Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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THE BEANKSOME SLOGAN. 5 THE BRANKSOME SLOGAN Editor-in-Chief— Jean MacTavish. Editors— Rosalind Morley, Elizabeth McWhinney. Business Manager— Muriel Robertson. Assistant Business Manager— Stella Fleming. Vol. II. CHRISTMAS, 1910. No. i. EDITORIALS The old order changeth, yielding place to new. It was some such thought as this that was in our mind one fall morning as we walked along Bloor Street and saw great heaps of brick and debris where once had stood that well-known seat of learning, Branksome Hall. Of course we had known that it was to be demolished, and yet one couldnH help feeling a pang at the thought of alien hands ruthlessly pulling to pieces, brick by brick, that building which had seen so many of the studies and pastimes, joys and sorrows, of the Branksome girls. It seemed a desecration; someway one could not help thinking of the number of girls who had turned in at that gate and passed down the walk to the little red schoolhouse at the back. Some of them, joy- ful and care-free, had entered gaily ; some of them a trifle loiteringly, with worried face and the weight of unprepared lessons on their consciences. They probably belonged to the matriculation class, and to them school-life was by no means a bed of roses. And, again, glancing back over the lawns to the edge of the Eavine, one saw great, ugly piles of dirt where the.y had been wont to wander arm in arm at recess, hastily conning over a poorly prepared French or History les - son, or holding councils-of-war, the weighty subject under discussion probably being How to learn the least possible amount of Virgil and yet pass the Latin examination. Ten lines before and after the similes and the similes themselves are really all that is needed is a well-remembered remark of those painful days. This, alas, did not prove any too true, as some of us know to our cost. But, of course, these doubtful methods of preparation are a thing of the past, and the matriculants of to-day attack their Aeneid with a desire and purpose to know thoroughly all of it there is to be known, so that it