tipulation--that you must each choose your own subject for the term,
and stick to it. I cannot allow chopping and changing. In the studio you
will be given facilities for wood-carving, modelling, stencilling,
painting, leatherwork, and other handicrafts. Those who wish to take up
this branch must put down their names on the Arts List.

"Some of you, perhaps, may have no particular talent for what is called
'creating in material', that is, making beautiful objects in wood,
leather, or clay, or with paints or pastels, but you can create in other
ways. Beautiful sounds give as much pleasure as beautiful sights. I want
us to revive the school orchestra and learn to play some good music.
Those who can sing well are to be given a special opportunity of
creation. This summer I went to the Glastonbury Musical Festival and
heard one of the wonderful song-dramas which are produced there. A
song-drama is a play which is both sung and acted, quite different from
grand opera or musical comedy, and with a charm all its own. It
corresponds in music to the Elizabethan or the Greek drama, for it is
shown with scarcely any scenery, and on the simplest of stages, but its
quality appeals to the very highest emotions. My hope is that we can get
up a short song-drama for a Christmas performance, and that the
orchestra should play the music for it. Those girls who can act, but not
sing, will be given a separate opportunity to exercise their talents.

"Now, this is all on the emotional side of our natures, but we want also
to cultivate the mental side. On our other 'self-expression afternoon'
you will have a choice of various intellectual hobbies. We will have one
department for studying nature, another for recording all the old
legends and ancient customs of our city, a geographical society to trace
our roads and streams, and a literary society for those who wish to try
to write. Of course, you can't belong to them all at once, and you must
choose what you like the best, but I think in such a wide field of
choice every girl will surely find something to suit her, which she can
work at as 'a labour of love'. The alternatives will be posted up in
your form rooms, and you must put down your names by Friday afternoon,
so that we can start next week. Don't choose in too big a hurry, but
take time to think it over--for once made you'll have to abide by your
choice."

There was a tremendous clapping at the close of Miss Tatham's speech.
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