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November, 1920.

BkISBANE OPRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL MAGAZ4N.

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Form Notes.

seats, or at best of Sixth Form girls where we should be sitting. It must surely be obvious to every one that we have grown years older in the last six monthe. Even our baby is beginning to show signs of her increasing age, and we fear that she, too, will soon have left her child- hood's days behind her, while the rest of us have all got quite two inches taller since we have been promoted to having lessons with Sixth. It Is also becoming quite a common thing for us to do glove duty for them in the afternoon, and some of us have even been known to officiate at the stock cupboard! At the present time only our absolutely unspoilable (?) natures are saving us from becoming "swelled-headed," as we have Just succeeded in winning the Inter-Form Tennis Cup, which no Form has been able to gain from Sixth for years. We also managed to halve the basket ball shield with Sixth after an exciting match, in which many wounded *warriors were forced temporarily to retire from the field, so that we have accomplished at least some of our resolutions. In the Athletic Sports, although our as- pirations were high and we saw Miss Molli- son's Cup adorning our classroom, we unfor- tunately did not fulfil our intentions and carry all before us; in fact, we came only fourth on the whole. However, after much strenuous pulling we won the tug-of-war, and our girls got first and second places in the high Jump, first in the hurdles, and third in the long Jump, so that we were quite well represented in the Inter-4chool Sports Team. Our fate in swimming is still in the lap of the gods, but even we are not sanguine enough to feel much hope there. Unfortunately this year 'we were unable to get our tartan for our Form caps, so that we were forced to change our colours. After many and fierce arguments in which some of us wanted piratical black and others of us large checks, we compromiaed on large red spotted handkerchiefs of the "honest work- man" variety which we considered almost as original and very becoming. This year our numbers have been con- stantly decreasing, bat our greet attractive* ea hae never allowed us to dwindle to less than eight girls. We seem pretty firmly set- tied down for the rest of the year now, and

VI. "Effliciunt clarum stadia."

We sit down, as in duty bound, to rack our brains for Form notes-but nothing is "not- able" in the eyes of the Noble Sixth except the fact that the Senior will be upon us in two weeks! However, knowing how much these notes add to the literary value of the magazine, and loath to disappoint the many small children who anxiously sbtrch the newly-published pages for the aforesaid gems, we feel bound to contribute something. even though it be only an apology. Of course the mere sound of those five awful letters S-I-X-T-H brings before your mind's eyes a vision of hard work; but we would remind anyone who is feeling anxious about such extreme and apparent mental exertion that we also "go in for" sports. We regret- though we congratulate Form V. amid ou re- gret-that Miss Wllkinson's Tennis Cup must leave its ancestral home in Sixth to grace other scenes. Bravo. Fifth! There was such a hard fight between Fifth and Sixth for the Basket Ball Shield, that the match resulted in a tie, and both Forms are still violently laying claim to the Shield. In both the Inter- Form and Inter-School Sports, the Sixth was well represented; and it is surely unnecessary to remind anyone how well we make tea! We are still suffering from the inroads of flying foxes (in the form of 'la verole volante) but we hope no more will be caught. For most of us this is the last year at the B.G.O.S., and we think with sorrow of the days when we may no longer "drape the table" in Sixth Form room. V. During this year V. have been leading a nomadic existence. The new boarders spread- ing over all the upstairs class-rooni' drove Sixth downwards, where they s3ttled in the ancestral home of Fifth, compelling us to seek shelter in what was formerly the old cloakroom. Later, when we moved over to a small classroom, which had been made for us on the new building verandah, the wild blowing of the westerly winds soon drove us back to our old haunts. However, we etill resort there for preps, although our hearts are invariably torn by the sight of empty