“A BROADER OUTLOOK”

Evening Star, Issue 23451, 16 December 1939, Page 20

“A BROADER OUTLOOK”

PROFESSOR J. A. ALLAN'S PLEA ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME BY GIRLS' HIGH PUPILS Hold in His Majesty’s Theatre, the break-np ceremony of the Otago Girls High School consisted of an attractive programme of carols, part-songs, orchestral selections and drill, a line address by the Rev. Professor J. A. Allan, and the presentation of an imposing list of prizes. The chairman of the Board of Governors (Mr W. R. Brush) presided over an attendance that filled the house. Associated with him on the platform were the mayor (Mr A. H. Allen), Dr D. G. M'Millan, M.P., members of the board and of the staff. Professor Allan, whose remarks were addressed to the school, reminded the giris of the great privilege they were enjoying in education. “ he said, “ really means growing up, learning to see and to appreciate and to enjoy all the things of life. There is so much that so many people miss. Don’t allow yourselves- to waste your opportunity of making yourselves free of all these things.” He urged, that those who benefited from a splendid educational system hrjd their duty to their country and to the world. There iVas a great heed for a broad sympathy, a wide outlook, arid an Understanding of other people’s troubles and difficulties. That was 'a direction in which educated women could accomplish a great deal. “But it all requires a broad outlook,” Professor Allan emphasised. “ There is much that can be done—if education has been rightly assimilated and has developed that essential, wide, and sympathetic outlook.” After the presentation of prizes, a vote of thanks to the principal, staff, and Board of Governors was carried on the motion of Miss Helen Wilson and acknowledged by the principal (Miss M. H. M. King). The first half of the programme was as follows:—School hymn (with descant), ‘ O God, Our Help in Ages Past ’); school song, * The Chambered Nautilus ’ (music by C. R. Spackman) ; orchestral selections, ‘ Allegro Vivo,’ from the ‘ Water Music ’ (Handel) and ‘ Lotus Leaves ’■ (Creighton), combined orchestras of the Otago High Schools (conductor, C. R. Spackman): Christmas carols, ‘ The First Nowell (traditional), ‘ Little Children and Listen ’ (old French carol with descant, ‘ Come and Worship ’ (E. A. Dick), by the school choir; part-songs, ‘ Holy Night, 1 two-part (adapted from Beethoven by E. Taylor), * Alexander,’ two-part (A, Hi Brewer), and ‘ Cradle Song,’ three-part (C. M. Edmunds), by the special choir; solo dance, Ngila Slowley; drill lesson, Third Forms; senior drill, Sidey Medal finalists; drill, Fourth Forms; ballet.