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yourself after this, Madame!" remarked Quen

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t considered her new office from that point of view. "I've

er seriously. "Try to make Va. a useful factor in the s

had decided that the smaller girls were too young to take part in public affairs. Every form that sent a representative

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end to present. The marks of the whole form will count, so that slackers will be a distinct drawback to their own compani

had discussed it in detail at several educational conferences, and had c

nd, or third class, I slacked off considerably. I knew that a lesson not quite so perfectly learnt, or an exercise with one or two mistakes, would still find me in the First Class, so why should I make such enormous exertions? When every slip might mean the loss of my chance to be top, I was far more careful. Of course I know that Emulation, with a big E, is supposed to be all wrong, but really I think people make too much fuss

s" or "Cuckoos" than merely Vb. or IIIb., and as awards were to be according to averages, it was thrilling

ke playing a game!"

rnes, "Do you remember playing 'Oranges and Lemons' once with the Sixth? We all held on to ea

too! I'd like to see tha

of the other forms to carry off laurels. Even Fil, m

t me make mistakes, well-it's the form that will suffer. You can't call it my fault, it's on your own head. You know as well a

in arms you are! Here, then, go ahead, and I'll act as dictionary. You'v

go to a school where there isn't any homework, and that somebody would invent a

Ingred. "'The Royal-Road-to-Learning Typewriter: spells o

e, and acted as hostesses. There were four of them, so with the games captain they made a party of five from the Sixth, as opposed to six representatives of lower forms, a quite undue proportion in the opinion of the younger girls. Whatever successes the intermediates might win later on, "The

their views. Questions such as the due apportioning of the asphalt tennis-courts, basket-ball and hockey

to get up a sort of Reconstruction Society in the school. She hasn't quite planned it out yet, but she told me a little about it, and I think it's ever so nice. As soon as it's quite fixed up, I'm going to call a genera

on Monday, I couldn't

ediately after four," chimed in Alys

suppose it's all serene," said Ma

s rather late, and I want to be getting home. Anyway, I hope we shall all take it up hot and strong. Be sure to keep Wednesday free,

entary fashion to admire a vinaigrette, scented with heliotrope, whic

anteens, in Y. M. C. A. huts, and worked at munitions, she had excellent examples of what it is possible to do for one's country. She was a decided favorite in the College, being athletic as well as clever, and of a very jolly merry temperament with a vein of great earnestness. Though the girls sometimes called her "Jumbo," they meant the nickname in token of friendship, and su

alk to them in your own way, and they'll understand you. I want the Society to be an absolutely voluntary one, or it's of no use. Don't let them think they must join merely to please me. I'd rather have a dozen who a

urd, I think it will cat

e day having been remitted by orders from the Study. There was a universal feeling that something important was on foot, so those forms that were eligible trooped in a body to the hall, while the disappointed juniors tried to console themselve

that. We nearly hurrahed the roof off, and we formed a Knitting Club and a Soldiers' Parcel Society on the spot. You know for yourselves how we worked to keep those up. Well, to-day the Empire is at peace, but our country needs our help as much as ever, or even more. It's making a fresh start, and we want the new world to be a better place than the old. Hundreds of thousands of gallant young lives have been gladly given to establish this new world-in this school alone we know to our cost-and we owe it to our heroic dead not to let their sacrifice be in vain. We want a better and purer England to rise up and make a clean sweep of the bad things that disgraced her before. I expect you'll say: 'Oh, that's for politicians, and not for us schoolgirls!' but it isn't. Popular opinion is a mighty thing. The schoolgirls of to-day are the women of to-morrow, and the women of a country have an enormous amount to do with the formation of public opinion-more nowadays than ever before-and their influence will go on increasing with every year that passes. If each of us tries to help the world instead of hind

over at home. Then any girl who likes to join can put her name down. All the Sixth want to become members, and I hope lots of others will too. Th

girls as they filed from the benches. Amongst the others, Ingred took hers, and put it in her pocket. She did not care to discuss it with the cr

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