The Cantuarian December 1946 - March 1948 by OKS Association

THE CANTUARIAN VOL. XXII

No. 1

D EC EMBER,

1946

EDITORIAL This has been a quiet term, as readers may gather, from a duller Untroubled and not unrewarded. we have been given our chance to build up again the life at Canterbury to which we rather excitedly returned a year ago. As we have looked from the grey Precincts this Autumn and have seen the lamps of peace still flickering throughout the world, we have realised that the very quietness of our life has its value in the high world-crisis which is occupying our minds. The Cathedral, which means so much to us, has also its message for all peoples. As that message, echoed by all men of good will, goes 'to the towns and villages and over the Channel and the Atlantic, it will increasingly insist that the rebirth of the world must begin with the rebirth of education; and to that task, the mother-school of the Englishspeaking world may have her own contribution to make, and so fulfil the gracious wishes which His Majesty The King expressed to us in July. Cantuarian.

The King's School was founded by the Apostle who, with many faults and with much reluctance, lit the first candle in the dark-ness of southern England. For thirteen centuries, the School has sent men from Canterbury in the faith of Christ, to bear their own witness to the

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The School

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Virtute Functi More Palrum Duces

Valete

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Salvete

Thi s a nd That

The Societies Annua l Report on Natural History

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Lectures

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Rugby

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Edito rial .. .

Shooting

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Box ing Mu sic

K.S . " Li ttle XI " Cricket Club The Au tob iogra ph y of Jo hn Mitchinson

Surnames ...

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A King's Scholar of the XVl th Century

J.T.C.

In Memoriam

O. K.S . News

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The Seventh Day .. . Dawn in Spring .. . Translated fro m the F rench of Joachim Du Bellay

Who was Jacob Bridge? The Cats a nd Rats Again

Ca mbridge O. K.S . 76th Meeting

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Ca mbridge Letter Corres pondence

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Junior School Calendar ...

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ends of the world. Will this generation, faced with a cri sis similar to, even if more terrible than, the crises which its forefathers encountered, bring the same faith to the same fight? We cannot tell; but it is doubtful whether the lamps will ever burn brightly again, unless rekindled now by patience and skill , with the flame of an in vincible love. And if the past has anything to teach us at all, we may well further wo nder if that flame can ever effectively descend, except to a re-interpretation of the faith in which the Cathed ral and School were together founded , and to which they have together borne witness for so long.

THE SCHOOL Captain of the School: R. M. BUTLER H ead Head H ead H ead Head

of School H ouse .. . of The Grange of Walpole House of Meister Omers ... of Luxmoore House

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T. H. PARES D. L. EDWARDS W. H. FOXWELL G. V. HOLLIDAY A. F. C RAY

MONITORS

R. M . BUTLER, D. L. EDWA RDS, G. V. H OLLIDAY, A. F. CRAY, T. H. PARES, W. H . FOXWELL, H. J . DE VOIL, B. L. L EARY, D. H. P. MAYBURy-LEWIS, J . C. W . HULSE, J. A. A. PRICE. H OUSE P REFECTS School House:

P. D. LEIGHTO N, V. ST. G. BREALY, J. D. M. HEARTH, J. R. ALLCHURCH, R. P. HORE, L. A. O. H ALSEY.

The Grange:

C. G. S. PATERSON, D. L. QUESTED, C. D . SMITH, E . R. STROUTS, K. G. T. STUART, M . E. WITH ERS, R. C. FERR IS.

Meister Omers :

J. WOODGATE, A. G. BARTLETT, J. B. H. J ACKSON, 1. M. OSBORN, R. C. WEN BAN, K. B. C. HUBBARD.

Walpole House:

W. J. F . RAY, J. W. ALLISON, J. P. FISON, R. E. A. GREENSLADE, J . B. HOPEWELL, R. H. C. ROUTH.

L.uxmoore H o use : P. BROW N, G . W. WILLI AMS.

THE Captain Captain Captain Captain Captain

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of Rugger of Boats ... of Shooting of Boxing of Fe ncin g

D. L. EDWARDS, R . M. BUTLER .. . T. H. PARES

Edi tors of The Canluarial1 H OIl.

Sedetary of The Cauluarion

VIRTUTE FUNCTI

R . M . BUTLER C. G . S. PATERSON T . H. PARES I. M. OSBORNE D. H. P. MAYBURy-LEWIS

MORE PATRUM

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D. B. AINSWORTH (l 941 - 46) .- Wa lpolc House Prefe~t , Sept., '44; School Monitor, Jan. , '46 ; 1st and 2nd Athletics Colo urs, '44, 45, 46 ; Cap,tatn of Ath leti cs, '45, '46 ; 1st and 2nd XV Co lours, '45 ; 2nd Hockey Colours, 46 ; Sgt., J.T.c., '45. M . A. ARNOTT ( 1942--46) .- Walpolc House Prefecl, Jan. \ '46; 2nd XV Colours, :45 ; 2nd Athletic Colours, '45; 1st Ath letics Colours, 46 ; ShoOIIng Colours, 46, L/Cpl. , J.T.c. , '45. L. A . BASSETT (I941--46).- Honorary King 's Scholar ; Cirange House P refect, ~an.: '45; School Monilor, May, '46; 2nd XV Colours, 4~; I st XV Colo urs, 45, 1st a nd 2nd Athletics Colours, '45; Cpl., J .T.C., May, 46. P. J. BEARCROFT (I 944- 46).- Meister Omers H ouse Prefect; May, '45;. School Mo~ito: and H ead of H ouse, Sept. , '45; Cap tain of Boxmg, 46; Captain of Boats, 46, L/Cpl., J.T. C., '4.5. . . M. W. McD. CAIRNS (J942--46).- Lu xmoore House Prefect, Sept., ' 4 ~; 2nd AthletiCS Colou rs, '45; 1st Athl etics Colo urs, '46 ; L/Cpl., J .T.C., Sept., 45. . P. Y. DUDGEON ( 1942--46) .- School House Prefect, Oct. , '45 ; Hon. Secretary MusIc Society. M. G. ELSTON (J941--46).- H onorary King's ~cholar ; Meister Omers Housc Prefect, Oct. , '4~; Upper VI ; Cpl., J.T.C., May, 46. H . A. EMERSON ( 1942--46).- Luxmoore House Prefect, Sept., '45 ; 2nd Cricket Colours, '44' 1st Colo urs a nd H Oll . Secretary Cricket, '45, '46; Upper VI ; H on. Secretary Cho';., '46; Sgt., J .T.c., Sept. , '45. . J. DE F. ENDERBY ( 1940--46).- H ono rary King 's Schola r ; Walpo le H ouse Prefect, M ay, '44; Upper VI. R. A. C. FLACK (1942--46) .- l st and 2nd Hockey Colours" '46; Captain of Colts ' ?<V: '44 ' 2nd XV Colours, '45; 2nd Cricket Colours, 46; Captam of Fives, 46, , , 6 Sgt., J.T. C ., Ja n. , 4 . . M J GORDON (1940--46).-Grange House Prefect, Sept., '44; School MOllltor a np . . H ead of House, Oct., '45; 2nd Soccer Colours; 2nd XV Colours; Captalll of Tennis, '44, '45, '46; Captain of Squash, '44, '45, '46 ; Upper VI ; Sgt., J.T.C., Oct., '45. 5

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p. C. H Al'!MOND C\941 --46).:-Honorary Kin g 's Schola r ; Walpole House Prefect, May, 45 ; School MOni tor, Oct. , '45 ; H a n. Secretary Somner Society, '45.; . Hon. Secreta ry The Call1llal'lall, '46 ; Upper VI ; C.Q.M.S. , Oct. , '45. A. E. HILL (1942-46) .~Me i ster Omers House Prefect Sept. '45 ' Ist .X V Colours ' . Nov., '45. . " , , P. H; HONOUR (1941 - A6).- Senior Kin g 's Schola r ; Wa lpole House Prefect, Sept. , 44 .; Sc~o o l , Momto,r and Head of House, Ma y, '45 ; Hon. Secretary So mner SocIety. 43, 44 ; Ed Itor of The COl/llloriol/, '45, '46 ; Upper VI. H.1. D .. JOH NSON (l942-:-46) .- Kin g's and Entra nce Scholar ; Senior Kin g's Scholar ; MeIster Omers, Ho~ se Prefect, Jan., '45 ; School Monitor, Oct. , '45; 1st .and 2nd ::<V ~olours, 44, 45; Ca pt"',n o f Rugger, '45,; Ist and 2nd Hockey Colours, 45, 46 , Captalll of Hockey, 46 ; Tennis VI, 46 ; 2nd Athletics Colours, '46 ; Upper VI ; Cpl'., J.T.C., March, '46. . M. O. JORDA N (I 942- 46).- Walpole House Prefect, Feb., '46 ; Han. Secretary Music . SocIety, Jan., '46 ; LICpl., J.T.C. , May, '46. S. A. KIRBY (l942--46).- Orange House Prefect, May, '46; H a n. Secretary Tenterd en Club ; Cpl., J.T.C., Ja n., '46. A. A; K ELLER ( 1941--46).- Honora ry Kin g 's Scholar ; School House P refect, Sept. , 44 , School MOnitor, March, '45 ; Head of H ouse and Capta in of the School Oct., '45 ; 2nd XV Colours, '44, '45 ; Hon. Secreta ry Walpole Society ; Edito; and Hon . Secretary The Cal/Illar ial/, '44- '46 ; Vice-President Debating Society ' Llbrana n; Upper VI ; C.S.M ., Oct., '45. ' D. R. M . LONG (1941 --46).- Kin g 's and E ntrance Scholar; Meister ' Omers House Prefect, Oct., '44; 2nd XV Colours '45 ' 2nd Athletics Colours '46' Upper VI ; LISgt., J.T.C.; Sept. , '45. " . ' , J. P. D. MALLI NSON (l942--46).- School House ' Prefect Jan. '45" 2nd XV Colours . '44; 1st XV Colou rs, '45 ; Vice-Captain and H~n. S~creta'ry of R ugger' 1st and 2nd Soccer Colours; '45; 2nd Cricket Colou rs, '45 ; I st Cricket Colours: '46 ; 2nd Hockey Colours, 46 ; 2nd Athletics Colours '45 and '46' Drum-Major ' LICpl., J.T.C., May, '46. , , ' , D .. M. MOR EAU (I 941 - 46J..- School H ouse Prefect a nd School Monitor, Oct., '45 ; Shootin g VIII Colours, '46; Ca pta in of Shootin g ; Upper VI ; Hon. Secretary Debatlllg SocIety; Sgt., J.T. C. R. H. NETHER';OOD (I 942--46).- School House P refect, June, '46; 1st and 2nd Hockey Colours, 46 ,; 2nd Soccer Colours, '45; 2nd Cricket Colours, '46; L/C p!., J.T. C., Oct., 45. J. D . P UG HE (l941 - 46).- Orange House Prefect, Dec., '45 ; Cpl., J.T.C. , Jan., '46. D. T. WEATHERILL (l942-46).- Luxmoore House Prefect June '46' L/Cpl J T C Feb. , '46. . . " ., ' . 0,

VALETE R. A. Bedingfield , R. S. Brush, O. B. Bunnell, S. N . Cartwright, P. R. Hall, W. S. Hogg, M. J. Howett, C. Lampard, D. O. Morgan, G . H . W. Norman, C. R. Nott, C. . Sherlock, D. H. SmIth, C. R. Wall, K. L. E. Whitehead. 6

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"THIS AND THAT" H .M. The Kin g, it is announced, has been graciously pleased to MR . J. A. FRASBR approve the award of the George Cross to the late Mr. J . A. Fraser, Assista nt Attorney-Oeneral at Hong-Kong, who orgalll sed escape parties and a clandestine in fo rmation service in the internment camp there, suffered

" prolonged and severe" to rture by the Japanese rather than reveal the na mes of his colleagues, and was finally executed. The fact that Mr. Fraser 's yo unger son IS at present at the School, in The Orange, will make us especially proud of this high example of devotion and endu~·ance. His Worship the Mayor of Canterbury, in sending to Th e Canltlarian a THE MAYOR very generous donation , complimented the Editors on " a magazine wh ich has given us great pleasure for many years past " . " The last number " , Alderman Baynton adds, " was a delight, and a great credit to all concerned. " We congratulate D . M. Moreau on the award of a County Major Scholarship in Modern Languages, and A. A. Kneller (the former Captam of the School, whom O.K.S . will remember for his share in last year 's Thanksgiving Service and the Royal Visit, and who is now in Ken ya! on tbeaward of an Exbibition granted by tbe Crown Colony of Kenya 111 HIstory, 10 addltlOn to an Award granted by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. SCHOLARSIDPS

We have received from Mr. R. R. Stokes, M .P., a pampblet on conditions in the Czechoslovak political detention camps for the Sudeten Oermans. The facts, wbich Mr. Stokes gathered on a recent tour of the area, make reading little short of horrifying. There are tens of thousands of internees in tbese camps, untried and living on a diet below the level of Belsen. We feel sure that Mr. Stokes would be prepared to send his pamphlet to any readers of The Can/tlOI'ian who wrote to him at the House of Commons, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope. CONDITIONS IN CZECHOSLOVA NKIA

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The O.K .S. Association is proposing to present to the School a portrait of the late Lord Justice Luxmoore, fo r which they ha ve commissioned Mr. Ja mes Bateman , R.A . Brigad ier G. D. G. Heyman , C .B. E., O.K.S. , has commissioned a distinguished Hungarian artist, Mr. Richard Marientrop. to paint Field -Marshal Viscount Montgome ry for the School, and Sir Gera ld Kell y, R.A., is to paint a portrait of Mr. Somerset Maugha n, which the latte r is kindly presenting to the School. . Miss Babington , Steward of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, recently CATHED RAL paid public tribu te at a meeting of th e Friends ' Council , to the members GUIDES of the School who showed visitors round the Cathed ra l in the summer. The Daily Mirror even prin ted an " inte rview " with one of th e guides ! PORTRAITS

THE ROYAL " CANTUARIAN ,.

Their Majesties the Kin g a nd Queen and Elizabeth autographed a co py of the August it, with a gracious message, to the Schoo l. Cantuarian remains o n record at Buckingham

H.R .H. the Princess number and presented Another copy of The Palace.

By req uest . of His Majesty the King, the Headmaster granted a wee k 's extra hol iday in September. The royal request was es peciall y apposite, since the extra week ensured the completion of the repa irs to the bombdamaged Dining Hall.

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HOLIDAY

The Dining Hall has now been full y repaired a nd re-eq ui pped and has been in use throughout the tenn. The kitchen equip me nt is tho rou ghl y up-to-date and a fu ll staff of waiters has been obtained. Boys are thus no longer called upon for duties in Hall. T hose responsible for the high sta ndard of the food rece ived a fitt ing expression of thank s at the Break-up Supper on December 16th. THE DI NING H ALL

THE PARRY H ALL

The Parry is bein g converted into a block of eight classrooms. This step will ease the School's acute " housing problem " . School Prayers a nd Assemblies will be held in the Chapter House, which has been placed at the School 's disposal by the Dean and Chapter for this purpose.

Our Preachers this term have incl ud ed the Dean of Westminster, the ArchPREACHERS deacon of Canterbury, O.K.S., the Archdeacon of Maidsto ne, the H eadmaster, the C haplain, the Rev. S. B-R . Poole, the Rev. Dr. H. Kni ght a nd the Rev. J. F. Martin. The present numbers (472) a re the highest in the histo;y of the School. At a recent meetin g of the Governors it wa s decided, on the motion of Field-M arshal Viscount Montgomery, to stabilise the numbers fit approximately th is fig ure.

NUMBERS

We were very plea sed to welcome Mr. F, Stanger back thi s term aftcr his

War Service. The Staff has also been strengthened by the appo intment of Mr. Alan Ratcliffe, whom readers will remember as a Cambrid ge Cri cket Blue who knocked up a record innings against Oxford.

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We regret to anno unce that the Rev. S. B-R. Poole is relinquishing the H ouse mastershi p of School House at the end of tillS term. A tribute to hlS wor since his appointment in 1942 appears on another page.. . ·f f h· Mr Poole's successor will be Mr. K. A. C. Gross, who w,lI bnng gl ts 0 IS own to the c~ntrol of the oldest and la rgest House in the School. Mr. G ross has a lso accepted a commi ssion in the School co ntingent of the J.T.c.

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The Rev. Professor E. C. Ratcliff spent a week-end wi th the Headmaster and Mrs. Shirley in October, lectu red to the School, preached PRO FESSOR E. C. R ATCLI FF in the Cathedral and talked with many of us. We very much hope to sec him again soon.

" O UR THR EATENED V ALUES "

Through the kindn ess of the author and publisher,. Mr. Victo r Gollancz, copies of th is book have been. made a va dable to the Monitors and Senior King's Scholars. 11 IS a book of the utmost sincerity and importance, and we urgentl y reco mmend I t to all

our read ers.

This has at last come to full life once more, with attendance at its weekly THE D EBATING debates often nearing a hundred. We were. especIall y . iliad that the Society was able to pers uade so many distingUIshed poiJtlClans to SIt on SOCIETY its Political Brains Trust In October. has been divided into two companies, with the larges t establishment, THE J T C approved by the War Office, that it has yet known. It is, moreover, . . . rumoured and hoped that the Inspecting Officer at the next Annual Inspection may be the Chief of the Imperi al General Staff. If rumour turns out to be correct, the Contingent will receive an unparalleled ho nour.

The Editors have recently been cheered by a number of letters of enLETTERS TO couragement rrom readers.. They are always ¥lad . to receive and to THE EDITORS acknowledge these, and to pn nt those of general I11teJest. It is time that the History was revised an d brought up-to-date. The Rev. C. E. Wood ru ff, O.K.S ., has given pernusslOn for hIS Schota Regia Calltuariensis to be used as a baSIS rOt: a new boo~. InformatIOn from O. K.S. who were at the School dunn g the peri od not covered by Mr. Woodruff's book will be welco med.

THE H,STORY OF THE SCHOOL

We congratu late Cano n W. Telfer, D.O., Ely. Professor of THB MASTER OF SELWYN Divin ity a nd Canon of EI ~, O.K.S., on IllS electIOn as Master of Selwy n College, Cambnd ge. The School held its own Memorial Service this yea r in the Cathed ra l, and later assem bled in the Memonadl Court tf observe the Silence. The Captam of School 1m a wreat1 on the Memorial and after the Silence the School placed the pop!,les they h~dwbe~d wearing on the M emorial in memory of the O.K.S. who gave therr l,ves 1Il bot or WlIrs,

REMEMBRA NCE SU NDAY

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A correspondent has sent us notice of an interesting and, we CANTERBURY TALES IN suspect, rare book published in Brussels in 1944, The Last Tales OCCUPIED BELGIUM of Cantel'bul'Y, by Jean Ray. The book, which bears n,e imprimolul' orthe German Censorship, is an illustrated collection of tales of the m3cabl:c, supposed to have been related on a second pilgrimage to Canterbury. Why, then, dId the German Censorship encou ra ge this publication? Tt wou ld be interesting if readers could solve the probl!'m.

We ';Vere pleased to sec The King's School at the top of the list of the SCHOOLDOYS' EnglIsh Schools whose mem bel'S have cont ributed to the Schools' Journal WRITI NGS Pavilioll. Pal'ilion assures the Editors that the School gained the position . . both from t~e quality and the quantit y of its original material published In the magazlIlc! The EdItor of The Harrovion wrote to us sayi ng that the last number of The Cantuarian was the best School Magazine he had ever seen. It is a ll most cmbarrassLn g.

Dr. Charles Etherid ge (0. K.S.), a great expert on Nelson, has presented TRAFALGAR for the Museum a copy of The Tillles for November, 1805, containing DESPATCHES CollIngwood's Despatches on Trafalgar and the death of Nelson. Before . the war the same donor kindly presented a copy of The Tillles with Welltngton's Despatches on Waterloo. Dr. Etheridge lectured to the School in the recent past on Nelson, and we are grateful for his continued interest and kindness. Now that the School is a corporate body it has to see what property it owns land and 111 Trust funds. The ownership of the Mint Yard raises a difficult question which cannot be settled out of hand. The first necessity was to get a copy of Priuli's Deed of 1559. We are greatly obliged to K ~n~eth Thomas (O.KS.) for causmg a photostat to be made of it as a gift from him. Tt IS 111 sIxteenth century Latll1 and IS now beiog un ravelled!

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We are grateful to A. D. W. Paterson, O.KS., for sending us detai ls CAMBRIDGE of a new course at the University arranged for intendin g Colonial CONTRIIlUT/ONS Cml Servants. M. A. S. Burgess, who recently got a First in Russian has sent us an excellent article on Czechoslovakia which he has lately t?ured. H~en Oog-whom pre-war O.KS. will remember- his father happily still ltves and reIgns ?ver s,?me of the Shan States-has written on Burma To-day; an upto-date mformallve arllcle at first hand; he flew to the Far East in the Long Vacation . If we could afford ;t, we should print all three articles. The number of orders received for Dr. Shirley's recent pamphlet on THE CONVERSION Common Difficulties ill Religion illustrates in a small way the wideOF ENGLAND spread dissatisfaction with our present religious position . (Copies . ma~ be obtamed free from the Headmaster's Secretary.) I n this connectIOn, we cordially welcome and emphaticall y recommend a recent book by B. G. Sand hurst, WIth a Preface by C. S. LeWIS, entitled How Heathen is Brirain ./ published by Messrs. Collins at 2/6.

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We congratu late Dr. E. F. A. Suttle, Director of Music, and Mrs. Suttle DR. AND on their marriage in Southwark Cathedral dUring the Summer holidays. MRS. SUTTLE Mrs. Suttle has already given proof of her kindness to the musical members of the School, and has accompanied at recitals under her maiden name of Judith Gummer. Speakers to the School next term will include Mr. Jeffery Farnol, Mr. Victor Gollancz, Captain Taprell Darling, R.N. ("Taffrail"), Dr. Donald Soper, Sir William D obbiee, the Headmaster of Harrow, Mr. J. E. Barton on " Art Enjoyment for Eve rbody ". LECTURES

Anyone possessing a copy of Woodruff and Cape's Histvry of the SCHOOL H,STORY School is well advised to keep it. A second-hand bookseller has recently offered us a copy for ÂŁ2 ! Queen Mary gave the Mint Yard, in 1557,. to Cardina l Pole. He was CARDI NA L POLE's very fond of the old Almonry Chapel.' which ra n w.estwards from our WILL present Memorial Chapel, on the SIde of the Mmt Yard opposite The Grange, and was known as the Cardinal's Chapel. In 1558 he died . His Will is of interest in more ways than one. For example, "Corpus autem meum volo et ordino ut sepel iatur in mea Ecclesia Cantuariensi in ea Capella, in qua caput Bealissimi Martyris Thomae olim dictae Ecclesiae Arc~iepiscopi asseruaba!ur." Pole was the last Archbishop to be buried in the Cathedra l unlll tbe ashes of Archblsh~p Lang were placed in St. Stephen's Chapel in December, 1944. Agall1, he leaves to hI S Executor, Aloysius Priuli- a fr iend of more than twenty years~a free hand 111 the donation of all his property. In 1559 Priuli made a deed conveymg the MlI1t Yard to the Dean and Chapter for 500 years for the sale purpose of the School. So far the whereabouts of this deed is not known-we hope it is In the Cathedral Library. SCHOOL HOUSE MADRIGAL SOCIETY

This Society is to be heartily congratulated on having staged a concert-superb to every detail-in the Cloisters on the last mght of the Summer Term. This term they gave a concert 111 St. Mildred's Hall for that parish's Appeal and raised ÂŁ5 3s. 6d. for

the fund . Many O.K .S. of recent years have come to know Canon A. G. Bisctee, S. BARNABAS', the Vicar and have enjoyed his hospitality. One O.K.S. at leas.t has been his curate! Canon Bisdee is now retiring after thirty years' OXFORD service to that famou s church to the small country parish of Stockcross, near Newbury. THE CHORAL SOCIETY

hopes to perform Vaughan Williams ' Mass ill G millor next term, and Haydn's .Creation in the Summer Term.

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THE SOCIETIES NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY AND FIELD CLUB The Society was greatly honoured by Mr. Eric Hosking's acceptance of the new posit ion of Patron. .It received with deep regret the resignation from the Hon. Secretaryship of T H . Pa res, and appo inted D. W. Moleswort h as his successor. Mr. F. H. Voigt has lectured on the trees of the Precincts, Mr. C. W. Ward on Fungi, the Hon. Secretary on British Reptiles, and the President (Mr. D. Stainer) on British Deer. T. H. Pares gave an illustrated talk on "Shots from the Ornithologist's Gun ". The Society a lso held its terminal Free Readin g and a Brains T rust, with Mr. F. H. Voigt as Question-Master. The President took two parties to st ud y the ornithology of the Stodmarsh area . A report on the Annual Report, publ ished by the Society, appears elsewhere. THE SOMNER SOCIETY Mr. F. H. Voigt has, to the great regret of the Society, resigned hi s Presidency through lack of time ; Mr. R. W. Harri s was elected as his successor. M . N. Devo nshire continues to act as Hon. Secretary. Mr. W. Urry, Assistant Libra rian to the Dean and Chapter, gave a lecture to the Society 0 11 William Somner, O.K.S., embodying much original and exciting research. M. O. Lambert gave a paper o n Witchcraft, a nd five members of the Society deli vered short papers on varied subjects. Two interesting projects of t he Society claim special mention. It has embarked upon research fo r the construction for the D ean and Chapter of a model of the buildings of the Cathedral Priory in A.D. 1500, to be built in co njunction with the Art Society. The Society hopes to publ ish a booklet embodying the res ults of its research. The Society has also taken an energetic part in the archaeological excavations in Canterbury. Digging near the Riding Gate, th e o ldest entrance to the City, members have already laid bare the foundations of the mediaeval bastion, and hope soo n to make fur ther contributions to the study of the Rom an and mediaeva l City. THE PATER SOCIETY The President (Mr. J. C. Howe) opened a disc ussion on The Spirit of Hellas as the first meeting of an active term. K. G. T. Stuart read a paper on Knossos and th e Labyrinth, J. P. Fison one on Nietzsche, and the H o n. Secretary (G. V. Holliday) one on Plato and The Republic. Disc lissions were he ld after all three papers, and the term concluded with a debate. RAIL WAY SOCIETY The Hon. Secretary, A. B. K. Enderby, gave a paper on t he Signal Box a nd Signall ing, and B. K. Newton on the Na tiona lization o f Road Transport; but the high-light of th e terlll was undoubtedly a lecture on Railway Wonders of the World, given by Mr. R. Davies, a member of the Pu blicity Depar tment of the Southern Railway. To end the programme, the Society held a Railway Quiz. T he C haplain has co nti nu ed to fill t he Chair. 12

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WALPOLE SOCIETY The new Hon. Secreta ry, B. K . Newton, arranged no less than fiftee n meetings. The Society has read two plays, Shaw's Pygmalion and Elmer Rice's Street Scene. M iss Mills, the Secretary of the Women's Fellowsh ip of the Cathedral, conducted two partIes round the Ca thedral; a nd the Society is extremely grateful to her for thiS kllldness. Mr. R. W. Paine, of the City of Canterb ury School of Art, gave an illustrated lectu re _on Modern Design in Architec ture and Dr. J. S. Peck, of the Kent and Canterbu ry Hospital , lectured on recent developments in Medicine. Mr. C. E. Minns, the PresIdent, gave a paper on ," Utop ias ", a~? th,e .Hon, ~ecr~t,a ry one on Oxford, Among other meet ings was a hIghly sll ccessfu l Ongmal N Ight , THE A RT SOCIETY The Society met twice a week throughout the term. u~der ~he ~ upervi ~io n of the President (Mr. D. Stainer). To wards the end of the term, It bUSied Itself With the first stages of the construction of a model of the monastl~ Precl11cts, T,hc Hon. Secreta? (W. N. Francklin) reports t ha t attendance at the meet lllgs of t he Society has been most encouraging. THE MUSIC SOCIETY The senior Music Cl ub and the junior Music Society have ama lga mated" to rel,ieve th e strain on the Music Staff. M r. T. A. S. Wright is President of the new MUSIC S?clety, Dr. E. F. A. Suttle, the Rev. Dr. H. K nigh t and Mrs. P. G. Reynolds Vice-Presidents, a nd L. A. O. Halsey H on. Secretary. The fo ur officials inaugurated the term with a Iv! usica l B r~in s Trust ; at the next mee tin g, a series of ten-minute papers discussed subjects rangll1g from Tudor Chur~h Music to Sibelius. The lecturers were L. A. O. Halsey, J. G. Jell, W. L. C. Harns, R. E . W. Roberts and C. B. Manning-Press. Other meetings included a debate and a concert, both conducted by the members of the Society. Mr. E. W. Berrid ge gave a clarinet recital, Dr. E. F, A . Suttle an organ rccit~l, and, Dr. H. Klllgh,t a, very vaned recital on the piano. The Society wis hes to express Its gratitude to the recltalrsts For most enjoyable performances. THE HARVE Y SOCIETY With the in val uab le help of the President (Mr. R. Coles), t he Society was able to entertain as we ll as enli ghten itself with fi lms on Penicillin, the Sulpha Drulls and TN.T. J. Bradley displayed some excellent microscopic slides. R. C. Wen ban delivered a paper on " Sweet Wrappings ", and C . M. Reeves on " Numbers" . The President also lectured on " Ili uminescence". At the end of the term, the Hon. Secretary (J. B. N. Jackso n), who has com pleted a hi ghl y successful year of office, resigned hi s post. TH E DEBATING SOCIETY The Society has at last entered upon a vigo rous life. Frequent debates have been arranged by the President (Mr. F. E. Stel11Son) and the Committee (the Rev. S. B-R. Poole D. L. Edwards. T H. Pares and J. A. A. Price, Hon. Secretary). The Chair has been faken by each member of the Comm ittee in t urn, and the high standard of chairmanship, even in boys without previous ex perience, dId much towards the success of t he de bates. The subjects of debate were :13

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5. I . "That the N uremburg Tria ls were a misca rr iage of Justice' ' . (Lost 38 to 19.) 12. 2. "That this House has no confidence in H .M. Govern ment." (Wo n 67 to 22.) 19. 3. "That the Daily M irror be suppressed" (Won 48 to 47.) Nov. 9. 4. " Ba lloon Debate " --the H o use to choose from eigh t famo us people the one who deserved to be saved in a disaster. (Lord Derby wo n by a majority of 5 !) 16. 5. "That the re is no place for the Intellectual in the Modern World." (Won by the Chai rman's vote.) T hese wit h the Brains Trust of October 26th constituted a splendid session.

A RCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Members of the Somner have been engaged on an archaeological "d ig" under the direct ion of Mr. R. W. Harris, and have made a discovery of considerable importance in the study of medi eval Canterb ury. Excavation carried o ut on the site of bombed cottages im mediately to the No rth of Ridi ng Gate Bri dge outside the City Wa ll, has disclosed the massive " battering base" of the bastion whicb jluarded the gate. Ea rl y prin ts indicate that a semici rcula r tower (similar to those on the Dane John Wa ll) stood at thi s spot. The illustratio n in Gostling: Callterbury (1776 ed., p . 6) shows that it had by that date been provided wi th a tiled roof a nd was evidentl y being used as a dwe ll ing house. The towe r, about 35-40 feet high, was pierced wit h loops at abo ut 25 feet from the ground, a nd seems, as far as can be judged from the prin t, to bave been bui lt of flint. It appears to have been ta ken down about 1800.

The base now bro ught to ligh t is a massive semicircular work of fli nt, with a n apro n at the fro nt of d ressed stone, identical in design with the bases of the D ane John Towers. It has a radius of 12 ft. 6 in. at the top (which is barely 18 in . below the present surface) swelling out to a radi us of over 13 ft. six feet lower down, as far as the excavation has been card ed . It is d iffic ult to determine a precise date for the work . Possibly it may be assigned to the 15th or late 14th century. Extensive operations for strengthening tbe City 's defences were being conducted at the last-mentioned period . The City Wall was defended by twenty-one such towers. Fiftee n survive, more o r less complete. T hey were places on an average within 200 yards of each other, i.e., wit hi n effective bowshot of any attack on the face of the wall. It is to be hoped that loca l pla ns fo r reconstruction will allow this extremely interesting discovery to remain uncovered.

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ANNUAL REPORT ON NATURAL HISTORY The Annual Report of the School Natural H istory Society was published in November. It was a prelimin ary survey of the coun tryside around Canterbu ry, within a n eight o r ten miles' radi us, formi ng an indication of the shape of the Society's magnum opus on the district, due to appear in some six years' time. "OUf ma in apology for rushing into print ", wri tes the President, <I must be our enth usiasm" . But, in truth, the Report needs no apology, a nd has wo n golden opinio ns for the work of the Society fro m those who have spent a life-time in this countryside to which the School returned o nl y a year ago. The ret iri ng H an. Secretary of the Society, who has given two yea rs' devoted labour to its interest, r . H . Pares, wri tes a short history of the Society since its fo und atio n in J884 ; the President contributes a "farewell to Cornwall " and a valuable survey of the district around Canterbury; and various members of the Society co-o perate in a very kn owledgeable sur vey of the countryside in Winter. Espec;a lly noticeable are the articles by the yo un ger membe rs on The Last Acre, Chippy (a sq uir rel), Christmas-tide and The Birds o/the Precincts. The mai n body of the Report is, however, an invaluable catalogue of the o bservatio ns of the Society in Ornithology an d Entomology, the rep tiles an d amphibia and the flo ra a nd fa una of the district, a nd a record of the lectu res an d exc ursions of an ama7.i ngly vigorous yea r 's work. The Society has made some interesti ng discoveries. F or example, The Times recently contained a n article o n the a rr ival at Ca nterbury of the black redstart, the fam iliar friend of our exile; o bserved by the Society on the Cornish cliffs. " Li ke the schola rs return ing to Canterbury", wrote the correspondent of The Times, " o ne hopes that it will long remain." At the end of the President's Introduction comes a confession . " We ha ve an ul terior purpose in this Repo rt. Could not the schools of England fo rm some sort of Naturalists' Association?" T he School Society, believing that such an Associatio n sho uld be fo rmed on a regional basis, have accordi ngly inv ited all other schools in Kent to write to The Kin g's School. Many repl ies have been received, and the prospects of a Kent Associati on of Na tu ra l Hi story Societies look ve ry bright. Tt is indeed an o bject for which lovers of Kent a nd of this School can have nothing but praise and suppo rt. D .L. E. A few copies of the Report arc still on sale. These may be obtained from the Hon. Secretary of the Natural History Society. The price is 2/6, post free ; bllt the Secretary would be grateful for donations to assist in the next year's work. Certain observatio ns have been made that are too important even to print, for fear that the informatio n shoul d fa ll info the hands of those who have no respect fo r wild life. Even so, a num ber of in terestin g discoveries are recorded in the pages of th is Rep ort ; qllail were definitely identified in the Ca nterbury a rea duri ng the Autu mn of 1945 ; several specimens of the rare palmate newt were secured, also near our home town, and we would welco me correspondence on this su bject as we are unable to fi nd any record of this newt having previously been seen in Kent. Tbe botanists have found the area particularl y interesting fro m the point of view of the fami ly Orchidaceae, and actuall y discovered specimens of the very rare lady orchis (orchis purpurea). These are onl y a few of the m ore sensational discoveries of the firs t ten mo nths' work 'in this district, and they give promise of much useful work to be done in the 'fu ture,

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LECTURES CAPTAIN ERIC HOSKING Lecturing on October 7th, Captain Hosking described his adventures while photographing two rare Harriers in Norfolk-" Montague's Harrier " and the Marsh Harrier. It seemed indeed a most complicated and interesting busi ness, but Captain and Mrs. Hosk ing 's labours and discomforts were amply rewarded by the fine photographs of the birds which they now showed to the School. Captain Hoskin, with skilful touches of humour, then described the life of the Barn Owl, the most elusive as well as the wisest. of birds. It is good to know that the School 's Natural Hi story Society has secured so distinguished a naturalist as its Patron. We hope it wi ll be still more successfu l, and persuade Captain Hosking to visit us again. DR. C. E. LAST Great things are done, said Blake, " when men and mountains meet" .

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a scholar and athlete such as Dr. Last lectures on his experiences of the mountains, he cannot fail to bring to the Hall something of the excitement and beauty of the scenes and sports he loved in Switzerland. He brought, too, slides and kit, to show us how the thing should be done. Some of his audience will be more than grateful to Dr. Last III their coming first glide in Switzerland this Winter; and we hope that they leap and swerve with the ease of the gentlemen on the slides ! PROFESSOR E. C. RATCLIFF ON INDIA The Professor gave us a masterly sketch of the present position in India and showed how for Inany centuries its problem, so urgent to-day, has remained unsolved. This problem is disunion. Themajority of Indians are Hindu , but have been subjected to the rule of the Moslem minority since these last, a vigo rous and war-like people still, swept down from the North: The conflict between these two religions is the most important factor in the Indian situation. But it is not the only source of trouble. There are also other religions. There are the many va rying tribes and there are the different castes, rigidly fixed by the Hindu religion, which is at the same time a social system . Also, a very large proportion of India is not under the direct rule of the British Government, but belongs to the Princes, who, however, depend largely on Bntlsh support. Another delicate question is raised by the treaties by which the East India Company guaranteed the Princes safe possession of their lands, and which still, most inconveniently, exist. "There is no solution to the Indian question ", was the conclusion to which Professor Ratcliff came. The British must leave, for they are hated, not only because the Indians desire to rule their own country, but because memories of the Mutiny and its foully cruel suppression are still very much alive among the people. They hate us, as the Irish hated Cromwell. Yet when we do go, civil war will almost inevitably ariseriots and street-fighting are already pointing the way. The fear and suspicion between the Hindus and Moslems is so ineradicable that they will be unable to live in peace, unless dominated by a third party. If India cannot manage to govern herself, it is not unlikely, ~a id the professor, that some outside power will step in, asked or unasked, to restore order.

THE CANTUARTAN We had last term the pleasure of listening to a masterly sermon from Professor Ratcliff, and were therefore prepared for a good lecture. But the actuality far exceeded expectation. It was an absolute masterpiece of calm, lucid and unemotional exposition; it would be easy to imagine the Professo'r sitting on the King's Bench, bewigged and in scarlet, summing up the intricacies of a baffling lega l case. It is our hope that he will be a regular visitor. R. R. STOKES, EsQ., M.P. " THE ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS OF A C HRISTIAN PEACE"

War, said Mr. Stokes, must cease. Tt must cease, not only because of the wretched beastliness of it, the misery it entails, but because another war may well be the last. This is, perhaps, our last chance to find peace. There is on ly one way to do it- men and po liticians must realise at last that Christianity is common-sense. Before the war, fo od would be destroyed, to raise prices, in one part of the world, while people starved in another. During the war, all available food \Vas evenly and sensibly distributed. Are we now to go back to the pre-war system? There is food enough for all, said Mr. Stokes, and land enough. The expUlsion of million s from their homes in Europe is both cruel and stupld and can only give rise to new problems. What God gave to all, should be free to all. Frontiers are false and unnatural, â&#x20AC;˘ there should be no barriers between people and people. As for the Jews, let E ngland, the Dominions and America open their gates to them. The Communist sloga n, " From each according to his ability, to each accord ing to hi s need ", should be put into universal practice. Mr. St<;lkes was careful to point out, however, that the Soviet system is definitely harmful, and that neither Russia nor capitalist America has any knowledge of what really makes for peace. The only system that can save the world is Christian Socialism, and the country best fitted to practise it is Great Britain.

This was one of the most stimulating lectures we ha ve had, and questions followed quickly one upon another for the space of almost another hour. We are deeply gratefu l to Mr. Stokes and hope he will soon come again . PROFESSOR C. E. M. JOAD Dr. Joad took as his thesis the decay of our contemporary Society, analysed by such philosophers as Professor Arnold Toynbee and Dr. Otto Spengler. (The Professor, however, warned us to accept Spengler only with our eyes open to his political allegiance.) Any logical and coherent system of values in conduct or thought had largely vanished; to establish a new society, more satisfactory to our needs, we needed, above all else,

new values, or at the least a revival of some of the old. How could this be done? Mainly concerned with the necessary political advance, Dr. Joad prophesied that we would advance beyond our present conception of the nation as the entity in political organisation, just as previo us ages had advanced in their crises beyond the City, the Tribe, the Cave, the Individua.l, the Animal and the Slime. But a new philosophical and spiritual renascence was also needed to sustain this new political World Society. The School is indeed grateful to Professor Joad, and pleased that he also found time 10 dine with the Headmaster and Mrs. Shirley and be shewn the Cathedral and the School,

THE CAN,(UA RIAN A POLITICAL BRAINS TRUST-OCTOBER 26TH Mr. J. Baker White, the Conservative M.P. for Canterbury, sat opposite a leading Kent Communist, Mr. J. Mansfeld, Headmaster of Ashford School. Mr. G. GJ'anville Sharp, K.C., Recorder of King's Lynn, who had opposed Mr. Churchill in the General Election, spoke for the Liberals, and Mr. Michael Stewart, M.P., Comptroller of H .M . Government, a Lord of the Treasury and Chief Government Whip, represented the Labour Party . . Mr. Matthew Halton , European Correspondent of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, sat on the Trust as an independent observer. Having recentl y "covered" other functions, from Tokyo to Nuremberg, he was able to bring a great weight of experience to the discussion. The questions submitted to the Trust numbered over a hundred a nd sixty; those answered covered the whole sweep of contempoJ'ary politics. Many of them were clearly provo kin g to the Party representatives. The Headmaster, for example, asked Mr. Michael Stewart whether the Labour Party could be described as Socialist, and received a detailed, if not very convincing reply ; Mr. Baker White was asked whether the Conservative Party had any coherent policy, and was, listeners suspected, in some doubt as to the answer himself; and the Communist member was asked by a Monitor to explain the treasonable behaviour of his Party in organising the " squatter " movement. There can be small wonder that a Kent 'paper described the eveni ng as " boys putting the politicians through their paces". But the politicians got over to the boys in the entertain ing and stimulating manner of Braihs Trusts not a little clear, profound and ongmal thought on modern problems. For example, Mr. Halton , of the Canadian B.C., confessed that, when recentl y asked to broadcast to America on the problem of the closed shop, he had had to refuse through an abysmal lack of knowledge of the subject; and so he was as delighted as the boys with the lucidity and vigour of the controversy which arose on the Trust from this question. Mr. Mansfeld in the main devoted himself to a quiet and reasonable apologia for the conduct of his Party and of Soviet Russia. Livi ng in Canterbury, howeve r, the audience found the logic and ultimate optimism of the Comm un ist attitude less novel . than the frank discussion of the Conservative position by the audience's own M .P., Mr. Baker White. Mr. Sharp, who had been suggested by his Party Headquarters as a suitable Liberal member, proved himself a clear-thinking lawyer who succeeded in presenting in a short time an attractive policy radicall y different from those propounded by his neighbours; QUI' only regret was that he did not have the time to develop this policy into the area of constructive proposals. Probably most of the political thunder was stolen by Mr. Stewart, who sustained a convincing defence of his Government. This was an evening which revealed anew to many the exciting possibilities of tile new educational medium of the Brains Trust. One suspects that its main disadvantage , is the amount of preparatory negotiation involved; and, if this is so, then the Debating Society was indeed fortunate in securing Mr. Corner as Question Master. It is most emphatically to be hoped that this will not be the last Trust of the year. D.L.E.

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RUGBY 1ST XV FIXTURES Oct. 5. v Ind ian Army Cadets. Home . Lost 27- 3. 12. v K.C.S., Wimbledon. Home. Lost 1 9-~ 19. v Eastbourne College. Home. Won 23- 16. 26. v Canterbury R.F.C. 1st XV. Home. Drew 6- 6. 29. v Sutton Va lence School. Away. Won 11 - 8. Nov. 2. v Public Schools ' Wanderers. Home. Won 15-5. 9. v Mill Hill Schoo l. Away. Lost 5- 0. 16. v Felsted School. Home. Lost 20-3. 23. v Hurslpierpoin l College. Home. Won 18- 3. 26. v Dover College . Away .. Won 8- 6. Dec. 7. II St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate. Home. Won 39- 3 14. v O.K.S. Home.

RUGG ER RETROSPECT This term has seen some improvement in the Schoo l's rugger. During our stay in Cornwall, we were unfortunate in hav ing but two pitches on whIch to play and they were often under water. Thus the School's interest in the game waned. But now we have plenty of pitches and a re-organ isation of the rugge r has taken place, so we must hope that the standard of the game thro ughout the whole School will improve. The 1st XV has had a n average season with, to date (December 7th) 6 wi ns, 4 losses a nd I draw. The season began none too well, but after losing to the Indian Army Cadets and K.C.S., Wimbledon , the School had an exceLlent win against Eastbourne College by 23 points to 16, afte r being several points down at half-time . . Two mo re wins followed over Sutton Valence and Public School Wanderers, the latter field ing a strong side agai nst us. It was at this juncture that half-a-dozen of the 1st XV were inj ured in one way or another, and so it was not possible to produce a truly representative side against either Mill Hill or Felsted. It is a question whether ru gger ought not now to be played through the Lent Term as well- there is still so much building up to do . The full-back position has not been strongly filled this season, and five or six have had to be tried there. The three-quarters and halves grew much better together as an attacking force, but not till rather late in the season, owing to injuries. The pack has been vigorous, but sometimes slow at heeling from the tight and by no mea ns of one mind in the loose. One matter calls for attention- the kicking needs to be improved, both place-kicking and punting. The backs too seldom attempt the kick ahead or the cross-kick, and the insides have often been guilty either of being brought down with the ball or of passing to the wing when he was already close-marked . Still, on the whole, the season has not been too bad, and there is the feeling that ru gger is coming back" into the blood ". Of the present fifteen, the two halves, one three-quarter and possible three forward s should be available next yea r. It is to be hoped that we shall find good material for the nine or ten vacancies in tbe course of the Lent Term. The fifteen in most matches was :- A. F. Cray, R. M. Butler (Captain), W. H. Foxwell , D . L. Quested, E. C. Butcher, J. H. Pegg, J. L. Forsey, B. L. Leary, A. G . Bartlett, J. W. Allison, J. R. Allchurch, l. M. Osborn, R. C. Wenban, R. C. Routh and A. F. Nor man. The final fifteen was the same, except D. H . Maybury-Lewis returned to wing three-quarter in place of Butcher. 19

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T he following were awarded First Colours :-R. M. Butler, W. H. Foxwell, D. L. Quested, J. H. Pegg, J. L. Forsey, B. L. Leary, A. G. Bartlett, J. W. Allison, J. R . Allchurch, r. M. Osborn, R. C. Wenban and D. H. Maybury-Lewis. . The following were awarded Second Colours :-A. F. Norman, R. C. Routh, P. G. S. Ellis, C. G. S: Paterso n, P. H. Lee, R. E. A. Greenslade, M. E. K. Withers, H. J. de Va il, P. R. B. LewIS a nd M. J. S. No rma n. 1ST XV MATC HES

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beyo nd the Canterbury" 25 ", beat several men to score a try in the corner. The kick failed . Again the School returned to the attack and in the last two minutes scored from an almost" copy book " three-quarter movement from scrum half to left-wing. The kick was missed and the whi stle blew with the score 6-6 . King's School, Canterbury 6, Canterbury R.F.C. 6. K ING 'S SCHOOL, CANTBRB URY " SUTTON VALBNCE SCHOOL October 29th This match was of a fa r poorer standard than usua l, and play was extremely scrappy. Sutton Valence scored fi rst, but the School reta liated with a try by Quested. In the second half the School, playing without Foxwell, found weak spots in the Sutton defence which were not fu ll y exploited. Quested scored again , and a try resulted from the work of the scrum. The School lacked aggression in the ga me, and should ha ve enlarged their score, which was fina ll y 11-8, even though we had only 14 men for most of the game. Kin g's School, Canterbury II , Sutton Va lence 8. KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v PUBI.IC SCHOOL W ANDERBRS November 2nd The Wanderers brought down a strong team, with a heavy pack. Play was very close in the first half with the Kin g's defence keeping out several Wanderers' threequarter movements. The School heeled the ball well and our backs attacked with more aggression than usual. There was no score at half-time, but shortly after the changeover Maybury- Lewis scored from a run down the wing. Bartlett converted. The School continued to attack, and was continually in the Wanderers' .. 25 ". The final score was 15- 5 in the School's favour. King's School, Canterbury 15, Public School Wanderers 5. November 9th KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v MILL HILL SCHOOL Five regular members of the team were absent through injuries in previous matches, and this loss included the hooker. Play was close in the first half of the game, with the School attacking frequently a nd only failing to score by reason of the hard tackling of the defence. There had been no score at half-time. In the second half, tackling became more difficult for the pitch was very soft and offered no support to the defence, and it was hard to use the ground as a footing to change direction at speed . A long kick to touch by Butler brough t the School back to the Mill Hill " 25 ", and shortly after Bartlett missed a penalty kick which was awa rded against a Mill Hill forwa rd . The game now centred on the mid-field region, and was very hard and keen on both sides. From a set scrum the Mill Hill backs broke through and scored. The tackling of the two centres, Butcher and Quested, was consistently good throughout the match, but they failed to use the" kick-ahead " method which would have been' invaluable. The forwards played hard, but were lighter than their opponents and were consequently not able to heel the ball regularly from the scrum. King's School, Canterbury 0, Mi ll Hill 5, 21

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KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v FBLSTBD SCHOOL November 16th Felsted broullht down a strong and heavy scrum, but tbeir three-quarters, with the exceptIOn of the ngh t-wing, were less formidable . In the first few minutes ha rd tackling by the Kin g's backs checked several Felsted movements, and as the Schbol scrum was out-weighed, there were few chances of good three-quarter moves. The Felsted rightwmg scored after a clever run, beating several men in his attempt. King's continued to fi ght back and the score was still low at half-time. In the second half the Felsted forward s asserted their weight superiority and scored several trjes from loos~ rushes and quick heels. The tackling of the fo rwards on the King 's side was bad, and there were freq uent allem"ts to bnng opponents down by neck-high tackles. Towards the end of the ga me, a qlllck heel by the King 's hooker ga ve the backs a perfect opportunity to score, and Quested, In the centre, made a strong run to score near the corner-flag. The fina l score was 20 points to 3 in favour of Felsted. Kin g's School, Ca nterbury 3, Fel sted School 20. KING 'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v HURSTPIBRPOINT COLLBGE Novem ber 23rd The College sta rted well , but found more than a match in the Kin g's forward s who gained possession in the set scrums frequentl y. The School attacked stron gly and ;"any loose rushes and three-quarter movements were sto pped near the College line. Quested scored from a good mo vement, beatlllg several men to touch-down in the left corner of the fiel d. Just before half-time, the King's forwards pusbed their opponents over the hne with the ball at their feet, and Osborn fell on the ball to gain a second try. In the second half the School carned on the attack, a lthough at one time there was ra gged play l,n the scrum. Dunng thiS time the College backs cut through in the centre of the KlIlg s defence a nd scored. The School scrum regained its superiority, and a try was scored from a magmficent fo r ward rush which took the ball from our own line to the College goa l, and in which every fo rward p layed his part. F urther tries were added by Butler, Quested and Pegg, none of which were converted. K ing's School, Canterbury 18, Hurstpierpoint College 3. K ING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY" DOVER COLLEGE November 26th . The ma t~h showed hard and determined play by botb sides. King 's played with the wllld I n the first ha lf, but did not use this advantage by kicking ahead enough . The School attacked first, but were pushed off the ball in the scrum. Hard tackling and qll'ck falllllg kept the Dover forwards out, but. on one occasion a try resulted from a loose rush at their feet. Kin g's played harder after this, but it was not until Dover had scored aga m from a rather ragged th ree-quarter move that a change came over the School pack. Every forward exerted himself and by sheer determination gave the backs plenty of service. From one of those qu ick heels, Quested took a scissor-pass from Pegg and ran n ght through the defen ce to score beneat h the posts. Bartlett converted. . After half-time ,it was largely a for wards ' battle, a nd both sides were playing their ha rdest. The Kmg. s pack pushed their opponents over the line from a five-yard scrum to score agam. Wtth the score 8- 6 tn our favo ur the rest of the game was a grim struggle. King's Schoo l, Canterbu ry 8, Dover College 6. 22

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KI NG 'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY I' ST. LAWRENCE COLLEGE, RAMSGATE Dec. 7 Played on a cold day after very heavy rai n. The middle of B1 0re 's soon became a quagmire. We were heavier forward alld faster at back than the St. Lawrence XV. The sticky ground made turning difficult and the ball became very greasy. Notwithsta nding this, our backs were fast and ve ry safe in handling. On a dry ground the score would have been very heavy. We scored 10 tries-only three of which were convertedand a penalty. K.S.C. 39; Sr. LEw rence College 3. 1ST XV CHARACT ERS R. M. BUTLER- Freq uent injuries to his team have made his work as Captain difficult, but . he has usua ll y beell a ble to turn outÂˇ a fair side. Hi s best position is on the wi ng, whe re he shows determin ation and speed.

A weakness is a tendency to go

down fighting when a kick or a pass wo uld keep the attack going. His defence is sure. W. M. FOXwELL- He has been handicapped by injuries and has had to mi ss several ga mes. ., When fit he is a natural footba ller, is quick off the mark, times his passes well, and . IS good in defence. . D . H. MAYBURy-LEW Is-H e has onl y been able to play in a few ga mes. As a willg or centre he is a strong runner with a disconcerting body swerve. His defence has improved, thou gh his kicking is sti ll labo ured. B. L. LEARy-He has hooked consistently well all the season, and is often to the front in loose rushes. He leads the pack well , but is apt to dela y the quick heel from loose serums. A. G. BARTLETT-A promising second row forward. He binds and pushes in the tight, uses bis height in the line-out, a nd has good ball control in loose rushes. In defence he tackles and falls effeCtively. With stead iness alld ca refu l practice he should develop into a sure place-kicker. J. W. ALLISON-A li vely, robust wing forward , who pushes in the tight a lld is a lways on the ball in the loose. He is at his best in quick breakaways from the scrum. Should ma ke a good leader. J . R. ALLCHURCH- Allother lively lYing fo rward who does his share in the tight and backs up intelligentl y, both in attack and defence. He is quick to rail 011 the ball. .,. H. PEGG-He started as centre, but bas now. moved up to fly-half. Here he has improved rapidly, has the safest of hands, gets his threes moving, and occasionally goes tbrough with a stron g burst. His tackling ha s been fairly sure, and his kicking good. 1. M. OSBORN-As second row forward he binds and pushes well, a nd is always in the thick of the loose scrums. His defence is sound, and in a ttack he has speed and useful hands . D. L. QUESTED- He was a bit slow to develop his best for m, but in later matches has shown tbat he has the makings of a good centre. He runs very strongly, a nd is quick to swerve through the smallest gap in the defence. His tackling, too, has improved. J. L. FORSEy- He is a natura l foo tballer, who is developing into a very good scrum-half. He throws out a quick long pass, and uses the occasional breakaway to good effect. In defence he falls on the ball and tackles fearlessly.

THE CANTUARIAN R. C. WENBA N-Is a forward who gets through a lot of hard work-often unspectacular. but extremely useful. He packs well, is always on the ball in the loose, and has a very sure tackle. R. H. RouTH- A good sound scrummager who uses his weight in the tight and his height in the line-out. Is usually in the thick of tbe fray in the loose. A. F. NORMAN- Another strong front row forward. When he learns to control his strength, and to useit efficiently in the loose he will be ve ry useful. At the moment his best work is in the line-out, where he jumps well and takes the ball cleanly. ' A. F. CRAy- He started the season as a " three ", and was then moved to fu ll-back. As full-back he has impro ved and in later games has shown safe hands, a good

tackle and a sure kick to touch. He has the speed to open up the game when opportunity occurs. E. C. BUTCHER- Is a very useful footballer who can play anywhere in the back division . He uses the side-step and dummy to pierce the defence, but sometimes spoils good work by mis-timing the final pass. Kicks well, and ca n at times tackle effectively.

THE COLTS' XV The Colts have had a successful season. They won two out of their three matches. Unfortunately two matches against Dover College were cancelled. The first match was played against Chatham House, at Ramsgate. The Colts won after a fierce serum battle on a wet pitch. Webb ii touched down after a very fine solo run, the scrum scoring the remaining six points. The final score was 9 points to 3 points. 0

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A week latet the team met Felsted. The Colts lost a very keenly contested game. The Colts' backs were very inferior to those of Felstedo The third 'match was a game in deep mud with a steady drizzle of rain against St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate. The Colts won by 14 points to nil. Campbell on the WlOg played well and scored twice, and the scrum made up the remaining six points. The following were awarded their Colts' Colours :--Davidson, Buswell, Watt, Webb ii, Campbell, Batten, Webb i, Forbes and Ellis ii. HOUSE MATCHES Walpole 3 Meister Omers 0

L J Walpole 0 o Grange "6 School House 17 Luxmoore 0

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We started the term ha ving lost five members of the old team, while three other poten tial members were commandeered by the 1st xv. However, we did manage to

collect an eight together, but unfortunately we were only able to shoot off three of our six fixtures, owing to bad weather conditions. The results of the three matches were as follows :King's, Canterbury 498 v Sutton Valence 628. Lost. King 's Canterbury 577 v Eton 600. Lost. King 's, Ca nterbury 561 v Bedford 549. Won. Top scorer of the term was P. Brown, who totalled 83 out of 85 in the Eton match, while the team total in that match constitutes a School record.

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Like tencing and other things, boxing became a lost art from 1939 We had not the slightest means of keeping it going during evacuation. Consequently it has had to be built up from scratch. It is, therefore, to the credit of the Instructor, the Captain (I. M. Osborn) and Sergeant Marshall that the noble science is again well in its feet. •

The finals-were fought on Tuesday, December 3rd. Grange won the Cup and the rest of the order was: Meister Omers, School House, Luxmoore, Wa lpole. By the kindness of the Colonel Commandant of the Roya l Marines, Dea l, Officers and Instructors came to referee and judge the finals. What was also of immense value was a series of demonstration bouts by the R.M. Sergeant-Instructor of Boxing and Cpl. Andrews, the R.M. Heavyweight. They showed the packed audience exactly what • to do and what not to do. Many of the bouts in the final s revealed a considerable amount of talent and thi s augurs well for the future.

MUSIC There has been a good deal this term. The programme included a Harpsichord Recital oby John Ticehurst, a Clarinet Recital by Frederick Thurston, and a splendid recital by Kathleen Ferrier, while we still have the pleasure to come of a visit of George Baker and Olive Groves. The School itself put up a first-class concert on November 24th, and tbe Carol Service on December 16th bids fair to reach a higb level. The Editors regretothat this bald statement is all they can produce: their musical expertco-opted for this purpose-has omitted to furnish any material. 25

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K.S. "LITILE ELEVEN" CRICKET CLUB . The Headmaster recently came into possession of a three-page pamphlet thus enlitled:" There is no date on it, but it "feels" about 1870. He would much like any information that O.K .S. can give. The pamphlet runs as follows :RULES I.- Members shall be elected at any duly convened meeting of the Club, or on the afternoon appomted for score, before the beginning of the game. A majority of votes shall decide the election . 2.- The Subscription shall be si'xpence each term, and shall be pa id in advance. Special subscri ptions fo r particular objects may be raised by a majority of votes at any

duly convened meeting. 3.- The Captain shall be chosen each term by the majority of votes. He shall act as' Secretary ' to the Club; he shall direct' and manage the proceedings of the ga mes, and shall be strictl y obeyed in all its arrangements. Any Member wilfully or repeated ly dlsobeymg hun shal r be turned out of the game, and on repeating the offence at a future game shall be liable to be expelled the Club by a majority of vo tes. He shall appoint a substitute when prevented attending by unavoidable circumstances. 4.- The Members shall meet weekly during the season on Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of score, at 2.30 p.m., and the stumps shall be drawn at 5.30 p.m. A fine of a halfpenny shall be paid to the funds of the Club by each Member who does not attend on the appointed afternoon, provided he can not give a reason for his absence

: that shall be deemed satisfactory by the Captain. Any general business of the Club may be transacted on the afternoon appointed for score, before the game begi ns. All votes for Members or Captain shall be taken by ballot. 5.- Any number of Members, not less than four, may meet for practtce and use th e

Club property, for which they will be held respo nsible; the game however shall always be open to other Members. 6.- The number of Members in the Cl ub shall not exceed 16. RULES OF SCORE The Score shall be taken on Batting, Bowling, and Fielding, thus: I.-BATTING. The Batsman shall score all runs obtained off his own bat. Two shall be deducted from his score if he is out by L eg beJore wicket, by striking his wicket ' or by striking ball on wicket. 2.- BoWLINC!. The Bowler. shall score Jour for every wicket struck by his bowling ; two for every malden over prOVided there has not been a wide ball, or a " no ball " in

the over. Every wide baH above Iwo in an over, and every" 110 baJJ " above one shall be scored against the Bowler. 3.-FIELDING. A Fielder shall score Jour for every wicket taken by his own hands. Two for a wicket taken conjointly with another Fielder. One for every ball stopped fairly and fully without a second run being obtained. Every run or bye that is obtained by his muddling the ball , or letting it pass within a yard of him, shall be scored agai nst the Fielder.-The Bowler shall score as Fielder when Fielding. â&#x20AC;˘ The Captain shall decide all questions of score when there is no Umpire to do so,

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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN MITCHINSON In' the August number of The Gantuarian, we printed the first chapter of the Autobiography of Bishop John Mitchinson, D. C.L. , Headmaster of The King's School from 1859 to 1873. The fifth chapter, which we now print for the first time, tells the story of Bishop Mitchinson's Headmastership. The first part is in the Bishop's own . words; the second was wri tten by his friend and biographer, E. D. Rendall, O.K.S. It has been suggested that the Bishop's Autobiography should be published in book form , either complete or abridged, and the Editors· would be glad to receive advice from readers on the subject, since it will be impossible to publish further instalments in The Cantuarian.

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THE REMINISCENCES OF DR. MITCHINSON

[By . his appoilltrnelll 10 King's School, Canterbury, Bishop John Mitchinson was returning to Ihe same atmosphere which he had enjoyed in his boyhood. At Canterbury,

as ill Durham in old days, the school bui/dings stood close under the shadow of the Cathedral. The Scholars oj the School, as members oj the Joundation, sat ill surplices in the Choir at morning and afternoon service all Sunday,' the Dean and Chapter were

the School Governors, alld the Archbishop its Visitor. The cOllllection with the Cathedral g-ave the school a special character. It is not only that a large percelltage oj the boys, as at D.urham, took H oly Orders, but the special association with antiquity in its most gracious form coloured school life to a greater extent than the boys were perhaps aware. The Killg's Schoo l claims to be the oldest school oj its kind ill Ellglalld: it can pOilll to a

long and illustrious roll oj scholars;

but it is the Cathedral which gives it a reputation

greater 'than its moderate Ilwnbers might seem to justify, and secures for it a peculiar love

and admiration among its old boys. . The school makes use oj two courts in the Cathedral precincts. The first, the Mint Yard , is almost entirely surrounded by new f lillt-Jaced school bui/dings; two fine trees, . and all ancient gateway, call ollly palliate its severely model'll. plainness.

The second,

the Green Court, is the most beautiful part oj the Precincts. Some oj the school bui/dings are there, and it. is used by the school Jor such games as are possible in a confined space. On the South side lies the Cathedral in Jull view, its lines brokell by all admirable disorder of Chapter House, green trees , and monastic ruins ill the fore-ground.

The earlier between

the Deanery and Cathedral is occupied by all ancient gateway called the Dark Entry, which leads to the other side oj the Precincts. This passage is reputed haullted by the ghost oj one Nell Cook, and on dark nights of October alld November, when gusts came roaring round Becket's Crown, and tore through the narrow way with redoubled violence, wh ile broken patches of moonlight lay here and there on the pavement, a certain small"boy on

his way to lessolls with Mr. JOlles, the Cathedral Orgallist, used to run like a hare till its perils were past. But that was in the wild weather. Onfine summer days the Green Court was a walled garden of ancient peace-a true paradise. In the early morning when we took

our books out to study Virgil, or at mid-day whell it resounded with the click oj the bat at the nets, or ill the evening when the rooks were sleepily cawing their vespers, the Green

Court "'as to be seell in its Jull beauty. And yet that was not the point oj view from which John MitchillSOIl regarded the school on his arrival at Canterbury in 1859 .- E.D.R.J 27

tBE CANTUARIAN When I went down to see the King's School I can tell you my heart sank within ll.'e; anything more inconceivably squalid can hardly be imagined. The Mint Yard site of the school buildings was occupied then' by three houses; one occupied by the Orgamst, Jones, another by. a strange minor canon Kearney, Master of the special department in the King's School, the third by the Headmaster. There were twelve boarders, I think, lodged how they best could be. Wallace, my predecessor had not attempted to raise the numbers-he could not with such accommodation ;' but had c~ll1tented himself with a day school, the numbers of which had sunk to between fifty and Slxty when I came there. The scholarship fund was practically wasted in paying the gre~ter part of thelr fees. He endeavoured to advertise the school by elaborate prizeglvmgs, held III the Chapter House (of which the tradition remains to this day). But in spite of all his efforts, the entrance had diminished, and I saw that the school could not ex~ect to attain a really satisfactory position, until I had accomplished the two tasks which lay before me, the one to rearrange the scholarship conditions, the other to get proper bmldings provided. I was twenty-five, young, and enthusiastic, and I succeeded in accomplishing them. My school scheme might never have been adopted had it not been for the example of Rochester King's School persistently held up before the Cathedral Chapter. There Whiston, the Headmaster, after a prolonged struggle with the authorities, had gained his own way. . Eventually, I arranged that there should be ten senior scholars at thirty pounds fifteen juniors at fiftcen guinea~, and thirty probationers at a price of ÂŁ10 16s. 3d., which paid the school fees only. TIllS latter would serve any day-boy purposes, and the higher rewat:ds ~11ight attract boarders to the school if it proved successful. In a very short tune It did so prove and the numbers increased. As for the new school buildings into which we entered in 1863, the Chapter rose to the occasion, and provided enough money to enable the Cathedral architect to build the present school, which in its original form was decent and practical, if not beautiful or luxurious. But with that their liberality ceased. For other perpetually recurring demands, they, like most corporate bodies, had no funds to spare. Old Stonc, the treasurer, had a reputation for stinginess founded on a sour wrinkled face. But he was in no way worse than the others; stately Dean Alford, "Tubby" Robertson, the courtly Bishop of Dovel', or Archdeacon Harrison, except that he held the bag and had therefore the disagreeable duty of saying no. The Chapter felt that we had had enough. As Robertson once said to me, "You know, Headmaster, we do not wish the Cathedral to exist as an appanage of the King's School!" So when w~ had got our new scholarships and buildings, we were left to work out our own salvatIOn.

. Those days wei:e the days of the extraordinary rise of Uppingham School, under and to UpPlllgham I Journeyed to take counsel on the arrangement of my own bUlldmgs. The great man was much flattered by the application' here at last was an unbiassed recognition of his place as prophet in matters education~l. For in all he said or did there was instinct, a claim to speak with authority, which was his greatest asset. When he talked, and he talked much, one seemed to heal' the preface: "Thus saith the Lord '." before the~e weighty dicta. However, he gave me willingly of his wisdom and expenence. To hun lowed the arrangement of curtained cubicles which to this day distinguishes the Cantcrbury dormitories. ' When all was done, he came down and preached for me in the Cathedral at the opening service. On the way to the Cathedral, I offered some remarks as to the way of Th!,l~g,

THE CANTUARIAN making oneself heard there, but he rejected advice, saying he was audible anywhere. As far as I was concerned the sermon consisted of a series of short barks, which were to me entirely unintelligible. But the text I heard, and it raised a smile in many parts of the Cathedral. It was, "The number of the names was 120 "-a curious coincidence, for that happened to be the precise number of the school at that moment. But even if I had heard his sermon, I doubt if I should have understood much of it. He lllvariably talked a kind of shibboleth all his own about" True life and power ", which I could not follow. He always spoke as one having authority, and was dictatorial in the enforcement of his splendid prejudices, but for all the questioning with which I am bound to say my critical mind received his prophetic pose, I liked him much, for he was a good fellow and his genial bonhomie helped to disperse the vapours WhlCh hiS teaching sometimes created. He was also good enough to say of me, "You are the only honest man I evcr met in the profession, you came and picked my brains, but have openly and freely at all times acknowledged the obligation ". And this was not our only public 'Co-operation, for in 13- I wrote to Thring suggesting a meeting of Headmasters at the Freemasons' Tavern in London to consider the Endowed Schools' Act. He took the matter up warmly; the meeting took place. Several headmasters responded to my invitation, and it was suggested that the meeting should become annual, Thring inviting all present to Uppingham for the first meetmg. All this is duly detailed in his published diary, and I think that if I may fairly claim to have laid the egg, which developed into the prcsent Headmasters' Conference, Thring did all the clucking necessary. But to return to the King's School. I had other difficulties in those early days besides those of merely raising the school numbers. Discipline was by no means in a good state: both parents and boys had to learn their responsibilities towards the King's School. Soon after my advent an officer of the garrison wrote to me exprcssing his intention of taking his son to the races. I not unnaturally refused leave, but the boy set me at defiance, and did not put in an appearance on the day in question. Whereupon I sentenced him to a caning. Then he said that his parents would not allow him to be caned, so I had to get rid of him incontinently. Another day boy whom I had caned summoned me before the magistrates for assault, and to the Guildhall I had to go, but the case was laughed out of court. As I came out, I met the Sixth Form, who conducted me to a cab, in which they dragged me back in triumph to the school. The fuss which the case caused did me more good than harm; for in the competition for the Headmastership of Charterhouse, for which I was a candidate, the boys, I heard, were in my favour. When it came to a final struggle between the two non-Carthusians, Haig Brown and myself, the action of my Sixth Form commended me to their boyish instincts. Fortunately for Charterhouse, Haig Brown was preferred. I should never have had the imagination and obstinacy necessary to propose and carry through the removal of the school into the country in the face of such opposition. Shortly after my arrival, I took priest's orders, and my connection with the Cathedral caused me to be invited to preach there from time to time. I delighted in the opportunity which these invitations gave me, and took the utmost pains with my sermons.* ÂťHIS clear voice was Olle of the few that was always audible in the great building; jnd~ed to my boyish ear there was something menacing in its trumpet shrillness, He was afterwards appomted one of the seven preachers and eventually Honorary Canon of the Cathedral. It is strange to .hear that as Headmaster he had a long and rather bitter controversy with the Precentor about their Cathedral precedence; an incident which recalls to our minds his boyish love o~ ecclesiastical pomp and circumstance, He lost his point, however, and the Precentor went in proceSSIOn before the Headmaster of the King's School, a fact which, however, in no way disturbed their personal friendship, or prevented his doing his utmost for his sons, when they came under IllS hands in the King's Scl1ool.-E,D.R. 29

THE CANTUARIAN The only members of my Staff whom I inherited from the old regime were the second master, Anby Beatson (the brother of Beatson's Iambics), who stopped one term t.o see me in, and M. Martinet (" Mossae ", of whom more hereafter). Beatson I replaced with my school and collcge friend Lipscomb, a very able and elegant scholar. Other names, Fisher, Masters, Alcock, Blizzard, require no particular notice.

They did

not stay long, and my staff was eventually complcted by the appointment of R. G. Hodgson, who taught mathematics, and took charge of the games with great success;

R. G. Gordon, who was my lifelong friend, and H. W. Russell, a former pupil.· They formed a most loyal and efficient staff, and under their auspices the life of the King.'s School, as a boarding school, began, 1t has enjoyed ·ever since a steady tide of success. . The chief tradition which the connection with the Cathedral involved was attendance at the Cathedral services-too long and too frequent as I always held for young boys. The school went twice on Sunday, and once on every Saturday afternoon and Saint's day, in'term time. It was a heavy price to pay for our position, and caused me much

anxious thought. In spite of this plethora of services, I had rarcly any opportunity of talking to the school as a whole on religious subjects, as I burned to do regularly. It was this strong desire and the necessity of finding something for them to do on Sunday evenings that caused me to add to their church going yet anotHer service on Sunday evening in the I had bcen in the habit of reading to them Hook's Lil'es of" the Archbishops Qf Canterbury from eight to nine every Sunday evening, but this funciion I knew

large school room.

was far from popular.

I got on very well with Dean Alford on the whole, but there was a certain assumption of importance in his behaviour, which often jarred me.

] remember there was a placard

suspended in his study to the effect that "when you call on a busy man, you should remember that he is a busy man, and having done your business leave promptly "-which I resented. Also there was a curious bitter strain in his nature, which came out in

unexpected waspish notes. I remember one such bolt from the blue which reminded me that "the Romans believe that God is on the altar, but we Protestants do not do so ; I therefore think you should take measures to prevent your boys bowing to the altar, as they leave the Cathedral, as you appear to have instructed them to do." I hastened to explain that I had given no such orders, and that the movement in question was involuntary, and due to a step in the pavement, as they mounted the Choir. I forget whether he admitted the justice of my explanation. § 2.

IMPRESSIONS OF DR. MITCHlNSON

Hitherto Bishop Mitehinson has spoken for himself. It is time to reverse the picture, and show him as a schoolboy saw him, who entered the school in 1870 towards the end of his headmastership. The experience of a first morning at school remains dear in the memory of most

schoolboys, and it is as he entered the schoolroom on that eventful morning that I seem to see him clearest. A small figure in clerical black, with the plainest flat face imaginable, he radiated energy on every side. The strong springy walk, the flying tails, the quick eye that took in everything, and the sharp voice with its harsh Durham accent, which sent

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THE CANTUARIAN effect made an unforgettable impression upon my mind. The school, which had been lounging and chattering a moment before, pulled itself together, 路and waited in tense . automatic silence while he advanced to his throne to路say prayers. Undoubtedly, John Mitchinson ruled by fear. He never looked askance at the rod, or held back his hand for our tears. The life of a lazy boy at the King's School should be no bed of roses, if he could help it, and indeed, it was a progress from one thrashing to another. The practice is so opposed to the spirit of modern education, that there will be many hands raised in horror at the recital of these "peines fortes et dUfes "

inflicted upon tender children, even now when the good that he did is open for everyone to see. But the fact meets us so constantly when we survey John Mitchinson's school work, that it is necessary to state it once for all and have done with it, He was no sentimentalist, and determined to make us work.路 With that object he smacked us, caned us, and even flogged us on occasion without pity. John Mitchinson had many of the qualities路 of a saint, and as in many of that kind there was a vein of hardness in his disposition. He never spared himself, and therefore saw no reason why he should spare others. He set great value on the observance of law, and law involves punishment. The Durham tradition of Elder, which he inheritcd, had been severe. Physical pain was to him a small thing, when brought into comparison with sin, and therefore he had no scruples in inflicting it. As for his discursive habit of teaching, it might be condemned by the modern schoolmaster as old-fashioned pedantry, but one of his best pupils said that he had got information on many occasions of the kind which had been of the greatest use to him, and he didn't know how he could have acquired it in any other way. Of course, younger boys used it for their own purposcs, and these stolen moments were doubly sweet because they were so perilous. At any moment he might cry out: "Here am I making an old fool of myself talking to a lot of mischievous boys instead of making them work ". John was a great believer in learning by heart, and sometimes on these mornings we were called upon to say certain things we were all expected to know; the dates of the Kings of England, the" genders" of Latin nouns (the old-fashioned rhyme), the Ladn Syntax, instead of the usual week's work. 1 imagine not without due notice, but 1 cannot remember any. As a part of school routine the forms had Sunday repetition to sayan Monday morning: the bottom forms the Gospel of the week; the fourth, the Epistle; and the fifths the articles of religion. Besides this, every boy was obliged to say the four books of Horace\; Odes before he was allowed to enter the Sixth Form. No boy was allowed to plead inability to learn by heart. I think he enjoyed the privilege of a fine memory himself, and was therefore determined that we should all as far as possible share it. But his investigation into our industry did not end with" week's work ". Boys who were renowned as idle, he often made special pupils of his own. They had to meet him in summer at six in the morning, and say their lessons to him first, and pay the penalty at once for any inadequate preparation. It was a Spartan discipline, but the result was that we worked hard, and the School produced fine scholars,

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portion to its size than most schools at that time. Enough has been said on this rather disagreeable subject; so much it was necessary to say at once, because in common report his unrelenting school methods have made some people forget his other n,?ble qualities. The severity of his discipline, mistaken as it may seem to the present generatIOn, was not his real claim to be a great schoolmaster. It lies in the fact that he sought to interest us not only in our classical curriculum, but in things outside it, and so awake our intellects to the wider world beyond. He was a pioneer in scientific teaching, 31

THE CANTUARIAN especially that of natural history.* If he ruled by fear, because he thought it well that boys in certain matters should be so ruled he practised the ministry of love as well. Of the hours, and they were many, which even a junior boy spent in his company, those which have left the most vivid memories behind, were those in which he exercised the sovereign power which he possessed of enthusiastic stimulus, making us love the good things of the world about us, because he loved them so much himself. As a worker, he was untiring. He would often begin the day as stated at six 0 'clock, and at seven give a scientific lecture to all who chose to come. It was generally on some natural history subject, for the study of which he had got together a small museum, and I believe that Canterbury was one of the first schools to start teaching of the kind. This lasted till breakfast at eight. After breakfast he looked through all the impositions which had been set in the school; all of them had to be shown up to him the day before. The Masters filed the punishments, and the Headmaster looked through the results, and saw that they corresponded with the file. He thus became aware if impositions were improperly done, and. what boys were in trouble. "It is a bad time for some of my young friends, when I am putting on my boots ", he used to say-and it was. At nine he was in school, where he was teaching most of the day. He did nearly all the Sixth Form work himself in the little class room, which was the only regular class room we had, and pervaded the school generally. Besides.this, late in the afternoon in autumn when it was too dark and wet to go out, he used often to read to us till tea-time. In that way I heard Alice through the Looking-glass when it came out. tThere he sits still in my memory, his legs flung sideways over the chair arm, reading so clearly and merrily that the vivid tones of his voice constrained our attention. In all his pursuits he showed the same energy and activity of both mind and body, whether he were specimen hunting in the woods, teaching the choir for Sunday, leading the hounds in the first paper chase of the season (his only athletic performance), or bathing with us down by the Black Bridge (in spite of the fact that he was stilI unable to swim), there was no doubt that mind dominated the smallness and insignificance of his body and made it strong. He had none of the timidities of dignity and made no compromise with convention. I remember his explaining to me that no one needed a' towel to bathe, because he had discovered that it was better to put your clothes on when wet, and walk yourself dry afterwards. "Much better and much safer, my young friend "-and what walks he used to take us ! I have spoken of the early morning scientific lectures. We should never have attended them, I fear, had it not been for the walks. Twenty odd miles through the Kentish woods and meadows, he used to go at a good round pace with eight or nine small boys tramping at his heels. So many things did he show us by the way that the day never seemed too long, though the evening found us all very foot-sore. And yet all through these golden hours, and gracious amenities, there ran a thread of bitterness. He never realised that chastisement was no joke to us, and often allowed himself a strain of humorous banter, which, seeing that it often meant trouble on the morrow, sometimes spoiled our enjoyment. Not always though! I remember his saying" I knew about this prose of yours all day yesterday, but I let you play on, my friend, unconscious." And he could be very kind. Ah, how kind! *He held First Class Honours in Natural Scienccs.-E.D.R. H I cannot think what you see in that book," said Dean Alford, H it has no mOfd1." I like it;" said John Mitchinson.

HJust why

THE CANTUARIAN Dr. Mitchinson was one of those men who devote themselves wholly and entirely to their business. He had no axes of his own to grind; no social or ecclesiastical ambitions. His object was to teach boys, and he construed the word education to mean something far beyond mere school routine. He tried in every way to enlarge our outlook upon tbe world about us. Mcntion has been made of his afternoon reading, his walks with us, and his informal talk in form, but that by no means finishes the list of his outside energies. For games to his everlasting regret he could do nothing; he took care to have Masters at the school who could; but in all other departments of our school life, his personality was dominant. In music, in the Debating Society, in literature, and the study of architecture his energy was our chief inspiration, and many King's School boys owe to him the tastes of a life-time. Of the other masters, it is not here the place to go into detail, but they were for the most part his most loyal and efficient assistants. One only, the ancient French Master (" Mossoo ", or the "Ship") was notorious as the butt of Illany boyish pranks. " He was an evil legacy from my predecessor ", said Dr. Mitchinson. "I could not get rid of him, for he was absolutely dependent for his livelihood on his small stipend, and certainly he was a great trouble to me. " . The museum room under the arches, which he used for a class room, was the scene of many unseemly interludes. A boy has been pulled backwards out of the low window with a rope, without further protest than, "That boy, what he doin'?" The seat of "Mossoo's" chair was cobbler's waxed with terribly successful result, the enraged Master rushing up to the Sixth Form. room to exhibit himself to the Headmaster. " Look what these boys have done." Above all, a pathetic scene comes back to the memory, when an impudent boy declared that he would " crop " " Mossoo ' , (cropping was a process of hair pulling, employed upon boys who had lately had their hair cut) and did it. The old man laboriously rose in indignation. "If I had been younger ~ you should not have done that ", and we laughed, I suppose. It is strange how cruel and ruthless boys can be when they have the opportunity of amusing themselves at the expense of an old man, as many such French Masters have found out. On one occasion when the ridicle to which he was subjected was more than he could bear, he made use of the long remembered phrase" My 'at is on my 'ead. I go 'ome ", and went. But fortuilately for everyone concerned, " Mossoo " left shortly after I went to the school, and the days of French Masters at Canterbury ended. Another memory is that day of wild excitement (Tuesday, September 3rd, 1872) when a boy burst into school crying" The Cathedral's on fire!". Down went our books and papers; desks and forms were violently upset, as thc whole school rushed out into the Green Court. Thcre they saw tongues of fire already biting holes in the ridge of the wooden roof, and blazing up higher at every breath of wind. The excited faces watched beam after beam crash into the furnace, while cataracts of molten lead fell with a hiss and a thud upon the green grass below. "They've telegraphed to Faversham and Ashford for steam fire-engines. They've sent to the barracks for soldiers. " Wild rumours passed from lip to lip. The Headmaster was at once to the fore. He called for volunteers, and organised the bigger boys to help with the fire engines on the other side of the Cathedral. But without steam engines nothing could be done. It was plain that the hand pumps could not lift water to that great height. Presently we saw soldiers climbing with hoses on to Âˇthe roofs of the side chapels, and hoisting up smaller engines to work by relays. All the morning long the battle raged, 33

THE CANTUARIAN until the whole roof from Bell Harry Tower to the Eastern Apse was ablaze, and the great beams winch supported the vane alone stood erect in the middle of the fire. At last they too fell with a mighty crash amid a shower of sparks, while the flames were seen mounting to heaven ev~n in the full light of midday. But the soldiers had cut a gap III the roof on the eastern sIde of the great central tower, and beyond this the fire never spread, so that by midday it had burned itself out without doing more damage than the destructIOn of the roof implied. Meanwhile, inside the Cathedral volunteers were at work, taking cverything of value out of the Choir into the Nave. It was a moment of wild cxeitement when men hardly realised what they were doing. One Master of the Kmg's School occupied himself in getting the Black Prince's armour down from his tomb. Another was seen hurling the great Prayer Books from the stalls into the centre aisle, while a S. Augustine's man was tearing the green baize lining from the inside of the pulpit. The altar rails were broken or removed, and the carpets torn up. Fortunately, as the event proved, all such precautions were entirely unnecessary. Not a stone of the Norman vaulting stirred, and beyond a little smoke and a few drops of lead which fell upon the mosaic which marks the place of Becket's tomb, nothing inside the Cathedral betrayed the effects of the terrible conflagration which was raging outside. In the afternoon, the choir, who had broken oif their morning anthem (Sleepers wqke, I believe it was) to escape, were singing Te Deum in a building which except for the mlssmg altar rails showed little signs of the morning's dangers. ยง 3. AN ASSESSMENT OF DR. MlTCHINSON Such was John, or "The Governor", as we called him, in his daily dealings with boys. It remain.s to speak of his teaching in deeper matters. There again he lay under a dIsadvantage, III that he was entirely unemotional by nature. There were occasions, โ ข such, for example, as his last sermon on leaving Canterbury, when it was plain to all that he was deeply moved, but such occasions were rare. His inner life philosophy beyo,:,d question was ~ntirely practical, and he lacked therefore the key which a power of emotIOnal sympathy gIves to the mystery of a boy's thoughts and feelings. His faith was stron~ in him; he ,,:,ould have his pupils accept what he himself believed. In preparatlO':' for confirmatIOn he expected a boy to know and undcrstand the principles of true rehglOn; he felt no doubt as to what they were. His appeal was to the intellect and he asked shrewd questions. If you could not answer them you were a fool. What h~ sought for was a Christianity of practical results, not of thought or feeling. The rule was J.Jlain enough: "If ye love God, keep His commandments." And indeed, that was l~lS own effectIVe creed: to be always doing some good, and not to be talking about It. Few lI1deed of the many good deeds that he did at Canterbury, outside the duties of hIS office~ were known to those about him, but now, looking back upon that time, It IS possIble to see something of them. A large number of the boys in the school he ta,ught and boarded free. Whether it was because they were the children of his old fne~ds, or boys of particular talent for whom a King's School education was desirable, ,?r SImply the SOliS of needy clergymen, his benevolence was always ready. It was this hberahty, no doubt, that kept him always a poor man, and it did not stop with gifts of m,:mey. He was unsparing of his labour too. When boys were going up for scholarshIps, and often when there was no such immediate need, he would teach them privately, and of course, gratuitously. In one case, at least, he told a boy that if he failed to get,a scholarshIp at one college, he would provide for him at another. This system of helping boys to an education, at any cost to himself, he persevered in, as we shall see, to his 34

THE CANTUARIAN life's end. And I do not think it was ever a matter of personal affection for special boys, which may be sometimes a source of danger when it is a Headmaster's habit, but simply an enthusiasm for education, and a desire that every boy should have a fair chance of obtaining it. Nor was this beneficence reserved for boys whose good behaviour might "ppear to make them deserving of it. He could never hear of a boy in trouble without being desirous of getting him on the right track again, at the cost of any trouble to himself. And to repe"t what has been already said, of one thing he was always most careful; that no one should be aware of these 'Lets of private generosity, very often, not even the boy himself. Of his other outstanding qualities, a Jesuit is said once to hav'e said to him: "You ought to be one of us, for in all things you fulii! our three great points of faith, courage and industry", and 1 think that he did John Mitchinson no more than justice in his saying. For if he lacked in some degree the high mystic and im"ginative qualities, which go to make the divine, he possessed a full measure of those manly virtues which are also necessary to the saint. The King's School of that time was a harder and rougher place than the modern public school; that must be allowed. 1 remember crudities of life and conduct which were, I think, impossible at Harrow, of which I had also personal experience. Of course, a model'll schoolmaster would say at once, "But what were the Sixth Form doing? Such indiscipline ought to have been impossible." John Mitchinson did his best in all his years at Canterbury to establish the IiOW familiar Sixth Form tradition. But the school as a boarding school was a new creation, and although the monitors had the power to â&#x20AC;˘. box offenders' ears ", as far as I remember, the organised exercise of authority was too new to be wholly successful. Much depended upon the individual monitor. Some monitors kept order in preparation well, but I think that some were too )lluch occupied with the maintenance of personal dignity to learn the true secret of unquestioned authority, as it is understood everywhere in modern public schools. Revolt against small Sixth Form boys was common. In a letter written to a boy who had left the school, John Mitchinson gives a vivid picture of an organised insurrection against them which closely preceded his departure. " A portentous row took place quite early in the term, and is so long a story that I cannot now do more than tell you the mere facts, There had been, as you know, a good deal of ill feeling among the "louts " of the middle and lower school, last half. Such affairs as C's upset, were apparently symptoms of a wider spread disorder than I believed, It now turns out that these gentry had done really a great deal of harm. To begin with, nearly all the choir deserted it at the beginning of the quarter: so, as I never throw pearls before swine, I gave notice after first sermon that the chapel services would be suspended till people seemed again to desire them, and that meanwhile we should return to Sunday Evening Lessons. This gave great offence, especially when the paper containing the scheme of lessons was put up in hall. " The actual outbreak of ' the strike', for that in a dim shadowy way these fellows thought was what they were after (as they really had got no grievance, nor even, when pressed, pretended that they had) arose in the shape of a piece of insubordinate rudenessnothing really more from C-to the monitor during , order time' (Preparation), backed up by his admirers. This K- (a big monitor) replied next morning by licking C-,

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. who was n~uch cheered and treated as a hero by a large following. Then riotous conduct broke ?ut!n good earnest, hissings of the monitors, singing of the Marseillaise, cheering of their nngleaders, cannonading the monitors' study door with missiles, etc., etc. For two or. three evenings this went on, and I forebore, thinking that the effervescence would subside, as soon as the event grew stale, and as soon as the extra ' order' that the moni~ors had imposed from 6;l to 7} should have ceased with the week. But on Saturday mornmg first, It came to h;sht that M- had absconded. He had been behaving atrocIOusly to MI'. Gordon, sll?ply refusmg to do anythmg, but there did not seem any adequate reason for Igs runnmg away. It came to my ears, however, on authority I could not doubt, that there was a wide-spread mutiny planned, and that measures had been and were being taken to victual the hall, and stand a siege. So I felt I could stand aloof no longer; so dismissing the day boys, I had all the boarders up in school, and th~n and there ~eld a court of enquiry, with all the assistant masters. The upshot of this was that thirty-five boys proved to be more or less implicated, ranging from the actual and avowed orgams~rs of the affaIr to the fools who shouted and sang-they knew not why. So we masters withdrew to the lIbrary and held a long and anxious deliberation as to how we should deal with the culprits. We dcbated from about twelve till two and after many hard fights over individual boys (Mr. C- and I had tremendous work the persuasion line to get the two R's reduced from delinquents of the first grade to the second) we agreed on the sentence. @ "That Saturday. evening, ho"!'ever, I took an opportunity (after my fashion) of hav1l111 a few.words With them all pnvately, and was glad to find that they. had quite come to a nght m1l1d, and saw what fools they had been. Several frankly and of their own acc~rd said how sorry they ,,!,ere for what they had done, and all cheerfully acknowledged the JustIce of the sentence stIllllnpend1l1g over them. So the quarrel was virtually made up that very evening, though the actual sentence remained to be cxecuted in detail However, I don't think they much minded that, and were thankful the thing was found out, and they were well out of it. "On the Sund~y morning I gc;>t by po~t my nomination to the Bishopric, as I bethought me that hke other sovereigns, I might make that thc excuse for a general amnesty, now that severe punishment had befallen the worst offenders. So with the consent of ~y coll~ag~es, I, the following morning had two pleasant announcements to make. Fust, Field s .electlOn to the Corpus Scholarship. Second, the general free pardon to all concerned 111 the late rebellIOn: so all the rest escaped their flogging and lines, and the result has been that as in the fairy tale, they all lived happily ever afterwards. " This letter shows how difficulties arose between the monitors and other boys, and ~as an~ther headmaster remarked~ came to ~ head in a way that ought to have been l~possl~le. Th~t represe'.1~s the view ofa mmd accustomed to our large public schools With their estabhshed traditIOn of authonty. Canterbury was entirely different. . ~ohn Mitchinson was right, I think, in letting the monitors try to establish their pOSitIOn for themselves, and when he felt obliged to act, showed his usual vigour. Whether such wholesale p~msh~ent coul~ do any good is another question. It was only ~dopted after consultatIOn With the entIre staff, and John Mitchinson himself was on the slde.of mercy .. It wa~ r:ecessary to establish the authority of the Sixth Form on an unquestIOned baSIS, aud It IS to be hoped that the result justified the vigorous means employed, and that the end of the affair was as the letter states.

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THE CANTUARIAN Allusion is made in this letter to the appointment as Bishop of Barbados, which dosed his King's School career. Three colonial bishoprics were offered to him in succession by the Atchbishop: Hong Kong, Mauritius and Barbados. The first he considered too intimately connected with missionary work, of which he had no experience; the second he could not take because he was absolutely impecunious, and a private income was indispensable; Barbados he accepted. No sooner had he done so than a new question arose. There was already in residence a coadjutor, Bishop Parry, who had been for some years assisting his father, the actual bishop. A strong party in the island, it was said, supported his claim to the reversion on the death of his father. A second' letter from the Archbishop spoke of the appointment lying" between" the two candidates. At this John Mitchinson's pride took fire at once. "Competition! I would have no competition. If it were not given me outright, I would withdraw. By return of post the definite appointment appeared, and I heard no more of the rival. As a matter of fact, when I got out to Barbados, Coadjutor Parry was as loyal and pleasant as could be, and did his best to help me in my new duties." And so John Mitchinson's work as a Headmaster ended. It may well be thought that he would have done better to remain at Canterbury. Doubtless before long he would have been appointed to some greater school. Education was his chief passion all his life long. Even after he had been. appointed bishop he never missed any opportunity of taking occasional teaching work when it came his way, or indeed, of finding it for himself when none offered. But then, as he often pointed out, he regarded teaching as the chief duty of the Church's pastors and masters, and did not intend that his enthusiasm should be limited or set aside in the wider and loftier sphere of work which he was entering. Rather did he think of his Saviour'S last command : "Go ye and teach all nations " as setting a still higher ideal of performance before him. As bishop he had no idea of relaxing the strenuous rule of detailed labour he had always kept before him. At Canterbury he had been a pioneer in organisation and teaching, at Barbados he would do his utmost to become the same. He had always looked upon himself as a reformer, and such he intended to remain. There was also in his heart, no doubt, still the boyish ambition, which made himÂˇ think of the position of bishop as the highest to which he could attain. His innate love of the Church and all her traditions made him desire of all things a leading position in her ranks, and this wish was sufficiently powerful to counterbalance the great regrets which he felt in leaving Canterbury, and the immediate society of boys, for whose control and enlightenment he could not help feeling that he was especially gifted. (Concluded)

THE CANTUARIAN THE SEVENTH DAY , I have been in the habit, this term, of spending my Sunday afternoons out on a certain marsh neai' Canterbury, where the acres of rough grass,' reed beds and lakes are haunted by an amazing variety of birds, This type of wild coul1try has always had a peculiar attraction for me, and I have found that these weekly' excursions, away from the mellowing precincts and enclosing town, have refreshed meso l11uch as to impart strength for the ensuing week of strenuous school activities; a strength that is born in the simple pleasure of these bird watching days, and in the eager anticipation of the nextexpedition, Jus;t as Byron found "a pleasure in the pathless woods", and "a rapture on the lonely shore ", so I have felt the wonderful healing power (hat the com)try has in store for those who have been wounded by the imprisonment of towns; ,I have been uplifted by the changelessness of this marshland; the regular habits of the waterfowl, undaunted by wind or weather, and the steady, calming atmosphere of the whole place, where time indeed stands, still. The duck I watched flighting to-night must have followed the same course that their forebears took when watched by the invading armies of Caesar, whose camp fires flickered along the summit of the slopes that now run down to the river; the river that was once the busy scene of ships passing to and fro, bringing the stone from Caen for the foundations of our ancient Cathedral. The great value of these explorations is, not' the exercise and healthy enjoyment that they afford, but the way in which they restore a proper sense of valucs to my mind, Cloistered in the school, and occupied with its many activities, my outlook is apt to become distorted, and it has been intensely refreshing to escape entirely from these norinal, every day surroundings, to realise that there is indeed a wider world than the walls of Canterbury; that within the sight of Bell Harry stretches an area teeming with wild life, where all the daily and nightly dramas of Nature are constantly being enacted; and that there is still an English countryside, impregnated with History and Romance, where the tired soul can find rest in the honest simple ways of the unspoiled works of the Creator. It is so much easier to carry out the tasks of school life, and appreciate its pleasures, when the mind has been invigorated by such an afternoon, than to live, out the whole term surrounded by the erections and ide,as of man, in blissful ignorance of the fundamental beauties that are waiting to refresh all those who seek after them. I 'risk being called an escapist, because I believe that this species of pleasure is not escapism, but merely a natural effort to retain a sense of proportion in every day life. DAWN IN SPRING Softly now the sunlight Over the mountain peers, Makes all the meadows bright And wipes away sweet Morning's tearsSilver tears of silver dew Shed on every morn anew, Now does everything awake And, laughing, itself betake To another day's delight After the warm and slumbrous night.

tHE CANTUARIAN TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF JOACHIM DU BELLAY If this our life be less than one short day In the Eternal; if the revolving year Snatches our days, and no appeal will hear, If all things born must perish and decay, What thinkest thou, my captive spirit, say'! Why dost thou hold this cloudy light so dear When, to transport thee to a home more clear, Thy shoulders do well-feathered wings display? There, there's that good which all men's souls desire, There is that peace to which all hearts aspire, There dwelleth Love, there still are Joy and Mirth, There, 0 my soul, to Heaven's high glory brought, Shalt find at last that which thou long hast sought, Beauty's (rue self" but shadowed here on earth.

WHO

WAS

JACOB

BRIDGE?

Very possibly a King's Scholar-there is a Jacob Bridge in the 1629 list of Scholars. But even if so, we know nothing more about him ex<:ept that there has come into the School's possession what may well have been his copybook: though it is possible that the manuscript may be that in which as a lawyer's clerk or an apprentice to some trade he practised handsome writing and ornamentation. Chance this summer put the book into the present writer's way for thirty shillings, and it is to be hoped the School Museum or Library will preserve it for another 300 years. The book is oblong, eight inches by six, and bears in decorative writing on the cover the title Jacob Bridge His book 1631, The cover is old parchment, cut from a legal conveyance of 1629, and there are 37 pages of copy, At the head of each page is the sentence to be copied, and Jacob does it about twelve times on each page. The sentiments vary-they are pious, sometimes prudential, sometimes business-like. Thus one page runs; "Haye thou ever in rel11embr~nce precepts of virtue Jacob Bridge", and this-as every other page-is guaranteed at the foot: "Written by me Jacob Bridge ", with the date of execution. "In all thy proceedings assure thyself that the Almighty seeth thee" is excellent advice but badly spaced-Âˇit is doubtful if the Writing Master or the Employer would have approved this copy of November 3rd, 1631. Study in the method of letter-writing is suggested by " Most reverent mother my duteous love remembered your worthy self these are to you", to copy which doubtless meant more to Jacob than it does to us, One copy shows a sense of delicate gradation of importance: "In which things I hope I shall please 39

THE CANTUARIAN GOD and you and lastly enable myself". Present generations of schoolboys might profitably con;ider Jacob's opinion that" Knowledge is the jewel of this life's happiness," and from another copy we might not unwarrantably deduce that Jacob was a schoolboy and had lately been in trouble with the Masters, as when he writes: "Preserve me o Lord from the hands of all that hate me " ! Certain pages contain nothing but practice in the art of writing letters of the alphabet and proper names-" Nathaniel, Olimpus, Quintus" are unexciting on one page, but another quickens the pulse, for we read " Hamlett ". It was to be hoped that above the date of November 5th some sentiments appropnate to Gundpowder Treason and Plot might appear, but Guy Fawkes seems not to have stirred our Jacob's feelings. There is a Latin page or two, as befits a King's Scholar, and an occaSIOnal rhyme, as: " Remember thy end before thou begin Remember death and fear to sin. " Perhaps he was in a lawyer's office-" This Indenture made the eighth day of November" is suggestive, but" Sometyme be thou merry and sometyme be thou sadd " smacks of the schoolboy, the ups and downs of school life, and the vagaries of Masters. So he goes on through November and December into 1632 and we open our eyes wide at Ol1e page-" We will and desire your company at our Pallas at Hampton Court". Did Jacob in that January get such a social lift-up ? Had he seen a Royal Invitation on somebody's table or chimney-piece? Or was he, boylike, playing at being King? Probably it was just another exercise, for as we get to the end it seems that Jacob's lot may have been humbler than even a lawyer's clerk: nine times on the penultimate page he asserts "Jacob Bridge of ye Cittie of Canterbury Cloathyer am contented to receive C C Ii " (i.e. ÂŁ200). The senior Bridge was then perhaps a worthy burgess of Canterbury, a Clothier, and son Jacob likely followed in father's footsteps. It is to be wished more were discoverable about the boy. There is something about the manuscript which suggests he was a good lad. Certainly he was no mean artist. No less than eighteen of the pages are headed by a delicate and delightful drawing of the initial letter. Conventional patterns lead to a boar's head-and a fierce one, too.; were there any in Blean Woods? Then comes a man's head-a rather seductlve-Iookmg fellow With a moustache; but he. becomes more pensive-looking as the pages go on, as he is developed first with a grandly curved pipe and then ever after with a sharp-pointed beard, and an air of " having no flies on him". There are rabbits, too, and foxes, and birds-wonderfully drawn creatures. Jacob would get a high mark to-day in Imaginative Drawing. Well, there is his book and we shall probably never know any more about its maker. Ten years later the wars broke out; which side did our Jacob take, King or Parliament? Indubitably the King's-the scent of that copy" We will and desire your company at our Pallas at Hampton Court" surely lingered in his nostrils. Did Jacob .see Charles Rex at his Pallas? Perhaps he was one of his faithful Guard? Anyhow, all decent King's Scholars to-day hope he got his heart's desire, whatever it was. F.J.S.

THE CANTUARIAN

"THE CATS

AND

RATS

AGAIN"

This is a manuscript in the Walpole Collection, written in purple ink by the author. A note in black ink runs: "This is to be printed for the Monthly Packet. C. M. Yonge ", and Lewis Carroll's name is written at the end of the MS. by Miss Yonge. For the sake of the younger generations the Editors think it well to mention that Lewis Carroll's real name was Charles Dodgson. He was at Rugby and Christ Church, and for many years was a distinguished Lecturer in Mathematics at Oxford. But he is known to us all as the author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, the Hunting oj the Snark, and so on. He was a grand humorist, and here we have a sample of his fun reminiscent of the problem in the Snark" Two added to one-if that could but be done", It said, "with one's fingers and thumbs! " As the Editors are uncertain whether this particular MS. has ever been printedand, if it has, it is not common-they have decided to produce it in The Cantuarian. Charlotte Yonge (1823-1901) was a popular novelist-a prolific writer-who edited The Monthly Packet from 1851 to 1898. THE CATS AND RATS AGAIN Bv LEWIS CARROLL " If 6 cats kill 6 rats in 6 minutes, how many will be needed to kill 100 rats in 50 minutes? "

This is a good example of a phenomenon that often occurs in working problems in Double Proportion: the answer looks all right at first, but, when we come to test it, we find that, owing to peculiar cireumstances in the case, the solution is either impossible or else indefinite and needing further data. The" peculiar circumstance", here, is that fractional cats or rats are excluded from consideration, and in consequence of this the solution is, as we shall see, il1c!efil1ite. The solution, by the ordinary rules of Double Proportion, is as follows :6 rats: 100 rats. }: : 6 cats: ans. 50 mmutes : 6 mlllutes ans

I Â°2.,-~Ji = 12.

But when we come to trace the history of this sanguinary scene through all its horrid details, we find that at the end of 48 minutes 96 rats are dead, and that there remain 4 live rats and 2 minutes to kill them in: the question is, can this be done? Now there are at least jour different ways in which the original feat, of 6 cats killing 6 rats in 6 minutes, may be achieved: for the sake of clearness, let us tabulate them :(A) All 6 cats are needed to kill a rat: and this they do in one minute, the other rats standing meekly by, waiting for their turn. (B) 3 cats are needed to kill a rat: and they do it in 2 minutes. (C) 2 cats are needed, and do it in 3 minutes. (D) Each cat kills a rat all by itself, and takes 6 minutes to do it. 41

THE CANTUARIAN In cases (A) and (B), it is clear that the 12 cats (who are assumed to come quite fresh from their 48 minutes of slaughter) can finish the affair in the required time: but in case (C), it can only be done by supposing that 2 cats could kill two-thirds of a rat in 2 minutes, and in case (D) by supposing that a cat could kill one-third of a rat in 2 minutes. Neither supposition is warranted by the data: nor could the fractional rats (even if endowed with equal vitality) be fairly assigned to the different cats. For my part, if 1. were a cat in case (D), and did not find my claws in good working ordcr, I should certainly prefer to have my one-third rat cut off from the tail-end. In cases (C) and (D), then, it is clear that we must provide extra cat-power. In case (C)! less than 2 extra cats would be of no use: if 2 were supplied, and if thcy began kIllmg their 4 rats at the beginning of the time, they would finish them in 12 minutes, and have 36 minutes to spare, during which they might weep, like Alexander, because there were not 12 more rats to kill. In case (D), one extra cat would sufficc: it would kill its 2 rats in 24 minutes, and have 24 minutes to spare, during which it could have killed another 4. But in neither case could any use be made of the last 2 minutes, except to half-kill rats-a barbarity we need not take into consideration. To sum up our results. If the 6 cats kill thc 6 rats by method (A) or (ll), the answer is " 12 ": if by method (C), " 14 ": if by method (D), " 13 ". . This, then, is an instance of a solution made ,', indefinite" by the circumstances of the case: if an instance of the" impossible" be desired, take the following. " lf a cat can kill a rat in a minute, how many would be needed to kill it in the thousandth part of a second? " The mathematical answer, of course, is "60,000": and no doubt less than this would not suffice: but would 60,000 suffice'! I doubt it very much. I fancy that at least 50,000 of the cats would never even see the rat, or have any idea of what was going on. Or take this. "If a cat can kill a nit in a minute, how long would it be killing 60,000 rats?" Ah, how long, indeed! My pt'ivate opinion is, that the rats would kill the cat. LEWIS CARROLL

SURNAMES Have you an interesting or an ordinary surname? Surnames can easily afford humorous scope for research. There were none before the Norman conquest and the common folk never got any till about 1300 A.D. Up to then they had only Christian or "baptismal" names, and to add to confusion the children might all be given the same name! The practice arose of using diminutives to distinguish them, so Will became different from Wilkin or Wilcox. Prefixes and suffixes were used, and Fitzpatrick was the son of Patrick, as Williamson was William's son. Surnames sprang also from occupations, nick-names, trades, beasts, from personal and mental characteristics; they all had meanings .. In the course of time many have suffered corruption, as is seen in the various ways of spelling Taylor, for instance-due to loose spelling, to dialect pronunciation and so forth, even to imperfection in speech like a lisp. Sometimes a Norman name is a translation of a Teutonic, as when Goodheart becomes Bunker (bon coeur), or they have been mixed, as in Redmain and Wightman. Terminations descriptive of places of habitation or occupation are frequent, as Ion, a 42

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town; IhOl1'e, a village-e.g. Milton, Winthorpe-and it must comfort people who have a prefix to bOltom to know that the word means a valley. Celtic influence has also been considerable, as for example in such prefixes as com (crooked), dun. (hill), kit or kill (a church 01' cell), and of course tbe immigration of Fleming and Huguenot artisans added largely to the stock of surnames. . With good fortune it should be possible for most people to get some idea of the origin and meamng of their surnames. Goldsmith is obvious; Nasmith, nail-maker, not quite so; tbe Woolmers, Weavers, Websters, Fullers and Tuckers were all connected with the wool industry; Miller, Milner, Baker, Baxter belonged to the production of bread. Tbe trades were fairly easy. Nicknames were in ancient days probably good-humoured, and the miser did not much object to being called Turnpenny nor " The man with the Twisted Legs" dislike Crookshanks overmuch, though Colfox-a nasty, tricksy fox--may Ijave been annoyed. Often tbe blessed hand of Time has rendered the original name quite unfitting to present owners. Have we not a1l known Mrs. Thin, a cook of enormous size; Mr. Short, a tall and meagre man; Mi', Stammers, who teaches elocution? Tom Hood was led to remark: " Mr. Penny, whose father was rolling in wealth, Kicked down all the fortune his dad won; Large Mr. Le Fever's the picture of health; Mr. Goodenough is but a bad one; Mr. Cruickshank stepped into three thousand a year By showing his leg to an heiress. Now I hope you'll acknowledge I've made it quite clear, Surnames ever go by contraries." It might amuse the younger readers of The Canluarian to adopt a new game these Christmas holidays; on a cold, severe night in front of a roaring fire (the Minister of Fuel permitting) to see how many surnames can be made out of such words as Thor, Mars, Sun, East, West, Wind, Spring, Day, Night, Mount, Iron, Copper, Bed, Ring, Shears, Wheel, Penny, Bee, and dozens of others. Even swear words have played their part; can the Fourth Form explain Pardoe, Pardie, or Bigot and Bagot? The famous Captain Blood derives from s 'Blood, as Mr. Death probably from s'Death--and we know what the bygone roistcrers meant by those ejaculations! Some authorities insist that even tbe names of diseases and physical frailties have played their part, though I cannot and will not believe that John Bunyan's ancestor suffered from bunions. Scripture, of course, provided many names-the abovesuggested game could be continued with Adam, Jacob, David, Samuel, Elias (he gives all the Alice and Eliot and Ellis tribes), Mary and so on. Less than 100 years ago there were four brothers called Pegdol1, and named Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; a fifth was born who was baptised" Acts-Apostles". Our neighbouring town of Faversham saw in 1874 another boy presented for confirmation with the baptismal name of " ActsApostles". Lastly, the colours, Black, Green, Brown, etc., played their considerable part. In the hope of providing further material for the Christmas game, an examination question might now be put, thus:-" Derive the following names and explain their category: Beauclerk, Boniface, Bullivant (bon enfant ?), Doolittle, Drinkwater, Freeman, Doughty, Golightly, Gabb, Goodale, Hurlstone, Lovelace, Masterman, Monypenny, Motley, Newcombe, Paget, Pennyfather, Pennyman, Prideaux (I'll tell yOll

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that one, Proud-eyes), Shorthouse, Tugwell, Turnbull, Co,;!rtenay, Fairbairn, Grossmith, Malpas, Pettifer, Thickness, Verity, Bairnsfathcl', GrandIson, 01dacre, Butler, Ferner, Lefevre, Linklater, Millward, Scrivener, Sherlock. Cayzer, Shakespeare, Dudgeon, Fortescue, Monkhouse, Ramsbotham." If you of the present generation of boys have taken home the Rot:,lus. you .can while away a happy hour in playing with the names you would love to denve from m9knames and ihe beasts! And, by the way, can you really beheve that the grand-lookmg name of Oliphant is just" Elephant ", no more and no less? F.J.S.

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In Henry VIII's reign the Scbool had the privilege of educating" the most learned Roman Catholic of all his time"1 Yet it is not completely impossible (tbougb most improbable) that Thomas Stapleton was superannuated from Canterbury! He was born in Sussex in 1535, and would have come to School by 1544 or 1545. HIS early years of School were certainly spent here under the famous John Twyne. But by the old Statutes the Scholars were permitted to remain at most for five years. ProbaNy by 1550, therefore, Stapleton had enjoyed the maXllTIUm em?luments, and m thiS yea~' (aeeording to the D.N. B.) he proeeeded as a Scholar to Wmchester, or, as Anthony a Wood calls it, Wykeham's School near Winchester. True, the Statutes provided that a boy who was remarkable for extraordinary slowness or dullness, or for a natural distaste for learning should be "despatched elsewhere, lest as a drone he devour the honey of the bees": but it is unlikely that Stapleton went to Winchester as a reject of Canterbury. After a matter of two years at Winchester he proeeeded to New College, Oxford, graduated in the reign of Mary, and became a Prebendary of. Chichester. Attempts were made to persuade him to take the oath of Supremaey to Ehzabeth, but steadfast in his faith he refused and repaired to Louvain. His intellect was recognised as of the highest order, and not unnaturally. he became the ehan;pio!, eontrover~ialist against the Protestant world. He was appomted Professor of DlVlmty at Doual and joined the Jesuit Society, though never aeeeptmg final vows. Pluhp II ,!f Spam. sho~~red on him ecclesiastical and academical honours. Pope Clement VIII enjoyed hiS wfltmgs so mueh as to order them to be read daily at his dinner-table. On one visit to the Pope, Stapleton took with him the first books of the judicious Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, of which Clement prophesied that" they shall last till the last fire shall eonsume all learning'''. This is not without its interest to the Kmg's School. Hooker was a near neighbour-Reetor of Bishopsbourne-and. must h~ve known. the Dean and Canons well, and the Headmaster of the School; m fact hiS greatest fnend was Canon Adrian Saravia, to whose memory there is a tablet on the North wall of the Nave of the Cathedral. And doubtless the Scholars heard Hooker preach. It seems clear that the Pope had in mind to make Stapleton a Cardinal, and equal.ly clear that familiar intrigue--possibly the no less famous Enghshman, Parsons the JesUlt, was jealous-prevented it. Prolifie controversialist though he was, Stapleton was a very great man of letters. His translation (1565) of the Venerable Bede's History of the Church ~l En.~land is still a standard work, and was reprinted as recently as 1935. 44

THE CANTUARIAN A principal subject of controversy was the Royal Supremaey over the Chureh. Stapleton was more moderate than other Romanist writers, and would seem to allow large scope to the Monareh; but, as Hooker remarks after quoting him, "What they (i.e. Stapleton and Romanis! writers) yield that princes may do, it is with secret exception always understood, if the bishop of Rome give leave, if he interpose no prohibition' wherefore somewhat it is in shew, in truth nothing, which they grant ".3 ' It is .clear that Stapleton was a man of fine character, for there is telling evidenee of

this. In that eoarsely-outspoken era of the Reformation, abuse was a eommon weapon indulged in by both sides. But Stapleton's sharpest opponent on the Protestant side spoke well of him; a tribute of extraordinary value. He died in 1598 at Louvain and was buried there in the Chureh of St. Peter. F.J.S. lWood's Alii. Ox., cd. Bliss, i, 669. 2Walton's L~re, p. 71, Vo!. 1. Eccles. Polity (Keblc's ed.), aE.p. VIU, ii, 14.

J. T. C. TRAINING Poor weather has interfered seriously with all practical training, but even so the recruits in "B" Company have made excellent and encouraging progress, while No. 1 Platoon and No.2 Platoon have continued to receive first class instruetion, the former at the barracks, by kind permission of Major Guy, and the latter under C.S.M.I. Marshall. At the beginning of the term the War Offiee granted permission for a new eompany to be formed, and thus the strength of the contingent has now reaehed a total of two hundred and ten. We were very pleased to welcome Major Gross, who has taken command of "B" Company. PROMOTIONS The followinll were made with effect from September 27th, 1946:LjSgt. Pares to be Contingent C.S.M. and C.S.M. "A" Company; L/Sg1. Butler to be C.S.M. "B" Company; Cpl. Leighton to be CQ.M.S.; LjSgt. Price to be Sergeant; Cpls. de Veil, Leary Brealy, Lee and Ray to be Sergeants; Cp!. Williams to be Lance-Sergeant; LjCpls. Withers, Wen ban: Elliott, Cray and Foxwell to be Lance-Sergeants; LjCpls. Bartlett, Smith, Holliday, Maybury-Lewis, Woodgate, Hulse, Hubbard, Hopewell, Belsham, Hearth, Jackson, Hore, Halsey, Allen, Osborn, p, Brown, Quested, Stuart and Edwards to be Corporals; Cadets Devonshire, Ellis, Routh, D. Morgan, Cork, Lindley, Reeves, Long, Mayne, Steel, Hinton, Molesworth, Wills, Burt, Harris and Philps to be Lal1ceCorporals.

FIELD DAY (THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24TH) The recruit platoons, Nos. 6, 7, and 8, did training throughout the morning, and then watched a demonstration of seetion in attaek, given by No.2 Platoon in the afternoon.

Nos. 3, 4 and 5 Platoons spent the day going through three exercises in Trenley Park Woods, while No. I Platoon acted as umpires and enemy on the exercises. C.S.M. Pares eonducted a Patrols Exercise, C.S.M. Butler a Map Reading Exereise, ,\l1d C.q.M.S. Leighton an Observation Course.

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THE CANTUARIAN In the first exercise, the platoon commander of each platoon had to send out a reconnaissance and a fighting patrol. In the case of Nos. 4 and, Platoons the fighting patrols were wiped out by the enemy, while No. 3 Platoon commander, with a very strong force, eventually carried his objective. All platoons reached a fair standard on the Map Reading Course. The Observation Course tested initiative, and quick observation. Sections were alert and keen, but apt to react slowly to the snrprises that had been prepared. After each platoon had completed all the three exercises, everyone assembled in a side of the wood, to hear a general criticism from thc C.O. and the three umpires-in-chief. The most favourable impression that was made upon those conducting the exercise was the extreme keenness shown by the majority of those taking part, and anxiety on the part of all ranks to see that the lessons of the class-room were applied practically and sensibly to ground. PLATOON CUP The Platoon Cup was awarded to No.3 Platoon, commanded by Sgt. Leary, on the results of the Field Day. All ranks are to be congratulated on a fine effort.

MEMORIAM

It is with the deepest regret that we record yet two more names on the Roll of Honour. Our most sincere sympathy goes to their parents.

FLYING OFFICER DOMINIC PAGE, R.A.F. (1931-40) "Nic " Page was killed in a flying accident on September 19th, 1946, and his loss is the harder to bear since he had been a prisoner in Germany for three-and-a-half years, after being reported missing in the Autumn of 1941. He was shot down over the Dutch Frisian Island while operating in a torpedo-bomber squadron of Coastal Command. Nic spent five ycars in the Parrots and four in the Senior School, where he scored what must have been a very rare, if not a unique, distinction by winning his School Colours (in his case for hockey) in his first term! He was always a cheerful youngster, and we were delighted to see him back again last December playing in the O.K.S. XV and again in March for the O.K.S. Hockey XI, so the news of his death came as a great shock to us all. MAJOR DEREK EDWARD OWEN, M.C., 5TH ROYAL GURKHA RIFLES (1934-36) D. E. Owen came to the School rather later than most boys do from the Diocesan College, Rondesboseh, Cape Town. He was one of those who were transferred, when Langley House was closed down in 1935, to Walpole, where his qniet, unassuming personality soon made him respected. He won his School Coloms for P.T. and Boxing and was a member of the 2nd IV. In July, 1936 he passed into Sandhurst (25th) and in January, 1938 passed out 11th, having become a Junior Under Officer. He joined the Indian Army and during the war rose to the rank of Major. He was Mentioned in Despatches in April, 1945 and awarded the Military Cross in January, 1946. He met his (\e4th in a motor accident in India last October.

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N.B.----Changes qj' address and enquiries re tnembership q{ the a.K,S. Association should be sent to the Acting Hon. Secretary, R. W. Marshall, Sal'ko House, Eagle Whm/ Road, N.1, and not to the Editors. We are grateful to C. C. T. EASTGATB (1892-Âˇ95), who has sent a cheque for ÂŁ25 to the Headmaster, partly towards the cost of The Cantuarian and partly for any other need of the School; also to W. B. STEELE (1940--44), now Lieutenant, D.C.L.I., and serving at Lagos, for a donation of 5 guineas towards the new Hymn Book. Out of 45 in his month's course at the Outward Bound Sea School, five, of whom J. P. D. MALLINSON (1942---46) was one, received a "Standard Badge" and one a " Silver Badge". Mallinson attained a "Silver" in everything except Seamanship, in which he was handicapped by not having had previous training in one of the special ships. He was Captain of his Watch throughout the course. P. Lawless is now on the Staff of Merton House School, Penmaenmawr. E. D. GREGSON (1941-45), after spending a year at Birmingham University, was involved in a car accident just at the end of his time and had to spend seven weeks in hospital. He is now at an O.C.T.U. at Newark. His elder brother is in Burma with the West African FrontIer RegIment, but hopes to be home for Chnstmas. R. P. A. PIERCY (1935--39) is with the Control Commission in Germany. R. CROWLEY kindly sent us a page of the New York Herald Tribune for July 14th containing pictures of the School. He writes: "You may not know what an enormous compliment it is to the School to have such notice taken of it by any of the local press! On to-day's front page we lent you 31 billion dollars, and on the enclosed pay trIbute to the School. Quite a day for the English! " F. E. BROWN is thoroughly enjoying himself at a naval educational centre in Greenwich. He is a Sub-Lientenant R.N. A. E. HILL (1942-46) wrote from a Training Battalion near Belfast that he was Jinding the Army a grand life. He has earned the title of " The blanco king" for overenthusiasm in the matter of cleaning equipment. JONES and KURK (an ex-Parrot) are in the Cadet Company and MCCALl. (1944-45) crossed on the same boat. They occasionally have" sort of O.K.S. meetings ~ ~. J. A. FLOWER (1939---45) is with the R.A.F. in the Middle East. He writes, " While swimming around at the United Services Swimming Pool at Hcliopolis I thought I saw a face that I knew, and the face seemed to recogmse me, so we spoke. The face belonged to T. J. MATHEWS (1941-45), who had just arrived in Egypt a few days before, and who is a Subaltern in 'The Queens'." On a flight from Palestine one of his passengers happened to be GEORGE BURTWELL, on his way to Alexandria on leave.

M. ROBINSONjI937-39) is;:out of the Navy and is studying Architecture. The report of the Royal Visit in the Illustrated London News brought a welcomee letter from R. H. EDGELL (1912-13), who has not seen the School since 1917 when, as a member of the Canadian Forces, he called on Mr. Latter.

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J. E. T. SHERWOOD (1940-43) is in the Navy, but is shortly due for dcmobiJisation and hopes to enter a Veterinary College. D. TITTERINGTON (Entered 1937), now a Sub-I.ieutenant, R.N.Y.R., was in Auslntli;l Jast year and visited The King's School, Parra matta, where he was shown round by Mr. H. D. Hake, the Headmaster. Titterington describes the School (uswilly known as our daughter school) as a very fine 8cI1001---a worthy" son" of its parent.

J. K. EBnuTr (l940-45) is Ilnding Classics rather an ciusive subject, now that he is in the Army (he is a Sergeant F.S.S.). His work is concerned chieny with German P.O. W. 's, and he is expecting to go to Germany, but is now, we helieve, at Stratfordon-Avon. R. CAPEL-SMITH (1935-39) has a Staff appointment at the War Ofliee, and sees something of NORMAN SCARFE, who is working in one of the Cabinet Oflices. The REV, H. C. BENHAM, who is 83 years of age, is resigning the Vicarage of Monkton, which he has hcld since 1924. Three years ago, when he was 80, he cycled from M-onkton to Can.1'erbury for a Diocesan Meeting. He has spent the greater part of his life abroad as a missionary.

J. P. A. WALL (1939-41) hoped to be d(:mobilised from the Navy shortly and to go to Wye College to work for his B.Sc. in Agriculture. P. Y. DUDGEON (J 942---46) is on the Staif of Wellington House, Westgate, where hc is endeavouring to instil the rudiments of French 111tO Charles Shirley!

CANON J. G. TUCKEY, one of the original Editors of the Can/Harian, writes of the last isslle; "A truly :Ilne number and a worthy Sl1ccessor to many excellent issues. Little did F. A. Dale think wilen wc discussed the possibilitics of starting a school magazine far back in 1882 that the embryo would develop into a wonderful adull full of interest and sympathy, truly patriotic and a model for all the best school magazines. " Age and increasing failure of power have necessitated his resigning his Canonry at Ripon, and we are very sorry to hear that he has recently had 10 undergo a severe and unfortunately unsuccessful operation for cataract. D. McGRoTTY (1940--45) is now a 2nd Lieutenant, R.E., as is E. H. R. GARDNER (1941··--45), with whom MeGrotty is sharing a room at Ripon. G. L. ACKER' (1940·-44) has been minesweeping in the Mediterranean. M. e. TROUSDELL (1936-40) is now attached to H.M. Customs at Singapore. S. L. ANDERSON (1936-40) has to be repatriated in October, and to permanent career, and has found S.E. Asia--·of the greatest interest. in the Cathay Cinema at Singapore.

been serving ill SEAC as a Statf Captain, but hoped visit the School. He intends to make the Army his his work-the rehabilitation and reoccupation of He saw the news reel of the Royal Visit last July

We congratulate W. C. Young (! 929-·-38) on being chosen to represent Cambridge University against Oxford in cross-country running. DOUGLAS WILMER (1934-38) is appearing in Anthony and Cleopatra at the Opera House, Manchester. 48

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We heartily congratulate F. L. Whalley (Jesus, Cambridge) on being picked for the Ounbridge Trial Eights. We congratulate 1-1. L. CREMER (1907·-10), late Major, Home Guard, on the award of the M.B.E., and MAJOR P. R. GRAVES, R.A.M.e. (1921··-24) on the ~ward of the M.RE, (Mil. Djv.) in recognition of gallant and distinguished services WillIe a pnsoner of war, and on being Ment.ioned in Despatches. O.K.S. and evcryone who is interested in the School will he grateful to R. H. Charles, CB.E. (1896-1901), who, up to a few months ago, was one of His Majesty's Chief lnspcctors at the Ministry of Education. He proved a tower of strength U1 alI the problems of our return to Can.terbllI:~ HI:d of repalr1l1g and re-eql!lppll1g ol~r ~Ull~lI1gs, aud also gave wonderful help 111 faeIlltatmg thc progress of the Royal Chmtel thlOUgh the Ministry. FIELD-MARSHAL LORD MONTGOMERY, K.G. The announcement that His Majesty has conferred the Garter on Lord Montgomery will give the greatest satisfaction to all O.K.S. and present boys. With gratitude wc all remember his interest in and kindness to the School, and that one of our Governors should be now so distinguished seems t.o us all mostfitting ! BIRTHS STRALLEN.-On October 21st, 1946, to June, wife of Major P. D. V. Strallen, K.S. (1934···-38), a second son. TERRY,-On November 12th, at Keneh Hill, Tenterden, to Silvia (nee Chope), wife of E. B. Terry, of Diamond Farm, Woodchurch, Kent, a son. CHRISTENING WILLIAMs.-On November 9th, 1946, at All Saints, Margaret Street, by theHeaomaster, Rosalind, daughIer of J. R. Williams (1935-39) and Mrs. J. R. W(IIIams (Valene Trimble). ENGAGEMENTS BENNETT: DOYEN.-Captain P. G. Bennett, R.A.e. (Recce) (1934-··-39), to Janine, eldest daughtcr of Mr. and Mme. Lucien Doyen, of Vise, Belgium. HOLT-WIl.SON : HINCHCLlFFE.--·A. H. Holt-Wilson, M.e. (1936---38), late Rifle Brigade, to Sylvia Hinchcliffe. MALLAfW : REEPMAKER-D 'ORVILLE.-A marriage has been arranged between George Mallaby, O.H.E. (1913·---14), younger son orthe late Mr. and Mrs. William Mallaby, and Jacqueline Lois Christine, only daughter of Captain J. C. Reepmaker-d 'OrvIlle, M.C., and Mrs. Reepmaker-d 'Orville. MARRIAGES HUSSEY: COSTELLo.-The nHlrriilge of Dyneley (1907--·-12), younger son of the late Colonel e. E. Hussey, of 56A Oid Church Street, Chelsea, and Kathleen Costello, M.R.C.S., I...R.e.P., only child of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Costello, of Sydney, Austraha, took place at Tewkesbury Abbey, on September 14th. The Rev. Bnan Purefoy ofliciated. 49

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MANNERS-SMITH: HORNBY.--On October 30th, 1946, at All Saints, Margaret Street, by the Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway, Primus of the Scottish Church, assisted by the Rev. C. E. Tomkinson, Vicar, Major-General Lionel Charles Manners-Smith, C.B.E. (1911-12), to Jean Margaret Hornby. SILVER WEDDING ARMITAGE: NICHoLs.-On August 18th, 1921, at Sl. Luke's, Redclilfe Square, S.W., Valentine Leathley (1902--Â·06), son of the Rev. A. L. and Mrs. Armitage, of Rode Rectory, Bath, to Evelyn Muriel, only child of the late R. E. C. Nichols, Esq., and Mrs. Burnett, Riverholme, Keswick. O.K.S. AT OXFORD The following are in residence at the University :A. B. Emden, Principal of St. Edmund Hall C. S. Emden, Fellow and Bursar of Oriel

Rev. T. E. M. BouHbce, Vicar of S1. Cross A. M. Durnford, Queen's G. M. Scott, B.N.C. P. R. Rees, New P. C. J. Brunet, Kcble J. B. Goudgc, Trinity N. Scarfe, Magdalen C. A. B. Clemctson, Magdalen D. S. Madge, S. Edmund Hall D. R. Hill, S. Edmund Hall G. L. Taylor, Trinity J. H. Breeze, Trinity P. C. Holmer, Balliol

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R. A. Izard, New I. K. Meek, New T. H. Bou!tbce, Keb!e D. F. Murray, Worcester E. J. Risden, Merton P. Pollak, Magdalen G. A. Gordon, Christ Church R. G. Powell, Hertford J. de F. Enderby, Wadham C. S. Pitcher, Wadham

P. D. Grant, Queen's P. C. Hammond, Lincoln W. J. Merson, Exeter

K. R. Henshaw, Trinity

ANNUAL DINNER

The Annual Dinner will be held at the Cafe Royal on Monday, January 13th, 1947. Cost 17/6. O.K.S. wishing to attend are asked to notify J. P. Heming, Church Cottage, Thames Ditton, Suney, by January 9th.

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CAMBRIDGE O.K.S. 76TH MEETING The Cambridge Branch of the O.K.S. Association held a dinner on Wednesday, October 23rd, at the University Arms Hotel. Sir Will Spens, Master of Corpus Christi College, was in the Chair. The Headmaster was guest of honour. All members of the Association resident in Cambridge were present. Sir Will Spens proposed the Royal Toast. He rose again to congratulate Professor Telfer on his recent appointment to the Mastership of Selwyn College. He then went on to speak of the magnificent work of restoration accomplished by Canon Shirley during the ten most momentous years in the history of the School. He said that in 1935 the School was faced with bankruptcy. As one who had known Canon Shirley for many years and had admired his achievements at Work sop, he knew that he was the only Headmaster in the country equal to the tasks of Canterbury. It was with complete confidence that he had proposed that the affairs of the King's School should be placed into his hands. During the ten years following his arrival in Canterbury, Canon Shirley had not simply carried the School through a crisis-acute enough in time of peace, but desperate with the outbreak of war-.. but by his immense courage and inspired leadership he had also given new life to every aspect of the School, and started a new era in its history. He regarded it as the greatest achievement in Public School Educa.tion in this century. He concluded by proposing a toast to the School and to its Headmaster. In his reply, Canon Shirley expressed his pleasure at being present at such a gathering of O.K.S. He reviewed the events since the School's return from Cornwall, and said that far from being weakened by years of exile, it had returned to Canterbury stronger than ever. He went on to speak of the immense significance of Their Majesties' visit in July. Outlining the plans of the proposed O.K.S. War Memorial, he said that it was hoped it would take the form of a Music and Art School to be built adjoining the Water Tower Garden. He ended by hoping that the good works of the School would bc reflected in the future Tripos results! The senior members present were :Colonel C. H. Budd (1899--1904) Dr. F. M. Deighton (1900-05)

The Rev. Professor W. Telfer (1900-05)

The following were also present :-

H. R. R. Steele (1934--40) P. C. Steele (1940-44) G. Vivian~Davies (1935-40) J. P. Whal1ey (1934-39) F. L. Whal1ey (1939-43) A. D. Wilson (1934-40) H. P. Wortham (1933-39) w. C. Young (1933-38) D. B. Young (1935-40)

M. A. S. Burgess (1940-45) J. H. P. Gibb (1933Âˇ-39) N. L. Hearne (1935-40) Hseng Ong (1938-44) .r. B. Lovatt (1935Âˇ-40) C. W. A. Lovall (1935-40) D. S. M. Harris:;, 0938--41' S. B. Nichols (1940-45) A. D. H. Paterson (1935--40) M. C. A. Spencer (1933-38) 51

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CAMBRIDGE LETTER Dear Sehool, Since the Dinner on October 23rd, we have welcomed back to Corpus Christi J. P. M. Sugden, and ], Peschole to King's--both from the Navy. A further O,K,S, meeting was held on November 27th, al Dr. Budd's house, \Ve were glad to be visited during the term by J. Goudge, latcly returned from India to Trinity College, Oxford; by C. H. B. Wauton, who is learning Persian in London, before going out to Persia for AngloMJraniall; and by P. Piercy, who was just DiTto 1"11C Control Commission in Germany for a year, whilst waiting for a place in this University. \Ve might perhaps usefully say something about this acute problem of " getting a place". The diilkulty is largely a practical one of accommodation; all colleges and college lodging-houses are full. But there is every chance 1hat colleges will accept members who can arrange accommodation privately. As far HS Freshmen <11'0 concerned, complete priority is given to scholars. So we hope many scholarship candidates from the School will be sitting the two examinations to be held before next October. Nor is this just a personal mailer--it does help the School's reputation enormously, Despite shaTed rooms, food difneulties and the rest, it's well worth the effort to get here, Life is extremely good, And if llie Sunday papers tell you that it is real and earnest and that everyone works too hard, then believe them if you want to-but don't be too convinced, We look forward very mllch to being joined by many of your next year. We remain, Yours, etc" O,K.S, CANTAB, [Editorial NOle,-(l) Why is Ihel'e no Ox/ol'd Letlel'? (2) Why do Ihe Oxford OX,S, never have meetings ?]

CORRESPONDENCE 237 Prospect Avenue, Staten Island 1, New York, U,S,A. Oelobel' 26111, 1946.

To Ihe Eeli/ol's ~l THE CANTUARIAN Dear Sirs, In the August issue of 7J1C Canluarian, there was a photograph of the Band-. J believe for the first time since it came into existence in about 1910. And whence and when did the big drummer's leopard skin come, and are the drums the original ones with which the band was born? .. , .. , it still amazes me .. , ... how the band ever survived the ridiculousness of its first few years, Wray Palliser and Ralph Juekes were the first big drummers, and when the latter went to Cambridge to pick up his Blue for Rugby football, I stepped into his shoes, and, what was far more serious, a dirty, horrible mackintosh sort of apron, which was all that was provided for the big drummer in place of the leopard skin which every other band on earth seemed to boast, At the lime it

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did not matter: the band was only regarded as a great joke or a horrible noise, depending on people's mood, There were several buglers, of which possibly one could be fairly relied upon to get the top note; (Brian Pratt was one, by the way: 1 best-manned him at his wedding about 30 years ago ilnd have not seen him since), a number of piccolo players (including J. L.... Trevitt and L. W. Best) and four side drummers, and we practiced in some tiny billiard room up some alley on the way to Biores. The instructor was an extraordinarily good-natured (he had to be, to survive !) lance-corporal of The Buffs band, called Warner. The C.O, of those days, old C. W, Bell, was the only mortal who took the band seriously, and at the last moment before what was then called O.T.C. Camp in (probably) 1911, he decided to take as a band, those of it who had signed on to go to camp that year. The idea was ridiculous, but that did not particularly upsct us, but to go without a leopard skin was appalling, and I said so to Tick BelL However, in some ways we were poor sticks in those days, and did not go on strike. In the end, he promised to make me a corporal, if the band did all right at camp, and off we went to Farnborough Common. 1 still feel red in the face when I remember my disgust with the mackintosh apron, when even the mouldiest of schools at camp had leopard skins. To make matters worse, old Bell told me on a Sunday morning that he had offered our band to play the hymns at Church Parade, and at Tattoo in the evening. and that the brigadier had welcomed the idea. It was 110 use telling him that the piccolo players did not know any hymns, or that the big drummer could not possibly be expected to appear at Church Parade without a Jeopard skin. He just raised his bid by promising to make me a sergeant (which he lived up to), and off 1 had to go to decide on the hymns with Lord Gort, who was then a captain in the Grenadier Guards and acting BrigadeMajor at camp. 1 will always love that man's memory; he sent for a hymn book, and with a perfectly grave face and a t\:vinkle in his eye, he and 1 fumbled through the book until we found a couple of easy tunes without any sharps and fla1s. Somc years later at a luncheon party in London where he and I were guests, he told the story of the selection of those hymns as the 1110st extraordinary Church Parade of his career, and he had a grand giggle when I identified myself. Incidentally, although we had no instructor at camp, the piccolo players managed to mug up the tunes quite well, and the K.S. band was a success. But then came tattoo, without any of us quite knowing what to do, and, of course, still without a leopard skin to hide my blushes of embarrassment (or my pyjama trousers under my great coat and puttees), However, we barged our way through rather well, until we came to the moment for the National Anthem. That wonderful guy, G, E, J. Gent (now, 1 believe, Sir Edward, and I have no doubt that he thoroughly deserves to be at least that), and I are unfortunately the only survivors of the drummers of that year. The other three, Reggie Mason, C. 1.. Green, and Kenneth Lillingston, all died quite young men in between the two wars, The playing of the National Anthem that night must be unique in history. A short remark was made which sent everybody into hysterics and made the111 quite incapable of playing anything, except the furthest ofT piccolo player, who was fortunately too far ofT to hear it. He played" God Save the King" as a 8010Âˇ--one lone piccolo in the middle of that enormous l':"arnborough Common, surrounded by several thousand schoolboys. However, our luck must have bcen in, and we got away with it: perhaps people thought we were being rather original and impressionistic or something. G. E. J. Gent can tell you what the remark was. He swore he could never forget it, and he remembered the episode vividly (probably bctter than he remembered me personally) the last time 1 saw him, which was many years ago. 53

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I tell you, the history of the early years of the K.S.C. band was anything but dull. Heaven knows how it survived, which I suppose it managed to do throughout all the years. Or did it die and get resuscitated? It was a first-rate club in those days, probably only kept alive because nobody in it took anything too seriously (except that awful mackintosh apron), and nobody outside it regarded it as anything but a sort of comic relief. As a matter of fact, I had practically forgotten all about our remarkable band till I saw the resplendent photo of it in the August Cal1tuarian, and that brought it all back to me. In fact, I find that I have photo postcards taken at Canterbury West Station in 1911 and 1912. The first shows that frightful mackintosh apron (and G. E. J. Gent 111 a hat much too small for him); the second shows most of the same people (and also my very dear and famous friend, Fleming-Sandes) toting rifles instead of musical instruments. I might let you have them for a history of the band, provided you will treat them with the respect which they deserve, which is enormous ! ! This letter has achieved ridiculous length. It was merely prompted by fearful jealousy of your big drummer in the leopard skin, and by a genuine desire to know when and whence it came. He owes me a debt of gratitude, as the bitterness of my complaints of its lack must almost have penetrated the stones of the School buildings and in a ghost-like manner drilled themselves into the ears of those responsible till at length they got the skin so as to have a quiet life. With best wishes for all good luck. I wish, too, that I could come and have a look at you all, leopard skin or no leopard skin. Yonrs very truly, ROllIN CROWLEY

(O.K.S. 1903-1913)

[The Band must have had a successful life after its foundation by our correspondent and his contemporaries. It blew a Royal Salute for Ihe Duke ()( Kenl's visit in 1938. On the outbreak of war the War O/fice ordered the abolition of School CorjJs Bands. Ours had to start again earlier this year ji'orn scratch, and everybody concerned is to be heartily congratulated on its pC/formance al the King's visit last luly.-Eds.j

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Notes from the Parrot HOllse Congratulations to W. S. Bainbridge, our Head Boy, on winning an ÂŁ80 Scholarship to Haileybury College. The P.T. Competition for this term, held on a wet afternoon in November, in the Barn, and judged by Mr. 1.. R. WalJace, resulted in a clear win for the Kakas, whose senior a.nd junior squads were certainly the smartest. Seniors: Kakas 6, M-acaws 4, Keas 2, Cock as O. Juniors: Kakas 3, Cockas 2, Keas 1, Macaws O. Our sincere thanks to the following, for gifts of books to the Library :-Mr. P. Lawless, Mr. V. J. Sanger-Davies, Mrs. Pitt, M. Pope, R. Vipam, R. and S. B1ackal!. It may seem a little latc to be writing of cricket, but we would like to record one or two matters which came too Jate for inclusion in last term's magazine. The House matches, both senior and junior, produced some very keen games. The House order will be found below. School Cricket Colours were awarded to the following :-Pope, Music, Carne, Bainbridge i, Nightingale i, Mallinson, Wood, Foord, McCleery i, Woolston and Reading. We can do no more than record that the swimming sports were held in our own baths at the end of last term. We did not quite complete them, owing to the failure of the disinfectant supply, but there were enough races, individual and relay, to make a f~tir house order. The standard of efficiency was very high; times in the races were good, and the number of non-swimmers who learne0 to swim during the term was most encouraging. W.H.O. HALF-TERM The events likely to be of interest to a reader of this magazine are not those which happened to any individual, but the varied activities of the School as a whole. Officially we began on Friday, November 1st, in the afternoon. From that time members of the School were at liberty to go out with their parents, and as most boys availed themselves of this, the school buildings were soon far less crowded than usual. Of the fifty or so boys who remained, the elder, and so presumably the more sensible, were picked for the unenviable task of moving chairs from the class-rooms to the future auditorium. Having constructed a dress circle of dining-room tables, we carried the chairs to our perspiring taskmasters, who in their turn placed them in rows for the audience. We were still a few chairs short. The buildings were scoured for more, and we managed to discover a sufficient number in the bedrooms upstairs. The minutes dragged slowly by until finally the time came. The curtains parted to the sound of a savage roaring, and we gazed awestruck at four cannibals. They were dressed in brightly coloured, if somewhat sparse, grass skirts, and flourished large bones, human or otherwise, with a wild ferocity which brought fear to the hearts of the onlookers. Their food problem was evidently as serious as ours, because they had eaten no human being for a week. After a lengthy debate they decided to devour one of their own number. Happily, in the nick of time a ship appeared in their harbour. Two cannibals rushed off, and in a few moments re-appeared leading a fair damsel. Her father, the captain, foHowed her, and after some pistol-showing the girl was bartered for a basket of plum puddings. The play ended with a peace dance. Everybody of course married, and lived happily ever after. 55

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The next item was a short series of pieces played by the school orchestra. This was their first appearance in public; they were not quite up to Sir Thomas Beecham's standard, and some of their pieces were more pleasing to the ear than others. But it was a praiseworthy part of the show, and much credit is due to the pJayers and organisers. Following this came the school choir. They sang five songs from a series called The Moon, by Purcell. This was well done, and if the works performed in the future come up to this standard, we may expect much from them. During the interval, which followed, the Headmaster said a few words about the respective modts of barns and dining halls as theatres. The collcction was then taken, which, for the two performances, came to about £42. The final drama was acted by the Sixth Form; a farce, The Crimson Cocoanut, by jan Hay. A clumsy, semi-imbecile waiter featured in this, together with two anarchists, a detective, a fierce old man, and his pretty daughter, The two Russians had ingeniously smuggled from Russia a dynamite bomb, in the form of a cocoanut. When this bomb tUl'l1ed crimson, it was due to explode. The plot is too complicated to explain shortly. It is enough to say that it ended with the capture of the Russians, while the waiter and the detective shared the reward of £1,000, and the detective married the old man's daughter. The curtains closed amid a mighty crashing of plates from off stage. Sunday came, and thc church was filled with parents and boyS. Canon W. F. France, Warden of St. Augustine's CoJlege, preached a very appropriate sermon; which being over, we were free for the rest of the day. We started work again on Monday morning. W.S.B. (J.K.S., Form VI) ShIny narn .Restoration Fnnd £ s. d. Brought forward (reported in last issue) 174 10 7 Summer Term : Scouts' Band Concert 1 0 0 Circus ". 3 16 7 Sundries, Summer Term 5 13 0 Summer Holidays : Sundries, Summer Holidays 31 19 6 Summer School (Chichester Diocese) 54 6 0 Boys' Eamings in Holidays ". 17 15 II Autumn Term : Sundries, Autumn Term (to November 20th) 12 I 6 Sold Firewood". 900 Collections, Half-term Entertainment 41 14 9 Bargain Stall at Flower Show 6 17 I

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On Saturday, October 26th, we began the season with a match against Kent College. Putting on the field a team seriously depleted by colds, we managed to score only once to our opponents' six times. Our full team could only have made the defeat less heavy, for one of the main causes of our lack of success was weak forward play, defence near our own line being particularly bad. Very often, too, the ball wa(heeled when it should have been taken on. A few practice games against good opponents would make for considerable improvement; the forwards might then realise that they have. to put their hands down and shove and the whole team mIght learn the value of tacklIng hard and low. A notable event was an individual run by Bainbridge i. Starting from behind a line-out in his own half, he took the opposition by surprise, funning with determination for the far cornel' flag to score our only try. Later in the game, Williams ii broke away in his own twenty-five and was prevented from scoring only by a splendid tackle by the Kent College full back. Amongst the forwards, Porter and Jones kept steadily on the ball and the wing-forward work of Laneastll1 and to a lesser extent of Hemery frequently prevented our opponents' outsides from opening up the game. On Thursday, October 31st, we played Laleham House, winning 13-9. Our scores were due to the opportunism of Bainbridge i and WIlliams ii, whilst our opponents crossed our line at the end of eo-ordinated attacks by their forwards. Though there was little rain during the game, ea.rlier showers had made the ground suitable more for forward pJay than for long passing 1110V~111cnts ; . consequently. our weak~less in the loose was apparent, though there was consIderable 1I11prO~cn:ent 111 the prevlO~s match. Apart from the wing-forwards' tendency to do more w.lI1gmg than forw.ardll1g (they winged conSIstently well), the pushll1g of thc forwards WIth fewer temptatIOns was. not infrequently done with outstretched hands and body upnght; the tacklmg, too, speetally during the first half, was done in much the same way. The outsides handled the shppery ball remarkably well and the kicking for touch was well judged. Tries were scored by the determined running of Bainbridge i and Williams ii, each scoring from within his own twenty-five. Foster, as always, set his forwards a good example, ably backed up by Bainbridge ii.

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On Wednesday, November 20th, we resumed fixtures with King's Sehool, Roehester. From a field inches deep more in mud than in water, we emerged victorious, 8-0. In an even game we adapted ourselves rather better to the conditions. The deci.ded improvement in our forward play was most opportune. Bainbridge i scored our try, breaking through in the centre, and just failed to score another by losing control of the ball on the line. In the latter attempt, as he had two unmarked three-quarters backing up, it would probably have been better for him to have passed in spite of the slipperiness of the ball, for the handling was surprisingly safe throughout the game. In the second half, Pope, breaking away with a dribble down the wing, scored a well-deserved opportunist try. The tackling, sometimes regrettably high, was much hettcr on the whole, although there was a tendency to leave go too soon. To mention some outstanding players would be out of place when all but perhaps two played as well as could be expected of them, making the side look like a team for the first time.

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F Term begins. XVl'H SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS. 6. 0 p.m. Preaeher: The Headmaster. S 1st XV v Indian Army Cadets (Home). XVITH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. 11. 0 a,m. Preacher; The Archdeacon of Maidstonc, Canon-in-Residence. 8. 0 p.m. Lecture: Captain E. Hosking. W Governors' Meeting. S 1st XV v K.C.S., Wimbledon (Home). XVIITI-I SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. 6. 0 p.m. Preacher: The Chaplain. 8. 0 p.m. Harpsichord Reeital : John Tieehurst, Esq. F S. LUKE, E. S 1st XV v EasthoUI'ne College (Home). XVIIITH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. 6. 0 p.m. Preacher: The Dean of Westminster. 8. 0 p.m. LectUI'e: R. R. Stokes, Esq., M.P. S Shooting VIII v Sutton Valence Sehool. . 1st XV v Canterbury R.F.C. (Home).

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XXTH SUNDAY AFTER TII"NMITV: . The Headmaster Canon-in-Residence. 11. 0 a.111. Cathedl a atIlls . , Th Shooting VIII v Eton College. 7 9 S 1st XV v Mill Hill School (Away). 1 10 XXIST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. . 6. 0 p.111. Prcaeher: Rev. S. B-R. Poo e. 1 1 M 8. 0 p.m. Reeital: Miss Kathleen Ferner (eontralto).

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lIND SUNDAY IN ADVENT. . . 6. 0 p.m. Preacher: Rev. Dr. Kmght.. . 8. 0 p.m. Recital: George Baker and Olrve Gloves.

1st XV v O.K.S. (Home). Shooting VlIl v O.K.S. 15 IIIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT. . . 6. 0 p.m. Preacher: The Headmastel. 8. 0 p,m, Cinema. 16 M 6. 0 p.m. Carol Service. 7.30 p.m. Break-Up Supper. 17

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THE CANTUARIAN that one, Proud-eyes), Shorthouse, Tugwell, Turnbull , Co~rtenay, Fairbairn, Grossmith, Malpas, Pettifer, Thickness, Verity, Bairnsfather, GrandIson, Oldacre, Butler, Ferner, Lefevre, Linklater, Millward, Scrivener, Sherlock. Cayzer, Shakespeare, Dudgeon, Fortescue, Monkhouse, Ramsbotham. " If you of the present generation of boys have taken home the Rotulus, you can while away a happy hour in playing with' the names you wo uld love to denve from D1?knames and lhe beasts ! And, by the way, can you really beheve that the grand-Iookmg name of Oliphant is just " Elephant ", no more and no less? F.J.S.

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In Henry VIII's reign the School had the privilege of educ~ting ': the most learned Roman Catholic of all his time " 1 Yet it is not completely ImpossIble (though most improbable) that Thomas Stapleton was superannuated from Canterbury! , :£:Ie was born in Sussex in 1535, and would have come to School by 1544 or 1545. HIS early years of School were certainly spent here under the famou s John Twyne. But by the old Statutes the Scholars were permitted to remain at most for five years. Probably by 1550, therefore, Stapleton had enjoyed the maximum em?luments, and in this year (according to the D.N. B.) he proceeded as a Scholar to WInchester, or, as Anthony a Wood calls it, Wykeham's School near Winchester. True, the Statutes provided that a boy who was remarkable for extraordinary slowness or dullness, or for a natural distaste for learning should be "despatched elsewhere, lest as a drone he devour the honey of the bees ": but it is unlikely that Stapleton went to Winchester as a reject of Canterbury. After a matter of two years at Winchester he proceeded to New College, Oxford, grad uated in the reign of Mary, and became a Prebendary of Chichester. Attempts were made to persuade him to take the oath of Supremacy to ElIzabeth, but steadfast in his faith he refused and repaired to Louvain. His intellect was recognised as of the highest order, and not unnaturally he became the champion controversialist against the Protestant world . He was appoi nted Professor of Divinity at. DOllai and joined the Jesuit Society, though never acceptmg final vows. Plullp II ~f Sparn show~red on him ecclesiastical and academical honours. Pope Clement VIII enjoyed hIS wntmgs so much as to order them to be read daily at his dinner-table. On one visit to the Pope, Stapleton took with him the first books of the judicious Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, of which Clement prophesied that" they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning'''. This is not without its interest to the Kmg's School. Hooker was a near neighbour-Rector of Bishopsbourne- and must have known the Dean and Canons well, and the Headmaster of the School ; in fact his greatest friend was Canon Adrian Saravia, to whose memory there is a tablet on the North wall of the Nave of the Cathedral. And doubtless the Scholars heard Hooker preach.

It seems clear that the Pope had in mind to make Stapleton a Cardinal, and equally clear that familiar intrigue- possibly the no less famou s Englishman, Parsons the Jesuit, was jealous-prevented it. Prolific controversialist though he was, Stapleton was a very great man of letters. His translation (1565) of the Venerable Bede's History of the Church of England is still a standard work, and was reprinted as recently as 1935. 44

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J. T. C. TRAINfNG Poor weather has interfered seriously with all practical training, but even so the recruits in "B" Company have made excellent and encouraging progress, while No. 1 Platoon and No.2 Platoon have continued to receive first class instruction, the former at the barracks, by kind permission of Major Guy, and the latter under C.S.MJ. Marshall. At the beginning of the term the War Office granted permission for a new company to be formed, and thus the strength of the contingent has now reached a total of two hundred and ten. We were very pleased to welcome Major Gross, who has taken command of "B" Company. PROMOTfONS The fo llowini\ we re made with effect from September 27th, 1946 :L/Sgt. Pares to be Contingent C.S. M. and C.S.M. ÂŤA" Company; L/Sgt. Butler to be C.S.M. "B" Company; Cp!. Leighton to be C.Q.M.S.; L/Sgt. Price to be Sergeant; Cpls. de Voil, Leary, Brealy, Lee and Ray to be Sergeants: CpL Williams to be Lance-Sergeant; L/Cpls. Withers, Wenban, Elliott, Cray and Foxwell to be Lance-Sergea nts; L/Cpis. Bartlett, Smith, Holliday, Maybury-Lewis, Woodgate, Hulse, Hubbard , Hopewell , Belsham, Hearth, Jackson, Hore, Hal sey, Allen, Osborn, P. Brown, Quested, Stuart and Edwards to be Co rporals; Cadets Devonshire, Ellis, Routh, D . Morgan, Cork, Lindley, Reeves, l ong, Mayne, Steel, Hinton , Molesworth, Wills, Burt, Harris and Philps to be LanceCorporals.

HELD DAY (THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24TH) The recruit platoons, Nos. 6, 7, and 8, did training throughout the morning, and then watched a demonstration of section in attack, given by No.2 Platoon in the afternoon. Nos. 3, 4 and 5 Platoons spent the day going through three exercises in Trenley Park Woods, while No. I Plat90n acted as umpires and enemy on the exercises. C.S.M. Pares conducted a Patrols Exercise, C.S.M. Butler a Map Reading Exercise, ~nd C.Q.M.S. Leighton an Observation Course.

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THE CANTUARIAN VOL. XXII.

No. 2.

MARCH, 1947.

EDITORIAL The seven deadly virtues have now become news. It was, we suppose, at one time plausible- and, indeed, desirable- to hold them to well-polished ridicule: but the continuance of this ridicule cannot now be regarded by the young generation asÂˇ anything other than oldfashioned. It is not the virtues which have proved deadly. We are in many situations confronted with undeniable evidence of an apparently irremediable collapse of conduct as well as of belief: morality is unconventional, militant. Probably the deadly virtue which suffered most in the general collapse was the virtue of loyalty. It is a virtue which lies readily open to attack: often it makes men stupid and merely sublimates their selfishness. Yet it is not so very despicable; and it is not perhaps now very common. At one Âˇtime many thought that the experiences of war would re-instate loyalty in its ancient prestige; but the war, while weakening our faith in human progress, has in only a few cases brought with it a return to a faith in the things which were once thought conventional. It has left us with a very real sense of our need. and with not the slightest idea as to how to meet it. It was at one time thought and regretted by philosophers on the stage that loyalty was one of the virtues drummed into their infantile victims by our Public Schools. But the comedians need not have worried. While our readers will not need to be reminded of the weight of practical devotion which has been lavished on this school as but one example, they will agree that that devotion has come from the few. Many have been content to receive something of what a fellowship such as ours has to offer, and after four or five years to depart with no more than a spasm of emotional gratitude. 63

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The fellowship receives its members and gives certain things to them all. But the deeper things, the things which ensure for its members in its own continuing and multifarious life that sense of continuity for which they crave, are only open to those who in their turn give themselves to its service, to the enrichment of all and each. The fellowship must be "dedicated to a proposition" ; and it is only upon the acceptance of this proposition that it can give to each of its members its satisfying and immortal reward. The fellowship sustains its members in their times of adversity with the lessons which it taught them in calmer days, and with its help which is always objectively with them . It has a reasonable right to expect from its able members in its hour of need some practical sign of gratitude to a fellowship to which so many of its members in truth owe everything. We are remembering this and every year the men who made the supreme sign of gratitude and loyalty in their deaths in action and service. The School is appealing for a return from those who survived. Its call cannot go unanswered. We are remembering always the men, dead and unborn , for whom we hold trust. It is only in so far as we fulfil that trust that we earn a place with them in the final fellowship of life. THE SCHOOL Captain of the School: R. M. BUTLER Head Head Head Head Head

T. H. PARES D. L. EDWARDS W. H. FOXWELL G. V. HOLLIDAY A. F. CRAY

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MONITORS R. M. BUTLER, D . L. EDWARDS, G. V. HOLLIDAY, A. F. CRAY, T. H. PARES, W. H. FOXWELL, H . J. DE VOIL, B. L. LEARY, D. H. P. MAYBURy-LEWIS, J. C. W. HULSE, J. A. A. PRICE. HOUSE PREFECTS P. D. LEIGHTON, V. ST. G. BREALY, J. D. M. H EA RTH, School House : J. R. ALLCHURCH, R. P. HORE, L. A. O. H ALSEY, I. L. R. BURT, A. G. P. DAVIDSON. C. D. SMITH, D. L. QUESTED, C. G . S. PATERSON, E. R. The Grange: STROUTS, K. G. T. STUART, M. E. K. WITHERS, P. D. JOHNSTON, R . C. FERRIS. W. J. F . RAY, J. W. ALLISON, R. E. A. GREENSLADE, J. B. Walpole House : HOPEWELL, R. H. C. ROUTH, W. L. C. HARRIS. 64

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Editors of The Caflluarian D. L. EDWARDS, R. M. BUTLER (ex-officio)

SALVETE G. H. Ashton, D. C. Bindon, C. M. Brennan, B. Cassidy, J. Cassidy, A. B. G. Davidson, A. D. Garlick, C. G. Gray, T. Irlam, J. D. Lubecki, A. S. Mitchell-Innes, A. J. M. Nevile, A. A. Wagner, K. Wilson.

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The Lord Archbishop administered the sacrament of Confirmation to CONFIRMATION members of the School in the Eastern Crypt of the Cathedral on March 17th. The Archdeacon of Maidstone (Han. Chaplain to' the School) conducted the candidates' Retreat. We have an encouraging number of University Scholarships to record. We cordially congratulate D. L. Edwards on the award of the senior Demyship (Major Scholarship) in History at Magdalen College, Oxford; J. P. Fison on the award of another Demyship, in Modern Languages, at the same College: Miss Janet Shirley on the award of Major Scholarships in Modern Languages in St. Anne's Society, Oxford and at Lady Margaret Hall; G. V. Holliday on the award of a Ford Studentship in Classics at Trinity College, Oxford; and D. H. P. Maybury-Lewis on his recommendation by the examiners for a Scholarship in Modern Languages at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, which he could not accept. Two Choral Scholarships have brought reward to the Department of Music. We cordially congratulate L. A. O. Halsey, who goes to King's College, Cambridge and I. M. Osborn, who goes to Gonville and Caius College. SCHOLARSHIPS

We congratulate R. M. Butler, Captain of the School, on passing the eXAMINATIONS 1st M.B. examination from King's College, Cambridge; and J. C. W. flu1se on passing into the Royal Navy by Special Entry. ~~

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It cannot be often that a schoolboy writes the article on the front page of The Record, the oldest English ecclesiastical newspaper. This honour feU on January 10th to D. L. Edwards, with an article on Canterbury Cathedral To-day. We reprint it on another page.

We were more than sorry to lose Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Minns at the MR. C. E. MINNS end of last term. They had been with us since 1942 and had gained the gratitude of many by their wide scholarship and kindness. Mr. Minns has rendered notable service to the Walpole Society as its President, and to the G.P.C. as its Han. Secretary. We understand that he is devoting himself for some time to literary work, and wish him and his wife every success and happiness. Mrs. Findlay has given us a copy of an old print of the Tudor THE TUDOR SCHOOL Schoolhouse. We are very grateful. Lieut.-Colonel A. E. C. Bredin, D.S.O., M.C., O.KS., commanded the 1st Battalion of the Dorsetshires on remarkably "active service" in Sicily, Italy, France, Belgium and Holland during the War. He has now written a book on his experiences and those of his battalion, which we recommend to our readers. It is called Three Assault Landings, and it is published by Gale and Polden at the Wellin~ton Press, Aldershot, price 8/9, l.'0st free .. The author has kindly presented a copy of hIs book to the School L,brary, wIth a remInder that two of his company commanders durIng the penod were also O.K.S. THE EXPERIENCES OF AN O.KS.

This Fund has now raised over two-thirds of the ÂŁ300,000 THE CANTERBURY urgently required for the restoration of the life and buildings CATHEDRAL ApPEAL FUND of the Cathedral. Although ÂŁ124,000 of this total is a gift from Mr. Thomas W. Lamont, readers of The Cantuarian have, in their different capacities, played a fitting part in the great achievement. Early this year, the Archdeacon of Maidstone and Mr. J. H. Corner, Secretary of the Fund, extended the Appeal to the United States and to Canada. The Dean and Chapter and Mr. Corner deserve every congratulation on their work. We are very grateful to Mr. William Urry for his gift of a sermon preached before the School Feast Society in 1784 by George Horne, D.D., Dean of Canterbury and President of Magdalen College, Oxford. The sermon mentions the then recent discoveries of "our countrymen sent in quest of a continent to visit the distant isles of the South Sea" ; it condemns a contemporary "voice from the mountains of Switzerland, proclaiming that to teach is to prejudice" ; and it extols the delights of learning at some length. If we are to believe Gibbon's scornful account of his days as an undergraduate at Magdalen, it would seem that this last subject was one which the President was eminently fitted to expound! Altogether, the sermon is a valuable acquisition. The Monitors were especially interested to notice the article under this A CANTERBURY heading in the Christmas number of the magazine Illustrated. The CHRISTMAS article contained an excellent photograph of Ian Waterfall, a member of School House, talking with Mr. Ernest Baldock, our Head Gardener, in the monastic Pentise in Lattergate garden: and Waterfall subsequently had to explain his presence in a garden belonging to another House ! A SERMON OF 1784

THE CANTUARIAN We have already mentioned the magazine Pavilion. It publishes work by "PAVILION" Ya ung au t ors h ',rom ~II over EngIand. We congratulate D. L. Edwards . . . . on the award of a Pme from the Editor for the best article published by PaVIlion In ItS first year. An O.KS., P. H. Honour, was second in the competition. Preachers to the School this term have included the Archdeacon of CanterPREACHERS bury, O. KS. (tWIce), Canon J. M. C. Crum, a former Governor of the Sch<?ol, t.h~ Rev. J. F. Martin, the . Rev. Arthur Bell, and four laymen, . Lieut.-General S,r WIlham Dabble, the Headmaster of Harrow, the Headmaster of a C.M.S. School 10 Kenya, and Mr. Alan Ratcliffe. We record with deep regret al~d. with sympathy to his family the DR. C. H. PHILLIPS sudden death ofDr. C; H. Phl[hps, Dlfector of Music from 1940 . to [944. Dr. Phllhps made a very notable conductor in the three oratonos perfor',l1ed by the Choral Society in Truro Cathedral during the War. He brought to all h,s work a sureness of touch and a depth of musical knowledge which caused many to prophesy for .hml.great success In the activity which he especially loved, as a Lecturer at Glasgow UnIverSIty. H~ had rece~t1y published a book on The Singing Church: It has already run to a second edItIOn, and It may deservedly serve as his abiding memonal. We are most Ilrateful to O.K.S. for recent generous contributions to the Headmaster's SpecIal Fund: H. G. Leahy (£15), F. Pettifer (£5), R. G. Barrett (£10), J. H. Clark (£21), D . M. P~llen (£5 5s.), P. c. V. Lawless (£10 lOs.), C. I. Meek (£5), W. B. Steele (£5), D. H. Couner (£10 lOs. for the War Memorial), D. F. L. Evans (£1), R. E. ~ewton (£1 Is.l.: J. S. Macartney (£5), J. L. Trevitt (£100). An anonymous O.KS. has gIven £400, makIng the total of this term's contributions £594 6s. GlFIS

We hope parents and O.K.S. will continue in their gifts to the CAPS AND GOWNS School of used ~olour Caps and Blazers and Scholars' Gowns. . . These are very dIfficult to .obtain under the present circumstances. In this connectIOn, we have to thank Mrs. H. Morley Hooper and Mr. F. L. Goad, O. K.S. The Bishop of Middleton, O.KS., tells us that at the Enthronement of ArchbIshop Fredenck Temple he happened as a Junior Scholar to be standin~ next to B~shop John Mitchinson, whose Autobiography we are . pu~l!shIng. D~. M,tchmson had at that time long since retired from his Headmastership. He was dl~/ll!sted WIth the way ':'Ie did our part and muttered that there ~oul.d have been trouble If It had so happened 10 his time: I felt devoutly thankful that hiS reIgn was over !" BISHOP MITCHINSON

The Captain and Vice-Captain of the School and four senior boys THE OXFORD AND represented the School at the Jubilee Service of Thanksgiving of BERMONDSEY CLUB the Oxford and Bermondsey Club on February 16th. The Arch. bIShop of Canterbury preached, and the Prime Minister spoke at a ~ubsequent meetmg. The Scho?l has a very close connection with the Canterbury Club m Be~mondsey, and the attentIOn of O.KS. is urgently directed to the Club's ReconstructJon Appeal to enable It to seize the opportunities offered by the rebuilding of ~7

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We were unusually interested in The Anatomy of. Peace by Em~ry Reves POSTULATE (Allen and Unwin, 7/6, Penguin Books 1/-) .. It IS lI:n. exammatlOn of the OF PEACE causes of a war and a practical proposal for ItS abohtlOn: Mr. Reves, an American journalist of wide experience and reputatIOn, beheves that nothlllg short of a World Sovereignty in our time can keep the peace. Few have stated a common and, we think, indisputable thesis better than he. We hope all our readers wIll obtam hIs book. The century-old connection of Canterbury with Parramatta has been GIFTS FROM splendidly illustrated by the co!,cern of our "daughter" Scho?l for our PARRAMATTA food supply. From time to Itme. parcels of food have arnved fro,!, Australia which have been most tImely. We are very grateful for thIs clear proof of friendship. Mr. Robert Ainsworth, whose death ~as announced i.n February, gave many recitals to the School and even, WIth rare. generosIty, u.ndertook the duties of Director of MusIc for several weeks m 1944, helplOg us over a period made difficult by the Director's illness. No previous Director of the Covent Garden Opera can have been at t~e same time Director ~f a S~hool's Music.! Mrs. Ainsworth (Muriel Brunskill) often jOllled her husband 10 hIS recItals, and theIr two sons entered Walpole House. We extend our de~pest sympathy to them. LIke many others, we will miss Mr. Ainsworth both as a mUSICian and as a fflend.

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VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, K.G., will lecture to the School in May. We apologise to Miss Margaret Babington, O.B.E., and to the Rev. T. E. M. Boultbee, O.K.S., who have written to us on the matter, for a slip of our pen in our last n?mber. On page II, we stat~d that Cardinal Pole was the last Archbishop to be buried III the Cathedral (1558) unltl the IOterment of the ashes of Archbishop Lang (1945). We should, of course, have stated that Archbishop Benson was buried under the North-West Tower 10 1896. Pole and Benson thus rest as far from each other as is possible! .

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THE HEADMASTER Mr. R. W. Moore, Headmaster of Harrow, spent a week-end at the OF HARROW School in March. He talked with some of the boys, and we hope to see him again soon. THE CHORAL The Society will perform Haydn's Creation during the Festival of the SOCIETY Friends of Canterbury Cathedral in July.

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Forty boys now learn dancing every week under Mrs. F. Stanger. These classes had lapsed for some time.

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Printing has also been revived, with a professional instructor. The School Press is in good condition.

Members of the School under Mr. C. W. Ward had a very enjoyable time SKATING skating and playing ice hockey at Fordwich, and tobogganing in the neighbouring countryside this term. These sports have gone some way to make up for the weather. MR. AND MRS. GARDNER

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The Annual Dinner of the O.K.S. Association was held at the Cafe O.K.S. DINNER Royal on 13th January and about 120 attended. It was a successful and cordial re-union. The President of the Association proposed "Floreat Schola ", to which the Headmaster replied. Notwithstanding gallant efforts to publicize the date and place, many O.K.S. seem to have known nothing of it. Would it not be a wise plan to settle the date of the next annual dinner now, so that it can be reiterated in The Canlual'ian and spread abroad also in personal correspondence? The Headmaster preached at Corpus this term, and it is CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, fitting that there should be a warm relationship between CAMBRIDGE College and School. Both owe so much to Matthew Parker, and the tighter the bonds can be drawn the happier that great benefactor will surely be. The School is very full indeed, and decision has been taken that the maximum ENTRIES number shall be what it now is, i.e. 350 Seniors, 120 Juniors. There are practically no vacancies for four or five years at least. Several O.K.S. have already entered their sons for as far ahead as 1960.

WINTER OF DISCONTENT Imagine an event which deprived us ol'lectures by "Taffrail" and Mr. Victor Gollancz ; imagine another which deprived us of recitals by Mary Linde, Eric Greene, Edgar Knight and Ronald Smith; imagine a third which deprived us of eight hockey matches in the season; or a fourth which deprived the Colts' XV of all their fixtures in Rugger; or a fifth which prevented a fixture with a Cambridge Athletics Team, a Triangular Fixture with Bradfield College and Tonbridge School, and the School Athletic Sports; or a sixth which prevented School Morning Prayers for a fortnight; or a seventh which resulted in a morning's holiday being given and not welcomed; or an eighth which prevented boys 69

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And just imagine a Call1Uarian which, suffering like all other magazines from fuel-cuts with our printers, was yet printed too early to describe many of our chief diversions. Never before have the Editors had to apologise so abjectl y to their readers. Above all, they have to apologise fo r Olentioning that last refuge of the mentally deficient, the British Weather. But readers, remembering their own sufferings, will no doubt understand and forgive. And one day, no doubt, in a day glimmering before the editorial face, the flowers will bloom in the Spring and- we dutifull y hope in some manner which will not do credit to the rival Metropolitical Seeâ&#x20AC;˘ . . . our winter of discon tent be Made glorious ill the heavy summer SUIl of York.

WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM We welcome the appointment of Mr. Wj!!iam Somerset Maugham, O.K.S., as a Governor of the School in the place of the late Lord Plender. A son of the late Robert Ormond Maugham and a brother of Lord Maugham (Lord Chancellor of Engla nd 1938-9), he is a familiar figure to everybody. He is particularly well-known to us, for he was a boy at the School from 1885 to 1889 and has left his impressions of life in Canterbury in his autobiographical novel Of Human Bondage and his spiritual auto biography The Summing- Up. From here he went to the University of Heidelberg-one of his fi rst literary productions was a play written in German and produced in Berlin in 1902-and then to St. Thomas' Hospital, where he took his medical degrees in 1897. He never practised, however, but gave himself to a literary career, publishing his first book in the same year that he completed his medical course. His literary and dramatic talent secured early recognition and from that time onwards he has never looked back. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1925 and has over fifty works to his credit. A bibliography of his works is appended to this article. It is always difficult to assess contemporary claims in literature, but there can be little doubt of the permanent place that Mr. Somerset Maugham's writings will secure for him. A carefur as well as a prolific writer, bis quality has always kept pace with quantity and the years are likely to add rather than detract from his position and fame. In particular he will always be remembered for his incisive style, his power of drawing character with a few telling (sometimes devastating) strokes, his wide imaginative sympathy, his strong commonsense realism, his profound knowledge of human nature, and his ability to depict with all its passion and its pleasures the society of the beau mOllde. 70

THE CANTUARtAN His detachment from his characters early pointed the way to dramatic talent where the skilful interplay of conversation can play so important a part. For he is a master of dialogue. Sometimes the problems of medicine-as in The Sacred Flame-gave him the theme of a play ; at other times it is simply the comedy of manners- as in Lady Frederick, which has just been revived at the Savoy Theatre- that engage his attention. Whatever it is, he can always be relied upon to be lively and entertaining. He is a mine of informatio n for the social historian of the future. And the Western wo rld is not his only ~tage. His insight into Oriental life is amazing. The Paillted Veil is an unforgettable picture of plague-stricken China whilst East of Suez speaks for itself. Of all the writers who have described that curious half-Western, half-Eastern society which had Singapore for its spiritual capital, Somerset Maugham is eas ily the best. As a short story writer he ra nks with de Maupassant and Tchekov as one of the world 's most accomplished masters. He resembles de Maupassant in particular, in that most of his stories have a characteristic twist at the end which gives a sense both of satisfaction and perfection . Somerset Maugham is of course a good example of the famous aphorism "Tout homme a deux pays, la F rance et Ie sien ". His father lived in Paris and his own permanent home is in the South of France, that international semi-paga n Mediterranean world so faithfully portrayed in his later books, and his services to the Republic have earned him the Legion of Honour. This School, in its long and distinguished history, has produced fou r of the greatest figures in English literature-Christopher Marlowe (1 564-93), Walter Pater (1839-94), Sir Hugh Walpole (1884-1941), and Mr. Somerset Maugham (b. 1874). Marlowe is here perpetuated in the Sixth Form Literary Society and the old Day Boy House which bore his name, Pater by the Sixth Form Classical Society, Walpole by the Junior Literary Society and the boarding-house which now sta nds on the site of the old "Parrots " . So it is eminently fitting that Mr. Somerset Maugham's name should also be closely linked with the School, and we hope that he will long occupy the position of Governor. BIBLIOGRAPHY FI CTION AN D AUTOBIOG RA PH Y

Liza of Lambeth The Mak ing of a Saini Orientat ions The Hero Mrs. Craddock The Merry~go~round The Land of the Blessed Virgin

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The Bishop's Apron The Explorer The Magician Of Human Bondage The Moon and Sixpence The Trembling of a Leaf On a Chinese Screen The Painted Veil The Casuarina Tree Ashenden The Gentleman in the Parlour Cakes and Ale First Person Singular The Narrow Corner

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Schifbruchig A Man of Honour Lady Frederick Jack Straw Mrs. Dot The Explorer Penelope Sm ith The Tenth Man Grace Loaves and Fishes The Land of Promi se Caroline Love in a Cottage Caesar's Wife Home and Beauty The Unknown The Circle 8.:1st of Suez Our Betters The Camel's Back

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PENNY READING The School ill Literature We suspect that the 1,350th annive rsary of the landing of St. Augustine was little more than a pretext fo r the Penny Reading arranged by the Monitors for March 12th. The programme was designed to illustrate the place in Literature of the Canterbury School which St. Augustine probably founded , by a series of readings of descriptions of the School by O.K.S. and ot.hers. To sweeten the mixture, R. V. Brooks played one of the Chopin Noctul'11es of which even at his age, he has already made himself a master. D. L.

Edwards was Produ;er, and a number of guests, including the Dean, attended. J. C. W. Hulse and D. H. P . Maybury-Lewis read extracts from the first Englisb tragedy, Marlowe's Dr. FausllIs ; J. B. H. Jackson read two articles by Sir Hugh Walpole, one written for the School in 1929 and the other for The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News in 1941 ; T. H. Pares read a description of the School from David Coppel/ield ; ilOd the Headmaster read Nell Cook: lite King's Scholar's Stor}' from lngoldsby Legends. The next two readings contrasted the elaborate, hot-house beauty of Walter Pater's Emerald Ullllvarl with the light cruelty of Mr. Somerset Maugham's paragraphs on The King's School, Tercanbury in OJ Human Bondage. These were read by M. C. O. Mayne and P. D. Leighton. A. F . Cray then read a fragment of prose by Mr. S. S. Sopwith, O. K.S., which has already appeared in The Cal/tllarial/, and the Producer ended the programme by reading a poem on Bell Harry hy Mr. D. Stainer, O.K.S. We would have wished that time had been sufficient for extracts from other descripti ons of the Canterbury School- for example, the Saxon legend and the Restoration plays in the History oj the School, or C. E. A. Pullan's Schola Mea, or Mr. Stainer's own Road 10 Nowhere; but what was read was enough to demonstrate the riches of our literary tradition and to recall, in a gloomy time, happier days.

SCHOOLS' ASSOCIATION OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES The King's School Natural Hi story Society is sponsoring a scheme to co-ordinate the work of similar societies throughout Great Britain. A meeting has been arranged by the President, Mr. D. Stainer, and T. H. Pares for Marcb 22nd, to be held at the Royal Geographical Society's House in Kensington . Circulars have been sent to some sixty Public Schools in the first instance, and encouraging replies have been received. Letters of warm support have come from Mr. Eric Parker, Mr. Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald (Editor of The Field), Mr. Eric Hosking, Mr. David Lack, Mr. H. Cary Gilson, Mr. Nat Tracy and the Rev. L. Sargent, O.K.S., who will preside at the meeting. 72

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As Major E. Took exp~es~ed it, the Society' 'visualises something stupendous coming of the effor.!. . The ""SsoclatIOn .should lInmeasurably enrich the work of all English boys and gIrls In theIr great hentage, the wild life around them. Plans are afoot for reports, s!lrveys, camps and an annual General Meeting. The first meeting will be fully reported In our next number. ARCADIA When O.rpheus sang a nd touched his lyre FIlled WIth the gods' poetic fire; Long ere the wars of Troy began Or Mars became the Lord of Man That perfect time of perfect peace,' The Golden Age of Golden Greece, When all was lovely as a dream' Life flowed, a calm untroubled stream Gods lived and laughed in Arcady. ' Ah ! happy race of mortals tben When Zeus was king of gods and men' Each river had its nymph, each nymph 'her song, Tree drya~s danced, and Echo wept her wrong, Pan and hIS satyrs filled the woods with sound And Bacchus smiled to see the wine go round Great Juno 's peacocks spread their gorgeous tails And on the sapphire sea danced Argo's sails When the world was young in Arcad)'. J.E.M.L.S. AUTUMN NIGHTFALL The mist drifts soft, The hay is in the loft, The sky grows dark, We cry now "Hark! List ' to tbe owl! " The red moon bigh Swings slow across the sky, The little weasel slips Silent by, water drips Sad on de,a d leaves. The year dies; as ever,

The cynical and clever Laugh, with strange unease, And turn again to seize What joy remains in life. J.E.M.L.S.

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THE CANTUARIAN BISHOP BROUGHTON AND IDS SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS

The Bishop is in the armchair

THE KING'S SCHOOL AND AUSTRALIA With the election of the Rev. W. H. Moline to the Archbishopric of Perth, two of the three Australian Archbishops are linked, not only as O.K.S., but as friends-from their days together at Canterbury as schoolboys. There could be no more fitting occasion to recall the part played by O.K.S. in the foundation of Australia. The Anglican Church in Australia may be said to have been founded by an O.K.S. This was William Grant Broughton, who was a boy at Canterbury amid the excitements of the Napoleonic Wars, from 1797 to 1804. He was placed by his family in a clerkship in the East India House (he was a fellow-clerk with Charles Lamb), and it was not until he was aged twenty-six that the way opened for him to read Mathematics at Cambridge and to prepare himself foJ' Ordination. He returned to Canterbury for a short time to refurbish his Maths. under Henry Hutchesson, then part-time Mathematical Tutor to the School, and he was rewarded by election as Sixth Wrangler in 1818. He was ordained in the same year and married the daughter of a former Headmaster of The King's School in Canterbury Cathedral. He then had another false start, this time as a scholar-curate, the author of works on New Testament MSS. and the debateable question of the authorship of Eikon Basilike, attributed to King Charles 1. He was introduced, however, to the Duke of Wellington, and it was the Duke who in 1828. persuaded him to accept the very arduous duties of Archdeacon of New South Wales. "The Duke", Broughton

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THE CANTUARIAN wrote later, " found me a curate and lived to see me a Metropolitan.'" The middle-aged Archdeacon went out to Sydney with much the same task as had confronted st. Augustine _ at Canterbury twelve centuries before. Broughton immediately began to visit all parts of his vast charge under very difficult conditions of travelling: his "parish" embraced the whole of Australasia. The work of the first five years drove him to demand and obtain from the Missionary Societies at home the doubling of the strength of the clergy in Australia, the provision of proper financial aid, the construction of permanent churches and schools, and the establishment of a Bishopric of Australia. Broughton was himself consecrated to the new See at Lambeth in 1836. In 1832, he had founded the first Public School in Australia, The King's School, Parramatta. It grew to be the leading school in the country; to this day the relations of the two King's Schools, geographically thousands of miles apart, are very close. Boys from Parramatta have visited Canterbury and were made welcome by the Mother School. In their turn, O.K.S . have always found warm hospitality at Parramatta. The Schools share the same crest and many of the same ideals; for The King's School, Parramatta, was expressly founded by Bishop Broughton to extend the spirit of the English Public Schools to a new continent, "avoiding only exclusive attention to classical pursuits", and it was Broughton who protested against a scheme to establish a school which would merely "communicate a knowledge of a number of facts connected with the different sciences". The story of his part in the School's foundation has been most admirably told in The fIistory of The King's School, PanÂˇamatta. The corner-stone of the new Sydney Cathedral was laid in 1837 and, ten years later, the immense diocese was sub-divided and Bishop Broughton elected Bishop of Sydney and first Metropolitan of Australia. He provided the stipends for most of the new Bishops out of his own salary. He came home in 1852 and, as if his accomplished progress were not enough when confronted with his ideal, he was still full of plans for the Australian Church which he wanted to discuss with the home authorities. He caught a severe chill, and died in 1853 . He was buried in the Nave of Canterbury Cathedral. He died in the London house of the widow of Sir George Gipps, O.K.S. Gipps is the other great name in the story, and his association with Broughton is very touching. They were boys together at the School (then comparatively tiny), and Gipps was Governor-in-Chief of New South Wales and New Zealand when Broughton was Bishop. Often violently opposed in public affairs, the one did for the Australian State what the other did for the Australian Church. Both found enduring memorials in Australia, Gipps in Gippsland, Broughton in Sydney Cathedral and Parramatta School. And while Broughton lies in our Nave, in the next bay to his friend's monument, Gipps was buried in the Cloisters at Canterbury. The son of a country parson, Gipps became a King's Scholar in 1802. He left School to serve in the Napoleonic Wars right up to Waterloo. After the signing of the peace, he travelled widely in Europe and was sent by the Government to the West Indies in 1824 and to Canada in 1835. His reports on both these missions attracted such attention to his gifts for colonial administration that he was appointed to New South Wales in 1837. He opened the first Legislative Council of Australia in 1843 and proved one of the most active Governors Australia has ever had. His rule was of necessity authoritarian, and the settlers launched more than one unsuccessful appeal against him with the Home Government. He insisted on equitable division of the settlers' land, and on the protection of the rights of the aborigines; fired with a hope of what was to come, he devoted much 7S

THE CANTUARIAN of his energy to the encouragement of exploration and immigration. He retired in 1846 with warm thanks for his work from the Colonial Secretary, and died at Canterbury in 1847. His only son was no less distinguished than the father, becoming a General and

a G.c.B. Once more, two O.K.S. now bear rule in AustraliaÂˇ. This time, they are linked by allegiance to the School with a third leader in Australian life, the Rt. Rev. John Frewer, O.K.S. Bishop of North-West Australia since 1929. Between these two memorable connections lies an unwritten story of the devotion of scores of O.K.S. missionaries and settlers whom it would be invidious to single out for special praise. On Mr. Moline's election to the Archbishopric, the Archbishop of Sydney, we are informed, telegraphed : Do you remember our school-days? and the new Archbishop of Perth wired back the traditional Floreat Schola . We may well wonder whether from any other few hundred square yards in England has gone forth such a succession of notable and devoted servants to the Australian Church and State, as from these Precincts of the Mother Church.

HOCKEY Hockey this term has been only one of' the activities that the weather has almost entirely curtailed. The actual "season" slipped by, buried in snow, without a single match being played and hardly any games possible. Fortunately, however, the almost total cessation of track athletics owing to the conditions underfoot has made it possible for the last fortnight of the term to be devoted to House matches and as many 1st XI and 2nd XI matches as epidemics will permit. Only two Old Colours remain from last year, but they are supported by a strong body from our previous first game. The team' contains nobody who has not already played in either the 1st or 2nd Xl's and very few who have not got their 2nd XI Colours. The halves, in fact, are positively brim".'ing with capable players, though there is still a certain reluctance to fill the forward pOSItIOns. We have a sound palf of backs and an experienced goalkeeper; so are looking forward eagerly to our first " trial of strength' '. There had been every promise of an excellent season. D.H.P.M.-L. [As we finally go to press, the XI has defeated Dovel' College, 3-I.-Eds.]

FENCING The Club, only recently re-started, is now firmly on its feet, and apart from the select band of seniors taking instruction in the finer points of the art, it contains a large number of juniors who show an embarrassing keenness! We have concentrated principally on the foil and the five who comprise the team now need only more match experience to consolidate their technique. However, there has also been plenty of sabre done, and we almost decided to offer it in our matches but eventually did not. Of the matches themselves, most were cancelled owing to epidemics, but one assaultat-arms was held against Highgate School at Highgate. We lost a close match by II bouts to 14, but considering our inexperience it was Âˇboth a profitable and enjoyable afternoon.

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We must thank Sergeant-Major Osborne for the enormous help he has been in getting the team ready in such short time. He has done more than anybody to ensure the success of fencing in the School. E. R. Strouts was awarded his Colours after the Highgate match. D.H.P.M.-L.

BOXING It has been a term of considerable hard work in the Gym. One match. was held, against Dover College. Two of the Dover boxers were overweight, and the result was a draw. Read i, Smith i, Griffiths and Norman ii did well to win their bouts, and Allen i and Morgan ii acquitted themselves honourably in their unequal contests. Much is owing to P.S.1. Osborne and to I. M. Osborn, the Captain.

THE SOCIETIES MARLOWE SOCIETY The Society received with deep regret the resignation of Mr. F. H. Voigt, its President since 1942 ; the Rev. S. B.-R. Poole was elected as his successor. K. G. T. Stuart was elected Hon. Secretary. The Society devoted itself to an examination, meeting by meeting, of as many aspects as possible of Byron's life and work. Members began by holding a symposium of their favourite Byronic passages, and at subsequent meetings extracts were read from Harold Nicholson, Andre Maurois and Lord David Cecil. The President lectured on The Essential Byron, P. D. Leighton on The Family Background, the Hon. Secretary on The Classical Element, D. L. Edwards on Byron in Politics, J. C. W. Hulse on Byron in rtaly, T. H. Pares on Byron ill England, and B. L. Leary on The Byronic Hero. It is hoped to continue the series of papers and discussions next term. THE DEBATING SOCIETY The Society met on February 18th to debate the reali ty of the "complete collapse of moral standards among the people of Britain ". Mr. F. E. Stemson, cast in the unfamiliar rOle of Mephistophilis, spoke very well, but in vain; under the calm guidance of the Opposer, Mr. A. Ratcliff, the House upheld the moral integrity of its contemporaries by 30 votes to 12. The seconders were J. R. Allchurch and J. M. Hearth; J. C. W. Hulse made a notable speech from the House. T. H. Pares was in the Chair. AERO-MODELLING CLUB The Club has been formed under the Presidency of the Rev. J. F. Martin, with W. N. Francklin as Hon. Secretary. It has met regularly at Sir John Boys' House and deserves congratulation on its enterprise. ' 77

THE CANTUARIAN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY The main activity of the Society has been in the formation of the Schools' Association of Natural Hist.ory Societies, but it has been an energetic term in other directions. The first meeting was a "Sportsman's Quiz' ; ; this was followed by a discussion on the training of animals and by a Free Reading. J. Murray Usher gave an excellent paper on Vermin, and Captain G. E. Took lectured with brilliance on Birds' Nesting, bringing with him a small selection of eggs for display. Mrs. W. H. Oldeker was another welcome guest, for a lecture on British Grasses. Mr. R. Coles very kindly"showed two films, and there were a numher of excursions and expeditions under the President, Mr. D. Stainer. The membership of the Society now exceeds forty, and it may be said to be the most active in the School. HARVEY SOCIETY M. Allen has been elected Hon. Secretary; to inaugurate his year of office, he gave a paper on the scientific aspects of the Cinema. At other meetings, J. J. Bradley lectured on "Hypnotism ", and the President, Mr. R. Coles, showed films on Tin and Zinc. The annual gala night will take place on Monday, March 24th. The Canons, Masters and Monitors have been invited. MUSIC SOCIETY This term the Society has heard two papers, one by the President on "Romanticism in Music" and the other by Mr. Donald Legate, the Music Master of SI. Edmund's, on "Are the Engl ish Musical?" On March 11th, Miss Deidre Moody and Mr. Raymond Hooker gave a fine violin and piano recital, which included Cesar Franck's Violin Sonata. The other programmes of the term have been a Committee's Choice of gramophone records, and four gramophone recitals ranging from Act II of Mozart's Magic Flute to Walton's Belshazzar's Feast. WALPOLE SOCIETY The Society welcomed a new President, Mr. J. H. Corner; during his absence in America, Mr. R. W. Purnell kindly undertook his duties. Mr. Corner's visit resulted in two most enjoyable lectures to the Society, one on Everyday Life in America and another on American Humour. The Society also read two plays, Dodie Smith's Dear Octopus and Noel Coward's This Happy Breed, and was fortunate enough to attend a concert by the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Folkestone. Mr. J. R. E. Paynter promised to conclude the term's programme with a talk. RAILWAY SOCIETY The Society held four meetings. D. K. N. Morgan gave a paper on Palestine Railways, R. J. Simpkins on Padding ton to Bristol, the Hon. Secretary (A. Endersby) on Dover and Folkestolle, and A. Holley on Rollillg Stock. The Han. Secretary reports that attendance al meelings has been good. 78

THE CANTUARIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY The Society has had another very successful term, with the Dark room at last fully equipped. Papers have been given by J. E. Elliott and tbe President on "Camera Lenses and Shutters" and "The Uses of Photography " respectively. The Society paid a most interesting visit to the Friars projection room, being shown all over the cinema. It is hoped that next term the weather will induce more members of the School to join the Society and develop their own films, which are now becoming more plentiful. THE ART SOCIETY The Term has seen new opportunities for the Arts and Crafts in the School, through the kindness of the Principal and Staff of the City of Canterbury School of Art. Nearly fifty boys have gone to the School of Art every week for classes in woodwork, metalwork, modelling and lettering. Next term it is hoped that boys will embark upon a "project" which will use and demonstrate the remarkable progress they have so far made. The School owes every thanks to the School of Art for its co-operation at a time when suitable equipment on our own premises is sadly insufficient: it was a splendid gesture, and the enthusiasm of the Art staff has proved infectious. Our own Art classes under Mr. D. Stainer have continued to teach painting and drawing. It is planned to hold an Exhibition of Art at the end of the Summer Term.

THE TERM'S MUSIC In common with many other activities of school lite, music this term has suffered considerably, for out of the five recitals arranged, only two have taken place, although at the time of writing the recital by Audrey Fordham and Alfred Safhill has yet to come. In the recital by Leily Howell ('cello) and Robert Irwin (baritone), the programme induded Five Old French Dances by Marin Marais, and songs by Schubert and Vaughan Williams, while the main works in Miss Winifred Roberts' violin recital were Chausson 's Poeme and Brahms' second violin Sonata in A. The School Concert, which should have taken place on March 9th, was also cancelled, owing to the indisposition of a number of the chief performers, but tribute mllst be paid to the School Orchestra and the Madrigal Choir, who put in sllch hard and valiant work in vain .

The Choral Society (augmented by a Jarge number of outsiders) has also been practising very hard at choruses from Haydn's Creation, and these will be performed on March 20th. If this is anything like Samson las, year, it will be very good indeed. L.A.O.H.

CINEMA The Invisible Man Returns (January 19th) was a disappointment: both story and acting were ineffective when the audience had recovered from the novelty of the early camera-tricks in the macabre. Will Hay can have had no more appreciative audience than the School for his adventures as a schoolmaster in The Ghost of St. Michael's (February 23rd). It was delightfully funny. 79

tHE CANtUARtAN A third Cinema Show has been arranged for the last evening of term. Mr. R. Coles deserves every congrulation for his management of the term's excellent programme. He was especially fortunate in his choice of the accompanying "cartoons".

THE SCHOOL LIBRARY The Librarian acknowledges with gratitude gifts from the Headmaster, Mr. W. Blore, Mr. K. J. Collins, Mrs. Richardson, and thirteen O.K.S.: R. D. Weidenbacker, D. T. Weatherill, M. G. Jordan, P. C. V. Lawless, P. H. Honour, J. Watts, P. C. Hammond, H. A. Emerson, M. Swinhoe-Phelan, J. P. Fison, K. B. C. Hubbard, H. Pitts, Lt.-Col. H. E. N. Bredin. There have been a large number of purchases in all sections, but the Librarian will cordially welcome any gifts. The Library is by no means complete! Those soon to become O.K.S . are reminded of the tradition of presenting a book on departure from the School.

CHARLES DICKENS AND THE KING'S SCHOOL [We continue the series on the School in English Literature which has produced notable assessments ~r /lVo O.K.S. authors, Walter Patel' and Christophel' Marlowe, with an article on an author who only visited the School.]

From Inl to 1816, the School was governed by a succession of five O.K.S. Headmasters. This succession was only broken by one "outside" Headmaster, who reigned for three years. He was dismissed for gross incompetency. When the last of these O.K.S. Headmasters died in 1816, he was seventy-eight years of age. There were then only twenty-six boys in the School and thirty-two King's Scholarships remained unsolicited. In 1785, the Dean and Chapter had ordered that the stipends of all vacant King's Scholar.ships should be used to augment the salaries of the Headmaster and Second Master: and so it was in the interest of these most respectable personages to keep the numbers of the School as low as possible. They succeeded. But the paucity of candidates for the scholarships was reflected in the paucity of candidates for the vacant Headmastership. For three 'months, Henry Hutchesson, one of the School's earliest Mathematical Tutors, acted as Headmaster: readers of the present Headmaster's edition of the reminiscences of Prebendary George Gilbert, O.K.S., will remember the tiny Mathematical class of three which we find recorded in his pages. Of the three, one was Gilbert, destined to become a devoted O.K.S., a benefactor of the School and a schoolmaster himself; another was Charles Eaton Plater, who, as a humble parish priest, was to found on the Wiltshire downs a school for the sons of the clergy, Marlborough College; and the third was Charles Grant Broughton, who, as the first Bishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of Australasia, was to found in that great and far-distant continent Sydney Cathedral and the King's School, Paramatta, on the models of the Cathedral and School which he remembered at Canterbury, and who was himself to be buried in the Nave of Canterbury Cathedral. Gilbert tells us that Hutchesson was a "most benevolent man". We can believe it. 80

THE CANTUARIAN In June, 1816, the Headmastership was only filled by the appointment of a minor official of Hereford Cathedral, John Birt. He was a clergyman with no previous educational experience. As the historians of the School express it tenderly, "it would seem that Birt was a better musician than scholal', and a man of somewhat easy-going temperament". Under him, the boys on one occasion broke out into open rebellion. In 1829, the representatives of the Dean and Chapter examined the School and found that the lower forms under the Second Master "knew nothing". In the upper forms, "what the boys knew, they knew neither thoroughly nor well ". As a result, the Second Master resigned with scarcely a penny to his name, and the Headmaster so increased his activity that the numbers of the School had been raised to fifty before his departure. Most of the history of the School is too respectable to be very readable, but it would seem that in this period it was positively disreputable. The School was ruled by a series of more or less incompetent Headmasters, and many of these had their mental worlds bounded by the Canterbury Precincts and the walls of an Oxford College. Yet it was at this period of low water that the School received the greatest tribute ever paid to it in literature. Charles Dickens sent the hero of his favourite novel , David Copperfield, to school in the Canterbury Precincts. It was through the Green Court Gateway that, in the words of Professor G. M. Young, "Charles Dickens looked upon the boyhood he had never known ". The Canterbury School in his pages appeared as "Dr. Strong's School" : it was, he tells us, "an excellent school; as different from Mr. Creakle's as good is from evil. It was very gravely and decorously ordered with an appeal, in everything, to the honour and good faith of the boys which worked wonders". Yet to Dickens it was more. Like Pickwick's Christmas at Dingley Dell, Copperfield's days at the Canterbury School stood like an oasis in the mind of Dickens, untouched by the teeming vulgarity and the booming arrogance which he knew also so well how to depict.

"We all felt", David Copperfield records, "we had a part in the management of the place, and in sustaining its character and dignity. We soon became warmly attached to it-I never knew, in all my time, of any boy being otherwise-and learnt with a good will, desiring to do it credit. We had noble games out .of hours, and plenty of liberty; but even then, as I remember, we were well spoken of in the town, and rarely did any disgrace to the reputation of Dr. Strong and Dr. Strong's boys. The Doctor himself was the idol of the whole school. He was the kindest of men. As he walked up and down that part of the court-yard which was at the side of the house, with the stray rooks and jackdaws looking after him with their heads cocked slyly, as if they knew how much more knowing they were in worldly affairs than he, if any sort of vagabond could only get near enough his creaking shoes to attract his attention, that vagabond was made for the next two days. " The Canterbury schoolroom-presumably in the Schoolhouse built in the days of Elizabeth and pulled down in 1864-was "a pretty large hall on the quietest side of the house, commanding a peep of an old secluded garden belonging to the Doctor, where the peaches were ripening on the sunny south wall. About five and twenty boys were studiously at their books when we went in" (the number would be true of the senior part of the School in those days), "but they rose to give the Doctor good morning, and they remained standing when they saw Mr. Wickfield and me. ~l

THE CANTUARJAN " 'A new boy, young gentlemen,' said the Doctor; 'Trotwood Copperfield '." An "affable and good-humoured" Head Boy, Adams, showed Copperfield, D., to his desk: he looked, Copperfield tells us, like a clergyman of the time in his white cravat. At any rate, this was a more comfortable introduction to a new school than many others recorded in autobiographies of the time. Jt would seem that, to Dickens at least, the Canterbury School possessed certain qualities of character which were all but unique in the educational world of his day. If Dr. Birt was the original of Dr. Strong (and thereis every reason for supposing that he was), he was certainly a pleasanter Headmaster, if a less successful one, than his successor, Dr. Mitchinson, whose Autobiography we have been publishing. In between the two Doctors chronologically came Mr. George Wallace, Walter Pater's Headmaster. Copperfield's schoolhouse was "a grave building in a courtyard, with a learned air about it that seemed very well suited to the stray rooks and jackdaws who came down from the Cathedral to walk with a clerlky bearing on the grass plot" ; but Dickens' shrewd eye must have detected that the actual Schoolhouse in the Mint Yard was then approaching the condition of a ruin, and we are not surprised that Copperfield's capable aunt "had not approved of any of the boarding houses proposed for me, though the advantages of the school were undeniable". Jt is doubtful whether many parents would have approved of the Tudor Schoolhouse, and one of Dr. Mitchinson's most important reforms was to pull it down and build the present School House- with a grant by the Dean and Chapter of only ÂŁ7,OOO! So Copperfield lodged with Mr. Wickfield and passed in his house and at Dr. Strong's School the happiest years of his boyhood. He flirted with Miss Shepherd, of "the Misses Nettingalls' establishment" ("who come to the Cathedral too' '), â&#x20AC;˘'was then slighted, and conceived a sulphurous if little suspected passion for Miss Larkins, who, to his immortal grief, "knows officers" . It is possible that the Misses Nettingall's establishment was modelled on one of the existing girls' Schools in Canterbury. Gilbert tells us that in his day "it was considered good fun to go round to them and solicit their patronage" for a play which the King's Scholars bespoke from the touring companies when they came to Canterbury. Gilbert specially remembered one of the Canterbury Headmistresses, "an old puritan lady, a Miss Drake, who always wore a large turban, and dismissed the applicants severely". This sounds like the original Nettingall. But Copperfield did not confine his attentions to the ladies of the town. He also conducted one never-forgotten fight with the terror of its youth, a butcher'S boy who "lit ten thousand candles out of my left eyebrow" on a summer's evening "in a green hollow at the corner of a wall' '. He. met Mr. Micawber, still waiting for something to turn up ; and when expectations failed, he received his supposed "last communication" from the "beggared outcast". Deeply stirred, he rushed off to console Mr. Micawber at his hotel, but ran across him on the top of the stage-coach to London just outside the Precincts, "the very picture of tranquil enjoyment, smiling at Mrs. Micawber's conversation, eating walnuts out of a paper bag, with a bottle sticking out of his breast pocket". Legend still indentifies Mr. Micawber's hotel with the Sun Hotel near the Christ Church Gateway: it is now a jeweller's shop. (Copperfield himself is supposed to have stayed in a house, still existing, just beyond the Westgate.) Canterbury's twisting streets also saw Copperfield running to avoid the attentions of its twisting but very 'umble inhabitant, Uriah Heep ; and walking with greater joy with Mr. Dick, who in these surroundings scarcely ever remembered the head of Charles, King and Martyr.

THE CANTUARIAN He brought Mr. Dick to the school "to be the universal favourite". "How often, at hare and hounds, have I seen him mounted on a little knoll, cheering the whole field on to action, and waving his hat above his grey head! How many a summer now have I known to be but blissful minutes with him in the cricket-field! How many winter's days have I seen him, standing blue-nosed, in the snow and east wind, looking at the boys going down the long slide, and clapping his worsted gloves in rapture !" Copperfield did well, too, as a leader of the boys. He eventually himself became Head of the School, looking down "on the line of boys below me, with a condescending interest in such of them as bring to my mind the boy I was myself". But above all his other memories, as probably above those of his contemporaries in actual life, stood the Cathedral. â&#x20AC;˘'The earthy smell, the sunless air, the sensation of the world being shut out, the resounding of the organ through the black and white arched galleries and aisles, are wings that take me back, and hold me hovering above those days, in a half-waking and half-sleeping dream ". All this rings true of the School under Dr. Birt, and it would be interesting if we could identify other features common to the School in the great novelist's pages and in real life. For example, Dr. Strong's recreation was the compilation of an uncompilable Dictionary: was there a parallel in Dr. Birt? The courtyard of his school was surrounded by a series of stately stone urns. Did such ever exist at Canterbury? But the chief impression on the memory of Dickens left from his visit to Canterbury in search of a novelist's "colour" did not concern Dr. Strong or his school at all. It concerned Mrs. Strong. When Dickens came to Canterbury, he found the town still talking about a tragedy which had recently overcome Dr. Birt in his own home. "His wife, by whom he had several children," say the tactful historians of the School, "was a clever andÂˇ accomplished woman, but not adapted to fill the duties of a schoolmaster's wife, and she eventually deserted him." We remember the unfaithfulness of Mrs. Strong in the novel. We remember David Copperfield's eri de.., emur: â&#x20AC;˘'I cannot say what an impression this made upon me, or how impossible I found it afterwards to remember her face in its innocent loveliness again. It haunted me when I got home. I had no pleasure in thinking, any more, of the grave old broad-leaved aloe-trees which remained shut up in themselves a hundred years together, and of the trim old smooth grass-plot, and the stone urns, and the Doctor's walk, and the congenial sound of the Cathedral bells hovering above them all. It was as if the tranquil sanctuary of my boyhood had been sacked before my face, and its peace and honour given to the winds." In the novel, Copperfield rode off with this sense of impending tragedy on the stagecoach to London, to another volume and a half of adventures. Although he later returned to Canterbury to find everything unchanged, for many pages we lose sight of Dr. Strong and his school in the Canterbury Precincts. In life, Dickens went from Canterbury to a life of equally memorable adventures of the soul. Like Copperfield, he became a great popular novelist ;' and like Copperfield, he must have sometimes looked back to the Canterbury School-not, alas! as to his own schpol-but as to a period of peace and preparation which had scarcely existed in his own tragic boyhood. Dr. Birt was presented by the Dean and Chapter to the Vicarage of Faversham (a valuable living) in 1832, soon after his desertion by his wife. His Second Master, George Wallace, succeeded him at Canterbury and reigned until ninety years ago. At Faver-

THE C 'A NTUARIAN sham, Dr. Birt was apparently a conscientious and beloved parish priest, and also Headmaster of the local school. (It was from this school that Dr. Mitchinson brought Dr. Thomas Field, who became one 01 Copperfield's successors as Head of the School, and later one of Dr. Strong's as Headmaster.) Dr. Birt continued in harness to his death in 1847. He married again. D .L.E. (The quotations are abbreviated/rom Chapters xvi, xvii and Xlliii a/D avid Copperfield, alit! the ill/ormation is taken from lite History of the Schoo l by C. E. Woot/n{IJ alld H.J. Cape, pp. 184- 187. Afew copies of The Remini scences of George Gilbert, price 2/6, are still available from lite Headmaster's Secretary. A pamphlet 011 Charles Dickens and Canterbury is rare, bUI may be seen ill the Call1erbury Library .]

LECTURES DR. DONALD SOPER The Plymoutl!. Campaign, 1946

Dr. Soper, Superintendent of the West London Mission of the Methodist Church, addressed the School on January 31st. After indicating the desperate condition of the world, Dr. Soper went on to show how only a change in the heart of man will resolve the chaos, to affirm the Christian Faith. No words of mine can indicate the power and eloquence of his appeal. It was well put by a boy in the School when he said: " He made the Christian Faith sound so real and natural." Dr Soper is a famous broadcaster and unsurpassed as a speaker on Tower Hill and in Hyde.Park, sometimes with an audience numbering up to 1,500. Only once have I heard him floored in argument. Answering a question on the native problem in South Africa the speaker was much interrupted by a man who had much to say on the subject; driven to exasperation, Dr. Soper said: "Look here, my friend . Have you ever been to Africa ?" "No. " " Then don ' t talk so much about it." The man was silenced and Dr. Soper continued, but not for long, for up went the man's hand. "Mr. Speaker, have you ever been to heaven? " There was no more to be said ! Dr. Soper 's Church is the Kingsway Hall in the heart of Holborn: it is a very large building with many rooms. About 2,000 people can be seated in the rather ugly main hall in which Sunday Services are held. The activities of the Church are many: a creche for you ng children; a hostel for discharged prisoners for whom jobs are found; a hostel for prostitutes; a hostel for yo ung men and women working or studying in London; the Hungerford Club for the "down and outs" from the Embankment ; a weekly discussion group on world affairs; 20 or so groups of young people meeting weekly for devotion and Bible study, preparing themselves as witnesses to Christian truth. Dr. Soper believes profoundly that if the world is to be won for Christ, the laity must do it under the guidance of the clergy, for too long the layman has sat back and given the parson little support and encouragement. The writer went with 350 others for a week's campaign in Plymouth last August under Dr. Soper. It was a wonderful experience. Groups of 10-12 people had been preparing throughout the winter and early summer. 120 came from Kingsway, 80 from other London Churches, 50 from elsewhere, including parties f~om Leicester and

THE CANTUARIAN Birmingham, 100 joined us from the Churches in Plymouth : a motley collection of people of all ages, though most were young, rich and poor, white, black and yellow; Quakers, Anglicans, Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists. We slept on mattresses on the fioor of church premises and fed in British Restaurants and at the headquarters at the Central Hall. The opening meeting was in the Central Hall on Saturday night when the campaigners were welcomed hy some of the local ministers and, particularly gracefully, by the Bishop . of Plymouth. On the Sunday, in groups of four, the campaigners conducted and spoke at the Services in the many non-Anglican Churches in the city and neighbouring villages. At 8 0 'clock that evening our 25 open-air meetings were held throughout the city- groups of 12 conducted these, standing, more often than not, on the rubble of a bombed building. Each member gave his or her witness as to what the Christian Faith meant to them personally; a few of the bolder spirits asked for questions. Meanwhile, the rest of the group stood in the crowd and got into conversation whereve r possible. For the remainder of the week these "open airs" were held every evening from 6- 9 and then back to supper and short evening prayers. General Assembly was held at 10 each morning, and, after prayers and a hymn, reports on the previous day's activities were given by Dr. Soper and the group leaders, after which the briefing for the day was given. There were visits to hospitals, fire stations, canteens and, each lunch hour, two "open-airs" by the Devonport dock gates. The climax of the week was the final rally in the Central Hall on the Friday night, to which people had been invited throughout the week. At the close of this meeting 1,500 men and women took Communion. And what of the results? It is difficult to assess what, if any, influence was brought to bear upon those outside the Church; a few came and expressed a desire to join the Church and were put in touch with local ministers; others got up at the end of "open airs" and proposed a vote of thanks and urged that the Church should wake up and do more of this work. It is one of the joys of speaking for Christ that all unknown a life may be changed. The local churchfolk were unanimous that the campaign had brought new life to them. As one lady said: "I've been so depressed and wretched, but the sight of so many happy young people united in the faith has set me right again. " Those who were campaigners shared a wonderful experience, for as the week went by they knew that there was such a thing as the fellowship of the Holy Spirit-the fearful conquered their fears, those who were afraid to speak found they were eloquent, and it became quite clear that doctrinal differences were as nothing by the side of the unity found in the service of God. A.R. MR. J. E. BARTON Members of the School who were in Cornwall did not need to be reminded of Mr. Barton's gifts of exposition when he lectured to the School on March 2nd on Art Enjoyment for Everybody. 85

THE CANTUARJAN M r. Barton stressed that Art was not "pansy", an adornment, bnt essential, Life itself in its worthwhile aspects. No better way could have been foun~ of ill~strating this theme than the slides which he displayed of eIghteenth-century Enghsh archItecture, painting and furniture. He compared the excellel~cies of this peri~d with the g~ms. of Periclean Athens, Medireval France and RenaIssance Italy, With an Illumtnattng introduction to each. It was very good to hear Mr. Barton again. THE BARONESS RAVENSDALE We were pleased and proud to welcome Lady Ravensdale to the ScilOOI from March 7th to 10th. She came as a holiday in herself, with the same energy, ktndness and knowledge of affairs which had impressed us on her previous visits to the Sch~ol in Cornw~ll. As before, she joined in the normal life of the School~ CO~tng to servlc~s and taktng tea or coffee in the studies. She lunched WIth the Momtors 10 Hall and dmed With the Headmaster ; on Sunday evening, she charmed a large audience with stories of travel and of her work in the East End' and on March 8th, she lectured to the School on her impressions of America. It w~s amazing how much she managed to pack into a weekend; we are all very grateful. The Baroness began her lecture by pointing ou'! that s he was herself half Ameri.ca~ by birth; and, if she had criticisms to make of the Amencan ways of livmg and thinking, she had no wish to belittle the hospitality and kindness of a people of whom she was more than fond. The basic trouble with the Americans, she said, was that they were gadgetminded; they would soon lose the use of their legs. Many of them had no conception of the starvation and squalor under which most of the rest of the world laboured. Yet, like the rest of the world they were looking for spiritual qualities which they at present lacked. Lady Ravensdal~ told stories of the Americ~n negro who believ~d himself God, Father Divine, and of the Jady who conducted God s servIce on the pnnclples of hlghpowered publicity and business organisation, Aimee McPhearson, to illustrate the spiritual hunger of the United States which had recently been further d~monstrated by the four-million sale of Mr. Maugham 's The Razor's Edge. Amenc~ns, Lady Ravensdale pointed out, were in almost every case people who were m Amencaslmply because they didn 't like Europe; and we should not wonder at the power of IsolatlOlltsm. Yet if the values for which America and Britian both stood were to survIve m a world whi~h was now, just as it had been in the War, dominated by totalilnrian and illiberal ideologies, America would have to playa part in World Politics which befitted her economic and strategic dominance. To the cosmic was now joined a political and economic alternative: Christ or Chaos. Americans were capable of the most generous emotions and, when she had been in their country, she had seen signs of keen realisation of the high place to which America was called in the evolution of the Christian and liberal pattern of political life. Lady Ravensdale uttered a very solemn warning against the encroachments of the Communist pattern, which was fundamentally opposed to the principles of the English-speaking peoples. She left us with an uneasy feeling that appeasement with Russia might one day lead to a disaster similar to that encouraged by appeasement with Germany. It was a pity rhat Lady Ravensdale did not have time to suggest to the School an alternative in political and military terms. . An accomplished lecturer and a very distinguished figure in politics, the Baroness will be a very welcome guest whenever she can come again to visit the Cathedral and School. 86

THE CANTUARJAN MR. JEFFEREY FARNOL It was a delight to be able to welcome Mr. Farnol to our home, after his visit to us in Cornwall. He spent the week-end of March 14th-17th at Canterbury with his wife and daughter and went on such a thorough tour of the Cathedral, City and School that it is rumoured that his novels will be concerned with Ca nterbury for some time to come! Nobody who met Mr. Farnol (and there were many who had that good fortune during the week-end) could resist his quick imaginitive sympathy and his warm generosity. We very much hope he and his family will come again soon. Mr. Farnol lectured to the School on March 15th. His talk gathered stories from all corners of the earth-a ghost story from Bodmin Moor, stories from Mr. Farnol's childhood, travellers' tales from Calcutta, Delhi and Bombay, accounts of visits to Indian palaces, and, finally, a most moving tribute to the School as he had come to love and admire it. His talk, however, was not the sort that can be "condensed" III a bnef report: we would not have lost one word of his vivid narrative, and we were eager for more. It was exceptionally good of him to spare so much time to pass on to us the riches of a lifetime of work and travel. MR. R. A. PANTlN R. A. Pantin, Keeper of the Oxford University Archives and Fellow of Oriel College, lectured to the School and a large number of guests, including the Mayo r and City Council and the Archaelogical Society, on March 16th, on Mediaeval Town Planning. A report will appear in our next number. Mr~

CANTERBURY UNIVERSITY Was the School a University in the Middle Ages? While the School probably owed its foundation to the landi ng of St. Augustine in A.D.597, it owed its status to the outbreak of a bubonic plague at Rome in 664. The plague carried off the Saxon who had com~ fron:' Canterbury to seek consecration as Archbishop, and the Pope offered the Archblshopnc to a learne~ Italt~n monk, Hadnan. Hadrian modestly refused and recommended a frtend ; but the fnend, III the SImple words of Mr. A. F. Leach, the greatest authority on the history of the mediaeval English Schools, "proved to be too fat". Hadrian therefore suggested Theodore of Tarsus, "a man instructed both in secular and divine learning and of a venerable age." The Pope appointed Theodore, but later insisted that Hadrian should join him at Canterbury as Abbot of the present St. Augustine's Abbey. Together, Hadrian and Theodore collected a "crowd" of scholars at Canterbury and went all over the country, teaching and organising. Among the Canterbury scholars-so to speak the first O. K.S. of recorded history-were St. John of Beverley, Albinus, Hadrian's successor at St. August.ine:~, Tobias third Bishop of Rochester ("the most learned man of that age III everythmg ) and St: Aldhelm, first Bishop of Sherborne,. Gostling observes in his. Walk in and about the City of Canterbury that ' 'there was in effect what we call an Umverslty, more th~n 200 years before King Alfred founded that at Oxford, anno domini 800" ; and, whIle jaundiced scholarship WOUld. probably ridicu!e be~ef il~ Alfred's University at Oxford, it seems to have left the clallns of Theodore s Umverslty at Canterbury largely mtact. 87

THE CANTUARtAN The Canterbury School and University, the centre of education for the whole of England, "a seat of letters and study at a time when Cambridge was a marsh, and Oxford a tangled forest in a wide waste of waters, " largely disappears from the records of history for many centuries after the death of the good Archbishop Theodore. Its tradi~ions of learning were continued through long centuries in the School itself, the Cloisters of the Monastery and the household of the Archbishop: and the School appears as a University in a legal document of 1314. In a trial ofa Scholar for indiscipline (the Scholar, appropriately enough, was named Birchwood), the matter was referred to a jury of Scholars and Bachelors of the School. The mediaeval degree of B.A. was an intermediate degree, taken after some four years' hard work and leading to the degree of M.A. after another three or four years. The records of other cases of this period prove that the Master of the School had powers of punishing, if necessary by excommunication, not only members of the School, but also members of the general public who became obnoxious in the then frequent brawls of Town agaim_ 30wn. "These powers were very similar", say the historians of the School, "to those exercised by the Chancellors of the Universities ". The Master was appointed by the Archbishop and solemnly invested by him with the significant insignia of rod and ferrule. Did the School at this time occupy the position of a University? All that the historians of the School will say is this (p. 28) : "the grant of independent jurisdiction such as this is so exceptional that, combined with the cumulative force of the evidence adduced from these cases, we are led to the conclusion that for at least a century and a half before the Black Death the position of the Canterbury School was so high as rather to approximate to that of a University than of a school in the ordinary sense of the word". The Rev. Dr. T. Field, O.K.S., Headmaster of the School from 1886 to 1897, stated without equivocation in an article written for The Sign shortly before his death in 1936 that the mediaeval School was a University. No scholar has arisen to contradict it. Yet it is difficult to reconcile the evidence of these Bachelors of Canterbury with the complete lack of any other evidence. It may be that Canterbury College at Oxford (later incorporated into Christ Church) was founded by Archbishop Islip in 1362 as a pis aller for Canterbury University itself. It is very likely that the Canterbury School was reduced from its pre-eminence by the scourge of the Black Death. But, pending further research, the matter must remain in some doubt. The Cantuarian of March, 1946, printed a scheme drawn up by Thomas Cromwell and Archbishop Cranmer in 1541 for the proviSion of five Professors, forty Divinity Students and a hundred King's Scholars in the reconstituted Cathedral. If this scheme had been accepted by King Henry VIII, Canterbury Cathedral would have been established in perpetuity as one of the great centres of English education, the symbol and very type of the alliance of the mediaeval Church and the scholastic Renaissance under a "godly prince" who was himself so typical of both. But it was not to be. Now, suggestions .are made for the revival of Canterbury University. Already, the Royal School of English Church Music has set up a home in the Canterbury Precincts, and, at the invitation of the Cathedral and this School, first-rate musicians have given a series of public concerts in the Chapter House and the Nave. At a recent Press Conference, the Dean of Canterbury confessed to a dream of the City as a second Oberrammagau, and in their appeal for ÂŁ300,000, the Dean and Chapter announced their desire for the performance of Religious Drama and the making of Religious Films. As a leader 88

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THE CANTUARIAN in The Time,' recently pointed out, the minor Renaissance of Church Drama in modern England owes its inspiration and much of its support to the annual Canterbury Festivals. Speaking to the School in its Cornish garage on Speech Day, 1943, the Dean is recorded in The Cantuarian to have used the following expressions: "The Headmas.ter has recently projected the idea that Canterbury should become a University City, with a devotion to the arts and the aesthetic side of life. It will be a wonderful thing if it does come: and I think it may come." There have been later statements made in support of the idea, and the matter has now been raised before the Educational Committee of the Kent County Council. D.L.E. THE SMALL WATCHES Restless hours, when to-day is y~ Xerday And the mind is living in the morrow; When the clock chimes the passing of the ages And the stream of life is intersected. Silent hours, when man is paralysed By Nature's anaesthetic-or by fear; When past and future merge into oblivion And leave the hollow present to its doubts. Leaden hope; for there can be no hope, No future save another yesterday; And yesterday is lived. Or did we dream it ? And must we wake to see it once again? Once again! We live in repetition Of uselessness, and sin, and disappointment, Till one more quirk of fortune tips the balance And we have done with life-or sanity. Vengeful hours, that take-their toll of feeling And mock at all serene philosophy; That wrack the mind and body with their thoughts And sack the sacred temples of the soul. EVENING IN LONDON Midnight, when the softest reading-lamp Is harsh with bitter memories ; And the yawning city's usual note Is isolated in caeaphony. When reflection is the crawling skull Of horror self-inflicted, And the leaden universe torments Man's panic-stricken fancy. 89

THE CANTUARIAN The grate is cold, and pallid consciousness Re-writes the sordid paragraph Of wounded self-esteem . For he who tears The throbbing extasy from life Intent upon his egocentric self Is withered in his solitude; And stumbles, reeling, through a grisly fume Of writhing bursts of laughter.

Then silence, as the murky swathes of time In grey miasmas bear away The surreptitious hours; and memory warps The texture of a baby's skin Till it is nauseous; when single words Recovered from a hasty phrase Whirl like dancing harlots in the brain, Grotesque and unforgettable. LAMENT Frenzy is the body of quiet streams And philosophy; Emotion but the boll-weevil of fear And artistry. The jagged edges of a fabric Flutter in the breeze, A silk cocoon Crushed by a single raindrop. Reiterated raindrops Spill destiny In a caterpillar 's nest, Spill cobwebs Into fine machinery. A thunder-roll ill quiet poolsGeometrical perfection Which dawdles meaningless Leaving a trail of meaning And is gone. Five concentric circles Ring emotion, Five concentric circles Shiver with power. But the soul is eaten from within By a cancer. 90

THE CANTUARTAN WANDERER'S SONG Something wholly intangible lured me Sprite-Uke into emerald depths. Whispering fancies ensnared my mind And melody wove me a brain-sick idyll. Treacherous mirages had not inured me To echoing valleys and mountain caps, Summer snow-wraiths aping the rind Of new-moons lost in the nebulae; Rolling waves of hill-tops flinging Icy crests in a crashing salute To a silent, granite monarch; Pouring tbeir nostalgic power Into songs of elfin sweetness, J nto a cadence on the lute Of their caprice. The traveller turns And drinks, and he has had his hour. All wells are bitter by the way.

EN LISANT CORNEILLE Sunlight glinted on rich colours Drawing a scarlet ember From glistening leather bindings. Warmth and music surged, pUlsating With echoes of pristine life In a harmony of tones. Thought lay bedded, a rare gem In the oyster of emotion. But emotion was denied in rhetoric And twinkling phraseology That chilled the very touch-stone of the heart ; Distilling the slow sap Of artistry in herculean labour. Sophistry and calculated measures Fandangqed the funeral dirge Of instinct, born of lyrical surroundings And stifled on reading Corneille.

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VISION The sunset is powdered with ashes, Glistening with dust From a funeral pyre. The wailing of millions of souls Transcends the stars. This is the end. The end that was long in its comingBut now it has comeBrings recollection Of earlier dim premonitions. Prophets have shouted the warning In desolate places, And desolate men With fear in their hearts; and their minds Dusty and arid Ran for salvation. But theirs was the comfort of water, Drugging perception. They lived in a dream, Unconscious of total damnation. Artists have dwelt in the shadow Of human conception; The comfortless shadow Of storm-clouds obscuring the moon. And they were afraid, Shunning themselves And shrouding their minds with oblivion. They could escape To untrammelled arbours But destiny was their companion. Their birth-right humanity's darkness Lit by serenity. Moments of peace, Pale morning-stars of contentment, Clutched in the hand Regarded with rapture And scattered again to the heavens; Leaving the void, Torturing void, The agony twin-born with time.

THE CANTUARIAN The flame of man's vanity flickers And cold is the hearth Of his animal mindThe spirit that lacks anaesthetic, The play that has ceased, Surrendered to life And the spidery streaks of the rain. For this is the end, Ultimate end, The suicide, fruit of self-insight.

RELEASE The age of miracles was over. We no longer needed them. We had progressed-blessed word! we had evolved. We were strong; we were respectable. Alternatively, there had never been any miracles at all. The Saints could be explained, but preferably not in the drawing-room. Tales have come from situations of high adventure, from the records of activities for good, which have succeeded beyond human ability or expectation, and which have cast doubt upon the presupposition of these explanations, that the age of miracles was over. In Canterbury itself, we have seen a preservation of the Cathedral which it is difficult to explain in terms which do not include the miraculous. But it has been left to an American convict, a beast to his father, an adulterer, a robber, a bandit and a nearmurderer to prove that the grace of God has not lost its power in the twentieth centu:y, in the extremity of human suffering. The convict had a record as black as was conceIvable; he endured the full rigours of the American penal system and the full stream of advice from the well-intentioned without breaking in his hate for the forces of the Law. For one offence in prison, he was condemned to stand for fifteen days with his hands handcuffed to an iron bar overhead, in solitary confinement, in darkness, in filth, in clothes which were still stiff from the foam of the fit from which their previous occupant had died, unable to move for any bodily functionÂˇ in the twelve hours of the day, given two glasses of water and two pieces of bread every twenty-four hours. At the end of fifteen days of such treatment, his arms and legs were blue and swollen, his veins and artenes enlarged and tight, the bottoms of his feet puffed and black with congealed blood. In its effort to pump blood into these dead members, his heart was dangerously weakened. He did not stand for his last day of the sentence: he hung from the cuffs. Then he collapsed, filthy and emaciated on to the the damp stone floor, unable to move. He was only, he says, sustained by hate. In these circumstances, on that floor, he saw a vision of Jesus Christ. He moved towards him in his delirium, "in a garden". Never before had he felt himself so utterly helpless in captivity- of Love. "I seemed to know that I was submerged in Reality: that I was seeing and feeling something which would influence my life throughout all eternity". When the convict returned to work, first inside, then outside, the prison, he could not explain his vision. "I only know that it was an inner experience of some sort, a huge and different experience". But for this he has Dominical authority: as he points out, Our Lord never explained the Kingdom of God; he merely illustrated it. In his turn, he illustrates another Dominical saying about the publicans and harlots. A psychologist

THE CANTUARIAN once explained to him that the whole thing was the expression of a deep-seated feeling, a delusion. "Would you say", he asked him, "that my ingrained criminal character was reversed by a delusion ?" For the convict was a changed man. He proved the reality

of his vision by living; but testifying and sacrificing in face of all opposition; by his sincerity, patent to all. He won the intimacy and the wonder of the leaders of American religion. One of them has said: "He is one of God's noblemen ..... . He rings true in every situation." He became one of the most powerful forces for good on the other side of the Atlantic. Now his sccount of his vision and its effects has been published in England . It has come as encouragement and as a challenge to many at Canterbury. It answers deep questions; it gives food for thought and action. It will, we are convinced, grip a great audience. It is probably the best thing that has come out of a prison-cell since Bunyan. The book is called Release; distributed by Simpkin Marshall, Ltd. ; obtainable, price 7/6, from all bookstalls, or price 7/10 post free and by return of post from the publisher, Arthur James, "The Drift", near Evesham, Worcs. The author's nom de plume is Starr Daily. We beg our readers to form their own opinion of his message. Thou waitest for the spark from heaven ! and we, Light halFbelievers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor c/earli will'd, Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled; For whom each year we see Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new; Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose to-morrow the ground won to-dayAh, do not we, wanderer! await it too?

CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL TO-DAY [Reprinted from The Record by kind permission of the Editor. Copyright reserved. ]

Symbol of the abiding things, Canterbury Cat hedral to-day lifts up its glory amidst acres of devastation. In the German Luftwaffe's terrible reprisal raids on Canterbury fifteen large high explosive bombs were hurled at the Precincts. Not a single Canon's house escaped unharmed, and many other buildings were completely destroyed. The smooth lawns were torn up to build air-raid shelters; the gardens were filled with debris. The great Library was wrecked. The Cathedral itself escaped destruction only by a matter of yards. Fire-bombs actually penetrated the roof of the Cathedral, and were extinguished by the courage of special watchers, who crawled to the bombs as they were burning in the darkness of the rafters, high above the ground. The chief of the Cathedral fire-fighters, Thomas Hoare, a Kentish workman who has spent most of his life in more peaceful service to the Cathedral, was presented to the King and Queen and to Princess Elizabeth in July, when Their Majesties visited Canterbury to take part in a national service of thankslliving for the preservation of the Cathedral.

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THE CANTUARIAN By a miracle the Cathedral was saved. By a miracle it was preserved for future generations, the heritage of us all. "Nowhere in the forty thousand square feet enclosed within its walls," wrote Arthur Mee, " do we lose our feelings of pride that all this is ours." It is ouI' Cathedral, the Mother Church of the English-speaking world, the centre of a world-wide fellowship, the symbol of all the things for which we fought. Stand in the Christ Church Gateway, the traditional entrance to the Precincts, and look up on this glorious vision of singing stone. This particular gateway was fresh from the mason's chisel when Henry VIII and the Emperior Charles V passed under it in 1520, but under its predecessors passed the missionaries who took the good news of Christianity to the English peoples. To-day, as you pass under it yourself, you become part of the great pageant of Canterbury pilgrims of all ages and all lands.We can see them now in Chaucer's pages, trotting through a Kent' lovely in an English spring, laughing, gossiping, until they passed through the gateway to the long-desired object of their pilgrimage. Listen: "Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote ... When Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre leaves, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe coursy-ronne .. . Then longen folk to goon on pilgrimages .. . And specially, from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, The holy bliful martyr for to seke." Still the verse, written over six hundred years ago, charms the ear of the civilized world. Still the old Cathedral stands. So you enter the nave and look down its seven piers to the magnificent choir screen. When the great Norman Archbishop Lanfranc arrived at Canterbury in 1070, he found the Saxon cathedral (the foundations of which lie below the nave) in ruins. So he hegan the construction of the massive Norman nave. It lasted for three centuries until it was pulled down and the present nave arose on the Norman foundations. The pilgrims called it a "forest of stone" ; and a forest of stone it is. "Here one seems diminished to nothing at all," wrote Walter Pater, "amid the grand waves, wave upon wave of patiently wrought stone: the daring height, the daring severity of the innumerable, long, upward-ruled lines, rigidly bent just at last into the reserved grace of the perfect Gothic arch. " On your left lies the Transept where; on a December evening in 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered by the knights of King Henry II. Everyone knows the story-how Becket was elevated to the Archbishopric by his intimate friend the King, and how strenuously he resisted the King's encroachment on the liberties of the clergy; how the four knights came to his palace and had a furiou s argument with him; and how he was dragged by the monks through the cloisters to the Cathedral. Everyone knows how he met his end, fighting to the last. Here at Canterbury is the place where he fell, the site of his tomb in the crypt, where King Henry, with fastings and whippings, bewailed his part in the murder, and the site of the Saint's later and more splendid tomb behind the High Altar-the tomb which another Henry rifled and levelled to the ground at the Reformation. You can see the steps to the tomb, which the pilgrims have nearly worn

THE CANTUARIAN away with their kneeling. You can see the glass they gave, some of it over eight hundred years old now, to commemorate their cures at the tomb. It is 11 picture-book of mediaeval life, done in colours, the secret of which has long been lost. Only at Canterbury and at Chartres is there glass like this. During the war the ancient glass was removed to safety; and if it had not been removed you would never have seen it again, for every bit of the temporary glass which replaced it was twice shattered into thousands of fragments by the blast of bombs. As you enter the choir, you remember that for centuries the lovely daily services have been here chanted by the Cathedral choir. The nave has always been the people's church. You remember that not for one single day during the recent bombing was the voice of prayer and praise hushed in the Cathedral. Perhaps you hear the choir-boys at their practice, as the workmen heard them at the height of the blitz, and told people how much it gave them heart. There is a story behind the building of the choir. Less than four years after Becket's death, the Norman choir of Canterbury was burnt down. The monks, in despair, thought that the end of their world had come. But once again the end proved only the beginning. The monks entrusted the building of a new choir to a Frenchman, the famous William of Sens. He conceived a majestic vision, using the pointed arch for the first time in an English cathedral. But only half his work was done when he fell from a swinging basket and grievously injured himself, and the completion of the choir had to be entrusted to William, the Englishman, "a small man, but in arts of all kinds, acute and honest." The choir of the two Williams has remained ever since the holy of holies of English Christendom, to which the thoughts of all servants of Christ within the English heritage continually return . Round the choir lie the tombs of innumerable archbishops, saints and sovereign rulers. Here lies the Black Prince amid the emblems of joust and war which occupied his life, and, standing by his tomb, we cannot but remember that Michaelmas Day in 1376, when "the first English gentleman" was laid to rest, mourned by the whole people. Below in the crypt is "the heart of Canterbury Cathedral," the lovely Chapel of Our Lady Undercroft. The Black Prince saw its stone screens being carved with exquisite skill ; he saw the painting of the ceiling of dark blue, lit by golden suns and stars; he saw the great silver statue of Our Lady placed where a vase of roses now stands. Beside the Chapel of Our Lady .is another chapel built by the Black Prince, where every Sunday the descendants of the refugees who came to Canterbury in the reign of Elizabeth still hold their services in French. There is so much to see in Canterbury Cathedral that it would take over a month to visit everything of interest-carvings and paintings, books and windows, archives, plate and vestments, the chapels, the cloisters (unrivalled in their display of heraldry), the gardens and lawns, the Chapter House and the ruins of the Monastery. There is Bell Harry Tower, and the towers built by Lanfranc which still survive, and the twin towers at the west end. There is the King's School, which is attached to the Cathedral. Probably founded by St. Augustine, it was a haunt of learning and study long before the aged colleges of Oxford and Cambridge even had been born . In the Middle Ages it was itself a university. This very year the King personally presented the School with a new Royal Charter, describing it in his speech to the boys as " one of the chief glories of our pountrYl '1

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THE CANTUARIAN Pilgrims to Canterbury this summer are thus visiting the Cathedral at one of the most exciting moments in its history. Great plans are afoot for generous encouragement of music and drama, for a new library, for a pilgrims' hostel and a pilgrims' refectory, to welcome the thousands who come to the Cathedral to gain some measure of its secret. Plans are being made to improve still further the services in the Cathedral, and to enable services in the choir to be relayed to the nave. Canterbury Cathedral will once again become a spiritual power-house for the English-speaking world. The message of Canterbury will ring clear; and surely never before was its message so needed as it is to-day. Yet, before these plans materialise, the very extensive war damage must be repaired . Only half of the cost is being defrayed by the State. The Cathedral's organ was destroyed 'during the war. The present systems for lighting and heating the great building have been condemned as dangerous. Before the war there was always a band of craftsmen working on the repair of the centuries-old fabric. During the war these men were needed for other purposes; and, while the Cathedral was rocked by the roar and illuminated by the fl ames of Canterbury ordeal, the stone was rapidly decaying. Now the Cathedral architect reports that at least ÂŁ160,000 is needed for urgent repairs. The income of the Cathedral has been nearly halved during the last ten years. Its endowments are running short. It is faced with increased costs in every direction. For the sake of generations to come it must carryon. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Dean and Chapter are appealing urgently and earnestly to all men of good will for ÂŁ300,000. It is the very minimum to save the Cathedral. All those who send their donations to the Canterbury Cathedral Appeal Fund, 21, The Precincts, Canterbury, will receive a signed certificate of thanks from the Archbishop and the Dean. They will know that they have rescued the Cathedral, which has survived the perils of war, from fin ancial disaster, and that they have equipped its unique work for many years to come. "Many will feel, " wrote PUI/ch, " that to help to preserve the Cathedral is the best way to show thankfulness to God for our own preservation." D.L.E.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN MITCHINSON (11/ response to many requests, lVe pub/ish another extract from the hitherto unprinted Autobiography of Bishop John Mitchinson, D.D. , D. C.L., Headmaster of this School from 1859 to 1873. . This extract deals lVith the Bishop's days as an undergraduate and Junior Fellow at Pembroke Col/ege, Oxford.]

OXFORD MEMORIES I returned to school after winning my scholarship for the first term of 185 1. The College would have done more wisely if they had not called me into residence till the October Term. In that case I should have had a good spell of serious study before entering the University; even then I should but just have turned eighteen. I should have buckled to in good earnest, and with Elder's stimulating teaching, and the prospect 97

THE CANTUARIAN of having the school captaincy wrested from me if I slacked, I should have come up to Oxford with wider reading, a maturer mind and improved scholarship. I have often thought it might have made the difference of a University Scholarship-remembering that 1 was in the running for both Hertford and Ireland (the latter twice) and possibly a University Prize: I was "proxime" for the English Essay. As it was, I semi-consciously took it easy, with the sole exception of working sedulously at my sadly defective arithmetic and Euclid for Responsions as Mr. Durham 's private pupil. 1 commenced residence at Oxford in the Summer Term of 1851. Being a bye Term, there were but two freshmen besides myself, Lipscomb, and a somewhat stupid commoner, Hooper, better known as "Boots". The Master of Pembroke, the Rev. Francis Jeune, D.C.L., really was the College. l-li5 personality was the lodestone that attracted to Pembroke and filled the College, the accommodation of which under his auspices (and pressure) had rapidly been doubled; filled it, too, with men, many of them capable of being impressed with his marvellous personality and of being fired with his ambitions. He was a born and bred Jerseyman, and one-third if not half a Frenchman, with all the Frenchman '8 verve and grimace in conversation. Bourgeois, or rather yeoman in origin, like all really great men, he was proud rather than ashamed of it, and would talk freely of how, as a lad, he carted the corn and flour sacks to and from the mill. He had a handsome face and fine figure. The noble portrait of him in Pembroke Hall represents him to the life; but there was a Satanic glance in those black eyes, and he might have sat for Mephistopheles. Hence his enrolment with his two colleagues, Henney and Evans,. in the Triad of man 's ghostly enemies; and on this again is based the legend, unhistorical probably, but ben trovato of Maggie Jeune's announcement from an upper window (she was then a bright, merry hoyden of about twelve), as the three clerics turn st. Aldate's corner Pembroke-wards : "Ah! here they come at last, The World (Evans), The Flesh (Henney), and Papa between them!" He had a distinguished career: a First Class in Lit. Hum., then King Charles Fellow at his College. Afterwards Headmaster of King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he made his. mark both as teacher and disciplinarian. On the death of Dr. Hall there was contest for the Mastership. Jeune was put forward and elected by a majority of the votes of the Fellows who yearned for better things at Pembroke, but his opponent, Parker, a nonentity as most of the previous Masters of Pembroke had been, claimed election, on the ground that Jeune's foundation was ineligible for the Mastership, a view first taken by the Visitor (the Duke of Wellington, as Chancellor) on appeal. With further light, however, the Visitor reversed his judgment and confirmed Jeune's election, directing that the whole controversy should be recorded as a warning against hasty judgments. He returned to Oxford as a new broom in College, and a thoroughgoing reformer in the University, being both a policitical and academic Liberal. He shocked the Hebdomadal Board with his advanced views, and plainness of speech. The little Master of Balliol confided to Mrs. Jenkins that at the Board that day he had been "much annoyed by that forward young person, the Master of Pembroke. " He laboured with the Oxford Liberals for a commission. They carried their point and Jeune was gazetted Secretary; and on him devolved the responsible task of drafting the report. In connection with this I may mention a useful piece of advice he once gave me on English composition grounded on this task of which he was justly proud. "My first draft report", he said, 98

THE CANTUARIAN "I found to be far too prolix; so I took my pen and went through it sheet by sheet, striking out al\ the superfluous epithets, and I found the result a much more manageable document. I advise you to adopt that as a guide to a good English style." He felt that he had laid the Liberal Party under an obligation, and began early to discount his wage, which he confidently hoped must be a mitre. Consequently, whenever a vacancy occurred or seemed impending on the Episcopal Bench, hope fluttered his bosom ; and like the secret burdened weight affable, "who whispered 'asses ears' among the sedge", he felt constrained to disburden his ambitions with their circumambient hopes and fears to some confidant. And the confidant he chose was me, a shy stripling of eighteen! He not infrequently sent for me, ostensibly to question me concerning my studies, but very soon the conversation drifted into his prospects, on which he spoke with entire unreserve. 1 remember one such interview ending with words to the following effect. "Well, Mr. Mitchinson, whatever may be the result, it is something to have had one's name repeatedly mentioned in connection with the highest offices in the Church of England". If preferment lagged, it came at last, and it was doubly welcome when it did come. Like Lord John Russell, he believed in Finality, i.e. a Liberalism which was to acquiesce in a policy of "thus far and no further". But Oxford Liberalism recognised no such shackles on its buoyant, onward course. Young Oxford left Jeune far behind: he became more and more mistrustful of the pace at which under the leadership of Jowett and other kindred spirits academic liberalism was careering. He virtually left the Liberal camp. But he found himself in the position of Saul of Tarsus at his conversion. He assayed to join himself to the disciples; they were afraid of him, and believed not Hat he was a disciple. The Conservative party in Oxford had no confidence in Jeune's conversion: he found himself cold-shouldered in both directions. The situation was embarrassing and the poor Master was, I believe, really unhappy. Moreover he seemed to have been forgotten by the Government. It so happened that the Master of Pembroke 's turn came round to preach to the University. He had long watched with grave misgiving the downgrade tendency of the Church of England theology. He seized the opportunity to preach a really great sermon on the Atonement from the text' 'was Paul crucified for you?" This sermon came under Lord Shaftesbury's notice, who was then the Bishop-monger. Dr. Jeune was promised the next bishopric. Meanwhile the Deanery of Lincoln fell vacant and to this he was sent ad interim; but he had not held it for a year before the Sec of Peterborough fell vacant and his ambition was realized. The consecration took place in Canterbury Cathedral while I was Headmaster there; Bishop Crowther, the first negro bishop, was consecrated to his African See at the same time. I call to mind two quaint incidents of that consecration. After the sermon the consecrands are brought in, and are presented to the Archbishop vested in rochet only. Those were the days of sleeveless rochets ; and when Crowther, an unusually black African, appeared in this sleeveless garment, his black arms and hands and feet swathed in close-fitting white shroud, 1 am convinced the bulk of the congregation believed he had nothing else on. The two prelates made their exit together and drove side by side to the station. J could not help murmuring to myself "et sibi consul ne piaceat servus curru portatur eodem". His episcopate was, alas ! a brief one. A hurried walk or run to the station at Peter-

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THE CANTUARIAN bishop. Whe~ I made my early confirmation rounds as assistant bishop in that diocese I SOon fou~d In what high esteem he was held by the older and abler men, the holders of college liVings and such like. These, all of them, deplored his early decease as a real calallllty to what was then nicknamed "The Dead See " . Like many s trong chara.cters, Jeune was not deterred by scruples as to methods of compassing hIS. ends. HaVIng resolved on his great building scheme, he had to find the means of carrYIng It out. He seems to have found no difficulty in persuading his Fellows to use for thIs J?urpose the borrowed capital of some of the College Trust Funds and thus saddle It wIth a senous load of debt, which I can state on personal knowledge was not paid off between thIrty and forty years afterwards. Another less excusable act of unscrupulousness was the way he jockeyed his Fellows (I was one of them) in the sal of St. Aldate's advowson to the Simeon Trustees. The leaders of Academic Evangel~ Icalism at that tll,!e were Dr. Symonds, Warden of Wadham ; Dr. Cotton of Worcester' Dr. M~cbnde, Pnnclpal of Magdalen Hall, and Dr. Jeune. Another foothold in Oxford' m addItIOn to St. Clement's, St. Peter Ie Bailey, St. Ebbis and Holy Trinity seems t~ have been resolved 0';1 by the quaternion, and Jeune apparently undertook to give effect to the scheme. The Simeon Trustees were to have the patronage and to find the purchase money. Any overt attempt at purchase by that Trust would have raised such a storm of OPPOSltlOllm Oxford as must have wrecked the plot so a private purchaser a man of straw, was put forward as the ostellsible would-be pur~haser, and Dr. Jeune ~pparently undertook to put the Trust m'poss~ssion of the patronage of St. Aldate's. We were called to a College Meetmg- I beheve It was the very first I attended- and the Master then mformed us tilat he had had a most advantageous offer for the purchase of the advowson of St. Aldate s Rectory, wluch he urged us to accept, alike in the interest of the parish and of the College. The pansh wo~ld probably . be sa~ed from constant change of pastor; the college from the ever-recurnng a~Xlety of findmg a rector for an ill-endowed parish Without a rectory house. We-especlally we jU010rS, pertinaciousy pressed for informatIOn as to the purchaser, hiS name, reasons for desiring so damnosa an hereditas at a fancy pnce,. etc. We were told hiS name and address, and assured of his bona fides and solvency questIOns as to motive were met with a shrug and "How can I possibly tell you?" Hi~ staff s~pported him as alw~ys with o~se~uiou's s~rvility ; the Fellows gave a reluctant assent, the College sol~ Kmg Charles gift at the mstance of a King Charles Foundation Fellow. Next day the Bishop of Oxford rode 1D prepared to outbid in the interest of the See. He found the purchase complete: no grass had grown under the Master's feet. In ch~pel, Jeune did not set us a good example. He was not naturally reverent, and his antagoDlsm to PuseYlsm (as It was then called), which was already CUltivating ritual, made him less guarded alike m word and act than prudence, if not right feeling, would have dlctl!ted. The ImpressIOn he left on our young minds was that he had no religion at all. HIS ~ttendance at chapel was irregular and fitful and his manner anything but reverent or mterested. He was apt, too, to shock reverent minds by his flippant or at least unguarded utterances, e.g., sj)eaking. of the Eucharist and the description of it in the !low vrrt~ally eXCised ExhortatIon which says "then we spiritually eat the flesh of Chnst ~fd dnnk hiS blood, we are one with Christ and He with us ", he remarked with a sneer, you might as well say that if you eat a slice of beef you are one with an ox ". It mu~t be remembered In exc~se that he took, I believe, the very lowest Zwinglian view of the Old!llance, and was ImpatIent of Sacramentalism. I did not myself hear him say this but my lIlformant did, and of his veracity and accuracy I have no doubt. I did hear what I am about to tell. 100

THE CANTUARIAN The scene of my story is the College Hall: time, noon on a Sunday in full term. At that hour and place the Master gave a Divinity lecture every Sunday of term to the whole College. It was commonly believed, though probably quite erroneously, that the object of the lecture was to make a Sunday's grind impossible to the boating men, and Dr. Pusey's University Sermons (never under an hour) impossible to the young Tractarians; for attendance was de rigueur to all undergraduates, and no dispensations were either asked or given. At lecture the men ranged themselves at the tables on either side of the Hall. The man called on to translate stood or lounged at the end of the sideboard table in the middle. The Master sat in one of the two great high table armchairs, looking down the Hall. We were studying the Apocalypse and had just finished the messages to the seven churches. My impression is that the translator that day was Vyvyan Moyle, who afterwards eamed an undesirable notoriety for Pembroke by two long incarcerations for felony; but of this I am not sure. Moyle (if it were he) read and translated the first few verses of chapter iv, and paused, still at his post. The Master began: "Gentlemen, before we proceed further, I ask you to try to realize the grand coup d'oei/, as the portal of heaven is flung open . There (with a sweep of his arm round the tables) are the four and twenty elders sitting; yonder (pointing to the reader) are the four beasts; here (pointing to the floor before him) is the sea of glass; and here (pointing to himself) is 'He that sitteth upon the Throne'. " But he was a lucid and stimulating lecturer, and a fine speaker. He mouthed too much; his words came out like blobs of water from a narrow-necked bottle. But he had the gift of eloquence and both matter and diction compelled attention and left the hearer impressed if not charmed. T well remember his felicitous speeches at the great dinner in hall, at which Pembroke entertained her newly-installed Visitor, the Earl of Derby, and his galaxy of honorary Doctors, among them Disraeli and, I think, Gladstone. Dr. Jeune did not cultivate social relations with his undergraduates in the systematic way that the modern Head does: it was not the fashion in the Oxford of those days: the Head's position then was one of greater aloofness from his men. I once dined at the Lodge, a mixed party, Fellows and undergraduates. It was, I think, early in my career, and I had on me the shyness of the self-effacing hobbledehoy who has outlived his' 'odious (i.e. self-proclaiming) age". I imagine my feelings when, in "a ghastly chasm in the talk", the Master bent his eagle glance on me with the question, " Mr. Mitchinson, what is the price of coal at Durham ?" I feebly faltered out I had no idea. "Well, can you tell me then the price of meat?" My relations with meat at home had been as eater, not buyer: I had again to plead blushing ignorance : I felt extinguished and put to open shame and wished I could have withdrawn under the table for the rest of the repast. However, at dessert I took heart of grace, and a general conversation going on about the nightingale's northern limit, I ventured to remark to my next door neighbour that I had been told that it had very rarely been heard to sing near Durham; Mr. Henney, seated opposite to the Master at the end of the table, overheard me and exclaimed, "Oho, Oho ! Mr. Mitchinson, I should say it was a thrush that you heard". The sun has his spots and so had Dr. Jeune ; but it was a line character. lowe him a very large debt of gratitude an<;l so does Pembroke College. R,I,p,

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THE CANTUARIAN The Rev. Thomas Frederick Henney, M.A. , was Senior Tutor and Vice-gerent when I joined Pembroke. He was a large, flabby, corpulent man of middle age, somewhat on the downgrade, with full round face, head trimmed with a few tussocks of reddish-grey hair, otherwise bald, a stern expression almost amounting to a scowl, which was quite a libel on his real nature, and was at once index and cloak for an almost ludicrous bashfulness and shyness. When he was at his ease with his interlocutor, that plain face and those blue eyes lighted up with tender kindliness. He always wore an ample swallow-tail coat and shoes-never boots. His academic record was a fine one-a first class (along with Gladstone and other distinguished names) in Lit. Hum. and a second in Mathematics; and he was one of the first Moderato rs "to set the standard" when what was then the New Examination Statute first came into form in 185 1. Henney had previously been a " Master of the Schools" and then had for his colleague the Rev. Edward Cockery, of Wad ham- a quaint combination.

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Henney was a fine scholar but a bad tutor. He lacked self-confidence, readiness and originality; whenever it occurred in the De Corona was always "brutal insolence " (he was fond of forcible language ; our peccadilloes, however varied, were always "perfectly monstrous "). On the occurrence of any difficulty in Translation (in those days lectures were simply class lessons where the pupils were "set on". and questioned exactly as at school) with the cry "what do the commentators say? he would rush to his desk table where they were all spread in readiness. He made the mistake also of having " oracles " in all his lectures, who were in variably "set on" and to whom all questions were referred: the passmen for in the vicious system that then prevailed the lectures were all mixed, passmen and c1assmen taught promiscuously. I had the privilege (?) of being one of his oracles; but his two really trusted ones were the two Bible Clerks, Smith and Whitehouse. Smith was a good scholar and justified his oraculate by a First in Moderations; Whitehouse was a forbidding-lookin g, objectionable person known only to the Burmese (of whom more hereafter), in whose scholarship Henney had a childlike faith, but who requited him as "that bruised reed, Pharoah king of Egypt, treated all of those that trusted in him". He was gulphed or plucked-I forget which, and disappeared ignobly from the scene. He, like the Master, lectured on Divinity (i.e. Greek Testament) in Hall to half the College, Evans taking the other half on Saturday mornings at 10 and 11 respectively. We had some strange samples of exegesis. On one occasion John Bent, the quaint and popular jester of the College, was at the table translating the narrative of the Temptation: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but", etc. "And what do you suppose, Mr. Bent, to be the meaning of those words?" Bent hesitated for a moment, then blurted out that it is only through reading the Bible that we are to obtain salvation. "Wal, wal, Mr. Bent, I should hardly say that that was strictly orthodox. No, no, Mr. Bent, it means that there are many other things created for our comfort and enjoyment on which we are to live." "Sausages, to wit", whispered my next door neighbour. Sausages were supposed to be our preceptor 's weakness. Was the tutor's exegesis more orthodox . than his pupil 's? I suppose the verdict of all Pembroke men who were under his tuition- there can be but few left now (l916)- as to our estimation of him would be unanimous. We all liked him, and we all laughed at him, but his influence in the moulding of character was "bsolutely nil.

THE CANTUARIAN After I had taken my degree and had become Junior Fellow, I knew him in a changed relation, and found him always kindl y- not to say elder-brotherly, his look and tone alike changed. I remember when once I had occasion to address myself to him, being a B.A. , and academically in Statu pupillari, for leave to knock in late, his breaking out as in the days of yore. "Why, it's perfectly monstrous, you a Fellow of the College and asking leave to knock in of me !" At High Table and in Common Room I used to meet so me of his cronies in the University who did not strike me as desirable persons. Tommy Short, of Trinity, Tom Chaffers, of Brasenose, Tommy Sheppard, of Exeter, and Was hy (short for Washbourne) West of Lincoln . One hopes they were not fair samples of the Common Rooms of the earl y Victorian period.

Later on Henney was called by his old College friend John Jackson, Bishop of Lincoln, to be his examining chaplain, and shortly afterwards was collated to the Prebendal Sta ll of Sanctae Crucis in that Cathedral. One wonders how that ungainl y, bashful form managed to adapt itself to cathedral pageantry. His end was premature: he was a mighty fisherman and caught pneumonia, wading, rod in hand , in Cotswold streams. The Rev. Evan Evans, M.A. , was, as his name suggests, a Welshman, Fellow on our Welsh foundation (Sir Thomas Phillips), but, whatever his nationality, he was a thorough gentleman. He dressed well , and had everything nice about him. Evans was an idle man, devoid of scholarly or literary tastes, designed more for social life. He was in Holy Orders, but more of a layman than a priest. He was something of a sportsman, and reputed a good shot, and without joining in the game himself was a stalwart patron of College cricket and frequented College matches. This naturally made him popular with our idlers. He was essentially a second class man and quite useless as an honour Tutor. The vicious system of mixing honour men with passmen in the lectures in Henney's case worked disastrously for the passmen, who were "out of it" as regards instruction suited to their needs. In Evans' lectures it worked disastrously for the Honour men, to whom his instruction was sheer waste of time. This was especially the case in his Logic lecture, which was simply beneath contempt, and which, as will appear anon, nearly involved the college in a catastrophe. Evans was essentially an i.dle man and quite uninterested in his work-a great contrast in this respect to his senior colleague. Henney demanded rigid punctuality from his class, and always gave us full- not to say ru nning over measure. Evans would have given scant welcome to any pupil who put in an appearance at the nominal hour. Our custom was to assemble for a gossip at the foot of the stairs and to walk in en masse at a quarter past the hour. He thus saved himself three-quarters of an hour's lecturing dail y out of his . three hours. Evans was the only one of the staff that exercised systematic hospitality to the undergraduates, and this on rare occasions. Being Dean of the College, he presented for degrees, and on such occasions he gave a big breakfast on the profuse scale that then prevailed. I remember "assisting" at one of these frigid orgies. Our host did his best at making conversation; but the chariot wheels drave heavily, and I think we were all glad when it was over. 103

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When Dr. Jeune was moved to Lincoln Deanery, there was a contest for the Mastership. Henney was dead or there wo uld have been an unanimous election . As it was the College was evenly divided ; several outsiders' claims, among them my own, having been consIdered and rejected. The supporters of Evans saw no reason for discarding a man whom all esteemed a gentleman, who was Senior Fellow, Dean, and a Tutor of long standing : Price 's supporters pleading his academic distinctions and the Sedleian professorship, to say nothing of the desirability of calling back into College life and work one who through matrimony had practically drifted away from us. We did our best to convert each other without detaching a single proselyte. Evans was Senior Fellow and consequently had a casting vote. The result must be either that he must elect hi~ rival by that casting vote; or be reduced to the odious necessity of voting himself into the Mastership. We who were for Price saw this and did the right thing, we told Price we could not do so cruel an act: so next morning in chapel Evans was elected by the unanimous vote of the Society excepting Price, who naturally could not be expected to be present. As Master he was courteous and courtly, but I had no personal experience of him in that ~apaclty. I was Headmaster of Canterbury when we .elected him, and my forty years absence from College th~re and Barbados, and ~t Slbstone, prevent my having an~ personal r~collectlOn of hIS or hIS successor's reIgn . He was something of the Rot Falneant ahke at Oxford and Gloucester. He went there as canon with no clerical experience and with but a slender stock of sermons.These he is said 10 have preached during: his three mo~ths ' Residence till it beca me something between ajoke and a scandal. H~ qUIte outlIved hIS usefulness 111 both posts- Master and Canon-but I think it may be saId of hIm that he never made an enemy and dId make many friends. The third member of our Staff was .the Rev. Bartholomew Price, M.A., F.R.S., commonly known 111 Oxford as Bat: Pnce. He ought to have been a business man when he .would have built up a huge concern and died a millionaire. He proved hi~ capacIty III thIS respect as Controller of the Press, which under his auspices developed into a great and growing business. What the value of College tuition then was may be inferred from what has been said. I! had to be supplemented by aspirants to academic distinction by private tuition, at the

cost of ÂŁ10 per term for three lessons weekly. This was a serious addition to the poor scholar's expenses, but, conversely, if he took a good degree and established a reputation for successful coaching, meant a very respectable and fairly certain income on graduation. The Master, with an eye to University Scholarship contingencies, sent me to John Comngton, then Oxford's greatest Latin Scholar. I took him Latin Prose composition each visit. He looked it over in silence, re-wrote it in illegible pencilled hieroglyphs. Not a word passed between us ~II the time I was there, on any general topic, nor, so far as I recollect, upon my composlllon, nor dId my tutor ever advert to any other literary questIOn germane to the subject. My term's coaching with eonington was the absolute waste of ÂŁ10, and some two dozen precious hours. He was, I think, the most ill-favoured man I ever consorted with: his nickname at Rugby was the sick vulture: it fitted him and stuck to him at Oxford. His abiding consciousness that "his face was not his fort~ne" probably accounted for his uncompanionable taciturnity.

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THE CANTUARIAN I was run for the Hertford Scholarship, for which I learned that I was placed sixth. The winner was a dark horse, Winstanley, scholar of University. He was a Rugbeian with less of the superior person about him than the rest of his species. I met him occasionally in Oakley's rooms and liked him. He got a First in Mods., but for some reason or other took only a Pass in Finals. He went abroad, and embraced some socialistic craze' believed that he must be self-supporting as the fruit of his own personal toil found he ~ould not manage it, and drowned himself. For the two Irelands for which I tried I was, I believe, placed, but not mentioned. I also wrote for the Newdigate on Belshazzar 's Feast. It was won by Edwin Arnold, a recognised nineteenth century poet. It had some striking passages and ended finely :Crownless and Sceptreless Belshazar lay, A robe of purple round a form of clay.

After B.A. I wrote for the English Es.say, tempted by the subject, on which I had lately voided at Woodstock a futile lecture, far over the heads of my audien~e, technical, dry and quite unsuitable to a country town, but I was a young don (the foohshest created living thing) blinded with self-conceit which served as gas to the balloon on whIch I soared. The subject was " The reciprocal interaction of man and nature", and I was fresh from the Natural Science Schools. The prize was won by S. H. Reynolds of Brasenose. Dr. Jeune told me that mine was carefully considered by the judges-in fact he led me to suppose that I stood second- but it was too technical; and there was neither time nor taste to verify the array of facts that I had marshalled. In fact what IS wanted for a university essay is gaseous not solid matter. In those days both Moderations and Finals came twice a year, in Easter and October Terms. I ought to have gone in for the former in October, 1852, my earliest chance: so as to have as much time as possible for Lit. Hum. As October approached, however, I found myself quite unprepared to face the ordeal, and all five Pembroke candIdates postponed it till Easter, 1853. A few weeks before the examination a rumour got abro,,:d that the New Examination Statute was to be more literally observed, and that LogIC was " to have great weight in the distribution of honours" ; in plain English, that the Logic paper was to be considerably stiffened. I had attended Evans' Pass Lectures without profit. I had also gone through a course of Wall, who was lively and felicitous in illustration. I had no real grasp of the subject. The rumour came to Henney's ears, who was probably as well aware as we of the futility of Evans' lectures. He held a test examination and plucked us all. "I should say there wasn't a doubt about It, you will all be plucked, everyone of you. " Evans (whose face was to be saved) gave notice of a daily lecture at noon for the Moderations Honour men, who naturally s,:,pposed that they were ipso facto dispensed from the pass lecture. Imagme our surpn,s,e when, on presenting ourselves at the door of the lecture room we were receIved WIth, No, gentlemen, you failed to attend my public levee. I decline to accord you a private audience." The curtain dropped on the farce. Greats came in Michaelmas Term, 1854. By a strange coincidence I was examined viva voce again by Rawlin son , who, being a great historian himself, determined to put hly Arrian to a searching test. He very soon found that I knew qUIte as much about it as he did himself, and he then was generous enough to give me a whole hour's questioning, which proved a brilliant viva voce and conduced doubtless largely to my first class which was now assured, in spite of the weak Philosophy. Oakley was on next day with 'the same examiner, but he was a Rugbcian, a man of views, with more or less of a

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contempt for fact and detail, and he only got a Second in Lit. Hum. He made up for it h~wever, next Summer Term when he achieved quite a brilliant First in Law and Moder~ HIstory. Before I drop the curtain on our intellectual activities, I ought to mention an essay society into w~ich I was co-o)Jted towards the close of my undergraduate days. We met In eac~ other s :oom In rotatIOn, the host bemg answerable for an essay and tea. The essay If It lent Itself thereto was discussed, and was followed by a pleasant rational palaver. As members of it I call to mind Daniell, afterwards Fellow then Provost of Worcester, two Stebbings from the same College, and Bell, afterwards Head Master of Christ's Hospital, then Master of Marlborough after Bradley, and S. H. Reynolds of Exeter, who got the Chancellor's English Essay and became Fellow of Brasenose. I came across a sheaf of these early effusions of mine lately and had the curiosity to read some. They were unnustakeable veal, but had that about them which shewed that beef might eventually supervene. The College chapel in which I worshipped as an undergraduate is structurally the same as the present one which, since it has experienced Kempe's magic touch has become one of Oxford 's gem~, but what a transformation that touch has brought ~bout IOSIde! And yet all the furnIture and fittings both in wood and stone are the same as I~ o:y young days- :Glass, Georgian, without its coarseness and vulgarity, colour and gIldIng, wIth the addItIOn of a httle statuary on the walls, has wrought the transformation. o what a c?ld bare place it used to be! No greenery outside, no colour inside. Not a note of mUSIC, never a word of exhortation from our spiritual guides; no weekly Euchanst, so far from weekly, the Holy Communion was a terminal ceremony and attendance was compulsory on every member of the College down to the Porter. And ItS mode of administration was objectionable and fatal to reverence: all remained in their seats, while the Master, followed by the Vicegerent, the bashful "brutal" old Henney went round communicating the rows of men as best they could get at them over th~ heads of rows in front. It was well nigh fatal to devotion. . The office of Chaplain was in Commission, all the Tutorial staff and the Bursar being 10 Holy Orders. All were good readers: most of them had their peculiarities. Price as bas been .observed! bad a sli~bt impediment, which resisted bis efforts to pronounc~ a word begmnIng WIth an asplfated consonantly vowel. When it fell to his turn to offid~te a,t, daily prayers, ill, ;he Te Deum h~ economized time and effort by entirely ?~ttIng Holy, },I,oly Holy and gomg straIght on after a brIef pause of gasping to Lord of S!lba'?th ; the prayer fo! the Royal Fanuly resembled a corrupt chorus in the ChoephorOI, a Just audIble explfatIOn bemg substItuted for "Holy Spirit" "Heavenly G,,~ce" and ':happiness", so that its petiti.on ran tbus: "Endue them with Tby wh:, enrIch tbem WIth Thy wh :, prosper tbem WIth all wh : and bring them", etc. But if we had no sermons in chapel, we bad them galore in the University pulpitÂˇ two every Sunday, and one every Holy day, attendance at which franked one fro~ lectures. I was a regular, frequenter. of tbese sermo~s, generally twice on Sundays, frequently ~Iso ~n Samts days. I. liked the academIC pomp and circumstance, and I was genumely mterested 10 the dIscourse though I doubt whether my critidsm ever went further than "good churchmanship" according to the then shibboleths or otherWIse. The Heads of Houses in -their turns, or, failing one of them, a select preacher occupied the pulpit e,,:cepting on special occasions and Ba~)Jton Lecture days. In th~ afternoon every M.A. III h.s turn was called up to preach; failmg him, a select preacher. 106

THE CANTUARIAN On Sunday evenings my like-minded friends and T used to frequent the parish church evening services. Sometimes it was st. Peter's in the East, staid and respectable via medi,!, where we sat under Edw. Halifax Hansell, Fellow and Tutor of Magdalen, or hIS stIli duller curate, Hutchinson, a Cambridge man; whom we nicknamed "Dismal Horrors". ff we yearned for more ritual, it was St. Thomas the Marlyr, where we had the ne plus ultra of correctness, and, I may add, of dreariness, from good T. Chamberlain of Christ

Church. I think we most enjoyed St. Paul's in Jericbo, where Alfred Hackman (Precentor of Chrisl Church) kept us awake by his quaint torrent of utterance, punctuated with much action and cushion thumps, and when we sang (rather shouted) a dozen or more verses of Tate and Brady or a hymn, as hard as we could pelt. The service had at least the charm of liveliness. I do not remember ever going inside that flimsy and most unlovely church of St. Marlin, Carfax ; but I do remember watching the civic travesly of the academic processions to St. Mary's, the robed and chained Mayor with his suite of Aldermen and Common Councilmen and his "select preacher"-there were then four city chaplains- ell route from tbe Town Hall to st. Marti~ 's, little recking that in the dim and distant future I too should be one of those MUOIcIpal CounCIllors. The Cathedral of my day was that which figures in the engravings of Wintole's, a seldom frequented and forlorn sanctuary: where Dr. Charles Corfe pranced (so to say) on the organ. Galsford was Dean, a snarling old Sadducee who had exchanged his stall at Durham for the deanery with Dr. Smith, who had been a failure. The canons were (I) the professor canons; Jacobson Reg: Professor of Divinity, uncouth, blunt, gauche, uninteresting beyond belief; who managed by sheer retIcent non-comnutt~1 to steer himself into the bishopric of Chester. He was never known to express an opimon on any subject, and consequently earned the reputation of a very safe Tbeologian. Of Dr. Pus~y, Regius Professor of Hebrew, reverence for a great name and a samtly character forbIds me to speak freely. We always used to attend his University Sermons and we deceived ourselves into the belief that we understood and enjoyed tbem. We really dId neltber. They were far too long-often an hour and a half; his delivery and manner monotonous and uninteresting, and his personal aspect unattractIve, n~t to say commonplace.. But we felt and knew him to be a saintly man and we revered hIm accordmgly. Dr. OgilVIe, commonly known as "The Shepherd ", was (if possible) duller and more uninteresting than all his brethren. He was Professor of Pastoral Theology, and one of my frIends, Pearman, attended his lectures and wrote sermons for his criticism. One of these was returned with this appreciation; â&#x20AC;˘ 'The perusal of this discourse has a.fforded ~e the liveliest satisfaction ." Ex pede Herculem, Hussey, the Professor of Eccieslaslical HIstory, ran his colleagues close for dryness and austere dullness. Of him I have very faint recollections. During my sojourn at Oxford he was replaced by Shirley of Wadham, a much humaner don, whose brief tenure and early death all Oxford mo?~ned. ~n my time too the old bear Gaisford was replaced by the stately and supercIlious LIddell, tran~lateJ from the Westminster rod to the chief stall at Christchurch. (To be continued)

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The Ed!t?rs are always pleased to hear of the activities of O.K.s., but changes q( address and enqUlrles from O.K.S. about receIpt of The Cantua nan alld membership of the OX.S. Associatioll should be sent to J. P. Hemillg, Church Cottage, Thames Ditton Surrey alld not to the Editors. ) , e. FISCHL (1940-41) is articled to a London firm of solicitors, and is taking his Finals next year. P. e. KILLIN (1938-40) has just been articled . LIEUT. J. WATTS (1939-43) has been transferred to British Somaliland and MAJOR J . E. P. SAMPSON (1934-39) to Haifa. Sampson writes of the pro-British feeling in Transjordania, where he has been stationed recently. A. D. M . PATERSON (1935-40) and H. M . SARGISSON (1933-38) hope to enter the Colomal ServICe. Paterson IS gomg to N lgena. SarglSson has entered his son, aged one, for the School. We were pleased to hear from Fox MALE (1925- 26), who isjoining the O.K.S. Lodge. We were also glad to get details of his War Service from J. V. COLLIER (1936- 40) for inclusion in the War Register.

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A. A. KNELl.ER (1941-46) is teaching in a prep. school in Kenya and reading Law for the London Ll.B. M. CAIRNS (1942-46) is in the Black Watch, and H. A. EMERSON (1942- 46) in the R.A.S.C. Both hope to be going to their O.e.T.U. 's shortly. T. N. H. WELLS (1934-39) has gone to Jamaica in the service of Barclay's Bank. R. E. S. PRICE (1934-37) has left England for Bangkok: he is with the Chartered Bank orIndia. S. W. HINDS (1929-33) has obtained his M.D., London. We cordially. congratulate Dr. L. H .. TuRNER (1925-34) on the award of the M.B.E. (MIlItary DIVISIOn) for gallant and dlStmgUlshed serVIces as a prisoner of war in Malaya. The RBV. A. R. BLACKLEDGB (1914- 25) has been inducted as Vicar of Oakenshaw Yorks. ' LT.-COL. F. W. COLLARD (1925-29) is commanding the 3rd Battalion of the Rajput RegIment, an IndIan Parachute BattalIon. He has sent a donation of ten rupees to The Cantuanall. G. E. JANSON-SMITH (1920- 24) has been promoted to the post of Chief Inspector of Education in the Southern Sudan. D. HARRISS (1935-40) coxed the Jesus Boat which won the Ladies ' Plate last summer and also coxed the winning Trial VIII at Cambridge this yea~. We were pleased to see J. F. DALYRYMPLE (1940-44) on a VISIt to Canterhury after his demobilisation from the Navy in March. He is going up to Trinity, Oxford, in October. We hear that J. GLBNNIE (1930-35) is doing exceptionally weJl in the Sudan. He led a party ~~ r<;~eive Communion from Bishop A . .M. Gesthorpe, O.K.S., in his "railway chapel . He IS young for the Job of leadershIp to WhICh he has been appointed" the ' Bishop writes. "He carries it worthily of the School in which he was trained. " Â¥Ie c~ngratulate W. C. YOUNG (1933-38) on winning the Three Miles in the Cambridge UllIversIty Sports and H. R. R. STBELE (1930-40) on beIng second in Putting the Weight. 108

THE CANTUARIAN We were pleased to receive details of the awards granted to the late MAJOR D. E. OWEN (1934-36). He was awarded a Mention in Despatches Certificate for gallant and distinguished services in Burma and the Eastern Frontier of fndia, and the Military Cross for later service. The citation reads: "During the operations outside I'akokku which culminated in the capture of the town on the 24th February, 1945, Major Owen commanded his unit with skill and determination carrying out all the tasks allotted to him without fail or delay. "This young officer assumed command of the battalion during an action at Kunhla, just outside Pakokku, when his Commanding Officer was mortally wounded . At that time the success of the action was still in doubt, but Major Owen quickly took command and by his personal leadership under heavy fire directed the efforts of the battalion which, with the close co-operation of a squadron of tanks captured all its objectives. The result or this action was to clear the way for the preparation for the opposed crossing of the River Irrawaddy at Nyaung and permitted these preparations to proceed unhindered by the enemy.. "Major Owen's name was continually brought to notice for skilfu l and determined leadership as a rifle company commander duri ng the Arakan operations of 1943/ 1944, and duriog the operations on the Jessami track near Kohima in June, 1944. "Since July, 1944 there have been three changes in command of the unit. Throughout these changes Major Owen was the link whereby continuity was maintained, and it is largely due to his efforts that the high reputation and fighting efficiency of the unit was upheld. " BIRTHS CLEMENTs.-On October 8th, 1946, to Judith, wife of e. L. Clements (1919-26), a son. EVANS.-On August 5th, 1946, to Mary, wife of D. G. L. Evans (1934-38), a .daughter, Lucinda. HINDs.- On September 27th, 1946, to Betty, wife of Dr. Stuart W. Hinds (1929-33), a son.

PARIs.- On January 30th, 1947, to Winifred, wife of C. G . A. Paris (1925-30), a son. POoLE.- On January 1st, 1947, to Esme, wife of the Rev. J. W. Poole (1922-28), Precentor of Canterbury Cathedral, a son, Damien. TRIPP.-On January 1st, 1947, to the wife of Lieut.-Commander R. T. Tripp, R.N. (1918-27), a son. ENGAGEMENTS BRBDIN : GEARE.- Lieut.-Colonel H. E. N. Bredin, D.S.O., M.e. (1925- 32), to Jacqueline, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Geare, of OxhiIJ, Warwickshire. POWELL : STEVENs.-Captain Guy Powell, M .C. (19 ), to Elizabeth, elder daughter of Mr. and the late Captain W. Stevens, of Northampton. WATTS: BUDGE.-Eric Watts (19 ), to Grizel, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs, G. D. Budge, of Rhinderin, Mon.

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THE CANTUARIAN MARRIAGES AUCOTI : HEAD.- On November 23rd, 1946, r. A. Aucott (1928- 32), son of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Aucott of Carshalton, Surrey, to Gladys Mary, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Head, of Esher, Surrey. EDBRoOKE : LBWIs.- On October 14th, 1946, R. W. Edbrooke (1930- 35), only son of Mr. and Mrs. Edbrooke, of Ashford, Kent, to Joan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K. Lewis, of Blackburn , Lancs.

IN MEMORIAM ALGERNON LINDSEY BRINE (1 878-80) The Rev. A. L. Brine, M.A., one of our senior O.K.S. , died at his home, Eyefield, Lympne, Kent, on the 2nd February, 1947, at the age of 82. Going up to St. John's, Oxford, he took Theological Finals in 1 8~ 5, and was ordained in 1887. After being Rector of Willesborough from 1903 to 1911, he went to Queensland, being Vicar successively of Howard and Sherwood. At Howard, a mining centre, he was told to build a church. This he achieved in three years, and when the Archbishop dedicated it the whole cost had been paid. He returned to England in 1920, and was from that year a licensed preacher in the Diocese of Canterbury, doing a considerable amount of duty for neighbouring parishes. A keen Freemason, he was a Foundation Member of the Cantuarian Lodge, and had also belonged to Lodges in Dover and Ashford. One of his chief hobbies was gardening; he grew roses with great success, and exhibited for some years in London and Canterbury. We offer our sincere sympathy to his widow. THOMAS SOLLY COLEMAN (1 890-93) T. S. Coleman, of Goss Hall, Ash-next-Sandwich, died on the 3rd February, at the age of 69. He kept up there the famil y farming tradition of the two previous generations, and was a well-known breeder of beef Shorthorns and of Kent or Romney Marsh sheep. He was an ex-Chairman of the Canterbury Farmers ' Club, and a keen follower of the East Kent and West Street Hunts. He had also figured on several committees as Chairman or Treasurer, and was a member of the Kent Rivers Catchment Board and Royal Agricultural Society. One who knew him well records of him: "He had those qualities which we like to think are especially English. He had the true English sense of humour, and a hatred of sham, cant and fal se sentiment; he had a keen perception of what is essentially right, and was ever ready to uphold the right as he saw it. " In 1921 he married Dorothy, daughter of the late Mr. Charles Petley, of Staple, near Ash, and to her and their son we offer our very sincere sympathy in their loss.

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THE CA NTUARIAN ALFRED KINGSFORD MOWLL (1 890- 1894) A. K. Mowll, who died on 1st Fe bru~ ry, 1947, was the second of five brothers a nd a member of a family which figured in the Rotulus ten times between 1889 and 1919. He gained his Sports Colours in 1894. Admitted a Solicitor in 1899, he was over a long period of years Deputy Coroner to his brother, Rutley Mowll, for East Kent, and also for the City of Canterbury. He was an ex-Preside nt of the Kent Law Society and held many local appointments, including the Chai rmanship of the recently appointed tribunal in connection with the extension of Unemployment Benefit. In the 1914-18 War he served as a lieutenant in The Buffs. He was an authority of Kent cricket and an ardent admirer of Frank Woolley. He compi led an extraordinary statistical record covering the whole of Woolley's first class career and givi ng details of every innings, every bowling performance and every catch made by him . This unique record was produced in Woolley 's book, The King of Games. Many tributes were paid at the first meeting of Canterbury County Court after his death. His Honour Judge Clements said that the City had lost a notable figure. and the legal profession a member with a long and honourable career, ever mindful of upholding the high traditions of his profession, while many had lost a valued friend. They all deplored the loss of that large-hearted, kindly, friend ly man . The Headmaster, Masters and Scholars attended his funeral in Canterbury Cathedral. F. M. Furley (1892-97) writes: " I remember Alfred Mowll at School, but r was younger than he was and I was a day-boy, whilst he was a boarder, and he left School before I did, so that J cannot speak very intimately as to his general li fe at School. He never attained to the highest positions, but he was well up the School when he left a nd showed plenty of ability in his after life. He was keenly interested in all the School games and sports and gained his Sports Colours in his last year. His influence was always directed towards maintaining an honest, healthy atmosphere amongst those around him and he set his face strongly against any attack on religion and so built up that side of his character that was so marked a feature of his subsequent career. In his business life he was a very competent advocate and clients could trust their interests to his care in full assurance that they would be well looked after. He was well-known and popular in all the Courts in East Kent. He was always ready to help those in trouble and he often took up a case for persons who were unable to pay his proper fees in order that they might not suITer a n injustice through lack of means. In his private li fe he was even tempered and a gen ial companion. He was very religious and an active Church Worker; for many years he conducted a Bible Class at Whitfield near his old home on Sunday afternoons and the class was often attended by considerable numbers. He was also a n elTective lay preacher. [welJ remember his preaching one Sunday afternoon al St. Mary Bredin's Church on our being ready for God's call. He said that it did not matter when the call came if we were ready; and few men were more ready for God's ca ll than Alfred Mowll . " H ENRY ROWAN-ROBINSON (1 881-86) We regret to a nnounce the death of Major-General H. Rowan-Robinson, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., O.K.S. He died in London on February 24th after a short illness. The Times descri bed him as "a competent soldier with an aptitude for thinking about the wider aspects of his professional work and a nalural gift for committing his thoughts to paper,"

THE CANTUARTAN The Tillles continued: â&#x20AC;˘ :For over 40 yea rs he. follo,",:ed a military career, giving a read y we!come to the opportumtles of unusual servICe whICh It brought him. Only afte r hi' rel!re~ent fr~m the Army did h.. indulge the taste for writing of which early prize essays had .g~ven e.vld~nce.; but the senes of books whIch reflected the activities of hi' alert, mqUlrlllg mllld III hIS later years we re worthy of their often adventurous themes.

"He was born. on May 4th, 1873. After passing through Kin g's School, Canterbury, and the Royal MIlitary Academy, WOOlWICh, he was gazetted an Artillery officer in 1892. ServIce 111 the South Afncan war was follo~ed by staffworkin this country, and when the 1914- 18 war broke out he was well equIpped for the vaned tasks which awaited him His work in the field brought him a C. M.G. and D.S.O. as well as six mentions i1; dispatches, and he also returned for a spell to the Roya l Military Academy, thi s time as second-Ill-command. At the end of the war he was military governor of Libau. Here and as a staff officer in Russia in 1919--:-20 he r~vealed the political aptitude which brought hlln the thanks of the Army Council for hIS tactful adjustment of Polish-Lithuanian differences. Most of the next to years were spent in India and Burma and in 1930 he received his last regular appointment, that of Inspector-General of the Iraqi Army, a nd dunng hIS term was made a c.B. HIS mIlItary mterests dId not, however cease with his retirement in 1934. He became commandant of the Hampshire Army C~det Force and during the war commanded a battalion of the Home Guard. " The Editors regret that the Cambridge Letler arrived 100.lale Jar inc/llsion ill Ihis number. 1111

THE JUNIOR SCHOOL Notes from the Parrot House We.w,:,re most touched by the arrival offour parcels from the King's School, Parra matta, contalOlOg food of varIOus sorts of wh,ch we had seen little for some time and the following letter: ' "W,:, hope ÂĽou like our parcels which we are sending you. We have bought the thmgs whIch we thlOk you may hke, and hope you enjoy them. We are sorry about not sending you any before but we had not thought of it. It is coming on to summer now in Australia and we have started swimming which . we think is lovely. ' From your friends in Lower School III, The King's School, Parramatta, New South Wales." The contents of the parcels were duly consumed by persons of the ri ght age, and the' H ead of the School sent a reply and thanks. Since the weather has deprived us of football for most of this term, it is with a wistful pleasure that we look back to the results of the House Rugger Competition, completed last term after The Canluadan had go ne to press. The House order was: I Cockas 2 Keas 3 Kakas, 4 Macaws. Cockas won all three of their matches, Keas won two and iost one' )<.aka~ wP!l pne and lost tWO, and Macaws lost all three. . ,

T H E CANTUA RIAN Prizewinners of the General Knowledge paper held on the first day of term were: VI, Nightingale i a nd Williams; V, Mrosovsky; IV, Cadma n; III, Blackall ii; IIa, Cornwell ii ; !lb, Hamilton-Paterson; I, Skilbeck ii. Those of the Hobbies Exhibition were: VI, Pisan i i ; V, Smit h ; IVa, McCleery i (and prize for best exhibit) ; IVb, Wri ght; lIf, Ly nch ; li n, Bailey ii ; li b, Leggatt. Special prizes were a lso awarded to Foord, Dunn, Strollts, Poole, and Shakcrley. W.H.O. A Visit to Chislet Colliery On February Ist the Sixth Form visited the colliery in the little village of Chislet, n';t ve ry fa r from here. On arrivin g, we we re taken at once to the working area and shown the vast engine 1'00 111. It was terribly hot, and at first, after comi ng out of the cold air, we felt almost suffocated . Around us were powerful pistons and delicate indicators. Many levers were controlled by sweating men, drippin g perspiration over the damp Hoor. Steam was hissi ng everywhere, and we we re afraid to touch anyth ing, lest something might go wrong. Next to this room dyna mos were working, genera ting electricity for the lighting and ventilation plants. But we could 110t stay in that marvellous place for ever. We went to get our miners'

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A few days later we visited the Canterbury sewage farm. There were many interesting processes to be seen. Except for a slight smell, it was quite clean. The snow had begun to thaw, and we all wore gum-boots. What interested us most was the pumping machinery. There were big pumps, little pumps, and medium-sized pumps, all painted bright green. On the 17th, Sir Arthur Pugh kindly visited us in school hours and gave us a talk on the economic side of these visits. He told us of ihe comparative newness of sewage disposal, and answered some of our questions. C.I.B. and F.P.B. (J.K.S., Form VI) The Hobbies Exhibition

The Hobbies and Handicrafts Exhibition contained many and varied entries. It was opened on the Friday afternoon of half-term, and remained so until the Sunday evening. Many parents, friend s, and relations took the opportunity of visiting it, and were, I think, on the whole agreeably surprised at the number and variety of the collections and models. Miss Cruttenden (of Sturry) very kindly consented to be the judge, and herself generously gave five extra prizes. A number of pictures were exhibited by their respective artists, a few of which showed definite talent, while the rest showed that their painters had at least enjoyed themselves in the handwork classes. Shakerley's The Jungle was outstanding, and well deserved its award. . The best exhibit was a number of trout flies, made by McCleery i. These showed much trouble and patience. R.F.P.C. (J.K.S., Form VI) Half-Term Taking into consideration the difficulties of travel owing to the snow and icy roads, the attendance at our revue "Wot, no Barn?" exceeded all our expectations. The house was nearly full at both performances, and I sincerely hope that those who braved the weather to come and see the show enjoyed it. The appearance of the orchestra, before the beginning of the performance, caused some laughter. They came through the curtain to their seats, dressed as pirates, pistols tucked into sashes and daggers into belts. Despite their appearance they played very successfully. The orchestra first played an overture, the Clowns' Dance. At the end of this a neat, well-groomed boy appeared on the fore-stage. He informed the audience what had been played, and named the orchestra as "Bucko and his Buccaneers" (loud cheers). He announced the next item, a thrilling drama about highwaymen, acted by Form I. The curtain closed on this item with Dick Turpin having made a get-away on his famous horse' 'Black Bess' " his mate Tom laying dead upon the ground, and three very surprised gentlemen severely shaken by "Black Bess's" hooves. 114

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Editorial ... H.R.H. the Princess Elizabeth .. . The School Salvete This and That H.R.H. the Duchess of Ke nt Speech Day A Voice from the Past: G. K. Chesterton Aftermath of Win ter Cor Tnquietum Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery ... The Tale of the Doctors Canon Law Originc,1 Murder at Meister Omers ? The Canterbury Fest ival Peasant's Priest .. , Haydn's Creation

Recitals Kent Musical Festival Art and the Public Schools The Societies The Library The Autobiography of John Mitchinson, IV ... Lecture J.T.c. Notes Presenting the King's Scholar O.K.S. News In Memoriam The Boat Cl ub Tennis Cricket The Junior SchJol

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THE VISIT OF H,R,H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT

July 9th, 1947

THE CANTUARIAN VOL. XXII,

JULY,

No, 3

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EDITORIAL Who gets The Cantuarian? It goes to nearly two thousand people and societies, to Royal and Archiepiscopal Palaces, to O,K.S, in all the continents, to valued friends of the School, to the British Museum, the Bodleian and Cambridge University Libraries , and to other learned institutions, It goes to the grubbiest desks in the Fourth Form and to over four hundred and fifty other boys, It goes to most of the Public Schools, It exists to serve and to entertain an infinite variety of readers, united only in their interest in the ancient School of Canterbury, It is a great satisfaction to the Editors that the relatively few letters about the magazine which they receive are for the most part, wonderfully kind, Many of these letters go so far as to rank The Cantuarian as the best School Magazine in England, Such words are more than a reward for all the effort and expense which the production and distribution of The Cantuarian inevitably demand: and it is only to be hoped that, with the current expansion of the O,K.S. Association, more and more O,K.S. will come to look upon The Cantuarian as essentially their magazine. It is tempting to look back over the numbers of the past two years and to see in them the pattern of the School's life since its return from Cornwall-the December number, so full of the Return itself, with the great Service of Thanksgiving and with the last sermon and death of Lord Lang; the March issue, probably the "largest-ever", paying tribute 117

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to the ten years of Canon Shirley's Headmastership, and illustrating from a wealth of literary and historical material the impact of the romance of Canterbury on the School's imaginations; and then the Summer number in all its Royal finery of scarlet, illustrating and recording Their Majesties' visit, and recording also our first speech day at Canterbury since 1939, a fine report for the J.T.C .. and great success in Cricket, Athletics and Tennis. This year's December number carried on the story to a year of consolidation, again with articles on our heritage, and with a remarkable extract from Bishop Mitchinson's ullpublish ed rnemoirs. The Ma rch number flaunted a cover of rich blue in the depth of cold and despondency; it recorded encouraging success at the Universities, it contained articles on Canterbury, on Dickens and Australia; it welcomed Mr. Maugham to his Governorship and followed Bishop Mitchinson to his Oxford Mastership. It is indeed tempting to look back: and, for the present Editors at least, a source of gratitude and happiness. This gratitude must be especially extended to our guide, the Headmaster, and to A. A. Kneller, P. H. Honour and P. C. Hammond, formerly Editors and now O.K.S. It has been great fun doing the work- and also, the Editors flatter themselves, worthwhile. It is hard to leave the work, as it is hard to leave the School. But The Cantuarian will not collapse, or even suffer, frol11 the departure of any number of Editors. Even in its loftiest idealism, The Cantuarian is but the mirror of the School: and, that mirror, in the grace of God, will not be darkened for many hundreds of years to come.

H.R.H. THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH The School rejoiced to hear of the betrothal of Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth. A telegram of loyal congratulations and good wishes was despatched to the Princess on behalf of the Headmaster, Masters, Scholars and commoners of the School. Her Royal Highness expressed her gratitude to the School for this message through her Lady-in-Waiting. it is announced that Her Royal Highness will preside at a meeting in the School Hall on August 8th. . II ~

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THE SCHOOL Head Head Head Head Head

Captain of the School: T. H . PARES of School House ... of The Grange of Walpole House of Meister Omers ... of Luxmoore House

T. H. PARES D. L. EDWARDS W. H. FOXWELL G. V. HOLLIDAY H. J. DE VOIL

MONITORS T. H. PARES, D. L. EDWARDS, G. V. HOLLIDAY, W. H. FOXWELL, H. J. DE VorL, B. L. LEARY, J. C. W. HULSE, J. A. A. PRICE, P. D. LEIGHTON. School House:

HOUSE PREFECTS J. R. ALLCHURCH, V. ST. G. BREALY, A. G. P. DAVIDSON, r. L. R. BURT, L. A. O. HALSEY, J. D. M. HEARTH.

The Grange:

R. C. FERRlS, P. D . J. JOHNSTON, C. G. S. PATERSON, C. D . SMITH, D. L. QUESTED, E. R. STROUTS, K. G. T. STUART, M. E. K. WITHERS.

Walpole House:

J. W. ALLISON, R. E. A. GREENSLADE, W. L. C. HARRIS, J. B. HOPEWELL, W. J. F. RAY, R. H . C. ROUTH, R. C. SANDEY.

A. G. BARTLETT, J. B. H. JACKSON, I. M. OSBORN, D. K. L. MORGAN, R. C. WENBAN. Luxmoore House: P. BROWN, J. E. ELLIOTT, M. C. O. MAYNE, C. M. REEVES, G. W. WILLIAMS. Meister Omers :

Captain of Cricket .. . Vice-Captain Hon. Secretary .. . Captain of Boats .. . Captain of Tennis. Captain of SWlmmmg Captain of Shooting

J. C. W. HULSE R. E. A. GREENSLADE J. M. HEARTH C. G. S. PATERSON R. C. FERRIS A. G. P. DAVIDSON T. H. PARES

Editors of The Cantuarian D. L. EDWARDS, T. H. PARES

SALVETE E. H. T. Baylis, G . N. Brealy, D. L. Courtier-Dutton, J. M. Denney, D. F. Foard, G. W. Hackett, R . J. B. Hopkins, R. F. Passmore, A. S. Paterson, C. M. R. Platt, J. D. D. Porter, N. J. G. Scott, A. R. Wayte. 119

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THIS AND THAT We cordially congratulate J. A. A. Price on an Open Exhibition ACADEMIC DISTINCfIONS in History to Merton College, Oxford; and Oscar Watson and M. A. S. Burgess on Firsts in the Modern Languages Tripos. The Archbishop of Canterbury celebrated his sixtieth birthday in THE ARCHDISHOP May. The Captain of the School, T. H. Pares, sent a message of greeting, to which His Grace replied: "Many thanks for your telegram ?f good wishes which ~ou sent me o~ behalf of the School. I t was greatly appreciated, and served to remind me once agalll how mIserably unable I seem to be to get opportun ities of seeing something of you and others in responsible places in the school." Latcr in the term the Archbishop lunched informally in Hall with the Monitors and took coffee with them in Lattergate Garden. He himself is an Old Marlburian and King's Seholars may remember that a former King's Scholar, Charles Eaton Plater; founded Marlborough to be for the sons of Clergy what Canterbury was to him. The Archbishop's visit was a very great pleasure to us. Bishop A. M. Gelsthorpe, O.K.S., sends us news of the "Fellowship CHRISTIA N UNITY of Unity" in his diocese of the Sudan. This is shared by Anglicans IN THE SUDAN Presbyterians and Free Churchmen, and by members of the Greek Orthodox, Coptic, Armenian and Egyptian Evangelical Churches. Services are being held throughout the Sudan, in Arabic, Greek and English. We ask our readers to hold this splendid venture in their prayers. THE ARCHBISHOP OF PERTH

The Rev. R. W. H. Moline, O.K .S., was consecrated Archbishop of Perth in Westminster Abbey on April 25th . The Archbishop of Canterbury was chief consecrator. The School was represented at the Service by D. L. Edwards, Second Monitor.

Preachers to the School this term have included the Dean of Canterbury, PREACHERS the Headmaster, the Archdeacon of Canterbury, the Rev. Professor E. C. Ratcliff, the Headmaster of Hurstpierpoint College, the Rev. Father Francis of the Society of St. Francis, the Rev. E. C. Pockington of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, the Chaplain, the Rev. S. B-R. Poole and the Rev. Dr. H. Knight. The School Calendar appeared in a new format this term and was THE CALENDAR distributed for the first time to all members of the O.K.S. Association. The new format was designed by the City of Canterbury College of Art, and the Editors express their gratitude on behalf of the School to the Principal of the College and to Mr. S. Hickson. A party of twenty visitors from Stowe School, Bucks., lunched VISITORS FROM STOWE with the Monitors in Hall on Sunday, June 1st. They were afterwards shown round the School and bathed in the School Swimming Baths. We hope that other Public Schools will come "on pilgrimage" next year.

Some thirty members of the School attended the::lnference of the S.C.M. CONFERENCE Student Christian Movement held in Canterbur on May 30tb. The speaker was the Rev. Joseph McCulloch, R or of Chatham.

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THE 'CANTU A Rf A N An excellent portrait of the late Sir Fairfax Luxmoore has been painted LORD JUSTICE for the School by Mr. James Bateman, R.A., from a photograph and with LUXMOORE the counsel of Lady Luxmoore. This tribute to one of the best sons the School has ever had, has been made by the O.K.S. Association, and we hope that the portrait wi ll be formally presented to the School on Speech Day by the President of the Association, Sir Frederick Bovenschen, K.C.B. This is rapidly nearing completion by the Oxford University Press and THE SCHOOL should be in use next term. The Archbishop has contributed a valuable HYMN BOOK Foreword. The book includes most of the hymns popular with boys, but also a good many that appear in a Hymnal for the first time. The Editors are glad indeed to announce that a portrait of Mr. W. MR. SOMERSET Somerset Maugham has been painted for the School by Sir Gerald Kelly, MAUGHAM R.A. It will be exhibited in the Academy next Spring. It is also a matter of great satisfaction that Mr. Maugham is interesting himself in the contents of our Library, which he proposes to enrich by the presentation ofa considerable number of books. Would that more friends and sons of the School would do the same! Another particular mark of his interest in the School is that Mr. Maugham has given us the Manuscript of his book, The Summing Up. It will be remembered that in 1937 Hugh Walpole gave us many MS. of distinguished authors to form the basis of what was intended by him to become a very large collection indeed. Unhappily, his sudden death prevented his plan from ever taking full effect, and the Collection remains as he gave it. This is tbe first gift since Sir Hugh established the Walpole Collection, and it is a noble gift. Again, it is felt that this action of Mr. Maugham might well be followed by other O.K.S. Ten years ago the then Schoolroom became far too small for Assemblies THE PARRY and was converted into an attractive Library. At the same time the old HALL Parry Library was extended by 30 or more feet into a dignified Assembly Hall. During the War the Parry Hall was used by the City as a British Restaurant, and from Michaelmas, 1945 till January, 1947 we had to usc it for meals, pending the rebuilding of the Dining Hall. In that interval we used the Chapter House for daily Prayers and Assemblies. Now the Parry Hall IS Itself too small- and the Chapter House is more suitable. In passing, we must gratefully note that the Chapter has cordially handed it over to the School for the purposes of an Assembly Hall. The chief problem in the way of buildings is lack of classrooms; we sorely need eight more - but we could not build them, for we should not get the materials and we could not afford the cost. A plan has, therefore, been accepted whereby the Parry will be converted into nine classrooms; six on the present floor, and three above-a ceiling and dormer

windows being inserted. The cost is estimated at ÂŁ6,500, probably about one-third of the cost of building a new block of similar size. It is beyond all question that the provision of these classrooms will be an enormous benefit to the teaching throughout the School. If any O.K.S . or a Friend of the School would care to defray the cost, it would be ~ magnificent gift at this particular moment! 12 1

THE CNNTtJ ARrAN Facing this page we produce the picture of a building planned to incorporate THE LARDER the old mediaeval Larder Gate of the Monastery. This picture has been GATE exhibited in the Royal Academy this Spring. The purpose of the building is to provide accommodation for the teaching of Art and Craftsmanship, and to furnish a Concert Room. Everyone familiar with the Green Court will see at once how happily thi s building' 'marries with the Norman Staircase, the Forrens Archway, and Prior Sellingegate. The cost will probably be met by the Dean and Chapter, who will let the building to the School on lease. Old Boys need no telling that the School lacks this particular amenity almost entirely. I I

After loyal and devoted service for some eleven years, the Reverend THE CHAPLAIN A. D. R. Brooke has decided it is time to change his work. In the nature of things no one can remain as a School Chaplain for over-long. But for the War he would probably have moved earlier. What is certainly true is that nobody has ever rendered more unselfish service to the School than the Chaplain has. His keen interest has been unlimited, and his shrewd judgment and advice have always been of great value. His loyalty and faithfulness have been known to all. We understand that he is taking a partnership in an established Preparatory School, and we wish him the best of good fortune, and hope that he will revisit us whenever he can, as a welcome and esteemed friend. This term we have also to say good-bye to Mr. Egerton Jones, though we hope it is only a partial farewell. Mr. A. E. Jones joined the staff as far back as 1919 and has loved and served the School ever since. In the ordinary way he would have retired three years ago, but stayed on through the difficult time of the end of the war and the return home. Many generations of O.K.S. will recall with gratitude his kindly nature, and his readiness to help in every way he could. For the most part hel s been concerned with the History and English teaching, and much success has mark a his path. Yet perhaps most will remember him as the O.c. of the Corps, with whi he has been connected almost, if not quite, the whole time. We understand that although retired from actual teaching, he will remain connected with the School in some capacity, and we shall see him most days in and out of the School; hence our' 'partial " good-bye. But we should like Mr. Egerton Jones to reel that he has a very warm corner indeed in the School 's heart: that we appreciate him rar more than this brief notice indicates, and shall treasure his memory. MR. A. EGERTON JONES

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THE CANTUARIAN years back Sir Sydney came to consult the Headmaster about its fu ture ; a nd enthusiastically Sir Sydney accepted the suggestion that the Archbishop (Lord Lang) be asked to establish a Diploma in Church Music to be awarded to successful students. The father of Sir Sydney was Sir Charles Nicholson, a Yorkshireman who, after his Edinburgh M.D. , emigrated to Australia in 1833. He became an importa nt person in the political world of N. S.W. a nd was responsible fo r the fo undation of the University of Sydney, of which he became Cha ncellor. It is said that he gave the city 's na me to his distinguished

musical son. The S.P.C.K. have arranged to p ublish a book by the THE JUDICIOUS HOOKER Headmaster on Richard Hooker and the political philosophy of the sixteenth century. The Royal Charter empowers the School to affix on all documents THE SEAL its own Seal. This has been designed by the well-known architect OF THE SCHOOL Mr. W. H. R. Blacking, F.R.LB.A., of Salisbury. It is oval in shape and depicts st. Augustine, with the Cathedral and School Arms at the base. The result is exceedingly handsome. We are most grateful to Mr. Blacking for his skill and patience, and for his generosity, for it should be placed on record that he has designed the Seal without fee. The actual cost of making has been defrayed by the Chapter as a present to the School: a nd we take this opportunity of cordia lly thanking the members of the Chapter. Heard at Margate: THE LABOUR PARTY "We must eliminate the nobs and snobs a nd elevate the workingclasses into their place." (No prizes offered for the correct CONFERENCE identity of the Ministerial speaker.) Sung cheerfully by a vast congregation in the Cathedral on June 14th: RED CROSS "Though clouds and darkness hide His path, The promised grave is sure. " SERVICE The School is delighted to see that the Rev. E. C. R1Ltcliff has been appointed to the Ely Professorship, with which goes a Canonry at Ely. THE ELY PROFESSOR OF Professor RatclilI has paid severa l visits to the School and is a lways a most welcome guest. His predecessor in the Professorship was Dr. DIVINITY Telfer, now Master of Selwyn, and a.former King 's Scholar of Canterbury. On June 15th the Chapter all owed Wye College to celebrate in the ARCHBISHOP Cathedral the SOOth anniversary of its fo unding by Archbishop Kempe. KEMPE A preamble to the printed Form of Service gave a brief biography of Kempe, but omitted to state that he was a boy at the King's School, then known as the School of the Archbishop and the City.

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There were three O.K.S. members of the VIII which came head of the JESUS COLLEGE, river at Cambridge this year and also won the Grand Challenge Cups CAMBRIDGE at Marlow and Henley Regattas. They ca me from Jesus College, Cambridge, where F. L. Whalley is Capta in of Boats, his brother, J. P. Whalley, a member of the 1st VIII, and D. Harriss Cox of the 1st VIII. We offer them our congratulations on their remarkable success. 123

THE CANTUARIAN It was a great pleasure to have the Rev. Father Francis THE SOCIETY OF ST. FRANCIS and Brother Peter, both of the Society of St. Francis, on a week's mission from June 15th to 22nd this term. We believe their efforts were richly rewarded. The Rev. Canon E. N. West, D.O ., Canon Sacrist of the Cathedral CANON E. N. WEST Church of S1. John the Divine, New York, preached in the Cathedral, talked to the Sixth Form, lunched in Hall and took coffee with the Monitors and dined with the Headmaster and Mrs. Shirley during June. Canon West is taking the responsibility for the Cathedral Appeal in the United States. The Headmaster broadcast to the Empire and to other overseas A BROADCAST listeners on June 26th. He spoke on the place of the School in the ON THE SCHOOL history of the nation and Commonwealth, and was instrumental in paying tribute to the many O.KS. who are serving abroad to-day, some in positions of great responsibility. Another link between the School and the Commonwealth A PAMPHLET FOR CANADA is provided by a pamphlet by D. L. Edwards, of the Upper Sixth, on The M essage and Romance of Canterbury Cathedral. This has appeared in an edilion of 50,000 for Canadian readers. We congratulate the Rev. Dr. Knight on the forthcoming publication A NEW BOOK of his book, The H ebrew Prophetic Consciousness. From a survey of the proof copy the Editors deduce that it will arouse a very considerable attention in learned circles. The book is written with the same close reasoning, clarity and eloquence as are apparent in Dr. Knight 's sermons and lectures to the Upper Sixth. With the approval of the Headmaster, the School Monitors CUSTOMS AND PRIVILEGES have revised the "blue book" of customs and privileges, whic.h has now appeared in a new ed ition. A number of . inappropriate privileges have thus been abolished: while care has been taken to maintain those traditions which help to bind the School together and to give it its distinctive character. Interested O.KS. may obtain the new "blue book", price sixpence, on application to the Captain of the School. This magazine is excellently published by Washington Cathedral, THE CATHEDRAL AGE U.S.A. We learn that an article by the Headmaster, on the King's School and other English Cathedral Schools, will form the principal feature in the Autumn number. An important Committee of a very important Educational THE NEW EDUCATION Conference recently sent round a "Questionnaire" asking every conceivable detail as to ihe management of Boarding Houses in Schools. "How many female employees are there, in addition to your wife 1" they asked; "Who appoints them? Who pats them 1" Richly deserved honour has come to C. B. Jerram, His Majesty's O.KS. HONOURS Ambassador at Stockholm, and to H. D. Townend, President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce. Both are O.K.S., and we were delighted to see the announcement of their Knighthoods in the Birthday Honoursthe more so, as Sir Cecil Jerram has promised to entertain a party of our naturalists in Sweden next year. 124

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VISIT OF H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT On Wednesday, July 9th, Her Royal Highness honoured the School by a morning visit. Attended by Lord Herbert and Lady Rachel Davidson, the Duchess arrived at the Mint Yard Gateway shortly after eleven o'clock. She was loudly cheered by the School, and after b~ing welcomed by the Headmaster, permitted Mrs. Shirley, Miss Janet Shirley, the Second Master and Mrs. Harris, the Housemasters and their ladies, the Captain of School, th Captain of the XI, and the Captain of Boats to be presented to her. Escorted' by the Headmaster, Mrs. Shirley and the Captain of School, Her Royal Highness Ilroceeded to a tour of the School buildings; from Grange House across Palace COllrt to Walpole House-where she much adm ired the view of the Cathedralthrough ttle Green Court Gate to the Dining Hall- the Kitchens of which very much impressed ber- from the Classrooms across the Green Court to Sellingegate and Meister Omers. In ,this last House the Duchess was highly interested in the fresco of Elizabeth's Royal Arm's, painted in 1583. Through ut the tour Her Royal Highness asked to see the particular places which had been formally opened in 1938 by the late Duke of Kent: and expressed her pleasure that the ~ 11 Window which had been signed by the Duke had been safely preserved. She then ascended the Norman Staircase-which she specially admired, remarking that it was the sort of thing one might rather expect in France or Italy- to take coffee with the Monitors in the Library. Then, having signed the Visitors' Book, she returned to the Hall in order to make a short speech to the assembled School. The Duches aid that it gave her great pleasure to visit' 'this famous School, of which I have heard â&#x20AC;˘ much", and rejoiced to see that the damages of war had been so well , and quickLy repaired, and that the School bad emerged successfully from such a long period of exile. Wishing the School every future success and happiness Her Royal Highness concluded by asking for a whole holiday-a request which brought forth instantaneous applause. The Captain of School then called for cheers in the traditional manner, to which the whole company responded with the utmost enthusiasm. Her Royal Highness then talked with the Monitors, while the rest of the School assembled in the Mint Yard to give her a loyal " send-off". After shaking hands with Masters and Monitors and reiterating her interest in the School 's future, the Duchess entered her car, passing through the Green Court Gate and the Mint Yard, where she was lustily cheered by Scholars and Commoners-<Jheers which were taken up by the people of Canterbury who had assembled outside the Gate. This is a bare recital of what happened, and nothing has been said of Her Royal Highness' graciousness and kindness. Hundreds of boys and other folk levelled cameras at her throughout the visit, and often she would pause so that a picture might be successful ; and many an amusing comment she had to make. Her admiration of the Kitchen and her interest in discussing food problems with people there were notable. Everywhere and with everyone she was friend ly and easy, simple and unaffected, and utterly charming. Her visit brought real comfort and encouragement, and certainly she won all our hearts. 12)

THE CANTUARIAN It was touching to reflect that this visit of July 9th, 1947, was but one day from the fifth anniversary of the last visit of the late Duke of Kent to the School during its stay in Cornwall, three weeks before his tragic death. It was almost eight years to the very day that the Duke presided at the great Banquet given in Lincoln's Inn Hall where and when he refounded the King 's School Feast Society, and nine years that he came to open all the buildings that had been put up since 1936- the Dining Hall, the Chapel, the Parry Hall, the Classrooms, the Pavilion and so on. Last year Their Majesties and Princess Elizabeth came to us on July 11th. Should not July, then, be calendared in the School's Annals for ever as the Royal Month ? So we say au revoir-we hope not, "good-bye"- to this gracious Lady who to-day captured us with her true charm, real friendliness, and, not least, her keen sense of

hllmollr. We feel that the School has in her a genuine Friend, and with loyalty and affection we wish her many, many years of happy life among the People of England who have taken her to their hearts.

SPEECH DAY Speech Day this year takes place on July 28th . A full acco unt will appear in our next number. The Anniversary Preacher will be the Rev. Laurens Sargent, O.K.S., Vicar of St. Peter's, Broadstairs, and a prominent ornithologist and broadcaster. The guest of honour at Speeches in the Chapter House at 2.15 p.m. will be the Rt. Hon . J. Chuter Ede, P.c., M.P., His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for. Home Affairs. The guests will be entertained to tea on the Green Court, with music from the Band of The Buffs.

A VOICE FROM THE PAST By G. K. Chesterton There is a serious element in the idea of the Canterbury Pilgrimage which makes the Pilgrims' Way something more than merely the open road ... ... All modern critics can take pleasure in the almost modern realism of the portraiture; in the variety of the

types and the vigollr of the quarrels. But the modern problem is more and more the problem of keeping the company together at all ; and the company was kept together becallse it was goi ng to Canterbury. It will be another business, if the variety of companions discovers a variety of ai ms . ..... As their counterparts s.tand to-day, it

easier to imagine the Wife of Bath wanting to go sun-bathing at Margate, or the Clerk instantly returning, with refin ed disgust, to Oxford, than to imagine either of them wanting to toil on together to a particular tomb in Canterbury . . . ... For the moment, at lef.st, there is no Canterbury in sight for the Canterbury Pilgrims. The coloured cavalcade is halted somewhere in the suburbs, and suffering the bewilderment dating from that day, when sectarians and journalists and jerry-builders between them decided that every man should live in the same villa, and every man in a different universe .â&#x20AC;˘ *frop-l Chaucer [ 1932). reprinted by kind permission of the publishers, Messrs. faber and faberÂˇ

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AFTERMATH OF WINTER As I drove down to Norfolk at the beginning of April, the last few isolated patches of snow were lingering in sheltered spots, but everywhere the meadows and woods were as fresh, and the birds sang as merrily as though that shivering seven weeks of blinding snow, frozen fields and cruel winter had never gripped the English countryside with its icy tenticles. On the well-keepered Sandringham and Holkham estates game

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because everything seemed so delightfully and imperturbably the same; farm buildings, mellowed with age,stared peacefully and stedfastly at the young lambs chasing each other over the grassy hillocks; snipe dru mmed over the marshes where duck already prepared their nests, and the sun shone with a benign brightness on the whole scene of joyous growth, after the rigours of the cold. Yet underneath this pleasant covering of spring, several wounds and many small cuts had scarred the face of the countryside. Reed beds and pools that should have reverberated to the hollow boom of that interesting relic from wider and marshier days, the ghostly "butterbump" or bittern, now on ly sound to the brutish croaks of coot. In many woods where the teasing little song of the goldcrest, smallest of all British birds, was an everyday noise last summer, the only sounds to be heard now are the raucous shrieks of piratical jays and the soft cooing of ring-doves. No more does the cackling laugh of the green woodpecker roll out across the fields and woods of many a place where last year his call was a daily occulJence. Thrushes, among our most beautiful songsters, have suffered too, and the lovely lapwing that stirs the heart of every countryman in the spring-time, by its wild antics and whipping cries, has not returned to a number of its nesting-haunts. 127

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Various hibernating animals, such as the hedgehog, have been drowned unawares and unnoticed in their snug winter quarters. r There are other and far more serious consequences that have yet to make their full reffect felt. The mortality amongst livestock, and particularly sheep, must eventually ralfect our breeding flock s and thus, perhaps, our meat rations. These losses are the worst in li ving memory and constitute a serious financial setback for many farmers. The

flooding of vast areas of first-class farming land, particularly in the Fens, has brought other farmers near to ruin, while extensive areas of the finest food-producing land in England will not be brought back into cultivation for several years. Now, as I write, in the middle of June, looking out across the woodlands and richly cultivated fields that lie between Canterbury and Dover, I realise that the winter that has passed is but a minute phase in the great, imperative life of the country- a life that, with all its storms and sunshine, is largely one of true and equal peace; a peace that long ago established its roots in English soil, and blossomed forth in the simple pleasures of rural life; a peace that has given Englishmen quiet, honest minds to face .many dark days in the history of this Island; a peace that in the drowsy warmth of summer has quickly returned to refresh the life of the fields after the frozen "Winter of discontent" . T.H.P.

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o heart whose tossing waves Are like the troubled sea un resting, o thou, whom life enslaves,

When wilt thou cease from thy relentless questing? When will thy voyage calmer be And gentle zephyrs play about thy prow, And soul-entrancing melody Chase the dull sorrow from thy fevered brow? Ponder this, 0 heart. Thy days are passing, soon are gone. Soon must those depart On thy last journey o'er the dim Unknown. At last shalt thou find rest. In realms translucent of intenser life Where souls are blest With dower of richest good and cease from strife. 128

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OF ALAMEIN, K.G. Visit and Lecture to the School Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G., G.C.B., D.S.O., Chief of the Imperial General Staff, visited the School on Tuesday, May 27th . He lectured to the School in the Chapter House on the main impressions which he had gained from the War and from his recent visit to Soviet Russia. Lord Montgomery was cheered when he entered the Chapter House. He told the School how glad he was to be amongst them once more. Lord Montgomery explained that he wanted to talk informally and frankly, and in certain sections confidentially. His talk was accordingly full of remarks which revealed his very shrewd sense of humour. He began by explaining on a black-board the strategy of the Battle of El Alamein. He told us how the Germans, who were first-class troops, were in a very strong position. The Italians were also present, interspersed with the German troops. Lord Montgomery related to us the story of the first attack, which drove a "bulge" in the centre of the enemy line, and which threatened the enemy's communications with Libya. When he withdrew a number of troops from this "bulge ", he said, people at home thought the battle was lost. Yet he had learnt from his study of Military History that when a general began to withdraw troops before the end, the battle was already won. So had it proved at El Alamein . The danger to the enemy communications and the continuing heavy night attacks in the North drove General Rommel to segregate the Germans and the Italians, which Lord Montgomery regarded as the sine qua non of victory. As soon as the Italians were left almost alone in charge of the Central and Southern sectors of the line, Lord Montgomery threw into the battle his whole armoured force, which had been re-equipped after its first struggle. This force smashed the enemy line in the centre; the infantry, supply and communications troops poured through it; despite some stiff fighting ahead, Egypt was ours. Lord Montgomery ascribed much of his success to Army Intelligence, who had discovered the composition of the enemy line. But, despite modern inventions, battles, he said, were still essentially the struggle of the Will-powers of two Commanders. The c.I.G.S. explained that he had told the School the inner story of El Alamein to prove the point which it was the main purpose of his lecture to make- that in war, as in everything else in this life, it was essential to decide before action exactly what you wanted out of the action, and then to go in and get what you wanted, despite all odds. Only in this way was it possible to gain success in any human activity; and the point could easily be illustrated from rugger or cricket. Not to win, Lord Montgomery said, was really the same thing as to be defeated; it was, in his own phrase, "no good". Yet even in the middle of this serious passage, Lord Montgomery set the School laughing. Smiling broadly, he apologised for illustrating Victory from the games field. Perhaps, he said, the School had no experience of defeat in these matters. The c.I.G.S. continued his lecture by discussing the man who had been defeated by this strategy, the German soldier. He told us that, in the desert, he had always kept a picture of his "opposite number", General Rommel, in his tactical H.Q. He would

THE CANTUA RIA N look at it every day, trying to "think himself into Rommel'~ mind". It was interesting, he said to note that Rommel had received the wound whIch prevented hIm from the continu'ing in command in Normandy and from which he later died, in the little Norman commune of Montgomery. It was from this commune, the C.I.G.S. explamed, that hIs ancestors had come. Of all the German generals whom he had opposed, his admiration went out most to Von Runstedt. Lord Montgomery considered that the fighting quality of the German Arm~ could be partly attributed to its technical efficiency in the use of weapons, and partly to ItS skIll in the use of ground. He attributed the latter skIll to the mlhtary games played by every German boy. Even to-day, he added, these ~ames were continuing in the parks. But, above all , the German Army relied upon ItS dlsclplll1e. Lord Montgomery recalled that, in the last days of the War, he would often hear of Is.olated German boys m the Army fighting it out to death, with no hope of success or relIef. The third part of Lord Montgomery's lecture dealt with his visit to the Soviet Union. The C.LG .S. did not wish details of this to be made pubhc m pnnt : and The Can/llanan must therefore tread warily. Lord Montgomery explained how he had met Stalin at Potsdam and had struck up a friendsh ip with him. Stalin was an excellent host and conversationalist, a great soldier and admllllstrator. Lord Montgomery had ~Islted units of the Red Army and had attended a State Banquet m the Kremhn, of which he related several anecdotes. Other passages from Lord Mo~tgomery's lecture dealt :'lith his impressions of Soviet industrial life. He was sure, he sard, that the SovIet and Bnltsh peoples could co-operate to the peace and betterment of the world : Everywhere where he had gone in Russia, he had been received with the utmost cordlahty and frankness. It was for a similar reception, op".n. and friend ly? that he was grateful to the School. The details of the War and of his VISIt to the SovIet UllIon, he saId, dId n~t so. m,!ch matter. What did matter was that the boys of the School should make up theIr mmds as to what they wanted. If they did so, Lord Montgomery had no doubt they would get It. He said that he did not do as much work as he somettmes wanted as Governor. But he had enjoyed a warm friend ship with The King's School and, with re~o lu tion andfaith, there were no heights to which its members in the world of to-day mIght not attalll.

. Viscount Montgomery was enthusi~stically cheered by the School at the end of his honour:' in the Cloisters lecture. He afterwards inspected an informal "gua~'d provided by members of the Canterbury Old Contempltbles Assoclalton, who wore theIr veterans' medals for the occasion. The C.LG.S. then walked back to the Headmaster's house where he was entertained to tea by Dr. and Mrs. Shirley. The School's attention was speedily transferred to Lord Montgomery's driver? who had. driven him. since the African Campaign! At 5.30, the C.LG.S. left the Precmcts, smlhng and wavII?g to the boys of the School, who stood cheering him as his cal' passed out of the Mlllt Yard Gateway on the way back to London.

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THE TALE OF THE DOCTORS Know then, oh, Sultan, that once there dwelt in your city of Ain Bou Aissa, a rich merchant who, as such men do, married a young and beautiful maiden. But, alas, when he had spent much of his wealth upon the marriage ceremonies, the girl fell ill and seemed near to death . The merchant was worried, for she had cost him much and was most fair to behold. Nothing that any of his slaves could d.. was of any avail; nor could the prayers and supplications of many holy Marabouts bring her back to health. So, one night when her death was surely not far off, the distraught merchant rushed forth out of his house to seek out and beg the great, famous doctor, Hakim AbduJlah el Mascara, to rise from his couch and come at once. But on the way he met a holy dervish who, accepting alms fro m him, asked whither he was going in such haste. The merchant quickly told his story and begged that the dervish wou ld use his miraculous powers to save the dying maiden . But the der vish replied that he had no powers to save any feminine creature. But he said, " In return for your faith and charity, I will give you power to see the invisible. Peace be with you." Hastening on his way the merchant turned a corner and saw before him a great crowd

that heaved and surged before the doors of the most famOllS doctor in Ain Bou Aissa. "What is this assembly?" cried the merchan as he tried to make his way through. "We are the sOllls of the dead, slain by the Hakim, the famolls doctor who lives in this house. "

"But has he slain thousands?" "Yea, many thousands," was the reply.

"Then he is not the doctor for me", cried the merchant; and blessing the gift of the dervish he hurried on to the house of a Hakim of Jesser fame. Outside the house of this learned man-the Hakim Hassan bin HatTaek-was another crowd of men, women and children who were ang ry and shouting terrible curses upon the house. "What is this crowd ?" cried the merchant in frenzy. ''The souls of those slain by this quack Hakim." "He must have slain hundreds !" cried the merchant. "Yea, many h)Jndreds", was the reply. "Then this is not the man for me", said the merchant and he hurried all the more until he came to the house of a third doctor, whose skill was well known through the city of Ain Bou Aissa. Round this house there was another crowd. . "Who are ye ?" said the merchant distracted. "We are the souls of the slain, slaughtered by this charlatan hakim." "Then he has killed scores !" gasped the merchant. "Yea, many scores", came the reply. 13 1

THE CANTUAR IAN "Then he shall not kill my beloved also", vowed the merchant and he ran on . .. but where should he go? What could he do? Suddenly his gaze fell upon a sign painted in black letters against a white wall. By the light of the moon he read the ~".rds: The far-famed and most learned Hakim Mohammed din BJel , late Court PhYSIcian to the King of Hedjaz, lives here. At his door there stood not a crowd to be numbered by thousands, by hundreds or by scores. At his door th~re stood but one man! "Who are you ?" said the merchant. "r am the soul of the dead man slain by this hakim", was the answer. "And there is but one of you?" " r am the only one", was the reply. . 'Then this doctor is the one for me !" cried the merchant, now wild with excitement, and he clamoured loudly at the door. When he was brought before the Hakim Mohammed, the merchant besought him to come at once to his house and save the life of his beautiful , young and most valuable wife. " But what fee do yo u offer me, to come forth from my bed-chamber, and pass through the streets at this hour of the night ?" demanded the haughty haklm. "Don't quibble, but hasten and come. " "And name your own fee", .he added. Springing hastily from his couch, the hakim flung over his shoulders his bernouse and cloak, took certain phials from a cupboard and bade the merchant lead the way. Almost running they came to the merchant's house. Having examined the girl, the doctor wrote a. verse of the Q'rran on parchment, and steeped itÂˇ in a mixture of the contents of the phials. "There," he said and gave the merchant certain instructions concerning the mixture,

" in seven days she will be in perfect health." In gratitude the merchant bowed very low before the hakim. Then leading him to another chamber, he paid the hakim his heavy fee and conducted him to the outer gate. "r marvel, oh Hakim, " said he as they parted, "that thy fame is not even greater in this city than it is. " "You have no reason to marvel, my friend, " said the physician, "for I am but a newcomer to this city of Ain Bou Aissa. I arrived only yesterday." "What!" cried the merchant, "What! Then how many patients have you attended here ?" "One", replied the doctor, and hurried off, clutching his fee. B.K.N. (This story was placed first in a special competition held by the Walpole Society.-Eds.) 132

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CANON LAW This hardly appears a suitable subject for a school magazine. Yet Canterbury is very "ecclesiastical" in its atmosphere; and if we are interested in the Church, in its Hierarchy, its Music, its Services, why not in its Laws? It is true we hardly knew that it had any Laws! It is true that in the pursuit of Chaucer for examination purposes we learned something of Archdeacons and their Courts. But we didn't know that they had any Courts to-day. Now and then, if some frightful business happened, we realised there was some machinery called a Consistory Court-but we didn 't know what it was, where it was or who composed it. We thought that all these things belonged to remote antiquity, and had been "purged" for the most part at the Reformation. Yet who were these people who turned up from time to time in Cathedral, clad in lawyers' wigs, in black gowns and in scarlet? Every time an Archbishop was enthroned, and every time one was buried-and our present generation of school fellows has seen four of these occasions-these bewigged gentlemen appeared. They were ecclesiastical lawyers, we learned. Then there must be Ecclesiastical Laws, and possibly an odd Court or two. But nobody investigated the business. Perhaps it was, after all, only some antique pageantry. But then this very term the newspapers became excited about some new Canon Law. A number of people wrote to The Times about it ; that was not unexpected. But there must be something in it-the Daily Express was quite interested, even if not feverish. The Church of England was to have a whole new body of Law- lots of it from remote days of pre-Reformation, and lots of it from modern times. We bought a copy-for a splendid book, splendidly produced, was issued. All the old Courts are to be set up again -but we miss the jolly Summoner and the picaresque Pardoner; there are new Courts, too: and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council will no longer be the Supreme Appeal Court. The Clergy are told how they must behave, what they must wear, and what say (and not say). The Laity are provided for, too, though it's not certain how they will like it or take it. Ever since the Reformation the Laity have been an important part of the Churchthey took care they were, for a not inconsiderable number of them had got their hands on Church property and were not going to take them off. So it was provided- for they were very tired of clerical supervision- that where the Callon Law conflicted with the Civil Law (the Law of the Land) the latter would prevail; and it has ever since done so. Will the new Canon Law change that position? It is difficult to see how. The Commissioners-that is the learned gentlemen who have composed these Canon Lawsseem to- realise this is a tricksy point: for they set up their new Courts and abolished this and that (including the J.C. of the Privy Council)-and then (was it on second thoughts ?) said that any of His Majesty's subjects (i.e. you and I) who feel aggrieved by proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts are free to take themselves to the Civil Courts to get a verdict, decision or judgment and/or whatever it is-upset. Is there much use then in such Courts? It will be good for the lawyers, of course; trade might be brisk. Then Laws about Marriage are laid down-but the State has laws too about Marriage ; and sometimes there must arise what learned people call a "conflict of Laws " . Which is to win? As things are those Laws which are established by the High Court of Parliament, where everyone of us who has, or shall have, a vote, is "inteneJe4"

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or deemed to be present. Then you will say that Parliament can sanction the Canon Law, and thus it will be effective. No doubt- but can it sanction provisions which are not on all fours with its own Laws? And is it likely in these democratic days that Parliament will allow the Convocation (i.e. Assembly of Church Clergy) to make Laws for the Laity, who have neither voice nor representation therein? Why then is a new Corpus Callonici Juris proposed at this date? Some people say it is only right and proper that a Church should legislate for its members; a sound and good position, if a Church is independent. But not easy when a Church is the Established Church of a Na tion, and the Nation has said that State Laws have " priority", as we now say. Is it naughty to think that this proposal for a new Canon Law is a step in the direction of "independence"-a step towards what is called Disestablishment? It may be. There is much to be said in favou r of disestablishment, but much more against it in the view of numbers of folk. With all its faults, with all its lack of discipline, with all its variations of worship, with a ll its hesitation to define doctrines too absolutely, the Established Church has stood for something precious and real these past 400 years. It has been the soul of the Nation-often enough a feeble soul, timid and even obsequious, but capable at moments of uttering "Thus saith the Lord " and but for their Church English people might have become more pagan than they are. The Nation has this soul-maybe the soul needs a great awakening. That is one thing. But to sever soul from body is another, and both might perish. A clarion call to spiritual revival might be thought more urgently needed in these heedless days than a new Canon Law. But what does seem most extraordinary is the statement in the new Canon III that "the form of God's Worship in the Church of England contained in the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and of other Rites and Ceremonies .. . . is agreeable to the Word of God " . Students of Elizabethan history will realize that this strikes at the very foundations of Anglicanism as then established. The 14th Century Lollards (ecclesiastical revolutionaries) demanded " Where groundest thou it in Scripture?" It was the Puritan revolutionaries of the 16th Century who demandedand the Anglicans who denied the necessity of-Scriptural Authority for all Forms, .Rites and Ceremonies. It was the Puritans who refused the surplice, the baptismal Sign of the Cross, the ring in marriage and the clerical garb, as devoid of Scriptural basis-and were put into episcopal gaols for so refusing! The Church of England by the mouths of Jewel, Whitgift and Hooker replied that these were "things indifferent", to be retained, changed, abolished as any lawful Church should order; because Scripture concerned itself with immutable things. What these great Anglican Fathers asserted was repeated in the Prayer Book (see the Preface, "Of Ceremonies "), which states plainly "every country should use such ceremonies as they think best ". It is puzzling to understand why our new Canonists cite this Preface to support their Canon III. They quote also the Vlth Canon of 1603 as evidence, but that Canon simply dooms to excommunication anyone who describes Anglican Ceremonies as "wicked", It was the Puritan claim that their Form of Worship could be found in Scripture; the Church of England answer was-as it had to be-that Scripture lays down 110 Form of Worship at all. And now this new Canon III (and you can include Canons IV and VI) says after all it is somehow and somewhere in Scripture! It is curious indeed that 20th <;:entury Anglicanism should execute such a volte-face. One wonders why.

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ORIGINAL NOTHING IN PARTICULAR To prevent birds from eating the food of m I men from wat~hing birds, we employ the Lati~~ts~e ~~, °lor'~~~:~:s~o~l~t ~~cscare encourage the lIttle wren In an official masquerade under the title ofTroflod I I . ! ~ntly ~:J~~~yYleSb~tT;~oarnvaidodf the waxwinlis w~s a subject of conversation u: :~d/~~~~Y~~: '. wou are t 0 mentlOn m the drawing-room such a t ' I f ~Pdc as t lat 0 the Bombyclllae garruit garrllli? Who would like to call the h . I Prunella modlliaris occidenlalis? Who could look upon the h ad, mess e g~-sparrow . .? A d h .h . an some magpie as P,ca PIC,! pIca. n w en ornlt ologlsts meet the hawfinch with his massive beak can the senousl~ regard .1~lIn as Coccothraustes coccothl'GuSleS coccolhrausles? Wouid'Shelle Y have wntten an Ode to an A lando. Al'\'ensis A/wnsis, commonly called Skylark"? O~ w~u~d K~ats have sung of the NlghtlOgale as Luscina MegarhYl1cha Megarhyncha? 'And w a !:lar ener, accustomed to the Sight of the little robin red breast, could re ard with equanlITIlty an Eruhacus subecllia melopltillls on the handle of his spade? W~ t call the birds by their official designations, what songs would the birds sing t:~sw?e 0 T.H.P. " • • • and"t I came t 0 pass, when they were in the field .•. " It was a hot a nd sultry afternoon, nothing stirred ev tI . h were hushed. Fast approaching thunder clouds muttere~nan I~ifa ss- oppel's themselves ~ti!1 an~. life!ess air a hawk soared and wheeled, relentlessl; Wri~~I~hfo~e~it; p~~ m ~~~ e ow 1m t lere was a field, a mere square of stony brown earth, scratched out ~f the surroundl~g waste of coarse grass and thorny scrub. Tn the field a man and his brothe were WOlktng. The man was short and dark, wilh an unkempt beard matted re w't~ ~u~t andbsweat. His brother .had fair hair, that hung soft and Silk~ about his ,feck . Ihe a no eard. They were tIllmg the ground, scratching shallow furrows in the hard soil, With crude h~es that were sticks sharpened at the end, and hardened by fire. ' was the m!,n s field ; hi S brothel', who kept swine, was helping him re are the g~ ound for s?wmg. The l11a~ was angry, as he worked, and his face became ~en~cin as hiS glance shifted to where hiS brother tilled industriously. g

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o a man s fist and With one Side sharp and jagged. He stoo ed and . k d" . tread he stealthily crept towards his brother, thenPcOming p~~ ~e~[n~Pili:~~ rrused h~s hand and struck him a cruelly hard blow in the nape of the neck. Without a soudntd hlfis brother sank to the ground and lay a bttle on one side with outstretched arms an h e mgers 0 f one hand clutched tightly round his hoe. ' , I T~e ~st big raindrops came spaltering down to mingle with the blood that seeped . d fl d s ow y mto the dust. The hawk turned on wide and sweep' mg wmgs an •e eastward froIll (he storm. Cain had killed his brother Abel.

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MURDER AT MEISTER OMERS? The Death of the Cardinal de ChatiUon The problem of the Cardinal de Chiitillon 's visit to England (1568-71) is as interesting as it is difficult and thanks are due to the young Meister Omers dra,!,allst, J. A. A. Pnce, who last yea; focussed our attention upon it. The whole subject needs thorough investigati on, and the following is merely an attempt t? collect so,!!e ?f the facts and pose someÂˇ of the questions of their interpretatIOn , pendmg the publicahon of the M.O. dramatist 's fuller thesis on the subject after three years at Oxford! The fact s are these. On September 8th, 1568 there land~d at Dover one of the greatest of French dignitaries Odet de Coligny, Cardinal de Chahllon, brother of the famous Admiral and son of ihe brilliant Louise de Montmorency. The State Papers show that the Go~ernment were surprised. Cecil hastily despatched envoys to arrange for hIs reception ' the Queen ordered that he should be received with all honour, and then, m Tudor fashion, ordered, first Bishop Grindal of London, andlhen (when the BISho" ha~ the temerity to demu re) Sir Thom~s Gresham to prepare hIs house for the Cardmal s . reception. So CMtillon proceeded m state to London. He had come, he said, to escape from an attempt upon l!is lif~ b>, the agents of hIs rival, the Cardinal of Lorraine; and Cecil had no difficult>, tn believl~g hun. The CIvIl Wars in France were setting standards of. s~btlety and mtngue whIch . had n~t bebn surpassed even in Renaissance Italy. Chatlllon h ad outraged Cathohc OP111l0~ y celebrating communion according to Protestant ntes m the Cathedral of BeauvaIs as early as 1561 , and since then he had drifted steadily into the Huguenot camp. He had been Conde's plenipotentiary for the negollahon of the Peace of 1568. But that Peace was as the text-books say, merely a breathing-space, and one can well Imagme the motives which would inspire Lorraine in planning the. murder of ~)I1e who. was not only a leader of the Huguenot cause, but was capable of wIelding consIderable mfluence over the Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici. . He fled to England, he said, at three hours' notice. His destin~tion was wisely chosen, for received with honour by Elizabeth's Government, and wIth the Palace of Shene pl a~ed at his disposal, the Cardinal became, n?t only th~ ambassador of the Hug~enots, but something of a power in the land . He dId not, It IS true, secure ElIzabeth s open adherence to a Protestant League, but he did secure several loans (always on good security !) and supplies for the relief of La Rochelle. He was often at Hampton Court, and was always received with especial signs of favour by the Quee~ . It would be worth a good deal to know something of the subjects of theIr conversatIOns. They were not always, I suspect, concerned with the fate of the Huguenots, for ElIzabeth herself had urgent ecclesiastical problems on which the Cardinal could throw ~uch h ~ht. How far should the English Church be allowed to proceed on the r~ad to Calvtnls,!" tn ItS !eachon from the persecutions of Marian days? The Cardmal s answer to thIs questIOn ~as probably much to Elizabeth's liking. For he was no zealous Calvmlst! but a champIOn of the Gallican Church virtually independent of Rome, owmng alleglan~e only to the Crown. He was one of the first of the "Politi9ues", who ~~d bee~ dnven fr~)tn t?; French Court by the growing power of the GUIses and the Cathohc Intern~honal . His ideal was a strong Monarchy and an Erastian Church, and England prOVIded him )\lith a model of his ideal. He was as aware as anyone of the dangers to Monarchy of p~

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extreme Calvinism, no less than of extreme Catholicism, and that, no doubt, was why he had found an ea rly ex ile from the struggle in France not entirely uncongenial. He would warn Elizabeth of the dangers of both extremes, and he wo uld find a willing listener. It is perhaps not without significance that the drift towards Calvinism in Elizabeth's reign comes to an end during the Cardinal's sojourn in England. It was a period not without its own peculiar dangers, for there were numerous scares of new plots by French agents agai nst his life, as well as against the lives of Elizabeth and Cecil. In May, 1570 his brother d'Andelot died at Xaintes; there were persistent rumours that he had been poisoned. Three months later, the English Ambassador in Paris warned Cecil of a particularly dangerous spy, named Brinnon, who had left for England. He added that the Cardinal of Chatillon would do well to beware of him. In the same month a new peace was signed in France, and the Cardinal announced his intention of returning to France. He seems to have believed that this at last was a genuine peace, but he continued to be wary. In October he reached Southampton, on the return journey, but then changed his mind and returned to London . In December he reached Canterbury, this time intending to sail from Dover, but again he returned to London instead. Finally he left London on January 25th, 1571, and again broke his journey at Canterbury. Woodruff and Danks in their Memorials oj Canterbury Cathedral are certain ly wrong in suggesting that the final scene may have been laid at Nons uch, in Surrey. All the documentary evidence concurs in the opinion that it was in the Precincts of Canterbury Cathedral. The company he fou nd there was doubtless congen ial to him. He had much in common witb the prebendaries of the Cathedral on the subject of ecclesiastical organisation . His host was John Bungaye, and of him he thought so highly that he interceded with Leicester and Cecil in the unsuccessful attempt to gain their support in inducing Elizabeth to appoint him to a vacant prebend at Windsor. This is not without significance, for it is not to be supposed that the Cardinal was so anxio us for Bungaye's preferment merely out of gratitude for his hospitality. It appears likely that Bungaye advocated a Âˇ brand of modified Calvinism which the Cardinal approved. He had, moreover, all the appearances of favourable prospects. Born in Norfolk, he had married the daughter of Archbishop Parker, at that time Dean of Norwich. l;!e had been Vicar of Lewisbam, and at the time of his preferment to the fou rth prebendal stall of Canterbury, in Jul y, 1567, he already held three livings in Kent. But there his preferment ceased. If he was tinged with Calvinism to the gratification of the Cardinal, that is perhaps sufficient reason for his failure to obtain his cherished ambition of preferment to Windsor. Nor does he seem to have made much mark at Canterbury in the twenty-eight years during which he occupied the fourth prebend. His only claim to fame is that he played the host to the great Cardinal, and that he built Mystole House, in his parish of Chartham. Now the fourth prebendal house was on the $ite of the present School dining hall, and if Bungaye was indeed the host of the Cardinal during his last days, it would seem likely that the latter died there, and not, as is supposed, in Meister Omers. Much would seem to depend on the size of the Cardinal's retinue. When he arrived in England, he came with thirty companions and servants. If he were served by as many on his return journey, the good Canon would be hard put to it to find accolllmodation for them, even in one of the largest of the prebendal houses. In that case it would seem more likely that a whole house would be put at the Cardinal 's disposal; and it so happened that there was 137

'rlIE CANTUARIAN such a house vacant. For the house of the eleventh prebend, Meister Omers, was at the disposal of its occupant, Andrew Peerson, and he, in Jan uary, 1570, had obtained licence for non-residence in Canterbury. ' It would ha ve been a matter of convenIence, then, to have put the house at the disposal of the Carclinai. But there is no proof that this was indeed what happened, and if we "ccept that it was so, what becomes of the Cardina l's appellation of Bungaye as his "host"? Nor does it seem likely that his ret inue was in fact as large in 1571 as it had been two a nd a half yea rs before. The enquiry which followed his death mentions only six s~r vants, and no compan ions of greater rank. Some of those who had come WIth hIm III 1568 had no doubt left soon afterwards to take part in the siege of La Rochelle; others were probably still on diplomatic missions. The issue cannot at present be decided with complete certainty, and meanwhile perhaps Meister Omers seems the morc satisfactory residence.

There, or in the house of the fourth prebend, the Cardinal, after a mysterious illness, died on March 24th, 157 I. There was immediate suspicion of poison, anci Cecil at once appointed two Commissioners to investigate. T heir report showed that, although the surgeons, after a post mortem, believed that there were some symptoms of poison, they

themselves could find no evidence which would throw suspicion on any of those who had been in contact with the Cardinal. They were illcli.ned, therefore, to discountenance the

suggestion of' poison , though they took the precaution of having all six servants held under arrest fo r some time. History has not agreed with them. French historians have on

the whole regarded the poisoning as proved, and certainly the circumstantial evidence is stro ng. The motives of Lorraine were obvious; there certainl y were French agents in

England, and it is likely that Chitlillon would occupy much of their attention. Perhaps there were special reasons for his removal at a time when he was planning to return to

France, a nd resume his influence at the French Court. Finally there was the confession of a Basque named Yuillin, who, two years later was condemned to death at La Rochelle for espionage, and who, on the way to the scaffold, declared that he had been valet-dechambre to the Cardinal, and had poisoned him with a perfumed apple. This "confession" has always been accepted since the time of De Mezeray and Strype, as conclusive proof. But in truth it seems extremely doubtful. The " confession" of a man already condemned to death, to the crime of such notoriety that it would make him a hero throughout half Europe, must certainly be rega rded with suspicion. It is not likely that so careful a man as the Cardinal would have employed a Basque in his service, while the story of a " perfumed apple" seems rather the product of a vivid imagination than of sober fact. Altogether, the fact of poison ing is far from proved, and historians have been wrong to assume that it was so. For us, there a re other conclusions of interest. For it seems that, even if there were a poisoning, it is no more than a possibility that it took place in Meister Omers. Finally, if there is a ghost, it is certainly not, as is popularly supposed, the ghost of one wrongly hanged for the murder, for no-one was hanged for the crime, and if the ghost of the Basque Yuill in is still abroad, there is more reason to think that it is to be found in the city of La Rochelle, which he sought to destroy, than in Meister Omers, which it is unlikely that he ever saw! R.W.H. 138

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THE CANTERBURY FESTIVAL SOME IMPRESSIONS Midsummer in Canterbury Precincts this yea r has been signalized by a remarkable performance of the play Peasant's Priest, specially written for the Friends' Festival. Despite certai n weaknesses of structure and plot, we confess that this play thrilled us by its dramatic vitality and exuberance, the picturesque charm of its med iaeval "decor",

its spi ritual idealism and its fascinating portrayal of our common humanity. With a grand and passionate simplicity, it takes us back to our Mother Earth and echoes the Rousseau antithesis between the fundamental soundness of unspoilt human nature and the rottenness of the social fabr ic which men in their p ride and egoism and lust have reared as an instrument of oppression and greed. Those of us who are concerned about

the Church in this coun try- a nd which of us in this historic corner of England is not ?see in this play an added charm, for it evokes a poet 's vision of the true ideal Church of the people, the Church which in the history of Europea n civilisation has ever ministered to their wants, conso led their sorrows, nurtured and guided their aspirations-in a word-

has brought them nearer to the goal of the good life. This is the Church which in the persons of inspired prophet and priest, of world-shak ing reformer and faithful pastor, has been courageous enough to penetrate beneath the outer husk to the inner and ever-livi ng spirituality of the Christian religion . We confess, too, that we were charmed by the quaintness and piquancy of its mediaeval stage technique, reminding us of the age when drama was both popular and ecclesiastical. For our moderns are apt to forget that drama was born as a mimetic and pictorial illustration of the Christian liturgy and that for long it flouri shed inside the doors of the Church. Only gradually, in the urge of its expanding life and the increasing amplitude of its scope, was it pushed outside, lirst to the Church "parvis ", then to the street. The high point of the Festival' was undoubtedly the performance of Haydn's Creation by our School Choral Society. It was good to hear an oratorio which is but ra rely performed in this country and which is so fine an example of the naive simplicity and freshness of 18th century art. No one could doubt its note of authentic inspiration and happy spontaneity, yet on hearing it we are conscious of the gulf of time which separates us from the era of the rococo in which it was written. One wonders how far the modern hearer is infected by the mood of religious fervour under the impulse of which Haydn is said to have written it: in his greater sophistication, is he not rather inclined to be faintly amused at the quasi-comical operatic effects which the orchestra elicits from the accompaniment to Raphael 's account of the creation? However this may be, nothing could surpass some of the choruses, notably the ever-popular "The heavens are telling ", as a reverberating paean of Christian praise. It was eminently litting that such a chorus should be broadcast to the colonies from this centre of the world-wide Anglican communion. We look forward with confidence to the future of our School Choral Society which has wonderfully renewed its life since our return from Cornwall and we consider that the amazing success of this venture, in which we were reinforced by helpers from the town, should justify us in aspiring to scale the heights of yet more difficult and complex works. 139

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Festival Play by Laurie Lee The Festiv~1 Play had more interest for the School this yea r than usual, for we figured consIderably 111 the Cast. Douglas WII":,er, O.K.S. , played a leading part as the Earl of S~hsbury; Net! North, aged 14 and III the Remove Form, gave a fine performance as RIchard II ; the crowd was ours, and R. H. C. Routh provided the corpse of Wat Tyler. In passing, we wondered why the Production, if they had to have a corpse carried on, selected a very large rugger forward who so obviously tested the muscular capacities of the two rebel "bearers". Mr. Lee's play is most attractive, sympathetic and understandable to read' but it does not lend itself easily. to d~amatic action. Indeed, o~e felt it owed something of what dramahc success It dId achteve to the Chapter House Itself, and to the ecclesiastical atmosphere. It is doubtful if it could be played well on the ordinary secular stage. The Pri~st, John Ball;-played by Bernard Miles-has a fine part and it rings true to the Chnshan Gospel; III fact, his "sermon" has the core of the whole thing. Needless to say, Mr. MIles put It across superbly. It was a Gospel message, couched in noble language, and true as noble. Lord or Serf, each is . "A Mao, "Each linked in flesh with the sa me strings of blood, . "Each dusted with the gentle gold of God; " all born equal l!l flesh and soul and blessing, "Equal in all things save in one alone''The grace you show your brother. " . That is the essence of the play and doubtless the historic John Ball did teach something hke that;. It had heen l!l the atr for many a yea r. But he failed- as how should he not when Chnst Himself has failed to get Charity accepted as the bond of man with man ? Social revolutions there have been in plenty, bloody and bloodless- we are in the midst of one now. But the author bids us "So strike, but let your sword be just. "Evil destroy, but from it take no lust .... "In making man, be sure you make no beast. " In sum, "There's still heaven Âˇto be won on earth "When we've the trick of love to win it." It is easy enough to criticise the play- it is not really dramatic; nobody has a moving part save the Priest, and the Black Prince's widow (played by Josephine Weston) as she descnbes her Journey from Canterbury to London; the rest have lines to say, and necessary parts to play- but they are not quite real-there is something of the puppet show. One feels the theme, so grand and magnificent, is given to a handful of folk who have no chance to match it. The actual production and the scenery were clever, and the most was made of the limited possibilities<afforded by the Chapter House stage. Enjoy it? Probably not. But it must have been a hard creature who could come away immoved and clear of conscience. 140

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HAYDN'S "CREATION" The School Choral Society, with Olive Groves (Soprano) , Hen ry Cum mings (Bass), John Kentish (Tellor), the Canterbury Cathedral Choristers and the Orchestra of the Royal Artillery, gave a performance of Haydn 's Oratorio The Creation in the Cathedral on June 26th. This performance was part of the Canterbury Festival of Music and Drama. The Orchestra and Choirs were conducted by Dr. E. F. A. Suttle, to whom much praise is due for the success of a difficult enterprise. It can be no light task to train approximately 150 voices and a large orchestra in the pe~f?rmance of a ~ork which, we are told, took the composer over two years in the

wrltwg. The magnifke nt Chorus at the end of Part I, The heavens are telling, was recorded with an introductory talk by the Headmaster for transmission in the overseas services of the B.B.C. The other two great moments in the performance fell to Miss Olive Groves, who' made ass ured lise of such opportunities. Few will forget her rendering of the lovely melody made by Hayd n of those unpromising words Never unperceived , ever IInderslood, or of the lovely Aria in Part T, Wilh verdure clad. The Orchestra performed well, and soloists and Choir gave of their best. The result was obviously one of the high-lights of the Festiva l Week. It is encouragi ng to learn that Brahms ' R equiem wi ll be performed by the Society during the Winter Term . T he standards of the rendering of The Creation were most favourably reviewed by Mr. Scott Goddard in the NelVs Chronicle, who described the work as " strikingly well performed ", and by the critics of other leading newspapers. We cannot but congratulate all responsible for a performance which was probably exceptional among School Choral Societies this year.

RECITALS WINIFRED ROBERTS AND JUDITH AND ERN EST SUITLE This Recital was held on March 13th in the Chapter House. The programme opened with a polished performance of Brahms' Sonala in A for violin and piano, played by Miss Roberts and Dr. Suttle. This was followed by an arrangement of Vaughan Williams ' lovely prelude Rhosymedre for two pianos, and the fugue from the two-piano Concerlo in C by J. S. Bach. Some Bartok dances, unaccompanied Bach, and a number of modern Spanish works completed Miss Roberts' programme, and Arensky's Wallz and Arthur Benjamin 's Jamaican Rumba concluded the two-piano items. Miss Roberts, who played on a Stradivarius violin, proved herself an artiste of the highest calibre. JOSEPHINE WATERHOUSE AND THE CHORAL SOCIETY The School Choral Society gave this Recital on March 27th with Josephine Waterhouse (Soprano), David Clegg (Tenor) and the Rev. W. H . Oldaker (Bass). Miss Waterhouse began by singing a group by Schubert : Auf dem wasser zu singen, Wasserfiut and Gretchen, in which she showed herself to be an accomplished Lieder singer. Mrs. Suttle accompanied at the piano. The main part of the programme was a selection of recitatives, arias and choruses from Parts I and II of The Creation, in which all three soloists and the Choral Society acquitted themselves well. Dr. Knight and Mrs. Suttle accompanied on tWQ pianos. )4)

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ELSIE SUDDABY AND ERNEST SUTTLE Miss Suddaby possesses one of the most skilled Soprano voices in England to-day, and it was a delight to listen to her renderings, In the Nave of the Cathedral on May 29th, of Bach arias and Schubert lieder, with the Dvorak Btble Songs and a group of songs by modern English composers. At the newly-installed Cathed,ral Organ, Dr. Suttle played Bach's Prelude alld Fugue in D Minor, and Cesar Franck s Chorale In A Mmor. The Recital was open to the public. COLIN SAUER AND RONALD SMITH These are two young musicians of brill iance. They gave a Jlublic Recital i,n the Nav~, arran ged by the School, on June 5th. The joint programm~ l~cluded Bac~ s Parllla '," Efor unaccompanied violin, Beethoven's Sonatafor piano and vlOlm IIlEjlat, Cesar Franck s Sonata in A, and Chopin's Fantasie in E flat. Ml'. Smith b~gan. hiS musical care~r !n Canterbury, and we were especially interested to hear one of hiS ongmal works for vlOhn and pianoforte, L egende. DENIS NOBLE Mr. Noble gave a Recital of songs to the School on July 12th. They included groups of Tchaickowsky Verdi Mozart and Handel, and ever-popu lar songs of the Sea. We are most grateful'to M/ Noble, who suggested this Recital when he was at the Scho,?l as a member of Mr. A. Ratcliffe 's XI, and who charmed and slirred us With all hiS customary good humour and artistic skill. THOMAS MATTHEWS, EILEEN RALF AND ROBERT IRWIN Recitals by these musicians have been arranged for July 10th .and July 19th. They wi ll be held in the Cathedral Nave, and will be open to the pubh? Mr. Irwm Will be accompanied by Dr. Suttle, and Dr. Knight will playa group of plano solos.

KENT MUSICAL FESTIVAL The Kent County Musical Competiti ve Festi val was revived at Ashford in May,. after a lapse of eight yea rs. The School was awa rded the Invlcta Trophy for the highest aggregate marks in Music, and also the Frazer-Nea me Trophy for the highest aggregate marks in elocution and verse-speakmg. Perhaps the most gratifying success was that of the School Choir, which won all thr.ee of the competitions for which it entered. The adJudicator, Dr. Gordon Slater, Organist of Lincoln Cathedral, declared that never in all his experience of PublIc School chOirs up and down the country had he heard such excellent slght-readmg. Dr: Slater al.so commented on the Choir'S rendering of Bach's Wlterefore, 0 SaVIOur, which, he saId, !tad the genuine Bach feeling.

THE CANTUARIAN The list of individual awards was as follows: Music The Sir Edward and Lady Sharp Banner fo"r best Choral rendering of Sacred Music. PepJoe Cup for Choral rendering of Hymns and Canticles. First awards in Open Organ Solo (A. J. Taylor Memorial Trophy), L. A. O. Halsey; Organ Solo under 19, L. A. O. Halsey; Piano Solo under 16 (Cinque Ports Cup), R. V. Brooks; Piano Accompaniment at Sight under 19 (Thanet Cup), L. A. O. Halsey; Piano Accompaniment at Sight under 16 (Lilly White Cup), R V. Brooks; Violin Solo under 19, A. B. Curry; Open Woodwind Solo, P. Carnes ; Open Piano Duet at Sight, L. A. O. Halsey and C. B. Manning-Press. Second Awards in Boy Chorister's Solo, C. M. Brennan; Piano Duet under 19, L. A. O. Halsey and C. B. Manning-Press; Organ Solo under 19, A. B. Curry.

Elocution First awards in Open Bible Reading (Daisy Raggett Cup), T. H. Pares ; Bible Reading under 19 (Frank Raggett Cup), T. H. Pares ; Shakespeare Speech under 19 (Milsom Trophy), P. D. Leighton' Verse Speaking un~er 17, M. D. Lambert. Second awards in ~hakespea.re Speech under 19, P. A. Fyre-cOoper; Verse Speakmg under 19, P. A. Fyrc-Cooper; Open Bible Readmg, P. A. Fyre-Cooper ; Bible Reading under .19, J. J. Bradley ; Reading at Sight under 19, T. H. Pares; Verse Speaking under 14, M. D. Manmng-Press.

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By the Principal of the Canterbury College of Art Education is not purely and simply a matter of book-learning, nor are a feeling for . beauty and a desire to create things any proof of effeminacy. It is necessary to repeat these things constantly, for public schools have rarely been eager to practise the visual arts. The King's School is a noted exception, for the recent experiment of co-operating with the Canterbury College of Art was carried out at their own request. Selected boys are now attending the College for part-time day and evening classes in art and crafts. Alt hough the experiment is still in its early stages the results are encouraging, and we at the College of Art are excited at the possibilities of the scheme. For there are now a number of King's School boys who realise that a School of Art does not exist for the training of Royal Academicians alone. On the contrary, they know that it is a place where the senses of sight and touch can be educated, where fingers can be trained to be clever, and where there is always the opportunity to make something and satisfy the creative urge that we all possess, whether we be historians, scientists, linguists or mathematicians in the classroom. There is nothing new in these ideas. They are principles laid down by Plato and many philosophers since. But the English educational system has rarely adopted them with enthusiasm. Nobody expects the experiment to send large numbers of King's School boys into the artistic professions. Some may be led there, but the main object of the scheme is to ensure that many more will be made aware of the beauty around them and of the joys of design and craftsmanship, even in the course of their everyday lives.

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THE SOCIETIES NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY The Society played a leading part, at the end of last term, in the inauguration of the Association of School Natural History Societies, which is steadily expanding, and numbers among its Vice-Presidents many of the most distinguished Naturalists of the day. It is an honour to the School that Mr. D. Stainer, O.K.S. and President of the School Natural History Society, has been elected first Hon. Secretary of the Association. Much of the initiative in the formation of the Association was taken by the Captain of the School, T. H. Pares. Th is term has been devoted entirely to field-work. A biological survey is being undertaken of the Fordwich-Stodmarsh area, and an interim report of the work is in course of preparation.

In addition to this work, the Society is co-operating in researches for the British Trust for Ornithology and the Insect Immigration Committee of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies. In connexion with the former, the School took part in the nationwide watch for Swifts on May II th, parties being stationed in the Precincts and at strategic points outside Canterbury from dawn onwards. The work of our Canterbury watchers received special mention in The Times. Two botanical excursions have taken place' under the expert leadership of Mr. Francis Rose, B.Sc., F.H.S ., who is revising the flora of Kent, and an extremely interesting ornithological excursion to Dover, where members were generously entertained by Major G. E. Took. He shewed us, among other things, the nests, adult birds, and fledged young of the black redstart. This has only recently begun to nest in England. The year has been one of exceptional interest to ornithologists, and many members have had an opportunity of seeing bitterns and hearing their booming within a few miles of Canterbury. A number of copies of our 1946 Report are still avai lable and may be purchased from the President, price 2/6. THE MUSIC SOCIETY The Summer Term is a difficult one for societies, and the Music Society has up to the time of writing held only five meetings. These ha ve included a talk by the President on "Subject-Treatment", and gramophone recitals. We have yet to hear a concert by the St. Edmund's School Orchestra to which we look forward with keen anticipation. OUf own orchestra and madrigal choir is repaying the compliment next term. THE RAILWAY SOCIETY Being the Summer Term, the Society Ilas only had two meetings so far. The first meeting was a Railway Quiz, and the other meeting was a Paper given by A. Holley on a "Short History of the G.W.R.". 144

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There will be two more meetings this terin of which one will be a Paper given by the President. On Jul y 8th there will be a Party going to Ashford Works for the day. ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY The Art Room has been available for members every Monday and Friday this term, and some good work has been done, though attendances have, for the most part, been small.

The classes in woodwork, metal-work, dr~win g, lettering, modell ing and stone-ca rving at the SydneJ: Coope r School of Art contJl1ue, and we are extremely grateful to Mr. Moody and IllS devoted staff for the special JI1terest they have shown in our boys. We cannot help reeling that, in spite of the many other calls all Qur members' time, more advantage might be taken of the many opportunities provided both in our own Art Room, and at the Canterbury College of Art. The annual House Competition is being held as usual at the end of this term.

THE LIBRARY Since the end of last term nearly 150 books have been added to the School Library; thiS mcrease owes much to the km d benefactions of Miss Allardyce and Mrs. Wells. The former, who shows her ll1terest 10 the School continua lly, has presented a wide range of books, from Chambers Book of Days to Robert Graves' Lawrence and the Arabs, .a~d fr:)Jn The Art of Illuminating to Hogarth 's Works. Mrs. Wells, the widow of a dlstmgUlshed O.K.S., whose recent death was lamented in The Cat/luarian has given books of great antiquarian and historical interest which had belonged t~ her husband. An interesting addition has been made by the Headmaster who has presented A Complele Christian Dictionary (1661), " begun by that famous a~d worthy man of God, Mr. Thomas WIlson, Mmlster of the Word at St. George's in Canterbury and one of the Six-Preachers there". (Wilson was Lower Master at the School.) , The Librarian is alwa~s most plea~ed to welcome gifts from those leaving the School; and he IS glad to take thIS opportumty of thanking L. A. Bassett and J. B. Hopewell for making very welcome additions to the Library. It would be most ungrateful if we were to fail to thank the Chaplain for his loan to us of the Loeb Classical Library for many years. The loss of these three hundred volumes will be felt alike by classicists and others, who have availed themselves of the kind loan.

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN MITCHINSON No. IV [In 1857, Mitchinson left Oxford 10 become assistant /0 Dr. H~ssey, .H eadmas/er of Merchant Taylors ', then, of course, in London . This extract, dea.lm~ wah a ,great ~ay school, should be compared lVilh the accounts of Durham alld of Ihe King s Schoo/ In prel'lous numbers. ] CHAPTER IV

MERCHANT TAYLORS The old Merchant Taylor's buildings stood in Suffolk Lane leading out of Lawrence Pountney Lane, which goes from Cannon Street down to the Thames .. They had .a somewhat handsome Jacobea n frontage, but were in all other respects unsUitable to thelf purpose. There was no open space round them: not a trace of playground. Und~r the big school was a flagged court, but it was too small even for fives or stump cl'lcket. Indeed the on ly school use to which it was put was for a Sixth Form,Parade, by whIch the elder boys asserted their dignity in true school boy fashIOn. Despite ItS narrown~ss, all those who had the right strolled up and down arm III arm III the IDterval which followed twelve a 'clock. Then the frontage light was hopelessly obscured by a manystoried warehouse of "Truscott & Co. ,. so that in the autumn term, gas was usually

alight during school time in the class rooms. Of these there were four, the rest of the forms bei ng taught altogether in big school. Here it was that the school assembled every morning for prayers. The Sixth Form, consisting of some fifty boys, on the daIS, the rest of the school below. The head-master's throne was opposite the entrance, and in front of him on either side of a long table the "Monitors' Bench ", the august seniors of the school' then on forms at either side the "Prompter's Bench ", and the rest of the Upper Sixth ;' the twenty boys of the Lower Sixth (whom John Mitchinson came to teach) on the left. At prayers, which were said in Latin by the Momtor of the day, kneeling on one knee, the school stood: the masters also stood uncovered, cane m ha~d, by their forms. When prayers were over, two forms departed to thell' ro,om down~talfS, the Upper Sixth filed out by a small door to the left of the Headmaster s throne mto a 1'00111 in his house and John Mitchinson took the Lower Sixth to a dark little room "severely fruga l in'its appointments" which led out of the flagged yard below. Then the forms left in school opened out, and the morning work began. It was all done amid the hum of various voices diversified with the perpetual lashing of canes, and the occasional lamentations following, which was the usual condition of teaching in those days. John Mitchinson was to be Headmaster's assistant, and not a regular member of the staff and was therefore not allowed to "carry the cane". But as Hessey diplomatically pointed out, the boys with whom he would have to deal were se~?r boys in the main, and would therefore be amenable to other forms of discIpline. Should occasion arise to invoke my authority, you may rely upon my support." This limitation of authority was a sop to the susceptibilities of the General Staff. It was also proVided that the newcomer should have no place de jure in the masters' com mon room, but .only by courtesy. But the jealousy (if there was any) on the part of the other masters, qUickly gave way to appreciation. On "Doctor's Day" it was the custom to invite the whole staff of Masters to dinner in Merchant, Taylors' Hall, and John Mitchinson's name as 146

THE CANTUARtAN not being a regular master was omitted from the list of invitations. The staff brought this fact to the notice of the Headmaster, who at once championed the cause of his young assistant, and wrote to the secretary to inform him that if the matter were not put right, he and his colleagues would all return their cards of invitation . The remonstrance was successful, and there was no more of such acts of discourtesy.

Merchant Taylors' was of course in the main a day school, but some few boys boarded in the houses of the different masters. There were also two Dames' Houses, which took in boys, and provided dinner for some of the day boys, who had the choice between Mother M's bolster pudding and the superabundance of fat accredited to Mother R 's repast. Other boys brought their lunch with them, and ate it where they would. One, for example, went down to the river-side and took his sandwiches seated on a baulk of timber by the pier, and fed variolls animals with the fragments. "Though I must confess that the river was very smelly, and far from pleasant." Compulsory games of course there were none, but on the one Saturday half holiday of the week, some of the boys went out to the Eton field at Primrose Hill, and played cricket or the old-fashioned mixed football of that age according to the seaso n. The public house, where they changed for games, still stands ill situ. No sooner did John Mitchinson begin his work as a schoolmaster than he set to work at what was always to him a labour of love, the endeavour to interest his pupils in natural hi story. He took parties of boys to Epping Forest and other places in search of flowers. He talked to them of geology, and so ught for fossils. Himself an untiring naturalist, during his whole career as schoolmaster, he always sought and found ardent disciples to share his tastes. With the view of air and exercise, he took a lodging some two miles away from the school in Dow Street, and walked daily to and fro to his work. On these daily walks, he had some unpleasant experience of London fog. "I realised the sense of fear which comes from the loss of direction, and the danger of crossings, when you cannot see your hand in front of your face." Another terrible spectacle (not uncommon in those days) he saw once on the way down Holborn. He met a crowd of loiterers assembled just beyond S. Sepulchre 's Church, and asked the policeman the reason. The man simply pointed to the wall of Newgate opposite, where upon the gallows were the bodies of three executed criminals left hanging for the statutory haUl' in sight of the pUblic. Besides the masters, who being clergymen for the most part lived away from the school in their own rectory houses, he made many friends in the shape of parents of boys and other school and college connections. One old merchant still lived in his roomy old-fashioned house in Thames Street, and his friend Oakley's mother in Doughty Street not far off his lodging. His friendship with the Hall family also secured him the acquaintance of the Rev. Norman Hall, the well-known Nonconformist divine. " I remember going to dinner at his house and meeting a company of men of his kind, and very dull they were, but curiously enough George Cruikshank, the caricaturist, was of the party. What "Saul was doing among the prophets" 1 have no idea, but 1 seem to remember that he was an ardent advocate of teetotalism. He and his wife gave a little dialogue entertainment in the cou rse of the evening to the astonishment, I fancy, of the assembled divines. 1 seem still to hear their cooing murmurs. " How delightful to be possessed of such eminent social gifts. " 147

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In Airey, the mathematical master, John Mitchinson met an old fdend. He had been his master at Durham in days gone by "a nd a very troubleso me pupIl he found me. But he bore me no grudge for my whilome tiresomeness, and became my very gemal Jnd sympathetic ally_" Church, another mas te r, was by far the ables t man on the staff, but has si nce become well-known by Church and Brodribb 's translation of Tacitus, and a score of other books. "Scott had a living on the river at East Molesey where I often wentÂˇ on one occasion as I remember, to give a lecture on Geology. The cartoons for this lectu;Âˇe were drawn by S. P. Hall, a boy who lived with Scott then, and who has since become the well-known artist who went with the late Prince of Wales, and the present Kin g, to India." "Indeed," says Mr. Hall, "I think I must tra~e n~y car~er as an artist to John Mitchinson 's stimulus, for it was those sketches of antedIluvian alllmais which first set me seriously to work at drawing."

Of the Headmaster Hessey, the newcomer, as his assistant, nat~rally ~aw a great deal. His advent meant the relieving the Headmaster of the really IInposslble task of teaching the whole Sixth Form himself. " He was not a strong man, but had a great talent for judicious compromise, and lowe him a great debt from the fact that when the question of the Canterbury Headmastership came up, he put no difficulties in my way, but really exerted himself to the utmost in my favo ur, though my leaVing the school so soon may ha ve been to him a considerable inconvenience."

Of the boys who passed through his hands in those early days of his first apprenticeship, he could recall nearly all the names at the end of his life, and in many cases their subsequent fortune. Among them were to be found Lord Wrenbury, and Bishop Copleston, once Metropolitan of India, also the sons of Canon Rowsell, whose name recalls ancient controve rsies. Nor did his teaching energies stop with Merchant Taylors. On Sunday he superintended the Sunday School of S. Philip's, Clerkenwell, and matched himself against the London Street boy, in the shape of "certain children of Belial, Leach, Lester and Hollings, whose names still call up memories in my mind of encounters from which I emerged with more or less success" . The Vicar, the Rev. Warwick Wroth, * was no doubt pleased to secure so able a colleague, and when he expressed his immediate intention of fulfilling his youthful ambition by taking orders, offered him a title as honorary curate of his Church. So to Lambeth he went to be interviewed by A. C. Tail. "I think the austere Bishop must have been favo urabl y impressed: at all events he expressed himself as pleased with a somewhat obvious comment I made on II Cor. and continued my staunch friend and patron to the end of his life. " " Our ordination examination was conducted by a relation of the Bishop's, Campbell by name, and A. P. Stanley, then the somewhat youthful Canon of Canterbury. We were a very schoolmasterly company, for among the candidates were Bell, Headmaster of Marlborough, Bradley of Haileybury and myself. At the ordination service we were placed in a row just below the altar steps, clad in black gowns. When the time came for the Gospel, the Bishop 's eye rested on me, and he signed to the verger, who hurried me into a surplice and conducted me to the reading desk. Then for the first time I lifted up my voice in the metropolitan cathedral, and after the Gospel was done was deprived of my surplice and taken back whence I came. " 148

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emin ently good and sincere man, but he had no talent for visiting or parish organisation,

a nd 1 fancy, did little or nothing in that direction himself. Of course my school duties prevented my doing much in the week, but I was so far anxious to take a proper pastoral part in th e work, of the parish, that 1 asked him to assign me a district to visit. He assigned to me - - Street, but my experiences were not enco uraging. He gave me no

instruction or help as to how I was to proceed, and I re member ve ry well my first attempt to carry out my duties. At the first house I was rudel y rejected ' We want no parsons here' ; at th e seco nd, the good lady, who was, I fancy, an ardent Wesleyan, took me in

and 'visited' me herself so volubly, that I could hardly find time to get in a word in reply. After that, I th ink, I chiefly confined myself to Church duties; indeed I must have preached a great deal in those early days, for there are few of the Churches in the neighbourhood where 1 did not 'wag my pow' at one time or another. We masters used to preach a good deal for one another. I remember how horrified my rector was at a sermon preached by Church, which entirely discounted the traditional teaching about the day of judgement. Church was a great adherent of F. D . Maurice, and at one time did his best to bring me under the influence of his rather misty theology. I went to help at a hostel, in which he was interested, and essayed the almost impossible task of teaching working men Latin in evening classes, but the undertaking was soon given up, and I could not share his admiration for the great man to whose idealism the teaching of the place was due." Among other strange experiences of these years, John Mitchinson was once present at a display of the gift of tongues in the Irvingite Church. He often went in there on the way through Gordo n Square. " I was interested in the ritual, " he says, "which has been said to combine the best features of the Anglican and Roman Catholic use." Music was also not neglected. He went to S. Andrew's, Wells Street, and some of the other best musical services in London . He also heard Oratorios at the Exeter HaIl in the old Sacred Harmonic Society 's Concerts: days of Miss Dolby and Sims Reeves, and was present at one of Santley 's first appearances. But be it here noted that his love of music did not extend to the art of music in general. It was confined almost entirely to Church music, and he seemed to prefer a first rate musical service to any concert. Indeed all his life he vcry rarely went to any ordinary performance of music. His stay in London was not to be for long, and the first incident that threatened his continuance at Merchant Taylors' was an invitation to examine for Moderations at

Oxford. He found that this meant giving up his school work, and being in doubt what he had better do, determined to consult his old master Elder, at that time Headmaster of Charterhouse. He went round to the school to see him, and met him coming out. To say that he was shocked at the change in his old friend is scarcely strong enough to represent the impression made upon him that day. It was, not only the lack lustre eyes and fa ltering gait that seemed to spea k of death approaching, his speech seemed to show an utter decay of mental power. The interview was soon over. He explained the question. Should he accept the University's invitation or no? " Accept, by all means," said Elder, and John Mitchinson hurried away with a sinking at heart, and a profound pity at the wreck of a noble personality which seemed lost beyond all hope of recovery. A few days afterwards he heard that Elder was dead. 149

THE CANTUARIAN But a new possibility at this time arose which put both Oxford and Merchant Taylors' ?ut of the question. Wallace, the H eadmaster of the King 's School, Canterbury, had Just been offered and accepted the valuable living of Burghclere in Hampshire, and it was suggested to Mitchinson by a friend that he should offer himself as a ca ndidate. He was young but had good friends . Hessey promised 10 do everything for him that he could , a~ has been already mentioned . A. P. Stan ley knew him well, and was very favourably dlsposed towards him . Other friends he had. After a "respectable amount of wire pulling", he was invited down to Cante rbury to see the Dea n and Chapter, who were the school governors. As a matter of fact his interview was wilh Dean Alford only, but the impression which he produced was such that the Chapter felt Ihey need go no further, and with very little delay he was informed that he had been elected to the Headmastership. A big responsibility for so young a man , with so short a n experience in school work, but the time had come when the King's School required all a man's energy and wisdom to reform it, if it were to hold its place among the great schools of this country. Such a man was found in John Mitchinson, to whom Canterbury owes as great a debt as Harrow to Vaughan, or Rugby to Arnold . He traced the lines, upon which it has steadily gone forward, a nd attained a high standard of usefulness up to the present day. -The father of three Canterbury King 's Scholars, two of whom were authors of books now rare and

desirable, Lolldoll Pleasure Gardel/s of the XVII/tit Celllllry and Cremol'lle alld fh e Later Lolldoll Gardens. The eldest of the three brothers wrote no less than 56 of the articles in the Dictiona ry of N ational Biography. and is known to have refused the kcepership of the coin and medal department of the British Museum. He entered the school in 1867 during Dr. Mitchin son's reign.-Eds.

LECTURE THE REV. PAUL RAMESHAN The Rev. Paul Rameshan is one of the leading members of the Methodist Church in India, and is at present concerned in the evolution of the United Church of South India. He lectured to the School on May 13th on the future of India, and in particular of the Indian Christians. The Indian Christians, he said, numbered only 8,000,000, and faced great difficulties in the presentation of the Gospel among the other religions of India. Yet both their numbers and their influence were growing, and all parties now looked to the leaders of the Indian Churches for imparlial and high-purposes assista nce in the present political storm. Mr. Rameshan declared he was in favour of the "Quit India" movement, but that Englishmen seeking to serve India in the future would be assured of a welcome warmer than any in the days of the Raj. He answered many questions at the conclusion of his lecture, on the religious and political situations in India. Their number and rapidity revea led the deep interest he had aroused. We a re very grateful to him for coming. He gave us much to consider.

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Annual Inspection The Contingent was inspected on May 16th by Major-General E. C. Mansergh, e.B., e.B.E., M.e., Director of the Territorial Army, who later lunched in Hall . The following report was received: I. DRILL.- Very good-steady on parade. The ceremonial parade and march past was very satisfactory. 2. WEAPON TRAINING.-Satisfactory. Cadet N.e.O.s conducting instruction in a competent manner. The miniature range was in use and showing satisfactory results. 3. TACTICAL TRAINING.- The comparatively small amount [ was able to see in the time was very well done- the instruction was clear and the keenness of cadets obvious. 4. TECHNICAL TRAINING.-N.A. 5. POST-CERTIFICATE "A " TRAI NING (JUNIOR D,VISION ONLY).-Satisfactory. 6. DISCIPLI NE.-A well disciplined unit- in which bolh senior and junior N. C.O.s carry out their duties well . 7. TuRN-ouT.- Very good-considerable attention had been given to the fitting of uniform and individual turn-out. The suggested increase in % of uniform to 20% held in store would be a very great asset. Turn-out genera lly well above average. 8. SERGEANT-INSTRUCTORs.- Competent and doing their work well. 9. ARMS, EQUIPMENT AND VEHICLES.-in good condition and well stored. 10. RECOMMENDATIONS AS TO BUILDINGS, STORES, RA NGES, ETc.-No comments. II. GENERAL REMARKS.- A smartly turned out, well di sciplined unit. The cadets show great keenness and have achieved good results. They take considerable interest in the weapon and tactical side of their training. The unit reflects credit on its Commander, Captain Egerton Jones (who is just retiring after 28 years' service) and e.S.M . J. Marshall and the instruction from the P.T.C. and The Buffs. E. C. MANSERGH, Major-General, 29th May, 1947. D.T.A. and C. A good Contingent. J. M. SPURLING, Brigadier G.S., War Office. for Major-General D.M.T. 31st May, 1947. R.A. Demonstration On 13th May the J.T.e. was fortunate to be given a very interesting demonstration of Gun Drill with 25-prs. and the work of the Air O.P. by a demonstration team from 121 R.A. Training Regiment, under Capt. Durnford, R.A. When the contingent marched down to Birley 's, they found four 25-prs. in position there, and after a short introduction several series were fired, using some blank which considerably startled the local cattle who happened to be passing. The gun-drill was carried out by recruits of 121 Training Regiment, and was commendably smart and keen. The cadets were then enabled to have a look over the guns, and to fire them, with some rounds of blank, themselves. lSI

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The following passed Part II :N. Barton, J. W. Birkett, 1. F. Black, M. D. Bristowe, D. L. Delahay-Jones, T. Hamilton, A. J. Hille, J. L. Lyon, C. B. Manning-Press, M. J. S. Norman, J. D . Rowe, R. C. Sandey. T. C. Swayne.

Promotions The following promotions are made with effect from January 18th, 1947 :L/Sgt. Foxwell to be Sergeant; CpJ. Bartlett to be Lance-Sergeant; L/Cpls. Allison, Ellis, Routh, Steel, Hinton and Burt to be Corporals; Cadets Allchurch, Davidson, Lewis, M. J., Brown, M. P. D., Paterson, C. G. S., Butcher, Watson, M., Downes, Lewis, P. R. B., Endersby, Thomson, Betts, A. L., Foster, North, D. P., Tragett, R. T. and Viner to be Lance-Corporals.

The following promotions are made with effect from 5th May, 1947:C.Q.M.S. Leighton to be C.S.M. "B" Company; Cpl. Holliday to be C.Q.M.S. ; Cpl. Jackson to be Lance-Sergeant; L/Cpls. Strouts, Devonshire, Molesworth and Lindley to be Corporals; Cadets Barton, Birkett, Black, Bristowe, Delahay-Jones, Hamilton, Hille, Lyon, Manning-Press, Norman, M. J., Rowe Sandey, Swayne, Waller and White to be Lance-Corporals. 152

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We all know the King's Scholar of Canterbury. Walter Pater wrote of him : " Stranger's eyes, resting on him by chance, are deterred for a while, even among the rich sights of this ve nerable place, as he walks out and in , in his prim gow n and purple-

tasselled cap ... . like youth's ve ry self, eternal, immemorial, eternally renewed, about those immemorially ancient stone s. "

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The idea occurred to the Editors-who wo uld have. guessed it?over coffee. They thought, ve ry simply, that it was high time The Contllarian printed something about the actual material of the School, near genius the average boy. As the Cathed ral clock ch imed into the morning, the idea grew on the Editors. They envisaged the historian ano ther 1,350 years hence lighting on this number, and producing from it the " human story" to make the thesis to end all theses. They envisaged mothers striving to recognise their boys in the enforced anonymity. They envisaged the Headmaster beingÂˇ not amused. Finally, they envisaged what follows. The Ed itors present the King 's Scholar with some trepidation at their own generosity. (i)

Wherein the King's Scholar's I.Q. is held to public admiration The average citizen of this country has an Intelligence Quotient ("LQ." to its friends) of 100. Those with an I.Q. of below 70 are officially classed as "feeble-minded ". Those over 140 are officially described as "near geniuses ". Of the eighteen King's Scholars who were tested by the approved methods for the purposes of this article, the average I.Q. was 123 . Three of them were in the category of " near genius"; five possessed ~' veJ'y superior

intelligence" and ten possessed "superior intelligence", Not one King 's Scholar examined lVas feeble-minded. Faced with a result so directly at variance with their personal experience, the Editors became suspicious of their own Mathematics. so they took the papers to an expert. There was no mistake. Your King's Scholar is no fool.

use of Irldlum (ii) Wherein is displayed the King's Scholar's general knowledge But crude intelligence is not the whole story. The business of LQ 's, "mental ages" and so forth deliberately takes no accou nt of knowledge or of experience. An apprenticed dustman would probably have a higher mental age than an aged Duke. The Editors were thus faced with the question: HolV much does the average King's Scholar know ? The Âˇ Editors compiled their own General Knowledge Test, hastily looking up the IInswers, Although there was no method available for comparing the results so obtaine<1

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THE C ANTUARIAN with results gathered on a national basis, it turned out that the King's Scholar knew quite a lot. For example, who would have thought that every King's Scholar questioned would have known that Warsaw was the capital of Poland, and yet none questioned would have known that "pidgin" (in " pidgin English") meant business? (By the way, the Editors didn 't know this themselves until they came across it in the O.E.D.) In the Intelligence Test, Arts and Science Scholars shared the laurels. But in the General Knowledge Paper, all but two of the Scientists fell down badly. Loyal Scientists will immediately retort that the Paper was only favourable to those who shared the Editors' abolish school dress interests and unfavourable to those interested in the world around them. Yet there may be some excuse for the historian or the modern linguist not knowing the exact length of a meter : while it would be impossible to construct an apology for the one scientist who estimated it at 26 inches, or for the other who stretched It to eleven yards ! And such is the power of modern publicity that two of the scientists questioned thought that iridium was a substance used in the manufacture of Pepsodent tooth paste! On the other hand, there is always the case of the Arts student who, when asked what he would do if he wanted to know the time of high-tide at Dover in a hurry, replied that he would immediately telephone "Enquiries" . And, as a no less significant tribute to a School Personage, two-thirds of the Scholars examined would go at once to the Chaplain to find out what time the next train left for Edinburgh. "Who was Peer Gynt ?" This question produced, as answers, "a Dutch gentleman" and "a Russian peasant". But the Editors had to give a mark to the boy who simply wrote "Ralph Richardson"! The Editors print the General Knowledge Paper at the end of this article. If they were accustomed to telling the truth, they would have to admit that they were rather proud of it. Why not try it yourself? The average mark of the King's Scholars was thirty. If you get more, you'd better put in for a King's Scholarship next year. (iii) Wherein the King's Scholar speaks on the School What does the King's Scholar think about the School in which he hard daily exercise lives and more or less moves, and more or less has his being? The Editors put this question by means of a third Questionnaire, elaborately devised to assure at once freedom and brevity of speech. A boy from one of the greatest Public Schools in England has recently remarked to one of the Editors: "You see, there are so many more thtngs about School that I dislike than there are things I enjoy. " With their hearts in their mouths, the Editors wondered: would the King's Scholars agree? Of the eighteen examined on this point in complete confidence, only one rell/rned an affirmative. One of the Scholars wrote: "School life is usually boring, but what is enjoyable is very enjoyable and what is unpleasant is only mildly so." Another put it thus : " Except for lessons, it is quite exciting." Others were mQre enthusiastic. One Senior Scholar wrote: "I enjoy school life bequse there

THE CANTU ARIAN is purpose and order in it, and that makes me feel I am an integral part of the School. I do not find the conditions bad in any way, or the regulations irksome." (As the advertisements say, the original of this amazing document can be inspected on appl ication 1) With a staggering condescension, a first-year Scholar returned the answer: " Broadly speaking, I approve of the School." Yet it was another Junior Scholar who broke the unanimity. He wrote: " I dislike the School because it forces the boy to fit the common mould. It does not shape the mould to fit the boy's individ ual requirements." Perhaps the score upon which Public Schools are most criticised by informed people is that of di scipli ne. The King's Scholar's attitude had 110 hobbies was tested by the question : " Looking at thin gs quite impartially, do you think it best to rely on punishments or on people's honour ?" Opinion was divided : But, on the whole, the King's Scholars favoured penalties, with hasty explanations as to their unfortunate necessity. One Scholar, with a discretion worthy of higher stations in life, replied: "it all depends on the boy". " If you had ÂŁ5,000 to give the School, how would you want it spent ?" The " favourites" under this heading were "a decent School Fiction Library" and " better study furniture ". . On the question of School dress, almost all the Scholars demanded a greater laxity. There was even One courageous spirit who scrawled: "Abolish school dress"; another, more cautious and (the Editors imagined) also more experienced in the ways of London tailors, wrote : "Abolish Scholars' Dress on high days. It is very expensive." School food could not have been expected to produce rip-roaring enthusiasm. Yet the King's Scholars all agreed that it was for the most part remarkably good, and much better than during the evacuation. One wrote: "Not so m~rul. But in the first place, I don 't like the rocklike slabs of stale bread we sometimes get. That dreadful macaroni thi ng might well be omitted. The pastery (sic) might be less soggy, and the potatoes varied a little more from the everlasting mash. " This was the most detailed and also the most passionate reply, but all the King's Scholars had their own improvements to make. It is remarkable that not one single improvement was suggested by more than two of the eighteen Scholars examined. agin the GOl'crnmcnt The Editors have been criticised for devoting too much space in The Cantuarian to the literary and historical aspects of the School. They therefore asked the King's Scholars: "Do you get bored with Canterbury's thirteen centuries?" Three-quarters said "No", but the most explicit answer was : "Definitely. The School was bankrupt for most of the time." (This, it should be added, is historically inaccurate.) One scientist wrote: " Yes. Especially in Winter, the City is very cold." The Editors are still puzzling this one out. The average King's Scholar, it would appear, prefers School to Cathedral Services on Sunday. One said : " There's more spirit and less show in them." But two preferred the Cathedral services, on account of the music and dignity. One preferred the School

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THE CANTUAR1AN the Classics and History books, which are never read ". Yet there is clearly room for generous ~ndowme nt here. Little support was given by the Scholars to the eXlstlllg.House Flchon Libraries. (iv)

Wherein the King's Scholar discloses his relaxations What does the King 's Scholar do with his spare time? Asked about their favourite games, the Scholars were almost evenly divided between cricket, tennis, boating, hockey, soccer and squash: the only School game not mentioned was rugger. One Scholar returned not so brutal as an answer "Card-playinll" . Thi~, by the way, was the only Scholar recorded as belIeVIng that hIS games lUterfered seriously with his work! It appears that most Scholars would play games on three or fOllr afternoons a week of their own free will. One historian wrote: "Hard dail y exercise is one of the necessities of my work."

'.'In your opinion," the Scholars were next asked, "do compulsory games achieve theIr real pUf]~ose?" The Scholar whose work was conditioned by exercise probably vOICed the feehngs of the maJonty of hIS fellows when he replied to this question: "In exercising the play~rs, yes. In interesting them, no." But one Scholar returned an unqualIfied affirmatIve, because, as he explained, the purpose of compulsory games is "to fill.up your afternoons" . Most of the Scholars regretted the presence of any compulsIOn, but agreed that they were more keen on their games here than they had been in their Prep. Schools. As~ed to define the ide~! way?f spending an hour "in the present hot weather", one Km~ s ~~holar,~ep.Ile~: . Readmg a boo,~ in a bath." Others chose "eating", "sun~ bathmg and dnnkIng ,ICe-cream s oda~ . Another Scholar, perhaps with a touch of

ImpatIence at the EdItors CUrIOSIty, rephed : "Getting on with my work." â&#x20AC;˘ Many ~thers~ in answering this q.uestion, repeated the answers given in the section of the QuestIonnaIre devoted to hobbles. It is evident that your King 's Scholar is a man of ma~y mterests, although one of the company replied that he had no hobbies and did not wlsh,~o have anl." Another"Scholar, defining a hobby as "an amusement taken serI.ously. ' g~ve as hIS hobbles puppets" and "old china" . "I spend nearly all my holIday tIme m eIther readmg boo~s ab,?ut my hobbies, or making my puppets for my Model Theatre, .or wllldow-gazlllg m antIque shops. I think I discovered china through my Illt~rest 10 eIghteenth century hfe. It is impossible to follow my hobbies at school, exc~pt I." deslgnmg the decor for my Model Theatre." Another Schola! gave his hobbies as phIlately, photography and day-dreammg. At School, my favounte hobby is sleep. I have no tIme fo~.anytb~n g else." Asked what arou~ed his interest in philately, the Scholar replIed : CupIdIty. My father had a very fine collection. I have it now. " But the answer the Editors liked best in this matter of hobbies was a reference to Ornar Kayharn. The Scholar had, with great consideration, added the misquotation: "A tree, a loaf, a book, a bottle of wille and THou. " The Editors have yet to be told of the attractions of THou. 157

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Wherein the King's Scholar discloses ~is ambitions The Editors, having digested the great bulk of the answ~rs, wondered what the average King's Scholar wanted to be in the future. Is there now 10 the School a Marlowe, or a Harvey, a Thurlow, a Broughton, or a Somerset Maugham ? In tbeir answers to confidential questions about their ambitions the King's Scholars revealed a surprising degree of morality. A typical series of answers ran like this. "What is your main ambition? To be happy. How do you intend to realise it ? I don't know yet. Would you like to amuse yourself, 01' to work ? Take aJob of some kind. Mere amusement is suicide. Would you like to be rich ? Only nch enou,~h to be generous. Would you ltke to belamous? Not unless I could do some good by It. . To the .same questIOns, however, another Scholar replied: "I want to. be a great ph~slclst. I mtend to become one by working on Atomic Physics. " Here, 11 would seem, IS the Harvey of the future. Other boys chose humbler targets. One wrote that he wanted to become a good Vet. ; another that all rich people were miserable; another that all he wanted was to respected; another that he wanted' 'to work hard at any duty that may he m my. path . But, as a sop to the Boy's Own, the Wizard and to certam other c,:mtemp~)fanes, The Cantuarian must record that one King's Scholar wal)ts to become ChIef Engmeer on the Queen Elizabeth.

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(vi) Wherein the King's Scholar is ' dissatisfied with His Majesty's Government The King's Scholar shares at least one characteristic with the country as a whole. He is "agin the Government". But, quite clearly, he has no alternative programme to offer! As one King's Scholar, who chose the Daily Mirr?r as his fa,vourite newspaper, put it : "I don't like the Labour policy and the ConservatIves haven t got ~JRe. I should never vote." Few of the Scholars approved of Mr. Attlee as Pnme MIR1ster, although most said that he was doing useful work in curbing the jealousies among the L~bour leaders. One Scholar said: " he tries". Another, an ardent reader of the Datly Telegraph, described his political convictions as "extreme Socialist" and chose M~. Shinwell as his favourite Minister. But then, this was the Scholar who, asked about hIS mam ambItIOn in life, replied "to be a bachelor". At least two of the present King's Scholars favour a Socialist programme: and not one who stuck to his Conservative guns could say what those guns were shootmg at. Labour readers of The Cantuarian may take new courage. (vii)

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A fairly clear composite picture of the modern King's Scholar emerged from this examination. Most of those questioned replied tbat their main impression was that the King's Scholar had changed only in non-essentials. One venerable O.K.S. remarked that he was constantly confronted by the same types-athletic, aesthetic, studious or ecclesiastical-even, it seemed, by almost exactly the sa me faces i- as he had known as a boy. It appears that the present King's Scholar is more respectable in person and more attentive in church, than the Scholars who were the contemporaries of another ecclesiasticaIO.K.S. Tbe modern King's Scholar, too, is improving in manners towards people outside the School. However, anotber observer commented that what had improved was not boys' manners but their mannerisms- if, indeed, such a change could be called an improvement. In punctuality and in responsibility, the present generation . had something to learn from the King's Scholars of a decade ago. An authoritative source in the School Tuck Shop went so far as to inform the Editors that the King's Scholars now openly displayed paper bags and cordial bottles in the public streets. Moreover, they formed a rugger serum round the Tuck Shop counter each break. Can it be that the present King 's Scholar is a hungrier creature, and one less interested in the outward and visible signs of courtesy? It was said by one who had had long and continuous experience of the Scholars in military guise that nowadays they were far less brutal to one another, to outsiders and to juniors. But they were also less keen on games and less interested in tbe J.T.C. Orders given to them frequently went in one ear and out of tbe other. A spell in the Army would do none of them any harm. On one thing, all observers were agreed. The present King's Scholar is kinder, if lazier ; more independent, if less settled in clockwork routine; and he lives in a far happier and freer atmosphere than before. On the School itself, they agreed that it had been transformed, and immeasurably to the good. They all considered tbat, on the whole, the present King's Scholars were worthy of the place tbey filled- which when yon come to think of it, is about the highest possible praise.

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1. Who signs himself" Archibald the Arctic "7 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. S. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. IS. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 2S. 29.

What does B.O.A.C. mean 7 Where is Tasmania 7 Population of London to nearest million? Of how many does.the present Canterbury Cathedral Chapter consist? What well-known commodity is made in sizes of 16 and 36 m.m.? What was the Woodbine before it was a cigarette 7 What is etymology 7 The King's School. Which king? â&#x20AC;˘ Who was reigning in England when Shakespeare wrote 7 What are the colours of the Italian flag? Where is iridium commonly used 7 Name any well-known British film director. 30 knots. How many m.p.h.7 How many Cinque Ports were there originally? To what do Cantab. Cantuar and Oxon refer? Who is leader of the opposition in the present parliament? Who wrote Caesar and Cleopatra? Where is Ashby-de-la-Zouche ? Roughly how long is a meter 7 Where does the word "queue" come from? "Pidgin English." What does pidgin mean? The present rate of interest on a P.O. Savings account? A loganberry is a cross between two fruits. Which 7 How many States are there in the U.S.A.7 Capital of Poland? Where is Brittany? What book comes immediately after St. John 's Gospel? You are sitting in a scholar's seat in the Cathedral on "cantoris" side. Towards which compass-point are you facing? 30. How far is it from Canterbury to London by road? 31. ' 'Two degrees below freezing." How cold is this in Fahrenheit? 32. Put the following in order of precedence: duke, viscount, earl. 33. What counties are Exeter, Cambridge and Faversham in 7 160

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Roughly how far is the State of Washington from the sea? What kind of fish becomes a kipper? Immediately after leaving this room you want to find out the following things as quickly as possible. What would you do ? Time of High Tide at Dover to-night. The name of the Archbishop of Canterbury in ISoo. Time of a train to Edinburgh from London to-night. Somerset Maugham's address. The 'phone number of the Foreign Office in London. What nationality was Machiavelli ? Who was Peer Gynt ? What was Joan of Arc maid of 7 Who was the first king to be called "Defender of the Faith "7 What is the capital of Albania 7 Who is the "Candillo "? What is a "Marsh Harrier"? What country does a "Lett" come from? What was the Queen's surname before she married 7 Is it correct to refer to the inhabitants of Scotland as "The Scotch' '7

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O.K.S. NEWS The O.K.S. Dinner will be held at the Waldorf Hotel, London, on January ~ ,1948. Tickets will be price 14/-. 9· New O .K.S. Secretary We are pleased to announce the election as Hon . Secretary and Treasurer of the O.K.S. AssocIatIOn of Major D. J. B. Jervis, O.KS. (1916-1923). Major Jervis has already made hIs mark m an Immediate expansion of the activities of the Association. He has asked the EdItors to announce that his primary aim is to be of the utmost personal assistance to all and any O.K.S. He wi ll be very pleased to hear from all people connected with Ihe School or the Association, at Ford Manor, Hoath, Near Canterbury, or to meet them In Canterbury or elsewhere. He j,$ especially anxious to compile accurate and up-to-date records of all living O.K .S., and of their activities and addresses. Among other tas ks, he has very kindly undertaken to compile the O. KS. News and Notes for The Cantuqrian . We cordially welcome Major Jervis to a position so full of opportunities for splendId servICe: and we have no doubt that he will prove one of the best friends and sons the School has ever had. We beg all of our interested readers · who have not ' yet got in touch with him, to do so without delay. . The President of the Association is Sir Frederick K. Bovenschen,. KC.B., etc. Great gratItude IS due to Mr. R. W. Marshall, O.KS ., Mr. R. H. Osborne, O.KS., and to Mr. J. P. Hemmmg, O.K.S., who ha ve carried on the running of the Association during the . recent period of emergency. O.K.S. Golfing Society The first meeting of the O.K.S. Golfing Society was held on the Canterbury Course on 17th June in perfect weather. In the morning there was an 18-hole Handicap Medal round; this was won by N. V. Bacon . ,\he afternoon round was for the President 's Challenge Bowls ; this was· 18-holes Bogey HandIcap 4-ball, the WInners were D. J. B. Jervis and N. V. Bacon. The School Competition, 18-holes Medal Scratch round, for members of the School was won by the Captain of the School, T. H. Pares, with V. St. G. Brealy as the runner-up: Prizes were given by Sir Frederick Bovenschen, G. Arnold and the O.K.S. Golfing SocIety, and these were presented after tea to the winners by the President of the 0 K S Association, Sir Frederick Bovenschen. . .. A short ~eeting was held to discuss the desirability of the formation of an O.K.S. Golfing SocIety and all agreed that it was an excellent idea and one that should be proceeded with . It would meet a long-felt want. The Committee is anxious to enter a team for the Halford Hewitt Public Schools Cup at Deal in April next year. The Committee consists of Sir Frederick Bovenschen, President, G. Arnold Hon Secretary, Major D. J. B. Jervis and R. S. Mount. ' . Will all O.K.S. Golfers of whatever handicap please give their support to the Society and those who are not already members write to G. Arnold, I Chasewood Avenue Enfield, Middlesell ? • 1~2

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THE CANTUARIAN News MAJOR J. F . AUCOTI (1928- 32), who served with the 12 F.F.R., LA., throughout the war, in Iraq, Iran and finally with the 14th Army in Burma, has now returned to Shanghai and former peacetime employment. He is due home for leave this summer. D. Mc L. WHEELER (1923- 29) is home on leave from China for about three months; we learn that this is only his second visit since he went out in 1929. H e writes that he was fortunate in leavi ng China only a month before Pearl Harbour and was in the LA. for five years. J . E. KENNETI (1929- 34), now in London, paid us a visit in May, after an absence of ten years. D. HOLl.AND (1942-45) has passed a Regu lar Commissions Board and goes to the R .M.A ., Sand hurst, in August. He has recently returned from Italy and Austria and greatly enjoyed the time spent there. E. KROGH (1940- 44) is a research chemist for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Studios and is working at present in England. We send him our best wishes on his marriage, which took place on 21 st June at Dover. H. 1. D . JOHNSON (1942-46) has been teaching at a Prep. school; he leaves al the end of the term to go into the Army. His brother is still out in Malaya and has just been promoted Captain. He expects to go up to Cambridge at the end of the year. P. N . P. JOYCE (1935-40) is working for the Palm Olive and Colgate's Company, Ltd ., and A. E. W. JOYCE (1935-39) is in Grinday's Bank, Whitehall. CANON J. G. W. TuCKEY, C.B.E., B.D., K.C.H. (1874-83), one of the original Editors of The Cantuarian, has been granted a "Good Service " pension by the War Office in recognition of his distinguished service. He has been an Hon. Chaplain to H.M . The King since 1918. R. S. GRANT (1923 - 27) is now a full Colonel, being stationed at Singapore; he writes that he has recently met J. GILLINGTON (1924-28). J. D. PARMITER (1915- 20) sailed for South Africa recently. J. C. GouLDSnURY (1934-39) is shortly going out to India again-to plant tea this time. During the war he was out East for five-and-a-ha lf years with the 5th Royal Gurkhas and thoroughly enjoyed his service with them; he was with them in Burma, Malaya and Java. His brother Pat (1928- 33) was also in the same Regiment; he is now in the Malay Police and enjoying life out there. S. O. VERNEDE (1938-42), just released from the Army, is now trying to get inlo im Agricultural College, Wye being his choice if he can get a vacancy. Nigeria has just begun to operate a new Constitution which set up deliberative bodies in each of the three Regions that make up the "Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria". The Northern Regional Council consists of a House of Chiefs and a House of Assembly: and by a coincidence the clerks of both these Houses appointed for their first and inaugural meetings are O.KS . The clerk of the House of Chiefs is A. G . Eyre (19351940) and the clerk of the House of Assembly is P. H. G. Scott (1924- 1932); both are members of the Colonial Administrative Service in Nigeria.

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J. WATTS (1939-43) has got his "third pip" and is now Adjutant of his Battalion (5th (K) Bn., K.A.R.). We were pleased to get a long letter from J. P. M. SUGDEN (1940-·42), now married and at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, after war service in West Africa and the Far East. P. H. HONOUR (1941-46) is now a Sergeant in the R.A.E.C. We were pleased to see P. C. HAMMOND (1941-46) and R. G. POWELL (1941- 45) both now at Oxford, for the Festival Week. ' BIRTHS VALPY.- To Elizabeth, wife of L. G. Valpy (1922- 26), on May 18th, 1947, at Batu General Hospital, Malaya, a son . ENGAGEMENTS MEEK : HURFORD.-The engagement is announced between C. I. Meek (1933-38) of the Colonial Administration in Tanganyika Territory, elder son of Dr. and Mrs. Meek, of Churt, Surrey, and Nora Corry Hurford. CARTWRIGHT: BRAY.-The engagement is announced between the Rev. R . F. Cartwright (1928-33), youngest son of the late Rev. G. F. Cartwright and Mrs. Cartwright and Rosemary Magdalen Bray. ' MARRIAGES SUGDEN : CORDELL.-On August 14th, 1946, in Sydney, N.S.W., J. P. M. Sugden (1940-46), to Suzanne Cordell, elder daughter of the Rev. O. T. Cordell, of Tanganyika Territory.

MEMORIAM

WILLIAM JOHN SALTER PRICE (1899-1909) We have recently been informed of the death of Mr. W. J . S. Price. Mr. Price came to the Junior School in Michaelmas, 1899; he was a member of the Sixth Form and of the Rugb~ XV, and became a Monitor in 1908. He took up Rubber Planting in Malaya, and dIed on November 18th, 1946. His father, the late Mr. W. G. Price, was a Master at the School for over forty years, and his own four sons, R.E.S., J.G.M., H.R.N. and W.S., all c~me to the King 's School in their turn. Two of his brothers-in-law, the late E. H . Mohne and R. W. H . Moline, now Archbishop of Perth, were also O.K.S. Few f~mihes. can have served and upheld the traditions of the King 's School with such dlstmctlOn and unfaltering devotion as the Prices and the Molines and the death of Mr. W. J. S. Price has removed a very sure friend. We offer our sy~pathy to his sons.

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'tHE CANTlJARtAN GEOFFREY CHARLES EDWARD RYLEY (1880-86) By the death of Canon G. C. E. Ryley, M.A., Mus. Bac., on June 19th, the School has lost a loyal so n and a very warm friend. Born in 1866, G. C. E. Ryley entered the School in 1880, the eldest of three brothers to be educated at Ca nterbury. _He ~ent from the Sixth Form in 1886 to Trinity, Oxford, where he enjoyed an Organ ExhibitIOn and was the College Organi st. Intending to take Holy Orders he read Th~ology and took hIS B.A., in 1889, adding a Mus. Bac. two years later. Ryley was ordamed deacon m 1892 and priest in 1893 in the Diocese of Chichester and served the curacy of Westbour~e in Sussex unti l 1895. Then came the call of mUSIC and he proceeded to S. Michael s College, Tenbury, to be first Assistant and then Second Master: but G loucester Cathedral soon captured him, and from 1896 to 1900 he was Mmor Canon of that Cathedral. In this latter year to his great joy, he was able to return to hIS beloved Canterbury where, from 1900 to I ~n I, he was Minor Canon and, withal, Sacrist of the Cathedral and Rector of Stodmarsh for the last three years of his Canterbury expenence. From Canterbury he became Vicar of East Peckham for no less than 18 years, when another Cathedral honoured his devoted se rvices, and he became an Honorary Canon of Rochester and Chaplain to the Bishop. For a brief period in his Peckham days Ryley had acted as Warden of S. Michael 's, Tenbury, and from 1917 was a Fellow of that College. From 1929 Rochester was his home, and as often as could be he would come t'? Canterbury and re-live old days as Scholar and Minor Canon. He composed, as all WIll know who are interested in Church Music, a considerable number of Church Services and Anthems. He was a thorough musician and rejoiced in the development of that art w,thm hIS old School. At two different times he gave substant,al sums to the School, the mc?me of which was to provide annual prizes for Music, and down to this present term thIS loyal and warm-hearted friend kept in personal touch with his old School, and mamtamed an unabated interest in all its activities. Geoffrey Ryley was the kind of O ld Boy of whom any School could be proud, and whos~ d~parture from this world removes a wonderful example of unselfish devotion and unstmtmg service. R.I.P. HAYDN THIES HARRISON (1882- 1888) We regret to announce the death in Canterbury during May of Lieut.-Commander H. T. Harriso n, O.K.S., R.N .V. R., M.LE.E. Lieut.-Commander Harrison ~ntered the electrical profession on leaving the King 's School in 1888. He was apprentrced to the famous S. Z. de Ferranti and soo n directed hIS attentIOn to street-i1ghtrng. He was a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers from 1893, and won two premium prizes for his lectures to the Institution. As a result of photometric tests, he proved in 1902 that the carbon incandescent filament lamps, then avai lable, could be used for street lighting. When the tungsten filament lamps were evolved, h~ decided that st reet lighting by electricity had a great future, and he was one of the pIOneers rn the work. During the 1914-18 War, Lieut.-Commander Harriso n became an adviser to the Admiralty on Lighting and Searchlights. He produced an Im~roved i1ght, strll known as the Harrison lamp. After the war he was appomted lllunlLnatlOns Engrn.eer to the Empire Exhibition at Wembley, and designed and superVISed the constructIOn of the lighting system of Oxford Street, London, with some 5,000 special lamps. Aged 76, he died a widower. t65

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BOAT CLUB T HE , . ., Club has staged a remarkable revival. In Its

After six years Df inactivity the Boat d at Marlow Regatta the First Boat were first season it ha~ wDnits ~ou; Sf~~oih~a~~bl~; Schools Challenge Cup. runners-up to Chfton In t e na. ced us when we returned from Cornwall the Look ing back at the destructIOn that fa t-houses, boats and oars were damaged or BDat Club has reason to. be proud . Bo~ to weeks of repairs and improvisatIOn. destroyed, and it was necessary to settleld ~r:~itions had gDne. The only piec~s of gODd None of the boys could row, and all thehD d boats that Saint Augustine s College fDrtune were the purchase of thre b~atr oU~~Se~t~usiasm among the members. had used before the war and a un 0 gre rs were afloat and learning to row. The First By the Easter Term of th is yeaI'I tw~ fou tua lly successful- experiment Df adapting Fourprinciples were engaged .on the rDwlng dlilicu t-;te~v~~1ts and fixed pins, wh ile the Second Four 0 1X , the of Falrball'n kept to the orthodDx style. k Ddest pre-war membership Df 45, At the beginning Df this ten,: we were bac b to our ".:ct decided to. enter for the Public had arranged races with Tonbndge and East ourne, a Schools Cup at MariDw. The Tonbridge Races 1939 nd an away fixture! The First Boat won . The first race of the first season smce a 'a~ about 40 to the minute. The crew were the toss, chose back statl?n a~d went ~~ia work were a length up on Tonbridge. Both nDt hurried and' after a minute s gDod, strDke and the SChDDI was cDntent to keep. Its crews then settled down to a 10~r' firm t whe'n they put Dn the pressure and were Just lead Df a length until the last ha . -mtn~h~ School won by 2 lengths. Perhaps the most overlapping Tonbndge at the finish. the fact that Tonbridge, too, had qUIetly gone remarkable feature of the afterno?n was' lar to. our own, so that the expected cJ~sh Df over todida form of Fairbairn Great rowmg It IS d Ue to the School CDX who steered hIS first styles not materialize! creS~,!,I. race on a strange river quite fau ltlessly. 'r one boat was ,up a'nd then the other, The SecDnd Boat had an excIting rac\ F\ but Tonbridge seemed unable to get muc ou st0 f their "tens" while we shot up every l~~

T1-IE CANTUAR!AN time. Training Dn a longer and more difficult course told in the end, and the School won by one second, a distance judged to be a quarter of a length, The Eastbourne Races Eastbourne appeared to. have suffered even greater misfortune than Durselves, and at one stage they were in danger of lOSing even their river! But this was our first Fordwich race, and a great occasion . Once more we were to entertain crews in the pleasant garden Df the "George and Dragon". The First Boat chose back station once more, and with one of their fast starts were quickly up on the Eastbou rne bDat, where they remained for the rest of the race to win 31 lengths. The Second Boat rowed the race at frDnt station and won easily by 6bylengths. Marlow In the first heat the School was drawn against Monmouth SChDOl, and as they paddled to the start they wondered how they would find this new experience of rowing a race abreast of anDther crew. But Dnce more they gDt away to. a fast start and were a length up after 30 strokes. Lengthening out to a steady 34 they WD n without effort by 4 lengths. In the final they met Clifton a nd HerefDrd Cathedral School, the holders of the Cup. Against Clifton the SChDOl 's start was less telling than it had proved in all previous races, and it was impossi ble to. shake them Dff, but Hereford was already going down. After the first minute Clifton were half-a-Iength up, and it was clear that we were up against a much mDre powerful and heavy crew. From this time Dnwards Clifton had things very much their Dwn way, and were able to. win by 3t lengths in a fast time. Hereford were about 3 lengths behind the School. It was a mDst memorable and enjoyable week-end for us all. NDt only had we rowed our way into the final, not only had this been achieved by beginners, but we had the privilege of staying in the hDuse of Mr. F . S. Whalley, O.K.S., and sitting at table with the crew of Jesus CDllege, Cambridge, WllO Won the Grand Challenge Cup. We would like to take this opportunity of thanking Mr. and Mrs. Whalley very Sincerely fDr their great generosity and kindness.

LOoking back, it is clear that the Boat Club has shown what determinatiDn and hard work can do in adversity. There is every sign that enthusiasm is growing. With the skill and selfless work of Mr. J. B. Harris (President of the Club), Mr. J. H . Corner, Mr. C. W. Ward and Mr. R. H. Prior (the CDaches of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd IV's), it is impossible to doubt that whatever was possible has been done. C. G. S. Paterson has made an excellent Captain. All we need is a gODd fairy to show us where we can find new oars and a boat Dr two. This is a broad hint to. any O. K.S. or friend who cares for rowing!

TENNIS This term, tennis went ahead under Mr. StemsDn and Mr. Gay, the Kent County Coach. The play of the VI . was somewhat laboured, and the match resu lts were disappDinting. Only two of the members Df last year's VI remained, and many players had to be taught the correct grips and service actiDns for the first time. But the Club managed to put in a great deal of work, and expectation for future seasons was high. We lost to. Too bridge, 0-9, and to Felsted, 0-7 and 4-5 in the return match. But we defeated SimDn Langton School 3-0 and still had a number of matches ahead when The Cantuarian went to press. Tennis VI 1st String: R. C. Ferris (Captain) and I. L. R. Burt. 2nd String: C. D. Smith and D. P. North. 3rd String: 1. M. Osborn and G. W. Williams.

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Date May 10 May 17 May 20 May 24 May 25 May 28 May 31 June 7 June 10 June 14 June 17 June 21 JUDe 28

XI FIXTURES

Eastbournc College Dover College

Away

RUI/s/or 199 for 7 102 105 16 1 for 7 143 102 for 7 44 for I

Away

Rain

e.c.

Home Home Away Away Home Home

54 252 for 4 82 for I 114 for 8 106 125 99

Opponents Royal M<lrines, Deal

Ground Home

M.C.C.

Home Home Home Home Away

St. Lawrence

Buccaneers Notts Amateurs

K.C.S., Wimbledon

Coutts

St. Paul's School St. Lawrence, Ramsga te Highgate School Downing College

July

I XL Club

July

Eton Ramblers

Home

BATTING AVERAGES Not Highest Innings

J. R. Allchurch........................ ·.. W . M. Foxwell ......... . .......... ·· .. ·····

Out

Score

66' 108 75 81 43 43 32 18 20 10 6

Runs against 149 for 8 223 for 6 145 for 8 207 155 for 5 101 43

138 for 3 3 for 1 81 11 3 170 146 221 for 8

Aggregate Average 251 439 228 181 143 121 105 62 80 26 16

41.8 32.07 20.72 16.45 15.88 10.08 9.54 7.75 6.66 3.25 2.66

Overs Maidens Wickets

Runs

Average

48 12 19 30 13

76 554 138 260 453 105

9.5 14.5 15.3 16.9 20.5 25.6

12 14

P. D. J. Johnston .................... ····.. 12 J. C. W. Hulse .................... ·...... .. II P. J. Walker ..................... ·......... 10 J. H. Pegg.......... .. .. . ...... .. ............ . 13

J. D. M. Hearth...... ........ ...... ...... J. L. Forsey............... . .................

12 10

R. E. A. Greenslade......... ... ......... A. J. HiIIL................................ ..

12 9

I. F. Black ................................ ·

BOWLING R. O. A. Norris............................. R. E. A. Greenslade .................... · W. M. Foxwell.............................

33 226 44.1 A. J. HiIIL.................. ................ 87 P. D. J. Johnston........ ........ .... ...... 160.2 J. C. W. Hulse................ .. ...... .. ... 50.8 168

9 15

22 8

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Drawn

Lost Lost Drawn Lost

Won Wqn Lost

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Won Won Lost Lost

Lost

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RETROSPECT This has been a cricket term of fine weather and good wickets: and it is the more saddening to report a rather disappointing season. The bowling has been consistently good and above average for a school side. Greenslade has been the best of them, bowling at a good pace for long spells and bowling a length and at the wicket. Johnston, too, has bowled tirelessly but has wasted much time and energy bowling wide of the off stump. Hille has bowled well on a number of occasions. Foxwell has thrown up his left-hand slows with guile and sense. The batting has been patchy and not very convincing. Foxwell has been a tower of strength with his northern determination and horse sense; if he wishes to make runs against first-class bowling he must learn to get right to the pitch of the ball and to play down the line; he has played some splendid innings. Hulse, after his first brilliant innin gs, has made few runs- due, perhaps, to examination worries. Johnstone has played some very good innings, but has sometimes been out due to tiredness after a long bowl. Pegg saved the match at Highgate, but, for the rest, was disappointing and will remain so until he plays down the line of the ball and keeps his feet still till he knows where the ball is pitching. Walker is now making runs, and Allchurch is reaping the reward of his determination. . The fielding has been poor, and there is little excuse for this. Many catches have been dropped and usually the eleven has looked casual in the field, a collection of batsmen and bowlers rather than a team of cricketers determined to win the match "on certain terms of handsomeness and courtesy". There is joy in scoring runs, and in taking wickets, but there is no greater pleasure in cricket than being one of a team on its toes and out for victory. So far King's College School, Wimbledon, has been beaten by 3 wickets, Eastbourne College and St. Lawrence by 9 wickets, and Highgate by two wickets. This is a good record; Ihe disappointment is at the inept performances against club sides. In addition to the clubs recorded among the reports of the matches, we have yet to play the Band of Brothers (July 19th) and the O.K.S. (July 26th). Hulse has captained the side with charm and intelligence. He has placed the field well and, except for a tendency to over bowl Greenslade and Johnston, he has managed the bowling well. In conclusion a word of thanks to our groundsman for good wickets; to Masters who have given their time to help with School cricket- Mr. Bailey, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Purnell, Mr. Kimmins, Mr. Stainer, Mr. Stanger, The Rev. S. B-R. Poole, Mr. Voigt, Mr. Morgan, Dr. Bulmer, Mr. Dartington, Mr. R. W. Harris; and to all who have planned and served the very excellent lunches and teas. A.L.R. KING ' S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v KENT (Home) On May 8th, the Kent XI played a friendly match against the School Xl. Inevitably, it was exciting for our team to find themselves batting to the bowling of Wright, with Evans behind the wicket-or bowling to such cricketers as Valentine, Ames and Todd. The Kent XI comprised Valentine, Ames, Evans, Wright, Todd, Meyers, Dovey, Crush, Debenham, Lewis and Edrich: its members were under instructions almost to throw away their wickets after a comparatively small score, and, although Kent declared at 193 for 4, it would not be fitting to print individual scores. The School scored 82 for 6. We are most grateful to Kent for coming, and look forward to a similar game next year. 169

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1ST XI MATCHES KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v ROYAL MA RINES, DEAL (Home) The batting of Foxwell and Hulse was extremely good. Hulse drove the ball magnificen tly and scored his 81 in fifty minutes. The School were unable to bowl the Marines out in the time left but, tha nks mainly to H ille, a good effort was made. ROYAL MARINES, DEAL

K ING'S SCHOOL

p , J. Johnston, b Evans............. ................ J. D. Hearth, b Collis................................ w. M. Foxwell , b Colli s...... ...... J. H . Pegg, b Fau lkne r........... ............ J. C. H ulse, c and b Faulkner.... ... .............. R. E. G reenslade, st, b Co ll is. .............. ........ J. L. Fo rsey, not OU!. ....... .. ".. ... . .............. .. P. J. Wa lker , b Col1 is .... , ....... ...... ...........~ . I. F. Black, not Qut............................... J. R. AIIChurCh}d ld not bat A . Hil le Extras........ .. .. .. ..... . ..... .. .. . .. ..

Total (7 wickets) .....

R. E. A. Greenslade P. J. Johnslon... .... A. Hille.............. ...

Sweeting, b Johnston ............. ,............... ... 57 Dunn ing, c Greenslade, b Hi lle. ................... 20 Sharp, c Johnsto n, b Hille. .......................... 0 Coy, c Johnston, b Hulse.......... ................... 20 Bellamy, b Hille....... ......... ......................... 0 Coll is, c Foxwell , b Hulse........ .... .......... 21 Wa lter, Ibw, b (. li lle....... .. ... ..... ............ ... 6 Evans , b Greenslade ............... . '" ................ 3 Turiier, not out. ........ ...... .............. ........ ... ·· 10 Faulk ner, not ouL........................ ............. 3 Hitchcock, did not bat ·E xtras............................................... 4

199

Tolal (9 wickets).. ........... ............. 149

2 0 70 20 81 4 7 0

17 12 13

3 2 3

33 53 26

I I 4

J . L. Forsey............ W. M. Foxwell .. .... J. c. W. Hulse........

1 2 3

0 0 0

9 9

0 0 2

KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v M.C.C. (Home) For the first hour-and-a-half of play the School did splendidly. Excellent bowling by Greenslade and Johnston, supported by alert fielding, resulted in 5 M.C.C. wickets, all experienced batsmen, being out at lunchtime fo r 52 runs on a hard wicket. Alas. Too much lunch was eaten, long hops and fu ll tosses were bowled, the fie lders dozed, and, after one-and-a-half hours mo re play the M.C.C. declared at 223 for 6. Only H ulse and Pegg stayed in fo r long against some good bowling by Keenan and the School was soon out. P . J. Johnston, c and b Kennan.................. 7 J. D. Hearth, c and b Osborne................... 13 W. M. Foxwell , b Keenan.......................... 7 J. H. Pegg, c and b Crutchey..................... 22 J . C. Hulse, b Osborne....... ..... ................... 23 6 R. E. Greenslade, b Keenan. ............ .......... J. L. Forsey, b Keenan................................ 5 1. F . Black, Ibw, b Osborne............ ............ 4 P. M. Benham, b Keenan...................... ...... 0 J. R. Allchurch, not ouL........ ................... .. 2 A. Hille, b Keenan....................... ............ I Extras................................ ... ............ 13

M.C.C. N . J. Motfatt, lbw, b Greenslade.................. 3 P. E. Murray-Willis, Ibw, b Greenslade.......... 10 R. A. Holt, c Foxwell, b Johnston............... 5 Hon. L. R. White, c Pegg, b Forsey ............. 11 6 H. F. Stevens, c Forsey, b Greenslade......... 0 G. E. Hartley, b Hulse............................. . 14 C. C. Russell-Vick, not out.............. ............ 55 M. T . Wyatt, not out..................... ............. 9 R. H. Osborne } J. A. Keenan did not bat G. E. Crutchey Extras ............ .................... :. .... .......... I I

TOlal... ... ...... ... .......................... 102

Tola l (6 wickels) ........................ ... 223

KI NO'S SCHOOL

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2 3 0

60 46 30

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ST. LAWRENCE

P. J . Johnston, c Brett, b Heyer.................. 23 J. M. Hearth, b Heyer................................ 7 W. M. Foxwell , b Meredcw.. ... .................. 13 j , H. Pegg, Ibw, b Mercdew... ......... ............ 0 j . L. Forsey, c Goodhew, bHeyer ................. 18 R. E. Greenslade, c Hardy, b Mercdew........ 6 M. J. Norman, c Hews, b Meredew............. 4 I. F. Black, c Meredew, b Heyer................. . 6 P. M. Benham, b Brett ............... .... ".. ...... . 0 P. J. Walker, not out.................................. 8 A. Hille, c Hardy. b Phillips........... ............. 10 Extras .... "............. .. .. ... .................... II

30 7 16 5 I 14 41 6 19 0

Extras.......... ........ ... ... ........... ............

Totai.. .... ...................... ... .. ..... ... 105

Total (8 wickets) ............ " .... ......... 145

R. E. A, Greenslade P. D. J. Johnston... A. HiIl L............... J. L. Forsey.......... ..

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G. Heyer, b G reenslade.............................. . J. Brett, b Greenslade ............ ..... "" .. "......... A. Goodhew, run Qut.. ... ............. "............. R. Hews, c Norman, b Greenslade... ... ....... R. Meredew, c Black, b Johnston .. ...... ""...... F. Phillips, b Hill ~.............. .... .. ................ .. A. Ratcliffe, c Black. b Forsey" .... ". ..... ... .... J. Hardy, lbw, b Johnston............... ........... A. Wacher, not out................... .. ................ A. Phillips, not out.,.......... ... ... .... ............ . S. Cripps, did not bat

16 17 8

I 1

KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v ST. LAWRENCE, RAMSGATE (Away) This was a poor match. St. Lawrence batted 2! hours for 81. King's scored the 82 wanted in forty minutes. Allchurch hit the loose bowling with power. ST. LAWRENCE

KING'S SCHOOL

Wickham, b FoxwelL ...... .................. ....... " 29 Leader, c Johnston, b Norris........ ............. ". I Wayland, b Norris .......... "...... .. .......... .. ..... 0 Wright, c and b Greenslade ................... .. ".. . 14 Jarvis, b Greenslade ..................... " .".......... 3 Wickham, b Norris.......... ...... ........... ...... ... 7 Edward, b Foxwell" ......... " .. ................. .. .. 5 Farrow, Ibw, b Hulse........ ...... ............ .... .... 8 Turnbull, not out....... .......... .......... ....... .. ... 6 Stevenson, st Hearth, b Foxwell........ .......... 0 Cutter, b Foxwell.... .. ... ... ... .. ... ........... ... .. . 0 Extras.................. ................. ... .. .... .. . 8 Totai.. ................. " "''' ' '''' .... ....... G reenslade............ Norris.... .... .. .. .... .. Johnston........ ......... FoxwelL... ............ HiII ~ ...... ...............

Hulse............. ........

P. J. Walker, Ibw, b Culter...... ...... ............ 16 J . R . Allchurch, not out ... .......... ......... ... ". 66 W. M. Foxwell, not out. ............ ........ "....... 48 Extras........ .. ...... ..... ......................... . t Total (I wicket) ...... .... .. .. .... " .. .... .. . 131

6 2

9 4 13 I 3 171

o 5 1

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w. 2 3

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'rifE CAN T uARtAN K ING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBU RY v HIGHGATE SCHOOL (Away) We were lucky to win this match. Joh nston bowled well but the fielding was very poor. Walker played well at the beginning of the Ki ng's innings but 7 wickets were down for 63. Determined batting by Pegg, Hearth and Greenslade j ust turned the scale. HIGHGATE SCHOOL

Jones, c and b Greenslade... ....................... Sk inner, b Johnston... ............ ............. ....... Owen, b Johnston.. .. .................................. Cooper, run ou!".......... ............................. Houghton, b Johnston................ ....... ........ Pryre, Ibw, b Johnston.............. ..... ...... ....... Knightly-Sm ith, c Fossey, b 10hnston.......... .. Copsland, Ibw, b Hulsc............................. Cruickshank, Ibw, b Greenslade.................. Cruickshank, lbw, b Foxwell................... .... Rata, not out.............. .. .. .. ......... ........ .. .. Extras.... ..... ....... ..... .. .... .... ................

K ING'S SCHOOL

.4 8 20 27 17 0 4 14 5 6 8

P. J. Walker, b Cope land......... .... .......... ..... 26 J. R. Allchurclhl, lbOw, b Rabt·Cu·······I·'··d······· · .. ··· 10 W. M. Foxwe ,e wen, ope an ...... .. .. .. 10 J. C. W . Hulse, c Cru ickshank, b Copcland.. .. . 2 P. D. J. Johnston, c C ruickshank, b Cope land 423 J. H Pegg, c Ski nner, b Rata ............... 8 REA Greenslade, b Copeland ............. .. J D M Heart h, b Rata ... ... ... ......... 17 J L Forsey, b Rata.... ..... ........... ... ........ ... 3 A. H i ll ~, st Cooper, b Rata... ................. ..... 0 V. H. G. Brealy, not oul.. ........... ,............. I Extras ............. ..... ... ............ "......... ... 5

Tota!.. ........................................ 1\3

TotaI: ............. .. ............ .. " ... ...... . 127

o. R . E . A. Greenslade P. D. J. Johnston...

A. H iIl~ .. .. ........ .... W. M. Foxwell.... .... 1. Hulse............. ...

w. 2

30 10 17

20 14

2 5 .5

o 1

KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY V DOWNING COLLEGE (Home) The School bowling and fielding were quite good and it seemed likely that we should win when the score was 68 for 2. The batting, save for Walker, was poor. K ING'S SCHOOL

DOW NING COLLEGE

Lees, run out....................... ... ....... ......... 46 Drayson, b Johnston......................... .... .... 15 Parker, Ibw, b Greenslade............................ 15 Sparrow, b G reenslade........ ... ................... 13 Smith, c Johnston, b Greenslade................... 8 Bardsley, ty·Johnston......................... ........ 30 Dean, b Foxwell.. ..... .. ... .... .. .. ...... .. .. .. .. .... 12 Hitchcock, run out........... ...... .. .... ........ ..... 23 Prosser, c Hearth, b Forsey......... .............. .. 0 Painter, not out................ ...... ..... . .... ....... .. 4 Stephens, b Foxwell.. .. ............. ............ ...... 0 Extras.............. ...... .... ...... .......... ... .... 4

P. J. Walker, c Pai nter, b Smith.. ................ 43 J. R. Allchurch, run out............................. 6 W. M . Foxwell , c Stephens, b Hitchcock.. .... 13 J. H. Pegg, b H itchcock .... .. ........ .... .. .. .. ...... 11 P. D. J. Johnston, b Smith.. .. ........ ............. 2 R. E. A. Greenslade, b Smith.......... ............. 0 J. D. Hearlh, b Hichcock.......... .... ............. . 9 6 J. L . Forsey, not out......... .. ................. ....... T. H. Pares, b Hitchcock................. .......... I 1. F. Black, c and b H itchcock...................... 0 A. J . Hill ~, c Bardsley, b Hi tchcock............... 1 Extras... .... .......... .. .... .. ...... .. .. .... ... .. ... 15

Total.. ............. ...... ... ... ....... ...... .. 170

Total.. ..... ... .. ....... " ... " ... ... ... ....... 106

o. R. E. A. Greenslade 22 P. D . J. Johnston... 23 A. HiIl ~.... .. ....... .. . 6 W. M , Foxwell........ 6. 1 1. L. Forsey..... .. .... 2 172

5 5 I 1

61 26

31 6

w. 3 2

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KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERB URY v BUCCANEERS (Home) Greenslade and Johnston bowled well and the visitors, who were 144 for 8, managed to scramble to 207. Bligh, bowling medium fast, was too much for most of the School batsmen. Foxwell played a splendid i~nin~s of judgement and courage, until he ran hi mself out just when

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game which had always been alive ended five minutes before time. K INO'S SCHOOL

P. D. J. Johnston, b Bligh............. .. .......... 16 J . D. Hearth , b Bligh..... .. ......................... 6 W. M. Foxwell , ru n Oll L......... ..... ....... ....... 60 J. H. Pegg, b Bligh .......................... " ,...... 7 J. C. W. Hulse, b Ratcliffe.......................... 29 R. E. Greenslade, b Bligh............... ...... ....... 7 J. L. Forsey, not OUL................................. I I I. F. Black, b Bligh........................ ... .. ...... 0 J. R. Allchurch, not ouL.... .. ... ....... .. .. ........ 7 M. J. Norman } d'd ot bat A. HilI ~ I n , Extras.............................................. 20

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Total (7 wickets) .. .. ...................... 161 O.

R . E. A. Greenslade 24.4 A. H ille.................. 12

6 3

69 50

G. E. Hartley, Ibw, b Greenslade................. J. K. Hawkes, b Joh nston........... .. ......... :..... A. Hardy, b Greenslade....... .. .............. .. .. ... C. I-Ie)ey-Hutchinson, run OUL...... ...... ......... W. W. Smith, b Greenslade....... .. ............ .. ... W. B. Fra nklin, b G reenslade.... .. ........... .... M. J. Moffat, c Forsey, b Johnston........ .... ... H. G. Bowler, b Hi ll e......... ............ .. ......... M. Fenez, lbwt b Johnston......... .. ... ............ A. Ratcl iffe, not ouL.... ......... .. .. . ....... .. .. .. . T. S. Bligh, c AJlchurch, b Greenslade.... ... .. Extras.... .. ............... .. ........ ... ..... ........

50 3 3 35 20 2 11 8 4 53 7

Tota l.......... .. ... ...... ... ... ..... .......... 207

w. 5 I

B UCCANEERS

P. D . J. Johnston... .

J. C. W. Hulse.. .... ..

6 I

59 13

KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY V NOIT'S AMATEURS (Home) Johnston played splendidly but the rest of the School batti ng was dismal against only moderate bowli ng. Nott 's Amateurs, sur vivi ng some hostile opening overs from Johnston and Greenslade ' and aided by dropped catches had no difficulty in scoring the runs. KINO'S SCHOOL

Norrs A MATEURS

P. D . J. Johnston, c wkt., b Vau lkhard......... J. D. Heart h, b Holliwell................. ... ......... W. M. Foxwell , b D. Ski nner........ .. ............ J. H . Pegg, run out.................................. 1. C. W. Hul se, run out....... ... .............. .. ... R. E. Greenslade, c A. Ski nner, b Halliwell... J. L. Forsey, c G reensmith, b Holliwel l... ..... 1. F. Black, lbw, b HolliweI L ......... .. ......... J. R. Allchurch, not out............ ........ ........ .. A. J. H iII ~, b D. Skinner...... .. ...................

75 0 -3 5 16 3 5 0 tI 10

Extras................. ......... ....................

A. F. Ski nner, c Black, b H ulse.................. 44 D. H. Vaulkha rd, c Johnston, b HiIl C"....... 25 D. A. Skinner, c Greenslade, b Black .... .'.... 51 A. W. Taylor, c wicket, b Hulse................... 6 R. P. Wi ll iamson, b Johnston ...Â·.. .. .. .. ......... . 21 H. Richardson, b G reenslade....... .. ........ ...... 0 B. H Dawson, not OUL...... .... ... ............ .. .... 2 D. Greensm ith, not out....... ... ........... .. ....... 2 G. S. Hawes } H. L. Holliwell did not bat E. A. Marshall Extras........ .. .......... ........ ...... .. ........ .. . 5

TotaL ... ...................... .......... ... 143

Total (6 wickets) .. .... ............... .... .. 165

R. E. A. Greenslade A. J. H iII ~ ............. J . L. Forsey ............ W. ~fv!, Foxwell .......

15 7 2 I

M. I 1 0 0

60 20 2 2

1 1 0 0

P. D. J. Johnston .... J. C. W. Hulse ........ I. F. Black .... ........

9 9 2

I 1 I

36 29 2

1 2

THE CANTUA RIAN KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL, WIMBLEDON (Away) In blazing sunshine Greenslade took three quick wickets and then retired, ill. At lunch time King's College School were 92 for 5 wickets. After lunch Greenslade returned, bowled an over to loosen up, and then took 5 wickets in nine balls, hitting the wickets four times. Wrea, who had batted well for Wimbledon, watched the fun from the other end. . Foxwell, with his usual determination, made sure that victory was ours by 3 wickets.

James, c Hearlh , b Greenslade ........ "............ 9 Newman, \bw, b Greenslade.... .. .................. 1 Dawson, b Greenslade............. ................. 3 6 Wood, b Hill e........................ ... ............. Priston, c Pegg, b Hill e........ ...... ....... 36 Wrea, not out............... ... ......... .â&#x20AC;¢............. 22 Hem, b Greenslade..................................... IO Spingthorpe, b Greenslade.......................... 0 Long, b Greenslade....... .............. .............. 1 Jaques, b Greenslade........... ... .................... 0 Humphreys, c Forsey, b Greenslade............. 0 Extras............ ................ ................... 13

Total... ... .............. ......... ............ 102

Total... ............ ..... ............... ... ... 101

Extras.............. ... ........... ... ........ .......

13 3 9 54 0 4 5

R. E. A. Greenslade P. D, J. Johnston.... A. J. HiIlL..... .. ... J, L. Forsey .. ........ .. J. C. W. Hulse ....... .

11.6 10

5 3

II 22

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KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY V EASTBOURNE COLLEGE (Away) Hille came into his own as a bowler and thoroughly deserved his success. The 43 runs needed were quickly scored for the loss of one wicket. KING'S SCHOOL

EASTDOURNE CoLLEGE

P. D . J. Johnston, not ouL ............... ,...... " , P. J, Walker, b Brown.............................. W . M, Foxwell, not ouL.............................

15 13 13

Extras ..... ,........ ...... ............. ........ ......

Total (I wicket).............................

O'Brian, c Allchurch, b Greenslade.... .... ... .. Gray, b Greenslade ................... .............. .

2 4

~~:i~~' ~ ~m~:::::: . . :. :. :.:::::::. . :::::.::::::::::::: o 7 7 9

Harrison, c Johnston, b Hille ..................... . Brown, b Hille ................... ... ........... ...... . Wills, b Johnston ... .... ... ............ ..... .... ... ... .. Bevan, c Greenslade, b Johnson .... ... ......... .. Lock, b HiII~ ................................ ......... . . Whitamore, c Pegg, b Hille ..... ..... ... ........ . .. Ward, not out. ..... .. ........ ................. ...... .. Extras ............................. "., .... , ........ ,

TotaL...................................... ...

KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL

KING'S SCHOOL

P. D. J. Johnston, b Humphreys.................. J. R . Allchurch, b Jaques............................ J. H . Pegg, c Hero, b Priston ..................... , W. M, Foxwell, c James, b Humphreys......... J. C. W. Hulse, run OUt.............................. R. E. A, Greenslade, b Humphreys ... .... ".... J. D. Hearth, not out................................. B. B. Lee, b Priston.,... ............................ P. J. Walker} J. L. Forsey did not bat A. J. HiII~

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Greenslade, .......... , Johnston .............. ,. . Hill~ . ........... .. ...... .

9 6 10

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KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v COUTT'S C.C. (Home) Against very moderate bowling the School batting collapsed. Coutt 's helped themselves to the runs and that was that. COUTIS

KING'S SCHOOL

P. D, J, Johnston, b Danson ......... " ........ ". P. J. Walker,lbw, b Danson ........ ", ...... ",.... W. M. Foxwell , c Richard, b Danson.",.......

1 15 0

J. H. Pegg, Ibw, b Hammond.......... ............ J. C. W, Hulse, c Dawkins, b Hammond .. "... J. D, M. Hearth, b Richards ...... ,............... R. E, A. Greenslade, c Robertson, b Thoy... J. L. Forsey, b Richards .......... " ...... "',, ...... , B. E . Lee, c Gunn, b Thoy ............. "." .. ... ,,, J. R. Allchurch, not out. .. " ....... .. "............ A. J. Hille, run out. .. .. ,,,.,, ... .. ,,,,.. .. ......... .. . Ext ras .... " ....... .. , .... ... "',,...................

Total........ ............ ............. ... ......

c.e.

Dawkins, b Foxwell ............. " .... ,............... 37 Ruck, Ibw, b Greenslade ................ ... ,,,. .. .. 7 Rt;>bertson, not out ........ , .. , ....... ,.. " ... , ..... ,.,. 49 Richards, c and b Hulse .. ,,, .. ,...... .... ........... 1 Thoy, not out .. ,.. ,..... , .. , .. .. , ............. ..... ,,,.. . 36

1 13 6 1 9

Total (3 wickets)..... ...... ...... .......... 138

o. 14 10 3 7 6

Greenslade."" .. . "" Johnston,,,,, ......... ,,. HiII~................. .. .. Foxwell ......... ,... .... Hulse .... .. ,.......... ,'" Forsey ......... ,,, .. ,.,.,.

Extras ........................... ... , ..... ,., ....... ,

1 2

46 24 II II 21 12

o 1

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KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v ST. PAUL 'S SCHOOL (Home) In 2t hours King's scored 252 for 4 wickets. This was a really good exhibition of battIng and runnIng between the wIckets. After one over of St. Paul's innings rain came. KJNG'S SCHOOL

P. J. Walker, b Mills ............................ . :... 7 J , R. Allchurch, c Murray. b Mills,,,,,,......... 37 W. M. Foxwell, b Borter .... ... .... ,............ " ... 108 J. C. W. Hulse, b Widlake.................... ... ... 14 P. D. J. Johnston, not out ... "..... ........... .. .... 57 J. H . Pegg, not out.. ....... ".. ............... .... ..... 7 Extras ... , ............. " ....... ... , .... , ... .. .... ," 22

ST. PAUL'S Murray, not out,,, ........ , ... .. .. , .. , ....... ,,,..... . Jay, c Hearth, b Greenslade ...... .. ... " .. ,,,.... ...

Extras, ...... " " .. " .. "" ...... ", .. .... " .. ". ... .

Total (I wicket)........ .. ............. ... ...

Total (4 wickets) ................. .......... 252 Greenslade.. ... .. .. ...

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KING 'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v XL CLUB (Home) XL

K.JNG'S SCHOOL

CLUB

P. J. Walker, ht wkt., b Hodges... ............... 635 J . R. Allchurch, c Hodges, b Hu bble ....... " ... . W. M. Foxwell, b Gadsby ....................... ··· J3 J. H. Pegg, c Levett, b Hubble... ......... .. ....... 1 P. D. 1. Johnston, b Gadsby........... ............ 2 J. C. W. Hulse, b Gadsby .... ..................... · 0 R . E. A. Greenslade, c Crawford , b Gadsby... 8 J. D. M. Hearth, c and b Hubble ....... "... .... 29 R . O. A. Harris, st Levett, b Gadsby... ..... ... 0 J. L. Forsey, st Levett, b Gadsby ...... .. . ... ,,,.. I A . J. Hill~, not out.. ............. ....... ............ ·· 1

Doucher, c Forsey, b G~een s ladc ................. 14 Evan s, c Heart h, b No rri s........ ....... ............. 2 Lcvett , c Fo rsey, b Norris............................ 153 Mitchell, c Allchurch, b Greensladc ........... .. Hubble. Johnston. ................................... Crawford c Foxwell, b Johnsto n............... .. Cornwa llis, c No rri s, b Foxwell................. 5 Simpson, c Pegg, b Greenslade........ ............. 6 Hodges, c Pegg, b Greenslade............ .......... 6 Ward , not Ollt. ............................... ·"·, .·,·,,. 21 G.dsby, b Johnston............ .. .. ...... ............ 4 Extras ............. ....... ,."" ........... .... , .... , 5

Tot. I......... .... .. ................ ........ .. 125

Total. .... " ... , ..... , .,." ........... "." ... 146

Extras..............................................

o. G reenslade ....... ......... ,

Norris .......·.......... ..... . Johnston .................. . Foxwell ...........•.......

Hulse ...................... . HillL .... ................ ..

21 12 . 5.2 10 6 I

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23 2

KING ' S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v ETON RAMBLERS (Home) ETON RAMBLERS

KING'S SCHOOL

Stringer, b Norris .. .......... ....... "." .. , .. , .. ... ·.. Henderson, b Greenslade...................... .... .. Cavendish, Ibw, b Johnston.................. .. ..... Cornwallis, b Norris.... ..... ........................ Lesehellas, b Johnston..... ..... ...... ................. Cartwright, c Foxwell, b Forsey ................ .. Quilter, b Greenslade............. ..................... Doyle, st Hearth, b Forsey...... .... ............ ... . French-Blake, not Ollt.... .. ........................... Stragen, nO.t out............... ...... ...... ...... ........ Burrows, did not bat Extras... ....................... ... .. ................

P. J. Walker, b Henderson ..,.......... :".......... 12 J. R, Allchurch, c Cornwalhs, b Strmger.... .. 30 W . M Foxwell, c Cornwal!s, b Qulter.. .......... 17 J, C. W . HlIl se,lbw, b Qu ilter.............. ....... I P. D. J. Johnston, not out ...... " .. .... ..... · ..... · 13 J. H. Pegg, Ibw, b Quilter.......... ...... ........ .... 1 ~ J. D. M. Hearth, c Stringer, b Doyle........... .. R. E. A. Greenslade, b Doyle......... .. ... ........ I R. O. A. Harris, b Doyle...... :........... .. ....... 2 J. L. Forsey, run out.. .. ....... .... ................. 0 A. J. Hill~, b Quilter.......... .. ...... .......... .... .. 0 Extras... ......................... .......... ..... ,.. 5

Total.. ..... ..... ....... ........ ...... ........

6~1Ell:.: :.::.:::::::: .:.:.. :::

38 5~

15 2

Total (8 wickets)............ .. .... ... ..... 221

Greenslade......... ..... . ,. Norris................... .... Johnston .".. .............. Forsey.. .......... ..........

8 9 14

24 12 10 5

176

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2ND XI At the time of goi ng to press the Second Eleven has played three matches. May 28th: KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY V K.C.S., WIMBLEOON (Away) . We won the toss and batted first ; the opening pair put on 43 for the first wicket, Reeves mak ing 24. The middle balsmen collapsed, however, a nd the score was soon 87 for 10, but Norris (29) and Catt (12) put on 39 runs in a useful last wicket sla nd, to bring the score to 126. K.C.S., Wimbledon, were dismissed for 75, Norris taking 7 wickets for 14 runs. May 31st: KING'S SCHOOL, CANTEROURY v SIR ROGER M AN WOOO 'S (Home) We again batted first, but on ly just managed to top a total of 80 owing to some quick fielding by our opponents, who passed our score after tea with 7 wickets in hand. June 21 st: KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTEROURX V DOVER COLLEGE (Away) Dover batted first and scored 102 runs. We went in after the tea interval, and eventually reached 83 with 10 wickets down. Again a last wicket stand produced amazing results; Black (23) and Barton (14 not out) put on 28 runs, a nd thus won the match by 9 runs. COLTS The Colts ha vc had a moderate season. They won their away match against Dover College and lost the home match; Tonbridge beat them ralher easily, and they won against Sir Roger Manwood 's. Walker made 53 in the first match and was then moved to the First Eleven . Norris took over the Captaincy and has done the job well, his fast bowling has taken many wickets and his fielding has been an example to all. Lee has played some good innings and Skinner has shown determination to stay in a s an opening batsman. It is a young Colts' side, it has fielded well and shows promise for the future. HAYMAKERS ' XI The Haymakers' Cricket Club has been revived this term for those who enjoy, but do not excel in the "King of Games " . It has had a most enjoyable, if appropriately unsuccessful, season. V. St. G . Brealy was "Chief Waggoner" and C. B. ManningPress Hon. Secretary. The main-stays of the informal XI were J. B. H. Jackson, A. L. Betts and N . Barton : a mong adults, the Club invited Mr. G. H. Bailey, Mr. F. Stanger, Mr. F . E. Stemson and Mr. E. L. Baldock to strengthen the side on occasions, The first match was against Chilham Cricket Club. Like true rustics, the Haymakers were loath to attempt something new, especially as they had to sweep a sheep-ridden " away" pitch before the game began! Chi1ham scored 84, and would have scored less, had the Haymakers been accustomed to holding their catches. The Haymakers, going in after tea, scored 71. 177

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The match against Tyler Hill was hailed in the local paper as "Tyler Hill Success". This it certainly was. Despite the fact that both sides played twelve men, the hard hitting and good bowling of D. and L. Daniels, groundsmen on Birley's Field, took heavy toll of the Haymakers. Tyler Hill scored 1I2: by a coincidence, the Haymakers' score was again 21. Against the Canterbury Technical College, the Haymakers took five wickets for seven runs. Then the pace slowed down, and the College were out for 61. But the Haymakers themselves did no better, and, on a re-counting in the score-books, the two scores were found to be exactly and pleasantly equal.

THE JUNIOR SCHOOL Notes from the Parrot House Here the term has -passed smoothly by on a comparatively uneventful course. One or two major events are still ahead of us as I write these notes. We began the term with the Athletic Sports, which would normally have been held in the Spring Term, but which were obviously impossible in the arctic weather then prevailing. Postponed to this term, and so with less practice than we should have liked, times were not on the whole as good as last year's, and no records were broken . Complete results are printed in the Milner Court Chronicle (No.2, to be obtained from J.K.S., price 1/-). Then cricket began in earnest. Here, too, disappointment awaited us. Some boys were unwise enough to start German measles, and little batches of three or four boys have been having this complaint at sixteen-day intervals ever since. Other schools then regarded us as pariahs, outcasts. For a germ worth the name this would not have been quite so bad, but for one whose only effect is to make you tingle a little for twenty-four hours, and which sends you back to school after only four or five days in the sick room- the less said the better. However, reports of the two matches we have been able to play will be found below, and of the first two rounds of house matches. Swimming has proceeded apace. With our own pumps repaired and in action, and so able to keep the bath up to a good level, we have spent a good deal of time in the water. It was a pity that the second heat wave found the bath empty, and being cleaned out, but temporary annoyance at this was soon forgotten when the bath was refilled. A good number of boys who could not swim at all at the beginning of term, or who could not swim very far, have now done their tests. A rod and line, with a loop round the middle, does very well for some; coaxing and cajolery in the water helps others. Some are still trying to learn ; others not trying so hard. It pays to be a swimmer in our bath, with the shallow end still suffering from war-time maltreatment by motor wheels, and even tracked vehicles-and not, it seems, a sack of cement in all Kent with which to make concrete for a new hottom. The Barn has been well used, both by ourselves and by activities connected with the village. The Parish Fete on June 14th was almost literally a wash-out. Rain fell all the afternoon, a few drops at first, then a shower, and finally a deluge. The Fete carried on as best it could inside the Barn, with the Chislet Colliery Band discoursing martial music 'most valiantly through the hubbub, but a smaller band, intended for the delectation of a tea-time audience only, found itself less successful in coping with the noise of a full Barn, side-shows and all. 178

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THE CANTUARIAN Fourteen boys sang in the Cathedral perfor . ce f added something to the volume of treble tone m;r a th~ CreatIOn, and we hope they was sitting just on top of a most ferocious timp~nistllS sdeebmhe . dconslderable, to a bass who ' an e m two very playful bassoons May we recall the needs of the School Libra . have suitable books for disposal? We ha . r~ t~ any ex-Parrots and others who may year; too many to make it possi'ble to th~~'kI~1l ~~~ ~ad many \l,ftS for the Library this . onors IIldlVldually here. We have also bought a few books and had others old f hard to come by, and se~ond-hand book; wea:V~u:lte~, reboun~. But new books are suitable for readers aged 8 to 13}, let us know. 01 t m tune. So If you have any more, Accounts of the Barn Fund are printed below W d ~ a start on the long and possibly slow business 'f t e . a eel that we have at last made New doors are in position on the lawn side. A ~a ~r~lngb the bBarn mto a School Hall. g as een Ullt ? not as large as we hope It Will be In time but we could not et a beginning with a ligl;ting installation . Ttis ~sn~nn~:Ct~~ed lo~ ~h~ JO~: IWhe have made out of the Barn Fund. Last, and most im ortan! f II ' . rs 1 w IC1 as been paId the roof and counting tiles, and before tgis a a a., bUilders have been seen .me~suring a hcence will have been made, to restore the tfl~~a'f PrIn} w~ hope the apphc~tlOn for to complete the roof lining. When this is done aon e n?o were they ar~ ~Issmg, and y can take the next step in the conversion of the' bUId1d'.'bvI!'lUsl mg mto a not hallbefore It IS done, we One interesting gift should be recorded here and h . . It consists of some relics of the Battle of Omdur:na . our t a~k~ to Lady MIlner for it. made and able to keep out any sword-thrust. n, a SUIt a ~ am armour, beautifully claymore shape; a long curved scimitar which ;~s~ ~ong ~tralght sword, rather of the

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Sturry Barn Restoration Fund Lighting installation .. .

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ÂŁ s. d. Reported to date 438 10 7 DonationsMrs. Arnold ... 1 0 0 W. Foard, Esq. 1 0 0 P. Lawless, Esq. ... '" 4 0 0 Sundries .. . 20 4 5 Use of School by R.S:C.M.::: 28 2 0 Concert by R.S.C.M. boys 8 10 3 Use of Barn by St. Lawren~~ Cricket Club 7 17 6 Choir singing at local' ;;'eddi~g 3 3 0 Interest on P.O. Savings A/c. 3 19 3

Less spent

516 7 0 29 0 4

In hand (in P.O. Savings Bank) 487 6 8 179

THE CANTUARIAN Cricket attention to the problems of "length" and When once we were able to tUJ~ o~r a rather more enthusiastic atmosphere about "watching th~ ball", there seeme 0 r~mium and long-hops and cow-shots were the the game. SkIll appeared to beAat ~ ~ime of writing, the former are still too plentIful, rule rather than the exceptIOn .. 1 t t ~ tt .dea of a straight bat than seemed at the but there are more people WIt I a e er ~ ver encouraging feature, though, is that beginning of the season at all probable: il\ {he idea of a straight bat are still young; manyofthosewhohavegrasped,.orareg~asp g, or so Last yea r we were successful in and we should be glad of them In anot er yeal~n of two boys who were supported by matches owing entirely to the battIng ~~d b~~e n~ longer with 'us; . and the XI has had . d tIt the fielding of a number of veterans. . ese 1 I t entirely on new and hItherto untne a en . . ' to re y a mas . b min more orthodox in its executIOn, but 111 The batting, as already remarked, IS 'l~cO me ~o that those who dream of cover drives the main it is lacking m power. TkhlS wlfi c~'ng'they have to scamper for a short single, flashing to the boundary and wa e up n I remain content to watch the ball from the need not feel disheartened. Let them t"~w ch it at them until treating it on its-merits, moment they se~ the bowler prepaLnntgtl 0 au:~ longer take prid~ in the remark, " Well, they have seen It leave the bat. e lem I that's the highest this afternoon". . b B t again a word of warning. Of bowlers we have. a quite enCOUragll~o~;I~ I:~gth ~~ that the batsman must play The most important thmg IS to ~e ,,:ble to her than hit it in his own. The ability to turn the ball, preferably In the bowler s time, rat ast~d effort unless that ability is used III the ball from leg or to bowl CInI-swIn~e~!sl~:en our most successful bowler, but Vipan conjunction with length. Mc eery I . I I' I The ball and B1ackall ii are perhaps our most Impl oved. b "but needs to be muc I more Ive y. The fielding on the whole has eenr,salde an but all should be ready to pounce on it in all robabihty WIll go to only one Ie sm , and s60uld therefore try to expect every ball t~ com~ tOe~h:: we have also managed to So far, two rounds of House matches have een pay get two School matches. Resuits to date :HOUSE MATCHES d K Kakas lost to Cockas but beat Macaws. eas~ Macaws lost to Cockas and Keas. Senior.-Cockas beat Kakas an Keas lost to Cockas but beat ~~aw. 'th Keas Kakas lost to Cockas but beat Juniors.-Cockas beat K,,:kasCan k rewdb~at Mac~ws. Macaws lost to Cockas and Macaws. Keas drew With oc as an Keas. SCHOOL MATCHES Lost. The School 20, Tormore 55. (McCleery i 6 for 26, Woolston Tormore (Away). 3 for 18.) Eddington House 68 for 8 (dec.), the School 27 for 5. Eddington House (Home). Draw. T.P.P. (Woolston 3 for 9.) 180

THE CANTUARIAN A Midsummer Night's Dream The cast was as follows : Philostrate, Alan Hargreaves; Theseus, Philip Holberton; Hippolyta, Robin BlackaU ; Egeux, Charles Newman; Hermia, Peter Bowthorpe; Demetrius, Charles Backhouse ; Lysander, Christopher McCleery; Helena, Timothy Stebbing; Quince (later, Prologue), Brya n Strouts ; Bot/om (Pyramus), John Bainbridge; Flute (Thisbe) , Piers NashWilliams ; Starveling (Moonshille), John Lancashire; Snout (Wall), William Woolston; Snug (Lion), Iorwerth Jones; Puck, Bryan McCleery; First Fairy, Simon Blackall; Oberoll, Francis Bretherton ; Titania, Clive Shakerley; Peaseblossom, David Loveridge ; Cobweb, David Nightingale; Moth, John Skilbeck; Mustard-Seed, Michael SangerDavies ; Other Fairies, John Strachan, Charles Hughes, Bruce Wills, Nigel Wright, John Hamilton-Paterson, Robin Dartington, Michael Bailey, John Line, Nigel Nicholls; Musicialls, Lords and Attendants, John Foster, John Dunn, Philip Arnold, Nicolas Johnston, Christopher Featherstone, Michael Bailie, Richard Cornwell, Furley Spanton. The following note from the producers appeared in the programme: "A production of A Midsummer Night's Dream presents many problems. The fairies are really the chief characters and the mainspring of the action, and it is not easy to put them on a stage. But they are among the best creations of Shakespeare's fantasy. Nobody can really believe in the lovers falling in and out of love with each other with impossible speed, unless the fairies have played tricks with them. The audience must enter into the spirit of the thing first, with the fairies' help. The " mechanicals" who present the play are pure Elizabethan, even though the scene is nominally Athens. The duke, Hippolyta, and the court are very much like Elizabethan lords and ladies. We have deliberately worked within our limitations. A tiny stage, but the biggest we could make with old timber; a few curtains, none bought for the production, but just what we had- you will recognise pieces of black-out material ; properties mainly homemade; dresses Elizabethan in style, and as colourful as we could make them without coupons; all in a barn which must have been built before Shakespeare was born. The fairies are boy fairies, as they should be. If the women are only boys dressed up, that is true to Shakespearean custom. The music is mostly contemporary. The one obvious exception, the setting of the fairies' song, You spotted snakes, by Cecil Sharp, is full of the spirit of English folk-song. It was composed for a production by Granville Barker at the Savoy Theatre, London, in 1914. Contemporary musical instruments (recorders) appear on the stage, as they would have appeared at an Elizabethan court. They are helped by modern instruments, to give greater variety. If, then, you wi ll "piece out our imperfections with your thoughts", we hope there is little to distract you from the beauties of Shakespeare's poetry, from the humour of Elizabethan yokels, and from the magical atmosphere appropriate to A Midsummer Night's Dream." The two performances went quite well; the actors had livened up considerably 'since the dress rehearsal. Several of them had, in fact, begun to act; Egeus and Hermia call for special mention and congratulation in this respect. Bottom and the other "mechanicals" are always the high spot of comedy in this play. They entered well into the spirit of their parts. Snug (Iorwerth Jones) had only had a few days' rehearsal, owing to the sudden illness of the boy originally cast for this part, but he looked the part, and roared well as the lion. 181

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The music was supplied by a grown-up quartet, with three boys forming a recorder trio (descant, treble and tenor) on the stage. It was appropriate to the play, and was performed without too many obvious hitches on the part of the recorders. The stage is larger than we have been used to, though still not very large when it comes to the bigger scenes of the play. It is fitted with three traps, through two of which Puck made some of his entries, as if coming from the bowels of the earth. The sudden vanishing of Mustardseed, who when on sentry-go over the sleeping Titania was overpowered by the rival gang of fairies and dropped down a trap, was not always appreciated by the audience, who seemed to have thought he had been merely deposited behind the grassy bank. The centre trap was also of use in providing a fire for the last scene. In front of it were placed some logs; one of the attendants lighted the fire, which burned rapidly with a red glow. The observant should have noticed faint smoke arising, from a beesmoker used by the under-stage-manager. The fire provided something for Theseus to warm his hands at while he made his speech about the lunatic, the lover, and the poet, and it was a focus of interest for the mechanicals' play. The collections at the two performances came to ÂŁ50. This is not included in the Barn Fund's accounts printed below, but will appear in next term's. J.F.F. and F.P.B. (J.K.S., Form VI) Our thanks to everybody who did all the manifold jobs incidental to this production, the small ones as well as the big parts; ,\ I think everyone realised, by the time it was all over, that the smooth running of somet?ing such as this depends just as much on those who are prepared to do a small job at the right time, without anyone seeing it from the audience, as it does on those who take the chief parts on the stage. And we all know a ' great play pretty well by now ! W.H.O. Cock

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Editorial ... The School Virtute Funcli Valete Salvete Thi s and That Royal Wedding Visit or Princess Elizabeth Now and Then ... A XIV Century Letter A Mozart Co ncert Musical Recitals .. . ... Quo Vadimus? ... School Slang- Legend of R.R.H. Autumn Pastoral.. . Plot of the Prebendaries ... House Drama Excavations Bell Tower Societies ... Budget Cathedral Church The Monins Family Poems Romance ... Spouts Rugger Boxing Fencing Swimming ... The Library J.T.C. Notes Speech Day O.K.S. View of Speech Day O.K.S. News A Group of Cambridge O.K.S.

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In Memoriam

Reminiscences of the Rev. Canon F. N. Crowther J.K.S. Section Correspondence Contemporaries ...

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DECEMBER,

1947

EDITORIAL

A well-known public school in Lancashire has just celebrated its centenary .and the next fifteen years will see similar centenaries for Wellington, Haileybury, Clifton and others founded in the heyday of the mid-Victorian prosperity. These Schools followed the pattern of Rugby where the great Dr. Arnold declared that his three aims were the inculcation of "first, religious and moral principles: secondly, gentlemanly conduct: thirdly, intellectual ability". The intention was to "civilize" the new middle classes whom political and economic developments had made the successors of the whig aristocracy and the rulers of the nation. An ever-increasing population and an ever-expanding empire provided the appropriate background for this educational venture. But what of today? It is true that we still have an increasing population, but since we are confronted with a contracting empire and a steady exhaustion of our material resources, the scene is very different. Moreover Parliamentary democracy, with its emphasis on numbers, has inevitably ended by transferring political power to the most numerous class in the community, the artisan, a class not in the habit of sending its sons to be educated at public schools. The latter are therefore steadily being isolated as citadels of privilege in a semi-hostile world, instead of being, as they could be, the training ground of tile new. governing class. If the public schools hope to continue to celebrate centenaries they must be prepared to fling open their doors to:admit members ofthe!artisan classes, A good start in this direction has been made by the admission of "Fleming" scholars some of whom we welcome here this term. ISS

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The public schools have on the whole loyally carried out Arnold's aims. They do continue-and this in an indifferent and secular worldto inculcate religious and moral principles; they still insist on gentlemanly conduct and they still try to maintain high intellectual standards. Intellectual pre-eminence, it is true, has tended to pass in latter years to the great state-aided secondary schools, but there is no reason why it should, and our own record in scolarships this year vindicates the worth of a sound classical training. . There is nothing whatever wrong with Arnold's programme, but what is essential is that it be made available to an ever increasing number of boys. One of the great virtues of the English as a race is their ability to adapt the institutions and spirit of the past to the needs of the present. What Arnold did for his generation we can do for ours. A great opportunity lies before our public schools today to make available to the many what has for long been restricted to the few. Speaking as a School with a history stretching back over 1,300 years we are as confident of the future as we are proud of the past.

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Captain of the School: J. B. H. JACKSON of School House J. R. ALLCHURCH of The Grange ... C. G. S. PATERSON of Walpole House W. J. F. RAY of Meister Orners A. G. BARTLETT of Luxrnoore House C. M. REEVES MONlTORS

J. B. H. JACKSON, A. G. BARTLETT, W. J. F. RAY, C. G. S. PATERSON, C. M. REEVES, J. R. ALLCHURCH, M. C. O. MAYNE, G. D. LINDLEY, K. G . T. STUART, R. C . WENDAN, A. G. P. DAVIDSON. HOUSE PREPECTS School House:

N. BARTON, 1. L. R. BURT, J. R. DOWNES, A. B. K. ENDERSDY, P. A. FÂ¥PB-COOPER, C. B. MANNING-PRESS, D. W. MOLESWORTH, D. L. WALLER.

The Grange:

1. E. LUSH, J. H. PEGG, D. L. QUESTED, J. M. ROTHERY, J. M. WATT.

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J W ALLISON, J. W. BIRKETT, J. J. BRADLEY, P. G. S. ELLIS, . M: D. LAMBERT, J. L. LYON, T. C. B. SWAYNE.

I. F. BLACK, W. N. F. FRANCKLIN, D. K. L. MORGAN, 1. M. OSBORN. Luxmoore H ouse . R . M .S. CORK , M. N . DEVONSHIRE, M. B. FOSTER, D. W. STEEL. A. BARTLETT F Captain of Rugb~ oat ba II D. G. L. WALLER Meister Orners :

Captain of Shootmg ... J. B. H . JACKSON Captain of Fen~mg ... 1. M. OSBORN Captain of Boxmg .. . Editors of The Cantuarian J. B. H. JACKSON, A. G. BARTLETT

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and Entrance Scholar; 2nd XV A R H ALLBN.-E ntered Schoal , Sept " '43', King's I JTC . ;44 '· 1st XV '45' 2nd XI Cricket, '46 ; Cp., . . . ' E 'ntered Shoal , BRBALY.V. ST. G. c , May , '43 ,' School House House Prefect, Sept., '46' Sgt., J.T.C.

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THE CANTUARIAN W. L.J.T. HARRIS.-Entered School ,an., J. '43 ; Wa Ipole House Prefect, Sept., '46; L/C pl. , C. J. D. M. HSARTH .- Entered School Se t '43' T G ~iolJse Prefect, Sept., '46' uppei :';'ixth.' 2~d xf"~~okn Sc~olar; School House 46, '47 ; Cpl., J.T.C. ' , IIC et, 45; 1st XI Cricket,

G. V. HOLLlDAY.-Entered School Sept '42 ' Kin ' . Meisler Omers House Prefect Sept '45 ' S s ~cholar; Semor King 's Scholar; Omers, Sept., '46; Upper Sixth' ·C.Q MS c J~ t?nlto~ and Head of Meister College, Oxford. , . . ., . . " FOl d Studentshlp, Trinity J. C. W. ';luLSE.- Entered School, May '43' Entrance S h . Sept.,. 46; Upper Sixth; 2nd XI Ciicket ' '45' 1st XI ~ .?I:r ; , Sch~ol Monitor, of Cncket, '46, '47; Passed Direct Entry'Roy~1 Navy. llC et, 46, 47; Captain P. D. JOH NSTON .- Enlered School Sep1 '42' G' XI Cricket, '43 , '44 , '45 , '46 , "47 , n '2' d X'I Hockey, lange House '46. Prefect, Sept. ' '46', 1st B. L. LEARY.- Entered School Se t '42' S School Monitor, Sept., '46'; Opper SI~t11 ~h~ol :ou~e _H~4u6se Prefect, Sept., '45; Sec. MUSIC Club, '45, '46, '47; County. Majo~t Sc~~la~~' ; Sgt., J.T.C.; Hon. P. D. LElGHTON.- Entered School Se t '42 ' S h School Monitor, May, '47; C.SPNi'., I.ic.cool House House Prefect, Sept., '45 ; T. H. PARES.-Entered School Sept '42' H . ~ouse Pre fecI, Sept., '45' ; School Mon~~7.r:r~ ~ng 's Scholar; School House 46 ; Captain of School, May, '47 ; Captain of Sho":t1n of ,School House, Sept., 46 ~4pp~r SIxth; EdItor of Cantllariall ' Hon Sec N t g'l H , C.S.M.! J.T.C. ; 5, 46. ' . . aura lstory Society, '44, J. A. A. PRlcE.- Entered School Se t '42' M . School Monitor Jan. '47" J i C :Ister Ome~s House Prefect, May '46' Society, '46; History 'Exhibitione;:, Mc;t~~ c~f~~ g~~~~.J. Hon. Sec. Debating

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VALETE P. A. B. Ainsworth, J. G. Allan, N. E. O. Behringer, A. L. Betts, M. D. Bristowe, F. P. Carpenter, H. R. Curtis, D. L. Delahay-Jones, J. C. Delahay-Jones, D. R. Edwards, P. H. P. Gumm, R. J. Hancock, R. Hargreaves, D. G. Heath, A. J. Hille, P. J. Hinton, L. C. Holloway, J. E. Joiner, M. J. Lewis, P. R. B. Lewis, M. J. M. Long, J. M. Mattocks, J. F. Morris, A. 0 . Morrish, A. F. Norman, M. J. S. Norman, D. P. North, N. D. North, R. R. North, T. G. E. Pughe, R. E. W. Roberts, R. J. Saunders, J. A. S. Thomson, R. E. Tidy, A. J. Viner, R. M. West, D. A. Wills.

SALVETE L. H. Atkins, B. C. Belsham, W. W. Bennion, P. H. H. Billinghurst, D. R. Briggs, R. G. Burgess, C. J. Cadman, M. A. Chawner, D. A. Childs, D. E. H. Clegg, D. Clift, H . N. Collins, J. G . Collins, M. H. Copley, D. M. Coupe, M. F. Cowan, J. C. Culling, M. G. Davis, P. Dawson, J. C. Dunn, D. L. Easty, J. F. Foster, 1. Fowler, H. J. Frampton, J. L. A. Gimblett, R. W. F. Greenhow, D. G . Griffith, D. C. G. Hazell, M. Herbert, M. F. Hill, C. A. R. Hoare, B. l. C. Hyatt, J. E. Ingleton, C. J. Jarman, I. N. A. Jones, D. H. Kennedy, M. G. Lupton, R. D. Maitland, R. M. M. C. Mallinson, T. P. Mendel, S. E. Minshall, T. R. J. Moffatt, D. C. Moore, P. H. Moss, J. W. Norton, P. F. Opher, B. D. A. Phillips, D. Phillips, J. B. Phillips, R. e. Reading, M. H. Roberts, B. S. Salmon, B. M. M. Simpson, H. A. Smith, R. P. G. Sturgess, A. J. Taylor, D. H . 1aylor, D. E. O'D. Thomas, R. N. B. Thomas, P. M. Thompson, A. B. Timpson, G. H. Watkins, W. G . Watkins, J. M. Whitefield.

THIS AND THAT We offer the most cordial welcome to our new Chaplain. He has already THE REV. made a sure place in the alIections of the School. Whether it is in JOHN EDMONDS Cathedral, or in the Classroom or on the Rugger Field, he has given of his best. We hope that he and Mrs. Edmonds will have a long and happy time with the School. Many O.K.S. will remember Mr. Munns, for years the Senior MR. R. D. G. MUNNS Housemaster at Dover College. We feel it is particularly fitting that he should have come to us, for his father was an O.K .S. and Mr. Munns is closely related to Dr. and Mrs. Lucas. We believe that he has thoroughly enjoyed his first term with us, and on its part the School feels it has a keen and good friend whom it is a pleasure to see here. Some humourist suggests that the space between the Classrooms and NAPPY COURT the Forrens be thus named ! The School is extremely pleased that Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery KEEN makes time to attend these meetings, while Mr. Somerset Maugham actually GOVERNORS left Italy in order to be present at the last meeting. 189

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A few months ago Mr Maugbam th S h Summing Up. But 'the Brit'sh M gave e cool the MS. of his book h both the Author and the I Gove~~~~~ th~u~~t~hnestlY asked for it that elf request should be complied with. In place of it Mr Maugha . ~be School. He has also sent some delightful eighteenth m S presentlllll two MSS. to ' I cen ur~ mezzotillts which now ecorate the walls of the Museum The L'b I rary IS a so to expenence his generosity, we believe. .

Canon A. O. Standen Vicar of Ma'd t . Canon last July, in th~ place of the IR~~n~ as Mnstalled as Residentiary ANON has a considerable reputation as a preach;r a' d' acnutt. Canon Standen settled himself in will take an active i I! orgaruser, and when he has , hun of a warm welcome whenever he is free to co~:r:~d:g te:. School. We can assure

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The Examination results of last J I School has ever had. Thirty-tw u ~st, on the whole, be the best the ten Distinctions, and seventy-on~ Sc;o~[ g~~t~~t;.s v:;~e 5~ined ~ith were III Enghsh Music Histo' Ch' . e IstmctlOns was awarded a State Scholarshi' a n ' 'y, errustry, Physics. L. A. Halsey ~evden County Major SCholarship~'hav~ ~:e~ 0g~~~~ w::~ ~n tdih~ "waiting list". Six or wo rect entnes to Sandhurst an one to Cranwell. '

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[, , On Speech Day the Headmaster ' asked if NBW BOATS boat at a cost of £150. The Boat Club any nend would give a new . four have been given and we a needed really two. No less than Mr. p , F. Cranmer, Sir William W~yland and r~all ROb t grTateful to Lady Luxmoore, generous response. r. 0 ert ntton for their quick and

. The subject of "Boats" naturally suggested th Ri BW RiVER? agog With excitement at the rumour that th e, ver. The School IS and the corners taken off. It sounds too gOO~ ~~vbe ~~U~! be Widened,

A generous and interested friend' Am ' SOAP FOR of soap-' 'Palm Oli " m enca sent a large consignment SCHOOL HOUSE We hasten to aSSure othe~".&~~~~ ~orh the Use of School House. III this act th t th I d I s w 0 may see a siruster meaning in School House. The gift is in~end:d ~/a 1::C~;n7~~llef\heaSHon fo~ bein!! interested h' n 0 e Ouse s ments quite as much as for JlS need. AJI Houses- th this thoughtful and timely kindness. oug leasons may vary-are deeply appreciative of

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A committee of Masters is conSidering th li t f ' , . them more equitably over the School e T~ 0 pnz~s )kIth a view of distributing now gOS to the Upper SChool, some few to the Middle and hardlye a:aystto u L the ower chool. , ' ThiS was damaged in 'June 1942 d d '

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necessary peopl t t. k . , or as een made to persuade the It was exciting, though, to se: ~e a o~ It ~n hand-but It remruDs devastated and forlorn . tman l~ne day dehvenng letters there. Perhaps he had inside information that somegod y lea y was gomg to repaJf the old house. Or maybc thcre 's a ghost in residence, 190

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THE CANTUARIAN The Field Classrooms have been finished! They were blitzed in 1942 also, and it seemed as if work would never begin on them: and when it did it seemed as if it would never end! At the rate of repairs, it would now take an Arithmetical genius to work out any sum of the kind beginning : " If two painters paint one square yard in one day, how many painters will be required .... , etc., etc. ?" You used to be able to find the answer to this sort of sum, but in these days there are too many incalculable factors, In the arithmetic books they never bothered you with these factors, which nonetheless affect the real answer I You would now have to include the high frequency of tea; the presence or absence of the foreman ; the uncertain question whether a painter may put a ladder up or must first summon a labourer from the contractor's yard to do so ; the necessary adjournments for political and other discussions. In fact, it is now safe to assume that new Arithmetic books will never any more include sums, "If . ..... men do a piece of THE CLASSROOMS

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HOUSEMASTERS' WORKSHOPS

On the other hand we understand that some Housemasters-realising that you cannot now get people in to repair things-maintain their own carpenter's shops, and in such Houses no broken furniture is to be seen. It is thought there might be a House Competition established.

The scheme for converting this into Classrooms will not now be proceeded THE PARRY with for various reasons. It would have cost ÂŁ6,000, and no reader of HALL The Canluarian came forward with an offer of that sum, despite the fact that we asked somebody to do so in the last number. The Ministry 'of Education recognised the desirability of it, but stated it could allow materials only for half the plan, Thus for the time the matter rests. Precincts IS, the Headmaster's Canonical residence, was heavily THE HEADMASTER 'S damaged in June, 1942. The final repair of the house has been HOUSE promised more than once to be completed in 1945 and 1946. Work actually began in July, 1947- we are not sure if those engaged in it amounted to four men, or three men and a boy. TlJe Editors' eyes are, of course, inexperienced in this sort of thing, but the achievements of six months seem decidedly meagre. We wish the Architect and Contractor would expedite the repair, so that the School can have Prior Sellingegate back and can see the Walpole Collection of MSS. and the Stonham Collection of Birds (now housed in Bishopsbourne Rectory), and so that boys may enjoy the Walpole Writing Room once again, and the Photographic Society once more flourish. H.R.H. THE" DUCHESS OF KENT

The whole holiday for which Her Royal Highness asked was given and enjoyed on Tuesday, October 7th.

At the time of writing we understand that no decision has been reached. Opinion seems to favour the establishment of an Endowment Fund, out of which sons of O.K.S . could be assisted to come to the School of their fathers. As no building is likely to be permitted for years, other than houses, the Editors venture to think that an Endowment Fund is good commonsense, and further venture to suggest (albeit with trepidation) to the Powers That Be Ipat it is high time a start was made. WAR MEMORIAL

THE CANTUARIAN GREEK

We have to record- and m?st gladly- a revival of interest in the Classics. There IS now a Greek form 10 the Shells, and a Greek form in the Fifths in addition to the Sixth. '

The curiou.s will find a mot d'esprit on page 186 of Francis Grose's THE REV. OlIO, ,pubhshed to London, 1796. "Mr. Monings, Master of the RICHARD MONINS Kmg s School, CanterburY, being at a place where a gentleman . expressed great apprehensIOns on account of a bleeding he was next morntng to undergo, by advice of his physician; a punster then present told him, he would lecommend hIm to employ that gentleman (pointing to Mr. Monings), who was a very safe and ableflay-botomist." [Richard Monins, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, was Headmaster from 1734 to 1747 . . He had been a Scholar 10 the School. It was probably an ancestor, Captain Thomas MonlOs, who throughout the Commonwealth period administered the Cathedral estates for the Government; it was owing to him that desecration of the Cathedral ceased . Thomas also had been a boy in the School.) The History of the School by C. E. Woodr9ff and H. J. Cape is now II WOODRUFF rare volume .. If an~ re~der of The Cantuarian wishes to send a copy to AND CAPE the School L,brary, It wdl be gratefully received. In January, the Ven. Julian Bickersteth is to make a tour of Australia VISIT on behalf of the Cathedral's Appeal. He was for many years HeadTO AUSTRALIA master of St. Peter's College, Adelaide. All O.K.S. will be glad to . know that t~is Australian Appeal is for the Cathedral and the King's School. W,th four O.K$. Bishops now there, and the memories of William Grant Broughton and George GlppS, we hope the response to such inspiration will be enormous ! We congratulate Norman Scarfe on the production of his book NORMAN SCARFE, Assault Division (Collins 12/6). Lord M<?ntgomery contributes ~ O.~.S. AUTHOR Foreword to ~t. It IS a remarkable achievement, and 'makes it dIfficult to realtse that the Author was still at School in 1942. The outgoing Editors owe an apology. In March last a AN ApOLOGY ch~rmtOg daughter, Angela, was born to Mr. and Mrs. G. H. WITH CONGRATULATION Badey-too late for inclusion in the Lent Term Call1uarian. . . In ~he stress of the Summer Term the Editors-who have no system of filtOg-omltted thiS happy event through sheer forgetfulness. The present Ed,tors now endeavour to rectify their predecessors' error, and both to congratulate Mr. and Mrs. BaIley and to apologtse for the sin of olnission. We understand that the ~ean of Canterbury has been sojourning in THE DEAN Czeckoslovakla, YugoslavIa and elsewhere in Central and Southern OF CANTERBURY Europe.. He lunched with Marshal Tito, and we have seen a picture .. . of h~ to a. newspaper of one of these countries, talking with a pohltclan. In the captIOn he IS descnbed as the Archbishop of Canterbury Since then he has been ill, and we wish him a good recovery. . We congratulate very warmly Mr. Wright on receiving the MR. T. A. S. WRIGHT degree of Bachelor of Music in the University of Trinity College, Dublin .

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THE CANTUARIAN Miss Mary Mills has given' the School a Wylie Etching which belonged to Archbishop Lord Davidson. It depicts the passing of Queen Victoria after her death at Osborne across the Solent in the Alberta escorted by battleships. On the back of the picture is a key to the ships and a full description of the scene. Lord Davidson was then Bishop of Winchester. It hangs appropriately in the History Room, and we are very grateful for this gift.

THE GIFT OF A PICTURE

LORD CALDECOTE AND MR. SIDNEY DARK ALTAR BOOK

For the Altar of the Memorial Chapel will anyone give a beautiful book 7

HOSPITAL CARNIVAL DEVON COLTS

We were truly sorry to read of the deaths of these distinguished men. Both had been much interested in the School, and many readers will remember thei r visits to us in Cornwall during the Autumn of 1943.

A profit of ÂŁ1,400 was made due to the loan of our playing fields last July, we believe.

Congratulations to F. E. Greenslade and J. Forsey on playing for the Devon Colts in September.

We were particularly glad to see the Very Reverend Cuthbert Bardsley appointed to be Bishop of Croydon. It will be remembered that he paid the school a visit in Cornwall during the war, and we all, so to speak, "took to him". It is good to think he will now hold office in our own Diocese. He did a good deal in and for the Oxford Group Movement in his younger days, and was most successful both as Rector of Woolwich and Provost of Southwark.

BISHOP OF CROYDON

This term the Quested brothers leave; in due time we hope their descendants will come here. The Register notes that George Quested entered as a Scholar in 1801, followed in 1812 by Reeves Quested. Ernest Quested came in 1884, and C. L. and G. T. Quested in 1916 and 1917. The Headmaster's old Register is a fascinating document, well worth exploring. (It was started by Dr. Osmund Beauvoir, himself an O.K.S., about 1745. The second volume, begun on April 4th, 1866, is still in use to-day.) All O.K.S. will be sorry to learn of the illness of the Rev. C. E. Woodruff. He came to the School in 1868 and will be 92 on December 24th next. The family connexion goes back for a long time. Crayford Woodruff came in 1809, John in 1814, Thomas in 1817, Cumberland in 1775. Grand old Kent names figure on every page-not least the brewers! The Beers, the Rigdens and the Neames are handsomely represented. The Lades, the Bunces, the Faggs, the Gurneys, the Wyborns, the Brydges, the Hasteds, the Frends, the Lovelaces, the Mounts, the Igguldens, the Sandys, the Sawkins, the Gipps, the Tyldens, the Heymans, the Derings, the Tournays, the Blaxlands, the Boys, the Cannons, the Elwyns, the Horsleys, the Williamsons, the Fieldings, the Kingsfords, the Scudamores, the Wightwicks, the Tassells, run through the centuries, some stretching back to Tudor days and some taking us up to living examples, like the Furleys, the Pembrooks, the Dennes, the Collards and the Mowlls. Plenty of families-like the Emdens and the Molesworthshave a century-old connexion. All this can be seen in the casual turning over of the palles in half-an-hour.

OLD SCHOOL FAMILIES

THE CANTUARIAN LoRD CHANCELLOR THURLOW, O.K.S.

"We drank tea together with Mrs. C ... e and her sister in Kin~-str~et, Bloomsbury, and there was the promise made I saId, Thurlow, I am nobody, and shall be always nobody' ' , and you wIll be Chancellor. You shall provide for me h ~:. sti~~~~~ed, danddre~Llied, 'I surely will'. 'These ladies', said I, 'are w~tnee~s~~~ 1 e an sal, et them be so, for I will certainly do it. Cowper the poet and Thurlow were young friends and law-students in Southam ~ow at the t11l~e of thIs tea-party. It seems that Thurlow never fulfilled his prOmi~~ th: g'~f:rJu~~~~.ng as he was a bit of a poet himself. One, at least, of his poems is in I

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If anyone wishes to know how the Power of Christ- which i demonstrated on every page of the New Testament record of th s e Early Church-can be revealed in the ordinar life f twe~lleth ce~tury man, let him read Love Can Open Prison Doors, ; Star~ D~~I ev~rydayn ItS slxtAh eJdlllon. Pubhshed by the Melrose Press, Boston (U.S.A.) lcan also b/~bt~~ Id A GRAND BOOK .

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AMAITA PARCELS

From time to time our friendly school in Australia has sent parcels of food to eke 'out our slender rations. We should like them to know how truly grateful we are.

AN AUSTRALIAN J. V. Mather (O.K.S.), writing from N~wcastle, Australia, encloses a SCHOLARsHle newspaper cutllng an~ouncl11g the establishment of a John Gellibrand Memonal ScholarshIp, to enable young Australian graduates to Th '. study for two years at a University in the British I I ;'tICeBof ~esSOcholarship for two years is £A .I,600! Major-General S~reLhn ~:fl\~~:~~d . . ., " ' , was a Commoner at the School in the "Eighties" a d ·f· h' t' . hed m,htary .. n ,am ere hproceeded C to Sandhurs! .. . an d a d'lS.mgUls career. After the, 1914-19 18 War ~e~abser oOfmtlme'FsSIdonerl 'pn TI.asmama, and Commissioner of Police in Victoria and a 1

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POLITICAL BRAINS TRUST ~~~w~~~e'~b~' 29th thefSchool had its ,Political questions . y num bel 0 experts, conslstmg of:~r. ~IChael Stewart, M.P. (Socialist), Under-Secretary of State for War M r. GB~ker ~histe, M.P. (Conservative), Member of Parliament for Ca~terbury l. C· ranv e harp, K.C. (L,beral), Recorder of King's Lynn . Mr. . P. Holyman (Communist). . Mr: Andrew Cowan, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

~ti~~1~i:~~; t':Jfo~~ ~~~~ t~:s~a~:~~Ie;~i~. h~h~i~or:Ii~~ ~:~te::~~y i~~tr~~:f~~ ~~J We are very grateful to them and the School sincerely hopes that the P I"r lB'

Trust may become an annual event.

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Archbi~hop Mo,,:,11 (O.K.S.) has been elected Primate of ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY AustralIa. He wIll preach the Commemoration Sermon ot Speeches next summer. "

tHl': CANtUARiAN Last year's Editors, T. H. Pares and D. L. Edwards, are now both at FORMER EDITORS Army Training Centres, and appear not to dislike the life. The present officials doubt if they can keep the standard of The Call1uarian up to their high level. At the end of this term by arrangement with the Chapter we shall take MORE ROOM over the one remaining flat on the North side of the Green Court. All the line of buildings then from the Memorial Court to the Forrens Arch will be in the School's use. It is well over 30 years since Mrs. Benn came to help the School. Many MRS. BENN generations of O.K .S. will recall her with the friendliest feelings-they used to see her every day in the Tuck Shop, and can still do so, if they come, for she is going strong, we are glad to say. It gave great pleasure to the Headmaster and Mrs. Shirley to AN AMllASSADOR'S WIFE entertain Mrs. Lewis Douglas, the wife of the U.S.A . Ambassador to Britain. Mrs. Douglas paid an informal visit in September, accompanied by Admiral Sir Harold Brown. The Admiral's brother, G. E. Brown, was at the School in the eighties: he now lives in Egypt. By one who spent a month there this summer, the Grand Hotel A SWISS HOTEL Victoria, Kandersteg, can be stoutly recommended. For a second successive year Meister Omers produced, at the MEISTER OMERS PLAY end of the Summer Term, an original play by J. A. Price-this time a full-length three-act murder mystery, in which the plot was very well developed. The identity of the murderer was completely concealed until the final scene. The characters were very competently sustained . J. H. B. Jackson gave a convincing performance as the sinister nephew, and D. K. L. Morgan was very good as the old soldier turned gardener. Mrs. Bailey played the very unpleasant lady who met her deserts at the hands of the husband whom she had blackmailed into marrying her, and Janet Sh iJley made a very attractive heroine. School House also marked the end of term by an excellent SCHOOL HOUSE CONCERT performance of varied items, which included madrigals, a spirited display of tencing and two dramatic excerpts-a scene from Richard II, in which the City Wall served as Flint Castle, and the final scene from Marlowe's Dr. Fauslus, in which J. C. W. Hulse gave an outstanding performance. The flames of Hell were most realistically produced, though somewhat to the detriment of nearby plants ! â&#x20AC;˘ We are very grateful to Mr. Middleton (father of John, Gordon SEASONABLE GIFTS and Frank), A. P. Beale and T. A. Watts for gifts of Rugger jerseys, Colour Caps, etc. Striped Rugger jerseys are now quite unobtainable new. Colour Caps, when sent like this, are kept by the School and lent out to members of teams who, otherwise, would never have them, even when at School. R. H. W. Brinsley Richards, Captain of School in 1906, was killed in THE LIBRARY action in 1916. His mother has most ki'ndly given back to the School "which he so loved" all his prize books. We are most grateful for these, a particularly welcome addition to the Library, which is in constant need of good, standard works of reference. 195

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THE ROYAL WEDDING TELEGRAM SENT TO H.R.H. PRI NCESS ELIZABETH, 17TH NOVEMBER, 1947 The Headmaster, Masters, Kin g's Scholars and Commoners of The King's School, Canterbury, in humble duty send to you r Royal Highness their loyal and most cordial good wishes on the occasion of your wedd ing to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, praying that every happi ness through a long life may be yours. They recall with renewed pleasure yo ur Royal Highness's visit to the School in July, 1946.

TELEGRAM RECEIVED FROM H.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH, 17TH NOVEMBER, 1947 [ thank you for your most kind message of good wishes, with which I am delighted. E LIZABETH.

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The weather was at its best on August 8th, when the Princess arrived in the Precincts. After a reception at the Old Palace, the Princess crossed the Green Court to the School Hall, where a conference of the Church of Engla nd Yo uth Council was to be held. There near ly two hundred delegates from all over Europe were assembled. The A rchbishop, opening the proceedings, said that the Yo uth Council was now one of the most vital organisations within the Chu rch of E ngla nd. The Princess expressed , her pleasure at being able to be with the Council that afternoon and to join in its work. "Such a conference", she wen t on, "helps us to gain fresh knowledge and to prepare ourselves to give efrective leadership. As communicant members of the Church we must do our best to see that the you nger members get the help which its teaching and sacraments provide, and that provision is made for those outside its fami ly life who are seeking for the Truth. "We have a ll made a pilgrimage to Canterbury for this Conference. It is probably the first time that so many young people from so many places have joined in a pilgrimage of this sort, and it is surely an encouraging sign that there is a rising generation actively preparing 'to go forth into the world to serve God faithfully'. "We know that we shall probably be in a minority wherever we are. We know that we shall have to face insecurity, opposition and even danger for the confession of our faith. But the Chr istia n Ch urch has always prospered in adversity, and we must certainly not be afraid," 196

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MRS. BENN W ith the (hanks or O .K.S. for 35 years of devoted service.

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He stood in the doorway, undecided. His gaz~ travelled frOln the sunlil COllrt beyond , to the gloomy depths on whose threshold he hesIta ted. As his e es became accustomed to the darkness, he could see the clamou nng moh hurlin th:mselves against a frail barrier, behind which stood two defenceless wome~~ They !ere flitting hither and thither, seemingly in terror, occaSIOnall y trYln g tf JUbd the surging crowd but always in vain- their vOl~es were drowned 10 the aw f,u 10 . ..,; Still he hesitated . '... "after all, was it worth whI le? '.' , . of eo ur.se .... he mIght .. '.' With this thou ght in mind he plunged into the heaving, stru ÂĽgllng mass ~ hU~anll,~, and soon his voice joined with the rest-"A doughnut on tick, please, rs. enn . (The Calltuariall , Jul y, 1925,) 197

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FROM THE PRIOR TO THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND, WHO HAS ASKED FOR A SCHOLAR'S PLACE IN THE SCHOOL FOR RICHARD BEDINGFIELD To his very dear and noble Lady the Lady Philippa , by the grace of God Queen of England, Lady ofIreland, and Duchess of Aquitaine, her Chaplain, Richa rd Prior of the Church of Canterbury, greeting, and all manner of reverence and homage, together with everlasting joy. Very dear lady, I recei ved your letters on the 22nd of February, by one Richard of Bedingfield , (asking) that [ and my Convent, out of respect and charity, would receive him into our Almonry, and that he might be supported as are other poor scholars of hi s condition. Know, Madame, that [ have will ingly received him into OUf said Almonry, and if he wi ll but apply himself diligently to learning, he will , out of love to you, be the more respected. And, Madame, it happens that I am summoned to the Parliament which will be held in this season of Lent at London , and it is expedient that stores, for me and my people, shou ld be provided and brought from a di stance. I would therefore beseech you, if it please yo u, that yo u wou ld take me under your protection ; and also that r might ha ve a letter from our Lord the King, directing that his officials shall not seize the sa id stores, which are provided for me and my people aforesaid during our stay for the Parliament. And if there be anyt hing, Madame, which you ca n ask from me, you will find me ready in everything wh ich I can readi ly do. God be with yo u, very dear Lady, and grant you health of body a nd so ul. Given at Canterbury the 22nd day of February, the year of grace 1332. [From Literae Cantuarienses, Vol. I, p. 444)

A MOZART CONCERT On Friday, November 14th, th e School hea rd a Mozart Recital , given by three so lo ists, Olive Groves, Gordon Clinton (Bari tone) and Norman Allin (Bass), a Quintet of Boys, and the School Choral Society. Gordon Clinton began the programme by singing the ever-popular Now your days of philanderhtg are over from the M arriage of Figaro. In the next group of arias, Oli ve Groves sang Ruhe San/Ie from Zajde, an aria which Sir Thomas Beecham, she said , called one of Mozart's finest melodi es. Gordon Clin ton and Olive Groves then sang two duets, Give me thy hand from DOli Giovanni and The manly heart from The Mag ic

Flute.

In the next group the School provided the so loists: a group of boys sa ng the Humming Quintet, the Terzetto Before the Gates, and the Quintet Why, Oh, Why from The Magic Flute. The Choral Society then sa ng the one item that did not come into the category of operatic music, Mozart's Gloria frol11 the 12th Mass. Norman Allin ended a very enjoyable evening with the well-known bass arias from 1I Seraglio. Altogether it was a very fine Recital, and we are grateful to all who helped make it

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RECITALS BRAHMS' REQUIEM A deep impressio~ is al,,:ays. left on the ~~~do~~ht~:e ~~~O~ct:~I~y ~r~~s t~:~~f Requiem. A deeper ImpressiOn IS io~e t~~P~ords " Blessed are they that mourn", the There is the strong p'ersonal appe\ a w mine end", followed to an even greater extent

~i~~~~~f ~!~e:~1~8~~~;r~~~~~~!~TIht~et~~g~~~le~~ro~0;h~' 'F~~~~~n~~~~t~~~~ thou Lord" and "And the ransomed of the Lord . .. .. k b th for the chorus and for the orchestra, and ~f'timeo which handicapped the rehoarsal~: the result The Re~~~~d:r:~h~~~~:~a~e oe when was as°toun d.mg. The Kentish . Gazelte report described the performance as a very fine and impressive rendering" .

rand feebng ably backed by an orchestra of g .h · The choruses sulnC awilit students from thewere Roya ege v1~usic a , that ach'ieved the atmosphere of solemnity . from the start to the finish. h S h I a number of singers from the city and The chorus consisted of boyhs fdrom Bt e c S~~j-choruses were sung by the Cathedral district, and some of the Cat e I a l oys. boys and the King's School. . Olive Groves and the two baritone solos by Dems Noble, both The soprano s010 by . " ' Of 1 a " eminent artistes, came over WIth

beaut! u elleet .

. II h d·t possible for us to hear thiS wonderful We are very grateful mdeod to a w a ma e I C d t Mr Harvey at the organ, work beautifully performled : , t~ Ddr.1 S~~~~, ~yheno ~ea~~ ~;~st the splendid chorus who the two SOlOIsts, the Ore 1estra,

had practised so regularly and devotedly.

RONALD SMITH AND ALFRED SAFHILL . h d Ronald Smith give an excellent <?nlOcftober t~~~~ t~~~~s\~e~~~~fh~h~~~~~d ~rs :'~~zing versatility. His programn;e recila a prano , d Fein D minor arranged by Tauslg, Mozart s included Bach's. Or~an }ocijcataRan d u~~a Turca and Liszt's tone poem Mazeppa .

Sonata 10 A, WJth Its lam tar

Alfred Safhill sang two groups of songs which induded Silent WorshiP ~y V~~n~=~ The Rose of England by E1w¥~ German ~~~ :~:~~l~~ t;~~i~~I1rI;O::Sth~O enthusi~stic Williams ' Song~. of T.sra ve ·.rs . e songs:;; in the style of Handel by Michael Diack. audIence was Smg a ong oJ lxpence

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DR. BA RN ES ' BOOK The spectacle of the Primate of All England add ressing a pnblic rebuke to one of his diocesan bishops bas caused much misgiving in church circles and a good deal of interest in the world outside. The British public has long been accustomed to the widest divergence of views among professing Anglicans. The Elizabethan Church Settlement was deliberately devised to be as comprehensive as possible, and everyone recalls the great Chatham 's famous dictum that the English Church has "a Calvinistic creed a Popish liturgy and an Arminian clergy". But clearly the bounds of comprehensiven~ss must be placed somewhere, and the Bishop of Birmingham, in his recent book, The Rise of Christianity, appears to have placed himself well outside them. Writing from the standpoint of the "modern Christian humanist", be insists on placing the date of most of the New Testament_ the title deeds of the Christian Faithvery much later t.han most New Testament scholars arc prepared to accept. His own supporters in this vital field of criticism Dr. Barnes does not na me. (n fact, on what seem little better than a priori grounds, he dismisses as " later interpolations " anything that does not agree with his own rather eccentric views. Professor C. H. Dodd, who, in this field, is an infinitely greater expert than Dr. Barnes, has rightly exposed these " happy-go-lucky methods of documentary criticism" of the Bishop, and has pointed out that there is amply sumcient evidence to show tbat the text of the New Testament took sbape considerably befo re the period to wbich Dr. Barnes assigns it. Moreover, he has put his finger on the essential weakn ess of Dr. Barnes 's general method of historical criticism. "The historian of the beginn ings of Christianity", he writes, in bis Christian Beginnings (p. 12), "cannot expect evidence which has the slatus of procbi-verbal, or of depositions before the court. He is here at a disadvantage in comparison with the historia n of the modern world, though there are wide tracts of ancient time where the historian is no better off. . ,

The honest layman may well wonder how it is that a bishop comes to bold views so fantastic and subversjve, so completely unsupported either by demonstrative reasoning

or by genuine historical criticism . The truth is that he is the last eminent representative of the now exploded liberal school of theology. His book is informed by obstinate prejudices and unexamined presuppositions which betray the inlellectual climate of a pasl epoch. We refer to the age when ' 'Science" was somewhat superstitiously venerated as an infallible au thority and spoke in its most arrogant and dogmatic tones; when New Testament critics were acc ustomed to distinguish sharply and confidentl y between the historical Jesus and the Christ of faith . The significant fact is that new and far-reaching developments have taken place in the fields of philosophy, science, and Biblical criticism, of which the Bishop is evidently una ware. He claims that young people are being alIenated from the Church by its outmoded and unscientific teaching. In.lhis, as in so many other matters, he is egregiously mistaken: he fai ls to read aright the signs of the times. Modern people, wistfully seeking the way of life, are di scouraged and disappointed, not by the alleged obscurantism of the Church, bu t by its failure to express the creative vitality of New Testament Christianity, and to teach with authority and conviction.

THE CANTUARIAN It may come as a surprise to the yo unger generation to learn that there is nothing novel in the Bishop 's book .. except perhaps its startling audacity a nd exaggeration of statement. The liberal and disintegrating criticism of the Gospels which he exponnds began abo ut a century ago with the TUbingen critics, with Strauss' Leben Jesu and Renan's Vie de Jesus. Dr. parnes' thesis that the historical kernel of the Gospel story is to be found in the ethical teaching of Jesus rat her than in the eschatological and Messianic elements forms th e inspiring idea of Harnack 's Das Wesen des Christen/urns,

published many yea rs ago. The las t quarter of a century, however, has witnessed a violent reaction against this pseudo-historical approach to the Gospels and it is fair to say that the one outstanding result which emerges from intensive research is that the so-called "Jesus of history " is a figment of the liberal theologian's imagination. [t is now realized that our earliest Gospel- St. Mark- {so beloved of the liberal school because it was supposed to approximate to a bare factual record) is, on the contrary, saturated with a supernatural Messianism. The eyents of the life and death and resurrection of Jesus are not recorded with the detachment of a chron icler who might take up the pen to satisfy the idle curiosity of posterity. The Gospel record is the awful narrative of "eschatological" events, of the mighty acts of God for the redemption of man. From the first, Jesus is p roclaimed by the nascent Chu rch as the Son of God with power: He is the Bearer of the world-transforming Kingdom: the mysterious Son of Man who, in the apocalyptic literature, is destined to bring bistory to an end and to inaugurate a new beaven apd earth. Only against the background of such beliefs can the Gospels be properly and critically understood. They are integral to the very essence of the Gospel message a nd to ignore them, as the bishop does, is to show a singular ' failure of historical imagination, a lack of tbose assets which are the chief part of the critic's equipment- viz. penetrating understanding and sympathetic insight. To sum up the net result of 20th century crit icism of tbe Gospels has been to demonstrate co~c1usively that there is no half-way house between belief in the divine Christ-the Son of God Who became Man for our sakes and for our salvation-and a frank and radical scepticism. The liberal thesis which distinguishes between the historical Jesus who was pre-eminent as sage and moral teacher, and the Saviour-Christ, a figure fashioned by the theology of the Cburch under the impact of Hellenistic influences, may no longer be regarded as tenable. Paradoxically, the historical Jesus is utterly un historical. There are, however, intrinsic and philosophical reasons for rejecting the liberal interpretation of the Person of Christ. An old saying runs, Aut Deus aut homo non bonus in allusion to Him. The exclusive nat ure of His claims to final authority, His demand for absolute self-surrender from His followers, the very jealousy and passion of His love for man, show that He was either God, as He claimed, or (as Albert Schweitzer believed), a pathetically deluded fanatic. The latter hypothesis is excluded by the selfevidencing character of His whole personality, which has commanded the reverent homage and adoring devotion of countless millions for 20 centuries. Moreover, to accept a purely human Jesus is to deprive Christianity of the secret sources of its enduring vitality a nd transforming power. The Jesus Who saves us is the God-Man and nothmg less can be accepted by Chri stian believers wbatever diversity of views they may hold on other matters. The great tbemes of Atonement a nd Redemption, of Creation and Resurrection, are completely fundamental to the faitb, and they are not dogmas fabricated a posteriori but truths int egrally connected with His own conception of Hi~ J'~fson I\Ild missiQu, 201

THE CANTUARIAN Further, Dr. Barnes' book is vitiated not merely by his grossly defective Biblical criticism, but still more by his failure in the realm of pure thought.* This failure is rendered all the more exasperating by the unwarrantabl y dogmatic tone which he assumes. The bishop is primarily a scientist and mathema tician, and it is dangerous for s ll~h a one, without adequate preparation, to enter in to~ the domain of logic and philosophy. He lacks the advantage of a metaphysical training and this lacuna is combined with the prejudices and the closed mind of the old-fashioned scientist. Thus the argument of his book from starl to fin ish is determined by the assumption that miracles do not happen. He writes, "Modern man, wi th bis thought shaped by scientific invest igadon. js certain that miracles, in the sense of finite-scale activities contrary to the

normal ordering of nature, do not happen." Students of the history of thought will notice that it is exactly the sa me philoso phical position as that taken up by the 19th cen tury French critic and historia n of religion, Ernest Renao, who regards it as axiomatic that no single instance of supernatural action aifecting the world of nature is discoverable. Now this view is not so much a statement of fact as an interpretation of reality as a whole, and as such it is a philosophical affi rmation which should be analysed, examined and substantiated on purely rational grou nds. The bishop fail s to do this, nor does he understand a nd elicit the full implications of his thesis for the philosophy of religion as a whole. For hi s idea is ultimately destructive of the Biblical faith in the living God Who IS Creator and Redeemer- - the God Who acts redemptively in history, and discloses His nature through His saving action . A God who expresses His control of phenomena on ly through the operation of uniform laws is a God who is either im prisoned within . his universe or banished from it-either the purely immanent, evo lving, divinity of H egel and other modern ph ilosophers, or the purely transcendent divinity of the 18th century deists. Âˇ The distinctive feature of the Christian re ligion is that it makes room for lioth these apparen tly incompatible schools of thought a nd affirms the existence of a God who, while imposing upon the unive rse an intelligible pattern and observed sequences, is also capable of adapting means to ends and of making special manifestations of Himself within the process for the reali zation of intelligent purpose. It is to some people a matter of sore doubt as to whether the Archbishops were wtse in their action, for they gave such pUblicity to Dr. Barnes's book that it at once became a best seller, though virtually dead before, and after all thei r outspokenness Dr. Barnes remains secure in his bishopric, continuing to discharge to the full all his episcopal functions and to draw a princely emolument. There has never been any question of Dr. Barnes's courage or sincerity of opinion, but people cannot help wondering how he on his side can co nscientiously continue to hold his position. Moreover, it does not appear that anything has been substituted in place of the Faith he discards. We are simply treated to a lucid exposition of all the doubts that assail his own faith . It would have been better if he had been content to leave these where they belong- in his own heart- for his position does carry pastoral responsibilities of a binding nat:ure which place him in a special position of trust.

Where anyone holds such a position of trust, it is not for him-as Montaigne said about Church membership- to determine how much obedience he shall render to the Church policy which he has pledged himself-and is paid-to uphold. If he had doubts-as which of us, at times has not 1-he should have remained silent until they were resolved . if they were not capable of reso lution he should have vacated his office (which, ro ughl;

THE CANTUARIAN speaking, requires him to teach the opposite of what he has put in his book). In a ny event, his misgivings put into print can help nobody in this struggling world, nor is it a region in which he can be said to be learned and expert. The book will probably do a lot of harm- unbelievers will be pleased, a nd the Roman C hurch may recruit; schoolboys are reading the weekly extract in the Sunday Pictorial- and poor, worried Christian men and women who have lost their loved ones but trusted to the Cross a nd Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour, will be brought to bewilderment and maybe to despair. God is Love-our reason for believing that, is that Jesus is the Son of God and kllOIVS, a nd died on the Cross demonstrating it, and assuring us thereby of eternal life with Himwe believe that Love is the triumphant principle of Life, but Jesus C hrist is the only evidence for that belief. There is perhaps one ray of light on this dark horizon. The controversy has already caused many to re-examine their own beliefs and to clasp more firml y the fundamentals of the Christian religion. After a ll, religious revivals-the Oxford Movement, which was born out of no less prosaic a dispute than the proposed suppression of some of the excessive number of Irish bishoprics, is a case in point- have often sprung from the most unlikely and unpromising beginnings. * Years ago Dr. Barnes denied the Reality of Christ's Presence in the Eucharist, on ~he ground that chemical analysis wouJd reveal no change In the consecrated Elements. Not all Reality can be thus proved or di sproved. As a very distinguished Oxford Chemist put it to a friend: . 'Before his con~ecration Dr Barnes chemically speaking, consisted of water and carbon, a little phosphorus and calCIUm- the whole worth a few shillings. After consecration, he was chemically the same, and yet he is a Bishop!"

SCHOOL SLANG O.K.S. a re interested to know how far the slang of the School has changed since their day. The Cantuariall has therefore a ppointed a scholar to undertake research on this subject. For some weeks he has kept his ears and note-book open and now feels able to talk with authority on the subject. So we asked him to relate us the story of Red Riding Hood in the current vernacular, and this is what he said: THE LEGEND OF R.R.H. Well, it's a pretty wet story about a little dame called Red Riding Hood. I thought everybody had heard it. Yes, I know it's a pretty plugged name, but so's yours a nd â&#x20AC;˘ can't you wait till I've finished? She called herself that because her Ma always dressed her up in a sort of purple that had brass buttons and things that needed cleaning. Now, she had a granny who was ill and had confined herself to the sicker in her little ho. in the middle of the forest where she lived all alone. And one day R.R.H. was told by her old man to take a basket of eggs to the old dame, but this didn 't brace R.R.H. 203

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and into the bed. When R.R.H. polled up, there he lay, groaning like an ailing granny, and she must have been pretty blogged because she didn't notice anything queer. Anyway, she was busy wondering how she was going to explain what had happened to the eggs en route. So, trying to work up some sort of conversagger, she said, "Oh, granny, what wizard eyes you've got!" Pretty obvious oil, you may say, but so what: you know what these dames are. This foxed the wolf for a spell, because he wasn't expecting this kind of thing, and anyway wasn't too hot at languages. But playing for safety he muttered, "All the better to see you with ", or some such wet remark, he being quite capable of simple orals of this kind. Now it was R.R.H. 's turn to be foxed, because this wasn't a very promising opening. But she stuck to the oil and went on "What lovely ears you've got!" To which the wolf, now committed to a pass-standard, flung back : "All the better to hear you with " . R.R.H. was now conscious of getting no place fast, "a nd with her next crack nipped right out. Thickening up the grease she quoth: â&#x20AC;˘'What keeny teeth you've got I"~ No one could blame the wolf for regarding this as a cue, so he leapt from the bed and made for little R.R.H ., who got a load of the situagger without much help and made for the ancestral home. Had it not been for a spot of confusion with the hem of the nightie, R.R.H . might have had it there and then, but seeing the wolf in a bit of a rut with the nether garments gave R.R.H. just time to throw a brace and get a lead. Through the forest it was a pretty close thing with the wolf slowly catching up till little R.R.H. suddenly spied her old man taking a sort of shooting green in the forest, so she hollered out. The old papa, taking immediate grip of the situagger, pranged the wolf in the aftermath, just as the tail end of the purple was in his chops. Which was a pretty decent nip-in for R.R. Hood, don't you think? And a pretty tough nip-out for a Wolf Who Had Tried. "Gosh, there's the bell and we've a test. What's the formula for Tripalmitin ?" There you have it. If any O.K.S. would care to give us the same story in the slang of 1930, 1920, or even 1900, we should be delighted to make comparisons on the same

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AUTUMN PASTORAL PROLOGUE GALLANT:

SHEPHERD:

When gold, for once, doth grow on trees Floating wide on ev'ry breeze, When apples swell and pears mature, When fruit is ripe and harvest's suro ; Then doth the rustic turn to love, And shepherd like the cooing dove With flute and song seek forth his mate At harvest feast, when moon stays late And floateth golden and serene Above the merry village green. (Exit.) Enter Shepherd. None do I love, none loveth me, Grazing my flock upon the green lea; A single shepherd, not the less A shepherd lacking shepherdess ! Enter Milkmaid, singing and not at first seeing Shepherd.

MILKMAID: The spreading maple's gayest tint Proves nature doth not riches stint To cheer the eye and to delight With fruit and colour, leaf and light. SHBPHERD:

The seasons sing until the air doth teem With liquid notes upon the rustic theme; Mere man forgets his notions right and wrong, Sunk in the measur 'd cadence of the song. Fair milkmaid, sing ! Sing once again! Sing but once more the heav'nly strain!

MILKMAID: Of bronze and gilt; of red and green; Of leaves and turf and country scene; Of passing seasons, year by year; Of Spring so sweet, and Winter sere; Of all of bounteous Ceres' store; Of Ocean curling on the shore; Of silver chariot swinging high, Selene riding 0 'er the sky; Of harts, as through the woods they ran; Of dancing feet and pipes of Pan; Of cooling forest, falling stream; Well may I sing in voice like cream. But, gentle shepherd, why so sad? Cast out this mood when pleasure's to be had.

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MILKMAID :

FINE LADY: GAL.LANT: FINE LADY: GALLANT: FINE LADY: GALLANT : FINE LADY:

SHEPHERD:

MILKM AID:

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The lambs may play in the Spring, In lime-tree doth nightingale sing, But I in Autumn's splendour go, None share my joys or hear my woe. â&#x20AC;˘ Come, come. Shake off this sadness ! Join the feast and dance for gladness! (Exeunt.) Enter Gal/ant and Fine Lady. It will be seen that all of Cupid's art Hath gone to speed the love-envenom'd dart. My Lady Venus useth all her wiles To send this couple to the Cyprian isles. They wi ll forget whate'er hath pass'd before; A loving mist obscuring memory's store. A happy courting 'midst the ruddy woods, Whilst cloud and sunshine show their changing moods. Not craving for the glories of the earth, Their rustic pleasures show their. simple worth. A little garden, ev'ry plant in flower And amaranth as amethyst drapi ng their leafy bower. A little while and they will come again, So we shall go, and leave them 'midst the grain . (Exeunt.) Enter Shepherd and Milkmaid. I die for love, I languish for your smile, Oh, angel bright, with all woman's wile! I die for love! Will you not give A cheery kiss that dying I may love? Oh, sweetest ; hepherd! Love you I gladly will, Un less these eyes be clos'd, this flutt'rin g heart be still. EliteI' Gallalli. Play now, musicians, lead the dance, And at your head let Fiddler take his stance And as the wind wheels out the Autumn leaves So let the dancers foot it ' midst the sheaves. We'll li ve in laughter aU our lives With to ngues distill'd from sweetl y-honey'd hi ves, With song a nd dance we' ll greet the break of morn And cease not till the very night is born . Nymphs, Fauns, Satyrs, all do revel, Until the sun outsendeth rays so level To tell the spirits they must end the masque, And- All Ollr life be carefree- that we as k.

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Enter Fine Lady. FINE LADY: Thus we will end the merry Autumn day Leaving the dryads dancing 'midst the hay; The pastoral scene a nd play fantastic; The lovers' feast and harvest rustic. Might all our lives, as simple as their song, In smoothest current flow their way so long. Thus leave we Autumn's merriest Bacchana l, I speak the Epilogue and end the carnival.

J. E. M. LUCIE SMITH.

THE PLOT OF THE PREBENDARIES There are some for whom the fascination of history consists in the interplay of human moti ves. Such people will always be particularl y attracted to those grim and exciting years of the Reformation in England. What follows is an acco unt of a single incident, rich in huma n interest, which involved, and nearly ruined, the first Prebendaries of the reformed Chapter of Canterbury four hundred years ago. In the years 1540-43 Archbishop Cranmer, so faithful a servant of Henry VIII, was faced with a challenge greater than any of the previous eight years of his primacy. During those eight years he had presided over the breach with Rome, and he dissolution of the monasteries; he had drawn up the Ten Articles, and he had approved Rogers ' translation of the Bible. The Reformed Church in England was in the making. The Ten Articles were an excellent embodiment of a practical faith, modifying Roman Catho lie tenets, without accepting the more extreme Protestant viewpoint. But it was not easy for all men immediately to see the advantages of a statement of faith which to them seemed at best but a compro mise, and at worst a deli berate attempt to be aU things to a ll men. Moreover, the bulk of the natio n, though it had lo ng been anti-clerical, was doctrinally still Catholic at heart; and Henry VIII, once the breach with Rome had been completed, and the Church wealth disgorged, was more interested in an ecclesiastical peace which was the best guarantee of royal power, than in doctrinal change which would provide a n opportunity for foreign a nd sed.itious brands of militant Protestantism. The fall of Cromwell, a nd the marriage with Catherine Howard, marked for Henry the end of his reformation of the E nglish Church. Already a Catholic reaction had begun, and the Parliament of 1539 had passed the Statute of Six Articles, a savage antlProtestant measure of which Henry highly approved. Among other things, it gave J.P.s and others power to smell o ut all Protestant beliefs a nd practices which were contrary to the "Bishop's Book" of 1537. It was this Statute which gave Cranmer's enemies in Canterbury and elsewhere their chance.

THE CANTUARIAN The Prebendaries of Canterbury had on the whole little reason to love Cranmer (though individuals among them owed m,,"ch to his benevolence). When the monastery of Christ Church was dissolved, he had been entirely opposed to the establishment of the twelve prebendaries at forty pounds apiece. A prebendary was, he wrote to Cromwell in 1539, superfluous, since he was' 'neither a learner, nor teacher, bnt a good viander ... spending his time in idleness, and his substance in superfluous belly cheer". If Cranmer had had his way, he would instead have established at Canterbury a teaching staff, which might have been the nucleus of a university. But other counsels had prevailed, and the Dean and Chapter had come into being by Charter of Incorporation. If Cranmer still disappro ved, he was too good a servant of the King to say so after his original plans had been rejected; but for the prebendaries who were appointed by the Charter he had a contempt which was certainly reciprocated. The religious situation in Kent in 1543 provided ample material for trouble. The bulk of the people were still Catholic in sympathies, and so were a great number of the clergy; but all the other hand there were a few preachers and an extremist minority among the laity who had become deeply influenced by continental Protestantism, and were already casting down images and preaching the tenets of the Lutherans, and even of the anabaptists. It was too much to suppose that the desire of Cranmer for a delicately aligned via media would be either understood or appreciated by more than a few of either the clergy or the laity, and until his position was made clearer there could only be confusion.

Among the Prebendaries of Canterbury there was a strong' 'Catholic" and disgruntled majority. They believed that Cranmer was attempting to carry through a Protestant reformation against the wiU of both King and nation. For on the one hand the King's wi shes had surely been made clear by the Act of Six Articles, yet on the other, in spite of this, Cranmer had sent into Kent as Six Preachers such men as Lancelot Ridley and John Scary, and had been responsible for the inclusion of Nicholas Ridley (later Bishop of London) among the Prebendaries, all of known Protestant views. The Prebendaries also knew something of the opposition to Cranmer in the Privy Council, for Bishop Gardiner of Winchester, the leader of the "Catholic" wing of the Council, had recently paid a visit to Canterbury, had taken aside his namesake, Canon William Gardiner, and sounded him as to the orthodoxy of Cranmer and his preachers. What he heard left him far from satisfied, and he had instructed Gardiner to keep him informed of developments.

Gardiner took the hint, and soon he, and other Prebendaries such as Arthur St. Leger, Richard Parkhurst and John Mills, together with Robert Series, one of the Six Preachers and Vicar of Charing, were engaged on collecting detailed evidence against preachers like the two Ridleys, Scary and Lancaster, the parson of Pluckley. Then they grew bolder, and prepared articles against the Archbishop himself. The next step was to place the evidence in the right nands. Dr. John Willoughby, Vicar of Chilham and a royal chaplain, persuaded 'Serles to accompany him to London, to seek the advice of Dr. John London, Warden of New College, Dean of Chri st Church, Oxford, and a Canon of Windsor, a prelatical rogue of the first order, who had already gained some notoriety for routing out heresy in Windsor. London thought that the evidence would do well enough if it were suitably dressed up with the flourishes which he could give it, 208

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a~point a ~ommis~ion of ~nquiry, ~nd Bishop. Gardiner of Winchester could hardly

fall to preside over It, and With Gardmer as the mqulsltor the result could hardly fail to be disastrous to Cranmer. But the Catholic party had reckoned without one factor. Perhaps the most human aspect of Henry VI~I is revealed in hi.s relations with the gentle Cranmer. After. the CounCil meettng, at which Henry had satd nothing, he summoned Cranmer, told him of the accusatIOns made against him- and ordered Cranmer himself to make the investigation! Cranmer demured at being both judge and defendant in such a case, but Henry was insistent. The conspiracy of the Catholic party had met its first great reverse. The enquiry which followed fell into two clearly defined phases. The first phase was presided over ~y Cranmer himself. But Cranmer was a theologian, and not a lawy; r and man ofbus~ness. Evtdence was suppressed and garbled, and, surrounded by intriguers cleverer than hl~self, he could make no progress. Six weeks later the King sent down Slf Thomas Leigh and Dr. Rowland Taylor to relieve Cranmer. They were astute lawye~s, long practised in dealing with clerical wiles, for they had been in charge of mvestigatlOns lead 109 to the dtssolutlOn of the monasteries. In a short time they had revealed the whole conspiracy. Prebendanes who had been professing innocence of any knowledge of a plot agamst Cranmer, broke down when Leigh had their houses searched for documents, and when letters from the Bishop of Winchester and Dr. London and evidence submitted by some Kentish J.P.s were discovered. Richard Thornden, df the first Prebend and Suffragan of Dover, who had posed throughout as the friend and supporter of Cranmer, was revealed in a particularly despicable light for he had been Cranmer's protege and often his guest, and was now revealed as a pri~cipal conspirator. (Cranmer afterwards lectured him soundly, taking Mark xiii, 12, as his t~xt.) The prebendal conspirators were duly committed to pri~on during the Archbishop's pleasure, and there they langUIshed In varymg degrees of discomfort until the following year. Some of their letters to' Cranmer appealing for mercy are to be found among the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII. Canon Gardiner's begins with the words, "Gentle father, whereas I have not borne so good, so tepder, a heart towards you as a true child ou.ght to bear ... . " , and continues, ingenuously enough, to put all the blame on Dr. Willoughby. Canon Mills wrote in the same vein, begging, "though he deserved little

THE CANTUARIAN kindness from Cranmer's hands", that his Grace would take pity on the painful cough which a cold imprisonment had engendered, and assuring him that never again would he be so lightly allured into wrong-doing. The Privy Council recognised that the Prebendaries had only 'been the unsuspecting tools of more important agents, and that they might well be left to Cranmer's mercy. But for the principal agents a worse fate was d~creed. DI:- Lo~don and hIS assIstants, when examined by the Council, were found gUIlty of perjury m thIS and other cases, and sentenced to ride through Windsor, Reading and Newbury with their faces towards the horse's tail, wearing a notice reciting their offences, and thereafter to be imprisoned in the Fleet. There Dr. London languished until his death. Another, Germaine Gardiner, nephew of the Bishop of Winchester, was soon afterwards hanged, drawn and quartered as a traitor for denying the King's Supremacy. The Bishop of Winchester himself was too powerful aÂˇfigure to incur more than the royal displeasure. He was to pursue Cranmer with his enmity for another decade, but was finally to be demed the pleasure of wltnessmg Cranmer's fall by his own death in 1555. Most of the Prebendaries ended their days in a suitable obscurity, only two of them achieving further preferment. Perhaps they had learnt a salutary !esson, for in the religious turmoil of the following reigns all of them, except NIcholas Ridley, who became Bishop of London, avoided further serious trouble. No one ~mong them, apart fr?m Ridley, can be regarded as ever having been more than a medIOcrIty. ThIS was a PIty. The decline of Canterbury from its mediaeval position of ecclesiastical pre-eminence was the outcome, not merely of the destruction of the sacred shrine of Becket and of the worship of relics, but also of a deliberate policy which, i,:, the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was too often to lead t? the appomtment of a mediOCrIty to the deanery, and of ciphers to vacant prebendanes. The great names of Henry de Eastry and Prior Chillenden of the middle ages, gave place to those of a NIcholas Wotton and a John Boys. It is in its possible connection with the initial formulation of such a policy that the Plot of the Prebendaries perhaps has special importance. R.W.H.

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The Houses presented one-act plays on November 27th and 28th, Meister Omers being the best with The Sixth Hour. Grange produced 111 Port, Walpole The Rope, Luxmoore Paradise Enow, while School House ambitiously attempted the trial scene from St. Joall. The Chapter adjudicated. A very high standard' was reached and much talent discovered. In consequence, it is now rumoured that there may be a School production of St. Joan by way of' 'Speeches" in the summer.

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EXCAVATIONS AT THE CAMPANILE MOUND Although antiquarie? have shown great interest i~ the character and ,appearance of the Saxon Cathedral? and In that whIch was destro~ed m the great fire of 1174, they seem to have almost enllrely dIsregarded the Campamle which stood from the twelfth to the fourteenth century on the south side of the main building, and which must have been an Imp.oslOg and necessary part of the whole .. It was with the object of discovering somethlOg of the nature and extent of thIS bUlldmg that 10 October we began digging on the Campanile mound. . No one could accuse us of having begun with preconceived ideas of what we were likely to find, for although there are ample contemporary references to the existence of such a building (as the accompanying note by Mr. Urry, the Assistant Cathedral Librarian, will show)? there is little or nothing so far discovered among the rent rolls, charters and letters 10 the Cathedral Library which would aid us in an imaginative reconstructIOn of the bUlldmg Ilself (though further search among the monastic accounts might do something to fill the deficiency). At an early stage a considerable quantity of mediaeval. pottery fragments were unearthed from what appears to have been a dump. Much of 11 was crude, but several fragments were of fine quality and decorated. There were also some examples of later pottery, including several fragments in the well-known Bellar1lline style of the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. ~11

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As to the Campanile itself, it would be best at this early stage not to say too much, for it has not yet been completely unearthed, and is at certain points obscured by walls which were probably superimposed upon the ruins of the Campanile, and which have not yet been fully investigated and dated. At present it seems likely that the Campanile was hexagonal , with walls about two feet thick, rather poorly constructed of rubble faced with flints, but with well shaped sandstone quoins. The diameter of the building may have been in the region of fifty feet. The whole is covered by a layer about two feet thick of chalk, plaster, rubble and tile which is presu mably the debris which was levelled when the building collapsed as a result of the earthquake of 1386. At the moment of writing we are investigating what appears to be a hearth bui lt into the north-west angle of the Campanile wall. A fuller account had, however, better be reserved for the next number of The Cantuarian . R .W.H.

SOME EARLY NOTICES OF THE DETACHED BELLTOWER, CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL Preserved among the Cathedra l Archives is a ve ry early list of rents arising from property in the City of Canterbury. It ca n be dated very closely: it mentions Gervase the hi storian as "our fellow monk " a nd Pri or Wibert in the present tense. The point of its composition is therefore between I 163, the date of the profession of Gervase, and 1167, the year of Wibert's death. Some of the property dealt with lay on the north side of Burgate Street and is described as below. The "corner" mentioned is quite

clearly the double-right-angled turn in the boundary wall of the convent, shown distinctly in the contemporary plan in the Cal/lerbury Psa/ler. Chapter MSS. , Canterbury, Rental 31. Section I, 70. Will iam son of Gregory [pays] 6d. at Michaelmas for ground which lies behind [i. e. on the south side of] the bell tower (clocarillln) towards the east, against the wall of our cemetery next to the house of Liewin Cruche. Section I, 84. Lifwin Cruc [pays] 3s. At Whitsun 18d. and at the feast of St. Andrew 18d. from the land which Lambert Garegate gave to our church for the good of his soul. This ground lies in the corner behind our belltower towards the east. William of Canterbury in his Miracles of SI. Tholl1as tells, in an immense collection of anecdotes, of the miracles effected by the virt ues of the Saint. Among the store of wonders, he IIlcludes the ta le of a vision to which the Campanile formed the backgro und, vouchsafed to Master Firmin , the Ca nterbu ry Doctor of Becket's day, on Whitsun Eve, A. D. I 170.

There is, relates William, a certain physician who administers the affairs of the sick monks, one Firmin by name, a mall of most honest conversation. On the vigil of Pentecost before the Passion of Blessed Thomas the Martyr, he saw in a VI ~ lOn how a solemn procession was being celebra ted at the Chu rch of Canterbury, 212

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with happy faces, festive ceremony, and tuneful voices in proper honour of the day. Following the procession came King Henry a nd Archbishop Thomas. When, as was wont, they passed by the Campanile, they were seen to stand and gaze in silence upon the golden cross ca rried o n ahead, whence hung a crown of gold, suspended by three chains. An d, 10, a voice came from Heave n sayin g: Behold,

the names of all them who call reach unto this cross, and put ,hereon gold most pure, and precious stones, their names are wril1en in the Book of Life. Whereupon the Archbishop went forward and lifting up his hand touched the cross and put much gold, and precious stones in great number on the crown. William is prudent to record that King Henry managed eventually to do likewise, and so secure inclusion of his name in the Liber Vitae, '<though quite a long time afterwards". It looks very much as though the procession must have wound its way round the

Cathedral, passing from the Outer or Lay Cemetery to the Inner or Monks' Cemetery, or vice versa, through the Norman Arch once standing between the Campanile and St. Ansehn's Chapel, and re-erected in 1840 at the entrance to the Bowling Green (Kent War Memorial Garden). In 1174, four years after the murder of Becket, some houses in Burgate Street caught fire, and sparks from the conflagration set light to the roof of the "glorious choir of Conrad" whereby that building was completely ruined. It was reconstructed by William of Sens and William the Englishman in the form we know to-day. The monks determined to clear the area of the belltower, on the north side of Burgate, of all housing to prevent a repetition of the disaster. A series of deeds in the muniments relates to exchanges (some more or less forcible) of property, carried out in order to bring the whole region into the hands of the Cathedral Chapter. Chapter MSS. Charta Antiqua No. C.1208 (about 1177). K ing Henry II confirms an exchange made between Christchurch and Gervase of Cornhill of land in Friday Street in London, for "certain ground in Canterbury which the said Gervase had behind the belltower of the said church . . . because the huildings on the said ground were dangerous to the church on account of frequent fires".

The remorse of Henry II made the Royal ear readily available to the monks of Christchurch. They took advantage of this to expropriate, with the King's backing, the monks of St. Augustine's from their holdings in Burgate, on the same grounds as above, to the high annoyance of the latter house. Chronicle of William Thorne, Monk of st. Augustine 's Abbey, ed. Davis, p. 112. The chronicler records an exchange made [1177] between the Cathedral and the Abbey of "certain lands [belonging to St. Augustine's] on the southern side of ... [the Cathedral] cemetery close to .. . [the] campanile . .. dangerous ... because of frequent fires". W.G.U.

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THE SOCIETIES THE DEBATING SOCIETY After an unfortunate lapse of two terms the Debating Society has been reformed. The Society has adopted a new Constitution, upon which the first debate has been held. It is to be hoped that this, the oldest of aU our Societies, will now flourish vigorously. THE MUSIC SOCIETY The term's programme has been very varied. Papers were given by the President on HSubject Treatment", C. B. Manning-Press on " Brahms" and P. Carnes on the

"Flute ". The term ends with a concert given by members. THE WALPOLE SOCIETY The Calendar granted us five meetings this term. We have met eleven times. The constitution allows us 30 members; we have 35. So we must be a Flourishing Society. We have read Rebecca. We have decided' by a narrow margin that the country needs a new Government. We have written and told short stories. Local personalities have been tried at a Mock Trial and found wanting. Private enterprise has produced individual papers. We have seen a French film and A Message from Canterbury. We have done a lot of public speaking. We have consumed large rations of buns and lemonade. And we have extracted a pound from the Bursar. We must be an Enterprising Society too. THE CAXTON SOCIETY The Caxton Society had a very successful term and enthusiasm did not wane. Attendances have been good throughout the term. A lot of work has been done, and programmes printed for the term's Recitals. We draw the attention of would-be customers to the fact that two weeks' notice is needed for a job. PATER SOCIETY This term we have welcomed Rev. Dr. H. Knight, K. A. C. Gross, Esq., and Rev. J. H . Edmonds into the Society as Vice-Presidents. We will have held six meetings by the time The Cantuarian goes to print. During these meetings we have held a very successful Free Reading and a debate upon the motion "that Modern Culture owes more to Greece than to Rome" . Also we have heard a most enlightening paper on " Bacchylides" from K. G . T. Stuart, and are to hear two more from J. R. Downes and B. K. Newton . Altogether the Society has had a successful and interesting term. SOMNER SOCIETY The energies of the Society have been directed almost entirely to the excavations round the old BeU Tower, of which there is an account in this Magazine. We are grateful to the Dean and Chapter for granting us permission to take into our hands these operations. 214

THE CANTUARIAN This, however, has not prevented us from going to Chartham Church and taking four most successful rubbIngs from the very fine brasses there. At the moment of going to press we are expecting to hear a paper by Mr. Harris on "Brass Rubbings". THE RAIL WAY SOCIETY The Society has had three meetings so far, consisting of lectures, two of which were given by the Hon . Secretary, A. Endersby, one on the ~ 'Railways of Asia". He here spoke on the Russian and Japanese Railways in particular. The Hon. Secretary's other lecture was on Colour Light Signalling as used in Great Britain. He talked on the original colour light signalling to the most modern signalling in use at the present day. The third lecture given this term was by F. G. J. Norton on the' 'Railways of South Africa ". Norton spoke on the history and growth of the South African Railway Company to the latest development. At the time of these notes having to be submitted into the Editors, the Society has yet to have an important part of its programme :(I) A film show by the London Transport on the Story of the Underground. . (2) A visit from H . C. Davis, Esq., of the Southern Railway, who is going to give an Illustrated talk on The Southern Railway's Part in the Operations For and After D-Day. (3) A Railway Quiz and (4) another lecture. The Society is flourishing well. Its membership has gone up considerably and great keenness is being shown all round. THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY At the end of last term we held a highly successful Annual Exhibition, the first since the war. There were some 120 entries, most of a high standard, making the task of the Judge, W. Fisk Moore, Esq., F.R.P.S., a difficult one. The Gough Prizes were awarded to J. E. Elliott and J. A. McMillan. This term our membership has increased to 53 .. We have held seven meetings Âˇthis term; papers have been read on "Toning " , by the Hon. Secretary, on "Filters", by D. L. Waller, on "Colour Photography through the Carbro Process ", by J. A. McMillan, and on "Conversion to 35 mOl.", by R. G. White. The President gave a demonstration of "Portraiture Lighting"; the results of this are still to be seen. We have made a considerable number of Ch ristmas Cards for sale to replenish our depleted funds. THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Patron,' ERIC J. HOSKING, EsQ., F.R.P.S., M.B.O.U. President,' D. STAINBR, EsQ. Bon. Secretary,' D. W. MOLESWORTH .The Society has published this term its Third Annual Report, which is mainly concerned With the Flora and Fauna of the Fordwich-Stodmarsh area, our chief work for the past year. The area, which comprises the low-lying land bordering the Stour, and the wooded 215

tHE CANTUARIAN siopes to the south, is an exceptionally interesting one, containing, as it does, a large tract covered with shallow lakes and reed-beds, the hau nt of such rare birds as the Marsh and Hen Harrier and the Bittern, and attracting very many species of winter migrant wildfowl. It is also rich in fresh water life. Copies of the Report may be obtained from the Society's officials. Tbe price is 2/6 to the general public, and 1/6 to members of the School. The schedu les prepared by our lepodopterists for the Insect Immigration Committee of the British Museum are now complete. The year, probably owing to the very dry summer, has been very exceptional for immigrant butterflies and moths, particularly for the Clouded Yellow, and some specimens of Var. Helice, and C. Hyale have been taken. Our district, of which our friend Mr. Francis Rose, F.L.S., B.Sc., is preparing a revised

Flora, is an exceptionally fruitfu l field for the Botanist, and the chalk downs to the south of Canterbury are the habitat of man y rare species of orchis. This term , severa l interesting excursions have been made to the Stodmarsh area, and

a programme of lectures is being carried out. Mr. F. A. C. Munns has given us an excellent lecture on "Tiger Shooting", recounting in inimitable style many exciting and humorous reminiscences of this life in the Indian Jungle. Interesting lecturettes have been given by the following members of the Society: C. J. Bell, A. S. Mitchell-Innes, R. H. Loury, and D. C. Nuthall, a nd a successful Free Reading has been held. It is to be regretted that attendances have not been greater. Lectures are shortly to be given by Mr. C. W. Ward, the President, and the Honorary Secretary. The Society, founded in 1884 under the name of "The King's School Naturalists' Society", is almost the oldest of our School Societies. Its members have twice, in the past, had the honour of producing the Prize Essay for the R.S.P.B. Two years ago the Society had its record membership of over sixty, and, at least seventy-five per cent. attendances were the order of the day. l.ast year, our Society took the leading part in the inauguration of the Schools' AssociHtion of Natura l History Societies, of which our President is Honorary Secretary. The Associati on has now a membership of thirty-seven school soc.ieties. Mr. Brian

Vesey-FitzGerald, F.Z.S., F.H.S., is Chairman, and many very distinguished naturalists are on the Vice-Presidentia l panel. [t is most earnestly hoped that, with a fine record beh ind it, and almost unlimited opportunities ahead, the King's School Society will continue to flourish. We hope, this year, to carry out a number of field investigations, and to take part in excursions, camps) courses, and olher holiday activities sponsored by the Association. The conlinued success or our Society depends entirel y on an active and en thusiast ic membership. The President and Commitlee earnestl y co mmend it to the attention of members or th e School. There is always room ror keen members, who are willing to

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Plus ~ change, plus c~st la meme chose...... Be he what he may, I do not like his taxes; at least I am much disposed to quarrel with some of them. The additional duty, by which the poor will be much affected, hurts me most. He says, indeed, that they will but little feel it, because even now !bey can hardly afford the use of them. He had certainly put no compassion into his budget when he produced from it this tax, and such an argument to support it. Justly translated, it seems to amount to this, "Make the necessaries of life too expensive for !be poor to reach them, and you will save their money. If they buy but few, they will pay but little tax; and if they buy none, the tax as to them will be annihilated." Was this written in 1947 about Mr. Dalton and cigarettes? No: William Cowper .wrote it in 1784 about Mr. Pit! the Younger and his tax on candles. (Leiters No. cxxiii: R.T.S.)

CATHEDRAL CHURCH Light I cried the dying Goethe: and the cry of the world is still for light in darkness. Since Canterbury claims to possess that Light for the English-speaking peoples, it is within the right of Canterbury's friends to examine the spectrum. Preaching on June 26th, a Franciscan Father criticised the "Festival of the Singing Church" held in the Cathedral on the previous day. He had nothing but admiration for the musical talents displayed: but he pointed out that, for the Christian, the only approach to the music of the heavenly places is still the Via Dolorosa. Such consideration, fundamental to a faith in a crucified Redeemer, bad been ignored in the Order of Service for the Festival. This criticism, which is not the first of its kind, must disturb those who care for Canterbury. In the past two decades, the staff and friends of the Cathedral have made very considerable advances in organisational and in ritual technique. The membership of the body known as the" Friends of Canterbury Cathedral" now exceeds five thousand; we can see with our eyes how faithfully the buildings are tended, and we have recently read ambitious plans for restoration and expansion . Yet such things are clearly subsidiary to the main purpose of the Cathedral Church of Christ, which is still the preaching and interpretation of the eternal Gospel. The Gospel, if it is real, must be challenging; and, in so far as it is real, it must repeatedly offend. Confronted with tbe shop of a Galilean <;:arpenter even the warmest friend must recognise the danger that, in its honoured prosperity, a Cathedral may too little remember the Faith in which it was founded, and for the advancement of which it exists to-day. In all the Canterbury Festival Week, it was left to the young lay author of Peasant's Priest to proclaim the Message of the Cross, and to hold up the vision of a People made a Church. Such thoughts come to the mind with special force in this year, which has witnessed the revival of the Canterbury Festival and the 1,350tl1 anniversary of the landing of St. Augustine. People who, like the writers, are enthusiastic and sentimental about the 217

T1H!E CANTUARIAN tradition of St. Augustine should stop occasionally to consider why St. Augustine founded a Cathedral at all. The only thmg that makes Canterbury important is its message, neither liturgical technique nor musical recitation . The Cathedral is built in the sign of the Cross; central to its heraldic blazonry are the initials of the Saviour' paramount and solely permanent in its hstory of thirteen centuries has been its dedicatio~ to the eternal verities, the Magnalia Dei. In no other way is its history supremely slgmficant: and III no other way can a thread of contmuity through change be discerned. T.H.P. D.L.E!.

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East Kent loses a well-known and deeply-respected figure by the recent death of Mrs. J. H. Monins of Ringwould. The Monins are an ancient family, one branch of which once held Waldershare Park (Archbishop Parker's mother belonged to this branch), whIle the older sltll possesses the estate of Ringwould on the coast between Dover and Deal. They have contributed many distinguished servants to both Church and State. Not the least interesting was Captain Thomas Monins- a King's Scholar of Canterburywho acted as Treasurer-General from 1644 to 1649 during the sequestration of the Cathedral and its revenues. It was mainly due to his moderation that the Precincts were not entirely despoiled. Nor did he forget the School, for Hasted in his History of Kent acknowledges that at this time it "had a great repair". It is probable that the William Momns who figures in the 1661 List of King 's Scholars was the son of this Thomas. Another member of the family, the Reverend Richard Monins, was Headmaster of the School from 1734 to 1747 . He also had been a King 's Scholar- he appears in the 1706 LIst, and William Gostling, the antiquary, was a boy with him. It was in the Rev. Richard's regime that there occurred that curious episode in 1743 when' the town mob attacked th~ Dean and Chapter so savagely at the public theatre of the city-where they were attendmg a performance of the Scholars of AddIson's Cato- that the Militia had to be summoned to the rescue. An amusing note about Headmaster Richard may be read m "This and That " in the present Cantuarian. It is good to know that for some 200 years at all events the Monins family was connected with the School. Another memberJohn-entered the School in 1754 and went into the Navy, and in 1799 there is William Monins, son of John : but these two lived in the Archbishop's Palace, or what remained of it. Mrs. Monins herself belonged to the well-known Suffolk family of Cobbold of Holywell,. who for generations repres~nted Ipswich in Parliament and were connected by mamage wIth the well-known antiquary Boutell and the even more famous Warden of New College, Dr. Spooner. 218

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POEMS THE PERFECT BEAUTY I sought it far, O'er th' emblazon'd seas of unbelief, Up to the faintest glimmerings of a star, Through the cool evenings of the moon's relief; I knew not where or what would meet my gaze But that I sought for, there A mist, a haze. Farther to go, Down to the purple twilight of the close, Down to the green chasms of my woe, Down to the black beddings of repose. But more to do, For on the eagle wings of that sweet fire Goes the horizon to oblivion's blue, And we are ashes at the altar's pyre. They have often sung Of Woman 's beauty and impassioned love, But I seek something more entirely one, More closely netted, more divinely wove. What if the plains of hot Tibet have rung A mystic wonder, burning as the sun? If languorous Venice, where the boatmen weave Fantastic patterns as the waters cleave, Softens with longing, and sparkles with desire? What if in heavy and in hasty youth Mankind should barter all its soul for fire? It is not there the imprint has been set. If in the airy brilliance of the night The silvery dampness of the dew's fresh wet Glows with the splendour of a thousand jewels: And if the unwavering glow-worm's misty light Glowed from the warmth of the deep ruby's bosom: What follows then? Wealth can procure but not create delight. Where shall I look then, in what untrodden spot? " Look not, small man, 0 puny mao, look not I" As small Icarus Oil his wings of scorn Sought not to heed Daedalus, who could warn, And on the power of his pride was borne Away from Minos in his wrath at Crete ; So his wings melted; from the sun's great height, Hurtling fell downward in his crushing flight; Alas, a man so passing fair to be Mourned by the nymphs in the Aegean Sea. P. A. 219

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THE RAPE Once it was brilliant in glittering gold, Once it was fine, majestic and fair, Once in the gorgeous days of old It was shimmering bright like an angel 's hair. From Turkey and Russia they came ill their bands, From dissolute France and decadent Spain; But now their eyes dimming and palsied their hands, In the dim light they pray, the few that remain. The altar once flaming in scarlet and gold, The pillars once hung with tapestries rare; Now dimly they whisper, "We are old, we are old", And the spirits reply, "Old, old" in despair. But the age-long aisle once living and free, Now cluttered with dead in a gilded cage, And the chnrch it is drowned in a putrid sea, And Bell Harry rots and crumbles with age. From its bleeding bosom they ripped the shrine For its gold and jewels and priceless worth, The building cried" 'Tis mine, 'tis mine", And the dead they wept in their beds of earth. They took with the shrine the Cathedral's heart, And all that remains is bloodless and cold ; They seized from its bosom the vital part; Bell Harry's rotting, the Cathedral is old. P. A. FYFB-CooPBR AUTUMN LAMENT (After Ver/aine's Chanson d'Automne") The long-drawn sighs Hush! when strikes the hour ' That autumn heaves Heart and flesh fail: In tossing leaves . Trembling, wan and pale, That whITI and SPlJ1, I see upsurging from the deep The image of past time Wound my heart, Which despairing cries, I see the withered f1ow~r As at the wail of the violin, Of youth, and weep' Sobbing and moaning. ' And I go my way In the bitter wind And autumn gloom : Sear and turn, Like the dead leaf, I am borne Hither and th ither To horizons gray And uncertain doom. H. KNIGHT laO

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How many, seeking romance, have found it-and regretted it ! My name is Valjean, Jean Valjean ; I am a Frenchman and I serve in the army of Madame La Repub/ique as a Major. But let me tell you of an episode that occurred when as yet I was only a Lieutenant. I was serving then with the famous Foreign Legion across the Mediterranean in Morocco at the city of Marrakesh. I had at that time a week's leave, and not thinking it worth while to take a passage to France, I decided that I would get to know a little more than I did about this romantic wonder-city in which I was stationed. But after spending the greater portion of my week visiting all the famous showpieces-the casbahs, mosques, souks and gardens- I found things a little tedious. But by a stroke of luck, or misfortune, I made the acquaintance of a fellow-officer from the Corps of Spahis who was also on leave. This man, Charles Claudet, was not a man of culture; he was of low birth and his past was a little obscure. Nevertheless, Claudet suggested to me that we should spend the last night of our leave together and that we should see a little of Arab night life and "local colour". So as he knew of the very place for this where we could brighten our depressed spirits, I agreed. That evening we met under the old tower overlooking the central market place, and from there we made our way into the secondary streets, and then turned off down one of the twisting alleyways until we reached the house of a certain Ahmed el Kamour, whom Claudet claimed as an intimate friend. We knocked at the door and were suspiciously received by a decrepit-looking old Arab who led us into the presence of Ahmed. He was having a party with a number of friends, and on seeing Claudet, welcomed him and bade him join in. To me he was naturally much less familiar, but Claudet introduced me as a close companion and Ahmed allowed me to join in his party. But as this took the form of gambling and drinking, I was at first disinclined to participate. However, after hesitating, I was persuaded. I from the very first had exceedingly good luck, for I won nearly every game. Mter I had' won four consecutively and had gathered in a pretentious sum, Ahmed and his friends looked quite amazed. I won two more games after this and our host looked considerably anxious; and in the seventh I "broke the bank". At this point I had won over a thousand francs, so at Claudet's suggestion we finished gambling for the evening. Ahmed then led us into a courtyard where we talked and took drinks. An old servant woman, very curious to look at, served us, and we sat all very contentedly on stools under the black-purple of a Mediterranean night. The courtyard was lighted by four glowing oil lamps and it still retained its heat from the day-time. The atmosphere was one of calm, and I found myself gradually drowsing off to sleep, soothed by the soft voices, the warm air and the low lights. I must have fallen asleep, for I woke up suddenly, and found myself in quite a different place. I was in fact lying on a bed in a small dimly-lighted room. I assumed I had been moved here after falling asleep, so I went to the door, and on trying it, I found it to be locked. "What could the meaning of this be?" I thought to myself. "A French officer under lock and key in an Arab's house? Perhaps the Arab was afterÂˇ the Frenchman's money, since he had won a thousand francs at gambling that evening. Yet, why the trouble of locking the Frenchman in?" And I searched my pockets to see how much 221

THE CANTUARIAN money had been stolen. But I found my thousand francs still with me. "Well", I thought, "I suppose there is nothing wrong after all". But at that moment it struck me as being a peculiar room, for in it there was not the usual Moorish furniture, but instead a big four-post bed with an elaborate canopy. "Could 1 still be in Ahmed's house?" I thought, and I went over to the window to look out and the courtyard was recognisable beneath by the moonlight. I did not want to summon anyone as yet, in case anything queer was going on ; so sitting down on the bed for some time I stared out of the window trying to puzzle things out. While I was thinking, I chanced to look up at the canopy of the bed and beheld something very strange. The canopy was slowly and silently moving downwards towards me, so that if 1 remained sitting on the bed it would have hit me on the head, and if I was still lying asleep I should be smothered and probably suffocated. This was then, I concluded, no less than an attempt on my life, for the canopy was obviously being mechanically lowered since the posts of the bed on which it rested were sinking into the floor. And Ahmed did, after all, want my money, but was going to be sure that he got it by disposing of me first. So as I valued my life, I decided to leave that terrible house immediately. But how to do so was a problem. The door was locked and the window looked scarcely wide enough for me to squeeze through. However, I did manage it, for having jumped on to the narrow window ledge, I climbed out and upwards a few feet on to the flat roof. I crossed tb.is quickly and silently; and looking over the parapet on the street side I saw the pathway two stories below. I lowered myself over the edge and made my way down the side of the house, not by a drainpipe (for Moorish houses do not have these), but by means of the numerous horizontal string-courses which ran along the front of the house as ornaments. Not until I was in the street did I think anything about my companion Claudet. And then I was so intent to get away as quickly as possible that I cowardly dismissed him from my mind. The route back to my hotel was not a long one, but I ra n the whole distance. I arrived there only to find it locked up. On getting no reply to my repeated knocks, I decided to return to the barracks.....,ven at so late an hour. The next morning I reported for duty. I informed the police about the previous night's episode, and they that very day paid an official call on Ahmed. But the police were disappointed, because when they arrived at his house there was no Almled there. The house was empty, for Ahmed had deserted it with all his possessions. Such was the end of my first military leave while serving abroad. And it was the first one that I was ever glad to see the end of. Of Claudet no one has ever heard since that evening. And never since then have I made such an ill-fated acquaintance, nor have I ever penetrated such twisting streets or alleys as those of the city of Marrakesh. And never since then either, have I won a thousand francs through gambling! B. K. NEWTON

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For many years past it has been the custom for the Captain of the School to call on three or four members of the Upper Sixth to " spout" to him at a weekly meeting of the Form.

Suitable pieces of writing-which may be on any subject and in any language- are chosen beforehand by the reader. He may recite it from memory or read it, but there is

always a short introduction in the words of the boy himself. A master is present, who may, or may not, add his own comments.

Many O.K.S. obtained. their first experience of public speaking at these "spouts" and have been grateful for the opportunity of making their early mistakes before a fairly sympathetic audience! Only the members of the Upper Sixth are present. The photo on this page was taken in 1939 by a pressman who had discovered the custom by chance a nd asked permission to photograph the proceedings. From left to right the boys were: D. G. Carter, C. 1. Meek, P. C. Brunet, P . G. Bennett, D. C. French, R. F. Fenn, A. ÂˇG. Eyre, D. Gall, B. H. Brackenbury, A. M. Dean, P. N. McDougall, R . F. W. Grindal, H. P. Wortham. 223

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RUGBY FOOTBALL 1ST XV MATCHES KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v WASPS NOMADS (Home) (Won 16-5) This,. our first match, was played on very hard ground. The scrum usuall obt' possesston ~f the ball and the three-quarters were able to make frequent runs yAllc~tne~ soon score between the posts. Pegg converted. The score was even at h~lr tim urc the second half our opponents tired and Forsey scored after cutting throu h e. In tnes fhollowed after ,three-quarter movements. It is gratifying that Michael ~~ker w(O ~o;e) was t e opponents on ly scorer. . . .

KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY V CANTERBURY R. F.C. (Home) (Lost 13-3) Played on very hard ground, against a much heavier scrum The School w able tolheel the ball and the three-quarters played a defensive ga·me. However t~~eS~':t'~I~ serum earned somethmg from the game and weaknesses in the three- uart~r lin 0 ~~~~~h~hout ~y ~he stronger opposition. Tne majority of our oppo~ents' trie~ ~:~: roug t e scrum. Quested scored our only try. KtNG'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY V K.C.S., W,MBLEDON (Away) (Lost 25-6) In ~his match we made a change a mong our backs The 0pposltu:m for some time in the K.C.S. pack. The gam~ was e~~nu~nille~a~~i~~rdt~t cor be.lryg 9-6 to our opponents. The three-quarters were however unused t ' h·e n pOSitions a nd despite hard tackling by the centres K.C.S. 'crossed o~r line freq~e~t~~r ldne PI.olndts ~ere sco~ed by them on penalties alone. The XV was neither fit nor united'

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THE CANTUARIAN KING'S SCHOOL, CANTBRBURY v FBLSTED SCHOOL (Away) (Lost 8-6) An unlucky match for us. We were without two old colours, Wen ban in the scrum and Forsey at fl y-half. The three-quarter line was consequently never quite what it had been. Although the School frequently looked like scoring, it only did twice. Black cut through to .score once and was later followed by Quested, who scored after an opening made by Pegg. Felsted scrum was very quick on to the ball and worried the King's halves considerably. Having converted one try they were awarded a penalty and won a very very close game. KING 'S SCHOOL, CANTERJlURY v ST. PAUL 'S SCHOOL (Away) (Won 20-8) The first half of this match was ve ry even, with St. Paul 's scrum pressing us very closely. The ball was kept much in the scrum during the game, owing to the wet ground. King 's scored first after a line-out, followed by another after a cut through by Forsey. St. Paul's then scored two tries, one of which was converted. In the second half the School backs took the offensive, Ellis scored tw;ce, Quested a nd Pegg each scored once. KING 'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v SUTTON VALENCE (Home) (Won 49-3) This was rather an easy match for the School, which tended to make the playa little loose. The scrum usually backed the ball and the three-quarters were able to start a variety of movements. On one occasion after a kick-off the ball went to the end Qf the three-quarter line and through the hands of five members of the scrum to be touched down by Allchurch. KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v ST. JOHN'S, HURSTPIERPOINT (Away) (Lost 8-6) A very unsatisfactory match . Hurstpierpoint fielded a heavy scrum and the ball did not come out as fast as usual ; the chances of our three-quarters having the ball were lessened by the opposing wing forwards who frequently stood between the two halves. King's scored twice, once after a forward rush, touched down by A11church. Later Pegg scored after a reverse pass by Quested. [Stop Press t King's School, Canterbury 27 - St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate 3.] 2ND XV MATCHES The 2nd XV has had a successful season. During the last three years only four second matches have been lost. This year two have been lost. Canterbury R.F.C. proved to be a much heavier team than ours and won through sheer weight. The side was not playing as a team in this, its first match . While they defeated Sir Roger Manwood's 1st XV 6-3 at home, six regular members were missing from the away match which was lost 16-3. Dover and St. Lawrence, Ramsgate, were both defeated easily, the scrum playing particularly well. K.C.S., Wimbledon, wasa much harder game and resulted in a win of one point! Unfortunately, the Captain, B. F. Buswell, was absent for some of the matches, but hopes for better luck as 1st XV reserve.

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RUGGER NOTES AND RETROSPECT A. G. BARTLETT (Captain).- He has lived up to last year 's promise as a player and as Captain he has kept his team in steady training and has led them well on the field . Packing in the middle of the back row, he pushes well, is fast on the ball and has ' good hands and feet. His line out work is very good. J. H . PEGG (Vice-Captain).- He has most of the attributes of a good centre. He has excellent hands, relies mainly on hard, stra ight, running to open up gaps in the defence, and is timing his passes both to his wing and back to the forward s much better. His tackling and touch findin g are good. A weakness is a hesitancy in going down to forward rushes. J. R. ALLCHURCH (Hon. Secretary).- He has played in the second row again this year. He usually makes full use of his weight by good low pushing, but his best work is still in the loose, where his speed is a great asset, particularly in attack. In defence he should be more certain of his tackles. J. W. ALLIsoN.- Has also returned to the second row, where he uses his weight and boundless energy to good effect both III tIght and loose serums. His speed is invaluable in loose rushes, though he can still improve his dribbling. Above all his ' cheerful spirit is worth much to the side. . J. L. FORsBY.- After the first two games at scrum half he returned to his old position of fly half. He has excellent hands, has speed off the mark, has an eye for an opelling and has a long safe kIck to touch. In later games he has been handicapped by injuries, but when he fully recovers he should be very good. I. M. OSBoRN.- He is a wing forward who pushes his full weight in both tight and loose scrums, who supports his threes in attack and defence, and who has good hands and a safe tackle. His height, too, is useful in the line out. D. L. QUESTBD.- He was troubled early in the term by uncertain handling, but this has Improved, and ltis long, raking stride, his determined running and his hand-off have I~d to so~ne.good tries on the right wing. He is learning, too, to vary his game by gIVIng the IDS/de pass and the cross kIck and by gIVIng support to his far wing. He has a long kick, but his tackling is not yet certain. R. C. WBNBAN.-Has steadily improved as a front row forward. He has weight which he uses in b,?th tight and loo~e serums, heIght for the line-out, is fast, and is always to be found ID the thIck of thmgs. He tackles well, too. A weakness is his' uncertain handling. P. G. S. ELLIS.- His speed and determined running have led to a good many tries on the left wmg. His handling bas improved and he is timing the inside pass much better. HIS tackling, too, is much more certain than it was. P. J. WALKBR.-He is a very promising young scrum half who throws out a bard long pass, however barrassed by opponents, and gets his backs moving quickly. He goes, too, for tbe occasional gap and falls well to stop forward rushes. I. F. BLACK. -As left-centre he was for a time apt to forget bis own speed and elusiveness and pass too automatically to his wing. He is now varying his play more is going tbrougb on his own, and is tinting his passes better. His speed bas been' useflJi in defence, but his falling can be more decisive.

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THE CANTUARIAN W. N. F. FRANcKLlN.-As hooker he has given his team a good share of the ball from the tight scrums, and is well to the front in the loose, often getting the invaluable quick heel. A. G. P. DAvIDsoN.-He is a tall but rather light wing forward, who, however, uses his weight well in the tight and backs up his threes in attack and defence. He tackles and falls quite well, but has a tendency to snatch at the ball. C. G. S. PATERsoN .- Is best in the back row, but has had to play in the front. He plays hard- a bit high in the tight scrums, perhaps- and is well to the fron t in the line-out and all loose play, particularl y forward rushes. D. S. El.L1s.- His best position is on the wing where he has speed, elusiveness and determination. As full back he is not certain of his positioning, but his sense of anticipation and kicking have improved. Altogether, up to the time of writing, the XV have performed well. They ought never to have lost the Wimbledon match, but it was one of those "off days". The Felsted match was hard and keen, and the side was unlucky to lose by 8 to 6, especially as they were not at full strength. Eastbourne, Dover, St. Paul's and Sutton Valence were welldeserved wins. The side has been keen, and knows the game much better. Our placekicking is still poor, all things considered. Matches remain to be played with Hurstpierpoint, Ramsgate, Sherborne and Stowe. If they play, as they can when they have a mind to, the XV should give a good account of themselves in these last four fixtures. Bartlett has set a splendid example both in practice and in play. The side owes much to him. Unhappily, we shall be without Quested against Sherborne and Stowe.

BOXING The steady improvement in the standard of boxing throughout the term is very noticeable and is due mainly to our Instructor, P.S.1. Osborne. The Inter-House Competition, held at the beginning of the term, was won by Meister Omers. An instructive and amusing display was given by a team from the Royal Marine Depot, Deal. Tbis was preceded by some School bouts, finishing up with a one-round â&#x20AC;˘ all action bout between Forbes and Ellicott. It is unfortunate that, owing to illness, Buswell and Read will not be able to box against Dover College on December 1st. The team wiII probably be Osborn, Morgan, Reed, Moffatt, Forbes, Griffiths, Ellicott, Hackett, Young. Next term's fixtures include Tonbridge and the City of London School, and with its present talent and determined trai ning it is hoped to (urn out a good School team. [Since going to press, the Boxing team defeated Dover by 7 bouts to I.-Ed. ]

FENCING The Fencing Club is now a thriving concern. A large number of younger boys have joined this term and a large percentage of them show considerable promise for future years.

THE CANTUARIAN We have two members of last year's team still with us and these form the nucleus of what promises to be a good team next term. We are, however, short of equipment; if any kind O.K.S., therefore, has equipment which is no longer of use to him it would be a very welcome gift. A match has been arranged for the end of term with the O.K.S. Sgt. Osborn is still our instructor; his help is greatly appreciated, while his patience and skill remain a wonder to all. J.B.H-J.

SWIMMING CLUB Throughout the Summer Term Life Saving classes were held. The results of the examinations were very good: 13 Bronze Medallions, 7 Bronze Crosses 6 Silver Medallions, 24 Intermediate Certificates. ' Beginners and Advanced Swimming Classes during the term led to a much higher standard of swimming in the Inter-House Cup. The Sports were held on the last Sunday of term. The final order was: 1st, School House, 96 points; 2nd, The Grange, 91 points; 3rd, Walpole, 841 points; 4th, Luxmoore, 61 points; 5th, Meister Omers, 40t points. Mrs. F. J. Shirley very kindly presented the Cup to School House. The thanks of all concerned should be given to Mr. J. R. E. Paynter for his untiring interest. A.G.P.D.

THE LIBRARY During the last four months nearly 300 books have been added to the Library; the majority of these are gifts from O.K.S. and friends. A debt of gratitude is owed to . Major Jervis, who has not only given himself but has encouraged those leaving School to mark their farewell with a token which will be a memorial of their years here' and ' many have fOllowed his advice. If space permitted, we should wish to give a full list or the recent accessions; we must however content ourselves with a brief acknowledgement of the kindness of donors :~essrs. R. Tootell, B. K. Newton, 1. Denton and the following O.K.S.: R. O. Wingfield, M. D. Bnstowe. J. E. Elliott, R. M. West, R. Hargreaves, S. R. Betts, A, L. Betts, P. Brown, L. A. O. Halsey. D. L. Delahay~Jones. J. C. Delahay-Jones, T. H. Pares, J. M. Mattocks, D. P. North, W. L. Harris, D. K. Morgan, D. L. Edwards. J. M. Hearth, T. G. Evans-Pughe, O. W. Williams, W. S. J. Scruby. Lieut.Colonel Leakey, K. Johnsen, P. C. V. Lawless, H. 1. Lester, J. Cremer and Major Jervis.

We th~nk the Rev. A. D. R. Brooke, who was our Chaplain for nearly twelve years, for the gIft of some thirty books; H. L. Foxwell, Esq., for the gift of a fine (and at last readable !) edition of Scott; Mrs. Brinsley Richards for the gift of some thirty finely bound volumes; M. P. Jackson, Esq., for the gift of some books on agriculture (a subject hitherto neglected in our library); Lieut.-Colonel Scarfe (O.K.S.), the author, for the presentation of Assault Division; The Headmaster, as always, makes his welcome contribution.

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The catalogue is complete at last; and it is hoped that the index system will be in operation next term. As we go to press, a large parcel of books has come from Mr. W. Somerset Maugham, for which we are most grateful.

J.T.C. NOTES The Corps has had an efficient and useful term, and has on the whole been very fortunate in the weather; most days have been sunny, if cold, and only half the Whole Day Training was wet. A Signal Platoon has been formed, to stimulate interest in post-Certificate "A" training, and is doing well. We have four No. 18 Wireless Sets, and in the course of time we shall get four No. 38 Sets as well, and sufficient cable equipment to practise the laying of field telephone lines. We are very fortunate in the help given us by Eastern Command Signal Regiment, Regimental H.Q. of which is stationed in Canterbury, and are much indebted to Ueut.-Colonel Morton, commanding the Regiment, and Major Cook, commanding 2 Squadron, for the assistance they are giving us in the provision of instructors and facilities which we still lack. The Signal Platoon is very keen, and is moving towards a state of efficiency in the use of 18 sets. We have so many candidates for Certificate "A" that there are two platoons for Part I and two for Part II, and there should be a large post-Certificate "A" platoon next term. The Band continues to function, but is greatly handicapped by lack of a suitable instructor. L/Cpl. Sims is a keen Drum Major. Captain A. A. Egerton Jones has retired, with the best wishes of all of us in his new work, and command of the Corps has been taken over by Captain K. A. C. Gross, and Mr. R. W. Harris and Mr. D. A. Kimmins have taken T.A. commissions and joined the Corps. C.S .M.I. Marshall remains a tower of strength in the Armoury; J. B. H. Jackson is the Contingent C.S.M ., and W. J. F. Ray is C.S.M. of "B" Company. Whole Day Training This took place on October 22nd: after a very useful morning's work, in which platoon commanders and platoon sergeants put in some very good instruction, the weather took a hand, and as it promised to be a thoroughly wet afternoon, the parades after lunch were cancelled. Weapon Training Demonstration The whole contingent, except for one Certificate' 'A" platoon, were given an excellent demonstration at the Barracks by the Weapon Training officer of The Buffs and his assistants, of various small arms in action. The first "stand" was at the butts of the 30-yard range, where, in addition to British rifles, Bren and Sten guns and a revolver and an automatic, we were shown a light American carbine, and the German "spandau ,., machine-gun with a rate of fire of 1,500 rounds a minute. All these were fired for our 229

'rHE CANTUARtAN benefit. Then the contingent moved to the open down, where there was a short demoJistration of the 2' mortar, using smoke bombs and parachute flares, and of cocking and firing the Piat. We are very grateful to Lieut. Teesdalc and his assistants f<if' a most interesting afternoon. Certificate "A" The following passed Part I on 2nd July, 1947 :N. E. O. Behringer, P. N. Benham, D. M. Birnberg, D. Dond-Smith, A. B. Curry, P. J . Ellicott, H. P. Forbes, H. G. Grainger, C. H. C. Hallewell, E. J. l:f0ckley, D. B.. Holden, R. T. fzard, E. K. Lewis, J. E. Lush, A. C. Napier, J. M. Rothery. J. P. M. SImpson, C. Smith, A. T. Stafford.

The following passed Part II :P. Carnes, M. Chapman, H. R. Curtis. J. C. Delahay-Jones, R. J. Hancock, D. G. Heath, J. E. Joiner, R. R. North, H. L. N. Papenfus, H. E. Pughe, O. H. Rands, G. A. Roblin, O. G. Sims, A. P. Towell, J. B. Ward, G. G. Wishart, J. M. Watt.

Promotions The following promotions are made and will take effect from 19th September, 1947 :Sgt. W. 1. F. Ray to be C.S.M. "B" Company: L/Sgt. 1. B. H. Jackson to be C.S.M. "A" Company; L/Sgt. R. C. Wen ban to be C.Q.M.S.; L/Sgt. A. G. Bartlett, Cpls. I. M. Osborn, D. L. Quested, 1. W. Allison, P. O. S. Ellis and O. D. Lindley a nd L/Cp!. C. M. Reeves to be Sergeants; Cpls. D. w. Steel, 1. L. R. Burt, M. N. Devonshire and D . W. Molesworth 'and L/Cpls. A. G. P. Davidson and C. G. S. Paterson to be L/Sergeants ; L/epls. P. A. Fyre·Cooper, W. N. F. Francklin, D. K. L. Morgan , R. M. S. Cork, M. C. O. Mayne, l . R. Downes, A. B. K. Endersby, M. B. Foster, N. Barton, J. W. Birkett, 1. F. Black, 1. L. Lyon, C. B. M·Press, T. C. B. Swayne; D. L. Waller, R. G. White, T. L. G. Hamilton and J. D. Rowe and Cadet J. R. Allchurch to be Corporals; C,dets O. H. Rands, 1. M. Watt, H. L. N. Parpellfus, G. A. Roblin, G. G. Wishart , D. G. Sims, 1. B. Ward, P. ('..ames, A. P. Towell ~nd M. Chapman to be Lance·Corporals.

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SPEECH DAY 1947 Speech Day, with all its ceremonial and tradition, was held this year in the middle of the heatwave at the end of July. Tradition was broken when an outside Speaker, the Home Secretary, was amongst those who addressed the large gathering in the Chapter House. The Dean, as Chairman of the Governing Body, accepted from Sir Frederick Bovenschen (President of the O.K.S. Association) the gift of a portrait by James Bateman, R .A., of the late Lord Justice Luxmoore. In presenting the portrait, a gift of the O.K.S. Association, Sir Frederick described Lord Justice Luxmoore as "One of the very distinguished sons of the School". In the course of his speech the Headmaster said that the past year had been one of the best the School had experienced within the last fifty years. Referring to the flourishing state of School Societies, in particular the Natural History Society, he expressed approval of the formation, by the School Society, of an Association of School Natural History Societies. 230

THE CANTUARIAN He paid tribute to the success of the School's music, under Dr. E. Suttle. Referring to the Kent Competitive Music Festival, he said that the School had won all the major trophies and a considerable number of the secondary ones. The Canterbury College of Art, which he described as one of the finest institutions of its kind in the country, bad allowed members of the School to attend classes in the College, for which the School was indebted. The XI had won every match except one stopped by rain, while the IV had beaten every other school it had rowed against, and had come second in the final of the Marlow Regatta. The best eight in the country was that of Jesus College, Cambridge, and three of the crew were O.K.S. The School was completely full and would be for years to come. Canterhury should be justly proud of a school which had been in its midst for 1,300 years, and it largely depended on the city whether it remained so for another 1,300 years. The School needed the help of the City Council; he was therefore particularly glad that the Mayor and Corporation were with them to-day. The Headmaster went on to describe the inadequacy of the present School playingfields and suggested that some generous landowner in the district might like to present ten fl~t acres, for the School's use. He also asked for ~ifts of new boats at ÂŁ150 each, and subsequently four generous donors succumbed to hiS request. He paid tribute to Mr. J. B. Harris, the second Master, without whom, he said, the School would not run half so smoothly as it does; also to Mr. A. Egerton-Jones, who was retiring after serving the School since 1919. The Home Secretary, Mr. Chuter Ede, in a witty speech described the prizewinne)"s prize day as "three seconds of glory for twelve months' hard labour". He added that the prize that was never awarded on speech day, was that which the boy could award to himself when he could say as he saw others receiving their prizes, "I did my best", One of the hardest lessons to learn, he said, was that too often enemies, apart from opponents, were people on the same side! He called for a return to the great spirit of crusading that has distinguished our country in the past. "We are a great people," he said, "and we stand near to the highest peak of achievement we have ever reached." In ending, the Home Secretary said that boys were going out into the world from this ancient School, and they would not be judged by their academic distinction, but by what they were. Speeches concluded with the Garden Party on the Green Court, where the Buffs Band performed an agreeable programme of music. A very considerable number of O.K.S. were present and many remained for the traditional supper at night.

ANN IVERSAR Y PREACHER THE Rev. LAURENS SARGENT, O.K.S., Vicar of St. Peter-in-Thanet (The List of Anniversary Preachers dates from 1714) 231

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LATIN SPEECH SELECTIONS FROM VERGlL, AENEID IV G. V. HOLLIDAY B. K. NEWTON M. D. LAMBERT G. W. WILLIAMS

FRENCH SPEECH ACT I AND ACT II, SCENES I AND 2 "LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME" BY MOLlERB ... R. D. H. ROBERTS Maitre de Musique Maitre il. Danser C. G. S. PATERSON H. J. DE VOIL Monsieur Jourdain Maitre d' Armes I. M. Osborn G . D. Lindley Laquais K. G. T. STUART ENGLISH SPEECH ACT "Y, SCENE II FROM "BECKET" BY TENNYSON DRAM,ATIS PERSONAE Henry II, King of England ... P. D. LEIGHTON J. C. W. HULSB Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury John of Salisbury, Secretary to Becket M. C. O. MAYNE L. A. O. HALSBY Edward Grim, Cross-Bearer to Becket Sir Regiuald Fitzurse T. H. PARES Sir Richard de Brito .. . D. L. EDWARDS Sir William de Tracy J. B. H. JACKSON Sir Hugh de Morville B. L. LBARY Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England ... P. A. FYFE-COOPBR Rosamund de Clifford, a Nun M. D. LAMBERT

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LORD MILNER MEMORIAL SCHOLARS H. I. Duck C. A. R. Hoare T. G. CANNON SCHOLAR D. A. Childs SIR EDMUND DAVIS MUSIC SCHOLAR B. J. Stafford PRIZES, 1946-47 Captain 's Prize (Mitchinsoll) Classical (Broughton) Greek Prose (Dean Farrar) Latin Prose (Horsley) Mathematics (Milchinson) ... Natural Science (Milchinson) Modern Languages (Mitchinson) ... Reading and Elocution (Harvey Boys) Music (Ryley)

(Courtney) Natural History The King's School, Parra matta, Prize History (Stanley) Gough Prizes for Photography Drawing Prizes Divinity Prizes: Upper School (Broughton) (Galpin) ... Middle School (Marshall Wild) (Lady Hertsfet) ... Lower School (Elwyn) .. . Blore Prize for the Pater Society .. . B10re Prize for the Harvey Society Streatfield Prize for the Marlowe Society Church History (Lady Davidson) ...

R. M. Butler ... { T. H. Pares G. W. Williams K. G. T. Stuart K. G. T. Stuart C. M. Reeves P. Brown H. J. de Voil Senior: {Po D. Leighton J. B. H. Jackson Junior: P. A. Fyfe-Cooper Senior: P. Carnes Junior: J. G. Jell L. A. O. Halsey T. H. Pares Not awarded J. A. A. Price Open: J. E. Elliott Junior: J. A. McMillan Senior: D. W. Steel Junior: D. H. Lloyd-Philipps G. D. Lindley C. G. S. Paterson E . K. Lewis C. A. Charlton D. S. Jenkins K. G . T. Stuart J. J. Bradley D. L. Edwards D. L. Edward&

, THE CANTUARIAN Merton College Prizes: History Science Alan Baker Prize for Musical Ap~~eciati;n Oliver Johnson Prize (Physics and Chemistry) H. V. Crawford Essay Prize . J. Crawford Essay Prize Cathedral Prize Latin Prizes: Upper School Middle School Lower School Greek Prize .. . .. . Mathematics Prizes (Harrison) : Upper School ... Middle School Lower School French Prizes (Greaves) : Upper School Middle School Lower School German Prizes (Greaves) : Upper School Middle School Lower School .>cience Prizes (Hammonds) : Upper School Middle School (PhYSiCS)::: (Chemistry) L ower School ... ... nglish Prizes : Middle School (Galpin) .. . Lower School (Evans) .. . History Prizes: Middle School (Gordon) .. . Lower School ... .. . Geography Prize: Mid~le School (Gordon) ... Lower School ... .. .

J. A. A. Price P. Brown T . .G. E. Pugh.. R. M. S. Cork R. O. A. Norris T. H. Pares M. N. Devonshire ... { D. W. Steel G. V. Holliday P. R. Phillips A. R. Wayte G. V. Holliday C. M. Reeves C. F. Porter P. C. de Lisser ... { I. C. Macpherson D. M. Moreau R. D. H. Roberts J. M. Skinner D. M. Moreau R. D. H. Roberts J. D. Lubecki P. Brown J. B. Hopewell C. F. Porter C. J. Bell B. M. Bimberg . D. S. Jenkins D. K. L. Morgan A. S. MitchellÂˇInnes B. M. Bimberg J. Moor

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(From a King's Scholar of the Nineties) Speech Days seem all alike when one is still at School, but to one who comes back after a long absence there are changes- perhaps superficial changes only- some of which please and some are not so good. Gone are the days when we O.K.S. came down to play cricket two full days, watch the boats on a third, and sit out in the Cloisters (shame to us !) while the Headmaster and the Dean told the parents what a fine lot we all werethe School as well as the O.K.S. ! One had time to get to know the Cricket XI, most of the Sixth Form and the new Masters- to entertain members of the School, to eat cherries and sometimes smoke a pipe in the studies. The cricket ground seemed too deserted and we half.dozen or so O.K.S. had no chance of meeting the teams, sucb' as we had when we sat in the Pavilion on the "Beverley" and took tea with tbe teams. In tbose pre· ration days we even lunched with them in much larger numbers. There was a more personal touch then, though one perhaps did not get so good an idea of School activities. This year we were able to appreciate the Art Exhibition , a higher standard than in my day, tbe play at Meister Omers, and tbe School House concert, for which we say "Good shows, thank you" . The School Service in the Crypt was a trifle depressing (perhaps the early Christians felt that when they met in subterranean secret session) and it was difficult to hear the sermon- no fault of the preacher, who was audible all over the Chapter House next day and not only held his audience but got what he wanted ! The Speeches themselves were as good as when the famous "Tar" put us through our paces on the stage, and he was first class as a producer-as good as his strawberry feasts after rehearsals! But dignity was lacking owing to the cramped space. One could admire the Sixth Form and the prizewinners-but they were in the way when "Speeches" were being made. Even at the cost of being called up before a Monitors' Meeting next July I must venture on this criticism, which is one of their numbers and not of their individual virtues-or, I hope, cnmes! Clear them off the stage next year and let some 9f Us Stlln<;! at the entrance to the Chapter House and make room for our betters !

THE CANTUARIAN We did enjoy the Green Court hours after Speeches and the chance of talking with members of the School and with masters, the peace amid the bustle of catching trains. And ye, ye Masters, cannot some of you be at home to the pipes and cigarettes of O.K.S. after dinner on a couple of evenings? Those delightful desultory talks ranging all over the world but always coming back to School affairs- we missed them this year ! But be sure it was a most enjoyable return for all of us. Don't let any criticisms cause anyone to think that we were not very happy to be back again and to see what a vigorous, live School it is. May many Speech Days await us in the future and may the School continue to flourish ! [The Editors are very glad to print this and assure the writer that the more O.K.S. who come for Speeches the betler. As to the Crypt Service, the fact is that the School requires 400 seats-in the writer's day it numbered about ISO- and the Choir is the only place capable of holding them except the Ciypt. And the Choir is given up to a public congregation at 6.30-an innovation from, we think, Dean Alford's time. The Cathedral has its Statutory Evensong at 3, and we have often wondered if another Evensong was needed at 6.30, especially as the Parish Churches are functioning at that hour. The ideal (and we venture to think), proper, thing-considering the School is part of the Cathedral Foundation, which means that the D. and C. have a religious responsibility towards the School-would be for the School to have its Evening Service in the Choir.- Eds.]

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The O.K.S. Dinner will be held at the Waldorf Hotel, London, on January 9th, 1948. Tickets will be price 16/6. RECRUITMENT Field-Marshal Vi~count Montgomery has become a Life Member of the O.K.S. Association. That is good news, and gives a splendid lead to many O.K.S. who have no doubt often thought of doing the same thing, but in fact have not done anything about it. Could they not think about it again now, and this time send a cheque for ÂŁ5 5s. Od. to Major D. J. B. Jervis, Ford Manor, Hoath, near Canterbury? There is something really satisfactory about Life Membership; it saves a lot of trouble on the part of the Secretary of the Association (and of the member too), and what matters more, it emphasizes the truth that the School and the O.K.S. belong to each other for life. At the present moment the membership of the Association is 1,103. There are 351 Life Members, and 363 Ordinary Members who pay an annual subscription; then there are 389 O.K.S. whose names are on the roll of the Association but who do not pay their subscriptions at all !! The last figure is lamentably high; let us hope that by the time the next Cantuarian appears it will have been materially reduced by an influx of new Life Members. Nor is the figure of 1,103 quite good enough. There must be many more O.K.S. who would be glad to renew their touch with the School. And that, of course, is the point of the Association. The Secretary likes to have our money, because it helps the School, and it is a source of anxiety to him when he does not get it. But he is far more concerned that every O.K.S., if possible, should take an active interest in the life of the School as it is now, and not regard it only as a depository of memories, happy or otherwise. There is a wonderful feeling of vitality about the School to-day; it would be safe to say that it has never been healthier and happier; an.;! it <!Qe~

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. The. O.K.S. ~~~~~:~~t~UbIiC Schools' Cup at r;eal in Will O.K.S. who wish to play 10 ~~e ~Chasewood Avenue, Enfield, Middlesex. '1 1948 , please wnte to G. Arno , _ . Aprl, . - - - f he use of a typewriter; if any kind fflend The O.K.S. Association is badly .'101. hneepdl~as~ communicate with the Secretary, O~K.S. . e or loan one, WI e would care to glv M Hoath Canterbury? Association, Ford anor, ' News 4-18) has bought a delightful house LIEUT.-COLONBL H. G. N. Lt K,!:", ~~ ~i~~~~~~1 as a Parochial Lay Reader by the . . at Pluckley. On 25th Octo er e k' E gland from Keoya till June, 1948, IS attendIng Archbishop of Canterbury. 1934-39) now bac 10 n ld b y pleased T. WATTS ( .' Oxf' d for two terms. a course at Tnnlty, or, K ' t 0'11 Co Persian Gulf, wou ever 36-40) of the uwal ". to O.K.S. ;:tEstate, that we in England . . W A. J. MILNER (1901---v wn e will be short of tea until Java settles dOW;'subscription to the O.K.S. Assoclallon . He H. SPENCE (1904-11) has doul~led rt;:, it " (Will others please copy ?-Eds')K S h says, "\ think The Calltuanan W\3)~~xtend~ a very cordial welcome to all O. . . w 0 (1931b 'tt d J .D' HORE-KENNARD . \'t'tobesuml e visit Buenos-AlTes. J W CLEGG (1917- 28), a London patho ygl~.' IS as Parliamentary The name of D~. 'L'b' 1 Association, with a VIew to hIS se ec IOn to the Wells DIVISIOn I ~ra . ' fuel h R A F in Singapore, and is work1Og 10 the candidate at the next electIOn. CUSHMAN is now With t e . . ' f h J . A" t 1 _oMR laboratory as a chemls . 37) ho is tea planting in Ceylon, would we come n R. E. JACKSON (1931 ,w . from May to O.K.S. in Ceylon. (1908- 11) hopes to be 10 England BISHOP MORRIS GELSTHORPB t ear September, 1948. . E land on leave from Nairobi early nex Y . to ng . the Dorsetshire Regiment h~s P . D . FINN (1917-26) is returrung (1911 13) after 31 years 10 . h t 'n Mflca 10

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THE CANTUARIAN D. JBNKIN recently met Oitchburn of the Grange at O.C.T.U. J. K. BROWN is at R.A.C. O.C.T.U. at Bovington. A. M. DURNFORD, who is working in London, writes that he recently met Mr. E. H. Wall, who is now a Chancery lawyer. V. ST. G. BRBALY is hoping to go to an R.E. O.C.T.U. T. H. PARES and H. J. DB VOiL are both at Larkhill. P. D. LEIGHTON is at a Training Camp in the North of Scotland. K. HUBBARD and R. A. BBDINGFIELD both hope to get to Sandhurst shortly for the R.A.C. O. W. EUSTACE is home from India. Last year he passed the B.O.R. instructors' course in General Science at Deccan College, Poona, with exceptionally high markS. SIR HARRY TOWNEND wrote to "report" his return home from India. It was a curious coincidence that he and Sir Bertrand Jeffam, friends and contemporaries at School, were both knighted on the same day. D . M. MOREAU writes, "I have now passed out from the Radar School and am servicing, inter alia, the radar gear in the King's F light of Vikings. It's interesting work, and I can recommend the trade to anybody as containing the highest proportion of educated and even intellectual types of any. Incidentally, while at Yatesbury, I met Maplethorpe, Wan and WeatheriIJ, all going through the salJle mental anguish." . MICHAEL LAYLAND writes from the R.A.F. in Germany : "The Cantua!'ia" seems to have forgotten the other Royal occasion. K.S. supplied the non-fainting part of the Guard of Honour to the Duke and Duchess of Kent on a blazing hot day at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. I was on it. The Buffs supplied the other half." C. R. B. BROWN, home from the Far East, is now studying Architecture at Liverpool University. H. I. D. JOHNSON is training in the north of Scotland. E. B. BUNNELL has volunteered for the Army. D. H. P. MAYBURy-LEWIS has been on a course in the South of Spain at the expense of the Spanish Government. He hitch-hiked back to England via France and Belgium. We are glad to know that R. E. L. BEARDSWORTH is now living at Whitstable. G. H. EDMUNDS gained his Higher National Certificate in Tele-communication last year. S. C. ROBBRTSON, late Captain, Irish Guards, is on his way to Tanganyika to take up a post with the Tankanyika Cotton Co. D. L. EDWARDS does not find the Army as bad as he feared. He is at present at Winchester. M. H. SLATER is back from India, where he spent most of his time in rather isolated out-stations in the Frontier Province. S/L. H. G. YEARWOOD, R.A.F. Regiment, now serving in Palestine, has sent us a copy of Das Magazine for February, 1941, which includes two photographs, one of the J.T.C. in the Mint Yard with the caption, "Auch beim militarischen 'Training ' im englischen College herrscht del' Snobismuc der Sohne der plutokratischen Oberschict". The second shows T. A. Watts and D. G. Carter in court dress outside the Grange. They are described as "Plutokratensprosslings-ihr einziges yerdienst ist es, die Sohne ihrer 238

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TilE CANTUARIAN Tbe older residents of Cambridge are flourishing. H. P. Wortham spent the summer by motoring through Italy and has come back bronzed and healthy. D. B. Young must be working ansi N. L. Hearne attends the Union and plays Squash. C. W. A. Lovatt continues to study law at Cambridge. J. P. M. Sugden is in Corpus and has brought back a charming wife from Australia. It is with great pleasure that we may announce the engagement of A. D. Wilson, who is at King's. J. Pescheck continues to charm a congregation in King 's Chapel with his voice and is busy with his music and his History. F. L. Whalley works bard this term. D. S. M. Harris is still coxing trial eights. M. A. S. Burgess, as Secretary of the Cambridge University Slavonic Society is designing decor for the forthcoming Russian Play next term. He has no time at all. Other O.K.S. in Cambridge include V. St. A. Hubbard and J. H. P. Gibb. Brian Nichols has abandoned his piano and is immersed in History . [t is indeed pleasant to realise how closely the Gentlemen from Canterbury keep in tOllch with one another and for this we owe a debt to Dr. Budd, who brings the O.K.S. together several times a term. Let us from Cambridge wish the School success and happiness. Let us also hope that we may see still more Canterbury Scholars at the University in the years to come . Yours, etc.,

O.K.S.

CANTAB.

JAMES GROVES WHITE TUCKEY, M.A., B.D. , C.B.E., K.H.C., CANON OF RIPON

It was with great regret that we heard of Canon Tuckey's death, which took place on 25 October . He had left Ripon, where he had been Canon Residentiary from 1923 to 1945, and was lately living at St. Leonard's. The writer of this notice saw him a few times in recent months in London, and breakfasted with Tuckey at the Oxford and Cambridge Club on June 30th last. It was obvious then that the end could not be far off. But to the last he was full of the School, for which his affection had never waned . Born in 1864 Tuckey, son of Dr. Charles Tuckey, came to the School in 1874 and was therefore contemporary with C. E. Woodruff, the Crowthers, the Blenkinsops, the Cobbs, and Charles Stonham. He was in the Sixth in 1880, and next year became a Senior Scholar and Monitor, and in 1882 Head of School House. He went up to Trinity, Oxford, as the first Ford Student, and got a First in Classical Mods. in 1885 ; he took his degree in 1887, proceeding M.A. in 1890, and as late as 1924 took a B.D. Tuckey studied also at Heidelberg, and lectured at Durham, where he was ordained. In 1895 he became a Chaplain to the Forces and on the declaration of war went out with the troops to South Africa. He was shut up in Ladysmith all through the siege of that place, and as he told the present writer at breakfast between chuckles, was the only one of the three Chaplains to keep on his feet all the time. The garrison was horribly short of food, even by our later standards of war scarcity and deprivation I He thought the world of Sir George White, the gallant defender of Ladysmith. Tuckey was mentioned in despatches and promoted, rema ining as Senior Chaplain in the Transvaal until 1904, when he returned to take up appointments at Caterham and Woolwich. In the First World War he served abroad from 1914-1916, and was three times Mentioned in Despatches: and for five years after he was Assistant Chaplain General, Southern Command.

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THE CANTUARJAN . InC.B.E. 1918 Tuckey . the next was appomted an Honorary Cha lain t . as lanon ;.as awarded he lived the . It a marvellous life full ug I e as he had In every sphere. Ipon, where nd hIS nund was clear and ' . ofvigour and keen interest to the his sehnse of humour quick, : TlO the last very sadly crippled in p YSlCa ly he was a slow meal for the dea a mont s. I shall often remember t Its Yo r oldldman had such trouble with his dent hft was and large kind u cou not but see he was a reat m pates; but it had with School shouFd be a ran of body slicks would hardl h on e oog Jhght of stairs in the C Âˇ can see him now ll badequate the assistance Valet- and this la;t een a batman In Ladysmith r IC b' Jor . a wphlch orter his and the

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Tribute from the Rev . W. F. C0 bb ( 1879-85)

. REGINALD IN MEMORIAM th we regret to announce the dea~~f~AMY HHELMORE (1888- 96) e summer. R M HI ' . elmore which to k I . Michaelmas 1888 th'ro e was born on ' 2nd July 1878 0h P ace at Srdmouth in t e Jumor School. He was a '-unior' e entered a senior scl{olar 'He d the School became tre in 1895 ana 1896 a1 father, the Rev. F. J. 0 H I eflea, Medlc!,1 and General In on 10 1896 mauy years; he was al;o a. Mlllor Canon SOtclebty. USIC Mastel' at theand School. an er ury His for

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THE CANTUARIAN HAROLD EDWARDS FLINT (1887-1892) Senior O.K .S. will much regret to read of the death of Harold Edwards Flint, O.K.S. (1887- 92). He was in the XV of 1890--92, he gained his Sports Colours in 1892 and left in December of that year. He was the younger of two brothers, whose father, T. J. W. Flint, was also an O.K.S. H . .E. Flint was a good runner and the Open Quarter of 1892 waS d.escribed as one of the best races and was won by Flint ii from Flint i, who came in a good second. The former also carried off the Open lOa-Yards Race by a few inches. In the Inter-School Sports he ran for the School in the Half Mile, the 100 Yards and the Quarter Mile and won the race in grand form. Those of us who remember him at the School will recollect that he was a delightful fellow. On leaving the School he went to St. Bartholomew 's Hospital and took his medical degrees, became House Surgeon at the Mildmay Mission Hospital, Bethual Green, and was afterwards Medical Missionary in India under the C.M.S . He was awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal 1919. His elder brother, Major R. B. Flint was in his day Captain of the XV.

REMINISCENCES OF THE REV. CANON F. N. CROWTHER (1871-1877) THE SCHOOL REBELLION OF 1873 A good deal has been said about the School Rebellion of l873 . Dr. Mitchinson regarded it as a mere instance of insubordination and dealt with it in his customary way of caning everyone connected with it, but really it was a symptom of something 1.

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much Boysdeeper. in their own homes were no longer treated by their parents as their grandfathers had been and they were not ready to submit to the out-of-date treatment at School. But what brought matters in the School to a crisis was the fact that the Captain of the School, Tommy Field (the late Dr. Field), had gone to Oxford to spend the term there and the head of the School was noW a boy who was a brilliant classical scholar, but wholly deficient in the qualities of rule and government and who expected the same obedience to be paid to him as to his predecessor. We had indeed a hard time. In School mistakes were treated with the utmost severity. Dr. Mitchinso , for example, regarded a bad mistake in an exercise as an affront to n of pointing ont the error and the way to avoid it in the future he himself and instead merely knocked the culprit down. Out of School the monitorial system, excellent in many ways, was carried out ruthlessly by those who had little experience or sympathy . Our food was bad, quite inadequate as to modern requirements and we were often really hungry. We were no longer content to accept snch conditions without demur. And so it happened that over 50 boys decided to run away from the School on a certain date. This plot came to the ears of the Headmaster, who had the whole lot listed for a caning, which he proceeded to carry out-SO many each day. Before he could complete his task he had left the School, having been appointed Bishop of the Barbados Islanlls-and 1 waS one of the fortunate tail enders to miss the chastisement.

THE CANTUARTAN With the advent of Dr. B10re and his gracious wife an immediate change took place in the general atmosphere and a more humane tone was spread abroad. The last thing I wish to do is to attribute blame to Dr. Mitchinson- he was brought up in a hard school himself and he naturally continued it, but I have every reason to speak gratefully of him and on the last occasion that I saw him in the Masters' Lodge at Pembroke College, Oxford, I asked for his blessing. 2.

THE CATHEDRAL FIRE

One morning, about noon, in the Easter term I think, we were all seated in a class room in the Grange. The subject was history and our Master, Mr. Gordon. I felt sure I would be kept in as I bad not studied up the subject sufficiently. My luck, however, stood me in good stead once again, for a boy burst into the class room yelling out, 'The Cathedral is on fire". That ended the class, for we all rushed out on to the Green Court to watch. The roof from Bell Harry Tower to the East End was ablaze. Repairs were being carried ont in the roof and a workman upset a brazier or something of tbe sort and the rafters caugbt alight. . Molten lead was pouring down from the roof. However, it was extinguished in a few hours. Souvenirs were soon obtainable at a moderate price and I am tbe proud possessor of a photo frame made from the rafters and tbe molten lead. 3.

BECKET'S BONES

About 1934 I bad the pleasure of meeting Arthur Scratton at his bouse on tbe West Overcliff drive, Bournemouth. We had not me~ since our scbool-days and as we shook hands on his front doorstep we both exclaimed, " 60 years I" Since then he had travelled over S. America and I had lived in India. Scratton was a great humorist and I reminded him of an incident at Hodgson's Hall on the Green Court-one half of the Hall a master lived in and tbe other half was a class room. Even in tbose days American tourists used to stroll in to have a look inside. Scratton took advantage of this one day when the coast was clear. He stuck a large notice on the outside of the front door, "Step inside and see Becket's bones". He left the door ajar and over it laid a booby trap with a bucket of water. It worked beautifully- the Yanks duly arrived and were well and truly baptised. Fortunately Scratton got away with it.

â&#x20AC;˘ 4. THE CRYPT GHOST Joe Pollard was a great cbaracter- be was the only boy who humbugged Dr. Mitchinson, who thought he was defective as he could never do his repetition of the Epistle. He told me it was quicker to take his customary puniShment of writing it out three times than attempting to memorise it. .

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?:ee that gentleman , poking hIS slick roundr' his life to join the party, leavll1g hIS prop whereupon the old gentleman ran or d' t'nguished Skin Specialist. J potlard became a IS I I believe in later years oe th e was only one House. the . t d of about 80 boys- er The School in those dalys con~'t~ sleep in the Grange. \ School House. Any surp uS use -'th the old School has been rather a large one, \I . . My connectIOn WI Self \ nl ones now alive) Edward My six brothers (Henry and Jack are the 0 Y Cbarles Henry Jack S h 1) Arthur, my son . I (who had three brothers at the c 00 Horace Hayes, my son-In- aw Willoughby Hayes} my grandsons Walter Hayes . also Richard Bendlsh, my cousin

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THE JUNIOR SCHOOL We put on record our prize list for the school year ending last JUly. Head of School's Prize: Foster. Form Prizes: I, Dartington; lIn, Hardisty; liA, Featherstone; III, Blackall ii ; IVn, McCleery ii; IVA, Price; V, Hartridge; VI, Bretherton. .Hodgson Divinity Prizes: I, Dartington; Un, Hardisty; !lA, Leggatt i ; Ill, Morgan ii'; IV, McCleery ii; V, Reading; VI, Foster. Reading Prizes: I, Colling-Baugh; JIn, Hardisty; IIA, Fishlock; III, Nicholls ; IV, Hargreaves; V, McCleery i; VI, Holberton. Mathematics Prizes: Bretherton, Backhouse and Coles i. French: Williams, Reed. Greek: Bainbridge. Science: Holberton . Music: Piano-Nash-Williams, Wright; Wind-Brethertoll; Recorder-Foster. Painting: Shakerley, Mercer, Norris. Handwork: Strouts.

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The change from Rugger to Soccer, as Our major game for this term, was not made without careful thought and calculation . These reasons, among others, prevailed . Most of Our neighbouring preparatory schools play Soccer in the autumn term, so Our School matches have been made much more interesting. For the smaller boys, Soccer is certainly the better game. Although most of Our boys go on to Rugger schools, they lose nothing by starting with Soccer, and indeed may gain something, ill control of the ball with the foot, which some Rugger players sadly lack . Most of the School will be playing that way.Rugger next term, and we think that we shall be making the best of both worlds

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Our half-term concert, given in the Chapter House, was well received; it was the first of such that the School had given for many years, and we hope it will not be the last. Its programme (printed below) was designed to give a picture of as many musical activities as possible. Nearly all the turns arose from the normal work of the School, and were not the result of special preparation. We thank those grown-ups who helped in the orchestra very sincerely. Their SUpport made our Own enjoyment of our Own playing very much greater, and certainly made the orchestra sound better to the audience. We also thank the authorities for letting us use the Chapter House for such a purpose. Everyone, of course, realises that we have no hall in Sturry which we can use for a largescale performance in the winter, until Our Own ba rn is made weatherproof.

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Comments on the concert from another angle: " .... gave a terrific roll on the side-drum, and I came in with a crash on the cymbals; after that we played the Morning Song and Two Simple Pieces. The bass-drummer and I got lost in the Morning Song \Vpen We were sUpposed to be playing the Two Simple Pieces•. .. In the Tor Symphonr

'THE CANTUARtAN . d to the great delight of our parents. '... somebody knocked our musIc off the stan ~ather ainful, but the tunes of the semor The tune by the junior ,recorder play~r~ f~~ minute~ before going to get my vlOlm by recorders more harmolllous .... ~dlos the Chapter House roof .. . . th~ next palt was looking at the red, blue, and go on. 'n one ractice my D stflng had given a uneventful except when I s~~~~:;;al~l~f~~e' ~f :he piec~s, so r did not ]Jlay that, ?ne very low moan and fallen flatme m most was h. aVlDg . an extra hour before bed-lime .... well .... what thrilled •

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f the Ro al Wedding, perhaps deserves a below. The team consist~d of The Staff Soccer match, played on the dah~ given little more space than our sports reporter sistant cook and Mademoiselle VIOlet. seven masters, two assistant m.atrons, an ~s ulaf cate she was one of the most Although Mademoiselle comes mto ~o part~~ senior ~ember of the team was allowed energetic and useful menlbfers of t~enSgld~~~ents but generally speaking the others .were lay in goal. He had a ew eXCI I . . 'h to report that age and expenence to keep the ball well away from honour of the grown-ups was had their effect, agamst youth an spee , vindicated. >4: '" * '"

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COllcert in the Chapter House, Saturday, November 8th, 1947 GOD SAVE THE KING

(sung by everybody) I.

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Chari.. Woodhouse Chorles Woodhouse

Minuet, No.2 Valse THE ORCHESTRA

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"Cockles and Mussels" "Golden Slumbers" "Drink to me only" THE RECORDER CLA~ 7. RONDEAU FROM SUITE IN B MINOR FOR FLUTE AND STRINGS FRANCIS BRBTHERTON, JOHN BAINBRIDGE 8. Toy SYMPHONY ON ENGLISH AIRs THE ORCHESTRA 9. OVERTURE AND CHORUSES FROM The Peasant Cantata (I)

Overture (2) "Good neighbours aU" (4) : :Spring ~omes laughing 0 'ec the plain" (8) Happy IS the land" (10) "Good cause have we" (18) "Sweet Spring is advancing"

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Now let us to the bagpipes' sound " THE CHOIR SCHOOL SONG: "Land of our birth" R. Vaughan Williams (words by Rudyard Kip/if/g)

. A Visit to the Gas Works Our g.ulde took us first to the Retort House It w by seeml.ngly flimsy steel catwalks, the open sp~ce abas d~~k, hot and tarry. We reached, ~utomatlC machIne which charges the vertical retort~V!ithe ~it~rts. head of us was lhe oord wTerhe two rows of smalJ round steel plates on which .. ons.do coal each. In the t rea. e heat was stifling. , O u r gUI e warned us not to We went below, to the lowest fioor' be'd With ~ crash the flap at the bottom of ~ ret;:t e us was a man with his hand on a lever. opened, and down feU two tons of red-hot coke IOtO a waiting trough Some I In~oluntarily we all stepped ·back. To~;.i.~ ~f~:;;er the side and fell at Our feet. qUIckly the man jumped on to the footboard of th t 1~~Pt up from the glowing mass ' end of the building, where it was subjected to' . ~ ro ey, and wheeled it along to on~ h We were then led past this steam' a VICIOUS sower-bath. furnaces, in which water dri s 011 to r~~~h monster to the Furnace House. Here were retorts to 1,300· centigrade ~ then back ot cpke to fohrm producer gas which heats the ferocIOUS. ' agam past t e monster, which was now less We walked back, above the retorts Th . above one of the retorts Two lar e i b e great machme was trundled into position area w!ls filled with dens~ black dus~; ~ p":, w:~ed l~hweded ; a slither, a crash, and the We shielded our faces from the terrific heaf' e ust turned Into a mass of flame. caps from the retort on a long metal frame H1f 'fua"fiadvanced With one of the round bellun .. The other lid followed, and the c~al :as s:ret me ceased as sUddenly as it had y ImprIsoned In the container in which It was to cook for seventeen houri.

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TH.E CANTUARIAN Our guide explained how the gas passes first through the tar condenser, and then through the ammonia scrubber, to remove impurities. Then it rises through trays of iron oxide to remove sulphuretted hydrogen. Lastly, before it reaches the gas-holder, benzine is removed by a scrubber containing oil. From there it is pumped to the gasholder, and so through pipes to your homes. F.P.B. (J.K.S., Form VI) (We shall have had another of our "industrial visits" before this appears in print, to the city's waterworks.) Football

For a change we have played Soccer this term throughout the School. The idea was greeted with apparent enthusiasm, doubtless it was considered easier to cope with and control a round ball. Enthusiasm, however, tended to give way to some misgivings when the horrible truth dawned that players were expected to stay more or less in their positions. With the prospect of matches against boys of the same age and, more particularly, the same size, a keener spirit became very evident. In the first match, hopes ran high when we led the Choir School 1-0 ipside ten minutes. But then things started to go wrong. Players left their own positions, forwards became mingled with the backs and halves had no forwards to feed. This sorry state of affairs resulted in our being defeated 3-1.

The next day there was a very different story to tell in the victory over Tormore. A really good, fast game, in which there seemed to be an evident desire to win, did much to make up for the previous match. The play, too, reached a very creditable standard. This could not quite be repeated in our next match against St. Lawrence, which resulted in a draw, although everybody played hard. Against St. Edmund's we scored our most decisive victory, 4-0, and with greater accuracy in shooting, that score might well have been doubled. Some of the younger members of the School have been able to get a little match practice in an age-for-age game against Canterbury House, which we won 1-0. A further match, to celebrate the Royal Wedding, was played against the Staff, who won 5-3. The standard of football in the senior house matches has been quite creditable and several reversals of form have been recorded, with the result that considerably more interest has been attached to them. The junior hOllse teams are still very similar to "puppy-scrambles " with plenty of energy being expended and relatively small results accruing. The results of the house matches were as follows :SBNIOR.-Cockas lost to Macaws and Keas and drew with Kakas. Kakas beat Keas and drew with Macaws and Cockas. Keas lost to Kakas and beat Cockas and Macaws. Macaws beat Cockas, drew with Kakas and lost to Keas. JU NIOR.-Cockas beat Macaws, drew with Keas and lost to Kakas. Kakas drew with Keas and Macaws and beat Cockas. Keas drew with Kakas and Cockas and beat Macaws. Macaws lost to Cockas and Keas and drew with Kakas. Kakas and Keas, therefore, tied with 8 points, while Cockas and Macaws each scored "{.P.P. 4 points. 249

THE CANTUARIAN House Competition-8ummcr Term Cockatoos Kakas School Work 6 2 ". Work Stars ... 4 0 Cricket House Matches (S~~ior) ::: 6 2 DIIIo (Junior) '" 3 2 Games points 3 2 House Orderly duty'" 2} I Changing Room duty It I~ Athletic Sports 4 6 Swimming Sports 4 6

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Barn Fllnd RECEIPTS £ s. d. . EXPENDIT URB III hand, JUlle, 1947 ". 487 6 8 Llghllllg equIpment ... Donations_ R. S. F. Sutton, Esq. I I 0 J. B. BartOll, Esq. ". 3 12 0 W. K. Johnsoll, Esq. 10 0 Mrs. Carne 2 2 0 Sturry Garde;; 'Prod~~e So~i~ty 9 6 0 Mrs. Graham 5 5 0 M. W. S. Bass, Esq'" 5 0 0 Collectiol/s_ . Midsummer Night 's Dream 50 0 0 Chapte r House Concert 36 16 8 Fo~m III Pla y " . ". 18 6 Boys work in holidays 8 3 6 Sundries . 8 14 2 Less Expenditure

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In hand (in P.O. Savings Bank) £600 0 4 Work on repairing the roof f th B ' . When this job is finished, I sha?l ha~e aa rblU'St proceeding-slowly, but it is going on. £500; the roof will have been tiled at th I 0 Pt~Ollt of the fund of approximately the cost of the lining, not bein there at e ?ost 0 e War Damage Commission, but fund. I propose then to startgaskin . the tl.me of the bombIng, has to come out of the Insert windows into the wooden art ~/~' a. hcellce to ma ke the sides weatherproof to the stage. Our own guess at thtcost f ~~sldes, a nd to build a solid backgro und bel{ind WIll help me to raise this sum before the jo:,s'isa~g~,:?nt prJces, IS another £1,000. Who W.H.O. 250

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CORRESPONDENCE HolnicoteJ To the Editors a/THE CANTUARIAN . Hythe, Gentlemen, Kent. In your last number yo u referred to the changes wh ich had lately tuken place in the appointments of Honorary Secretary and Honorary Treasurer of the O.K.S. Association, and you very rightly expressed our gratitude to J. P. Heming, R. H. Osborne and R. W. Marshall, who, between them during the past seventeen years, have carried out the duties of those posts. But the facts of their service were not quite correctly stated in yo ur note and I should, therefore, like to set out those facts and, at the same time, as President of the O.K.S. Association, add my voice to yours in saying bow much we owe to these three O.K.S. Heming a nd Osborne were elected Honorary Secretary and Honorary Treasurer of the O.K.S. Association respectively in 1930, in succession to R . A. Finn, who had been both Honorary Secretary and Honorary Treasurer from the foundation of the Association in 1928. Heming a nd Osborne held their appointments until the outbreak of war- Osborne was then embodied as a Territorial and Heming took over the H onorary Treasurer 's wo rk, in addition to his own, until he joined the Navy in 1942. R. W. Mars ha ll, who had done his fighting in the 1914-18 War, then came forward to hold the fort during the rest of the difficult war years. Heming and Osborne resumed their duties at the end of the war. Between them these three have thus been responsible for the Secretarial a nd financial work of the Association for all but the first two years of its life. That has meant an immense amount of hard work, of patience and of enthusiasm for all things connected with the School and O.K.S., and it is largely due to this hard work, this patience and this enthusiasm that the Association is now in a position to start again, after the war, on what we all hope will be a long and prosperous

existence.

So our "tbank you" to these three O.K.S. is not a mere formality but an expression of a real and lively gratitude. Yours sincerely, F. BOVBNSCHBN . 20 Woronzow Road, St. John's Wood, London, N.W.8. Dear Sirs, 16th September, 1947. A Wren church is imperiUed. May I be allowed space to make a vigorous protest against interference with SI. James's Church, Garlickhythe, and to ask support to lend my individual efforts weight? The present SI. James's Church was built by Wren and stands not far westward of the Monument on the site of the original church which was destroyed in the Fire of London. It survived the air raids but suffered the effects of blast and was superficia lly chipped by near misses. But it is not irreparable. There is a movement afoot to use this slight damage as reason enough to pull it down, and re-erect it elsewhere to allow replanning committees groundage for their new City highways schemes. The alternative, we are told, is to knock down part of the Vintner~'

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THE CANTUARIAN HaU opposite. Both these suggestio t with which authorities have been al~:~d ~u r~&eouskand clear~y.indicate the indifference glones. 0 s np na ed our Cllies of their architectural

It is comforting, nevertheless to h th h . opposition in the City. And quit~ right;~oo aio; t es~ t'rohosa~ are likely to meet with the people of England, is robbery and blasphemy.o a e c urc property from its owners, These churches are OURS We aliv t d . ~ur sached duty as honourable men toe p~~teci :~d t~l~a~~~rODIANS honly, and it is eIrS w 0 may, perhaps, appreciate them more than we do. em on un armed to our To remove a church from the original site ch b' . great he may have been is a deliberate betrayatS~I; Yt Its buIlder, however obscure or Those m~stercraftsmen ~re dead. The canno~ 0 rus - a mean and despicable thing. d d ~peak for themselves. They have given us of thetr best, born of their Faith in for their works. We should not be unw~rthaynofmth,!s't And the~ ~ave trusted us to care Tw h IS rust nor laIl them o undred years ago stately m d' 1 Wh' . . Ittmgton Castle was pulled down, tower by tower, to provide' local auth e .ll~eva. And what might have been the fate of ~~~fs :Ith, cheap dmatenal to repair the roads! had had its way? er ury s gran old Westgate if "authority"

Let the gentlemen responsible fo th C ' wisdom of their decisions Ma I rue Ity s new roadways pause to consider the planners of Belgium HoUa~d F~a s ggest they should take inspiration from master' ,nee-or anyw here else on the Co t' ? E th ~re are to be seen magnificent ancient buildin sn ment. verywhere bndges, walled towns, market halls and monum g town. halls, churches, gateways, m great spaces or with roads suit;bl w'd d ents-standmg pro,!dly alone, isolated such surroundings, as a direct resul; olthi: :d~ir~bl d~flect.e~ for theu: preservation. In wealth and contentment actually felt . . e oreslg t, IS a sohdanty of spiritual St. James's Church the Vintner 'H 11 d 1 . isolated, like the chu;ches in the Stra~d' ~f bo\:I'r ancient buildings should be similarly . UI mgs must come down, then let us see to It that office blocks and mod . come tumbling down first. eIn structures, no matter what private interest own them, I am, Sirs, Yours faithfully, CHRISTOPHER W. KENT, , O .K.S.

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To the Editors of THE CANTUAJUAN Sirs, There has been considerable contr h' Thi~ is It IDlltier on which I feel stro~~~~y t IS term over the matter of Cathedral Services.

THE CANTUARIAN The School should never go to the Matins on the first Sunday in the month, unless they go and remain silent, except for the hymn, for at present, they ruin an otherwise fine service by their complete inability to sing in tune, or even on the right note. The Plainsong responses become a groan, while the Psalms, sung antiphonally by the choir, put the School at sixes and sevens, resulting in a mere mutter on their part. At present the only solution is to leave the School to sing their own form of Matins which is adequate enough for their needs, while boys who prefer the Cathedral Service, and there are some, should be permitted to go to that service. While I remain, Sirs, Your obedient servant, AN OLD CATHBDRAL CHORISTBR.

The Grange, The Mint Yard, Canterbury. 19th November, 1947. To the Editors of THE CANTUARIAN Sirs, Controversy has been aroused recently concerning the support rendered by the School in Cathedral services. Some say that the congregation should not join in the singing of Psalms and hymns, in order that the Choir may make an offering of a service that is beautiful and impressive; and that the congregation should merely be witnesses of, this offering: dumb of mouth, if not of heart. If this opinion is to be countenanced, we may follow the argument to its logical conclusion, and ask, "What then is the need of a congregation at all ?.. If they detract from the effect by making the singers self-conscious, and by disturbing them with their scumings and coughs, and their singing out of time and out of tune, surely a congregation is not only unnecessary, but undesirable? This opinion is untenable. The purpose of a choir is to lead the congregation in the expression of its thanks and praises to God; to lead, but not to supplant. If it is felt that the choir should contribute something special, something perfect, to the service, the proper and natural opportunity is provided in the Anthem. Let them sing two or three Anthems, if they like. Psalms and hymns are meant to be sung by everybody. Church services to-day must be enlivened, otherwise congregations will continue to diminish. It is worth noticing that people who regularly attend the Cathedral services say how much they like the presence of the School on the first Sunday of the month, because the Psalms and hymns are then sung by the congregation as well as by the Choir. Let us have exhibitions of perfect singing, by all means; but let everybody join in canticles and hymns in praise of God, which is the purpose of coming to Church at all.

Yours, etc., K. G. T. STUART,

THE CANTUARIAN To the Editors of THB CANTUARIAN Dear Sirs, I cannot help knowing there is correspondence in this number about Cathedral services. The real solution is a Chapel of our own, distinct from the Cathedral, as Bishop Mitchinson strongly held. But if people ask why we do not go every Sunday to Cathedral Matins, the answer is two-fold: (a) we are too big a community to be accommodated without considerable inconvenience to others; (b) we are a living community, and it is essential that this community finds and gives its own expression of worship, which is something every Christian community is entitled and bound to do; we must develop worship on lines proper to our own sense of corporate life and responsibility- we must develop our own understanding and reading of the Scriptures-we must develop our own musical talentsand we must have sermons directed to the needs and problems of adolescents for whom the future looms large and, it may be, menacingly. To listen to a service every Sunday done by professional singers in professional manner is no true alternative. As things are, we have School Matins on three Sundays in the month, but we are conscious that we must not linger over it. At night time we assemble' for a Sermon in the beautiful Undercroft Chapel of Our Lady. We may have a sermon only since the low roof does not permit of choir singing. Here we are undisturbed, except that we know that the second Catbedral Evensong will begin overhead at 6.30 p.m. The first serious drawback of this chapel is that most preachers are inaudible beyond half-way, and this tends to cause listlessness and boredom; the second disadvantage is that there is no room to kneel, even if the floor were clean and/or kneelers provided. The Eastern Crypt would permit singing, but that will now be required for 6.30 p.m. popular Evensong. Some of us feel deeply about this. We are a large body and our problems and ideas of God and worship are not those of tbe elderly people who form the bulk of Cburcb congregations. The future is ours-we are told that often enough-tberefore we should be strengtbened for tbat future. We are proud and glad to be part of tbe Catbedral body and are always bappy to see tbose members of tbe Cbapter wbo do come among us; bnt I respectfully submit tbat tbe arrangements made for our practice of, and training in, Christian worship are, in the ligbt of the problems and demands of tbe future, inadequate, and perbaps unwisely postponed to less urgent demands. Yours, etc., THE CAPTAIN OF THB SCHOOL.

CONTEMPORARIES The Editors acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the following magazines :The Eastbournian, The Lancing College Magazine, The Epsomian, The Tonbridgiall, The Cranbrookian, The Meteol', The Stonyhurst Magazine, The Felstediall, The Bryanston Saga, The Haileyburian, The Roffensian, The Ousel, The Reptonian, The Worksopian, The Barrovian, The Lovettonian, The AI/eynian, The Cmnleighan, The Sutton Valence School Magazine, St. Peter's College Magazine, The Cholmeleian, The Elizabethan, The King's School Magazine, The Ampleforth Journal, The Dellstonian, The Dovorian, The Manwoodian, The Aluredian, The Bradfield Col/ege Chronic/e, The Gresham, The Glenalmonti

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Vol. XXII. No. 5

March, 1948

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For Good Friday and Easter Editorial ... The School Virtute Functi Valete and Salvete This and That Portrait of a Puritan The Library The Societies Modern Trends in the C. of E.. .. . Some Memories of K.S.C. Hockey Boxing Club Fencing Club Boat Club ... Democracy in Education An Architectural Discovery on the North Side of the Green Court Verse Recitals and Concerts J.T.C. Notes The Art of Idling A Bishop's Message Public Schools of England Edward Thurlow, the King's Chancellor The Cantuarian Interviews Story of a Sage ... . ~ O.K.S. News Rev. C. E. Woodruff Roll of Honour ... In Memoriam The Heyman Family Canon L. H . Evans' Memorial ... From the Headmaster's Postbag The Junior School Contemporaries ...

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. The wo~d " loyalty" has no very attractive sound to mod Like patriotism, It savours of a stuffy, self-concerned conserva~~~ e:~~ ~hems to fe~o~en a mentahty that IS unconscious of wide horizons and o/t~~~~~r~ ~f t~nknow~ We cdonbfess we feel the invincible fascination . . ysses w .0, urge y the call of adventure and his own Pfsslgl~ate cra vll1 g for ennchll1g experience, was unable to settle in his ~ an - of!1e 0 f Ithaca, but must needs travel on and on. As he says in ennyson s famous poem, he must needs sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars until I die.

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ftemhPer is especially characteristic of . e scorn u 0 t e lessons which the past teaches an ofthepall1fully garnered. wisdom of its elders. Yet in truth there is '1 : ~0~ant1111 ali human expenence between the irresistible urge to expand n e~efi~Pi ' t 1e desIre to produce what is new, and on the other hand the e Ity to the past with its rich accumulated store of ever-livin sense ~. m~molles and traditIOns, ItS mellow harvest of beauty and truth L'k g ot. er Important antItheses, this tension between conservatis~ ~n~ 1 plOgres~. IS deep-r<?oted 111 the nature of things. It is irreducible a d must stuve to do JustIce to both terms. n we ( . d

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It is the second aspect which we nowadays- and especially the young among us- are liable to forget. The word loyalty reminds us forcibly of this obligation towards the values of the past. However degraded in modern usage, it is a word which has a noble history and takes us to the heart of ethics. For it connotes just that sense of absolute obligation towards something not ourselves in which the very life of morality consists. Its essential meaning is " faithfulness" as the Latin counterpart " fiducia " suggests- the faithfulness of one who is conscious of the indissoluble bond that links him to past and future.

The commanding ideal towards which we feel a sense of loyalty receives various concrete embodiments as we journey through life. Beginning with the small but basic social unit of the home, it passes through ever-widening circles,- school, city, country, Western civilisation and attains its crowning expression in that spiritual society- the Christian community- which transcends and includes them all. In this place, we are co~cerned imm~~iately with loyalty to the school, ~ith the maintenance of ItS great tradItIOns and our own dIstmcttve contributIOn to them.

The pathos of our human lot, however, resides in the fact that we are rarely aware of the full significance of a situation in which we are immersed until we have emerged from it. Thus it is with our schooldays. Do we realise- what our modern psychologists never tire of insisting upon- that our experiences when our minds are malleable and impressionable are final and determinative for the character which we take with us through life? Do we realise that here and now we sit at .. "the roaring loom of time" and are engaged in weaving the very stuff of which our lives will be made? Now we are busy harvesting impressions which the chances and changes of later life will call from 1' the depths and cause us to remember with startling poignancy and intensity. In our youth we gain our first vivid and rapturous appreciation of great literature- the Bible and the classics- but it is only in later years when our cumulative experience has confirmed it, that its deep truth to life comes home to us with intimate personal realization. 1 Then, as the late Earl Baldwin puts it, "a chance word of a Latin > inscription, a phrase of Horace, or a chorus ending of Euripides, plucks ( at the heart strings and stirs a thousand memories, memories sub. , conscious and ancestral."

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THE SCHOOL Captain of the School: J. B. H. JACKSON Head of School House ... J. R. ALLCHURCH Head of The Grange C. G. S. PATERSON Head of Wa lpole House J. W. ALLISON Head of Meister Omers ... J. B. H. JACKSON Head of Luxmoore House C. M. REEVES MONITORS J. B. H. JACKSON, C. G. S. PATERSON, C. M. REEVES, J. R. ALLCHURCH, M. C. O. MAYNE, K. G . T. STUART, R. C. WENBAN, A. G. P. DAVIDSON, J. W. ALLISON, M. OSBORN

HOUSE PREFECTS

J. L. R. 路 BURT, J. L. CUNNINGTON, J. DOWNES, A . R. K.

School House:

ENDERSBY, P. A. FYFE-COOPER, C. B. MANNING-PRESS, D. W. MOLESWORTH, T . E. WATSON The Grange:

I. E. LUSH, J. H. PaGG, J. ROTHERY, J. WATT, P. BASSETT,

Walpole House :

T. HAMILTON " J . W. BIRKETT, J. BRADLEY, P. G. S. ELLIS, M . D. LAMOBRT,

Meister Omers:

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Luxmoore House: R. M. S. CORK, D. W. STEEL Captain of Hockey Captain of Boats Vice-Captain of Athletics Captain of Shooting Captain of Fencing Captain of BOxing Captain of Squash

T. L. R. BURT C. G. S. PATERSON J. R. ALLCHURCH R. G. WHITE J. B. H. JACKSON I. M. OSBORN I. L. R. BURT

EDITORS OF The Cantuarian J. B. H. JACKSON, C. G. S. PATERSON

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VIRTUTE FUNCTI MORE PATRUM DUCES N. BARToN.-Entered School, Sept., '44; King' s Scholar; School House House Prefecl, Sept., '47 ; LjCpl., J.T.C. ~46 ; 1st XV, '45, '46, '47; Captain of Rugger, '47; School Monilo r, Heact of MeIsler Omers, Vice-Captain of Sc hool, Sept., '47; Upper Sixlh ; Sgt., J .T.C. ; Ed ,tor of The Cantuariall.

A. G. BARTLETT.- Entered School, M ay, '43 ; Meister Omers H Ollse Prefccl, Sept. ,

M. N. D EVONSHlRE.- Entered School, Sept., '44; Kin g's Scholar; Luxmoore HOllse Prefect, Sept., '47 ; Hon. Sec. Photographic Society, '47 ; Sgt., J.T.C.

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M. B. FOSTER.- Entered School, Sept. , '44; Luxmoore H Ollse Prefec t, Sept., '47; Upper Sixth ; Cpl., J.T.C. W. N . FRANKLlN.-Entered School, Sept. , '43; Meister Orners House Piefect, Sept., '47; 1st XV, '47; Cpl., J.T.C. G. D . LI NDLEY.-Entered School, Sept., '43 ; King 's and E nlra nce Scholar ; L uxmoore House Prefect and School Moni tor, Sept., '47 ; Upper Sixth; Sgt., J.T.C.

D. L. QUESTED.-Entered School, Sept., '43; Grange House Prefect, Sept., '45 ; 1st XV., '46, '47 ; Sgt., J.T.C.

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W. J. F. RAY.-Entered School, May. '43; King 's and Entrance Scholar ; Walpole HOllse Prefect, Sept., '46; School Monitor, Sept., '47; 2nd XV, '47 ; Upper SIxth; C .S.M., J.T.C.

D. L. WALLER.-Entered School, Sept., '44; School House H Ollse Prefect, Sept., '47 ; Captain of Shooting, '47 ; Cpl., J .T.C.

VALETE

D. Bond-Smith, P. Carnes, R. D. Catt, A. K. Ewin, F. C. Leach, C. R. Quested, G. A. Robbin, J . D. Rowe, J . B. Ward, R . A. S. Webb, M . Webb, G. G. Wishart.

SALVETE P . H. Bentley, K. J . Bond, R. L. Casebourne, C. W. Freyer, J. S. Harvey, R. L. T. Hudson, D. H. W . Kelly, J . A. L ine, P. W. Line, M. Mayer, C. H. McLeery, G . Noe, A. J . W . Smythe, M . C. Turnor, C. S. Wood . ~!

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THIS AND THAT Heartiest congratulations are due to John Buckland, who composed the AN O.K.S. music for the Electra of Euripides produced by the B.B.C. in the Home COMPOSER Service during February. The translation into English verse and the adaptation for broadcasting were done by Professor Gilbert Murray and the production was by Val Gielgud. John Buckland was at School from 1926 to 1933. He was followed by his younger brother Tim, who left in 194 1. During our years of evacuation Mrs. Buckland lived with the School and taught much of the music. We hope that J::n

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MILITARY Mr. P. Purcell, A.R.A. H., A.R.C.M. , and boys are keen. We have the BA ND instructor, the musical boys, the time, and everything but the instruments I . . Will some kind friend give us ÂŁ200 to equip the Band? Or will severai kllld fnends prOVIde parts of the necessary ÂŁ200 ? MATHEMATICS SCHOLARSHIP

We sincerely congratulate Colin Reeves, Senior King's Scholar on his award ?f an Open S~holarship in Mathematics to Sidney Sussex College, Cambndge; we beheve thIS was the only Mathematical Scholarship in the entire group of Colleges.

We also congratu late D. H. P. Maybury-Lewis on gaining a MODERN LANGUAGES Scholarship in Modern Languages to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. SANDHURST

There are now some twelve boys at Sandhurst from the School. Recent successful candidates are K. B. C. Hubbard, H. L. Ackers, G. H. O. Belsham and D. R. Holland.

Detailed acco unts of these appear elsewhere, but the Editors feel bound to express their cordial thanks to such distinguished people as the Minister of Town and Country Planning, Mr. Bernard Miles, the emlllent actor, a nd Mr. Denllls Noble-surely the most versati le of all baritones-for their kindness in coming to interest tbe School. LECTURES AND RECITALS

PUBLIC SCHOOLS' RUGGER

Congratulations to J. M. Osborn on playing for the London Counties Schools against the Provincials last holidays, and to D. L. Quested and J. H. Pegg, who played for Kent Public Schools v Surrey Public Schools.

We were delighted to have a visit from Mr. Cape this term. He was one MR. H. J. CAPE of tbe band of devoted Masters that Dr. Galpin gathered round him and many an O.K.S. now in the fifties or sixties will owe their succes~ in life largely to H. J. Cape. To all O.K.S. alive his name is familiar as the collaborator with C. E. Woodruff (who has died on tbe very day of this note for The Canluarian) in the History of the I(jng's School. It was a most happy event that Mr. Cape came when

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tHE CANTUA RIA N he did-just a week before Mr. W,?odruff's death-so he was able to see his old ~riend for the last time. On Sunday evelllng, February 8th, Mr. Cape spoke earnestly, sImply but movingly on the great work of the Barnardo Homes; we are sure he has raised a permanent interest in Dr. Barna rdo's wo~k In more than onc brea st. We arc trymg to persuade Mr. Cape to come for Speeches III the Summer, and we hope to succeed.

It is clear that Mr. Cape has a great fund of stories of old days. The Ed itors trust that he will enli ven a future number of The Cal/lUanan WIth a selection . He told one of the well-known Art Master, L. L. Raze, whose lovely lithographs of the Cathedral and Precincts are well-known and much pn zed. [ In 1823 a young Frenchman- not much more than a boy- without any money crossed from France and walked from Dover to Canterbury. He called on Dr. Wallace, the then Headmaster, to ask for a job as French Master. But there was no such vacancy, I.' and the disconsolate Raze proceeded on his way, to be recalled by a shout fro m Dr. Wallace "Can you teach Art?" He replied that he could not, as he knew nothmg about it. "Oh, that doesn' t matter ", replied the Head, "anybody can teach Art: you ' d better do it." So he did for some 40 yea rs. There was a Master, L. E. Rcay, who ran the boats; he wan~ed new oa~~, al1: d t,~ remind himself to order them from the boatbuilders named AylIng, wrote Ayh~g on a bit of paper and put it on his mantelpiece. Now that llIght there should have arnved a cheerful youth for extra work in .Mathemati,~s. Hemade no ~ppearance and next day [. was ragged in class by Reay for hIs faIlure. Oh, Sir, but I dId come, and saw a note that you weren't well, and so I went away!" We hope to see that one-Itme cheerful â&#x20AC;˘ youth when he appears this year for the Lambeth Conference of Bishops I

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This coming Summer Term we hope to see all our O.K.S. Overseas AN EPISCOPAL Bishops. They are coming to preach on various Sundays. Howard TERM Mowll (1903- 09), the Archbishop of Sydney and Pnmate of Australta, will preach the Commemoration Sermon, and R. W. H. Mohne (1903-09), now Archbishop of Perth, will pr~ach on the last Sunday evening of the term. Morris Gelsthorpe (1908-1 1), Bishop tn the Sudan, Will be the preacher 011 June 27th, and N . V. Halward (1913- 16), Assistant Bishop of Hong Kong, on July 11th. We want also to see J. Frewer (1 897- 1902), Bishop of N.W. Austraha . Was It . Quee~ Victoria who said she had never known a m~n Improved by b elllg. made a bIshop . Once or twice lately we have asked people of posllton what theIr bishop IS hke. Someltmes the answer is they hardly know, for he IS always runrung ab~ut to committees a~d meetings; sometimes, "Oh, he 's rather P?mp?,us, and tbtnks It s awfully good of him We knew a biShop, now lately dead, to give you two minutes of hIS precIOUS Itme. who was a humble saint-rara avis Anglicana. Years ago he had a dIspute and disagreement with one of his clergy, a youngish man. They met and talked out their differences and knelt down at the end and prayed together. The good bishop rose and blessed his young priest, and to the latter's amazement said, "Now you must gIve me your blessing", and knelt again, bowing his grey head for the bless m~ of that yo ung priest. We sent this very authenltc story to The Tllnes to add to his obltualY noltce, as extraordinarily worthy of remark, but The Times cannot have thought so. 263

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THE SCHOOL +~i~ h~ met with a c.ordial reception and everyone seems to like it H elf aJesties the King and Queen graciousl acc ted . . YM N BOOK expressed tbeir approval of the book. We shoufrl no:!' like ~~PI~~cand some people w~~l~ ~~1~cu~d4tlOn, but music printing is to-day highly expensive. Perh~~~

~~aco~gratlil~e Drd~d Mrs. Bulmer on the a rri val of their daughter daughter~s~h~lidp~~ bot~'i~nJ~~~~y~ ' A. C. Gross on the birth of a ne":

NEW BIRTHS

Our ~teemed Honorary Chaplain is now touring Australia for some I~ont s to raIse money for the Cathedral Appeal and for the School anyone can raise It. the Archdeacon is the man We bave I d . return with £lOo~g8bel and letters from bim, and things seem to b~ going ~ell. ,aM:~h: ARCHDEACON BICKERSTETH

ANEW BOOK

We have been much impressed by Lieut.-General Sir William Db' , On ACllve Service lVith Christ (Marshall, Morgan and Scott 5/~ b~~ s book, wants to learn what Christiani ty is and how to practise it, 'this is theah~~k~

G. D. Lindley, a Senior King's Schoh' h If ARCHIEPISCOPA L Exeter College Oxford Amo h' , I, as now e t School for ago were

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som~ well-kn~wn sml~~gl~~S a~~e~t~~SeJ~~~~X ge~erations

of Delmar. The Delmars married Ch II' (S fl' ver, .y name Whom also the Kitcheners descend) and the Ch II' eva lers. a u olk family from ~hom is descended Mrs. Fisher, the wife of the A e~~.I~rs maarrred Edgecumbes, from rc IS op. eorge Llildley must be a d,stant cousin of Mrs. Fisher.

THE PRF.sIDENT OF THE ~Ithou!lh he reti red two years ago fro m admi nistering the War O.K.S. ASSOCIATION ffice, It IS clear that the Govel'l1ment were aware of the qualities and abl hty of SIr Fredenck Bovenschen K C B TI P 'd I I ' 'b . " Ie reSI ent of the Board of Trade h' b review the controls exercised by the Ministry 01ssu~op~gy 11 S'.I11~ a~k }OkPIUblic work to . If re ellC JaS also been elected a Governor of the Scbool. • 'TrIE MESSIAH"

On Sa turday, J une 12th, our Cho ra l Society will perform The Me . I In the Cathedral. The soloists are Margaret Field-H d (S SS/O) I Freda Townson (Contraito) Re " S . (T Y e oprano, (Bass). Dr. Suttle, the Director of Music wi ll 'PI'O~'~ce ~~~~ec~olldelll'cOtr)t'hArth~r Copley , ( e perlormance. J

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wa r :hat he 1S very happy in doing pioneer work in Canada He m~'~~ remend o us Journeys III a lorry which conta' 11 th' . I nd' illS ~I Illgs necessary for a house and for Chapel equipment. Lumber cam Isolated posts are visited . He wo rks with Mtch,:':{ C IJan VI ages and all kInds of Tubby Clayton- whom many O.K.S. from Com wa ll d~;;,!nllat one tunehcumte to a VISIt when he could snatch the chance fr I J. . b I rcmem bcr; e paId us !\llantic.. They will remember he spoke so ~t~'a~~:je~y t~I\~~a~'J. OO st~al~ers troshsing the VI sHed hUll for pcrsonal talk in one's and two's I'll th II h a nlglt t at boys I e sma ours of the mornmg ! , .

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From many quarters have come thanks fo r and approval of our Review DR, BARNES' of the Bishop of Birmingham's book, contained in the last number. BOOK On the day of our writing tbis (March 2nd) comes a letter from a friend in Kenya, He said what publicity had been given by the official public utterances, repeated on the wireless; the next day he went into Nai robi to get a copy, and the bookseller said he had already had orders for over 300 ! In this number we reprillt the picture of the Rev, C. E. Woodruff Two DON MOTS being presented to Their Majesties in July, 1946, on the Green Court The King laughed when he told him that he had come to school here in 1868, The writer of this note tho ught that c'E,W. would like a copy of this picture and sent him one; a short time later, asked how he liked it, Mr. Woodruff replied: " Ob, tbank you very much for sending it ; it is very nice, but it makes me look older than I am", He was 91 that Christmas Eve! Last Christmas Eve-when he was 92 and bed-ridden-the Choristers went to his house to sing carols to him from the Entra nce Hall of his house. He could not hear very well, so tbey came upstairs to the landing. When he was asked if he could hear better and f liked it, he said: "Oh, yes, that is very nice-but I sball soon be hearing something better". It was an unkind bookseller who addressed a n invoice for books to A MISNOMER "Sherkin s School"; we were unaware that our reputation for id ling had reached the business world ! Published by the Lutterworth Press this February is The Hebrew DR, KNIGHT'S Prophetic Consciousness, at 10/6. We are incapable of reviewing such a BOOK scholarly work, but it is extremely well produced. We hope that it will r receive encouraging reviews and find a good market. The Editors would like to congratulate Dr. Knight cordially on his book, and also on his article in the current number of the Expository Times. He is certain ly a versatile man as well as a scholar ; few of us will forget bis able accompanying the clarinet soloist this term at short notice. It is a sad thought that never again shall we see tbat kindly figure THE REV. E, C, of our oldest Kin g's Scholar among us. Mr, Woodruff died peacefully in this last February. Tributes to him will be found later 011 in this WOODRUFF

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The Bishop of the Sudan-Morris Gelsthorpe, O.K.S,-has appealed in tbe Press for subscriptions to build a Church Hall much needed for missionary work, Tbe School rallied round to an offer of the Headmaster to put a pound to every pound they gave. With great pleasure we have sent ÂŁ60 to the Bishop, This week we received a letter from a vicar asking advice about the UNDEMOCRATIC education of his two boys; his income is ÂŁ400 a year. It is painful to compare this sum with the prin~ely rewards paid by the RB.C. to SALARIES ordinary men and women who appear in their popular programmes, By inviting the vicar to play for two or three hours in one of the Corporation's parlour games they could solve his problems for bim, and we should probably be none the less amused, BISHOP MORRIS GELSTHORPE

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From time to time we read-with rather envious eyes- of legacies left to their schools by Old Boys. We have had some of recent years, but not many. Naturally and genuinely we congratulate Neil North on being selected THE WI NSLOW to play out of 400 applicants. He made his debut at the age of 14 on Boy the stag last Summer in the Chapter House in Peasan ts' Priest. The family were to have gone to Kenya, but this chance came and was tak~n. We hear that the young prodigy is recei vil~g a salary that would have brought the NatIOnal Health Act mto speedy and easy operatIOn had it been offered to the doctors ! These seem fantastic in a world that is itself fantastic. We are told that a man FILM star may well get £20,000 or £25,000 out of one picture. The chief camera SALARIES man will get £100 a week ; his assistant £50; the boy of 16 who goes round with the camera to foc u ~ £20 or so. A picture that costs £300,000 to produce can be expected, we are told, to bring in £1,000,000. Of every shilling taken at the Box Office, 4d. goes to the Government, 4d. to him who owns the cinema, 2". to we forget whom, and 2d. to the artistes, actors, writcrs and production staff. A queer world to lIve m- one can hardly blame a mmer for wanting his £6 a week. We were very sorry that Brother Peter 's visit had to be postponed. He BROTHER went to hospital in Cambridge and was cheered by a visit from Dr. Budd . PETER, S.S . F. Happily he has made a good recovery and will be able to come for a few days at all events. We value this terminal visit of members of the Society of St. Francis. At their meeting in March we expect that the Governors will finally decide THE WAR what kmd of Memorial we are to have. We print in this number the Roll MEMORIAL of Honour as blOwn to us, and do earnestly ask that prompt notice be given of any OmlSSlons or errors. In 1705 the Rev. John Johnson, Vicar of Cranbrook, published his THE REV. Clergyman's Vade Mecum in two volumes. Johnson was one of the JOH N JOH NSON mostpromising of the King's Scholars in the Headmastership of George . . LoveJOY. Those mterested wIiI find hIS name among the " Victores" m the foho volume of the Speeches and Plays delivered by the Scholars from 1665 to 1685, no w in the Cathedral Library. In due course Johnson became one of the most learned clergy in the Church of England, and a very great author. In his Vade M eculI/ he mentions that Mattins occurred in the Cathedral at 6 a.m. in Summer and 7 a.m. in Winter! He preached the Feast Society Sermon-what we now call Commemorationin 1716. In the course of it he states plainly that White, Bishop of Peterborough- one of the " Seven Bi"shops" prosecuted by James JI-was a boy at tltis School. The Dictionary of National Biography does not say so. Will some Sixth Form Historian undertake a little research? The Chapter has prepared-and hopes to produce in the near future- a A CATHEDRAL book of pictures of the Cathed~al and letter-press of superb quality. It Book IS much the best tbmg of the kInd we have ever seen . . These will be as usual on the last Monday in July- the end of term. COMMEMORA nON We hope a really large number of O.K.S. will come and that they will produce a very hot XI ! AND SPEECHES ' LEGACIES

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THE CANTUARIAN The School has now acquired the last block in the line of buildings running from the Court to the Farrens gate. The new acquisition contains the Masters ' Common Room, some Sixth Form rooms, and the Headmaster's Office. It is not improba ble that before long th~ range from the old Choir School to the Farrens will be made into one, and returned 1I1to what It very much was 111 Norman times The 18th century tank which rested on the " first floor" , so to speak, has been remo~ed-three Norma n arches have been discovered ~nder the plaster, and the whole length may again take on someth1l1g of the Norman uDlty. Miss Dorothy Mills' lectures on the Cathedral proved such a success SIXTH FORM last term that fifteen candidates have already come forward for the LECTURES Cathedral Prize. This term we have continued the series on more general lines. Mr. Urry, the Assistant Cathedral Librarian, has given us three talks on the City of Canterbury and the Precincts, and astonished us with the wealth of picturesque detail he carries in his mind . His Honour Judge Clements has gIven a most interesting lecture on "The Temple"; Mr. Frank Jessup, the Deputy DIrector of Education for Kent, has spoken twice on "Local Government ", and Commander Thompson has given a talk on "Smug~ling". Talks by such experts are very welcom.e, and if forty minutes IS all too short a ttme, we can at least be sure that our mterest WIll be aroused in subjects we might otherwise not meet in the normal school routine. We hope more are awaiting us next term. The fame of The Canlu(Jl'ian spreads. " Dear Sirs I, writes one who WHAT IS THE describes himself as a publisher, " Will you please let me know your ANSWER? charge to insert the following advertisement for twelve weeks :I NTRODUCTIONS to suitable Lady and Gentlemen Friends may be obtained by writing to, The Publisher (Dept. B), . ... . " The Editors omit the address but cordially give this one notice of the advertisement without charge. We sincerely congratulate three distinguished O.K.S. on tbeir new O.K.S. appointments. Sir Bertrand Jerram, H.M. Minister in Stockholm, was ApPOINTMENTS raised to the rank of Ambassador at the end of December, and n<?w comes news of his appointment to be H .M. Ambassador to Austna. The only sad thing is that the writer of this note was to have spent a summer holiday with His Excellency in Sweden, that land of ple~ty! SIr Edward Gent, Governor of the Malayan Union, has been appomted the first HIgh CommIssIOner for the Federatton of Malaya and Sir Frederick Bovenschen, formerly Under-Secretary to the War Office, and Pre'sident of the O.K.S. Association, has been selected by the Minister of Supply to supervise the administration of controls in that Ministry. PREMISES

We are most interested to note that the first Chief of the newlyestablished Police Staff College near Coventry is Brigadier P. D. W. Dunn, whose son is at Milner Court. Brigadier Dunn is himself the son-in-law of the late Lord Justice Luxmoore. A year or so ago he bought the old Rectory at Fordwich, and it was extremely pleasant to realise that the Judge's grandsons could watch our activities on the river. We shall be genUInely sorry to see them depart.

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CONFIRMATION

According to a table set out in the Cambridge Review we came 26th in order of all Public and Secondary School; for 1947. Of the preceding 25 Schools, no less than 14 are big Day Schools.

On Saturday, Ma rch 13th, the Archbishop administered the Rite of Confirmation to 74 boys. The Service was most impressive. Archdeacon Bickersteth writes that he has now visited

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Parramatta twice and received most cordial welcome.

He says there is no doubt that Parramatta realizes and values its intim ate conncxion with Canterbury. We a re alwa ys glad to welcome to the School young members of families OLD SCHOOL which have appea red in the Rotulus on man y occasions in the past. F AM ILIES The latest recruit of this kind is David Ashenden , who has entered the Junior School this term, and is the ninth member of his family to be educated here. His fa ther, a lso David, entered the Junior School in 1923, and his grandfath er, Leonard T. Ashendcn, in 1881', but the family connection with the School goes back still further to 1867, when Leonard's step-brother Percey entered the School in the same term as Thomas Field, afterward s Captain of School and latcr on Headmaster. We attempted a contribution to The Times on this subject when feeling was runnin g high and much correspondence pro and con was printed. Our effo rt was only courteously ackn owledged on a post-card, but we thou ght it much more timcly than a good many that found more cordial favour. We pointed out that younger medical men often have to borrow large sums to buy a practice or a partnership, and also put by for old age-and these facts mean bluntly they have to make what money they can. At times, therefore, they may have to crowd in more visits than properly shou ld be-diagnosis may have to be hastyth ere may even rise the temptation to visit private patients rather than panel ones if time is short. From all this kind of worry and embarrassment we conceived doctors would be freed. We debated whether to remind readers of The Times of Gil BIas and Doctor Sangrado, but decided tha t wo uld also be refu sed admittance. Young Gil BIas deputi zed for the famou s Dr. Sangrado of Valladolid ; he did the tradesmen, and Sangrado the STATE MEDICAL SERVICE

nobility and clergy. His training was over in a few minutes; whatever the disease wa s,

the patient must be bled, a nd given quantities of warm water to drink. This was the invariable treatment prescribed by the fa shionable Sangrado. All this Gil BIas explain s to his friend Fabricio at a chance meeting . . 'Very good ", replied Fabricio ; "he abandons the lives of the common people to thy disposal, while he reserves the gentry to himself. I congratulate thee upon thy share; for it is better to have to do with the populace, than with persons of fa shion. Happy is a plebeian physician! His faults are less observed, and his assassinations less known." D ECEMBER SCHOOL CERTIFICATES

Nine boys passed the School Certificate in December, bringing the total successes in that examination for 1947 to 80.

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PORTRAIT OF A PURITAN III its long history, the King's School has produced many men of whom it has cause to be proud, but also perhaps one or two of whom It may be sard that It had been belter if they had not been born. One of these IS RIchard Culmer. Culmer was th," son of a oman farmer whose family had long been settled III the pan sh of St. Peter s, Thanet. ~~ey were an 'honest, respected family, and Richard 's grandfather had gamed local distinction by leaving six acres of land to the ~oor of hiS parIsh. Llk,e ma ny such fa~l1llIes in Tudor times, th ~y prospered; and Richa rd s entry mto the King s School early III the reign of James I was an expression quite as much of the growlI1g soctal ambitions of the family as of their god liness and wordJ y success. , Of Roger Raven the Headmaster at that time, we reall y know too little to judge of his ualities as a scho~lmaster, though there is no reason to doubt, that the School had any ~ss of a classical attainment under him than it had under hiS successor, John Ludd. L dd was indeed Lower Master during most of Culmer 's schooldays, and It was well f~~ the latter that 'he came into contact with a man of such breadth of learning, although there is little enough in his later career to show that he profited much by It. Roger Raven thought highly enough of him to ma ke hIm Head Boy, and m 1613 he left School for Cambridge. . ' " " Customs change. Nowadays undergraduates are occasIOnally rewarded With Blucs for the time they spend on the playing fields . In the seventeenth centmy such an occupation was thought to be frivolou s, and Culmel: w?s not the only one who was severely censured for his " football playmg and sweanng . Perhaps thIS accounted fOI the fact that he delayed taking his degree for six yea rs. By then, or soon afterwards, he had repented of his ways, and fallen under the mfluence of the Puntamsm which was strong at Magdalen. Purita nism had strong appeal to ambitiOUS and self-made men, who bad learnt at a n early age to ta ke life seriously, and whose instmctl ve hostIlity t? laxity led them to oppose. tbe latitudinarianism of .the Elizabethan Church: a~ theIr hostility to wealth and prIvilege led them to oppose ItS ceICll1ol1lal and ItS Er~l ~ tlanl sm . Culmer was just such a character. HIS narrow yeoman o utlook made hiS ambJtlO~l S and his prejudices all the more intense, and these hardened as he grew older.. By the time he accepted the living of Goodnestone m 1630 he had all the harsh and, mtolerant views of the Puritan When three years later Laud ordered that the Kmg s DeclaratIOn of Sports should be read in all Churches, Culmer refused to read it, and, a year later, was ." . suspended by Laud . To tbe narrow Puritan discontent was now added a sense of personal InJu~tIce whIch whipped Culmer to fury. He rushed into litigation, accusing bls enemy (a neIghbOUrIng gentleman whom he believed to have denounced him) of treasonable w~)I'ds, and he carried bis charges before the Council. He wa~ disbelieved, and was u'!prIsoned !n the Fleet for bis pains. When released, he came to live 111 Canterbury, ~nd beIllg now Without

an income, and having a wife and seven children, he persu~ded hls fa!her t~ make over

his estate to bim, and lived on the proceeds, at the same tIme attachlllg himself to the strong Puritan section among the City F a thers of Canterbury. He. had ~ot gIven ~p b?pe of reinstatement in tbe Church, and thiS hope mcreased wltb the rIS1l1g tIde of PUrItamsm and the approach of Civil War. In 1643 an opportunIty occurred. The Dean of Canterbury (Isaac Bargrave) died, and the rectory of Chartham became vacant. Th~re follo,,;ed an unseemly wrangle for the appointment, and Laud was III the dIfficult pOSitIOn of be1l1~ 269

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presented with candidates by both King and Parliament, and knowing that to please either would be to offend the other. Then by a subterfuge the extreme Puritans secured the nomination of Culmer as an additional Parliamentary candidate, and Culmer himself thought to strengthen his chances by going in person to Laud and protesting his conformity to the Church . Laud knew better, and later wrote that " he well knew him to be ignorant, and with his ignorance, one of the most daring schismaticks in all that country (Kent)", To make matters worse, Culmer cornered Laud's secretary, and offered him ÂŁ150 if he would secure him the place. Laud could never have been induced to make such an appointment, and the Dictionary of Nalional Biography does him an injustice by supposing that in fact he did appoint Culmer. Culmer did attempt to seize Chartham, but he fail ed, and Edward Corbett was duly preferred in June, 1643. Culmer had his revenge, and experienced the climax of his career later in the same year when he led the Puritan attack on Canterbury Cathedral. The Commissioners sent to demolish " the symbols of idolatry " in the Cathedral were a little at a loss to know where to begin, so Culmer hastened to advise them. He indeed had little mOre knowledge than they, but he had the sense to look up a new book on the Cathedral which had appeared three yea rs before, by one Mr. Somner, and from it he learnt the meaning of the windows. They began by smashing the offending parts of the East window, and then proceeded from window to window, and from image to image. The operation was accompanied by every sort of vulgarity and defilement, and Culmer gloried in his work of destruction. Not all the townsmen who looked 011 approved, for one lusty fellow declared that if Culmer were doing the Lord's work he would join in too, and " threw a stone with so good a will that if the saint had not ducked, he might have laid his own bones among the rubbish he was making " . Culmer hoped for great things from the Revolution which was now under way. In 1644 he wroteÂˇ for the benefit of Parliament his "Cathedrall Newes from Canterbury", as scurrilous and obscene a piece of misrepresentation and self-glorification as had ever been written in that or any other cathedral town. No piece of superstition, gossip or exaggeration was too outrageous to be included, .and the description of his destructions in the Cathedral was written with special relish. The purpose of the pamphlet was made obvious enough by his introduction, calling upon Parliament not to let' ' the oyle of the fat revenues of that Cathedrall Covent any longer feed such dark Lampes and Lanthornes (i.e., the Dean and Chapter), but let it supply burning and shining lights, to enlighten those many miserable adjacent Parishes, which have a long time sate in darknesse, under that huge, dry, glintie Rocke, called a Cathedrall " . He was rewarded by being granted the living of Minster-in-Thanet, and was in the same yea r called as witness in Laud's trial. It was a fooli sh move on the part of the prosecution, for Culmer was well-known by now as a fanatical rogue, and Laud scored a temporary triumph by denouncing evidence brought against him by a man whose best ability lay in the purchase of a benefice or the defilement of a church, and who had been imprisoned by the Counci l for perjury. At Minster, Culmer's life became a sordid farce. He was soon hated by his parishioners, and was subjected to every sort of indignity. Locked out of his church on one occasion, he was forced to break through a window, only to be taken by his flock as a burglar, and beaten until he bled. The drabs of the neighbourhood jeered at him, and men seized the opportunity to cease paying tithes, so that " Blue Dick Thanet" <as he was called from his preference for blue suitings) soon found that hi~

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THE LIBRARY Again many books have been added to our shelves, and for this we must thank the following donors :Mrs. Thomas; J. V. Holderness, Esq . ; C. E. Minns, Esq., and the following O.K.S. :W. Somerset Maugham, Esq. ; M. N. Devonshire, Esq. ; N . E. Behflnger, Esq. ; A. G. Bartlett, Esq. ; G. V. Holliday, Esq. ; J. Cranmer, Esq. ; G. D. Lilldley, Esq . ; P. Carnes, Esq. ; c. A. J. Culver Evans, Esq. ; Lt.-Col. Scruby; F. O. Eustace, Esq., and R. Crowley, Esq. In reply to the Headmaster 's appeal for a copy of a History of King 's School, one crossed the Atlantic and reached us in excellent conditIOn! The reappearance of the catalogue, retyped and brought up-to-date, and of the revised card index, should prove helpful to borrowers. .

THE SOCIETIES HARVEY SOCIETY At the beginning of the term it was decided to re-establish the Society with a mem~erÂ ship of abo ut 50-60, and to advertise the meetings of the SOCiCty With large posters. 11us was done, and inside a fortnight there was a membership of 60, and an average attendance at meetings of 55. At the first meeting of the term, P. R. Phillips, G. C. G. Milne, T. E. Watson and R. F. Moffatt spoke on "Model-making " , and a film on D.D.T. was shown . At the .next two meetings, there were no papers, but hlms on the Sulpha drugs, organ-pipes, Pemcllhll, and the Normandy Invasion were shown. 271

'THE CANTUARIAN At the next meeting, J. M. Watt gave the first half of his paper on "Electrons", to be contmued a fortm ght later. P. G. H. Mann gave a paper on "Proteins", and a film on

. explosIves was shown.

At a future meeting of the Society, it is hoped to have a fi ve-minute paper competition R. C. Wen,ban h ~s prom~ sed to give a paper on "Radio ", and several more films wili be shown, mciudll1g one 111 colou r on "Colour " , . The Society is extremely grateful to its able President, Mr. Coles, for taking the trouble to procure these fi lms, a nd sho w them on his projector. R. F. MOFFATT, Hon. Secretary SOMNER SOCIETY The Society has ceased to meet for purposes of pleasure and entertain men t and has underta ken, two obJects. The first IS to compose a concise and up-ta-date history of the School , which we hope to publi sh. Those in the Society prepared to help have each been given a peflod to ex plore and on which to write a paper. Our second o bject is to build a model of the Precincts as they were before the Dissolution of the Monastery by H en ry VIII in 1541. The work is being done by a similar method to that of the Sch ool hi story. Most members have genero usly oflered to help in one or both of these objects.

We ha,:,c met five times ,and plan to meet four more in addition to two expeditions. The meetlllgs usually co nSist of papers by three members, although once the President gave a very Interesting talk on "Symbolism in Mediaeval Art". PATER SOCIETY This term , acco rding to the School Calendar we ha ve been al/otted but three meetings. The fil st ?f these had unfOJ tunately to be canceUed owmg to the postponement of the MonJto ls Concert, and now we are left with two meetmgs to come. We hope in these two to hold a debate and to hear a paper. . It is unnecessary to point out that enthusiasm for the Society is not increased by being allowed l~ hold only three meetings In the term, which are liable to be cancelled at the Monllors arbitratIOn. It IS hoped that in future the number of proposed meetings for thiS SocIety will be Increased. WALPOLE SOCIETY Another very active term . We have read Em lyn Williams' Night Must Fall Barry Lyndon 's Th~ ,Amazing Doctor Ciiltel'house, a nd Galsworthy 's Escape. D. Clift has ;ead a paper on The Eng!Jsh Theatre Today", J. P. M . Simpson has spoken on "The Shetlands", B. K. Newto n on "The Dreyfus Case", and E. K. Lewis on " Ghosts" One w hole .meetmg was devoted to the performance of rehearsed charades; another t~ Infol mal diSCUSSIOns. Later we asked a Braws Trust of masters and local experts a number of devastatll1g questIOns, whICh they were able to dispose of very neatly. At the tllne of wntlng we a re lookin g for~a rd to a talk on the U.S. Navy by Mr. CI.llence KIn g, a f~rl11er mcm~er of the Socwty, who has already endeared himself to the. present generatIOn by a gift of American peppermints which awaited us at the begllllllllg of term! 272

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We must thank Mr. Poole and Dr. Bulmer for the excellent meetin g at the end of last term, at which they publicly argued the va lue of Science a nd History as cu ltural studies . They must especially be congratulated for not pul ling their punches, and helpin g us to make up our minds. Mr. K. A. C. G ross has kindly consented to become ou r second Vice-President, and the Com mittee has now bcen re-organized so that each department of the Society is the responsibility of one Committee member. RAILWAY SOCIETY We have had four meetings this term, so far; the first consisted partly of business and partly of questions asked at random, and at the second we were invited to criticize a new fi lm about Newton Abbot, called " Junction " . At the third we were shown a very good L.N .E.R . fi lm about the Flying Scotsman, describing its preparation and journey, taking the audience round Doncaster a nd Darlington Works on the way. The evening was shared at the fourth meeting, when the Hon . Secretary read a paper on "Forty Years' Development in British Locomotive Design" , and A. B. K . Endersby gave another of his talks on American rai lways, this time telling us of the New York Central Railroad. H. G. Davis, Esq ., of the railway publicity department at Waterloo Station, is coming to lecture in a few weeks. The Chief Continental Officer of British Ra ilways is also visiting us this term . PHOTOGRAPHC SOCIETY There are no w more than thirty members, and this term two visits were paid to the Friars' Cinema . The first was to the Projection Room, where we were shown the projectors and how they are operated, and the second, a week later, was concerned with the sound system. On February 10th, R. G. White gave a paper on "Conversion to 35 mm.". Arrangements have been made for a visit to the Kodak Works at Harrow early next term. DEBATING SOCIETY The Debating Society, after a rather shaky revival last term, has had a very successful term. If the debates have not reached a high oratorical standard, at least they have caused considerable enjoyment to the a udiences which have been present. The motions have been va ried, ranging from ' 'The woman 's place is in the home ", which was carried, to " A state of Bankruptcy is preferable to a state of Austerity". The first debate of the term on the mqtion "That this School is becoming increasingly dull and uninteresting" would have proved, we feel, very lively, but due to the indisposition of the speakers, it had to be cancelled. The last debate was in the form of a " Rag Debate", when certain notabilities were travelling in a balloon, which is sinking over the sea . The notabilities are defended from the society who desires to throw all save one out of the balloon into the sea. Amongst them were the Duke of Edinburgh, Mr. Bevin, Sir Ra lph Richardson and the Captain of School. 273

THE CANTUARIAN CAXTON SOCIETY The Caxton Society.have had a very successful term. We have done a lot of work for the School and for mdJV1duals. Apart from much valuable information from Our professJOnalmstructor, we have gleaned important kno wledge from visits to printing work III Canterbury. s On February 4th, the Society visited Jennings ' Printing Works at Harbledown W ~ere allo:we~ to cast OUf ,names in type on, t~e giant Linotype machines, b~ which w~ wer~ dllmostmtflgued. PossIbly the ~nost excItlllg part of the day was being confronted by a scru.mptJOus tea m Mr. Jenl11ngs stud y ! We were all presented with a special Jennings' wfltlllg pad before we left. The Society is most grateful to Mr. Jennings. On February 10th we made a visit to Gibbs& Sons' Printing Works. This also increased ?llf knowledge Immensely. Here they use Monotype machines instead of Linot e ~nd It was most wterestmg to watch the operators tapping out the letters upstairs ~ eyboard, whlle downstairs the type was being cast, ready for printing. ' , On March 7th we visited . the Canterbury Press, and saw the Kentish Gazette being prInted. ThIs was very excltmg and we were thrilled at the giant machines. Membership is limited to twelve. There is a very long waiting list! FlIlally, we would li ke to ask any O.K.S. or other friend of the School who owns a old t~pe, and who would not mind parting with it,. to present us witl; it! Also a~yy dbonatJOns would be very gratefully receIved, as we wtend to improve our printi~g by uylllg new type.

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To us it constitutes a frank confession that the Church, if it is to survi ve in a world of competing ideologies, must descend to the level of the world , and struggle for its existence on the wo rld's own terms and by the use of the world's own weapo ns. It ignores the mystery and the holiness of the Church as God's appointed instrumen t of salvation, divinely created and di vinely maintained by supernatural Grace and the ever-living inspiration of the Holy Spi ri t. . It ignores the my?tery of ':faith", with ~ut which the life of the Church, the ChrIStIan hfe of the llldlVldual and IIldeed a ny splfltual hfe whatever, is out of the question. Nor is it a sporadic, isolated example of secularism at the centre of the Chu rch's organisation. It might more truly be described as the blatant climax of a trend of development which has characterized Church life for some few decades past. In proportion as fa ith declined, the external organisational machinery of the Church has grown ever more intricate and absorbing. The centre of gravity has changed . The attention of the clergy has ceased to be focu ssed upon the things of the spirit-the activities of preaching, pastoral evangelism, the exposition of the "faith once delivered to the saints", the building up of the interior spiritual life of the individual through the teaching of ascetic and mystical theology-and has been deflected to things which should lie on the periphery. Success is measured by gross, external means-for example, mere numbers (especially numbers of communicants) and the maintenance of semi-secular societies vaguely rotating around the Church organization and intended " to keep the yo ung people together". The parish minister himself has degenerated to the pathetic figure of one harassed and obsessed by financial problems ; the talents required of him are those of a financia l expert, an organizer, and administrator, rather tban those of a spiritual teacher and physician of the soul, able to speak with authority of the things of God and to guide his flock into the way of peace. Gone, alas ! is the spaciousness of life in the Victorian age and with it the leisure and opportunity to cultivate in undisturbed serenity the things of the highest value; the exigencies of practical life are noW so dominating that everything has to be adjusted to the comprehension of the average man; with the democratization of culture has come a subtle lowering ofstandards, an all-enveloping pettiness and mediocrity, side by side with increased efficiency in departmental and technical matters. This important and partially regrettable development in the history of human civilization has had grave repercussions on the life of the Church which may be summarily defined as au ever-increasing vulgarization, a preoccupation with the superficial , the technical, the factual. Anyone who has had anything to do with our vast and cumbrous ecclesiastical organization with its multitudinous boards and committees will know how easily the central spiritual realities are lost sight of beneath the overwhelming pressure of comparative trivialities. We have now reached an impasse where we can no longer see tbe wood for the trees and the path of spiritual adva nce is obstructed. We need a prophetic soul to arise who will condemn our entanglement in these complex artificialities and lead us back to a sane spiritual simplicity and to a fresh understanding of the things that belong to our peace. H.K.

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SOME MEMORIES OF K.S.C. In these days when there is a rigid limit on what one may spend on a Continental holiday, it occurs to me to suggest a method. More than forty years ago, J. M. Edmonds and J, both under the spell of the In/alld Voyage, resolved to spend three or four weeks in following the course of R.L.S. The canoe was taken by steamer to Antwerp and then by paddling or towing or the use of a tiny leg-of-mutton sail, we travelled by river and canal to the Seine. A very happy holiday, full of little adventures and absurdly cheap. But has this anything to do with the King's School? Yes, it has; because J.M.E. and I are, to the best of my knowledge, the only surviving KS. Masters of Victorian days. Other colleagues of my later days, I am thankful to say, are still with us (W. H. Maundrell, R. S. Moxon, W. N. Goss), but they were not " Victorian s". And, truth to tell, it was only by a few days that 1 was, for I came to Canterbury at the beginning of the Lent Term of 1901 and the great Queen died on the 22nd of January. Some years later, J. M. Edmonds was elected to a Fellowship of Jesus College, Cambridge. He still lives in Cambridge, persona gralissima to the Cambridge O.C. 'so My Headmaster, A. J. Ga lpin (later Doctor and Canon but not at that time) was enthusiastic, very able and most kindhearted. R. G. Hodgson was Head of the "Parrots" (are they still called "Parrots"?) and L. G. Mason was Second Master. L.G.M. was called "Old Tar" by the irreverent, but behind his broad back, bien en/endu, for the boy was never born who would have dared to cheek him. My first School Captain was R. H. Charles. I have known many School Captains-some good, some not so goodbut I have never known a better Captain than Charles. His one thought was for the good name of the School. He never sought popularity and, probably for that reason, was very popular. Of the School servants of that time, Mr. Stainer in The Road to Nowhere has so admirably described that very wonderful pair, Mrs. H. and Miss H. (no oile ever knew their full names), who presided over the Tuck Shop, that I would add nothing to his account. There was also Miss Spilsby or Spilsbury (I never knew which it was), who had in the course of many years worked her way up from kitchen maid to Matron of the Grange, and very good she was-except, perhaps, in spelling. I vouch for this story, for I heard it. She was reproaching one boy because, after getting soaked in the rain, he had not changed hi s clothes. He protested, " Well, Matron, I would have changed if! had thought of it. " And she said, "Jfyo u had thought of it, Master Smith. If- if- if, always that little word I-double-F" ! Of the Cathedral dignitaries, I speak of only two, for my space is limited. One is Canon Page Roberts, who wits very much loved by us all. He was promoted to the Deanery of Salisbury and it so happened that his departure from Canterbury had to be by a very early train. This became known and a demonstration occurred which was most pleasing because it was entirely spontaneous. The whole School got up early that morning to be at his gateway at 7 a.m. to form a guard of honour and to bid him farewell. The other was the Dean, who was rega rded with affection and great reverence. F. W. Farrar was a great gentleman and a great Christian. He was very brave but at this time was getting very frail and I remember still the shock that we all felt when he collapsed and fell in the aisle. After that, the Monitors took turns to walk with him in the aisle and to stand by him in the pulpit. When the end came, one could feel for days a silence and a sense of grief throughout the School. 27~

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MATCHES v ST. AUGUSTINE'S COLLEGE, CANTERBURY Played at home on February 17th. Won 7-1 The School team was :-1. M. Osborn; F. B. Buswell, I. L. R. Burt; T. C. B. Swayne, A. G. P. Davidson, J. R. Allchurch ; J. L. Forsey, R. O. A. Norris, I. F. Black, D. W, Steel, D. A. Batten. KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY

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KING 'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v THE BANK OF ENGLAND Played on February 19th at Home. Draw 2-2 The team was as before. Weather cond itio ns were very bad; a red ball was used, as there was an inch of snow on the grou nd, and after half-time a heavy snow-storm came up and made play practically impossible. The match, despite all this, was very enjoyable. KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v H ERNE BAY HOCKEY CLUB Played on February 28th at Home. Lost 4--2 For this match, P. J. Walker played in place of D . W. Steel. Walker had been unable to play in any of the previous matches, owing to illness. Al so, J. B. H. Jac kson returned after illness and replaced F. B. Buswell. The School experienced its first fast ga me of hockey under perfect play ing conditio ns. The Herne Bay forwards were quick on the ball, and used the long inter-pass to very good effect on the fast pitch. The inclusion of Walker in the for wa rds led to good combination between the three in sides; and both the wi ngs showed good fo rm in the second half of the match. The halves and backs were a little slow o n the ball, an d did not settle down to the fa st Herne Bay attack for some time. Better hit ting would have broken up their attack, and if the wings had been used more, the School migbt have held their own. The result was 4--2 to H erne Bay. KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v DOYER COLLEGE Played on Wednesday, March 3rd at Home. Won 3- 1 The School team remained as follows for the rest of the season :-L M. Osborn; J. B. H. Jackson, L L. R. Burt ; T. C. B. Swayne, A. G . P. Davidson, J. R. Allchurch; J. L. Forsey, R. O. A. Norris, L F. Black, P. J. Walker, D . A. Batten. This was the first School match, and the team played together better than it had done before. The defence was so und, and Davidson showed good form at centre-half; when our forward s were in the circle, his return passes were very effective. The Dover team were kept in their own half durin g the second half of the match, and if our forwards' shooting had been better, many more goals would have been scored. The Dover bac ks both played a sound ga me, and proved a great hindrance to our two wings. Our hitting in the defence was so under in this match, and good cleara nces were made by the two backs and the goalkeeper. The final result was a win 3- 1 to the School. KING 'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v ST. LAWRENCE COLLEGE, RAMSGATE Played on Friday, M arch 5th at Ramsgate. Draw 3-3 The match was played on a very hard and rather bumpy pitch. St. Lawrence scored first with a sbot from their right wing, which o ur goalkeeper unluckil y allowed to pass between h,s pads and tbe post. The School forwards were combining very well, and soon equalised with a very nice shot from Black. St. Lawrence scored again with a beautiful goal, but once again the School equalised with a sbot from Norris the score at half-time being 2-2. Both teams then wen t hard to get tbe deciding go~l, but the defence on each side had tightened up, and it was some time before St. Lawrence put in another goal. The School then took the initiative and pressed hard, and they were rewarded by a very fine goal from Black. This goal was due to good passing between the halves and forward s, Davidson giving the ball to Black just as he entered the circle, Z78

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We then bad four short corners at the St. Lawrence end, a nd were unlucky in not scoring the winning goal. KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL Played on Saturday, March 6th at Home. Won 4--0 The School beat the City of London quite comfortably. The School forwards were rather ti red, having had two matches in two days. There were o ne or two moments in tbe first ten minutes when the opposing forwards looked dangero us, but they did not succeed in scoring. The School forwards missed many chances of scorin g throughout the match, but Norris put in several very near shots; the defence was quite sound, and kept the City of London in their own half most of the match. The goalkeeper, r. M. Osborn , was un able to play in this match, but E. K. Lewis, the 2nd XI goalkeeper, played in his place, and when called upon, played extremely well, and is to be complimented on his successful rushes to the edge of the circle. At the end of the term the 1st XI, with Buswell and Steel as reserves, is going to Oxford for a Hockey Festival, in which fifteen public schools are taking part. 1. L. R. BURT KI NG 'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v O.K.S. Played on Saturday, March 13tb at Home. Drawn 5- 5 HOUS E MATCHES Meister Omers }Meister Omers School House M eister Omers 2- 0 Meister Omers } 5- 4 Walpole Grange }LuxmOOre } 5--0 Luxmoore 2-1 1ST XI CHARACTERS 1. L. R. BURT-He is a natural bockey-player, with a good eye, good stick-work and an accurate sense of position. His weakness lies in an occasional tendency to rush forward to meet the ball, when he sometimes misses it, but he is fast eno ugh usually to retrieve his mistake. He has been a good captain and organiser, who has produced a very good Scbool side. 1. F. BLACK-A very fast centre-forward whose positioning a nd stick-work are good. He is learning the value of cbarging the goalkeeper, and has an excellent shot. A. G . P. DAVIDSON-A steady centre-half, perhaps a little inclined to roam, but very energetic with a good flick. I. M. OSBORN-A very so und and co urageous goalkeeper, who has improved a lo t in technique during the term. T .. C. B. SWAYNE-A very energetic wing half, with an excellent eye. He has played consistently well throughout the season. R. O. A. NORRIS-A good inside-right, with excellent stick-work, who is always dangerous in the attack, and comes back well in defence. 279

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P. J. WALKER-At inside-left bis stick-work is often very good, and his tactics and passing are of a high standard. He comes back in defence with good effect. J. B. H. JACKSON-A steady right back with a very hard hit, and good sense of positioning. He could be a little quicker on the ball. J. R. ALLcHIJRcH- He is a little slow and sometimes lacks neatness in his stick-work ' but by sticking to his opponent, he usually achieves his object. J. L. FORSEy- He is a good, fast outside-right, with a strong centre and has developed good tactics during the season. D. A. BATTEN-His play is apt to be erratic; on his day he has a good centre and makes the left wing quite dangerous.

THE BOXING CLUB This term, under the coaching of Sergeant Osborne, to whom the team's success in school matches must undoubtedly be attributed, the Box ing Club has flourished and the standard ,of boxing. has il!1J? rov~d in every way. A rigoroll s training programme has been earned out, with trall1l11g 111 the break and before class in the afternoon. A junior competition for those under 16' has a lso been progressing, many promising boxers coming to notIce.

On February 26th, the School defeated Tonbridge by 12 bouts to I , Hackett Ellicott Agnew i and Buswell winning inside the distance. ' J The next day the School defeated the City of London School by II bouts to 7 Osborn (captain) winning by a quick knock-out. ' Then on March 6th the School defeated Eastbourne by 9 bouts to 6 Ellicott again winning in the first round . ' There is one other match this term fixed for March II th, against Sl. Lawrence, Ramsgate, 11l willch It IS hoped that the School will preserve its unbeaten record having won 44 bouts out of 68, with 9 knock-outs to their credit. '

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THE BOAT CLUB For a Club that does not officially exist in the Lent Term, we have not done too badly. Free days and Sundays ha ve been furtively used for coachin g, and we think we have sorted out the candidates for the first two boats. The decision of the Marlow Regatta Committee to row the Public School Fours on sliding seats in future was one that we applauded in principle, but we had a few uncomfortable weeks wondering where sliding-seat boats could be obtained. The generosity of Lady Luxmoore, Mrs. Tritton, Mr. P. F. Cranmer and Sir William Wayland promptly supplied liS with the money; a nation-wide search has finall y located new boats for our lise. One-a magnificent piece of work-has a lready arrived. Moreover, the boatman of Jesus College, Cambridge, has been down to fit slides to last year's boats, and they will now be availab le for the third and fourth crews. A small body of faithful members has been carrying out the various repairs and adjustments that would be performed by our boatman, if we had one. Once the season begins we keep ou r fingers crossed and hope for the best. Races have been arranged next term with Tonbridge, Clifton, Haileybury and Eastbourne. We shall have one club race against the Medway Rowing Club, and we shall make our first appearance at Marlow Regatta on slides. Larry Whalley, of Jesus College, Cambridge, is coming down to talk to us at the end of term, and the Headmaster has all but promised us that the Hut classroom shall be shifted to Fordwich late this Summer as a changing-room and workshop. If Mr. Brett is able to straighten out the Stour for us this Summer, we may become a rowing school by 1949. J.H.C.

DEMOCRACY IN EDUCATION Those who have read the numbers of this magazi ne during the last ten years or more will not need to be told that we have a democratic attitude towards Education . How cou ld it be otherwise? When Henry VII! refounded the School in 1541, the King's Scholars were required to be "poor and destitute of the aid of friend s". Similar phraseology will be found in the original Charters or Deeds of those ancient Foundations who have long been regarded as Public Schools of the highest class. Thus, to take a few names at random, in our own School, Marlowe was the son of a shoemaker; Charles Abbot, Lord Chief Justice and Baron Tenterden, came from a barber's cottage; John Keate's father in the mid-eighteenth century swept the Cathedral Church and stoked its fire, while John came here as a King 's Scholar to become later Rector of Hatfield, where his sister Elizabeth met and in due course married James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury, and so she is the ancestress of the Cecils of our day, her son becoming the first Marquess; Charles Plater, who founded Marlborough College, came of local grocer stock. A glance down any page of the Headmaster's old Register of Scholars reveals the most diverse 281

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occupatio ns of parents; thus, to take o ne typical page of 1780, the status of parents is given as : Knight, Esquire, Butcher, " Gent", Vicar of St. Dunstan 's, Surgeon, Vicar of Chi lham, Lieut. of the R.N. , Innkeeper of the Red Lyon , Attorney, Captain in ye Navy. A page fo r 1817 runs : East India Company's Service, Col. of the 48th Regt., Lieut. of the 48th Regt., Rear-Admiral, Tailor, Broker, 89th Regt., Draper, Tanner, G razier, Innkeeper, Master of a Merchantman, Dancing Master, Esquire, So licitor, Surgeon, Farmer. But in the nineteenth century came a change in this School as in all others. The middle classes grew in population, wealth and politica l power. Men began to ma ke great fortunes through the manufacturing industries, Railways, Iron and Steel, and the Empire grew a lmost daily, needing constant supplies of educated young men to administer it. Hence roughly from 1840 onwards sprang into exis tence all those many public schools, whose names today are famous, to cater for these ever-growing classes; while th e ancient schools remodelled themselves from their democratic purpose into the modern public school as we have known it. The final stage was the birth of the private preparatory school in the 1860 's, and these became the sole source of supply for the public schools. Henceforward only "gentlemen " -or at least people with money- cou ld enter them. Antiquity blended with costs to put the schools into the various categories of desirability. So me schools, founded for the charita ble pu rpose of educating local boys, salved their consciences by building day schools for such boys. One famous school as late as the 1920 's caused its Statutes to be altered, whereby local boys henceforward should go to the Municipal School of the nearest big town. The writer well remembers being told by a clerical friend that when he joined in 191 6 the Stafl' of this school, his ca b-driver was an Old - -. And why not ? But during the last war the Public School intimated their willingness to come in some degree into the democractic picture and the Fleming Commission-set up by the Coalition Government-showed in their Repo rt ho w in their mind that might be done. The main principle was that nobody should be precluded from a Public School Education- if he o ught to have one-by lack of means. The Report has not, however, been embodied in a Law, with the result tha t its implementation-which the present G overnment much desires- is chance work a nd haphaza rd. Some schools have taken a goodly number of F leming Scholars- one has lately announced that 96 per cent. of its placed will now be filled by them. But the Repo rt does not coniine it s recommendations to one class o r type, and since it wa s issued th e risin g costs of li vin g ha ve hit the middle cla sses more than most. School fees have had to be raised to what seems a fant as tic level compared with fees of thirty yea rs ago. Many parents cannot afford th em, and have sought help from Local Educa ti o n Autho rities. Hardl y a Pu blic School exists now where at least some few parents are not being fi nancia ll y aid ed by Local Education Authorities. But there js no uniformity of policy- there is no guarantee of aiel. Some Local Educa tion Authoriti es are generous- the writer is spea king fro m facts-others refu se and jn effect say, " yoll ca n take your boy away frol11 the Public School and send him to one of our Day Schoo ls " . Two Auth o rities lately have so written, whereas ano ther which had given a grant to a boy fo r his Public School in the South of Engla nd readily agreed to transfer it, when a fter a term his parents moved to the North of England, if the Northern County refused to help. :Tillles Educ. S U{Jp. , Feb. 28th, 1948. : The middlc class public o ught to kn ow where it stands. Clea rl y it is neither democracy

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nor socialism, if parent A receives £100 per annum towa~ds the f~es from hi~ Local Education Authorities, and parent B, equally needy, receives nothlllg from hIS. But that is the situation. Local Authorities have {Jower to give assistance, but no duty. Again, not a few Local Education Aut~orities are very ~ener~lUs in granting. aid (County Major Scholarships) to boys who WISh to go to the Umverstty. But here agan.' IS no uniformity of policy. What you get depends on chance. One Local EducatIOn Authority will give all a boy requires, another £x, and another £y. But It IS not democratlc that of three equally deserving boys with equally hard-up parents, one gets £x, one £y and the th ird £z. It may indeed be argued that some Local EducatIOn Authontles are too generous. They .ma~ announce their awards in October O!' the results of the Higher Certificate Exam1l1atIOns held III July; If, as happens sometimes, they guarantee to find all that the parent cannot, the boys are naturally gleeful, and ask why they should now work night and day for open Scholarships in December and March! . Thus most of thelf last year may be unwisely used, and ultlmately they wlllle!'ve the UnIversity With a. class less. It is much to be WIShed that the MInIstry of EducatIOn would IIlSISt on a umform policy in the granting of aid fo~ School and University, and the postponement of County awards until after the UmverSlty Scholarship exammatlOns have taken place. Of course, many have questioned whether the Fleming Report is itself truly demo~ratic. By its theory boys from every class have the nght to go to any Pub"c School If It Will take them, and the parents may express their choice. Now the Public Scho?ls ~re relatively few in number, and as things are Public Schoolboys must always be a mmonty, a privileged minority. Up to date it has been a minority based on money, and by the Fleming Report it would be a minority of " worth-while" boys, though many thousands of boys of equally good quality could never get in. That seems hardly democratic. Again, some schools now cost almost £300 per annum in fees alone, some £200, others £ 150 or less. Of any three candidates, equally worth-while, on what socialist principles can it be justified that one boy shall cost the State £300 pel' annum plus hiS ma1l1tenance wh ile another is to be provided for on the £200 level, and the third must be content with £150 ? Certainly if the Scheme grows to any considerable extent, one result will be that the Secondary Schools will lose their cream, and the Public Schools which participate will collect that cream. It also follows that if the Scheme develops-assuming that the Public Schools are now mostly full- there cannot be found room for the number of fee-payers which has been customary. What is to happen to them? The conclusion seems to be that the F leming Report attempts only a temporary solution of this most difficult question- namely, how the Public Schools (if they are to remain as few in number as they are), which create by their nature and training an educated privileged class, can become an integral part of the life of a nation whose feet are set determmedly 1D a democratic path.

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AN ARCHITECTURAL DISCOVERY ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE GREEN COURT The great lead reservoir under the roof of the so-called Brewery Building in the Green Court has just been demolished; behind it, in the wall to the East (i.e., the West wall of the present Masters' Common Room) two Norman arches have come to light, of a breadth on the Western, splayed side, of 4 ft. 10 ins., and a height of 8 feet or more. These arches (in common with other discoveries made locally from time to time) prove the high degree of accuracy of the famou s Norman Plan bound into the Canterbury Psalter now at Trinity College, Cambridge. ' . The Plan shows on the North side, of the Curia Monachorum (Green Court) a long slllgle-storey bUlldmg labelled Bracll1ull1 (Brewhouse) and Pistrinum (Bakehouse).l A double vertical line appears to indicate the point of division between the two establishments. Just to the West of this a chimney or turret with pointed top and vertical openings in the sides rises from the shingled roof, while a chimney of peculiar design is incorporated in the South-East angle of the building, and another in the North-West angle. The drawing is made as it were from the South-West, and therefore depicts the Southern and Western sides. In the Southern side, facing the Green Court, there are three doors Or shuttered windows with elaborate hinges. The gable of the Western end is pierced by a small window flanked by two circular openings or decorations. Lower down are two windows side by side. It is reasonable to suppose that the opposite, hidden end of the building was treated in the same way. The two windows just discol'ered are in exaclly the required position. The openings in the gable are not to be found as the wall above the tops of the windows has long since been destroyed, and is represented by an ancient timber and plaster partition. The splay of the two windows shows that the East side of the wall in which they occur must once have been an outside wall . The Masters' Common Room, and the Bursar's Office are therefore post-Norman work, and must have been constructed in the later Middle Ages to fill in the open space to the West of the Forrens Arch, clearly shown in the Plan. Consequently the Norman monastic Bakehouse now takes its place in what is normally known as the " Brewery Building". Further confirmation is provided by the fact that a massive chimney still stand s at the juncture of the wall containing the windows, and the wall on the Green Court, the original South-East corner of the building. This leaves an extremely small space for both bakehouse and brewhouse if Hodgson 's Hall does in fact mark the end of the brewery. Buildings of this kind were normally on a gigantic scale; medieval appetites were not small, and a hundred monks and as many servants made heavy demands in bread; the consumption of beer and ale was great, as they took the place of tea and coffee to-day. The Norman Plan shows the range of buildings stretching almost as far as the Norman Staircase, i.e., to the end of the School Dining Hall. It is not improbable that in the twelfth century there was a continuous facade from the great chimney to this point the Dining Hall representing the Brewery and the remainder the Bakehouse. That th~ range was continuous till the seventeenth century seems true, as there was some sort of structure o~ the site of Hodgson 's Hall (built 1659) "called the dean's great hall, having been demolished by the zealous puntans for bemg profaned by the king's scholars having acted plays there".' 1 For the purpose of clarity in this note the range under discussion is taken at running East~West ,actually its axis is nearer N .E.-S,W.

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'fHE CANTUARIAN THE MINUET The scrape of violins behind a curtain And whisper'd invitations to the dance; The sway of crocus flower beneath a Spring rain, And linnet's pipe and music sung by chance, In summer nights by gentle nightingales ; This cadence falling as do autumn leaves Upon the autumn airs when old moon pales And here dimm 'd splendour to the season cleaves; These melodies play'd on to guide our feet With memories through all the dancing round And tell again those stories old and sweet With full delight in music and ripe soundFor once let pleasures fail and cloy and cease And nought remains but sloth and idle peace.

LE FLACON It is strong scent to which every material

Is porous. People say it seeps through glass. In some copper, newcotn'e from the East, Whose lock, forced open, groans and creaks aloud.

Or a corner cupboard in an empty house Full of the acrid smell of black dust-covered Years, at times an old glass shews its face Springs out a living ghost. A thousand thoughts, funereal pupae slept, Slightly stirring in their dark crypt Who now shake free their wings and take the air, Tinted with azure, frozen crimson, gilded o'er. There is memory drunkard Sniffing the disturbed air : eyes closc themselves: giddiness With both hands pu shes the overwhelmed so ul forward To a dark depth of human feebleness, Leading it beside that earthly abyss, At whose edge, fragrant Lazarus Threw off, in wakening, the spectre Of an ancient, time-fermented love, delightful Sepulchral, when he rent his shroud. And thus, when I'll be lost in memories Of men, with my face in a dark cornerpiece When I have come on you, lonely old glass Dustcoated, slimy, cracked, decrepit,

I shall be your coffin, pleasurable filth, Testimony to your power alld wealth:

Beloved drug prepared by angel hands ! Liqueur Consuming me, my life and death 's desire! 288

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Neither draw thou nigh; Breathe not upon me With thy hideous breath; Happiness, fly not, Neither pass me by. DEATH Eternal blackness of unknowing rest, . Eternal longing for a futile move, P. A. FYFE-COOPER

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THE C ANTUARIA N ON THE ASSASSINATION OF MR. GANDHI The sunset lingers on the restless sea, Playing in strident bars of burning red ; A black swan glides athwart the noiseless lea, A life has fled. A whisper travels through the weakling land As dead leaves in unrest upon the ground, The sunset glimmers on the shimmering sand, Still sinks the sound. Strew his grey ashes on the moonlit river, Strew your last mem'ries on ·the waters clear ; There he shall rest for ever and for ever. The waters there Shall soft enclose him and with languid arms Sway with the restless motion of the seas, And serve him, with insinuating bairns, A life of.ease. Let not the shivering moonlight of tbe mind, As it flings backward through unnumbered years Upon all-seeing courses, fail to fi nd Man 's falling tears.

LA MORT DES OISEAUX In the cold times, in a mind where the flame-shapes distort, I often think on the cold heap of rigid feathers Small, somewhere buried in a bramble cluster Rotting concealed, and through the Ages' emblem, Small, too infinitely tiny for a moment's thougbt, Small, past, dead. And, through the sad days of monotonous winter, Long-since abandoned nests, poor, windblown, shredded, Balance on an irongrey sky. Yet when the violet gladdens, We do not find their delicate skeletons Where we disport in the April hours .

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'tHE CANTUA RIA N THE LOVER TO HIS LADY . Were I a prince of Asia or tbe East I would abase myself before your dwellmg ; My heart wo uld still lie captive in my breast, To all the tongues of fame your glory telling.

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Were I a lord of Hindustan, great Inde, I would bring Orient pearls to deck y~lUr ears; And give my sails unto the sc~nted wmd, And bring you home and bamsh all your tears. Were I the Emperor of far Cathay, . I would bring jade and endless sapphire stars, And with the sweetest blossoms strew your way, That fragrance might assault your Triumph's cars.

Were I but one of these, I should be blest, That I migbt please you with some costly art, And bring the rarest thing at your bebest, And play the bidder at your pleasure's mart.

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RECITALS AND CONCERTS MISS WINIFRED ROBERTS (February 1st) The Violin Recital given by Miss Winifred Roberts was the lirst recital to be given this term. The programme was well varied and included the ever-popular SOllatina in D major. In this work, Miss Roberts was able to show off the richness of tone on the lower notes of the violin. The main work of the recital was the suite of Hebrew melodies, Baal Shem, by Ernest Bloch, of which the last, "Rejoicing", was particularly appealing. We certainly hope that Miss Roberts, who was on her second visit to the School, will become a regular ~ member of the company of School Recitalists.

MR. DENNIS NOBLE (February 15th) Mr. Dennis Noble gave the School a recital, whose programme suited all tastes, Irom grand opera to the ordinary song. Among the variety of songs and arias he sang was Panis Angelicus, by Cesar Franck, which Mr. Noble hoped he sang as well as he had done in recording it. Verdi was well-represented by three arias from Olello, La Trm'iala and La For2a del Deslino. A special request for Silent Worship, by Handel, was made by the Headmaster. One of the most popular songs was the well-k nown setting of the anonymous poem Mathew, Mark, Luke and John. We are very grateful for Mr. Noble for coming down from London through the snow to sing to us, and we hope that he will continue to keep up the friendship which he has established through his previous visits. MISS AUDREY FORDHAM (Piano) AND MR. PATR ICK PURCELL (Clarinet) (February 19th) Miss Audrey Fordham began this clarinet and piano recital by playing the well-known " Military " Polonaise in A by Chopin. Mr. Purcell, who has become well-known in the School as bandmaster and woodwind teacher, played Three Characteristic Pieces for Clarinet and Piano by William Hailstone. These, by tbeir lightbeartedness and gaiety, commended themselves immediately to the audience. Among some other works that Miss Fordham played were Paganini Etude in E flat by Liszt, and Rhapsody in C by Dohnanyi. Mr. Purcell played as his second work the Rondo from Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. Dr. Knight accompanied Mr. Purcell, and is to be thanked with the soloists for making the evening a success. THE MONITORS' CONCERT (February 21 st) This entertainment appropriately bore the title of "Purple Patches ", and for the short time the Monitors took to rehearse it, it was certainly more purple than patchy. It catered for all tastes, the items ranging from Shakespeare to Stanley Holloway's monologues. 292

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of before the war, Cook gey ':,r ~f.~~~; ~~~ f~f~Je~ol~obk Master's (C. G. S. Paterso~) example, Cook, played by . . I '''Oh m offence is rank it smells to heaven . ~he tdherefore. say:,are me'mb~r where all the quotations come from. kipper for breakfast; Half the fun in thIS lIes m en eavounng Ii I At King's Canterbury, Kent, sung to the The piece de re~istance w~s ~e ~~, sonltere all the ~arious activities of the School, tune of " Much-bmdmg-m-t e- ars: ~ Club were brought in to make a grand the Captain 's boomU1g VOlce and the ~o'ld ~at~~ught it was a risky one, but let me assure finale. The concert was an expenmen ., sam . n b the School Monitors, who do not them all thattheit talent was not, and means, the enterltal~~~n~~:::: an ~nn ual event. It will certainly have have by any s IOU e good support. C.B.M-P.

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, .. h been done ' the weather has A steady and somewhat uneventful term s ~:J~lh~s h~d to be can~elled so far. The been reasonably kind, and only half of one pa I with an intake of those who passed Signal Platoon has largely changed person?e II' it is hoped that a good proportion C " fi t " A " last term and has got on velY we , of~~e~: be classified ~adet signallers by the end of the Summer.

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THE CANTUARIAN . Field Day, 2nd March, 1948 ThIs teek the ferm ef a twe-part Training. Officer at The Buffs Barra~l~pany attack scheme, and was run by the Weapen whIch laId the scene in the DlIrevernu~ Jh;4 ~.~. pro~uce~ an Intreductery Narrative (hC,S.M. Jacksen) attacked ever the Scetland Hiu;' t~n fin tt mer l11n g ':A" Cempany d Owmg to. the fact t at haversack ratiens ceuld net b d d a rs eun. and in the afterneen the attack :afr~en~f~u~Jh~ c~~tI~genlt nbJ~rched back fer lunch, Cempany (c'S.M. Osbern) attackin . 0. e. na 0. ~ectIve, but wIth "B" the place in the merning, but the ,:he;he hlthh'rte ~ntned sectIen leaders were all ever neen s ewe great Imprevement, and it was a thereughly profitable day.

Promotions The fellewing premetiens were made with effect frem 14th January 1948' Sgt. 1. M . Osborn to be C.S.M.; LIS IS 0 W S . ,.:a~~f~s sbuag asf!d 1. Rd' AUchurch to ian~e_s~r~~~~n? tc~it D~Vl'it~dto JbeMSerWs:eants; Cpls. L '" lms an A. P. Towell to be Corporals' C d J' . . . n s, . . au, H. L. N. C, F. Peorter, J. D. Barwell, J, J, Bradley B. K. Newton ~ e~ L" CuBnnEmgton, TÂˇ E. Watson, 1. E. t USbh'L o e ance- orporaJs. ' J . . fly. . . S. Kflight and B. Cassidy

. Th~ band has taken en a new lease ef'life w'th th . IS glvmg instructien to. the drum and bu Ie ban~ e assIstance ef Mr. P.Purcell, who. to. budd up the nucleus ef a full militar/band w:.~bt bS' ~nd at the same ttme IS starting a year er two. 's time. This will be a great additied t the epes . to. have functiening in 0. e amerutIes ef the Cerps.

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If the master pauses to. cQnsider the situatien (nete the slight narrowing ef the eye-lids), administers rebuke and/Qr punishment and reasserts himself by getting en with the lesson, he belongs to Group I. If he replies with SQme SQrt ef badinage Qr wit and suggests by his manner that' 'beys will be beys", he belQngs to. Group 2. ShQuld he fly into. a passiQn and perfQrm seme theatrical act such as the flinging dQwn Qf bQQks er the clQuting ef heads, put him in GrQup 3. There are QccasiQns when the executiQn Qf this test will leave seme deubt as to. the relevant grQup. In such cases his reactiQns shQuld be immediately fQllewed by the cry, " Oh, Sir!" by the same three spekesmen in unisQn. The next few secQnds will leave no. dQubt abQut classificatien, and the man may be left in peace fQr the time being. THE DULL LSSSQN Previded the master has been cQrrectly graded, there is no. reaSQn why the lessQn sheuld nQt be made entertaining with Ihe minimum effort on Ihe parI ~f the sludents. First, yeu must conceal your intentions. This is best dQne by preserving a preliminary periQd Qf utter silence. Five minutes is ample. This will prQduce a feeling ef security in the enemy and bring ferth any benevQlent emQtiQns he happens to. PQssess. At the end Qf this peried the CQmmander sheuld quickly assess the situatien and decide what actiQn is necessary. This is the critica l mement and the fellQwing principles shQuld be applied; GrQup I will by this time be immersed in his subject and will have no. reasen to. suppese that he has anything but the perfect audience. It is dangerQus to. allQw him to. preceed with the lessQn Qn his ewn terms, however, fQr this will lead eventually to. The Test. His enthusiasm must be callalised into. relevant and kindred details ef general interest until his enthusiasm has carried him to. the peint where he is expressing opinions rather than facls. CanalisaliQn is an art and shQuld Qnly be entrusted to. ene who. has received three geQd tuter cards in successiQn. NQt Qnly must the red herrings be perfectly prepa red- they must be prepared by ene who. stands in geed esteem with the beak. They are best put in the fellQwing manner ; " Sir, I understand that perfectly (a certain ameunt Qf eiling is essential), but suppQsing ...... " Nete that the element Qf hypethesis is at Qnce intreduced, thus Qpening the way to. QpiniQns rather than facts. In HistQry it is wise to. present a medern parallel, fer no. Qne will cQmmit himself when tQ-mQrrew's paper may preve him wrQng. In Science and Mathematics it is safe to. intreduce SQme practical applicatiQn Qf the matter in hand ; this will prQduce cQnjecture and anecdQte witheut fail. In Languages it is advisable to. ask whether a certain wQrd Qr phrase WQuld be understeed in a part Qf the ceuntry dear to. the man in questiQn. When canalisatiQn is well under way and the master has turned to. illustrate SQme PQint Qn the black-bQard, alllext-books should be unobtrusively shut, including, ifpQssible, these Qf the master himself. Group 2 rarely needs any further treatment than the preliminary silence, fer the state Qf bonhomie thus engendered will prQve his Qwn undeing. Self-cQntrQl is necessary up to. the mQment when the first reminiscence breaks fQrth. From then enwards ene third Qf the class sheuld be detailed to. listen and give appreciative res pense while the remainder (seated at the sides and back) get Qn with their Qwn jebs. With Greup 2 it is unnecessary and inadvisable to. shut bQQks, fer it is a grQUp eften tQrmented by a

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THE CANTUARIAN Group 3 needs imaginative handling, but he shows good dividends. Although it is simple to put him into a rage, he must be put into the right kind of rage. The easiest complex to ~rouse is the Pe~rls before Swine attitude that will induce a sulky disposition for the remamder of the penod. If, on the other hand, he IS allowed by careless handling to develop a malevolent attitude the cause of irritation must be repeated until he oversteps the bounds of reason and inflicts punishments of such severity that he will be forced later to remit them . It may sometimes be necessary to appoint a Martyr from among your number to commit a Beatable Offence. The latter wi ll previously have been instructed to seek a cane in all but the most probable places: the Period of Strain experienced by the Master during this protracted search will be found handy for the finishing of novels or prep, or for the completion of a game of Battleships. It is essential that a cane be found at last (just as the bell is ringing) or the master may be led into the dangerous habit of carrying portable armament on his person. After the punishment it is decent to subscribe one penny per head as an Honorarium for the victim. TUTOR CARDS

The introduction of thi~ weapon by the enemy caused consternation in the early stages. So did the Magnetic MlOe. But every weapon has ItS antidote, and even tutor cards can be degaussed. Forgery is of course ruled out by Conventions, but two methods remain. Simple Substitution

When two bad reports are received on the same card, it should be appreciated that the situation is delicate and threatening; peace of mind is impossible to all except the most hardened martyrs. The card should at once be lost, and a new one requested from the Tutor. This enables the student to choose his olVn moment for the new report. It has been found that the best mo~ent is as the master. is about to leave for Birley's, or at any moment when hiS nllnd IS least hkely to be 10 the classroom. Nevel' make this move immediately before a meal. Delayed Substitution

This method is used when a satisfactory card has been acquired by one means or another. The card is lost and a duplicate presented for signature; it may reasonably be supposed that masters will give another satisfactory report. Either card may then be handed in, and the other kept in reserve for a rainy day. The practice of some masters of signing and dating their cards before issue is unsporting in the extreme, showing, as it does, a regrettable lack of confidence in the pupils' honesty and good faith. MORE ADVANCED WORK

Space does not permit the inclusion of the many subtle devices by which work of most kinds can be evaded entirely. They form a most interesting field of private study however, and the enthusiast is recommended to follow closely the advice freely offered during the O.K.S. week-ends. A tea-party given to a number of old boys who have succeeded in passing no exams whatsoever will prove most instructive. Many have the advantage of several terms' experience at one of the ancient universities and they can at once be distinguished by the light and dark blue scarves they wear. ' MORPHBUS ~9~

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A BISHOP'S MESSAGE

The following is the opening passage of the monthly message written to the people of h' d' b the Bishop ofWillochra. This diocese is in South Austraha- ofenormous IS IOcese y 0 ulated The writer of this note has known the Bishop for many sIze :?t:Fsa[~e~~e~y ~ense ; grand man, a devoted missionary who laboured for years 10 i~:rB;lsh brotherhood. He is at once virile and holy, wise and humble. That IS ~hh he can write so straightforwardly to people, whom he truly loves, wayward as many 0 t em are.

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"Whi le newspapers, books and periodicals are deploring. the prevailing decad~"c~ in morals and integrity at the same time we allow the sale of hterature and the Ph o ucltlOn of motion films which incite people to ado~t the form s of misconduct we are eWaI 109. While we want ,eo Ie to take an interest III thell' work and to be straightforward and honest in their Idellings with one another facilities for gambhng and other pursUits inimical to the welfare of society are encouraged. It is a stran e state of affairs. Human society to-day is like a man building a house while another is tr~ng to pull it down. Amongst a larlle section of people slOcenty, l,?yalty and devotion to duty are openly derided, and thelf aim appears to be to do or give as little as possible for the most they can get. . A t' or so ago we were told that sin had no meaning for the modern man; genera IOn ected he scoffs at virtue too. The same people told us that en-

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[This accoullt is (aken from (he Los ANGELES TIMES of January 26(h, 1948, which MI'. Spence Turner, who was at (he School from 1903 (a 1908, has kindly sent us. We are extremely glad to have heal'djrom him.-Eds.) During several weeks I spent in England last fall, J visited a number of the famous public schools and I was surprised, as I think most Americans would be surprised, at the great differences between them and American public schools. The English public schools-Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and dozens of othersare what we would call private schools, and they are rather selective. In many cases boys are enrolled at birth as future students. The public schools do not have grades, as in this country, but six "forms", beginning with the equivalent of the seventh grade and extending through what would be the senior year in the American high school. Thus a first-year boy, or "first former" , is in what is f equivalent to our seventh grade, and a boy in the sixth form is as advanced as a high school senior in America. The first school I visited was King's School at Canterbury, founded by St. Augustine, â&#x20AC;˘ Apostle of England, in 600. It faces the magnificent Canterbury Cathedral across a quadrangle. Here I had tea and crumpets with the headmaster and his wife, and I visited , a number of the classes. Most of the masters, of course, are Oxford or Cambridge men. As is to be expected in all schools, I suppose, I found some of the teaching superior and some mediocre. 'J' King's School at Canterbury seemed more democratic than Eton and Harrow and in some ways more interesting. Eton College is up the Thames from London, an hour and a half's ride on the train. It looks across the river to Windsor Castle. Although it is called a "college", it is '{ really a prep school. It was founded in 1440, and the visitor is continually reminded I of its age and traditions. Most of the 1,100 students live on the campus; the few who '. room and board in town are called "oppidans". Top hats and Eton collars with the old school tie are de rigueur. The masters wear l their academic gowns in all classes. These gowns are made of heavy material and, besides investing the teacher with a certain dignity, they have the practical advantage of providing warmth. The Eton discipline is Spartan. The boys live in austere little cubicles that open on a common room, and they sleep on beds that fold up against the wall during the dayi time. All able-bodied boys are members of the R.O.T.C., and practically all the masters are reserve officers. Although sixth former George McDonald, the young Scotsman who showed me around, told me he intended to become a farmer, he was studying the classics, as do most of boys in the public schools. He explained that a comprehensive examination is given at the end of each year, and that a student who fails in two such examinations is dropped. "But", he added, "scarcely anyone succeeds in doing that". I, Harrow, or to give it the full name, Harrow-on-the-HilI, was founded in 1571 by John Ford, a merchant in a neighbouring village who saw the need of a school for merchants' ~ons. Emphasis is laid on the great men who have studied here-Lord Byron, William

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EDWARD THURLOW, THE KING'S CHANCELLOR "Round Thurlow's head in early youth And in his sportive days" Fair Science pour 'd the light of truth, And Genius shed his rays. Discernment, eloquence, and,grace Proclaim him born to sway The balance in the highest place, And bear the palm away." .' C s to take pleasure in adorning his In this entertainin& metre WIlham owper. see~ a man who, although he had many subject with a ,pretentIOUS eulogy unduly flat:e!~;gt illustration of the maxim "on vaut worthy quahtlCs, was, In hiS own way, a s n ce qu'on veut valoir". . N f h R Thomas Thurlow an incumbent III orEdward Thurlow, the eldest son °B t e ~\ in Norfolk He'could trace his ancestry folk, was born in DfecHember ~~d ri~~~ed shiS mother ~as said to be a descendant of back to the reIgn 0 enry , . , , V Sir Richard Hovell, esquire of the body to Henry . M .tted to the care of the Rev. r. Edward, being hard to manage a!,hon:e,was comml e then a roved type", and Brett, master of Scarning School, a dlsclphnanan of ~~I am notbound", he said in r scoundrel who chooses to here he conceived an unalterable aversIOn ,~or the man. later life when Brett sought acquaJ~~an~~ Ito rec~~n~de;i~~ea to the King's School of recollect me". In Midsummer, fl7 'D ub~:n: a prebendary of the Cathedral, who, Canterbury, at the suggestion 0 one r. ,

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Thurlow found that the King had entirely concurred in Pitt 's demand for his dismissal which took place on June 15th. ' Thurlow spent the greater part of his time after his dismissal at his villa near Dulwich suffering, we are told, from "the tedium vitae", although his taste for classical literature' contracted at school, served him well in his old age. His last speech in the House wa; delivered in 1802, on the occasion of the Treaty of Amiens. On the 12th September 1806, Thurlow expired at the age of seventy-four, and he was interred in the vault unde; the South Aisle in the Temple Church. Edward Thurlow was not a great lawyer, but, to quote Lecky, "he was a most powerful and ready debater, a man of much rugged sense and indomitable courage, coarse, violent, arrogant, shameless and profane. ~ leonine cou~ltenance, a loud commanding voice, fierce, shaggy brows, a demeanour hke that of an II1solent counsel brow-beating a timid witness and ~anifes tly delighting in his distress, a quickness of repartee that seldom or nev.er failed him, and a com!?lete freedom from ever~ vestige of deference, modesty, or hesitatIOn, all added to the ImpreSSIOn of over-bearmg and exuberant strength which he made on those with whom he came into contact." He invariably displayed in debate VIgorous ,reasomng and m~nly eloqu.ence, and, when beaten, he could always cover his retreat wIth a broad assertIOn, a cuttmg sarcasm, or a threatening look. His was a rude bantering, impressive style of oratory, and he never hesitated to reasoning which h; knew to.be sophistical, trusting largely to the ignorance of his a udience. " He contrived to persuade mankind that he was a great judge,. a ~reat orator and a great statesman. He owed ~IS temp?rary reputatIOn. very much to his high pretensions and his a:-ve-inspiring manners. As a Judge he lacked llldustry, and was lI1chned to convlVlal society and idle gossip. "He looked wiser than any man ever was ", is Fox's bOI! mot. By intense though !rregular, ap!?lication he had acquired a wide, if not profound, knowledge of I~w and, It m~st be said, he was clear-headed, self-confident, fluent and blunt. Of statesmanship he hImself declared that he knew very little, for he was a political adventurer, and consequently thought little of changing his coat when it suited him. It was this ambition that allied him so firmly to the King, and as quickly transferred his allegiance to the Prince of Wales. Thurlow himself wrote; "Is Thurlow yet so little known '1By - I swore, while George shall reign, The Seals, in spite of changes, to retain, Nor quit the Woolsack till he quits the Throne !" He was a politi~ian with little interest in politics; what principles he had may be summed up as a high view of the Royal Prerogallve and an aversion to change. Time and agam he. showed his diehard spirit, in denouncing constitutional, economic and legal reform, m pouring venom on the Americans, in praising and defending the slave trade, and in his harsh treatment of Radicals such as Horne Tooke. He became, without doubt, the tyrant of the Lords, and he often acted in a domineering and high-handed manner. But he remained a genuine patriot, and maintained the spirit of the lines he himself wrote of Scarning ;

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" Sic Galli intereant omnes ! sic Anglia semper Prostrato repetat laetior hoste domum ! Gentes audaces cum ducat Cumbrius heros, Quo virtus iubet, et gloria celsa vocat, Magnanimus populus victl'icia signa sequatuf, Et laetus repetat victor ovansque domum !" His character, as an individual, was full of contrasts. He kept the taste for the classics which he had developed at school, and cultivated it when he retired fro m public life. He patronised Johnson, Crabbe and Hayley, and kept up an irregular correspondence with his old friend Cowper. Under his ostentatious roughness he preserved a disposition naturally tender and kind ; and, in priva te life he could be good-humoured and considerate. He secured for his brother Thomas successively the livings of Stanhope, the Deaneries of Rochester and St. Paul's, the Bishoprics of London, Lincoln and Durham. But there was a n unpleasant side to Thurlow's character. His habit of profane swearing was notorious; his oaths and vulgar pleasantries were frightening to the ladies, and a sign of his rather obnoxious character. To a deputation of Nonconformists he once said: "Gentlemen, I'm against you, by God. I am for the Established Church. damme ! . . .... And if you can get your damned religion established, [ 'II be for that too." A satirist of the day wrote; "A great Law Chief, whom God nor demon scares, Compelled to kneel and pray, who swore his prayers; The devil behind him pleas'd and grinning; ..... Admiring such a novel mode of sinning. " For all his obvious faults it is much to bis honour that he rose from obscurity to the higbest dignity in the State, and, that in his capacity of senior law-officer he was majestic, dignified and of a commanding demeanour. Though his qualities of asperity and ruggedness procured him the nickname of "The Tiger", yet, according to a contemporary, he was' 'possessed of faculties so transcendant, however mingled with human weakness and infirmity, that he must always be considered as one of the most eminent individuals who sat in the Councils of George III at any period of his reign." Yet, however high we rank him, his epitaph, abounding with unqualified praise, does him more than justice ; "Vir alta mente et magna praeditus, I Qui Nactus praeclarissimas occasiones Optime de patria merendo, Jura Ecclesiae, Regis, Civium, In periculum vocata Firmo et constanti animo Tutatus est." B.M.B.

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THE CANTUARIAN INTERVIEWS A new series in which an Editor of The Cantuarian puts the same twenty questions to well-known people. No.1. THE MAYOR OF CANTERBURY The present Mayor of Canterbury is Alderman Mrs. G. R. Hews. She was elected a Councillor in 1936, became a City Alderman in 1943 and Mayor in 1947. For the last ten years she has led a very busy public life, and is now a member of more than fifty committees in Canterbury and East Kent. I. What job would you choose if you could live your life over again?

Nursing, next to wi/ehood.

2. You win ÂŁ10,000 in a football pool. What would you do with it? I should spend most of it in giving pleasure to my friends. 3. What would you do if you were Prime Minister for a day? Get rid of the present Govemment and select the best people irrespecti"e of Party as my Ministers. 4. What do you find the most tiresome duty in life? DOing things for unappreciative people.

5. What people exasperate you more than all others? Those who are insincere, or who are given /0 posing. 6. Which nationality would you choose if you were not Britisb ? Dutch or Scandinavian. 7. What has been your most terrifying experience? When I was knocked IInconsciolis by a bag snatcher in 1934. 8. Where do you want to live when you retire? In the CanterbUlY district. 9. What is your favourite hobby? Playing with my grandchildren. 10. Book? Adventure stories.

II. Play? "Are you a Mason ?"

12. Musical composition? (iilbert alld Sulliyan operas.

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15. What is your pet aversion? A frog. 16. When are you happiest? When I have succeeded ill overcoming a difficult problem. 17. Whom would you choose as your guest at a private dinner party away from home? Lady Reading. 18. At what period of history (in any country) would you most like to have lived? The Elizabethan period in English History. 19. When do you feel at your best? When I have accomplished something worth while. 20. What's wrong with the world? There is too much nationalism and too much selfishness among individuals. Next term another friend of the School will be interviewed.

THE STORY OF THE SAGE There was once upon a time in the cherry-blossom city of Hankow a very old and reverend Sage. He had studied long years upon the Analects of the much-to-be-venerated Confucius and as a result had grown somewhat irascible. This is the consequence of the taking to heart of the counsels of perfection of that estimable but somewhat unpractical philosopher. This sage lived in great felicity amidst the many cherry-trees, enjoying the respectful admiration of his numerous and well-behaved grand-children and great-grand-children but, after one hundred and ten years of happiness and tranquility had lavished themselves upon his worthy person, the good goddess Kuan-Yin tired of his aging platitudes and resolved to make him less sententious. A coppersmith, by name No-Chang, of lowly birth and unpleasing person, decided tbat life amidst the cherry-blossom would provide needed inspiration for the shapes of vases and the patterns of wine-pots. His friend and neigbbour, Tse-Hung, of even lowlier and less artistic occupation (indeed, painful to mention, he was nothing but a common farrier), decided that he could not forego the pleasures of wine and of enlightened conversation that he had for so long enjoyed in the person of the coppersmith, He mllsl mOVe as well.

THE CANTUARJAN So it happened in the season of the cherry-blossom that, as the Sage was reflectively chewing on his seventy-eighth melon seed and turning over in his mind that one line of pure wisdom and poetry which (when written) would make him famous to all posterity, he saw to his horror (and indeed on this occasion tranquillity escaped him) two carts full of unrefined and ill-washed persons and of implements of the metal-working trades approaching along the dusty road, the Avenue of Peerless Cherry-Blossom. To his scandal these ill-bred persons descended with all their goods and chattels almost outside his Own front gate. One family was evidently to occupy the house to the right of his and the other the house to the left of his. The philosopher was disturbed. After the bustle of disembarkation, quiet again descended, but the tranquillity of the Sage was shattered forever. He swore at hi s well-behaved grand-children and his properly respectfu l great-grand-child ren. He quarrelled with bis aged and bad-tempered wife, the one tribulation so far permitted him . He lost his appetite for ginger and for melon seeds, and the line of poetry flew out of his head and left a headache behind. He even began to tire of the cherry-blossom . He went to bed in a temper and got up in a worse one. Confucius turned in his beatitudes. The coppersmith and the ironsmith had admired the cherry-blossom all afternoon and they rose early next morning to make up for lost time. The Sage was rudely awoken from his opium-dream by the clangings of the God of War. He cursed and he swore; the walls shook and the plaster cracked and still the clanging went on. His favourite drawing of the " mountain and water" school fell off the wall and his youngest greatgrand-child sat on it. It was irretrievably ruined. All that day and the next day and the day after, the noise went on . It only abated at sunset when the ironsmith and the coppersmith and their ill-bred and undeserving children and grand-children plied the chop-stick and discussed the cherry-blossom . The Sage was in despair. At last he decided that something had to be done. A visit to such yamens as these was distasteful in prospect and probably worse in experience, but the noise must be stopped. The Sage was worldly enough to see very clearly that only an offer of money would appeal to such mercenary natures as these. The next day found him picking his way through the dirt of the yamen of No-Chang, for he could not bring himself to visit a common farrier. He found No-Chang partaking of tea with his friend Tse-Hung, whilst about them the coppersmiths worked. Having been taken to a quieter place, he paid them as many flowery and insincere compliments as he could bring himself to frame, and put his scheme before them. Now No-Chang and Tse-Hung had no intention of quitting the cherry-blossom, but they were never ones to pass profit by. Politeness and perfidy went hand in glove. The sum fixed upon was considerable a nd the Sage incautiously paid in advance. The agreement was that they should change their houses. Sure enough, the next day No-Chang and Tse-Hung emerged from their yamens, with their implements and families riding upon commodious carts hired for the occasion. The carts turned towards each other, they crossed in front of the house of the triumphant Sage. Tse-Hung went into the yamen of No-Chang, No-Chang to the yamen ofTse-Hung. They had exchanged houses I Kuan-Yin was well satisfied.

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O.K.S. NEWS News We have to thank R. G. SHARP for his kind gift of a copy of the History of the King's School. . Los Angeles has the distinction of being the present home of two O.K.S. of widely differing generations-So D. TuRNER (1903- 08), who is Forester, Fire Warden and Chief Engineer of the Fire Protection Districts, and R. JA NICKI, who spent a couple of terms here in 1944, and who is now attending Fairfax High School, Los Angeles. K. B. S. HUBBARD writes that the O.K.S. now at Sand hurst number a dozen. They include M. CAIRNS, A. R. H. ALLEN, S. A. KIRBY, A. E. HILL, D. HOLLAND, B. N. C. JONES, D. NORTH, H. L. ACKERS and G. H. O. BELSHAM. R. R NORTH and several others, including A. G. BARTLETT, hope to get there soon. T. H. PARES, P. D. LEIGHTON and H. J. DE VOIL are all at the same O.C.T.U., and find life pretty strenuous, as thei r day lasts from 5.30 a.m. to 11.30 p.m. R. GROVE, after several years' service with the R.A.F. as a Night-Fighter and Ferry Pilot, is now going in for Agriculture. R. J. MARTIN is reading Architecture at Jesus College, Cambridge. D. R. M. LONG is a subaltern in the Royal Horse Artillery, with the B.A.O.R. N. BARTON headed the list of successful candidates in the Institute of Chartered Accountants' Preliminary Examination last November and won the Institute Prize and the Deloitte Prize, which is worth about ÂŁ50. P. R. B. LEWIS writes from Barnard Castle that he is quite near P. J. HINTON, R. BEDINGFIELD, R. T. TRAGETT and J. G. ALLAN, and they manage to meet occasionally. D. JENKINS is a Lance-Corporal (acting unpaid) in the same camp. J. A. CUSHMAN is a Sergeant, working in a joint R.A.F. and Army petrol laboratory in Singapore-a very lucky break, as he hopes to make Oil and Petrol his career eventually. He, too, hopes to start at the University next October. He says: " Since I've been out here I 've realised more than ever the comradeship which exists between O.K.S., for I've met several of them in the last twenty months, including E. G. F. JOHNSON, JOHN OMMANNEY (appropriately enough on the cricket field; O. W. EUSTACE, TONY GORDON, IAN BBLSHAM, who was very lucky to escape with his life when he crashed in a Beaufighter, the pilot of which was killed; and JOHN RICHARDSON, who has been with me for the last fifteen months." He was picked for the South of Malaya XV against the North and the Malayan Combined Services against the Malayan Civilians. He expected to be back in England in March, so we hope to see him soon. He adds in his letter, "It will ever be one of the deepest regrets of my life that my memory of King's will be a jerry-built hotel in Cornwall and two fleeting visits to Canterbury which nevertheless made a very deep impression upon me."

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We are very sorry to hear that Michael Karop contracted infantile paralysis last October when in the Isle of Man as a flying captain for British European Airways. He is now at St. Nicholas Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey, learning to walk again. He is making progress and is very cheerful, but it may be some considerable time yet before he will regain the use of his limbs. 307

THE CANTUARIAN W. M. FOXWELL writes: "I went for an interview before the O.c. of 3 Training Regiment (Royal Signals) about five weeks ago. His first words to me were- ' What house were you in at King's?' j replied, 'Walpole, Sir ' , and he said , laughing, 'Oh, really; I was III the Grange.' It was J. E. P. SAMPSON." M. WALSH is one of four ex-officers chosen for training in East Africa by Messrs. Booth & Co. (a South American shipping line before the war). SAO HSENG HPA has taken his father 's place as Ruler of the Shan State of Yaungshwe on the latter's election as first President of the Burmese Republic. J. K. EnnuIT is with the British Forces in Palestine, and G. HOWSON was in the same office until he was demobilised. . E. D. GREGSON is with the Survey Section of the R.E. in the B.A.O.R. D. M. PULLEN has qualified M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., and is now a House Surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital. A. DE C. CUSSANS seems to have found a job which suits him very well. He is working in the Fine Arts' Section of the British Council and at present is helping to organize an exhibition to be held in Paris dealing with British Life in Paris from the 12th to the 19th century. P. G. BENNETT is in the Colonial Service in Northern Rhodesia. H. D. CUMBERBATCH (1909-1914) received the honour of Knighthood in the New Years' Honours List, 1948. R. A. FINN (1914- 18) has been appointed Chief Legal Adviser to the British Electricity Authority. G. C. CROWLEY (1913- 16) has been appointed Field Commissioner for the Boy Souts' Association for the Counties of Devon and Somerset. J. P. D'E. SKIPWITH (1924-31) writes that his aunt, MISS Y. E. SKIPWITH, who had the running of School House in "Algie 's" day, is now seriously ill at the Chesterfield Nursing Home, Clifton, Bristol, and would be delighted to see O.K.S. who may happen this way. D. F. MURRAY (1938-42) is in the Foreign Office, and has been posted to Prague as 3rd Secretary. LT.-CDR. R. T. TRIPP (1918-27) is just off to South Africa, where he will be on loan to the S.A.N.F. for two years as an Acting Commander to assist in getting the Proten, a surveying ship, going again after the war years. Before he left, Tripp very kindly sent in his 1st XV and 2nd XV Rugger Caps. J. L. HALL (1924-28) has been appointed Headmaster of the Junior Department of Wells Cathedral School. SIR CUTHBERT HEADLAM (1889-93) sent at the beginning of term a large box of books for House Libraries. P. F. PAGE (1932-36), until recently with the Kenya Police as an Inspector, has now been promoted and gone to the Nigerian Police at Lagos as an Assistant Superintendent. He is due home next year on long leave. 308

THE CANTUARIAN COLONEL W. S. BARROLL (1905- 08), recently retired from the Army, is now living in Cookham, Berks. W. L. SMITH (1937-41) is with the Iraq Petroleum Co. at Kirkuk. He writes: "I hope some O.K.S. will turn up in these parts, which by the way are quite civilised and comfortable, contrary to what most people believe." O.K.S. Monthly Suppers The O.K.S. Monthly Suppers are now held at the Public Schools Club, 100 Piccadilly, on the first Wednesday in each month. The following attended on February 4th :- G. Arnold (1917- 20), C. W. Barber (1907- 14), L. J. Bassett (1897- 1908), J. S. Billinghurst (1915-:-23), R. E. R. C. BrinsleyRichards (1891- 1900), J. P. Hemmg (1911- 20), D. J. B. JervIs (1916-23), C. F. M. N . Ryan (1905- 11), F. L. Sidebotham (1906- 12), K. Thomas (1903-05), C. Worsfold (1916-22), W. C. Young (1929-38). The O.K.S. Golfing Society This year a team has been en tered for the Halford Hewitt Public Schools Cup at the Royal Cinque Ports Club, Deal, April 16th-19th. It is a great occasion, as it is the first time that we have entered for this happy, friendly, but hard-fought event. Some forty odd schools, each sending a team of 10 a nd 2 reserves, not to mention their camp followers, descend on Deal, which welcomes the event very much in the manner Canterbury honours Cricket Week. Flags and bunting are everywhere; this is the week of the year. The Committee of the O.K.S. Golfing Society would welcome the support of O.K.S. and friends of the School who care to come along to Deal on April 16th. The O.K.S. Golfing Society are holding their Second Annual Meeting on the green of . the Herne Bay Golf Club on Saturday, May 8th. All O.K.S. wishing to play in this meeting, please write to G. Arnold, I Chasewood Avenue, Enfield, Middlesex. O.K.S. Dinner The Annual O.K.S. Dinner was held at the Waldorf Hotel, Aldwych, London, W.C.2, on Friday, January 9th, 1948. The Chairman was Sir Frederick Bovenschen, who had been re-elected President of the O.K.S. Association at a meeting held immediately before the dinner. In proposing the toast "Floreat Schola Regia", the Rev. W. H. Maundrell (1890-95) said : "Our President, Sir Frderick Bovenschen, has entrusted me with the toast' 'Floreat Schola Regia" . This is the important toast of the evening and I wish I felt more competent to do it justice. For my record does not place me among the saints and worthies of the School and having spent many years of my life as a Naval Chaplain, I lost touch and do not possess that personal contact with the life of the School which every member of our Association should endeavour to keep up from the time he leaves. If there is one outstanding fact which has impressed us, it is the amazing growth and expansion of the School which has taken place during a comparatively small number of years, almost a mushroom growth which has been nothing less than remarkable and we realise that this is chiefly due to the foresight and unbounded energy of Canon Shirley, who we much regret cannot be with us to-night. 309

tHE CANTUAR1AN And yet buildings, however well-equipped, and numbers, however great, important as they are, are not everything. The important thing is that the School should be turning out the right type of man in a world that needs him. We are confident that Mr. Gross, who will be responding for the School, will assure us that we have no need to be anxious about the School or its future and that all is well : he may even be bold enough to suggest that the boys of toÂˇday know more and are better prepared to take their place in Church and State than we were or will be ! A public school has a very distinct common object- the Scholarship, its name and history and future; and in fact it has become proverbial as an example- we might even say, the example-of esprit de corps. We do not need to be reminded to-night that we are members one of another, that we belong to the best of schools and are prepared to maintain that assumption against all-comers. In conclusion I would sa~ that although we do not know what changes and problems the School may have to face m this uncertam age, we can pray that she will always continue to. send forth men! not simply equipped for . their earthly calling, but also equipped wIth all the essentials of character and provIded wIth the wherewithal to make this troubled world a better and happier place. " Floreat Schola Regia After apologising on behalf of the Headmaster for his unavoidable absence and explaining that he had been invited to speak Jaute de miellx, Mr. Gross said that the School was flourishing in every way. The Rugger side had had a successful season ending up with a tour, centred on Oxford, which included matches with Sherborne and Stowe. The Boat Club should benefit from a scheme to straighten part of the river which includes their course; and he mentioned various secondary activities at the School. Passing to the message which the Headmaster had asked him to give them, he said that whereas the School was getting on very well, and entries reached forward to 1960 th~ financial side was .a source of some anxiet~ to the Headmaster, for costs had gr~at1y mcreased, outrunmng the rISe 111 fees. Salanes, the cost of food, and particularly wages had all gone up, the last by as much as four times, and the Headmaster feIt that the only answer was an Endowment Fund; indeed, he would go so far as to say that only schools with heavy endowment funds would be able to avoid complete State control within a comparatively few years. State scholars helped to balance the budget but an undue proportion of them would lead to the same end, namely State control 'and the ' endowment fund seemed the only means of avoiding this. The following were present :-Sir Frederick Bovenschen (1897-1903) (Chairman) Mr. K. A. C. Gross, J. H. B. Jackson (Captain of the School), B. H. Arnold (1940--46): G. Arnold (1917- 20), I. F. Aucott (1928-34), M. G. Baker (formerly Chatterton) (1938--43), C. W. Barber (1908-14), P. S. Barber (1906-1913), c. E. O. Bax (1901-03), R. E. L. Beardsworth (1906-11), C. C. O. Bennett (1929-35), J. B. Booth (1924--28), B. T. B. Boothby (1881-90), J. H. Breese (1937--42), R. E. R. C. Brinsley-Richards (1891-1900), C. H. Budd (1899-1904), N. D. Burrell (1909-1912), M. H. Mc.D. Cairns (1942--44), R. N. Capel-Smith (1936- 39), Sir W. M. Carter (1 887-1892), S. A. R. C~wston (1938--43), G. L. Clarke (1935--41), E. H. Cornelius (1938--43), G. H. Cunmngham (1930-1940), H . J. M. Demck (1930-35), K. B. Dickson (1902-06), H. A. Emerson (1942--46), G. A. J. C. Evans (1937--45), A. G. Eyre (1935-40), 310

THE CANTUARIAN F. Fletcher Finn (1903- 13), R. Austen Finn (1916- 25), R. A. Finn (1914--18), A. FoxMale (1925- 26), H. T. Fynes-Clinton (189 1- 94), H. Goldsmith (1919- 24), C. Goodridge (1937- 40), J. B. Goudge (1935--40), A. J. Grey (1936--41), K. B. Gurr (1939--44), J. P. Heming (1911- 20), W. T. B. Heslop (1906- 10), J. A. B. Heslop (1938--42), E. J. Hodgson (1908- 1913), E. O. Holden (1 896- 1900), G. V. Holliday (1942--47), P. C. Holmer (1937--41), C. C. Hooper (1933- 38), B. L. Hooper (1901 - 02), K. C. B. Hubbard (1942--46), E. W. Hughes (1902-08), Sir C. B. Jerram (1905-09), D. J. B. Jervis (191 6-23), K. Johnsen (1940--44), G. C. Karop (1892- 95), R. B. Karop (1931 - 34), J. E. Kennett (1929- 34), L. A. Kenny (1929- 37), B. G. King (1909- 13), J. N. B. Laine (1921 - 26), R. G. Leadbeater (1939--43), M. J. Lester (1941 - 44), C. W. A. Lovatt (1937- 41), J. B. Lovatt (1935- 40), M. H. A. Lovatt (1940- 44), D. S. Lucas (1926- 36), A. W. Maddocks (1927- 32), R. W. Marshall (1899- 1903), W. H. Maundrell (1890- 95), W. R. Monro Higgs (1920- 24), A. D . Morrish (1945- 47), J. D. Moss (1937-39), G. E. Needham (1935-39), R. H. Osborne (191 8-22), J. Peschek (1940--43), G. S. Robinson (1920- 25), C. F. N. M. Ryan (1906- 1I), F. H. Sea brooke (1908- 1I), A. H. Shelswell (1910- 1913), J. P. I. 'E. Skipwith (1924--33), P. T. Simms (1935-38), H. M. C. Smith (19 19- 27), M. H. Smithers (1940--44), S. S. Sopwith (1901 - 1904), H. Spence (1904--1 I), R. L. G. Sutcliffe (1931 - 40), N. W. Swinhoe-Phelan (1937- 43), G. L. Taylor (1937- 41), G. R. Thompson (1933- 38), Sir H. D. Townend (1905- 1910), T. P. L. Tragett (1945- 46), R. J. Turk (1937- 40), H. A. Turnor (1939--41), D. A. Venner (1935- 39), G. Vivian-Davies (1935--40), J. W. Wayte (1906- 10), A. D . Wilson (1931 - 40), c. Worsfold (1916- 22), H . P. Wortham (1933- 39), W. C. Young (1929-38). BIRTHS ASHBY.-On November 20th, 1947, to Eileen, wife of Cdr. R. R. W. Ashby, D.S.C. Â· , V.R .D ., R.N.V.R. , a son. HOLT-Wn.soN.- On January 19th, 1948, to Sylvia, wife of A. B. Holt-Wilson, M.C., a daughter. LUcAs.- On March 8th, 1948, at B.M. H., Cyprus, to Fionnghuala (nee McGurk), wife of Peter F. Lucas, M.R.C.P., a daughter. WORSFoLD.- On January 23rd, 1948, to Leslie, wife of C. Worsfold, a daughter. MARRIAGE WALSH: EVA Ns.- On February 14th, 1948, Michael Walsh to Elizabeth Helen, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Evans of Pendros, Swansea. DEATH PLUMMER.- On January 23rd, 1948, F. H. Plummer, of21a Monpelier Crescent, Brighton. CAMBRIDGE LETTER Cambridge. February 25th, 1948.

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Dear School, Forgive us if we depart from the precedent of reporting each other's activities in a manner calculated to stop just short of Jibel, and tell you something about Cambridge as a whole. The last two terms have seen but little change in faces and we feel that we are ~lready well-known through the pages of The Cantuarian.

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It is dangerous to generalise about life here this term. Undergraduates are said to work harder than they have done for a long time, pay their bills more regularly and dress less ornately. Be that, and austerity, as it may, twenty-four balls will have been held this term by societies. (College May Balls take place next term.) The A.D.C. theatre has presented an undergraduate play every week, including a comedy that won a recent competition. The Union is often fil led to capacity. (It votes Conservative by big majorities. A motion that "Communism is the biggest contemporary threat to British liberty " was passed by about 570 to 120 votes.) Rowing men assure us that more and better boats are on the river. Jesus College runs to six, but, alas! their first boat, victor of a ll Europea n boats at last year's Henley, has dropped from head of the river to thi rd in the Lent races. (The three O.K.S. are not in it now.) If a generalisation may be allowed, we would say that undergraduates have more of the rea list than previously and are less prone to abstract speculations and theorising, though some central Europeans, who spent the war years in their own countries, dub Cambridge

an . 'unreal" place and find its academic traditions monastic. Art students are warned not to be too arty, for, outside teaching, jobs for them are few, and many must be considering the possibility of helping directly towards the Government targets. We feel we may see the day when an O.K.S. Lodge is founded at Betteshanger Colliery. Scientists seem to be in demand in all walks of life. Earl Russel, of Trinity, in a recent interview with Varsity, the undergraduate newspaper, has predicted the end of normal populations after the next world wa r but one, but feels that the slender hope of peace rests in a union of Western Eu rope, leading eventuall y to a world government before it is too late. The extreme plight of Germany is uppermost in the minds of many, and Cambridge has officially adopted Hamburg University both for cultural exchanges and material help. Prisoners from all over the country are at present on a six-week course run by the University. Some of them have been entertained by O.K .S. Bath buns and tea have replaced Bath Olivers and sherry as the rallying-point of social intercourse. This is the age of tea parties, the aperitif having been replaced by appetiteappeasers in any quantity, queued for the same morning. As one O.K.S . put it (and we feel he must have been in difficulties with his tea in its artistic prefabricated cup) : The carbo-hydra tical bun Tends to stifle the pun, And tea does taste finer When sipped from china. We all send our warmest good wishes to the School, and hope to beat them in this year's Rugger match! The following O.K.S. are at present in Cambridge-Dr. W. Telfer, Dr. F. M. Deighton, Professor A. C. Moule, Dr. C. H. Budd, J. B. Lovatt, C. W. A. Lovatt, M. A. S. Burgess, S. B. Nicholls, F. L. Whalley, Sao Hseng-Ong, D. B. Young, H. P. Wortham, A. D. Wilson, J . H. P. Gibb, N. L. Hearne, J . F. Peschek, J. P. M. Sugden, J. D. Twells-Grosse, A. Gordon, R. P. A . Peircy, G. G . C. Ferris, O. C. Watson, C. G. Stoneman, M. Carnes, V. A. St. A . Hubbard, E. B. Chanlpkin, Culver-Evans, F. H. Sea brooke, C. F. Johnson, R. Ashenden, D. S. M. Harriss-and we sign ourselves, Yours, etc.,

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THE REV. C. E. WOODRUFF, M.A . F rom The Times of February 18th, 1948 :WOODRUFF.- On Feb. 16, 1948, at Canterbury, CHARLES EVeLEIGH WOODRUFF, one of the Six Preachers of the Cathedral Church, and for many years Hon. Librarian to the Dean and Chapter, aged 92. Funeral, St. Martin 's, 2 p.m., to-morrow (Thursday). No flowers, no letters.

It is high tribute to any school that in its Registers one should find the same family names occu rring again and agai,ll. for there is no better 'proof of confidence. In the Admission Registers of the King. s School such recurrence IS very strongly marked. One example of many is to be found III the Woodruff family .. C. E. Woodruff was the son.of an O.K.S. and the brother of another, while three of hiS own sons were to follow hlln at the School. Charles Eveleigh Woodruff was born on 24th December, 1855. Heentered the School in September, 1868. He rose to the Sixth Form and to Momtorshlp. He was III the XV in 1874 and was Captain of the Cncket XI III 1874 and 1875. In the latter year he entered Oriel College, Oxford, where, three years later, he took hiS B.A. Degree with Honours in History. He was ordained in 1879. He was Vicar of Bredhurst from 189 1 to 1895 and Rector of Otterden from 1895 to 1906. As a pansh pnest he was very dearly loved. His parishioners esteem~d him not merely for his faithfu l and regular dischar~e of his duties nor for his preachlllg ability, though thiS was high, but even more for hiS unfailing sympathy and his kind ly heart. The straggling parish of Otterden was no easy task but where there was sickness or trouble, the Rector and hiS Wife were the first to bring help' and comfort. There were many claims upon th?"! and it must have meant great self-sacrifice for Otterden was by no means a wealthy IIvlllg. Though the glebe at Otterden was large, the chief crop was the stones which the County CounCil bought for the roads. In 1907 Woodruff resigned this benefice to become Ho~. Librarian to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. This was w'!rkthat he loved but hiS assldUlty and IIldustry were beyond all praise. Here for half a IIfetllne he worked more hours In the day and more weeks in the year than one would ask from any patd Llbranan .. When he began hiS t~sk, the Cathedral Library was in a very bad state. It has an amazlIlg wealth of manuscnpts but many of them had not been scanned for a century, not indeed since Bunce put them into rough order in 1806. Rough ,!rder II1deed for, tho,ugh they had been tied II1tO ?undles, it was not unusual to find such mistakes as, e.g., an Ed. I MS. among the Ed. IV s. Woodruff's first task was to get some order and arrangement. When this was completed, his knowledge of the Library was such that he could find at once whatever book or manuscript was needed by a visitor. Though, in his early days, the wealth of the Library was hardly appreciated, gradually it became known and research students, even frol~ the U.S .A., began to come in numbers. His kindly nature.was such that he was always wtlilng to leave his own task to help one who was less sktlled. As a palaeographer, he was quick, but not too quick, for in palaeography great speed is. often at the cost of accuracy. The similarity and the great number of abbreViatIOns IS likely to lead the oyer-speedy into error. Woodruff had a very full knowledge of mediaeval Latlll (whIch IS not Ciceronian) and of Norman-French (which is not the language of Moliere!. He was also very well equipped with the general body of archaeological knowledge whJCh lay outsld~ /lis special domain.

THE CANTUARIAN Of his larger books, the History of the Town and Port of Fordwich was published in 1895 while he was still at Bredhurst. The book, difficult to obtain now, is of great local interest. Schola Regia Cantuariensis: a History of Canterbury School (written in collaboration) was published in 1908. I am in a position to say that what merit this book may have is Woodruff's. In 1912, Memorials of the Cathedral and Priory of Christ in Canterbury saw publication. There are, of course, many well-known books on the Cathedral, but I have found this the most reliable. In addition to these major works, he wrote many monographs for Archaeologia Callfiana and, of these, some have been reprinted. I would specially mention :A Monastic Chronicle lately discovered at Christ Church, Can terbury (publ. 191/ : A.C., Vol. XXIX). Some Early Professions of Canonical Obedience to the See of Canterbury by Heads of Religious Houses (publ. 1924: Vol. XXXVII). The Chronicle of William Glastynbury (publ. 1924: A.C., Vol. XXXVII). The Financial Aspect of the Cult of St. Thomas of Canterbury (A.C., Vol. XLIV). The Register and Chartulary of the Hospital of St. Laurence, Canterbury (A.C., Vol. L). Notes on the Inner Life and Domestic Economy of the Priory of Christ Church , Canterbury, in the Fifteenth Century (A.C., Vol. LUI). The Church of St. Helen in Canterbury (A.C., Vol. LIV). It is most grievous that some of the great work that he achieved for the Cathedral Library was ruined by a German bomb in that savage and most stupid raid on Canterbury. I had recently the privilege of seeing the Library again and I realised what a great task it will be to restore it to its former condition . But, at any rate, Woodruff did make us conscious that in the Cathedral Library Canterbury possesses not a local but a great national treasure. H.J.C.

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OXSPRING, E. W. PAGE, D. PERRELLE, B. L. DE LA REYNOLDS, H. C. REYNOLDS, W. L. E. ROBERTS, J. G. F. W . ROBERTS, P. L. ROBINSON, J. E. ROWBOTHAM, J. L. RUNDLE, A. T. SAMPSON, W. A. P. SARGENT, J. M. H. SARGENT, M. C. T. SAVAGE, M . SCHOFIELD, J. M. L. SEYMOUR, A. SIDEBOTHAM, J. R. B. SMITH, H. S. SMYTHE, G. C. TAYLOR, B. TAYLOR, J. P. THOMPSON, A. H. THOMPSON, C. E. V. TOWERS, J. G. TOWNEND, G. A. VANE, J. A. WADE, D. P. WALLIS, C. A. WALSH, B. G. WHITE, A. N. E. WILLIAMS, H. M. WILLIAMS, L. G. WILLSDON, D. WILSON, J. H. WITNEY, P. N. WOOD, G. D. WOOD, K. N. WRIGHT, E. J. L.

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IN MEMORIAM

HUBERT COLLISON HENHAM (1876-78) . . . The School has many lInks wIth Malaya, but one of long-standmg was broken by th1 death on January 20th of Hubert Collison Henham at the age of 84. . . . HIs School career was a short one, but he retamed hIs love for the place and, before th~ war, used to come over for Speeches and for the School Plays. He was a student at~ St. Augustine 's from 1884 to 1887 and joined the S.P.G. Mission to Bombay in 1887, being ordained in 1888. He held Chaplaincies in Malaya fo! nearly 30 years, and from 1924 untIl his retIrement last year was VIcar of Monkton m Thanet. 'E WILLIAM RUTLEY MOWLL â&#x20AC;˘ We deeply regret to announce the death of Mr. W. R. Mowll, which occurred on February 20th at his home, Upton Lodge, Shepherdswell. . Rutley Mowl!, who was 73 years old, belonged to an old Dover family distinguished both in the Law and in the Church. He was educated at King 's from 1889 to 1892 an~ was a member of the Cricket XI and Rugger XV. He remained a keen cricketer all his life and was a familiar figure at th~ Canterbury Cricket Week. A solicitor, like his father before him, he was admitted in 1897 and eventually became' Âˇ partner III . term h fi II 0 f D over and Canterbury., 0 f M essrs. M ow II an d Mow, t he seruor He proved himself an able lawyer and a persuasive advocate. He was an authority on the licensing laws and became Coroner for East Kent in 1910, a post -he discharged with dignity and skill. He was chosen President of the Coroners' Society of England and" Wales in 1931. He also acted as Registrar of the Dover Harbour Board, and Swedish Vice-Consul at Dover.

A l'oyal and steadfast Churchman, he was a member of the National Assembly of the Church of England. He represents that type of devoted Christian layman who carried~ into public service the very highest traditions. The School is proud of having him amongst her old boys and our sympathy goes out to his sons, Mr. E. W. Mowll, J.P., and Mr. Wilfred R. Mowll, both O.K.S. The funeral, which took place at Whitfield, was conducted by his brother, the Bishop of Middleton. FREDERICK WATSON, C.M.G., O.B.E. (1894-99) It was with great regret that we heard of the death of F. Watson, which took place on September 14th, 1947, in Philadelphia, U.S.A. Born in 1880, son of Rev. Frederick Watson, D.D., he entered the School in 1894, Sixth Form 1897 and left in 1899 to go up to Queen's College, Cambridge as a Classical Exhibitioner. Watson entered the Consular Service in 1906. He filled Consular posts in South America, Rumania, Russia and Italy and was acting Vice-Consul at San Francisco from 1918- 19 and acting Consul General at New York from 1919-20. In 1923 he was appointed Consul General for Great Blitain in Philadelphia until his retirement in 19.40. 316

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THE HEYMAN FAMILY

H C B E 0 K S who is on the British Army d'er G. D . G . eyman, . . ., . . . , . h d M . ntreu 's Atfletttewrfaros::;ng~~gna alnd to whose generosity the SchoofI tOhwesaRistccoa~necti~~~ of his ~ta a M t ry recalls some 0 e p on gome ' rtnit of Field Marshal l °m l'I'y with Canterbury and the Schoo. . I T dor a . I d' K nt where SHlce ear Y u ~' H mans were an ancient famIly long s~tt e I~ e f'th m was a Member of ~ The ey held the estate of Somerfield, SellInge. ne 0 e a devoted Royalist 1\llles theY for Hythe during the early 17th century ang ~Isdsr' onet died at Canter: t arlia en baronetcy from Charles I in 1641. Sir Peter~ t c"h n h ¥he b~ronetcy became receIve 1~23 and is buried with hIS wlf~ III St. Alphege s V· urc Fressingfield in Suffolk, E,,,ry m h death of the 5th Baronet III 1808. He was Icar o. . hioners ut up to extInct .on t e H has sent us a copy of the tablet whIch hIS pans P • "nd Bngadler eyman Ilis memory :In memory of ., The Revd Sir Henry Pix Heyman Bart the last male descendant of the. ancle~t famIly of ~ • Heyman of Somerfield III Sellinge in the County of Kent a family for several generaHons more ' • eminent for private virtue than for opulence he was XI years fellow o.fdEmanuel College ,.. in Cambn ge I' P . h and XI years incumbent of tllS ans "", > with Withersdale annexed He was born May XXVII A.D. MDCCLXV -. ' and died unmarned Nov. XIII A.D. MDCCCVIII . deeply lamented by all who knew him ~ and by none more sincerely than His PanshlOners ' who have caused this marble to be .placed in testimony of their high sense of hIS worth ' as a Son Brother Friend and Parish Priest B'

. Kin's and returned there in 1787-at the te~der He was born tn 1765, educated at S g I This must contribute a record, espeCIally . age of 22- to preach the A~n:t~~~ian~~rc~ln ~ge for ordination until 1788. as he could not have reac e . . ' h . hteenth century. The third baronet, • The family fortunes sutfereda rlftl~echn~~~!c~~: one of the poor knights of Windsor, who died in 1742. was obhged tn ISho b age t found himself in such poverty that he ,:,as ' whilst his son, Sir Peter, the f?U~t a(ofe 1783 he issued in the press the fo\lowurg obliged to appeal to the publiC or re Ie. n < advertisement:-

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"tJnder the patronage of several noble personages of the first distinction.-For the benefit of an English Baronet, at Pasqualli's Great Rooms, Tottenham Street, Tottenham: Court Road, on Thursday the 22nd of May instant, at noon, will be a Grand Concert Of( Vocal and Instrumental Music, by the most capital Performers: with refreshments.Tickets lOs. 6d. each. " <I The same paper added :, "Sir Peter Heyman, of Windsor, baronet, for whose benefit the concert is to be, is l descended from a very ancient family that came to England with the Norman Conqueror in 1066, several of which were in parliament, and held places of honour and trust underl the Crown. His lady is descended from a baronet, and a family equally ancient and respectable. As his family inheritance was dissipated by his grandfather, he only succeeded to the dignity (a creation so early as 1641), which he hath enjoyed near forty years, and it being unaccompanied with any property, is the cause he now suffers reat distress which is rendered more poignant and severe by his age and infirmity. And this concert which is countenanced by several of the first distinction, is intended as the mean", of recovenng him and hls lady from thelf present dlstress. He earnestly entreats your l kind notice and protection on this very useful occasion which he will ever most gratefullx. remember. You will be attended tomorrow by a friend of Sir Peter Heyman with a list of the subscribers and more tickets should you be disposed to give it support.

The baronet appears to have.securedenough from this venture to eke out a few more years of genteel poverty as he hved until 1790. ... Part of the poverty of the Heyman family was doubtless due to their generous support of Education. They founded the "free" school at Tenterden and one of them, Georg~ Heyman, by indenture dated 29th September, 1625, infeoffed to certain persons 27 acres of marsh land in the parish of Warehorne, for the use of two poor scholars to be Placectin the King's School. These scholars are still chosen, and benefit by the trust. . Brigadier Heyman claims descent from an uncle of the last baronet, who was an ardent Jacobite in his youth and disappeared to Germany after taking part in the "Forty-Five". His son-Brigadier Heyman's great-great-grandfather-returned to England in 1812 a Consul General for the Hansa Towns. The family arms are Argent, on a chevron engrailled azure, three cinquefoils or, between ' three martlets sable.

CANON L. H. EVANS MEMORIAL

Leonard Evans is remembered with deep affection by OX.S. and members of the Staff who were at the School within the period 1884-1913, and especially by those who were at Holme House. They will like to know that a Chapel is to be furnished in memory of him in Smarden Church, where he was Rector for the last twenty years of his life, and many will wish to pay a tribute to him by contributing to its cost. Gifts should be sent to the Reverend S. R. Griggs, Cage Lane Cottage, Smarden, Kent.

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FROM THE HEADMASTER'S POSTBAG Sungei Tukong Estate, Masai, J ohore Bahru, Johore.

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l bear Sir, h 'I'n desk in my sitting-room. It 's a quiet Saturday evening and I am seate~ at ~ etl~'If\~rrfps on the water from the , tside it is dark and the darkness IS only bro en Y ~hese Ii hts ive company and gr'nese fishing k~lons (houses built on sltlts OU\ at sea). 't N~arlyg all rubber estate â&#x20AC;˘ like me feel that I am the centre of a smal commum y'ded by rubber trees. I am man alows are rather isolated, many are. completely surrorn erfect the bungalow faces , '~~e gof the more fortunate planters. ThiS sltualt~n ~a{~S a~ mainiand and Singaporel oss the Straits of Johore to an lsland betwee~ t e t y d Mala and Chinese fishing . ~f{ day long sampans, large and small, go sal11l1g p~'than paga y Yes it's great to be ~ Ik roW (in their peculiar Oriental style) past my f a h Wgh daily , ~Ie to get a swim every day of the year and to get res s Âˇ . f -II . ' ghbour is ten miles away, ten miles 0 I am on my own on this e~tate. My r:earest !,el the aiety of service life, but it's . 'estate road too. Someltmes It seems a ltttledqu(~etha fer t) 'ob gProspects in this line seem e ' s own home and a settle ope J . . t d the new I g~od to h ave ~~ e very few planters between the men near retuemen a~ '1 ~1 {alrly good as er~ ar mber of the middle-aged men were lost on the Slam al way. young assistants. nu t a art from inferior quality paper - , I get The CanlUarian regularly and a~ glad to !'0t~ t~h' ~ast season I have been playing the same high standard of publicalton lS mamtalfne. . lS easing weight to get into tbe .1b' f ' ger and managed, 111 spite 0 ever mcr I '~ th 0 K S a good It 0 ~~g I h' e to be able to keep gOi.ng long .enough to payor e . . . Johore State . I op naged to get the odd game of Cricket and hockey. ' in 1950 ! I have a so rna KS b t anyway I will give you all I am not really much help to you with ON' )' . ~e;'~i (~ S) are both in the country. '" I know. M Y~oun gel' brothers Hugh (H. R. a. beautiful an I town. . , . B'II' cy ho~se in Penang, I IS PIan f I~gf outside II . Hugh wo~s l~dan ~;~~~er (R. E. S.) is in the Chartered Bank1l1 Bank~k n Id~mr~' Penang. Y e. er . '11 h t (and frequently sees, I beheve) P. . ou s u , fficer) There are two other O.K.S. planters, both accounts enjoYll1g hfe. BI as , . he is a policeman (I should say po dC'b,0 Book~r both with Dunlops. Oh, yes, and there before my time, D. D. RennIe :~ve n~t met him- Sir Edward Gent, newly-aPP01l1ted _ IS one more O.K.S., as yet Governor of the Federation of Malaya. h S h I and my kind regards to Mrs. Shirley. " The very best of luck to t e c 00 Y . erely ours smc , JOHN PRice

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From Major R. J. N. Norris (K.S. 1904-11), written from New Delhi. To the Editor. · I " Quo Vadimus" 's Your a rtIce t' . diction in terms-a sort fS 1 ~os ll1terestmg. Dr. Barnes seems to be a c Up to the Indian par!'r a I hd~~cee BIShop: My recent experiences are a strange c no:ltra: rrst. troops. At the end 0; ~n a een guardlllg the Viceroy in New Delhi with 343 after intensive traini 1 ugust ~~ W~lt to a Fort III the far North- West of Pakistan em w ere: I spent three da s I g't;,e re I.eve a whole Brigade needed elsewhere ' In I found both m ~o~~· e statIOn of a Colonel/cousin about 100 mil~s from e~mber disease the doct~r co J~ an~ h,S WIfe were lll, he with eye and back trouble she at~Ul when I had blood- oYson~~ ~uarantee to c~;e; I t,!ld them what the doctol~ said ~~ a ,g III both le/ls. I ve tned III vain to clean your bl d me raise your vita lit ~f yo ur life. But If,';, sU~~~h~~ 'b1,tr~~tt~r III two days Ishall have to amputate a le:~o s~~~ your vitality if you as k H' " I ' Y HIS Holy Spmt, WIll clean your blood and ·~ l 1m. asked . Chnst healed. No amputation was neces~::~~ r Rom. viii, II. . I gaye them The Healing Life, the monthly rna azin f . ', cu~es Illcurables on a large scale through Praye~ gand ~ho LMdton Abbey, where Christ as III th~ Gospels and Acts. Next morning the Colo I e aymg on of Hands, exactly and I saId I ~lmost always took the sick to a Padre : : basked If I ever " laid hands": C~urch, I laId hands on him in the evening. He w~s s.s, h ~wederh there was no Padre WI e ~sked me to lay hands on her which I did While h~ ~ pc t at next day he and his 60 miles to see me, absolutely radiant with their faces Pi.~y~d. l~ week later they cam", ~venk m~ a vision of snow mountains,' and I had given :h lIung e Moses '. They had ar XVI, 17, 18,20; John xiv, 12. em a ISlOn of Doctor Jesus., The Colonel wrote to a Mission ' . ~nd tired heart, struck off all dut ar~ 120 miles away WIth neryous breakdown, insomnia" Instructions he and his wife tY and 6wOarned to qUlt IndIa qUICkly. Against the docto ' H e was at once so rejuvenated rna are to see me. (Ga1. II.. , 20.J\ on Christmas Day r s_ th t h miles lk d a Service; that night he slept from 9 a e 6 e one mile and addressed the Christma~ / . . . p.m. a a.m. for the first time for months. ~ h FaIth IS One of the Fruits of the Spirit So one ask F ~RST . or the Holy Spirit. Once t e Holy SpIrit has been "received" thl'~ugh pra X1~ts XIX, 6) th~n Faith comes as a first fruit ~~~r He~r e XI~ 01' laymg On of hands . may co~e Simultaneously and instantaneously as in m'~R a ows as a. second fruit. sms are forgIven .... Rise and walk" ; or "Stretch forth' thin:'~~~~ ~?y SIght"; " Th Y '/ In 1915 a bullet assed h '" . . . and had learnt to $rite .t rough my nght wnst, k1l1mg the nerve. I was alm ost re . "Do you believe Chr's~'t~ihe Jeft hand when one glorious day a Christian docto sIgn:;d he said: "Then why 'd nW,It raIse ~oHfrom the dead? " When I answered that' f~'d' Holy Spirit acted as' you ~s 1m now to restore your wrist?" I asked 10 omans Vlll, II. By 1918 I was playing polo. . e .. . If the Sun gets its light from Christ its Creato h b' ~ght ~hen one can have the SON'S light. why ~~ ~o~te et co~~~ WIth the mere sun's ave t e Rays from Christ 's Cross? (I John i 7 9) n WI -rays, when one can I

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Notes from the. Parrot House " Happy are the people that have no h,story", someone has said; I do not know : ,if that applies also to a school which has passed a term in which very little seems to .l have happened, but perhaps it does. We have had a half-term holiday, and no entertainment, during the one brief spell of cold and snowy weather which broke into the middle I 'Of a term otherwise conspicuous for fine weather and warmth . We have not had any infectio us diseases; we have not been in quarantine for anyt hing, but in spite of that r had some cancellations of Rugger matches owing to various misfortunes befa lling our opponents. Reports of the t\Vo matches played are bel?w. We have not, indeed, been .outslde the School grounds very often, but then the spnng term IS not the best tIme for ~ visits abroad. In fact, we have done very little except pass a good, steady, quite normal l .and profitable term. r There has been one new venture, the formation of a School Debating Society. To the time of writing this has held two meetings; the first, to discuss the relative merits of , 'Rugger and Soccer; the second, the respective advantages of the Navy and of the Air Force as a career. Our hands, or rather our minds, have so far proved rather uo practised 'at this sort of thing, but the second meeting provided some better speeches than the first. Perhaps we have learned how difficult it is to sort out our thoughts and put them i nto connected and coherent form ; to speak once, and then sit down. It is so much easier to shout the first sentence that comes into one's head, ending with "yah " or "so there" ,and a scume on the floor. Someone did think that the most essential person for a debating society was a chucker-out, but we have not appointed one, nor has there been any need of _his services. The library cqntinues to grow and to be well-used; this term it has. increased by about .fifty books, .from many generous donors, all of :vhom we thank slOcerely. If anyone who sees thIS can spare any of the books of thell' youth, we are always most grateful . ~or th em. / The school cinema has made a brief, if costly, sojourn at the repairers, after an accident . at the end of last term, but has now returned to duty. We have had two film shows on Saturday nights, with one more to come. The film s have varied much as usual, from the frankly comic to the informative. A School collection towards the new motor ambulance being provided for the City 's use by the St. John 's Ambulance Association totalled ÂŁ2 17s. 5d. ' The two top forms have paid one visit to Canterbu~y, to attend a meeting. of the City Council, by courtesy of the Mayor. We had a prelImmary talk about thiS from the Town Clerk of Canterbury, Mr. John Boyle, who told us what to expect and whom we should see. The Council meeting itself was on ly concerned with routine business and produced no fi reworks, but it gave the boys who attended it an insight into local government in one of its forms, and showed them some of their duties as future citizens . . . At the time of writing our Senior Choir looks forward to joining with the Senior School 's Choral Society in singing parts of Handel 's Me~siah on Sunday, March 14th. Another event in prospect, if the weather permits, is the Athletic Sports, the finals of which we hope to run on the Saturday before Easter, March 27th. If the weather proves 100 cold for practices, we shall postpone this event to next term.

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compl~te. The. roof, a good proportion of :~~~on of our barn ilHo a school hall is now

1941, IS no.w tiled all over, and the whole roo h had only conSlSt~d of tarred felt since pa:t'ted whIte to ~Ive extra light and to show up ~hhas ~een lIned wIth Celotex boarding~. an we ca": pay It straight away. Our honorar era ters. The bIll wIll shortly come in: me t~at he IS forgoing his fee as his contributioJt~r~~It~ct, ~r. H. ~nderson-who tell on t e second stage, the insertion of windows and . e . am und-IS now starting workl bUIlders he~e SOon to start their part of the 'ob' tldymg up the walls; may we see the J "1 The MUSIC Club has had two meetin s on S . Headmaster and Mr. Buxton, on TuJor undays ; one was a n illustrated talk by the ~ayed ;, the other was given by a small orc~~:t~a anfd the mstruments on which it wa~ ande'. s MUSIC for 'he Royal Fireworks P ,0 mne players, from whom we heard I other pIeces. The Club also attended a ~on~r~~11 s DlOciesTan O"~rture, and one or two Players,. 10 WhICh Dr. and Mrs. Suttle came to el gIven 111 O,llr MuSIC Room by the Sturry j stnngs lO C major' Holst's Sf Paul's S· play us Bach s Concerto for two pianos and performance of the' H d I F" utle (for stnngs) was also played d " . an e Ifeworks Music and th P I ' an a repeat , programme lOcluded Bach's Flocks in astures . e urce I overture was given. The ItS proper accompaniment and Some oihe g'de/I abldmg, sung with somethi ng like ' Form prizes were as usu~1 awarded at th~ !~~g~f l:lIghtfully sung by Miss June Hassall. ' i\AI~en ; IVa, NICholls; IVb, Morgan ii . III Dou s: te~m follows :-VI, Bretherton ' ja , ar me~Brown i. "Latter" History pri~es for tl gas 1; 3, Coles ii ; IIb, Furneaux: Holberton, Reed, Vipan, Lancashire and Morgan,e. two years 1946·47 were also won by. t , ". la WHO The Railwa CI b We ~tarted off at the beginning of term withYon:' '. . . " Ii vagu.~ Idea that we were to give an exhibition at half~ompI~e CIfCUlt of track. We had a s ~~nsl ered by most of the members that it was n . erm, ut, not bemg sure, it was nof ,' en abo ut two weeks before the time the news ~cessatrhY to lay a secon~ circuit by then . f a f ter all There was g r e a t ' t ' ame at we were to gIve an h'b't' ., • had ord~red . ' . eXCI ement, and rather a lot of uncerta ' . ex 1 I lon , It' came a t~al\,cha~s and sleepers from Meers' in Canterbury' .';:y, dSlnce altho~gh we s wo;ked fan e ues ay before half·term, and si~ce we had re' 1 'a not come III yet.- IT circuit about fOJr hours. on that day, trying to tinish aflefsf ff fn We1nesday, we s Saturd'ay a~ 9m3~nage to achIeve this all Fridayafternoon The a ?b~~ a the second - I'd Our fina .' a.,!,: . . ex l11 Itlon opened on s each membnclal POSItion IS rather precarious, but having extracted . . ' , er, our balance to date is 7/10. an extra shtlhng from I .d The Bam Fund I.R.B. I £ s. d. ' ,' In hand, December 1947 600 0 4 Expenses nil a S. J. W. Price, Esq.' ... 2 2 0 .a H. E. Wright, Esq. '" 1 0 0 I Anon.... . .. 5 0 0 , a Sundries 18 8 8 ',' R. and D. Do~~as (~~rol si~~ng)::: 15 0 , ---_ ," f In hand (P.O. Savings Bank) ... £627 6 0 Il

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hardly convincing. Their handling has not been good and they have too often been guilty of giving and taking passes when standing still and, worst of all, of failing to tackle their opposite number. . As far as School matches are concerned, we have played two, winning one and IOSingl the other. We beat Tormore comfortably by 35 points to nil. The foundation for thi, . score was laid by the forward s, whose greater weight enabled them to shove the oPPosing\ pack off the ball with monotonous regularity. The outsides had a quite useful set of threeq uarters against them but these became a bit dispirited after Simmonds hao converted our first four tries. Against Sir Roger Manwood's "Feathers" our forwards played a splendid game; although deprived, through illness and injury, of Bainbridge and Bretherton .. In the first half our pack completely dominated the game and with the opposing team trying t~ play our forward game, we led at half"time. In the second half, Manwood 's threequarters started many more passing movements, and though our forwards controlled the se! â&#x20AC;˘ scrums and made numerous rushes-all of which looked dangerous- the defensive I weakness of our outsides let the party down. Result 8-14. J For the future, we have one or two very promising young players of whom Blackall ii, Jell and Goate i are, at present, the most useful. ~ As far as House matches are conc.erned, one round only has been played, and wasl confined to one team per house instead of the more usual two- senior and junior . Results to date are: Cockas beat Keas and Macaws beat Kakas. One feature of the , competition is that there is no outstanding house-as has so often been the case in past terms; and even bearing in mind the results so far, all houses have an equal chance winning the Championship or the Wooden Spoon. . T.P.P: \

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The Editors acknowledge with thanks receipt of the following contemporaries and apologise for any omissions :\ Bradfield College Chronicle, The Tonbridgiall, The Felstedian, The Roffensian, The Lancing College Magazine, The Hurst Johnian, The Marlburian, The Meteor, The Gresham, The Kennel, The Bryanston Saga, The St. Edmund's School Chronic/e, The King's School Magazine, The Haileyburian, The Ousel, The Campbellian, The Manwoodian, The Sloneyhurst Magazine, The Reptonian, The Cranleighan, St. Peter's College Magazine, The Sutton Valence School Magazine, The Eastbournian, The Epsomian, The School Tie,' The Cranbrookian, The Barrovian, The Lorettonian, The Elizabethan, The Ampleforth Journal, The Worksopian.

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Editorial ... The School Virtute Functi More Patrum Duces Salvete and Valete ( Scholarships . This and That , The Societies . Js a Man Hopeless? .. . The Atom ic Bomb .. . We Have No Kjng But Caesar Caf/Illarion l nterviews , Reflections on the Present State of the Church Little Boy Blue .. . ... ... ... . .. Lam beth Conference ... ... ... . .. " A Kent ish Gentleman in the Long Parliament , The Village Church ... ... ... . .. Tale of One-eyed Pete .. . ' Argosy from Cartagena .. . Temptation Cricket ... The Boat Club . Tennis ... " Hockey Festival ... . Athletic Sports Archery Clu b Cornwall and What We Owe It The J.T.C. The Library

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r EDITORIAL rsoundTo ofmany people the sight of cricket nets on the Green Court, the the bat striking the ball and the vision of smooth lawns evoke

I·the essential atmosphere of the English

Public School where life seems just a long summer afternoon. But this summer has been cold and wet. The sun when it has shone has often seemed garish, destitute of any real warmth: it mocks our eyes but brings neither peace nor satisfaction ' like the hard red may on the Deanery wall. And there has been thunder and hail, brimstone and lightning, and worst of all the incessant "-!lOise of pumping from that gaping chasm on the edge of the Baptistry Garden, which is to be the ultimate home of the Cathedral's new · Heating Apparatus. The Precincts at this time of year belong very ,much to outsiders. There has been an endless stream of tourists, sad people whose only gaiety has been in the bright touches of colour in · their clothing, trailing behind them their everlasting mackintoshes. They help to contribute to the uneventful monotony of the summer · term a note of disintegration, almost desolation. The Cathedral itself is never at its best against a summer sky. It needs the grey skies of autumn, the raw misty sunsets to bring out its ·dark brooding mystery, its magnificent triumph over its surroundings. When the lights slowly come out to pierce the gloom and all is cosy within, the study fires are on, there is tea and toast, and perhaps the distant notes of the violin, then at last we are near to the heart of • things, and we recall with gentle nostalgia the famous lines:

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" Coldly, sadl y descends The autumn evenin g. The field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither'd leaves, and the e lms, Fade into dimness apace, Silent ;-hardly a shout From a few boys late at their play! The lights come out in the s t reet, In the school-room windows;

This, and this alone, is the authentic season for Canter bury, R ugby, ,. Winchester and the rest.

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THE SCHOOL Captain of the School : J. B. H. JA CKSON of School House ". J. R. ALLCHURCH of The Grange C. G. S. PATBRSON of Walpole House J. W. ALLISON of Meister Omers ... J . B. H. JACKSON of Luxmoore House C. M. R BEVES

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HOUSE PREFECTS School House : J. L. CUNNINGTON, J. DOW NES, A. B. K. ENDERSBY, P. ,. A. FYFE-COOPER, D. W. MOLESWORTH, T. E. WATSON The Grange: J. M. ROTHERY, 1. E. LUSH, J. M. WATT, P. C. BASSETT, T . L. HAMILTON, A. B. CURRY Walpole H o use: J. W. BIRKETT, P . G . S. ELLIS, M. D. LAMBERT, J. LYON, T. C. B. SWAYNE, R. G. WHITE Meister Omers : 1. F. BLACK, C. F. PORTER, D. K. L. MORGAN, B. KNIGHT Luxmoore H ouse : D. W. STEEL, J. A. McMILLAN, A. B. POLLOK Captain of Cricket J. H . PEGG Captain of Boats". C. G. S. PATERSON Captain of Tennis I. L. R. BURT Captain of Swimming ." H. F. MOFFATT Captain of Shoo ting R. G. White

EDITORS OF The CantuarialI J. B. H. J ACKSON, C. G. S. PATERSO N

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VIRTUTE FUNCTI MORE PATRUM DUCES R. M. S. CORK .-Entered School, May, '43 ; Entrance Scholar ; King's Scholar; Heyman Scholar ; School Certifi cate, July, '44 ; Higher Certificate, Jul y, '47; Corporal , . J.T.C. , September, '46 ; H ouse Prefect, September, '47. R. C. WENBAN.- E ntered School, January, '43; School Certificate, Jul y, '45; 2nd XV Colours, December, '46; 1st XV Cotours, '46, '47; House Prefect, Novem ber, '46; School Mon itor, September, '47.

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Our readers know that Sir Gerald Kelly, R.A., was commissioned to paint the portrait of Mr. Som~rset Maugham. It has been exhibited in this year's Academy, and ~Idely. proclaimed to be one of the few , very best things there. The picture IS a present to the School by Mr. , Maugham, and we eagerly look forward to Its arn~al next term. The artlst and the wnter were friends and fellow-students fortX' xears ago 11l Pans, the one studymg. his art, t~e other medicine and writing. One day It IS said that W. S. Maugham wa lked mto Kelly s studio, wearing a new grey top hat, white spats and yellow gloves: whereupon the artist ' at once began to paint this elegant figure, and has done so at 11ltervals now fourteen MR. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

times! Mr. Maugham has generously offered to the Headmaster for the School any two of eleven manuscripts of his books. The two chosen are his first and his last novels : Liza of Lambeth and Cat 011110 . It IS a splendid gift. In this connexion we might point out that as from next September the Walpole MSS. Collection will be on view and in use in its pre-war room at Prior Sellingegate. It would be grand if others wo uld add to this magnificent collechon . . MA UG>\AM MSS.

The other day a Church Dignitary-:-not a member of this Scho~ldiscussed the ga rb of Anghcan dlgmtanes. He thought the prelahcal gaiters really did harm. They may well tempt the wearers to pomposity, and pride; they may also tempt Church~peopl e to fawn i and clergy to the ambition to be similarly clad. In these days It IS, perhaps, ~nwlse to single out clerical legs as the repository of Church greatness, rather than clencal heads and hearts. Surely, these garments are now out of date and rather comic. They are a hang-over from the 18th century when clergymen, who often served more churches than one, went on horseback- hence the gaiters- and wore a short cassock-hence. t.he apron Readers of The Blecheley Diary of the Rev. William Co le will be familiar enough with this.1 The 18th centur~ is not the most splendid era of Anglican Church history: why perpetuate Its aSSOciatIOns? CLERICAL REH ABILITATION

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On Wednesday, June 11th, St. Day, the Rev. Percy J,ohn Jones A NATIVE was consecrated to be Assistant Bishop 11l Sierra Leone . . The King s Scholars " BISHOP attended the Consecration SerVICe, which was most Impressive .. Not the least im pressive part was to see Afncan ,men and women recClvmg Communion from the hands .of their newly-consecrated bishop: the preacher was the only l white man at the altar rails. I 330

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Our Chaplain for so long, the Rev. A. D. R. Brooke has taken over the Headmastership of a well-known Preparatory School, Woodlands, in Deganwy, North Wales. We are sure he wou ld be glad to see O.K.S. and hope that he will have a prosperous reign.

Mr. Wootton has returned to Mission work in Pakistan. He writes a long letter dated February 7th in which he announces that he is also engaged to be married . All those who in pre-war yea rs st udied the Classics with him will wish him everything that is good.

THE REV. STANLEY POOLE WHAT ABOUT THE BABY?

Mr. S. B.-R. Poole has been appointed to the position of Genealogical Adviser to Chamber's Encyclopaedia. He remains still on our staff, of course. Tt is not perhaps known that Mr. Poole is one of the few experts in genealogy in the kingdom. Notice on a bridge at Dover : " This bridge is for pedestrians only. Pedal cycles and perambulators may be pushed over it."

,' THE WARRIORS' CHAPEL St. Michael's Chapel has been heavily repainted . , We are informed that there is no foundation in the rumour that A SELF-DENYING the Dean and Chapter have decided that for a period of five years ORDINANCE? nothing further shall be pai nted in the Cathedral.

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The School is in most pressing need of an Assembly Hall. We gladly draw attention to a letter on this subject, and beg the Governors, or the O.K.S. Association, or some Benefactor, to supply the need. A lthough the name of Molesworth will, at the end of this term, THE MOLESWORTH disappear from the Rotulus, we are glad that it will re-appear again FAMILY in 1955 when another generation will enter the School. The fami ly connection with the School dates back to at least 1829 when William, so n of the Rev. J. E. N. Molesworth, entered-the first of five brothers to do so. The Rev. J. E. N. Molesworth, t hen Rector ofSt. Martin's, was a Six Preacher of the Cathedral and became Hon. Organ ising Secretary of the King' s School Feast Society. He â&#x20AC;˘ was publicly thanked for his zeal on behalf of the Society at the Anni versa ry in 1834, which was attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Wellington and other notabilities. One of his so ns, Guilford Linley Molesworth, later held important posts as an engineer in India and was created K.C.I.E. in 1888. It is probably his arms which â&#x20AC;˘ were placed in one of the Schoolroom windows, but the leaflet printed at the time does not enlighten us on this point, as it merely records that fo ur escutcheons were left to be I completed later. For the Reading University race the Boat Club insured its boat and WATERS DARK was comforted to find that the policy covered explosion of boilers, AND RUDe negligence of paid skippers and loss of oilskins, sea boots and sextants. It was worrying, however, to find that the Company would not be held ... responsible for the consequences of hostilities and warlike operations, rebellion or piracy; nor for the loss of moorings, sails, masts, spars or fishing gear. " The Editors wou ld like to congratulate Gerald Morgan on the event HAPPY BIRTHDAY of his first birthday. We omitted his birth in the appropriate number last year, and one of the Editors, being Godfather, has a guilty

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The School Fencing Team wound up a successful season by beating Eastbourne 12-4.

CURIOUSLY AnSENT-MINDED

A LONG SUNDAY MORNING WALK

One of the Bishops attending the Service for the reception of Archbishops and Bishops attending the Lambeth Conference is said to have arrived here carrying his sponge-bag instead of a case containing his vestments. The Bishop of Nebraska informs us that in his diocese a common distance between neighbouring churches is one hundred and fifty miles.

On Friday, July 2nd, Canon West, of New York Cathedral, gave two talks, one to the Arts Sixth and another to the Science Sixth. This is the second time he has visited the School, and his invigorating , talks have done much to clarify the American point of view on all kinds of problems. We would very much like to hear him again, but we must wait till his next visit in the Summer of 1949. CANON WEST OF NEW YORK

An earlier note mentions the painting. There is also to be a stone altar placed over the tomb of Stephen Langton. The mensa (or flat top) is interesting. It is to contain two pieces of stone which were formerly part of the mensa of a stone altar, no doubt demolished in the reign of Edward VI. Somebody made a stone mantel out of it for his fireplace in that house which is now the West half of the Dining Hall. Some long time ago a 19th century fireplace concealed the old, which was discovered only when the Hall was being made in 1937. The architects used this fireplace mantel-then in three pieces, each containing an odginal consecration cross- to help build the wall which screened the kitchen entrance. This screen-wall was destroyed in June, 1942 by a bomb, and the two of the three pieces were recovered. Tt is good to know that some, at least, of that mediaeval (or Norman) altar will be in use again in the Cathedra l. For all anyone knows, it may have been the Altar of the Sword's Point. We have been delighted to see this former Capta in of School living R. H. GOWER amongst us for the latter half of the tenn. On leave from Kenya, R. H. Gower has been giving a hand with the promising young cricketers. THE BUFFS CHAPEL

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In the Chapel of an Oxford College in the last week of this term- examination time- "What we have not, give us ; What we know not, teach us ...

From a well-known text-book: "If Richelieu was to rule France with a strong hand, he must first stamp out the nobility under an iron heel." Or, as a Scottish friend put it to us, "When you're ill and being looked after by some kindly neighbour, it's good to be in the hands of a well-kent face." FOR THE 'Tis said that William Shakespeare's ghost ENGLISH StXTH Applied for a civil service post; The examinations set that year Contained a question on King Lear, Which Shakespeare answered very badly, Because he hadn't read his Bradley. OUR STRANGE In despair a Frenchman committed suicide in front of a placard which declared "Cavalcade Pronounced Success." LANGUAOE MIXED

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Overheard at the Lambeth Conference: "Primus of Scotlandprimus? Why name a man after a cooking-stove? You might as well have an Aga of the Antarctic."

From Oxford, Norman Scarfe writes in some disagreement with the article on Thurlow in the last ContI/arion. He admits that Cowper's verses on Thurlow are flattery, which the poet himself later recognised ; that "exquisite, unhappiest poet" is Mr. Scarfe's phrase. ("I was a stricken deer that left the herd. ") He had his unsurpassed sense of fun, though, when not in spiritual anguish: so he could write to Hayley about former Lord Chancellor Thurlow's coldness thus :"But since that his Lordship has quitted his place, Steriles numerandus est arbores inter, , And nolV to solicit his favour and grace Is searching your bO)lghs for plums in the winter." Mr. Scarfe denies that generosity was characteristic of Thurlow, or that kindness was natural to him. He expressed no concern for the poet till 1794, and the pension of £300 p.a. ultimately granted to Cowper cannot be credited to his one-time fellow-student, for he had retired two years earlier. Similarly Thurlow paid no heed to the plight of Crabbe- despite the D.N.B.-beyond a breakfast and £100 banknote when he had been rescued by Burkc and "established ". Our correspondent considers Thurlow a ruthless opportunist with little or no integrity. He and Culmer are men the School must live down. We are very happy to have had Norman Scarfe's admirable .Jetter: happy. that the articles are read, and happier still when O.K.S. take such a real IIlterest IU theIr School ·Magazine. Before we finish this subject, we should li ke to commend to those who d? not know them the Letters of William COlVper . As the Fourth Form probably reads hIS Jolm Gilpin, the Sixth should appreciate his Letters. GENERAL INSPECTION Brigadier: "And how many rounds have you fired this year, my boy?" . INCIDENT Cadet: "It depends how many bullets you reckon to a round, Sir. .. COWPER AND THURLOW

It is said on good authority that the injunction to the Bishops to appear at the Lambeth Conference clad in rochets and chemises was a wicked misprint, happily (?) corrected in time. It was with real regret that we read of the death of Mrs. Cannon during MRS. CANNON this term. She was the widow of Tom Cannon, O.K.S., who died some 12 years ago. They lived at Vernon Holme, Harbledown:-formerly the home of Sidney Cooper, the artist-and at 2 Cadogan Gardens. It was III r,nemory , of Tom that his widow gave the Headmaster a cheq ue for £2,000, one IlIght at dlllner III Cadogan Gardens, for the purpose of founding the Cannon Scholarship. Mrs. Cannon • also paid for the entire cost of the electric clock in the Pavilion. . CONFERENCE DRESS

We have to thank-and do so most cordially-Mr. and Mrs. Dunn and Mr. Hallewell for donations towards our Military Band; Mrs. Blair for the gift of sports clothing; Mr. R. S. Anderson and Colonel H. G. N. Leakey for handsome gifts of books. GRATITUDE

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THE CANTUARIAN In response to a loyal greeting to Their Majesties sent by the School t~l egram came from Bu~kingham Palace as follows: "The King and Qu~e~ sincerely thank a ll who jOll1ed In your good Wishes on the occasion of The' It Majesties' Silver Wedding."

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We ~o n ~ratulate Richard Routh, D. L. Quested a nd Peter Gumm on

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"Tuesday last was a great Solemnity at ye Theater, ye Prince of Anhalt and his Company were honour 'd wt h musick and degrees. Mr. Caesar was made Dr. of D ivinity presented by Dr. de Laune Margaret Professor. In his Speech amongst other things he sa id, yt Mr. Caesar had been very well known to Q. Anne, but neIther he nor any of ye rest, yt made Speeches, mentioned Kin g Geo rge for all they had ye best opportunity leading to it. Such is the perverseness of y~ Oxomans !" SEMPER IDEM?

So wrote David Wilkins to Archbishop. Wake on January 26th, 1715. [Wake MSS., Eplst. 20: Vol. TV at Chnst Church.] WilkinS was regarded 111 Oxford as a Whig spy for Wake, and was a nyhow ~nnoyed because that U niversity refu sed him the. honorary degree of M.A. , but CambrIdge was wISer and later converted him into a fu ll-blown D.O. , He became a Canon of Canterbury, a nd is famous for his Concilia. The same Wa ke MSS. reveal that Ca non (and Dr.) Tenison did not like the n ew Archbishop. When he read the Bidding Prayer before his sermon In the Cathedral, he bade his audience, " But especially let us pray for William Lord Archbishop of Ca nterbury that G od would incline-

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hlnl to Hospitality and tQ Do, Good Works ". So, at least, an anonymo us correspondent told Wake. It was Dr. Temson who presented the beautiful chandelier which hangs

at the East end of the Choir.

There surel y was some lack of logic in the debates. Either murders have. Illcreased of recen t yea rs or they ha ven 't. If 110/, why not try the experiment of abohtlOn whIch so many other countries have found possible? If they . have IIlcreased, then obViously the modern gallows is not a deterren t! If people wa nt a deterrent, they must find something more awful and terrifying than the 20th century gall ows. Are we to go back to public ha nging with its barbarous accompaniments? Incidentally, the annual report of H.M. Inspectors of Constabulary issued in June this year, notes a slight decrease in crime since the wa r, though the nu~ber orcases is greater tban before tbe war. THE DEATH PENA LTY

Mrs. Whalley, already a most generous friend of the Boat Club bas' th is term presented a Sculling Cup. For the time being the competition must be confined to the FlI'st Four, whose property the sculler is but " it is boped that the Boat Club will soon be able to obtain anbtber sculling boat and open the race to all its members.

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The Canterbury Cathedra l Picture Book, which was published in May has been on exhibition at Amsterdam. The photographs are the work of Mr. Moody of the Canterbury College of Art, the typograpby is by Mr. Stanley Hickson and the text by Mr. J . H. Corner. . 334

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At the Canterbury College of Art there has been an exhibition of fine A PRI NTING printing at which the new School Calendar and the notice paper of tbe EXHIBITlON Boat Club and the Walpole Society have been exhibited. The Boat Club owe a great debt of gratitude to Westminster School for giving them the freedom of their boats and boal-house on the occasion

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of the Haileybury race on May 29th. The race, which the School won by 5 lengths, was umpired by Mr. C. H. Fisher, of Westm inster, and the

King's School crews were entertained to tca in the boat-house afterwa rds.

At last the Appeal is prin ted and should reach parents, friends and O. K.S. long before this CantuGrian. The object is two-fold: first to inscribe under the Arches the names of the Fallen and repair tbe Memorial Court: secondl y, to ra ise an Endowment Fund out of which help can be given to enable O.K.S. to send their boys to the School. We sho uld very much like an Assembly Hall too! It is to be hoped tbat the response will be generous and worthy. THE WAR MEMORIAL

OVERSEAS BISHOPS

We became familiar with the sight of Overseas Bishops weeks beforc the Lambeth Conference. A batch- or is it a "gaggle" or an "apron" ?-of bishops spent a week-end here in May. It was gratifyi ng to hear H owa rd Mowll , the Primate of Austral ia, recou nt what he owed to the Kin g's

School and to the Canons of bis day. He will also preach the Commemoration Sermon on Speech Day. We shall have had visits and sermons a lso from Morris Geslthorpe, Bishop in the Sudan; Robert Moline, Archbishop of Perth; John Frewer, Bishop of N.W. Australia, and Victor Halward, Bishop at Hong-Ko ng. This is proving a n episcopal number, but the Lambeth Conference now THE LAMBETH looms large in Angl ican policy. The first main Service is to be held CONFERENCE here on Jul y 1st. Three hundred of the Episcopate are expected, and our boys are asked to look after them. After Service tbey will have tea on the Oaks. THE SeRArrON PRIZE

Tbe Autborities have lost sight of the origin of this prize and would be glad of any information about it from O.K.S.

We congratulate J. R. Allchurch on an Exhibition in History to St. Edmund Hall. It is well-known that for many years past the Hall has been one of the most vigorous and successful of the Oxford Colleges, HISTORY alike in the Scbools, on the River, and on the Playing-fields. Tbe Principal- doubtless inspired by all he bad learned in school days at Canterbury- has achieved a success unmatched by any other College in Oxford or Cambridge. We are proud of bim, and of J. R. AJlchurch for gett.ing to the Hall.

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Can any O.K.S. th row light on a curious feature in the Celebration of the Holy Communion in our Cathedral? At the time oftbe Offertory, the Dean and Canons make their way to the South end of the Altar and apparently place money in a plate. They then seem to gen uflect-i.e., bend the knee (for the benefit of the Science Fifths)-but genufiexion is an abasement of the self, an act of worship; as at tbe declaration of belief in the Incarnation during the Nicene GENUFLEXIONS

Creed, when it is easy to understa nd that man prostrates himself before so great a mystery 335

The Governors have appointed Mr. R. H. Lcvinson to be bursar from end of thIs term. Mr. Levinson was ed ucated at Hawtrey's and H rrow the and at S!. John 's College, Oxford, and is a Chartered Accountant ,

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Mr. Romney Coles, B.Sc . Head of the S . 0 elected Headmaster of He;dfort a new pu~l~n£~ho eF~rtJbent, has been term near Kells in Ireland . He~dfort is a rna nifi 0 0 e opened next the home of the Marquis of Headfor!. It resembles Stowe in ~i ~ent Adams mansIon, set amIdst thousands of attractivc acres. We wish M C I ze and splendour, and IS grateful for all his unsparing elforts in the science depa;ime~te~e~~~ry success, and are PROMOTION

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We mentioned last time the appearance of the H eb ew p. ·1 Co,!scio!/sl1(>ss, but ha ve nobody on OLif Ed itorial Starr ua/i~plzeIIC 1ed reVIew It. Therefore we draw our readers! attention to {he c to

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Once again the Warden and Fellows of Merton have enero sl ' .. prize of ten gu ineas,. comm~morating the fact ~hat th~ g~e~~VWilh~~ arvey, O.K.S., was sometIme thelf Warden. We are particularly I d t hat Mr R W G Levens the t t . ' ' . pease .. , U 01, IS comlllg to Speeches in person to represent the Colleg~.· MBRTON COLLEGE

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The restoration of No. 15 permits us to re-establish the Walpole PRIOR Collection and the Walpole Writing Room and the Photographic Society SBLLlNGEGATB in Sellingegate. In add ition, the Bursar and Mr. Corner will live there. The Stonham Collection of Birds still remains housed at Bishopsbourne Rectory by the kindness of thc Rector. We cannot make final dispositions until Âˇ~9A is completed. In company with other schools of our standing, the Governors have been obliged to raise the fees. The cost is now ÂŁ204 p.a. not including text-books, stationery and laundry. There is every intention of " pegging" this fee, unless, of co urse, things become morc topsy-turvy than ever.

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Can any reader suggest a source whence we may obtain our speck led STRAW HATS straws? The manufacturers make only gloomy responses. Meantime we have only about 10, which serve those who are invited to meals. Which leads naturally to this musing. Some people still kindly ask boys out even in these austere days. We were struck in Archbishop Mowll's sermon, descriptive of his school days 40 years ago, with the intim ate, close and family relationship that seems then to have existed between the School and residents in the Precincts. MEAl!>

The local paper reported that on one Sunday morning early in May bird enthusiasts were to rise from their warm cquches something after midnight to note what was the first bird to be heard and at what exact moment. Investigators in this area arose and sallied forth- including some of us-and the first bird heard was the cuckoo! And that at 3.50 a.m. ! UNKIND

The Band shapes well. We have the Instructor. We have the instruments. The latter are not all paid for. We are almost terrified to write this lest any O. K.S. should dream we are putting suggestions to him. No-just recording facts.

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" It is not good to see musicians,. for they are sometimes coarse and vulgar people, and so the ~;Idltor loses fmth 10 any fine and spiritual tones that they INVISIBLE may breathe forth. There IS much to be saId for th,s vIew expressed by Nat haniel Hawthorne (The English NOle-books, Vol. II, p. 214, London, I?70). ,AlIowlOg that mUSICl a!lS are !10W never coarse or vu lgar, yet it is irritating and d l sturb~n g to see people cran ing their necks when tenor or soprano has a sweet solo. We ,believe that Roman, Church Choirs arc always in visible. However, it is desirable that chOIrs ,~h ou ld be a udIble! Somebody s ~gges ted " Have mercy upon us miserable

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As readers know, the famolls a!1thor was an American. "After leaving the workh ouse, we drove to NOrriS G reen ; and Mrs. - - showed us round the gro unds .... 0 these En.gli sh homes, what delightful places they are! I wonder how ma ny people l,ve and d,e In the workhouse, having no other home, because other people have a great deal more home than enough .. .. ... [op. cit. Vol. T, pp. 424-5.J THE SAME AUTHOR

THE SOCIETIES SOMNER SOCIETY . The Summer Ter-m has seen exped itions ra ther than papers or lectures. The Society v~ s l ted Dover Castle early in the term. With the help of guides, the keep, underground p,~ ssages and dungeon s were lll spected. Plan s are bell1g made for an expedition to Rlchborough Castle and Sandwich later in the term. A very brief visit was made to St. Augustine's Monastery and the party was shown a roun d by Ca non F rance and W. U rry, Esq., the Assistant Cathedral Librarian. On Ju ly 17th the Society plan s to go to "Tancrey", a house at Fordwich which was buIlt d unn g the reIgn of Edward T, and which structurally has been tittle altered. . One aftern oon, Mr. J. R _ E. Paynter took a few members around the clock towers Bell Harry and the roof of the Ca thedral. Later in the term, Mr. Urry has kindly con sented to shew the Society a round the Cathedral Library. The members will have had an active and enjoyable term and only lack of funds has prevented further expeditions.

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RAILWAY SOCIETY On May 25th a party from the Society visited Ashford. There, at the railway workshops, they saw locomotives belllg taken apart a nd put together again, and new electric a n~ steam locomotive pa~Âˇts belllg made. EngIne wheels were seen under repair, and cylInders were watched beIng re-ground. The party toured the ti ght machine shop brass f?undry, power house and pa int shop, and also saw tenders and wagons on the as;embly lInes. The 5-ton steam hammer was one of many attractions, as was the sight of hot wet asbestos belOg laId on the boIlers of tW? engines in the erecting shop. Having spent over two hours there, they went to the mollve power depot to see engines being made ready for theIr dutIes. After everyone had clImbed about the locomotives, ridden on some of the large r ones, a nd collected a good deal of gnme, a happy Ashford visit was ended. O~ June 17th a par ty will be goi ng to Dover docks, and on July 11th the Society will be glad to welcome C. M. Gray, O.K.S., one of theff founder members when he will be talking on "The London Underground ". ' The I;;embership of the Society has been going lip and lip and is now 38. 338

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CAXTON SOCIETY This term the Caxton Society has been very fortunate indeed. Firstly, we have received a substantial grant from the Headmaster, which . has enabled us to buy materials and type without which we wo uld be 10 danger of faIlIng to produce good work- and our aim is to produce the best possible work! Also, two gifts of used type have been received very gratefully, one from an O.K.S. and the other from a friendly printer. So our stock of type is now suitably increased, New members this term have proved surprisingly keen and eager to learn, and have so excelled themselves that they have been able to produce their own work up to the standards which we keep. We have had two meetings per week to allow members to meet the instructor from Gibbs & Sons, who gave valuable help. May we still say that gifts of type are still very welcome, and our thanks are due to those who so kindly helped us. We would also like to remind customers-to-be that we would like a fortni ght in which B. CASSIDY, , to execute orders.

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NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY The Society has now some forty m~mbers. A. J .. F. W. L. Holley is Honorary Secretary, and, under IllS enthusiastic gUidance, the sectIOns devoted to Ornithology and Mammals have in particular been putting in some excellent field work. So has the Pond Life Section under A. S. Mitchell Innes. We are continuing our survey of the countryside round Canterbury, and in particular of the Fordwich-Stod!"arsh district, .and we hope to publish our Annual Report as usual thiS year, though thensmgcost ofpnntmg, and the lack of public support for our previous efforts m thiS dlfectlOn, are matters of grave concern. The preparation of the Report entails a very considerable amount of work on the part of all concerned. It is intended to be ~ serious contribution to local records, and is regarded as such by competent naturahsts and learned soclelles. We feel, nghtly or wrongly, that its discontinuance would be a blow to the prestige of the School. " In addition to our work for the Report, our participation in a number of nation-wide enquiries instituted by the British Trust for Ornithology, and our work on Insect Immigration for the British Museum, we have had several interesting lectures and excursions thi~ term. Among the former must be mentioned the visit of that distinguished naturahst Major Maxwell Kmght, O.B.E., F.Z.S., who gave us a delightful talk on British Reptiles and Amphibia illustrated ' both by lantern slides and by living specimens. Among excursions, we make all too brief mention of that to Dover, with very grateful acknowledg.ments to Major and Mrs. Took for their kind hospitality, and an exciting nocturnal VISit to a badger 's sett. We look forward to our visit to the South Kensington Museum and to our Society'S

own exhibition.

The Society contributes to the Annual Journal of the Association of School Natural History Societies. '

, The holding of next year's Congress of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies " at the Kin~'s ~chool (through the courtesy of Canon Shirle~) should be a furth~r spur to our Society s efforts. We hope, too, to be able to work m close harmony With the . newly-formed Canterbury Bird-Watchers ' Society.

The Natural History Society welcomes into its ranks all who are prepared as they

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IS A MAN HOPELESS?

I do not know: you do not kn ow. Only God knolVs, though Law Lords say they do. The Christian can and must only believe that no man is hopeless; if he does not believe this, he denies the reality of the Incarnation of our Saviour and of Calvary. Tn the House of Lords' debates on the death-penalty, some episcopal members spoke (and one vehemently) against its abolition. They seemed , tacitly, at least, to agree with Law Lords that some men are " monsters", hopeless, incapable of reform, only proper to be " destroyed". Lawyers and politicians may take what views they like, but Christian ministers upon whom the duty lies of speaking only and entirely and always in the name of God, not from motives of policy or expediency, may no t. In a Christian State the chieffullction of a Government is to train its citizens adfinem spirilualem, and that Church which is Established has as its primary purpose to direct the Government's steps into the paths of God. , Doubtless there are' 'monsters", but if so, such men are either insane or depraved. If insane, an asylum is the answer; if depraved, the "monster" is not altogether unjustified if he apportions some blame to the Christian State responsible for the conditions of his upbringing. He may reason that he came of evil parentage; his early life and environment were horrible beyond the description of words; he knew no education, no "I' religious influences had been his; often he may have been half-starved, and lived amid savage and brutal surroundings. In short, he may have been brought up on a sub-human plane. This is indeed very possible even in the twentieth century. I remember meeting a boy of 12 or 13 during the war, evacuated from a London slum, who could tell me the name of neither his parish, nor Church, nOf clergyman; not surprising, as he had never heard of Christ. When a man has perforce lived like a brute, and in passion kills like a brute, is the State's only answer to kill him in return , and is there no consciousness in clerical breasts that this is a confession of complete failure-that the Church, in its chief , . ministers as in its lesser, has lost its missionary power? Is it enough that they, who have " taken the solemn obligation to " hold up the weak, heal the sick, bind up the broken, bring again the outcasts, seek the lost", should merely say " Hang the monster" ? The principles of Christ go deeper far than the Lords ' debates revealed. He taught that . , whoever hates another is a murderer- that the thought is as evil as the act. He died because all men are sinners, and every man equally stands in need of the merciful forgiveness of God, be he bishop or murderer. He died because all men are capable of redemption, if redemption they do desire.

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One of our number was a Chaplain in France during the First World War and three times it fell to him to minister to men condemned to be shot at dawn. The first man was in the middle thirties, an ex-goal bird, an unwilling conscript, a product of one of the worst of London's slums; he had no education and had scarce any intelligence. Almost sub-human, he knew nothing whatever of religion; had no living relations, not a single friend and not a possession save a dirty pipe and tobacco pouch. There was simply no one person to whom the Chaplain could write. In the afternoon the battalion was paraded- caps off- and the sentence promulgated. The Provost-Marshall and Guard marched the man back to the "condemned cell", a room in the village. Its furniture was a wire bed, a table and four hard chairs. Two armed guards with fixed bayonets sat on two chairs, relieved from time to time. The Chaplain .might not leave-he must stay to the end. Sodden and sunk in misery, the prisoner remained an unintelligent mass; a brutal end to a brutal life. The Chaplain asked if he should read a passage from the 341

THE CANTUARIAN Bible-no answer, not a Hicker of interest or understanding. The Bible read, he tried an ordinary book, eliciting no greater response. "Shall we say a prayer?" he ventured but not even the Lord 's Prayer evoked the slightest interest. Perplexed and batlled, th~ Chaplain remembered hc had in his pocket an Army hymn-book. He read one of the Sa lvation Army kind- familiar on Church parades. There was just a slight Hicker in the man's eyes. The padre read another. "Shall I read another?" "Yes, Sir", and so he did. Then, astonishingly the condemned brute asked, "Can we sing one, Sir?" So they sang one-and anot her- and another ; and they sang for perhaps an hour and a half, till the poor Chaplain 's voice could only croak, "Well, I think we ought to call a halt for a bit " . " Oh, just one more, Sir." So they sang another. ~ ' But we have forgotten someth ing, Sir." "What's that? " " We haven't sung God Save the King." And in tha t condemned cell those four men, criminal, chaplai n and guards, stood at atten tion while they sang the National Anthem. The prisoner went to his bed and slept like a child. Was this his sen se of recognition that the penalty was just ? Does it not recall another who in his own agony on a bandit 's cross said, "And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds " ? As dawn approached the Chaplain gently woke his charge. The Provost-Marshall wo uld soon be coming. They brought him breakfast- a most generous meal, and with it a large tin cup fu ll of something. The man smelt it- pushed it away- " No, don't want it". It was neat rum, which would mercifully have stupified him. " No, don't want it. " And nobody can forget Another Who refused when H is executioners offered Him Wine mingled with gall ; " and when He had tasted thereof, He would not drink". The price should be paid in its fulness. Dawn began to break and the Provost-Marshall came. The small company marched some sixty yards down the road and turned into a kind of backyard, where the post was ready. The squad of ten from his own platoon arri ved. Large military police pinioned the prisoner- who had never known kindness from anyone in his life save from a slutand proceeded to bandage his eyes. " Don't want it", he said, and not till after gentle expostulation from the Chaplain was he willing to be blind-folded. Then they proceeded to take him to the post, and as they were about to move, he lifted up his poor face to the Chaplain and said, "Kiss me, Sir ". "That even in sa vage bosoms, There are longings, yearnings, strivings,

For the good they comprehend not; That the [eeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly ill the darkness, Touch God's right hand in that darkness." It may be that the saving gospel of Christ is out of fashion in quarters where it should not be. Shakespeare, however, is always in fas hion, even when he writes the Christian truth. "Why, all the souls that were were [OI/eit once, And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy. How would you be, If He, Which is the top o[ judgment, should

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THE ATOMIC BOMB (This nole is condensed [rom The Bomb Secret is Out, by Robert M. Hutchins, Chancellor o[ the University o[ Chicago, [rom The Amencan MagazlIle [or December, 1947) In adopting a ' realistic attitude to the position of atomic energy to-day two simple facts must be remembered. First, that the methods of producing the ato mic bomb can no longer be regarded as secret and, second, that there is no defence against it. The gteater part of the theoretical work on the production of atom ic bombs in America was done by European sCientists. These SCientists are now scattered throughout the wo rld and each of them is entirely familiar with the processes involved in producing the bombs. There is no doubt that Russia cou ld make them as she has the necessary resources, and it would be fooli sh to assume that she is not doing so. The production ,!f atomic bombs is now merely a manufacturing process; all necessary knowledge IS available and there is no secret. There is also no defence. It is theoreticall y possible to ma ke atomic bombs 1,000 times more powerful than those which have so far been exploded. With only two of these bombs suitably placed to use prevailing winds, a n area of land the size of the United States might be made uninhabitable. Areas not destroyed outnght would be contam1l1ated as the wind swept the highly rad io active air over the face of the land. That is the extremely unpleasant but realistic prospect facing mankind if atomic energy is unleashed for war. It would appea r that our only chance of survival lies in a mutual acceptance by the nations of the futility of fur ther warfare and a mutual avowal to keep the peace. Perha~s the practical solution would be the establishment of a world governmen t. Once peace IS assured an enormous increase in the standard of living of the peoples of the wo rld co uld result from the use of atomic energy. It is the most important discovery to mankind since the discovery of fire. Medically it is the most important tool since the invention of the microscope. Economically it is the most important discovery since the discovery.of the wheel. To-day we stand at the fork of the road. One way leads to peace, productIVIty beyond our imagination and ease of living beyond our dreams. The other leads to war and the eventual end of all life on earth.

THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION. All down the Christian ages from time to time people have asked " How can it be ?" In our day the same question is asked, not leas t by adolescents. This beautiful passage from Hooker's Laws o[£cc/esiaslicai Policy is known to the few, and should be known to the many. "He which hath said of the one sacrament, ' Wash and be clean', hath said concerning the other likewise, 'Eat and live ' .... what moveth us to argue of the manner how life should come by bread, our duty being here but to take what is offered, and most assuredly to rest persuaded of this that can we but eat we are safe ? When I behold WIth nllne eyes some small and scarce discernible grain or seed whereof nature maketh promise that a tree shall come and when afterwards of that tree any skilful artificer underta keth to frame some exqui~ite and curious work, I look for the even!, I move '.10 questi<?l1 about performance either of the one or of the other. Shall I SImply credIt nature III things natural, shall I in things artificial rely myself on art, never offenng to make doubt, and in that which is above art and nature refuse to believe the author of both, except he acquaint me with his ways, and lay the secret of his skill before me ?" (Book V, lxvii, 12l 343

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WE HAVE NO KING BUT CAESAR (Lines suggested by a passage in the Archbishop's Easter Day Sermon)

We have no king but Caesar, o take this Man away. He troubles us with searching thoughts, We will not own His sway.

Not puling infants like my son, Who takes this stuff he hears for truth, Says we should love our enemies ! A pretty state of things forsooth I

We have no king but Caesar, His legions guard us well, He gives us bread and circuses; . This Fellow talks of Hell,

In civilised communities We have no place for such as He ; We ask for peace and comfort, and Some measure of security.

And stirs up thoughts too deep for us, And bids us change our ways And tread alo ne the thorny path Of restless nights and days.

Away with Him to Golgotha, And crucify Him as is due. We have no King but Caesar, To Caesa r we'1I be true,

He bids us quit our easy lives And ponder on the ills Of other folk, and help the weak; He all the city fills

And lead our lives as he decrees And eat and drink what is our due, And meddle not with higher things, We are not men that trouble woo.

With nonsense quite hysterical, No good can come at all Of meddling outside our trade, Or listening to a call.

But good and sober citizens Owning no lord 's imperial sway But Caesar 's, who protects us As we live from day to day.

For action strong and deep and true. What are these things to us ? Caesar will see we do not want; I hate this strife and fuss.

We have our Church; we have our State, And Caesar over all doth rule, A good safe man, and worldly wise, No crack-brained idealistic fool.

Our part is simply to obey The regulations Caesar makes, And do our work and play our play, And pay the taxes that he takes.

Our loyalty is to the State, For all our needs the State provides. Caesar will keep us safe from harm, Whate'er befalls, whate'er betides.

Let troublers be scourged a nd slain, The State shall give them what they seek. They prate of sacrifice and pai n, And speak of things not good to speak.

This Fool no idealogy Of earthly use for us provides. What reck we of His mystic claims? Our duty to the State 0 'errides

T hen Crucify Him now, I cry. Away with Him to Felons' Hill ! Drive true the nails! Hoist high the Cross ! Of sacrifice give Him His fill !

All other claims. To gain the world And lose the soul, what matter so ? The world we know ; the soul may be Illusion, after all, I trow.

We ha ve no king but Caesar,

In this hard world we have no place For visionaries such as He. Take Him away to Calvary, A nd hang him on the gallows-tree.

And proud we are to own His sway. He understands us, For we me men full grown,

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Something is wrong. I have no ease Of spirit now, I know not why. I do not understa nd myself And Caesar cannot tell me why.

My interests political .. Seem, somehow, sorry, sordId thlllgs ; I care not for the small concerns Of politicians and of Kings.

I suffer so. I have no King But Caesar now, as erst I willed No King but he, ah ! woe is me ! Can it have been my God I killed? CIVIS

THE CANTUARIAN INTERVIEWS No.2. ERNEST BALDOCK Mr. Baldock ca me to the School in 1937 as Head Gardener and has been wi th us ever since. He is a well-known local cricketer and was Captain of the Beverley Cricket Cl ub in 1938 and 1939. He is President of the 8th Canterbury Scout Troop, and a MethodISt Local Preacher. Duri ng the School's evacuation at Carlyon Bay, Mr. Baldock preached two School Sermons, a distinction rarely achieved in the School's history! I. What job would you choose if yo u could live yo ur life over again ? The Methodist Ministry. 2. You are left ÂŁ10,000. What would you do with it ? Invest in fruit farming, and give the young people of Canterbury a sports field for cricket matclres. 3. What would you do if you were Prime Minister for a day? Arrange a meeting with Stalin and talk things over, alld ask the .C~nterbury City Counci/wiren tlrey were going to produce a plan for tire rebUlldlllg of tireCity.

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5. What people exasperate you more than all others? Folk who tlrink they know everything. 6. What nationality wo uld you choose if yo u were not British? American.

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8. Where do you want to live when you retire ? Headcorn ill the Weald of Kent. 9. What is yo ur favourite hobby? Workillg all10llg youllg people ill Methodist Youth Clubs alld Scout Troops.

10. Book? The Bible. II. Play? "The Bishop's Candlestick.\'. "

12. Musical Composition ? Charles Wesley's hYll1l1s.

13. Sport? Cricket to play; football to lVateh .

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In John Wesley 's time.

19. When do yo u feel at yo ur best? At the end of alVeI/-spent SUllday.

20. What 's wrong wiill the world ? The Will of God has no place ill man's planning.

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REFLECTIONS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE CHURCH . "Has the Church fail ed?" is a question which hau nts the minds of the modern generation, giving rise to end less and excited speculation and discussion. Tf we contrast the situation of to-day with that which obtained, say, fifty years ago, we note, first of all, what might be described as the .dissolution of the natio nal Christianity of the Established Church. It is a commonplace to remark that in the Victorian epoch, churchgoing was a badge of social respectability and was indeed indispensable to the assertion of one's niche in the hierarchy of a well-ordered commun ity, just as in the 18th century church ~going

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and information of social groups. Nevertheless, behind these more obvious moti ves of conformity, there lay a very rea l and vital Christian ity subtly interfused with the national character, both influenced by the latter and in turn largely contributin g to shape it. The foundation of this national Christianity was belief in the Bible as the life-giving Word of God. Questions of Churchmanship were subordinate or non-existent. The hurch of England was less vividly conscious of its distinctive type of churchmanship by con trast with other, non-episcopalian, bodies. The difference was expressed not in terms of Anglican versus Nonco nfor mist, but rather in terms of Establishment versus Dissent, and the difference was characteristically social and political rather than theological and ecclesiastical. The Nonconformists were on the whole in complete solidarity with the Liberal Party and represented, especially in the North of England, the classes which had emerged into prominence as a result of the Industrial Revolution. Within the Established Church on the other hand, the vast mass of Engl ishmen, rich and poor ali ke, but especially those elements which represented the persistence of the old feudal agricultural England, found spiritual comfort a nd succour. Their religion was not selfconscious and systematic; it had not, like the creeds of Calvin and Knox, been forged in the heat of theological debate or welded in cast-iron symbols. It was rooted in the soil and fed upon a thousand dim ancestral memories which stirred the heart and the imagination . It was deeply historical. The institution which nourished it had evolved by a process of natural growth and self-adaptaion in the crises and tensions of a dramatic history. Its twin pillars were the Bible and the Prayer Book a nd so for centuries the minds of Englishmen were moulded, to an extent which the young and ignorant of to-day find hard to realize, by the majestic prose of the Authorized Version and the sonorous phrases of Cranmer which caught the authentic, numinous, note of the Roman Missal. The majority of practical and religious Englishmen were content to let controversial issues lie dorman t. The Prayer Book was interpreted and ad hered to in a loyal, commonsense manner such as is proper to the typical Englishman . There was no attempt to evade the literal meaning of the rubrics and no awareness of any need for change. Apart from festivals a nd saints' days, the Holy Communion was in the main administerGd at 12 noon on the first Sunday of the month and the Ten Commandments were of course solemnly recited, with no thought that there was anything amiss or in need of improvement. This was the Anglicanism labelled "static" by the Swedish professor Brilioth in his brilliant study of the Oxford Movement. It was the Anglicanism of Keble and New man, who may well have wished to transform it fro m within by imbuing it with the spirit of Catholic theology, but had no desire to break up its outward forms. The former faithfully administered the system at the village church of Hursley, near Winchester, the latter at St. Mary's, Oxford.

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UTILE BOY BLUE " Little Boy Blue, come, blow up your horn ! The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn. Where's the little boy that looks after the sheep? Under the haystack fast asleep." The appeal which these tender lines have exercised upon the imaginations of Our poets has been too little recognised. The poignant innocency as well as the innocent poignancy of these magical thoughts have stirred poetic yearnings in the English bards. Unfortunately much of this great poetry has somehow failed to find its way into their collected works. The Canluarian therefore feels itself privileged to be the first publication 10 presenl to a longing world these inestimable jewels, the authenticity of which will sufficiently be proved by a glance at their style.

ODE ON IMITATIONS OF IMMORALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF SLEEPY CHILDHOOD Behold the Child c1oth'd in his blue worn breeches Of six years' darning and too small a size. See, where 'mid hay of his hand pil'd he lies ; Fretted by heat of sun he merely twitches, With sleep upon him from his mother's pies ! See, at his feet, a little horn or pipe, Some fragmenls from his meal of clotted cream Ate by himself, and strawberries ripe. Then, run, ye kine, the trampled corn along, And let the young lambs chew The clover's freshest hue! He, in dreams, might join your throng, Ye that graze and ye that munch, Ye that ever in a bunch Feel the gladness of your lunch. Thanks to his father's cane, by which he smarts, Thanks to that cruel arm, those gibes and jeers, To him the keenest woe the blow imparts Foretell that boy will lie too blue for tears.

FROM "A CROPSHlRE BOY" Twice a week 'ere summer mowing

Stood the lad to mind the sheep; Shepherding was mere horn-blowing In the intervals of sleep.

THE CANTUARIAN Twice a week 'ere harvest reaping Out he marched to watch the herd; See the son of blueness sleeping Now in hay interred. Play he will; no harm in playing. Wonder 'tis how little sound Keeps the beasts from straying On another's plot of ground.

A RUBY YET OF MARK I AM Ah, my Boy Loved, raise the Horn that clears The Herd and Flock from Clover and Corn-ears; To-day? 0 why? To-day I might acquit Myself of Yeslerday's sleeping Arrears. But some you watch'd, the loveliest and the best That in your Flock you once possess'd, Have stuff'd their Fill an Hour or two ago, And still the Clover Flowers they graze with Zest. And Sheep that now make merry without Fuss And Kine that stamp the Corn with Impetus, Themselves ere now tbeir wheaty meal of Grain Have made-themselves to make a meal for us. Ah, make the most of Sleep, my Little Friend, Before you from the Load of Hay descend; Day upon Day, Day after Day you lie, Sans Cows, sans Sheep, sans Horn-and sans end.

YOU LISTLESS It little profits that an idle berd,

In this soft hay, in these blue garments drest, Bless'd with an aged horn, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage tribe, That stray and sleep and feed and hear not me. These are my Hocks, and these my horned kine, To whom I leave the corn and clover ripe, Ill~watch 'd of me, discerning to find out Their questings, by slow rambling to make flat The fruits of earth and with rough, ranging feet Subdue it to the useless and the bad, While I lie here. There chew their fill, I sleep. 351

THE CAN T UA RIAN Tho' much is taken, some abides; and tho' It is not now that flower which yesterday Mov ' d me to wake, that which it is, it is : One void expanse of waste bucolic parts Made weak by kine and sheep, but strong in mud. Too bad! Too late! Two nocks! but not two fields. HI! TELL US Boy Blue, my brother, 0 brother Boy Blue. How can thy head be heavy with sleep ? A thousand cows have flitted and fled . What have they found in the corn-field to chew? What have they found in the clover, those sheep? What wilt thou do till the sunlight is sped?

Brother, my brother, 0 light, bright Boy Blue, Thy way is long to the sheep and the kine; But they, fulfi lled of their heart's desi re, Likin g their lunch upon corn that once grew. With braw ny body and rat chaps fine ' Feed their fill with the fruits of thy sire.

a brother, brother, thine ears uncotton. The mouths that munch and the teeth that chew, The crunch of the cows cud-chewing yet, Who hath remembered these? Who hath forgotten ? Thou hast forgotten, 0 bonny Boy Blue; But the beasts will burst ere they forgel.

SHUN POPULARITY Sleep on, Blue Boy; how you pass I see you; let me try and wake you, To-day yo u 've failed us. When from grass You rise, remember this, yo u cake, you; I knew and nam-ed an ass.

Mere fields! not good for cows and sheep! Till beasts come, come to graze and crunch, And trample. Yo u won't do to keep The clover, eaten for their lun-ch, While yo u enjoy yo ur sleep.

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I am a presentable scholar. Quite definitely. Inquisition was made to find enough of my species to form an imposing procession, and after considerable wrangling a nd comÂˇ promise a goodly company was assembled . As it happened, it was an advantage to be presentable, for we had convenient and comfortable seats with a good view of all that happened in the Choir. About an hour before the Service we lined up in a strangely deserted Mint Yard ; the great gate was shu t, a state of affairs which, together wit h the remission of the last period, brought home to the School the full gravity of the situation . As usual, we form ed up outside Sl. Andrew 's Chapel in front of part of the congregation that had already taken tbeir places. They seemed very interested in us. " Those boys in wh ite?" My dear, " they're the King 's Scholars." But we were conscious that it was not us they had come to see. We processed in as dignified a manner as we cou ld (luckily we had been coached) to the Nave. There I was overwhel med by as large a display of clergy as [ have ever seen. While we waited here we were entertained once more by stage wh ispers about o ur identity. Soon we turned and entered the Choir. Once seated we enjoyed an excellent view of the first procession of bishops. Although the crosses which bore the names of their dioceses were most helpful in iden tifyin g them, it was astonishing how man y bishops I recognised from having seen them preach to us or walk thro ugh the Precincts. I was also impressed by four gentlemen in black robes with white Maltese crosses who turned out to be Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Not hing a pproaching a description of them was to be found on the service sheet, however, although the words "King's Scholar " appeared no less than four times, and " the Second Master" twice. The Scholars did miss a certain amo unt, however, as we could see nothing of the processions up the Nave, the trumpeters, and the foreign delegations who were, I a m told, quite fascinating a nd picturesque. During the service I greatly admired the Archbishop 's fortitude as he sat in St. Augustine 's Chair of stone. I was probably much more comfortable, and the canons certainly were, Throughout the service there was unbelievable activity on the Choir Screen . Cameras were going off at all moments, and noisy little affairs they were. Some photographers looked most unofficial, and if I didn't know it to be impossible I 'd have said they were wearing black suits and wing collars! Despite the pagean try and pomp I was disappointed in one thing : Mr. Dimbleby's broadcast was so short that he had no time for the mention of the School and Schola rs which I am sure he would otherwise have made. After the service I had a momentary pang of compassion for the bishops. I remembered all their robes a nd the vast weight of luggage they must have had. But then I remem bered that this was to be handled by King's School boys, and I was comforted. From the stories I have heard about the scenes at Canterbury East Station that evening it seems that I was wrong to dismiss my compassion so lightÂˇheartedly. ' One last word for an archbishop I shall never forget. He came from across the Atlantic and was so determined to have a permanent record of his Lambeth Conference that he brought his cine-camera up the Nave and into the Choir ticking quietly away under his hat. It would have been a clever disguise had we not all seen through it.

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A KENTlSH GENTLEMAN IN THE LONG PARLIAMENT There is no research more fascinating than to attempt to discover what ordinary men and women in history felt about the events of their day. In surveying the past our eyes are inevitably held by the preat and the illustrious, and we are apt to feel accordingly that they are the only true makers of history ; that events are shaped by thelr dynamic wills, and that men and movements arc clay in their hands. Yet there are times when too cl ose an attention to the doings of great men will give unsa tisfactory answers to

basic historica l questions. How was it that Englishmen, having submitted so quietly to the Tudor remodelling of the English Church, became so tetchy when Laud in the [ next century attempted to give that Church a uniformity which had always been the expressed desire of Queen Elizabeth? How was it that a nation-wide hostility to Charles I in 1640 should yet have given way to a strong royalist movement in 1642, and a royalist triumph in 1660 ? The answers to such question s will be found not so much in a study of either the Tudor or the Stuart personalities, but in the little-regarded events of a thousand parishes throughout the country. One aspect of the Great Rebellion is well illustrated by the career of Sir Edward Dering, one of the members for Kent in the Long Parliament. The enigma attached to his name has not been fully solved, a nd historians, finding it difficult to fit him into a pattern of eve nts, ha ve done him some injustice. When James 1 ascended the throne, Dering was

preparing to enter the King 's School; in the later years of his reign he was striving for Court favour. As a connection by marriage with the favourite Buckingham, he received recognition which included a baronetcy and the lieutenancy of Dover Castle. It has always seemed curious that he should have been the choice of the discontented electors of Kent in 1640, that it should have been he who introduced the Root and Branch Bill in May, 1641 "abolishing our present Episcopacy ", and that, having done so, he should so soon have repented of his action, become a royalist, fought for the King, and then been one of the first to make his peace with Parliament in l644, shortly before his death. These apparently are inconsistencies too great for reconciliation, and historians have dealt harshly with him. Clarendon called him ' 'a man of levity and vanity, easily flattered by being commended " , and Hasted obviously merely embroidered upon these words when he said that ' 'the levity of his disposition and at the same time his vanity to display his learning, got the better of his good and loyal principles " . Dorothy Gardiner, in her delightful edition of the Oxen den Letters, has unfortunately carried this even further, by repeating the malicious story that his only motive for introducing the Root and Branch Bill was the opportunity it afforded of showing off his learning by quoting Ovid's "Cuncta prius tentenda sed immedicabile vulnus Ense recidendum est ne pars sincera trahetur. ! ,

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There are two governing facts concerning Dering. The first is that he was by birth a country gentleman. Now the country gentleman of the 16th-1 8th centuries was the man upon whom the political, no less than the economic order, rested. As the props of the Tudor monarchy, no less than as the heirs of the Reformation, they had taken as the price of their loyalty an almost unlimited exercise of local independence. Their sense of individualism, more than anything else, places them in a world which the twentieth century will find it increasingly dimcult to understand . By the early 17th century it had 354

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If the moderation of the scholar alienated him from the Long Parliament, his fastidiousness soon sickened him of the camp and battlefield in the Royalist cause. His library at Surrenden was his spiritual home, and it is not surprising that he seized the first opportunity to return there in 1644, making his peace with Parliament, and compounding for his offences with a payment of ÂŁ 1,000. He died a few months later, before it was paid.

The scholar is no man of action; he shrinks from the destruct ive forces o f revolution.

When the Civil War ensues he stands forth as an episcopal royalist, and is engaged in

Dering was not the vainglorious trifler and ostentatious pedant which historians have since made him, but a scholar and man of moderation, who found to his cost that rational compromise was not in keeping with the mood of the time, and that something more than a knowledge of Gratian and Isador was necessary to make an ecclesiastical statesman. As an example of a 17th century gentleman he has deserved better at the hands of history, for in his career will be found the reasons for many vicissitudes of the period. His hostility to the Stuarts and above all to Laud in 1640 was common to most country gentlemen who in one way or another had felt their local independence infringed. His rapid alienation from the Long Parliament and its deeds was equally common when it was realised that its tyranny was infinitely greater than that which any Stuart could have imposed. Finally, in common with other Royalists of the day, he lacked both the discipline and the resolution to fight long for the King. But so general were his sentiments that, as representative of his age, he is more important than a Strafford or a Prynne. R .W.H.

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THE TALE OF ONE-EYED PETE You may not know

How long ago There lived a sailor bold. Wis name was One-eyed Pete, they say, And many 1 know have rued tbe day They happened to cross his wicked way In the bad old days of old. If yo u've hea rd the tale you will perhaps Forgive this very slight relapse And hear the thing re-told. The talc is, ] rather fear (Thou[ h no doubt yo u' ll be glad to hear), Unmentionably moral. Becuse this tale sets out to treat With how they scotched poor One-eyed Pete And left him in deserved defeat On an island made of coral. It does not touch, I am afraid, On wicked plots all thickly laid, On dread explot or escapade, On long vendettas cruelly paid, Such very gruesome things are made To form another's laurel. Now we must leave this evil one Bask ing in Pacific sun, And deftly turn to something that's Very different- namely RATS. Now yo u must know the species Rat Has man y a different habitat. Some prefer the healthy way, And in the garden make their stay. While others, mousy creatures they, Prefer to make their sportive play While in the house from day to day. While others of a hardy cast Spend their years before the mast. And many a tale could be told Of their ravages in the hold. Now One-eyed Pete, all steeped in sin, Had berthed his ship The Sculling Grin - I beg your pardon, that annulI mean, of course, The Grinning Skull. And from the town with mighty din The rats queued up to enter in, For on this admirable ship They hoped for an instructive trip. But finding that the rats at large Were far too many for the barge,

They held a contest to decide The rals who were to go inside. T hose rats whose teeth were sharp enough To gnaw through planks however tough Into the ship were then allowedThey made indeed a goodly crowd. Then Pete returned when it was day And on his ship sa iled far away. It happened as in casual play, Being rather bored, they say, He made two prisoners walk the plank, And idly watched them as they sank, And having nothing much to do He counted as there rose to view The bubbles from the drowning two. As he, by fai ling bubbles guided, At last regretfully decided Undoubtedly the pair were dead, A cannon ball sped past his head. Whereat, with righteous indignation, He cursing dashed towards his station . His eyes all cruel to behold Became the Pirate 's, bloody-bold, And fla shing forth unwonted fire Kindled by his burning ire, And in his heart the dread desire For deeds all terrible and dire! The cannons roared, The bullets poured Like rain upon the decks. A funera l pyre Of raging fire Consumed the sin king wrecks. And One-eyed Pete Once more defeat Had thus inflicted on the fleet. But little did he know Below The rat cargo, To while away the time, with zest Had entered on a new contest, To settle which rat's teeth were best. They gnawed and gnawed Through wooden board And with unmitigating gnaw They made a hole right through the floor ; And in the water poured.

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ARGOSY FROM CARTAGENA The great galleon dipped and swung through the gentle sea . A spice-wind filled the sails and spoke of forests and of islands, of oranges and gay macaws. The full , low moon hung over the Caribbean and the stars like steady lanterns in the blue dome of heaven. The sea spread out like some rich silken cloth, black and silver. The night had come suddenly, as always in the tropics; a blaze of red light, a dying glory, and a sword of green lit up the darkening heaven as the sun sank under the sea. The ship slipped on through the night, none upon her decks but the helmsman, the sa ils dark above her and the sea dark below her. The little islands fell astern and now and then timber creaked or a rope flapped in the wind, that strong steady wind that blew half-across the world, to speak of strange climes and barbarous nations, and pagan rites upon an unknown shore.

In the great cabin full red velvet curtains masked the great windows in the stern. There was silver on the table and dishes that stea med of rich meats and pungent spices. The white cloth was stained by wi ne from an overturned goblet, wine red as blood, dripping slowly to the carpet, drop by drop. The captain was engaged in getting drunk. The diseases of the tropics had him fasl. He was rotten with malaria. Every evening he locked himself in the great cabin and drank to drive out the black melancholy. The full ripe Canary flattered his throat and the bottles emptied . Still the black devil in him clawed at his heart and the black vapours went to his brain. There rose again before him the steam of the swamps and he dreamed of the gold he had gone so far to win. All vanity, and yet, as the wine fi lled him, he felt a heady triumph. There were emeralds and gold and jewels of every colour and fire in the hold . He had found the EI Dorado for which he had risked his slender fortune and his life, and he had brought out again from that green hell all that he so ught and the black devil with whom he battled, the despair and the miasma which clung to him, things that not all the vintage of the Ca nary Isles might drown, nor any fruit of the grape lull to forgetfulness. Before his bewildered eyes the gilded fantasy of the carven stern-post writhed and turned; the dragons and the lizards came to life, twisting in their evil agony. He drew the hangings and looked out at the northern star, full and bright in the firmament. The night was oppressively hot. 359

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A cloud passed across the moon, and the stars dimmed, flickered and were snuffed out. The north star, once to the right of the port, seemed to swing to the centre and back again . The drunken stupor passed from his mind. The motion of the ship was different. No stead y forging ahead was now to be felt, but an idle drifting. The helmsman was asleep against the wheel; the crew were asleep beneath lhe deck; Ihe sea was asleep beneath the wind. The captain stood at the window of the great red cabin with Ihe sIal' swingin g lazily across lhe heavens. His despair rose up and held him capli ve. The little devil whispered, " After all, what is life? " The ship drifted on in the lee of the wind, the ca ptain slood at the window and watched the northern star. At lhe hour when all was still , when hardly the sea dared whisper to the resplendent night, the ship, deep laden with such precious cargo, struck rock upon the windward side of a savage and a desert isle. Those who escaped the sea and the surf upon the ragged shore fell victims to the barbarians and cannibal inhabitants. Never was such orgy and such feasling known , never did such precious spoil fall to the lot of the savage. The captain slept in the clear deep and his soul answered not to the judgement of heaven; his little black devil devoured it. The crew paid the penalty of those who die unshrived and the Santa Ursula never saw again the port of Cadiz. The cruel gold remained to lure other men on and to entrap other souls and the northern star watched on serene and unchangeable in .the firmament. J.E.M.L-S.

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TEMPTATION It was hot in the examin ation room. The Greek Prose we were supposed to be translating was fa r more complex than we had ever anticipated, even in our deepest depths of pessimism. And suddenly I realised the opportunity that Fate had put in my way. It would solve all my difficulties, and although I might have twinges of conscience for the rest of my life, it would be worth it. In front of me, worked one Greystone tertius, a youth three years my junior in age, physique and common sense but three years my superior where the translating of Greek Proses was concerned. By leaning forward when the invigitator wasn't looking I could ... .

And then doubts assailed me again and I shuddered at the hideous consequences which might be my lot if my crime was discovered. Only last term, even within my feeble memory, Smith minor had been expelled for what I now contemplated doing. Visions of outraged, disappointed parents rose in my now demented mind, but the Greek Prose was so unexpectedly difficult that I had to carry out my evil intentions, even if it meant searing my soul for ever with an irreparable black stain. So making sure 1 was unobserved I leaned forward and released my fu ll fountain penful of ink down Greystone's immaculate wing collar ! R.G.S.

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Date May 15 May 22 June 5 June 8 June 16 June 23 June 29 3 July 8 July July 10 Ju ly 13 July 17 July 24

XI FIXTURES Rut/.r for 130 79 80 136 73 110 fo r 8 97 fo r 8 90

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Royal Marines, Deal Buccaneers Eastbourne College Incogniti Highgate School King's College School, Wim bledo n Forty Club Eton Ramblers St. Lawrence M.C.C. St. Lawrence Col lege, Ramsgate Band of Brothers

Home Home Home Homc Hi ghgate

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BATTING AVERAGES Highest Aggrcga tc score

P. J. Walker .......... ... .... .. ........ .. .. 202 J. H. Pegg.... .............. .. ...... .. .... .. .. 91 J. R. Allchurch ...... .... ........ .. ....... 91

G. W. Hackett.................. ... .... .. ..

I. F. Black.. .. ............ ................. P. M. Benham..............................

62 68

J. L. Forsey. ................. ....... .... .. .. . 73 J. M. Skinner ...... .,.............. . .. .. ..... 21 B. E .

Lee................ .. ................. ..

T. T. Morgan.......... .......... .. ........ 24 C. H. Williams......................... ... 9 J. R. Gibson.... .. ... ..... ........ ... .. .. .. 3

A. M. Decon............ .. ........ .. .. .... .

D, J, Snoxall .. " ......................... . 361

Times Not Out

24 34 21· • 30 19' 19 20 13 8 6 3 4 I'

2 2

Innings Average

9 9 9 4 7 8 9 3 9 7 3 3 2

22.4 10. 1 10.1 9.7 8.8 8.5 8.1 7.0 6.1 3.4 3.0 3.0 2.6 0.5

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I . F. Black...... .. . _ J. L. Forsey" .... . , 1 P. M. Benham .... 1 P. J . Wa lker .... ... _

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910 914 235 88

31 21 9

49. 1 148 39 14

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41 23 6 2

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419 450 104 57

10.2 19.6 17.3 28.5

RETROSPECT This has been rather a dismal term ; the weather has been poor, the School eleven weak. We Just managed to beat Eastbourne and King's College School, Wimbledon, bUI were deCISively defeated by Highgate after an excellent display of fielding and some good bowlIng on our part. There is little to say of the battinl\. Walker alone has looked like making many runs but lime aner time he has thrown hIS wicket away throu gh rea l carelessness; for the rest It was a consta nt processIOn. Black has bowled admirably and with great persistence. He has bowled off-spinners, usua ll y, from round the wicket, and lO the nme matches played so far has taken 41 wickets. For~ey has bowled well at times, though often too short, but has been handicapped by havlOg to bowl too much. Pegg, in his first 'season as a wicket-keeper, has been very good indeed and should develop 1I1to a keeper of lugh class. He has captained an inexperienced side with patience and thought, a nd It IS to hIS credit that I can report that the fie lding of the eleven has been lI vely and good throughout. After last year's casual efforts in the field it has been a pleasure to watch them. !

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1ST XI MATCHES

KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v ROYAL MARINES, DEAL (Home) The eleven started well; Walker, Pegg and Benham played well and hit the ball with vigour. The School bowling was moderate a nd the fielding inadequate.

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Campbell, run out.. ........... "..... .................

J. R. Allchurch, Ibw, b Day......... ..... .. . 10 P. 1. Walker, b Day...... ............................ 41 J. L. Forsey, b Day................ .. ............... 6 1. H. Pegg, 1bw, b Day.......... .................... 24 B. E. Lee, b Day.. ........ .. ...... .................. 1 t. F. Black, b Chare.... ........ ....................... 3 T. T. Morgan, b Day.................. ... ..... ..... . 4 C. H. Williams, c Wallace, b Day........ 0 P. M. Benham, not OUt................ ............. 19 C. B. Manning-Press, b Day.. ...... .... ..... .... 12 A. M. Decent, c Fortune, b Chafe.. ...... ....... 4 Extras............ ........... ...... 6

Fortune, b Forsey ......... .. .......................... II Morris, c AUchurch, b Manning·Press........... , 25 Day, run out.... ....................................... 22 Millel', b Black........................... 3 2 Denyer, not out.. ...................... ., ........ Franklin} Chare D id not bat. Wallis Extras..................... ............ ...... ... .... II

130

Total (7 wickels) ............... ............ 128

Tola1. ....... ............................ .

Robson, Ibw, b Forsey............. ................. Bellamy, b Walker... .

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KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v BUCCANEERS (Home) Black and Forsey bowled well and were supported by moderately good fielding. The last wicket added 60 runs, thanks to splendid hitting by Sampson. Only Walker made runs for King's and he threw his wicket away. KING'S SCHOOL

J. R. Allchurch, Ibw, b Cowan. P. J. Walker, c Ratcliffe, b Skipp......... ........ J. L. Forsey, Ibw, b Tebbs...........................

BUCCANEERS

3 4 7 6 4 7 4

R. E. Sanders, Ibw, b Forsey............... 22 C. W. Moore, b Forsey....... .. 11 H. M. Holman, b Black ........ ".......... ........... 11 S. B. Durnford, c Forsey. b Benham............ 10 D. Fitzgerald, b Forsey................. ... ............ 3 A. Ratcliffe, c Morgan, b Black................... 32 P. L. Cowan, b Black......... ........................ 38 M. Fenez, b Forsey................................... I R. W. Sampson, c Walker, b Benham............ 61 R. C. Skipp, b Forsey.................. .. .... .. .. .. ... 2 R. H. Tebbs, not out............... .................... 2 Extras.......... . .................................... 4

Total....................... ... ............... 78

TotaL .... ........................ ............ 197

1. H. Pegg, b Tebbs.................... .. ............. P. M. Benham, b Cowan.......... ....... ... ... ..... B. E. Lee, b Skipp................. ............ .. ...... T. T. Morgan, c Sampson, b Tebbs........ ...... I. F. Black, b Skipp........................... ...... C. H. Wi lliams, c and b Tebbs... ................ A. M. Decent, c and b Skipp........ ...... ........ C. B. Manning·Press, not OUt............... ....... Extras....................... .......................

Forsoy............ ....... Black.... .............. . Benham ...... ............ Watker.................

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KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY" EASTBOURNE COLLEGE (Home) · Walker hit freely to ~core 22, but, apart from Pegg and Forsey, who seemed set for hIgher scores, the remallltng batsmen were afraId to attack the bowling and the S h I w~re all out before .Iunch. Eastbo urne started confiden tly, but excellent bowli;g Bl"ck, who took 8 wIckets (a ll bowled) for 27, enabled the School to win a close finisJ!.

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J. R. Allchul'ch, c Ravenscroft, b Lomax... P. J. Walker, b Brown........... .... ................. L. Forsey, c Fisher, b Brown....... ............ p' H. Pegg, c Grey, b Brown........ ........ ... .... · M. Benham, b·Brown....... ...... T. T. Mo rgan, b Brown.. ........ ............ G · W. Hackett , c G rey, b Lomax..... ...... E. Lee, c Brown, b Lomax.......... ....... C F. Black, b Brown.................................. O' ~. Williams, b Lomax......... .... ....... ...... · . Snoxall, not out.. .................. ............ Extras..................... .. .. ... .... ..............

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KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v INCOGNITI (Home) The School batting was feeble. Walker played well and then again threw his wicket away. Skinner played senSIbly a nd showed how to run between the wickets Benham drove well . . The Incognitilost their first wicket at 12, their second at 83 and were all out for 95 r Black bowled IllS off-sp!nners well a nd to a length and deserved his success. He wa~ supported by lIvely fieldtng whIch dId not flag during the long lirst wicket stand. K ING'S SCHOOL

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~. ~ . ~lIf~urch, c Simpson, b Glynn .. .......... 4 · . a er, b Barnett................. ........ .... 30 } L. ForseyJ st Young, b Barnett.. .. ............ 19 · H. Pegg, c Barnett, b Christian............ ..... 7 J. M. Sklnner, b Bennett............ .. ............... 20 B. E. lee, b Christian............... .. .. ............ 8 ~. ~" Hackett, c Christian, b Bennett......... 0 · . Benham, b Christian........................ 18 T. Morgan, Ibw, b Bennett....... .............. 8 3 . F. Black, not out.... ....... ............ ........... .. 0 D . S. SnoxalI , b Bennett... ........ ....... ...... .. ... Extras......... ............... ..... .......... ....... J9

Kennedy. fun aut.... .......... ..... .... 6 r.ickson, fbMofgan, b Black ........ ::::::::: :: :::: 41 Ps0 w, b Black.......................... .. ..... 35 pa~~~d bwpgr Forsey..... ......... .... ....... ........ 1 Giles, c' Mor a~yb·Bi~~· .. ·.. ··· ··.. ····· .. ·.. ·.. ··· 5 :arnett, b .......... .... :::::::::::: ::: ::::::: Sh~l:t~s~e~lalli~ ..b·B.. ·.... ·· .. ···· .. ··.·... .. ·..... 0 Ch '~ I ' , lack .. ............. ...... ...... 0 y nsnan, bw, b Black......... .. .... .... .. ...... ..... 0

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KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY" HIGHGATE SCHOOL (Away) At lunch, Highgate had scored 61 for I wicket, and appeared set fo r a long score. After 3;[ hOllrs' batting they were all alit for 125. T he Kin g's fielding was excellent, the first time the writer had seen a King's cleven field well ; every member was on his toes and never flagged . Black again bowled well. The less said abo ut the batting the better. It was dismal. There had been too much talking before the match about a "demon" left-hand bowler. A good bowler, but no "demon ". Benham went in as if petrified, followed Allchurch's example and played back to half-vo lleys and full tosses, and came out. Allchurch, at least, showed co urage. Hackett struck the ball nobly. H IGHGATE SCHOOL

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4 34 12

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P. J. Wa lker, c Rata, b Cruickshank... .. ... ..... . J. R. Allchurch, c Salter, b Rata... .. .............. J. L. Porsey, b Rata. .. .... .......... ................ J. M. Skinner, b Dodds............................... J. H. Pegg, b Dodds.... ........ ............... ...... .. P. M. Benham, b Dodds............................. B. E. Lee, b Dodds.................................... I. F. Black, c Rata, b Dodds.............. .. ....... T. T. Morgan, c Pryle, b Dodds........... .. .... .. G. W. Hackett, st Cruickshank, b Rata........ O. S. SnoxaH, not out... ............................. . Extras... .......... ..................... .... ... .. ....

Tota!.. .... ............. ... ...... .... .... ..... 125

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Kn ight ley-Smith, c Black, b Forsey... Cooper, lbw, b Black..... Owen, b Benham................. Salter, run out....... ......... Cruickshank, Ibw, b Black.... ... Pryle, Ibw, b Walker............... .............. Rata, c Wa lker, b Black.... ... ............. Rees-Eva ns, run ouL.. .............. .... ........... Cruickshank, not OUt.. .. .......... ...... ........... Dodds, b Black .............. "....... ........ ...... ... Dare, b Black.............. ......... ............. .. ..... Extras............. ..... ...... .... ....... ...........

27 34 18 0 5 18 0 9

Forsey........... ...... .. 22 Black....... .. .......... 28.5 Benham.... .............. 6 Walker....... ....... .. . 2

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KING 'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v KING 'S COLLEGE SCHOOL, WIMBLEDON (Away) This was a dismal match. The Wimbledon batting was very bad, the Canterbury bowling was even worse, and consisted almost entirely of long hops. The Wimbledon bowling was eq ually bad and the Canterbury batting feeble. Walker made some good strokes before he was bowled through playing carelessly. KINO 'S CoLLEGE SCHOOL

Pearce, b Forsey..... ..... ................... Curry, b Forsey.... .. ........... ............... ......... Burton, c Pegg, b Forsey................ Stokes, b Forsey ........... .................... ......... Wood, b Black.... ..................... ............. Springthorpe, b Black.................... ........... Briggs, c Hackett, b Black.. .... ..... Rham, Ibw, b Black........................ .......... Tayler. c Alichurch, b Black............ ... ......... Ambler, b Black...... .. .. .. ............... .... ........ Timberlake, not out........ .............. .... ........ Extras.. ......................... ... ...... ....... ...

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P. J. Walker, b Ambler.................. ............. J. R. Allchurch. c Stokes, b Wood............... .. J. L. Forsey. c Rham, b Wood..................... J. M. Skinner, b Timberlake....................... J. H. Pegg, b Ambler................................. P. M. Benham, c and b Tayler... .. .............. .. . B. E. Lee. b Timberlake...... .......... .. .......... .. . I. F. Black, b Timberlake.. .. ....................... T. T. Morgan, not out.... .............. ............. G. W. Hackett, not out............ .... .. ..... .. ..... D. S. Snoxall, did not bat. Extras............. ..... ........ ..... .. ... .. ... .. .. ..

12 12 15 0 7 23 1 19 5 0 I 13

Total ......... ...................... .......... 108

Forsey................... Black. .. ...... .......... Benham..................

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KING'S SCHOOL, CANTE RBURY v XL CLUB (Home) The wicket wa.s soft and the King 's bowlers bowled far too many lo ng hops-the result, I suppose, of takmg wlCkets wIth them at WIm bledon. H owever, it didn ' t dawn upon them and they went on bowling th em a nd they were st lick mi ghtily by Larkin g. The King 's batting failed utterly until Hackett came in to play o ne of the best and certamly the most courageous innings of the term. K ING 'S S CHOOL

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Boucher, c Lee, b Forsey .. ,... ".......... ....... Evans, c Forsey, b Benham..... ..... ................

5 45

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J. R. Allchu rch, c Longfield , b Cornwallis..... P. J. Walker, Ibw, b Longfield...................... J . L. Forsey, c Pocock, b Cornwallis............ J. H. Pegg, c Crawford, b Gadsly........... ....... 1. F. Black, c Cornwallis b Gadsly P. M. Benham, b Pocock.............. :·.'.'.·::::::::.. .B. E. Lee, b Pocock........ ........................... T . T. Morgan, c Levett, b Cowan........... ..... G. W. H ackett, not ou t..... . D. J. Snoxall } .. .. .. .. J. R. Gibson Did not ba t. A. M . Decent Extras... ...... .. ...

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Crawford, c Hackett, b Forsey................ ... C.owan, c and b Forsey........ ...... .. .... ..........

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Simpson, c and b Black ............... ...... ,........ Hon. F. Cornwallis, not out... .. . .... .... ..

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HOdgeS } Levett Old not bat. Gadsly Extras...... ..... .. ..... .. ................ .... .

Total (8 wickets) ......

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Forsey............. . ..... Black... ...... ..... ..... Benham.. ....... ....... ..

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KING 'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY I' ETON RAMBLE RS (Home) After Walker had been run o ut b y Allch urch, o nl y Pegg and Black played well and the School was soon O?t for 9 0. Aga ll1st so me steady bowling, Corn wa llis and Doyle batted well, the former wIth skIll, the latter wIth luck. Our to tal was passed for the loss of 3 wIckets. The School fielding was good.

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J. R. Allchurch, c Thomas, b Doyle......... 4 P. J. Wa lker, run out.... ........................ . 2 J. L. Forscy, c Hale, b Cornwallis........... 9 J. H. Pegg, Ibw, b Wesl.............. ............... . 22 P. M. Benham, c West, b Cornwallis.......... ... 0 B. E. Lee, st Thomas, b Cavendish................ 7 L F . Black, c Cavendish, b Cornwallis......... . 30 G. W. H ackett, c Bickerstet h, b Cavendish... 0 J. R . Gibson, b Cornwallis........... ............ .. 3 C. H. Williams, not out..................... ....... 3 A. M. Decent, c Thomas, b Cornwall is...... 0 Extras................. .. ....... ........ . ........... 10

Hale, c Lee, b Black......................... II Corn wa llis, c Black, b G ibson .. .. ....... : 48 ~e nne. b Black...... .. ........................ 0 est, b Black... ...... ............... ..... .. ........... 2 D oy le, b F orsey.. ..... ..................... 55 Bickersteth, b Black ......... 5 Cavendish, b .Black.. ............. .. ................. 0 r xha llas, c Williams, b Forsey ................... : 4

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Tota!... ..... ..... , ....... ............ ......... 143

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At the time of going to press the Second Eleven has played three matches. Jun e 8th : K ING 'S SCHOOL, CANTeROURY v SIR ROGeR MANWOO D'S 1ST X l (Away). We lost the loss and were put in to bat. The battin g lacked co nfidence against o nly moderate bowling and in an hour and a half t he side were o ut fo r 33 runs. There was a gleam of hope when the first Manwood wicket fell with no run s o n t he board , but this soon faded and M a nwood wo n by 9 wickets. Ju ne 15th: KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTERBU RY v ST. LAWReNCE COLLEGE, RAMSGATE (Away) We wo n the toss and fielded. T he tea m was full of vigo ur, a complete change from their last effo rt. St. Law rence were stru ggling in the grips of so me accurate bowling by G ibso n, who bowled seven consecutive ma idens, and were soo n o ut fo r 23. We ba tted and Willia ms sco red 31 to enable us to win by 7 wickets. Manning-Press d id t he hat trick for no run s. June 24th : KING'S SCHOOL v KI NG'S COLLEGE SCHOOL, W, MBLE DON (Away) We wo n the toss and fielded. Some good ba ttin g against o nl y moderate bowling enabled K.C .S. to make 95 for 6 and declare. Our battin g failed o nce aga in, except fo r Lock (15), who has been co nsistent at No. 5, and sto pped the rot on two previous occasio ns. School, 51 for 8. The season has bee n o ne of ups and dow ns, with the easy victory over St. Lawrence showing us what co uld be d one, if we put o ur minds to it.

COLTS The Colts have had a moderate seaso n. They bega n well by beatin g King's School , Rochester but lost to St. Law rence, and Dover. T he return match aga inst Dover was cancelled 'and that aga inst Tonbridge aband oned because o f rain. Coggins, Hackett and Partridge were the onl y o nes to score over 20 in an innings. The most successful bowlers were Partrid ge and Cowan, who were a bl y ass isted by Watson and Snoxall . It is a side o f so me promise, but must develop a spirit of greater determinati on a nd attack in battin g and mo re li veliness in the fie ld, in bot h of which aspects they have been set an excellen t exa mple by their captain, Hackett.

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THE BOAT CLUB. At the time of writing the First Boat is unbeaten and has won the Public Schools Challenge Cup at Marlow Regatta for the first time in the School's history. Encouraged by their valuable association with Jesus College, Cambridge, they have been coached in the Fairba irn style of rowing. Members of the College have been down to Fordwich from time to time to give practical demonstrations, and we are most grateful to them for their help. The Second and Third Boats have kept to more orthodox principles. The conversion of all the fours to sliding seats has been completed by our own efforts, and the gift of a new Eton boat for the First Four has ensured that we can at least train in the right kind of boat. The opening race of the season was against HAILEYBURY at Putney. The course was the famous first mile of the University Race, and the coxes received the same careful briefing from the wise watermen. The First Boat went off at a great pace with the new start they had carefully practised and were leading after ten strokes. They continued to spurt until they were a clear length ahead and then settled down to a lively hard paddle that drew them four lengths ahead at the half-way mark. Keeping this lead without difficulty, the School put up the rate of striking for the finish to arrive five lengths up without any signs of exhaustion. This race was a valuable experience for crew and cox ; it proved that sound hard blade-work is what really matters and it revealed to cox that the shortest distance between two points is not always a straight line. The Second Boat had a most exciting race. After a poor start they got the boat moving quickly, caught up with Haileybury and were leading after half a minute. Although leading for the rest of the race, they were challenged from time to time by Haileybury but never allowed them to draw dangerously near. A gallant first race. The EASTBOURNE race was a nightmare. The course at Cuckmere is so tortuous that Eastbourne College will probably admit that it is a test not so much of oarsmanship as guile. The crew that takes its corners fa st will hit them ; but on the 3rd of June there was a howling gale to make quite sure it hit them. We therefore had a quick outing before lunch to learn how to sneak round corners and keep our rowing for the straights. We won the toss and chose back station, to the obvious relief of cox, who vowed to follow the course that Eastbourne took. By good luck and excellent steering we went over the course behind Eastbourne's rudder and were able to prevent their attempt at a getaway in the final straight! We won by three lengths with about twenty gallons of water in the hold. The Second Boat drew front station and had uo difficulty in winning comfortably. Cox is particularly to be congratulated on keeping his boat afloat and out of danger during a terribly protracted delay at the start. Two days later we went to Reading for a three-boat race against TONBRIDGE and READING UNIVERSITY. The First Boat quickly shook off Tonbridge, but Reading were keeping up and an exciting race began in which it seemed that the University Four might be capable of a stronger finish than the School. At the half-way mark, however, the School were still going fast with a long smooth stroke, and were a length and a half up. Helped by cox, who steered a beautiful course, the King's School raced home with three lengths to spare and with Tonbridge some ten lengths behind.

THE CANTUARIAN There was a most exciting race for the Second Boat, for they kept on level terms with Tonbridge for most of the course. Near the fil1lsh, however, they began to row very short in their anxiety, and Tonbnd ge were able to WIl1 by a length and thl ec-quarters, although the Reading boat was beaten by three lengths. On June 15th the School repeated its defeat of TON BRIDGE at Ford,,:ich. The Second Boat had a most exciting race with the resu lt rn doubt unhl the end; It won by half a length after the final spurt. The Third Boat, rowing Its first race, was beaten by three lengths. Then came MARLOW REGATTA , with the Public Schools Fours being rowed on sliding seats for the first time. There to meet us were Mr. and Mrs. Whalley with the warmest welcome that any crew could hope for, and a planned train ing programme that only a rowing fanllly could conceive! After a few outings we had tbe feel of the boat and were content. There was only one worry: our leg drive was now so powerful that we beg~n to hft ourselves off our se~ts and land on the slides ! So we made secret plans to stick our shorts to the seats With cobbler's wax for the race. On Friday afternoon Percy Bullock (the Jesus College boatman and an old friend of ours) appeared on the tow-path and we asked him to have a look at us. He took us two miles over the Marlow course and said he was delighted. We sent a spy to find out what he really thought. He was still delighted. Then one of the Olympic Trial Eights appeared at the Boat House from Henley. We scampered down to greet them and gloat over their day-old boat. When they rowed off back to Henley we photographed their departure-for were there not three O. K.S. III the boat, and two of them Whalleys ? By now the racing had started and we were already studying form. Some cre~s looked dangerously fast, we thought. Others were more encouragin g. All looked terribly large and powerful. We went to bed as nervous as cats and tried to sleep . Hours before breakfast we all awoke. The day's racing was ,to be opened by our heat, and we were drawn agamst CLIFTON, the holders, and MONMOUTH SCHOOL. They all seemed huge and confident. In an agony of nerves that only liars manage to elude we paddled down to the start and sat shivering at the stake-boat until the Umpire's launch purred up and sent us away to an excellent start. The School went off at a great speed, striking nearly 40 to the minute, and were a length 'up after 30 strokes. The rate of striking then went down to a firm easy paddle of 30 and we drew away comfortably to win by 6 lengths from Monmouth, With Chfton another half-length behind. An unnecessanly large margin, perhaps, but a lUmour about two bottles of champagne had gone around and we were taklllg no chances. At eleven a 'clock we were back in bed resting till lunch. [n the semi-final we were drawn against KJNG'S SCHOOL, WORCESTER" a heavy crew that had already beaten Haileybury and Eastbourne that morOlng. But It was the Same story over again. Soon after the start there was an unpleasant moment wh~n

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RESULTS PIRST FOUR

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TENNIS SUMMER TERM, 1948 1ST VI 1ST PAIR: 1. L. R. Burt, !' M. Osborn . 2ND PAIR. -D. A. Batten, P. Watson. 3RD PAIR.- J. L. Lyon, I. D . Waterfall. The team started a little shakily but I t ' h . by E. Gaye, Esq., and constant practic~,eitt?l~p~~~:~O~o~~~~~!~tome excellent coaching In the first match agail t C t b L y. the ball is of very great v~lue. a~~r a~~\oÂˇT,CÂˇt w~ were taught t ha t the art of placin g plIlg 0 ave a return ID the near future and expect to show improved form. b . In the first round of the Gla nville C u p, wte eaht SImon Langton, but un avoidably had to scratch from the second round oWlllg 0 a c ange III the dates The event of the term was the lSI d 2 d VI' .' which resulted in a draw. The standa r~llof t~ t s matches agamst Benenden School, was a great success. e enlllS was extremel y hIgh and the match AsEastbourne. the term went on the VI bega n t 0 p Iay extremely well as pairs, and beat both Felsted and d The 2nd Pair have been awarded thei C I consistently well throughout the term. r 0 ours, an are to be congratulated on playing We are sending a team up to la . th P bl' a t the end of term, and many olll/a~~ en~eri~ S~~oo~Sh Tournament at Wimbledon round off a very good term of Tennis. g r e a mplOnshlps at Queen's, to

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PUBLIC SCHOOLS HOCKEY FESTIVAL The Hockey XI took part in the Hocke F ti I Oxf . Trinity College and were royally entertain{d ~ va at t .o rd thIS year. We stayed at the pouring rain, against Uppingham to h' ur mos enjoyable match was played in st dId not really get together un til our ~atc: a~:::n;;e ~-I . Thhe team, due to injuries, match was played on Keble Colle . er orne, w Jeh we won 5-2. This for some very fast hocke The le ground, whIch was a really lovely pitch and allowed Trinity for their very kin~' hosPita~rtOy OtloWoudld hke to take thIS opportunity of thanking us urlng our stay at the College. IVOR BURT

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THE ATHLETIC SPORTS MARCH 27TH AND . 29TH The Athletics were held at the end of the Easter Term in weather marred only by a heavy wind. Six new records were esta blished a nd one equalled. The wind on the fiJ st day made it impossible to count the times in the sprint events ; but on the following day, conditions having improved, the individual winners of these events re-ran and successfully established new records. Open 440 Yards : 1. F. Black, 53.2 secs. Middle 100 Yards : D. S. Ellis, IO.S secs. Junior 100 Yards : T. lrlam, 11.5 sees. The three open sprint events were won by 1. F. Black ; in the 100 Yards he set up a new record of 10.3 secs. In the longer races, Barwell won the Mile from Steel and in the Half-Mile Allchurch won from Barwell. Pegg won the Hurdles and Weight, but lost to Burt in the Discus. The ' High Jump showed improvement on previous years, all nine fi nalists remaining in at 5 feel. Perhaps the outstanding performance was Hewson 's in winning the Junior High Jump at 4 fl. St in. The Ho use Competition developed into a close struggle between Meister Omers and the Gra nge, which the former eventually one. Tha nks are due to all those members of tbe Staff who gave their time a nd assista nce to make both days a success.

RESULTS- FIRST DAY 440 YARDS SENIOR (Record D. M-Lewis 53.4 sees., 1946).- lst, Black (M.O.); 2nd,

Wenban (M.O.) ; 3rd, Watson i (S.H.) ; 4th, Ellicott (M.O.) ; 5th, Endersby (S.H.) ; 6th, Hill (M.O.). Time,' 55.2 secs. HIGH JUMP JUNIOR (Record 4 fl. 5t in., P. R. Phillips, 1946): 1st Hewson (G.) ; 2nd, Taylor i (W.) ; 3rd, Agnew ii (G.) ; 4th, Bennion (S.H.). Height ,' 4 fl. st ins. (Record). 100 YARDS MIDDLE (Record 11 ' 1 secs., J. Corben, I. Black. J. W. Allison.- Ist, Ellis ii (W.); 2nd, Nicholas (M.O.); 3rd, Huntington (S.H.); 4th, Pedder (G.). Time: IO'S secs. (Record). SSO YARDS JUNIOR (Record 2 mins. 26·6 secs., J. Jackson, 1946).- lst, Young ii (G.) ; 2nd Agnew ii (G.) ; 3rd, Smith ii (M.O.) ; 4th, RatHe (G.). Time ,' 2 min. 27 sees. DISCUS SENIOR (Record 99 fl. 10 in., M . A. Arnott, 1945).- lst, Burt (S.H.) ; 2nd, Pegg (G.) ; 3rd, Lyon (W.) ; 4th, Reed (M.O.) ; 5th, Douet (G.) ; 6th, Porter (M.O.). u ngth,' SO fl. 3 in. 220 YARDS SENIOR (Record 23-8 secs., D. B. Ainsworth, 1946).- l st, Black (M.O.) ; 1 2nd, Wenban (M.O.) ; 3rd, Allison (W.), Ellis (W.) ; 5th, Burt (S.H.) ; 6th, Hill (M.O.). Time ,' 25·2 sees. LoNG JUMP MIDDLE (Record 17 ft. 6 in., G. A. Roblin, 1946).- l st, Simpkins (W.); 2nd, Mann (G.) ; 3rd, Noye (W.). Length,' 15 fl. I in. HURDLES SENIOR (Record 15'S sees., G. Willsdon, 1938). -l st, Pegg (G.) ; 2nd, McMillan (L.) ; 3rd, Barwell (S.H.) ; 4th, D enton (S.H.) ; 5th, Birkett (W.) ; 6th, Fraser (G.). Time ,' 17.6 sees. 100 YARDS JUNIOR (Record 11·5 secs., M. J. Howett, 1946).-lst, Irlam (S.H .) ; 2nd, Coupe (W.) ; 3rd, Hackett (L.) ; 4th, Clegg (G.) ; 5th, Coggins (S.H.). Time,' 11.5 sees., (Equal Record .)

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HIGH JUMP MIDDLE (Record 5 ft. 2 in., P. Burgess, 1945). -lst, Elliss ii (W.) ; 2nd, Ri gden (W.) ; 3rd, Snoxall i (L.) ; 4th, Lee (M.O.). Height: 4 ft. 9t m. 220 YARDS JUNIOR (Record 27·8 secs., I.F. Black, G. E. Morgan , 1945-46).-lst, Irlam (S .H.) ; 2nd, Coupe (W.) ; 3rd, Agnew (G.) ; 4th, Armstrong (M.O.) . TlIlle: 27· 1 sees., Record. RELAY SENIOR (Record I min . 39 secs., Black, Bearcroft, Cartwright, Wenban, 1946).1st. S.H. ; 2nd, W. ; 3rd, M .O. ; 4th, G. ; 5th, L. TlIlle: I mm. 39·5 sees. FINAL POINTS M.O. 270, G. 267t, S.H. 256t, W. 244t. L. 162. OMISSION The following results were obtained on the 28th March, when certain events were re-run : -

440 YARDS OPEN.-I. F. Black, 53·2 secs., Record. 100 YARDS JUNIOR.- T. Irlam, 1l·5 sees., Equal Record. 100 YARDS MIDDLE.-D. S. Ellis, 10·8 sees., Record. OPEN Dlscus. -J. H. Pegg, 99 ft. 2 in. The following Colours were awarded : 2ND COLOURS.-J. D. Barwell, J. H . Pegg, D. S. Ellis. R. O. A. Norris. 1ST COLOURS.- 1. F. Black.

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ARCHERY CLUB The Archery Club has resumed its activities this term and Sunday evening shoots have been held on the Green Court by the Club members. The Club membership has been restricted to fifteen, partly because it has been found inadvisable to reduce the annual SUbscription from five shillings and also because of the lack of equipment; for the Club atlhe moment po~sesses only two bows and targets and a limited number of shafts, other than the members own. When the Club was inaugurated last year the Archdeacon of Maidstone very kindly presented us with a magnificent bow and a set of shafts, a memento of hIS VISIt to Amenca. Since then a further set of shafts has been given to the CI~b by another kmd donor, but it is to be hoped that any old boys. who hav~ archery equIpment for whICh they have no further use, will consider making a presentatIOn to the Club. We owe a debt of gratitude to our President, Mr. C . W. Ward, for the time and trouble he has spent, both in constructing for us much-needed eqUIpment and teachll1g us how to

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CORNWALL AND WHAT WE OWE IT After this term there will be few, if any, of us left who remember life in the School, in Cornwall, well. Those of us that leave this term may think ourselves lucky that we have been able to spend the better part of our school days back here in Canterbury helping to bring about the rebirth of the School in its old home. But the School has changed since pre-war days and, from conversations with O.K.S., it is certain that the change is for the better. The School is the same in character but the principles on which it runs have become broader and more sympathetic. Cornwall is where we must look for this change. To most of us, Cornwall is remembered as a most unschool-like existence in a land capable of warmth but more often producing wind and rain. Most clearly remembered of all are such things as Chapel in the garage, the long walk to the classrooms on the beach, monotonous stretches of bleak cliff and the never ending cries of the seagulls. Yet, despite the discomforts and isolation, we remember those days with affection. But Cornwall was more than that, for it was in that exile that the seed of democracy sown by the Headmaster wben he arrived in 1935 took, fa)" the first time, a firm root and, despite opposition, started to grow into the sturdy plant it is to-day. This growth may be traced in The Canluariall, tbe Captain's beating book, and other places as well. It seems strange and Âˇironical tbat this sbould happen when the School was so far from home; but it speaks for the rightness of the Headmaster 's ideas that they struck home without his continual fostering; and where else could they have flourished so quickly but away from home ? The School at home lived a life bound up with tradition; and, in the atmosphere it had known for so many hundreds of years, would be loath to cbange; but down in Cornwall, when the old-stagers of Canterbury days had gone, the atmosphere went and the traditions alone remained as treasured links between the School and Canterbury. Then the fu ll force of democratic thought asserted itself and the School was potentially changed. When we came back from Cornwall the dangers of democracy were showing themselves and one wondered if thc rule of "the stick" had not been right. Theri it was that tradition showed its value. Our old customs again became known, appreciated and respected. Now the School is democratic in principle and, with its traditions, retains its character, the character of the oldest school in England. Let us always remember then, that whatever Cornwall did for us as individuals, or in whatever light we may remember it, as members of the School we owe it an eternal debt. AN ANONYMOUS LEAVER

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J.T.C. NOTES The Summer Term is always a full one for the J.T.C., and this year has been no exception. The weather has been kind 10 us, and nothing has had to be cancelled on that account. The Annual Inspection took place on June 10th, a Field Dayan June 24th and the Certificate' 'A " Examination on June 29th. ' The Inspecting Officer was Bri~adier F. Y. C. Knox,. D.S.O. , Deputy Commander, Home Counlles DIstrict; the contlllgent was paraded for IIlspection on Birley's and after the in spection, carried out a march-past which was quite well done. The Band played the General Salute, and for the march-past, and acquitted themselves very well. After that the contingent carried on with normal training, wh ile Brigadier Knox went round wiU; the O.C. and visited all the platoons. The report on the Inspection has not yet come in bul the Brigadier verbally expressed the opinion that it was "a n excellent show" . ' The Field Day took place I~ear Deal, and was run by the Depot Royal Marines, Deal, and was a very pleasant and lIlstructive change rrom the usual exercise. The contingent less 2 PI. who were doing Certificate "A" training, went by train to Martin Mill, and marched a short dista nce to the training area. The exercise took the form of a mopping up operation of a supposed island off the coast of Malaya, named "Kuala Cantuar". After an unopposed beach landing, "A" Company advanced through thick country to occuPY, objectives about a mile "i nland ", and when these were attained, " 8" Company, whIch had followed up, moved forward over more open ground to the final objectives on the (actual) eastern coast. The platoons were well commanded and the sections in general well led ; it was unfortunate that two sections on the right and a whole platoon on the left, had no enemy to engage, but such is war. One section of the latter platoon was heavily engaged by the platoon on its flank : such is not war, though it has been known to occur. The Royal Marines then provided an excellent meal in the open, and after a rest, the contlllgent marched back to the station and soho me. The Signals worked generally well throughout the exercise; wireless communication was maintained all through in "A" Company, and most of the time in "B" Company. There was a tendency for platoon commanders to lose their Signal Sections, and this needs watching. Altogether the day. was a very pleasant change, and our thanks are due to Captain Maude and hIS assIStants of the Royal Mannes for a very well-planned exercise. We hope it will be possible to have another later on. The Certifica te " A" candidates were very successful ; all passed, in Part I and Part [[. Under the new grading, V = 85 per cent., W = 70 per cent. and X = 50 per cent. and in Part I there were 14 W 's and 8 X's, and in Part rr there were two V's (Brown and Hill), 4 W's and 16 X's. The absence of any failures at all is, we believe, a record. The Band has been dpiTIg very good work, and is now quite a presentable part of the Corps, and is evidently going on to even better things. Cadet Gibson has taken over Drum- Major from L/Cpl. Lewis, and Cpl. Cockman is the most experienced bugler and all three have put in much hard work. ' Next term the J.T.C. will become part of the Combined Cadet Force, which means that we shall have an Air Training Corps section, and, it is hoped, a Sea Cadet section also. Mr. R. H. Prior will run the former and Mr. C. W. Ward the latter. All cadets remain in the Basic section till they have passed Certificate "A", Part I, and then they can join whichever of the three services appeals to them, subject to some regulation of numbers,

THE CANTUARIAN and the necessity to keep platoon and section commanders in the Basic section. This should greatly increase the breadth of inlerest in the Corps, which is lhe keynote of the present administration of it. Certificate .. A" The following passed Part I in March, 1948 :C. Anderson, J. R, Bearn, R. M. V. Beith , D. r. Campbell , A. M. Decent, R, Drage, R. H. Howie, P. R. S. Jackson, R. J. Jackson, M. F. Moffatt, J. Moor, J. R. O. Nicholas, J, H. Partridge, P. R. Phillips, R. B. Rycland, J. Valentine, P. W. C. Wi lcox.

The following passed Part II in March, 1948 :P. C. F. Bassett, D. A. Batten, B. M. Birnberg, B. F. Buswell, P. M. Cockman , H. O. Grainger, E. J. Hockly, D. B. Holden, J. D. Hurdle, M. D. Lambert, C. A. Laurence, E. K, Lewis, j. A. McMillan, J, H. Pegg, J. M. Rothery. J. P. M. Simpson, C. Smith, A. T. Stafford.

The following passed Part I in June, 1948 :W.-D. R. Barber, C. M. Brennan, A. Davis, R. G. C. Davy. A. M. Easty. B. H. Edwards, J. M. Johnson, G. Millar-Watt, P. J. S. Murray. D. G. Ommanney, A. B. Pollok, M. W. J. Rigde n, J. A. G. Stonehouse, H . R. W. Wilde. X.- D. S. Ellis, D. F. Gosden , J. C. A. Lock, D. T. L. Rees, T. A. O. Rising, J. R. Stainer, R. M. Streeton, I. D. Waterfall .

The following passed Part II in June, 1948 :V.- J. M. Brown, I. D. Hill. W.- c. A. Chariton, M. E. Dawe, J. P. Trowsdale, I. Fowler. X.- R. D. J. Agnew, H . C. Bedingfield, J. A . B. Denton, C. R. DOUCI, P. J. Ellicott, I. A . Fraser, M. J. Huntington, C. Napier, J. R. O . Nicholas, C. J. Phillips, R. W. G. Reed, J. A. Russell , J. H. T. Shaw, B. A. Tomalin, P. W. C. Wilcox, C. H. P. Williams.

Promotions The following promotions were made with effect from 30th April, 1948 :_ Sgt. C. M. Reeves to be C.Q.M.S.; L/Sgt. J. R. Allchurch to be Sergeant ; Cp!. P. A. FyfcMCooper to be LanceMSergeant; L/Cpl. J. L. Cunnington to be Corporal ; Cadets H. O. B. Graingcr, P. M. Cockman, E. J. Hockly, J. P. M. Simpson , J. A. McMillan, D. B. Holden, D. A. Batten, P. C. F. Bassett, C. A. Laurcnce, J. M. Rothery, B. M. Birnberg, E. K. Lewis, H. D. Lambert , J. H. Pegg, B. F. Buswell, J. D . Hurdle, A. T. Stafford, C. Smith to be LanceMCorpol'als.

The following promotions were made with effect from 10th June, 1948:Cpls. T. L. G. Hamilton and R. G. White to be LanceMSergeants ; L/Cpis. T. A. Watson , C. A. Laurence and J. D. Hurd le to be Corpora ls.

SCHOOL LIBRARY We have pleasure in acknowledging gifts from the following and in thanking them :_ Major Jervis; and Messrs. R. M. S. Cork (0. K.S.), T. A. Watts (O.K.S.), F. H . C. Harris (Bursar), J. H . Page, A. J. Holley, P. C. V. Lawless (O.K.S.), J. M. BOlibol ; and Col. E. W. Leak-ey ; and the members of Luxmoore House. A welcome addition this term has been the daily appearance of The Times. Those who are leaving are reminded of the tradition of presenting a volume to the Library at their departure. The Headmaster has purchased some of the late C. E. Woodruff's library for the School. 378

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LECTURES On the afternoon of Friday, 19th March, the School was privileged to hear the Rt. Hon. Lewis Silkin, Minister of Town and Country Planning, give a talk on the problems with which his Ministry deals. Particular interest was aroused, as the School had not long ago witnessed the rejection of a controversial plan for the rebuilding of Canterbury itself. Mr. Silkin deplored the increasing "dreariness" of the towns; even Oxford and Bath, he said, though having some fine houses, were spoilt by their poorer aspects. He explained to us the slow process by which England has slowly and surely been made less beautiful than she was and III many places has rendered the countrysIde almost suburban. The gradual encroachment of the cities on vir!!in country through the !,ot,?rIOUS ribbon development; the rapid increases In the populatIOn of the towns, resulti!,g !n the emergence of the slum areas, a blot thatmust so~ehow be WIped away; the laXIty In the last few,generations in not sternly refusmg anything whIch does not conform wIth theIr basic standards of good taste, resultin!! in bungalows, advertiseme!'t hoardings, and monstrosities which we were assured eXIst, called bungalOlds ; all thIS and much more show the decline in the beauty of the country. The remedy said Mr. Silk in, was twofold. In the first place, he said, it is the duty of his ministry t~ see that those towns which have already started on their path of decline are halted in that progress. Secondly, that In all new towns, and whenever bombed areas are rehabilitated, such possibilities should be strIctly guarded agaInst. The School asked many questions on slum areas and the like, and shewed great appreciation throughout Mr. Silkin was thanked in the traditional way. His talk was a masterpiece of clear, logIcal exposItIOn; and everyone was .tremendously Impressed by the grasp which the Minister had of his ollice and by the kindly charm of hIS manner. DR. DONALD SOPER It was with very great pleasure that the School heard once again, on May 7th, the Rev. Dr. Donald Soper. It was just over a year ago that Dr. Soper last spoke to us: consequently the majority of the School were more than eager to hear what he had to say. We were not disappointed. Dr. S?per IS one of the outstandmg orators of the day: no one who has heard him speaking m Hyde Park or on Tower Hili wIll deny that; and he at once mastered the acoustics of the Chapter House, that most difficult of all places for a speaker. Dr. Soper's theme was the vital importance of the immediate adoption of Christianity by the modern materialistic world. He said that the only really VItal force to be seen !n this age is Communism, because people behev~ 10 Its purpose and It sets out certam ideals for men and women to grasp and on whIch they can buIld some sort of planned life. The tragedy is that Communism is purely a creed for the material world and that its ideals can never be realised through practical Communism. It has turned to nothlllg more than a desire for power and for material gain. The only possible Savio~r .of the world is Jesus Christ: the only possible remedy for our present SItuatIOn, Chrlstiamty. This should be the living force manifest in the world, and it is the duty of every man and woman who is a Christian to set forth their doctrine in practice in their everyday lives. We have a photograph of God ill Jesus Christ: let us then follow His example, and, in doing so, rekindle the flame of Christianity in a very Pagan world . 379

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Questions were immediate and provocative, ranging from the schism in the Church of England to the Church Co uncil on the atomic bomb, and Dr. Soper dea lt ad mirably with them all (especially the la tter, to the o bvious amusement of the School !) . We camc away at nine-thirt y with the memories of a most in spiring and important evening. MR. BERNARD MILES By thi s visit Mr. Bel'llard Miles renewed the friends hip that he established with the School, when durin g the Festival Week, last summer, he played the lead in the Festival Play. He chose as the title for his lecture, "Films", a subject whieh is guaranteed to command immediate attention. He said he was not going to bother so much about the technical aspects of the industry, as he knew very little about it, but ratber he would deal with the subject from the actor's point of view. He described a day in the life of an actor, taking himself as the model. He said that normally he would get up in the morning at about half-past five, and be at the studio by half-past seven, here he would spend anything up to three hours in the make-up studio. Mr. Miles used the script of Greal Expectations, in which he played Joe Gargery, for his examples. He explained how the actual script of the film exposed the general situation in a few lines, whilst Dickens spends two or three pages setting the scene. The essence of the script he said was brevity and clarity. The last ho ur of the lecture was taken up with questions; this Mr. Miles explained, would be the best way of leadin g him from one topic to another: Questions ranged from " What are the differences in ma ke-up for the sta ge, black and white fi lm, and technicolour? " to " Is film-making an art ? " . Mr. Miles' lecture proved to be one of the most enjoyable evenings during tbe term. The lecture was studded with anecdotes about film personalities and situations from the " silent" to the "talkie " . It left one wondering whether the saying "The camera cannot lie" has any truth left in it. C.B.M-P.

MUSICAL RECITALS WILLIAM HERBERT On Sunday, June 27th, we were privileged to hear a recital by Mr. William Herbert (tenor) .. He was introduced to us as. a comparative newcomer to English music, being an Australian who h,lS only come to thIS country in the last twelve months. His programme began with From my eyes salt tears are flolVing, from Bach's twenty-first Ca ntata. We were able to compare Schumann 's treatment and Frank Bridge's treatment of E'en as the lovely rose, and Quilter 'S Cherry Ripe with the more weU-known setting. We would thank Mr. Herbert for what was undoubtedly a most enjoyable evening, and wish him every success for his future in this country. "THE MESSIAH" On Saturday, June 12th, the Choral Society performed The Messiah in the Cathedral. The School Choral Society was augmented by members of the Herne Bay and Whitstable Choral Societies and the Cathedral Choristers, making a total of some two hundred and fifty voices. The soloists were Margaret Field-Hyde, Freda Townson, Rene Soames, and Arthur' Copley. Students from the Roya l College of Music provided a string orchestra ' and Dr. Peasgood of Westminster was at the organ. 380

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As an oratorio The Messiah is well-known to the listener, who remembers choruses like the Hallelujah, and it was in this spirit tha t the younger singers came to the work . The actual notes are easy, but the tunes of the various fugues make it very difficult to stop running away and becoming a complete jumble. This performance, however, was steady, and if the sopranos did break loose once or twice, they were soon fettered again. The full power of the large chorus came out with terrific effect in He Irusted in God, and the staccato singing added to the biting scorn. Margaret Field-Hyde has a voice which is admirably suited to The Messiah, and its purity was ~pparel~t in the ;veil-known I knolV that my Redeemer, whilst Rejoice grea,tly showed up lts clanty. Rene Soames, not a stra nger to Canterbury, sang But. thou dldst 1/01 leave probably better than any other, and we were sorry not to hea r more from Arthur Copley, who was deprived of Why do th e nations. We would thank the soloists, the Choral Societies and the Orchestra for making the performance such a great success, and, not merely by convention, we hope they will aU come again.

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KENT MUSIC FESTIVAL, 1948 The School repeated its success in the Kent Festival, held this year at Dover, during the last week in May. The Choir was successful in every class for which it had entered, its sight-singing being again very specially commended by the adjudicator, Dr. Leslie Russell . The high music standard set last year was maintained and raised this year, as can be seen by the results. A. B. Curry showed good all-round ability by winning organ, violin and piano classes. Elocution was not as successful as last year, but if we lost some of the cups we won last year, we made up by winning further ones for music. The Invicta. Trophy, which eluded us last year, is to be seen on the mantelpIece of the LIbrary, whIlst a portraIt of Mrs. Siddons, the Godwyne Trophy, represents the work of M. C. 0: Mayne's players. Finally, we would thank all those who helped in any way towards the School 's success, but especially Dr. Suttle, Mr. Wright and Mrs. Reynolds, who accompamed the slllgers and gave advice to the needy. C.B.M-P. The list of individual results is as follows :Music

" Sir Edward and Lady Sharp Banner" for best choral rendering of sacred music. " Peploe Cup " for choirs singing hymns and psalms. "Bennett Goldney Cup " for male voice. choirs. "Wakefield Medallion" for choirs' two-part sight-singing. "Wateringbury Bowl " for four-part sight-singing. First awards in male voice quartet (TTBB and ATTB). " Paddock Wood Cup" for Boy Chorister 's Solo: K. Bond. Vocal Solo (boys), "Warwick Wright Cup" : D. Peschek. " H. J. Taylor Memorial Trophy " (open), Organ: A. B. C urry. 1st Organ (under 14) : H . 1. Duck. 1st Awards: Transposition at Sight (open) : A. B. Curry. Solo Violin (under 19) : A. B. Curry. Two Violins and Piano: A. B. ClII'ry, J. D. Barwell and C. B. Manning-Press. Piano Duet at Sight (under 19): A. B. C urry and C. B. Manning-Press. 381

THE CANTUARIAN 2nd Awards: Organ (open and under 19) : C. H. P. Williams. Boy Chorister Solos: D. Peschek. Transposition at Sight and Extemporisation at Sight : J. G. Jell. Tenor Solo (open) ; C. B. Mann ing-Press. Trio (violin , 'cello and piano) (under 19) : J. D. Barwell, I. H. Atkms, R .. V. Brookes. Tno (open) : A. B. Curry, D. L. Easty, C. B. ManningPres~). Piano Sight-Readmg (under 16) : B. J. Stafford . Composition (under 19): B. Cassidy. Plano Challenge Bowl: R. V. Brookes. Piano Duet at Sight (under 19): J. G. Jell and R. V. Brookes. Elocution " Charl ton Palmer Trophy", Bible-Reading (u nder 15) : D. Manning-Press. "Godwyne Trophy " , Dramatic Class : The Critic (Sheridan). First Award, Memo ry Test (under 19) : J. J. Bradley. 2nd Awards.- Verse-Speaking (under 19) : P. A. Fyfe-Cooper. Readin g at Sight (under 19): A. B. Endersby. Male Reader (under 15): D. Clift. Reading at Sight (under 15): D. Manning-Press. The following collective Trophies wc re won :- " Invicta Trophy", " The FrazerNeame Trophy " , "The Coronation Trophy " , " The Secondary School Shield " . The Junior School had the following results :Mllsic.- Unison Choi r, 2nd Award. Two-Part Choir, 2nd Awa rd . Piano (under 13): N. J. B. Wright.

Elocution,- "Dorothca Lindsay Cup " , Bible-Reading (under 12): N. H. Nicholls. ,

THE 1875 CRICKET XI. This picture was published in our last number, in an acco unt of C. E. Woodruff's career, who was Captain that year. We asked for identification of the members if that were possible. A copy of the photograph belonging to C. E. Woodruff has been given to the School, upon WhiCh the names are wntten m pencil. They are there given as :Top rolV : W. G. Morgan, E. D. Hake, B. H. Latter, W. B. Hawkins, T. G . Cannon, C. E. Woodruff, A. H. Latter, D. Jones. Seated: C. H. Dorman, H . A. Hughes, H. E. Bateman.

But the School Register gives E. D. Hake as having captained the Xl in 1874 and leavmg 10 December, 1874. W. G. Morgan is also said to have left in 1874 and is not sho,!"n as ever having been in the XI. Nor is W. B. Hawkins, although he evidently was a cncketer, for in 1889 he kept Wicket for Gentlemen of Kent I' Gentlemen of Philadelphia and was also top scorer, making 67.

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O.K.S. NEWS (The HOIl. Secretary, Major D. J. B. Jervis, Ford MaliaI', Hoath , Canterbury, lVould welcome informafion lor inc/usioll in the O.K.S. News .) The O.K.S. Dinner will take place at the Waldorf Hotel, Aldwych, London, on 14th January, 1949. We congratulate R. ST. J. BRADDELL (1894-99), who received the honour of Knighthood in the Birthday Honours, also G. R. DAWBARN (1907- 12), T/BRlGADlER J. E. WITr, M.C. (1909-14), T/LT.-COL. J. H . GILLINGTON, M.B.E., M.C. (1924-28), and H. W. CREMER (1907- 10), all of whom were awarded the C.B.E., D. G. WHITrALL (1923- 26) awarded the O.B.E., and T/MAJOR N. F. GORDON-WILSON (1929- 40), awarded the M.B.E. ,E. M. TUKE (1903- 07), awa rded the I.S.0. ; and D. L. QUESTED, R. H. C. ROUTH and P. H. P. GUMM, all of whom have won Cadetships in the Royal

Marines. LT.-COL. H . E. MADGE (1911 - 16) qualified M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in January and is noW a House Physician at Lymington Hospital, Hants. LT.-COL. G. R. M. ApSEY (1914-17), late I.M.S., has taken service with the Pakistan Army and is now in charge of the Military Hospital at Karachi. J. S. LAMB (1936- 40) is with the Tanganyika Tea Co. at Mufindi. Other O.K.S .. in Tanganyika Territory include B. FERN (1932- 41), 111 the Police, who is one of the leadlllg lights in the cricket and hockey world of Dar-es-Salaam, C. I. MEEK (1934-39) and R. H. GOWER (1930-36), who are with the Secretariat. The latter has been at home on leave this Summer, and has spent the second half of the term at the School, where hiS help with cricket coaching has been most welcome. T. H. PARES (1942-47), H. J. DE VOIL (1942- 47), P. D. LEIGHTON (1942-47) and R. M . BUTLER (1942-47) have all been stationed in the same barracks. Pares, now commissioned, has just gone to Germany for servIce With the B.A.O.R. J. A. A. PRICE has also been commissioned. The Londotl Gazette of 26th April, 1948 contains a most interesting Despatch from the Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Stalion of 2nd May, 1945 concernmg N~val operations in Ramree Island Area from 19th January to 22nd February, 1945, operahons which formed part of the strategic advance of the 15th India Corps down the Arakan coast and which resulted in the recapture of Rangoon. COMMANDER R. W. W. ASHBY, O.S.C., R.N.V.R. (1920-27), the Despatch says, " deserves recognition for his share in the very fine performance put up by his M.B.s " . D. H . P. MAYBURy-LEWIS (1942-45) finds the Army not as bad as he had expected. They have a library- but no time to read . L. F. P. RUSSELL (1935- 39) writes : I have settled down in Te~ fairly. well and .find that it is a life that sui ts me. During the wa r I got to know and like Ind!a, 'Yhich is of course one of the most important factors. When I was at School and ~he mevita ble subject of careers came up, Teaplantmg was n~v~r men honed, and I can t think why. It IS not a job where one makes a fortune, but it is a very congemal occupatiOn f~r any~ne who likes an open-air life with a certain amount of adventure and does not mmd hvmg abroad. I personally prefer a jungly part of the world, and the garden I hope to go to shortly is completely inaccessible for six months of the year. Here we get polo at least one day a week, the only game I ever had any ambition to play! There is plenty of scope

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for big-game shikar and even in this over-populated area 1 have had a tiger in my compound. I don't go in for big game shooting as not only have 1 no desire to kill tigers th at aren ' t doing any harm, but on the garden stray ing cattle do a lot of damage and tigers and leo pards make excellent night-watchmen. There are two sides to Tea Estate

work, one the agricultural and the other Engineering, i,e., running the Factory. It just depends which interests you and when you become a Manager you have to know both. If you have any chaps who want a job like that when they leave school, I will be only too glad to tell them a bit about it, if they write to me, and give the names of firms, etc.,

though I should think that Mr. Paterson is probably better qualified to do that! I see from The Canluarian that there is a correspondence raging about the first Sunday of the month Cathedra l Service. I was tempted to weigh in and say that [ remember vividly with what gloom one looked forward to the long and exceed ingly dull service, as compared to our own one, which went with a ' 'go" and had good hymns that one knew and could si ng-good and strong-and, out of tune or not, the singing seemed a good deal better than in the n'ormal Cathedral service! I hope [ haven ' t trodden on any toes there, but a letter from " Ex-Cathedral C horister " complaining that King's spoilt the service by singing out of tune annoyed me . ..... Ga ndhi 's death came as a great shock the other day, he could ill be spared, and [ can think of no public figure of any nationality whose loss could have had such a n effect on so many people. Gandhi was the "oil " on the very troubled waters of Indian politics, apart from anything else." The following have visited the School during the term :- N. J . FLOWER (1935- 44), G. C. INKSON (1928- 3 1), C. H. BARNETI ([920-25), G . MILLES (1903-07), G. L. BRAIDWOOD (1914-19), R. H . GOWER ([930- 36), H. A. TURNOR (1939-41), J. C. FI NCH-HATION (1939-42), J . L. CARTER (1938-40), H. GOLDSMITH (1919-24), J. B. LOVATI (1935-40), C. H. BUDD (1899- 1904). We congratulate G. L. TAYLOR ( 1937- 41) on being awarded a Cecil Peace Prize for 1947 for a dissertation on the Judgment of the International Court at Nuremburg, and also on his appointment as an Assistant Keeper at the Ashmolean Museum, where he is in charge of the silver. He is also Hon. Secretary of the Oxfordshire Ashmolean Natural History Society (surely it should be th e Tradescant Society!) and Hon. Treasurer of the Oxfordshire Folklore Society. He has contributed to the current number of Oxford Viewpoint an interesting review of the Seven Oxford Artists exhibition recently arranged by the O.U. Art Club.

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We look forward to a visit in the near future from S. D. TuRNER (1903-08), when we ho e he will show us a fi lm of his work 111 Forestry and Fire ProtectIOn III Los A!,geles

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a recent country walk the Head master was much i.nterest~d to mee~ on the

road BE;NARD HEAL" (1917- 21) (at School REDDAWAY), who IS fann1l1 g at Bosslllgham. ROGER MOORE (194 1- 44) writes that he was demob ilised from the Navy a few months

ago, after a very interesting time in a destroyer III the Pacific, where he met a number of O.K.S. .. . . II" A. A. DE C. CUSSANS (1939-41) went to Paris for the BntlSh Council 111 MaÂĽ, t~ave IIlg in a tramp steamer with Constabl.e 's ~/ay Wafll for ~he VIC. BntanJ1lq~le EX~ lbltlOn. He h'ld a wonderfu l trip from Wapp1l1g right up the Sellle to the quays III Pans. 'D. T. WEATHER ILL (1942-46) hopes to go up to Cambridge in October to read Natural Science. He ran for an R.A.F. team in the Easter.n Counties ~ross-co untry champlOns~lp aga inst Cambridge University recently and came In 3rd for hi S team. He also plays qUite a lot of rugger for Redruth. . R T TRIPP (19 18-27) is at prese nt with the South Afncan Navy near Durban, and ' has 'be~n spending week-ends with A. L. HI LL (1918-27), who lives a fewmlles North of Durban. The latter recently won the Natal Estates Open Golf ChampIOnship. The Headmaster was very glad to hear recently from P. M . CHBTWYND PALMER (1933-37), of whom the School had lost sight for someyea rs: Hav1l1!l retired from the Indian Army last year, he is now in the Southern RhodeSian CIVI l Service and wntes that he and F. TOU NSEN D (! 932- 36) and D. S. HEARNE (! 932- 37) meet occaSionally. Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to P. D. V. SmALLEN (1934-38) in the sudden death of his wife. News

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O.K.S. Monthly Suppers The O.K.S. Monthly Suppers, if they continue to be a success, will now be held on the first Wednesday of each month, commencing 6th October, at the Garnck Hotel, Charmg Cross Road, at 6.45 for 7.30 p.m., and not at the Public Schools Club, Piccadilly, as stated in the last issue of The Can tuarian. O.K.S . wishing to attend the Suppers or who require information about them should write to W . C. YOUNG, Warren Lodge, Warren Park, Warlmgham, Surrey. The following have attended recently :-c. W. Barber (1908-14), L. J. Bassett (I 89JS) 08) MAS Burgess (1937-45) G. L. Clarke (1935- 41), 1. A. Cush".'an (1940, G 'A j Evans (1937- 45) D. C. Evans (1938-42), P. R . H. Elliott (1914-22), R: C" Fisher (1915-18), J.'A. Flower (1935-45), N. J. F lower (1935-44), A. J. Grey (1936-4 1), W. T. B. H eslo p (1906- 10), M . C. Karop (1935-38), G. C. Karop (189295), P. C. V. Lawless (1919-27), P . N. Porntt (1937- 41), c. E. Latter (1916- 25), J P Richardson (1941 - 44), A. H. Shelswell (1910- 13), M. H. Simthers (1940- 44), j Stearn (1938-42), K. Thomas (1903- 05), R. 1. Turk (1937-40), W. C. Young (!()29 38) R E L Beardsworth (1906- 11), S. J. Collett (1921-24), D. W. Fitchett (1938-42): Go~dridge (1937-40), E. F. Housden (1906- 11), J. B. Lums~en (194 1- 44), J. A. Randall (1923-32), J. D. Twmberrow (1938- 42), M. Walsh (1937- ,I), J. W. Wayte (1906-10).

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The O.K.S. Golfing Society On 16th April the O.K.S. met the Old Hurstjohnians in the first round of the Halford Hewitt Public Schools Cup at Deal. The O.K.S. were beaten by a narrow margin in two matches to three in what proved to be a very exciting match. The O.K.S. team was as follows :- J. P. Wyatt and F. R. Hamp, G. Arnold and R. S. Mount, D. J. B. Jervis and P. T. Simms, J . C. Corben and D. E. Bacon, W. H. Maundrell and H. L. S. Pearse. Sir Frederick Bovenschen, reserve. One daily paper, reporting the event, mentioned the Rev. W. H. Maundrell the oldest competitor from the oldest school. He won his game. ' On May 8th the Society held its Spring Meeting at Herne Bay Golf Club. The fo ll owing O.K.S. were present :- Sir Frederick Boven schen , the Rev. W. H. Maundrell, F. R. Hawkes, G. Arnold, H. G. Arnold, D. E. Bacon, N. V. Bacon, P. D. Finn, F. R. Hamp, H. C. Honey, D. J. B. Jervis, H. G. N. Leakey, M. J. Lester, R. S. Mount, W. S. Page, H. L. S. Pearse and R . Willett. The morning event, 18 Holes Handicap Medal, was won by G. Arnold, and the Scratch Prize by D. J. B. Jervis. The afternoon round of 18 Holes Bogey Four Ball for the President's Bowl was won by F. R . Hawkes and D. J. B. Jervis. R. S. Mount has been elected Captain of the Society for 1949. BIRTHS HAYES.-On 4th March, 1948, Nigel Horace Hayes, son of W. N. Hayes (1933- 37). KENT.- On 12th April, 1948, to Jean, wife of P. D. A. Kent (1936-40) a daughter ' , Caroline Mary. MEEK.- On 24th March, 1948, to Nona, wife of C. r. Meek (1934- 39) and sister of D. L. Hurford (1935- 39), a son, Innes David Kingsley. (N.B.- Both N. H. Hayes and r. D. K. Meek are due to enter the School in September 19611) , MARRIAGE HAIToN-CLARKE.- On 12th June, 1948, J. C. Finch-Hatton (1939- 42) to Miss Mary Clarke. Present address: Woodlands, March, Cambs.

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IN MEMORIAM S/ LEADER HILARY CHARLES CALDWELL, R.A.F. (late R.N.) (1913- 18) We much regret to learn tbat the name of H. C. Caldwell must be added to the Roll of Honour. He entered tbe School in 1913 and in the Summer of 1918 gained a Special Entry Cadetship to the Royal Naval Engineering College, Keyham . Shortly after the war ended he relurned to the Argentine, where he was born, managed various estates

there and became well-known as a judge of callie. In 1940, having learn t to fly, he returned to England and joined the R.A.F . . He g!,ined his Pilot 's Certifi~ate and was com missioned. After aCling as an Instructor 111 varIOUS places, he was appomted 111 1944 Assistant Air Attache at Madrid. He was killed on his first official flight, taking Mr. Yencken to Barcelona to greet one of the first batches of repatriated British P.O.W. 's. The fligbt was made in an Embassy aeroplane which (beinll of Embassy status) did not carryall the equipment of a warplane. SILeader Caldwell IS surVIved by hIS WIdow and one small daughter, to whom we extend our smcere sympathy. His brotber-in-Iaw, E. S. Dewing, writes of him : " Hilary was the most unselfish man I have ever known and that is saying quite a lot".

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We an operation for appendicitis, on June II th, at the age of 23. A quiet reserved boy at School, be was a School Monitor in his last term and a Leading Cadet in 'the A.T.C. He had considerable intellectual ability and great solidarity of character and would we feel confident, have made a first-rate doctor. He was about halfthrough his medical training. We deeply sympathise with his parents and sister in the loss wbich we share with them.

FlO . JOHN STUART BARBER (\930- 36) Yet another addition to the Roll of Honour is the name of J. S. Barber, who was in the Junior School from 1930- 36. He was the son ofP. S. Barber (1906-13). J. S. Barber was a Bomber Pilot who was posted as Missing after a raid over Germany in October, " 1943, and is now officially "presumed killed " .

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EDWARD FRANK HILL (1921-28) We regret to learn from R. T. Tripp that E. F. Hill was killed at Dunkirk. He was ab Underwriter at L10yds and had served m the Terntonal Army SInce 1928.

GERALD G. BENNETT (Assistant Master 1935-39) • O.K.S. of the 1935- 39 generation will be very sorry to bear of the death of Gerald Bennett Housemaster of School House from 1936 till the outbreak of war. He had been ill at bi; home in Manchester since the beginning of this year, and died early in April . from an illness which the doctors had known some weeks before to be mcurable. Tbose who knew bim well will remember perhaps most tbe gentleness and kindness which is so often a cbaracteristic of men so big physically; a schoolmaster, ¥es, wIth a scholar 's knowledge of the subjects he taught as w~ll as of the many other tbmgs whlcb - ' interest boys and men, but first and foremost a fflend who one knew would be always

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THE CANTUARIAN trustworthy and helpful, because his friendship was the genuine friendship of one who loved his fellow beings ; one knew that the company would be happy whenever he was present, because above all he loved to see others happy. During the war he served first in England, and later in North Africa and Italy, where he earned the M.B.E. Soon after demobilisation he was appointed by the B.B.C. Regional Director of Education in the North, a post where he clearly won the admiration of all his colleagues. A loss indeed to all his friends, a I'dr greater loss to his young wife, whom he had married eleven months before his death . To her especially, and to his mother and sisters will go the sympathy of all who knew Gerald, for if others have lost a dear friend , they have lost a dearer.

SIR GERARD EDWARD JAMES GENT, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C. (1909- 14) We deeply regret to announce the death in an air disaster on the 4th Jul y of Sir Edward Gent, High Commissioner for the Federation of Malaya. When he left the School in 1914 he had, like his brother Robert a few years previously, carried all before him, and _ a Monitor, was Captain of the 1st XI, and 1st XV, had represented the School at Fives and Gym., and was a Cadet Officer in the O.T.C. He was commissioned to the Duke of Cornwall 's Light Infantry on leaving school, and saw service in France and Flanders, rising to command his battalion. He was wounded and twice mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the M.C. and D.S .O. In 1919 he proceeded to Trinity College, Oxford, where he held the Rose Exhibition and Ford Students hip. He played Rugby for the University XV. In 1920 he entered the Colonial Office. His abilities were quickly recognised and after being private secretary to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and serving as secretary to various important committees, he was temporarily seconded in 1930 as Secretary of the Indian Round Table Conference. In 1939 he became Assistant Secretary and in 1942 Assistant Under Secretary of State. He was appointed C.M.G. in 1941 and K.C.M.G. in 1946. In this year he was appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Malayan Union, and on its formation High Commissioner for the Federation of Malaya. ',. Thus tbe promise which he showed at School was subsequently fulfilled. To aU who knew him his energy and drive were a tremendous inspiration. He never spared himself ~ in any way, and possessed the knack of infecting others with his own enthusiasm. By his untimely death the Colonial Service suffers a severe loss, which will also be felt by all â&#x20AC;˘ who have come in contact with him. Our sincere sympathy goes out to his widow and four children. .~

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REV. A. E. CLAY (1880- 1885); A regular overseas subscriber to the Kentish Gazette and a native of Canterbury, the Rev. A. E. Clay died recently at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, U.S.A. Born in 1866, and formerly of 14 Cossington Road, Canterbury, Mr. Clay attended the Cathedral Choir School for five years until his voice broke. He then went to the King 's School, and, wbilst there, was organist at St. Mildred's Church for three years. In 1885 he felt the call of the Church, and on the recommendation of Dr. Blore, a former Headmaster of the King's School, he was sent to St. Augustine's College. At the age of 22 he crossed to Canada and was ordained at St. George's Cathedral, Kingston, Ontario, in 1889. For many years he was Rector of St. Mary's-by-tbe-Sea, Pacific Grove, California. 388

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THE CANTtJARIAN JOHN SWITHIN WAYLAND (1928-39) To those who knew the vital and irrepressible Wayland, this belated report of his death in 1944 will come as bitter news. He entered tbe Grange from the Junior School in 1934 and soon made his name as a stern and vigorous Captain of Hall. In 1938 he was elected Captain of Boats and stimulated the Club with his infectious enthusiasm. From Sandhurst he was commissioned into the Duke of Wellington's Regiment with which he served till 1942, when he was seconded to the R.A.F. On the 17th March, 1944, he was reported missing whilst on air operations over Yugoslavia with 241 Squadron.

His housemaster writes :"Early in his school days he chose the Army as his career, but he regarded the militaryas indeed most other things-with such abounding humour that there were many who doubted his ability to get past a staid selection board. An incident during his O.T.C. life at School may have comforted him. The Inspecting Brigadier asked to be shown an N.C.O. instructing recruits and was taken to the nearest section. Sgt. Wayland was in charge and at once relapsed into the dialect and jargon of a Buffs sergeant of whom he had made a close study, and was forced to continue the deception for many minutes before the fascinated Brigadier could be torn away. The Brigadier later became Field Marshal Lord Montgomery.

Although more relished in the soldier than the scholar, he was a boy of whom we were all very proud. His wit and originality endeared him to everyone, and the School of his day knew no better tonic than a visit to the study of John Wayland."

To his parents and family we offer our sincere condolences for the loss of a man who is remembered as a most invigorating and loyal companion.

MISS Y. E. SKIPWITH

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p THE CANTUARIAN JOHN DONALD PATTERSON, 1938- 42 We greatly regret to record that John Patterson, Pilot III, R.A. F., met a tragic end at the early age of 23 as the result of a mid-air Spitfire collision whilst engaged in battle formation exercise at Singapore. He was the eldest son of a Surgeon Captain in the Navy and came on to King's School at the Michaelmas Term, 1938, from St. Hugh 's, Bickley, at age 13, remainin g till the end of the Summer of 1942, when he volunteered for the R.A.F. During the long waiting period till call-up he got employment as an aerodrome transport driver and studied for the Air Service at A.T.C. evening classes. When he first joined up, training was desultory and he got himself seconded for motor transport driving and heavy rescue work during the v.1 blitz in South- East London of 1944. Finally drafted for training to U .S.A., he gained much experience at stations in Oklahoma, Miami and Bermudas. Within three weeks of " Wings Parade", V.J. Day put a sudden end to the American scheme and the ai r crew trainees were all returned to Engla nd forthwith. R.A.F. policy was indefinite and there followed many months of delay and prolonged training in this country but at last the 'coveted "wings" and sergea nt 's stripes were awarded in September, 1946. Thence selection as fighter pi lot with Spitfire Squadrons and appointment to Singapore in December, 1947. His long air training, assiduous study and an unswerving determination to become an ace in the Service had brought him the higbest success and marked him for early promotion not only in rank but for charge of the very latest type of aircraft. Apart from this triumpb in his chosen profession Patterson had grown into a handsome stalwart young man devoted to his home a nd popular with a wide circle of friend s. He had become most accomplished-a skilled mechanical craftsman, a brilliant conversationalist with great powers of mimicry and entertainment. Life at King's had given him a special zest for music and literature. He played many instruments. Great delights of his were aerobatics and night flying alone at the top of the world singing to himself his Rossini, Strauss and Tchaikowsky. HENRY WILLIAM SPURR HUSBANDS, M .C.,

A.M.Inst.C.E. (1895-1898)

It is with great regret that we learn, just as we go to press, of the sudden death on June 23rd of Henry William Spurr Husbands. He had a distinguished career as an engineer, and had much to do wi th Railways in India. In the 1914-18 war he served in the Royal Engineers, rising to the rank of Major, and gained the Military Cross I; and from 191 8-20 he was on the N .W. Frontier with the Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners, commanding a battalion in 1920. In later years he was particularly interested in traffic and road safety problems, and many will remember the fascinating models of four and six-way crossings with which he illustrated a lecture to the School in November, 1945 on " Road Traffic Congestion : its Cause a nd Cure". His Automatic Coupling for Railways was exhibited at the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1925.

Our sympathy goes out to his widow, and to his brother, F . A. Husbands, O.K.S.

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KING'S SCHOOL WAR MEMORIAL FUND LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS TO 7TH J ULY, 1948 A. G. Shuffiebotham, Esq. H . L. KirbyrJohnson, Esq. Lieut.~Colonel H . G. N . Leakey

M. Cook, Esq. ... E. Richardson, Esq. Lieut.~Colonel C. H. Barnett, R .E. Brigadier W. H . Evans .. ' S. S. Sopwith, Esq. Rev. H. Fyn es~C linton .. . Rev. T. E. M. Boultbec .. . Sir F. C. Bovenschcn M. 1. Lester, Esq. Major H. F. Ch ilton J. G . East, Esq . .. . .., Major D. J. B, Jervis Rev. R. O. Cooper Brigadier W. A. F. Kerrich Rev. R . F. Cartwright ... S. Williamson, Esq . Majo r R. J. W, Norris O. H. de St. Croix, Esq. Capta in W. T. B. Heslop J. A, B. Heslop, Esq . R. L. G. Sutcl iffe, ESQ . .. ' C. C. Williamson, Esq ... . Canon H. D. S. Bowen ... H. B. Jones, Esq. Dr. D . Pollok Mrs, Freyer A. B. Emden, Esq. H. L. C remer, Esq. Rt. Rev. M. Gelsthorpe .. G. E. Heisch, Esq. Major L. G. Tighe A. B. Cowley, Esq.

£ s. d 3 3 0 0 E. M. Tuke, Esq. 200 0 Major D. S. Lucas 220 0 The Ven. Thorndike Shaw 220 Mr. and Mrs. Bindon 0 o 0 H. B. M ilsome, Esq. 0 o 0 J . K. Birley, Esq. 5 5 0 0 Dr. l. Lee ... ... 40000 H. Venn Cobb, Esq ... . 0 220 0 C. W. R. Phillips, Esq .. .. I I 0 I 0 Mrs. H. F. Moore 5 5 0 50 0 0 Rev. A. D. R. Brooke 5 0 0 L. F. Paris, Esq .... 0 o 0 T. H. Pares, Esq. 10 6 o 2 2 0 Mrs. O. E. Meyrick Wood o 2 2 0 Rev. H . W. Moule o 2 0 0 Rev. H. C . Baker o L. S. Pea rse Lieut. 3 0 0 I 0 0 G. A. Turner, Esq. o 0 10 10 0 D. Birkett, Esq .... 3 3 0 Lady Marion London 0 I I 0 5 5 0 Dr. Hi lda and Rev. D r. Brade~Birks 5 5 0 2 10 0 H. G. Mount, Esq. I I 0 2 10 0 Mrs. P. M. Jackson 440 Campling and Miss Green Miss 5 5 0 5 00 5 5 0 Dr. C . R. Steel .. . o 10 10 0 Major H. S. Hatfeild 0 COVENANTED SUBSCRIPTIONS5 5 0 2 2 0 M. H . Moss, Esq. I 0 0 Lieut.~Colo ne l H. H . E. Gossett 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 50 R. H. Osborne, Esq . ... I I 0 I I 0 Lieut.~Colonel A. L. Paris 2 0 0 3 0 0 F. L. Sidebotham, Esq. 5 5 0 0 E. H. Cornelius, Esq .... 0 I ... £693 7 6 Total 5 5 0

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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editor a/THE CANTUARIAN. Sir, The School is incomplete: not incomplete in any small way, but lacking that most useful and necessary school building, an Assembly Hall. Since our return from Cornwall we have had no room where the School ca n asse mble, hold morning prayers, congregational practices, produce plays, listen to lectures, to recitals of music and- not least important- hold the public examinations. [0.K. S. may wonder what has bappened to the Parry Hall. It still stands, but the School has grown to such an extent that it is now far too small; it can no longer contain the boys themselves, let alone parents and visitors.) For tbe past three years we have been using-thanks to the kindness of the Dean and Chapter-tbe Cathedral Chapter House, and thankful as we were in 1945 for a roofand such a superb roof- over our heads, we now know only too well its disadvantages. It is frequently lent- quite rightly- to other bodies and at such times the Scbool of necessity takes second place. Thus we are extruded before, during and after the Friends Festival Week ; we are unable to plan concerts, recitals and lectures far ahead because of this and that School Prize-giving, Diocesan Conferences, Mothers' Union Meetings, Missionary Exhibitions, Concert Parties from seaside towns, School of Church Music gatherings- all of which entail vast labour in the provision and removal of chairs. Far be it from us to grudge other people what we also enjoy, but the fact remains tbat on these occasions the School has !lowhere to go. Then, Sir, should not a School Hall be dignified and its atmospbere academic rather than quasi-ecclesiastical ? Tbe Chapter H ouse, though bea utiful , loses its dignity on account of the stage which is left standing all the year round, which is never cleaned or tidied up, never cleared of scenery, and wbich tbrows the building quite out of proportion. May we not also bear in mind that sbortly the Chapter House will need complete redecoration and restoration after the war, and where is the School to be housed then? The present rate of such work is not exactly encouraging either! Sir, is it too much to ask that we have once again a hall of o ur own, as any other Public School has? Is it presumptious at this time to ask for a stately and academic meeting-place, with the Headmaster's throne installed, with dignified magisterial seats, and with portraits of our famous predecessors on the walls ? What possible objection can there be? A site ? Palace Court. The difficulty of wedding new buildings to our antiquities? Look at the 1937 Class rooms. A license? Tbe East Kent Bus Company have erected an enormous depot since 1945. The cost? Ah, this, it may be, is where the sboe pinches. But we feel witb Dr. Johnson that " tbere are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money ", and we therefore dare bope that there are many O.K.S. who would be only too eager to provide the funds before they are taken by tbe Cbancellor of the Excbequer in a second Capital Levy. There might even be a single O.K.S. wbo-realising the severity of our need-would erect at his own cost a Scbool Hall tbat would perpetuate through all the coming generations his name and fame. Forgive us, Sir, for such a long and-it might be termed- begging letter, but all O.K.S. and friends of tbe School will, we are sure, appreciate our great need and the urgency of undelayed action. We remain, Sir, etc.,

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THE C ANTUARIAN Nasb, Farnborough 3645

Keston,

Kent. 10th April, 1948.

Dear Sir,

h b h re uest for identification of some of those of the 1875 XI, t e oy w a In repJYf:~~~~~ riiht and is holding a ball is my father , A. H. Latter, and I tlunk that ~ll!e~~;ket-keeper standing next to him is my uncle, B. H . Latter. . Incidentally, referring to J.H .C.'s contribution on page 277, I shouldl~\s~l ~ave saId that Butchery Lane was out of bounds and I dId not go to the Parrots tl . Yours truly, CYRIL E. LATTER.

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&.~m~~I, Oxford . 28th March, 1948.

, . Dear Editor, . f "V' t . " M ch issue of The Contuorian, H. J. Cape in his all too bne IC onan In y,?u; oft';,'e School bas recalled to the mind of one of his de~oted pupIls a recollec11lon _ . memone B h r Lane to which he refers. WIthout questIOn Butc lery concenun~ the ~an ~nof b~~n~;' but unlike the "very good natured youngster " il~ hIs ~;r~ Ct~~t d~:~ip~~n certainly ;eems to fit John Pembrook well), I was not restramed . by ban or taboo from entering Butchery Lane on one occaSIOn at least. . f visit was to discover whether in this forbIdden alley there were any ( ,. The. object a I~y where I mi ht find for sale Roman coins unearthed m or about crlo~:ty °MJu~e~::bo~as well rewa~ded. J found a litt.le ramshackle shop, repletedwlt~ ( ( leel Y·. Y , . household oods A saucer full of little oddments was pro uce anhquc)unk a~ld ag~~rle Twas ick1ng o~t a Roman co in o r two from among regimental for my m~pe~lIoll~d other trifles, ~ observed that anot her customer had entered the shop~"ttS"1S,· eaV!I~er of the Cathedral, a venerable little old man who, It was reputed,

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negollable mstruments : Yours smcerely,

A. B.

EMDEN.

The Editor, "The Cantuarian" . Dear Sirs, h' At one time during the Sports 1. F. Black held all three 440 Yards records. Is t IS not

yet another Scbool record?

Yours faithfully, J.R.A.

THE CANTUARIAN To the Editor ofTHB CANTUARIAN

SIT, I write to point out a strange and inexplicable hiatus in the records of The Cantuaria" contained in the School LibrarÂĽ. The number published in December, 1936 is missing: This IS the more regrettable as It was the first number that appeared in the new formal. . .. ... " I notIce, too, that no bound editIOns appear after the year 1940. This IS disappolllt~ng [ both to present boys who were not at Cornwall and to O.K.S . who w~re una~le to visit the School there. These Calltual'lans will be the basIs of the future Illstonan s account of the School's war years. Could not steps be taken now to bridge this gap, which is

mcreaslOg every term?

Yours, etc., O.K.S. (1930--36)

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. . From the P arrot H ouse . "' . A complalllt (somewhat v,e,led, b"'!ause we were trymg to make the best of it) appeared m thiS column ?f last term s ,magazme, that nothmg much had happened In the Spring , Term. If that IS true of Spnng Terms generally, the reverse IS almost alwa~s true of , Summ~rTerms ; generally too much happens. However, we seem to survlye With vigour undl.mlllished, even tbough w~ have had .a contmuous succesSion of cflcket matches, . special half-holidays and expeditIOns, a major productIOn of a Shakespeare play, village fetes and flower shows, concerts, VISitS to Cathedral and Chapter House (for the Choir School 's opera) and a good deal more. The walls of the Barn have re-echoed to the sounds of orchestras twice; once for an amateur orchestra from Canterbury (Mr. E. A. Davidson's), and once for the Sturry Players' Orchestra, which is composed partly of , grown-ups, partly of the better players among our own boys. Both programmes were of suitable tuneful music, and, although they might have been better attended by outsiders, were appreciated by both boys and friends alike. They also made a modest profit for the Barn Fund. . . The state of the Bar~ Fund .'S given belo,:". I do: not yet know how much the repair of the walls, together With the lIlsertlOn of wlildows tn the wooden par t of these, is going to cost; but I have every hope that we shall soon &et the Job d?ne, and that we shall . be able to raise the "?oney to pay for II. The Barn, III summer, IS already a very much better place for meetmgs, plays, and concerts, than It used to be, and we look forward to the time when we can use it for such all the year round. . The three performances of Macbeth were well worth doing, and our audiences were la~ge, enthusiastic and (when it came to. the collection) generous. With the help of the th!rd performance we were able to mVlte parhes from local schools-if we exchange cncket and football matches, why not a play of Sbakespeare ?-who seemed to like the performance, particularly the more exciting moments of the second half. In this the apparitions appearinll from the >yit?hes cauldron were suffiCiently blood-curdling to make the younger boys a bttle uncertam if they really were lookmg at thetr own friend s dressed up ; and the battle (complete with noises off, which were easier to start than to stop) moved with the speed of a Dick Barton episode. This is as it should be, if excitement

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is to be raised to the right pitch. We even put in a piece of business g~nerally omitted by professional actors-the productIOn of Macbeth s bleedmg head III the final scene. But it has an appropnately Elizabethan flavour; Shakespeare asked for It, and we liked It. A hst of the cast IS prInted below, together with an account sent us by someone who came, not knowlllg III the least what to e~pecl. , Mention should be made of the first pubhc appearance of the brass sectIOn of the [ school orchestra and military band. Seven of them played fanfares ofl' stage (it bad to be ~ff stage, beca use they were all actors in other parts as well) with considerable verve. W i ' if they were sometimes out of tune. In rehearsal the tuning had been e apo b~gls~ t the excitement of the moment did occasionally produce discord at first.

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The School Parliament has had several sessions, the main business of the term being the drafting of its own constitution: . This h as produced a good deal of hvely debate-. of course the main reason for Its lllstttutlOn . . I thlllk that already a greater sense of responsibility in the conduct of day-to-day busmess by the seDlors IS showlUg Itself as a result of these deliberations, question times, and so on . It has been pleaslUg to see so , many junior boys taking a sensible part in the debates, and not leav mg It all to those at the top of tbe School. . our senes . of expeditIOns .. . the Sch i " . d I. " Continulllg outSide 00 temtory m or er to earn something of sides of life witb which we do not generally come II1to contact, we have paid a visit to Wye College. The Principal, Mr. Dunstan Sktlbeck, showed us all over the ,. estate, College, and experimental farm, and I think we. learned tbat modern farmmg IS one of the most scientific and careful of buman occupatIOns .. A full account of this most interesting visit appears In No.3 of The Milner Court Chrolllc/e (our own special annual, price 1/-, to be obtained on application from me, at the School). Before the end of term we also bope to bave a trip to Richborougb, to see the Castle and Museum.

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Our fflends Will be sorry to learn of the death of two very elderlY. lOhabltants of Milner Court., Clare~ce, the bantam cock, who died aft~r an operatIOn for an tn-growing toe"naJi, and hiS faithful Wife Clara, who followed hun to the gra~e a few weeks later (beart failure was the presumed caus~ of death), were both of a great age, probably ten years old. Clara was laymg an occaSIOnal small egg to the day of her death. Both had been well-known members of the School III pre-war days. They were evacuated to Cornwall, where I first made their acquaintance, With a due cauhon from Mrs. Juckes tbat Clarence was of an uncertain temper. TheÂĽ returned bere III August, 1945, and straight away resumed their old habits, by comlllg frequently to the kitchen wmdow for food, as they had done in happier times in 1939. Tbis seemed a very touching effort of memory, after a five-year interval. Mrs. Juckes then asked Mrs. Oldaker and myself to take over the two birds' she felt it would be unktnd to take them from a home they so obviously loved. We w'itlingly agreed. Later, on our buying six hens of the larger . and mor.e conventional sort, Clarence adopted them all as hiS Wives, and ruled them With an tron rod. Old age, bowever, has told at last. R.I.P. We enjoyed our visit to the Kent Musical Coml.'etition Festival at Dover. Ou~ main object in going was certainly to hear otber people slllgmg the same songs and playlOg the same pieces as ourselves, to see their standards and so on, but we are. also proud to tbink that we contributed qUite a number of pomts to the vanous shields (of which details are given elsewhere) won by the School. The Choir did well, gaining. two ~econd . places ; among our entries for the reading comp~tlt!ons, congratulatIons to Nigel Nicholls on winning the Under 12 Bible-Reading, and brlllgmg back a cup for the School. Among

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But still, the girls could only produce violins and 'cell os . . . . . . We look forward to our Swimming Sports at the end of term ; with some apprehension, it may be, if the water is going to be as cold as it has been so far. These are no longer a spectacular affair, as we like to spread them o ver several days in order to avoid strain on the good swimmers. The races are none the less keenly contested . The weather being what it has been, we have made less use of the bath than last year. This is a pity, because it is a much better bath, now that the repairs to the shallow end have been completed. With the help of a row of h urdles along the ri ver bank it is also rather less exposed to every blast of win d. But with rain beating down upon it, together with cold wind, and little sun, it has rarely been the crowded place it was last year. Congratulations to our Sixth Form on getting a good number of Scholarships. Our Head Boy, Philip Holberton, goes to Bryan ston with their top sch olarship, following his brother John, who did the same thing in 1946. Francis Bretherton goes to his father's old school , Clifton, with their fo urth scholarship. Jim Allen is the fi rst of our boys for some years to appear on the list of King's Scholars, which he has done with twelfth place. He is a year too you ng to pass on to the Sen ior School yet, but will make his

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hand (reported in last term 's Calltuarian) ... 627£ s.6 d.0 Concert, 5th March I o 0 Interest for 1947 . .. 12 3 I Sundries ... 8 12 2 Concert, 10th May 2 10 0 Collections, Macbelh perfonnances 71 2 0 DOllaliollsMrs. Dunn ... . .. 2 0 0 "The Wednesday Special " ... I 0 0 M. W. S. Bass, Esq. .. . 5 0 0 R. E. Ooate, Esq. . .. 5 5 0 L. C. Wallace, Esq. .. . I I 0 N. Wright (saJe of rabbits) 10 0

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In Macbeth the supernatural element causes much technical difficulty, but in this production it was surmounted with originality and skill. The appearance of the apparitions through the bubbling cauld ron was very successful. The lighting and noises off, in aU the witches' scenes, contributed to the atmosphere of the play, '[

Throughout the play the crowds ably supported the main ca~t, with the exception of the banquet scene, In which they were too concerned with feastlllg to show any reachon to Macbeth's behaviour. The spontaneity of the crowds reflected the enthusiasm of the boys. It was obvious that th.ey thoroughly enjoyed themselves and they may be sure that the audlCnce shared thetr enJoyment." , . . The cast was as follows :- Flrst W1tch, CLIVE SHAKBRLEY; Second W1tch, NIGEL ' d W'ltc, h M J N I CHOLLS •. Th Ir rCHAEL D AVIDSON', 0 uncan, K'lIlg 0 f Scot ian d JOHN BAINBRIDGE; Malcolm, his elder son, ROBIN BLACKALL ; A Captain, BRYAN MCCLEERY; Lennox, Ross and Angus-Thanes, JOHN LANCASHIRE, N IGEL WRIGHT, NICOLAS JOHNSTON; Macbeth, JAMES ALLEN, Banquo, BRIAN STROUTS; Lady Macbeth, PETER BOWTHORPE; A Messenger, PIERS NASH-WILLIAMS; Fleance, MICHAEL SANGER-DAVIES; A Porter, FRANCIS BRETHERTON ; Macduff, TIMOTHY STEBBING ; Donalbain, Duncan's younger son, SIMON BLACKALL; An Old Man, DAVID SPOONER; A Servant, PAUL GOURMAND; First Murderer, TIMOTHY PITT; Second Murderer, DAVID WOODROW; Another Servant, ROGER SUTTON; Third ' Murderer, JOHN STRACHAN; Another Lord, WILLIAM BARNETT; First Apparition, DAVID LoVERIDGE; Second Apparition, STEPHEN HARDISTY; Third Apparition, MICHAEL ANDERSON; Lady Macduff, CHRISTOPHER FEATHERSTONE; Lady Macduff's Son, JOHN HAMILTON; Messenger to Lady Macduff, DAVID BALFOUR; An E nglish Doctor, DAVID BELL; A Scotch Doctor, JOIm HEMDRY; A Gentlewoman DAVID NIGHTINGALE' Menteith VIVYAN BATES' Caithness RICHARD FlSHLOCK; Seyt~n, GERALD LVNCH ; Oid Siward Ian English Gen~ral), JOHN'MORGAN; Young Siward, his son, GUY MORGAN; Other Apparitions, IA N YOUNG, TOM TAVLBR, DAVID POOLE, PAUL GOURMAND, ROGER SUTTON; Other Soldiers and Servants, MICHAEL BAILIE, IAN YOUNG, TOM TAYLER, ROBIN STUART, PETER K NOLLER, NICHOLAS COOPER, RI CHARD COLLINS, RICHARD CORNWELL, FURLEY SPANTON; Two Elizabethan Pages, RODERT SEYMOUR, BRUCE WILLS. Fanfares played by MICHAEL BAILIE, DAVID POOLE, CHRISTOPHER FEATHERSTONE, DAVID NIGHTINGALE, ROGER SUTTON, JOHN LINE, DAVID SPOONER. Electric Lighting, CHARLES NEWMAN and BBATrIE MERCER. Stage Managers, FRANOIS BRETHERTON and GBRALD LYNCH. Noises and Effects, JOHN BAINBRIDGE. Properties by THE HANDWORK CLASS.

Cricket This term's cricket is mainly a story of disappointments so far as the more elderly members of the School are concerned, but one of hope for years to come among the more youthful. In both cases the desire to score runs is there, but the courage to launch out from the safety of one's crease into that frightening No Man's Land, where anything may happen, before the sanctuary of "the other end" is obtained, is, in most cases, lacking. Inexperience leads to batsmen scampering for a run to short slip but an easy single to, or past, extra cover is seldom attempted. There seems, too, to be a desire on the part of the batsmen to co-operate with the bowler in his attempts to capture a wicket. The laws of cricket refer to "the striker", which should conjure up visions of hostility and aggressiveness, with bat and ball as deadly enemies, with the advantage of size and weight in favour of the bat. Alas! too often is the bat ' 'held out to dry" and the initiative is presented to the fielding side. ~98

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h b nefit of rofessional coaching, set a fine example in three Woolston, who has had t e ~7 and fbI lOwing up with 19 and 28, and showed beyond d matches, start 111; w~th ~ so~71 a lid and should be hit. But other leaden-footed batsmen, measure of dou ,t t a~ t t a ~,.' came and went and the reading of the score-board [ with the exccptlOdn 0 da,ncasl "~'h e downfall of the majority has been due to the rooted became more an more Isma. . . ' I I b ck foot and the bat held 1Il the "conviction that provided one IS standlllg firm y on t 1e c~ and runs amassed. This theory general direction of the ball, the wicket will be kept I~ta f I bowler who pitches the has been shattered conclusively by Colhns, our ~~s I~ucces~yu fair at this point to add I' ball up and- most inconsiderately-bo wls stralg 'ld ~~~~bl ha~e got many ~ wicket th at, against rather better batsmen, Woolston ;'°tUth Ph ve ~issed to the surprise alike from balls which have found the edge when 111 ac ey a I f' bo\vlel' batsman and wicket-keeper. ' ·0 umpIre, ," . . 1 od standard interspersed With The fielding has in th~ mam been of an tver~ge y y~ the field has often encouraged [ occaSional flashes of bnlhance. Agam, firml·-boote ness e run given away invariably a nervous batsman to take unwarranted I erhes, an d on '" means one more to get. h date '_ , The result of mate es to . 1ST XI , (W 1 47) Tormore 88 for 7 (Collins v Tormorc. Draw. Milner Court 109 for 9 00 ston , 4 for 20). 80 (C It' S L leham House. Lost. Milner Court 35 (Woolston 19), Laleham House 0 10 v a ,, 5 for 9) . Th F th rs 121 for 8 (Collins 4 for 28), Milner Court 61 for 9 v The Fathers. Draw. e a e \' (Woolston 28) . . 48 (L h're 18) St Edmund 's 61 (Collins v St. Edmund's. Lost. MIlner Court ancas 1 " 4 for 18). f 6 (C II' 3 for 21) " S'r Ro er Manwood's. Draw. Sir Roger Manwood's 47 or 0 illS , v 1 Miln~r Court 45 for 8 (Lancashire 8 for 21). . 2ND XI S' R ger Manwood's 31 for 2 dec., Milner Court 27. Sir Roger Manwood's. Lost. 1r 0

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The Editors acknowledge with thanks receipt of the following magazines and apologiz~ for any omissions ;r Bradfield College Chronicle, The Tonbridgian, The Felstedian, The Radleian, The . Roff ensian, The Lancing College Magazine, The Meteor, The Hurst Johnian, The Mar/burian, The Gresham, The Kennet, The Benenden School Magazine, The Bryans/on' Saga, The St. Edmund's School Chronicle, The King's School Magazine, The Haileyburian, . . The Ousel, The Campbellian, The Manwoodian, The S/onyhurst Magazine, The Rep/onian ,. 1

The Cranleighan, Sf. Peter 's College Maga z ine, The Sulton Valence School Magazine,. The Easlbournian, The Epsomian, The School Tie, The Cranbrookian , The Barro viall , TheLorelloniall , The Elizabethan, The Worksopian , The Amplefortll Journal.

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