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on Fridays and settled down to hard work. By this time all the Queen’s scholars had gravitated into their own places (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)in the ranks(end superscript) and the various classes had assumed distinct (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)and settled(end superscript) shadings of individuality. Certain facts had become generally accepted. It was admitted that the medal contestants had practically narrowed down to three—Gilbert Blythe, Anne Shirley, and Lewis Wilson; the Avery scholarship was more doubtful, anyone of a certain six being a possible winnn winner. The bronze medal for mathematics was considered as good as won by a fat, funny little up-country boy with a bumpy forehead and a patched coat.
Ruby Gillis was the handsomest girl of the year at the Academy;
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"all the Queen's scholars had gravitated into their own places (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)in the ranks(end superscript)": One of Montgomery's "places in the ranks" was, not surprisingly, based in writing. She began publishing small pieces in the Prince of Wales College Record. The masthead here is from the April 1894 issue she pasted into her scrapbook, and it includes a small advertisement and a Latin motto, "Non Collegio sed vitae discumus," translated as "we do not learn for college, but for life" (Blue Scrapbook 13; Imagining Anne, p. 27).
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