Ruperts Land Girls School - Eagle Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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'hr 7 aglr h Vol. 1. JUNE 1929. NO. 1. PRINCIPAL'S LETTER Rupert's Land College, My Dear Girls,- May wth' 1929' It is with much pleasure, tinged withsadness, that I address my first letter to you in the pages of our School Magazine. For several years I know many of you have been anxious that the Magazine should be revived, and the fact that it has arisen this year, after a sleep of eight years, is largely due to your enthusiasm shown at Christmas in the splendid sale of School greeting cards and your loyalty generally inside our walls and outside them. We felt that you would do your best to make the Magazine a success, and much co-operation is' necessary to do this.. Our thanks are due to all those who have so willingly given their time and thought to THE EAGLE. The title has been chosen by the School and it seems to be a most appro- priate one in company with our beautiful School motto, Alta Petensf' L When I spoke above of happiness tinged with sadness, I mean that my heart is full of joy and thankfulness when I think of the bright, full year nearly ended, but the joy is clouded with sadness when I remember that last year at this time we were looking forward to Miss Jones' return to the place she loved above all others. She would have been very happy if she could have known how helpful and kind you have been this year. We knew you would be pleased to have a por- trait of Miss Jones in the Magazine and We publish it with a Sonnet written by an Old Girl. This appeared opposite Miss Jones' photograph in the 1913 number. We are also glad to have as our frontispiece a picture of His Grace, the Archbishop of Rupert's Land. Old Girls as well as present pupils will rejoice to see his familiar features in our pages. This year is closing after a very full session. Although we were all dismayed in September when we found that we were to lose nearly three Weeks of study, our fears have hardly been realized, as with shorter Christmas and Easter holidays and hard work whilst at school, we have almost made up the days ost. ' Each day has been so crowded with activity and the time has passed so quickly, that it is difficult to realize that June is almost upon us. Our many opportunities throughout the year of listening to enthusiastic speakers from our own city and from England . 7 V

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THE LATE MISS E. L. JONES To you, who, through our days at school Have been our teacher, helper, friend, To you, on whom we did depend . To help us live, by your own rule, A life as strong, as wise, as full, ' Our loving homage we extend, And pray that when through life we wend Our untried way-a striving tool Of the Great Teacher-and may earn Success, reward or even fame, That our achievements be yours, too g And if we should in future learn The sound of praise, we shall exclaim, Give praise to whom the praise is due! X AN OLD GIRL First published in School Magazine, 1913. 6

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Rupe'rt's Land College Magazine ' l have, I feel, given an added interest to our school life, their messages have helped to awaken our imaginations and enlarge our horizons. - When you once settle down in the Upper School to work according to the lines laid down in an examination syllabus, there is always danger of your losing the idea of what the aim of school life is. You will remember. that Sir Charles Grant-Robertson pointed out that examinations should be taken in one's natural stride, as a part of every-day work. This would be the case with the majority of girls if, at the beginning of every school year, each would resolve to devote every hour of study to steady, conscientious endeavour. Think of what this would mean! More time for exercise, more time for reading, more time for pursuing one's own form of self-expression, and perhaps what is even more important -the formation of habits of industry which would be of incalculable value when school days are long past. Q What I long to make you all realize is the joy to be found in real study-the pleasure which one soon finds in work for work's sake-the gradual merging of pleasure and work, so that, in time, work becomes pleasure. All this can be learned if you determine not to allow yourselves to be swept along on the wave of noise and restlessness which seems to be beating over. the world to-day. The rush of life, which is so difficult to escape, is affecting our manners, our habits and our customs. Some of you are probably too young to feel the loss of a certain amount of silence and solitude. John Stuart Mill 'once said: Solitude, in the sense of being frequently alone, is necessary to the formation of any depth of character. In the past, scientists, philosophers and other great thinkers often retired into solitude and silence to cultivate and nourish their original thoughts. Nowadays our poor brains are so often bombarded by noise and clamour that even our voices and movements seem to be trying to compete with the general sense of con- fusion. This rather long ramble is leading to the expression of my real hope-that you will so endeavour to order your hours that some quiet time every day may be given to the reading of real books. Ernest Raymond, one of our visitors, shows so con- clusively that it is through Literature that we may enlarge our sympathies, our feelings of reverence and our vision- that we may have life more abundantly. I Here is my little message to you, who still possess the gift of youth: Use the hours and days to foster within yourselves the sense of peace-vision' and power will follow. e There's all the world before you-and all the years. o 1 Your sincere friend, ' f . SG. E. 'MILLARD. ' 8