Havergal College - Magazine Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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ijaumjal (ttnUnj? Muezzin? Vol. VII MAY, 1914 No. 1 It is with deep regret this year that we have to chronicle the loss the College has sustained in the person of Mr, Andrew Strang, a Director, and the faithful friend of all our interests and endeavours since the first ' day of its opening, No one was more regular and unfailing at Board meetings, more kindly and interested in advice and criticism; no one gave sounder counsel on finance and policy, We hoped he would have been spared to help us for many more years, and we extend to Mrs, Strang and all his family our sorrowing sympathy in the loss which is ever present with them,

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Havergal College Magazine PRINCIPAL ' S LETTER Havergal College, Winnipeg. May 1st, 1914. My dear Girls, — Here is Magazine time round once more, and the busy days since September call again for comment and summary. How the weeks slip away ! and how busy they are, busier, we feel, than in any place in this Dominion. The preceding page makes brief mention of one who has passed from among us during the present school year and whose place at the monthly meeting of our Directors knows him no more. In every successful institution there must be co-operation of all kinds to secure that success, and I often wonder if our girls and their parents realise how much the College owes to those bus} men of affairs, each with his numerous interests in the city, who find time to come regularly all the year round to listen to a monthly account of the School affairs and finances. Every one of them, and not least his Grace the Archbishop, makes a personal sacrifice of time and convenience to secure for us smooth working and for the girls of AVinnipeg the educational ideal which they had in mind when the College was founded. Such public-spirited and unobtrusive work is carried on in Eng- land on the Boards of our great public schools by men of com- parative leisure, retired Army and Navy officers and others who dislike to lose touch with active service for the public good. But in our new country the leisured are few and far between, and it is therefore with added gratitude that the services of our Directors should be recognized, for it is not even leisure but often working hours that they so cheerfully give to our business. No very stirring events have shaken our little community since the last Magazine went to press, and it has been a year of small things rather than great. No further building or ex- tension is possible on our present site, and the time is not yet ripe for removing from our central position to one of the sub- urbs so rapidly growing up in our city. It remains for us to develop from within — to gird ourselves for further efforts and higher standards of achievement. In the Day School we want to see the Bad Mark Book and the Returned Lesson Book vanish into a forgotten past, instead of being looked upon as sacred institutions without which AVednesday morning would not be complete. AA T e want the weekly mark average to go up even more decidedly than it has done of late, so that the half-mark minimum becomes another relic of the past, and a 75 per cent average looks down proudly from every notice board. AVe want to see you as zealous and interested in Grammar and French 11