宝塚歌劇團四十新生入學

Recently the FNN on-line reported the following:
兵庫・宝塚市の宝塚音楽学校で入学式が行われ、40人の新入生たちが憧れのタカラジェンヌへの第1歩を歩み始めた。
競争率23.1倍の難関を突破し、16日に宝塚音楽学校に入学した40人は、2012年でちょうど100期生となる。
保護者らが見守る中、新入生総代の上杉真央さんが、「清く正しく美しくの教えを守り、立派な舞台人になります」と力強く決意を述べた。
式の最後には、上級生たちが新入生1人ひとりの胸に、ハープをかたどった校章のバッジをつけた。
新入生は2年間、踊りや声楽などの練習に励み、憧れのタカラジェンヌを目指す。
(試譯文)
The entrance ceremony was held at the Takarazuka music academy in Takarazuka, Hyogo, and 40 new students began their first step to become a member of the Takarazuka Revue that hoped for .
Forty people had won over the difficulties at a competition rate of 23 to 1; on the 16th entered the Takarazuka music academy that would become exactly 100th term students in 2012.
While the guardians were watching, a new student spokesperson, Ms. Mao Uesugi, described forcibly their determination to " follow the instructions on purity, correctness and beauty, and to become a splendid stage performer."
At the last part of the ceremony senior classmates attached the school badge, which was modeled on the harp, at the chest of new students one after the other.
For two years the new students would work hard on the training in dancing, vocal music etc., aiming at the membership of the Takarazuka Revue.


Probably a few of them would become the starts of to-morrow.