Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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Page six The Branksome Slogan (School Psalm for the Jubilee Year) 1. I will extol thee, my God, 0 King; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever. 2. Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. 3. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised ; and his greatness is unsearchable. 4. One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. 5. I will speak of the glorious honor of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works. 6. And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness. 7. They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness. 8. The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. 9. The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. 10. All thy works shall praise thee, 0 Lord; and thy saints shall bless thee. 11. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power ; 12. To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. 13. Thy kingdom is an everlasting king- dom, and thy dominion endureth through- out all generations. 14. The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down. 15. The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due sea- son. I 16. Thou openest thine hand, and satis- fiest the desire of every living thing. 17. The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. 18. The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. 19. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and save them. 20. The Lord preserveth all them that love him : but all the wicked will he destroy. 21. My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

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MISS MARGARET TAYLOR SCOTT First Principal of Branksome Hall

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Jubilee Number, 1953 Page seven In discussing Branksome ' s Jubilee Year, one is inclined to let the phrase roll gUbly off the tongue without stopping to consider what the past fifty years have really meant to the school. First of all, there has been the school ' s tremendous growth — in enrollment, from approximately seventy-five girls to the present over five hundred pupils ; in housing, from a rented building to sixty acres of land and nine buildings. New Classrooms, playing courts and grounds have been added over the years ; radical changes have been made in the uniform ; new courses have been included; old courses have been extended or modified. Two world wars have strengthened Brank some ' s ties with Great Britain and the world — especially during the last war when almost two hundred students from the Old Land spent some time at our school. Yet more than mere physical growth, the fine spirit established by the girls in the early years has grown year by year so that Branksomites to-day have fifty years of fine traditions and achievements they can look back upon with great pride. They too have a sense of unity, and of awareness that Branksome stands not only for schoolwork, but also for whatsoever things are true, honest, just and pure . With these ideals, Branksome, its roots firmly planted in the past, can face the future with faith and confidence. May Branksome girls fifty years from now be able to celebrate their school ' s hundredth anniversary as proudly and joyfully as we in 1953 celebrate this. The Jubilee Year. THE EDITOR