No. 18.
December, 1899.
Contents.
PACE
. 297 NOTES . OUR PATRON SAINTS. IV. . 297 AN APOLOGY AND A REPLY 299 IDLE CONFESSIONS, BY M. B. 299
To KATHARINE . . 301 ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN . . 301 THE OXFORD STUDENTS' DEBATING SOCIETY . UNIVERSITIES' MISSION TO CENTRAL AFRICA THE X CLUB OXFORD STUDENTS' LAWN TENNIS CLUB . SOMERVILLE, COLLEGE LADY MARGARET HALL ST. HUGH'S HALL. ST. HILDA'S HALL HOME STUDENTS .
Oxfori) PRINTED POP. THE PROPRIETORS BY JAMES PARKER & CO., CROWN YARD.
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E0itor : MiSS
JAMISON,
Lady Margaret Hall.
treasurer : Miss
DE CASTRO,
St. Hugh's Hall.
Committee : Miss CROPPER, Somerville College. Miss
ZIMMERN,
Miss LYON, Lady Margaret Hall. Miss WYLD, St. Hugh's Hall. Miss STIFF, St. Hilda's Hall. Miss LEATHER, Home Students, 28 Polstead Road.
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'Rotes. WE beg to call attention to the rule that contributions for the Fritillary should be written on one side of the paper only. WE wish further to suggest that all notices should be as short and as much to the point as possible. Reflections on the weather and the statement of self-evident facts are irrelevant.
Our 'patron 5aint5. IV. ST. HILDA. ' LAST founded, erst grounded,' might well be a motto for St. Hilda's Hall, for it goes back over 1200 years to find its patron saint. Born in 614, St. Hilda was the daughter of noble parents, Hereric and Bregeswith. The mother comes before us only in one of those prophetic legends so dear to the middle ages. One day, before Hilda was born, Bregeswith fell asleep and dreamt that beneath her robe a jewel was hidden, which presently shone forth with a light so great that it filled the land. When her daughter's goodness became famous, the mother realised what her dream had meant. Hereric is called the nephew of Edwin, King of Northumbria, and it is probable that in his veins flowed also the blood of the rival family of Northumbrian Kings. This would account for the dangers of Hilda's early years, for her parents had to seek refuge from Edwin at the court of the British King, Cerdic of Elmet. Even
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then Hereric died of poison (616), it was rumoured by the intrigues of Edwin, who shortly after defeated Cerdic, and annexed Elmet to Northumbria. For ten years we hear no more of Hilda. Edwin was meanwhile converted to Christianity by Paulinus, and possibly it was then that the feud between the two houses was healed ; for Bregeswith seems to have brought her daughter to his court. Here, in the tiny wooden church which Paulinus had "timbered" at York, Hilda was baptized (627), probably with Edwin and his nobles. After this, we hear of her "living very nobly" among her kinsfolk for nearly twenty years, doubtless learning much from the saintly Bishop Aidan. Then, hearing that her sister Hereswith, the widowed queen of East Anglia, had withdrawn to a nunnery at Chelles in Gaul, she too wished to "take the monastic habit " in the same convent. But St. Aidan, regretting the loss to the country of so wise a princess, persuaded her to take charge of a small nunnery at Wearmouth instead. In a year's time St. Hilda was called, by the unanimous vote of the community, to succeed Heiu as Abbess of Hartlepool. Heiu has been identified with St. Bega, or St. Bees, probably the first nun consecrated in Northumbria. The cares of the community had pressed so much upon her that Bega had begged Aidan's leave to retire for a while to a more lonely cell. The Monk of St. Bees tells us that St. Hilda and St. Bega were great friends, and often visited each other. St. Hilda re-organised Hartlepool (651), introducing a " regular system, according as she had been instructed by learned men . . . because of her innate wisdom" (Bede).
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The old feud, which had killed King Oswald, was still raging between his successor Oswy and Penda the heathen King of Mercia. In gratitude for a decisive victory at Winwaed, Oswy ' gave up to God' his one-year-old daughter Elfleda, and placed her under St. Hilda's care. From that day Elfleda never left her side, and after "the Mother's" death, succeeded her as abbess in the greater foundation of Streoneshalch. When St. Hilda had governed Hartlepool for six years, St. Bega returned, intending to place herself under her renowned successor (Aberdeen Breviary). But St. Hilda thought it wiser for the older nun to resume the rule of her own foundation, and therefore set forth to found another and more famous house at Streoneshalch or Whitby (657). There she installed her double monastery of monks and ,nuns, after the Celtic fashion, and under the same rule which she had introduced at Hartlepool. Bede well describes her work :—" She taught the spirit of observance of righteousness, piety, chastity, and other virtues, but, most of all, of peace and love. . . . Her prudence was so great that . . . even kings and princes . . . asked and received her advice. She obliged those under her rule to exercise themselves so diligently in reading of the Holy Scriptures, and in works of righteousness, that many could be easily found there who were fit for the ministry of the Church, and to serve at the altar." In fact, under "the Mother's" rule, and that of Elfleda, many future Bishops were trained : Bosa, St. John of Beverley, and St. Wilfrid II. were eventually consecrated to York, Oftfor was Bishop of Mercian Worcester, and Hedda filled the West Saxon see of Dorchester, so that St. Hilda's pupils carried her teaching as far south as the diocese in which the border-town of Oxford lay. Nor was Streoneshalch a source of inspiration to men only. St. Hilda served as a pattern to several other women. Her niece, St. Etheldreda, copied her double foundation at Ely ; so did Kyneburga at Gloucester : others were established at Barking, Repton and Wimborne. John of Wallingford's account infers that her great nieces presided over the smaller convent of Hackness,
which St. Hilda founded the year before her death. St. Hilda did not conform to the popular idea of a medimval saint, in cutting herself off from all ties of kindred. Her house was a refuge for them, living or dead. Thither came the widowed Eanfled, who, as counsellor to the young abbess Elfleda, repaid afterwards St. Hilda's loving care of her daughter. Thither was borne the body of King Oswy, and also that of Edwin, probably from an earlier resting-place. The Abbess did not fail to take her share in the events of the larger world outside. Perhaps, to many, the very name of the monastery is familiar only as the scene of the famous synod of Whitby in 664, at which King Oswy bound himself more closely to the observances of the great Roman Church of the west. In this St. Hilda chewed very clearly the breadth of her understanding, and the loyalty of her mind. Personally she sympathised with the customs of the Scottish Church in which she had been educated; but now, recognising perhaps the future value of the act, both she and her followers acquiesced in the royal decision. Just as she had kept peace in her own family, so now she helped to keep peace in the Northumbrian Church. Even the very myths which surround St. Hilda mark her strong desire to create peace around her, and ' turn bale to boon.' The little ammonites, found so plentifully round Whitby, are fabled to have been snakes, which she deprived of power to harm, by turning them into stone, while she kept the numberless wild geese from wasting her people's lands by turning them into swans. For six years before her death (in 68o) she had suffered from some kind of fever: at length "the distemper turning inwards, she approached her last day . . . and, having called together the servants of Christ within the monastery . .. and admonished them to peace, she joyfully saw death approaching, or rather .. . passed from death to life." So, by the increasing brightness of St. Hilda's life, was her mother's dream fulfilled. To us, too, it all seems something like a dream. The glory
THE FRITILLARY. of Northumbria shone only for a century, and St. Hilda seems to stand in the midst of it, first by virtue of her strong personality, and then of the centre of learning and good life that she founded. With the death of Ceolwulf (739) vanished the political peace of Northumbria ; with the death of Bede (735) vanished its learning; and with the death of Elfleda (714) closes our record of Streoneshalch. The curtain of silence lifts only to shew us the utter destruction of the monastery during the Danish incursion of 78o, and the very change of the place's name to Whitby. All that remained to remind us of St. Hilda was the prose of Bede, who was born ere she died, the song of Caadmon, who herded her cattle, and the light of her work and example. Non frustra vixi. C. M. E. B.
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" Well, my dear," said the King, " it is possible the treatment may have been a little severe ; but he would not have succumbed to his injuries unless he had been in a very delicate state of health to begin with. And I maintain the Court is better without him." "Flippancy," observed the Physician, "is in fectious ;" and at that the courtiers shuddered to think 'what a narrow escape they had had. So the Physician was knighted, and the courtiers lived on in solemn dignity, and the Queen dared not put on mourning. But nobody thought of asking why the poor fool's constitution had been so weak, nor why the air of the palace had not suited him. E. S. HODGKIN.
Rife Confessions,
n iipotogp ant) a 1RepIr. THE Jester was dead. The King said "Good riddance," but the Queen wept. " My dear," said the King, " this is absurd. His jokes never deserved our laughter, so his death cannot deserve our tears." " Besides," added the Court Physician, " with such a constitution life could never have been much pleasure to him. His wit was cheap and his humour forced." But the Queen still wept : " I was rather fond of him," she said, " and every Court must have its jester. A poor fool is better than no fool ; but I shall never get another now this one has been murdered." " Murdered !" said the King, testily. " Murdered !" said the Physician, uncomfortably. " Why yes," sobbed the Queen ; " it is not every fool that can stand being vivisected. You cut him up, and told him he was suffering from lack of spontaneity, but half an hour after you had left him he developed acute self-consciousness, and it was that which killed him. Surely a doctor ought to know that self-consciousness is always fatal to a jester." 2
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THE CAMERA. THE catalogue of the Bodleian Library is not a work to be trifled with, and whoever approaches its mysteries in a light spirit is doomed to a speedy rebuff. To the initiated its orderly and accurate volumes are doubtless an invaluable aid to study ; but to the unintelligent they appear deliberately bewildering. For my part I have never got on easy terms with this forbidding record of human learning ; the endless cataloguing of the endless making of many books harasses my idle mind and oppresses me with the sense at once of my own insignificance and of the portentous and unmanageable futility of the greater part of human labour. The first time I went to read at the Camera I wanted a book on some social question by Rae. With a carelessness which I smile to look back upon, I never thought of making sure either of his initials or of how he spelt his name, and in ignorant bliss pulled out one of the volumes of the catalogue and turned to WRAY. I was sorry then that I did not know the author's initials, for it involved making my way through at least five and twenty pages of the index. Not discovering the work I wanted on first perusal, I slowly retraced my steps, of course in vain.
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I imbibed, in the process, a quite new idea of the vast range of literary activity. The Wrays alone would seem to have dealt with every imaginable subject from the art of making toilet-washes to the proper treatment of heresy. A little subdued in mind, but not wholly cast down, I put by that volume and turned to the RAYS. The Rays have been quite as prolific as the Wrays, and by the time I had pursued my baffled path through the list of their productions I felt forlorn and oppressed in face of the grim mysteries of the Catalogue. Fortunately the timely entry of a friend who solved the vexed question of orthography put an end to my discomfiture, and a few minutes later I had filled in the printed form, carried it nervously, but with a sense of virtuous victory, to one of the library boys, and sat down at my desk. At last, after an interval of patience, the long-sought book was delivered into my hands. I welcomed it with pride, although I knew that to get a book out of the mysterious fastnesses of the library is really a thing which is often done by people of very moderate intelligence ; so much I had gathered from my survey of the readers around me. Still I did feel proud ; not that the book turned out to be of much use to me, for it shed little or no light on the subject of my essay. Nevertheless I did not feel brave enough to venture out again upon the troubled waters of the catalogue, but remained in the quiet haven of my desk, prudently valuing the book in my hand above all the books on the library shelves. But the catalogue abounds in pitfalls for the unwary. One morning when I had to my joy found almost at once what looked like a good source of information, I noticed that my request caused some official agitation, and soon one of the librarians advanced towards me with a serious and imposing manner, and informed me that if I really desired it I might be conducted to the place where the manuscript I had asked for was kept, and might consult, under superintendence, the passage I wanted to look up. Horror struck at my unintentional audacity I apologised for my mistake, and the librarian, taking me, as it were, by the hand, led my steps into less ambitious
paths of knowledge, I feeling like a child in disgrace for meddling with matters too high for it. Yet to read in the Camera has ample compensations for all such drawbacks as the struggles with the catalogue, the annoyance of seeing everyone else supplied with books and oneself passed by, and many other minor vexations. For the Camera shares in large measure the peculiar charm of Oxford, and that austere kindly charm, that strange seductive melancholy which envelopes the mind in the magnificent mysteries of the past, and beneath whose spell the most callous and unimaginative must sometimes fall. Not that Oxford ever obtrudes its personality upon the unwilling; it is the most companionable and sympathetic of cities. It has moods for the moods of all who come and go there. And in the Camera especially there is delightful scope for moods. If one is idly disposed, what varied food may there be found for observation in the motley crew who frequent the place— searchers after truth and the more common searchers after points for an essay, or condensed information for schools ; lean, stooping scholars, and scholars with venerable beards, holding low-toned consultations with the librarians ; spectacled girls imbued with a devout consciousness of their own singular capability ; bored undergraduates, out of their element ; fellow-fools still struggling with the portentous catalogue; and sightseers staring with amiable vacuity round the dust-coloured walls or up into the same. But if one is disposed for serious work, how easily all these are forgotten, how soon comes the responsive sense of solitude, wherein the mind may gaze forth undisturbed upon the ancient paths of thought and learning. The lofty dignity of the Camera is a stimulus to concentrated thought. A stately composure reigns within, and outside the sun gently lights upon the stonework of the college buildings; the yellow leaves scamper down the autumn wind ; and the many Oxford clocks chime quarter by quarter, till that hour which summons one from learned leisure to depart in all haste to the manifold business of the outside world.
THE FRITILLARY. to Ikatbartne, On winning a Classical Scholarship.
OH Kate, I cannot choose but sing, it is not adulation ! The melody of happiness rings in my heart to-day. Thrice hail to thee Competitor, in contest keen victorious, I sing thy triumph joyously, I speed thee on thy way. 'Twas together that we drank of the wine of the Immortals, Saw the glimmer then of garments white upon the mountains dim, Felt the flash that lit those grey eyes of Pallas, great Athene, When Odysseus knew no mortal but a goddess talked with him. Up among the mountains we trod the balmy heather : Together saw the Poet's light once more on land and sea. 'Twas because we were together that we felt the old world wonder, Then Spring came back in Autumn across the thyme-grown lea. Excalibur we saw then, down to ocean falling, Swift lightning flash, and rainbow clear, and after that the rain ! Oh shout for the Glory that is not yet departed, Rejoice in triumph, Poet's child, and laurels greener gain.
association for the Ebucatton of 'Women. ANNIE M. A. H. ROGERS, Hon. Sec. THE Prizes of the Association have been awarded as follows : — i. Margaret Evans Prize.—Miss West, Somerville College. Proxime accessit.--Miss Jamison, Lady Margaret Hall. 2. Mathematical Prize.—Not awarded. 3. English Literature Prizes. Senior Prize.--Not awarded. Junior Prize.—Miss de Zoete, Somerville .
College.
Proxime accessit. —Miss Phillips, Lady Mar-
garet Hall. SUBJECTS FOR NEXT YEAR'S ESSAYS. Senior Prize.—The Essay as a form of English Literature. Junior Prize.—Illustrate from Shakespeare's Plays the advantages and disadvantages of the mingling of Tragedy and Comedy.
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the erforb %tubents' 3Debating 5octetr. THE first Debate of the Michaelmas Term was held at the High School, on Oct. 24th, and Miss HODGKIN (S.C.) in the chair. In Private business Miss CROPPER (S.C.) proposed, and Miss BOOTH (S.C.) seconded, a resolution to the effect that the President should be empowered to ask any hon. member to speak louder while addressing the House, if such an injunction should be necessary. The resolution was passed unanimously, as was also the motion that a " Mock Trial' should be substituted for the second debate of the Term. The motion before the House was " That in the opinion of this House public spirit is on the wane." Miss BouLtiots (S.C., proposer) said in her opening sentences that she felt pessimistic, and hoped to imbue her audience with the same sentiment. Defining public spirit as ' self-abnegation if not self-sacrifice,' the hon. proposer went on to mention the spurious kinds of public,spirit, such as national pride, enthusiasm for one side in games, or patriotic fervour towards School or College,' which are common enough now. She attributed the decline in true public spirit to a growing feeling of irresponsibility, to individualism, competition, and the critical spirit. Miss CRICK (S.H.H., opposer) was unfortunately unable to be present, and her speech was read for her by Miss ASH (S.H.H.). Miss CRICK touched on the growth of Cosmopolitanism as a justifying cause for any possible decline of public spirit. She defended criticism from the charge of subverting patriotism, and said that in the case of Armenia, England had given not like an impulsive child, but as a wise man gives. She protested against the hon. proposer's classification of true and false public spirit, and pointed out that now public spirit had penetrated even to the domain of charity and ruled there. The third speaker was Miss ARNOLD of St. Hilda's Hall, who spoke in place of Miss Stiff of St. Hilda's Hall. She was even more emphatically pessimistic than the first. speaker.
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Miss VERNEY (L.M.H.) was fourth speaker, and gave instances of exhibition of public spirit in the efforts of a village schoolmistress to buy the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica ' for her fellow-parishioners, and the munificent gifts of Mrs. Rylands and Sir Henry Tate. The speech was so pleasantly delivered, that the House must have regretted the humility which made the speaker eschew arguments and content herself with illustrations. In public discussion there spoke Miss MAITLAND (Hon. Member), Miss ROYDEN (L.M.H.), Miss ASH (S.H.H.), Miss WYNNE WILLSON (S.C.), Miss CROPPER (S.C.), Miss BACKHOUSE (S.C.),
(L. M. H.), Miss VERNEY (L.M.H.), and Miss JAMISON (L.M.H.). Miss COURTNEY
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There voted for the motion 14. against 61. The motion was therefore lost by 47 votes. second Debate in term was held on Nov. 4th. Miss HODGKIN in the chair. Private business. The Minutes of the last Debate were read and adopted. The PRESIDENT announced the subject and speakers for the next Debate. Public business. Before the High Court of the O.S.D.S. (Before Mr. Justice Adams.) THE
The witnesses for the Defence were Courtney, Notley's employer, who described his character as hasty but not sulky, and said he had been at work on Sat. 28th, at 6.3o; Dorothea Hiley, at whose house prisoner lodged, and who gave him his breakfast at 5.3o on that morning ; Ethel Cousins, rabbit-seller ; and the prisoner himself gave evidence. The Counsel for the Defence warned the jury not to let the prisoner's appearance tell against him ; evidence had been brought that he was of steady character, though hasty when annoyed ; Young's word was the only evidence against him, and the light at the time of the affray was not such as to admit of positive identification ; moreover the prisoner was at breakfast two miles away by 5 3o. The Counsel for the Prosecution said that Young's immediate exclamation, Notley, I've got you,' was strong evidence ; further, prisoner's previous threat and his words at the time of the assault coincided. Even in an uncertain light it would be possible to identify the prisoner by his peculiar gait. The jury gave a verdict of not guilty. The learned Judge added a moral as to the dangerous predicaments in which an unrestrained temper may involve its possessor.
CROWN v. NOTLEY.
Counsel for the Prosecution, Mr. WILLIAMS, Q.C. ; for the defence, Sir MARJORIBANKS FRY, -Q.C. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. The Counsel for the Prosecution said prisoner was accused of attacking Thomas Young, gamekeeper, who had caught him poaching, as he supposed, on Sat., Oct. 28, at 5 a.m., near Wytham. Prisoner plunged a knife into Young's shoulder and escaped. Questions for the jury to decide were whether the assailant was the prisoner, and with what intention the attack was made. The witnesses for the Prosecution were Thomas Young, Hugh Buxton, constable, Theodore Cook, mason ; Mark Wyld, innkeeper, who gave an account of a previous quarrel between the prisoner and Young; Kelly, the gamekeeper's boy.
'Universities' Mission to Central atrial. WOMEN STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION. President. Miss PEARSON. Secretary. Miss DE ZOETE. THE fifth General Meeting was held in the Somerville Gymnasium on Monday, Nov. 13, 1899. The chair was taken by Mrs. Burrows, and a most interesting address was given by Mrs. Key, who has been working in the Mission for some years. She gave some account of the principle on which the schools are worked, and related some of her experiences during her dispensary work in Pemba, where she and her husband have settled. The Secretary read a letter from the • native priest of Mizogive relating
THE FRITILLARY. to the boy whom the Association supports, and for whom donations are always thankfully received by the Secretary.
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Somerville College. HOCKEY CLUB
(Hon. Sec., M.
HORACE SMITH).
—The Hockey this season has improved in quality and quantity. The attendance at practices has been more regular and enthusiastic than it has ever been in the knowledge of the Secretary, and the spirit of the present team has not been crushed by its recent unsuccessful matches. Two meetings this term have been held to consider a new method of choosing the Captain of the O.S.U.H. XL, and after much discussion it was finally decided that the Captain for the ensuing season should be chosen at the end of the Hilary Term from among registered students of any Oxford College, Hall and Club. The matches played this year are as follows :-
Club.
THE X Club has gained eight new members this term, making a total of twenty-seven resident members. Two meetings have been held this term, one on October 31st at Lady Margaret Hall, when Miss Healey read a paper on " The Formation of Mountains," and the other on November 17th at Somerville College, when Miss Bartleet read a paper on " Alchemy and the Alchemists." The club has felt rich enough to spend Z4 on science books, to be presented to the Nettleship Library. For the benefit of new students, it may be added that the club is for all students interested in natural science, not only for those who are reading science.
First Eleven. S.C. v. Etceteras 1st XI. Lost by 3-6. S.C. v. Games Club rst XI. Lost by 3-5.
S.C. v. Miss Harcourt's XI. Lost by 1-2. Second Eleven. S.C. v. St. Hugh's 1st XI. Won by 2—I. S.C. v.
Etceteras znd XI. Lost by 3-6. First Eleven.
arforb Students' %awn tennis Club.
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Forwards A. Wynne Willson (capt.), K. H. Heale, A. W. Taylor D. C. Maude, S L. Pinwill. Half-backs: 0. M. Willis, D. Horsfall, E. Cropper. Backs : M. L. Millar, M. Horace Smith. Goal: E. Overton. ,
Captain. MISS WYNNE WILLSON, S.C. Secretary. Miss BOOTH, S.C.
club, owing to the weather and the difficulties of obtaining courts, has only been able to have one meeting, so far, during the term. It was held at Lady Margaret Hall, and it is to be regretted that there was not a larger attendance. However, two new members were selected, Miss Leishman, L.M.H., and Miss Conyngham, St. Hilda's, We hope to have another meeting for the selection of new members before the end of term. At a meeting of representatives held in October, it was unanimously decided to ask Miss Cecil Vernon Harcourt to act on the selection committee in the place of Miss Impey, who, owing to absence from Oxford, has been forced to resign. We are glad to be able to say that Miss Harcourt has accepted, and is now an honorary member of the club. THIS
Second Eleven. Forwards: F. M. West, E. Harrison, H. Cash-
more, H. J. Strange (capt.). M. Fry. Halfbacks : E. Church, F. Zimmern, L. Jowitt. Backs: M. Ogilvie, D. F. Hiley. Goal: F. Johnson. CLASSICAL CLUB (Consuls, C. PARKER, M. SARSON).—The Club has had only one meeting this term. Miss Parker read a paper on ' Idealism in Greek Art,' for which Miss Lorimer very kindly lent some most interesting illustrations. At the next meeting Miss Blundell will read a paper on the Elizabethan Platonists. The Club much regrets that Mr. Oman has been prevented from giving his Lecture on Roman Coins, and hopes to hear it next term.
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(President, B. BouLNois ; Secretary, E. OVERTON Treasurer, J. OGILVIE). BOAT CLUB
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No. of Captains, 12. Outrig Members, 12.
Half-Captains, 17. Inrig Members, 9.
The excitement caused at the beginning of the term by the acquisition of the new Boat House has now somewhat abated, owing to the fact that considerable skill is required successfully to manoeuvre our fleet from its mooring Without danger to life or limb.' The new members are few but enthusiastic, and the ambition and energy of the half-captains promise well for the future of the Club. The Captains have received coaching from Mr. A. L. Smith, and we hope there will be a consequent improvement in the style and efficiency of our sculling. SHARP PRACTICE.—The Sharp Practice Society has ever striven to fulfil its destiny in being "a feast of reason and a flow of soul," and this term's experience proves that the aim was not too exalted or visionary for present members. Metaphysical problems are ever with us ; the comparative values of high failure and low success were hotly discussed ; fear and courage and even the abstract quantity of happiness had been brought under the keen scrutiny of the debaters. One attempt at frivolity was introduced when the advisability of substituting food lozenges for meals was considered and thrown out by the more socially-minded members of the Club. Appointments during the year: Students leaving, 1899.
Athya, Miss F. A., Assistant Mistress, Sheffield High School, Anderson, Miss A. M., Private Teaching, Belle Isle, Britanny. Ellison, Miss L., Assistant Mistress, Dewsbury High School. Fennell, Miss M. M., Assistant Mistress, Clifton High School. Ridley, Miss M. C., Assistant Mistress, St. Elphin's, Warrington. Steward, Miss M. L., Assistant Mistress, The Laurels, Rugby. Storr, Miss M., Assistant Mistress, Church High School, Baker Street.
Tottenham, Miss E. L., Assistant Mistress, Walla sey High Scho ol. Traill Christie, M iss H., Assistant Mistress, Winchester High School. Woodcock, Miss E., Repetitrice, Ecole Normale, Nantes. ,
Former Students.
Ardington, Miss E., Assistant Mistress, Church High School, Reigate. Davies. Miss A. F., Assistant Mistress, Jersey Ladies' College. Fry, Miss S. M., Librarian, Somerville College. Holmden, Miss W., Assistant Mistress, Roedean School, Brighton. Joseph, Miss E. T., House Tutor, Wycombe Abbey School. Kimpster, Miss A., Lecturer, Derby Training College. Kempson, Miss L., Assistant Mistress, High School, Wigton. Kyle, Miss K. M., Assistant Mistress, Exeter High School. Lanyon, Miss H., Assistant Mistress, St. Helen's Hall, Portland, Oregan. Moore, Miss E., Assistant Mistress, Redland High School. Oakeley, Miss H. D., Principal, Royal Victoria College, Montreal. Pesel, Miss G., Secretary to the Principal, Holloway College. Price Hughes, Miss D., English Mistress, Instituto per Signorini, Rome. Quelch, Miss K., Assistant Mistress, King Edward's School, Birmingham. Reid, Miss N. B., Modern Language Mistress, Church High School, Baker Street. Schuster, Miss D., Assistant Mistress, Exeter High School. Staveley, Miss M. C., Warden, Birmingham Women's Settlement. Ward, Miss G., Head of British Hospital, Algiers. New Students.
Alexander, M. M'Combie, Private School, Aberdeen. Asling, D. M., Kensington High School. Brewin, A. E., Winchester High School. Browne, F.S.W. (Exhibitioner), Southwold School Cash more, H. (Exhibitioner), Cheltenham. Fanshawe, J. Harrison, Edith May, Grove School, Highgate. Home, V. C., Clifton High School. Horsfall, D. F., Roedean School. Howell, M. E. B. A., Wales. Hudston, H. J., Nottingham High School. Hugon, M. C. (Winkworth Scholar), Clifton High School. Lewis, H. E , Madame Souvestre's. •
THE FRITILLARY. .Noakes, J., Grove School. Ogilvie, M., Oxford High School. Reid, C. B., Kensington High School. Rhys, J. L. Robertson, M. J. Sedgwick, Winifred, King Edward's School, Birmingham. Semple, A. M. B. (Clothworkers' Scholar), Putney High School. Stevens, E. T., Winchester High School. Taylor, A. W.
Zabp Margaret ball. HOCKEY CLUB
Captain,
(Captain, Miss NOTLEY ; ViceHon. Secretary, Miss LEA-
Miss YOUNG ;
SMITH).—The Club this year has been strongly reinforced by new members. At present only three matches have been played, but there are others in the near future. Nov. I I. -1st XI. v. Past Students. Won 9—o. „ 20. v. Games' Club. /, ,, 3-2. „ 16. znd XI. v. Etceteras 2nd. „ z—i. Other matches to be played are against Worcestershire, Somerville I., and Etceteras I. The Club this year has changed its ground, and plays now on Mr. Wiblin's ground at Summertown.
First Eleven. Forwards : E. Belcher, J. Mellor, E. Romanes, E. Sheepshanks, G. Thomas. Half-backs: E. Lea-Smith, M. E. Notley, M. Alder. Backs: E. Young, M. Clay. Goal : H. Hurlbutt.
BICYCLE CLUB (Secretary, R. VERNEY).—This term there are 43 bicycles, and all the sheds are full. BOAT CLUB (Secretary, E. SHEEPSHANKS).— The boats and punts have been more used than is usual this term owing to the fine weather. Miss Fowler has very kindly given us her punt, the ' Dilly Daddle,' for which we are extremely grateful. Several members have lately been "qualified" to take out boats; and the coaching boats which Miss Pearson, Miss Sellar, and Miss Lodge take out are very popular.
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K. COURTNEY). This still maintains a flourishing existence, and is attended by the Hall en masse. Of course we cannot fail to miss many old performers who have gone down, particularly Miss Kempe and Miss Fox, whose songs, and Miss Hogarth and Miss Royden, whose recitations, were always a feature of our entertainments. But the new year has brought new talent to the Hall, and we are delighted to welcome Miss Romanes, Miss Leishman, and others who have most opportunely recruited our ranks. SOCIABLE (Secretary,
SHAKESPEARE READING SOCIETY
(E. LYON).
The meetings are held as usual on Thursday evenings. We are reading Henry V. this term. Miss Sellar has undertaken the part of King Henry, and Pistol is represented by Miss Pearson. We are glad to welcome several freshers among those who read. SHARP PRACTICE
(E. M. JAmisoN).—Sharp
Practice has been held this term as usual on Wednesday evenings, when such subjects as the wearing of club colours in Oxford, and the degeneracy of modern manners have been discussed. The meetings have for the most part been lively and frivolous and well attended. WORKING PARTY (Hon. Secs., E. M. LOWE, D. GAMBLE).—There were two Working Parties this term, as usual, during which Miss Sellar and Miss Wilson very kindly read aloud. " Penelope's Experiences in Scotland " was read at the Wordsworth Building by Miss Sellar, the " Human Boy " at the Hall by Miss Wilson. The progress of the needlework is " slow but sure."
New Students.
E. Alleyne, Clifton High School. E. Allwood, St. Margaret's School, Bushey. R. Bosanquet, Miss Baynes, Mount View, Hampstead. E. Ewbank, Highfield, Hendon. R. Hewetson, St. Stephen's High School, Clewer. C. Hodgkinson, C. F. Church College, Edgbaston.
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K. Kelly, Walnut Hill School, U.S.A. D. Kilby, Royal School Bath. A. Leishman, St. Anne's, Abbotts Bromley. H. N. Mack, Brighton High School. N. Malaher, Miss Wallder's, Wellbury Road, Brighton. J. V. Mellor, Roedean, Brighton. A Price, Eversley, Folkestone. E. Romanes, Wycombe Abbey. G. M. Thomas, Conan, Watford. E. Waterfall, Redland High School, Bristol. E. Wilson, St. Winifred's School, Eastbourne.
continues to prosper, and the ranks of speakers have found recruits among the new members. In our wisdom we have given a wide berth to the Dreyfus Case, the Transvaal, and the demerits of the Colonial Secretary, and confine ourselves to questions of perennial interest, such as the relative importance of thought and action, the lamentable inaccuracy and the deplorable superstition of the age. We have made an alteration in our constitution by giving one day's notice of the motion every other week, on the strict understanding, however, that the standard of eloquence is not necessarily raised. ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY (President,
St. 'Mob's ball.
BUXTON ;
HOCKEY (Captain, M. WYLD ; Secretary, I. r)E CASTRO) —The Club still includes every member
of the Hall except one. Somerville allows us the use of their ground once a week, and we play one day on Mr. Lynam's, but our 1st XI. necessarily suffers from want of good practice. Matches.
1st XI. v Somerville 2nd XI. Lost 1-2. „ v. Lady Margaret znd XI. „ v. Etceteras 2nd XI. v. Winchester High School. znd XI. v. Somerville 3rd XL „ v. Lady Margaret 3rd XI. BOAT CLUB (Captain, D. M. V. HODGE).— The Club now numbers 15 members, 5 of whom are qualified. We congratulate ourselves on the smart and trim appearance of the " Swan," who has been under repair, and has come back in full feather. BICYCLE CLUB (Secretary, R. E. BLAMIREBROWN).—The Bicycle Club is in a very flourishing condition. More and more bicycles have been arriving all the term, and the secretary has found it a hard matter to know where to find places for them. Three have to live in the house, and two are lodging elsewhere. We sincerely hope no more will arrive SOCIABLES (Secretaries, D. TITLEY, L. CoomBEs). —Our Sociables this term have been few and far between, but the large numbers which turned up at the last one show that their popularity at least is not on the wane. Suggestions of a Fancy Dress before the end of term have already been mooted, but these matters are not generally settled until the day itself. SHARP PRACTICE SOCIETY. — This
institution
W. E.
Secretary, F. Batchelor).—The Society
now numbers fifteen members. As in the Michaelmas term last year, the plan has been adopted of having two papers read alternately with two expeditions. At the first meeting, a general Introductory Paper was read by the President illustrated by photographs. One afternoon expedition has been made to Headington Church, where the Norman Chancel Arch was greatly admired and the mouldings carefully examined. The next paper, on the Renaissance Style, will be read by Miss Woodhouse, and a visit to All Saints' Church and St. John's College has also been arranged to take place before the end of term. DANTE. — Owing to the kindness of Miss Moberly we have been able to make a new departure this term,—the institution of Dante Readings, which have met with unparalleled success. Large numbers attest to their popularity. Twice or three times a •veek almost the whole Hall repairs to the Drawing-room, and while Miss Moberly translates into English, we follow in the original. We are reading the Inferno this term, and hope to go on to the Purgatorio and the Paradiso.
BROWNING SOCIETY
(President, W. BurroN).—
The Society has this term almost outgrown the President's room, owing to the influx of new members and to the marvellous regularity of the old ones. We have read Christmas Day, Easter Eve, and the Soul's Tragedy. SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY (President, E. A. HUNT). —It was suggested at the beginning of term that this Society should be dropped on account of the Dante Readings, but owing to the enthusiasm of some of the members it has been kept
THE FRITILLARY. up and attended with great regularity. We have been reading Henry VIII. this term, and the chief parts have been taken by Miss Buxton and Miss Ash. acknowledge gifts of Books from Miss Rogers, Miss Moberly, the Rev. H. L. Thompson and Miss Hayes-Robinson. A donation of money has been received from Sir John Hawkins, and Mrs. Romanes has kindly offered to defray the cost of the subscription to Mudie's Library. LIBRARY.—We
WE must offer our heartiest congratulations to Miss Hayes-Robinson on her appointment to a History Lectureship at Holloway. Whilst regretting that her time at St. Hugh's was so short, we send our best wishes with her to Holloway, and hope that we shall often see her back in Oxford. WE are glad to welcome Miss Wylie, who has taken Miss Hayes-Robinson's place as Vice-Principal.
New Students. Michaelmas Term. E. Clark, Ladies' College, Cheltenham. C. L. A. Dening, Haslebank School, Malvern. G. Hamilton, Haberdashers' School, Hatcham. D. M. N. Levett, Grammar School for Girls, Maidstone. CONGRATULATIONS to E. G. May and R. Hamilton on their Firsts in English.
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Recent Appointments. M. A. Grant, Assistant Mistress, Grey Coat Hospital, Westminster. E. M. C. Prideaux, Assistant Mistress, Bradford Grammar School, Yorks. F. M. Langstone, Assistant Mistress, Graham Street High School. H. D. M. Stark, Assistant Mistress, S. John's Lodge, S. Leonards-on-Sea. G. E. Steer, Assistant Mistress, Worcester High School.
St. ibilba's bait. ilDemortam. WE have to record, with sincere and affectionate regret, the death of the Secretary to our Council, Mrs. MOYLE, wife of Dr. Moyle, Senior Bursar of New College, July ro, 1899. TENNIS CLUB (Secretary, Miss HIGGINBOTHAM). --Several new members have joined the club, and a hard court has been rented from L.M.H.
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for the term. As we have been rather more fortunate than usual in the matter of weather, there has been a fair amount of practice. DEBATING SOCIETY. — The Society has met twice, the first time to discuss the motion, "That sarcasm adds to the happiness of life " (mover, Miss Davidson, opposer, Miss Goslin), and the second time, " That the economic motive is the strongest in life " (moved by Miss Arnold, opposed by Miss Pym). The former debate was lively and well sustained. In the latter, perhaps owing to the breadth of the subject, there was a tendency to limit the meaning of the word " economic," which in the minds of some speakers seemed to be almost a synonym for " selfish." It was not until quite the end of the debate that an effort was made to shew that the altruistic motive is identical with the economic. The Society has lost two valuable members in Miss Macrae and Miss Fergusson, but the oratorical talents of some of the freshers have already been brought to light, so that the Society gives every promise of a future as prosperous as its past. SOCIAL (Committee, Miss WRIGHT, Miss HAMILTON, MISS STIFF, Miss DAVIDSON).—A most
successful Social was given on the 3rd Saturday of the term. The programme opened with a well-chosen dialogue from Isabel Carnaby, which was followed by a most amusing scene from Nicholas Nickleby, admirably given by Miss Broster, Miss Cooke, and Miss Godfrey. Miss Broster as Mr. Dick played her difficult part with a variety and swing that completely carried her audience away, while Miss Cooke as Mrs. Nickleby added greatly to the amusement by her dignified reception of the impetuous old gentleman's ardent advances. Scenes. from Struwelpeter were given by Miss Stuart, who made an ideal shock-headed Peter, Miss Godfrey, as the naughty little Suck-a-Thumb, Miss Davidson, and Miss Higginbotham. The types of women students represented by Miss Davidson, Miss Stiff, and Miss Hamilton were amusingly appropriate. The programme concluded with a recitation of Rudyard Kipling's stirring war poem given by Miss Wright in costume as Britannia, and the evening was loyally brought to a close with " God save the Queen." SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY (President, Miss CooKE). —Our Society this term is in a most flourishing condition, suffering rather from a superfluity than paucity of members. The play in hand is "Twelfth Night." ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY (President, MISS BURROWS; Secretary, Miss STUART).—We. , were not
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able to revive the meetings of this Society until Nov. 17. With the accession of so many new members we thought it wise to return to the elementary features of the different styles. Miss Stiff, therefore, read a paper, which was excellently arranged, on 'Anglo-Saxon and Norman Architecture.' BOAT CLUB (CaPtain, Miss STUART).—Boating itself is never a very important item in the
autumn term's programme, but the Boat Club, nevertheless, has no cause to feel itself neglected ; it has found several enthusiastic recruits among the freshers, who take to the sculls as to the manner born, and it also has to thank the Council fora boat-shed more capacious and rain-proof than the old one. New Students. V. Barton-Smith, Ladies' College, Cheltenham. D. Capper, Dulwich High School. A. Clarke, Victoria University (Owens College). R. Donaldson, Ladies' College, Cheltenham. B. Gallop, 21 H. Madeley, B. Marshall, C. Musson, Notting Hill High School. D. Nalder, Ladies' College, Cheltenham. R. Pym, M. Rooke, Notting Hill High School. A. Simeon, Ladies' College, Cheltenham. F. Starr, Notting Hill High School. E. Smith, Ladies' College, Cheltenham. W. Taylor, Notting Hill High School, ))
Recent Appointment. WE take this opportunity of congratulating Miss Hayes-Robinson on her appointment to the new lectureship of Modern History at the Royal Holloway College. .
CONGRATULATIONS to A. Carr on her second in Natural Science (Chemistry), and to W. Cockshott, M. Howard, C. Fergusson, and E. Macrae on the same in Modern History. -
'borne Stubents. New Students, Michaelmas Term, 1899. F. M. M. Comper, St. Andrew's. M. M. Bell, Oxford High School. M. C. Fripp, Clifton High School ; Girton. M. W. Bulley, Girton. E. C. Cousins, Walthamstow Hall School, Sevenoaks. M. E. Matheson, Girls' High School, Leeds. M. P. Parker, Roedean School, Brighton. M. J. Spedding, St. Nicholas, Folkestone. E. S. Stiff, transferred from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
C. M. Liddell, Oxford House School. M. J. B. Knottesford-Fortescue, Royal Holloway College. E. F. Eaton, Smith College, Mass., U.S.A. A. A. Fisher, Antioch College, Ohio ; Syracuse University, New York, U.S.A. L G. Thompson, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. G. Darling, Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A. E. MacCloskey, Vassar, New York, U.S.A. S. Whedon, Michigan University, U.S.A. M. S. Goldthwait, Wellesley College, Mass., U.S.A. A. M. Ely, Wellesley College, Mass.. U.S.A. M. Waddington, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A. Recent Appointments. H. Murray, Lecturer in Germanic Philology, Holloway College. M. E. Mackereth, Assistant Mistress, Wallasey High School. M. I. Hogarth, Assistant Mistress (Classics), Ladies' College, Jersey. E. Drummond, Assistant Mistress, Manchester High School. V. E. Baker, Teaching in Magdalen School, Oxford. J. M. F. Goody, Teaching at St. Cecilia's College, Margate. M. Drew, Assistant Mistress, Brondesbury Manor School. J. Ewing, Assistant Mistress (Modern History), Perse School, Cambridge. A. C. Fowler (St. Kentigern's), Lecturer, Pupil Teachers' Centre, London. M. H. Miller, assisting Professor Wright on Staff of Dictionary of English Dialects. L. G. Grieve (U.S.A.), Ph.D Columbia University, Head Mistress, Girls' School, Thomasville. A. A. Allnutt, Head Mistress, New College, Southampton. THREE of the Modern Language Students are studying in France. Miss C. M. Bradley has gone to Douai for a year as repaitrice in one of the Government Schools. Miss V. E. Dodgson and Miss 0. Rhys are in Paris.
COMMON Room.—The Common Room is now well established, the number of members this term being thirty-one. The thanks of the Committee are due to Mrs. Johnson, who has obained from the Council a grant of a term towards the expenses. The papers taken or lent this term have been : the Oxford Magazine, the Spectator, Punch, Literature, La Revue des deux Mondes, the C.O.S Magazine, the Graphic, the Illustrated London News. There have been four Social meetings during the term. Printed by
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