Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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18 The Branksome Slogan possible winning or losing of the games, but the enjoyment and profit to be obtained from competing with girls whose methods of play may vary from our own. We will arrive at Glasgow on Thursday, July 12th, on the Duchess of AthoU . In Scotland we play two schools over a period of five days. On Sunday, July 15th, we are taking a picnic-lunch and spending the day at Old Branksome, where we are assured a pleasant time. We are leaving Edinburgh on the 17th of July and travelling via York to London, visiting nine girls ' schools. During this time, we are planning to spend a day at Eton and Oxford. Fortunately we shall attend the Prize Giving at Mary Datchelor Col- lege, London, and this promises to be most interesting as the Lord Mayor of London is to present the prizes. From London we continue to Paris, where we spend four days ; thence back ' to London and north to Liverpool, where we sail for home on the Montcalm . We arrive in Montreal on the 18th of August and will be in Toronto the next morning. There will be a party of fourteen girls, accompanied by Miss Read and Miss Smellie. We are all thrilled at the prospect of being able to take part in such an exciting adventure and hope to return with a wider knowledge of the ordinary routine of English school life, with a better understanding of English ideals and with a broadened outlook to help us in the solution of our own problems. We hope, too, that we may not only be recipients, but also have something to give in return for the generous hospitality which is promised to us. VIRGINIA PIERS MARGARET SORENSON

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Despite the fact that the first month of the new year had a Friday the thirteenth in it, we Branksomites have managed to put superstition aside, and, armed with the usual number of good resolutions, we have walked forth, undaunted, into an unknown future. The times are rushing forward, and forward we must go. As members of the generation which is to mould the future, few of us realize the grave responsibility which now rests on our young shoulders. Some of us sense a feeling of apprehension when we look ahead. What is it that we dread so ? War — a small word — but oh — so powerful and it becomes increasingly so as science develops more and more instruments of destruction. Our generation must learn how world peace can be maintained. We must practise deliberation, cool judgment, tolerance, and above all, do our part towards keeping up a friendly attitude with everyone. This year we think a step is being taken in this direction by our school in the plan to send abroad, for the first time in Canada ' s history, a group from a girls school to compete in games with the schools of England and Scotland. We expect to play basketball, tennis and to enter swimming, running and jumping meets. Our main thought in these competitions is not the 17

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The Branksome Slogan 19 Itinerary of the School Summer Tour July 5 — Leave Toronto for Mont- real. July 6 — Sail from Montreal via Duchess of Atholl . July 12 — Arrive Glasgow. July 13 — Trossachs. July 14 — St. Leonard ' s at St. An- drews. July 15— Visit Old Branksome— 50 miles south of Edinburgh. July 16 — Edinburgh — E dinb urgh Ladies ' College. July 17 — Train to London via York. Lunch at York and visit to cathedral. July 18 — Ashford School, Kent. July 19 — Benenden School, Kent. July 20 — Mary Datchelor School, London ( Prize - Giving) . Prizes presented by the Lord Mayor of London. July 21 — Rodean School. July 22 — London. July 23 — St. Paul ' s School, S treat ham School. July 24 — North London Collegiate. July 25 — Christ ' s Hospital School. July 26 — Cheltenham Ladies ' College. July 27 — Cheltenham. July 28— Malvern. July 29— Oxford. July 30 — London. July 31 — London, Windsor and Eton. Aug. 1 — London. Aug. 2 — London, Hampton Court. Aug. 3 — London, Aug. 4 — London. Aug. 5 — Paris — International Stu- dents ' Union. Aug. 6 — Paris. Aug. 7 — Paris. Aug. 8 — Paris. Aug. 9 — London. Aug. 10 — Sail from Liverpool via Montcalm . Aug. 18 — Arrive Montreal.