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

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, , Ruperfs Land College Magazine office, but up to the present I have not received the hairpin, nor have I heard anything concerning it. Such a situation is appalling! The person in whose possession it now is must be using that hairpin in her own unruly locks. The gravity of this affair should be impressed upon the pupils of the College. A united eiort for the suppression of such occurrences could hardly fail to be successful. I am certain that, after this warning, such a lamentable thing will not happen again. Yours sincerely, QMISSQ WON HAIRPIN. QI have handed the above letter to the Principal of the College.-Ed.J .iiliiilii THE PRINCIPAL'S REPLY TO MISS WON HAIRPIN Dear Miss Hairpin,- It was with pained surprise that I read your letter com- plaining of the loss of your valuable pin in the College Hall. May I point out that you are accusing the young ladies who attend this College of a grievous sin, and one which you cannot prove to have been committed! r Every young lady who attends classes here is most careful to see that every hairpin she uses is carefully marked with her name in fullg indeed, this is a rule of the College. Can you be certain that the pin in question was so named? In any case I can assure you that no one attending this School would dream of wearing another person's property, especially such an expensive article as a wire hairpin. Probably you used it to lock your motor-car or to button your shoe. I regret that you imagine that you lost it in this building. , Perhaps an advertisement in the daily press would help you. Yours truly, ROBERTA SHINGLED, Principal. THE TOWER OF LONDON To-day I am going to describe to you, as fully as I can, the history of the Tower of London. W The Tower of London, that old and historical castle on the Thames River, was one of the most beautiful palaces of its time, a strong and grim fortress, with prisons noted through- f 15

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Ruperfs Land College Magazine I Things we can't do 1. Wear a night-cap. j 2. Use a can-opener. 3. Pick pussy-willows. 4. Listen to C K Y music. 5. Put on new kid gloves. , . 6. Cough in a dignified manner at a lecture. A R. THOMPSON AND M. WHITE. Can't you just see! 1. Mrs. Roper eating Eskimo pies! 2. Miss Pearman with her hair cut! 3. Miss Bannister playing a trombone! 4. Miss Schoenau in plus-fours! 5. Miss Sheldon playing basketball! 6. Miss Short nursing a baby. 7. Miss Jones caning the children! 8. Miss Johnson leading a school yell! 9. Miss Welch teaching Latin. 10. Miss Holditch sleeping with her windo shut! W Can't you just hear! 1. Nancy refusing a cream puff ! 2. Any form asking for more homework! 3. Isobel singing like a lark! 4. Terry taking a high dive at the Cornish baths! 5. Dorothy refusing a second helping at dinner! - 6. Form XI approving of the Family Compact! 7. Form IX hunting for the chalk! 8. Form X going to drill in silence! 4 9. The Boarders suggesting that breakfast shall be at 6 a.m. LETTER T0 THE EDITRESS Dear Editress,- . In a College of higher learning such as this, Where the sup- posedly finest and most refined young ladies of the city are to be found, I am astounded to find that there is at least one dishonest person. A week ago last Monday, While preparing to leave for home, I discovered that from my collection of hairpins th-ere wa.s one missing. Having just finished a gymnastic lesson, I hastened to the Assembly Hall, and there followed a fruitless search. Suddenly it occurred to me that someone must have picked it up. I thought that it would surely have been taken' to the 14

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'Rupefrtls Land College Magazine l out Europe for their terrible dungeons and torture chambers. The Tower of L-ondon as it is to-day, however, is little' more than a museum, yet the old magnificence is still retained as far as possible. The Tower of London consists of many towers, surrounded on all sides by a moat and thick stone walls, on which the ramparts and guns are placed. On the tops of the outer towers are also ramparts and numerous guns. The magnificent tower which served as palace from the time of William Rufus to Charles the Second, was utterly destroyed in Charles the Second's reign, and on this site was built an Ordnance oflice destroyed by fire in 1788. The VV'hite Tower was also used as a palace. In this tower is St. John's Chapel, a specimen of fine Norman architecture. It has also been the scene of many historical events, and it was at the bottom of the stairs leading into this chapel that the bones of the two princes were found. The Devlin Tower, The By Ward, The Constable, Brick and Salt Towers were generally used as keeps and prisons, with the Beauchamp as the principal state prison. To the right of the Beauchamp Tower stands the tower in which the horrible tortures were carried on, and which was given the appropriate name of The Bloody Tower. One of the most northerly of the towers is the Bell Tower. It is of circular construction, surmounted by a wooden turret, containing the alarm bell of the fortress. The walls are of great thickness and the light is admitted thro-ugh loopholes. It was in this tower that the martyred- Bishop Fisher of Rochester was confined. The Princess Elizabeth was 'also confined in it by her sister, Queen Mary. Of one chapel I have already spoken, but the finest and largest is St. Peter's on Tower Green, built after the old English style of architecture. One of the most enjoyable features about the Tower, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, was the gardens and Tower Green. . The gardens are now destroyed but a portion of Tower Green still remains. X To-day, in the White Tower, guarded night and day by the Beefeaters, are the crown jewels of England, among which is the solid gold christening cup used at the baptism of every Royal child. V B URSULA SKINNER, Form VII. ,,. fs. I W' fl' . A v 'I ZA 16 1