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Miss Moberly, President (till July, 2.94). 77, .2._ 73 .0/..:1,61--,.-GR.E4easzetsiti, Vice-President (till July, 194). E. A. 0 .....1 Vice-President (till July, J r9op):" WT-41,-Mewarect.t, Treasurer (till July, rgol)). #•/ t t< et.5-..--,■._ J. Watson (till July, tgox). rs. Simon (till July, 1901). tneallsr-Ll....C.-Aadep, Editor (till July, rgo4)). '2 E.. 0 i,: ‘,...,....o. --/ I. fl.. C,...,t,...∎ (Senior Student). kr• 134-741'47,-J. E. Turner (till July, x got).

F. M. Langston (till July, 1901).

Mr-AT-311Vileen, Secretary, 14.igir-lieke21.,-Eaut-Bterri. (till July, zgof).12 .rt .S"..aA.E.s. ,

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Abbott, A. M. 182, Boulevard Malesherbes, Paris.

The Elms, Cropwell Butler, Radcliffe-on-Trent. *Abdy, D. C. f High School, Tunbridge Wells.

118, Queen's Road, Tunbridge Wells. f St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

Ash, L. 1Burleigh House, Croydon. *Ashburner, C. E. High School, Lincoln.

Barter, C. D. f High School, Nottingham.

Sonning Vicarage, Reading.

I3atchelor,F.M.S.f St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

1Letcombe Basset Vicarage, Wantage. f26, Verulam Street, Liverpool.

Bird, P. 119, Colfe Road, Forest Hill, S.E. *Birley, M. II.f Girls' Collegiate School, Port Elizabeth, S. Africa.

1.2o, St. Michael's Road, Bedford.

Woodborough Vicarage, Nottingham.

Bond, A. *Blamire-Brown, R. E. Chalgrove Vicarage, Wallingford. hi *Brain-Hartnell, Mrs., The Cotswold Sanatorium, nr. Stroud, Glos.

(C. L. Barker).

R. 35 Bulkeley, M. M. The Rectory, Morpeth.

"-`4)Burnett, M. E. f MelsOrteettos-Wailmtoer-Meetteetrier-Seryweteet, {Hill Side, Salisbury.

Buxton, W. E. f St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

17, Bath Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick. £• k 142, Portman Square, W. -Cooper, V. 1Markree Castle, Collooney, Ireland.

16.14 --•\ k 58, High Street, Watford.

Cox, Mrs. A. (s. B.O..

Crick, M. M. 2Litton Cheney Vicarage, Dorset.

-21"4.4J-,C. 4-A ttt,t,>De.Castro, I. P. M. L., iissgegate.-ILeoserWintheer**.

It Eakin, M. L. f Church High School, Hull. {The Bridge House, Shrewsbury.

A/o Gat Emmerson, J. A. f Yorkshire College, Leeds.

155, Court Hill Road, Lewisham, S.E. E ffinger, F. von 28, Clyde Road, Thiblin.

Fairbanks, A. L. Melbourn, Wells, Somerset. f Spring Villa, Moat Road, E. Grinstead.

Fear, H. M. {The Vicarage, Brenchley, Paddock Wood, Kent.

The Polytechnic, Tottenham, N. Fowler, A. C. Gent, Mrs. H. C. ita-tisfpus,-eiliaap. .

(S. E. Kershaw). *Goodchild, A. C. (C.M.S. Chundicully, Jaffna, Ceylon.

1r r r, Eaton Terrace, S.W. f Grey Coat School, Westminster, S.W. Grant, M. A. 128, Linden Road, Bedford.

Grattan, E. H. G. f Grey Coat School, Westminster, S.W. 1Katharine House, Addiscombe, Croydon.

Hamilton, R. E.)3, Wallbutton Road, Brockley, S.E. RCP), 2, Hinde Street, Manchester Square, W. Hatch, E. M. f'ffigii..,1,4,0*-C4aphreri. 5- A 9,,,,14 Hedley, C. 17o, Talbot Road, Southport. A61 I-ft.1/4/4.; Hickinbotham, C. C. E., Woodlands, Rolvenden, Kent.

Hall, *Hodge, D. M. V. f!`,t. lOmbersley Road, Worcester.

Hudson, H. M. Elderslie, Bushey, Herts.

St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

Hunt, E. A. C. S.f Bishop Otter College, Chichester. {Bute Cottage, Highcliffe, Christchurch.

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*Jourdain, C. E. f The Lodge, Marlborough.

163, Chesterton Road, Cambridge. *Knox, E. M. Havergal College, Toronto.

Westminster City School.

Langston, B. 65, Warwick Square, S.W. Langston, F. M. 65, Warwick Square, S.W. *Lee, M. L. f77, Banbury Road, Oxford. / 1Leafield, Witney,

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Lidbetter, E. M.f St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

1St. Paul's Vicarage, Southampton.

4, Brunswick Square, W.C. Malone, A. Mammatt, W M. Brookside, Ilkley, Yorks.

Marriott, Mrs. J. A. R., 3, Holywell, Oxford.

(H. Robinson).

Matravers, E. C. f Eaton House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

159, Howard Place, Carlisle. f Oki Czth•ens, lRavenscliffe, Oxford Rd. ,Moseley, Birm ingham.

Medill, G. I. K. Rostrevor, Denmark Avenue, Wimbledon.

Mitchell, W. J. de L., St. Paul's Home, Salisbury.

Moberly, C. A. E. (St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford. lParsonage, Sydenham, S.E. Olivier, E. M. Wilton Rectory, Salisbury. f Diocesan Girls' School, Grahamstown, S. Africa.

Owen, E. A. lDamerham Vicarage, Salisbury.

Parsons, G. I. f High School, Falmouth.

13, York Grove, Peckham, S.E. Payan-Dawney, Mrs., 24, Upper Phillimore Place, Kensington, W. May, E. G.

(A. B. Townsend.)

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Belsize Road, S. Hampstead, N.W. f St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

Price, H. 1Claverdon Vicarage, Warwick.

Prideaux,E.M.C.f Grammar SchoolA Bradford. / r)- 5 1St. Saviour's Vidalrage, Redland, Bristol.

Rice, M. A. f St. Anne's, Abbots' Bromley, Rugeley.

1Kingscote House, East Grinstead. *Rickards, H. A. f St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

1Dixton Vicarage, Monmouth. *Selby, G. M. Avening Rectory, Stroud, Gloucestershire.

Simon, Mrs. J. A., go, York Mansions, Battersea Park.

Simpson, V. A. St. Mark's Rectory, Bexhill, Sussex.

Simpson, J. f St. Bernard's, Newton Abbott, Devon.

1Warleigh House, Southboume Road, Sheffield.

Simpson, M. L. f St. Bernard's, Newton Abbott, Devon. lWarleigh House, Southboume Road, Sheffield. *Spackman, R. J. Bowers House, Harpenden, Herts.

Sparks, B. M. f Grey Coat School, Westminster, S.W. 1Carrington Vicarage, Nottingham.

Spooner, E. M. 37, Hogarth Road, S.W. S ii,j4 Yo, Stark, H. D. M. f S4.-joaka:c-College,...S.6Leenerpsose 19, Allfarthing Lane, Wandsworth, S. NV: .

• Steer, G. E. f Godolphin High School, Salisbury.

1Ryhall VicarageStainford Stoton, F. E. Willow Bank, Eynsham, Oxon.

6-C61 ` < Titley, E. M. f St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

A 169, Brixton Hill, S.W. f Cappleside, Settle, Yorks.

Thompson, M. E. E.1Mount Ararat, Richmond.

Penny, E. M.

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/City of London School for Girls, Victoria kV, Myddelton Square, E. C. [Embankment, E. C. Ward, F. 3, Arundel Terrace, Brighton.

Wardale, E. E. f 23, Woodstock Road, Oxford.

12, Benet Place, Cambridge.

Warner, E. B. Old House, Codsall, Wolverhampton.

Watson, J. 7, Upper Cheyne Row, S.W. *Watson, E. B. L. 55, Scarsdale Villas, Kensington, W. 16, Htiakawa Cho, Gochome, Kojimachiku, *Weston, M. D. Tokio, Japan. jecCh"f"'"*"." R'—`4. / °let' {

White, S. A.

f High School, Bishop's Auckland. l3eerrAW4RIPek-gtre'etrYC

Williams, A. M. f 6, Bardwell Road, Oxford.

1Wavertree, Mulgrave Road, Croydon.

Williams, E. Bede House, Stamford.

Wilson, M. A. Horbling Vicarage, Folkingham, Lincolnshire.

Wilson, H. I. Tudor Cottage, Bushey.

Woodhouse, A. I.I'St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford. {Shrewsbury House, Surbitor e.

Wright, Mrs. C. P. f Chaukpazat Gold Mine, Nankan P.O. (New (A. L. Barker). 1 Valley Railway), Upper Burmah.

Wyld, F. M. {St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

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Where two addresses are given, the second is the permanent home address. The Editor hopes that Members will inform the Secretary of any change of address.

All Subscriptions should be paid at once to the Treasurer and not to the Secretary.

LETTERS AND NOTICES. WORK AT THE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT. Perhaps onlya fortnight's residence at the W.U.S. in Nelson Square is hardly enough reason for writing a paper on this subject. My only claim for this attempt is the fact that, as far as I know, I am the first member of St. Hugh's Hall, who has been able to spend even this short time at the Settlement.

Unforseen circumstances prevented a longer stay, but even in a fortnight enough could be seen of the work as a whole, to commend it most sincerely to increased support. There were sixteen resident workers, and many who came for a day, two days, and in a few cases every day in the week.

The "domestic arrangements" of the Settlement resemble those of College life, without the bond of a common university interest. This may be accounted for by the somewhat curious fact that none of the workers were university women, with the exception of Miss Bartlett, myself, and one other—and she was Cambridge ! There were a certain number of students whose work was entirely under supervision. A part which seemed most interesting and instructive was the weekly visit to some public or private organisation, to compare various methods of philanthropic work.

Then there were the qualified resident workers, each in charge of some particular department, and their various helpers.

The work among the Board Schools, e.g. collecting for the P.O. Savings Bank and the Country Holiday Fund, is one of the most useful and apparently most appreciated, of the branches of Settlement work. This department is one which a temporary resident can help, more than other branches, which need a longer apprenticeship.

There are various Board Schools in the vicinity of Nelson Square which are visited by the Settlement workers. We will take one as an illustration of their methods. On a certain day in each week, at a definite time, generally in school hours, the visitors arrive at the school—in this particular case a splendid, large, airy building, which possesses, amongst other attractions, a swimming-bath for its scholars. It is quite a comfort to reflect that, whatever may be the drawbacks of the present system of education, at least these poor children are compelled to spend a part of every day in healthy, large rooms. The contrast between these public buildings and their own homes must be seen to be realized.

Of course the schools which I visited may have been exceptionally fortunate, but I must remark how favourably I was impressed by the masters and mistresses in every case. It was so pleasant to

notice how they seemed able to take an interest in the poorest and most wretched of their little pupils, at the same time maintaining a high standard of discipline. One interesting event that I witnessed was the dismissal of afternoon school in the boys' department. Some five or six hundred boys marched into the central hall, one of their number, who was entirely self-taught, playing a spirited march upon the piano. A short hymn was sung, the Lord's Prayer said, a collect read by the Master, and then all marched out in the same orderly manner.

The " Settlement Ladies " are looked upon as friends by the teachers, and everything is done to help them in their work among the children. The value of this good feeling with the lawful authorities in the schools can hardly be exaggerated. Often the mistress is able to explain matters that oblige a child to draw out her small savings—the father has been ill, or out of work, the mother wants the money for boots or clothing. The utmost care is taken to ensure that the children's savings are not used except for good purposes, and each withdrawal has to be certified by a written note from someone in authority at home. It is really quite astonishing what comparatively large sums can be gradually accumulated by tiny deposits each week. Besides the actual help that such savings may be, there is the far more important training in habits of thrift and foresight, the value of which, those who have any experience of work among the poor will agree, cannot be overestimated.

Another branch of Settlement work which seems both helpful and encouraging, is the night-school or club, generally known as the " Acland." The members are boys and girls who have left School and are out at work, but who still wish to continue their education. The first hour is given up to recreation, games of draughts, chess, halma, etc., or there are books and magazines for those who prefer them. Then the work is regular and systematic teaching in various subjects. Classes are also held for drill and gymnasium. There is plenty of variety in the subjects, and the boys seem to enjoy arithmetic quite as much as the games, and to regard both as an equally interesting way of spending the evening.

Of course the attractions provided by a club like the Acland, do not appeal to the lowest class of London youth, but in keeping the better class of boys and girls from spending their evenings " in the street" much valuable preventive work is being done. One of the facts one learns very soon in such work, is that appearances go for very little as a standard of prosperity among the London poor, and it was quite a surprise to learn how poor were some

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of the homes out of which came these smart, respectable-looking boys belonging to the Acland.

The Settlement also gives help to the C.O.S., a most valuable branch of the work as giving that voluntary character to an organisation that must be worked mainly on business-like principles. But this paper must end as it began, with an apology for even venturing to attempt a description of a work so wide, so useful, and, let us hope, so enduring, as that of the Settlement. Let us all be thankful that we are able to help in any way such work. Perhaps others may be able to work for a time at the Settlement.

To them we would add that in no part of London is the need or opportunity greater than in this vast " metropolis over the Border " as it has been called.

WINIFRED M. MAMMATT. ST. HUGH'S HALL,

June, moo.

DEAR OLD STUDENTS, As Senior Student it falls to me to take up the thread of the record of St. Hugh's where C. Hedley dropped it.

In looking back upon the Hilary Term, the only impression left on one's mind is that of a general atmosphere of excitement, universal depression alternating with universal exultation. Oxford, and no less St. Hugh's, like the rest of the Empire, was perpetually " on the stretch," so to speak, for the latest war news.

It was at eleven o'clock on March ist that the tidings of the relief of Ladysmith was brought to us.

When the news was posted up in the "High," a cheer arose from a hundred undergraduates issuing from college gates and lecture rooms at the stroke of the hour. Many old Students were with us that night, but perhaps for the benefit of those who were not you would like to hear how we in this university town celebrated the glorious event. The " Broad," the " High," and St. Giles', were ablaze with bonfires and torch-lights, casting their lurid light on the old grey walls, domes and towers, and making Oxford look like an old mediatval town ; it was only when a heavy tram lumbered up St. Giles', slowly making its way through the thronging multitude, that the illusion was suddenly dispelled. All the pent-up feelings of the past months were let Mose, giving vent to an exultation so heartfelt and spontaneous, and consequently so wild and chaotic, as to defy all attempts at organisation. The Mayor, from the balcony of the Town Hall, tried to address a singing mob of war-intoxicated, well-nigh demented townspeople and undergraduates, but his voice was drowned amid patriotic vociferations and " God Save the Queen" sung in fifty different keys. We are told the University realised a sum of ,..800 in fines.

But to pursue matters relating more particularly to St. Hugh's. Owing to the energetic efforts of Miss Wylie, our interest last Term was revived for the Christian Social Union. Mr. Carter very kindly gave us an address one evening after dinner, on the general aims of the members of the Union. Miss Pearson, Miss Holgate, and Mrs. Toynbee were present, and several new members joined the Union.

The large number of members belonging to the Hockey Club alone testifies to the enthusiasm of the Hall, but the eleven had an unlucky season ; we lost all our matches. That our Club is beginning to be recognised by the other Halls is proved by the fact that our captain, M. Wyld, was tried for the " United Eleven," and had the honour of playing against " Chiswick." We hope next year she will have the good fortune to play against Cambridge. Our match

against the Old Students never came off, as Mr. Lynam's field was under water on the day it was fixed for, but H. Fear, B. Sparks, R. Hamilton, F. Stoton, A. Wilson, H. Hudson, and W. Mammatt, came for the week end, and the " Eleven " entertained them at tea in the study.

A terrible catastrophe befell the garden at the end of last Term. Our aspen, the pride of St. Hugh's, rooted up the wall between us and 15, Norham Gardens, and was quickly doomed to be felled down.

The glaring red-brick wall built up in the place of the old one, is a terrible eye-sore, and it will be a long while before the two little bare sticks, magnanimously presented to us by our next-door neighbour, in the place of our aspen, will either hide the wall or afford us any shade. By dint of re-turfing, rolling and watering, the lawn is slowly recovering from the effects of the hole made in it by the fall of the aspen, but at the beginning of the Term it was ornamented in the middle with a yellow-brown patch.

The number of birds that frequent our grounds since the departure of Mrs. Davis with her cat, is remarkable. A family of thrushes and another of blackbirds, usually joined by a pair of pigeons, frequently hold " Musical At-Homes " on our lawn.

Our greatest boon, however, has been the nightingale, for almost the whole of May we had one, and often two, trilling night and day among the trees by the Parks.

Miss Moberly's "Dante Readings " still continue to flourish ; during the last two Terms we have aimed at having two a week. Since the Bible Classes on St. John's Epistles came to an end, we have usually read through two cantos on Sunday evening. We have now come to the end of the " Purgatorio "; those who are going down very much regret that they will not hear the end of the " Divina Comedia." At the beginning of the Easter Term two new students, Miss Homer and Miss Pettersson, entered the Hall.

Miss Horner, formerly a Home Student, and now in her second year, is a great acquisition to us in the tennis line, and has taken Miss Hedley's place as champion. Miss Pettersson, who came over from Sweden in order to read in the new " Geography School " at Oxford, is rapidly curing us of our insular narrowness, and we are beginning to view things in a Swedish light, and from a Swedish standpoint.

At the beginning of this Term we were honoured with a visit from Mrs. Simon. Her little daughter, Miss Betty Simon, endured being rudely stared at by twenty-five pairs of eyes with the sweetest and most condescending amiability, though she protested at what she considered any audacious advances.

This year we did not have the traditional wet weather for " Eights," for once we had a blue sky and hot sun, and consequently there was a fine display of smart new clothes for the occasion, in the place of the usual mackintoshes and umbrellas over draggled white dresses. To the sorrow of many New College has fallen, and Magdalen has taken its place at the head of the river.

As everybody, for some reason, has arranged to take their Schools next year, there were only two victims this June. Not only did we have the traditional hot weather, but we had an unusually suffocating atmosphere. During the last two days the air became more and more sultry and oppressive, till on the afternoon of our last paper a- rainless thunderstorm broke over Oxford. The Schools were suddenly darkened and the thunder growled in the distance, gradually becoming louder and louder, till one terrific crash overhead, followed by blinding flashes of

lightning, and accompanied with a tremendous gust of wind, causing every window in the Schools to fly open simultaneously. The effect was uncanny, and with one accord we all laid down our pens and gazed at each other with an expression of blank horror and silent wonder. But the situation was too formal for anyone to express what they felt, so we gathered our scattered thoughts and resumed our several themes as if nothing had happened.

This Term Miss Turner brought a party of old girls and some of the Sixth Form of the City of London School, to spend the day in Oxford, and the Hall entertained them at tea on the lawn.

We also had visits from H. Stark, E. May, D. Grant, C. Hedley, and M. Langston, and here we must take the opportunity of thanking E. May for the present to the Library of Robert Louis Stevenson's " Virginibus Puerisque," and two Rudyard Kiplings.

These are a valuable acquisition, as we are badly in need of light literature. Miss Rice, with characteristic energy, brought a party of four girls all the way from Staffordshire one Saturday. They arrived just in time for lunch, and did Oxford in about two hours.

You will all be interested to hear that there has been such a large number of applications to the Hall for next Term that we hope before long the Hall may be enlarged. For this reason we have not yet carried out the proposal for decorating the reredos of the Chapel, although our fund is in a flourishing condition.

We fit tightly in Chapel now, and any increase in our number will demand either a new building, or the enlargement of the present one.

The St. Hugh's scholarship was gained in March by Miss Ady, in Modern Languages, although she will read History. Miss Shuttleworth has won the Ottley scholarship in Science, a new closed scholarship between. Worcester High School and St. Hugh's. We must seize the opportunity here of congratulating D. Hodge on her 3rd in Classical Mods.

Kate and Ellen are still with us. Kate has now completed her eleventh year and Ellen her tenth.

We hear disturbing rumours that Ellen is to be snatched from us before long.

And now I think I have taxed my memory to the utmost for Hall news, and so it only remains for me to send you hearty greetings and best wishes from the present students.

I. DE CASTRO (Senior Student).

M. A. Rice begs to acknowledge the receipt of the following subscriptions, which she has forwarded to St. Hugh's to be included with those of the Hall.

Women's University Settlement, Southwark.

E. Spooner.

A. Malone.

D. Abdy.

E. Watson.

M. Bulkeley. W. Mammatt.

J. Watson.

E. Matravers.

H. Fear.

E. Williams.

M. Rice.

C. Jourdain. os. od. â&#x20AC;˘ Total St. Margaret's House, Bethnal Green.

E. Grattan.

G. Steer.

D. Abdy.

F. Langston.

F. Stoton.

C. Barter.

E. Watson.

M. Birley.

E. Prideaux.

M. Bulkeley. M. Rice. â&#x20AC;˘E. Williams.

H. Fear.

M. Simpson.

Li 15s. .Total Oxford Mission to Calcutta.

G. Steer.

D. Abdy.

E. Grattan.

C. Jourdain.

F. Stoton.

C. Barter.

M. Birley.

F. Langston.

E. Watson.

M. Bulkeley. E. Prideaux.

E. Williams.

M. Simpson.

H. Fear. ,42 2S. od.

Total

At the Hall there are nineteen subscribers to St. Margaret's House, and fifteen to the Oxford Mission to Calcutta, thus making a total of thirty-three supporters of St. Margaret's House and twenty-nine of the Oxford Mission to Calcutta.

The following annual subscriptions to St. Hugh's Club, due October, 1899, have been received. All others should be paid at once to the Treasurer.

H. Hudson.

E. Spooner.

L. Ash. C. Joel.

B. Sparks.

P. Bird.

M. Langston.

M. Thompson.

A. Bond.

J. Turner.

F. Batchelor. B. Langston.

E. Lidbetter.

A. Wilson.

W. Buxton.

C. Moberly.

F. Ward.

V. Cooper.

M. Crick.

G. Medill.

E. Warner.

A. Woodhouse.

I. de Castro. A. Malone.

W. Mammatt.

F. Wyld.

F. Etlinger.

E. Owen.

A. Williams.

H. Fear.

E. Prideaux.

Mrs. Simon.

A. Fowler.

H. Price.

Mrs. Wright.

E. Grattan.

M. Rice.

C. Hedley.

E. Hunt.

H. Stark.

The Editor is very sorry to say that in the midst of London Matriculation and County Council Examinations, plus stage-managing and nursing, she forgot, till too late, to ask the Vice-Principal for notices of new books.

A. Wilson has edited for Messrs. Blackie's English Classics series, Tennyson's " Morte d'Arthur" and some of his other poems. The introduction and notes are just what are needed, and the editions deserve every success. Browning's " Strafford " is shortly to follow.

E. Hatch spent part of the winter at Cannes, and from there went with Mme. Richard (M. Hall) to the Kreuznach baths. We hope she will come back to England well and strong again.

Mrs. Simon's little girl, Betty, was born March 7th of this year. Next St. Hugh's Gaudy we certainly must have a baby party for all St. Hugh's grandchildren.

J. and M. Simpson are now heads of a Boarding and Day School for Girls at Newton Abbott, South Devon. The School is in a beautiful part of the country, and within easy reach of the sea. We wish them every success.

A. Goodchild writes that after a hot and busy Term at Jaffna, she went to Kodaikand in the Rubni Hills for a holiday. There, curiously enough, she met Miss de Selincourt, an old Somervillian, and Miss Rouse, both of whom are known by one generation of St. Hugh's students, as they spoke for the S.V.M.U. in Oxford, and at St. Hugh's.

The School in which A. Goodchild is working has seventy-six girls. All the lessons are given in English, so that it is very hard for the girls to reach the standard of an English High School, and equally difficult work for the mistresses, so that they find little time for the study of Tamil.

N. Dening has passed Pass Mods. and Holy Scripture and is now going to read for the History School. D. Hodge got a third in Classical M ods. in March. I. de Castro got a third in the Honours School of English Language and Literature, in June.

C. Ashburner has been appointed head mistress of the Lincoln High School. This is the second head mistress-ship this year, which has been offered to a St. Hugh's student.

The General Meeting, owing to Mrs. Simon's kindness, will be held at her house, 90 York Mansions (Prince of Wales Road, Battersea Park, top floor), on Saturday, July 28th, at 3.3o.