Havergal College - Magazine Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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Havergal College Magazine PRINCIPAL ' S LETTER Havergal College, Winnipeg, May 24th, 1910. My Dear Girls — We are adding to the portrait gallery of Havergal celebrities provided each year by our frontispiece, the picture of one of our earliest and best friends, the Vice-President of the College, Mr. E. L. Drewry. Old girls, as well as present pupils, will rejoice to see his familiar features and to read the little letter which accompanies them. His generous interest in us and in our work has been proved in countless ways ; his ready help and sympathy with all that will make the College more useful and inspiring is known to each one of us — and Prize Day would not be Prize Day without the kindly smile and gentle shafts of humour of our Vice-President. This year sees us rejoicing in the fulfilment of long-cherished hopes. The Wing, for which we have been waiting, with its fine Assembly Hall, and the new studio, class-rooms and music rooms, is an accomplished fact, and many possibilities of work and efforl lie before us. New privilege brings new responsibility, and a wider, broader School life should be the outcome of this widening of our borders. I like to think that in days to come, the memory of the Hall will bring back to you, not only the vision of Prize Day and the winners in their white dresses leading up to take their well- earned prizes, but of many an every day of pleasure and of profit : Shakesperean scenes well rendered, bright and clever gymnastic work, musical evenings, exhibitions of drawings from the studio, and lectures on subjects of lasting interest. We shall hope to wel- come on our platform many a visitor from the city itself, and from the East and the West, to give us new ideas, or help us better to ' understand the old ones. Yet, after all, these helps are like tonics — things we take to strengthen us and increase vitality — it is the daily food that sus- tains and nourishes life. What you think, and feel, and say, and do within School walls every day in the week is what is making you; the steady work, the brave attempt to correct some habit or weakness, the patient continuance in well-doing, the kind and cour- teous effort to help the weak and frightened, the brave refusal to join in what is unworthy and mean. All these are building up for you a character that will last for the rest of your life, firm and beautiful, strong and splendid as the polished corners of the Temple of which the Psalmist sang long ago. Perhaps you have not thought much yet about this character- building which goes on so silently every day, in School and out of it. You like a fine, large house to live in, and you enjoy the Hall now that it is finished. But you are not yet sure of the plan and the shape of the building of your own life, or whether you are 12

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Slabergal College J laga?tne Vol. III. MAY, 1910 No. 3 Redwood, May 1st, 1910. A request from Havergal for a few lines for the 1910 Magazine, is indeed a compliment. The question is, what to say; how to begin? In the College Calendars various references are made to the home life of the girls in the College. Two of these references in particular, have always strongly appealed to me, and I feel that I cannot do better than make them a prominent feature of my few remarks. The first, an extract from the Calendar of 1901, is as follows: — The great aim of the College will be, to provide a healthy life for the girls, developing and strengthening their characters, and thus helping them to lead useful and truly happy lives. The second, is an extract from the latest Calendar: — It is not enough, however, to aim at mental and physical de- velopment alone. Since the girl of to-day is the home-maker of to-morrow, the home life of the School must be such as to help her to grow in Christian ideals, in womanly sympathy, and in sound common sense. It is our endeavour to arouse in each girl who comes under our influence, a sense of earnest purpose, and of responsibility for the building up of her own life, and the larger life of the new nation of which she is a member. It is the fact of being, even though in but a small degree, part of the administration responsible for ideals and sentiments so marked and lofty, that has made my connection with Havergal so enjoyable, so happy and so inspiring. That unswerving devotion of the Principal, the staff and the officers, to the interests of the College, the intense loyalty of the scholars, and the splendid esprit de corps of the College as a whole forms a combination so far-reaching, and so forceful, that Havergal must now be considered an important factor in the educational life of the country. That the College may increasingly furnish that healthy home life, already referred to, and continue to grow in strength and influence for all that is good is my earnest hope. Sincerely yours, EDWARD L. DREWRY II

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Havergal College Magazine putting into it brick or marble, wood or stone, gold or silver or jewels, or imitations of all these. If so, do not allow another term or another week to pass without finding out, if you are able. The best time for building is in the morning and in the spring of the year, and the work will take us all our lives. You must have a Plan, and the best you can find is in an ancient Book which I hope every one of you study at home, and not only in Church and at School. Last winter, while the Wing was being built, the blue plan was never out of the foreman ' s hands; you could see it every day, worn and torn with frequent use. In your own Bible you will find the picture of a Life daily increasing in wis- dom and stature and growing, as ours must try to do, by prayer and faith and service, and by the grace of God, into a perfect man, the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. Xo other plan or pattern or design, believe me, can help you to build your life into a great and stately temple but this one. Among all your after-School memories of our Hall, it is my hope that the best will be of that quiet opening of the day ' s work, when we seek in prayer and praise and reading, new inspiration, new strength and new resolve for the work and effort of a new day. Only, Lord, in Thy dear love Fit us for perfect rest above, And help us this and every day To live more nearly as we pray. With every good wish to all our present and past Haver- galians, Your sincere friend, Eva L. Jones. EDITOR ' S NOTES. As three years have passed since the first issue, and the Haver- gal Magazine is welcomed with as much eagerness as ever, one may safely assume that it has become a school institution. The year 1910 is a very important one in our annals, as the much-talked-of new wing is an actuality, and adds much to the symmetry of the building and to the comfort of its inmates. In- deed, the College has grown to such large proportions that the first Havergalians would no doubt have difficulty in recognizing it. However, the spirit of progress need not in any way interfere with that of good comradeship, and the Havergal old-timers may pride themselves on having added their individual brick to help build the extensions, and may rest assured that there still remains a corner for them in the heart of New Havergal. Indeed, one of the functions of this humble literary effort— the Magazine — is to form a link to perfect the chain between girls of the past, present and future, so that all girls who have been here shall not only have the Havergal banner on their walls and the Havergal Magazine on their shelves, but the Havergal spirit in their hearts. 13