1930's,
Skipping, League of Nations & Jazz
Some Snippets:Taken
from the BGSG School Magazine Chevron in 1933.
We are living after great events, and in this there is good as well as bad fortune. The World War had been a great catastrophe, but he reminded us that it had, at the same time, quickened life in all its activities. Inventions and improvements had been developed much more quickly than in normal times, and over-quickening of life, which, given time to adjust itself in a period of peace, should ultimately enright the world. The task before young people was to cultivate the wide sympathies and the happy and hopeful spirit which were needed to bring about this adjustment.
The Open Afternoon on 30th March featured "skipping with ropes in time to music.
The first lecture of the school year was given on 19th October and was an account by Miss Lyall of her visit to Geneva to attend the meeting of the League of Nations Assembly. Miss Lyall referred to the general disappointment felt at the League's failure to prevent the war between China and Japan . . .
A very interesting debate was arranged by the committee for 1st March, the motion being "Jazz may one day be a substitute for classical music . . . the general opinion was, however, that the beauty of expression and of rhythm of classical music would enable it to hold its position in public favour in spite of the popular, yet soon-forgotten, jazz music . . . the motion was defeated.