Havergal College - Magazine Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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Havergal College Magazine service of others when it does not interfere with your amuse- ments? Surely something more, girls, a very great deal more: not a cheap little offering which costs you nothing, but all the riches you own. The riches of the commonwealth Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health, And more to her than gold or grain The cunning hand and cultured brain. That is why. Do you not think it worth while? Will it not mean something to the West that in each of your homes in days to come there is a girl or woman grown who cares, and cares tremendously, that in nothing Canadians shall come behind the very elect, and for her country covets earnestly the best gifts. Your own gifts to Canada, of self-denial and hard work and devotion, must begin now if you really love her. But giving is hard work, too, and some of us are not very rich — and we must turn to the Giver of every good and perfect gift to help us in this as in all else. Man ' s highest thought, man ' s truest words, man ' s noblest deeds all centre in that Divine and human Life lived in a little, ancient province and now enthroned in highest Heaven. That Life was the greatest of God ' s gifts to the Old World and to the New, and It can be shared by every one of us. Without the Christ-Life our thoughts may end in despair, our words in sound, our deeds in failure. With that Life and in that Strength we may bring to the land of our birth or our adoption the consecrated service that she needs. Your affectionate friend, EVA L. JONES. EDITORIAL NOTES. With this number the Havergal Magazine enters upon the seventh year of its life. During these seven years the School and the friends outside the School who read the Magazine have learned to expect a certain standard of work in its contents. But it is easier to set a high standard than to live steadily up to it ; and it is particularly difficult in this case when, year by year, girls are passing out of the School, and success in games and examinations fluctuates with these changes. Contributions to the Magazine vary, too. This year, the School as a whole is younger, and we have missed the longer contributions that come quite easily from a large and elderly Upper Sixth Form. On the other hand, much promise has been shown in the work that has been sent in, and though but a portion of it has been published, we look forward to some very good results next year, when the contributors will be a whole year older and 15

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Havergal College Magazine ease and death for them, and poverty for your own soul. They will teach you how to laugh at small troubles, and to help others in great ones. They will show you the beauty of gentleness, and courtesy and orderliness, and the holiness of self-sacrifice. Ruskin was sitting at their feet when he wrote of women and girls as the guardians of order, health, beauty and love. See how high he puts order, and remember it when you are next tempted to leave clothes on the floor, and books or candy on the bed! Without Thought and her three sisters the seniors will never understand why they must loyally stand for School traditions and discipline as leaders and not unwilling or lazy followe rs. They will certainly never understand why practices of doubtful benefit, such as writing to girls in other boarding schools, writing to boys, reading third-rate novels, bed-room feasting and nibbling between meals, and endless conversation on clothes and entertainments, are discouraged among us. Yet these are things which every girl should reason out for herself. Little foxes again, and dangerous ones, which spoil your taste and habits and refinement. How can seniors lead and shape the younger set if they tacitly or openly condone these things? You must be ahead of others to lead at all. I wish we .ill, young and old, had a dread of being second-rate in mind and thought — at least as great a horror as most of us seem to have of wearing an old-fashioned or dowdy hat ! Yet the brain under the hat is so much more important than what is outside it. You are not educated till you understand that. And why should we toil in the vineyard, when to dream over the wall in the sunshine or to play with the little tame foxes for an hour or two would be so much easier? Well, it is for the Cause. Many years ago, when women were striv- ing to secure for girls as good an education as for boys, the growing daughter of two very gifted parents was constantly stopped when thoughtless and unruly by a cry from her mother Remember the Cause! The Cause was the higher education of girls of which many thought them incapable ; and the cry was to remind a clever, untidy girl that onlookers would judge all girls asking for education by her own behaviour. That Cause was a great one, but yours is even higher. The trained mind and hand and eye which your education is to bring you are to be used for the service of this great new Dominion of which you are so proud. That is what it all leads up to — work for yourself, work for your home, for your class and your School, for your church. All faithful, thoughtful work really helps Canada. What are you willing to give to Canada, present and future? A little thought, a great deal of talk, a verse of O Canada, and later on when you have left school, a little help in the 14

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Havergal College Magazine wiser, and will have learned to have more faith in their powers. Health. The health of the School has been very good, and we are thankful that we have escaped the many epidemics that have visited the city. Confirmation. Confirmation Classes were conducted at Holy Trinity during Lent by Mr. Ribourg. The service took place on Palm Sunday, 5th April, when His Grace the Archbishop of Rupert ' s Land con- firmed among other candidates, Ruth Fairbairn, Antoinette Sapte, Nellie Snowden and Jessie Wilson. Distribution of Prizes. The annual prize giving was held on the evening of June 19th, 1913, at which His Grace the Archbishop of Rupert ' s Land presided. In the unavoidable absence of Lady Cameron, the prizes were given away by Sir Douglas Cameron. They were awarded as follows : — Form Prizes Form I. General Merit Muriel Curry Mary Moore Doris Metcalfe Form II. General Merit Thelma LeCocq Frances Douglas Form Lower III. General Proficiency .Kathleen MacMahon Jean Fisher Form Upper III. General Proficiency (1) Gwen Detchon (2) Kate Rowley Merit Dolly Peatt Form IV. General Proficiency Louise Sapte Vera Underwood Mapping Jessie Wilson Form Lower ShellGeneral Proficiency Jean Bell Merit Helen Willson Marian Sweeny Form V. Special General Merit Antoinette Sapte Form Lower V. General Proficiencv (1) Margaret Speechly (2) Stella Mozley Form Upper V. General Proficiency Gertrude Steele Matriculation I. Dorothy Colcleugh Form VI. General Proficiency Amy Ebbutt Matriculation II. Dorothy McDougall Havergal Diplomas Amy Ebbutt Grace Langlois Pearl Rosenthal Fanny Rosner. 16