Ruperts Land Girls School - Eagle Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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Rupert's Land College Magazine ' purpose, self-indulgence, and doubtful jokes and allusions? Remember, letter-writing is supremely a woman's art, and probably the strongest link between the members of a scat- tered family is the correspondence that a mother or sister keeps up with the absent, so get your pen into training for the years to come. As Anglo-Saxons, of earth's first blood, with titles mani- fold, we have a sacred trust in our great literature, the finest in the world. This great heritage has come to Canada for her to use and increase. You cannot read more than a limited number of books in your span of life. At least be sure that you have read the best, and make an effort to find out these and master them. A good book will remain your friend for- life, but if you seldom climb higher than the Adventures bf Mushie, as depicted by two or three of your favourite best- sellers, you will not only lose one of the purest enjoyments of life, but your thoughts and conversation will lose a great chance of inspiration to yourself and others. The little chitter- chatter around the School would be so much worthwhile if you knew and cared enough about books to discuss and argue about them among yourselves. And your friends at home would give you credit for taste and appreciation never before revealed. And Canada might some day become a nest of ,singing birds, such as England was nearly four hundred years ago, when the invention of printing had given to the world more books than had ever been seen, and the costliness of production limited them to great and worthy themes. And lastly, let the first ingredient in the quality, the fineness of character, for which we must strive, be loyalty. Loyalty to your home and family, to your School and friends, to your city and country, to your chosen rulers and your King, to your Church and your God. I fear that the spirit of our age has worn thin this steadfast and beautiful quality of soul. We criticize and analyze, we half obey or struggle against, we limit and restrict our devbtion to those with whom we live and work in the framework of modern life. Don't criticize your home to outsiders, or your fellow-workers to lookers-on, or your Church organization to non-members, nor overmuch to yourself. If you are not true to these, how can you be faithful to your country, or loyal to Him who claims our thoughts and words as well as our acts for His Great Crusade? May this School year, and every year, help us all to grow worthy of His call and finer and truer in obeying it. Your affectionate friend, EVA L. J ONES. 10

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Rupert's Land College Magazine working hours of that very morning, or how often they are postponed to a rosy, distant future. Each one of you would be very properly indignant if accused of not loving Canada, but does your love lead you to such practical results as writing well and spelling well, learning well and drilling well, thinking earnestly and speaking gently, all for Canada? Are the head, heart and hand which you promise to her service being trained and developed by your own patience and care, or merely by the constant driving of your teachers. Does your love for Canada ever make you give up amusements that clash with your work? - Girls naturally think a good deal, sometimes more than is wholesome, about their appearance and dress and the impres- sion that these make on others. These things are important, for they reveal your personality and express it. But if you stop at dress and appearance, as so many do, in a more or less futile attempt to imitate a droll little mannequin in Vogue, you have learnt only the A. B. C. of what girls and women have been compiling through the ages-the Manual of Charm. A shrill voice and careless pronunciation can kill the effect of your pretty dress and marcel wave in just one minute, as far as a trained ear and judgment are concerned. Nervous, rest- less movements, the betrayalon your face of your lack of in- terest in those to whom you are speaking, and the repetition of the empty slang phrase of the moment-all these reveal you at your worst, and no elaborate dressing hides their ugliness. They are just as displeasing as dirty fingernails, or faces plas- tered with pink and white calcimine-as outward, visible signs of a grace that is missing in you, the sense of refinement and beauty of soul. And the only charm that wears and lasts and shows itself in unfailing courtesy and good taste, the charm that draws friends and lovers in youth and worshippers in old age, springs from the heart. The rainbow colours of the diamond, the glow of the ruby, come from within, and are not lent to it by the stonecutter's labour and polish. Can you not sweeten and refine your voice and manners-your heart as well as your head--for Canada? She deserves the bestg can you give it? What are you reading, what are you writing, outside the schoolroom, for Canada? Do your letters, sent home and to your friends, show you at your best? Are they bright and well written, accurate and well expressed, written, in short, to please and interest those who receive them? More than one mother of my acquaintance has precious bundles, tied up, where the faded ink tells a happy, comical tale of ups and downs and a merry heart, that bring a smile or sigh to one's lips- in the reading. Are your letters worth tying up for the days to come, or do they tell a tale of selfish repining, lack of 9

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Rupeirtis Land College Magazine EDITORIAL NOTES The ninth number of the Magazine is published after a lapse of five years, owing to war conditions. During 1915-1916 the name of the College was changed to that of Rupert's Land Ladies' College, to avoid confusion with Havergal College, Toronto. A Ladies' Board now assists the Principal in the adminis- tration of the College. Since the close of the war the College has entered upon a fresh era of prosperity, as evidenced by the full attendance in the Day and Boarding School. ' This year has been marked by an unusual number of anniversaries. The Centenary of the Anglican Church in Rupert's Land was celebrated by a pageant designed by our Principal, and two of the Staff and some of the girls took part in it. The celebration of the Hudson's Bay Company's Pageant on the Red River' was witnessed by some of the girls. The unveiling of the Cenotaph was another noteworthy occasion. The health of the School has been unusually good. Confirmation classes were held throughout Lent by the Rev. W. Southam in Holy Trinity Schoolhouse. The Confirma- tion took place on Palm, Sunday. The School has sent contributions to the fund for the starving children of Europe and to the famine areas in China, as well as supplying their usual annual help to the Zenana Mission and the Hay River Mission. At the moment of going to press, preparations are in full swing for what promises to be a most successful entertainment, called the Matric. Moon- shine and for a bazaar convened by Miss Holditch, in aid of the Zenana Mission. The Editors beg to thank all contributors for their help in getting up the Magazine once again, and they hope that the future work of editing it will be lightened by the School Chronicler, a post which has just been created and is to be filled for the ensuing year by Priscilla McBride. 1 CHRONICLE, 1920-1921 May 3, 4 and 5--Red River Pageant in commemoration of the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670. May 23-Decoration Day Parade in memory of second North- West Uprising 118855. June 13-Cenotaph .unveiled and dedicated to the Glorious Dead, by the Women's Canadian Club. Prayers of dedication composed by Very Rev. Dean Coombes and by Miss Jones were recited. 11 -