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It was in this way that the great prize which caused such excitement in Cherry Court School was started.
It was called the Scholarship prize, and was a new and daring idea of the early seventies. Girls were not accustomed to big prizes in those days, and scholarships were only in vogue in the few public schools which were then in existence.