St Hugh's College, Oxford - Club Paper, Aug 1902

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f. gsugges A. Malone, Vice-President (till July, 1904).

E. M. Olivier, Editor (till July, 1904).

E. M. Spooner (till July, 1903).

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Miss Moberly, President (till July, 590.0).

J. Turner, Vice-President (till July, 1904).

C. Hedley (till July, 5903).

H. D. M. Stark (till July, 1903).

B. M. Sparks, Secretary (till July, 1904).

J. Watson, Treasurer (till July, 5904).

A. L Woodhouse (till July, 1903).

M. M. Crick (Senior Student).

Wentesers.

Abbott, A. M., 36, Grosvenor Street, Grosvenor Square, W. *Abdy, D. C. f St. Monica's, Zanzibar, S. Africa.

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

Ady, C. .Charing, Kent.

Ash, L. 29, Peak Hill Road, Croydon. *Ashburner, C. E. High School, Lincoln.

Barter, C. D. Sonning, Reading.

Batchelor, F. M. S., Letcombe Basset Vicarage, Wantage.

Bird, P. f c/o Miss White, 47,Earl's Avenue, Folkestone.

119, Colfe Road, Forest Hill, S.E. *Birley, M. H. f St. Augustine's School House, Kimberley, Cape [Colony.

12o, St. Michael's Road, Bedford. *Blamire-Brown, f Monks Risborough Rectory, Princes Risborough, Bucks.

R. E. *Braine-IIartnell, Mrs., The Cotswold Sanatorium, nr. Stroud, Glos.

(C. L. Barker).

4, Rosslyn Mansions, S. Hampstead, N.W. Browne, M. E. Bulkeley, M. M. The Rectory, Morpeth. nett, M. E. f Courteen Hall, Northampton. l59, Brompton Square, S.W. Buxton, W. E. f High School for Girls, Nottingham.

17, Bath Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick.

Cooper, V. 42, Portman Square, W. Markree Castle, Collooney, Ireland.

Cox, Mrs. A. 58, High Street, Watford.

(S. M. Iles).

Crick, M. M. f St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

1Litton Cheney Vicarage, Dorset.

Cunynghame, G. M. E., Clarendon House, East Grinstead. f The Royal School, Bath.

De Castro, I. P. M. L. 15F, Hyde Park Mansions.

Deneke, H. C. I. f St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford. roi, Denmark Hill, S.E. Dening, C. L. A. f St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford. .Manor House, Stow-on-the-Wold.

Eakin, M. L. f Church High School, Hull. .The Bridge House, Shrewsbury. *Emmerson, J. A. f Yorkshire College, Leeds.

155, Court Hill Road, Lewisham, S.E. Etlinger, F. von f I r, Elm Park Road, S.W. 1Seamount, Howth, co. Dublin.

Fairbanks, A. L. Harptree Lodge, Wells, Somerset.

Spring Villa, Moat Road, E. Grinstead.

Fear, H. M. f Belle Vue Seminary, Somerset East, Cape Flamsteed, M. M. D. 1 Colony.

Fowler, A. C. f The Polytechnic, Tottenham, N. II, Alexandra Road, Finsbury Park, N. Gent, Mrs. H. C. St. Katherine's Lodge, Knowle, Bristol.

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(S. E. Kershaw).

*Goodchild, A. C. f C.M.S. Chundicully, Jaffna, Ceylon.

Eaton Terrace, S.W. Grant, M. A. f High School, Tunbridge Wells.

128, Linden Road, Bedford.

Grattan, E. H. G. f Grey Coat School, Westminster, S.W. .Katharine House, Addiscombe, Croydon. f St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

Hales, A. M. 127, Cambridge Road, Hove, Brighton.

3, Wallbutton Road, Brockley, S.E. Hamilton, G. Hamilton, R. E. f Central Foundation School, Spital Square, E. C. 3, Wallbutton Road, Brockley, S.E.

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Hatch, E. M.

Woodcote, Grayshott, Haslemere, till Nov. 1.

Romagnieu, Par le Pont de Beauvoisin, Isere, France.

Hedley, C. f High School, Clifton.

130, Talbot Road, Southport.

Hickinbotham, Gt. Northern Central Hospital, HollowayRd., N. C. C. E.1Woodlands, Rolvenden, Kent. *Hodge, D. M. V. f Queen Anne's School, Caversham, Reading.

1229, Banbury Road, Oxford.

Homer, W. S. H. Eldersfield Vicarage, Tewkesbury, Glos.

Hudson, H. M. Elderslea, Bushey Heath.

Hunt, E. A. c/o Mrs. Hardy, Whitehall, Chigwell, Essex.

Joel, C. S. Bishop Otter College, Chichester. *Jourdain, C. E. 63, Chesterton Road, Cambridge. *Knox, E. M. Havergal College, Toronto.

Langston, B. f Westminster City School.

-165, Warwick Square, S.W. Langston, F. M. 65, Warwick Square, S.W. *Lee, M. L. f 77, Banbury Road, Oxford.

Leafield, Witney, Oxon.

Levett, D. M. N. The Parsonage, Brenchley, Kent.

Lidbetter, E. M. f The Thomlinson School, Wigton, Cumberland.

St. Paul's Vicarage, Southampton.

Ludwig, D. f St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

1Grey Coat School, Westminster, S.W. Malone, A. 4, Brunswick Square, W.C. Mammatt, W. M. Brookside, Ilkley, Yorks.

Marriott, Mrs. J. A. R., 92, Woodstock Road, Oxford.

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(H. Robinson).

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

19, Howard Place, Carlisle.

The Intermediate School for Girls, Pontypool.

May, E. G. Ravens Clift, Oxford Rd. ,Moseley, Birmingham.

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

Mitchell, W. J. de L., The Oaks, Rondebosch, Capetown.

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

Owen, E. A. -1Damerham Vicarage, Salisbury.

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

16, Hilltop Road, West End Lane, Hampstead.

Payan Dawnay, Mrs., 48, St. Mary Abbots Terrace, Kensington,W. (A. B Townsend).

St. Thomas' Sisterhood, Oxford. f Queen Anne's School, Caversham, Reading.

1Dodderhill Vicarage, Droitwich.

Prideaux,E.M.C. f Grammar School for Girls, Bradford. land, Bristol.

1 St. Saviour's Vicarage, Red Ramsay, Mrs. A. S., 75, Chesterton Road, Cambridge.

Penny, E. M. Price, H.

(A. Wilson).

f St. Anne's, Abbots' Bromley, Rugeley.

11Cingscote House, East Grinstead. *Rickards, H. A. f Thomlinson School, Wigton.

1Dixton Vicarage, Monmouth.

Mill House, Eynsford, Kent. *Selby, G. M. Shuttleworth,f St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

M. A. {Choir School, College Green, Worcester.

Rice, M. A.

Simon, Mrs. J. A., Weylea, Old Woking, Surrey.

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

Simpson, J.

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

1Warleigh House, Southbourne Road, Sheffield.

Simpson, M. L. f St. Bernard's, Newton Abbott, Devon. tWarleigh House, Southbourne Road, Sheffield. *Spackman, R. J. Haddon Lodge, Penn Fields, Wolverhampton.

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

Spooner, E. M. 7, Station Road, Kew Gardens, Surrey.

Stark, H. D. M. f Graham Street High School, S.W. t 9, Allfarthing Lane, Wandsworth, S.W. f Godolphin High School, Salisbury.

Steer, G. E. lRyhall Vicarage, Stamford.

The Warren, Eynsham, Oxon.

Stoton, F. E. Swetenham, Mrs. -

(E. B. L. Watson).

Titley, E. M. 169, Brixton Hill, S.W. f St. Nicholas, Pierremont Avenue, Broadstairs.

Thompson, M. E. E.1Cappleside, Settle, Yorks. f City of London School for Girls, Victoria Turner, J. E. 141, Myddelton Square, E. C. [Embankment, E. C. St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

Vaux, E. Park View, Grosvenor Road, St. Helens, Lanes.

Ward, F. Wardale, E. E.,f St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

Ph.D. 12, Benet Place, Cambridge.

Warner, E. B. (Marks Barn, Hinton St. George, Crewkerne.

101d House, Codsall, Wolverhampton.

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Watson, J.

7, Upper Cheyne Row, S.W. *Weston, M. D. {16, Hfiakawa Cho, Gochome, Kojimachiku, Tokio, Japan.

16, Chalfont Road, Oxford.

White, S. A., Auckland School, De la Warr Road, Bexhill-on-Sea. Wigg, M. E. f St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

18, de Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, S.E. Wiglesworth, H. E., Collegiate School, Maritzburg, South Africa.

Willett, G. f St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

The Cedars, Chiselhurst, Kent.

Williams, A. M., 19, Carlingford Road, Hampstead Heath, N. W. Williams, E. f 24, Walpole Street, Chelsea, S.W. Bede House, Stamford.

Willson, Mrs. N., Ansgar, Hilperton, Trowbridge.

(A. Bond).

Wilson, H. I. f cto Rev. G. Wilkinson, 51, Upper George St., t Bryanston Square.

Woodhouse, A. I. f St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford.

1Shrewsbury House, Surbiton.

Woodman, H. Ivy Cottage, Beeding, Sussex.

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

Wyld, F. M. f Physical Training College, Dartford.

1Grittleton Rectory, Chippenham.

Where two addresses are given, the second is the permanent home address. The Editor hopes that Members will inform • Denotes life-membership.

All Subscriptions should be paid at once to the Treasurer and not to the Secretary. the Secretary of any change of address.

LETTERS AND NOTICES. The Seventh General Meeting of the Club was held on Saturday, April 26th, 19oz, at St. Hugh's Hall, Oxford. Miss Moberly in the chair.

The minutes of the last meeting were read and adopted, and the meeting proceeded to discuss the agenda laid before them by the Committee.

Miss Spooner brought forward the motion 1. which she had spoken of at a previous meeting to the effect that " votes may be sent in writing both for members of Committee and for Resolutions." Asking permission of the members present to alter the wording of the motion, and to give it in the form of two motions, as follows :(a) That important motions introduced by members, after discussion at a meeting, shall be postponed until the votes of the Society have been obtained. (b) That votes on elections may be recorded by letter without previous discussion.

Permission was unanimously accorded to Miss Spooner, and she therefore moved "that important motions introduced by members, after discussion at a meeting, shall be postponed until the votes of the Society have been obtained." This motion was seconded by Miss R. E. Hamilton.

Miss Olivier pointed out that, if this motion were carried, fuller minutes would be necessary, as the whole Club would need to hear the discussion on the motion through the medium of the Club paper.

Miss Sparks also represented to the members that, in the event of this motion being passed, the discussion of the motion would take place at the meeting at which the proposer first mentioned it. In other words, the discussion would take place at the meeting at which heretofore only " notice " of the motion has been given.

Miss Joel then moved that the word " all " be substituted for the word " important " in the motion.

Miss Grant seconded this amendment.

The amendment " that all motions introduced by members may, after discussion at a meeting, be postponed till the votes of the Society have been obtained " was then put to the vote. There voted—

For the amendment Against

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18 The amendment was therefore lost by 15 votes. The original motion " that important motions," etc., was put before the meeting and carried unanimously.

Miss Spooner next moved " that votes on elections may be recorded by letter without previous discussion." This was seconded by Miss R. E. Hamilton, and carried unanimously. z. The date of the Summer General Meeting was discussed, and the 26th of July was proposed by Miss Mammatt as a suitable date, and seconded by Miss L. Ash. This date was carried unanimously.

3. The election of the "Old Students' Missionary Secretary" was then discussed. Miss Moberly gave several reasons shewing that such an appointment was useful, the most cogent one being, in her opinion, the fact that in subscribing as a Hall to any Society more opportunities arose of helping the Society than is the case in individual subscription.

Miss Olivier proposed Miss Mammatt as a successor to Miss Rice. This proposal was seconded

by Miss de Castro, and carried unanimously.

4. Miss Olivier gave notice that she would bring forward a motion at the next General Meeting to the effect that " this Committee have general powers of management of the Society."

5. Miss Spooner proposed a vote of thanks to Miss Moberly and to the Council of St. Hugh's Hall for their great kindness in welcoming the Old Students at the Gaudy which had just taken place. This vote of thanks was unanimously carried.

There were present at the meeting the following members of Committee : the President, Secretary, Editor, Senior Student, and the Misses Woodhouse, Spooner, and Mammatt, and the following members : the Misses R. Hamilton, Grant, Hodge, Malone, V. A. Simpson, Turner, Lee, de Castro, Deneke, Browne, G. Hamilton, Cunynghame, Grattan, Stoton, Joel, Horner, Price, Ady, Batchelor, Wardale, Wyld, Wigg, Lidbetter, Crick, and Woodman.

The General Meeting of the Club was held on -

Saturday, July 26th, 1902, at 65, Warwick Square; S.W., by kind permission of Mrs. Langston. Miss Moberly in the chair.

The minutes of the last meeting were read and adopted, and the meeting then proceeded to discuss the Agenda which had been previously laid before them.

1. The election of officers to fill the places of those retiring from the Committee. The following nominations were made and carried unanimously : Miss Moberly.

As President Proposed by Miss Sparks.

Seconded by Miss Langston.

Miss Malone.

As Vice-President Proposed by Miss Moberly.

Seconded by Miss Sparks.

Miss Turner.

Ditto Proposed by Miss Buxton.

Seconded by Miss Ash. Miss Olivier.

As Editor Proposed by Miss Ash. Seconded by Miss Grattan.

Miss J. Watson.

As Treasurer Proposed by Miss Moberly.

Seconded by Mrs. Simon.

Miss Sparks.

As Secretary Proposed by Miss Spooner.

Seconded by Miss Ludwig.

2. In Miss Olivier's absence Miss Stark proposed that " the St. Hugh's Club Committee have general powers of management of the Society."

This was seconded by Miss Ash and carried unanimously.

A vote of thanks to Mrs. Langston was proposed

by Miss Turner, seconded by Miss E. A. Owen, and unanimously carried.

There were present at the meeting : Miss Moberly, Miss M. Langston, Miss B. Langston, Miss Owen, Miss Sparks, the Misses R. E. and G. Hamilton, Miss Ash, Miss Browne, Miss Williams, Miss Turner, and Miss Buxton.

ST. HUGH'S HALL MISSIONARY SUBSCRIPTIONS. Women's University Settlement.— C. Jourdain, J. Emmerson, H. Fear, E. Watson, E. Williams, A. Malone, E. Spooner, E. Prideaux, G. Parsons, M. Rice, M. Bulkeley, Mrs. Simon, W. Mammatt.

Oxford Mission to Calcutta. M. Rice, D, Hodge, H. Fear, M. Bulkeley, M. Burnett, F. Stoton, W. Horner, E. Williams, E. Grattan, E. Lidbetter, H. Price, C. Barter, E. Prideaux, Mrs. Simon.

St. Margaret's Oxford House.—F. Stoton, E. Williams, M. Burnett, E. Grattan, H. Fear, M. Rice, D. Hodge, M. Bulkeley, I. de Castro, C. Barter, W. Horner, E. Lidbetter, H. Price, E. Prideaux, Mrs. Simon.

The above subscriptions were received March —June, 19o2. For the future all subscriptions should be paid in October, in accordance with the resolution passed at the General Meeting of S.H.C. on April 26th. All subscriptions sent to Miss Mammatt, Brookside, Ilkley, between October 1st and 31st, will be acknowledged by post card.' If subscriptions are sent later than October 31st, 1902, they should be sent direct to Secretaries of the various Missions, i.e., W.U.S., Miss E. G. Powell, Long Wall, Walton-onThames ; O.M.C., Miss Donne, 4., Warnborough Road, Oxford ; St. Margaret's Oxford House, Miss Anson, All Souls College, Oxford.

It has been proposed to place shields bearing

the names of the different occupants in each room at St. Hugh's. Will those who are willing to support this proposal send in their names to Miss Wardale, z8, Norham Gardens, Oxford, stating when they were at the Hall and which rooms they occupied ? Some of the old Students are willing to provide shields for the rooms they first occupied if a general desire is shewn by past and present Students to carry out the plan.

DEAR OLD STUDENTS, We have little of particular interest to record about the Hilary Term. It was an unusually trying one for Miss Moberly, owing to the illness of our Vice-Principal, Miss Mammatt, who was unfortunate enough to contract pleurisy early in the Term.

The O.U.D.S. this year played The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and, as usual, most of us were kind enough to shew our appreciation of the histrionic talent displayed by the undergraduates, by being present at one of the representations. The actor who seems to have earned the most universal commendation was " Crab, my dog," though no disrespect is intended towards the other performers. One new student, Frances McCall (St. Andrews), was added to our numbers during this Term.

The Summer Term might almost have been mistaken for the October Term, as far as warmth is concerned. This is especially disappointing for those who are going down, as they had looked forward to spending a good deal of their time in the Hall's late acquisition—a punt presented by the following : L. Ash, F. Batchelor, E. M. Browne, G. Cunynghame, G. Hamilton, E. Hunt, E. Lidbetter, W. Homer, H. Price, H. Rickards, D. Titley, B. Warner, T. Woodhouse, H. Woodman, M. Wyld. We have christened our punt The Cygnet, as we wish to keep up old traditions, and after much agitation as to its resting-place, it has found a temporary home near the Rhea bathing-place. Its popularity has not been lessened by the fact that access to it has been somewhat difficult, being obtained only by struggling across swamps and under wire fences.

Several members of the Hall, growing ambitious, have hired " canaders " for the Term, and these, too, in spite of unfavourable weather, have seen a considerable amount of exercise.

Picnics have been a somewhat questionable form of enjoyment, and have several times had to be abandoned altogether by those who do not look upon luncheon and tea taken in a punt or on a bank amidst heavy showers of rain as quite. the height of bliss. The " Schools " people, who look upon the river as their peculiar property during the last ten days of Term, feel somewhat defrauded of any small compensation for the evils of " going down." However, hope which " springs eternal in the human breast," leads us to watch each morning for the sun which seems to have almost forgotten Oxford in its daily ministration. We might, perhaps, connect this fact with another, namely the pollarding of most of the willows on the Char. This has left singularly little shade on the stretch of water we most frequent, but we do not resent so much, as we should have done in a hotter summer, these efforts to tidy the river for the Coronation. Another result of the aforementioned somewhat damp weather has been the falling through of a tennis match arranged between Past and Present Students of the Hall.

The Present Students, in spite of F. Etlinger's congratulations on their good luck on this occasion, much regret that the match did not come off.

It is with great pleasure that we have to record that F. M. Wyld has been chosen to play in the second couple against Cambridge, on Saturday, June 21st. We only hope that Oxford may once more be successful, as it has been for so many years.

The S. H. sociable, held at St. Hugh's this Term, took the form of a lecture on the pictures of G. F. Watts, R.A., given by Mrs. Ady (Julia Cartwright).

The lecture was particularly interesting, because Mrs. Ady is a personal friend of Mr. Watts, and was therefore able to give us the painter's own interpretation of his works. She was kind enough to shew us beautiful reproductions of most of the principal pictures and of some of the portraits. We are grateful to her for a most enjoyable evening. During the last fortnight of Term, Miss Moberly has instituted a practice of holding short after-dinner " At Homes " twice a week. On one evening the Hall displays its ingenuity with regard to round games, or else its musical talent. On the other evening it acquires some knowledge of politics from an article or speech read aloud out of the Standard or some periodical.

The system of " politics made easy " seems to suit many members of the Hall, who are either too lazy or too busy (let us suppose the latter) to read up for themselves political articles on the burning questions of the hour.

We have this Term welcomed not only one new student, P. de B. F. Bowen-Colthurst (Corran, Watford), but also one old Student, Isabel Woodhouse, who has returned to Oxford to take the training course for teachers. She will probably be up for another two Terms, and we are all as glad to see her again as she is herself to return to the scene of her labours and successes.

We are sure that all members of St. Hugh's Club will be delighted to hear of the good fortune which has befallen St. Hugh's library. Our librarian, Miss Mammatt, who has taken the greatest interest in our small but growing stock of books, bethought herself that it might be possible to obtain a grant of books in the roll series from His Majesty's Stationer. She therefore dispatched an appeal to Westminster, in which she represented the great need of books for St. Hugh's library, and the extreme pleasure which His Majesty would experience in bestowing his bounty upon so worthy an object. The result has been beyond our hopes. Two large packing cases full of books were deposited at our door the other day, and when opened were found to contain 165 volumes of this valuable series. The library is to be completely furnished with bookshelves, which will be put up during the Long.

Much uneasiness seems to be felt by some members of the Hall as to the future of the so popular sofa, but these murmurs do not seem likely to meet with much attention. Those of us who are going down naturally look upon such trivial objections as quite beneath contempt. We are very grateful to Miss Mammatt for the card catalogue which she has given to the library, and feel sure that future librarians will rejoice in it.

My thanks are due to E. M. Browne for helping me with this letter, which in the press of Schools a week after Term, might, I fear, have been very short, but for her timely assistance.

With all best wishes for a pleasant Long, and hopes that mackintoshes and umbrellas may be no more seen among us during the next few months.

LILIAN ASH, Senior Student.

POST-CARDS TO THE EDITOR. Below will be found the post cards which I have received in answer to those I sent out last month, and I want most warmly to thank those who have contributed to what I hope most readers will agree with me is a really interesting addition to the paper.

It must have been most difficult to think of what to say, but I think people have risen to the occasion valiantly, and I can only hope that others will be as interested in reading the post cards as I have been. I have printed all I received, including those from people whose " news" consisted in saying they had " no news," as I believe this is proverbially supposed to be the best news of all. I hope every member living in England received a post card, but if anyone missed, I am very sorry.

EDITH M. OLIVIER. I fear I have no personal news of much interest to contribute for the benefit of College friends. I think most of them know that when the private teaching with which I had been engaged for five years drew to a close rather more than twelve months ago, I took the opportunity of the break to rest from teaching for a while. It is possible that for reasons of health I may seek other kinds of work, rather than resume teaching in the future, but so far I have not been able to settle anything definite. My whereabouts is still Kew Gardens, though just now I am away on holiday and cure at Woodhall Spa. July 28, 1902.

E. M. SPOONER. " Happy the nation which has no history." This about describes my condition since I left S. H. H., just four years ago.

I have been living at home, at first doing very little, as the result, not, I am afraid, of hard work at S.H.H., but of the Oxford climate. Latei on I helped to teach my young sister and two or three other children. But now she has just gone to school, and I have betaken myself to housekeeping for an occupation, and housekeeping is no small matter for a party of sixteen, as we generally are in the holidays. I have been lucky enough to go twice abroad, and in fact am just back from Italy as fit as can be.

Affectionate remembrances to all old friends, Yours, MARGARET BULKELEY. I am only a singer, and quite beneath the consideration of University ladies. But if such microbes interest old friends at all, I gave a Concert on April 29, in Salle Erard. Have sung at several provincial concerts and At-Homes in London ; have passed the exam. for Associate of National College of Music, and wear a black gown and cap adorned with lavender at their meetings and examinations in future, and carry the letters A.N.C. M. after my name on the brass plate outside the hall door of my new flat in South Kensington. I am having lessons from Henry J. Wood, the Queen's Hall Conductor, on Oratorio.

Give about fifteen lessons weekly myself, and am going to Douglas Castle to teach the Ladies Isobel and Margaret Douglas Home for three weeks in September. In November I give a Concert in Dublin with Miss Maud Powell, and in London with Miss May Fussell. Adieu.

F. ETLINGER. Carlingford Road, Hampstead Heath, N.W. July 25, 1902.

After teaching in Mr. Lynam's school in Oxford for three years I was obliged to come home last term to keep house, at least for a time, so my address is this Hampstead one for the present. I have been doing some temporary work in Heddon Court Preparatory School here, and have some private pupils, chiefly foreigners.

ALICE M. WILLIAMS. 19,

169, Brixton Hill, London, S.W. July 24.

I have no news to give about myself, except that I am probably going to a Training College in September after a short stay in Belgium.

E. M. TITLEY.

I have no news that would be interesting for the report I fear.

A. MALONE.

West Kent County Hospital, Maidstone.

July 24.

St. Bernard's, Newton Abbot.

Dear Miss Olivier, I am afraid I have very little to tell you. We are always so busy during term time that there is little apart from the school to relate. Margaret and I are going to Switzerland for a few weeks in the holidays, taking with us two of our girls.

J. SIMPSON. I had the joy of another summer term at S. Hugh's., while working at the Teachers' Training Course, so am perhaps hardly entitled to have my say as an old student. But I had one curious and interesting experience which does not fall to the lot of many. I was lucky enough to get the short-lived but lucrative appointment of amanuensis to a blind man who was in the Schools for English. We had a room to ourselves, and invigilator to ourselves, and worked hard. You can imagine the interest of so seeing into another mind, and that of exceptional quality, tho' limited experience. The gentleman came out with a good first.

I. WOODHOUSE. The Royal School, Bath.

Your card arrived when I was in the midst of correcting exams. and adding up marks. For the last week I have been working nine or ten hours a day, but the pile of corrections lying in front of me as I write does not seem to diminish.

Holidays begin on 31st of July and I am looking forward to spending a month in Paris. Ever yours, I. de CASTRO. Whitehall, Chigwell Row, Essex.

Since I left S. Hugh's last year I have been teaching in a family in one of the prettiest parts of that much-maligned county of Essex. Chigwell Row, as some people may know, is the scene of Dickens' novel, " Barnaby Rudge," and the famous " Maypole " inn, still in existence, though under another name, stands about two miles away. I have five pupils of ages varying from nine to nearly fourteen, and I teach them French, German, Botany, Music, and all English subjects. They have drawing and violin lessons from outsiders. They are exceedingly lively children and, as one may imagine, I have my hands pretty full. This vacation I am going to one of the French University courses at Villerville, in Normandy, with Elsie May, another old S. Hugh's student. It sounds a most delightful way of rubbing up one's modern languages. The diploma which the French authorities grant after the exam. at the end of the course is well worth having, I believe.

Yours sincerely, ETHEL HUNT. I I, Alexandra Road, Finsbury Park, N. My life at present is an ordinary teacher's one, of course very busy, but to day gladdened by the beginning of the summer holidays. Tottenham doesn't sound a nice place, but it certainly has the advantage of being most bracing.

A. C. FOWLER. Marks Barn, Crewkerne.

There is nothing to say except that I am still alive and still here, and I did not get my last Club Paper, I think.

Sat..

E. B. WARNER.

Rostrevor, Denmark Avenue, Wimbledon.

You ask for news of me. I am living at home once more, and am enjoying life immensely. A considerable amount of my time is spent in instilling, or endeavouring to instil, an average quantity of wisdom into youthful minds, and the rest is spent in a so far vain attempt to make myself more proficient in the ordinary duties of life, duties in which I trust my fellowmembers of S.H.H. Club are less deficient than Your devoted scribe, G. MEDILL.

I have just finished my first year of school teaching at the Intermediate School for Girls in Pontypool. The work has been most interesting, and the girls, though some come from very poor homes, are delightful to teach. They are very fond of games too, and we have very flourishing Hockey, Tennis, and Cricket Clubs. I teach English Language and Literature throughout the School and French in the Upper Forms, so I am very lucky in having only my own special subjects to teach.

E. G. MAY. It is difficult to give news about oneself. Perhaps my marriage hasn't been in, I don't know when the last Club Paper was. I was married on April 2nd, at Horbling, to Arthur Stanley Ramsey, fellow and assistant tutor at Magdalen College, Cambridge. Since then we have had two honeymoons, the first in the Isle of Wight, the second just now in Switzerland for three weeks. At first Cambridge seemed to me very much the wrong University, but I am getting quite reconciled, and hold myself more favoured than most people in having two Universities.

My husband is a mathematician, 'so we can't talk shop. Two school books I edited came out last summer. Browning's " Strafford," published by Mackie, and " Selection of Lamb's Essays," published by Blackwood. I am by way of doing some more work for Blackwood now, but I have not decided which of several things it is to be. That's quite enough egotistical.

AGNES RAMSEY (AGNES WILSON).

Hawthorn Dene, Falmouth.

I have been so busy with the end of Term that your request has been forgotten. I am afraid my news is quite uninteresting.

I am still at the Falmouth High School as Second Mistress.

This is an uneventful place, though correspondingly peaceful.

Our school has just scored two successes in cricket. One against the very junior Grammar School boys, and one against the Falmouth ladies. We have also just given a most successful entertainment in aid of the school library.

G. PARSONS. The facts are these—I have been teaching privately in London for the past two or three years, and am now at home for the holidays and looking out for another pupil. Mine always seem to go away to live in the country 1 I go to Harrogate with a sister the end of this month to drink the waters. Please make this account nice and interesting for me !

Yours, E. WILLIAMS. S. Monica's, Zanzibar.

Feast of S. John the Baptist.

Dear Editor, You ask for an account of my work. As yet, it has been chiefly lying in bed or else grinding at Swahili, for fever has never let me have much more than a fortnight's uninterrupted school work at Magila. The time was long enough though to realize the joy of teaching in a Mission School. The first hour at Magila is always given up to Scripture or Catechism, and then, instead of being taught in classes, Christians, Catechumens, and Hearers all file off in different directions.

After that the whole school reassembles to wrestle with the three Rs—the tinies shout A B C or tables to a monotonous sort of chant, and the elders grasp pen and slate pencil with determined energy and look agonised over a long division sum.

The girls never reach a very high standard, but it is not wonderful, as they have so many interruptions to their work.

Days off to work in the shamba, to cut wood, or tend sheep ; days off on account of the heavy rains which make river and paths impassable ; and then the final interruption of marriage when they are only fifteen or sixteen. No one seems to find the teaching of rudiments monotonous though, for all the time one realizes how the necessity for hard work, accuracy and neatness, is putting backbone into the girls, and making it easier for them to resist the slack, self-indulgent habits of the heathen round.

Even if one were tempted to get disheartened by slow progress, one would be cheered at once by the sight of the reverent devotion of the Christian children at the Sunday Eucharist, or by the services when Catechumens are baptised or Hearers receive their crosses.

Morning school begins 7.45, soon after the daily Eucharist, and goes on to 11.30 ; then in the afternoon there is a sewing class for the school children or for women. A walk, the daily Offices and study of Swahili or Bondei, fill up the rest of the day, and by the time Compline is over one is quite tired and ready enough to crawl under the mosquito net to one's kitanda with its two blankets. A quiet, uneventful life, is it not ?

Its even tenor is only stirred by the arrival, once a fortnight, of the German mail, with its news of the outside world. Yet life could not well he happier. It has had to come to an end though, for the doctor's fiat has gone forth that I am to stay in Zanzibar, so that will mean new work, under the hard conditions of a cosmopolitan seaport town with a very strong Mahommedan and heathen element.

DORA C. ABDY. 92, Woodstock Road, Oxford, July 27th.

Have been away from home, so fear this is rather late. I am barren of news of any interest, save that we have left our old house and become suburban dwellers !

H. MARRIOTT. 27th July, 5902.

First of all will you have our address—Miss Rickards' and mine—altered in the Club Paper ? It should be— The Thomlinson School, Wigton, Cumberland.

It is a strange coincidence that we should have succeeded Miss Wiglesworth, also of St. Hugh's. She has now gone to the Collegiate School, Pietermaritzburg. This is a small school in a small place, and we little thought we should come across any name we knew. The school has only been in existence for less than three years, and at present the staff consists of three, including the Headmistress. We are therefore obliged to teach a good many subjects. At present we are busy getting up sports for the Speech Day on Wednesday.

Yours, E. M. LIDBETTER.

There is nothing of interest to tell you connected with Wigton.

Fortunately it has pretty country round it, and is within easy reach of the Lakes. We have twice spent a few days at Keswick.

While there at Whitsuntide I came across Ethel Prideaux, who was cycling through ; we just had time to exchange a few words.

It was a great pleasure to meet a friend from St. Hugh's.

Yours, H. A. RICKARDS. July 27/02.

Malta Villa, Worsley Road, Southsea.

I have not much news about myself which would interest St. Hugh's friends. I am just leaving a small school in Southsea after a very pleasant year's work among about thirty little boys.

I was most fortunate in being there in June and having the pleasure of seeing and going round the fleet assembled at Spithead and thus getting a part if not all of the Coronation magnificence.

EVELINE BLAMIRE-BROWN.

Queen Anne's School, Caversham.

I am still teaching here, and at Christmas the Classical Mistress left, so I stepped into her shoes. I have just heard that one of our girls will want to try for a Scholarship at Oxford three years hence, either in Classics or History, so I shall put my spoke in for St. Hugh's. I have got a good amateur photograph of Miss Moberly at her bureau in the drawing-room, and just wondered if would be possible and acceptable to offer a copy for the Club Paper. II. Price comes here next Term, so there will be two St. Hugh's folk. Yours, D. M. HODGE. I am giving up private teaching this Term• to take the post of History Mistress at Queen Anne's School, Caversham, near Reading. I must also tell you of a change of home address. It is now—Dodderhill Vicarage, Droitwich, not Claverdon.

25. vii. 02.

HELENA PRICE.

Dear Miss Olivier, At your request I am sending you some information with regard to myself, though I doubt if it will be of general interest. For nine years I was on the staff of the Nottingham High School for Girls, and was then appointed Head Mistress of the Lincoln High School, where I have worked for more than two years. The School building is modern and both handsome and well situated ; the staff is highly qualified and efficient ; and the pupils, 220 in number, range in age from four to 20 years.

Besides these, there are about fifty Bye-Students, i.e. those who come to the School for special subjects. Besides the usual class subjects, we have classes for French and German Conversation, Typewriting, Shorthand, Cookery, Dressmaking, Dancing, etc.

Students are trained for Kindergarten, and for Music Teaching.

I shall always be glad to see any St. Hugh's Student who is within reach of Lincoln. Last Summer I spent in America, and now I am off to Norway.

C. E. ASHBURNER.

S. Katharine's Lodge, Pylle Hill, Bristol, July 25th, 1902.

Six thousand people packed into half a square mile of monotonous streets do not form surroundings calculated to inspire literary effort ! If one lives right in the middle of them, as I do, they are intensely interesting, but to readers of the Club Paper they might seem dull ! One feels very like a torpedo, I think, entirely submerged most of the year, but occasionally appearing on the surface and catching glimpses of the rest of the world.

The Club Paper seems like a link with another world, and will be all the more interesting if it contains peeps into other people's existences.

E. GENT. Am sorry I have no special news for you. Everything is going on as usual. We are away on a holiday, or would have answered sooner.

Ventnor, July 23, 1902.

A. B. DAWNA.Y.

I am still living abroad with Madame Richard (Miss Hall), quite in the country, in the South East of France. I am going back to England at the beginning of August for three months, and then expect to return again to Romagnieu. I am stronger now, but not able to do any work yet.

E. HATCH. Mill House, Eynsford, Kent.

I am afraid I have no news that would interest the readers of St. Hugh's Club Paper, as I am living at home and not doing anything very remarkable !

G. SELBY. Auckland House School, Bexhill-on-Sea. I am afraid I have nothing important or interesting to say about my doings. I gave up my School at Bishop Auckland last July in consequence of my sister having left me to join the University Mission to Central Africa. I started a School here last September, and shall probably remain here for a long time to come.

S. AMY WHITE. Central Foundation School, Spital Square, E. Behold the " few lines " on this very mangled post card. I feel rather like the mouse in " Alice in Wonderland," when called upon for its " long and sad tale," only I can't lay claim to having such an interesting appendage. I think most people know that I left St. Anne's last Midsummer, and that I have been teaching for two Terms at the above School. I teach 23 " ancient duffers " almost everything, and have many struggles with them, mentally and morally—it hasn't got to physically yet, and I believe the only method that appeals to this class of child is throwing a beefsteak ! May I be preserved from that ! We have many Jewesses, and have special Jewish prayers for them.

R. E. HAMILTON. Katharine House, Croydon, 23.vii.o2.

I am very sorry not to be able to send what you ask, but I have absolutely no news that would interest St. Hugh's friends.

Yours very sincerely, E. H. G. GRATTAN. High School for Girls, Nottingham, 23.7.02.

I am afraid there is nothing of much interest to relate about myself. I am at present Classical Mistress at the High School here, and I am very lucky in having some quite advanced classics.

I have girls to prepare for the London Intermediate B.A., London Matriculation and Higher Certificate, so that my work is extremely interesting. I am also Form Mistress of the Lower IV., a form of about 33 girls.

WINIFRED E. BUXTON.

The Lodge, Marlborough College, Wilts, July 22, 1902.

Dear Miss Olivier, It is not very easy to give news of one's self on a p.c.

But I will do what I can. I am giving up my work here at the end of this Term, and mean to take a rest, which I hope need only be temporary. My chief ambition at this moment is to do absolutely nothing, but I have some thoughts of going abroad for the winter. Will you give only my home address (63, Chesterton Road, Cambridge) in the list of addresses ? I have till now thought of giving up my work as an unmitigated misfortune, but at least it has provided me with an item of news for this p.c. ! Yours, C. E. JOURDAIN.

c/o Miss White, 47, Earl's Avenue, Folkestone, July 22rd, 1902.

I have been here in a private school since January, rpo ; very nice girls and very congenial work. Before that I was in a High School at Liverpool for two Terms. I am so glad to hear some news of St. Hugh's. It seems ages since I had a Club Paper. Could you let the Secretary have my school address, as I do not know who is Secretary now. I think I must have missed some of the papers. Hope to see the Simpsons in the holidays in Switzerland, where I went last year, and the year before to Germany. One of the girls here has been taught by Miss Barter. P. BIRD. July 23rd, 5902.

Thank you much for your kind invitation. I am afraid I have nothing to send you.

V. A. SIMPSON.

7, Upper Cheyne Row, S.W., July 21, 1902.

I am sorry I can give you no news, as I am still coaching, and have been extra busy this summer, as I have had pupils in for the London Intermediate Examination, Cambridge Higher Local, Responsions, and Newnham Coll. Entrance Examination, and am off for my holidays on Friday, so am unable to attend Club Meeting. Yours, J. WATSON. I am now living very quietly in the country, near Wolverhampton, with an old uncle, his daughter, Dr. and Mrs. Spackman. I am quite well and happy.

I remain, yours truly, R. J. SPACKMAN. Godolphin School, Salisbury, July 21, 1902.

I have been teaching Classics on the Staff of the Godolphin School, Salisbury, for the last two-and-a-half years.

G. E. STEER. In answer to your -request for news of myself, I am sorry to say that I have nothing interesting enough to appear in the Club Paper. I am at present living quietly at home, enjoying a " dolce far niente," but I hope to get a Latin pupil or two next Term. Yours truly, D. M. LEVETT. The Parsonage, Brenchley.

I left St. Hugh's five years ago, and have spent those five years at East Grinstead as a private governess, teaching the same two girls all the time, going to them daily. They are now "out," so need me no longer. The future is a blank !

HILDA FEAR. I am afraid I have not much news to give you. I am still going in to Trinity every day, teaching Prof. Pelham's daughter, and have changed my address to—The Warren, Eynsham.

F. E. STOTON. Cromer Hall, Leeds, July 22nd, 5902.

I have nothing fresh to add to what is already known. My function here is Lecturer in Education at the Day Training College of the Yorkshire College, Leeds. I train both primary and secondary teachers, the latter taking either the Cambridge or Victoria Teachers' Diploma. I also am Superintendent of the Women's Department at this College, and this year I am President of the College Literary and Historical Society.

Yours truly, J. A. EMMERSON.

Girls' Grammar School, Bradford, July 23rd, '02.

I spent a fortnight with a friend at Whitsuntide in the English Lake District, and spent the time walking and cycling.

We climbed Skiddaw, Scafell Pike, and Helvelyn, besides seeing some of the chief passes and the lakes. I met H. Richards quite unexpectedly in Keswick, and heard news of S.H.H. Gaudy. I am going to Switzerland in August. I fear this is not of much interest or value, but such as it is I send it.

E. M. C. PRIDEAUX. Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway Road, N., July 25th, '02.

In reply to your card, I have been here going on for two years, as a hospital nurse. It is a general hospital, the surgical work being especially good. Owing to my spare time being very limited, I have never been able to go to a Club 'Meeting. Any letters would find me here till next March twelvemonth.

C. HICKINBOTHAM. St. Hugh's and teaching—for me—are quite a thing of the past. I am now looking after chickens and ducklings (and my brother) on what my friends kindly call a " waste howling wilderness," six miles from everywhere, on the top of the Mendips. It is a delightful experience, and I hope my old S.H.H. friends are having as good a time. By-the-bye, I want a partner, won't one of them join me ? If so, please write to N. FAIRBANKS, Harptree Lodge, near Wells, Som.

77, Banbury Road, Oxford, July 22/1d, 1902.

I fear I have nothing to record but work, which though of absorbing interest to me, cannot be otherwise than dull for others to hear about. My time is divided between coaching and teaching, in Middle English chiefly, at Oxford, and carrying out the duties of lecturer in Old English, Middle English, and Eng. Lit., generally at King's College, London. During Vacation some of my London pupils are usually at Oxford, reading with me, and occasionally a St. Hugh's student, staying up for examination or otherwise, joins the party at 77. This makes the Vacations almost as happy and busy as the Terms, very different to the long and comparatively idle times that they used to be before I had a house in Oxford. During this July I have been lecturing to Mrs. Burch's assemblage of foreign teachers at St. Hilda's, on some nineteenth century novelists, and have seldom had a more appreciative audience, or a more enjoyable spell of work.

M. L. LEE. Eaton House, Aldeburgh, July 22, 1902.

I am just begining my fifth year of teaching in a boys' preparatory school. My chief joys are a sittingroom all to myself, a perfectly free hand in teaching all the English in the school, and just as much or as little Society as I like. In the summer we are very gay. I am afraid St. Hugh's would be shocked at the number of informal dances, musical evenings, supper picnics and so on, which somehow manage to take place. But when the moon is shining over the sea on a warm summer night, it is quite impossible to go to bed early I So I must confess I have all the delights and hardly any of the drudgery of teaching, and am enjoying myself immensely.

E. C. MATRAVERS. City of London School for Girls, July 25, 1902.

Dear Miss Olivier, I do not think I have any news of interest to St. Hugh's Club, except that of the school. Here, we have just heard of several outside successes. We have gained a Scholarship at Holloway, a Bursary at Holloway, two Scholarships at Westfield, one at Newnham on the C. Higher Local, and the same girl has also won a money prize on the Higher Local. In that examination our head girl gained a First Class in Group B, with Distinction in Latin and French ; a Second in Group C, with Distinction in Arithmetic ; and a First in Group H. Another had a First in Group B, with distinction in German ; a third a Second in Groups C and E, with Distinction in Arithmetic ; and the fourth a Second in Groups B and H, and a Third in Group C. So you see after this, personal news sinks into insignificance.

J. E. TURNER.