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BRISBANE GIRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL MAGAZINE.

November, 1920.

on tasty little wafers and swallow them? By some unknown process the knowledge leaves the wafers and enters the brain. Quite sim- ple and ever so much pleasanter! But if we cannot do well in exams. we can at least console ourselves with the fact that we have won the Cup in the Interform Sports, and have been in the finals fir the Tennis Cup, our opponents being V., who were vic- torious. We congratulate them, and hope to imitate them ourselves next year. To all the girls going for the Senior we wish the very best of luck. Our notes are finished. What more is there to be said? Value them, not for their appearance, nor for the fine quality of their composition, but for all the hard work they cost us to prepare. IV. B. IV. B. consists of twenty-eight studious girls, although no one has as yet dis- covered our talent, except perhaps for deserving impositions. None of us gained distinction in .-.. .r. nt \nnt- Ination, though we are ',.; . , <,n In the Junior, which is looming very ia. Most of us went to hear Lieut. Flora Sandes, and were so inspired by her lecture that at Miss Mackay's suggestion we are making an outfit for a Serbian child. We were very sorry to lose at Midwinter Ruth who was our mainstay in sports, how- ever, we see her on our gym. days, or rather our gym. day. for it has been reduced to only one lesson a week, owing to some of our members forgetting that we only had one practice day. Fortune did not favour us at basket ball this season, for we lost our first match. How. ever, we came third in tennis which is very creditable for us. We are proud to have two members of the A Tennis team, Ellen and Hebe, in our form. The dreaded Junior and Senior exams. are in three weeks' time, and we wish all those who are facing the ordeal the best of success. Il. A. This year we have experienced some great changes. After the Midwinter holidays, to make room for the new girls, we had to pack our trunks and move across the courtyard,

will all probably return to become august Sixth Formites after Christmas. Quite lately we discovered that we are an extremely musical Form and that most of us possess beautiful voices. Since then bursts of melody may be heard issuing from our classroom in the afternoon, when we endeav- our to delight the world by our rendering of songs, of which "Onwards, Christian Soldiers" is our greatest success. Nothing much remains to be said. We would have liked to fascinate the school by an account of some weird and wonderful adven- tures which have befallen us, but, alas! we have too strict a regard for the truth, and also we are doubtful .whether the sceptics would believe them. It is true that we did find the key to the Morse code in one of the library books, but we have not as yet been able to find any powerful mystery attached to it. We will not enumerate the places held by our girls in the various school teams either, as we have already done so at mid- winter, and because in addition our greatest asset in that line refuses to be enlarged on even for the sake of the notes. Therefore we will conclude by wishing the Junior and Sen- ior girls the best of luck. We have done our best to help Sixth in their work by conferring our presence upon them, and thus no doubt making their work really interesting. IV. A. IV. A. has lost its ingenuity, or rather, we should say. exhausted it in wrestling with mathematical problems. Twice have we es- sayed to write Form notes, and twice have the airy castles of our eloquence come tumbling about our ears. But -"If you can bea . .... to watch the things you gave your time to, broken, and stoop and build t' em up again with worn-out tools"--you know the rest. So, although our brains are nothing more than worn-out tools, in dire need of a holi- day, yet, for the "'third time we hive tried. and out of the ruins have we erected this tine structure, as an example of the power of perseverance in overcoming obstacles. There are twenty-six of us, but we are not very happy, for in the near future, between us and the holidays, looms the Junior. Ah, me! why must there be exams? It seems to us the world would be far happier without them. Why can we not be like certain strang- ers we have read of, who write their lessons

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