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

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Rupertis Land College Magazine BOARDERS' GLEE SINGING The glee singing last term took place one evening a week for half an hour, during which the Boarders would exercise their vocal organs by singing such numbers as Annie Laurie, Comin' Thro' the Rye, John Peel, and other favorite songs. Owing to the examinations ahead, and having naturally less spare time, at any rate for the Senior Boarders, we have dropped the weekly warbling until next winter term, when we hope to resume not only in unison, but part singing. H M. H. P. A DAY GIRL'S BLUE MONDAY You are unmercifully awakened at a quarter to seven and told it is time to get up. You drag your weary bones out of bed and shut the window. Before breakfast you either practise or do homework for about an hour. While at break- fast one of your heartless family hints that you must have got dressed in a hurry, as you have no tie on and there are cat's hairs all over your tunic,' not to mention a rip in the sleeve of your blouse. As soon as you are finished you rush upstairs to put on your tie, and find a hole in the heel of your stocking. You hastily darn it, then run for your books, coat and hat. On arriving at the garage you find that your father can't get the car started and wants you to get in and push this and poke that and pull the other while he cranks it. You finally get started and arrive at school at ten past nine, feeling as if you had already done a good day's work. When asked why you were late, you give the oft repeated excuse, Dad drove me down. At recess, after being caught once on the upper corridor and twice on the lower, you finally manage to get an order mark. You rush home at noon with a French book under one arm, intending to study for a test to be given that afternoon. But alas for good resolutions! You don't open the book. In the afternoon you manage to get yourself into trouble again by aiming a crunched-up piece of paper at a friend and hitting a teacher. For this you receive a conduct mark! At half past three you gather up your books and go home. From then until the time you go to bed you study and practise without intermission except for dinner. When you finally 17

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Ruperfs Land College Magazine and artistic mats were the result. At present half the class is working on bright-coloured homespun, with yarn, which eventually will become pillow to-ps. The other half are filling the Studio with spirits, by dyeing various patterns on leather and making many useful things. We all feel very grateful to Miss Short for teaching us so many interesting occupations, which have certainly made our class a success. BOARDERS' LITERARY CLUB Senior and Junior groups of the Club have met every week. Among the authors we have read are Barrie, De la Mare, Masefield, W. H. Drummond, Thornton Wilder, Galsworthy and Hardy. One-act plays of to-day and some short stories have also been read. We debated as to whether examinations justify their exist- ence, Ruth Wells and Faith Starkey being protagonists. The motion against examinations was carried 7 to 4, despite good defence by the opposers. The Junior group has enjoyed reading Grahame's Wind in the Willows and Maeterlinck's Bluebird BOARDERS' INITIATION, 1929 We were awakened with the orders from the Boarding School Old Girls, and had to obey them all day long. We made their beds, ran messages, and did everything that they could think of making us do. Then, worn out after the picnic. we got home to find a sweet little message on each bureau: Part your hair in the middle to-night. Oh dear! we all looked terrible of course, and when we reached the dining-room we found nothing but spoons to eat with. Luckily the meat was tender, but alas, even Mrs. Fenton planned against us, and we had lovely runny tapioca for dessert. Forks alone proved helpful in eating the latter! After prayers we were calmly told we were to amuse the Old Girls for the evening. We tried every way for revenge, and so we used the Boarders clothes for costumes. We were asked to produce the play of Cinderella with but twenty minutes' preparation. Ambition was shown by some, as for instance making an effort to get ready for the walk in winter-and it just took the victim twenty minutes to do it! It was very funny, and in the end, in the dark, we all swore to be true R.L.C. Boarders. Much-needed nourishment was served afterwards in the sitting-room and the new girls were then waited upon-we went to bed well satisfied in more ways than one. 16

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Ruperfs Land College Magazine climb into bed it is only to dream of school troubles and a jumble of the three R's. A seeming five minutes later you are again awakened by an irate parent informing you that you have been called three times already. How do you expect to get to school on time ? M. VVALSTON. F. GOWAN. ------ K. MATHEWS. THE CHRISTMAS PLAYS This year, the usual Christmas play was replaced by three one-act plays that were chosen for their variety of ideas. Three members of the Staff undertook the task of training a hundred or more eager actresses, and their results were witnessed by all the parents and friends on December 19th. A Christmas Party - produced by Miss Pearman- was the first, in which all the leading parts were played by members of the Kindergarten and other Junior Forms. The entrance of Santa Claus, and the eagerness of the little ones on receiving their gifts, put everyone in a jovial mood. The Spring Green Lady -a fantasy, produced by Miss Bannister-was received with equal pleasure, and the leading characters-Dorothy Withers, the Captive Princess, andllean Wells, the Wandering Minstrel, sang with almost professional feeling, if not ease! F The Land of Heart's Desire --produced by Miss Jones and Miss Short-was a story of Irish folk-lore, in which a half-fairy child is wooed away into the heart of the forest by a wood-sprite despite the efforts of her parents and a wandering priest. Sheila Campbell as the Fairy Child, Judy Moss as the Wood Sprite, and Eleanor Lodge as Priest, played the principal parts with spirit, but we must confess that very important parts were being played behind scenes. Phyllis Webb, the ghostly green glimmer in the trees, was aided in this role by a trusty green torch, while members of the Choral Society and Miss Pauli provided music that was most mysterious and supernatural ! The plays were most successful, and the different types prevented the entertainment from seeming too long. R. W. 18