THE CANTUARIAN The following O.K.S. have recently secured appointments th rough the Public Schools Appointments
Bureau:A. J. AGNEW (195 1·57) with the Royal lnsurancc Company as an Administrat ive Assistant. B. A. IsBlll (1953-57) as a Trainee \~ilh a firm of Paper Manufacturers. L. A. BASSETI (194 1-44) as an Assistant in an Explorat ion ( Research) concern. C. A. CHARLTON (1944-48) with a finn in Austra lia. T. J. DOCKSEY (1946-52) as a Probatione r Assistant in Personnel Train ing.
K . R. HENSHAW (1932-37) as a Senior Assistant in Commercial Explo ration.
IN THE SERVICES MICHAEL B. CULLEN (195 1-56) is at present with the R.A.F. at Stokehea th , Markel Drayton, Salop. C. B. MANN ING -PRESS (1944-49) has been in ~alta si nce !955 in A.A. Gu nne,ry. He says Malta is a splendid station and he has been acting as Orgalllsl and Cho Irmaster at the Ga rnson Church. N. A. J. SWANSON ( 1951-56) has been doing h is National Service in the Navy at Chat ham. A. E. BROCKLEH URST (1919-1923), late Chief of Staff, H.Q. Ma laya Command, was appo inted G.O.C. Rhine D istrict, B.A.O.R., from Marcil. D AVID THOMAS (l947-49) is serving in H.M.S. Newfoulldlaud. JEREMY MALLINSON ( 1950-54) is serving in the Rhodesia and NyasaJa nd Staff Corps. H . A. SMITH (1947-53) is doing his Nat ional Service in the R.A.F. JOHN LEACH (l944-47) is commiss ioned in the R.A.F. and is servi ng at Changi, Singapo re.
BIRTHS NEWSOME.-On 12th February, 1958, to the wife of FIt.-L1. Paul Newsome ( 1945-5 1), R.A.F., a son. FOsTER.- On 26th October, 1957, to Catherine, the wife of Myles Foster (1944-47), a daughter (Caroline Sarah). CARTWRIGHT.- On February 141h, to Rosemary, wife of Rev. R. C. Cartwright (1927-32), St. Mary . Redcliffe Vicarage, Bristol, a daughter. STONEHOusE.- On Febnla ry 12th, to Janet, wife of 1. A. G. Stonehouse ( 1944-50), a son. BURT.- To Jan, wife of Ivor Burt ( 1943-48), a son (Cha rles).
ENGAGEMENTS PITf- LUcE.- Timothy H . Pitt (l945-54) to Hilary Cla ire Luce. FOSTER- PERRY.- John Frederick Foster (l947-52) to Sarah Constance Pcrry. ALLlSON-BuRNELL.- Robin William All ison (1 936-40) to Juliette Burnell. CLARKE- WADswoRTH.- Gerald Clarke (1938--4 1) to June Wadsworth. TAYLOR- OSBORNE.- Gerald Henry Taylor (1950-55) to Jill Osborne. LAMBERT- WALTERs.- MaJcolm Lambert (1944-49) to Joyce Walters. DAVIES- BEVAN.- Rhodri Ponsonby Dav ies ( 1946-51), T he Life Guards, to Jane Beva n. DALRYMPLE- GREENGRASS.- John Dalrymple (1940-44) to Betty Greengrass. SEYMOUR- WOOOING .- Robcri George Seymour (1945- 52) to Miss S. M. Wood ing. WITHERS- SAWARD.- G. L. T. Withers (1938- 45) to Wendy Sawa rd.
MARRIAGES NICHOLAS- TA IT.- On 18th May, 1957, John R. G. Nicholas (1946- 50), R.A.S.C., to Monica C. Tait. WATKINs- GRANT.- On 15th Fcbrua ry, 1958, Lieutenant Guy H. Watki ns (1947- 51), Roya l Artillery, to Sylvia Ma rgaret Grant. HAYWARD- SM1TH.- John Brian Hayward (1945--48) 10 Patricia Ann Smith , in New Zealand.
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SILVER WEDDING PEITMAN- MARK.- On 25th March, 1933, at Pattisha ll, Edgar Charles Pettman (1914-18) to Margaret Joan Mark. Now living at Wiltown Lodge, Cu rry Rivcl, Longport, Somerset. O .K.S. Annual Dinner The Annua l Dinner of the Associat ion was held on Wednesday, 8th January, 1958, at the Connaught Rooms, with C. N. RYAN (1905- 1J), Pres ident , in the Chair, and was attended by 123 members, an increase of 20 o n last year. J. R. FREw, Captain o f the School, spoke of its act ivit ies in the past year: the toast of "Florea t Schola Regia" was proposed by MR. NORMAN BIRLEY, Headmaster 1927- 35, and the reply by S. S. Sor wlTH (190 1- 05). The speeches were admirable and grea tly appreciated. Those attend ing were:Year of Entry
1896 1896 1897 1897 1898 1901 1901 1901 1902 1902 1904 1904 1905 1905 1905 1905 1906 1906 1906 1907 1907 1908 1908 1909 1909 1909 1910 1911 1913 1913 1914 1914 1914 1915 1915 1916 1916 1916 1917 1919 192 1 192 1
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A. C. Pa ris C. W. G. Walker L. J. Bassett F. C. Bovenschen L. F. Paris E. K. Barber B. Money S. S. Sopw ith K. B. Dickson R. C. G. Hancock D. Cowie B. Mutheson W. S. Barroll C. N. Ryan H. Townend
C. A. West P. S. Barber E. F. Housden F. L. Sidebotham G. Dawbarn F. H . Seabrooke S. O. Ga lpin R. Juckes D. N. Burrell D. F. Kellie B. G. K ing J. A. F lower R. A. T. Anderson H. 1. Wenban R. F. Winder Richard A. Finn H. Pearse W. E. C. Pettman J. S. Bill inghurst G. M. Housden Raymond A. Finn D. J. B. Jervis
C. Worsfo1d G. Arnold L. Joseph J. N. B. Laine
J. A. G. Scott
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1922 1922 1923 1923 1924 1924 1924 1924 1925 1925 1925 1925 1925 1925 1926 1926 1926 1927 1927 1928 1929 192q 1929 1929 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1933 1934
1935 1935 1935 1935 1936 1937 1937
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J. G. East J. W. Poo le F. R. Hump J. S. Reacher R. L. S. Bennett A. Fox-Ma le J. L. Hall P. H. G. Scott G. A. W. Booker H. F. Ch ilton R. Kent W. d'A. Maycock C. J. B. Murray G. L. Payne J. Charnuud
D. K. Clarke G. A. Young N. P. Birley (Former Headmaster) M. J. H. Girl ing R. F. Stiles C. C. O. Bennett S. W. Hinds J. R. Hudson J. J . Morris T. Stapleton V. E. Price A. D. Wilson R. S. Whalley J . H. Corner w. C. Young J . P. Whalley Rev. J. H. Edmonds (Headmaste r of Milner Court) N. J. Flower J. A. Flower (Inr.) J . B. Goudge D. A. Venner A. J. G rey J . H. Breese M. Burgess
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1937 1938 1938 1938 1938 1940 194 1 194 1 1941 1943 1944 1944 1945 1945 1945 1945 1946 1947 1947 1947 1947 1948 1948 1948 1948 1949 1949 1949 1949 1949 1950 1951 195 1 195 1 195 1 1952 1952 1952 1952 1952
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J. D. Moss M. G. Baker E. H. Cornelius D. W. Fitchett D. S. M. Harri s J . Dalrymple T. G. L. Hamilto n
P. Pollak
C. B. Strollts J. H. B. Jackson D. K. L. Morgan J. A. G. Stonehouse P. J. S. Murray R. B. Ryeland B. Robinson
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J. A. Sadler D. C. Ryeland G. Hackett P. H. Moss C. A. R. Hoa re D. A. R. Poole R. H . T. Duwkins A. H. M. Hoare M. Patterson K. D. Wilkinson
P. Allen
D. H. Livesey J. A. Rowe R. Sparrow R. Symon J. Hamilton-Paterson
D. S. Goodes (Staff) P. Ayling C. R. Sinclair M. E. W. Vincent N. Burbridge N. H. Freeman R. J. Frew
G. A. G. Kidd P. Smed ley
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The Headmaster was unable to be present owing t9 absence abroad on a special holiday and sent a telegram of good wishes which was read to the gathenng. Me~sages from ot hers unabl~ to attend. were received from Lord Hard in ge, Deputy Chairman of the Govermng Body, and the following O.K.S ..R BRINSLEY RICHARDS (1891), A . C . S. A DAMS (1923), T. S. ADAMS (1893), R . ST. J. BRADDELL (1894), G . COVELL (1898), A . R . IR"'ONGER (1898), C. H. BUDD (1899), F. S. WHA1.LEY ( 1899), R. B. W,NSER (1900), W. TELFER (1900), G. C. STRAHAN (1901), H . M. J. BURDETT (1902), E. W . E. H UG HES ( 1902), M D J EPHSON ( 1905) R S H ASKEW (1906) W . B. T. HESLOP ( 1906), A. J. LUSH (1906), A. J. T. FLEMINGP. HEMING (1911), G. D. G. H EYMAN (1917), K. F. VALPY S'-ND;" (1907) A M ' GEcSTHORPE (1908) (1921), B. W. 6R~VES·( I 92?'), C. FRENO (1 922), D. I. HILL (1923), R. A. BINNY ( 1924), J . F. GLENNlF (1925), C. G. PARIS (1925), H. STEVENS (1925), D. I. SM ITH (1926), R. F. CARTWRIGHT (1927), J . E. KENNE IT(I929), T. L. IREMONGER ( 1930), P. S. W. ROI,"RTS (193 1), c. H. B. WANTON ( 1932), J . M. B. PRA",; (1933), H. P. WORTH AM (1 933) D S M ADGE (1936) K. S. MADGE (1936), J. S. Moss (1937), R. G. lOWELL ( 194 1), H. HONOUR ( 1941'), I; . D UDG EON ( 1942),'M. D. LAMBERT (1944), K. G. AGNEW ( 1946), A. R. WAYT' ( 1947).
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The President told the gathering that there was to be an O.K.S. Dinner in New York on ~4t h January, 1958, organised by R. C!WWLEV (1903- 13). He was authorised to send a message of good Wishes for that occasion and later the followin g message was scnt:To Robill Crowley (1903- 13), Ne w York. 130 members of the O.K.S. Association present at the Dinner held at the Connal!ght Rooms, ~ondon, on January 8th, 1958, who included O.K.~. who left the School between 1901 and 1957, heard wllh great pleasure of the O.K.S. Dinner to be held III New York on January 24th, 1958. They asked me, as their President for the year, to send to you and your fe ll ow O.K.S. a message of warm greetings and rega rd and to wish you all a very happy e~emng. To this I wou ld like to add an assurance that, as you will have seen from your CUI/tuarial/s, the School, under the guidance of its remarkable Headmaster a id~d ~y a most able a!ld devote~ body ~f ~asters, continues its act ivities at the highest level in scholarsh ip, III g~ ne ra l educatl(:~nal at.tam.menls, .1Il literary, dramatic and musical achi evements, in a ll forms of sport and In that fuller hfe whIch IS the gift Ihat the . . . great public schools are pri vileged to offer to those who attend them. And may I express the hope Ihat a ll O.K.S. in the United States. and in the adjace':lt. Dommlon of Canada will enjoy good health and good fortune in thei r vocations, and wtl~ return to o r revls.l lthe Moth~r Co,;,nt.ry before long to renew acqua intance with thei r fellow O.K.8. and wllh the School as It now flouflshes m Its historic home at Canterbury. Age dum agis. (Siglled) C. N. RYAN, p,.esidenl O.K.S. Association, 1957/58. 16th January, 1958.
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A LEITER FROM NEW YORK New York, U.S.A. January 24th, 1958.
Dear School,
For what we believe to be the first time in history, we decided a couple of months ago to try to organize an O.K.S. dinner in this country. We decided to risk going ahead with it if we could find a minimum of six of us able to attend , and despite expen ding an energy which we had no idea that we possessed, that is a ll that we managed to find avai lable within reasonable distance. Anyhow, here we are at the Biltmore in New York on the evening of January 24th, 1958. If we have done nothing else, we have al least managed to meet each other: until two months ago none of liS had seen o r spoken to any of the others- at least, not in this cOllntry. There are probably a t least a few more O.K.S. within range, but the trick of locating them has eluded us. We had to depend main ly on the O.K.S. Association Directory of Members. That is a very interesting little vo lume but , desp ite all the hard work and pleadings of its Secretary, it has proved rather a flop. Of 15 leiters wrilten to out~of~towners, 7 ca me back via the dead leller department of the Post Office. And that is a pretty fantast ic percentage in anybody's language. Of the o thers, S. D. Turner (who we believe is the senior O.K.S. in th is continent) tried his best to make the 6,000 mile round tri p from Los Angeles. but the distance proved an insurmountable obstacle. J. F. Robinson and Peter Davidson sent their deep regrets from Eastern Ca nada, but unfortunately no stro ke of luck necessitated their presence in New York at this time, and without sllch st roke of luck, the dista nces of 350 or more miles each way was impossible. Ad rian Woodhouse at Pri nceton was within range, but he was so hopelessly cluttered up with examinat ions that he could not get away. We hoped that one or two could come over from England to attend this function , but the Bank of England does not appear to rea lize your importance, and the excha nge problem could not be solved. (It was no t a ltogether surprising as at least some of us have very potent reasons for knowing that your pound sterling is still rather a sad piece of currency.) The real reason why we are here is probably just because we wa nt to pay you a tribute for all your recent great accomplishments, Otherwise, some of us might have tho ught twice about undertak ing al l the necessary travelling. O. R. M. Apsey is the only one of us who resides in Manhattan. F. W. Thomas and R. Crowley work here but live at va rying substa ntial distances outside. Alla n Rod gers has come over from Princeton, which is no petty little distance. Rev. J. F. Martin (a n ex~master) ha s come all the way from north of New I-Iaven, and Robert Weidenbacker even fu rther from Philadelphia. The mi les we shall have covered between liS from ou r residences to the Biltmore and back home aga in wou ld make quite a cute little statistic, if any of yOll arc interested in statistics, but we feel tha t that is a little improbable and so we won't bother. Although our numbers are very small, we have decided to throw our weigh t about and send you th is collect ive letter. You had beller make the most of it because Heaven knows when you are likely to get a no ther. The first thing we want to say is that we a re especially gra teful to you for provid ing most of the good news we have had from England for a long time. From over 3,000 miles away the perspective (in both directions) is somet imes extraordinarily good, and sometimes very bad, and wh ile we are most anxious not to tread on anybody's toes, from 3,000 miles away the news from England, genera lly speak ing, ha s been pretty dreary for a long time. The British seem from here to have just been unable to get go ing properly since the war. Life in the U.S.A . is not all beer and skittles and is seldom serene-never, in New York City- and it makes matters a lot worse when we have to feel tha t the old folk s back home are hav ing a tough time. Bu t the news from K.S.c. has been pers istently and wonderfully inspiring. At the end of the war you picked yourselves up from being a lmost flat on your backs, snapped your fingers a t modern cynicism and, like a true aristocra t fully mindful of his responsibilities, you proceeded to repossess yourselves of all your ancient glo ries, and then went on to add severa l new ones. Do not let us be jud icial and attempt to place a cash value on these great achievements. All that we can say is, Thank you very much. AboUl twelve years ago two hoary~headed O.K.S. residents of New York (one of whom has since moved to South Amer ica) were discussing the futu re of K.S. C. They concluded that as a result of the war your inevitable fat e would be to subside in to an utterly drab State~rl1n loca l educat io nal inst itution. And certai n passages in Edwa rds' recenl history of the Schoo l ind icate that they were not entirely silly in reaching this conclusion, least of all from 3,000 miles away. But of course they were completely wrong. First of all, they badly under~estil11ated the depth and permanence of the influence which K.S.C. has on those who 423
THE CAN TUARTA N have had close contact with it. Secondly, they did not ~no~ ~hat YOl,' were gO,ing ~o be so eXlr~ord inarily fortunate as to have the most superb leadersh ip at this Cfltica l pen o~. Winch IS furthe r eV I ~encc that people get the luck they deserve rather than by chance. We arc not gOll1g to form any concluSIons about
what will happen in another lW~lvc years' time. That ,depends very largely on yOlI gl!YS who are now at the School, and somehow we have a feeli ng that there
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OXFORD LETTER Oxford. March, 1958.
I have sometimes wondered what is the true function of the Oxford Letter that periodically appears in The Cantuarian . In the past it seems to have been to record the exploits of individual O.K.S. For a change this is going to be an Oxford Letter, that IS a letter primarily about Oxford rather tha n abo ut the O.K.S. there. One might say after that, what is the point then of haVing this letter at all, but the University as a body should be of considerable interest to those now at the School who seek entra nce In ~me for m or ~~ other to its community. Looking over some other Issues, I see that the magic records as B. W. H ennessey-Bateman is rowing in his college seventh eight WhIC~, hopes to be seen on the river soon" or " J. G. Pfenick-Smith has now passed Prelims are to be found In the genera l O.K.S. news in most recent Ca.nlu~rian issues, and the fact that there are now seventy-o ne O. K.S. in residence makes It difficult for any correspondent to keep track of all of them or to record thei r individual exploits wit h anythmg approach mg Justice. These exploits, I hasten to add, are certai nly, worthier and m or~ memorable than those m my irreverent suggcstions above, for. ~.Ing s supplies blues, tnaitsts, lead.Ing mUSICIans, men of the theatre, writers and politICIans as well as. some of ~cadcmlc notc. Bu~ somc impressions of Oxford, its effect on O. K.S. and their effect on It, seem a fitter subject for a letter with a title such as th is. In many ways Oxford is becoming surprisingly. level-headed these days. The usual parental stock of stories of daring explOits, of chmbmg memorials, removin g the bumpers of tax i-cabs and of blocking up or blowing up sectors of ri val colleges at random, which are apt to improve with the telling, may very well not be. to ld by this gene ra lion at all. For there is little scope left now for fresh research on these hnes. Thus there IS a movement in the uni versity wh ich seeks its fireworks m more cultura l.and ratIOnal pastimes. Pleasures have become simpler a nd in better taste, constant proctonal regulation seems to have been surprisingly effective in civilizing the wilder spirits and general mterest IS shown In ,!,ore serious matters. It is true that at breakfast those people who care to ta lk at all Will mva n ably talk about sport and those people prepared to suffer the par51mony of a college luncheon will talk about ~port too, and at dinner the topics of con~ersat lOn Will be sport With a little sex and cinema thrown in. But people are even begmnmg to ta lk sensibly about these subjects, and what is more surprising, many and parlicularly people from our S~hoo l wish to break this monotony. These are people to whom the wo rd Ulysses d?es not simply mean a promising horse in the Grand National and to whom the n ame celtiC IS not solely descriptive of a footba ll team, and who wish to talk about then¡ wo rk to other people even at the price of being sconced at dmner. Intellectual conversatIOn mto the s ~all hours seems to thrive as never before and In the taverns the WIsdom of SocIates I ubs shoulders with smoker stories. 424
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The Oxford of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, which for all its grace and charm seemed to be the Oxford of the idle, has fa st disa ppeared . State subsidies and coun ty grants from bod ies that expect adeq uate retu rns for their own outpourings have centred attent ion again on the main fu nctio n of a university. An Oxford Don went on record last term as saying that undergraduates work harder in the academic field now than they ever did before. And even the people who go aro und saying in loud voices "I haven't done a stroke of work for weeks" are probably consulting more texts than they care to reveal. Competition for places at our ed ucational Meccas is now much greater than it used to be and poor examjnation resu lts can have mo re serious repercussions than formerly ¡ th~ undergraduate today is expected to justify his residence. ' . The. less hap hazard attitude adopted to wa rds academic subjects fi nds its counterpart m the mtense profeSSIOnalism m other wa lks of unive rsity life. Gone are the days when a man took off his jacket a nd con"!peted in a mile race for the fun of it. These are the days of methodical trammg, of disciplined exerCise, of know- how and scientific application of skills; all races are governed by the stopwatch. The University rugger teams are now the fittest and toughest opponents any side can be expected to find in the country; in the theatre the actor steels himself to atlam profeSSIOnal standards, the technicians are more knowledgable, the businessmen tighter-lipped, service on the ed itorial staffs of the Isis and CilerlVell is now regarded as a pass port to Fleet Street, the President of the Union can make a tremendous impression at a national par ty political conference. Hobbies are now taken very seriously, alas ! even tiddlywinks. Occasionally a leader-writer will denounce the revolt against amateurism, but it seems the logical conclusion from events and trends withou t the University, and it continues at present unabated. Into this lake of .increasing placidity King's School, Canterbury, throws personalities capable of dlsturbmg the surface, for our School produces persons of individual temperament who show scant respect for the dreary norm. Yet these people are not on the whole militant. They are either too cymcal or perhaps too sensible to charge around Oxford waving banners, they are not bound up with causes in the reputed home of lost ones the societies they belong to are in the main constructive. The ineffectiveness of the effort~ of enthusiasts has been well illustrated by the Oxford Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament whose tortuously phrased questionnaires o n this very seri ous subject were issued answered by some after a fashion, and returned witho ut causing OUf leaders at Wes tmi~ster much embarrassment. 1 had the liberty of examining some of the returned forms and the vol um ino us riders added on the backs seemed to indicate an overwhelming interest in the subject, but a lso an overwhelm mg reJeclion of the terms of the questionna ire. So many of these answers ;were qualified that It makes one wonder whether the result of any questIOnnaire or Gallup poll rea ll y tells a nybody anything at all useful. The O.K.S. at Oxford hold themselves aloof from fanat icism, the fact that for many the Uni versity marks the end of a road, and what happens to them when they leave it is the start of anot her and t he two highways ha ve no junction , perhaps makes O.K.S. , as others at Oxford; unwilling to expend energy on somethmg that IS not to be their main undertak ing in life. The hard and regrettable truth of the matter IS that the majo rity are at Oxford to obtain a degree which will be a passport to success in Business or Industry or will enable them to teach where they will a nd show very little in terest in the life of the Uni versity. But though O. K.S. at Ox ford show little mterest m either bombs or teddy-bears, are neither militant nor affected, they are by no means as lethargic as this majority. Almost all are active in 425
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some field in Oxford, ma ny in intellectual and cultural circles and there are few whose onl y form of sporti ng rec reation is occasiona lly climbing into college. Most O. K.S. owe a tremendo us debt to their School of which not all are conscious. Almost all seemed to be endowed with cha rm and intelligence, with d ipl omacy ra ther than anger, a nd with a broad and li bera l education, and a bove all wi th the fac ulties to appreciate to the full the opportunities a uni versity a ffords. On the other hand, O.K .S. suffer in that they do not shine as a group but as individuals. There are no fun cti ons where they all meet, no reunions except at the School itself when many will always, by circumstances, be forced to be absent. Each man is engaged in a scction of a uni versity life which at Oxford is canalised and which moves in indi vidual sets and cliques. This means that the majority ofO.K.S. have little contact with each other. It might be a help to break down the artificial barriers thus created if someone should arrange for a general meeting of Oxford O. K.S. so that the indi vidual parts played by them might be more easily recognised by all. This is, I hope, what the School wants to hear : but as for the O.K.S. at Oxford, like Socrates, I know nothing except the fact of my own ignorance.
CAMBRIDGE LETTER As from Cambridge. Dear School, There are some adva ntages in having only one third of Oxford 's O.K.S. strength at Cambridge, but one large disadvantage lies in the accretion and extraction of information about O.K.S. This is a hardy perennia l in the nature of complaints by OX.S. University letter-writers but surely the grape vine in Oxford couldn' t work less efficiently. Once more we must thank Dr. Budd for entertaining us to coffee after dinner. This meeting was to have taken place last term, but Asian 'flu intervened. It is at these coffee parties that most of the O.K.S. information is gathered- so if some of the legends that follow are too apocryphal, then it is rather the fault of those who don' t attend, rather than of those who do. The river seems to clai m the attention of many O.K.S., there being eight who competed in the Lents. R. H. C. Symon stroked the L.M .B.C. 1st ViII which rowed over each night behind Jesus and I st a nd 3rd Trinity. P. H. Moss and D . Balfour were in the Clare and Caius first boats. Moss is com ing up for a fourth year to fin ish his Tripos in Theology before going on to Lincoln Theological College. P. va n Berekel a nd P. J. D . Allen rowing for Jesus II were fo rtunate to make two bumps in the fi rst division in their first bumping races. Va n Berckel has the distinction of being the only man in the Uni versity reading Dutch. F . D . Woodrow coxed the second Corpus eight and D. C. Stevenson a nd A. J . Briggs represented Clare and Pembroke in the lower divisions. In other field s of sport, J. E . L. Sales hooked most successfull y for John's, winning the rugby Cupper. R. G . Paterson takes part in va ri ous sports for Christ's, including athletics, rugby, squash, swimming and lacrosse. K. D. Agnew a nd W. H. Woolston played for Jesus rugger fifteen. Woolston also represented his College at hockey, as did W. H. WenbanSmith for King's. 426
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. T. Jardine-Brown at Caius sprang into ea rl y prominence playing the bass dru m fo r the Pipe Band .on Poppy D ay last tenn. Readmg Medlcme he fi nds involves a lot of time in the DIS.sectlOn Room, but he also fi nds time to run the business side of the Med ica l Society Magaz111e. M. Deller, a Choral Schola r at John 's, caught the Un iversity musical eye wi th hiS Mad n ga l G r~lUp at a MUSIC Society concert last term. At the end of th is term he was a I: ad mg light 10 a concert at St. Edwa rd's C hurch, where Tallis' Lamentations were pel for med. R. H olfo rd, now 10 hiS fi nal year at Magda lene, is Secretary of the Uni versity Recordel Club ; w hde 1. M . . Orr-Ewmg. of Pembroke, also in his last yea r, is Secretary of the Conserva ti ve ASSociatIOn. In Trinity, R. Bea l seems to be an assiduolls worker but he ha s been seen at the Arts Theatre. J . D. R. Spooner at Emmanuel fi nds little tim ~ :or outside a cti vities as he IS ta kl11g the fast c ourse in Engineerin g. J. S. Nye ill Christ's dlso a ppea l s to be workl11g fan'l y hard Judgl11g from the num ber of lectures he a ttends. Of our graduate members, M. Carnes is still enjoying his teaching at K ing's Choir School. Dr. M. A. S. Burgess teaches Russia n at Londo n three days a week, but otherwise glaces C~ mbf1 dge as effecti vely as ever. R. G . West is a fellow at Clare College. Little IS kn own of the activities of H. R. J . H oare, N. H. H . Gra bufl1, M. Wi lliams and D. G . Gn ffit hs- or rather httle has come to light, so we must assume t hey are a ll wo rking for fi rsts.
Ofcourse we all ha ve a fi rst da ngled before us like the grapes before Tanta lus but as fo r 111m, so for most of us it will be inaccessible- however, the thought that there a~'e always a few lucky ones spurs us on to greater efforts. H owever, with exams.- Prelims. Pal t I 01 Part lI---;ahead, more and more of us feel like add ing " me too" to the long list under the 1I1scnp tIOn on one of the desks in the Mill La ne lecture rooms " Three weeks to go and 1 d Ol~ ' t kno w nothing"! Still, after the exa ms. we ca n relax in t'he pleasures of May Week, which as usual comes half-way th rough June. Yours sincerely, O.K.S. CANTAIl.
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Il was with deep regret that we lea rnt of the death on 20t h January. 1958, of Cyril Walter Barber. He jo ined the Junior Schoo l in 1908 and entered the Senior School in 1910. A first class sportsman in many spheres he stroked the First IV in 1913 and 191 4 and became Capta in o f Boats in 1914. 1n the Public Schools Fours at Marlow Regatta his crew rowed a tremendous race aga inst Imperial Service Co llege wh ich resulted in a dead heat. Havin g won the re¡ro ..... later in the day they lost in the fina l 10 Monkton Coombe and St. Edward's. At Rugger he played wing th ree-qua rter for the First XV in 1913 and 1914. His Gymnastic achi:vements were out stand in g. An ext ract from The Callfuariall slimmed it up by sayi ng: "I-l is performance o n the bars and rings was not far short of perfection. " He entered for the Publi: Schools Gymnastic Competition in 19 14 and obtained second hi ghest individua l marks. He was a sergeant in the O.T.C; when he left School he jo ined the Inns o f COlll't and was later Commissioned in the Essex and Suffolk R.G.A. In 1922 he sta rted business as Ass istan t Manager in a Laundry and Itl ter became General Manager. His knowledge and untiring devot ion to the Laundry business, sometimes du ri ng adverse days, brought him innumerable fri ends. He will be a great loss to the trade. Ever since he lefl the School he had been a keen and loyal O.K.S. He reglliarly attended the annua l dinners, din ner-dances and month ly suppers right up until his death. At the suppers he was loved by all , both young and o ld. We a ll feel that we have lost a true fr iend. Ou r sympat hies go to his widow, son and daughter. His son, Da vid, was at the School from 1945- 50.
CAPTA IN R. W. KEYMER. R.N. ( 19 15- 19) It was wi th great sorrow that we lea rned of the death in Chat ham Naval Hospita l of Ronald Willi am
Keymer. Born o n 11 th February, 190 1, he won a King's Scholarsh ip in 1915 and was an outstanding member of the First XV in 1917 and 1918. In 1933 he reti red rro m the Submarine Serv ice o r the Royal NavYI in wh ich he had gained qu ick promotion and exhibited great versat ility in becom in g an equa lly successfu l business man in a London Lire Assurance Company. August, 1939, found him once aga in in the Roya l Navy on the staff of the Aberdou r Ad miral or Submarines. In 1940 he was transferred to special service duty in Norway, which was fo llowed by thc command of the French Corvette La Ma/ollille. ]n th is capac ity he ga ined a Mention in Despa tches arter the Battle of the At lantic. He took part in the Nort h African land ing operations as Capta in o r the American sloop Gorlestoll. As Captain of H.M.S. Hind he was one o f the first escorts of the No rmandy land ing and in 1944 comma nd ing the same vessel he saw action in the Indian Ocean. On his return to England in 1945 he took over the command of the Fleet Air Arm Station at A rbroath. Fina ll y. befo re he was invalided from the Service he had served and loved so well at the end of 1946, he commanded the cru iser H.M.S. Newcastle. The remainder of his life was hard ly less act ive and after a journey to Africa he became the F inancia l representat ive for the Conservative Cent ral Office in the North . Amongst his many talents shoot ing ranked highly. He represented the Royal Navy at Bisley and elsewhere and also shot for England o n four occasions: tw ice in the Mackinnon Match and twice in the Nat iona l Match. He was four times in the fi nal stage of H.M. The King's Pri ze and in 1946 he won the Elkington Aggregate. A friend writes: " I knew him well. His chief characterist ics were a fanatica l thoroughness in all he did , a deep and abiding love of the Roya l Navy and outstand ing courage in danger, hardship o r suffering. He tolerated considerable pain befo re death without complai nt. Any fur ther tribute wou ld be superfluolls and to all his many fri ends and relations we offer our most proround sympathy. 428
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THE CAN TUARIA N J. M. ED MONDS ( 1899- 1903) It wi ll be a source of regret especially to o lder O. K.S. to hea r of the death or John Maxwell Edmonds on
March 18th at the age of 85. As. a first-class Classical Scho!ar of Jesus College, Cambridge, he made a va luable acquisition to our Staff I~ !899.a nd taught here.unt Jl 1~03 .. Later he ret.u rned t? Ca m.b.ridge as a Fellow of his o ld college and w.as d lst l',lglllshed both. for 11Is sc h o l a~shlp and .for IllS t ea~ l~m g ab ili ty. The few times of recreation which hiS v09a t,on allowed hlln were spen~ III gardenmg and wn tmg, and his extensive publicat ions during these yea rs Illcl ude a ~~Imbe r o f volllr,nes III the Loeb Classics, a n~h o l ogies of Greek verse wi th translat io ns, and the well-k nown I lI'e/l'e War Epllaplis. Of these the much misquoted: "W hen you go home, tell the m of us and say For your tomorrows these gave their today," is perhaps the most fa ill ous. H.~ pro~i des a nob le e~a ll1pl e of a man or grea t p~ l'so n al in tellectua l abi lity, who was only satisfied when shallng hiS kn o~ l ed ge Wi th. others through the med ium of his great teaching powers. To all who ha ve felt the benefits o r hiS personahty we extend our deepest sy mpat hy.
J. P. CLOWES ( 1939--43) Jt is wi th the greatest sorrow that we have to record tbe deat h by drown ing on 24th February of Joh
Peter Clowes. n , As a me.mber of t.he Gra~ge, he wa~ ~ne ~r the ea rliest to join the Air Sectio n of the Corps, then known <is the A.l.C, whele he gamed the dlst l.nctlon ~ r a first class cadetsh ip. His act ivities, however, were not confined t<? one sphere. l~ e took a keen lI1tcrest 111 art and after being a prominent and industrious member or the Soclety, .r0r sOll,!e time, :-vas elected Hon. Secreta ry. After leaving School he did his war service in the Navy and '{ater ga med rapid success in market -gardening. ' . 11 is a lways a source of ~specia.' regret wh~n an act ive and rela tively young li fe is cut short so suddenly, and we would assure all Ills relatJons and fnend s or our deepest sympathy in this tragic bereavement.
THE LIBRARY We acknowledge with grat itude books presented to the Library by the following;- W. A. Hodges.
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors of THE Dear Sirs,
Study No. 5, The Grange. 121h March. 1958. CANTUARIAN.
I should [ike to take the opportunity of commenting on the weakness of mind of the Sports Committee.
A few days previolls to the Junior HOllse seven¡a¡sides, there was a maj ority vole by the Committee that everyone shou ld be under 16 by the 1st January of this year to be eligible to play. However, a few minutes before the start of the tou rnamenl this ruling was changed by a few objectors without the presence of the whole Comm ittee. 1 feel that the Committee should be abolished if irregular rulings a re to be allowed to overcome previous majority decisions. Yours sincerely, N. H. RICHARDSON .
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To the Editors ofTHH CANTUARIAN. Dear Sirs, Referring to the photograph in the December, 1957, issue, just how come there are 16 people in the 1st XV? Yours truly,
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CROWLEY.
Summit Study, Walpole House.
To Ihe Editors of T H E CANTUAR I AN. Dear Si rs, T appreciate that the attendance of the School at the main service in the Cathedral each first Sunday in the month is a custom and as such is defensible; but it tends to become an arduous and often odious task when after "lining up" for half an hour in the turbulent elements pecul iar to Kent and having been packed in the Cathedral for a further wait of three-quarters of an hour, we find after this tedious interlude, that not only does the choir dominate the singing almost to the exclusion of the congregation but that many of the public and a few of our own numbers are isolated in the transepts. For people of adolescent age, who natu rally enquire into every aspect o f life, religion being perhaps the ch ief quest ion to wh ich their attent ion is directed, it is essential that the service be shared by all to avert the danger of boredom, which in turn might wrongly inHuence their beliefs. The Cathedral Choir is an excellent one and great pleasure can be gained by listeni ng to it, but it is indeed difficult to feel part of the service when lip by the High Altar, and almost impossible when in the transepts; these deficiencies are rendered insuperable when one is seated in the transepts, with the choi r in addition singing everything except the hymns. The situation resulting from present circumstances is most unsatisfactory: what might be an attent ive and intelligent congregation becomes a slumbering and discontented audience. Yours sincerely,
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CANTUARIAN Brackenhurst, Pembury, Kent. 15th Jallual'Y, 1958.
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DECEMBER, 1957: p. 342 The suggestion that O.K.S. should be called "Cantuarians" rather appeals to me, although 1 have been one for nearly 54 years. Before making any change, however, we should want to know (a) how long the designation O.K.S. has been in usc! and (b) what the other King's Schools use as their label; there must be a good dozen of these and possIbly one or more use th e letters O.K.S.- if so, there wou ld be a good reason for us to change. l n any case, of course, there should be a referendum- more work for the Hon. Secretary! Yours faithfully, J. TUSKER-CRANE (1898- 1904). Study Number Seven, Linacre House. 2 1s1 March, 1958.
To the &litors of THE CANTUARI AN. Dear Sirs, Agriculture is still the largest industry in this country and must remain so. In a publ ic school such as this, which is situated in the centre of the Garden of England it is essential that there should be some club or organisation that can promote a wider knowledge of agriculture to those who are interested. It is not possible to join the local branch of the Young Farmers' Club as the times of their meetings coincide with School periods. For boys who are not so fortunate as to live o n a farm and wish to take up agriculture as a care.!r it is important that they learn a little of what they a re going to do, before they go to an Agricultural College For These reasons it is essent ial that this School should have a soc iety to deal with t his matter. Yours sincerely, IUVENIS AGRICOLA f RATUS.
Dear Sirs, What induces small boys to disregard warning upon warning about riding or step-riding through arches? Are they so insensitive to the state of their parents' pockets that they can afford to persist in this ridiculous practice when it requires no effort at all- lo get off? Yours, A NG RY YOUNG MON.
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OUR CONTEMPORARIES The Editors acknowledge the receipt of the following magazines and apo logise for any inadvertent omissions:The Barrovian, Benenden School Magazine, Bradfield College Chronicle, Bryanslon Saga, The Cholmeliall, The Campbelliall, Cheltenham Ladies' College Magazine, City ofLOlldoll School Magazine, Th e Crallbrookiall, The Decal/iall, The Dikler Hill Place School Magazine, Th e Eastboumian, The Elizabethan, SI. Edward's School Chronicle, The Epsomiall, The Felstedian, The Glel/a/moll" Chronicle, The Gresham, The HurSlJollllian, The Haileybllriall alld I.S.C. Chronicle, The Kefll College Magazine, King's Schoo/ Magazine, Lancing College Magazine, The Lawrellliall, The LOl'ettolliall, The Ma!vemiall. The Mallwoodian, The Meteor, The Mill Hill Magazine, The Milner Court Chronicle, The Novaportiall, The Ollse!, The Pauline, The Rad/eian, Th e Repl0lliall. The Roffellsiall, Stollylwrst Magazine, The Schoof Tie, The Suttollian, The TOllbridgiall, The Wellillgtoniall, The Worksopian, The Wykesonian, The Yorkist. 43 1
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E DITORIAL ... THE SCHOOL VIRTUTE FUNCTI MORE PATRUM DUCES VALETE SALVETE TI-I.IS AND T HAT TH E OPEN ING OF THE SCIENCE l.ABORATORIES TH E MODERATOR OF TH E CHURC H OF SCOTLAND MR. l'AUL DEHN ... THE YALE GLEE CLUB ... "ELI JAH " C HAMB ER ORC HEST RA CONCE RT WITH RONALD SM ITH THE JAZZ CON CE RT SE REN ADE IN TH E CLOISTERS M ILITARY BAND AND GLEE CLUB CONCERT THE K ING'S WEEK SYM PHONY CONCERT "OTH ELLO" ... TH E DIFFICULTIES OF CONTEMPORARY STAINED GLASS DICKENS AND OURSELVES ... " PH ASELUS I LLE, QUEM VJDET IS, HOS PITES, AIT FU ISSE NAV IUM CELER RIMUS" BISHOPS' BAGS ON A ROSE FLOATING BY IN THE WATER "20 YEARS AFTER" APARTHEID: A DEFENCE EPILOGUE ... TIMEO D ANAOS ET DONA FERENTES H EATHC Ll FF SCHOOL, PEN G E CANTERBURY R E-V ISITED (I I) T HE H-BOM B or WAR TO END WAR LEAD ING CADET DAEDALUS EX LlBR IS .. . T HE RIVER .. . AN ECONOM IC SU RVEY OF STUDY LI FE MAKA RI OS .. . LEAVE H IM .. . THE CENTENA RY OF MR. CROCKFORD'S C LER!CAL DIRECTORY A MOMENT OF SELF-IN D ULG ENCE BOOK REV IEW TH E SC HOOL ROLL TH E CHOIR ... THE SECOND ORC HESTRA GLEE Cl.UB NOTES JO IE DE VIVRE COlltinued ol'(!rle(l(
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lLLUSTR AT IONS:MR. W. SOM ERSET MAUG HAM , GOVERNOR AND BENEFACTOR ... ... from ispiece A G EN ERAL VIEW O F TH E OPEN I NG OF TH E SCIENCE BLOC K 444 MR. SOMERSET MAUGHAM CONVERSING WITH TH E HEADMA ST ER AND A. G. ROBI ETT E ... 448 TH E SCHOOL MON ITORS AND SCHOOL GIVING T H REE C HEERS FOR MR. SOMERS ET MAUGHAM .. . 449 458 A LETTER FROM CHARLES DICKENS THE BOMBED DINING HALL IN 1942 464 D EAN WACE LA YING TH E FOUNDATION STONE OF TH E HARV EY LABORATORY, 1905 465 CASS IO AND lAGO ... 480 IAGO, E MILIA, CASSIO, D ESDE MONA 480 481 IAGO AN D OTH ELLO OTH ELLO, GRATIANO, E MILIA AND DESDEMONA 481 TH E ORCHESTRA 496 TH E CRI CKET XI 497 512 TH E FlRST VIIl ATHLET ICS MATCH AGAINST HARROW 513 CARTOON 516
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MR. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, GOVERNOR AND BENEFACrOR
THE CANTUARIAN VOL. XXVII
No. 6
AUGUST 1958
EDITORIAL This issue contains a short article on the possible future of the public schools under a Labour Government; and it is right that, whatever our politics, we should become aware that our school does not exist in splendid isolation from the rest of the world. It is not enough for us to praise .or criticize the various aspects of its life: we must also be clear about its position in the country in which we live. Those of us who are not may well receive a rude shock. Our muddled thinking is chiefly due to selfish feeling. The more radical of us- J suppose there are few- are annoyed at the inequality and privilege which are undoubtedly features of the public school system.. The more conservative tend to regard the system as a due right and just privilege for them to enjoy, perhaps even as a means of preserving and fortifying their own social and economic class, a weapon by which they and their children can acquire advantages which are not open to others. Though we may talk sincerely about the moral and spiritual advantages of a public school, we must realize (if we are to be honest) that advantages of a more materialistic nature also enter into our thinking.
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Such thinking can never reconcile different OpinIOnS, because it is merely a reflexion (more or less skilfully masked) of our own desires. Only an objective assessment of the public school as an educational institution, and not as a weapon in the class struggle, can point the right way for the future. If we think here, as surely we do think, that a highly integrated community which can be inspired by common ideals and purposes, together with a common tolerance, offers unique educa tional advantages to a growin g boy- advantages whose absence is very obvious when we consider the problem of juvenile delinquency and street ga ngsthen we must also accept that these advantages will also apply to boys whose parents ca nnot afford a public school 's fees. F rom this it follows that the problem is not a class-war problem, to be settled by considering whether we shall accept non-paying pupils into the schools, stick out for parental rights for independent (i.e. privileged) education, or abolish an instrument of unfair privilege: it is simply the problem of how to extend these educational (not political) advantages as far as possible. Basically it is as simple as this :-If the public schools (or whatever name one wishes to give to independently-run tightly-welded communities) are educationally good, then let them become rather the norm: let them be gradually extended to include all those who could profit by such communities. If they are not, then let us abolish them. In either case, this is an educational issue and not a political one. But it is an issue about which we must be concerned. Both the radical desire to abolish privilege, and the conservative desire to keep things as they are, are unconstructive. We need progressive co-operation from both sides: in our own case, perhaps, we need to show as much awareness of and interest in national education as we can- otherwise we shall merit the charge of ivory-tower selfishness, and an uncharitable shrugging-off of the problems of those less fortunate than ourselves. Perhaps this charge is not an unjust one; and we should do well to consider it.
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THE SCHOOL Head Head Head Head Head Head Head Head
The Captain of the School: J. R. FREW J. R. FREW of The Grange J. P. ROCHE, K.S. of Linacre House ... R. M. HARVEY, K.S. of Marlowe House .. ' J. R. TURNER, K.S. of Meister Omers J. C. G. SMITH, K.S. of School House D. G . JONES of Walpole H ouse .. . A. J. REDPATH, K.S. of Galpin's H ouse .. . D. J. EVANS, K.S. of Luxmoore House
SCHOOL MONITORS J R. FREW, J. P. ROCHE, K.S., R. M. HARVEY, K.S., J. R. TURNER, K.S., J. C. G. SMITH, K.S., D G. JONES, A. J. REDPATH, K.S. , D. J. EVA NS, K.S., D. J. WILLIAMS, K.S. , B. D. FOORD, P.· A. CAMPBELL, K.S., M . R. JENNER, A. A. J. WILLIAMS, K.S. , C. VERNON-SM ITH, K.S.
The School House: The Grange:
HOUSE MONITORS: R. H . C. CROXFORD, R. H. PAWSEY, R. V. EDWARDS, D. D. VALPY H. A. S. BANCROff, K.S., N. M. DEVOlL, S. F. DOCKSEY, K.S., C. F. GRAHAM, D. H. B. CHESSHYRE, C. H. BAYSTON, J. B. S. FIELDING, K.S.
Walpole House :
M. P. SULLIVAN, K.S., C. W. YATES, W. E. J. MI NNS, G. B. JACKSON, R. F. LU NN
Meister Omers:
A. TURNER, K.S., D. MASTERS, J. A. C. McELWEE, T. C. KI NROSS, A. PHILPOTT, A. G. ROBIETTE, K.S.
Luxmoore H ouse :
M. P. F. PLUTTE, N. C. ATTWATER, R. L. PENGELLY, K.S., G. D. K. MARCH MONT, W. T. SEABROOK, G. A. ELCOCK, R. F. L. WOOD, J. K. McDONALD
Galpin's House :
G. SIMMONS, T. N. HARKE, J. G. A. HEADLEY, H. K. BRAY
Linacre House:
C. H. G. DE B. TEMPEST-RADFORD, P. CHAFFIN, J. G. UNDERWOOD, K.S., J. I. R. THOMPSON, A. J. BEET
Marlowe House:
J. R. A. BIRD, B. S. GUARD R. F. LUNN J. P. ROCHE, K.S. J. A. TURNER, K.S. J. R. FREW B. S. GUARD J. A. TURNER, K.S. J. A. TURNER, K.S. N. G. A. PAYNE G. A. ELCOCK
Monitor of Music .. . Captain of Cricket .. . Captain of Athletics Captain of Boats ... Captain of Fencing Captain of Squash .. . Captain of Tennis .. .
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Editors : TI-IE CAPTAI N OF SCHOOL (ex-officio), J. P. ROCHE, K.S., H. A. S. BANCROFT, K.S., J. G. U NDERWOOD, K.S. Sports Editor: D. G. JONES Secretaries : S. C. FARMER, K.S., J. R. C. WRIGHT, K.S.
VIRTUTE FUNCTI MORE PATRUM DUCES BOWEN, R. C.- Entered School, Jan., '54; Linacre House Monitor, Sept., ' 57; Captain of Cross-Country, ' 56-'58; Athletics Colours, ' 56, '57, '58 ; Vice-Captain Athletics, '57, '58; Leading Cadet C.C.F. CLARK, R. J. B.- Entered School, Sept. , '54 ; King's Scholar. State Scholarship, '57; Open Scholarship in Modern Languages to Trinity College, Oxford , Dec., '57. EAST, D. J.- Entered School , Scpt. , '52; Walpole House Monilor, Sept., ' 57; Sgt. C.C.F. , Jan., '58 ; Upper VI ; Open Scholarship in History to Lincoln College, Oxford , '57. G UN NER, J. C.- Entered School, Sept., '52; Marlowe House Monitor, Sept. , ' 57; 2nd XV, '56, ' 57; C.P.O. i/c R .N. Section C.C.F., Sept. , '57. MORGAN, A. R .- Entered School, Sept., '53; Lord Milner Memorial Scholar; Luxmoore House Monitor, Sept., ' 57; Upper VI; Open Exhibition and Hon. Parker Exhibition in Science to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Dec., ' 57. NIGHTINGALE, K. R.- Entered School, Sept., '52; School Hou se House Monitor, Sept., ' 57; Petty Ollicer, R.N. Section C.C.F., Sept. , ' 56 ; Upper VI. PRINGLE, J. R. H.- Entered School, Sept., '53; Luxmoore House Monitor, Sept. , '57; 2nd Hockey XI, '57; Upper VI ; Open Exhibition in Hi story to Merton College, Oxford . TEMPLETON, H. R.- Entered School, Sept. , '53; King's Scholar, '53; Galpin's House Monitor, Jan., '58; 2nd XV, '56, '57; Upper VI. WILLIAMS, R. H.-Entered School, Sept., '52; Walpole House Monitor, Sept., '57; C.S.M ., C.C.F., Sept., '57; Upper VI.
VALETE D. S. C. Ashenden, A. E. H. Bates, T. L. Bennellick, A. W. Wa yne.
SALVETE Abbey, B. G., Bacon, C., Clark, S. G., Grummant, J. M., King, G. D., Low, J. N. P. , Paul, C. R., Perry, R . D . H. , Pollock, M . J., Pomeroy, B. W., Rose, P. N., Rushton, D. N., Scobie, T. M., Turner, M. F. H. 438
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THIS AND THAT It is not often that an y school is fortun ate enough to have a boy whose musical abilities equal those of Roger Lunn, who leaves this term. Those who heard his performance of the Elgar 'Cello Concerto in the King' s Wcek Concert this year will be aware of his great technical gifts and deep musical understanding. But it is well to place on record also the tremendous contribution he has made during the last flve years to all branches of the School music, both choral and instrumental. His efficiency and unsparing work as an organizer should have been an example to all, and we shall greatly miss him. In his future career, at the Guildhall School of Music and afterwards, we wish him all good fortune .
R. F. Lunn
postscript.- News has just reached us that he has won his A.R.C.M.: it appears that this has only been achieved once before. From the Sunday Times : Sir,- On a summer's evening in 1925, I went in last for King's School, Canterbury in a match against St. Lawrence, Ramsgate. We needed 63 runs, and on the faces of the fielding side were looks of barely concealed triumph. The not-out batsman was the late Bowker Andrews, and before recei ving my first ball I was moved to adva nce down the wicket towards him and declaim: "we fail! But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail" . Nor did we ; the runs came in something under 20 minutes. (TH B REV. A. R. BLACKLEDGE, 1914-1925). We ask for more memories. "Recalled with Glee"
The London Ph il harmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult, performed in the N ave a programme which included Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony and Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. It was generally adjudged to have been the highlight of the festivities. Another ambitious production was that of Mr. Christopher Hassall's verse play Christ's Comet at the Marlowe Theatre. Miss Babington is again to be congratu lated on her pluck in a venture that can scarcely be hoped to cover its own costs.
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In view of its doubtful functional ability, it has been decided to dissolve the Games Committee; since its two highlights appear to have been its inception and decease, no one will be radically disturbed. In its place a General Purposes Committee is to be formed Witll the Headmaster as Chairman. Panis ct Cirecnses
In an effort to stimulate the corps, after its loss of impetus with the abolition of National Service, two additional attractions were featured in its programme this term. On 22nd May, Captain Q. L. S. Mathias lectured on "Regular Army Careers"; and on 17th June, a select coach load visited the Royal Tournament at Earls Court. Corps, and the Atomic Age
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Oxford and Cambridge Scholarships, 1957- 58 Reprinted from The Times Educational Supplement than 7 awards):OPEN AWARDS Oxford Cambridge S. E. E. Total S. Manchester G.S. 5 5 13 5 30 Bristol G.S. 9 3 8 4 24 Winchester 6 23 2 5 10 Dulwich 23 5 3 6 9 Sherborne 19 6 3 3 7 St. Paul's 5 3 2 7 17 King's, Canterbury ... 4 4 2 16 6 Bradford G.S. 4 3 16 9 Marlborough 12 1 3 3 5 Eton .. . 3 12 3 6 Christ's Hospital 2 12 6 2 2 K.CS., Wimbledon .. . 2 4 12 I 5 Rugby ... II 6 2 2 I Newcastle R.G.S. I 3 4 JO 2 Ampleforth ... 2 4 2 2 JO Nottingham H.S. 3 I 6 JO U.CS, Hampstead 5 4 I JO King Edward VII, Sheffield I 9 6 2 Charter house 5 3 9 King Edward's, Birmingham 6 I I 9 Liverpool Inst. H.S .... 3 2 4 9 Clifton 2 I 5 8 Westminster ... 2 2 3 I 8 Uppingham 3 I 2 2 8 City of London I 3 3 8 I Tonbridge 3 4 I 8 Oundle 2 4 I 7
of 6th June, 1958 (schools with more RESTRI CTED AWARDS Oxford Cambridge All S. E. S. E. Total Awards 2 2 4 34 I 2 26 5 I 6 29 I 2 25 I 2 21 17 2 18 16 2 2 4 16 1 I 13 12 12 2 I 3 14 I II 10
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A plan of the athletics track, which is proposed for the northern end of Birley's playing fields, appears in this issue. Besides the track there will be jumping pits, and space for the other field events. A fund has been opened to which some seventy pounds has already been donated.
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We now ha ve a second portrait of William Harvey, O.K.S. It is a copy of the Rolls Park portrait of Ilim aged about 45- the earliest one known. Another Hafvey picture The origina l is owned by Mr. Andrew Lloyd, present head of the family into whose possession the Harvey properties passed at the end of the 18th century, when the male line became extinct. Mr. Lloyd ve ry kindly granted permission for the portrait (Wllich is on loan to the Royal College of Physicians) to be copied for the School, a nd the work was done by Mrs. Aris. Sir Geoffrey Keynes, who was consulted about the portrait on the suggestion of Professor Charies Singer- a close friend of the School during its Cornish period- has most kindly presented a copy of his monograpll on the Harvey portraits to the School and this has been placed in the Walpole Collection . This particular portrait was used as a frontispiece to the catalogue of the exhibition of
books and manuscripts at the Royal College of Physicians to celebrate Harvey's Tercentenary last year.
Historical Relativism
From a French unseen by the History VI ; the passage reads: "qui vo ulai t lui faire constator Ie fini , Ie tranchant de dents de fraises qu'i1 venai t de tailler" "who wished to show him the finish, the sharpness of the circular saw, which he had just cut"
Translations varied: "who wished to construct for him from the teeth of expenses what he had just built" "who wis hed to ma ke him agree to the end, biting the teeth of strawberries, which he had just picked" "who wanted to impress him with the fini sh, the interweaving of stra wberry-coloured pleats, which he had just shaped" "who wanted to show him some reall y good finish, slicing him up with false teeth, which he had just put in". We are indebted to C. F. Freeborn (1904- 1908) for the photograph of Dea n Wace laying the fo undation stone of the Harvey Laboratory in 1905 which is printed elsewhere in this issue. In addition to the people identified in the photograph, the 1905 Cantuarian tell s us that Mrs. Wace, Lady Collard, Dr. Bell and Canon Holland are also present. At the ceremony the Captain of School placed a bottle containing The Cantuarian, the Pink Book, the Rotulus, a few coins and a parch-
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ment record of the occasion in a niche under the actual foundation stone. It is interesting
to note that Dean Wace in his address mentioned that they "had lately heard ve ry loudly of the great importance which physical studies ought to bear in the course of education" ; the climax of the cry fo r more atte ntion to be paid to the sciences is perhaps symbolized in the building of our latest science block.
Lambeth Conference
As before, a party of boys met the special bishops' train from London to help with the baggage. Few hitches were reported and though one bishop was alleged to have mislaid his toothbrush, his
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As usual, those who have had no exams. during the last few weeks of the The Booth t~rm have s taff~d the booth near the Christ Church gate to help sell the . IIckets for Kmg s Week. In past yea rs pe rhaps the most interesting aspect of boothlOg has been the questIOns whIch some pilgrims seem wont to ask; this yea r, however, there have been no really prize remarks, unless we perhaps include that of a gentleman who wa nted to book for "the Artillery Band concert in the Cloisters". The usual questions were all asked: " Where are the Precincts?" "Where are the pigeons?" " Do you sell biscuits?" "You haven't a large envelope, have yo u?" "I'll tell my wife' she- erdirects proceedings." This year's prize must be shared between the small boy' who asked his father (loudly) if the booth was a toilet and the lady who enquired: " May we feed the pigeons, or will it make a mess ?".
Oldest O.K.S.
The papers stated last June that Mr. Somerset Maugham and Dr' Etheridge were the two oldest O.K.S. no w living, but this is incorrect.
It is not defi nitely known who now holds the position of "Senior O.K.S.", but it seems likely that the title should go to the Rev. A. G. C. Lepard (1 8751881), who is now living at 15 Cherry Garden Avenue, Folkestone. We hope to be able to print some reminiscences of the School of eighty odd yea rs ago from his pen in the next Issue.
The new equipment is generally considered to be a worthwhile acquisition and although we seem to have managed at other times (one wo nders how when one thinks of the Chapter House), it is certain that Othello could not ha ve been produced without it.
The Stage
Nor could Othello have been staged to any effect without the expert lighting of Mr. Dems CoombeI', who came down specially from London. Among his recent achievements is the lighting for Expresso Bongo.
Empire Games
Congratulations to Colin Porter .on winning a gold medal in the Empire Games rowmg events by stroklllg the Barn Cottage IV to victory in the coxed fours event.
Something li ke thirty years ago, Dr. Bell was Dean of Canterbury, devoted to the School as the School was to him. Now retired from diocesan work, he has come to live in a new flat, erected where Starr's house stood from the 18th century till bombs destroyed it in 1942. He and Mrs. Bell may be assured of the warmest of welcomes whenever they choose to come i~ to the SchooL We hope that they will feel it is as much open to them now as when the BIshop was ChaIrman of Governors. Already- despite Lambeth Conference engagements and the fact that they had hardl y " settled in"-Dr. and Mrs. Bell have shown their interest in the School by: cominl? to Othello and to the Symphony Concert. Next term, we understand the BIshop will preach to the School' and so we hope very soon it will be like "old times" for them. ' The Right Reverend G. K. A. Bell
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On Speech Day we learned to our deep regret that Mr. Douglas Mr. R. D. G. Munns Munns is now retiring. It seems incredible that he is some few â&#x20AC;˘ years over 70-the oldest member of the Staff-for ill vigo ur and spirit and liveliness he has always appea red (and does still) younger than most. As a teacher he has always been patient, painstaking and encouraging; frequently continuing his instruction by post throughout holiday periods, and his efforts a nd kindness have brought Middle School French to a far higher a nd infinitely more successful standard than ever it had reached before. Yet his greatest contribution to the School has been himself- his ardent, cheerful self, which brightened lives wherever it touched. We are more grateful than can easily be said in words for all that Mr. Munns has done, and still more, for all he has been ; and we wish him many years yet of that glad life with which he has inspired us. Reviews of the programmes appear elsewhere in this number. The " Week" was in total most successful , higll standards being reached both in music and drama. It is gratifying, indeed, that the Week becomes year by year increasingly popular. Hitherto, the general programme llas been buttressed by some professiona l performances-a London Orchestra, Sadler's Wells Opera people and the like- but this year the entire programme was the work of the School: it was amateur, and it was yo uthful. Yet something like 9,000 people came to the various performances, including very considerable numbers from the Continent. King's Week
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THE OPENING OF THE SCIENCE LABORATORIES On the 27th June-one of the more cheerful days of the summer in that it wasn't actually raining-Mr. W. Somerset Maugham travelled speciall y from his villa at Cap Ferrat to perform the opening ceremony. The building was designed by the architect of the Great Hall, Mr. D 'Arcy Bradell, at a cost of ÂŁ26,000, for which we are indebted to the Industrial Fund for the Advancement of Scientific Education and to the overwhelming generosity of Mr. Maugham himself. The ceremony was conducted from the steps of the Norman Staircase, behind which stands the new building; the School and some 300 guests were gathered round the Memorial Court. Mr. Peter Ashton, until recently Secretary of the Industrial Fund, spoke first; he said that this was the I I 3th build ing which had been completed with the support of the Industrial Fund-a clear demonstration of the sw ing towards science which was a nation-wide trend. With regard to the School, he said that everyone could now take some science which had not previously been possible; he added that no-one today could boast of a balanced and so und education without having had something to do with scientific things. The sciences and the arts were not in conflict but were complementary one with the other, and it was by no mea ns unfitting that a great author and man dedicated to the arts should perform the opening ceremon y. Mr. Maugham made it clear that he kne"nothing about science, and it was to the boys themselves that he particularly addressed himself. It was a momentous occasion, for as far as he knew every available sq uare yard belonging to the School had now been filled up, which suggested that there would not be such another occasion. Times had changedin his day there were 120 boys to one bathroom with the School grouped round the Mint Yard; now, he sa id, the School basked in luxury so that with little trouble it could be proved that clean liness was very near to godliness. "The wonderful growth of the School and the prestige it has acquired all over the country are largely due to the energy, fores ight, and enthusiasm-and the ruth less determination-of your Headmaster, Dr. Shirley". The new building symbolized the new life to which we must accustom ourselves- the welfare state and the atomic age. Perhaps we will not have it so easy in the ruture and certainly we will have to compete with men of equal ability and ambition who have previously been denied opportunities. People ta lked of the angry young men; they were act ually a group of very able young men for the most part of wo rking class parentage who have been harshly criticized when they should have been treated with sympath y. Not only might they well bring someth ing fresh into English literature, but they were enterin g the profess ions and going into business, and those who were politically minded might even become members of the government. These were the men with whom the public schoolboy had to compete; this was certainly not to be deplored. "I am very, very old", concluded Mr. Maugham, "and I'll never see you again. I wish yo u luck with all my heart". He then formally declared the building open . Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, Chairman of the Governors, thanking Mr. Maugham, said that man y thought the days of the public school were numbered , "but as a result of the new building it might be in the fullness of time that some particularly bright boy would emerge and add lustre to the name of the School and transport it to some other planet to continue its beneficient education far out of the reach of envio us and predatory politicians". The Captain of School then called for three cheers for Mr. Maugham, who then opened the laboratory with a key from a red casket handed him by Lord Hardinge .. Later, tea was served for guests and School Monitors in the Great Hall. 444
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THE MODERATOR OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND We we re privileged to hear Doctor Macleod both in an address to the School on the fi rst Saturday of term, May 3rd, a nd the followin g day in his sermon at Cathedral Matins. As the founder of the Iona commun ity, Dr. Macleod spoke on the Saturday night, with partic ular reference to the mo ve ment and its inception twenty yea rs ago. But first he spoke in general of the wo rld today and the place of Christianity o r a Ch ristian faith in it. Fundamentally the world and the indi viduals who comprised it were a series of unrest and
distu rbance. World turmo il and international di sunity found their parallcls in individual disun ity. To illustra te these points, Dr. Macleod told of the package in India which was labelled " This parcel must be kept botto m uppermost, the top has been labelled 'bottom' to avoid confusion"; and then of the Secretary to the Admiralty who when fly ing a seaplane on ly desisted from land ing o n an airdrome when di ss uaded by his ne rvous yo ung co-pilot, a nd having protested his knowledge th at he was fl ying an amphibean craft, stepped, on landing back on the water, directly into the sea.
Even in respect of the faith itself Dr. Macleod sa id there was the turbulence of a two-way traffic of efTort and response. Indi viduals cannot decide on an objective, and never kno w what the ir exact goal is or the method of o btaining it. Here Dr. Macleod began talk ing in detail about his wo rk. He had been in his fi rst pa rish 011 Clydeside preaching to open ai r gatherings. He met and argued with a yo ung man ardently agai nst Christianity and all its precepts, and in particular aggressive to the subject of his address, Sa lva tion . Dr. Macleod beca me awa re that this man was talking sense. Later he met and talked with him as he lay dying in hospital- convinced that the Church held a Truth , but gave so many wrong answers. Dr. Macleod sa id that he was sure that this young man, Archie G rey, had pointed out an essential which the propaga tion of the faith lac ked- the need ror gearing into lire in its every aspect. With this in mind, Dr. Macleod and some colleagues pla nned a place where Christianity could be shown to apply to the whole and not merely the so ul of life. They began at a mill near Glasgow. There a mission camp centre was set up where men worked together, ror the co mmon cause o r construction. As numbers swell ed a la rger headquarters had to be round , and the centre was moved to 10na. Here work was begun to restore the old Abbey and the community built its own lodge houses, and the centre ror the continuation of the place ror communal effort and training b;!gun in G lasgow. Dr. Macleod's clear and direct spiri tua l philoso phy a nd his li vely manner, made his address a memorable event. lona is obvio usly a place of great service to many, and we can thank Dr. Macleod both for speaki ng to us, and for telling us about the community he set up and has nurtured.
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MR. PAUL DEHN , ,The Upper School were in for a most entertaining evening when Mr. Paul Dehn, eminent cntlc and scnptwriter, read a paper on the misfilming of some of Shakespeare's most famou s plays. Many worthy attempts at such a hazardous task came to grief aga inst his often scathing but never malicious pen. He was particularly severe on Mr. Orson Welles' ambitious interpretations of Macbeth and Othello. Renato Castellani's Romeo and Juliet met wIth the same fate, but Julius Caesar escaped more lightly. His principal complaint was the d,sastrous embellishments, subtractIOns and arrant man-handling of the texts. It IS never established who Iago is, and what relat ion he is to the rest of the picture, until It IS too late; MercutJo's death cannot be mourned, for he is a voiceless puppet, devoid of hIS Qucen Mab. Act I of the ongmal Romeo loses 500 of its 700 lines' and another maj,?rcomplaint is the re-interpretation of Shakespeare's poetry as though it ';'ere a leperous foreIgn language. So Mr. Welles-for taste- turns "the Devil Damn thee black, though cream faced loon, where gottest thou that goose look" into "Now fiend, what mea nest that pale countenance .... " Since the title of the paper was "The Misfilming of Shakespeare", Sir Laurence Olivier , escapes hghtly, and so do some notable European productions. But it is fru itless to record all the delights of this evening in full. May it be suggested that the pape r can be found in a shm volume called For Love and Money.
THE YALE GLEE CLUB On Sunday, 15th June, we were fortunate enough to hear a recital in the Great H all by the Yale Glee Club, who were in England on a part of their Europea n tour the first smce 1954, when they gave a brilliant performance in the Chapter House. Of'the Club we then heard, only the conductor, Mr. Fenno Heath, remained, for the choir is composed almost entlfely of undergraduates in their third and fourth yea rs, who have progressed from one of the two freshmen's glee clubs at Yale. However, their recital this term demonstrated that the tradition of Yale singing lives on, and that the exceptionally high standard of performance IS conSIstently mamtamed. The Glee Club chose to place the lo~ ges t works at the beginning of their performance, and the progra~me therefore began With a group of p,eces by contemporary composers. The first was RIchard Donovan's To all you ladies now at land, a setting of the poem by Sackvlile. It was a fine ope.ning number, combining the virile spirit of the sea-shanty with mtncate rhythmIc patterns m the accompamment, whI le Illtroducmg a fine baritone soloist and a chorus with a mazing precision and verbal clarity. This was followed by the Glee Club's first .performa nce of Song lVlthout Word, by Villa-Lobos, in which a wonderfull y reson~nt qUIet chorus, like the sam 7composer's works for eight violoncelli, with a suggestion of gUItars, contrasted WIth ecstatIc rhythmIC outbursts and pnmltl ve recitalivo scales in the bass. It introduces, too, the other supreme quality of Yale singing, the richness and balance of the har':'lony. The las t work of the &roup was the setting of Carl Sandburg's poem The People will lIve on,by Fenno Heath? whICh showed hIm to be as gifted a composer as he IS conductor. HIS muSIc was full of van ety, a nd deeply mfused with the spirit of Yale tradltJ~n) and was a fine counterpart to Sandburg's amusing poem of hope for swea ting
humaOlty and lament for lack of time to realize ambitions and gather keepsa kes. So rich was it in deta il that it was difficult to appreciate at a single hearing. 446
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By contrast, the group of items wh ich followed was performed by a semi-chorus. It contained two old glees, the first of which, The Bells in the Steeple, by Sammartini, was very reminiscent of Purcell , and the second, the anonymous Amo, Amos, I love a lass,
raised a good dea l of laughter with its blend of dog-Latin and suggestions of the pleasures of spring. Placed between these was an arrangement of The Ash Grove by a member of the Glee Club, in which the air was sung with great delicacy by the teno rs over a hummed accompaniment which became progressively richer in harmony until a small discrepancy between it and the simplicity of the folk song began to be felt. This slight incongruity of sim plicity and SOpllistication was also a feature of Fenno Heath's arrangement of the Skye Boat Song in the next group, which was similar, though sung by full chorus. Yet here again the soft melodious singing of the tenors was enchanting, which made a pleasing contrast with the other folk song in the group, Holst's Song of the Blacksmith, with its violent pictorial refrain , "Kan, kiki kan". The group was completed with Dowland's madriga l Come again, sweet !ove, where, unfortunately, the violent contrasts in
dynamic and the rich harmonic texture characteristic of this choir were somewhat out of place-a smaller group would perhaps have done better justice to the horizo ntal movement of the parts. The Whiffenpoofs followed, a singing gro up informal even to not knowing what they were to sing until their leader told them on the stage. Their signature tune explained their significance, a traditional group with its own table at the best eating-house in New Haven, a self-elected ,!lite to which all Clubbers aspire. I might describe the songs they sang, Teasin', Jack, the King of the deep blue sea, Johnny One-note, or Cole Porter's wellknown Miss Odess regrets, but I could never recapture their easy, almost careless, and yet wo nderfully polished style; let me simply record that their reception was duly overwhelming. The specifically American atmosphere was preserved in the next group of pieces which began with three contrasting folk-songs, Careless Love, with its long hummed refrain, Black-eyed Susie, racy and cynical, and Old Paint, with its doleful cowboy nostalgia. They were followed by three Negro Spirituals, of which Ain'a that good nelVs and Soon ah Ivill be done were chorus numbers, in the second of which was heard some of the greatest imaginable contrasts in volume. In Humble, the baritone soloist gave much amusement with his rendering of the legend of Jonah and the whale. Although they were by no means solemnly sung, the intensely moving primitive faith expressed in the spirituals was never lost in their purely musical exhilaration. This fine recital ended on a c1u;racteristic note with a group of student songs, all gay except for the sombre Finni sh song Summer Evening. The Swiss Milking Song introduced an unexpected effect of ensemble whistling, and a quartet gave a hilarious rendering of Franz Abt's Laughing Song, bought in London and learnt in the coach on the way to Canterbury. The Yale tradition had the last word, with the triple yodel Switzer Boy, repeating its popular success in 1954, and the University song 'Neath the Elms q( dear old Yale. As an encore we were given a Football Medley consisting of the cheer-routines of several universities, sung with mixed scorn and pity and shattered finally by the fortissimo of the Yale "Bulldog 1". G.W.L.
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ELIJAH The announcement of a performance of that much neglected work , Mendelssohn's Elijah, as a prelude to Kin g's Week may well have caused some raising of eyebrows on the part of the musical elite of the rising generation in Canterbury. The present cult of the Baroq ue with its interest not only in Bach but in lesser masters like Vivaldi, Buxtehude, and of an earlier period Monteverdi or Schutz, has put Mendelssohn (tempora rily) out 01 fashion, and choral societies today put the Dream or Verdi's Requiem regularly into their programmes where thirty years ago the Hymn of Praise or Elijah would ha ve been, as a counterpoise to the B Minor Mass or the St. Matth elV Passion. Those who deplore this neglect of Mendelssohn will have been much elated to note the fact that two performances of Elijah on a considerable scale have taken place in Canterbury this summer. Of the first in the Cathedral Nave in June, this is not the place to write. Those who sang in it or heard it sung will certainly have found it a good preparation for the altogether outstanding performance in the School Hall on July 13th. The names of four first-class soloists on the programme, the serried ranks of the augmented choir on the platform, the presence of a full orchestra, complete with plenty of brass a nd a sma ll organ lent by the Cathedral, and an indefinable air of excitement about the whole proceedings seemed to have communicated something to the very large audience before the fi rst majes tic chords on the trombones led into the solemn prophecy of Elijah wh ich opens ;n such an original way the whole work. The deep silence during the performance and the tremendous applause at the end of each part showed how greatly mo ved and impressed were all who came. As well they might be- for the inspired direction of Mr. Edred Wright brought out every light a nd shade of this most dramatic work with its splendid choruses, its operatic solos and delicate orchestration. The chorus sang their part ad mirably, and how outstandingly good most of the chorus work is in this oratorio; no wonder Victorial choral societies revelled in it when it first appeared. From the first Help, Lord, through the Baal choruses and the exhilarating Thanks be to God of the first part through the march-like Be not afraid and the wonderfully conceived moods of Behold, God the Lord passed by to the imposing if rather conventionally fugal ending of Lord, our Creator it was clear that the choir had been superbly trained and was enjoying every minute ofa great experience. Just now and then the big battalions were silenced and smaller forces from the School itself produced an enchanting effect in the angelic trio Lift thine eyes and quartet Cast thy burden, both of which show Mendelssohn in another and most ca pti vati ng mood. The four soloists were worthy of the occasion. Mr. Owen Bran niga n with his great voice and presence and his obvious relish for the dramatic characte r of Elija h (especially confro nting the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel) dominated the scene with William Herbert of the golden voice as the perfect contrast in the role of Obadiah singing delightfull y If lVith all your hearts and Then shall the righteous. Miss Elizabeth Simon and Miss Monica Sinclair as the Widow and Jeze bel respectively were very effective in each case a nd made a great impression in the penultimate quarte t for the soloists, 0 come, everyone that Ihirsteth which, with its delicate wind parts in the orchestral score, is one of the most de lightful moments of the wor k, easing the tension after the ascent of Elija ll in the chari ot wit h its "fiery, fiery horses" before the final march-past of the big battalions of chorus and orchestra in the last chorus. The highest praise is due to the orchestra, who bore the heavy burden of accompanying a long and exacting work splendidly, no mea n feat for a body largely composed of amateurs. But the greatest praise must be given for the brilliant success of the 448
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CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CONCERT WITH RONALD SMITH In the prog ra mme notes or the co ncert give n by the C hamber Orchestra and Ronald Smith o n Ju ly 20th , Bach's Suites are described as "entertainment music, to be enjoyed
for thei r ga iety and good tunes", and the Chamber Orchestra under its conductor, David Goodes, mllst be congratu lated on the rea l entertainment they gave their large audience . The perfo rmance of the Bach Suite in D had verve and vitality and the gaiety of the dance movements served to enhance the bea uty and tranquility of the Air on the G string, which ga ined muclt by being played by a small gro up or players. IJ the Viva ldi Concerto G rosso with which the programme opened was a little uncertain in intonation and rh ythm at the beginning, it soon sellled down , and these two works made an excellent framework for the morc weighty material given us by Ronald Smith, who began hi s part or the programme with the very beautiful Mozart Sonata in A minor, K.3 10. When so many hackeneyed works are brought bero re the public it was a treat to have the comparati ve ly unknown Sonata Opus 83 by Prokofiev o n the progra mme, and Mr. Sm ith did not disappoint his man y admirers by his splendid brav ura playing in the perrormanee or this wo rk. T he gro up by Chopin, consisting or the Nocturne in D jlat and the S cherzo in B jlat minor, must have de lighted many in the audience, especially coming arter the less rami liar modern wo r k; a nd the Toccata by Holst, wh ich he played as an encore, was surely Mr. Smith at hi s best. Y.E. 449 .
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THE JAZZ CONCERT . An " Info rma l" Jazz Concert was held on the 28th Jul y in the Palace Reci tal R oom¡ " mformal" because neither gro up, especially the Ramblers, had practised much toget her: The two gro ups played such a va riety of numbers that it is im possible to review them all 111 tillS short space. I shall therefo re deal onl y with the extremes. The High Society Ramb lers kicked o ff with " Huck le-Bud". Unfor tunately, Browne was good on this and was unsure of his notes. "Blues for Basic" and "Petit Fleur" followed wit h Browne sounding morc at home now, whi le Guard's so los provided a contrast to his: "Lullaby of .Bird l ~ n d " contained some good piano and, for a change, Bennett attempting ~l solo on gUitar. However, no one knew when to stop. Stan ley-S mith on flute played well 111 "Bluesology". "Robin 's Nest" had Guard fillin g in the tun e effectively behind Browne's solo, and the last llumber, "Love is just around the Corner", had some excellent bass by Lunn, and another good piano so lo. n ~t
. As a whole, the. band s,? unded quite reasonable. G ua rd played very well a ll the way through, thou gh IllS essentIall y modern style clashed 111 places wit h the tr umpet's simpler style. Browne made quite a few mista kes, but his improvisation was good. The rhythm sectIOn of Lu nn, Price and Bennett was excellent. The guitar was slightl y over-amplified a nd It IS a pIty he didn't playa few mo re solos. .Price made the best possible use of the equ lP.ment avai lable and Lunn played his usua l excellent bass. Obviously with more practJce th,s band cou ld do much belter, but even this small offerin g showed its potentiali ties. Browning's gro up sounded more at home on the spirituals with " Light from the L ighthouse" easi ly tll~ best of all the songs. "A in't no more ca ne on the Brazos" was good, but then Browlllng and Ha ll helped each other to murder Wood y Guthrie's "This land IS Y?ur Land". Ken Colyer's "Goin' Home" was sung well, whi le "G lory" had Bevan playmg, not vcr~ sU,cc~ssflllly, on paper and c?mb. On the whole, the group was polished, although Browl1lOg S Incessantly dead-pa n vOIce grew monotonOllS at times and his solos were not up to his usual standard. The other members of the gro up provided confident and competent support. The c?ncert went off reasona bly well in view of the lack of practice, th ough it was a pity we dldn t hea r Guard on the sax, and Stan ley-Smith not as a guest artist but in the ba nd. HIGH SOCIETY RAMBLERS.- R . Browne (tpt.), B. Guard (pia no), J. Bennett (g.), R. Lun n (bass), S. Price (drs.). D ANKIE BROWNING .- R. Browning (g.), M. H all (g. a nd d rs.), D. Bevan (bass), J. Matthew (g.), D. Stiles (piano). M.R.A .
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SERENADE IN THE CLOISTERS ,A serenade deserves a fine evening. Th is one was damp. However, the program me was so stimulating that it was easy to forget the weather a nd the discomfort of unco-operat ive
chairs. The Mad ri gal Society had the lio n's share and deserved it. It is a lo ng time since J have hea rd a group of this size sing with such precision, such delightful tone and such evident pleasure in what they were doin g. I don't suppose the musicians of Kin g's School need to be to ld what they owe to Mr. Wright's enthusias m and expert care for detail. To a visitor it was a revelation. A school ensemble cannot expect to have the same richness in the lower voices as an ad ult body. For this reason the sustai ned pieces-Gibbons's Fair is the rose and Wilbye's Draw on sweet night- made less impression than the more li vely ones, though they were sung with just as much care a nd sincerity. On the other hand, things like the Weelkes three~ part airs and Farmer's A little pretty bonny lass were captivating : the rhythm and the dovetai li ng of the parts were as good as one co uld expect to find anywhere . The fou r pieces from Monteverdi 's Scherzi musicali, sung by three voices with an instrumental ensemble, must have been very instructi ve for anyone who had been brought up to believe that th is composer owed his reputation to wil ful experiment and recond ite harmony. These are very fri volous, light-hearted pieces. T he singers caught the spirit of them perfectl y. The instr umenta l rito rn elli were not qu ite so happy. The two violi nists had a pleasant tone and played in tune, but they hadn't qu ite go t the rh ythm in their bones. They sounded cautious, when they ought to have been enjoying themselves. The outstanding instrumental performance of the evening was the Allegro from Mozart's C minor serenade for eight wind instruments. There seemed to be no serious problems of intonation here, and the vigorous attack, the tidy ensemble and the general assurance of the playing made this a th oro ughl y enjoyable ex perience for the a ud ience. It might be a good idea in fut ure years to provide some sort of wooden platform for the instrumental perform ers. T he stone floor and the stone walls had the curio us effect of emphasizing the reedin ess of the oboes a nd bassoons, so that the sound as a whole lacked body. [ noticed the same thin g with the tru mpets and trombones who played Matt hew Locke's Music fo r his Majesty's sackbuts and cornets. I do n' t think it wo uld be unfair to describe th is as a co urageous performance : the adjecti ve is not meant to impl y that it was faulty. It is merely that music of this kind, deceptively simple on paper, can tax the skill of the fin est professional players. It was easy to see how much the performance gained from having Mr. Dudley on the top line, a nd one could guess that a good deal of hard work had gone in to trai ning the other players. Intonation, which is often hazardous with amateur brassplayers, was ve ry good on the whole. What was needed was a little more confidence a nd a rather firmer support from the second trombone. I have left to the last the Madriga l Society' s perform ance of Holst's Tomorro lV shall be Illy dancing day, which was the most extended piece of music in the programme. This is a difficu lt wo rk to do, because it demands not o nly the innocent simplicity of folk song but also the passion and fire of modern choral si nging. The singers caught the mood of it perfec tl y. Wit h such limited num bers the climax cou ld not so und overwhelm ing, as it would with a big choir; but it was tremendously exciting, and the whole scale of the perfo rm ance, fro m the simple opening to the fma l climax, had been very ca refull y ca lculated. I ho pe the audience realized how much hard wo rk had gone into producing this effortless ease. I am sure the singe rs felt it was worth while. J. A. WnsTRuP. 45 1
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MILITARY BAND AND GLEE CLUB CONCERT From thedimmed dramatic splendours of Shakespearean high tragedy in the Great Hall and the delights of Tudor madngals and Monteverdi scherzi in the Gothic gloom of th; Cathedra l Cloisters the devoted supporters of King's Week, 1958, passed to a light-hearted aft ernoon I~ the ~~rol~g breezes of a sunny Jul y .da~. the sonorous strains of the Military Band undel the dllectlon of Mr. Bacon a nd the. slllglllg of the Glee Club directed by Edred Wnght m a~ m ~ a most attracti ve programme 10 a novel and del ightful setting, the green lawn that lies 111 the .a ngles formed by the Archbishop's Palace. Overhead on top of the gleat tower that domll1ates the whole settlllg, Bell Har ry clanged its summons to Cathed ral Eve~l song as the aud ience took its seats and wind and brass assembled below and the strallls oCthe Doge's March by Frederick Rosse opened the concert. T his good old'favo urite walmed the band up nice ly, and later on a most polished performance of the Mozart AI/eluya sho wed off Ml'. J. W. Dudley's tremendous abi lities as a trumpet soloist. The malll contnbulion from the ba.nd ,:"as the well-know Folk Song Suite by Vaughan Williams with Jts l1Jcely blended combmatIOns of marches and qU ieter moods in the intermezzo Two gro ups of glees from the Clu b began wi th Bai rstow's setting of Music when soft voice; die, continued. wi th some mee examples of Hatton an.d Il is contemporaries of part songs of a century .OI so. ago and rounded off the first part with a racy and exhilarating selection of sea shan tIes sktlfully woven together and led with great gusto and effect by Mr. Edgar ~m~ .
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In the gro up of part songs after the interval, Bridge's fa mous fanta sia on the wedding and funcral.marches The Goslings was put over with excellent effect, and so was the Laughing Song by F, anz Abt. In more solem n mood was a group of Negro Spiritua ls with Mr S~muel aga111 as t.he soloist. ~he quiet and reverent Nobody kllolVs de trouble ah see wa~ give a most effecti ve and movlllg performance; this was one of the best moments of the afternoon. It was a hapPÂĽ thought of the two conductors to put band and glee club together m the fina le and bnng off The Holy Clfy WIth a verve and abandon whi ch made this favounte o~ our sent imenta l gra ndparents sound so convincing that the fl apping of the Alc hblshop s_fla g on the turret above sudden ly took on the likeness of seraphic rustlings and Bell Hall y towel ~ee m ed to be a n ,?utpost of the New Jerusa lem. But all good thi ngs come .to ~n end and With th~ last crash1l1g chord and roll of drums the audience returned to ealth III Ca nterbury aga m, Mr. Ed red Wright and his singers and players received their very well deserved ovatIOn and "Ylthm a few !f1l1lutes th.e crowds had gone, the lawn was clear and a nother successful event m a most delightful festi va l had passed into the rea lm of pleasant memones. D.I.H.
THE KING'S WEEK SYMPHONY CONCERT The cl imax of Kin g's Week was the Symphony Concert given in the Great Hall on Sunday eve~ mg, July. 27th. To an O.K.S. of an older generation the programme, which included as Its .rna!n I!ems, ~Iga r's V.ioloncello C011~erlo., Schubert's Sixth Symphony in C major and .Blzet s L ArleSlCl1l1e SUite, seemed danng 111 the extreme. Fifty yea rs ago, the most arn~!tlO~s effOl:~ at the concert, g l v~n In ~hose days before break ing lip for Christmas, was the Kelmess.e scene from Faust, 111 which we sang to the accompan iment of a pianoforte and a few strmgs about the holiday being " never such a jolly day". Now the School has a real orchestra capable of glv111g a good account of symphonic music. 452
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T he orchestra played themselves in with Elgar's arrangement of Handel's Overture ill D millor, achiev ing. the right 'massiveness and so lidit~ of tone .. The Inte~lud e and Serenade â&#x20AC;˘ from Delius's musIC for Hassan enabled them to d Isplay theIr command of more subtle effects of colour a nd phrasing. The Serenade, in particular, was sensitively phrased and the tone of the violoncellos lead by a deputy for Roger Lunn (who was reserving himself for the concerto) was particularly good. Indeed, the whole string-section played in a way that might be judged first-rate by a ny but the Il ighest professional sta ndards. There were moments- one occurred at a climax of the Overture- when one might have been tempted to quote "the wind bloweth where it listeth", but generall y one was asto nished that boys cou ld find time, amId all thell' other mterests and studIes, to learn to play so well on such difficu lt instruments as the oboe, the clarinet and the horn. The flutes, which were guilty of straying in the Overture, showed their quality in Bizet's Carillon. The performance of the Concerto was the most remarkable achievement of the evening. For this is an extremely difficult score, so nicely calcu lated in its effects that any fault of ba lance and phrasing can easil y ruin it. The very first performance, in which a nervous so loist reacted upon the nervous composer (who conducted it), came as near to disaster as is poss ible without a compiete breakdown a nd quite failed to do justice to the beauty of the music. It would be a poor compl iment to say that the King's School Orchestra easily surpassed that first performance. The soloist, Roger Lunn, if occasionally uncertain in his intonation in some of the more difficult passages of the Allegro molto, showed a musicianly feeling for the lyrica l and elegiac poetry of Elgar's most intimate and, in my opinion, most deeply fe lt orchestral composition. Schubert's symphon y proved, in the event, a severer test of the orchestra's capabilities than Elga r's concerto. Some faulty chording a nd lapses from accurate intonation showed up more plainly in the context of classical harmony. But that is to judge the performance, which was lively and well-balanced, by the standards one habitually applies to professional orchestras. In the L' Ari<!sienne Suite the Prelude made a brave and brilliant effect as Bizet intended. For this is true theatre-music designed to arrest the audience's attention and still its chatter. The strings came into their own in the muted Adagietto which was very sensitively p layed. Perhaps the greatest triumph of the concert came at the end in Benjamin Britten's Suite from Rossini's "Soirees Musicales", for thjs is real virtuoso-music for orchestra. Of the five movements the "Tirolese", a delightful Landler such as Austrian peasants still dance, and the "Bolero" were most brilliantly played. The fin al "Tarantella" needed to go rather more swiftly and lightly than the orchestra could quite manage, which is not to say that it did not deserve the encore that was unani mously demanded. Here the percussiondepartment, notably the dashing performer on the glockenspiel, covered itself with glory. I have reserved to the end mention of the conductor, Mr. John Bacon, to whom is due the chief credit for a really astonishing achievement. He directed with authority and guided the orchestra through dangero us passages with great skill. He took over fro m his predecessor an efficient instrument and he has maintained its quality, recruiting new players and training them up to a high standard. DYNELEY HUSSEY.
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OTHELLO Shakespeare can have known nothing of the Colour problem, as the world knows it to-da;:. And the Moor, of course, is racially. unconnected with the African Negro. Indeed, theatncal tradItIon favours an Othello who IS beIge rather than black. Yet at a time when racial tension in Africa is one of the major problems of the world, it is astonishing how topIcal thIS play appears, and how much light it throws on the difficulties which beset the practical co-operation of European with non:European; it certainly sounds a warning to those who thmk that a SWIft and facIle solutIOn can be found for such difficulties. .othello and D esdemona enter up<;)11 a union which in South Africa to-day would be a cnmmal offence; and the sympath,es of the audience are invoked for a couple whom dIfference of race and colour has not restrained from falling in love. Moreover the " Black" IS a competent and gallant commander, successful in war as in love. He deserves and faithfully fulfils his commission from the Venetian government. But his task at Cyprus accomplished, his personal wea kness becomes apparent. In spite of his apparent nobility, he IS only a few generatIOns removed from savagery. He is no judge of men; and his fatlure to control the honest but vicious Cassio is as blameworthy as his submitting his mmd to the false suggestions.ofIago. His physical disability increases his mental hysteria; he IS taken m by a plot whIch (the audience feel) could not have deceived any man of normal commonsense. But it does deceive him, simply because he is still ultimately a savage. His social contacts with European civilization have not cured him of the credulity ~ nd murderous passion which belong to the primitive African. He belongs to a race which IS stIll not ye t full y adult; and he has the lack of control which is characteristic of the adolescent. That, at any rate, was the "message" of the play for me. And the fact that that message was so clear and definite was in great measure due to the production of a play which is notoriously difficult to stage. The "cutting"- a process perhaps more essential in this play than in any other of Shak espeare' s-~as sup,erbly devised, so as to define clearly the essenttals of the plot and to remove sectIOns whIch to a modern audience must appear lITelevant or laboured. Only one failing was apparent in the presentation-the dimness and lack of variety in the lighting, noon in Cyprus becoming as dark as night in Venice. From my seat in the gallery it was impossible to see the faces of the actors' and this deprived me of opportunity fully to appreciate the acting of the principals, e;pecially in the C~unClI and the Bedroom scenes. (In fairness I must put on record the opinion of th?se m the body of the hall that the "make-up" had been organized with exceptional skilL). On the. other hand every word, even of the minor parts, was clearly audible and bea utIfully deltvered. After seemg T welfth Night last summer, I had been doubtful whether the new Hall possessed the acoustic properties for the spoken voice, which it undoubtedly possesses for musical productions; no doubt was left after I had seen Othello. But once again, credit is due to the producer ; it is no easy task to achieve perfect audibility in young actors; and the latter never " spouted" or ranted. Roche and Shipp, with their almost perfect Shakespearean diction, gave a lead which the rest of the cast were not slow to follow. Neither Roche as Othello nor Shipp as Desdemona had an easy task. In the earlier scenes Roche was dignified and statuesque, and I was wondering how he would fare when passion, jealousy and epilepsy overcame him. Perhaps the best compliment that can be paid to his acting is to say that even after his mind had been poisoned and his self-control lost, we never entirely lost sight of the man who with such dignity had defended his 454
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clandestine marriage before the Council. Even when his native savagery overcame 11I~, he could at the last return. to view his misdeed with civilized eyes--:-the fact which IS ultimately typified by his SUICIde and the superb couplet by which It IS mtroduced. HIS interpretation of his part was always sure a nd true. Thompson, on the other hand, as Iago was if anything a trifle too assured. He was the most active and mobile member of the cast; but particularly towards the end of the week he had a tendency to over-act. Nor did he vary his technique of deceit under the mask of honesty. There seemed no reaso n why he should have taken in anyone but Roderigo; he would have been trller, in( my view, to Shake~peare'.s conception, ha~ he been !ess boisterou,~ in his a ppr,~ach to the other victims of hIS deceIt. Nevertheless, III the earher scenes he set the pace of the play. After the first appearance with Roderigo it was clear that there was never to be a dull moment. . I' [n the first part of the play Shipp's Desdemona was somewhat wood'n; but liS magnificent elocution carried him through the Council scene, even though he did not appear to be over-conc~rned by the despatch of IllS newly-wedded lord toCyprus. I have ncver been able to conSIder Desdemona a conSIstent character- how was It that she stood no nonsense from her family about her marriage, a nd yet let her husband get away with all those moods a nd tempers ?- and it was not till the second part that Shipp, as the injured innocent came to his own. On the arrival at Cyprus he suddenly came to life, and acted with a charm and pathos which could never have been expected from his first appea ran?e. Desdemona is no easy part for a boy in his first yea r, and audiences do not always realtze that even lying dead for a considerable period after the stra ngling makes great demands on an actor's control. (Have we no! heard of a n occasion when the Ghost in Hamlet spoiled his scene by sneezing?) Towards the end of the week Shipp was struggling against a heavy catarrh; it was a magnificent effort on his part, that he brought out the full tragedy of Desdemona's death, and never once suggested the schoolboy in skirts. Cassio is not an easy part to play, but Bayston managed to suggest that combination ofpersona[ loyalty with sensual weakness which in every age is to be found in some members of the military profession. In the drinking scene he was the only me!"ber of the ::ast who was convincing either as a toper or a drunkard; the others who chnked canakms never
managed to suggest that those canakins contained a~ything less innocu.ous than what they might have purchased at the Tuckshop. Both III hIS fall and hIS pemtence Bayston was convincing; but he never managed to show any grounds why he shou ld have been chosen to succeed Othello in his command. Perhaps that was the fault of the plot, not of IllS acting. Roderigo has a somewhat thankless part. He is not a ?omic or a fa.nta~tic like Aguecheek or Osric ; he is simply a fool. Campbell showed admIrable restramt In not over-actmg, and in playing a " straight" part. Harvey, as Brabantio, was perhaps the best of the mlllor parts, tinging his senile obstinacy with a certain dignity becoming to a senator. As Montano Budgen gave a most realistic performance ofa wounded duellist-or was he really wounded? As Emilia, Essame was good to look at, but had a very difficult small part to play.; he was at his best in the final show of sympathy with Desdemona. It was good to hear VIOla's clear voice again, in A. Pengelly's Messenger's speech: while his brother as the oldest of the senators doddered to perfection. Finally, a word must be said in praise of Chesshyre's presentation of the kind of hussy who still frequents sea ports. No wonder CasslO fell for her! Othello is not an easy play for schoolboys; but this Othello will surely be remembered as one of the most successful among King's Shakespearean productions. When all credit has been paid to the cast, there is no doubt that the chief factor of that success was the indefatigable skill and energy of the producer. CASTOR.
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THE DIFFICULTIES OF CONTEMPORARY STAINED GLASS The insipid colour and languid drawing of much modern glass fa ils, except by its occasional vulga rity, to stimulate either prejudice or admi ration . I n Ca nterbury there is Just a sufficient number of poor wi ndows of the last hundred yea rs fo r the violence of wo rk such as Mr. Erwin Bossanyi's to force its contrast upon the layman's consciousness and to raise questions, too often left unasked, a bout the purpose of the glass designer's work. The traditional conception is that of a decorative method of communicating the scriptures to the unlea rned. When t/lis was the onl y a im it was necessa ry that windows should both expound and move the beholder. The traditional problem was of how to tell a story and how to create something of uni versal appeal. In early glass there was no sign o f vulgarity and, since vulga rity always spea ks in the first person, this mea nt that the fu sion of personal and impersonal was sllccessfully achieved and that abstraction in thc shape of stylism tended to replace what was persona l and accllrately represcnta tio nal.
The abstraction had, of co urse, to come from the artist's personal vision of his subject, but the profa niza tion of the Christia n aesthetic in the work of da Vinci and Rap hael, together with the newness of their app roach, made the realm of in terior vision something more easy for the layman to understand a nd, in turn, to suspect. In glass part of the res ult of this was the fo rgetting of the lesson, understood so well by early ar tists, that the materia l should be employed in accordance with its capacity; instead the ai m was developed of making an academic p icture, of disguising the structural leads, a nd of creating, In short some sort of deception. Perspective and strict representation alone came eventuall y t~ be valued. Before the end of the nineteenth century th is fas hion had ga ined such a hold that the parable la nguage was a lmost forgotten. With the com ing of modern abstractionism howeve r, and with the growing intelligibility of its language it was found that the universality of the modern idiom was in many ways of similar appeal to the language of the twelfth and thirteenth century artists. It is not surprising, as a result, that Braq ue and Matisse as a side product, and Rounault, Manessier and Leger as a main form of expression found in glass that by a purposeful harking back to early wo rk they could express what they wanted to say both economicall y and coherently. But the principal difficulty in any approach such as this is, of course, that the medium, the subject matter, and even the context of stained and painted glass make demands on cri ticism which are very di fferent from those of secular a rt. The other difficulty of the modern glass worker lies in the fact that he paints fo r eyes which are accustomed to form ality and fi xity in the ra nge of both shape and colour. Samet/ling old a nd immortal has to be sa id in a way which is new. H e must solve the problems which beset his use of symbol, he must avo id usi ng light meretriciously, and he must achjeve timelessness. But above all he must, in the great tradition, raise the heart and mind to God. With these difficulties in mind it is possible to attemp t some appraisal of Mr. Erwin Bossanyi's new windows. He himself confesses to an enormous catholicit y o f influence on his work, ranging from Roma nesque stone carving, through Persian 111 iniatures and Chinese woodcuts to Buddhist murals. In addition to th is conventional awa reness of past arts he has the conventiona l view of the purpose of non-secular glass- to a llow the beholder, as he puts it, to participate in a certain sort of music and make him a better person. The basis of good glass for Mr. Bossanyi is colour: colour tra nslates emotion and each additional element lessens¡the emotional effect. These furth er clements represen t what he
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calls the intellectual content, found in realistic perspecti ve, naturalism of sh~ pe, ,a!ld any over emphasis on plastic effect s. He sees ~e ry c1ea rl ~ that the elemelH of simplicity a nd â&#x20AC;˘ I i1dli ke wo nder went out with the Renaissa nce: simulta neously with the cravIng for ~~cu racy came what he terms commercialism and what we would call loss of nerve. How far Mr. Bossa nyi has succeeded in reca pturing the si mpli~i ty of l'arable glass is a malter of private judgement. It may well seem that while the a rtist s own view IS too secular for a Canterbury wi ndow, his symbolism can nevertheless be made to do du ty for a nother, completely spiri tual message. T he .Iack of ~xclus lveness III the meanIng of his .symbols ought to me.a n that his lan&uage IS Im precise; and precIsIOn, togeth e ~ with simplicity and clarity, IS sometiling whIch early glass never lacked. But til,lS ImpI eclslon may, on another view, of course, be intended to reflect the contemporary ~lstrust of dogma as well as the intellectual self-assurance of those who ha ve a message WhiCh, although completely Christian in tone, results from philosophic rather than theological premises. But w h~ tever one's view of the content of the windows, an appra isal is onl y possible after the cho ice of interpretations has been made. It is on the aesthetic side that there is likely to be greater confusion. Modern ity in other arts has long been acceptable th ro ugh the familia rity of the idiom. And, more important, the content of a painting docs no t genera lly conflict with ItS form. But here, where something to which we arc accustomed as scc111 ~r la n g ll~ge is used in an, a tte~pt to convey ~ spiritual message, the layman fi nds that he IS untramed to make a right Judgemen.t. ! Ius is clear from readin g the reactions of a group of King's boys to the new glass. T heir views were spontaneous but ca refully expressed. In each .case it was possible to see a. cOJ!l plete d ichotomy of reaction : to bring together the meaOlng and the mode of expressIOn 111 one appreciation was impossible. To find a set of, as it were, wo rka ble cri teria lies outside the scope of this short note. But the difficulty can be understood to some extent if we tllink of those forms of secula r art which are comparable to painted glass, such as mosaic work (a ver'! c1e~r relatlOnslup between the two can be seen in the work of the notable Swedish artist, Eillar Forseth), mural painting, and large scale tapestry work. These three forms are comparattvely seldom met even by the more assiduous gallery-goe r a nd to these no more than to. glass IS the~e any easily defina ble critical approach open to those who lack a speclalll1slght II1tO their mystique. The simpler aesthetic questions raised by the n~w windows c~ n be a nsw~rc~ with n:t0re ease. D o they fi t into the tra nsept ? The Imp ressIOn of bla nk Side walls elimmates dIrect contrast with old glass; the upper rose window is too high to be taken in at the same glance. Because of this isolatio n, Mr. Bossanyi's main problem has been to prevent a clas h between the stone and his own colours. The blending appears successful and the luminosity of the greens part icula rly tends to blind the eye to the immediate stone surround. This luminosity has one drawback, however, which has been pomted out more than once, na mely that it also blinds the eye to detail, especiall y in the lower half of th~ second window, while at a d istance at which the eye can accept the colour easIly thiS detail IS lost. Do the windows satisfy by their ba lance? The later one (with the theme of man's salvation) has a larger mass of dark colou r at it~ base and this, by givin& the impression both of stability and repose, allows a more effecttve contrast to the ypsurgmg figures breakmg free fran:' the bondage of sin. Are the fi gures satlsfYlllg ? OplOlon says, on the whole, no . There IS an 457
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element of the modern statuesq ue about too many of the limbs; they are reminiscent of the pre-war Foro Ita lico and the post-war Soviet ga rdens of remembrance, and lack, so it wo uld seem, the timelessness necessary to prevent dating. They are, however, boldly drawn, well-coloured and well-assembled. There is a great deal of modern glass in the rebuilt churches of the Continent. Some, even in the few wh ich the tourist can take in, seems far more satisfying tha n that of Mr. Bossanyi. But he is a minority artist here who, certainly before Coventry can be seen, is doing val uable wo rk in forcin g the layman once more to think in critical terms. His wi ndows already perform a service by offering both a sensuous enj oyment of colour as well as an exhi larating feeling of vitality at the same time as making it easy for us to be sure abo ut the poverty of what little bad glass Canterbury possesses. Whether this is enough seems open to doubt, for senSUOllsness is too ak in to sensation and this, in turn, seems too crude and too far removed from a sense of the divine to contribute tellingly to the story of the mass of incomparably fine earl y wo rk. But the two smaller windows planned for the same transept will a llow a much surer judgement to be possible. J .O.O.
DICKENS AND OURSELYES In 1865 the Reverend J. S. Sidebotham published the first history of the School. The historical part is brief and most of the book consists of biographies of numbers of eminent men . These Memorials of the King's School still have value, and beyond doubt aided subsequent historians of the School in creating their larger wo rks. The book is now extremely rarc, and should it chance that any reader of this brief article possesses a copy, the School Library wo uld be the richer for it. The author ca me to the School in January, 184:1, and was elected a Kin g's Scholar on 27th November in that yea r. A note in the Headmaster's Register states that J. S. Sidebotham left School at Christmas, 1848, proceeding to Lincoln College, Oxford, as Ex hibitioner. Subsequently he became Chaplain of New College, Oxford ; City Lecturer at St. Ma rtin's, Oxford; Lecturer at St. Helen's, Abingdon; Vicar 'o f St. Mildred's, Canterbury; later a Prebendary of Hereford, and Ed itor of Crockford fo r the last t11irty years of his life: he died in 1901. Among his contemporaries at School were boys of interesting families . There were a Southey, one or two Fieldings- descendants of the no velist- a Wightwick- a family which produced Treasurers of the King's School Feast Society all through its li fe from Anne's reign till the 1880's- two Sm ithetts, ancestors of a boy now in Meister Omers ; and members of old Kent or Canterbury families such as the San keys, the Mounts, the Marrilyo ns, the Collards, the Rigdens, the Pembroo ks, the Neames, the Dennes, the Deedes, and so on. His own brothers, T . W. and H enry Sidebotham, followed him in 1847 and 1849 to the School before going to H ertford College, Oxford. The son of J.S. came in his turn in 1876, and his O.K.S. grandsons are happily still living. There have been seven Sidebothams at the School belonging to fou r generations in the last 114 years. One of our treasured literary traditions has been that David Copperfield was placed ¡here at School. Dickens took the School, we havc for many a long year believed, as the School of Dr. ' Strong, himself a blend of two Headmasters here, Dr. Birt a nd Mr. Wallace. The origin of this tradit ion is unknown, ~ut it is confidentl y asserted (though MI'. Edwards 458
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in the latest History of the School caut iously uses the subjunctive) as fact in Woodruff and Cape's !-/istory : the a uthors declare th at Dickens " made use of the facts which he cu lled fro m loca l gossip". And ever since we have fa ithfully and proudly upheld this tradition. Alas! now we know- at very long last- that it is not true; and that on the best of all authority, the word of Charles Dickens himself. But it must have had an early origin , and cou ld easil y have arisen, for the hero of th e book
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David Copperfield was published in 1849- 50, and J. S. Sidebotham busily compi ling his M emorials knew of the tradition: and doubtless referred to it when he sent a copy of his book to Dickens. The latter replied :Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent. Saturday Twenty Fourth Novem qer 1865. DcaI' Sir, In th anking you for your obliging letter and its accompa nying li ttle book, a llow me to assure you that I never was at the King's Schoo l, Canterbury; and that if there be any resemblance between Dav id Copperfi eld's Doctor Strong and th e Doctor Birt whom you mention, it must be purely accidental , inasmuch as I never before heard of the existence of the last-named gentleman. Dear Sir, Faithfully yours, CHARLES DICKENS .
For the better part of a century this letter, which now for ever deni es to us the ri ght to claim David Copperfield (or Charles Dickens) as an O.K.S. , has lain unknown . It was recentl y found by the Reverend C. E. Sidebotham, uncle of " J.B. " and " F.L. " (K.S. 1905- 11: 1906- 12), when he was go ing through th e papers of his lately-deceased sister. With real kindness he felt that the School was the approp ri ate home of this in va luab le letter. Most gratefull y we have received it as not the least important item in the Walpole MSS. Collection, which possessed nothing of Dickens' writing. We are delighted to have this addition to our li terary riches, even though it robs us of that tradition which has maintained itself so long. J. S. Sidebotham warmly adm ired Bishop Mitchinson, who was Headmaster from 1859- 73, and dedicated the M emorials to him. Obviously they kept in touch with one another \lI1til M r. Sidebotham's death . The Bishop preached a Harvest se rmon about 1899 in his Church at Aymestry in H erefordshire, where Mr. Sidebotham was Vica r from 1877 to 1901. On the death of Mr. Sidebotham the Bishop, who was then Master of Pembroke College, Oxford , wrote to his dau ghter: "It was very kind of you to write to tell me of my oid friend' s call home. I had heard poor accounts of his health and was not wholly surprised . It is a sad parting for you all and I trul y sympathi ze with you . All myoid friends and contemporaries are dropping round me. My turn wi ll soon come." The Bishop's forecast about his own destin y was not qu ite accurate because happily he did not depart this life until 191 8. F..r.S .
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"Phaselus ille, quem videtis, hospites, ait fu isse navium celerrimus- " .- Catullus Alistair McLean put down his book on the bedside table and switched off the light. The ram was splashi ng over the top of the half-opened windows, spraying the curtains whIch werc bemg sucked out towards the gale. He was wa rm and fai rly comfortable in bed, yet he could not sleep. Outside in the Kimblair estuary, the wind would be stirring up the waves and the small din ghies would be tossing precariously at their moorings. Sleep did not come easily now. His thoughts were by the river under the stormy sky; for less than a mile away, in an old boathouse sadly in need of paint, lay his twenty-year-old yacht Bubbles, a neg lected relic of happier limes that seemed so fa r away because they could only be remembered . It was a great surprise when Percy's letter had arrived. They had not met fo r more than ten years, but now he was back in Edinburgh on a long leave. They had been medical students together, but Percy had go ne off to Australia to take up a fl ying doctor job, where by all accounts he had co llected a considerable fortune . Percy had always been one step ahead of everyone else. Alista ir supposed he had resented it at first- there seemed to be just a little too much elbowing up the ladder. It had a lways been Percy's parties, Percy's gIrlS, Percy's good times. Inevitably Percy had made his mark on the world . Alistair c~nceded his Own lack of dri ve with an indifferent resignation . They had always been frIends on the surface, but a deeper relationship had been thwarted by Alistair's occasional and unexpected twinges of jealousy. Howeve r, there was no ill-feeling now and Percy had ended his letter with a typical challenge- to race his new yacht against Alistair in next month's Clyde regatta: he was even prepared to lay a hundred pounds to win for old time's sa ke.
So Percy couldn't have heard- he couldn't have been told of Alistair's accident-that was an odd word for it- which had finished his career and drained his previous wealth . But if Percy wanted it that way, then he would stake his life on it. A hundred pounds it was to be. So Alistair had re-cquipped the yac ht, and for a short time was completely absorbed in the preparations for thc race. His enthusiasm for sailing, and indeed for living, seemed suddenly rejuvenated. His attachment to Bubbles was intense. This morning he had been sitting in the saloon of the Angler talking to Jim Saunders, who helped him with the rigging and the sails and he was clearly optimistic. She was a lot faste r than she used to be, and he had Silent his fortune on her- such as it was- in the challenge, he supposed rather oddly, of betterIng Percy once and for all. "My name's Peterson! Haven't we met before?" A tall , fair-haired man in an expensive
lounge suit mo ved over to their table from the bar with a questioning look. Alistair moved slightly, his fingers tightening round his glass, the corner of his eye twitching nervously. "1 believe we have", He rose slowly. "No, please don't get up." There was some pause. Alistair was uneasy, conscious of the stranger weighing him up. "You were the surgeon, weren't you?"
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"No need to explain. I know how yo u feel. I'm his el~er brother. May I sit down?
J- t me buy yo u a dnnk." Altstalr could not meet the man s eyes; he sat there, thmklOg tl~at sometlling was expected of him, but not knowi~g quite what. Do you apologIze when kill a man's brother on the operatIOn table, Just to satISfy your own pnde, and to
~~~vince yourself you were someone in the world, by attempting the impossible! Do you . apologize for yo ur own pIgheadedness? "1 hear they treated yo u rather roughly afterwards .. I'm sorry .." Then he had apologIzed : that was something. He felt a sudden wave of gratItude to thIS handsome newcomer for th~t, but he had to reply, even if it was in a rush of words, an overflow of the years he had lived with the disgrace. "I was dismissed from the hospital as medically unfit. But he had a rare heart diseaseit was a difficult job and I really thought I could manage. I wanted to copy the operatIon performed by Gruber, the SWISS man. The first part went well. I,had evelY confidence. And then it happened. 1 sllddenlyfelt a wave of nausea; I couldn t st,eady my hand and my eyes misted. 1 just couldn't fimsh It. The dIfficult part was over. I d suc~eeded 10 th,. difficult part; I'd done the part that the great Gr.uber found so hard, but I Just couldn t patch it up. I hadn't the guts to patch It up. " Altstalr sat very pale, hIS fingers fll ckerlllg against the table, breathing heavily after his guilty exposition. " Well", said Peterson, "it was just one of those things. Here, have that drink." "Yes", said Alistair. "One of those things." That had been this morning. The next day, Alistair met Jim by the boath0.use as usual, but found hi.m desperately worried. Apparently they had caught the mainsaIl on a hook when stowmg It the prevIOus night, and torn it without noticing. When they got the yacht down to the w~ter on the boat trolley, Alistair sudMnly st?pped, stanng at the corner of the new sa Il. BeSIdes the straIght tea r there were a senes of Jagged holes covenng a large area of the new 1ll1cn.
"Good heavens", exclaimed Jim, "there must be hundreds of rats in that old boathouse. Alistair sa id nothing. He just stood dumbfounded . Eventually he collected himself and told Jim to take the day off and leave the boat where it was. The nex t morning was typical of the West Coast. Alec Peterson woke in his brother's old bungalow where he had just arrived for a short holiday, to find a gale blowmg and the rain beating down stead ily. He got up.. dressed, and went throu&h to the kItchen, when something out of the window caught hIS eye. Near the Itttle landlllg stage at the botoom of his ga rden, the outline of a wreck sho wed up in the water throu!;h t,he dnvmg ram. Putting on a mackintosh, he moved down the garden t.o look at It. .He dldn t need to go far. His body half showing out of the water, hIS head lolltng on one SIde, lay Altstalr McLea n. It's not really surprising though, when people cease to matter in life, not ,because yo~ ~re disillusioned with them, but simply because they ha ve nothing to offer-It s !,ots uqJrlsmg that you turn to something that yo u can build into yo ur own. dream-somethmg mammate, and because it will not change, and WIll not let you down, It gIves yo u all yo u ask of Itlike a dog or an old boat. You ¡c1ing on to it, and as yo u sink, you pull It down WIth you . It's yo urs alone, and nothing can take it away. Or put it another way, as Percy remarked to the barman at the "Angler", "Just one of those things". 461
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BISHOPS' BAGS Twenty-five King's School boys with a large and motley crowd of reporters, sightseers and the everyday population of Cansterbury East Station were wai ting for the special trams wlilch were to bnng the bIshops down to the 1958 Lambeth Conference Service and nobody knew quite what to expect. Nobody, that is, except the Station-master : h~ was e~pecting the next Dover train and must have assumed that the King's School boys were mtending to catch it. When the battalion of bishops, wearing identification discs in thelf lapels in military fa shion, began to issue on to the platform, the operation was on: and from the first exclamation of the Bishop of Alabama: "Well, God bless your gizzard" it was clear that it was to be an unqualified slIccess. ' The bishops proved to be a most channing company of people, capable of dealing with every difficulty in a more practical manner than the perpetually disorganized King's School- for one American suggested of an unlabelled bag: "If you can't find the owner you'd better sell it, bub"- and , most of them , genuinely concerned with OUf well-being rather than their own. "Do you hate doing this? Were you forced into it? Oh, I think you deserve at least a half-holiday." Of course, they were unaware of the alacrity with which any alternative to the routine monotony of morning school is seized upon. There were the determined characters who steadfastly refused to part with their bags, but the large majority was as co-operative as charming. . . The comic element was provided for the most part by the reporters, who, we delightedly dIScovered, talked in their daily journalese as fluently as they habitually wrote. They were dommated by an energetic Canadian who, over-joyed at having come across a compatriot was heard rushing about the platform shouting: "Get me Johnny Turner, I want him bad": The taking of photographs was a most involved procedure, and most of the photographs obtamed must have been so flagrantly fa lse as to be unprintable, for none was ever seen in an~ periodical. "J ust put your hats on, boys, and line the platform. Now look as if the t~'all1 was coming in. Corne nearer this way, and we can get the station's name in." OutsIde, the journalists were just as busy as the bishops went off to their 'buses. "Just hang around, son, and I'll shoot yo u with a bish." The whole consort of the "bishes" who did not wish, to walk was, however, loaded into its transport, the women in a separate coach, as the BIShop of Oregon remarked, and went off in the direction of Canterbury. . Canterbury itself was as expectant as the East Station had previously been. Even the VISItors were moved to ask at the booth: "Can we feed the pigeons this morning, or will It make a mess?'''. Apart from some minor mishaps while dressing in the Chapter House- "When I got there, the BIShop of Nova Scotia had swiped my seat"- the service proceeded quite smoothly. The American bishops caused further amusement, because at least one was unsuccessfully trYlll1l to conceal his camera under his stole. The Russian interpreter, too, bore a rather stnkIng resemblance to Mr. Kruschev. Dr. Campbell gave every appearance of immense excItement in the organ loft, pouring forth virtuoso renderings of those two old war-horses, Toccata alld Fugue in D millor and Piece Hero,que: so virtuoso, indeed, that the television technicians received a request over the in tercom. from their "Richard Dimblebottom" to stop making such a b- - row because he was nearly deafened by the d- - organ anyway. 462
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At the Garden Party came the best opportunity of all to ta lk to the bishops. My own gleanings were confi~ed to an e~hortation from, the Bi ~ ho~ of No,":a Scot~~ himself t~ e~~ more to susta in us m our studIes, and a possIbly m ISguIded polrcy of press-gangrng recru its into the clergy from an Austra lia.n, derived from Navy discipline Wllich he had acquired in hi s youth. Very few bIS hops rndeed ate any tea at all, as they were so busy playing their neIghbours WIth refreshments. The most spectacular and sought after were the Orthodox Church bishops, who were very genial and posed wi ll ingly for photographers. The Archbishop of Canterbury was in his most benevolent mood, laughing and chatting in the centre of actiVIty, a lthough he was heard to observe on seemg a vlSltmg bIShop m a straw hat: "I will not have my episcopate mocked", Reluctantly the party had to be broken up, but back at the East Station the K ing's Scho.ol was once a,gain in turm?i1 with t1~e bags. As soon as the, vanguard of ba~Mbearers appeared with ~hell' l a~el s, the lr~~e StatlO!'Hnast~r burst,from ,hiS office and deJ1led the~ access demandlllg VOCIferou sly: What d you thmk you re dorng? Who sent yo u? TIllS is my ' station, isn't it?" Nobody had thought fit to tell him that the reverse procedure was taking place, and having in the morning been frustrated in his protests, he could only be pacified with difficulty. Even after the tr~in s had gone th~ Bishop of Bloemfontein was left wildly searchmg for bag number 68, wh Ich was found WIth the help ~f the polrce, British Railways and numerous telephone calls to have been taken on the tram by a wellmeaning friend lest the Bishop should lose it. So they left us : and the cause of King's Week was enriched by the addition of "Tickets sold here" to the booth in the bishops' numerous languages. A.R.
ON A ROSE FLOATING BY IN THE WATER God created you, Man destroyed you ; Who for? his love maybe- or was it not love But hate; a sudden desire for destruction, A mad, impetuous feeling of loathing for a beautiful thing: To stretch out and in one finger's twist, to break, To take its slender stem and flick it idly, Almost forgetfully into the slowly flowing river. o what a brutal actionTo destroy such beauty for one moment's spiteful ease! A frail beauty of pink petalled perfection Briared upon curled green leaves, Drifting down dying like some Lady of Shallott; The qu iet flow rippled only by lazy lappings On the white posts. Perhaps some callous idiot it was, Who idly caught you, killed you, And for no purpose, yet unwittingly To make you the symbol of man's ingratitude For what God gave, God made. CALIGO
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"20 YEARS AFTER" By May 12th, 1938, everything seemed to be "set fair". The then Du ke of Kent spent most of that day with us and formall y declared all the new buildings and additions opened; a more cheerful day the School had never seen in all its history, and in the great concourse of people the Scholars in their re vived purple Henrician gow ns (which had been abolished in 1816) and the Sixth in their full dress made a comely spectacle. In the three preceding years the School had increased its numbers by 140 and doubled its income. The Governors had built the Dining Hall, the Parry Hall extension and Laboratories, the Field Classrooms, the cricket pavilion , score box and telegraph, the swimming bath; the Mint Yard had been turned into a College lawn , Walpole House and Meister Oruers had been constructed into Boarding Houses, a co mmod iou s Sanatori um made out of what is now Luxmoorc, the old Schoolroom had been co nve rted into the
Library, the Lanfranc front of Gra nge was revealed and pierced by the present handsome doorway. Hodgson's Hall and Prior Sell ingegate, and the old Choir School had been acquired, hard tennis courts put down and sq uas h courts built. In all, by present values of money, about ÂŁ 120,000 had been spent and everything did appear "set fair". One year later, on July 12th, 1939, in Lincoln's Inn Hall, a banquet was held under the Presidency of the Duke of Kent, to which notables of Kent and of the learned professions came and, in the course of the ba nquet, the old Kin g's School Feast Society was declared re-founded by the Duke and the 200 guests pledged their support to the School's interests. Everything seemed set even more fair. Eight weeks later wa r was declared and things no longer looked so b~ight. Hastily we prepared. Blackout was put up and trenches opened out. Deep shelters were dug under the Green Court, and nightly patrols performed; but the first few months proved a lull, while the "pundits" told us that enemy aircraft would fl y in attack over East Anglia and ignore Kent. Events were to prove the "pundits" wrong. In early May, 1940, the Headmaster received a telegram from a V.I.P.-"Stand not upon the order of your going"- and promptly the School moved to Cornwa ll, where lien had already been made on premises. On a mid-May morning, the Headmaster spoke to the assembled School that next day they would go home and in eight days from then they would arrive at a station, called Par, in Cornwall, where buses wou ld meet and convey them to Carlyon Bay Hotel in time for breakfast. So the School dispersed homewards and three dozen stalwarts remained behind to pack lorries and railway va ns with books, classroom furniture, laboratory equipment, beds and bedding, kitchen equipment and all the necessities of school life. The last lorry conveyed also the stalwarts to Cornwall, and there they unpacked and placed all that the vans and the lorries had conveyed, and upon the appointed eighth day hundreds of boys a nd adults arrived to find breakfast waiting for them. The School will ever owe a debt of gratitude to those three dozen or so stalwarts that it can never pay. Certainly that debt can never be paid to some, for before so ve ry long all too many of them fell in the wa r itself. At all events, there we were in Cornwall, in the Carlyon Bay Hotel. and the Bayfordbury Hote'l opposite it; with Crinnis House nearby capable of holding easily the whole of Walpole; with an enormous house three miles off, where numbers of married masters and their wives lived under the care of Mrs. Reynolds, while there were houses for this person ' and that person, and two other houses acquired and put together into one to serve as a Sanatorium. Scattered though the premises might be over three miles, we nonetheless had all necessary conveniences for lifc, except that there 464
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was a complete lack of classrooms, laboratories and playing fields. It was not that we had to provide only for our own School , but we took the Junior School as well, and the Chapter's Choir School came- they lodged themselves nearby but formed part of our Junior School for all educational purposes- and, in addition, some 120 boys from St. Edmund's School came wit h their masters and matro ns ; altogether a colon y of something
like 600 or more. Fortunately, that summer was gloriously fi ne and ho t, so that classes were taken out of doo rs a nd scientific work had to be content to be theoretical, but before many weeks we had fa shioned a dozen classrooms out of single garages, a nd for ÂŁ1 20 we bought in Tru ro a n enormous 80-foot wooden hut with clerestory windows, which made three Chemistry Labo ratories, wlli le a few breeze-blocks, in fairly quick time, constituted a Physics Laboratory. For cricket we p ut down two concrete nets in the gardens of the hotel, and once a week we borrowed the small cricket fi eld of St. Austell C.C. three miles off. Below the cliff on which the hotels were perched stood the Cornish Riviera Club possessing a magnificent swimming bath, badminton courts and, best of all, two splendid indoor tennis courts- a nd a bar. That also (i.e. , the Club, with the ba r converted to other uses) we leased fo r the duratio n of our sojourn. Outdoor teunis courts belonging to the Club were converted into a hockey pitch, a nd a nearby small field was rented for Rugger in the win ter and Soccer in the Lent Term. True it was often under water, and true it was more often shared by the cows; but we managed . Good fi xture lists were maintai ned in cricket a nd in n igger and the tea ms produced in the 5t yea rs we were there were as good as those which the School has had a t any other time. Besides the dozen o ne-car ga rages, the Carlyon Bay Hotel possessed across the road a
large garage with a roof of corru gated iron a nd a concrete fl oor sloping towards its drains. That proved inval uable. There was our Chapel. The alta r with its furni shings brought from our Memorial Ch apel was erected in place. The altar curtained off, the garage became our Assembly Hall, our Lectu re Hall, our T hea tre. Year by yea r, Sha kespeare plays were give n, and many a distinguished man came to lecture or to amuse. Inter-
nationally-known singers gave Opera recitals, and nobody p resent on the evening of Cyril Maude's 80th birthday will ever forget the magnificent show that that marvellous actor gave by himself. Two " turns" he gave to us, and it is incredible that any one actor should have been able to portray the scene in The School Jor Scandal- in which five characters share in the unmasking of the hum bug, Joseph Surface- but all the fi ve were there vividly to the imagination as Cyril Maude, aged 80, on that day p layed that scene to us . So life went on, while the a ircraft fl ew over Kent. So life went on- vigoro us and happy; the School remaining full- boys coming to it fro m Scotland a nd Irela nd- while at home bombs were droppi ng on the Precincts ; a nd we returned to re-open the School in October, 1945 (90 stro nger tha n when we Icft) to a destroyed D ining Hall, to the Field Classrooms, Meister Omers a nd School H ouse seriously blasted ; to Canons' llO uses destroyed, the Forrens Arch in fuins, the Norman Staircase scarred, Luxmoore and Walpole Houses
rui ned by the occupation of troops, the Mint Yard lawn dug up and sandbagged by the local Home Gua rd. Most pitia ble sight of all- the G reen Court. Rank grass of six years' growth, rusted barbed wire, the gashes of dried-up trenches on its eastern half, and soaking wet 10 ft. deep shelters on its western half, and soa ring above it- secured to a concrete and brick fo undation- a barrage balloon. The restoration of the Green Court- that saddest sight of all- seemed impossible. T he Home Office circularized all local Authorities that public sheltcrs were to rema in untouched for a period, a nd the Green Court shelte rs came into th is ca tegory. Pleas to the Au tho ri ties were of no ava il , nor wa s labo ur fo r such 465
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purpose to be obtained. Then a good Colonel of The Buffs came to our rescue. On a brIght, hard, frosty Tuesday morning, the first week in January, 1946, a splendid force of Buffs paraded with picks and shovels, and by Thursday night the concrete pillars and wa lls of those shelters were down and th e excavations filled in. Next morning a bulldozer appeared and fin ished the job in the glare of its headlights. There remained for us only the final levelling and the returfing by our gardeners; and so by May, once more the Green Court was level and was green. How we managed to live from then un til 1947 is now beyond recollection. The Parry Hall was OUf Dining Room, which in the war had been a British Restaurant. Classes were taken wherever a room of any kind could be found, and boys slept amid fallen and falling plaster and tWisted ,w,mdow f~ames .. B,ut ma,nage we did, .somehow, and were mightily encouraged by the VISIt of TheIr MaJestIes, Kll1g George VI and his Queen, on July 11th, 1946, when, on the same spot as the Duke of Kent had occupied eightee n years before the KlIlg presented to the School his Royal Charter in recognition of its contributions t~ Church and State through the long centuries. Since that Charter day the School has blossomed afresh. All that had been destroyed has been rebuilt; and we have acq uired the Plender Sanatorium, Coombe House, RlversIcIgh, Collard's meadow; Galpin's has been made, a new Gymnasi um built wit h extensions to School House; the Priory Classrooms ha ve been constructed, Parker's Gate acqu ired, Marlowe House established in new premises, the Durnford Library has been added, Luxmoore reconverted into a Boarding House. We ha ve burlt cottages and bought Houses, made more and more tennis courts and an indoor cricket shed . We have bought houses for masters; have acqu ired th~ Schoo l Shop, and have built more Laboratories. Lardergate was built in 1951, and, as a cl,max to It all, the Great Hall was opened on June 12th, 1957, by the Queen Mother, and there are those who would say that Palace Court is now the most attractive of all the
parts in the Precincts. It is a wonderful story from those three vital years to 1938, then the war and the exile and the smash ing at home of so much of that which had been erected; th; setting of ou; hands agam to the work,. and the emergence from the wa~'s depredations into the stageby-stage rebIrth to the clImax that has been reahsed m thIS present day. The School, in ~ll these vIcIssItudes, has never lacked warm and zealous friends, but tbe greatest tribute IS owed to the boys of the S~hool in their ~enerations, for it was their loyalty, devotion and servIce that made It pOSSIble to accomphsh all that has been done: yet no generation has done so much for the School as that which upheld in Cornish hotels aud semi-detached houses the best traditions and the undying spirit of its ancient School.
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APARTHEID: A DEFENCE As' Naught/or your Com/art sells yet another thousandth copy and run s into yet a nother edition , perhaps it is not out of place to attemp t to see th e other side : for to this as to eve ry question there a re two sides, although to defend is hi ghl y unorthodox and ge nerally considered untenable. Whatever onc's opin ions, no one can afford to underrate th e importance
of the South African question as every day in growing tension a seemingly inevitable co nflict draws closer. Apartheid should be considered both on what justification there is for the outl ook of every single white constituency (for both parties support some form of a partheid)
and on what may be effected under ex isting circumstances. Fea r is the basis of the government's policy: fear of the African and fea r for the African. The white man refuses to gra nt political and social equality because he believes it would be a mere prelude to more or less forced white evacuation. Seething with discontent, the largely Communist-inspired and subjected black wou ld obviously react most fiercel y against hi s wh ite overlord once power was granted to him. Numerical superiority would make this power irresistible and thus the white man wou ld be hounded from his job, his home and his very means of surviva l. The examples of India and indeed of any colony make this plain and the greater intensity of the inter-racial feeling wou ld only make the
white man's departure more immediate and violent. It is quite unrealistic to imagine that political and social equality wou ld solve the problem. It wou ld only make it ac ute- the Africans are no more ideal Christians than the white men. It is therefore essential to understand that th e desire for white domination ultimately stems from the desire for selfpreservation, not exploitation. What right have the Whites to a home in South Africa at all? They did not sweep in in an imperial istic drive and enslave the ignorant Black, who now having struggled endlessly aga inst the force of White prejudice and having achieved some measure of education demands basic liberties in his own country, no longer tolerating this servile subj ectionthat is historically false. When the Dutch arrived in the middle of the 17th century they found on ly a few wandering Hottentots and bushmen with whom they had little o r no contact. After a hundred a nd fifty yea rs, the Bantus raiding from the nortlt had still only reached the Fish River- some 500 miles from Capetown. The Dutch protected the bushmen against the in vading Bantus and later Zulus. Acquisition of territory was on th e who le peaceful and compares very fa vourably with America or Australia, although it is true the African was often unaware of the va lue of the lands he sold or gave to the Whites in return for military service. Historically, it is a White man's land at least as much and probably more than a Bantu country. If ri ght to a country depends to any extent on the way of life or inherent advantages of the people concerned, the Whites obviously possess a superior technique and cu lture from whose benefits the mass of still-backward natives must profit before they atta in a civi lised standard. Indeed, it is only on the sheerly numerical basis that the Black has a better claim than the White. Ten millions to three millions is an overriding majority, but what moral right does numerical dominance ca rry? It surely does not justify exclusive possess ionthe final result of any political concessions, although an intellectua l grading and gradua l
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White South Africa is a nation with a history, a culture, and a tradition. They speak a language found nowhere else in the world. They have no home to which to retire, no close attachment to any European cou ntry, where they could readily find employment. South
Africa is their home. The position of this nation of three millions is unique and it is harmful to treat them in the same way as a few hundred Briti sh colonists, who at the most have one generation previously in the colony and who came on the understanding that when the fruits of their civilisation were being enjoyed by a ll through education, they would return. There was no such understanding whcn the Dutch arrived. Indced there was no-one there at all in many areas. Thcy havc fo rged a prosperous home through thcir sk ill, industry and initiative during three cen turies. The white man is essentia l to South Africa if she is to make her full economic contribution to this world seeking with increa sing urgency for new resources. In the light of thi s evidence the cry "A frica for thc Afri ca ns" surely appears far less defensible tha n is often so glibly supposed. The South Africa ns refuse to commit national suicide. Can we blame them? Even if one feels despite all this that the wh ite man has no just ificat ion for remaining in South Africa, no white constituency would support that view and it is useless to plan ahead, whilst tota l disregarding the hard facts of the situation. What can be done in existing circumstances? African energy and intellectual prowess must find an outlet or frust ration will lead to revolt. The Whites know this but they refuse to lay their own house open to competition because it would mean the swamp ing of their civilization, the destruction of their means of living and the disappearance of their home, to a ll of which they believe they have every justification. To avoid conflict both sides must be satisfied as the in terests of both are too great for either to abandon their position without a struggle. The obvious conclusion and the only policy, which can hope to achieve this is some form of separation- in Afrikaans, "Apartheid", Let the white man direct hi s own house and the black his. The African in his own area could run his own parliament, enjoy all the benefits of higher education and manage his own industries as Dr. Verwoerd outlined . At first white aid would be necessary, bnt as the black progressed so the white wo uld withdraw. The fear , which at present chokes the innate white ge nerosity to the black (of which Trevor Huddleston gives examples) wo uld evaporate because the black wo uld present no threat. Every example of white cruelty or injustice to a black man is surely one more argument for removing the black out of white reach (i.e. separation) and one more proof of the inability of black and white to live together in anyt hing even approaching equal numbers. Gradual integration can only lead, as British and Dutch adm in istrators have realized throughout history,' to a disastrous stru ggle between the intolerably frustrated black and the white who will fight for survival. This warfare may only be five or ten years distant. It is in this dua l basis of apartheid that lies the basis to its strength. Both the Naught for your Comfort attitude and that of the South African Bureau for Racial Affairs are equally damaging, for the former equates apartheid with subjection of the black a nd the latter solely wit h clevation of the black. In fact it means black elevation in his own areas and subjection in the white areas- misundersta nding can only be the result until this is understood. The two exceptions to the flood of invective fro m both sides are White Man's Africa by L. E. Neame and Anatomy of South African Misery by C. W. de Kiewet-two most helpful works. Finally, Apartheid is attacked as impract ica ble. How would South Africa be split up? Would the whites sacrifice their labo ur force? One call oll ly accept the opinions o f the 468
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x erts on the spot; plalls have been drawn up and anyway most ,?f the objections are too e p tI tical to demand immediate answers. AutomatIOn mIght dlmll1lsh the labou r fOlce ~~~Ot~~usands of Rh odesian Africans who migrate each yea r for the industrial wages u est that some compromise could be reached. Total ~eparatlon, It IS true,. would be s gg 'ble but the blacks would rule one area and the whItes the other: both SIdes would ImpoSSI b f sfied, Man has not reached his present state b y b' emg ... mIt .. II y overw I1eImed by e sab'le dl'ffi' cu!ties of execution in the way of progrcss. Pessimism will not help South pOSSI . Africa and physically there IS room for all. The great mistake the So~th African Gover!'!"ent is mak ing at presentand the reason fo r the failure of apa rtheid IS that town cond ItIons (despIte many benefic .. 1 servIces) are b' nade more repellent, instead of the reserves more attrachve. Th~ s the whole pohcy iSe~r;u'ded by the initia l mistake : the Africal: must be encouraged not d~'lven to the reserves, otherwise he may never be reconcIled. ThIS Ill ustrates the weakness mherent I~ a ('ohcy based on fear. Because of its motive, apartheid cannot hope to prOVIde a solutIon III tl~e se that all inter-racial friction would disappear- only love could do that. ApartheId ~~y, however, and only apartheid will, avoid or at least post(,one a most. dreadful sla ughter which comes daily closer, simply because It IS the .only pohcy w hl~h can pOSSIbly satIsfy both sides a nd neither will give way peacefull y. It IS the only conceIvable escape, the only hope in an evil world . As such it surely deserves more sympathy and respect than eIther the public or the press have so far afforded It. J.R.C.W. â&#x20AC;˘ A nongst the supporters of apa rt heid o r separa tion have ranked the ~l~'1 of Macartney. Bolha. S~llI.ts. H ,t I B K Long (Dominions Ed itor of The Times). the 1926 COl11m ISSlon~rs. Rey . .Cha ries BOlllql! lIl . Hel ~05' Pi'm (a lifelong native benefactor) Sir Godfrey Huggins (a later Prime MlIllster of Rhodesia). P °f~~or Alfred Hoernle (probably the gre~test expert ever on the subject). R. V. Selope Th~rma (a Zl!lu cJ~fcf). Dr. A. Grenfell Price and H. J. Laski. Were aU these motivated sheerly by the deSire for white domination of the blacks?
EPILOGUE I've grown to love this place whose history Dreams back uncertainly through the ages. Where loom the answers to her mystery, Hidden in Time's still uncut pages. There's something here amid the gray stone towers, Which though invisible to her sons, binds And instils her beauty which inspires The vital soul and fosters thoughtful minds. The birdsong-woven days, the tolling bell, The cloistered green and arches crumbling round, Curled and withered leaves. The warm stone smell: In th is mixed essence is their spirit found. God gave this place a spirit of its own, Which ravages of time cannot break down. 469
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TIMEO DANAOS ET DONA FERENTES There ha ve been two recent pronouncements from the ranks of the Labour Party about the future of the Public Schools. The Centre and Ri ght ha ve stated that if Labour is returned to power the Party will not interfere with the Public Schools. This caused many people to feel happy. From the left-wing, ho wever, has come a determined statement that Labour will nationalizc the Public Schools by way of large percentages of frce places and bring them into thc main stream of the State's educational system. It is questio~able whether the net result would be different whichever of these two lines was followed and ' perhaps it is premature to rub hands happily. At the moment, the Public Schools a rc in good state, full , and much sought after. With maxima numbers, they have, therefore, their maxima incomes and maxima profits and none can be better ofT in the future than they are at this exact moment, unless they ~ither enlarge their numbers or raise their fees. But even in this present hcyday therc are those who are disquicted. They point to the number of schools appealing for enormous sums and not always receiving them; they remember a statement in the Press by a governor of a
famou s school that it kept its head above water by the generosity of Old Boys, a situation which could not continue indefinitely. If the Public Schools had large endowments which they could use for the everyday running costs, the outlook would be casier, but most of them have endowments of no stich nature nor of considerable size, and are dependent on
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Now the officia l Labour Party has stated that it will spend a very grcat deal more on State education, which will include a substantial increase in teaching salaries. and it also pledges itsclf to spend much more money on other welfare projccts; but- if the costs of State education rise-the costs of Public Schools must rise too, and that wo uld demand the raisi ng of fees. Moreover, a Labour Government would require a great deal more money for these declared and desirablc purposes and it is hard to see where that money wo uld comc from other than, for the most part, by increased direct taxation. In this event it is particularly the Public School class of parent who would be faced with heavier taxation ; so, on the one hand, he would have to pay more in fees, and On the other hand his income would be Icsscned. That situation would be grave enough, and were another factor to appeal' in the shape of a trade slump, the outlook would be even worse. If it is at th is brightest moment true that some schools depend on the generosity of Old Boys a prospect of increased costs of schools and depleted incomes of parents would be ble~k indeed . Certain ly for some, the question of survival might be acute. There would then appear to be two resources only. The schools which wished to remain independent would ha ve to cut their costs to the bone and keep the fees down; they would have to dispense With fnlls and some of the tlungs which are now so pleasant and desirable; and certainly to some extent they would have to hope to find men willing to serve on the staffs out of a sense of devotion and vocation and with only a secondary regard to salary conditions. ]f, however, with every conceiva ble economy made schools could not face up to economic conditions, the only other resource would be State aid, and the Government would require its quid pro quo; in which case, the ultimate situation would be much as the Labour leftwing intends. When and if, thcrefore, the Labour Party comes into power, a nd if cconomic conditions should then prove much more bittcr than now, it might be that the resultant position of the Public Schools wo uld not be disagreeable to the two scctions of the Labour
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HEATHCLIFF SCHOOL, PENGE (Recognised by the Ministry of Education) Vacant post tllis September for a Maths., Latin, and French mastcr- also General
lIb'eets. Permanent man preferred. ~nowled ge of ~co ut!ng, sa,illng, and d~ck shootlI1g
~esi;'able, but not essential. Age, experience and ,quahfica tlO,ns Will be taken mto ~ccount.
Starting salary for a qualified man £300 per a. With a nnual IIlcrements of £25 pc, a. to a limit of £450 per a. The Headmaster, Mr. J. T. C. Royle-Caseby, M.A., will be away untIl mid-September. . ' To anyone entering the teaching pro~css i on at the bottom, ~lthollt age, experience. or I'fications the circu lars of a scholastIc agcncy are vcry baffilllg. They tcll yo u nothIng q~a \ the scl~ool itself apart from the fact that it has a nodd ing acquaintance with t~e ~fnt;stry of Education: that its salaries are far from lavish, and that the ,Headmaster J5 leavin g his return until the last minute. Ju st how large can the .staff be If Maths., and L t'1 and French are required? What abo ut these Gencral SubJects? What about the
sc~:"ting, sai ling, and duck-shooting- in the middle of sub~rban Surrey? V,s,ons of takmg three form s at once, all for an unspecified General Subject, and of beatlllg across the Surrey fens in a coracle as loader to Mr. J. T. C. Royle-Cascby, M.A., loom very large m the imaginat ion.
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In practice it is some time before yo u find out what you are meant to be tcachmg. For the first four days of term no timetablc appears and you can teach practIcally what yo u like. The first lesson bore out every word of Dee/ine alld Fall- t he one mllst for anyone contemplating teaching. "I gather I am taking you for Matl1s. this term, so we had better get to know one another. What's your name?" "Mine, sir? Harrison, sir." "And yours?" "Harrison, sir." "Wait a moment, you can't both be called Harrison." "Oh, but they are sir-yo~ see they a~'e relations- Drip's.Barrel's u~~le, sil':,isn't itwi za l'dDrip's sister married Barrel s father, sir- he has to call him uncle, Sll .. ..
"All right. Quiet! I can't call you both Harrison. What are you normally called?" A torrent of suggest ions followed. Another lesson was learned, the hard way, and we proceeded rather quickly on to the subject of fractIOns, re.membenng to keep the word "vulgar" well into the background . After a mornmg of thIS you are becommg awa,e of your limitations. The second mystery was cleared up only bit by bit. General Subjects consisted finall y of taking all games, running the school's astronomy, chess, stamp, and table tenlllS clubs, talking French at lunch, preaching a sermon once a term, takmg scoutmg, plOneermg, weeding, and sailing. Among the minorjobs an inexperienced volunteer turns IllS hand to are concreting the scout hut floor, pall1tmg the sWlmmll1g bath, makmg tray. cloths, table mats, toast racks, coil pottery, raspberry jam, fudge, toffee.' and jlej)permmt chocolate for the school tete chopping down trees, erectmg scaffoldll1g, bUlldmg a stagc and a switchboard, laying' Iinoleum- a fairly extensive course of husbandry and manual labour in fact . 471
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The takin g of games turned out to be a very specialized art. It is brightly suggested that you might care to start the Third Game on rugger. There is no rugger ball available, so the largest boy in the ga me undoes the valve of a football and sits on it until it corresponds to the right shape. It begins to dri zzle. Fifteen bed raggled children group themselves round yo u, their shirts pu lled over their heads, thei r ha nds stuck in the trousers, silent, resigned, dete rmined to give yo u a run for you r money. You begin to explain the game. As you proceed further and further it suddenly becomes appa rent that the whole thing sounds very silly. They obviously think so . Any questio ns? No questions. Let's try a line-out. The line-out is atte mpted. It is difficult to see what went wrong. Somehow it just wasn't a lin e-out. A serum perhaps- no, better not. YOLI try a passing movement.
The ball is handed gingerl y from boy to boy like a piece of soggy bread and butter. The bunch reach the end of the fi eld , wheel slowly, and trot back at a dignified pace. They come to a halt , ten paces in fro nt o f you . Time for free practice. Seven boys wallow
happil y in the muddiest part of the fi eld. E ight silent on lookers stand and stare at them, their shirts over thei r heads, their hand s deep in their trousers. YOli blow the whistle and admit defeat. One of the first practical lessons you lea rn is that it is at all ti mes vital to boost yo ur Own prestige by any means, scrupulous or otherwise. To do this it is useless to drop subtle hints concerning your prowess. Let it come as a bolt from the blue, and if it is a lie, make it a big one. To do this effectively it is important to .conceal yo ur precise age. Speculation on this subject is frequent, and attitudes can be briefly divided into three classes. Ages 8-10, to who m it is safe to claim you were a fighter pilot in the last war. 11-12, to whom yo u pretend yo u have knocked about a bit since school, and are at least twenty- two. 13 and over, to whom it is best to be frank, in case they repeat too often in the hearing of others "you're only five yea rs older than I am anyway". There is one distinct advantage that you do hold in conversation. All children of this age, with the exception of the most cynical and mature, can be easily impressed by a show of sincerity. If you announce in firm a nd unsmiling terms that you are a public school fencing champion, were born in Patago nia, and are a relation of Himmler's, you will be believed. It is quite frightening. Some boys too have a delightful habit of saying what you wo uld like them to say. HI say, sir, yo u are stron g, sir", a boy will venture with genuine adm iration as he stand s watching you hack at a large tree, perspiring and muttering under
your breath . Occasionally- very occasionally- this will happen in a lesson. A person will remark with shining eyes after listening to The Revenge, "Gosh, sir, isn't that wiza rd , sir? You really feel yo u are there." T he murder sequence in Macbelh one dark wi nter night
had the whole form pa ralysed when we came to the knocking at the gate, and the relief at the porter's drunken mumblings must have fa r exceeded even Shakespea re's wildest hopes. " My favrit book in litmture are Mac Beath and Biggles in the Orient" is a big
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A form in fact will always take to something unusual or histrionic. They have a curious gift of detachment, so that they can sit back and ad mire a "frantic bate", ca lculatingly
and judiciously worked up, on purely artistic grounds. Corroborati ve details, such as the straining of the temples, frothing of the mouth, and the swift passage of the board duster in the direction of the back row, are recognized and applauded at their true wo rth. 472
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he can be induced to laugh, too, if the jokes are sufficiently broad and u!lsubtle. The TroJc sally is lost, of course, but a pun of Elizabethan pr~portions or a pomted readl~g f Dickens or even Shakespeare- wIth mterpolatlOns- wlll have a form sqUlrmmg m ~heir desks in uncontrollabf!~ mirth. "fiHow'.s my Squeery?" and Stephen Leacock's " I fell iII. I died. I buried mysel are sure- re wmners. The most important social occ~sion of the day comes at lunch. Here you try to fo rget II the harsh things you were saymg not ten mmutes before m fifth penod, and atte~pt to a ead an impression of avuncular bonhomie. The small talk of the younger boys IS very ~~~fusing at first. It consists mainly of retailing the plots of all the films they have seen in the holidays, very fast, with full sound effects, and WIth an unerrmg eye for th~ unimportant. The more senior members of the school have also only one Ime of conversatlOnd'scovering as much about you as fast as possIble III as embarrassmg a way as they can n:anage. Lies are essential here. You announce briskly that you are twenty-four, are on a rest cure, were educated privately and at Borstal (where ~ou met all the other !lew members of the staff) and think that all children are equally hornble. The breathtakmg effronter,Y of this ploy 'takes all but the most cynical off their guard, and the~ then rela"se on to thm second favourite string- previous members of the staff. Th,s IS hIghly amusmg and much
cultivated. The private lives, nicknames, ages, habl ts, Vlces, weaknesses and mlst~kes of
your predecessors are ruthlessly discussed and exaggerated,. stor~ after story, detaIl aft~r detail, blowing the poor man up into a hIdeous monster of mdeclslOn and brut~hty. Th,s can be done with a clear conscience since yo ur successors will hear the Idenllcal ston es about yo urself. Finally one word of warning to anyone contemplating fi lling in a.yea r at a prep. school. As the b~ys go to bed quite early in the evening a nd yo u have a slZeable number of fr~e periods and days off, you should be able to get through a lot of your own wo rk. You won t. O.R.F.D.
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THE H- BOMB OR WAR TO END WAR "THE SPEECH THAT WAS NOT HEARD" On Sunday, Jul y 6th, The Observer published extracts from an appea l to European intellectuals with which Lord Russell was to have opened in Basle on July 5th the Nuclear Disarmament Campaign Conference banned by the Swiss Gove rnment. The following is substantiatly what Bertrand Russell wrotc. There is still a tendency to suppose that the H-bomb makes no difference, except in degree, to the usual problems of war and peace. However, since the use of these bombs could destroy an overwhelming majority of mankind on this planet, and reduce the remainder to the level of tribal wanderers, this view seems implausible. We are tackling a new problem, and old ways of thinking wi ll not do.
Three facts in particular make the present situation look far from cilcouraging:At present onl y three countri es have the H-bomb: the U .S.A. , the U.S.S.R., and Britain. But they will soon be followed by others: France, Western Germany, Sweden and Switzerland are the next to come. Almost certainly China and the Middle East countries will want to follow suit. This diaspora of the bomb makes it infinitely more difficult to reach international agreement on any issue connected with it, and would be sufficient reason in itself for prompt action. 2. Statesmen and politicians arc unrealistic about the situation. Not only disarmament proposals of both sides seem made for their propaganda value, and not with a view to acceptance, but the world's leaders seem curiously incapable of thinking outside the pattern which the national sovereign state has imposed upon us. Thus according to The Times, Mr. Dulles "recently warned a committee of Congress that the American way of life is in greater jeopardy from the cold war than it would be from a hot one. An open war they could win but (so he said) 'I do not know if we will win this cold war or not. ' ". Mr. Khrushchev also seems to imagine it possible to be "victorious" in a nuclear war, or at any rate pretends to imagine this. But, of course, concepts of defeat and victory are out of place in a war which will be annih ilatory. 3. It is almost uni versally tru e to say that all effective weapons of war are actually used in war. They do not act as permanent deterrents, because people in sovereign states do not think or act rationall y in this respect, particularly in time of crisis. Hence it is that no agreements to the effect that neither side will use aeroplanes, sink ships without warn ing, bomb civilians, and so on, have ever been kept when it has been more profitable (or thought more profitable) to break them. I.
In order to deal with this situation, we need to consider both temporary and permanent measures. First, we can stop testing the bomb. We should secure agreement about this partly because of possible radiation dangers, but chiefly because it would prevent new states from acqui ring the bomb, for the effective possession of which tests are essential. If the bomb were restricted to the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. , the danger would be grea tly reduced. Secondly, we must at all costs avoid incidents like the judicial murder of Nagy, the crushing of Hungary, or the Anglo-French Suez expedition. The moral merits or demerits of fhese are as nothing compared with the barriers they erect to international
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agreement. If they do. occur, we ~u s t remem.ber t~at raisin& our hands in pious horror will do no good: it WIll merely raIse the bamers Illgher. Tlurdly, we must work for the disengagement of the two blocs inEurope, and th e establishment of a neutral zone, whIch wou ld render us less liable to mCldents that mIght tngger off a war. Fourthly, we must work towards an effective world government, possessing a monopoly of all the senous weapons of war. This alone can offer permanent security.
LEADING CADET DAEDALUS Only Icarus knew (plus a privileged few) Of the feelings on Birley's each week, When red bobble reaches elastic that stretches And sets off at angle oblique This tortuous flier intertwangled with wire, That aspires the heavens to seek. It's the flight that on Tuesdays stuns all, As 1 va nish from sight, recollections, recall, With fervent orations and frantic gyrations To way past the angle of stall. And so it is that; Undulating at leisure at stratosphere pressure With a thought that this may be the end, Having hovered a while in ethereal style It dawns that it's time to descend. And the monster brings fast an impending disaster That calls for a daedalic dive; I've a para lysed mind and a battered behind But somehow I seem to survive. Since I'd circled complete, I was ready to meet The sadistic awaiters of wrecks Seeking any excuse to put out of use The machine that risks R.A. F. necks. Though corroded and rusted and mildew encrusted, No actual defect could they place or defineJust a personal regret from the base of my spine, Just a bruise for my cruise to the sun. And the wax-so to speak-gave reprieve for a week By failing to melt or to cookAnd my Ego was fed when the officer said That I'd looped every goddam loop in the book. J.I.R.T.
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EX LIBRIS : :T h~ catalogue of books i~ the King's S~hoollibrary issued in the September of 1870 IS a histonc document. It gives an Interestmg picture of our predecessors' tastes a nd its qua!nt meth od of detailing books gives evidence of the humourless sobriety of its c~mpiler. Be~ldes this we can see the range and extent of bOoks, and the limitations of subject, which eighty years of mighty change and IIghtnmg development show up in clear relief. The .scholar who perused the shelves of the library-a nd reading was the ch ief recreationary
pas t.lme~m t.he yeay of ~hc Franco-Pr~lssmn War, could not have guessed at the amused
fascmatlOn with which IllS successors view the same selection . The stuff of the nineteenth century classical education lay in the texts themselves. With this In ~md the exclusion of a classical section is perhaps not surprising. But it is diffic ul t to expl a ll~ the absen..e of a French or German section. This was the Engla nd of Empire, and th~ Insular. pnde ?f the mo!"ed classes-:-the prop and stay of our commercial prospenty and mternatlOnal prestige- was eVident in their education. In the section portenteously m~ rked "Gel]eral Literature" the sole representative of European literature IS Ma~ Mul~er, m his two vol umes on The Science of Language. Did these Victorians, smu~ In theIr bnc-a-brac-cluttered ma nSIOns, ever look beyond themselves? In factn~. m fancy-yes, because in the long section on "Tales, etc.", there are Lellers from S,erra Leone: Travels and Adventures ill Mexico; ' Cochrane's Journey through Russia ' and Scenes fro m German Life: amid scores of others. They dared look over the top reality to the colour of nati ve customs and travels in exotic faraway places- wi th France they came very neer to war.
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Aware of the gaps in general headi~gs,and of the initiation of subject it is at first possible to overlook the comedy of the compiler s method. He had to preserve alphabetical order so one ~ees "Pope's Reco lle~tions of the Last Four, Wiseman", without at first imagining
that Wls~man wa.s recolle?tIng. Popes! Further, there is some doubt about the precise geographical or blOl?,glcallmplicatlOn of s~ch volumes.as "America, Equinoctial Regions of, Humboldt, Vol. I . Why (agam at first Sight) a.n obvIOus Vlctonan whaleboned spinster should .recelve such ~belsance (~mergue, P"~;lmag.. to, Miss Costello, 2 vols.), one
cann?,t Ima~tne. Steering uncertainly between
EgyptIans, Anc ient, Wilkinson, 2 vals",
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Etruna, Tour to the Sepulchre of, Mrs. Gray" and encountering the confused hazards of "Ten Th0l!sand,~ Trave!s in the T~ack of. the, 'Ain sworth", or "World, a Lady's Voyage Round the, Pfieffer , one gives up, qUIte bewildered. The Victorians, both Pfieffers, AInsworths a nd the Mrs. C rays, were much travelled, but could have found happier recordatIOn of thelf works III the carefully docketed volume that was the library register! It is necessary to remember that the late ninetee~th century was the heyday of the Sabbath Day. observance school. Hence It was essential to any school library to provide sUItable ~eadmg matter for the ImpressIOnable schoolboy mind on the Sabbath. No unsabbatlc volume could be touched, but there was care taken to provide for all tastes. For the pIOUS there was Edmonstone's Christian Gentleman's Daily Walk fo r the contrite Jackson's Sinfulness of Little Sins, and for the faint-in-faith Sumne~'s Evidences of ChnstlOmty. The accent was undoubtedly upon insuring that every boy grew up a Christian gentleman-he must follow, a t any rate the precept, of Mr. Gladstone. He must read Against Atheism with M~. Wise, and College Life with Mr. Whitehead, and to make certain of his partICular way of hfe, Christian Boyhood at a Public School with Bishop Wordsworth. 476
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Didacticism in all things and no scope for intelligent inquiry were essential. But one must not be too hard on the men who guided our predecessors on what they presumed to be the fittest course of learning. They were sincere if often short-sighted and they did educate men who gave England national and international solidity and prestige. Yet for six days in the week they had time for relaxed reading. They could leave Tacitus and Dr. Wise and turn to the section which held romance, excitement and glamour. "Tales,
etc.", must have been the stuff of day dreaming- but what dreams of colour a nd verve stemmed from The Abbess of Shaftesbury or the Co-heiress of Willingham? However, there were the numerous tales of travel- Rough Journeys Across the Pampas or Stokers and Pokers, adven tures in the Libyan. desert. They were surely something more than a
travelogue. This section contains a heterogeneous selection- there are history books which are not placed in the history section and scientific books not in the science section , and ar t books and biographies not in the sections allotted to them. T here are some unhappy inclusions in the va rious series- the Fam ily, Fireside, Englishman's, Colonia l and Home libraries. In the Family Library, the " H istory of the Jews" is followed immediately by the "History of Insects", and below that "The History of Jews, concluded", as if the middle vol ume gave the last word on the matter. How "Kit Barn's Adventures" compared with Enid Blyton or H arry Coverdale's courtship with "The Philanderer" are matters of speculation. One can safely assume, however, that children's fantasy figures were probably as staid as Harry Coverdale. Little Lord Faunterloy makes the picture complete. H istory was largely a matter of battles and campaigns, and Balaclava was still fresh in memory. The scientific section puts Chemistry and Electricity as a sectional headin g. We cannot conceive when we switch on a light that eighty years ago gas lamps were, on ly j ust, the general rule! Geography was a science- now it is intrinsically part of primary educatjon. Mnemics- memory- was the nearest they came to practical psychology. What innovations Freud wo uld have made, and what horror and revolt they would have caused! On plant and natural life they were very strong. The birds and (was this a stroke of prophecy or is it idle speculation ?) "Artificial swarms of bees" by Scud amore, were second nature to them. Even the governess-cart nature trips held embryonic views on a brave new world. In all the selection is clearly indicative of a mood-and its component moods. The span between the scholar'S tastes of eighty years ago and those of today covers change and development no-one could even have hinted at. H. G. Wells was perhaps an exception, but nevertheless the contents of the library in 1870 were both differently indicative of tastes, and the fascinati ng expression of the aims and principles of high Victorian Canterbury scholarship.
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THE RIVER Glittering sparkling waters rush onwards. Green trees, with striped bows, bathed in sunlight Mottled, as the winds rustie softly through The leaves: screeching birds, chattering monkeys Shouting their many disa provals down. The branches ~f trees in terlock fingers ; Leaves embracmg "cheek to cheek", intertwincA netwo rk of plaited vines. In all this The kin gfi sher sits wa tch ing patiently Crested- blue-green, its shimmerin g purple Catches the eye. Darting here, flitting there ~own- swoo pjn g,
beak ajar, up and aro und ;
SIl ver, wriggling, glitterin g fi sh, devou red '
Satisfi ed, th e bird watcher, eyes flashing , A movement, it's gone; no more to be ~een. And still the river unceasingly flows on. Water fl oats softl y past, is whisked awa y Eddying arou nd the broken branches Rushing, twis tin g, twirling onwards past them. The sweat-beads o n the brown-backed Dayak Heavi ng the pole with lithe yet controlled strength , Contrasts the l'Jpphng musc ular body To a leas hed an imal, straining its bonds. Onwards we plougb, furrowing the waters Narrower the ri ver, taUer the trees' ' Up and up into the now gloomy h~ights BIrds clamber and dart, seeking, and findin g Insects and fruit-flesh-satisfied, they chirp. As the sun sets, the mottled waters wink Slowly the sky pinks, clouds darken, birds home. Peace settles swiftly, like the setting sun. SIlver dances on the running waters As the m oon rises. The river, mellowed in tone, twinkles by, Rushmg gracefu ll y over glittering Pebbled beds. Owls hoot, night animals call. In almost complete silence we glide on. A.J.K.A.
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AN ECONOMIC SURVEY OF STUDY LIFE It is generally known, a nd seldom remarked u pon, that at various times of day in the va rious studies tea is brewed, and a certai n amount of food consumed. However, it is little realised on what a large scale this takes place ; an examinat ion of the account-books of all the studi es in School Ho use yielded startling results. No school mea l is provided between lunch, at o ne, and supper, at seven. In recognitio n of this fact, it used to be the custom for t pint of milk and two buns to be provided for each boy each day. Long ago, by popular request, the buns we re changed for loaves of bread, one loaf of bread a day being divid ed amon g five bo ys.
This is the starting-point. Bread, unlike buns, calls for butter and jam, wh ich in turn ca ll for tea or cofTee, wh ich usuall y means buying sugar as wel l. When is all this eaten? In break, in th e short space of twenty minutes, a pot o f tea is usually brewed, and either toast, or bread and butter a re devoured. If it is a wllOle SCllOOI da y, a sandwich or two will be eaten before going into class. At about fo ur, tea is made, a nd mo re toast is consumed . A sandwi cll or two will be disposed of at about six, and agai n a fter prep. at about nine-thirty, whe n cofTee is usuall y made. Out of the fi ve studies in School House, only tiuee-Upper Back, Third Front, and Upper F ront- keep accurate accounts, and this sur vey is based on figures taken from these for the first ten weeks of this term, up to May 11th. Firstly, butter and margarine. Upper Back have eaten 17t Ibs., or 4 Ibs. 6 ozs. each; Upper Front 23t Ibs., or 4 Ibs. II ozs. each; and Third Front 43 Ibs., or 7 Ibs. 2 ozs. each. Upper Back have eaten 22 Ibs. of treacle o r syrup; Upper Front 28 Ibs., and also 2 Ibs. of marmalade ; U pper Back's figure being 5t Ibs. each; and Upper Front's 6 Ibs. each. But again Third Front eat the most- 18 Ibs. of syrup, and 21 Ibs. of jam (3 Ibs. of syrup and 3t Ibs. of jam each). Upper Back drink tea- 2k Ibs.-while Upper Front drink cofTee- 3 Ibs. 10 ozs. Third Front drink both- 3t Ibs. of tea and I lb. 2 ozs. of cofTee. (The "cofTee" referred to is "Nescafe"-2 ozs. of which cost 3/6). To sweeten their tea and cofTee, Upper Back have consumed only 12 Ibs. of suga r; Upper Front no less than 31 t Ibs. (this incl udes 12 Ibs. 2 ozs. its members cla im to have brought bac k at the beginning of te rm- their memories may be at fault). For once, Third F ront lag behind with only 23 Ibs. What has all this cost? Upper Back have spent £4 6s. 4t d. , or 21 /7 each; U pper Front £5 6s. 6td., or 2 1/3t each; and, surprisingly, Third Front only £5 14s. 6d., or 19/2 each. Assumin g these are pretty average studies (and the fact th at over ten weeks the average expenditure per person in each stud y is approximately the same wo uld seem to bear this out), one might work out how much is spent by the studies of the whole School. Taking the number of boys in studies to be j ust under half of the School, or about 300, we have the studies alone eating some 1,680 Ibs. of butter, 1,820 Ibs. of syrup and jam, 1,320 Ibs. of suga r, 115 Ibs. of tea, and 100 Ibs. of cofTee, at a termly cost of over £300; this is leaving out expenditure in the halls, and mo ney spent at the tuck-shop. Is it necessary to support Mr. Cogger to such an ex tent?
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MAKARIOS * "Blessed are the Peace-makers"
Over the seas from Athene's city (Paying a ll his own expenses?) Asked at last to one of those pretty Thrilling Lambeth Conferences,
Straight from a scene of Mars and Minerva Comes Makarios, whose goal is To enter, as a mere observer, Lambeth's awful Holy of Holies. What arc you going to observe, Makarios? A keen di scussion 0 11 Disused Graves? How Lucifer's Penny Points harry us, And how the Premium Bond enslaves?
Wh y Anglican troth is sometimes plighted To atomic ki lling, but never di vo rce?
Wh y we ard ently want the churches united, And why we ha ve to go srow, of course? You may even have the joy heaven-sent Of hearing afterwards at Claridge's A quite enthrall ing argument About Deceased Wives' Sisters' marriages.
Will you, patriarch, by "leaning Across the bosom of the urgent West" (Bridges) be told, or acquire by gleaning How churchmen wield iron rods with zest?
o Makarie fortunate, Will you really not ma ke merry At an Archbishops' private party On even a little Cyprus sherry?
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LEAVE HIM Leave him. Touch him not. For this is an even ing That atones for all others, An evening or delights So rare, that peace shall drown All worry, loss, and pain. For this is an evening, The first or many. Thou rool. DOMINIQUB
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THE CENTENARY OF MR. CROCKFORD'S CLERICAL DIRECTORY T he new and Centenary Edition of Crockford has appeared, with a P reface urbane and full of meat. Few will find it as witty and provocat ive as the Prefaces of recent yea rs, though this Ed itor b ites his meat here and the re, and likes doing it. Probably not many people know the origi n of this Register of Anglican clergymen, now an indispensable book of reference. One of the fo rmer members of this School, the Reverend 10hn Samuel Sidebotham, was its Ed itor from about 1870 to 1900; though not the fi rst Editor, fo r C rockford's Di recto ry fir st appeared in 1858 and its original proprietor was a barrister, Edward William Cox, Serjeant-at- Law of the Middle Temple. Since he, by Bar etiquette, was precluded from giving his own name to the work, it was published in the name of one o f his clerks, a Mr. John Crock ford, who thereby unwitt ingly attained immo rtality. Jt is probable tha t J. S. Sidebot ham was the first clergy man to be Ed ito r, though that is unce rta in . Tn 192 1 the D irecto ry was ncqui red by the Oxfo rd Uni ve rsity P ress, but the identity of the Editor is now never d isclosed. T his Ed itor appears genemlly in favo ur of present-day ecclesiast ical trends, though somewhat critica l of cent ralized aut ho rita rian tendencies in the Anglica n Church; fo r in hi s quotat ion from the Lambeth Conference Hand book o f 1948, "The OCClIpallt of the throlle o/St, Augustine stands to the world-wide Anglican Commullioll ill a relatioll 1I0t ulilike that of His Majesty Killg George VI la the world-wide British Commollwealth, It has beell truly said that Ihe British Monarch is 'THE KEYSTONE OF T HE I MPERIAL A RC H', The same might be said, with cerlain obviolls differences, of the position which the Archbishopric of Canterbury occtlpies in the structtlre of the Allglican Communion", you can hea r two sni ffs: the fi rst when the ~d it or notes with seeming app rova l the 1930 Conference's less imperia li stic definition of the Angl ican Communion as "a commonwealt h of Churches without a central const itution : it is a federa tion without a federa l government"; the second when he commen ts on " the saving Qua lifica tions" of the 1948 description of the Anglican Communion- "i n ecclesiastical matters saving qualificat ions are apt to be fo rgotten and the develo pments which they were mean t to prevent take place in spite of them". I n other words, is the tendency to au thoritarianism in the Anglica n Church, coupled wi th increased cmphas is upon the episcopate, to culminate in a P rotesta nt papacy? T he Editor does not secm to like the not ion, Well , as l ago says, there are many events in the womb of time, which will be del ivered. H istory is made by strong men amid the apathy of others, and we have passed into the tota litaria n age. A n Archbishop of Canterbury stands to the worldwide Anglican Church in a relation not unli ke that (quotes the Edito r with some scepticism) of King George VI or Queen Elizabeth II to the British Com monwea lth of Na tions "with certain obv ious differences" ; but,- the ed itorial warn ing- the differences will be apt to be fo rgotten, Increased autho ritariani sm demands increased unifor mity: and too many people in this age thin k uniformity a desirable end, in itself,l,.1nity is wholly dcsirable: but that is diffe rent, even somet imes opposed to uniformity, which means regimentation, and tend s to reduce men to pawns: while unity con notes harmony a nd a common spi rit. H owever, the Ed ito r ap pcars to desire to free the Chu rch of England from Parliamentary control : o therwise, the Lambet h Conference cannot grow in a utho ri ta tive importance, and the development of the Anglica n Communion itself may be jeopa rdized, "The Chu rch overseas has paid a high price for the cond itions of Establ ishment in England" ; and it is the fact of the Royal Supremacy that has prevented "the crea tion of some Icgislative and judicial li nk for the whole Communion", Indeed, two pages later, he faces the suggestion whether the proper dest iny of the Angl ican Communion is not to disappea r. If Anglica n comprehensiveness is not to remain a fact d ue to state control, there m ust be some other bond of un ion- o f Chu rch origin and power- since the present system conta ins within itself seeds of disintegrat ion, But he takes this brief debate no further: and if he disli kes any papalistic trend, we cannot guess the E ditor's so lut ion, Nor does the Editor seem much to welcome the increasi ng powers of the Church Commissionersindividually admirable men, he adm its, to whom the Church owes much- but "the velvet is in places worn so thin that the iron hand is seen as well as fe lt", H e notes with disapproval a proposal (rejected) for more and mo re concentration of eccles iastical power in Church H ouse, West minster- already more than enough, he hints- into fOll r main Councils each with a Secretary possessi ng "a fi rst-class mi nd" and highly paid : supermen, a horrifying outlook, a d ictatorship; and we should "be reminded of the influence possessed by the Secretaries o f certain politica l pa rt ies in fo reign lands"; a nasty crack , O n the subject of re-un ion the Editor seems to think it reasonable that non-episcopal Churches should yield to Anglican demand to submit to re-ord ination a t episcopal hands, though how thi s would not be a repudiat ion of the va lidity o f their ministries he docs not say. 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Episcopacy, as found in the Church of England, was not essentia l to the life of the Church; nor would Methodists accept any th ing tha t smacked of re-ordination, even for the sake of complete re-union. The Fathe rs of the Elizabet han Church had to face this question and doubtless were tempted to manipulate Scripture in their struggles with Presbyteri ans and Puritans, " But", wrote Hooker, "with any such partial eye to respect ou rselves, and by cu nni ng to make those thin gs seem the truest which are the fittest for our purpose, is a thing which we nei ther like nor mean to fo ll ow." There is some analysis of represen tat ion in the J-fouses of Convocation wi th the object of establ ishing that freely elected members outweigh "bishops' men"- but figures are not equivale nt to personalities. The Edito r finds space to rebuke some dignitaries who sca ntily attend; but perhaps more profitably he might have examined the Lay representat ion in the Church Assembly. It wou ld be in teresting to know how many male relat ions plus wives, sisters, cous ins and aunts of bishops and fun ctionaries sit in the House of Laity, and so multiply votes ("family compacts", so to speak) in part icular di rections, "where so many sing one song by reason that he (father, uncle, brother- which you will) is the guide of the cho ir". Rightly the Editor emphasizes the place of the Laity in the Church in discuss ion on doct rine and worship, as distinct from the one role which cler ics deem them fit for, namely, the provision of money. So he welcomes the present move to admit them to Convocation unless Convocation and the Church Assembly be amalga mated. In the Law as it sta nds the lay representation of members of the Chu rch of England is deemed to be secured in and by the House of Com mons- as was made clear when in 1927 and 1928 Parliament rejected the Proposed Books of Common Prayer; a rejection bitterly felt at the time by many Churchmen, but subsequently seen to be something to be thankful fo r. Th is lawful Parliamenta ry supremacy is anathema to the Editor. He writes, "It is not consistent with the dignity of a Christian Church that its worship should be controlled by a body of people many of whom are adherents of other Churches and some of whom are not Christians at all. Sooner or later Parliament must hand over to representative bodies of Churchmen much of the direct control which it now exercises over the life of the Church". But he wants this to happen without dis-establishment, and obviously- though silent on the poin t- without dis-endowment. But it is not so easy to satisfy everyone as to what constitutes " representat ive bodies of Churchmen". So far they exist for legislative purposes only in the H ouse of Laity of the Church Assembly; a nd these members predominantly belong to the lea rned professions and to the leisured classes, and often enough possess relations in the other two (clerical) Houses. It may consti tute a very limited range, indeed, of representation, and no member possesses influence other than persona l, and if that amounts to li ttle, hi s opin ions and weight will amount to little. But the humblest politica l constituent can put a case to hi s M.P. for ventil at ion in Parliament, and the M.P. by virtue of his ma ndate of rep resen tation from the constituency can vent ilate this matter and it will be on record . It is difficult to envisage a lowly parishioner contriving to get his views on anything aired in a House of La ity, for he would be puzzled to know who rep resented him ; and, if he knew, would probably th ink twice if socially his reputed representative were of "superior" class and anyway lacked weight to ensure that his matter would ever get a hearing. If included in "representa tive bodies of Churchmen" you had a fair percentage of working-class people, the representation wou ld be more genuine and far-reaching, and not necessarily less wise. But the Church of England has had rather an "upper middleclass" character since the Reformation, and the present House of Laity bears resemblance to the House of Commons unt il Labour entered it_ Archbishop Benson-as told in his Life by his son--expressed his concern that the Church of England was so little in touch with the working-classes. If the congregations which attend Church nowadays should be even half composed of working-class people, the present " representation" would appear fictitio us: and should Parliament ever consent to transfer its control to such " representative bodies of Churchmen" the Anglican Church-the Church of the Nat ion-might find itself to have paid it s price in more ways than one, and not least in further divorcement frolll the lowly. The Preface is, however, a fascinat ing medley: you leap from the future of the Angl ican Communion to a paragraph on an episcopal octogenarian; from the dcath of a Residen tiary Canon-which has requ ired the appointment of "four o r five people to do his work in Convoea tio n"- to the Ch urch's proper attitude to Modern Science and the a ll owa nce of some ed ucation in it ("we wou ld not be thought host ile to a desi re
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A MOMENT OF SELF-INDULGENCE When I consider the th ings ill done, The actions which I hesi tated to perform And which now in carefull y balanced view Seem wrong a nd cruel and foolish, I would not Retract olle syllable, ()r wish away One secret thought which took me by delight. It is easy to be tolerant of oneself And make honest ana lysis of inj uries When there is a lifet ime to make amends. Shall I bear my pride, unrealized, to death? DOMI NIQUE
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BOOK REVIEW Madman's Whisper , by Richard Grayson, O.K.S. (Hammond, 10/6) Wordsworth, in his Preface to the 1800 edition of the Lyrical Ballads, forecast the coming of a "craving for extraordinary incident" as a result of the increasing uniformity that wo uld impose itself on li fe with the industrial revolution and city dwelling; modern trends in music, the cinema and li terature show that his prophecy has come true. The thriller seems to be one of the signs of the times, and by far the greatcst proportion of books sold are thrillers. To write something along the lines of the average paperback is not hard , but to do more than this and at the same time to be a marketable proposition is hard ; one might think that Richard Grayson has not managed to do it, but I rather think he has. The first paragraph of the book- Mr. Grayso n's third- reads : "The girl in the coffee bar had everything a girl in an Expresso should have. A pony-tail hair style, a sloppy, crimson sweater and leopard-skin slacks cut like a drainpipe and just abo ut as flattering to her figure. A group of self-important youths standing near her were making ineffectual passes. One of them made a rema l k wh ich I could not hear."
This and the subseq uent events- the private detective, the chance break-down, the meeting of the coffee-bar girl the night of the murder, etc.- confirmed my suspicion s and I had a strong temptation to say "snap" to the cliches as they rolled in . But, to put it bluntly, I was wrong. Perhaps Mr. Grayson's greatest triumph is that he has actually bothered to draw the character of his private detective instead of resorting to the usual hash-up of Sherlock Holmes, Raffles and Bulldog Drummond; true, his hero is very good at holding his drink but apart from this he seems to be such a n original and fea si ble creation that if Orwell were alive today he would endorse this break-away from stereotype whole-heartedly. Nor is Mr. Grayson intent on creating an American England for his readers; not once during the course of the whole book did anyone say "crap"; only once did guns figure, but these were merely shotguns and no-one was "dropped" by them; the hero on no occasion mashed his opponents with his bare hands in that fascist way that Mr. Mitchum has mastered to the rapture of OUf cinema audiences; nor was he cynical with the women, and when one made a pass at him he succumbed in a remarkably human fa shion instead of calling her a "jerk" and driving off at high speed. The plot goes on to expand in an ingenious way and very little, if anything, can be said to be incredible. The characters are well drawn; the true vulgarity of the "one and a half litre" set with their felt caps, suede shoes and do uble-breasted blazers, the arid passion of the foreman's daughter whose good looks have taken on more than they can handle and the pathos of Eve Woodside, whose life blood has been sapped by her murdered husband come out with force. The rainstorm on the race-track where the events are fitted into place and the solution found comes to have more than its apparent significance; its effect of settling the dust and generally cooling the atmosphere is at the same t ime literally descriptive and symbolic. Madman's Whisper is therefore definitely of a type but the point abo ut it is that it must not be condemned with the type for it rises well above it. It is worth readi ng and I enjoyed it. H.A.S.B. 484
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THE CHOIR This has been as much a year of experiment as consolidation. In a n effort to make the School services mo re congregational, the choir was transferred to the oaks by the lectern. Apart from the initial difficulties o f timin g with the orga n, this arrangement has served as an advantage, both to the congregational singing and to the seating of our swo llen numbers. Mr. Wright has coached bo th Schoo l and Choi r to sing Stanford's Te DeulIl a nd Jubilate in Bb and Vaughan Williams' Te Dell'" in G. The lattcr was particu larly exhilara ting when sung for thc first time this term in combination with the Olthcdral Choir on the steps of the na ve. Amo ngst thc new anthems to be performed, 0 clf,p yOIl/' hands by Vaughan Will iams and 0 prais(' Ihe Lord by Dyson stand out as worthy additions to our repertoire. With thc organization of part of the P alace bui lding into an attracti ve and effic ient music sch ool, we have at last found a home for thc choir library. And it is around the building of this li brary that we have cen tred a programme of music which, though not as original as la st yea r's, will be of lasti ng value to the cho ir. Thi s term has not bcen an casy o ne, and 1 feel most grateful to all members who have strived, under the inspiring leadership of Ed red Wright, to maint ain the high standard which the singing had reached at the e nd of last year. Anthems sung this term: Praise to God (Campbell) o Praise the Lord (Travers) Thou visitest the earth (Greene) Clap your hands (Vaughan Williams) If ye love me (Tallis) Come, Holy Ghost (AI/wood) Ho ly, Holy, Holy (GrelchonjnojJ) Hymn to the Trinity (Tchaikovsky) Glorious is thy Name (Mozart) Lcad I)lC, Lord (Wesley) o praise the Lord (Dyson)
Hail Gladdening Light (Wood) For he shall give his angels (Mendelssohn) Save us, 0 Lord (Ba;/,slow) Blessed be the God and Father (Wesley) Give us the Wings of Faith (Bullock) o thou the Central Orb (Wood) o Prai se the Lord (Goss) for a closer walk (Slanford) 1 was glad (Parry) Beati Quorum (Slanford) H ow lovely are thy dwellings (Brahms)
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THE SECOND ORCHESTRA In recent terms this young Orchestra has progressed favoura bly under the excellent guidance of Mr. John Sugden. In the Lent Term they took part in a public Mu sic Circle Concert in the Great Hall. The latter part of the Summer Term is always cr:lmmcd wi th examinations and King's Week, so that thi s Orcllestra , which is the only School musica l soc iety which docs not participate in that great Week, has to cease rehearsals a t thc beginning of June. However, in the fir st fi ve weeks of thi s term, the Orc hestra worked ha rd fo r their appearance on June 7th a t the Kent Musical Competitive Festiva l, held this year at Ashford. The "guest conductor" was Roge r Lunn and the adjudicator, Ernest Read, was very impressed with the performance of these talented yo ung players, giving them great e ncou ragement. The full orchestra performed Schubert's Marcile Mililaire, part of which Mr. Read, the great conducto r of C hild ren's Concerts, asked them to play aga in because he enjcyed it so much; then the strings alone pe rfo rmed a ROlldeau by Purcell. Thus for the second year running the Second Orchestra returned triumpha ntly to Ca nterbu ry with the Hubert Clark Challenge C up. It is unfortunate that, when the Orchestra meets again in the autumn, many of the members will be new, as the 1110re experienced ones naturally pass on to the First Orchestra. However, Mr. Sugden will no doubt be able to work wonders throughout next yea r, and by the end o f it produce a Second Orchestra far above the standard of the only orchestra of most schools.
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GLEE CLUB NOTES . The Glee Club has ~ourished in spite. <?f t~e difficulties which always accompany the Summer Term
Influenced perhaps a. httle by the necesSi ties Imposed by the Garden Concert which is making its first
~~peara~cd 0b ll the Kmg's Week programme; but Il.ative enthusi!lsm has been 'constant enough, and was coura~e. y the fine .example of Yale, whose mUSIc has much In common with ours even if we cannot 1lope to Imitate the Whlffenpoof aspect. • < Some n7"Y music has been <?btained and learnt- wo rk s by Elga r, Armstrong Gibbs and Franz Abt and
Negro Spirituals arranged by Balfour Gardiner. These, together with some familiar items refrains t~ sea ~ongs to be.su ng by ~r. Edgar Samuel, 3!ld Th e Holy City. in which we join forces with the' Military Band ave occuPIed us dunng the term, and will, we trust, entertain our audience in the garden . < , Several m~mbe.rs, incl~lding the Honorary Secretary, leave this term, and those who wish to 'oin the Club next. tellf! [lie hearti ly encouraged to make themselves known. Let it never be felt that thi s i/. select group which d iscourages new blood t ' • O.W.L.
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JOIE DE VIVRE (Apologies 10 HOllsn;an)
On Bredon hilll walked along, One deathly autumn day; A dying robin's dying song Rang out, and passed away. The gallows where the dead ma n waves The dying sun above, ' Looked down upon the nettled graves Of maids that died for love. The lads no longer fight and die, Or hollo from the hill ; Now they in leaden coffins lie, And now the air is still Now Tom lies in the churchyard there, Dick hanged himself at sea, And H arry died at Ludlow fair, A sorry day for me. Thus I walked on Bredon Hill, TrYlOg to be glad, Yet till I drop I needs must still Go on being sad.
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THE SOCIETIES THE C HOR AL SOCIETY Summer terms have always been a climax for the Society, but Elijah proved to be' rather too big for the ca pacity of our numbers. Mr. Wright therefo re invited the Ca nterbury Choral Society and a representation of the Junio r Schoo l to augment our band , which they did with such astonishing enthusiasm th at our numbers were soon well over the 100 mark. This combination of the two societies has proved a ve ry happy o ne, and it is hoped that si milar alliances may recur in the future. Meetings have been as regular as the Summer Term permit s and well attended, especia ll y by the Staff, whose interest in the Society has been increasi ngly helpful throughout the year. Our addition to the line of professional soloists this year was B. H. Stokes who sa ng the part of the youth, not on ly in Olll' own performance of EIUah, but in John Brough's prodllction of it in the Cathedral in June. The actual performance is yet to come, but thanks must be given to Mr. Wright, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Sugden and the "Elijah Orchestra", and to every member who has contrived to make poss ible the production of a work of such vast proportions. C.H.B.
THE MADRIGAL SOCIETY It is now seven or eight yea rs since Mr. Wadel! founded the Society, and with an ever-increasing library,
much of the music acqu ired by the Society in its younger days has perforce been neglected. For the "Serenade in the Cloisters" concert our annua l cont ribution to King's Week, therefore, we decided to choose as many of the less recent additions to our library as we could, including a group of part-songs by Gustav Ho lst. Other activities included the making o f records o ut of the tape- reco rding of the Society'S B.B. C. broadcast last February (fo r which I am particularly indebted to R. F. Lunn), the performance of certa in semi-choruses in the Choral Society's presentat ion of Elijah and, o f course, the annual mountainee ring trip up Belll'larry to Hail the day thaI sees him rise on Ascension mo rning. Despite the fi rm resolutions made at the beginning of the year to keep the numbers under 20, we have aga in expanded the Society-chiefly with an eye to the future. J. A. Broom, A . J. Blake, M. J. Pollock joined the treble line, Hammersley returns together with another newcomer, G . S. Westrup, to the alto line, N. D. Curtis to the tenor line, and H. K. Bray and D. L. M . Thomas take the places of Rev. A. B. Curry and Mr. J. B. Bacon. whose Summer Term is exhau sting enough without the added consideration of madrigal rehearsa l. Edred Wright has, as usual, proved entirely inexhaustible under circumstances of the utmost strain, and to him must go heartfelt thanks for making our singing more than an enjoyable pastime ... a veritable end in itself. The Secretary of the Society for the term commencing September, 1958, J. Polglase, is hereby appoi nted. For the four of liS, R. F, Lunn, N. C. Attwater, G. W. Lane and myself, who are leaving remain endearing reflex ion s of a most enjoyable and edifying time in the Society. C.H.B.
THE PATER SOCIETY Presidelll: J. B. WILSON, EsQ. H OIl . Secretary: A. G. DOUGLAS Although a month of the term had passed before the Society met as a whole, the programme of activities will have been larger, 1 think, this term than ever before in the Society's history: indeed it would have been still larger but for the period of quarantine following German Measles which preven ted Mr. Zinn from giving a paper, and the Society from inviting a dozen Westminster School classici sts to Canterbury. On May 30th a small section of the Society accepted an invitation at Simon Langton's Girls' School to hed!" a lecture by Professor Webster on Homer and his Background, in which he discussed everything from Nestor's drinking cup to Linear B. As he said himself, it was more about his background than about Homer, but he was sufficiently dogmatic at times to create controver,y. The slides did much to increase mlr enjoyment.
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â&#x20AC;˘ T HE CANTUARIAN On May 31st there was a large attenda nce (particularly from members of the Staff) to hear a most lucid and most helpful paper by A. F. Well s, Esq., on "Understanding Latin", in which he stressed the importa nce of acqui ring a Ja rge vocabu lary. and how this process could be made quicker and easier by lak ing an interest in the forms and derivat ions of word s. H e showed an outstanding knowledge of philology, and was able to answer all questions lucid ly. After the lecture the Secretary wa s privileged to be invited to show co lollr slides taken on the Greek tour last Easter holidays. On June 14th Mr. Wilson a nd Mr. C. A. Riell, Headmaster of Simon Langton Boys' School, gave a dialogue entitled Personal Relatiol/s; a 1110 rc appropriate title, Mr. Wilson suggested, might have been Chaps. They began by disclissing var iou s types of people. They explained many of the simple uses c f psychology, though both agreed that it could be a dangerous subject in the hands of the amateur. They fini shed with a very broad-minded and fort hright discussion on relations between the sexes, and perhaps the best, certain ly the 1110st remarkable, par t of the evenin g was the debate on this subject which arose from questions, mainly from Vernon-Sm ith, who did much to liven thc evcn ing. On June 26th there was an olltin g to Brad field, to see a product ion o f Aeschylus' Agameml/ol/ in the original Greek. Our imprcss ions werc the same as the eri tic's in 111e Times who pra ised th is elaborate production highly. The open-a ir theatre, notwithstanding the drizzle, the well-tra ined cho rus and the music contributed towards a production not un like that wnieh Pericles m ight have seen in fifth-century Athens. On June 5th J. de V. Allen, Esq. , Q.K .S ., gave a paper on "Totalitarian Justice" , in which he d iscussed "purges", especially those which ha ve takcn place in Russ ia since the revo lution. He pointed out that they were only an extension of the idea in Plato's republic of the few ruling the ma ny, and were as much the part of the admi nistrative system of a utilitarian state ns is, say, the Civil Service in Great Britain or America. The Society now looks forward to another outing, th is time to Londo n, to sec a production of a Lntin play at Westm inster o n July 17th , when "A" nnd "S" Levels will be over. The days when attenda nce at lectures was limited to the President and tb e Hono rary Secretary are over: now the Pater Society flouri shes one of the most act ive in the School. This resurgence of classica l interest has been stimulated firstly by the zenl of Mr. Mackintosh in arranging lectures and outings, and secon dly by the kind hospita lity of the President and his wi fe, to whom we offer si ncere thanks.
THE CAXTON SOCIETY Presidellf: H. W. OSMOND, EsQ. The Society's activities this term have been limited to many small jobs for School Societies (with the exception of one large and rather disastrous programme) and to private jobs. Nearly every member has been takin g G.C.E. (at various levels), so few have been able to a fford to spend time printing, with the result that some jobs have been seriously delayed: but a remarkable amount of work has been doneconsidering that the Society's functions are elltirely voluntary. Once aga in we must extend our thanks to Mr. Peett for his expert advice on many matters. A .W.B.
THE SOMNER SOCIETY The innumerable activities of the Summer Term have severely limited the Society's meetings. As a result. only one of the proposed aims was rea lized. The idea of excavations in the ci ty was abandoned after seemingly endless complications under the shadow of examinations. Before the outing C. Vernon-Smith and T . J. Stevens gave sho rt talks o n Mereworth Castle nnd Lullingstone Roman Villa. These attempted to pu t the buildings into the perspective of the trad ition of British culture. This was espccially impo rt ant in the case of Mereworth which should be seen as a n expression of the eighteenth eentury Whig art philosophy. The co-operation of Colonel Me<ltes a t Lullingstone enabI!(d liS to draw on a most knowledgea ble sou ree. The buildings were in th is W<ly seen not just as a pi le of rubb le wi th a mosa ic noor.
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THE MARLOWE SOCIETY On Sunday, June 29th, we heard a papcr o n "Hc re~l i ty" , by A . G. Robictte. The paper was short, but it covered a wide fiel d, and in language not t09 tcchlllca l fOI: us t ~ under~tand .. Rob lette gav~ an. aeeo,unt of the hi story of the basic discoveries in hcre(ht y, and ex pla lllcd It s workmgs Wit h exu!nples la.l1 g ll,g ~I~m moths to roynl families . He prophesied tlmt if and whcn man ceascd to be tl:ae d O~lI1ant. alllllU 0 tlC world something like an octopus might take his place. The paper provoked a hvely d iSCUSSion. . we' were therefore well prepared fo r n paper o n "Eugenics a~d Societr", given by C. Ve~non-Sll1 lth, ? Il J I 18th He talked about the met hods and result s of eugellles, lookmg fonyard to a t!me when 1l1.\11 be able to employ it to produce a greatly imp roved society. But sllch pr.actlca l ~ugge~tlons. as he ga~c fortunately seemed unlikely to be ndopted in the fo re~een~l,? future. AI~ lI1~erestmg ,?I~lISr~)lI' Io n thiS paper wns interrupted for him to ~e~d an9t~er pa pe r on Reitglon as an ObJcctlve Study , Ill w l1C 1 1e gave . us hi s views on the trend o f theistic religions. We are gra teful to ou r P residen t, Mr. D. W. Ball , who provided refreshments a nd the comfort of hi S room.
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THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY The Society has met four times th is terill . . . The outin W<lS held on T uesday, 22nd May, and it was thc Inst of a ser ies a rranged pnmanly so that Sixth Form tlant bio logists could study the p lant eco logy o f n ~og at. HOlhfield and beech woof's, Ilca' Westwcll. Some intercsting plants ~ere found in bot h places, lIlellldmg sundew, bog bean ane t wn l fu rze at Hothfield and many fly orch id s at Westwcll. . . On 5th June an Ornithological Sect ion was set up for those people in the Society w~o are als~ mtercst~.d in bi rds. On the fo llow ing Sunday a few of thi s section went and looked at a sand mart III colony III a qua il y nca r the Vauxhall lakes. On J une 22nd the President gave the Soc!ety ~ lectu re o n tI~e evoluti0.na ry ~)t"jgin of bi rds. He bc,gan by ,. tl e genera l efficiency of the englllcenng and work lllg of a bird Wi th that of n manymal <m d ~y ~~Itlg,i:ll~l~h!t is kn~wn abou t bird fo ss ils and o ther Oying animals. H e then presented the var.lOusltheo~les of the evo lutionary origin of birds, includ ing his own theo ry and, presented. the argum~n ts fO l ant a~dll1 st each theory. T hese theories were discussed over refreshments, wh ich were kmdly sllppited by th e Pres) ent. M.l.A.S.
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THE KING'S SCHOOL BELLR ING ING SOCIETY The Society has had nnother successful tcrm under the Presidentship o f Mr. R. A. C. Mered ith .. At the business meeting a new systcm of ru les was adol~ted, and it w~s proposed that the Society be lim ited to fift een people. All old office rs were re-elected With the exception of the Treasurer, the lot for . . . which fell on S. Barnetson. Three new members were elected. o S t ' 1 Y May 17th five members went to a byc-meeting of Kent County ASSOCiation at Wlekhambreal~lx.a ~;;;1 a'rter;loon w'as most enjoynb le a nd qllit~ a.musinl? One member h~d a punctu re (mended "while he wa ited" by a kindly loca l rin ger) and ot her IIlclcient s IIlcluded a b roken lope and nil unexpected ra Ale prize.
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THE CANTUARIAN On Saturday. May 24th, by kind permission of the Rev. A. R. Darnes, we held ou r practice a t hi s church of St. Stephen. Here we fou nd eight bells with a reputed "lumpy" tenor; but it did not overcome ou r " tenor
men". An enjoyable afternoon was had byall.
On Thursday, J llly 3rd, four members of the Society were privileged to watch the Lambeth Confere nce Service from the Lantern, and afterward s to help ring the Cathedra l bells wh ile the procession was receding. Two days later an annual meeting of a large inter-provincial ri nging gu ild was held in Ca nterbury, and members were very privileged to r ing a t all the towers that were open for ri nging. Members also took part the following day in ringi ng for the Territoria l Army Se rvice, at which the Dllchess of Kellt was present. Our grateful thanks to all who made these memorable occasions possible. As these notes go to press, news ha s just come of the possibility of augmenting tl\(; Society with the addition of another tower. More will be sa id about this next te nn.
N. J.D.
TH E H ARVEY SOCIETY A film show was held in t he new labor:lt ories on July 21st. Th~ show wns kindly arrang~d for u<; by D. R . R. Fair, Esq., and lent by the Uni ted Kingdom Atom ic Energy AUlhoJ ily. The mill", which were enjoyed by a ll , included details of the construction and opening of Ca lder I-I all ; and a short descl iption of the theory o f a Nuclear Reactor. R.V.E.
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY So fa r this term the weat her has probably limited the number of cameras in action but the number of cameras in the Schoo l has certain ly increased as was shown by the batteries competing wi th the Press photographers at the opening of the Physics Laboratories and the open ing service o f the Lambet h Conference in the Cathedra l where the bearded archbishops supplied us wi th wonderful subjects. The long evenings cf the Summer Term coupled with other organized acti vit ies and the threaten ing of exa minations always li mits the number of Society meetings. Up to the time of writ ing of these notes there have been two meetings; during the fir st the Hon. Secretary deli vered what is hoped to be a stimula tin g and informati ve lecture en titled " Making Exh ibi tion Prints" in wh ich he was ass isted by a Kodak film ~tri p; during the second meeting 0, W. Ball , Esq., ki nd ly came to show and talk abou t some of hi s excellent colour slides. One of the aims o f this meeting was to widen members' interes ts and knowledge o f photogra phy and for this the lectu re r divided his time into two parts: during the firs t he showed us a very interesting selection from hi s travelogue which not only whetted our a ppetites for the holidays, but emphasised the advantages and d isadvan tages of thi s medium; the second part was more technica l an d it was very interesting: to compa re some of Mr. 1. N. Wilkin son's slides with Mr. D. W. Ball's. Even if the weather has no t promoted photography ou t o f doors, it was no doubt P:lrtly responsi ble for the fact that the darkroom has been constantly in use. Tentat ive p lans are being formed for the resu rgent s of a cinematographic section o f the Society. The difficulty lies in getting a work ing number of members who wou ld be p repared to spend the time and money on this very satisfying line o f photography. A society li ke this ca n do much in and fo r the Schoo l, and the more I thin k of it the 1110re the potent iali ties strike me. A ll those who arc interested and also prepared to pull their weight are asked to attend the relevan t meet ings. Mr. E. Sam uel has said that 11e is prepared to keep an eye on Iheir possible activit ies. To stimulate th is possi bly latent tale nt in the School it is hoped that a visi t to the Odeo n Theatre's projection suite will be able to be fitted in befo re the end of term. After a somewhat lengthy duration of office the Hon. Secretary will hand over to P. J , B. Gra inger.
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C.C.F. NOTES THE ARMY he main events of thi s term's traini ng have been the lnsl?CCtion on May 28th, a nd the Field D a~ on J Te II t11 T he form er was carried out by Major-General BrazJer·Cre.a~~h, <::;h lef of Staff, Eastern Comm<tn~, un k' the usu·lI fo rm of a ce remonial parade, foll owed by trammg III platoons. T he .ba nd were JIl andt"~oJ?arly good 'form a nd con tributed much to the sma rtness of the march past. The Field Dt y was, rm a rran ed by the Royal Marines, D ea l, and i n~luded some bo~twork off peal beac 1, ~ome pa r Ih l f~[)3t s~:atin~: eleme~tary tactics cul minat ing in .a .field exerCise, a m~p~readU1g compet Ition, and a Signa l ~xercise; all these wen t well, and very good trallllllg value was o btamed. TI
ate "A" platoon d id not fare quite so well as usual in their revis io n training at the .!3 l .lffs in additiof!. they had been sho rt of lramlll g 'N;xt term's' Part II will be easier, as it wi ll not include L.M.G., With the altered syll abus, C
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Promolions.- The following were promoted 011 1st May, 1958, to the rankBs stat~d ~gt h ~-i ~ : S. R F L eW Yates J K McDo nald· L/Sgts. G. W, Lane, C. R . rown, p S. . . mg, JOh;lS'II ' . uOn'G · Jo~es H 'L· Foster D L 'Thoma s F . A. R ockley; L/Cpls. M. A. L Batchelo r, ~. F· aBj~~i W G W Cha~na~ld W. A. l~ocigcs, M. 1=. Su lliva n, K. G. Trickett, W. J. R . Blakeney, Brock, Gordon, D. G. 'O'Clee, c. A. Ract Hff, H, J. Ricketts, J. Stockda le, D. K. Thorpe, R: K . Woodman , J. R . C. Wright.
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THE ROYAL NAVAL SECTION The standard o f entry into the Nava l Section grows higher every term . Our numbers arc II~oW a ln~ost and we a're keen that effici ency shall increase at least as fa s! as num~~rs: After the Annua. nspecllo~, ~O'~hich the Section acquitted itself with some success, a senes of Imtmllve Tests was carned (;)llt Ol~ ,\ III , .,. e bas,·s Th~se had a distinct ly nava l fl avour, and involved the use of blocks and tackles, slgnallmg compe I IV and ,. , emphaSIS . .IS to be pIacec I on , IliS · t ype 0 f trai Iling in the fut ure . ui pment so o n. More eq Much sa iling took place at Whit st.il bl,? un~ler t1~e supervision ~f Cadet ~etty Officer R. V'd ~d~~r~, h I rd work and keenness in thiS dJrectlon Will be greatly J11Is~ed, .~I~h G. S. Brock an . . . UmversltIes Dragon Races 0!1 the Clyde during the holidays. Our grateful thanks are also due to the Whitstable Yacht Club for their generous assistance.
Bir~s~e 1!i11 be representing the School in the Publ ic Schools' and
. 1d Da was sent o n dry land for a change frol11 rough seas: we ha? a most !~s tructive and Naval College and National Manllme Museum , and looked over that fine ship, the CUfty Sark.
en~~~J~eday ~tY Green£ich, where we visited the Royal
]n the holidays Sub-Lieutenant Havard and 14 Cade.ts a re spend ing a .week on boar,d r .M.~. ~aflguard at Portsmouth , and another party of Cadets arc spendmg a week at sea III H.M .S. Pa at Ill, a es royer.
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ROYAL AIR FORCE SECTION The annual camp was held during the Easter holidays at R.A .F. Aldcrgrovc in Northern Ireland and was a great success. Plenty of v<l.ricd fly ing was available and we were lucky enough to be flo wn back to
England in onc of their Hastings aircraft. The least flying obtained by anyone cadet was four hou rs and the greatest eight hours and the fifteen cadets who went can count themselves very lucky in the cho ice of camp. The nllmbers of the Sect ion are still small bu t we have been able to lISC the gl ider frequen tly. Field Day was spent on bicycles, naviga ting in parties of three across the lesser known stretches of East Kent and was apparently enjoyed by al l. The examination resu lts we re good with four Ad va nced passes and two in Proficiency. We wish Cp!. Pay ne luck in his fl ying scholarsh ip a t Birmingham during the hol idays and the C.O. will be able to keep a fathe rly eye on Sgl. Selman at the Ternhill Sta r cam p. We say good-bye to Sgt. Sim mons and also thrce corporals and we wou ld like to thank them all for their hclp towards the maintenance and goodwill of the Section.
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THE LIBRARY We gratefully acknowledge books from the following:-F. Mitchell , R. A. Bedingfield, J. B. Wilson, Sir I. Heilbron, D.S.O., D.se., LL.D., 1'.R. I.e., F.R .S., Dr. A. P. Marks, J. N. Stevens, J. S. linnell.
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CRICKET BATT ING AVERAGES IlIlIings It. E. F . M inns .........•........ •.. ...... 13 J. P. Roche ... ..... ,. ...................... I I 9 C. R. Barber... ....... ........ , ......•...... W. E. J. Minns ...... .. .................. 12 D . J. Evans....... .. ........ ··•·············· 10 ................. ..... 13 D. O . Jones. II C. W. y ates .... ..... .......... . ··· 8 O . J. Willia ms .. ..... ... ..... . . .. . II G. C. Pritchard .......... " ..... 6 A . J. Redpath ...... 9 P. W. Rollason ... . .. .. A. C. Russell .. .......... ..... .............. 4 Also balled: 2 J. A. C. McElwee .............•... ........
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RETROSPECT Record : Wo n 4, Lost 3, D rawn 6 Frust ratio n and bitter disappointment a re the words which most readily come to mind when one thinks of this term's cricket. In addition to the complete abandon men t of the matches with M.C.C. and Eton Ramblers u p to the end of June there had been only one match which had not been interfered with by ra in. This was at K.C.S., Wi mbledon, when a very co ld wind made conditions unpleasan t fot' cricket. Prophecies of a good season fo r the X I looked like being borne out when the fi rst three ma tches were won qui te comfortably an d the batting down to C. R. Barber <1t No.8 had already proved itsei L Also any suspicion of a deficiency in the bowl ing strength of the side was all ayed by the Captain, J . P. Roche, whose hidden sk ills and talents in this department we re by now already part ially revea led. Because of the abnormal rainfall several matches we re played on turni ng wickets, and especially for cricketers reared o n Bi deys and therefore inexpcl icnced in poor batting conditions, these they fo und to be d ifficult. However, so persistent was the ra in that eventually sufficien t experience of this type of wicke t enabled some of the batsmen to learn to ada pt themsel ves and the ir stroke play, and so pe rhaps to beco me even better cricketers as a result. 497
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THE CAN TUARIAN 1n a season such as this no records could be expected, and what might have happened had Roche and R. E. F. Minns had fa ir conditions can only be a matter for conjecture. They afC two outstanding batsmen of whom much mo rc will be heard. Minns now plays better and more often ofT the front foot and this
bas been a development consistent with increasing maturity, D . G. Jones has not had the best of luck in his batting except perhaps in his innin gs against The Buccaneers, though his fielding and throwi ng at cover. point are good enough in themselves to make him a worthwhile member of any side. C. W. Yates has strokes and enterprise but sccms to lack the ability to maintain concentration ove r a long period which is one of the essentia ls necessary to real success. However, some of his innings were of great v~lue and interesting while they lasted. His bowlin g did not quite measure up to the sta ndard for which one had hoped.
W. E. J. Minns and D. J. Evans may Jook back upon the season with satisfaction at their performances. Last season when they batted at Nos. 7 and 8 they had fewer opportunities of proving their worth. Now, with a season's 1st X I experience behind them they beca me two of the mai nstays and usually made their runs when they were most bad ly needed. The batting strength of the XI was unquestionab ly very strong, and even when P. W. Rollason scored a century in a practice ga me he could only be promoted to No.9 in the batting order. Nos. 10 and II are useful hitters as was proved by G. C. Pritchard 's big hits aga inst Sevenoa ks Vine and A . J. Redpa th's innings at Highga te. The brunt of the bowling was shared by Pritchard, Redpath, Roche and Yates. Red path did 11 0t quite live up to what had been expected of him but in fairness it must be stressed that all of the bowlers, par~ tieularly Redpath and Pri tchard , ca n only be at their best on faster wickets than those of thi s seaso n. Pritcha rd shows great promise. His ru n up to the wicket is beautifully relaxed and his action superb. His pace should increase in futu re years. and if he can acquire the ability to move the ball a li ll ie more he will be assured of a very bright future. His performa nce aga inst Kent Clu b and G round was a splendid one. Rollason's w icket~keepin g was probably better than he sometimes made it seem to be. He had few chances of ca tches and stumpings and took full advantage of most of those which came his way. Although the dismal wea ther ruined all chances this tea m may have had of really distinguishing it self in comparison with any previous XIs, it can seldom have been bettered from the point of view of fielding and throwing. Some of the high lights which will assuredly be remembered by those who saw them: the throwing in general and in particular that of D. J. Williams from the deep and Jones from ccver ; two catches by R . E. F. Minns in the gu lly and one by Jones at cover. and indeed several others almost equally good by other players; the several good partnerships by Roche and R. E. F. Minns; the inn ings of W. E. J. Minns against Kent Club and Ground, and Roche's bowling at Highga te. The Illost lasting memory, however, must be of ra in and stillmore rain. One other memory will be that of Roche's splendid captaincy and leadership. Always quiet and on an even keel, his judgement was sound and frequently shrewd. His decla rations, bowling changes. and field placings were always wel1~timed and showed a pleasing maturity of a ppreciation and knowledge of the game. c'F.
1ST XI MATCHES v NORE CoMMAND Played on May 17th Won by 94 runs On a wet wicket, the School made a disastrous start against not very powerful bowling, los ing 5 wickets for 46. D. J. Eva ns helped to retrieve this situation first with D. J. Williams and then with C. R. Barber, who batted sensibly and splendidly in his fi rst game for the XI. Eva ns an d Barber added 129 for the seventh wicket, enabling a declaration before tea. No re Command soon lost 6 wickets for 62, but a seven th wicket partnership delayed victory until the la st over, Roche taking the last th ree wickets for 14 nms, THE KINO' S SCHOOL. CANTERB URY
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5 R. E. F. Minns, b Cooper............................ 7 w. E. J. Minns, c Jones, b Underdown....... 3 D. J. Williams, st Kennons, b Underdown ..... 18 D. J. Evans, b Anderson................. ............ 66 e. R. Barber, not out.. ... .................. ··.······ 80 G. C. Pritcha rd , c Kennons, b Cooper........... 5 P. W. Rollason, b Anderson......................... 2 A. J. Redpath, did not bat Extras..... ... ....... ... ... ...... ...... ........ ..... 17
A. B. Gobal, lbw, b Pritchard ................ . Cp!. Kennons, run out...... ... .. Shpt. Brown, c WillIams, b Joo;;s .. . U. O. Jones, b Pritchard ............... . J. Bowell, b Jones ............................ ....... . O/S. Anderson, run ouL ........... ..... . Lt. Boiton, b Russell .................. .............. . R. Butcher, st Rollason, b Roche ..... ........... . O. Jcfferson, c Rollason, b Roche................ . Shpt. Cooper, c and b Rochc ........ ... .... ........ . Shpt. Underdown, not out.. .. . Extras ... .............. ... ..... .................... .
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ST. LAW RENCE e.c. Playcd on May 22nd Won by 6 wickcts Vcr ti ght bowli ng and keen field ing kept thc SI. Lawrence batsmen ~o quiet .that .they wcre ~orced to dcclar~ at l1 2 for 6, leavi ng the School 90 minutcs to get the runs. This they did Wi th a fcw Illl11utes to spare, Roche hitting 62 and W. Minns 28 not ou t. , ST. LAWRENCE C.C. . THE KING S SCHOOL G B Hayer c Rollason b Pritchard ...... ... ... 2 D. G. Jones, lbw, b Edmunds, l~................. 10 'Rollason b·Russell....... ... .... ..... 11 A. C. Russell , c Thomas,. b Pett i!.. ................. 60 2 G ·. W·U I. ey, c . \' d........... ................. 354 J PRoche c MacIldowlc, b Edmunds, R ..... J. Whitehead, bPntclar .. M.' b Ed d R 10 J H Ed munds, c Minns, R . E. F., b Roche.. R . E. F. !nns, mUll S, .. .. 28 R. E·dmunds, b Redpath...... ....... ................. 13 W. ~. J ..Mmns, not ouL .. ,..... .. 0 E Pe l~it c Pritchard b Russel!.................... 7 G. C. Pl:lt~hard, ;ot out .. ...... . J. D M~cIldowie n~t out.. .................. ······ 15 D. J. Wlilmms . . , 13 D. J. Eva ns ~: ~;c~h~ot oul... ........................ ..... ...... C. R. Barber did not bat THE KI NO'S SCliooL, CANTERBURY V
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Played at Wimbledon on May 24t h Won by 7 wickets Wimbledon batted first on an ~asy paced wicket, and at lunch were 94 for 2. They succumbed soon after guc largely to a fi!lC spell of bowling by Yates, who took three wickets in one over. T he lcft~handed W; lter~ r attcd ye~y ste~d l ly for 56. The School scored the fllns in 128 minutes, Roche a nd R. Mi nns scori ng 133 lor the tlmd wicket. K.C.S.
THE KING'S SCHOOL
J. C. Waiters, c Minns, W. E. J., b Roche... 56 M. D . Lang, b Red pa th .. "......................... 0 M. J. Haines, b Russel L ............................ 42 B. Haymes, Ibw, b Pritchard....................... 5 J. M . R obey, b yates. ....... .......... .... ..... ...... . 6 R . D. Philip, b Roche....... .... 11 14 2 3 0 0 14
C. W. Yates, b Wa rdelL.......................... 14 D. G. Jones, b Wa rdelL......................... ... 7 J. P. R oche, c a nd b H aines........... ....... ..... ... 64 R. E. F. Minns, not Oll t.......... .... .... ... ......... . 59 W. E. J. Minns, not ou t....... ..... ......... 4 D. J. Evans ~ A. C. R ussell C. R . Barber I'd b G. C. Pritchard (I no t at P. W. Rollason A. J . Redpath Extras.... .. ...... .............. .. ........ .......... 9
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K I NO'S SCHOOL, CANTER BURY V K ENT CLUB AND GROUND
Played on May 29th Match D rawn T he Sc~ool again bowled and fielded e~tremely . well to d i~miss the K ent Club and Ground fo r 180 on ~ n easy Wicket. <;lood ca tches wer~ held III the slips, and Pn tcha rd bowled magni ficently, taki ng 5 for 41 III 22.5 overs. J3.alO then fell , washlllg away all cha.nce of victory, and in the wet humid atmosphere the Schoollc;>st 8 w~ck~ts for 92, due to the se~m bowhng of Cartwright (5-16 in 17 evers). W. E. J. Minns played h is ~est mmngs for the School, scormg 36 not out a nd savi ng the m atch. Wi th a little luck in the weat he~, thiS match could have been won against a side who pa id us the compli ment of brin ging ten profeSSionals, five of whom had played for the County this season . ~NT CLUB AND GROUND
p. J o~es, b Pnt~ha r{L .............. .... ................ B. Ch!vers. c N!ll1ns. R., b Roche................. SA' K cna"g,hl(b' we Mbillns. R., b Redpat h....... .. ... .. .. • • Redpath.. .. ......................... . R. Ledger. b Roch~.... ........................... . ... B. Lu~k~urst. b Pn tchard....... .... ................. R. WIiklllson, c Ro~he. b Redpath....... D. Ufton, .lbw, b Pntchard............... .. G. Cartwnght, not Ol!t..................... J . Da le~ c JOI1r;S, b Pntchard.... ........ ............. C. LewIs, b Pntchard...... .................... Ex tras..... .............
THE KJNO'S SCH OOL
C. W . Ya tes. c Uf~on, b Cartwright.............. 12 D . G. Jones, c K mght. b Cartwright .... .... ...... 3 J . P. Roche! b Ca rtwright.. ....... .. ............... .. . 2 R. E. F. MlI1ns c Ufton b Jones 12 W. E. J . Minns' not out.:.... ................. 36 A. C. Russell Ihw b Cartw;ight ...... · ...... ·.... 0 D . J. Evans ~ Jon~s b Dale .................. . C. R. Ba rb~r st Ufton b D~ i~.... · ........ · ··.... O. C. Pritch~rd Ibw bCa rtwrigh t........ •.... .. P. W. Rollason' not ~ut.. ................ 6 A. J . Redpat h, did not b~t ............ · .... · .. · ...... I Extras ......... . .. II
3 36 22 8 39 18 5 1 28 I 2 17
g
To'a l. ......................... ..•.... .......... . 180
To' al (8 wkts.) .........•........•...... ... 500
92
.
-
p
.,
-
T H E CANTU A R I AN
o. Pritcha rd ............... Redpath .................. yates ................ . . .... Roche .............•..... Jones .....................
22.5 21 9 9 I
M.
R.
W.
6 6 3 I I
41 65 33 24 0
5 3 0 2 0
Wi lkinson .............. Cartwright. ............ Jones ...................... Dale ...................... Knight.. .. ............... Luckhurst ..... " .......
O.
M.
R.
3 17 4 10 3 3
0 9 I 4 I 2
II
16 15 27 10 2
w. 0 5 I 2 0 0
T HE KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY V HIG HGATE SCHOOL
P layed o n May 31st Lost by 11 n ms Highgate batted fi rst on a r a in ~affccted wicket, that took qui te a lot of spin, and were all out soon aft er lunch fo r 95. R oche, with friend ly leg-spi nners, took 6 fo r 17 anc! Yates 3 fo r 43. Yates dom inated the ea rly par t o f the School's innin gs, bu t the tota l slum ped from 50-3 to 63 -9. Redpat h then hi t 17 in four blows, and tea was taken. He was un able to ca rryon the good work, however, and the School inn ings was concluded 11 n ms sho rt of Highgate's total. .If excuses are to be made, the School ba tsmen had had no experience o f a vic iously turni ng ball, and lost their nerve. But Hancock (5-23) bowli ng ofT-cutters, and Saunders (5-36) kept an extremely tidy length, and were backed up by ag ile fielding. THE K I NG'S SCHOOL
Hlm l GATE
H . M . L. Webster, c Minns. R . E. F .• b P ritchard D. W. Plummer, b R oche............................ R. W. Bayliss, c Pritcha rd, b y ates....... . M . J . S. McCreath , Ibw, b yates.................... N. L. H ancock, b Roche................. . ............ G. P. Joh nson, lbw, b Roche........................ D. A. Holland, c Pritchard, b Yates... W. D. Hollinrake, b R oche.......................... A. D . Dowlen, not out.............................. W. D. Macgregor, b Roche...... . ............... D. M. J . Saunders, b Roche.................... Extras ........ ". .. ... ..... .. ..... .. .•....
7 35 7 1 10 0 15 I 2 1 4 12
C, W. Yates, b H ancock............................. D . G. Jones. c D owlen, b Saunders............... J, P. Roche, c Ho lland, b Saunders.............. R. E. F. Minns. c McCreath, b H ancock...... W. E. 1. Minns, b H ancock........ .. .. .. ............ A. C. Russell , b Saunders....................... ...... D. J, Evans. Ibw, b Hancock........................ C. R . Barber. c Holland, b Saunde rs............ G. C. Pritcha rd, c Macgregor, b Hancock...... P. W. Rollason, not OUt. ..................... A. J . Redpath. c Plummer. b Saunders...... ... . Extras....... .. .. . .. . ....... ............... ... ......
30 4 7 7 0 0 4 I 4 4 17 6
Total. ..... .... ...... .. ... .. ...... ....
95
Tota l....... .. ... ... .. . ... ... , .....
84
o. Redpath .. .. .............. Pritchard ............... yates ...................... Roche ...................
7 7 19 15.4
M.
2 3 3 8
R. 16 7 43 17
W.
H nncock ............... . Saunders ..... Holla nd ...................
0 I 3 6
T HE K ING' S SCI-IOOL, CANTERBURY
)1
o.
M.
R.
w.
17 18.2 2
II
23 36 19
5 5 0
6 0
ST. LAWRENCE CoLLEGE, RAMSGATE
Played on J une 3rd Won by 54 runs Batt ing fi rst o n a wet wicket, the School lost wickets unnecessarily, and at lunch ware 94-7. Yates having once again dominated the ea rly batting with 40. Afterwa rds. Evans and Rollason added a very va lua ble 40 fo r the nin th wicket, before Evans was unluckily run out on 47. St. Lawrence never looked like making the nms. the only rea l resistance com ing from de Saram, who batted well for 26. T he fie lding, Yates holding two very good catches and Evans in the slips, was aga in o f a high standard . Pri tchard again bowled well , tak in g 3- 18 and Roche 4-19. A satisfactory win , marred by lI ncert ain ba tting on a sort wicket.
501
.. TH E C A N TUAR I A N THE K INO 'S SCHOOL
S T . L AWRE NCE COLL EGE
C. W. Yates, c Watson, M., b Robins.... ... D. O. Jones, c Robi ns, b Irvi ne....... ....... ..... J. P. Roche. b de Sara m.. ................. .. .. ... .. R . E. F. Minns, b de Saram................. ..... W. E. J. Minns. c a nd b de Saram......... ...
40 3 15 0 6 13 D. J. Williams, st Watson, A., b Fillary.. ..... D. J. Evans, run out..... ...... ..... .. ...... . . .. .. ... . 47 C. R. Barber, c Watson, A. t b Filla ry...... .. ..... 0 O. C. Pritchard, c Hoddcs, b Fillary.... ... .. . 0 P. W. Rollason, b Wa tson, M.............. .. . 8 A. I. Redpa th, not OUt, ... .... ..... ........ ..... . 0 Extras..... . .. .. .. .. . .......... , .. ,. 4 Total ...... .. .............. .. ... .. Wa tson, M ....... .... .. Irvine.... .. .. .. ......... .. de Sa ram ..... ....... .. .. Robins ...... ......... .... Fillary ............. ........
o. 8.5 12 13 11 6
A. R. M. Watson, c Ya tes, b Pritchard ...... M. F. Hoddes, c Ya les, b Pritchard.............. R. A. G. Marshall , c Rollason, b Red path ... G. N. de Sara m, c Evans, b y ates.. ............... D. M. Perrottet, b Pritchard. .. .................... E. W. J. Fillary, b Roche.. ........................... R. S. O. Wood, st Rollason, b Roche........ .. .. D. E. Roe, b Roche.... ............................... M. P. M . Wa tson, c Redpa th , b y ates.... ..... A. K. W. Ro bins, c Min ns, R ., b Roche...... J. S. Irvine, no t out ................................... Ex tras.... ...... ..... .. . .. .. .. . ........ ... .. .. . Total..
136
M.
R.
2 3 4 1 1
30 24 27 31 20
..................
W.
.. .... " .. ... ... 82
O.
Pri tchard ......... ....... Redpath .. ... ........ ... Yates .... ....... ........ Roche........ ............
1 1 3 1 3
T BE Kl NG'S SCI'IOOL, CANTER BURY v ¡THE B UCCANEERS
8 10 1 26 2 6 4 8 4 5 0 8
13 7 9 10.4
M.
R.
5 1 2 3
18 17 20 19
w. 3 1 2 4
c.c.
Played o n June 7th Match D rawn On a true hard wicket, the School batted fi rst, and a fter Yates went ea rly, Jones and Roche set about the bowling, sc,?ring. 16~, befo re R oche, who had gOlle to 50 in 42 mi nutes, was caught an d bowled fo r 93. Jones made eas ily his highest sco re fo r the School, but was left 7 short o f his hund red at the declara tion. The Bucca neers never gave up the chase fo r the runs, and in doing so, lost wickets. Redpath at last h it form and took 4 fo r 53, but the School bowling did not carry sufficient gUlls on such an easy wicket. TH E KI NG'S SCHOOL
BUCCANEERS
C. W. Yates, c Winston, b Russell ..... D. G. Jones, not out.... .... .. .. ............ .. .. J. P. Roche, c and b Woods. ............... .... R. E. f. Minns, no t oul.. ...... . ............ .. . .... W. E. J. Minn s ) D J Wi lliams D. J Evans C. R. Ba rbel did not bat
9 93 93 17
7
R . Collins, b y ates.... .... ................... . .... .... . 39 O . W. Moore, b Redpath ....... ......... 9 R. W. Woods, b Redpa th..... .. ......... .. ..... . .. ... 10 R. Richardson, Ibw, b Redpath........... .. . . ..... 6 J. M. Summers, Ibw, b Rochc....... .. .............. 16 J. M. Ski nner, Ibw, b Pri tchard........... . .... ... 35 J . R. C. Armst rong, b Redpa th....... .. ...... .. 20 A. I. Na tha n, b Pritchard............................ 5 A. C. Russell , not out... .. ............................ 7 R. Kenlp, not out..................... ................ J J . Winston, did not bat Extras ................................... _. ..... 18
Total (2 wkts. dec.) ...................... 219
Total (8 wkts.)..... . .. .......... . .... ...... 169
~. ~: ~~W~;~~
A. J. Redpath Extras....
...... . ...... .............
Winston .. .. ...... RusselL .. .. .. ... Woods . .. ........ . ...... Summers .. ... .... ........ Nathan .. .... .. ... ........ Collins ... .. . .. ..... ...
O.
M.
R.
W.
2 10 18 14 9 5
0 1 3 2 2 0
8
0 1 1 0 0 0
43 68 44 20 29
Pritchard ....... ... ...... Redpath .............. .. y ates .. .. .. .. .. . ......... Roche..... ......... ... .. . Jones ... .... ..... ... ....
Match D rawn 502
O.
M.
R.
17 17 10 7 2
3 2 4 0 0
w.
40 53 22 24 9
2 4 1 1 0
-
.
-
TH E
ANT UAR1A N
TB E KI NG'S SCliOOL, CANTJ:lW URY v
M. C.C.
J unc 12t h Match aba ndoned, without a ba ll bowled. R ain.
TB E KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTERB URY v DOVER CoLLEGE
Pl ayed o n J une 2 1st Ma lch Drawn A dismal day, and no sta rt possible unt il 12.45, when the School sct about the D ove r bowling with little respect, batt ing consistently down the order. At the ra te of 4.07 nms an ove r, a decla ration was made at 195 for 6. Showers, however, abandoned all hope of a fini sh, and on a mud heap of a wicket, with a greasy ba ll , D over sco red 80 for 4. DOVER C OLLEG E
THE Ki NG 'S S C BOOL
C. W. Yates, b McCulloch.... ........ ... D. O. Jo nes, st Wagstaffe, b Co pe. .. ........ .. ... J. P. Roche, c Wagstaffe, b Cope.. ............... R . E. F. Minns, c Widgery, b K yte... ...... . W. E. J . Minns, run o ut...... .. ....................... D . J. Will iams, c King, b Otway.. ................ D . J . Evans. not out..... ............................. G. C. Pritchard , not OlIL .... ............... .. ...... } C . R. Barber P. W. Rollason did not bat A . J. Redpath Extras.. ................ ........ Total (6 wk ts. dec.) ..... Otway ................... . Reakes ......... Kyte ................. .. ... C lare........ .. ... .. .... ... McCulloch ........ .. .. .. Cope... ..... .. ... .. . Widgery ...... , .. .. ... .. .
37 23 24 45 35 II 15 2
3
O.
M.
R.
W.
1 1 1 0 0 1 0
39 15 23 21 36 27 31
1 0 1 0 I 2 0
15 I 41 13 0 2
.... .........
80
To tal (4 wkts.) ...
... ......... 195
13 3 6 6 6 9 5
J. R. Beckett , Ibw, b R oche.. ........... ..... ....... M. J. Otway, c Jones, b P ritchard.. ...... .. ........ C. J. Clare, c Minns, R . E. F., b yates.......... R . P. King, c R edpath , b Jo nes. .. ................. C. F. Cope, not ou t............................ S. K . WagstafTe, not out........ . ....... . ..... G. A. Widgery } N . W. Young R. H . Kyte did not bat D. G. Mcc\'lloch A. W. Reakes Ex tras............... ....... ........ .. .. ..
o. Pri tchard ........ Redpa th .. ..... yates ...... ..... .. Roche ...... ... .. Jones .... ....... .. . . ..
4 5 16 11 4
M.
R.
2 1 6 0 3
9 9 28 25 1
8
W.
1 0 1 1 1
T BE KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY I' E TO N R AMBLERS
June 28 th Match abandoned, wi thout a brill bowled. R ain .
THE K ING'S S CHOOL, CANTERBURY I' SEVENOA KS V INE
c.c.
Played on Ju ly 3rd Ma tch Drawn A most enj oyable and exciting day's cricket. The School batted firs t, and after a partnership of 68 between Roche (39) and Minns (56), slumped to 132 for 7. Pr itchard, however, redeemed the si tuation by hitting 2 sixes and 3 fo urs, before being caught, and with a neat inn ings by Ba rber, the School reached 178. The Vine wen t fo r the nlllS, and a splendid innings from the left-handed Morris was ended ab ruptly by 11 magnificent throw out by Jo nes from cover. Coombs an d Preston kept the rate going, but wickets were falling, and at the fin al over of the day, 7 runs we re needed. One d ropped catch and o ne run out left 6 needed off the last ball and the match was du lly saved. The School fielding which had earlier been brill iant, deteriorated a li ttle u nder pressure, and Red path bowled much better than his fi gures suggest. 503
THE CANTUARIAN TBE KI NO'S SCHOOL
II
$EVENOAKS VI NE A. E. Morris. run out................ ............. . ... R. E. Pyle, b Redpath............................. F. R. Axten. b yates.. ......... ...................... A. Coombs. b Roche...... ............................. D. J. Preston. c Redpath. b Pri tcha rd ........ .. N . P. Golds. Ibw. b Pritcha rd .............. C. C. Russell Vick, run out. ........ .......... P. Williams. no t OUL............................ R . B. Diva ll . not out. .............. .... .... ....... K. J. Smart } did not bat C. H. A. Judd Extras ........ .
178
Total (7 wklS.) .. ..............
o
C. W. Yates, b Diva li ... , ............................ .
D. G. Jones, fun aut.. ................................ . J. P. Roche, c Divali , b Go lds .................... . R . E. F. Minns, b Smart.. .......................... . W. E. J. Minns, c Coombs, b P reston ........ . D , J. Williams, sl Russell Vick, b Preston ... . D. J. Evans, c Judd , b Presion ....... . C. R. Barber, not out.. ................. . P. W. Rollason, c and b Preston ................ . G. C. Pritcha rd, c Golds, b Smart .... .. ..•..... A. J. Redpath, b Smart. .............. ... ..... .
Extras..... ...............
. .. ...... .. .
Total. ......... ....... .
9 39 56 5
o
13 18
o
27
o
o.
M.
R.
w.
22
Golds.................. .. ..
10
Williams. .... ............ Sma rt..... ............ .. ...
3
27 21 75 31
I
Preston.... .... .. ... ......
3 I 5
Dival!............. .. ..... Judd.. ........
7 9
16.3
o o 9
5
8
o 4
I
o
Pritchard ........ . .. . .. .. Redpath. yates ........ . Roche .. ......
..
49 10 3 24 39 15 II 5 2 17 175
o.
M.
R.
13 20 12 5
w.
I
25 84 25 24
2 I I I
3 3 0
3
KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v EASTBOURNE COLI.EGE Played on July 5th Match Drawn The School batted fi rst. but progress was slow before lunch . due to steady bowling and a slow out field. Roche and R. Minns took the score to 92. and the scoring rate increased. until W. Minns was unfortunately run out. Evans was ou t next ball, out Barker a nd Williams enabled a declaration to be made at 184 for 8. In the one over before tea. Ma sefie ld who had scored heavily this season. was caught in the slips off his fi rst ball. Wickets fell quickly after tea. but at 19 for 5, Con nolly and Wainwright batted se nsibly, and held up victory. A t the close. there were th ree wickets still to fa ll . Wainwright figh ting his rearguard action for two hours. Pritcha rd bowled wi th grea t cou rage and stamina , taking 3 for 28 in 19 overs. THE KING'S SCHOOL EASTDOURNE COLLEGE C. W. Yates, b Colbourne.................... 8 G. E. W. Bowyer, c Minns, R . E. E, b Redpath 1 D. G . Jones, b Walter... ............... 5 C. B. Masefield, c Yates, b Pritchard ........... 0 J. P. Roche, c Connolly. b Walter................. 46 M. Waiter, run o ut. .................................. 7 T. D. Wainwright, not out........................... 26 R. E. F. Minns, c Wainwright , b Thwa ites.... 67 W. E. J. Minns, run ouL..... ........ ................ 20 J. G. Thwaites, b Pritchard ......................... 8 0 M. C. Milligan, b Pri tchard........................ 0 D. J. Eva ns, c Mascficld, b Bowye r......... .. ... .. D. J. Connolly, b Roche............. ................ 20 C. R. Barber, not OUL.............................. 17 D . J. Williams, b Colbourne.................. ....... 13 R . J. Catchpole, b Rochc.. ........................... 8 G. C. Pri tchard , c Wa inwright. b Walter...... 5 B. Jax , not out. .. ........................................ 6 P. W. Rollason. not ouL..... .. .................... 0 J. M. E. Wilmot l. d·d not bat A. J. Redpath, did not bat P. J. Colbourne J I , Extras.... .. ........................................ 3 Extras ........... . .. .. 7 TH E
Tota l (8 wkts. dec.) ........ . Colbourne................ Walter............. ...... Thwaites...... ........... Bowyer" .......... ....... Wilmot....... ............
o.
18 22 18 8 4
.. 184
M.
R.
w.
9
33
2
5 2
50 47 35 16
3
o o
Total (7 wkts.) ...................... .. Pritchard................ Redpath ......... .... Jones................ .. .... Roche....... ....... . ..... yates...... ....... .......
I
I
o 504
o.
19 7 5 II 4
83
M.
R.
w.
5 5 3
28 7 9 25
3 I
3
o
7
o 2
o
..
-
.
TH E C ANTUARIAN THE
KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTE RBURY v T I'!E BAND Played on July 12th Match Drawn
OF
BROUIERS
T he Sc~ool ~attcd first and ;~~~ t~hid~li~~,t:~~e}~·ul~l~it~0~,r~~g~tu~'hSet~t~1. RTh~~~'I~dto;r~~~t;~r~ ~~~:~dr~!'~)f,~i:1~lfa~d~~~~. ~~~aining the first 100 in 76 minutes. In tryi ng to fo rce the pace. they losl several wickets and a very good game was left drawn. 5 6 36 R . E. F. Minns, c Young, b Neame. A........... 78 W. E. J. Minns, c and b Neame, A......... 9 D. G. Jones, c Grace, b Woodhouse.. 22 0 D. J. Eva ns, 0 Nea me, A.. .. .......... ..... .. ..... D. J . Williams, st You ng, b Fletcher, R.... . 20 C. R. Barber, st Yo ung, b Woodhouse.......... 19 G. C. Pritchard. st Young, b Neamc, A......... II A. 1. Redpath, not out.. ............................. · 2 Extras.. .. ............... .................. ...... ... 8
THE BAND OF BROTHERS 86 1. D. J . Bluctt, c Redpath, b Roche ....... . 51 W. 1. S. Fletcher. st Rollason, b yates .... . 13 Neamc, c Minns, R. , b Yatcs .. .. A. R . 4 /\. J. P . Woodhouse, c Pritchard, b y ates .. . .. 2 D. G. Clark, b Roche ..... .. ............. .. 3 R. H . B. Nea mc, c Roche, b Yates .. 14 P . J. ]-1. Daubney, rlln ouL .......... . 16 C. S. YOllng, not out.. ..... T. R. E. Man n O. J. Grace did not bat R. S. Fletcher Extras ................. .............. ·····•·········· II
Total. ................... ........... ............ 216
To tal (7 wkts.) ......... . .. ................. 200
THE KING 'S SCHOOL C. W. Yates, b D aubney......... .................... P W Rolhson c G race b Mann................. P. itoch~, c Mann , b Neame, A.................
J:
o. 8 Daubney ....... .. ....... 4 Mann ................ .... .. Gracc...... ............. . .. 21 Neame, A ................ 29 4 F letcher. R ............. 3 Woodhouse ........ .. ....
,
-
M.
R.
w.
3 0 3 9 0 0
26 18 72 63 19 10
I I
0 5 I 2
n.
I
Pritchard ................ Redpath ................ Roche.................... yates ... .. ...............
o.
M.
R.
w.
10 6
0 I I I
39 17 70 63
4
17
14
o o 2
THE KlNO'S SCHOOL, CANTERB URY V R. M . SUTION'S XI Played on July 19[h Lost by 3 wickets Th ace of Saye r at this time stand ing rourth in the first~class bowlin g aver~ges. and ~1~ stew fast j f Pettit roved too much for a ll the School batsmen, except Mums, R., mils. .• an,' . e p b J' medIUm ow 1Ilrw~en then~ made all but nine or t he total runs which ca me rrom the bat. R.!VI. Sutton s :g~~e~a~~~~Og ~ide had little difficu'lty in scoring the runs necessary fo r victory, although in thiS they we re assisted by scveral dropped catches. L R. M. SUTfON'S X I , S KING SCHOO. 0 J E A Mocatta c R ollason, b Redpath 5 ~.~. ~~I\~S;o~ S~as~~~I~.'..~..:.~~.t.l.~::::::::: ::::: : :: OK. C. G irkin, b P ritchard.......... .... .. ........... 18 . ' . M' ' b P 1I't 48 1 r Bell c Evans. b Jones.......... ................ 31 W. E. J. !nns, CC I ·b·ii .. b· i)~tt;t .. ·.. ·...... 53 D. E. D.' Campbell , st Rollason, b Jones. ....... 53
~: ~. j~~~~~sb~Ca!ll~gh:n:b Pettit.·:::::::
D. J . Eva ns, b Sayel.... .. ..............................
g. ~: ~~lliE~~~s~ ~>~;!:~it: ........ ::::.:·.::·:::·.::::·.:::: G. C. Pdtchard, b Sayer..............................
J . A. C. McElwee, nO.t out.................. ... .. A. J. Rcdpath , b Pcttlt.................. ............ Extras.... ..... .... ............ .. .............
g ~: ~.S~~~:~~I,\~t~~~I~.~. W. E. J ., ~.~~I.'~:.::.. : ~
23 5 0
i
17
Total. ................... .•.. . .... .. ............. 150
•
P O'Cl llaghan st Rollaso n, b Jones......... I? C. Moor, not ouL .............. .. ................ ~ JMT~~n~~.s } d id not bat D' W· p~rt it . ri t .................. _.x ras ........... ..... ...... . Total (6 wk ts.) ....
0 7 4 151
TH E
Pett it. ............. ......... Sayer..................... Thomas ...... ...... ..... GiTk in .... .. ..... .... ... .. . Campbell ................. Mocatta .................
o. 14.5 12 9 5 2 3
C ANTUA RI AN
M.
R.
W.
5 3 2 0 0 0
40 23 25 28 II 6
7 3 0 0 0 0
Pritchard ... ............. Redpath ................ McElwee ............... y ates .. ...... .... ........ Jones ......... .... .... .....
o. 13.5 6 13 2 7
M.
R.
2 0 I 0 0
w.
40 25 36 9 37
I I
0 0 4
v THE O.K. S. Played on J uly 26th Los t by 95 runs Poor catchi!lg by th~ Schoo l players enabled the O.K.S. to decla re at 162 fo r 7 wickets. M. Cowa n played att ractively aga ltl st some stea dy bowling by Pritchard a nd Mc Elwee. With the sco re at 53 for 3 the SC!lOol a ppea red to have a chance o f winnin g, but aft er R. M inns had left the rema inin g batsmen o ffered no resistance whatsoeve r to the accura te bowling o f Cowan. T here is no doubt that Roche's absence had a profound effect o n the rest of the sidc, whose performa nce in this match was completely spiritless. TH E K ING'S SCI-IOOL, CANTl:RD URY
THE O.K. S.
D ~ C. Moo r, b McElwee.. ....................... ... 24 M. Co~a~, b Pritchard .. ........,...... .. ........... . 46 S. 1. La m , ~ McElwee, b Ya les.................... 14 M. E. W. Vmc.en t, run out.. ......................... 14 P. Evans. b Pritchard ................................. 17 R . M. Sulto n, c Minns, W. , b McElwee......... li R . C. R ichardso n, not a u!.. .. ..... .......... .. ...... I I J; G . W. Charnaud, c R ollason, b P ri tcha rd ... 0 ~~~~~~~~. }not. ou t.. ................................. 13 '11 did not ba t B . A. Isbl Extras .... ... . .. ..... ..... .. .. .. . .... .. . .. . ..... ,... 12
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THE 2ND XI Any accou nt of cricket th is term mu st contai n some reference to the miserable weather of June which was so d ishea rtening and frustrating. and it must be put on record how seriously p ractices were d isturbed and tha t one match (fortunately no mo re) was cancelled ; that th is bleak peri od had its adverse effect on cr icket , and pa rt icula rly on the ba tt ing, is not in a ny way remarkable. The tea m bega n the season with the most ~ptimist ic prospects ;. the fie ld ing.. if not as bri l l i an ~ as it was last year, was respectably sound and gave lIttle away; the bowling was plen llful and steady, whlie there were some old colours a t hand to stiffe n the batting. ]n both of the firs t two matches, aga inst R.M.S. D over and St. Lawrence we fielded first and the attack first con tained and then surmounted the opposition so capably that o nly the 'first five batsme~ were required for scoring the necessary runs; these two matches confirmed the opening partnership of Raetliff and Tuohy and indicated the abi lity of Hussey and O'C1ee to score fa st and well. RUns were ha rder to obtain against Doyer G.S .•. but a n adequate to tal wa~ achieved and we were u nfor tu nate in being unable to captu re the last WIcket which would have brought VIctory. Next, Dover College were duly disposed of
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on a rain-affected wicket and in the best match of the term Chatham H ouse were beaten owing to the bowli ng of M a~lIdowie a'nd McEhyee a ~d the batt ing o f the openin~ pair and H l.lssey. It was, however. the batting which let us down a g~lln st Simon L~ n gton G .S., and thiS can be. att.rlbuted n o~ o nly to .l ack of practice agai nst good fa st bowlmg on ~ sort wlcke.t but to .'ack of any practl.ce m the p ~ev.l c u s fo rtmght. which resulted in a failure of concentration and basIc techmque, when a sensible apprecia tion of the bad ball wou ld have brought victory. In the Eastbournc match we wer:e given ninety minutes .to ma~e a total which had taken ou r o ppo nents two and a half hours to make. Th iS was by no mea ns an Imposs ible task. but after the rash sacrifice of three wickets early in the innings we had to be content to play carefully towards a sa fe draw. Thus of the seven matches played to date we have wo n four, drawn two and lost o ne, one match still rcmaining to be played. T urning to individual perfo rmances, onc must give fi rst praise to M cElw~e , who has been ou t st a n~ in g no t on ly as the steadiest and most effective bowler, whose fi gures of 5-25 agamst St. Lawrence, 5- 13 agamst Dover G.S., 4-1 4 aga inst Chatham House and 6-1 7 aga inst Simon Langton G.S. s pe ~k lor t h e m s~l ves, bl!t also as a captain cheerfu l and enterprisin g in his approach to the ga me and capable m the hand lmg of Ills bowlers and fielders. The other pace bowlers, Ru sse ll , Maclldowie and Barren have done much of the other bowl ing, all steady and often sllccessful (here Maclldowie's 6-39 agai nst R.M. S. Dov~1' and 6-33 aga inst Chat ham H ouse ~es~ rve n.l ent ion), an.d H u s~ey 's olf-brcaks hav,: been needcd compa rat ively ra rely, thou gh he has bowled with mtelhgence and JIlcreas mg knowled ge of Ius c!·aft. The fie ldm g has generally been s teady in suppo rt, and O'Clee c.h ~e r fully fill ed th~ va,cant place of wicket-keeper. so capably tha t he was always reli able and frequently bri lli ant. one stumpmg m the Eastbourne match bemg as gcod as ~n y thim~ done by a 2nd Xl wicket-keeper in recent yea rs. Another player who unproved ~eyon d ~ Il expectations during the term was Tuohy who rapidly became the most dependable batsman In the Side ancl whose chief virtue in hi s openi ng p; rtnershi p with R actliff wh ich so oft en gave the side a ,good start. was his abi lity to see a quick run early; these two batted well together, and were followed by 0 Clee, at IllS '?est on ha rd wickets, Hussey and R ussell, both of w.hom performe.d very capa bly. and Pugh, whose. tenac ity and COIlcentration improved considerably as hIS confi dence Increased. T!le other batsmen d Id not have much oppo rtun ity du ri ng matches, but usually performed what was reqUIred of them. In gc ne r~ l, tI.le standa.rd o f 2nd X I cricket is as h igh as it was last yea r and but for the weat her would have been sltll higher, Will ie the opposition have provided an enjoya ble and pleasa nt ser ies of matches. RESULTS O F MATC HES R.M.S., Dover, 97 (Maclldowie 6-39) K.S.C., 10 1 for 3 (Tu ohy 50 not out) St. Lawrence, Ramsgate, 100 (M cElwee 5-25, Hussey 4-26) K.S.C., 101 for 3 (O'Cleo 27) K.S.C. , 120 for 9 declared (Tuohy 30) Dover G.S., 65 fo r 9 (McE lwee 5- 13) Dover College 29 (MacIldowie 4-1 ) K. S.C., 30 for I Chatham House 0.8. 86 (Mac lldowie 6·33 , McElwee 4·15) K_S. C., 88 fo r 6 (Hussey 23) Simon Langton O ,S., 60 ( McElwee 6- 17) K_S.C. , 48 Eastbourne. 134 for 9 decla red K.S.C., 75 fo r 6 G. P.R.
THE 3RD XI The 3rd X l had a very successful season, winn ing all their matches. The outstanding ba tsmen ~e re Edwa rds. D. M. , Dale and G o rdon. and the ~OS l successful bo",,:lers pale, Jones•. D. c.. Top th and Patt rlck. Jones. Wilso n and D avies. J. M. , were the pick of a good fieldlll g Side, a nd H olle kept Wicket well . Against R . M.S., Dover, 2nd XI we scored 12,9 for 7 dec., Ed wa rds contributing a valuab.le 50 <l:nd Simmo ns and S tri nger also doing well . R.M.S. ~a ll ed to ~o for the runs, and the m a tc~l looked h ke e n~tn g in a tame d raw when their score was 40 fo r 2 With 20 mlll utes. left and 5.2 fo r 4 ten m ll~ u t es later. . All1 l~ s t grea t excitement . however, Dale and Jones p roduced a dramallc result with their off spm ners, endmg Wit h 507
'rHE CANTUARiAN analyses of 5 for 5 and 5 for 17 respectively. There was a lmost as exciting a fin ish aga inst Kent College 2nd Xl . We put them in to bat a nd had them aU ou t for 90, Dale taking 5 for 18. With o nly 75 minutes Icft, we went fe r the runs and got them with two wickets to spare, thanks mai nly to Edwards (21), Da le (20) and Tooth (16). Against Dover G rammar School 2nd X l we scored 116 fo r 9 dec. (Go rdo n 32, Stringer 26), and they were all out for 37, Tooth ta k i n~ 5 for 10. The last match was against Simon L1ngton's 2nd XI. In reply to our sco re of 122 fo r 6 dec. (Hoile 32, Rudgard 28. Dale 20), they were all out for 87. Patt rick took 3 for 22 and Rudgard 3 fo r 13 with their medium paced bowling .
Thu s cnded a good season: the stren gth of the 1st and 2nd XIs was reflected in the 3rd XI. T he following represented the 3rd Xl : T. J. Dale (Capta in), J. M. Davies, D. M. Edwards, P. H . Gordon, G. W. F. Ha le, M. R. H a ile, R. F. B. Jones, J. P. D. Pattrick, G. Simmons, T. J. St ri nger, P. G. Thorne R. C. Too th, D. M. Whewell, A. J. C. White, D. C. H. Wilson . ' D.W.B.
UNDER 14'8 At the ti me of writing the tea m has played six matches, won two, drawn th ree, and lost one: a record perhaps not ent irely just to it, since at least two o f tne draws were distinctly in ils fa vour. Though the fielding has had some bnd patches, Ihe batting and bowling have improved remarkably throughout the lerm. Besides figu ring prominent ly bot h as a batsman and as a bowler, DOllsl had proved a worthy captain: Press and Munn s fanned a powerful nucleus to the batting, and Cla rke assisted Ihem in keeping the bowling up to strength. The team played well toget her, and Lowe, C larke and Fryer as wickct-keeper have in particu lar brought their play to a much higher sta ndard. J.B.W.
COLTS' Xl Won 2, Drew 3, Lmt 0 The term's cricket ha s been marred by the rain; the Sulton Valence and Tonbri dge matches had 10 be abandoned, and when we d id play the wickets were a lways slow. The side's fieldin g was consistently good, and this was partly inspi red by Carey's captaincy, which was rarely at fau lt . T he balli ng was disa ppointi ng, as Carey and Rudgard never made the run s of which they were capable, and it was no l unt il the fi nal match th at Clarke, potentially the best bat in the side, proved hi s ability, with 37. Baxter made a magn ificent 108 not out in the KC.S., Wimbledo n, game, but made few runs after that. Parsons batted well , and had a 21 a nd a 36 not out, and Hea th, Tatchell an d McClelland a ll helped to save the side at cr itica l momen ts. The bowling was never sutncicntly penetrating. Baxter and R udga rd had very li tt le help from the wicket, but usua lly kept the runs down. Carey and Clarke always looked the most effective. Colours were awarded to Carey, Rudgard, Clarke, Baxter a nd Parsons.
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JUNIOR COLTS In the matches played so far, two have been won, three drawn and one lost. Two games have been cancelled and one abandoned owing to bad weather. However, in the six matches played the team ha s shown lots of talent in all depa rtments, and most members of the side have had some success. Townson, Stewart, Barnett and Hawthorn have all done ext remely well with both bat and ball. Charnaud has a lso bowled steadily and taken hi s share of the wickets. MorpUI'go has been an efficient wicket-keeper and has recently shown promise as an opening bat, whi le Swann, although lacking strokes and desp ite his small size, has demonstrated his abil ity to h it the loose ball very hard. Ractliff has also kept wicket sa fely and shown himself to be a neat and stylish batsman. Tile team has been ably ca ptained by Stringer, a batsman of conside rable promise; alt hough he has had li ttle opportunity to bow l his slow spinners. The fie lding has been genera lly good . 508
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TH E CANTUARI AN RESULTS v R.M .S. DOVER (Won). R.M.S Dover 67 (Townson 3-24, Barnett 3-1); Junior Colts 68 for 7 (Barnett 21). I' KENT COLLEGE ( Draw). Junior Colts 100 for 3 declared (Stewart 44 n.o. , Hawt horn 35); Kent College fo r 6. d St. L awrence 76 fo r 9 (Charnaud ST.53LAWRENCE, RAMSGATE ( Draw). Junio r Colt s 76 for 5 declare; . 4-12, Stewarl 3-22). v TONURIDGE (Match abandoned). Tonbr idgc 139 for 5. Ram slo pped play. v DOVER COLLEGE (Lost). Junior Colts 74 (Townson 35); Dover College 75 for 3. . v EASTUOURNE COLLEGE (Won). EastbOUl'tle College 93 (Barnett 5-28, Townson 3-16); JUnio r Colt s . ) . 98 fo r 6 (Swa nn 19 n.o.). 's SCHOOL (Dnw) Juni or Colts 135 fo r 2 declared (Ractl lfi' 53 n.O., Siewart 32 n.O. , I' SIR R OG ER M ANWooD ,. 3 9 13 3 33 St . ge' 2 0) Sir Roger Manwood's 72 for 9 ( Hawthorn -. arnett - , rill I - . M.E.M.
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TENNIS CLUB . fl ' I because we had a nucleus of four of last season's team Th is has been a most succe.ss lI se~son . m(~ I~ yrne l' played together as first pa ir for their third season. o n which to build Ollr new SIX.. J eWlson an U II < althou h the match was lost 2- 7. They beat Their best perfo rmance wdas'ha~adllls\;aS ~~~~U~~~r~lyer~~t' to the~r first pair by a margin o f six o r seven the Eastbourne sccond an Ir pa " . < o ints (accordi ng to a stat istician present) III a three set match. p
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~ncidental1y, '.his was olhlr firsdt victory o~er '~'i~i;~:Ot'oS~~~l~ete;~ai~art pl~y by' Jenner and Cockersell (our In the Tonbn d.ge matc , an . we owe 1I 1 " ' to ed in our Highgate match , when we had third pail') against the To ~,br.. dge ~ecfin~ Rar~~ ' t i:Sl~he;'~n Scoi.~t. Dover College wi ll severely test us nex t
won 1., But we \~ere wl~nblt1g" year. 5-Their young Side wele ea enc5~'\2'" 1 ad there been mo re time, they might well have made the fina l resu lt 5-4. 1 I d' , d fa' tea Ou r 2nd VI had a close bllt.cred itdab,le wll~' t<:fd1 ~~~!, ~~~~l1:i~sst~~ ;~~~~li h~~~~:lr 5~~~~::·ntllird ~ai ;, we were 2-4 down, but we m,\llagc . o w . 'fi . . Barker and McN icholl , playing especially well to beat Westmlllster s l ist pa ir. .
We played 0 u r ~nJlldlalbMixlled oDlI~u~~~J.~O~I~~'~~~~n:ow~~~~. ~~~~~~~~~' ~fh~~~e~ld~~:I~~~h~/l~~:fur~:~~~ fun and great 1y enJoye ya . < . , to welcoming them here next yea r. With only the O.K.S. match to play, we lo,ok back with pleasure on M~~~~s~~dsc~~;l 'Bie~~~klo~'~~! be paid to Mr.. Gllros,s fMor h IG'S akyin~V~~pfo~r~olr~~~s~a~ngiv~~ps'u~h ~~~I1ent ;~aching to tile Tennis C lub . teas, and especm y 0 r. ,
RESULTS v The Staff. Won v St. Lawrence. Won 5- 3 v K.C.S., Wimbledon. Wo n 5--4 v Eastbourne. Lost 2-7 v Tonbridge. Won 5--4 v Dovcr CoIlege. Won 5- 2 v Highgate. Won 5-1 2ND VI : v Westminster. Won 5--4 v To nbridge. Won 3-0 CoLTS: 1ST VI :
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the cr~w ~v~rc also able to h~ve uscft:' s'r~[c~:Sd~';n;'~d'~;;i~~'~~~'~;'?d ten ,1,li le ol~tings to ClayhYlhc, and week, mdlVldua l bJadcwork had much improved and it was also b " e co hege ~Iews. By the end of the VIII had considerably strengt hened the stern four~ " 0 VIOllS t at t e return of Hark e to the . II I . , Back at Pluck's Glitter the crew's progress to find in rowing abso lutely together, a fault :a~i~l~ \~~~ Sn~:~ ..n~~~~'~'e~ilJlg the di~clllty they seemed Th~'s. ',hough there was no lack of individual effort the full a J" t" cy rovclcome,llght up to Hen l~y. as It might have been and it was not 'b l ". . <pp Ica Ion. a po~er W,\S never as effectIve streIch of rOWi!lg. Nevertheless the vfWs:~ o!:~ ~n~li~.t~~I~'I;I;;rt;lIn~t a h~gh ~tJn g .for more than a short fid U ~ pee ovel a s ort distance and we looked forward to TWlcken ham Rega tt a with down with German measles, 'to <be foll~~V~d ~h~~ext n ortuna~ely two .days before the rega tta, stroke went mo~eove r, deprive the 2nd VI II of their chance of a g da~ by rowS l~, and ~atl~er than s!!nd a scra tch crew and, penod of illness proved rather fru stratin for it wa~~ n , It was. eC lded to withdraw ou r entry. This order. H owever ollce they did so th; wg;'k d e days befole the Vill returned to the ir origina l and in the week 'preced ing W.\ItOl; H./gatta theeyrea lldY hard.dto make up the leeway in their Ira ining schedul e , " ma e rapl progress.
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READING REGATTA I n contrast wi th the previoliS week th' , I"t I I . . Walton and Read ing Regattas. B ladew~l~k Wb~ca\l~ee ~~,~~In~~ Idl :he crew's form dU,ring the week between meant that the ~troke w,as not covered right thr~lIgh, n d' ack I of ~ true sPring. from the stretcher Cup event to gam experience in harder raein In the fir ea II1g tle clew was .enteled for the Thames and Twickenham R.C. T he School l11ad~ a :~Od sta rt a~~ ~~il:g~~hey{owed agamst Westminster School !wo crews by abou t a lengt h after a minute. T he later part of the ~ <1.( vant~ge, Of,th~ !>end, led tl~e othe r II was neverthe less good enou I t b t W . lOW was Int ler 1LI1r1ed and unlldy but !ml,fMlength: In the sem iMfinal ~~ai~st eSt. pa~:!~1~~~~el;I~i>etl~~1~ ~~H~~s \~:h l:rw:~klnhtam third by a fu~ther inside station at the start, and, as the School had done in its first~' . ' au s .1a( the advantage of the they were able to maintain over the course. Sf. Pau l's won b . b arc, tI~eb garne~1 an early le~~ which for second p lac~ which imperial Co llege won by hal f a len ~I;I ~~. a en g~ 1 Lit thele,was an ~XC l tlllg race crew, though neither row was as satisfactory as had been h~pe~I, IS was .I good day s experience for the
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HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA After Reading two changes were made in the crew who hid h ' . I ~fe from the stretcher and a consequent improveme~t inlCthel~unt e/tll11~d l.<l. te efJi,ect of prod.ucing more slstently toget her and the first few strokes of a hard r . . 0 ~e Odt. T.ley were sl1l1 not conM the VIII ",:,orked hard duri ng this preMH enley fo rtnigl,;v <~~;el l~t:.~n\:p?II~,d b~ u'htldy watennanship. But fast, coven ng plenty o f wate r between the strokes. ele Il11eS w en the boat weil l really On the Saturday before the regatta the crew mov I t H i d . 7 m in. 25 sec., being paced by QlIillti~ B C from Fa~le 0 to et ey a!l rowed a salisfactory final course in ~Onday and Tuesday we had valuable practice outings with Tmperial College Jesl;s C%J lege l~,finlSht these the crew showed that they had a good tu'rn of s . d IT orces er a ege and Thames R.c. in all nu lli fied by poor watennansh ip in the first few strokes pelen the r~~~Ss}~r'.lbll~ t!lat thi ~ ~dvantage was often ~ryanston; Ihis makes the fifth time in seven years tilat the t\~o S , r "e,.rlI1CCsS ElJzabeth Cup we ~rew In the first rou nd. c 100 s ).Ive met at Henley. four limes
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THE CANTUAR I AN WEDNESDAY; v Bryanston. Conditions were good, wi th moderate stream and li ttle wind. The School , on the Berks station, made a poor start and at the Barrier, reached in the good time of 2 min. 2 sees., Bryanston led by ha lf a length. This was the greatest distance between the crews at allY time during the race; from here to the Remenham Club the School slowly reduced the lead and from Remenham to the Mi le the crews were level. Up the enclosures Brya nston's finis hi ng spu rt proved more effective and they won an excit ing race by it th ird ofa length in 7 m in . 15 sees., the third fastest heat that day in the Elizabeth Cup. Bryanslon, by defeating St. Pau l's on T hursday, reached the semiMfinal , where they were beaten by Oundle. SI. Edward's, Oxfcrd, beat Oundle in the final. This year's Henley was mar red by appalling weather, which turned the boat¡ tents and enclosures into a sea of mud, and the Stewards of the Regatta performed wonders of o rganisation in mak ing boating possible ten ts. Despite at all; on the Friday before the Regatta , 11,000 gallons of water were pumped out of the boatM these unpleasa nt cond itions, the racing was keenly contested in all events; one high light was the heat of the Grand on Thursday in which Trll(l Club, Leningrad, beat Washington University by It lengths at the he ight of a terrific thunderstorm, which seemed dramatically approp riate fo r this clash between East and West. O .K,S. oa rsmen figured prominently in the Regatta this year; outstanding wa s Colin Po rter, who stroked Barn Cottage to victory in the Stewards'. R. L. S. F ish lock was in the SI. Edmund H all IV in the final of the Visitors', J. M. Brown rowed 6 for Molesey, T. C. J. ChenevixMTrench and P. K. W. Cashell rowed for Corpus, Oxford, and R. A. F. Cardington respectively in the Wyfold Cup and R . H . Moss rowed fo r Cla re. In view of the inexperience of the bow four, this year's VIU m.ade qu ite remarkable progress fr0111 its modest beginnings in January. It was in fact the extent of their earlier prcgress wh ich made thei r form towards the end of the season a little disappointing, and there is no doubt that the upset due to illness was a contributory factor. There was never any lack of individual effort, but at times there was lack ing that feeling of collect ive determinat ion to move the boat as o'ne man ra ther than eight individua ls. Thus, though the boat ran well at times, its form was inconsistent, and the crew never achieved that complete confidence and relaxation over the stretcher which comes from eight blades being driven through hard and together, and which is essentia l fo r a fa st crew. N. D. G illett steered impeccably throughout the season and was a cont inual inspiration to the crew, and the you nger members of the crew have owed much to the quiet leadership of J. R. Frew and the o ther senior members of the boat. D.S.G.
2ND Vlll T he composition of the eight was chosen at the beginni ng of the term and wi th the first Regatta only three weeks ahead, training started forthwith. From the start, the crew being quite well toget her and with plenty of time forward, long stretches of paddling were carried out, endeavouring to work the blade harder through the water over the whole set piece. One fau lt wh ich, during this period and later when rowi ng for any length of time, became appa rent was that blades were torn out rather than kept covered to the end of the st roke. The crew went to Twickenham Regatta, on May 24th, rather lacking in rowing experience. In the first race in the Schools' event, the cox did very well to hold the eignt on the stakeMboat for ten minutes while wait ing for Tin1n to do the same in a very strong head wind. The advantage of being relaxed at the start soon told; after the first ten strokes we d rew stead ily away to win by It lengths. 1n the semi-fi nal aga inst Emmanuel 1st Eight (who had a bye in the fir st round) we had a very good race. Nei ther crew held any advantage until the Enclosures when, by being fresh and wi th bend in their fa vour, Emmanuel drew ahead to win by a canvas. Emmanuel later won the fina l. I n the followi ng fort nigh t stress was la id on keepi ng the blades covered. This met wit some Sllccess, although the rat ing sutTered as a consequence. At Walton Regatta, on J une 7th, in the Schools event, the crew were shown that so lid blade work at a rea so nable rate of striking is essential, by St. Edward's who beat them by 2 lengt hs. The crew, profiting by Lhis experience, made rapid progress in the next fortnight. The padd ling and rowing had much more bite to it; the rating rose acco rdi ngly a nd the boat ran well between strokes. In the practice outings at Marlow this work was consolidated, the crew being brought to its peak by an outing on Friday evening with Lady Margaret 3rd VilI. After paddling firm and light together to above the start, 011 the return journey two rows of a minute were carried alit, in both of wh ich the 2nd YI ll took a length lead. I n the first round of the Publ ic Schools' Vase against Westminster and Bed ford Modern, the crew were very fa st off the start and led Westminster by two-thirds of a length at the end of the first minute. Thcy held this distance to the halfway stage when Westm inster began to come up; in the final row in, however, they were held otT, the School wi nning by four feet from Westminster with Bedford Modern some 3 lengths beh ind .
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N.H.S.
3RD VIII The Third VIII reappeared this year. It started as a medley of individuals whose rowi ng backgrounds ranged from Colts VIli s to hOllse "C" fours. Through the keenness of these individuals they were by the time of their only fixtu re at Pangbourne a rough but hardworking and spirited crew. The first round was lost to S1. Edward's, Oxford, but in the losers' races King's III had the sa tisfaction of beating Clifton 11 and ea rning a place in the final. The crew progressed well in tra ining but was handicapped by lack of racing experience.
J.L.G.
COLTs'vnr Training during the Easter Term was mostly confined to tubbing and fours and , al though one or two out ings in the eight were managed, ot her commitments, such as athlet ics, prevented many. In the Summer Term, after a shaky start the crew came on well , and rowing with much enthusiasm, were soon qu ite promising. They were well together and worked hard, though their boat-contro l was never first-class. Jt was most unfortunate that German measles broke up the crew for a week or so in the final sta-ges, so that they never really fulfilled this potential. Indeed at Pangbourne wc had to calion the useful services. of D. W. Horton to row at 5, since Pengelly returned from the San. only on. the day we left. In their first race the crew raced aga inst SI. Edwa rd's, Oxford, and Westminster. Inexperience caused a shaky start, and we were soon down on Westminster, while S1. Edward's, a strong crew, rowed away from the two of us, to win eas il y. A good batt le developed wi th Westmi nster, and we gradua lly drew up from a length down to lose by o nly a third o f a length. I n the afternoon the Schoo l rowed a losers' race agai nst the ot her SI. Edward 's Colts' crew. This time, after a better start, we took a sl ight lead, but failed to hold it roun d the crucia l inside bend, in their favour, so that again we had to come up from behind, and aga in just failed to do so. Inexperience, and the unsettling of the last week or so, may to some extent have caused this apparently disappointing result, but the funct ion of a Colts' crew is precisely to provide experie nce, and we had two good hard races, which should be va luable for the members of the crew later on. Our grati tude must be expressed to Mrs. Wi lson and Mrs. H orton for providing accommoda tion for some of us and the 3rd VlIl at Reading.
R.D.H.R.
THE CREWS lSI VI1I.- Bow, M. J. Stevenson; 2, S. C. Farmer; 3, M. Hadfield; 4, J. B. S. Fielding; 5, T. N. Harke ; 6, R. H. C. Croxford; 7, J. C. G. Smith; stroke, J. R. Frew; cox, N. D. Gillett. C. H. G . de B. Tempest-Radford alS0 rowed in the 1st VHr at Walton and Reading Regattas. 2nd VI/I. - Bow, R. B. Bussell; 2, A. A. Elworthy; 3, C. H. G. de B. Tempest-Radford; 4, T . C. Kinross; 5, B. D. Foord; 6, D. H. King; 7, N. M. Devoil; stroke, M. E. Billinghurst; cox, M. M. Hall. 3rd VIIJ. - Bow, R. D. B. Hind ley; 2, A. T. Selman; 3, F. Webster; 4, C. F. Gra ham; 5, R. A. H. Clark; 6, P. F. W. Venn; 7, J. R. A. Bird; stroke, A. J. Beet; cox, P. F. S . .Bl unt. Colts' VI/I (as at Pangbourne).- Bow, P. D. Webb; 2, C. O. Lewis; 3, J. M. Atk ins; 4, M. R. Stockell; 5, D. W. Horton; 6, R. A. P. Ca rden; 7, A. R. Maybury; stroke, D. J. Mill s; cox, A. W. Blaxland. For most of the term A. W. Pengelly rowed at 7 in the Colts' VIII, Atkins at 5 and Maybury at 3.
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THE FOU RS There has been the usual full programme o f tubbing and fOllrs at Fordwich and with the re introduction o f the Fordwich Ladder for League racing, there has been plen ty for a ll to work for. The genera l standard of "An IVs was pleasim;ly higher this year; boat control and watcfmanship showed a marked improvement and it was obvious that more tubbing had been carried out than last season. The two School House FOllfS in pa rticu lar, which headed both the " A" and " B" Di visions of the Ladder, proved that concentrat io n on basic pri nciples in the early stages of train ing wi ll always pay dividends later on, and Luxmoorc "A" were also a c rew of note. A separate knock-out event was arranged for "C" Fou rs and resulted in a comfortable win for Meister Omers. This enthusiastic a nd hard·worki ng crew was considerably superi or to the other "C" Fours a nd had been o bviously well· drilled in first principles . The Senior House Fours a nd sculling events were rowed on July 11th and 12th for the first lime a t Pl uck's Gu tter, where a lo nger and straighter course tha n a t Fordwich , free from the haza rd of weeds, ca n be rowed. Despite some problems of orga nisat ion, the experime nt was very successful 'and will certainly be repeated. Bung· li ne starts for the fours were also introduced this yea r and they made starling procedure much easier. In the fi rst round of the Senio r Fou rs, Ga lpin's, Schoo l H ouse a nd Walpole disposed of G ra nge, Lu xmoore and Marlowe fairly comfo rtably but Linacre had a very close race in beating Meister Orners. School House a nd Ga lpin's had little difficulty in beating Walpole a nd Linacre in the semi -final s and th us, for the seeo nd yea r running, met in the final. Thi s was a tough a nd exciting race, resultin g in a win by 4 sees. for Galpin's, who were well toget her and rowed with considerable determination, though Schoo l H ouse wou ld also have been wort hy winners in any year. In the Whalley C up for senio r scu llers, on ly the two fi nalists, A. A. Elworthy and R . H. C. C roxford, deserve mention, the standard othelwise being low ; the final resulted in a narrow win for E lworthy, although an unfortunate steering lapse cost his opponent several lengths lead. The races for the Damsel Cu p for junior scullers produced another close fina l, in which R. N. Nash, last yea r's fUntle r·up, beat M. J. Robinson. The afternoon's proceedings ended wit h the distribution of prizes by Miss Milward , to whom we arc most grateful. In conclusion we shou ld Eke to offer ou r thanks a nd app reciat ion to all those who supported and asssited the Club in various ways th is season ; in particular, Mr. Lynch for .his cont inued generosity in the matter of boat-tra nsport, M rs. Morgan for ma ny ki nd nesses to the 1st Vllf a nd to Mr. Caswe ll who has done so much to help the train ing of the eights; last, but not least, to Mr. Willis, the boatman, who has performed marvels all the season in keeping the equipment in a hi gh stage of efficiency at all ti mes.
D.S.G.
ATHLETICS TH E SCHOOL SPORTS T he pe netrat ing cold of Sport s Dayan March 31st was not cond ucive to reco rd breaking, but the day was fine and the programme was completed without inte rruption. Cred it is due to Messrs . Caswell a nd Milner for the smooth ru nning o rgan isation , a nd the event s were thereby made more interesting for the spectators and enjoyable for the competitors . We must also remember the hard work of ma ny members of the staff, bo th in the Standard s and in judging o n the day itself. This was Mr. Caswell's last Sports Day at King's, a nd all members of the Athlet ics Club , as well as the School, tha nk him most warmly for all his hard wo rk and e nthu siasm. We wish him every success and happiness in his new work overseas. 100 YARDS (Sen ior) .- l , I. A. Turner (MO); 2, A. A . J. Williams (Lin); 3, M. R. Turner (Mar). Time : I I secs. 100 YARDS (Middle).- I, Atkinson (Lin); 2, R. H . Turner (Lin); 3, Baker (Gr). Time: II sees. 100 YARDS (Junior).- I, Wooderson (Wal); 2, Lane, M . H. (Gal); 3, Redman (Lin). Time: 12 sees. lONG J UM P (Scnior).- I, J . A. Turner (MO); 2, Campbell (Mar); 3, Kent (S H) and Scott (MO). Distallce: 18 ft. 8 in. JAVELIN (Midd le).- I , Pritcha rd (Lux); 2, A. W. Pengelly (Lux); 3, Hoi le (Mar). Distallce: 127 ft. 10 in. WEIGIIT (Sonior).- I, P. G . Kemp (Gr); 2, C. W. Yates (Wal); 3, Wortley (Lin) and Harke (Ga l). Distance: 37 ft. 10 in. 880 YARDS (Sel1 io r) .- I, Bowen (Lin); 2, Parry (Gr) ; 3, Elcock (Lux). Time: 2 min . 12.5 sees. 880 YARDS {1u11ior).- I, Co nste rdine (MO); 2, Villiers (Wai); 3, Walker (Wal). Time: 2 min. 23.2 sees. HIGH J UM P (M iddle).- I , Baxte r (G r) ; 2, Brod ie (Lin); 3, R. M. Bennett (Lin). Heigh,: 4 ft. 8 in. DISCUS (Senior).- I, A.·J . Redpath (Ga l); 2, P. G. Kemp (Gr); 3, Jennings (WaJ). Distance: . 109 ft. 9 in. 220 YARDS {1unior).- I, M. H. Lane (Gal); 2, Norris (S H); 3, Thomas (Wal) a nd Wooderson (Wa l). Time: 27 .4 sccs. 220 YARDS (Senior).- I, J. A. Turne r (MO); 2, A. A. J. Williams (Lin); 3, M . R. Turner (Mar). Tilli e: 25.3 secs . 220 YARDS (Middle).- I , R. H. Turner (Lin); 2, Atkin son (Lin); 3, TI<lker (Gr). Time: 25.6 sees .
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• THE CANTUARIAN Time: 19.2 sees. Distance: 113 f1. 7 in. Distallce: 16 ft. I in. 105 ft. 3 in. (record). 17.8 sees, Distance: 109 ft. 9 in. LONG JUMP (M iddle).- l , Pritchard (Lux); 2, Barber (Mar); 3, Osborne (Lux). Distallce: 18 ft. 3 in. D Iscus (Middle).- I. Pritcha rd (Lux); 2, Barber (Mar); 3, Bartley (Gal). Distance: 133 ft. 9 in. (record). H IGH J UMP (Junior).- I, Perk ins (SH); 2, Redman (Lin); 3, Barker (Wa l). Height: 4 ft. 9+ in. WEIGHT (Junior).- I, Perkins (SI-I); 2, G. D. Will iams (Lin); 3, H. Rudgard (Wa l). Distance: 32 f1. 4 in. 880 YARDS (M iddle).- I, Rodwell (S H); 2, Oi llespie-Smith (Mar); 3, Wa lford (Or). Time: 2 min . 17.4 sees. WEIGHT (Midd le).- I, Baxter (Gr); 2, Barber (Mar); 3, L. Stockell (Ma r). Distallce: 37 ft. 8 in. 440 YARDS (Senior).- I, A. J. Redpa th (Ga l); 2, A. A. 1. Williams (Li n); 3, Nightingale (SH) and M. R. Turner (Mar). Time: 56 sees. 440 YARDS (Midd le).- l , R. H. Tu rner (Lin); 2, Atkinson (Lin); 3, Rodwell (S H). Time: 59 secs. 440 YARDS (Junior).- I, Pritchard (MO); 2, M. H. Lane (Ga l); 3, Wooderson (Wal). Time: 61.2 secs. HIGH J UMP (Senior).- I, Philpott (MO); 2, Nash (SH); 3, Fowler (MO). Height: 5 ft. 1 in . MILE (Senior).- I, Bowen (Lin); 2, Parry (G r); 3, Elcock (Lux). Time: 5 min. 0.6 secs. MILE (Middle).- l , Consterdine (MO); 2, Rodwell (SH); 3, Gillespie-Smilh (Mar). Time: 5 min. 13 secs. RELAY (Under 16).- 1, Linacre; 2, Luxmoore; 3, Marlowe. Time: 1 min. 46.6 secs. RELAY (Over 16).- 1, Galpins; 2, Marlowe; 3, Linacre. Time: 1 min . 43.7 secs. TUG-OF-WAR. -I, School Hou se; 2, Galpins and Walpole. PENTATHLON.- I, J. A. Turner (MO), 34 pts.; 2, A. J. Redpath (Oa!), 26 pts.; 3, A. A. J. Williams (Lin). 25 pts. FINAL HOUSE PLACINGS.- I, Linacre; 2, School House; ?, Meister Omers. HURDLES (Sen ior).-t , Watson (SH); 2, Khanna (Wal); 3, Campbell (Mar). JAVELIN (Senior).- l . Jennings (Wal); 2, C. W. Yates (Wal); 3, Jewison (Ga l). loNG JUMP (Iunior).- I, Barker (Wal); 2, McClure (Gal); 3, Redman (Lin). DIscus (Junior).- I , Norris (S H); 2, Lea (SH) ; 3, Townson (Lux). Distallce: H URDLES (Middlc} .- I. Baxter (Or); 2, Baker (Gr); 3, Stanger (Mar). Time: JAVELIN (Junior}.- l , A. D. Stewa rt (Lux); 2, Barker (Wa l) ; 3, Barsley (Lux) .
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THE K ING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v HARROW SCHOOL Thursday, June 18th, 1958 Our first Summer Ath let ics match proved to be a great success, despite difficulties in finding times, and places to t rain- we were only allowed to use Blore's piece, which was not large enough for a 440 ya rds track, and had no jumping pits- there were several good performances in the trials. Even so, we went to Harrow with mixed feelin gs, and ou r apprehension was increased when on arrival we were informed that their track was a right-hand one. We secured fi rst and third places in the 100 yards; and the Javelin and High Jump proved two close contests. Philpott jumped excellen tly. to clear 5 f1. 5 in. , which gave him first place, wh ile Pritchard failed by only two inches to win the Javelin. Redpath won the 4110 ya rds comfortably in 53.8 seconds, a good time since cricket had restricted his training. Harrow took the first two places in the Hurdles, but good performances by Kemp and Turner in the Disclls and Long J ump kept King's just ahead. The Mile was disappo inting (Rodwell on ly managed to get a third place) and we lost our short points lead. H owever, the winner's time of 4 min. 36 sees. was good, and o ne wondered how Bowen would have fared, since he returned this time last year, when paced by Du nkley of Cambridge University. Redpath was second and Parry third in the 880 yards, and Turner was beaten on the tape in an exciti ng 220 yards, which was won by the Harrow sprinter. Kemp's last throw in the Weight set up a new School record. At this point we were two points behind, and all depended on the Relay. Williams won it for us. In spite of running in the outside lane, he managed to gai n several yards on the first leg. This was enough to secure LI S an easy win, for our change-overs were faster and more decisive than those of Harrow. Our thanks are due to Messrs. C1swell , Milner, Samuel and Butler, for all their help and encouragement during the term . Our victory was ent irely the result of their efforts. 100 YARDS.-l, J. A. Turner; 2, Harrow; 3, P. R. Atkinson. Time: ID.I secs. HIGH JUMP.- t, A. Philpott; 2, Harrow; 3, Ha rrow. H eight: 5 ft. 5 in. JAVELlN.- I, Harrow ; 2, O. C. Pritchard; 3, R. A. Jennings. Distance: 148 fl. 6 in. 440 YARDS.- t , A. J. Redpath; 2, Harrow; 3, A. A. J. Williams . Time: 53.8 secs. MlLE.- I, Harrow ; 2, Ha rrow; 3, J. Rodwel l. Time: 4 min . 36 secs. H URDLES.-l, H arrow; 2, Harrow; 3, J. K. Kanna. Time: 16.1 sees. Dlscus.- l , P. O. Kemp; 2, Harrow; 3, G. C. Pritchard. Distance: 120 f1. 8 in. LONG JUMP.- l, J. A. Turner ; 2, Harrow; 3, R. M . Osborn. Distance: 20 ft . 6 in . 880 YARDS.- l, Harrow; 2, A. J. Redpath ; 3, J. R. Parry. Time: 2 min. 3.8 secs. 220 YARDS.- l , Harrow; 2, J. A. Turner; 3, A. A. J. Williams. Time: 23.7 sees. WEIGHT.- l , P. O. Kemp ; 2, Harrow; 3, O. C. Pritchard . Distance: 43 ft. 7 in . (record). RELAY (4 X 110 yards).- l , King's (A. A. J. Williams, P. R. Atk inson, R. H. Turner, J . A. Turner); 2. Harrow. Time: 47.2 secs. RESULT.- King's, Canterbury. 65 points; Harrow, 63 points. ~!4
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SWIMMING CLUB Training was more intensive this year especially fo r those competing in the Bat~ Clu~ and Otte~s but wi ll never have full effect unless taken ~e riously. In an. effort to increase theI shtan~ma hdlstapie ffe~~ u;~~ . d f tl fi t three weeks but In most cases tillS was taken too slow y aVIng arm 1I e ~~~d. S~\~~inl: i~sall the strokes did, however, improve a~ a result of it, especially in the longer races and where three or more races were undertaken on one artellloon. THE KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY V WESTMINSTER SCHOOL .. ened ver sllccessfully with a convi ncing win . Westm inster provided se~iou ~ competition T~: ~~:~~t-siioke alo n/but in this they were outstanding an~ Nicholls who has sh<?wn ht~le I~p~vemtlt In ' d 'd oundly bea ten Edwards and Elcock had an easy victory In t e rees y. e ~80 1~~trJs~a[h~ i~~~era~rOd~~i~g a .new Scho~l record, and Wa rwick-Eva ns well in the lead relaxed to WIn the Back-stroke also In a record time. . ' The Colts, despite a depleted ~rogramme favouri ng Westmi nster, won their mat~h by a conSiderable . ' margin , H arston and Imber excellmg. . . d Freest Ie' (I) Elcock 52' (2) Edwa rds; (3) Westmmster ; ~4) Westmmster. (I) 75; Breast st roke' (I) Westmmster 74. 1; (2) WestmlOstel , IC 0 S, . I (I) K S C 743' Evans~ (2) B~nnett; (3) West";inster; (4) Westm inster. 3 x 40 yards Medl~y Re ay: .. . , .• (2) Westminster. 4 x 40 yards F reestyle Relay: (I) K.S.C., 87 ; (2) Westmmster. . d F t I . (1) Edwards 212' (2) Westminster' (3) Hayworth; (4) Westmmster. 40 C~/:dS~~k:::roske:r0) ~~'rston, 28.2~ (2) Imbe'r; (3) Westminstt:r'; (4) Westminster. 40 yards Breaststr6ke : (I) Westminster, 26.3; (2) Jackson; (3) Stedall; (4) WestmInster. RESULTS: Seniors.- Will to K.S.C. by 38 points to W. 22 points. CO/ls.- Win to K.S.C. by 18 points to W. 12 points.
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THE KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY V ST. LAWRENCE, R AMSGATE The match started well with a win in the 105 y~rds Frees!yle but the other strokes sdffered tbcc~U!~i~! the awkward length and sha pe of the bath. Turnmg was difficult, because ~f some un bert:aihe ~ivers t d since the bath was very much shorter, was more frequent than 111 ol;lr own. a . ld b appara ~~c~~fortable time also in the ve ry shallow bath for at one stage in the dive thel~ hands wou e ~~dt~~ bottom before their feet disappeared under the surface. The gap between t~e t~nes of fi lt r ~~1~ second strings, however, was the cause of our downfall lind the match was lost to 1. awrence 0 fi rst time.
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Selliors.- 105 yards Freestyle: ( I) Elcock 62.3; (2) 8t. Lawrence; (3) Edwards; (4) St. Lawrence. 105 yards Back-stroke: ( I) 81. Lawrence; (2) Warwick-Eva ns; (3) Allen ; (4) $1. Lawrence. 105 ya rds Breast-stroke : ( I) St. Lawrencc; (2) 81. Lawrence; (3) N icholls; (4) Moss. 42 ya rds F reestyle: (I) Elcock; (2) 8t. Law rence; (3) $1. Lawrence ; (4) Edwards. 42 yards Back-stroke: ( I) Warwick-Evans; (2) St. Lnwrence; (3) SI. Lawrence; (4) Allen. 42 yards Breast-stroke: ( I) St. Lawrence; (2) 8t. Lawrence; (3) Nicholls; (4) Moss. 42 ya rd s Butterfly: (1) Elcock ; (2) St. La wrence; (3) St. Lawrence; (4) Wortley. Diving: (I) St. Lawrence; (2) Ya tes; (3) St. Lawrence ; (4) Warwick-Eva ns. 4 x 21 yards Medlf'Y Relay: ( I) S,- Lawrence; (2) K-S_C. 6 x 21 yards Freestyle Relay: (I) K.S. C. ; (2) SI. Law rence. Colts.- 42 yards Freestyle: (I) St. Lawrence; (2) Hayworth ; (3) St. Lawrence; (4) Bennet t. 42 yards Back-stro ke: ( I) $1. Lawrence; (2) lmbcr; (3) Harston; (4) St. Lawrence. 42 yards Breast-st roke: (I) SI. Lawrence; (2) Jack so n ; (3) 51. Lawrence; (4) Stedall. Diving: (I) St. Lawrence; (2) Bennett ; (3) Essa mc; (4) S1. Lawrence; 4 x 21 yards Medley Relay: (I) 8t. Lawrence; (2) K.S. C. 4 x 21 ya rds Freestyle Relay : ( I) K. S.c.; (2) 51. Lawrence. RESULTS: Selliors.- W in to St. Lawrence by 56 points to K.S, C. 46 points. Co//s.- W in to S1. Lawrence by 34 points to K.S.C. 26 poi nts.
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Tonbridge produced a strong all-round team which took advantage of o ur weak ness in Breast-stroke and diving and Jack of good form in the Back-st roke. Nicholls (Breast-stroke) swa m as well as he has but has not shown much improvement on last yea r's fo rm , which is rather disappoint ing. Warwick-Evans was pipped at the post in the Back-stroke event in which he just fai led to break the School record, followed by Allen abOllt a body lengt h behi nd. The Colts were QuJte soundly beaten, having to do without Moss swimming for the Sen iors who cou ld have turned the sca les a little more in our d irect ion. The team is very young, however, and should do we ll next year. One School reco rd was broken by G. A. Elcock in the 33t yards ButterHy event, 20.2 secs. Selliors.- l00 ya rds Freestyle: (I) Elcock, 59.5; (2) Tonbridge; (3) Tonbridge; (4) Edwa rds. 100 yards Breast-stroke: ( I) Tonb ridge, 81.7; (2) Nicholls; (3) Tonbridge ; (4) Moss. 66 i yards Back-stroke: (I) Tonbridge, 47.4; (2) Warw ick-Evans ; (3) Allen; (4) To nbridge. 3lk yards Freestyle : (I) Elcock, 17.8; (2) Tonbrid ge ; (3) Tonbridge; (4) Wortley. 33t yards llutterny : ( I) Elcock, 20.2; (2) Tonbridge; (3) Tonbridgc; (4) Wort ley. Diving: (I) Tonhridge; (2) Yates; (3) Tonbridge; (4) Warwick-Eva ns. 3 x 66 yards Medley Relay: (I) Ton bridge, 2 min . 20.6 sees.; (2) K.S. C. 4 x 66 ya rds Freestyle Relay: (I) K.S.C., 2 min. 46.2 secs.; (2) Tonbridge. Colts.- 66i yards Freestyle: (I) Tonbrid ge, 43.2; (2) Hayworth ; (3) Tonbridgc; (4) Perciva l. 33 t yards Freestyle: (I) Tonbridge, 19.3 ; (2) Haywo rth ; (3) Bennett; (4) Tonbrid gc. 33J ya rds Back-stroke: ( I ) Tonbr idge, 20.3 ; (2) Imber ; (3) Tonbridge; (4) Taylor. 33t ya rds Breast-stroke: (1) Tonbridge, 24.3; (2) Tonbridge; (3) Jackson ; (4) Stedall. Diving: (I) Ton bridge; (2) Bennett; (3) Essame ; (4) Tonbridge. 3 x 66i yards Medley Relay: (I) Tonbridge; (2) K .S.C. 4 x 66 yards Freestyle Relay: (I) K.S.C.; (2) Tonb ridge. R ESULTS: Selliors.- Wi n to Tonbridge by 44 po ints to K .S.C. 40 po in ts. COlls.- Win to Tonhridge by 43 po ints to K.S.C. 30 points. TliE B ATH CLUB P UBLIC SCHOOLS FREESTYLE RELA Y We entered this year with a litt le more confidence than in the past with the best team we have yet produced, to be disappointed with a time a t least 4 seconds slower than it could have been. Our position has risen from 23 rd place last year to 17th out of 36, our time being 3 min. 48 sccs.-the best we have produced. The team was Allen , Edwa rds, Elcock and Sherwell; the latter two produced their best times yet. Once again th ree of the team will be stayi ng on next year. THE OlTERS C LUB PUBLIC SCHOOLS MEDLEY R ELAY Our fina l posi tion was agai n higher than laS I year, placing the team 17th out of 35 with a time 1 min. 4 secs. as compared wi th 29t h last ye~r in I min. 51.4 secs. Warwick-Eva ns swam very well , leavin g us in a good position, and Nicholl s produced a good time. The two freestylers, She rwell and Elcock, crept slowly up on the leaders but were unable to place us higher than 4th in our hea t.
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King's beat both City of Lond on, who lost just that one match in two seaso ns out of about 50, and Highgate last year, and as expected City of London were out for revenge. The match was very enjoyable wi th the most exciti ng racing the School has experienced . Nicholls and Moss were unfortunate since both Highgate and City of London excel in breast-stroke, but produced better times than in the la st matches . Warwick-Evans and Allen swa m well , both taking second places in their respective heats, but WarwickEvans, unli ke Yates who was in good form, was outclassed in the diving. Elcock, Wortley and Sherwell were perhaps the most successful between them, taking 1st and 2nd places in respective freestyle heats and producing magnificent form in the relay. The Juniors were weakened by the loss of three of the team th rough illness and struggled well to be within a few points to victory, then to lose a vital relay, placing them last. Strachen's diving was outstanding alone in the junior events. Senior¡s.- IOO yards F reestyle: (Heal a) (I) Eleoek, 59.6; (2) C.L.; (3) H . (Heal b) (I) C.L.; (2) Sherwell; (3) H . 100 yards Breast-stroke: (Heol a) (I) c.L., 70; (2) H.; (3) Nieholls. (Heal b) (I) H., 78; (2), c.L.; (3) Moss. 50 ya rds Back-stroke: (Heal a) (I) C.L. ; (2) Warwick- Evans; (3) H . (Heal b) (I) - ; (2) Allen ; (3) - . 50 yards F reestyle: (Heat a) ( I ~ ) Elcock, c.L., 26.6; (3) H. (Heal b) (I) C. L. ; (2) Wortley; (3) H . Diving: (I) H. ; (2) Yates ; (3) c.L. 3 x 50 ya rds Medley Relay: (I) C.L.; (2) H. ; (3) K.S.C. 4 x 50 yards F reestyle Relay: (I) K .S.C.; (2) C.L.; (3) H . J"niors.- 50 yards Freestyle: (Heal II) (I) C. L. , 31. 8; (2) H.; (3) Jaekson. (Heat b) (I) C.L.; (2) H.; (3) Rose. 50 yards Breast-st roke: (Heat a) (I) H., 38.6; (2) Jaekson ; (3) C.L. Disqua lified. (Heat b) (I ~ ) Steda ll , H., 42. 1; (3) C.L. 50 yards Baek-stroke: (Helll a) ( I) C. L., 38.2; (2) Partridge; (3) H. (Heal b) (I) c.L., 40.5; (2) Dinley; (3) H . Diving: (Heal a) (I) Straehen; (2) H .; (3) c.L. (Heal b) (I) Rose ; (2) C. L. ; (3) H. 3 x 50 yards Medley Relay: (I) C.L.; (2) H.; (3) K.S.c. 4 x 50 yards F reestyle Relay: (I) C.L.; (2) H.; (3) K.S.c. RESULTS: Sellio/'s.- Win to c.L. by 34+ points to K.S.C. 261 points, to H. 201 points. JUllio/'s.-Win to C.L. by 24 points, to H. 16+ points, to K.S.C. 12+ points. THE KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERB URY V EASTBOURNE CoLLEGE
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King's looked set to wi n after taking the first places in 5 of the 6 individual events. The second strings, however, once more did not give much support except in the Breas t~stroke and Butterfly and before the relays King's were only a few points in the lead. Both relays were then lost by a small margin, giving Eastbou rne a lead of 6 poi nts. The form was generally low, except in the Breast-stroke, Nicholls and Moss swimming well to take fi rst and thi rd places. Yates dived exceptionally well to outclass the rest and Warwick- Evans won a stiff back ~stroke race by a touch. Harston and Strachen were the only outstanding performers in the Co lts' team, which was weakened once more by illness . Selliors.- III yards Freestyle: (I) Elcock, 68.8; (2) Eastbourne; (3) Eastbourne; (4) Sherwell. 37 yards Freestyle: (1) Eastbou rne, 19.0; (2) Elcock; (3) Eastbou rne; (4) Edwa rds. 74 ya rds Back-strcke: (I) Warwick-Eva ns, 54.2; (2) Eastbourne; (3) Eastbou rne ; (4) Allen. 74 yards Breast-stroke: (1) Nicholls, 62; (2) Eastbourne; (3) Moss; (4) Eastbourne. 37 yards Butterfl y : (I) Elcock, 22 ; (2) Eastbourne; (3) Edwards; (4) Eastbo urne. Diving: ( I) Yates; (2) Eastbou rne; (3) Eastbourne; (4) WarwickEvans. 4 x 37 ya rds Med ley Relay : ( I) Eastbourne; (2) K .S.C. 4 x 37 yards Freestyle Relay: (I) Eastbou rne; (2) K.S.C. Colts .-37 yards Freestyle: (I) Harston, 20.6; (2) Eastbourne; (3) Eastbourne ; (4) Hayworth. 37 yards Back-st roke: (I) Eastbourne, 26; (2) Hayworth; (3) Eastbourne; (4) Harston . 37 yards Breaststroke: (I) Eastbourne, 28; (2) Eastbourne; (3) Moss ; (4) Brodie. Diving: (I) Strachen; (2) Eastbourne; (3) Eastbourne; (4) Essame. 3 x 37 yards Medley Relay: (I) Eastbourne; (2) K.S.C. 4 x 37 yards Freestyle Relay: (I) Eastbourne; (2) K.S.c. RESULTS: Seniors.- Win to Eastbourne by 41 points to K.S.C. 35 points. Colls.- Win to Eastbourne by 38 points to K.S.C. 20 points. Co lours were re-awarded to Wortley and awarded to Warwick-Evans, N icholls, Allen, Sherwell. Edwards and R. S. Yates. The team was not as successful as last year, but did not disgrace itself and has gained a lot of experience useful to the majority staying on for the next season. One thing that the team will miss next year is the keen and thoughtful coaching and organization by Mr. Caswell, who is unfortunately leaving to take up a new position in Hong Kong.
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MARLING CHALLENGE CUP (Fire and Movement) (1 st VIII).-24t h out of 33 . 9TH MAN CoMPEl1TION.- 2nd out of 73 (Bronze Medal). CADET PAIR.-40th out of 93.
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The Mulhn,s Cup Jnter·Housc Compet ition (Sma ll Bore) was won by Walpole for the third yea; run nin . The ~ollowtng shot for. the School at the N.R.A. Meeting at BisleY'- N G A ' g H. J. Ricketts, J. D. Hamllton~Paterson, A. D. T. Marshall J. A G M . A' 0 'D . bPayne, J. M. Atkms, R. A. Herbert, P. Snuggs, A. K. R. Wight. , . . an, . . au Ie, P. W. F. Browne
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KING'S SCHOOL GOLF CLUB On May 15th (Ascension Day) fOrly boys wen t to Prince's, Sa nd wich, to compete for the House Golf Cup. As last year, each House entered a maxim um of three tea ms, and the competition was foursomes medal play over 18 holes. The Cup was retained by Marlowe, whose second team (C. R. Barber and S. E. Cockersell) played a steady and careful round to ga in a well~earned victo ry over the Grange second team (D. M. Whewell and J. P. D. Pattrick) who were second, and Schoo l HOllse (M. R. Kent and A. D. M. S. McClelland) third. A long~drivi ng competition was won by D. J. Williams (who drove 237 yards with a borrowed club!), second being Patt rick and thi rd the Captain, H. K. Bray. The putting competition was won by N. A. S. Bury, with three ty ing for second place (Guard, Edwards and Lindley). Afte r tea the handsome prizes were presented by Major Jerv is, Capta in of Prince's. To him, and the Committee of Prince's, and to the O.K.S. present (who presented prizes and acted as markers), we wish to offer our most grateful thanks for an excellent day's golf, a nd for all their generous and kind hospita lity. Th is annual event is keenly anticipated and deeply appreciated by all who take part in it. On May 24th the first golf team (to my knowledge) ever to represent the School played an away fixt ure aga inst K.C.S., Wimbledon. The tea m was : Bray (Capta in), Williams, P. G. Kcmp, Thorpe, Broadley, and C. Johnson. T he result was a win by four matches to two,and this excellcn t match was grea tly enjoyed by everyone. Thorpe lost 9 and 8; Broadley lo st 3 and 1; Bray won 2 up; C. Johnson won 6 and 5; A. A. J. Will iams won 7 and 5; Kemp won 3 and 2. We should li ke to express our thanks to our hosts, and our regret tnat it was impossible to arrange a return fix.t ure here. On June 17th a match against the Masters was played at Canterbu ry, which the Masters won by 5t to I t, after man y exciting and interesting adventures!
Finally, thanks are due to the Captain (H. K. Bray) and to the members of his Committee fo r their enthusiastic work during the year, and, as always, to Mr. N. Quigley for his expert and patient coaching. J.G.S.
OKS. NEWS (Tlte HOll. Secretory 0/ the O.K.S. Associaliol/, M. 1. H. Girling, 41 COII/ullighi Way, Till/bridge Wells, we/collies in/ormation for inelusion ;11 the O.K.S. News . CI'IANGES OF ADDRESS AN D ALL ENQUIRIES AUOUT "THE CANTUARI AN" SHOULD DE SENT TO HIM AND NOT TO THE EDITO RS.)
O.K's. Dance, 1958 The O.K.S. Dinner/Dance will be held at the Rembrandt Rooms, Kensington, on Friday, 31st October, at 7 p.m. fo r 7.30 p.m. This funct ion ha s now been held for the past seven years and for the past fi ve years to raise fund s for the O.K.S. Bursarship Society. To date over ÂŁ 100 has been raised, bu t there is an ever increasing need for the funds of the Society to be augmented so that sons of O.K.S. needin g help can be given bursaries to enable them to go to the School. This should be a cause dea r to the hea rt of every O.K.S. It is therefore hoped that everyone who can wi ll endeavour to support the dance which has always been a very enjoyable function. SO P LEASE COME AND BRI NG YOUR FRIE NDS. Tickets (3 guineas double) and further informat ion are available from M. G . Baker, " Greenwood", 344 Hempstead Road, Watford, Hertfordshire. O.K.S. Annual Dinner The Annua l Dinner of the O.K.S. Associat ion will be held at the Connaught Rooms, G leat Qlleen Street, London, on 9th January, 1959. Full details will be circulated to members 10 the Autumn.
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THE CANTUARIAN PETER LWGAlT (1952-57) is doing a year's practical farming in Scotland.
W. W. SMITH (1950-55) has been offered a pla~ at London University to read Ru ssian and so is likely to rn~t DR . MALCOLM BURGESS (19 ), who IS now a Lecturer at the University in Russian Language and Literature. THE REV. J, W. POOLE (1922- 28), J.l..ector of Mcrstham, Surrey, since 1949, and a for mer Precentor of Cant,erburY,Cathedra l, has been appomted Precentor and Hon. Canon of Coven try Cathedra l and takes up h iS apPointment there in the autumn. CANC?N ~. C. SN~LL (1 92 1- 25) has been appointed Archdeacon of Bedford and Director of Religious Education In the DIOcese of St. A lbans.
R. l\:1llTON (1953- 57) is work ing with Messrs. Wigglesworth & Co. (Africa), Ltd. in Tanga as a ' probationer. Fro.m him we learn that CHRISTOPHEI.~ HOURY (1 951 - 56) has j ust finished his apprent iceship on a sisa l fa~m In Tanga and hopes to work on IllS fat her's estate at Morogoro. He is also the leading guita rist of a sktffle group. D. J. WH ITE (195 1- 56) has bcen:offered a post in the Shell Pet roleum Co., Ltd.
q. H. NORMAN (1938-46) has been appointed B.O.A.C. sales representative in the West Country, havmg previous held a similar position in the London area. According ~o the St. Thomas's Hospita! Gazette. D . H. W. KELLY (1948- 53) was the "principle" scorer for the Hospital 1st XV last season , with a total of 52 points. D. H . W. K ELLY (1948-53), A. P. MARKS ( 1948-53) and C. H . MCCLEERY (1948-52) have a ll qualified M.B., B.S. (Lond .), this summer. W. W. BENNION (1947- 51) is now with a timber firm in Ghana. A. D. H. PATERSON (1935-40) has been appointed Financial and Development Secretary to the Government of the Southern Ca meroons. M. C. 9¡ MAYNE (l9~3-49) w~s.o rdai ned Priest by the Bi~hop of St. Albans, and B. K. NEWTON Deaco n by the Bishop of Carhsle on Tnmty Sunday. The former IS a curate at St. John 's, Harpenden, and the latter at St. George's, Barrow-m-Furness.
p. C,. H~LTON (1954- 57), who .has been doing a course at the Sorbonne, hopes to start at Toronto Umverslty In October. He found It most interesting to be in Pads during the recent political crisis in France. In the first ten days of his visit to England for the Lambeth Conference the Bishop of N.W. Australia 1902) met L. F . PARIS (1898- 1903), C. H. MURRAY ( 1899- 1902) and FRANK
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The Elizabethan Singers (conducted by Lo UIS HALSEY (1944-47) recently gave a recital at the Wigmore Hall.
J. p. ~LIMMING (1941-44) .has written a book about his Malayan experiences which John Murray will publish II1 August under the title of Temiar Jungle. THE REV. D . L. EDWARDS (1942-47) joins the Staff of St. Martin in the Fields in September. JOHN P?WE.LI-: (1 937-40) is now man~ge.r at the hot mills of Richa rd Thomas & Baldwins, Ltd., Ebbw Vale, haVing Jomed the fi rm at the begmmng of this year as a deputy manager. MAJOR AUSTIN GARDNER, M.e. (1900-02), Chairman of the Seasa lter & Ham Oyster Fishery Co Ltd Whitstable, was awarded the O.B.E. in the Birthday Honours. ., ., P. C. H . HOLMER (1937-41) is now First Secretary to the British Embassy in Moscow. . l;I':'GH HONOUR (1941 -46) is ~lISY actin$ a~ Halian correspondent of the ConnOisseur, reviewing ex~ Ib lttons ,for The TI!nes and occas ionally revl~wl!1g ~ooks fo~ the ~itera/'y S,lIpplemellt; in the interva ls he ~s prepanng a I~ngl s~ book on E~ropean chmOisene, but 1.1Is main work , m collaboratio n with a friend, IS a compreh~nsl~e history of ltahan sculpture from the nlld-seventeenth to the ea rly eighteenth century. He expects thiS wIll take about ten years to complete. 520
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THE CANTUARIAN From the magazine of a Preparatory School, whose Headmaster is an O.K.S., we learn that:CAPTAIN R. W. ALLISON, R.A. (1936-40), has retired from the Army and is now in business. J. A. B. HESLOP (1938-42) is a t Ha rwell , working o n Atomic Subma rines fo r the Adm~ralty. R W. SPARROW ( 1949- 54) is still doing his medical trai,,! ing at the l>1iddl~x Hospl~al and M .. F. SPA~ROW (1951 - 55) is one of the very few left, out of a large mtake of engmeermg apprentices at EngJtsh Electric at Rugby, and plays Rugger for them. . A d J D D PORTER (1947- 52) has appeared o n television in connection Wlt~ the Coventrr .ballet propnos'a lS', a~d .has had an article ("DeaCOns; office or wa itin g room") published 111 the Ju ly echtlon of Prism, an Angtican monthly magazme. Latc Night Final ! . . J Me L YOUNG (1947- 55) whose Sandhurst career was unfortunately termmated by Illness, has now obtained"':"through the Public' Schools Appointments Bureau- a post in the Secretary's Office of Messrs. Vickers, Ltd.
IN THE SERVICES C PTAIN C B PRATI R N (1921 - 24) is Command Engineer Officer on the staff of C.:in-C. Portsmouth. R~ J. SNEL~ (1951 - 56): ~ho shortly finishes his Na tional Service, is at present ASSistant Secretary to the Captai n of H .M.S. Ark Royal. CAPTAIN M. W. SWINHOE-PHELAN (1937-43) is 2 i/c, 579 B.D. Squadron, R.E. (T.A.), and attended the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the T.A. at C1.nterbury on July 6th. LIEUT. R . H. C. ROUTH, R.M . (1943-47) was recently appo inted to Deal. J. C. KEARIN (1953-57) is doing his National Service in the Grenadier Guards. A. LEE-ELLIOTT (1952-56) is with the R .A. at Oswestry. P. F . VALPY ( 195 1- 57) has passed his W.O.S.B. N. J. SWANSON (1 95 1-56) is a Writer in the R oyal Navy.
BIRTHS ALLISON .- On 29th January, 1958, in Nicosia, to Barbara, wife of Captain J. W. Allison (1943-48), a daughter. SWINHOEMPHELAN.- On 5th March , 1958, to the wife of Ca ptain M. W. Swinhoe-Pheland (1937-43), a
r b h) so n. . TURK.- On 16th March, 1958, to Joan, wife of R odney Turk (1937-40), a daughter (Caroit ne E lsa et . Q UESTeo.- O n 23rd March, 1958, to Joan Mary, wife of David Ladd Quested, R.M. (1940-47), a son (John Ladd). REEvES.-On 4th May, 1958, to the wife of Colin M. Reeves (1 943-48), a daughter (Susan Mary). GAASTRA.- On 5th May, 1958, to Barbara, wife of Donald Gaastra (1936--39), a son (S.tephen). MANNING-PRESS.- On 29th May, in Ma lta, to Jan, wife of Capta in Christopher B. MannIng-Press, R.A. (1944-49), a sister fo r Sarah. . . PARES.- On 11th June, 1958, to Mary, wife of Capta in T. H. Pares, R.A. (1942-46), a son (William Henry). ENGAGEMENTS BELL-G REEN.- Charles Julian Bell (1946- 52) to Gillian Mary Green . LOWRy- WOODs.- Robert Hugh Lowry (1946-5 1), T he R oya l ffi sh Fusiliers (Princess Victoria'S) to Angela Adine Wood s. ROBERTS- CLARK.- Paul Graeme Roberts (1948- 54) to Susa n Mary Clark . WEST- AsRAM.- Dr. Richard Gilbert West (1940-44) to Janet Abram. STAINER- SCOURSE.- John Sta iner (1945-49) to Jane Scollfse. NICIiOLSON- PERKlNs.- Trevor Parry Nicholson to Pamela Anita Perkins. 521
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MARRIAGES PlTIL1-,ceL. UCE.- On 7th March, 1958, at Stratford-on-Avon, T,'mothy H. P' Itt (1949- 54) to Hila ry Claire
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DEATH HOLDEN.- On 18th July. 1958, Everard Osborne Holden Sussex. (1896-1900), of The White House, Findon,
OBITUARIES A BISHOP IN THE BUSH Some two months ago Richard Thomas Bishop of W'II h d' d . . for the Lambeth Conference The Dioces~ of Willoch. I oc r~, Ie In tillS country wh ither he had come Austra lia. Its bishop was k;lown intimately to the w:~e~~U~l<~S an eno;-mo1us spate of territory in South the slums of the London Docks He wa s k 01 C ose on t 1e ast 30 years: we first met in visited it twice in 1937 and a a i ~ in 1948 no.wn, also, to a good many members of th is Schoo l for he stu rdy figure and its ki~d'y I~e;b'e face. r~n~~::~ 1953. Some Old Boys of those years will reca ll t/;e short He was a genuine Christ ian, a'true bish·op compl~t~J~ai~~·~ an~ c~ar~dter eqlh~"Y kind, Jo~i ng and lovable. stand sych,?phancy. If ever there was a ';lan of God R· han.d °T,PII e, una e to. patronize, or .to .u nderpure and Simple devoted to peo I f II k· d , IC ~I lomas was one. he was a missionary to. d.ifferentiate, because he was ge~o~ed to 1~1s srJ~~~c~n~~eirhO~]t 1ifTere,t!ation but without the abi lity
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North Queensland ti ll 1925· and in 1926 w~~Slg~aJY, wO~k mg as " mcmber of the Bush Brotherhood in diocese is largely bu sh and 'is (I think sever~ 1 tim~seln ~n consecr~tc:d to be bishop of Willochra. The and still more sca ttere~1 isola t~d farms' and l;ouses ~o~~fi~r th~n BntaJ~.: a/ew towns, scattered ham lets, (~~se later years th~ bishop travelled, ~vhere roads and I~~a~h;~~~r~li~:d ll;;ldred tho~sa lld"people . . I ~ F~;~~~.~ 11~r~a~e~i~lfe~t ~:~a:;O~~~b!~k~I~~d ~~~tltde l:fout ~'rs as he k.llew 'ml~c~~b~~:~ tI~~n lo~ell~frq~~. whether It was a village or a single and distant homeste~~th\ng SI\O~ 111m ~rom re~chmg IllS dest matlon, ~rother that Richard Thomas had arranged to be at so < . Wf l e~n~ml er heanng from anothcr Bush It was-but two rivers lay in his ath and rain h d' me remo e an ISO ~ted place-for Easter, 1 think budt to att~mpt to cross them as best 'he could wi~h :1%O~~~s~~se~iJo aV~'dts Wlfthds!d tbherel .wa~ noth i.ng f~r it an the missIOnary could not swim. ' ' 0 10 I Y c mgmg to tis ta llThe last letter which he wrote to his people in MOl h th· I· b to towns and villages and homesteads, and or the' ~~oplel~~ear leSt efore 'Inc,I full of a,~ounts of journeys I every ype ane c ass. . .. I went on to - where I was looked aftcr by M· later I went to __ ~here r meltS~~nd ~~h~]~orry ~f!lca~1 the illness of her father .. ~ . A few days ~ rs. B. Their SOil John was away at S~hool." N~·t1;in ern went.on to - - where.l met Mr. ~nd hiS flock, and because he regarded a ll the diocese as his fr~ tt.11Cfl, n·1th1ng pompous; the pastor seektng ml A simple man of God- he was not a great rider o'f horses liiS Ian I "I y, 19 mcn lton~ them na ll,11? by name. , 1e cou ( not SWim, and IllS sma ll ablhty to look
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In recent months we have been told we ought to send more Christian missionaries to China and South-East Asia in order to combat the spread of Communism in those coun tries. This may appeal to the wo rldly-minded and to those who approve of religion because in the long run it pays to be good, and the community feels more securc when the principles of Christianity a re accepted even if they are not always fait hfully pract ised. H is obviolls that this plea for the extension of Christian Missions is doomed to fa ilure because the motive is a wrong onc. To oppose Commun ism as we know it may be commendable, but we should not put that forward as a reason for the extension of Christian missions. You may have heard of the man who said he believed in Church going beca use it increased his business. Unless the glory of Almighty God is the main purpose of our life our religious observances servc no useful purpose. We are not likely to accomplish anything worth while or receivc response to appeals if a reason given for sending mi ssionaries to China and other countries is to oppose Commun ism. We should do all in our power to preach thc Gospel throughout the world not for any benefit it may bring to us directly or indirectly, but because it is true." "X."
H. R. MONTGOMERY (1897) It is with regret that we record the death of Harold Robert Montgomery, the elder brother of the Ficld
Marsha l. He died in May at Kiambu , near Nairobi, aged 74. Hc was thc eldest son of the Right Rev. H. H. Montgomery, sometime Bishop of Tasmallia, and of Maud, daughter of the Very Rev. F. W. Farrar, somet ime Dean of Canterbury. He was born on May Sth, 1884, and cducated at K ing's. In 1901 he joined the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, and in the fol1owing year served with the South African Constabu la ry, rcma ining with it until 1907 . He then went to the East African Protectorate as an assistant district commissioner; in 1928 he became a provincia l commissioner in Nairobi and from 1934 to 1937 he was Chief Native Comm issioner. in 1936 he was made C.M.G. During the Second World War he was Depu ty Director of Manpower and sat in the Kenya Legislative Council for many years representing African in terests. THE REV. W. H. MAUNDRELL W. H. Maundrell died on June 17th at his home in Walmer. To Mrs. Maundrell, who has herself so many cOimections with King's, and her family we express the sympathy of the School which he loved so well and so loyally since the days when he was a boy here from IS90 to 1895, and a master some fifty years ago . He played in the XV in 1894, in the Cricket XI for three years, and in his last two years was the outstand ing member of the Athletics team. He went to Corpus) Cambridge, as a Parker Exhibitioner; and at Cambridge he gained his "blue" as a hurdler, and was Secretary of the C.U.A.C. He played cricket for the Crusaders, and later for Hampshire. In 1904 he came back to King's as a master in the Junior School, and devoted much of his time to coaching on the cricket and sports grounds of the Senior School. He was ordained in 1905, and when he left King's he was a Chaplain in the Roya l Navy fo r 24 years. In the First World War he served in IrOIl Duke (JeUicoc's flagship) and Prince George ; after the war he was Chapla in at the Nava l Collcge, Osborne, and later at the Royal Marine Barracks at Eastney and Deal. From 193 1 to 1940 he was Rector of RingWOUld) ncar Wa lmer ; and the rest of his life he devoted himself to the Missions fo r Seamen, of which he was the Organizing Secretary for South-East England . 523
THE CANTUAR TAN Many O.K.S. of recent years will remember him when he preached on Sunday evenings for th is Missionothers will remember him as a founder¡member of the "Cantuarian" Lodge. Those who remember him a~ a. ma~ ter-a~d ~undreds ~f ?ffi~rs an,d men who ~new him i':1 the Navy- will always be thankful for his kmdltness, hiS sincere ChrIstian Integnty. and for lu s overflowmg capacity for laughter and the love of his fellow-men.
G. W. RAKE, M.B. (LON D.) (1919- 21) It was with great regret that we !leard. of t~e death in, Princeton on April 20th of Dr. Geoffrey William Rake, a~ed 53 yea rs; Born ,at F:ordmgbfldg~ In Hampshire, after h~ had completed his education at King's, he qualified at Guy s Hospua lm 1927, taking the M.B. (Lond.) with honours the following year. Almost all the rest of his career was spent in resea rch in America. After attending the Heidelberg Pat hological I nstitute, he worked under Professo r W. G. MacCa ll um in the John Hopk ins Univer~ity and in 1 9~ 1 became a n assista nt in Pa tholog~ and Bacteriology at the R~k~fellel' Institute for.M~d lca ~ R:esearch 1!1 New York . l1ere he made a particula r study of meni ngitis with Important results In IdenltfYlllg memmgococcus camel's. Further stud ies in this direction were foll,?wed in 1937 by appointment to the head of the m icrobiology division and later to director of the SqUIbb Institute. Here he carried Oll t specia li zed invest igations into the virus and rickettsia l d iseases and the use of antibiot ics. Wide travel in the Far East widened his experience, while he studied new pharmaceutical preparations
and.surveyed.rese~rch facilities . .Invited by ~he Indian Government he was a guest lecturer to the Taiwan
NatIOnal Umverslty. H e also directed a Widely sponsored resea rch project on anaplasmosis. His final p<?st ",Vas t~at of research profes.sor of .n~ i~robiology in. med ici~e in the University of Pennsylvania and sc!entl~c dlrecto~ of the In~ernat l.ona l .dlVlslOn of the <?hn Mathieson Chemica l Co rpo ratio n. H is puhlic~t!ons tn~lude Viral alld RlcketlsUlI Diseases 0/ the Skin, Eye, alld Mucous Membranes 0/ Mall (produced Jomtly with I?:. Harvey Blank), Pathology 0/ Achalasia o/the Cardia Fleckellmilz and a wo rk on experimental acute Nephntls. H.is ~xc~ptio~al tal~nt was always appar~nt and his br.illiantly active career was decorated by all manner of dlstmctJ~)Ils mcl~dlllg the Stokes Travelhng Schola rship and prize, the Reitlinger prize, the Beaney prize and the Hilton pnze. H e was also a Fellow of the Roya l Society of Medicine. Hi s ach ievements were' however, nO.t co~fined to academic or even scientific awards and he represented both Guy's Hospital and London UlllvefSlty at Cross-Country and the former a lso at athletics. His contributions to science and the welfare of man.kind ~ank most high ly and considering his rela!ively short life one can only be amazed at the st~tu re of hiS acluevements and regret even more keenly hiS early death. To his surviving fr iends and relallons we extend our deepest sympat hy.
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CORRESPONDENCE The Old Grange. To the Editors O/THE CANTUARIAN. Dear Sirs, Rumour has it that there is a proposal to hold the annual O.K.S. dinner at the School during the Autumn term. May I venture to say that this seems a splendid idea? If the event could take pla~e on the evening of one of our more attractive rugger fixtures-perhaps on the eve .of the O.K.S. match Itself-there would be even more to recommend it. While providing an even closer hnk between the School and the O.K.S. Association, it would certainly cater better fo r the younger O.K.S. and the overall cost would probably be cheaper. Indeed, I wonder no one has thou ght of this before. Yours sincerely,
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To rhe Editors O/THE CANTUARIAN. Dear Sirs, Last term vast and ambitious schcmes were initiated for the reorganization of the Sch<?ollibrar:t. !hese schemes, though no doubt admi rable in their aims, appear to have failed dismally .. W.hlle not W1sh!ng to underestimate the industry and enthusi~sm of th.ose :-vho have devoted m.u~~ of their lime to work III the library, may r ask just what arc the frU its of their tOi l and make a few cnt lClsms of the present system ? T he library was out of bounds for more than a term : and now boo ks !l1ay only be tak~n out at ~ertain hours. Under the old system it was clail1~e~ that books we re takt:n out without due en try III the reg lstereven stolen. Under the p resent system th iS IS surely much mo re li kely to occur, and m uch understandably. But in an attempt to baulk such offenders, some (but by no mea ns all) cf the books have been sec reted in locked cases- a most unsatisfactory state o f affa irs. If you know exa~tly what book you wan t, a n ~ you come exactly at the r ight time, you sta nd a vt;ry good cl~a n ce of gett lllg the book you wan t.; but If as occurs in the normal, natura l process o f education! yOll wish to browse round the shelves fO I ha lf an hour o r so, S<1Y, before supper, you are completely fOiled. A typica l page in the register o f last Christmas Term contained a list of books taken out during the course of one day: now it takes well over a week to fi ll a page. ~erh aps fewer books a r~ los!; per h~ps the library is better o rganized; perhaps a better check o n books IS .ensured; but one thl.ng IS certam- the library d id more to cont ribute to the advancement of knowledge III the School last Chnstmas Term, than it has done thi s term. The ideal system seems to be to have a permanent or se m i -~rman e nt librarian (in fact the duties .would have to be split up among many), and for borro:-vers to have tickets! a n~ books to b~ sta.mpe~. ThiS may seem ambitious and unnecessary for a School hbrary, but ~ay I, III view of the dlssatlsfactlon and unpopularity of the present system, suggest it as well worth a trial ? Yours sincere ly, A. G . S. DOUGLAS.
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Cathedral Tea Rooms. To rhe Edirors o/TtIE CANTUARIAN. Dear Sirs, This Luxmoo re T rophy baffies me. Linacre, who by all accounts, recorded their. best year in their brief histo ry, winning three cups-somet hi ng unheard of before-came last. The At hletICS were won, and !hey came seco nd in the swim ming, though it is t rue to say Lhat they had only one. open schola r. ~n I? r~v l ou s yea rs they have risen to the dizzy heights of thi rd and even second, by vJrtue of a few IIldlVldua ls, di; tin'gllished 'for their intellect and li ttle elsc. T he pro portion of points are clearly awry. You rs, etc., " DISA I'POINTED " .
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To the Editors o/THE CANTUARIAN. Dear Sir, I was most interested in the photographs of " Fifty Years Ago" iry Y0.ur issue of April , 1958, and h~ ve been amus ing myself by trying to i~entify some o f the fac~s ap~aTlng 111 tl~em. Of the Scholars leavlllg the Cat hed ral , I think I can spot Side botham, F. L., wa lkmg With Hu ss~y III front of Spence, Dawbarn immediately behind Fleming-Sandes and~ of cou!'se, t!le Verger who I thmk was named Clements. I am wonder ing whether others of my genera lion can Identify any more. As regards the O.T.e. Inspection, the Sergeant is clearly Sir Ha rry Townend. Yours t ruly, A. J. LUSH. P.S.- Incidenta lly, the elongated Co rporal whose ill-fitti ng uni form is being so closely scrut ini sed by the Archbishop is myselC, but that docs not rea lly matte r. 525
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OUR CONTEMPORARIES The E,ditors acknowledge the receipt of the following magazines and opologize for any om issions:_ The Amplelortll Journal, The Barroviall, Bellelldell School Magazine, Bradfield College Chronicle, Bryanstoll Saga, The CIIO/mclian, The Campbelliall, Clleltenham Ladies' College Magazine, City of LOl/dqll School Magazille., The Crallbrooki(lII, The Decanian, Tlte Deflslollian, The Diklel' Hill Place School Mac¡ninc, The Davariall, Tlte Eastboflrtliall, Tlte Elizabethan, SI. Edward's Schoo! Chrollicle, The Epsomioll, TIl(> Fe!stedidh, The Glellofmolld Chronicle, The Gresham, The Hursl-Jolllliall, The Haileybllriall alld I.S.C. Chrollicle, Tlte Kelll College Magazine, The Lawrcnrian, Tlte LafYllleriall, Th e LOrretlOlli(lII, The Malburiall, The Mali'el'llian, The Mllllwoot/iall, The Meleor, The Mill Hill Magazine, The Milller Courl Chronicle, Thl' Novaporlian, The Ousef, The Pauline, The Radfeial/, The' ReplOl/illll, The Roffel/sial/, Slollyllllrsl Magazil/e, The School Tie, The SlllIOl/iall , The TOl/brit/gian, The Wellil/glolliall, The Wish S tream, The Wykesonioll, The Yor!iist .
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EDITORIAL .. . THE SCHOOL SALVETE VALETE VIRTUTE FUNCTI MORE PATRUM DUCES THIS AND THAT ... VISCOUNTESS MILNER ... THE RIGHT REVEREND G. K. A. BELL THE MOST REVEREND H. W. K. MOWLL (K.S. 1903- 1909) ... THE GREEN COURT DR. GEORG KAMITSCH MAURICE EISENBERG ... THE INTIMATE OPERA COMPANY ... THE MUSTARD SEED SOME BIOGRAPHICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE DRAMATIC CRITIC ROUSSEAU AND THE SCHOOL NIGERIA TODAY ... CORPS CAMP AT THE DEPOT THE ROYAL NORFOLK · REGIMENT. NORWICH ON READING POETRY APARTHEID ... ARTS AND SCIENCE CAN POPULAR MUSIC BE GOOD MUSIC? ACADEM ICAL DISTINCTIONS GAINED 1957- 1958 SCHOOL PRlZES ... "ONE MAN IN HIS TIME PLAYS MANY PARTS" THE SCHOOL ROLL BOOK REVIEWS CAMBRIDGE LETTER HOUSE PLAYS THE NEW BOYS' PLAY. 1958 THE SCHOOL CONCERT THE MUSIC CIRCLE THE SCHOOL CHOIR THE SOCIETIES C.C.F. NOTES THE LillRARY RUGBY FOOTBALL THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS' BOAT CLUB BASKETBALL FENCING CLUB SHOOTING ... O.K.S. NEWS OBITUARIES CORRESPONDENCE OUR CONTEMPORARIES COl/lillued overleaf
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"In my time we had far more discipline," Perhaps we who live in an age of more liberal values are still inclined to feel a trifle guilty (though more than a trifle thankful) when one of our Old Boys makes this sort of remark. It is a remark widely heard, for there is hardly a single public school that has not made some move in the direction of liberality in the last twenty years. We feel, it may be, that though we employ our time and energies happily and usefully, we have lost something that previous generations possessed. Is it not true, we might be tempted to think, that our life is much easier- our "discipline" slacker? We would not change with them, but-have not the Old Boys scored a point against US? And yet, what exactly do they mean by "discipline"? Do they not mean something like this: "In my time punishments were much more severe, There were more rules, and more penalties. One was not allowed to speak freely to senior boys or to masters, to go into town or to the cinema, to make one's own life to one's own tastes in one's own study. There were more call-overs, more compulsory services, more regulations of all kinds?" All this may well be true. But if that were all that could
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be meant by "discipline", we would not necessarily set the value upon it that we do. A severe or totalitarian system is not a particularly desirable thing in itself. We have to judge systems by their results. Tho~e who regard discipline as equivalent to severity fail to appreciate the vaFiety of motives which affect human behaviour and performance. As a matter of simple historical fact, it is just not true that behaviour and standards of work rise in proportion to the strictness of external control. The severity of criminal law in past centuries failed to produce a more law-abiding people, and the severity of punishment in the 19th century public schools failed to prevent bullying, drunkenness, the grossest forms of immorality, and sometimes even riots and rebellions. There is, indeed, good psychological evidence for holding that excessive severity tends to promote certain forms of bad behaviour, such as bullying and sadism. Nor, despite a much more restricted use of corporal punishment, have academic standards or scholarships degenerated: quite the contrary. Public schoolboys today, taken generally, do not only have an easier life, they also tend to be better behaved and academically more efficient.
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If this is so, it must also be true that discipline has not lessened. Of course it has not- it has only changed. In order to achieve any thing-a consistent standard of civilised behaviour, the passing of the G.C.E. Ordinary Level, the winning of a scholarship or a rugger match- discipline is necessary. For nothing is achieved without control, planning, hard work, and the subordination of the individual's immediate desires. But all this can be willingly undertaken, joyfully entered into, provided that the in:dividual can appropriate the desired ends as his own. If he wants to live in a well-behaved community, or to win a prize or a game of rugger, he will discipline himself: even when rules are necessary (as they always are) to keep him up to the mark, they will be his rules, because it is his mark. There is all the difference in the world- perhaps the whole difference between success or failure in any community- between someone who is basically on the side of the community, its ambitions and its rules, and somebody who is opposed or indifferent to them. An army that wants to win will make its own discipline, like the army of Cromwell: an army that does not will lose, however strict the sergeant-majors may be. 532
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THE SCHOOL Captain of the School : J. C. G. SMITH, K.S. Head of School House ... ... .. . ... J. C. G. SMITH, K.S. Head of Walpole House ~. IOWISLLlAMS K.S. Head of Lmacre House ... . F ' G' , C. . RAHAM Head of The Grange Head of Galpin's House .. . H. K. BRAY Head of Lu~moore House :;'EG'i!:D~~SSEY K.S. Head of Meister Omers .. . . . ., , J. R. A. BIRD Head of Marlowe House ...
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SCHOOL MONITORS J C G . SMITH, K.S .â&#x20AC;¢ D. G. JONES, M. R. JENNER, A. A. J. WILLIAMS, K.S., C. F. GRAHAM, . . H. K. BRAY, P. H. GORDON, J. R. A. BIRD HOUSE MONITORS The School House: D. R. S. ANDERSON, K.S., D. S. BREE, K.S. , A. W. BUDGEN, K.S., R. N. NASH, R. H. PAWSEY, J. V. WATSON. D. H. B. CHESSHYRE, S. C. FARMER, K.S., J. B. S. FIELDING, K.S. The Grange: R. E. F. MI NNS, W. E. J. MINNS, C. G. RUDGARD, K.S. , M. F. Walpole House : SULLIVAN, K.S., P. F. W. VENN J. F. E. D. HUSSEY, K.S., C. J. MULFORD, I. A. MURDOCH, N. G. A. Meister Omers: PAYNE, A. T. SELMAN, L. A. WARWICK-EvANS, K.S. Luxmoore House : J. R. FREEDMAN, R. ROWE, D. C. H. WILSON, R. F. L. WOOD M. E. BILLINGHURST, M. D. HAM, P. J. B. GRAINGER, K.S., R. C. Galpin's House: TOOTH C. R. BROWN, P. H. HOLMES-JOHNSON, D. G. O'CLEE, C. M. G. Linacre House: WORTLEY , K.S.
Mar.lowe House: A. G. S. DOUGLAS, B. S. GUARD, F. A. ROCKLEY, K.S., A. C. RUSSELL Captain of Rugby Football M. R. JENNER Captain of Fencing B. S. GUARD Captain of Squash Rackets M. R. JENNER Captain of Shooting N. G. A. PAYNE
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Dick, P. J., Eiser, J. R., K.S., Essame, O. S., Evans, R. c., Farchy, R. J., Franklin, R. M. K.S., Georgiadis, A V., Giles, A. J. , K.S., Guermonprez, M. J., Hall, N. R., Hammerbeck' J. P. R. , Hardy, J. H., Harris, S. T., Harvey, A. M., Hebdon, G. P., Henderson, R. J. R. M. : Hoffman, P. D. R. B., K.S., Hough, T. S., Howard-Jones, T. J. I., Imber, C. H., Inniss R. J., Kain, B. G. E., Ken yon, E. J. B., Kilpatrick, A. D . D., K.S., Learmonth , D.O. : Lovegrove, I. C., McClure, J. P., Maltby, R. V., Maries, A. , K.S., Maries, K., K.S ., Maycock, J. d'A, K.S., Methven, S. C., Morris, S. J. , Neill, S. R. St. J., K.S., Nixon , M. H., Paine, R: G. M., Paris, J. A G., Plulte, R. N. , Rawlins, R. D. , Reynolds, A. M., Rid ley, J. G., RJley, A. D., Roberts, G. P. W., Rowland, J. N ., Scofield, M. P., Scott, R. D ., Selby A. H ., Smartt, T. J. J. P., Somerville, J. J. F., Squier, W. H. R., Standing, R. G. , Swan son: D. W. J., Swete, T. J., Taylor, S. H. P. , Thomas, G. D. N., Tltmuss, R. L. , Tompsett, P. B., Weller, P. Moo K.S. , Westrup, G. S. , Wh ittom e, A. M. , Wi ll iam s, Coo Wil liams, M.U.L.
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CAMPBELL, P. A - Entered J.K.S., Jan. , '50; K.S. , Sept., '53 ; Music Scholar; Hon. King's Scholar; Marlowe HOllse Monitor, Jan., '57; School Monitor, Jan., '58; Leading Seaman, R.N. Section C.C.F.; Open History Exhibition to Magdalen College, Oxford; Upper VI. 534
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CHAFFIN, P.- Entered School, Sept. , '53; Linacre House Monitor, Sept., '57; Captain 2nd XV, '57; Sergeant, C.C.F . COOK, J. C.- Entered School, Sept., '53 ; Linacre House Monitor, May, '58; King's Scholar, '54; Leading Seaman, R.N. SectIOn C.C.F. ; Upper VI. CROXFORD, R. H. C.- Entered School, Jan., ' 53; School House Monitor, Dec. , '57; 1st VIII, '56, '57, '58; 1st XV, '57 ; C.P.O. , R .N. Section, C.C.F. EDWARDS, R. V.- Entered School, Sept. , '52; School House H,?use Monitor, March, '58; Petty Officer, R.N. Section, C.C.F.; Hon. Sec. Harvey SoclCty; Upper VI. ELCOCK G. A.- Entered School, Sept., '53; Luxmoore House Monitor, May, '58;. Swimmil;g Colours, '56-'58; Captain of Swimming, '57, '58; 2nd String AthletiCS, '58; Able Seaman, R.N. Section, C.C.F. EVANS, D. J.- Entered School, Sept., '53; T. G. Cannon Scholar, '53;. King's Sch?lar (Hon) '57' Luxmoore House Monitor, Jan. , '57; School MOl1ltor, Sept., 57; Head' ~f H~use, Jan., '58; C.S.M., C.C.F. ; 2nd Hockey XI, '56 and '57 (Captain); 1st, '58; 2nd Cricket, '57; 1st, '58; Upper VI. FOORD, B. D.- Entered School, Sept., '52; Grange House Monitor, '55; School Monitor, '57; 2nd XV, '55; 1st, '56, '57 (Hon. Sec.); 2nd VIII, '58. FREW, J. R.- Entered School, Sept. , '52 ; Grange House ~onitor; School, Monitor and Head of HOllse, Sept., ' 56; Captain of School, Sept., 57; 2nd VIII,. 55; 1st VIII, '56-'58; Captain of Boats, '58; 2nd XV, '56 ; 1st, '57; Editor Canluanan; Upper VI. GILLETI, N. D.- Entered School, Sept., '53 ; Linacre House Mo~itor; 2nd Vll.I (cox), '56; 1st VllI (cox), '56-'58; Hon. Sec. Boat Club, '58; Bombardier, C.C.F.; Kltchener Scholarship, '58; Upper VI. HA NSON, C. l.-Entered School, Sept., '53; King's Scholar; Corporal, C.C.F.; Open Exhibition in Classics to C.C.C., Oxford, March, '58; Upper VI. HARKE, T . N.-Entered School, Sept., '53; Galpin's House Monitor; 1st VIII, '56-'58; 1st XV, '56, '57; Petty Officer, R.N. Section, C.C.F. HARVEY, R. M.-Entered J.K.S., May, '51; K.S., Sept., '53; King's Scholar, '~3;. Marlowe House Monitor Jan. '57; School MOl1ltor and Head of House, May, 57, Platoon Commander, C.C.F.'; Open Exhibition in Classics to Merton College, Oxford; Hon. Sec., Pater Society; Upper VI. LANE, G. W.-Entered School, Sept., '53; Music Scholarship; Galpill's House Monitor; Lance-Sergeant, C.C.F. ; Hon. Sec. Glee Club and Walpole Society; State Scholarship, '58; Upper VI. LUN N, R. F.- Entered School, Sept., '52; Music Scholar; Walpole House Monitor, March '58' MusicMonitor March, '58; C.Q.M.S., C.C.F. ; Hon. Sec. of Orchestras, A.R.C:M. ,' July, '58; Open' Scholarship to Guildhall School of Music and Drama, July, '58. MARCHMONT, G. D. K.-Entered School, Sept., ' 53; Luxmoore House Monitor; 1st XV, '57; Corporal, C.C.F. S.l S
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PENGELLY, R. L.-Entered School, Sept., ' 53; King's Scholarship (Hon.), '55; Luxmoore House Monitor; Corporal, e.e.F.; Open Exhibition in History to St. John's College, Oxford, Dec., '57; Upper VI. REDPATH, A. J.-Entered School, Sept., '52; Milner Scholar ; Galpin's House Monitor, '56; School Monitor and Head of House, Sept., '57; 2nd XI, '55; 1st, '56-'58 ; 2nd XV, '56 ; 1st Athletics, '58; Sergeant, C.C.F.; Ford Stud.ntship to Trinity College, Oxford; Upper VI. . ROBIETTE, A. G.- Entered School, Sept. , '53; Lord Plender Scholar, '53; King's Scholar, '54; Senior King's Scholar, '56; Meister Omers House Monitor; Leading Seama n, R. N. Section, C.C.F. ; Open Scholarship in Science to King's College, Cambridge, Dec., '57; Upper VI. ROCHE, J . P.- Entered School, Sept., '53; King's Schola r ; Linacre H ouse Moni tor, '56; School Monitor and Head of House, Sept., '57; Vice-Captain of School ' 1st XI '55-'58, Captai n '58; 1st Hockey XI, '57, '58; Upper VI. " SIMMONS, G.- Entered School, May, '53; Galpin's House Monitor, '57; Sergeant, R.A.F. Section, e.C.F.; Upper VI. TEMPEST-RADFORD, e. H. G. DE B.- Entered School, Sept., ' 53; Linacre House Monitor '51; 2nd VllI, '57, '58; Bombardier, R.A. Section, C.C.F; Upper VI. ' THOMPSON, J. I. R.- Entered School, Sept., ' 53; Music Scholar; Linacre House Monitor; Upper VI.
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THIS AND THAT This year Mr. J. B. Harris celebrates his twenty-fifth year as Second Master of the School. Near the end of thIS term the Ma sters presented him with a portrait of himself in h~od a nd gown .. The portrait, wh ich wi ll be hung in the Master's Common Room, was palllted by e. A. Alexa nder, A.R.C.A. [We relirel Ihal Ihis in(ormalion lim receil'elllOO lale for a full arlie/e.-Eel,.]
The Second Master
The Annual D inner will be held on 9th January, 1959, at the Connaught Room s. It is much to be hoped that there will be a very large atte nd~ nce. There is a proposal afoot that the dinner should be held .pef'lodl~ally a t the School. It is understood that the School authontles cordIally welcome this proposal. Presumably it will be discussed at the Annual Meeting of the Association on 9th January.
O.K.S. Annual Dinner
The Reverend K. J. F. Bickersteth , who has been a Residentiary Canon and Archdeacon of Maidsto ne since 1943, has resigned this dual position: but happily he still lives in th.e Precincts, and has been appointed an Honorary Canon of the Cathedral. With his resignation he ipso facto ceased to be a Governor of the School, but the Governing Body has now co-opted hun. So he 'Y,III serve the School as a Governor as faithfull y as ever, and remains an honorary ChaplalD of the Schoo l' and still has his Stall in the Cathedral, if no fodder. We hope that we shall see him in 'the School more than before, now that his time is his own. In his place the Reverend Gordon Strutt, Vicar ofS!. Mary's, Addiscombe, near Croydon, has been appointed ResidentIary Canon and Archdeacon: and to 111m we exte!'d a warm welcome, and hope that he will love the bustle of the School that passes by IllS house ID Green Court.
The Chapter
Two of Australia's leading Schools will be enriched from here, for in Janu~ry, MI'. J. A. Kent goes to The King's School, Parramatta, as Head of the ClaSSical Department, a nd Mr. D. R. Lawrence joins tile Staff of St. Peter's School, Adelaide. They have both served this School devotedlY- ill each case It was theIr. first appointment- and deserve the wider chances that will lie open to them. Mr. Kent IS an Australian so he is goi ng home; and Mr. Lawrence WIll be at the School of whIch Canon Bickerstetl{ was the Headmaster for many years. Australia's gain is our loss. We also have to record with regret the departure of another of our younger Masters:--Mr. J. G. Owen has decided to enter Education Administration and has been apPolllted to the Croydon Education Authority. He will be much missed by Marlowe House, for whom he has done a great deal. Mr. Paul Pollak (O.K.S.) succeeds him in the H ousemastership. We hope that Mr. Owen will find his new wo rk rewarding and enjoyable.
Masters
Sidebotham's
"Memorials"
The article on Dickens in the last number brought some copies of the M emorials: the donors have been personally thanked. We are very glad indeed to have the books, now so very rare. One donor was Mr. C. C. Lloyd Jones, a well-remembered master here from 1911 to 1929,
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O.K.S. for a good many yea rs will remember a regular summer visitor and preacher in the person of Dr. Nor man Sykes, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History in Cambridge. His great learn ing with its sel vice to the Church has recently been recogni zed by his preferment to the Deanery of Winchester, where his fr iends here as elsewhere wish him and Mrs. Sykes a long and happy tenure of office.
The Dean of Winchester
On Saturday, September 20th, John Dalrymple, once a wa r-time Captain of School, was married to M iss Betty Greengrass in the Cathedral by the Headmaster. The reception was held in the Dining Hall of the School. and it was good to see such a gathering of O. K .S. of thai vintage .
John Dalrymple
The Director of Music
We congratulate Mr. Edred Wright on his appointment to this office in succession to the late Lieut.-Colonel M. E. Roberts. Everyone is confident that under Mr. Wright's direction the high standard of music to which the Colonel has lifted us wi ll be maintained.
Cambridge
On Thursday, November 6th, the Cambridge O.K.S . entertained the Headmaster to dinner in Jesus College, by the kind permissio n of the College
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authorWes. Almost everyone up at Cambridge was present, and th e evening
passed delightfully. For many, many yea rs it was a custom to hold an annual dinner at Cambridge, often with distinguished guests from the Uni versity. It is regrettable that Oxford O.K.S. have never attempted this-at least. not more than once.
Mint Yard Laboratories
These ha ve now been converted, with the help of the Industrial Fund, into a splendid block of chemistry laboratories. Warm thanks are due to MI'. Frank Stanger a nd Mr. K. H. Yates, who designed the conve rsion and supervised the execution of the work.
The School's numbers and the development of Science, coupled with the departures of MI'. R . D. G. Munns and Mr. S. E. Stuart, demanded increases in the teaching staff. We therefore welcome Mr. H. M. P. Davies (King's, Worcester and Christ Church), Mr. C. D. E. Gillespie (Wellington and Oriel), Mr. D. E. Pomeroy (Whitgift and Sidney Sussex), and Mr. A. B. Whitehorn (Charterhouse and Brasenose College). We trust they will have had a happy first term. Next term, replacing those leavi ng, we shall welcome MI'. R. M. Marsh (Ton bridge and Queens'. Cambridge), and Mr. J. M. Bullard (fpswich and Corpus. Oxford).
New Masters
New Books by O.K.S.
Reviews will be found elsewhere in this num ber of two books recently published: The Temiar Jungle, by John Slimming (John Murray ) and NOI Angels bUI Anglicans, by the Rev. D . L. Edwards (S.C.M.).
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't he School Hymn Book
A new edition of this, enlarged and with music, has been prepared, and is being now considered by the Oxford Press.
One of the most important discoveries in Saxon brooches was made when work men digging a sump in Palace Court unearthed one about two years ago. It was in many pieces and is not quite complete : but it is unique in bei ng as large (6 in. in diameter) as the largest known, of gold (the others known are of silver), and of known provenance. The Governors have decided to give it to the British Museum which possesses only three small ones; three la,rger are known in Scandinavia. The Muscum authorities will fully restore the brooch, wflte a learned and illustrated article on it, a nd give it an official name linking it with the School. It is not impossible that a replica will be made wh ich can be exhibited among the School's An Anglo-Saxon Brooch
va lued possessions.
On Sunday, October 26th, at the 11 o'clock Choral Eucharist, the Epistoler was, by invitation of the Chapter, the Reverend Canon Amasa Ngama from the So uthern Sudan. He is a Canon of Khartoum, and it is interesting to us that he was ordamed both to the diaco nate a nd to the priesthood by Bishop Morris Gelsthorpe, O.K. S. We understand that it is a deliberate policy of the Dean and Chapter to invite coloured clergymen to aSSIst m the public Services. Perhaps on Christmas morning there may be a black MlIlIster, a yellow
History made in the Cathedral
one and a white one; abo ut as near to the T hree Wise Men as we can get. (a) We used to have a liI.le c~lIe<:tion of coins, but .like other things ,ill the
Collections
stress of war and evacuatlOn, It dIsappeared; there IS here not the slIghtest knowledge what became of it. In recent yea rs the Headmaster has got tOl1ether a n umbcr of coins- some from O.K.S.- and now that we have room properly to display such things, we should like to start the collection up again and should welcome allY help in doing this. (b) Similarly the collection of flin t~ vanished; not surprising, when all the time you had to evacuate the School a nd all essentIal stuff was eIght days : nobody was-nobody could be expected to be- absolutely sure what was supposed to have gone down tI? Cornwall and what was supposed to be left here. Nor did anyo ne foresee that one bUlldmg us~d as a main store would be the first to be destroyed by a bomb (September, 1940). But agam we should like to make a collection of flints, and we have a beginning in a small number (but of highest quality and interest) left to the School by Mr. J. M. Edmonds, who was a master here from 1899 to 1903, and thereafter was at Cambridge. (e) But the Stonham Collection of Birds has been preserved and extremely .well cared for. This we hope to set up attractively in Parker's Gate (alias Featherstone's) III the near future. (d) And in that same place there will be a picture gallery, mostly original water-colours of the School, of the Precincts, and elsewhere in Canterbury, ~hich the Headmaster has from time to time in the last 20 years acquired. Gifts of any such pictures would be extremely welcome. 539
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The building has been a shop so long that it is not going to be easy to give it a 16th century name; but Parker- Elizabeth's first Archbishop- built it as the gatehouse a nd entrance to Palace Cour t in 1565. After Laud's execution, the Palace was deli berately ruined and fell into a decay wh ich was never a rrested; and the gatehouse sank into a slum, as did the whole Court. Two or three score of years back, Mr. Gibbs the printer had it ; and in the 1920's the Chapter shaped it for the use of Messrs. Feat herstone. After 30 years of use, they have moved to new premises in Burgate, and the School is in possession of this historic bui ldin g. Bit by bit it is being constructed for School purposes-there a re now six classrooms, a Luxmoore Hall and Study, a complete Music School; and there remai n severa l rooms not yet designated to specific purposes. Art wi ll doubtless fi gure, and probably a Modern Languages' Library. Carpentry and Engineering ca nnot be conveniently done, and they will probably have to be placed in the J .'s.
Featherstone's (alias Parker's Gate)
During August and September the news papers- led by the Austra lian press- were front-paging the fact that a co mpletely illiterate black man of about 50, a ga rdener, was condemned to dea th by an all-white jury in an Ala bama Cou rt for the theft of 13/ 7. Eventually- and a rather long eventually-in answer to horrified protests of people from all over the wo rld , the man, whose /lame was Jimmy Wil son, was reprieved: i.e., a life sentence"in gaol. The writer read about the case in Italy, and hopefu lly wondered if the hundred American bishops who had assembled at the Lambeth Conference, and in that Conference had joined wi th the rest in condemning Man and Dog
the colour-bar, wo uld mass an epi scopal protes t or despatch a hundred A merica n epi scopal
telegrams: for the crime was not 13/ 7 but colour. At the same time an Italian paper recorded that good people in Bournemouth were planning to raise ÂŁ90 to pay the fines of a yo un g lady who refu sed to put away her dog. The price of a man; the price of a dog. From a loca l paper: "Among them were many students representing a United Nations of their own- Spanish, Italian, Australian, German, Austrian, Czechoslovakian, India, etc., besides English- quite a few yo un g fellows from King's School, Ca nter bury. " These worked side by side quite happily with regular far m employees a nd real Cockney lads. The contrast in their conversation and speech !-and the way those Londoners ' too k the mickey' out of the well spoken college lads with never a cross word between them ! "It was really great to see so many people from such di ffering ways of life working so well together."
Harmony among Hoppers
By the sudden a nd unexpected death of Miss Babington in August last, the Friends are faced with a severe problem. Who is to carryon in her stead ? Who is sufficient for it? True, Dean Bell had inaugurated the Friends a year, or even two, before Mi ss Babington succeeded to its management: but in effect she was its inspiration for these las t thirty yea rs. She brought to it vision and devotion, vigour and unsparing service: she li ved for it--it was her creation. It is only qualities of that splendour that assure success, and they cannot be purchased with money. When in August she realized she was not to be able to continue its direction , within 48 hours she was dead. Not everyone saw eye to eye with Miss Babington in a ll things, but there could be nobody who did not admire her devotion and resolute purpose.
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Man y letters come to the School lac kin g any particular addressee. So in October a yo un g lady of Pennsylva ma- reall y It could be d?ne III a IImenckEpistolary Curiosities wrote to "The School" requ iring up-ta-date informatIOn on Education in England- as soon as possible, indeed, imm~di ate l y-as she had to do a term paper upon that subject. But this one was not so eXCi ted ly puzzl mg as that which was posted to LI S on 315t October frol11 London, addressed : The Secreta ry, The Mothers' U nion, Kin g's School, Canterbury, inviting (informall y) parties to free teas at the Adelphi T heatre and to a free look " behind the Scenes". if said parties bought ten 0 1' morc scats. But so far the Secretary of thI S Secret Society in QUI' midst remains unid entifi ed. President Heuss flew to Ga twick yes terda y in a new Vickers Viscount. At Victoria Station he entered a n open carriage for the equestnan dnve to Buckin gha m Pa lace. . To bridge thi s gul f bctwecn modern and ancien t t~an spor!, the train between Gatwick and Victoria was hauled by one of those mature but reliable ari stocrats, a Southern "Schools" class locomotive. "Schools" were bui lt between 1930 and 1935. I had hoped this one~ " Kin g's, Canterbu ry", might just ha ve been contemporaneous with the Weimar Republic. In fact it was born in 1935, when Hitler was well on the horizon . They had given it a marvell ou~l ~ clean face <;>11 ~hi ch to ca ~ry the British and German Federa l Republic insignia. A shillin g locomotive 111 London IS almost as noteworthy as a State visit.
"Peterborough" 21st Oct., 1958
The Reverend Arthur George Campbell Lepard, born in 186\ who came to the School in the summer term of 1875, a nd who now lives III Folkestone in good health, must be the senior O.K.S. We sen! Mr. Lepard a Scll(~o l photograph of Dr. Field's earl y time in the hope that he could Idenllfy somebody here and there, but he wrote that the "ancient" photograph was much too modern for him! Field was an undergraduate at Oxford- as was R. L. Ottley- when A. G. C. Lepard was at School; a nd he writes: "they we re wi nning us 'half-past tenery' by tile honours they were winning for themselves" . We are puzzled by that departed but delightful phrase " half-past tenery". [No/e.- Since the magazine has go ne to Press we have regretfully lea rned the death of Mr. A. G . C. Lepard .]
The Oldest O.K.S.
A Handsome Gift
We have to thank Mr. W. H . Bird Cat School from 1895 to 1900) for the gift of a charmin g oak settle which is now in the foyer of the Great Hall. Happily it entirely matches one already there; so now we have two of the same period- probably about 1700- each four-panelled , and III fine condition. ~41
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Major P . H . Slater, O.K.S.
Some few years ago, Major Slater presented to the School his exquisite collection of butterflies and moths. The collection is in the Societies' room. With regret we ha ve to record the death of the donor, about whom we write mo re full y in this number.
"We shall all die", said the French Court preacher: "a/most all" , he added,
Tip. for Preachers
inclining towards lhe King. "How is it", a bishop asked Garric k, "that I. produce so little effect on a congregation , while you- by the representation of fi ction- easil y rouse the passions of your audience ?" TIle aclor replied pithily, " Because I recite fa lsehoods as if they were true, and you deliver truths as if they were fi ction." "Did you ever hear me preach?" , Coleridge asked Lamb. "N -n-never heard you do anything else", Lamb stammered.
Agreeable Notices
As your train draws in to Oxford Station , often enough it wails by a cemelery, on the further side of which stands a Pick ford' s wa rehouse, ca rrying in enormous white leIters assurance to the living- if not the dead ?- "Move with Ease. Store with Safety."
The spring of an arch in our cloisters displays above the crem3.ted remai ns o f a wellknown person, a board which affirms "Dry Ri ser".
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All down the front of Herne Bay you can see public notice boards, headed Herne Bay Urban District Council, "ENTE RTAI NMENTS"; and in October the Entertainmentoffered was a picture of four uniformed men making grea t play with hoses, and a sloga n, "Join th e Auxiliary Fire Service",
Canterbury Martyrs
On November 10th, 1558, three men and two women were burnt to death here in Canterbury for their religion; they were the las t of all Queen Mary' s victims, for she died within seven days. The Dean and Chapter rightly decided to commemorate the quatrocentenary thi s month, and did so
on Sunday, November 2nd. The Commemoration consisted of a prayer, previous to which the names of the martyrs had been read out. They are, as given by Foxe, John Corneford of Wrotham Christopher Browne of Maidstone John Herst of Ashford Alice Snoth Katherine Knight (or Tynley), an aged woma n. Unhappily, the clergyman gave the year of their execution as 1958, so that the youngest members of the School may either have mixed it up with Gun-powder Treason and Plot or have anticipated that it was yet to come. Two years ago, Cranmer's death was commemorated widely over the country, and sermons were preached in Cathedrals a nd before University audiences. These last five victims of Mary were lowly folk; but maybe they are in Heaven's Book of Life, even if we made no greater memorial of them. And, if Foxe is truthful, their slaying was particularly atrocious, for Harpsfield , the Archdeacon of Canterbury, wa s in London and, realising the Queen's end was near, he "incontinently
made alllpost¡haste home to dispatch these whom he had in his cruel custody". 542
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The Editors of the Cantl/arian regret tha t no Oxford Letter will appear for the reason that none has been sent in by this date (December 15th), the latest date for the pri nters to deal with new material. T he Cambridge letter is printed elsewhere . Oxford
H eard on the Hearse
T he press re ported that at the recent Diocesan Confere nce the Archbishop said that, moved by some inspiration tha t morn ing in the Cathedra l, he had decided that the clergy could most fittin gly be add ressed as " brothers". UMister", he disliked, and "Fath er" he co uld not take. "Excuse me, sir,"
said the undertake r, " do you thin k the Archbishop is going to ma ke a law a bout calling yo u all brothers ?" " Oh, I don' t think so", 1 replied ; "J fanc y he was only spea ki ng li ghtly". "Well , but", he went on, "if yo u are all to be bro thers, what happens to father-in
God; or wo uld th at become father-in-law?" . There are in the School now three yo ungsters closely rela ted to members of the Fourth Form of 1893, the photograph of which appea rs facing this page. J. A. G . Paris, who came this te rm, find s his gra ndfa ther in the fro nt row ; J. P. Scrivenor's grandfather is in the back row, where a lso appears A. K. Mowll, uncle of our present J. W. R. Mowll. If these present members of the School reach the distinction their forbears attained, they will do well. A. L. Paris has had a distinguished military career; J. B. Scrivenor got his First at Oxford ; while A. K. Mowll, the husband of our Mrs. Mowll of Precincts 29, was one of the ablest and most esteemed of the law yers of Kent.
Form lV, 1893
The Great Hall now has a port ra it of Richard Boyle, the G reat Earl of Cor k; he and his brother were at the School in the later days of Queen Eliza beth l. The portrait was ori ginall y executed by a n un known pa inter and the copy has been made for us by a member of the Royal Society of Portra it Painters. The ori gin al is in the possession of the Earl of Cork a nd Orrery, who most cordially gave every fac ility for the copying. Visitors will also see Henry Vlll look ing down on them : this portrait , done on wood,
Portraits
is unquesti o nabl y contemporary and an exciting produc ti on; one fee ls that the unknown art ist must have been a very brave man; there is no Ho lbein softening up o r features-
Henry looks very much what history records him to have been. The picture belongs to the Chapter, but more than twe nty years ago they presented it to the School on permanent loan . By the kindness of SI. John's College: Cambridge, we have also been a ble to have their port ra it of Peter G unning ( 1614- 1684) copied. G unn ing was a Ki ng's Scholar here from 1626 to 1629 and appears as " Victor" in the folio volume of "Speeches" made by George Lovejoy, Headmaster (1665- 1685). He is a lso shown in later years as one of the judges of the " Speeches". Gunning was a d isti nguished Schola r, and a n ardent Royalist : in 166 1 he became Mas ter of SI. John's, and later Bishop of Chichester and then of Ely. He is reputed to have been the composer of the prayer, " For all Sorts and Conditions of Men" .
Conscience
T he librarian wishes to ack nowledge receipt of 21 Germa n texts, .belonging to the School Library, returned, beautifully pac ked, by an Oxford O. K.S. whose conscience pro mpted him to thi s an o nymous res torati on. 543
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Wc sincerel y congratulate Mr. John Sugden on his being appointed Headmaster of Foster's School, Sherborne. This is a mi xed Boarding and Day Grammar School founded III 1640. Mr. Sugden takes up his new wo rk in the Summer Term. We sha ll mISs lum and Mrs. Sugden very greatly. Appointment
Bisons in
Poland
F rom O.K.S. information received the only surviving bisons known in Europe are a small herd 111 Poland. It 15 amazmg that the Russian and German armies S l~~ld d
have left any of them : and, in fact, in th e then and subsequent con-
dltlOns of Poland the herd was thought to be extinct. But it has survived and 16 were born last yea r in the Polish National Park: so this breed, excessively ra re, ha; beel) saved. The research of Dr. Urry, the librarian to the Dean and C hapter, into the reason for the Canterbury City COllncl1 ma king an annual grant to the Almsho uses in Harbledow?: a neighbouring village, was reported . . In the AmerIcan magazme Tune. The city treasurer hadn't the foggiest. So ArchiVIst Urry peered down through history .. . ." He discovered that in 1170 Henry U, reIJentmg the, murder of Becket, .ordered the Ilrant to be made in perpetuity. "Hence, chirps Ver y, ever~ tlmc anyone lIVIng m the city of Canterbury pays his or her rates, he or she IS contnbutmg toward the penance of Henry 11' for murder in the Cathedra l." David Lloyd Gcorge, Eartha Kitt a nd Anita Ekberg were mentioned on the same page.
Penance on the Never-Never
Congratulations
We congratulate Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Kent on the birth of a daughter, Carolyn, and Mr. and Mrs. N . H. Scott on the birth of a son, David.
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In Ma rch next, F. H. Voigt retires from the Housemastershi p of Grange, a post whIch he has held for some sIxteen years. All mem bers of the House durin g those yea rs know what they owe to Mr. Voigt, who has devoted l11mself to the mterests of the H ouse and of every individ ual withi n it. DO,ub;less in ~ue co u~'se Grange wHi show in its own manner its appreciation of Mr. VOIgt s unsparmg ser vIce. Here the School records its gratitude for all that he has do ne both for Grange and for the School as a whole, and we rejoice that he will be with us yet for many years. The Headmaster has appointed Mr. P. H. W. Garwood to the Housemastership. Mr. Ga rwood wa.s edu~ated at Haileybury and New College, and besides NatIOnal ServICe has had expenence m the business world. To him and to Mrs. Garwood we tender our best wishes for their happiness in this new work and to Grange o ur congratulations on this appointment. ' Grange House
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VISCOUNTESS MILN ER The King's School and many members of the Schoo l past and present, especiall y those who ha ve been Milner Scholars, have lost not onl y a benefactress, but also a personal friend in Lady Milner, who died on October 10th. In 1927 she gave her home, in which she had lived during the last few years of Lord Milner's life to the School; and Sturry Court became Milner Court and the home of the Junior ¡School. After Lord Milner's death in 1925, a Comm ittee raised a fund to commemorate his great achievements in South Africa as High Commissioner a nd Governor of Cape Colony, and later as Colonial Secretary; and the major part of the fund was used to provide the Milner Memorial Scholarships at the K ing's School, primarily for the sons of Colonial Civil Servants. Lady Milner took a personal in terest in the scholars and every yea r invited those at the School to lu nch at her ho me nea r Hawk hurst. She had much that she could tell them from her store of memories of her long and va ried life. Her father, Adm ira l Maxse, had served in the Crimean Wa r ; she had stud ied art in Paris in the early '90s; she first ma rried Lord Edward Cecil, son of the Prime Minister of Victorian days, and so entered the political world of Hatfield. Their daughter married the present Vice-Chairman of the Governing Body of the Kin g' s School, Lord Hardinge of Penshurst. After Lord Edward's death she married Lord Milner. In 1929, when her brother, Leo Maxse, died, she took his place as editor of the National R eview, and under her direction it lost nothing of its forthright and often unorthodox warnings against the militarism of Germany, or of its advocacy of imperialism. I n the summer of 1956 she gave to the boys at Mil ner Court her portrait, pa inted in 190 1, and in a letter said: "It is not like me now, but fifty-five years ago, when it was painted, it was like me. And it is like the time I lived in ; a time when we were unhurried, unwo rried , able to control ourselves and our doings. We had the lei sure you ha ve never
had; the freedom which you wi ll find it very hard to conquer, but you must try for this all the same. I hope you will be happy at M il ner Court-where I was very happy". Almost the last letter Lady Mil ner could have written was a personal one to the Headmaster accompanying her letter to the Editors on the subject of Apa rtheid, wh ich arrived just two days before her deat h and revealed her sustained interest in the welfare of the School.
THE RIGHT REVEREND G. K. A. BELL (lately Bishop of Chichester) Th is is no place for a forma l obituary notice for hardly a newspaper or journal of any kind but gave accounts of the bishop's life, and our readers will already have seen them. But it is fitting that we should write gratefully in the bisllOP'S memory, since he was as Dean a wise Governor of the School and ever remained its faithfu l friend. Many O.K.S. will recall his friendship to them in their schooldays and the regu lar hospitality extended to them by the Dean and Mrs. Bell. Though he was Chairman of Govemors for only six short years, and had many other claims on his time and attention, it was the Dean who in troduced a system o f masters' pensions and who caused thei r salaries to approx imate
to what in those days prevailed elsewhere : it was he who with Lady Milner steered through the transfer of Milner Court to the School and its adaptation and exten sion fo r the pur pose of the Ju nior School. And though his actions were official, they glowed wit h a personal 545
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warmth for the School as a whole and for its individual members. Noth ing was too big for him to tackle ; nothing was too small to engage his interest. It is 30 years since he was Dean, but we of today shall miss him, for eve n in his brief summer residence here this yea r and ill though he was, he revealed that his heart was still with the School- he came to the plays and the concerts- the boys went to his flat in Starr's House- he readily promised to preach this term- he was, in truth, our amicus amabi/;s. R.I.P,
THE MOST REVEREND H. W. K. MOWLL, (K.S. 1903- 1909) Howard Mowll, Archbishop of Sydney and Primatc of Australia, died on October 24th, at the age of 68. He had been in ill¡health since the death of his wife last December, and so was unable to attend the Lambeth Conference, and to come to the service at Canterbury with R. W. H. Moline, Archbishop of Perth, who came to the School in the same term as Mowll , and John Frewer, Bishop of North-West Australia, who had left in the previous term.
Mowll was a King's Scholar between 1903 and 1909. He left to read History at King's College, Cambridge, and then to study theology at Ridley Hall. He was ordained in 1913. He spent almost all his life abroad; at first in Canada as Professor and Dean of Wycliffe College, Toronto, and from 1922 till 1933 he was Assistant Bishop and later Bishop in West China. In 1933 he was elected Archbishop of Sydney, and in 1948 Primate of Australia. He was noted for his quiet and determined work and as an evangelical preacher ; and his true quality can best be seen from a story told in The Times by Professor Lancelot Forster of his capture by bandits when he was touring his diocese in Chi na. He was released immediately without ransom; and in Professol Forster's words : " Because of his benign presence and the spiritual note that accompanied him , as well as his striking pllysique, which was well above the average, he so overawed the brigands that they- not he- became afraid, and without further ado, told him to depart as quickly as possible". There is abo ut this story a vague echo of the Old Testament, and a clear picture of what Howard Mowll was and what he stood for.
THE GREEN COURT The frontispiece showing the Green Court was painted by William Westall, A.R.A., who lived from 1781 to 1850. This picture was painted probably somewhere about 1820 to 1830. The south side from Prior Selling-gate to our present Larder-gate was filled with houses. Gostling writing in 1777 says they were the twelfth Canon's house and three minor Canons' dwellings; but they were demolished in 1854 when Selling¡gate was itself in part refashioned. The actual larder-gate can be seen behind a tree ; and through it stairs led up to the former library (erected in 1867 and destroyed in 1942) and so into the Cathedral; these stairs were removed when the Chapter some seven years ago levelled that area to the original floor of the Undercroft of the Dormitory, and the present Lardergate building was erected in 1950-1951. The stairs in the picture led to the front doors of the houses, much as do those of Selling-gate today. The present west boundary wall of Green Court bears not much resemblance to this one, pierced as it is by an attractive gothic arch. However, our XVIllth century gate looks very handsome, and seems to be on wonderfully good terms with the pointed "Godmersham" Arch in the parallel wall hounding Palace Court. 546
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DR. GEORG KAMITSCH Only thc Upper School a ttended the lecture on Education in the Soviet Occupied Zone of Germany, given on Sunday, 12th October by Dr. Kamltsch a professor of Enlliish at a University in West Germany. He stated that there are four alms of edu~atlOn In East German y. The first and overwhelming one is the production of Commun ists, the other three are included in thi s by our interpretation of present day Communism, and set out to indoctrinate belief in the principles of the Soviet Union by proclaiming that the Soviet Union is to be loved that the education of the Soviet Un ion is the best, and that all major discoveries and books about them have been made by men of the Soviet Un ion . He went on to point out some of the outstanding differences that exist between British and East German education, Their education is entirely state controlled and there are no alternatives in contrast to the comparative freedom of choice that exists in this country. Schooling starts at a kindergarten at the age of four, to enable mothers to wo rk. From the age of six to fourteen education remains com~ulsOl:y, but furth~r educatIOn ~epends ~pon the status of parents more than on the qualIficatIOns of pupIls. Dr. Kamltsch claimed that the children of wo rk ers and farm labourers wou ld always be given preference, to the extent of refusing further education to more intelligent children. To proceed to University a student has to be approved by the local Communist Party leader, the local Party Secretary and also the leader of the Young Pioneers, who is generally a boy of fourteen moulded in the manner of the Hitler Youth mo vement. Dr. Kamitsch suggested that this unnatural halt in the education of intelligent children was one of the primary ca uses of the mass of refugees streaming into West Germany. Apparently every lesson whatever subject it is on has to contain some "cont,empor~ry history" which consists only in repeated affi rmations of the worth of the Soviet UnIon which deadens the mInd of the Indi Vidual so that he accepts ImperfectIOns and belIeves in the infallibility of the Communist regime. Throughout the ta lk it was evident that there was ve ry little fa~tual or first h~\lld evidence so that the lecture appeared as a series of un s uppor~ed gene.rahzat l~ns, an? It ~as s,ometimes doubtful that it was not propaganda. Dr. Kamltsch delI ve red hiS talk In an IrOnIcally amusing manner which prevented it from being dull whilst revealing the serious import of his words. J.c.G .S.
MAURICE EISENBERG The American 'cellist Maurice Eisenberg is no stranger to the School, and he and his accompanist Alan lellen ~er,e warmly recei ved when they gave us a very interesting, and varied programme of musIc In the Great Hall , on October 4th. The recital bega n with ,a Passacaglia by Lully which gave the 'cellist ample opportunity. to show off the tone of hiS 'cello. This he did quite effectively. Then followed twelve va na tlons on a Mozar t Theme by Beethoven , the theme being taken from the Magic Flute. This piece calls for conSlder~ble talent on the part of the pianist rather than the 'ce lli st and Alan Jellen adm,n'ably prOVided all that was necessary. The first half cnded Wit h four mo vements from Bach s 5th (C mll101) Suite for unaccompanied 'cello, In thi s work hi s performance lacked clarity and the intonation was not always very safe. 547
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After a short interval the recital continued with a Sonatina by Bax . Here, the composer makes full usc of the range of the 'cello a nd Eisenberg overcame some of the many difficulties high in the treble clef with comparative case. In the last group we heard an Adagio by Chopin , a Gavotte (from the Classical Symphony) by Prokoviev and a Sona ta in G by Braval. Finally, in response to the demands of many members of the School, Eisenberg played a composition of his own entitled Pizzicato Blues which greatly amused the audience and brought to a close an enjoya ble evening's entertainment. J.P.
THE INTIMATE OPERA COMPANY The Intimate Opera Company was founded about 25 yea rs ago, for the purpose of bringing before the public some of the smaller and lesser-known operatic works, which do not come under the heading "G rand Opera". The members are select and few and the operas which they perform in their travels, which include tours in Spain, Canada and the U.S.A. , conta in usually no more than three characters. In addition to their services with the company, the members arc well-known as broadcasters and recitalists, and Antony Hopkins, musical director, has composed music for the theatre, film s and radio as well as several operas. . The company made its acq uaintance with Canterbury in July 195 1, whe n, wi th the help of several members of the Canter bury Cathedral Choir School, they performed Antony Hopkin's opera The Man from Tuscany in the Chapter House, for the Friends' festi val. The Man/rom Tuscany was a lso performed in the Festi val Hall in 1954, and at the Cheltenham Music Festi val in 1955, under the conductors hip of Edred Wright. On November 2nd of this term, Antony Hopkins, Stephen Manton (tenor) and Eric Shilling (bass) came to Canterbury once more, with Ann Dowdall (soprano) to perform three operas in the Great H all. Each work was brilliantly introduced by Antony Hopkins, who was also the acco mpallist. The first was Love in a C~ffee Cup by J. S. Bach (with English ve rsion by Geoffrey Dunn) which is more a cantata than an opera. It is a skit on the contemporary habit of coffe~ drinking, which was considered by the older generation to be shocking and almost immoral. In the opera, Lieschen (A nn Dowdall), to the infuriation of her father Schlendrian (Eric Shilling), is giving more of her attention to her beloved coffee than to her unfortunate lover Christian (Stephen Ma nton). Eventually she is faced with a choice between coffee and a husband. She chooses the latter, and the marriage document is duly signed a nd sealed . However, on reading it Christian discovers a paragraph permitting coffee drinking, so Lieschen is a llowed to resume the habit as well as havi ng her husband. The opera is short and written in a light vein, but contains some very beautiful arias. Its musical merit far surpasses the flippancy of the subject, which is nevertheless entertaining. After an interval followed Eal Masque by Stephen Storace (1753-95), a typical example of the di vertissements written to pass the time between the acts of a big opera. He and she (Stephen Manton and Ann Dowdall) are at a masked ball, each believing to have left the other at home. By cha nce they meet unrecognised, and each pours out his domestic troubles. Having eventually recognised one another they wonder if they are really as bad as they have made out. They apologise, embrace and resolve to start their married li fe afresh. 548
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The fina l opera was Tire Telephone, by Gian-Carlo Menott i, the twentieth centu ry composer who left Italy at the age of eighteen to study music in America, where he was a tremendous success. The Telephone was wri tten as a curtain-raiser for one of his more serious works The Medium, which has enjoyed a lasting popu larity on Broadway. The situation is not unlike that in The Coffee Cantata: the telephone takes the place of the calfee-pot. Ben's (Eric Shi lling) emba rrassed attempts at a proposa l of marriage are interrupted time after time by Lucy's (Ann Dowdall) telephone conversations. Eventually after futi le efforts, and an unsuccessful attack on the telephone itself in a moment of Lucy's absence, Ben has to leave to catch his train. At last he hits on the plan of speakin g to Lucy over the telephone, a nd by this means he makes a successful proposal. The masterful rendering of the operas by this small group was very much appreciated, and the G reat Hall provided a fit settin g for such sparklin g and polished music of so high a quality. D.H.B.C.
THE MUSTARD SEED John first thought a bout walking on air, when he was seven years old. He was stroking the cat which was sitting on the banister on the first floor landing which overlooked the hall and front door. John knew that if he pushed the cat over the railing, she would twist in the air a nd land safely on its legs. The cat had often gone to sleep on the banister and fa llen into the hall but had never hurt itself. "I could do the same", thought John, " if only I were to fall slowly enough". This idea suggested to him a new and wonderful sphere of adventure. H e imagined himself performing slow somersaults on the top step of the stairs, diving into the hall, hovering just above the floor and gently sinking to the ground. His mind became full of fanciful thou ghts, and in his excitement he decided to learn how to walk on air. H e reali zed that he would not be able to perform such acrobatics until he could walk. He ran to the edge of the stairs and stepped quickly into space. He managed two very hurried steps before he landed heavily on the stai rs. He tried again. He ra n faster, took a longer step into the air, a nd fell down the stairs before he had taken a nother pace . He lay bruised and bewildered at the bottom of the stairs. As he slowly climbed back to the top step he realized his mi stake ; one does not run heavily on thin planks but treads as gently as possible. He stood at the to p of the sta irs, put his foot gentl y into the ai r and very slowly and softly took a pace. Then he took another and was so eXCIted that he fell again. But he had discovered the technique and within an hour he had taught himself to walk for as long as he concentrated . His mother discovered him float ing a few hours later. She had come quietly out of the drawi ng room door, while he was hoverin g a few feet above the ground with his bac k towards her. He had found great difficulty in hove ring because as soon as his concentration wavered he bega n to sink. His mother overcame her amazement and spoke to him softly. H e (urned towards her and fell hea vily to the floor, twistin g his ankle. 549
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Whi le his mother bathed his ankle with cold water, John excitedly told her what he could do, how he had learnt, and what he hoped to do. His mother was a sensi ble and practical woman and a lthou gh she had been greatly surprised, she listened quietly. She knew th at what she had secn was fantastic and a miracle. No-one can walk on air, no-one can defy the laws of nature. Her common sense told her that it was impossible, and yet she had to believe what she had seen. She spoke to her so n in a quiet and sensible manner. She pointed out that other boys had not this abi lit y. It was a miraculous girt which he a lone had. John protested that anyone could do it if they were shown the method. Jt was as easy as learning to ride a bicycle ; learning to keep yo ur balance. His mother explained simply the ideas of gravity and how the laws cannot be broken. "You see, darling, no-one else can do these wonderful things; you alone have th is marve llous power". "I, a lone, have this marvellous power!" thought John as he lay in bed that night. "r, alone!" He imagined himself as an acrobat high above a circus ring. "Ladies and Gentlemen, John Freeman, the flying man!" He pictured the sea of upturned faces amazed and marvelling. He imagined the applause . He imagined himself speed ing through the air, rescuing a trapped dog, just in time, from an oncoming train, the looks on the faces of the driver and the passengers, their congratulations and his photograph in the newspapers. He wou ld be famous ! Ideas poured through his mind. Then suddenl y he remembered how difficul r he found hoverin g. He still could not rise in the air. He began to wonder if he would ever be able to do these thin gs. " Perhaps" he thought "J shall loose the powers that I have", He imagi ned himself falling, hurtling towards the circus ring. Early next morning he stood at the top of the stairs anxious and doubtful. He took a step off the stair, hesitated and fell.
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The theatre will catch her first glimpse of him- unless he happens to have been found in one- on the end of an aunt at his first Christmas treat which, if you leave precocIty out of it will take place at the dangerously awa re age of six, o r thereabouts. He will be momentarily overwhelmed with expectation, which will harden him into bored?m, boredom mto fidgeting fidgeting into interval lachrymations (these descendmg emotIOns, may he have no worry, will remain with him througho ut his career)- and in the interval he is withdrawn. If he were to last the pace of his first show, he would be too indulgent for the hazards of such an exacting calling. When qu es tioned, his impression would be vivid and concise"the wicked baron was very wicked and the waterfall was gorgeous". If he is being well brought up, his family will be wise enough to postpone the next trip, after the initial blooding, until he has come to some so rt of terms WIth the world, so that in all probability his next glimpse will be Form Ill's ambitious staging of Alice through the Looking Glass, carefully adapted by Miss Overcast. As likely as not, he will be heayily prejudiced on personal grounds, and by the fact that Altce m a moment of over a n~lety reduced the entire conglomeration of scenic effect to a shambles, and revealed de Creppmny rna. in the act of removing the half of his White Ra bbit costume that mattered. It is not long after that he is taken ill a school party to the Women's Amateur Dramatic Society of Ashby-under-Ripple's annual Shakespearean productIOn 111 the pansh hall. The M erchant of Venice it is, and he may evell be asked to wnte somethlllg about It m the school magazine, in which case he will probably write this : We went in a bus. We arrived at a quarter to two. !t was supposed to begin at a quarter past two . Soon other schools were helping to fill the hall. At the cnd of the hall was the stage. It had four door~. Soon we were waiting in our sea ts- and at twenty-five to three, after there had been an apologY-it began. Shylock was the best actress. His gestures were tremendous, and she was able to get her voic,e terribly deep like a man's, wanting revenge. The clothes were colourful. though the story was a bIt wet and there was no difference between Venice and Belmont, except by lighting. It was pink for Ve~ice and blue for Belmont. Portia's fa ce when a suitor rejected her was terrible, but it was not very p:etty. 1t was an excellent production, and after that we had eaten our sandwiches, we got into the bus and got back to school at twenty past six so that it was very long.
He is ten and I think he shows promise. H e has picked out what was most important to him which credits him with truthfulness- an essential basis on which the dramatic critic ~ust work. He must be quite clear what he believes, forget it, write what his paper pays him to believe. That integrity and business never mix will be borne out later. But he has now approached the zenith of his powers to date-his last term at preparatory school. With this in mind, he reviews, aga in for the mag., his first professional Shakespearean (Hamiel, as it happens), and after some provisional sparring with mendacity, he resorts to his inherent sense of truthfulness, a nd concludes: "and anyway, I couldn't hear Guilderstern- and frankl y I was bored". He is growing fast- from prep . school to public school, from Shakespeare to Westerns, from Hamlet to Wyatt Earp. At the moment, pure fact is his only concern: he prefaces all criticisms with: " It was wiza rd when he .. . . " and "It was wet when she .. . .". This carefree period in his life lasts as long as he cares it to, but if his other faculties are developing in the right proportion, the "0" Level stage will shake him loose. 55 t
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'fhis is the stage of sheer mechanics, when his revolt aga inst the Classics is at its most intensive. Words ring about his ears, and fail to register upon his intellect. "Macbeth obsessed by supernatural solicitings .... Macbeth fa lls from good to bad ... . Macbeth hath murdered sleep .... Macbeth's imagery .... Macbeth .... " - then quite suddenly comes the release, he has a conditional discharge with five credits and enters now the renaissance of his yo uth, the moment when he realizes the power of his intellect, the age of ruthless destructive criticism, against which not even Giclgud, nor what you will , can hope to be spared- the age, indeed , of fifteen. The age of his first "X" certificate pictur~s , when his very confide nce betrays his state of mind- the age when he talks of sex wIth sagacity, of wome n with worldliness, and of horror with horror. And slowly the ca ncer spreads its wings. He begins to read Beerbohm a nd Agate, projects their ideas, 01' as many as are intelligible, plagiarizes mercilessly. He hovers sufficientl y on the verge ofO.U.D.S. to be greeted with acclaim in the smart, impressionable set during the vacs. Concepts like cubism, realism, mot ivat ion ring crazil y through his
mind ; Sartre, Imesco and Osborne tumble off his lips- and the comparative solidity of his study hall has melted into the vacillating temperatures of the quaint taverns a long the Isis and the Thames. He is fina ll y bundled out of their back doors, clutching to his own astonishment a degree of the lowest class- in English. Somewhere amid the confusion and the metamorphosis of the fi rst years of manhood, there will be the still small voice of a conscience-UStart at the bottom". It is a voice of infinite wisdom that prevai ls over all his impetuosity. He makes for his nearest local paperany Local paper, where he is landed with a bump on a hard chair which suspiciously resembles the one he had thought to ha ve left fa r behllld a ll those years ago. In fro nt of him stretches nothing other than the annual production of the Women's Amateur whateverit-is of Ashby-under-Ripple, for which he collects the princely wage of 14/ 1 (with expenses, including lemonade in the in terval in the vestry). " .. .. the costumes, too, were a feature. Our thanks are due to Miss Fotherstoneha ugh's va liant product ion against heavy odds." The most damning praise he can muster, but someone notices his work. He is spirited away to the capital. The Daily Exp,.'ss announce their intention of paying him to pick out the sensational pieces of pieces he wo uld never pay to see. Telegrams fl ow in abunda nce on first nights from the South of France. " Lud Beaverbr' *k says: "Slate this, boost that"-until the inevitable day when the telegra m waiting on his return. It says but qu ite simply : "Cancel Y par's message. Just met another useful fellow. Boost it". But he has gone irrevocably to press, and quite si mply, he is on the dole. Now follows the wilderness-the hastily got togethe r wit for Punch, the years of the free lance, af anxious drinks at the Club, of hopeful acquaintances, until the Daily T*/'graph are without a dramatic critic. He is enjoined to the staff of the Dally T'I'graph. Gone are the days of the reviewer, plain and simple- these a re the days of creative essays on Monday mornings- of Stanislavski and the Moscow Arts. The Hi ppodrome is relegated to the most distant paragraph, and is dismissed with one slick wave of the pen. Now his reviews, naturally modified for taste, have something of this flavour: "Hete at last is a play that takes sex seriously-an adult play .... how refreshing. " "Oh, dear" (such interpolations are permissable at this stage) " how difficult it is to review plays nowadays. So many pieces entirely depend on their shock value, their third act twists, that one scarcely dares put pen to paper, for the constant dread of surrendering 552
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their clues, and financially frustrating their backers. What can I say, then ? That this play was murder to me too."
He has been observed by the Ob"'ver. At last in demand, he is hounded by anxious backers, neurotic performers, and shame-faced producers- now judging at R.A.D.A., now lecturing at Bri stol, now gazing deferentia ll y at Liverpool and the Court, at Eliot and Slade- the pa ltry he sweeps aside with a perfunctory slickness, the safely g~eat he quietly examines fro m an obtuse a n ~ l e; the l!n known. he ca!l pa~ro l1l ze, that whICh the olher man extols he can damn, and hiS reputation remain s unlmpall'cd.
And so it is wit h nostalgia that he recalls his fi rst Christmas treat- happy days they we re, as he sits in the Circle bar of the Palace where far away come the strainS of heavy actmg, a;,d the delighted squeals of ch ildren- somewhere Cinderella has met her cha rming Prince; A laddi n has ru bbed his la mp. He writes- wit h that gift of insight peculiar to Agate and Beerbohm , and wit h that deft dismissa l that has brought him SO far: "The wicked baron was very wicked, a nd the waterfall was gorgeous".
ROUSSEAU AND THE SCHOOL Rousseau's idea of the General Will- a moral entity with a sense of purpose, the mind of all the best self-denying elements of a community, has been decisively rejected by modern thinkers. The whole concept is dism issed with the simple demand to be shown this "General Will" on any particular subject. Without the stress of exceptional circumstances, (e.g., England in 1940) there is no General Will i l~ the sense ?fagreement on nght polley. When society faces a problem a common overn dlllg conVictIOn o,r correct ~eci s ion does not mysteriously well up even amongst those most devoted to the Ir commu lllty. But must the whole idea therefore be abandoned? Are democratic thinkers forced to view society as solely the agglomerat ion of selfish individuals, which Rousseau refutes? Surely a mea n may be found whereby the noble a nd useful elements of tillS Roma ntIc concept may be accepted wit hout endo rsing all his conclusions or ~ I s~ what do, we mea!l when we talk of "community li fe" or "house spirit"? If a communIty IS to flounsh then It must evoke a strong sense of duty from its members to SUPPO!t and do what is best for .th ~\ society, whether a house, a school or a natIOn. But to obtalll the supp~rt of thIS spmt a communi ty must show itself valuable: it must at least possess potentIal benefits for the individual. It does not matter that this " spirit" may lead to little agreement on the b~st practical means : the general desire or will must nevertheless exist I~ terms of the phySIcal analogy so often used to support Rousseau's false conclUSIon It IS h ke a man lost III a desel t wh.o hears a tank rumble past due South at the same time as he sees an oasIs due North. HIS ears and eyes both have a general will to satisfy his physical needs: both recommend different policies. Rousseau's mista ke was to imagine they would both be able to recommend the best or right decision- that there would be unity of policy. We may therefore accept his basic outlook whilst rej~cting his fa lse conclu~io n. A flourishing community does possess a general WIll full y III the Rousse~u tr~dltlOn of a moral obligation. Its dual basis is spirit and the value it contains for the Illdlvldua l. They are mutuall y dependent and in no way conflict. We should be blinded by neIther: both are essential.
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NIGERIA TODAY In 1956 the Gold Coast was officially recognised as the independent Commonwealth state of Ghana under the leadership of Kwame N kruma . Now, the political leaders of Britain's largest colony, N ige ria, are conferring at Lancaster House over the possibility of independence in the very near future. The task before them is enormous a nd very complex in detail and it is not my wish to submit an elaborate ana lysis of this. The purpose of this piece is to outline the situation and above all the shape of modern N igeria. N igeria has a surface area roughly 200 squa re miles greater tha n that of the two Ge rmanies, Belgium, France and Switzerland combined . Th is colossal state is di vided into three regions the largest of which is the No rth. The N orthern Region is predominately Moslem a nd consequentl y abundant in a ncient traditions a nd customs. It is a land of rocky hills and sava nnah grassla nd, of dense bush and, in the more southern parts, of forests. The lingua-franca is the H ausa language but other tongues exist, such as the Fulani and Kanuri tongue. T here was a definite form of crude civilisation before the European arri ved with an upper and lower class. Modernisation has inevitably lessened the class barriers but there still remains an upper, aristocratic section of society incorporating the royal families of each emira te. At the close of the eighteenth century the legendary figure of Othman (U suman) dan Fodio lead a crusade and estab lished himself at Sokoto at the head of a F ulani empire and sent out priests to rule the series of Ha usa sta tes. A year later Kano, the central H ausa state revo lted and chose its own Emir. Others fo llowed but in spite of the disintegration of the Fulani Empire a lmost all of the emirs, save those of K ano and the unconquered state of Bornu still rega rded the Sul tan of Sokoto as supreme spiritual leader. He remains " Saraki n M uselmi" (Lord of the Moslems) a nd "Commander of the Faith". The latter title was a lso held by the Sultan of Turkey, un til the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, and by the Sultan of Morocco. The Emirate of Ka no is the commercial and industrial centre of the region. For a thousa nd yea rs it has been so a nd today, as though to give further proof of this, they have constructed outside Ka no city the largest commercial airport in Africa. The camel carava ns have been replaced by Bristol Brittannias a nd D. C. 7's, but they a re still announced by a court trumpeter as the carava ns were in days gone by. Trade is still retained in the hands of the Moslems, a nd Europeansbe they officials or missionaries-a re not permitted to live within the gates but outside in a reservation . . . . the suburb of Nassarawa !- a most rare exception to the lIsual order of things in Africa.
It would be natural to suppose tha t K ano was also the administrati ve centre. This is not correct. About a hundred miles to the south-west lies Kaduna on the banks of a rive r of the same name. This is the regional capital a nd the largest milita ry cent re in N igeria. It contains all the various M inistries, the Government House and the reside nce of the regional prime minister now the Sardauna (the title ofWarJord) ofSokoto (Alhaj i Ahmadu). The Northern, Eastern and Western Regions are now officia lly first class governorships The Easte rn Region which forms a half of the southern bloc of N igeria, is very un like the North. Apart from being completely forestland the peoples a re of a heavier type of negro. It is about six times as small and has a different outlook. T he predominate Ibo tribe and its surrounding sub-tribes had no social or political cohesion. Consequently their education and modernisation has been simpler a nd quicker for they had no old traditions to give up. Previously they had had no unity and had recognised only the small 554
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chiefs. Now they have completely accepted the Europea n wa y of li fe and are more mechanicall y minded than the Northerners. The regional capita l is En ugu and the main ports are Calabal' and Port Harcourt. Last year regional independence was granted to it under the leadershi p of Dr. Na mde Azikwe (popularl y kn own as "Zik"). T he Eastern Region is a li tt le bigger tha n its neighbo ur in the west a ltho ugh similar in m ost oth er ways. H oweve r the Yo ruba w ho inhabi t thi s pa rt of th e co unt ry were defini tely
more civilised than the Ibo. Now they are divided into a num ber or independent states but ori ginall y the chief of Oyo, the Alafi n or King as he is ca lled was generall y regarded as Ihe leader of the Yor ubas. Hi s power wa ned a nd smaller rulers such as the chief of lbada n obtained their independence. Another great native "state"- that of Benin flo uri shed between the fou rteenth and nineteenth centuries. Today its art has achieved world fame and their bronze-casting even in the fou rteenth century was amazingly advanced. The Yorubas are keen traders and agriculturalists tending all to congregate in large cities and it has been estim ated that half of the eight million inhabitants li ve in very large villages or towns. The capi ta l, Ibada n, is the greatest of these with a bout 150,000 Africa n inhabi tants, and, if the nu mber of nati ves who enter the to wn daily from the suburbs may be added, the day-time population is raised to over o ne third of a million . lt contains in addition to the usual necessities of a government ca pi tal, a fin e modern university. This region is also independent a nd is now under the leadership of chief Obafemi Awolowo. Among the many problems to be d iscussed is the old q uestion of d istribution of Federa l power . . . how great the regional power should be . . . who should have prime control of the police, etc. , etc. Also promi nent among the subjects fo r consideration arc the racial problems. In each case there are tri bes in the minorit y fearing biased politics from those in the majority. In the No rth, the middle-belt tribes such as the T iv people distrust the greater num ber of Moslems and are demanding a "Middle Belt Region". It is ro ughly the same in each region. This is repeated on a larger federal scale, for the East and the West are on ly too concious of the Northern majori ty. However amongst all these complex ities stands the co mpetent fi gure of the Federal Prime Mini ster, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa a Northerner himself and a man of infin ite resource and intell igence and it is to him tha t Nige ria ns should look fo r guidance. Fo rmerly headmas ter of a No rlhern secondary schoo l he became Nigerian Minister of Transport and thence to Premier. l have had the honour of meeting hi m myself in his residence at Lagos, the Federal Capi tal, and was ext remely impressed by his di rectness and his vast experience. He has travelled in both African and Europea n continents studying the o rgan isation and methods of many countries, and in my opinion he is full y qualified to lead a co un try of such size and of such importa nce and to take a promi nent place in world affa irs. M.A. S. ( Resident in Nigeria 1945- 57) .
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is a lways remembered; crawling through fields wi th blanks a nd thunderflashes exp loding,
night patrols and sentry duty, sleeping on heather, lying in a gorscbush fo r two hours at dead of night listening for an attacking party: all this was entirely new to us. There were experiences not connected wi th the exercises too; riotolls evenings in Norwich, and the sober starkness of reveille, hymning in a wooden hu t to a harmonium with a dismal cypher; all-pervad ing blanco, boot-polish and good fellowship.
There were no demonstrations this year (except for a mid night matinee entitled "N ight Noises"), so we did more ourselves than is usual, and there were enough exercises for everyone to have a chance or leadin g a section. People showed q ualities that are hidden at Canterbury; a normally dull perso n orten turned out to be a clea r-headed leader or a crack shot.
. To the casual observer the army way of life seems neat, clear-cut, and satisfy ing, although It may well become irksome to those who live it. We realised that the da ily routine is the result of yea rs of experience wh ich has found the most efficicnt and least wasterul way or usi ng men, supplies, time a nd even day light. Th ro ugh being in contact with it, we saw
that everthing in the military system, drill, format ions, saluting and the like, is not, as the civilian would ha ve it, invented fo rmality, but evolved fo r a purpose. The camp was a va luable experience for the new relationships that it gave us wi th each other. Monitors and mastels lost their distinction in khak i and became more earthy creatures. We became more o bservant of each other under new cond itions and got to know each other better. New friends were made on the exercises; a night spent crawling on yo ur stomach through mud and bracken with someone you know only vaguely is an excellent ice- breaker.
To revert from tepid psychology to matters of importance, the conditions were surprisingly good . It is a fashion at school to disli ke the annual ca mp, but th is year nobody conformed to t hat unnecessary pattern. Ma ny people go expecting too much ; we went p repared ror the worst, and did not get it. After (probably exaggerated) accounts or condi~ion s in other camps-antique tents and hay bags, and sleeping in trenches under heavy
ram-we were not prepared for the comparative luxury of the barracks, with huts and hot water, beds and eve n sheets. As for the trenches, the only ones needed were those dug by the enemy before the dawn attack. . We were all pleasa ntly surprised by the qua li ty of the food, after lhc current civilian
myth that army food is shockin g, and we were certainly not expecting four cooked mea ls daily, with a choice of dishes. Comparison with the provender of another ancient in s ti~ tution suggests i tse lf~ but draws the authors in to deeper wuter than they care lo r. Most of us went to the Regimental Museum before we left, and once inside we were impressed. Chain mail captured from the Dervishes, Japanese guns, and French, German , Russian and Burmese equ ipment ma de it clear that the Navy is not the only service to join if you want to sec lhe world . 556
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and all thank s are, due to them for to lera tin g the loss of fOllr huts, for sharing their food, mess and Naafi With a crowd of cadets, and for the ir cheerfulness and co-operation when asked to take part ,i n o ur fl:o l ic~. They we re ve ry good to LIS, despite our irregular ea tin g hours.. our outlandish mufti which ran ged from khaki with a blazer to tar tan and scarlet,
ou r siege or th e q.M.'s Stores (we used th ree packets or "Vim" in two days), our noisy eve nll' g homeco mings when we kept the sentry open ing the gate up till ten-thirty, and the fact that we occasionally dro ve our lorries the wrong way through the one-way main ga te .
A ll we ca n do now is thank them ror thei r patience ancl rr iendliness, and hope that they wi ll not judge a ll caclets by our standards. A.J.A., J .B.B., and W.M.W.
ON READING POETRY Open th e book before you. Read, And watch the wo rds lin ked into lines, And hear the so unds sing low a nd high
To hum a harmony. Concede, You cannot make such modes as these : Your mind is far too harsh and hard
To shape a smooth expression, or To mould it into melodies. The thou ghts th at yo u are thinking here .In skilrul hands might weave some cloth, A perrect tapestry or sounds ... . If angels sa ng, you wou ld not hea r.
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The CantuCI/,;an of August there is an article written in defence of the Nati ve policy
of the present South African Government. ] ve nture to th ink th at yo ur co ntributor ha s
not considered the hi sto ry of th e grea t sub-Continent nor how it has develo ped. Let me recapitulate.
The Dutch East India Company founded in 1652 a sma ll se ttlement at the Ca pe as a
halting place for their ships go ing to the East. A number of Dutch and Germans of a very rough type were planted th ere and th e ea rl y Dutch Governors se t them to c ulti vate t he soil with the hel p of slaves, c hiefly impo rted Negroes and Ma lays. At th e end of the 17th century a boat-load o r so o f Huguenots escapin g from the persecutio n of Lo uis XlV arrived at the Cape brin gi ng with them the vi ne and a great tra~itiOl~ of it s culture. Bu t the Dutch Go vern ors wo uld not allow th e newcomers to have their ch ildren taught French
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During th e Napoleoni c wars th e BI itis h took and gove rn ed this Ca pe Sett lement,
abolishing torture, which had been hitherto used as a mea ns of gettll1g eVidence. After th e end of the Na po leo nic wars the Cape beca me British as pa rt of th e ge ne ra l World settlement. At that time th ere was a popu lation of so me 20,000 Whites, 17,000 free
Hottentots and 20,000 slaves. The constant Kaffir wa rs at that time showed the necessity of a larger White popu lation if the settlement was to survive and the British Governn:ent in 1820 se nt out so me 4,000 Briti sh. These se ttl ers, who were both tech ni call y and SOCIall y of a very good class, c reated th e Eastern Province of Cape Colony, bu ilding the towns of East Lo ndon , Po rt Elizabeth a nd G rahamstown. They acted as a defe nce a nd a b uffer betwee n th e origina l Dutc h Settlers a nd th e Nat ive tr ibes who surround ed them . During the years of th e 30's and 40's and follo wi ng the declaration by the Imperial
Government that slavery was to be abolished in the British Empire, many descend ants of the original Dutch settlers moved away fro m the British Provi nce and went with their families to the No rth to create new Re pu bl ics where they co uld rul e as they pleased . In the meantime, Ca pe Colo ny moved und er British Rule towa rd s Self Go ve rnm ent an d order. Railways were built, the great breakwater a t the Cape made the T able Bay harbo ur safe a nd finall y the Imperial G ove rnm ent gave a Co nst itution to Cape Colony whi ch gave the colo nists the power to control th ei r ow n destiny. In 1854, Cape Colo ny became a Self-
Go verning Country and one where the Natives voted alongside the Wh ite men. This privilege was immensely va lued by the Natives, who never in any way abused it. They retained it unti l 1934, when General Smuts- then Ministe r o f Justi ce, took a Bill throu gh Pa rli a ment which di sfranc hised the Natives in Cape Colony. Hc was o pposed by a ha ndful of British Members of Parliament, but the Bi ll became an Act and the Na ti ves' Vote was destroyed. Since then the ha lf-castes (ca lled Colou red peo ple) have bee n di sfranchi sed and a new ly-named anti-Nat ive policy " Apart heid" has been steadi ly promoted. This
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"[t is hard for an observer to escape the conclusion that this is a co mmunity whi ch is goi ng slowl y, steadil y, remo rseless ly, del iberate ly towards eve ntu al
ca tastrophe . .. . The progress downwards is slow, and it is steady, it is remorseless and it is deliberate." Sir, 1 am one of the observers who is convinced that this is a true appraisal orthe desperate So uth African scene . Yours, etc., V. MILNER.
I'.S.- I ha ve not mention ed the Boer War 1899- 1902. This a lso was due to a refu s:I1
of' franchise, this time to the British who had developed the Transvaa l and O.R.C. and mad e them rich during th e 80¡s a nd 90's of last ce ntury.
From C. T. Wood, Archdeacon of Capelown It is ext remely difficult to an swer what one ca n onl y call the most tendentious a rticle by J. R.C. W. in the las t number of The Canluarian in the space of one short a rticle. First, the facts about the past: (The Dutch) "have forged a prosperous home through ,lteir sk ill, industry and initiati ve du ring three centuries". This is si mply un true as anyone who takes the trouble to read They were Soulh Africans by J o hn Bond ca n readil y see for themselves. The skill and initiative came from the English, the finances from overseas) and th e indu stry from the Blac k ma n. The backward a nd bankrupt Transvaal Rep ublic . and Orange Free State wou ld be in the same position as the recen tly r..::patriated Ango la Boers, who give a very good exa mple of what the Dutch degenerate into, without the impulse of tllOse other elements which go to make up the South African nation today. Secondly, Apa rtheid is not confined to the Black man, and it is extremely mi sleading to imagine that this is so. It is being ruthlessly a pplied to all Non -Europea ns. And to instance General Hertzog as one of those opposed to integration when real izing this fac t is to fl y in the face of hi s own words: "He arose and he exists in o ur midst; he knows no other civilizat ion than that of the white man; whatever his shortcomings may often be in respect of it ) hi s 'Jewensbes ko uing' is fundamentall y that of the Eu ropean and not that of the Na tive, and he lIses the language of the white man as hi s mother tongue. In his case there ca n thus be no question of segregation . ... Economica ll y, industrially and politically the Colou red man must be incorporated with us." HERTZOG. 1925.
Lastly, when dealing with the crit icism that apartheid is impract ica ble, J. R.C. W. makes the astonishing remm k: "One ca n only accept the opini ons of ex perts on the spot: plans ha ve been drawn up and anyway most of the objections are too hypothet ical to demand immediate answers". Such a statement co uld of course on ly come from one quite out of touch wi th the present situation. Is the mise ry being ca used among hund reds o f border- line cases under the Population Registrcltion Act hypothetical? Is the separat ion of thousands of Africa ns from their fam ilies into what is bland ly called "bachelor qua rters" hypothetica l ? 559
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Is the uncertainty and distress caused by the Group Areas Act hypothetical? The app lication of this Act in Pretoria wi ll red uce a self-support ing community of Indians to complete poverty and dependence. A Committee of all the reputable religious denominations, with the exception of the Dutch Reformed Church, has declared this to be an injustice that cannot be tolerated by the conscience of Christian nations, a Christian
Church or a Christian individual. One can hardly have sympathy with an ideology that merits such a condemnation. C.T.W.
. Cape Province, South Africa. 10th October, 1958.
From Sir Charles Belcher.
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Having read the article by J .R.C.W. in a recent number, may 1 congratulate him on his reasoned presentation of an unpopular case, and yo u o n yo ur courage in publishing it?
Apartheid as a tentative solution of the problems raised by the impact of white upon black in Africa cannot be pronounced upon as hav ing succeeded or failed , until it has been tried out over yca rs : and it wo uld be quite unfitting fo r me, who have sought and obtained the hosp itality of the South African Government as a pensioner in retirement
from H.M. Colonial Service, to critise the po licies of a co untry in which 1 am but a guest: even were it otherwise, this is not the place. But 1 am free to observe, and it can harm nobod y if 1 tell you what 1 have seen since 1 came here from Kenya in 1954. First, that the majority of the English-speaking part of this community takes the Afrikaner point of view on Aparth eid if perhaps on little else. Next, that the papers which come here from England (I subscribe to four) rarely ha ve a good word to say for South Africa politically at all, a nd never for Apartheid. This tends to widen the gulf between people in England and people out here, and to make things morc difficu lt for the S.A. government as a member of what is ca lled, for some reason,
the Free World in its relations with other member nations. Another thing, and this is a serious matter for British subjects in South Africa , it must have some effect in helping
those who disl ike the British connection and want a republic instead. Saddest of all, the unfairness shakes ones confidence. Yours faithfully,
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. Let us be clear exactly what the problem is: it is how to give the scientist an ap preciation of the humanities, and the art student some experience of the thought-world of the scientist; and all this within a strictly limited time. It will not do sim ply to say: " Let a ll sciemists have two periods of English, and all arts candidates two peri ods of one or other of the sciences". This will sa ti sfy outward appearances, but will amoun t to little in practice. There must be found a common ground on which arts and science students can meet,
discuss their several points of view and exchange ideas. And this must be don e without making science so easy for arts students that it ceased to be science at all ; or the wo rld of human values so elementary that it will provide little stimulus for the scientist. On what common ground can arts and science students best mect? The answer is in the History of Science. I ima gin e students fro m the arts and science coming togeth er to discuss
the nature of the Copernican Revolution, and then, while the scientists would go off to calculate the maximum elongations of the planets, the arts students would collect evidence of the impact of the new conception of the unive rse upon the seventeenth century poets. Or consider the laws of motion and gravita tion. Is there not grandeur and beauty in
Kepler's and Newton's laws? While the scientist could explain them in simple mathematics to the arts student, the historian could tell the scientist much that is valuable about the impact of Newton upon 17th and 18th century philosophy. And if this is true of the world of physics, how much easier is it to apply to the world of biology and psychology? It is particu larly important for the full understanding of Darwin to see him as a product of his environment; for the principle of "the survi va l of the fittest" was a sociologica l concept
before it was diverted to the biological world. Similarl y the grandson of Thomas Huxley has perhaps more to teach us about world problems today than all the politicians put together. The Arts student can no longer afford to leave school ignorant of scientific thought. All too often, at present, when he has any time at all to think of the world of science he thinks of it in purely mechanistic terms. His thought is of the eighteenth century, not the twentieth. The tendency of modern science is to think in terms of organisms rather than mechanisms. The atom is perhaps better thought of as an organism than as a mechanism. This is a n idea which has importance far beyond the laboratories of the specialist. Heisenberg's 56 1
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Principle of Jndeterminacy may not be as important as it was once claimed to be, but no-one could doubt the fascinat ion an d importance of the implicat ions of the Quantum
Theory. No r is it true that such thin gs ca n be understood o nl y in the symbol s of higher mathematics. For if a litt le mathemat ics wi ll be ve ry good for the Arts student, it wi ll be very good practice fo r th e Ph ysicist to have to ex plain himself in non-mathematica l language. Where is th e ti me, and where is the place for so important a stud y? At th e moment it
appears that the First Yea r VI form wo uld be the best place to begin . 1f an examination incenti ve is requi red there is a History oj Science paper set by Th e Join t Board. I t cann ot be long before the Universities make increased provision for such a study in th ei r entrance
req uirements. At Cambridge it is proposed as an opt ion in Part II of the T ri pos; Oxford is holding an enquiry on the subject . London University already has such a course. It would be nice to th ink that here at Canterbury we played some pa rt as pioneers in what might well prove to be the most important revolution in ed ucat ion for a century. And the term s of reference for such a class 1"Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan." R.W. H.
An empty, lighted room. Chi ntzy Chairs And point-lit glass with black beyond, and books, And heavy curtains, textures, colou rs mixed With dust; Dead animals in inglenooks. Strangely unpleasant, without a li vi ng for m. The sti ll bulb. Stare a t it- it hu rts. A barbarons and separate thing from light, Drawing the mov in g eye li ke moths, to burn An imprint danci ng image on the sight, Of itself, on a bad exposu re of the room. Only the light is real. That, wi th its hues, And the black shadows, they compose the room, A pattern of light and dark shapes neatly fitted, Flat, solid, changeless, perfect in form , Ebony la id with painted ivory. The bulb sucks out the meat of the dead things And spits them into light; the husks unsea l, And body is in white and black alone. Nothing else is. This, the true order sea led . The fr ightened watcher knocks a tahle over. 562
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T here are two kinds of critic, the expert and the layman. There is nothing that infuriates the former more than the unin formed opin ions of the latter. To the one, music is either good or bad and to the other it is either to his liking or to his disliking. It is fair that the opinions of the layman shou ld be given fu ll attention: after all it is he who has to pay to go to a concert. However, when, after a concert, the layman reads its criticism and the critic gives one sentence to a mediocre performance of a well known work, which he thoroughly enjoyed, and spends the rest of his notice writin g up the qualities of a new work, the layman considered beyond his powers of understanding, he will be dissatis'fied. Mervyn Bruxner puts this point very well in his "Letters to a Musical Boy" : "Yes, I read the notice of it in the paper the next da y, and I'm not surprised that yo u were furiou s because the symphony was hardly mentioned at all, while there was half a column on that modern work which you did not understand and hated like poison". He goes on to say that the critic has heard that particular wo rk played many times over and, unless it was an absolutely superlative performance, "I don't suppose he would thin k it worth while to say anything about it. Now a modern work is fun fo r a critic, .. ... and all critics are on the look-out fo r a new work worth hearing, and will gladly spread themselves when writing about it". Yet the fa ct that he does not say anything about the famous work means that only a great performance can make it more than med iocre. To the layman, great music often plays itself.
There are two kinds of popular music: the great music of a great composer which is recognised by expert and layman alike. The expert wi ll rega rd it as great in technique as well as content, but the layman wi ll laud it merely for the p leasure it gives him. The other kind of popular music is that which defin itely aims to be popular and which therefore panders to the taste of the moment. it may be techn icall y perfect, as the expert will see and the layman will not, but it will not be "good music" to the expert because the composer, essentially a creative artist, has debased his motives for writing the wo rk though it may be ve ry enjoya ble for the layman. What differentiates good music from the mediocre attempts of academic interest only, the works of technical virtuosity, is the added significance of the composer's content in the way he expresses himself within a given technical framework. One may be a virtuoso technician but not a great composer until one has " something worth saying". When an expert examines the music of men like Mendelssohn, Gounod, Meyerbeer, Liszt, Wienawsk i and Paganini, he gives them their due for their varying merits as technicians but he will be doubtful a bout affording them much praise for their content. Most of these composers were virtuoso instr umentalists who turned to composing to show off their instruments. They are extreme examples but tbe very fact of their arrival at composition through their competence in performance makes the expert apt to dismiss them as lacking feeling.
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whose expressions are of continual value is whether the work, heard once or twice, remains pleas urable after ten hea rings. People say they ca n go and see a Shakespeare play no matter how many times and not be bored: this is not t rue of hea rin g Lizst. The even more sno bbish expert will regard the work of Mendelssohn as somethin g from th e " antimacassar and aspidist ra" at mosphere of a Victorian d rawing-room and th erefore something which th e p resent age has outgrown. But has it o utgrown merely his immed ia te appeal a nd not what he has to say? T oday we have o utgrown Ro manticism, or at least we have a reasonab ly o bjective view of it, but we ca n still partake of the pleasure which the 19th century felt if we put o urselves back into the person o f Mendelsso hn . "Not even
the bia~, natural at centenary commemorations, was able, on the occasion of the hundredth
anniversary of his death, to res to re M end elssohn to an ythin g app roachin g the high position he held in public estimation when he di ed". He was th en th ought as th e heir of H andel in oratorio and the successor to Beethoven, Haydn and M ozart in symphony. But, "without questio n Mendelsso hn was ooe of the m ost gifted musicians who ever li ved. M ozart produced, at th e age of seventeen, nothing compa rable with the Midsummer Night's Dream ove rture or the Octet". No other composer, befo re or since, has so successfully translated into music the gossamer world inhabi ted by T ita ni a "and apart fro m its perfecti on of for m, what is even more astonishing t ha n its originality of ha rmo ny and orchestrat io n (things that can now be app reciated only by an exercise of t he histori c sense) is its mature imaginative comprehension of Shakespeare's poetry" . Some people talk abo ut " pot-bo ilers" in th e 19th century but this p uts M endelsso hn in his true perspective. There a re people who despise the music of Tchai ko vs ky as music of the masses, beca use it can be enj oyed by one and all . It is perhaps beca use his music is easily und erstood and easy to listen to, and also because some of his o rchestral effects lend to be "vulgar". It is quite possible that a Prom a udi ence wo uld say " Well , what if they are? [like th em" . They have Tolstoy to back them up on t hat, but his test, when applied to the works of a composer like Wienawski, becomes in valid as a criteri on. It d oes not matter so much that Tchaikovsky is vulgar, and onl y sometimes is that, but it is when he is banal th at he is open to just criticism. Some people do not like the overflowin g path os, and what they call the degeneration of sentiment into sentimentality, o f his tragic moods. One is forced to invo ke T olstoy's criteLion of subjecti ve pleasure in appreciati on of the arts to prevent this criticism from becoming correct. Naturall y, if yo u do not agree wit h T olstoy, yo u tend not to like T chaiko vsk y. Yet his deep romantic nature was wholly since re and a good perfo rmer can prevent his tra gedy becoming too shallow a nd his feeling becoming a pose. T oday t hat is what the expert complains about in Liszt. " H is use of th e orchest ra l palette is original and da rin g, and is generally calculated to make t he ut most dramafic effect; and t hose who appreciate drama in music rarely complain th aI the d ra ma is overd one" . His work has not stood the test of time as well as Tchaikovsky's, in spite of o ur reactio n agai nst the soul fulness of his Ru ssian hopeless ness, beca use his type of d ra ma is not that of Beethoven and Shakespeare. It is tru e that programme music, li terary or otherwise, is still pop ul ar today a nd some of it, where it acheives what it sets out to do, is very good. But when a piece o f music has nothing to recommend it but the fact that it is follo wing a programme a bo ut which the hearer has been told beforehand , it is not in the pures t sense good music. P rokoviev's Peler and the Wolf must be one of the most popular wo rk s perfo rmed in this country 564
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to day a nd because it follows so brilliantly a nd closely its programme, it is successful. But Berlioz'S Symphollie Fantasque wh ich has fo un d a great deal of favour rece ntly stand s o n its feet as a work of art apart fro m being very expressive of the episodes. "Nor is there anything to p revent our approachi ng it as music pure and simple, even in t he fi nale, which
is the most extreme instance of Berlioz'S consciollsly aim ing at pictorialism on a large scale". On the whole he has retained po pula rit y: in spite of his full- blooded romanticism
it is marvellous music. The test for popula r music, or any mu sic fo r that matte r, if it is technica ll y good is th e compose r' s ability to co nvince t he listener not merely at t he first hearin g but at th e fiftiet h,
that he is a crea ti ve artist. Those composers whose reputations have fa llen, not merely beca use of changing tastes, bu t because o f their inabi lity to give us a ny statement (in their music) which will give sa tisfaction to the ex pert and layman ali ke. arc transitory virtuosi. Great music will always fi nd some appeal in any age but popular music wi ll not sUl'vive if
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ACADEMICAL DISTINCTIONS GAINED 1957-1958 R. I.
B AK ER
Sta te Scholarship.
P . J. FORD
State Scholarship.
J. P.
Sta te Scho larsllip.
G REEN
R. M.
HAR VEY
State Scholarship.
A. R . M ORGAN
State Scholarship.
J. PRI CE
State Scholarship.
M.
J. R. H.
PRI NGLE
State Scho la rship.
R. J. B.
CLARK
State Scholarship.
H . A. S. B ANCROFT
Open Scholarship in Histo ry to T rinity College, Oxford .
P. A.
O pen Ex hibition in History to Magdalen College, Oxford .
CAMP BELL
R . J. B.
J. P.
CLARK
GREEN
A. R.
M ORGAN
Open Scholarship in Modern Languages to Trinity College, Oxford. Open Scholarship in Modern Languages to Magdalene College, Cambrid ge. Open Exhibitio n in Science a nd Parker Ex hibition to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
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L. PENGELLY
M. J. PRICE
A. J.
REDPATH
A. G.
ROBlITrE
Open Exhibition in H istory to St. John's College, Oxford. Open Exhibition in Classics to Queen s' College, Cambridge. Ford Studentship in Classics to Trinity College, Oxford . Open Scholarship in Science to Kin g's College, Cambridge.
C. VERNON SM ITH
Open Scholarship in Hi sto ry to Sl. John's Co llege, Cambridge.
D. J.
EAST
Open Schola rship in History to Lincoln College, Oxford.
S. C . WILK INSON
Open Scholarsh ip in Histo ry to St. Edmund Hall, Oxford.
J. G.
Open Exhibition in H isto ry to Merton College, Oxford.
UNDERWOOD
R. M. G. I.
Open Exhibition in Classics to Merton College, Oxford . Choral Studentship to St. John's College, Cambridge. Open Exhibition in Classics to Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
HARVEY
ALLEN
C.
J. HANSON
C.
H.
BAYSTON
E. R. G.
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Choral Exhibition to Christ's College, Cambridge. Academical Clerkship (Choral) to Magdalen College, Oxford.
N. C. ATTWATER
Academical Clerkship (Choral) to Magdalen College, Oxford.
A.
SEAL
A.
J.
Senior Scholarship, Trinity College, Cambridge . Foundation Scholarship, Pembroke College, Cambridge.
BRIGGS
J. D . R. SPOONER
Senior Exhibition, Emmanuel College, Cambridge .
P. H. Moss
Senior Exhibition, Clare College, Cam bridge.
A.
Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge; 1st Class Honours, H istorical Tripos, Part 1.
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Exhibit ioner of Pembroke College, Cambridge ; 1st Class Honours, Natural Sciences Tripos, Part I. Emmanuel College, Cambridge; 1st Class Honou rs, Natural Sciences Preliminary
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B. A.
J. WALSHAW
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J. D.
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J.
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H . R . J. HOARE
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D. WOODROW
D. C. C. STEVENSON R.
L. HOLFORD
Scholar of Wadham College, Oxford ; 1st C lass Honours in Physics. Exhibitioner of Clare College, Cambridge; 2nd Class Honours, Div. I, History Tripos, Part II. Exhibitioner of Queen's College, Oxford; 2nd Class Honours in Psychology, Philosophy and Physio logy. St. Edmund Hall , Oxford; 2nd Class Honours, Mathematical Moderations. Exhibitioner of Clare College, Cambridge; 2nd Class Honours, Social Anthropology Tripos, Part H. University College, Oxford ; 2nd Class Honours, Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Jesus College, Oxford, 2nd Class Honours in Modern Languages. Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford ; 2nd Class Hono urs in Jurisprudence. Exhibitioner of University College, Oxford ; 2nd Class Honours in J urisprudence. Exhibitione r of Jesus College, Oxfo rd; 2nd C lass Honours in Mode rn History. Scholar of Hertford College, Oxford; 2nd Class Honours in Modern History. 2nd Class Trinity College, Oxford; Honours in Modern History. Exhibitioner of St. John's College, Cambridge ; 2nd Class Honours, Mechanical Sciences Tripos, Part 1. Exhibitioner of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; 2nd C lass Honours, Mechanical Sciences Tripos, Part 1. Clare College, Cambridge; 2nd Class Honours, Mathematical Tripos, Part 1. Exhibitioner of Magdalene College, Cambridge; Sen ior Optime, Mathematical Tripos, Part II. 567
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SCHOOL PRIZES Captain's Prize (Mitchillson) Lady Davidson Prize Headmaster's Prizes
Classical (Broughton) Greek Prose (Deall Farrar) Latin Prose (Horsley)
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Mathematics (Mitchinson) Natural Science (Mitchinsoll) Modern Languages (Mitchinson) (Seralloll) ... Reading and Elocution (Harvey Boys)
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Latin Verse (Blore) Greek Verse Music (Ryley)
Senior: Junior:
Music (Courtney) Natural History ... King's School, Parramatta, Prizes
Upper School: Middle School:
History (Stanley) (Everill) .. . English (Evans) .. . Photography (Gough)
Open: Junior: Open: Lower School:
Drawing Prizes ... Divinity Prizes Upper School (Broughton) Middle School (Marshall Wi/d) Lower School (Lady Hertslet) Prize for the Harvey Society (Blore) .. . Prize for the Marlowe Society (Streatfeild)
J. R. Frew J. R. Frew J. P. Roche J. G. Underwood G. N. Salmon J. I. R. Thompson C. J. Hanson C. J. Hanson G. S. Doust C. J. Hanson E. A. Davidson D. S. Bree A. R. Morgan O. W. Lane A. V. Georgiadis J. I. R. Thompson T. J. Parsons C. J. Hanson C. J. Hanson R. F. Lunll F. R. Hammersley A. T. Selman M. J. A. Simpson J. R. C. Wright J. K. Polmear C. Vernon-Smith M. M. G. Stanley-Smith G. H. Merritt P. J. B. Grainger R. Zentner M. J. A. Simpson O. W. H . Wells W. A. Hodges W. D. McF. Laurie J. S. Lowings J. P. Yorke R. V. Edwards A. G. Robiette
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Merton College Prizes: Classics Science Musical Appreciation (Alan Baker) Gift for Physics and Chemistry (Oliver Johnson) History (H. V. Crawford) Upper School: Middle School: History (John Crallford) Upper School: Middle School: Archreology Prize (Geoffrey Wells) Cathedral Prizes (Miss Dorothy Mills)
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R. M. Harvey A. G. Robiette R. F. Lunn A. R. Morgan T. J. Stevens T. C. C. Dartington P. A. Campbell R. St. J. Stevens J. R. C. Wright D. H. B. Chesshyre J. A. G. Man D. W. Horton W. J. D. Tayler
A. W. Budgen A. J. Addis B. H. Stokes
Greek Prizes: Upper School Middle School Lower School
W. A. Hodges R. K. B. Halsey P. A. L. Seward
Mathematics Prizes (Harrison): Upper School Middle School Lower School
A. G. Robiette M. N. King S. N. Bianco
Modern Languages Prizes (Greaves) Upper School: French German Middle School : French German Lower School: French German Science Prizes: Upper School: Physics and Chemistry Biology .. .
R. J. B. Clark J. P. Green A. J. Addis A. W. J. Caron A. J. Imber B. H. Stokes A. G. Robiette C. F. Graham
Middle School: Physics and Chemistry ... Biology ... 569
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Lower School:
Physics
W. D. McF. Lawrie
Chemistry
D. A. Griffiths
Biology
P. Layfield
English: Upper School
J. R . H. Pringle
Middle School (Galpin)
C. B. Seaman
Lower School
G. D. Kin g
History: Upper School
C. Vernon-Smith
Middle School (Gordon)
C. D. Powell
Lower School
H. B. T. Clark
Form Prizes: Arts VA
A. C. Parsons
Arts Vo
R. M. K. Carey
Arts Vc
M. J. Pritchard
Middle V
J. R. Bretherton
Science VA
C. M. Price
Science VB
D. L. M. Thomas
Science Vc
D . E. Baker
Arts Remove A
B. W. Elvy
Arts Remove B
D. D. Double
Science Remove A ...
P. Layfield
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R . J. Morris
Arts Shell A
G. J. Partridge
Arts Shell B
A. F. P. Gil fillan
Arts Shell C
C. Small wood
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M. A. B. Morpurgo
Science Shell A
D. A. Griffiths
Science Shell B
R. N . Crosbie
Science Shell C
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PEACE Christ, sitting in heave nl y glo ry, though his di storted hands remind us that he is still th e Christ of th e Cross, is seen blessing all the nations upon earth , sprea ding his joy among them.
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" ONE MAN IN HIS TIME PLAYS MANY PARTS" "Have yo u heard of Melba?" I asked a Sixth-Former. "No", he refl ected, "[ don't think so- o nl y as a peche. "I expected not", .ÂŁ replied : "but she was a peach- the greatest soprano of all tim e, and the peche was named after her. " A nd I wr ite now abo ut a man who was a great fri end of Melba, like her an A ustralia n ; while she sang in Dr. Strong's Choir in Melbourne, Harry B. McCormick assisted wi th his profound bass. In late r years he who was by natural instinct a co nno isseur- and anyway to ured the pi cturega lleries o f Europe fo r two years- used to buy pictures for her, as may be seen in the lettcr which Melba wrote to him, and which Mrs. McCo rmick has given us for the Wa lpole Collection. Holograph letters of D ame Nellie Melba must be very rare indeed.
H. B. McCormick, distinguished soldier a nd true ad ve nturer, was born in 1866 at Ballarat, and died at the age of 92 this summer a t his home near the Westgate tower. His lawye r father emigrated from Ireland a bout 1850, and established himself in practice at Geelong, where he made a considerable estate. It is more tha n likely that he came in to contact with people engaged in the famo us Tichborne case. His son H arry went to Geelong G ra mmar School- one of the leading schools of Australia- where he proved himself an all-round sportsman, not leas t as a boxer. But suspected of tuberculosis and losing
weight till he was but seven stone, he was despatched to a sheep-far m to fi nd health ; which he did, growing into a tough man of la rge size a nd fOUl'teen stone weight, and breaking in horses at 25/- a time. I well re member his tell ing me that once he drove cattle from Cloncurry in North Queensland to Sydney, a distance which looks to me on the map at least 1,000 mi les. He started with 1,500 head of cattle, a nd on the journey other droves were added, so that the total a moun ted to severa l thousands; when they reached Sydneyafter many weeks- not all the cattle bore the brands they had when they we re added to the outfit. This was in good Queen Victoria's reign, and the men were to ugh as th e country was tou gh .
.In the earl y days of the Kalgoorlic Gold Rush yo ung McCormick went prospecting; then came the Boer War and he joined the West Australian Mounted Infantry, emerging from the War as Captain and D.S,a , His service was so conspicuo lls that he was selected
as a member of the Australian Army Contingent which took part in the procession at the Coronation of Kin g Edward VII , He remain ed in England to train troops in Lancashire,
but findin g that too placid a n existence, he took himself rubber-pla nting in BUI'ma, tinmining in Sweden, mining in Turkey, and in tro pica l Africa at a spot which he was convinced
was the original Ophir-certainly he discovered an a ncient gold mine, re-opened it and unearthed a great deal of gold-for the Company employing him . The outbrea k of the 1914 War saw him back with the 6th East Lancashi res as Lieut.Colonel; and he took part in the Gallipoli la ndings ; he was awa rded a bar to the D.S.O . and the Russian Order of St. Sta nislaus, and was frequentl y Mentio ned in Despatches. Later, on his way to Egy pt to command a battalion of the 29th Division, he was to rpedoed in the troopship Cameronia; the Colonel was O.C. the 4,000 troops, and though the transport sa nk in 25 minutes, the last man entered the boats with fi ve minutes to spare;
the casualties numbered 95, but all we re caused by the explosion : McCormick remained to the last with the ship's Captain, Commander D avid Bone, now Sir David, brother of the late Sir Muirhead Bone, whose splendid folio volumes on Spain are in OUl' Walpole Collection. At the end of the War the Colonel was in some sort of control at Baghdad, 571
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where-true to his early Australian upbringing a nd cattle-droving experience- he managed to collect 640 Persian rugs, which he sold in Londo n to his great profit. Then in 1922 this soldier, miner, rough-rider, catt le drover came to Ca nterbury to settle down as a dealer in antiques. Fi rst Colonel and Mrs. McCormick lived and traded in St. Peter's Street and then (w here I first knew them) in Palace Street: henceforward for this man of vast stature and generous nature Canterbury and antiques sufficed, and the yea rs of adventure we re left for ever behind. Of course, he wo uld often talk about themfor he was a born raconteur, a richly am using talker- but was const itutionally unable to besti r himself to put anything down on paper. I used to buy things from Ilim- both sure we had got a My tens, a Rubens or a Ga in sborough, but knowing that the dealers wo uld repudiate any such lofty origin . The Colonel had no use for London Art dealers-his favourite dictum was, "If they've got it, it is: if you've got it, it isn't", a dictum one has found often enough true. Colonel McCormick did a great deal for Canterbury, though he never pushed himself into notability; the Golf Club owes itself to him, since the local people would never have go t the Scotland Hills land re leased by the War Department had not the Colonel used his friends hip with the then Mr. Atlee to effect it. But 1 shall always remember him sitting in his chair in the small (and cluttered) Palace Street shop, ready for a talk on anything from china-collecting to cattle-droving, from Art dealers to Mining companies; and not least, ghosts. For he had lived with one-and that is fact. They saw her so often that they took no notice of the young lady: she was always ascending the stairs, halting on the same step, placing a hand on the banister, and looking back. The Colonel and his wife ca lled her the "Quaker girl", for she was dressed in a grey frock a nd deep linen collar. She looked a ge ntle creature of some 17 years, and so remained, of course, though yea rs passed on while still she climbed the stairs. Nor were the McCormicks alone in seeing her. One Monday morning at 10 o'clock-an unghostJy day and time- a traveller entered the empty shop (for Mrs. McCorm ick was away and the Colonel was out a brief while). Returning to the shop, Colonel McCormick apologized, but the traveller protested he was not inconven ienced, and he had seen the yo ung lady of the house going upstairs presumably to summon father or mother. After years, the downstairs fl oor was fo und to be a mass of dry-rot; so the floor was taken up, and below was the original flagstoned floor- though one stone looked from its moulding a nd lettering to be a grave-stone on which they felt they could decipher the figure 17. From the moment her grave-stone was li fted, the gentle Quaker girl was never seen again .
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THE SCHOOL ROLL 160a-l [The account containing th is list of scho lars is headed with the date November 20t h 160] and therefore
presumab ly covers the year 1600- 01. It is to be found in the Chapter Archives VoIUl~es of'M iscellaneous Accounts, No. 41, and is in tabu lar form as given below, with "20s" the paYI~ent made to each scholar in place of the "K.S." used below. The Head master and Usher thro'ughout the year are Mr. Raven and Mr. Rogers respectively.] Walter Barnard John Cha lda m William White Robert Austen John Larckin Thomas Sellers James Bromwell Alexander Reade Thomas Osprindge William Brook Edward Monday Thomas Pilgrime John Plum ley Edwa rd Herne Richa rd Bargrave Edward Marsh Theodore Bathurst John Windebanck
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THE CANTUARIAN Christmas Thomas Furser [Fu rsar] K.S. Henry Goatlee John Lee Christopher Bo[w]man William Barton John Tradescant [John Ludd signs at Micha elmas1 Wi ll iam Hove[n]dcn William Seaman Beniamin Cock[e]ram Samuel Milles [iunior1 William Proud John Taylor [Joh n Lucid signsl John Bung[alY[Bongyl Thomas Crump(e] [Crompc] Chri stoj>hcr Wood land [John Ludd signs at Ch ri , lma,l T homas Palmer (John Ludd signs a t Christmas] Marlin Hi rst [John Ludd signs at Ladyday] .I o.hn I-layne [Haines] [John Ludd signs at Ladyday] Nicholas Claget [Claggett1 [Clegat] [John Ludd signs :1t Lad yclayl Thomas Jemmett [John Ludd signs al L1dyday] Beniamin Master Thomas Shindler Baldwin Sanford Christopher Scott [John Ludd signs] John Bargrave William Milles John Cooper William Sweeting
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BOOK REVIEWS Not Angels but Allglicalls. By The Rev. D. L. Edwards, M,A. , O.K.S. (S,C. M. Press, 128 PI', 8/6). This book sets out to explain, primarily to younger generations. the present position of the Ch urch of England both in principles and practice. It is a book both thoroughly clear and eminently readable: and deserves a wide public, for there is nothin g really like it, and it is pre-eminently suited to Undergraduates and Sixth Formers. Its main topics, after a genera l historical survey, arc: Episcopacy, what it is and means and how far it is essent ial for a Church: What is meant by the Established Church, its relations with the State, its importance to the nation, its various methods of legislation, while the question of dis-establishment is not baulked: from that the book proceeds to the problems of parish life and work, and deals at some length with the place and function of the laity ; then the author expounds the worship of the Anglican Ch urch, discussing fully the Sacraments of Baptism and Holy Commun ion, the Rite of Confirmation, and dealing with the topic of Prayer-book revision; finally he looks to the future and what the Church of England can be to other Churches and the part it can play in reu ni on with them. Clarity is the great quality of the book, but the author is not afraid to ask questions and to challenge existing conditions; and as everything is set in admirable historical perspective, the reader ca n know where he is and how he got there. Arising from this learned and complete, if abridged, survey of the Church in its history and doctrine and functioning, comes what one can but feel to be a burning conviction that the Church is- if true to its Lorda Missionary force and should be as much at home in the market-place among the bewildered and unbelieving as it is in its Sunday ministrations to the faithful. Reading the book one feels that the writer holds the same view as George McLeod when the latter wittily maintains that the Church cannot properly sing "Glory to God in the Highest" unless it is doing its first utmost to make "Glory to God in the High St." a living truth. '
TemiarJullgle. By John Sl imming, O.K .S. (John Murray, 176 pp., 18/路). This book was warmly reviewed in the Sunday Observer in August by Harold Nicolson; and its author saluted as a writer now and of the future. All the author's contemporaries at School will be glad of his success. John Slimming wasat School during the Cornwal l period, joining the Army in 1944 and demobilized four years tater. After Repertory Theatre work for three years he joined the Malayan Police in 1951""':"was wounded and spent a long time in hospital. He studied Ch inese till in 1 954 he was declared medically unfit for Colonial Police work: but he returned to Malaya as an Assistant Pro tector of Aborigines, and this book is about his job there. It is a good book; it is human and sincere. Mainly its contents are the descriptions of the lives of the Temiar, a primitive people living in isolated communities in the jungle of Kelantan. They are semi路nomadic and practise a shifting cultivation, li ving off their tapioco roots and what an imals they can trap or shoot with a blow-pipe. The author made thi s journey to discover areas under cultiv~tion and what could be done to prevent the Temiar from being disturbed or utilized by Communists bandits. He made his journey by raft and boat and on fo ot. He visited these people wherever a community existedstayed, lived, ate and slept with them in their extremely primitive long-houses: i.e. a room where all or most of a community Jive together. The result is that the reader gets a "close路up" of each community and of every individual headsman, and of many an individual Temiar. Despite the labours entailed, appalling weather. primitive food, the lack of all comfort, the writer obviously loved his job and the people, and wished he could serve them more than his means and position allowed. It is simple but lovable people he presents, and the book is good because he had them in his heart. The style is straight, clear and economic; the word-pictures of individuals and of communities are therefore as sharp and clear as are the splendid photographs with which John Slimming illustrates and enriches his book, It is an amazingly fine work, as fine as the cause which engendered it-one young white man devoting himself to the needs of bewildered primitives. One could most hope that high-up Authority would read it and would decide that the best thing that could be done for the Temiar would be to send the author back to them as their Protector-in路Chief.
The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery. (Collins, 35/-) "I also informed him", wrote Alanbrooke in his diary about Montgomery, "that I had a very high opinion of his military capabilities and an equally low one of his literary ones", adding, " H e took it wonderfully well". The publication of the Memoirs might not have made Alanbrooke change his mind about any of these remarks. Yet perhaps he was unfair. The Memoirs are readable, being written in a style as clear ~nd direct as the man himself. Nor arc they cluttered up with any form of false literary presumption,
nIE CAN 'rUAR1AN As regards the content of the boo~! it is diffic,,!-I~ to get beyond two obvious points. First, it is dear thaI
Montgol~lcry was a man of great nuhtary capablhty, self¡confidencc, drive, and energy: that his ability to
commUnicate mo~al~ to his .troops 'Yas almost unparalleled by any contemporary commander: that his unshaken.ble convIct ion of his own flghtness was usuall):' jus,lified by the event: and that we owe a greal deal to .hls conduct of the; war-s~ much, perl~aps, that It might seem ungrateful to criticise him from tbe armcha ir of pcac:c. (PartIcu larly smc:c he adm its to at least ~)J]e mistake.) Secondly, he appears egotistic, COCkSl:IfC, and d ifficult to get ~n wilh.. J;le takes no ~artlcular trouble to. avoid this impression, and sometimes seems even to glory III creating It. I do not thmk anyonc would wish to deny these points. One gets, of course, ~ c17ar and interesting picture of those campaigns in which Montgomery was concerned, together with sldeitghts on thc war as a whole. One may also become fascinated if one is that sor t of person, by the portrayal of this incisive, efficient commander wielding his powe;- sack ing this man, promo~i n g that, ,winning a battlc, 1 ~lling Eisenhower where he was wrong, and so forth . What one does not get IS a full picture of the man himself. Montgomery does not seem to want to d iscuss why he has the character that ,he has, ,T~ ue, "h e~e are memo!rs. and not an autobiography: but the character of the man (w~ether we admire or dislike 19 IS so very dlst mct in outl ine, so unmistakeable, and in some ways so ~yp l ca l , ,I hat one cannot ~el'p feelmg that at least part of the purpose of the book is to show it. It docs show It: but It docs not explalJl It. , ~orn in,to, a democratic age, d.o men o,f Ihis stamp have consciously repressed traits which in a more mdlvldua,lis!tc era (such as the Italt a~ Rena!ssance) would have flourished more widely? They seem confident to (h,e pom.t of arrogance a?out their own,Jlldgement. They have few friends of eq ual standing, and tend to restnct their personal relatJons to subo rdmales who can be driven and superiors who must be won over or ~vaded" They have rows, an~,are unorthodox. They possess drive, devot ion to duty, a high degree of talent III certam , fie lds, and the ab lltty to delegate b~th their work and their inspirat ion, They arc not given to compro!"" lsc" except un de~ sever~ pressure, wHh men of equally strong will . They are often puritanicClI, ,lIld their ch ief I?sych<,>loglcal dnve sc~ms to be powcr rather than pleasure. To me the Illost interesting pa~es are .those 111 whl?h thc auth<,>r dlscu~ses his relationships 'Yith his mother: and it is a pity, from this PDlilt of View, that he IS comparatively reticent about most of hiS other personal rela tionships, ,One wou}d ~ave predict,ed, if the newspapers had not told onc a nyway, that the Field-Marshal does not wish to retire 1I1tO obseunty. M~n of thi s type never do: either they overreach themselves and are axed or they arc elevated, or they die. H.e has not the.: disposition of an Alanbrooke who wanted nothing more after the war than, to spend qUiet days catehmg fish, nor the sensitive timing of a Churchill, who does not want to mar hl~ recor~ by hangin (? on too long. Lord Montgomery's talents in non-military fields arc not proven. H IS certam that he wliJ wa nt to usc them: and it will be interesting to sec how.
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CAMBRIDGE LETTER Dear School, The winter has a rri ved in Cambridge, a nd a ll but the hard iest !If tourists have left, <~Ilhollgh some arc not yet forgotten. The most celebrated this term wcr? three ~e':lca ns whose conv~rsa ~lo~l wa~,ovcrhear.d just outside King's gateway. " That's the Chapel" , sa id one, pOlnt mg to the Fcllo~s b.U11dlllg .. No, .th~t 5 the Chapel" said the second point ing to the Chapel itself. "No, that's the Chapel, scu d the tlllrd, pomtlng to the Dini~g Hall. They p~used for a minu~c. puzzled. ¡ ~Well.' anyway, we must hay,? seen the Chapel"; and they passed on. At the moment t~lC Kmg's Chapel 1~ bel':lg c1ean~d-an operat ion long overdue-: and is shrouded in scaffold ing. The Silver St reet bodge IS ,bemg rebUilt to a~commodale mor~ traffic. the only other change in the town which a visit~r might notice. The conslru~t l on o~ the ne~ bridge ha~ been proving annoying and dangerous for pu nt s, IIlsofar as they have been lIsed I!, the <!tscouraglllg weathel . The workmen are, however, working without a break, even on Sunda ys, so the n ver sho uld be dc,:\!" by next summer. An addition to O Ullbridge which we hope to see fai~ly soon is Churchill College, which ~ntil now has merely provided discussio n ; peop le a~e now busy a.rl?u mg over the Master before t h~ Arclll~ect I~as been chosen. The Union debate o n thiS subject was surpnsJ!lgly empty, but then the onl y thmg which will rea lly fill the Union is a humorous debate. For the visit of Jimmy Edwards the gallery was fi lled three deep, and further crowds had to be turned away. Amongst the undergraduates some d~~ im that more wor~ is being done: at this time o~ year the exa.ms. 'Ire sufficiently far ahead to induce a feel mg of present se~unty! and only the most st r~ng~w!l le.d haye retIred from Society to their books. Certainly a Blue and a Third wli.1 no longe.r do as an !deal Unlve~l~y car~er and the alternatives are a First or a Blue and a Second. Possibly resultmg from tl.l IS, the surpnsl!lg tiung is not the un iformity to which Oxford drcw attention in their .last letter, fo r there .IS plenty of vanety, but rather a lack of real individua lists. In the fashio n world, f~r msta n.ce, the pre-eJ.l1mence of the dume coat and cavalry twill trousers is disappea ring in fa.vour of a Wider va n ety of !l1ack l.ntoshes, overc0<l:ts, sllede jackets and trousers of every colour and J.l1at~n~ 1 (p~rhaps teryle~e. an~ d n p-dr;:mg ha ve somethmg to. do wit h this 1): but there is nobody outstand.lIlg I!, l.maglJ1~llJOn .or o n gmailty. The mtel.lccturals have no tllnc to be eccentric; o nly t he actors wear their haJr 111 a fr.lnge, III memory of James De,lIl . Bca~ds used, t~ be a sign of the Angry Young Man as well , but now, I tlunk , they arc mo re generally accC?pted In all st r.lt,l of society. Of the O.K.S., P. H . Moss has grown one, but F. D. Woodrow has shaved IllS o ff. What can we deduce from that 1 . Moss also has been canoeing down the Da n u~e with .R .. H . C. Symon, who is this year's Vice-Captain?f the L.M B.C. The number of O.K.S. who row IS as ta llish 109. As far as I can gather from what people ~11I admit of their sporting achievements, the oarsmen outnu mber them al l. Has the ~a m some sPcCl,al fascination, or is rowing avoided except by O.K.S., or are the non~oarsm<:n too I.azy 01. two unfit to pl,lY their favourite games? T hey may have all taken up Archery or R eal Ten.llIs (or Tiddlywlllks) and we shall hear of them next term. Meanwhile, P. J. D. Allen and P. J. van Berckel III the Jesus fi rst boat were cha~ed by D. H. Balfour, stroking Ca ius, but were themselves beaten by ~.M.B.C. Hockey s~ems to be prospenng in King's: W. N . Wenban-Smilh is Secretary and J. R. H . Pnpgle h~s been. plaYll1g regularly. .W. H. Woolston still plays hockey and rugger for Je~us, and B. D . Foord IS a lso 111 the F irst there. Occ~slOnally one sees a familiar face across the table tenllls net: A. R. Morgan has been representmg Corpus With some distinction. Of the musicians, R. L. H olford has atla ined the sta~us of a .virtuoso, and besides running the R~cord~r Society be has played at concerts and has been teachmg the I?Slr~men t loca lly. C. H. Bayston SlOgS m M. D. Deller'S Madriga l Group and is r umoured to 1?e appearmg III cab~ ret (and ~he standard of cabarct here could do with some improvement). A. G. R?blette has a lso been mvol~ed 111 a concer~ pa rty 'Yh~ entertained the inmates of the local Mental Hospital. D r. Malcolm Burgess latest ve.nture IS ~he decol for The Mayor of Casterbridge, a new opera with music by Peter Tranchell, an o ld fnend of h iS. The noteworthy occasion of this term was the first ~ppearance of J:I.M. in Camb~idge for many years. He came as Guest of Honour to a dinner for the Cambndge O .K.S. which took place !fl Jesus on November 6th. We were also pleased to welcome Dr. Budd as our other.guest. Af~er I?orl and cigars, the H.M. spoke for a short while in his inimitable fa shion: he hoped, he said, that thiS dmner would become an annual ... d . event. . . . And so another Cambridge term has come and gone. For .some It has prOVided an c.xcltmg mt.ro uCtlOI~ to University life, with its multifarious activitie;s. ~or others It has . mer~IY been .a questi on of takIn g up the reins once more whence they had been cast aSide III face of the pleaslll cs of MdY Week .. . . . . O.K.S. CANTAB.
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HOUSE PLAYS LUXMOORE HO USE The season, revived after a period of two years, bega n in traditional style with a comedy, which was M y Three Allgels by ~am and Bella Spewak. This I?lay has been very successfull y filmed with Peter Ustinov an<~ It would be .u'.lfaJr to compa re the tw.o productIons. T I~e choice of play had it s advantages , which we re a slln ple set, a II vll1g loom and an amUSlOg themc. lis lllalO disadvantage was the du llness of the sma ller parts. In these the actors had little of interest to say and nothing to do. The play ~e l l s how three convicts, who a rc serving sentences of twenty years or more, spend Christmas eve and Chn stmas day at the home ofa very poor and unsuccessful tradesman in G ui ana; how they so lvc hi s fi nancia l problems and assist his d ~m g hter in her love affairs with the a id of their past experiences and a poisonous snake called Adolphe. The play tended to drag unless the convicts themselves were on the stage. Indeed the success of the comedy was largely due to the accomplished acting of R . Rowe, convict 301 1, whose crooked transact ions provided some o f the funni est moments of the even ing, and the good support he received from A. W. Pengelly and D. W. Bristow, convict Alfred and convict J ules. Their speech was clear, their react ions quick and thcy acted with ease and confidence. S. D. H. Gleeson gave a fine performance as Ga rton Lemane, a hard and susp icious businessma n. H e spoke crisply and determined ly and convinced the audience of his power and ruthlessness. D. J. Heat h, as the daughte r's boy friend and nephew of Lemane, was handsome and relaxed. Unfortunately the dul~ness of the other parts was emphasized by inaudibilil ity. Although W. D. Pringle, the father, and M. R. HIt"St, the daughter acted well enough. they seemed to think that by tal king naturall y they could be hea rd at the back of the hal l. Perhaps this was the result of too many rehearsa ls in studies. J . R. Bretherton played the part of the mo ther keen ly but he must learn to relax and speak lip. T he cast was well supported by A. T. H irst and S. J. M . Barnetson. The play was produced by the Rt. R evd . Humphrey Beevor, whom we must thank for an enjoyable evening.
WALPOLE HOUSE Wa lpole presented the farce, [OI'e's a Lux ury by Guy Paxton and E. V. H o ile. Walpole and Mr. R . W. Harris have a long standing reputat ion for producing farces with polish and style. This was no except io n. The freshness o f the production and the qua lity of the act ing deserve full praise. Unfortunately the materi al was not wort hy of the actors' abili ty. We have met so many similar characters, d ithering scout masters and old vi llage women, and have watched similar situat ions so often. In this play, the husband flees to the country with a friend, an actor, to avoid explain ing to his wife a fal se rumour about himself and a gi rl ca lled Fritzy. In the country they fi nd that they have only a pretty maid to look after them. The a rri val of Fritzy, to see if she can help the husband out of his trouble, is quickly followed by the a rriva l of wife and son. The actor is dressed up as the maid's mother, in Charley'S Aultl style, and Fritzy is engaged immediately to the SOI1. But, of course, in the end everyone lives happily ever aft er. The play was often very funn y and we congratulate Mr. R. W. Harris on a most amusing evening. Wa lpole borrowed B. H. Stokes, M. H. and W. J. Chesshyre from the Grange to provide the women of the play. Only W. J . Chesshyre had been seen on o ur stage before but all three gave lively and natura l performances. The programme adm itted rightly that without the help of the G range, the production would not have been possible. Grange provided the girls. Of the Walpole members of the cast, R. A. Jennings was the most outstand ing. His character study of a jittery old ca mper will be remembered for yea rs. M. R . Jenner, as the fat her, was the most po lished acto r and he was at his best when deli berately overact ing. J. A. G. Man gave an assured performance :1I1c1 H. A. RlIclgmcl , the actor, made full lise of the excellent opportunities given to him .
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THE NEW BOYS' PLAY, 1958 Mi les Mallcson's adaptation of Moliere's Le Bourgeois Genii/homme, aptly called "The Prpdigious Snob", was an excellent cho ice for this yea r's new boys' play_ There has ~en correspondence In rec~nt issues of The Call1llaria,, abollt the sui tabi li ty of some Ho use plays, but this play was no t one at which high- or low-brows could cavi l. T he new boys' play must aim at giving the opportunity fo r as many new actors to appear as is feasible, and to provide entertainment for the wide range i.1l a ~cI~oo l ~ud icnce. "~hc Prodigious Snob" employed 3 1 new boys in the cast and gave a ve ry encouragmg insight mto new actmg
abil ity, and everyo ne present appea red to enjoy himself. This was the first house play to be prese nted o n the new stage, and so i~ was part icul arly intere~ ting to sec how the staging was used. The set relied o n the permanent grey curtains supplem.ented by I?lct~res and furniture which gave a ve ry satisfactory impression of a seventee~ t h century Inten~r. The . hghtlllg pl ~t was not very varied , except for the street .scene which was pl~ye~ In front of the main curtains, at:td s~ It was not possible to determine how effecti ve the permanent li ghting can be. The front of house.lIghtmg, consisting of four spotlights, because of the street scene had to be dep!oyed over t~e who le acting area, so that their rea l value was lost. Although from the fro nt of the hall thI S mattered little, from the gallery and the back of the ha ll it was hard to see any fe atures of ind ividua l fa ces. It was a pity that footlights were not used to counteract this defect. From the moment the curtains o pened it was obvious that the cost umes were to be colourful. They were excellent throughout and Mi ss Gibbs is to be congrat ulated on their variety and splendour. They did much to provide the ludicrous atmosphere of Monsieur Jou rdain's household, wit h the absurd pompoms on the lackey's uniforms and the rising su n on Jourda in's dressing gown. T he girls' costumes were delightful . The opening of the play was a litt le stat ic until Monsieur J ourdai~ (J . P. McClure) appeared. Thereafter it was refreshing in its speed and lightness. McClure had an exact ing part to play. He was on the stage for most of the time, shouldered most of the responsibi lity, and emerged at the end as a very lovable character strongly based on a successful Midland's business ma,n. T he first part of the play dea lt mainly wit h the impact of the hange rs-on of the househo ld on Jourdain hImself, the sycol?h~ nts who played .on the foibles of a " nouveau-riche". J. A. Broom as the composer, played apt ly o n vIrginals accompanylllg A. J, Blake, a pure-toned , singing boy. Jourdain was taken through danci ng, fencing and ph ilosophy lessons wit h most amllsin g speed and resuits until the time ca me fO,r a new cost~me to b~ fitted. It was at thi s poi nt that I regretted not seeing and hearing more of R. L. TlImuss, the tailo r's a~slsta nt, who h~d o ne of the clearest and best voices in the cast, but who was on the stage o nly for a few mlllu tcs. The main female character Madame Jo urdain R. J, R. M. Henderson, was outstanding at showing her contempt for Jordai n's idi ~syncracies and sho~ed good potentialities as an actor. He was o ne of the few characters in the cast who used their eyes at all ; it was a pity that the ,others looked down at their feet fo r much of the time. The exceptions were Henderson as Madame Jourdain " M : ~. Scofield, who played ~ount Dorante very confidently, C. R. Davies, who gave ~ very fresh and uninhibited l?Cr~ormance as Nicole, Mada.me Jourdain's maid , and J . H. Hardy, whose height a!ld presence g~ve a ,ver!, dlgl1lfied an~1 haughty pr~entat,lon of the Marchioness Dorlinene, The final deceptlon of Jourda lll wit h Its accompanllnent of danCing-girls, Turks and Dervishes was one of the funni est scenes in a house play that I have seen. The swirling dancers, t he cacophonolls noises a nd the absurd ity of the newly created Turkish nobleman , made a fitting climax to a good even ing's enterta inment. It was the fault of the play that thereafter the ending was weak, and that some of the text seemed out of tasle a nd even dated in its use of colloq uial isms. The genera l verdict, however, was that this was a product ion well up to the standa rd set by o thers in the Chapter House, and the producer, Mr. Berridge, and the cast are to be congratu lated most warmly on its livel iness, freshness and charm . D.R.L.
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THE SCHOOL CONCERT No o ne could acc use the musicia ns responsible for the arrangement of the music of the end-of-term concert of a lack of care in building their va rious items into a coherent and attracti ve programme in which a ll tastes were catered for and Milita ry Band, Orchestra, and Choral Society were all given a fall' share. Very properly Bach's Chris/Illas Oratorio was reserved to the last and occupied the whole of the second half, the fi rst half of the evening working up nicely to the great climax of its open ing chorus. The three items of the Military Band were a small scale opening march (wi th a fin e tune for the clarinets) by Louis Ganne, a Sulli van selection (which not only gave the solo trombon~ and other IIlstrumentahsts a cha nce to show what they could do, but irresistibl y conjured up warm and sunny memones of the Leas at Folkestone in midsummer and the bandstand in action) and the celebrated Patineurs wa ltz of Waldteufel thrown in at the end for good measure. Mr. John Baco n deserves to be congratulated for his wo rk with this department of school music. T he battery of horns and trombones behind and the impress ive array of ~Iarinets and woodwind in fro nt not only looked well, but played wella good deal better III fact than at the summer concert on the lawn outside, a nd th is is a good omen for the future. The Orchestra with Mr. Sugden as its most efficient leader and Mr. Baco n at the conductor's desk began with an allegro from Mozart's th ird violin concerto, in which the solo part complete with cadenza was adm irably played from memory by Timothy Good. His performance received a great ovation fro m the a udience, and made one look forwa rd in imag ination to the day when this promising artist tackles one of the great classical concertos by Brahms or Beethoven. Not the least staggering thing abo ut these concerts is the way in which brilliant solo talent is continually ava ila ble from the ranks of the school itse lf. Last term a fine performance of the Elgar cello concerto by Roger Lunn, and now a violinist of outstandin g ability for his age, ca uses one to wo nder whether King's is uni q ue, or whether the same kind of talent is being nurtured in other public schools. The suite of four pieces from Walton's Facade which gave the percussion department a chance to show what could be done, as well as the muted trumpets, led onto the evergreen Nicolai overture The Merry Wives of Windsor with its breezy vul garity and sonorous orchestrat ion, brass big drum and cymbals bringing the first half to a rousing end. ' A few minutes interval for assembling the Cho ra l Society, seatin g Mr. Edred Wright on a rostrum from which he could control his fo rces a nd getting Mr. Lawrence on to the bench of the M ander chamber orga n, bro ught the musica l high-l ight of the even ing in the shape of a generous selecti on from the two open ing parts of the Christmas Oratorio, with a chamber orchestra of proper proporti ons, complete wi th full wind three trumpets a nd timpani as well as strings to play the exacting orchestra l part. ' One would have liked to have heard the two parts in their enti rety with no cuts in the Pastoral Symphony and all the arias give n in full, but perha ps this was too much to ask and certainly the best numbers were give n d ue a ttention , (th o ugh one listener was puzzled by the ommission of the final bass recitative and choral of Part J t, surely not so diffieult as all that). Allowing for the somewhat muffling effect of the handsome sta ge curta ins the Choral Society did well in the glorious openin g chor us with its exciting first pages ... . thundering drums, fanfares of trumpets, swirling strings and great unison entries for the cho rus to 581
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proclaim the joy of the Christian at the Saviour's birth. The chorales mainly were very restrained and the lo vely passages for drums and trumpets sounded well in Ait dearest Jesus in co nsequence, whi le it was a happy inspiration to sing the later version o~ the same tune Within yon gloomy manger unaccompanied. As was to be expected Mr. Bra In Arno ld sa ng the high part of the tenor Evangel ist wit h a ll his usua.' co mpete nce and fl~ ency, apd the trebles made so mething very charming of the alto a n a Prepare thyself ZiOll, which always seems to come off better with boys' voices than with the contralto ror which Bach wrote. Less successful was the device of assignmg the bass recitatIOn m For liS to earlh to massed voices instead or a solo vo ice, the effect being somewhat blurred (though the wind playing in this number was excellent). On the other hand th e tenors and basses gave a most vigorous rende rin g of Mighty Lord wh ich did come off, and Mr. Joseph Dudley with the strin gs and flutes in attendance provIded a rouslIlg trumpet ~b lJ ~ato, .t~uchll1 g his high D with great aplo mb. The great ange lic chorus Clory to Cod with Its bl'l lhant web or co unterpoin t and its pu lsing orchestra l part brought the selection to a fine end a nd the chOi r d id well in th is most d iffic ult num ber which keeps th e whole ran ge or vO ices and mstruments on the move wit ho ut respite rrom the first note to the last. A word or appro val of Mr. Edred Wrioht's ar rangement or the National Anthem with brass fanrares in the manner of J. S. Bac h himself may well conclude this appraisal of a fine evening's music making, wh ich refl ected great ~redit on those responsible for the trainin g of voices and instrument' alists, as we i! as on the performers themselves. D . I NGRAM HILL.
THE MUSIC CIRCLE OCTOBER 19TH, 1958 The first concert of the term was given in the Music ,Room to a large and di~til1guished audience; the front row being occupied by the Head master a nd Mrs. Shirley, the Dea n of Wcstnllnster and the Archdeacon of Ca nterbury. Undeterred by this formid able but appreciat ive concentration of Canons the perform~rs, for the most part, gave a very good account of themselves, Batchelor a ll ~1 Soar were clearly a pracused com bination on two pianos: the movement from Ravel's Molher Goose SUite and the A rensky Waltz were no table for good rhyt hm and sympathet ic accompaniment. A voca l quartet (Broom, Hammersley, Polglasc and Varcoe) contribu ted two groups of songs, a ll of which gaye gr~at plea.sure. The songs by E. J. M,o~fim (?'lIe Jolly CarIeI' and Sprillg, Ihe Sweet Sprillg) were espccla l!y Interestmg and tl~e final negro spm Luul SUllu1i1l ill de lIeed of prayer was deservedly encored. H w~s part~c~larJy pleas~nt to listen to these four wellmatched voices, and Po lglase is to be congratu la ted on hiS sensitive leadership. Two new boys- A. Maries and S. R. Davies- gave a .very pr?11lising per~orman~e of some ~usic by Tanini and Handel arranged for cla rinet and piano. Thei r phrasmg a nd mUSICianship were ad ll111'able, as also were those of two other newcomers- J. A. Broom and A. J. Blake-who played a flute duct by T homas Morley with considerab le ski ll. The outlook for the woodw ind depa rtment seems "set fair" ! The G minor Ballade of Cho pin is piano music of the vir tuoso class, and Sulli va n's approach t.o it- no score, no over peda lling, and 110 excessive " ruba to" (such as one often hears)-w~s clearly the n ght one. Unfortunately, his memory forsook him halfway through, and the gre~t techillca l dlfficulLles o f the workwhich he had previously overcome remarkably well- now overcame 111m. Finally, a piano T rio of experienced veterans (Sa lmo n, Polglase ~ nd Se~ma n) ~Iayed composi.t ions by Loeiliet , Gurlill, and an arnlllgement of the song ca lled The p ove. ThiS was light mUSIC, and though mtended to be played and enjoyed (as it was) in a carefree, unrestramed mal1l~er. that doc~ not excuse one C;lr two avoidable lapses in intonation and allention to detail! However, thiS ensemble IS a good one, which we should like to hea r <lgain, Our thanks are due to the very efficient o rga nizi ng secretaries (Selman and Sa lmon) for a most enjoya ble even in g's Illusic.
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THE CANTUARIAN NOVEMBER 9TH, 1958 The second concert of the Christmas term was notable for the (lInoun t of contemporary music heard at it, which showed enterprise o n the part o f both the organizers and performers. Perhaps the most interest ing and enjoya ble of these contemporary items was a sex tet movement by Poulenc for pian o (Mr. SCOll), flute (Parry), oboe (Po lmear), clarinet (B. H. Guard), horn ( K. Maries), and bassoon (Brethert on) . T he music was fa intl y rem iniscent of Del ius in places, especially in the cho rdin g o f the slow passages, and the whole effect was o ne of musical sincerity, most ably conveyed by the six art ists. Another interest ing modern work was a T rio by Mi lhand, performed by Guard (clarinet), Sa lmon (vio lin) and Polgl ase (piano). The idiom here was more superficial than in the Pou lenc, but the spirit of the light-hearted final e was splend idl y caught and maintained by all three players. Peter Warlock's delightful Ca prio l Suite was well-known to most of the aud ience, and though the arrangement for two pianos inevitably loses some o f the exci tement of the origi nal version, Lane and Carrington (who had the unenviable task of opening the programme) were clearly in harmo ny with the music's intentions, if not always with each other. Another Trio of unusual kind wa s that by Diabelli: for gu itar, flute and viola. We are indebted to Mr. Dickson, who played the gu itar, for spending much of his va luable time rehearsing with Dibley (flute) and Hammersley (viola), and encouraging them to perform this work, the apparent simplicity of which beguiled the difficulty of exposed scori ng and repetitive melody; the resu lt was very well worth the effort. The remainder of the items of the programme were duets of va rious kinds. Mr. Goodes and Mr. Law rence obliged at very short no tice, and played with their usua l skill, in arrangements fo r two pianos of some solid and robust music by Buxtehude and Handel. K. Maries and Westrup played two sho rt pieces for horn and piano by G luck and Mozart with grea t ability; here are two new musicians whom the school is fortun ate and del ighted to have. And finall y H, K. Bray and D. H, B. Chesshyre demonstrated the mellifluous tonequalit y of two un accompanied clarinets in duos by Gebauer.
J.G.S. DECEMBER 6TH, 1958 The Music Ci rcle Concerts have become so popular that the Music School ca n no longer provide sufficient room fo r the audiences. The last of this term's concerts was held in the G reat Hall on Sat urday, December 6t h, and once aga in an exceptionally talentcd and varied programme was presented. The second orchestra under Mr. Sugden and led by P. Consterd ine began with the Adam Carse Suite Georgiall TUlles. After the first three movements, the Larghetto from Mozart's Piano Concerto in D maj o r (K 537), with S. R. Davies as the soloist, was played, and then the last th ree movements o f the Ca rse Suite fi nished this sect ion. The orchestra played and accompa nied well, though there was some unrhythmica l string pla ying and some uncertain intonation in the Mozart. The ho rnpipe seemed to lack bite and energy; but there was some good horn playing, and generally the orchestra was well-drilled as a body. The pianist S. R. Davies, played sensitively and cou ld have a good future. I suppose it was inevitable when the School Glee Club started the second part that one should have thought back to the memorable concert given by the Yale G lee Club. I hope it is not patronising to say that the School Club ca me out well in the comparison. There was good cont rast in the items, ranging from Franz Abt to Elgar, Bant ock and Genee. The club was well-disciplined and surprisingly mature, though the bass line in the Bantock arrangements of the Negro spiritu als was weak. J. B. Batchelor, the soloist in these, has an excellent baritone voice and is to be congratulated o n the purity of his vowels. It was noticeable that the attention the cho ir paid to final consonants paid good dividends in the Hall. Signor Ro berto Scotto reminisced extremely well in Gence's lIaliall Salad, in the sty le of Mr. Box- o r was it Mr. Cox? Mr. Wright can be deservedly proud of this club which so obviously enjoys singing under him . The parts of the Music C ircle Concert which will always Slick in the mind of your critic when he is " down under", wi ll be the sect ions played by the Chamber Orchest ra . Without any doubt this selected orchestra of masters and boys d~erves a much wider audience. The strings are always a pleasure to hea r, and qu ite outside the run of school ensembles. The Corelli Concerto Grosso No. I in D major, the oboe Concerto in C minor by Pergo lesi when J. Polmear was the solo ist, and Benjamin Britten's Simple Symphony /01' Strings was an a mbitious programme. Polmear, playing a tricky concerto, had a good, rich tone, though at times he was a little weak in volume, The Britten Symphony was very interesting; the Sentimental Sarabande and the Frolicsome Finale were especiall y well sui ted to the o rches tra, and were enjoyed as much by the audience as the players. Mr. Goodes conducted a well rehearsed and excitin gly-d isci plined body of players.
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listene rs, and even from the performers. Pe rhaps because the performers were ~1flng. the play mg ~as lackl1~g in vnricty and shade, such as we had heard earlier in the evening, a nd the, chOir was swa mpe~ qUIte, a lot In the first c horale. The Sleepers Wake ! cho rale sung by the three tenors with very fresh, pleas11lg vOices was followed by the fina l chorale when there was a belle r balance. The idea of the Ca nt ata Group is adventurous, bu t the use by it of three chorales abst racted from.a work purposely designed to have va riety, is debateable. The th.ree chora les taken by .themselves, espec.laJly at Ihe e nd of the concert see med inconclusive and unsa tisfYll1g. I hope Seaman Will grow out of hiS fu ssy mannerisms in con ducting wh ich appeared unnecessa ry with Ihe quite exper ienced people in the group . To the onlooker perhaps the mosl pleas ing aspect' of the Mus~c Circle .Concerts is their corporate good na turedness, and the way the performers enjoy themselves . ft IS re.vealmg to see the conductors of t~e var ious sect ions taking their places as performers in the. other sec! lons. The 'per~ormers all pl.ace thei r abil ities in a common cause, and the result is much a ppreciated. Whlle.the Musl': Circle expa nds!11 adyen Il1rous a nd worthwhile directions, the music in the school as a whole Will always Improvc. The Circle IS to bc congratulated warmly on this concert.
D.R.L.
THE SCHOOL CHOIR At the beginning of every school year the choir has to be virtually reformed owin g to breaking voices and the la rge number of leavers at the end of the Summer term. Th is year was no exception and in order to build up the number pf ,?embers aga in , especially the trebles, i I was decided to give all the new boys and severa l old members a vOice test. After working solidl y throughout the afternoons of the fi rst fou r days of term, Mr. Wright tested well over a hundred boys a nd as a result he was able to discover the musica l ab ilities of all the new boys a nd pick the many be tter voices, for the choi r. With on ly two rehearsals, the newly formed choir, again over ninety strong, performed the two Vaughan Wi lliams a nthems 0 clap yOllr hal/ds and 0 taste alld see on the first Sunday of term. From these o ne could tell that the choir would soon be liP to the hi gh standa rd set last term. On October 5th, we sa ng the Russian Contak ion of the faithfu l departed, in memory o f the Ri gh t R everend
G. K.A.Beli. Our reperto ire continues to grow. The new anthems sung this term were Rejoice ill Ihe Lord alway by Redford, Alld Ihe Glory of the Lord from Handel's Messiah a nd Blessed are rhe men who fear hlll1 from Mendelssohn's Elijah. At the time of going to press, we are practising hard for the Carol Service. F inally, we are very sorry to be losing Mr. Lawrence, to whom as with all the School's music nct ivit ies we owe a great debt.
ANTHEMS SUNG THIS TERM I heard a voice (Goss)
o clap your hands (Vaughan Williams) o Taste and see (Vaughan Williams)
Let all the world (Chapmall) I will lift up mine eyes (Walker) Turn back 0 Man (arr. Holst) Turn they face from my sins (AltlVood) Blessed a re the men who fear him (Mendelssohn) Rejoice in the Lord alway (Redford) And the Glory of the Lord (Halldel) o praise the Lord (Dyson)
The Russian Contakion (arr. Parralt) Praise to God (Campbelf) ThOll Visitest the Earth (Greene) How bea utiful upon the mount ains (Stailler) Jesu word of God (Mozart) Dlessed be the God a nd Father (WeJfey) Hol y, Holy. Holy (Gl'efchallinotT)
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THE SOCIETIES Ttm PATER SOCIETy.- On Sat urday, September 27th, Mr. M. McCrum, Fellow of Corpus Ch risti Co llege Collnbridge, showed us some colour slides taken on a ho liday in Greecc. The pictures were of s uperb photogr:lphic qua lity, a nd were of particular intercst to those of us who went to G reece I;lst E<tster holidays. The most vivid were of the Aegean islands, which none of us Imd visi ted. Mr. Kent and the secret<try a lso showed slides of Athens a nd the Peloponnese. On Saturday, November 15th , Mr. I. N. Wilkinson gave a paper e nt itled "Communica tion Theo ry" , H e provided cxt remcly entertaining introduction to th is subject of which many o f us had not even heme!. He illustra ted his talk with an amusing series of diagrams. We wish to ex tend our thanks to these lecturers, for two rea lly first-rate talks, an d also 10 the president, for refreshments a nd the comfort of his rool11 . Next term wc hope to see the production of a Greek play in Cambridge.
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A.O.S.D. THE CAXTON SOCIETY.- The society has taken fu ll adva ntage of its now watertight room, and hav ing acqu ired a new foun t o f ten point Times, has undertaken more than the average num ber of jobs this term . Indeed business has been so grea t that we ha ve been able to accept on ly the most important work, members having as usual considerab le demands made on their time-much of which, in fact , has to be spent in overcom ing the deficiencies of our by now venerable machines. Owing to the reinst itution of H ouse PI;:IYs, the Society will have produced fi ve large programmes in five consecut ive weeks. Moreover, the Society h<ls produced two types of Christmas cards in very considerable numbers, a nd has again printed a four-colour menu card for the end of term dinner. As is usual at the beginning of the year, about it th ird of our members arc new, but are learn ing the basic ski lls rapidly, a lthough we have greatly missed the invaluable help of Mr. W. E, Peelt, who unfortunately has been ill for part of the term. B ut we are indeed grateful for his assista nce when he has been able to attend meetings ,
J.B.P. THE MADRIGAL SOCIETy.-The Ch ristmas term a lways secms to be one of little activi ty where the Madrig;'11 Society is concerned. Nevertheless, we have mct rcgula rly every week and attendances have been very good. Our only cha nce of exhibiting our lalent to anyone but ourselves wi ll be <tlthe Carol Service in the Ca thedral, when we shall sing two contrasting ca rol s. We welcomed three newcomers to the trebl e line this term : C. R. Davies, S. R. Da vies all d P. J. I). Wachsman. M. J. Pollack rejoined us on the alt o line and.B. S. Guard on the tenor. J. P. Varcoe a nd A. T. Selman , valiant supporters of the alto line for so long have now joined the basses. The society has numbered twenty six at rehearsa ls, a nd we shall need the la rge numbers next term, when we give our a nnual performance of Wood's Passioll accordillg 10 SI. Mark. As ever, a ll thanks fo r a successfu l term's work, go to our conductor, Mr. E. Wright. J.P .
T I¡IE MARLOWE SOCIETy.- At our fi rst meeting, on Tuesday, the 4th of November, J. R. C. Wright gave a very clear <lccount of the problems involved in Apartheid; he told us, briefly, the history of white civilisation in South Africa. He then argued that if ilpa rt heid were not carried out , a revolt of the blacks would be inevitable; but apartheid might allow both blacks and whites to develop thei r resources and opportun ities. He dealt with both su pporters and oppone nts of apartheid. The discllssio n was thorough, and turned chiefly o n pract ical issues and the present situation. For our second meeting, on Saturday, November 15th, we were very kindly invited by Mr. J. E. A, Havard to his house. The paper was by G. S. Brock, and W;.IS entitled "A brief survey of the universe". Brock first gave us an idea of what there is in the universe, and then tmced out how slars evolve in the course o f time. F inally he gave liS nine theories of the origin of the solar system, and knocked down a ll but one o f these. The scientific interest shown by the audience was e ncouraging for a society whose members a re largely drawn from the arts side. On November 22nd we hea rd a paper by W. A, I-lodges, on "St. Pau l". He olltli ned the si tuation that S1. Pau l found himself in , and the course o f his travels. Then he tried to cla ri fy SI. Paul 's teaching. Finally he recommended that more notice should be taken of what SI. Pa ul says about the Secon d Coming a nd the
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W.A.H.
THE H ARVEY SOCII:.l 'y,- The Society first met on October 8t h, to hear Sir Alcx.m~e.r Gal!owar of RiclH~rd Coslain, Ud., give a short entertaining and instruct ive ta lk, and present a film on cIvil cngmccfmg, showmg how open that career is to a public schoolboy. This was followed on 9ctob~r 23~d •. by a lect ure on th,c "Cathode Ray Ossciloscopc" by R . W. Houghton who demonstrated Its ~a~lc.'pnn.clplcs, lI~c. <~nd .a~p li cations. On November J 3th, W. A. Hodges gave a paper on "Genera l Rela~l v lty WhiCh, by d l~ I~lI1g I ~ I.nto four specilll pa rts and llsi ng no mathematics more advanced than Pythag~ras Theorem, he made It lI}telll glble to everyone present. O. S. Brock foll owed this 011 November ~7 th ".¥lt h a lecture on the t hc:o ne~ of the "Evolution of the Ea rt h" d iscussing its origin ,md demonstratmg with a football and peas Its Size and position in the Universe. Thirty senior members of the Society, accomp<U1 ied by Mr. N. H. Scott, went on the annual o utin g on October 15t h to Shell Lodge at Teddington. The employees of the Shell Petroleum Company go there to take courses in the industry and as such it is wonderfull y equipped to dem.onstrat 7 any aspect, from ~rc Iiminary prospecting to the refi nemen t of crude oil. Th7 pa rty s~nt an mterestl.ng after,:!oon watchmg films and demonstrat ions and being conducted around their substantJal museum endmg up Wi th an excellent tea at the lodge for which we were all most grateful. We hope to arrange for a visit elsewhere loca ll y for those junior members whose attendance at lectures has been so excellent. .
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T HE SOMNER SOCIETV.- On October the 19th, J. R. C: Wright l?ave an erudit'? ~nd a.t the same time c.lear out line of Minoan Civil isation. A lthough he confi ned himself mam ly to the p~htJcal hls~ory, he emphaSised both the problems and potent ial ities of ar~haeological research .. Mr. J. B. ~ l lson earr~e.d the Greek. story furthe r in an unorthodox paper on claSS ica l Greek art, stressmg economic and political cau~s lather than the widely held aesthet ic considerations. He gave a useful new approach to a well worn subJect. On November 12th Mr. E. Samuel gave an excellent and well illustrated pa~r on Gothic architecture. I-Ie related the buildings to their periods and showed how they reflected the Splflt of the age. F ina lly Dr. Urry lectured on ~illiam So!~mer,. O.K.S. with all the \lecessa ry manu~cripts at ,h,md in. t!le Cat hedra l library. Besides the hi ghly atlracl! ve plct u.re of S~m,:!er which emcrged, 01. Urry g<\Vc a b!O<I.d outline of the who le period ena bling one to relate him to hiS t.llnes and 1II.1 dcrstand bo.th morc full y. ThiS was perhaps the highlight of the term cont ain ing mu~h unpu.bilshed m~tenaJ. The Soclet~ was al~o shown many of the treasures of the library and a sma ll but IIlterestmg collectio n of shoes of va nous pe n ods. The outing took us Ihi s term to Faversham, where we were very kind ly conduct~d aroun~ by Mr. ~. Wilson We exam ined the charters dating from 1290 granted to the town throughout ItS long 11Istory. ThiS was a ~pecia l privilege as these are not normally. on pub lic view. We also admi red the church .and the architectural gems of Abbey Street. We should li ke to express ou r deepest thanks to Mr. S. Wilson for giving up so much time to make the vis it worthwh ile.
T.J .S.
THE GLEE CLUIl.- My prcdecessor in his last note~ exp ressed the wish thut we should encourage new blood, and we have complied wi th his reques t by a~dll,!g to our number three n.ew al.los, R. K.~. Hal sey, R . S. Mo rris and W. J. Chesshyre. Our weakest Ime IS now the second ba~s Ime, Since anothe! mem~er of the Chesshyre famil y is taking a scholarsh ip; we sincerely hope that he wil l return to us, complete wit h scholarship, next term. Our programme th is term is necessarily a short o ne, in order to restrict th~ Music Circle Concert to a workable length. We are doing five items, Elga r's As torrelllS b~ Slimmer, u gC!1ullle Glee" Wlle!1 tile SwallolVs, by Franz Abt, two Negro Spirituals, and it burlesque, the Ita/tan Salad by Richard Genee, with R. P. Scott, Esq., as tenor so lo. This programme has yet to be performed on Dccemb~~ the 6th, and we hope by then to know the programme by heart, which L want to make a G lee C lub trad ition . We would like to thank R. K. Woodma n, whom we arc losing th is term, for his 10l1 g and act ive member· ship . J.B.B.
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THE CANTUARIAN THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.- The Society extends its thanks to B. D. Foord for his energies as Hon. Secretary for the past two years. It was with great regret that the Society learnt that Mr. J. A. Kent, our President since 1955, was leaving at the end of the term. The Society takes this opportuni ty to thank him fo r his constant ass istance for so many years. Mr. J. E. A. Havard has kindly agreed to accept the office of President next term. We welcome Mr. D. E. Pomeroy as Vice·Prcsident. It has become increasingly apparent throughout the term that en thusiasm for photography is very much alive in the schoo l, particularly among the younger members. We have attempted to maintain a programme of a meet ing every week, which to date has proved both possible and successful. After an early business meeting, we had a most interesting evening in Mr. Wi lkinson's room, discussing the relative merits of members' colour transparencies. Demonstrations and instruction for new members have been a feature of this term's work- "Tank-deve!oping" a film and "Enlarging" have so far been demonstrated by the Hon. Secretary. A most instructive lecture on "Taking Portraits" was given by J. B. Boulton, Esq., accom· panied by a demonst rat ion of necessary equipment to suit the amateur's pocket. Two local outings took place during the term- the firs t, in conjunction with the Natural H istory Society, to an entertaining colour slide lect ure abollt "Crossing the Antartic" by the New Zeala nd explorer, George Lowe; the second , following an invitation from the Canterbury Ca mera Club, to an unusua l lecture entitled " High Fidelity in Sound and Co lour" at the Slater Ha ll. To complete the account of a very active term, Mr. M. D. Ham's comprehensive film·strip lecture- "Tracing Troubles in Negatives"- must be included. P.J.B.O. THE WALPOLE SOClETY.-The Society continued its activities this term under the presidency of Mr. Meredith. At a meeting at the beginning of the term the posts of Honorary Secretary and Honorary Treasurer were allotted to W. 1. Chesshyre and M. W. Lee respectively. Eight new members were elected from a large number of applicants, and it was agreed that the Society should join the Bri tish Drama League. During the term we have read a play by Jean Anouilh, Th e Strong are Lonely by E. Hochwaelder, The Potting Shed by G raham Greene, and we have yet to read T. S. El iot's The Cocktail Party. We are looking forward to hearing in the ncar future a paper on modern drama, wh ich Mr. Owen has ki nd ly consented to read , with special reference to the above mentioned plays.
W.J.C. THE BELLRINGING SOCIETY.- This term has been one of perseverance and success towards most of the society's act ivities, and the standard of ringing has shown itself to be definitely on the incline. The main item of importance at the beginning of the term was the society outing. This took the form of a "mystery tour", and this novel idea of finding out the dest inations at the actual time of arrival thereof proved highly sllccessful. The day co mmenced with an hour of ringing at Saltwood; then a short run to Burmarsh, where we were greeted by some members of the local band. Next an excellent lunch was eaten at New Romney, wh ich fortified us before doing battle with the rOllgh ring in the detached campa nile at Brookland. Warehorne bells go well, and are easy to ring, but our fea rs were aga in justified on arrival at Ruckinge to find springy ropes and a long rope-draught. The next tower, Aldington, proved to contai n the best bells of the day, and we wish we could have spent longer here. A short journey took us to the grounds of Aldcrgate, where a hungry company sat down to a magnificent spread, and a demonstration of handbell ringing also proved a popular diversion. We arrived a little late at Lympne, the last tower of the day, and found that the bells are rung from the chancel steps. The vicar joined us, and pointed out features of interest in the fi ne Norman church. At the business meeti ng, held in the midd le of the term, all old officers were re-elected and three new mem· bers were elected into the society. The annua l general meet ing of the C<tnterbury district of the Kent County Associat ion of Change Ringers, held this year at Canterbury, gave members a chance of ringing at SI. Dunstan's and St. Stephen's churches wi th more experienced ringers. On October 9th, a ha lf·mumed quarter-peal was attempted in memory of the Rt. Revd. G. K. Bell, who was interred the previous Tuesday in the Cathedral. It was duly run g wi th the help of three local ringers, but afterwards found to be fal se, and could not be claimed as such.
N.J.D. Tim NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.- On October I tth the secretary gave a lecture on Flamingoes. He began by giving a general account of the species of F lamingoes and of the general features and distribution of those species. He then gave a fuller account of the Common Flamingo and the lesser F lamingo, wh ieh are both found in parts of Europe, Asia and Africa. He tried to give an impression of the vast numbers of lesser F lamingoes found on some of the soda lakes in East Africa at certa in seasons, and he produced (l.
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THE CANTUARIAN highly speculative theory which attempted to ~xp lain why the Lesser F lamingoes were numero'-!s on t~ cs~ lakes. After the lect ure the members of the Society mct Mr. Pome roy. who has taken ove r the Ornithologists
section from the President. On Novembe r 15th, S. R. St. J. Neill gave a lectu re on " The Beginnings of M icroscopy.". He graphica lly o utlined the lives and work of the morc significant microscopists of the past. By arrangmg the laboratory microscopes suitab ly we were able to see what the early microscopists saw, and how they saw it. Those who ca me enjoyed an interesting and well illustrated lecture. Those interested in birds were very glad to welcome Mr. Pomeroy as the leader of the Ornithological Sect ion . On November 17th Mr. Po meroy outlined some methods of trapping birds fo r ringi ng, and the Society hopes to put this into pract ice in the ncar fu ture. On the 19t h of November a film on the Swa llowtai l Butterfly was shown . The colo ur photography in the film was very impressi ve and we were able to follow every stage in the life h.istory of tl~e butterfl y. .Ingenious photography enabled us to see in vivid detail such processes as the h~tchln g, moultmg and fe~d mg of t!le ca terpilla r, the fo rmation o r a chrysa lis by the cater pill ar and the emerglllg of the butterfl y from lis chrysa lis. The Society i~ ve ry grate rul to Si r O. De Ha villnnd ror lend ing the film, M.J .A.S.
C.C.F. NOTES T HE ARMY While the routine training of the sections has gone on in much the usual way, with the !ll inimu'!l. of interference from the weather for which we are gra teful , a good dea l of thought has been put mto devlsmg means of making that training more attractive, and stimulat in g it by any poss ible mea ns. As a result of a most useful Platoon Commanders' conference, the programme has been somewhat re-ammged to cut down time spent in moving from place to place. This m~ans. that a bout one in four parades¡ can be done in " mufti" and the sta nda rd of turn-ou t of the ot hers IS stimu lated by the return of the Platoon Cup. Moreover 'N.C.O's arc making themselves mas ter of one subject, or pcrhaps two, and move around the platoons of their company instructing in that subject. Af!d fi nally, I have decided, w!th the, Headm.aster's agreement, to present a House Cup, to be co m pe t e~1 for III the Easter term ; the s ubJ ec~ wil l be dnll and pcrhaps minor tactics, and the numbers to take part III each H ouse Pla toon Will be detennllled as follows:a A ll in the H ouse old enough to be in the Co r p~ b less those medically unfit less those already in the R .N. o r H. .A.F. sec tions less 20%
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x This is to a llow the house in which few have "opted out" of the Corps, to shed some of its less efficient members from its H ouse Platoon while ot hers will not be able to do so. 11 is intended to hold the compet it ion in place of the Easter term field 'day, when the weather is rarely su itable for field exercises. We ran our F ield D ay in October ourselves, as neither the Buffs n ~r the. Marines .were able to help, ~n~ a successful practice of minor tactics took place on the Scotland Hills, with the Signal Plato?n provldmg quite good communications. The Certi ficate "A" Part IT platoons had a very profitable day with the Bllffs. rrom which they benefited in the exa min atio n. The Army and Basic Sect ions a re going to .be badly hit by the loss a ll a t o nce o r Major Lawrence, ~vho has been my second-in-command for a long tllne, and Mr. Kent and Mr. Owen ~ both of wh o~ have. glve.n invaluable help with tra ining. We arc most gratefu l to all of them , and they will be grea tly missed III thIS "cHvit)' as in others.
tHE CANTUARtAN . We arc startin~ it First Aid course among those \~ho have passed Certificate " A" pa rt 11, next term , and the Easter ho hdays 1 hope to take a party camping, on Outward Bound Lines, perhaps in Wales. Wc have already as many names as we can cope with. Proll~otions.-The following were promoted on 20th September, 1958 to the ranks stated :- C.M.S.s: P. J . D. Gralllger, M . R. Jenner, H. K. Dray. Sgts: C. R. Brown, T, J. Stevens, H . L. Foster, D. L. K . Brownc, P. H. H olmes-Johnson, W. J. R. Blakeney, J. Stockda le, M. D. H am, R . F. L. Wood . L/Sgts : M. E. BillinghUf.St, F. A. Rockley, P. H. Gordon , G. D. O'Clee, C. A. Rntcliff, D. K. Thorpe, R. K. Woodman , J. R. C. Wn~ht, M. A. L. B~tc!lelor, C. J. M~lf~rd, T. D. A. Veitch, H . J. Rawlinson. Cpls: W. A. H odges, M. J. RobJn~on, K. R. Wllk llls, J. E. T. Wlldlllg, J . W, Prickett. L/Cpls: D. R. S. Anderson, R. H. Browning, M. Elhott. Certificate "A".- On December 2nd, 1958, the foll owing passed, out of 56 who completed the exa m :A. C. Parsons, C. K . Mor~an, A. J. Ad dis, R. Beaugie, C. D. Gwynn , R . E. T. Clark, J. B. Batchelor, A. W. Blaxland, J. A. Colligan, I. B. R. Fowl~r, J. Polglase, C. D. Powell, R. M. K. Carey, R R ainbow, C. D , Seaman, C. F. Black, J. J. R . C. H arston,D. R. C. Loadman, M. H. Schofield, T. J. Dale, M. M. Hall , R. B. Jones, J. O. Strom-Olsen, J. L. Wa lford, A. P. J. Cook, M. H . Ackland, D. A. J. Harri s, M. R . HOlle,. R. H . Turner, B. M. Whewell , P. W. F .. Browne, N . J. Davies, J. R. Dowd, J. B. Paterson, W. A. B. Wnght, G. C. Musson, D. A. Cooke, A. T. HIrSt, C. C. L. Dunn, R. A. Goodman, A. R. H , Mileson, P. Y. Sherwell. On the same day in Pa rt 1, 34 out o f 39 passed. K .A. C. G. JIl
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RO YAL NAVAL SECTIO N With around 80 cade~s, our ~aval. Section is one of the .la rgest in the country, as we ll as one of the fi rst to have been formed . . 1 he qua il~c~t l on s for entry g.row higher every term, and there is room only for the keenest a n~ most ef!iclen t boys: It IS not enough to li ke the uniform or sailing alone! Fourteen cadets spent an energetic week .m H .M.S. Vallg~ta,.d a~ Po rt s m ~uth during the summer holidays, whi le another pa rty had a week at sea III H.M.S. Po/adm, a fngat e. ThiS was an in va luable experience fo r them and we were ' gra tefu l to all concerned for the excellent arrangements made. . q ll .Field Day we vi~ited R .N. Barracks and H. M. Dockyard, Chatham, and had it IllOSt rewa rdin g d'IY. 11'<111:1Ing undertaken mcluded b.oatwo rk, a nchors and cables, firefight ing, damHge co ntro l and diving. It Will be a sad day for the SectIOn when Chat ham ceases to be a H ome Por t in 196 1. .Otherwisc, we have direct~d our effor! s towards the Proficiency Examina tions, which ha vc been remodelled with much greater cmphasls on practica l wo rk and leadersh ip. This is all to thc good. D.W.B.
ROYAL AIR FORCE SECTION TI.le major problem of th,: term has been the integration of the RA.P. Proficiency tra ining with the Army Secllon, a.nd on t~e whole, It has been .very successful even if the cadets in blue are often seen carrying the bren gun In ..,a section attack. To help 111 the ~ual p,:rsonality of the section we welcome the help of Flying Officer D. E . Pomeroy, R. A. F.V. R., who ha s Just JOliled the staff. We also have a brand new glider and any relat io n between these two arrivals is purely accidental. In the RA.F. examinations, p~ sses were obtained by Cadets Williams, Jessup and Caldwell at Adva nced leyel and.by Cadets Rodwell, Hmd ley, Muller, Seymour and Ca rden at P roficiency, the first two passing wi th credit. An excellent Field D ay was held ~t R.A. ~.â&#x20AC;˘ H aw~ illge , and many fell under the spell of rea l gliding us ~ppos~d to the breathless secon~s 111 a Primar y ghder.. Cadets Carden and Hindley have passed their mtervlews at H ornchurch for F~ymg Scholarships and WI I! train during the summer holidays. It is to be hoped that more keen cadets will make use of this wonderful o pportunity to lea rn to fly. P.G.W.
THE LIBRARY We acknowledge with gratitude gifls from the following :- The Headm<.lster, the Revd. D. L. Edwards, J. N. Stevens, A. B. Emden and P. C. V. Lawless ,
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RUGBY FOOTBALL RETROSPECT, 1958 Played 14; Won 8; Drawn 1; Lost 5 ; Points for 140; Points <1gainst 63 As only fOUf of last season's XV were available th is term, a definite policy regarding tcam building and subsequent tactics had to be formed even before the season slarted. Briefly. this policy was to lay all emphasis on speed and liveliness and not to make a ny concessions to weight. Th ings worked out as was hoped for and once aga in all six " home circuit" matches were won. T hus, in the last three seasons, 18 games have been played against our regular opponen ts, of which the last 17 have been won, with the one other game resulting in a draw. In achieving this fine record the XV have scored 261 points against 47, and the only reasonable conclusion to which these figures point is that our fix ture list should be strengthened and extended. Thanks to the very kind co-opera tion and extremely generous hospi tali ty of bo th Amplefort h and Sedbergh, the opportunity of doing just this was made possible for us. The enjoyment wh ich th is northern tour afforded those who were fortunat e enough to take part in it did much to compensa te for the disappointment at the results achieved on the field. The absence, through injury, of the regular scrum-half, together with the effects of travel and the excit ing ci rcumstances, may have accounted for a sluggish first half in the Ampleforth game which cost the match. Against Sed bergh, the xv played much better, and in spite of the heavy ground they came even nearer to winning tha n the score of 3 points to 8 suggests. Some of the other school fixtures produced exciting games, especially those aga inst a powerful Eastbourne xv and against Felsted. This season's XV was well-ba lanced with an even spread of good players, but wi th no particular great strength in a nyone department. There a re, however, severa l you ng players who give the impression that they already possess a high degrcc of potential, and who could become first-class. Of the seven outsides, six were in last summer's Cricket X l, and their sk ill in cont rol of the ball and their good sense of timing WilS well renected in their play. Full-back G. C. Pritchard is one who could perhaps develop into a fine player, though at present hi s kicking is too much one-footed and his positioning ca n sometimes be faulted. Practice is the only curc for the first of these deficiencies and further experiencc will no doubt help him to acquire a greater sense of urgency when that is ca lled for. H is placid temperamenl is well su ited to the isolation of the position and his place-kicking was usually very good, though some importa nt a nd less difficu lt kicks were missed. The three-quarters, D. G . Jones, A. C. Russell , C. R. Barber and J. L. D. Radcl iffe, all showed good speed, good handling, good understa ndi ng, and the occasiona l change of di rection which they introduced added colour to their play. Because thei r tacklin g was quick and strong their defence was good and ra rely gave much cause for anx iety. Of the five tries scored against them in the eight school matches, onl y the one scored by Amplefort h could rightly be described as a break-through. The handling and tactical kicking o r R. E. F. Minns at stand-off half was at times quite brill iant, and when he was not taking his passes stand ing stiU he got his line moving well. He had a mixed serv ice of the ball froOl his cousin and partner, W. E. J. Minns, who on the whole must be complimented for the way in which he performed in so specialised a position without hav ing had any previous experience. The pack was light and lively, and especially after W. A. T. T . Ga rel-Jones came into the side as hooker they got their share of the ball from the t ight. Their loose play was unquestionably good and the on ly way in which they may have compared ul1favourably with opposition school sides was in the line-outs, where lack of inches imposed a very great hand icap. The back row did their specialised work well with M. R . Jenner cont inually bustling the oppos ition backs and break ing up their attacks. Others who were usually prominent in the morc open phases or play were C. M. G. J. Wortley, J. C. G. Smith, M. R . Slockell and C. N. Kemp, whilst the prop forwards C. O. Rudgard and H . J. Rawlinson were consistently good in the tight and in the closer mauls. The backing-up and tackl ing was usually of a high standard though one would prefer not to remember the first half or the Ampleforth game and the match against Dover. However, it has been yet another very enjoyable and successful season and it is certain that all of those who played under him will agree that nobody could have got more out of them than Jenner did. His example and leadership could not have been surpassed and he even had the knack of making the forwards enjoy their practices on the scrum machine, which is perhaps the highest tribute t hat can be paid to any captain. Next season we shall look forward to another visit from Ampierorth, .md to the fixture which has been arranged with Tonbridge. C.F. 5t)O
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1ST XV MATCHES T HE KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTER BURY Y ST. PAU L'S SCHOOL
Played at St. Paul's School on Wednesday, October 1st K ing's, 8; St. Paul's, 0 As. "Ye had had o nly fou~ days t<?get her a~ a tea m, the resul t of Ihis match was most pleasin g. Although con(htlons were far from Idea l, With the pilch heavy and wet and ra in d uring most of the first half, the ga me.was played as open.ly as could be ~~ pec tcd. T he ba ll was slippery but the hand ling was commendable espeCia lly by R. E. F. Mmns, whose ~blhty to take some very erratic passes from an apprent ice scrurn¡ half kept ou r three-quarters on the offenSive for most of the ga me. . G. C. Pritchard kicked the ~ ide o ut of many an awkward situat ion with inspiring 40-ya rds clea rances mto touch. C,. M. G. Wort ley Jumped well aga mst a ta ller opponent and scored a good try picking up the ball from outs~de a loose scrum an~ batt ling his way through. Then W. E. J. Minns broke blind to send J. L. D. Radcliffe over for a try which G. C. Pri tchard converted. The most encouraging feature of this game was the determination the whole side displayed both in defence and attack, playin g not as indiv idua ls but as a team.
THE KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY V CANTERB URY R .F.C.
Played at St. Stephcn's o n Sat urday, October 4th King's,O; Canterbury, 3 Showing the sa me spirit that beat St. Paul's the prev ious Wednesday, the School were soon pressing hard on the Ca nterbury derences. Our three¡quaners had an excellent game, notably R. E. F. Minns and A. C. Ru ssc ll ~ who were the s pearhe a~s o r the a ttack. The rorwards still tended to be too slow in following up but their loose play ~as much Improv~ d. Indeed, C. R. Barber was unfortunate in having two tries disall owed, both c;>f which ~ame from q.lIIck heels in the loose. Ca nterbury scored from a penalty against J. L. D. Radcl.lffe for usmg one of Ius own. men to protect him from the opposing wing forward. Both J. L. D. Rad~hffe and D. O. Jones o n the wmgs I~ad a good ga me, tackling well but not rea lly using their speed ~nd we! ~ht t? th~ best adv!lntage. On~e agam, O. C. Pri tchard kicked beautifully and turned many a defenSIve posllto n mto .In attackmg one by hiS excellent touch finding. Th is .is the closest th e School has come to beating the Cit y for quite a few years and with a bit mo re luck they I11l ght well have won. THE KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY I' BLACKHEATH R. F.C.
Played at St. Stephen's
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King's, 3; Blackheath, t 8 Blackheath flattered the School by bringing down a remarkably strong side includ ing Bruce the Scottish h<?oker, and seven coun ty play~rs . As so often happens, raced with formidable opposition, th~ XV played With more .zes,t and determmatton than had ever been hoped fo r. The tack ling, fo r the first tim e fo r many years. at Kmg s, was solid t~roughou t the side. Both R. E. F. Minns and A. C. Russell in the cent re were tacklt.ng fiercely, as though It were: purel y fO.r pleasure, and M. R. Jenner had a fine game at open side often ca tchmg John Blake, an O.K.S. , III possession o r the bal l. ' At ha lf~time a penalty taken. by O. C. Pritchard had given us a 3- 0 lead. However, in the second hal f B.lackhea th broke away th ree Urnes to score th ree copy book tries all of which were converted Th"'y also kicked a penalty goa l. " ,,' The spirit of the team had rise~ every match so far, and the "guts" shown in thi s one sho uld have made ' , t I1e School proud of the XV desPJle the defeat.
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WIMBLEDON
Played at Wimbledo n o n Satu rday, October 18th
King's, 19; K.C.S ., Wimbledon, 0 At first, King's appeared in cont rol, but K.C.S. rall ied and at half time, th ough the score was 0-0, play had on the whole been in thei r favour. In the second half, King's, rece iving more of the ball from the scrummages, bega n to play excellent foot ball. From a tight serum, W. E. J. Minns broke inside thei r open side wing forward to give R. E. F. Minns our fi rst try, which G. C. Pri tchard converted . King's attacked hard on the right wing: and D. O. Jones cross-kicked perfect ly for C. R. Barber to ga ther and score. D . O. Jones scored one tryout on the touch line, having previous ly had one disa llowed. A . C. Russell scored two tries, one fro m a beautiful c ross-kick by R. E. F. Minns, which H. J. Rawlinson converted. The School's victory was due to their team work but specia l mention must be made of M. R. Jenne r, who played a n insp irin g ga me. THE KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY
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DOVER CoLLEGE
Played at Dover College on Saturday. October 25th King's, 11 ; Dover, 6 We were fortunate to win this ba ttle in which the emphasis was rather more on fitness than a ny rugger skill. With four changes from the side that beat King's, Wimbledon 19-0 the previo us week, it seemed obvious from the start tha t we were not playin g as o ne body, and the team never really settled down. The forwards were sluggish. slow in covering, weak in binding in the many loose mauls, a nd on numerous occasions allowed themselves to be pushed off the ball. The halves, pa ired for the first time, did not comb ine at all effectively, and our three-q uartl"rs were never given a chance to get moving. When, however, they did get the ball, they were guilty of bad ha ndling and poor pass ing. O'Clee, having beaten his ma n and drawn the opposing wing, twice threw the ball well behind Radcliffe within to ya rds of their line. T he conditions were idea l for open nigger. The ground was firm a nd the wind, which at times has been a lmost gale force in prev ious yea rs, was on ly a gen tle breeze . Nevertheless, play was scrappy. Dover proba bly deserved the lead they had at half-time. However, in the second half there were glimpses of wha t King's could do in attack. W . M. Watson was finding R. E. F. Min ns more oflen tha n in the first half a nd A. C. Russell showed how elusive he can be. Within a few minutes of the re-sta rt , Dover were penali sed a nd G. C. Pritchard kicked the pe nalty goa l from just outside their "25". King's attacked again soon after this and from a line-out R. E. F. Min ns broke inside and kicked to the wing, where D. G. Jones, gat hering at f~J1 1 pace, scored an excellent try. G. C. Pritc hard converted an easy kick. Dover, heavier in the forwa rds, were beginning to get more of the ball from both scr ums and li nc-outs, but thcir threats of attack wcre nullified by some sound , ha rd tack ling by Jenner, who genera lly ca ught their ny-half with the ball. At the end of the ga me, Kin g's broke away from a loose scrum a nd R. E. F. Minns, breaking inside aga in , kicked to D. O. Jo nes, who ran through to sco re benea th the posts. TH E K ING'S SC~looL, C ANTERB URY
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AMPLEFORTH COLLEGE
Played at Ampleforth, Yorkshire, on Saturday, November 1st King's, 3; Amplefo rth, 11
As we had been regally entertained fo r the twel ve hours before the match , it was difficult to show any gentle manl y host ility towards our opponents. We started slowly and were soo n 8 points down. Our tackling, which prior to this match had been thc highlight of the season, failed us, and their first try came from a good break by the inside centre, who handi ng off J. C. G. Smith , evaded A. C. Russell's tackle and ran rou nd G . C. Pritchard to score benea th the posts. R. E. F. Minns, play ing with W. M. Watson as scrum¡ half, wh? was de~utising for the inj~red W. E. J. Min ns, never really got going a nd was often harassed by the qUick ~rea klllg Amplefo rth wmg for~ards. Part of the trouble probably lay in the fa ct that the scrum-half was a tnfle slow and not very s ure of himself, with the result that his pass ing was errat ic a nd he often had to go blind to avoid the wing forwards. G. C. Pritc hard missed many kicks whic h on home ground he would, with a bit of luck , have go t over. T his was the first schoo l match wc had lost for almost exactly three years, a nd there is no-o ne else to whom we shou ld have preferred to lose Olll' reco rd.
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TH E C A NTUAR TAN THE KI NG'S SCHOOL. CANTERUU ltv \I SEDIJERGH SCHOOL Played at Sedbergb on Monday. November 3rd King's, 3; Sedbcrgh, 8 On~ wOl~ld .ha rd ly have recognise~ o ur side in tl~ i s ma tc h, as the sa mc one which had lost to Ampleforth two d<lYs e,lriler. H <>.wev~r, ~e agam be~an sl uggishly and were soon 8- 0 down. T heir scrum was larger tha n ou rs, and to begm With It looked as If we might be over-run. W. A. T. T. Garel-J ones hooked extremely wc ll a~ d t ~e pack soon .settled down to hold o ur o pponen ts. The ball was slippery a nd W . M. Wa tson found It difficult to get. It out cleanly a nd ~oo orten had to go blind a nd was invariably s topped. A. C. Russell a nd R. E. Mm.ns brought off a nice SCissor movcment, taking us well into their "25". From the loose ~c rum followmg thiS movement thc ba ll was heeled clean ly and C. R . Ba rbel' was able to score ten ya rds III from touch. The ga me wa~ ha rd fought a nd very tiring. The School, who had not played in such heavy mud beforc, put up a splend id performance.
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THE KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTE RB URY V EASTBO URNE CoLLEGE Played at St. Stephen's on Satu rday. November 15t h King's, 8; Eastbourne, 3 The ~ond i t i ons fo r this game. were good, and the rugby open a nd fa st. The Schoo l, after a rather fn~st ra tm g first h~lf, played well In the secon d, t.o win. by a goa l and a penalty to a penal ty. The Schoo l's fOlwards were paltLc tliarly ~a udable for the way In ",Vh lch they gave the outs ides thei r full share of the bal l. Th e~ we re opposcd by a big, fa st a nd v1!ry well -d nlled Eastbo lll'llc pack which was the best school pack the Side me t th ~ougho ul the season. OutSide the scrum , th e Schoo l wcre dcfinitely superior. The Eastbou rLlc backs were qUIte fast and smoot h, but they lac ked the penet ratio n and ability of thc Schoo l's.
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THE C ANTUARIAN The first half wus marked by a large number of penalty kicks awa rde~ o n both sides . . However, neither team took very great advantage of the other's mistakes, each cOllvert l!1g only one. 1 he Schoo! took a long time to settle down and a lthough W. A. T. T. Garcl·Jones was hook ll~g well , th,c ball W~\S commg back slowly a nd consequently the th ree-quarters moved unevenly a nd were cont inually bCII~g harned by the Eastbourne back row. Eastbourne on the o ther ha nd played well as a team an d sevcral lllTIcs gave us cause for concern. After the interval, the School started pl,lying good rugby and aftc~ fi ft ee n min~ tcs sco red the only try of the ga me. The School's forwurds heeled from a loose serum on their oppo~cnts twenty-five and R . E. F. Minns kicked ahead perfect ly for D. G. Jones to gat her the ba ll and rU Il IIlSlde the Eastbourne full back to score under the posts. G. e. Pritchard, who a lso kicked the pen~lty, dul y.converted. Therea fter the School kept Eastbourne in their own ha lf and oft en came near to scofln g, especmlly as a resul t o f some ex~ellcnl breaks by A. C. Russell. With five minu tes to go, Eastbourne made a great ra lly, bu t the School s safe tackling kept them from crossing our line. h was an enj oyable and exciting ga me to watch and the team ;:unply deserved the quite excellent sup port they received from the Schoo l o n the touchli ne.
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Played at SI. Stephen's o n Saturday, November 22nd King's, 3; Felsted, 0 This was an extremely even match when King's for tht? first time this season were abl~ to outpush the opposi ng se rum . The King's forward s played yery we~1 wlth.W. A. T. T . Garel·Jones gellmg Illost ~f the ball in the tight scrums and C. M. G . Wortley his share In the lillO-OUt. In tho loose,. ,,'!c frequent ly dommated and w ith a good service from thc scrum the three-qua rters had many opportul1l tles. In the first half King's were the better ~ide and ve ry nearlr scored when ~ussell broke down ~he cent re, beating four men , but a knoek·on o n the III~e resulted from hiS pass. Felsted s three~.q uart~rs. a lw,\ys l oo~ed d:'Ulgerous in the centre and o n the left wlllg when th7Y g'?t the ball and on sevel ,II .oc~clslons o~lly IMrd tackling by D. G. Jones and M. R. Jenner saved thc Situatio n. In the second ha.lf, KlIlg s were fl equcntly G. Jones. finlsl~ed o~a fine movement on the attack and one mol',? scorin g opportunity was J~st befo~e by a try in the corner. ThiS was not, however, convelted. K11lg ~ supp~rtel s wele subjected to .rrequel~t shocks when the ball was lying in mid·field wi.th everyC!ne lookll)g ~lt It. As lIsua.l, G. ~. Pntehard s kicking for touch with the wet ba ll was superlative but hiS place kicking was no t qUite at Its best.
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Played at Sl. Stephen's o n Saturday, Novem ber 29th King's, 6 ; Rosslyn Pa rk, 0 The main features o f this match wcrc D. G. Jones' kick.a hea~ and scor~ and A. C. Russell'~ fine running in the cent re. In the fi rst half, King's did nearlr all the ~tta,ckl~g and With ~ome hard tack lin g and good covering broke up the few Park attacks. In the 11l1e·out Kmg s did nO.t get thclr sha re o f the ~all but the s~t scrums were about equa l. Stockel l and Jen ner were the Illost outstand ll1g of the forward s and It was Jenner s continual harassing wh ich disorga nised the Park's backs. Among King's backs, Russell W<.lS always dangerous and frequently bro~e away, b~lt R. E.. F., Min ns with an erratic service from the serum had a poor ga me and was often ca ugh t 111 possessio n. K~n.g s first s~ore came from D. G. Jones, who kicked ahead and sCOl:e almost under the posts, bu~ G. C. I n tehard failed to convert . Then W. E. J. Minns broke round the blind to put C. R. Barber over. III ,the. corner, but It was not converted. After Ihis sccond try, the Park came ~ack hard and pressed .Km g s !tn? ceaselessly but failed to go over. Isbi ll 's hook ing for the Park gave thell' backs every op po rtulUt y, but thiS advanta ge WClS lost by lack of penetratio n.
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Played at St. Stephen's on Sa turday, December 6th King's, 3; Harleq uins, 3 In this match, King's were without M. R. Jenner a t open s ide wing forward , which allowed more scope f~r the opposing fty·ha lf a':1d indeed King's defence was subjected to a heavier battering than at any timc Since Blackhcath . Harleq ums were on the attack much of the time and with more frequent service from thc serum would a lmost certainly have sco red. Once again, however, W. A. T . T. Garel·Jones performed wonders in the tigh t and in the loose King's for wards were getting more of the ball than in any other match. We opened the scoring with a very fine pena lty goa l by O . C. Pritchard in the first half. The Quins when they got the ball, however, were far mo re dan gerous with Snell making breaks in the cent re a nd his partner always look ing for the opening. In the second ha lf, Quins equalised in the corner but fail ed to convert. They also fai led to convert two other possible pena lties. But the King's defence was sorely tried for most of the ha lf and only very good covering prevented Harleq uins scorin g. In the fad ing light , however, King's bega n to come into their own and in the last ten minutes onl y a retl1ark~ able d isplay of kick ing by our opponents' full back resisted o ur attack. THE KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY II TH E O. K .S. Played at SI. Stephen's o n Saturday, December 13th King's, 6 ; O.K.S.,O The Observer reported this match as follows: "The King's School, Canterbury who have lost only two school matches th is season (the ir only defea ts si nce 1955) completed their programme with a deserved victory over their old boys by 2 penalty goa ls to nothing at Birley's Field , yesterday. " The pitch was waterlogged and here and there were la rge puddles in which players often suffered immersion to the guffawed delight of straw-hatted scho lars thro nging the touchl ines. Later clouds of steam arose from the serums to join with a slowly rising ground mist. " Yet desp ite these hazards, both s ides played o pen foot ball . T he much lighter School forwa rds held their own in the serums, thanks to the ski lful hooking of W. A. T. T. Garel·Jones and harried the opposing backs. T he ca ptain, M. R. Jenner, and J. C. G. Sm ith and J . R. A. Bird were usually to the fore. "Behind the scrum the School were well served at hal f·back by the cousins W. E. J. and R. E. F. Minns, while O. C. Pri tcha rd, a 16·yea r·old full back, took the ba ll clea nl y, as befi tted a member of the cricket X I, and kicked a remarkable lengt h. The O ld Scholars had an outsta nding centre in C. W. Yates and a potenti ally dangerous wing three· quarter in their captain, J. A. Turner, an Oxford Greyhou nd , wh ile G. D. K. Marchmont and S. J. Laine were outstandin g forward s in the line-out and the loose. Bo th penalty goa ls were kicked by Pri tchard ea rly in the second half."
THE 2ND XV The qual ity of play in the 2nd XV fluctuated according as the team played as a unit or no. Ea rly in the season the players were not pract ised enough to hold the heavier Ca nterbury side and also went down to R . M .S., Dover. But with a plentiful supp ly of the ball at K.C.S., Wimbledon , they played att ract ively and one felt that a sp lendid season was in store. T he half·back combinati on worked efficiently and , as it should be, both wingers scored repea tedly. Doubtless K.C.S. tackling was at fa ult , but a t least King's, Ca nterbury. showed they un derstood the principles of a sou nd attack. But cohesion was lack ing in the Dover match, for o pposition was poor and the team tended to become disordered in its pattern of attack through neglect ing teamwork and yet scoring. With the add itio n of new players, the team began to find itself aga in, but st ill were not fast enough to cope with critical situations, and so despite success aga inst St. Lawrence College and drawing wit h Eastbo urne, R . M. S. Dover still proved the better side. T he pack took somewhat longer to settle down. M. R. Tuohy hooked well and was well supported by R . N. Nash and M. R. Maybury. T he'jumping in the li ne-out grew st ronger towards the end of the season and J. R. A. Bird proved to be a master in this sphere of play. With R . Rowe he made a useful combinat io n in the second row. R. H. Pawsey led the scrum and directed their activities wit h growing success. p, R. Atkinson as open side wing forward deserves mentio n for his speed and tireless cover in g. D. L. K. Browne made lip the third o f the back row trio and worked unsparingly.
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THE 3RD XV The Third XV has had a most successful season, winning handsomely a ll its School matches and losing only to Canterbury R.U.F.C. very early in the term. There haye ~en many ch.a nges, some caused by our two victories over the 2nd XV, and a high mo rale has been mamta~ned. The chIef strength of the team I~as been the speed, precision and sheer hard work of the pack, v.~lferous!y le.d by Stevenson, and special mention must be made of Whewell 's line-out work and Beauglc s covenng m defence. Behind the scrum, Billinghurst and Man, the capta in, worked toget her extremely well and some of Man's feats of handling were a wonder to behold. The centres, Holmes-Johnson aI~d Fowler: worked hard to send W illiams away on the wing wit h a speed that left most C!P ponents .well behmd . Th~1I defenc~ was also good, Fow ler especia lly tack ling fe arlessly but unorthodoxlca lly, whl!e. Cockersell dId what 1.lttle work came his way with calm sa fety. In fa ct, to combat the cold, he usually JOllled the thrcc-quarter 1Ine. Ment ion must also be made of the 4th XV, which won both its matches un~ler the captaincy of Fielding, and loyally provided oPPositi on for the thirds and colt s XV whenever reqUIred . The 3rd XV was usually chosen from: - So E. Cockersell , A. A. J. Williams, P. H. Holmes-Johnson, ] B. R. Fowler, B. S. Gua rd, J. A. G. Man, M. E. Billinghurs!, M . J. Steve nson ,M. H. Ca ldwell , M. R. Ayling, A. P. F. Ven n, H. L. Foster, D. M. Whewell, R. A, Jenntngs, R. F, L. Wood, M. R, Kent , R. McN. Beaugie. Also played:- J. B. S. Fielding, G. W. F. Hale, A. R . Mulford.
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THE COLTS' XV With a record more marred by defeat than any other Colts' si<!e for the pas~ fi ve years, this year's tea!11 may be thought to have had more than its share of injury and misfortun e: thiS has beel~ true to a cer!~m degree, but such deficiencies as the temn has suffered have stemmed more fro m a lack of hIgh average ablhty than anything else.
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There have been only a ba re fifteen energetic players at any moment in the term a nd of these it has seemed to fall out that one o r two should , fo r each game, be injured. This has meant that players have had to play out of posi tion or have had to acquire entirely new sk ills from , as it were, week to week. That the fifteen has do ne as well as it has, has been the result of the patience wit h which members of the team have made this effor t of adaptation and of the spirit in matches in which the players knew that they were entering the fie ld with disadvantages. It is significa nt of th is spi rit that the team has a lways been stronger at defence and that the most marked improvement through the term has been in tack ltng and covC'ring. The pack , in pa rticular, has developed excellent techniques for spoiling play and has steadily deve loped into a powerfu l group in lines-out and set scrums. Among the b<.\cks, the thrust has a lways been in the centre, but here again the attack has had too oft en to be d issipated in o rder to substit ute for injuries at half and elsewhere. The fi rst match of the season, on a very wet R.M.S. pitch, saw the first signs of defecti ve handling and tackling amongst the backs; the pack was fast and stron g, but there was slowness in picking up and in loose scrummaging in mid-field, The score was a fair o ne for a match more concerned with fo ot rushes and loose maul s than fo r any open play. This pattern o f play was repeated aga inst a stronger s ide on the fo ll owing Saturday i the Sutton Valence backs were mllch faster and more sure in their handling than those of Kin g's a nd although the forwards made valiant attempt s at perpetual covering, they st ill lacked the speed and intelligence to concentrate swiftly where the attacks developed. A lthough the pack provided the backs wi th plenty of opportunities, it nevertheless was sti ll too prone to allow the enemy forward s to break th rough in the line-out. The only King's score came through C. Barker. Against Kent College the defence was a t, perhaps, its worst for the whole term ; the hand ling was poor as well and the forward s were far too sluggish to cover against what was a very fast att ack , particularly on the one wing. Each try was the direct resu lt of errors in covering and tackling. By this stage the defence of the backs was receiving mo re attention and the following match aga inst Dover College saw the team in much better fo rm . But the pace of the who le ga me was slow and alt hough it al10wed the backs to regain some of the confidence lost in earlier games, it was no real test of thei r stability or thrust. The place-kicking o f Bart ley was very good in this game and the tries themselves were intelligent and deserved. The first half of the ret urn match against R,M,S. was poor; the forwards woke up in the second half a nd for the first time it was possible to see the pack and the three-quarters working together. A good try, made possi ble by good support and intelligent passing, gave rise to the hope that this would mark the turn of the season. Further injuries, however, prevented this hope from being fulfilled; the defence, as a result, was so weak that in the St. Lawrence match the firs t eleven points against the School were scored in the openi ng ten minutes. The tackling, however, improved later in the game and the speed in covering increased ,1 t the sa me time. The second half saw some good movements on both sides; in this match the forward s confirmed the belief that they were now welded together into a firm pack. The Eastbourne match was by far the best of the term: the School lost through being a shade slower and less opportunistic than Eastbourne but both backs and forwards played extremely well ; the chief deficiency revea led in this game was again King's slowness in pick ing up and in holding firm and heeling quickly in the loose. The only King's score W;:lS from a copybook kick-ahead and recovery by Barker. In the Felsted match , things went reasonably well unti l the first minutes of the second half, when, in five minutes, three tries were scored. The Felsted attack waS able to change direction and to use cross-kicking cleverly and the pack was fast at breaking through and at capitalising on any forward errors. The King's pack waS less fit than tha t of the opposition and was, by continuous and , on the who le, effective defence, worn down by the later stages of the match. The latest match, at the time of wri ting, the return agains t Kent College, was marred by staleness and excessively poor hand ling a mong the backs of both sides. The for wards played well in an even struggle but the general tone of the game was too grim and defensive fo r there to be very much opportunity fo r o pen play. H, Rudgard has captained the fift een ext remely hearteni ngly throughout the term. He has been very well supported by Parsons and Cavendish-Smith a mong the forwards and by McClelland, Norris and Barker among the backs; each of these six has played with comp lete resolution on each occasion, The team will produce other good players in time-bu t players who will have developed their skill th rough adversity! The practice games have been keen and well~matc hed i those who have been content to wa it for their chance are to be commended for their patience and enthusiasm. The following have played for the Colts regulariy :- D. S. Baker, C. J. Stringer, C. Barker, J. A. 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T H E J UNIOR COLTS Played 8, Won 7. Lost I, Points for 180, Points aga inst 22 The J unior Co ils have had a successful season mainly because they were fit, and played intelligen tly. They functio ned as a tea m, and the backing-up was particularly good, forwa rds often being up to take a pass from a wing three-quarter. T he three-quarters were at times disa ppointing ; their handling was often careless, and in Morpurgo's prolonged absence the tackling in the cent re was unreliable. T hey were, nevertheless, fast and penetrative, The forward s were efficient in the tight and loose, and their quick-passing movements we re diflicult to stop. T he ent ire team played well , but speciaimcntion might be made of Dejong for his line-out play, Wright fo r his am,lzing energy at scrum~ha l f, and Britton for his vigorolls leading of the pack, and tactica l intelligence as captain. The following have represented the School :- BriUoJl, Wright, C. S. W., Cmnpbell , P. M., Maybury, N. K., Munns, G iles, A. J., Scob ie, Art hu r, Grossmith, Bea ugie, W., Dejong, Press, Wooderson, Morpurgo, Dowen, Parker, Clark, S. G., Swete, P. G., Wellcr, P. M., Wight. J.S.H.
TH E UNDER 14. XV There is usua lly a ce rtain amount of re-sh uffl ing in Under 14 sides at the beginning of thc season and th is year proved to be no exception. It was not till later in the term that the final team W,IS chosen, and this has now settled down into a successful side. There is still one match to be played, but so far two matches have been lost <lnd four won. The two matches lost were bot h against R.M.S., Dover, who arc always fo rmidable opponents and who had this year an extremely good fly-half. Otherwise the teams were evenly enough matched, and thc games were better than the scores suggest. The forwards are decidedly prom ising and would be very good indeed if only they were qu icker in defensive covering and also tack led more correctly and decisively. Their line-out work, tight and loose scrummag ing, ,lIld backing-up , in a ttack have all been good . The outsides have im proved considerably and now co mbine well as H line and play with dash a nd determination, but the line is a little too ragged in defence and there is a lso too much high tackling outside the serum. Of the outs ides, Barker at fly-half, Kain at outside centre and Davies at serum-ha lf all catch the eye, while Maycock, Se lby, Scofield and Rowl<lnd stand out among the forward s. Our thanks go to the other members of the game, without whose help the team would not have been so successful. Of these, McClure, Eiser, Strachan and Allen have a ll played for the team on oCC<lsions and have all played wel l. Indeed, they arc still very much on the fringe of il. Team: Maltby, Ridley, Kaill , Coll ier, Methven, Barker, Davies, Paul, Harvey, Roberts, Maycock, Selby, Rowla nd, Scofield, Guermouprez. l .A.S. RESULTS R.M.S., Dover. Lost 12-3 R.M.S. , Dover. Lost 22-3 St. Lawrence, Ramsgate. Won 35- 0 Kent College. Won 38-3 C hatham H ouse. Won 25- 3 King's, Rochester. Won 42- 0
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THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS' BOAT CLUB The Canterbury Pilgrims' B.C. was active after the end of the Summer Term and entered crews at Maidenhead. Henley Town and the Serpent ine Regattas.
An YJU consisting mainly of last term's 1st Vll[ entered for the Junior-Senior event at Maidenhead on Saturday, August 2nd. The crew met at Eton two days previously and were able to have some practice outings on the COUf<;C. On the Saturday morning, the VIII had to row over when their first opponents, Barc1ays Bank, withdrew; their first proper race was against Molcsey RC. and was won fa irly comfortably. In the semi-final the VH [ had a harder row against Shrewsbury and won by about half a length. The fi na l was against Winchester College; the Pilgrims Illnde nn unfortunate start and saw little of their opponents, who won cOlllfortably in a good time.
On the Bank Holiday Monday, the sam~ c"ew co mpeted in the Junior-Sen ior class at Henley Town Regalia, which is rowcd three-abreast ovcr about seven fu rlongs of the Roya l Regatta course. The day befo re, they had rowed the fift een miles up from Ma idenhead and the benefit of this long outing was very ev ident at Henley. In contrast wit h the rather scrappy rowing at Maidenhead, the crew was well together nnd the blades were better covered. Despite a st rong headwind, the Pi lgrims had little difficulty in disposing of Gladstone Warwick and Twickenham R.C. in their heal. 1n the semi-fina l, they again met Winchester, together with Parkside R.C.; th is time the Pilgrims made a good start and for some way they had a slight lead on Winchester. At half-way the crews were level, wi th Parkside trailing, but here an unfortunate crab in the Pil gri ms' crew put an end to any serious interest in the race. Winchester again went on to win t he final On August 7t h and 9th at the Serpentine Regatta, foUl' members of the 2nd VIII competed in the Junior Coxed Fours event for which there were 27 entries. The Serpentine course is over a half-mile, and the races are rowed four abreast, in cont inental fashion . In their heat the Pi lgrims rowed against Eton Mission R.C., Flcctway R.C. and Harrodian R :C. They started well but were led by about half a length until the half-way mark by Eton Mission; here the Pilgrims took the lead and won by 4 seconds in 3 min. 7 sec. The semi-final was against Lensbury R.C. "B" and Redriff R.C. "A" crews on the same evening. The Pilgrims made a poor start but fortunately the opposition was not st rong and they won by 12 sees. in 3 min. 10 sccs. The fina l o n Saturday, which was televised, was against Bowyer R.C., Poplar and Blackwall R.C. and Bedford Park R.C. After a poor start, the Pilgrims were last away and Bowyer R.C. soon led by about i length; the Pilgrims settled down well and overtook the other two crews, but although they continued to make up the leeway slowly, they could not quite catch Bowyer R.C., who won an exc;ting finish by 1 sccond in 3 minutes. There is a light-hearted, end-of-term air about the last regallas of the season, which is in contrast to the more eal'llcst atmosphere which naturally tcnds to prevail earlier ill the season. Both the VITI and the IV found these regallas most enjoyable; those members who wi ll be forming the basis of next season's crews ga ined va luable experience, while those leaving found in the racing a pleasant end to their School rowing career. T"II! CREWS
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BASKETBALL The game of basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismit h in 189 1. It is perhaps the on ly game to be ent irely invented by one man. He was then a student at the International V.M.e.A. Training School at Springfield, Mass., and was asked to work out an indoor game for his fellow-studen ts. At that time America lacked a major indoor sport suitable for the winter months. At first he tried to adap t football, but finding that impracticable, he slispended peach baskets at either end of the court and used a football for the very first game of basketball. One of his first rules was "A player shal l no t carry the ball whi lst in bOlmds. If he catches it whilst funning due allowance sha ll be made provided
he stops as soon as poss ible". Origina ll y teams were of nine, bu t within a few yea rs the number was reduced to five. F rom Springfield V.M.e.A., basketba ll rapidly spread to all parts of the wo rld and today is played in nt least 52 cou nt ries. A fi ne game ca ll ing fo r speed , sk ilful ball control , menta l and ph ysica l agility, positiona l play o f a very high order and team spirit , its remarkable popularity in the wo rld of sport is not surprising. In America it has more supporters than either basebal l or footba ll. In England , the progress of basketba ll was hindered by the wa r, but it has taken immense strides since 1948 and under the guidance of the Amateur Basketba ll Associa tion of England and Wales, areas compete for the Senior and Junior Championships, and in the Army it ha s recently been classificd as a major sport. It is now widely played in the majority of English schoo ls and although not genera ll y occupying the status of a major sport , standards of play are rapidly improving and there is a fai r amount of inter-school competition. The importance of basketball as a valuable addit ional training for the major sports with its speed, positional play, skilful handling, etc., has also been rea lised . The game was included for the first lime in the 1936 O lympic Games, which America won. Jneidentally, the average height of their team was 6 ft. 5 in ., which was rather frustrating for such teams as the Phi.ilipines, whose tallest player was 5 ft. 11 in. Subsequent O lympic Championshi ps have a lso been won by the U.S.A., but the genera l standard of play in other countries has risen so much that she will have to fight hard to reta in her laurels in the futur e. HOUSE BASKETBALL Basketball at King's a lso started in a humble manner with two waste-paper baskets on huma n supports on the Green Court some three years ago. However, with new equipment the ga me has been played since then in a more orthodox style and the first inter-house competition took place this term . T he matches were fou ght out with great enthusiasm and alt hough the gymnasium is little mo re than ha lf the size of a basketball court the standard of play has been surprisingly high. In the semi-finals, Marlowe convincingly defeated School House and despite a last minute goa l, Walpole lost to Linacre in a most exciting game by 2 poi nt s. Tn the fina l, Marlowe won a decisive victo ry.
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SHOOTING As can be seen frOI}l the rcsul ts, tI~e sta.ndard of Shoot ing has been commendably high this term. The lowest match score bemg nearly 10 pomts higher than last year's best score. The fixture list has been improved and extended, and the record score under N.S.R.A. cond itions now stands at 785/800. The standard and success of the Clu b would improve st ill further if the School possessed an indoor range¡ Results were as follows:Date School Oct. 18. King's, Rochester 25. King's, Taunton Nov. I. Sherborne I. Marlborough 8. Hurstpierpoint 15. Allhallows 22. Shrewsbury 22. Wellington 29. Framlingham
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T he 1st VIII was placed 15th out of 110 schoo l teams compet ing in the N.S.R.A. Competi tion. Two matches were a lso shot against the Roya l Marines School of Music but the results arc not yet known. ) The following s hot for the Sehool:- N. G. A. Payne. J. M. Atk ins, A. D. T. Ma rshall; J . D. Hamil tonINIIteLr:s,?Il. J â&#x20AC;˘ A. G. Man, P. Snuggs, A. D. Doub le, P. W. F. Browne, G. D. Scott, A. K. R. Wight , . \vmgs t on. N.G.A. P.
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O.K.S. NEWS (l1I/ormatioll /01' illclllSioll ill the O.K. S, News will be welcomed by the lIew liol/, Secretary of the O.K.S. Associatioll, A. D. WILSON, 2 BRADDY HOUSE, CARLTON HJLL, LONDON, N.W.8. CHANGES 01' ADDRESS AND ALL ENQUJRIES ADOUT "THE CANTUARIAN" SHOULD DE SENT TO HIM AND NOT TO THE EDITORS.)
OoKoSo Annual Dinner The Annual Dinner of the O,K.S, Association will be held at the Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street, London, on 9th January, 1959, Members shou ld have received full detai ls, a nd it is hoped that as many as possible will attend. OoKoSo Suppers These arc held at the Garrick H otel, Charing Cross Rond, on the fi rst Wed nesday of cach mont h at 7 p,m, for 7.30 1',01, All O.K.S, arc very welcome,
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D . E. Ho CLEGG (1 947- 51) has returned to Engla nd from India and is now tak ing up agricu ltu re, He is taking a year's course at the Roya l Agriculture College, Cirencester, P. R. LEGGAIT (1952- 57) is arlicled (0 all O.K.s.- A. A. Randall (193 7- 39) of (he firm of GilTen, Randall & Co" Solicitors in St. Albans, He hopes to take the Law Society Intermediate Examination next June. M. J. LEWIS (1943-47) has gOlle to Sout hern Rhodesia for an indefin ite period 'IS Assistant Branch Engineer for his empl oyers, the B.G.E.C. of Centra l Africa Ltd. H . B. WAYNFORTH (l950- 55) has now obta ined his Science degree at London University. Whilst in London he lived for a time a t the Y.M.C.A, and played hockey fo r their tcam. He has come across several O.K,S" amongst them PETER SNOW, RODIN ALABASTER, a nd C. P. LARDNER, durin g various matches. D, H . FEARON ( 1940- 41) has recently moved to Melbourne, Victoria, Austr<lli<l, JOHN MONRO HIGGS (195 1- 54) is now in Lagos, Nigeria, with Cable and Wireless Ltd. D . M. HAMJLTON (1938- 42) has been in Kenya on a tca es tate for the last seven yea rs, He has recentl y , eell D . G . CARTER (1934-40), A. M. DEAN (1934-40), A. A. KNELLER (1941-46), C . M. BOLT (1937-40), R. WILLEIT (1916-24) and J. WAITS (1939- 43). C. E. M. JEWISON (1953- 58) is taking a three years' course a t the Ca mborne Schoo l of Mctalliferous Mining. J. P. D. MOORE (1 952- 56) passed out at D artmouth in July. He was a Divisional Captain in hi s last term, and was selected to carry the Co lour presented to the Royal Naval College by the Duke of Edi nburgh (in the absence through illness of Her Majesty the Queen). He is now Sub-Lieutenant in H ,M,S. Diana, and was last heard of off Iceland on the Fisheries Patrol dut ies; but he hoped to be in Gibraltar and Casa路 blanca for his Christmas shopping. He also reported that his brother Michael (1948- 53) was having the time of his life in the Aden Levies. THE REv. D, G, BUSTON (1 919- 25), Vicar of St. Andrew's, Enfield; has been appointed Rural D ean of Enfield. THE REv. D. L. EDWARDS (1942--47) has been appointed Assis tant Curate at SI. Martin's路in路the路FieJds, and an executive officer of the Christian Frontier Cou ncil. PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR (1925- 31) has wri tten the screenplay of the new John Huston film The Roofs of H eaven, from the book by Romain Gary. MAJOR D. J. B. JERVIS (1 916- 23) has been elected Captain of Prince's Golf Club, Sa ndwich, for the third successive year, H. A. S. JOHNSTON (1922- 32) is now Permanent Secretary to the Prime Minister of Northern Nigeria, and has thus become the head of the Permanent Secretaries who have taken the place of the old-time Residents. He was appointed by the Jate Governor of Northern N igeria, Sir Brian Sha rwood-Smith, just before his retirement. Sir Brian has two sons at the School. R. D . WEIDENECKI!R (1938-4 1) married on Novembe(29th and had a wonderful honeymoon. W. H. BIRD (1895- 1900) has now moved to "The Highlands", Slurry, Kent.
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J. G . C. M I LNE (1946- 50) is now an Assistant Lect urer in Physics at Sheffield University and getting It lot of singing an~ music. He to<:,k hi~ Ph.D. Degree at Birmingham in June with a thesis on Gas Discharges. The work for th is was done durmg his th ree years as a research student and demonstrator at the U ni vers ity College of North Staffordshire. R. MILNE (1948- 53) is an Assistant Lecturer in Botany at Wye College, and is also doing some research work, writing light verse and tak ing lessons in pottery. K. D. A GNEW (1946- 53) is now a student at Clifton Theologica l College, Bristol. During the last summer he spent six weeks in a factory in Birmingham and took part in a ten-day Southampton City Ca mpaign orga nised by the Inter-Varsity Fellowship. L. 1-1'. ATKINS (1947- 52) is workin g with a City firm of T imber Agent s and Brokers. T. C. KINROSS (1953- 58) and K. M. S. JOHNS ( 1952- 58) a rc at Queen's College, Dundee, pari of SI. Andrew's Uni versity. 0.1. EVANS (I9 53- 58) is rlt Kin g's College, London, and A, C. STEWART ( 1952-58) is also at. London Uni ve rsity, J. GASCOIGNE¡PEES (1 954-58) has been touring Ca nada on a work ing hol iday iln d hopes to start il two¡ yea r course at the College of Estate Management in Apri l. D. F. MURRAY (1938-42), who is in the Fore ign Service, took up a new appointment in Stockholm at the end of November. J , T. R, THOMPSON (1953- 58) is thoroughly enjoyin g his fi rst term at the Royal Academy of D ramatic Art. W. A. H . BODGER (1950- 56) is taking an external course at Oxford for the Science Prelims, in January and hopes to be accepted as a medic.11student and to take up his Scholarship at St. Catherine's next October. MONTAGUE TURNOR (1946- 51), having Qualified as a solici tor last year, has been called up for service wit h the R.A.S,C. and recommended for training as a potent ial officer. C. I. MEEK (1934-39), after seven years in the Northern Highlands of Tanganyika, is now working in the secretariate at D ar es Salaam, We gather he very much prefers life in a District. R. H. GOWER (1930- 36) is working alongside him, and "continuing full of wit" . D. C. MOOR ( 1947- 54) is teaching temporarily at D auntsey's School but hopes to do a four-yea r Un iversity course in British Columbia from September, 1959, to work for a doctorate, J. E. C. HINCHCLI FFE (1940-44), whose engagement is announced elsewhere, hopes to be married soon after C hristmas and will then take up a new post in the School of St. Michael and St. George, Iringa, Tanganyika, which opens in January. He is to bc House-master of the Junior House, Hi s Head master, Mr, C. R, W. Francis, was formerly on Canon Shirley's Staff at Worksop, GRAHAM DAWDARN, C.B.E. (1907- 12) has relinq uished his partnersh ip in the firm of Norman & Dawbarn, Architects, but remai ns Advisor to the firm. DR. P. B. POOLE (1938-43) is now Medical Officer to the British Embassy in Warsaw. All the Western Embassies and Consulates have combined to share a doctor and it was England's turn to select the cand idate. p, W. BARKER (1953- 58) has been awarded a Babcock and Wilcox Scholarshi p of considerable value to University College, London, to read Chemica l Engineering. A, H, M, HOARE 0948- 54) played for the Kent XV agai nst Su rrey, D. J . R. THORNDIKE (1933- 38) took the part of Decius Brutus in Jlllills Caesar at the Old Vic in October and the part of Engstrand in Ibsen 's Ghosls in November. ' K. V. JONES (1938-41) is Conductor of the Metropolis Symph ony Orchestra, which recently gave a concert in Wimbledon Town Hall. J. D, MURRAY (1 937-41) is pJanning to takc somc courses to obta in a degree in Industri al Engineering at the University of Tennessee, in Knoxvi lle, DR, C. A, B. CLEMETSON (1937-42) went to Canada ill October to take up an appo intment as Assis tan t Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. CANON A. W. SARSON (1902- 05), Rector of Woodbridge and Rural Dean of Carlford St. Mary's, is resigning in the New Year. THE REVD, HORACB SPENCE (1904- 11) has been appointed a Six Preacher in the Cathedral by the Archbishop.
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The following have passed the War Office Selection Board:A. D. LEE-ELLIOTT (1952- 56) in August; E . A. J. GARDENER (1<)51- 57) in September; J. KEARIN (1953-57) in October; and D. G . Hazelton (1954- 57) passed the Regul ar Co mmi ~s i ons Board in November. R. BARWELL (1951- 56) ga ined hi s commission in. the R.A.F. and for nine months was the e.O. and only officer at a 60-man radar stat ion in Wales, which he found very lonely. He is now reading Economics at Cambridge. RICHARD MONRO (1951 - 54) is in Cyprus with the 2nd Battalion Grenad ier Guards. He reports that they ~ re Jiv ine: under very nrd uous conditions, and creature comrorts arc sad ly lacking.
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ENGAGEMENTS BUTLER- DoLT.- Dr. Richard Morris Butler ( 1942-47) to Dr. Shirley Anne Bolt. GREY- DAvls.- Anthony John Grey (1936--4 1) to Maureen Bernadettc D avis. GRIFFITIIS- RYAN.- John Adrian Griffiths (1952- 55), elder son of J. A. G. P. Griffiths ( 1920- 24) to Deirdre Josephinc Ryan. MILNE-BARNES.-Dr. John Gilbert Cockcroft Milne ( 1946- 50) to Muriel Margaret Joyce Barnes. RVELAND- CALDWELL.- David Charles Ryeland ( 1940- 53) to Jill Caldwell. WI LSON- WILLIAMS-FREEMAN,- Roger William Ker Wilson (1948- 53) to Caroline Williams-Freeman.
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BIRTH HAMI LTON.- On 20th November, 1957, to Monica, wife of Da vid Ha milton, ( 1938-42), a son (Oavid Lindsay).
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O.K,s. Dallce The Annual Dunce was held a t the Rembrandt Rooms, Kensington, on 31st October. This was a most enjoyable function Md resulted in " donation of 50 guineas being made to the O.K.S. Bu rsarshi p Fund . Cantuarian (O.K.S.) Lodge Saturday. 28th June was a great day for the members of the Lodge and their friends from St. Lawrence and D over. This was the occasion of the Triennial Meeting held at the School. The day will long be remembered by all tho sixty who attended. The Headmaster kind ly allowed us the usc of the Libra ry for the meoting, and in the Chair we had D erek
Kirby-Johnson (1940-45). Excellent arrangements for tea and dinller in the Masters' Dining Room had been made by the Steward. Members of the Lodge were able to show their visitors rollnd the Science block wh ich had been opened the day before and also the Great Hall , where the clock, presented by the Lodge, was much ad mired. 1959 is the 21st an niversary of the founding of the Lodge and full particuhns can be obtained from the Secretary, R . A. T. Anderson , 67 Tufton Street, S.W. I (Telephone: ABB 1564). O.K.S. Annual Dinner Last July a letter went to all members of the Association asking in cssence if we though t it a good idea to hold our annual dinner at the Schoo l from time to time. This suggestion has the Headmaster's ready agreement. To make a reply meaningful within the compass of a post-card, several definite alternat ives were given and we were asked to reply on ly if we were li kely to attend the dinner from time to time. Results were good. There would be a record attendance if less than .one ha lf of those who replied were to sit down together. And this excludes the loyal dozen who sent cards back saying that age or other reasons made attendance even in London unlikely. Canterbury was wel l fa voured, 55 % of us vo ting for a retu rn to School every ot her year, and another 13 % for Canterbury only, the majority of the latter bein g resident s of Ken t. 30% said London on ly, with 2% suggest ing other town s. Slightly more than this 'Ca ntuarian' 68% sa id they would attend an experimental dinner ill Canterbury "ahnost certainly or probably" (even numbers of each), a few' Londoners' presum,lbl y having the rescrva tion that the Canterbury datc should be less than biennial. ]n both these questions youth influenced the votin g. Over half those leaving School up to 1929 voted for London only compared wi th under a quarter of those since 1930. On the experimental dinner question a lmost a half of the pre-1 930 group sa id thcy wou ld be " un likely" to dine in Ca nterbury, compared with it third of the 1930- 44 group and only a quarter of O.K.S. who left in 1945 or later. Finally, the month was January for Lond on and the day Friday by a large majority. FOf Ca nterbury it was June on a Friday or Saturday, wi th appropriate reservations abou t an addit ional draw such as un O.K.S. match. July and November were also popular Can terbury months. Dinner reservations have to be made months or even a year in advance . The 1959 dinner wi ll therefore be held on Friday, 9th January, at the Connaught Rooms, London.
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It is with deep regret that we record the deat h, at his home in Marlow on 17th November, of F. S. Whalley,
who was, indeed, more than an O.K.S., for he was alt his life wonderfully devoted to the School. T hat is why he sent three of his sons here, Robert, John and Larry. And it is true to say that, but for the friendship and warm co-operat ion of himself and Mrs . Whalley, the Boat Club aft er the last War could never have developed as it did a nd has done-their house at Marlow was both home and Club to the School crews competing in the Regattas, while it has always been a haven of rest and comfort to any King's School crew that has gone to Marlow. F. S. Whalley will above all be affectionately remembered by those who rowed in the IVs from 1947 to 195 1. They will recall his interest, advice and impertu rbable confidence; and for them Marlow Regatla and rowing itself will lack so mething essent ia l, now llm l he will no longer be present in the Judge's box or watching the racing from his dinghy. hU6
THE CANTUARIAN . F. S. Whalley ca me to the School in tho Michaelmas Term of 1899 precisely contemporary with. 0 K S like Dr. ~harles Bl.ldd and Mr. 1. .G . Petnbro.ok. Another conteml;Orary of that term, Frank Mitclu;lI: has also lecently died: By profeSSion .a n Engll1eer, F. S. Whalley served on the Ind ian State Railways from 1.90~- 1 923, a.n~ m the Royal Engmeers throughout the First World War, reaching the rank of Major and wmnmg ~he MilItary Cross,.besides being twice Mentioned in D espatches. In his younger days he was a keen and sk illed oarsma n, and In 1905 he was a me n~ber of the London Rowing Club VllI which competed for t~e Grand Ch a llen ~e Cup at Henley Regatta. HIS sons inherited his love of the river and we are glad to think that throug~ hiS gra!1dsons, who are duo to come to the School in the next few years, the honoured name . of Whalley Wi ll have ItS place. for many a long day in the Rotulus. The School owes much to the devot ion of these 1 0y~ 1 O.K.S. and Its present members tender with dcep respect their sympathy to Mrs Whalley and her famil y. < â&#x20AC;˘
MA JOR PHILIP HUGH SLATER (1884-1892) With J:egret \~e record the death of P. H. Sla.ter on Augu~t 20th of this year, at his residence in Fleet, l-::!aml?slllfe. Dotll In 1.876 he came to the ~choo lll1 1884; was m the XI for three years, 1890- 92; and ga ined IllS FIves Cap. Leavl11g School, he quallfied as an Accountant but served in the Boer War (East Kent Yeomanry) w~ere he was wounded.; in the First ~orld Wa~ 1;0 saw service with the Dorset Yeomanry p915- 1919) III Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Eas~ Afnea, reachmg the rank of Major and being Mentioned III Despatches. Major Slater was a first-class cncketer-he capta ined Dulwich for 25 years and also Surrey 2nd XI, was a member of the. M.e.c. and once played against a West Indies Test team. He became also a keen golfer a.nd toured Amenca as a memb~r ?f the Seniors Golfing Society. Most of the Major's School conteJ!lporan es l~ave now, a l as,. depart~d th~s life, thou~h some like W. Somerset Maugham, Dr. Etheridge and Sir W. Morns Carter are stili happJly With us. Major Slater had not been in good health for some time and was not , therefore, able to accomplish one thing dear to his heart- to pay a last visit to his old School. We respectfully ex tend our sympathy to Mrs. Slater. PREBENDARY W. N. KEMPE (1902- 07) It was with great regret we heard of the death of Wilfred Noel Kempe on October 17th. Born at Long Ashton, Somerset, C?n qctober 10th, 1887, he came from an old-established Somerset family. As a monitor he made great contrlbuttons both t~ the School's cricket and academic prowess. He won a Parker Exhibition ~o Corpus, Ca rnb~ld ge ,. graduated II} 1910 and received his M.A. in 1919. He entered Cuddesden College In 1910, was ordamed III the followmg year and became a curate at St. James's, Derby. Durin,g the War he was a Chaplain to the Forces in France and then returned to Derby as Vicar of Sf. Andrew s. In 1922 he went once agam to the W~ t as Chaplain to the tra ining ship Formidable at Portishead. In 1 9~4 he beca me Recto ~ of Flax Bourton unltl1932, when he was appointed Vicar of Yatton. After the War In 194? he became Vicar and Rural Dean of Carey until 1952, but then returned to the parish ofWraxhall and Falland and was R~ral Dean of Port ishead from 1953 to 1956. Since 1936 he had been a prebendary of Combe and sub-deacon m Wells Cathedral, and was very act ive on the Diocesan Board of Education. Amongst his manr. and varied interests:,cricket and music ra nked highl ~ . He often dist inguished himself a~ a member of ~h e So.merset ~t raggle rs an~ appeared on ~evera l occasions for his county. Throughout hiS lon~ ~nd a~hve service to. hiS fell ow men m all spheres IllS energy and devotion were outstandi ng To . all survIVing fn ends nne! relatIves we extend our sympathy.
COLONEL JOHN MELVILLE TUKE, R.M., C.D.E. With regret we learned of the de a ~h of Colonel T uke, wh ieh occurred on October 9th of this yea r, when he was 73. He came to the Scllo?i III 1899 .and. passed by direct entry in to the Royal Marine Artillery in 1903. At school he was a good cncketer, bemg m the XI in 1902 a nd 1903, and was also in the XV, playing at full back for Kent two years after. he I ~ft school. Tuke served in H.M.S. Triumph and the Channel Fleet from 1908 to 191.1, ~nd was at De:lh l durmg the Kjng's visit to India, 1911 - 12. He was promotod Captain 11\ 1914 and Major III 1924; dunng W,orld War I he served in H.M.S. Commollwealth and from 1916 in H.M.S. Repulse. The~eafte r he was Assistant Military Instructor at the R.N. D epot at Deal, and from 1925 to 1928 held the aPPol11tment ofln~tructor of Gunner:y at the School of Land Artillery. From 1930 to 1933 he was F.R.~.O. Homo Fl~t, ~n? 10 1934 became DIrector of Naval Recru it ing in London. Colonel Tuke was awarded.the O.B.E. (Md.) mJ 93 1 and the C.B.E. in 1938. 607
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CORRESPONDENCE
To the Editors o/THE
Redway. Dawlish Road, Teignmouth 73t" November, 1958.
CANTUARIAN .
Dear Sirs, Referring to the interesting photographs of "Forty Years Ago" in your issue <?f April, 195~ and to A. J. Lush's letter in that of August last may I suggest the names of some of those In the procession from the Cathedral? Followin R J N Norris and Dyncley Hussey arc, I th ink, A. H . Crowther, J:I. Spence, C. W . Kidson
or O. E. L.gHa~g;Ca~es, H. F. Cannell, another not known, C. C.penman, FI~mtn g-Sandcs. R,. G. Crosse, O. R. Dawbarn, Robin Crowley, F. H. Fardell, K. Lawson Williams, possibly G, W. A. lodet , H. G, Kain, E. F. Smart , S. W, Wayte and poss ibl y A. Sargent. The Verger was the laIc Mr. McClemcns, n perfect Master of Ceremonies. With all good wishes to the School,
Yours truly,
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FLEMING-SANDES.
Dawn Cliff,
Goodwin Road, St. Margaret's Bay, Dover, Kent. December 1st, 1958.
To the Editors
Dear Sirs,
0/ THE CANTUARIAN. THE O.K.S. BURSARSHIP SOCIETY
Th first appeal for funds for the O.K.S. Bursarship Society, which was founded in 1950, was launched . e Th h the generosity of the Governors of the School who gave £640 ,to start {h~t c~~it~~V~~l~~~ ~~~i sorr!"~~~5 O.K.S. who contributed Deeds of Covenants, ~nnual Subscriptions and Donations, the financia l position at the end of the seventh year was as follows.Investments at Cost ... £4,340 0 0
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Five bursaries were awarded during the year to a total annual value of £240. Since Novem~r, 19?7, the current bursaries have been increased in value by £60 p.a. to £300 and £75 has been spent In makmg two ex gratia payments. The second appeal was launched in July this year. h 1 500 e bers of the O.K.S. Association yet only 55 so far have contributed to. t~e fuJgs~res~r~lm%~!t ~e~bcrs feel disturbed whe~ they read ab?ut this lack of support, bec~use It IS our only Chirity, furthermore, it is a personal one which should receive our annual suppo rt no matter how small the contribution. Remembering your days at The K ing's School !Ind. th; good fortun e of being an O.K.S., will you not ay tribute to the Bursarship Society and so keep It alive. Yours truly, P
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THE CMntJARiAN The Library. November 23/"d, 1958. To the Editors O/THE CANTUARIAN. Dear Sirs, 1 feel that your correspondent's letter on the Library, pub lished last term, demands answer. His main criticisms were that one can no longer browse round the shelves, and that fewer books are taken out. His remedy was the introduction of permanent librarians. His letter contains a gra in of truth in that it is less convenient to obta in books at specified times. But it has unfortunately been found necessary to retain the better books in locked sections to keep a better check and to ensu re freer ci rculation. A survey of this term's Register will show that there has been no such drastic drop in thc number of users as was gloom ily foretold by your correspondent. Entries for the first two wecks of last Easter Term- before the old system was terminated- covered some 3t pages; for the sa me period this term over 5 pages are used. But two very important factors were omitted by the writer. First, there seems some degree of apathy in borrowing books; for which the slight inconveniences of the present system are no excuse. The second factor is the content of the Library: for while the sections on History, Art, and English Appreciation arc covered fairly thoroughly, Science and general read ing of a lighter nature leave much to be desired. If this could be rect ified, the Library would, I hope, be more widely used. As a frequent user of the Library I fi nd the present system to be far more helpfu l than the o ld because books nrc much mo re read ily avai lable, and do not disappear to Studies for terms on end. Yours sincerely, C. F. BLACK.
'fh e Grange, The Mint Yard. Ca nterbury. To the Edit o/"~' a/THE CAN fUARJAN. Dear Sirs, I ,1 m alarmed at the current suggestion that by a weekly attendance of two hours a C.S.M . obtains 5 points for the Luxmoore Trophy, tantamount to 36 weeks of work in order to obtain a n "S" level. Th is seems to bear out Disappointed's grieva nce that the scoring system is agley.
Yours faithfullY, J OHN FmLOINU.
Precincts 19, Canterbury. Kent. To the Editors O/THE CANTUA IUAN.
Dear Sirs, In your last issue you published a letter in which " Disappointed" criticised the Luxl1100re Trophy points allocation. His criticisms were answered in the Headmaster's Assembly at the beginning of this term, but for the benefit of your readers outside the School you may wish to print the substance of the reply then made. "Disappointed's" argument ran as follows: his House had enjoyed its best year ever, as shown by its good games record; previously, through the intellectual eminence of a few of its members, who were otherwise of no note, it had come close to winning the Trophy; therefore the Luxmoore Trophy points scheme failed to indicate the standard of a House fairly. The scheme was designed to meet the generally felt demand that the score of a well-balanced House should derive equally from its work a nd from its other act ivities, such as Games, Music, Corps, and Art. With a few exceptions this has come about over a period of some years, and it may therefore be argued quite convincingly that these exceptions were caused by bias in the Houses concerned, and not in the points values.
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Its work points were, indeed , considerably reduced: "Disappointed" may account for this by the departure of a minority of narrow academics, but how docs he account for a very similar drop in Music, Corps,
an d Art points suffered by his House simultaneously? The facts are (and in a longer Ictter could be shown to be) that very few, if any. Scholarship winners, and so forth, are ineffect ive in all other respects; and that the bulk of work points is formed by the accumulat ion of comparatively small contribut ions from all scctions of a House. In attempt ing to refute "Disa ppointed's" argument I do not wish to deny that hi s House bad a very good year; indeed, I believe this to be true. The purpose of the Luxmoore Trophy is to stimulate effort and assess achievement over a wide field of activit ies; and I should say th is purpose is, on the whole, well served by the present points scheme. The question of whether a House has had a good year depends, however, on many factors outside this field. These factors may be very important (and some, of course, are), but they are not capable of being measured and included in the Luxmoore Trophy. Let each House, therefore, have its cake and eat it happily: if it wins the Trophy, then it is clearly the Best House, and no nonsense; but if it is one of the seven others, let it remember the limited scope of the Luxmoore Trophy. Yours fa ithfully,
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. '" OUR CONTEMPORARIES The Editors acknowledge the receipt of the fo llowing magazines and apologise for any omissions:The BarrOl'iall, The Be/wilden Schoof Magazine, Bradfield College Chrollicle, T,l e Campbelliall, The Cheltenham Ladies' College Magazille, The Cho/meldan, The Chronicle, The City of London School Magazine, The Crallbrookian , Th e DOI'orian , Sr. Edward's School Chronicle, The Elizabethall, Th e Epsomiall, The Felstediall, Glenafmond Chronicle, The Gresham, The Haileybllriall alld I.S.C. Chrollicle, The HlIrst-Johnial1, King's College School, The Killg's School Magazine, The Latymerian, The Lawrelltian, The Lorrettollian, The Mar/burian, The Malvernioll, Th e Meleor, The Milner COllrl Chronicle, Mill Hill Magazine, The Novaporliall, Th e Ollsel, Th e Rad/eiall, The Reptonian, The Roedeall School Magazine, Th e Roffel/siall, The School Tie, Th e StollY/lllrsl Magazille, The Storlfordiall , The SII110lli(lll, The TOllbridgiall, The Wish Stream, The Worksopiall.
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ILLUSTRATIONS :A WELCOME TO THE CHURCH ARMY, 1936 ... front ispiece SUB- LI EUT. J. P. D. MOORE (O.K.S.) RECEIVING TH E NEW COLOUR FROM H.R.H. THE DUKE OF EDI NBURG H ... 640 64 1 RICHARD BOYLE, EARL OF CORK ... 648 THE NEWLY-RESTORED SOUTH-WEST PORCH 649 ST. ANSELM'S TOWER 674 1ST XI, 1959
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EDITORIAL TRADITION
Like many institutions which seem always to have been part of English life, the majority of the public schools as we know them date only from the last century. Yet if one had to single out some one feature by which they were known to the outside world, particularly perhaps to those who have not been to a public school, it would be tradition. To the popular press, it is the odd clothes, curious customs and antiquated privileges which seem to capture the imagination. To others, it is the solid conservatism and orthodoxy of tradition which appeals: for rigid convention and lack of flexibility guarantee that an institution is respectable, and to less intelligent people even seem to guarantee that it is morally sound. Others again, we fear, are influenced by the value which society sets upon tradition and establishment; and regard established public schools as trump cards in the game of social power and economic security, cards which they alone can play because they have been to such schools.
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If that were the full meaning of tradition, we might well despise it. But the public schools are primarily neither amusing archaisms, nor guarantors of the precious respectability of the upper classes, nor yet a sort of national insurance for the wealthy. They are serving communities, and like other such communities, such as the Royal Navy or the medical profession, their tradition is a tradition of service- not a tradition of privilege. For the public schools are not justified entirely by their existing prestige or performances: they are justified by their past and their future. Every school looks back to its past- has it lived up to the intentions of its founders, justified the generosity of its benefactors ?- and forward to its future- how can it continue to give service in a changing world, equip its pupils to master the complexity of life and yet to retain their ideals? Basically, a school consists of its pupils, past, present and future. No boy has learned anything of true tradition who thinks of his school as a sort of machine through which he passes (whether pleasantly or unpleasantly, with success or without it, is irrelevant) on his own road to success. He must be aware of the community as permanent, in an important sense: existing through time, moving towards a future yet unknown but dependent upon his' own actions and choices. It is his awareness of this permanent tradition, and his use of that awareness, that will shape the future. We cannot build a sane, Christian world without a firm basis of tradition and communal service. It is more than mere knowledge of the past, or a long pedigree : it is the feeling of being part of the past, and destined for the future. This feeling is the moral capital on which all sound morality and wise reform depends-capital which the world is spending faster than it is acquiring. We should do well not to take it for granted.
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THE SCHOOL Head Head Head Head Head Head Head Head
Captain of the School : J. C. G. SMITH, K.S. of School House J. C. G. SMITH, K.S. of Walpole House D. G. JONES of Linacre House ... A. A. J. WILLIAMS, K.S. of The Grange C. F. GRAHAM of Galpin's House ... H. K. BRAY of Luxmoore House P. H. GORDON of Marlowe House .. . J. R. A. BIRD of Meister Omers ... A. T. SELMAN
SCHOOL MONITORS J. C. G. SM ITH, K.S., D. G. JONES, M. R. JENNER, A. A. J. WILLIAMS, K.S., C. F. GRAHAM, H. K. BRAY, P. H. GORDON, J. R. A. BIRD HOUSE MONITORS The School House: D. R. S. ANDERSON, K.S., G. S. BROCK, K.S., A. W. BUDGEN, K.S., J. V. WATSON D. H. B. CHESSHYRE, S. C. FARMER, K.S., J. B. S. FIELDING, K.S. The Grange : R. E. F. MI NNS, W. E. J. MI NNS, C. G. RUDG UARD, K.S., M. F. Walpole HOllse: SULLIVAN, K.S., P. F. W. VENN A. T. SELMA N (Head of House), C. J. MULFORD, 1. A. MURDOCH, Meister Omers: N. G. A. PAYNE, L. A. WARWICK-EvANS, K.S. J. D. MACILDOWIE, K.S., R. ROWE, R. F. L. WOOD, W. D. McNICOLL, Luxmoore House: G. C. PRITCHARD H. L. FOSTER, P. J. B. GRAINGER, K.S., C. D. POWELL, C. A. RACTLlFF, Galpin's House: R. C. TOOTH Linac..e HOllse: C. R. BROWN, 1'. H . HOLMES-JOHNSON, D. G. O'CLEE, R. W. HOUGHTON, K.S., H. J. RAWLI NSON, D. K. THORPE, K.S. Marlowe House: A. G. S. DOUGLAS, B. S. GUARD, F. A. ROCKLEY, K.S., A. C. RUSSELL Captain of Hockey D. G. JONES Captain of Athletics A. A. J. WILLIAMS Captai n of Boats ... S. C. FARMER Captain of Squash Rackets M. R. JENNER J. RODWELL Captain of Cross-Country Running Captain of Fencing B. S. G UARD
SALVETE Barnett, P. M., Christie, J. S., Chrichton, R. C., Eve, D. C. L. , Field, R. c., Goodfellow, D ., Gully, E. J. H. G., Hessey, G. A., Hopkms, A. J. , How, R. E., H~ll , M. D. , MastertonSmith, R. P. A., Matthews, T. D. G. , Peek, R. M., RevlOgton, J. 0 H., RIckards, A. D., Sherwood , P. M. A., Somers, R. , Southam, P. L. D., Temple, D. W. A. L. , Tester, M. J. , Wallon, D. N. T. 61 7
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VALETE Freedman, J . R., Hadfield, M. , Hale, G. W. F. , Iggulden, R. E. , Jennings, R. A., Kemp, C. N., Knott, R. D. , Locke, D. G. E., Marshall, A. D. T., Moss, D. B., Sharp, J. R., Turner, M. R., Webster, F. , White, A. J. C., Woodman, R. K.
VIRTUTE FUNCTI MORE PATRUM DUCES BILLINGHURST, M. E.- Entered School, Sept., ' 53; Galpil'\'s House Monitor; 2nd VIII Rowing Colours; Lance-Sergeant, C.C.F.; Upper VI. BREE, D . S.- Entered School, Sept., '53; School House Monitor ; Han. King's Scholar; Petty Officer R .N. Sect ion C.C.F. ; Open Scholarship in Mathematics to Gonvi lle and Caius College, Cambridge; Upper VI. HAM, M. D.- Entered School, Sept. , '53; Galpin's House Monitor; Sergeant, C.C.F.; Upper VI. H USSEY, J. F. E. D.- Entered School, Sept., '54 ; Kin g' s Schola r, ' 54; Meister Omers House Monitor, Ju ne, '58; Head of House, Sept. , '58 ; 2nd XV Colours, ' 57, '58; 2nd XI Cricket Colours, '58 ; Squash V Colours, '57, '58; A.B., Na val Section C.C.F. , Dec., '57; Upper VI. NASH, R . N .- Entered J.K.S., May, '48; K.S. , Jan ., '53; School Ho use Mon itor; 2nd XV Colours, '57, '58; LICadet, R.A.F. Section , C.C.F. PAWSEY, R. H.- Entered J.K.S., May, '48; K.S., Sept. , ' 53; School House Monitor; 2nd XV Colo urs; c.P.O. , Nava l Section, C.C.F.; Upper VI. WORTLEY, C. M. G.- Entered School, Sept., '54 ; Milner Exh ibition, Sept., ' 54; Han. King's Scholar, Sept. , '58 ; Linacre House Monitor, Sept., '58; 2nd XV Colours, '57; jst XV Colours, '58; Swimm ing Colours, Jul y, '55 ; Vice-Captain Swimming, June, '57; Sergeant, R.A.F. Section, C.C.F., Sept., '54; State Scholarship ill Science; Upper VI.
THIS AND THAT Kellogg's Gifts
Instead of the rather charming assortment of British naval uniforms, etc., with which we have long been accustomed to console ourselves over breakfast, this term these have ass umed a markedly dangerous character. The back of a corn flakes packet can now become a catherine wheel of cardboard, whirling
at alarming velocity, popularly kno wn as a "Spinzip". These wou ld appear lo attract even the most sen ior scholars.
In our last issue we published two photographs of the new Bossanyi windows. By way of contrast, this term there is the restored South-West Porch above the keystone of wh ich can be seen inset, a small triptych taken from the Martyrdom when it was dismantled, and said to bear the marks of the swords of Becket's killers; and St. Anselm's Tower, on which restoration work has now begun. The Cloisters are being steadi ly repa ired. The wo rk of the Chapter's stonemasons in the Cloisters is particularly remarkable. These afTer food for thought o n the eternal controversy of new styles versus preserva tion in architect ure. Jt wou ld appear that both have their value, and the school has recent ly subscribed ÂŁ75 towards the repairs. The Cathedral Restorations
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Artistic Distinction
Congratulations to M. J. A. Simpson for gaining an award at the BntIsh Schoolboys' Exhibition in London.
During the winter terms several lights have sprung up around the Assembly Hall. One appeared beneath each Grecian urn in the Lattergate garden and two on the walls of the hall Itself. We beglll to wonder whether the Great Hall will be floodlit during the summer mOllths.
TJights
The n.um~er of mast~rs wh? have recently had their names in the local press for bClIlg 111 trouble WIth thcll' cars, is very high. But we do not include amongst them the master who struck a van with his car because he was described as a King's Scholar on a bicycle. We hear some masters are now taking driving lessons. Disguise
The,se ,a re becoming increasingly numerous, vociferous and messy. At the l:ljgeons ~eg1l11l1111? of term. a l ar~c nllm~e r were cleared out of the Grange roof. There . . IS one wIse old bI rd WIth a tl1ll'st for knowledge, who has made two daring entnes II1tO the Durnford. On both ?ccaslons he was successfully repulsed by a somewhat host"e hIstory master. The bll'd IS st"l very mllch al ive. One section of the Biology department wou ld be very grateful for a suitable item for dissection, but we would warn all prospective pigeon hunters that there are undoubtedly endless formalities to be fulfilled before they may start. Sermons . .
We were very pleased to welcome two preachers new to the School this termthe Revd. H. E. Root, Fellow and Dean of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and the Revd. L. J . Colhns, Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral. We hope they will
VI Sit us again soon .
We are very grateful to C . C. Lloyd Jones for sending us a copy of VielVs of Sketches of the King's School, Canterbury, sketched in pen and ink by S. O'Neill. The the School book, which was published in 1909, has been placed in the Library. It is . inter~sting to note that it contai ns an extract from the School Song Book, about whIch the ed Itors would welcome further in format ion. Easter Epidemics . deC Ided that
Within . the first f<?rtni ght of term the School was struck by a particularly VICIOUS attack of mftuenza, which was soon followed by measles. By half term al most half the School had been ill and many boys had gone home. Since neither a whole-holiday nor good weather revived us, the doctor we were too weak to have sports and advised us to go home early. We did.
We congratulate the Reverend and Mrs. A. B. Cmory on the birth of their daughter Susan PatncIa on February 3rd ; Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Sugden all the birth of a son, Charles Edward, on January 9th; and Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Wen ley on the birth of their daughter, Mary Ruth , on January 31st.
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Confirmation
On Saturday, 7th March, in the Cathedral, the Archbishop confirmed about 100 boys from both the Senior and Junior Schools.
This was held all the 9th January, 1959, at the Connaught Rooms, London. The following gentlemen attended:- P. Abbey, M. G. Bakel', R. L Baker, D. Barber, E. K. Barber, P. S. Barber, J. M. Beau gi6, R . E. L. Beardsworth, J . Bennett, M. Bibby, J. S. Bi llinghurst, R. Breffit, M. E. C. Brown , G. C. L. Buckwell, C. H. Budd, M. A. S. Burgess, A. D. M. Burr, G. Buston, J. C. Corben, E. H. Cornelius, J. H. Corner, C. McK. Cray, D. S. Davies, R. H. T. D awkins, K. B. Dickson, D. L. Edwards, D. M. Edwards, D. J. Eva ns, C. Fielding, Raymond A. Finn, Richard A. Finn, R. C. U. Fisher, D. W. Fitchett, T. F leming-Sandes, v.e., J. A. Flower, J. A. Flower (Jnr.), A. FoxMale, N. H . Freeman, A. M. Gelsthorpe, M. J. H. Girling, N. D . Gillett, J. L. A. Gimblett, D. S. Goodes, A. T. GaskaI', D . C. Graham, B. W. G raves, A. J . Grey, D . Haines, T. Hamilton, F. R . Hamp, Lord Ha rdinge, J. M. C. H arke, T. N . H arke, J. B. Harris, J. P. Heming, S. W. Hinds, M . Herbert, E. G. Housden, G. M. Housden, B. Isbill, R. T. Izard, G. B. Jackson, T. Jardine Brown, D. J. B. Jervis, L. Joseph , D . F. Kellie, B. G . King, C. N. Laine, W. J. La ncashire, C. E. Latter, J. S. Linnell, J. J. Lewis, R. McCall, D. E. Mellish, B. E. Money, M . R. Moore, C. M organ, P. H. Moss, J . D. Neil, R. H. Osborne, J. R. E. Paynter, P. Pollak, D. A. R. Poole, M. J. Price, A. J. Redpath, J. P. Richardson, R . D. H. Roberts, K. S. Robinson, C. N . Rya n, R. B. Ryeland, J. E. L. Sales, A. Sargent, J. S. Savery, N. H . Scott, A. H . Shelswell, Ca non F. J. Shirley (Headmaster), F. L. Sidebotham, J. M. Skinner, J. C. G. Smith, H. A. Smith, S. S. Sopwith, H. Spence, T. Stapleton, D. C. C. Stevenson, R. F. Stiles, C. R . Sinclair, H. A. Smith, J. C. Trice, M. Warrander, A. T . Webb, R. H. Williams, A. D . Wilson, C. Worsfold , N. J. B. Wright, G . A. Young, J. S. Young, W. C. Young.
The Annual Dinner of the O.K.S. Association
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The first annual O.K.S. dinner at Canterbury, will take place on Saturday, October 24th.
We congratulate R. M. Sutton on his Oxford Hockey Blue and A. H. M. Hoare on two English Trial Caps for Rugby Football; three O.K.S. who appeared in the New Year Honours' List :- H. A. S. Johnston, D.D. E., n. r.c ., Permanent Secretary to the Premier, Northern Region, Nigeria, created C.M.G.; Group-Capta in D . E. B. Wheller, D.F.e., R.A.F. (ret.), created C.B.E. ; and Major E . F. Housden, M. e ., T.D. , who was awarded the O. B.E.; also A. N. A. Browner, Scholar of Christ Church Oxford, on the award of a Harmsworth Entrance Exhibition to the Middle Temple ; D. G. Hazelton, who has gained entry to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst ; Major S. A. R. Cawston, who has passed a course in Arabic at the Staff College at Camberley; and R. D. A. Norris on being again capped for England at HOCkey.
Congratulations to O.K.s.
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Scholarships
The follo wing awards have been gained so far:-
D . S. Bree W. A. Hodges C. E. Maloney P. R. S. Mansergh F. A. Rockley C. M. G. Wortley G. W. Lane N. D. Gillett G. S. Brock T. J. Stevens W. A. Hodges C. E. Malo ney D. S. Bree A. N. A. Browner P. R. S. Mansergh P. J. B. Grainger M. F. Sullivan
Lieutenant J. A. R. Ferguson
State Scholarship in Science. State Scholarship in Classics. State Scholarship in Science. State Scholarship in History. State Scholarship in Science. State Scholarship in Science. State Scholarship in History. Kitchener Scholarship to Trinity College, D ublin. Open Scholarship in Modern History to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Open History Exhibition to Hertford College, Oxford. Hastings-Rashall Scholarship to New College, Oxford in Classics and Divinity. Open Exhibition in N atu ral Science to King's College, Cambridge. Open Scholarship in Mathematics to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Scholar of Christ Church, Oxford ; and Harmsworth Entrance Exhibition, Middle Temple. Open Exhibition in History to M agdalen College, Oxford. Open Scholarsh.ip in History to Lincoln College, Oxford. Open Exhibition in History to Jesus College, Oxford.
Through the kindness of a friend of the Ferguson family, Miss Smith of Crowborough, we now have the medals of Ross Ferguson, which will be displayed with the war medals of other O.K.S. in the Societies' Room.
Ross Ferguson came to the School in 1911 a nd joined up straight from the O.T.C. Camp in July, 1914 at the age of 17. He was commissioned in the Royal Sussex Regiment, attached to the King's OWIl Yorkshire Light Infantry, and fell gallantly on 8th May, 1915, four days before his eighteenth birthday. Many O.K.S. will remember his mother, who lived in The Precincts and who looked after the flowers of the Cathedral for so many years with the greatest artistry and skill.
Many people will have been sorry to learn of the sudden death of Mr. Devas at the age of 47. He had become an A.R.A. in 1953 and was obviously in the forefront of England's portrait painters. One of his last commissions was to paint the Queen in 1957. Three years before that, he had painted, among others, the portrait of the Headmaster which hangs in the new Hall. Mr. Antony Devas
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THE CANTUARIAN We venture to congratulate Mr. A. B. Emden on the completion of Volume III of his great work A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500, published by the Oxford Press at 8 guineas; a copy of which has been presented to the Cathed ral Library by the author. The same Press has also published Poets in their Letters, by Mr. Emden's younger brother, C. S. Emden. Recently John Murray has published another travel book by Patrick Leigh Fermor entitled Mani, and li ke the preceding travel books of Mr. Leigh Fermor, it is completely fascinating and cannot be too highly commended. O.K.S. Authors
The Greyfriars
We understand that recently the Dean and Chapter have purchased the ancient Greyfdars on the River Stour, believed to be the first habitation set up in this country by the Franciscans.
As we mentioned in the last issue, Mr. J. G. Sugden leaves us at the end of this term to become a Headmaster. Mr. Sugden will be very much missed, not least for his work in the music of the School and for his superb productions of the Savoy Operas. We are very grateful to him .for all he has done and wish him and Mrs. Sugden everything that is good in their new sphere. Next term, Mr. Clarence Myersco ugh will join the Music StatT as a visiting Master to fill Mr. Sugden's place. Mr. Mye rscough , who has studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Frederick Grinkc, was the Winner of the National Federation of Music Festivals All England Violin Competition in 1951 (at which Miles Baster was the runner-up); and after winning a French Government award studied for two years at the Paris Conservatoire. Masters
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We are very grateful to Miss C. Brown of SI. Nicholas's, Harbledown, for the most handsome gift of the four volumes of the recently published Times' Atlas of the World. They are superb volumes and extremely expensive, so we a re more than grateful. A Handsome Gift
As stated in our last issue, the School at one time had a handsome collection of coins which mysteriously disappeared during the years of the War. A few coins have been given to the Headmaster from time to time and it is conceivable that a new collection can be built up. This indeed has now been made more than possible by the kindness of Mrs. Slater, widow of Major P. H. Slater, O.K.S., who has recently presented to the School a considerable number of coins. Major Slater had already, in his life-time, given us a superb collection of butterflies and moths, and we are more than glad to have the coins, which will certainly enable us to begin to establish a worthy collection. Coin Collection
We are very grateful to W. H. Bird, O.K.S., for a further gift of books for the Librar)" and for the House and SanatOl;ium Libraries. .We particularly apprecIate a most mterestmg copy of Henry s BIble whIch ol'lgmally belonged to an O.K.S. family named Fleet. James Fleet the elder was a landowner, farmer and brewer of St urry, who entered the School in 1848 at the age of ten. He had
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THE CANTUARIAN two sons, James Austen (his mother was an Austen) and Arthur Edward (or Edward Arthur according to the Register), both of whom came to the School in 1878 when James was 12 and his brother 10. James left in February, 1880, and went to 'a tutor. He subsequently entered the family brewery at Ramsgate, but after a yea r or two went to Australia, where he became a " Boundary rider". Many years later he returned to England, where he died in 1948. Edward left School in December, 1844, and joined his father in the management of three fanns at Blean and Sturry. One of these, Well Court, Blean, had been in the family for some three hundred years. He married a Miss Edith Pilcher, a descendant on the maternal side of Dean Wotton, and died in 1950. It was a pleasure to get in tOllch , through C. D. Dawson , O.K.S" with a former
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Sister of the Sanatorium, Miss Margaret Hepple, who now li ves at Queen Mary's House, 7 Hollington Park Road, St. Leonard's-on-Sea. Miss Hepple wrote to the Headmaster just before Ch ristmas: "I am delighted to have news of King's School after all these years and that it is in such a flouri shing state. I have always a very warm corner in my heart for The King's School boys, they were a grand crowd and very lova ble" . Miss Hepple asked to be remembered to Mr. J. B. Harris and was much interested in the last issue of The Cantuarian. It was interesting to read in The Times of 23rd December last an appreciation of The XV this year's side .. Their correspondent remarked: "Whether by chance or design . six of the outSIdes were also the best cricketers in the School which probably ex Ilia illS why the handlIng was consIstently good". It is good to see that some people belIeve that one game can help another as against all this present-day trend of specialisation even in games, so if yo u row you cannot be a good footballer because you use ditTerent muscles and if yo u do this then you cannot do that.
Those who were here in his time will be glad that MI'. R. F. Glover has been appointed Headmaster of Monmouth School. After some vigorous years here, he became Headmaster of Adams School, Newport, and now goes to Monmouth, where we all wish him success. A New Headmaster
Two Awa rds
T. C. Good has been awarded a Violin Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music and R. Rowe has won a n Exhibition in Natural Science to Southampton Univel sity.
Consistent Service
Principal William Robertson
The School maintains its record of providing four members of the National Youth Orchestra- J. K. Polmear (Oboe), T. C. Good (Violin), A. G. Wickens (Violin), and C. B. Seaman (Percussion). By the kindness of hi s descendants, the Misses Russell, a charming XVIIIth century portrai t of Principal Robertson, the great historian, and perhaps the most distinguished of all the Principals of Edinburgh University, has been given to the School. [See elsewhere ill this issue.] 6~3
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THE REVEREND CANON J. M. C. CRUM John Macleod Campbell Crum was a Residentiary Canon here from 1928 to 1943. He will be vividly remembered by every O.K.S. from 1928 until the May of 1940 when the School went to Cornwall, and we heard him preach no more. He was more welcome to the boys as a preacher than a nybody else at all: he was whimsical, full of fancies, imageries and allegories-the most picturesq ue in mind of all preachers; yet all the whimsicality and the imagi native power pointed clear to the truth. Truth was truth ; for Crum things were black or they we re white ; he could not put up wi th greys, with half truths a nd excuses. His mind was clear, rapier-li ke: a nd so, if needed, could hi s speech be. He could tolerate the shabby and the fal se, where it was due to igno rance or weakness; but could not live with it where it was deliberately chosen. I first saw Crum when as a boy of eleven [ was confirmed; he was the Chaplain of Francis Paget, Bishop of Oxford; his clear, high-
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years were to pass before I ever saw him again, and came to live as his neighbour. He looked to me not a day older, and that voice remained uncha nged. Really, of course-besides being a devout and holy man- he was a poet, and dwelt in the heavens. Maybe that is why he could skip about so actively on the Cathedral roof, sa untering along those horridly narrow ledges whe re few people dared to go, . thinking nothing of it, and as often as not leading a collection of boys, whi le those of us who dwelt on the ground-floor and were responsible for them to their parents prayed for their safety. But they we re always safe. I should think Crum was a Tractarian or old-fas hioned high Churchman- never interested in 'things like vestments and dressing-up, but rooted in the reality of the Incarnation of the Son of God. He was perhaps never absen t from the daily Communion- and would be there a long time before anyone else, even before the Vergers opened the Church, and a long time after: to all appearance oblivio us to anything, but the eyes of his soul fastened on Christ, the man-in-God and the God-in-man , who is Love Itself; and so because of the Incarnate Love the secular is mixed with the sacred and the sacred with the secular. Crum loved the Word: and he loved words- rumour had it that ten minutes sufficed for The Times Cross-ward- he loved understanding, and he loved the Spirit of Love itself. So his love of words and nat ural sense of rhythm led him to write poetry which was always dexterous, and often far more than that. He could rival Thomas Barham: "They're all quite accustomed to hanging their enemies: And here is George Wither, His neck in the halter, George Wither, so calm; He is saying a psalm: He is using the Puritan Metrical Psa lter: George Wither is calm . But in a nguish John Denham is." Or in more serious vein produce the lovely rhyt hmic pattern of Sound on and on. Yet bells do change Their web of sound they complicate And they arrange and rearrange
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His love of understanding led him to important original work in the field of Biblical criticism: his pamphlet "The Rhythmical Sayings of Our Lord" makes out a strong and significant c~~e for an underlying stratum of poetry and rhythm behind Jesus' recorded words- an ongmal method of approach from which there is still much fru it to be gathered. But probably it is his feel ing for Love itself wh ich best reveals his own character. He died on D ecember 19th last at the age of 86 and till the last moment was at w,? rk .on a poe~ o.n Aga~e-the ::Iov.o" which is the subject-matter of St. Paul's I Cormthlans 13- hls falf copy ISdated, Fnday, December 19". In this poem he "suggests that Chantas, so spelt
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Charis is lighting up his face, ' And then there is light in all the place."
THE CAROL~SERVICE The Carol Service given in the Choir of the Cathedral all the last afternoon of the Christmas Term turned out to be a rich and varied collection of Christmas music. With but two Readings and one short group of prayers, surely this resembles a Carol Recital, and not a ServIce. AlbeIt, there was a well-arranged variety of contrasting groups taking part. Amongst the new delIghts was the participation of the whole School in the chorus of Past Three O'clock. The Madrigal Society, some thirty strong, showed their considerable talent III two contemporary compOSItIOns: A Hymn to the Virgin by Benjamin Britten, and Welcome Yule by John Joubert. T hIS last work proved a veritable tour de jorce, and the Vll'lUOSlty of the unac~ompallled wnting was put over brilliantly. A solo quartet for the Lat~n .phrases In BrItten s macaromc carol was most effective. New carols sung by the chOIr IIlciuded a German one, All my heart this night rejoices and the beautiful Sleep Baby Sleep of Vaughan Williams. ' , , 625
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WALKING IN THE ALPS J. H . WALKER, EsQ. The first reaction of this writer to Mr. Walker's lecture is one of gratitude to him for transporting us from the foggy misery of the English winter to the crisp, envigorating air and breathtaking splendour of the Alps. This small miracle was achieved partly by the speaker's narrative but mai nly by his slides. The content of Mr. Walker's lecture was admirable. The anecdotes of his experiences in the Alps ranged from the hilarious to the sublime, from careering down the mountainside on a hunk of frozen snow hacked away by his guide, to being taken as a Russian spy in an Italian alp during the war. However, this was not merely entertainment. Paying tribute to the pioneering instinct in man, Mr. Wa lker showed that in this age where everything can be explained by scientific analysis, it is still possible to find a time and place to experience wonder, a quality which is playing too little part in our lives today. The most pleasing feature of the evening was Mr. Walker's slides, as beautiful in black and white as in colour. Though he tended to dwell on pictures with a personal interest or story behind them, so that a view of an ugly a lpine hut stayed on the screen three times as long as a breath-taking view of the Matter horn, the awe-inspiring grande ur of the alpine scenery could be fully experienced even in the darkened Assembly Hall. With the final view of a ray of sunlight flooding an alpine valley, the most hardened a mongst us must have felt the revere nce experienced by the great mountaineers of the past for the "pillars of nature". After a fascinat ing journey we were Fmally brought back with in the four walls of the hall with three cheers for Mr. Walker.
ROMAN AFRICA On March 10th, Mrs. O. Brogan, an eminent authority on Roman provincial life, gave a lecture to the Upper School on Roman Africa, where she has recently been excavating. She started by explaining the geographical features and the special problems presented by the area. Little was said about Punic Carthage, which Scipio effecti vely destroyed. She pointed out, however, that they practiced infant sacrifice on a similar basis to that of the Old Testament story of Abraham and Isaac. Unfortunately she did not have time to develop the implications of th is similarity. The slides illustrated most aspects of Rom an life in the cou ntry and in the towns of Leptis and Timgad. The great aq ueducts, cisterns and cities testified not only to the greatness of Roman engineering, but to widespread Roman culture. The importance of Roman Africa, she pointed out, was in its corn supplies, which rivalled Egypt, and its olive oil, which is still one of the chief industries- though not on the sa me scale. Several impressive pictures of the excavated cities illustrated the great vigo ur of the architecture in the late Hellenistic world. Many sites, however, needed a little reconstruction so that the numerous fragments would appear where possible in their original positions. The systematic lay-out of the cities and outposts, wh ich combi ned farming and fighting, clearly illustrated the efficiency and organisi ng power of the Roman Empire. 626
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Her colour slides, although small, brought out the beauty of the texture of the stone. This was especially noticeable in the slide of some fine variegated columns of different marbles. Twice as long a talk would barely have done justice to all the interesting points raised. Although she showed slides of many buildings, pressure of time allowed little discussion of socia l, economic and religious life. However, the apt line, "To bathe, to hunt, to play ga mes- that is li fe", seemed to sum up the first and was well illustrated by a mosaic of a hunting scene, The even ing was well spent and we arc very grateful to Mrs. Brogan for dcpicting so clearly a vital part of the Rom an Empire which is often passed over. TJ .S.
WILTON PARK CONFERENCE To explain the aims and functions of the conference I quote from the pamphlet outlining the programme to be undertaken : "Wilton Park is a British contribution to the formation of an informed European public In the service of greater European co-operation, it offers those who influence opin ion in their own countr ies an opportun ity of exchanging views on political, economic and social questions of common European concern. Within this framework , special attention will be devoted during the Eleventh Conference to: Problems of European Economic Unity," opinion.
During the fortnight of their visit to thi s country fifteen members of the conference, from mini stries in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, paid a two day visit to Canterbury. They arri ved on Sunday evening and took part in a discussion , in the form ofa brains trust with twe nty members of the Upper Sixth. On Monday they were shewn round the Cathedral and School, and then lunched with the Mayor, to discuss problems of local government with Mem bers of the Borough Council. The brains trust took place in the Societies' Room and developed into a lively discussion, not noticeably hampered by the need for an interpreter, thanks to his efficiency. Questions ranged from political and social to such as: "What are the duties and position of the Ca ptain of the School ?". To which someone replied: " I will not a nswer for the duties, but it is certain ly the position in wh ich he can get away with the least work". After the brains trust we continued the discussion in a more informal manner over coffee and bi gcuits, and then accompanied our guests back to their hotel.
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SOME POEMS OF GERALD CLAYPOLE, 1937 In 1937 a small volume of poems was beautifully printed by the Shakespeare Head Press and was on sale at Blackwell's of Oxford . These poems were written by Gerald Claypole, O.K.S., and have never received any notice in The Cantuarion, and were unknown to the School until one of Claypole's contemporaries sent a copy to the Headmaster early thi s yea r. Claypole was Captain of the School in 1912 ; he gained an open Classical scholarship at St. John's College, Oxford, and took his F inals in Engli sh Literature. He reti red las t July afte r being English Master, first at Birkenhead School, and later at King Edward VII School, Sheffield. The story is told that in his last yea r at K ing's he wrote a pseudonymous letter to The Canluarian, of which he was editor, deploring the compulsory attenda nce of the School every Sunday at the then incredi bly lengthy Cathedral Mattins. The Dean and Chapter took so d im a view of th is that they insisted that the issue should be withdrawn, and reprinted wi thout this subversive suggestion. Plus .~ a change, plus c'es f differen t. This episode is mentioned because there is in these poems a di stinct fla vour of antiEstablishment sentiment of twcnty-two years ago, even if the " dissentients" of today might scorn many of his aspirations. The tone of his recurring th.eme is set in the first poem in the book, Success: They say to me: 'It's time you were better known; stir up the news', they say curling up their minds at my quiescence . .. When the headmaster enters the form sta nds up. 'Don' t you sec', they say, 'the advantage of being sliccessful 1' And the answer is: 'I like to make long plans 1 shall never keep to, where brittleness troubles no world but my own ... 'I like the humours of the weather to dapple my thinking, to wash it Qut sometimes and kiss it back to kindness . .. 'How should I find time to greet my friends if office and contract and duty were sitting on the door-step ? ... 'Therefore 1 will not barter my irresponsibility to be spot-lit in a public draught on a dusty stage.' Procession, too, attacks the conventions of the contemporary life of the 1930's, which are by no means altogether out of date : Bring me my burning bow ! Bring lusty arrows! Bring me the father of All the umbrellas ... But watch the procession (Dance music broadcasted) 'Blind mouths' in full session, Meadows suburb-blasted. Rust fouling the ship-yards, F lick-queues growing thicker, Cod-faces gorping At crimes sweeps and soccer.
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And the other side or the p icture is seen in the invitations to leave the city for the re-creatioll of the country, in which there are found echoes of Gerald Manley Hopkins : Come gently, openly slipping out of the currents of the city ... Praise God for the wi nd wind loud, crude and capricious, whil?cord wind on the shaven fell ~, in the piled a nd passing clouds, dnvmg the level ram, fillIng the gtlls wIth clamour tossing their hairlike a sea-wave's. ' Returning in the evening, keener and chaster, to burnish sharp edges of mountains and men To set them razor-true, against heaven's paling blue, ' confirmed, earth-rooted, over the violet velvet shadows of vall eyed ease and dunged content. One poem , Country DacIaI', seems to be reminiscent of his boyhood days when he lived on Stone Street, with its opening lines : The doctor's ear purred on simply, infa lli bly, across cur t angles of the country, by Much Marde, Stelling Minnis and Bosbury Crucis, as rcady a serva nt of the driver's sensitive hand as his forceps, his thermometer, or his dispenser. And in another vein is : Howl, howl, ye hurricanoes, cried Lear, marooned on his passion's isle and looking for sympathy. This night, too, the cat-winds are out, but their secular ululations send me to sleep. So pass the frenzies of romantic peoples, their striped and scalding passions, into history. Nature unconsciously records their rant, anyone may put a needle to it but no one will. And even God, who created human tragedy may become civilized ' when men are. . And From the Corridor (Thank God 1 had the wit to snatch Standing room on the 11 .30) IS a good summary of the theme and technique of a poet whom we are glad to acknowledge so belatedly : . Like tethered clerks the proletarian sheep Spnnkle the pasture, nibbling their daily keep: (Confetti's sprinkled in the corridor :) The Roman built that road; no grass can blur Its ruthless canon; so steel spires Lead now their myriad-volted wires. 629
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Convict hens in wire-barracks : rooks, Like blow-flies, settling: ducks' siesta : (two Fat passengers j a mmed:) a wry-neck cow that looks Madly gazelle-like- That's my mOVIe; who Can beat it? .... Cabbage-patch, agam: Brakes; gasometer: good-bye, train.
SOME IDEAS ON MUSICAL APPRECIATION SO much j argon is being written on the backs o f lon.g-playing record s and elsewhere on the art of "unders tandin g" music that a reconsideratIOn of first p1'1I1clpies seems highly desirable. When yo u read that Sch umann's Piano Concerto expr esses his love for Clara, that Tchaikowsky's Pallllitique Symphony expresses Love, Life, DIsillusionment and Death, or that the felicity of Mendel sso hn' s life is reflected in his gay, bubbling music- beware! Similarly, when you read that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony belongs to. IllS later perIOd and that it represen ts a revolutio nary step in the development of symphonic form, do not gasp with incomprehension at this apparent profunditY- ill th e words of Professo r Hlggms: "Throw the baggage out!". These obser vations may be very interesting, but they are nothing to do with the music. Because of a comple tel y wron g approach, the average person has an enormo us inferiority complex about music. Some people become positively neurotic, insistin g that they "don' t know anything abo ut" music: they don' t " understa nd" the " heavy stuff": Thc idea that music must be "understood" is quile in iquitous. Lt would mtcrest a SCienti st to know that cer tain decibels of sound produce certain harmonics ; it wou ld in terest the student of harmony to know that this wa s a harmonic triad and that wa s a diminished seventh : it wou ld interest no-one to k now that Beethoven had toothache and that because of that he was inspi red to write the Fifth Symphony . The average music-love r collects reco rd s; does he find a single helpful pa ragraph on the cover advising him of the music:s characteristics? Not a bit of it!- he reads that Brahms' superb handllllg of Ills thematiC material moving through an enormous range of harmonic moods produces a tightly-knit first movement or that the masterstroke of the whole sy mphony is the superbly integrated coda. Confused and rather depressed , he puts down the record covel'. " If only I could understand it," he thinks. This feeling of inferiority results from a scientific approach. Music is art and should be treated as such. Hence in musical appreciation technical details can be kept to the minimum. The listener wi ll not need a lecture on symphonic form to appreciate the ÂŁroica Symphony, he will wan t to know its principal themes, and the knowledge that it has four movements following an ordered pattern wi ll be qui te enough. When he knows "what is goin!! on" in a string quartet, piano concerto or orato1'1o, he will be sat Isfied, , In any. mUSIC, If the rhythm and melody can be felt to fall into an ordered pattern, that IS suffiC ient t'? enable any listener to experience the emotional lI1 tenslty of the musIc: for what IS mUSIc but a record of man's tonal and rhythmic experience? With just so much technical basis, we can proceed to discover what a piece o f music contains. We find that music is expressing emotions. It cannot express Ideas, as we are sometimes led to believe but it can express emotions about these ideas. Thus in his F uneral March, Chopin is inviti'ng us to experience with him the emotions he feels abo ut death . It is dangerolls to read ideas into music: it wa s hiS publisher and no t Beetho ven who 630
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labelled his Fifth Piano Concerto "The Emperor". However, si nce most human beings exper ience the same emot ions in greater or lesser degree, we can ta lk abo ut the ethereal qual ity of the last movement of the Pastoral Symphony, the drive and overpowering force of the fi rst movement of the Ninlh , t he diabolical wit in the Scherzo of Beethoven's Opus 110 piano sonata, the unremitting pulsing rhythm of the first movement of Brahms' First Piano Concerto, the jewel-like perfection of a Mozart ar ia, or the soaring pathos of the SI. Mal/hew Passion, The limitations of words forbid a more exhaustive treatment, for music was not writt en to be expla ined in language, but to be enjoyed as itself. The final and conc lu sive stage in musica l appl'eciat io n is the actual listening. We have wa rned aga in st givin g music objective labels, but we cannot help unconsciously associating music with external forces. Thus the first hearing of a wo rk is of vital importance: Prince Igor means to me one set of association s : Redi ffu sion at 11.29, chewi ng bread, gulping milk and running fu ll pelt to the next lesso n : the Pas/oral Symphony brings back memories of Walt Di sney' s Fan/asia, while Smetana's VIta va brin gs memories of a co ld, hard sea t in a bare c lassroom during a "schools" broadcast. Thus the SI. Mal/hew Passion is better heard in the awesome solemnity of Cante rbury Cathedral than on the scratched record in the squ alor of the study. Simi larly, if we hear a piece of music when we do not feel in the mood for it, much harm can be done. Much worse is playing a piece of music as a background to some other act ivity: soon we are una ble to appreciate it for what it is. Only if we pursuc the act of listening correctly, can we experience music fully.
Hence, there is need of a new approach to musical a ppreciation. It is sim ply a question of whether we think of music as a science or as an art: whether we consider it as an intellectua l exercise in the fields of harmonics, rhythms and tones or as an expression of man's highest aspirations in his creative and emotional spheres. Much modern music in the Twelve Tone field lIlay conform to the former pattern, but the greates t music can only be experienced to be app reciated. The average person wa nts to know whether a piece of music is sad or happy, aggressive or peacefu l, noisy or quiet, no t whether it represents the Parn ass us o f sonata form 01' the epi tollle of the classical symphon y. H e is the ma n to whom this essay is sy mpathetically dedicated, for even if he does not know a crotchet rest from a harmonic triad, he can still enter into the richness of musical experiencc as fully as the eminent musician with letters after his name. M .F.S. Since apathy kills tide of time that might By sympathetic study always fill The harbour of the memory-vita l light Of li fe without the power of sight and willWhy pass the time in egot istic thought Of what could profit us in future years ? All hope's as good as sightless eyes, till ca ught, Torn work-mind's no more hurt by consc ience tears. A limpet conscience cannot be obtained Without attempt to understa lld the powers Of God. What happiness can be atta ined Pursuing rank , power, status, fathom less hours? The votes of your conscience alone remit The rank of murderer and hypocrite. C.J.T. 6~ 1
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A GOLDEN JUBILEE The Archbishop of Canterbury, accompanied by the Headmaster, walked between the ranks of khaki-clad figures, with their brass gleaming, leather belts shining, and puttees tightl y and neatly rolled. In the background, the Band of the R.A.M.C. played suitable music, and continued to do so wIllIe the hundred or so boys, led by their three officers, formed fours, marched and wheeled, and formed line to right and left, carrying, proudly but rather inexpertly, their long Lee-Enfield rifles, and wearing the sword-bayonet at their sides. The place was Blares, and the date December, 1909; early that summer the King's School had formed its own contingent of the Officers' T raining Corps, fo llowing tile lead of other larger schools; for the work of Lord Roberts after the end of the Boer War had given rise to a number of pat riotic volunteer movements, of which one was the
formation of the Junior Division of the OTe. for work in schools. The sentiment behind this was thus expressed by Major H. Isacke (O.K.S., later Major-General, and grandfather of the Chesshyre brothers), when he gave an introductory talk to the School in March, 1909: "We are all members of the greatest Empire that the world has ever seen. Is not the very fact that we are necessary to the peace of the world, alone sufficient cause for every British boy to fit himself to defend our position, if ever the call should be made? There is nothing aggressive or wicked in filting oneself to defend one's country". Captain e. w. Bell, Lieutenant D. A. Poole and Lieutenant L. A. Latter, who later became Headmaster, were the first officers, under the headmastership of Dr. Galpin ; the Archbishop whom we saw above inspecting them was Archbishop Davidson, wh ile Dean
Wace took a keen interest in the Corps and attended some of its parades. The uniforms of the day wcre supplied by the War Office, but such amenities as horses were borrowed from the Cavalry Barracks. Field days were enlivened with a bicycle reconnaissance party, and the first one, in 1909, invo lved the capture of some ammunition
wagons on the Scotland Hills. The second one, a few days after- how later generations would exclaim and tut-tut at such waste of time!- took the form of a route march and exercise; in this, one sid e claimed the annihilation of the other in twenty minutes, while
the printed records of the other, in Holme House Gazelle, state that "the enemy were soon killed and hardly got a chance at all". Previously to lhe formation of the O.T.C. contingent, there had been a Drilling Company, formed in 1907, which was not at all the same thing. It engaged in rifle shooting in the gym and at a range near St. Stephen's at the invitation of the Seventh Dragoon Guards, with whom com petitions were held. The Company also practised semaphore, distance
judging and skirmishing drill in the Mint Yard. The e.O. took their activities very seriously. "It would be a matter of the deepest persona l regret to me if these efforts were stultified by any show of slackness, or any want of appreciation of the duty which the Public Schools owe to the cause of nationa l defence". Many a later C.O. has no doubt felt the same,
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and let it not be forgollen that man y of the names which were enrolled when the contingent was formed 111 1909, are now engraved in stone on the War Memorial below the Library.
The Canluarian of March, 1909, shows the School's attitude to the new formation " We congratulate all who. should receive congratulations: chiefly that gallant quarte; whom the flame of pat not ISm has urged to the halls of Woolwich and Sandhurst; but none the less must we congratulate ourselves, for the golden egg has been laid rrom which shall blosso~ the variegated f~liage of our very own Cadet Corps- viva! valealque." And the mltlal surge of that glonous mIxed metaphor still bears us forward to the Golden Jubilee or "the Corps". M . L. BATCHELOR. K.A.C.G.
We in the spring of life do not know age Think we know wickedness, spite and ill-will, Cannot know lonelilless. Stand all the stage When your mind has dried up, and you reel the chill Like that of lost knowledge of youth. See the paint¡ Wrinkles lie under it. Watch when the light ' Falls on the wig, and you see very feint Traces of silver, and look down in fright. We in the spring cannot understand death,
The word has no echoes for us; it is blue Sky to a blind man; a meaningless breath Warm from the lips of the people who knew Of war and of bombs, spitted bellies and limbs And blood. It is ludicrous, cannot come near Warmth, noisy passages, collars, hats, hymns, And "What shall I think about, talk about, wear?". Better is not to know, than vainly hack At the bondage of time: we are better as grey Seeds held in fruit' s womb. We all will turn black Soon enough, when the fruit splits and shews u~ the day. J.B.B. 633
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THE ADJECTIVE BARRIER If a tra veller through the bush in Africa passes near a la rge river and hears the dull roar of a waterfall, he will probably go to see it. The sound will guide him to the foot of the fall. To get to a place at its very foot, he will probably have to crawl over smooth rock faces, made slippery by the spray. As he inches round the faces, he wi ll feel their cold damp with his whole body. Standing by the falling wall of water, he will absorb, and may feel absorbed by the crashing tumult, as the brown flood plummets relentlessly into the deep, seething, rumbling pool. He might feel an atmosphere in the place, in its isolated tumult and deathlike, clammy draughts, trying to draw him down into the pool where he would be broken until the separate parts of him became as insignificant and unrecogni sable as the broken twigs that drift continuously round and round in it. As he stares into it, he may notice its constancy in shape over a period of time in spite of momentary or regular waverings in individual columns of water. The wa terfall wo uld probably initiate a trai n of associations in his mind. He might compare the noise wi th that of a falling building, the mist with smoke from a sacked city, the curves and pillars in the water with Gothic architecture, and the rainbows, light and shade in the spray may remind him of pai ntings by Turner. He may well call something that initiates such a series of associations beautiful. He might say that its most beautiful aspects were the paraboloid curves at the top, the arrangement of the pillars and curtains of water, and the unmoving rainbows in the spray at its foot.
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Someone else might stand drowned in this flood of sensatio n, hypnotised by the wa terfall. If someone asked him what he thought of it, he, rememberin g little of what he saw and unable to analyse his experience, might be honest and say that he thou ght it was like any other waterfall. He would be more likely to cast a bout for the nearest adjective and say that it was bea utiful. Another traveller looking at it, would see in it the operation of physical and mathematical hlaws". He might see it to be the combined result of the area's climate, geology and geography. He would probably be able to imagine what it looked li ke at various stages in the past. Hc might be able to work out how its shape depended upon the rate of flow of the water at various places in the river upstream. If it were a particularly perfect exa mple of the expression of physical "laws" in a natural phenomenon, the association between ideal physics and mathematics and the real waterfall might please him. If he were asked what he thought of it, he would probably say that it was beauti ful. The adjective "beautiful" is one of the man y words in our language which seldom conveys any new information about a person's thoughts. When the average person uses the word, he is expressing appreciation just as a baby expresses appreciation by gurgling when it has been fed. To give a subject such an adjective is often a way of hiding a lack of thought about it. Such words are often used as clothes to hide barren thou ghts. We use words such as "beautiful" to describe a thing we do not quite understand, a nd in so doing, we persuade ourselves that we have understood it. When a thing has been so described, we think it may be forgotten. Evaluative words such as "good", "bad" or "moral" are often similarly used. Few men use the same criteria to decide what a person should be to be callcd a good man. Men who obeyed most of the written laws, men who based their conduct on " love thy neigh bour", and men who were deeply religious but burned and tortured people, 634
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¡have all been thought "good". The meaning of the word in each case can only be found if the circumstances and outlooks of the people who used the word are known. The travellers' usage was similarly ambiguous. They all used the word "beautiful", but in each case it stood for completely different things and in neither case was it deeply illuminating without further support. It revealed more about the travellers, if about anything at all, than about the waterfall. It was subjective rather than objective. The meaning of a very few adjecti ves, "black", but not colours in general, "elliptical" and similar technical terms, "straight", "vertical", and "horizontal", depend less upon who is using them. Their mea ning depend s upon standards which have been accepted by everyone who uses them. If a person has not been able to assess such standards, he cannot use the adjectives. Comparatively speakin g, they are objective words. But words like "beautifu l" depend upon subjective standards. When a person says that something is good or beaut iful, he is indicating that some of its properties fit a personal group of mental criteria. The use of such a word communicates little information even to those who know the person using the wo rd well enough to guess the criteria. Perhaps the degradation and usage of such words in language show up its inadequacy as a medium of communication. But should it be ex pected to have single words for the special reactions of particular people? A language with such wo rds would have an immense and complicated vocab ulary. Experiences can only be communicated if they are described in terms of standards which are .universally fami liar. A few more precise words convey much more to other people than the summing-up in one word which often only reveals the shallowness of the user. The travellers could have described their experiences quite adequately by saying which aspects of the waterfall pleased, terrified or interested them. Research has not gone so far as to define the wo rking of the brain in this field, though when the facts have been ascertained, this should ultima tely be possible. An a nalysis on these lines ma y eventuall y develop a more direct and simple method of communicating experiences, though this will not be possible until we have a closer understanding of the way in which the brain works. M.J.A.S.
TABLE FOR FIVE I dreamed, I sat at a great marble table Called Life; Inkly black, pentago nal. But four sides were filled; the fifth a space. We sat on snow-stained stools of cast iron. Ate pickled walnuts off ebony, Drank clear aq uavit from crystal glass. I spoke out, "We lack a fifth. Elecli" "Peace", sa id my spirit. "Health", my body, "Love", said I, and masticated nuts. "Vice", sa id Jd, and everyone cried "Aye, Pass the bottle round and drink him in ." I waked. Goddam ... MACLE.
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QUE FAlRE? Once upon a time there were three bears : mother bear, father bear and baby bear. They lived in a house at the edge of a wood, which grew "H" bombs, sputniks and intercontinental ballistic missi les. Father bear, who was called Tommy Atkins, had been very enterprising in llis youth and had travelled a long way before proposing to mother bear, whose name was Larissa M-aienkoY, his wife. Mother bea r just could not stand interbreeding, so they decided to adopt a baby bear. As neither wOldd eo n ~ent to have a chi ld from the other's race, they eventuall y chose one from an entIrely ~lffer~nt country. It
was not altogether slIl'prizing, therefore, that baby bear was ca lled T1I1g-LlIlg. Father bear, unfortunately, always fe lt he had had the worst of the bargain and was never very fond of his son. This did not worry the latter over much- he just fo ll owed hi s mother closely and soon became the apple of her eye. Thus the family was unhappi ly split, with mother and son in alliance against father. One day, while they were waiting for their shredded wheat to soak, the bears went out for a walk. While they were out, Goldilocks came along and created chaos. Then, feeling somewhat exha usted she went to sleep. The bears returned a nd on seeing various semi-suspicious clues: door wide open, baby's chair broken, baby's shredded wheat eaten, trail of muddy footsteps going up the stai rs a nd loud snores coming down, they held (rather naturally) a discussion as to whether these betra yed an intruder. After lengthy deliberations in Esperanto, they decided on the whole that closer investigation was called for before a final decision could be reached. Unfortunately, their discussion awoke Goldilocks, who jumped out of the window and fled into the wood. Ting-Ling, who had been sent to carry out a "rccce" by Father, jlls~ caught sight of her, and the three bears set off in pursuit. They did not intend to get lost III the wood, because it was, as I have hinted above, a somewhat dangerous place. So they decided to catch the next train through it and to keep a sharp look out for Goldilocks from the windows, because no being could survive far from the track. They only just managed to jump on to the last coach as the train was mo ving off and
they had seen nothing when about half-way through the wood, they were conscious of a strange quietness: the carriage was slowing steadily to a halt. Suddenly they rea lised that they had become detached from the main body of the trai n. They were alone. They were all in critical danger. Mother and father realized this at once and their hostility to each other lessened in face of the new threat. What could they do? Ting-Ling, however, had only a vague idea of their precarious position. He was too young to understand these things fully but he was very strong for his age. His one desire was to catch Goldilocks at all costs and he did not mind how much radio active fall-out he ge ncrated in the process. The only thing that could restrain him could be a close parental alliance. But would Tommy and Larissa ever stand together against Ting-Ling ? and even if their traditional hostility was overcome, their son, though young and unwi se, was very strong and Goldilocks was very attractive ..... .
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A CRASH Sailing to the sea on a warm summer's day, in a
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I cycled fast over hills, under dales where ancient oak and birch reacit over tlje.,bQwing head in a mystic entanglement, encouraging fa scination . . An" -through 'Jhd{-daikne~s down I'd dive, driving througl~ their mazing gathering in a sweep of rushing wWd;' th.~ ri peddling hard up the other side till out in beauty, out and up to beauty, to see. the. sun sta nding in the sky of deep and lovely blue on the flat showing a view. to many miles: In fields either side lie sheep asleep, with cows, stiles in ordered confusion onhe wind. " Through green woods shading off the sun as if to hide the mischievous,insects hiding, crouching there. By fields bordered wit h straggli ng hedges, surrounded by smell y ditches. Through many villages and hamlets where their windows, uncleaned but glittering, flas h on me as we pass them by. Now on to the open stretches again, driving hard up the hillock with boughs that would have hit my head, unprotected as it was. Up, down, over, under, a helter-skelter ready to burst out each top to greet the light. Often old wise, gnarled, barked trees nodding in the gentle, undulating breeze as I believe asleep, dozi ng, thinking, " We was young once, days many by, but now we'll watch them. Poor youngster,he'll work hard yet. To laze by the road and watch them all pass by, through the magnetising gate". 0 vos omnes! They nodded in their wisdom, and cheeky little celandine had crept upon their trunks and smaller pretty bluebells were leaning drooping there too, for they are tired, dry. Striking buttercups forced round their vicious heads to see what doing? or now to go to bed. So on, climbing up the hills, ever hoping it may be the last. Not yet. Up another; still not yet, but now. Out into the sun again. See the landscape spread out. It is lovely to be alive. The church's steeple green points to itself down there and the stables. Copper spire my amazement still. But there are others too. A house, classical vicarage, dog collared outside to watch the sinners, was immaculate. A garden, occupying someone's time, had gold, green,
lawns and flowers. Trees in flowers exotically beautiful. The village clustered round the pubs clustered round the church. A spa niel roamed outside. Lunch is served . The vibrations of a gong warbled with the chaffinch, the blue tit and the tone of the spiral clock. In coyness farms hidden too numerous to absorb. On the top of that high hill, floating on soft breezes melte" by the sun, lifted above places down so far below, lofty as a steepl.e and as $afe, fear ¡lest we should fall down dashed to dross dribbling blood co.ughing killing clods Qut in painful spurts that stab the heart. But no time. Speed on down the side with ever increasing velocity. Muscles tense, extenuating effort on the pedals, paddling the canoe offshore. Going faster now, and fa ster, lower over the bars we crouch, cutting streamlined figure; gaining ever crescending momentum dashing forward, leopard-like leapings, in ecstatic glee passing by the hedge and trees flashing by without notice. The rushing, biting, brutal air pours out the tears from eyes, sored with blinding and fleas crashing. Blinded by tliese things! Dash on unable to 637.
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see, dash on down the mountain forward to the sea. The wheel spits filth right in my face, splattering it and crying in full pace. Wheel loosens, and flies off road . Front forks drag into ground, jarring sudden jerks and taking off, fly overhead. Not long suspended, stagger, I fall and gravel scrapes skin from my thigh; head splits, seems to crash open a gushing stream of red, red blank, red gore, spilling onto the road, crash to the bank of sea. Head, bashed, hit back round savagely. Black nothingness, nothing. My mind blank wandering word, word Blue in lacery, fine silk cloaking.
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The sea, blue sea stretched on, smooth on smooth, gentle ripples easing the southern, pacific calmness. Beaches of sand strewn with plum peaches soft to the aching feet, for miles outspread in fawny delicacy. Patterns made by the gently rippling waters of summer's time gone by. F loating silken harmonies reached me. No lush melodies of modern jazz. A female wafting in purest innocency where dog and mice dare to stmy. From that minster far, close. Melodious simplicity T passed this world by. On, on under that sky and transparent blue, pale blue, onto that lazy sea, true, pure, true. F.R.H.
CANTERBURY REVISITED HI A maistre was ther with us in that place That had a fyr-reed cherubinnes face. Of every cos he knew to find the seyn, Logs and figures had he much in eyn. A shipman oft he was I undertakeAll .youthes would he also shipmen make. Haires blonde had he on his hede, The which he combd ful wei, as I here sede. A game he playd with sticke and balle blacke, For which the talent he did nothing lacke. Of goode stedes made he much ado, As I was war, he had of them ownd two. An housholdere and that a good was he, A worthy felawe and a fin, pardee. J.M. 63R
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THE FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF WILLIAM ROBERTSON (See "This and That") William Robertson, whose father was Minister of Borthwick in Midlothian came from a family claiming descent from the Clan Donnachaidh, the Robertsons of Struan, who produced the well-known JacobIte poet Alexander Robertson (1669- 1749). But it is his descendants rather than his ancestors who provide the most inter,,!. H is eldest son was a Scottish Lord of Session and his two younger sons had distinguishc<! careers in the Army. However, it is through his two daughters that we come across the most intercsting descendants. The youngcr, Eleonora, married James Russell Clerk to the Sign~t, and became ancestress of the donors of the portrait. The elder, Mary, married Patl'lck Brydone, F.R .S. (1741 - 1818), a well-known travel writer on Sicily and Corsica. Mary Robertson ' s daughter Mary Brydone made a brilliant match by marrying the second Earl of Minto, a Whig politician of the mid-nineteenth century, who was First Lord of the Admiralty in Melbourne's Second Ministry and Lord Privy Seal in the First Ministry of his son-in-law, Lord John Russell. The Countess of Minto's grandson, the 5th Earl, was Governor-General of Canada at the turn of the century, and Viceroy ofIndia 1905- 10. His grandson, the present Marquis of Lansdowne, SIts III the present MlIl lS try (Macmillan). Lady Frances Elliot, the second Earl's daughter, married Lord John Russell, the famous Whig. Prime Minister, and it is her grandson Bertrand, the present Earl Russell who confesses that perhaps the most satisfying thing a bout his own ancestry is his descent th~ough her from Principal Robertson. Another interesting connection of Robertson- and one which goes to confirm the belief in the value of fema le descent-came through his sister Mary Syme. She was the grandmother of Henry Brougham, 1st Lord Brougham and Vaux (born in Edinburgh in 1778) the champion of Queen Caroline and Lord Chancellor of England from 1830 to 1834. ' Even if everyone has forgotten his. political life, his.memory survives in the closed carriage whIch, both under horse and electriC power, bore hIS name, and even more in the French luxury resort of Cannes, which he first popularized with the English and where a grateful municipality erected a statue of him.
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" EXCERPTS FROM A MODERN PILGRIM'S PROGRESS MR. SAFETY'S SONG Everything is good as gold, Not too hot and not too cold : Guided by the cultured hand Everything is smoothly planned. Everyone is very nice, Little gi rls arc made of spice: : Little boys with kind mamas Never want to kill their pas. Sensitive and thoughtful men Count their tempers up to ten: Women, if their love's untrue, Simply take a Balanced View. May I, gentle Jesus, pray, Get nice and nicer every day: Keep my morals on a string, Always do the Wisest Thing. Let me be a helpful chap, Keep my passions on the map: Not be immaturely crude, Take an adult attitude. So shalt Thou, in Whose control Lies my nicely-rounded soul, With a chaste angelic kiss, Grant me moderated bliss.
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MR. VALIANT-FOR-SELF'S SONG Everything's blood and everything's fire, Confession, aggression, and burning desire; '-' Nothing js ever a bit of a bore, Everything's Glorious Technicolor. Everything's thunderst ruck, everything's fused: Everyth ing lives in a battle-field, used By God and the Devil for victory or rout: Everything constantly whizzes about. God, grant me passion and beating the breast, Red revolution, and hairs on my chest: To flutter the doves in their elms immemoria l, And a longish acco unt in the Sunday Pictorial. So when I die, without change of demeanour, I'll pass to a wider and gorier arena: With a pacan of joy or a horrible yell Hoisted to Heaven or hurtled to Hell. J.B.W. 640
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RICHARD BOYLE, EARL OF CORK'" T he Eliza bethan Age has always seemed to have brought upon both authors and readers a conscio usness of England's national greatness, and awakened in the minds of ind ividual
Englishmen a feeling of their own power. Men felt the greatness of the world a nd the importance of the issues before them ; they felt also, in those adventurous days, how much each man could do for himself. T heir ambition was boundless, and success seemed to await their own courage, cleverness or address. They felt their own importance and they knew their own strength. Such an outlook upon li fe brought out the best in men like Drake and Raleigh; it was also the ultimate cause of the innumerable brawls such as those in which Marlowe indulged. Richard Boyle was no exception to the general rule. Like many others, Drake, for instance, he rose from comparatively low social status. It has been pointed out, of course, that he was descended from an "honourable Hertfordshire family", but accounts then con~
fess that the line is somewhat obscure. Probably it was derived from Sir Philip Boyle, a knight of Spain, and possibly, if the name had evolved from Biuvile, his famil y had settled in England at Pixley Court, in Herefordshire, in the time of the Conqueror, or under Edward the Confessor. His father, Roger Boyle, was "servant" (i.e., general factotum) to William Lovelace, Sergeant-at-Law, great-grandfathe r of the Cavalier poet, who had a magnificent house in the vicinity of the drab yard behind Rediffusion House in Orange Street. A document recently brought to light in the Cathedt'al Archives (and I should like to acknowledge here the generous assistance I have received in preparing tllis paper from the Cathedral archi vist, Dr. W. G. Urry, F.S.A.) shows that at the time of his son's bi rth, he was not "of Faversham", as has been asserted, but livin g here in Canterbury. His mother, Joan or Jean Naylor, lived in Canterbury. Her grandfather, John Naylor, had been Mayor in 1515 and was a goldsmith by trade, as his shield shows "impaling Argent on a bend three covered cups d'or". His 'honourable' parents married on Jul y 31st, 1564. Richard, the second son, says: " I was born, as 1 find written by my father's own hand, in the city of Canterbury, the 13th October, 1566". By the time of his parents' death he was "Sir Richard Boyle, Knight, Lord Boyle, Baron of Youghall, Viscount of Dungarven, Earl of Corke a nd one of the Lords of His Majesty's Honourable Privy Co uncil in Ireland"; when he died he was also a Lord Justice of Ireland and Lord High Treasurer. Besides these guarantees of admission into society, " in a space of forty- two years, he acquired to himself (in Ireland) what some countries would have esteemed a principate", far more than Raleigh's mere 42,000 acre "colony" there apparently. Naturally he also gained a large fortune at the same time, probably rat her more than a million pounds, and had most of his fifteen sons and daughters married into the best society. His last, but first acq uired, asset was an abundance of unscrupulousness.
Perhaps the educational system had mastered the art of producing men with ingenious dri ve and initiative such as Boyle. Though one cannot state it definitely, it is probable that Boyle attended the King's School. Not only was he "of Canterbury", but also many of his fa mily attended this school. The fact that he went to Bennet College is another pointer, for this college has always been closely connected with the School. He entered Bennet College, now Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1583, and havi ng gone from there to the Middle Temple, he found that he could then go no further in the intellectual â&#x20AC;˘ The portrait in the Assembly Hall. 641
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field s of life. Only dri ve and initiative in other fields could get him further than his dismai chambers. So he decided to try his fortune in Ireland, after a brief attempt to advance himself under Sir Roge r Manwood, the founder of the present school at Sandwich. On the 23rd June 1588 he landed in Ireland, and "when first r ar ri ved at Dublin, all my wealth was twe;,ty-se~en pounds, three shillings" together with two rings and the clothes he had on. By 1590, he was assistant to John Crofton, the "escheator-general", the officer appointed to take possession, in the King's name, of property lapsing to the Crown on the death of the owner intestate or without heirs. He soon began to buy land. Apparently, ta lented use of his legal know ledge was responsible for his greatly improved fortune and position. However, his real talent lay elsewhere. In 1592, he was imprisoned for embezzlement by Sir William F itzwilliam. H~ was also charged with the theft of horses and jewellery. by Sir Henry Wallop. These knights, and others Sir Robert Gardiner and Sir Richard Blllgham, found It difficult to account for Ills rapid ~ise in fortune, for Boyle was buying considerable tracts of land. They concluded, clearly knowing his approximate income, that eIther he was bemg patl'o111sed, or he was an agent of some foreign king, proba bl~ Spain, or f ai ling thes.e, he had embezzled government funds. In addition to this, they claimed that IllS letters of 1I1troductlon were counterfeit and his religion was suspect. To us, kn owing Boyle's later life, the last charge seems to be on cxtremely weak ground : he could not have been more ardently Protestant (though he never stressed the financial adva ntage of this allegiance!). Boyle evaded sentence, pro bab ly by confuting this part of his indict~ent ; ~11~ he n ever}ck ~o.wledged a patron: Thl'oug!, !li S accusers had the courage of their convictions and all JOlllcd together th eir co mplaining lies . . . to Queen El iza beth", Boyle, now in England bringing news of the campaign against the rebels in 1599 once more evaded a sentence. But the Queen had had her doubts too, for on arriving in England , Boyle had immedjately been thro wn i~lto the Gatehollse. I>~rhaps it was because his precious estates had been totally destro~ed 111 th~ Munster rebellIOn, and also because he was being employed by Essex, the Queen s favounte, that Ite was acqUItted by the Court of Star Chamber. His activities in Essex's employment had apparently been honest. Boyle must have realised the favour of so great a man v.:as useful. Fortune, too, had helped h.im by putting the letters of Florcnce MacCarthy IIlto IllS hands. He gained considerable credit for exposing the plans of such ~ well-known adversary. to the English cause in Ireland. He followed up Ills luck by mak1l1g a favourable ImpresSion upon the Queen, and aroused her sympathies considerably? for at the end of the mtervlew she said: "By God's death! these are but IIl ventlOns aga mst tlllS you ng man and all hi s sufferings are for being able to do us service". Boyle then adds that the Queen then "gave me her hand to kiss, (which I did ri ght heartily)". B~tween the beginning of the rebellion in 1597 and the end of this affair in 1600, he had acqUired the offices of Clerk of the Council .in Mu~ster, Justice of the Peace and Justice of the Quorum, and had obtai ned Wallop's dismissal. He had mastered the art of self-advancement. This is not reflected in his political manoeuvres a lone. In 1595, he married Joan Apsley of Pull borough, Sussex, whose dowry of ÂŁ500 he doubtless fo und useful. When she died in child-birth on December 14th, 1599, he immediately sought another Wife. By careful wooing, more of the father than daughter, he managed to marry Kathenne, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Fenton, who was Secretary of State III Ireland. TI~! s_ t"ne the dowry w~~ ÂŁ 1,000. Long afterwards (in 1632) he was ~areful to mentIOn mIll." 1 rue Remembra!,ces that it was his first wife's dowry that had laid the foundatIOns of IllS fortune- stlilJustlfYlllg himself against Sir Henry Wallop's charges of embezzlement. 642
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It was obvious that a man with such art and drive could not remain mere Clerk of the Council, and Justice of the Peace. H e looked for title and lands and did not hesitate to employ his characteristic skill. He came to Court twice more, in 1601 and 1602, as bearer of news of victory. He was given audience by the Queen and afterwards kissed the proffered hand ("heartily", one supposes!). On the second visit, he also obtained permission for the Lord President of Ireland to return to England, in ret urn for an introduction from him to Sir Walter Ral eigh. That year he bought Raleigh's 12,000 acre estate for ÂŁ 1,500, tactfully pointing out that it was costing Sir Walter ÂŁ200 a year to maintain those lands. It was on the Lord President's advice, and doubtless through his influence, that he married Fenton's daughter, on 23rd Jul y, 1603. On the same day he was knighted by James 1.
But it is not fair to ascribe all his elevations to mere unscrupulous dri ve. His appointment as Privy Councill or for Munster in 1606, and then Privy Co uncillor of State for Ireland in February, 16 12, his elevation to the pcerage as Baron of Youghall in Cork in September, 1616, and Vi scount Dungarven and Earl of Cork in 1620 were all "his deserving in introducing civility and government there whe re he found barbarism and superstition". His patriotism was further rewarded by Charles, who raised all his children to the Peerage, appointed him Lord Justice in 1629 by letters pate nt (making the office hereditary at the same time, to the annoyance of the Earl's enemies), and Lord High Treasurer in 1631. His patriotism mainly found expression in his services to the Protestant Church. Even his mildest biographer admits his intolerance on this point. He wo uld only allow Protestant tenants on his land, and went so far as to bring them over from England, in order to maintain a Protestant colony. He closed Roman Catholic churches and fifteen "religious houses" in Cork, and also exposed the heresy of St. Patrick's Purgatory. He was also a great coloniser. He soon enlarged his estate to more than 42,000 acres. To the adva ntage of all, he introduced industry into Ireland, especially iron-works. He was able to bring them to their maximum productivity by importing skilled English workmen, Protestants, of course ; unfortunately, to make room, several thousand Irishmen had to be removed from his land to the "wilds and deserts of the county of Kerry" . It is wryly observed that he had "a head, the best turned that ever men had for improvement". His bridges, harbours and fortified towns were built at his own expense and he much improved the communications of that a rea and the safety of his tenants. He has been likened to a benevolent despot; he provided employment for four thousand labourers and was "respected and obeyed by the natives" who "stood amazed at his magnificence". Throughout this period of devotion to his country, when he converted the run-down estates, wh ich had cost the coloniser Raleigh so much, into profitable concerns, his integrity was never in doubt. "The Earl of Cork was one of the most extraordinary persons either that or any other age has produced with respect to the great and just acquisition of land he made." Such profits as he made, for example ÂŁ 100,000 on the iron industry, were spent in further devotion to the country. He built up, equipped and paid for an army which was absolutely invaluable in the rebellion of 1641. Though he had no previous military experience, his organ isation was highly efficient; his policy of having only Protestant tenants on his land proved wise, for none deserted . His fortifi ed towns were strong blocks to the enemy. He cared little for personal advantage. He had courage enough to issue eleven thousand bills against the rebels, and even went so far as to melt down his own plate. The reward for his sincere effort came in 1642 when Ite routed the Irish at Liscarroll. But his satisfaction was turned to sorrow by the death of his eldest son in the battle. 643
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This was a harsh fate for the "Great Earl". For all his public unscrupulousness, he seemed attached to his family. When he records his a rrival in Ireland, he noted among his possessions "two tokens which my mother had given me: a diamond ring which I have ever since and still do wear, and a bracelet of gold worth ten pounds". Perhaps they had been handed down from his mother's grandfather, the goldsmith. On the death of his parents he had built a reall y mag nificent tomb for them at Preston Church, Faversham. He built such a great monument for his second wife, that the people of Cork had to protest that they could not see the altar; he was very hu rt at havlIlg to move It. The education of his children was full, and was completed by the clIstomary long European tour¡i', Healso obtai ned knighthoods and good marriages for them. In 1642, his eldest son had died in battle : on September 15th, of the fo ll owing yea r, the hitherto indefatigable Ea rl of Cork died. Peace came to Ireland the very sa me day. C.J.T. tlf we can judge by the educa tion of his seventh son (known to sc ient ists for "Boyle's Law").
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ARISTOTLE'S PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE Aristotle was born in Chaldice in 384 D. C. , the son of a phys ician to Kin g Philip of Macedon. After many yea rs of study under Plato, he became tutor to A lexander the Great and later founded the Peripatetic school of philosophy. . He is the weatest colIector of knowledge the ancient wo rld produced and his importance that, until, the Renaissance 111 Europe, no other systematic survey comparable to his appeared. H ,s works ~uch as M eteorologics and Physical Discourse are an encyclopaedia of the learnmg of hiS tllne and, except III PhYSICS and Astronomy, he made grea t improvements in every subject which he studied. IS
His greatest scientific achievements are in the field of Biology. He was one of the first men to realize the relations between ani mals and even between men and animals. He changed the classification of a nimals, which before this had been divided into three classes: those of the land, the sea and the air. He divided the study of Zoology into three parts; natural history, anatomy and reproductIOns. HIS personal observations, enabled him to describe some of the animals with great accuracy and detail. Diagrams of about fifty of the five hundred animals which he desc ri bes, reconstructed in mediaeval times from his lecture notes, show a knowledge obtained by dissection. He was one of the first to place observatio n before deduction: "We ought first to take the phenomena and then go on to state its cause", Whereas Plato's ideas of nature were deduced a priori from huma n needs a nd predilections, Aristotle' s ideas were deduced from observations. His object in his researches in biology was to discover the purpose of an organ. The organ was known when its purpose was. In draw ing his conclusions he was 644
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hand icapped by the very small knowledge of chemi ~t ry in his day. The idea of gases other than a ir was unknown and the only change In a ir which he could understand was Its heating or cooli ng. Thus his theory of respiration was that itsobject was to cool the blood. Further false deductions he made were that the seat of the II1telligence was m the heart, a lthough several of his predecessors had al ready claimed it to be in the brain, and that there was no sexuality of plants. He also rejected a prevIOus theo ry that the mateflal of the body was formed by atoms. But these mistakes are un impo.rtant.. w~en compared with hi s great ach ievement in detecti ng a system or a natural classif'icatlOn III nat ure. But in Physics, Aristotle was less successful. On the Aristotelian theory,. a ll heavy terrestrial bodies had a natural motion towards the centre of the Universe, clai med to be at the centre of the earth. But motion in any othel: direction was unnatural and depended upon the operation of a mover. The ~ewto ni a n theory of m~tion is ~ h at a force, actin g upon a body wi ll produce an acceleratlOll and that ,a bod.y w,i11 rema1l1 at rest or at the same speed unless acted upon by a force; but the An stote han Idea was that a body would keep moving only as long as It was III contact With a movmg force which was lmpartl11g motion to it all the time. The mo ve ment stopped as soon as the mover ceased to operate and the body came suddenly to rest or fell to the ground. He argued that provided the resistance of the medium through wh ich a body travelled remained constant, the speed of the body, not its acceleration, would be proportional to the force act il~g upon it, and that acceleration was caused by a change m the reSIStance of the medIUm or In the force applied. One of the reasons why Aristotelians claimed that a vacuum was impossible, and even God could not create one was because Aristotle's theory said that the speed of a body 111 a vacuum would be jnfinit~, since it would have no resistance. He explained the motion of a projectile by the commotion which the initial move"'.ent caused in the air which ru s l~ed round behind the body to prevent a vacu um from formll1g there. Of the fact that a falling body was observed to move faster as it approached the earth, he said that it moved more jubilantl y every moment because it found itself nearer home. Aristotle regarded the universe a s a number of concentric spheres. The core of the universe was the earth, around WhICh was a layer of water, upon which was a layer of all' and then a layer of fire . This, however, would be a "dead" earth. On the "li ving" earth ! there were mixtures which contained water, which when released would try to return to the sea, Or which contained an element of fire which would try to rise to an upper layer. But the heavens themselves were for med by a number of spheres made of a subtle etherea l substance, which moved more easily than liqu ids and without friction. His view of the heavens was the basis of Dante's, and was that the sphere nearest the earth contall1ed the moon, the next seven contained all the planets a nd the sun, and the eighth held all the stars. There was a ninth sphere which had no planet Or star, but not only turned Itself but all the other spheres. His importance in the history of science unti l the Renaissa nce is that a lthough several individuals had made great advances in a few fields of science. the orth odox doctrille of the middle ages was based upon Aristotle's teaching. Even during the Renaissance, criticism of his doctri nes was made by compa rin!]: hi ~ wo rk with that of some other thinker of his own time, for Ari stot le had not rClgned unchallenged in the ancient wo rld. Nevert heless, in their broad outlines and much of their detail, his theori~s were accepted for two thousa nd yea rs. S.C.F.
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BOOK REVIEWS Mani: Travels ill the SOlilhern Pc/opol/llese. By Patrick Leigh Fermor, o.s.o., O.D,E., O.K.S.
, It is ~nl y rar~ ly that I ca n ~ring myself to read o~er th ree- hu~ldrcd w l ~h a tmy sect ion of one particular country: but with thiS particular It IS certa mly one o f the very best travel books that have come out in
pages of a travel book which deals book, there was no difficulty at all. recent yea rs. At first s ight the insensi tive reader mi ght suspect the a uthor of preciosity as he turns the chapter
h?adings : "T~~e Abom!nalio~l of D~ol a.t ion", "~he Princes Orgulous"~ "Incon~ta nt Nymphs", and :'Fee, FIC, Fo, Fum . c;e~taJl1 l y lu,s style IS n ch, but l,l nc."cr becomes precIous: the widt h of his vocabulary
the ran ge of h.s nnagery IS a ll the more mm~zmg, m t~la t they S?I' before us the co untry he is describing ItS true colours. It has become almosl a nat ional pastime to write a bout Greece: but to write about it tru ly is very difficult. It is not onl y by his sensitivity that Mr. Le igh Fcrmor surmounts the dimculty. There arc two other weapons he has, and whicJ~ most o~her travel writers lack. First, .h~ is fantast ica lly well acquainted with t~le count ry: lW<l rt from IllS other Journey~. he spent the war as 11<lISOn officer in the Greek war theat re. Secondly, h<: has a s.t rc.ngth of chara.ctcl: and a sense of pro porti on which keeps him from "going native". from ~ec(:lI1l1n g lost III IIlcC? h at~ a dn~lnll l On for the p.eople whom he describes. Hi s military awa rds and his orgams<ltlOn of the operation m which General Krelpe, the Germ<l n Commander in Crete was ambushed captured and evacuated, show clearly enough that he is a man of acti on as well as a man of percept iveness: The region he d?Scribes is the Southern Peloponncse: not purely or even chiefl y from a cla ssica l viewpomt, but embracmg the whole interplay of complex cultures which have <lffected tlmt a rea-classical Byzan.tine! Christian, ~enet ian, Tu rkish, ~nd so forth. It is.a fa sci na tin ~ quarry- but to descri be at' length the g!lttenng rocks which he hews fro l11 It would be to spoil the rea der s pleasu re. Let him read of them for hImself. ~n~1
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OXFORD LETTER Dear School, News from the bre.thrcn at Oxford , who have, it seems, survived the term bell er than yourselves. Eight ~eeks scuffle past qlllck ly.enough,. and don 't leave much time for things like 'fill. The pattern of life con!"H1es- books, sport, rowlIlg, mUSIC, .nn~ch ta lk, and nearly as muc!l bad ~olTec. But, as Hilary Terms go, It ha s been a g,?od tenll. At !he begmn.ln g, there was some splenclid skatmg, nearly a mile of ice on Port Mcadow, and III .t he. e:lear y.'mter evemngs s,?mc fine, ,~ lmost Breughelesque ice scenes. Then came the floods, and the ISIS, n smg hI gh, swept over mile upon mile of fields and countryside' when they subsided the sun shone and for once Torpids were rowed in warm sunlight; we saw boaters 'a nd dark glasses and I?eople went for I,?ng wa lks ~s spring seemed on the. way. The art of wa lking, so fundamental to the O~ford !Ife o~ the precedmg genera tion, seems all but lost m Oxford today, in a flurry of bicycles and fa st cars. It IS a pity. Now, as we are about to go down , the crocuses line Addison's Wall. May morn ing is planned a nd we dread the collections tha t cloud the beginning o f each Trinity Term. ' There ~re nearly eighty of us here-a mi x~d brood,. but ~11 willy-n illy ~rin g ing much of Canterbury to Oxford With them. In St: E~mllnd H~II , DaVid Poole IS havmg a conventional second year. H e is reputed to. have the smoothest . digs m the High, and gave a sherry party on the grand sca le lhis term. Richard Flshlock has temporarily deserted the ri ver in fa vour of the Bodleia n. bu t he st ill sings quite often. John T';.lfner has been elected to the Greyhounds and has a ppeared for the Un iversity. John Smith and Michael Vm<:ent share a room on the sa m~ staircase. Mike is secretary of the St. Edmund Hall Cricket Club this year. Nevil l Swanson went to Cambn dge as travelling reserve for the Varsity T idd lywinks team and was seen in the University Pan-cake ~ace. Richard Unforth says .t hat he lives in a cella~ and nev~r seems to get brea kfast. . . Barry Wa lshaw I ~ secretary of the Hall Athlet iC Club, runs for the Universi ty, and is convinced that Maths IS the s l.ac k~s l su bJ ~c l. We arc all very plea~ed that Roge r Sulton has got his bl ue for hockey: he spends a ll ~lornlllg 1!1 the hbrary and all afternoon In the parks. Silvester Mazza rcll a has Schools this summer but stili finds tune to. play a.leading part in the Hall's musica l act ivities. John Cooper-Poole has been seen on a scooter; DaVid Mellish on th.e .shove-halfp~nny. board. Rupert Harvey, thi rd-year, plays for the 1st X~, J. A. F letcher ha.s been combmmg work and gaiety, and Spencer Adml1 , though offiCially 10 Pembroke, IS often to be seen m the Buttery. M6
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O.K.S. OXON.
LONDON LETTER Dear School, More and more O.K.S. seem to come to London each year. The fresh ers were indeed astonished to find that at the time of going 10 press, there were twenty-one O.K.S. in the Universi ty. We are by no means certain that our li st is complete. The confi nes of the University stretch as far as Wye. The most prominent event of the term, has been the announcement of the new plan for the Universi ty precinct, designed by Sir Leslie Mart in. I ts evcntua l desire is to produce a University site, somewhat approaching that of the two senior Universities. The other highlight, of a somewhat uninteresting term, was the March Hares Ball, at the Royal Festiva l Hall. Most of our members have laid clai ms to a great dea l of work . The examinations are now near enough to make even the most notorious party-goers spend at least one evening a week working. The lack of individualists at Oxbridge cannot be said to ex ist here. Some of our members live in a barge on the Thames, and others arrive at lectu res in full "City" dress, reminiscent of Can terbury. Only one O.K.S. is followin g the popular trend of the beard , that is C. S. Stevens. We have only one perso n who is in the running for a Purple and that is G. A. E lcock. He also plays Water Polo for Kings, where he is joined by D. J. Evans, who plays Hockey for the College and also manages to find enough time to be Sports Editor of Sennet, the University newspaper. H ockey also flouri shes at Queen Mary College where T. R. Hird and Bayliss play for the first eleven and P. G. Kemp plays at number
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Imperial rugger teams. P. Lamb plays for the College of Estate Management first fift een. A. Philpott admits he is gett ing fat, but hopes to represent Imperial at Athletics next term. in the more cultural activities, A. Stevens was going to stand as Vice-President of the Union , but the pressure of work was too great. He wi ll , however, be stand ing as President of the Engineers. H. O. B. Grainger was "discovered" when he stood up in the Un ion elections to propose one of the women candi· dates. He has also been active in cabaret, wi th his drums, and he was the driver of the car in which the President of the Cambridge Union was kidnapped. C. R. Alabaster clai ms he works hard, but he can often be seen in the "Surrey". We saw P. F. Lamb wi th a guitar and our thoughts immediately ran to a ski01e grou p, but he was so immacu lately dressed we fell he must be appearing in ca baret in the West End . P. W. Barker, when not prot ecting the Uni versity College ma scot, plays hi s trombone. M. J. A. Anderson sang in the K ing's College production of Haydn's Cre(lfioll and J. Draper has been singing with a Gilbert and Sulliva n group. Next November it is ho ped to ho ld the first University of London O.K.S. dinncr. Another term has come and gone and one is left with the thought of no cricket until thc examinations are over, when the June Balls will revive even the most over·worked. O.K.S. LONDON.
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The lirst I:om;crl in the buster Term was given in the Music School and a most intercsting and varied programme was presented. it fo rtunately took place before the main onset of the 'flu epidemic, but even so, there had to be last-minute changes in the performers. Two items of contempora ry music were especially interesting: Mr. Sugden and G. N. Sa lmon gave the fi rst performance of the Min uet and Trio from a Sonatina for two unaccompanied violins by n. S. Salmon, who was at the School a few years ago, and a Nocturne for flute and piano by the Maltese composer Pace was given its first perfo rmance in this country by G. D. M. Parry and C. B. Seama n. Both these works deserve {l further hearing, the Nocturne in par· ticular being well-suited to the flute. The Rev. A. B. Curry provided contrast by giving a short analytical talk on three of J. S. Bach's Organ Chorale Preludes, which he proceeded to play on the piano (with the assistance of Mr. Scott on the pedal part). Both performance and explanation were most convincing and Mr. Curry's wide knowledge and intense devotion to this great music were apparent throughout. This was a much·appreciated item and it is to be hoped that Mr. Curry will later find time to give a full lecture on this subject. Three trios were included in the programme. The Trio Sonata for two flutes a nd continuo by Johann Quantz, who wrote music for Frederick the Great, was played most competently by Parry and M. Stanley· Smith, and it was well·matched by some lively playing from H. K. Bray, D. H. D. Chesshyre (clarinets), and J. B. Batchelor (bassoon), who played a trio by Moza rt. The highlight of the evening was the per· formance of Purcell's Golde" Sonata by Mr. Sugden and Sa lmon, accompanied by Mr. Scott. The two violins were well-matched in quality and the fine rhythm and attack of the fast movements were compte· men ted by beautifully sustai ned tone and sensitive phrasing in the Adagios: it was altogether an out· standing performance. The concert had opened wi th a group of songs given by Poiglase, Curtis, Varcoe, Batchelor and Chesshyre, including Valentine by Walford Davies, a negro spiritual Were you there whell they crucified my Lord? and The Farmer's Boy (arr. Vaughan Williams). These songs were nicely contrasted and well sung by the group, and PolgJase's careful leadership was once aga in evident. T he concluding item (given by Batchelor, PolgJase, Soar and Hamilton-Paterson) was an arrangement for two pianos (eight hands) of the overture DOll Giovanni by Mozart. The difficulties of thi s transcription are considerable and the performance perhaps had more entertainment than musical va lue, but it was wel l· received and ensured that the concert ended in good spirit. D,S,G, 640
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"My good friends, hark! Marvellous sweet IfIlIsic!"
Despite the ravages of 'flu, measles and convalescence, this concert made " marvellous sweet music". The variety and range of the programme, rema rkab le by any sta ndards, in these circumsta nces were astonishing. The concert was remarkable for another but sadder reason. Tt was the last at which "a scholcmastcr, we ll seen in music", long active in th is sphere, would be present. The ex tent of Mr. Sugden's past work was amply illustrated in this concert by the number of ro les he fi lled. He opened the concert at the conductor's desk, moved to the leader's and during the course of the evening also played the solo part in Svendsen's ROil/alice ill G. Tt is not easy to say how much he will be missed.
The concert bega n with the second orchestra's pcrforma nce of Byrd's Pavan, notable fo t' some con fident flute-p laying ,the Larghetto from Mozart's 3rd Ho/'ll COl/cerro in which Maries played the solo with assured in tonat ion and clea r phrasing, and a March, Tlte Vafitlllt Klligltt by Charles Woodhouse, in which the strings, confide ntly led by Consterd ine, came into thei r own find the brass made some impressive CJ'('.~cel/di. This orchestra has been Mr. Sugden's especia l care, by means of which new boys have been broken-in to the discipline of orchestral playing and given a fi rm beat to eu rb any waywardness. He leaves a valuable "going-concern" to his successor. Purcell's SOllata for Trumpet and strings followed, played by Mr. Dud ley and the Chamber Orchestra, with Mr. Sugden at the leader's desk, under Mr. Goodes. In this, there was some of the best string-playing of the evening, the vivacity of the outer movements enclosing a beautifully precise slow movement, whi le Mr. Dudley's lip-work was a del ight. The Madrigal Group now took the floo r to give us a varied group. Having shown almost contemptuous mastery of songs by Bennett and Stanford, and of an arrangement by Vaugha n Will iams, they sang Moera n's sett ing of Thomas Nashe's lovely lyric, Sprillg, the sweet Spring. This may well have been the most di fficu lt in which to ensure accu rate intonation but there were no signs of stra in, and the onomatopoeic chorus was very effective without any of the parapherna lia used in Britten's setting, effect ive in its own way, of the same words. A well-chosen finale, Malcolm Sa rgent's arrangement of Aff God's Chifilln, was much applauded for its witty use of rhythm and syncopa tion, though they seemed slightly incongruous in such n cultivated sett ing. The Chamber Orchestra then returned fo r a Vivaldi Concerto Grosso, but in th is, although the attack was st ill firm, the blend within each part was not so sure a nd some of the tax ing semi-quaver runs, begi nning a little uncertainly, did not seem properly together in eit her of the quick movements. To bffset this, and some originality amongst the second violins in the last movement, there was some excellent tone in the slow movement. C. B. Seaman continued this sect ion of the concert by playing the B F lat Major Prelude and Fugue from the first book of the Forty-Eight with accurate skill. Alt hough his tone seemed hard at the beginning of the Prelude and the Fugue, taken rather fast, became faster, the end ing of the Prelude, so easi ly mis-accentuated, floated beautifully up to its top B flat with smooth assurance. The Chamber Orchestra then closed this section of the programme by accompanying Mr. Sugden in Svendsen's Romallce. They were clearly determined to give of their best and vied wi th his melting tone. The lamenting valed ictory note of the opening was most movingly interpreted and the warmth of their tone was matched by that of the applause which expressed both our appreciation and our good wishes to him on his new appointment. The last group of songs was given by the G lee Club whose basses punctuated Come, ({mdlord, /iff tlte ffowing bowl with insistent requests for "STRONG beer". Then ca me The Spec/res' Dance by Schubert ill which the pianissimo singing was remarkable for clear and unified articul ation of the words, after which R offillg dOlVn to R io by Edwa rd German didn' t seem rollicking enough fo r the words.
â&#x20AC;˘ THE CANTUAR JA N By contrast, the Toy Symphony, after the Allegro from Eil/e kleil/e Nachll11l1sik and a Haydn Serenade, familiar as the signa ture tune of "Music in Miniature" and still fresh as ever, ended the concert riotously. In it, an undisciplined group of subfuscous figures ejaculated at uncontrolled intervals wi th "what trivial weapons came to hand", though nOl, on this occasion, with the jawbone of an ass. A rat her Querulous quail, who had sti ll got 'flu, tried to whistle in compet ition with a cuckoo suffering from laryngi ti s and a
hubble-bubble-t ype nightingale, but they were all drowned by virt uoso tintinnabula ti on o n the triangle, fre nzied attempts to ruin an infant's toy d rum, a rather caustic Klaxon very unmllsica lly played by someone who ought to know better, and a shattering noise on one of the Corps " Bren-guns". At this point, Mr. Goodes, so ably in cont rol for the rest of the even ing, gave up the struggle, So ended a fi rst-rate evening's music-ma kin g. Those tak ing part, and they seemed legio n, would not va lue monotonously uncritical praise, but they ca n con fid ently assu re thcmselvcs tha t as thei r true intent WJS all for our dcl ight , that deli ght was ours in fu ll mC<lSl1rc, in the range of choice and execu tive ski ll, and in the spirit o f the pl<ly in g, H ,M ,P,D ,
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HOUSE PLAYS SCHOOL HOUSE The 1958-9 season of House Plays was resumed in Fepruary wit h a performance by Schoo l House of Herman Wouk's adaptat ion of the court martial scene from his novel Tlte Caine Mutiny. Th is would have been a difficult play to undert.1ke at any time, since the circumstances of the mutiny and the conflict of personality on ly emerge gradua lly, and the play is inevitab ly sta tic and unvaried in mood or tempo. But School House were furth er handica pped by having to put on their play on the 18th day of term , and in the midst of an epidemic which made nccess<1ry several late cha nges of cast. It is greatly to the credi t of Mr. Samuel and all concerned that they succeeded in present ing the play at a ll and then in holding the attention of the audience throughout. The staging of the play presented few problems: chairs and tables, in front of grey curtains relieved by a la rge "Old G lory", made up an adequate set, and the production crea ted a precedent by d ispensing with the front curtain, Tho ugh the longest parts are those of the Prosecuting Of-ficer (D. A. Young) and the Defending Officer, the burden o f the acting rests on the witnesses, who si t in turn in a centra l chair, relen tlessly exposed to the scrutiny of the aud ience th roughout their brief appeara nces , C. LI, Williams as Willie Keith (the central character in the novel, bu t apparently of secon dary importance in the play) used his hands and eyes tell ingly but tended to sl ur his words; D. R . S, Anderson was also difficul t to hear, but bore himself wit h alli he aut hority proper to nava l captain; A. W. Hudgen as a navy psychiat rist had the clea rest voice and gave amusi ngly glib professiona l retorts. R. A. Goodma n, as a dense Signa ller, had the only other part with humorolls possibilities and was much appreciated by the aud ience, though he could have been even denser and funni er. G. S, Brock made an effect ive contrast between his two roles, The hardest part is that of Queeg, who gradually betrays the fac t that he is the provoker as well as the victim of the mutiny. This D. R. Scott did remarkably well , despite an unfortunate hold-up when his interrogator skipped severa l pages and the prompter was as helpless as the actors. Tension was soon mounting again however, as with shifty eyes, bared teeth and clutching hands, Queeg the petty tyrant revealed himself through the hard cold front he had presented to his examiners in the first act. An exci ting and memorable performance this.
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GALPIN'S HOUSE Ga lpi n's made the ambit ious ch.o i c~ of Oscar ~ilde'~ r:he !mpqf/(lIIce of b~illg Eames!, which d c man~s thc cont rast of clear-cut charactensat lon and prcclSc tl1lHng III dia logue aga inst a background of la l~g U1d clega ncc. Drawing-room comedy, which should ap pea r as an artificial con trivance without becommg a caricaturc, is the most difficu lt form of drama fo r ama teurs to tackle. Mr. Hall 's production was as charmingly and "styl ishly" mounted as one could wish. The costu m e~ were delightful , and the set, ingenioll s l ~ adapt,ablc for drawing-room and garden scenes, was g rac~full y Simple. The acting, however, was uneven In qualLty and the pace often too ponderous. Some good !tnes we~e l?st through lack of pointing or by being spoken through laughter, and actors were not always convlllcing when listening to other people's lines. Act 1 go t off to a rat her slow sta rt. I>, E. J, Soar as Algernon Moncrieff acte.d all the time bU,t dc.livered too few of his lines into the aud itori um ; J, Po lglasc, who pl ayed John Worthin g, secmed lack111g III confidence at first and did not know what to do with hi s hands; bot h these two improved as thc play wenl o,n, but thei r duo logues were never sharp enough .10 bring out their Illllnou r to t h ~ full , Gwendolen a.nd Cecdy (T. Sma rtt and R, Titmuss) made a belter paIr, S m a~t1 spoke c,learly and brtf?htl y and moved With a ll t l~e co nscious clegance of a debutante of the Naughty Nillet les; Tltmuss wa~ sUlt<l;bly de.mure .a nd spoke his lines crisply but had insufficient voca l power to ride the sto rm of coughmg With which th iS cast had to contend, 1t is Lady Brack nc ll who dominates th is play and J. 13. Batchelor tackled the part wi th assu r,a nce and a lmost fau ltless technique: these hands were never lost. Though the vol uble and overwhel ml1l ~ AI:"l1 Agatha was mo re in evidence then thc formidab le gorgon- like Lady Bracknell, the famolls cross-cxamm atlon was well done by both Batchelo r and Polglase, Act II also sta rted heavily and lacked spontanei ty unt il the tea-party wh ich was very amusing. Miss Prism and Canon Chasublc (c. Wright and L. R. Scott) were convincing in appearance and voicc, but madc Iittlc of their opportunities; during the wholc of her first scene, M iss Prism's fu l} face could n~t be seen fr om the left of the Hall. Act 111 was the bes t and builL up well to the famous last lllle of a decepli vcly exacting play.
MARLOWE HO USE Marlowe presentcd The Bras~ lJlIlIeljfy. by \oY illiam Goldi ng. This is set in a lhi~'d ce n ~u!¡y Roman empe ror's villa on Capri, and ,con~ lsts of a discussion C?f such genera.l themes. as ;~ utho,rlty, rel Igion a nd po~er, in the Shavian style bu t With little of Shaw's occasiona l profundlly 01: gitllenng dlal?gue. There IS hllie conflict or suspense, though, in the accepted classica l manner, there IS frequent excltemel~t offstage. All the stilted dialogue could hard ly have been cut, but one felt that severa lted loll s passages, part icularly towards the end, could with benefit have been pru ned. Criticism of the play apart, this was a resOl.lrceful and beaut ifu l production of which the producer, Mr. Davies, and his team may well be proud, An "l!mense amollnt of trouble had c1e~rly been taken .to ensu:e that every detai l of set, cos.tumes an.d pr~pertles was ,both co rrect a-:d harmontol~s, and . the lesult w<~s unexceptionable. The lightmg was m ~enl ous.Iy contnvcd and " despl t~ some anxIous mmutes when It <lppeared to be taking an indepc":dcnt Ime of Its.own, was effecllve unt il Act HI ; h~re the, attel:npt ,to reproduce the gloami ng of a Med iterranean evenmg was a ll too successful and sacllficed i1lummallon to atmosphere, Most of the many sound-effects were convincing. The grouping was excellent throughout, though one would like to have seen a bolder usc of the apron stage, Of the actors, T . M. Part ington and N. A. S,.Bu ry opened wi th a verv.e that promised well for the evening; P W Browne gave a fine ly-d rawn and amusmg port rayal of a donnish emperor, but was ~ drag on the dia logue, through slowness on cues; Postumus was imposing in appeara n~e but lacked w~l ght when he spoke ; R. A. Zentner did not se~m well, cast as, Euphros.yne and was handl~a pped by the hnes he h~d to spea k; T, Dart ington made a bnef but ImpreSSive Iffuptlon onto the .scene III Act J.I. The most I?oli shed performance was by B. S, Guard' as Phanocles the I nventor : he used I11S eyes expressively a nd alll11s movements were a pleasure to watch. In s hort , though the ehoi~ of play was perhaps ullv.:ise, the act ing was of a good sta ndard a ll round, nearly all the lines were a udible, and the who le prod uctIOn was a fea st for the eyes. 65 1
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LlNACRE HOUSE SL'OgUI/S over Sorrenfo by Hugh Hastings was the Linacre play. Like the School House play, this requires an all-ma le naval cast, but there is no other resemblance: this is a hilarious comedy, depending for success on slickness of dialogue and rapid changes of mood. It. made a good House play after some drastic cutting, though the central theme- the finding by four very different able seamen of a bond in their hatred and defiance of their petty officer- is unsatisfactory below a farcial level, since the blackness of the P,O.'s character is never, in this version at any rate, convincingly establ ished. The production was a great success: the pace was as fast as audibility permitted, and interest never flagged throughout the seven scenes; not a chance of raising a laugh was missed, and mawkishness was avoided in the few seri olls moments, such as the beautifully controlled passage after the death of Hudson. The standard of acting, too, was very high. Parts were thought and felt the whole time, lines delivered crisply and audibly, accents well maintained; the co-ordination of words and gestures was precise and always seemed sponta neous. D. O. O'Clee gave an excellent performance as the ex-barrow-boy who dominates the ot hers; the timing of his Cockney repartee was worthy of the best comedians. The other three able seamen were acted by H. J. Rawlinson, P. A. Rawlings and C. M. East, with sincerity and skill. P. H. Holmes-Johnson as Hudson, the Able Seaman with a "Roils-Royce" accent and a degree, was none too confident or audible at first, and R. M. K. Carey did not carry quite enough authority for a Commanding Officer, but both acted intelligently, as did P. R. Atkinson, every inch a Sub-Lieutenant, and C. E. Neame, a telegraphist. A. A. 1. Williams had the unsympathetic part of Petty Officer Herbert; he succeeded admirab ly in conveying, with ch ill ing voice and glassy eye, the precise and irritable nastiness of the cha racter without caricaturing it Many will agree that this was the best of the many first-class productions for which the School has been indebted to Mr. Sugden during the last seven years, and will regret that it was his last.
THE GRANGE The Grange brought the season to a close with Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace which was produced by Mr. Meredith. This cast too had bccn hard-hit by illness during rehearsals, but all the principals were able to take part on the night, and gave a very entertaining performance olthis old favourite. The problem of building a set which demands a stai rcase, two windows and three doors, was triumphantly overcome: costumes and properties were well in kccping. (The disadvantages of an over-lofty proscenium a rch, cumbersome footlights, and lack of top-lighting from front of house, which prevents effective use of the apron-stage, were, however, as apparent at the end of the season as at the beginning). W. A. Hodges and M. Sharwood-Smilh as the elderly and macabre-minded sisters, kept the play together and were often very amusing; they looked and sounded weli , but might have been more contrasted. Sharwood-Smith gave the more subtle performance; Hodges tended to over-act like a pantomime dame and was less expressive in face and gesture. D. H. B. Chcsshyre was the eccentric brother who imagines himself to be Theodore Roosevelt: in his first scene he did not seem old enough in manner or appearance (partly because of inadequate make-up, especia ll y round the eyes) but his performance increased steadily in power; in tropical kit, complete with topee, he was a splendid sight and acted not only with his eyes, but to the very tips of his fine moustache. A. J. K. Austin moved and spoke with the easy assurance and clarity expected of so experienced an actor, but his exchanges with his arch fiancee (B. H. Stokes) dragged, and not enough was made of the first opening of the wi ndow seat. Stokes acted intelligently when he was not walking backwards, but was vocally handicapped by a sore throat. P. F. Allen gave an adequate performance of the black sheep of the fa~ily but could have been nastier. Two minor parts wor.th special mention are J. B. S. Fielding's lrish pohce officer, shrewdly acted both before and after the whisky took effect, and R. Browne's neat portrait of a neurotic plastic surgeon. At times the cast seemed inclined to burlesque the play, and the pace was not always lively eno ugh, but the production as a whole was well-mounted and carefully contri ved, and provided the School with a most enjoyable eveni ng's en tertainment. A.C.B. 652
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C.C.P. NOTES THE ARMY Training time this term has been to some extent modified in the Army and Basic Sections, to allow House training for the House Corps Competition. Part 1T of Certificate" A" is taking place right at the end of term and Part J a week earlier. The weather has been kind- kinder than the 'fl u- and the system, introdu~ed last term, of afternoons spent all on one subjcct, some of them in mufti , has been continued with success. The House Competition has had a markcd cffect in ra ising the general standa rd of drill in the Army Sections' there is st ill plenty to improve, as the detailed report of the Judges showed, hut a start has been made, ar;d we know what to put right next year. The results were as follows:Total Foot Arms rnspection Wo rd of Drill Drill Comma nd & Turn-oul )0 90 )0 20 10 Maximum Linacre 10 7 20 17 54 Marlowe iO 6 18 19 53 School House 9 6 18 18 51 { Walpole iO 5 20 16 51 ... Galpin' 6 5 19 18 48 10 6 18 12 46 Luxmore Meister Omers 9 5 17 11 42 16 12 40 Grange 9 3 Tn this first year, therefore, Linacre, who put .a. great d.eal of effort into their traini.ng and t.urn-ou!, have won the Cup whieh I presented for the Competlllon. Th iS also marks the Golden Jubilee of thiS Contlllgcnt, which started in May, 1909- of which, more elsewhere in this issue. A small party of Officers and Ca~ets. is goi':lg camping to N~r~h Wales f~<?m April 2nd to 9th, u.nder War Office auspices, and an account of It ?l11I be .glven next term; It IS a .non ~mlli t a ry venture, to practtse,lcadership and a mild degree of "roughing-It". It IS hoped to have a practice IlIght-out before the end of thiS term. Letters have been sent out to all parents concerned, asking whether their sons will be co~ing to Camp in July-August. This camp will be at Pirbright, at Stoneyca~tle ~amp, which we will share w!th four other schools. The training areas there are very good, and I hope It Will be a very successful and enjoyable camp. The officers' strength sustains a further loss in Mr. Sadler's departure, but this is to some extent at least, made good by the welcome addition of Mr. Dullard. The First ~id cou,rse which Mr. Sadler has been running must temporarily cease, but we a re gra teful to him for havlOg run It. The following were promoted on 20th January, 1959 to the ranks stated, in addition to those who were promoted L/Cp!. after Certificate "A" Part IT in December: Sgt. F. A. Rockley; L/Sgts. K. R. Wilkins and W. A. Hodges. K.A.C.G.
ROYAL NAVAL SECTION The normal programme of Proficiency Exam inations in seamanship, signallin g, powers of initiative and so forth, was augmented last term by the gene~ous loan of t'Yo ~iel~ Guns by the Roya~ Naval Barrack.s. Chatham. An inter-House contest on Royal rournament lines IS III progress, and a FIeld Gun run WIll be included in the programme for the Annua l Tnspection next term. It is hoped to pipe the inspecting Air Marshal over the side, on his arrival and despatch him from the naval scene in a Breeches Buoy. rn addition to the customary demonstrations of nautical sk ill , other plans for this occasion include a group dancing the Hornpipe. Subject to successful negotiations with Eagle Airways, the Annual Training will take place in Malta in August. Failing this exciting prospect, we shall be in Scotland. Tn the meantime there is, we hope, a good season's sailing ahead of us at Whitstable. D.W.B â&#x20AC;˘ .
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ROYA L AIR FORCE SECTION The Roya l Air Force is recedi ng fro m South-East England so fast, that field days have become a major problem, the nea rest a irfields operational bei ng mid-Essex o r West of London. Aft er much wrangling, we ma naged to arra nge a visit to Wh ite Walt ham, only to see ou r hopes crash 10 the grou nd in the poor visibility produced tha I day by the meteorologica l gods. Event ually. we had a fa irly lively a nd interesting day. putt ing the pri mary gl ider th rough its paces on Bifl eys, while some of the section spent the afternoon o n cycles, covering many miles in a sho rt ti me, on a nav igationa l/ma p-reading scheme. The sect io n now totals over forty aga in , a nd there is a genera l feeling o f co-opera tio n and well.being. Our results in the It.A. F. exa minati ons were very good, with five pJsses at Advanced (Cpl. Rodwell with credit) and seven at Profi cicncy. The integrati on of o ur training fo r Proficiency with the A rmy section is proceeding smoot hly and the resul ts in t he cadet's R.A .F. su bject wc re very encouraging. Faster Ca mp is being held Jt R A.F. Watto n, nca r Thetford , flnd a bollt 18 ca dets arc attcndin g. T here should be plent y of varied nyin g if thc wea ther holds good. P.G .W.
THE SOCIETIES THE MADRIGAL SOCIETY.- We returned this January expecting to be kept rat her busier than last termWood's Passion According 10 SI . Mark, a performance at a Music C ircle Concert and an Antho logy of Church Music in the Ca thed ra l were hoped fo r. Unfortunately, it soon beca me clea r that a ll that was left to us was the Music Circle Concert ; the Chora l Society performing Wood's Passion and the Ant hology being postponed to a later date (possibly next Christmas term). A lthough we were d isappoi nted, it seems that this was for the beUer, since no serious rehearsa l could be undertaken for three weeks at the stage of the term when the 'flu e pidem ic was at its worst. D espite this, attenda nces have been excellent, fo r which I s incerely thank all members. Severa l new works have been bought in read iness fo r the Serenade in the Clo isters next summer, and we hope to make a start on them in the last two weeks of term. Finally, our grateful thanks to o ur conductor, Mr. Edred Wright, witho ut whose inspiration and drive success would be impossible.
J.P. THE GLEE CLUB.- Like all school activities, the Glee Club this term has been hampered by an incongruous combination of 'flu and HOllse Plays, and mo re especially, by fun ctions on Saturday evenings, which means that Choir practice has to be moved into the time that we usually occ upy, and the G lee Club has to be squeezed into some obscure corner of Sa turday that nobody else thought worth bot hering a bout. Despite these drawbacks, we are performing a short programme in the second Music Circle Concert this term, consisting of two songs of the "rousing" variety, Come Landlord, FiII lhe Flowing Bowl, by Markham Lee and R olling dowl1 the R io, by Edward German, and for contrast, Schubert's The Spectres' Dal/ce. We welcome G. S. Westrup and R . G. Eden (when he recovers from the measles !) to the alto line, as necessa ry stiffeners, since A . J . Addis and R. S. Morris have submi tted to old age and joined the tenors, and M . H. Lane has been obliged to leave us. We hope he will be a ble to return to us aft er the summer. I would like to thank Mr. Edred Wright fo r fighting against fea rfu l odds, to keep the G lee C lub from fall ing below its usual standard ; his illness this term made us a pp recia te how inva lua ble he is.
J.B.B. THE CAXTON SOCIETY.- Th is term our work has been mainl y devoted to House Play programmes, the s tan dard of which has r ise n slightly. We have a l last met the long-standing dema nd for qu icker makeready a nd better impressio n for o ur sma ller jobs, by investing our proceeds in a sma ll Adana hand machine. This has proved a great success, marked by its perpetua l usc ill preference to our o ld machines. We would welcome the purchase of a quarto machine, which would gi ve satisfactory impress io n o n our larger work. Once again we arc grateful for the inva lua ble help of Mr. Peett.
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T H E CAN T UARiA N THE PATER SOCIETY.- Our chief function this term was the tri p to Cam bridge, to see Sop h~c1es· " Antigone", wh ich even the most junior n~em bers.e njoye d to the full. Some o f .us have also ~c n privl!e.ged to see some excellent slides o f G reece, which rcmmded us of last yea r's excursio n. A t the lime of wnt mg, we are looking fo rward to Mrs. Broga n's lecture o n "Roman Africa", and we hope to fit in ano ther lecture and d iscuss ion before the end of term.
A.G .S. D. THE WALPOLE SOCIETY.- The society has nOl met so far this term, because of illness and the G ra nge H ouse play, wh.ich the President is prod ucing. However, we hope to have a few meetings towa rds the end of term, for which members have pre pared papers. TH E NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.- We are glad to welcome Mr. Jones, who has joined us for this tcnn. On January 25th , there was an o uting to Stodmarsh. A t least 500 duck, including Tea l, Shoveler, Ma lla rd and a pair of Pintail were seen. They had proba bly been driven down from further north by the cold weather. There were many Blue Tits, Starlings, Stonechats and G oldfinches in the reeds, as well as Moorhens and Coots. On Febru ary 1st, there was an out ing to West bere gravel pits. Many Pochard , Tufted Duck and Coots were on the deep water in the pits. A pair of Smew was also seen. A few days later we joined the H arvey Society to hear a paper by C. F. G raham commemorati ng the centenary of Darwin's Origin of Species, an occasion described elsewhere in th is issue. On Sunday, 7th Februa ry, some of the Socie.ty's o\nithologists spent the day walk!ng a long the shore from Wh itstable to Faversham. On the preced lllg Fnday, Po tter and Mun ns had bneny shown us how we could recognise the wader and duck that we were likely to sec. Many duck, incl ud ing Widgeon, Mall ard, Sheld uck and Pinta il were seen fly ing over the sea para llel to the shore, an d sitting out on the sea. On the pebbly shore between .Whitstable and . the mouth of Faversham Creek, t~ere were T urnstones, Dun lin , and Ringed Plover, while among the bi rds on the muddy. ba nks and fl ats 111 Faversham Creek were ve~y many Dun lin, some Redshanks, Grey P lover a nd a few R inged Plover. f.\mong those.on the shore and 111 the vegetation above the high water mark were two nocks of Snow Bunt lllgs, many Lmnets, some G recnfin ches G oldfinches and a Stol1cchat. We were also lucky eno ugh to see a Sho re l ark on the sho re, near the " Sportsman". T he variety of enviro nments we saw, incl udi ng pebbly shores, Ill uddy creeks, dykes (wi th Snipe in them) and sa lt marshes, and hence the va riety of birds seen (more than thirty species) made the day both interesting and successful. Ano ther short o uting to Stodmarsh was made on Sa turday, 14th February. With the advent of milder wea ther, almost all the duck had disappeared to the north, but a Great Grey Shrike was seen nea r the marsh. A lecture on " Practical Bee- Keeping" was given by Muller, o n Wednesday, 18th February. The wealth of admirably arranged information el~abl ed us to appr~c i ate that there i~ much more in bee-keeping than just keeping bees ! The lecture was Illustrated by articles of bee-keepmg apparatus and gave LIS many amusing practica l details. On Friday, Fe bruary 20th, G leeson g!lve: a lecture on Owls. First h ~ outlined the speci'.llised features of Owls enabling them to be the only slgl11ficant nocturnal predato ry birds. He then outlmed the more interesting features of the common Bri tish species. T he lecture was clea r and of wide in terest, as Gleeson d iscllssed Owls from a bio logist's point of view, as well as from the point of view o f an ornithologist. Gleeson has a lso been ringing birds at Luxmore playing fi elds. So fa r he has successfully rung fifty. T his term Palmer is re·organizing the Slonham bi rd collection, which adorns the ma in staircase in Featherston~·s. A limited number of birds will be on d isplay each term, and the remainder will be stored in the loft. T his term the duck, and wader, and possibly the game birds and divers, will be d isplayed , as it is the term when these birds are most often seen in Kent. Anyone interested in Natura l History. will fi nd this splendid collection (said by some to rank thi rd best a mong British collections) well worth visiting, and ornithologists will find it useful to ident ify and to examine at close range, any birds seen in the fi eld . In the remaini ng month of this term we hope to see a film taken in G hana during an expedit ion in which Mr. Jones took part. We a re a lso looking fo rward to hearing from Mr. Stainer, of some of his many varied ex periences as a na turalist. M.J .A .S. THE C HORA L SOCIETY.- Rehearsals this term have been co ncentrated on Charles Wood's Pw;sioll Accordillg 10 SI . Mark and much hard work has been pUl into it by those n ot too ill to attend. We arc singing
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G.N.S. THE CHAM BER ORC~IESTRA. -The Chamber Orchestra has continued o n its successful way. lts 1958 King's Week concert was a great success; and last term's concert was reviewed most enthusiast ica lly. The critic remarked that "Without any doubt, th is selected orchestra of masters and boys deserves a much wider audience". We hope that all fu ture Chamber Orchestra and Music Circle concerts will be packed out. The Cha mber Orchestra in its usua l fo rm is a string orchest ra . As has been stated elsewhere, the high quality of the string playing in the school is much to the cred it of Mr. Sugden, who leaves us this term. Mr. Sugden has led the Chamber Orchestra ever si nce it was first started in 1954. There being no School Concert this term, he played his last so lo at the school, a Ro mance by Sven dscn (wi th the Chamber Orchestra, wi th its wind players) in the M usic Circle Conccr t o n March 15th. We sha ll miss Mr. Sugden's leadership very much. G.N .S. T HE SECOND ORCHESTRA.- Fo l' some time now, you ng musicians co ming to King's ca n expect some sort of welcome, owing to the comparat ively new policy of reserv ing this section of the school's musical activit ies fo r the new boys, o r those fairly new to their instruments. Previollsly, thc Second Orchestra had been composed of those who were not able to aspire to anyt hing better, and members of the First Orehestra. This term we arc attempting the second movement of Mozart's 3rt! Hom COllcerto ill E/lal, The Vafialll Kllight by Charles Woodhouse and Byrd's Pa von, and will probably compete fo r the Kent Mus ic Festival Junior Orchestra Prizc next tcrm, a n event in which we have previously achieved some SliCCesS. Unfortunately we shall be without the patient, but irrepressi ble ent husiasm of our conductor, Mr. Sugden, who is leaving us this term , apa rt from the fact that we will have lost a good friend. May I, on behalf of all those who have been encouraged to do better, exhorted to vi rtuosi ty, and generally sllstai ned by Mr. Sugden, take this opportu nity to express the regret we feel at his departure, and wish him every success a nd happiness for the future. D .ST.I.W. THE HARVEY SOcIETY.- Despite the illness that has prevailed throughout almost the whole tcrm, the Society has been able to meet three times. The first meeting was held in conjunction with the Natural History Society, to hea r a paper by C. F. Graham to mark the centenary of Charles Darwin. Opening with a filmstrip, Graham went o n to discuss Darwin's life and work, with specia l reference to his theories of Evolution. The second meeting was held to hear a paper by P. 1. Seymour on "Tuning an lnternal Combustion Engine". With the aid of va rious engine components and bluc-prints, he clearly explained about fi ve dilTerent ways in which even an unskilled mechanic can improve the performance and efficiency of a car. The term's activities ended with the showing ofa pair of educational fi lms, also shown to the History VI, obtained by the President from Messrs. Mulla rd, entitled "Conquest of the AlOm" and "Mi rror in the Sky". D.R.S,A.
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THE CANTUARIAN THE PHOTOG RAPHIC SoCIETY.- It is becoming increasingly difficult to find a convenient time for regular meetings, when faced with the heavy commitments of so many of our members. H owever, to date, there have been four meetings of a discursive nature, including a most comprehensive introduction to Colour Processi ng by Mr. J. N. Wilkinson. At the time of wri ting, I . B. Doulton, Esq., has kindly promised a lecture, together with onc of a more scie~t ific character by the ~residcnt; and!lt the end of the term, "'(C hope to arrange a meet ing to show members Colour T ransparenclcs of the Cont ment. It has been particularly
encouraging to hea r of a number of commissions from masters for special photographs to be taken by members of the Society. F inally, our attention latterly has been turned to the paint ing and re-orga ni z..1tion of t he Dark -room which is proceeding most successfull y. P.J .D.G. T HE MARLOWI: SOCIl:TY.- We have had only one meet ing so far this term, on Sa turda y, 14th March, when P. R. S. Ma nscrgh rea d a paper o n " Th e New China". He firs t told us that there were few sources of information on Communi st China , but went on to givc us a ve ry full account of the present situation. He ta lked aboll t. the hi sto ry of China in thi s ~nt.ury. the COlllm uni sts' re-orga ni zat ion of the count ry, and the enormous Improvements they had made m IIldustry and public welfare. Probably the most interesting part o f thc paper was when he exp lained the appa rent ly ba rbarie system of Com munes, where everybody has hi s "Do-i l-yoursclf" back-ga rden blast furn acc, and family life is all but abolished. We have scvera llectures in store. Later this term we hope to hear one frol11 A. A. J. Williams on " What went wrong in France", and no less than four papers a re being prepared for next tenn. We arc aga in grateful to Mr. D. W. Ball, for his hospitality in Lattergate. W.A.H. T HE SOMNER SOcIETY.- The attendance this term, despite the 'fl u epidemic a nd the many other act ivilies which take place has been regular, though rather limited at the fi rst meeting. This took the form of a highly entertain ing lect~lre by F. 1. D. Lambert on "The Vandals of Got hic Architecture". The chief fa ct that emerged from the paper was that the idea of preservati.on is compa rat ively mo.dern. The diff~re nt ways in which people have approached the problems of Goth iC restorat ion and rebu lldmg was part!cu!arly w?1I brought out. T he only critici~m of th is ~igh ~y amusing lecH.lre was a I~arsh assessmen t of Vic~o~lamsm whl~h gave an unba lanced picture, smce the Vlcton ans, for a ll thei r faults, did awake a new appreC iati on of GothiC and savcd at least as many buildings as they destroyed. On February 27th , W. A. Hodges d esc ~i bed a. vast ~angc of a n ci~l1t ciyilizations, which a lm?st overwhelmed him. He overcame the compleX ity of IllS subject by confi mng himself to the bare outlmcs. H e very usefully fi tted each race into both geograph ica l and historica l patterns. Altogether, a very diffieult and rewarding task was well accomplished in h is tent h lecture ! As usual we are most grateful to the Canterbury Archaeological Society for their invitation to attend many stiml:lating meetings. At the time of going to press, we are hoping for a paper from P. Pollak, Esq., on " Ancient Pottery". T.J.S. TH EB ELLRINGING Socllrrv.- Owing to epidemics of influenza. measlcs and the li ke, meetin gs and practices o r the society this term have occasiona lly been .very depl,cted , and consequently, the standard of ringi':lg has not been all it might have been. H owever, Sll1ce the. Illness sccms to. have struc~ t~e ~or~ expenenced members of the society, it has given some of the less sk illed a chance to Improve their rmgmg 111 the absence o f their more experienced comrades. At the business meeting, held at the beginning of the term, it was proposed that, subject to favourable cond itions a band shou ld be assembled to ring at the induct ion service of the new vicar, on March 17th. Another p'roposition that the outing sh?~l ld be held in the form of a ~hort tour i':l the summer holidays, received uncertain support, and the dcclslon was left on the table, until plans fo r It were more advanced . At the time of writing these notes, a pea l has been a rranged for March 2 1st, to mark the induction of the new viear. It is also hoped that, subject to permission, a parLy of ringers should represent the school at the Annua l General Meeting of the Kent County Association, at Margate on Easter Monday. In conclusion we would like to thank Mr. Meredith , ou r President, for being what he is, and to acknowledgc the diverse help we have rcceived from sundry o utside sources. N.J.D,
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THE SCHOOL CHOIR This term we a re indebted to Dr. S. S. Campbell , the Cathed ral organist, for slicceeding Mr. Lawrence at the o rgan for the Sunday morning services. Mr. Bacon and Mr. Scon have been sharing the evening services, wh ile the Revd. A. B. Curry has been playing fo r dail y prayers in the G reat 1¡lall. As in all other act ivit ies, illness has kept about a third of our members away 8111hc term , and sometimes it seemed touch and go whet her or not there wou ld be a choir at all at SOme services. But somehow w~ managed. Illness has mainly affected the T reb les, whose numbers have becn red uced by half for practically the whole term. This has made si nging very tiring for the rest of the Trebles, beca use, as wel l us so re throats and colds, an alarming number of their voices are breuk ing much earlier th an lIsll<l l, so that the out look for nex t term is rathe r doubtful , unless we can find more treb les. A place can a lways be fOlill d for anyo ne who can si ng trebl e. They will be most welcome! On Ash Wednesday, we sa ng the a nt hem Tum (hy facefroJIIIllY sins by Attwood, and at the Co nfirmation service we sang anothe r Allwood fmt hem COllie, I-Ioly Ghost, in which .I . A. 'Broom and M. J. Tesler sa ng the solo, and a new anthem God be ill Illy head by H. Walford Davics. Two other new anthems slin g Ihis term were, The Lord is Illy Slll'plw/'d by Stnnfo rd , and Urnr My Prayer by Purcel l. We are grateful to Mr. Wright who, alt hough ill himself for three weeks, has managed to push us success. fully through an ambitious programme for such a difficu lt term. Anthems sung this term:o Worship the Lord (Trm'ers) Come, Holy Ghost (AttlVood) Give us the wings of faith (Bullock) God be in my head (If. Walford Davies) o Lord increase my fa ith (Gibbons) Yea, though I wa lk (Sullivan) o come ye servants of the Lord (Tye) Blessed Jesu, Fount of Mercy (Dvorak) Turn thy face from my sins (AttlVood) Hea r my prayer (Purcell) Wash me throughly (Wesley) Hosa nna to the Son of David (Weelkes) Lead me, Lord (Wesley) Fai thful Cross (John I V, Killg of Thou knowest Lord (Purcell) Portugal) God so loved the Wo rld (Stailler) The Lord is my Shepherd (Stanford)
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v CANTER BURY H.C. Played at Kingsmead on Saturday, January 24t h King's I ; Canterbury 2 The School had been back only fOllr days when we played a strong Canterbury side. Th~ team. had been training in the gym for these four days, because rain had made the hockey pitches a quagmire and therefore there had been no chance for the side to play toget her p ri or to th is game. At the last moment the game was transferred from St. Stephen's to Kingsmead. It was decided that the halves should be 35 minutes each, and this was later to prove o~lr undoing. The game began at a great pace and this was maintained well into the second half. In til? first half the Schoo l played ext remely well the combining and covering being exceptional. Now and agam, Ca nterbury broke aw~y and showed that ihey would be dangerous if ever they reached the cirelC? However, the pressure o n the Canterbury goal was great and K!ng's came close t~ scoring on many occasions. Eventua lly, a short co rnel' was forced and it was converted 1111 0 a goa l by Pn tehard. THE KI NU' S SCHOOL, CANTERUURY
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Played at SI. Stephen's Piece on Thursday, 5th February King's 2; The Hockey Association 4 In rece~t years the School has played extremely well against the Hockey Association and this yea r was no exception .. T.he Hockey Association brought down a good side, includ ing Cadman : who later became an England tna hst. ~ter ten .minutes play, King's went ahead wi th a .goal by McNicholl , collecti ng a pass from Barber, wh l c~ left hun on ly the goal keeper to beCit. A llthe.t llne t11~ play wa.s of Cl n exceptionCilly high standard, few passes ~vere gomg ,1st ray and movements were bemg cClrncd out with grea t fir mness and rapidity. Soon after McNlco ll 's goa l, Jo nes put the School further aheild, finishing off it good movcmcnt after McNicoll had drawn the goalkeeper out o f position. T he H ockey Association rcduced the arrea rs with two quick goals by followin g up rebounds o n' the defence. . After half-time, a wa ll . C?f fog swept th~ ground, a nd red~lced the visibi lity to about thirty y;.II'ds. Even In these unpleasiu,H condltl<;lIlS, play contml!ed to be of a high s t ~IIl ~l ard, Attacks were spasmodic with all the good play taking place 111 mid-field. TWice the Hockey ASSOCiation sco red as a result of slow covering ,The s~irit of the eleven was excellent in this game. They played as a team, al ways finding their own me~ With their passes. The halves, especially GOl:don, played ext remely well. ,Baxtcr, too, had a good ga me, but he was not ably s upported by a slow Pntchard, The forward s combllled well and their interpassing WClS excellent. All rOllnd this was iI game to be remembered.
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The result of this match was somewhat surprising, since two of our best players O. C. Pri tchard and R . E. F. Minns, were ill. However, King's played very well, especia lly the defenre on it pitch that was ' extremely muddy and which was very cut-up by half-time. During the first half, there was little to choose between the two sides, but St. Lawrence with a fast forward line, perhaps presscd a little I~arder. Our defence throughout was tight, and stopp~d any breakaways. When our forw~rd s penetrated mto the St. Lawrence half, they moved the ball well. K ing's were deservedly 2-1 up at half-lime, through goals by J. N. Broad ley and M . R. Tuohy. The game was fa ster during the second half, with the St. Lawrence forwards looking dangerous; but ou r defence held remarkably tight ' with P. H. Holmes-Johnson outstanding at full -back. M ..R. Tuohy, deputizing for R. E . F. Minns at centre forward , showed plenty o f thrust and scored a hat-tnck. P. H. Gordon also played very well at centre half, giving his f o rwards good suppo~t. The hockey :-'las not up to the standard of the H. A. game, mainl y becau s~ of th ~ mud,dy state of the ground. However, It was played very ~laJ'd throughout by two evenly matched Sides, With Kmg's, on the day, perhaps slightly better and more SUited to the ground. 660
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Played at S1. Stephen's Piece on 14th February K ing's 2; Cliftonville 4 T his ga me was a disappointment after ou r victory the Saturday before. We were st ill missing two old Colo urs and the qua lity of the game did not measure up to the standard of the SI. Lawrence match. For most of't he game, the pitch was as good as we can expect, and it did not become cut-up until well into the second half. The for wa rds did not combine as well together as they have done this season, and there was a complete lack o f fini shing, Had we taken our chances in the ci rcle the score might well have been different. The defcnce played hard, but was not as tight as in prev iow; ga mes, and gave the opposition 's forwards too mllch roo m in the circle. or the forwards, M. R. Tuohy again showed tlulISt, scorin g one o f Oll r goals, and W D McN icoll showed plenty of determination an d thrust 011 the ri ght wing. p, H. Holmes-Johnson and P. H Gm'don pla yed well in a weakened defence, Ollr ot her goal was scored by D, G. Jones.
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Played at Dover on 23rd February King's 3; Dover 4 This match which had been postponed because o f bad weather, did not produce the expected result . King's, obviously suffering. from the eff~cts of 'O u, lacked stamin~ and for only the first twenty mi!1,:,tes d id they display any of their true potential. The defence soon heSitated and wcre usuaUy out of pOSItion. The forward s unfit, thrust into Dover's defence individually and ineffectively: lack of cohesion produced lack of confid~nee and st iekwork failed. Nevertheless Minns opened the score for King's. D over equalized, but when Minns scored again, King's appeared, momentarily to regain the confidence they had shown in the H .A. match. Dover managed to equalize and at ha lf~time with the score 2-2, it was felt that King's would win comfort ably or draw. However the second half could not have proved wo rse for K ing's. The side, perhaps for the fi rst time this season: played without purpos.e. For the first twenty minutes the defence was badly ~haken. In the panic to rush the ball away, teehl11que was abandoned. Dover made use of our eXCIsperatlOn to net two more goals, but, fortunately, Kin~'s p~lIed back a,nd en gaged DC!v~r's defence in a m<;lre rea listic manner. Minns was rewardcd by a hat tnck With a well-tlined opportunist s goal. OpportullIsm, however, cou ld not hope to replace the concerted team efforts which were so evidently lacki ng. Altogether, this must rank as the least distinguished effort of the term.
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Played at St. Stephen's Piece on Thursday, 26th February King's 0; SI. Edmund's 2 After the unfortunate display at Dover, K ing's were hoping fo r a grand improvement, but a rev ived side cou ld not defeat a St. Edmund's side which was less strong than usual. T he defence was again sound, although perhaps slow in recovery, especially on the left, which cos~ us a goal. There was some good, passing in mid-fiel~ , the halves, Gordon and H olmes-Johnson i;n parl1~ular being extremely sound, emvmg out many openmgs for the fo rwards; but the latter, especmlly MII~ns, were always drifting to the left and consequently were o bstructi,ng each o ther. The~ .were also gUilty of not shooting quickly, but rather were content on manocuvnng for a better POSitIon. When they d id shoot their shots were blocked by some excellent goalkeeping. From two short corners the goa lkeeper saved wh~t might have been classed as certain goals aga inst most other schools. The defence allhough sound, did not have the positiona l sense of the S1. Edmund's backs. Herein lay St. Edmund's 'advantage, because they had been playing soccer all winter. Although this game WClS an improvement on Dover, it was by no means a true indication of the team's potential.
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Played at St. Stephen's Piece on Saturday, 28th February King's 4; Tonhridge 0 Recovering from the set backs of their two previous matches, King's showed more of their potential. The conditions were ideal for a good game of hockey. wit h the pitch in excell ent condi tion, a cloudless sky overhead and a good crowd.
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off the line wi th the goalkeeper beaten. TOWMds the end of the second half, Pri tcha rd pUI a shorl co rner in Ihe net , King's having earned Iheir lead. Having learnt their lesson from thc first half, King's lI sed more direct passing, but though wc wcrc often in the Tonbridgc " twenty-fivc", poor finishi ng by thc fo rwards ruined the good wo rk. Tuohy , playing his first ga me o n the left wi ng, combined we ll wit h Jones a nd togeth er they eflccted somc good move ments whi le on the righl there wa s a litt le too much dribblin g. As the game prog ressed, howevcr, the shooting improvcd. Wilh these more direct tactics, goa ls had to follow. Barber fini shed on' a good movement with a very hard sho t that wcnt int o the net, glancing off the goa lkeeper. As aga inst SI. Edmund 's, Minns was drifting towards the left and getting tangled up with Jones. However, he redeemed these mistakes by twice drawing the goalkeeper out of position and leaving himself an open goal to shoot at. Holmes~John son was aga in the steadiest man in defence but the backs were a trifle slow in covering. The forwards again improved but thei r shootin g was sti.ll ast ray, though Jones o nce sent the ball over the bar wi th an excellent shot. On the right, there was sti 1\ too much dribbl ing and not cnough use of the cross-pass. There was consolation from this ga me because it showed that the tea m was returning to its o ld form and should be able to realize its true potential at the Oxford H ockey Festiva l. '
THE KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY V TH E O.K.S. Played on St. Stephen's Piece on 7th March King's 6; O.K.S. I ' Flu claimed Gordon, but the change of positions, Minns 10 centre-half and Tuohy to centre-forward, did nOI affect the standard of play . The hi gh score suggests among other thin gs, sound play from King's. Perhaps, however, it ca n be sa id that in comparison with early season form , there were slill too many positiona l gaps which the O. K.S. luckily nevcr managed to exploi t. Sounder tact ics wou ld have made the team look more complete. The sq uare pass should have been used more-and decisively. On occasions there was far too much a imless hitting. One mllst bear in mind the fact that King's were never pressed· Pritchard and Baxter, by sound play never experienced an anxious moment, whi le the half backs were generallyelTective. T he forwa rds should concent rate on cohesion, lholl gh the O.K.S. lacked good covering and invited individua lism. Pritchard, from a short co rner, masterfully netted the first goa l. The second a nd fourth goals foll owed Minns' drawing the backs and goal keeper for Tuohy 10 score. McNicoll on the right wing continuously thrust deep into his opponents' half. Jones at inside- left was perhaps the strongest link between forwards and backs, so necessa ry in any game of hockey. The outsta nding featu re of the game was probably the short corner technique of Pritchard , which brought two goals for King's. In face of strong pressure by the King's forwards in the circle, Sk inner, the O.K.S. goalkeeper, gave a masterly display.
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captain imbued the side wi~h team spirit .and . keen~! and to the more experienced players such. as Maclldowie, Stevenson, Wright and R acthff ; III addition to these the remamder of the regular ~l~e, Rawlinson, Carey, Simmonds, Hoile, Tuohy and Ra~cl iffe have all done the!r share, The most .declslve victories were those over D over and St. Ed mund's; III the o thcr games the Side more than held ItS own , and were defeated only by St. Lawrence after a keen game. Quite apart from its successfu l record , the side has played constructive and intelligent hockey, the ma!n wea knesses be.in~ an inability to fini sh off the attacks and a tendency to hang on to the ball too long III defence; and I t IS good to know that there are some promisi ng Coit s, of a standard not much inferio r, to fill the gaps in the 1st and 2nd Elevens next year. R ESULTS Canterbury H.C. Drew I- I l' St. Lawrence College. Lost 2- 3 v Dover College. Won 10- 1 l' St. Edmund's Schoo l. Won 10- 3 l ' C liftonvil le H.C. Won 1- 0 v Tonbcidge School. Won 3- 0 l'
THE COLTS' Xl For the Colts the past season has been a very vallmb le one though difficult, as it has no t been possible beca use of illness to build up a coherent team. The result and real va lue of the season has been tha t many more members of the Club than usual have benefit ed from the ex peri ence of playing in the teal11 . All th ose in bo th the first and second games have shown great enthusiasm and there are qu ite a numbe r who will become competent hockey players and useful members of next year's side, if they wi ll take trouble to improve their stickwork through constant practice on their own. In the first two matches against Dover and St. Lawrence, both of which were lost, we had a very depleted side, and, in spite?f det7 rmined play, partjeul~r1y by Lewis at cel~tre~half, we lacked both speed and con~ fidence in passing III which St. Lawrence espeCially gave us an obJcctplcsson. However, against St. Edmund's a.lld Tonbri~ge we had, .w!th the return of ~ownson, 1: M.cClure, and Wight almost a full team and thc Side gave eV idence that If It could have contmued playmg tn.to March, it wou'ld have become a very strong combinat ion under the leadership of A. D. Stewart, who ~1I1 develop into a powerful centre~forward if he can increase his speed. The other forwards, C. S. W. Wnght, T . D. Ractliff, I. A. M. McClure and D o ust, who will be a very dangerous player when he can shoot hard, a ll played vigorously, scori ng twe~ve goals in. the two games. It was perhaps fortwlate that ~he defc,:!cc was not rea lly tested for, though Improved Stnce the S1. Lawrcnce game, a lack of real speed 111 covermg was still noticeable. The following have played in the team: A. D. Stewart (captain), S. G. Clark, N. 1. de Jong, G. S. D oust, H. A. Rudguard, P. G. Lewis, S. J. M.twford, I. A. M. McClure, M. A. B. Morpurgo, A. R. Potter, M. P. Press, T . D. Ractliff, A. P. Radcliffe, R . St. J. Stevens, R. H . Tatchell, R. J. S. Townson, A. K. R . Wight, C. S. W. Wright , M. J. Wright. RESULTS v Dover College. Lost 1-2 v St. Lawrence, Ramsgatc. Lost 1- 5 v S1. Edmund's School. Won 7- 0 v Tonbridge. Won 5-1 R.A.C.M. A.B.W.
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ATHLETICS h is Illost infuriating that thi s term should be one of the mildest on record, yet one in which illness has most predominant , illness which was often caused by boys being careless about what they put on after domg athletics or cross¡country funning. Once aga in , from the point of view of training the athletics club we had the usual difficulties of being unable to get hold of those boys who, besides being good athletes' are good at hockey or rugger. This has been especially true of the fiel d events, where boys have been unabl~ lO train for thei r events before the trials for the first match. Yet it is very depressi ng for those who have trained hard the whole term, to sec a hockey player throw a javel in, for example, twenty feet further with his first throw, than they could after long training. It ought to be enforced that a place in the team was a reward for the hard training. The middle distance runners started their track training a little earlier this year than previously, but most of them were too exhausted by their cross-count ry running to be fa st on the track. It does not automatically follow that if you are a good cross-country runner you are therefore a good miler. H is too much to expect to do both and much of the trouble is caused by boys starting really strenuous cross-country running at too carly an age; a minimum age, 15t for example, should be enforced. One solution would be to concen trate on cross-country run ning in the spring term , and on the track in the summer, which would bear oul the theory that it is impossible to reach a high standard of ath letics in a term which is at the mercy of the elements and germs. The East bourne match , for example, was ruined by the weather. be~n
Sports day was cancelled because the end of term was brought forward and a new system, from which much was hoped, shelved . Briefly, it intended that at future sport s, each housc would hold its own heats and enter a team of competitors for each event, in each age group, after which there would be a series of inter-house league relays (a mod ified version of this is being run 00- at the end of this term) . By encouraging more inter-house competition, it is hoped to encourage athletics itself and to improve the standard throughout the School. . Finally, thc cl ub has hopes tha t one day their ambition o f having a properly drained , 4 x 440 yards clIlder track will be fulfilled. A t prcsent school ath letics in the twelve days it is allowcd to fun ction labours under difficulties ak in to play ing te nnis on the Goodwin sands at high lide. On this poin t, 1 will quote A. G . K. Brown who writcs " If the spring term is allotted to athletics, thcn <l cinder track is essential. 1 cannot imagine cricketers trying to practise on a natural grass surface in February or March, yet to ask the athlete to do so is almost impossible" .
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K.S.C. v EASTBOURNE COLLEGE at Canterbury on March 3rd King's 54 points; Eastbourne 48 points Afler spring-li ke conditions the week before, it was really hea rt-breaking that it should rain on the day of the match, and conditions were, of course, atrocious. Once again we showed our superiority on the track by winning all those events, even though the margin was, in some cases, a mere foot. Parry ran extremely well to win both the mile and 880 yards; he is a strong runner with a fine style. Atkinson ran beautifully to win the 100 yards in 10.6 seconds and gave us a good start in the relay. Turner surpassed himself in winning the 220 and 440 yards. In the field evcnts, the order was reversed. Their captain won the shot, with an excellent putt of 46 ft. 6 in., and their discus thrower won easily with a magnificent throw of 139 ft. O. C. Pritchard won the long-jump (the only field event we did win), wi th Barker, very encouragingly as he is still only a colt, 3rd. Pritchard was vcry creditably involved in four ou t of the five field events. At the end, the whole match depended on the relay result, which is always an excellent way to end any match. Fortunately we won by 3 feel.
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K.S.C. I' TONBRIDGE SCHOOL at Ca nterbury on March 14th King's 51 points; Tonbridge 55 points Conditions had greatly improved for our match with Tonbridge and so had our field events, for we won three out of the five, and camc second in four, wit h some very notable performances. Such a large measure of success was due largely to Baxter, who began by wi nning the shot, then proceeded to win the d iscus with an incredible throw (since he had thrown the discus for the first time this term only the day before) of 125' ft. 6 in., wh ich broke the ex isting School rccord , and finall y ca me second in the high jump to Fowler, who won with a best-ever jump o f 5 fl. 4 in. G. C. Pritchard, aft er doing so well aga inst Eastbourne, had an off-day. He was aga in doing four out of thc fi ve field events, and although he was placed in all of them, it was, in most cases, to our second st ring. Russell did weHto throw the javelin 142 ft. , twenty feet further than he has thrown ever before. On the track in the senior match, the results, bar one, were very disappointing. The except ion was the 440 yards, where Turner ran an extremely well-judged race. Tonbridge won both the 100 and the l 220 ya rds. In the middle distances, we were hopeless ly outclassed. Parry came second in the very fa st 880 but could not manage the mile as well. Khanna, with a nice, easy style won the hurdles comfortably in 16.9 secs. Once again, as aga inst Eastbourne, the relay was decisive. Tonbridge with a team of four very st rong runncrs clinched the match in an excellent time of I min. 36.4 secs. 11 was one of the hardest-fought and most enjoyable matches we have had against Tonbridge. ln the Colt s match, Tonbridge won the sprints, but we managed to get second and third with Baker running extremely wcll in both. M. J. Pritchard won the 440 yards and Consterdine came second in the 880 yards. Wc were predominantly better than Tonbrid ge in the field events and in Barker we have a fine athlete of the future. H e won thejavclin with a beautiful throw of 136 ft. 6 in., which broke the under-16 school reco rd and then the long-jump with a jump of 18 fl. 6 in. , which was only 3 inches behind the senior winner. He i~ also a fast runner, (he ran in the relay team) and it will not be long before he is running for the School as well. Dowd won the shot- a good reward for his hard work-and Perkins jumped well for seeond place in the high jump and came second in thc shot. Tn the relay, King's won easily in an excellent time. King's School placings were:SENIOR MATCH won in 10.8 sees. 2. p, R. Atkinson 3. A. A. J. Williams 100 yards won in 24.4 secs. 2. R. H. Turner 220 yards 54.1 sees. I. R. H . Turner 440 yards won in 2 m. 6.6 sees. 2. J. R. Parry 880 yards won in 4m. 47.7 sees. 3. C. Rose 1 Mile 16.9 sees. 3. J. V. Watson I. J. K. Khanna Hurdles 5 ft. 4 in. I. I. B. R. Fowler 2. P. J. Baxter High-Jump won at 18 ft. 9 in, 2. G. C. Pritchard Long-Jump 39 ft. 4 in. 2. G. C. Pritchard I. P. J. Baxter Shot 125 ft . 8 in . 3. G. C. Pritchard 1. P. J. Baxter Discus won at 142 ft. 9 in. 3. G. C. Pritchard 2. A. C. Russell Javelin Time 1 m. 36.4 se9S, Relay (4 x 220) I. Tonbridge School
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A.A.l.W. K.S.C. " DULWICH COLLEGE at Dulwich on March 18th
King's 31 points; Dulwich College 59 points This was the first match ever between the two schools and we would like to thank Dulwich for making it such a memorable occasion. There was a bitterly co ld wind and. although the track was cinder, King's were lInlised to running without lanes or staggers. Dulwich undoubtedly were the betler side and they had some remarkable athletes in their tcam- a high-jumper who has cleared 5 f1. 9 in. , a long-ju mper who has jumped 21 ft. and a quarter miler who has run in 49 secs,. to mention but a few. We held our own in the 100 yards, with Williams and Atkinson running well for second and third place, and in the 220 yards where Turner ran yet another beautiful race to win and Brodie gal a good third. Apart from Khanna and Watson, who came second and third in the hurdles, and Parry, who ran very we ll in lhe 880 yards- he should soon be doing I minute 58 seconds- the rest of the track event results were filled by Dulwich. In the fie ld events, Pritchard did well to come second in the shot and long-jump , but everybody else could only get third or fourth. Dulwich won the relay too. King's School pJacings were:SENIOR MATCH
100 yards 220 yards 1. R. H. Turner 440 yards 880 yards r Mile Hurdles High-Jump Long-Jump Shot Relay (4 x 220) I. Dulwich College
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THE BOAT CLUB During the last week of the Christmas holidays an VIII began training at Putney, where facilities were kindly provided by Thames RC. The crew had two outings dai ly, as well as individual instruction on the indoor tank, and in view of the subsequent hold-up in boating a t School, it was a valuable week. Back at Canterbury the first two weeks were spent in tubbing and outings in fours. But the onset of 'fiu at this point prevented any serious progress from being made for nearly three weeks; thus the two VIlIs for Putney had no outings at Pluck's Gutter until the end of February. Ironically enough, the weather unlike that of a normal Easter term, was ideal for boating during these three weeks, with ca lm condition~ and little rain. Since the end of Febr uary the two VlJls have worked hard to make up for lost lime, both in the boat and in intensive weighHraining sessions in the gym, but they are understandably behind schedule in their training. They are now reasonably together but at present their blade·work is not sound enough to enable them to command a high rating with confidence. However, there is no lack of spirit and both crews hope to do them~elvesjustice in the Schools' Head of the River Race at Putney, on March 24th,
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RUGBY FOOTBALL "A" XV "A" XV v ETON COLLEGE
E ton 14; King's 5 This year's visit to Elan ended in defeat for the "A" XV. Gton won by three drop-goals Hnd a goal to a goa l. The Eton points were all scored by their s l a nd -on~ha lf, Dunning, but they won because of their better teamwork. The King's side was vcry much a scratch side, for the match followed the peak of lite 'flu epidemic. The sidc was further depleted through claims of work and of rowing. As a result the side had had no opportunity to practice together and this was reOected in their performance. Neither side really made full use of the conditions, which were excellent for fast attacking rugby. There were few three·quarter movements of note, although the Eton backs several times passed the ball o ut to thei r wingers and then had it back inside again. The King's lhreequarters seemed to find the light ball a disadvantage for their handling was not up to their usual high standard. In the scrummages the ball went with the head, the King's pack doing well to hold the heavier Eton pack. Eton dominated the loose and the linc·out play. The performance of some of the younger members of the side promised well for the future. The experiment of playing Pritchard at stand-off was not a great success; he seemed to lack the necessary speed over the first few yards, but it is only fair to note that this was his first exercise following a long bout of 'flu. The King's try was scored by Radcliffe and Jenner converted from a difficult position.
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King's J J; Eton 6 Played on a fi ne day and a dry pitch, this match was fast and open. Eton had a slightly heavier serum, but the "sets" were equally divided. Outside the serum the play was also even. Eton being better in defence and King's in attack. C. Barker, on the King's right wing scored first, finishing a movement started on the Eton 25 yard line. There was no further score in the first half, the play remaining, for the most part, in the centre of the field. In the second half King's scored again from a fine break through the centre by J. Norris. Eton then scored as the resu lt of a p.\ssing movement down the right wing. Soon afterwards P. H. Gordon intercepted a paSS and put the ball under the posts for H. A. Rudgard to convert. Eton then attacked with renewed vigour and scored from a fine individua l ruo, again down the right wing. Caldwell was outstanding in the forwards, despite an injury soon after half· time.
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FENCING CLUB The fen cin~ Club Ims had <t short but quite slIccessful season. In the Kent Schoolboys Champio nships t h~ Senior F~d Champi onsh ip was won by B. S. Guard and Goldsmi th <lnd Livingstone were second and thi rd respecllvely in the Junior C~~mp i o n s hip. Thi s was an extrem,ely good effort as there were a large number o f entrants and the Oppos ition was very strong. Sta nley-Smith, Cole I. E. and Collins all reached the semi-final and were unlucky in just fail ing to ga in a place in the Fina l Poo l. T he first schoo l match against Highgate was cancelled because of illness and in the next fixture against Elen College, the School team just lost 13-14 in a close and most exciting match. Against Harrow the School won decis ively by 21 bou ts to 15. ' M.E.M.
CROSS-COUNTRY The season I~as b~en qllite a success, despite the difficullies of tra ining and running a tcam during 'flu and me~sles epidemics, and we were di sappointed that we were unable, for medica l reasons, to run either the Sem or or the Junior Inter House Competitions this term . The season opened with ou r annua l match against "South London Harriers". They sent down quite a strong team and took the first th ree places winning by I 8 points. However, we were not uttcrly disappointed as our younger members showed great promise, especia lly Kinghorn and Consterd inc. . A weck laler, though hi t by 'flu we I~lanaged tp beat Dover College by two points at Dover. The rollowing Saturday, 14111 February we ra n aga l1lst Lancmg and Sulton Valence Schools at home. The scores were very close with only ten points separat ing the teams. We came second to Sutton Valencc. . On Saturday, 19th Fcbruary we wcnt o ver to Tonbridge and, although the course was 6J miles (conSiderabl y longe r than our accustomed course), we won by 12 points. T he biggest and I.n,?st sp~ctacular match o f the season was when, on the fo llowing Saturday, we hild the J? leasure of e n tert a Jr:tI~lg Highga te, Harrow, Felsted and Berkhamstcad school s ilt Home. The day was fme and the competition was keen. The result of the match was:- 1st Highgate 59 po ints¡ 2nd King's 71 points; 3rd Berk hamstead, 93 points ; 4th Harrow, 128 points and 5th Felsted, 137 poin'ts. ' Constcrdine and Kinghorn should be congratulatcd on their very fine performances throughout the season, and we are very grateful to Mr. Dickson for giving up his time to train us. The teaI"!l has been:- J. Rodwell, J. R. Parry, P. Consterd ine, C. A. R . L. Kinghorn , D. K. Thor pe, M. R. Ay h n~, C. C. Rose, and R . M. H. Purnell. T. C. C. Darlington, N. D. Curt is, S. S. Ba rker, and N. H. G. Griffith, have also r un. J.R.
SQUASH RACKETS With on ly one member of last year's team left, the side was somewhat young and inexperienced. They lost to Winchester, Tonbridge, Merchant Taylors and the O.K.S., but showed improved form towards the end of the season in defeating Westminster twice and St. Lawrence, Ramsgate. Four members of the V should be with us next year, so that prospects for thc future are much brighter. The Senior House Matches were won by Meister qmers and thc Jun ior House Matches by Galpin's. The results of the Indi vidua l C hampionships were as follows: - Senior: L. A. Warwick-Evans. Junior: J. A. M. McClure. The following represented the School in matches :- M. R. Jen neI' (captain), J. F. E. D. H ussey, L. A. War wick-Evans, W. M. Watson, 1. B. R. Fowler, A. G. R. Simmonds, R. P. B. Jones. D .W.Jl. 66S
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O.K.S. NEWS (Illformatio" for illcilision ill the O.K.S. News will be welcomed by the lloll. Secretary of the O.K.S. Association, A. D . WILSON, 25 BERKELEY SQUARE, LONDON, W. l. CHANGES OF ADDRESS AND ALL ENQUIRIES AIJOUT "THE CANTUARIAN" SHOULD BE SENT TO HIM AND NOT TO THE EDITORS.) A. D. Wilson, your Honorary Secretary, apologises for the inclusion of a rather old address in the last Calltuuriall. He is now at 25 Berkeley Square, London, W.l., and welcomes all news of O.K.S. It wou ld be a great help if correspondents would add their school years. Monthly Suppers These take place at the Garrick Hotel, opposite the Ga rrick Theatre in C haring Cross Road , on the first Wed nesday of every month . They are qu ite inrormal and no inti mation of attendance is required. Those who have attended recent suppers include:E. H. Cornelius (1938-43), C. H. Latt er ( 1916- 25). H. A. Emerson ( 1942-46), J. A. Flower ( 1939- 45), J . P. Richardson (1940-44), C. Q. James (195 1- 56), P. F. Lamb (195 1- 56). D. Kirby-Johnson ( 1940-45), A. Syme (1954-58), D. J. Eva ns (1953- 58), R. P. Spicer (1 95 3- 57), P. A. H. Clothier (1953-57), P. W. Rollason (1954-58), J. E. Barren (1954- 58), R. H . T. Dawkins ( 1948- 56), P. W. Barker (1953- 58), R. S. Burnham (1953- 57), H. J. de Voil (1942-47), A. D. M. Burr (1940- 45), A. D. Wilson (193 1--40), W. C . Young (1929- 38). A. J. Marshall (1955- 58), J. W. Sludd (195 1- 55), M. G. Baker ( 1938-43), H. A. Barker (1955-58), G. L. Clarke (1935-4 1). T he O.K.S. Rugger match will be played on October 3rd this year and not at the end of term . However, this date avoids University Full Term and should provide an early and usefu l test for the School XV. The normal December date has had to be given to an important school fixture. It is very much hoped that t lllO teams wi ll be raised. Those wish ing to play are asked to contact R. D. H. Roberts, Galpin'S, The Mint Y:lrd, Canterbury, stat ing for which team, or teams, they would like to be considered. An O.K.S. Golf meeting will take place on the sa me date. Organisat ion is in the hands of Geoffrey Young, 43 The Avenue, Cheam, Surrey. The fo llowing O.K.S. awards appeared in the Birthday Honours;H. A. S. JOHNSTON, O.B.E., D.F.C. ( 1922- 32), Permanent Secretary to the Premier, Nort hern Region, Nigeria, created C.M.G. GROUP CAPTAIN D. E . B. WHEELER, D.F.C., R.A.F. (ret.) (1927- 31) created C.B.E. MAJOR E. F. HOUSDEN, M.G., T.O. (1906- 11), created C.RE. for his work as Hon. Secretary and Hon. Treasurer, Imperial Cadet Association. CAPTAIN P. CHARIO, R.N. (1 924- 27) has moved to Bath as Assistant Director of Marine Engineering, Admiralty. COLONEL C. C. SMYTHE (1909- 12) is County Commandant of the Army Cadet Force in Hampshire. He would welcome help from other O.K.S. in the county. Age under 55. Some service experience "no matter how short". I. M. BACON (1953- 58) is working as a Ju nior Cost Surveyor on the London- Yorkshire motorway. He is surveying "just north of Luton". DR. K . B. D ICKSON (1902- 06) announces his ret irement from practice and intention to settle in Spain. N. L. H EARNE (193 1--40) is Assistant Lega l Adviser to the Co lonial Development Corporation in London . J. 'B. GOUOGE (1935--40) is in the same office. R . P. A. PIERCY (193 1-40) has departed on a world to ur to investi gate printing ink markets. P. S. PAINE (193 1- 37) is Sales Director of the Tyne-Tees Television Company. THE REVD. A. J. W. PRITCHARD (1 917- 22) has moved to Garsington as Rector. DOUGLAS WILMER (1933- 37) has had favourable notices fo r his performance in an Anouilh play at the A rts Theat re, London.
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THE CANTUAR IAN LOUiS HALSEY (1944-49) is conducto r of the El izabethan Singers in London. SOMERSET MA UG liA M (1884-89) celebrated his 85 th birthday in France. He was quoted in the SUI/day Times: '" received so many flowers that my home looks like a cemetery- bul surely it's rather early for that", M. G. LUPTON (1947- 52) moved to Jamaica this year and w ill return in three yea rs, unless he gets "bitten by something in the is land", He would like to contact other O.K.S. in Jama ica . He is with Trin idad Asphalt at 24 Duke Street, Kingston. A. N. A. BROWNER (1952- 7) Schola r of Christ Church, Oxford , has been awarded a Harmsworth Entrance Exhibition to the Midd le Temple. S. J. FREEIJA IRN-SM I T H ( 1949- 53) having graduated from C hri st Church with a Second in "Grea ts" is now reading for a Dip loma of Educntion at Notti ngham Un iversity, and intends to te:lch Latin, History fi nd English, whi le elai ne as much music as is PI'(1Clicable. M. J. RICKElTS (195 1- 6) is leachi ng for a time at Durslon H Ollse School, Ea ting. He :1nd his brNher Hown l'd (1955- 8) hope to find tempora ry jobs in H:1lllburg durin g the summer. MI LES BAsTEn ( 1949- 54) won a mus ic tra ve lling scholarship and went to New York in Janu ary. D. J . WIlU ,-\ MS (1953¡_¡58) is now an Ass istant rnspeclor in the Northern Rhodes ia Po lice. JAN BALK WILL (1947- 57) wro te most interest ingly from Ch ristmas Isla nd , where be was serving in H .M.S. Resolution, just before Christmas. He and R. N. n. 'I'I'IOMAS ( 1947- 54) both meL at H.M.S. Raleigh for Officers' Training last spring, and Ba lkwill also m Cl DAVID BUCHAN (195 1- 57) who was passing through as a new ent ry. Thomas went to an appointment in the Mediterranea n. In a later lelter Balkwill described a passage in a tanker between Christmas Island and Fiji, and in February he sai led for home in H .M.S. Nan'ik, via the Panama Ca nal, Jamaica and Bermuda. We look forward to seeing him again th is summer. We are glad to have renewed contact with P. C. J. BRU NET (1935- 39) who now does zoology tu ition fo r Trinity and Ball io!. His sma ll son is due at the Schoo l in 1969 o r 1970. K. V. JONES (1938- 4 1) writes enthusiastically about his new house in Wimbledon and a "chilling" series of films for which he has been wri ting music. These include No tillle to die, fm ell! to k ill and the Bandit of Zhda, as well as arrangements fo r The Horse's Mouth. H e is also an examiner for the Associated Board. H. F. H INDElL ( 1918- 22) is teaching at The Pri ory School, Ba nstead, and preparing a book of mathemat ica l problems for candi dates for the G.C.E. and for Public School Schola rships. R. BOWEN (1954- 58) is now working in a pain t facto ry going right through the various depart ments. N . H. GRABURN (1950- 55) is tak ing a fu ll post-G raduate course at Mont real, is doing some teaching and lectu ri ng, is Research Assistant to the Professor, and is doing some resea rch himsel f on the Iroquois Indians at a nearby reserve, so he leads a full life. He hopes to go to the Arctic in the Slimmer as a Government Anthropologist, to live wi th an Eskimo community for Research. 'He does not say if he proposes to take his wife wi th him, but he wrote that he was to be married in February, C. C. MATrHEW (1 952- 57) is teaching at Cu mnor House School, Danehill, Sussex. W. E. GOODAY (1905- 6), recently retired from New Consol idated Gold Fields Ltd., and is now Secretary of the European Section, Di rectorate of Recruiting, Transvaal and Orange Free State Chamber of Mines. His office add ress is Terminal H ouse, Grosvenor Gardens, S.W. I. M. H. COP LEY (1947- 50) is married , with one daughter, and is living in Jama ica , whe re he is Public Relations Supervisor for Kaiscr Bauxite Co., and Ed itor of the Company's Jo urnal. J. HEMBRY (1949- 54) has recent ly returned from lndia which he found had changed great ly in eleven yea rs of Independence. B. ROBINSON (1945- 51) spent four years as a Mercant ile Assistant abroad with an Import firm, but found it a " Jack of a ll Trades" job, so he retu rned to England to st udy Engineering and has been working fo r the National Coal Board . He is hoping to go to a Univeristy wit h a Coa l Board Scholarshi p to read for a B.Sc. in Electrica l Engi neering with emphasis on Elect ron ics, R. D. LEDISH (1956- 57) has tried tobacco farming but was hoping to join the British South African Police in March. V. J. ST. J. G lOBS ( 1932- 36) served with the Roya l Arti llery duri ng the war and then went to New Zea land where he is now work ing up his own fruit farm.
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1 T H E CANTUAR1AN R. GRIFFITHS (1954- 58) is now articled to a firm of London Solicitors. F. C. J. LEACH ( 1944-47) has ended his Short Service Commission in the RA.F. and is now managc!' of an hotel on the South Coast. V. E. BARTON (1950- 53) gained a Second Class in the exa minat ion for honours of cand idates for ad mission on the Roll of Solicitors of the Supreme Court and was recommended as being ent itled to honorary distinction. R. H . GOODSAlL ( 1905- 09) has been elected Fellow of the Roya l Society of Antiquaries. His lates t book , Tlte Ancient Road to Canterbury, is due in the eilrly summer. It describes the pre-Roman road from Surrey to Ca nterbury. R. M. S. GOODSALL (1951- 55) is fanning 145 acres at Harrietsham, wi th one assista nt. He has a R ed Poll beef herd, Kent ewes and arab le land. THE R EVD, H. G. J. BURDETT ( 1902- 07) ha s retired from parochial work and settled in Chichester. TH E REVD. D. L. EDWARDS (1942-47) has been appoi nted Editor and Managing Director of the Student Christian Movement Press Ltd. Edwards says this company is the largest publishing house in the world fo r religious books. A. J . C. FAGO (1939-43) has been appointed home sa les manager with Mcrton Engineering Co. Ltd. at Fcltham. N. J. FLOWER (1935--44) is now a pa rt ner in Elkington and Fife, Chartered Patent Agents, and from time to time sees Edmund Gordon and Anthony Wolcott , both connected with the profession, P. L. G. G urney, a solicitor, and Maurice Ga ll , a former Parrot. As senior Bishop in Australia by consecration, it falls to the Bishop of N .W. Aust ralia (THE RT. REVD. J . FREWER, 1897- 1902) to summon the 25 other Bishops in Austra lia to elect a Primate in place of the lat e Archbishop of Sydney (TUI~ MOST REVD. H. S. Mowll, 1903- 09). From London University, D. J. EVANS asks all O.K.S. at London o r any of the Medical Schools, to get in touc.:h wi th him. His address is, King's College Union, Surrey St reet, London, W.C.2.
IN THE SERV ICES Am. VICE-MAI~S I-l ALl A. FOORD-KELCEY (1926- 32) is A.O.C., 11 Group, Fighter Comma nd .
MAJOR-GUNERAL A. E. BROCKLEHURST (191 9- 23) has been appointcd Deputy Commander, B.A.O. R , He is the fir st Genera l to hold this newly crcated post. CA PTAIN C. B. PRATI, R.N. (1 921- 26) has been appointed aide-dc-camp to the Queen from January 7th. The foHowing have recently passed Wa r Office Selection Boards :P. F. OPHER (1947- 51) Royal Engineers ; M. TURNOR (1946- 50) R.A.S.C.; A. HALSEY (1949- 53) Roya l Art illery. M. BR ISTOWE (1944--47) is a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and is fl ying the supersonic jet "Scimitar". H e is marricd with two chi ldren. E. STANLEY (1952- 57) is serving with the Royal Air Force Police at Uxbridge. J. P. D. MOORE (1952- 56) writes most interestingly from the Aden ProteclOrate, where he is living 150 miles from anywhere under a 4,000 fcet cliff. He left his regiment (15/ 19th Hussa rs) aft er a year in Ma laya for an eighteen month tou r in the Protectorate. There was one vacancy in the armoured car regiments, for which he was selected. He writes that he has to spea k Arabic most of the time and is shot at quite oft en. "My nea rest escape was when a tribal guard dashed out of his stone fort on my arri va l, a imed his rifle straight between my eyes, moved it slightly left and put a bullet eighteen inches past my left car. I smi led and went forward to congratu late him, feeling rather like William Tell, as this was a great honour, The nearer the bullet, the higher the esteem in which you are held. 1 shou ld hate to be a rea l friend". M. R. A . MAlTHEW (1 953- 57) is doing his prel iminary Nationa l Service training with the K .S. L.I. at Copthorne Barracks, Shrewsbury.
ENGAGEMENTS MII.NE- BARNES.- J. G . C. Milne, PH.D. (1946- 50) to Muriel Margaret Joyce Barnes. LUCAS-¡DAVIDsoN.- Major D, S. Lucas, R.A . (1931 - 36) to Second Lieutenant Daphne Joyce Dav idson, W.R,A. C. 67 1
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MARRIAGES HINCHLIFFE-OIADWlcK.-On 27th December, 1958, 1. E. C. Hinchliffe {I 940-44) to Ann B. Chadw ick'
RVELAND-CALDWELL.- On 7th Februar y. 1959, D. C. R yeland (1940-53) to Jill Caldwell. SUTCLlFFE- D Avls,- On 17th June, Dr. R. L. G. Sutcliffe (1930-40) to Ethel D avis. WEIDENBAcKER- ADAMs.- On 29th November, 1958. at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, R . D. Weidenbacker (1938-41) to Rheta C. Adams.
OBITUARIES THE REYD. A. G. C. LEPARD Arthur G eorge Campbell Lepard , died at Folkestone on December 20th, at the age of 94. He was a King's Scholar from 1875 till 1881, when he w,:nt to Worcester .Colle~e. Oxford. He read Theology~ and was ordained in 1887. He was curate at Warmmster and St. Mlidrcds. Tcntcrdcn, and from 1908 till he retired he was Rector of East Langley. Kent. He was the o ldest o f living O.K.S. and the interest he fel t in the School was shown in a letter that he wrote to the Headmaster in October of last year, two months before he died. ]n it he regretted that he could not identify the boys.in an old school. photograph. It was, he said, far too modern for him. The photograph belonged to the time when Dr. Field was Headmaster, and Field had been Captain of the School two years before Lepard came there as a new boy. L. T. ASHENDEN, F.S.1. Leonard Thomas Ashenden died on December 14th at his house at Sturry, where he had lived for some fifty yea rs. He was at the King's School from 188 1 till 1890, and for some years before that, and many years since Ashenden has been one of the most familiar King's School names. He spent his life in East Kent as a 'surveyor and estate agent , and became a Fellow of the Surveyor's Instilute. He was also Engineer to the Kent Ri ver Catchment Board. He was a keen horseman, and when he was in the East Kent Yeomanry and too k part in Queen Victoria's Diamond Ju bilee procession, he rode his own horse to London. So, tc;>o, as Chief Officer to the Kent Fire Office he rode to the fires to be there before the four-horsed fire-engme arrived. He took a large part in a ll the' local affa irs of Sturry and in the affa irs of the church and parish. He was a well-Iovcd and valuable Man of Kent.
C. G. LORD, M.C. Charles George Lord was at the Kings' School only for two terms in 1 89~. He ~erved in the first world war in the Sherwood Foresters, was awarded the M.e. and was also mentioned In despatches. He died at the age of eighty-two on October 17th. His son sent a gift to the School to commemoratc this brief period of his father's life sixty-nine years ago. H. S. LONDON Hugh Stanford London died on February 21st at the age of 74. He came to the Junior King's School in 1894. After serving in the Consular Serv i c~ in many parts of the.wor~d till 1940, he became j~nternationally known as a scholar in heraldry. At the lime of the Coronation III 1953, he was appomted Norfolk Herald Extraordinary and the conception of the ten "Queen's Beasts" , which guarded the entrance to Westminster Abbey, ~as based on his learning .. This le~rning and enthusiasm date f~om the t~e whe." he was a boy at the Junior School, then housed III what IS now Walpole House; and III the notice of hiS death in the Times the writer says that " his interest in heraldic art and history went back to his school days at the King's'School, Canterbury, where the medieval hera;l dry of the Canterbury Cloister fired h is imagination" . His fa ther, Sir Stanford London, was a deyoted fflend of the School and gave the wmdows in the Memorial Chapel in which are depicted the two sa mts educated at the School, St. John of Beverley and St. Aldhelm, and two great benefactors of the School, Cardinal Pole and Archbishop Parker. LIEUT. -GEN. W. H. L. TRIPP, C.B., D.S.O., M.C. William Henry Lainson Tripp, who died in Cape Town on February 8th at the age of77, was at the King's School from 1895 till 1898. He went to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was gazetted to the Royal Marine Artillery. During his service before 1914 he was for a time assistant gunnery instructor at Woolwich, and later on the Naval Intelligence Staff. In the first world war he served with the Royal Garrison 672
THE CANTUA RiA N Art illery in South Africa, and then commanded it brigade of heavy artillery in France. He was awarded the D.S.O. , and the M.C., and was mentioned in d ispa tches five times. Among other posts that he held after the war, was that of instructor at the R.N ~ Staff College; and fina lly that of Colonel 1=onunandant of the Chatham Division of the Royal Marines. He was made C.B. in 1934, and retired in 1939.
W. T. B. HESLOP Walter Theodore Barry Heslop was at the K ing's School from 1906 till 1910. He served in the first worl d war with thc Royal Artillery in Mesopotamia and Fra nce, and retired from active service in 1924. He d ied on January i st, and we express to Mrs. Heslop ou r deep sympathy. Heslop was a devoted member of the O. K.S. Association, and rnain ta ined his connection with the School by his constant attendance at the annual O.K.s. Dinners. He will be greatly mi ssed. A. H. H. G. SYKES We shou ld li ke to ex press to Mrs. Sykes ou r sympathy on the deat h of her husband, Arthur Hales ]-Iugessen Ganthony Sykes, who was at King's from 1915 till 19 17. He went into theatrical business, and was Business Manager fo r twelve years for Lee Ephra im of Deser' Song fame. During the war he was assistant genera l secrctary of the Duke of Gloucester's Red Cross and St. John Fund, which ra ised fifty million pOllnds. Co lonel R. M. Apsley, who was his contempora ry at schoo l has wriltcll of him: " In his younger days "Tony" Sykes cnjoyed a promisi ng the.11rical carecr which brought him into touch with rnany d istinguished product ions and many leading personalit ies of the stagc. It was a sad day for him when he was forced by ill-health to give up his chosen profession; but his home in London cont inued to be a meeting place for his wide circle of friends, including some who, li ke myself, period ically turned up from the far places of thc ea rth. When war came, he threw a ll his energies into his work fo r the Red Cross. This took its toll of his strength; but in spite of sufferi ngs and sct backs he cont inued so busy and so cheerful thal only those closcs t to him rea li zed how fra il he was. To others he seemed to typify one of his own favourite quotati ons: 'S i fract us illabat ur or bis, impavi<iull1 fe rient ("uinae'. AJ3 to what world ly heights he might have reachcd if blessed with good heal th, we can o nly specula te. Certain it is that the example of his cou rageous heart and indomi table spirit enriched the lives of ot hcrs, :.md rema ins as ,Ill inspi ration to all who were privilcged to know him" .
CANON W. M. F. SCOTT "Gerald" Scott dicd on January 13th at Birkenhead. We were shocked and grieved that his distinguished wo rk and ca reer in the Chu rch should be ended so soon, when he was only 46, and we ex tend to Mrs. Scot t a nd her fami ly our deepest sympathy. He was a King's Scholar, and at the School from 1926 till 1931 , when he went to Trinity College, Oxford, with a Ford Studentship and a Kitchener Scholarship. He went on to Wycliffe HaH at Oxford, and was ordained in 1937. After a brief curacy at Folkestonc he returned to Wycliffe Hall as Tutor and Chaplain, and latcr was Chapla in of Hertford College. In 1944 he accepted a living at Liverpool, and in 1950 was chosen to be Principal of St. Aidan's (Theological) College at Birkenhead, where he remained until he had to retire through ill-health. He was a lecturer at Liverpool University and was well known fo r his writings and broadcasts on rel igious matters. He was made an honorary Canon of Chester Cathedra l in 1956. His death is a sad loss to all those who came under his influence, to the Church which he ser ved so brilliantly and fa ithfully, and to the School which he loved so well . GEOFFREY ARNOLD (1917-20) It is with deep sorrow that we record the death of Geoffrey Arnold, who d ied at the wheel of his motor ca r ncar Sandwich, on 28th December, 1958. He had not been in good health for several weeks. Geoffrey had an abiding devotion for the School and the O.K.S. Association. He was a " regular" at O.K.S. Dinners and he cou ld a lways be counted upon to bring a large party to the O.K.S. Dances. He was often present at the monthly O.K.S. Suppers in London. His ch ief interest, apart from his business in London and the family farrns near Canterbury, was in golf and, from its formation in 1947, he was the Honorary Secretary of the O.K.S. Golfing Society, and its mainspring until his untimely death. O. K.S. golfc rs of all ages wi ll ever be grateful to him, particularly so the younger ones, as his support and encouragement for them was indeed grea t. Geoffrey was for a number of yea rs a member of the O.K.S. Association Committee, where his wise and forth-right counsel will be sadly missed. The O.K.S. Bursarship Society appealed very much to him, and he was a founder supporter who gave most generously each year under Deed of Co venant. 673
THE CANTUARIAN The School and Association has lost a faithful friend and the deepest sympathy is extended to his widow, his O.K.S. sons, Brian and Pip, and to his family and fr iends.
CANON CLAUDE JENKINS Omon Claude Jenkins, D.O., F.S.A., who died on January 17th at the age of 81, was residentiary Canon of Canterbury from 1929 to 1934. Most of his life was devoted to scholarship; he was Professor of Eccle~ siastical History at Kings' College, London. and in 1934 he became Rcguis Professor of Ecclcsiasical History at Oxford and Canon of Christ Church. The writer of the notice of his death in the Times says that "nothing gave him greater satisfact ion during his career than the canonries wh ich he occupied at Canterbury and Christ Church, si nce he found in these cathedrals the workshops of his craft as an ecclesiastical historian". His vast lea rning is stored up for all time; but those who knew him at Canterbury and Oxford must remember him as a " legendary figure of eccent ricity". It is sa id of him at Canterbury, that he never u npacked his books during his five years here. When he wanted any book he undid another packing case, and threw aside all the unwanted ones till he found the object of his sea rch. His brief biographer in the Times pays tribute to this lovable qua lity in his final sentence: "He was unmarried, having an equal aversion to matrimony and cats". GRAHAM ARTHUR JOHN WOOD, D.F.C. (1937-40) I well remember running into G. A. J. Wood on Paddington Station during the war, soon after he had joined the R.A.F., and it was a shock to hear, only at the end of last term, that he had becn killed in 1957. I remember him as a very pleasant boy, one of the last who came to us from Wootton Court School, near Canterbury. He left just before he was J7, but had by then got his 2nd XV Colours and when I last saw him, it was quite evident that he had found in the Royal Air Force just the career that suited him. ] n September 1945, he was awarded the D.F'.C. and the A.F.C. in the New Year Honours 1954. A cousin wrote of him that Graham was always a regular harum scarum, but a boy of great courage, who really came into his own when he joined the H..A.F. As a pilot he was quite superb and thoroughly deserved his honours. Gra ham met his death when taking part in the preparations for Battle of Britain Day, 1957, when the aircraft he was piloting developed some kind of trouble. It is believed that he decided to crash the machine in open country and to sacrifice his own life, ruther than let it fall on lO a village. Graham was married , and our deep sympathy goes out to his father and to his wife <lI1d the baby son who was born only a short time before the crash. F.J.S.
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To the J:.airo!'s O/THE CANTUARIAN. Dear Sirs, ]s it possible for the Schoo l Library to be opened on all Sundays?
Yours fa ithfully, M.
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King's College, University of London. 12tll February, 1959. To tile Editors of THE CANTUARIAN. Dear Sirs, The correspondence pages of Tile Call1lfariafl alone show that ever since the Luxmore Trophy was reinstituted a few years ago there has been endless dispute and jea lousy in the School. May I make a suggestion , which, 1 am sure, will put an end to all this. It is, 1 think impossible to place sporting lallreis on the same level as academic gains. The two matters arc beyond comparison. 1 suggest that, as there arc a number of anonymous cups in the School at the moment, that one of these be presented to thc Cock House (The I-louse that ga ins the most points in sport), and that the Luxmore Trophy be competcd for, as previously, ex~epL thut sport is excluded.
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EDITORIAL ... THE SCHOOL SALVETE VALETE VIRTUTE FUNCTI MORE PATRUM DUCES TH IS AND THAT ... THE SECOND MASTER ... OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARSHIPS, 1959 SNOBBERY ... A VISIT TO THE DENTIST COME JIVE WITH ME GEOPLANARIA SOME IMPRESSIONS OF GREEK LIFE NORTH WALES AT EASTER ERASMUS, THE TYPICAL RENAISSANCE MAN HOW TO FAIL THE DRIVING TEST ... ACADEM ICAL DISTINCTIONS GAINED, 1958-1959 SCHOOL PRIZES ... THE ART OF MAKING HAY ... GOTHS AND VANDALS ... MODERN MUSIC: AN UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT AT··SOMETHlJ:.iG NEW? WITH APOLOG IES TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "SYLVIA'S" LAST VOYAGE THE SCHOOL ROLL: 1615, 1624 UNIVERS ITY LETTER "QUlEl WEEK-END" CHORAL CONCERT THE HOUSE MUSIC COMPETITION SYMPHONY CONCERT RECITAL-GEORGE BAKER AND OLIVE GROVES PENNY READING ... THE SCHOOL CHOIR "FRINGE" PLAYS MUSIC SERENADE IN THE CLOISTERS RECITAL FOR THE FRIENDS OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL THE ART COMPETITION A CONCERT OF LIGHT MUSIC THE "FRINGE" PLAYS CRICKET THE BOAT CLUB THE SOCIETIES C.C.F. NOTES ATHLETICS ... TENNIS CLUB continued overleaf
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THE CANTUARIAN AUGUST,
VOL. XXVll No. 9
1959
EDITORIAL THE OLD SCHOOL TIE
In the last decade or so "the old school tie" has become a phrase which is no longer used with the same straightforward confidence as before: in certain quarters it is almost a term of abuse. The tie itself is something which is no longer worn with the same proud unselfconsciousness as before: in certain quarters it is almost a matter for apology. Both are, indeed, easy to laugh at: even easy to criticise. Admittedly, the old school tie is often worn as a symbol of superior social status and superior economic prospects: as if the wearer, tacitly but unmistakably, were criticising others for their lack of good fortune. But we have reached a horrid depth of insensitivity if we suppose these to be the only motives for wearing it, and a horrid depth of selfishness if we are prepared to laugh at more genuine motives. For the great numbers of Old Boys who attend the annual Old Boys' Dinners, the Old Boys' Matches, and the Speech Days, are not concerned to advertise their own prestige. They are bearing witness to a loyalty,
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to the hard fact of their gratitude. It is no accident that so many people talk so much about their school, or revisit it so often: for such gratitude can take a hundred different forms. Perhaps there was one masternow perhaps no longer living, but still in memory connected with the school where he taught- who influenced their career and their happiness in decisive ways. Perhaps it was here that enduring and fruitful friendships were struck up with other boys, in the Junior Hall or the Senior Study, on the games field or in the class-room . Perhaps it was the whole atmosphere of the place, its surroundings, its ideals and its opportunities, which are now seen to have had their effect on the lives of men, who as boys, could comprehend them but dimly. Even at a distance of fifty years, the gratitude remains, and is testified by warmth and friendship for the school of the moment ; the gratitude of which the tie is the emblem: the gratitude which recognises the extension of the school's influence through long years of time: the gratitude which in other features of the nation's life is all too rare. Throughout the world there is more and more emphasis on rights, and less and less on duties: more and more on what we can take, and less and less on what we can give. Gratitude, which is the symptom of loyalty to a community which engenders loyalty, is today a rare phenomenon because a community which engenders oyalty is a rare phenomenon. The raison d'etre of the public schools, and ultimately of the old school tie, is not that they provide the right sort of visiting-card: nor that they encourage a minimum of decent behaviour: nor yet that they endeavour to give their pupils whatever academic advantages they can dispose of. It is, first and foremost, that they exist as loyal communities: loyal, not only in themselves and amongst their members who continually pass in and out of their gates, but also in the past and future lives of all who have belonged to them- and who, in a sense much more important than the literal one, still belong to them. If ever the day comes when selfishness conquers loyalty, and when the old school tie is worn as an emblem of social status and not as' an emblem of gratitude, then indeed the public schools may well cease to exist. And on that same day our chief reason for regret at their passing would also have vanished. Yo680
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THE SCHOOL Head Head Head Head Head Head Head Head
Captain of the School: J. C. G. SMITH, K.S. of School House ... J. C. G. SMITH, K.S. of Walpole House... D . G. JONES, K.S. of Linacre House ... A. A. J. WILLIAMS, K.S. of The Grange C. F. GRAHAM of Galpin's House... H . K. BRAY of Luxmoore House P. H. GORDON of Marlowe House... J. R. A. BIRD of Meister Omers A. T. SELMAN
SCHOOL MONITORS J. C. G. SMITH, K.S., D. G. JONES, K.S., M. R. JENNER, A. A. J. WILLIAMS, K.S., C. F . GRAHAM, H. K. BRAY, P. H. GORDON, J. R. A. BU<D, A. T. SELMAN, S. C. FARMER, K.S. The School HOllse: The Grange: Walpole HOllse:
HOUSE MONITORS D. R. S. ANDERSON, K.S., G. S. BROCK, K.S., R. H . BROWNING, A. W. BUDGEN, K.S., M. R. KENT, J. V. WATSON. D. H. B. CHESSIWRE, J. B. S. FIELDING, K.S., A. R. H . MILESON, W. K. HODGES, K.S. R. E. F. MI NNS, W. E. J. MINNS, C. G. RUDGARD, K.S., M. F. SULLIVAN, K.S., P. W. F. VENN, J. N. BROADLEY, J. R . C. WRIGHT, K .S.
C. J. MULFORD, I. A. MURDOCH, N . G. A. PAYNE, L. A. WARWICKEVANS, K.S., J. M. ATKINS. J. D. MAcILDowm, R. ROWE, R. F. L. WOOD, W. D. McNICOLL, Luxmoore House: G. C. PRITCHARD. H. L. FORSTER, P. J. B. GRAINGER, K.S., J. POLGLASE, C. D. POWELL, Galpin's House: C. A. RACTLIFF. C. R. BROWN, P. H . HOLMES-JOHNSON, D. G. O'CLEE, H. J. Linacre House: RAWLINSON, J. STOCKDALE, D. K. THORPE, K.S. A. G. S. DOUGLAS, B. S. GUARD, F . A. ROCKLEY, K.S., A. C. R USSELL, Marlowe House : D. L. K. BROWNE. S. C. FARMER, K.S. Captain of Boats R. E. F. MINNS Captain of Cricket L. A. WARWICK-EvANS, K.S. Captain of Swimming P. H. HOLMES-JOHNSON Captain of Tennis N . G. A. PAYNE Captain of Shooting Meister Omers:
The Cantuarian: Editors: THE CAPTAIN OF SCHOOL (ex-officio), S. C .. FARMER, K.S., J. R. C. WRIGHT, K.S., J. B. BATCHElOR, K.. S. Secretary: C. J. TAVENER, K.S. 68 \
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SALVETE Baker, M. J. , Carpenter, T. J. F. M. , Cotton , M. J., Gibson, D. , Kerr, R. M. , Nassif, D. V., Polmear, A. F., Pont, r. A. , Thomas, B. c., Urmetzer, R. S., Wood, C. M.
VALETE A. J. K. Austin, M. A. Thorp.
VIRTUTE FUNCTI MORE PATRUM DUCES HOUGHTON, R. H.- Entered School, Sept., '54; King's Scholar; Linacre House Monitor ; Able Seaman, R.N. Section, C.C.F. ; Hon. Secretary Military Band ; Upper VI. MANSERGH, P. R. S.- Entered School, Sept. , '54 ; King's Scholar ; State Scholarship, ' 58; Open History Exhibition to Magdalen College, Oxford; Upper VI. STEVENS, T. J.- Entered J.K.S., Sept., '51 ; K.S., Sept., '53; C.Q.M .S., C.C.F.; Hon. Secretary Somner Society; Open History Exhibition to Hertford College, Oxford; Han. King's Scholar, '59; Upper VI. TOOTH, R. C.- Entered School, Sept. , '53; Lance-Corporal, C.C.F. ; Galpin's House Monitor; Upper VI.
THIS AND THAT It gave us great pleasure to hear through L. G. Paris, O.K.S. (1898- 1903),
Lively Memories
news of Henry Wilding, O.K.S. (1886- 87). This sprightly father of Michael Wilding, the film star, writes : "It is nearly 73 years since I first timidly stepped into the Mint Yard and the Matron sent me over to see R. C. Gordon at the Grange. I was escorted by 'Potts' Primus, whom I called 'Sir', not knowing his somewhat menial occupation. There were three 'Potts' in my time- 'Potts' Secondary and Jubilee 'Potts', who came in 1887". We warmly congratulate both these well tried friends and appreciate the interest they still take in us. We sincerely regret that in last term's issue of The Cantuarian, Colonel G. R. M. Apsey's tribute to the late A. H. H. G. Dykes, was credited to one "Colonel R. M. Apsley". We are very grateful to Colonel G. R. M. Apsey for correcting us and offer him our apologies. . An Apology
R. E. L. Beardsworth (1906- 11) wrote to tell us that he had the following Old past numbers of The Cantuarian for disposal,. for reasons of space, and 'Cantuarians' should be glad to send them to any O.K.S. or friend of the School, who will get in touch with him. Vol. XIX No. 1 (Dec., 1941) to Vol. XXV No.6 (July 1954). His address is: 11 Gorrell Road, Whitstable, Kent. 682
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We congratulate J. D. D. Porter (1947- 52) on being made Deacon by the Lord Bishop of Birmingham on Sunday, 24th May; J. P. Burbridge (1946- 50) on being made Deacon by the Lord Bishop of Chichester on the same day and Revd. M. C. O. Mayne (1943-49), Curate of St. John's, Harpenden, who has been appointed Chaplain to Mervyn Stockwood the new Bishop of Southwark. (Mayne's Hamlet of 1949, is still remembered.) Congratulations
Public Schools XV
We congratulate A. C. Russell on representing the Public Schools in the three quarter line against a Schoolmasters' XV, on April the 12th, at Richmond.
When some three months ago Congregation at Oxford debated whether Latin should remain a compulsory subject for University entrance, The Sunday Times spent a lot of money in telephoning Headmasters for their views on the matter. On May 10th they spread out on a whole page some magisterial views, and summarized the voting For and Against the retention of Latin: there was a third, small and not greatly significant column of schools who would retain the subject for Arts boys only. Leaving this third column out, 82 Schools voted to retain Latin, 56 were agaInst. Of these 82 Schools, 16 obtained 208 Oxford and Cambridge Scholarships and Exhibitions in 1956, 15 got 183 in 1957, and in 1958,13 of them gained 180. (Scholarship lists printed, showed only those who won 7 or more.) In the same three years, of the 65 "against" Schools, 5 got 77 in 1956 (but Manchester Grammar took 41 of these), 3 gained 50 in 1957 (Manchester 32 of them), and in 1958, 2 collected 44 (of which Manchester's share was 34). So the pro-Latin Schools in those years would appear non qualified to answer the question. Latin
" ... Here in this country, more than anywhere in the world, though this is true partly over the whole Western world, we split our Education much too early. In this country, as you know, a bright boy of fifteen will tend to do nothing but his specialities, seriously, thereafter ; and, to an extent, a very bright boy of thirteen, will tend to have a very matured specialisation. That is a thing which England has carried very much further than any other country 111 the world. 1 am sure it's bad, and I'm sure we've got to re-integrate that education before we are going to be sound ... . The English Scientist or linguist at eighteen, probably knows more of his speciality than anyone in the world, but much less of anything else." (Sir Charles P. Snow, C.B.E., former Fellow and Tutor of Christi College, Cambridge, Scientific Adviser to the Civil Service Commission : in an A.T. V. interview, June 1st, 1959.)
Danger of Early Specialisation
Sandhurst
We congratulate H. J. Rawlinson and N. G. A. Payne in having gained Cadetships to Sand hurst.
We are grateful to Major E. F. Housden, O.K.S. , who gave some of the Look Before athletes an afternoon's coaching in hurdling on the Green Court on May 14th. He himself demonstrated dishearteningly well, and showed films of You .... hurdlers in action to explain technical points. 68 3
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We are most grateful to Sir Theodore Adams, C.M .G., for the gift to the Thank You School Library of volumes of Blackwood's magazines. They are firmly bound in Nigerian leather and are a welcome add ition to our stock. During the Easter holidays, we also received a fifteen-volume set of the works of William Cowper from W. H. Bird, O. K.S., a nd we arc grateful to hi m fo r th is further gift and fo r two volumes of reproductions of Paintings in the National Portrait Gallery which he sent at the same time. Pre-Ascension Day telephone conversation:" Is that you D addy? We've got a holiday to morro w and I thought perhaps you might fly down?" "Yes, that's all right. There's an aerodrome nearby." " Oh, and by the way, which plane will you be bringing?" "Yes and don't forget to bring my flying suit."
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Publication The reason for the delay in the appearance of The Cantuarian is as well known as the reason for the reason is not. We congratulate the side on a very brave season and commiserate with them over the bad luck, which deprived them of the even better results we hoped for from their potential. In particular, we congratulate R. E. F. Minns, the Captain, and G. C. Pritcha rd on consistently fine performances throughout the season a nd on their selection to play for the Kent 2nd XI versus Somerset. ' The crowning triumph of the term has just been announced: R. E. F . Minns has been selected for Kent versus Leicestershire on July 25th- a splendid achievement. We are told that only once before, some 70 years ago, has it happened that a schoolboy has played for Kent 1st XI and tha t was a member of the Winchester XI. The 1st XI
It was more tha n disappointing that our No.6, J. B. S. Fielding, should have been smitten with 'flu at Henley. The term provided a t leas t one success, however, the victory ill the Junior-Senior class at Twickenham Regatta. For such a young crew this was both a remarkable feat and a solid foundation for future hope.
The 1st VIII
We were interested to hear from P. C. V. Lawless, O. K. S., about Andrew Low, former O.K.S., who was second master under G ray of Bradfield, a headmaster on a pa r with others such as "Thring of Uppingham" . Low evidently took a considera ble part in the Herculean labour of awa king the School from long-standing torpor. Andrew Low
The Inter-House Music Competition
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This was won by Walpole with 532 points, closely followed by Galpin's Luxmoore (5 17), Marlo we (499) and Linacre (496). At the tail came The Grange, Meister Trophy Omers, School House and Luxmoore in that order.
Walpole Collection
Our thanks are due to Mr. M . H . Sowerby, O.K.S. (1 891 - 1896), who has presented the collection with four autographs, those of Lord Palmerston, Sir Henry Newbolt, Om ida and Queen Victoria.
O.K.s. Dramatist
We congratulate Mr. Philip Holland, O.K .S. (1927- 31), on his new comedy More for the Skylark, which is appearing at the Marlowe Theatre. Mr. Holla nd is already well known as a humorous contributor to the country pages of Punch and as a regular broadcaster with the B.B.C.
The number of organists in the Precincts steadily increases, while the number of organs remains more or less the same (fluctuating with the visits of the portable pipsq ueak and the strength of the Choir organ's bellows). This means that the Pa rry organ receives plenty of exercise, and the inha bitants of the Mint Yard have been known of late to get a little restless when they are still being serenaded at II o'clock at night. Could we suggest either more organs or fewer organists or pro rata ?
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It is understood that set-build ing this yea r has changed from a leisurely, artistic activity to a haza rdous enterprise fra ught with peril, because of the highly unstable nature of the Dormitory crypt. We sincerely hope that all those distinguished gentlemen riskin g their lives for the sake of the Fringe, are either insured or confirmed suicides.
Sct-building
It has recently been noted that several members of the Upper Sixth became rather pale and depressed in mid-week, especia lly on Wednesdays and T hursdays. The cause of this has been found to be not overwork, as one might suppose, but a deep yearning for The Eagle, which has gone out of print. If the strike continues much longer, we shall send a petition to the T.U.C., pointing out that they are seriously endangering the lives of the cream of the country' s youth.
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We are interested to see that John Slimming, O.K.S. , author of Temiar Jungle, has turned to fiction in his new novel III Fear of Silence. We would like to wish him as much success with his new literary form as he has enjoyed with his old one.
Congratulations
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We arc most grateful to Bishop W. G. Mowll for the gift of a very bea utifu l altar cloth which is probably 150 years old. It has a deep lace border pronounced to be Ha lian rose-point by the Roya l School of Needlework.
RecenUy a n editor was accosted by an "antiquarian" near the Christ Church Gate: "Nice Cathedral of yours". "Yes, it is rather isn' t it?" (Glance at watch). "Old I suppose?"
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Tourist in Palace Street. "Excuse me p lease, which is the way to Westminster Abbey?"
CANTERBURY DINNER
The first annual O.K.S. Dinner at Canterbury is on Saturday. October 3rd. and will be held in conjunction with a concert.
THE SECOND MASTER The twenty-eighth of the forty Statutes enacted by King Henry VIII in 154 1 was until modern d ays the " Instrum ent of Government" of this School. Its place was ta ken in 1927 by a n Order in Council es ta blishing a Scheme of Government drawn up by the then Board of Education. In 1942 new statutes were published to regula te t he Cathedral's administration, one of which decla red that the King's School is as heretofore an integral part of the Cathedral Foundation, but now regulated by the scheme of 1927. The H enrician Statute req uired that the Chapter should appoint a Head or Cilief Master (Archididascalus), and also a n Under or Lower Master (Hypodidascalus), or Seco nd Instructor. Nowadays with the School divided into sep arate Boarding Houses and domestic control in the hands of t he Housemasters, it might be thought tha t the office of Lower Master was redundant and might be dispensed with: especia lly as the Scheme makes no mention of the office, and the 1942 Statutes refer the govern ment of the School to t he
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Scheme. But in 1946 the King delivered to the School his Roya l C ha rter and this document defines the corporate constitution of the School as consisting in the Governors, the H ead Master, the Lowe r M aster, a nd the Kin g's Scholars. Thus it appears that the office is not redundant, but must be lega ll y filled . Nor is it, in fact , even now easil y to be di spensed with: the Head Master must have a deputy who can at times act for him, as in ill ness or other e nforced a bsence, and who can at a ll tim es be his ri ght-han d man, gi ving him advice, co un sel a nd support. For the last 26 yea rs, Mr. J. B. Harris has occupied this position a nd has most worthily fu lfilled it. Seldom now is it that a schoolmaster serves one School for as long a period as Mr. Harris has- a full 40 yea rs- and for most of that time in this important and key position. In all those long yea rs he has remain ed essentially the same perso n, held in deep rega rd by his colleagues for his since re loyalty to them, and by all th e
generations' of boys for his dependability- Hhe's alwa ys the same", they would say; "YO ll know where you are with him", a nd that is very possibly th e h ighes t tribute that a youngster can pay to a man. So the School- men a nd boys a like- owes to Mr. H a rri s a great debt ;
he has given them service without measure and devotion without stint ; a man of utter integrity an d since rity, faithful a nd loya l in all thin gs, whether grea t or small. Men of
such calibre are not too common in these days, when emphasis is on rights rather than duties, on gelling rather tha n giving. Shakespeare' s tribute to thi s loya lt y of character
runs in one's mind, when he makes Orlando say to Adam,
"0 good old man! how we ll in thee appears The consta nt service of th e antiq ue world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed! That sentime nt is ri ght, althou gh Mr. H arri s ca n in no way be fitly described as "old" ; but all his forty yea rs he has certainly "sweat for duty", since until post wa r yea rs the
"meed" distributed to Schoolmasters was prett y slender. and even now it is not comparable with the meed ga thered in other professions. But it is probable that he, as all /rue Schoolmasters wo uld, considers himself paid in fu ll by the gratitude and affect ion of very man y hund red s of men and boys in a ll pa rt s of the world. It was a delight to all of us to see
their grat itude and affection displayed in concrete fa shion in the last days of his retirement: there was a di nner in his honour and a presentation by masters past and present ; one morning after prayers the whole School united in their presentation of gift s to him ; on another eve ning 200 guests assemb led to hono ur M r. a nd Mrs. Ha rri s a t a She rry Party in the Great Ha ll : and on Speech Day night Old Boys of a ll generatio ns and many fro m distant places in the wo rld, joined in yet a nother ha ndso me presenta tion made by that assembled compa ny on behalf of hundred s of O. K.S. from very old to very young. All these events testified to the wo nderfu l warmt h of feeling tha t so many people have for the Second Master a nd for Mrs. Harris; for as he has been the helper and mai nstay of th e H ead M aster so has Mrs. Ha rri s by her inestimable q ualities strengthened a nd supported her husba nd , 'e na bling him to do his duty a nd more than his du ty by fa r with all th e ri ch ness of his self-giving character. It is the wish of all their friends th at Mr. a nd Mrs. Hams will have toge th er a long a nd happy li fe, li ving her ; .in Ca nte rbury still wi th u s~ still being in spirit a nd in life part and parcel of the School, stil l vlsltmg It and us and bemg VISIted. it is an impo verishment to the School that Mr. Harris should now retire- but not comp letely so if sti ll they live among us; but it wo uld be impoverishment indeed were they to depart fr~m this City and its Cathedral Precincts where so much friend sh ip is t heirs. 687
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OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARSHIPS, 1959 (Reprinted from The Times Educational Supplement , 24th July, 1959).
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No. oj School boys over 13 860 Manchester G.S. Winchester 526 887 Dulwich Downside 495 Bradford G.S. 655 Rugby ... 713 St. Paul's 710 530 King Edward's, Birmingham Eton ... 1,143 Bristol G .S. ... 625 King's, Canterbury ... 645 Clifton ... 645 Marlborough ... 810 Christ's Hospital 537 Haileybury 556 K.e.S., Wimbledon 507 429 Westminster ... Sherborne 565 Haberdashers' Aske's, Hampstead ... 660 Nottingham H.S. 456 Shrewsbury ... 540 Latymer Upper 730 431 Birkenhead Bradfield 405 Merchant Taylors' 542 Newcastle R.G.S. 341 Ampleforth 548 451 Bryanston Wellington 666 King Edward VII, Sheffield ... 516 Stonyhurst 240 Uppingham 580 Chislehurst and Sidcup G .S ... . 505 City of London ... . .. 580 457 Liverpool Inst.· H.S. . .. Perse ... 315 St. Alban's 483 St. Dunstan's College 480 Charterhouse ... 650
No. oJ boys in Sixth Form 490 332 250 198 270 253 345 240 381 278 68" 330 420 218 246 174 242 284
264 159 283 220 169 160 239 200 215 174 351 244 109 225 135 230 190 120 175 160 260 6M8
Open Awards OxJord Cambridge S E S E 12 2 8 6 8 2 9 4 8 3 8 4 8 3 3 5 6 3 2 5 3 7 6 5 2 5 2 2 3 4 4 4 3 5 5 2 2 3 7 I 3 I 3 I 4 3 6 2 3 4 I 4 2 I I 6 3 I 2 3 4 5 I 2 1 4 1 4
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Form 121 230 140 133 150 32" 160 172 208 126 250 94" 227 200 150 247 108 131 220 186 167 115 149 208 117 140 131 160 133
Open Awards Cambridge Oxford E S S E 2 1 4 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 3 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 3 I 3 2 2 1 I 1 2 I I I 2 I 2 I I 2 I I 1 3 1 2 2 I 1 3 1 1 I I 3 1 I 2 2 I 1 2 2 2 1 2 1 2 2
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5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
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SNOBBERY What pleasure so many people miss because they are afraid of the word snob. True, it is not a nice-sounding word. Substitute therefore, a Socially Desirable Person. Now, perhaps the idea appeals more. The first essential towards becoming a Socially Desirable Person is the Name. If you happen to have a name like Smith, Jones or Brown, there is no difficulty at all. Simply take the wife's surname (or Mother's) and put it with a hyphen before your own name. 689
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Hencc Clegg-Sm ith "nd Attwood-Brown. These arc real Socially Desi rable Names. Most of us, however, do not have such useful names as Smith and Brown, but suffer under the name of Sud bury or names like that. For these poor individuals, there is in existence a very convenient scheme enti tled "Deed-Poll". So there is now hope for everyone. By this useful a rrangement, it is possible for most people to substitute their own unfortunate surname for that of their uncle's great grandfather's which wi ll, more often than not, be a very Socially Adaptable Name like Jameso n or Embery, or even Smith! Having the worthy attrib ute of a complicated name, the next essential for moving in social circles is a motol' ca r. The Ro ll s-Royce is not the idea l Social Member's car, because everyone knows, first that it is a Rolls-Royce, secondl y that it takes a ve ry large amount of money to keep in good order and on the road and thirdly that they are not so very difficult to hire nowadays. The ideal vehicle for moving alone in Social Circles is the "Bubble Car". U nfortunately these cannot be used anywhere but Mayfair or, at the best of times, further away from London than Kensington. T he only drawback with these is that they must be used with expensive clothes. Stepping out of a "Bubble Car" in Piccadilly in any sort of informa l attire is definitely the height of Unsociability. Needless to say, then, that the ideal ve hicle is an unusual, yet large and dignified sa loon, such as a 1911 Napier seven-seater limousine very like the type that was built for the Niza m of H yderabad. Alternatively a 1959 Zis six-seater wo uld do just as well. A very useful point to remember nowadays is that chauffeurs are no longer required and that the most Socially Desirable People always d ri ve themselves with, of course, the Lady dri vi ng. It also helps to have rows of club badges along the bumper bar in front.
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The house is the next point to consider, because, unfortunately, so many people judge one by one's livi ng quarters. They should therefore be impregnated by the stamp of a Socially Desirable Person. The most important part of the house with regard to impressiveness is the door. It is rather a pity that there is so little choice, but these standards have been imposed for many decades. It must either be oak studded, or have a large pane of glass with a subtle design in stained glass. The architecture of the ho use is a matter of secondary importa nce, so long as it is not the same as that of the hOllse next-door, and so long as it is not a very modern design, such as made entirely of glass or bui lt on stilts. The only restrictions on furniture are that it be made of wood- no tubular steel creations i- and that it is not second-hand. Otherwise the Socially Desirable Person has a fairly free hand. Nevertheless, there are restrictions on the type of food eaten at dinner par ties and any other parties. No fish, as fi sh, is perm issible, but if it can be disguised as a sa usage-roll or some similar sweetmeat all the better. Sandwiches, of course, are never eatcn and should any tactless person desire them, they are cut into fantastic shapes, as three-dimensionally as possible. Any Oriental food is always very welcome, especially if the hosts appreciate it, for the guests seldom do! These are a few of the rules to be observed by the Socially Desirable Person. Which sports to take part in, which clothes to wear are of course d ictated by the fa shion at the time. On the whole the best maxim to remember is that it is always more "u" to be "non-U".
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A VISIT TO THE DENTIST 1 have never considered a dentist an ordinary human being, but a wh ite-robed god to whom my conscience summons me for a routine check. Outside his door is a brass plaque which sign ifies that the creature is a "Dental Surgeon" . After 1 have digested this piece of information, I see there are several initials under his name. These 1 suppose entitle him to practise his evil art, and set him up as a renowned expert on refined mediaeval torture.
On, up the stai rcase. There are twel ve steps. 1 always count them. On one wall is a framed document beginning, " This is to certify that Charles Edward Samuel Horley . ... " l have never read farther than that, for a cheerful assistant (how does she smile at a time like this?) inva riably ushers me into the waiting-room. Condemned souls stare balefully, then return to their perusal of an ancient magazine. 1 sit on a hard sofa and pick up a tattered copy of Punch . The first cartoon portrays a victim on a dentist's chair. What a thing to joke abo ut ! What shallow humour! There is a picture on the wall of a child drowning in an icy pond. Next to it is a diagram of a jawbone of an ape. On the opposite wall have been hung a series of prints about hunting. A baby is crying, and white-faced children sit and tie knots in their shoe-laces. Suddenly the door opens and a narrow old gentleman is shown out by a tall appa rition with thick glasses and a shiny bald head. The fiend himself! He has a sardonic smile upon his face. "Nothing serious, you see," he says, Hbut you must see me regularly. Most patients whom I treat regularly I see on Monday afternoo ns. Will that suit you ?" He rubs his hands in anticipation. The old gen tleman musters a brave sm ile, and murmurs, "Yes . ... yes, of course." He then crosses himself devo utly, and walks out of the room with the air of a man who has nothing more to live for. I hea r the cheerful assista nt coming ; I snatch up a Times, and hide behind it. The footsteps come nearer, and she looks over the top of my screen. "Dr. Horley will see you now." I get up and follow her, quaking. She knocks on the fa teful door. "Ready, Doctor?" A muffled reply signifies that the man is eagerly awaiting the excavation of my teeth. Once inside the room 1 am struck by the queer smell. My grin ning executioner asks me to sit down in the chair. I touch it gingerly, half expecting to find it is an electric chair. It is not, and I open my mouth, tense a nd ready for the end. After a close scrutiny, he decides: "Merely a temporary selignosis. There is no need for an anaesthetic." How cleverly he in vents excuses for his torture! "A temporary selignosis" ! I am almost convinced that he is acting for my own good. But no! 1 must be firm ! This man is evil! He is unhooking an object on the end of a crane. It resembles an electric dri ll . 691
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"Open wide," says the cheerful assistant. I o!,en my m':lUth and shut my eyes. The scene changes, and I become a gladiator in the CIrcus Maxlmus. The hum of the dflll becomes the roar of the lions. A horrible vibration surges through by bones (apparently the drill, but in reality the chattering of my teeth). Turn towards the Emperor:UTe morituri salutamus." E. J. B. KENYON.
COME JIVE WITH ME Come, jive with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove Of lodging with the Y.H.A., Along the front at Salcombe bay. Your clothes, your shoes, your silken dress, Will reinforce your loveliness. The weather doubtless will be bad, Who cares for weather when we're glad? You will sit upon the rocks While I swim gaily round the docks: At evening in some local "hole",
We'll hope to hear some rock a nd roll. Some teddy-boys shall dance and croon, Dressed up in drain-pipes, ties maroon ;
If these delights your mind may move, Then jive with me and be my love. R . D. SCOTT.
GEOPLANARIA For all but 300 of the 2,500-odd years that man has been civi lized enough to consider such things, he thought that the earth was flat. It was only in the beginning of the 16th century that the complicated system of concentric spheres, eccentrics, and epicycles needed to explain the motion of the sun, moon, and planets, broke down, and men were forced to believe that the earth was round and went round the sun, and had to give up their proud pOSlhon at the centre of the um verse. Present day sCIence has reached the stage Ptolemaic astronomy had reached by the beginning of the sixteenth century. As the combinations of epicycles and eccentrics could only be understood by the greatest brains of their time so now the theories of Einstein and his successors are almost entirely incomprehensibl; to the vast majority of mankind. It is time that the old hypothesis of a flat earth was
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. T~e e~rth is f1(~t , but, it is not a d!sc with edges, ~s the ancients believed. It is a flat plane, 111 two dlmenslOlls, on which, at regu lar Interval s (corresponding to the "circumference" of the round earth theory) conditions duplicate themselves. Thus there are an infinite number of identical Canterbury's, and an infinite number of me's, writing an infinite number of identica l articles. If I get up and "go round the world", I will go to the next Canterbury, wh lie another nae arrives at the one I have just left (the reader will appreciate that, dealing with these conceptions, English grammar becomes a trifle difficult).
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It has been know!' since the totaleclipse of 1919 that the path of light is bent by gravity. What was not realised, was that light was repelled, not attracted by gravity. It can be shown mathematically that such a repulsion would account for the apparent curvature of the earth, and the rising and setting of the sun. (It would also, incidentally, make the earth, as seen from the moon, look ilke a sphere).
Progress has been very slow in ap plying this theory to the explanation of the motion of the sun and moon (or rather suns and moons, an infinite number of them), stars and planets. This is because all astronomica l data gained by observation is completely wrong, since it was based on the ass umption that the earth is round and that light travels in straight lines. However, some progress has been made, and I will summarize it briefly. The earth is of finite depth; how deep it is cannot yet be determined. The hole the Americans are at present engaged in digging in the Pacific may be of some help here, not because they may come out the other side, but because the digging may provide information as to the change in density of the earth as depth increases. . Gravitational attraction is constant at any height above the earth's surface ; its apparent dlmmutlOn must be due to some other force, probably magnetic, and probably allied to the force that keeps the sun and moon up. The charge per unit mass of the sun necessary to do this can be wo rked out in terms of the strength of the earth's magnetic field , and is not excessive.
Work on the curvature of light reveals the startling fact that the sun is only 4,150 miles high, which clearly demonstrates how inaccurate previous methods of measurement were, when based on the round-ear th theory. Reactions to the theory in the school have been very interesting-at first amusement followed by anger, especially on the science side, that the flat earth theory could not b~ disproved-some absurd arguments were advanced against it, including one which described an experiment which was supposed to have been performed : observers on two hills a long distance apart set up mirrors exactly at right angles to the earth's surface and it was found that a beam of light projected from the middle of one mirror and at right angles to it was reflected back and forth between the two mirrors; the argument belOg that had the light travelled m a curve from the first mirror, it would have passed above the second. Of course, If the earth had been round, the two mirrors, being both at n ght-angles to the surface, would not have been parallel to each other; hence the beam of light would have missed in any case; this scientist's experiment proved that the earth could not be fl at, a nd also that it could not be round either! And the two originators of the theory remam convmced of ItS nghtness, and hope to explore its possibilities further in the future . G. S. BROCK. 693
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SOME IMPRESSIONS OF GREEK LIFE It is with the purpose of giving some official recognition to a party of fifty-two peo ple, of whom fourteen were from King's, Canterbury, which went last holiday to the home of emerald hills, wine-dark seas, some of the finest architecture in the world and eight million people, that this article has been written. It can be assumed that most people spent most of their visit enjoyably and there is no need to give a close description of the trip which was not drastically different from the average tour. And there seems to be li ttle point in going into a long discourse into what sites were seen and what museums were visited. Thus it might be slightly less boring to go into some points of Greek li fe that were noted on the trip and were memorable to at least one member of the party. Athens, of course, was the best place to study the habits of the Greeks, especially as we spent five days there and so could notice things more closely than in other places. Greece is a poor country and except for the main streets, Athens is rather dirty and there are large numbers of slum dwellings. Despite these difficulties, however, the Greeks themselves lead a very happy, mainly carefree life. H ardly anybod y except the shopkeepers ever seems to work, though presumably there are large factories and industries somewhere. From what one can sec, it is hard to imagine that shopkeepers can li ve a life of luxury, especially in the poorer areas, for none of the shops ever appear to do any trade at all . We saw many soldiers wandering around the streets. They still give the impression of being a very rough and ready force as the Athenian army was in the fifth century B.C. There can hardly be as ragged an army in the world as the Greek army. And the citizens must find it ve ry hard to believe that their native land is safe against any enemy when they see a typical soldier. The navy on the other hand is a far more well dressed body, which looks, at times, almost respectable. The one uni ve rsa l feature of the Greeks is to make as much money as possible from the tourist. Everywhere one goes, especially round the big sites like the Acropolis and the Agora, the photographers and the souvenir stall holders swarm a round the poor, unwary tourist. And if one is not careful, many drachmas are spent on junk that is absolutely worthless and that one did not want at all. Greek children, like their parents, also appear to live a carefree, lazy life, and from what one sees, it is hard to imagine that there are any schools at all. In fact throughout the trip, I did not see a single building that seemed to be a school. But then the Greeks have a peculiar abi lity to disguise their important buildings. This is perhaps illustrated by the person who, knowin g that there was a Post Office in a certa in square, wandered carefully around it, trying to find it. At last he arrived outside a very official looking building and thus went inside in search of a stamp. Unfortunately, he was quickly thrown out by a pompous official who told him that that building was the Town Hall and that the Post Office was on the other side of the square. After some more diligent looking, the Post Office was at last discovered up a dingy flight of stairs and in the end, everything was concluded happily. But what trouble had been caused! Another noticeable thing about Greece is tIle contrast between rich a nd poor. Huge, highly polished, expensive American cars emerge from the dirtiest side streets. But the most memorable impression of the Greek way of life is their hospitality. Whether you are friend or foe, the Greeks always give the appearance of being perfectly amicable towards you. They set yo u at ease and seem genuinely to wish that all tourists may spend an exceedingly pleasant time. 694
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NORTH WALES AT EASTER The hill s have an att raction which almost all can feel: the highe r they are, the better, but the comparative lowness of the mountains of Nort h Wales is made up for by their accessibility, and their own particular charm. When to these vi rtues are added the generosi ty of the W ar Office in pro viding free travel and almost free rations, the attraction
is irresistible- or so fifteen of us found when we decided to go camping there in early April.
The tents were Qllr own-at least, the Corps'- the Primuses we borrowed, and the invaluable ponchos and sleeping-bags; and we all wore windcheaters and denim trousers, though the colours were in some cases original. Altogether we we re very snugly equi pped, though the tents, wh ich did their best overhead in heavy rain, leaked badly through the groundsheets. The "Compo" rations were excellent, and there were plenty of them ; there is moreover a charm about food cooked by yourself, even under difficulties, and "Mutton Scotch Style" will remain for man y a fragrant memory. We had two ca mps: the first had been reconnoitred by the advance party- Colonel Gross and Mr. Whitehorn-near Roman Bridge station, beside a stream flowin g down from Moel Siabod; and when the main party, with Mr. Prior, arrived on April 2nd, five tents were pitched. The "Galpini" had two, M.O. one and Grange one, while the officers had the fifth- three to each tent. The site by the stream had a wonderful view, and for these three days one could wa nder about in pyjamas, and bath s in the stream were not unknown. In calm and sunn y weather, we had a trial trip up Yr Arddhu on the 3rd, and climbed Moel Siabod, nearly 3,000 feet, the following day; this latter, in our untrained state, was quite tough go ing, and an hOllr separated the first from the last arr;vals at the top. Once there, however, we were revived by the warm sun and glorious viewand not a little, also, by strawberry jam and processed cheese-while we watched, a long way below, a local fisherman and his dog work their way round the small, blue Llyn Mymbyr. On Sunday the 5th, we moved camp in lovely sun to a round, grassy hollow beside a waterfall flowing down from Snowdon; it was on the Watkin Path up Snowdon, and lay between Yr Aran and L1iwedd. Lulled into a sense of security by the unbroken weather, we were less careful about protection for the tents, and when, early that night, the weather broke and it began to rain and blow, the valley acted as a funnel for the wind, and from time to time one had to grab the straining tent to hold it down till that gust abated. No t a lways with success, however, as one of the Galpin's tents was completely flattened over the heads of its occupants, and a nother looked rather the wo rse for wear. All hands turned out a nd rescued the homeless, and they were happily acco mmodated in the other tents fo r the rest of the week. As every rain-cloud from the sea ripped itself open on the peak of Snowdon, and deposited its load of rain on our va lley, the weather rema ined wet for the rest of the week, though there were plenty of dry spells, and even some sun ; but attempts to keep the camp dry became more and more difficult, though nobody seems to have suffered from the resultant dampness. We conti nued with our climbing programme, despite the weather which merely made it more interesting. We climbed Yr Aran on the 6th, in rather depressing conditions of rain and mist, but it cleared on the way down to 8 eddgelert, where we sampled aga in the delights of civilization-it has quite 700 inhabitants. Snow fe ll that night down to 2,000 695
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feet or so, but we kept to our plan of going up Snowdon on the 7th, and it proved a most enjoyable climb. The mist had lifted and hung round the summit in a cloud, and under snow the mountain made a most impressive picture. Cl imbing in the snow gave the impression of "mountaineering" in the full sense, especially as the last stretch of th e Watkin
Path is very steep and quite exposed. The cloud refused to lift any further, so that the view from the summit was "exactly the same as Ben Nevis: thick, white mist in all directions". The scene on the summit itself was weird enough: on the one hand a cafe filled with climbers of va rious kinds, most of whom had come up either on or beside the railway which runs up the gradual north-western slope; on the other hand an icy snow-bound world, where the unbroken wind had frozen the snow into fascinating ice-flowers clinging to the rocks, and spines of ice made the telegraph poles look li ke enormous split goosefeathers. For our last day the sun reappea red at intervals while we climbed Cnicht, and brought out for us the colours of the Snowdon landscape. Our camp site was plainly visible across the valley under Snowdon, and ten miles away to the right of it we could see Moel Siabod rising ove r the hills, while to the left in the distance lay the sea. The little mountain lakes were especially striking, clear-cut dark shapes in the subdued powder tones of the hills and as we were descending Cnicht, the cloud on Snowdon lifted for a moment and allowed us a glimpse of the summit. K.A .C.G. J. BATCHELOR.
ERASMUS, THE TYPICAL RENAISSANCE MAN It is amazing how few biographers a man of the stature of Erasmus has recei ved. Froude's Life and Leiters has been more recentl y foll owed by Huizinga's Erasmus of Rotterdam and Miss Margaret Mann Ph illips' Erasmus and the Northern Renaissance, as
well as a short but valuable essay by Trevor Roper. These later writers have all attempted to a greater or lesser extent, to identify their subject ever more closely with his age-t he Renaissance. In many ways this is most plausible. As the classical scholar, the stirring satirist, the eager textual critic, the meticulous expert in literary form and above all the humanist, combining a simple appreciation of in tellectual truths wi th a fierce practical awareness, Erasmus typified his age. All these traits are obvious throughout hi s writings. There is another equally evident side, however, which will not conform so easily to the pattern. Erasmus, the simple, pious believer. Despite his fervent love of the Classics he always considered them as essentially a means to an end. He did not revel in the reckless pagan pride which has been associated with humanism. He did not believe that man was self-sufficient: he needed a God. "Lift up thyself" he writes "from the .body to the spirit, from the visible world to the invisible, from the letter to the mystery, from things of the senses to things of the mind, from things gross and compound to things single and pure." He firmly believed that many questions were a matter of faith and had not been revealed to us and his Essay on Free Will is drawn very largely from Aquinas. All his biographers have attempted to explain this almost mystic reverence, as an inheritance of his early childhood in Holland and in particular of contact with the Brethren of the Common Life in Deventer. They assert that in this way Erasmus stands apart from the Renaissance and remains an essentially Northern indi vidual. This hypothesis will not, ho wever, bear close examination. 696
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There are no clear signs of this fervent religious piety before 1506. In Paris immediately before that time he introduced himself into society as a poet and an essayist. His letters arc full of his adm iration for class ica l literat ure. He hates monastic life and uses almost rationalist arguments to defend secular learning in the great controversy over its suitability
as education. The great turning point was not the school at Deventer and the early years in Holland , but his first visit to England. There he came into contact with Colet's views on theology- "not as convention, but as the direct interpretation in the light of common sense and widely culled classical learning of the faith documents themselves." It was this that shaped the destiny of his life's work, aptly defined by Phillips as "~the) setting of the wisdom of the ancients at the servICe of the mterpretatlOn of Chnstlamty and the betterment of man . . .. " It was not until then that he wrote "I am deliberating agai n how best to devote the remainder of my life to Christ" . It was not until then that he seriously pursued his study of Greek to enable him to examine the texts of the scri~t~res, and it was as a result of tlus VISit that he wrote Ius first religIOUS work, the Enchmd/Oll MIIIlls Christialli, in which the ideas which informed the remainder of his life were crysta llized. It is extremely important to establish this as the watershed of his life, because the influence which More, Colet, Linacre and the other English Renaissa nce Scholars exerted on hi m was none other, as Trevor Roper has pointed out, than the pure strea m of Florenti'ne Platonism. In Florence, men were striving to reconcile the best in the old and new orders: that was precisely the task Erasmus set himself. Throughout the Luther struggle, Erasmus refused to commit himself-" the wo rld changed around him but h,~ remained stubbornly faithful to the most difficult of paths to defend- a middle way. Erasmus stood for reform, conciliation and unity "representing the perfect work of the classical spirit tempered by the Christian ideal". He accepted both the doctrine of the Fall of Man and the Renaissa nce idea of his value. Few men have reflected so faithfully the spirit of Florence- of Giotto, Donatello, Botticelli, Fra Angelico and in literature of course, of Dante.
There is, however, a slightly different emphasis in Erasmus. His attacks on. the church were bitterer ' his mysticism stronger. Although he never reveals the harsh VIOlence of a Luther- at tile centre of the "Northern Renaissance"-his feelings are sometimes dis~ cordant when compared with his Southern counterparts. But this was a difference of degree, in expression not of ideal. To this extent a ~d to this extent alone, Erasmus was more a man of the "Northern Renaissance" , betraymg the mfluence of hiS early life and in particular of Deventer. But if Holland tinged his emotional mode of expression with a Northern hue, England gave him a thoroughly Renaissance ideal. In a very real sense then, Erasmus was a typical man of the Renaissance. He both reflects many of its individual component movements and IS very close to a particular treatment of the overall ideal. Like all great men, of course, he fits into no pattern exactly. The Northern emphasis he gave to tile Florentine ideal and more important his total lack of appreciation of the visual arts are. th~ m ~st obvious exceptions. P~rha"s equally important, however,. wa~ hIs. cosmopolltamsm m. an ag~ of dawmng natIOnalism. Th,IS was illustrated both m hiS vam attempts to establish Latm as a common language and m his equally vain but much fiercer support of peace. But apa rt from these exceptions, it is true that in trying to understand the Renaissance "you will best see what it really was, if yo u look at it through the eyes of Erasmus." (Froude). 697
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HOW TO FAIL THE DRIVING TEST M any yo ung peo ple attempt ing to keep up with the modern trend for fas t li ving, are enco uraged to take the D rivi ng Test but many more, after viewing thc ghastl y road dea th statistics, fee l greatly apprehensive abo ut th eir chances of sur viva l. O bviously the best thing to do is to fai l the test a nd trium phantly decla re to yo ur saddened pa rents th at you can't dri ve a nd will never be ab le to. As I have ta ken th e D riving Test too frequently with the mista ken desire of wa nting to pass it, I may, in describing one of the tests, show th e unambitious how to flop . After six lessons with the B.S.M . a nd abo ut two months of dri ving, I come prepared to their branch office at Golders G reen. With a full hea rt I am just waiting to leap into my crimson Vau xhall and rush away, full o f vain confidence. I see the car, and observe that mysteriously it is no longe r a red Va uxhall Victor, but a steel-blue Ford Consul. I am told that owing to excessive clutch wea r the Vauxhall has been so ld fo r scrap. I shru g my shoulders philosophica lly, a nd medi tating vaguely about ve hicular transubstantiation, I wedge myself bctween th e stee rin g wheel and the dri ver's seat. We now have to drive to th e Test Centre, M ill H ill, over some ex travaga nt suburban untouched roads. M y myopic instructor, a Mr. Q. Consumption from Ea ton Square, climbs wea rily in, and adjusts his feet o n the dual controls. After about ten minu tes I realise ye t agai n why they arc called duel controls. I am fi ghting ferocio usly at every traffic light fo r my clutch a nd accelerator. Mildly Mr. Consumption remonstrates. 1 curse him silently a nd dispassio nately as we reach the Test Centre. " Have you got yo ur Driving Licence?" asks Consumpt io n lugubri ously a nd I nod, no w sick with fea r. "Here are the keys. D o n' t lose them" . He laughs, with his customary stupid joke-before-Test-to- Iiven-up-the-candidate crack, a nd I clim b dumbl y out, and as through a glass faintl y, I hear him wish me luck. Soon the Test Exam iner haves in sight. He is at least six foot foul', has a n appalling ginger moustache, and I can almost sec, illuminated on his forehead in arm y blanco , the legend " ex-Royal M arines". Of co urse, any hardened veteran of the tests could have told me that the Exa miner would be of this calibre. They breed them specia lly fo r the purpose. I sigh softly to myse lf, a nd introduce him to the car. After at least five minutes, in Wll ich I am sitting in the Driving Seat watchin g him frantically trying to open his doo r, I realise that it is locked. I open it a nd he climbs in ; about half the hairs o n the mo ustache a re now bristling. After some time he asks in a stra ngled manner to see my licence. Eager to please, I hand him successively my Library ticket, the shopping list, a pocket map of the West Eod, a theatre ticket- a nd then remember th at I pu t the licence in the car pocket for safety and easy access. Pointedl y he wipes off the smear of oil which mysteri ously has coagulated o n the business sheet, and copies down the particulars he already has. I smile sadly at the dashboard and wave surreptitiously to my instructor who is steadily wearing a groove in the pavement, alternately biting his na il s, chain-smoking and foaming at th e mouth ¡ with wo rry. At last the Examiner fini shes copying down all the facts of m y life, upbringing, family, mental disorders, age a nd sex, a nd tells me to move stra ight ahead. We move off, smoothly, and durin g my efficient change-up, I see through the cornel' of my eye th at he is busy writing things on his pad. Of co urse, this doesn't worry me because so far everything has 69R
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gone as J had been told it would. I accelerate proudly and sail firml y past the second on the right he has told me to take. J apologise profusely, and narrowly take the fourth . We come to a crossroad and I see his ready eyes are fastened on my own. Speedily I fix mine to the mirror because this is a hint that the B.S.M. have confidently taught me. Suddenly the car screams to a stop. I do not realise what has happened. Later it transpires that I was concentrating too hard on the mirror to have any idea of the five-ton builder's lorry which swung out across the road, pantechniconwise, and that the Examiner used his controls to stop us both being violently mangled . But once again we go on, and eventually he tells me to pull into the side of the road. I pull up smartly, not forgetting the slowing down signal. He tells me we're now going to do a proper emergency stop, and that he will signal it by banging on the windscreen. I acquiesce smugly as we move off. After some minutes, during which nothing eventful has befallen except a certain ennui, I see him lift his hand up. Immediately I slam on successively foot-brake and clutch . The Examiner shoots forward and cracks his noble brow upon the wi ndscreen though luckily hi s moustache protects his nose fro m injury. Later he explains he was about to scratch his head. By this time the sheet he was writing on is covered in blots, dashes, and various hieroglyphic squiggles; and he has lost his pen. A full hour after I met him we are back at the Test Centre with only one sizeable gash in the offside front wing. Levelly he asks me if I am able to see the number of the nearest bus. As the one in point is too far away I wa it for the one in my mirror. " FLC 858" I say. Forcibly controlling himself, the Examiner asks me if [ know the minimum stopping distance of a car at thirty miles per hour ; what I'd do if [ was driving along and found the road blocked by man y four-legged animals; when not to overtake; what side of a road to walk a horse on, and many other unlikely questions. My respective answers are, that the stopping elistance is 75 ya rds; that I'd get out of the car and tell the herdsman to bring his cows through the nearest hedge; that I wouldn't overtake if my car had been bid for by a scrap-metal merchant, or if the car in front of me was a Mercedes-Benz; and that I'd walk the horse on the pavement. By this time I ha ve regained most of my lost confidence because the Examiner has barely recognised my answers beyond a certain relative tightening of the lips, which 1 am assured is a good sign. So naturally it comes as a great surprise when he finally croaks: " 1 am afraid yo u have failed to satisfy the requirements of the Driving Test, in acco rdance with the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, for vehicles class A and L, but excluding classes B, C, D, E, or F". He fails to notice my mutterings about the Ministry of Civil Aviation's busy-mindedness, and tells me to sign something. It isn't a form of summons or a charge sheet, but a thing which says how, why, when and where I failed the test. I wilt visibly. Disillusion and rancour set in. On April 1st, 1960, I'm taking the test for three-wheeled vehicles, class L: invalid carriages not equipped with means of reversing. The sergeant at the Golders Green Police Station, after my third summons while on a provisional licence, applied to a magistrate that I should be restrained from using any other class of vehicle. D.S.W. 699
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ACADEMICAL DISTINCTIONS GAINED 1958-1959 D . S. BREE W. A. HODGES ... C. E. MALONEY P. R; S. MANSERGH F. A. ROCKLEY ... C. M . G. WORTLEY G. W ; LANE G. S. BROCK T. J. STEVENS W. A. HODGES C. E. MALONEY D . S. BREE P. R. S. MANSERGH P. J. B. GRAI NGER M . F. SULLIVAN
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J. C. COLLIGAN D . G . JONES J. POLGLASE R.RoWE
State Scholarship. State Scholarship. State Scholarship. State Scholarship. State Scholarship. State Scholarship. State Scholarship. Open Scholarship in History to Corpus ./ Christi College, Oxford. Open Exhibition in History to Hertford College, Oxford. Hastings-Rashdall Scholarship in Classics to New College, Oxford. Open Exhibition in Natural Science to King's College, Cambridge. Open Scholarship in Mathematics to Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Open Exhibition in History to Magdalen College, Oxford. Open Scholarship in History to Lincoln College, Oxford. Open Exhibition in History to Jesus College, Oxford. Open Scholarship in Natural Science to Balliol College, Oxford . Open Scholarship in Natural Science to Trinity College, Oxford. Academical Clerkship to Magdalen College, Oxford. Open Exhibition in Science to Southampton University. Scholarship in Chemical Engineering to London University. Royal Naval Scholarship. Army Schola rship. Army Scholarship. A.R.C.M. ('Cello).
P. W. BARKER I. A. M. MCCLURE W. J. CHESSHYRE M. M. G. STANLEY SMITH R. F.LUNN 700
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Andrew Carnegie Open Scholarship and Worshipful Company of Musicians Open Scholarship to Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
T. C. Gooo
Gwynne Kimpton Open Scholarship (Violin) to Royal Academy of Music.
A. B. EMDEN
Hon. Fellow of St. Edmund Hall and of Lincoln College, Oxford, D .Litt, (Hon). Oxford, and Fellow of British Academy
J. D. R. SPOONER
Senior Exhibitioner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; 1st Cl. Honours Mechanical Sciences Tripos, Pt.1.
C. VERNON SMITH
Scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1st Class Honours Moral Sciences Prelim ; Foundation Scholarship and Wright Prize.
G. C. FLETCHER
Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ;Ist Class Honours, Mathematical Tripos, Pt.1. and Caldwell Scholarship.
R. L. HOLFORD
Exhibitioner of Magdalene College, Cambridge; Honours, Mathematical Tripos, Pt.IIl.
A. G. RODIETTE
Scholar of King's College, Cambridge; 1st Class Honours Natural Sciences Prelim.
J. S. NYE
Scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge; 1st Class Honours Historical Tripos, Pt.1.
A. SEAL ...
Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge; I st Class Honours, H istorical Tripos, Pt.I1. and Resident Fellowship, Harva rd University.
J. D . B. WALKER
Scholar of Trinity College, Oxford ; 1st Class Honours in Classical Moderations.
P. DAWSON
Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford ; 2nd Class Honours in History.
J. A. D. MACMILLA N
Trinity College, Oxford; Honours in History.
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Scholar of Christ Church, Oxford; Harmsworth Entrance Exhibition, Middle Temple.
E. J. SMALMAN SMITH ...
Ford Student of Trinity College, Oxford; 2nd Class Honours, Classical Moderations.
A. J. BRIGGS
Foundation Scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge; 2nd Class Honours, Diy. 2, Natural Science Tripos, PUl.
W. N. WENBAN-SMITH
Exhibitioner of King's College, Cambridge; 2nd Class Honours, Diy. I , Classical Tripos, Pt. I.
P. H. Moss
Exhbitioner of Clare College, Cambridge; 2nd Class Honours, Diy. 2, Theological Tripos, Pt.II.
P. J. D. ALLEN ...
Jesus College, Cambridge; 2nd Class Honours, Diy. 2, English Tripos, Pt.Y.
J. P. GREEN
Scholar of Magdalene College, Cambridge; 2nd Class Honours Diy. 1. Med. and Mod. Lang. Tripos, Pt.I.
P. J. VAN BERCKEL
Jesus College, Cambridge; 2nd Class Honours Diy. 2. Med. and Mod. Lang. Tri pos, Pt.I.
A. R. MORGAN ...
Exhibitioner of Corpus c:;hristi College, Cambridge; Bacon Exhibition.
G. E. HARE
Wad ham College, Oxford; Honours in Physics.
R. A. LAWRENCE
Scholar of Worcester College, Oxford; 2nd Class Honours in Engineering.
N. PAINE
Scholar of Trinity College, Oxford; 2nd Class Honours in Engineering.
G. D. PESKETT
Scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford; 2nd Class Honours Natural Science Moderations.
S. J. LAINE
Exhibitioner of Christ Church, Oxford; 2nd Class Honours Mathematical Moderations.
J. M. BEAUGIE ...
Scholarship in Anatomy, London Hospital Medical College. 702
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P. B. KIRBY
Brasenose College; 2nd Class Honours in Modern Languages.
S. N. BURBRIDGE
Scholar of Christ Church , Oxford; 2nd Class Honours in History.
S. J. FREEBAIRN SMITH
Christ Church, Oxford; 2nd Class Honours in Literae Humaniores.
J. R. M. HARYEY
St. Edmund Hall; 3rd Class Honours in Modern Languages. .
M. A. MURCH
Trinity College, Oxford; Honours in Jurisprudence.
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Trinity
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Christ Church; 1st Class Honours in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, '
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V. ALLEN ...
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St. Edmund Hall; 2nd Class Honours in English.
M. S. R. COZENS
St. John's College, Oxford; Honours in History.
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W. E. S. THOMAS
Magdalen College, Oxford; Honours in History.
1st Class
J. H. COBB
University College; 2nd Class Honours in History.
J. H. COOPER-POOLE
St. Edmuvd Hall; 2nd Class Honours in History.
c. C. FARMER
Balliol College; 2nd Class _Honours in History.
C. W. TREYER
Lincoln College; 2nd Class Honours in History.
R. A. LANE
Keble College; Music. 703
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SCHOOL PRIZES Captain's Prize (Mitchinson)
J. C. G. Smith
Lady Davidson Prize
J. C. G. Smith
Headmaster's Prizes
W. A. Hodges A. T. Selman A. A. J. Williams
Classical (Broughton)
A. W. Budgen
Greek Prose (Dean Farrar)
Upper School: Middle School:
A. G. S. Douglas A. D. D. Kilpatrick
Latin Prose (Horsley)
Upper School: Middle School:
D . K. Thorpe R. M. Franklin
Mathematics (Mitchinson)
No award
Natural Science (Mitchinson)
M. J. A. Simpson Upper School: Middle School:
Modern Languages (Mitchinson) (Seratton)
Senior: Junior:
Reading and Elocution (Harvey Boys)
N. H. Livingston D. H. B. Chesshyre P. D. R. B. Hoffman A. A. J. Williams G. W. H. Wells
Latin Verse (Blore)
A. G. S. Douglas
Greek Verse ...
A. G. S. Douglas Senior: Junior:
Music (Ryley)
J. B. Batchelor S. R. Davies
Music (Courtney)
J. P. Varcoe
Natural History
D. J. M. Ray
King's School, Parramatta, Prizes
Upper School: Middle School:
P. F. Allen W. D . Lawrie
History (Stanley) (Everitt)
F. J. D . Lambert R . St. J. Stevens T. C. C. Dartington
English (Evans)
A. H. Selby Open: Junior:
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P. J. B. Grainger R. Perry
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Divinity Prizes: Upper School (Broughton) Middle School (Marshall Wild) Lower School (Lady Hertslet)
F. A. Rockley W. D. M. Lawrie A. H. Selby
Prize for the Harvey Society (Blore)
D. R. S. Anderson
Prize for the Marlowe Society (Streatfield)
J. R. C. Wright
MerIon College Prizes: Classics .. . Science .. .
J. C. Colligan
Musical Appreciation (Alan Baker)
C. B. Seaman
Archaeology Prize (Geoffrey Wells)
N. H. Livingston W. D. M. Lawrie
W. A. Hodges
Cathedral Prizes (Miss Dorothy Mills)
Senior: Junior:
Harveian Society Essay Prize
H. K. Bray D. H. B. Chesshyre J. R. C. Wright R. R. C. Butler F. J. D. Lambert M. J. A. Simpson M. J. G. Robiette
Pfizer Company'sPrizes Latin Prizes : Upper School .. . Middles School ' Lower School ...
A. J. Addis H. E. V. Swann S. H. P. Taylor
Greek Prizes: Upper School ... Middle School... Lower School ...
W. M. Watson E. A. Davidson D. M. P. Barnes
Mathematics Prizes (Harrison): Upper School ... Middle School. .. Lower School ...
D. S. Bree A. C. Parsons M. H. Nixon
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Science Prizes: Upper School: Physics Biology Middle School: Physics and Chemistry Biology Lower School: Physics Chemistry Biology English: Upper School ... Middle School (Galpin) Lower School ... Gift for Physics and Chemistry (Oliver Johnson) History (H. V. Crawford) .. . Upper Middle Lower Upper History (Joh" · Crawford) ... Middle Lower
History: Upper School ... Middle School (Gordoll) Lower School ... Form Prizes: A.VA
J. A. Colligan M. J. A. Simpson M . J. Robiette J. R. Bennett R. D . H. Perry D. O. Learmonth M. B. Charig G. W. H. Well.
School: School: School: School: School: School:
F. J. D. Lambert J. R. Bretherton A. M. Whittome C. E. Maloney J. R. C. Wright M. R. Hirst R. J. M. Collier R. C. Tooth P. M . Weller C. R. Davies S. R. Davies P. R. S. Mansergh R . St. J. Stevens G. A. Hessey R. M. Franklin D. D. Double J. A. Broom A. J. Imber P. Layfield D. C. Jones P. D. MacNeice W. J. D. Taylor H. B. T. Clark E. W. Charles M. G. W. Campbell R. D. Scott S. J. Mawford A. A. Simpson T . J. I. Howard-Jones R. C. Evans J. H. Hardy S. J. Morris S. S. Barker W. N . Bodey
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THE ART OF MAKING HAY Necessary equipment and circumstances: a bright, warm afternoon ; pleasant surroundings ; two pieces of willow and a ball. The aim of making hay is to enjoy oneself. This is not as easy as it seems when one arrives at the destination worn and bumped out in a rickety, old va n which should have been entered for the London-Brighton vintage car rally fifteen years ago. Once dismounted , the next task is to put on a white uniform- you can never make hay unless you are dressed in white. This is an aneient custom which stems from the days of Boadicea and her merry men.
Each side, consisting of between ninc and thirteen men , provides in turn the necessary materials and the hay making. Which does which first is decided purely arbitra ril y by the toss of a double-headed coin . The side which first provides the material descend from headquarters and scatter round the countryside. Dista nces between two adjacent persons vary from two feet at slip to one hundred and two at long leg. Each person stations himself permanently at a particular spot, to make daisy chains or count the nettles, depending on the terrain .
Hay making proper is restricted by (a) a 19-22 yard pitch (it varies); (b) umpires; (e) wickets. It is an offence to dislodge the latter; the penultimate are you r ul timate aim. The material, proper, is provided by one of the opposing side throwing up a ball and by one of the two haymakers present (they enter tile affra y normally one by one, but there are always two between the wickets) slashing the ball with his piece of willow and running between the wickets as many times as he can before the ball is retrieved and returned to the original deliverer.
Now, there arc, of course, various methods of mak ing hay, all of which arc in valuable to the repertoire of the average participant: the cross-bat swipe- usually done with eyes
shut; the attempted glance- usually made two seconds after the ball has passed; the mid-wicket tip-and-run stroke- always useful to have up one's sleeve (prov ided the other fellow is awake); the half-way-down-the-pitch swipe. Those are the elementary strokes. Possible variants are left to the individual. Replacements are sent out when the wicket is di slodged, a hit ball fall s by chance into the hands of one of the opposing side, when one's body is struck by a ball which is thereby prevented from dislodging the wicket, or when one fail s to run the nineteen or so ya rds between the wickets fast enough. The essential things to bear in mind about making hay- l forgot to mention that after one side has prbvided the material for making hay, the other does so too, and the object of the game is to run as many times between the wickets as possible- are that it is to be enjoyed, tha Yit is a finable offence to be professional (i.e ., score twenty in an over), and that it affords ample opportunity for botanical studies, day dreaming, a meed of mead on the meads and consequent and inconsequent inconsequence. ,/
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GOTHS AND VANDALS Much allention has been devoted to the construction of our great historical buildings but no one has seen fit to record their defacement for posterity. And yet the fact is that in any reasonably restored building there is nowadays scarcely anything left from the period of their original construction: Puritans have shattered the outward ornaments, royal commissioners have stripped the fabric of lead, glass, a nd building stone. Where these more casual devastators have slain their thousands the Victorians,
more persistent and zealous for fal sity in architecture, have slaughtered their ten thousands as sacrifices to a god whose only pleasure it seems, lay in contemplating the purest Gothic ; and finally the present age has seen fit to destroy its architectural heritage in favour of pseudo-Tudor, pseudo-Georgian, even pseudo-modern, or any style, in short, that will fail to represent a worthwhile idea and preserve the Selection Commillee from any possibility of shock, whether visual or intellectual. Vandalism is exclusively a product of the modern world. Past ages have indeed destroyed buildings, but only in order to put more " modern" ones in their place. Medieval monks did not pull down their great Norman choirs in order to conform more closely to an ideal of architecture, but in order to have a choir which was lighter and more fa shionable, and wh~h imitated more closely the splendours of other cathedrals and no belief in the merits of "Norman ruggedness", ' "Early English purity", or "Decorated beauty", stayed their desire for bigger and better manifestations of their temporal magnificence. The medieval builder was quite free from the pious snobbery which caused the Victorians to regard tlte Gothic as the only pure, the only manly, the only "English" style of architecture. The pious Victorian saw the Gothic vault as a pair of praying hands; the medieval mason, equally pious, decorated it with obscene bosses. Nor did the Puritan assault make any difference. Despite the ceaseless lamentations of vergers and vicars over "sheer senseless sadistic vandalism", the Puritan destroyed
for the best of all causes- religious fervour. For the good Independent a Laudian church was a blasphemous "steeple-house", inhabited by guileful clergy and proud prelates, seeking to wile their unsuspecting congregations into committing the cardinal sin of confounding the creature with the Creator, through emphasis on subsidiary objects of worship- images, altars, pyxes- and through neglect of the plain doctrine of Holy Writ. This being so, it was not to be wondered that the Parliamentary armies ruthlessly destroyed all such decoration in the churches they visited but they respected most tombs and they had no quarrel with the structure of the average church . It was reserved for Wyatt the Destroyer to destroy the tombs, and for Augustus Pugin to cas t out the screens, which they had spared and the churches survi ved damage in the name of God relatively unscathed- only to be gutted in the name of the Victorian "heavenly twins", Good Taste and Mammon. The fashion for Gothic was not a nineteenth century phenomenon , but the idea of using it as a serious form of art was. Before 1780, Gothic was a piquant flavour to be added to a gentleman's house in the form of a pointed window or a row of stucco battlements; after 1780 it rapidly rose to being the only style considered suitable for a Christian architect. The first great "Goth" (in both the 18th and 19th century uses of the word) was James Wyatt, who in his campaign to restore the cathedrals and churches of England to their former purity succeeded in destroying almost anything worth presentation. The crazy fantasies of this buffoon among restorers, included the destruction at Salisbury, of two 708
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chantry chapels, on the ground that they were not in period, and of the campanile, on the ground that it was a nd everywhere he went, he levelled the churchyard, threw out the tombs and glass, pulled down screens and promptly re-erected them from the fragments a nd fin ally blew up the unique Norman chapter house at Durham on the ground that it was uncomfortabl~ for the Dean and Chapter (who never used it). If the brainstorms of Wyatt had ended with his death, all would have been well; but he was followed by men who, infected with his ideas, had just enough sanity left to know what to destroy. N ow D ecorated was the fa shion, and so every Gothjc church was "decorated"- with a
noble disregard to anything that happened to get in the way. The follies of Victorian architects make entertaining reading but here a few anecdotes must suffice to indicate the rich humour of that Goon-Show in stone. Gilbert Scott found it impossible to claim that the Wren Church of St. Michael, Cornhill, was Gothic in any shape or form; so he rebuilt it in' the Byzantine style, providing a set of mosaics, Gothic stalls, and some stained glass' which benefited the gas and electricity companies, if no one else; finally adding, with a di sregard of logic worthy of Alice in Wonderland, an orthodox French Gothic porch. But even Scott pales before Lord Grimthorpe, of whose insanity it would be only charitable to have no doubt. This gentleman was responsible for rebuilding St. Albans to his own specifications, which included the provision of a West Front which martyred St. Alban all over again, and the destruction of a medieval clock in order that its face might embellish the choir screen. And the worst point about these lunacies is that we cannot yet afford to laugh at them. The villain is no longer taste or religion; but the motor-car and the big firm have nobly filled up the breach with fresh casualties from our architectural heresies. We laugh at Wyatt but we are blind to the heaps of sub-Lutyens classicalism that disfigures our cities and the plywood pseudo-Tudor gables which decorate our dormitory suburbs. We have already submerged much of our best farmlands beneath a tide of ill-planned suburbs and soon the desire to have a home in the country will result in there being no country to have a home in. F.J.D.L.
MODERN MUSIC: AN UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT AT SOMETHING NEW? "Modern Music" must be described as music written in a more advanced idiom than
that written in the vaguely-termed "classic" and "romantic" styles. This, one would feel, means that one may call anything after Brahms and Tchaikovsky "modern". But several objections spring up immediately. Surely Wagner and Moussorgsky should be termed "modern"? And their lives were almost entirely spent in the nineteenth century. Elgar's is a marvellous example of the "romantic" music that is generally associated with It is, therefore, impossible to demarcate in time the entry of "modern" music and this shows that contemporary music is part of an
the Victorian era and he died in 1935. evolutionary process.
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Beethoven is nowadays termed one of the greatest composers of all time. Yet to his contemporaries, much of his work seemed di ssonant, disconnected or an unsuccessful attempt at being clever. For instance, his first symphony starts with what is harmonically a discord; to those of his contemporaries who had conservative tastes, it was dissonant a nd ludicro us_ To us it is merely an ordinary, everyday chord, Ca dominant 7th) which is not often fo und at the beginning of a work, and when it is, merely serves to arrest the attention_ There is no question of dissonance. But to many people of this second Elizabethan era , the two quick chords at the beginning of Poulenc's concerto fo r two pianos make an amusing rhythm, but a dissonant sound ; and for these people, who probably would not listen with undivided attention to the rest of the work after the first two or three minutes, there would be little to enjoy or even understand. And so they would pass a judgement, presumably unfa vo urable, on a work they had hardly listened to or tried to understand; a judgement such as "it is an attempt at something new and it has failed", An attempt at something new in music if termed "successful" is only termed so because it immediately appeals to the ear of the listener, who does not have to strain himself to follow the arduous reaso nings of some more "complicated" composer. But this success does not necessarily mean that the music is great. Take the classic example of Cimarosa and Mozart; Ci marosa lived at the same t ime as Mozart a nd was deemed by far the better composer- he was morc easy to understand. There is no-one now alive who would wish to support this; taste has changed with comprehension. At the first hearing of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, or Vaughan Williams' Sympitonia Antarctica or William Walton's 'Cello Concerto, to select three well-known works, the average listener will thin k these works "an unholy row" . But having heard, and concentrated on , these works or similar wo rks a half-dozen times, the average listener will be able to appreciate it. This is not a mere hope, it is an actual Cact drawn from the experiences of personal acquaintances and in fifty years' time, people will look back on our period and wonder why so few people appreciated Bax, Shostakovitch, Stravinsky, Hindemith and scores of others. There have been some experiements in this century that have ended in comparative failure . Schoenberg was the first to expound the twelve-tone system in the first decade of the century. Since then a few composers have used the system but there is not a single person who has ye t found them really comprehensible; in later life, Schoenberg himself admitted that he was wrong. Several composers have adapted the twelve-tonal system very successfull y, notably Bartok, man y of whose themes are in accordance wit h the system, but in the development of these themes there is no strict adherence to Schoenberg's theory. The Violin Concerto of Bartok is particularly notable in th is respect. Other experiments include electronic music, and "musique concrete", a French creation which as yet has not found popularity. But it is too ea rly yet to pass judgement on these experiments, for the public ear has not yet been assailed much with this "music" so its success or unsuccess is impossible to estimate.
The answer to the accusation that modern music is an unsuccessful attempt at something new is that most contemporary experiments will become popular in the neal' future as the public ear becomes acquainted and accustomed to them just as it has through the ages to Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.
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WITH APOLOGIES TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This day is call'd Inspection Day: He that survives this day, and comes safe home, Will sigh in peace, "This day is past But next year brings another just the same." He that fu lfi ls his part, and does not faint , Will weekly on the vigil clean his kit, And say, "Tomorrow's Corps Day yet again." Then will he raise his arm a nd show his rank, And say, "These stripes I won on 'spection Day". Cadets forget ; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with neuralgia The dri ll he did that day. Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words, Gr*ss the C.O., G *rwo*d and W*lk'nson, Wh*teh'rn and P*II*ck pOmerOy and H*v*rd Be in their blancoed be!'ts nobly remember'd. ' This story shall the sergeant teach his fag; Henceforth Inspection Day shall ne'er go by, From th is day to the ending of the Corps, But we in it shall be remembered; We few, we lucky few, we corps of brothers ; For he to-day that totes a gun with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so keen This day shall sharpen his efficiency; And gentlemen in Parry, now at work, Shall think themselves accursed they we re not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That marched with us upon St. Stephen's Piece. 1.M.D.
"SYLVIA'S" LAST VOYAGE! A wave shattered over Sylvia's bow and the sixty foot ketch was showered wi th soft, soapy foa m. Her faded white sails glistened in the moonlight and the wa ter st reamed from them like a waterfa ll. She threw her nose up into the nigh t a il', then her bows thudded down on to a wave with a deafening crash. The Channel was rough that night. A steady north-easter wai led across the sea, stirring up the waves which broke incessantly over Sylvia, creating an everlasting din of flurry and foam. 711
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The little ship was not perturbed . She staggered on, her riggi ng singing in tune to the rllsh and rolling of the angry waters. She creaked and groaned, strai ning every inch of
her frame . She was a tough, heavily buil t vessel, and the waves which slapped against her sides were tossed away mockingly.
Owning and sa iling her were fOllr men. Their business was sm uggling, for at this time, smuggling was a widespread and a profitable profession though by no means an easy one. The sk ipper, known by his mates as "Strong-A rm!>, intended to beach his contraband on the Kent coast by boat, a nd ride to Canterbury with it before the revealing dawn arri ved. Hidden away in secret compartments of the little ship were thousands of bottles of rich, French wines. The men were nothing but drunken braggarts, but they knew the art of smuggling-how to deceive the customs-men- and this was all that mattcred to them. Within a mile of the coast, they pulled down the sa ils and weighed anchor. By now the wind had dropped to a steady breeze, making it possible for the boats to load up and make for the shore, where will ing hand s were eager to help. Then, one of the keen-eyed crew told Strong-Arm that he believed he had spotted some customs-men rowing out to Iheir little ship. But the skipper kept cool, appearing not to be in the least concerned, and gave quick instructions. The crew's task was to sink all the bottles in barrels to the sea-bed. Deft fingers worked on tying the barrels together, and with that completed, they were lowered over the side and roped to the anchor chain some way beneath the surface of the water.
Their work was finished in the nick of time for very soon the customs-men were searching the vessel. They took no chances and spent at least two hours on the job, but to their dismay, no contraband did they find. But ill-luck defeated Strong-Arm. It was when the customs-men were rowing away that their bright lamps, aided by the moonlight, picked out a sand-bank close by and on this sand-bank were large-glistening barrels.... There were cries of astonishment and awe; panic ensued, The game was up for StrongArm and for a few horror-struck moments he stood on the deck cursing at the guilty yellow moon, shining treacherously on to those bar rels. If on ly he had noticed before where they had been washed up by the tide; perhaps he could have saved the situation . Three customs-men were no match for Sylvia's crew, and whcn they clambcred aboard they were beaten back into the wate r. Up came the anchor- barrels and all- and with sails set, the little ship was away. The customs-men, who had managed to reach their boat, signalled to the land : the pursu it was on and tilere was no escape for Strong-Arm. In his haste he grounded the Goodwin Sands and grew desperate when the seas began to get rougher. His crew moancd as the little ship was battered about by the waves, until she was a wreck. Sylvia and her moan ing crew were helpless, at the mercy of the sea. Later, it was only the wi nd th~t moaned. R. TURNER.
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THE SCHOOL ROLL 1615 1 his list is to be found in the Canterbury Cat hedral Chaptcr Archives, Visitations. It is taken fro m a visitation roll, dated 1615, headed "Nomina personorum ct ministrorllm monitorum et citato rum infra ecclcsiam ca thedralem ct metropoliticam Christi Ca ntuaricnsem," "Pueri st lldentes grammaticam." Richard Clerke Edward Boys John Pickard .Henry Sumne r John Knowler Anthony Poxton Anthony Gibbons William Lakes Reginald Ansell Jo hn Bowie Edward CoileI'd Benjam in DOllie William Dunkin Henry Lambe Thomas Warham Henry Ely William Pordage William Fleet Thomas Mi lls Thomas Mi ller Thomas Russell Thomas Hull Henry Heughes Wil liam Buck ley Henry Lovelacc
Robert Hoveden Charles Fotherby John Jackson Willi am Mastel' Christopher Crispe Edward Whitnall Geo rge Mills Michael Terrey John Dunkin John White Nicholas Simpson Theophilus Wilson John Cradwell* Nicholas Hadson Robert Clegget John Coif John Tunstall Thomas Everinge Thomas Beane William Maie Thomas Wilcockes Edward Benningfield Daniel Tunstall George Broome Benjamin Jackson
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NOTTINGHAM LETTER The University, Nott ingham. Jllll e 281h, 1959.
Dear School / We believe that this is the first appearance of an O.K.S. letter from Nott ingham. But now tbal a rather tenuous link has been establ ished , and Oxford and Cambridge arc becoming ever harder to reach, gent lemen weak in Latin but keen on the prestige a degree confe rs could do much worse than cons ider coming here. Among the O.K.S. here, M. Devo il has come up to re(ld Law and is at the moment at Henley. He has becn representing the University most of the Summer, and the VIIl have had (perhaps as a result!) a successful season. 1n rowing, as in every other aspect of Un iversity life, there is going to be tremendous expansion in the next few years, and boys who can show reasonab le competence in work and play can look fo rward 10 a course here almost li mit less in its possibiliti es. S. F re('bairn~Smil h came up for a yea r last October to read Education, having read Greats at Chr ist Church , Oxford. He is about to leave England in order to teach in Kenya for a number of yea rs, and, wh ile the sporling side of his li fe has been ruthless ly cu rtailed by the demands of teaching pract ices, he has been able to si ng in two of the operas put on by the University this year, with the a id of its excellent music department. The Un iversi ty itself merits some description. Founded in 1873, it moved to its present site with lhe aid of a huge benefaction from Lord Trent, in the twenties. It differs from the older Universities by being non-collegiate and almost wholly centralised- one can point to "The University"- and it differs from most of the younger ones by being set in a large park , where each bu ilding is properly landscaped into its surround ings, with the whole ordered into a genera l plan. At present there are about two th ousand undergraduates, but when the total complement of about five thousand is reached, and all the bui ldings arc completed , the University will undoubtedly come to be regarded-deserved ly so- as an excellent example of contemporary landscape arch itecture. Much could be said about the facilities and amenities ava ilab le in the University itself, and more about the li fe of the undergraduates here. Suffice it to say that it was a revelat ion to one accustomed to the privations and d isciplines of convention at Oxford. It is neither fair nor proper to compare Oxbridge and Redbrick: Oxbridge should be compared with Heidelberg, Paris, or Tubingen. Each has merits of its own. Rcdbrick mllst be compared with Redbrick. Granted this, it would not be unfair to place Notti ngham very high among the modern universities in the land. A.bove all, boys considering a University career should beware of prejUd ice agai nst the Redbrick Universities mercly because they arc modern and have ne ither the prestige nor the traditions of Oxford or Cambridge. Yours, etc., O.K.S., NOTTINGHAM.
"QUIET WEEK-END" Meister Omcrs presented Qlliel Week¡clld in the house garden. It is a difficult play to get started, for there is it cast of thirteen to be introduced, and as the ir characters are not quickly differentiated it was confusin g that the programme did not print the cast in order of appearance as it claimed to do. in the first scene, some of the characters were ant icipating the development of the conversat ion rat her than acting, and some lines were lost in laughter. As the players began to enjoy themse lves, they entered with gusto into their parts and timing of reactions and lines improved. Goldsmith and Scrivenor were particularly successfu l as sporting upper-middle class men, the one hearty ancl assured, the other inhi bited but human. Of the man y women, Maloney as the practical mother was the most convincing, Stanley-Smi th as the seducti ve America n the most start ling, and Charig as the char the most uproariously funny. The stage was large and being placed against the house merged easily into the real bu ilding and garden, and good use was made of this to extend the acting area. Movements and effects were well timed, though wa ter seemed scarce. Th is is a play of commonplace situations and jokes depend fo r their humour not on the ir o riginality but on being recognised. But by the second scene the acting had sufficient pace to entrap the audience into the family party atmosphere and everyone spe nt a very jol ly eveni ng.
J.L.G. 715
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CHORAL CONCERT
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Moza rt's Mnss in C minor survives incomplete: the Agl/lls and a great dea l of the Credo arc missing. However there can be no doubt that the only sat isfactory thing to do is to perform what we have, as was done on 'th is occasion, and not patch the work uP, wit h bils from other sO~lrccs: Even in its inco mplete form it is one of Mozart's fi nest wo rks, and certamly one of the ollisiandlllg plcces of church mUSIC of the laic eighteenth century. The view that th is kind ?f music is operatic in character is ,now o ~t of date. Mozart's Mass is often elaborate and sometimes nond; bu t througho ut the work onc 15 convlIlced that this elaboration is directed to a single end- not to showmansh ip but to the glory of God. It is not an easy work to perform, The texture is often in t~ica~c, a.nd th ~ music dcrylands a consistcnt rhythmical impu lsc if it is to achieve ils effect. 1 have no hesJlatlon. In saymg that Ih ls performance, by Ihe augmcntcd Choral Society and thc Chamber Orchestra, was m~gl1fficent. One of~en approaches schoo l performances with a tolerance which is prepared to acce~t somet~lng less than the highest standards, ~ut it was quite unnecessary to make any a llowances on tillS occasIOn. The pcrformancc had a compcll mg sweep and a confidence that made it a s ti rri~g cxperienc~ for the most critical listener. The hero, of cours~, was Mr, Wright, who had done wonders WIth the Chou¡, If 1 were an orchestral player I should. find hi S rigid beat difficult to follow; but it did not seem to wo rry the Chambe~ Orches~ra, who pJayed wlll~ great vivacity and a good dea l of subt lety. In particu lar, the three wood-wind SOIOISIS dea lt bravely with the difficult o bbligatos of EI illcal"llallis est. The o nly weak spot in the perfo rmance was the contribution made .by the solo ists, Apart from the soprano (M iss Elizabet h Simon) they did not seen.l t~ have a very clear Idea ho~ Mozart should ~e sung. In the Bel/eelie/lls which should have offered an JIltl mate and expressive blendmg of the four VOices, we had a compet itio~ in assertiveness, in which nobody won and Moza rt lost heavily, After the impact of the Mass the second half of the co.ncert \~as naturally l,ess ex~iting. J adm ired Mr. Goodes's expert conduct ing of the Chamber Orches~ra In a Slllt~ of .Purcell s mUSIC, but 1 should .have preferred to heClr what Purcell wrote and not what Si r John Barbl.rolh t.hought he ought to have w rllt~n, H andel's coronation ant hem The Killg shall /¡ejoiee ended the cvenmg wit h a go!,d deal o f festa l D maj or (and incidentally some exemplary timpani playing). 1, am mysel f ;:~ ferve nt adl'!l\I"er of H andel ; bu.t I. am inclined to th in k that the proper place for a coronalto n anthcm IS a cpro nalton, .when everyone I S 1Il.<l jubilant frame of mind and prepared to accept,,: good deal of ceren~onla l trumpctlng. Howevcr, Ihere IS no qucstion that tile Choir and Orchestra ':Iere III a thoroug.hly Jub ilant mo<?d, To all <:tppear~nces t h~y fin ished the conce rt as fresh as they began It. In a week of Intense and contlnUOliS Illuslc-maklllg that IS something worth recording. 1. A. WESTRUP ,
THE HOUSE MUSIC COMPETITION The first House Mus ic Competition on May 23rd inaugu rated yet another School musical '!ctivity, The H cadmaster presented a handsome cup, and Dr. J . A, Westrup, H ~at her Professor of MUSIC at Ox~ord Uni versi ty, kind ly came nnd adjudicated . Each house prescnted an mst rumental and sma ll voca l section, followed by a H ouse Song. The h igh lights of the evening mentioned by Professor Westrup wcre the Beethoven Trio by M, F. Su lli van (piano), D, L. M. Thomas ('cello) and A. Maries (clarinet) f.rom Wa l p~le, the art iculation of School.House in the Toreador's Song from Bizet's Carmell, the balanced mt~rpretal1on of .The ~eeper, sung by LlIlacre, a nd the Galpins vocal group's Fastillg I watch b~ Elgar;. but It wou ld be. nusleadmg to suggest that th~se were far above the overall standard. The most unpress!ve and el~co~l ragm g feature of the who le even! ng was the sensit ivity and accur acy of alm?st a ll the p}aYlllg an~,slJ~gJllg. !temarkable,. too, was the. I~lgh standard achieved in the House songs, wh ich were al.l ~ put across With adrTllfabl.e enthUSiasm and precls.lon. Mention should also be made of the o riginal composition by W. A, ~lodgcs 1Il which parts h~d been cont l"l.ved for a dozen or so instrumentalists wh ich The Grange was able to display. The House MUSIC representatives arc to be commended for all the hard work they had contributed towards the success of the competitioll. It was a thorough ly enjoyable evening, and. we are ext re!~ely grateful to Professor Westrup for judging what we hope was only the first of a long se n es of competitions. The resul t: Galpins only j ust won from Walpo le in a very close fini sh. Aftcr that the order was: Marlowe, Linacre, Me isler Omers, The Grange, School House. Luxmoore.
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SYMPHONY CONCERT K ing's Week activ ities culminated in a conce rt performed by the K ing's Schoo l Orchestra under its conductor, Mr. John Bacon. The programme offered no excu rsions into unfrequented channels, but although there was nothing novel in the cho ice of th ree well-ridden concert favourites or "wa r-ho rses", o ne sensed the confidence o f lhc orchestra whi ch da res to be tested by the gauge of music both fami lia r and difficull. W ith out doubt the most distinguished item was the performance of Beet hoven's Piano Concerto No.4 in G; this provided a clearly calculated and sensit ive performancc by bot h the so loist, Mr. Ronald Smith, and the orchestra. Mr. Smith's conception of this great concerto was deeply satisfying. His playing was fluent but at the same time precise a nd delicate, especially in the co ntemplat ive slow movcment for which Beethoven, seeking n form for his individua l utterance, reverted to the tutti and solo style of the baroq ue concerto. Consequent ly, the orchestral sections a re predominant a nd massive and the solo piano parts quiet and serene. Most virtuoso pianists find this reassessment of the relative importance of the so lo i nst rumen! irksome and few can resist trying to make somet hing more of it; Mr. Smith , however, did not disturb the remarkable beauty of this apparently simple music and relished a virtuosic tl ing in the l'il'Qce, One expects such a performance from a soloist as experienced and accomplished as Mr. Smith, but it was gra tifyi ng to find a schoo l orchestra approaching and overcoming the difficult ies of the work with intelligence and style. T he orchest ral score was well within its technical powers, a factor which permitted greater attention to deta il and resulted ina noticeable nexibility of tone, volume and colour, and the overa ll ensemble has obviollsly benefited from the ex Ira numbers of rehearsals afforded by the presence of the soloist in the School. Mozart's Overture to The Magie FII//e was not too happy a choice fo r the opening of the concert. An operatic overture is often selected for the purpose of letting the orchestra play itself in, but to be enti rely sllccessful it must be rather like a so/@1e- someth ing of short du ration, buoyant, stylish , and most of all "done to a turn". The clarit y o f Mozart's sco ring, with its upper and lower lines defined in profile, demands an exact performance of every i nstrumcnt. The introductory chords promised well, but, alas, the promise WClS never ful fi lled. The rest o f the overtu re depends upon the establishment of a quick but definite tempo in the in itial statement of the first theme which Mozart for some reason entrusted to the second violins. The second violins of the school o rchestra failed to generate a firm beat in th is theme a nd thereaft er the dovetailing of inst ruments th roughout the episodic passages sagged occas ionally but not ser iously. In Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.5 the orchestra turned to music diametrically opposite to Beethoven's Concerto. It is a big work bursting with heroic strength and vi rility, somewhat reduced in stature by overemphasis and a deliberate pu rsuit of emotion. I admired the enthusiasm with which the o rchestra tackled the music, and if the who le was not comp letely successfu l, certain passages at least were genu inely admirable, such as, for example, in the slow movemen t the horn solo executed by a fi rst year boy with impressive finesse and aplo mb, the so lo oboe over a statement of the sa me theme by 'cellos, and good solid brass and woodwind playing over string pizzcato. Outstanding in the last movement were passages with real bite in the string bowing and brilliant timpani playing just before the reiteration of the theme in a major key near the end of the movement . The orchestra, now numbering some 70 to 75 players, has the proporti ons of a professional group, and due to it s ad roit woodwind and brass players it is nble to attempt music that is normally out of the range of un professional bodies. U nder Mr. John Bacon's guidance during the past two years the orchestra has stead ily progressed fr om a group of instrumen tal players to a discipl ined unit capa ble of nex ibility and genuine expressiveness. It is inevitable that the orchestra will suffer annual changes in personnel. This year, Lunn's excellent 'cello lead is missed, but th is has been compensat.ed by the introduction o f a strong new Leader, Mr. Myerscough, whose mark is already obvious. One violinist, however . ca nnot make a section and there rema ins too much discrepancy between his playi ng a nd most of the other violinists . At present, the brass and woodwind are the more reliable sections- yes, even including the vagaries of the bassoons, but in the whole o rchestra there is hard ly a player drawn from outs ide the School a nd where indeed is its equa l to be found from any population of the same size?
Not discounting athlet ic p rowess and academic dist inctions, the glory of the King's School rests in its music, for, whether intentiona lly or not , the Schoo l seems to ad here to the Greek idea l of putting music as quite the first mea ns o f education, an ideal expressed so aptly by Plutarch: "Their instruction in music and verse was not less carefull y attended to than thei r habits of grace and good-breeding in conversa tion" .
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On Saturday, 6th June. with the help of three young artistes, George Baker and Olive Groves provided the School with an enjoyable evening's music-making in the Great Hal l. If the presentat ion was occas ionally difficult to foll ow, this was soon forgotten on so friendly an occasion. David Bowman showed himself to be an accompli shed young baritone. The seve ral operatic arias he sang, including the fa mOlls E pl/r si II//fOI'e, were very competently delivered. Less enjoyable were two songs of the hearty type-The fishermell of England and Glorious De ~'oll- in which he probably underestimated the level of taste of the average public-schoolboy, wh ich though it might prefer Presley to Verdi, usually puts Verdi before the composers of jolly English ballads. However, here was a pol ished performer. Olive Groves delighted us with some charm ing and unusual songs, includin g The Sillger by Cyri l Scott. Wit and charm, together with a to uch of whimsy were the main ingredients of her voca l technique. The only non·voca l spot of the evening was accorded to a young pianist, Jill Ruess l, who used her resources very cleverl y. Though possesscd of capable articulation, she had a very limited tonal range: thus Chop in's R evolutionary ~tude, th ough neat and dextrous, was not half the "crashing, banging piece" which she described it as, and indeed it is. But though similarl y hampered in Liszt's Faust Paraphrase, so resourceful was her playing that her small·scale concept ion was very convincing. Wi th sma ller pieces by Schumann and Grieg, Mi ss Ruesst revealcd a warm and refined musicianship and hers was a most enjoyable performance. The highlight of the evening came with the bcautifully controlled singing of the latest Kathleen Fe rrier Prize· Winner, Eli zabeth Vaughan. 0 0 0 11 Fatale, Dvorak's 0 slhery 1110011, a Pucc ini aria and Benjamin's version (not so emphat ic as Bela fontc 's) of Th e Bana/ul·Boat Song were included in her programme. Though vowel sounds sometimes lacked definition, Miss Vaughan imrnediate ly showed herself to be a singer of outstanding promise. Her voice was thrilling in its richness and perfect control while her emot ional intensity provided a rare experience for all present. George Raker rounded off the evening in carefree style wit h three songs from Gi lbert and Sullivan and the School is grateful to him and Miss Groves for arranging such a varied and wide·ranging programme. M. F. S ULLIVAN.
PENNY READING The King's Week "Fringe" Programme sta rted with the welcome revival of what used to be the annua l entertainment of the School by the monitors. The Captain of the Schoo l put his audience into a jovial mood with a quick resume of the year, touching on both good and bad with a fitting balance of humour and sincerity. Several monitors then read an excerpt from Under Milk Wood, but though their accents were surprisingly polished, the rich lyrical lines suffered from inaudibility. Tn this respect it contrasted with Rowe's monologue, which he delivered as if he were a west-country yokel visiting the School; it was a subtle and endearing performance. The Jazz Band next took the floor, and, after initial hesitation, achieved a pleasant melancholy atmosphere through the lilting grace of R. Browne's trumpet playing. Their items, 011 the Street where you live, Pel/flies from Heaven and 011 the SUllny Side 0/ the Street, made a thoroughly enjoyable combinat ion. Following this, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Wilson did an amusing "tour" of the School, posing as two parents with their son's educat ion in mind. Their encounters with certain well known Precincts personalities round the " red square" were highly entertaining. One of the most polished turns was the deserting cadct's lament for the C.C.F. 11 was sung by W. A. Hodges, J. Polglase and D. H. B. Chesshyre, the first composing the music, and the last the words. Tbe Headmaster then read the "Ballad of Nellie Cooke", one of the lllgoidsby Legends; the reading was re· markable for its subtle changes of tone and emphasis, which made it most effect ive. The even ing's enter· tainment was concluded by the monitors' singing group, accompanied by M. F. Sullivan ; the variety of the music, and the engaging way in which it was presented, particularly in Hernando's Hideaway, made this a very entertaining item. The zest of the performers, the lively appreciation of the audience, and the warm, informa l atmosphere the whole evening made this a truly memorable event. May it soon be repeated. J.R.C.W. 718
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THE SCHOOL CHOIR As the academic yea r draws to a close, the Cho ir is preparing to perform some of the highlights from it s repertoire, namely Dyson's 0 praise God in his holiness, Parry's Co ronat ion anthem I WllS glad, Pu rce ll's Bell anthem Rejoice ill the Lo,.d which wil l be s ung with Strings and Organ accompaniment at the Com· memorati on Service, and one of this term's new anthems 0 where shall wisdom be fOlllld? by Boyce (the other bei ng The Lord hath beell mil/dflll by Wesley). These anthems mark the climax (jf the Choir's hard work thro ughout the yea r. On Sunday, July 5th , we sang the anthem Ascribe ullio the Lord by Travers, in which N. D. Curtis sang the entire tenor solo. Hi s clarity and tone, so rare in young teno rs, were excellent. I hope we shall hea r mo re from him in the near future. We were very pleased to be able to join fo rces with the Cathedral Cho ir on Wh it·Sunday, when we sang Attwood's anthem Come. Holy Ghost and Vaugha n Williams' Te Dellm in G on the steps of the Nave. The Choir and the School have been learni ng Smart's Tc Dcwn in F this term and it is hoped to "perform" it nex t term. The School 's repertoire will then be quite large; it will include four Te Deul11s- Stanford in n flat, Vaughan Williams in G, Smart in F and the Plain song Te Deum- and Stanford's Jubilate in B flat. For Sunday Matins, the School has been di vided lip into three sections so that , when the Benedicite is sung, each section sings certain verses in turn. This arrangement is very effective and successfu l even when unaccompanied! Inev itably a fcw members are leaving. They have all given the Choir their full support for severa l years and I am very grateful to them. In particular we are losing J. Polglase, who has been the mainstay of the tenor line for the last two years ; he is going to Oxford having been awarded an Academical Clerk ship to Magdalen College. Man y thanks are due to J. P. Varcoe for his invaluable ass istance in the organisation of the Choir, R. K . B. Halsey who has spent much time duplicating Hymn tunes and Chants for the serv ices, and finall y our Choirmaster, Mr. Wright, for his unfailing ent husiasm and hard work throughout the yea r. Anthems sung this term :o clap your hands (Vaughan Williams) How beautirul upon the mountains (Stainer) Hail Gladdening Light (Wood) Lord, for thy tender mcrcy's sake (Hilton) Come, Holy Ghost (AI/wood) Ascribe unto the Lord (Travers) Holy, Holy, Holy (Gralchanilloff) God is a Spi rit (Bel1l1ett) H ymn to the Trinity (Tchaikovsky) Save us, 0 Lord (Bail·stow) The Lord hath been mindrul (Wesley) o where sha ll wisdom be found (Boyce) Oh, for a closer walk with God (Stal/ford) Jesu word of God incarnate (Moza/'t) o praise the Lord (Goss) r was glad (Parry) Jesu, joy of Man's desiring (Bach) o praise God in his holiness (Dyson) G lorious is Thy Name (Mozart) Rejoice in the Lord (Purcef/) o Come, ye serva nts or the Lord (Tye) A.T.S.
"FRINGE" PLAYS MUSIC During the interva l between the two plays M. F. Su llivan (pianoforte), A. Maries (clarinet) and D. L. M. Thomas ('cello) played the Allegretto from the Trio in B fl at major by Beethoven. While the Dormitory Ruins Garden lent the music a delightfully romantic atmosphere, it suffered acoustically, in that, while the cla rinet and the upper notes o f the piano carried well, the lower notes, and the lower strings of the 'cello, were sometimes difficult to detect. The performance was remarkable for its sensitivity and the excellent range of dynamics; and, since the two plays were written in the twentieth and seventeenth centuries respectively, the interlude music made a good stylistic link. The trio, with F. R. Hammersley at the piano, also supplied some incidental music to each play, that for Dock Brief being specially composed by the Chaplain. 719
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" The birds rejoice between the earth and sky"- and the swifts chased each other rou nd Bell Harry as a perfect summer eveni ng settled over the Cloisters for the Serenade on July 21st. This was the setting ror what is annua lly some of the most lovely music to be hea rd even in Ca nterbu ry. The Madrigal Society is a competent , wc ll ~k llit body which enjoys mak ing it beautiful no ise together- and if it has to be fau lted then it must be said that 1110rc attention to phrasing, shad ing and flex ibility especially in lega to passages would make the ir performances o utstand ing. This was noticeable in the Elizabethan music in wh ich they were not qu ite as at home as they were in the Hun gar ian and Yugo-S lav Folk Songs. The last two co llect ions were exc iting experiences and were sung with great sensit ivity and fine dict ion. One might have been on the D almatian coast as a lovely teno r tone floated through the Cloisters in N ea vell above. Nearer home, Stanfo rd's 11,e BIlle Bird, with its exquisitely fash ioned " muren do", was reminiscent of the miracles McCormack llsed to achieve in that most difficult ach ievement of the singe r's art. The instrumen tal items were just occas ionall y not quite in tUlle but seemed at all ti mes to be enjoyed by the performers- a point not always o bserved in professional performa nces- who communica ted their pleasure to the audience. There was some good oboe playing in Dvora k's Serenade, but most pleasure came- why is this so oft en the case?- from Mozart, and particula rly from the Allegro from his String Quartet in A whieh was the outstanding performance of the even ing. So " the lake lay blue", and the sky beyond SI. Anselm's towe r was deep blue with the moon coming up, as the mllsic melted away and conten ted performers mingled with sat isfied listeners over the sacred grass.
RECITAL FOR THE FRIENDS OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL, JUNE 28TH The highlight of the Reci ta l given to the Friends was the Brahms alto rhapsody, which gave us an oppor¡ tunity to he'!.r one of the cou ntry's leading contraltos. Janet Baker gave to the rh apsody the rare combination of rich tone and d ramat ic intensity which Brahms pass ionate music demands. She was well suppo rted by the sensitive and subdued accompaniment of the male vo ice choir, which compensated for some shaky int onation from the orchestra. As a cont rast to her rhapsody, Miss Baker gave us two Handel arias, Art ThOll Troubled ? fro l11 Rodelinda, and H ow Changed {h e Vision from Admeto. These were delight full y sung, more in the spirit of the o ri ginal Italian tex t than of the 18t h century sacred songs into which they were translated. The orchestra l items were well chosen and shewed a consistent standard of performance. The Magic Flute Overture with which the co ncert opened set a standard for the rest of the programme. Despite some sl ight technical inaccuracy from the wind the performance "took flight" from the outset. The maj estic chords of the Three/old Trinity were confident and deliberate, and the a llegro and fugal sections had a real pu lsing life and rhythmic vi ta lity in them which was mo re than superficia l spark le. The Tchaikovsky valse was a less satisfying performance. The pe rfo rmers could not feel confident in the fa ce of the considerable technical difficult ies presented by th is piece, and th is dampened the essent ially light and balletic spirit of it. It was not a failure; there was very sk ilful hand ling th roughou t, especially from the st rings; bu t there were technical fault s, and it lacked the vita li ty shewn in the Mozart. The suite from the d ramatic music of Pu rcell arranged by Barbirolli is rat her a hoteh-potch selection, bu t it was played accurately and pleasantly. The faster movements were taken at a lively tempo, sacri fic ing the slow speeds of the pu ri st school to the enjoyment of the audience, and there were no slips apart from some slight fluffin g from the horn s. The cor angla is solo was beauti full y played, and given carefu l support from the strin gs. The Divertimento Concertante by Salzedo, with which the concert ended, is a pleasantly light, almost fri volous concerto, written in the same spi rit as those of Sa int Saens and Mozart. Here the mood of the work was captured perfectly by cond uctor and orchestra. The allegro and the allegro vivace depend on the accu racy of their jazzy rhythmic patterns fo r coherence, and these were energeticall y punched out by the three soloists and the orchest ra. There was some d issonance in the allegro vivace, but that did not destroy the total effect. The slow movement, a somewhat amorphous, dreamy affair, was carefully prepared, and the loose theme relayed from st ring to wind with accurately timed precision.
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THE ART COMPETITION
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And Mess. The House Art and Craft Competition this year produced a ll three in plenty; and , as it is possible that next te rm there will be better faci lities for the first two, it might be topical to d iscuss whether the competition we now have is good or bad. The first thi ng to do is to add "fo r what'!" to the last phrase. Elsewhere in this C(fII{uariall appears a letter wh ich seems to the presen t reviewer to be seriously mistaken in its tacit answer to this question, so tha l much of its sincere indi gnat ion is misd irected. The object of art and craft teaching in a school such as this is primarily to give ALL a chance to develop what talent they have a nd thus, incidentally, th rough a first·hand knowledge of the elusiveness of even moderate success, to foster a pro per app reciation of the rare firsHate, not concentrate o n the outstandingly gift ed. Gen ius has its garret, or, if tame, an Art School. The best is the enemy of the good, and, in th is, (as indeed un i· versally) we arc o n the side of the good. Next, does o rganised competition help towards th is aim and, if so, ought it to be between individuals, hOllses or some ot her gro llps ? Artists arc no toriously vain: co mpetition is therefore good for their work and bad for their sou ls- we a ll know Ollr Benvenu to Cellini. Gro up competitio n seems a good comprom ise and entails o rganisat ion. A ready·made one is to hand . Let us not labour the obv ious: a compet ition between groups in this School means a House Competi tion and a good thing, too. If a Public School education has any thing di stinctive to give (o r sell ; and the not negligible sum of £350 p.a. shows how some judges answer this question), then opportu nities for co·operal ion and confl ict between Me and You and between Me and They, cannot be too numerous. Concretely, th is la rgely mea ns do ing th ings by Houses. Therefo re, an Inter· House Art and Craft Competition is a good thing. Q. E. D. Could it be a better one? Th is is not the place to set down persona l suggcstions in any detail bu t clearly a fo rma lly appointed committee should go into the ent ire matter : to consider date, place, durat ion, the des irabil ity of selection and the supervision of the ex hibit ion hall, at least. Now let the present reviewer do what he was as ked to do: review th is exhi bi tion. School HOllse won the Compet ition, by an independent and unanimous decisio n of the three j udges (M rs. U. Macdonald, Mrs. G. Maynard and Mr. H. Loxton, under the presidency of Mr. G. Maynard). Thei r most a rresting exhibit was a large copy of the " Peace" wind ow by Erwin Bossanyi in the C'lthed ral composed of current British postage stamps. This sounds very unprom ising- the-Bible-wrillen·on·a·sixpence-wi tIHhe·left-foot kind of thing- but, in fact, the window's hieratic des ign translated adm irably into what amounts to a cheap form of mosaic: the different tones of colour on, say, a red stamp mimick in g rema rkably well the effect of the various angles at which the tesserae might be set. By luck, o r insight into the possibili ties of this medium, a strik ing object was created : an o rigina l design would have raised it to a work of art. There was a well-balanced collection of more conventiona l exhibits, among which R. H. Browning's mythological paintings, A. W. Dudgen's model of a bunga low and R. G. Box's papier mflche chess·set may, in vidiously, be selected for mention. Marlowe were runners-up. The strength of their effort lay in the great va riety of the mo re mechanical models. A fairl y simple·minded "animal", which was worked by light, required a cons iderably more in genious parent (F. A. Rockley); a nd there were kaleidoscopes, at·one·t ime-worki ng bombing ranges, model harbours and much besides. The pure a rt side was much weaker but N. Livingston's still-tifes were of a high standard ; he was a lso responsible for the very effecti ve ent rance to the "pavilion". On ly shorter notice can be given to the remai ning Houses. Perhaps the best art in the whole exhibition was to be seen among the many paintings by M. J. A. Simpson of Walpole. A se lf-port rait , an African landscape with elephants, and a very painterly st ill-life of a metal tea·pot reflecting a yellow cup demons trated his wide range. The Grange cont ribution was saved from fiasco by a few paintings but principally by the best piece of sculpture in the exhibition : a recl in ing figure in stone by S. C. Farmer and C. F. Graham. Subtlety, o r a lack of technique, produced a very effect ively simpli fied and compact object. Galpin's had H. K. Bray's replicas of medireval glass in the Cathedral, Luxmoore S. D . H. G leeson's paintings (he was also responsible for the good use of the rather difficult a rea allotted to them, and presumably for the symbol suggesting that they were preferred by nine out of ten fi lm-stars), and both Linacre and Meister Omers had a wide variety of respectable exhibits. p,p,
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A CONCERT OF LIGHT MUSIC THURSDAY, JULY 23RD, AT 8 P.M. I N THE GREAT HALL
Sousa's rousi ng March The Stars alld StnjJes for el'e,. makes a splendid openi ng to a light concert, and the King's Schoo l Band , under Joh n Bacon, played this with all the vitality a SOllsa march deserves. The picco lo solo was splendidly played by O. D. M. Parry. The perfo rmances of the Dand were interspersed with those of the G lec Cl ub and Michael Sullivan (piano solo), The Barcaro lle from Tile Tales of Hoffman (OO'cnbach) and Buca lossi's amusing Grasshopper's Dallce were the next Band contribu tions. The latter got away to a fine swing helped by C. B. Seaman on the xy lophone (representing the grasshopper), and the brass sect ion so unded especially fine. The centrepiece of the whole programme was Holsl's Secolld Suite ill F, for Military Band, composed in 1911. Consisting of seve ral movements based on fo lk songs, it is a clever piece of writing, and difficult to perfo rm well. In the opening March, comp ri sing thrce fo lk tunes- a Morris Dance, Swansea Town and Cloudy Ballk . . - the brass were magn ificent, especially the euphoni ums and ho rns in their Swansea TowlI solo, later repeated by the woodwind. The intonation of the woodwind was rather shaky, as it was in the accompaniment of the subsequent SOllg without Words (I'll love my love); the so los were played by G. D. M. Pa rry (flute), D. H. B. Chesshyre (clarinet) and Joseph Dud ley (trumpet). The SOllg 0/ the Blacksmith is a tricky syncopated movement , and at the beginning the Band were not well together; but excitement grew as the blacksmiths in the percussion sect ion clanged their anvil (the Choir School's fire a larm triangle) as if they had been working in a forge all their lives ! The finale of the Su ite, Fantasia 011 the Dargasoll, which also .appea rs in the composer's St. Paul's Suite for Strings, consists of two main themes, which run consecutively. Against a lively theme in two-four played by one section of the band, the other sect ion must play Greellsleeves, which is in three-four time. Unfortunately Greellsleeves seemed to lose her way, and after fumblin g through the undergrowth for a wh ile, a loud shout of HE for Ed red !" from the conductor put her back on the right track, and wit h her companion, she ran fu ll o f vitali ty all the way home! The Glee Club's contribut ions co nsisted of glees, part songs and Negro Spirituals. Come let IISjOill the Rouudelay (William Beale) initiated tbeir first group handsomely, which continued with some beautifu l under-the-breath singing in Schubert's 71,e Spectres Dallce and Edward German's 0 Peace/ul Night. "We whisper thee gladly a joyous farewell" in the Schubert, and the mysticism of the Edward German were pa rticularly impress ive. Songs by Purcell, Mendelssohn and Vaughan Wi lliams were in the nex t group. In the latter, Jolly good Ale (from Sir John ill Love), there was some sp lend id, spirited singing, ably accompanied by W. A. Hodges at the piano. Edgar Samuel was the soloist in th ree Negro Spirituals arranged by Granville Bantock, Were you there? Deep River and Th e Gospel Traill. All were sun g with the expression so necessa ry fo r spi rituals, but they were a little too quiet at times for the acollst ics of the hall. The G lee Club were too quiet also in the impressive song by Armstrong Gibbs, I nfO Exile, but otherwise they gave a fine performance of that and Franz Abt's hilarious Laughing SOllg; had they appeared more "drunken" in the latter, the audience wou ld have been more responsive. Michael Sullivan performed fo ur solo pianoforte works: two Bagatelles by Beethoven, a Paganin i-Liszt Etude and Chopin's First Balfade (in G minor) . The Bagatelles, HiI' Elise and Opus 119, No.3, and the Etude, La Chasse, were played well, though there was a certai n lack of musical feeli ng in a ll three. The Chopin was attempted bravely, but Sullivan was not on top form ; technical slips were abundant and Chopinistic rubatos were only semi-ex isten t. This was Sull ivan's fina l appearance as a King's Scholar at a School Concert: may we therefore wish him all the best for the future. The Band and Glee Club jo ined forces fo r a grand finale, and under the direction of Ed red Wright, gave an unusual, and emot iona l performance of May Brae's Bless this HOllse. There is just one point to be added. The Schoo l will mi ss Mr. John Bacon very much after he has left. He has worked very hard in his two years with the Band (not to ment ion the Orchestra and other societ ies) a nd has produced a Band which King's thinks of with justifiab le pride. Good luck fo r the fut ure, Mr. Bacon ! R.F.L. 722
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THE "FRINGE" PLAYS The " Fringe" presented a triple bill in the garden of the Dormitory Ruins: two one-act plays- Th e Dock Brief by John Mortimer and Mol iere's Sgal/arelle- se parat ed by a Beethoven trio for 'cello, clarinet and piano. This sandwich situation of the trio reduced its status to that of interval music, and it was unfo rtunate that the d iffi culties of performing in the open a ir we re increased by the players being seated below the sight of the majori ty of the audience. Dramatically. however, the trio was a relaxation which did not a llow the aud ience to return 10 the humd rum. and so made easy the entra nce to the cha rmed world o f Mol iere, where old men wou ld like to jump for joy in the street, but arc afra id of appea ri ng ridiculous, young wOlllen fall out of love to spite their beloved, and only shrewd old n urses retain enough common sense to disen tangle the affairs of the ir betters.
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T he performance wns domi nated by J. R. C. Wrigh t, a del ightful SganarcJle who raved, unbu rdened his soul , laughed at it , became heroic and pe rfect ly ridiculous. A. W. Budgen, as hi s wife, ent ranced the audience with fu ll -blooded frust ration and womanly schem ing to set the matter right. The elall with which these two performed, gave a lead to the whole cast and ensu red that the production moved with easy pace and accurate timing. The confidence with which the pluyers moved to be di scovered at the exact moment in the revealing or misleading situation is a tribute to the sk ill of the producer, Mr. R . W. Harris. Tn lesser ro les, Young looked su itably handsome and Titmuss sufficientl y alluring. There was no weak link in the cast, and perhaps the greatest compliment that can be pa id to cast, set and production, is that nothing dist racted fr om the play, rat her that a ll blended to make an evening of excellent theatre.
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In The Dock Brief Rowe and Williams faced a form idable task: only two characters had to hold the audience's attent ion to a play with little movement in which much depends on the lines themselves. Thus good characterisation and complete audibility are the two essent ials for a production of this play. It is therefore a high compliment to say that 1 was able to hea r every word spoken and that both Rowe and Will iams fitted easily into their roles. Will iams was at times too hurried and bird-like in his movements to sugges t full y a broken old man, but in the second scene he achieved real puthos. Rowe made an amiable and avuncular crimina l, but could have added greater var iety to his impersonation s. Apart from the make-up, which was too heavy, the production did all that it could to put over this d ifficult play. J.L.G .
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CRICKET RETROSPECf, 1959 This fine summer term produced pitches which strongly favoured the batsmen, most of whom were sufficiently sk illed and gift ed to take advantage of the ideal cond itions for stroke play and run getting. Even so, it mllst have pleasa ntly surprised the few keen supporters when such large scores as were made were made so qu ickly. It is not possible to imagine more attracti ve and higher quality batt ing than that which the Xl has shown us up to the time of writing these notes. Led by the prol ific scor ing of the captain, R. E. F. Minns, the other bat smen have played their parts exceedingly we ll and have more than lived up to the h igh reputation fo r batting wh ich the xr has now enjoyed for man y seasons. R. E. F. M inns has now established for himself a reputation which cou ld sca rcely be higher and which is wholly j usti fied by his perfo rmances. To a player of his cali bre there are but three cond itions to be sat isfied before he reaches the highest of his ambitions. O ne of these is opportunity, which has already been partly afforded by the inv itation to play for Kent 2nd Xl for the rema inder of the season. The second is fo r him 10 have that little bit of luck which is always so essen tial to a ganl.cs player when he suddenly finds himself in a higher grade. The third condit ion will be entirely up to him. This is tha! he should be able to adjust his mind and put some slight curb on the natural eXlibe ra l~ce of youth and realise that he will not be presented with as many easy runs when he meets more ex peri enced and better bowlers. These points arc mentioned here because they can be made to app ly to any cricketer who is climbing the ladder of school cricket from the Under 14 stage upwards through the various schoolleams to the 1st X L Whilst it is up to the coach to try to encourage a batsman to play within his limitations, and at the same time to extend these limitations, so many boys sti ll persist in fin~ing out for themselves (if indeed they ever do find out) by experience, which can sometimes be very bItter. There is little doubt thal had the batting o f the other members of the 1st X l not been so good R. E.F. Minns would have sco red an even greater number of runs. For exa mple, in the match against K.C.S., Wimbledon the openers and No.3 all made runs and 125 were on the board before the captain went to the wicket. ' He then had to deprive himself of yet another probable century by declari ng when his score was only 87. M. R. Tuohy played several good inn ings and only needs 10 take his expe riences seriously to heart to become an even greater asset to the side. W. E. J. Minns has had a successful season though one st ill feels that he has not made all the big scores of which he is capable. If he had shared some o f D.O. Jones's luck he might have nearly doubl ed his total of runs. Jones, because of his superb fieldin g, wi ll always be a useful member of any side, and as opening batsman he often survived long enough to see the shine off the ball an d so make batting easier fo r the stroke players who fo llowed. C. R . Ba rber showed almost astonishing improvement this season. He played a splendid innings aga inst the Buccaneers when he scored a century against a first~c1ass bowler who has played a great deal of county cricket, and in h is innings at Eastbourne he showed us off~drivi ng at its best. A. C. Russell and D. O. O'Clee we re equally enterprising and both hit the ball very hard. At times Russell's straight d riving constituted a rea l danger to both bowler and u mpire and if he could only develop his playoff the back foot to bring it into line with his front~foot play he wo~ld become a fine player. R. M. K. Carey had few chances, and although he may have fai led to make the most of these he still promises well for anot her season. Because they were so seldom called upon to bat the remaining members of the side were handicapped by lack of practice and ¡experience in the middle and therefore cannot really be commented upon.
Jf the bowling had measured up to the standard of the batting this would indeed have been a magnificent team. Unfortunately too much depended upon the successes of Pritchard , who, although qu ite outstanding as a schoolboy fast bowler, could only bowl at one end and then for only a limited period . He, too, on merit, will play regularly for Kent 2nd X ~ during August. It wou!d be wr~n g to assum~ that the rest of the bowling was bad, but on such good Wickets as have been experienced thiS season no Side can afford to give any batsman one or more lives. This is what really let the side down. J. D. Maciidowie bowled accurately and suffered more bad luck from dropped catches than any other bowler. To be able to move the ball, and so find the edge, on these wickets was, in itself, qu ite an achievement and it was only because schoolboys are nearly always such notoriously poor slip fielders that so many games were left drawn.
Several times a game appeared to be as good as won, but main!y because of missed chances, and partly through a lack of realisat ion of what constit utes attack ing out~cflcket, these advantages were not pressed home. At o ne time H ighgate were 18 for 3- match drawn; M.C.C. were 27 for 5 and declared at 239 for 6; Sevenoaks Vine were 26 for 7 and held on to fi nish at 79 fo r 8, match drawn; Eastbourne were 23 for 4
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and held on to draw the match at 140 for 5. In spitc of these appa rent lapses the general standard of fielding was very high indeed. IT only a good left-arm bowler or a good Icg~spinner had been available! Schoo l cricket at King's is a friendly game, and if the players and the few spectato rs who brave the suns hine on Birley's cnjoy the game, and if cred it is brought to the School by the approach and perfo rmances of those members who represent it, then why should anybody worry abou t the fa ct that only "x" matches werc won and "y" matches were drawn? No school side beat us, or ever looked like doing so, and it has been a sp lendid season for those who were privileged to play in this X I. The memories o f the capt ain's almost comp lete mastery of the art of batt ing, of Pritcha rd's superbly relaxed run up and delivery, of O'Clee's splend id wicket-keeping at a ll times, and of the lone, spi rit , and attitude of the X I will have set a standard extremely d ifficult for future teams to live up to.
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T HE K ING'S SCHOOL, CANTERB URY V ROYAL NAVY C .c.
Played at S1. Stephen's on Saturday, May 23rd Won~by J 38juns Having won the toss, K ing's batted first on a "green ish" but easy~paced wicket. Tuohy soon went, rather unfortunately stumped , but W. Minns and Jones sco red briskly and the fifty came in forty minutes. Both, however, were bowled soon after by Potter (O.K.S.) and the score slumped from 53~ 1 to 60-3. The c.1.ptain then came, together with Barber, and in a n aggressive but sound partnership, they added 61, before the laller was well caught in the slips off a short ball. O'Clee soon followed, caught brilliantly by Dale off a very hard d rive, and lunch was taken with the sco re 133~5 . After the interval Minns and Russell attacked the bowling and added 11 5 without being parted, Minns then declaring at 3 p.m. at 246~5: a fine start to the season's batting, espec ial ly the captain's cen tury, scored with a wide variety of strokcs, and Russell's very confident fifty. Potter a lone, o f the Navy bowlers, showed any host ility but he was inexplica bly given only cleven overs. The Navy started we ll, Calt and Oakley putting on 68 n ms very briskly; however, the former's depart ure started a rapid collapse. Pritchard was the spearhead of our attack and the sp inners of Minns and Jones closed it. The victory was an encouraging start as it was against a fairly strong side, but the bowling, Pritchard apart, lacked accuracy. T H E K INO' S SCHOOL
ROYA L NAVY
D. G. Jones, b Potter. ........... . M. R. Tuohy, st McLean, b Potter ........... . W. E. J . Minns, b Potter. .. ,.......... . R. E. F. Minns, not out.. ........ ...... ,., ... . C. R. Barber, c Bland, b Dale ............. . D. O. O'Clee, c and b Dale........ .. . A. C. Russell, not out.. ..... R. E. T. Clark } R. M . K: Carey did nOt bat G. C. Pntchard J. D . Mac lldowie Extras ............ .
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Played at 5t. Stephen's o n Saturday. 30th May Match Drawn The School's failure to win Ihis malch was the result of an inabilit y to accept hard chances. This emphasises the fact tha I, with limited bowling resources,. a side ~u s t ho ld all its catches if it wants to win . However the batting maintained its excellent fo rm. ~lI1n~ again won, th!! toss and we batted first ,on a beautiful wicket. Though everyone batted well , the 11Ighltghi of the mnmgs was a c h a n~ l css .76 In 55 minutes by the Captain . He showed us a ll the strokes and appeared well on the way to scon ng hIS second success ive hundred when he hooked a long-hop and was well caught o n the bo undary. By lunch 187 fllns had been sco red aga inst steady but inoffensive bowling, though Ho lland had moved the new ball considcrably through the air. The remarkable cons istcncy of the School's batting demo nstrated its strength ; and all the wickets that fell were, in the main , need less sacrifices-cases of " the batsmen gell ing themselves out". Highgate began disastrously, slidin g rapidly to 18-3 by half-past three. However, their captain , Dowlen, and the 15-year-old Attwell retrieved the situation and added 62 runs. Allwe ll especia ll y batted vcry well: some thumping drives and square-cuts oft' Pritchard ~e ing essayed with a mat.urit y.and style beyond .h is years. Too late, Pritchard bowled him and Jo nes, their No, 8. After ou r battlllg display of the morning and early afternoon, the bowling and fieldin g in gener~1 co nt.ra~led sharply, though Pritchar.d. and O'Clee's wicket-keeping in particu lar could be exempted. A d lsappomtln g resul t after such a promising start. HIG HGATE
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D. G. Jones, c Dowlen, b Knott............. ....... M. R. Tuohy, st Dowlen, b McCreath.......... W. E. J. Minns, c Bradburn, b McCreath....... R. E. F. Minns, c McCreat h, b Ho lland........ . C. R. Barber, b Holland. ............ A. C. Russell, not out.............. ................. D. G. O'Clee, not OUt.... ..... .... ............... } R. E. T. Clark R. M. K: Carey did not bat G, e. Pritchard J. D. MacIldowie Ext ras ... .............. ,...........................
M. R. Sherwin, c Russell, b Pritchard......... A. R. Ellis, b Russell .... .... ........................... M. J. S. McCreath, c Tuohy. b Russell... W. A. Attwell, b Pritchard......................... A. D. Dowlen, b Minns, R....... ............ . ..... K. S. Dennis, c O'Clee. b Pritchard.... .... ........ W. D. MacGregor, not oul.. .......... .,............ D . M. J. Saunders, b Jones............. ............ J. A. Holland . not out....................... N. J. Knott } did not bat P. D. Bradburn Extras.... .................................
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Dowlillg
Bowling Knott .. .............. ..... . Holland ............... .. . McCreath ........ , ..... . Saunders ............... . Brad burn ................ .
14 2 0 76 16 19 21 3 6
.. 165
Total (7 wkts.) .. .. ... .
.. 261
Total (5 wklS. dec.) ........ .
o.
,.
M.
o 4 o o
o
R.
48 62 65
49 32
o.
w. I
Pritchard ... ........... , . Russell .................... Maclldowie............ Minns. R .... ........... Jones................... ...
2 2 0 0
M.
R.
21
5
6
4
55 9
6
I 3
12 12
2
w. 3
22
2 0
35 36
I 1
THE KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY V ST. LAWRENCE CoLLEGE, R AMSGATE
Played at Ramsgate on June 2nd Match Drawn The pattern of the gamc followed m u~h t.he same course as the H~g hgate ma!ch: cxce ll~nt batting enabled us to top 240 fo r the third success ive mnlngs and then foll owed mepl bowl.mg a~d failure to hold sharp chances. The bowling here reached a te r~ly low, as also the grou~d fieJd lllg, Illtherto good. T.he only excuse that could be offered was that the Wicket completely lacked life. We balled first for the third con~ secutive innings and from the start " pushed" the score along quickly, despite the fact. that the ball tel,1ded to "stop" off the pitch and the outfield was slow. ~fter JO ~les had departed ea rl ~, plaYlllg loa soon, MI,nns, W., and Tuohy came together and added 7~ runs III 45 nllnu~ es, The forme r hJltmg h~lrd , and somet!mes airily, was bowled after scoring 45 in even lIIne. Tuohy contmued to bat well and busily. though at times
726
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•
TH E
CANTUA RIA N
in difficulty aga inst the leg-spinner Filla ry, who, when he cared to pitch them, spun the ball quite sharply. R. Minns, after an uncertain start- dropped at 6- sta rted to score at his usual prolific though apparently un hurried rate, supported at first by T uohy and then, aft er the latter had st upid ly got himself out, by Barber, who hit the ball very hard, especially off the back-foot. Om batting was a lso aided by dropped catches. some by no means difficu lt; but those who were out, " removed" themse lves rather than "were removed". 168 rllns were scored before lunch and 85 after, the 253 being scored in 170 minutes. St. Lawrence started cautiously though o ur bowling was no mo re than " friendly". Prior, however, looked for nms as soon as he came in , a nd , aided a little by fortunc- a necessity for any batsman- batted very well and aggressively, though dropped at 42, and provided the backbone o f the 51. Lawrence innings. T he o ther batsmen gave him sound support, taking ad vantage of the School bowlers' persistance in bowli ng short of a length- disastrous on such a pitch. Pritchard , when he did pitch them up, genera ll y proved too quick for the St. Lawrence batsmen, who o therwise had plen ty of time to play the ball. The captain. in his second spell , bow led very well but the example went unheeded and runs and time were needlessly thrown away. With slapdas h stopping and throwin g as well as fou r mi ssed chances- a ll admitted ly hard- tile second half of our performance was oot onc to be proud of and St. Lawrence full y earned their draw. ST. L AW RE NCE COLLEGE
THE KINO'S SCHOOL
D. G. Jones, c R ob ins, b Watson......... ......... M. R. Tuohy, c Roe, b Prior........... ............. W. E. 1. Minns, b Fillary................. R. E. F. Minns. c Fillary. b Watson.............. C. R. Barber, not out..... ......................... A. C. Russell , not ou!.. .................... D. G. O'Clee ) R. M. K. Carey I R. E. T. Clark J did not bat O. C. Pritchard J. D. MacIldowie Extras .... ,..... .......... ............ .............
7 66 45 65 44 8
R. R. Dixon , Ibw, b Minns, R .... .. ... C. ) . C. Martin, c Minns, R .• b Pritchard .. D. C. L. Prior, c Clark, b Jones.......... R. S. G. Wood , b Pritcha rd.... ............... E. W. J. Fillary. b Pritchard......................... D . E. Roe, b MacIldowie............ .............. A. R. Beaumont, not out.......... ...... M . R. Wetherill, c a nd b Barber... .......... M. P. M. Watson, b Minns, R.. ....... A. K. W. R obins. not out............. J. S. rrvine, did not bat Extras............
18
o.
M.
R.
13
I
49
4
I I
6 63 64
14 12 II
15
Bo wling
Bowling Watson ............... ",., Wood .. .... ... ..... .... . Prior ...... , ... .......... . Fillary .................... . Irvine.......... .
2 0
. ..... 208
Total (8 wkts.) .....
Total (4 wkts. dec.) ..........•............ 253
10 6 92 3 2 14 48 16
o I
53
o.
w. 2
Pritchard ......... , .. .. , Russell ............... ... . . Mac1 ldowie ... Minns, R ........... .. Minns, W ............. .. Jones ..................... . Tuohy.................... . Barber .......... ......... .
o I
I
o
17 6 8 16 2 5 2 4
M. 4
o
36
I
26 33
5
34 10 36
o o o o
R.
8 9
w.
3
o I 2
o I
o 1
THE K ING'S S CHOOL, CANTERBURY V BUCCANEERS e.C.
Played at St. Stephen's on June 6th Match Drawn In this match the School were lucky to save the game but deserved not to lose, if only because they mainta ined a high standard of fielding under scvere pressu~c. For the fourth time Minns won the toss and elected to ba t. This time, however, the School faced a first-class bowler in G. Smith, a Kent amateur and o nce one of the best fast-medium bowlers in England. He bowled almost unchanged througholl t our innings, which ma kes Barber's hundred all the morc praiseworthy. After a bad start , Jones and Minns, R., took the score to 43 before the latter was Ibw. Barber then joined Jones and a very inte rest ing strugg le took place between these two and Smith, who was bowling very accurately and with constant, subtle variations of flight, pace and direction. Jones, after a vcry patient and vigilant innings was out to his first bad shot at 79- a very fine effort, especially in view of the earlier collapse, and worth a good many more
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• THE CANTUAR IA N
runs than he did gel. Thereafter Barber carried the School's innings virtua lly single- handed- though O'elee batted very weJl- and played with grea t courage, judgement and sk ill , thoro ughly deserving his century. The Buccaneers had over an hour less- un like previous matches when the declarations had been made around 3 o'clock- and on ly j ust failed to do it. The School's fie lding, especially O'C l cc'~ w i ckct-k ec pin~. was good, in spite of the o nslaught, led by Mallinson (O .K.S.-o~e of five), <;'11 the b,?whng. MacIl~owle bowled very steadily, and rarely will Pritchard bowl better :vlt hout gett mg a wicket. A creditable performance by the School since it was struggling much of the time. C.C.
THE KI NG'S SCHOOL
BUCCANEERS
D. G. Jones, c Mallinson, b Woods ....... .... ,.... 19 3 M. R. Tuohy, b Smith............ ....... ............. W. E. 1. Minns, b Smith. .... 2 R. E. F. Minns, lbw, b Smith ....... .. ............ 21 C. R. Barber, not ouL ......... ..... 100 A. C. Russell, c Mallinson, b Smith .............. I D. O. O'Clee, run OUt....................... .. ... ..... 13 R. M. K. Carey, b H erbert........................... 7 G. C. Pritchard, b Smith............... .............. I A. M. D . S. McClelland, not out................. 6 J. D. MacIldowie, d id not bat Extras ........ ,.................................... 10
J. M. Summers, lbw, b Maclldowie...............
50 R. M. M. C. Mallinson,c Darber, b MacI1dow ie 87 G. Smith, c Barber, b Mac lldow ie... ............ 28 M. H erbert, not o ul. .. ............ ...... ........ 11 D. R. V. Woods, not out....... 4 A. Nathan G. W. Moore M. S. Sk inner did not bat J. Armstrong A. P. Newman D. J. Evans Extras............................................... 2
1 J
Total (3 wkts.).............. ...... .•...... 182
Total (8 wkts. dec.).. .. ........ .•. ........ 183
Bowling
Bowling
Smith ........... .......... Armstrong............... Woods .................. Herbert.. ...... .........
o. 31 12 16 9.2
M.
R.
W.
15 1 2 0
42 34 54 43
5 0 1 1
THE
o. Pritchard ....... ......... Russell ............. ...... , McClelland ............. Minns, R. ... ........... MacIldowie .. .... ..... . Barber ....................
15 6 5 4 9 I
M. 2 1 0 0 I 0
R.
w.
64 22 30 15 30 19
0 0 0 0 3 0
KlNO's SCHOOL, CANTERBURY V M.C.C. Played at St. Stephen's on June 11th Lost by 39 runs
The Captain's luck with the toss did not hold and the M.C.9 .. batted first. The wicket was slightly "green" and gave the opening bowlers some help, and great credit IS due to them for the way they made the most of it especially Pritchard, who bowled their opener with the first ball of the match. At times he bowled very f~st and always accurately, o ne ball particu larly beating Bai ramian and all b~t bowling him. Russell, too, bowled with more accuracy though with the same verye a~ usual. Thus wit h the M .C.C. score at 27-5 in 45 minutes the Schoo l were very much o n top. Then Balramlan and Cheesman came together and were not parted till the 200 had been reached. Both started verr ~ncertain l y and with a bit o f.luck ~ he School cou ld easily have had them both out. However, great cred it IS due to them for the way m which they retrieved the situation for their side. TI~eir innings emphasis~d m~ re t~ an ever the School 's need for a bowler to support Pritchard's hostil e o penmg spells: for the third time 111 fOl!r matches he had put l!s on the winning path on ly for the positi on to slip because there was no one hostl!c enough to support hiS first efforts. The Captain used his limited resources most skilfully but to no ava il. The School's batting was dominated a lmost completely by Minns, with va lu a~ l e sup port from Tuohy and Carey. His was a very fine innings, beginning at 14-2 after Jones and W. Mmns had go t out to lazy shots and ending unfortunately at 193-7. Even then, victory was still quite poss ible, but Carey's very unfo;tunate run out after a highly promising innings scaled our fate.
728
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TH E M.C.C. P. G . Wrefo rd, b Pritchard ............. .. A. T. Whitehead, c O'Clee, b Pritchard .... ... .. A. A. Meyer, c Maclldowie, b Russell .......... .. B. H. Lock, b Russell .............................. . R . Bairamian, c McClelland, b Tuohy ......... .. N . E. R. Robson, b Pritchard ........ ........... .. B. E. F . Cheesman, not ouL ..... ................. . C. C. Russell Vick, not out .... ......... .......... . E. Samuel } did not bat C . F. Dobson J. C. RatelilT Extras .... Total (6 wkt,. dec.) ...... .. .
CANTUAR IAN THE KlNG'S SCHOOL
o o
D. G. Jones, b Cheesman............................
11
7
96 1 96 15
13
....... 239
TotaL ...................... .
Bowling
Pritchard ... . Maclldow ie......... ... .. RusselL ............... . Minns, R ............... .. Jones .................... . Tuohy .. .... .. ........... .
M.
R.
18 12
5 I
49
47
o
24 45 29 l2
o 3 o
2 4
...... .... .. 200
Bowling
o. 5 to
4
M. R . Tuohy, b Bairamian............... .......... .. 3J W. E. J. Minns, c D obson, b Cheesman......... 3 R . E. F. Minns, c and b Bairamian .... .......... 121 C. R . Barber, b Ratcliff.... ......... .................. 0 A. C. Russell, st Dobson, b Bairamian......... JI D. O. O'Clee, c Russell Vick, b Bairamian. .. 6 R. M . K . Carey, run oul............. ........... ... . 18 G. C. Pritchard, not out.................. ............ 3 A. M. D. S. McC lelland, lbw, b Ratcliff...... 0 J. D. Maclldowie, c Whitehead, b Ratcliff.... . 0 Extras ...... "... .... ...... .. . ... ... .... .... ... .. .. . 3
w. 3
Cheesman ... ..... . Ratcliff... ............... . Robson ............. ..... . Bairamian .......... .... .
o 2 o o
o.
M.
R.
w.
11
1
28.1 2 15
3
39 93 10
2 3
o 1
44
o 4
1
THE KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTERB URY V K.C.S., W IMBLEDON
Played at SI. Stephen's on June 13th Won by 186 runs Fo r the third school match our batting proved itself vastly superio r to o ur opponents'; a nd the bowling managed to back up the excellen t start to the full. Without doubt this was a very fine all-round performance by the School. Tuohy and Jones set us off to a first-class start and had 105 on the board in even time by lunch. Tuohy especiall y had played very well , scoring all round the wicket. Both were dismissed soon after the interval, however, but then the Minns cousins set about the bowling, adding 109 in 55 minutes; W. gelling himself o ut needless ly whcn well set for his fifty. The Captai n's innings as usual gushed along but wit hout the appearance of any hurry and he declared at 3.30 a t 271 for 3: a notable achievemcnt166 runs being added aft er lunch in 80 minutes- hclped by some poor field ing. Haines fl ighted the ball very well . K.C.S. were soon in serious trouble, their two prolific scorers of the previous year being dismissed by Pri tchard in his first two ovcrs. He bowled very well indeed, mai ntaining speed and accuracy for a long spell. Russell , MacIldowic and the o thers all sup ported him admi rably, Jones fini shing off the inni ngs wi th a superb ca tch off his own bowling. This victory offset to a large extent the disappo in tments of previous matches and considerably raised the morale of the side. T~IE KI NG'S SCHOOL K.C.S., WIMBLEDON D. G. Jones, c and b H aines... .................. 35 J. C. Woiters, b Pritchard......... .. ... . .. .. o M. R. Tuohy, Ibw, b Gilber!................ ......... 83 M. D. Long, b Pritchard ...................... . .... . 13 W. E. J. Minns, c Long, b Haines.................. 47 M. J. Haines, b Pritchard .......... ................ .. 8 R. E. F. Minns, not ouL... .. ... .................... 86 M. R . Hughes, Ibw, b Maclldowie ............... .. 8 C. R. Ba rber, not ouL ............................. 14 R . D. Phil ip, b McClelland ......................... . 5 A. R. Honey, c Barber, b Tuohy................. . 4 A. C. Russell ~ D. G. O'Clee I. M. Arnott, c and b Jones ....................... . 30 C. I. Cullingford, Ibw, b Pritchard .... .......... .. 8 R . M. K. Carey d'd not bat G. C. Pritchard I M. C. Harris, b Pritchard ........................... .. R. O. McKinnon, not out. .. ..... ... , ............ .. A. M . D. S. McClelland o J. D. MacJldowie J. R. Gilbert, c and b Jones ... .. .......... ... . ... .. o Extras. ... ................ ...... . ....... .......... 6 Extras .......... ........ .. ..... .. II
o
J
Total (3 wklS. dec.) ..
.............. 271
TotaL ......... . . .
729
85
THE
CAN T UA RIA N
Buwlillg
Bowlillg G il bcrl.. ..... .... . Cullingford ........ .. . .
I-faines .......... . McKinnon .. .
Harri s... .... .. .
M.
R.
w.
16 3
2
I
25
5
64 18 88
o.
I
17
I
o
4
70 25
Pritchard ... . Russell ........ ......... . Maclldowie ......... . . McClelland .......... . Minns, R ....... .
o 2
o
o
Tuohy................ . Jones ......... ..... .
w.
o.
M.
II.
14
6
19 9 10
o
2
8 8
I
6 14
o
4 6 3 6 2 4.5
o 4 2
o
5 I I
I 2
TH E KINO'S SCHOOL, C ANTERBURY V DOVER COLLEGE
Played at Dover on June 20th Won by 233 runs Ihis overwhel ming victory was earned apparen tly on the performances of two people: the Capta in 's inni ngs of 153 not ou t and Pri tchard's 7 wickets for 33 runs. However, though these did contribute very handsomely towards the result, it was essentially a team effort; the other batsmen and bowlers provided excellent suppon for these two, though the fielding was at times rather casual. (Fo r the sixth time out of sevellthe School wOllt hc lOSS, aft er some very successful demonstrations on how to win it by the captain!) Aoa insl weak bowling and very casllal fielding the score raced along, especially aft er R. Minns came to th~ wicket and lunch was taken at 196-3 (unofficially a School .record , as four runs somehow failed to be added to the sco re). None of the three wickets that had fallen need have done so. W. Minns was batting very well unt il he decided to place a lengt hy long:hop straight into t~e ~ands ~f de~p m i~-w ickct. R. Minns meanwhile was sco ring as he pleased, dominatmg each partnership mvolvmg h'm ; m all he batted 89 minutes to record his third cent ury of the season. The 305 were scored in 21 hours at 6.5 an over- a very fine achievement. The Dover innings, after a preliminary hold-up by their openers, soon became a procession , aided by some incredible running between the wickets. Pritchard bowled very well on a lifeless wicket, supported nobly by Maclldowie.
THE KING 'S SCHOOL
DOVER COLLEGE
D. G. Jones, eKing, b Thompson .... ... .... . 27 M. R. Tuohy, c Wagstaffe, b Kyle ...... . II W. E. J. Minns, c Kyle, b lawee ........... . 64 R. E. F. M inns, not OUL ........................... . 153 C. R. Barber, c Twinbcrrow, b Tho mpson. 18 A. C. R ussell, SI Wagstaffc, b Thompson ...... 19 D. G. O'Clee, not out. .... ..... ............. .. 7 R. M. K. Carey } A. M. D. S. McClel!and d'd t b t G. C. Pritchard I no a J. D. MacIldowie Ext ras ................. . 6
1. R. Beckett, c MacIldowie, b Pritchard ..... 21 C. F. Cope, b MacTldowie............... ... . II F. P. H. Lawce, b Pritchard ........................ . 7 R. P. King, not out .... ............................. . 3 S. K. Wagslaffe, b Pritchard .............. . 7 G. W. M. Hi pkin, run ouL .. ................ .. o J. E. Twinberrow, c O'Clee, b Pritcha rd ..... . o A. J. Widgery, run out.. .......................... .. 2 F. O. Kyte, e Minns. W., b Pritchard"" ....... .. 5 M. J. Thompson, b Pritchard ..................... . o J . A. Brayne, b Pritchard .......... . 4 12 Extras .................. ... .
Total (5 wkts. dec.) .....
Bowling o. Brayne ... . Kyte ....... .. Thompson ..... lawee .. Cope .........
12
TotaL .....
305
72
Bowling M.
K.
I
77 25 107
6
I
12.5
0
II 6
I
55
I
35
w.
o
Pritchard ....... .. ... ... . MacIldowie ......... .. . Russell ............ . .
I 3 I
o 730
M.
R.
13.3 11
2 5
33
w. 7
2
I
2
o
o.
25
I
• TH E
CANTUAR IA N
THE KING'S S C HOOL, CANTERBURY V ETON R AM BLERS
Played at 51. Stephen's on June 27 th lost by 32 luns Another possible win was turned in to a defeat, this t ime the fault lying with the batt ing. Dropped catches enabled the Ramblers tl? reach a total of 143, though the fielding on the whole was good. The bo~lers tho roughly. deserve~ their success as all bowled accurately and with some hostility, though helped a I~ttle by the .wet pitch- ram ~eld up play fo r two hours. No batsman was eve r really comfortable aga inst J>fltchard, while Tuohy and Mmns, R. , spun ~he ball at times, and maintained constant lengt h and direction. Some good ca tches were held, notably two 111 the deep by the Captain. The Ramblers' total was w~rth a 10.t mo re on a firm , dry Birley's and the task before the School was by no n~ean s easy! though cC?rtalOly not Illsuperable. For .once we had to struggle against some very steady bowlmg, especla.lIy by NIckerson, backed by Ihe. consIderabl e speed of Maclean, who, reverting to his old run , after usmg a shorter one, made the ball 11ft very uncomfo rtably. The fact, though , that six of the first seven batsmen I:eached double figures shows they !md played themselves " in" and then "got ou t"; only. Russe ll and .M I!lOS, W., plaY7d at all we ll, espeCiall y the fo rmer who defended very intelligent ly. BattlOg such as KlO g s, howe-vcr, did not deserve success and the R amblers were worthy victors. E TON RAMBLERS
THE KING ' S SCHOOL
J. J. Wagg, c Minns, W. , b Minns, R.......... ... 18 C. E. Winter, b I?ritchard...................... ....... 0 P. D. Hill-Wood, c Dale, b Minns, R .... "....... 32 R. S. Carr, c Mac1ldowie, b Tuohy...... .... ...... 19 R. A. Eckersley, b Minns, R.......... .............. 7 A. J. S. Cassavetti , c O 'Clee, b Prilchard........ 22 J. B. Brooks, c Minns, R., b Tuohy............. ... 26 D. R. Macl ean, c Russell, b Pritchard.... ...... . 5 R. J. G. Shaw, c Dale, b Tuohy......... .... ....... 1 M. J. O. Nickerson, not out................. ......... 3 J. C. D. Berens, e Minns, R., b Tuohy....... .... 6 Extras...... ... ................ .. ................... 4
M. R. Tuohy, Ibw, b MacLean.................... T. 1. Dale, c Eckersley, b Nickerson.. ............. W. E. J. Minns, b Nickerson............ ............ R. E. F. Minns, c Wagg, b N ickerson.... ........ C. R. Barber, Ibw, b Nickerson......... ..... .... .. A. C. Russell, Ibw, b Nickerson................. ... D . G. O'Clee, cHi li-Wood, b Nickerson....... G. C. Pritcha rd, b Hill-Wood. .................. .. R. M. K. Carey, not out.............................. A. M. D. S. McClelland, b Nickerson...... ..... J. D. Macildowie, Ibw, b Hill·Wood............ Extras .. "...........................................
Total... ......................................... 143
Total. ........ . ............ .... .... . ......... .. III
Bowling Pritchard .......... , .... Russell ................... MacIldowie.............. McClelland ............ Minns, R ............... .. Tuohy .....................
o.
14 3 3 4 11 10.2
M. 2
3 0 0 3 I
R.
w.
35 0 20 13 40 31
3 0 0 0 3 4
18 12 13 15 3 13 18 4 0 0 0 15
Bowling MacLean ................. Hil l-Wood ............... Nickerson ..............
o.
13 11 .5 12
M. 2 I 3
R.
w.
30 33 33
I 2
7
v S EVENOAKS VI NE e.c. Played at SI. Stephen's on July 2nd Match Drawn .. On~, more the S.ch~ol had much the be~ter of a drawn game. Batt ing first on a very good wicket, slightly green on top, KlOg s started slowly agalOst some very accurate bowl ing, especially by Smart, who bowled 31 overs and took 5-62 at the age of 50! Jones soon departed but Tuohy and Minns W. batted quielly and sensibly until the former mistimed a hook and was caught. The latter followed soon ~fter out rather unfortunately. just before the Captain. Russell and Barber however restored lhe balance and hoth batted very wel l. Once again Barber came to the rescue with another fine innings- full of authority and great power. THE KI NG'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY
1n .an effort to speed up the scoring after lunch wickets were los t, though O'Clee batted very stylishly for !us 23, and the School declared a.t 204 for 9. Se,venoaks Vine began disastrously and by tea had lost 4 WIckets for 10 runs. The rout contlOued aft er lhe mterval and by 5 o'clock they were 24·7. This highly 731
THE CANTUA RI AN sat isfactory state of affa irs for the Schoo l was the result of some very good fast bowling by Pritchard, backed up well by Russell. However, Francis and Smart then. came t~gc lh c r and stayed ,lhcr,e till 5.45 when Francis was bowlcd- 20 minutes aftcr be ing d ropped at slip. Agam we cou ld not mamta1l1 the fi ne start and Smart and Sagar batted on ti ll 6.30. G reat cred it must be given to Smart for foi ling the School bowlers-chancclcssly- for 1t hrs. aftcr comin g in to an almost impossible situat ion. A word of pra ise must a lso be given to O'Clcc whose wicket-keeping ma intained its now accepted high standard . THB KING'S SCHOOL
SEVENOAKS V INE
D. O. Jones, lbw, b Greenwood ...... ".. 5 M. R. Tuohy, c Parkin, b Greenwood".. ....... 13 W. E. J. Minns, cLang, b Smart.. ............... 12 R. E. F. Minns, c Greenwood, b SmarL.. .. ..... II C. R. Barber, c and b Smart................ 71 A, C, Russell , cLang, b Greenwood .....".... ... 26 D. G. Q'Clee, b Smart... ..... .... 23 R. M. K. Carey, b Sagar.",...... 9 G. C. Pritchard, c Bond, b SmarL................ 12 T. J. Dale, not out. ..... , .... ......... " .. , .......... , 5 J, D. Mac1ldowie, not out"........................ 7 Extras, ......................... , ... , ..... ....... ". 10
N. P. Golds, Ibw, b Russel!......................... 10 J, S. S, Fife, c Tuohy, bPritchard ... "........... 0 R, G. Pyle, Ibw, b RusselL ................. ...... I J. B. Parkin, b Pritchard........ .............. ...... 0 M, H. Bond, b Pritchard .. "...... ............. .. ... 4 J. H, Francis, b Minns, R .. "."""" .. ......... ".. 14 P. Williams, c O'Clee, b Pritchard ...... ,."....... I A. G . p, Lang, b Pritcha rd...... .... ..... 6 K , J. Smart, not out. .. ........... "" ...... "......... 29 J. G. Sagar, not ouL. .. "". " " ... " ...... " ...... ". 8 A. D. Greenwood , did not bat Extras" ... ... ............... ,',."., .......... , .... , 6 Total (8 wkts.)..... ..... ..... ..............
Total (9 wkts. dec.) ...................... 204
Bowling
Bowling
o. Smart" ... "."",,, .. ,, .. , 31 Greenwood ............ 18 Sagar.... " ................ 18 Pyle.......... . ....... ... 3 Golds ............... ....... 3
.
M.
R.
10 2 5 0 0
62 60 39 15 18
w. 5 3
Pritchard ............ , ... Russell .. " ..... " ........ MacIldowie ............ Minns, R" .. " ... " .... Jones ...... "." ........... Tuohy ......... " ." .......
I
0 0
o.
13 9 5 8 4 2
79
M.
R.
w.
4 3 3 4 0 0
33 18 4 8
5 2 0 I
8
0
2
0
THE KI NO'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY V EASTBOURNE COLLEGE
Played at Eastbourne on Saturday, July 4th Match Drawn On a very hot day Minns won the toss for the ninth tim~. Jones and Tu,?hy opened stead ily o n a very good wicket but then both were out unexpectedly at 20 .. M~nns, W., and Mmns, R. , took the seo.re to 61, before the fonner was caught off a vague drive All th is tune runs had been vcry .ha rd to obt~m as t~e Eastbourne bowlers bowled steadily on or outside th~ off-stump to a ~a~ked off-s'de fie ld- Wise taches on such a pitch and so sho rt a boundary. Thwailes p articul arl y was tantal~s l.ng, but fo!tunately our batsmen kept their heads. Minns and Barber- demonstratmg to all. the a.rt of dnvmg-col,1tll1ued to score well at one a minute and occasionally managed to pierce the off-Side with wel1~placed drives, some by the !atter scorching the ground . Once it was seriously thought he had .broken a fielder's !lnklc ! After lunch, In an effort to qu icken the pace wickels were lost- but the runs su ll came ! Both MIn.ns and Ba~~er were out unluckily after two very good innings, but O'Clee batted very competently, agam emphas 1smg the very solid strength of our ta il , ably supported by Russell and .Carey: In an attempted fi nal onslaught Ihe score disintegrated quite needlessly from 216-6 to 22 1-9 at whIch pomt the G1.pta m declared. Eastbourne began badly and were fa irly quickly 10 for.3 and then 23-~, on~ wicket falling to a very good sl ip-catch by Tuohy; victory again appeared to be attalllable, but .~a l !1w~lght and ~urchas stead!ed th.e side and batted very well indeed. Wainwright played a true Captam s m~m gs-sen slbly encouragIng hiS partner, but not neglecting the loose ball as his score shows; demonstratmg to us a powe,rful hook ~nd very elegant drive. However, the facl rcmains he offered an ~asy, chance off Mac lldowlc, wh!> toded splendidly in the heat, when he was 26, which wasn't taken This miss cost us the match; the th.ITd suc,h crror so far th is season. Our bowling was no more than steady, though Russell a tt~cked, and Pn!ch~r~ s injury, because of which he bowled only eight overs at less than full speed, emphasised .OUT att~ck s lImitat ions- lack of hostility main ly. No t a ve ry satisfactory result from the School's pomt of view.
732
THE CAN T UAR IAN THE KI NO'S SCHOOL
EASTBOURNE CoLLEGE
D. G. Jones, b Colbourne....... .................... 8 9 M. R. Tuohy, lbw, b Colbourne................... W. E. J. Minns, c Milligan, b Thwaites.......... 20 R. E. F. Minns, b Thwaites.. ....... .. ...... .. ...... 63 C. R. Barber. b Colbourne......................... 35 A. C. Russell, c Milligan, b Thwaites............. 17 D. G. O'Clee, c Wainwright, b Thwaites........ 41 R. M. K. Carey, b Walter............................ 10 G. C. Pritchard, c Wai nwright, b Thwaites... 2 0 J. T. Da le, not ouL....... .. ...... .. ............ J. D. Ma clldowie, did not bat Extras... .. ....... ..... ....... .......... .. ....... ... 16
B. M. Jay, e Minns, R. , b Pritchard ... .. .... .... I. D. Thwailes, b Russell..... ....................... D. J . Connolly, c Tuohy. b Russell.............. T. D. Wainwright. not ouL.......................... M. C. W. Mil ligan, b RusselL .................... " J. F. Purchas, b Da le................................ M. Waiter, not ouL.......... .. ......... ..... ........ D . B. Garst } P. J, Colbourne d'd tb t I no a J. Jngram J. P. Morris Extras....... ............ .... ...... .
Total (9 wkts. dec.) ........... .â&#x20AC;˘.. ........ 22 1
Colbourne................ Walter .... ............... Thwaites .................. Garst. ........... .......... Mi lligan .. ............ ...
I
I 89 0 27 I
21
Total (5 wkts.) ....... ...... .... ..... â&#x20AC;˘..... . 140
Bowling
o.
0
Bowling M.
R.
18 12 26.5 8
0
I
0
75 20 86 22 2
I
2 I
w. 3
Pritchard .... ... ........ Russell ...... ..... " ....... MacIldowie........... Minns. R. .............. Tuohy ..................... Dale......................
I
5 0 0
THE KINO'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY
v
o.
M.
R.
8 10 15 10 3 3
3 5 6 5
19 32 30 28
I
7
3 0 0 0
2
2
I
w. I
BAND OF BROTHERS
Played at St. Stephen's on Saturday, Ju ly 12th Match Drawn Thc School aga in won the toss and batted on a rain-soaked pilch. The wicket was soft and the outfield slow which were a complete reversa l of the usual conditions this summer. G reat credit is due to bot h open ing batsmen for adapting themselves so ably to them agai nst accurate bowling and a shrewd ly placed field. The sca rcely-veiled comments from some membcrs of the pavilion- including the au thor- were ill-chosen, unwarranted and enti r~ l y unjustified. If o ne of Ihem had gOI out. more wickets very probably would have fallen. More runs might have been scorcd but in such condi tions were very difficult to score, especially against the tight bowling. After lunch, the pitch having dried out considerably. King's set about the bowling, Tuohy soon wen t, at 83, quite stupidly- goaded no doubt by luncheon comments- after a very fine inn ings. Jones doubled his score befo re being caught , wh ich brought the Minns together. These two added 139 in an hour, the majority being scored by the Captain, who reached his fourth century in that time. He batted beautifully, placing the ball, at wi ll , where he wanted, while his partner- a specta lor for l1)uch of the time- scori ng when the opportun ity a rose, involved both in some hair-raising calling and runnmg. The Band of Brothers slarted far more slowly, scoring 16 runs in 50 minutes. Our bowling was ligh t especially Pritchard, though he lacked some of his usua l aggression, and Tuohy, who flight ed the bali very well . The Band of Brothers were held together by Woodhouse-a fine player- who, needless to say was dropped at 20, a reasonable chance to deep mid~off. This mi ss again cost us the match though th~ fie lding gcnerally was good. Catches must be held, espccially in view of wcak bowling resou rces; a good player wi ll only offer one chance! Another poss ible win missed, but the ball ing, especially of the Captain provided us with considcrable compensation. ' 733
TH E CANTUAR IAN THE BAND OF BROTHERS
THE KI NO 'S SCHOOL
l
D. O. Jones, c and b Fletcher. .................... M. R. Tuohy. c Clark, b F letcher................. , W. E. J. Minns, not DUL..................... ........ R. E. F. Minns, not DUl. ... ........ . . ................
34 54 37 101
C. A. R. C. Barber Russell D. G. O'Clee R. M. K. Carey did not bat G. C. Pritchard T. J. Dale J. D . Mac lldowie Extras .................. . ...................... ....
17
Total (2 wkts. dee.)...... .
D. G. Watney, b Tuohy................ .. .. .... .. ..... D. D. S. Comer, b Pritchard.............. .. ......... J. n. O. Moulsdale, c Q'Clee, b Pritchard..... A. J. P. Woodhouse, not DUL....... ................ J. H. Clark, b Minns, R...... ....................... R. H. B. Neame, b Tuohy........................... N . J. S. Fletcher, b Pritchard.......... ............. T. J. Goodwin, not OU1.. ............... "."."..... R. Murray } C. S. Young did not bat R. S. Fletcher Extras................ ....... ....... .....
Bowling o. M.
Bowling M.
R.
W.
Goodwin ............... 19 Woodhouse.............. 7 Watney.................... 6 Fletcher...... ... ......... 25 Murray.................... 10 Comer. .. ... ............. 5
7 4 3 2 3 0
49 20 7 106 24 20
0 0 0 2 0 0
7
Total (6 wkts.)................ .... ........ . 133
.. .......... 243
o.
15 7 10 73 10 10 0 1
Pritchard .... , ........... Russell ............ ....... Maclldowie... ......... Tuohy..................... Minns, R ........ .... : ... Jones .................... ..
15 4 5 11 5 3
R. M . SUTION'S Played at St. Stephen's on Saturday, July 18th Won by 6 wickets
THE K ING'S SCHOOL, CANTEIWURY V
4 3 2 3 0 0
R.
45 5 14 19 22 21
w. 3 0 0 2 1 0
Xl
Sutlon's XI batted firs t on a fast though very firm wicket: one for stroke-players, 'In his second over Pritchard bowled Cad man wit h a very fast ball which uprooted the leg-stump. In his next over he repeated the formu la wi th successive balls, the second, a beau tifu l "yorker", dismissing Heroys, a prolific scoring ClIn bridge Crusader. On these occasions he removed the other two stumps in order. Sutton's Xl were now 13-3. However, Sutton and Oirkin managed to retrieve the situation somewhat, despite the former 's great discomfort against Pri tchard. At 72, though, Tuohy broke the stand, gett ing the fortunate Sutton Ibw fo r 20. Oirkin meanwhile was batting very well, the only batsman to look at a ll comfortable against the very hostile Pritchard. After lunch, a nd Girkin's dismissal, bowled by a very quick ball, res istance co llapsed, despite the effo rts of Smith, who batted well after a shaky start. Between them Pritch ard and MacI1dowie obtained the last 6 wickets, the latter supporti ng Pritchard's great speed with very commendable accuracy. Pritchard bowled very well and very fast and no batsman ever looked at home against him- a very fine performance indeed. With over three hours in which to get the runs, King's began very we I Jones and Tuohy scored fre ely against the quick bowling of Cadman and Heroys. Unfortunately, at 44, Jones was run out through a mi sunderstanding, after an ext remely efficient innings. Tuohy continued unflurried and, despite losing three partners, all of them unnecessaril y- though the last, Barber, was very unluckily bowled-carried us to victory with an undefeated 57. Barber had batted very powerfu lly before his unfort unate dismissal. This was a good win aga inst a strong side, especially for their batt ing, and the whole team must be congratulated, Tuohy and Pritchard particularly. 734
1
1
THE CANTUARTAN R. M. SUTION'S X I K . C. Girkin, b Pritchard........................... J . F. Cadman, b Pritchard....... ................... S. D. Mayes, b Pritchard............... .. ............ N. Heroys, b Pritchard ......... " ....... ......... ".. R. M. Sutton, Ibw, b Tuohy.. .. .................... C. M. Smith , b Macildowie .......................... R . K. Whiley, b Pritchard............. .. ............. J. E. A. Mocatta, c O'Clee, b Pritchard.......... S. A. Lee, b Maciidowie...................... ...... D . E. D. C'\mpbell, not out.. .................... ".. F . J , Thomas, Ibw, b MacIldowie................. Extras..............................................
1'1-1ÂŁ KI NG'S SCHOOL
53 2 4 0 20 32 0 3 0 0 0 12
D. G. Jones, run out.. ............................... 20 M. R. Tuohy, not ou!................................. 57 W. E. J. Minns, c Smith, b Mocalla............... 4 R. E. F. Minns, c Smith, b Girkin................ 12 C. R. Barber, b Mocatta.............................. 26 A. C. Russell, not out........ .. ........... 5 D. G. O'Clec R. M. K. Carey O . C. Pritchard J did not bat T. J. Dale J . D . Maclldowie Extras........ ................... ..... .... .... ....... 3
Total... ............ ............................ 126
Total (4 wkts.) ...... .. ..................... 127
O.
Pritchard .... ........... Barber.. ................. MacTldowie .............. Minns, R .............. .. . Tuohy......... ........... Jones .....................
14 5 10.3 9 4 1
M.
R.
W.
2 2 4 3 0 0
36 5 27 25 11 10
6 0 3 0 1 0
1
Cadman .................. Heroys.................... Girkin .... ............... Thomas ................. Mocatta ................ .. Sutton .... ...............
O.
M.
R.
6 4 10
0 0
I
0 0 0
21 21 40 3 33 6
7 .3
I
w. 0 0 1 0 2 0
THE KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY V KENT CLUB AND GROUND
Played at St. Stephen's on July 23rd Match Drawn Batting fi~st on a beautifu l :-"ick~t, K ing's .began v~ry well. Both Jones and T uohy scored quickly all round the Wicket to record their third succeSSive opemng partnership of over forty. At 48 however Jones was caught at the wicket. Minns, W. , and Tuohy then contin ued the good work before' the forro'er was ~au.ght at 91. Soon after, Tuohy r~ached his l~ird consecutive fifty, thoroughly earning his success in an mnmgs of so un~ defe n~ and senSible .aggresslon. By l u~c h the score was 118-3, scored against steady though not hostile bowling. After the mterval, runs contillued to come quickly and by three o'clock the score had reached 195. for the further loss of the Captai.n and O'Clee; the former being out rather unfort';1~at e l y. A~ 1hat lime ~arber was run out very stup idly after a first-rate innings, despite his partner recelvmg warnmg the pre.vlOus ~al l. Thereafter the rate d ropped considerably and at 3.40 the inn ings was declared rather unsal1 s~actonly at 208 for Ho~ever. Po tt ~r had bowled very well, especially after I unch and to have to face him, as Barrett did, with hiS ta ll up" Ifl one's first innings and survive for half an hour was no mean feat. Pritchard soon bowled Chivers and would have had Prodger on several occasions with a little extra luck th? batsman playing and missing quite often. His opening spell w<,lS very hostile and throughout he main~ t a ~n ed speed a n~ accuracy. The Club and Ground made a splendId effort to make the runs and on ly just fatle~ to do so III over an hou~ under the School'~ total ti",!c for their innings. Prodger was mainly responSible, ably supported by Dixon, who batted wllh matunty and ease. The former, after an uncertain sta rt and tYlo or three chances, one whe.n he was two, batted audaciously but with style, and thoroughly deserved hiS century, Bar~elt-a Colt- m a sho rt spell, bowled very well and showed that he might have b~en ~ great asset to the Side this year had he been chosen and wi ll be in years to come: his length and direction were almost fau ltles.s. All he has to learn arc the more intricate subtlet ies of flight and spin to become a very good bowler mdced; and these shou ld come easily as he uses his head intelligently and docs not fa lter against pressure.
.?' .
735
¢
THE CA NTUARIAN KENT CLUB AND GROUND
THE KING'S SCHOOL
17
J. Prodger, 51 O'Clee, b Banett.. .. ... .............. 109 B. Chivers, b Pritchard, .. ,........ ... . ,............ ... 6 D . Constant, c Barber, b Pritchard...... ........... 22 8 T. J. Goodwin, b Pritchard ................ ,......... A. Dixon, not out..................................... 36 P. Shirley, b Pritchard ..................... ... ....... 6 S. Knight, not out.. .... ... , .. ,.... ........ 8 D. G. Urton } I. C. Pot! er did n t bal A. Vaughan 0 , A. Burnap Extras ... .. .... ....... , ....................... ,...... 12
Total (9 wkts. dec.) ....................... 208
Total (5 wkts.) .... ......... ............... 207
D. O. Jones, c Chivers, b Patter................... M, R. Tuohy. b Potter.................... ... ........ W. E. J. Minns, c Ufton, b Potter............... ... R. E. F. Minns, Ibw, b POltcr..................... C. R. Barber, run out. ................................ D. G. O'Clee, b Polter......... ..... .................. R. M. K. Carey. b Potter..... , ...."................. J. S. Barrett, b Potter.................................. T. J. Dale. not OUt.......................... .......... G. C. Pritchard, b Vaughan"".................... J. D. MacIldowie, did not bat
Extras..................................... .. .......
Bowlmg
Bowling
o.
Burnap ................. , 12 Goodwin"." .......... 9 Potter........ , .... , ..... , 21 Dixon..................... 17 Knigh!.. .... ............ 4 Vaughan ................. , 1.5
21 59 12 22 50 6 9 4 4 4
M. 6 2 8
4 0 0
R.
w.
25 36 51 51 21 7
0 0 7 0 0
Pritchard ...... .... ,.". , Barber.................. ,. MacIldowie .. .. ,., .. , .. Minns. R ............... Barrett .......... , ........
o.
16 2 15 3
4
M. 3 0 2 0 0
R.
67 12 69 22 25
w. 4 0 0 0 1
I
THE KINO'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v O.K.S,
Played at St. Stephen's on July 25th Match Drawn The O.K.S brought down a strong side but the School should still have won easily. Only some appa lling lapses in the field let them down. Despite the absence of the Captain, away playing for Kent, the side was not perturbed, Jones and Tuohy again set tne School off well against the accuracy and swing of Cowan and the speed of Trice. The former in particular had both batsmen in trouble until he had Jones caught at 23, Soon after Minns was very unluck ily run o ut. However, Barber and Tuohy retrieved the situation until at 77 Tuohy needlessly threw his wicket away when about to complete another 50. A collapse ensuedO'Clec, Russell and Carey fell quickly-all to Cowan and from 77 for 2 the score slid to 88 for 6. Clark then joined Barber and the two carried the score to 121 for 6 by lunch. After lunch, Barber cont inued his excellent innings, supported very sensibly by Clark, who rightly left the scoring to his more experienced and powerful partner. Minns declared at 218-6 after Barber had completed his second century of the ~easo n : a really excellent effort, showing determination, concentration and relaxed power. The O.K.S. were given the identical time to score the runs that the Club and G rou nd had had and in fact received two overs more. They declined the attempt although Herbert batted very aggressively, especially at the end. Of the School bowlers, MacIldowie bowled steadi ly and Barrett again made a very favourab le impression, nighting his left-arm slows very accurately-a very fine spell of bowling indeed, With some slight co-operation from certain of the fielders he could easily have gained six or seven wickets: of the 64 runs hit off him at least 25 represented missed chances or misfields. No batsman hit him at all firmly without hitting him in the air. Pritchard lacked his usual fire though he bowled accurately (this staleness was not surprising cons idering it was his fifth full day's cricket in the wcek). However, Russell, Jones and Tuohy all held good catches to illumine an otherwise dark day for the School's fielding, especially Minns! Because of the dropped catches- Cowan was missed three times and Herbert at least five- the School did not deserve to win. This set the seal on a season not dist inguished for it s results, but mainly for the excellence of its batting and Pritchard's bowling. 736
¢
THE CANTUAR IA N THE KINO'S SCHOOL
O.K.S. M. Mallinson, b MaclJdowie .. ,................ ..... S. J. La ine, c Russell, b Pritchard ................ M. Cowan, b Barrett ................... .. ... "........ C. W. Yates, c Tuohy, b BarretL................ M. E. W. Vincent, c Jones, b BarretL.......... R. C. Richardson, c O'Clee, b Pritchard........ M. J. Herbert, not out............................... R. M. Sutton, not out............................... D. J. Evans } M, J . Price Did not bat J. C. Trice Ext ras......................... ... ...................
D. G, Jo nes, c Sullon, b Cowan......... .. ........ II M. R. Tuohy, c Mallinson, b Herbert........... 45 W. E. J. Minns, run out.. ... ,......................... 2 C. R . Barber, not OUt.. .................... .. ........ 11 2 D. G, O'Clec, Jbw Cowan.. ......................... 7 A. C. Russell, c Laine, b Cowa n.................. 0 R. M. K. Carey, c Price, b Cowan.......... ...... 9 R. E. T, Clark, not out...................... 31 G. C. Pritchard } J. S. Barrett Did not bat J. D, Maclldowie Extras., ............... , ......... , .,............... 10 Total (6 wkts. dec.) .................... . 218 O.
M.
R.
w.
3 6 5 0 0
38 86 53
4 I
o o
13
o
18
BATTING AVERAGES IIII/ings Not Out
R. E. F. Minns......... ... ............... C. R. Barber............... ,................ M. R. Tuohy ... ... ....... ,...... ............ A. C. Russell .......................... ,. .... W. E. J. Minns.......... ................. D. G. O'Clee... ............................ D. G . Jones. ......... .............. .......
13 13 14 II 14
4 4 1 4 1 2 0
10 13 " Denotes Not Out
Highest Score 153'
Runs 853
112" 83 51' 67 41 35
544 488 189 314 144 225
Average 94.7 60.4 37.6 27.0 24.2 18.0 17.3
Also batted: R M. K, Carey 7, 18,0 n.o., 9,10,9,0, G. C. Pritchard I, 3 n.O., 4, 12,2,4. J. D. MaclJdowie 0,0, 7 n,o. A. M. D. S. McClelland 6 n.o., 0, O. T. J. Dale 12, 5 n.o., 0 n.O., 4 n.O. R. E. T. Clark 31 n.o. J . S. Barrett 4.
BOWLiNG AVERAGES Overs
G. C. Pritchard ........................... .. 207.3 M. R. Tuohy.. ...................•.......... 40.2 A. C. RusseU..................... , ......... . 60 D. G, Jones.................. , .... .. ..... . 34.2 R. E. F. Minns .... ...... .... ..... ...... .. 96 J. D. MacIldowic .................. .. ..... . 123.3
Maidens 52 6 20
3 28
34
RUlls 567
131 170 159 288 371
Wickets Average 49 11.6 9 14.6 9 19.3 6 26.5 32.0 9 II 33.7
Also bowled:
J. S. Barrett ..... .... ........... .......... ,
6
Total (6 wkts. dec.) ........................ 165
Bowling
Trice........................ 13 Cowan..................... 25 Herbert.. ................... 22 yates ............... , ..... , 3 Price ......... ............. , 6
II 0 37 6 26 9 65 5
16 737
89
4
22.25
THE
CANTUAR IA N
THE 2ND XI After two ext remely successful seasons the record of the 2nd XI does not rcad to such advantage this year, with 3 matches won, 2 drawn and 2 lost. The reason for thi s can be traced to a slackening of the out-cricket rather than a fa ilure of the batting, which has usuall y been adequate, and though Go rdon has captained the side with keenness and an increasing understanding of the game, the fielding only seldom showed the deglee of li fe and aggression necessary to make the attack a winning combination. Hoile has kept wicket well, his leg-side Slopping saving many runs, and several of the others have improved noticeably throughout the season ; yet too many catches have been put down to make victory certain. Of the bat smen Gordon and C lark played soundly and consistently, a lways ready to hammer the loose ball and to dictat~ to the bowlers: Lindley, Anderson , Rudgard and Ractliff a ll played useful innings at times, while the power of Baxter's hitting in the midd le of the order and the sound rearguard act ions of Tatchell were of great value. The bowlers were slow to develop consistency of direct ion and lengt h, consequently vitiating in the early stages altempts to set a helpful fie ld , though the inclusion of Clark tightened the attack and made it look much morc fo rmidablc. Pattrick has been the best and steadiest bowler, and is a good prospect while the off-spin of Dale and C lark was accurate and cou ld be relied on to make the most of any helpfui wickets. Baxter was fast, but too often inaccurate. McClelland, a brilliant but inconsistent spinner, took some useful wickets when not req ui red by the 1st XI. The first match, against R.M .S, Dover, was played under stress of a strong wind from the side which ruined the length of the bowlers of both sides, so that a lthough we faced a big total there was never any danger of defeat and always a hope of victory, and the SL Lawrence match, alt hough played under more normal conditions, followed a si milar course. Sutton Valence could not raise a side to meet us; against Dover G.S. we met a very good pace bowler who won the match in the last over by taking his eighth wicket. Dover College never recovered from a fine opening partnership "by Gordon and Lindley; after our declaration they crumpled against the accurate bowling of Pattrick and Clark. This comfortable victory bred over-confidence against Chatham House, when we chose to bat on a rain-affected wicket and collapsed, only Tatchell and Rudgard putting up any real resistance against two accurate swing bowlers and excellent fielding. They passed our total more or less as they pleased for the loss of three wickets. Against Eastbourne, from a score of 4 for 3 wickets, we recovered to 158 all out, thanks to Baxter's 52 in 14 minutes (including two mighty sixes) and good innings by Ractliff, Clark and Anderson, With Pattrick, Baxter and Clark bowling well, they never looked like getting the runs in the It hours left, but they made a very sporting effort to do so, and after some bold hitting by the later batsmen, there was a most exciting finish in which we won by 23 runs with five minutes to spare. RESULTS R.M.S. Dover, 139 for 4 dec. KS.C., 112 for 7 (Rudgard 27) St. Lawrence, 155 KS.C., 100 for 8 (Anderson 26) Dover G .S., 114 KS.C., 87 (Baxter 31) KS.C., 154 for 6 dec. (Gordon 52, Lindley 35) Dover College, 73 K.S.C., 71 Chatham House G .S., 74 for 3 K.S.C., 158 (Baxter 52, Ractliff 35 not out) Eastboume, 135 K.S.C., 172 for 3 (Gordon 37, Baxter 59, Lindley 50) Sir Roger Manwood's School, 41
738
G.P.R. D.W.B.
THE
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THE 3RD XI Though the resu lts have not been as good as last yea r, the standard of field ing, bowling and batting has been as high and the play has been enjoyable. or the batsmen, Parsons and Lindley were consistent , earning themselves promol ion to the 2nd XI and Stewa rt, La ngridge and Tayler all made runs. As might be expected, the tail end batt ing was bucolic but entertaining. Mention should be made of the opening stand of 100 runs by Stewa rt and Langridge agai nst Kent College. The bowl ing has been adeq uate on the whole and on occas ions, devastating. Hawt horn bowled well but o rten wit hout luck tho ugh he did hold the attack together. Heath and Davies shared the fast bowl ing wit h him wh ile the slow stuff was presented by Wright , Whcwell and Stewart, with varying success. Wright captained the side very efficiently and to him must go the credit for the excellent improvement in the side's fieldi ng. He has fostered the happy spirit of the side in its many practice games as well as its matches, through victory and defeat. We have had a fair share of each, win ning once (v D over G.S.), los ing o nce (v Chatham House) and drawing twice (v R.M.S. Dover and Kent College). RESULTS K.S.C., 121 for 8 (Parsons 44, Tayler 30) R.M.S., 70 for 6 (Hawthorn 3 for 18, Heath 3 for 21) Dover G.S. , 67 (Wright 3 for 7) K.S.C. , 69 fo r 3 (Parsons 23 not out, Lind ley 19) Kent College 201 for 9 (Davies 6 for 19) KS.C. , 140 for 5 (Stewart 61, Langridge 44) Chatham House, 121 (Hawthorn 3 fo r 25) K.S.C.,61
COLTS XI Won 5, Lost 2, Drawn I The Colts XI has had no outstanding player this season, with the exceptio n of Barrett as a bowler. It has had to playas a team, and this it has done well , under the sensible captaincy of Stringer. Apart from occas io nal lapses, the fielding has been lively and aggressive, a nd in the East bourne match it was exceptional. The bowling has been well managed by Stringer, and the openin g bowlers, Willi ams, Swete and Radcliffe, have usua lly secured one or two quick wickets. The bowling strength has lai n in Barrett, who has bowled consistently well, having himself removed half the other side in th ree matches. Stringer has supported him effectively at the other end. The weakness of the side has been its batting. The opening pair, Morpurgo and Ractliff, have often provided a good start bu t the middle batting has been consistently bad. Late in the season , Swete has batted well with a 45 n.O. and a 35 n,O., but the batsmen have not really given the bowlers a fair chance to win the malches. RESULTS At Home: K.S.C. 39-0; Kent College 38. Wo n At SI. Lawrence: K.S.C. 109; St. Lawrence 139-9. Lost At Home: K .S.C. 86; K. C.S., Wimbledon, 88-7. Lost At Home: K .S.C. 73-7; Tonbridge 138-8. Drawn At Eastbourne : K .S.C. 152-7; Eastbourne 97. Won. At Kent College: K.S.c. 81-4; Kent College 79. Won At Home: K.S.C. 128-7; St. Lawrence 125. Wo n. 739
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JUNIOR COLTS XI The Junior Colts th is season have shown themselves 10 be one of the most prom isi ng sides we have had for several years. With seven malches played to dale, 6 having been won and 3 drawn, there should be a fair chance of remaining undefeated in the two matches still to be played. The team is full of talent and has done well in all departments of the game. The attack has been va ried. Selby. with hi s consistent, accurate fast bowling, has had the m~s t s ucccss~ while !hc medium spin bowling of Dousl and Kain has been responsible for a fair share of the Wickets. Mmns, Ridley and Clark have also bowled well.
1n the batting the latter half of the tcam have had little chance to prove themselves, a lthough against Chatham House: Clark and Tester showed in no mean fashion that they could make th~ runs when called upon to do so, Selby, Munns, Dous!, Fryer and Ridley have ~ll ,been succe~sflll , whi le, Press, alt hough dogged by bad luck in the early part of the season, ma~e a bnlhant ~7 agaillst .Tonbndge, when , .a~ l y supported by Fryer and Ridley about 90 runs were put on In under 45 mmutes to give us the most exclllll g win of the season, in the last over of the game, Fryer has kept wicket admirably and the fielding has been good. Press ~as s~ t an exce!lent example in the field and the success of the side has been due in no small measure to hiS skilful captaincy. The team has usually bcen: Press, Doust, Munns, Selby, Fryer, Kain, R idley, Cla rk, S. G., Newell , Somerville, Tester. Paris and Squier have also played. RESULTS v R,M,S. Dover, Won by 9 wkts. (Doust 6 for 12; Munns 20 n.o., Selby 16 n,o.). v Sutton Valence. Won by 10 wkts. (Kain 3 for 2, Munns 3 for 7). v St. Lawrence, Ramsgate . Won by 7 wkts. (Selby 5 for 17, Kain 4 for 12). v Tonbridge. Won. Tonbridge 1 5 2~5; K .S.C. 153~4 (Munns 41 , Selby 3S, Press 37). v Dover College. Won by 7 wkts. (Selby 4 for 17, Munns 4 for 3). v Chatham House. Draw. K.S.C. IS7 (Doust 32, Tester 39, Clark 3S); Chatham House 70 for 9 (Selby 3 for 21). v Eastbourne College. Draw. Eastbourne 132~5; K.S.C. 75 for 6 (Fryer 34 n.o., Rid ley 26). v Kent College. Won by 7 wkts. Kent College 40 ; K.S.C. 41~3. v Sir Roger Manwood's, Draw. K .S.C. t4S~8 dec.; Sir Roger Manwood's SO¡S.
UNDER FOURTEENS The eleven has enjoyed three wins, suffered three losses and bec~ fo~ced to be con.tent with one draw. The team has played well together and the consistency of the battmg Improved durmg the season. The batting of Barker was commendable for its high scoring-rate, it not fo r complete safet y: and Ma s t e rt on~ Smith proved a dangerously effective fast bowler. The team has been: McClure (Captain), Campbell, Barker, S. S" Masterto n-Smith, Davies, C. R., Rowland, Collier, Cundy, Nixon , Low, Hall. RESULTS 1.K.S.,58, K.S.C., 61 for 7; R.M.S. Dover, 135, K.S.C, 128; Sutton Valence, 4 1, K.S.C., 135 for 3; St. Lawrence, 31, K.S.C., 79; Chatham House, 105 for 5, K.S.C., 68; Dover, 31 for 9, K.S.C., 120 for 5; St. Lawrence, 55 for 3, K.S.C., 54.
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THE BOAT CLUB FIRST EIGHT The 1st VIII began its summer train ing at Ca mbridge in the last week of the Easter holidays, where they were once again fortunate in being able to use the fi ne Jesus College boatho use. In addition to plent y of tubbing, about sixty miles of paddling at low ra tin gs were covered, including two ten mile outings to Clayhythe. Back a t Pluck's Gutler, the crew made slow progress and there were various changes needed before thc fin al order was settled, We were unfo rtunate a t this stage to lose the services of J. R. A. Bird, whose troublesome injury kept him out for most of the season. A useful stimul us was provided on May 23rd by the visit of London R.C., who brought their Henley Grand VIII for a joint outing and race. Pluck's Gutter was unluckily in one of its unkindest moods wilh a howling cross-wind and rough waleI'. After some padd ling together a race over three-quarters of a mile was rowed, which the London crew won by two seconds. Despite the difficult conditions, both crews enjoyed the visit, though the Lond on coach was added to the now long li st of strong men who have been broken by the Pluck's Gutter "towpath." The out ing proved to be just what was needed to give the School VIII confidence and in the week before Twickenham they made good progress.
TWICKENHAM REGATTA On May 30th, the VlIl entered for the Junior/Senior VIII 's at Twickenham Regatta and registered a convincing win. However, the day nearly ended in to tal disaster in the first heat against Molesey B.c. ; soon after the start, when both boats were at their top speed, a small launch cut without warning across the bows of the crews. A collision proved unavoidable, as a result of which bow was jettisoned from the boat at top speed, damaging his side in so doi ng. Fortunately, no structural damage was done to the eight and bow, though rather shaken, was unhurt , and after some temporary repairs both crews returned to the start. In the re-row the School got away to a fast start and won by 2t lengths. After disposing of Thames R ,C. by a length in the semi-final, they met St. Paul's in the final. This was a good race, in which the School, starting half a length down because of the staggered start, had their bows in front by half-way and went on to win by three-quarters of a length, This is the first time the School has defeatcd SI. Paul's on the river and, despite the unfortunate accident, it was a most encouraging day.
WALTON REGATTA In order to ga in harder racing experience, the VIII was entered for the Thames Cup event at Wa lto n, on June 5th. By an odd coincidence we drew the same London R.C. Vlll which had vis ited Pluck's Gutter a fortnight previ ously. The strong head-wind conditions were not in our favour a nd moreover seven was slightly indisposed. In the first minute London with the bend in their fa vour gained three-quarters of a length lead, but were unable to row clear. From the half-way mark onwards the Schoo l crept up steadily and though they could not quite get on terms again , Londo n's lead in an exciti ng fin ish was only a few feel. Apart from the rather slow sta rt this was a good row by the School and served to confirm the previous week's impression that this crew, though light, had real racing abil ity.
HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA The crew worked very hard in the follo wing three weeks and rowed o r paddled over the measured Henley distance at least once every outing. The main faults still present at this stage were a slight lack of " toget herness" on bow-side and a tendency to hurry a t high ratings. But the bladework was firm and solid and at times the boat ran very well. There was a record entry of 22 crews fo r the Princess Eli zabeth Cup th is year, which meant that 12 had to row in the Saturday morning eliminat ing races, to reduce the number to 16 for the regatta proper. We were selected to row SI. George's College, WC) bridge. The School made a very fast start and were clear by the quarter mile signal; they were able 10 reduce pressure after the Darrier and won comfortably by four lengt hs. In the draw for the regatta proper the Schoo l drew Ound le School in the first round.
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THE CANTUARIAN Between Saturday and Tuesday. the VIII, made grea,t str ides al~d h<l:d valuable, and most enjoyable
outings with Thames, London, Jesus (Ounbndgc) and ISIS. T~ey ~allled I mmcn~c.ly 111 confidence and the boat can faster and further every outing. On Tuesday mO~f!lIlg 10 go,?d condit ions, th,ey rowed to the
Barrier inside two minutes and we looked forward to an excltmg race wuh Oundlc. But II was not to be; the same afternoon, six was in bed with a termpcrature of 102, was pronounced unfit to row by the doctor, and that was that. W ith the best will in the world no VIIl can afford to lose the largest and strongest
member of the crew 24 hours before a race and hope to go as fast. Thus on Wednesday afternoon in a strong head-wind the VI I( could not for more than a minute hold the powerfu l Oundle crew, who rowed away steadily to win by 2l lengths in the good time for the c~mditjons of.1 ~nin. 32 sees. Thi s \~as a ll very disappointing, most of all for Fielding himself; at the same time, all cr~dlt IS .due to R. D. B. Hind ley who as substitute had a most difficult task, but who rowed hard and acqUitted himself well. Ou ndle went on to reach the final , where they 10SllO the ho lders, St. Edward's Oxford , by a canvas. O.K.S. oa rsmen were agai n promi nent at Henley. this year a nd six w~re st ill in the racing on finals dar; P. 1. Allen rowed bow in the Jesus College crew which reached the semi-final of the Thames Cup and Colin Porter was in the fi nal of the Gob lets. Perhaps most creditable of all was the complete O.K.S I V- A. A. Elworthy, W. D. Southgate, D. H. K ing and M. E. Billnghurst- who, representing London R.C., reached the semi-final of the Wyfold Fours. This year's VHI are to be congralU lated on their enthusiasm and determinat io!l. ~rom the earl.jest d<l:Ys of the Lent Term right to the final blow at H enley, they had far ll1:0 re than th.el.r fatr sharc of dlfficult.lcs and troubles, in particular bei ng unable to get cle.:'lr of the bogy of Illness and 1O.J.ury. Yet each successive trouble only served to increase their determination; throughout the term they trained and raced extremely hard, and improved out of all recognition by the lime they re~ched their peak at Henley.. M~ch .of the credit for this is due to S. C. Farmer, who as stroke and captam, was a consta nt source of IIlSpl ratJ?n by his quiet leadership and unfailing good-humour. They were a crew who deserved better fortune and It has been a most reward ing and gratifying experience to coach them.
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SECOND EIGHT The initial stages of training were spent in re-arranging the composition of the crew and consolidating the standard reached by last term's Head of .the River race. The cr?w soon settled down .and were capable of coping with long stretches of fi rm paddling at a con.trolled ratmg; the boat n~n qUIte well, althou~h the blade entry and sl roke were rather sluggish. Dunn~ the ne~t week or so,. It became apparent. m endeavouring to speed up their blade-work that controll mg the slides, bot h comtng forward and durmg the stroke, was going to be the crew's great~s.t handicap. Conseqyent ly by the end of the month they were still being held back in order to overcome th iS; the accent was on a hard and covered stroke, rather than a high raling. In the School Eights event at Twickenham Regatta at the end .of May, I~e crew ~ad an easy race in the first round , beati ng a St. Paul 's crew by 2+ lengths. The semi-final agalllst Ealmg. Grammar 1st VIII provided a hard race, King's taking a canvas lead over the first half of the course, which they manag~d to hold to the fin ish. The final against Haberdashers' Aske's 1st VIII prov ided anothcl close race. KlIlg's, iosing a few feet at the start, were never quite able to draw level, and over the last part of the course, Haberdashers' drew ahead to win by half a length. In all three races the crew rowed well for the fir~t two minutes aftel which the blade-work and timing tended to become rather ragged. There was ample eVidence of racing spirit in the crew, as shown by the fact that both the School and Junior/Senior events were won in the same time. The week between Twickenham and Walton Regattas was spent in an attempt to improve the blade-work and cohesion of the crew. This met with on ly limited success before Walton, but became much better the fo llowing week. At Walton Regalia, the crew were unfortunately dr~wn a~ainst Tiffin 1st ,v III in ~he ~ch?ol event and although beaten by 2l lengths (the smallest margin by whIch Tlffm won a ll the ir. races III w1l1nmg th is even!), they maintained their fo rm th roughput the race. Haberdashers' Aske's and T lffm both en tered for the Princess Elizabeth Cup at Hen ley later III the year. 742
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MARLOW REGATTA During the final week before Marlow ,Regatta, shorter stretches 01 hard paddling and rowing were att 7mpted, and towards the end of thIS peflod the crew were capable of a hard fast start, sett ling to a good stnde and rhythm for the rest of the row. The crew had a very unsett led outing at Marlow on the Thursday evening, but in marked contrast the Friday morning outing with Hereford Cathedra l School made a considerable improvement in the crew, putting a keener edge to their rowing. Tn the first race of the Public Schools' Challenge Vase on Friday evening against Westminster and Beaumont, King's and Westminster were level after the first minute. King's then sett led down and rowed st~adi l y away to win by 2ilengths from Westmi nster. The semi-final against Radley proved a good race. Kmg's were a quarter to haif a length down after the first minute and this they held until the last few hundred yards, when coming rou~d the outside of the fina l bend in to the head wind , they go t rather short and Rad ley pulled away to Will by 1~ lengths. Of the three fina lists, Rad ley were second to Eton indicating ' that this year's crew were probably one of the six fastest in this event. Once again wh ile at Marlow, we were very gra tefu l to Mrs. Whalley who placed her ga rden at our disposal during the regatta. The crew this year never achieved a high leve l of technical skill ; but all tried to row as a crew and raced hard, and consequently all the regattas this year were most enjoyable.
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THIRD EIGHT Th is year's crew was strictly speaking, an extra Colts' VIIJ, that i5 to say that all its members had at least another full r~wing se~s.on at sch~o l ahead of them after .this year. The aim therefore, was to concentrate on producmg promlsmg matenal and plenty of emphaSIS was laid on a full programme of tubbing in the Easter term and on mastering the essentials of blade-wo rk and boat-control. Tn the summer term the crew came on rather slowly at fi rst and although it showed plenty of power, it was on l)' with the approach of races that it acquired flexibility and-drive and so a higher racing st ride. At. Richmond on June 2nd, the 3rd VIll had a sat isfactory win of a length and a ha lf against a correspondmg U.~.S. VlfI. After a sluggish start, K ing's settled into a good rhythm and rowed steadily to IIlcrease their lead gradually over the whole course. Cox shou ld be part icularly commended for his welljudged course on a strange river. This pleasant fixture was a most usefu l preparation for Pangbourne Scho?ls Regatta on J une 18th. The day before, however, the crew had to be rearranged to provide a subslttute, so that reluctantly wo parted with Vill iers, but were ext remely lucky to be able to ca ll upon the powerfu l serv ices of J. R . A. Bird. It says much for his loya lty to the Boat Club that he was will ing to. row at such short notice and aft er a frustrat ing and injury-dogged season of his own. W ithout him, neither crew could have been as successful as it was. T he first heat was against Clifton II and was won comfortably by some th ree lengths in 3 min. 36 secs. In the semi -fina l against the ultimate winners, Shrewsbury, the School raced hard and produced their best rowing los ing by a length to a very good 3rd VII I. The Shrewsbury time of 3 min. 28 sees., suggested that we were 'among the fastest crews at Pang bourne. The crew was keen and hard-work ing and can look forward to good row ing and racing next year.
R.D.H.R.
COLTS' EIGHT The Colts' ~ II I was the younger of t1~e. two crews eligible to row as coits, but in sp ite of their youth, the crew contamed some large and promlStng oarsmen. in the Lent term those that avoided the epidemic were put through a long course of tubbing, some of it done on fixed seats. Towards the end of term the eight went out regu larly and soon settled down together. ...Th ~ !rainin~ in the summer term emphasis.ed fitness, obtained by long padd les and the crew never padd led 1.lght . Dunng the. st roke, length and .swmg were stressed as the necessary counterpart to the 16 inch shdes used. By the lime of the fixture With U.C.S., the crew could command a rate of 32 but not hi gher. Fortunately this was sufficient to ensu re a comfortable victory by 2t lengths over the V.C.S. 4th VIII. . In the follow.ing two weeks before Pangbourne, the raci ng rate was ra ised and rows of up to five minutes IIlcreased stamm a .. For the regatta, the crew were un lucky to lose Britton with mumps but Villiers is to be congratu lated on adapting himself so quick ly to his new crew. In the first round 'Monkton Combe were beaten, the verd ict being easily. Tn the semi-fi na l, Rad ley were beaten by one le~gth. For the fi nal 743
THE CANTUARIAN the opponents were Winchester, the holders for the last three years, and Bedfo rd ~odcrn. Times suggested that Winchester might just win. The Daily T elegralJ!r corrcsp~:md enl vot~d Kmg'~ the roughest of the three crews on the way to the start. King's from the back sta!lon had. thei r bo.~s 11\ front by th,e corner and in spite of repeated challenges, kep t them there down the stra ight to W in an exciting race from W1I1chester by a quarter of a lengt h. So the cup which in tcn years has been held among o nly three schools, Winchester, SI. Edward's and Shrewsbu ry, has come to Canterbury, The crew had an excellent, racing ~pi rit. and stroke and cox were a happy combination in co-ord inat ing and inspi rin g the crew, particularly In the last very close race. l.L.G.
THE CREWS 1st VlII.- Bow, M. J. Stevenson ; 2, R. A. P. Carden; 3, P. F. W. Venn; 4, A. R. Maybury; 5, J. C. G. Smith; 6, J. B. S. Fielding; 7, A. W. Pengelly; stroke, S. C. Farmer; cox, R. M. Weller. In the race against Oundle, R. D. B. Hindley rowed a t 4, and A. R. Maybury at 6. 2nd VIII. -Bow, R, B. Bussell ; 2, M. R . Kent ; 3, O. W. Horton ; 4, R. D, B. Hindley; 5, J. M. Atkins; 6, A. T, Selman; 7, P. D . Webb; stroke, M. J . Robinson; cox, A. W. 13laxland . 3rd VllI.- Bow, M. M. HalJ; 2, M. H. Schoficld; 3, J, R. A. Bird ; 4, C:. H. cavcndish-Smith ; 5, C, L1. Williams; 6, M. J. Parsons; 7, P. J . King-Turner; stroke, C. G. LeWIS; cox, J. F. Matthew. Colts' VIII.- Bow, C. M. East ; 2, J, R. Bennett ; 3, C. A. Vi llicrs; 4, C. J : G rossm ith; 5, R. F, MoreomHarneis ; 6, N. K. Maybury; 7, P. L. D. Southam; stroke, P. A. R awhngs; cox, I. E. Cole. For most of the season, C. A. Villiers rowed at 3 in the 3rd VII ' and R, B. Britton rowed at 5 in the Colts' VII!. .
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A slight increase in membership coupl ed wi th the exceptio nall y fine summer, made Fordwich busier than ever this year. Tn consultation wit h Messrs. Prior ,!-nd ~j]kins~ n . the Hon. S~cr~tary, P. ~ . D, Grainger, ably assisted by P. W. Hope-Jones, did an excellent Job III k~ep m g the o rgamsatlon runn!ng smoot.hly; Mr. Willis performed hi s usual wonders in having all the eqUipment ready fo r .use at all tlm.es. Meister Omers like Schoo l House last year demonstrated the va lue of careful preparat ion for fours III the easy stages;' they were fortunat e in ha~ i ng so m~ exp~ri.e~ced materia l to ~h oose from, but they a re to be congratulated on winn ing both the "A" and ' B" diVISions of the Fordwleh Ladder. A sepa rate knock-out compet ition for "C" IV 's resu lted in a wi n for Ga lpin's in the fi nal over Marlowe, Pluck's Gutter Regatta was held on Jul y II th o T he first round of the Se!lior House IV's was rowed at Fordwich and resulled in wins fo r Walpole Galpin 's, School House and LlIlacre (the latter aft er a deadheat with Grange). Walpole had a co mfort~ble win ove r Linacre i.n one semi-final a~ Pluck's G utter, and Galpin's aft er an exciting race beat School House by fou r seconsd III the other. On tunes the. resu lt of .the fina l looked a certain wi n for Walpo le; but in t.he event they we r~ ra~d ~ery hard .by a deternllned Galpill's crew who were aided by some excellent cOXlllg, and Wa lpole s wlllnlllg margm was o nly o ne second. Wa lpole were a strong fOllr who full y deserved their win, but Galpin's and Meister Omers were only j ust behind them in speed. Both sculling fi nals were marred by poor steering ; !n the Damsel Cup fo r rum-tll.ms, J, R . Dowd beat I. A, Murdoch after the later hit the bank near the filllsh. The Whalley Cup for selHor scull s was won by M, J. Robinson who beat C. L1. Will iams after are-row. A pleasant innovat ion this year was to have the: O.K.~. race in Vlll 's o n the same day.instead of at the end of term. The O.K.S. brought a strong crew, mclud lllg the London R,C. Wyfold IV III the stern ; t!le School with the return of Field ing were back at fu ll strength. A good race over three-quarters of a mtle resulted in a win for the School of just over a length. O.K.S, VIII.-Bow, J. B. C. Ba lkwi l1 ; 2, J. E. Pawsey; 3, P. j , Allen; 4, J . R. Frew; 5, W, D. Southgate; 6, D . H . King ; 7, M. E. Billinghurst; stroke, A. A, Elworthy; cox, A. W. Blaxland (K.S.C.). We are most grateful to many kind fri ends and well-wishers for all their help ; in .particular the 1st VilI wou ld like to thank Mr. Mi lner for his help in training and Mrs. Morgan for lookmg after them so well. A Junio r/Senio r VIII composed main ly of next year's membe rs competed at Bedford Regatta on July 25th and a Colt's crew represented the Canterbury Pi lgrims in the Junior VlIfs at Maidenhead and Henley Town. D.S.G.
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SOCIETIES TH E SOMNER SOCIETY.- On 8th May J. R. C. Wright was elected H on. Secreta ry and C. J . Tavener Hon. Treasurer. Various poss ible out ings were then proposed. One outcome of this was the exceed ingly enj oyable visit to the church a nd abbey at Minster, the church at SL. Nicholas and Rcculver. Our transport facilities were doubled by the kind ness of A. C. Berridge, Esq. The charming gu ide at Minster Abbey, the wealth of histo rical interest the va rious siles affo rded and the indu lgence of the weathe r made th is a highly successfu l aft ernoon. The highlight of the te rm was the coach party to Godinton Park, near Ashford, and Jane Austen's house at Godmersham on June 7th. We were very fo rtunate 't o have the range of different styles at Godinton as well as the innumerable collector's pieces and the delightful gardens shown to us by the owner, Mr. Wynd ham G reen. The lavish redecorat ion at Godmersham was a lillie overpowering but the library was rich and varied with some in teresti ng first ed itions of Jane Austen. The delightful pinkish tint of the exterior of the house was well set off by the ex tensive ga rdens. If God inton was more in timate and charm in g, bot h cou ntry houses rea lly deserved individua l visits. The failure of the term has been excavations. An attempt to help the Junior School complete their d igging was rather too late though two members worked at Sturry fo r an afternoon. We have a lso been unable to contact Mr. Jenkins of the Canterbury Archaeological Society. Still, a begi nnin g has been made and there is every hope that next term this defect wil l be remedied. As usual we are very gratefu l to Mr. Voigt, our President , for his experienced advice and generosity. l .R.C. W. THE H ARVEY SOC1ETY.- T he Society met o nly once th is term, on May 14th, to hear a brief talk followed by some excellent demonstrat ions, given by Mr. A. J . Heins of the Research Labo ratory of Mullard Radio Company. Professor Heins started by explaining, in high ly simpl ified terms, the work ings of some of M ulla rd 's latest computers and trai ning devices, and in the demonstrations that followed M r. Morga n's reflex act ion time was found to be unbel ievably fast! Thc demonst ratio ns of this side of the Company's act ivity were followed by some of their progress in the field of stereophon ic sound. For this Mr. Heins brought down and demo nstrated very favourably a stereopho nic record playe r and equipment that could be assembled by a nybody from a standard kit. The price, however, was somewhat proh ibitive. We wou ld gratefull y like to acknowledge the gift of some hundred transisters from Mr. Heins which has induced a spate of radio making in the School. D.R.S.A. THE MARLOWE SOCIETY.- We were busier than lIslial this term. The Society met five times, to hear papers on a surprisingly wide range of topics. The first meetin g, at which we elected D, G. Jones, P. J. B. Gra inger, M. F. Sullivan and N . H. Li vingston to be members of tbe Society, was held on the Green Court. It was a pleasant summer evening on May 10th for A. A. J. Willi ams to d iscuss " What went wrong in France, and how fa r has de Gaulle dealt with the situation ?". He gave a brief survey of the history of France since the Revolu.:ion , and spoke in more detail about the flounderings of the Fourth Republ ic: the execut ive was too much in the hands of the legislature, the publi c was apathet ic, and the whole si tuation of Algeria was unstable. Speaking of de Gau lle's new consti tutio n, Williams predicted a to ugh economic settl ement and crit icised the lack of left-wing representat ion in the new government and de Gaulle's methods of dealing wi th Algeria. On May 24th we heard a paper by W. A. T. T. Ga rel-Jo nes, on "Cervantes and the Spanish Renaissance", in which he gave what was for most of us our first glimpse of the wealt h of Spain's literatu re. He d ivided the history of Spanish writing into periods, and dealt with the Golden Age in deta il : we were rather intrigued by hi s account of Lope de Vega, who is credi ted with not less than 1,800 plays. Ga rcl-Jones made Cervantes' Do" Quixote the cl imax of his ta lk: Cervantes lived a varied life, in which he fought in the army, was captured by pirates, and spent two periods in jai l. 0011 Quixote, starting as a c;'lricat ure of chivalresque novels, contains examples of nearly every type of literature, all brilliantly written. T he highl ight of the term's act ivilies was the open meet ing o n June 7th , in which A. S. Dick Esq., Managing Director of the Standard and Triumph Motor Companies, addressed tbe Sixth Fo rm on "The Challenge of Industry". He talked about a Managing Director's life, saying how he enjoyed starting new projects, and doin g thin gs that involve human relations. H e men tioned the importance of delegation, and went on to list the qualities of the people one shou ld choose as subordinates : loyalty, specia lised knowledge, personality, the ability to lead and yet work in a team, He sa id that there must bc a harmon ious
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atmosphere among the emp loyees, and most labour disputes can be trac~d not to Communists but to bad management. In answer to questions, he sai~ he bcl iev~d that trade umons had comc to have too, much power since the war, partly due to the effiCient gambl~ng or, shop .stcw~rds. Shar~~~l~crs. he sru d, are becoming more important, and a rc one ~f the ~ anagmg Dlrec~or s, cllI~f r~sponsl blh~ les. Worker~ are basically interested in security. and anyt hmg whI ch threatens thiS ,Will dl~l~lb 'pr~ductlon .. Answering a question by the Careers Mastcr ( Mr. Da rlington).. he said tha t a high posltl?n III mdus~ry J~ op~n to arts as well as science st udents, in fact to anybody With a broad knowledge of life and an ultc l esl 111 people. OUf next meeting was on June 14th, to .he.ar a pal?er by~ . J. A. ~impson 01: "1'I~~ e~oll.1tio~ of man" . First he compared man with the apes (polOt lOg c;>ut 111 p~smg how different ~U I socl,~1 life IS flom ~hat of a dog). Then he summarised the rather sketchy mfor~1atJon we have on man s e.vo lutlOn, fronl. fossils and tools and from man's social and sexua l behaviour. Fmally .he gave an ex planal10n of how man comes to have his distincti ve fe atures, mentioning man's better ~:am and power of speech ;. and he t~ld us an interest ing new theory of how apes of higher mental abIlity have been selected by disputes durmg group mating. On June 21st we had a long~awaited lecture by A. W. Budgen on " The staiped glass of <;:anterbury Cathedral". He started with a short history of stained glas~ windows, and exp lamed the techniques, such as using iron saddlebars, and special chemicals f~r colc;>u nng. ~hen we n:ov~d off to the Cathed,~al to look at the glass. We made a complete tour, startll1g With a detaIled exa mmatlon of the colourful Poor Man's Bible" windows in the N. Choir aisle. The Streatfeild Prize for the best paper read to the Marlowe Society was awarded to J. R. C. Wright for a paper on " Apartheid" which he gave o n November 4th. This term, more than most, .we are_ gra~efu l to Mr. D. W. Ba:II, our P~csident, for his hospitality in his W.A.H . room in Lattergate, and to MISS P. E. Gibbs for a ll her work m preparing refreshments. THE PATER SOCIETY.- Although the Society'S first meeting was !"lot held unt~1 a l!l0nth .of the term had passed, our programme this term has been full and varied. In view of the diversity of mterests catered for, a ll our meetings this term were open to a ll members of the School who seek after knowledge where they can find it. On Saturday, May 30th , we were pleased to welcome Mr: J. G . O~en, now doing adn:ti!1istrat ive educational work in S.E. Lo ndon, who gave us a most forthri ght and witty paper on a:dverli~mg. The spcaker seemed to enjoy himself as much as his ,!-udience~ and if s~J~e members were d! sappomted that he did no t touch on the deeper psychological motives behmd adverllsmg, there was certamly never a dull moment. On Saturday, June 13th, we welcomed Mr. ~inn, of Westmi~ster Schoo l, now well known to mem~ers of the School, particularly as a rival to Mr.. WIlson as a~ orgamzer of Greek tours: J:"le talked on cl~~slcal novels, and brought to life for us the sto nes of ~etron1l1s and othcr aut hors, pOll1tmg out the mel1ts of these works which are taken from .ll so~called peflod of decadence. On June 20th Mr. G. J . Warnock, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and pbilosopl~y don , gav~ ~he Society onc of the most lucid and gracious talks it ha.s yet hea rd . ~~ ta l ~ed on poetry, With the precIsion and exact ness capable o nly of a phi losopher. He consIdered what d lstmgUlshe(~ poctry from. other genres of literature and set out his po ints in neat logical form. He then handled quest ions put to him by members of the audience, and wc were so absorb~d that the meeting had to be most reluctantly broken up at 1O.30 ! A lecture by W. A. Hodges, o n June 27th, con~luded .our progran:me fo r .this term. We have co~e to expcct great things of Hodgcs, and he did not dlsappoll~t us on th iS occasion, when hI? spoke on The assessment of intellectual ability". He covered all the pomts made by Eyscnck on Intelligence Tests, and skilfully answered questions. Once again we must thank Mr. and Mrs. Wilson for providing the necessa ry food for thought, and particularly fo r thc splendid water~cress sandwiches. A.G.S.D. THE PHOTOGRAPIIl C SOcIETY.- The Exh ibition being pla~ned for the I','SI we~k~end of the lc:rm, m~etings were arranged with this bi~an nual event in mind . We decided. that havlll g m.lssed m,!ch available time at the end of last term because of illness we should have a meet mg every fortnIght dUri ng the summer. Beginning with a IllOSt enlighten ing colour-sl ide lectUl.'e. ~y Mr. P. R. <;:ole~ on th.e Un ited States of Americ.:'1, after the uSlial business meeting, tl~e term's aC~lv.lt.les re~che(~ tbelr chn~ax w,lth a most comp.re~ hensivc and rewarding lecture by Mr. Entwhlstle on ExhIbition Pnnts m the PreSident s flat- a truc gUide
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to bettcr photography. On a morc pract ical note the Hon. Secretary gave a lect ure and demo nstration trying to convince members how easy it is to bui ld one's own enlarger. With the date of the Exhibi tion drawing ncar , a meeting was held to arrange the details of the undertaking- it was unfortunate that the fine weather and imminent examinat ions lim ited the results. However, in spite of the general lack of experience in the Society, it is hoped that the Exhibi tio n wi ll at least show that much has been learn t this year, remembering the large number of new members that have joined the rank s. Future prospects a re certai nly bright if the technical prowess shown in the ent ry for the Photographic Prize cont in ues and spreads. P.J.B.G. THE CAXTON SocIETY.- The Society has flourished during anothe r busy term, thanks to the invaluable help of Mr. Peett, and has taken on a considerable number of jobs, including a n intricate piece of work fo r the music department. Of the two School programmes we were offcred, both for the end of term, o ne has a lready bee n successfully completed. We have had to face the depressing fact that both Ollr large machines arc not sufficientl y reliable for sati sfa ctory impression and on morc than one occasion havc we had to split the job and print cach part separately on a smaller machine-a rathcr lengt hy process. Our profi ts have been quietly accumulatin g, and so th is term, with a view to eliminating excuses for bad wo rk, we bought a serv iceable table fo r Ollr hand machine and also replenished our very bad ly depleted stocks of leads, furniture and reglets. One of our remainin g troubles in the print room is the lack of space. J.B.P. T HE GLEE CLUB.- This term the Glee C lub, with the Military Band and M. F. Sull ivan (piano), is presenting a sequel to last year's concert of light music. Last year's concert was presented on the Pa lace Court lawns, but this year it is being held inside the Hall , so that we can perform some accompan ied pieccs, Vaughan Williams' Drinkillg SOllg, Let the Fifes and the Clarions by Purcell , and the Villtage SOllg by Mendelssoh n, with W. A. Hodges at the piano. As contrast and diction are the main qualities of a male voice group, most of our programme remains un accompanied, with Th e Spectre's Dance, by Schubert , Illto Exile, by Armstrong Gibbs, Come, Let usjoillihe Roundelay, by Beale, Edward German's Oh peaceful Night, and the Laughing SOllg by Abt, which we are repeating by request. Mr. Samuel is taking the baritone solos of a group of Negro Spirituals arranged by Granville Bantock , The Gospel Train, Deep River, and Were You Th ere? and we are joining the Band for a passio nate rendering of Bless this House to end the concert. The G lee Club has expanded this term, as the ravages c f last term's illnesses have taught liS the sa fet y of n umbers. W. A. Hodges, J. W. R. Mowll and C. D. Powell have joincd the basses, and H. L. S. Dibley the altos, to which line we welcome back M. H . Lane after an enforced absence We extend si ncere thanks to F. J. T. Mazza rella, H. K. Bray, P. W. Hope Jones and D. St. J. Wa llis, who a re leavi ng, for their long service to the Club, and to Mr. Edred Wright for his very real interest in the Club and his constant support and inspi ration throughout this term. J.B.B. THE BELLRING ING SOCIETY.-At a Committee meeting held in the fi rst week of term it was decided to put some of our fund s towards outside help, to teach the Society the secrets of " Met hod ringing". N. Davies, the Secretary, was asked to help in this, as he is now an cxperienccd ringer, and is rcgu larly asked to ring in peals a t ne ighbouring towers. Davies has been named as next year's Captain. During the course of the term we have maintained a high standard of Sunday ringin g and the practices havi ng been very useful. Ou r new Rector, the Reverend Loughborough, was inducted into the Pa rish of St. Peter on 21st May, and a few of us rang at St. Peter's for the seryice. Since the Society started two years ago, T, as Captain, have watched it s growth into a recognised Society in the School. J must admit that when I first approached the Headmaster a bout forming the Society I was quite prepared for the whole vcnture to fall through after a term o r two, but the Society has grown and our numbers now total twenty, six new ones being elected at the beginning of the term. Our finances have accumulated satisfactorily, and most satisfying of all is the amount of cnthusiasm which now cxists among the members, especially si nce Mr. Loughborough came. He is certain ly a great asset to us. It is with not a little regrct that I am leaving the School and the Socicty this term. But I know that I can safely leave it in the new Captain 's hands and 1 wish him and the Society the very best of Ilick. N.J.M.
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THE MADRIGA L SOCIETV,- The end of another year is in sight, and 1 can now say that it has certainly been a much better year than I had ever dared hope for. During this term everyone has worked very hard at what , in many ways, is a difficult "Serenade" Programme. The ma in ~ifficulty lies, in ~allghan.Wi\liams· Silence and M/lsic which taxes the trebles so much. Nevertheless, with Mr. Wnght s hard work and ent husiasm I am sure that it will succeed and make a memorable opening to King's Week. H. B. ,Chesshyrc •. and B. S. Guard. l ,:¥ould We are losing th ree members this term, H . K. 'Bray• like to thank them all for the keenness they have shown In the Society, and wish them every success In the future. My own term of office also comes to a close this term and J . P. Varcoe is to be H onorary Secretary for the forthcom ing year.
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THE WALPOLE SOCII::TV .- The Society has had a most successful year, o nce aga in presided over by Mr. R. A. C. Meredith. At a business meeting at the beginning of the wi nter term, we elected some new members, bringing our total strength up to fineen. At another meeting we invited Mr. H. M. P. Da.v ies to become Vice-President. We also agreed to join the British Drama League, who luwe an excellent library of plays. In the win ter term we read Tlte Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot, Rillg rOllnd the Moon by Jean Anouilh , Tlte Potting Shed by Graham Greene, and Th e StronlJ. are Lonely by.H ochwaelder. ft:.. J. H. ~wanson read us a very interest ing pape r on " Brain Rhythms", showi ng how the bram reacts unde~ d ifferent circumstances, and how these variations can be recorded by an electro-encephalogram. The highlight of the year was Mr. J . G. Owen's excellent lecture on " Modern Drama". In this he told us that there was too little serious drama in England before the forties, except for Shaw. He t~en went .on t.o talk about the conten t <?f !TIodern tragedy. 1t usually deals with "small" people, and starts with man III hiS fall.en s~a te . The h~ro l~ Isolated from society at the beginning of the play, and the rest of the play shows him either restOring hm1self to his old position or readjusting himself to his new onc: This 'idea was put forward and developed by Arthur Miller. Mr. Owen then discussed the subject of alienation, and the problem of whether a play should have a message. He also talked about the basing of plays o n myths, on concepts of death, on morality, inevitability, reason and plausibility. To illustrate ~hese points he used rhe Potting Shed,. Th e Co.cktail Party, and Th e Strong are Lonely. Our winter term s programme was concluded by a Society tea III the Cat hedral Tea Rooms . Our programme in the spring term was somewhat upset by 'fll!, measles, and house play~. But Yfe managed to have two meetings, at one of which M. A. Sharwood-Smlth, K.S. , gave us a most IIlterestmg talk on Hogarth . At the other, J. D. T. Dalton showed us ~ome first-c!ass sl ides. of Rom~ and New York, accompanied by an enlightening commentary. The PreSident very ktndly prOVided us with tea . This term has been taken up by examinations, but some of us managed to: list.en to a recording by Mr. Davies of J. M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World. We hope. when exammat lons are over, to conclude the year's activ ities with an outing to the Marlowe Theatre. W. J. C HESSHVRE. THE SECOND ORCI-I ESTRA. - D espite the fact that most of the players would have preferr~d 10 be t<:s~ing the tem perature of the Dover briny on June 13th, when we went there for the Kent MUSIC CompeLltlon, the Second Orchestra played extremely well . Just befo re the session began o.utsid.e the College Refectory, a narrow-minded pigeon new d irectly over the head of the Hon. Secretary with d ire co nsequences but he was assured confidentia ll y by the Conductor's optimistic m other as he was trying to clean his coat, that this was a good sign. In fact we reached the top score we have so far ach ieved, 91 %. We have to thank C. B. Seaman profusely, for conduct ing all the rehear:sal~ and giving his exac! and ambit ious tu ition to the orchestra. Perhaps with Mr. Curry, the orchestra will fi SC to even greater heights, next term and in the future. D.S.W. THE FIRST ORCII ESTRA.- At the time of writing, the F irst Orchestra has a lready given one concc~t this term , as part of the Friends' Festival ; on Sunday, June 28th t not Satllr~ay, ~une 29th, as appeared III the last issue) this concert was given in the Great Hall. rt was 1he first concert m wh ich Mr. Clarence Myerscough led the o rchestra; since his arrival at the beginning of the term, the string sect ion has risen to even greater he ights than ach ieved under his predecessor. T hi s is the last IeI'm at the Schoo l of many prominent members of the O rchestra. The clarinettists, B. S. Guard . H. K . Bray and D. H . B. Chesshyre, who performed Salz~do's .Divertime!1t<? COllcertan~e with adm irable skill in the Fr iends' Festival Concert; T. C. Good, who IS takmg up a vlolm scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music nex t term; J. Polglase, who h~s !ed the 'cello section thi s yea r; S. P. S. Price, the leader of the viola sect ion, and W. A. Hodges ( 1st vlOlm). 74R
T H E CAN TUARIAN With them goes our conducto r, Mr. John Bacon. Although Mr. Bacon l1<\s been here for only two years, he has done a tremendous amount for the Schoo l's music. Since his arrival, an enti rely new spirit has grown up in the Orchestra. Cutting o rchestra rehea rsals is now (almost) unknown. The standard of pc~formancc has r! sen .considerably, so. that wc are now a~le to takc Tcha ikovsky's 5th Symphony in our stride. Mr. Bacon s bemg at the same tllne part of the outSide music wo rld has probabl y greatly heightened thc prestigc of the School as a music schoo l. It is impossible to say enough in appreciation of Mr. Bacon's w~rk at King's. We wish him thc best of luck fo r t~e fUlure, and I am surc that in a few years' time we Will be proud to be able to say that we have played III an orchestra conducted by him. Four of us have had the privilege of conducting the orchest ra fo r short periods th is term . Th is experiment is o ne that might we ll be repeated in the future. To crown an outstandin g phase of the O rches tra's history, the Headmaster has ve ry kindly bought tickets for us to see Bizet's opera Carmen at Covent Garden on Wednesday, Ju ly 15th, for which we are very gratefu l. Tl-IE CHAM I1EIl OIlCHESTRA.- The Chambe r Orches tra is performing onl y in thc Choral Concert th is term, playing a Su ite of Purcell 's Dramatic Music (a rranged by llarbaro ll i) as well as the choral works. Mr. G. P. Robertson has ably taken over the leadership of the orchestra which has added S. R . Davies a nd G. S. Westrup to its viola section. O. N. SALMON. BAND NOTES.- The Band had a busy term, sincc it gave three performances and the standard it achieved in all of them was encouraging. I would like to thank a ll those who ha ve reh~a rsed studiously through o ut ll~c term, and above a ll , Mr .. Bacon for his constant enthusiasm a nd encouragement. We are sorry to sec him leave. We would also hke to express our pleasu re at the new instruments which have been bought fo r us, with which the ensemble effect of the band has much improved. Vje were fort unate to h,ave I~ ad good weather for the concert we gave to the Inva lid T ricycle Associa ti on, which added to eve ryone s enjoyment. On Thu rsday , 23rd July, we gave a concert with the Glee Club in the Great Hall. The first march, Stars and Stripes, gave us an encouraging start. G. D. M. Parry played the piccolo so lo excellent ly. At the Garden Party on Speech Day, ollr performance of the selectio n from My Fair Lady was enthusiastically received. N.D.S.C.
C.C.F. NOTES ARMY SECTION The main feature of the Army Section during the ter m has been its reorganisat io n by HOllses, instead of I?ia too ns base(.1 on t~c Cadets' stage of training. The object behind this, wh ich was first suggested by senior N.C.O.'s, IS to give HOllse N.C.O.'s a bcttcr chance to get hold of the junior cadets and give them the he lp they may need. It has worked well where the N.C.O.'s are themse lves keen' in o ne or two Ho uses we sti ll wait for the emergence of the better type of lemlcr. ' The Contingent was inspected by Air Marsha l Morr is, an Ass istant Chief of Air Staff 0 11 June 31"(1' he expressed himself as pleased with what he saw and fini shed by givi ng o ne of the bes t ta'iks o f the kind th~t I have .heard , to th~ effect that the function of t.h ~ <;.C.F. is not to produce partly tra ined soldiers o r s~lIlors or airmen, but Simply to produce men of 1Il1l1ft11 Ve, the nation's potential leaders in any walk of
lire. As the Inspection was later than usua l, there was no t so much time fo r training, wh ich was reflected in Certificate "A" result s: in Part II , 25 only out of 46 passed a nd in Part I. 42 o ut of 52. The Headquarters Company has more varied activit ies than in the past, including Fi rst Aid , C ivil Defence for which we are indebted to the G1.nterbury C.O . authorities, and an Instructors Squad, as well as the Signa ls Platoon and Cadre Course as before. A n excellent Ea ~te r . Camp in thc S no w~lo n area was run , of which an account appea rs elsewhere . The Sl!mmer camp at Plrbnght proved more enjoyable than most had an ticipated, though the mess ing co ntractor did rather poo rly; the Royal Horse Guards ran the ca mp very well, and there wa s much of int erest to enjoy from a helicopter ride for the few, to a night in the open for a ll. '
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At the end of a SUIlliller term, I would like to pay tribute to Peter Grainger, who has been a most painstaking and helpful C.S.M., fuJI of new idcus and the ability to make them work; and he has been well
backed up by an except ionally able team of senior N.C.O.'s.
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ROYAL NAVAL SECfIO N The Annual Inspection went ofT well: we piped the Air Vice-Marsha l over the side on arrival and transported him without disaster by light rig jackstay at the fini sh. Ou r usual displays of ropework, seamansh ip and signalli ng were supplemented this year by an inter- House Field Gun Display on Royal
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or its members, and we shall be entering a crew for the Public Schools events al Mudhook in the holidays. The rest of the term was spent in various Initi ative Tests in volving navigation , blocks and tack les, making a raft out of oil drums and so forth , wh ile the British Empire Test was carried oul on Ihe 25 yards range. We say good-bye this term 10 Cadet Petty Officers Kent and Murdoch, who have served the Section well. Kent set a fi ne example by his efficiency and turn-out, while Murdoch was remarkably resourceful with boat or rope, and we shall miss them both. Bussell now takes ovcr as Cadct Petty Officer-in-Charge. We were forced to defer our visit to Malta until 1960, but Sub-Lieutenant Hava rd and 15 Cadets will be spending a week at H.M.S. Cochrane, a Naval Air Station in Scotland. Our thanks are due to the Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, for thc loan of Field Guns and other help, and to Whitstable Yacht Club for their generosity in allowing us to usc their cxcellcnt faci lit ies. D_W_B.
KAY SECTION Seventeen cadets attended the annual Easter Camp at R.A.F. Watton in Norfolk and, although the programme was rather unimaginative and the flying limited, the experience was interesting and worthwhile. Since the station was part of Signals Command, much of the equipmcnt and most of the aircraft were out of bounds to the cadets, which madc it a most unsatisfactory place for a camp. Field Day was more successfu l as we travelled to White Waltham fol' SOlll.e Chipmunk flying. The genera l opinion was that 7 hours in trains was adequately compensated for by 20 minutes in the air. Also on the fl ying side, we have this term formed a very profitable liaison with the gliding school at R.A.P. Hawkinge and cadets have been there most Thursday afternoons. At the time of writing seven cade ts havc completed thcir "B" Certificates and there arc three more sti ll in training. Corporals Carden and Fowler begin their Flying Scholarship training during the Summer holidays and we wish them the best of luck and a lso congratula te Cadet Bennett on passing the Hornchurch tests for his scholarship. Cadets Maycock and Kenchington are going on a gli ding course at St. Eval in Cornwall. Seven cadets passed thc R.A.P. Proficiency lest: Consterdinc, Gaut, Hinchy, Kcnchington , Maycock, Stiles and Saurcz. In future all instruction for this test will be done by R.A.P. Section N.C.O.s, wh ich should help to make the section more unified. P_G _W.
ATHLETICS THE K INO'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY V HARROW SCHOOL Harrow is our only Ath letics Match this tenn. They most kindly ente rtained us again this year, since it is not yet possible to entertain them in the Summcr Term. It was an extremely hot day and standards were low. We won four of the six track events, Radcliffe and Turner winning the 100 and 400 respectively, Williams running a tact ica l race to clinch the latter by coming second. The middle distance runners did well, all being placed, and winning the mile. A very satisfy ing result was the hurdles, in which Khanna ran bcautifully to win in I :'5.9, defeat ing the Harrow captain for the first time this season. We failed in the jumps, but came firs t and third in all three remaining field events, each of our three competitors winn ing an even!. Russell uscd the sma ll javelin for his apparently record-breaking th row. Baxter once agai n brokc the discus record, now standing at the respectable distance of 132 fect. King's won the rclay by 3 feet. 750
r THE CANTUARTAN RESULTS 100 YARDs. - I, Radcliffe; 3, Atkinson. TUlle: 10.6 sees. 220 YARDS.- 2, Turner. 440 YARDS.- I. Turner; 2, Williams. Time: 54.4 secs. 880 YARDs.- I, Parry; 3, Gillespie-Smith. Time: 2 mins. 6 sec.~. MTLE.-2. Consterdine; 3, Rose. HURDLES.- I, Khanna. Time: 15.9 sees. HIGH JUMI·.- 2, Fowler; 3, Baxter. Height: 5 fl. 6 in. loNG JUMP.- 3, Barker. SHoT.- l, Pritchard; 3, Baxter. Distallce: 41 ft. 10 in. Dlscus.- l , Baxter; 3, Pritchard. Distance: 132 ft. JAvELlN.- I, Russell; 3, Pritchard. Distallce: 158 ft. 6 in. RELAY.- I, King's. K.S.c., 63 points; HARROW, 47 points. Second Colours were awarded to: C. A. R. L. Kinghorn, C. C. Rose, R. M. H. Purnell, D. E. Baker, C. Barker. First Colours were awarded to: R. H. Turner, O . C. Pritchard, P. J. Baxter, J. R. Parry, P. R. Atkinson , r. B. R . Fowler, J. K. Khanna, P. Consterdine. AAJ _W_
TENNIS CLUB Despite having only two ~egular members of the previous season's tcam left, the VI maintained the standard of su~ss sct last ~ear, lOSIng only one match, that to Tonbridge 5-4 in a keen ly contested game. Tn our first two mat~hes Highgate were. defeated 5- 2, and St. Lawrence 7- 2, within a few days. The weather nearly sn.atc~ed a victory frof!l us agamst Sutton Valence, but we finall y managed to win, thanks to a useful con. tnbullon by the 3rd pair, 5 games to 2. Our best match of the season was our 5-4 victory over BaSIbourne • when all the team were playing well and we recorded our first victory over them for many years. 1.'he first pair,. P. H. Holmes-Johns0!1 and M. R. Jenner, played consistently, though they rarely produced their best form III matches, except agalllst Eastbourne. S. E. Cockersell and .J. A. G. Man, the second pair, played well t<?g~ther throughol,lt the season and have defeated many first pairs. Wc were lucky in hav ing a usefu l 3rd pall' III W. D. McNIcol! and R. F. B. Jones, who won some va luable matches especially against Sutton Valence. ' On~e agai~ our thanks. go to Mr.. Gross, for his interest and encouragement; Mr. Gay, for his val uable coac~l~g, which has conSiderably raised the standard of the team; and to Mrs. Morgan for her patience in provIdmg excellent teas. ' The Team was: P. H. Holmes-Johnson, M. R. Jenner, S. E. Cockersell , J. A. O. Man , W. D. McNicoll, R. F. B. Jones. Also played: T. R. L. Evans, W. M. Watson.
GOLF CLUB The 90 lf Club has .had an active ~nd succe~sful term. The Inter·House Compet ition was held at Princes SandWich, on AscenSion Day, the wmners bemg Luxmoore. ' We also managed to arrange two School matches against K.C.S., Wimbledon, and St. Lawrence Rams. gate: the first we lost by 4t matches to 3t, but beat St. Lawrence on their home course by the same ~mount ~oth match~ produced excellent scores and I feel that the whole standard of golf has as a result been con~ slderably raised. Thanks must be g.iv,?n to .Mr. Quigley, who has come over from Princes every Thursday to coach the School golfc rs, and It IS a PIt>,: not more people make use of this advantage; also to Major Jervi s, who has helped and encouraged us 111 every way. H.K.R 75 1
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SWIMMING Th is year, the Club suffered from the lack of a professional coach and trainer, and th is lack
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noticeable among the Seniors, where there was little natura l talent. The Colts, hc;>wevcr â&#x20AC;˘. d.ld extremely well considering this disability and their perforrryance au?urs w~1l for the fut u,re. WClghl-lrammg helped to improve the stamina of most of the team and thiS, combmed wit h the unn aggm~ energy o f Me: Paynter and Mr. Pollak, prevented a disastrous season. It was not,a v.ery goo~ >:,car, but It was most enjoyable. :rhe water-polo team won a ll its four matches, even though It d id no tramlllg and our morale wus a lways raised
by these " friend ly" matches. THE K INO'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY V ST. LAWRENCE, RAM SOAT E
This was a close match, fina lly dccided by the relays. Our weakness in ~reas t-s t ro~e was shown throughout but this was compensated fo r by the Colt s' perform~nce. On ly Warw l e k-Eva ~s In the ,lqo Yards Back and Hayworth in the 100 Yards Free shone. Mathews In the Freestyle, Stracha n III the DIVing a nd Imber in the Backst roke came first for the Coils. Result: Seniors- St. Lawrence 56, K.S.C. 34. Colts- St. Lawrence 21, K.S.C. 39. THE KI NO'S SCliOOL, CANTERBURY v H . M.S. "WORCESTER" The match was won quite easily- partly because our opponents had been unable to train seri ously during the last few weeks owing to a leak in their swimming pool. The 100 yards events were cut to 75 ra,rds and we gained 1st and 2nd places in most quite comfortflbl.y. ~o,.cester .w,!n the Colts' relays and dIVIng but this made little difference to the final result- a convlllcmg Will for KlIlg s. THE K I NO'S SCHOOL, CANTER BURY v TONBRIDG(! SCHOOL
The Seniors were thoroughly beaten by a superi or side in an ~x t remely enjoyable match. The Juniors were unlucky not to win their compet ition. Edwards and WarWick-Evans swam well but wcr<: unable to fin isil better than second in the Freestyle and Back-stroke. On the ot~e~ har:-d, Stedall nnd Parke: In the Colts Breast-stroke and Imber in the Back-stroke won their events. The Dlvmg. Judged by a system different from our own, was a great disappointment. Sen iors- K.S. C. 19, Tonbr idge 51. Juniors-K.S.C. 30, Tonbrid ge 31. THE KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY v CITY OF LONDON AND HIGHGATE SOIOOLS The match was held at the City of London's excell ent heated. bath. As usual, we werc outclassed by that school, but provided Hi ghgate with st rong oPP!=,sition .. Only 10 the 50 Yards Frcestyle, \~he rc Hayworth and Warwick-Evans came 2nd and 3rd respecllvely, did we show what w~ could do. Stlachan won the Diving fo r the Seniors and did it very wcll. However, we were overwhelmed III all. relays and the fin al scores were : Seniors- C. of L. 67, Highgate 37, K.S.C. 37. JUnJors- c. of L. 61, Highgate 31, K.S.C. 27. THE KINO'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY I' WESTMI NSTER SCHOOL
We won th is match qu ite easily, the opposition relying upon their capt~ in , who won the 100 Yards. Fr~e style and Breast-stroke. We were we ll beaten in these two events, bu t WarWick-Evans rc~ecmed us by wl~f!mg the 661 Yards Back-stroke in the record time of 46.7 secs. Strachan won both the Selllor and Colts DI V Ill~, with Bennett and Smallwood support ing him well. In the Colts, Imber won the 33!- Yards Back-stroke III the record time of 21.4 secs. Of the other events, Mathew and !-Iarton came eq ual 1st, a nd Parker and Steddall came 1st and 2nd respectively. Scores: Westminster 44, K.S.C. 16. P UBLIC SCHOOLS FREESTYLE RELAY
Unfortunately, the begin ning of term expectat ions were no~ fulfilled in this match. Edwa rds a nd Hay.worth swam well but the ot her two swimmers did not do so well , With the result that we dropped one place III the overall classification and thus came 18th out of 35. PUBLIC SCHOOLS MEDLEY R ELAY
This was swum during the Oxford -Cambridge match and it is interestin g to note that t h~ w innil~ g school's team turned in a faster time than either U niversity. Unfortunatel y, we came well down III the !lst- about ten from the bottom, but the times were not recorded and we cannot be exact. The team, a lt hough good on paper, was not so fast in the water and only Edwards swam really well. 752
T H E CANTUA RIA N THE KI NO'S SCHOOL, CANTERB URY v EASTDOURNI: CoLLEGE Once aga in , the School team failed to rise to the occasion. E:'lstbourne had an outstanding swimmer in Wycoff, who won the 100 Yards Freesty le and 50 Yards Freestyle (the laller in the record time of 15.7 secs.). Strachan again came first in both Diving competit ions and aga in Bennett and Smallwood support ed him well. Jackson did ext remely well for the Colts, winning both the 661 Yards Freestyle and the 33! Yards Freestyle. Stedall won the 66i Yards Breast-stroke quitc easily. The final score was: Seniors- East bourne College 48, K.S.C. 22. J uniors- Eastbourne College 30, K.S.C.40.
SPORTS A spell of fin e weather in July attracted more entran ts than usua l for the Standards Compet ition. The result was a win for Walpole, followed very closely by Luxmoore. The other Houses in order were: 31'd, Walpole; 4th , School House; 5t h, Grange; 6th , Marlowe; 7th, Galpins; and 8th, Meister Omers. The Swimming Sports were swum (under a lmost idea l conditions) on the afternoon of Sunday. Jul y 26th. Especia lly to be commended were, firs tly Edwards (S. H.), who came first in each of the three events for which he was entered, the open bu tterfly, and the open one and two length freesty le races, and secondl y Strachan (Lx.), who although still a junior, made a clean sweep of all three diving events. The result was a win for Linacre, thus break ing the sequence of Luxmoore victories. Luxmoore were 2nd, Walpole 3rd School House 4th, Grange 5th, Meister Orncrs 6t h, Marlowe 7th . and Galpins 8th. ' We are very grateful to a ll the Masters who officiated at matches and in the Sports, especially Mr. Voigt, Mr. Pomeroy and Mr. Dickson, and to Mrs. Harris, who presented the two cups at the School Sports. L.A.W-E.
WATER POLO The level of water-polo skill in the School has, perhaps, risen slightly: players have certainly increased considerably in toughness. Matches against other schools, notably agai nst Tonbridge, showed that much is still to be learnt in the way of technique, especially in positional play, but enthusiasm and the wi ll to survive a rc both strongl y present. Walpole won the von BibrR Cup, defeating Linacre 2- 1. Play was at times marred by unnecessarily persis tent "swimming over", but on the whole the fouls cancelled out, and the result is acceptable. 'The defeated semi-fi nalists were School House and Luxmoore. The O.K.S. leam retrieved Luxmoore's fortunes. With a solitary former Marlovian loungin g eas ily in the. goal, six ex-Luxmoore men pressed the SChOOl hard and won 2- 0.
SAILING At the beginning of this yea r, there was a sudden interest in this extremely fine sport, alt hough mainly restricted to one House. Many other Public Schools have ex tremely successful saili ng clubs and it is felt that if a master could be found to take it over as a full-time sport, sai ling wou ld br ing us more into line with them on this point. If this were done, racing in Fireflies and the like would then give those people in the School interested in the sport a chance of entering into competition. Unlike sports such as Rugger and Athletics, it would be compa ratively easy to arrange regattas. Before this could be done tbe Schoo l would need to have in its possession, a sma ll number of Class dinghies, whethe r owned by the School or by its members. At the moment there is a small group of boys, who sail as regu larly as possible at Whitstable. There are on ly fou r dingh ies there; a Nationa l 18' owned by J . M. Atkins, a G. P.14 ' owned by the Naval Section, and two Brandy Hole owned by 1. A. Murdoch and J . A. W. Martin. It can be seen that the monopoly is in Meister Omers, but it is hoped that by next year boys from ot her Houses possessing dinghies will bring them back. It is only by acqui ring a sufficient nu:nber of dinghies that the thought of starting a Sailing Clu b can be considered. ' At present , the ma in difficu lty of sa,il.ing at Wh,itstab1e is the cost of gett ing down there, for regular jou rneys tax the pockets of a ll co ncerned. Satl mg there IS ex tremely pleasa nt and those who go a re ex tremely lucky in be ing able to use all the amen ities of the Whitsta ble Yach t Clu b. It is, however, unfortunate that only members of the Nava l Section are all owed to do so. 753
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Although the three boys possessing dingh ies at Wh itstable ,~ rc Ic<.tving it. is nO,t cxpectc~ that their absence will cause a lapse in sai ling interest, since the Naval SectIon wil l have In their possession two new Whalers in the coming year. I. A. M URDOCli .
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SHOOTING Fu ll bore practices took place throughollt the term at Conyer! with occcisiona,' visilS to the Hythe ranges and one at Lyddcn Spout. Conditions on the range were admirable fo r shootJllg purposes. .. On June 6t h, a team shot aga inst Dover College at Lydden Spout. 1t was a blustery day and condi ti ons were difficult. Results were as follows:. Agai nst Dover: Dover KlIIgs Schoo! Result
The VIII Cadet pair
465 (ex 560) 99 (ex 140)
Aga inst Framlingham: The Vll[ 485 (ex 560)
111 (ex 140)
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Won Won
500 123
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We attended the Public Schools' Meeti ng at Bisley from the 19th to the 22nd of July, and competed in the following competitions:T EAM.-Public Schoo l's Snap, The Cadets' Trophy, The Marling, The Public School's Aggregate Trophy, The Ashburton Shield . INDIVIDUAL.-Gale a nd Po lden Rifle, The N inth Man,. Spencer Mellish, Schools Hund red, Slmday Times Medals. . The VIII's potent ia l was high, but never full y realised. Ashburton Shield 490 (ex 560, winn ing sco re 517). Public School's Snap 322 (ex 400, winn}ng score 337)., .. . . . . N. G. A. Payne won a Bro nze Meda l In the Slinday 11mes Snap Shoo ling Competition with a score of
49 A. outD.orDouble 50. . the Ashburton an ct r'lOIS . IleeI Wit . h an aggrega te 0 r 67 ou t scored a possible at 200 ya rds In of 70.
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Dare
School
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Feb. 17. Roya l Marines School of Music
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Rochester
57 1 (ex 600)
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763 743 Lost Mar. 7. Wellington 743 787 Lost Mar. 7. Framlingham 709 762 Won Mar. 12. Sherborne T he following shot for the School this term :bl N. G. A. Payne, J, A. G . Man , J. D. H am ilton-P~t~rson , P . S nug~s, P. yv, F . Browne, ~, D, Dou e, J. Rodwell,J. E. T, Wilding , A. K. R. W ight , N. H, LIVingston , R. A. f'. Collins, P. R. H ouc hin , T . J. Swete. Those who shot fo r the Schoo l at Bisley were awarded colours. N,G,A.P, 754
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O.K.S. NEWS (/f//ol'matioll for inclusion ill the O.K.S. News will be welcomed by the H OIl. Secretary of the O.K.S. Associatioll, A . D. WI LSON, 25 BERKELEY SQUARE, LONDON, W . I . CHANGES OF ADDRESS AND ALL ENQUIRIES ABOUT "THE CANTUARIAN" SHOULD BE SENT TO HIM AND NOT TO THE EDITORS,) Canterbury Dinner The first annual O.K.S. Dinner at Canterbury is on Saturday, October 3rtl, and will be held in conjunction with a concert. We congratulate all O.K.S, whose names appear in the list of Academic a nd other Distinctions which is printed elsewhere in this issue. T. H. SCRIVENOR (1920- 27) celebra ted his silver wedding at Dal'*es-Salaam on June 4th, C. R. D. BROWN (1932-43) has recently been elected an Associate of the T own Pla nning Insti tute; h(, is practising architecture in Durham. D. A. H ENTON (1953- 57) is learning the hotel trade abroad and is now in Spa in . M. P. F, PLUTIE ( 1953- 58) has been on safari in Africa and has just been called up. R, A, JENNINGS (1954-58) is a traineer floor manager with Messrs. Bourne & H ollingsworth . N. BROOMFIELD (0000- 00) is with the Prudent ia l Assurance Company in Brighton, G. W. HACKETT (1947- 51) is still studying dentistry in Guy's Hospi tal a nd plays cricket fo r Ho rnsey. T. R. H IRD, reading Engineer ing at Qucen Mary College, has met H . A. S. BROWN o n the rive r. M . A . MURCli has been accepted by the Home Office for training as a Probation Officer o n completion of his Nationa l Service, At Oxford he has been closely connected with the O. U. Crime-a-Challenge Socie ty, of wh ich he was Chairman last C hrist mas Te rm. H e has already worked in a Probation Office and has a lso spent two weeks in an Open Prison, being treated entirely as a pri soner !. We congratulate him on his engageme nt. R . D . LEBISH hasjoilled the British South African Police, and is stationed at Salisbury, where he has met P. R. WILSON,
J. D. BELL passed the Law Society's Final in March and is now a qualified Solici tor. D, L. THOMAS has been studying for a year a t Rutherford College of Technology for " A" level a nd hopes to join the R,AF, Technical Branch in September a nd eventually to qualify as a n electron ics engineer. J. A. DODD is now Managing Director of Southern Autos Ltd" which recently o pened a new branch at Rose Lane, Cantcrbury. Three O .K.S. were ordained at Trinity, B. K . NEWTON (Priest) is a curate at Ba rrow*in-Furness, a nd 1. P. BURBRIDGE and J, D, D . PORTER were ordained Deacons by the Bishops of Chichester a nd Birmin gham respectively- the forme r to Eastbourne and the latter to H oly Trinity, North Harborne. PHILIP HAMMOND writes for Punch and recently produced a play ca lled The City Gallall! in the Darn at Charing. He has also had a new play, AllY More /01' tlte Skylark, at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury. IAN POTIER appeared for Kent v H ampshire as a substitute and has been playing fo r Kent If. In thei r match against Suffolk he took 3 fo r 29 in Suffo lk's first innings and 9 for 63 in their second,
I. GASCOIGNE-PEES has spent seven months travelling thousands of miles through Canada and the United States before starting a course at the College of Estate Management. He tackled various jobs, including ma nual work, selling encyclopaed ias, and clerk ing in a departmental sto re. After visiting the Grand c., nyon , wh ich was under about 18 inches of snow, he hitch-hiked a thousand mi les to Dallas, Texas, where he worked fo r two days as a "buzz-boy" in a cafeteria. He was stranded in a town wher~ the on ly hotel was fu ll , so spent the night locked in the town gaol. E. J. SMALMAN-SMITH and S. C. HARDISTY last Long Vacation worked as cleaners on the night-shift in a frozen food factory a nd found that the novelty of the experience and the varied, interesting and pleasant company of their workmates made it well worth while. W . H , WOOLSTON was workjng on the day-shift a t the same factory. In April, h e a nd J. D. D. WALKIlR spent fou r weeks in Italy. C. G, STONEMAN is living in New York a nd hopes to be admitted to the Bar of the State of New York. He is married with three children. D. D. MOR IUSON is taking a course at the Gui ldhall School of Music before going up to the University.
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THE CAN TUARIA N C. G. S. P ATERSON is now in charge of Sales with the Burmah Oil Co. at Chiltagong E. Pakistan. P. J. BEARCROFT is also in Chiu agong. C. VERNON SMITH has been elected Secretary of the St. l oh n's College, Cambridge Philosophical Society. and to the Committee of the L beral Club. J. K. MORRISS has obtained his B.Sc. (Civil Engineering) at Southampton Un ivers ity. J. CASSIDY is now on the Staff of Rossall School. H e tried t? sta rt a Boat C lub th<:rc, ~lI t th~ tides o,n the River Wyre defeated him. At wee k ~en ds he gets some campmg, and elementa ry cilrnblll8, wit h parties of boys or goes sa iling. I. F. AUCOTT is now a Director of Messrs. Henry Waugh (S in g~po rc). Ltd. , an associated Company of Jard ine, Matheson & Co., with whom he worked fo r many years III Ch ina and Japan. HUGH JREMONG ER is with Cables & Wireless Ltd. in Bermuda.
CAPTA1N J. E. D EIGHTON, who is managing director .of Messrs. ~.lliO (t s (New Forest) Ltd., a.t1rm wit~ branches at Lymington and Lyndhurst, has been apPOInted a JustIce of the Peace for Hampshire. He IS Vice-Chairman of the Lyminglon Chamber of Trade. S. J. FREEBAIRN-SMIHI is going out to Africa to take up a teaching appoi ntment at Manor House School, Kitale, Kenya. K. D. WALKER, after ten years' experience in farming in th is count ry, includin g a year at the R.A.C. College, Cirencester, contemporary with J. C. B. CoLE~AN .an.d C. G: COWAN,. wen~ to ~e~ Zealand, where he found beller prospects for would-be fa rm~ rs Wi th hmlted capllal, espeCially In. da lrymg. ~. D. WALKER himself is now married to a New Zealan d gIrl and has been accepted for Ordination by the Bishop ofWaikato. D. ST. J. C. GURNEY retired in April from the Headmastership of Royds Hall Grammar Schoo l, Huddersfield, a post which he had held since 1933. " PADDY" ROBERTS, who has written the lyrics of several popular son.g hilS, includin g "Softly, Softly", "Lay Down Your Arms" and " Pickin' a Chicken", has recently made.lus firs t record for the Decca Company and has made fou r appearances four days runni ng on B.B.C. radiO, R. M. BUTLER, B.SC., M.B. , B.S. (Lond.), is now Thoracic Medicine Registrar at St. Thomas's, where D. H. W. KELLY, M.B., n.S. , is a House Surgeon.
IN THE SERVICES
C/SoT. A. R. VEITCH was in the Sovereign's Company at the R .M.A. Sandh urs! in December last, we learn from the Wish S tream, the j ournal of the R.M.A. C/SGT. A. P. S. STANLEy-SMITH passed out in July when H.M. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother took the Salute. CAPTAIN C. B. PRAIT, R.N., has been promoted to Rear-Adm ira l and appointed Chief Staff Officer, Technical, to the Flag Offieer Air (Home). . D . S. PARTRIDGE and R. P. SPICER are doing their National Service with the R.A.F. at Bridgnorth. CAPTAIN T. H. PARES, R.A ., qualified for the Staff College in February and in May was selected for admission. A. J. BEET, doing his National Service with R.E.M.E., has been recommended for a Commission, and so has M. R . A. MAITH EW, serving wit h The K.S.L.I. From the K/lkri, Journal of the Brigade of Gurkhas, we !earn that. Lieu! .-Co! .. M. O. M. ROBERTS, M'!l..E., M.C., 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) IS lv! l h t~ry Atta<;: he at the British Embassy at Katmandu, and that MAJOR A. M. LANG LANDS of the same Bat talion IS now 2 1/c of the Brigade D epot. LIEUT. D. L. QUESTED, R.M., was promoted to Captain 1st June, 1959. CAPTAIN M. J. BARTON, R.E., is servi ng at H.Q. East African Command. ROBIN MURCH passed out from. Sandhurst last sum~er and is now with the Royal Irish Fus iliers in Tripoli. He spends much of his t i m~ in the desert readmg Dante and Scott. He has recently developed a great interest also in Classical MUSIC and Ballet.
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ENGAGEMENTS GURNEY- JoN IDEs.- Peler Lovell Goldswo rthy Gurney to Susan Carnegy lonidcs. CA RNES- MITCII ELL.- Martin Ca rnes to Ann Freda Mitchell.
MARRIAGES TVMMS- HARvEv.- On 18th April, 1959, Harold Derek Tymms to Pamela Anne Ha rvey. RODGERS- SHEI'PARD.- On 20th June, 1959, Allan Gray Rodgers to Sandra Stuart Sheppard.
BIRTHS WATK INS.- On 20t h March, 1959, to Sylvia, wife of Lieut. Guy Watkins, It. A" a son, Michael Richard Hansard. PATP.RSoN.- On 2nd June, 1959, to Ann, wife of Colin G. S. Paterson, a daughter. WENBA N.- On 26th June, 1959, to June, wife of Christopher Wenban, a so n, Andrew Michael. BURT.- On 13th Ju ly. 1959, to Jan, wife of Ivo r Burt, a da ughter, Jan Alexandra Vaughan.
DEATHS RVLEy.- On 26th April , 1959, the Rev. Gilbert Noel Ryley, M.A., Rector of Sarratt, Herts., 1912- 50, aged 77.
OBITUARIES THE REV. G. N. RYLE Y, M.A . (1894- 1901) The Rev. G ilbert Noel Ryley, who died on 26th April , was the youngest of three brothers who came to the School, the others being the Rev. G. C. E. Ryley (founder of the Ryley Music Prizes), who died in 1947, and J. P. Ryley. who died in 1942. G, N. Ry ley was in the Six th and in the X l in his last year, and wcnt on to Wadham, where he read Theology, and to Ripon Clergy Coll ege. He was ordained in 1905 and became Rector of Sarratt, Herts., in 1912, where he rema ined unti l his retirement in 1950. He is buried at Sarratt. JAM ES GILBERT J ELL (1946-49) It was with the greatest sorrow that we read in the papers of Ju ly 8l h that James Jell had met a tragic death in Algiers. His body was found on Sunday, July 5th , at the foo t of the Hydra Bridge wh ich spans a 90 ft. chasm near the ci ty. The cause of his death is, at the time of wri ting, unknown. He had been in North Africa for some few years for the purpose of pa in ting. James Jell came to us in the summer of 1946 from St. George's School, Wind sor Cast le, and speedily proved that he was a gifted boy. He was made a King's Scholar at the end of his firs t year, and his development revealed him as one equally gifted in music, art a nd modern studies. His unusual abi li ty was demonstrated when in 1949 he won an open Scholarship in modern subjects to Magdalen College, Oxford , at the age of 17. Throughout his School career he contributed in full est measure to the School's growth in music, in art and in literature; and he was well liked for his am iable character, his wit and humour so devoid of ma lice. He early became a House Monitor and succeeded as School Monitor to the Headship of Walpole in 1949. Those of us who were here with him remember him as a most att racti ve and warm-hearted youngste r, a rich persona li ty. of whom great things were prophesied; all, alas ! to be negatived by his grievous untimely death. The deep sympathy of his contemporaries is felt for his parents and his brother. MICHAEL CHURCHILL KAROP Michael Karop entered King's from S1. Hugh's Schoo l at Bickley- then kept by the two Johnson brothers. both O.K.S.- in 1935 and left in December, 1938. His fat her, S. C. Karop, and uncles came to the School in the earl y " nineties", and his father played a large part in the found ing of the Cantuarian Lodge of Freemasons in 1937. For nea r upon seventy years the Karops have been among the most loyal and devoted of O,I(.S. Michael Karol' was of sound inte llectual quality at Sehool, a promising and keen rugger player. a popu lar member of Grange; and always held by everyo ne in high esteem. It was with the greatest regret
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T HE CANTUA RIAN that we rece ived this July the news of his tragic death. A. D. H. Paterson wrote from Nigeria to say that Michael had been killed on July 1st in the Cameroons. He took off from Victoria a lone in his 6-seater aircraft to fl y to Kano in Northern Nigeria. After only seven minutes he crashed on to the eastern flank of Mount Cameroon, wh ich rises 13,000 feet; he hit the mountain at a heigh t of about 6,000 feet, and no one can explain how or why this happened. Michael was an experienced and cautious pilo t, and o nly two months before, Alastai r Palerson had flown with him : he writes of his skill and courage and perseverance in the highest terms. It is, indeed , a tragedy; for only a week before bis wife and baby son had Hown out from England to join Michael. The sympathy of all who knew Michael Karop at School or later goes out to his bereaved family, not least to his fat her, to whom the School has meant so much .
H. P. SPARLING (1903-08) Hart Philip Sparl ing came to the King's School in 1903. He was a Senio r King's Scholar, and left in 1908 with an Open Mathematica l Scholarship at Queens' College, Cambridge. After takin g both parts of the Mathematical Tripos, with a First C lass in Part T, he read Natural Sciences in his fourth year. He began hi s teaching career at Grcsham's School, Holt , but his time there was interrupted by the Fi rst World ¡War, when he was a Naval fnst rllctor. Tn 1920 he wen t to Rugby Schoo l and reti red from there in 1954. Apart from his work as a teacher of Mathematics- and o ne of his colleagues has sa id that "generations of mathematical scholars have looked back on his teaching of mechanics as a real inspirat ion"- his chief work at Rugby was that in con nect ion with "Town House" - the Day Boys' H ouse. First as Tutor, and later as its first Housemaster, he worked for the House for 25 years, and gained the lasting gratitude of a ll who came under his influence. He so metimes taught in other fields, such as English and Scripture, and he was a great authority on the Engl ish Hymno logy. When he retired, he went to li ve in Chichester, where he continued his work by teaching at the Prebendal School. He was teaching there on the morning of the day on which he died ; and his fun eral service was held on July 2nd, in the Lady Chapel of Chichester Cathedral . K . A. PAGE (1917-20) We arc sorry to hear of the sudden death of Kenneth Alvis Page at Broadstairs, a nd extend our deepest sympathy to his widow, two sons and all his other relations. He was at the School from 191 7- 20. Then fo r thirty-five years he extended the wine merchan ts' firm, of which he was manager, in Ramsgate, a nd by his hard work and unfa iling cou rtesy increased its good reputation. After the War, he helped, as Chairman, to restore vita li ty to tne East Kent Off-Licence Holders' Association . Hi s activities reflected his public-spi ri ted outlook. Besides being a member of the Ramsgate Chamber of Trade, he was a lso in the Ramsgate Ro tary Club. Moreover, he d id much wo rk to foster the recent British Empire Cancer Ca mpaign, and was to have been the Chairman of the newly-formed local Committee. He was also a keen spo rtsman, and when he no longer actually played, he continued his enthusiasm as Vice-President of The Thanet ians Hockey Club.
BR IAN WI NTER GILL Brian G ill was at School from 1934 to 1939, comin g here from Nevill House, Eastbourne. Contemporaries will remember also his elder brother Nevi lle, who now practises med icine. Brian Gill was in Grange. where he was a House Prefect. He will be remembered a~ a kind. amiable and fri end I) boy, who took his full share in all the activities of School and Ho use. He appeared in the Plays whieh were put on in the Chapter Hou~e in hi s years, and was a keen member ot the Corps, intend ing to enter the R.A .F. professionally. He did join the R .A.F. in 1940 and was posted to Crete, and from there served for five years in Egypt, where symptoms of what was ultimately to be a fatal illness first appeared. After demoblizat ion he had experience in agricult ural work- save fo r a period of business with a London fi rm- and on ly as recently as last year took a farm in South Devon. But th rough most of the post-war years the origina l symptoms showed themselves from time to time, necessitating hospital t reatment . In April las t it was clear that his condition was extremely serious; he was taken to a London Hospital, where he died on April 19th. The sympathies of all who knew him arc respectfull y tendered to his widowed Mother and his w fe, who with his three chi ldren mourn his loss.
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To the Edifors oj THE CANTUARIAN . Dear Sirs, Your reproduction of the Form IV group in July. 1893. brings back <I flood of memories to the grand· fath er in it: now, I am afraid , the only livi ng one, Brinslcy-Richards is right in his corrections. Hares should be Hawes, a quiet retiring religiolls boy. The boy between him and Perei ra is Caffin. O. D. Frcwer was the second of the three Frcwcr brothers. I am glad to say we st ill correspond. He is an o ld "Cape Horner", and in later life a d ist inguished member of Canada's Merchant Navy. Not being vcry fi t, he now moves between Ont ario and Florida as the weather dictates . I am glad you have reproduced a typical photo of the Rev. L. G. Mason. He was a rea! character and personal ity in K.S.C. life for generat ions. He had hi s detractors, often those who had not been members of his form. Whatever we thought of him al the time, I never met an O.K.S. of my day, who wasn't proud to refer to " bein g under Old Tar in 4th Form". He was a fine actor and stage manager, and our regular coach fo r Speeches and School Plays. I think his stage sense is shown by the position of the large mark book in the photo. He was said to carry it fo r the photo every year, in o rder to take the eye off his remarkable rotun dity of form. I think with good effect. May I say how much [ enjoyed a recent week-end a t Canterbury. I have an even higher opinion of our old School now, than I had when I left it in 1896. May many there now live to see their sons and grandsons follow them. Yours sincerely,
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Walpole. To the Editors O/THE CANTUARIAN. Dear Sirs, The "art" di splayed in the Inter-House Art Competition sugges ts thaI the motives behind it are misplaced. We see torrents of trite trash interspersed with some genuine works, clever toys whirring aimlessly around a piece of sincere craftsmansh ip, and prefabricated art icles dispo rti ng themselves among bad copies of some of our country's more insipid works. The House Art displays are the resul t of endl ess work and even " art greens", The Schoo l exhibition is arranged in the last day or two by a handful of people. What has brought about this situat ion ? The way the competitio n is judged is not to blame. It is judged as an art and craft competition and the Houses placed at the top are those which produce the best exh ibit ions of art and craft. Such an exhibition will be produced by the efficient organisation of the work of a reasonably ba lanced distribution of good artists and craftsmen in a House. The award of a cup for the best exhibit ion is a necessary formality, however irrelevant, and the award of points towards the Luxmoore Trophy is reasonable when it is remembered that in this case the House with the best shown and most widely di stributed talent gets the most points. A mi sunderstanding of th is leads to the misplaced motives and the resulting mess in the Parry. " House Spirit" is evoked and the result is "House Spirit" (itself often a fa~ade) disguised as art. Worse st ill, some Houses' attit udes to art are such that those indi vidua ls producing genuine art must disgu ise it as " Ho use Spirit" or be classed as " dregs", antisocial. etc. What compensating advantages can this process offer ? It enables those, whose works are not good enough for the School exhibit ion to show their work, it makes the select ion of works for the School exhibition poss ible and in thi s School often provides an excuse for those too timid to do art for its own sa ke. Otherwise it results in a wanton waste of time and materi als. At the end of the Summer Term the art room is ransacked by people fighting for mater ia l in the names of their Houses. 759
THE CANTUA RI AN Should this situation be remed ied? Perhaps it is right, if expensive, to express team work, "House Spirit" etc., in art as well as on the games fie lds. As long as the Inter-House Art Competit ion exists, so will thi~ wasle and prosti tution of art. No amount of explaining the judging of the competition wi ll prevent th is. Rather, we shou ld abol ish the competition as such after th is year and expend some of the energy. time and materials wasted o n it in making the School's exhibition worthwhi le. With the increased facilit ies for a rt and craft next year the incentive of an Art Cup will not be necessary to ensure a h igh output, and wi thout the competition there will be less wasted time and material. Without it, the select ion of works would be a small problem, as there wou ld be few works to eliminate. The increased facilities should offer ample encouragement to the more timi d who will no longer have to call their art " House Spirit". If the cup and the points for the Luxmoore Trophy must be awarded, they can be awarded o n the works in the Schoo l exhibition. Thus would the intrusion of misplaced " House Spi rit" be prevented. Will we go on wasting time and effort ann ually in putting on this mean ingless compet ition, o r can we ook forward to putting on better Schoo l exh ibitions, which, with the new fac ilities, could be excellent ? Yours hopefully, M . J . A. SIMPSON.
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To the Editors a/ TH E CANTUARIAN Sir, I was horrified to hear a former member of the School describe the behaviour of some soi-disallt upperclass u ndergraduates of his college towards thei r secondary school fell ows. There seems to be persecution by all fo rms of ridicule and unpleasantness, with nothing too low for their hysterica l gibes: the d ress, manners and above a ll the earnestness o f study of these boys a re all scorned. Surely, to put it on the lowest ground, such snobbish att itudes are outmoded and ill-becoming, when plenty of the snobs a re themselves recipients of the same charity from public money as those they affect to despise? Although only one public school possesses the motto "Manners Makyth Man", it is the spi rit of that motto a lone that justifies the public school system. ft wou ld seem that this incredible att itude is a psycho logical reacti on to the fear that t h ~se young men feel- which is why their sneers and jeers can never be a joke. It may be, too, that these "g~n t lemen" fail to real ise that they are creating new enemies of the public schools and arm ing them wit h effective arguments. K INO'S SCHOLAR.
OUR CONTEMPORARIES The Editors acknowledge the receipt of the fo llowing magazines and apologize fo r any omissions:The Ample/orth Journa/, The Ba/'/'oviall, Bradfield Col/ege Chronicle, The Bromleian, The Campbellian, The Cholme/eian, Collegiate School 0/ St. Peter's Magazine, The C/'anbrookian. The Decanian, The Dellstonian, The Dovoriall, The ÂŁaSrbOllrl/iall, The Elizabethan, The Epsomian, The Franciscan, The Fe/stedial1, Glellalmond Chronicle, The Gresham, The Haileybllriall and 1.S.e. Chronicle, Kent College Magazine, Killg's College School Magazine, The Killg's School, Paramatla Magazine, The Kukri, The Latyme/,ian, The Lawrenrian, The Mar/bIlriall, The Loretlonian, The Me/eo/', The Mill Hill Magazine, The Ollsel, The Radleian, The Rep/oniall St. Edward's School Chronicle, The School Tie, The S tonyhurs/ Magaz ine, The S,lt/onian, The TOllbridgiall, The Worksopian. The Yorkist.
THE LIBRARY We gratefully acknowledge gifts from the following:Si r Theodore Adams, C.M.G., P. C. V. Lawless, W. H. Bird , P. Carnes, A. B. Emden, D.UTT., F.D.A., P. R. S. Manscra;h, A. J. K. Aust in , R. N. Nash.
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THE CANTUARIAN Should this situat ion be remedied? Perhaps it is right , if expensive, to express team work, "House Spirit". etc., in art as well as o n the games fie lds. As lo ng as the rn ter~ House Art Competition exists, so will this waste and prostitution of art. No amount of explai ning the judging of the competition will prevent this. Rather, we shou ld abolish the competition as such after this year and expend some of the energy, t ime and materials wasted on it in making the School's exhibition wort hwhile. With the increased facilities for art and craft next year the incenti ve of an Art Cup will not be necessary to ensure a high output, and without the competition there will be less wasted time and material. Without it, the selection of works would be a small problem, as there would be few works to eliminate. The increased faci lities should olTer a mple encouragement to the more timid who will no longer have 10 call their art " House Spirit". If the cup and the points for the Luxmoore Trophy must be awarded, they can be awarded on the works in the Schoo l exhibition. Thus would the intrusion of misp laced " House Spirit" be prevented. Will we go on wasting time and effort annually in putting on this mea nin gless compet ition, or can we ook forward to putting on better School exhibitions, which, with the new facili ties, could be excellent? Yours hopefully, M . J. A. SIMPOON.
To the Editors O/THE CANTUARIAN Sir, I was horrified to hea r a fo rmer member of the School describe the behaviour of some soi-disallf upperclass undergraduates of his college towards their secondary schoo l fellows. There seems to be persecution by all forms of ridicule and unpleasantness, with nothing too low for thei r hysterical gibes: the dress, manners and above all the earnestness of study of these boys are all scorned. Surely, to put it on the lowest ground , such snobbish attitudes are outmoded and ill-becoming, when plenty of the snobs are themselves recipients of the same charity from publi c money as those they alTect to despise? Although on ly one public school possesses the motto "Manners Makyth Man", it is the spirit of that motto alone that justifies the public school system. It would seem that th is incred ible attitude is a psychological reaction to the fear that th'.!se young men feel - which is why their sneers and jeers can never be a joke. It may be, too, that these "g;mtlemen" fail to realise that they a re creating new enemies of the public schools and arming them with elTective arguments. KING'S SCHOLAR.
OUR CONTEMPORARIES The Editors acknowledge the receipt of the following magazines and apologize for any omissions:Til e Ample/ortll JOllrnal, The Bal'roviall, Bradfield College Chronicle, Th e Bromleiall, The Campbellian, The Cholmeleiall, Collegiate School of St. Peter's Magazille, The Crallbrookiall. The Decal/ian, The Del/stonian, The Dovorian, The Eastbolfl'l1ian, The Elizabethan, The Epsomian, The Franciscan, The Felstediall, Glellalmolld Chronicle, Th e Gresham, The Haileyburian and I.S.C. Chronicle, Kellt Col/ege Magazine, Killg's Col/ege School Magazine, The Ki"g's School, Pal'amalta Magazine, The Kukri, The Latymeriall, The Lawre"tian, The Marlburian, The LoreltOllian, The Meteor, The Mill Hill Magazil/e, The Ousel, The Radleia", The Reptoniall St. Edward's School Chronicle, The School Tie, The S tonyhllrst Magazine, Th e SutJonian, Th e TOllbridgian, The Worksopiall. The Yorkist.
THE LIBRARY We gratefully acknowledge gifts from the foll owing:Sir Theodore Adams, C. M.G., P. C. V. Lawless, W. H. Bird, P. Carnes, A. B. Emden , D.L1TT., F. B.A. , P. R. S. Mansergh, A. J. K. Austin, R. N. Nash.
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