The Archive · 1924

Plots on the Prairie

At eleven the students were free to enjoy the swimming pool, and the English girls were among the boldest divers and swimmers, At twelve the midday meal was taken in the large dining-hall, babel of tongues and crowd of. eager young people. Classes began at 2 bam, and ogum the afternoon was spent in farming pursuits, perhaps on the experimental plots on the prairie, perhaps haymaking, oF perhaps learning to drive a tractor. pool called considered harmful to bathe twice a day; everybody docs it in Canada, apparently with no Wl effects. Atler the six o'clock evening meal the students were free to amuse themselves ae-cording to choice, and often a merry party started for a film theatre in Winnipeg. The young people are trusted, and so long as they are back by' ten o'clock there is plenty of freedom, The Vacation, School.

In the vacation school they are of all ages, from boys and girls in their teens to men and women of 30 or 46, though it is more usual for the older women to take - the home On Saturdays the students do their own Jaundry, for which all facilities are provided, and in the afternoon there is generally an outing of som kind. at the Canad

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