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6 THE BKANKSOME SLOGAN. is not the less effectual because it works insensibly. The appositeness of these thoughts warrant the quotations. It is hoped by the hearty co-operation of the Alumnae of the school to make the paper bright, interesting, and stimulating. With such noble objects in view, we may well wish the Executive God-speed in. their undertaking. EDITORIAL Our Alumnae Association is scarcely two years old, and has ther e- fore few traditions to bind its members in that circle of devotion which older schools may possess, but lacking neither enthusiasm nor love of Alma Mater, it hastens to correct its chief fault and gather strength as its gains a respectable age. Youth is almost a reproach in 8, club ; the united hands are untried and the enthusiasm and interest which have organized must still be proven of the heart. The steady and concentrated efforts of all the Alumnae are needed to establish worthy precedents and make the Association a credit to the principles and training of its s chool. We therefore wish to impress our readers with their individual responsibility, which sounds like preaching, but we do need the interest, no matter how little, so long as it is sincere and to be depended upon, of every girl in the meetings and the bi-annual publication which they have boldly undertaken. The college paper is rather time-worn, and outsiders may think it dull, but it is meant to convey to the widely scattered Branksomites bits of news, gossips and greetings without which out-of-town Alumnae might lose connection not only with the school, but with troops of old companions whose faces will be all the brighter when they meet by chance all through their lives. Think of the number of people who drop out of mind, not from lack of interest in them, or by them, but from lack of a binding tie. When the gathering cry of Branksome is sounded, friendships may be renewed and school days harked back to lovingly. This is the first purpose The Slogan serves, but perhaps among us there is genius hidden which, in the effort of publication, will out. Don ' t you think it worth while searching for literary and executive
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THE BEANKSOME SLOGAN. 5 THE BRANKSOME SLOGAN Vol. I. CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 1909. No. i. A FOREWORD The decision of the Executive of the Alumnae of Branksome Hall to publish a semi-annual paper has been favorably received by the members, and cordial support has been promised. It is to be hoped that the undertaking may serve important purposes, and well reward those who share the labor and responsibility. A bond of sympathy and mutual helpfulness always exists among fellow-students, which grows stronger when school days are over, days around which, as the years go by, cluster so many pleasant memories, days when life-long friendships are formed. The paper is to serve as a medium of communication among the widely scattered members of the Alumnae, strengthening the bond to their Alma Mater, bringing them into touch with each other, giving opportunities of encourage- ment and assistance, enabling them to fulfil the divine command to S3rmpathize with each other in joy or sorrow. Let us hope and pray that many noble lives may find a record in its pages. Up to the close of school and college days, study has been directed by teachers and professors, and, as a rule, examinations have been an additional incentive. When these infiuences are no longer operative, reading too often becomes desultory, if not positively useless and frivolous. The Alumnae hope, by means of the paper, to assist in encouraging a judicious and systematic course of reading among the members, knowing that a taste for the best in literature once formed becomes a perennial source of happiness, that through good books we are placed in contact with the best society in every period of history, with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. It is hardly possible but that the character should take a higher and better tone from the constant habit of associating in thought with a class of thinkers, to say the least of it, above the average of humanity. It is morally impossible but that the manners should take a tins e of good breeding and civilization from having constantly before one ' s eyes the way in which the best-bred and the best-informed have talked and conducted themselves in their intercourse with each other. There is a gentle but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit, of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of one ' s character and conduct, which
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