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after the holidays, when they return to College, 

 they may be able to help the general work more. 



Such details may appear trivial to those who, 

 in early schooldays, received careful training in 

 good manners and whose attention was drawn to 

 the fact that more than half the successes in life 

 depend, not so much upon cleverness, as upon 

 that deference and consideration for others that 

 will often melt the hardest heart. Young women 

 who are forced to leave their home surroundings 

 early in life in order to train for a profession lose, 

 in consequence, much experience that family life, 

 with its daily pleasures but oft-recurring little 

 rubs, teaches in the way of thoughtfulness for 

 neighbours. Unless a Woman's College can in 

 some measure compensate for this loss and can 

 show how the small amenities of life are to be 

 acquired and thought of, it will not turn out 

 attractive women, although their knowledge of 

 technical and practical work may be complete. It 

 is, therefore, with the warm approval of our 

 Captain, who is anxious to fill a sadly needed want 

 of this age, that a spirit of united effort towards 

 the attainment of all soft, gentle, feminine qualities, 

 is strongly encouraged. Together with it goes 

 active co-operation in the interests and prosperity 

 of the market-garden. 



Sometimes, as a train passes slowly along the 

 valley below, I see a small white object waved 

 from one of the railway carriage windows. This 

 is a popular student departing for her holidays, 

 and a group of coloured handkerchiefs in the 

 garden return her salute, floating these ensigns in 



