera Leys)—a daughter (stillborn), February, 1928.

Mrs. Robert V. STONEY (Theffania Nugent)—a son, October, 1928.

Mrs. HOPKIRK (Mary Perkins), wife of Frank Hopkirk—a daughter.

March, 1928.

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Appointments.

The

has been re-elected President of the Association of University Women Teachers, 1929-30.

C. M. ADY, M.A., Tutor in Modern History to the Society of Oxford Home Students, has been elected to a Research Fellowship at the College. She was formerly scholar and tutor of St. Hugh's and has been a University lecturer since 1927 in Modern History. The subject of her research will be : " The Italian Despotisms, with special reference to Bologna."

M. F. PERHAM, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of the College, has been elected by the Rhodes Trustees to a travelling Fellowship for 1929-30.

She was a scholar of St. Hugh's College, and was afterwards appointed Lecturer in History at the University of Sheffield. Miss Perham, whose interests lie in Colonial and Native Policy, will visit certain regions of Africa, New Zealand and Samoa, and so far as time permits the Negro educational Institutions of the United States.

D. WARRINER, B.A., 1926, has been elected to the Mary Somerville Research Fellowship at Somerville College.

M. E. REEVES, B.A., has been elected to a Research Studentship at Westfield College, University of London, 1929-30. The subject of her research will be " The Cities of the Lombard Plain, with special reference to Brescia."

Teaching Appointments, 1928-29.

K. BARBS is assistant mistress at the Heaton School, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

A. BRUNYATE is assistant mistress at the Church School, Newcastle.

A. DAMAN is assistant mistress at the Parktown High School, Johannesburg.

K. ELLIS is French mistress at the Oxford High School.

E. FAGAN is History mistress at Southlands, Exmouth.

M. GOSSIP is assistant mistress at St. Margaret's, Aberdeen.

P. GRAHAM has been awarded a scholarship grant for training in South Africa, by the Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women.

B. GREENHALGII is Junior French mistress at the Penistone Girls' School.

M. HALL is English mistress at the Monmouth High School.

E. HERDMAN is Vice-Warden of Ashburn Hall, Manchester University.

V. HIGGIN is teaching for the Manchester Education Committee.

K. HOBBS is History mistress at St. Michael's, East Grinstead.

E. JAY-BROWNE is Science mistress at Prior's Field, Godalming.

B. KENDALL is assistant mistress at the County Girls' School, Cambridge.

B. LACEY is Junior School mistress at the Guildford Secondary School.

M. MACKENZIE is History mistress at Sheffield High School.

M. MACAULAY is Classics mistress at the Cheltenham Ladies' College.

E. MARTIN is assistant mistress at Queen Margaret School, Duncan, Vancouver.

V. MERCER is French mistress at the Clacton Secondary School.

P. Moss is Geography mistress at Aigburth Vale, Liverpool.

V. MURRAY is Warden of Tapton Cliffe Hall, Sheffield University.

W. MURRELL is assistant mistress at the Birkenhead High School.

L. STAVE is assistant mistress at " Corran," Watford, Herts.

G. WATKINS is French mistress at the Bedford High School.

G. WILLIAMS IS assistant mistress at the Girls' County Secondary School, PRINCIPAL

Durham.

K. WOODS is assistant mistress at St. Augustine's Priory, Hayes Hill, Ealing.

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Various.

A. OGILVIE is an assistant organiser of Children's Care, under the L.C.C. D. K. PETERS is the Resident Obstetric Physician at the Grace Hospital, Winnipeg.

M. WHITTAKER is secretary at the Highways Club, Shadwell.

P. ALLEN is secretary to Miss L. Grier, Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

C. M. PILKINGTON is doing Botanical Research and giving instruction in the University.

E. POWER is an assistant in the College of Business Administration, Boston University.

M. RIISSEML is teaching at Wychwood School ; is librarian of the department of Social Anthropology and assistant in the anatomy department of the University Museum ; is assistant curator to the PittRivers Museum and secretary to Captain Pitt-Rivers.

M. WARDP.T.T, is secretary to the Reader in Paleography, Oxford University.

Publications.

April, 1928-April, 1929. " The Unconquered Knight : a Chronicle of the Deeds of Don Pedro Nino, Count of Buelna, by his Standard Bearer, Gutierre Diaz de Garnez, 1431 1449." Translated and selected from El Vitorial by Joan Evans B.Litt., F'.R.Hist.S. Routledge. 1928. " Stories from Chaucer." A. M. M. Hales, B.A. Methuen. 1928.

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Fiction.

" Neapolitan Ice." R. 0. Haynes. Chatto and Windus. 1928. " The Underground River." E. M. Olivier. Jack. 1928. " As Far as Jane's Grandmother's." E. M. Olivier. Seeker. 1928.

Articles.

" The Application of Abel's Method of Summation to Diriehlet's Series."

(Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Vol. 3, Part 4.)

M. L. Cartwright. " The Nationality of Slaves under the Early Roman Empire." (Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 14, Part 1.) M. L. Gordon. " The Ordo of Pompeii." (Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 17, Part 2.)

M. L. Gordon. " Le Beau-Pere de Rivarol, Mather Flint et son oeuvre." (Revue de Littorature Comparee. Avril-juin, 1928.) S. M. Goulding.

Translations of Articles in " Africa." (April, July, 1928, January, 1929.)

H. E. Fiedler. " The New English Dictionary." (The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. 103, No. 611.) E. E. Wardale. " Modern Humanities Research Association : Bibliography of English Language and Literature for 1927." Edited by Dorothy Everett and Ethel Seaton. " Serena and Selina." (Oxford Poetry, 1928.) " The Leaf and the Wind." R. M. J. Campbell. " Les Jardins de la Nuit." (Oxford Poetry, 1928.) P. M. Hartnoll.

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News of Senior Members.

M. L. MARE

is history mistress at the North Middlesex School, Enfield.

Chase.

M. L. SIMPSON is headmistress of St. Stephen's College, W. Folkestone.

E. DAWSON is assistant mistress at the Girls' Grammar School, Watford.

M. GARNER is history mistress at St. Katherine's, Heatherton Park, near Taunton.

I. F. V. LYNN is history mistress at Bedgebury Park, Goudhurst, Kent.

N. K. HEWITT is history mistress at Maidstone Girls' Grammar School.

D. E. SMITH is classics mistress at the Royal School, Bath.

B. M. C. MORGAN is teaching at Grassendale, Southbourne, Bournemouth.

C. E. DORMOR, is teaching at Benenden School, Cranbrook.

P. M. COOPER is teaching French at the College, Harrogate.

C. R. YOUNG is teaching at Manor House, Limpsfield.

G. M. MORTON is teaching at the County High School, Colchester.

A. CLARK is teaching mathematics at Heatherly, Inverness. She is also a games coach and a guide lieutenant.

S. M. ANDREWS is teaching at the County School, Chiswick.

F. A. GRAINGER is teaching at the County School, Chiswick.

C. HEDLEY is head mistress of the County School, Chiswick.

C. L. EDWARDS is joint head mistress of St. Christopher's Secondary Day School, New Milton, Hants.

V. M. MCPHERSON is head mistress of St. Clare's School, Polwithen, Penzance.

M. S. HOLLAND is history and house mistress at St. Michael's, Bognor.

M. MATTHEWS is history mistress at the Dudley Girls' High School.

M. I. BROWN is classics mistress at St. Mary's School, Caine, Wilts.

M. B. MAYNARD is teaching at Oldershaw School for Girls, Wallasey.

M. GUY is teaching at Grovely Manor School, Boscombe, Hants.

F. L. CAMOUS is teaching French and German at the Godolphin and Latymer School Hammersmith.

M. HARWOOD is teaching English at Greenwood, Eastbourne.

C. E. M. ALcom (nee Messent) is lecturing on Drama to W.E.A. evening classes.

M. L. LEE is tutor to the Society of Oxford Home Students and joint principal of Wychwood School.

M. GORDON is lecturer in classics at the University College, Exeter.

J. BAKER is working in the library of the League of Nations Union in London.

M. CLARKSON is secretary-typist to the secretary of the Irish Soldiers and Sailors Land Trust.

U. DACOMBE is on the editorial staff of " Women at Home."

I. EVANS is an assistant at the Mothers' Union Book Store.

H. E. FIEDLER plays the 'cello in orchestras and quartets.

J. HACKSHAW is on the staff of the " New Survey of London /7 (London School of Economics).

R. 0. HAYNES is publisher's assistant to Geoffrey Bles.

E. HENRY is a postulant at St. Hilda's, Sneat,on Castle.

H. HUMPHREYS is assistant editor to the International Newspaper and Publicity Association.

L. LIMPUS is helping at a Y.W.C.A. Hostel and Club in Ipswich.

D. E. LINGARD is in the buying department of Elizabeth Arden, Ltd. J. MACHIN' is doing secretarial work in Oxford.

N. MOLLER is with Peter Jones Limited.

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A. C. PERCIVAL is assistant secretary to the Victoria League.

D. POPE is secretary at the Belstead School, Aldeburgh.

M. PRITCHARD is on the stage, playing character parts and stage managing.

A. M. ROBERTSON is training at King's College.

D. BARKER, is training at the London Day Training College.

G. M. S. SI31EY is reading for the Bar. H. THRUPP is articled to a firm of chartered accountants.

C. E. WATSON is secretary at the Steyne School for Girls, Worthing.

G. YOU/IC-HUGHES is a novice at Fairacres, Oxford.

M. H. CLARRY is doing political work for the Liberal Party.

C. GoonENo-trim" is hon. secretary to two L.C.C. School Care Committees, and assistant County Secretary to the Surrey Girl Guides.

L. M. H. HILL is a travelling organiser for the Women's National Liberal Federation.

A. H. HUXLEY is hon. secretary of a District Nursing Association, Women's Institute, Village Service Council.

D. MARTIN-HURST is training as a hospital almoner.

E. G. MAY is the Staff Lady Supervisor for the British-Thomson-Houston Company, and is responsible for the training and discipline of 560 girls.

B. E. NEGUS is rent-collecting under the auspices of the Women-House Property managers (Octavia Hill's method).

D. M. WETHERED is Hon. Assistant Secretary to the Bristol Infant Welf are Association.

M. WILSON is a Deaconess at St. Hilda's Deaconess House, Lahore, doing parochial work and housekeeping in the Deaconess House.

W. WINDLE is a missionary at the Christian Orphanage, Assiout, Egypt.

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