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No. 30.

LETTER FROM THE PRINCIPAL.

ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE, OXFORD.

March '7th, 1928.

Dear Mrs. Elgood, I should describe 1927-8 as a year of "building" and in more than one sense. The Council has received at intervals satisfactory reports from . the Building Committee, and all is in train now for the opening of the Gray Allen Wing in October, 1928. A sub-committee for furnishing and equipment, consisting of Miss Perham, the Bursar and myself, will shortly have before it interesting details—curtains and rugs, tiles and fenders, etc. A great opportunity for two persons both of whom have a keen eye for future artistic effect, and for a third who can enjoy it as keenly as they once it is done !

Ceremonies on the occasion of opening the Wing will take place on October 10th. They will include a Service in chapel at 3 p.m., to which, with the subsequent turning of the key in the new door by Viscount Cecil, our Visitor, the Council hopes to invite Members of the Association and other intimate friends of the College; and a larger party at night for our Oxford acquaintance. Dr. T. B. Strong, the Bishop of the Diocese, is honouring the College by his presence and will take the Service in the afternoon. It will be the first, but not we hope the last time that he and our Visitor find their way into St. Hugh's. Mr. Buckland, the architect, will be present also, and will, I think, be universally congratulated on the success of his work.

A feature which will interest members of the College who are or have been undergraduates thereof is the fiat roof.

Access to it is by a ladder from the second floor through a: kind of bulkhead. Floored in asphalt and walled up to four feet, it is intended for sleeping on at night, and possesses a neat cupboard for rolls of camp bedding. The view thence is fine, and the air, in summer, superior to that of our existing study-bedrooms under the roof. So we expect it to be popular.

The Council has elected to Honorary Fellowships under Stat. VI Miss Moberly, first Principal of the College, and Miss Sparks, Principal of the Ladies' College, Cheltenham, and President of the Headmistresses' Association, 1926-7.

Miss Moberly continues well and glad to see old students visiting Oxford.

The periods of office of two Members of Council, Miss Kirkaldy and Mr. Radcliffe, terminated in 1927. Miss M. G. Irwin was elected (Stat. XIII,3) to replace the former, and will hold office for three years. The ending of Miss Kirkaldy's long connexion with the College—for she resigned her Tutorship at the same time—means the loss of a vivid personality from our counsels. She continues for the present Tutor to students of biology in the other Women's Societies.

Mr. Radcliffe will be long remembered for his energy in our period of financial stress, now happily over, and for his skill as a draftsman in the earlier phases of the Committee on the Constitution. To both the College owes much.

The Hurry Prize, 1927, has been awarded to Miss C. P. Goodenough, B.A., who was placed in Class II of ' the Final Honour School of Modern History.

Scholars and Exhibitioners admitted last October were, in order of merit :— SCHOLARS.

W. A. Pronger (History), Mary Datchelor Girls' School.

M. Zvegintzov (History), Cheltenham Ladies' College.

EXHIBITIONERS.

G. A. Joel (English), Richmond County School.

M. A. Vincent (History), Harrow County School.

C. A. M. Barlow (Mathematics), Clifton High School.

M. F. Evans (English), Heatherton Park, Taunton.

C. G. Dahl (English), Newcastle Central High School.

N. E. V. Lawrence (English), Clifton High School.

ST. HUGH'S CLUB GRANT. B. L. Corrie (French), Macclesfield High School.

After much controversy, and some excellent speeches, the Statute limiting the numbers of undergraduates in each Women's Society and providing against the foundation of any new Society except at the expense of the numbers in the existing five, was passed by Congregation last year. Friends of women's education regret statutory differentiation between the sexes in any form, and consider the dangers (if they may be so called) this provision intended to guard against so remote as to be negligible. It is matter for satisfaction, however, that the proposals in their original form, which, besides being almost unworkable in practice, would have reduced our numbers considerably and so have overthrown the whole financial basis on which tutorial and other appointments had been made by the Council, were disposed of at an early.stage. The whole public controversy, indeed, might have been avoided by the simple expedient of consulting at the outset, instead of after the adoption of a policy, with the authorities of the Women's Societies—and, perhaps I may add, by showing some disposition to accept their undertakings with regard to future policy as what Irish people honour our sex by terming "a lady's word."

With kind regards to all Members of the Club, Yours sincerely, B. E.

GWYER.

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ATHLETIC NOTES. We regret that•once more space does not permit of full accounts of College Athletics, and no notes on University Athletics have reached us.

TENNIS.-1st VI Cup. S.H.C. lost to L.M.H. Year Cup won by 1st year.

NETBALL.-,--iSt VII played three matches, winning two and losing one. 2nd VII played three, winning one and losing two. The Captain writes that the Club is at a distinct disadvantage through lack of a hard court, but the membership shows considerable increase. S.H.C. had five members in the Oxford United Netball team.

LACROSSE. —Owing to the small number of players, S.H.C. has combined with S. Hilda's and O.H.S. for practices.

S.H.C. lost to L.M.H. in cup match. S.H.C. had one member in Oxford United team.

HOCKEY.—Matches played, 13; won, 8; lost, 4; drawn, 1.

S.H.C. lost to S.C. in cup match 7-1.

THE RIVER.—It was proposed that there should be a junior Women's Inter-Collegiate Fours Competition, but it had to be scratched. S.H.C. did not compete in the Senior Fours Competition last summer but hopes to do so this year.

A new system of rowing has been instituted which has encouraged individual effort but punting remains more popular.

An inter-collegiate sailing Club has been formed this year.

APPOINTMENTS, 1927-8.

HEADMISTRESS. G. M. M. Seelly, St. John's High School, Newport, Mon. M. J. Porcher, Oxford University, Delegate of Local Examinations (till M.T. 1928).

H. M. Bryant, Assistant Registrar, Girton College.

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N. C. Carter, Lecturer in Education, Goldsmiths' College, New Cross.

M. M. Chattaway, Lecturer and Demonstrator in Botany, Royal Holloway College.

E. Fawcett, Asst. Lecturer in English, The Training College, Cheltenham and elsewhere.

H. M. Wood, Sub-Warden, Masson Hall, University of Edinburgh.

F. Priest Shaw, Lecturer in History, Hull Roman Catholic Training College.

Mrs. Lobel, Research Studentship in History, Girton College.

(M. D. Rogers).

A. Daman, British Empire Fellowship Scholarship (for Teachers' Training Course, Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, S.A.).

ASSISTANT MISTRESSES.

W. Brooke, County Secondary School, Streatham.

H. M. Wilson, Abbey School, Reading.

A. H. Moore, Girls' High School, Wimbledon.

E. W. Hutton, Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne.

H. M. Gent, Maynard School, Exeter.

K. Evans, St. John's High School, Newport, Mon. E. Hirst, Maltman's Green, Gerrards' Cross.

I. D. A. Abbott, Thoresby High School, Leeds.

F. Grainger, County School, Chiswick.

M. L. Lauterback, Girls' Grammar School, Batley, Yorks.

D. Platt, County School, Finchley.

E. Morse, Girls' High School, Haifa, Palestine.

P. F. Michell, Queen Mary's High School, Anfield, Liverpool.

W. Dingwall, Ravenscroft, Eastbourne.

A. Hadfield, Liverpool College for Girls.

E. Henry, St. Hilda's School, Sneaton Castle, Whitby.

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R. Learoyd, Withington Girls' School, Manchester.

M. Morton, High School, Colchester.

N. Osborne, King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth.

F. L. E. Camous, Godolphin and Latymer School, Hammersmith.

G. M. Barker, Secondary School, Wath-on-Dearne.

D. Edwards, Rees County School, Brackley.

E. M. O'Schaughnessy, Silchester House, Taplow.

M. Garner, St. Catherine's, Heatherton Park, Taunton.

M. Moller, Wycombe Abbey.

S. M. Andrews, Royal School, Bath.

J. H. Whicher, High School, Clapham.

N. Woodcock, Maltman's Green, Gerrards' Cross (temporary).

OTHER APPOINTMENTS. W. Burt, Teaching Lady Glasgow's Children.

M. Evans, J. Walker Thompson Advertising Co. N. A. Keys, J. Walker Thompson Advertising Co. M. W. Dingwall, Sec. Ravenscroft School, Eastbourne.

B. A. Bullen, Warden, Wootton House, Gloucester.

E. N. Nicholas, Assistant Secretary, Society Overseas Settlement of British Women.

M. L. Clarkson, Clerk and Assistant to the Principal's Secretary, St. Hugh's College.

E. McLeod, Secretary to the British Agent for "Wall Street News."

D. Neal, Secretarial Staff, House of Commons.

A. C. Perceval, Clerical work, H.M. Treasury.

P. 0. Farrell, Reader to Mr. Ethelred Cadbury, Director of the "Daily News."

M. A. Mathias, Secretarial Department of the Royal Horticultural Society.

E. Rosser, called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, November 16th, 1927.

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PUBLICATIONS. Saint Joan of Orleans. Scenes from fifteenth Century `Mystere du Siege d'Orleans,' " Selected and translated by Joan Evans. Oxford, Clarendon Press. pp. xxxi. 191. 7/6. "

"Burgundy Past and Present," E. M. Hatch. Methuen

8/ 6.

"Josie Vine," M. F. Perham. Hutchinson 7/6.

ARTICLES. "The New English Dictionary," E. E. Wardale.

Nineteenth Century, October, 1927.

"A Hitherto unprinted version of the Passio Sanctae Margaritae with some observations on vernacular derivatives."

E. A. Francis.

Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. March, 1927.

"Le Beau-Pere de Rivarol : Mather Flint, Maitre de Langue Anglaise a Paris," S. M. Goulding.

Revue de Litterature Comparee. March—April, 1928.

"The Where and Why Geographies." Lionel W. Lyde and E. M. Butterworth, Blackie & Sons, 2/6.

ENGAGEMENT. POWER—CHI LTON.-----M.

Chilton to

. Power.

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BIRTHS. HARRISON.—In

October, 1927, to R. E. Harrison (nee

Greenhill), a son.

KALEN.—On

December 29th, to V. G. Kalen (nee

Pattison), a son. .LAYBOURNE.--011 January 7th, 1928, to H. D. Laybourne (née Burnett), a daughter.

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MARRIAGES. GAPPER—WRIGHT.--In November, 1926, --. Gapper to M. L. Wright.

LAW SON—COWELL SMITH.—On

April 5th, 1927, Lieut.

Lawson, R.N. to M. Cowell-Smith.

April 7th, 1927, in Lambeth, Frank S. Hopkirk to M. E. Perkins.

HOPK IRK—PERK IN S .—On

E VANS—DAW ON.--On

April 20th, 1927, —. Evans to

K. M. Dawson.

PATERS ON--BAKER.—On April 23rd, 1927, at Oxford, Alexander Paterson, M.C. to Frances M. Baker.

LETTs—BONNER.—On April 26th, 1927, in London, Major C. F. C. Letts to Evelyn F. C. Bonner.

LOBEL—ROGERS .--In September, 1927, at Oxford, E. Lobel (Queen's College), to M. D. Rogers.

MURRAY—LiNno.—On September 17th, 1927, in Costa Rica, Alexander Murray to Zaira Lindo.

STONEY—NUGENT.—On November 4th, 1927, in London, Robert V. Stoney to M. C. Theffania Nugent.

ANDERS ON—VI GNE.--In

1927, P. Anderson of East

Griqualand to P. F. Vigne.

COOPER—DEARD S .—G.

A. D. Cooper to P. M. A. Deards.

CRETGHTON—DEANS .—On February 16th, 1928, in London, W. A. L. Creighton to Valerie M. S. Deans.

DEATH. HoLLinAY.—In 1927, M. M. Holliday.

ST. HUGH'S SCHOLARSHIP and FELLOWSHIP FUND. The sum total invested to date is £650 and there is a small balance in hand to defray current expenses.

By far the most interesting event in the history of the Fund this year is the St. Hugh's Day Appeal which has brought in the sum of £170 17s. Od.

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Mrs. P. J. Grigg undertook by far the main share of the work and responsibility and it is to her, in chief measure, that the thanks of the subscribers to the Fund are due. Mrs. Grigg not only organised the Bridge Drive but sent out the notices for the cross words and the collecting cards.

M. G. IRWIN (Hon. Sec.).

ST. HUGH'S CLUB NOTES, 1927.

During 1927 a social meeting was held in London in January and the annual general business meeting in Oxford in July.

The committee consisted of Miss Arbuthnot-Lane, Mrs. Elgood, Miss Greig, Mrs. Grigg, who retire' in May, 1928; Miss Batchelor (Chairman), Miss Irwin, Miss Rosser, Miss Stallman, who retire in May, 1929, and the President of the J.C.R. During the year the Club's investments were increased by the purchase of X25 of Local Loans at 68%.

In February, 1928, the Club membership was :-829 Life, 50 Annual, 2 Honorary.

Several people have resigned annual membership or have been crossed off from the list under the amendment made to the constitution last July, by which membership now lapses after non-payment of subscription for one year.

JEAN GREIG,

Hon. Sec. and Treas., St. Hugh's Club.

NEWS OF OLD STUDENTS. bas for the last nine years been running a girl's school in Inverness, "as a good school run on modern lines is much needed in the North of Scotland." The school consists of about 50 girls, some staying till they are ready for College ,others going on to St. Leonard's, etc.

V. MURRAY

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G. C. GRIGG (HOUGH) writes :. "We were shaken out of our ordinary peaceful lives by the incursion of the Thames on the night of January 6th. The whole distance between Doulton's factory and the dining room windows was a continuous sheet of water broken by a foot or two of wall over which the river broke like a weir. The whole basement was completely full, and the ground floor covered to a depth of 6 ins.

We returned home after ten days.

A.

CLARK is

teaching in V. Murray's School.

J. BLAINEY ( COOKE) was Tutorial ClaSs Tutor • in an Australian University from 1921-26; she is now in England and Speaker to the National Liberal Federation and League of Nations Union.

F. M. S. BATCHELOR has moved her school from Hindhead to Ashtead where she has joined another, already established some time.

M. GORDON has for some years been Assistant Lecturer in Classics at University College, Exeter. She lives at Exmouth, going in daily. She is much interested in the attempt to found a University for Devon and Cornwall, for which funds are now being raised. She spends much time in research work at Cambridge in vacation and has had some articles on social conditions under the early empire in the Journal of Roman Studies. She represented the College on the Anglo American Conference of Historians in London.

S. R. WEBB has a Preparatory School for girls at Horsham, with 36 children under 14. It is run on the lines of a boys preparatory school: D.

WARRINER

M. BENS ON E.

CRYER

is researching in Economics.

is teaching at Montreux:

is teaching at the Girl's Grammar School,

Hitchin.

P. M.

COOPER

is teaching at The College, Harrogate.

E. Ros s ER received the thanks of. the Lord Chief Justice and other legal luminaries for her work as secretary to a

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committee which has drawn up a Bill abolishing procedure by "petition of right" against the Crown.

P. MAY has left Ripon and is teaching at Gainsborough High School where C. M. HAROREAVE is H.M. E. V. FOWLER played in XI representing England in Australia, where she had a wonderful time. She has now been selected to go with the English Women's Hockey XI to America in the autumn and will be away about two and a half months. Meantime she in teaching at Dorchester School, Parkstone, where E. DE PUTRON is H.M. E. WALLACE has been home on leave from S. Cuthbert's Mission, Kaffraria, S. Africa. They have about 400 children in the Schools, and a small hospital. The "parish" run by the Cowley Fathers and Wantage Sisters, is about 40 miles square. E. Wallace teaches the top standards, her classes containing about 40. She loves the work and the children "who are never blase." The upper forms are taught entirely in English. History and Nature Study are their favourite subjects. She does not consider it fair to dub the children as of low mental capacity as "until they are properly fed their brains canont do what ours can."

U. DACOMBE is engaged in journalism.

M. DRUITT, after leaving Japan, visited Hong Kong and Colombo, made a stay in S. Africa and is now on her way home to England.

D. AWDRY was going to New Zealand last December.

M. BROOK

went to Canada for the winter.

B. HAMILTON-THOMPSON is researching on the Wool Trade at the Record Office.

M. HORN

is engaged in Guide work.

H. MARSHALL is doing canteen work in a model public house in East End. P. SIMEY is working in Appeal Dept. of People's Dispensary for Sick Animals.

G. YOUNGHUGHES is a postulant at the Convent of the Incarnation, Fairacres, Oxford.