Havergal College - Magazine Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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Havergal College Magazine (MK.»iXRBr!STl ART NOTES— 1912-13. The results of the Royal Drawing Society ' s summer examina- tion arrived, as usual, too late for publication in last year ' s Mag- azine. On the whole, they were very satisfactory, showing that of 187 candidates sent in, 45 took honors and 79 passed. Enid Allan gained a bronze medal, and the work of Amy Ebbutt, Jocelyn Allan and Christina Lyall was highly commended. !N o exhibits were sent in this year to England for the R. D. S. Spring Exhibition. Yet the studio has not been idle, and the Tuesday and Saturday classes, though somewhat select in number, have done painstaking work. It would have been interesting if the benevolent old gentleman who has sat there so many patient hours after climbing many stairs could have contributed his im- pressions to these notes of the varied presentment of his features. If an onlooker may presume to judge, more courage and readiness to profit by the correction of mistakes are needed in the art work of the school. Finished studies only come after many failures, and some girls are far too quickly discouraged in the early stages. The excellent posters for Form Entertainments have been a fea- ture of this year, and some of the Form Mottoes have been very well designed. Winnipeg has been more f ordinate than usual this year in opportunities for seeing good pictures. Most of us made frequent visits to the Exhibition of British and Foreign Artists in Febru- ary, and a Dutch collection is now on show, thanks to the energy of the executive of the Industrial Bureau. Lives of school-girls oft remind us To be tidy all year round, Or, departing, leave behind us Nearly all our things in pound. 5!)

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Havergal College Magazine THE LIBRARY Where are your books? — that light bequeathed To Beings else forlorn and blind! Without books, the living record of what the best men of the world have thought and done, into what darkness, into what des- pair, we would be plunged ! The works of fiction have a noble part to play in the field of literature. It has been said: — Fiction is truer than fact. The child may read a story because she seeks mental stimu- lus, but if it is a tale of human joy or of human sorrow, will it not tend to widen her horizon of life ? May it not awaken within her a taste for the aesthetic ? This year both libraries — the Reference as well as the Girls ' — can lay claim to several new volumes. Additions to the Reference Library include — The Nation ' s Pictures (2 vols.) ; The World ' s Leading Painters ; Makers of English Fiction ; The Story of the Em- pire ; Lempriere ' s Classical Dictionary; Lingua Maturna ; Patriotic Songs ; Characters and Scenes from Hebrew Story ; The Bird Book (2 vols.) ; various Bible handbooks. By their voluntary donations several of the girls have shown their interest in the growth of the library. We wish to thank Marion Bell and Kathlyn Hinton for various books for the juni- ors ; Flora Kennedy, Margaret Speechly, Dorothy Colcleugh, Mar- jorie Stewart and Mary Stewart for books for the seniors. One of our old girls, Pearl Pieper, has contributed a handsome set of books by Charlotte Bronte. It encourages us when we feel that one of the girls who used to be with us, but who is now far away, is anxious to maintain the growth of the College library. The assistant librarians, Mollie Clarke and Dorothy Col- cleugh during the first half of the year, Margaret Speechly and Bertha Logan during the second half, have been very faithful in performing the various duties connected with the library. Girls, we hope that you realise that now is the time for you to assume the responsibility of enlarging the library. Join to- gether, resolve that in the near future the College library will be your delight, your pride ! Every year there are girls who must say farewell to the fami- liar College halls. To those girls we would whisper: — Volumes of cheer bright and brief, And remembrance writ on every leaf, is what they leave behind when they contribute a book to the library. The Librarian. 58

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Havergal College Magazine MUSIC NOTES. The musical attractions this year have not heen as numerous as usual, but the few we have had have been thoroughly appre- ciated. In the early part of February the renowned Clara Butt, and her husband, F. Kennerly Rumford, gave a most delightful concert in the Walker Theatre. We were all charmed with her gloriously rich voice, which resembled deep organ tones more than a human voice. In the late autumn we also had the pleasure of hearing the Polish pianist, Scharwenka, who composed the famous Polish dance which all school girls know so well. The next musical event will be the annual visit in April of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, which is always such a treat. It is with great pleasure that we hear of the success of some of the old girls who have been keeping up their music since the} left the college. Kathleen Campbell, who has paid us several fly- ing visits during the winter, is now mistress of a very flourishing class of piano pupils, and is also organist of the Presbyterian Church at Miami. Nora Elliott has spent the last two years study- ing music under Madam StepanofT in Berlin, and will return to Winnipeg this summer. We shall all be glad to welcome her back. Leone Stephenson spent the Easter holidays in Winnipeg. She has been a resident music mistress for the last two ' years at St. Alban ' s College, Prince Albert. Eva Leckie has been much missed in the musical life of the college since her departure at Christmas, but, judging from the talent displayed in the morning march at prayers, there will soon be no dearth of performers. 60