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EDITORIAL THE CULT OF DOESTOEFFSKY DRAWN FROM BITTER EXPERIENCE ATHIRST WASPS...

SYRINX '—Laurence North SED MILES . .

THE RUINED SHRINE ...

BEFORE THE WAR EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR REPORTS0.S.D.S. 0.S.U.H.C. 0.S.L.C. O.S.L.T.C.

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Ebitortal. competition, of which notice was given in last Term's Fritillary, has unavoidably been put off until next Term, when it is hoped there will be a larger number of entries. For the benefit of those who either did not see the notice or are unaware of the existence of any such competition, the conditions are again set forth : THE

I. A prize of one guinea will be awarded for the best story (not more than 2,000 words—I,5oo to i,800 preferred).

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A prize of to/6 will be awarded for the best poem sent in.

III.

A prize of to./6 will be awarded for the best review of a book (not more than boo words).

Entries must be given in to the college representatives on or before the Saturday of the first week of next Term. All entries must bear the author's name and the name of her college.

The committee will select the best entries in each class, which will then be judged by an outside person, whose decision must be accepted as final.

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REPORTS (continued)— X CLUB... ...

THE HUNDRED MOOT WEST RIDING OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE CLUB MR. Ross's LECTURE...

MR. GRANT ROBERTSON'S LECTURES MRS. CREIGHTON'S LECTURE DR. MOTT'S LECTURE...

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HAEL. NOTICES :— LADY MARGARET HALL SOMERVILLE COLLEGE ST. HILDA'S HALL ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE OXFORD HOME STUDENTS

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As the Fritillary has a fairly large balance in hand it has been decided to give a donation of to a charity selected by a majority of votes in the committee. The Royal Society for the Support of Soldiers' Widows and Orphans being finally chosen, the Treasurer has been empowered to send it a cheque for There were a larger number of contributions received this Term than usually, and it augurs well for the future success of the Fritillary that more interest in its welfare has been aroused. ,

tbe Cult of oestoeffshr. the great Steam Roller of the Russian Army is pursuing its way, with slow but decisive advance on German territory, aiming steadily at reaching Berlin, another force, also. from Russia, has been making its way all over the continent, and particularly to England, and for some years back has gone on doing so—the force of Russian literature, its poetry, and its strong, virile novels.

For Tolstoy, Turgeniev, and particularly Doestoeffsky, have found their way into English libraries, .and from them into the hearts of the English people. The interest of these men's works in the minds of the English must, from their novelty and difference of tone, be extraordinarily great. The atmosphere of the Russian novel differs entirely from that of the books we are WHILE

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accustomed to read. There are no soft touches, no shading, everything stands out in bold relief, cruel and unrelenting, harsh' and almost crude.

Life is cruel and hard, so necessarily the situations of the Russian novel are strong and unforgetable. They stamp themselves for ever in the mind of the reader. Another great feature is the detailed psychological sketch of almost every character. In the novels of Doestoeffsky this is particularly noticeable, more so than in those of Tolstoy and Turgeniev.

The Brothers Karamazoff ' is an example of this treatment of scheme. Here we have the strong situation and the psychological sketch of the chief personages in connection with it.

The story is of three brothers, Dmitri, Ivan and Aloisha. They are all different ; Dmitri, stepbrother to the others, is a silent, reserved, yet violent character ; Ivan is clever and cunning ; Aloisha, dreamy, deeply religious, very affectionate, faithful as a dog. They have a father who is the incarnation of wickedness. There are some pitiless, horrible things in the book, because the life it depicts is pitiless and full of horror. Feordor Feordvitch is an evil influence throughout ; his sons hate him ; he abandoned them as children. Why should they love him?

There are throughout series of parallel lovestories. Father and son, Dmitri and Feordvitch both love Gruskenka. Ivan also loves her, though he at the same time favours a girl called Katya. There is great jealousy between Gruskenka and Katya. One scene where the two women meet is very often quoted as being really fine. Aloisha, in spite of entering a monastery, loves an invalid girl and decides to leave the monastery. A very powerful scene is the death of one of the fathers there.

Feordvitch, father of the three brothers, has yet another son, by a poor girl. He is called Smerdakoff, and is epileptic. The description of the poor creature's fits are biographical of the author, for Doestoeffsky was also an epileptic.

The jealousy between Dmitri and his father over Gruskenka grows apace, and one night, the old father is found murdered. All evidence points to Dmitri. He was at home all the time, and there is blood on his clothes. He is imprisoned. His brother Aloisha alone believes in his innocence.

Dmitri declares himself to be innocent, though he confesses to have thought of murder, which he felt was in his blood. The trial takes place ; the speech of the young barrister who stands for Dmitri's defence is wonderful. He compares Dmitri to Hamlet, and at a dramatic moment cries out, The English have their Hamlet, but we have our Karamazoffs.' Then another development takes place, unknown to the court and jury. Ivan, the other brother, becomes mad from anxiety over Dmitri's danger. When in this plight he is asked to go and see Smerdakoff, who is dying at a hospital. Ivan goes, and there the •

low, wretched, half-imbecile Smerdakoff confesses that he is the murderer of Feordvitch, the common father of them all. Ivan, rendered still more mad with fury, appears in the law courts and tells the strange story. They refuse to believe him and declare that he is insane. The trial proceeds. News is brought that Smerdakoff has killed himself. Everything in the trial goes against Dmitri, and at length he is pronounced guilty and sentenced to penal servitude. The novel ends dramatically with his journey to Siberia, accompanied by the faithful Aloisha.

Another novel, called The Idiot,' is his most famous, but it is difficult to read, and requires strong nerves to enjoy it. Crime and Punishment,' also, is very fine and far less harrowing than either of the others. It is shorter, however, and has none of the philosophy of the first. There is a wonderful character study of the hero and murderer. The psychological working out of Rashkolnikoff's feelings at his horrible deed is really magnificent. Lonia, the heroine, is a fine personality. A great interest is added to this novel by the fact that the late Laurence Irving dramatised it under the name of The Unwritten Law.' Irving himself took the part of Rashkolnikoff in the play, and it was acted at Oxford about a year before his death. His representation of Rashkolnikoff was a revelation. He was Rashkolnikoff. Miss Mabel Hackney was Lonia also in great reality. The dramatised version of this novel was something that, once seen, could never be forgotten. Every scene and every word spoken took hold of one's mind and left it vibrating.

The effect of reading such a book is extraordinary ; every other novel palls for the moment, and is tame and dull in comparison. One scene in Crime and Punishment ' not depicted in the drama has now become a classic. Rashkolnikoff and Lonia are together. Lonia, a vain, fr,ivolous woman, is reading the Bible aloud to Rashkolnikoff, a murderer. Suddenly he kneels down in front of Lonia, and she, very astonished, rebukes him. ' I do not kneel to you,' he answers, but to suffering humanity in your person.'

Doestoeffsky's own life was varied, being fraught with danger. He tells in one of his novels an episode of his own story. He and several other men, political prisoners, were condemned to die. They were all brought out one morning to be shot at dawn. They confessed and prepared themselves for death. Suddenly, just as the order was given to fire, an orderly on horseback rushed up to them, flourishing in his hand a reprieve. The effect of this unlooked for escape from death, the author says, was terrific.

All were un-nerved ; one man comple tely lost his reason. Feodor Doestoeffsky never forgot it.

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Drawn from Bitter Egperience.

(WITH MANY APOLOGIES.)

unmoved by anything, Deaf to breakfast bells that ring, Rouse thy leaden slumbering !

YOUTH,

This is wisdom ! Not to wait But descend ere half-past eight,— Let others sleep ! Be thou not late.

Nod to those thou sittest by, And when thou bowest to the High Seize a plate before they fly.

And still the trees stood mute and motionless, No leaf for tears was shed then, though your bitterness Choked the very air—only suddenly Apples would fall, rotten apples drop from the trees.

Wasps in the apples, eating out their sweetnessBright-cheeked apples in the orchard grass— Hollow, wrinkled skins left from the spoiling— Wasps all swarming, Busy, writhing mass.

And these alone with manifest increase Still play their part To droop and drowse full-fedWasps in the apples, Death in the apples, Death in my heart.

The world world is dead, And death has brought no peace.

` Siri ng'

To the few o'erslept who have, What is left? Why, nothing, save The egg some scout in mercy gave.

First-to-come must first awaken— All the butter has been taken.'

Food ! Food ! Come and order bacon.

Etbirst.

NOTIIING to stir the coffee in her cup !

The one spoon, shared by six beside, Checks all immoderate haste to drink it up, Save where the dregs crawl groundlessly Like seaweed at low tide.

No sign to trace the liquid's emptying soon From cups of their contents bereft, But the white skim that lingers on the spoon, And the still-undissolvible Piece of lump-sugar left.

VaaSPS. spirit cried aloud to me to-day Across the suni-dried world In a dim noon Of misty heat and azure nothingness that soon Should turn sea-purple. Furled The sky's white banners in a breathless heat That banished silence yet allowed no sound. My feet Went heavily—as one in whom the toll, Exacted to the uttermost, had left no soul.

YOUR

I could not answer when your spirit called In that strange, secret place.

I could not break The bonds about my soul, no gentle pity wake In earth to do you grace.

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(LAURENCE NORTH).

IT is almost impossible not to open a book dealing with Oxford types in a hyper-critical spirit ; not to sit in judgment in advance on the author who dares from without to write of that which we shall criticise from within. The temptation ,is even greater when feminine Oxford is not only included in the study, but forms its central point.

After reading Syrinx,' however, we subscribe to Mr. North's claim—' Et ego in Arcadia

vixisti.'

The character of the central figure is an attempt to analyse the exotic type, rare perhaps, but sometimes produced by what for want of a better term we must style the higher education of women. In Julia Herrick, the old unholy war ' senses v. intellect is studied with an insight that one almost resents, so unerringly does it lay bare the subtlest and most intimate workings of this (often unconscious) conflict. Aspasia,' as she is called, is a fascinating, elusive personality.

For the greater part of her days she is in quest of her own soul. In her, intellect is subordinate to emotionalism and ministers to it ; knowledge, though something inevitable, a thing for the needs of the moment,' is none the less permanently necessary to provide a background and materials for her emotional experiments. Sappho exists for her so as to complete to its most exquisite point her appreciation of the veiled, still passion of the twilight.

Aspasia's over-civilization borders, it is true, on decadence ; she lives delicately by reason of her fastidious capacity for enjoyment, and, Syrinx-like, is a reed from which every gust of emotion draws a response, but withal in such a rarefied atmosphere of self-analysis, self-

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comprehension and criticism, that we are sometimes tempted to echo her own cry of weariness, Is there no escape from consciousness ? ' The settings in which Aspasia is placed, artistic and bohemian London, and afterwards the Rome of classical scholars and antiquarians, are well calculated to emphasise the blend of intellect and emotion in her character, since in the one her intellectual and in the other her emotional life stand out in sharp contrast to her surroundings. For bohemians are not intellectual, and antiquarians are seldom emotional. In these settings, Mr. North has introduced some remarkably good character-studies.

We suspect him of being, like his own artist, Maurice Laleham, an epicure in contrasts. The three types of scholars, dons if you will, are admirably drawn. There is Hardiman, the bloodless pedant, adsorbed in the dry bones of scholarship, impervious to its living reality, and existing only for the further refinement of his attenuated and exquisitely polished ego ; he has succumbed almost without his knowledge, and certainly without a struggle, to the insidious influence of academicism. There is Akenside, half-realising the danger, but, until the advent of Aspasia, making small efforts to withstand it ; and finally, Urbana, the old Italian savant, to whom the problem is no problem, since among other things he has profoundly studied the art of the bon viveur.

Grouped against these are the Polite Outcasts, an artistic and bohemian company, ultra modern and decadent, though skilfully so, in spirit.

With this skill in character-drawing, Mr. North united a peculiar felicity and poignancy of phrase which can crystallise a mood, a quality or an atmosphere, in a few vivid touches.

Of Akenside, religions, as scientific and literary realities, had for him a supreme interest.

Religion none at all.' Here we have to the life the sceptic whose ethical creeds seem founded on an idealised good taste.' His personality is quickly sketched, his detached charm ; his jene-sais-quoi of unorthodox saint and student.'

The nature of the barrier eternally erected between true and false culture is fixed by a single instance. ' We know lots of little masters as one knows people in society. He knows a few great masters like old friends.'

Turning from the contents to the structure of the book, from the spirit to the workmanship, it is a little disappointing to find that Mr. North has sometimes fallen into the snare that besets the road of so many modern novelists. He overloads the story with psychological analysis which, interesting and skilful though it is, has the defect of a too copiously annotated edition, i.e. the course of the story is too frequently interrupted by the explanations, thus inevitably destroying the dramatic effect. But the remedy is also the remedy of the annotated edition, that of re-reading

the story for the psychology, without the counterinterest of plot.

The denoument is perhaps a little strained, and though it was like Aspasia to do the unexpected, the story ends, as it were, on an interrupted cadence.

Our thanks are, all the same, due to Mr. North for giving us that rare thing, an unexaggerated, sympathetic study of the exotic type of woman who, unfrequent as she may be, is seldom understood, and even more rarely drawn with success.

K. W. H.

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Bear the hearse, bear the pall, We shall fare forward, We have answered the problem, We have closed the volume. ' In the doubt, in the strife, We chose the giving.

We have had light for doubt, We have had our answer.

Doubt for the aim of life ; We have been spared it.

We have given the tangled skein To be cut by the shearers.

Violet scent, flower of broom, We have foregone them.

We have given the morning.

The Gods have accepted They have pardoned the reckoning.'

'Ube

Sbrine.

roving swallows nest where slept the Queen, The wild bees store their honey in the wall Where once was hung a garland festival ; Where censers glimmered poppies now are seen, Over the altar great blue gentians lean, Robing the white stones in a petalled pall.

The fragments of the King's throne strew the hall, And azure iris thrust their heads between.

Four thousand years ago before the shrine, Within this precinct of the cypress shade, A kingly priest bowed down in adoration ; The great Earth Mother gave an answering sign, For her slow-moving centuries have made The shrine more lovely in its desolation.

GINEVRA. THE

113efore the Tartar., were going to Ypres—' Ieperen ' was stamped on our railway tickets, and its pronunciation impressed upon us by a polite Belgian official. So to Ieperen ' we went.

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THE FRITILLARY, It is easy to realise that Ieperen had once been a place of importance. The old walls, now grassgrown and surmounted by groups of trees, and the dark, half-empty moat, enclose a labyrinth of streets packed with tall houses. The tract of land shut in by the walls is so large, the streets so much alike, that one ceased to expect ever to reach the Grande Place. But when we do reach it a surprise has been prepared for us.

The deserted streets are avenues to a sunny square of magnificent extent, formed, it would seem, by the union of two irregular oblong spaces. On one side rises the facade of the Halle aux Draps, built in the thirteenth century ; its great length broken by a massive square tower in the centre, and a delicate tourelle at either end.

From between its rows of tall windows, stone figures of the Counts and Countesses of Flanders look down from their niches on the town beneath.

The square is quite empty, and in the sunlight one can almost count the rows of cobble-stones that pave it from end to end. Round about it stand the tall white houses, shoulder to shoulder.

In most of these houses a flight of deep steps leads to a sort of cellar door, through which one can see wooden tables piled with half-ripe fruit and baskets of warm little sunburnt grapes.

Underground shops have a strongly mediaeval air.

A Belgian girl, with brown cheeks and hair burnt light in the sun, is standing near one of these doors and knitting a huge blue stocking. We offered to buy fruit from her, but she knew no French. However, when we produced three sous she handed over a dozen pears.

The Halle aux Draps was cool and spacious within ; the dark roof so far above our heads that it seemed almost misty. Little grey bats fluttered heavily down and feigned death in dusty corners when they heard our footsteps. The contrast of this large hall (the most spacious in Flanders) with the present inactive industrial life of the town, is explained by the fact that in the fourteenth century the town had been besieged many times and then burnt by the men of Ghent. As a result, hundreds of cloth weavers left the city to seek for a safer abode, and the industries faded into insignificance. Now it is a town of rentiers,' though the people in the poorer quarters make pillow-lace. Ieperen is a town of silence, if we except the moments when the Belgian cavalry come out to exercise, and the hours after four o'clock, when the children of the place are released from school and find their way in groups to their homes. One almost expects to see the fantastic figure of the Pied Piper heading the procession as the fair-faced children move along.

They wear round white capes, and blouses of every shade that blue linen can attain to after being washed and patched and scorched in the sunlight. Here and there comes a mother or an elder sister carrying a baby, with other little ones clinging to her blue apron ; sometimes two

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or three children roll tumbling over one another on the dusty pavement. But soon the troop has passed, and the sound of their wooden shoes grows fainter in the distance.

The least real elements in the scene were those that the war has now brought remorsely out.

The fortified mounds were smooth and covered with grass, and were merely a promenade for the town ; the straight military roads had sheltering trees. Now all these have been cut down ; the flat, quiet fields have become a camp ; the moat, flooded as a defence to one army, has become a grave to both.

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Every /Ban in Ibis burnout PART II. Or (for those who prefer an alliterative title), MRS. BOMFORT BOTANIZES. SCENE The conservatories of the Botanical Gardens. These ALGY and MRS. BOMFORT are languidly inspecting, partly for their own convenience, partly for the author's. They have selected the place because MRS. BOMFORT is going to meet MRS. WOGAN at three o'clock in the Botanical Gardens and the latter has not yet arrived : and it has been selected for them because the large screen of plants enables characters to go in and come •out so easily. This is excellent for the dialogue, which is of the modern kind, and aims apparently at instructing and delighting people by giving them as little as possible of anybody's conversation.

MRS. B. (gazing around her through a lorgnette) : How oppressively hot the interior of these places always is. (She slowly lowers the lorgnette.) My dear , I would not dabble my hand in the water if I were you : you will annoy all the little goldfish. Are not those bananas that I see growing at the end of the conservatory ?

But they are quite green : surely that is very rare.

ALGY (trailing one hand in the water, and :

watching the goldfish artlessly nibble at it; both he and MRS. BOMFORT are suffering from that vague exaltation of ideas which affects most people after lunch) : Oh, I expect they'll turn out

all right in the end, Mrs. Bomfort. I say, these are rather jolly little beggars, you know : seem to take to you at first sight, and all that : but, all the same, I should never like to be a corpse— in the water, I mean,—you'd look so awfully unpresentable after a little of this sort of thing, don't you know? It's what I hope I shall never be.

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the kind with the exercise of an ordinary measure of discretion, that is although young men are so imprudent in their boat-racing now-adays. At least, I am sure I hope not, if only for your mother's sake : for an only son is an only son, and therefore doubly precious.

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Mrs. Bomfort. I mean, you never know what you can do until you've tried, can you? What do you think about it all?

MRS. B. (with some stiffness, detecting a flavour of pleasantry in all this): We are encouraged to believe in the future welfare of the spirit, Mr. Wogan but I am afraid that you are hardly serious. Those are bananas, are they not, that I see growing at the end of the conservatory? And I believe your mother said that she was going to meet me at this part of the Gardens, at about three o'clock, under the big beech-tree, with her knitting.

ALGY Oh, yes : Mum's awfully keen upon knitting nowadays tortures the wool into all kinds of strange shapes—acrostics, I call 'em.

Now, if you're ready, Mrs. Bomfort, we'll go into the Cactus House.

MRS. B. (with a last benedictive glance behind her through the lorgnette) Pretty, very pretty indeed : but so close—its almost worse than insufficient ventilation. Why, the air is quite humid. (She sniffs it delicately between .operations with the lorgnette.) Yes, I think we are certainly justified in calling it humid. We must be very careful to shut the door, dear, or else the utiful plants be heat will escape and all these bea spoiled. (He does so, and they go off down the corridor. Thoughtfully) I always wonder how people can possibly live in those lands where bananas ripen.

ALGY Oh, I don't know, Mrs. Bomfort. And I expect an Indian in England would delight in these conservatories.

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Oh? But then, one can never tell what these foreign sorts of people will delight in, can one?

(She gazes round upon the cacti.) And so this is the. Cactus House, I presume. Dear me, what extraordinary-looking plants they are.

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Echinocactus,: and that little chap's a Cypripedium. But all together I call them Natural Shaving Advertisements, Mrs. Bomfort, because they resemble every degree of beard, bristles and lather in the abstract, without a foundation of features.

MRS. B. But, my dear, what a thought ! I :

am sure, if you tried, you could think of something much prettier. And what do they call this strange thing?

ALGY What, that? Oh, that's a Pitcher Plant.

MRS. B. Ah, yes. Then that must be what the Swiss Family Robinson were always drinking out of, mustn't it? It is a very long time since I read the book, but I feel sure that they were always drinking out of Pitcher Plants—or tin mugs—or something, at all events, that one hardly expects to meet with in ordinary society.

But naturally, on a desert island, one would come prepared to put up with a good many irregularities.

ALGY Oh, easy on, Mrs. Bomfort ! That's not right. The person who always taps the providential Pitcher Plant is the exhausted African traveller, just as his horse and hopes give out together. Then he looks up and sees it, or the melon plant--which is rather cleaner ; staggers up to it, and, gasping out a short thanksgiving, drains it at a draught.

MRS. B. (critically): Oh, but, Mr. Wogan, do you really think that that would be very nice?

Because I am quite certain, from the look of it, that it must tend to attract and drown flies.

ALGY : A providential combination of meat and drink, Mrs. Bomfort. Hullo ! here's Mum. (MRS. WOGAN, slightly flushed, enters the con:

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you'd just losit a walking-race.

MRS. WOGAN (smiling a welcome to MRS. BOMFORT, whose hand she holds with a fond pressure, and at the same moment, with a wise economy of time, speaking severely to ALGY) :

You naughty boy, how could you possibly give me such a race after you down these stuffy passages—and poor Mrs. Bomfort, too, how tired she must be !—When you knew that we had arranged to meet each other at three o'clock outside? (He glances at a watch suggestively). I

believe that watch is fast. In any case, if I hadn't by the veriest chance Been you disappearing into the conservatories, you might have poked about in these hot, dark places for hours for all that I can tell,—you know how absent-minded you can be—but it's not that that really annoys me—(she stops for lack of breath and glances at the door; voices are heard afar off down the long corridor.) I saw Mrs. Murex with Flossie in the

Fish House, and I feel sure that she is coming after me : and that means that she will stick to us the whole afternoon : for you know, Algy, how she can stick.

ALGY Great—Scott !

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• ALGY : Oh, I say, Mother ! I can't stop here to entertain Mrs. Murex. The afternoon's too close for talking ; and I shall do a bolt.

MRS. WOGAN (seizing him by the sleeve as he starts towards the door of the Cactus House): No, now, Algy ! It's not the slightest good your behaving in that way. What will Mrs. Murex think if she meets you rushing out'of the conservatory just as she comes in? People don't behave like that, you know. Wait till we get outside, and then you can say something about those horrid aeroplanes that you're always talking about,—and then you can go. And, besides (with accidental penetration) Mrs. Murex will not require you to talk very much. She likes listeners. (With gentle sorrow, turning to MRS BOMFORT) I'm afraid that you will think me dreadfully unsociable, Mrs. Bomfort, but I was so looking forward to a quiet afternoon all alone with you, and now I am afraid that Mrs. Murex will want to talk to me about those Queen's Womens' Work Parties we are organizing. She is such a born manager.

ALGY (rebelliously): I wish all born managers were dead ones.

MRS. WOGAN : H'sh, Algy. Here they are.

(The sound of voices becomes louder, and presently two ladies enter the Cactus House. MRS. MUREX is a militant Womanly Woman, who domesticates and manages everything that comes in her way. FLOSSIE will be like her mother when she has reached that age, but at present is happily younger.) Oh, Mrs. Murex This is indeed a charming little surprise—and Flossie, too, how well she looks—for who ever would have dreamed of meeting you two here?

ALGY (who cannot quite overcome an inclination to tease his mother on the contrast between her wishes and her formulas) Of course, Mrs. Murex, none of us could possibly have dreamt of it : but, curiously enough, we were just talking about it when you came in. ' Talk of an angel,' you know, and it appears—or angels, I suppose I should say, in this case.

Miss MUREX : Oh, I'm sure you don't really mean that, Mr. Wogan ; you know you're only just saying it. (The author must apologise for the alarming growth of italics in Miss MUREX' speeches, on the ground that words with no intellectual emphasis ought to have at least a physical one.) Really, I shall be quite afraid of you if you are so sarcastic.

MRS. MUREX (speaking to MRS. WOGAN) No, I just happened to see you as you went past, and thought that I would get the question of what is to happen to those shirts next Wednesday settled once and for all. I always believe in getting a thing over and done with : don't vou?

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ALGY Oh, I'm aeroplaning, Mrs. Murex— with occasional intervals for living.

MRS. MUREX : Oh, well, I daresay you'll find enough to do, if you do your duty properly.

(Turning to MRS. Woo/eN) And now, I really must have a moment's talk with you about those shirts that they sent back from the War Office; and we'll let the young people run away and amuse themselves.

(They obey these injunctions so far as to fall into step behind the three ladies ; and since both groups talk at the same time about totally different subjects, a rather composite kind of dialogue develops •itself as follows): MRS. MUREX (speaking to MRS. WOGAN) Isn't it simply too annoying for words? You know all those shirts that Eva Beynon sent up lately ? 'Well, they have all been returned, because they say that only left arms have been put in : so careless and when they were sent back the day before yesterday, I could almost have wept with vexation. But things like that are always happening. What she says now is that she must send them up again as shirts for people who have lost their right arms. (The ladies laugh. With some asperity) But what we must never forget is, that this war is a terrible thing, and we have all great reason to be thankful.

(They grow solemn again.)

ALGY (talking behind them to Miss MUREX with all the exquisite and infallible intonations of an Oxford male professor) : Na, I can't say that I've thought much about work or anything else since the war began. My chief intellectual interests up to that time (if I may say so) were Photography, very Modern Literature, and the Psychology of Life.

Miss MUREX : Oh, but do tell me now about those darling aeroplanes of yours, Mr. Wogan : I do so long to know all about them. You know, I think it must be simply heavenly to be a man, and able to do all these lovely things. I would have given anything to have been at Yarmouth lately—wouldn't you? Nothing thrilling ever happens here Oxford is so far inland MRS. MUREX (speaking to MRS. BOMFORT) : And I suppose you have a good many Belgians lodging near you?

MRS. BOMFORT : Yes—of the better class, of course.

MRS. MUREX (turning to MRS. WOGAN) And I suppose you have been doing a good deal of Relief Work lately?

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only a day or two ago Mrs. Comberbatch and 1 cleaned out two small houses, and then there were the grates and windows as well— MRS. MUREX : To think of that, now ! (Speaking over her shoulder to Miss MUREX) Do you hear that, Flossie? These good ladies, have been washing windows and cleaning out houses.

There is an example for you, I should hope.

Miss MUREX : Oh, dhow lovely ! What, really little houses with windows in them? Only tell me next time you think of doing it, Mrs. Wogan, and I'll get into my best new pinny and come along and help !

MRS. WOGAN (continuing): . . . and as for Algy, I hardly see him from one week's end to another—do I, Algy? He seems to be worked much harder than when he was at college.

MRS. MUREX : Ah, and that's another question that I've always wanted to get settled. How much work do you young men at college usually do in a day, Mr. Wogan? Not much, I expect.

It's all sports and other forms of amusement nowadays, isn't it? You undergrads are always ut, aren't you? running abo (who does not work very much during the ALGY day, or during the night, either, for that matter): Ah, well, of course, that all depends, as one may say. (Brightening as at a happy recollection) But I did five clear hours last Eights' Week— that's pretty good on an average, isn't it?

MRS. MUREX (with judicial carefulness) : Well, of course, we unacademic people think of work so differently ; but I have no doubt that you might call five_ hours work a day a respectable minimum in college.

ALGY : Oh, but I didn't mean that, Mrs. Murex. Five hours' work a week is what I meant. That's not bad for Eights' Week, is it?

MRS. WOGAN (in an unexpected backwater of conversation started by the word Eights' Week): The Magdalen jerseys are such a pretty colour, aren't they?

MRS. BOMFORT : But they fade quickly.

MRS. MUREX (sternly, addressing ALGY) : I believe that you are joking. Come, now—isn't that so?

ALGY : I should no more think of joking in answer to one of your serious questions, Mrs. Murex, than of punning in the sanctity of Logic.

MRS. BOMFORT : But do you have puns in Logic, Mr. Wogan? That seems a very modern idea.

ALGY : Puns in Logic are like flies in amber.

When the thing is buzzing about in society we all find it a nuisance, especially at the meal-table; but when it is embalmed in a more precious substance, such as Logic or Amber, it becomes interesting and valuable as a curiosity. (His audience

• is at first a little dazed, being without the speaker's advantage of having frequently heard this brilliant remark before.)

MRS. BOMFORT : Oh. Miss MUREX : But, Mr. Wogan, what a simply perfect thought ! Do you know—I've sometimes thought something rather like that, too, but have never felt quite able to express it, somehow. Tell me, Mr. Wogan—what must it feel like to be so clever? (They go up the left side to the door of the conservatory.)

M32S. WOGAN (with gentle gratification): Yes, I suppose that you might call Algy clever. He inherits it from his father.

MRS. MUREX : Yes, my dear; but, all the same, I wouldn't encourage him too much in that way of talking if I were you. He'll find it won't pay when he has to make his own way in the outer world amongst plain people. (Raising her voice to include ALGY and MISS MUREX, now at the end of the conservatory) Well ; I think it's almost time that we were getting back to the light of day again, don't you? (The ladies begin to file up the left side to the door, which ALGY holds open.) What on earth possessed you to come wandering round in these outlandish places?

ALGY : We were admiring the cacti, Mrs. Murex. Those inspire me with endless similes, it you like. Look at those little chaps sitting smiling at your left elbow, like prehistoric penwipers.

MRS. MUREX (glancing carelessly at them over her shoulder, as she goes out) : Yes, I suppose you might say there is a distinct kind of order about them.

MRS. BOMFORT (ponderously, passing out after MRS. MUREX and whelming the •latter's voice in her own pontifical accents) : A rare and wonderful order. It is this kind of sight, Mrs. Murex, which would incline me to conceive, if that were possible, a yet higher opinion of the insight and abilities of our Bounteous Creator.

(She goes out, and then MISS MUREX, and lastly ALGY, full of laughter, trailing his mother's tightly-furled umbrella, which she has left behind her, in one hand, and closing the door of the conservatory with the other.)

DIMARIS.

1Reports• 0.S.D.S. (Michaelmas Term, 19I4).

President—E. MALLESON. Secretary—G. GARDNER. Junior Treasurer—M. CODD. At the first meeting of this Term the motion before the House was, ' That this House deplores the oligarchic control of foreign policy.'

THE FRITILLARY. The Proposer, Miss Horne, ex-Secretary (L.M.H.), struck a high note of idealism. She argued that the people ought to share in the control of foreign policy because they are the first to be affected by its misdirection, and that if they had their due share there would be far less likelihood of war than there is under the present irresponsible guidance of diplomatists and a few Cabinet Ministers.

The Opposer, Miss White (S.C.), showed the most supreme contempt for the motion. She drew an analogy between a nation and a team (or two) of hockey players, and reduced the function of government to the arrangement of international relations. Her delivery was good.

The Third Speaker, Miss Coate, ex-Treasurer (S.H.H.), drew attention to the insuperable difficulties which attend the democratic control of foreign policy.

The Fourth Speaker, Miss Vaughan (S.H.C.), unfortunately read a paper to the House at such a pace that we are unable to reproduce any of her arguments.

During public discussion, two or three new members spoke. At the division the motion was lost by one vote.

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At the second meeting the House had the great pleasure of hearing the motion, ' That Capitalism is the basis of Imperialism,' proposed by Mrs. Stocks. She said that she had no malicious intention of destroying our little ideals, but that she had been forcibly struck throughout her reading of modern history by the fact that Imperialism was undeniably the interest of the British bondholder backed up by the firm of Rothschild.'

The Opposer, Miss. Macrae, ex-President (S.H.H.), made a noble effort, if not to refute her opponent's arguments, at least to show that they proved non-essential points. She said that Capitalism was the perversion of the true ideal of Imperialism, and that if blood and money were in cold fact being spent in the Capitalist interest, it did not matter so long as those who were spending it did not realise that fact. The proposer of the motion had defined the body of Imperialism ; she would rather define its soul.

The Third Speaker, Miss Buckhurst (S.C.), had evidently prepared a long speech, the delivery of which Rule 24 unfortunately prevented. From the opening sentences it would appear that she was going to deal with the how, why, and whence of Imperialism.

The Fourth Speaker, Miss Gardner, Treasurer (S.H.C.), drew a distinction between Empire and Imperialism. She said that the decline in Importance to the colonies of their connection with Great Britain seems to prove that the colonies are not run for the interest of the Mother Country.

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House that it is not idealism but ignorance which leads people to confuse what they would like a thing to be with what it actually is. She concluded that the fact shows that where there is the financial motive there is vigorous Imperialism ; where there is smaller financial motive there is correspondingly weaker Imperialism.

At the division, the motion was lost by five votes.

UNITED HOCKEY.

Captain—E. C. MALLESON (L. M. H. ).

Secretary — D. BRYAN (S. C. ).

So far, the United practices this Term have been disappointing. This is largely owing to the unusual heaviness of the ground, no doubt ; at the same time, it is very much to be hoped that the fact that we are not having matches this Term has not engendered slackness. During this time, when so many really important things have to go to the wall, it has seemed better to let the standard of our hockey deteriorate—as it is bound to do without outside coaching and contact with better players than ourselves—than to spend money upon an unnecessary object.

As regards criticism of the play, the forwards are noticeably less good than they were last year ; they lack a leader and a plan of action. The defence play has improved since the beginning of the Term, particularly as regards co-operation, though the re is still something to be desired in that direction. It is hoped that next Term, with more regular practices, the play will improve.

OXFORD STUDENTS' LACROSSE CLUB.

Captain—E. STACEY (L. M. H. ).

Secretary—F. G. LUPTON (S. C. ).

Treasurer—J. FLEMMING (L. M. H. ).

The Club remains about the same in size as it was last year (i.e. about fifty members), although no members have gone down. There are however, only about half the number of new members that there were last year, and people are finding that it is difficult to play both lacrosse and hockey.

The Club is at the uncomfortable stage in which there are not enough members to run College Clubs but too many for a satisfactory United Club. The members have not all grasped that there is a scheme in the game, and some of the practices have been extraordinarily bad. On the whole, however, there is a better average of good players than last year. The First XII promises well, but have at present had little opportunity of playing together. The Second XII should be good.

Matches arranged for Michaelmas Term.

Oct. 3oth, L.M.H. v. S.C. Won by S.C., 5-4.

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Nov. 13th, 0.S.L.C. v. Oxford Ladies. Won by O. S. L. C., 5-3.

Nov. 21st, 0.S.L.C. v. Priors Field. Not yet played.

Dec. 3rd, 0.S.L.C. v. Oxford Ladies Not yet played.

Nov. 24th, O.S.L.C. znd XII v. Oxford Ladies' 2nd XII. Not yet played.

We were only sorry not more people were able to come.

A third meeting is to be held on November 26th at 16 Ship Street, at which there is to be a debate.

The motion will be, That the Mechanistic Theory of Life fails to explain all natural phenomena.'

Hon. Mover, Miss Buckley (S.C.); Hon. Opposer, Miss Arning (S.C.); Third Speaker, Miss Pease (L.M.H.); Fourth Speaker, Miss Webb (L. M. H.).

0. S. L. T. C. match against Cambridge was arranged for June 18th, but, owing to a heavy thunderstorm, play was stopped before the match was over, and the whole match was replayed on June igth, resulting in a win for Cambridge by five matches to four. Cambridge therefore holds the Inter-University Challenge Cup for 1914-1915. The team was as follows : 1. Miss Austin (L.M.H.) and Miss Bryan Brown (L.M.H.). 2. Miss Tree (S.C.) and Miss Bryan (S.C.). 3. Miss Holloway (S.H.S.) and Miss Glenday (S.H.C.). On June xgth Miss Austin (Captain) and Miss Glenday were unable to play, and Miss Oakley-Hill (O.H.S.) and Miss Lewis (L.M.H.) played as substitutes.

The match against London University was played at Bedford College, London, on June 24th, and resulted in a win for Oxford by seven matches to two. The Oxford first couple, Miss Austin (L.M.H.) and Miss Bryan-Brown (L.M.H.), lost to the London first couple, beat the second couple, and beat the third. The second couple, Miss Holloway (S.H.H.) and Miss Glenday (S.H.C.), beat the London first couple, beat the second couple, and beat the third couple.

At a Selection Meeting on October 28th the following were admitted :—Members : Miss Lupton (S.C.) and Miss H. M. Oakley-Hill (O.H.S.).

Associates : Miss Fry (L.M.H.) and Miss Brittain (S.C.).

E. I. GLENDAY (Hon. Sec.).

OXFORD v. CAMBRIDGE.—The

X CLUB.

President—Miss HORNE (S. H. C. ).

Secretary—Miss SPICER (S. H. C. ).

Treasurer—Miss CAVE (L. M. H.).

Two meetings of the X Club have been held this Term. The first was held in Somerville, on October 28th. Miss Organe read a most interesting paper on The Inheritance of Colour.'

Eleven new members were elected to the Club, this being a very much larger number than usual for one Term.

The second meeting of the Club was held on November i 1th, at St. Hugh's Hostel. Miss Evans read a delightful paper on Prehistoric Crete,' and showed some excellent photographs

the lbunbreb flboot.

Last Term the lecture to the Hundred Moot was given by Mr. Gooch on Equality,' in which he traced up the development of the idea historically from the Greek City State to the Utilitarian theory of Bentham, and indicated the lines of its application in modern society. The lecture for this Term is to be given by Mr. Coulton on Literary Life in the Middle Ages.'

A new constitution has been drawn up by this Society, in which, among other things, collegiate meetings have been substituted for the original Tithing system.

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1Ribing Ogforb ant' Cambribge Club.

The annual dinner was held at Bradford Grammar School on March loth, 1914. It was preceded by the usual business meeting, at which important changes were made in the rules of the Club to include the Oxford members. A hearty welcome was accorded to the new members of the Oxford colleges present, and Miss Roberts (Somerville) was elected Vice-President for 1914-15.

Thirty-five members and six visitors were present, and we had the pleasure of welcoming, as our guests, Miss Jex-Blake, from Oxford, and Miss Meyer, from Cambridge, who gave us news of the various colleges. The toast of The Colleges ' was proposed by Miss Lardelli ; that of The Staffs ' by Dr. Wodehouse. The names of possible new members of the Club will be gladly received by the Hon. Sec., (Miss) M. E. Briggs, Sandal Cliff, near Wakefield.

11111ar Zectures.

The A.E.W. arranged for a series of lectures for women students on subjects connected with the war. The first of these was given by Mr. W. D. Ross, on ' International Morality.'

Mr. Ross pointed out that moral obligations are binding on nations as they are on individuals, and that, though different sanctions ' have been suggested to explain morality, there can be no explanation, for obligations exist as fundamental and objective realities.

THE FRITILLARY. MR. GRANT ROBERTSON'S LECTURES.

November 4th—ECONOMIC PROBLEMS CONNECTED WITH THE WAR.

Mr. Grant Robertson showed that, whatever the issue, the nation will be plunged deeply into debt, while at the same time the waste of life will entail decreased productive power. There will be a tendency to economise in wrong directions, as on education. Social reform will be at a standstill ; there may even be reaction. Women workers, owing to unequal social conditions, will be especially exposed to suffering. No readymade remedies for all this are at hand ; to reduce the national drink bill would be a step in the right direction ; but chiefly the nation must concentrate on the problem of making the best possible use of its reduced resources.

November 18th. —THE FUTURE OF BRITISH CIVILIZATION.

The lecturer feared for the consequences of the spiritual reaction that is sure to set in when the need of effort ceases. He considered that the rend of national life has hitherto been in a wrong direction. He repeated German criticisms of our national characteristics, and showed the truth that lies in them. We believe that British civilization has a mission ; but how are we justifying this belief ? In the nineteenth century England had three great teachers—Carlyle, Ruskin, and John Stuart Mill. We have replaced them by Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells.

Our literature has lost the notes of high consciousness, moral earnestness, and the joy of life.

There are three questions which both now, and when the war is over, we should seriously consider. Are we still capable of rununciation—the ideal Lord Roberts set before himself in his plea for Conscription? Are we doing justice to women in our national institutions? Are we trying to cultivate in the mass of the people a scientific mind? This is no time to study science with a view to achieving results, but to bring about a ' transvaluation of values ' through a change in our ' whole mental outlook.'

At the end of both these lectures a vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Grant Robertson, and the enthusiasm evinced showed how the audience had appreciated these most interesting lectures.

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The thanks of all who attended these four lectures are due to Mrs. Creighton, Mr. Grant Robertson, and Mr. Ross for their most interesting expositions of difficult subjects.

DR. MOTT'S VISIT TO OXFORD. Dr. Mott was to have addressed a large general meeting for men and women students in the Town Hall on Sunday, November 7th ; but when the Town Hall was turned into a military hospital it was decided to hold a separate meeting for women students, and on Saturday, November 6th, he spoke in Somerville College Hall on the Students' Christian Federation. Miss Penrose, the Principal of Somerville College, took the chair, and introduced Dr. Mott to the meeting.

He began with a general survey of the extent and work of the Federation, and showed how it included representatives of about forty nationalities and all Christian Churches. He gave his impressions of the German Student Movement, which he had just returned from visiting, and said that, while the German students are as convinced as the English that their cause is a just one, and all fighting in that belief, they still feel themselves united in a bond of fellowship with English and French students—one of the very few international bonds still existing. He showed of what great value this link between the belligerent nations may be when the time of settlement comes and national feeling will still be very bitter.

He acknowledged that the general outlook and the religious outlook both seem dark ; and that the war will produce innumerable doubts and difficulties, especially in the mission-field. However, he urged students not to be despondent, but to think of all that they may do by work, and especially by prayer, to restore a feeling of Christian fellowship among the various European nations after the war.

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LADY MARGARET HALL. BOAT CLUB.—Boat Committee for this year :Sculling : M. Lewis, E. Williams, I. McColl.

Canoeing M. Lewis, J. Flemming. R. Welsford. Punting : M. Lewis, A. Wodehouse, D. Home. The following have qualified :—Sculling Captains : B. Hales, M. Levett, J. M. Knight half-captain B. Turton. Punting Captain : J. Flemming. Canoeing Captain M. Swann.—M. LEWIS (Boat Secretary). :

MRS. CREIGHTON'S LECTURE. On Wednesday, November 25th, Mrs. Creighton gave a most interesting lecture on ' Women and the War.' She said that women. were no different from the whole mass of non-combatants, except that they were greater in number. Therefore it was their duty to keep alive a spirit of good-feeling between England and Germany after the war. They could stir up the nation's patriotism, and they could think—a thing for which only non-combatants have time.

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November 6th the 1st XI defeated the Etceteras (8 goals to 5), and on November 7th lost to a mixed team of Dons, Old Students and Graduates (3 goals to 4). The 2nd XI has not yet been arranged. The 1st XI is as follows : Goal, P. K. Bowes ; Backs, *E. Malleson and M. Upjohn ; half-backs, U. Hills, E. Cole-Baker and G. Milvain ; forwards, *J. Flemming, *S. Bryan-Brown, J. Fry, M. Pearse and *K. Thomas. * Denotes colours.

TENNIS MATCHES.—June 9th, v. Oxford High School (three couples); result, eight matches to one. June i6th, v. Miss Clarke's Six ; result, six matches to three. June 23rd, v. Westfield College (one couple); result, one set to three.

HALL DEBATE (President—Miss HoRNE ; Secretary—Miss CAVE; Whips—Miss ARKWRIGHT and MISS FLEMMING).—The first meeting of the Term was a ' Sharp Practice,' where the following motions were discussed That this House wishes it were living in prehistoric times ' ; That the arrogance of the Third and Fourth Years is to be deplored.' This arrogance was doubtless responsible for the extreme diffidence of the First Year, who failed to give the House the benefit of their opinions. Both motions were lost, after heated discussion.

Three debates have been held this Term. The first was on Thursday, October 29th, when the motion was : That the theory of Balance of Power is a menace to the peace of Europe.' The Hon. Proposer, Miss Malleson, and the Hon. Opposer, Miss Jamison, regarded the subject from such very different points of view that discussion became rather involved. The extravagance of the Hon. Proposer, although most eloquently expressed, alienated a large number of her more sober-minded supporters, and the motion was lost.

On Tuesday, November Toth, the motion was, ' That this House deplores the demand, created by the war, for the greater specialized training of women.' The First Year, having acquired confidence at the first debate, provided both the Hon. Proposer, Miss Watkins, and the Hon. Opposer, Miss Cole-Baker. Both speeches were exceptionally well delivered, and many more experienced members might take a lesson from the confidence and lucidity of the speakers. Miss Watkins was specially successful in the arrangement of her argument : Miss Cole-Baker, although rather less constructive, was admirably unhampered by her notes. Public Discussion tended towards a reprehensible flippancy. Members are very averse to making speeches of more than half a minutes' duration, and the House is badly in need of speakers who will take the trouble to arrange their ideas before they attend, and produce at least three consecutive remarks on the subject.

The last debate of Term is on Tuesday, Novem-ber 24th, on the motion : That consistency is a doubtful virtue.' Hon. Proposer, Miss Arkwright ; Hon. Opposer, Miss Bryan-Brown.

ESSAY CLUB (President—M. V. NuGENT).--Two papers have been read this Term, on Wednesday, October i4th, and November 11th, by Miss K. M. Thomas, on Utopia,' and by Miss M. Chambers, on William Blake.'

NEW STUDENTS. S. E. Abram, The Abbey School, Reading.

E. M. Bradshaw, Packwood Haugh, Warwickshire.

E. R. Cole-Baker, Portsmouth High School.

K. A. Edwards, Llandaff College.

J. Fry, Church of England College, Edgbaston.

E. U. Hills, Cheltenham Ladies' College.

M. C. Huckett, St. George's, Harpenden.

E. 0. Ivelaw Chapman, Cheltenham High School.

M. A. W. Pearse, Edgbaston High School.

D. S. Ramage, St. George's, Edinburgh.

D. M. Rottenschweiler, Marple High School.

M. Rudd, Winchester High School.

K. M. Shepherd, St. Audrey's, Hayling Island.

M. E. Smith, Leamington High School.

F. Spikes, Queen Anne's School, Caversham.

A. D. B. Stallard-Penoyre, Queen Margaret's School, Scarborough.

G. E. G. Watkins, Durham High School.

G. E. Webb, Bournemouth High School.

E. I. Whitehead, Francis Holland School, Baker Street.

SOMERVILLE COLLEGE. This year has witnessed the death of Miss Shaw-Lefevre, Principal of the College 18791889, and one of its warmest supporters and friends. Those who knew Miss Lefevre's work personally are best qualified to speak of it, and they will best be able to convey to later generations the loss the College has sustained.

It seems a long time since the Ball, which took place in Commemoration Week, on June 22nd.

In spite of a little rain at the beginning of the evening, it was a great success.

We were unfortunate at the beginning of the Term in the absence of the Vice-Principal, who had hardly recovered from her accident in the summer. We hope the vacation will complete her recovery.

A number of people came back at the beginning of the Term with tales of exciting adventures during the vacation. The Principal had an event, ful journey home from Switzerland. Miss Walton and Miss Phillpotts, Lady Carlisle Resear:h

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Fellow, were in Iceland, and have a store of excellent. anecdotes.

Miss E. C. Jones, Mary Somerville Research Fellow, who is at present collating manuscripts to obtain a good text of the Brut of Wace, feared at first that her work would suffer seriously owing to the war, as she had hoped to work at manuscripts in Munich and Vienna. At present, however, she has enough material in England to con, tinue her work. Miss Jones illustrated her methods of work by the story of Saint Corentin in her interesting speech at the Fellowship Meeting on November z tth.

Miss Czaplicka is in Siberia on the Yenesi River, researching into the customs of the Ostjak and Timgusie tribes, and hopes to go on with her work in spite of the war.

Dr. Maude went out to Antwerp on September 7th, and there served for four weeks with the British Field Hospital, under the Belgian Red Cross. Her time was spent partly in the base hospital in Antwerp and partly in field work at the front, in the latter case often under fire. The whole staff continued work during the bombardment up to 4 p.m. on October 8th. They were then ordered to leave, and took all their wounded in motor omnibuses to Bruges, pursued through the night by the Germans. From Bruges they were driven to Ostend, and from there brought all their patients to England. Ten days later, on October 26th, Dr. Maude left for Calais to serve with another voluntary hospital, and is acting temporarily as aniesthetist in Major Steadman's R.A.M.C. hospital at Calais.

On November i4th the Principal and Staff were at home to the Belgians in Oxford, and students were invited to meet them. After tea, there was Morris and country dancing, and we sang the Belgian National Anthem and God Save the King at the end. It was a real pleasure to everyone to have such an opportunity of meeting so many of the nation's distinguished guests. '

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season. The standard of play, however, has improved considerably during the Term, Miss Cox came down to coach us, and gave us good practice in passing, dribbling, and shooting. Since her coaching, the speed of the Eleven has increased. First Eleven matches—v. Freshers, won (9-3) v. Reading University, won (3-2), v.

Royal Holloway College, lost (6—o), v. Bedford Physical Training College, draw (z—t), v. Old Students, won (8-0, v. Oxford High School, won (6-2). Second Eleven matches—v. Oxford High School, won (7-6). Third Eleven matches —v. Cherwell Hall, lost (zo—I), v. Etceteras II, draw (3-3).

ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—Many new members have joined this Term, and the Society is in a very flourishing condition. On October 31st an expedition, twenty-five strong, went to Dorchester, where they were conducted round the Abbey Church. The afternoon was a great success, and everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. —T wo outside lectures have been given this Term in connection with the society. The first, on November zzth, by Professor Doutrepont, of Louvain, dealt with the history of Belgian literature and its development at the present time. The lecture was delivered in French, and was followed with keen interest by a large audience. On November loth Miss Phillpotts, Lady Carlisle Research Fellow of Somerville College, spoke on the Elder Edda and Icelandic Saga, a little known subject, in which she interested everybody. Owing to the great press of engagements this Term, the circles are finding some difficulty in arranging their meetings, but it is hoped that each will have managed to hold at least one by the end of Term.

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BOAT CLUB (President--C. W. S. ADAMS Secretary—D. PHILLIPS ; Treasurer—O. GRAHAM).

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—In spite of the scarcity of Captains at the beginning of Term, the Club has made quite good progress, chiefly owing to the energetic cooperation of the Senior Common Room in coaching boats. As two new Captains, G. Murray and G. Hill, have been made, and the First Year shows promise, we hope that better days are in store for the Club.

HOCKEY CLUB (Captain— I. D. BRYAN ; Vice.

Captain — D. PHILLIPS Secretary — G. HILL Treasurer—M. CHUBB).—We have unfortunately ;

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PARLIAMENT.—Parliament has been prorogued for this Term as, owing to the war, party questions are not being discussed.

WAR AND PEACE SOCIETY. — The women's branch of the War and Peace Society is in a very flourishing condition as the Treasurer of the Oxford Society put it, we men are now the poor relations.' Many new members have joined this Term, owing largely to the fact that we were able to persuade Prof. Vinogradoff to come and speak to us about Russia.' He gave us a most illuminating talk about the present condition and future prospects of the great ally who is such an unknown quantity to most of us. On November 26th Miss Chubb will read a paper on Alliances.'

No other big meetings have been held owing to the fortnightly lectures on the war, but it is hoped that early next Term some distinguished visitor may come and talk to us about the terms of the settlement or some allied topic. ;

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I. M. Ackers, Cheltenham Ladies' College.

J. M. Baker, Kent College, Folkestone.

M. M. Barber, Blackheath High School.

M. G. Bedford, Bedales School.

V. M. Brittain, St. Monica's School, Kingswood, Epsom.

F. M. Campbell, North London Collegiate School.

N. H. Chambers, Manchester University.

M. M. Curtis, Girton College, Cambridge.

M. Ellis-Fermor, Bedford College, London.

M. Ganz, Swansea High School.

K. M. Gardiner, Private Tuition.

D. E. Grayfoot, North London Collegiate School.

T. C. Gurney, James Allen's Girls' School, East Dulwich Grove, S.E. A. Hansen, Melbourne University.

H. M. Heaton, Edgbaston High School.

L. E. Hill, Girton College, Cambridge.

V. L. M. Hodgson, Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, South Africa.

H. N. Hughes, Winchester School for Girls.

A. F. Jones, VVimbledon High School.

M. M. Kennedy, St. George's School, Edinburgh.

T. J. L'E. Langdale-Smith, Private Tuition.

M. G. Lewis, Barry County School.

M. D. Niven, Aberdeen University.

M. W. Philp, Cheltenham Ladies' College.

A. Priestman, Girls' Grammar School, Bradford.

H. E. Ryland, Roedean School.

F. T. Schenzinger, County Secondary School, Kentish Town.

N. Scouloudi, Private Tuition, R. J. Skilbeck, St. Mary's College, Lancaster Gate, W. D. P. Townshend, Cheltenham Ladies' College.

K. F. Watson, Froqual School, Hampstead.

E. A. Willey, Central Secondary School, Sheffield.

K. G. Wood, St. Columba's School, Kitmacolm, L. M. Wood, The Downs School, Seaford.

ST. HILDA'S HALL. TWENTY-FIRS• BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS. —The

Hall came of age this Term, and celebrated the attainment of its majority on Saturday, October 3i st. A large number of old students were able to come up for the week-end, and we were glad to hear the details of the Hall's new constitution— the Council's birthday present—from Mr. Armstrong and Miss Hayes Robinson, in their speeches after the birthday luncheon.

It was felt that, under present circumstances, we had little heart for any great festivities, :Ind so the larger entertainment arranged last Term was abandoned in favour of a short and informal musical evening in the drawing-room.

On Sunday a Hall service was held in chapel, and an address was given by the Principal of St. Edmund Hall, in which he gave us the gist of Bishop Stubbs' address on the opening of the Hall

in 1893. In the evening Miss Andrews talked to us for a little about Miss Beale, and read to us her first message to the Hall.

The Hall has to express its thanks very heartily for various gifts, for a silver teapot from Miss Burrows, for a sundial from the members of the Senior Common Room, for a gift of plate for the high table from Mrs. Wells, for a gift (as yet unspecified) from old students, and for a cabinet for the Hall from present students.

BOAT CLUB.—The Club is in a very flourishing condition. A good proportion of the First Year have joined, and show great keenness. Many of them have already made great progress in both sculling and punting. The Four continues to go out on an average twice a week. Qualified this Term : Boat Captain—Miss Jennings ; Punt Captain — Miss Hay ; Boat Half-Captain — Miss Shufeldt ; Canoe Captain—Miss Hughes.

HOCKEY CLUB (Captain—H. G. WALKER ; ViceCaptain—H. HENKEL ; Secretary—I. BisHoP).—

Our Hockey Club this season is suffering considerably from the fact that there are only twenty members, so that we cannot have a and Eleven, and in practices we always have to play with short sides. Luckily these few members are all keen, and usually turn up regularly to practices, but it is a great pity that more people cannot find time to play. The strongest part of the team this year is decidedly the defence. There is plenty of good tackling and steadiness, though sometimes harder clearing is needed, and there is a tendency to lose the ball by not stopping it before hitting.

The left back is a most reliable player and does her full share of work. The centre-half plays a good sound game and tackles well; she is an extremely useful member of the team and will be greatly missed next Term. The forwards are good individual players, but lack pace through muddling and bad passing. There is also need of much harder shooting in the circle, as at present the right-inner is the only one who is successful in this respect. Team : E. Grantham ; *H. S. Walker, *I. Bishop ; L. Howell, *H. Henkel, M. Verini ; A. M. Crook, *E. 0. Parry, H. Hughes, P. Shufeldt, G. Pocock. * Colours.

I. Bishop, H. Henkel and G. Pocock have been playing regularly in the United practices.

Matches played : October t2th, v. Freshers (won, 3—o); November 2nd, v. New College Choir Boys (lost, 1-3); November 7th, v. Milham Ford School (won, 3—o); November t4th, v. Etceteras (won, 2-0) ; November 16th, v. St. Hugh's College (lost, I-5).

ART CLUB (President—MISS PARRY ; Secretary—Miss CRICHTON).—The subject to be studies

during the Michaelmas Term is ' Old Furniture.'

On Thursday, November ppth, the first meeting of the Art Club was held in the President's room.

THE FRITILLARY. The history of furniture was traced from the Elizabethan, through the Jacobean, Queen Anne and Chippendale periods. Discussion followed, and the meeting proved very interesting and instructive.

DEBATING SOCIETY (President — MISS THOMPSON Vice-President—Miss COATE ; Secretary— MISS CODD ; Hall Member—Miss JENNINGS).— ;

There have been only two debates so far this Term, and one week-end was filled by celebrating the coming-of-age of the Hall. The first was held on Friday, 16th October, the motion being, "That this war will certainly result in an improvement in the position of women,' proposed by Miss Macrae, opposed by Miss Wilkinson. Quite a good discussion followed which resulted in the motion being carried by a majority of 16, though perhaps the wish was father to the thought with many of the supporters of the motion. The second debate was held on Friday, i3th November, and was a Sharp Practice. The Hall, it must be admitted, was not excessively eloquent, but it is cheering to find decided speaking abilities in several members of the First Year.

LITERARY SOCIETY (President—Miss CODD ; Secretary—Miss HAY).—A business meeting and three other meetings have been held this Term.

Lady Gregory's Grania was read under difficulties, only one copy of the play being present ; fortunately there are only three parts. The Workhouse Ward,' Hyacinth Halvey,' Spreading the News,' and The Jackdaw were read at the two subsequent meetings, under slightly more favourable conditions, reinforcements of books arriving.

At the last meeting of the Term, Miss Hay wiil read a paper on Lady Gregory.' '

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RIFLE CLUB (Captain—Miss PARRY Vice-Captain—Miss SCHUFELDT).—The Rifle Club has received a great impetus this Term as a result of the war. There are now some twenty-five members in the Club, and one practice is held weekly.

The First Year are very enthusiastic, and some of them show promise of becoming good shots.

Owing to unavoidable circumstances, the Rifle Cup was not competed for last Term, so the competition for the best shot in the Hall will take place during the last week of Term. A Freshers' Competition has also been arranged, when a medal will be given for the highest score. It is hoped next Term to start a College Eight, which will compete with other clubs. ;

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Armstrong, Margaret, Cheltenham Ladies' College.

Dacombe, Rose, Bournemouth High School.

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Fitzgerald, Cecil, Royal School, Bath.

Friedeberg, Ruth, Belvedere School, Liverpool (G. P. D. S. T. ).

Fetherstonehaugh-Frampton, Millicent, St. Mary's College, Paddington.

Grant, Lily, University College, Cardiff.

Howell, Lorna, Putney Hill School and Cheltenham Ladies' College (G. P. D. S. T. ).

Hughes, Helen, Oakhill House, Hampstead.

Jefferson, Madg e, St. Anne's School, Abbott's Bromley.

Johnson, May, Oxford High School.

Kempthorne, Katharine, St. Stephen's High School, Clewer, and St. Mary's College, Paddington.

Leys, Helen, Private Tuition.

Lloyd, Celia, Princess Helene College, Ealing.

Nichols, Muriel, Hamilton House, Tonbridge.

Pocock, Grace, Cheltenham Ladies' College.

Verini, Marguerite, Queen Margaret's School, Scarborough, and C.L.C. Watts, Amy, Maharajah's College, Trivandrum.

Woodthorpe, Ruth, Belvedere School, Liverpool (G. P. D. S. T. ).

ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE. This Term, in spite of the war, we are more numerous than ever, and a new House has been opened in Bradmore Road which accommodates ten students. Next year we very much hope to be all together in our new College. We are glad that the war has not prevented building operations, and we are all watching with interest the progress that is being visibly made. It is with great pleasure that we welcome Miss Skipworth, of Lady Margaret Hall, among us this Term She is by no means• a stranger to us at St. Hugh's, and we are very glad to have her as a member of our Senior Common Room. The various college societies have given way to knitting and sewing parties, but otherwise life has gone on much as usual, in spite of the altered conditions of the University brought about by the war.—J. C. MURRAY, Senior Student.

BOAT CLUB (President—Miss THOMAS ; Captain—Miss LEwis ; Secretary—MISS HOLLAND).

—At the qualifications held at the end of last Term, the following were passed Punting— Captain, Miss Webb ; Half-Captains, Misses Owen, Hall, Evans, Brown. Canoeing—Captains, Misses Gardner, Webb, Holland, Beamcs. s Buller ; Half-Captain, Sculling—Captain, Mis Miss Potter. Miss Parrett has been awarded her badge for sculling. The weather has been exceptionally good this Term for both punting and canoeing, and, in consequence, the sculling has not received quite so much• attention as is usual :

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in the winter Terms. The Half-Captains in both punting and sculling might have taken more advantage of their privileges—and the weather !

—as what they need now is practice, rather than coaching, and it is difficult for them to obtain this if they are always in boats with members who are learning for the first time. Considering what a large First Year we have this Term, comparatively few new members have joined the Boat Club. Three or four, however, show promise and keenness, and some have been able to try for their Half-Captain test.

HOCKEY CLUB (Captain—E. J. GLENDAY ; ViceCaptain—O. M. Porrs ; Secretary—E. NICHOLAS).

—The 1st Eleven is not yet decided. Three of last year's members have gone down, and Miss Potts and Miss Lewis are prevented by doctor's orders from playing. As the whole Club has only twenty-four members, it is proving difficult to fill up the vacancies and to provide good reserves.

At present the forwards are suffering from a distinct lack of dash, also they are very seldom free and show little judgment in passing individually they are promising, and ought to make a good line; the inners and centre need to make better use of their opportunities, more especially in the circle. The halves and backs are slow and do not mark well in the circle ; and the halves do not back up well, but are very energetic ; in the field their marking is much better. Both the 1st and 2nd Eleven have benefited by their weekly practice with L.M.H. Misses Glenday, Horne, Nicholas and Holland have played regularly in United practices, and Misses Potts, Hall and Truman from time to time. The 1st Eleven at present is as follows :—Forwards, Misses Hall, *Nicholas, Draper, *Holland, *Perham ; halves, Misses Brown, *Horne, *Glenday ; backs, Misses *Truman and Farrow goal, *Miss Giles. Results of matches :—October 17th, v. Freshers (won. I 1-7); October 3ist, Hall and House v.

Hostel and Bradmore Road (Hostel and Bradmore Road won by 3-2). First Eleven November 7th, v. Reading University (lost, o-4) November i4th, v. Worcester (lost, o-3) November 16th, v. St. Hilda's (won, 5—I). Second Eleven November 13th, v. Etceteras znd Eleven (lost, 3-5). '

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Term. The meetings take the form of discussions on the influence of the Napoleonic Wars on French literature. The attendance at the meetings have been very small, and the discussions would be more interesting if all the members would make an effort to attend.

PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. — The Philosophical Society has only met three times this Term, owing to the lectures on the war, which have taken its place in every alternate week. During the past year the Society had rather confined itself to a study of ancient philosophy. This Term, however, with the exception of one paper in which Miss Jourdain sketched the history of the manuscripts of the Poetics of Aristotle, and showed the importance of the Arabic transcript as an aid to the interpretation of the existing Paris manuscript, we have grappled with more modern subjects. At the other meetings Miss Jourdain read papers on Nietzsche and the doctrine of Force, and Treitschke and the doctrine of Exclusive Nationalism. We are much looking forward to Mr. Toynbee's lecture on Racial Questions in Europe.

SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY.—The Shakespeare Society has met three times this Term. The members, stirred, I suppose, by warlike feelings, elected to read Richard III.' A good number of people have joined, and among them there are some good readers.—A. B. BULLER (President).

SHARP PRACTICE SOCIETY (President—O. M. POTTS Secretary—M. G. LEWIS Up-and-Down Girl—G. B. CLARKE).—Although only three meetings have been held so far this Term, debates have been very well attended. The first two were genuine sharp practices, and were spent in discussing whether meat-eating was a relic of a bygone age and whether man is made by his circumstances. The last debate was more serious in character, and the speakers were chosen beforehand. The motion before the House was, That trial by combat between England and Germany was not inevitable,' proposed by Miss Gardner, opposed by Miss Ingram, both of whom are to be congratulated on their speeches. The Society has lost many of its keenest members, but those who have joined this Term have already shown signs of being valuable members in the future. The standard of excellence reached by those who speak in public discussion is not as yet very high, most speeches being somewhat scrappy. This does not apply to the last debate, which is one of the best which has been held during the last few years. ;

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THE FRITILLARY. ing the soldiers and sailors in a practical way, and, as a result, at the present moment nearly every member of the Society is engaged in doing this. One parcel has already been sent to the znd Lincolnshire Regiment, and news has just come that it arrived safely and was warmly appreciated by the men. We hope to send another parcel before the end of Term. We have had two interesting meetings—one in connection with the College Society, addressed by Miss Jourdain ; and another, open to all 0.W.S.S. members at L.M.H., at which Miss Hadow spoke. The members present at the meeting were so inspired by the appeal which she made for toys that they collected a large number, which we are glad to hear are to be used to adorn a Christmas Tree, and we only hope that the children will enjoy the toys as much as we did in giving them. M. J. HARFORD (President).

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NEW STUDENTS.

R. E. Birtwell, Ladies' College, Durban. ol, Newcastle, D. Boothby, Orme Girls' Scho Staffordshire.

N. C. Carter, City of London School.

M. N. Davies-Colley, Withington Girls' School.

G. Draper, Lincoln High School.

W. J. Forrest, Southlands School, Exmouth.

D. Keble, Queen Margaret's School, Scarborough.

M. Lewin, Central Newcastle High School.

H. H. Macdonald, Bournemouth High School.

M. Moore, Farlington Hiuse, Hayward's. Heath.

D. R. Pattison, St. Margaret's School, Bushey.

M. F. Perham (Scholar), St. Anne's School, Abbots Bromley.

P. M. Price, Pate's Grammar School, Cheltenham.

A. D. Rountree, St. Elphin's School, Darley Dale.

F. S. Savory, Clifton High School.

S. M. Sayer, Down School, Seaford, Sussex.

J. M. Smith, Llanelly Girls' County School.

V. A. G. G. Smith, St. Anne's School, Abbot's Bromley.

OXFORD HOME STUDENTS. The difficulties of writing an account of what we have done in the Term are manifold, as necessarily because of the war our doings have been rather of the negative order. There has been no Home Students' dance, but several afternoon socials have taken place in the Common Room and been largely attended, the object being that people should bring their knitting, which was done by a great many, and a considerable amount of work has been accomplished.

Last Term, at Mrs. Johnson's party, on June i8th, the Home Students' Dramatic Society acted Scenes from Nicholas Nickleby.' '

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The representation was al fresco, taking place in Mrs. Johns•n's garden, with the house as a background, shut in by the garden wall, which last played an important part in the proceedings.

The scene represented was that of the courtship played by the mad old gentleman on Mrs. Nickleby. and his extremely comic methods of making love in throwing cucumbers over the garden wall and later descending by the chimney to the abode of his lady love. ' Mrs. Nickleby ' was taken by Miss Elaine Buchanan, who acted the part with great coquettishness, and seemed for the moment a living personification of that very charming old, lady.

Nicholas ' was Miss Atkins ; the mad old gentleman, Miss M. Fox ; the keeper was Miss R. Butler ; Frank ' was taken by Miss Battersby Harford, Kate Nickleby by Miss Vera Douie.

The incident was very well portrayed, the fact of having a real garden wall over which to throw the cucumbers adding greatly to the general amusement. The ' mad old gentleman ' was intensely realistic, and so were the characters of Frank ' and Kate Nickleby.' Nicholas ' was also a most dutiful son. The dresses being of the period of the novel added greatly to the charm of the play, and the characters were very clever likenesses of the original people depicted in Dickens. '

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OLD STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION.—Instead of the usual Gaude, this Society confined itself this year to a purely business meeting, which took place on Saturday, October 31st, at the Lodgings, Jesus College, by kind invitation of Miss Rhys.

The annual report and statement of accounts were read end passed, and other short business transacted. Miss Jenkin was elected Secretary for one year, in place of Mrs. Ainley Walker, whose absence through illness the Society much deplores.

BOAT CLUB (President—Miss BUTLER ; Secretary -- MISS COLLIER Treasurer — MISS PURGOLD).—The professional coachings in sculling were much appreciated, and many members show a marked improvement in style. The beginners have been very promising, and we hope to have more qualified members before the end of the Term. ;

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ATKINS).— Several new members have joined the Tennis Club this Term, one of whom, Miss Oakley Hill, has passed the central test. Unfortunately there was some difficulty in obtaining a court at the beginning of Term, but one has now been secured at L.M.H. for Tuesdays in Term.

DRAMATIC SOCIETY.—By kind invitation of Miss Butler, the Society held its first meeting this Term (on Tuesday, November i7th), at 14 Norham Gardens. The play chosen was Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion.' Miss Egerton took the part of Captain Brassbound,' and Miss Sybil Lomax that of Lady Cicely Waynfleet.' The various dialects were skilfully managed. Miss Jenkin, as the Scotch missionary, and Miss Minora Fox as the Cockney, being particularly good. The next meeting has been fixed for Thursday, November 25th, but the play has not yet been finally decided upon. The Society intend to read Gringoire in French on Thursday, November 26th. '

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Gladys H. Atchison (Sister Mary Angelica), Order of the Holy Child, Mayfield.

Aline Brylinska, University of Lausanne.

Joyce E. Conway, St. Leonard's School, St. Andrews.

Muriel Cranfield, Royal Masonic Institution for Girls.

Edith Cross, London School of Economics.

Kate Crawshaw, B.A., Victoria University, Manchester.

Ethel Davies, College des Filles, NeUchatel.

Enid Derham, B.A., University of Melbourne.

Lilian K. E. Dunch, Girton College.

Lalage N. Gaunt, University of Manchester.

Marie V. Gebauerova, University of Prague.

Ethel A. Gloria, University of Madras.

May C. Gray, Peace Institute, Raleigh, N.C., U.S.A. Naomi M. Haldane, Oxford Preparatory School. ., Glasgow University.

Joan D. Hughes, M.A Leora E. Klahr, B.Sc., University of Wisconsin, U.S.A. Margaret A. James, Redland High School, Bristol.

Katharine F. Liddell, Bryn Mawr College, U.S.A. Sybil M. Lys, Mortimer House, Clifton.

Dorothy A. May, University of Jena.

Amphilis T. Middlemore, Somerville College.

Beatrice E. Miles, B.Sc., University of London May Newsam, Queen's College, Barbados.

Henrietta M. Oakley Hill, Bedford High School.

Frances. A. D. Petersen, Private School, Sandgate.

Enrichetta D. Powell, Western College for Women, Oxford, U.S.A. Ferdinanda E. W. Reed, Radcliffe College, Mass., U.S.A. Helena Repsch, Warsaw Gymnasium.

Augusta M. E. Scott, Ladies' College, Cheltenham.

Rosalind G. Smith, Girton College.

Dorothy 0. Taylor (Sister Mary Dominica), Order of the Holy Child.

Mary G. Webster, St. Margaret's School, Bushey.

OLD STUDENTS RETURNED.

Ethel M. Allen.

PARKER AND CO., OXFORD.

Susannah L. Clarke.