Grammar Gazette- Issue 2, 2010

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Boarders’ Sitting Room 1946 and 1965

BOARDERS’ REPORTS

1913 – THE FIRST RECORDED BOARDERS’ REPORT ...the number of Boarders this year has increased by four, last year there being nineteen and this year twenty-three. The majority come from the west and north. It is very interesting and amusing to hear each girl’s opinion on town and country life and each one thinks that part she comes from is the best. We meet and form friendships with girls whom perhaps we might never have known. This is one of the advantages of boarding school. At the beginning of the year, Miss Williams took those who wished to go to an interesting lecture in memory of David Livingstone. We have been to two orchestral concerts this year. With Easter came Oscar Asche and his company, but to our sorrow we were only allowed to go to the Merchant of Venice. As the night was wet, the boarders went in cabs, and met the rest of the party at the door of His Majesty’s Theatre, and we all marched in like angels clad in white. The seats were splendid, and we enjoyed the play very much and were sad when the grand finale was played.

As we were all anxious to hear the famous tenor, JohnMcCormack, Miss Williams, who approves of good music, allowed us to go and hear him. We had very good seats and quite lost ourselves in the beautiful music. During Exhibition week, we were given a Wednesday holiday and a work-through on Friday. Wednesday morning we all marched out of the gate with our little packets of lunch under our arms to the Exhibition grounds, had a great day, and were sorry at not being allowed to go on Friday. The boys’ sports come off on the 19th September for which we had a work-through and spent the afternoon admiring the athletic powers of the boys who are so close to us.

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