[63] Dr. Kitchin, now Dean of Durham.
[64] Then Somerville Hall.
[65] Mrs. C. T. Mitchell, who has from the first been connected with the Guild work.
[66] Now Bishop of London.
[67] Afterwards Mrs. Charles Robinson.
[68] Even such an act as this had nothing personal in it. ‘Once,’ writes an old girl, ‘I asked Miss Beale to sign a photograph on the last afternoon of the term. She said her hand was tired with shaking hands, and asked if next term would do. When I said it was a Christmas present for Mother, and I wanted to give it complete, she at once sat down and signed it.’
[69] Compare with this Miss Beale’s remarks on history as an educational subject, Work and Play, p. 114.
[70] Miss Beale published some of her lectures on literature in 1902 in the volume entitled, Literary Studies of Poems New and Old: G. Bell and Sons.
[71] So much did Miss Beale dislike a formal study of the Bible, that when first the Oxford Local Examinations were taken in the College, she induced the parents of pupils entering for them to sign a conscience clause to the effect that they did not wish their children to take a Scripture examination. The amount set for study was afterwards lessened, and could therefore be more thoroughly taught. Thus her objections were minimised.
[72] Relation of Home to School Life, No. II., Truth.