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B R E E K S C H AT T E R B O X 1 9 5 7 .

To know Truth is the greatest privilege any man can enjoy i n t h i s l i f e , a s Tr u t h i t s e l f i s w i t h o u t d o u b t t h e r i c h e s t t r e a s u r e anyone can possess.

R e s p o n s e t o Tr u t h s h o u l d b e e a g e r a n d i n s t a n t . We d a r e " < â&#x20AC;˘ not dally with it; we dare not treat it as something we can obey o r n o t o b e y, a t o u r p l e a s u r e . I t i s a g l o r i o u s f r i e n d , b u t i t i s

nevertheless a hard master, exacting unquestioning obedience

Cbdstmas 1957

(5reetin(}s from

^be principal anb Staff for

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^arentd, ^Scho^ar^^

and ^riendd o] ^reekd iSckool

TFlew l^ear ©reeting " ^he i^ord ol '^eace 3iitnAell give, you "^eacc always by all ^neami,

i^ord be with you all and ^he (§race o} our i^ord (^hrlM be with you all" —cAmen (2 '^hea. oh. 3.)

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Your Obligations to God are Infinite — Love — Praise — Obedience.

^rl|ODl (§tficevB, Olotttntittees, etc.

—1957. — Committee of Management, Breeks Memorial School: Mr. p. Shankar Rao, b. a. hods, i. a. s. Collector of ihe Nilgiris (Chairman).

Messrs. K. I. Thomas, b. a. ,, N. M. Lingam, b, a. ,, N. Lingan, b. a., b l.

,,, H, C. McLaughlin, i. a.s. (Retd.)

The Executive Engineer, P. W. D., Coimbatore.

Mr. E. a. Willy, m. a., m. r. s. t. (Hon. Secretary.)

Committee of Management, Lushington Hall : Pastor H. V. Fox, Messrs. E, G. Fishefr, A. L. Goold, A. Smyth, E. A. Willy (Hon. Secretary.)

School Prefects :

P. Hill (Head Boy), G. Draper, C. Willy, B. Smith, K. Gowrishanker, M. Devadatta, M. Shortt.

Eunice Anderson (Head Girl and Senior Prefect), Joy Chase, Paizoo Rahman, June Pritchard, Florence Goold, Muriel Webb.

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The God who has to be Faced should he Feared.

1st Nilgiris Scout Troop, Court of Honour: Mr. G. Fisher â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Scout Master.

Brian Smith â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Troop Leader.

0 . W i l l y.

P/Ls and Seconds.

Curlews.

R, Neech, P. Campbell.

Lions.

A. Smith, R. Gordon.

Tigers.

R. Gibson, R. Lissenborough.

Beavers.

N. Cooke, M. Devadatta.

1st FHlgiris Wolf Cubs, Pack Council: Mr. E. .4. Willy, Ag. Cubmaster.

Miss Bateman, Ag. A. C. M. Sixers. M. Mantle (until July), M. Clark, 0. White, S. Turner, P. J a e k s o n .

Seconds. M. Goulden (until July), P.Gilbert, M. Solomon, R. Oatchick, G. Oliver.

Debating Society: President (ex ofihcio), the Principal.

Vice Presidents (ex ofScio), the Staff.

Executive Vice-President, Miss McLeod.

Hon. Secretary, Joy Chase.

Committee Members, June Pritchard, G. Draper, Ann Buffam, Dorothy Vines. Hon. Treas., Eunice Anderson.

Natural History Society.

President (ex oflScio), the Principal.

Chairman, Mrs. Willy (absent on furlough).

Hon. Secretary, 6. Draper.

Christian Union:

Leader (until September) Mr. Bullock.

Committee Members: B.Smith, E. Anderson, J.Chase, C.Willy.

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Christ nev^r cMng^.

Christian

Endeamur:

Leader:

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Miss

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Hon. Secretary : 0 Kirkpatriok.

Hon. Treasurer: A. 'faynter.

Committee Members:

C. Anderson (look-;onfr^i R.Gilbert, D.^Pond (progranrme) J;Todman, P. Jackson, D. Goold (service).

Hindi Association:

President:

The

Principal,

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Hon. SecretaryFaizoo Raman.

. Cpmmittee Members: Mrs. Meenakshi Visvanath, Mr. K, N. Menon, Margaret Chase, R^ A'Aantha(diari/ -< >â&#x20AC;˘ >-* - ; .

House Officers: Boys.

Pentland

- Vio'e-Ciiptain

Captain': '

Housemaster: R a v . . T. D a r a a h a h .

R r i a n S m i t h1. ,

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A.

Smith.

Second Team Captain:

Third Team Captain:

R . . Ta r r n l d .

H. Ghriatian.

Sif.AnAn.

Housemaster: Mr.

D.

Menon. A.

N. Cooke.

TTill

Second Team Captains : P.

yiceÂŤCaptain

Captain ; P

Parker.

Third Team Captain R . . r i f t f . n l i i fi l c -

Rasheed.

A . x r . o n o r k n .

Hbusemaster: Capthihs: Vrde-Caplain Mr. E. A. Willy D. Pospisil. from May C. Willy. 6. Draper.

Second Team Captain: Third Team Captain : :

M

ainator.

'N.

W i H v.

, 3 Bewa/ro Lmh

House Officers: Girls, Fentland.

House Mistress;

Captain: Brenda Kay.

Miss Pease.

Vicd-Captain : Junior :

Klorence Goold, Qlady Minchin,

Stanes.

rHpuse Mistress!

M r s . Wa l k e r.

Captain;

yiee-Captain ; Junior

Hema Pathy. Team Captain: ( a f t e r J u l y, A n n B u f f a m ) . U h a r d a P o n d .

Wendy Munro.

Stevenson, House Mistress;

Captain ; Joy Chase.

Miss J. White.

V ice,Captain ? " " Junior "^

p ■T e aE m l i z a bC e iat h

t a iNne e c h: .

School Team Ga.ptains i i: Boys, ■: C r i c k e t . P. H i l l .

Vice-Captain:

D. Pathy.

J u n i o r Te a m ;

A. Smith.

. Yice-iOaptain ;

G. Nicolr.; ,

Footbatl.' - C. Willy.

J u m o i ' Te a m : A, Smith Sub-Jiihior Team : N. Willy.

Hockey. D. Pathy Wrce-Captain: Junior Team ; Viee-Otfptain:

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C. Winy.7 \^ A^ Smith, G. Nicol.

Sub-Jtruior Team : N . W i l l y .

Athletics: Swimming: H * S t a u f o x d . R , Stanford.

Boxing: Gy^nastJca j R. Stanford^ . q, Willy,

Girts : ^ ^

ifet-BaTi Captain: June Pritcbard

Vice-Captain: ,, : Junior Team;

Florence Goold. Rosemary Neech.

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How much have we of Christ and how much are we To Him,

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O N T H U R S D A Y, M A Y 2 n d 1 9 5 7 W H E N

His Highness The Maharaja of Porbander kindly presided A N D

The Maharani of Porbander

graciously distributed the prizes.

PROGRAMME.

Arrival of the Maharajah and Maharani of Porbander.

Opening Hymn " Praise the King of Glory " School Choir.

Kindergarten

Play

"

Old

Lob"

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from

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' Beacon Readers'

H i n d i P l a y " P t J J A R I o r L o v e Tr i u m p h s " A one.act play, adapted from Victor Hugo's " Les Miserables."

Physical

Display

Girls'

String Orchestra P R I N C I PA L ' S

ANNUAL

Distribution

Chairman's

of

REPORT prizes

Remarks.

Te a m .

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God's Threats and Promises are hath Certain. , Piano forte Solo

Polonaise

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Florence

Goold

(Chopin) English Play " Campbell of Kilmhoi"

by J. A. Ferguson.

Morag June Pritchard Campbell Mary Eunice Anderson Dugald Capt. Sandeman

Christopher Willy Robin Stanford

Gordon Draper

Mackenzie

Vote

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National

Rlanohar Devadatta

Thanks.

Anthem.

INTRDDUCTDRY

MUSIC.

Pianoforte.

Heather McLeod and Gladys Minchin : Terry Tiessen; Dorothy Vines ; Christopher Kirkpatrick ; Eric Allaby ; Eunice Anderson, Adrienne Bartlett and Lavinia Minchin ; Carol Tiessen ; Uharda Pond; Rosemary Neech ; Anthony Gilbert and David Buffam ; Ann Francis; Bridget Willy; Muriel Webb; Jennifer Rice. <, Trumpets.

D. Pospisil ; D. Sutton ; M. Pritchard; S. Turner; D. Buifam.

Cornet Solo.

David Posipsil

E. A.

W I L L Y,

M. A.

( P R I N C I PA L ) COMPLETED 25 YEARS BREEKS 1932 — 1957.

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Disobedience 'produces fatal dtsabiity.

Report, 1957.

Your Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen,

On behalf of the Committee of Management of the School, I am glad to

extend, a warm welcome to you all; tordaji and to^ thank you for the encourage ment which your presence gives to those of us who are engaged in the duties and daily round of class-room life.

We hope that in the matter of sealing; you have not been unduly inconveni enced this morning. It was suggested here, twelve months ago, that we might hold this annual function on our own sphooUpreinisesv^ .We should certainly like

to be in a position to do so. But our. school Assembly Hall could accommodate

only a fraction of the numiber that is ga^ea:ec|:h?re: now; : If 1 may be reminiscent for a mo"ment,-my mind gohs-back 25 years, to the

first Breeks Speech Day in which I tdCk part. It wAs^hel^^^^^^^ the afternoon ; all the morning was taken up in decorating vthe ischbdl's ' a^8^fift)ly hall with bamboo and fiowers, staff and pupils working together vigorouslya't'the task. The Sebuts

had got up at dawn to cut materials* from the Snowdon slopes, special permission having been obtained from the-Forest D'epartnient. -Afterall the festive greenery

had been put up, the fioor was awept and the'bebches-'wete brought in. Even though the school numbers were*less tha'n^ half the present 'strength, there never seemed to bo enough seats for'ti:o|e'whb'dbsited So we certainly are not able to think of our school hall has adequate for this annual occasion, and

any money that may be available for building extension is needed for the KindeTgarten project. We consider ourselves very fortunate to have the use of this nearby and convenient building; and we are very grateful for the facilities we are permitted to enjoy by the kindness of its Management and Honorary Secretary, Mr. Tom Grant, one of Breeks's evergreen old-boys.

In taking'up the business side of a Report, one should, I suppose, begin at top. Yet there might be some logical basis for starting where the children

start â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at the Kindergarten. However, if we look at the very top, we find that

Breekfif, as a public institution, has not undergone any change in its control : the sanie party has been returned at the polls, and the same Chief Minister and

Education Minister hold ofl&ce, as were at the helm of State Affairs a year ago.

We have generally been treated kindly by the High Authorities, and we have grounds to hope for continued favours from those who have been entrusted to places of eminence and power.

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Yesterday and Tomorrow are both out of your reach.

We are tkankfiil that, in a land where tolerance is regarded as'a major» religious virtue,-we do not find any head-on clash between obedience to God and obedience to national authority; there are areas in this world where those who

seek to follow truth are not so happily placed.

We know we ought to obey Christ's injunction to render to Caesar that which

is Caesar's. We do well to remind ourselves at the same time of its important corollary, to render to God that whicn is God's. Ultimate authority, to the Christian, Tesides in His Master, the Lord Jesus Christ; Who, when on earth, auatained without apology His unique claim to be the incarnate Way, Truth and Life.

However, in these brief reflections about Authority, temporal apd spiritual,

I have digressed from the factual details of the Report. .

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We may now consider authority at any other and familiar level the school's

Managing Committee. We continue to enjoy the help of our present Collector,

^ank%r Rao; not only in his manner genial and friendly, but his attitude

and acts have always been constructive and beneficial. The term of office of

IJlr. M» 6. Mathew has expired ; we feel sorry to have lost him from the Committee

after a connection of many years. The vacancy has been filled by Government

with the appointment of the P. W. Engineer of Coimbatore, and we trust that

the experience and advice of Mr. Francis, to whom we extend a sincere welcome, will prove of much value to the school. We are glad that we can.still look to

Mr. H. M. McLaughlin as a member; he is becoming a positive veteran, his

advice and experience behind the scenes having proved of considerable value and importance.

. (Mr. McLaughlin is an authority, I may add, not only on important topics

like law and finance, but on fascinating ones like flying saucers and low-jumping tigers).

As is generally known, the hostels are managed by. a quite separate Commit

tee 5 the resignati'^n of one member has recently been received—that of

Mr. J. K. Keary, another Breaks Old Boy, who has devoted many years of his retirement to public service and whose help as Committee-member has been

invaluable; In this place, Mr. Alex Smy th has been appointed, and 1 may take

this opportunity of sharing with you an open secret—during my anticipa^d furlough in 1958, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Smyth will take over supervision of the

Lushington and Ciifton Homes.

Mr. Smyth was born and reared in Ireland, a country reputed to be full of contradictions. Nothing could better prepare him to meet the perplexities and

paradoxes that he will have to deal with in the boarding homes, especially those

bright young paradoxes who have Irish blood in their veins!

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Most people in the World are false prophets, S TA F F A P P O I N T M E N T S .

. Wo next turn to the staff personael. I am very glad that the changes to

teport are relatively few. Mr. and Mrs. Brinicombe are on furlough ; we expect their return at the end of the year. Miss Hurrell, who left us, shortly after wards became Mrs. MaoMillan; Miss Hipwell has returned to Ireland, and is

engaged to be married also. We have welcomed back Miss I. de Carteret in the Kindergarten Department, and we are extremely thankful for the temporary return of Mr. E. F, Bullock, supported by his true help meet, Mrs. R. Bullock.

We know they are due for furlough and we much appreciate the spirit and quality of the service they are giving to us in our period of need this year. Another recruit to our staff is Miss Elaine Pease, who is proficient in languages ancient and modern, and who acts as resident Housemistress for the girls at Clif^on Grange.

In the hostel side, we have been deeply thankful for the help of Mrs Buffam during the time that Miss Brent was on leave, and of Mrs. Jarrold during the unfortunate sick leave of Miss Bateman.

There are rdany other staff members whose names one cannot enumerate,

but their importance is great â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not only for the work they do, but for the spirit in which they carry it out. To the children, they set a grand example, not only

in the field of competence and efficiency, but of keeness and faithful co-operation.

I am glad to state publicly what is, of course, widely known and recognized, that their worth is valued and fully appreciated by the parents .whose children come under their care â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and in this tribute from parents I include my wife and myself, PUBLIC

E X A M I N AT I O N S .

In regard to examination results our long-standing tradition is a high one, and this year's results were in keeping with that traditional standard. In Pianoforte, Violin and Trumpet, all the 19 candidates passed the practical

examination of the Associated Board; in theory of music, 10 passed out of 11 entrants. In the Madras Middle School Examination, 19 were entred ; 16 passed,

3 gaining the First Class level. In the Cambridge School Certificate, 13 entered and all passed, 3 being ranked in the lab Division.

The rumours that have circulated in recent years about the Cambridge Examination have been numerous and false, generated by perhaps by fever of

change or love of gossip. definite move is now under active consideration-, namely, that a Council in India will sponsor the examination, whose name will be changed to ** Indian School Certificate." The question papers, however, will continue to be set and marked by the Syndicate of Cambridge University In other words, the long tried and trusted objectivity of the examination will

continue unchansed, under a new name.

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Ohe^ May! gei.RiyhP^fii'styih.en Ri^m teousness.

NEW DEVEL'dPMENT^

year ago, l ind icafied that w^e ahou'fd be trying, to lay some further emDhaais to the what IS calle r ' Basic Edu'fca.ticyn."' Evidence of whatattention was' done canprinciples be' seen 'h'f" for'

example, m the rna-ra reliefs and pairititige on'certain Ijfass-'room walls' T^hia y'ear" a-further project tentitl^d -Our Nilgide"'has b'een undertaken, and an exh bitfon' 1. _ Among .th.w floutishingaspects oftekt^h-currlculir activity, the Natural History

Society., may be.g.^n premitaencej it keh^^up'^tA w^Iy meeting and S

the^reeT' the tree-tops, ^ in'®a""^ machan members constructed Oiit intoSnowdon cohimbne Forest. pirith Nature among

that.hfe iholds for diffbrent types ofchSraetSt and p^r'sdrialitjf. ' , ,

thfpT.A ann'°' '« •p'rcJVibg'i grSiit' hodn. Witho t the' palce/'hel anp o?'d}{e^;' his bWt'lo press forward our

gLt n bunlw to'^ards the erection of a new and long, overdue. Kinderpirten .building. , He . has. received an aBaurance "frdih''tKe Director #if PnKi.« Instruction ,tha-t the necessary order wilt be jassed in the'very near future.

fr^r h!^'r^ Endowment Association,- we have Rs. 8 000 available •'

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- The realities of life bften make us aware that we live in a dav of'keen an,t'

acuta, cpm,peti:tiOFi„ yet still-in a world C wide oppbrtuhitV Two mif,tWnd- ^

successes in the past year make us proud of the Lt t£ Breeks S

capture their opportuaities, even in the face of very acute competition^ Alistai;

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Partial obedience is disobedience,

MacLeod took his M. A. at Glasgow University with hot only Ist Class Honours

but also 2 gold medals; Nestor Bunshaw not only obtained a 1st Class in his

Intermediate Science examination of the Madras University, but secured the solitary place reserved at Guindy Engineering College for an entrant from the Nilgiris.

GONGLUSION.

I realize, ladies and gentlemen, that the school prize-winners iare longing to take possession of their trophies ; and that you yourselves will be more interested to^ obseTve the real activities of the p^plils 6n the stage than to hear abstract catalogues of achievements, however good. Therefore, 1 will draw quickly to my conclusion.

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We thank you, friends, for the goodwill and help that the achobi teceivefl

from you so generously from year to year. We ask you to look with forbearance and understanding on our various shortcomings. We believe th%t many of you pray for us often, and we know that this bond is the basically beat and greatest boon for which we could thank you; as long as we put our trust truly in the Lord, we can be assured that we are building on a safe and sound foundation â&#x20AC;&#x201D;it

is your prayers that help us to do so. . ^

G H A I R M A N ' S R E M A R K S O F S P E E G H D A Y.

Her Highness thie Maharani of Porbander graciously distributed the prizes and awards, after which His Highness made a thdughtful speisch. He mentioned the numerous aspects of life on which education bears, and said he believed that education is a process which lasts from the time of one's birth until the end of life.

He paid a tribute to the Principal and Staff for maintaining the efficiency of

the school and encouraging its excellent traditions, pointing out the great ifupdrtance to the welfare of humanity of the Work which they carry out.

Tti the school holidays at the beginning of i9S7, Joseph won the

100 metres race of the Madras State Hchdolboy Olympics, and was placed 3rd in the 200 metres.

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Mr. K. N. Menon has oassed his B A. degree of the Madras University.

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lAje is a One Way Street, you cannot go back.

The school is indebted to Bum,erous donors for gifts during the past year :— Books for the Kindergarten pupils — Rev. B. Davis (Breeks Old Boy). ® comprehensive and beautifully illustrated volume by

Whistler—S. K. Reeves (Breeks Old Boy).

A door-mat for the school's Entranee Hall, with the name " Breeks " worked

in It — Mr. and Mrs, 8. Chase (the latter is a Breeks Old Girl, nee Isabel Shepherd).

Coir matting for the Middle House dormitories. Lushington Hall (Mr. Goulden).

Reproduction of a portrait of Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister, painted

y aynter, 0. B. E.—Rev. Arnold Paynter (both Arnold and David are

Breeks Old Boys).

r microscope — David Shortt (Breeks Old Boy),

With the help of the P. T, A. and the Management, the school has secured

an excellent Epidiascope, which is now in frequent use in teaching classes.

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The Audio-Visual Programme, operated by Mr. D. Parker, has brought a

numper of interesting movie-films to the school during the year. ^

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Toreplace the hand-bell, which was often found inaudible in some classrooins, a large new bell has been purchased and hong from the outside wall, near

tne lower. Its tone is clear^and its audibility good, though not unduly loud or

At the end of August, Miss Kathryn Unrnh (a Breeks Old Girl) with a colleague, brought a senior Bptany Class from Higholere School, Kodaikanal, to

visit Ootacamund. Our school's senior pupils, and the staff, did their best to

7 , - a n dHajJ, awith swimming g e t - t and o g light e t hrefreshments er was Eusliington

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Fear and FUe are the Sins of Spirittial Slot)i,

SbitoriaL 0 this ^'Leader" 'tis like a fiery dragon first in front and the-n behind me,

It annully confronts me and from which I try to retreat aslong as possible but

sooner or later 1 am overtaken in my nightmare and turn to face my foe with a nervous reticence unbecoming and inexpedient for an Editor.

My thoughts are nigh to zero for this article which possibly few wiU read and fewer still appreciate or profit thereby. I have nothing literary to offer but just a jutnble and a ramble^ indeed a lot of ungrammaticai stuff which is bound to jade the nerves of many.

To start with let me thank all those who hav^ helped and who are going to help with the compilation of this edition and I triist those who suffer the red

pencil will not be discouraged but will enjoy success in some subsequent issue.

1 have for yet another year headejd each page with an arrow to hit and

inspire but there is a bottom to every barrel and I confess, I am running short of these snips and snaps but I appreciate the appreciations of so many who have

often been hit and hurt by them. I know one Baptist Minister who uses them

freely in his pulpit so one never knows how wide the ripples may spread.

Hitherto I have tried to bring many of the school activities into pictorial form for they often convey more at a glance than a lot of lengthy dry articles.

For the sake of future Editor's, please remember this valuable adjunct when operating your camera.

So many open the book and look at the pictures and know the gist of the

school year, yet pass a wrong judgment of the Chatterbox " which all should

read from cover to cover. I have often wished to publish a purely pictorial Chatterbox", It would suit a lazy age which needs so much audio visual for its

education.

I fear I have in no way the close touch with that host of school activities

I used to have, so for my part, it is less critical yet it may be good to get away

from its " Fisher flavours " which have been so obvious aU down its years. It is now 37 years since I first saw it slide down its slip-ways to take its place among the school years and' has endeavoured to interpret our school life in the interests of its Institutions and its individuals.

We used to have an Eureka Club but for years I tried to discover one among

them who had courage sufficient to tackle the permanent EditorshiD of Chatterbox.

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Always he more severe with yourself than you are with any one else.

As I glance over last years Editorial, I find I said, if by the grace of God I am pernaitted to write yet another, my subject shall be " Call back Yesterday."

Don t you wish yoli could? that is purge it out, tear it from the moving picture

of your life, cut out the chapter; of course it depends on the sort of yesterday that you are thinking about — some of them of course were sheer joy to b^ alive I look over my picture albiwus, I recount one reminiscence after

another and now because I can never relive those joy deftys, I feel sad and do not want to ** call back yesterdayI have written so much of my story in back numbers but now I only want to write of the principle of ** call back yesterday."

The sk*y above seems still a glow though the sun seems to be going down and I feel more sad than glad.

To have those happy days over again to feel as I did: them, to be as I was

then, and to have around me those faces of many years would be a glorious

treasure to me. There are other yesterdays which bring a sudden chill to us as we contemplate them: how we ever got through them we don't quite know with

all their agonies of body and mind, their aknost torturing anxieties, their deep humiliations^ their despairs: there were numerous hospital operations and a thousand Divine deliverances all in retrospect. Whether we like it or no we must

ALL call back our yesterdays and I want to tell you why. I suppose I ought to explain thatyesterday my quotation II who " call back' P* hecomes wantedfrom, it backShakespeare's because in theRichard great crisis of hiscried life,,

he arrived a day too late. Yesterday there was a chance for bjm, an opportunity

that might have been sefeed. That day was gone. The yesterday that might have saved him had travelled on relentlessly to another dawn, bringing nothing but melancholy and-regret.

I think I know how he felt: old age is always thinking of what might have

been ahd if only the old vitality was still there what it could do: you know what I mean, the things which come back and haunt us when^we are tired and lonely, charioes we missed, friends we never did rightly value, advices we scorned, work,

service, thanks, praise, love and worship left undone, all now -great valleys in our life because we would " just pass the time away.'' I only hope our boys and girls will beware of that phrase for you can only be young once and as aspectator> I look out of my window and I ^ee some working terribly hard but in the main

youth squanders recklessly God's choicest gifts. Sometimes you ,see this text hung in a boy's bedroom which you may care to think over—

LOST TWO GOLDEN HOURS — each set with sixty golden minutes —

NO REWARD is offered because they are LOfeX FOR EVER. I hope/that

has been worth quoting.

As a matter of fact all our yesterdays are still with up : they are all a part

of us. Our present"has sprung out of our past as the branchesjand fruit fropi the stena. • Some Boys speak of " turning over a new leaf" as thopgh life were Tath^r

like a book with pages we never need to read again but the leaves and chapters are living. The only way to improve the present is to call back yesterday (that may cause you some repentance).

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Ueject the second best, accept only God's best.

The other day my wife was unravelling a knitted jumper and when I

exclaimed found she had to go back td the place where she made a foolish

mistake. Yes, we must call back yesterday like the Prodigal Son did. That way ward boy had spurned his privileges and his Fathers love and came to a point

where deep depression and desperation turned him back along the road kiy whicA he had come—/to one of-his-yesterdays; He tuust have done soine miserable

thinking with a big ache in mind and heart-^Something deeper than self-pity but they ended in a resolve to.retrace his steps, and in his rags to go hom.e. As

you read his stbry you will discover he wafi going back to th6 place where his troublea began. Milliona-have done that; we sometlntfea call it conversion : I tell

you all this bocaus.e yesterdays not only concern me but every man, woman and boy-or girl alive. If any of us have enough humility ancThonesty we can do that too, bttt bear in rnind it may hurt a bit, and may be very painful but what of that'if we can be made whole, " -

It is in this we can come to the ONLY t^ue Physician jwho-can heal us and '®stpre unto us the years the locust has eaten. As a Christian, I believe that

Odd'has revealed Himself uniquely and perfectly in Jesus Christ and the name we most give to Him is Bedeemer ; think deeply of that name 1)efoi?e you let it

go. It does not mean merely that we areVsorry for the past and are legally acquitted in God's sight :-that is not enough,, but it does mean that when I

invite Jesus to come into my heart, His Light and Love and Law and Liberty

come with him making me entirely new — my stem, branch and fruit. He takes

away the old— its rotten yesterdays, its deSIement and degradation ofdhe past and gives me'His own prediousness and Eternal Life — The. gift of God is Eternal Life through Jesus Christ (Rom. 6. v 23) His Redenaption deals with our piast (^yesterday) our present and our future. (Eph. 1: 7) That is what

Gbd calls Redemption — the work of God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

How much the World needs it and how much all Breeks need it: sit alone

for half anJipur, call back yesterday and you will hear Him say "come let us reason together" and then —Thy sins be forgiven thee what a lovely thing to hear from He who has wanted to be your companion from many yestu^rdays and

will be your faithful and Eternal Friend for ever. I seem to have been a long

time saying that but as this is likely to be my last Editorial, I wanted to give all who read this book the best of news from The Book of Books and the grandest of all Truth from The Man Christ Jesus who loved and _gave Himself for eajbh of us.

I would not like to close these 42 Editions, without this all glorious Message and I beech of you as His ambassador " see-that'ye refuse not Him" the all lovely Redeemer of Calvary.

Greetings to all friends young and old from an old Friend George Fisher ■ : ' ■ (ED.)

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Standard 2 — 1. Geoffrey Gilbert 2 . K r i s h n a Ve n k a t a

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5. Vasantha Pathy

4. David Howard

5. Raghavendran

Standard 3 — 1. Sheelaugh Mackay 2. James Heslop

Bhujanga Rao

Standard 4 — 1. Joseph Thomas 2. Jeyalakshmi Bhujanga Rao

3. Jennifer Chase

4. Selwyn Jackson

3. Radhakrishna

Bhujanga Rao

Standard 5 — 1. Jayashree Standard 6 — 1. S.aumitra Sircar 2. David Goold Venkataramany , 2. Jean Brand .

:3, Khalil Rahman

3.,(.Suresh Menon,)

4.. vimala Menon ,

Standard 7 — 1. Elizabeth Neech 2. Colin Anderson 3. David Buffam

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Standard 9 — 1. Bridget Willy 2., Peter Campbell

Standard 10— 1. Manohar Devadatta

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Special Prize 4. Anthony Gilbert Standard 11 — 1. P r e m a S r i n i v a s a n 2 . David Brinicombe 3. Peter Darashah

Music Price — Pianoforte — Senior — Eunice Anderson Florence Goold

Junior— Christopher Kirkpat^iek Jennifer Rice V i o l ii

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Junior'—Arthur Payntef' ,

Winners of Music Certificates — Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London.

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David Buffam

Paul Clark Sharon Buffam

Christopher Kirkpatrick Eric Allaby

Gladys Minchin

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Grade IV — June Pritchard

Grade III— Jennifer Rice Adrienne Brown

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Cornet — David Pospisil

Arthur Paynter

Stevenson Scholarship

Brian Smith

The Pentland Prize

Maths and Science (Boy) — David Brinicombe

Standard XI

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The Theobald Prize for Steady work in The Bury Prize for Scripture

(Girls) — 1. Prema Srinivasan

2 . J o a n n e Va n d e R i e t

Standard XI — Dhanraj Gewarchand Thangam Sakharan Standard IX ^ Ann Buffam

Anthony Gilbert Standard XI — Peter Darashah

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%mt in ®l|e ^knmThis is not the first time Bjan Abels ha^ eontribiited to " Ghatterbox " and

we do cordially congratulate our friend from West Germany who was always a credit to Breeks, a Scout with a fine spirit' anjd who Ji as so.OP mm end ably settled ^ at the following address.

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How glad he would be to hear from any of his old - Schoof pfals- Abels still

misses Breeks School and the many happy times asaooiated with it and especially his Scouting.

The following is how he writes about his Tout to The Alps far his contribu

tion to Our Mag ! :— A tour by bus to the Swiss Alps." During my .last holi

days my parents planned a bus tOur in the Swiss Alpsr ^ o clock in the morning and the route took us along the banks ©f -lake Conatance and up to Stein by way of which, we had to pass the German Swiss Frontier.

We left this old Swiss Town and crossed the river Rhein travelling Into the Swiss interior.

From now onwards and up to Zurich we saw nothing but hills covered with

trees. In the Sistanbe we saw gi-gantrc mbuntains whrch seemeiJ tcntouchr

very heavens with their white dresses and snowy caps. At teii m. we came to

the famous Axenstrasse and from which we could see the blue — green shining lake

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From here we travelled on through Altdorf where William Tell was supposed, to have lived (?) and thence through the Xusfenpass which riseb'^Well oVeV seveiT thousand feet.

Through all the ^ullages from now on, we saw those typical wooden Swiss

houses, with lots of gay flowers in their front windows.

During the trip we met nationals from Denmark, Netherlands, 6t. Brit tain,

France, Germany, Belguim, Austria and Switzerland. All of them came for the

wounderful sights the glorious Alps can offer — just mou^tainSg^-mountam^^^^ mountains, range upon rangCj and how'we admired the wide fields of ice and the

steep rbcksicles; Before we left, we had a lovely battle with the hard frozen snow.

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DonH lose confidence in yourself, it rmkes the vote unanimous.

Then we had our lunch at a place called Gadmen, after which, the bus took us through fresh courses through these lov>ly:-alps and across the Brunich Pass which brought us again to Zurich where we stayed for one and a half hours. We went round this beautiful International eity. Zurich is situated on the banks of

the lake of Zurich from which may be seen a magnificent view of the alps.

Our next hop was at Cloten where we saw the landing and departures of many aeroplanes. From here we left for home where we arrived about eleven

o'clock. I was soon in bed, very tired, very happy after one of the finest fours I have ever made. 1 feel my description of it all has been but mild compared to its grandure but better still, I hope my readers w-ill one day do the same Tour and see it all for themselves and confirm what I have said.

(By B. U. Abels )

速l|e OIro02 " Olountrg.

Cross-Country training began (for me) in December, M56. I used to gat up

about 5-30 each morning. (So sorry ! about once every fortnight) and run around

the compound. (At least it was usually walking once around the house j) Up at

school I used to go early for music practice, and used to run to school every day, (actually about once in three weeks, as an average).

One day somebody said that we had to walk over the course, and do six practice runs. That was when I began training in real earnest. In the diningroom the greatest subject was the great run. It was talked about everywhere.

On the 20th August, 1957 we made our way upto the start. Mr. Walker set us off and I sped ahead. I reached the first marker and my ticket was No. 15 !

Just fancy!

I sped on, but was soon ove^ taken by a few fellows. All the time I kept a careful count of my place, and at no stage was I out of the Ist twenty. I saw Colin Anderson just behind me, and I decided not to let him beat me. He over took me as we neared Lushington, but for some unknown reason he stopped just inside Lushington and I overtook him. I charged dawn to the field and did nay circuit. I finished up 17th 1

At the prize giving the first prize went to Anderson, second to Natty Cooke and third to Rod Gilbert. Stevenson came first in total marks, Pentland and Stanes

tie second. As you can see, my strenuous (or otherwise!) trainnig had not been in vain.

S. K. Wash. Std. IX.

Defy defeat, try again i

/gear's Message 1957 (G. FISHER.)

^ In these days of cold war and perplexity the air is fuH of

heavens are full of glory but as we should be full ot cheer. 1 his short timely i ew

years' taeSsage is writen as an enoeuragement amid the first as an explanation of the second and as an exhortation to the third and all from the

to our common-place life and thinking. It applies to wl.at wil be ^ need of 1957 amid the challenges of despotism, defeatisrn, *1

dism, whether in the home or at school or in the Church, fcocial, Seoiu Political life.

' A DAILY CHALLENGE.

LadyAsquith tels how she once rbet a tramp and asked him how he decided

which way he would tramp. He said, ÂŤI always turn my back to the wind

That is tin- attitude toward the unpleasent side of bfe that is not limited to th tramp fraternity. Centuries ago king Ahasuerus permited no one m sackcloth to pass the palace gate. Emerson's philosophy of life was built up principle,' " Safety first " is an admirable slogan for pedestrians ^and ought to be far more so to motorists) but as a rule for life it is just turning the back to the

wind. The tramp always turns his back to it because he has no goal and it does notmatterwhich way he travels. The ;Chri8tian has a goal, and if pressing toward the mark means facing the wind, why 1 h>e will face it.

Turning the back to the wind marks the tramp, and it is that habit that

makes the ttamp. Anyone who persistently refuses to face the "

pleasent in life when necessary and right to do so, is m training for the tramp

life, if we set our goal before us in the strength of the Lord, we shall choose our way accordingly, whether we have to face the wind or not.

Annie Belle Kbogle, the beloved friend of the Darkies, tells of a negro running down the street someone called to him, " Rastus, where are you gomg â&#x20AC;˘ The fepTv came. " Boss, I ain't gwine nowhere. I'se jest leavin ÂŽ

That is it, going nowhere, but just dodging something we don t like, i hat i . true tramp spirit. ,

This has a lesson for us to-day. As a nation we must f ace certain restrictions

upon our usual way of living. We as Christians must tet the tune fiiiness to the rough words of the time. " With Christ in the vessel there should be no grumbling. Now is the time to buy up the opportunity t^o show

that Christ in the heart makes brightness in the face, even when facing the win .

God Invested Ghriel m the Cross for THE Ghurdh and His Ghry.

Th.te.i. .i»d. oppo..d to Bw-iootioos, Scouting, Ckiiutiun Wituc,

Gaines, Service and Worship and to pxefitable obedience.

Those wD i d,s whcih oppose you from Jor^eSember^a s^^ sea

seasons and without them you grow soft and will those in trainnever made a true mariner. Yet, as I look round. I thmkT kuow tno ^

ing for tramp life for there are quite a namber who only do j'; They make excellent 4 o/o Tea visitors but when ® ^re found right or of taking a stand or responding like a good

wantn i g and go the way of the wn i d, the easy way and ^he hne ef east rosmtance irilh the tide Ld not against it: No one ever became a no boy wil ever get his Queen's Scout tha . no^^

crown that way. There are too many cravens wh '.v Am in 1 Samuel Chapter enemy is in sight in large numbers ; have a good loo c a Some Christians 13 j too many trembling, trampish traitors crossmg ^ ® ^ are expert in the art of retreat and when J'

nearest way off the battlefield—^the way of the wind ^ ■ intended to

drawing-room soldiers; Stiff winds ard position o pe^i . i. _ yyind shake our confidence in God but there y® too many _-ii; acorn danger funkars instead of those who laugh at difiiculties. The

and remember, thatcoutrary winds have a fascination for courageous hearts.

It is the Challenge of the New Year-to train a^ve^us

trumphant life-the wind-born life^or the warrior life wV^ • ^

from the stagnant, the backward, the ttampish and the -Y- less lite in l»o , make it glorious in triumph no matter what the challenge A DIVINE COMFORT.

(MATHEW 6 and 8)

« Your^Father knoweth " is a precious and consplatory truth ; a statement full of strength to the weak, of comfort to the afdicted, and of d

from 'the start to the goal, from the Cross to the glory

helD bv the way ftleb 4. 16 ) His care over you is unceasing. Each^ believer

a subject of His personal care and attention, while His angels .

His piesence to minister to you. His omniscience searches ^

nothing too ^--Vnctblng^oo gi^attoescapef^Swl^^ of each

birth, of person, of character, of training, of endowment, of position and every

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Time is a tiny Island in the vast ocean of Eternity. detail in life, is a truth which lifts us out of our littleness and sets us down in

God's own presence in eternity—objects of his thoughts and cpunsels. Every attribute in God, singly and combined, works for your blessing. God is for you.

He is on your behalf. He knows;your needsof food arid clothiag He knows your poverty. He knows about thie^skCikEreaa inthe family. He knnws your daily struggle. He kn6ws%li' about< these difiScult tinges.and ^ increasing schobi and business trials. ' fld knows every^'misund^8tanding. H^ knows how cruelly you have been wronged.' He knows ih-ow.dmproper moti^ are attributed to

you. He knows you'thifqughcand through. . All your circn are minutely

and absolutely.known to Hina; What a >God Heds, . He, made worlds; gave His Son to die ; and hutUbers the haks of your head. He bottles your tears, records your words, and heats the • faintest sigh. r'V-Your Eatber knoweth what things ye have need of." " lis that not enough.? ^I8.H^s:knQw our need r ot b etter

th^n outs ? Do you •repose on,: His knowledao cfi what^i^.^^^ -^Your Father knoweth what fhingsye havb need ofjibefbretye a^khto.''-. Before ever theheart

u^tetest itself iii^^roaii 'or prayers - Hei knows*, : ?iu :d^ surprise Him by the

recital of gTief%^n^ed;^/He khew^it and perfept^.befpre ever you entered Hrs presence with your burdened fhearl/,/So be ;:Comfor,ted in the long year before you 1958i-F 'T .a v,;; : : . • : '

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and where the ^dissihHity of ^efeatismroxiist^ to fplipw th^t emphatic, injunction of our Lord wh^fBb said^^ Be of good/cheeri ;: , . ^ I once visited thai beautiful cbltegfe^HaiJey: bury an^ I think its Motto will

help US in our duty;if we follow the/exposition appended her®* The Motto'^ ^ursuin Gorda-of the-Oollege (wkieh^^^^^ founded in 18fi4)

when translated (acbbxding to the Buglish Prayer Book) .means Lift up your hearts-"

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not be worried, 'do not give up hope/ do^nob lpok^o black side of things," they seem to say to us. ''^''Ddu't-be your hearts. ' This H a rUes^v^e we'oftenmee » There. is. mncb- tp.^^raake ns discouraged.

Evil is rampant in the world to day. Sin is strong and we are weak. It is hard to keep on. ' f " ^ Bub still in the midst of it Sursum Gorda. The old liturgieal response to this is,/'We lift them up unto to the Lord." And that is the right response.

It is easy to advise, "Keep up your heart." but we all need something more than

that. The Strength and help and encouragement we so badly need will come only when we lift up our hearts " unto the Lord."

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THE WAY IN WHICH ARUM LILIES GROW IN DDTACAMUND.

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" Lift up your hearts "In Pca^er:.. TeH-Jews: -Christ all about' your worries

and trials and tetn-ptations. ■ Ilow the bifrdwi lightens"whe'a vve do'this !

And " lift up your hearts " in Pmim 'iTfreto-is never a day sd gloomy, but

what you have something to be thankful for,

" Count your blessings, name them one by one," and praise God for those you have and for those He is goiqg ,fio giv« ;yOu'.- -'Alnd: aisedurag'emeni wil vanish "The joy of the Lord is.your strength Sursuni Gorda.

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the chaUenge of-the-m.ew yehr .with these invincible We'apons of God's own comfort

and the Choerfufneas He giv0S:wh.ieh¥.0tiders-the sdul'invnlnfe'rhMemnd hides you

under His Power and Panoply— May 1933 be full of answered Qh^Uenge, Divme Comfort and Dutiful Cheer and .Victory. ■ '

To tell tbe truth, I like all the montbs in their own-wftf. ^ its gdod'

the month:of D,epember,f,or,7]Qy -bestu .'The- weafth^r', is^hood '

andyou may take lots of hikes qr cyel.e ri.dos.,, i re-a.lly e.jijoy,-iti.- f On-the plains and at- Batfaras--yoU • iin-d • De'cenWier'' Has Vtlie"behi' clim ate.

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rounding Bdnai-aS Wrth-thek-fiefdslook-iove'ry and freshV . -V > ' .This >? .tji.9r t jp.e. !io go..for.cy^le; r.idea, hikes ■ or. pieiiicd. .There-is not) t'od

much wafer in,the .rivgrs, but;in gome., for.loxampie ; the rivers of • Mizapur' vdu can go for'many;,pjeasgpt,swim.s., Tor, these,-and picnics, you have'tb go about forty

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Faith and effort should never he divorced.

^tstorg ^epiing, 1057.

Lectures given from February — May.

1» Mb. Mackay : Some hunting experiences.

2. Mb. Vbnkatabamini : Forest Conservation, 3. Mb. D. Parker : Australian Fauna,

4. Mr. J. Dowson: On Safari in Mau-Mau Country, Mr. J. Dowson, now planting in Coorg, had three years drst hand experience of operation at 10,000 ft. in Kenya.

5. Mr. McLaughlin : Aurora Phenomena, This was the first of a series on the Geo-Physical Year.

Expeditions :

(1) During March the girls went for an observation walk in the Snowdon area

and found spoor of porcupine, pig and jackal, which were all fairly

numerous. Porcupine had been eating seeds, which was causing some intestinal looseness.

(2) Permission was sought from the Forest Dept. to build a machan, and several members, including three girls, took up three dozen eucalyptus staves, wire, etc., to the selected spot over a water-hole in the Snowdon Reserve Forest.

The boys completed the Machan on Friday (the long week end^ March). The girls completed the camouflage and R. Neech, E. Neech,

M. Chase and Mrs. Willy stayed up on Sat. night apart from birds, they saw nothing.

(3) During March the girls also went to Dunsandle Estate and much enjoyed Mrs. Simpson's beautiful English garden. Explored tree hut and Water

fall Valley Ravine brought back specimens now growing successfully at Lushington. Also photographed white eye and bulbul's nests.

(4) During April:— 8 girls sat in Machan from 3—5-30 p. m. on Saturday and observed nut-hatches, Nilgiri Fly catchers and other birds. Sumita

Babblers were very active throughout, giving warning cries to the jungle.

Hawk attacked bad meat brought as a lure for animals.

(8) E. Allaby, R. Gibson, R. Gordon and R. Neech stayed up from 7 p.m.—■ 7 a. m. on Saturday night. After 13 minutes they observed a pig below the machan. During the night they heard deer lapping — spoor examined in morning.

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(6) Saturday, April 14th.

The following boys in maohan all nightR. Gibson, A. Smith,

B. Lissenborough, had not yet ascended when they heard a nolae

described as "a person in great agony; the groan was punctuated by a

short broken o3 noise like a bark." Boys lost no time in getting into the machan*

The following boys, P. Campbell, M. Pritchard, E. Gordon, A. Gilbert made hammocks of wire netting and put them up on trees overhanging^ the path to the Machan — about | mile distance from it. They experienced considerable difficulty in doing this by moonlight as the trees had not been selected before. No animals were observed. The

hammocks should hav6 been slung up in the morning or afternoon if possible.

(7) Easter Treko

A party of five — T. iTjrola, 0. Willy, B. Smith, N. Cookn and

D. L. Willy set out to find the Siapara Pass and explore the ancient

route to the hills. Each person carried a knapsack with a bill hook.

The next day they came across the bluff WhSre 'G. 'ttolcombe and D. L. Willy last year saw two tigers. By ten the top of the pass was

reached and there was a magnificent view. At aboUt 1 *30 they had descended and soon reached their first objective — a ruined wooden forest bungalow. Fortunately there were no snakes. It rained that night and at 10 a. m. they set out but it was very misty* A bison track was followed and the path was very steep and the jungle very thick.

At dusk they found themselves — back at the ruined hiit ! Elephants

and Tigers were heard quite close. Finally a road was seen but before going on to it, every one washed away the signs of wear and tear. Five miles from Gudalur a lorry picked up B. Smith and Mrs. Willy but the others were not. (The bus had been missed.)

The boys walked through the night and reached Ooty at 6 a. m. in an exhausted condition.

Speakers from June — August.

6. _Mr. McLaughlin ; Space Travel.

7. E, Anderson : Centenary of Ross's Birth.

8. Mr. McLaughlin; Continental Drift.

9. J, Pritchards Tercentenary of Harvey's dj^^ath*

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^^Doiyt-Jorgel to rernemhr.

June Excursion.

, . In the long week en^ Mrs. Wjllj; Miss de.Carteret and eight others went from G t e h m o t g a n ' t o S i h g a r a h y ' t f o i i y. ' - ^ ^ i.,; i. several places we,changed trolleys and when we finally,got down looked

round the H. E. Power Plant, ]which was very interesting. Since we had already fiotshed lunch we iinnaediately started out for Gudaiur, following the electric wiroj throagh th9jwng,le,. -Al^pna,time something, whioh was th^^ to be a bisons dtwhed'thfough the jungle ajt o^ne side.^ i The people ahead} when the road was reached, walked-four miles on to Gudaiur .

y- - Qrtfy the gitis could fit •in'ho theU>u3Soothe boys got a fide in a jiofio'e oat and

Mrs. Willy and Miss deOarteret got a later bus.' -. -. -.vj

About seven miles out of Ooty the car that the boys wete in had cfashedinto

a lorry. Since our bus could nob.,get.past sfl we got out and soon caught up with the boys who were walking ahhad of us. - • ■;

They got to Ooty at about 8 : 30 p. m. all safe though tired out.

Londonf^Exhibition, October 12feh.

The Society is a Menaber of the Association of Nafcnral History Societies of Englandv and for the second time has sent exhibits to the Annual Exhibition held ai the British Museum of Natural History, S. Kensington. (The first exhibit was commented on in a no less distinguished periodical than "Nature," one of the WQrJd's Inading soientifio journals.)

' 'This year's exhibits oonsisted of an illustrated record of Nilgiri'Birds, pre pared by Robin Gibson; some ^mples'bf fdck, withHhe "tflyst'eVy'' Cbral which is found as isolated water-borne detritus at Avalanche, unrelated to any of the snfcounding rocks,asrhich are-'-erystalJing 6r matemorphic; and thirdly, decorations illii'trafciug Nilgiri scenery with some Kodaohrome-slides.

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Luch is the Idol a f the Idle.

The third World War was not nearly so terrible as it was predicted to be gway back iu the years after the second World War, as both sides were too frighten to use the terrible Hydrogen and Cobalt bombs for fear of the conse-^

quences that that country would bring upon itself at the hands of the enemy.

During this war the enemy had bombed Ootacamund, as it had become

during the years i960â&#x20AC;&#x201D;l96o a very important base for I. A. F. planes in South

India. The old school building had received a direct bit from a ten-ton bomb

and had been reduced, during the space of about thirty seconds to a heap of rubble and fine dust. Fortunately, at the first sound of the air raid siien the

students bad all been led into the schools great underground air-raid shelter which esteuded for about two acres and was about three-hundred feet uuderground.

After the war the school was rebuilt and was completed after two years in the year 1997.

The new school, built on a new site near Charing Cross Post Office is three

stories high and contains sixteen classrooms, three large laboratories and a large assembly hall. There is also a large hall where films, etc. can be shown.

There are escalators instead of ordinary staircases, each having two parts, one going up and the other going down. All the doors in the school are sliding doors.

There are electric lights round the walls and a neon light in the middle of each ciasrroom. The power from this lighting comes from the atomic power station at Singaru near Gieumorgan. This power station, incidentally, is one of the largest in India.

The students are taken to school in helicopters owned by the school. The day-scholars come from as far as Coirabatore. The boarders come from as far as

South Africa, but the most part from North America.

The total number of pupils, of which 75% are European, is over seven hundred.

At break-time, the school provides tea or milk as wished for by the student.

The swimming pool is shaped in a semi circular shape. One end is lO feet deep. There are four diving boards, ranging from one to fiftee n feet above the

surface of the water, with foam rubber matting on them.

Peter Campbell and Richard Neech. (St. X.)

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Truth is always equal to the Storm.

It was on Christmas Eve that Philip Pirrip, (Pip for short) went to tfre grave

yard to see his five dead brother's and his dead parent's graves, when suddenly a

man caught hold of him and made Pip promise that he would bring him some food "and a file, and if Pip did not, the convict said that there was another man who

would eat him up. So Pip went away frightened. Now Pip lived with his sister, Mrs. Qargery and her husband, the village black-smith; his sister was very cruel to him and used to beat him. The next morning Pips stole some food and drink as well as a file and went off to the grave-yard. Ho saw the man and gave hiin

the food and the file. The man ate the food greedily and started filing the chain

off his foot, so that it would be easier to walk — Pip went back home, and found

a number of guests at his sisters house, and there also was his Uncle. While th^y were eating, there was a knock at the door and they found some soldiers who

asked Joe Gargery to repair a set of hand-cuffs, they also said that two convicts had escaped. . .

Now, when Pip was about 8 years old, he went to work for a lady called Miss Havisham, who was mad because on her wedding day her fiance did not turn' tip. Pip went there to keep her amused. In that honse lived a girl called Bstella who was very beautiful and Pip liked her, but she only gave him scorn.

One day, when Pip was about 18 years old, there came a lawyer in search of Pip and told.him that he was to go to London to be taught, and that someone had given a large sum of money for him. Just before Pip left for London he went to see

Miss Havisham for he thought she was the one who had given him the money, for he was never to know who had given it to him. When Pip went to London he wasted money like cold water.

One rainy day when Pip was about 23 years old, there was a knock at the

door; a man came in and sat down on a chair. He asked Pip if he remembered him and then Pip remembered that it was the convict he had helped long ago.

The convict told Pip his name was Abel Magwitch and he had never forgotten .what Pip did for him. When he went to Australia (he had been deported to Australia) his only idea was to save his money for Pip. Then Pip realised — with horror that it was the convict that was giving him all this money. The man said that he just had to come back to see Pip, and if he was caught he would have to be hanged;— Sq Pip thought he would row the convict down the Thames river and

put

him

on

a

steamer

that

would

take

him

abroad.

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Just when Pip was rowing him down the river, a police boat caught up with them and in it was the other convict, Compeyson, who was Magwitch's enemy.

When the two convicts saw each otker they fell into the Thames river fighting fiercely, Compeyson never came up, but Abel Magwitch did, but was badly dnjured and died before he could be hanged — So Pip became poor again and got a job in a big workshop in Cairo. Later he went back to England to marry Estella.

5eathek MoLeod^ Std. VII.

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You Know you should, why don't you ?

1957^ G. FISHER.

Christmas again !~ which, for readers in the old country means frost and snow; holly and mistlefcoe, carol singing and turkeys; for those aceross the world, sweltering heat and picnic parties are the order of the day ; and we hope that for all chere will be Christmas cards, and presents done up in crackly white paper, tied with red ribbons! What fan It all is and how we love it, we Christ' mas folks."

His Birthday—the Birthday of the Lord Jesus Christ! On your birthday, people give you presents. You would be very surprised and disappointed if oh your birthday all your friends gave each other presents, but forgot to give yoti any. Yet, for some of you, ten—twelve—fiifteen, or more Christmasses have passed, and never a gift has gone from you to the ONE Whose Birthday it is. Yott havp given gladly to other people ; it is His. Have you remembered that ?

Soon aher He was born, there came into His lovely dwelling-place some wiise

men. Picture them baring their heads, and kneeling in reverent adoration before the Kingly babe 5 see them falling down and worshipping Him, to Whoni air the worship of the ages belongs. But that.was not all. After their homage came something else. "They presented unto him gifts 5 gold, fxankincense, and myrrh "—His Birthday gift.

Do you know why they gave Him gold? It was because gold is a picture of

royalty, and He was King of kings. It was the very best they could bring, and the most expensive—pure solid gold. Nothing less than the bes^t would do for the great King.

Do you know why they gave him franhincense? It was because frankincense is a picture of perfect purity—absolute whiteness. So that when the wise m^n brought Him fraukincense, it was an acknowledgement that the One Who lay as a Babe before them was the only One Who was perfectly and utterly pure and sinless—the l^'on of God.

Do you know why thev gave Him m^rrA ? It was because all through the Bible, myrrh is a picture of suflfaring. Orginally, the idea came about because the myrrh plant had to be wounded in order to give forth its frangrance. i And the gift of myrrh was because the One Who was born that day would one day be wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities ^ the chastisement of our peace would be upon Him, and with His stripes we should be healed. All the sin of the world was to be laid upon Him, that sinners might find a path to God. That was why they presented myrrh to Him.

"They presented unto Him gifts—What can we offer to Him Whose Birthday we oelebrate this Ohristraastide.?

/ Just what the kings of old offered — gold and frankincense and myrrh.

Gold! How can we bring Him gold, who have none? We bring Hirn gold when we bring the very beat we have — our life, our love, our personality and

influ^ence—and lay it at His feret in complete surrender 5 when we realize that nothing is too dear, nothing too precious to give gladly to him. So that when we taring Him our lives, young and fresh and usable^ wo present into Him—gold.

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It is irreparable failure to give- up. FMnkiacensel Can we bring Him that ? Yes, for wben we come bumbli',

repentantly to Him. mParjiing our sinfulBess and what it Cdst Him, but asking in

faith for the white garment ofHis perfect righteousneas and purity in place" of our own 'filthy rags,' then we present unto Him—frankineenae.

I ; Myrrhl How can we offer to Him.the gift of myrph ? Perhaps older^rOadera win andersa'nd that we bring to Him the gift of myrrh wbenftom our hearts we-

tell Him tfiat we are willing to go the whole way with Him, cost what4t 'ffiay.

.That we are wiUing for disappintment, suffering., scorn, df it be for HisiHame's

.aake and if these things should be'His willfor us. Thus can we bring to Him the gift

of

myrrh.

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But let us do it this-Christmas. Oh His Birthday mornmg. bOfore we evets look at the goodly things that wiH he awaiting us; shall we do down on our kheaa ;an_d offerjio Him—gold, and frankioceDse and myrrh ? Shall we make 1t- some

thing very definite, not only a time of rejoicing and giving-amongst ourseives but

.the cele-bration of the Birthday of our Lord Jeans Christ. •:

'Fhpn you wid understand how; joyoa.s Christmas can be, ^<my htmoat for His.Highest ' should be the golden gift we should bring. He won't accept less for the fullest bjessing, He can't expect mote, b.iit it is a glorious heart-challehgh. Here's to the Imppjesi of Christma,ss.e3 to allin your home—l£i57 and may that joy araach

fche

haavens..

it

should:

do.!

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• ' A small world was approaching the 'Solar ' System from a far-distant galaxy.

At first the astonomers viewed it only with curiosity, but soon it was seen it iwonid bit the Earth in two weeks time. And it would take oyer two and a half ^treeksin a space-rocket to get to it }

r - The whole world was thrown into a panic as the "Terror" approached Earth.

Only Captain McWhaly, who had made the first lunar voyage, kept calm hs hemade bis preparations for the vital voyage. ; The rocket took off. The crew were put under terrible strain in the initial

'acceleration. When orbital velocity was reaehed the pressure subsided. Normally a pilot switched off the engine When orbital velocity had been reached, but McWhaly was determined to reach " Terror" in time once he left the engine on.

Five more days. Six days' journey ! Four days with one hundred hotirs to go : Gradually the ship with its brave crew drew closer to the "Terror.'' When the

thing wa^aix hours away from Earth, Smy th the gunner greased the tigger. " Boom !" a rocket shell speed away towards the" Terror." - '

'•Dash it! Mister I" moaned poor Smith, as the missile went slightly wide

of the target. But the bomb exploded and put the small world off its course, ft became a satellite of Earth, being an excellent stopping place to the mpoh. And BO) the '^Tet-rbr" became "Rest," a beautiful second moon.

Cheistopheb Kibkpateiok, Std IX, Age 12.

The ■Coming of The Lord drniMh nigh,

Peautg in Beauty in animals is nob so easily seen by most people as beauty in plants^ but any person li ving near.to wild animals will agree that wild animals are among the

most

beautiful

of

all

creatures.

^

The sight of a herd of spotted deer, standing noiselessly in the forest! their sensitive noses sniffing the air cautiously and their keen ears pricked up to hear the slightest sound, is, in my opinion, a beautiful one. The spotted deer having a brown coat with white -spots, blends perfectly with its surroundings in thdi juugle or forest and is hard to be seen except by an'experienced eye. The beauty of a deer lies, not only in its beautiful coat, but also in its grace. This can be s^eh in a-deer running through the forest, jumping lightly over small obstacles in

its way, its hooves ma,kihg the slightest noise on the ground beneath. It can also beseen in a stag with his majestic air "and s^endid head of antlers,

I was thrilled odce when, on a visit to Kargi^i, I saw an unusual sight. It

was early on a beautiful mbrriing. I was walking down a path through the forest when suddenly my friend, who was with me, brought to my notice a

herd of deer, standing motionless to my aight. We went below the. deer t® a wide path where we could see them more easily. Then some boys scared the herd from hehind them, and they came rushing towards us-. Not more than ten feet away, one of the deer jumped from the jungle above, clear over the twejve, foot

path into the jungle beneath. I thought this waS a very beautiful sight.

tike the spotted deer, giraffe and zebra have beautiful covering. The ; giraffe has a coat of tan dotted over with brown spots. The zebra^s coat is .gray with black stripes giving it the appearance of having been painted. Bnt it

nevertheless beautiful and well camouflaged from its enemies in its native bush— land of Africa.

The tiger and leopard have a beauty and grace of their own. The tiggr is striped tan and brown, and the leopard is tan and spotted brown. They are both beautiful and graceful creatures moving so silently through the jungle that they are difficult to hear except by the rustling of leaves -as they move. These animals are extremely well camouflaged.

Among the smaller beautiful wild animals are the raccoon, skunk, and fox.

The raccoon has a beautiful coat'of black with white stripes. The skunk is some

what similarly marked, and the fox is a beautiful reddish brown with a long bushy tail.

In snakes we find mtany varied kinds of beauty. Among the most beautiful

are the coral snake, cobra, viper, copperhead etc. and even the common grass siMike which is a beautifnl green. Nearly all snakes are beautifully coloured and c a m o u fl a g e d .

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The best time to worry is tomorrow.

Birds are, I think, the most beautiful. There is such a variety of colour and pattern among them, that it would take too long to mention even just the most beautiful. The brilliant red of the cardinal, the bright blue of the king

fisher, and the yellow of the oriole are known to us as common birds. But there

are hundreds of strange and lovely tropical birds which are known to few people.

One of the prettiest sights is that of a peacock 'â&#x20AC;˘ spreading its tail." There is

such variety of colour and pattern in a peacock's feathers that when it spreads

its tail, it looks like a beautifnj mixture of all colours and patterns imaginable.

These are but a few examples of the great beauty found in wild animals As we associate with them in their natural surroundings, we learn to appreciate this beauty and to preserve it.

Ann Sterrett. (St. X.)

^ ÂŽ(jalleÂŤging ^rohiem for ^etttora.

Consider al! the data. There is no catch. All statements are relevant and to be considered.

A Brakesman, a Fireman, andand an Engine Driverrespectively. are employed onthe a trains their^ names are Robinson Smith Jones-NOT On train

there are three passengers of the same names, Robinson, Smith and Jones- here-

after referred to as Mr." to distinguish them from the train enoiployeesi 1. Mr. Robinson lives at Detroit.

2. The brakesman lives exactly halfway between Chicago and Detroit, 8. Mr. Jones earns exactly 2000.dollars a yean 4. Smith beat the fireman at billiards.

5. The Brakesman's nearest neighbour, who is one of the passengers above earns exactly three times as much as the brakesman who earns 1000 dollars a year.

6. The passenger living in Chicago has the same name as the brakesman* What is the engine driver's name ?

There is a prize for the correct answer which shows the correct working.

At the base of your working you must state, I iave not obtained help from

one who knows the answer from previous working of the problem.

u

Faith enjoys the future.

^ituttals in

In India there were many animals which were quite dangerous to mankind but which have now become almost extinct.

The elephant used to roam the forests of Central India but has been killed

for ivory, Lions also were in plenty, but are now all dead or in a aoo leading a miserable life.

There used to be many crocodiles and alligators in the Ganges, but in Beuaras it is now a very rare occurrence for them to be seen.

Ducks used to flock on the Ganges, in hundreds, Now there are only about sixty or seventy ducks seen in the course of thirty miles on the river. Geese are

still seen in the winter evenings, though only in ones and twos.

Here in the Nilgiris, we are lucky to have a reserve quite near us. This is the Kargudi Reserve, Here there are some elephants which are wild and some tame Ones which

are used for dragging and hauling timber.

When some of us went on a scouting expedition to Kargudi, we saw an old

elephant which had been attacked by a wild tusker. On the same trip, we were hiking to Kargudi from Masinigudi, a distance of six miles, we saw tracks of a

tigress and its cub on the road. We also saw the tracks of a panthen We heard and saw many birds.

In Kargudi, where we stayed in the bungalow for two nightsj we walked down a path and saw spotted deer. Creeping close, we managed to get within 40 feet of them, then, a doe seeing us gave a ''hock" of alarm and they all dashed off.

In the reserve there are also bison, elephant, bear, Malabar squirrels, panther, tiger, leopard and cheetah.

This reserve is an example of other reserves in India.

In the Nilgiris, we are also lucky to have the " Mysore Ditch,'* which has an

area of about 1000 sq, miles. This is noted for wild game, especially elephants.

It shows how animals should not all be killed, for, if carnivrous animals are

all killed, deer end monkey would multiply verv quickly and overrun the place and ali green things would be eaten.

We should be very thankful to the Governments for having made these Reserves, where we may go and see something of Wild Life.

This is why we have Wild Life Week " every year.

R. Neech, (St. X.)

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Difficulties are instruments of Discipline.

itofti, attir (3n Jfiftg ^ears ®mi0.

(Or FIFTY YEARS AGO, AND NOW—TAKE YOUR CHOICE.)

Towards a building dark and red, With screams and shouts they did their work

Perched on a grassy mound, The timid teacher dazed. '

A boy's rank marched with heavy steps The llth standard was still worse, That beat upon the ground. For while on them I gazed-

They looked so neat, in grey and brown, They threw their chairs around the room.

And arms which swung in time. Their books were on the door,

And after them the girls marched past Then they began, both girls and boys.

Ail neat and free from grime. To charge out thro'the dbbt.

With happy smvles they took their place Their mistress at the ofiSce waa In class to wait for prayers. Resigning there and then, And when the bell rang, up they fan, Not only her, besides there were So bright and free from cares. Two ladies and two men,

When school began they all worked hard Who'd come to give their notice in With just a joke or two. . Less than a day, they'd taught.

And when the teacher left the class, And outside in the corridor.

They all knew what to do, Their classes screamed and fought.

All thro' the day thoy worked and played. Surprised arid shocked I tried class eight W i t h v i g o u r a n d w i t h j o y. B u t w h a t d i d I h e a r . t h e r e ?

All happy, cheerful, bright and gay, 1'Herp comes old grandpa scrap him, chaps, Thus seemed each girl and boy. And pull out all his hair I " When two-score years and ten had passed

In frantic haste I rushed do.wn stairs.

I came to see again,

The boys were much too near.

The school Pd seen so long ago — I e n t e r e d s t a n d a r d Te n .

And when I reached the open ait

I NEVER went back, no feat!

Christopbet Colombtts.

8 6

■I pity the people'whose peace depends on plenty.

'The Schoal did not do Very well afc Cricket this year. This was mainly due to a weakness in bowliog arising no doubt from the lack of constant and haifd

'practice. However batting and fielding both were quite passable.

I shall now mention the players who Were outstanding and helped us toaquit ourselves,

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.Treyor Pathy, our Vice^Captain, has developed in to a fine forceful player.

H i s fi e l d i n g t o o w a s o f a h i g h c l a s s . . . . . .Hordpn Draper well deserved his Half-Blue. A good left arm bowler^ he also

is a batsman wh with the job of scoring runs." iDavid Pospisil has kept wicket quite' su^ccessfully this year and is also a tisU end bat who has often made a useful score (pulled the fat out of the fire!), -

i 3 €hcistopher Willy is quite a good fast bowler but one who needs to develop accuracy before being a real danger, I would like to thank Mr. Parker for all the time and trouble he took in

coaching us and arranging our matches. -

We were defeated by all the schools. Our raatch^against St. Josephs was the closest, when we were defeated by only-2 wickets.

Well, cricketers of Breeks, better luck next year. Keep on trying and play a stiuight bat.

Ymm F. S. Peter must not get away without a few words of praise for his good f leaderaliip and fine example. Peter has the making of a ^eajly fing bat if he can

get a little more forceful drive in those hits which look so pretty^ . Glpqd luck to

you,

Peter!

DID

D.

YOU

Barker.

KNOW?

That in one year: ■

•

The belJ Hngs approximately 186Pjtimes, : : i : Yo u

work-930

hours

at

schopU

^

.

: ; ' ; You work 360 hours at prep in the senior classes (or do yPu ?)

Therefore you work 14.5% of your whole year.

Whereas you sleep 39.5 % of your whole year. ^ A n d h o l i d a y s t a k e u p 5 0 , 7 % o f y o u r w h o l e y e a r. .

Thus you belong to the class known as

3 That boarders y^aik approximately 440 miles tO; and from . school in a year. .

That the following Nationalities are represented in the school. '

^ ; English, Scots, Irisbj German, Swiss, Finn, Norwegian, Danish,

American, Canadian, Australian, l^ew Zealanders, Jewish, Indian,

^ ^ ■ Chinese, Ceylonese, ChineBe^ Armenian,

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Earthly happinm dosn't rise above, earthly tUnys.

Pocfegg.

Breeks has seldom been noted for its standard in hockey but this year I feel we have begun to dispel that-name as the boys have all played exceptionslly well. Out of the three matches played, there was only a deficit of 6 goals— a very different story from previous years. This was mainly due to the very good

backplay of Draper and Lissenborough both of whom, though inclined -to bo

rather too forceful, have a sound knowledge of defence.

The half line consisting of Cooke, Pathy and Willy was also a deciding factor in the reduction of adverse goal scores. With good aggressive hockey they tnariii* ■ged to put the opposing forwards off their immaculate passing game and so break up the movements. Our greatest lack has been the people capable of scoririg ^ goals. On several occasions we have open'goals, when the surprise has been too great for a scoring shot 1 >

With a pMiCtice wall next year we are hoping for some goalscorcra to be pro duced. Congratulations on a good season.

This year the school has purched an epidiascope — capable of screening filmstrips, slides, as well as pictures from books etc. This has been an effective aid in numerous subjects since its introduction at the beginning of this term.

We have also had several screenings, of films from the Libraries of Shell, 'U. S. L S.> and the British Council.

They heve included Geography films such as Day and Night" a very lOoid explanation of these phenomena ( **The world'a woor' showing the processing and u?age of this commodity ; " Kubilairum " depicting the life of villagers in

Nth Bihar 5 Destination Konkan a voyage from Bombay south\^ard ak)ng the Konkan coast 5 " Gift of Ts'ai Lua " which was the history,- and present manu facture of paper. There have been films on other subjects as well — Photosynthe^is'* (Science), Julius Caesar'' (English), •'Learn to Swim" (Physical Education) and " Brush Technique " (Art).

A very enjoyable time was spent recently at the Assembly Rooms when the school saw the film, '*The Animal World ". This gave a very open history of the world's animal papulation, graphically portraying some of the prehistoric types

whose skeletons have been found. The General part of the picture dealt with the different spheres in turn — water, land and air — and gave some magnificent shots of cc^mriion and uncoraihoa aninaals at home and play. \ T Another showing, including" A Village in the Punjab" and "A Tanker

cames to Madras" will be shown on Children's Day just before the clo?e of school in

N o v.

D.

Pareeb.

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Yout Fdiih is being tested today youf -FutufC is^vnagni jioent.

This branch of the eporfcing world of Breeks has continued to remain

popular. The actual Carnival was held in mid-April in excellent woathet Records continued to topple. Records were established in.

1. 2 Lengths Freestyle Boys 82.5 sees. (3o sees). Stanford.

2. 1 Length Freestyle Boys 15 sees. (16 s^cs). Stanford. .

3. 1 Length Breast-Stroke Boys. 19.2 sees (19 8) Taiick 4. Boys Relay. 1 m 8.2 sees (1 m, 16 sees)

. 5. I Length Freestyle Girls. 22.6 sees (22.8) E. Neech.

6. Girls Relay. 1 m. 40 sees, (t m. 46 sees) Championships this year went to A. Smith (14j points) in the Senior BoyS)

with H. Tanck 9 in the Junior Boys.

The Girls'Competition was carried off by U. Pond in the S^nioirB and E; Neech in the Juniors.

The Pool was used a great deal by the parents with their families during the

May holidays and a warm invitation is extended for the coming Season. Boar

ders and day-scholars alike have made good use of the pool, right throughout the monsoon time as well. Many more have learnt to swim and others are on the verge of finding their flippers."

By the New Year we hope to have a 6 â&#x20AC;˘ diving board, so that more proflciency

will

be

aimed

at

in

this

department.

^

ÂŤ

D. Parebb.

Once there were two brothers who lived in the country. They had neVer

been in a large city or town before. One day the elder brother said He wanted to go to the city to see a sick aunt of his. So both brothers went to the city.

They were just in the city when they saw a double decked bus They jumped in

it but the conductor said there were only two seats one at the top and ope at the

bottom. One brother went up and one stayed below. Just when the^ bus had

started^ the brother who was on top came running down, shouting that his bus hadn't got a driver, and the other bus had.

Two men were walking down a road when a plane flue over them. That s

a mail plane " said one man. ".How do you know,?" it may be female.'

A. Dalai. (St. VI.)

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Pray for those who ask no prayer.

Report ott jHugunber QIatttp.

At tbe end of the Christmas holidays before the boys returned, the Staff had a hike from Glenmorgan to Pykara. On the way I was entranced by a very green clear and obviously deep pool along the river and on investigation further decided I would have an investigation of the site, with the idea of having an Easter

Camp. As yet the pool hadho name so on our next visit there in March with One of the boys decided to depth the pool by tying a mug on'the end of a piece

some of the boys the opportunity arose for bestowing the name " Mugunder." of fishing line. However the knot proved to be a Granny " as when some

pressure was applied to the" line the mug remain " in situ " oh the bottom.

i So to Mugunder we repaired post-haste on the afternoon of Easter Thursday.

By evening the Camp wai erehted, iiilep>aoe constructed and the- vrhole Camp looked as if we had settled in for the whole yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;considering the food we had

brought too! 1 Duties were light as we had brought a cook with us. A boy was delegated to the exalted position of cook's offsider for each of the meals of the periodup soofthat 3-t hour stretch was alfor l duty necessary except the odd *-Camp bit of tidying theone camping area, scouting wood etc.

We passed the dayh'ih leisure,'whiling away most of the time in swimming,

making dams and competing to see who could make the highest splash with a boulder. We\ad too, a short service on both the Friday and the Sunday with a couple of Camp-fires at night around which we sang enthusiastically. On the Saturday we set off in a body to visit Mr. Walker and his group who had enscon ced themselves on the Prospect Tea Estate. Unfortunately the weather played

us false and just before leaving we foundsoulrse'ves in the midst of rather a heavy thunderstorm. Again that night we were subjected to a wonderful display of

Divine pyrotechnics. Hasty earthwork barriers an i shallow ditches protected us

^ from most of the water which fchi:eatended= to make things unpleasent.

timeequipment to leave dattie all too soon.

The tentwe came down,atthe up. â&#x2013; WithThe all our transported

by Scooter, arrived; thepegs bus came terminus

at Glenmbrgan with time on out hands. Just before the bus arrived, we were in the midst of another downpour. While we ware watching we saw a huge bolt of for ked lightning strike a power line some distance away and break off the power supply.

We were rat\er wet but and'i'm bedraggled creatures last did arrived at Lushy " that samePvehing sure tboiigh that athat littleatrain motback dampen our spirits hot makh us wish that we had not gone, -

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" In God's own time " That often means when We are ready.

JVttjtual Report of i\\t Preehg PÂŤpirg ^aaodation.

It gives me great pleasure to present the first annual report of the Associ ation. Our Association, being just one year old, is experiencing its early days.

The Association has a membesship of 47, out of which 16 have paid their yearly subscription of Rf. 3/- each

Mr. Bririiconabe, the Chairman of the Association, left on furlough during the early part of this year, and we feel sorry to have lost his valuable advice and

help, but soon he will be back to give us new strength and ardour.

Mr, E. A. Willy, the President of the Aasocia^tion helped us tremendously

with his advice Bind leaderBhip, and we owe him our heartfelt "thanks. Mr, Willy will also be leaving us at the end of this year. On behalf of the Association I wish him a safe journey and an enjoyable stay in his home-town.

The Association will be looting forward to his return next year.

The past pupils have been having frequent matches with the present pupils

and I am glad to say that in some matches, the past pupils have come out victorious. The Association buzzed with activity during the summer of 1957, when many of the old students had come up for the season, On 8bh June, an ordinary meeting was held, which was attended by 14 members. Social activities to be done were discussed in this meeting. On Satur day, the 15th June, the Annual Dinner of the past pupils was held at the Breeks School Hall. About 40 were present of which 24 were past pupils. We invited some of the staff and some present pupils in order to make the number larger, Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin were the special guests at the function. The occasion commenced with some games. After the dinner various toasts and responses were given, and this was followed by some party games. The function closed with a vote of thanks given by Mr Willy. The annual dinner was a great success and it is hoped that next year many more old students would make it a point to attend it,

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Being good only on Sunday, is being bad.

On Saturday, the 22nd June, on behalf of the Association, a social evening

was held at the School Hall which was attended by 40 persons. Both the pre sent and the past jpupils took part in entertaining the gathering. After some refreshments, social games were held and the evening proved to be a great

success. I thank all those past pupils who helped to run the dinner and the social gathering suocessfuily. The pecuniary side of the Association is very low and the Association would be glad accept any contributions. The Asaociation

would also like the past pupils, both in foreign and inland to contact the Secre tary for further information, and letters may be addressed to the school.

The Association requires the aid and the co-operation of the past pupils to march ahead!

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The Association M;ishes the past pupils a merry Christmas and a Bright N e w Ye a r.

Angeline Samson, (Secretary—Treasurer.]

^ ^rrrg ornritg at " flualig.''; "Ding-ding-dong!" That was the rising bell. No body movesi

" Get up! " that's Mr. Parker, as he walks into the room. Two or there

crawl out of the blankets. The rest are yanked out by Mr. Parker's gentle(?] hand.

We all go out and wash. (Water used by each boy—12 drops.) We come

in and dress. Sterrett makes a witty remark about " Slipping " (Slip is the nick

name of a certain senior), where upon he is chased into the quad.

Meanwhile some mysterious hand dismantles Slip's|bed, and the tyrant is put into a worse temper still. He gets out his hockey stick — at least he tries to.

However, during his absence, it bas been removed. Then somebody very inno cently (?), goes to replace his Sunday suit in the cup-board and out falls •—-—the hockey stick ;

Next Slip notices that his pyiamas are missing and goes out looking for them.

Some anonymous hand quietly replaces the pyjamas on the bed. Slip comes in and sees them.

Halley picks a scrap with Slip In the struggle Slip's specs some how disap

pear. This leads to further investigation. Suddenly, the missing specs appear

again balanced on the nose of an individual with perfectly normal sight.

What a relief to poor Slip!!! but he wishes he had the authority to operate, like a staff member, with a smartly wielded slipper.

A

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Ah! for the man to rise in me, that the man I am may cease to he.

(Tennyson')

Rational As usual, Vanamahobsava, the July Tree-Planting Festival, was observed by the planting of seedlings. The Scouts planted about 50.0 bluegums, mainly around the tennis court area at Lushington Hall; some also in the land near the To d a M u n d .

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Independence Day was Celebrated on Aug. I5th. The school assembled and were reminded of the Idbh Anniversary of the date when Britain and India end ed their national dispute and set forward in friendship and harmony. The school attended the flag-ceremony on the M. H. S. grounds over which the Collector

presided, and then had a day's holiday. The following day was also observed as a national holiday, in commemoration of the centenary of the "Great Revolt" of 1857.

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In honour of the memory of the Governor of Madras, Sri A. J. John, who

passed away suddenly, school was assembled on the afternoon of October 1st and classes were dismissed early as a mark of respect. A message of sympathy was sent to Mrs. John on behalf of Management, Staff and Pupils. . > X

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On October 2nd, holiday observed in honour of the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, f athser of modern India," the members of Union Church Sunday School

(mainly boarders of our school) had their annual picnic; it was held by the Pykara River at Glen Morgan and the day was greatly enjoyed by all who partici pated.

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To observe Wild Life Week, several activities were undertaken. An Essay

Competition was set, as organized by the Education Department. A small group

of seniors went to the Game Sanctuary at Mudumalai and enjoyed elephant-rides in the forest. A number of seniors attended a public meeting at which Mr. J. A. Master, retired Chief Conservator of Forests, Madras State, spoke, and other promiueni oflBicials took part 5 interesting films were shown on this occasion.

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Fire Fighting week was marked by a visit from the Fire Services, who demonstrated several ways of extinguishing fires of diflFerent types.

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United Nations Day was observed on Oct. 21bh bv the display of posters and a special message at the daily Assembly dealing with the hopes and fears of its members in the sphere of international relationships.

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At the time of writing Children's Day is in the future. It is hoped that all will enjoy celebrating the birthday (Nov. Hth) of India's great Prime Minister in a time of pleasant relaxation; a film show is being arranged, which will break the strain of examination week, in which the event occurs.

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Justification is a Crisis, sanctification is a Process.

L O N D O N E X H I B I T I O N O C T. 1 2 t h .

The Society is a Member of the Association of Natural History Socities of England, and for the second time has sent exhibits to the Annual Exhibition

held at the British Museum of Natural History, 8. Kensington. (The first exhi bit was commented on in a no less distinguished periodical than Nature," one

of the world's leading scientific journals). .

The year s exhibits consisted of an illustrated record of Nilgiri Birds>

prepared by Robin Gibson ; some samples of rock, with the mystery " coral which is found as isolated water-borne detritus at Avalanchej unrelated to any of the surroundding rocks, which are crystalling or matemorphic; and thirdly,

decorations illustrating Nilgiri scenery with some Kodachrome slides.

Complied by Elizabeth Neech, Std. VIIL

(A tit ^otne.

My father, mother, brother and arrived in Rome from Naples in the after

noon. The next day wo went sight seeing.

We went to the Coliseum, a famous open air ampitheatre. This one is espe-

ciaIthough l^y famous because it was here that the Chri were to the lioyou ns. the walls are beginning to weaken andsittiaisnsnot as itthrown was originally

Can still distinguish the arches and different objects Underneath the floor are passages where the wild beasts and the prisoners were kept.

Another interesting thing is the four Basilicas or Cathedrals, the largest of

which IS St. Peter's Cathedral which is supposed to be the largest church in the world. One thing that interested me was that there was a statute of St. Peter

on which his large toe had been worn smooth by pilgrims kissing it. In St. Mary s Cathedral there was gold leaf on the roof which had been given by the King of Spain. It was the first gold from America, the new land.

Another interesting place is the Catacombs which are under ground passages used by the Christians during their persecutions. There are literally miles of

these tunnels In some places there are open graves in which there are skeletons of the Christians buried there.

There is also the Appian Way on which the apostle Paul walked. In places

the tar is worn off anl the original cobblestores can be seen.

Aaother interesting thing in Rome are the great pipe like things that carry

water into Rome, They are called aquaducts. One of tnem is still in use show ing how strong the Romans used to build.

There are many other interesting things in Rome although we didn't see

them all, bat we enjoyed very ranch what we saw.

Mark Abbott, Std. VII.

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On somehow! to turn b'Bch tvere to lose alt. (Tennyson)

ÂŽI]0 ^e^lI ^cI|aol pelL On the Twenty-sixth September,

The children all in laughter,

Right on the knock of 'leven The new school bell was tung aloud

That Breeks Memorial School now has

Did clap aloud to think

A Bellâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;'The missing link.

In 1957.

Before this Mr. Willy spoke,

Now books may fall to pieces

Hoping 'twould keep us in time,

And many days may pass.

But we shall aye remember

That to our class we'd hUrry

As soon as we heard it chime.

The new school bell of brass.

Miss Allan was asked to christen it In a ceremonial way;

Its loud and cheerful ringing

But after she'd rung a little peal The rope of it gave way.

Does tell us all our fate ;

Today we all must go to school,

She gave a rather startled gasp

And woe 1 if we are late.

As she held in her hand,

M. Chase. (St, IX.)

The string she thought was truly tied Around the iron band.

One day a bear met a seal.

They rolled around and round lik e a wheel, They wanted to fight, I think I am right.

One day when a bear met a seal.

One day when a seal met a bear.

They fought and they fought o'er a hare.

They fought in the light.

They fought in the night,

One day when a seal met a bear.

One day when a bull met a cow

She thought, what shall I do now ?

I'll shoo him away.

For a year and a day, One day when a bull met a cow,

Jean Brand, (St. VI.) Age 11.

If you want a-^oh well done, select a husy manl ike other hind has no time.

Nigeria takes Its name from the mighty river Niger which flows for 2000 n

desert.

The

great

Scottish

explorer

nrfvafio first,European to reach to the river, suffered unspeakable privations aDd.fiaall^.deatfr^n hw:effort? dis^Qyep w-^iere it entered the sea. the7arr that .Hicharfi Lander sailed down the river into dark, swampy and unheal thy forested regioright ns and discovered that the oil

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The first .British to .come to.the w coast were., slave traders like John Aff i«ft^ I- about the time of the Spanish Armada,

of tbLlr A '^ter generations of hisncoftntrymsn atoned thetrade crimes ot thei r predecessors by their unceasi g efforts to abol ish the for slave The. Br. ish occupntipn ,of Lagos.in ,1;86L Was- the begining.'of the establishment of British^rule , which spread y.ery o^rLy ih'lakrea. nd, unti tectorate ^a3.-^^q|ar,ed over, the.sl.present • l, in 1900, a colony and propresent,re|rgnaj ITigeria capi hastal asfederal form of government with its capi tal in the city of Lagop-and in Ibadan, Erdgu;and : ILaduna.

Kaduna is the ma?nT' whers the Hansa tribe, who are Treated byT predominate. In this city, which was artificially «« /k K ^ met a .v-ery.interesting old man, who was wprking

IcroL to sT^tb^A ^ of parents who had been taken tloX o Und t h e ^ lof,slavery.. a n d o f .When h , 3 phe r ogrew fi c i eup, n t hei ncame H a back nsa

and as a barbe^ - a barberspeaks Portugese. Hansa

courtesy of the people is remarkable and even the poorest citizens give

thfMrIdem' 'sepreetj ngs;North^where. . Perhap8:the:wbrd./' bestman, descri besis the Moslem'r^Soci ty of ^.h^ the chief Jsfeudal a very "great who

treated with t> utmost jespect by his, people.' The .chief of the Nupe tribe.

Muhammadu IJdayako, is a remarkable: old: man. and a real father of his people,

who number a.bput 350,000. \yith; his, brick^huBd; palace, telephone carpeted

floor and Ainerioan car, he is very far from the traditional idea of an African cniettain. He has been to London,' 'Where he was rinvested with the C. B. B. hy Queea Elizabefeb. ! . , . ,,1 ; , • , ; , . •

tniK givep-.in .Bida:(;BIDA), capitalisofsituated the Nupe tribe. I'> heNigeria Prov.ncialwas Secondary,Bch4)olfQr;all.:of N)iger province there

and It IS a sad thought that it is the.only school, providing a school certificate

course in proyipce yitfi aboijt;.! millioff inhalhitantsV Bida is justly renowned foi

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The things which God asks you to give up are those which are doing you harm. its handicrafts (weavino of decorated cotton cloths, brassware and glass orna ments). These handicrafts, with their highly developed guild system, have provided interest since the firsc European travellers saw thern. Professor S F.

Nadel of Australia settled in Bida to make a study of the life and work of the

Nupes and wrote his conclusions in a well-known book called " A Black Byzantium." Elspeth Huxley in her book 'Ttie four Guineas" also makes a favourable reference to the work of the Bida Craftsmen.

Provincial Secondary School, Bida has about 150 boys, who show a most re

markable enthusiasm for education. Perhaps "boys ' is not the most exact descrip

tion of these pupils, as some of them are probably older than the more junior tea chers ! A pupil of 27 years old presents unusual problems in discipline as one can hardly consider him a child. The school has a workshop, kindly provided by the Colonial Development Corporation, which would be the envoy of many schools in more advanced countries. Here the most modern machinery for woodwork and

metalwork is powered by the school's own diesel electricity engine, Nigeria is on the verge of responsible self-government and will soon take her

place in the family of nations. She has many handicaps, like the dense forests of the South and the fierce humid heat which saps energy and restricts human activities, but she as an amazingly fertile soil and virile people, who are confident of their ablity to manage their national affairs.

Nigeria, with its 32 million inhabitants, has about one sixth of all the peo ple of the African continent. The prodnction of palm oil, cocoa, cotton and ground nuts is great and still capable of much expansion. The tin mines at Jos

have brought much prosperity to the plateau region and, very reoentiv, the shell

company have made successful borings for oil Alodern science has brought

malaria, which once gave the coast the unenvied name ' The white man's grave,' almost completely under control.

A future of great possibility stretches before Nigeria and it is the wish of all her friends that it will be highly successful.

There was a fat man of Cochin

Whose wife}' was thinner than thin So he. bought an air pump And he blew her up plump

But alas! she sat on a pin.

Arthur Jacobi. (St. Vf.)

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The vnan who says he has " no call " has either left the Receiver off or is deaf.

®l|e pife of u Duutbo' I was roaming about in the forest. Suddenly I saw a big enclosure and in it there was a lot of food so I went in and saw some food hanging from the roof.

I put up my trunk and grabbed it and then the door fell down with a bang. I was caught in a trap.. I made up my mind that I would eat up the food and then try to get out. I flnished the food and then charged at the wall but found I could not break itt

After a tinie I found the paUisade being moved then I was led out on a

chain to. a place where I saw many more elephants and I was put into an enclosure.

I was born in the forest with my sieter. My mother was black in colour and I was black too.

I was 21 years of age when I went to the zoo. l am looked after very nicely. I had water in the.early morning, at 10

o'clock people come to see me. They call me Jumbo, and 1 always get tit-bite from the children. At 11 o'clock I am let out to give all the little children rides.

I take the small children up with my trunk and give them to the keeper, but the

big boys get up on my knee and then climb on my back like the keeper doesv

Then I have my lunch and after that I go to the lake and bathe myself with my trunk I have a little rest then I go and help make the new bridge by carrying

the heavy logs. Then I go back and have my dinner and my days work is done.

Once, I had a very exciting experience. When I got loose I went around

frightening some of the animals and even chasing the children. When 1 heard

men coming I tried to go over the long bridge. It broke under my weight so they could not get me that time. They found me again and nearly caught me, but I ran into the lake and drenched them all. They got out a water proof boat.

I came rushing at the boat and tipped it over and the poor men nearly got drowned. I was caught at last and came quietly—Yours sincerely, Jumbo.

John Goold» (St V.) Age 9,

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TJtere <ke hmy wHo open the door to God hut Jmp it ok tfie e%ain. -

Cetttewarg of of ^cout ^olbi^otgtti The birth of Ro'batt Baden-Powel, illustrioaa foundei of the worldwide Scoat Movement) was celebrated in-february, 1957.

In England a great Jamboree took place in this connection, at Sutton Park, Warwickshire. Representatives from India were therebut none from the NilgiriS) however 1

Eifty years ago, in 1907, General Baden-PoWell, aged 60, launched his famous first eaperimental camp at Brownsea Island. He was then publishing the famous

fortnightly magazine on. Scouting for Boys. The instantaneous success and popu

larity ;of these steps put his ideas into history ; shortly afterwards a Royal Charter established the Boy Scout Association. Since then millions of boys, and later, girls, hare pa^aed through the ranks of this movement, now firmly established in dozens of countries.

SCOUTING

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It was about 1913 that the first scout troop was begun at Breeks; it was

not on a very firm footing, however, until 1922, 35 years ago, when Mr. Fisher took charge and established a glorious period of boy training and manhood development.

The: cub<pacfc begandn 1916 and is probably the oldest pack in Indiaiwith a consecutive history. Mi'ss L. M. Baker, the first Akela, quietly set up standards

oomparableiiuyalue with those of Mr, Fisher's in the trdop, although,' of 'course,

not so striking to the eye as the results that brought to the troop its richlydeserved prestige.

CUB PACK, 1957.

The cubs have had a pleasant year to look back upon, but the time available for their activities has been some what restricted. Consequently, the progress in

Star and Badge work has been only on a limited scale.

A grand camp was held in the holidays at the end of August, by the great

kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Warburton and their small son David, who entertained

the Campers at Kollegal, and arranged a first-class programme for their stay.

Activities included visits to a silk-spinning factory, to a silk-worm breeding

station, to the H. B. Power-station at Sivasamudtam and to the local river ghat on

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Actions don't alwciys SipeakUiider than words but theyi usually tell Pwet lies.

The joarney dow^ was hy bus, via. Qudalur, Quadmlpet and Ch^mrajnagar.

The ifettoa route wasulso^ by biis ; first tbroogh Jibe juoglea o^eir/the specta cular ghat at Dinbura down to the Sathyamangalam { then via. Bhavanisagar

(where there is a big itriga^ipn storage dam) and Mettupalajyam, up to Ooty once again.

REFLECTIONS.

PacIc meetings at Lushington Hall have included competitions, games, track ing,treesuxe hunts and swimming, with aignaljiag, star work, yarne, and so forth.

Akela is very anxious that the Cubs shall nob be negleoted,.^but has found

that to keep the pack active every week has been impossible for him, as other irons have to be kept at their place in the/'fire."^ He is very anxiobs that some

One wiTl take up this worth-while opening. It is earnestly to be hofed that the Cubs;will have a more fully sustained leadership in 1958, and thus carry Oh the great.traditions of their '' juhgle life'' whrbh they are entitled to inherit^froin their predeceasors in the first Nilgiris Wolf Oub Pack.

As Akela prepares to sail on furlough to England he sends his warmest greetings and best wishes for Clood Hunting" to every sixer, second and cub us well as to the faithful A. C. M., VVGhil" (Miss Bateman), without whose assis tance no progress could have been secured.

E . A . W.

E P I T A P H O N B . P.

ÂŤÂŤ^Did ever man, before you died, see such a dream come true ? Did any ever leave ffo many living monuments as you ?

A . P. H ,

.QO:nscijsnce on^j^comes^ you, daik^i - feed a, w^§i(^ dq^pp sleepingJ-abkts.

^iGon^raitiilations and' ^bod wisttba to fr'ue following oh their roeent Marriage;—

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^ . t o L e e l a B a y l i s , a t Q u o t n , U . K . i n J a n u a r y. r .

' ' Sdw'y NaismitJt, to P^tTicia W'iad, &t Katachi, in Noyembef 195^, I Jooelyn Cook^ to J. R» Badger, at Kibirnie, N. Z., in May. to Osoa.r Bpp, at W^innipeg, in Augufet. , Archie NaismitS, in luverness, in September 1956, , ,

Congratulatioiis to the followihg oh their abhiev'etiiehts and '

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D o w d j B a « o » , r. R - c . s . . E n g l a n d . ; .

Gordon Tyson,Australian Common wealth Scholarship at the Boj^al Melboufne Technical College.

Nestor Bunshaw, represents Madras University at Boxing, as well as his college (Christian College.)

Hea ther Tilsley, visited Ooty. during the summer season, eniohte to Tasmania where Colin is now working under Cadbury's Ltd.

News and Movements.

- Chanod French,V. S. Air Intelligence Corps, has been setvipg in Ja^pan. He

^was placed 5th among 1800 in the competitive test for this post. lonATaismifA# following graduation, has been appointed Pilot Office in ther B.

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Heather Tilsley, visited Ooty, enroute to join her brother, Colin, in Tasmania.

Kathryn Vnruh, now teaching at Highclere, Kodaikanal, with her cousin

brought over a high school class to visit Ooty, in August,

Peter and Roger Andersen, (at^chool at Epsom College") and amtopAer HoZ-

combe (at school at Queen's College, Taunton) visited Ooty. in August, having flown out to India for their summer holidays,

John Dowson, who was planting at Coorg, WM anotbet who visited Ooty. this

▼ear: he has now gone back to Aftioai

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A mcm should pray at least as often as he mnds his w<atch, oT M too wiU he indanger of running down,

Sgd Reeves, is hoprng'tQ paj a visit with his wife to Bombay State at the

end of this year,

John iS/tmwer, has completed his appointment in W. Africa, and was hopins to return to the tropics again, with his wife and small boy. His sister Jem ig reaching the latter stages of her medibal course.

Angus, has done his national service and hopes to get an oversea appoint ment; Ronald is a Distiicl Engineer in the colonial service, Tfingahyika, and

thinks it is " almost as good as India." He met Alan HoUon iot a brief time — the latter is in a firm which is opening up tea estates there.

Wendy Munro,is taking a nursing training bourse in Andhra State.

Bruce Holben, met Mr, J. F. Gravett who is a teacher in the school he is now attending.

William Kerr, has an appointment as a medical olficer in Calcutta.

. Mueder, has gone to Brazil and is still stiK^ying theie, .

Robert Theobald, after studying Economics at Cambridge, gained an appoint

ment under E. C. 0. (European Economic Co-operation) and is in Paris connected with the textile section. ElizabHh, his sister, has emigrated with her husband to

Canada. Ann, his other sister, a nurse, is in London. The home address is:— 13 Kent House, 84 Kensington Court, London W. 8.

iVimolu J^osAwot, is studying'n Madras. ' David dActit, has gone to Edinburgh.

Joanne mn de Riet, is studying in the Arts College, Ooty.

Rath Pkoem!!^ haa come from Perth to join her parents in Kotaglri.

Miscellaneous.

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Bobbie Webb end Robin Burr both attended the World Seout Jaoaboreo at Sutton Park.

' Z>avfd has arrived out west and is studying at Bozeman University,

Mont,

Morrison McLeod is studying for his B. A-, at Queens University Susses

Canada. ' ' Marilyn 6hillisOn haa graduated from High Sfehodl Sussex, Can.

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AUstdir McLeod was married on June 1st and has sailed for Canada. '

■ Alistair got an R. Samuel M.cLaughton Fellowship to Queens University in Kingston, 0ut. He was aw'arded a Travel Scholarship by the British Conncil to complete further Studies late: he hopes to complete his thesis for B. Litt.

Glasgow University and to complete a Ph. D. at Queens later.

Rev~. and Sdrs.'McLedd' atU Very happy ih'their church Work in Sussex N. B.

Ian white (with his wife Valerie) has beeu'transferred to'Bilbao, Spain by Lloyds Register of shipping and are doing fine.

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It is a curious fact that a self-seeker never really finds himself.

^hbresscs ni Pupils, GEORCrE and AUDREY (nee Best) Drieberg, 234 Woodsie Crescent, Toorak, S B . 1 2 . Vi c t o r i a , A u s t r a l i a ,

ANNE HAMMOND, (nee Montgoa;erie) C/o Caltex Pacific, 41 Robinson Road, Singapore.

WILLIAM CHARLES, "Sweet Grass," 37 Molesey Road, W. Molesey, Surrey, U.K.

JAMES and MAXINE, (nee Robertson) Sawyer, 14 The Grove, Goldera Green, London, N .W. 11.

J. D. WETH, 15 Exforde Road, Ashford, Middlesex,

CHANCEL and JOE FRENCH, C/o Box 332, Cleveland, Tenn, U.S.A. CHRISTOPHER ONDAATJE, National Bank of India. London.

MALCOLM, BARBARA and DOUGLASS SPRAGGS, 70 Wood Green Road, Wednesbury, Staffs, U.K, S. K. REEVES, 115 Albert Road, Epsom, Surrey, U.K. W. DAWSON, "Stanmore," Ramsden Road, Godalming, Surrey.

T. HOWLETT, Paraloi Estate, lyerpadi, P.O., via Pollachi, S. India.

IVY and QUEENIE KEIR, 115 Glenridge, Ave. St. Catherine's Ontario, Canada.

MEGAN MAY, C/o P 0. Box 3029, A.uckland, C.I., N. Zealand.

Miss G. PATIENT, G/o Mr. C. J. Patient, 96 Harewood Road, Papanui, Christchurch, N.W. 2. N.Z.

LANCELOT MITCHELL and NOEL DAZLEY, 172A, Station Ed, Harrow, %Middx, NIRMALA JOSHUA, Madras Christian College for Women, Madras.

JOHN SKINNER, 8 Chepstow Villas, Bayswater, London, W. 11.

WENDY MUNRO, Christian Medical Centre, Pithapuram, E. Godaveri Dt. MICHAEL MANTLE, P.O. Box No. 743, Nairobi, K^nya.

PENELOPE and BRUCE HOLBEN, 203 Brighton Rd. S, Lancing, Sussex.

ROBERT THEOB.ALD, 16 Rue Guyrene, Paris, 6.

ATHMARAN KUMARAN, Ibbetson House, Bishop Cotton School, Simla.

MARILYN GULLISON, 736 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

JURGEN MAEDER, Fazenda Boa Esperanca, Carmo da Mata, Minas, Brazil.

BERNICE SHAW, (nee Garrison,) Long Croft, Kodaikanal.

DIANA BUNSHAW, Redcliffe College, 66 Grove Park Road, Chiswick, Lon don, W, 4.

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Dont nurse your " ncivs" or they may turn to nowts.

ft&i fflmtmtbnuiTs fur goiir ffliiristnuis ; Jartg. vVh y are potatoes and wheat like the sinners mentioned in the Bible?

Because, between them, having eyes they see not and having ears they here n o t .

Why is a fishmonger ungenerous t

Because his job makes him sell fish (selfish).

Why is a dirty boy like a piece of cheap flannel ?

Because they both shrink from washing.

Why is the letter A like 12 o'clock noon ?

Because it is in the middle of every day,.

Why is a pair of skates like an apple ?

Because they have both brought about the fall of man.

Why is an empty purse .symbolic of constancy ?

Because there is no change in it.

Why is Westminster Abbey like.a fender in the fireplace ?

Because it encloses the ashes of the great.

What is the diflflerence between a champion athlete and the watch of a doctor who is counting the pulse of a patient 1 One beats the record and the other records the beats.

When has a man four hands ?

When he doubles his fists.

Why is a horse a most remarkable eater ?

Because it eats most when it hasn't a bit in its mouth.

Why is a horse more clever than a fox ?

Because it can run when it is in a trap; but a fox cannot.

Why is coffee like a blunt axe ?

Because it must be ground before it can be used.

Why is the sun like a well-made loaf?

Because it is light when it rises.

Why didn't the little girl cry when she sat on a wasp's nest ?

Because she felt it bo.heath her.

When is it wrong to pick your friends ?

When you pick them to pieces.

What is worse than raining cats and dogs?

Hailing taxis and buses.

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Js thy days so shall thy strength he.

Which is the coldest river ?

The Isia.

What are the three degrees of getting on in the world ?

First to get on ; then to get honour; and finally to get honest.

When are roads very greasy ?

When they are dripping wet.

Why are fishermen and shepherds careless fellows ?

Because they live by hook or by crook.

Why does it increase the speed of a boat to tie her up?

Because that makes her fast.

Why is blockhead deserving of promotion?

Because he is equal to any post.

Why were the Middle Ages dark ages ?

Because there were so many (K) nights.

Why is a ship's rudder like a judge?

Because it has a stern duty to perform.

THE DIFFERENOB.

A Traveller had asked the ticket Agent for a berth on the train to new York.

Upper or lower ? asked the agent, AV h a t s t h e d i f f e r e n c e ? a s k e d t h e t r a v e l l e r.

A difference of 50 cents, said the agent. The lower is higher than the upper, the higher price is for the lower. If you want it lower, you'll have to go higher.

We sell the upper lower than the lower, in other words, the higher, the lower.

Most people don't like the upper, although it is lower, on account of its being higher. When you occupy an upper berth, you have to get up to go to bed, and get down to get up. You can have the lower if you pay higher. The upper is

lower than the lower because it is higher.

If you are willing to go higher, it will be lower. ^ There was silence -- The traveller had fainted â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Now Larf. and P. T. 0.

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Don't take a pich-me-up that will knock you down, SWEET

WILLIAM.

A lady had employed a new gardener. One morning she went into her gar den, and seeing him working sa'id to him :— '' How is my Sweet William this morning?" The gardener replied " Quite all right Madam. But how did you know my name was William ?"

A ? . E A L D R O U G H T.

" Ah, Donald," said the minister, " I hear they've gone dry in your brother's village."

"Dry?" remarked Donald. " Dry ? Why, man they're parched I've just

received a letter from Sandy, and, believe me, the stamp was stuck on with a pin."

ALSO

IN

THE

P A N T R Y.

Mr. Thompson — I'm convinced that China needs a firm hand.

Mrs. Thcmpson — I've told the new maid that, but it's no use.

S I G H T S T H AT T H R I L L .

Explorer: "I once saw a man-eating tiger."

Member of the Audience (sarcastically) : " Ob, That's nothing."

"I once saw a man eating rabbit."

First man: " Were you ever in the A. R. P. ? " Second mam "Yes but I soon left, I was insulted during gas drill." " How's that ? "

" The instructor said I could take my gas mask off " "Well?

"

" I hadn't got it on ! " Teacher •, "Can anyone tell me what happened after Caesar mustered his army ?"

Boy: " Yes sir, he peppered the enemy and took the citadel by assault."

Teacher: "Sit down, my lad, I'll have no sauce from you."

HEE

HAW!

A small boy, leading a donkey, passed by an army camp. A couple of

soldiers wanted to have s^me fun with the lad.

What are you holding on to your brother so tightly for. Sonny ? " said one of them.

"So he won't join the army," the youngster replied.

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Character is formed in secret; It is discovered %n opportunity.

NO DISGUISE.

'Tom: " We are going to have a cricket match, England versus India."

Dick: " Are you going to blacken your faces ?"

Tom: No, some of the other boys are going to wash theirs, MAKING SURE.

Pat and Mike were both in bed one night, when suddenly Fat got up, lit a match, looked round the room, and got in to bed again. " Pat " said Mike, " Why did ye do that ?"

" Well," said Pat, " I forgot if I below out the candjle so I just got up to see."

A S L E E P A N D N O T A S L E E P.

Employer.: "Look here you young Rip Van Winkle, I only engaged you yester day, and I believe you've been asleep ever since."

Offlce-Boy: "That's what I thought you wanted sir." Here's your advertisment:â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Wantedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an office boy, not over sixteen, must sleep on the premises."

HE EXPECTED TROUBLE.

Mother: " Bobby, why are you going to school in your best knickers this morning."

Bobby: "Cos they're thicker."

SARCASM.

Father : "I hear your Scoutmaster called you a blockhead."

Tenderfoot: " Oh, no, father ; it wasn't so strong as that."

Father : " Well, what did he say ?"

Tenderfoot: " He said, ' Put on your hat, here comes a woodpacker!' " E A S I LY M A N A G E D .

Scout .Jones: "What we want in our club-room is a wooden partition to divide it

into

two."

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Tenderfoot Tommy : " Well, I think if we all put our heads together we might be able to manage it."

Andihe wandered why they all laughed.

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Every difficulty presents two opportunities, one for getting over, the other for going under.

N O T G U I L T Y.

A School Inspector was dining with the village squire and in the course of conversation he said —

" I had a funny answer in school to-day, I asked a class of boys of who wrote the Merchant of Venice," and a little boy said timidly, "Please, sir it wasn't me."

" Ha, ha, ha 1" laughed the squire, " and I suppose the young rascal had done

it all the time."

H E L P !

Kind Uncle : " Now, Tommy, what is a bison ?"

Tommy ; "A thing that muvver makes the pudding in."

GOOD ADVICE.

" Yes," said the explorer, " I slept for twelve hours on end."

" But," asked one of his bored listeners, " Why did't you try the horizon tal position ? It would surely have been more comfortable."

THE SCISSORS SCORED.

"You may be sharp," said the thread to the needle, "but I notice you're it in retorted the eye."the needle "for whenever you get into " Oh, yougetting can't talk," a hole, I have to pull you through "

" Be quiet, you two," chipped'the thimble. " If it wasn't for my push,. neither of you would ever get along? ' And the scissors chuckled : " Sew it seams !"

PIGEON ENGLISH.

Chinaman — (on the phone) " Can you extract a tooth for me this-afternoon " Yes, certainly two thirty "

"

1

,

\

Chinaman — "Yes, Tooth hurty, veliee much" E Y E G A L L E D M AT H E W.

standing outside hisgentleman club was with accosted by called a manMathew who said " Beg Composer pardon sir, but d,o you know a one eye ?'*' Cant say I do " was the reply " what the name of his other eye ?

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Life has a high destiny and wise is he who seeks it.

of tlje Imnl - ^agoiiation. ^ 1957.

The year 1967 has been a busy one and we trust, enjoyed by all who attend

ed the meetin gs. Every efforts has been made to introduce interest and variety into our programmes, and we regret to say that the attendance, on an average,

â&#x2013; has been distinctly disappointing. During the season months the attendance has been particu larly good, but the local members are the ones who so often fail to attend.

We have shown some exceptionally good educational films kindly loaned to us by the British Council, Madras and the Office of the High Comrniesioner for Canada, New Delhi to whom we offer our grateful thanks. We also wish to thank our local authorities for the loan of the Projector and the Demonstrator who has so willingly shown the films cn many occasions. Now that the school 'has electricity it is possible to have film shows.

Another feature of this yearVprogrammes has been the regular intrcducticn of musical items, verse speaking and once a play by the pupils to add interest to our gatherings. We warmly thank all those who have entertained us with

pianoforte soles, violin solos, duets, songs and verse speaking. Special mention must be made of the Trio for violin, piano and cello performed by Richard, Rose mary and Elizabeth Neech and the very gccd history play acted by Standard V.

form ofattendance a School Project entiled " OurIn^May Nilgiris."the at meeting which wetook hadthe a record of 86. ItExhibition was remarkably successful. "During May seme indefatigable parents worked very hard over the

annual Barter Sale. Their efforts realised Rs. 228/50 for school purposes. The parents who worked so hard and ran such a successful Refreshment Stall on Sports Day must also he remembered. They realised Rs. 63/72.

In July we held an exhibition of art, hand work and needle work. The

articles shown were later sent on to the Annual Nilgiris Exhibition of Hand work.

As we were in quarantine for German measles, the songs and verse speaking items normally given at the public exhibition were given to the parents at this private display.

In September we had a most interesting lecture on Nilgiris by Mr. Johnston, the newest member of our staff. Our closing meeting for the year was held a,t Lushington Hall Gymnasinm when Mr. Walker gave us a demonstration of a

typical Physical Education lesson. Tnis was followed by a Gymnastic Display by

Mr. Parker's P. E. special class. Both provided us with first class entertain-

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Our lives ought to be Ghrists Credentials. maat aid wa wara disappiiated that there ware oily 40 present to enjoy it. At this meeting Miss Channell furnished the tea and we warmly thank her for her excellent arrangementa on this occasion.

In closing we wish to express our warm thanks to our President Mrs. Goold,

who doss so much towards the success of each meeting, to Miss McLeod who has

ft taken charge so successfully of our monthly teas and to our new Treasurer, Mr.

Menon who has kept our accounts in such perfect order. Below we append the fruit of his labours .

Miss M. Allan,

(Hon. Secretary.)

Statement of Receipts and Payments of the P a r e n t Te a c h e r A s s o c i a t i o n .

Receipts.

Payments.

Rs. Np. Opening Balance :

Cash in Bank 481-42 ...

431

45

Diving Board part

935

0 0

Drying room part

1000

0 0

12

0 0

228

50

23

GO

60

72

59

20

11 2760

Parents' Subscription School Management towards Epidiascope...

Staff subscription '57 ...

Barter Sale

Sale of Programmes Te a C o l l e c t i o n a t

meetings

50

00

100

00

payment

250

00

Sports Day Expenses .

Tea at meetings Miscellaneous expenses (Film show, goods bought for P.T.A. etc.) .

90

00

77

55

36

52

0 0

33

05

87

2760

87

Closing Balance :

Sale of Second hand

articles ...

75

payment .

Sports Day Tea

Collection ...

2123

Climbing Puzzlepart payment

Cash in hand 0-03 ...

'55, '56, '57 ...

Rs. Np. Epidiascope Model IV .

Cash in Bank 22-67 Cash in hand 10-38

(Sd.) K.N. Menon, B. a..

Honorary Treasurer.

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Are you a disap'pointment to God ?

%x\xhh^ Cubliy Olubs.

He wasn't very clever But when he joined the Pack He learnt a Cub must never

Look glum or " answer back."

The games they made him grubby, But they also made him grin, And he learnt it wasn't Cubby To s u l k w h e n h e d i d n ' t w i n .

He also learned that Cubbing, Meant helping other folk ;

And regularly tubbing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; In winter time no joke I And whistling, too when weary, And rainy days are long,

And running errands eagerly With a whistle or a song.

Boys, whether dull or clever,

Are welcome in this Pack,

They'll feel they cannot ever Look glum or " answer back," They'll like to get all grubby Playing games that make them grin.

And they'll find they get so Cubby They will cheer the Cubs that win !

The Debating Society this year has had rather a late started in August with the inter school debate :â&#x20AC;&#x201D; " Nuclear knowledge has done more good than evil for the world."

Though we have had only a few debates this year, all the members have thoroughly enjoyed belonging to the society and are looking forward to a Decla

matory Contest for which we will have learnt one of the 'great orator's speeches.

We miss Mrs. Brinicombe and the great interest she took in the Society. In her absence Miss Macleod has been an excellent President giving up much of her spare time to encourage and help the Society.

Many of us will be sorry to be leaving at the end of this year. We wish the Society many more happy times next year.

JOY CHASE,

(Hon. Secretary).

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The world is full of derelicts of faith; don't you be another Hymanaeus.

The Conquest of Space—what a glorious thought. For years in fact for centuries, man has attempted to conquer space. ' The Conquest of Space,' seems to be in our grasp when we consider the progress we have made in the last cen tury and yet, it seems unattainable. So many questions arise to our minds. Will an alloy be made which will withstand the neat barrier? Will the acceleration needed to attain the escape velocity prove too much for the frail human frame ?

Recently another menacing problem has arisen. Will the impending third world

war between the communist and non-communist countries set back the clock of civilization ?

In 1505 the first attempt to fly was made by Italian Leonarda da Vinci who

had constructed a marvellously ingenious pair of wings. Unfortunately it was a failure that crowned this first bold attempt.

Then the hot-air balloons and later on the Hydrogen balloons made their

appearance. They were huge canvas globes the former filled with hot-air and the latter with hydrogen. As both these gases were lighter than ordinary air, the balloons kept their passengers alof t. Unlortunately as the hot-air balloons came down so quickly and the hydrogen ones were so inflammable, and moreover once the balloons were airborne as there was no means of guiding them man had not in reality conquered the air.

Then came the discovery of the marvellous internal combustion engine by Henry Ford and others. The first attempts to fly heavier than air machines called "Mechanical Birds" powered by these engines ended in disastrous failures.

At last on December 17th 1903 on the sand dunes of Kill Devil Hill, Day-

ton, Ohio, two brother*—bicycle mechanics — succeeded in doing that which

mankind had always attempted to do Orville Wright kept their plane the "Flyer" airborne for 59 second during which it traversed 852 f(et. Man had at last conquered the air — but not space that was and still is to be attempted

Towards the beginning of the second world war the Germans developed the marvellous jet engine the Me 262 which was powered by the B M W. 003R one of

their pilots Addolf Galland in his book, ' The First and the Last,"

remarks, " The Spitfire I went after crashed inflames, Kill No 70. A nice

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Glory he to Father Son and Holy Spirit. even number, I thought, as 1 followed her down to register the Kill

Fortunately for the Allies before the Germans realized the stupendous possibili ties of the jet age, the secret was theirs no longer.

The highest speeds attained by jet engines in dives and level flights is approximately Mach. 3 and Mach. 2. 'I'hat for a climb would be far less— less

than Mach. I (speed of sound.) Yet the velocity needed to escape from the earth's gravitational clutches is 18,000 m.p h. or 26,400 ft. per second or 5 miles

l^per second ! The first space rocket will therefore have to be Atomic Powered.

The question oY the heat-barrier is invaluable. Above 600 °c aluminium the standard light-metal rapidly starts decreases in tensile strength. The metal to he used to build a space-rocket should be of a low density, high tensile strength and a very high melting point. Duralium is the most suitable alloy yet discove red, but even this metal has not all the required properties. Then there is the tre

mendous acceleration when a space-rocket starts its flight—nearly 320 ft. per sec. per sec. for the first few seconds. Will this cause the total blackout which is as dreaded by modern pilots as scurvy was in the middle ages ?

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Sir Harry Garner U.S. nuclear power expert estimated the weight of an atomic powered aircraft to be 500,000 lbs. or 223 tons. To send up a ^ ton satellite a 500 ton rocket is required. Yet a space-rocket will weigh much more than either of these moreover the space-rocket will have to have a much larger crew, much heavier instruments, and quite a large amount of food. At present

no Atomic powered engine has been invented which will carry at least twice its weight into space and then have sufficient fuel for the return journey.

The Russian satellite which weighed ^ ton and was sent up to height of

approximately 900 miles required the largest and most powerful rockets known of 500 tons weight to set it in its orbit. But a space-rokcet weighing about 1,000 times as much will have to have rockets of power — ? The sending up of these satellites although they make us realize the immensity of the task we face,

wilt provide the scientific world with invaluable information concerning pressure, radiations, heat, percentage of oxygen wireless interference etc. at immense

heights. Moreover above 20,rOO ft, oxygen will have to be used and at 35,000 ft. the pressure suits the latter are invaluable as even at 5,400 ft. the tem perature of the normal human body — 98 6®F is enough to make the blooa boil under the reduced pressure.

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On the whole, although we have attained only a thirtieth of the required speed a tenth of the required height can withstand only a third of the tem perature which would be experianced by the surface of the space-rocket and although the, 'Conquest of Space,' is still very far in the dim future, it would be heinous to say that it would never be accomplished.

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What you cant do, say and read to the Glory of God, leave alone.

^otes Poys.

On behalf of Stanes House I would like to congratulate Stevenson on winning

the Bhavanagar Cup. I would also like to thank both Pentland and Stevenson

for the sporting spirit in which allwour matches were played.

We didSome not doofasour welloutsanding as we had players hoped but played toathe best of their_ ability. foreverybody the year deserve mention just here.

N. Cooke, the House vice-Capt., has been a tower of strength in both footbal

and hockey. In cricket too he threw his weight about as a wicket keeper, and also turned in a few good innings.

M. Devadatta has done well as a footballer and hockey forward and his bowling and batting gave us great support in the cricket matches,

H. Tanck has played good consistent football and also managed to carry off

the Junior Swimming Championship.

T. Yrjold came to Breeks early in the year and quickly took to all games.

He proproved a more than useful half-back in both football and hockey.

P. Menon is quite a promising cricketer and his ÂŤ keeping " in hockey and football is of a good standard.

I would like to thank Mr. Parker for all the support he gave us and the trouble he took to coach us.

Well Stanes, good luck next year. Play harder and remember "TO VICTORY".

P. H i l l .

Well fought, Steves I This is our fourth year at the top of the ladder,

thanks to your co-operatiocft We have been unfortunate in missing, our former House Captain, David Pospisil, who left for America in May, and in losing a fine athlete in Robin Stanford, who broke his leg. Despite our losses, however, we have come out top in all except Swimming, and even then we didn't make a bad show.

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Gordon Draper has been a great help, and the keen spirit shown by a large-

number of our Juniors has been very encouraging and shows good prospects for

future

years.

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Keep going, Steves, you've got a reputation to live up to next year.

I wish you all good success next year, and a happy Christmas and New Year to

all!

.

C . W i l l y,

Well done Pentland !â&#x20AC;&#x201D; This year we are Runners-up for the Bhavnagar Cup.

Although Stevenson beat us by quite a few points we have beaten Stanes.

This year we have won the swimming again. Congrataiations go to Alan

Smith for winning the senior Championship against heavy odds. D.Pathy helped us a lot in the hockey House matches.

Our Juniors played well under Robin Jarrold the Captain. Although they

did not win they played hard.

I hope that next year the members of Pentland will practise hard at

Athletics in which we came last this year by a few points.

Try' hard next year P'entland. I wiBs.h you all the beat "We PressSOnwards" mith.

^oothall.

At the outset I must congratulate all the players for their keen enthusiasm,

and would also like to express my gratitude on behalf of the team for the invaluable help and encouragement Mr. Walker has given us.

Our results were a little more encouraging, as we defeated St. George's, but

Lawrence and St. Joseph's are still our victors, and we have something to aim at â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to beat them.

" If at first you don't succeed, Try a little ' ardour '

C . W i l l y.

Âť

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^etbalL Althoagii wa were not able to fiaish alk oar inter--school Natball mitches baoauee of chicken-pox, we have had a vary good year. The team has been moat

co-operative in,changing roand their places to fill in gaps left by last years S. C, condidates.

Floranca Groold espaoially has mada an excalleat dafanca ; Mariel Webb and Hama Pathy hava excelled in thair shooting, -while Branda as asnal has made harsalf indispansibla on the court. Wa ware glad to walcoma two of last year's junior team mambers, Anna Baffam and Primrose Kay.

As usual we did nothing o'ltstanding, only winning two oat of oar foa matches, bat the general atmosphere of friendliness batween the players has done a lot for the team-work part of the game.

On bahalf of the rest of the taam, I wo-ald lika . to thank Mrs. Smyth, who referead oar matehes, and .Miss. Pease, oar gamas mistress, for their raady advice and help. Also all thosa who sapportai tha gamas with thair cheating.

With Florence and Mariel, as wa leave yoa, I wish yoa all saccass in tha coming year.

June Pritchard,

(Captain.

As Captain of Pentland and on bahalf of my House wa unitedly thank Stanes and Steves for the enjoyable gamas they have given us both in Tennis and Net-ball.

Congratulations, Staves on your victories in Swimming, Nat-ball and Tennis.

Bafore I go further I mast thank all Pentland girls for their help and co operation through-oat this year. Here I mast make special mention of Fiorenoo Goold (vice-captain,) Primrose Kay,, and Gobi Chugani who did exceedingly well in sports and gained their division championship, and have given their uttermost help for their House.

I mast also thank Miss Pease oar House mistress for the help and eacoaragament she has given us.

Oar juniors ha,ve played very well in Net-ball, winning both thair mitches, well done girls I Keep it up.

We will be sorry to lose Florence and Eunice who will ba leaving us at tha end of this year, so we wish them all success and God's richest blessings.

Congratulations! Pentland on your well earned victory in sports. Kaep it up 1 Although we have not dona well in the other gamas, newer lose hexH^ ramamber to live up to our motto â&#x20AC;&#x201D; "We Peess Osward," Brenda Kay.

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Ptctorg

!

First of all, on behalf of Stanes, I congratalate the girls of Pentland and Steves on their victories during the year — Pentland on winning the School

Sports, and Steves on winning the Tennis, Swimming and Net-ball. Well done t This year we have been very fortunate in having Mrs. Walker as our Hous e Mistress, as Mrs, Brinicombe, our former House Captain is on furlough. She has

proved invaluable to Stanes and we all thank her heartily.

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Half-way through this year we lost our very able House Captain, Wendy Munro; as a House, we thank her for her services to us and wish her all the best in her future life.

Now for a few words to Stanes girls themselves. You have done very

well this year, for even though Stanes has not come first in anything, you have put up a good fight everytime, coming 2ud in Swimming, Sports and Tennis.

And besides, you have all shown a good spirit even when losing which is the most important of all.

Special mention is due to Muthu Mudupa for getting the 3rd Division Cham pionship, to Uharda Pond for getting the championship in Senior Swimming, and also toAnn Francis for her good play in Net-ball. There are many others who deserve to be mentioned for their work in Sports, Swimming, Tennis or Netball, Thank you everybody,

So keep it up Stanes, no matter what the odds are. Don't gat discouraged, keep looking and aiming at our motto, " To Victory," until you get there which I am sure you will in the end.

Anne Buffam, House Mistress' Note ;—

Our thanks are also extended to Anne who has so successfully taken over

.the Captaincy of Stanes from Wendy for the 2nd half of the year.

F, B. Walker.

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Well done Stevea !

We've been quite viotoriouB this year and for the first time since we startedl four years ago; we have won the Swimming, Tennis and Net-ball cups.

Lizzy Neech, June Pritchard and Rosey Neech shone in the Swimming Sports, Lizzy winning the junior championship, Margo Chase, Rosey Neech and Rosey Best brought in most of our points for athletics, but we must congratulate Pentland on winning that cup.

June Pritchard and Bridget Willy played beautifully in the Tennis, winning all their tournaments.

The net-ball was a tough fight. The defences, June and Helen Joseph, and the shoots, Muriel and Rosey Neech, played very well.

Once again this year we have been priveleged to have Miss White as our

House mistress. She has constantly instructed and encouraged us throughout.

I have enjoyed being captain and thank you each one for your co-operation all

three

years,

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Muriel Webb has been an invaluable vice-captain and it has been a pleasure working with her two years running.

We are both awfully sorry to leave this year and with June wish you the

very best in the future, Remember your motto Stevesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; " No Surrender/ ' Joy Chase.

Mlnhi (Association, The association was more active than usual this year, inspite of most of the

members being busy with exams and concerts during the year, we met regularly twice or thrice a month.

The inaugural meeting for the year 1957 was held on 20th March with Mr. E. A. Willy presiding. Mr. P. Venkatachary organiser of the Tamilnad Hindi Prachar Sabha spoke on "Hindi in Anglo-Indian Schools." His instrutive talk

in simple Hindi was very much appreciated.

On 31st May Mr. Anderson gave us a talk on " Students Life " his interest ing talk opened to us new avenues of approach to it.

Independance Day was celebrated with great enthusiasm. On 10th August competitions in Hindi Elocution, Essay writing Music and hand writing

were held in the School Hall, Mr. T. Bhat, Lecturer of Arts College, Ooty, was the judge for these competitions.

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On August 15th Dr. B- Chabra, Govt. Epigraphist for India presided over the meeting and Mrs. Ohabra. gave away the prizes to successful competitors This was followed by speeches in Hindi, Tamil and English, the speakers being Dr. Chabra, Mr. Krishnaswamy and Mr. Willy respectively. The speeches were

enlightening and entertaining. The highlight of the day was the Fancy dress competition. After tea and a group photo Mr. K. H. Menon gave the vote of thanks in which he thanked their Highnesses the Maharaja and Maharani of

Porbander who very generously met the entire expenditure for prizes.

The Association now looks forward to another year of pleasant activity, F. R a h m a n .

Qll|rbtian Pitutit.

The Chiistian Union this year has had quite a good attendance being over -twenty at most meetings.

Perfect example of our motto, "Prayer Change Things" was shown us during the Billy Graham Tape Recorded meetings held in April. When we prayed for the rain to stop before the last meeting, it stopped. Even though we know other^ were praying elsewhere it was a personal test of faith for each one of us.

Guest speakers, studies, quizzes and a few socials added interest to the prog ramme this year.

We have missed David Pospisil, Wendy Munro. Bridget Willy and Anthony

Gilbert to whom we had to say " goodbye" during the year

Mr. Bullock, our president this year, has helped us immensely and we were â&#x2013; very sorry that he had to leave in September.

June, Eunice, Brian, " Chilly," Monahar, Muriel. Florance and I, as we leave .at the end of this year wish you God's richest blessings and will be praying for you. We will value your prayers for us.

JOY CHASE,

(Hon. Secretary.)

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Semiisi.

We were able to concentrate on tennis during the early part of the year and there was considerable improvenQent.

Congratulations to Hena Fathy on winning the Senior Tournanr.ent and to Elizabeth Neech on winning the Junior one; also to Stevenson House on winning t h e I n t e r - H o u s e Te n n i s To u r n a m e n t .

速lje filter ^rljnoi Sports.

Florence Goold did very well this year and we would like to congratulate

her on winning the Senior Individual Championship and breaking the record for the First Division hurdles; also, of course, on gaining her Full Blue for Athletics.

^ockeg.

Very little hockey has been played this year, because of the Inter-School

Sports and the Net-ball Tournament taking place rather later in the year than usual.

Won by

TENNIS

Steves.

NET-BALL

Steves.

SWIMMING SPORTS

Steves.

SPORTS

Fentland.

Senilis finals.

SWIMMING

TESTS

Stanes.

SENIOR: H. Pathy v J.Fritchard, 6-5, 6-2.

JUNIOR; E. Neech v G, Van de Riet. 6-2, 6-2.^.

7 0

^cliool 1957, This has not been a successful year if cur competition with the other English

speaking schools in the Nilgiris is judged. In Athletics, Cricket, Football and

Hockey we were usually beaten. But the value offthese outside fixtures is that they draw us out and set standards of skill at which to aim. Those who- were

awarded School Colours well deserved them. The Singles Tennis Tournaments

have yet to be completed and there may be stop press news about these,

Cloluwrg,

Cricket

1957

Athletics

Football

Hockey.

Te n n i s

Boxing

C. Willy*

G. Draper* G. Draper D. Pathy* D. Pathy

Full Blue

Gymnastics

R. Stan

ford*

HalfBlue' P. Hill G Draper

R. Stan

ford

G. Draper*

C. Willy*

B. Smith*

R. Stan

ford

R. Lissen

Borough

i

N. Cooke

i

Honour able Mention

A. Smith

1 C. Willy ;J. Clements I. Sukum a r a n

R. Neech

C. Willy

Awarded*

M. Deva-

N. Cooke

Previous

R. Lissen

to 1957

datta

B. Smith 6.

Mathew

Borough

71

Po«9E ^O0tttana aith ^ointa PENTLAND

Positions

Points

S TA K E S .

Posto i nsj

Points

STEVENSON.

Positions

Points

CRICKET Seniors

2nd

7.5

Srd

1.5

9

Isb •

3rd

2

2nd

6

1 s t

Sports

1st

10

Srd

2

2nd

6

Te s t s

1 s t

5

3rd

1

2nd

3

Seniors

2nd

8

3rd

3

1st

12

Juniors

3rd

5

2nd

5.5

1 s t

Juniors

1 0

SWIMMING

•FOOTBALL

7.5 1

AT H L E T I C S

3rd

5.3

2nd

9.1

I s t

22.9

CROSS COUNTRY

2nd

5.4

2nd

5.4

1st

10,2

Seniors

2nd

6

3rd

3

l e t

9

Juniors

3rd

1

2nd

6

I s b

8

HOCKEY

T O TA L

2nd

50.2

Srd

42.5

I s t

97.6

m

K.e.

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CDNTENTS.

School

Officers,

Speech

Function

...

Annual

School

Report,

Notes

Editorial

List

to

1957

The

Gross—Country Ye a r ' s Message

December

...

...

2—

5 7

8—12 12—13

14

1957

Swiss

...

6—

...

...

For

...

...

1957

...

...

Prize

The New

etc.

Day

Principal's

To u r

Committees,

—16

...

...

17—18

Alps

...

...

19—20

...

1957

...

... ...

20 21—24

...

...

24

Natural History Society Reports, 1957 ... ... 25—27 Breeks School In Fifty Ye a r s " Great Expectations"

Christmas

Message

Just

in

Beauty

in

A

Wild

1957

Time

Challenging

Wild

Time ...

...

...

...

for

in

...

Seniors

India

28 29

30—81

...

Animals

Problem

Animals

... ... ...

81

...

...

...

...

32—33

38 34

B r e e k s n o w , a n d I n F i f t y Ye a r s T i m e . . . . . . 3 5 Cricket '

...

Hockey

...

Visual

Swimming Jokes

... ...

Education

...

.

36

...

37

...

37

...

...

38

...

38

Report on Mugunder Camp ... ...

39 The Annual Report of the Breeks Past Pupil's Associotion. 40—47, A

Merry

Morning

at

"

Lushy"

...

...

National Celebrations ... ...

London Exhibition, Oct. 12th ... ...

A Day in Rome ... ...

The New School Bell ... ...

Nigeria

...

Limerick

The

...

...

Life

of

a

42 43 43 44 45—46

...

Jumbo

41

46

...

...

47

Centenary of B. P., and Golden Jubilee of the Scout Movement 4 8—49 Breeks Past Pupils ... ...

50 — 51 Addresses ef Fast Pupils ... ...

52

CONTENTS (Continued).

A few Conundrums for your Christmas Party Editor's Funny Page

Report of the Parent—Teacher Associati Grubby Cubby Cubs Debating Society The Conquest of Space House Notes Boys —■ Btanes

„

„

„

Stevenson

,> '» >» Pentland Football

Inter-School Netball

Pentland (Girls)

To Victory StanesI (Girls) Stevenson

. Ti n d i A s s o c i a t i o n Christian Union Te n n i s

The Inter School Sports Hockey

Girls' Games Results — House Matches individual Tennis Finals

School Games 1957—Colours House Positions and Points

1957

53—54 54—57 68—59 60 60 61—62 63

63-6^ 64 6 4 6 5

65 6 6

67 67—68 6869 69 69 69 6 9

70 71

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