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No. 30. 16Mtorial.
IN the last number it was pointed out that the Fritillary was from a financial point of view in a sound position, and that it had a fair number of contributors. This is a most satisfactory state of affairs. But it is only satisfactory in that we have now a firm basis from which to work for improvement. We must now deliberately alter, the character of the Fritillary. It has outgrown its original limitations. For when the Fritillary first saw the light it was intended that it should be the medium for the light and airy literary efforts which women students threw off in their leisure moments. That was some time ago. Frivolous poems, merry short stories, pensive idylls and gay little articles are now the exception rather than the rule. They have to be attracted to the Editorial net with substantial baits, in the shape of prizes, or, it must be granted, with the equally effective method of pursuit by editorial letters. And the use of both these methods is to be deplored. The first is uneconomical and therefore discordant with the spirit of the age, and the second is doubtful. For the circle of acquaintances of any editor is necessarily limited, and the irrepressible element in that circle is generally reducible to one or at most two. And each editor edits the magazine for three terms. The moral is obvious. How this change came about, why wit and humour are more spasmodic than they were of yore, is a question which cannot be solved in the space of an Editorial. That is a subject for psychological research. The fact remains that circumstances have altered. The . Fritillary has passed its Augustan
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Age, let us hasten through the Middle Ages and see the Renaissance dawn. Happily a partial solution of the problem is at hand. It is suggested that the Fritillary should establish a column of Reviews. Yet until it has asserted its right to be the official organ of communication between the: five colleges and has therefore increased its circulation beyond the present average of zoo, it cannot expect publishers to send books for review. But it can start a review column in another way, which, though less ambitious, will perhaps automatically increase its circulation. It is possible to review the numerous works which emanate from the pens of former students. This is not the place for elaborating a scheme, but we may say we should need the co-operation of each college to ensure success—for an editor would not be likely in all cases to know what contributions to literature have been made by any college but her own. To do something like this would be at least to turn our faces in the right direction, and a slight attempt to hasten the day when a notice in the Fritillary shall be counted an equal honour to a notice in the —. But comparisons even in futurity are odious.
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Second Prize of 15s. The First Prize is not awarded. Next term a prize of LI will be offered for the best short story, sketch or article (not exceeding 1,200 words). It is hoped that better results will ensue from there being the vacation as well as the term following the announcement of the competition, which will allow of greater time and care in the work sent in. Past as well as present Students are invited to enter for the competition.
Sonnet to lbanbei. MAKER of harmonies which rise, and flow, And ebb, and swell again like to the sea—. So full, so grand in its immensity, Wild as the storm, then deep and still and low. We hear thine own tread through thy measures slow-We see thy fingers sweep each ivory key, And hear the full flood of thy melody Poured in hosannahs or in nameless woe. Thine are the chords that through all time shall peal With splendid dissonance and fire divine, And thy grave music o'er the soul shall steal Through listening ages far removed from thine. Deep, grave, majestic, passionate, sublime, The chords that thrill eternity are thine I
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the 'Romantic Zispect of Entomologv. ENTOMOLOGY is not a pursuit that wins much sympathy, or even recognition, from the world in general; and this is the less surprising because we all habitually overlook so large a part of the insect creation. True, the days are past when a young woman's reputation for elegant `sensibility' depended on her inability to face any insect without fainting ; but though we are braver than our great-grandmothers, we are not much less ignorant in some respects. If we know several butterflies by sight, few of us would care to be examined as to the number of their legs, the nature of their food, or the length of their span
of life ; and as to moths—most of us are quite content with one practical bit of knowledge about them : namely, the deplorable fact that you will certainly find them among your furs when you disturb their summer's repose. It is of moths that this paper will speak ; but let no one be alarmed, for it is not calculated to instruct. Surely we common mortals are exonerated from the necessity of knowing about such creatures, when our proper guides, the poets, have been as unobservant as ourselves. As far as the present writer is aware, one only of that glorious company has noticed the moths in any but the most formal way, the single exception being Tennyson, whose prerogative it was to reproduce with loving faithfulness everything in Which he saw life or beauty in the world about him. This is the touch with which he completes his picture of a breathless summer night
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And bats went round in fragrant. skies, And wheeled and lit the film.), shafies, That haunt the dusk with ermine cages, And woolly breasts, and beaded eyes."
It will presently be seen that the appearance of bats in conjunction with these nameless `shapes' is not without its reason ; yet commentators, blinder than the bats, have disputed whether the author did not allude to owls ! Our own living poet, who looks round him " With love exceeding a simple love of the things That glide in the grasses and rubble of woody wreck, Or, bristled, curl at a touch their snouts in a ball, Or cast their web between bramble and thorny nook "— he may yet give us something whereby to remember the little people of the night. It is the pursuit of moths which lends romance to entomology, not the pursuit of butterflies. This latter is always warm work, because butterflies are creatures dependent upon the sun ; it is often undignified, since it necessitates running over whatever ground, bareheaded, or with a gay green net streaming on the wind, according as the pursuer trusts to catching with his hat or uses the more scientific instrument. Entomologists are as liable as enthusiasts of any other kind
THE FRITILLARY. to be considered harmless lunatics, but these headlong careers in the full light of day alone give colour to the accusation. The pursuit of night-flying moths is quite another matter. It may be carried on by two means, the Light and the Sugar. For the first, you merely set a bright lamp in an upper room, open all the windows, and wait till the creatures come in, and then catch them in the usual way, by means of a net and glass-bottomed boxes. By the Sugar is meant the process of daubing the trunks of trees with a mixture of treacle and methylated spirit, intended, not, as many suppose, to entangle the feet of unsuspecting insects, like bird-lime, but merely to give them something attractive and engrossing to eat. They like the sweet treacle, and the spirit has a slightly stupefying effect which renders them temporarily inattentive to the light which is thrown on them from the entomologist's lantern. The mixture, uninviting as it may sound, is overwhelmingly seductive to small creatures of various kinds. You may see the sticky patch covered by a veritable menagerie of the beasts which are known by no collective name but that of "vermin ; " for example, slugs, earwigs, snails, wood lice, centipedes, daddy-longlegses, wasps, flies, even shrew-mice, in addition to the lawful banqueters, the moths. Toads have been seen waiting in evil patience at the foot of the trees to catch any intemperate insect who shall fall, overcome by spirituous liquor, into their jaws ; and one authority who should be trustworthy asserts that he has seen a toad somewhat "the worse" himself, from devouring intoxicated moths ! Children have also had to be forcibly dissuaded from applying their little tongues to the bark of a " sugared " tree. All this is the plain prose of the night-work of entomology, its poetry is revealed to the favoured individual who is chosen to carry the lantern. This is a post requiring neither skill nor knowledge, nor (which is more to the point) close attention. The lamp-bearer is not trusted to throw the light on the sugared patch, but has merely to be ready to receive the lantern if the principal performer sees among the feasting multitude any that he wishes to take, in which case 2
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he wants both hands, one for the little box in which he puts the moth, and one for its lid. The inverted box, with its glass bottom uppermost, is placed quietly over the moth, so as to disturb the others as little as possible, and the lid is slipped underneath. During this process, the lamp-bearer must hold the light steadily on the insect in question ; but except at such moments nothing is required of him, and he is free to look about him. It is worth doing. Sugaring can hardly be done in towns, but anywhere in- the country it may be tried. On shrubby sea-cliffs, with the sound of the waves in the air, in " starproof " groves, by hilly roads with moor stretching on either hand and giving off the smell of heather, in valleys above which rise black mountain outlines against the night sky, in all lovely places, wherever trees and flowers grow, the lamp-bearer may be called on to go forth at the most peaceful, the sweetest, the most fairy hour of the night. Nor do the pursuers go alone. The bats are entomologists too, only that they hunt for need as well as for pleasure : hence their presence on Tennyson's lawn. The night-jar will sometimes follow close ; but that is mere vulgar curiosity, for he is a bird of no breeding. If any 'humanitarian is still beset by lingering doubts as to whether this sport be not cruel, let him go round with the lamp and look for himself; and if he is not convinced by the sight of a sugar-patch yielding sweet food to some scores of insects, if he can still carp when he sees those great creatures, familiarly called " Pollys " by the initiated, shaking their tails as they rapturously suck—he is not a philanthropist at all, but a captious critic. Not always does the moth-lover see moths, however, even when he has laboriously smeared trees for their delectation. There are " good " nights and " bad " nights, and no one knows what night will be good and what bad, save that a cold, bright one is most probably bad, and a warm, wet and overcast one good. The scattering drops of cool rain, and the vivid moving patch of the lantern's light in the velvety blackness of a damp cloudy night, are some of the lamp-bearer's joys ; but you can never tell what may come on even a " bad " ,night, and the keenest of all pleasures
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is to be called on to go round on a moonlit night, -especially in a wood. We know the transfiguring beauty of moonlight in towns, but not everyone has seen the "silver lights and darks undreamed of " in a wood at midnight, when the moon is high. Add to this the stillness, the scent of fir-trees, the soft night-breeze, the distant lights of the city below in the valley,—and the lampbearer wonders why everyone is not a mothhunter, and, for the thousandth time, why we live in towns. Nobody knows why the moon should be hostile to moths. A suggested explanation is that she is too attractive, and that the brainless creatures regularly fly towards her as often as she appears, just as they do towards any other light. This brings us to a very painful fact, which a truthful account must not omit, even though it is obviously easy to use it both against our sex and against our cause. It is this : that whereas both male and female moths go readily to the sugar, only males go, as a rule, to the light a. This is very sad and perplexing, and perhaps the less said about it the better, but we must respect scientific truth, even when uncongenial. The indoor, terrestrial light, to return to that for a moment, is often very profitable, and sport can here be combined with work, for the entomologist has only to be aware when a moth comes in, and everyone knows that to look up from one's book about twice a minute is stimulating to the mental digestion : else why should people read out of doors ? But though profitable and economical of time,- the light is unromantic ; romance belongs to the dark world outside, where the wind talks softly in the tree-tops, and white flowers shine ghostly-clear to draw their night visitors— for they too are " lights "—or put out their strange sweet scents. He who loves the moths and braves the dark may taste all these new pleasures may be startled by a sudden " br-r-r-r-r " in his ear, or even have his cheek brushed by the soft kiss of a moth's wings. R. a A sympathetic expert suggests that the reason for this phenomenon is the sound common sense of the lady-moths, who will not desert the sugar whose sweetness they know, for visionary lights, however dazzling.
Zi IMMO of the Charity Organi3ation %ocietr. IN a competent Committee
Cleped of the CiO.S., Eager dames sit round a table In an evergrowing mess. Here they put red ink on cases Organizing charities ; And anon a murmur gathers" Would you see about it, please?" Willie Worlledge wants a whipping (Father makes elastic bands) ; Write to father to supply it. " May I leave it in your hands ?" Now, this debt of four pounds seven, Mrs. Salmon's, six months due ; Must collect in weekly pennies. " Shall I pass that on to you?" Mrs. Musson wants " embracing," Can't " domesticate " her food ; Symptoms need a full discussion. " Will you really be so good?" Hetty Gorman's heart got open, And an ice cream fell inside ; Needs some adequate emetic. " Could you see that this is tried?" Here we leave that busy table, Flanked by ladies wise and kind, And the murmur comes pursuing :" If you're sure you wouldn't mind !" H. N. M.
Macon v. Sbahespeare. IT all began with Shakespeare—if we had never joined that hateful Shakespeare reading, if there had never been such a woman as Mrs. Gallup or such a man as Francis Bacon, if—but what is the good of " if " ? There is "much virtue in IF," but none for me. Last Christmas, Eva Cheshire, whom I had loved since I could remember, became filled with an enthusiasm for all things literary, and in particular for him whom she invariably spoke of as the " prince of poets," " fancy's child," " the
THE FRITILLARY. immortal bard," or by some equally extravagant appellation. Eva was at St. Hilary's at Oxford, and I think her head was a little turned by the fact that she was President of the Shakespearian Society at her College ; at any rate she announced her intention of starting a similar society in Mudford ; she had at last found her vocation, and it was to rouse others to join in a worship of the great dramatist " on the other side idolatry." Though some of had read.Shakespeare before, at the first meeting of the Mudford Shakespearian Society we all felt, as Eva put it, that we had never before approached the study of his works in the spirit of becoming veneration. Young Jack Cheshire, who was at Harrow, has since told me that Eva consulted him as to the advisability of asking the Vicar to open the first meeting with a few well-chosen words, but I doubt if Eva went quite as far as that, and I suspect that Jack got up the story as a kind of palliation for his own part in the Tragedy—but I am anticipating. At the first meeting we were called upon to elect a president, and unanimously chose Eva, who seemed very gratified, though I think she must have expected it, as she promptly asked us to give our solemn assent to the following rules which she had previously drawn up :-MUDFORD SHAKESPERIAN SOCIETY. (1) No member shall be admitted to the above society except in a spirit of faithful veneration. (2) No member shall, having been admitted, leave the society on any pretext whatever. (3) No member shall quote the master-poet on a trivial occasion. (4) Any member misquoting shall be fined not less than 6d. for the first offence and is. for each succeeding offence up to ten, when it shall be at the discretion of the President to enforce on the misquoter a course of study of the work or works in which the aforesaid misquotation or misquotations occur, extending over not less than four hours daily. There were other lesser rules and penalties, such as fines for dog-earing or otherwise treating with disrespect the works of the " immortal bard."
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Why they never struck us as absurd at the time I cannot say, but I suppose, to judge from my own circumstances, we were all-under the spell Of our President's beauty and enthusiasm. For some weeks all went fairly well. We were reading " As you Like It," the President making a charming Rosalind, and I delighting in the favoured part of Orlando. We had just settled to give a performance before Eva went back to St. Hilary's; when someone, who it was I can't remember now, and perhaps for his or her sake it is just as well I don't, remarked, "What a beastly sell for us all if Bacon really wrote it ! " There was an ominous silence, which was at first only broken by the President's peremptory " Order ! " Lately breaches of " faithful veneration " had become rather frequent, and Eva had in a.burst of confidence confessed to me how 'difficult she found her position, " because when you remind people, and the best of us forget sometimes," she added charitably, "they invariably say, 'Oh I know he Was splendid, but all the same he needn't have said some of the things he did,' or, Yes of course he is ripping, but don't you think yourself he sometimes talked rot ? '" But now the Baconian heresy had rushed in where angels fear to tread, and once the train was fired, everyone began to talk at once, and the President's protesting voice was not heard amidst the Babel. I found myself vociferating as loudly as the rest, and in favour of Mrs. Gallup. Of course I was not really in earnest, but a spirit of sheer perversity led me on. When the excitement had abated and we were all trying to look ashamed of ourselves, the President was heard : requesting with great dignity that members would kindly remember for what purpose they were met, and give their attention during the remaining time to business closely affecting the welfare of the Society. Order being restored, Eva informed-, us that she proposed at.. the end of the dramatic performance, when the usual call for " author ". was made, to have a magnificent bust of the "immortal bard " belonging to her father crownedwith laurel and placed before the curtain. It had, she believed, been done at some theatte,
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and would, she hoped, impress those who had not yet joined the Society. The idea was received with applause—the Bacon controversy was forgotten. Did I say forgotten ? Not by me and not by Jack Cheshire. He had given me a queer look at the mention of the bust, and when the meeting broke up, he took me aside. " Look here, Terry," he said, 'you used not to be a fool. I am not going to be under the thumb of a sentimental girl. It's all rot sticking old Shakespeare upon a pedestal : the acting and the reading is all right, but all this beastly veneration won't do for me. I am going to give it the knock." It was only loyalty to Eva that had kept me from giving vent to these very ideas ; I knew we were allowing ourselves to be made fools of, and could not but heartily assent. " I don't imagine Bacon did write it," went on Jack, " but I shall say so if I like. As for that bust business . . . . Terry ? " he stopped and looked' at me, and I knew that the demon that had whispered in my ear had come from doing the same in his. " Jack, she would never forgive us." " Stuff," said Jack briefly, " because you're dead nuts on a girl, you'd let her make a fool of herself and you and everyone else into the bargain." I. appeared to consider, but Jack knew and I knew that the die was cast. " How will you do it ?" I asked. " Leave it to your uncle," was Jack's reply, and with that we parted. . I thought little more about it till the eventful evening came ; I was busy with my part, and almost absorbed in the joys of playing Orlando to my Rosalind. I was almost startled when Jack whispered as the curtain went up for the first time. "All ready. I've got the togs and grand beards. You'll be fine, and as for me, why my own mother wouldn't know me ; and by the way, Eva wants you to see that the bust is shoved on." The play was a great success. Jack made a splendid Touchstone, and Rosalind and I won hearty applause. My hopes were at their zenith— and I rejoiced when I heard Mr. Cheshire say
to Mrs. Cheshire, " Not much acting there, eh ?" Just before the final dance and epilogue Jack beckoned me off, and we were not missed. "You've got to see the bust put on," he said maliciously. I did not then know that the bust was under his bed at the moment, and that it was not found till the laurel was withered, and my hopes with it. In the twinkling of an eye he had transformed himself and me into an unmistakable William Shakespeare' and Francis Bacon. How he had succeeded to get the extraordinary resemblance to their most well-known portraits is, and always will be, a mystery to me. But I only know that when I looked at him and then at myself in the glass, I thought I saw before me two ghosts of the days of Elizabeth re-incarnated. The country dance came to a triumphant end. " Now," said Jack, " walk lightly," and as the cries of "Author " grew louder, we passed in at the wing and glided noiselessly before the curtain. In breathless silence, during which all eyes from the audience and from the stage were fixed upon the two unexpected figures, Shakespeare was seen to place solemnly on the head of Bacon a laurel wreath, himself kneeling in homage on one knee before him. The momentary silence gave way to a loud and hearty burst of laughter as the significance of the action and the relations of the scene to the Shakespearian Society dawned on the minds of all. In the general confusion which succeeded we escaped, but the full consequences of what I had done were to be revealed the next day, when I opened the following note from Miss Cheshire :— DEAR MR. TERRY, I am writing to tell you that I hope you will understand that froth henceforth our friendship is at an end. It would be impossible for me to consider any longer as my friend one who has no hesitation in betraying confidence placed in him, who has no sympathy with all that is of the deepest interest to me, and who has cruelly outraged my feelings for his own frivolous satisfac-
THE FRITILLARY. tion. Believe me to be signing myself for the last time. Yours; EVA CHESHIRE. I knew she meant it—it was final, and this was the end of the joke. Jack is triumphant, and says she is not worth troubling about if she could not take a joke. But you will understand now why I hate Shakespeare, and why the mention of Bacon is as a red rag to a bull. I can never forget it, and whenever I hear either of the two hateful names I see the' form of the immortal bard crowning his successful rival with an undying crown of laurel. R. E. D. DONALDSON, S.H.
Ogforb 5tubents' Zebating Zocietp. President. Miss CRICK, S.H.H. Secretary. Miss SPENCER, H.S. Treasurer. Miss HALES, S.H.H. THE first meeting this term was held on Oct. 27th. The motion before the House being :"That this House considers that the influence of newspapers tends' to destroy independent thought." The mind of the Hon. Proposer (Miss BALLARD, H.S.) was oppressed throughout her speech with a sense of the inherent dependence of her fellow-creatures and—as she was addressing an audience of women—especially of her own sex. She urged her hearers to retire each one to the privacy of her chamber and there in solitude to ask herself--not am I a goat ?—but how many of my friends have the quality of pugnacity ? She divides the world broadly into two classes—those who believe everything because they have seen it in a book, and those who cannot believe anything which they are told is true. Needless to say the Hon. Proposer found the latter class to be in the minority. In her opinion most people are so fat lacking in the above mentioned quality of pugnacity that they look upon as a kind of heirloom those news-
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papers read by their fathers, brothers, or husbands —few people having the courage first to form their opinions and then to decide on their paper. After expatiating on the narrowness caused by newspapers, the Hon. Proposer went on to speak of the pernicious things they do. Among other things they do our thinking for us ; they juggle with the sacred name of liberty until patriotism is vulgarized ; they create false public opinion which ties us down like sheep, and last, but not least, the tyranny of newspapers makes for an effete form of party government, and party government, in the Proposer's mind, is responsible for all our present misrule. As a remedy for this sad picture of demoralization into which a race of inherently dependent beings have been led by the tyranny of newspapers, the speaker went on to propound a scheme which she considered as truly Utopian—that we should have papers without comments : statistics would be welcome but they should be compiled by a statistical society. Whilst to women in general she made a fervent appeal that they would allow their opinions to be guided somewhat less by those of the other sex, for woman is at present considered incapable of interpreting her own paper. The Hon. Opposer (Miss FREIRE-MARRECO, L.M.H.) met her opponent on her own ground by drawing little pictures to illustrate the points she made against newspapers. As a refutation of the statement that they do our thinking for us, she brought vividly before our minds the prospect of the vast mass of thinkers who, according to the Proposer's view, must have existed until newspapers came into this paradise of thought and first weakened and then destroyed it. The first speaker's idol of independent thought was knocked down by the prospect of two citizens discussing the late war : "As a beginning I should like to hang a few Generals," remarks one to the other. By this picture the Opposer certainly made her point, that it was much better that reasonable impressions should be given them. Her last picture which was to illustrate her own point was of the Times in its glorious youth breaking into an immense mass of ignorance and
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apathy and bringing to bear upon it the influence of the best thinkers.—It is only the ignorant and apathetic who will be taught and guided by the opinion of others ; and surely it is better that this should be the case than that they should be left as they are—but independent thought itself, concluded the Opposer, cannot be touched. The public discussion which followed the above speeches was by no means heated. Miss WRAGGE (S.C.) maintained that the average individual must hear the thoughts of some experienced person to give him a starting point at all towards independent opinion. Miss DE SELINCOHRT (S.C.) put her finger on one or two weak points in the Proposer's speech. Miss SANDERS (L.M.H.) maintained that the reading of newspapers encouraged independent thought, as you learn to weigh what you hear and see ; while Miss GWYER (L.M.H.) declared it to be our own fault instead of that of newspapers if we allow our thoughts to be guided by what we read ; if we are so weak as to be influenced by what we see in print we shall be equally affected by the remarks of other people in conversation. MISS LUDWIG (S.H.H.), Miss GODDARD (S.H,H.), and Miss HIGGS (S.C.) also joined in the discussion. The motion was finally lost.
THE second meeting of the Society was held on Nov. loth. Miss MORDAU kindly consented to propose the motion " that the open air of the heath is better for women than the seclusion of the garden." The Hon. Proposer gave a long and interesting account of the seclusion of the x8th and r9th century woman as compared with her more fortunate sisters of the present day. From the early Victorian period, when there was no public place where a lady could drive, and it was unfeminine to wear a hat instead of a bonnet, we were taken back to those still more secluded times when woman's chief occupation was weeping and fainting, and outdoor exercise was impossible because of the indelicacy of wearing anything warner than
muslin. The Hon. Proposer went on to shew how the public opinion which set up a false theory of woman's capacities still survives in many forms—among others in those tirades of writers who declare that modern education makes the modern girl a wreck. Against those who deplore that the fresh air of the heath is deteriorating to the modern girl, she went on to show how at each fresh step towards woman's emancipation the same view was held—hence it is no proof that women have gone far enough in their attempts at freedom. The Hon. Proposer closed her speech with an appeal to women never silently or otherwise to acquiesce in an assumption of their own inferiority, assuring them that those who have worked hard to secure their present state are cheerful about their future—for a human being of unknown splendour is she who is to come. The Hon. Opposer (Miss CORY, S.C.) said she would not attempt to answer her opponent, but would simply give her own ideas on the subject. Her central point was that the ideal of womanhood has not shifted, but the only ideal which she had to set forth was that of the good wife and good mother, in order to attain which she endeavoured to shew that it was quite impossible to live in the open air of the heath. A woman cannot live a public life and at the .same time fulfil her domestic duties, hence why, argued the opposer, should she neglect what a man cannot possibly do for what she very likely will not do as well as he can. Keeping to her one ideal for women, that of the wife and mother, the Opposer advocated that women should give up their lives to cheering their sons and to training men to fight the good fight (what precisely the good fight in this sense was intended to mean was not specified). At the close of her speech the Opposer finally made some allowance for those women who do not attain the ideal state of matrimony. Those unfortunate women who must fight she reminded that they could still live in the garden. There were some distinctly good points 'in this speech, but it was not sufficiently connected—too much-in the form of stray ideas upon the subject.
THE FRITILLARY. The public discussion was opened by some sound remarks made by Miss DENEKE (S.H.H.), but on the whole was not sufficiently heated to need much comment. It was at last drifting (as the Proposer very happily expressed it in her summing up) into a distinction between the garden as a place of sweet-smelling savours and the heath as one of unsavoury sights, when it was saved by Miss ROGERS' spirited and able speech at the close. The motion was carried.
IT was decided that the third Meeting of this Society, held on Nov. 24th, should take the form of a final Examination in Oxford of those candidates who, by Committees in their own countries, were already considered eligible to hold scholarships. The Committee consisted of Miss CAMERON (S.C.), Miss GWYER ( L.M. H.), Miss DENEKE (S.H.H.), Miss EPPSTEIN (S.H.H.), Miss LEESON (S.H.), Miss BOWDITCH (H.S.).—MISS SPENCER (H.S.) acting as Secretary, and Miss CRICK (S.H.H.) as President of course taking the chair. There were in all ten scholars. The first of these, JOHN BRADFORD, from Plymouth, Massachusetts (Miss Crocker, H.S.), was strong in qualities of leadership of brainpower. His answers were clever and amusing, but unfortunately so low that they were not heard all over the room. EPHRAIM HUCKLEBURY from Colorado (Miss Sprules (S.H.H.) was also strong in qualities of leadership. He was troubled with a cold in the head, which told rather against him with one of the Examiners, whose favourite crank was that scholars should be healthy. Hucklebury's self-assurance and conceit, in spite of the promptness with which he rose to all the hypothetical cases presented to his imagination, finally lost him all chances of a scholarship. The next candidate was a Fur from New Guinea (Miss Alleyne, L.M.H.), who brought with him an interpreter (Miss Freire - Marreco, L.M,H.), his own knowledge of English being nil. The testimonials shewn by the would-be scholar, who called himself McClan, did not in
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the least correspond to his appearance, and after an exciting scene, during which he menaced one or two of the examiners, he was discovered, greatly owing to the perspicuity of one of the Examiners, who was a phrenologist, to be an imposter. Through the medium of the interpreter it was at last extracted from him that, owing to a slight disagreement with McClan, he had made away with him, and, lest the Examiners should be disappointed at his non-appearance, had presented the testimonials as his own. JOSEPH P. SCROGGINS from U.S.A. (Miss Williams, S.H.), had a strong Yankee accent, in which he asserted his capacities for leadership, of which he was so confident, that, when asked what he would do if they were put to the test by an outbreak of fire, he answered with readiness that he would lead the way into another world. KARL ADOLF HILDEBRAND, Graf von Rustenmusten-fusten-crustenberg am Rheim (Miss Butler, H.S.), announced in ungrammatical German, mingled with broken English, that he had received a telegram from the Kaiser' ordering him to be a Rhodes scholar ; which fact overwhelmed him with conceit only tempered by his sentimental recollections of the girl he had left behind him. NEILL GUNN from New Zealand (Miss Gunn, S.C.) was strong in points of manly exercise and games, and consequently brought appreciative testimonials from his fellow-students. JOSEPH TUCKER from the Moravian School, Durban (Miss Hales, S.H.H.), was consciously strong in points of moral rectitude. In consequence of his profound admiration for English literature, and above all for the moral disquisitions of the poet Cowper, his ambition was to take the school of English language v. literature. GRAF VON PULZHAUERN (Miss Haynes, L.M.H.) was before everything else a duellist. He appeared carrying his foil—his face .disfigured with sticking-plaster. The lack of sympathy with which his favourite employment was met by the Examiners incited him to such a pitch of insolence that he had finally to be dismissed by the President. ROBERT BISSETT from St. Andrew's College Grahamstown (Miss Bissett-Smith, S.C.), was ex-
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tremely interested in botany, on which subject he enlightened,the Examiners with most original theories. The last candidate, JAMES GRAYHOUND, from the Bermudas (Miss Moore, S.H.), was of so emotional a temperament that on being refused a Scholarship he brought the examination to a close by bursting into tears. The Examination was on the whole too long to be an entire success, and at ,times interest flagged very much in spite of repeated peals of laughter from the audience at the wit of the scholars or the sarcasm of the Examiners.
Cigforb %tubents' lbochep team. Captain, M. F. MOOR.
too soon to speak definitely of the United team, but we may hope that next term will produce a really useful eleven. The loss of all last year's forward line except one makes the captain's task a difficult one. A trial eleven played Bedfordshire on Nov. 28th, and achieved a victory (4-2), which was a satisfactory beginning. But in the game were clearly exemplified certain weaknesses which will have to be remedied. The forwards must rid themselves of a tendency to pass softly in front of the enemy, a practice which results too frequently in the loss of the ball, especially in the striking circle. Greater judgment might be shown, too, in the selection of the moment and direction in which to pass. A trick is also noticeable which does not improve appearances, namely, the use of the feet to support the bully, and in fencing with an opponent. These faults lead to a style of play which can only be described as muddling. The right and centre halves play a good game, though Miss Knox is apt to waste time executing somewhat elaborate manoeuvres with her stick. Miss Keate will have to recover the use of her stick for hitting, and also to work more if she is to retain her place in the team, The halves IT is
should back up the attack more, especially as they have behind them a very fairly reliable defence. Miss Kemp in goal very rarely makes a mistake.
Ogforb Stubents' %awn tennis Club. (Captain, Miss MOOR, Secretary, MISS STIFF.)
match against Cambridge was played this year at Enfield Green, and resulted in a victory for Cambridge by 7 setts to 2. Players for Oxford :— Is/ couple : Miss Moor, S.C., Miss Clarence, L M.H. 2 nd couple : Miss Marshall, S.H.H., Miss Sowels, S.H.H. 3rd couple : Miss Hannam, L.M.H., Miss Moinet, S.C. THE
%omerritte College. SOMERVILLE PARLIAMENT.—A general election was held at the beginning of the term, on the results of which the Conservatives came into power. Cabbie'. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs : Miss Jamison. Secretary of State for War : Miss Scott. Secretary of State for India : Miss Brewer. Chancellor of the Exchequer : Miss Gunn. Home Secretary and Postmaster General : Miss Greg. Colonial Secretary : Miss S, Smith. First Lord of the Admiralty : Miss Sergeant. President of the Board of Education : Miss Pope. President of the Board of Agriculture and Trade : Miss Cory. President of the Local Government Board : Miss Lorimer:
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Chief Secretary for Ireland : Miss de Selincou rt. First Lord of the Treasury : Miss M. Robertson. Their programme, as sketched in the speech from the Throne, included schemes for Alien Legislation, the repeal of the Land Transfer Act for London, the restricting the unlimited enjoyment of Free Education, increasing the utility of the Post Office by introducing the cash-ondelivery system, legalizing marriage with a deceased wife's sister, appointing a Commission of Enquiry into the Fiscal Policy of the nation, reforming the administration of the Army, increasing the Navy and improving the physical condition of the men of the nation by a system of Universal Service. On an amendment brought forward by the member for Montrose Burghs (Miss Sidgwick) concerning the omission of any proposals for Social Reform, the Government was defeated, and the Prime Minister (Miss M. Robertson) feeling that he no longer possessed the confidence of the country, announced his intention of placing his resignation in the hands of His Majesty. His Majesty was pleased to call upon the member for Greenwich (Miss Wragge) to form the new Cabinet, which he did as follows :Chancellor of the Exchequer : Miss Binning. Secretary of State for War : Miss Cameron. First Lord of the Admiralty : Miss Edmonds. Secretary of State for the Colonies : Miss Fry. President of the Board of Agriculture and Trade : Miss Moor. Chief Secretary for Ireland : Miss Pearsall. Secretary of State for India : Miss Ross. Home Secretary : Miss Sheavyn. President of the Local Government Board : Miss B. Smith. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs : Miss Williams, First Lord of the Treasury : Miss Wragge. On Thursday, November r9th, a Bill was introduced for the repeal of the Game Laws and the definition of the Law of Trespass, and was read a second time.
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LITERARY SOCIETY.—The Literary Society has this term been studying modern poets, in view of a most interesting paper which was read by Miss Willis on November r4th. The subject was " Some present day Poets," and after touching upon Kipling, Yeats, and Walt Whitman, Miss Willis confined herself mainly to the treatment of Meredith and his connection with contemporary thought. Various poets and prose-writers were proposed, and Burns finally chosen, for discussion at the next meeting. J. M. L.
HOCKEY CLUB (Callan, R. OVERTON).—The Club has this term increased in numbers, and gained also in strength, from the arrival of several promising new Members, and also from the more enthusiastic support of those who had played for the College before. In spite of the unfavourable weather, we have had some very good practices, and the teams are beginning to get into form and to combine together, on the whole with satisfactory results.' Matches already played are :First Eleven. v. O.L.M.H., lost 1-7. v. Etceteras, lost 3-5• v. Grove School, won 9-2.
Second Eleven. v. St. Hugh's Hall, lost 5-6. v. St. Hilda's Hall, won 8—o. v. Etceteras, won 3—I. Third Eleven. v. L.M.H., won 6-1. In Hall v. West, the Hall won, 7-2. BOAT CLUB. —Owing to the floods no boating was possible in the earlier part of term ; and the test for the creating of new Captains and HalfCaptains had consequently to be postponed, It will, if possible, be held before the end of term. There are a large number of new Members who manifest great enthusiasm. New Members. E. Bolton, M. Byrom, H. Escreet, S. Garstang, V. Longman, D. Lyall, 0. Myers, A. Niemeyer,
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K. Noakes, E. Peacey, E. Pearson, E. Pringle, M. Scott, J. Thomson, Miss Garstang. Miss Garstang, Miss Noakes, and Miss Scott have been passed into the outrig. SHARP PRACTICE (Secretary, R. L. GuNN),— Meetings of this Society have been held every week during this term, and notwithstanding the number of other engagements, have been very well attended. We have had several spirited discussions, two or three members jumping up at the same time in their eagerness to speak. We must congratulate first-years on the large part' they are taking in the discussion, and on their regularity in coming to the meetings. The following are a few of the motions debated on this term :"That indiscriminate reading is bad for the young." " That the life of a barbarian is happier than that of a civilized person." " That it is not advisable for women to join the medical profession."
%ab Margaret ball. following institutions are in working order : L.M.H. SETTLEMENT, WORKING PARTY and SoCIABLE, BOAT, and TENNIS CLUBS, SHAKESPEARE THE
sible, within reasonable limits of space, to do justice to the excellent individual performances of all the actors. Puff was excellently played by Miss Epps, while Miss Gwyer's representation of Sneer made the writer quake to meet her for at least a week. Miss Oyler made the most of the rather colourless part of Dangle. In " The Tragedy Rehearsed," the entrance and exit of Burleigh (Miss Romanes) and his weighty silence, filled us with awe, and a hideous sense of approaching doom. The sad fate of Tilburnia (Miss Wilmot) and the distress of her Confidant (Miss MacDowell) moved us as much to grief and sympathy as their subsequent madness :filled us with horror and concern. The " Situation " in Act III. was a problematical situation indeed, and was none too soon solved by the entry of the sprightly beefeater (Miss Court), whose subsequent duel with the love-lorn Whiskerandos (Miss Davis) shewed a pluck, and a disregard of the imminent, surely we might say, inevitable, which won the warmest applause. But one leading impression remains to be re corded, the sensation (for one can call it nothing else) which was aroused by the excellent and sound maxim with which Puff closed play :"Ever while you live, Thames, go between your banks." A maxim which, though many of us realise its applicability to-day, few perhaps have realised to have been so aptly expressed for us by Sheridan.
READING SOCIETY. PERFORMANCE OF SHERIDAN'S " THE CRITIC."
A performance of the second and third Acts of " The Critic " was given by the third and fourth years at the end of the Summer term, before a large and enthusiastic audience, consisting of the rest of the Hall and a few visitors. The inherent wittiness of the piece was made the most of by all the actors, and there was not one dull moment from start to finish. At the end of November it is impossible to do more than recall the leading and most lasting impressions of an entertainment which is now ancient history ; but this is to some extent an advantage, for it would be in any case impos-
HOCKEY CLUB.-At the beginning of the season, the prospects of the Hockey did not appear very bright, so many prominent players having gohe down last term, the old faces we more especially miss on the field being those of Miss Trench and Miss Court. In spite of difficulties, however, we may congratulate ourselves on having got together a fairly strong team, whose energy, keenness, and earnest desire to improve quite compensate for the doss of individual brilliancy which we have sustained. The forward line, which at first appeared the weak spot, has developed in
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THE FRITILLARY. a quite unlooked-for manner, and quite out of proportion to its size. In Miss Rogers we have obtained a good left wing, who is also a useful help in scoring. Miss Moorhouse and Miss Wilde, as left and right inner respectively, are excellent in field work, and Miss Moorhouse is most effective in the circle. Miss Alleyne tackles well, and when a little faster will make a good right wing. As halves Miss Knox, Miss Sanders and Miss Keate maintain their old form, Miss Knox, in her new position as centre, finding more scope for her tricky play. The combination of Miss Wickham's steadiness and Miss Green's agility makes an effective defence, while last but not least (in any sense of the word), Miss V. Kemp fills most efficiently Miss Waterfall's old place in goal. First Eleven. Goal : Miss V. Kemp. Backs: Miss Wickham, Miss Greene. Halves : Miss Sanders, Miss Knox, Miss Keate. Forwards : Misses Alleyne, Wilde, Parker (Captain), Moorhouse, Rogers. Second Eleven. Goal: Miss Dobbs. Backs : Miss Carless, Miss Pickford. Halves : Miss Jamison, Miss Lejeune, Miss Stocker. Forwards: Misses H. Kemp, Liddell, Freer, Worlledge, Stobart.
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Mary Pickford, Wycombe Abbey. Gladys Rogers,Liverpo ol College, Huyton, Helen Sanders, Private Tuition. Frances Sonnenschein, Queen's College, London. Mary Stocker, Clapham High School. Ellinor Sturrock, Private Tuition. May Warner, I3edford High School. Ethel Williams, Sheffield High School, E. Romanes on her First in Theology, to E. Ewbank on her First in Science ; to P. Clarence, M. Oyler, E. Waterfall, C. Wilmot, on their Seconds in History ; to F. Court on her Second in English Literature. CONGRATULATIONS to
%t. IbitOn's (Captain, G. SOWELS ; ViceCaptain, E. STIFF; Secretary, G. JoNEs).—The Hockey Club practises with St. Hugh's at Summertown this term. The vacancies in the team have been filled by freshers. The results of the matches have been unfortunate, but we hope to make a better stand next term. The results were as follows :v. St. Hugh's, lost r —6. v. Etceteras' and XI., won 4-3. v. The Dons, lost 0-5. v. Somerville and XI., lost o-8. v. Lady Margaret Hall and XI , lost 2-7. HOCKEY CLUB
(President, Miss RICHARDVice-President, Miss LEESON; Secretary, Miss E. G. MooRE).--There haye been two meetings of this Society this term, at which the motions, " That toleration too often tends to become a vice," and " That the claims of youth are prior to those of old age," were discussed. A slight reaction from the oratorical depression of last term is beginning to be observed. DEBATING SOCIETY
New Students. Evelyn Brown, Cheltenham College. Josephine Carless, Hereford High School. Enid Cuthbert, Rippingate, Eastbourne. Maybell Dobbs, Ravensbourne. Ruth Freer, Rugby High School. Margaret Hannah, Private Tuition. Marjory Hollings, Edgbaston High School, Barbara Little, Monmouth High School. Dorothy Lodge, Manchester High School. Evelyn Payne, Queen's College, London
SON EVANS;
ARCHITECTURE CLUB.—This Society has been started this term. It holds a weekly meeting. It began by studying the Saxon, and has now
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proceeded to the Norman type of architecture. A few expeditions have been organised for the purpose of visiting types of the different styles. The Cathedral has received some attention, and the Society proposes to make expeditions to Cuddesdon Church and St. Peter-in-the-East before the end of term. C.E.S. (President, Miss BuRRows).—This Club, " The Current Events Society," has been started this term. Its purpose is to combat the ignorance of the topics of the day which prevails in the Hall. Each member keeps the Society informed concerning one particular department of news. The Society meets once a week, and is at present in a flourishing condition. SOCIALS
(President, Miss_ LEEsoN).---0 ur hearti-
est thanks are due to Miss Thompson, who kindly came down and gave us a varied series of recitations; some serious, some comic, and some tragic. A most enjoyable evening was spent in listening to her. We hope that at some not very future date we may hear her again. The programme also included a song by Miss Finlay, and a pianoforte solo by Miss Jotes.
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(Secretary,
Miss STIFF).—Our
champions this year were Miss Marshall and Miss Sowels. We played three matches and succeeded in winning all of them. Results of matches :v. L.M.H., won 2 setts to I. v. St. Hugh's Hall, won 2 setts to o. v. Somerville, won z setts to o.
St. 'Mob's bait. HOCKEY CLUB (Captain,
Captain, M. J.
TEW ;
H. C. HUNTER ; Vice-
Secretary, P.
BOWEN-COLT-
HURST).—The members of the Club have increased considerably this year. All the new members of the Hall have joined, and many of them are very promising players, so that besides
filling up the gaps in the 1st XI. satisfactorily, we have been able to start a properly organised 2nd XI. We have been very successful in our matches so far, but still have to play the Etceteras' 2nd XI. Those matches already played have been those against the Old Students, St. Hilda's, Somerville znd XI., and Lady Margaret znd XI. The Old Students brought a fairly strong team to play us, though they naturally suffered from want of practice together. Their backs and goal were the strongest part of their team, and made a very stubbOrn defence, so that we were very proud of beating them by 7 goals to o. We won the match against St. Hilda's by 6 goals to r. The most exciting game of the season has been that against Somerville znd XI. ; it was very close and very fast throughout.—At half-time we led by 3 goals to 1, and soon after the interval we again scored. Somerville then got the next four goals, but we managed to equalise, and at the very last stroke our left wing scored for us with a splendid shot, leaving us victors of a very hard game by 6 goals to 5. The match against Lady Margaret 2nd XI. was played on Dec. 1st, and resulted in a victory for us by 9 goals to 1. The most encouraging feature of the match was the much improved combination of the team, shewn by the fact that the success could not be traced to any particular individual, but to the united efforts of the whole XI. Owing to the larger numbers of the club, the practices have been better attended than usual this 'term. Occasionally we have had to regret counter-attractions, such as lectures, and concerts, but on the whole we have reason to be satisfied both with the improvement in individual play, and in the increased keenness and energy in matches. SOCIABLES (Secretaries, R. W. GODDARD and E. T. BAZELEY).—The three Sociables already held this term have been unusually successful. The second, in honour of the Old Students, was largely attended. On the third occasion, owing to a malady which shall: be nameless, we were unable
THE FRITILLARY. to extend our hospitality to friends outside the Hall. We are preparing for a still more pleasing entertainment on the last Saturday of term, but its exact nature is at present an unknown quantity. BOAT CLUB ( Carn in, L. C. D ENEKE). Happy is the club that has no history.' If the dictum is wholly true St. Hugh's Hall Boat Club is supremely happy. Certainly there have been no accidents to enliven its mild and regular annals, but then the floods made it impossible to go out much during the earlier part of the term. So it was only to be expected that no new members have as yet been qualified, and that the " Swan" and the " Ugly Duckling" still rely on the established company of qualified members to be taken out. Crews are however always available, since six freshers out of eight are boating members, and have passed the necessary swimming test. If few feats have been performed actively by the Boat Club, something has been done to lay the foundation of an efficient legislation, for the Committee have approved and adopted a new Constitution. They have also decided to rid themselves of the nuisance of the unsatisfactory punt which—having been pronounced "loose in all its joints on good authority "—is now for sale, and to be substituted by a-new and perfect one next summer term.
New Students. A. M. Baker, School for Girls, Corran, Watford. M. Bruneton. F. M. de L. Fox, Langland House, Malvern. R. Hamilton-Gordon, Graham Street High School. M. L. Lardelli (Hall Scholar). E. S. Melly, School for Girls, Corran, Watford. S. M. M. Seelly, Girls' Grammar School, Keighley. W. S. West, Cheltenham College. WE heartily congratulate L. Deneke on her First in English, and C. M. Ady on her First in History ; also Z. Eppstein on having gained the Junior English Essay Prize.
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SHARP PRACTICE (President, M. M. CRICK).— The private business has been distinguished this term by its length and variety. The time-honoured jests have been thrust into the background, while other and more fertile subjects have engrossed the House. We cannot refrain from congratulating all future officers of this Society on the defeat of the attempt to impose Upon them a method of voting only paralleled in its complexity by the Florentine Constitution, as we were reminded by our historical members. Higher mathematics will not become a necessary equipment for office. From public business we gather much valuable information. Most interesting were the descriptions of many and diverse ways of bringing up children whom the House decided by an overwhelming majority should on no account be entrusted to ardent theorists.' When re-enforced by the Old Students- we were shewn the varied blessings to be derived from bad weather ; the House acquiesced in the Old Students' statements out of sheer pleasure at hearing them speak again. The classification of Oxford Women Students into three divisions, of which Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth are the respective types, shed much light on the mysteries of fate ; while the discussion of marriage for money shewed how strongly the House could speak, though not vote, against its convictions. The question of bodily and mental development interested members so profoundly that the full benefit of their ideas was not reaped until a week later, when the discussion of the effect of slang on character gave rise to startling psychological statements. On the whole the Society, though greatly missing the speakers who went down last year, looks forward with confidence to new and shining lights among its fresh members. It has abandoned its custom of referring everything to logic, but shews a marked tendency to stray into mystical discussions. .FIRE DRILL (Captain, L. C. D El\fEKE).—There has been one general practice, at which all steps were taken to put out an imaginary fire on the first floor with the hand-pump, and to save the inhabitants of the top floor by means of the shute. The Superintendent of the Oxford Fire Brigade very kindly presided at the shute practice, and also gave advice and assistance in carrying unconscious' people and letting them down out of a window by ropes. The immediate result of his numerous suggestions is that the Committee, although they have got the promise of a second shute, are anxious to clamour for some ropes and some more pails. The ropes would make practices more varied, and might prove a means of escape for inhabitants of the first floor, whilst the pails would be a substitute for what would be best of all, a second-hand pump on the top floor, [Why not a new one ?—En.]
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BUTLER).—
This institution is. in a very flourishing condition. Almost all the new students have joined, and the Socials have been well attended and successful. Committee: — Mrs. Johnson (President), Miss Crocker, Miss R. Butler (Treasurer), Miss Lowe, Miss V. Butler (Secretary), Miss Plunket. LIBRARY (Librarian, Miss BALLARD).—The Library continues to attract many members, and apparently provides a welcome pabulum alterr ative to the recommendations of those in authority. The widespread craving for fiction may be regarded as a most healthy sign. ,
BROWNING SOCIETY (Secretary, Miss BROWN). — This Society continues to hold its meetings, and is now reading some of the shorter poems.
SHARP PRACTICE (Secretary, Miss McMuNN).— The subjects suggested for debate continue to attract members, the most popular having been " That rudeness is one of the greatest signs of Moral courage."
TENNIS CLUB (Secretary, Miss LowE).—This Club continues to flourish, having attracted many new members this term.
HOCKEY CLUB (Captain, Miss R. BUTLER). — Two matches have been played this term—v. Oxford High School 2nd XI. on Nov. r3, lost 6-1, and v. Lady Margaret Hall and XI. on Nov. 25, lost 6-5. The Eleven is composed as follows :— Forwards : Misses Perks, Poulton, Plunket, R. Butler, Moseley. Halves : Misses Grey, V. Butler, Merivale. Backs: Misses Vidal, Tyndale. Goal : Miss Shaw-Phillips. In the first match Miss O'Malley played substitute, and in the second Misses Garrett, Powell, and Oldham. New Students. Miss Beer. E. Bowditch, High School, Oxford. Miss Brown, Grovelly College, Boscombe. S. Grey, at home. D. C. de la Hey, High School, Oxford. Miss Holter,
L. Krebs, St. Anne's School, Rewley House, Oxford. A. M. Libby, Wellesley College, Mass., U.S.A. L. S. Merivale, High School, Bedford. L. H. Perks, Miss Piper's, The Hollies, Malvern. G. von Petzold, Graduate of Edinburgh Univerversity, Student of Manchester College. J. A. L. Plunket, High School, Oxford, M. M. C. Pollard, High School, St. Leonards-onSea. H. Poulton, Wycombe Abbey School. L. P. Stowell, Mt. Holyoke College, Mass., U.S.A. R. Shaw-Phillips, Ladies' College, Bath. P. D. Standbridge, High School, Kidderminster. K H. J. Stevens, Miss Billings', Nottingham. THE Society is glad to welcome back Miss McMunn, who is reading for the Geography Diploma.
Recent Appointments. M. Drummond, Assistant Mistress, Edgbaston J. High School. Frhulein von Windheim, Assistant Mistress, Church High School, Hull. Miss Knott, Assistant Mistress, Surbiton High School. C. Bradley, Assistant Mistress, Manor House School, Brondesbury. M. M. Bell, Assistant Mistress, Carlisle High School. Miss Rylance, Missionary for Irish Presbyterian Missionary Society. M. Underhill, Missionary for London Missionary Society. R. Sidgwick, Temporary Resident Modern History Tutor at Somerville College. CONGRATULATIONS tO Miss Isaac on her Second Class in Physics, Miss Drummond on her Oxford Teachers' Training Diploma with distinction, Miss Lambourn on her First Class Higher Local in German, Miss Tatham on the same in Englisli Literature, and Miss Wills-Sandford on her honourable mention in the Margaret Evans.
IN view of the petitions to Parliament, in which all Oxford Bodies of Students joined, for the proper representation of women on the new Education Authorities, it is interesting to note that the Principal of the Home Students has been appointed a member of the Education Committee of the Oxfordshire County Council, and Mrs. T. H. Green, of the H.S. Committee, a member of the Education Committee of the Oxford City Council. Printed by
JAMES PARKER
& Co., Crown Yard, Oxford.