The Cantuarian December 1965 - April 1967 by OKS Association

THE CANTUARIAN VOL. XXXI No. I

DECEMBER,

1965

EDITORIAL It is clear that the wind of change must blow through the public schools

in the next few years. Hitherto, for the most part, these schools have been establishing their reputation by turning to advantage any pUblicity that they can gain by their activities. This School is now as secure in its position of eminence as most other schools, perhaps even more so than some of them; and it can afford to lessen this emphasis on selfadvertisement, and to stress rather its search for excellence in education. When the importance of gaining G.C.E. and University awards, winning rugger matches, producing an arts festival, and dressi ng and behaving well is stressed because of the impression that these will create on the outside world, then there may arise a false set of values. The right things may be done for the wrong reason. The aim of a public school is to provide a liberal education. The present examination system is largely to blame for the emphasis on learning facts to pass the G.C.E. Because the numbers of successes and failures in each school are published for comparison, these examinations 3

"KEM" GROSS [M. P. Powell

tend to assume an undue importance, and this is a further perversion of the secondary school education. A boy may be stuffed with sufficient facts to enable him to pass three "A" levels ; but he will assuredly forget many of these facts within a few weeks or days after the examination is over. He may therefore have learnt little of lasting value during the two years preceding the "A" level examination; and, as memorising facts needs little conscious thought, he has had little training to use his mind. King's is gradually adopting a more flexible system to compensate for these defects: all juniors study some science ; the seniors have a much wider choice of subjects, and more private study periods in which they can follow their own lines of research without the constant supervision of a master. It is not possible to ignore the importance of the G.C.E.; but however important it may be, a school is wise to occupy itself particularly with training its senior boys to make full use of their university work, or to meet the problems of their after-school life. In other fields, too, the School must remember what its true function is. Rugger must be played for enjoyment-as it usually is- without much thought for the two-inch space in the Daily Telegraph. King's Week should be primarily a communal participation in the Arts, with less attention to its propaganda value. The boys should dress neatly and behave well, not because they are "on show" (as if they were circus animals), but because they are civilised beings. To place any emphasis on doing things for their publicity value can only lead, imperceptibly, to disrepute and decay. A sounder emphasis on the right values must be instilled into the School, so that it may produce, as it should, well-educated and liberalminded gentlemen rather than standardised mediocrities with their hard-won three "A" levels. It is generally agreed that free-range chickens are preferable to battery-reared, scientifically fattened broilers. This principle can be very aptly applied to the education of boys. 4

CONTENTS PAGE

EDITORIAL THE SCHOOL THE SCHooL. ..

SALV,~'TE

VALETE

6 6

VIRTUTE FUNCTI MORE PATRUM DUCES

THIS AND THAT

AWARDS TO OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE ...

WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM

APPRECIATIONS

REVIEWS

" PATI ENCE" HOUSE PLAY . . .

MUSIC

LECTURES

CAREERS

CONTRIBUTIONS I N My END ]5 My BEGINNING GREAT POETRyTHE CHOICE

and

A LACK

PSYCHOLOGY IN MATH EMATICS

THE STORM _,. THE CoLD LAND

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THe MISSION A

A REVALUATION

TIME AS O LD AS LA Z ARUS

CoNTRAST

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KING'S SPORT R UGBY F OOTBALL ...

THE JUDO CLUD

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SQUASH RA CKETS. THE SHOOTING CLUD BASKETBALL ...

THE FENCING CLUD

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SCHOOL ACfIVITIES MusIc

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SoCI ETI ES

SOCIAL SERVICE

C.C.F.

NOTES

OUR CONTEMPORARIES

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O.K.S. NEWS THE 1965 O.K.s. CANTERBURY DINNER

THE O.K.S . CAREERS ADVISORY S ERVICE

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CAMBRIDGE LETTER

O.K.S.

NEWS

OBITUARIES . . .

ILLUSTRAnONS "KEM GROSS" SoMERSET MAUGHAM

ACROPOLIS

Frontispiece

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" PATIENce" .. .

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STUDIES FROM "PATIENCE

1ST XV 2ND XV LI NE-OUT

JEEV ES AT THE J UNIOR SCHOOL

"BEAT" MUSIC CoNCRETE ABSTRACT

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THE SCHOOL Captain of School: G. J. R. Bell Vice-Captain : P. J. Ralph Head of Galpin's G. J. R. Bell Head of Linacre P. J. Ralph Head of Meister Omers P. Hemingway Head of Walpole H ouse M. R. F . Reeson Head of The Grange N. T. G. Willis H ead of MarlolVe House H. J. Holdstock, K.S . H ead of School House N. H. Goulder Head of LlIxmoore HOllse M. J. Gray SCHOOL MONITORS

G. J. R. Bell, P. J. Ralph, P. Hemingway, M. R. F. Reeson N T G Willis, H. J. Holdstock, K.S., N. H. Goulder, M. J. Gray, D. L. S:nith', K.~. . HOUSE MONITORS

School H ouse: The Grange:

P. K. Jenkins, S. J. Nicholls, J. P. G. Revington, M. L. Wain. M. J. N. Baker, J. F . Chesshyre, K.S., C. D. Gay, I. D. K. Meek, S. P. C. Scott. Walpole H ouse: 1. J. T. Cronk, K.S., C. J. H. King Meister Omers: R. S. Hallam, K. S., R. B. Howard-Williams D 1 F P H. B. Poole. ' . . . ayne, Marlowe House: R. G. Hews, C. G. F. Robinson. Luxmoore House: T. 1. A. Bishop, 1.. S. Foster, S. T. Hull, M. B. King, R . F . Macmurchy D. O. McKenZie. ' Galpin's: D. L. Smith, A. D. Troup. Linacre House: J. R. Kilbee, K.S., J. I. S. Pitkeathly, G. W. R. Rowbotham, K.S., T. P. M. Young, M.S. Captain of Rugger P. 1. Ralph Captain of Boats G. R. J. Bell Captain of Cross-Country T. 1. A. Bishop Captain of Athletics A. H. Steele Captain of Cricket J. R. Kilbee, K.S. Captain of Tennis G. W. R. Rowbotham, K.S . Captain of Fencing 1. 1. S. Pitkeathly Captain of Shooting L. S. Burr Captain of Squash Rackets C. C. N. Bridge Captain of Gymnastics D. S. Whalley Captain of Judo M. A. Cowell Monitorfor Music T. P. M. Young, M.S. The Cantuarian Editors: The Captain of School (ex-officio), 1. F . Chesshyre, K.S. , A. 1. Flick, A. B. Marshall, K.S., N. F. Riddle, B. C. Tooby, K.S. 5

SALVETE C. J. R . Abbott, R. Andrews, N. C. R. Austin, C. R. Aylolt, J. G. Baird, S. P. Blackmore, D. A. Bond, C. C. Born, S. J. Bown, C. W. P . Bradfield, D. A. Calt rall , P. R. Clarke, A. J. C. Cleven, B. D. Clifford, R.l. Cowderory, R. A. J. Curtis, B. P. Decie, A. De Reuck, H. I. B. Draycott, W. D . B. Edmondson, K. J. P. Elliott, C. H. Eustace, A. E. C. Fairbairn, D. C. Fairbairn, C. N. H. Foster, S. R. Garber, I. C. Gaskell , A. C. N. Girling, R. A. E. Gordon, J. A. Griggs, C. K. A. Hall, I. W. H. Hannah, R. P. Harding, R. D. I. Harris, R. C. G. C. Hart, N . J. Hunt, C. H. R. Hutchison, P. H. J. T. James, T. D. G. Johnson, G. H. Lambrick, S. J. Lancaster, A. S. R. Lipsk i, J. H. W. Lloyd, A. G. L. Lyle, N. R . M. Mackie, N. P. Makris, J. P. M. Miller, D . W. Mitchell, R. A. Newman, N. R. Niner, J. A. Northen, A. P. C. Northrop, S. C. Osborne, C. R. J. Owen, R. F. Page, J. A. N. Paisley, D . C. Peters, C. C. B. Plummer, C. W. Poulsen, D. R. S. Price, D . V. Pugh, P. R. Quine, J. J. Raemaekers, I. C. B. Roberts, R. F . Shaw, K. G . A. Sinclair, P. A. Smart, P. W. Sprunt, P. J. E. Stevens, A. M. L. Stewart, H. D. Stewart, N. A. Stirling, K. Thompson, G. S. Thomson, M. W. J. Thorne, C. G . Thring, R. S. W. Tonking, N. W. Townsend, R. C. Truman, S. P. B. Tuite, J. W. H. Ward, N . P. W. Watson, R. H. W. Duckworth, J. G. C. Whiteside, G. F. Wi lson.

VALETE N. A. Ash, D. M. Barber, J. L. Beckett, M. J. Carver, W. R. Channon, P. J. Chester, P. A. Church, A. A. F. Craig, M. J. Cumber, J. R. Dean, A. J. Donald, I. J. E. Deighton, W. A. D. Double, P. J. Eckersley, P. R. Faithfull, P. M. Garel-Jones, P. E. Gibbs, D. A. Groves, C. A. Guest, S. H . F. Harwood, R. P. Hayward , G. M. A. Heaton , R . X. Heslop, J. P. C. Hoare, J. H. James, J. A. O. Jankowsk i, W. R. Lock, D. M. M. Kenyon, R . E. G. Man, A. T. Maynard, A. B. Meikle, P. H . Nodleman, C. C. Northen, G. M. Paine, P. E. Pearce, R . A. Penny, D. N. Petersen, J. E. Pollett, C. A. B. Pringle, I. L. S. Rae, N. J. Ring, A. M. J. Robbins, D . C. K. Roberts, D. Rouse, P. D. G. Scott, J. J. D. Smith, R. J. Tucker, P. H. White, R . White, J. B. Whitaker, R . A. Williams, D. L. Wood , R . V. Wyatt.

VIRTUTE FUNCTI MORE PATRUM DUCES ARNEY, C. J.- Came Sept. , '59; K.S., '59; Hon. Sen. K.S., '65 ; Hon . M.S., '64 ; House Monitor, '64; Captain 2nd XI Hockey and 2nd Hockey Colours, '65; First Orchestra; Corporal, C.C.F., '65; Upper VI; Open Scholarship in Modern Languages to Oriel College, Oxford. AUSTIN, C. S. K.- Came Jan., '60; House Monitor, '64; School Monitor, '65; 1st XV Colours, '63; 1st Hockey Colours, '64; Captain of Hockey, '65; 2nd Cricket Colours, '63; Sergeant, C.C.F., '65 . BALE, T. M.- Came Sept. , '60; House Monitor, '65; 1st Cricket Colours, '65; 2nd Hockey Colours, '65; 2nd XV Colours, '65; Squash Colours, '65; Upper VI ; Gift from the Waddington Fund. BARNDEN, C.- Came Sept., '60; K.S., '60; House Monitor, '65; Corporal, C.C.F., '65; Upper VI. BECKET, T. P.- Came Sept., '60; Han. M.S., '65; First Orchestra; Lance-Corporal, C.C.F., '65; Upper VI. 6

T CAMPBELL, A. J. W.- Came Sept., '60; Head of House and School Monitor '64' FIt / Sergeant, R.A.F. SectIOn , C.C.F., '65; Upper VI; Gilbert and Anderso~ Gift. . CATTRALL,. P/.~Came Sept., '60;, K.S., '60; House Monitor, '65 ; 1st Cricket COIOlllS, 63, Squash Colollrs, 64 '' Lance-Sergeant , C . C .F " '63', U pper VI . CRAVEN-GREEN, R . J.- Came Sept., '60; K.S., '60; First Orchestra ' Corporal C C F '64' Upper VI. ' , . . " , DAVIES, A. J.- Came May, '61; Judo Colours and Captain of Judo '64' C S M C C F '65; Anderson Memorial Gift. ' , " ., . . " DOYlE, K. G.~Came Sept., '61; K.S., '61; Sen. K.S., '63; Lance-Corporal, C.C.F., '65; UPIPler VI, Merton College Pme; Open Scholarship in Natural Sciences to Jesus Co ege, Cambndge.

FRENCH, I.: A. P.- Came/an., '61; 2nd Hockey Colours, '63; 1st H ockey Colours '64' 1st Cllcket Colollrs, 65; Lance-Corporal, C.C.F., '65. ' , GOROON-WILSON, C. N.-Came May, '61; House MonitO! '64' 2nd XV Colou s '64' 2nd Vlll Colours, '64; Sergeant, C.C.F., '65; Army S~hol;rship to Sandhu:St: ' GRIFFITHS, A. C.- Came Sept., '61; House Monitor, '65; 2nd XV Colours '64' 2nd VIII Colours, '65 ; Corporal, C.C.F., '64. ' , HODGES, p.W.-:-Came Sept., '60; ~ . S., '60; Hon. K.S., '61; Hon. Sen. K.S., '62; First Orchestra, Sergeant, C.C.F., 65; Upper VI; Open Exhibition in Natural Sciences to Corpus Chnstl College, Oxford. JACKSON, H. ,R.- Came Sept., '59; School Monitor, Head of House and Captain of School, ,64; 1st AthletIcs Colours, '63 ; Captain of Athletics '65 ' 1st XV Colours, 63; 1st Cncket Colours, '64 ; Upper VI. ' , KENT, R. D .- Came Sept., '61; K.S., '61; Hon. Sen. K.S., '63' School Monitor 'lI1d Head of House, '64; 2nd XV Colours '63' 2nd Hockey Col'ours '65 ' 21d C . 'k t . "I fie e Co Iours,.'63.'' T eJli~l.s C 0 Iours, ' 65; "Sergeant, C.C.F., '65; Upper VI' Mason ScholarshIp 111 ClaSSICS to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. ' KERMODE, P. R.- Came Sept., '60; Captain of Shooting '64 ' Sergeant C C F Upper VI. " " '64; 0

KYPRIS, A.- <?ame Se,,!., '60; House Monitor, '65; 2nd Hockey Colours, '64; 1st Hockey Colours, 65; ChIef Waggoner of Haymakers C.C., '65; Lance-Sergeant, C.C.F., '65. MANSERGH, M. G. S.~Came Sept., '60; K.S., '60; Sen. K.S., '62; House Monitor '64' Tenms Colours, 65; Lance-Corporal C C F '65' Upper VI' Op S I l ' h" in Modern Studies to Christ Church, 6xf~l'(i, 0" , e n c 10 ars Ip MASTERS, J.- Came Sept., '60; House Monitor '65 ' Corporal C C 0F' , '65', Upper VI. OLDHAM, M. J.- Came Jan., '60; House Monitor '64 ' Squash Colours '64' Captain of Squash, '65; 2nd XV Colours, '64; 1st H~ckey Colours '6'5 ' SWimml'ng Colours, '63, " . . "

ROWE, W. G.~Came Sept., '60; House Monitor, '65; Corporal, C.C.F., '65; Upper VI. SALMON, J: R .- Came Sept. , '60; 2nd Hockey Colours, '64; 1st Hockey Colours '65 ' Captalll 3rd XI Cncket, '65; Lance-Sergeant, C.C.F., '65. ' , 7

SCOTT-W,LLIAMS, N.-Came Sept., '60; Swimming Colours, '64; Captain of Swimming, '65; Corporal, C.C.F., '65; Upper VI. SPENCE, R. M.- Came Sept., '60; House Monitor, '65; 2nd XV Colour~, '63; 1st XV Colours, '64; 2nd Cricket Colours, '64; Captam 3rd Xl Cncket, 65; Corporal, C.C.F., '65. STOKES, J. D.- Came Sept., '60; School Monitor and Head of HOllse, '64; 1st XV Colours, '63; 1st VIII Colours, '64; Captain of Boats, '65; Sergeant, C.C.F., '65. SWANN, R. P. H.- Came Sept., '60; House Monitor, '65; 2nd Athletics Colours, '65; Upper VI. TAYLER, C. R. C.- Came Sept., '60; House Monitor, '65; 1st VIII Colours, '65; Sergeant, C.C.F., '65; Upper VI. TURNER, A. D. H.- Came May, '60; House Monitor, '64; ~chooIMonitor.and Head of House '64 ' 1st Cricket Colours, '63; 1st XV Colours, 64; Vlce-Captalll of Rugger, '64 ,' 2~d Athletics Colours, '63; Corporal, C.C.F., '64; Upper VI. VANDER MEERSCH, A. D.- Came Sept., '60; House Monitor, '64; School Monitor, '65; 2nd VIII Colours, '64; 1st VIII Colours, '65; C.S.M., C.C.F., '65; Upper VI. VILLIERS, P. J.- Came Jan., '61; 1st Athletics Colours, '65; Swimming Colours, '64; Lance-Corporal, C.C.F., '64. WATERHOUSE G. R.-Came Sept., '61; 1st Cross-Country Colours, '64; 1st Athletics Colours:'65; Secretary of Cross-Country Club, '65; Leading Cadet, R.A.F. Section, C.C.F., '65. WATSON, D. J.- Came Jan., '61; 2nd Athletics Colours, '65; Corporal, C.C.F., '65; Stanhope Memorial Gift. WEAVER, S. I.- Came Sept., '59; Head of House, '63 ; School Monitor and Vice-Captain of School '64' 1st Cricket Colours, '62; Captain of Cricket, '64; 1st Cross-Country Colours ~nd Captain of Cross-Country, '64; Sergeant, C.C.F., '64. WESTLEY, P. W. R.-Came Sept., '59; House Monitor, '64; Secretary of Glee Club; C.S .M., C.C.F., '65; Upper VI. WHILES, J. G.-Came Jan., '61; House Monitor, '65; 2nd VIII Colours, '65; Corporal, R.A.F. Section, C.C.F., '65. WILLIAMS, W. H.- Came Jan., '61; M.S., '65; ~on. Sen . K.S., '65; House,Monitor, '65; Monitor for Music '64; Secretary of ChOir, Jazz Club, Choral Society and BellRinging; O.K.S. Music Gift; Open Scholarship in Music to New College, Oxford. WILLS, B. B. I.- Came May, '60; House Monitor, '64; School Monitor and Head of House, '64; 2nd Hockey Colours, '63; I st Hockey Colours, '64; 2nd XV Colours, '63; Lance-Sergeant, C.C.F., '65. WOOD, W. M. L.- Came Sept., '59; Han. K.S., '61; House Monitor, '64; School Monitor and Head of House, '65; Sergeant, C.C.F., '65; Upper VI.

THIS AND THAT We were very sorry to hear the news of the death of William Somerset Somerset Maugham, one of the .school'S most distinguished old boys, governors and Maugham benefactors. At prayers on 16th December the School stood silent for a . moment, re.membering .with gratitude his life and work, his generosity and his human kmdness. It IS a great pnvilege that he should have chosen to be buried here in Canterbury. On the morning of December 22nd at a short and private service conducted by the Dean and the Headmaster, the ashes of William Somerset Maugham were interred m a plot of land adJ"cent to the Maugham Library. The School was represented by Governors, Masters, and some thirty boys who chose to return for the ceremony, and a wreath was laid on behalf of the School by H. J . Holdstock, K.S., as acting Captain of School. We congratulate Hugh Honour, O.K.S. on the publication of his book A Guide to The Co~npanion Guide to Venice. This is, as he says, "written for the visito; Venice to Ventce rather than the armchair traveller"; certainly it is a book to be referred to as occaSIOn arises rather than a description to be read from cover

to cover. The emphasis is on the buildin!?s and sites of particular interest in the city, but there are also many other valuable, prachcal hmts to the traveller. Lists of shops, hotels, restaurants, ~xclirslO."s and place~ of mterest are provided; every page provides some clue

to the. peculiar ambience of Ventce. The book is highly recommended to all who would Illvestlgate the Jumbled delights of Venice under guidance or who would derive a memorable and lasting impression of the city, after their own unguided and capricious wanderings.

School Secretaries

We warmly welcome to the School Mrs. Wright who took over for a term from Mr~. Kerin as Assistant S~cretary before replacing Mrs. Bennett. The School Will, however, greatly mISS Mrs. Bennett, who is leaving after sixteen years as Secretary to the Bursar.

It is with real regret that we say goodbye to Mr. and Mrs. P. H. W. Garwood

Valete

who have for so long benefited the School, and The Grange in particular. An appreclallve note appears elsewhere in the issue.

We also say goodbye to the School Caterer, Miss Gray. In her short stay here there have been marked improvements in School food and she left us on a high note- the Break-up Supper. Mrs. Stewart takes over the School catering this month. We welcome her very warmly and hope she will be very happy at Klllg's.

The Food Front

Sister Phillips, too, is leaving us. We shall miss the sympathetic charm Sister Phillips with which she ha~ oft~n revived the most sickly inmates of the San., and we hope she Will enJoy her work on Occupational Health. 9

On the 9th November, Colonel K. A. C. Gross handed over the com mand of Esprit de the J<jng's C.C.F. , wh ich he has held for the past eighteen years, to Mr. W. J. R . Corps Hildick-Smith. In a short address to the Contingent, Colonel Gross said how sorry he was to be finally handin g over the co mmand and mentioned that he had commanded 2,356 cadets in all, which is a remarkable record. We doubt whether Mr. Hildick-Smith will be able to emulate his predecessor's tenacity but we are confident of his enthusiasm and efficiency. Squash Rackets

Qur congratulatio ns to the Squash Team and the masters who coach them, Mr. D. W. Ball and M r. R . P . Bee, o n their magnificent run of

victories- Winchester 5- 0,

Wellington 5-0,

Westminster 5- 0,

Canford 5- 0 and St. Lawrence 5- 0. Their final victory 5- 0 over G res ham's, who had just had extremely close matches with Lancing, Tonbridge and Brighton, stro ngly suggests that they may be the best school side this year. As All Saints' Day fell on a Monday this year, the Headmaster â&#x20AC;˘â&#x20AC;˘ . who from their kind ly gave us a half-term from October 30th to November 1st. labours rest The holiday, though brief, was a welcome respite before scholarships and the more exacting second part of the term . British Rail at least profited from the scheme though commuters on the 4.0 p.m. from Charing Cross and 4.40 p.m. from Victoria dou btless took a dimmer view. The Archbishop last term figured in the news over various matters of topical interest. However, we would particularly li ke to congratulate him on the publication of his book, Sacred and Secular, which he says he managed to write in odd moments, for example while waiting for his bath water to run in. Take note all yo u who wo uld write for The Cantuarian but cannot find the time!

Sacred and Secular

I I

Most of us were not only shocked by the senseless desecration of the Vandalism in the Cathedral but also discouraged further from endorsing the modern Cathedral attitude towards religion . The damage itself was not irre parable but one would have hoped that the Cathedral had ceased to be in dan ger of violation with the decline of Puritanism. We received an interesting pamphlet, which put forward Rhodesia's case fo r Independence, from P . W. C. Wilcox, O.K.S. of B.S.A. Police, Darwendale, Rh odesia . Although the iss ue was debated by the Tenterden Society, we at K ing's did not commit ourselves to a n opin io n in public. H owever, 50 University of Kent students marched down the hill in protest against U.DJ. , but fa iling to arouse any publ ic sentiment in Canterbury, they marched a ll the way back up again .

Rhodesia

Some of us with an eye to improvement have been eager to take advantage of the excellent facilities which the University provides. Photographers have found plenty of material for architectural studics, scientists have been arran ging to go to lectures next term while others, on the 10th December, have actually been to an interesting open lecture on "T. S. El iot" by Professor Cleanth Brook s of Yale University. It was a great privilege to have present Mrs. Eliot an d some of the poet's closest friends , who had attended the opening of the University's first College, to be called Eliot College.

Eliot College

At another seat of learning, the Junior School in fact, Ian Carmichael and his filmmg retmue made an appearance early last term. Photographs of the venture appear elsewhere in the issue. The fi lm taken from novels by P. G . Woodh ouse, is to be entitled either "Bertie Changes his Mind" or "The. K id Clementina". It is one of a Television series which may also be exported to Amenca. Jee~es at the JUDlor School

The .new projector has been in constant use this term and there has been School Films a Wide vanety of film s shown , topics ranging from Shakespeare to the . sex hfe of mildew! The present lo udspeaker is clearly inadequate but we are h opmg for a new one from somewhere. We would like to th ank Mr. Hildick-Smith 111 particular for gIVIng up so much of his time to show these film s. Earlier in the term some stage-thrones were at last restored to the M arlowe 11le Marlowe Theatre, much to the delight of producer Donald Bain. Apparently they Theatre had been borrowed from the the~tre some years ago and had gradually become aSSimilated mto the K11Ig s School properties. On 21 st October, the Walpole SoclCty went to see Dr. Faustus at the Marlowe, and others also saw The Taming oj the Shrew . . On 2?th November, various Modern Linguists saw the production of The VISIt by Fnednch Durrenmatt and thoroughly enjoyed it. On a ~umbler, but no less del i~htful, plane The Playcraft Theatre produced P laycraft Becket s Watling jor Codot. ThiS was well-attended by King's boys, eager to see some faml har figures m actIOn, and was highly appreciated . Our thanks are due to Mr. G. S. P. Peacocke who so ably publicized the event. Heard outside the Cathedral: Moving Spirit FIRST AMERICAN: "Say, what's all that scaffolding forT' SECOND AMERICAN: "Gee, you don't know? That cathedral's old enough to be exported." In th~ summer holidays, Khlg's entered the Schools' Jumping Championships at H ickstead for the first ti me. Our team consisted of R. G. P . Elliott on Jumpmg "Mcrcury", J. P. D. Elliott on "Harlequinnc" and J. V. Cornwall on "Moussa . Pasha", and although we were unsuccessfu l we hope to do better next year with the h elp of a local riding school. We are most gr~teful to a parent, Mr. J. T. Fagg' for provldlllg transport. ' Sho~v

We welcome to King's an unusually large number of Masters this term' Welcome to Mr. T. B. Bryant, Mr. J. J. D . Craik and Mr. A. P. R . Noble, who teach Masters Modern Languages; Mr. M . N. Wetherilt who teaches Biology; Mr. . . B. W. J. G. Wilson who teach~s Classics, English and Divi nity and sports a F ives Blue, Mr. D. J. Reid who teaches History and Economics has an Athletics Blue and a lready has helped with School Rugger; and Mr. M. J. Hatch who teaches MathemalIcs and has assisted Mr. Reid in running the Under 14 XV. We also welcome back from his course at J<jng's College, Cambridge, Mr. M. G. H. Dillon who will continue to teach English here. 11

Staff Achievements

We congratulate Mr. T . B. Akrill on his marriage to Miss Nan Ingham. We also congratulate Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Boorman on the birth of a son, James, on the 19th October.

We are sorry to learn of Mr. Cogger's removal up the hill from the Borough, where Cogger's has become virtuall y a School institution. He has always been friendly and welcoming and has taken a kee n interest in the School's affairs; his presentation to the School of a very handso me Athletics Standards Cup demonstrated his particular enthusiasm for King's sport. He tells li S that he has a permanent appointment at the U ni versity with 'gentleman's hours'. Cogger's lives o n in name across the road, and we hope to see more of Mr. Cogger himself from time to time. Matriculation

This season saw the foundation of the first real O.K.S. Rugger XV. On October 3rd, the day after the O. K.S. match, the all-star O.K .S. XV played a strong Kent "White Ho rses" team and lost; it must, however, be noted that P. G. Swete, O.K.S., playing for the "White Horses" to even out numbers, played exceptionally well against his own team ! In Nove mber the O.K.S. team defeated Haywa rds Heath and on December 5th beat Camberley. The Clu b plays mostl y on Sundays and enj oys the close co-o peration of Sutton R.F.C.; it seems an admirable venture and with the support of King's men, past and present, should do very well in the future. O.K.S. Rugby Team

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Boy: "What's the best novel in the world, sir ?" Bible Story MASTER: "The Bible, most certainly". Boy: "Surely not, it's just a collection of short stories." "Spike" Wells is apparently earning himself quite a reputation a t Oxford as a Jazz 1965 Jazz drummer. He was recently interviewed by the University paper, which spoke highly of his talents. It a lluded to his in-concert drum-battle with Mr. R. B. Morgan here at King's, and quoted his opinion of the King's mai nstream ten- piece band for which he used to play: "good at the time, but on reflection rather diabolical" . Spike at the moment, besides working, plays at the Modern Ja zz Club and writes for Jazz Monthly. Enthusiasm ror traditional jazz at King's seems to have departed with him, the present "Jazz" Club is made up exclusively of "beat" and " folk" groups. They played most entertainingly at the Concert on 27th November but it was not jazz. On 14th November the Remembrance Service was held outside, as The Remembrance usual, in the Memorial Court, and th e weather, as usual, was bitterly Service cold; it even began to snow towards the end. Despite this, the service was in many ways the most moving of the year : the setting itself, the acco mpaniment of the Military Band, the va ri ous bugle-calls and gun-salutes all help to bring out the essential nat ure of the service. 12

We believe that no mention has hitherto been made of Mr. R . W. Harris' talents as a n editor and auth or. He is General Editor of the Blandford History HIStorIes Senes. and has 11Im ~el f wntten. two books for it, England in the Eighteenlh " , Centwy and :4bso,lulfsm and Enltghte11lnent. He has recently been assembling a dlstlllgllished team of ~ !1I VerS l ty Dons',each undertaking, to examine a particular problem, ? r to re-assess some hVlIlg aspect of history, Mr. Harn s hopes that his series will be of IIlter~st to the genera l re~d~r with a ~aste for history, as well as satisfying the fastidious reqlllreme~ts of the specIalist. KnowlIlg Mr. Harris' previous ach ievements, we are confident of hiS success.

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Fag, makin ~ out a list of books returned to the bookstore, wrote "AbsolutIOn for Enlightenment-R . W. Harris."

Major fears were aroused amongst all who take an interest in school Henley rowinll ,,:hen it was rumoured that Oxford and Cambridge G.C.E. Royal Regatta ExammatlOns from 1966 onwa rds would take place earl ier than usual. . ThIS would have upset the 1st VIII's programme before He nley completely a nd m a ll probability we should not have been able to send a n eight to the R oyal Regatta at a ll. H owever, these fears have been tempo rarily allayed by the ass urance that exammatlOns will contlllue to take place at the usual date in 1966 at least; thereafter the situatIOn mllst he III do ubt.

The Boat Clu b has been fortunate in acquiring a handsome new trophy to be known as the "Gardner Challenge Cup". Thi s has been presented by Mr. Gardner of the Mint Yard in memory of M rs. Gardner who died at the beginning of term. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gardner were keen s upporter~ of the activities of the Boat Club and we are most grateful to M r. Gardner for thiS kllld and generous act ion. The CliP will replace the existing trophy, known as the "Damsel" C up and it will be competed for by JII11IOr Scullers next summer. U ntil then, it may be seen on the high table III the Dilling Hall . The Gardner Challenge Cup

We wou ld like to congratulate Major D. J. B. Jervis, a Governor of the School School , on hi S, appollltment ~ s a Gove rni ng Bodies Association representative Governors on the Council of the Public Schools' Bureau. We also welcome the Ven. . M . J. Nott to the School's Governing Body. Mr. Nott was collated by the Lord AlchblShop as Archdeacon of Maldstone and mstalled by the Dean as Residentiary Canon of the Cathedral on December 11th ; he will li ve at 22, The Precincts. His predecessor, the Ven . . R. G. Strutt, was consecrated , together with The Rt. Revd. the BIS hop-deSignate of Blrkenhead, as Bishop of Stockport at Chester R. G. Strult Cathedral on 7th November. The occasion was unique in that two , new Suffragan Bishops for a ,diocese were consecrated on the same day, a nd peculiar for the fact that the ceremony Itself took place outside York Minster; in the Northern provlllces consecrat ions a~m ost always take place there, and the tradition has been broken only once before, at Liverpool Cathedral in 1946. We wish the Bishop and his fa mily the best of luck in their new home. 13

The Librarian gn.tefully ack nowledges the gift of books from the Headmaster, A. Binney, Esq. , R. P. Scott, Esq., Messrs. D. and R. Pardew, C. Gadney, Esq., O.K .S. , the Information Office of the U.S. Em bassy, the Schools' Liaison Officer, Eastern Command, the Bahai's of Canterbury, and the O.K.S. Association.

Gifts to the Library

We would also like to thank Sir Leslie Joseph, President of the O.K .S. Put Out Association, for the gift of two St. David's flags and Mr. Alexander McIntosh More Flags for the gift of a st. Andrew's flag. This we were able to see flying above the library on November 30th. By courtesy of the Royal Society of St. George we shall also fly the appropriate flag on April 23rd. We congratulate these O.K.S. who have distinguished themselves at various sports: Christopher Irwin , who has come through the Jim Russell Racing Driver's School and is now with the Chequered Flag team; John Walker, who has played five hundred games for Ashford Rugby Club with outstanding success; M. J . Parsons, who has represented Oxfordshire and Northampton at rugby this season ; Chris Barker, who has played regularly for Rosslyn Park's 1st Team and R. B. Britton, who has played for Rosslyn Park and the Sussex County XV. We also congratulate R. A. D. Freeman, C. H. Freeman a nd R. W. Clark, who all rowed in the Oxford "A" Crew last term and D. M. P. Barnes who rowed for the "B" Crew. O.K.S. Sport

R. M. Sutton has become Honorary Secretary of the O.K.S. Golfing O.K.S. Golf Society, on the retirement of G. A . Young. His address is G. Ellissen and Co., 91 Moorgate, London, E .C.2. He will also keep the stock of O.K.S. Club Golfing ties which cost 2 1/- each. In welcoming R oger Sutton, the Association warmly thanks Geoffrey You ng for all his good work. We have had severa l interesting and informative lectures this term. Col. J. R. P. Montgomery talked on "Slavery in the World Today"; Daphne Oram demonstrated her "Oramics"; Tony Smythe recounted his dealings with "The Moose's Tooth" and J. K. Thomson, C.M.G. talked about " The Wind of Change Across Africa". The Carl Dolmetsch Trio entertained us to a concert of Elizabethan Music, and the Opera Players gave a most enjoyable performance of Strauss' Die Pledermaus. Reviews appear elsewhere in this issue but we would like to thank all the lecturers and performers concerned . Lectures and Entertainments

The new Cathedral Library being built over the Dark Entry and Brickwalk, Darkening despite minor difficulties, is coming on well and should be completed by Entry July. The builders are mai ntaining a traditional appearance by using Bath sandstone and flint facing, and although the Normans no doubt did not have Redland bricks, there is no reason why the Library should appear in the least incongruous with its surrounds. While not such a radical change in the composition of the Precincts, few could fail to note the resurfacing of the roadways. The antiquated tar-boiler forced itself upon the attentions both by its smell and noise, but it helped perform a very necessary task. 14

We were delighted to hear of the awards of Trevelyan Scholarships to Awa.rds J. R. Bell a nd J: F. Chesshyre, K.S., who, respectively, wrote on AcademIc. West AfrI,~an Tal kmg Drums" and "Eighteenth Century Pastime. . HandIcrafts . TheIr success was partIcularly gratifying as this is the last year 111 whIch the Scholarships are to be awarded.

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We also, congratulate R . H. Davies on gaining a Choral Scholarship to Ktnl! s College, Cambridge and J. F. Potter on winning a Choral Ex hIbItIOn to Go nv".le and Cal us College. Davies left us early this term to fill a sudden ly-found vacancy III the Kmg's alto line; Potter will foHow to Cambndge at a more leISurely p~ce III 1966. We also congratu late S. R. Davies, O.K .S. on ga mmg hIS F.R.C.O. at queen s CoHege, Oxford. A complete list of awards to Oxford and CambrIdge fo llows " ThIS and That". . . It was inte~esting to note that the Headmaster and Mr. Edward Heath, M.P. LIfe PolIcy have ~ S1m".ar outlook on hfe. The sub-title of the most recent Conservative . '.'manlfesto" was "The Pursuit of Excellence". It is undoubtedly an admtra ble pohcy.

This term at Evensong we have had the privilege of welcoming as preachers the.Revd. Dr. J. N. D. Kell y, Principal of St. Edmund HaU, Oxford ; J. T. Chllstle, Esq. , Prmclpal of Jesus College, Oxford and the Right Revd . Dr. K. C. H . Warner. There have been fewer Sunday evening Services for the whole School thIS term; on the 17th October there was voluntary Compline and IntercessIOns and on 21st N ovember voluntary Evensong and Thanksgiving. We would like to thank the MadrIgal SocIety and the MuSIC Scholars for singing at these Services. . .. VlSltmg Preachers

~s always, the biennial Gil bert and Sullivan gave rise to certain anxIetIes

Pat~ence? a amongst both cast and audIence. When costumes arrived the day before the VIrtue . dress-r~hears~ I , It was discovered that the dragoons' swords, if not inextricably lodged m thell' sca bbards, were only three-quarter length dummies Although replacements co uld not be found in time for the dress-rehearsal, major panic for the first ntght was allayed when the Stage Manager took the business into his firm and capable ~ands, ~rove up ~o London, cast aro und to seclire some most lethal-looking weapons ctnd arn ved back In Canterbury- an hour before the curtain went lip. Chapel Collections- Christmas Term, 1965 Sept. 26. Royal United Kingdom Benevolent Association ,.. Oct. 17. ~ent Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society .. . ... .. . 24. Save the Children" Fund ... Nov. 21. Kent Homes for CerebraHy Paralysed Children 28 . "Housing the Homeless" Fund Dec. 16. Carol ~ervice coUection divided be't~een 'the M~yor of'Cant~;: bury s Chnstmas Fund and the Hostel of God Clapham Other coUections allocated to the General Chapel Fund ~mounted to From the General F und, donations have been made to'. The South African Church Development Trust. St. Andrew's CoUege, Minaki, Dar-es-Salaam. Dr. Barnardo's Homes.

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The Editors of The Cantuarian would like to thank all who hav~ contributed articles and poems, reviews and reports, to thi s edition. P~rtlclliar thanks are due to those who have tak~n photographs for the magazine; few people realise how difficult it is to maIntaIn a high standard If we have onlÂĽ a few photographs from which to choose. We are very sorry to be lOSIng two Editors this term, N. F . Riddle and J. F . Chesshyre, K.S., who have devoted a great deal of time 1l:nd energy to The Cantuarian. We welcome W. N . Bryson, K.S. as Secretary to the MagazIne.

From the Editors

We were sad to read of the death on December 15th of Queen Salote Queen Salote of Tonga. It was before the time of any boy now at Kmg's that she VISited the School, but those who saw her then remember with pleasure her infectious smile, her natural dignity and the warmth of her personality.

AWARDS TO OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE M. R. H. BOURNE, Open Scholarship in History to Lincoln College, Oxford.

J. F . CHESSHYRE, Open Scholarship in History to Tnlllty College, Cambndge. Trevelyan f d Scholarship. W. J. DAVIES, Open Scholarship in Modern Lang~ages to New College, Ox or . N. A. H. DAWNAY, Postmastership inNatural SCience to Merton College, Oxford. P. S. JENKINS, Open Scholarship in History to St. Edmund, Hall, Oxford. . P. A. K ING, Open Scholarship in Mathem1l:tlcs to St. J ohn s College, Cambndge. .. C. J. LEE, Open Scholars hip in Natural SCIence. to. LlIlcoln College, Oxford: A. A. RANI CKI, Open R obert Styring Scholarship In MathematIcs and PhysIcs to Tnlllty College, Cambridge. .' C II C b' d D. 1. SALES, Open Scholarship in Mathematics to Sidney Sussex 0 ege, am n ge. W. J. WOOD, Meeke Scholarship (Open pro hac ~tce! In PhysIcs to Hertford College, Oxford. R. H . DAVIES, Choral Scholarship (Alto) to King s College, Cambndge . . G. J. R . BELL, Open Exhibition in History to Emmanuel College, Cambndge. Trevelyan Scholarship. . I. R. GRANT, Open Exhibition in History to Onel College, Oxford. J R KILBEE Open Exh ibition in H istory to St. Edmund Hall, Oxford . . F. Mc DONALD, Open Exhibition in Modern Languages to Jesus College, Cambndge. 1. D . K. M EEK, Open Exhibition in History to Magdalen College, Oxford. J. A. OGLEY Open Exhibition in History to Hertford College, Oxford .. D . G. POWE~L, Open Exhibition in History to Selwyn College, Camb~ldge. M M RICKARDS Open Exhibition in EngmeerIng SCience to St. John s College, Oxford. G: W: H. ROWBO~HAM, Open Exhibition in Modern History to St. John's College! Oxford. J. F . POTTER, Choral Exhibition (Tenor) to Gonville and Cams College, Cambndge. T. P. M . YOU NG, Academical Clerkship (Tenor) to Magdalen College, Oxford.

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WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM

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My connexion with Somerset Maugham began with his letter to me of 22nd January, 1936 (or possibly 1937, as often he omits mention of the year) from Trinidad that he was sorry to learn of the Kin g's School's plight, and continuing, "I often come down to Canterbury and wander about the School buildings. Next time I come I will take advantage of yo ur courtesy and venture to call upon you. Perhaps then we can have a little talk about the situation in general." In 1935 the School possessed only debts and the outlook was alarming; it was small- abo ut 180 in that summer- and could perish. It needed its friend s. "What about Maugham?" I asked Hugh Walpole, one of my closest friends. "Hopeless," he replied; "he hates the school. " ~'What about Maugham?" I asked another friend, Mr. Justice Luxmoore, President of the O.K.S. Association, and in unmentionable language he told me how bitterly O.K.S. hated Maugham for his savage treatment of the School in OJ Human Bondage. Nonetheless, unknown to everyone, I wrote to W.S.M. to let bygones be bygones- that all schools in those distant years were more or less barbarous- that his own School was in parlous state, needing all the friendship it could get. When almost a year passed with no answer I thought he might be something like Fairfax Luxmoore's description; and then came this Trinidad letter-Maugham had been slowly progressing round the world, my letter following in his wake. That autumn he came; we ta lked fu ll y about the School and I knew he would be an ally. There was not then much to be seen, but he missed nothing, and on November 6th wrote from Portland Place, "I noticed that the Masters' Common Room bore a somewhat cheerless look and it occurred to me that a few pictures on the walls would make it more friendly and habitable"; and it is likely that the ten or dozen 18th century mezzotints still decorate the present Common Room ; there came, too, a cheque for ÂŁ200 towards laying down three hard tennis courts in front of Grange. Undoubtedly the lamb had returned to the fold, though older O.K.S. retained suspicions. I could never get him to an O.K.S. dinner"Those sort of functions are extremely tiring and at my time of life I find it only sensible to avoid them." But I met him a good deal in those pre-war years here, and in London and at Godmersham . "Do you see that sinister fi gure there at a table by himself?" he asked one day at the Dorchester. "That is Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador." I did know, for I had met Maisky a few times here, and I well remember our last conversation at the time of Mun ich outside my front gate. A man left another table, patting Maugham on the shou lder in friendly fashion as he went by- "That is even a more sinister person," he remarked, naming a member of the Cabinet. And one day at lunch in the Garrick I asked him, "Who's that?" indicating a member lunching by himself. "That is Max Pemberton," he answered; and my mind leapt gratefully back to boyhood and the incredible number of times I had read The Iron Pirate. The trolible about OJ Human Bondage was that it was factual- there was hardly a thin disguise: men and buildings, the author "photographed" them all : which can more easily be seen if one reads the illustrated edition done by Doubleday, Doran & Co. of New 17

York, a 1936 copy of which Maugham gave me. At page 54 you will see Mr. Perkins, the Headmaster (realIy Thomas F ield, D.O., whom I knew welI later on, and he was just like this picture) inside the Mint Yard Gate; after a glad mention of Marlowe and Pater a few lines on page 65 explain Maugham's life-long disability and the School's measure of responsibility for it. The hero, Philip Carey, suffered the deformity of a club-foot, and the mocking of masters and boys made him only the more bitterly conscious that he was not as others. Philip Carey was Willie Maugham, who had a bad stammer which remained always with him, so that he could never make a speech- he who had so much to sayand down to old age he found it hard to forgive those whose mocking made a bad thing worse. You see it in OJ Humall Bondage-the master glaring at him in a ferociou s mood , "Speak, you blockhead, speak 1 Blockhead 1 Blockhead 1" Probably the most noted of the assistant masters of the 19th century was L. G. H. Mason, himself a former King's Scholar, who returned as a clergyman in 1871 to teach, which he did til11908; his nickname was "Tar", and he has come down as a "terror"- but Maugham

was not terrified by him. (It was Tar's younger brother, Gerard Moore Mason, who went home from our tent at the Canterbury Cricket Week in 1938, and made a new will leaving to the School the better part of ÂŁ20,000 because he had been given a comfortable chair and tea.) You will find the masters who figure in OJ Human Bondage photographed at page 248 of Woodruffe and Cape's History of the School. The Headmaster, Mr. Perkins (in real life Thomas Field, King's Scholar 1868-73, Captain of School his last 3 years, three Firsts at Oxford, a Master at Harrow, Headmaster here 1886-1896, then Warden of Radley, whose portrait hangs in our HalI), Philip Carey adored. Maugham adored Fieldhe told me so ten years or more ago, when I placed a School group of Field's time on the window-ledge of my office and said, "You must be here-can you identify yourself?" He replied that if he were there he would be close to F ield ; and there he was, aged 12, tucked against the bearded Headmaster's legs. In the book, Maugham makes the masters adopt a snobbish attitude to Mr. Perkins, as being only the son of a linen-draper. Certainly it is tradition that Dr. Mitchinson ("Fleming" in the book) who was Headmaster from 1856 to 1873 "discovered" Field in Faversham Church Elementary School when he was inspecting it in Religious Knowledge; Field was the son of a smalI tradesman, but Mitchinson was determined to have him as a boarder, and no question of fees. When he was a boy, Maugham was interested in the Christian religion, though even then critical of its official exponents, while in far later years Buddhism attracted him; but nobody absolutely dead to Christianity would have bothered himself to write from Cap Ferrat in 1956, "You may remember that you very kindly lent me a book to help me in writing an essay I had in mind on Tillotson. I found it very useful, and returned it to you. For my essay I have a great deal of reading to do, and I am somewhat puzzled by the outcry that was made by the Non-Conformists over the Athanasian Creed. I have just read it over twice, and cannot see what they made a fuss over." Four years before he had written to me from the Dorchester that he was doing an essay on Emily Bronte and would like to know what fees her father would receive for marrying, christening and burying his 18

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Somerset Maugham talking to Canon F. J. Shirley

Somerset Mangham as a boy at King's

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parishioners. As his wife brought him ÂŁ50 p.a. and after her death his sister-in-law lived with him and had ÂŁ50 p.a . of her own, "he could not have been so poverty-stricken as his biographers have hitherto pretended". Philip Carey in OJ Human Bondage may not have thought highl y of his uncle, the vicar of Blackstable, who brought him up from childhood, but the compelling reason that brought Willie Maugham so often into East Kent was that he might see that the graves of his uncle and aunt at Whitstable were properly cared for- so he had pietas, an indubitable element of "religion", which also helps to

explain why he wished to be buried in the Precincts of Canterbury. And I know from himself that up to the war he wo rked at nights in Bermondsey Clubs, and was active in prison work and in aiding the discharged. Maugham was interested in people, plai n, ordinary people, club boys, criminals- and, maybe, snobbishly so in upper-class folknot only as material for stories and novels, but as having value in themselves. Thus although he was genuinely interested in the School's development, he did not see it (as I often did) in terms of money, numbers, buildings and scholarships, but concerned himself with the boys' living conditions, and that at first-hand. So before the war he sometimes chatted with a dozen or so of them round the fire in somebody's room. Here is the origin of his fu ture Library and the Maugham Scholarship scheme. In 1955 he wrote, "If you think the boys will like it, I will gladly lunch with you in hall." He did so, and later that month spoke deprecatingly about it at a Governors' meeting, for in 1946 the Dean and Chapter had appointed him a Governor after the death of Lord Plender. ,Somewhere and somehow he had contact apart from myself, for two months afterwards he wrote, "I hear through the grape vine that the food yo ur wretched charges have to eat has lately improved." The establishment of a scholarship for a boy from a working-class home came to Maugham's mind early in the war ; it wo uld be a tribute to the working-classes for the gallant way they had stood up to German bombs. The income of ÂŁ10,000 was to be used to defray all costs of fees, clothes, pocket-money, cricket bats and the rest; but the boy must not be "white collar" class. "1 trust you will bear in mind", he wrote from Athens in 1953, " that my intention from the beginning was to bring working-class boys in contact with the boys of the upper and middle class in the hope that it would be of benefit to both parties." But there were no takers- the plan was no more successful than the Fleming scheme. I had persuaded W.S.M . to let a certain local boy have the first ap pointmenthe was not of the class the Trust intended , but nobody else in any way suitable presented himself. Reluctantly, Maugham agreed. This first and only Maugham Scholar became Head of his House and an Open Scholar at Oxford. When he left I wrote to W.S.M. what he had achieved, and received in return a characteristic cold douche. "I arp' glad

to know that . . . has got a Scholarship, but sorry he is joining the white collar classwhich means a starvation wage and poor prospects. But I know that this is your idea of earthly bliss." On the failure of this scheme the money was transferred to the Governors, with the approval or'Maugham and his other trustees, to meet the rest of the cost of building a new Physics block, which in 1958 W.S.M. (by then C.H. and an Hon. D.Litt. of Oxford) formally opened. 19

That was his major benefaction in money to the School; but he also paid £5,000 for building a large room in which to house his books which would come from Cap Ferrat; he gave £3,000 to build a Boathouse at Pluck's Gutter for the Eights; he sent his manuscripts of Liza of Lambeth and Catalina for inclusion in the Walpole CollectIOn of MSS. in 1948, offering me a free choice ("I have a notion that It IS on my short StOfl~S that my reputation, if it lasts at all, will in the end last") and seven years later wrote III his reah~hc strain, "I don't know jf yo u saw in the newspapers that the manuscrIpt of a novel of mme was sold at Sotheby's the other day for two thousand six hundred pounds. It looks as though on a pinch the School could raise a sum on the manuscripts I presented." Maugham was immensely fond of the School- these large and publicly-known gifts declare thatbut they do not illustrate it, maybe, so well as the Tennis Courts of 1937 ; the Comma:, Room mezzotints of the same time; his concern for the food and hvmg conditIOns; hiS portrait specially pai nted by Gerald Kelly for the Hall; the charming picture (that hangs in the Societies Room) which he loved so much that he brought It from France to the Dorchester on his visits; and as this 1945 letter from South Carolina further shows : "When I was last with you at Canterbury I couldn't but notice how shabbily the Common Room of the Masters was furni shed. If I remember right, it was in a sort of dreary pme wood. I don't know whether yo u will agree with me that dignified and gracious surroundings can have a spiritual effect, and such sordid ones as the School has provided for ItS masters to my mind can only have a degrading one. I have thought, therefore, that It would be a good plan if in due course yo u could pick up at my expense a mce old dllllllg-table, a sideboard and a set of chairs in mahogany, and If not actually Chippendale, Chippendale in character. I know that you are clever at things of this sort, and by 1 00 ki~g round in your leisure moments I have no doubt that you could find some pieces that It would be a pleasure to live with."

With my plan for building an Assembly Hall Maugham had only verbal sympathy, if that. He never subscribed to the costs, which eventually came to well over £90,000. "I was glad to get your letter yesterday," he wrote in 1954, "and glad to think that this cherished plan of yours is going forward . When the State takes over the School, It will be fine for them to have such an imposing building." And in 1956, "you must be aware that in no distant time the School, as all the schools in England, will be taken over by the State. It would be greatly to your credit, since you would be chiefly responsible for the result, if the School when taken over were not only in perfect condition but free from all debt." At lunch in my house in 1960 he said he wanted to send the bulk of hi~ books to the School so many a month; he could not afford to live at Cap Ferrat- It cost him £23,000 p.a. to mai~tain: so he would retire to a small house at Lausanne. "Have you got anywhere to

put them? I want it to be the best school library in the country." I said we hadn't, but I would find a place, and the notion came to me that the architect could put a fine room on top of the new Physics block, and with its own stairway. In Jan~~ry, 1961 , W.S.M. wrote the " scheme is extremely clever, and I highly approve of It . The room was 20

J. built and splendidly equipped, and rightly opened by W.S.M. in the autumn of 1961, when "I shall be glad to lunch with you if the party is not too formidable and the weather not too bad ." The first consignment of books came via Newhaven and a lot of bother with the Customs people there ; but no more, because Willie could not exchange Cap Ferrat for Lausanne. But I have no doubt that soon thousands of books will be on their way.

I knew Willie Maugham so well- keen though he was for this School, it was because in real sense he belonged, he still had a security here. I don't think he cared about the Public School system- he was too much of a Continental for that. He wrote to me in 1948, "The Duke of Wellington is supposed to have sa id that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing field s of Eton. I think a future historian may with more truth say that India was lost in the Public Schools of England." He was enormously gratified when Oxford conferred an honorary D .Litt. on him , but he brought the same cool analytical gaze to bear on Oxford and Cambridge values as on everything else-and never lost an opportunity of chaffing me on my veneration for those uni versities and on my desire . that all possible Canterbury boys should proceed thither- preferably as scholars! He despised that- or affected to do so, for Philip Carey clearly had some wish to go to Oxford and rationalized his refusal. "Is it true", I asked him one day when we were alo ne in my book-room , "that you get two dollars a word?" He almost purred, "the best magazines pay me five". And that was the occasion- October, 1952- when he said, "I will tell you my two secret wishes- I have never revealed them to any living person. I think I ought to have the O.M. I don't want anything else- I would refuse anything like a knighthood. But they gave Hardy the O.M. and I think I am the greatest living writer of English, and they ought to give it me. My other secret is that I should like my ashes buried somewhere in the Precincts- I don't mind where, as long as it is within the Precincts." I said I could not do anything about the O.M. but that I might be able to bring the second wish about. "Shall we go and have a look now?" I asked, as it was round about 5 o'clock. Maugham readily assented, and off we slowly ambled- and I could not but think of the Walrus and the Carpenter- looking where his ashes might be interred. Past the Infirmary ruins through the Dark Entry we meandered when, arrived near the Farrens Gate, he stopped , faced me with a question, "How much did you say that Boathouse would cost?" (And here I should explain that a Boathouse for VIII's was urgently needed at Plucks Gutter if we were to develop into a Rowing School; that I had bought with parental money a good site, but that the Governors had at their October meeting felt unable to sanction the building of a Boathouse costing £4,000). "£4,000," I replied . "Ah, that is a lot of money. I couldn't afford £4,000, but I think I could find £3,000." "Right," I answered, "it shall be done for £3,000." And we resumed our purposeful saunter. We entered the Memorial Chapel- very early Norman, the Porter's Lodge in the Middle Ages, a carpenter's shop, a classroom , a tuckshop, one after the other during the last 100 years till we made it into a lovely Chapel in 1936. "H'm," as he looked round the grey walls, "a bit grim, isn't it?"

I thought it was admirable for the purpose, a charming oasis of peace in the midst of the 21

hurly-burly of school; but we came out, crossed over and surveyed the Cloisters. My recollection is that we sauntered round on a second occaSIOn, also . But, anyhow, the next stage was to obtain the Chapter's consent; that :vas l1?t easy and not until the end

of January, 1953 was a limited consent expressed , mcludmg the fact that the present members could not bind their successors. In that long interval, Maugham grew somewhat dejected, and wrote, "I really did not want you to go to much trouble over my burial-place. Since I saw the marble sarcophagus of a Queen of Aragon In the M,lIseum at Barcel~ma and saw that they could not even put a name to her and reflected that 111 her day she mlg~t have been highly respected, powerful , loved perhaps and mourned , J felt that It dldn t matter a damn where one was buried; and so , if it is convenient and the Chapter agree let me be buried where you say, and if not my ashes can be put in the Cemetery at St. Jean among the bones of the inhabitants of the village." But shortly after my letter reached him with the news of the capitular Minute, and the Sch ool became possessed of Its Maugham's Boathouse. My own reward was different, pleasant, though perhaps It was the cynical W.S.M. who felt "impelled to write and tell you ho~ wonderful your work has been. You have certainly achieved miracles, and If you had hved III the sIxteenth century you would by now have long been canonized and have your own chapel m Canterbury Cathedral. " His ashes were buried in just about the spot he would now have chosen- outside his Library; near where he had made his speeches (with little stammering) in 1958 and 1961; near his major benefactions ; and, best of all, adjacent to the garden and the house of hI S beloved Mr. Perkins. F.J.S.

MR. GARWOOD It is now ten years since Peter Garwood joined the staff from the Colonial Development Corporation. When I first met him a year later my impression was of a vigorous, immensely competent and at the sa me time very human person. These are the qualities which his pupils in the History Sixth, his Colts XVs and above all the Grange since 1958 will remember. His lessons can never have bcen dull and they must have been amusing. His reactions to people and to the events of school life had always a touch of vehemence which made them memorable and amusing, but without cruelty. To hear him in conversation with one of his senior boys or a VIa historian was the perfect illustration of a natural and genuine relationship between master and boy. The Grange in his time has well reflected the individuality, and the all-round talents of its housemaster. He set the highest standard in his concern for the progress of every boy, particularly in his study of University entrance and career problems, in which he was an unfailing source of information and advice. The happy atmosphere of the house is of course very much due to the selfless work and charming personality of Dorothy Garwood, to whom so many have naturally turned for help and encouragement as well as for the matron's care which she so efficiently and sympathetically gave. They will be much missed and our good wishes go with them for the future. R.D.H.R.

LT.-COL. K. A. C. GROSS,

O.B.E., E.R.D., T.D., M.A.

HI demens et saevas curre per Alpes ut pueris placeas . .. " That is what Juvenal thought, and it may roughly be translated "You need your head examined if you rush about, doing arduous training and such, for the benefit of a lot of boys". T his sentiment has probably passed through the head of every man who has ever served in a school Corps, and maybe through the heads of some who watched him at it. It will repay a moment's reflection. What, in a favourable instance, would the examination of such a head reveal? Two things, I suggest, above all others : devotion to the boys' well-being, and the belief that this well-being is made deeper by the development of certain qualities, and the respect for certain values. That is not to say that devotion to his boys totally animates a man searching for a lost rifle in the dusk of a wet field-day, nor tbat a boy who can draw a rangecard has thereby grown significantly in initiative, self-discipline, or whatever. But it does mean that a man who has not a considered belief in the permanent worth of a certain code and of certain abilities (however their relative importance and application may be reassessed), and who is not ready to expend time, patience, and sympathy in fostering them, will not be found among those whose work with the C.C.F. is in any measure fruitful. 23

In Colonel Gross, who this term relinquished the command of the School's Corps, generations of King's boys have been fortunate enough to possess a leader, or friend, whose entire personality put before them, directly and concretely, the case for a system of values now often (in the security won by their upholders) derided. However, since an explicit recital of a man's virtues is generally reserved for his obituary (and let me make it quite clear that this isn't one) I shall not develop this theme. What of the willingness to expend time and temper ? Colonel Gross took over the command of the Corps in 1947, and though his connection with voluntary Service effort is far older still (he has ridden horses with warlike intent, and that is practically Balaclava), eighteen years are evidence enough. Eighteen years of Corps : suggest this to a cadet and catch his fainting form; but for a C.O. it means rather more than a few miles marched and a few acres of webbing blancoed. It means responsibility for, and co-operation with, very many human beings, both boys and adults, in a great variety of situations. Some of these are fun, or bring out the best in those involved; others are not quite of this sort. It is true that the C.O. has the assistance of his officers and senior cadets (and here I am sure Colonel Gross would wish a tribute to be recorded to the late R.S.M. Marshall and to R.S.M. Herbert for their loyal help, the full extent of which he is uniquely able to judge; while those whose military year culminated in the superb post-annual inspection teas at Friendly Hall would wish to indite a thank you to Mrs. Gross); but the bulk of the work, and the final responsibility, are his. It is therefore right that as this very long period of hard (and materially little rewarded) service ends, the gratitude of the School to Colonel Gross should, as only rarely happens, be placed on permanent record. P.P.

REVIEWS OPERA: "PATIENCE"

HOUSE PLAY: "THE SPREE"

MUSIC: "DIE FLEDERMAUS"

THE CARL DOLMETSCH TRIO

MUSIC CiRCLE CONCERT

LECTURES: THE MOOSE'S TOOTH

SLAVERY IN THE WORLD TODAY

TH E WIND OF CHANGE ACROSS AFRICA

ORAMI CS ...

CAREERS: R EPORT ON A TALK GIVEN THIS YEAR

"PATIENCE" After a great deal of hard work and inspiration by nearly one hundred people, tbe King's School staged a memorable production of Gilbert and Sullivan's well-loved and happy operetta, Patience, at the end of tbe Christmas Term, and there can be no doubt at all that tbeir efforts were appreciated to the highest degree by the audiences which packed the Hall on every night of the five performances. There was so much sparkle and spontaneous gaiety to marvel at that it is impossible to doubt that the performers were not as happy in their giving as the listeners were in their reception. The sheer joie-de-vivre was infectious- nothing transcendental about it at all. There was humour, beauty, wit and amorousness all served up with an effervescent freshness and an abundance of artistry. Gerald Peacocke and Edred Wright are to be congratulated on their production in all respects, and sincerely thanked for their efforts. They would be the first to recognise that part of the success of the show was due to the talents already existing in those chosen as soloists, four of whom came from the Canterbury Choir School. The solo work of Potter, Young, Tatchell, Bailey, Lyle, Dawson and Bradfield was of the highest order and it is indeed fortun ate that they should all be at King's at the same time. Potter and Young, tbe Idyllic and the Fleshly poets, were ideally suited to their parts. Potter, solemn and self-abso rbed until the final transformation, sang beautifully and gained in acting confidence as the week went by, while Young, angular and aesthetic, sang accurately and with very clear diction, seeming very confident from the dress rebearsal onwards. Tatchell as the Colonel, was too thin to be really pompous but his fine bass voice was heard to good effect in his solos and other pieces. The Duke of Dunstable had an awkward first few lines but once past these, Bailey exhibited a fine tenor voice with a steadily improving acting technique. It is unfortunate that Sullivan did not make more of the Major because Saunders was obviously capable of far greater things. He is a delightful actor, with amusing facial expressions and a pleasantly penetrating baritone voice, and, with the other two army officers, provided the lightest comedy of the evening in the "Early English Art" trio, dressed a la mode. Bodey (the only soloist not from a choir school) undertook the difficult alto part of Lady Jane. Perhaps Sullivan meant it to be sung straight-certainly Gilbert was having yet another dig at the village choral society contralto though he relented enough to let her marry the Duke in the end- but from force of vocal circumstances, Bodey had to alternate between high and low gear and this caused mutual merriment not embarrassment. He acted the part very well, with mastodontic digllity. Lyle was a delightful and charming Patience, pert and tripping, graceful and innocent. His treble voice carried well and all the Gilbertian words were heard. Dawson as Lady Angela was fun to watch at all times; he never stopped acting. His voice was powerful, both singing and speaking, and further enhanced the excellent audibility and diction which the producers had encouraged. Thomson as Lady Saphir also acted and sang well and Flick as the solicitor might well have stolen the show if he had been on the stage longer. It was perhaps in the two choruses that the skill of Mr. Peacocke became more apparent. Tbey never stood around like waxworks; they acted, concertedly, the whole time, keeping a careful and surreptitious eye on the conductor's baton (except for the short-sighted ones wbo had had to discard their glasses) and never put a foot wrong. 26

"PATIENCE" Ken/ish Gazette

M. P. Powell

Splendid dragoons (certainly not second class) and assorted maidens of all shapes and sizes, singing heartily and enjoying themselves ! Mr. Peacocke's control and whimsical invention were evident right through the production, even to the curtain calls and the accuracy and sympathy of the hard-working small orchestra under Edred Wright's direction also contributed to the fine quality of the musical evening. Finally, mention should be made of the set, which was ideal and must have involved a great deal of ingenious building and skilful painting. Credit must go particularly to the designers, Gocher and Medhurst, under the general stage management of Mr. Harding. It is sad to think that there will probably be another two year gap before the King's School stage their next Gilbert and Sullivan. P.G .W.

HOUSE PLAY "THE SPREE" By JOHANN NESTROY LUXMOORE-SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH

Th is production combined two hitherto separate traditions in house plays; on the one hand the rollicking farce and on the other the obscure, foreign and potentially pretentious. In Mr. Gillespie's translation and production the foreignness survived, obscurity was dispelled , pretentiousness never appeared and the actors duly rollicked. It all seemed so suitable for a house play that it was easy to forget the originality of the discovery, and the forethought needed to comprise, without confusion, seven different sets within Messrs. Gaumont-Kaylee's tubular steel girders and well-known ginger and spectacle-case blue curtains. To those who did not know the actors there was some brilliant acting: to those who did, even more brilliant casting. From first sight of the programme, the advent of the cabman was eagerly awaited, and indeed delayed by anticipatory applause. Figures of farce need to be larger than life (and this actor surpassed even himself); in the same spirit the tailor Hopper, the prim Mrs. Fischer and Melchior the factotum were themselves to a capital T. It was a happy production, and the eighteen remaining characters who have to be content with collective mention, evidently thought so too, and played their parts with an ease ranging from the worthily competent to the suspiciously facile. There was one thing wrong, but it is wrong with all farces. There has to be a sort of "New-readers-begin-here" scene at the beginning to establish the characters and crank up the machinery of the plot. It is usually dull, and on this occasion uneasiness was added by a translation too switched-on (contemporary, for squares) to accord agreeably with the turn of the century setting. Once the characters started climbing out of the bedroom (restaurant, shop, drawing room, etc.) windows, " Belt-up" fell naturally upon the ear, but not when the grocer was inducting his apprentice into the mysteries of the sale of two penn'orth of caraway seeds or a twist of comfits. So far as my subsequent market research showed, 97% oftbe audience heard 98 % of what was said on the stage, and nobody admitted hearing anything from the auditorium except laughter and applause. So Science proves it was a good play. I.N.W. 27

â&#x20AC;˘ -' MUSIC DIE FLEDERMAUS Die Fledermaus is the most famou s of all Josef Strauss' operas. If Strauss was influenced by anyone, it would have been either by Offenbach in Paris, or, more likely, by his father who took up the violin and viola only as a side-line and played light chamber music in dance halls. The story of Die Fledermaus is one of humorous revenge, and the plot is a hotch-potch of dramatic irony, misunderstandings and coincidence; the result is a light,

gay and extremely funny operetta. All the characters were well portrayed and special mention should be made of Alfredo (Edmund Bohen) and Adelle (Ellen Dales). Alfredo opened the show with a loud tenor voice out in the "street". Fortunately, this was the only time he had to sing loudly, for it was soon obvious that his voice was essentially a light tenor. As Rosalinda remarked: "His top notes are irresisti ble", and I would add "When he doesn't have to shout". His breathing technique was such that he had so much control of his notes, however light, that he almost spoke his words. Consequently the light, lyrical texture of his voice greatly aided the constant audibility of his diction. He adapted both attitude and voice very well to suit the situation, especially as a passionate lover and later as a bored Ru ssian Prince.

The slight senti mental tinge to Alfredo's voice was perfectly contrasted by the vivacious nature of Adelle's soprano. Her agility was remarkable and her technique was proved by quick scale passages, and arpeggios in her Laughing Song. Her voice possessed a certain ringing (but not piercing) tone which was most pleasant to listen to. Although her real part was only that of a cheeky chambermaid, she acted her part very well and led the story on with molieresque liveliness. If Isenstein (John Ford) was acted rather stiffly, the two sides of his character were brought out quite well ; on the surface he is a faithful matter-of-fact husband to Rosalinda, while beneath he is a fun-loving practical-joker and woman-chaser. ("Actually my wife is past it", he says.) But for all this one could not help feeling that he would do well to learn a few lessons from Edmund Bohen on breath control. Very often he sang in his throat instead of from his diaphragm and the result was that soft high notes became an ordeal for him. His wife, Rosalinda (Elizabeth Barry) had much the same sort of part to act : on the surface she is a faithful, loving wife, while beneath she is passionately in love with Alfredo, the street singer. She was probably the most experienced performer of the whole cast, but her voice was unsuited to light operetta; although it was flexible, her voice was too heavy and therefore blended with other performers only when she sang piano. Her lower notes were more pleasant to listen to than her higher ones, where she tended to over-vibrato. On the other hand one could hear her words only if she sang higher and quicker. Hers was not the voice for Josef Strauss. Mention should be made of the fact that the Opera Players had only piano accompaniment, and not an orchestra . The absence of a conductor became clear when the pianist found it difficult to follow the very varied tempos of Dr. Blint (Peter Leaning). Nevertheless, much praise should go to the pianist, who accompanied excellently as well as playing what is sometimes interpreted as "muisc for the fair", as the real music of Josef Strauss. C.M.S. 28

.J.

THE CARL DOLMETSCH TRIO RECITAL TUESDAY, NOVEM BER

9TH, 1965

. Mr. Dolmetsch began the recital by giving a short introduction to each of the mstruments-a set of VIOls, recorders a!,d one harpsichord. He played each viol and recorder. m tur~, showlIlg their versatlltty and tone; for instance, the recorders each gave, an Im preSSIOn of a pure tone but each varied in the quality. He also gave a demonstratIOn of how two recorders may be played by one player at the same time thus enabling hIm to play duets wIth hImself. The viols seemed to have a much mellower tone than the stnnged mstruments of the modern ~rchestra, and Mr. Dolmetsch showed how they could be played to sound exactly like a gUItar. Fmally, Mr. Saxby gave a few flourishes on the harpSIChord, emphaslsmg the changes m sound that could be effected with the pedals. The first piece was a Gigue for the sopranino recorder, viol and harpsichord, which though shnll .at the p,:"nt where double fortes occurred, made one realise that here was a completely dIfferent mstrumental sound from any that is normally heard today. The Corante emphaSISed even more thIS contrast, all three instruments blending to produce a perfect flowmg sound. In one second item the difficulties of the recorder showed up in the tonguing in the faster passages, WhICh, though extremely mtncate, were perfectly executed. The viols came next and prod uced so perfect and satisfying a sound that whichever piece they were playing one felt that was the best. Mr. Saxby then provided us with an accomplished performance on the harpsichord of some English and Italian works, mcludmg the famous Earl oj Salisbury's Pavan and Galftard, with the customary flounshes at the end of each section. The Passomezzo, though completely dIfferent III character, seemed to resemble a Pavan until the second movement when the mUSIC became faster and faster until finally he finished with a terrific flourish uSlllg the whole range of the instrument, which was well received by all. The effect of the gap in ti~e between Byrd and Handel was apparent as soon as Mr. Dolmetsch began the Sonatq III A minor by the latter, which he played perfectly and in such a way tha,~ I was ren;',lIlded of the FI~te Sonatas of Handel. Mter a momentary IIlterruptlOn b~ Bell Harry , he contmued wIth a pIece by Marrais, in which he contrived to make the hIgh-pItched IIlstrument very enjoyable to listen to. The viols in the next item, after an initial hesitancy, soon asserted themselves and the Ballad and MlIluets were ~Iven an authentic rendering. The Sonata in F for two recorders was well played and tYPICal of the period in which Loeillet wrote it having splendid

ornamentatIOn.

. Finally, we were treated to a piece for all three instruments. The "double dotting" dId not seem qUIte full enough at the beginning but the Sarabande, Bagatelle and Rondeau were well receIved: The TrIO played a Mllluet from tbe same set of pieces for an encore; the receptIOn of thIS was typIcal of the whole evening, an evening which was very enjoyable. C.W.B. 29

MUSIC CIRCLE CONCERT THE DEANERY, SUNDAY, 14TH NOVEMBER

This term saw, unfortunately, only one Music Circle Concert; however, it had a very novel setting- the Deanery sitting-room- and the programme was very varied, and often quite ambitious. The Madrigal Society performed first with three songs. They were all of the high standard which we have come to expect from the society and were most enjoyable, especially Thomas Morley's well-known madrigal, Fire, Fire!, which was sung with much enthusiasm and was very lively. Next, Arnold accompanied ably by Saunders played Weber's Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Piano. Their slow movement of this was the best, but despite the fact that Arnold seemed either out of his depth or a little under-rehearsed in places, it was on the whole a very good performance. This was followed by three treble duets sung by Dawson and Lyle, accompanied by Alder. A lot of work had obviously been put into these, and although the parts occasionally seemed a little low for their voices, they were all well sung and very charming. The next choice was most ambitious- Brahm's String Septet. However, it came over very well, and despite being a little out of tune at the end, it was very competently played.

The Stamitz Clarinet Quartet, with Arnold as soloist, followed this. Arnold played in this work with much more polish and accom plishment, and it made an interesting insight into the works of a comparatively little-known composer. The next item was three duets for Tenor and Baritone by Potter and Saunders, accompanied by True. The first of these by Saint Saens was very well put over in French; in the Delius song which followed, however, the barito ne part was a little low for Saunder's register, but generally all three pieces were most enjoyable. After this we heard a wind quartet by another comparatively little-known composerMilhaud. This was a representation of mediaeval court scenes; they were very well interpreted and the hunting scene in particular was very vivid. Finally, the Chamber Orchestra gave us their usual talented and polished performance, first of an arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Second String Quartet, which showed up admirably Tchaikovsky's true romantic vein, and then of Purcell's Chaconne- thi s piece was well within their capabilities, and was undoubtedly the best piece played in the concert. Mr. Goodes brought out the charming melody really well, and it made a fitting climax to a most enjoyable and impressive evening.

Our thanks are due to the Dean and Mrs. White-Thomson for allowing us to make use of their sitting-room, which made such an admirable venue for a concert, and we hope that we may perhaps visit them agai n sometime in the future. N.P.P. 30

LECTURES THE MOOSE'S TOOTH TONY SMYTHE

First interpretations of this title may be wrong because the "Moose's Tooth" is in fact a mountain in Alaska. Mr. Smythe, on Tuesday, 2nd November, gave a very interesting talk on hIS Journey through Amenca to Alaska and on the climbing of the Moose's Tooth. Very distinct and colourful slides helped him in expressing to us his task and how he tackled it. He told us firstly about his tedious journey through America in a Chevrolet which was shedding parts all the way, and then about the actual climbing of the mountain. On his I ,400-mile journey to Alaska, he camped seventeen times. He often shot for his own supper until the police caught him without a shooting permit. Because he had little money he had to work in a silver mine in Alaska for five weeks. He worked at a depth offive hundred to seven hundred feet. It was extremely lucky for him that one day he was moved from one part of the mine to another because on that same day, the part of the mine, in which he had previously been working, collapsed. This might have ended his attempt to climb the Moose's Tooth before he had even seen the mountain. However, after five weeks, he had enough money for the remainder of his expedition. He started on the last stage of the journey by going by train from Anchorage to Talkeetna from where he could see the range of mountains into which he was to be flown. For ~ person who did not know the area, flying was the only means of transport. He hired a man named Don Sheldon to fly him to the range in a Piper Cub. Sheldon was extremely experienced; a pilot had to be, because flying in conditions like those was not easy. There was the danger of precipices covered by a thin sheet of frozen snow which would collapse with any weight. There was also the danger of low cloud merging with the snow, making it impossible to distinguish between them. The actual climbing was uneventful. However, when he was about sixteen hours' climbing away from the summit, he discovered that his food supplies were low. He finally decided that it would be best if he turned back. Again it was very lucky that he did because as soon as he reached his base-camp, there was a violent storm. Thus, for the second time on this journey, his life was saved. Instead of flying back, he decided to walk through dense forest to a river, build a raft and sail to Talkeetna. In theory this idea was brilliant, but in actual fact it proved nearly fatal. Hehad only asmallhatchet, but after several hours ofstrenuous chopping, he finally completed the raft. Very confident of arriving in Talkeetna within two hours, he set off. His journey lasted only a few minutes because his raft came to grief in the rapids. He lost most of his supplies and equipment. He swam ashore and made another raft. This time it was very unstable because he used his windcheater cord and bootlaces to keep it together. This raft lasted longer but fouled a sandbank in the middle of the river. He lit a fire in the hope that an aeroplane would see it, but after three days without food, he decided that a move was essential. While he was preparing to swim for some hundred yards in fast water, he heard theÂˇengine of an aeroplane. It was taking supplies to a party further up the river. The pilot came down to investigate the smoke and thus, for the third time, his life was saved. So ended an exciting and eventful journey and a most enjoyable lecture. A.N. 31

SLAVERY IN THE WORLD TODAY COL.

J. R. P.

MONTGOMERY

Col. Montgomery's first task in this lecture was to remove the sceplical doubts on this subject held by most of his audience; few people today even realise the existence of slavery in the world. However, these doubts were soon dispersed by Col. Montgomery's informative and convincing lecture. His basic aim in this lecture was, he said, to answer three question s : what is slavery, does it ex ist today, and is it preventable? His definition of slavery was "the ownership of

one human being by another", and he went on to state the different types of slavery : chattel slavery (the most common form), serfdom, and "debt bondage", where a man or

often a ch ild is bound over to a money-lender as interest on a debt. The reality of the existence of slavery was well illustrated by the fact that there are between one and two million slaves in the "free" world alone. Yet despite the vast number of slaves, it is almost impossi ble to prevent the practice of slavery in the world; not only have the rulers of the countries concerned been brought up to expect it, and feel no obligations to prevent it, but equally most slaves are content. They are lodged and provided for, and under a good master slavery can be much easier than liberty. The United Nations as yet has no section to deal with the problem of slavery, so the task is left to a very small society desperately short of funds, "The Anti-Slavery Society", of which Col. Montgomery is the Secretary. He convinced us in his absorbing lecture that the task of eradicati ng slavery is overwhelming, but that the Society's cause is a noble

and important one.

R.N.J.

THE WIND OF CHANGE ACROSS AFRICA J. K. THOMSON, C.M.G.

Those present undoubtedly felt indebted to Mr. Thomson for his lecture on this highly topical subject. Within a couple of weeks of the Rhodesian declaration of independence, he helped to put our ideas, often distorted by British newspaper reports, into perspective. Mr. Thomson pointed out that with African affairs no news is good news ; bad news is headlines. He was asked how much truth there was in press reports of independent judges being suspended in certain African states, for example, and how seriously such reports should be taken. He showed that for every such report, there were five hundred examples on the other side. This lecture was both informative and highly entertaining. An African once said to Mr. Thomson that he (Mr. Thomson) had no right to claim that his grandfather bad discovered yonder mountain. The African's forefathers had known about it for a long time! Amid such quips, we were told of the success of non-racial societies in Kenya and Tanzania, and of the wonderful spirit of the African peoples. 32

The packed audiel~ce was very keen to go on asking questions, and question time lasted as long as the lecture Itself. DurIng IllS answers, Mr. Thomson particularly emphasised both the Inoral and expedient necessity for aldto developing countries. A particularly interesting POInt was the nature of democracy In Afncan states, where the one-party system is becoming morc practical. A!thollg~ a "ollc-party state" j.s .an anathema to the British press, Mr.

Thomson sympath ised with what he called a mllllstry of all talents. One African leader was heard to say, on hearIng of Lord Attlee's victory in the 1946 election "Has Mr Churchill taken to the hills, then?" ' ' .

N.H.G.

ORAMICS DAPHNE ORAM

It was rumoured that as this lecture would be on electronic music, instruments such as !!lC ele~tr~~ gU.ltar and .electn? organ wo~ld be on show. However, Miss Oram (hence Orarn lcs ) did not dlsappomt her audience by presenting instead a barrage of tape rec?rders, amplifiers and, as we were to learn later, an artificial reverberator, a generator, a rmg modulator, and a sympathiser on the table. The lecture began with a play-through of the slow movement of a Handel violin sonata. M ,ss Oram used her reverberator on the melody to add an echo. Then she played the result backwards, the sound bemg rather wonderful. It was also possible to play just the echoes of the notes one after the other, which produced an even more beautiful effect. . One ?f the highlights of the lecture was the "Symphony of the Birds". The calls of eight birds, mcludlllg a barn owl, had been put through various echo chambers and frequency m odu lator~, ~nd }he ~~s~lt ranged from the sounds one hears in a rugby scrum to a rather poor femlOlI1e pop slOger. Some of the sounds were very comic. Miss Oram also played the School some artificial voices. The first one was of a boy treble, smgmg. The sound was very near to the human singing voice but was very hard. Then, by the l~se of computers, MISS Oram played to her audience the voices of a man and a woman speakmg. Apparently the experts can use "ink" noise or "white" noise! To conclude her lecture, Miss Oram played a composition of her own. It was based on the sound of a drop of water hitting a saucer. The composer informed us that the result was the effect of this sound put through all the gadgets we had heard that night. It was very attraclIve and the cheer the School accorded to Miss Oram was well-deserved. In retrospect, altho~gh it i~ clear that electronic music has not been fully developed, it does seem that artifiCIal musIc tends to lack the warm feeling and humanity of musical sounds as we know. them. MUSIC like all the other arts must reflect human passions and It appears that It Will be a long time before the cold transistor or the indefinite valve will be capable of puttmg across to a listener something that bas lasting greatness. L.C.R. 33

CAREERS This term we have listened with much interest to a talk on the career possibilities of the Foreign Service given by Mr. H. Quine, CounseUor at the Foreign Office. We learned of the general organisation of this Department at home and overseas to which all information of British attitudes and policies in home and foreign affairs is circulated and which in turn gathers information of those of foreign countries and submits advice on procedure for the benefit of the Government. We have dispelled many of our fa lse notions of this two-way information service, having perhaps been led somewhat astray by our fictional reading and our evening relaxation with U.N.C.L.E. We gathered that after an initial introduction to the paper work of the F.O. and with a thorough grasp of the movement of telegrams up and down the young entry can expect a foreign posting after 1-2 years as Third Secretary and will indeed spend, with intervals in London, two-thirds of his life abroad, and rising in turn to be Second and First Secretary, Counsellor, Consul General or Head of a Mission may with good fortune become one day Deputy Under-Secretary or Ambassador. Entry is by Method I with written examination and interviews or by Method II with I.Q. Tests and 2t days of investigation by the Civil Service Commission. The annual intake is 25 out of 500-700 applicants with degrees, and those of wide human interests and aptitudes outside merely academic interests, a nd with a facility for learning languages, particularly the "hard" languages and for proficiency in which there is an additional emolument of ÂŁ300 per annum, arc most li kely to be accepted . Mr. Quine, who held a large audience captive with his fascinating story of life in England and Japan reminded us that this is a hard, exacting and yet rewarding life and that much invaluable collection and dissemination of information is done, glass in hand, at receptions and parties, for the earliest instruction of Head of Chancery and possible onward transmission to the Ambassador. We are most grateful to Mr. Quine and very much hope he will come again and lift the veil for us to see more clearly than before the manifold and unremitting labours of Her Majesty's Foreign Service. Dr. S. W. Hinds, O.K.S., has very kindly furnished the following information regarding the O.K.S. Advisory Service for the information of boys and parents, as well as to catch the eye of more speakers able to come and give us an "inside" picture of their own career. A wide variety of "Careers Courses" for boys in the Sixth Forms and sponsored by the Public Schools Appointments Bureau is once again offered for the Easter holidays and the number of forward- looking boys who apply each year is steadily increasing. All successful applicants are charmed by their reception and free hospitality and gain immeasurably by their brief acquaintance with the organisation of a great commercial or industrial activity. For those who would like to study the field of careers in administration, i.e., in commerce, marketing, data processing, advertising, opportunities overseas, accountancy, etc., the P.S.A.B. has arranged in 1966 for 95 places at Ashridge Management College and 50 places at an additional course in York. The cost of the former is ÂŁ8 and the latter ÂŁ6. They are likely to be oversubscribed but are strongly recommended for boys who are uncertai n about the opportunities available to those who are following courses on the "Arts" side. Early application next term to the Careers Master is advisable. E.R.C.D. 34

CONTRIBUTIONS

IN My END IS My BEGINNING- a short story by A. J. Flick

GREAT POETRY- A REVALUATION- sketches by P. G. Boss ...

THE CHOICE and A LACK OF CONTRAST-two poems by F. S. HaUam

PSYCHOLOGY IN MATHEMATICS- an observation by R. Deighton

THE STORM- a composition by R . A. J. Curtis

THE COLD LAND-a poem by J. K. Harris

THE MISSION-a phantasy by G. R. G. Keeble

A TIME AS OLD AS LAZARus-a poem by W. N. Bryson

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IN MY END IS MY BEGINNING

A. j. Flick

The old man, weak with trembling and tears and sighing, turned at last to me once more, and recited thus, his quaking voice battling with thunder, rain and reeling wind to be heard. "A night, a day, a month, a year in time- perhaps it was 1966 or perhaps it was notwhile India was still locked in that fatal gripe which led to the Still Age and all our woe, while she was grappling with her adversaries over the corpse of Pakistan, shattered and bleeding in the dust, a man begged shelter in a hovel situated in that desolate, empty area north of the Punjab. ' Who are you, on a night like this l' 'One all the more needy of yo ur protection.' 'From the front?' 'Yes-from where the war rages, unleashed on to men.'

'For whom do you fight? India, or the enemy?' 'For neither. For myself. It has left the grip of nation and nation. Threats of bombs beyond my understanding, too terrible to be imagined, thunder from the northern horizon; the common soldier fights only to save his skin from the bullet's sear.' 'I have little to offer, but- come in.' 'The Indian monsoon and the Chinese bombs make hovels welcome as the dry season.'

The inhabitant was an English ex-army officer, who had insisted on staying in the country where he had spent most of his life, even when the war had become so serious and intense that his own home and fami ly were destroyed in the unforgettable attack on New Delhi which rased that city and its people to ru bble, bones and dust ... Now, no one could leave India, and none dared enter. China was preparing the supreme punition meted out to those who dared defy their principles of iron; within the night India wo uld be a holocaust. India knew it, and the world knew it also. The guest, a short man, blackened more by gun-dust than by the sun, sat in a corner of the ruin where the white man lived, gobbled down his gruel with the feverish fury of one eating his last supper. 'Why did you not go back to England when you were able l' 'I did not know England. I know India.' 'Do you know her now?' There was no reply. The trees tossed between the hills were to bear the sad tidings to distances known only by the wind, far beyond the Syrian Hills, up to the black wastes of Siberia, through the vast Mongolian plains, down into the Indian Ocean . And these, all of these, were to hear the news, the thunder, were to see the smoke swell out of the belching belly of fire and anger and anonym ity in blackness, and dust, dust, dust ... but not yet, not yet. These, like the two mortals in the hovel, had to await the pleasure, the whim of the dying of the light, of the darkening sun. There was no electric light-all lights were out, except the stars. But the eyes of the two men were alight, burning out, flickering, fading, striving, Phoenix eyes. They did not speak to each other; they spoke to themselves in the stillness of their private parliaments. It became so dark that neither could see the other. T heir eyes closed in with the darkness, yet both were loth to sleep, but the black coat which began to congeal the earth stifled them, gummed up their thoughts, deafened their ears to all externals, until they were driven in, nail-driven, to their central

selves. 36

Twang! screamed a lightning bolt into the valley whereon the yo ung Buddha's eyes, dark eyes, gazed, undisturbed, as the thunder grew denser and louder rumbhng a~no n g the hillfaces, rejected by one and then another, crumpled the creased ~latns, sca r~ed by battle ravages, estranged, furious, alone in triumph , desolate III destructIOn. The boy clambered up the cliff to the summit of the rocks, whence he could see all the world . .oh, do not scratch you~ arms, my prince, not on that gritty mount; ifI could chmb .. . I shall clJlnb ; wIll IS all. And I am scratched, and again ... but blessed be the scars which T attain for Thy sake, my highest one. And I am there at his SIde. But he tu rns away from me. And he lifts up his arms. His raised face salutes the red sun , the Phoenix sun. He falls. He is fallen, my prince. I must follow. I too must fall. Down. Down. But I can not, damn me, I cannot . .. . ).

.. .. I am in for anythmg. to be ready. plains. I can

a chai r. I am calm. I do not care what man shall do unto me. I am ready Buddha has always held me prepared over the flame. The secret of life is The mountai ns can be heard shaking and I can feel the vibration of the no longer feel my legs. But that does not matter. I am ready to lose them.

Soon, I know, I will have to bcgjn aga in , in a new desert, under a new sun. It has always

been so. I am calm. Now, I am calm . But the time will Soon come when I will go mad the flesh WIth the pam, and the 'I' that is within me will leave the fire distilled a seed t~ be planted in the sand, where I will one day be conceived again, and tdke on so';'ething hIgher than. flesh. I can hear the call of the new morning star wh ich longs to rise, but must walt, hke all thmgs, for the next awakening. I shall be everything. I shall have the stars on my right hand and the earth in my left hand , and the sun on my head. I shall stretch forth my hand and restore !Ban to his former grace, and I shall place a revolver III hIS fight hand, and a bomb III hIS l eft, and I shall turn the man's mind away from his burdens, and yet I wIll not permIt 111m to drop them. He shall carry the weapo ns with hIm for ever, as a permanent reminder of the dangers of his power. In the meantime the crows have departed, the clouds are heavy, and the sands of the desert are trembling with heat. I will lay myself down in the sand and count my fingers then my toes and finally my eyes. I shall have solved the problems of time. ' , The sky is black. The sun is down. The ground is angry. India and Pakistan are dead. The world regrets that it ever hap pened . Telegrams of condolence are being sent to the appropfl ate ambassadors. The United Nations will meet at Peking next July to discuss the refugee problem . Those who got away. But there is a hole in the wall Little Peter III

Athenian philosopher, come." . , The old man wi ~ed away his tears and st~ red out into the storm. His eyes were crystals dev~ld of hope; hIS breath came and went III erratic gasps. He was cold . So was I. I felt

foohsh. But I had to ask. "What does it mea n, my king?- What means this strange tale?" There was no sound in reply except the storm. Then after a little while the old king threw up hi s arms and, clinging to a gnarled branch of'the leafless tree wh~reunder we had tried to shelter our heads, he hauled himself up and then helped me to stand also. We were on the edge of a ravine, which overlooked the fields a stretch of sand and th e sea . ~'See!" the old king shrieked. "See!"

Agai nst the horizon, silhouetted across the rising sun, a figure in a white robe walks towards the land, and as hIS feet tread the water, the furious crests subside in their wrath, and the seas swell no longer, but sink in submissive calm before the rising sun. 37

Great Poetry-A BevaluatiOlt

It matters not who lose, or win; But how you play the game

P. G.B088

Q ua ntum mutatlls all iIIo Hectore qui r edit cxuvias indutus Achili

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The boy stood on the burning deck ••••

T The CI,oice Listen to the call of glistening spring; A piteous figure tin-tacked to an icy board exhibiting its thirty second ill-fleshed rib, and thrusting just one little bowl into the pocket of our conscience. Glance- X-ray- through the wall on which it stands. The happy affiuent are talking of the few and lucky rich. Dazzled by the glow of silverware, bloated from another leg of lamb, oblivious of the selfishness they show. The wasted remnants of their meal alone would be provision for six hungry sou ls. Their silver, kept for sentiment and show could yet prevent the digging of more holes in church they pray that God will save them when their own holes will be filled with golden soil. Beside the Oxfam placard on the wall another image drags aside our eyes. A drunken world is told (a talc how tall) that loss of conscience can be safely bought for thirteen pennies and no pence returned for bottles which are smashed against the wall.

Two Poellls by F. S. Halla",

A Lacl, of Cont"ast Sit! Daily through the ninth hour's opened gates A yawning mass of sugar-coated, Peanut throwing humanity comes Past the snake pit-shuddering at the cold? And when the two-Iegg'd master race has Rushed and scratched and pushed and fought its way Past docile bears, apes and other beasts It leaves a trail of paper and ice cream. Waves of peanuts pelt the growling bears The lion avoids a sugared hail and Monkeys snatch at salted sesame While elephants stretch trunks at any scraps And when the last rays of the sun throw A clattering, roaring, seething mass Of listless animals into night, It leaves them to await another day. 40

T PSYCHOLOGY IN MATHEMATICS

R. Deighton

Few people realise how much mathematics is a subject of sociological and humanitarian interest. Many problems encountered by the modern mathematicians have a human element in them which is comparable to the most revealing and emotional films and novels produced today. The problems involve, usually, one or more human beings. (In this context it is interesting to note that these human beings are either men, boys, or observers; for some reason the position of men and boys is in general unclassified, although most observers arc at the point O. However, observers at A or even B may also be encountered. Men or boys at A and/or B are usually required to watch the observer 0 and make pertinent remarks about him such as 0 is out of sight, at an angle Q, fallen in the river, etc., etc.) One of the first problems encountered by the young mathematician is that of the farmer faced with the alternative of walking round a field at 4 m.p.h., or walking straight across it at 3 m.p.h. Which way is the quicker? One is told that the farmer travels in straigbt lines and at constant speed. This means he walks straight across tbe field througb or over any obstacles (such as mud, etc.) and does not stop to say anything if he steps in any such obstacle. This problem is typical of the agricultural approach to mathematics, which occurs frequently and which is presumably favoured for the wide open spaces involved; also any emotional and psychological side effects are simple in origin and easily explained. The geometrical layout of the countryside also has some appeal to the mathematical examiner, who presumably shrinks from the untidy and unmathematical layout of the average English city; a pity, for some highly original and interesting problems could be set concerning the time a car takes to travel across a city stricken by a traffic jam. However, with the gradual urbanization of our country, and with the population as a whole becoming more town-minded, something of this sort may yet occur. With more mathematicians being brought up on towns and traffic jams, solutions may in the future be found to the present chronic state of England's traffic system. Mechanical problems are also highly interesting from the psychological point of view. Consider the observer 0 inside a lift, when the cable breaks; who can feel anything but sympathy when asked to describe the subsequent motion? One feels that the observer A waiting for the lift to stop at the 11th floor could do something more constructive than note that 0 passed A at 150 feet per second, and also that 0 could do more than note that his time of flight before impact was 15 seconds (Question: at which floor did the cable break?). A similar type of problem is that of a plank bridging a bottomless pit. How light must an observer be to cross over the plank without it breaking. The average onlooker is tempted (a) to jump right over, or (b) to walk round the pit, but our observer is determined not to spare us any thrills. We can almost imagine him tiptoeing carefully across the plank, not daring to look back or down. Ah well, if W really is greater than 9 ga, that is just too bad. (Question: What is the time of flight of an object thrown into a bottomless pit?) 41

Some of the most interesting problems occur in the study of statistics and probability. One such example is as follows :"A drunk man returning home after a night out has a distance to cover between his home and his public house. The probability of his taking a step in the direction of his house is p; the probability of his taking a step in the direction of his public house is q ; the probability of falling asleep on the spot 111 the gutter is (l - p- q). What arc the odds on the man returning home without falling in the gutter? (He may be assumed to travel with consta nt speed when on his feet)." This problem shows remarkable insight and understanding on the part of the examiner into the psychological effects apparent in this situation- for instance, as in actual fact, the probabilities of going forward or backward are different. (Although the question does not say so, it is likely that p is inversely proportional to the amount of alcohol consumed.) The Olle questionable assumption is that a drunkard's speed is constant. Even so, the examiner is remarkably realistic about the whole situation, from which it may be deduced that he has undergo ne the a bove-mentioned experience of the drunkard above. These few examples show that mathematics is as much a subject for the psychoanalyst and psychologist as for the arithmetician. If this were more widely realised, mathematics might in the future become a subject of unive{sal application and unparalleled interest.

R. A.}. Curtis

THE STORM

The clouds move past breathless without wind in an ever darkening shade of grey. They loom up, ominous, gripping and threatening: threatening this area with devastation. The air holds still, stifl ing, breathless and stinking; waiting for the storm to break. The thunder booms ominously in the distance getting louder and more frequent every minute. The birds flutter nervo usly, then run for shel ter and natives quicken their steps, glancing at the darkening, sunless sky in anxiety. Then a sudden flash of lightning, followed by a loud peal of thunder and down the rain comes ; a torrential downpour sweeping all obstacles from its path . The drains become rush ing rive rs shooting down the yellow mudd y roads. The water, coloured red from the weak, crumbling earth which was hes away so easily, tears up all in its path. Lightning follows thunder a nd the house rocks to the thunder peals and every dark corner is lit up by lightning flashes as the rain patters down on the zinc roof and shoots over the edge, falling into open air to join the mad swirling rush of water. Then as quickly as it had come the storm moves off, the sun comes out and the air is fres h and cool. The drips from the roof, the puddles and rushing water are the only reminders of the storm as insects start chirping and talking as life is restored to them. The water left in pudd les soaks away and steam rises on the road asÂˇ the sun strengthens its life-giving rays and white patches of cumulus appear with the blue sky adding to the once dark scene. 42

TI,,~

Cold Ltn"l

J.K.Harris

Morning light banged me on the face And pul\ed my eyelids up to see The room that had blue ceiling And paint that peeled. I stretched feeling Nothing, but dry in my mouth. Then my lip split when I tried to smile And I didn't want to smile at al\ .. . . Standing on a rusty platform With grey vapo ufs swirling round mc,

1 waited for the bleak train, With its heavy cargo of sane Men, sliding through the wet mist And their bleached white faces staring forward At each other a nd seeing nothing .. . . I saw the same, and saw slipping By black homesteads, disinfected Corpses standing and walking Slowly, gliding, never talking About anything. And eyes Averted, never meeting but fixed On the grou nd that was hidden by weeds .... I sat and somewhere a child laughed, But a row of blan k faces turned On the culprit, who had dared To disturb the great quiet shared By al\ good thinking men, who Walk slowly a nd smoothl y, a nd never D o what has not been done before .... And the train stopped slowly, and I Was carried out in a black Stream of men, whose coldness chilled Me to the very bone and filled Me with dismay, as I saw Them disappearing into their holes, Where they did what they'd done yesterday .. . . I went alone in this limp town, Past red-brick houses and along A green canal, no longer Busy, overcome by stronger Forces. T watched people With noiseless feet slide past, and saw great Black crows above in a leaden sky. 43

T THE MISSION

G. R. G. Keeble

Behind the swirling mist I saw some humbled , huddled figures wrapped in loin cloths. Above them on a dark ridge stood a lone man , and behind him sitting army-fashion

were men under a table. Suddenly one of the huddled figures detached himself from the kneeling group, put on a blanket and climbed silently up towards the cloaked man on the ridge, stabbed him and ran away. The men under th e table prepared to shoot, but as

they brought their rifles to their shoulders the sun came out. The legs of the table disappeared, the table crushed them all. The kneeling cowering men in loin clothes got up, opening the group like the petals of a flower open. On their bare shoulders were the words "King's Canterbury C.C.F. " sewn on. I saw myself among them; my shoulder stung. We arose to prepare ourselves for the M ission , hopping around in circles shouting,

crying. I co uld not find my rifle anywhere, and I complained to the little boy in charge. A frantic, wild search was begun: soon the rifle was found tied to a branch of a scented cedar-tree by a long slender man who crept up the tree to see what was holding it. He reappeared holding in one hand the rifle and in the other a nylon stocking, which he joyfully put on his left leg. Everyone was ready, but before we began we marched with many manoeuvres to the playing fields. I found myself in Germany, in a pleasant little Âˇtown square. It was summer: the sky was blue and the birds were singing the Brahms' Requiem. I wondered who had died, but laughing to myself, I realised that it was a stu pid question. In front of me stood an ominous Georgian house. I rang the bell, and the door was opened by a mat saying "Welcome", I was shown into a never-ending long room hung with chandeliers, to be greeted by a well-manicured political looking German whose smile of gold appeared from somewhere beh ind a mountain of waistcoat and button. ~'I am very important, would you li ke to stay for lunch 7" he said.

"I can only stay for pudding." I did not understand German but he looked as if he meant it. "Splendid!" he replied. "Pudding is all there is."

Immediately an African entered . He smiled his teeth at me; I smiled back because he was wearing a pink suit and a blue tie, and on the tray he was carrying stood a model

in pink, black and blue of himself made from icing. I did not want to hurt his feelin gs, or cause a fight, so I discreetly asked a waiter if I might be shown out, and I asked as a matter of interest how many rooms there were and if there were any ladies in any of them. He replied that there were a hundred and thirty-six rooms, and that all the ladies were stacked in the basement according to their age. The politician showed me to the square. On the corner of a street I saw a tall, gaunt looking house with black windows adorned by swastikas and the pictures of the faces of scream ing Jews. On the doorstep there were black , bent, huddled figures of old ladies. The German told me that it was the house of a deserter, no one was allowed to die there. I fe lt that no one should die in my house. I had come to a hill, studded with coral gravestones, which looked down on one side to the house and beyond it to sunny fields and sparkling waterfalls. On the other side I could see nothing. I ripped off my shoulder flash, tied my rifle to a gravestone with my loin cloth and went away Naked rejoicing. 44

T A time "s aId as Lazarlts

w. N. B,Âˇusa" Screaming through the tunnel where my dead talk with faces like hoops you , Michael, pull me to a grey ward. My eyes move their tents; look at these white sleeves, a new dress. My arms are branded , see the black thread lace

in and out of my wrists. Perhaps in my sleep I can still feel your love eating my mind, Michael,

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though it is days since my nerves broke like strings. I promised you I'd never come back. I guess I haven't got the knack. If I cry in my closed cell the tears are poisoned that channel my cheeks, and seem so hot to scratch these new wounds. I shall lie here, my hands turned up, for yea rs. I have never been so pure; nurses nod their green caps, their masks like thick veils, tell my history each to each, so much drug, they say, so much blood. At night the orange moon bulges

its cataract eye, a dragon

is gaping to flesh its starred teeth, old draco, I know you. The sky turns and, balls of meteors spit l ike hot metal, you can hear birds cry

in their fired feathers, drumming as distant as gulls. 45

1 And you, Michael, my saviour ra ther than opium with your Hebrew eyes and your Arab hair and your money flair, shalom.

They' re chanting in shewel for you, in the Dachau camp, in Jerusalem they're playing shawms for you. Sailing without shoes in a stone boat you leave me, Michael , to sort your brown snaps of people I didn't meet, a child in short trollsers; old films I took with your sad face, smile, tapes with you r boy's voice, ghosts hovering in the ai r. I lean back in my bed, poke at a tired poem. My sticky pearl gone, I shall clamp tight, not a voice will get through. The thoughts that burn my brain like wires come from YOll, as old as Lazarus, a time as far fro m here as love.

1 KING'S SPORT ,

RUGBY FOOTBALL :

Retrospect ...

1st X V Matches

2nd XV

3rd XV

4th XV

Colts' XV

Junior Colts

Under-Fourteen XV

THE JUDO CLUn

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THE SHOOTING CLUB

BASKETBALL

THE FENCING CLUB

SQUASH R ACKETS

RUGBY FOOTBALL 1st XV Retrospect, 1965 Having started the season well by winning the first three school matches, hopes were running high for yet another outstandingly good record by the 1st XV. Up to half-time in the Dulwich match, at which stage we were leading 8- 0, these hopes rose even higher but then happened a series of disasters from which the XV never fully recovered. Very early in the second half the open-side wing-forward was concussed, the stand-off half was badly injured and left the field, and a centre three-quarter was so badly hurt as to be unable to tackle. The game, not surprisingly, swung in Dulwich's favour and the match was lost. This became the turning point of the season. Although it was fully realised that there were limitations outside the scrum there had been signs of some degree of rhythm developing. Now, however, changes had to be made and replacements found for the injured. The Ampleforth-Sedbergh tour was embarked upon without the regular stand-off half and one of the centres, and the most atrocious weather conditions were encountered. In spite of this the Ampleforth match should have been won. The pack played quite superbly and King's had much the better of the game in every respect except in the score. This was repeated later ill the term at Tonbridge where the forwards were again well on top but outside the scrum the attack lacked the skill and finesse, either individually or collectively, to penetrate a really good hard-tackling defence. If these two matches had been won, as they both should have been, the record would have read 8 wins out of JO school matches which would have kept this XV in line with others of recent years. There is sometimes, therefore, a very narrow line between success and failure (if in fact to win 6 out of 10 can be called failure), and if the standard of a school's Rugby is to be judged solely on this rather slender basis it can be misleading. To take the broader view one should also consider the results of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th XVs and these can hardly ever have been better than in this season . It is true that there is a dearth of naturally gifted mid-field players in the school, but this shortage is almost universal, and when recourse has to be made to the more orthodox forms of attack these are not often going to penetrate good and determined defences. Where the 1st XV did fall short was in its own tackling in mid-field and this became much more evident when A. M. Heslop was injured and missed the last five matches. The pack was excellent and outplayed all other school packs with the possible exceptions of Sedbergh and Dulwich, and by winning so much of the ball they were able to reduce their opponents' opportunities to a minimum. It would be invidious to single out any of the forwards as having been particularly outstanding for they all performed their specialised duties competently and with success and as a pack they were often magnificent. It is only for the record that mention is made of P. J. Ralph and J. R. Wilson, C. Himsworth and later r. D. K . Meek; A. H. Steele and R. B. Howard-Williams and A. J. Ramsay as stalwart second-row scrummagers, and M. J. Gray, J. P. G. Revington and P. Hemingway as the back row. M. D. C. Moles and G. T. Williams both played a time or two as props and did well. 48

At scrum-half, A. J. Bailey got through a tremendous amount of good hard work and the only criticism that can be made of him is that he is not always as slick as one would wish. At the same time one would also like to be sure of having such a good player as he in this position every season. No fewer than five stand-off halves were used and yet none of these completely filled the bill although they all handled well. C. C. N. Bridge, J. R. Kilbee and J. D. W. Wright all tended to drift but all had their good moments. Bridge is a strong tackler, Kilbee times his passes well and Wright's kicking is ve ry good. P. K. Jenkins is a neat player with fine hands and did as well as any of the others in this position. S. P. C. Scott played on tour and dId as well as could have been expected under those conditions. The centres varied from match to match according to who was fit and these constant disruptions were a tremendous handicap to cohesion. M. G. Dover almost had his moment of glory in the dying seconds of the Tonbridge match. On the wings, W. Q. Wareham and N. J. C. Scott were poorly served and had very rew opportunities. When they were given a chance they both looked dangerous and one remembers Wareham's match-winning try at Eastbourne and Scott's against Epsom. They were both sound in defence. The full-back, G. K. Jaggers, had a somewhat disappointing season. He is still too prone to be caught in possession and does not place sufficient emphasis upon safety. Some of his place-kicking was good and in this he shared with Wilson. R. J. Steenhuis played two games at full-back and did well against Richmond. For the captain, P. J. Ralph, it must have been a frustrating and at times a disappointing season. It was always difficult for him but he remained undaunted and kept a good spirit within the team which can be extremely difficult with an unbalanced XV. C.F.

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1st XV Matches

K.S.C. v The O.K.S. King's, 24; O.K.S., 5 This match, against a potentially good O.K.S. side, was an excellent start to the season and stimulated much confidence within the team, which sported seven Old Colours. The forwards were especially mobile, and the three~quarters did not show the faults they had made in practice. For the first quarter of an hour, little progress was made by either side until Jaggers, the School fLlII~back, kicked two penalties which supplied the incentive for a more concerted attack. From a line~out on the twenty~five, the ball went out along the line to Wareham to score in the corner for a beautifully orthodox try, which Jaggers converted. Wareham also scored again in the second half, due mainly to the fact that some of the Old Boys' three~quarters had been absorbed in a loose scrummage, and we had a couple of players to spare. Later on, Heslop, playing opposite his brother, intercepted a pass just under their posts and scored un~ challenged. He also added to the score again, when he crossed the line with two defenders on top of him. The try was c<!nverted. The O.K.S.'s try came late in the match after a rush by their three~quarters from which Swete got the ball and scored. The game as a whole was pleasantly open, giving the School a definite advantage over the less fit O.K.S. The backs covered well and allowed their counterparts very little room to manoeuvre, while the scrum backed the ball well from the line~out and harassed the opposite serum-half effectively. 49

K.S.C. v St. Paul's King's, 9; St. Paul's, 3 The first half was by no means easy for King's, and st. Paul's were unlucky not to score twice in the first tcn min utes. St. Paul's were without their regu lar fly-ha lf but showed that even withollt him their attack was dangerolls. The forwards played a hard and fast game and soon flustered the St. Pau l's pack, and it was King's abili ty to get hold of the ball from the loose that made them more and more dangeroliS as the game went on. The first score was a splend id example of how important a quick possession is from a loose ruck. St. Paul's were caught out of position and Kilbee found it Qu ite easy to score with a ma n outside him. Jaggers later kicked an excellent penalty from ten yards Ollt. The final try was from a spirited attack by the pack which ended with Hemingway falling on the ba ll.

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V Blackheath R.F.C. Blackheath, 8; King's, 8 This was a superbly excit ing game to watch as the enthusiastic cheers from the School showed, and King's did well to hold as st rong a side as Black heath. The King's pack showed just how mobile they ca n be and soon lliackheath showed signs of tiring . Steele led the scrum superbly and his example must have lent inspiration to the side as a whole . Bailey in defence was unshakable a nd yet he always managed to be in on the attack. King's scored first with a penalty by Wilson after Jaggers had failed to convert once o r twice. The score then remained at 8- 3 to Blackheath till only a few minutes before the end, when Bridge made a lightning break and managed to pass just in time to Howard-Willia ms when tackled by the fu ll-back. Howard-Williams then on ly had a few yards to run and he touched down between the posts, leaving the game a draw .

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K.C.S. Wimbledon

King's, 17; K.C.S., Wimbledon, 6 The game was played in quite good conditions wh ich allowed a certain amount of attract ive running and kicking . The first King's try came from a push-over at the Pavilion end . The ball appeared to bounce out of the scrum past the opposite scrum-half and this was pounced upon by Howard-Williams fro m the second row. Later in the same half, Steele gathered the ball in a loose ruck and almost unopposed sprinted to the line, a dista nce of about twenty-five yards. The Wimbledon points came fro m two drop kicks by Owen-Thomas, their fl y-half, both fr om the region of the twenty-five. The other King's try was scored by Wa reham after an orthodox movement start ing from the line-out. Two of the tries were converted and Wilson a lso kicked a penalty.

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V Dover King's, 35; Dover, 3 The game as a whole was not one of the best that the team has played but the score was nevert heless convinci ng. We started slowly and there was little determination in the tackl ing or passing. However, their centre intercepted a pass fifteen yards from ou r posts and scored unchallenged. Soon Wilson, who kicked well, converted a penalty from the fron t of their posts, and King's began to show some life. Their line-out tactics were quite effect ive to start with as it sp lit the serum and caught us unprepared. Wareham scored in the corner from a grub-kick by Jaggers and Wilson converted. Tries and penalties came a bit faster now and we were about twenty points up at half-time. In the second half, Dover foug ht back harder and we were only able to score another fifteen or so. Wareham scored again and Heslop burst through the opposite line to score under the posts. In the second half, the scrum scored a push-over try which was again converted by WiI ~on. In addition to this, Wilson kicked three other penalties, apart fro m the o ne already mentioned, which brought his contribution to 18 points. He also converted a try by N. Scott.

1st XV [Fisk-Moore Back Row:' (left to right}- C. Himsworth, R. B. Howa rd-Williams, J. R. Wilson, 1. P. O. Revington, W. Q. Wareham J. R. K ilbee, G. K . Jaggers. â&#x20AC;¢ Middle Row: (left to right)-C. C. N. Bridge, M. J. Gray, A. J. Bailey, P. 1. Ralph (Captain) P. Hemingway A. H. Steele A. M. Heslop. ' , , Frollt Row: (left to right)- N. J. S. Scott, J. D. W. Wright.

2nd XV [Fisk-Moore Back Row: (left to . right)-R . G. A. Munns, M. D. C. Moles, G. T. Williams, A. 1. :Ramsay, A. R. Parrott. D. A. Wheeler, S. P. C. Scott. From R ow: (left. 10 right)-M. G. Dovel', S. J. Nicholls, P. K . Jenkins, H. J. Holdsloc k (Capta in), l. "D . K. Meek~ R. J. Steenhllls, M. R. F. Reeson. " Absellt: D. I. Sa les.

K.S.C. v Dulwich Co!lege Dulwich, 19; King's, 8 Up till now, King's were unbeaten, wefe determined to win th is match, and had high hopes of yet another good season. King's always regard this as onc of their toughest fixtures and played superbly together in the first half. The pack were dominant in just about every way and every time the three-quarters had the ball they looked swift and dangerous. Rcvinglon, in the line-out, fou nd that he had things very much his own way and the understanding between Bailey and himself looked almost perfect. The first King's score came from an orthodox three-quarter movement when the ball was passed neatly out to Scott on the wing, who managed to find the room to beat his man. Later on, st ill in the first half, a penalty was taken by Jaggers which left the score at 8-0 at half-t ime. Then came the disaster for King's. Early in the second half, Gray was heavily concusscd but managed to stay on the field, alt hough only as a passenger and then Bridge had to go off with a head injury which lert the Dulwich three-quarter line with more freedom in which to move . Knight , the Dulwich fly-half, then showed j ust how elusive he is and dodged and ducked to give them their first try . One of their tries was an absolute masterpiece of des ign. Knight did a high cross-kick for their right-wing, who caught the ball while at full speed and dived over the li ne with no K ing's man in sight. This seemed to split King's down the scams and Du lwich finished the game look ing the sllperior side.

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V Ampleforth King's, 8; Ampleforth, 9 This is certa inly a game that King's ought to have won. King's crossed Amplefor th 's line twice, whereas Ampleforth won with a well-taken dropped-goal and two penalties. There was a very strong: cross-wind and King's were slow to adapt themselves to the conditions. King's won most of the position but persisted in orthodox passing movements instead of working the touch-line. The first try came aner a quick heel from a loose scrum when the ball was passed quickly along to the len wing, Wareham, who scored in the corner. In the second half, Bailey broke from a loose scrum and passed inside to G ray, who d ived across the line. At this, King's were now leading 8- 6, but a penalty five minutes from the end gave Amp leforth the victory.

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V Sedbergh Sedbergh, 11 ; King's, 3 Due to appall ing condit ions, the game had to be played on the Colts' pitch and even this was like a mire. The game was tight and slow and abou t the only thing the three-quarters could safely do was to kick for touch, and so much of the game was confined to the forwards who had to battle it Oll t. Sedbergh showed their abil ity to revel in these cond iti ons and their superiority was ev ident in the loose. The Sedbergh pack played superbly toget her a nd King's were never sa fe from their o nsla ught. King's were the first to score when H oward-Williams went crashing through some of the Sedbergh defence after a concerted fo rward rush, but Sedbergh were quick to reta liate with a try by the wing after a loose serum. At ha lf-t ime the score was st ill 3- 3 but then the Sedbergh fly-ha Ir cleverly kicked over the heads of the King's defence and the centre touched it down. Sedbergh converted the try and later a penally was given ror off-side which they converted.

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Richmond R.F.C.

Richmond, 8; King's, 6 King's had much of this game but were not constructive enough nor had sufficient penetration to do much with the possession. The King's pack played a superb game and found that they could get the ball from both the tight and the loose but the Richmond defence proved too sound for the King's attack. The Richmond three-quarter line moved forward fast and dangerously and it was in this game especially that the King's defence looked very poor. Gray scored tile first try from a well-placed pass from Bailey o n the Richmond line in the first haIr, which Wilson managed to convert from quite near to the posts. The Richmond scores were both from the threequarters break ing tack les and going through . Late in the game a penalty was awarded to King's from quite a d istance, which Wilson kicked over easil y.

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K.S.C. v Eastbourne College Eastbourne, 3; King's, 8 The score is not a good guide to the game, for King's were the dominating side throughout. The score stayed at 8- 3 from the first half. King's got a Qu ick heel from a loose serum, the ball moved swiftly out to the wing and Wareham was able to show just how elusive he is by darting for the li ne and scoring in the corner. Jaggers later added an extra three points by convert ing a reasonably tricky penalty. The only Eastbourne score was from an extremely fine penalty. taken almost from the left touch-line. T he second half saw constant pressure by the King's pack, who managed to tire the Eastbou rne pack, but King's never quite managed to cross the line. Things were considerably weakened for King's when Heslop was taken off with a knee injury and alt hough he returned , he only stayed as a reserve full-back to Hemingwa.y, who had dropped back from wing-forward.

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V Felsted Felsted,6; King's, 14 The conditions were appalling and so the baH was extremely difficult to handle. K ing's opened the scoring after a few minutes of the first half with a penalty by Wilson. However, the King's forwards were playing rather sluggishly and were not keeping the game tight. Felsted equalised with a penalty and at half-time the score was still level. In the second half the King's forwards played with more vigour but stilt with fifteen minutes of play left the score was still 6-6. Then King's scored wit h a try by Wright, who kicked ahead in his own half and dribbled on to score in the corner. King's went further ahead when Bailey broke from a loose serum and passed the ball inside to Gray, who scored near the posts. Wilson converted the try to make the score 14-6.

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V Epsom Epsom, 3; King's, 8 Although the score makes the game scem to be extremely close, King's were the more constructive in a ttack and the three-quarters found little difficulty in catching Epsom on the wrong foot. It was surprising that King's fa iled to score more often. The first score came from a tight serum, five ya rds from the Epsom line, when Revington picked up the ball from the back of the scrum and dived over. Epsom then replied with a penalty, leaving the score at 3- 3 at half-t ime. The next try was a delight to watch. From a line-out in the Epsom twenty-five, King's got clean possession and the ball moved swiftly out to Wright, who intelligently missed out Bridge in passing to Scott, who dashed for the line. Jaggers converted . In this game the King's pack played better than at any time since the Dulwich match and they always looked dangerous in attack.

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V Harlequins Harlequins, 12; King's, 8 It was a fast and open game which seemed to suit both teams . Harlequins had to make do with a School full-back as their own did not arrive, and soon both sides settled down to play some very attractive rugby. The Harlequins' fly-half was extremely fast and quick-th inking and managed either to construct their tries or to score them himself. The fi rst King's try came from a kick-ahead by Wright down the right wing, which was pounced upon by Scott and then converted by Jaggers . The second was from an intercepted pass by Bridge on the King's twenty-five . Bridge darted and dummied and then threw a pass to Steele, who sprinted down the left wing and scored himself.

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Tonbridge

Tonbridge, 5; King's, 3 As Mr. Spragg of the Sunday Telegraph put it, it was " a desperately exciting st ruggle". It was cold and wet during the game which made handling difficult, but the baIt was moved well from one side of the fie ld to the other by both teams, although the King's pack had far more vigour and wou ld burst through the ! Tonbridge line but never quite managed to fin ish what they had begun. With Dover at outside centre and Bridge at full-back, the th ree-quarters tried time and again to split the Tonbridge defence and it is much to the Tonhridge backs' credit that they never did . Twice King's looked almost certain to score, but Wareham brushed the corner flag once and Wright was caught with one man outside him. The Tonbridge score came in the first ha lf, when Pettma n, the Tonhridge fly-half, bro ke through a tackle and crashed across the line. The King's score came from a penalty in front of the posts in the last minute of the first ha lf.

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Rosslyn Park

Rosslyn Park, 24; King's, 0 Rosslyn Park sent down a very strong side, containing the Barker brothers and A. D. H. Turner, who dominated the play to a considerable extent. In attack the Park preferred to throw the ball around rather than the Springbok method of using the pack as a wedge to open up the defence. This is a feature of club rugger, and a very attractive one. T heir greater experience and speed off the mark often had the King's side greatly bamed, but Wareham's determined tack ling against C. Barker gave great inspiration to the team. The intelligent linking up of the forwards with the backs proved too much for the King's defence and many tries resulted from this. For a club side, the Park's tack ling was not fa r short of being ruthless and this resulted in Howard-Williams going off in the second half with a cracked Shoulder blade. The game was fast and provided a lot of attractive rugby, which delighted the spectators.

2nd XV I shall never expect to have a better 2nd XV. Success bred a happy sp irit and this bred confidence and slickness. From the front row to fu ll-back, in every department, there was a good combination of players. The power station of the team had a form idable vangua rd in Williams, Meek and Moles, two strong, forceful props and the quickest hooker in the business, the second row of Ramsay and Sales was even stronger and the back row of Wheeler, Holdstock and Reeson had experience, fieetness and inspiration. Their defensive covering was masterly and their backing-up of three-quarter movements often decisive. Behind the scrum, Parrott, with his disconcerting run, and Jenkins wi th very safe hands, served the outsides well besides initiating many dangerous attacks themselves. The three-qua rters suffered more changes than uSllal and it is difficult to say who const ituted the 2nd XV here. The wings, Munns and Nicholls, were both strong and fast runners and between them they scored 21 tries, eloquent proof of the service through the centres. Scott was capable of carving great gaps in the opposition and Wright, Kilbee, Dover and Rickards who also played there all fulfilled their functions cred itably. Full-back Steenhuis was safe and sure, his only failing being a slowness at judging the trajectory of a high kick ahead.

Unhappily, Holdstock, the wise and experienced captain, had to miss the last few matches through injury but his encouraging spirit lingered on, faithfl!lly. ma inta ined by Sales. and m~l ch of ~he team's success is atlributable to these two. To have scored 58 tnes m I I matches (2 14 pomts agamst 27) IS a n excellent record and many of them were due to the quick, decisive and intelligent play and i nter~p l ay, a triumph of brain over brawn. I I matches played, 11 won . Team : R. J. Steenhuis; R. G. A. Munns, M. G. Dover, S. P. C. Scott, S. J. N icholls; . P. K. Jenkins, A. R. Parrott; G. T. Williams, I. D. K. Meek, M. D. C. Moles, D . 1. Sales, A. J. Ramsay, D. A. Wheeler, H. J. Hold stock, M. R. F. Reeson. Also Played: Cowell and Rickards (4), McKenzie and F reela nd (3). R ESULTS

v O.K.S. Won 10- 3 v K.C.S., Wimbledon. Won 24-0 v Dover College. Won 53- 0 v Dulwich College. Won 11- 6 v Worth Schoo l 1st. Won 17- 6 v Ca nterbury Extra "A n. Won 16- 3 v Eastbourne College. Won 31- 3 v R.M.S., Dover. Won 14-0 v Chatham House 1st. Won 11-0 v H.M.S, Worcester. Won 12- 3 v Colfe's G.S, 1st. Won 15- 3

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3rdXV Played 9; Won 8; Lost I; Points for 165; Points against 27 In view of the natu ral lim itations of 3rd XV rugger- the constant obl igation to fill gaps caused by injury in the higher XV's and the rather uneven fixture list- this was a most enjoyable and rewarding season for all concerned. Th~ team developed in sp iri t and skill from game to game, and the final triumphant riot of tries agai nst a gallantly fight ing Colfe's 2nd XV was a filt ing climax to an excellent term. R. J. Winchester led the side with fire and dash, and his determined running on the wing made him one of the outstanding point~scorers,

The games va ried fro m a hard~fought open battle with Dulwich to a spectacular m ud~bat h in the return ma tch with R,M's. , Dover. T he only defeat came from Callte!·~u ry .Ext ra. "A", when despcra te defence by a much~weakened side just fa iled to keep out a rut hless OPPOS itIon, til an ii i-tempered game. The reverse ~ was useful in restoring a sense of proport ion! Not the least sat isfying feature of the season was the way in which the team successfully adapted its tactics to the cond itions, most notably perhaps in the Dover away match, which marked a real break~throllgh in the development of forwards and scru m~halr. The follow ing played regu larly :- R . J. Winchester (Captain), P. C. Cranfield,D. G. Bray, D, 0, McKenzie, S, P. Hutton, M. M, Rickards, P. R. Beech, R, S. Hallam, L. Thistlethwaite, D. G. Powell, P. B. Short, G. A. Pearce, M, S. Freeland, C . J, Hinds, J, I. S. Pitkeathly. J. J. T. Coombe, M. A. Cowell. Also played :- N. W. Jackson, R. B. Kennedy, G, R. G. Keeble, G, K, Jaggers, A, J. Ramsay. S. T. Hull. R.M.S, Dover. Won 21-0 .Dulwich. Won 14-11 Kent College 2nd XV. Won 23--0 Canterbury " B", Won 29- 3 ·Dane Court 1st XV . Won 19--0 Ca nterbury Extra "A". Lost 0-8 ·R.M.S, Dover. Won 11-0 Colfe's a.s. 2nd XV . Won 48-5 • Away fix tures M.St.1.P.

4th XV This year the 4t h XV successfully filled its role as a team for the boys, run by the boys, as 41 people had a chance to play during the season. Although the team lost several members to the 3rd XV and to sickness, a ll the matches were won. As the resu lts show, the most exciting matches were those against Du lwich and H.M.S. Worcester, both of which were hard fought and narrowly won games. The team scored'l,54 points, and 29 po ints were scored against it. The results were as follows:v Maidstone G's. 3rd XV. Won 27- 3 v Sir Roger Manwood's 3rd XV. Won 31-6 v Dulwich College 4t h XV. Won 8-0 v Ma idstone G.S. 3rd XV. Won 8 1 ~3 v K ing's, Rochcster 3rd XV. Won 88- 3 v H,M's, Worcesler 2nd XV. Won 19-14

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Colts' XV There was a sprink ling of good players in the team this year, The team cou ld have been effective in all departments of the game save in mid~fiel d , but there was too seldom a corporate will to win strong enough to evidence itself in qu ick fall ing, hard tackl ing and teamwork when liP aga inst it. The end of term resu lts do reneet an improvement, but not as great a one as the scores suggest. The pack got no more than average possession from the set pieces, and hardly that while Griffiths was ga ining experience as hooker. Vaines and Jerma n did the jumping in the Ji ne~ou t, Jerman's separation from the grou nd increasing during the term. Vaines developed into a very strong Colts' forward in all respects, whi le of an industrious front row Lambrick was a part icularly hard worker. Whalley, the Capta in, was, as scnlm~ h alf, a pivot for most of the attack ing moves. He worked well with his back row a nd bli nd side wingers, and was throwing an enormous pass by the end of term. Baker was the lucky outside-half on the receiving end and he must be picked out as the most improved player on the side ; he might do very well when he lea rns to n m straigh ter. It was, however, when Whalley lin kcd with Kecble and Gray from the back row, tha t the side rea ll y impressed, and Keeble showed up inM creasingly well in attack. Gray covered a lot of grou nd a nd was often on the loose ball to start a movement, th ough ra ther at the expense of doing his share of tack ling. The ball bounced well for Berry at full~back . The following have played in more than one match :- C. R. Wha lley,· G. R. G. Keeble,· R. F. Gray,· M. W. Vaines,* J . L. Jerman, C. T. Lambrick,* D. J. D. Banks, A. W. Berry, W. T. Griffiths, H. A. Baker,· A. B. Marshall, D. F. Waters, J. H . O. Hughes, M. D . McFarlane, N. McK. Rae, F. S. Hallam, j, R . Carey, C. Hand ley, P. D. L. Evans. • Colour RESULTS

K.C.S., Wimbledon (Away). Lost 3-11 Dover (Home). Won 6--3 Dulwieh (Home). Lost 0-9 R.M.s., D over (Home). Won 10-6 Eastbourne (Home). Won 11-3 R.M .S., Dover (Away). Lost 0-16 Feisted (Away). Won 6-3 H .M.S. Worcesler (Home). Won 71- 0 Colfe's a.s. (Home). Won 49~

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Junior Colts Played 11; Won 6; Lost 4; Drawn 1; Points for 131; Points against 113 This has been a relatively good season when rated in terms of the improvement of the team as a whole. There was a good win against Eastbourne, and a well-earned draw against a much heavier Tonhridge side but two heavy defeats by K.C.S. Wimbledon and Dulwich pointed to poor defence early in the season: One of the biggest difficulties was to find suitable centres. The new laws, by giving the backs morc room to move, also encourage more severe im pacts, and nowadays one needs centres to handle like halves, be as fast as wings and at the same time to be built like props. Very few boys have these properties at this age. Over the season the strong point of the side was always the tight scrummaging, where Seller was probably the key factor, and we frequent ly pushed far heavier packs. The forwards seldom played badly, but their line-out play was never good, and their loose scrummaging only started to develop in late November. Few individuals were outstanding, but mention must be made of Seller, for his all-round competence, Frye and Fidler for t heir improvement, and Cla rk for his tireless covering. Mannings joined the pack late in November, and shewed distinct promise. Heyland improved stead ily as Captain, and by the end of the season had become quite mature in his handling of the team, and prom ises well. Clark started the season as scrum half, but was needed later to improve the "ling forward defence, and was replaced by Collins, who may develop, if he grows, into a quick attacking player. At fly-half, Davison handled well, but wants to learn the importance of speed in running even if he is not making a break. His place kicking, particularly with the wet ball, is developing well. Blackmore ran with great determination, and will do well when he learns how to tackle, and gains experience as to where to run. At full back, Pargeter shewed good ball sense, but has yet to develop a crushi~g tackle. The side was well served by its reserves, who always performed willingly. Braddell in particular is unlucky in that his strength and speed do not match his undoubted basic skills. Team : Pargeter; M. P. Blackmore, P. M. Jones, Stephens, Waterhouse; Davison, Collins; Seller, Barclay, Sawrey-Cookson; Frye, Fidler, Chamberlin; C. F. Clark, Heyland (Captain), Mannings. Also Played: Bone, Braddell, Ford, Goodman, M. L. Moore, Mount, Tsesmelis, D. A. H. Wilson. P,M,W, G,H,j,P,

Under Fourteens XV The Under 14 XV developed into an able side this term. Towards the end it was working well together as a team, and produced some excellent rugby on occasions. The main strength lay in the pack, which was never worsted, and usually dom inated the game. Bedford, Lloyd and Aust in formed a strong front row in the tight, while Qu ine, Makris and Robinson were always active at the back of the scru m. Shires and Stewart, in the second row and in the loose, did part icularly sterling work throughout the term. The only notable weakness was in line-out play, though this improved latterly. The backs were able to exploit the plentifu l supply of the ball. Ahmadzadeh made good progress at scrum-half, and combined weJl with Hamblin. The centres, Thorne and Docherty, handled well , and were sometimes devastating in attack . Docherty scored 18 tries which, with 4 conversions, made a contribution of 62 points. No really fast wing emerged, though Gasken was hard to stop when he had steam up. After numerous experiments, Ashenden fi nally settled down competently at full-back. The defence was sometimes suspect, and a general reluctance to tackle low was the only thing which prevented this from being an outstanding side. If some of the players can overcome this weakness they could do well in the future . 56

Some of the matches were won very easily, but the best were those against the stronger opponents. Sir Roger Manwood's were beaten, though King's had 14 men for most of the game. Another injury early on weakened the team at Chatham House, who were much too good outside the scrum however and won decisively and deservedly. ' , The two matches against R.M.S., J?over 'produced .the best rugby. At home, King's won a fine game. The r~turn was a hard-fought battle, m wh ich both Sides gave of their utmost, in heavy conditions. The best Side on the day won. Hamblin captained the side very sensibly and directed tactics with maturity. Finally, a word of praise for those not regularly in the team, who played in domestic games. Many have progressed very well and should be cha llenging for places in higher school teams. The following have played: Hamblin (Captain), Bedford, Docherty, Gaskell, Makris, Quine Robinson Stewart,.H. D., Thorne, Ah!,"adzadeh, Sh ires, Ashenden, Aust in, Lloyd, Newman, Duckworth, Rowe: Box, Gnggs, Thorndike, Thnng, Northrop. Results Played 8, Won 6, Lost 2. v Kent College (Away). Won J 1-0 v Sir Roger Manwood's (Away). Won 11- 6 v Kent College (Home). Won 31-0 v Chatham House (Away). Lost 0- 17 v R.M.S., Dover (Home). Won 12-0 v King's, Rochester (Home). Won 42-0 v St. Lawrence (Away). Won 41- 3 v R.M.S., Dover (Away). Lost 0-5 M .j,H, D,j,R,

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THE JUDO CLUB Judo Club meetings have been pretty well attended this term, although rugby and work took their inevitable toll on judoka who, I am sure, would otherwise have attended morc regularly. I was particularly pleased with the keenness of this term's new members, who show promise. The Club had two matches this term, a lthough three were scheduled on the calendar. On the 12th October, Worth School came down and both tcams enjoyed a very good, hard and friendly match. This resulted in a win for King's by 4 contests to 2; we look forward to a n away fixture with Worth School next tcrm. The Chartcrhouse match was unfortunately cancelled by them at the last moment; however, it is hoped that the fixture can be fe-arranged next tenn. On the 21st November, Mr. G ross and Richard Lockhead very kind ly drove the team to Sutton Valence School . The condit ions of the match were considerably altered by Sutton Valence, resulting in two of our judoka being unable to fig ht in the contests. King's won by 30 points to 15, after an uninspiring ex hi bition of Judo from both sides . We had a grad ing on the 28th November, being examined by A. Menzies, 1st Dan. The following attained these grades :-4th Kyu (orange belt), N.P. Press, A. M. N. Shaw; 5th Kyu (yellow belt), C. F. Clark, 1. M. Findlay, and a large number of 6th Kyus (white belts) were granted. The Captain atta ined 3rd Kyu (green belt). It was unfortunate that the number of senior members able to grade was relatively small due to injury and other factors. Considered as a whole, this term has been a profitable one as regards contest Judo as well as free practice. However, it must be realised that it is only constant practice (however boring it may seem at the time) that makes a good judoka in the long run. M.A.C.

SQUASH RACKETS We have been unbeaten in the first half of the season, with victories over Winchester 5-0, Wellington 5-0, Westminster 5-0, Can ford 5-0, Gresham's 5-0 and the O.K.S. 4- 3, and the side may well develop into the best the School has yet had. We a lmost certainly have our best No.1 ever in C. C. N. Bridge, who had the distinct io n of beat ing last year's Oxford No.3, P. D. MacNeice, 3-0 in the O.K.S. match . At No.2, R . S. Hallam is a master of the drop shot, but needs to move a good deal faster round the court. J. K. Jaggers and I. Ja'afar are splendid ly determined players at Nos. 3 and 4, and Jaggers had a particularly good win against a more sk il ful opponent at Winchester. Position for position, D. R. L. Bodey is a very strong NO.5 and, with Patience out of the way, he may well rise in the order next term . We are not sitting back, however, for our strongest opponents are still to come, including Tonbridge. who have had a fine record in recent years and whom we have yet to beat. D.W.B.

JEEVES AT THE JUNIOR SCHOOL M. P. Powell

THE SHOOTING CLUB Bisley The results at Bisley last term finished off the school year on a high notc . The team started off on the Tuesday with a rather disappo inting shoot at the Snap though, admittedly, in very dull conditions which made the targets against the sand-background d ifficult to sec. The Marling, on the same afternoon, was a moderate shoot which enabled us to come 25th, an improvement of 8 places on last year's posit ion. Blit the most important shoot was the Ashburton Shield on the Wednesday with an entry of over 100 schools. After a rainy start, the day cleared up remarkably well and almost all the team entered very good scores at both 200 yards and 500 yards. The final score was 500 out of a possible 560, which is only the second time King's has broken the 500 ma rk. We were placed 40th, the highest position, bar one, that we have ever reached. Tlte Team Score H.P.S. P. R. Kermode 58 70 L. S. Burr 70 66 N. G. Scott 62 70 R. A. Perry 70 63 W. S. Taylor 70 62 T. G. D. Shannon 61 70 J. H. Churchwell 70 65 A. D . Cobley 70 63

(Ninth Man) N. J. Day

Christmas Term T his term the Club has reverted back to the .22 N.S.R.A . "Tin~Hat" targets with some very good results after a brief period of using the more difficult indoor "1O~Bull" targets in order to gain classification. Our only shou lde r~ to~shoulder match was with Tonbrklge which, even though we lost by a small margin, proved to be very successfu l and the highest match score of the year. The Swete Cup (.303) was competed for again on Field Day after last term's fiasco due to excessive Âˇ ra nge~fou\ing. Every House entered a team and many returned some very good shoots. The result: 1st, Galpins 238- 280; 2nd, Walpole 235- 280; 3rd, School House 235- 280; 4th, Luxmoore 233- 280. It was found last term that the Country L(fe team had won the "Best Improvement" Shield, having gone up 82 places o n last year's position. It is now beside the Top Table. The tcam was chosen from: L. S. Burr, N. G. Scott, T. G. D. Shannon, J. J. Carmichael, M. J. Nicholls, N. J. Day, J. H. Churchwell, R. J. Haswell, M. A. Sandford, A. D. Cobley, R. C . Thornton, A. L. Gillies. L.S.B.

BASKETBALL After the first round of the Junior I nter-House Basketball Competition in which Walpole, School House, Ma rlowe and Galpin's all won their matches by a good margin, it was clear that the subsequent games were going to be as hard-fought as usual with each HOllse having a ta lented and well -tra ined side. The first semi-final between Walpole and School House could not have been closer and it seemed a pity that one side had to lose . For skill, speed and clean, open play it must rank as one of the best and most exciting games ever seen in the School Gym. Whalley, Kerr-Peterson, Sprunt and T itford for School House, and Cronk , Daker, McFarlane and Bird for Walpole, all played splendidly. At half-time, School HOllse were leading by 21 points to 20. After the interval, detcrmined defcnce by bot h sides kept the sco~es down and with three minutes to go, Walpole were one point ahead at 32- 31. A fu rther basket from School House, one minute from time, seemed to have decided the game, but Walpole fought back and snatched victory by one point with a desperate long shot from McFarlane in the last ten seconds.

"BEAT" MUSIC [D. C. Quine

The second semi~final, between Galpin's and Marlowe, although not Quite so skilful, was not lacking in excitement. At half~time Galpin's were leading by 16 points to 12 and seemed all set to go further ahead. However, in the second half, Marlowe staged a terrific all~out attack with deadly shooting from Collins, Heyland and Carter, backed up by tenacious defensive play from Langley~Hunt. Although Galpin's, with Binney, Ashforth, Marks and Brown, tried valiantly, they could not stop the avalanche of goals and at the finish were a good ten points behind their rivals. Walpole and Marlowe therefore met in the final and it seemed at first that the close marking of Marlowe would upset the Walpole attack. However, although both sides made mistakes in the first few minutes, Walpole soon settled down and were leading by 19 points to 13 at the interval with goals from Cronk, McFarlane and Baker. In the second half, Marlowe tried hard to get on level terms, but their attacks crumbled against the determined zone defence of Walpole with Bird doing some outstanding work at guard . Had they used the long shot over the zone and followed up, or shot for goal whenever they were within reasonable distance they might have had more success but it is doubtful if the result would have been different. Although Collins scored six baskets for Marlowe and Heyland and Langley~Hunt defended doggedly, Cronk, Baker and McFarlane cut through to score time and again. At the finish, Walpole were worthy winners by 51 points to 25. M.E.M.

THE FENCING CLUB The first and second teams have won all their matches tbis term by an encouragingly high margin and with instruction available on five days a week good progress has been made at all levels. In the Frank Page Trophy Competition, Pitkeathly and Ring reached the semi~fina l of the Men's event and Olympitis, Deighton and Bird were placed second, third and fourth respectively after a barrage for first place in the Schoolboys' section. The Captain of Fencing (J. 1. S. Pitkeathly) and J. A. Ogley, a leading member of the foil and epee team, are leaving this term. We wish them every success in the future. Pitkeathly has been an outstand ing captain. Besides being the first schoolboy to win the Kent County Foil Championship, under his leadership the Club has prospered and the team has been almost unbeaten in school matches and County competitions. We shall miss them both. However, the general standa rd of fencing in the Club is high and there is every reason to hope that the present record can be maintained with a full quota of fixtures next term. Results v H.M.S. WORCESTER 1st Team (Foil, Epee, Sabre). Won 25- 2. Junior Foil. Won 13- 3. v DANE CoURT 1st Team (Foil, Epee, Sabre). Won 16-11. 2nd Foil. Won 9- 7. Junior Foil. Won 11-5. v KING'S, ROCHESTER 1st Team (Foil, Epee, Sabre). Won 21-6. 2nd Team (Foil, Epee, Sabre). Won 24--3. 3rd Foil. Won 9-7. v K.C.S., WIMBLEDON 1st Foil. Won 9---0 2nd Foil. Won 8-1. Junior Foil. Lost 5--4. 1st and 2nd Teams: J. 1. S. Pitkeathly (Captain), J. A. Ogley, R. A. Ring, L. S. Burr, R. Deighton, E. J. Olympitis, R. Bird, N. E. de Silva. Junior Team: M. L. Brown, C. R. Wand~Tetley, J. K. Eden, 1. C. Marks, J. C. Clarke. Colours Awarded: R. Bird and N. C. de Silva.

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SCHOOL ACTIVITIES l~

MUSIC:

School Choir

School Band

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Jazz Society

First Orchestra ... Second Orchestra Madrigal Society

SOCIETIES:

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Natural History

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Tenterden

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Art

Harvey Caxton Carpentry Geographical

SOCIAL SERVICE

C.C.F. NOTES: Army and Basic Sections Royal Naval Section

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Royal Air Force Section

OUR CONTEMPORARIES

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MUSIC Owing to the production of Patience, the term was a very busy one. The Choral Society was unable to meet. but it is hoped that when it resumes next term it will be we ll~supported, so that preparations for King's Week may begin in earnest. A fea ture of the term has been the large increase in membership enjoyed by the Band. I do not remember it being so strong in numbers. A great proportion of its players consists of younger players, which is a happy augury for the future. . ' . . . Two innovations have been the Music Circle Concert held III the D eanery by kmd IIlv l tat lo n o f the Dean and Mrs. White-Thomson, and the " full y choral" Evensong sung b,Y ~ll the Mu si~ ScJ~o l ars o n November 21st (the last Sunday of the Christian Year). For the record , the musIc mcluded ~n II1tro lt by Kenneth Jones, O.K.S. , the Canticles to a setting in C by Stanford, and an 18th century classIc by Boyce, 0 where shall wisdom be jound ? , " At the request of many friends of the School, the Carol ServIce was recorded, and full er deta ils about this will be made public in due course. R . H. D avies left at the beginning of the term with a Choral Schola rship at King's College, Cambridge, and the end of the year has seen the departure of Jo hn Potter (Choral Scholarsh ip to Gonvillc and Ca ius, Cambridge), P. M . Tatchell and T. p , M. Young. All have giVCI.l talented ~ervice to th,e ~hool's ch?ral and instrumental activities over the years, a nd have taken a promment part 111 the orgamzallon of van ous Societies. Tim Young, in particu lar, as Music Monitor. during the. term has done excellent work .. Their departure at this time is a severe loss, and they leave us WIth our gratitude for a ll that they have cont nbuted.

E.J.w.

The Choir has been exceptionally strong th is term, and considering the number of gaps left by leavers at the end of last term, the bass line has mainta i.ne~ its usual high sta.ndard well. We had a large influx of moderate trebles, who, when a ll smgmg toget her, eontnbuted to a very powerful top line, They w~re led w<:11 by A, J. Dawson and A. G. L. Lyle, ~ho each gave us excellent performances of the respective solos I~ Ye 1101'.1 are sorrowful an~ 0 jar Ihe.wmgs oj a dC?ve. We should like to thank the Choir for a very high standard of attendance 10 the praCtices, and particularly the tenor line which, apart from one case of il lness, has had no absentees throughout the term. We hope that this sta ndard will be maintained . In addition to the Choir's already large repertoi re, we have now added an original setting of Psalm 43 by Gelineau We arc also includ ing five new ca rols in the Ca rol Service. J . F. Pott~r and P. M . Tatchell are leaving at the end of the term, and we should like to thank them for their long service in the Choir, and wish them luck for the fl!tur~. Once again, there is none other to thank than ali I' ent hUSiastic conductor, Mr. Wright. Anthems sung t his term:Hai l, G laddening Light ( Wood) Let all the world (Chapman) I heard a voice (Goss) o come, ye servants of the Lord (Tye) o for the wings of a dove (Mendelssohl/) Ascribe unto the Lord (Travers) H osa nnah to the Son of David (Weelkes) Praise to God in the Highest (Campbell) Psalm 43 (Gelilleau) Ye now are sorrowful (Brahms) Come my way (Harris) T.P.M .Y. R.J.W.

School Choir

This term with Paliellce in the offing, the Orchestra has been unable to attempt anything really const ructive, but has lIsefull y m~naged, to use the rehearsal time for sight reading various miscellaneous works, an exercise which I am sure has been most useful to the Orchestra as a whole. Among the pieces attempted were: Brahms' FOllrlh SYlllpho~,y, Mozart's Fortieth Symphony, Va,ug!la nWilliams' Wasps, D elius' Prelude to J,.melill, Brahms' T,.aglc Overlure and Hugo Wolr's Jlahemsche Serellade. We are very sorry that next term we shall be without 1. F. Chesshyre, R. H. Davies, J. F. Potter, P. M. Tatchell and T. P. M. Young, whose services we are bound to miss. .. ' , We thank Mr. Edred Wright and Mr. Clarence Myerscollgh very much for their contmued assistance III maintaining the very high standard of the Orchest ra. R.W.A. C.W.B.

First Orchestra

We have met nearly every week this term, and have done some useful work on several Second Orchestra pieces, including Walton's Richard !II Suile, Two Waltzes by Brahms, and Berlioz' Hungarian March . Although rehearsals th is term have been main ly for enjoyment, we have been thinking ahead to next term's concert, when we shall probably play the Berlioz march and a movement from the Walton suite. Attendance has been quite good this term, and we should reach a high standard by the concert. As always we are very grateful to Mr. Morrish for his constant help and encouragement. P.J. The sudden departure of R . H. D avies for King's, Cambridge, left us with a gap in the alto line which was filled by G. A. Thomson, late of that same institution. C . S. Varcoe dropped from alto to bass and was joined by R. W. Budd. The tenors and basses sang at compl ine and the whole society sang the usual " Merbecke" at the Sung Eucharist. In the Deanery Concert we performed three madriga ls (our last till King's Week ?). The concert is reviewed elsewhere in this isslle. At the Ca rol Scrvice we are singing Lullahy my Sweel Little Baby (Byrd) and A Spolless Rose (Howells). C. M. Saunders takes over as secretary next term. J .F .P.

Madrigal Society

Our work this term has been primarily in preparation fo r the memorial serv ice on Remembrance Sunday, when we played the " Homage March" from Sigurd Jorsolfar by Grieg. After this we played through several old favourites and tried some new pieces, notably a Folk Song Suile by Vaughan Williams and The Firsl Suite ill Eftat, for military band , by Holst. The outstanding feature of the Band this term has been the splendid attendances; the numbers have not been so large for a great many years. As a result the playing was of a high standard and we hope that the regular numbers will remain high next term . We are very sorry to have lost Col in Arney, our secretary, at the end of last term, as th is term we lose J. F . Potter and J, F. Chesshyre. We should like to take this opportu nity to thank them for their loyal assistance to the Band. A final word of thanks to Mr. Wright for his devotion and dedication to the Band. D.R.L.B. H.B.P.

School Band

The various groups in the Club have pract ised regularly this term and have become qu ite proficient as a result. All the groups in the Club are relatively novice, having been formed either this term or last. Despite this, the more proficient groups managed to render quite an entertain ing 90 minutes in the Northgate Hall o n Saturday, 27th November. The groups involved were: The Ajlermalh, The Valldals, Folk Mell ill Vogue and Precillcts 21. The first two groups played beat music whilst the last two played folk music. About 250 boys attended the concert and a lthough all the music was appreciated, the beat music was more popular. I sho uld like to thank Mrs. Worthington for her co-operat io n about the use of the Northgate Hall, and Mr. Morrish for all the work he has done for the Club. J .D .S. Jazz Club

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THE SOCIETIES This term, the Society has been fairly active a nd we have tried to sponsor interest not only in painting but in some of the great art movements in history. Th is was borne out by new fo rtnightly exhibit ions of reproductions on the art room landing, varying in subjcct from contemporary abstracts to American and French paint ings of the last century- and a onc-man show by Van Gogh. We have also had four lectures given by W. N. Bryson, J. K. Harris, J. S. Medhurst and D. P. 1mber, who spoke on Byzantine Art, Breugel' â&#x20AC;˘ H ieronymus Bosch and Murals in Stave Churches. On Thursday. December 2nd, about a dozen members of the Society went on an afternoon outing to the New Metropole Art Centre in Folkcstone, to see an exhibition by Peter Farmer and Kevin Hennessey. Though some rather doubted the authenticity of their work, and though the bus broke down on the way back, a good time was had by all; we are much indebted to M r. A. G. C . Bennett for his reassu rance and encou ragement when battling against carbon-monox ide fumes from the leaking radiator, as we struggled lip the last hill. Fina lly, it has been decided th is term to hold a small, private exhibition in December. The object of this is mainly to assist in choosing good materia l for the big King's Week display. T he quality and amount of work done th is term has certa inly been impressive and it is pleasing to note the growing numbers of seniors who. though they don't paint, are showing an interest in the art of the School. C.L.H. Art

The Society has carried on its activities as usual. However, it is to be regretted that so many of the people, who use the dark room, fail to produce any thing either fo r the annual exhibition or for The Cantuarian. The new members, although fewer than usual, appear enthusiastic, and I hope their enthusiasm will produce worthwhile results. Photographic

M.P.P.

Ben-Ringing

This term has not been a good one fo r the Society on the whole, mainly because attendances at practices and even the regularity of pract ices themselves have fluctuated rather vigorously. Ri nging for Sunday services has, however, been fa irly successful and we have rung for

two weddings. At half-term, the Secretary and some friends made an attempt at a quarter peal of Grandsire Doubles, but unfortunately they started too late, and had not finished when the service started, hence it was unfi nished. However, on the penultimate Sunday of term, another attempt was made, th is time with the Captain ringing as well . T his was successfu l, and was rung in just under 40 minutes. This is the first peal or quarter peal that has been rung by or on behalf of the Society for several years. We have also had this term, a trip by Min ibus round four towers in the area- Littlebourne, Wickhambreaux, Wingham and Goodnestone . These trips are especially valuable since they give members a chance to ring on d ifferent sizes and sorts of bells to our own. We had an enjoyable ring on the medium weight six at Littlebourne, which termina ted rather abruptly after halfÂˇan~hou r or so, when the rope on the tenor broke- significantly enough (or not as the case may be) the President was ringing at the time! We managed to repair the rope before moving on to Wick ham breaux, where we had the experience of ri nging on an anticlockwise six. At Wingham, our next stop, a wedding was in progress, and we rang for the couple as they came down the aisle to the strains of Mendelsso hn's Wedding Mareh- a new experience to several members. T his was an interest ing ring because the bells are quite heavy here, and the high ceili ng caused several amusing moments. Our last stop was at Goodnestone, where we had a good ring on a peal similar to our own. We hope next term to attempt two or three more quarter peals, with more members pa rticipat ing, and also to make a trip to Mears and Stain bank's bell foundry in London. A few members have attended two or three district meet ings of the Kent County Association of C hange-Ringers th is term , and we are negotiating to become affiliated to them next term.

N.P.P.

Despite exams. , the Society still held a few meetings in the Summer Term. Two out ings to Stodma.rsh produced some interest ing birds, jncl~ding Marsh Harrier, Bittern, and Bearded Tits. Two films were shewn on the new projector The Rival Worlds and The Making of Soil, to a large audience. ' This term started with a genera l meeting which was well-attended. The F ungal Foray the follow ing week went well, but the traditional feed afterwards had to be cancelled because of the lack' of Shaggy Inkeaps: Two outings to Stodmarsh d id not produce anythi ng of part icular interest besides the large flock of Mallard which seems to be stable at over 1,200. Waxwings have been seen in larg~ numbers near Canterbury' most members have seen them despi te the outing to see them being cancelled. ' Another fi lm show was held; A HOllse for Sale and The Life of Moulds were shown. Besides this a lecture on the geology of East Kent was given to the Society by the Hon. Secretary of the Geological Society, N. J. C. Thomas. The fres h-water biology outing of the Summer Term I hope will be repeated under the leadersh ip of ou r new Vice-Chairman, M. N . Wetherilt. I wish the best of luck to our new Hon. Secretary, R. G. A. Munns . Natural History

T.G.D.S. [The Editors wish to apologise to this Society for accidentally omitting its report in the last edition of "The C(lIIluarian" .]

Th is term we have not had as many meetings as we might have wished for, the Luxmoore House Play and the half-term making two Sunday evenings unavailable. However, our programme has been lively, va ried in content and greeted with enthusiasm. As is our custom, we started the year with a Shakespeare-this time The Willter's Tale. Three other plays were read: John Osborne's The Entertainer, Rattigan's Ross and The Old Womall of Setzuan by Brecht, wh ich was unfortunately largely misinterpreted by the readers. Our visit to the Marlowe to see Doctor Faustus d id not meet with a great deal of success, and most members were rather d isappointed by the whole performance. We met at the Cathedra l Gate on the fina l Tuesday of term for tea and Christmas enterta inment, a selection of festive pieces from all members. We are extremely grateful to Mr. J. W. Holt (the President) and the Revd. D. A. Harding (the VicePresident) for their help and encouragement in arranging the meetings and taking part in the p l ay~ rea d ings. Walpole

H.S.A.S.

This term has been a fu ll one for the Society. M r. 1. Bu lmer Thomas gave us an interesting lecture on Greek Mat hematics, which left all but the best o f us feeling very humble. He was followed by Mr. J. T. Christie, the Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, who examined the main part of the Oedipus Tyrannus, and gave lively impersonat ions of the respective characters. The President, Mr. Miller, to whom we are very much indebted fo r the time and energy he has put into the Society, entertained us with an account of academical goings-on, or perhaps the lack of goings-on, in eighteenth century Cambridge. Then R. J. A. Talbot, O.K.S., came down from Cambridge a nd gave a talk on "Tacitus' Debt to Earlier Writers". His lecture was most informat ive and often amusing. The term's activities were rounded off with a reading in Mr. Wil son's room, of a translation of Aristophanes' Wasps, recognised as his worst play. Nevertheless the evening and Mr. Wilson's generous provision of refreshments were very much appreciated. To him, and to Mr. Mackintosh, who kindly stepped in for the President one evening, the Society is very grateful. Pater

A.D .F.H.

The Society has had anot her successful term with a fu ll programme of debates. Despite Mr. Windeyer's departure, the tradition of regular weekly debates has been maintained apart from a week's interruption by exams. The Society wishes to thank Mr. Miller, Mr. Parker, Mr. Dillon, Mr. Peacocke, Mr. Baldwin and the Captain of School for having sacrificed their Saturday evenings to take the Chair at debates during the term. Aud iences have grown this term, some sixty or seventy attending most d~bates. Th is has led to an enlargement of the list of active speakers and among the new members J. K. Hams and also Landymore and Foster have spoken particularly well. Notable speeches have also been made during the term by Bourne, Smith, Chesshyre, Jarman, Keeble and Meek. The climax of the term's activities has been the return visit paid by Benenden. This debate on the motion "That fash ion has gone too far" was one of the liveliest yet held and attended by the Headmaster and Mrs. Newell and two mistresses and eight girls from Benenden, the motion being defeated by 197 votes to 75. The speakers for the motion were John Chesshyre and Jane Plumptre, and against the motion: Mervyn Bourne and Johanna Turcan, all achieving a high standard. The gi rls coped splendidly in the face of what must have been for them an alarming audience. The speeches from the floor were lively and entertaining, particularly those of Mr. Peacocke, Harris, Jarman and Riddle. The Society thanks the President (Mr. BaU) and also the hard-working Secretary (M . R. H. Bourne), who leaves us this term, and it welcomes R. N. Jarman, who will take over as Secreta ry next term. Motions and results of debates held during the term were as fo lJows:"That there is too much emphasis on Science in Schools." Lost 19- 27. "That male cosmetics are deplorable." Lost 28-47. "That National Service should be reintroduced." Lost. 12- 53. "That the American intervention in Vietnam is deplorable." Won 47-41. "That this house would emigrate." Lost 15-44 (27 abstentions). "That the 'Box' is mightier than the Bomb." Lost 14-24. "That this house deplores the Rhodesian V.D.I." Won 29-23. "That fashion has gone too far." Lost 75-197. M.R.H.B.

Tentcrdcn

We are again indebted to the British Associat ion for the Advancement of Science for providing Harvey the lecturers for this term, wh ich have all been of the usual high standard set by the Association. The first "The Origin and Evolut ion of Stars" by Dr. D. McNally, was perhaps the least popular, being a rather too technical approach for somc. The lecture on "Relativity" was, however, surprisingly successful, as the lecturer, Dr. C. W. Kilmister of London University, managed to plcase all the members of a varied audience-a diffic ult task. The last lecture entitled "Sleep", and delivered by Mr. Wilkinson of Cambridge University, was also very well attendect: The Parry was unfortunately unava ilable, and the; Ph.ysics Lecture Room, built to seat 40, was holding well over 100 people! The lecture well deserved thiS hIgh attendance. It is hoped to continue these lectures next term, and also that one of the boys will be able to give a lecture-a recently started practice which will, 1 hope, continue. D .L.S.

The usua l interest was shown by a'pplicant~ for Society places, where the ratio was 38 applican ts per place. Consequ~l.ltly we dcclded to IIlcrease our numbers, and admitted 10 people-all of whom showed millal keenness, and one or two of whom have made except ional progress We now have 39 members instead of the recommended 24, and consequently all members IIIlISt make ~ ~ore c0l"!scious effort to keep I~e room tidy. (This .is particularly true now that an apparent desire to dig for 011 at one end of the pnnt room has much ilmited our space !) Two programmes have been printed: Luxmoore's Tlte Spree and Patience. The latter being some 7 inches wider than the mach ine, created some interesting problems. ' The printing of Christmas cards was not as well organised as it should have been. The failure of one full memb~r to realise hi ~ responsibil.ities pr~jlldi~ed the whole ,:"ork of the Society and meant an unnecessary last mmute rush. With the ever IIlcreasmg difficulty of the Jobs we attempt thi s behaviour must cease or some drastic m~sures may be called for .. Tn add ition, everyone must caus'e less wastage: 5 % should be a n absolute maX imum, and to overshoot thiS, as has been done on the Christmas cards, is very poor indeed. However, we have survived the term quite well , ending it in the usua l way wit h the "Better than ever before" Christmas menu card, which reflects the continued improvement of the Society. It only remains to publicise my gratitude to two people: one is of course Mr. Peett who continues to lead us around innumerable pitfalls and is the Society's real main~tay. The 'other is William Blake who must be the best treasurer the SOciety ha s had. The efficiency with which he has collccted debts is reflected in our l~lIC.11 . i ~~roved equipment, and pr~)ln ises of more to"'come ' nex t term. In addition, it is entirely due to hiS Illitialive that work of a very high standard (such'C'as the stai ned glass window card) has been attempted and accomplished. He is elected Joint Hon. Secretary, and D . J. F. Payne assu mes the post of Hon. Treasurer. These notes arc now much larger than intended, but I hope that members will read them carefully as they do conta in many important points. l.S.F. Cnxton

Carpentry

Our new y~ar has ~tarted well with new entrants to the School well supported by our perenn ials. The wo~k IS as vaned. as ever with pe~haps predom i !l~nce in pict ure fram ing. Our old favourite, the Fnllt Bowl, contillues, but growmg more ambitiOUS we arc now making Fruit Bowls with

Lids! Our. sma ll facilit ies for metalwork are llsed more than ever, so that we feel a real necessity for a meta lwork room In the School. Much of our work is being borrowed for Christmas gifts, on the understand ing that they are to be returned for the Jul y Exhibition. E.H.B.

. Perfect weather ma~e the Society exped ition to St. Marga ret's Bay at the beginning of term Geological a pleasa nt oppor~umty for field work an~1 we were glad to welcome the aid and encouragement . . of our new ~resldent,. Mr. R. P.. Bee, I,"! arranging this. The precipitous cliffs provided an mterestmg example of their formatiOn by rna nne erOS ion though our finds were mainly limited to lamellibranchs and an interest ing specimen in flint of the sea urch in COlIllIIIS Albogaleous, found by J. B. Godman. T~is term v.:e have contipued. the wor~ of r~-painting our show cases and arranging the contents; the detailed labell mg and claSSificat ion of which Will form a basis for work next term. A lecture was given by the Honorary Secretary to members of the Natural H istory and Geological Societies on "The Geology of East Kent" shortly .after half-term, and it is hoped. to have further illustrated talks next year. The work of several members th iS term has been great ly appreCiated but the contribut ion of ot hers needs improvement. N.l.C.T.

SOCIAL SERVICE The public schools no longer hold the monopoly. in, training for public s~rvice-:if, indeed, they ever did: but the growmg enthusiasm at Kmg s for some form of social service of a practical sort is giving a contempo:ary tWISt to the old trad!tlOn. One of the prImary functions of a school must be to tram ItS pupils to face the dutIes of adult cltl z~n shlll' 10 a world where active and adult citizens are desperately needed: one way. of domg this IS to give them the chance of seeing for themselves the problems that exiSt outSide theIr relatively sheltered precinct- and, still more, of actually domg someth~nll about them.

or course,

many schools a1ready run social servIce schemes, and Kmg S IS,10 n,o sense

leading the field; but our scope is expanding, and the number of volunteers likewise. The work that has been done this term can be divided into two categories-spare time activity on a purely voluntary basis by some fifty boys, a,:,d regular work on Tuesday afternoons by boys who have passed their C.C.F. exammatlons and volunteered for thiS work. In each case the work is at present directed almost entirely towards old people. The spare-time volunteers are assigned a particular old person or couple whom they VISit, and for whom they do a variety of jobs, ranging from shopping and coal-c~rrying t~ gardening and decoratmg. The Tuesday afternoon sq~~d of fourteen boys have adopted two almshouses in the city, where there are opportunIties for collective labour-large-scale painting and gardening projects for example. It is always emphasised that the mere visiting of these ,?Id people-talking to them, reading to them, or just listening to them-IS at least as Important as the runnmg of errands. Many old people nowadays need company far more than assistance. But a lot of boys, understandably, find the difficult (in fact quite ~killed) work of visiting very daunting; and it is hoped that for them there wd.1 shortly be mcreased opportunIties for practical work and that we may extend our actIVllIeS to cover other fields beSides old people. In any case, we have found the value of a direct, substantial assignment of work which individuals or groups can make theIr own. Looking beyond the limits of school activity, the m,?st urgent ne~d in the field of social service in general is undoubtedly for greater co-ordmatlOn: available labour must be deployed where it is most needed. At present~ so:"e .old people p:obably get relatively over-visited, while others are neglected; some mstltutlOns are posllIvely embarrassed by offers of help, while others, needing it perhaps more badly,. get none. RegimentatIOn would be deplorable, if it meant the diminution of the enthUSiastic voluntary spmt, and the further spread of committees. But we must not be allowed to thmk that we are. re~lly rather good to be doing this- little public-schoolboy Lady Bount!fuI. More organIsatIOn on the wide scale might help us to come round to the pomt of thmkmg that some sort of training in social service is a natural and integral part of the educational process. M.St.J.P.

C.C.F. NOTES ARMY AND BASIC SECTIONS Colonel Gross has for so long been the architect of things military (since September, 1947, in fact) that his retirement during the term will surprise the many who associate his name insepa rably with that of the School Corps. Elsewhere in The Call1llariall is a photograph of "Kern" and a profile by Paul Pollak, at one time his Adjutant; but it is at such a time as this that it is natural to linger for a moment on the past; to pause upon the memories conjured up by the two thousand three hundred and firty-six cadets of his eighteen years as Commanding Officer; and to think upon the immeasurable debt that we owe to one man . It is with a deep sense of sincerity and gratitude, therefore, that we thank ilim for all these years of high achievement . Training in the Basic and Army,Sections hasIgone aheadlnormally, rather less affected by the weather than might have been expected, and most of the planned programme has been covered . We have had valuable help from Mr. Cra ik, who has had previous experience with cadets, and from Mr. Dacombe, who has retired from the Royal Marines, where he was a dist inguished and highly successful Divisional Drum-Major. For Field Day this term, "A" and "B" Companies continued their advance towards Proficiency; whilst Cadre, Signals, R .E.M.E., and Commando were involved in a full and comprehensive programme ranging from a camouftage-cum-fire-control exercise to Rock Climbing. Cpl. Braude. the Drum-Major, with three buglers, represented the Corps with distinction at the British Legion Field of Remembrance Memorial Service, where they sounded Last POSl and Reveille. Promotions have been made as follows: C.S.M . G. J. R . Bell; C.Q .M.S. M. R. F. Reeson; Sgts. R. C. Harris, J. S. Medhurst, N. T. G. Willis, N.S.Browne, R. S. Hallam, M . M. Rickards, J.D. W. Wright; L/Sgts. P. J. Browne, L. S. Burr, N . M. Cumber, N . J. C. Thomas, D. G. Bray, P. 1. Luson, H. S. A. Slater; Cpls. P. A. Braude, M. A. Cowel l, I. G. Davies, W. J. Davies, N. A . H.Dawnay, E. R. Fatta l, G. E. Holdstock, B.P.Jubb, R.F. Macmurchy, S. J. Nicholls, D. J. F. Payne, J. P. G . Revington, C. G.F. Robinson, T. G . D. Shannon, C. Himsworth, A. R . M . Smith, R. B. Howard-Williams, T. A . Ling; L/Cpis., twcnty appointmcnts were made.

W.J.R.HÂˇS.

ROYAL NAVAL SECTION Field Day was the highlight of the term, when we spent a day at sea in three sh ips of the Hydrographic Department, H.M.S. Echo, H.M.S. Enterprise and H.M.S. Egeria. Not only were cadets shown how the Admiralty Charts in use all over the world arc made, but they took the wheel, toured the ship, and learnt about radar, navigation and many other aspects of seamanship. The rest of the term was mainly directed towards the Proficiency Examinations. Although the results of the Practical Exams. were excellent, the Written results were not as good as usual. Unless they improve, it will be necessary to increase the forma l instruction at the expense of practical work, which would be a pity. Two first class Camps took place in the holidays. In the first, Lt.-Cmdr. Ball took a party to Morgat, Brittany, in H .M.S. Scarborough , a frigate of the D artmou th Training Squadron. In a sailing regatta at Morgat, despite sailing instruct ions that taxed our French to the full, the cadets scored a handsome victory over the loca l sail ing club, while King's also won a pulling race. There were several memorable runs ashore, including a party given by the Mayor of Morgat at which the prizes were presented . Tn the fo ll owing wcck, Lt.-Cmdr. Ball took a group to Scotland for a week's navigation and QuarterÂˇ master training in an M.F.V. We were particularly pleased to have Lt.-Col. Gross with us, and it is a matter of real regret to the Naval Section that his kindly and interested hand is no longer at the helm. On our visit to Scotland he led assaults on one or two mountains and proved himself a highly competent sailor. We were fortunate in that our visit coincided with the Clyde Fleet Review, and we had the most excit ing trip of our lives in H.M.s. Brave Swordsman, a patrol boat capable of no less than 53 knots . We visited a carrier and saw H .M.S. Dreadllought. H.M .S. Kent and over seventy o ther ships, including the America n nuclear submarines in Holy Loch. Most of the time, however. we navigated our way gently from one loch to another, calling in as the spirit moved us on the likes of Arrochar, rnveraray, Tarbert, Rothesay, Campbeltown, the Isle of Arran and Ayr. A return passage by night was notable for the sudden failure of aU navigation lights, but this merely gave added scope for the mythical sight ings of a certain zealous Able Seaman.

D.W.B.

ROYAL AIR FORCE SECTION The general air-mindedness of the Sect ion is cJimbi~g fast. FIt ./Sgt. Hews and Sgt. Smith completed their Flying Scholarships in the summer holidays and dunn~ the terf!l Cadets. Warren, Wareham and, COll l~on passed through the Biggin mill successfully and now awa it allocation to flymg schools. ~det Dar IS seekmg a R.A .F. Scholarship in his brother's foot steps and there arc m~ny ca~ets who arc. hopmg f~r .flymg careers. This all adds up to a healthy and alive section and. now that .Fhght Lieutenant W l l.s~n has JOined the staff, the officers should be able to give a closer interest to the vanous aspec~s of the tramlllg : It \~as ple~s~nt to have a visit from Pilot Officer Geoffrey Wilkinson, O.K.S., who has Just completed 1115 flymg trallllllg at R.A.F. Valley. For Field Day, a map-reading exercise was arranged , for pedest rians, followed by s?mc puzzJi~g initiat ive tests on Blorc's, wh ich were well received. We had tw,o aflern~ons at ÂĽanston. for ~h l p:munk fiymS,to I~lake up fo r our ea rthbound field day and a closer liaison WIth the Air Expencn~e Flight IS g,?11lg to be mallltamed . Perhaps o n ou r future visits, the visibil ity will allow more of the Kent lsh countryside to be seen.

P.O .W.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES The Ed itors acknowledge the receipt of the followi ng magazines and apologise for any omissions:The Aldenltamiall, The Amp/e/ortll Journal, Ardingly Allltals, Th~ Arnokliall, Th~ Beacon, The Brad!ord!(IIl, The Campbelli(IIl, Daile Court Circular, Tlte OOlloriall, .The Eps~m/(lIl. Tile Felstedtal/, Cffellafmolld Chrolll~/e, The Gresham, The Hurst -l ohl/iall, Kellt College Magazllle, Klllg s Collelfe SC!lOof, Lall~lIIg College, Magazllle, The Lawrellliall, The Lorel10lliall, The Malfiml , Tlt e M eteor,.The Mill H llI ,Magazllle, The MIlneI' Co.urt Chrollicle, The Oratory School Magazine, The Ousel, Tlt e RadfelOlI, The Reptomall, .Roedeall School M~gazllle, The Roffellsiall, Saga, St. Edward's Schoof Chronicle, TI! e Stollyhllrst MagazlI/e, Tlte Stort/ordwlI, The Su/tolliall. The Tonbridgian, The Whitgl!tian, Th e WorksopllllI.

O.K.S. NEWS THE 1965 O.K.S. CANTERBURY DIN NER

THE OX.S. CAREERS ADVISDRY SERVICE

CAMBRIDGE LEITER

O.K.S. NEWS

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THE 1965 O.K.S. CANTERBURY DINNER The Canterbury Dinner Loo k place on Saturday, October 2nd, when over 120 O.K.S. welcomed as their guest of honour Mr. Arthur Dick son Wright, M.S., M ,D., F.R.C.S ., President of the Harveian Society. Sir Lesl ie Joseph introduced Mr . D ickson Wright as one of the most brilli ant after-dinner speakers in the cou ntry, and as our guest developed the theme of the toast F10reat Scllola Regia we were no t d isappointed. Here were wi t and whimsy most delicately blended. He made us value Wi lliam Harvey's life and great discovery even more highly, and showed a deeper knowledge of Thomas Linacre, John Tradescant, and other OX.S. whose portra its looked down on us, than IllOSt of us cou ld have claimed. We were much moved that such a distinguished and enchanting visitor should know so much about us. The H eadmaster, in his response to the Floreat, was able to continue the tale of the School's ach ievement, and his praise of those who had made this possible was clearly welcomed by his hearers. This achievement had, indeed, been generously commented on by H .M. Inspectors in their recent report, in which they also drew attention to some acute needs. These were for classrooms, better accommodat ion in some of the Houses, and improved fac ilit ies fo r music and rowi ng, among others. The Headmaster, with his knowledge of the support of OX.S. for the School in the past, felt sure that an appeal for their help in the future, near o r more d istant, would be generollsly heeded. Sir Leslie Joseph thanked the Headmaster for his hospitality to the Association, and the Steward and ot hers who had worked hard to make the evening so enjoyable; and the company retired to the Green Court marquee. The Canterbury Dinner is qu ite unlike other dinners: it is made so by the unique surroundings (rich in monuments both of stOlle and of flesh-ancl-blood), by the great spread of OX.S. act ivities-rugger, squash, golf, and others- that divers ifies the D inner week-end, and by the eagerness of the organizers to meet the wishes o f any group of O.K.S.-oarsmen, musicians, ancients (as well, of course, as members of the various Houses)- who wish to sponsor a table . Long may this happy institution continue.

THE O.K.S. CAREERS ADVISORY SERVICE The O.K.S. Careers Advisory Service was started a few years ago in the hope that it could in some modest

way supplement the careers counselling work already being done by the Careers Master and assisted by the House Masters at the School. Many booklets, pamphlets and other literature of this type, most of it well-written and informative on a wide range of occupations, is now readi ly available, and these, with the guidance of the Careers' Master House Masters, the Public Schools Appointment Bureau, and the help of friends and relatives. usually suffice to meet the needs of the majority of boys. A small number of boys, and a few parents may. however feel the need to have rather more information, perhaps of a more deta iled or personal nature, before com ing to a vital decision, and in consequence might welcome the opportunity of discussing their problems with some-one actually engaged in a particular occupation. It was to help these people in particular that the O.K.S. Careers Group was established, though it is of course available to everyone. Experience has now shown that the need does in fact ex ist, for since the service began a small but steady trickle of enquiries has been forthcoming from boys, parents and most gratifying of all, the House Masters. To date the majority of the enquiries have been met, and the few which the Group could not handle have tended to be vague, either for example, advice as to what occupat ion a boy would be best advised to take up, or the actual placing of a boy in employment, etc. One o r two parents on being informed that the group could not undertake such work, have later written for advice on specific occupations and these enquiries have been met in the usual way. The group of OX.S. who have given their time to this work now needs to be enlarged to cover a wider variety of occupations than is at present possible, and in drafting these brief notes the opportu nity is being taken to invite all O.K.S. who would be willing to join the group to contact the organ iser- address bclowgiving details of their occupations, and also indicating whether they would be willing if called upon, at some time to give a short talk on their work to a selected' and interested group of boys at the School. Being a member of the Group is in no wayan arduous task for the number of occasions on which any member is likely to be called on to deal wit h a question will, from experience, be small. Some members of the present panel have not, for instance, yet had an enquiry directed to them. The Group has also in the last two years provided one speaker each term to visit the School to talk informall y with a selected group of interested boys. These talks have been very well attended and proved well worth-while. All speakers are unanimous in their praise of the manner in which they have been received and for the obvious interest of the boys. It is therefore hoped to be able to conti nue to provide speakers for these talks and on as wide a select ion of occupat ions as possible. Choice of subject is left ent irely with the Careers Master and the Group does what it can to meet his requests. Would any OX.s. willing to join the careers Group or who would li ke further information before committing himself write to: Dr. Stuart W. Hinds, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.T.M. & H., Reader in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street (Gower Street), London, W.C.I. marking O.K.S. Careers in the top IertÂˇhand corner of the envelope. The Use of The Careers Advisory Service Enquiries from boys, parents or masters at the School are welcomed. All enquiries should state clearly and as precisely as possible the nature of the problem on wh ich advice is sought. Enquiries when received are passed to those members of the Group best able to deal with them, together with the name and address o f the person asking for advice. At the same time the enquirer is sent the name and address of the Group member to whom h is enquiry has been forwarded . From now on all further communications between the parties proceeds at a personal level. Many members of the Group have indicated their willingness to meet individ ual boys if it is felt that a meeting would be the best way to meet an enquiry, provided distance and time will allow. A few members have also offered to show boys some practical aspects of their work. The Group can not, except in very exceptional circumstances, place a boy in a vacancy, nor indeed help find a vacancy in a specific calling. Neither can the Grouo advise on the most suitable work for individual boys, though members will be willing to advise in general terms on all aspects of the occupation of which they themselves have close personal experience. All enquiries should be addressed to: Dr. Stuart W. Hinds, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.T.M. & H., London School of H ygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street (Gower Street), London, W.c.!, and the envelope marked O.K.S. Careers in the top left-hand corner. E.R.C.D. 72

CAMBRIDGE LETTER St. John's College, Cambridge. Jlllle, 1965.

Dear School,

Un.til ~ay Concerts .and R<l:ces get under way the Cambridge summer term normally consists of exammatJons an~ sunshme .. Th iS term we I~ave had almost none of the latter, so exams. have appeared the more demomaca l, loomm~ up ~s they d id th~ough an end less spell of cloud and drizzle. Plautus can be the more ple~sant when reVised m the St. Joh~ s Scholars' g.arden under a clear sky- but thunderstorms ~nd gale-force wmds have forced many an O.K.S. mto the less distracting but inevitably grimmer University library. "

The gre~test-and most delightful-distraction for many of us came just after the beginning of term' Canon Shirley. who had bee.n unable througl~ illn~s to be our guest at the annua l Cambridge dinner last November, came up on Apnl 27th to entertam thirty of us to dinner in St. John's College. The food was ~xcellent, a nd I?r .. Malcolm Burgess helped me to plan an exciting and varied menu. Canon Shirley was m fi':le form, remvlgorated by a recent spell of Italian sunshine. His speech aroused many vivid memories of Ius la~t years as Headmaster, and he reiterated his invitation to all O.K.S. to ca ll on him whenever tl~ey are. m Canterbury. We sha H long recall Canon Shirley's visit to Cambridge and the great generosity With which he entertamed us. Our only regret was that Mrs. Shirley and Dr. Budd were not also with us. Fin~lIy, I would utter a plea: the planning of O.K.S. functions here could be much simpler if only the o rga mzer knew . who at anyone time were the Cambridge O.K.S. The School cannot a lways help- as O.K.S. often seem to return bel~tedly to ~'Cu lture" after a period of cabbage-hoeing in Tristan da Cunha. So J ":oul~ ask the new 9.K.S . m Cambndge to let Jonathan Turner, of Gonville and Caius College know of their eXistence, and h iS task may be simpler than mine! Yours faithfully, RICHARD

HALSEY.

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I O.K.S. NEWS ROGER ~VNN (1952- 58) writt?S that h~ and TIMOTHY GOOD (1956-59) have made "a six-week tour of The Am.encas with. the New Phdharmoma Orchestra of London. London.-New York~Mexico-Venezuela Colombla-Peru-Chd~-Arge~tina-Brazi l-Trinidad-Jamaica_New York-London, a ll by air. The audiences are wonderful. A most mterestmg tour." CAPT. P. J. H: J3ILLINGHURST (1942- 51), after a period of service abroad with the Royal Artillery is now at Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham. •

M.~. BILLINGHURS'~ (1947--:-52), after ga.ining his B.S:;. at London University, worked on Estate Management m Londo~. He IS now 111 Canada With Metropolitan Estates & Property Corporation Toronto. He expects to remam out there for the next three years. ' CANON R . F. CART~R!GI-JT (19?7- 32) ~as been app.ointed to be Vicar of St. Mary Redcliffe with Temple and St. John the Baptist s, Bedmmster, DIOcese of Bnstol.

THE REVD. J. D. D. PORTER (1947- 52) has taken a four-year commission as Chaplain in the Royal Air Force. THE RE':'D . A. R. BLACKLEDGE (1?14-25), Vicar and Rural Dean of Hove, Diocese of Chichester has been appomted a Prebendary of Chichester Cat hedral. ' P. J: ~NNABY (1937-42) has been appointed to the board of Erwin Wasey Limited a leading London advertlsmg agency. '

ROUERT HAMMERSLEY (1 957- 62) is tak ing the gradua te course at the Guil dhall Schoo l of Music and Drama, where he gai ned Fi rst Class Honours at the end of his first year. He is married and has a son. J. R. BRETHERTON (1952-61) has passed into the Administrative Class of the Civil Service. CAPT. D. L. QUESTED, R.M. (1940--47) is promoted Major.

J. R. DAY (1 961- 64) has been awarded an R.A.F. university cadetship and has been commissioned as an acting pilot officer. ANTHONY WALTER BUGDEN (1949-59), K.S., is the first administrator of the re-opened Theat re Roya l Bury St. Ed munds. He was the business manager for the Oxford Un iversity Drama tic Society, and wa~ responsible for Peter Dews' prod uct io n of Hellry IV. He beca me treasu rer, and after six months in London with John Gale Productions returned to the Oxford Playhouse as assista nt to Miss Elizabeth Sweeting. 1. D. TWINBElt ROW (1938--42), after twelve yea rs as company secretary, has bcen appointcd chairman of Muirhead and Co. Ltd. He served as a Captain in the Highland Light Infantry during Wodd War II, and is a director of the company's subsidia ries in Canada and the United States. He is married and lives in Lo ndon. JAMES REVINGTON (1959- 63) writes from Gira lia station, West Austral ia : both he and JAN LoVEGROVE (1 958- 63) emigrated for ÂŁ10 each and are now working o n a millio n-acre sheep-statio n conta ining just over 28,000 sheep. They are enjoy ing life 126 mi les from the nea rest town, and wo uld like to hea r from prospective O.K.S. emigrants- who don' t mind working in 110Â° F. ! W. D. C . WIGGI NS (1 919- 21) has been appointed to sllcceed Mr. Humphries as director of Overseas Surveys a nd Surveys Adviser. H e joincd the Nigerian Sur-vey Department in 1928 and served in the Royal Engineers from 1939 unt il J946, attaining the ra nk of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was appoi nted assistant director to the Directorate on its formation in 1946 and deputy director in 1948. He was awarded an O.B.E. in 1957. PETER WOODROW (1958- 63) writes from S1. Andrews (Queen's College, Dundee): he is a Scottish Finalis t in the Observer Mace inter-varsities nat io nal debating competition, and has been eJected President of the Students' Represent ative Counci l. A recent arriva l at St. Andrews is M. J. OLDHAM (1 960- 65), who is trying to decide between sq uash and hockey. They look forward to more arrivals from K ing's. Another lctter comes fr om the Pompadours- the 3rd (1 6t h/44t h Foot) Battalion, The Royal Angl ian Regiment in BeNin. Thi s includcs four O.K.S.: the three VEITCH brothers-ALisTAIH (1 95 1- 56), TREVOR (1954-59) and JEREMY (1958- 61). The fo urt h is MICHAEL TURNER (1954-59). CAPTA IN ALASTAIR VEITCH is now Adjutant at the Regimental Depot at Bury 51. Ed munds; TREVOR is battalion cross-country champion; JEREMY joined from the London Pol ice and MI CHAEL TURNER from Trinity College, Dublin. They all look forwa rd to visiting the School o n their return next year. R. BREFFIT (1914- 19) has sent a lctter correcting an entry in last term's issue: "In OX.S. News you write that G. w. R. Terry has been appoi nted Ch ief Constable of East Sussex, and that his da tcs at School were 1914-19. The facts are that I myself was C hief Constable of East Sussex from 1936 to 1965, and was at the Schoo l from 1914 to 1919. 1 have been succeeded in East Sussex by Mr. G. W. R. Terry, who was not born until 1920 or perhaps later. He is not an O.K.S." We apologise for our error and thank Mr. Bremt for his correction. DAVID BURNETI' (1947--48) is the new prospcctive Parliamenta ry LabolJr candidate for the Chichester Const ituency. He is also a delegate from Bognor to the Chichester Const ituency Genera l Management Committee, where he serves on the Executive, and the general manager of a n internat io nal publish ing company. In a concert at S1. Margaret's, Westminster, on the 23rd November, CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN (1955- 60) "directed choir and brass in strongly disciplined fash ion and to majest ic effect". Among ot her pieces performed were Bcethoven's Eqllali, some lively dance pieces by Pezel and two dances written for James I's band . J. S. PAGE, M.B.E. (1924- 32) writes to teJlus that having spent 27 yea rs engineering in India, he ret ired from Balmer Laurie's in Calcutta at the end of November. He stayed in E ngland fo r December a nd then left for Australia via the U.S.A. His address there from January, 1966 will be: G. P.O . Box 4709, Melbourne, Victoria, Austral ia.

CONCRETE ABSTRACT 1M. P. Powell

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ENGAGEMENTS SAWARD-VALLAT.-S. A. Saward (1956---61) to Patricia VaJlat. GALlTZINE- WINGfJELD,-Prince Dmitri Galitzine (1943--45) to Eileen Patricia Brinsmade Wingfield.

MALLoc K- WHITE.- Michael Christopher Mallock (1957-59) to Jocelyn Henrietta White . GORDON- LEVERs .- Anthony Gordon (1938-43) to Sylvia Levers . STURGESs-SHEPHERD ,- Peter

Sturgess (1959-63)

Jill Shepherd.

ATKINS- PALMER.- John M ichael Atkins (1951 - 59) to Susan El izabeth Palmer. STANLEy-SMITH- MAGuIRE.- Captain Antony Stanley-Smith (1949- 57) to Penelope MaGuire. CONSTERDINE-

HAYWARD.-

Consterdine (1956-61) to Yvonne Hayward.

MARRIAGES BTLLINGHURST- FEARNLEY.-M. E. Bill inghurst (1947-52) to Caryl Georgina Fcarnley on 11th September,

1965. SANDER- VIAENE.-Stephen Sander (1949- 54) to Mlle. Claudine Viaene on 12th October, 1965, at the Church of St. Christophe, Assebroek lez Bruges. WALLlS-Mc KEOWN.- D. St. John Wallis (1954-59) to Sarah Maureen McKeown at St. Mary the Virgin, Ewell, Surrey, on 1st October, 1965 . BATES- THoMPsoN .- Jonathan Edward Bates (1948-56) to Jenn ifer Ann Thompson at the British Embassy C hurch, Paris.

BIRTHS BILUNGliURST.- To Cora and Peter Billinghurst (1942- 51) on 1st October, 1964, a daughter. OSBORN.- To Norma and Richard Osborn (1952- 54) of Chino, California, on 5th August, 1965, a daughter (Annette). TEMPEST-RADFoRD .- On 13th November, 1965, to Kate and Hugh Tempest-Radford (1953- 58), a son . AGNEw.-On 15th October, 1965, to Audrey and Kenneth Agnew (1946- 53), a son (Peter Hugh). CHENEVIX-TRENcH.- On 20th August, 1965, to Penelope and Timothy Chcnevix-Trench (1952- 57), a daughter.

DEATHS TuRNBULL.- Verney Cameron Turnbull (1890-92), aged 90, at Olney, Bucks, 13th November, 1965 . ARNJSON.- R . N. Amison, in South Africa, in January, 1965 .

GRAY.- Wilrrid Gray (1907- 1911), in October, 1965. GARDENER.-Edwin Wilfrid Gardener (1905- 11), aged 68, at Patrixbournc, Canterbury. 2nd September,

1965. RIGDEN.- Dr. G. F . R igden, M.e. (1895- 1905), 19th June, 1965. DUNCAN LAM PARD, M, C" Capta in, late Irish G uards, on December 19th, 1965, after being struck by light ning in Salisbury, Rhodesia,

OBITUARIES MICHAEL CULVER EVANS (1938--42) On December 3rd, 1965. a memorial window of great beauty was dedicated by the Lord Bishop of Rochester, to the memory. on his birthday. of Dr. Michael Culver Evans, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., M.B., B.S . (Lond.), in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene at Cobham, Kent. He died as the result of an accident in July. 1965. He was an O.K.S., and after leaving the Junior School Milner Cou rt, went to King's School, Canterbury. unt il 1942. He then joined the R .N.V.R., and at the end of the war went to the Middlesex. Hospital, London, qualified, and afterwards entered genera l practice. His devotion to his patients,"and his strong devotion to Christianity, coupled with a keen interest in wild life and flora, are portrayed in the wi nd ow in blue panels. The crest of the King's School is on the left and the R.N.V.R. on the right; while his faith in the miracles of the Gospel- the Raising of Lazarus and the healing of Jairus' Daughter- a re depicted with smaller insets of wild life and his own crest. His exceptionally beautiful character will be remembered by all who knew him, and our sympathy to his family, and especially his parents, his widow and four young children is widely shared. He was a worthy son of King's, and we pray that he may rest in peace.

ANTHONY HARTE-LOVELACE Anthony Harte-Lovelace died of leukaemia at his home in Imberhorne Lane, East Grinstead, aged 44. He was born in the Malay States, but was educated' at King's, and lived in Canterbury for most of his life. He joined the R.A.F. on a short-term commission in 1938, but became a civil airline pilot after the war. He joined British United Airways and was a Captain with the company unt il his illness seven months ago. He moved to East Grinstead six years ago when he was based at Gatwick Airport. During the wa r he flew fifty missions with Bomber Command, and was awarded the D.F.C. for flying a crippled bomber back from Germany. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Betty Harte-Lovelace, and two sons.

OBITUARIES MICHAEL CULVER EVANS (1938--42) On December 3rd, 1965, a memorial window of great beauty was ded icated by the Lord Bishop of R ochester, to the memory. on his birthday. of Dr. Michael Culver Evans, L.R.C.P., M.R.C .S., M.D ., B.S. (Lond.), in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene at Cobham, Kent. He died as the result of an accident in July. 1965. He was a n O.K.S., and after leaving the Junior School Milner Court, went to King's School, Canterbury. until 1942. He then joined the R.N.V.R., and at the end of the war went to the Middlesex Hospital, London, qualified, and afterwards entered general practice. His devot io n to his patients,. and his stro ng devotion to Christian ity. coupled with a keen interest in wild life and flora, are portrayed in the window in blue panels. The crest of the King's School is o n the left and the R.N.V.R. on the right; while his faith in the miracles of the Gospel- the Raising of Laza rus and the heali ng of Jairus' D aughter- a re depicted with smaller insets of wild life and his own crest. His exceptionally beautiful character will be remembered by all who knew him , and our sympathy to his famil y, and especially his parents, his widow and four you ng ch ildren is widely shared. He was a wort hy son of King's, and we pray that he may rest in peace.

ANTHONY HARTE-LOVELACE Anthony Harte-Lovelace died of leukaemia at his home in Imberhorne Lane, East Grinstead, aged 44. He was born in the Malay States, but was educated at King's, and lived in Canterbury for most of his life . He joined the R.A.F. on a short-term commissio n in 1938, but became a civil a irline pilot after the war. He joined British United Airways and was a Captain with the company unti l his illness seven months ago. He moved to East Grinstead six years ago when he was based at Gatwick Airport. During the war he flew fifty missions with Bomber Command, and was awarded the D.F.C. for fl ying a crippled bomber back from Germany. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Betty Harte-Lovelace, and two sons.

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CONTENTS PAGE

EDITORIAL ."

THE SCHOOL TUE SCHOOL...

SALVETE

VALETE

V IRTUTE FUNCTI MORE PATRVM DuCES . ..

THE REVEREND T. 8. WILLIAMS

PRINCESS MARINA'S INSTALLATION SERV ICE AS CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENT .. '

THIS AND THAT

REVIEWS

HOUSE PLAYS

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MUSIC

LECTURES

CONTRIBUTIONS

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POETIC J USTICE

110

ON THE CoUCH

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THE GALLEON

DEBATER'S DEPlmC IATION MODERN ARAB WORLD P OLITLCS IN P ERSPECTIVE

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FEVER

ONE ROMAN'S DEI' IANCE OF J UPiTER

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MODERN POETIC ApPREC IATION ". THE DEFENCE AND I LLUSTRATION Of SCIENCE F ICTION .. '

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KING'S SPORT HOCKEY SQUASH RACKETS ATHLETICS

RUGBY FOOTBALL

THE BOAT CLUB

126 131 132 135 136 137

THE FENCING CLUO

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CROSS-CoUNTRY

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T~IE SHOOTING CLUB T H E JUDO C LUB

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SCHOOL ACTIVITIES MusIc

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THE SociETIES

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SoCIETY REPORTS

150 151

C.C.F.

NOTES

VOLUNTARY (SoCIAL) SERVI CE

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OUR CONTEM I'ORARIES

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CORRESPONDENCE

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THE WAR GAME-A REVIEW ...

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O.K.S. NEWS O.K.S. NEWS

157

OI1lTUARIES ...

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ILLUSTRATIONS BELL HARRY AND ALMOND BLOSSOM

Frol1lispiece 110

RIPPLE OF WHEELS ... B. T. MARSH PRACTISING THE HIGH JUMP

J. D . W. 1ST XI

WRIGHT CLEARING OVER

FEET

HOCKEY

CROSSÂ·CoUNTRY TEAM

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THE SQUASH TEAM ...

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THE ATHLETICS TEAM

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LIGHT AND SHADOW- LARDERGATE FROM THE CLOISTERS

THE CANTUARIAN VOL. XXXI No. 2

APRIL,

1966

EDITORIAL Music is an integral part of the life of the community. Like Greek, it may be useless from a practical point of view, but without its adornment civilized existence would lose one of its most powerful aids to sensitivity and refin ement. To provide opportunities for its practice and appreciation, whether it be for self-expression or relaxation, is an indispensable part of education, and the boarding schools, being closed communities, have a special responsibility in this respect towards their members, cut off as they are from most of the musical life outside their bounds. In any case, as Martin Cooper has recently reminded us, "the ancient Greeks regarded music as one of the major ed ucational disciplines, training brain, eye, hand and ear and demanding quick response, accuracy and application, as well as the purely moral virtues of patience and selfsubordination" . Fortun ately, in our schools today, music is no longer just tolerated- it is encouraged, although still regarded as an "extra" to be fitted in where possible. The standards now aimed at have probably never been higher. Gone are the days when music was thought to lead to sporting debility. (Had we not two former musicians, one a Choral Scholar, in the Oxford boat?) Certainly, with three hundred music lessons a week and nin e "official" musical organisations, music is fostered at Ki ng's. It is indeed only limited by the growth of other voluntary activities all competing fiercely for the restricted hours left free after classes and sports have taken their necessary share of the day. 79

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In a year when the number of candidates for music scholarships was almost twice the normal, we may be thankful that so much talent flows into our musical veins. But boys anxious to join a "musical" school must receive all the help and consideration needed for the development of their skills; among them may well be found musicians who, in their own generation, will benefit the wider community- as teachers, musicologists, performers or even composers. (It would be sad indeed if such boys were to be denied the all-round education offered by a public school because the demand of academic studies and sport left them insufficient time to give to the practice of their art.) It is in the First Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra and Madrigal Society that boys with a generous share of talent can find something akin to the amenities of a musical academy. They do not, however, constitute an elite. Indeed, such boys are required and undertake to enter fully into the whole of the musical life in the school. Thus they will be found in the Choir (which being some ninety strong is able to open its doors considerably) . . In many cases too, they take an active part in the Band and Second Orchestra (part of whose raison d' eIre is to provide younger and less experienced instrumentalists an opportunity for ensemble playing), to say nothing of the Glee Club and the Choral Society. It is in the last named that the largest number of boys can take part in corporate music making. There are no auditions and everyone is welcome. Whilst the specialists have their opportunities in the small groups and in Music Circle concerts, it is vital that music be integrated into the life of the whole school. It is difficult to believe that taking part in a performance of the classical masterpieces of Mozart, Haydn, Brahms or Verdi does not leave a lasting impression on those who otherwise may not feel that they have any special gift as individual performers. In the House music competition, too, where every single boy takes part, we learn that music is more than (in Dr. Burney's phrase) an "Innocent Luxury": it becomes an educational discipline, albeit a pleasurable one. It is a depressing thought, but true, that although radio and gramophone have made music available to a wide public, the musical experience of boys entering school seems to grow less. The reasons are not hard to find. There is less music making in the home, and leisure hours are pervaded by continuous jets of popular "music" of all kinds, sprayed into the air like a kind ofD.D.T. to protect its hearers (but not "listeners") from the state of boredom into which it is assumed mankind is born. Preparatory schools may attempt to alleviate this, but the exigencies of 80

the Common Entrance examination all too often stifle the growth of musical interest and activity just when it is beginning to develop. It is, therefore, important. for the Publi? Scho?l to epcoUl'age newcomers i.n the discovery or rediscovery that m muslc-makmg of any sort th~re IS much delight to be found. Boys living in a musical home take thiS for granted. If a school is a musical community there should be the same reaction. It is significant that many 9.K.S. returning to the school ~ell us t~at they miss as much as anythmg the Cathedral Su~day ~ervlce. a~d ItS singing, although as boys they had not. fully appreciated It. ThiS IS not really surprising. For some years at an ImpresslO~able ~ge they had ~e~n absorbing a wealth ~f music. (The Hymn book IS a I?story of musIc m miniature-from Plamsong to Holst and Vaughan WIlliams.) They had listened to anthems of every period and style from the Tudor mast.ers to Joubert and Britten. Although they may not have been aware of It, the organ had been playing music from Bach to Messiaen. Thus it is that when a boy leaves us, he has, and not the least in the services, been exposed to the effects of a lively musical communi~~. Long .may it be ~o. For if he has taken advantage of the opportumtles provided for ~Im there will remain with him either as a performer or a listener somethmg which will always be of value. There are many activities, laudable in themselves which do not last. The love of music which develops in us a sense of a:.ve and wonder, making us a more sensitive people, lasts a lifetime.

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THE SCHOOL Captain oj School: G. J. R. Bell Vice-Captain: M. R. F. Reeson Head oj Galpin's G. J. R. Bell Head oj Walpole M. R. F. Reeson Head of Meister Omers R. B. Howard-Williams Head oj Linacre J. R. Kilbee, K.S. Head oj The Grange N. T . G . Willis Head oj MarlolVe House H. J. Holdstock, K.S. Head oj School HOllse J. P. G. Revington Head oj Luxmoore House M. J . Gray SCHOOL MONITORS G . J. R. Bell, M. R. F. Reeson, R. B. Howard-Williams, J. R. K ilbee, K.S., N . T. G . Willis, H. J. Holdstock, K.S., J. P. G. Revington, M. J. Gray, D. L. Smith, K.S., P. K. Jenkins

School House: The Grange: Walpole House: Meister Omers: MarlolVe House: Luxmoore House : Galpin's: Linaere House:

HOUSE MONITORS P. K. Jenkins, A. D. F. Hodson, K.S., P. B. Kent, S. J. Nicholls. M. J. N. Baker, C. D. Gay, C. D. Rennie, S. P. C. Scott. J. Ahmadzadeh, C. J. H. King, M . P. Powell. D. R. L. Bodey, M.S., R. S. Hallam, K.S., D. J. F. Payne, H. B. Poole. R. G. Hews, C. G. F. Robinson. J. S. Foster, S. T. Hull, C. M. Southam, J. R . Wilson, W. J. Wood. D. L. Smith, A. J. Bailey, D. McL. Roberts, A. D . Troup. P. R. Ensor, J. M. Hutchinson, G . K. Jaggers, D. G. Powell.

Captain oj Boats Captain oj Hockey Captain oj Athietics Captain oj Cross-Country Captain oj Rugger Captain oj Cricket Captain oj Fencing Captain oj Shooting Captain oj Squash Rackets Captain oj Tennis Captain oj Gymnastics Captain oj Judo Captain oj Swimming Monitorsjor Music

G. J. R. Bell M. J. Gray A. H. Steele T. J. A . Bishop J. R. Wilson J. R. Kilbee R. A. Ring L. S. Burr C. C. N . Bridge P. M . Romer P. D . Joyce M. A. Cowell N. T. G. Willis R. W. Arnold, M.S. D. R. L. Bodey, M.S.

The Cantuarian Editors: The Captain of School (ex-officio) , N. Bryson, K.S., A. J. Flick, A. B. Marshall, K.S., B. C. Tooby, K.S. Secretary: A. J. Bailey. 82

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S. N. Alder, A. F. Allen, A. Bird, J. M. Boardman, J. D. Bolsover, R. J. P. Bottomley, A. D. Bridges, R. A. Canner, J. M. Ditchburn, R . A. E . Dobbs, W. M. Duce, G. M. Elliott, J. A. Fewster, C. S. J. Finch, P. H. Flaws, S. G . H . Freeth, B. J. L. Gipps, R . F. Harding, G. A. Harris, R. A. Hathway, N. R. Jennery, F. A. Karim, N. R . Langley-Hunt, J. R . No rfolk, B. D. Rapson, H. T. Scott, N. P. 1. Stephens, R. Suarez, R. D. Thomson, P. J. Wagstaff, C. F. Walker, A. J. D. Waterman, H. P. Watkins, D. A. Whitaker.

VALETE K. D. C. Bayliss, M. R. H. Bourne, J. F. Chesshyre, J. J. T. Cronk, R. H. Davies, A. J. de Reuck, E. R. Fattal, R. W. J. Gocher, N . H. Goulder, R. C. Harris, T . G. Hartley, P. Hemingway, C. B. Henderson, T . N . Ja'afar, D. L. C. Jeffery, M . B. King, P. A. King, C. J. Lee, P. 1. Luson, R. F. Macmurchy, D . O. McKenzie, J. S. Medhurst, 1. D . K. Meek, M. D. C. Moles, J. A . Ogley, J. 1. S. Pitkeathly, J. F. Potter, P. J. Ralph, N. F. R iddle, G. W. H . Rowbotham, T. G. D. Shannon, P. B. Short, S. G. Smith, P. M. Tatchell, M. L. Wain, D. S. Whalley, T. P. M. Young.

VIRTUTE FUNCTI MORE PATRUM DUCES BOURNE, M . R. H.- Came Sept., 1961; K.S. and Sen. K.S.; Upper VIIh; Secretary of Tenterden Society; Open Scholarsh ip in History to Lincoln College, Oxf<1fd. CHESSHYRE, J. F.- Came Sept., 1961; Hon. Sen. K.S.; Head of Lattergate; House Monitor, '65; Upper VIIh; 1st and 2nd Orchestras; Editor of The Cantuarian; Treasurer of the Caxton Society; Trevelyan Schola r; Open Scholarship in History to Trinity College, Cambridge. CRONK, J. J. T.- Came Sept., 1960; Hon . K.S.; Head of Lattergate; House Monitor, '65; 2nd Hockey Colours; 1st Tenn is Colours; Secretary and Treasurer of the Bellringing Society. GOULDER, N. H.- Came Sept., 1960; School Monitor and Head of House, Sept., '65; Upper VIIh. HEMINGWAY, P.- Came Jan., 1961; School Monitor and Head of House, '65; Upper VIIh; 1st and 2nd Rowing Colours; 1st Rugger Colours. KING, M . B.- Came May, 1961; House Monitor, '65; Upper VIIh. KING, P. A.- Came Sept., 196 1; K.S. and Hon. Sen. K.S.; Upper VIIh; Open Scholarship in Mathematics with Physics to St. John's College, Cambridge. LEE, C. J.- Came Sept., 1961; Hon. K.S.; Upper VIIh; Open Scholarship to Lincoln College, Oxford. MACMURCHY, R. F.-Came Sept., 1960; House Monitor, '65. McKENZIE, D.O.- Came Sept., 1961; House Monitor, '64; Upper VIIh. MEEK, 1. D. ' K.- Came Sept., 196 1; House Monitor, '65; Upper Vlth ; 2nd Rugger Colours; Demyship in Modern History to Magdalen College, Oxford. MOLES, M. D. C.- Came Sept., 1961; Hon. K.S.; Upper VIth; 2nd XV Colours; Natural Science Tripos at Churchill College, Cambridge. 83

PITKEATHLY, J. 1. S.- Came Jan., 196 1; House Monitor, '65; Upper VIth; Fencing Colours and Captain of Fencing. POTIER, J. F.- Came Sept., 1961; Music Scholar; Upper VIth; Choral Scholarshi p to Caius College, Cambridge. RALPH, P. J.- Came Jan., 1961; House Monitor, Jan., '65; School Monitor and Head of House, Sept., '65 ; 1st Rugger Colours and Captain of 1st XV. ROWBOTHAM, G. W. H.- Ca me Sept., 196 1; K.S. and Sen. K.S.; House Monitor, '65 ; 1st Hockey Colours; 1st Tennis Colours and Captain of Tennis Team; Open Exhibition in Modern History to St. John's College, Oxford. TATCHELL, P. M.- Came Sept., 1961 ; Music Scholar; 1st Hockey Colours; Secretary of the Chamber Orchestra. WAIN, M . L.- Came Sept., 1961 ; House Monitor, '65; Upper VTth. YOUNG, T. P. M .- Ca me May, 196 1; Music Scholar; House Monitor, '65; Upper VIth; Monitor for Music, '65; Secretary of the 1st Orchestra; Academical Clerkship to Magdalen College, Oxford. We regret the following omissions from last term's issue:HEATON, G. M. A.- Came Sept., 1960; House Monitor, '65; Sergeant, C.C.F. HESLOP, R. x'- Came Jan., 196 1; House Monitor, '65; Sergeant, C.C.F.; Pfizer Exhibition. MAJOR, N . G.- Came Sept., 1960; Hon. Sen. K.S.; House Monitor, '65 ; Sergeant, C.C.F . ; 1st Hockey Colours; Leaving Exhibition to Bristol Un iversity. PRINGLE, C. A. B.- Came Ja n. , 1961; House Monitor, '64; 1st and 2nd Hockey Colours.

THE REVEREND T. B. WILLIAMS It is five years and a term since Tom Williams began his ministry here as chaplai n. I am sure those who have known him best, particularly those in Luxmoore and in his tutor-set will know that with his departure we shall lose a warm human personality, a man of ; trong personal devotion and humble faith , as well as a grea t friend of the school and of ma ny individual boys in it. I ca n think of many instances of his cheerful kindness, sometimes presumed upon or taken for granted, but always freely given. With his tutor-set and confirmati on classes he established an easy relationship, which often made hIm one of the famI ly. He knew more than many may have realised about the background, mterests a nd character of those m his care' his judgement was understanding, friendly and shrewd. Tom worked himself very hard as chaplain, sometimes almost to exhaustion, and many have cause to be grateful to him. J hope that his memories of Kin g's will remain strong and hap~y, to set beside those of his earlier work at St. Edward's, Oxford and Shrewsbury. We WIsh hIm much happmess in his new work in the parishes, which sound wonderfully rural, of "Marston cum Hougham with Hough on the Hill" and which are near Grantham in Lincolnshire. There it is certain that passing O.K.S. will be welco me callers. R.D.H.R. 84

PRINCESS MARINA'S INSTALLATION SERVICE AS CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENT On Tuesday, March 29th, a service was held in the Cathedral to install H.R.H. the Princess Ma rina, Duchess of Kent, as the Chancellor of the University of Kent at Canterbury. We have for some time been watching the growth of this universIty. FIrSt there were the rumours that one might be built, then the choosing of a site, the start of the bu ilding and, last October, the arrival of the first students. We wel'~ theref?l'e pleased to be able to witness this further stage in the development of the univefSlty, the mstallatlOn of the Chancellor. The service took place in the nave of the Cathedral, which just held the large congregation. Though the un iversity term had finished a few days earlier, som~ 80 of the 500 students so far admitted to the university remained behind to attend thIs servIce and the other installation ceremonies, together with the entire academic and administrative staff led by the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Templeman. Several other Vice-Chancellors were present, representing their universities at this service. Also attendmg were the Mayor and Corporation of Canterbury, and from all over Kent came vlsltmg marors,. and .th~ chairmen of the district councils, representing the people of Kent whose ulllverslty thIS IS by name at least. When shortl y before 3 o'clock all the congregation were seated, the procession of members of the foundation moved into position to await the arrival of the Princess and the Archbishop of Canterbury. The School was represented here by twelve K ing's Scholars, members of the foundation , who had volunteered to remain behind on this, the last day of term , to attend the service. The Princess, accompanied by the Archbi shop, then came through the West Door and joined the procession which moved off to the appropnate hymn: "Christ is made the sure foundation, Christ the head and corner-stone."

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The Princess in the brilliant green and gold gown of Chancellor, took her place at the head of the congr;gation and the service began with a prayer of thanksgiving for the university spoken by the Dean. The colourful surroundings provided by the bright robes and uniforms of the various digni ta ries Âˇwere suited to the tone of the service, also bright and colourful. A sho~t sermon was preached by the Archbishop who stressed the importance of pursumg learnmg as an end in itself, and not merely as a means of gaining advantage in other fields. Canterbury, he said, is to be a place where knowledge is sought for its own sake. 85

It is especially fitting that the School should be represented at this service which marks the completion of the birth of this university, as the institution which is now the King's School was in the fourteenth century more like a university than a school ; the records

suggest that a university, similar to Oxford and Cambridge, could well have evolved. Yet this course was not followed and full university status was never gained ; for better or worse the school as we now know it resulted. We are therefore glad to see that Canterbury can now at last boast a university and to be present at this memorable moment of its history. The cathedral service was followed by tea in the Shirley Hall, loaned for the purpose to the university, where the School was represented by two monitors, H. J . Holdstock, acting Captain of School, and D. L. Sm ith, who were presented to the Princess by the Headmaster. The hall was completely filled by the 900 guests, with some of whom the Princess chatted before leaving for the university where the installation ceremonies con-

tinued the next day. She was given an honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Laws, thereby becoming the first graduate of the university, and then herself gave four other honorary degrees, one to the Archbishop who is Visitor to the university. We were very pleased to welcome the Princess back to Canterbury, where she came for the opening of Lardergatc, and hope that we may see her here more often in her new

position of Chancellor of the University of Kent at Canterbury. D.L.S. '

THIS AND THAT We congratulate the Revd. D. L. Edwards, O.K.S. on being elected Dean Governing Body of King's College, Cambridge. He is best known by the School for his book, A History of the King's School, Canterbury, and both he and his predecessor at King's College, Dr. Alec Vidler, have preached at Evensong in recent years. \ y- '

After five and a half years as chaplain, the Revd. T. B. Williams Revd. T. B. Williams is leaving the School this term. We are sorry to lose him and we wish him well at the parish churches of Marston cum Hougham and Hough on the Hill, Lincolnshire. We welcome Mrs. Stewart to King's. Since her arrival there has been a "' " Mrs. Stewart marked improvement in the quality, variety and efficient serving of meals ! in the dining hall ; she has shown that institutional food need not be dull, ..,. and we are very grateful to her. .':' ~

The late Frederick L. Sidebotham, O.B .E., M.e. , M.A. , O.K.S. (1906-12) The Sidebotham bequeathed in his will the sum of two thousand pounds to the School towards the founding of a leaving prize, which will be awarded by Bequest the governing body each summer.

The San

We welcome Sister M. Bridgeman from the Royal Masonic School at Bushey, who has taken over at the Sanatorium, and we hope that her stay will be a happy one.

Visiting preachers ..

We were pleased to welcome as preachers at Evensong this term: Professor W. A. Whitehouse, Master of Eliot College, University of Kent, and the Revd. Canon M. S. Stancliffe, Rector of St. Margaret's, Westminster, and Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons.

Two masters have spent their one term's practical teaching as part of their training with us. Mr. R. D . Westwood from New College, Oxford has taught economics and history and has helped with the R.A.F. and athletics; Mr. M. Hodgson has taught physics and chemistry, coached rugger and helped at Riversleigh. We would like to thank them for the help they have given, and we hope that they have enjoyed their time with us. ... Visiting teachers

On Saturday, March 5th, the Lord Archbishop confirmed candidates in Confirmation the Choir. Dr. Ramsey gave a moving address, and the service proved to be valuable as a reminder or as a preparation for all who were present, not only for those being confirmed. We offer our belated congratulations to R. A. and C. H. Freeman, who rowed so splendidly for Oxford on March 26th. Earlier on in training C. H. Freeman had a short spell in the boat, substituting for the President, who was ill, but there appeared to be no permanent place for him. However, a few days before the race he was brought in to replace the American, C. E. Albert, who had suffered "a loss of form"; this last-minute change proved a great success and Oxford went on to win by 3t lengths. This was the first time that the School has had two rowing blues in the same year and the first time for thirty-one years that two brothers have rowed in the same Boat Race

Rowing Fraternity

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Isis, Oxford's second crew, also defeated Goldie, their Cambridge opponents, and R. W. Clark rowed in their boat, which was coxed by P. D. Miller. "The choir was separated from the knave." " .. . the disallusionment of the monasteries." "St. Augustine's chair ... in which every Archbishop sits to be confirmed." "The cathedral, which in olden days lay on the Old Dover Road, is now standing still in a great town."

Essays on the Cathedral

We were sorry to miss this term what promis'ed to be a stimulating lecture. Filming. .â&#x20AC;˘ Mr. Peter Watkins caught 'flu and was unable to come and talk on "Making a Film". This was to be illustrated by excerpts from his own films, excluding The War Game, a review of which appears elsewhere in this issue. Mr. Watkins will have started shooting another film next term, but he has promised to try to fit in a visit if possible. Visitors to the Walpole Room have sometimes been surprised that there should be no permanent record of such a valuable collection of manuscripts. Now Mr. C. A. Foat has very kindly offered, without charge, the services of his firm to microfilm between one and two thousand sheets of manuscript. We are most grateful to Mr. Foat for his extremely generous offer. . . . and Microfilming

Kenneth V. Jones, O.K.S. wrote the music for the recent production of Concerted effort Marlowe's Doctor Faustus in which Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton starred under the direction of a recent lecturer at King's, Dr. Neville Coghill. Mr. Jones, whose son is now at King's, is also preparing an exciting orchestral suite for the film of the play to be made in August. He has just been appointed principal conductor of the famous recording orchestra, the Sinfonia of London, whose first broadcast under his direction is in April of this year. 88

• One student of form in the Grange took a helicopter to Aintree for the Horse Sense Grand National this year. Taking off after last period on Saturday, he arrived in good time for the race- in which he backed the winner! Asked why he had omitted to share this valuable information, he said "I hadn' t realised that 'Anglo' was trained by Fred Winter ... " / Casting for the King's Week production of King Lear has taken Drama tragical . .. up the last few weeks of term. We are grateful to the Archdeacon of Canterbury for his generosity in permitting us to use his garden for the second year running, the more especially, the producer (Mr. C. D. E. Gillespie) says, because the ivy-covered tree stump in the centre of the garden is "a marvellous Lear-symbol" . Three members of the staff, Messrs. Gillespie, Harding and Wilson, featured in this term's Playcraft production at the Little Priory Theatre of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist. All who were fortunate enough to see the play agreed that it made a very lively and enjoyable evening's entertainment, with excellent performances all round. Plans are in the offing to develop this little theatre so that larger accommodation for both actors and audience may be provided.

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The Pater Society has translated Aristophanes' The Clouds and a · •. classical . . . ' production in the Memorial Court will take place early in the Summer Term. Casting is complete and the producer is Mr. D. J. D. Miller. Taking the place of the Fringe Plays this year will be a Canterbury Anthology, yet to be named, which will consist of a number of items based upon local history, much in the style of the famous HollolV Crown. The producer is the Revd. D. A. Harding, but the show has been compiled by the boys themselves.

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L. S. Burr and E. J. Olympitis reached the last twenty in the National

Fencing Achievements

Under-Twenties' Epee Championships during the Christmas holidays. R. Deighton and E. J. Olympitis came first in the Epee and Foil Championships respectively at the Kent Schools' Fencing Championships. Other School fencers also achieved good placings in their events at this competition, which was held at Broadstairs on Saturday, 19th March. We also congratulate the Fencing Club on winning all their matches. On Sunday, March 6th, about thirty gentlemen of the Sixth Form enterWilton Pink tained visitors from the Wilton Park conference to coffee and informal Conference discussion in the Societies' Room. This annual event provided once again a most interesting discussion on topical events, all the more so as among our guests were several prominent European politicians. 89

"I was a fairy ... " "Who is the gnome in your life?" "Then came all those people with their revolutions, such as Peter Loa . .. "

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The School seemed to be as unmoved as the rest of the country about the Non-Event election, but the visit of Mr. David Ennals, M.P . should have aroused so me interest. Unfortunately, the date of his visit coincided with the one chosen for his adoption meeting as Labour candidate for Dover. We hope to welcome him on some future occasion. The senior tutor of Lincoln College wrote to the Headmaster, congratulating C. J. Alpha Lee on his scholarship marks in the National Sciences: pure alpha on five papers; alpha minus on the sixth. This makes him one of the outstanding performers in the university Natural Sciences Scholarships. To complete the quartet, a Saint Patrick's Day flag has been presented by M. G. Dover of Luxmoore, and it. was flown from the Library flagstaff this term.

Flag Day

Last day of Term?

From a local newspaper: "The poet Thomas Gray reflected his associations of Canterbury in his work in the poem which began, 'Curfew tolled the never parting day ... ' "

Our reviewer last term omitted to mention the very decorative set for the Patience and production of Patience. This was, for the first time, the result of the united Charity efforts of the Art Society and Mr. Bennett. A competition was held, and the winning design was drawn up by J. Medhurst and R. Gocher (P. De Vroome and C. Imber have designed the set for King Lear-this should be something of a surprise.) As a result of the proceeds of Patience, ÂŁ123 lOs. Od. has been sent to Oxfam, being half the total takings. Mr. Hall, who left King's two years ago, has organised a ten week preProfessore University course for students in Venice. Now in its second season, the course seems to be thriving, and a feature article on it recently appeared in the Guardian. It described Mr. Hall as a "young man on whom the title of professore sits lightly."

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We congratulate the Athletics Club on a splendid season in which both Senior and Junior teams remained unbeaten against some formidable opposition, and the Cross-Country Club who were also unbeaten and completed their season by winning the Five Schools'IChampionships. 90

New developments in the Art and Sornner Societies are announced this term, with a pottery group flouri shing in the hands of the Canterbury Pottery (see "Society Notes"); a sub-commlttee of the Somner SocIety has been formed to take a particular interest in Canterbury and local institutions; another sub-com mittee for Heraldry and Brass-rubbings has been formed; th e Cine Society is planning to shoot a film on the Life of the Elderly next term. Branch Lines

The librarian gratefully acknowledges the gifts of books from the Headmaster, D. L. Smith (Library Monitor), Mr. E. L. Baldock, Sir Harry Townend, C.n.E., O.K.S., Mr. J. R. Reeve, O.K.S., Mr. R. M. Pollet, O.K.S., Mr. J. T. Fagg and Mr. A. Binney. The Library

Other O.K.S. sportsmen include H. R. Jackson, who represented Oxford in the Freshmen's Athletics Match against Cambridge in the javelin contest, and P. J. Cattrall, who headed the bowling averages of the Public Schools' XI which toured South Africa. R. M. Sutton has also distinguished himself, and we congratulate him on playing centre-half for the Welsh Hockey XI which defeated England 3- 0. (For more O.K.S. sport, see "O.K.S. News"). O.K's. Sport

The University Opening

Her Royal Highness Princess Marina formally opened the University of Kent at Canterbury jllst after the end of term. Twelve scholars were present, as members of the foundation, at the service in the cathedral, and a report can be found elsewhere in this issue.

A former

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Mr. Norman P. Birley wrote in to describe the efforts made on behalf of the Caxton Society by a certain Mr. Clinch, who put the Society on its feet in earlier days. It was good to hear about this from a former headmaster.

Excellent "live" recordings are being made of the Carol Service last December and of the successful production of Patience. It will still be possible to order them when this issue of The Cantuarian is published, as the records will not be available until midsummer. The recording of the Carol Service consists of one 12 inch L.P. (price ÂŁ2, postage and packing 3/6); the Patience recording consists of two 12 inch L.P.sall the music and the highlights of the dialogue- (price ÂŁ4, postage and packmg 3/6). Remittances should be sent to Mr. G. S. P. Peacocke, c/o the School. Records

Away Fixtures

The Headmaster preached at Charterhouse on January 30th and at New College, Oxford on March 6th. 91

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Jan. 23. Oxford Mission to Calcutta Feb. 14. "Action for the Crippled Child" Appeal 21. Leprosy Mission Mar. 5 and 6. Inter-Church Aid (by request of the Lord Archbishop) 13. Shaftesbury Society 20. Friends of Canterbury Hospitals

10 0 0 800 900 75 0 0 800 600 A supplementary donation had to be made from the General Fund for the Friends of Canterbury Hospitals. A donation was also sent to the Society of St. Francis. We say goodbye at the end of this term to B. C. Tooby, K.S., who is leaving the School after four terms as an editor. We should like to thank him for all the work he has put into The Cantuarian- in both senses- and we look forward to reviewing his first novel! "The Cantuarian"

REVIEWS HOUSE PLAYS: "LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME"

liTHE GOVERNMENT INSPECfOR"

"TIME REMEMBERED"

MUSIC:

INFORMAL MUSIC CIRCLE CONCERT

THE PASSION OF CHRIST

ORGAN RECITAL

THE MUSIC CIRCLE CONCERT ...

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HOUSE MusIC COMPETITION

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LECTURES: WHY MISSIONARIES?

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REMBRANDT

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CAREERS ...

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EUROPE'S FIRST GREAT CIVILISATION-MINOAN CRETE

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PERCUSSION IN THE ORCHESTRA

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CAN You SUCCEED IN BUSINESS BY TRYING?

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r HOUSE PLAYS "LORD ARTHUR SA VILE'S CRIME" : CONSTANCE COX MEISTER OMERS Several versions of this play exist, based on a very economical short story by Oscar Wilde. Miss Constance Cox is the author of the version chosen by Meister Omers, and from the witty, perverse and fatalistic tale she has spun a very long play. This is achieved by adding to the original an imperturbable butler (see Lane and Jeeves), a draconian lady (see Lady Bracknell), an absent-minded dean (see Chasuble and other clergy played by Miles Malleson), and a whole host of quotations, allusions and pseudo-Wildean chat. What is gained thereby is a delicious characterization of the inefficient anarchist Winkelkopf and a succession of good laughs. But what is lost is the wry point of the story: Lord Arthur's "duty" in carrying through his prophesied murder on the prophet himself, so as to live happily ever after with his wife and two children. Now the prophet suddenly turns imposter, murder is never ach ieved, no morc is the wedding. In other words, for the sake of conversation and situation, Miss Cox has sacrificed the dramatic entity, for the play

moves precisely nowhere. All this is to applaud Mr. Baldwin and his players all the more for what they achieved. After a slow first act, the play burst into life with the entry of Winkelkopf, the audience became committed to the events on the stage- especially Mr. Wen ley's bombs!- and left satisfied if surfeited, for the play could have been cut more than it was. In a strong cast that again confirmed Meister Omers' histrionic reputation, unquestionably the finest performance was Barry Kirsch's sparkl ing, explosive Winkelkopf, all aplomb and neat timing, and played in a Russian-salad accent compounded of home-grown Brussels sprouts, of French chou and German Sauerkraut. Robert Clarke's Lord Arthur was well sustained and amusing, but marred by switches of style in speech and manner, a lack of true Etonian languor, and an inclination to play for laughs at rather than with him. David Payne played Baines with slow care and polish, though hampered by being given too much movement, which obscured the marked intellectual superiority over his master that his social deference to him must emphasize. Mr. Podgers was su itably nasty and oily: Hugh Nei ll played him so severely that we somehow never sniffed the imposture about him, so that Miss Cox's twist to the plot remained just that. Anthony Marshall's Dean was funny but, I suspect, partly inaudible. Of the ladies, David Bodey's sweeping, blistering Lady Julia and Jonathan Wheatley's naughty old Lady Clem were the best. But Simon Tanking as Sybil, with earnest, emphatic speech, gave an excellent Gwendolen Fairfax-like portrait; and Gordon Thomson's Lady Windermere proved an adequate foil to Lady Merton- no mean feat. Mr. Baldwin's direction showed a new confidence, and a fine sense of the verbal wit and the situations at their most farcical. I admired the stage manager's elegant interior set, and would like to thank all for an enjoyable Meister Omers-style evening. G.S.P.P.

r "THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR": NIKOLAI GOGOL GALPIN'S

If this production did not hit everything it aimed at, at least it chose the right targets. Gogol's acid social parable never degenerated into a harmless 19th century romp, as can so easily happen. It took place in a town that was plainly disreputable, dejected and dull, peopled by a rogues' gallery of small-time crooks who were never sentimentalised as loveable eccentrics, and the play's "hero" was a petty opportunist who had just enough wit to keep one step ahead of events, without the professional con-man's flair for engineering them. All this was right and the play's sharp point was well made: we were falling off our chairs with laughter at a grotesque parade of our own follies. On the other hand there were moments when I had too little difficulty in keeping my seat. I do not mean to suggest that those concerned had not noticed that this serious play was also a funny one. On the contrary, I think they tried too hard to make us laugh. As a result there were times when the pace seemed slow, timing that vital fraction off-beat, and comic masks too broad for the faces that wore them. That section of the andience which hugged a cringing Jewish trader to its anti-semitic heart was wrong to do so; not for any comforting liberal reason but for the cruel aesthetic one that the portrait was overdrawn.

These actors were facing the difficulty of a play which is about a country and a social situation remote in time and place, and whose characters are too larger than life to slip on easily over their own personalities. Yet all played thoughtfully and with attack, and several did very well. There was Hall's mayor, excellent throughout, a good Bob-and-Dob from Flick-and-Fagg, a well-observed nervous schoolmaster by Wheeler, who was of course luckier than the others in having at least forty models to choose from (I think the portrait had best be labelled composite), and lastly, once he had got over a nervous start, Knightley as the bogus Inspector. C.D.E.G.

"TIME REMEMBERED": JEAN ANOUILH

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SCHOOL HOUSE The Irishman whose advice to someone asking the way was: "I wouldn't be starting from here at all," ought to be consulted by anyone solving the problems of producing Anouilh for a house play. They are those of making palatable a dinner of seven courses, each of them of candy-floss, to people hankering for, say, a mixed grill. It can, perhaps, be done: but it was not done on this occasion, nor on the previous three or four that I have seen. Anouilh is artificial, tediously ingenious, and a gasbag; and to these (I cannot help thinking them such) weaknesses of the playwright there were this time added the further handicaps of illness in the cast, and of guttersnipe behaviour by some of the audience 95

J Mr. M. G. H. Dillon, the producer, overcame the first of these by taking Stephen Jolley's part himself, at very short notice. With his forearms, and possibly vocal chords, smoothly shaved, and having memorized a very long part faultlessly, he made a strapping Red Queen of a Duchess of Pont-au-Bronc: an imposing performance. Alice, or Amanda as she was called, was played by Robert Gordon. He looked good, spoke up clearly, and remained undaunted by the not ill-natured, but ill-mannered and coarse, barrage of catcalls and guffaws. Indeed, the way in which the whole cast refused to be discountenanced, and from time to time succeeded in dominating the rowdies, was admirable. Peter Hook, as Prince Albert Troubiscoi (here Anouilh left Lewis Carroll and borrowed Miss Havisham from Great Expectations) showed especial power in what is probably the most demandi ng role. He has presence and a good voice, and though a somewhat wooden explicitness appeared in the more pathetic passages, he is a talented actor. There were enjoyable interpretations of all the smaller parts: Stephen Farnfield's Landlord and Stefan Bown's Ferdinand may perhaps be singled out. The production as a whole was ambitious, and technically ingenious. There were four distinct sets, involving four changes and reversals of the backcloth; and much thought and rehearsal had obviously gone into these operations. It is, however, decidedly a mistake to leave the auditorium in total darkness, even for two or three minutes. There were other minor mishaps of timing- the gipsies at times coaxed music out of their violins well before taking up the bow- but the overall impression was of a very workmanlike back-stage team. . The play will certainly be discussed longer than many others; for it brought out very clearly that it is desirable to think out again the purpose of house plays, and whether our present practices are achieving it. P.P.

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MUSIC INFORMAL MUSIC CIRCLE CONCERT This informal and little publicised concert was opened by Lyle and McNair playing Christopher Steele's Suite for Recorder and Piano. The accompaniment was a little too heavy at times and Lyle's intonation was occasionally imperfect; both played with confidence, however, and provided a pleasant start to the concert. In the Andantino from the Shepherd all the Rock by Schubert, a severe cold muffled Dawson's fine treble voice, but his words still came over well . He was accompanied sensitively by Arnold on the clarinetalthough he was occasionally slightly flat- and by Saunders on the piano. Bailey and Varcoe followed to give a polished rendering of a selection of comic songs for tenor and bass. Accompanied with gusto by True on the piano they gave us five sagas of human emotion, revitalising Old Mother Hubbard, Little Jack Horner and other nursery-rhyme characters. Written and sung as parodies of the great masters, these songs probably formed the highlight of the evening for most of the audience, they were certainly wellsuited to this form of light concert. Fourthly, C. S. W. Smith played his own composition for piano- Return from the Underworld- an ambitious piece and yet within his capability. Although it did seem somewhat disjointed in parts, it was played with a deep understanding, especially when the dynamics were soft. Folk-music followed, a comparatively new venture at King's. C. L. and J. A. Hampton on guitars, and J. H. B. Poole on string-bass, accompanied Dawson and Press in three "popular" folk songs. The balance was excellent and there was a sense of co-ordination between singer and player, which is often lacking in folk groups. This pleasantly-arranged and well-balanced backing more than made up for some slight raggedness in the singing. Next, Blake (flute), Arnold (clarinet), K. L. J. Alder (horn) and Mr. Miller (bassoon) gave us Quartet Number Four by Rossini. The playing was sensitive, and one felt, wellpracticed. Clarinet and flute runs were mostly well-executed, while Mr. Miller's spirited bassoon playing was a joy both to ear and eye! Curiously, this was followed by the other "heavy" item, Telemann's Quintet in F for Flute, Oboe, Violin, 'Cello and Piano, played by Blake, Heath, Rutland, Saunders and True. It was a pleasant enough piece and confidently performed; but individual entries were rather weak, and in this way, perhaps, it tended to lack conviction. Finally, and as an afterthought, was the second movement of Ravel's Sonatine for Piano, played by K. L. J. Alder, with the express purpose of relaxing the mood. Percussive effects from the soft pedal did not lielp the player in this aim, and yet his gentle interpretation of the piece was an ideal way to round off a pleasantly informal evening. It was, indeed, a pity that more of the School could not get to it. Perhaps left-over work builds up by the weekend and people feel that they cannot afford to miss prep. With choir practice on Saturday evening, this is quite a problem for performers, too. Might it not be possible to perform an out-door Music Circle concert one summer's evening next term, perhaps on a Friday? The adult audience would hardly be affected and the boys would certainly feel more incentive to attend. In this way it would be possible to compromise between the cramped feeling of the Recital Room and the formality of the Great Hall. The Cathedral Precincts certainly offer plenty of scope in this respect, and it is to be hoped that the opportunity of giving an informal and spirited concert of this nature will not be missed. D.R.L.B. 97

THE PASSION OF CHRIST- HANDEL The Passion Music sung by the Madrigal Society has become a tradition of outstanding significance in our school life. For, with Holy Week and Easter fallin g in holiday-time, it stands alone as a special offering by our community in acknowledgement of the supreme events in the life of Christ and the central theme of the Christian Faith. This significance was most strikingly conveyed by the presentation of Handel's Passion ~f Christ, a little-known work which proved to be an enterprising departure, yet id~ally suited to our vocal and instrumental resources. The work naturally suggests a companson with Bach's great Passions and though it is much smaller in size and conception it earns a deserved place beside them. Bach, indeed, thought highly enough of Handel's work to copy it in his own hand, and there are clear signs that he learnt a number of ideas from it, notably the solo aria with chorus interjections, calling the Christian in has te to Golgotha. The work offers wide opportunities to a large number of soloists and it was most pleasing to hear not only the maturer voices of our two outstanding O.K.S., David va n Asch and John Potter, who both sa ng with great beauty of tone and interpretation, ,?ut also a variety of solo voices from boys still amongst us. Of these Items the most movIng was a duet between Mary (A. G. L. Lyle) and Jesus on the road to Calvary: "Must my son and Saviour suffer?" Without a doubt, however, the supreme performance was David van Asch's Jesus, whose poignant majesty and quie~ sincerity were s ustained by an exquisite legato line of pure tone and impeccable phraSIng; and the climax reached in the desperate cry from the Cross: "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani" was unforgettable. R. J. A. True's harpsichord acco mpaniments to the arias and recitatives were efficiently and sympathetically rendered, providing a pleasing contrast with Mr. Scott's organ continuo in the choruses and passages ascribed to Jesus. For this Mr. Scott deserves a parllcular word of praise in manipulating the difficul ties of ensemble and the defects of the !Ostrument itself with such musical andi:technical artistry. Finally, let it be said that the superb quality of the sinl1ing, whether from soloists or choir, from past or present members of the School, owed Its excellence and achievement to the "Midas touch" of Ollr Director of Music, whose inspiring guidance and superb vocal training every singer in this Passion Music had at some time been privileged to enjoy. R.E.S.M.

ORGAN RECITAL Of all instruments, the organ presents the most difficulties to the player. Moreover, it takes a long time to adjust one's technique to the characteristics of a particular orga." ; whereas for example most pianos are more or less the same. There are. also the dIfficullies of a building's acoustics to contend WIth, and many years of experience arc necessary before a player can know just what he can, and cannot,~do. 98

On the occasion of this recital there were further hazards in store for the youthful players. Quite a lot of the organ was out of action (all the reeds, for instance) and what remained was somewhat unpredictable, as was explained before the programme began. All these facts, and particularly the last, must have intimidated the players and added greatly to the nervo us strai n which any true artist feel s. It is not surprising therefore that some of the playing sounded a little inhibited. The remarkable thing is that the general standard was so high and gave so much general satisfaction to the audience. The date was Bach's birthday, and Nicholas King started the celebrations with Liszt's well-known Prelude alld Fugue on the name B.A. C. H. (the notes bearing the German letter names). This was a prodigious feat, King playing this mighty work from memory with on ly one minor lapse from wh ich he hastily recovered. No doubt the necessary scalinl! down of the registration at the last moment acco unted for some lack of verve, but If It lacked fire the performance had great breadth and was quite an achievement. Christopher Smith the~ gave us three charming Chorale Preludes of Bach himself, using delightful registration. The first piece seemed the most satisfying, the second being a little inaccurate at times. The conditIOn of the organ may have accou nted for the fact that III the last of three (III Dulei i l/bilo) the second voice of the canon was not clearly heard. McNa ir then took over with the Cesar Franck Choral Number 3. Here the playing seemed to lack breadth. More dramatic pauses and something of the "grand manner" would have heightened the effect. But it was very accurately played and gave evidence of considerable talent. King returned with a light piece by Whitlock called Chantry. One felt that it was played a li ttle too fast for comfort and clarity. The pace could not quite be held and there were moments when it sounded rather "splodgy". Richard True followed with an entertaining Scherzo by Gigout. He displayed a fine technique, but greater contrast between the manuals would have made for a more satisfying performance. Again, no doubt, the organ itself was at fault.

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True brought the enterprising and varied recital to a fine conclusion with a masterpiece by Bach himself- the A minor Prelude and Fugue. The Prelude, for one listener at least, seemed on the slow side and a little ponderous, but the pace of the Fugue was excellently chosen, the performance building up well in spite of the deficiencies of the instrument. Once more, True displayed his excellent technique, and one admired the control and restrai nt of his playing. In all, then, a most encouraging recital which must have impressed the small but attentive audience. A.W.

THE MUSIC CIRCLE CONCERT The major Music Circle concert of the term was held in the Great Hall on 27th March before a large audience. Although the programme began with a finale and ended with an overture, this was the only lack of good order and discipline displayed by the School musicians.

The evening began with the Second Orchestra, conducted by a boy in each item. The Berlioz was a bit slack and lacking in rhythm, probably from poor observation of the conductor's beat but the Beethoven was more precise and energetic. The tone quality was promising and the items enjoyable. Two vocal items followed , a jovial Holst version of a sea-shanty from the Glee Club and a carol, written by Mr. Sopwith and set to music by Mr. Morrish senior. Like much modern music, it will improve with further hearing and we hope to have thi s opportunity before too long. Each voice-part in turn took one of the lines, or phrases, of the poem, while the other voices accompanied, which gave the setting interest and variety. The words were clearly audible, for which the author, the composer, the conductor and the singers were all in their part responsi ble. The Chamber Orchestra provided the main course of the evening, servi ng up a little D vorak, a quiet piece somewhat sombrely played, and Bach's Fijth Brandenburg Concerto. The tutti playing of the ritornelli themes was excellently sharp and precise, and the soloists very competent. Balance, a notoriously difficult problem in the H all, seemed a little awry. The flute was a little too quiet and the piano could not produce the sparkling clarity of the harpsichord which this music demands. Rutland, Blake and True are to be congratulated on a very musical and enjoyable interpretation. The Choral Society then performed three very different items, starting with a rare early Brahms work for trebles and altos, with accompan iment from two horns and harp (played on a piano). The words were a little indistinct and the horns rather pallid but it was nonetheless enjoyable. It was followed by Purcell's Sound the Trumpet, which was well controlled and audible, and a negro spiritual, which was am usingly a nd skilfully sung. Probably the most vital performance of the evening was provided by the Band , with their confident handling of Vaughan Williams' Folk Song Suite. They played with great panache and filled the hall with a fine volume of sound. That unforgi veable pastiche of Schubert tunes known as the Lilac Time Selection followed and for a rousing final item, the Ba nd played suppes Light Cavalry Overture, again with considerable verve and enjoyment. The audience obviously much appreciated the enormous amount of time a nd energy put into this concert by so many people and it is hoped that the players themselves enjoyed the evening as much as it was enjoyed by the listeners. P.G.W.

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t HOUSE MUSIC COMPETITION lust before the Instrumental competition was due to start it was discovered that the original Adjudicator would not be coming. Frenzied messages eventually brought generous help from two directions at once, a nd in the event it is Mr. Alfred Deller to whom we are particularly indebted for turning what might have been a disaster into one of the most successful MusicCompetitions with in some quite long memories. In only three or four of the twenty-four Items altogether was there any anxiety for the aud ience about the performers' intonation or technique, or need to make allowances; and even in those there was more to enjoy than to worry about.

In the instrumental section the pieces were well chosen to suit the talents of the performers concerned, and In Houses where no conventional combination of instruments was available considerable enterprise was shown in adaptation. Luxmoore produced an arrangement

by Mr. R. P. Scott for horn, trumpet and two keyboards of a six-part Bach fugue, Grange an a rrangement by C. M. Saunders for ten heterogeneous instruments of a piece by Shostakovitch, and Galpin's the first performance of a piece written specially for them. The wmners were Walpole (Rutland, Williams and True) with an extremely polished account of the ~rst movement of a Beethoven Trio; excellent performances were also given by Marlowe, with a movement from a Schumann piano quintet; Grange, whose intonation

a nd ensemble were most efficient; and Meister Omers (though your reviewer may perhaps be forgiven for findmg even a warmly-played 'cello not a fu lly adequate substitute for the bassoon in Mozart's wind music.)

The evening's Vocal and House Song events brought the highlight of the day' an intensely moving and technically. brilliant performance by a large Marlowe vocal g;oup, conducted by N. D. KlOg, of Britten's In the Bleak Midwinter. The adjudicator awarded it a well-deserved full marks. Linacre's canzonetta by Vecchi and School House's Lassus madrigal were also excellent. Th~

House Songs all, without exception, reached a n impressive standard, and here the

adjud icator was, as he told us, hard put to it. The eventual winner was Grange's varied

and vigorous performance, variedly and vigorously conducted by C. M. Saunders, of Schumann's Two Grenadiers-but why did they lop the piano's dying cadence from the end ?- with Walpole's well-characterised Erlking as very close runner-up; their accompanist, True, deserves special mention for coping masterfully with a notoriously demanding part. Galpins' III Praise oj Neptune, School House's Swansea TO lVn, Linacre's Ploughboy and Luxmoore's wry Gun-slinger all matched the two leaders closely in vigour but were less vari~d. Marlowe (as with Galpin's in the Instrumental) were perhaps, partly unlucky, m choosmg a piece not much to the adjudicator's taste; an unavoidable hazard of such competitions. Mr. Deller's comments were audible, concise, humane and constructive throughout, and the audience took to him warmly. Our luck in finding someone prepared to come at an hour's notice who could deliver such experienced and authoritative judgements seems IDcredlble; and we are deeply grateful to him. D.l.D.M.

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1 LECTURES WHY MISSIONARIES? DR. GEORGE HAMSER, O.K.S .

Dr. Hamber is an O.K.S. who has just completed 12 years' medical training in ,.rder to go out as a medical missionary to Ruanda, Africa, with the Ruanda Mission, an organisation for Christian aid and teaching in Ruanda, Uganda and Burundi. He began the evening with a summary of his personal religious experience. The honesty and forthrightness of his presentation of his own doubts and convictions contrasted sharply with the film he showed, featuring three African missionaries, which seemed unnecessarily trite. The most enjoyable aspect of the evening was the discussion which Dr. Hamber instigated after the film, for here was a real opportunity to argue out basic beliefs with someone who knew what he was talking about and had undergone a profound religious experience . Dr. Hamber will be leaving for Africa at the end of the year, but he has promised to keep in touch with King's by sending us fi lm-slides of his activities in Ruanda and Burundi. We, in turn, will subscribe to the mission news-letter and pray for real progress in Dr. Hamber's activities. . A.J.F.

REMBRANDT ELI PRINS

We were very glad to welcome Mr. Prins back this term. Coming, as he told us, from "the land of Rembrandt", the subject of this lecture was particularly close to his heart. He opened with a general survey of European art and showed how Rembrandt inherited Caravaggio's concept of light from Pieter Lastmann, the pupil of the latter and master of the former, and he also showed the link with two other great Dutch artists- Vermeer and Van Gogh. He then went on to give us a brief account of Rembrandt's life and background-his humble origins, his year at university, his wanderings, and then his work and home in Amsterdam. It was here that he settled down with his lovely wife, Saskia,

under the patronage of the rich burgomasters, to pursue the career of a painter. And thus, Mr. Prins went on to Rembrandt's art- and here he at once showed his enthusiasm and love for the drama of the stormy landscapes, the penetrating character of his old men and women, and the serenity of his religious paintings. He also spoke, though with less emphasis than one would have liked, on the visual qualities of Rembrandt's work: the texture of his paint, the brilliant light and shade, and the careful compositions. Mr. Prins finished by "thanking us gratefully for not throwing him out"- not that anyone felt like doing so-indeed quite the reverse. It was a highly entertaining and enjoyable evening and his obvious love of his work made the lecture full of life and vigour. We hope it won't be long before he visits the school aga in. C.L.H.

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The Careers department of this School is perhaps not as large as that of some othel schools. The lecture by Dr. Reeves, therefore, gave the School a particularly welcome opportunity to learn about careers in industry for economists, statisticians and mathematicians. Dr. Reeves started by outlining to us his own career-at school at Sidney Sussex College, then his spending five years with I.C.I. working with one of the first computers to be used in this country commercially; he then moved to the Department of Computational Science at Leeds University where he still works. By his example of a career in industry-his own career with r.C.I.- he succeeded in giving us the type of information about organising one's life that cannot be gained by reading pamphlets or visiting firms, but only by talking with someone who has already had this experience. He also told us something of the problems of using a computer industrially, which though not on the subject of careers, was of great interest to tbe many of us who have an interest in computers.

He ended by giving some fairly disconnected points of information which be had discovered and thought would be of use to us in the planning of our careers. He emphasized the flexibility which exists in and after university; we should not feel committed to one particular subject; it is easier to change horses in mid-stream than many students realised. He stressed the great value of the post-graduate year, and also of the careers and information service that ex ists in all universities. He brought down with him a number of leaflets from the careers service at Leeds University which were passed round; some of these are still available from Mr. Stanger. Dr. Reeves then answered at length questions from the audience on boys' individual difficulties. It can only be regretted that there were not more people at the lecture; several boys regrettably missed what was surely an excellent opportunity of having their questions about careers answered . D.L.S.

EUROPE'S FIRST GREAT CIVILISATION-MINOAN CRETE TI-IE REVD. CANON PENTREATH

We were delighted to welcome Canon Pentreath back to King's to speak to us on the Ancient World; he has visited Greece very many times and is an authoritative speaker on her monuments. The subject he chose to speak on was 'a relatively narrow one, yet he showed us that he had a deep knowledge and a keen interest in it, and it was these qualities together with a neat combination of historical fact and personal experience that enabled Canon Pentreath to captivate his audience on a subject so distant from academical or topical interest. 103

Canon Pentreath firstly related how archaeology had probed further back into history in the last three generations, with the uncovering of Troy and M ycenae by Schliemann and Dr. Arthur Evans's discovery of Minos' palace at Knossos in Crete. The people of Minoan Crete, originating from Asia Minor, form the first great civilisation of Europe;

they are notable for their advanced skills in the fields of engineering and agriculture. The island was well defended by the first navy in Europe, and this led to a very relaxed and epicurean existence,_ as is shown by the frescoes and painti':lgs available to us today. Beauty was greatly apprecIated here, and art and culture floun shed ; even after Mycenae had

conquered Crete, Cretan art greatl y influenced style on the mainland for some time. M uch mystery still surrounds the discoveries in Crete, and man y aspects of the life of this race have yet to be explained, notably the stran ge bull-leaping rites; nevertheless, with the aid of some excellent colour-slides, Canon Pcntreath gave li S a v ivid picture of

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PERCUSSION IN THE ORCHESTRA JAMES ' BLADES AND JOAN GOOSSENS

On Tuesday, February 22nd, the School had the privilege of being visited by Mr. James Blades, one of the most outstanding percussion players in the world. In his entertaining and instructive lecture, he showed us every type of percussion instrument, from the least refined of primitive drums to the most sophisticated of pedal-tuned timpani. We saw how the side drum is a link between the two-"without the snare, back in the jungle; with the snare, Royal Festival Hall," we were told. The volunteer who was called to the stage appeared not to have the slightest "touch of the pearlies", and making us doubt the five years which Mr. Blades said were necessary to acqui re a business-like roll, showed how the side drum keeps everyone in time-"even the Director of Music !" With two whistles and a side-drum, Mr. Blades amused us with his realistic imitation of a train in motion, before proceeding to the gong, or tom-tom, "a fri ghtening thing to drop on the Albert Hall platform in a quiet moment." We much enjoyed the satellite passing over the Great Hall, which was effected by this instrument. Then, moving to the timpani, we heard played Benjamin Britten's Kettle Drum Piece, during which it became evident that Miss Goossens was also a first-rate performer. Mr. Blades' impersonation of a music-hall xylophonist added greatly to the entertainment, and the performance of M alcolm Arnold's piece for ten percussion instruments was also very popular. An excellent tale of an anxious moment concerning a cymbals player's fa lse teeth brought to a close this delightful lecture, which showed the musicianship and sheer technical abil ity of so distinguished a player to the full. A vote of thanks was proposed by a Mon itor for Music, but the ovation already accorded to Mr. Blades had left him, I trust, in no doubt about the School's appreciation. R.J.A.T. 104

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CAN YOU SUCCEED IN BUSINESS BY TRYING? DR. W. A. B ULLEN

On March 24th, Dr. W. A. Bullen gave to a voluntary audience in the Societies Room one of the best talks that has been heard here for some time. Three mai n things are required for a good talk: firstly, an interesting subject; secondly, expert or first hand knowledge of it; and thirdly, and most important of the three, the personality and ability to communicate this successfully. On the first count, since a majority of King's boys eventually end up in business it must, one hopes, be an occupation of some interest; on the second, Dr. Bullen has risen to be a director of Pfi zer in under ten years, and this cannot be achieved, especially in an American based company, without expertise; and on the third, the audience responded warmly

to the mi xture of vigour, humour, seriousness and sheer zest of Dr. Bullen's personality and manner of speaking. He had planned to speak for half an hour before answering questions, but in the event he completely held the attention of everyone for over an hour. Dr. Bullen talked of different kinds of success, and of the different abilities needed. He spoke of the qualities required for rapid promotion, perhaps the most memorable being the American styled " maze brightness"-that sixth sense which enables its fortunate possessor to negotiate a tortuous path to an objective with the min imum of effort and disturbance. Integrity, ambition , intelligence, common sense, maturity, an orderly mind,

a liking for figures, a likeable personal ity-all these and others were mentioned as being useful ingredients, with a seasoning of luck and the choice of the right girl to stir the mixture.

The question of the ruthlessness of big business was put in perspective; it was rather the dispassionate assessment of situations which was essential and this did not mean that human values were ignored. Other questions followed , and here as elsewhere in the talk abstract problems were illuminated by graphic and humorous examples. As we know, time is money in the business world, and we are very grateful to Dr. Bullen for giving us his time so generously. R.M.A.M.

EXTRA-SENSORY PERCEPTION DR. WEST

Despite the somewhat short notice at which this lecture was arranged, there was a very high, if not a record , attendance. The Physics Lecture Room, in wh ich the lecture was held, was packed with well over a hundred people, and as a result many of the audience had to sit on the floor! However, this display of enthusiasm was not misplaced. Dr. West, by profession a psychologist studying animals, gave a lecture which can onl y have disappointed those who were expecting to see an actual demonstration of telepathy. But Dr. West told us that, far from being ab le to exhibit extra-sensory powers, his presence at an experiment

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He gave a very fair and apparently unbiased account of the evidence for and against e.s.p. The greatest difference between research into these phenomena and other research is that though anybody can, with the necessary apparatus, show for himself that, for example, magnets can be made to repel, he cannot so establish that minds can communicate extra-sensorily; for if the ability exists at all, very few people possess it. The impossibility of reproducing results at will is one of the great disadvantages of the science. The other is that the effects of the environment of the experiment are not at all understood. In other sciences the experimental conditions can be controlled so as to eliminate or at least

minimize unwanted effects. Here one does not know in what way the environment affects the results. All that is known is that results vary considerably and much would appear to depend on experimental conditions, or the "atmosphere" of the experiment, but it seems impossible to discover more about this dependence.

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It is almost certain that extra-sensory perception does on occasion occur in a very few people, but widespread experiments over many years have brought to light only a handful of people who exhibit such powers consistently, and even then the effect is extremely weak. Certainly accurate mind-reading, a favourite of some science-fiction writers, does not

exist; the more honest of those who claim to have this power probably get their accurate results from an unconscious scrutiny of their subject's unconscious reactions to various

remarks, which may be so sligh( as to escape even the most observant of untrained eyes. The talk was followed by an unusually ready torrent of questions, mostly relevant, which had to be halted after half-an-hour to enable the lecturer to return reasonably early. We are very grateful to Dr. West for lecturing so interestingly to us, and as always to the British Association for the Advancement of Science for helping to arrange the lecture. D.L.S.

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POETIC JUSTICE

Dusk was setting in. Far in the west the glowing orb of the sun was sinking over the horizon with the beautiful red hues of a tropical sunset. The sensitive, mellow light spread out from the sun, dancing and playing on a calm sea. The red glow from the bottoms of some high clouds deepened as night began to fall. On the top of the gently sloping beach a man squatted on his haunches, looking seawards, sometimes playing with the thin wiry grass that grew where he sat, sometimes lifting a palm-full of fine white sand and watching it as it slowly trickled through his fingers. Crickets chirruped and the high palm tree behind him moaned and rustled in the gentle breeze. The evening was calm but the man was deeply disturbed. When night eventually fell and the blackness enveloped him, he rose stiffly to his feet and trudged down the coast. He was not well built, the food he ate did not allow that, but wiry and supple. He wore only a loin-cloth and as he moved the night air cooled his deep-brown skin. The dark shapes of the fishermen's huts slowly loomed out of the night, and as he stooped and pushed aside the palm-frond that was the door, a voice said in Hindustani: " Ravi, my loved one, yon are late. Come and sleep. We will find her in the morning; she is in no danger." He said nothing to his mother but lowered himself on to his sleeping mat, and turning on to his side, wept silently. The man was one of a small community of fishing folk that inhabit the Coromandel coast which is along the North-West of India. His family had been living for countless generations on the shores of the Indian Ocean, gleaning a meagre existence from the sea which was their only source of food. The man's wife had been missing all day and there were malicious rumours spreading in the village that she had been unfaithful to him, and had spent the day in a settlement a few miles down the coast with a fisherman of another tribe. When Ravi had gone there to find her he had searched in vain and returned downhearted and sick with remorse. Early the next morning the yapping of the gaunt village pi-dogs woke Ravi. There was a great commotion in the compound; some elders from the other settlement had arrived bringing with them Ravi's wife who was sobbing and shrieking, her long black hair co~ering her tear-stained face in a dishevelled mass, her sari dirty and stained. The village women spat and shouted abuse at her; the s~lemn-faced elders brought her to Ravi's dwelling where the owner stood numbly on hIS feet, knowmg what must have happened last night in the other village. The elders approached Ravi with dignity; he salaamed to them respectfully and they returned his greeting. One of them drew him aside and in a low monotone told Ravi what he had feared, but had desperately hoped could not he true : that his wife had been found sleeping with another man. Ravi's eyes suddenly became deep and intense, though glistening with moisture. He trembled in anger. The elders left him, and his wife stood in the doorway sobbing and wringing her hands. As he forced himself to look at her he felt a sharp twinge of c?mpassion for the broken, limp figure. He asked softly, hiS VOice hoarse With emotIOn, "Aida, why did you do this?" 108

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The figure cried softly but did not answer. He repeated the question more loudly, his voice rising a little. Still no answer. He forced himself to keep calm and repeated the question again. The figure muttered self-pityingly and incomprehensibly. He strode over to her and gripping her by the elbows repeated his question for the fourth time. This time the head raised, revealing a small brown face beneath the tangled mass of hair, the lips pouting, the eyes sullen and defiant. "I hate you, Ravi, son of Ranjit," she almost spat, "ever since you killed our baby daughter because it was a son only that you wanted. Another mouth to feed was all you could say, then you killed my baby ... " Ravi's eyes hardened and tears welled in them ; he had hated killing their child but it was the only way, he could not have fed another member of the family. His hands moved to her neck with the speed of a snake, he saw in front of him not his wife but a prostitute, his vision blurred with tears of anger and he wrenched her sari apart, baring her brown back. She clutched the cloth desperately to her breast but he tore it away; excited further by her nakedness he grabbed the nearest thing that came to hand, a long bamboo gaff, and blindly he beat her as she screamed, until she sank unconscious and bleeding to the floor. For a few seconds he stood numbed at the thought of what he had done, then the fi sherman ran out of the hut down to the beach. The men, knowing what must have happened and respecting his feelings, made a path for him as he ran to his small craft. His one thought was to get away from land, his hut and his wife; making ready his nets and equipment, Ravi pushed the frail boat to the water's edge; leaping aboard he hoisted the thin, dirty sail and made out to sea. The other fi shermen looked out at him but after a while came to accept his actions in their fatali stic oriental way, and continued their preparations for a morning's fishing. The salt air was marvellously refreshing and the gentle roll of the sea was comforting and relaxing. Ravi threw a baited line over the side and cast his small net from time to time. The sun rose in the sky and the exposed woodwork of the boat seemed to shiver in the heat. Suddenly there was a sharp pull on the line, keeling the vessel over to port. Ravi scrambled along to that side and fixing the line to the stern, crouched expectantly as the thing on the end of the line began to haul the small boat out to sea. After a short time it headed back for land in an erratic curve; the fish began to tire and inch by inch Ravi pulled in the line, taught as a bowstring. Several times the fish jerked and thrashed, pulling out yards of hard-won line with it, but after an hour or so the fish was only a rew yards from the boat, feebly twitching and!slapping the water with its tail. Ravi screwed up his eyes disbelievingly in the heat. This fish was the biggest he haa ever hooked; he seized a bamboo harpoon and as the fish rested for a moment on the crest of a small wave, threw the weapon with all his force. The fish thrashed for a moment and then wallowed silently. Blood from the harpoon wound began to colour the water in a growing cloud. As he began to pull the line in, Ravi felt a huge jerk and gazed awestruck as a large shark swished past, taking a hunk of fish with it. Sharks then began to appear all around the boat, scenting the blood in the water. One hit the craft, tilting it alarmingly ; Ravi leaned over to right it; as he did so another hit the opposite side, capsizing the boat. Before he realised what was happening Ravi found himself in the water, fighting like a madman in desperation and fear as he struggled to right the boat. Then his whole body jerked in agony as if a pile-driver had hit it, as a shark rushing by in a flurry of foam 109

took a huge bite that neatly amputated his left leg. He shrieked in intense pain and suddenly felt sickeningly weak; summoning the feeble remains of his strength he pulled himself into the righted craft. The blood from his severed arteries gushed spasmodically over the deck. Realising that his fish was still attached and a potential danger, he pulled himself along to the stern and released the line. Exhausted and losi ng blood fast, Ravi rolled over on to his back, the fierce sun scorched his eyes and the sky darkened . The other fishermen found him six hours later lying dead in a sticky mass of halfcongealed blood in the bottom of his drifting craft. They brought him back to the village late that night. His slight body was cremated on a funeral pyre whose flame lit up the tropical night with a sombre glow. Fireflies and sparks flickered to and fro as the smell of burning flesh mingled with that of incense. According to Hindustani custom, his wife was required to throw herself on to her husband's pyre.

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O.K. so I've got this complex, now what? Well we may have to find the root Of the trouble, trace your repressions back to the past. How nice, how rich.

An experience not be missed, I assure youDig out all those little doubts, polish Them up, put them back, neatly of course. Well then, how lorig will it take and when do we start? The sooner"the better. Next week will do. I see a littIe'bird already hammering your soul He is pulling out the roots. He is Digging up the worms. I fear, dark here. He is pleased, he succeeds. He's a Cheeky little rascal and he charges a fee fat. Nothing more to be said then, but there's No history in my family. Must I spend a lot Of time on here? Yes, I find it helpsNice old leather, warms the pores Pierces the ears, draws out all. Such knowing and caressing furn iture. Old room, dusty womb, medical tomb. Doctor, why are you lying on the floor? Because you're on my couch. 110

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B. T. MARSH PRACTISING THE HIGH JUMP

J. D. W. WRIGHT CLEARING OVER 20 FEET

THE GALLEON ....I

B. C. Tooby

Out of the eye of Andromeda the meteorite came, and therefore no detector, radio or optical, sensed its approach. A million tons of ferrite metal finished a journey from dawn to dusk of recorded time in the heart of a Nova star, touching briefly before its last moment a Thing the like of which it had never seen, and then was gone forever. The colony vessel Questar 1 hung poised and helpless, awkward-looking with its powerbank clipped away, a bird with a broken wing. Someone on the inner deck was singing, verse after verse of the long-popular ' Outward Bound' that had run for years at home, before the Emergency came; and those who left the dying planet in Questar 1had brought the song with them, as a signature tune and a reminder and a sad and joking memory of the past. A requiem-trite and shallow then, profound now with age. As whoever it was launched into the last chorus, it seemed that everyone listened, from the captain to the lowest rating, for the ship was still and it was the only sound: " ... . Wh ere stars go out, the sun stays high

And moons swim in the sea; Where down is earth and up is skyThen, my friend, it's time to die, But that ain't where I'll be .... There's a long time yet for us to roam 'Fore this 0[' gal/eon's goin' home . .. ." The song died away, the refrain lingering reluctantly in the confined space; finally there were only the soft metallic noises that were the ship talking to itself, and the muffied chirrup of the bat-box monitor, counting stars. There was a long silence, until the captain reached for a microphone and the whisper of static was heard all over the ship. So quiet was it that the unnecessary "attention" chime could be heard echoing down each metal corridor, into every compartment, through each bulkhead, humming down into the deepest reaches of the partings like the uneasy stirring of a dream. When he spoke, it was in a slow, dry voice, the strangely re-assuring pulpit tone that not even catastrophe could change. He told them, who needed no telling, of the reason for the voyage of the galleon Questar 1. He told them of the planet from which they had come, the blue-green planet that held the only life their universe had known. He told them of the sight they had all seen, the blue and green of their home boil under with white as the flaring, senile sun in a last paroxysm of beat had destroyed it all. He told them of many things, with no apparent point, and they listened. "Finally", he continued after a slight pause, "we died a long time ago, yet we still are not dead. We have air, and food , and water, and the means to steer. We shall go on, because we must- we cannot alter our speed. If it is a planet that stops us, let it be green, and let it be young. Let there be water, and let the ship bury itself in a fertile place, and let the protoplasm incubators remain intact: we will not then have died .... "Time will wait." There was a long silence. 111

Outside was a longer silence, a silence unbroken forever and farafter. In it the ship hung like a filigreed splinter of light, turning slowly so that the stars turned about it, a savage and splendid wheeling of the dead. Inside, someone was sobbing, and no one stopped him. Someone else was singing .... "D estination?" said the navigator, unsmiling. "Sir."

The captain glanced at him. "Gain' home", he quoted softl y. "Feed that into the monitor and see if it doesn't shut it up." He closed his eyes, and relaxed in the purple twilight. "E.T.A., unknown. And get Abra'm to patrol star-side deck, and look for little holes."

For half a year the nearer systems drifted slowly past the ship, the outer stars cold and indifferent to this tiny progress, only turning round and round the vessel in a mad inspection, coldly watching, waiting, unblinking. At the very centre of the hull was the shaft housing the optical telescope and the communication lines; the captain remained for most of his waking hours in the observer's cage, staring back at the stars, counting them, cursing them,

until the doctor forced him away with the threat of permanent star-blindness. From watch to watch the spectroscope gantry and the monitor console would exchange a sing-song list of numbers and elements; verbally, because the console with its ever-changing pattern of indicator lights was a hypnotic trap, able to steal consciousness and leave the ability to manipulate controls .... less dangerous than the soft radio-chatter of the bat-box, the confiding remoteness that slowly convinced the operator of its intelligence, and left him believing and useless in a kind of evangelistic stu por. The period of watches diminished as time went by; finally they rigged a system whereby the detection of oxygen set off a buzzer, and the detection of chlorophyll a screaming siren . .. and time after time someone would wake from sleep, shrieking with joy at the sound only he could hear, until the shrieking turned to weeping or to a frightened silence, and the doctor would give him something to make him sleep agai n. They gathered together often and sang songs and acted plays, and read aloud from the micro-film screens; they made jokes and gambled with lunch-pills and played music ... . but outside there was no noise, and the stars waited, patient, the age-old stars, waiting

for th is life to wink out and time at last to stop. Weary Time! Abra'm Bull was happier than them all. Of unguessable age and inscrutable features (indiscernible? the growth of years made it impossible to see most of it), he hated the rest of his race with a passion equalled only by that which he felt for the metal around him. This was a galleon- crippled by moving, dying but not dead .... the ship would outlive them all. Not like one of their blazing, fla shing, platinized, moon-hopping blowlamps, which spewed all their fuel out the back and went whimpering home for more. Tear one of those apart with a brick, easy, any space garbage in the way and flash (like a photo being taken)- no ship. Way they'd been slapped together, no wonder . ... probably still yapping back and forth between satellites at Sunollt, if they hadn't gone by then. This, now ....

He moved slowly down the corridor, giving an affectionate pat to the inner hull, listening. This was a ship, a real galleon, built for the sparsely-filled edge of the galaxy and the only one of its kind. 'Course, there would never be another. Cost too much, for one thing, 112

but that wasn't the real reason. He cackled quietly to himself, and shook his head from side to side (he was the first bat-box casualty: but wasn't he the only one to love the ship? They all hated it, without even umbilical fondness)- no, it wasn't the real reason. Questar I was goi ng home, home, brothers- home to die. Love the ship: an order. There, now- listen. That could be a wind outside, that soft ululation, a wind through wires, a wind across sand .... guys up front, they didn't know, called it space-dust with a laugh and shivered . They didn't know. Put your ear to the curved steel, and listenan eerie wine-glass chorus, falling notes of horrible purity, stalactites in a pre-anaesthetic cave.

Nodes and anti-nodes, resonant modes, concentric bells and all that madness. He laughed ... . "What's it telli ng you, a dirty story?" said a voice behind him. "Jus' talkin' to , replied Ahra'm, vacantly; the smile on the spectro-operator's face

faded. He forced his voice into steadiness. "Talking? Sure. What abo ut?" "How'n hell should I know what they're talking about?" "They?" Abra'm straightened and a crafty look touched his mouth. His eyes penetrated deeply into those of the other, aware of the scream behind them. "Space-chatter", he confided. "Jus' idle gossip." He burst into roars of laughter at the spectro-tech's face, and stopped short for the pleasure of hearing the hollow echoes flit away down the passage and murmur in the depths of the ship. "Yes", he whispered into the silence. "They. Cap'n listens to them, I listen to them. Mind you"-he gently stroked the metal beneath his fingers"we're quite new out here. I suppose we do look strange to them, not at all like those other odd hunks of rock . . . ." The spectra- tech controlled himself: he'd survived quite a long time. "Yeah- they resent our intrusion ." "P'raps. H aven't thrown stuff at us for a long time, though."

As he spoke there was a soft sound like a taut wire snapping, followed by the frenetically mounting scream of escaping air. He smiled into the white face: "Small 'un, not really

angry", snatched up a portable plasteel welder and had disappeared through an open repair/ maintenance hatch before the other could reply. Before the thin sibilance of the air had ceased, there came another scream: mechanical, wailing up and down an eldritch scale at a volume soon obliterated by the hoarse cries that grew from unbelief into wild and uncontrolled delirium-chlorophyll! A planet with chlorophyll! A green planet! . . .. Slowly, very slowly and almost imperceptibly, the vocal screaming died away as depression set in, and reality returned ; the other scream went on and on, unheeded, until someone shut a communicating hatch and the noise fell to a memory of itself. Abruptly, it was cut off. Outside and for the first time they all heard the hiss of steam-blasts, soft sounds transmitted through the hull, and felt another gravity added to the centrifugal gravity of the ship, and reached automatically for a firmer grip. The ship was coming in. One by one, the entire ship's company took their turn in the observer's cage, half-an-hour each, and stared at the approaching planet, not blinking lest a moment of that time should 113

be wasted. Blue, and green, and young, covered by clouds and surely hissing with hot rain, continents shifting uneasily in a slowly conllealing under-sea .of molten rock, and the oceans .... So like their own earth, only theirs had been eruptmg In death, this eruptmg in life; and this had only one moon, not the four of their own . The last thought of each, the very last thought, was that it was a wonderful place to die. When they had all seen, the whisper of static ag.ain filled the silent ship. The captain said very little, and it was all quiet and formal, precisely as If the vessel were gomg to land in the usual fashion turning slowly tail-first and descendmg on the pillar of fire that had made Questar 1's take-off such a hope and awe inspiring sight for those who stayed behind. "There is oxygen on this planet, and chlorophyll; we are approaching with a relative velocity of about one and a half diameters an hour. We shall touch equator atmosphere"he waited- "now".

The entry was tremendous : a sunburst of white;hot metal illuminating a world of grumbling, hissing rain and turgid ocean, and a vertically swoopmg plume of steam and vapour the like of which would never be again.

Time began in the depths of that amniotic soup. Soon, as time is reckoned, it was the age of dinosaurs, the age of mammals, the age of Man.

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Of horrible array; Why don't you go away, Until I've said my say. Then come back, You emotionless rack, And praise me more than they. Why count my "urns", Or heed the "ers", They're sitting with their mums, Tough. My points, what points I should have made Like eggs new-laid, Are stale and smell; I know they've spoken well, But hell, 'Twas not my fault That shot the bolt, and loosed my tongue, Of misery; Can't you sec, I'm sorry. 114

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MODERN ARAB WORLD POLITICS IN PERSPECTIVE M.}. N. Baker One of the most difficult lessons to be learned from Afro-Asian events in the last decade is the manifest evidence that traditional Western assumptions of a clear-cut choice of "democracy" or "Communism" is a major over-simplification. Revolution after revolution by Arab nationalists has shown, as it has in Africa and Asia proper, too, that their fundamental goal is Western democracy. This is as true of a military-inspired revolution like Nasser's no less than it is of others. Yet it remains a fact that Western-style democracy has increasingly broken down, and disappeared or been suspended, all over this great region. And the assertion of General Abboud of the Sudan in 1958, when he overthrew the civilian government in a coup d'etat, that his country had "perhaps not been ready for Western democracy when the British left", was symptomatic of a far wider tendency in the Arab world as a whole that is still active today. We would be wrong to think that this absence of democracy is caused by any inherent defect in Arabs. This would be to accept the false image of the Arabs that has prevailed in the West for centuries: that they are no more than wandering tribesmen on camels, horses, or donkeys, living in a vast wilderness of sand. (In fact, in 1955 a well-educated American naval officer, talking with an Egyptian colleague in Italy and learning that he lived in Cairo, asked him in all seriousness, "Oh? Is your tent pitched near the Nile?") No, the problem is by no means so simple; nor is the authoritarian nationalist leadership we have come to expect in the Middle-East that of mere egoism (although there have been exceptions, notably General Kassem's period of rule in Syria). What it really boils down to is this: there has been a growing feeling in the Arab world that the Western system of democracy based on free party-political activity cannot simply be transplanted into Arab society. This failure is not due to the character of the political leadership so much as to the so very different conditions of Arab society from those in which Western democracy functions . Unlike in the West, in the Arab world there has been no tradition of democratic or parliamentary institutions; ideas of democracy have largely been acquired by Arabs parrot-fashion from Western textbooks. More important perhaps, the viability of Western democracy can only be highly questionable in view of the paramount need in the MiddleEast, as elsewhere, for a strong, stable, incorruptible executive to carry out development programmes. And this, of course, has led in practice, in a society highly susceptible to the mass adulation of onc or two major leaders or "champions" to a repudiation of

party-parliamentary democracy. What has happened now is that the Arab world, like France in the 19th century, is caught in a web of revolution and dictatorship. This is evident when you look at the number of coups and fa llen dictatorships there have been in the Middle-East in the last decade. The recent Army revolt in Syria is a case in point, and Syria lies at the heart of the Arab world. Its history since the war is typical: in 1963 the nationalistic pan-Arab Baath Party threw out General Kassem in Iraq and in another coup gained power in Damascus. The prospects for Arab unity looked brighter than they had at any time since the Egyptian-Syrian union broke up in September, 1961. But things went wrong. Baathists were eased out of power in Iraq, and in Damascus they seemed at times to be hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Baathist Syria was isolated and friend less. Now the Baath itself 115

has split, and the big men in the party, including its two founders, Salah Albitar and Michel Aflaq, have been arrested in the recent coup. And no doubt the new military government now set up in Syria will follow the course of its predecessors, not only because Syrians, who have had experience of a flourishing parliament for many years, are as conscious as anyone else of the inadequacy of soldiers as rulers, but because there is a strong tendency discernible in the Arab world at present against military rule. The trouble is, of course, that military regimes, however well-intentioned be their ousting of unpopular predecessors, have a habit of in their turn becoming repressive and despotic, and so it becomes a vicious circle. This circle will continue even more inexorably now that Arab nationalism has entered a new phase of conflict, that against internal Communism. For the rise to power of an Arab Communist Party, as events in Iraq under Kassem indicated, would result in ruthless and brutal forms of political repression unlike anything so far witnessed even under outright officer-nationalist dictatorships. It can be predicted, therefore, that no new "gradualist" approach to genuine democracy

can succeed in the Arab world unless the executive is enlightened, capable of tolerating and heeding criticism in the Press and elsewhere and able to win the confidence of the Western-inspired educated minority. This last element is vital : only through the personal ambitions, special interests, and sincere desire to contribute ideas and energies of the

educated minority of the Arab world, can progressive government and development schemes ever be got under way. For it must be remembered that to the Arab peasant, nationalism has introduced an idea of democracy that so far concerns dignity and greater material prosperity rather than responsibility in government. The overwhelming majority of any potential Arab electorate is illiterate, extremely poor, and has no consciousness of being part of a nation-state, as have Western citizens. Not even in his religious devotion and observances is there a function al hierarchy that provides the Arab peasant with a sense of active participation in a larger community. The only bonds of authority and obligation which he recognises are those of his family head, his relatives, his local "u lema" (priest), and his landlord. Yet if nationalism in the Middle-East has so far failed to instil a sense of responsibility in government, it has cultivated over the years a very real sense of Arab unity. Between the two World Wars and since 1945 there has been a rapid development of modern communications and education inside Arab countries. Newspapers, magazines, books and

pamphlets, radio broadcasts and films-all in the Arabic language- increased. New and more expensive means of transport and travel brought Arabic-speaking people in different countries into ever greater contact with one another, both physically and mentally. It thus dawned on Arabic-speaking peoples that they had a great deal in common: their language and the tradition it carried; the dominant religion ofIslam; common enemies in the Western Powers' weak and reactionary leaders; poverty, disease, and backwardness. Gradually, therefore, the idea of Arabism spread out over the area; an uncertain idea,

lacking philosophical definition, but something that touched chords of response wherever people spoke Arabic. Moreover, little more than a pattern of rivalry and intrigue met the eyes of young Arabs when they turned to relations between existing Arab states. The King of Saudi Arabia was feuding with the Hashemite dynasties in Transjordan and Iraq; Egypt's King Farouk was manoeuvring between the two; Crown Prince Abdullah in Baghdad was hoping to unite the "Fertile Crescent" under Iraqi Royalty; King Abdullah in Transjordan was coveting Syria. This would never do: it seemed an important lesson of history wherever 116

Arabs looked outside their own region, that there should be co-ordination between the leadership, spirit, popular energy, economic resources, and military strength of a region. America had forged a united nation out of separate colonies-turned-states, and it was a nation without a common language or tradition behind it; Germany had arisen from a clutter of petty principalities into a one-nation state with the doctrine of a "Yolk", a

people; so had Italy; after 1947, Arabs could look into Asia and see a united Indian Republic emerging from a sub-continent that had contained over 500 separate statelets and provinces of peoples who did not even speak the same language; further east, the Republic of Indonesia was striving to build "Unity in Diversity" among some 3,000 islands, again without an initial common language.

Certainly, in the rise since the war of the phrase "quamiyya arabiyya"-"Arab peoplehood"- may be seen the nationalist search for an identity between all who are Arab, irrespective of country. However, the translation of this emotive concept into concrete,

constitutional Arab unity will not be easy today. As well as the divisions that still exist in countries such as Aden and the Yemen between the "ancien regime" and Young

Arabism, there remain strong retarding factors and local separatisms throughout the Arab world . The ideal of Arab unity comes up against all the usual, normal obstacles in the status quo of sovereignty, too. Already it has provoked local jealousies and fears for personal prestige; the rivalry now apparent between Nasser's pan-Arab and Feisal's "pan-islamic"

movements is a notable example. Moreover, Arab union inevitably challenges commercial and other vested interests which have developed in the era of many Arab sovereignties; for instance, Syrian merchants have not necessarily hailed radical changes in their fortunes or business systems involved in the union with Egypt. In fact, because modern Arab nationalism does not, because it cannot, expropriate the wealth of the commercial com-

munity, who provide the very livelihood of the region, it means that a firm source of resistance to union persists even below political levels. Finally, there remains one conflict which intrudes most profoundly into the evolution of Arab unity, and into the stability of the Middle-East as a whole: this is the ArabIsraeli conflict. This bitter struggle will tend to hasten demand for Arab union, perhaps too rapidly, so long as it continues unresolved. It also seriously threatens peace in the Arab world, and if out of hand, could have grave repercussions on a global scale. Israel's policy on and off for the last decade has been conditioned by the fear of a strong, militarilyco-ordinated encirclement by her Arab neighbours; and she has threatened war if neighbouring Jordan merges with any other Arab country. On the other side, the Arabs greatly fear that Israel, who is dedicated to gathering home the rest of the world's Jewsnumbering over 10 million-will renew its past record of expansionism. (In the Sinai attack of 1956, Israeli officials are reported as claiming that the Peninsula was not part of Egypt proper, and they spoke of "liberating the homeland".) Given the past, then, the Arab conclusion is virtually inevitable, whether right or wrong, and indeed at present the Arab countries, especially Egypt, are waging a fierce propaganda campaign against the alleged "Zionist conspiracy". How Israel can change this picture, and the initiati ve must come

from her, is among the greatest questions confronting the Arab world today. And thus the attempt by a lone Israeli in February of this year to open peace negotiations with Nasser by flying illegally in a single-seater aeroplane to Cairo, may not have been so futile as it seems. Even in a hopeless cause, a futile gesture can sometimes bring hopeful results. 117

J. K. Harris

Fever

SOMETIMES it was cold; and sometimes it was hot. In the first place they shivered and hudd led together teeth chattering; and in the second they sweated and the sand stuck slimy to their skin, while the flies crawled in their armpits and the hair of their groins. It was Tuesday, or Friday. Then Sunday brought hail. Stones large as bullets, heralding the bullets, stung and pummelled. So they turned their faces into the dirty wet earth to protect their eyes from the blitz. Beneath them, they could sense the movement of something restless and living, struggling, suffocating. "Someone is buried alive. Someone is buried alive." They scraped at the earth with stubby, bleeding nails, feverish, frantic. "Hold on. We're coming." They clawed and scraped and scratched, while the sun came out and everything blazed hot pins, and the mud became a rock and a frying-pan . It was all over. Quiet came and wrapped everything up in brown paper. Legs intertwined; bellies touched, tensed. With a silent heaving of chests, and the reek of noiseless panting, he threw them into a cool stream. They drifted down. The paper became wet and heavy. It sank-but they did not. They carried on in a silence, until they reached a cool shore. There on their backs, gazing into the sky, they watched in a doze, naked women springing from the clouds. Long cool fingers caressed the burning cheeks; and they were covered with the firm breasts, and the soft bellies. Somewhere a shot cracked. And a bomb mushroomed lazily on the horizon. Mainly it was quiet and cool. (

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O"e Romall's Defelice of Jupiter

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TI,om

All may cry out your praises, but I'll sing no song for you They say the winds hear you and answer your call, and The rivers change their courses at your command But I'll not forsake my pride, I've resisted too long To fall now. I've seen them in the temples, animals on their knees Praying to you, a God they'll never know or see They squander their wine on you and their hard-earned grain While I sit and watch and laugh and truly live In freedom. You sit on a throne of gold and mine's but tainted stone Vet you cannot make me kneel to you; for I alone Stand fast. Where all others deluded fell: my reward Is in my pride, and in my pride My viCtory. My time will come, the earth will gain its rightful freedom And since all idols of man's imagination fall As knowledge unveils their innermost mysteries So when man no longer holds your name in awe, you shall Be overthrown.

MODERN POETIC APPRECIATION

A. M. N. Shaw

A few weeks ago, Methuen published a book which shattered many preconceived notions about the nursery rhyme. The author stated that these rhymes should in fact receive the greatest place in our literary history, as deliberate attempts, both to condition the unformed mentality of children as to the futility of life, and to create a system of thought-process from which modern speech has evolved. His arguments are best illustrated by the following passage:"Hey! Diddle diddle! The cat and the fiddle! The cow jumped over the moon!" The unparalleled brilliance of this poem lies in its basic qualitative factors- the superb subconscious verbal connotations and links between each word, and the basic theme which is undoubtedly the model of all philosophic-prophetic poems. The philosophic 119

poem is indeed the most vivid expression of modern psycho-neuroses by the so-calledand unjustl y calIed-" psychopathic school" and will achieve its due place in literary classics, despite all efforts of the uninitiated to relegate it to the ran k of a mere childish jingle, or

" nursery rhyme../'

The whole poem is based on the first th ree immortal words-"Hey! Diddle diddle!"through which can be traced the whole process of subconscious inter-related thought. For example, the word diddle imp1ies a chicanery or fraudulence, which is immediately associa ted with that obnoxious co ll oquialism, "fiddle" ; but the subconscious immediately

relates a fiddle, the strings of wh ich are made of cat-gut, with a cat. Another subconscious thought-process stems from "Hey!"- tha t substa nce consumed by the "cow" or bovinc quadruped ; the "cow", though a domesticated herbivore, still possesses horns, which

werc the symbols both of Egyptian Isis, the Moon Goddess, and the Greek Artemis. Both lines of thought are linked by the fact that the "bridge" of a fiddle is naturally associated with a crossing or transmigration so, " ... the cow jumped over the moon".

By such subconscious processes, all the words of the poem can be inter-related and understood; it can even be proved that the whole of the English language is based on those three words. Thus, the subtle processi ng in the "child's poem" helped to build up a substantial vocabulary, whereas cro-magnon man had no such means of communication

or thought process.

. Such a poet was and is the critic of society. He forsees the nature of human endeavour the twentieth century, and conde mns the forcing of all human energy into a competition of mere acquisiti o n, into a rat-race, by the self-interested materialism of man. The whole In

poem is a criticism of, and a vibrant repetitive hym n to, the vast incomprehensibility of

modern society. One can also sense the tragic near-futility of the poet, im potent agai nst the irrevocable march of fate, in such Jines as, "The cow jumped over the moon", and

also in "The cat and the fiddle" in which he emphasises the predatory nature of man. Yet, at the same time, he evokes pity for man, and his march towards self-destruction

through self-determination and materialism. Man is so afraid of his own prodigynuclear fi ssion- that he wishes to send the major source of the world's milk production to the moon, or even beyond, to shield it from the effects of radiation and Strontium Ninety. As one political, anti-Russian, C.N.D . slogan so poignantly stated recently : "Mutated milk may mean the mutation of man".

Therefore it can be seen that such poems operating subconsciously or consciously on an unformed juvenile mind, are extremely dangerous to the development of a sane human race. The psychopathic school are so-called, for attempting to introduce suicidal and destructionist tendencies, and for in stigating subconscious traumatic experiences in the

minds of the young.

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THE DEFENCE AND ILLUSTRATION OF SCIENCE FICTION J. K. Walmsley

"S.F. is pushing crime off the pavement . .. " "I cannot sufficiently blame the foolish arrogance and tenacity of some in our nation who, being in no wise Greek nor Latin, misprize and reject with a more than stoica l

haughtiness all things written in French ... " The first quotation above reflects the fact that Science Fiction, or, as it is generally known, S.F., is beginning at last to reach a broad enough audience to entitle it to the status of something more than a fringe subject. However, there is a good deal of intolerance still to overcome, and in this it resembles the French language at the time of the second quotation; S.F. has met with even more bigoted and ignorant intolera nce than the "vulgar tongue" at the ti me of du Bellay. S.F. arouses wrath, not merely because the pundits feel that anything which sullies its hands with science cannot be regarded as "Literature"-

blandly disregarding Goethe- but also because it was the victim of sensationalist exploitation by shoddy writers. Fortunately, however, the age of the hack writer with green Martians and " bug-eyed monsters" has to a large extent passed away, yielding to an age of writing which is extremely sophisticated, considering the youthfulness of the genre and its peculiar difficulties. Before attempting to substantiate this claim, it is necessary first of all to set some sort of limits to the field under consideration. Kingsley Amis defines S.F. as: "That class of prose narrative treating of a situatio n that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innova ti on in science or technology,

or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin." This definition is adequate except for the fact that there are a good deal of science fiction stories wh ich do not postulate any technological innovation, but are based rather on the consideration of "what if . .. " the atom bomb was dropped, or the lunar probes found that the moon was really made of green cheese; either an extensionl of present trends, such as the arms race, or the consideration of some anomaly which can be seen in the

world around us: the classic example is the Mobius strip, a body havi ng only one surface and only one edge-apparently a physical impossibility, but one which can be demonstrated with nothing more than a twisted strip of paper. Secondly, Amis' definition tends to obscure one fact: that less and less science fiction is interested in science. Jules Verne, with pages of laborious description of the "Nautilus", has given way to Nourse and Asimov, with casual mentions of hyper-space and the "trans-light drive". These things are no longer important in themselves, they are merely 121

conventional devices which enable the writer to pass quickly on to the situation which concerns him ; this is the essential difference. that modern S.F. writers are, generally, primarily concerned with some unusual situation which depends on these devices but which is far more important than they are. Which leads to the question: precisely how do these situations differ from those of normal fiction, so that they need these admittedly rather fantastic assumptions? There are two main advantages which these devices confer upon S.F.; firstly, it is possible to conceive the human being in such isolation as he can never find on this overcrowded

Earth; for example, the short story by Alan E. No urse called Kaleidoscope. A spaceship, travelling to Mars, is struck by a meteor. The crew are blown out of the ship as the air

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rushes out into the vacuum. Since they wear space-suits as a normal safety precaution,

they have sufficient air to survive fo r a few hours, but when they were ejected from the ship they could not reach their "reaction pistols", which are necessary if one wishes to move about during free fall. This means that they are helpless and must fall towards Earth, or Mars or the Moon. This chain of events may seem improbable, but a flight to Mars is certainly conceivable, possibly within our lifetime, a nd we must assu me that the crew was careless enough to leave their pistols out of reach. But this is not imp.ortant; what is, is that the crew are now completely scattered, with no hope of reu nion; a lingering death is inevitable; and a lonely one, since the space-suits' intercoms will quickly be out of range. The fact that they are millions of miles from earth means that the writer is now in a position to examine the combined effects of extreme solitude and certain death upon his characters; his hero reBects: "It was so very odd. Space, thousands of miles of space, and these voices vibrating in the centre of it. No one visible at all a nd only the radio waves quivering and trying to quicken other men into emotion ...

"From this outer edge of his life looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived 7 D id life seem that short, indeed, over and done before yo u took a breath 7 Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?" Because of the very nature of his assumptions, the writer has been able to acce ntuate the traits which he wishes to consider: the man is dying, when he is out of intercom ra nge he will be more utterly alone than ever any corpse before, and he has a few hours yet before he enters the Earth's atmosphere and burns up, as a shooting star does. In fact he dies peaceably, calmly considering the fate of one of the crewmates who was taken by the gravitational field of the shower of meteors which struck the ship: "There was a kind of wonder and imagination in the thought of Stone going off in his meteor cluster ... eternal and unending, shifting and shaping like the kaleidoscope when you were a child ... "

The simplicity and calmness of his death almost matches "Pray you, undo this button" and springs from the same sense of human courage and di gnity in the face of death. But this ability to focus on a human being in an isolation hitherto unencountered is only one 122

facet of S.F.; it can also take the larger view. The human race has been in existence as an intelligent entity, fo r only three or four thousand years; what will it do in the ~ext ten thousand? S.F. has all of time and eternity to play with: ':Under the level light of the sagging m?on, beneath the myriad stars, the beach lay wattmg for the end. It was alone now, as It had been at the beginning. Only the waves

wou ld move, and but for a little while, upon its golden sands ... For Man had come and gone." (A rthur C. Clarke). Besides all of time, S.F. has all of space at its command. Isaac Azimov is notably successful in his famous Foundation trilogy, at evoking an Empire so vast and so complex that its day-ta-day adm inistration occupies forty billion fu ll-time civil servants. . Often just such a galaxy-wide Empire comes in for a good deal of mockery, and specifically Its armed forces, for S.F. would seem to offer a happy hunting ground for writers hardened by National Service: "I am Petty Officer Deathwish Drang, and you will be ca lling me 'Sir', or 'M'lord' .. . Very soon yo u will be hearing stories about me, vicious stories about how I killed and ate a recruit who disobeyed me. He halted and stared at them, and slowly the coffin-lid li ps parted in an evil travesty of a gnn, while a drop of sahva formed at the tIP of each whitened tusk." "That story is true."

(Harry Harrison: Bill, the Galactic Hero .)

In fact, there is a good deal of laughter at the expense of the (recognisably American) military- for instance, the story by Mark Clifton called When they came to Earth where a doctor is called u p by the space-navy because his name happens to be the same 'as that of an eminent j)sychologist. When he attempts to explain, he is told: "The Space-Navy never makes mIstakes. Hence you must be (the eminent psychologist) in spite of your assertions to the contrary. Further denials will be construed as mutiny . .. " Perhaps the classic example is an oblique comment on the antics of the late lamented Senator McCarthy, by Harry Harrison : " 'Let us begin', the Court President ... said with fitting solemn ity. 'Let the trial be open, let justice be done with the utmost dispatch and the prisoner be fou nd guilty and shot' ." Particularly amusin g for th e acclised, of course.

But the vast majority of S.F. stories do not start out with no serious or moral purpose in mind;. they start by saying "What would happen if . .. ", and then in the light of their sUppOSitIOn we are shown some new facet of human behaviour, or some old onc is mocked or reaffirmed; hence the fascination of so many of these stories is a purely intellectual ?ne, that of "playing with ideas". For example, a short story abo ut what would happen If the TIbetan mystics of Arthur C. Clarke's story, The Nine Billion Names ~f God, were nght: the world will end, they say, when the nine billion names of God have been catalogued ; they hire a computer to do it-and they are right: "'Look,' whispered Chuck, and G~orge lifted his eyes to heaven (there is always a last time for everythlllg). Overhead, wIthout a ny fuss, the stars were goi ng out." 123

S.F., then, is either that class of fiction which deals with an event which is so far out of the normal, or has implications which are so far from the normal that it is improbable in the world today; Of, it is an extension of present tendencies, such as the arms-race or subliminal advertising, or space travel into the future, which generally leads on to some situation which interests the writer more than the extension itself. The accuracy of such extension has often been used as a sort of justification for S.F., so that Jules Verne's submarines, Arthur C. Clarke's communications satellites, the story which was suppressed by the F.B.I. in 1945 for dreaming up the exact replica of the firing mechanism of the atom bomb while it was still Top Secret, these have been cited ad nauseam. But the real justification for S.F. is the same as for Copernicus and Galileo, the fact that while we are cooped up on this one planet, we must not let this lead us into assuming that this planet is the centre of the universe, and that the rest of the universe was created for the glory of us. The scientists say that there are an infinity of suns about us, hence an infinite number of planets. Is anyone going to attempt to say that not one of these infinity of planets is capable of holding sentient life? There must be races in the stars; and as long as anyone is prepared to think in terms of a galaxy, rather than a planet, S.F. will exist, to reflect man's realization that possibly he is not quite as big as he thinks he is, as Colin Kapp has one of his extra-terrestrial characters say in The Dark Mind:

"You're such little people, and even the universe is not quite as you imagine."

~Poem'

B. F. 'Vaters alld C. 6. Howard- 'Villiams

Pox upon thee little fellow, Creep and fink, with stripe of yellow! The gang you squealed on has the urge, To sing and strum your funeral dirge. In the drink you should have went, Neatly cased in wet cement. Delinquency can be a blight, For clots like you don't do it right. Seeing you, I hate to think, That I was once a lousy fink.

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THE BOAT CLUB

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THE SHOOTING CLUB

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HOCKEY Retrospect 1966 The frustrations and disappointment s of this hockey season stand out in sharp relief after the triumphs of last year. To begin with, no old colours remained, a situation further aggravated by inj uries before the term began to two possible contenders for 1st Xl places; then with the beginning of term came snow, followed by conti nuous rain that kept us ofT Bi rley's for nearly all February, with fina lly dry pitches whose uneven surfaces were unsuitable for good hockey. Under such conditions the finer arts of the game cannot be taught or learned; and the failure of the forwards in every school team to fin ish off their attacks indicates only that dribbling and finesse of stick work arc virtually impossible to acquire while hockey continues to be played under its present restrictions at King's. Amidst all this it is to the credit of the capta in that he maintained enthusiasm and drive in the side throughout the various setbacks of the term . Too often, however, he was unsupported in attack, and only latterly did Gordon and Edwa rds at in side~forward provide any real back ing for the penetrat ion in the centre. On the right wing, Clarke was extremely useful and though too often his play went according to the same pattern, he ran hard and fast and accomplished much of the work of advancing the attack . The left winp was a difficu lt position to fill and had several contenders, the most likely being Young, who had a goog game against Tonbridge. The halves were the real strength of the side. Beech is already an accomplished and mature player, remark ably so for one in his first season in the side, who dist ributed well a nd worked tremcndollsly hard in support of both altack and defence . Ensor and Jaafar bot h played sound ly more often than not, the latter being particularly noticeable in his fo ll ow ing up of attacks, though more cross-passing would have been profitable here. The backs, Oliver and Frankland, had days when everything went right for them, when they were virtually impregnable, bu t some sad lapses in positional play marred an otherwise excellent performance. Kilbee in goal had a hard season and was too oftell left with little chance of stopping rut hless shots; however, he stopped some good ones and his kicki ng improved vastly as the season progressed. The results show initial inexperience, in the unfortunate and na rrow defeat at Dover, failure to press home the advantage aga inst Manwood's, St. Edmund's and Tonbridge, and one splendid game against a strong Canterbury side who were very lucky to win in the last few minutes. The team have had every kind of disappointment to bear, and all 1 can say is that 1 hope the Oxford Festival will put the season into better perspective. This has not been a weak side- the select ion of Gray fo r the Kent Schools' side and Beech and Oliver for the second side indicates what might have been achieved in different circumstancesand it must be remembered that the fi xture list conta ins no weak opponents and some club sides whose job it is to defeat school teams and who invariably do so for instructional purposes. It has not so far found its best form in a school match, and if the ball has run at times unkindly, this often happens to a side struggling for success. The least o ne can say in conclusion is that all players were vastly improved by the end or the season, and there is considerable opt im ism about their chances at the Oxford and Tunbridge Wells fest ivals in the holidays. G.P.R.

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S~(I1~dillg: J. Frank land, R . A. Gordon, J. R. Kilbee, P. R. Ensor, M. J. Edwards S,ltlllg: R . O. Clarke, p, R. Beech, M. J. Gray (Captain), D . T. Oliver, I. Ja'afar

CROSS-COUNTRY TEAM S~o/~dil1g: J . A. Coxhead, F. L. Graves, C . S. Stephens, M. M, Rickards, S. T. H ull Slltlllg: M. J . N. Baker, H. F. Parry, T. J. A. Bishop (Captain), W. J. Wood

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THE SQUASH TEAM Standing: r. Ja 'afa r, D. W. Ball, E~ q. , D . R. L:. Bodey . Siflillg: R, S. Hallam , C. C. N . Bridge (Captam), G. K. Jaggcl s

THE ATHLETICS TEAM

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1st XI Matches K.S.C. v Dover Played at Dover on Saturday, 29th January K ing's, 1; Dover, 2 K ing's started the season with a number of handicaps; a completely new team, snow on the ground for the fi rst week, and soggy pitches thereafter. Inevitably through inexperience, many movements faltered and the finish in g was poor. Both sides sett led down qu ick ly at the start and produced enterprising movements, mainly of the hit-a ndchase variety. Dover scored first after a goa lmouth melee. The pace quickened, a nd King's goa l came when Clarke netted the rebound from a short corner by Oli ver. Dover's second goal was the unfortunate result of the goalkeeper's inexperience. During the second hal f the forwards were unable to penetrate on the rutted pitch, and the game petered out. The defence was sound, though the forwards seldom looked dangerous and the halves were slow to su pport in attack. This very evenly-balanced game provided va luable match practice, but the team were not disheartened by defeat.

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Canterbury Sunday Xl

Played at St. Stephen's on Sunday, 30th January King's, 0; Canterbury, 6 King's were determ ined to correct the faults of the D over match. The club side through greater ~k ill ga ined control, and scored three goa ls before half-t ime. Tn the last 10 minutes of the first half, King's were really penetrat ing, and were unlucky not to score at least once. Several through passes to Jaggers spl it the defcnce, but produced no results. Co-ordination between the halves and forwards improved, despite Gray's absence, and K ing's pressed hard throughout the second half. Canterbury scored three times from breakaways in the second half. The heavy state of the ground made their clever stickwork and neat dribbli ng the more creditable.

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An East Kent Xl

Played at St. Stephen's o n Thursday, 3rd February King's,O; East Kent, 6 Our visitors, who included a Welsh International at inside forwa rd, soon proved to be an extremely strong side, and more capable than any school XL They were qu icker onto the ball, and having obtained possession, distributed efficiently. Their outstanding trio of centre-half and inside-forward, produced four admirable goa ls by accurate inter-passing. The seore was no disgrace to the defencc; they performed well under contin uous heavy pressure, though 16~ yard hits and hasty clearances were frcquently intercepted. The forwards were thus effectively starved unt il the last quarter, but when given chances they lacked determinat ion and did not combine together. The situation was made worse when Willis on the wing pulled a mu sclc badly before halfÂˇt ime. The team were grateful and learned much from the example of this mid-week side.

K.S.C. v Canterbury School of Architecture Played at St. Stephen's on Sunday, 27th February K ing's, 6; Architects, 1 This fixture with the Architects (who beat us 5-4 last term) was most welcome after three weeks of almost continuous rain resulting in the loss of four matches (including our first ever aga inst Dulwich). Whi le the grounds were unfit we substituted tennis court hockey, of which the benefits arc somewhat lim ited . --.,127

Gordon came into the side for this game, reta ining his place right throllgh the season, and Gay replaced Willis on the left-wing. The team immediately began to play well and took advantage of the Architects' unsteadiness. Except for one or two skilful players, the Architects were unsure of themselves, and must have felt the effects of the rain more than we did. Attacks were mounted regularly with the half-backs link ing well with the forwards, but King's shooting was appalling in the early stages. Once the forwards had settled down, goals followed rapidly. Gordon, Clarke, Gay and Jaggers scored one each, and Oliver two from short corners. It must be admitted that the Architects did not measure up to other teams that we play, but it was good to see the forwards acting constructively.

K.S.C. V The O.K.S. Played at St. Stephen's on Saturday, 5th March King's,O; O.K.S., 5 A firm if bumpy ground, and a warm sunny day made a pleasant change from the frustrations and cancellations of the past month, and we had a very enjoyable game. The O.K.S., who included severa l past Captains of Hockey, all still playing regularly, had the greater experience and this ensured them of the most of possession. They set up many attacks in cavalier style and were rewarded with two well-taken goals before half-time. The King's forwards were allowed few opportunities for forag ing, though in the second half the game was less confined and Clarke on the right-wing had good runs. The defence was tenaciolls as usual, and their tackling was robust, in some cases also destruct ive. Oliver and Frankland at back were adventurolls and ranged far upfield, but were too often caught square while on the retreat. The O.K.S. exploited the split defence and scored twice before suffering from exhaustion. While they wilted, King's pressed hard but were fo iled by the crafty O.K.S. backs who intercepted many passes and timed their tackles very cunningly. Many movements floundered through failure to use the square pass. K.S.C.

Sir Roger Manwood's

Played at St. Stephen's on Thursday. 10th March King's,O; Sir Roger Manwood's, 0 The hard, bouncy ground made ball control difficult, but neither side appeared to want to score. The forwards spl it the Manwood's backs and reached the circle a number of times, but did not show enough imaginat ion or clever stick work to achieve the final breakthrough. G ray at centre-forward lost the ball twice inside the circle and a hard opportunist shot from Gordon went just wide. The halves, though good in defence, failed to ~et up the vital midfield link with the forwards, the square pass was unusually scarce, and, except for Beech at centre-half, they were not quick enough in supporting upfield attacks. The defence was not much troubled by an unco-ordinated Manwood'~ forward line, and Kilbee in goal looked COOlpetent when called upon.

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Canterbury H.C. 1st Xl

Played at St. Stephen's on Saturday, 12th March King'~, 0; Canterbury, 2 Drizzle in the morning and a heavy shower immediately before the start threatened to ruin a game that turned out to be exciting, and promising for the future. This was King's best team performance this term, and they looked to be on the verge of a breakthrough in goal-scoring ability. The School started very spiri tedly and forced several long corners in the opening minutes. They were quicker onto the ball, the halves (especially Beech) distributed well . However, too many movements were smothered through intercepted passes. Gordon and Edwards at inside.-forward worked hard but were unrewarded; the wings were not incisive, and Gray at centre-forward was given no chances to score. Scything tackles from Oliver and Frankland upset the Canterbury forwards, while Jaafar was particularly tenacious and nearly always won his duels. Kilbee defended his goal very ably. It was not until the middle of the second half that Canterbury took the lead and shortly added to it from a smart free hit. An idea of the School's improvement can be obtained by comparing this resu lt with the 6--0 defeat inflicted by CanterburyfSunday XI.

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V Oxford University Occasionals Played at St. Stephen's on Thursday, 17th March King's,O; Occasionais,9 The Occasionals b~ou~ht down a lively touring ,Party of undergraduates large enough to complement a rugge~ team, but .thetr size. was used. ~nly for dehcate obstruction, .not as a substitute for skill or speed. They J1:tcluded t1u ee Blues 111 ~ey ~osltlons. and gave us a superb display of hockey which became almost casua! 1ll t~e second half. Their q~.lIck, '!:ccuratc, man-to-man passing, and the manner in which they packed the ':"lnJ!s m order to ,clear the middle Jor the centre-forward (who took four goals) were most impressive â&#x20AC;˘ . Kmg~, however, did not apP!oach last Satur~ay:s form. Until this game they had always countered dISappOll1tm~l~t and .bad lll~k With ~ore determmatlon, but now they conceded superiority early on and a lac~ of spmt was Iml~edlately eVIdent. At half-time the Occasionals had scored three goals (including one flO.m ~ short. cornel) and need not have been allowed more than a couple more. During the second half, KlIlg s t~ck l mg became ragged, the clearances slow and aimless, and the breakaways few. With both the regul~l' wll1gs ofT games the attack was d i~o!ganiscd and Gray. received no support from the rest of the for~vard hne. Constant encouragement and dnvll1g from the Captall1 failed to shake the te.:'lm into concerted action.

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St. Edmund's

Played at St. Edmund's on Saturday, 19th March King's, 3; St. Edmund's, 3 King's recovered t!leir poise af~er Thursday's collapse and attacked with a will from the first whistle. The forwards were lively, .co-ordmated well, and showed more drive than for a long time. They were rewarded when, after 10 mmutes, Gordon beat the goalkeeper with a good shot from the edge of the circle then qray nette~ off the goalkeeper's pads. St. Edmund's were quicker in midfield, forced King's onto th~ defenSive, and did well to pull back two goals before half-time. With all to go for both tcams attacked repeat~dly, and the game was sometin,les unnecessarily rOllgh. King's snatched th~ lead when Edwards followlllg up a sh~rt cor~er" deflected Into the net. Onc~ more the swift St. Edmund's centre-forward cut through and equalJsed. Kmg s won t~e bully-off; Gray dnbblea up the middle into the circle, but his hurried shot was c1e~red . Th~ S~. Edmu nd s defence held out to the end, though severely strained. . It was a. PIty that Kmg s could not muster m~re thrust on the wings, because penetration along the wing IS less obvIOUS and more dangerous thall: pluggmg the cent l:e. Clark.e on the right wing was off colour and only half fit, and Ashforth ~)fl the lef~ tfle.d hard, though IllS defenSive temperament was a hand icap. The halves. played well and vaned the directIOn of attack intelligently. While the backs, particularly Oliver committed themselves to the tackle too far upfield. â&#x20AC;˘

K.S.C. v Tonbridge Played at St. Stephen's on Tuesday, 22nd March King's, 1; Tonbridge, 3 This .fixture was re-arranged only after much ca~paign il~g for. dates. Tonbridge had previously drawn 3- 3. wI,th St. Lawrence at St. Lawrence and we awaited theIr arnva l eagerly. Km~ s started confidenpy. and t.o,?~ t.he lead through a well-timed flick by Edwards, but thereafter Ton~nd!N were allowed to .gam the mltJative through w~k mi<;liieJd play. After a ragged period the standard of .KlIlg s play began to ~1tde and never recovered. Kilbee did well to keep the Tonbridge total to three . ~hver, normally destruChv~, was all at ~ea. and Frankland was litUe better. Their task was made more dlffic.ult by.haphazard markmg and covenng. The number of clearances or passes straight to the opposition was Il1credlbl~. Jaafar would not use the square pass: Apart fr~m t~e goa lkeeper, only the forward line emerge~ creditably ..Young settled down well after a difficult bapt ism 111 the match against the Occasionals. Despite a frustratll1g sea~o'l and a poor record, all the team enjoyed their hockey and look forward to t~e Oxford Hockey Festival, where, [ trust, we will notch up a victory or two. ' First Colours were awarded to :- M. J. Gray, P. R . Beech, D. T. Oliver, R. O. Clarke, J. Jaafar, P. R . Ensor.

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... 2nd XI If the cleven did not slicceed in balancing its account, at least the hockey was enjoyed and a distinct improvement was evident by the end of the season. Bad weather early on denied the side much needed practice, but a rather slow moving defence was the main problem. In attack, the forwards combined quite well yet failed to seize opportunities to score. The margin of defeat should not have been so great on several occasions and poor shoot ing must take a share of the blame. With Draycott ind isposed, Saunders proved an aler t and worthy deputy in goal; at full-back the posit iona l play of Hews and Ashforth could be faulted at limes bu t bot h were good strikers of the ball. Phalp had neat st ickwork and played some useful games at centre-half, t holl~ h he too was a shade slow to cover in defence. The wing-half positions were well fi lled by Wil lis and Holdstock, the latter mak ing up for any lack of st ickwork by close marking. Of the forwards, Yo ung showed plenty of dash and Roberts was construct ive; between them they scored the goals and were well supported by Radcliffe who played crcd itably o n the left-wing. Norfolk a lso showcd prom ise as a constructive inside-fo rward . Gay was the most ta lented forward and o n his promotion to the ht XI, Hews stood in as an equally ent husiastic and helpflJl cap tain. Il was indeed a pity that the season had to end with the match against St. Edmund's as the side played really well and seemed to be finding its best for m. T he team was as follows:- C. M. Saunders, R. G . Hews, J . 1. Carmichael, H. J . Holdstock, C. G. A. Pha lp, N . T. O. Will is, S. J. Ashforth, C. D. Gay (Captain), D. McL. Roberts, J. A. Young, J. P. Norfolk, T. S. Radcliffe. Also played:- C. Hand ley, J. M. O. Foster, R. G. S. Draycott, D. C. Fairbairn, M. J. Knightley, A. J. Ramsay. H. A. Baker. RcsuHs

v Dover College. Lost 0- 2 v Christ Church College. Won 3--0 v Home Counties Brigade Depot. Lost 0-4 v Sir Roger Ma nwood's . Lost 0-3 v Canterbury H .C. Lost 2-6 v H ome Counties Brigade Depot. Won 1--0 v St. Edmund's. Won 1--0

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Colts XI Because of bad weather only three matches were played and practices were severely rest ricted. The season started well with a 1--0 win aga inst Dover College, but then Sir Roger Manwood's and St. Edmund's beat us, even though we were lead ing 2--0 in the latter game. Braddell captained the side which always played together well and improved considerably during the term. If only the weat her had been kinder, the team would have been very dangerous by the end of the season. The forwards were aggressive a lt hough they were too slow in the circle and so lost many scoring chances. Baker and MacFarlane had many good runs on the wing and were freque ntly given. accurate passes by the insides, Gallyer and Clark. The halves, Braddell excepted, were the weakest feature and never subdued their wings. Langley-Hunt played one excellent game at back but was then operated on for append icitis and so played no more. Economou took his place and with Lee made a secure back line which was only penetrated occasionally, and then B lackburn~Kane was there to save the shots. In all it was a sound team which played well under Braddell's captaincy a nd example. Team from:-Black burn~Kane , Lee, Economou, Langley-Hunt, Davison, Braddell, Hard ie, French, MacFarlane, Clark, Amiot, Gallyer, Baker, Goodman. G.H.J.F. K.A.C.G. l 30

Junior Colts The team was not unpromising but the curtailed season and a heavy pitch made it hard to develop the limited techni~ue~ finesse, an~ judge~ent. of several members. Too often, moreover, there was a lack of real determmat lon and senSible posl1l0nll1g among some players; the tack ling in defence and the clearing nee~ed more ur:gency, and the stopping and distribution were seldom sl ick enough. However, there was a slight general Improvement : Spells, Datt, ~nd L1mbrick, for instance, may all develop into useful players when they become more energet ic and phYSically stronger, while Hamblin could become a very safe goalkeeper. Hall.and Thorne also may well become competent. All others had their purple moments. The followlllg have ~epresented the team: M. W. J. Thorne (Captain), P. R. Clarke, C. B. Hamblin, T. J. Ca ntor, J. G. Baird, S .. C. 9room, H. D. Stewart, C. E. H . Spells, O. H. Lambrick, P. A. Smart, M. Ahmad zadeh, A. S. R. Lipsk i. V. D . Datt, P. J. Hall. Results v Dover College. Lost 2- 3 v Sir Roger Manwood's. Lost 1-4 v St. Ed mund's School. Lost 0- 1

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SQUASH RACKETS W itl~ our best side and our best individual plarer yet, we won all our matches except our last , against Tonbndge, when nerves and the absence through Illness of our No.3 combined to rob us of our final goal Our No.2 had two match points, our Nos. 3 and 4 also lost 2- 3 and our NO.5 also had a close match' but we lost the match 4-1. Our Captain and No. I , C. C. N . Bridge, played superbly to win 3--0. I~ the course of the season he be~t a curre.nt Kent player, an Oxford Blue and more than one County Ju nior C:hamplOn, and we look to. h,.s future m the game-and for the O.K.S. in the Londonderry C up-wit h high ~opcs. He has some klllmg shots such as few boys possess, and his drop shots and courtcraft are of the highest class. In earlier matches we beat the University of Kent 5--0, Dli lwich College 5--0, Radley 5--0, Kent S.R.A. 3- 2 and the Masters 7-3. Vr(e also beat Merchant Taylors 4-1 in a match that was a good deal closer than th.e score s u ~gests. T heir ~os. 1 and 2 ~ re the reigning Midd lesex Jun ior and Surrey Under~ 1 6 C hampions respectively, and we did well to survive some anxiolls moments and beat both of them winning at Nos. 3 and 5. ~ t No . 2, R. S. Hallam de~eloped. into an excellent pl ay~ r . By the end of the season he was moving s,,",:,lftly about the court, and hiS well-Judged l~ngth and stra ight drop shots brought him some very good wms. At No.3, G . K. Jaggers was unbeaten m School matches and showed splelldid powers of recovery and determ inat ion. Although skil ful, !. Ja'af~x was rather temperamental at No.4, while ill ness and other sports prevented D. R. L. Bodey from lmprovmg as we had hoped at No.5. It was however an outstandng , side, as the full seMon's record, including eight matches won 5--0. shows:-'

Played 13, Won l 2, Lost l Our Un~er-16 side, for which S. J. Ashforth, B. A. K irsch, M. D. Macfarlane, M. A. J. Cronk and J. A. Har~ l e all played, ~eat Dulwich 3--0 and Tonhridge 2- 1, showing promise for the future. In the Fmal of the Selllor Ht;luse Matches, Meister Omers with Nos. I, 2, 4 and 5 from the School team, beat Grange 5--0. In the JunIOr House Matches, Meister Omers beat Galpin's in the Final 3- 2. The results of the Individual Tournaments were as follows:SENIOR: C. C. N. Bridge beat R. S. Ha llam 3-9, H)- S, 9-3, 9-4. JUNIOR: S. J . Ashforth beat B. A. K irsch 9-2, 4-9, 10- 9, 2- 9, 9-4. D .W.B. 131

ATHLETICS Retrospect The Athletics C lub has had a record season wi lh both Senior and Junior teams being unbeaten, although competing against more schools than ever before. It was certainly d ifficult to foresee such sliccess at the beg i n~ing of tcrm. It seemed that. we had no-one particularly outstanding and that we would be rather weaker In field events (no longer bemg able to rely on H. R. Jackson) and somewhat stronger on the track than last year. It was obvious, however, that everyone would have to work very hard. T he splendid achievement. of both teams was the result o[ much hard training and determination by all the athletes concerned. wlHeh brought about the necessary Improvement and produced teams with few weaknesses and a number of really good performers. It was the adequate sta ndard o f all members of the team, however, not just the fi rst strings, which was the real strength, pa rt icularly in the triangular matches. M.E.M. K.S.C. v Eastbournc College A fine, sunny day and a firm track on Birley's made conditions idea l and enabled Eastbourne to visit us for the first time for several years. The Eastbollrne tcams were not quite so strong as usual and King's won bot h matches fa irly easily. A good win in the first match gave the School teams confidence which was to stand them in good stead in the next. I n the Senior match, Hayes and Wr ight ga ined first two pl~ces in the 100 yard5 an~ Scott and Munns were seeond and t hird to Foldes of Eastbou rne, who was also a litt le too fast for Steele m the 440 yards. However, Par ry, Wood, W . J ., and Powell were first three home in. the 880 ya~ds~ but .Harris of EastbOl!rne just beat Bishop in the mile . Wareham and Revington were well ahead of their nvals m the hurdles. Wnght was over 20 ft. to win the long jum p with Gilchrist second . Tn the ot her field events, Rcvington a nd Sales took the high jump, Ba iley the d iscus, Sales the weight, and Straughan the javelin. . T he Junior team did equally well. I n the 100 ya rds Cronk was second, and ~arsha ll and Fmdlay first and third in the 220 yards. Whalley won the 880 with Waterhouse not far behmd and thcn managed to gained a place in the 440 yards. Berry and Ma rshall were ~rst .and second in the hurdles, ~n.d Ha rvie and Berry first and second in the long jump. Clarke won the h igh Jump, and Cronk and McKllham wcre first two in the weight and seeond and third in the discus. King's won both relays, which brought the match to a satisfactory conclusion. SENIOR PLACINGS

100 Yards 1, Hayes; 2, Wright 220 Yards 2, Scott, N; 3, M unns 440 Yards 2, Steele; 3 Hayes I, Parry; 2, Wood, W. J. ; 3, Powell 880 Yards Mile 2, Bishop; 3, Hu ll I, Wareham; 2, Revington Hurdles High Jump I, Revington; 2, Sales Long Jump 1, Wright; 2, Gilchrist Weight I, Sales Disclls t, Bailey; 3, R ickards Javelin 1 Straughan; 3, Ba iley Relay I, K.S.C. Senior Ma tch Result: K.S.C. 77, Eastbourne 29 J UNIOR PLACINGS

100 Yards 2, Cronk 220 Yards 1, Marshall ; 3, Findlay 440 YardS 3, Whalley 880 Yards 1, Whalley; 2, Waterhouse t. Berry; 2 Marshall Hurdles H igh Jump I , Clarke Long Jump I, Harvie; 1, Berry Weight I, Cronk; 2, McKiliiam D iscus 2, Cronk; 3, McKilliam Javeli n 2, Thornton; 3, Clarke Relay 1, K.S.C. JUllior Match Result: K.S.C. 62, Eastbourne 35 132

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24. 1 sees. 53.4 sees. 2 mi n. 8.8 secs. 4 min. 45 sees. 16.5 sees. Sft . 4in 20 fl. 3! in. 40 ft . 115 ft. 5 in. 142 ft . 3 in. 47.4 sees.

Willner 10.9 secs. 27.5 sees. 56.5 sees, 2 min. 14 sees. 16.5 sccs. 4 ft. 9 in. 16 ft. 8 in. 37fl. l l!in. 11 6ft. 7 in. 116 fl. 9 in.

K.S.C. v Tonbridgc v Bcrkhamsted (at Tonbridge) Once again the weather.was fi n.e and the Tonbri.dge track in splendid condition. The opposition here was much stronger and bemg a tnan~ular ma~ch Wi th every. place, counting, good team r unning would be necessary. T he track was part ly uphill and Wi th a strong wllld, tllnes were slower than usual. In thc .Senior matc~l w~ were fair~y well pla.ced in tl~e short sprints and at about the hair-way stage were a few POll1ts ahead With 1 arry r unnlllg splendidly to Will thea80 yards in a fast time for the day. Sales and Revingtl?n gained a valuable first t~o places in the weight, Bailey again won in the discus, and Wareham and RevlIlgton had fi rst two places 111 the hurdles. Berkhamsted had good performers in the high jump but Reyington managed t.hird with 5 ft. 4 in.; the javelin was won, a lso by Berk hamsted, at about 18'0 ft. ThlflgS w~rc now. gettmg clo~ and Berkhamsted were a few points up when Wright did a personal best of 20 ft. 8f m.. to WIn the long Jump- a fine effort and only in. behind the reeord. Payne, too, d id well to clear 19 ft. but could only get fifth place. 1t appeared lhat . the match wou ld be deei~ed on t~le .m il~ arld the relay and here we had a magnificent lea rn effort fro m Bishop, H~11l a nd Wood- Bishop wllllUng 111 the good time of 4 min. 42.7 sees. with Hull third and Wood fo urth. With only the relay to go, K ing's cou ld not be beaten but they took the relay as well to finis h nine points ahead. The 1unior ~natch was .cI~ser still w!th good performances from Cronk and McKill iam in the weight, AmIot 1Il the diSCUS, HarVie In the l?ng J ~m'p and another good run by Whalley in the 880 yards well backed up by Graves. Berry cou ld not qUIte WIn III the hurd les bu t there were only inches in it and Marshall did well in the 220 yards. However, King's and Tonbridge were within a few points of one anot her with only the relay l e~t. Despite one bad take-over, K ing's won by three yards, thus taking the match from Tonbridge by four pomts.

SI!NIOR P LACINGS AND PERFORMANCES

100 Yards 2, Munns (l l.l secs.); 3, Hayes (1 1.2 secs.) 220 Yards 2, Hayes (25 .4 sees.) ; 3, Wright (25.7 secs.) 440 Yards 3, Steele (55 secs.); 6, Scott (56.3 sccs.) 880 Yards J Parry (2 min. 7.6 sees.); 4, Powell (2 min. 11 sees.) Mile I , Bishop (4 min. 42.7 sees.); 3, Hull (4 min. 57 sees.); 4, Wood (5 min . 0.3 sees.) Hurdles I, Wareham (16 .2 sccs.); 2, Revington (16.7 sees.) High J ump 3 Revington (5 ft . 4 in.); 5, Sales (5 ft . 3 in.) Long Jump I, Wright (20 ft. 8! in.) ; 5, Payne (19 ft .) Weight 1, Sales (40 ft. 7 in.); 2, Revingtol1 (39 ft. 6 in.) Discus 1, Bailey (11 6 fl.); 4, McD onald Javelin 4, Straughan (135 ft.); 6, Bishop Relay I , K.S.C. (47.2 secs.) Senior Match Result: J , K.s.C . 107 points; 2, Berkhamstcd 98 points; 3, Tonbridge 58 points J UN IOR I'LACINGS AND PERFORMANCES

100 Yards 4, Marshall (12.0 sees.); 6, Cronk ( 12.2 sees.) 220 Yards 2, Marshall (26.3 sees.); 4, Dick (27.4 secs.) 440 Yards 4, Waterhouse (59.0 sees.); 6, Taylor (59.4 sees.) 880 Yards I, Whalley (2 min. 12.6 sees.); 3, G raves (2 min . 15.7 sees.) H urdles 2, Berry (16 .5 sees.) ; 4, Marshall (17 sees.) High Jump 3, Ma rsh (4 ft. 10 in .) ; 5, C larke Long Jump 2, Harvie (18 fl. It in.); 5, Berry (16 fl. 11 in.) Wcight I, Cronk (37 fl. I in.); 2, McKilliam (35 ft. I in .) D iscus I, Amiot (107 ft .); 4, Cronk Javelin 4, Amiot (125 ft.); 6, Thornton Relay 1, K.S.C. Junior Match Result: 1, K .S.C. 84 points; 2, Tonbridge 80 points; 3, Berkhamstcd 72 points

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K.S.C. v Eton College I' Bradfield College (at.Eton) After two encouraging wins it seemed that although this would be the season's toughest match, if a few people could do just that little bit better we might possibly win again. That was what happened, and it was the sprinters who gave us a good start in both matches. Munns and Hayes came through very fast to take first and third place in the Senior 100 yards and Hayes and SCOtl took the first two places in the 220 yards. Parry in the 880 yards won with the excellent time of 2 min. 32 sees. with Powell scoring in fourth place and in the mile, Bishop ran a magnificently judged race to win narrowly in 4 min. 35.1 sees., his best time to date. In a new event for us, Kennedy excelled himself in the triple jump to win with 41 ft. 2 in. with Wright second. Bentley justified his hard work wit h 40 ft. 4t in. to gain second place in the weight, Sales coming a close third . Steele ran a fast 440 yards but just failed to win, and Wareham won yet again in the hurdles in splendid sty le with Revington well up in. third place. Wright was second in the long jump, Bailey second in the discus and with the Senior match coming to a close, King's were well ahead. In the high jump, Revington cleared 5 flo 5 in. but could only get third place. However, the relay team won again in fine style to bring the match to a highly successful conclusion. In the Junior match, things were much closer and although Blackmore and Waters put liS ahead in the 100 yards and 220 yards, and Whalley won again, running a fine 880 yards with Waterhouse well up in third place, Bradfield were neck and neck all the way. Amiot had a magnificent disclls throw of 137 ft. 4 in. without a turn, with in 5 ft. of the School record, but was just beaten for first place. However, the triplcM jumpers again scorcd heavily, Bcrry winning with an excellent distance of 39 ft. 2! in., and Waters taking second place. Cotton did his best javelin throw to date with ovcr 139 ft. to gain second place. With the relay to go, Bradfield were ahead, but King's cou ld tie for first place with Bradfield if they won and Eton came second. Luckily for King's, this was what happened. 1t had been a splend id day's athletics and evcryM one enjoyed the experience of competing on the sllperb EtOl~ track. Winner SENIOR PLACINGS 10.7 sees. 1, Munns; 3, Hayes 100 Yards 24.4 sees. 1, Hayes; 2, Scott 220 Yards 53.3 secs. 2, Stcele 440 Yards 2 min. 3.5 sees. 1, Parry; 4, Powell 880 Yards 4 min. 35. 1 sees. I, Bishop Mile 16.3 sees. 1, Wareham; 3, Revington Hurdles 5 ft. 7 in. 3, Revington (5 ft. 5 in .) High Jump 20 ft . 4 in. 2, Wright (19 ft. in.) Long Jump 41 ft. 8, in. (Reco",t) I, Kennedy; 2, Wright Triple Jump 40 ft. lit in. 2, Bentley (40 ft. 4. in.); 3, Sales Weight 121 ft. 7 in. 2, Bailey (114 ft .); 4, Rickards Discus 151 ft. 6 in. 4, Straughan Javelin I, K.S.C.; 2, Eton; 3, Bradfield Relay Senior Match Result: 1, K.S.C. 79 points; 2, Eton 52 points; 3, Bradfield 34 points

Wi,mer 10.9 sees. 1, Blackmore; 3, Waters 100 Yards 25 secs. I, Blackmore; 2, Waters (25.1 sees.) 220 Yards 55.9 sees. 4, Taylor; 5, Dick 440 Yards 2 min. 10.5 sees. I, Whalley; 3, Waterhouse 880 Yards 4 min. 52.6 sees. 3, Graves (4 min. 52.8 sees.); 4, Stephens Mile 16 sees. 4, Berry; 5, Marshall Hurdles 5 ft. 2 in. 5, Marsh; 6, Clarke High Jump 17 ft. 10 in. 3, Fairbairn (16 ft . 9 in.); 5, Harvie Long Jump 39 ft. 2t in. I, Berry; 2, Waters Triple Jump 3, Cronk (37 ft. 11 in.); 4, McKiliiam (36 ft. 10 in.) 39 ft. 11 in. Weight 141 ft. 2, Amiot (137 ft. 4 in.); 4, Cotton Discus 161 ft. 7 in . Cotton (139 ft. 6 in.); 6, Thornton 2, Javelin I, K.s.C.; 2, Eton; 3, Bradfield Relay Junior Match Result.' 1 equal, K.S.C. 62 points and Bradfield 62 points; 3, Eton 38 points JUNIOR PLACINGS

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K.S.C. I' Highgate (at Canterbury) .After a lapse of some years it was pleasant to renew our annual fixture with Highgate and despite a cold wmd there were many good performances. King's won both matches comfortably and the results speak for themselves. Ha~es' time in. the 220 y~rds of 23.6 w.as excellent considering the conditions. Bishop tried hard to get the mile reeord. but was fotled by the WII\~, though he was very close with 4 min. 35.6 secs. It was good to see Steele ~1l1. the 410 yards and the h.me of the Senior Relay Team (46 sees.) was also noteworthy. Wareham mall1tame~ h!s unbeaten reeord 111 the hurdles by the skin of his teeth and in the Junior match Whal,ley ~on yet agam In the 880 yards, to maintain his unbeaten record. Marsh cleared 5 ft. I in to wi~ the high Jump- a personal best performance, and Berry was over 18 ft. 7 in. in the long jump-als~ a best performance. SENIOR PLACINGS Willner 100 Yards 1, Hayes; 2, Munns 10.8 sees. 220 Yards 1, Hayes; 2, Scott 23.6 sees. 53.7 sees. 440 Yards I , Steele; 3, Kennedy 880 Yards 2, Parry; 3, Wood 2 min. 4.2 sccs. Mile I, Bishop; 3, Hull 4 min. 35.6 sees. Hurd les 1 = , Wareham; 3, Revington 16.4 sees. I , Revington; 2, Sa les High Jump 5 ft. 2 in. 1, Wright; 3, Gilchrist Long Jump 19 ft. 3 in. Weight I, Sales; 2, Bentley 40 ft. 10 in. 114 ft. 8 in. Discus I, Bailey; 2, McDonald Javelin 1, Rceson; 3, Cowell 141 ft. I, K.S.C.; 2, Highgate 46 sees. . Relay Sell/or Match Result: I, K.S.C. 80 points; 2, Highgate 26 points J UN IOR PLACINGS Willller 100 Yards 1S!1 2, Cronk; 3, Marshall 11.5 secs. 25.5 secs. 220 Yards Im~i Il 3, Marshall 440 Yards 1 . 2, Taylor; 3, Dick 56.4 secs. 889 Yards ...~ f 1, Whalley; 2, Waterhouse; 3, Munns 2 min. 13.7 sees. Mile I, Graves; 2, Bishop; 3, Stephens 5 min. 1.4 sees. Hurdles 1, Berry; 2 Marshall 16.6 secs. 1, Marsh; 2, Cross 5 ft . 1 in . High Jump Lo~g Jump 1, Berry; 2, Harvie 18 ft. 7 in. I, Cronk; 2, McKilliam 38 ft . I t in. Weight 1 2, AmIot; 3, McKilliam Diseusl 112 ft. 8 in. 2, Amiot; 3, Clarke 141 ft. Javelin . Relay I, K.S.C.; 2, Highgate JUII/or Match Result: I, K .S.C. 74 points; 2, Highgate 32 points

RUGBY FOOTBALL Kent Seven-a-Side Tournament The l rt VII began th~ tournament by beating Gillingham Grammar School 11-0 in a scrappy game. The team settled down In !he second round a,nd beat Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School 15-0. Tn a hard, and fast game agamst Eltham Y:'e fimshed strongly, winning 13-8. In the semiMfinal we met St. Joseph s Academy to 'Y~om th.e ball tWice bounced kindly producing their point s. We did not make the m.ost of our opportlll1ltles, losmg 3-8 . A word of thanks for those who have played aga inst the team W l t~Ollt wh~m we would surely not have got as far as we did and it was unfortunate that they could not show their worth m the tournament. THE 1ST VII: N . J. Scott, W. Q. Wareham, A. M . Heslop A. R. Parrott A J Ba,'ley J R W,'lson A. H. Steele. " .. ," , J .R.W.

Blores Game I?espite two matches being cancelled . ov.er forty players took part in the remaining four matches of which one was lost and three won .convlIlcmgly. On Blores the rugger was played in all cond itions with any number and much humour a Side; there were many encouraging signs for next year. J .R.W. 135

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Leading Results and Times " .. H "A" Emanue' "A", 7.44, 1st; Winchester "A", 7.4? 2 nd :'AE,t,onSt"AG"e'o7r·g5e7Is3.~dA;" E8m6~e~th~ CaS~~A~' 8.7: 58 4 h' B t "A" 84 6th' Westmms ter " , . • , .' . ,; " ' 79't; =atymcr t , ,,rAy~ns807n = 515t h 'L , . , l 0th:K''n'g's'''A'' ~ I • 89 • • 11th . King's"B"were14thin8, IOandKmg's C in 8.31. There were 125 entries.

Crews "A" C· . C M Southam how' M. G, Dover, 2; R. B. Howard-Williams, 3; A. D. Troup, 4; , G. J. R. B~lI: 5; 'N. 'M. Cllmb~r, 6; 'r. G. Davies, 7; M. R: ~. Reeson, stroke; P. H. ~undall, cox. "E" Crew: R. W. Troup, how; A. J. Brown, 2; G. T. WIlliams, 3; M: S. Freeland, 4, N. P. Press, 5, M. W. Vaines, 6; P. K. Jenkins, 7; N, W. Jackson, stroke; M. W. Sulhvan, cox.

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Jt is clear that a great deal of hard work is ahead if "A" and "B" crews are to become fast 1st and 2nd eights in the summer; greater concentration on bladework and watermanship is essential and, although the crews are strong, they are very ponderous and lack a real spring from Ihe stretcher. A revised mental attitude is also essential: weight-t rain ing and circuit-training are excellent supplements to work on the river, but they do not leach an oarsman how to row. This year's eights must realise before it is too late that races are won by the crew which is belter together and which works its blades consistently harder in the water than its opponents. There is no reason why all this should not be forthcoming with the rigbt mental approach, and we look forward to good racing in the summer. The recent performances of O.K.S. oarsmen have been a great source of pleasure to the Boat ClUb. As reported elsewhere in th is issue, the outstanding achievement has been that of the Freeman brothers, Richard and Christopher, who rowed in the winning Oxford crew, the first time since 1935 that brothers have rowed in the same Boat Race eight, and the first time that the School has gained two rowing Blues in the same year. Hardly less successful have been Richard C lark and Peter Miller, who rowed in and coxed Isis, the Oxford second eight, which was narrowly second to its own senior eight in Ihe Read ing Head, and which beat Goldie, the Cambridge second crew, by seven lengths in their race ha lf-an-hour before the Boat Race proper. Darrell Barnes and Guy Roberts were in the St. Edmund Hall Torpid which finished Head of the River at Oxford and Stephen Spackman was in the Head boat at Cambridge, Lady Margaret . Hall. To all these the Boat Club offers its warm congratulations. D.S.G.

THE FENCING CLUB The Fencing Club has had the most sllccessfu l season ever with 1st, 2nd and Junior Teams winning a ll their matches. The team has also dominated County Competitions, winning the Schoolboys' Individual Foil Championship (E. J. Olympitis) and the Team Foil Championship plus the Individual Epee Championship CR. Deighton for the second year running) and the Team Epee Ch~mpi0!lshi p. The 1st Team combination of R. A. R ing, E . J. Olympitis, R. Deighton and L..s. Bu rr must be the strongest we have had, for a ll four reached the Final Pool in the Foil Championships, Olympitis winning from Burr after a barrage, with Ring 3rd and Deighton 61h. In the Epee Championships also, King~s had four finalists. Burr had bad luck to be eliminated but R. Bird came through to take third pla,ce after Deighton had 'won a barrage for the Championship against Olympitis. ' In School matches the 1st Team have fenced splendidly and even Harrow, who brought the same team which inflicted the only defeat of last season, were decisively beaten. by 20 bOUls to 7. . In the second team, R. Bird continues to improve and h is performance in the Epee Champ ionships was most pleasing. N. A. de Silva, J. K. Walmesley and J . K. Eelen have also done well on occasion. Among the Juniors, Marks, Wand-T~tley and J. C . Clarke show promise, as do Cross, Hanet, G riggs, Lasker, Thorne, Weal, and Ahmedzadeh, who only started fencing last Sept9mp~r and are mak ing excellent progress . It was encouraging to see these young fencers do so well in the Kent Junior Foil Championships. All survived the first round, Griggs, C larke and Lasker reached the semi-finals, and Cross and Hanet were placed second and fifth in the F ina l. . Much of the success of the ;FenCing Club has been due to the keenness and single-minded determination of the Senior members, whose willingness to help Jlmiors improve their .performance has been most helpful and praiseworthy. We wish good luck to those tak ing part in the Public Schools Fencing Championships in the holidays and look forward to the Open County Championships, the Schools Sabre Championships and a number of fixtures next term. M.E.M.

'. FIRST TEAM: Foil: R. A. Ring (Captain), E. J. Olympitis, R. D eighton. Epee: R . D eight on, E. J. Olympitis, L. S. ~~ r r. Sabre : R . A. Ring, L. S. Burr, E. J . Olymp llJs. TEAM : R. Bird, N . A. de Silva, J. K . Walmes!ey, J. K. Eden, C. J. Zuntz.

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CROSS-COUNTRY Results: Teams ru n aga inst: 9. Wo n 9. 1965: Unfortunately, Wye College had to cancel our match due to other commit ments. 1966: Training began as carlyon in the term as was possible, and our first trial was held on January 26th. January 29t h: 1st VIII and 2nd VIII II O. K..S. and South London Harriers (at home). 1st, King's I, 48 points; 2nd , So uth London H arriers, 52 points; 3rd, King's 11, 56 points; 4 th , O.K.S., 69 points. Aft er a fairly fast sta rt, the runners settled down into pos itions very different from the order of the trial. T . J. A . Bishop and H . F. Parry came 5th and 6th. Then M. J. N. Baker and J. P. Waterhouse came 8th a nd 10th, both running for the second team, followed by M. M. Ricka rds 11th, W. J . Wood 12t h, J. A. Coxhcad (K ing's II) 13th, F. L. Graves 14th, S. T . H ull 15th, J. Ahmadzadeh (King's II) 16th and C. S. Stephens 18th. February 6t h: 1st VIII v Sutton Valence and Cranbrook 1st and 2nd VIlIs, at Sutton Va lence. 1st, King's, 39 points; 2nd, Sutton Valence, 63 points; 3rd, Cranbrook I, 85 poi nts; 4th, Cranbrook II , 154 p oint~. King's packed well, having their last counting man eleventh. A good tcam victory. T. J. A. Bishop ca me 2nd, H . F . Pa rry 4th, M. J . N. Baker 6th, M. M. Rickards 7t h, W. J. Wood 9th, S. T . Hull 11th, J. A. Coxhead 13th and F. L. Graves 14th. February 12th : 1st VIn v Tonbridge School. This match was unfortunatcly cancelled because of influenza. However, o ur course was in such an appall ing condition that this match wou ld have been unenjoyable anyway. February 17th: The Senior House R ace was won narrowly by LlIxmoore, beating Grange in an almost two-sided race, bot h teams having their six cou nting runners in the first eightcen. T. J. A. Bishop (LlIxmoore) WOIl, closely followed by G . K. Jaggers (Linacre) and H . F. Parry (Meister Omers). M. J. N. Baker, M. M. Ricka rds and S. P. C. Scott followed for Gra nge, then W. Q. Wareham 7t h, W. J. Wood 8th , and S. T . Hull 9t h, for Luxmoore. The Juni or race was won by Galpin's, bea ting Luxmoore by only six points. F. L. Graves (Galpin's) came 1st, C. S. Stephens (Linacre) 2nd, J. P. Waterhouse (Meister Omers) 3rd, C. R. Whalley (School House) 4t h, and A. B. Marshall (Meister Omers) 5th. February 19th: 1st VIII v D over College. The Dover team was misledlinto believing that we had an epidemic of mumps by an anonymous telephone call, consequently the match d id not take place. February 26th : 1st VIII v Felsted, H ighgate, Harrow and Berkhamsted , at Felsted. 1st, King's, 74 point s; 2nd, Highgate, 77 points; 3rd, Felsted, 80 points; 4th, Harrow, 123 points; 5th, Berkhamsted, 126 points. This was a splendid climax to the season. T . J. A. Bishop led his tea m to victory, coming 4th. H . F . Parry also ran well to come 6t h, followed by M . J. N . Baker 12th , W. J. Wood 13th, M. M. Rickards 16th, F. L. Graves 23rd, S. T. Hull 28th and J. A. Coxhead 30th. Once again, the club has had a very successful season, despite some cancellations of matches. Much of the success was due to the skill and encouragement with which Mr. Boorman and Mr. Reid coached the club. T. J. A. Bishop and H. F. Parry ran very well, ably supported by M . 1. N. Baker, W. 1. Wood, M. M . R ickards, F. L. Graves, S. T. Hull and J. A . Coxhead. Represented 1st VID (Averages for 1965) : T. J. A. Bishop (Captain), 2.83; H. F. Parry (Secretary), 3.83 ; M. J. N. Baker, 7.33; W. J. Wood, 8.67 ; M . M. Rickards, 8.67 ; F. L. Graves, 11.33; S. T. HlIlI, 12.67; 1. A. Coxhead , 14.33 ; C. S. Stephens, 7.33; J. P. Waterhollse, 13.75. 1st Colou rs were awarded to H. F. Parry and M. J. N . Baker; reawarded to T . 1. A. Bishop and W. 1. Wood.

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'. THE SHOOTING CLUB As is usual for the Lent term, we have been firing on the COllI/try Life targets in preparat ion for the big competition which was fired off on the 11th Marcil. With the loss of P. O. Kermode. our captain last year, R. A. Perry and T. G. D. Shannon from the team, it has been rather difficult trying to find boys of a high cnough quality to replace them and thus OUf shoot ing standard has not been quite as high as one might have hoped. But, nevertheless, the 1st VIII has put on an extremely creditable front and has done quite well in the numerous postal matches arranged for the term. There have been some new changes in the funn ing of the club to the effect that the old "Group A" has been done away with and a 1st and 2nd YJ[[ have been inst ituted in its place, shooting three times a week instead of the previous twice . It is hoped that th is will bea r fnli t in the Christmas term when we next start shooti ng small bore after the summe r interlude of fi ring .303 in preparation fo r Bisley, in which we should do fa irly well this year as we will have lost only three of last year's team members. Colours this term are awarded to L. S. Burr, N . G. Scott, N. J. Day and J. H . Churchwell . The "Country Life" Competition Th is competit ion is the culmination of the Lent term's shooting and is perhaps the most gruelling test of the individual's skill in concentration and accuracy. It consists of a group of five shots, a timed appliÂˇ cation of JO shots, a snap of 5 shots and a landscape targel o f 3 shots. In the past, the team has always fallen rather short on the timed and snap but this year these were our outstanding points, particula rly with the snap which was the best we have ever shot collect ively. A. D. Cobley and J . H. Churchwell are to be especia lly congratulated for scoring fu ll marks at this. Unfortunately two of the team, probably because of nervousness, put one shot out on their group which dropped us 20 points. The landscape was particularly d ifficu lt this year and M. J. H. Nicholls is to be complimented for his competent "sightingÂˇin" on some extremely difficult targets. But overall, the team shot very well under rather frustrating weather conditions and produced one of the best scores we have had in this competition. (Our position will not be known until it is published next term) . The Team (Captain)

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'. THE JUDO CLUB Club mectin~s h~,:e beel! well路atlen~ed ~his term a nd a lot of interest shown by Judoka . The new system, whereby every mdlvldual IS under C?bhgatJon to attend at least one .meeting a week, has ensured tha t only thC?se who are keen have stayed with the Club and I hope these w1l1 form a solid nucleus upon which to build for future terms. The School tea',11 have had two matches this term; unfortunately, Tonbridge were struck by 'flu and Sutton Valence withdrew so both these matches were cancelled. . Much was learnt from our match against the Kysuhi ndokwai at Dover; our team was unfortunately a sbghtly weakened one and we were sound ly beaten. The match aga inst the London J.udo Society was v~ry enjoyable. King's won by 37~20 points and the match was very ~ I ose. I hope we ~Ill be .able to estabh.sh a firm cO',lnection ~ith the Society. which is one of the foremost 111 the country, with a view to furthermg our outSide expertence and providi ng a "base" club for O.K.S. judoka . I would like to thank the team for their efforts this season and a lso Richard Lockhead and Mr. Gross for a ll the hard work they have put into the Club this term. I should also like to congratu late P. S. Jenkins A: M. N. Sha:w on obtaining their 3rd Kyu (green路belt); S. Hulme, N. McK. Rae, C. F. Clark, J. M: FI ~d l ay 011. their 4th Kyu (o!'ange路belt); R. F. Page, S. P. Holl is, A. G. H. Davidson, K. Ashton, A. Hamp. shire, J. D. T. Shaw on their 5th Kyu (yell ow路belt); and the rest on obtaining their 6th Kyu (wh ite.belts). It is hoped to get a new fixt ure with Chatham Judo C lub . May I wish P. S. Jenk ins who is leaving after many sllccessful terms in the teams, every success. ' M.A.C,

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MUSIC The cho ir has maintained its usual high standard of performance and attendance, though School Choir I might add that the punctua lity could be improved! This term the choir sang in the two voluntarily attended services. The choir divided; Decani singing the first service and Cantoris the second, Practices were in no way facilitated when the organ broke down early on th is term; however, Mr. Scott performed admirably. as always, on the pianoforte. We shou ld like to thank Mr. Wright for all his hard work and insp iration. Anthems sung this term:Wash me t hroughly (Wesley) Thou must leave thy lowly dwelling (Berlioz) o Lord, increase my faith (Gibbons) Whence is thy goodly fragrance (Kitson) Come, Holy Ghost (AI/wood) (Confirmation Service) Glorious is thy name (Mozart) Lead me Lord (Wesley) Hear my prayer (Purce//) Thou knowest Lord (Purcell) Where thou reignest (Schubert) Arc serum Corpus (Byrd) Jesu word of God (Mozart) The Lord is my shepherd (Stanford) Greater love (Ireland) Blessed Jesus (Dvorak) o Lord, increase my faith (Gibbol/s) R.J.W. C.M.S.

The main function of the Orchestra in the Spring Term is to play through various works First Orchestra with a view to playing a selection in King's Week. This we did, playing Brahms, Beethoven, Katchach urian, Schubert, Delius, a bit of Debussy and a work by Kenneth Jones, O.K.S. However, the emphasis has been on the Emperor Piano Concerto, which was extensively rehearsed (never with any solo piano) five weeks running. This has met wi.th varied response, as were the Seq.uences I and II by Kenneth Jones. We shall be playing these two works 111 the Symphony Concert, along With the Brahms Tragic Over/tire. Unfortunately for some, it seems that the Debussy and Ravel (for a long time unplayed after the first run through), are too expensive to h ire for King's "Yeek. Thoug~ on~ wonders what it must have cost to keep the music in our folders fo r over a month Without rehearsmg It. SO we shall have to be content with a beautifu l little snippet by Del ius called Jrmelin, from that period. The Sabre Dance by Katchachurian proved a little d ifficult, on account of the off-beat string rhythms. However, we have managed to play through it a few times, thus catering for all tastes. One final word about o rchestral discipline: there is an evergrowing tendency among certain members to play while Mr. Edred Wright is trying to say something. It would be easier for him and we could progress faster if silence was held while he speaks. C.W.B. R.W.A.

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This term's activity was notable for the introduction of a Negro Spiritual- Rocka My S~I/ti- i nto the Society's repertoire. This was sung at the end-of-term concert along WIth The Death of Trenar by Brahms for trebles and altos accompanied by Alder and Parry on French horns, and Sound the Trumpet by Purcell , wh ich was well interpreted by the tenors and basses. The attendance sett led down to the usual average after a good opening to the term well into three figures. We have already started on the King's Week programme. ' We are, as usual, indebted to Edred Wright for all the energy he has put into the rehearsals and also to Mr. Morrish, who took the trebles and altos in the Brahms. '

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For this term we ~ave expanded the Madrigal Society to something which approaches a choir. The .reason for. thiS was that on Sun.d~y, 20th M;arch we needed a larger group to sing The Society PaSSIOII of Christ by Handel. The ong l ~al wor~ IS three to four hours long and is sung very rarely. However, we sang a recently edited version by Denys Darlow. Two O.K.S. sang with us: David van Asch and John Potter. The performance is reviewed elsewhere ill this isslle. On Sunday, 6th March we sa':lg Sung Eucharist (Sancllts, Benedictus and the Agllus Dei from Byrd's foUl: part Mass) whel~ the. Archbishop celebrated at the first Communion of the newly-confi rmed. Fm.ally, at the MUSIC Circle ~oncert at the end of term we s~ng A Nativity Carol ill Old Glass by Alfred Mornsh (words by S. S. Sopwlth); some members of the Society formed a sma ll accompanying chamber group of a flute, an oboe, two violins, a viola, a 'cello and a double bass. It is reviewed elsewhere. C.M.S. Mad~i ga l

This has been another good term for the band, and we have made much progress. We Military Band spent t~e first pa~t of the term sight-reading some new music, which we shall probably be lookmg at agam for ollr summer engagements next term. For the Easter Music Circle concert we finally decided on the Folk Song Suite by Vaughan-Williams, Lilac Time- a select ion of melodies by Schubert- and Suppe's Ught Cavalry Overture. We hope, in this way, to bring the Easter concert to a rousing conclusion; a report appears elsewhere in this issue. As usual our grateful thanks are due to Mr. Wright, our conductor, and Mr. R. P. Scott, who has given up much of his time to play the double-ba~ for us. We are also greatly indebted to H. B. Poole one of the secretaries, who has helped organise the band so reliably over the lat.t two terms. ' D.R.L.B. H.B.P. We have met regularly this term,. not on Friday evenings as previously but on Mondays. We Chamber spent the first f~w rehea.rsals r~admg t~rough some pi.cces, including Elgar's Serenade for Strings O rchestra a.nd Tran~rmuslk b.y Hmdemlt h, a piece for so lo v.lOla and small orchestra. This was good slght-readmg practice for the orchestra and an enjoyable change from rehearsing works in detail for concerts. However, we soon had to sta rt rehearsing for the Music Circle concert at the end of this term, in which we are going to perform Dvorak's Serenade for Sirings and Bach's Fifth Brandenburg COl/ceria. Our thanks go to Mr. Robertson as leader of the orchestra, and to our enthusiastic conductor Mr. Goodes, for his help and encouragement. ' TAL. After a dormant season (Christmas Term, 1965, whell Patience monopolized the time and energy of most of our members) we resumed rehearsa ls again at the bcginning of the Lent Term. We have sung several glces for our own amusement and enterta inment, including Bold Turpill by J. Frederick Bridge (whi.c~ we had c<;,nsidered singing at the Music Circle Concert at the end of term), and one or two Negro Splfltuals. Dunng the latter part of the term we have been concentrating on Swansea TOWIla folk song arranged for male voices by Gustav Holst- whkh we hope to perform at the School Concert oll.Passion Sunday. (It is annoying that the School will have to hear this twice, as Mr. Goddard later chose It for the School House ensemble for the House Music Competition.) Our old and well-establ ished secretary and tenor, P. Westley, left at the end of Slimmer 1965 which combined with the promotion of o ther tenors into the Madrigal Society, left us with a weak line 'here a~ well as in the 1st basses. It is hoped that more tenors will join us next term, when we shall be perfor~ing in the Serenade in the Cloisters. As always, our tha nks are due to our never-tiring conductor, Mr. Morrish. O.F.P Glee Club

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A House Concert might have been a risky undertaking-enthusiasm without ability is not enough. However, there is enough "basic material" in Walpole at the moment,. ~nd th is conce rt , performed on Sunday, 13th March, p rov~d to be an excellen! way of gl.v!ng a dozen or more instrumentalists tha n could be fitted mto !he House .Muslc Coml?e tl~lon an opportunity to perform. The resu lt was a not-too-long programme of vaned entertamment. I nvitations had to be limited, and were addressed to those of "catholic" tasle. Enquiries a ll~yed our wor~t fears, and the rn~Sect "pop" group was heard wit hout aural injury. It opened the proceedmgs after .an mtroductory fanfare for three trumpets specially composed by Me. . Joe D udley, played off-stage .. Jt IS not necessa ry to write about the quality of the performances: sufficient to say that no o",:,e was dIsgraced and seve ral promising musicians made their debut. We he<l:rd all ~he common ~rehestral mstruments (except the oboe, clarinet, horn and trombone), plus two Spants~ gUitars (l:'lunganan Folk-Song), bongo, wo~denÂˇblock and electric guitar. Singing (va rious styles o f vO lce-pr~ducL.lon) came from t~e House voca l (Lllldell Lea), F olk-singer, Press (Masters of War, There is a Ship), Chve Hllnswo ~t h (Islalld III the SIIII, If I/wd a Hammer, and the Baule of New OrJealls-encored), and th.e I n~SeC! ~oca hst, D,~nn. T~e .on!?, dehber~teJ.y fun ny number was a " tribute" to Gerard Manley Hopkms, conslst1l1g of an apprecmt lon and re~ttat lon to a piano for te accompaniment "synchro~ ised" by Boss~~ly a fine poet cou l.d have .stood thIs treatment. Instrumental music consisted o f a Tno-Sonata by L Oetllet, a forgotte n Tn o by Zilcher, and tI~e Ho~se Instrumental (lst Movement of Piallo Trio ill C m;IIor, Beethoven). Altogether 25 boys took part, mcludmg the compere, Joyce. An unusual and enjoyable evening. R .P.S.

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THE SOCIETIES The Society held a few meetings during the term, notably a film show on the Ecology Natural History of Woodlands, which contained interesting and useful information fo r the Bi ology VI Form besides providing an entert aining evening for those less knowledgeable on the subject. A lecture by the Vj ce~C h air ll1a n, Me. M . N. Wetherilt , on "Freshwa ter Biology", which was provided in preparation for an oltting at the begi nning of the Summer term, was of great interest and it is hoped that some qualitative research can be done on the subject by some members this summer. The Society also went on some outings to Stodmarsh a nd the Stour Valley- but the lack of bird-l ife tended to reduce the enthusiasm. Some members of the Society did manage to sec the large influx of Waxwings, though. R.G.A.M . Wo rk on the School collection has had to be suspended for most of this term due to the redecorat ion of the Society's room in No. 7 The Precincts. I would li ke to thank several members for their contribution to this, and our gra titude must go to the School for provid ing paint, and to Mrs. N. H. Thomas for presenting liS with a pa ir of fine new curtains. On the 19th February, by the courtesy of the National Coal Board, 15 members of the Society visited Snowdown Colliery, 12 miles sout h-east of Otnterbury. Three thousand feet below the pit head we were taken by electric train through white-walled tunnels to a gallery whence we walked some three-quarters of a mile to the coal face. The grimy party who emerged some 2t hours later were certainly filled with admiration for the miners who endure the cramped conditions, heat and dust at the four feet coal seam, and we were glad of the shower which followed. It is hoped that the visit will be repeated in future yea rs. The Honorary Secretary is leaving at the end of term, and will be succeeded by C. W. Brewer.

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Owing to the demands of athletics, there has been a lessening of activity during the latter part of th is Art term. However, at the President's suggestion, it was arranged for a select number to go up to London to see the Bonnard E xhibition at the Royal Academy on March 3rd. We were particula rly impressed by the startling brilliance o f his unusual colour combinations which very clearly demonstrated his vital role in the transition to the paint ing o f today. It was a stimulati ng experience and we hope its influence will make itsel f evident in the School's art: unfortunately, our President was unable to accompany us as he was ill, a nd we should like to thank Mr. R . M. A. Med ill very much for taking us. Several small exhibitions have also been d isplayed o n the A rt Room landing, on subjects ranging from Gauguin to the 19th century English water-colourists. J. E. Fidler, K.S., also gave liS an interesting a nd informative lecture based upon a recently acquired Renoir film-strip . A review of the lecture by M r. Eli Prins appears elsewhere in this issue. Finally, this term saw the start o f special classes for a small number of boys at the Northgate pottery. We feel that this is an important addition to the School's activities and we should like to thank the headmaster for mak ing it possible. C.L.H. The abundance of House plays and Music C ircle concerts this term has made only three meetings Walpole of the Society possible. At the first we read Oscar Wil de's The Importance of Beillg Earnest. This was enjoyed by everyone, especially as our taste for Wilde had so recently been stimulated by Meister Omers' performance of Lord Arthur Savile's Crime. The second meeting was a break-away from the normal play-read ing. W. N. Bryson and A. J. Flick gave liS an extremely interesting and informat ive lecture on their own poetry, read ing extracts aloud and explaining them. Afterwards members were invited to express their opinions on the poems, and a general , sometimes heated, d iscussion ensued. The last meeting took place at Mr. Holt's home, where we read A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney. It was a very sltccessful evening, for not only was the play amusing, but we were also very kindly provided with coffee and cakes by Mrs. Holt in the interva l between Acts one and two. On March 5th we had our annual ollting to London . Lo vefor Love by Congreve proved a popular choice, although very different from last year's Marat/Sade. We had hoped to hold one last meeting before the end of term, in which all members would perform some sort of a review or skit, but since this could not be arranged it has been postponed until next term. T he Society is very grateful to Mr. J. N . Holt and the R evd. D. A. Harding for their encouragement and support. H.S.A.S.

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. The Society this term has been fairly active, though mainly in the field of showing films. We screened such films as illtolerance, Shootillg Stars, and a selectio n of short comcdy and topica l films, the latter being a great success. On the production side there has been some progress as rega rds our own docu mentary product ion on the subject of the School's social services in Canterbury. It is hoped to show the film carly in November. B.P.J .

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This term six "practice" debates have been held, and we are very gratefu l to Mr. Baldwin, Tenterdcn Mr. Parker, Mr. Peacocke and the Capta in of School for giving up their precious time on Saturday evenings to take the Chair in these debates and to give their prudent and witty com· ments or criticisms. This practice has brought a cont inued improvement in the standard of speaki ng over the term; it is hoped that members who only had the chance to spe~k onc~ this term will have plenty of opportunity to practice next term, and that the eight new members WIll contlllue.to speak. On Ma rch 12th we paid a return visit 10 Tonbridge School, to debate the mohon: "That the leaders of the Church shou ld make more frequent pronouncements on malleI'S of public concern". Apart from the Secretary, who supported the motion, and J. K. Harris, ~~10 opposed it, cleven members were taken to speak from the floor. It was an interesting debate and oplIllons were very neatly balanced, as can be seen from the result (Drawn: 24 votes to 24). Particularly good floor speeches were made by Flick, Davies, Hall and Hallam. On the last Saturday of term the trad itional School debate was held; the motion, "That Equality is not J. Davies. There was, ~owever, for us", produced some interest ing and amusing speeches, notably by a sad lack of $Cllior boys and the floor speeches tended to be somewhat Immaturc. Nevert heless, It was a n entertaining evening. The Society would like to thank its Presidcnt, Mr. Ball, who has already arranged a return debate at Benendcn on the mot io n " That Life is unfairly weightcd in favour of the Male" at the cnd of next term. Mot io ns and results of debates held during the term were as follows:"That Conscientious Objection to fighting for one's counlry is unjustifiable" . Lost 26·8 (2 abstentions). "This House deplores expenditure on Space Research". Lost 21·1 4 (7 abstentions). "That the influcnce of the State has increased, is increasing, and ought 10 be d iminishcd". Lost 13-9. "That the Male is in all ways superior 10 the Female". Lost 71-3 (10 abstentions). "That Rcvenge is the primary aim of Punishment". Lost 24-6 (9 abstent ions). "This House believes in Fa irics". Won 75·8. "That Equality is not fo r us". Won 84· 36. R.N.J.

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The first of the Society's lectures this term had the rather lcngthy title: "Materia ls- the Achilles' Harvey heel of technological progrcss". It was given by Dr. R. ~. Weck, of t~e Brit ish Welding Rescarch Association at Cam brid ge. An audience composed mamly of chemIsts hcard Dr. Weck talk of some of the difficulties of research into alloys, a nd describe in some detail the mechanisms by which cracks or spl its can occur. The lecture was well illustrated by a number of interest ing slides. Once again a member of the School was courageous enough to lecture to the Society. A . G. Pope gave a lecture enti tled "Making Music with electricity", dealing with some of thc w~ys of produc i n~ conventional music in an unusual manner, and in part icular the metho~s u~d by the elect nc.organ and gUItar. He made use of an impressive array of equipment to demonstrate hIS po lOtS, most of whIch produced pleasant notes, but some of whose results were not so pleasing to the cm. It was a good lecture, 3Ild Pope, after some initial nervousness- soon overcome-held the audience wcll. A review of the lecture on "Extra·sensory Perception" by Dr. West appears elsewhere in the magazine. D.L.S. This term the Society has bccn restricted to dral11a~ic acti vi ty. First we saw King's College, London's production of Euripides' iphigenia ill Taw'is, whIch was for the most part well acted. But Dover College's production of Aristophanes' Frogs, in an excellent translat ion, completely eclipsed the Iphigellia. All aspects of the play, from the singing to the stage machinery, were so effect ively managed that one might have bel ieved it to be a professional production. Otherwise, the Society has spent the term in edit ing its own translatiOl~ of Aristopha.nes' Clouds and in preliminary rehearsals. The production should take place on May 27th III the Memonal Court. Finally, our thanks are due to Mr. Millcr, the President, who has done so much on behalf of the Society this term. Pater

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At the beginning of term the Headmaster announced that it had been arranged for a sma ll group Pottery of b.oys bet~een 15 and J6 to learn pottery with Mr. Brown at the Northgate Pottery. Although . . ovel 60 appll~d! Mr. Brown had room for only half a dozen, so after those no t within the correct age limI ts had been el llnlllated, the fina l SIX were chosen by ballot. .Ou r first fe~ lessons consi.sted mainl~ of bec.o":li ng accust0l!led to the feel of the clay, and experimenting With ,the techlllques of s;haplllg, mouldlllg, pallltmg and glazmg. Thence on to po ts with lids (constantly learnmg through our mistakes), a l~d then at last we started work on the wheel. F irstly we threw spouts for th~ pots we had m,ade the pre".lous week, and then whole pots, coffee mugs, etc. Throwing a pot on a wheel iS,. however, a dlf.ficult techmque to master, and we have all experienced (and doubtless will cont inue to experience) many failures. Unfortunately .the summer being the busiest season for Mr. Brown, he will not have the time to cont inue these lessons: durmg the SLI mmer term. T~ley are to be resu med again in the wintcr, when we are promised more extenSive work on the wheel, iearnmg a lso more abou t slips and glazes. All Ihat we have produ~ed so far will, of course, be on display in the Art Exhibition at the end of the Summer Term, together wtlh a .head wh ich D . 1mber modelled, not under Mr. Brown's tuition, but which he glazed and fired at the studIO. Our thanks ,,:re due primaril~ to Mr. Brown for his excellent tui tion and good humour at a ll times, as well as for lendlllg us some of Ius v~ l uabl~ books on pottery, both antique and modern . Also to the Head. master .,,:n.d Mr. Bennett ~or a rrangmg th IS most profitable and enjoyable pastime for us. It is hoped that the faclhlles be enlarged III the future. G .F.P.

A very high n umber of enthusiasts in the fresh "in·take" has made a busy and happy time for all. Many of the proJccts appeared at fi rst too ambitious, but youthful persistence finished ~ost of t.he work. The work has been as varied as ever with boys adding to their academic knowledge WIth queshons such as these:Q. Why is this piece of wood so much lighter than that? A . The sap is lighter both in weight and colour. Q. What is this timber? A. I roko: The timber largely lIsed to construct Nelson's batt le fleet. The hu lks were made in Iroko in Afnca and towed to Chatham for "fi tting-out". Fe~ of .us know that our bounteolls cherry crop in Kent is nurtured and fed o n a very unusual and beautIful limber. Those of liS who have tu rned beautiful bowls on our lathe in cherrywood can appreciate it. ~hilst we have continuous comings and g~ings, we must place on record our pleasu re and honour in ha:-'lIlg known N,. J. c::. Thomas. He leav~ us III a blaze of glory, having won an except ionally fine scholarship. We shall mIss hIS bound less enthUSiasm a nd selfless service to the School and the boys therein. E.H.B. Carpentry

Th i.s term has s7en th.e fu lfilment ';If the constitution drawn up last year; we now have four mam sub·comm lttees 111 charge IIlvestigation into Archaeology, the Walpole Collection, the Cat~edra ! and local Brass R;ubbmg. Under A. J. Blackmore, the group of more than forty !"llembers has m.vcsligated a number of Important churches, and some of their work will, we hope, appear III The C(UltllGnal! next tern:. The Archaeology s~b~omm ittcc under C. H . Willis, has attended regular lectures at !,he B<:<tn~y Jnst!!,ute; and we would like to thank C. H. Headley for his most informative l ec~ure. on !"Iadna.n.s Wall • a l~d the Secretary of the Northgate Hera ldry for his talk on a subject which IS rapidly ga mmg populanty. We look forward to three lectures on the Cat hedral next term from the Secretary, G. H. Lambrick, and S. N. Jolley, K.S. ' N.B. Somncr

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'-.. At the end of the Autumn Term, a suggestion was put forward that we ring the Cathedral Bell-Ringing bells for the Carol Service. Negotiations followed with the Dean and Chapter, and after final permission from the Headmaster, it was arranged that we ring for three-quarte~ of an hour before the service. Several members had been able to attend the regular Cathedral .practlce two nights before; on the day itself, the standard o~ ringing was comm~nda~le, a~d nearly all proficient members had a ri ng. This is the first time that the Society has done a nythll1g hke this for the School. . The main event of the term was, of course, the Annual Outing. We departed at 11.30 a.m., ~nd s~t ~ad for ou r first stop, Stowt ing. The bells. here are ,,:er~ light,. and have. a long rope dral.l.ght, m~k il1g ~lI1glllg tricky; however, we succeeded in makmg a convll1clllg nO ise! No d ifficulty was exp~l1enced m ~ndmg the next place, H ythe, where we enjoyed a del icious and most welcome lunch. A short Jo.urney (WlllC!l would have been shorter had the secretary navigated more efficiently!) brought us to the pIcturesque :-'I!lage of Saltwood. We were able to handle the heavy-going six quit~ well, and some of the dats best stnklng was to be heard here. After an easy run along the A 20, we arrIved at our next stop, Chen ton . We found the notoriously tight bells here difficult to strike evenly. (\. hasty ret r~t was beaten to the l~~t towel' of the day~ Lym inge, where we were met by some of the loca l rIngers. The. eight b~lIs here ~re fan ly heavy (the ~enol weighs 17+ cwt.) ; however, st riking was good, and the expenenee gamed durmg the day showed Itsel f clearly. It is hoped that on Saturday, 12th March, a representative group from the Society will ~~ able to att.end a meeting of the Kent County Association of Change Ringers at Goo~nesto~e. For ":'ISltS to meetmgs such as th is, we usually rely o n Mr. Willia~s for trans~ort, and he v~ry kll1dly gives up hiS Saturday aft ernoons to help us. We would like to take thiS opportumty to tha?k him for all he h~s done for t~e Society. About half-way through the term, the Society's rank~ were r<:mforced by the arnval of Mr. Pltm~n, the latest addition to the teaching staff. He is a very expenenced p nger, and sho!lld be of valll:able aSSistance in the future. At the same time, fi ve new members were admitted to the Society as probationers, a nd are making good progress. Towards the end of the term, a peal was attempted at St. Alphege! the first invo~ving a pra~tising member of the Society (in this case the secretary) for many years. The p~I,.bemg of Grandslre and Plam Bob Doubles was rung in two hours forty minutes. It is hoped that we wil l nng a quarter-peal at the e.nd . of the term, and many more next term, so that we ca n gradually accustom our members to change-nngmg. O.w.G.

SOCIETY REPORTS T his term these were unusually slow in forthcoming, despite not ices and notes sent to the respective secretar ies. Some were, of course, punctual and neatly written or, what is always preferable, typ~d; others were scruffy and mainly illegible-one was scrawled on the back of an envelope. We wou ld like to ask for speedier and more considerate action in this respect next term.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES The Editors acknowledge the receipt of the following magazines and apologise for any omissions:The Aldellhamiall, The Alleyniall, The Beacon, Bradfield College Chrollit?le, Tlte Chrollicle (Giggleswic.k), The Chronicle (St. Edmund's School), The City of Lolldoll 8,chool Magozllle, The Dale College M.agazme, The Dovoriall, The Elizabethan, The Epsomian, The Felsted~all, F~/st,ed Bury, Glenolmolld Ch~'ol~lcle, The Gresham, HlIrst-Jo/miall, Kaleidoscope, !Ceflf College MagazlII~, KIIIg s Colle~e Schoo.', r.he KlIIg s ~cl!ool Magazine, The Lawrelltian, The LoretfOlUall, T"~ LYllx, MQ/:llmrwll, The M e!eol, The Mllllel c,ourt Clllolllcl~, Th e Ousel, The Pauline, The Pilgrim, The.RadlelOll, Rep!OIl.wlI, Th~ R,0f[enslOlI, The.Scho~1 Tie, St. Edward s S chool Chronicle, The Stony/mrst MagazlIle, The TOllbl'ldgwll, W/lltgifttall, The WOIksoplall.

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C.C.F. NOTES ARMY AND BASIC SECTIONS Field D ay this term was a day of early mists and cool temperatures, yet by mid-morning we were enjoying one of the finest of pre-Spring days with blue skies and warm sun. A very va ried programme was comp leted ranging from Commando work north of the River Stour and Range work a t Deal, to Advanced Infant ry Exercises at Beachborough. Other un its within the environs of Canterbury were completing revision courses for Cert ificate Tests in Signals, Mechan ical Engineering, Weapon Traini ng, and First Aid. We should li ke to tha nk the 4th Battalion The Buffs, T.A.; The Royal Marines, D eal and "A" Squadron R .A.C., T. A., for the help and advice they give us so generou sly. Our thanks go also to the 44 (H.C.) Signals Regiment (Cinq ue Po rts), T.A. , who put on- a most int eresti ng and versatile d isplay of signa ls, modern tele-communicat ions techniques, and equipment, so me of which is recently off the secret list. Th is term's activit ies ended with the visit of the' F leet Air Arm Presentat ion Team , led by Commander Isacke, who was at Milner Court j ust in time to be evacuated with The King's School to Cornwa ll for the duration of the war. For him this visit fulfilled a long awa ited ambition and he was delighted to be with us at last, particularly in the Parry Hall where the recorded honours o f his father and grandfather looked down from the walls. For ourselves, we were increasingly impressed and delighted wit h what must surely be one of the best orga nised, best presented, and most informative insights into the accom plishments of the Fleet Air Arm; emphasizing its presen t extraordinarily diversified role in practically every theatre o f action, and showing how it is already adapt ing to the needs of the future. Promot ions during the term:To C.S.M.: N . T. G. Willis; To Sgt.: N. M. Cumber, D . G. Bray, N. J . C. Thomas; To LjSgt. P. A. St. C . Braude, M. A. Cowell, N . A. H. Dawnay, C. Himsworth , H . J. Holdrtock, R. B. HowardWilliams, T. A. Ling; To CpL: M. J. N. Baker, R. O. Clarke, J. K. Eden, C. D. Gay, G. C. Low, R. D. Meaoley, M. G. Morpurgo, R. G. A. Munns, M. 1. R. N icholls, N. P. Press, C. D. Rennie, M. A. H. Saunders, C. N. Wright, D. M. Young.

ROYAL NAVAL SECTION Apart from training directed towards the Naval Proficiency Exams, the hi ghli ghts of the term have been recruiting visits from the Merchant Navy and the Fleet Ail' Arm, the latter by helicopter, and F ield Day, which was spent at Chat ham. No ships were proceeding to sea on the appointed d ay, but an interesting programme of fire-fighting, diving and pistol shooting was provided. We also greatly enjoyed an excellent talk on "Defence and the White Paper" by Captain C. C. H. Dunl op, R.N., the Commanding Officer of H.M.S. Pell/broke. In the Slimmer Term our first task is to work lip for the Annua l lnspeet ion, at which we are giving a Field Gun Display and demonstrating, a mong other things, a Light Rig Jackstay. We then have an excit ing Field Day in a frigate and submarine ofT Portsmouth in prospect, fo llowed by some sai ling in the Vauxhall L1kes. D.w.B.

ROYAL AIR FORCE SECTION Jt has seemed a very short term from the point of view of a lecture programme but nonetheless quite a successfu l one, wit h an interesting fi lm and talk on " Hamble College of Air Training". We have had the assistance of Mr. Westwood, straight from the Oxford University Air Squadron. Our F ield Day was more exciting than usuaL Twenty-five cadets and Fit. Lt. Wilson were away three days at R.A.F. Sputh Cerney ca rrying out some arduous training designed to bring out the best or worst in one. Apparently quite a few goats appeared and rather too many sheep. Twenty-one cadets and Fit. Lt. Wenley flew from Manston in a n Argosy, unfortunately mainly above cloud, to R.A.F. Thorney Island arriving late, but in time for lunch. The tour of the station was greatly shortened and we had to leave early to beat the fog roll ing in at Manston, the landing there being an extremely skilful one considering the poor visibili ty.

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Three cadets, Day, Kennedy and Varcoe, are spend ing a week in the hol idays at R.A.F. Wildenra th and at the same time we are holding our annual camp at R.A.F. Chu rch Fenton, ncar York~ where Jet Provosts live servi ng a~ trainers to embryo pilots. T hese camps seem to have lost ~he attraction for the boys that t h~y lIsed to have and it is becoming necessary to accept only new recr~lIts who a re prepared to come to camp at least once in their first two years. Thc~e shou ld .be some. Flymg Sch~la~slllP ca.dets starting their training during the Easter holidays but at the time of gomg to pnnt no defi mte mstruct lons have been reccived.

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VOLUNTARY (SOCIAL) SERVICE Act ivit ies havc been characterised this term by a reorganisation of the Volunta ry Seryice. A complet.e check on all lists of visi tors a nd visited is being made, and sC! fa~ the results are I~Ot en~ l rely to t ~c crcdlt of the School. Many visitors have, howcver, becn ve ry consclcntlous and regu lar 111 thclr calls. Still more volunteers are badly needed. This term has also seen thc insti tution of a weekly system of hospita l work. Evcry SlIl~day, six v.olunta~y orderlies visit the Kent and Canterbury Hospita l a nd spend the afte.m oo n th.ere helpl;ng ou t With baSIC dut ies and at the sa me time being instructed in va rious fundamenta!s mvolved In a medIca l caree~. Some, especially those inte rested in the medical profession, go to the ' hospital every week out of pure enjoyment. It is to be hoped that the keenness shown by the orderlies this term will bc ~aintai~ed ~uring the con~ing term , when it may not be so easy to givc up a Sunday afternoon to an occupat ion which IS at the same lime educational and enjoyable . It is also very much to be hoped that the summer wi ll en~ollfage m? rc over-fifteens to. go out and bri ng comfort and company to peoplc who, however much restricted by circumstances, arc live ly, shrewd and enjoyable to talk to. A.J.F.

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CORRESPONDENCE GALPIN'S HOUSE, THE K INO'S SCHOOL, THE MINTYARD, CANTERBURY.

Dea r Editors, It is with increasing dist ress that I examine the termly issue of The C(lIltllariall. I have been a member of this school for more than four years and J have come to the conclusiOll that this magazine is edited by a group of " intellectua ls" who a re unique in their tastes. However, l am Sllre that th is body does genuinely try its utmost to present a reasonably comprehensive magazine of the school. 1 should, therefore, like to makc a few suggestions; firstly, it is clear that the members of this board are not representat ive of the tastes of the school as a whole a nd are in themselves an academically preva lent cross-section of the Upper Vlth or VIa's. I appreciate that the inclusion of a new member to the board this term, a member who is an outstanding sportsman, was a step in the right direction, but why have you disregarded the Shell s, Removes and Vth Forms, who form over half the school? Should not they too have somc representat ive on the board? Secondly (with all due respect to the author) who appreciates, or even understands, poems such as "A T ime as Old as Laza rus", which appeared in the last issue? Finally, could there not be some improvement in the O.K.S. section ? Surely the pagcs allocated are too sma ll and could not a few more people at their uni versities be encouraged to write more? Another idea which has occurred to me is that the inclusion of " House Reports" could inspire a more personal interest in the magazine, as has been discovered by several other public schools. Much though J regret to say it, few members of the School seem to have the sl ightest interest in the magazinc as it exists in its present form . Yours sincerely, E. 1. OLYMPITIS. Dear Mr. Olympitis, We thank you very much for your suggestions, particularly that which concerns the lower half of the School. One of our greatest difficulties is tile persuasion of those who are capable of writing to contribute to the magazine, and of finding tal ent in the Shells, Removes and Fifth Forms. We hope to be able to remedy this at the start of the Summer Term by the int roduction of a su b-editor, whose main function will be precisely this. However, it is not simply a matter of discovering the talent. Those who are able to wri te do not do so (we arc told) for one or more of three reasons : that only a very narrow and special ised type of co nt ri bution is ever accepted; thal somewhere-in the background- a mysteriolls form of censorship is at work; tha t since no-one reads The Call1uariall in any case, there is little po int in writing for it. It is the last fo rm of ci rcular logic that can dest roy any institu tion of any kind whatsoever, and particularly a magazi ne that depends for its popu lar appea l UpOll the contributions submitted. fn answer to your first criticism we can only state that the tastes of the editors are 110/ unique; read ing the last fou r or five issues and exam ining the choice of contribut ions will convince you of this. In genera l- and we offer this to those who do not take the trouble even to subm it letters- interest in a magazine is cumulat ive; the more people that read it (what a simple contribut ion!) and offer const ructive criticism, perhaps a shorty story, poem or article to improve on those printed which did not appeal to them, the more peo ple to whom the magazine will be a pleasure to read and keep. The Call1liarioll st ill must reta in its basic functions as a school organ; but we are mak ing the effort to improve the range and quality of work that only the S~ h oo l as a whole can supply. We are not manufactu rers, only ed itors; the answer to your suggestion of Housc Reports is si mply the past lack of ent husiasm for it where the actual work is invo lvcd. 11 is an attitude, more tharl a magazine, that needs a fresh start. Yours fa ith fully, EDITORS.

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the performance of Patience last D ecember, yarious v?ices were raised in r:nild but criticism of the Dragoons, who wore their pouches across their chests Instead of across their backs In the proper and customa ry cavalry manner. I beg the indulgence of your columns to point out that a!'y ig.nora,nce in this ma~ter on the part of the cast and myself, the prodllcer, is entirely commensurate with histOrIca l fact. It wll ~, be recalled, for one thing that the D uke o f Dunstable ca rlyon refers to th~ ~5t h I?ragoon G u~rds as a second-class cava lry regi~ent": this description is met with scowls, but ~o rejo inde r IS made by his brother-?ffice rs, It now tr,;Ulspires that the reason lies in the Cri mean War: this war was remarkable for the ambiguous and muddl mg orders that passed from Lord Raglan to his senior officers, A lthough the most famous of these on the field o f Balaclava, which led to the charge of the Light B~igade~ did not inv? lve any mem~e~ of the 35th ,Dragoon G ards on several other occasio ns officers of this regiment were Involved, unol 111 exasperatton Lord R~gla~'was forced to act. He appealed to his superiors, and from th,? ,W~r Office t,here final~y ,cam~ the order condemning the officers of the 35th Dragoon Guards ~o the humLlmtl<;H1 by whlcl~ they dist ingUIshed themselves on stage: ",'" hereby condemned i'.' perpetUIty to carry their pou,ches ,In such ~,an,ner as visibly to remind them of the signal fa ilure of th~l r brot,~ers to ,carry and transmit their orders In ttme of war in a manner befitting Her Majesty's officers In arms ' I am, Sir, Yours faithfully, G, S, p, P EACOCKE.

..... The King's School, canterbury, 14th March. 1966.

From the Master of Studies.

Gentlemen, , , No one who has attended the House Music Competit ion du~ing th~ last few years could fal l to be Impressed by the high standard s achieved, and gratified by the care with which Houses, prepare fo~ the te~t. There is at the moment no comparable attent ion paid to the spoken word, although It can bc as unpresslve as ~ he song and is often far more meaningful. School debates and House dra,ma have often throwl~ embarrassl ~g light' on the difficulty some people h~ve in speak ing clearly and effectively, and eloquence IS often an aid to success in interviews and in later hfe. If there is agreement on this, would it not be a good thing that t~erc sh?uld be a House elocut ion contest ? If the answer is favourab le. it might be that some benefactor might wish to donate a trophy for such a compet ition, It would fulfil a real need, R. W. HARRIS.

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THE WAR GAME-A Review T here are two obvious points to be made about Mr. Peter Watkins' fi lm which have, of course, been made already and at length, but since my attitude to both was chagned by seeing it I propose to bring them up again. The first concerns the B.B.C.'s reasons for not showing it; it was appare ntl y too gruesome for the human eye to bear, a sort of high-minded horror film , or so I understood. But this isjust what it is not. The element of visual horror is no more than might reaso nably be expected in the treatment of what is inevitably not a pretty subject, and is not insisted on or exploited for sensational effect. If the F irst Wo rld War series and the film of Nazi concentration camp atrocities could be shown then so could The War Game, so that I fin d it difficult to believe that this was the real or at least the only reason for banning it. On the other hand it is a disturbing fi lm which uses shock tact ics designed to jolt its a ud ience into thin kin g about a subject they wo uld rather ignore. I hope very much that it was not ban ned for this reason.

My second point is that The War Game is less a frightening reconstruction of catastrophe than an argu ment, a piece of pol itical propaga nda if you wish, but nevertheless an argument, controlled, cool, and insistent. Some reviews have given a different impression,

The Observer F ilm Critic called it, I thi nk, "a journey into Hell", ascribing to it the scale and cathartic effect of tragedy. But this seems to me to describe inaccurately the film's intentions, for although it does make several assaults on the emotions, it also attempts a kind of "alienation effect", in terrupting the acti o n with comments, in terviews and information, either spoken or flashed on the screen; since "Brechtian" is o ne of the Observer Film Critic's favourite words, f am surprised he missed a chance of using it.

The fi lm's argument is clear. If you support your government's reliance on nuclear weapons as a means of defence, you o ught to look at some of the possible consequences

of one of them being used against you. These are spelt out remorselessly, just as they might affect anyone, his wife and his children, wh ile scenes of destruction and suffering are contrasted with the reassuring statements o f politicians, generals and churchmen

that have been made in recent years. The complaint has been made that th is last device was unfair, the statements being wrenched out of context and therefore distorted. But this is surely just what the film intends: to ask the makers of these statements, as well as their audience, to see their words in a different context and perhaps rethink them . The War Game has its fau lts. Like all controversial works it has been over-praised as well as over-criticised. But it is a good film, a serious fil m, and a film which should be seen. By everyone: not just by those who bother to queue up at a few selected cinemas in the next few months. I do not know what its effects on public opinion might be: demands for changes in government policy such as more and better Civil Defence-which was made to appear alarmingly inadequate- or unilatera l nuclear disarmament? an emotional reaction, anythiI1g between panic, ind ignation and despair? The suspicion that whoever

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We were very pleased to hear from Sir Harry Townend (1905- 10), who contributed the obituary to D. J. N. Lee, and who has promised for the library an account of his fi nn's work in India which includes many interesting personal reminiscences.

OKS. RUGBY We were very ple.:1sed to receive a letter from ANDREW CUNNINGHAM (1958- 63), Hon. Secretary of the O.K.S. R.F.C. He wrote:" ... Thc team has been Captained by BILL HACKETT (1947- 51) whose leadership has greatly assisted our success and who is also Captain of Sutton Rugby Football Club where we play. Much credi t for the success of the Club must go too, to Mr. Cyril Gadney, M.B.E. as he has provided us with County class referees and has gcnera lly helped in ail ways. The team has played very well toget her and we have had such illustrious players as Graham Pritchard and Jim Parsons playing for us, and the games have gone very well. The results so far have been:v Haywards Heath. Won 22-8 v CamberJey. Won 14-0 v Maidstone. Lost 6-11 v Sutton. We are also playing in the Canterbury Seven·a·Sides and hope to do quite well. The following have played: B. Hackett (Captai n), M. J. Parsons, G . C. Pritchard, J. Radcliffe. B. Woodcrson, M. Caldwell, V. Ibbetson, W. D. McNicholl, B. Bishop, N. Pau l, R. Young, P. Slater, C. R. Davies, G. A. Hessey, A. Partridge, C. Heyland, C. S. K. Austin, M. Tuohy, A. Trousdell. B. Heyworth, A. Turner, A. 1<.. P. Jackson and A. E. T. Cunningham." OKS. HOCKEY W. D. McNICHOLL (1954---59), the Hon. Secretary of the O.K.S. Hockcy Team, has also sent us a report on his Club's activities, and he issues an appeal to wh ich it is hoped O.K.S. will respond. "Unfortunately this season we have only been able to play three games, including the game against the School. We have played three matches, won two and lost one. We were unfortun:t.te to lose to the Old Dovorians in November by 2-1. The O.D.'s scored thei r two goals when we had ten men; when the eleventh man finally arrived, we controlled the game, and were 157

foiled on many occasions by their gallant goalkeeper. In fairness to our opponents, they lost their right-half (cn minutes before half-lime; unfortunately he did not return. At the end of January we played the Old Rugbcians at R ichmond (the first time we have managed to play in four years). We won this gamc comfortably by 5- 1. Our last game was against the School, which was WOIl by 5--0. The O.K.S. hopes to enter a team into the Public Schools' Six-a-Side Tournament at Broxbourne in April. The last time we entered in 1961-62 season we reached the semi-finals. We are also hoping to enter a team for the Deal Six-a-Side Tournament. Our results were: Played 3, Won 2, Lost 1. Goa ls for II , Goals against 3. I wish to make an appeal on behalf of the O.K.S. H ockey Club. Will all those O.K.S. who play hockey, please contact me:- Bill McN icholl, 12 Ashburn Place, London, S.W.7. Telephone : FREmantie 2923. O.K.s. hockey, from the point of view of available members who will play. is shock ing. Since 1954 there have been in the region of 100 O.K.S. who have left school, who played hockey; but out of this large number, of whom most clubs would be jealous. I can muster a hard care of fifteen at the most, the majority of these being of my era at King's. Unless the situation improves the O.K.S. Hockey Club will die a natural death; Ihis mu st not happen! We have, or should 1 say had , a reputa tion of being hard fighters on the pitch, who played good hockey. I think we ought to mainta in our reputation. J have bccn Secretary for five seasons, and perhaps 1 am getting long in the toot h; but I want the O.K.S . Hockey to be something. 1 feel that the team should be comprised entirely of O.K.S., and not of O.K.S. plus others. 1 have been lucky on many occusions to have drawn players from Bromley H.C. and Guy's Hospi tal H.C. to make up the num bers. On one occasion we played a side which hadn't been beaten for two years. We beat them. Unfortunately, the team consisted of nine Guy's Hospital players and two O.K.S., the Fix.ture Secretary and myself. I hope that you will help us to maintain our good nam'e ." From Bristol, N EIL MAJOR (1 960- 65) has sent a report on his O.K.S. contemporaries at the university. "DAVID GOSTLlNG (1955- 64) is at present doing Law in his first year, and is spending his time in drama activities and swimming. He is a lso coxing the University 4th Eight and has played tiddlywinks for the University! BILL ROWE (1 960- 65) is doing English ill h is first year and is enjoying life to the full. ANDREW HARVEY (1952- 63) is doing Law in his third year and is busy playing rugger. ADRIAN SELBY (1954-63) is also reading Law and was playing with vigour for the University XV until he was injured. GEOFFREY BAKER (1958- 63) is seldom seen- so presumably he is work ing hard, but 1 believe he is rendi ng History (possibly, English). Mr. Purnell's daughter, Anthea, is at present reading English in her second year. As for myself, I um re.'1ding Law in my first year, enjoying life immensely and as well as being Secreta ry of the Hall Hockey Club. 1 have played regu larly for the Squush and Chess teams." He would be most grateful if in the fu ture a ny other O.K.S. at Bristol would get in touch with him. Perhaps he does not know 'that O. WESTRUP (1958-62) is now playing in the new B.B.C. Orchestra a t Bristol. CMDR. F. E. B. BROWN. R.N. (1 935-44) has been appointed to co mmand H.M.S. Daillty, the Dari ng Class destroyer, which escorted the Royal Yacht on her lOur of the Caribbean. His last appoint ment was as Draft ing Communder on H .M.S. Centuriou. He maintai ns a keen interest in squash, hockey and sa iling. T HE REVD. D AV ID L. EDWARDS ( 1942-47) has been elected Dean of K ing's College, Cambridge, having been Editor a nd Managing Director of the Student Christian Movement Press since 1959. He is author of severa l books and he was, incidentally, responsible for publishing the Bishop of Woolwic:::rs Honest to God in 1963 .

THE REVD. PETER HAMMOND (194 1-46), Rector of Barham since 1959, has been appo inted Vica r of Walmer. He is very interested in architecture and history and is a member of the Faculty Comm ittee which vets proposed alterations to churches. JOHN FOSTER (1940--52) has recently taken up an appointment at Darnstaple Grammar School to teach Science, leaving Shiplake College, Henley-on-Thames, where he was a house-master from 1959. He still plays the clarinet and his enthusiasm fo r drama and music will und ou btedly be of great value to his new school. e. R . K. H EYLAND (1959- 64) has passed out us a comm issioned officer from the Officer Cadet Training Unit at R.A.F. Feltwell , Norfolk. P. E. GmBs (1962-65) and D . e. K. ROBERTS (1961 - 65) were successtul for entry as Cadets on the General List of the Royal Navy in September, and R. 1. W. GILLAN (1957-63) passed out of Sandhurst, a prize-winner, in December. 158

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JAN McDoNALD (1951 - 57) spent two years with the Seaforth H ighlanders before read ing History at New College, Oxford for three years. He spent the next year as leader wri ter on the Glasgow H erald and was awarded a World Press Insti tute Scholarship to study and travel in the U.S.A. He now works in the United Nations Secretariat in the Progress D epartment of Special Funds dea ling wit h technical assistance to under-developed count ries. A. D. W. O ' S ULLI VAN (1951- 58) has written from Jersey and we congratula te him on being elected Fellow of the Inst itute of Linguists in January. PAUL NmLoc K (1952- 57) is at the present with the Internat ional Depart ment of the Citizens and Southern Nat ional Bank in Atlanta, Georgia and is very much enjoyi ng that part of the world; he is hoping to pursue a course of studics shortly in the field of B usin~s Adm inistration at the Georgia State College. He will be pleased to welcome any O.K.S. who chance to come his way, and says he ca n be "got at" through the bank. His brother, MICHAEL (1 953- 57) is wi th the Bovis G roup in London in the construction ind llstry . JONATHAN VARCOE (1955- 60), having taught Music fo r a while a t Cheltenham Grammar School , has recently been appointed Assistant Music Master at Cheltenham Co llege. H. A. R UDGARD (1 950- 61) now lives at 19L1 Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh 10. He was awarded the degree of M.Sc. irl Brewing Science by Birmingham UIl!yersity last December. He is also now married, detail s of which appear elsewhere in these notes. J. P. K. H UTTON (1 938--43) writes to inform us that his address is now 4 Fu lwood Park, Liverpool 17, but unfort unately encloses no more illformation. J. R . HUDSON (1 929- 34) of Moorfields Eye and Guy's Hospitals has been admitted to the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was assistant su rgeon a t the operation on the D uke ot Windsor's eye recently and is one of a group of outstand ing specialists in med icine o r surgery from King's. GRAHAM D AWBARN (1 907- 12) has retired from active work as an archi tect, having spent much of his time on ent irely new developments: the tropica l university, the television centre, the ground requirements fo r civil aviation . He is a L ife Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society as well as Fell ow of the R.f.B.A. and holder of their aist inction in Town Planning. He was made a G B.E. in 1948. PETER WOODROW (1 958- 63) has been leading a very full life si nce arrivi ng at St. And rew's Univers ity in October, 1963. He has been in the Scottish Final of the Observer Mace National D ebating Competition, convenor of debates fo r Queen's College Union (Queen's is the Dundee half of the university), pre-sessional convenor at which he ran the Freshers' Conference which is aimed to introduce the newcomers to uni versity life in general at the beginning of the session, treasurer of the Conserva tive Associat ion (a really right wing organisation which avoids the Fascist label with difficulty I), and has now been elected President of the Student s' Representative Council, a Scottish inst itution now being increaSingly adop ted sou th of the border, which deals with all student representation to the authorities and any other interested bodies. including of late, Parliament.

ENGAGEMENTS FORD- TEM PLE.- Peter John Ford (1953- 57) to Olivia Mary Temple of Littlestone, Kent. GAREL-JONES- GARRIGUES.- Tristan Garel-Jo nes (1 949- 60) to Maria Catalina Garrigues of Madrid. R ICHA RDSON- WALTERS.- M. R ichardson (1957- 62) to Rosemary Wa lters of Shrewsbury.

MARRIAGES GALITZINE- WINGFIELD.- Prince Duitzi Galitzi lle (1943--45) to Eileen Wingfield at the Russian Orthodox Church in Exi le, Emperor's Gate, London, on January 13th. RUDGARD-LEE.- Humphrey A. Rudgard (1950-61) to D eanna Lee at Pembroke College Chapel, Oxford, on December 14th, 1965. SIMPSON- KELL.- James W. S. Sim pson (1938--43) to Susan Margaret Kell at SI. Peter's Church, Widmerpool, Nott s., on Janua ry 15th. BROWN-CoLE.- Michael E. Brown (J 949- 57) to Gillian Cole at Great Glen Parish Church, Leics.

DEATHS FISHER.- Marcus Fishel' (1949-59) killed in a car accident, toge-ther with his wife and two children, in Seville, Spain, in Jan,uary, 1966. 159

OBITUARIES JOHN ADRIAN KENT It was with profound shock and great sorrow that we learned in February of the death in Australia of Adrian Kent from cancer at the early age of 39. To those of us who knew him at Oxford and as a colleague at King's, he a lways seemed the epitome of vigou r and fine manhood and on his last visit to this country two years ago he was as gay and active as ever. Born in New South Wa les. he was educated at Newcastle High School and later at the University of Western Australia where he took 1st Class Honours in Classics. He came to England in 1948 and went up to Brasenosc College, Oxford, where he took 2nd C lass Honours in Theology. His association with King's began in May, 1953 when he was appointed to teach C lassics and D ivinily: a vigorous and forthright teacher in the classroom, he played a leading part in the coaching of School rugger, and his own skill and leadership were proved as Captain of Canterbury R,F,C. In 1959 he returned to Austra lia to the K ing's School, Parra matta, where he became Head of the C lassical Depart ment and more recently a housemaster. We remember him as a loyal colleague and a gay companion, and above all as a man of the utmost integrity whose sympathetic and humane outlook was combined with a steadfast refusa l to compromise on what he believed to be right. H is marriage to Mary Mount took place in Canterbury in the summer of 1957 and it was a union o f except io na l happiness. To Mary and their young family, we offer our deepest sympathy in their great sorrow and pray that they may gain some comfort in the knowledge that his loss is so widely shared. D.S.G. L. O. ROBERTSON, M.C" M,D., CH.B . Dr. L. G, Robertson died sudden ly in his car when on his morning rou nds on 28t h Octobcr. He was 69, Lennox George Robertsoll was born in 1896. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and immed iately after leaving school joined the Army and was commissioned in the Gordon Highlanders. He was soon on act ive service in France and won the M,C. at the batt le of Loos when fighting with the famous 15th Division. War service left its mark on him and considcrably impaired his physical fitness . After the war he ~tll died med icine at Bristol University and the Bristol Roya l Infi rmary and graduated M.B., Ch.B. in 1925. After holding various house appointments at the Bristol Roya l Infirmary he went into general practice in Bristol a nd remained in that practice for almost 40 years . In all his strenuous and unceasing work, which was part icularly arduous during the Bristol blitz, he was supported by the constancy and devotion of Ethel, his wife. He fou nd great joy in his daughter, Ann, and more recently in his two granddaughters, and he was making preparations for the Christening of his latest granddaughter at the time of his SUdden death. ft was always a great pleasure to visit his home and his garden, in which he found much peace and happiness. He was a family doctor of the best type. His patients were always his first considerat ion and they in turn were devoted to him, as was so well shown by the large number that attended his funeral service. He took a keen interest in the activities of medical societ ies in Bri! tol and had a very happy year of office whell he wa~ chairman of the Bristol B.M.A. Division . He will be sadly missed by his pat ients, colleagues, and friend~. F.H.H.

DlONYS JOHN NORRIS LEE (1 906-10) "Denis" Lee died in Sydney, Aust ral ia, on 25th February, 1966, at the age of 73. After scrving in the Royal Art illery in Tnd ia, Aden, Burma and Pa lestine during World War I, he joined the Indian Civi l Service in 19 19, retiring with hi s wife and famil y in 1940 to Aust ralia. A Scholar of Wadham College, Oxford, he was Boden Sanskri t Prizeman in 1914, and returned to the study of thaL language during his SC I' vice in [od ia (including co nve rsing with Sanskrit pundit s) and in the latter years of his life lectured in Sanskrit at Sydney University, though not before mastering Russian during h is retirement " in order to read Pushkin in the original" as we ll as all that could be learnt of Hittite. He kept up the study of the C lassics, and over a period of years contributed erudite monographs to the journals of learned Societies, German and Ttalian as well as English, on such abstruse subjects as Hittite particles and the usc of Mycanaean words by Homer.

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THE CANTUARIAN VOL. XXXI No. 3

AUGUST,

1966

EDITORIAL Although it is difficult to imagine one's own life-time in the panoramic perspective of history, the sociologists, artists and historians insist that the twentieth century is a period of transition. In Marxist terms, it is the switch from the entirely bourgeois to the increasingly socialistic state. We possess institutions which belong to an obsolete social order; and at the same time "progressive" ideas are shared, not just by the intelligentsia, but by aU sections of the community. The inevitable result of such transition- and even a brief examination of the Renaissance will prove it- is an uncertainty of faith, a confused hesitation between different sets of values. The present predicament is not, to use a fashionable and overworked term, absurd; but far too many people maintain a logically untenable position which is the result of that most confused of all mental processes, doublethink. Millions watch the Queen open Parliament each year, and delight in the mystique of monarchy and the spectacle of feudal pageant: but they would never allow the Queen to exercise political power. Although less than ten per cent. of the population go to ch urch, and certainly the majority of the population refuse to accept Christian doctrine, we still possess an Established Church, with Bishops in the House of Lords. At our own level, we go to Cathedral services co mpulso rily on Sundays, but many appreciate these more as an aesthetic or theatrical experience than as an expression of religious faith. 163

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As society evolves, the individual is forced to determine his own moral, ethical, political and religious code. But disregarding their obligations, most people are prepared to accept the conformist solution, without deeply considering both sides of each argument. In a community where the individual really exercised his powers of discrimination and freewill, there would be no doublethink, since doublethink implies a tension between the personal outlook and the outlook of society. And this mental ambivalence will always continue until each individual undertakes to consider in depth the issues which still suffer from bias and ignorance: one thinks of problems of morality like homosexuality and abortion; problems of religion, the position of the Church in the State, its social function, and the doctrines that conflict with materialism. I would not for a moment advocate individualism in the Greenwich Village style: but it is time some honest Puritanism revived in England. By this I do not mean strait-laced Puritanism, against beauty and sensual enjoyment: the most important principle of Puritanism is the solution of individual problems, and individual salvation. Until this basic ethic is restored, our society will continue to maintain ambivalent and contradictory values. The public schools have progressed at a remarkable rate away from the ethos of Tom Brown's Rugby. But there are still traces of the old order which are obsolete, and which act as a block to individual expression. Firstly, there is what one might term gentlemanly philistinism. The overemphasis on sport in public schools leads to an understress on the individual life, and even today there is a good deal of traditional and respectable artistic backwardness. One sees no active persecution: rather, an elusive and sneaking suspicion of the artist or scholar, which creates an understandable, but equally unhealthy, tendency for " creative" and "sensitive" young men to become cliquish and ivory-tower. Secondly, there is still too much virulent esprit de corps. House and school spirit is admirable if its main aim is the maintenance of a lively and organic feeling of community. But carried to extremes it can be dangerous, particularly if a boy is judged by his ability either to contribute, whatever that may mean, to the house, or to fit in with the code of his community. The time is ripe to apply a little Puritanism; and we can only hope that the School will show no suspicion or hostility towards the sanctity of the individual. 164

THE SCHOOL Caprain oj School: G. J. R. Bell Vice-Captain: M . R. F. Reeson Head Head Head Head Head Head Head Head

G. J. R. Bell, K.S. J. R. Kilbee, K.S. R. B. Howard-Williams M. R. F. Reeson N. T. G. Willis H. J. Holdstock, K.S. J. P. G. Revington M. J. Gray

oj Galpin's oj Linacre oj Meister Omers oj Walpole House oj The Grange oj Marlowe House oj School House oj Luxmoore HOllse SCHOOL MONITORS

G. J. R. Bell, K.S., D. L. Smith, K.S. , J. R. Kilbee, K.S., R. B. Howard-Williams, R. S. Hallam, K.S., M. R. F .. Reeson, N. T. G. Willis, H. J. Holdstock, K.S., J. P. G. Revmgton, M. J. Gray, P. K. Jenkins HOUSE MONITORS

Galpin's: Linacre House: Meister Omers: Walpole House: The Grange: Marlowe House: School House: Luxmoore House:

A. D. Troup, A. J. Bailey, D. MeL. Roberts D. G. Powell, K.S., P. R. Ensor, J. M. Hutchinson, G. R. Jaggers D. R. L. Bodey, M.S., M. A. Cowell, I. Jaafar, R. G. A. Munns C. J. H. King, M. P. Powell , J. Admadzadeh C. D. Gay, S. P. C. Scott, M. J. N. Baker, C. D. Rennie R. G. Hews, C. G. F. Robinson, T. S. Radcliffe S. J. Nicholls, A. D. F. Hodson, K.S. , P. B. Kent J. S. Foster, S. T. Hull, C. H. Southam, J. R. Wilson, W. J. Davies,

K.S.

J. R. Wilson S. R. Kilbee, K.S. G. J. R. Bell, K.S. A. H. Steele M . J. Gray N . T. G. Willis P. M. Romer R. A. Ring L. S. Burr C. C. N. Bridge P. D. Joyce M. A. Cowell R . W. Arnold, M.S. D. R. L. Bodey, M.S.

Captain oj Rugger Captain oj Cricket Captain oj Boats Caprain oj Athletics Caprain oj Hockey Captain oj Swimming Captain oj Tennis Captain oj Fencing Captain oj Shooting Caprain oj Squash Rackets Captain oj Gymnastics Captain oj Judo M onitars jar Music The Cantuarian

Editors: The Captain of School (ex-officio) , W. N. Bryson , A. B. Marshall, K.S. Secretary: A. T. Jones, K.S. 165

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A. J. Bailey, A. Flick ,

SALVETE C. A. Annis, B. H. Bailey, A. D. Barrett-Blackmore, R. M. Bennett, M. J. Craig, J. A. Dorward, A. K. P. Jones, J. D. Lancaster, J. O. J. Lawrence, B. J. McDouall, M. S. Matthews, W. G. D. Payne, C. J. Senior, C. P. Tophill, P. G. F. Turner, A. J. Wagner, A. C. Zuntz.

VALETE J. G. Beech, T. S. Church, l. R. Grant, J. C. Walter.

VIRTUTE FUNCTI MORE PATRUM DUCES BISHOP, T. J. A.- Came Jan., '61; H ouse Monitor, '65; 1st Cross-Country Colours, '64; Captain of Cross-Country, '66; 1st Athletics Colours, '66; Upper V I. JENKINS, P. S.- Came Sept., '6 1; Hon. Sen. K.S., '66; Judo Colours, '65; First Orchestra; Upper VI; Open Scholarship in History to St. Edmund H all , Oxford. PAYNE, D. J. F.- Came Jan ., '63; Lattergate House Monitor, '64; H ouse Monitor, '65; 2nd Ath letics Colours, '66; Head Sacristan; Treasurer ofCaxton SocICty; Upper VI. POOLE, H. B.-Ca me May' 61; Riversleigh House Monitor, '65; House Monitor, '65; 1st XV Colours, '64; Upper VI. RICKARDS, House Upper John's

M. M.- Came Sept., '6 1; Han . K.S., '66; Lattergate House Monitor, '65; Monitor '66' 2nd Athletics Colours, '65; 2nd Cross-Country Colours, '66; VI; Vi~kers' Group Scholarsh ip; Open Exhibition in Engineering to St. College, Oxford .

SALES, D. I.- Came Sept., '6 1; H on. K.S., '65; Hon. Sen. K.S.,.'66; 2nd XVColours, '65; Swimming Colours, '65; Upper VI; Open Scholarship 10 MathematiCs to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. THOMAS, N. J. C.- Came Sept., '61; Sacristan and Server; Han . Sec. of Geological Society; Sergeant, C.C.F., '66; Upper VI; Scholarship to Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham. TOODY, B. C.-Came Sept., '62; K.S., '62; Hon . Sen. K.S., '64; Editor of Tile Canlllaria,,; Upper VI; English Electric Scholarship to Keble College, Oxford. WOOD, W. J.- Came Jan ., '61; Hon. K.S., '66; House Monitor, '66; 2nd Athletics Colours, '65; 1st Cross-Country Colours, '65; Flight Sergeant, R.A.F. Section, C.C.F., '66; Upper VI; Open Exhibition in Physics to Hertford College, Oxford. 166

THIS AND THAT We gratefull y acknowledge the gift of two magnificent portrait The Royal Portraits photographs of Her Majesty the Queen and H.R.H. Prince Philip, which have been placed in the Great Hall in commemoration of their visit last year.

Governing Body

We were pleased to hear that the Bishop of Stockport, better known to us as Gordon Strutt, has accepted an invitation to rejoin the Governing Body.

The Cathedral Foundation, including tweive King's Scholars, were pleased to welcome His Beatitude Justin ian, Patriarch of Rumania, to Evensong in the Cathedral at the Nativity of St. John Baptist during 11is visit to England in June.

Rumanian Patriarch

It was with great sorrow that we heard of the death of Miss Mills on July 13th. She was best known to the School through her gift of the Cathedral Prize; and it was gratifying to see so many of the School at her funeral in the Cathedral.

Miss Dorothy Mills

Adrian Kent taught at King's for seven years before going to teach at The Adrian Kent King's School, Parramatta. All who knew him were deeply shocked by his death at the age of 39, and an obituary was printed in our last edition. So many O.K.S. have spoken of him since then that we reprint at the end of this edition a poem from The King's Parramatta school magazine in memoriam. We were delighted to receive the gift of a fa scinating collection of transcriptions relating to Christopher Marlowe (0. K.S.), assembled by Mr. Bruce Money in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of Marlowe's birth. Marlowe Facsimiles

Shape of things King's Week next year will run from July 20th to 26th and Commemorto come ation and Speech Day will be on Thl11'sday, July 27th. First there was Fore, from Marlowe. Rather than be intellectually House Magazines ~:)Uts~lOne, Luxmoore joined the battle with fl1asense, rapidly degenerat' . mg mto Nonsense . And now we welcome to the ring the Grange Newsletter, c111cly produced, glossy and comparatively costly. With its pungent Maceroni, it seems to be the most sophisticated magazine so far; but no doubt house spirit will not let thIS pass for long, and we look forward to the day when the pen will become as mighty as the nigger ball. 167

The Friends of Canterbury Cathedral very kindly allowed a number of King's boys to attend their lectures on art this July. Sir Kenneth Clark, who also lectured this term at the University, spoke brilliantly on the distintegration of critical values, although many of the audience were dubious about his fina l conclusions. Professor Zarnecki, the greatest living authority on Romanesque, talked about the crypt capitals, relating them to contemporary continental developments and documents ill the Cathedral Library. Both lectures were of the highest order, and we express our thanks to the Friends for giving us the opportunity to attend. The Friends

The Answer's a Lemon?

A Sixth Form linguist gave as a recipe for a good warming drink, "Un pcu de rhume, du sucre et un c itroen" .

We wo uld like to express our gratitude to Mrs. Bodey, who has "To purify the dialect of the tribe"

generously presented a cup "for the spoken word", to be awarded

in the Summer Term to the house with the best speakers. The cup will mark the climax of an intensive campaign to improve the

standard of oratory, beginning with the H eadma ster's Poetry Pri ze, and continuing through

the resurrection of the Tenterden Society and. the new Speeches at Prize-givi ng. We are pleased to see that the Cheker Library has at last been completed, and was officially opened by Princess Marina on July 27th. There has been criticism that it does not fully fit in with the Cathedral ; but since the Dining Hall, Cathedral Library, Lardergate and School Library are all bu il t in a pseudo-archaic style, the Cheker Library fits in with thc general scheme as well as any other building. Darkened Entry

Provincial?

When it was announced that the Marlowe Theatre would perform Luther and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? there was widespread anxiety that it had undertaken extremely difficult works unsuitable for a provincial repertory

company. Both productions we re, howeve r, far from amateurish; and we look forward to next season's new additions, which include a play by Beaumont and Fletcher, and The

Duchess of Malfi.

Gentlemen of the Upper Sixth would like to express their gratitude to the Headmaster, who agreed to the holding of two highly successful dances this term, one at Benenden and the other in the Precincts. Proof of their enjoyment is the bill for ÂŁ2 lOs. Od. damages; although the nightwatchman prowling the Water Tower Garden with his torch no doubt took a dimmer view.

The Dance and its Aftermath

We are grateful to Mrs. P. M. Ross, who has arranged that there should Peter Baumann

be a Trust Fund set up in memory of her brother, Peter Baumann,

who died as a result of a road accident on the 26th March, 1965. The income is to be used primarily in the purchase of books for the Modern Languages Library. O.K.S. ,

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The Headmaster preached the Foundation Day sermon at Headington

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School, Oxford, on May 26th; opened the Annual Fete of the Parish of St. Martin and St. Paul, Canterbury, on June 2nd; presented the trophies on Sports D ay at Coursehorn, the Junior department of Dulwich College Preparatory School on July 2nd; and distributed the prizes at Milner Court on July 23rd and at Salisbury Cathed ral Choir School on July 27th . We thank Mr. Hunt for his interesting air letter from Rhodesia, describing from the other point of view what is being done for the Africans. It is true that the white population pays more than 90 % of the tax, and that there is more negro education than in other Africa n states; but we feel that the issue is not whether the negro population is under-privileged, which it is, but whether Rhodesia's native population should be excluded fom the constitution; whether Rhodesia is to be a The Other Side

civ ilised nation or a fa scist state.

White Man's Burden

We welcome back to England Henry Morris, O.K.S. , after a most useful year teaching in a Rhodesian Secondary School under V.S.O. ; and wish him luck with his course at Westfield College in October.

We congratulate the School Fencing Team in winning the Pearson Cup in the Public Schools Championships held in London during the Easter holidays. Congratulations also to E. J. Olympitis on his outstanding achievement this term in winning the Kent County Men's Open Foil Championship and the Kent County Men's Open Epee Championship- the first time a schoolboy has held two Open County Championships. Finally, congra tulations to L. S. Burr on winning the Kent Schoolboys Sabre Championship, and to R. Bird, who won the Kent County Junior Open Foil Championship. Kin g's Fencing Team have this year firmly established themselves as one of the top school teams in the country. They have won al\ fifteen of their school matches and in addition to the Pearson Cup have collected ten County Championships.

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In appalling conditions the Shooting Team were remarkably successful .. . and Musket at Bisley this year; they came 13th in the Ashburton Shield out of 102 schools, and N. G. Scott came 2nd in the Spencer-Melhuish Trophy, after a tie for the first place. We are grateful to Dr. P. F. H. Dawnay forthe gift ofa cup for Shooting. It is to be named the Dawnay Shooting Trophy, and will be held each month by the boy with the highest average score in either small-bore or full-bore practices.

Shooting Trophy

Rus in urbe

(Overhead in entrance to Sellingegate at 6 p.m. 'ad a tea party!" 169

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Speech Day): "Ee, t'vicar's

We were amazed to hear of the incredible journey undertaken by three Old Boys, Nigel Ash, John Campbell and David Payne, who set out from Kent in a second-hand Landrover on a 12,000 mile trip through Yugoslavia, Turkey, Jordan, across the Syrian Desert, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Russia. Apart from extensive coverage in the Evening Standard, the Kentish Gazette has also published an account of the flying saucer seen on Soviety territory. We look forward to hearing the full story on their return in late July.

T he Great Trek

The Librarian gratefully acknowledges the beq uest of a number of fine volumes relating to Geology from the estate of the late Edward J. Wayland, C.n.E., a former Director of the Geological Survey Colonial Service; and the gifts of books from the Headmaster, Mr. R. W. Harris, Mr. A . D . Wilson (Honorary Secretary of the O.K.S. Association), Sir Harry Townend, O.K.S., D. L. Smith, K.S., R. L. Smith, Esq., and Mr. A. Binney, who presented a magnificent consignment of seventy books. The Library

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Basketball

In the Cine Society: "I wonder how Bergman finds the time to act in all those films, as well as direct them?" In the Durnford: "I've done enough work on Bismarck to sink a battleship!"

In an analysis of Dylan Thomas' The Funeral: " the funeral was essentially a down-to-earth experience" ....

A School basketball team won its first official match against Eastbourne College this term on the new outdoor court on Blore's. It is hoped that there will be further fixtures next summer.

The Freeman brothers were regrettably knocked out in the second round of the Goblets at Henley by the British Champions, Easterling and Macarthy, after, bowever, only three weeks of practice. D. J. Chant rowed for the Oriel crew which won the Head of the River at Oxford, while R. C. W. Church rowed for I st and 3rd Trinity Eights, of which the former won the Head of the River at Cambridge. A. D. H. Turner has played regularly for Manchester University, wh ile P. J. Cattrall has performed regularly for the Oxford Authentics, and H. R. Jackson occasionally. The O.K.S. Golf team won the consolation competition for the Princes' Salver for the first time ever. In the course of their victory they beat Merchiston, one of the strongest golfing schools, and Whitgift in the final. O.K.S. Sport

The Masters havc played two matches this term under the captaincy of Mr. Bee. Unfortunately they lost to the Staff of Kent College by 25 runs, but against the St. Lawrence Staff they won by a margin of 57 runs. Mr. Wilson scored 45, but the man of the match was Mr. Whelan, striking a solid 44 and taking 6 wickets for 31. Masters' Cricket

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We congratulate Mr. and Mrs. Bee on the birth of a son, Andrew Robert, and Mr. and Mrs. Holt on the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Claire, both born on February 5th. Also Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin on the birth of a son, Thomas Daniel, on March 28th.

Spring Double

We try to find reviewers outside as well as inside the School. The writer of the review of the Choral Concert in King's Week is Mr. John Hussey, Assistant Organiser of the East Kent Rural Music School; the criticism of the Symphony Concert is by two former Monitors for Music: W. H. Williams and T. P. M. Young; a nd Kil/g Lear is reviewed by Mr. Alan Pope, who has both produced and acted in a number of highly successful Playcraft productions.

King's Week Critics

With the country tottering on the brink of economic collapse, the editors received this plaintive note from a Shell-fonner : "The general price rise of potato crisps from 4d. to 5d. a packet brings my estimated total purchase in five years at school to ÂŁ45". Perhaps he should recoup by following the example of a certa in "switched-on" Senior King's Scholar who spends his time knitting away in his study in Galpin's, after recently launching an extremely lucrative avant-garde tie-production unit.

Inftalion

After a remarkable career in Athens as a member of the British Council, in Crete, and with the Irish Guards, we welcome back to England Patrick Leigh-Fermor, O.K.S. He is the author of several travel-books, The Traveller's Tree, The Violins oj St. Jacques, and his latest publication is a new book on Greece, Roumeli.

Patrick Leigh-Fermor

A large party of boys from the School was kindly given seats by the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral for their concert in the Cathedral on June 15th. Ronald Smith played the Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4, and the School lent its new concert grande for the occasion. The orchestra was the Caprioland we were surprised to find two O.K.S. in their ranks for this concert: Roger Lunn and Andrew Wickens. Lunn is with the New Philharmonic and Wickens with the Royal Philharmonic.

Orchestral Intelligence

Timothy Good (late of R.P.O.) is now with the London Symphony Orchestra; Christopher Seaman (now on the Board of the London Philharmonic Orchestra) has been playing at Glyndebourne for the season; and we understand that Godfrey Salmon is shortly entering the ranks of the professional orchestras in London. Chapel Collections May 15. Imperial Cancer Research Fund 22. Ch ristian Aid June 12. Y.M .C.A. 19. Save the Children F und July 17. Sportsmen pledged to aid Research into Crippling 24. Northorpe Hall Trust Allocated to Chapel General Fund 171

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BilL tt A letter from Edith Sitwell to Somerset Maugham was found inside a volume e e e re in the Maugham Collection . It runs as follows : "My dear Willie, It was a lovely party yesterday and 1 enjoyed every moment of it. It is so sad for Osbert that he missed it. Thank yo u so much for ask ing me. r am delighted to hear 1 am goi ng to meet yo u at Monroe's this evening (I expect I shall arrive incapable of understanding anything or of making myself understood as I shall be making gramophone records from 3 to 6 and shall be obliterated by fati gue.) Here is my book with the three poems about the Atomic Bomb as well as some other poems. I do hope you will like them. Yours ever, EDITH. "

We were pleased to welcome as preachers this term: The Rt. Revd. Visiting Preachers the Lord Bishop of Guildford ; the Revd. Horace Spence, O.K.S.; the Revd . D. J. Marriott, Headmaster of the Canterbury Cathedral Choir School; the Revd. A. S. Hopkinson, Rector of Bobbingworth ; and the Revd. Canon J. N. D. Kelly, Principal of St. Ed mund Hall , Oxford. The Editors of The Call1llariall wo uld like to thank all those who have contributed articles and poems to this edition. Invariably at the beginning of each term we are told that the latest issue is poorer in standard than the last, and our reply must be that it is not the Ed itors, but the contributors, who shape any magazine. Our thanks must go also to our printers, Messrs. Gibbs and Sons, who ha ve performed incredible feats of manuscript deciphering, as well as having put in order a chaotic collection of contributions. We welcome to the board this term A. T. Jones, K.S., who is acting as Secreta ry with part icular responsibility for the junior areas or the School.

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REVIEWS PLAY:

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"THE CLOUDS OF ARISTOI'HA NES"

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M USIC CIR CLE CONCERT

LECTURES: LYRE AND LYRI C IN THE WORK OF GOETH E

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PAINTING IN ENGLANO IN THE SIXTIES

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PLAY THE CLOUDS OF ARISTOPHANES Performing Aristophanes before a modern audience is a daunting task; the dramatic

elTect has to bridge nearl y 2,500 years and considerable changes in outlook and dramatic convention. In pa rtic ular, the play must speak through a tran slation and at times be

freely adapted to be understood by any but the initiated; there is a "plot" which will drag a t times, and a chorus which will usually be in the way. Mr. Miller and the Pater Society dealt with all this in a sp irit of reasonable compro mise, and the resu lt was convincin g

and highly entertaining. The performance came to terms with the topical background but refused to be stampeded ; though the scene was still unambiguously fifth century Athens, we were invited to interpret the play in modern terms, with its theme, so relevant today, of conflict in education and politics between the honest and the slick, the progressive and the stick-in-the-mud. The translators from the Classical Sixth a re chiefly responsible for this; combined with Mr. Miller's witty and unobtrusive production, they gave us authentic Aristophanes, complete with puns, personal abuse and earthy humour. The Chorus of Clouds, however, was somewhat less authentic, though the spirit was there. fts two elegant, urbane goddesses straight fro m OlTenbach, C. C. Born and D. V. Pugh, descended to earth to a stereophonic ode, sipped aperitifs as on the Cha mps Elysees, and commented on th ings wi th gentle satire; we could well have heard more from them- an unusual judgment on a Greek Chorus. A. D. F. Hodson, as Socrates, though he did not dom inate the stage, gave a convincing caricature of someone, if not Socrates himselfperhaps a young sociology don from a new uni ve rsity. But the best performance was A. B. Marshall's Strepsiades; his performance scintillated, whether he was eXUlting in his new ~unning or lamenting the fate of fathers under the thumb of their olTspring, cartwheelIng across the orchestra or rushi ng headlong to relieve himself. J. S. Gay was suitabl y "wide", and very funn y, as Phidippides, C. S. W. Smith and C. H. Willis performed their debate well and pointedly, there were neat sketches from Strepsiades' creditors, and the grrsly crew of Think-house scholars was perfect; while the Memorial Court provided a fine setting reminiscent of a Greek theatre, though the action was at times too much in one corner of it.

The experiment was a triumph, the packed audience went away happy, the clouds (the real ones) were kept at bay, and Aristophanes slept peacefully in his grave. There will clearly be a demand for more on similar lines in yea rs to come, and one hopes that this can be supplied: meanwh ile, one can only regret that so relatively small a number of people were able to see the solitary performance of The Clouds. R.A .L.B. 174

MUSIC CIRCLE CONCERT PALACE COURT LAWNS, SUNDAY, 5TH J UNE

An outdoor concert was a new idea, and every effort had obviously been madc to present a va ried and original programme. A fair sized aud ience sat, lay, stood or strolled around

on the lawn, though those at the back could not have heard ve ry much of what was going on. The concert began with a quartet for F rench horns by Herman Neuling, played by Alder, lakeman, Parry and Z untz. Although the performers seemed to lack confidence a little at first, the overall elTect was pleasing. Lafuite du Roi d'Angletel'l'e by Deroisier, a nd Sonata No. I by Corelli , which followed , were well played by Lyle and Thompson (recorders), Bown (violin), Stirling ('cello) and McNair (Mozart piano); a commendable effort by some of our you ngest musicians. Varcoe and Saunders, accompanied by True on the piano, gave very pleasant renderings of songs by Head, Fin zi and Vaughan Williams.

This was a well chosen item. There fo llowed a Sonatina for Guitar by Dia Belli, played by Low, accompanied by Salmon, but this I was quite unable to hear. The next item, a double bass rendering of Sa int~Saens' The Swan, was also an unfo rtunate choice. Poole, accompanied by Bodey (double bass) and True (piano) did his best, but an instrument of such low register can only sound thin in to ne when played in the open a ir. Blake provided a pleasing contrast with two pieces for solo fiute by Ferroud. Next came three folk songs, sun g by Miss C. Congden, our guest from Christ Church Training College, and Press, with C. L. and J. A. Ham pton on gu itars. These were a ll enjoyable items, a nd the Hamptons are to be commended for their own song, Why did he have to die? There followed a somewhat origina l item in the shape of a recitatio n by Flick of Keats's Ode to a Nightingale to the accompaniment of the slow movement from Me ndelssohn's string q uartet, played by Rutland, Bown, Ling and Williams. Why this piece in particular? Fli ck had a hard job to carry this one off, but desp ite a rather uncertain

start he succeeded on the whole. We returned to morc traditio nal fare with Mozart's Fourth Divertimento- a good performance by Arnold and Lyle (clarinets) a nd l akes (bassoon). In the fo llowing items, Sonata No . 7 by Rieche, and Ricel'car del Primo Tuol1o by Palestrina, there was a certain lack of sprightliness about the brass instrumentalists, Meadley (trumpet), Alder and Par ry (horns) and Bodey (trom bone). Three modern num bers played by Kirsch, Selman, Bodey and Marshall brought the concert to a close.

This concert was an experiment, and as such it must be judged. Much of it was enjoyable, despite the shadow cast over the proceedings by the Great Hall, which was totally elTective in cutting ofT whatever warmth there was in the evening sun. Jt was certainly worth attempting, and if the performers have learnt how to overcome some of the difficu lties invo lved in play ing o ut of doors, and the importance of choosing suitable music, then it

would be well wo rth trying again. M.G.R.D. 175

LECTURES LYRE AND LYRI C IN THE WORK OF GOET HE KEITH DI CKSO N

After an absence of two years, it was a pleasure to welcome Mr. Dickson back to King' s for another zestful talk to the Modern Languages Sixth. Armed with a telling array of audio-visual aids- neatly duplicated songs and poems, tape-recorded extracts, and his guitar- he launched into his theme : the "gut-gripping" quality of a certain type of lyric so expressed that the poem is the very experience it conveys. Form and content become (~ perfect harmony, and such poems have a directness and simplicity of emotiona l appeal that bring them close to music, the lyre of the title. In deed, such poems arc music themselves and echo in art the many moods of the fo lk-song. It was this quality that Mr. Dickson examined, by comparing th e German fol k-songs we sang with him with some of the poems of the young Goethe, fresh from the im pact of his meeting with Herder in Strassburg. We heard it especiall y in the Gretchen poems from Faust, beautifully spoken a nd sun g by Kathe Golz, and in one case by Elisabeth Schumann. Mr. Dickson put Goethe's achievement of truly lyrical writing in perspective by setting it aga inst the intellectual moralizing fable of his immediate predecessors in German literature; but his purpose was no more than to demonstrate the simple truth of his title, in which he succeeded adm irably, end ing with the sublime stillness of the Wandrers Nachtlied fl , the most exquisite lyric in the German language. G.S.P.P.

PAINTlNG I N ENGLAND TN THE SIXTlES PROFESSOR W IL LIAM TOW N SEN D

It is a sad feature of QlIr culture that in the past hundred years our aesthetic va lues have been constantly shifting ground and giving way to crite ria which had unti l then appeared nonsensical. The suprematist white square on white canvas, Duchamp's urinal, and Dubuffet's infantile scrawlings ha ve in their turn been dismissed as rubbish, highly praised and violently reacted against; until it is impossible to say with any degree of certainty what criteria arc valid, and what are not.

William Townsend took the only possible route of escape, and presented contemporary trends objectively and without ex cathedra pronouncement. His slides were brilliant; his statement of the present situation was lucid and entertain ing : but it is unfortunate that the modern art critic can only present a situation, and never help to interpret it, so that the audience is left informed, but bewildered. For instance, we were told that we could recogn ise Jackson Pollock's action painting in the sa me way as we recognise the handwriting of friend s; but th is did not help to show whether his work has any superiority over handwntmg, or whether any other than relatiVist standards can be applied. 176

Starting with Haro ld and Bernard Cohen, Mr. Townsend traced the course of British painting through pure abstraction to Op and Pop, and stressed in particular the increasing importance of the viewer in art. Certainly the cold, cerebral shapes that seem to dominate the contemporary scene are given a certain richness by their spatial ambiguity, and the most austere pa inting can be made extremely attractive by demanding from the viewer a visual interpretation. But judging by purely visual standards, modern British painting is far too rarified and intellectual. Perhaps the most crucial issue in the lecture was raised in a question from Mr. R. W. Harris, who complained that once the ambiguities had been "solved", there was no real interest left. Mr. Townsend replied that there arc certain features of any design, whether in a Constable or on a Chinese sil k, which have a pure, un iversal and timeless beauty; and that all art shou ld bejudged in terms of pure aesthetics. Of COlll'se, thi s is perfectly true; but the pu re, intellectual shapes of today are so refined that J find them almost steri le, and (dare I say it ?) the abstract form of a Chinese silk, being related to reality, is far easier to assim ilate than a post-war Pasmore.

Whatever the audience's view of this subject, Mr. Townsend's lecture was a fascinating revelation of a highly esoteric field by one who knows the practical as well as the theoretical side of painting, and the clearest expositi on of toda y's situation most King's boys are likely to hear. W.N.B.

CAREERS ADVISORY SERVICES rn reviewing the va ried kinds of assistance wh ich the School affords to its members in their enquiries about careers at pre- and post-Uni ve rsity levels it may be helpful at the end of another school year to boys and parents ali ke to point to their existence and usefulness. Few boys come with a sense of dedication to a career in industry, commerce or a profession and probably the Housemaster will be the first to make active enquiry about the boy's aspirations as his talents and personal qualities are gradually revealed to him. In this way the Housemaster as friend , guide and counsell or to all his boys is of necessity and by personal interest a boy's immediate Careers Master. He is eq ually aided by all Masters acting as Tutors who, watch ing over progress and problems as they are revealed in the fortnightly reports furni shed by teaching Masters, are often drawn into consultation about future plans and possibil ities. To Housemasters and Tutors alike is readily available the mass of information from professional bodies and industrial and commercial undertakings which is centralised in the office of the School Careers Master. He is available for private consultation and is enabled to obtain an overall review of needs and to point to the various ways in wh ich a boy may today hear for himself of the requirements for entry into a profession, a training course or business life in general. He arranges for interviews with the Southern Secretary of the Public Schools Appointments Burea u for boys in their last year at school whose quest for employment later will not be handled by a University Appointments Bureau . The P.S.A .B. continues to advise and to assist actively in the search for a suitable opening until the age of 24, but until the boy leaves school operates through the Careers Master. Not only is it successful in findin g normall y the opening suited to an 177

applicant but it continues to follow closely his progress and happiness in the appo intment

it has contrived. T he cost of this invaluable service is met by the School th rough its annual membershi p fce. Every two yea rs the School is visited by the Director of the P.S.A .B. , at p resent Mr. A. N . G ilkes, former H igh Master of St. Paul's School, a nd addressed in most illumi nating fashion on the whole complex question of careers guidance. This term a large audience of Sixth Form boys listened with close attention to his eloquent and deepsearching analysis of the opportunities fo r worth while service to the community at large. But while paper informati o n is available in almost embarrassing quanti ty, there is no substi tute fo r th e direct viewpoin t to be ga ined from "the man inside" and those boys, and they are understandab ly many, who feel uncommitted to a career as they approach the end

of their school yea rs, can apply to attend one of the residential courses promoted by the P.S.A .B . at Ashridge and York for "A rts Boys" in the Easter holidays and at Manchester for "Science Boys". Competi tion for places is strong but those fortunate enough to be accepted can learn about th e Structure of Industry, Personnel Ma nagement, Careers Overseas, Accountancy, Journalism, Marketi ng and Reta il Distributio n, Ad ve rtisin g, etc.

Boys are not required to listen passively but are acti vely associated with the discussions which follow each session. To the Ashridge Course we we re able to send three boys this year although our applications were many more. The reputation a nd populari ty of these courses continue to grow yea r by year, a tri bute to the invaluable help of the staff at Ashridge College and to the unfa ilingly high standa rd of the talks given by guest spea kers, each eminent in his own fi eld, who manage to comb ine expert kn o wledge with wisdo m and

a pproachable in for mality. The York Course has been added to reduce disappoi ntment caused by the necessary limitation of places applied for by boys fro m over 100 Public a nd Gra mmar schools. The Ma nchester Course offers an excellent opportu ni ty to find out more about the va riety of careers offered by Industry. Practical illustration is give n by visits to local industrial firm s whose hospitality and every assista nce to boys who would see for themselves a nd as k their questions on the spot are wa rm ly appreciated. In the Easter holidays seven boys took ad vantage of the opportunities affo rded by Short Vacation Courses promoted by the P.S.A.B. and provided cost free by many industrial a nd commercial organisatio ns to spend a week in close associatio n with their activities, These are o f immense assistance and sometimes lead to fi rm decisions to take employment later with these concerns. It is expected that the num ber of applications, almost a ll of which are

accepted, will steadi ly rise. The reports written by the boys show how efficiently the courses a re planned and executed and how much appreciated is the generous hospitality provided by over a hund red leading fi rms and industrial empires centred in th is country. Boys who are thinking of a pa rticular career and wish to devote rather more time to gaining inside knowledge of its orga nisation and daily activity would do well to look at what is happening in their own localities and to a pply d irectly for perm ission to go and work accordin g to their abilities. No forwa rd-looking enter prise hesitates to offer a helping hand to a yo ung man who is earnestl y seeking in this way by his own initiati ve to prepare himself for a career. This does seem a more enlightened a pproach than to content oneself with work, however generously remunerated, which bears no relationship to the kind of responsibility to be assumed after school or university. 178

The O.K.S. Careers talk this ter m was given by Mr. Humphrey Chilton, Publicity Ma nager of Horl icks Ltd. We are most grateful to hi m for so expertly telling us what adverti si ng is all abo ut, the componen t parts of the bl~siness, the ways in which it imposes

upon itself its own discipli nes and on the employment It offers not only to the graduate but to the school-Ieaver. 2. 1 % of o ur national income, or ÂŁ600,000,000, is spent a nnually on advcrtising and in a n industrial economy on which o ur dally hves are dependent It IS the advertiser who sells th e goods which th e manufact urer prodl~~e~ , Ad vertlslJ1g I ~ thus ,to selling what mass productio n is to manufactu re. Jt faces CI:ltlclsm on ccon~mlc, SOCI ~Â

logical and even religious grounds in its uses of the techlllques of persuasIOn. Vet It exercises a ri go rous control of ph oney chll ms a nd follows relentlessly ItS stnct codes of pract ice to safeguard th e consumer. Mr. Chilton dealt with the research into customer

needs and the development of products to meet these by efficient ma nufact ure at the lowest possible costs and the importance of marketing which in for ms the customer, stImul~tes his demand ensures the ava ilabi lity of th e products when and wherever th ey are reqUired and establisiles the brand character. We were left with a picture of an exciting, stimulating,

stretching, tough career with a mple rewards for the tr~ in ed min d,. and one which welcomes the school-Ieaver with awareness of the need for ongmal t1l1nkmg, commo nsense, dri ve, stamina and the ambition to work hard to get to top management.

We were greatly honoured this term by the visit of His Hono ur Judge Sumner~ of Mr. Robin Webb barrister in Chancery Chambers, and of Mr. Wilfred Mowll, Sohcltor and Clerk to the Governors, who fo rmed a pa nel of legal experts to speak of their way of life in the practice of law .and to answer with unsparing energy all the questions besetting the minds of those who wo uld tread in their footsteps. Judge Sumner with unfal hng Wit a nd charm spoke fo r an hour fro m out the inexhausti ble fund of his reminiscences of judges, counsel and comm on plain tiff, and made that ho ur seem a brief mo ment. It seems that the Bar' has urgent need of several hundred more barristers and that it is n ot d ifficult to qualify and takes less time than is requi red to serve Articles with aS olicitor. Judge Sumner's persuasive eloquence, it is felt, has ensured a steady and substa ntia l now of applicants fro m

our midst to the Inns of Court. Judge Sumner was most ably supported by Mr. Robin Webb, who by his response to our questioning dispclled something of our ignorance of what happens in Chancery Chambers. We turned from a consid eratio n of the acti vities and rewa rds of Barrister and Judge

to a most informative presentation of those of the Solicitor given by Mr. Wilfred Mowll with the assistance of a newly admi tted Sol icitor. A fter outlining educational qualifica tions for Articles and the kind of experience gained by the Clerk in his Princi pal's office, he pointed out that the Law Society's examinations in two parts are widely regarded as the hardest of all professional examinations and thereby concurred with Judge Sumner that the standard of the Bar examinations need be no frightening deterrent to th e would-be barnster. Tt seems that the current odds of passing all of the Law Society's examinations at the fi rst attempt are 5 to 1 aga inst. The work of a Solicitor is as va ried as human experience,

and he finds his clients to be as va ried as their problems. H is spccial training and legal 179

rr mind put his services at a premium so that he is found acting as a Master in Chancery, a County Court Registrar, a Clerk to Magistrates or rncome Tax Comm issioners in each of which he exercises some of the funct ions of a judge. He may become a Coroner to enqu ire into the cause of sudden deaths or may conduct an enq ui ry into treas ure trove, or serve in local government as a Town Clerk o r become a Company Secretary or serve administratively in industry. And a large number commend themselves sufficiently as parliamentary candidates to get themselves elected. Few doors are closed to the Solicitor, who often combines several careers and even if he is unli kely to achieve great fame and fortune he will be rewarded with ma ny friendships in the course of a fu ll, strenuous, but eminently satisfying life .

These notes wo uld remain coldly incomplete if we did not remember once agai n with gratitude the O.K.S. Careers Advisory Service so ably and thoughtfully conducted by Dr. Stuart Hinds and Mr. W. C. (Bill) Young. They are constantly concerned in arra nging for speakers on a variety of careers and in helping boys a nd O. K.S. with good cou nsel in the various difficulties that may face them in the discovery and successful promotio n of a chosen career. They have tied toget her past and present generations by their unique service and we contin ue to be very much in their debt. E.R.C.D.

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KING'S WEEK, 1966 Baptism by immersion- that is how I see my first experience as Manager of King's Week. To be left to rlln this complex and unique festi val on one's own without previous exper ience

beyond a play, is not easy, though I want to pay fu ll tribute to the great help and copious notcs of Mr. Robert Smith, the previolls Manager. But th en, just to turn th e figurative into

the li teral, there was the weather : om inously, K ing's Week opened on St. Swithin's Dayand it rained. After that, a fatalistic acceptance of the dank and clam my elements became

de rigueur, as we lived through the wettest Kin g's Week ever. Yet the crowds flocked in much as ever, in some cases even more, and gave ample proof of what thi s festival now

means, not only to those connected wit h the School, but to Canterbury and East Kent people, of whom far more patroni ze it than might be thought. And what of the bill of fare? Tt is impossible, perhaps even undesirable, to please everybody when such va riety is involved. Doubts a nd disapproval were voiced here and there: the Royal Court Theatre G roup's fascinating a nd witty im provisations seemed too proletarian to some; Larry Adler's fine muscianship was spo il ed by unnecessary innuendo fo, others; The Caprice and the Genius foreseeably proved a crashing bore to the Canterbury- and history-sodden School, while it received many plaudits from minds more subtly attuned and genuinely curious. But in general King's Week again met with overwhelming approval, as usual Edred Wright's musicians pleased all , the K ing's School Players excelled at the crucial times, and the London Mozart Players' immac ulate,

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was a musical landmark for Canterbury. A simple survey earlier in the term revealed the gratifying fact that over half the boys in the School are actively concerned, in whatever humble capacity, with Kin g's Week. But there is room for man y more, and for many more ideas too . The same survey bro ught some isolated cries of: "More var iety!" (viz., "No Shakespeare and less of this class ical music jazz!") and "Better celebrities !" (viz., "Why not X, Y and Z, people J like?"). To the

former I say that I should welcome yet more variety, but I cannot make bricks wit hout straw or wave a wand: give me so1id, practicable ideas, show me good material first, and

remember that quality matters above all. The latter I can only remind that first-class artists are busy people to whom a one-night stand at King's, however pleasant in the event, is of understandably lesser importance than a solid professional cont ract. And let us be fair: those who visit us go out of their way to do so, often at special fees; all are topran ke rs in their field, and all hel p to give Kin g's Week that quality, excitement and also variety it already abundantly has. At the same time, it is a good exercise for all of us to learn to distinguish between the best and the not so good these skilled artists offer us. No backward glance at King's Week would be complete without some personal tributes that penetrate behind the scenes, where so much work is done. Indeed, some of the hardest and most efficient workers in Ki ng's Week pass unnoticed and are here recorded with gratitude: the "Commandos" preparin g for and clearing up after every performance, a fine team th is yea r under the brisk leadership of Pete Jen kins; the se(builders of King Lear battling manfully against time and the weather; the Caxton- Society printers and their pai nstaking programmes printed in so short a time available;Âˇ, the programme-sellers a nd ushers; the School's catering staff coping-with complexÂˇ arrangements, sometimes altered at the last moment ; and a whole host of others. But my warmest thanks must go to my 182

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"personal staff" who worked all term in the box office, the booth and around the city, especially to David Bodey, as Music Monitor a doubly busy King's Week Secretary, and to Da vid Smith, who ran the box office so efficien tly as to arouse my constant admiration .

Our decision to ask for blank cheques with postal bookin gs this year raised a few eyebrows, but was honestly motivated: we merely wanted to cut down on the enormous amount

of paper work involved, a nd we a re most grateful for the suppo rt received, for it has certa inly made postal bookings far easier to handle, and book-keeping less complicated. And so on to next year, with the uneasy confidence that the weat her at least can hardly be worse ! For the rest, "Roger and out! " This King's Week Manager is switching off for a

few months' repose- and return to teaching . GS.P.P.

THE ORATORIO SATURDAY, JULY 16TH

The paradox of music is the degree of silence which lies at the heart of an awe-inspiring performance; every great executant is a ble to command this spell of silence but sometimes it is present on other occasions. One such was Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music at the Choral Concert in the Cathedra l. From the very start of the orchestral introduction we felt "such harmony is in immortal souls". The beautifu l voice of Eliza beth Harwood was certa inly outstanding in a quartet of fine soloists, yet it was an overall performance-

the musical nuance, the blending of the different forces- that Edred Wright controlled so musically, which made the occasion exceptionally memorable. Jeslls and the Traders was exciting in quite a different way. The articulation of the English words of the COI/ malta section for exa mple, was good enough to convey the musical effect which the so und of the Hungarian brings off automatically; the singing of the phrase "Robbers" was as va ried as the composer has marked it. Most expressive of all, however, was the conductor's choice of speeds which gave the requisite sense of the inevitable to the direction of the music. With two items of such a high standard it was perhaps understandable that Hayd n's Nelson Mass should be not quite as inspired. The aco ustics of the Cathedral make fast contrapuntal music very difficu lt to bring off, for the slightest insecurity in the vocal line is unfair1y magnified. In the QlIoniam Tu So/us, for in stance, we were aware th at the orchestra was in full command of the music and could spare energy to cope with the time lag, whereas the choir was concentrating so full y on its parts that not many singers were therefore free enough to anticipate the conductor's beat, consequently there were moments of ragged ellsemble. However, such blemishes that occurred could not destroy the vital rhythmic life which the conductor inspired in every performer. Mr. Myerscough's leadership fu lly backed up this approach and helped to stamp the work with individuality. A newcomer to Kin g's music like myself cannot fail to be impressed by the scale of the music making. But the most significant characteristic is its musica l insight, a rare quality

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THE ORATORIO IN THE CATHEDRAL [ElltlVistle

" K ING LEAR" For days before, 1 reminded myself that J was going to see Lear at King's, and spoke, in blase fas hion, of my memories of the "Scofield Lea r" . But as the fi rst excitingly staged scene began I was brough t up ha rd against the fact t ha t the play is ca lled " King Lea r". In P. G. Boss J saw Lear the King, supreme in every inch of his kingdom except in his own personality. By the end of the play he had resigned and lost his temporal kingdom but his spi rit had sworn its first and last allegiance. A superb performa nce this, beautifu ll y shaped to fuse the stages of the tragic career into an intelligent whole. Excellent costumi ng and make- up wo uld not have been enough. Jt was th e passionate but disciplined understanding of the part which made such scnse of the whole play. It was the a bility to be informed by Shakespeare's wo rds which made M . J. N. Baker's Kent, J . K. H arris's Edmund and H. Konisberge r's Cordelia so successful. Fi nely judged performances in which language produced character and character imposed technique and control.

Edga r and the Fool are both, to my mind, fi endishly difficult parts; J have not seen a completely successful performa nce of either. A. J . Flick seemed to opt for one of the Fool's several facets- h is bitter love for Lear -and J a pplaud his judgement and his acting in the face of such difficulties. 1 adm ire his achievement all the more for creating a new Fool bearing no resembla nce to last yea r's Trinculo.

Edgar begins the playas its most innocent character and at the close is its most wise. He fa lls so easily, one might say stupidly, into Edmund's tra p and yet he has discovered that " Ripeness is all" as Lear's death approaches. Perhaps it is that it is a lonel y part. The close human relationship wi th Gloucester in the Dover cliff scene and the direct dialogues with Albany and Edmund towards the end were splend id in their clea r-cut sincerity. This means that Gloucester and Alban y had to complete the re lationshi p. Both these performances grew in stature as the play progressed and it seemed that, as with Edgar, suffering ill umined the characters for the actors. Gloucester should be a muddled and bewildered man. 1 th ink it was un wise to play him as an aged doddere r- he has too much to bear before the play is over. The blind Gloucester convinced me more than the sighted one. My main quarrel with the production centres round the G oneril and Regan factions. Both S. N . Jolley and R. A. Gord on as the unnatu ral sisters contributed their utmost in splenetic call ollsness. Yet at times the scene beca me a sordid, private domestic quarrel. It lacked the power of whole principalities locked in hostility, hatred and evil. Perh aps th is is a lot to ask and yet I felt the resources were there to be used. A fin e wide stage with ample opportunity fo r movement, as the torch-lit funeral procession showed ; a large body of supporting actors capable of dramatic lISC, witness that savage confrontation at the opening; excellent make-up facilities wh ich could have given us an older and thereby more form ida ble Cornwall. C. H. Sellar played him well but he needed the kind of age and statu re th at Albany's ma ke-up and costu me had given him . And I must put it on record that the School does not often act the lower classes well . A mistake to play Oswald as a stupid lout ; it ta kes the sting out of him. 184

But these criticisms must be in proportion to the achievement of the whole production. The heroic, inexorable style and pace of the perfo rmance were exactly suited to the occasion and its setting. The stress laid upon the dra matic and intelligent lise of Shakespeare's language throughout gave the actors a sure foundation for thei r talents. To create such a fo undation is the prod ucer's mai n job. King Lear is a very great play. On both the eveni ngs I saw it, once inside and once outside, it looked and sounded a very great play indeed. A.P.

ROYAL COU RT THEATRE -'ACTORS AT WORK ' SUN D AY, JULY 17TH

It should be sa id at once tha t the prod ucer, Keith Johnstone, a nd his five actors did not quite li ve up to our expectations as ra ised by the introductory note in the programme. We were induced to expect a stud y in the art of improvised clowning rather than merely a series of amusing attempts to make us laugh. The evening lacked a unifying theme, and this was partly due to the producer, who, for one who had been teaching others to improvise, was strangely ill at case, jerki ng out embarrassed com ments between each clown's performance.

Yet the show was, despite th is initial disappointment, the biggest success of King's Week. The audience were like putty in the hands of these clowns who followed their stage instincts to extreme and hi larious effect. And on several occasions, the clowns did make some points about human follies, obsess ions, and loneliness. What succeeded most was mime. Rarely had anything so funny been seen here as that brilliant final sketch of the thief in a consu lting room, trying to remove the doctor's instruments under his very nose. This was a real test of an actress's ability, and to my mind Miss Lucy Fleming gave the best performances of the evening; the scene she created of a mourner, alone on a park bench, approached the tragic rather than the comic.

The evening did prove that it is the illogical, the inane, which appeals most in farce-and, indeed, clowning ex periments just as much with the audience as with the actor- the meaningless but fervent gesture, the extraord inary ab use of balloons, the joyful gibberish ; these all seemed to come ali ve with portent in the hands of these versatile clowns, who overcame triumpha ntly all the tests set them by the producer. Jf a n overall pur pose was lackin g (the actors adm itted afterwards that it was a vaca tion job rather than something to be used fo r scripted drama) Keith Joh nstone a nd his acto rs certainly succeeded in giving first-rate entertainment a nd performing without any inhibitions to deter their foolery, and this may well be one way, in this world of status symbols a nd barriers between men, to fi nd and ex press the nature of " The T hing itself".

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"THE CAPRICE AND THE GENIUS" " Here is a mystery beyond our understanding", procla imed the Epilogue; for the School it probably was, requiring as it did, a delicate humour and that sensitive appreciation of irony which is the ultimate test of a listener's understanding. That it was obviously enjoyed so much says a great deal for the sk ill of the reade rs and producer, the ad mirable choice of material, and- of course- the discrimination of ourselves, "the eternal audience". Here was a delightful farrago Iibelli whose tone was not the savage indignation of a Juvenal but rather the ge ntly mocking irony of a Horace or some cloistered monk, living timeless and serene, within the Precincts' walls, and watching with a smile the world and centuries sli p by. True there were some grim moments which he could not contemplate wi th complete equanimity: in earlier (and more barbarous) days, invaders came, saints were martyred, friars hanged, drawn, quartered, parboiled-and the details set in acco unt book for accurate accounting and to be learned and conned for our delectation. Or aga in, absil omen, the Cathedral Quire was burned down by that just judgment of God which Gervase, at least, professed to find "sad" as well as "marvellous". In earlier days, too, iconoclasm was no less rife and much more vigoroll s than now: "action not words" cried the Puritans and down came the paraphernalia of Popery with a Paisleyite zeal. But on the whole such dire moments occurred but rarely to trouble the spirit of the genius loci. It was not his wont to see portentous events or tell of hai rbreadth 'scapes; at the 'worst he might throw up his hands in pious horror at the unseemly behaviour of the precedence-seeking Roger, Archbishop of York, who lowered the less comely quarters of his person into the lap of his own Primate and, thereby, the dignity of an important reception. He might exercise his risible muscles at the "marking well" of William Chafy or at a joke (so sweetly malicious that even a Christian could laugh) at the expense of an irritating colleague in the Canons' stalls, who would not play the puppet on any ecclesiastical bandwaggo n. Was it not Lord Keynes who observed that College affairs were more interesting than local affairs, and local affairs than national ones? And he should have known. So, too, for all its triviality so typical of the insularity of a long-slumbering Cathedral city, this Anthology had real vitality, interest and amusement; what should have been mere water was changed into a wine, not full-bodied perhaps, but having that distincti ve flavour which so delights the connoisseur. So much for the matter; what of the manner? An Anthology such as this requires considerable skill from the readers in forming a rapport with their audience, in establishing, projecting and then sharing a common attitude to thei r material. They did not all manage to do this, but D. G. Powell a nd R. O. Clarke came across well and were quite subtle in pointing the humour by slight signals, Ibe pause or lift of an eyebrow, the sneer or smile (neither the audience nor the speaker quite knows which) at the key moments. It requires also tremendous care in diction, especially over consonants and small words: here there 186

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SCENES FROM KING LEAR

were notable weaknesses which produced such remarkable events as the "thick and matted beer" which was found at the opening of Henry lV's tomb: there was also a tendency, especially by J. D. J . Shaw, to slur phrases, which weakened the effects . It requires, too, a real feeling for the material, a nd one sensed, perhaps wrongly, that not all the readers enjoyed or were conndent of the value of their subject matter. Again, to assist the audience in establishing the attitude I mentioned earlier, and to prevent a sense of fragmentation

which must develop in such a variety of bits and pieces, it might have been wiser for all the readers to be more intimately involved in the contributions of their colleagues : it was noticeable how the performance improved once we had got past the rather lengthy chronciles of the three Archbishops, and two or more readers could play upon each other's reactions. The im pression of individuals coming for ward to perform their party piece and then retiring decorously to the background was noticeable though not pronounced. And then the musical items, which were pure delight, although at moments the singers seemed understandably a little tired by the rigo urs of their King's Week programme: we came from the Gallican chant which lacked only the echoes of a church to produce an atmosphere of monastic devotion, to the Silver Swan, that most complex of madrigals, to the highlight, The Keys oj Canterbury, quite beautifully executed with a nicely controlled alllount of characterization by A. W. Dawson and C. S. Varcoe, past the sweet melody of Flack ton's Trio-Sonata to the rumbustious ballad of King Joh" and the Abbot oj Canterbury, where an uncertainty of words, doubtless in emulation of the unfortunate Abbot, led to some highl y improbable rhymes in the closing verses, but a lso much splendid fun. And so to Marlowe- a difficult exercise th is, to tear a scene from its context and perform it cold. Poor Marlo we was not a Shakespeare a nyho w, and the actors stru ggled rather with their task, being, like Edward, "pent and mewed" in too narrow a space. This was drama,

not anthology, and needed acting ; move ment without was needed to express the agony wit hin of him whom "grief made lunatic", Probably slIch a dramatic piece was an unwise

choice after what had gone before and without the time to warm to thei r task, the actors found it just beyond them. Nevertheless, like the sportive goats which give caprice its meaning, we gambolled nimbly and most happily, not among the wild crags of the mountain tops where dwell the Muses of Tragedy and High Comedy, but among more humble folk in the valleys, wh ich stand so thick with corn that they laugh and sing. So did we. The Players taught us "Delight in simple things And mirth that has no bitter springs" and for that delight, much thanks. B.W.W.

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THE LONDON MOZART PLAYERS WEDNESDAY, JULY 20TI-I

The programme notes told us that th is orchestra now plays once a month du ri ng the season at the Festival Ha ll to packed houses, and at least twice a year in foreign countries. This was their first concert in Canterbury, and it was good to see the Hall a lmost fu ll in spite of the appall ing weather (and a World C up match), a nd the a udience gave them an enthusiastic reception . By the precision of thei r ensemble, their sensitive and matched

phrasing, excellent tone and intonation, and, rarest of all, sense of tonal balance within the ensemble, they showed immediately why they arc in slich demand. The oboists in the Entry oj the Queen oj Sheba ph rased together in an aston ishi ng way. One could say that the six first violins over-balanced the four seconds in occasional excha nges, particularl y as the latter were seated on the right, directing their sound away from the aud ience; but this was seldom noticeable in the rest of the programme.

The work one awaited most eagerl y to hear was the neglected 9 l st Symphony of Haydn ; a nd one understood that the orchestra particularly enjoyed playi ng it. It indeed proved the happiest and most subtle of orchestral inspirat.ions, from the beautifu ll y orchestrated Theme and Variations (here the players seemed to reach thei r highest point in the evening's programme) to the brilliant fillale, full of those unexpected and humoro us rh ythmic and melod ic turns, where the violins excelled. One could hardly expect a greater musical treat. The Mozart Flute Concerto is a pleasant work, not of the same stature. The soloist, Christopher Hyde-Sm ith, perhaps sensed this. At any rate, he seemed a little tense, a nd only settled to more relaxed playing in the Rondo, for which he was very warmly applauded. Alan Rawsthorne dedicated his Divertimento to the conductor, Harry Blech. Its performwas confident and presumably authoritative. The outer fa st movements were very enjoyable, terse and gritty. At first hearing the Lullaby seemed a little studied; a di fferent title might have helped . a n~e

It was a good idea to end the concert with one of Mozart's lighter symphonies, in B flat (K.319), written in the same summer as the Sinjonia Concertallte jor Violill alld Viola. Without the same depth, except perhaps in the slow movement, it nevertheless made an excellent curtain to the last concert of the season. They played it with abandon- a little too much so in one pJace where onc violinist took a whole phrase to become aware that

he was noticeably out of tune! But probably only another visit of these players will give us such pleasu rable mome nts as in the Haydn, for which we thank Harry Blech and his fine orchestra. R.P.S.

188

SERENADE IN THE CLOISTERS THURSDAY, JULY 2 1ST

Disappointment that bad weather had made necessary the transfer of this popular King's Week event to the Shirley Hall was easily borne; the jud iciously chosen programme and the excellence of its execution went far to compensate for the loss of its aljresco setting. The reviewer's difficult task in commenting on an even ing of such varied and assured musicmak ing can only be discharged by his recording what were for him its highlights. The Madrigal Society's singing of Brahms's Liebeslieder Walzer and its piano duet accompani ment captured the spirit and tunefulness of these gay love-songs, and this was only one of its severa l admirably sun g contributions ra nging from sixteenth century madrigals and ballets to the very different Quatrains Valaisains of Milha ud.

Of the various instrumental ensembles, brass, woodwind, and strings, the last was perhaps the most satisfying, a confident performance of Warlock's Capriol Suite which accurately conveyed the flavo ur of the old French dances on which it is based. The G lee Club played no second fidd le to the Madrigal Society but rather a different instrument. Its bold singing of two Songs oj Yale and a selection of negro spirituals was enthusiastically received. The concert closed with the Madrigal Society's singi ng of the delightful and moving Sillg me a sOllg lVithout a note oj sadlless by the Italian composer, Vecchio If we had heard this Serenade not "Where light a nd shade repose, where music dwells Lingering .... .. yet we ca me away with it .. .. wa nderi ng on as loth to die; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality." R.N.P.

ONE MAN'S SHOW-LARRY ADLER FRIDAY, J ULY 22ND

Mr. Adler is a musician of international stature, and quite convincingly demonstrated that because a n organ is blown by lungs rather than bellows it is by no means a negligible musIcal IIlstl'ument. Furthermore he is a composer- and the illustration of his music for the film Genevieve demonstrated a pleasing use of the instrument, gaining an effect which could not have been achieved by another means. The mouth organ takes reasonably happily to a vlOhn part, and seems made for the Blues, if you like Blues. 189

Out Mr. Adler's ambitions do not stop there: he likes to be funny, too. For pa rt of the time he was very funn y indeed : when a Jew tells Jewish stories they are always good, for they are part of the defence mechanism of a persecuted minority, a nd have been refined by many generations of natural selection, so that they leave the Gentile listener with a feeling of comfortable amused tolerance. God can qu ite appropriately be addressed as "Boss" when we know that after all it is onl y a Jewish god. His musical stories were funny too, and his sketch of the bored accompanist a piece of first rate clowning, though the assumption of a purple gown was a distracting irrelevance, once the sketch was under

way. So far, so good, and very good indeed. But unhappily Mr. Adler'S ambitions go further still. Topicality was the next step, and some might well have thought it was a step too far. Any sane institution is always taking the mickey out of itself, but whe n an outsider does it, he runs the risk by just missing the atmosphere, of showing himself to bean outsider. What might perhaps be unexceptionable elsewhere is subtly d ifferent from the literary idiom of Canterbury. The audience's embarrassment was for Mr. Adler : we liked him and he was trying very hard to entertain us, and for most of the time succeed ing very well; we just didn't like to see things goi ng wrong. LN.W.

THE SYMPHONY CONCERT The orchestra this year contained an unusually large number of young players, particularly in the woodwind section, whose first King's Week appea rance this was. But their lack of experience was in no way evident in tonight's outstanding concert. In Brahms' Tragic Overture the strings produced a vÂ˘ry powerful tone, supported by some fiery brass playing in the outer section of the work. Particularly remarkable were the skilfully handled triplets by the violins in the quieter middle section and their brave handling of passages in the higher register towards the end. While the brass chorale could perhaps have been played with a little more confidence, the horns produced a very pleasing tone, which was characteristic of their competent playing throughout the concert. The orchestra brought this passionate overture to a thrilling conclusion with great precision and enthusiasm. 190

This was followed by Beethoven's Emperor Concerto with Ronald Smith as the fluent and impressive soloist. After the brilliant arpeggios from the piano, the strings played the opening subject with all the verve it requires, a nd in fact for a good deal of this exposition one completely forgot that it was a school orchestra one was listening to. The return of the openin g theme was an exciting climax, and the full power of the orchestra was demon-

strated in the fina l tutti. The second movement was particularly enjoyable because of the lovely opening on muted strin gs, the sustained wind playing and the sensitive and beautiful phrasin g of the soloist. In the vivacious last movement the piano and orchestra were

splendidly integrated. We have become acc ustomed to the excellence of Mr. Smith's playing, but this surely was one of his finest performances, and the orchestra accompanied

him throughout with great sympathy. The second half opened with a performance of Sequences by Kenneth V. Jones, O.K.S ., who was there in person to hear it. This work is in two movements, and, in the words of the composer, "was inspired by a study of the mediaeval ecclesiastic verse structures". In the first movement the orchestra showed tremendous depth of sonority and clarity in the woodwi nd solos in th is Ravcl- like texturc. The second movement was a feat of virtuosity, and the complex rhythms were thrown off with amazing ease, making very exciting

listening. T his movement was encored at the end of the concert. After some slightly imperfect ensemble playing in the opening Adagio of Schubert's Symphony No.6 in C, we were treated to some delightful woodwind playing in the Allegro. The charming second movement was played wit h Viennese grace and the lively Scherzo was carried off with great sk ill, particularly by the violins in their tr icky quaver passages. The woodwind playing in the last movement, as throughout the symphony, made this a memorab le performance of an exquisite wo rk. No praise can be great enough for the tremendous enthusiasm d isplayed by a ll performers, and the unfailing inspiration of Edred Wright's leadership. W.H.W. T.P.M.Y.

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SPEECH DAY, 1966 \

THE HEADMASTER'S SPEECH Mr Chairman, Mr. Mayor, My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, I remember years ago in the Parish where 1 began my ministry feeling immensely flattered by a lady who said to me: "Mr. Newell, I did like that sermon which you preached on Sunday" . And then, as my ego swelled visibly, she added with subtle deflationary effect: "1 have enjoyed it every time you have preached it". Well , there is an inevitable repetitiveness about Speech Days and about Headmasters' orations on such an occasion. Yet that surely yo u must forgive . For is it not a sound rule in teaching that first you tell people wl~ a t

yo u are goin g to sa~, then

YO LI

say it, and finally

YOLI

remind them of what you have

saId? And that I have tned to do these last three years. But surely it must also be tweand I have no doubt research wo uld substantiate it- that the first Speech Day was invented by a wise Headmaster who saw in it the perfect way of redressing the balance between compliment and criticism. And for two reasons- first, because he could be judiciously selectIVe in what he said about his school and secondly because, if Speech Day happily fell upon the last day of the school year, no-one could answer back. I will thereFore Follow the traditional pattern, and I do so with the greater confidence because I know that yo u would wish me to say something about the School's achie vements thi s year and about

OUf

prospects for the future before I a llow myself the privilege of givi ng expression to any random reflections of my own which may be of passi ng interest. First, then, O Uf achievements. Academ ica ll y. it has been a year of high and commanding success- somewhere about the best we have had- with twen ty-two open and two closed scholarships or exhibitions at Oxfo rd and Cambridge, severa l industrial awards and two Trevelyan Scholarships. It is noteworthy too that, though we do not neglect the other

Universities, we shall this year be sending in all the high fi gure of Forty-three boys to Oxford or Cambrid ge and that the number of "A" Level passes rose From 142 in 1964 to 17 1 last year. These are indeed significant and encouraging fi gures, and thou gh when I turn to our music statistics are not so readily available it is at least worth record in g that the num.ber- and, 1 think, the quality- of <;>ur Music Scholars!lip cand idates was quite ex-

ceptIOnal. And who that heard them wlil not remember WIt h delight our production of Patience, the ,C~rol Service and the Pass,ion Music, ~ nd the rich musica l fea st of Kin g's Week? And If III what are called the major sports tillS has not been, in spite of strenuous efforts, one of our greatest seasons, th ere is ample compensation in the record of triumphant and uninterrupted success enjoyed by the specialists in Cross-Country, Fencing and Athletics- not to mention o ur best ever performance at Bisley, where we came thirteenth out of 102 schools in the Ashbu rton Shield, and in the first instance tied For first place in the Spencer-Mellish Trophy. Nor can 1 believe that there is any Cambridge man here so twi sted in loyalty or so narrow in his sympathies as not to have rejoiced when on March 26th the brothers Freeman brought to Oxford a victory so well-deserved- whatever the cost to Anglo-American understanding. ]f I were to feel no pride in these thin gs it wou ld be unnatural, and experience always sees to it that a Headmaster's pride is tempered by humility. But in any case a Headmaster's

powers are very limited. A ll he can do is to try to maintai n or create th e climate or 192

atmosphere in whi ch these thin gs are possible, and let me give honour where the honour

is due. First, to the boys- the raw m~terial as it were. You will not mistake me when I say that I have found that there IS nothing of whIch they are not capable. Admittedly, they are not Free of ofl glllal Sin. How could they be- when they are made of the same base metal as ourselves ? But Th ave always been imprcssed at King's by the way they worksome of them- and by thelf s~und good sense and sane idea lism. I was reading the other ~~y III a school magazlT~e.a ,: ar~,cle abo ut leavmg school. "Leaving School", says the author, IS much harder than JOining It. In your first years attitudes are simple and heroic' it's a matter of , us' and 'them' and the war to th~ knife. But gradually relationships becom'e more complicated ~ we pass through confrontatIOn , cold wa r and co-ex istence to a sort of wary en tente cordtale and the demands of peace are much subtler than th ose of war". Well

llike to think that at Kin g.'s we reach that stage somewhat sooner and that earlier maturity has SO I1l~ advantages. WhIch b':lIlgs me to th e masters, for with out their generous expendi-

ture of tllne, energy and enlerpflse none of these things which I have mentioned would have been possible. On your behalf and on my own T thank them. If ever at the end of a long day III school they call to Illllld the words of Thomas Carlyle: "Better to perish than to continue schoolmastering"- a sentiment which I suppose boys in temporary frustration might occasionally echo. I hope they will remember too how mueh is owed to them by how many and so find <as I have done) a more than compensating delight in the achievements of those they teach- whether it be a hard-won "0" Level pass or a University scholarship. I turn now to the parents, for this is especially a parents' day and [always enjoy meeting them whether it be on some occasion of high ceremony or less formally to discuss some individual problem or nothing in particular. The days are long past when parents and schoolmasters VIewed one another WIth a wary suspicion if not with positive distaste. We

are i~deed partners in the task of producing from the raw material of which I have spoken a fim shed artIcle of elegance and distinction , but in the last resort- make no mistake abo ut it- it is the home influence which matters most. We try to help in this by showing that at school as in the home it is the individual who counts and by making all the provision we can for IllS personal development and Full potential. That is one reason why I would emphasise again the importance of your being in close touch throughout his school career :vlth your ~on' s t~tor and housemaster, and it is good to realise that this personal concern

IS so heartliy recIprocated by your continuing interest in the School and its welfare; for yo ur generous. support of the Headmaster's Fund has enabled me to do much for your sons whIch otherWIse would have ' been beyond our means and competence. It may be that some who ha ve not already done so would care to help in this. I have heard it said that there IS no pleasure-so exquisite as to do a good deed by stealth and to have it found out by: accident- which I would happily a rrange. One more thing I must say to you, and it is thIS. I know well enough that fees must be a problem, no doubt an increasing problem, however modest in our claims we try to be, and however much I may emphasise that relatively speaking a public school education is not expensive. But of one thing let us beware. Let us not emulate a certain political party-I will not say which- and become a trifle self-conscious about the whole principle of fee-paying schools- though, of course, It IS yo u who pay the fees and not the schools. It is on ly through independent education that you as parents can exercise that freedom of choice which you rightly value and which is a basic right firmly embedded in the Education Act. 193

And now about our prospects for the future. You might have thought judging by the record I have put before you that they are bright enough with no fu rther comment needed, and so I think ultimately they are. But it would be d isingenuous of me to pretend that there are not hazards a head. One might be discriminatory legislation; another- at a deeper level- is envy, and I was reminded of this by a distinguished offici al in the Department of Education and Science who quoted to me in this context the wo rds of G. K. Chesterton: "But for the virtuo us th ings you do,

The righteous wo rk, the public ca re, It shall not be forgiven you." Well, whatever the present haza rds, I th in k ultimately it may. I am not so bereft of faith in the ultimate wisdom of my fellow-countrymen as to think otherwise. But of the dangers of destructive envy let me have no doubt, of those who for whatever reason fail to see how much easier it is to destroy than to create- especially when they ha ve as their allies people who delight in manipulating what they do not understand . There are gnomes elsewhere than at ZUrich . Yet for all that we shall await the findin gs of the Public Schools Commission not with the smugness of the rail passenger who knows he has a first class ticket for the first class seat which he is occupying but with a certain measured confidence in our survival value- our value, that is, to the country as a whole a nd to the community at la rge. For consider for a moment the value of the independent schools to the State system of education, which has learned much from us in the past not only in high acadcmic standards which matter immensely whatever current fashion may suggest, but in personal responsibility too and in out-of-school activity. Indeed, I sometimes think that the greatest im mediate reform in State ed ucation wo uld be the reintroduction of Saturday morning school- an end to the five-da y week might solve our economic problems too- so that much excellent modern equipment might be more adequately used, and that we might see an end to the depressing Saturday morning spectacle of endless queues of children waiting to see second-rate films when they might be far better employed on games or other school-directed activities. And is it not significant that in the Soviet Union where an erstwhile passion for equality is increasingly tempered by the sober realism of common sense they now recognise the need in the interests of society as a whole to make special provision for the very able every bit as much as for the handicapped and the retarded? Hence their wide range of "Wunderkind" schools, schools for the specially gifted or for infant prodigies. It would perhaps be rash to claim that all the gentlemen of the King's School fall within that category, but at least statistics show that we are already very nearly two-thirds a Sixth Form College, and quite a distinguished Musical Academy as well. There are those who trumpet their determination that the Public Schools shall make the maximum contribution to meeting the educational needs of the country. They may ye t find that the best way to do that is to leave the Public Schools alone- with this one exception that they ask us to provide boarding places at State expense for those who need and might profit by them, and that is something which we would gladly do. 194

I am reminded here of the story of the broad-minded Yorkshire Bishop who was approached some years ago by a shocked churchman with the news that a certain curate was to ride in the Grand National. "Is he?" said the Bishop, "then I'll bet yo u he wins." It is indicative of the respect and affection in which much besides the greatest of all steeplechases is held in this country and of a certain basic awareness that it is much easier to break a tradition than to build up a new one. So I view the future with hope and confidenceprovided we arc on our guard against a debasement of standards an~ ~ de~asement of

language. There must be no trahison des clerks, no treachery frolJ,l wlthm, dIctated by a fond desire to be in the van of educatIOnal thought or pohttcal prejudIce whIch even goes so far as to urge (hat boys should no longer be allowed to fail examinations as this is bad for them and that in future places at Oxford a nd Cambridge should be awarded by lottery. And we' must be wa ry too abo ut the use of words. It is so easy to let "merit" and "excellence" be given an unpleasan tly superior sound or to call it a "rat race" because

yo u fear yo u may fail in the competition. Again: when it is suggested that we should move towards a progressively wider ranger of academiC attaInment, what does that mean? If It means that we should broaden our curriculum without sacrifice of depth , splendid- I feel I am on the right lines by introducing all boys to science and by giving more opportunity for Russian and Italian, though a short time ago I thought that if I had been a really farsighted Headmaster I should have introduced Hungarian. But if "a wider range of a.eademic attainment" is a ministerial euphemism for a progressive loweflng of the standards In which we believe, then we can do no other than fight it and that I believe as a united family,

Governors, School and Parents we can successfully do which is a further and substantial ground for confidence. And now, before time outruns me, let me mention some of the things which have delighted me in the past year so that you too may share my pleasure. There is the nearer prospect of new classrooms with much consequent re-development in the Walpole area. There are the very moving letters of appreciation which I have received in response to our social work

a mong the old and infirm in Canterbury. There was the Harvey Society lec(ure on "Sleep" which drew a large audience motivated, no doubt, by an interest in the modern techntque of Hypnoped ia which tells yo u that you may learn while you sleep- though frequent experiment hereabouts has not yet finally determined whether you may also sleep whIle you learn. There has been the great reassurance given me by the Captain of Cricket and the Captain of Boats, winners both of them of open uni versity awards, (h~t excellence 111 both work and sport is not beyond our competence. And there was the happIest cOlllcldence of the yea r when our new Governor, Sir Frank Lee, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, who had himself been Chairman of the Final Selection Committee, went out of his way to show his loyalty a nd interest by bringing us the first news that we had won those two Trevelya n Scholarships. Lastly, there are our visitors, rich in variety and many

in number. I have numerous requests sponsored , it may be, by the British Councilor the Foreign Press Association and we try to meet them all. Could yo u possibly show round the school tomorrow a delegation of educationists from Pakistan o r twenty-three Primary 195

School teachers from Northern Sweden, a Japanese Professor who is spending a week-end in England and is studying all aspects of British education, or the Beauty Queen from Port Elizabeth? We do our best, and at least the Beauty Queen presented no problem. Nor in fact did the ladies and gentlemen of the Foreign Press Association, though their almost exclusive interest seemed to lie in fagging (which within limits I regard as a good thing and which in any case is nicely controlled by inflation and the laws of supply and demand) and in corporal punishment. Some confusion was caused here by language problems when I said that we kept it only as a sort of ultimate deterrent which led by devious logic to the alarmed conclusion by a French Lady Journalist that our C.CF. kept nuclear weapons in its armoury. At least all this shows how wide is our conception of ed ucation, and it was some reward, too, to be sent an article in Afrikaans wh ich appeared in one of the Orange Free State newspapers praising not only the courtesy of the gentlemen of King's but the orthodoxy of their hair-cuts. Well, I have all but done, yet two things remain. As you will have seen, ladies and gentlemen, today's programme is changed in one respect. It seemed to me that our dramatic interests were so well catered for in King's Week that it was superfluous to add to them today. We shall therefore in a few minutes revert to the original tradition of "Speeches" and end proceedings with a few short recitations and an epilogue by the boys. I would not want them to have no part in Speech Day and l hope that you will all stay and find this a fitting conclusion. My last word must be one of personal gratitude to my Captain of School, George Bell, who has served this place so splendidly. It says something for his loyalty and his tenacity of purpose that to keep an important appointment with me last January he braved the terrors of a Nigerian revolution, and that when the steward pointed out that tbere were already forty-nine passengers clamopring for a place on an out-going aircraft with a seating capacity of forty, he said decisively "Then [ will take your seat" . . The steward took one look at his physique- and relented, and twenty-four hours later the Captain of School kept his appointment with me. It is a tradition which, [ am sure, will be nobly upheld by his successor, Richard Wilson, Captain of Luxmoore, strongly supported in the Precincts (as [ know he will be) by Andy Hodson. Thank you , Mr. Dean; thank YOLl, Mr. Mayor, for gracing this occasion by your presence; and thank you, ladi es and gentlemen , for your forbearance.

1.P.N.

196

ACADEMIC AND OTHER DISTINCTIONS GAINED 1965-1966 OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARSHIPS G. J. R. BELL M. R. H. BOURNE

J. F. CHESSHYRE R. H. DAVIES W. J. DAVIES N. A. H. DAWNAY

I. R. GRANT P. S. JENKINS

J. R. KIL.BEE P. A. KING ...

C. J. LEE C. W. F. McDONALD I. D. K. MEEK

J. A. OGLEY ... J. F. POTIER."

D. G. POWELL

A. A. RANICKI M. M. RICKARDS G. W. ROWBOTHAM

D. I. SALES

...

Open Exhibition in History, Emmanuel College, Cambridge Open Exhibition in History, Lincoln College, Oxford Open Scholarship in History, Trinity College, Cambridge Choral Scholarship, King's College, Cambridge Open Scholarsbip in Modern Languages, New College, Oxford Postmastership in Natural Science, Merton College, Oxford Open Exhibition in Modern History, Oriel College, Oxford Open Scholarship in History, st. Edmund Hall, Oxford Open Exhibition for Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford Open Scholarship in Mathematics with Physics; (Townsend Scholar), st. John's College, Cambridge Open Scholarship in Natural Science, Lincoln College, Oxford Open Exhibition in Modern Languages, Jesus College, Cambridge Demyship in Modern History, Magdalen College, Oxford Open Exhibition in History, Hertford College, Oxford Choral Scholarship, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Open Exhibition in History, Selwyn College, Cambridge Open Scholarship in Mathematics and Physics, Trinity College, Cambridge Open Exhibition in Engineering Science, st. John's College, Oxford Open Exhibition in Modern History, st. John's College, Oxford. Open Scholarship in Mathematics, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. 197

{

W. J. WOOD T. P. M. YOUNG E. H . BAILEY

G. J. R. BELL J. F. CHESSHYRE S. N. JOLLEY N. D. KING .. . P. I. LUSON '" M. M. RICKARDS L. C. RUTLAND T. G. D. SHANNON ... B. C. TOOBY ... J. D. WILLIAMS

Open Exhibition in Natural Science (Physics), Hertford College, Oxford. Academical Clerkship (Tenor), Magdalen College, Oxford. Passed Associated Board Examination, Grade VIII ('cello)-Merit Passed Associated Board Examination, Grade VIII (Singing)- Distinction Trevelyan Scholarship Trevelyan Scholarship Awarded Harveian Society Prize Passed Examination for A.R.C.O. Trinity College, Oxford; Ford Studentship Scholarship awarded by the Vickers Group Passed Associated Board Examination, Grade VIII (Violin)- Merit Jesus College, .Cambridge; Duckworth Exhibition for Medicine Scholarship awarded by the English Electric Company Passed Associated Board Examination, Grade VIII ('cello)-Distinction

AWARDS GAINED AT THE UNlVERSITffiS

E. A. DAVIDSON

R. M. FRANKLIN

C. H. IMBER ... G. D. KING ... C. E. MALONEY T. M. PARTINGTON ...

D. J. M. RAY D. N. RUSHTON

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; the FrereSmith Prize in Law; Tapp Post-graduate Scholarship Christ Church, Oxford; Senior Research Scholarship; placed Third in the Civil Service Commissioners Examination Magdalene College, Cambridge; First Class Honours in the Oriental Languages Tripos, Part II Jesus College, Cambridge; First Class Honours in the Mathematical Tripos, Part II King's College, Cambridge; Ph.D. LL.B., and appointed Assistant Lecturer in Law at Bristol University Edinburgh University; a C.I.B.A. Fellowship Trinity College, Cambridge; First Class Honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II- Physiology with Psychology 198

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; First Class Honours in the Mathematical Tripos, Part IB Worcester College, Oxford; First Class Honours in Modern History st. John's College, Cambridge; the Sera Norton Prize in History st. Catherine's College, Oxford; Honorary Scholarship in Law Moderations St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington; the Harmsworth Clinical Scholarship

R. G. STANDING

R. ST. J. STEVENS S. G. F. SPACKMAN L. A. TUCKER

C. S. W. WRIGHT

OTHER DISTINCTIONS

THE REVD. D. L. EDWARDS, M.A. Appointed Dean of King's College, Cambridge MAJOR-GENERAL G. LE F. PAYNE, C.B.E. Awarded the C.B. COMMANDER W. T. LOCK, R.N. Awarded the O.B.E. Rowing Blue, Oxford R. A. D. FREEMAN Rowing Blue, Oxford C. H. FREEMAN SERVICE AWARDS

R.A.F. University Cadetship R.A.F. Scholarship to Cranwell Passed out of Sandhurst Passed out of Sandhurst Passed out of Sandhurst Cadetship, Dartmouth Scholarship to Royal Military College of Science, Shriven ham

1. R. DAY

N. J. DAY R. I. W. GILLAN

C. N. GORDON-WILSON R. J. R. M. HENDERSON D. C. K. ROBERTS N. J. C. THOMAS

PRESENT HOLDERS OF EXHIBITIONS GENERAL FUND EXHIBITION GILBERT & SHEPHERD FUND GIFTS ROSE'S CHARITY GIFT STANHOPE FUND GIFT BUNCE FuND ' SIDEBOTHAM BEQUEST

C. J. H. King to College of Estate Management, London T. P. M. Young to Magdalen College, Oxford N. E. de Silva to Emmanuel College, Cambridge R. W. Arnold A. D. Troup M. J. Knightley to St. Catharine's College, Cambridge R. B. Howard-Williams 199

J. P. G. Revington

WADDINGTON G IFT CRAWFORD EXHIBITION (FOR BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL) MCCURDY SCHOLARSHIP (FOR OXFORD) ... OLIVER JOHNSON G IFTS LEATHBRSELLERS' EXH I BITION

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N . E. de Silva R . S. Hallam to Pembroke College, Oxford P. K. Jenkins to Oriel College, O"Jord D . J. F . Payne to Keble College, Oxford J . S. Foster C. G. F. Robinson M. J . N. Baker to Christ Church, Oxford

PRIZES, 1965- 66 Form Prizes: New Shell

R. A. Canner A . G. L. Lyle G. F . Wilson B. D. Clifford R. F. Page G. S. Thomson J. P. R. Heyland N. A. V. Poulsen J. D . Box M. W. B. Taylor P. N . Hanet J . F. M. Done T. P. Dutton C. E. H . Spells P. M. D. Shires R. H . W. Duckworth

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S.VA A.VD A.Vc A.Mid .V A.VB A.VA Geography : Lower School ... M iddle School...

W. Edmondson S. W . Warburton

History: Lower School ... Middle School (Gordon) Upper School ...

A. M. Barrett-Blackmore S. A. R. McLea n G. J. R. Bell 200

, English: Lower School ... Middle School (Galpin) Upper School ...

J. J. Raemaekers S. H. F. Harwood N. F. R iddle

Science Prizes: Lower School:

S. P. Hollis W. R. Roberts A. G. L. Lyle A. B. J. Willett J. A. Barnden J. A. Barnden G. M . A. Heaton C. J . Lee M . D. C. Moles

Biology Physics Chemistry Middle School : Biology Physics Chemistry Upper School : Biology Physics Chemistry

Modern Languages Prizes (Greaves): Lower School : French

P. J. Wagstaff P. W. Sprunt B. A. Kirsch A. T. Jones K. D . C. Bayliss C. W. F. McDonald

German Middle School: French

German Upper School : French

German Mathematics Prizes (Harrison): Lower School .. . M idd le School... Upper School ...

B. D . Rapson E. W. Marsland P. A . King

Latin Prizes: Lower School ... Middle SchooL .. Upper School .. .

S. G. H. Freeth R. A. Chamberlin A. B. Marshall

Greek PrIzes : Lower School ... Middle SchooL .. Upper School ...

G . S. Thomson R. A. Chamberlin A. B. Marshall

The O.K.S . Salvete Essay Prize

B. D. Clifford

The O.K.S. Music Prizes ...

R . W. Arnold C. W. Blake R. J. Winchester

Carpentry Prize

D. R. R ichardson 201

N. G. Tee J. B. Godman

Pfizer Company's Prize Cathedral Prizes (Miss Dorothy Mills): Junior Senior ...

Not awarded W. N. Bryson S. N. Jolley

Archaeology Prizes (Geoffrey Wells): Junior ... Senior ...

Not awarded F. E. W. L. Gottesmann

History (John Crawford): Lower School ... Middle School... Upper School ...

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P. W. Sprunt P. J. Hall W. N. Bryson

History (H. V. Crawford): Lower School ... Middle School... Upper School ...

R. Andrews M. J. Graham W. N. Bryson

Gift for Physics and Chemistry (Oliver Johnson)

N. A. H. Dawnay

Musical Appreciation (Alan Baker)

W. N. Bryson

Cantuarian Lodge (General Paper)

J. D. Foster M. McD. Simpson

O.K.S. Science: Lower School ... Middle School... Arts Fifths Sci. VIB Upper School ...

R. 1. Cowderoy A. J. B. Talbot N. W. Townsend M. C. Moore Not awarded P. R. Beech

O.K.S. Mathematics: Lower School ... Middle School...

A. C. N. Girling C. N. Wood

Cantuarian Prizes: Junior ... Senior ...

J. K. Harris B. C. Tooby

Harvey Society (Blore)

D. L. Smith 202

Divinity Prizes: Lower School (Lady Hertslet) Middle School (Marshall Wild) Upper School (Broughton)

G. F. Wilson Not awarded M. Thom

Drawing Prizes: Junior Open ...

P. J. de Vroome D. P. Imber S. J. Nicholls

Photography (Gough): Junior Open .. .

Not awarded M. P. Powell K. T. Grant

History (Everitt) (Stanley)

S. A. R. McLean M. Thorn

English (Evans)

Not awarded

King's School, Parramatta Prizes: Middle School... Upper School ...

Not awarded A. D. Troup

Natural History

A. B. J. Willett

Music (Courtney)

A. G. ÂˇL. Lyle A. W. Dawson

Music (Ryley)

R. J. A. True '

Greek Verse ...

A. B. Marshall

Latin Verse (Blore)

A. B. Marshall

Reading and Elocution (Harvey Boys): Junior ... Senior ...

H. Konigsberger P. M. Hook

Modern Languages: Middle School (Scratton)

P. N. Hanet N. G. Baskerville J. K. Walmsley

Upper School (Mitchinson) Natural Science (Mitchillson)

J. E. Fidler

Mathematics (Mitch;nson)

A. A. Ranicki

Latin Prose (Horsley): Middle School... Upper School ...

J. J. Raemaekers A. B. Marshall 203

Pfizer Company's Prize

N. G. Tee r. B. Godman

Cathedral Prizes (Miss Dorothy Mills) : Junior Senior ...

Not awarded W. N. Bryson S. N. Jolley

Archaeology Prizes (Geoffrey Wells): Junior .. . Senior .. .

Not awarded F. E. W. L. Gottesmann

History (John Crawford): Lower School ... Middle School... Upper School ...

P. W. Sprunt P. J. Hall W. N. Bryson

History (H. V. Crawford) : Lower School ... Middle School... Upper School ...

R. Andrews M. J. Graham W. N. Bryson

Gift for Physics and Chemistry (Oliver Johnson)

N. A. H. Dawnay

Musical Appreciation (Alan Baker)

W. N. Bryson

Cantuarian Lodge (General Paper)

J. D. Foster M. McD. Simpson

O.K.S. Science: Lower School ... Middle School... Arts Fifths Sci. VIB Upper School ...

R. 1. Cowderoy A. J. B. Talbot N. W. Townsend M. C. Moore Not awarded P. R. Beech

O.K.S. Mathematics: Lower School ... Middle School...

A. C. N. Girting C. N. Wood

Cantuarian Prizes: Junior .. . Senior .. .

J. K. Harris B. C. Tooby

Harvey Society (Blore)

D. L. Smith 202

Divinity Prizes : Lower School (Lady Hertslet) Middle School (Marshall Wild) Upper School (Broughton)

G. F. Wilson Not awarded M. Thorn

Drawing Prizes: Junior Open ...

P. J. de Vroome D. P. Imber S. J. Nicholls

Photography (Gough): Junior Open ...

Not awarded M. P. Powell K. T. Grant

History (Everitt) (Stanley)

S. A. R. McLean M. Thorn

English (Evans)

Not awarded

King's School, Parramatta Prizes: Middle School... Upper School ...

Not awarded A. D. Troup

Natural History

A. B. J. Willett

Music (Courtney)

A. G. ÂˇL. Lyle A. W. Dawson

Music (Ryley)

R. J. A. True -

Greek Verse ...

A. B. Marshall

Latin Verse (Blore)

A. B. Marshall

Reading and Elocution (Harvey Boys): Junior .. . Senior .. .

H. Konigsberger P. M. Hook

Modern Languages: Middle School (Seratton)

P. N. Hanet N. G. Baskerville J. K. Walmsley

Upper School (Mitchinsoll) Natural Science (Mitchillson)

J. E. Fidler

Mathematics (Mitchinson)

A. A. Ranicki

Latin Prose (Horsley): Middle School... Upper School ...

J. J. Raemaekers A. B. Marshall 203

Greek Prose (Dean Farrar): Middle School... Upper School ...

D. W. M itchell A . B. Marshall

Classical (Broughton)

A. D. F. Hodson

Headmaster's Poetry Prizes: Middle School. .. Upper School ...

J. E. Fidler

M . Ahmadzadeh

Headmaster's Prizes

S. P. C. Scott R. A. Ring P. G. Boss D . R. L. Bodey D. L. Smith H. J. Holdstock N . T . G. Willis M. R. F. Reeson

Lady Davidson Prize

G. J. R. Bell

Captain's Prize (Mitchinson)

G. J. R. Bell

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CONTRIBUTIONS HAPLESS H AROLD v Two FACED TED- a fairy tale by J. K . Walmsley

206

POEM- by D. G. Powell

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J ULIAN BREAM- an impression by C. G. A. Phalp

THE INFORMATION BUREAu- a fanta sy by A . J. Bailey DING-DONG BELL}

two poems by J. E. Fidler

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GOD

208

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ON THE DOLE- a poem by R. C. G. C. Hart

211

THE CAR- a short story by F. Hallam ...

212

OH- a poem by R. C. G. C. Hart

213

STORy- by J. Ahmad zadeh

214

EPILOGUE- by W. N. Bryson

216

205

Greek Prose (Dean Farrar): Middle School. .. Upper School ...

D. W. Mitchell A. B. Marshall

Classical (Broughton)

A. D. F. Hodson

Headmaster's Poetry Prizes : Middle School... Upper School .. .

J. E. Fidler

M . Ahmadzadeh

Headmaster's Prizes

S. P. C. Scott R. A. Ring P. G. Boss D. R. L. Bodey D. L. Smith H. J. Holdstock N. T. G. Willis M. R. F. Reeson

Lady Davidson Prize

G . J. R. Bell

Captain's Prize (Mitchinson)

G. J. R. Bell

204

CONTRIBUTIONS H APLESS HAROLD v Two FACED TED- a fairy tale by J. K. Walmsley

206

POEM- by D. G. Powell

207

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ON HEAR ING A PERFORMANCE

JULIAN BREAM- an impression by C . G. A. Phalp

THE INFORMATION BUREAu- a fantasy by A. J. Bailey DING-DONG BELL} two poems by J. E. Fidler GOD

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ON THE DOLE- a poem by R. C. G. C. Hart

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THE CAR- a short sto ry by F. Hallam ...

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OI'I- a poem by R. C. G . C. Hart

213

STORy- by J. Ahmadzadeh

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EPILOGUE- by W. N. Bryso n

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HAPLESS HAROLD v TWO FACED TED

}. K. Walmsley "Now, children, are you sitting comfortably? T hen I will begin. This is the story of Hairy Harold, the big bad socialist, and Peter J. Thomson, the little adman, and Audry Hipburn, the Oat-chested witch. Once upon a time there was a man called Harold. He was a silly little man with a pipe and a false accent. Oh, yes, and he was a parliamentary leper, too, which means that he

didn't like Little Black Sambo, the chocolate boy from Smeth wick. Now the little man Harold was very worried about his Image, because he was afraid that after a hundred days' socialist misrule by the best Tory prime minister we've ever had (that's our Harold) people might be thinking by then that he was just a teeny weeny bit of a fraud. Now he was worried because he had a terrible habit of stabbing his friends in the back- he had a friend called L.B.J. but he stabbed him in the back by not doing anything about a silly little place called Vietnam, which L.B.J. wanted to drop H-bombs on to see if they would bounce, but Harold said, no that's against my principles. So Harold did nothing about Vietnam, except sell L.B.J. lots of 'airborne weapons' which unfortunately Hairless Healey the Defence Ministry Director told the Commons all about, so Honest Harold had to deny the whole thing as a fabrication of Chapman Pincher. Harold al so had a thing called the Left Wing wh ich kept on running about like a mad dog or an EnglIsh radIcal In the noon-day sun; and Harold also stabbed the Left Wing in the back, and George Brown as well-Hapless Harold was a hirsute hatchetman. So Harold went along to a firm called Young & Rubricam, which was a P.R.O., and asked them to plug him to the proles as a nice old man who smoked a nice old pipe and was very nice to everyone, except George and L.B.J. and the Left Wing, and of course Two-faced Ted. So Young & Rubricam said we will do that, and they put Peter J. Thomson on the job. But Peter J. Thomson was a failure as an adman and there was a seaman's strike: and all Harold's wailings about the Commies availed him nothing, so there was a general election and Hapless Harold the Hirsute Hatchetman was slung out on his hairless ear and Two-faced Ted toddled on to victory with the massed ranks of the Conservative Party doing the Charleston as the Whips cracked their whips and the 1922 Committee danced for Ted's Triumph. But then the seaman's strike went on and the Balance of Pay ments position deteriorated, as it generally does, and slowly it became painfully obvious that Two-faced Ted the Tory Trog was a failure, too, like all the other Perennial Politicians who Parade their Personalities in front of Robin Day, the Deputy Prime Minister, and people get bored .. . . 'The apathy of the people is simply disgusting', said Terrible Ted the Tory Twister. 'We live in an age of grab', said Mr. Roy Bunter. But people were just bored with silly sensationalism and the pandering to the proles as practised by the party's politicians for the people's progress and their personal populousness. So the percentage of the popular poll was poor; as predicted by the people's press. 206

And the politicians failed to notice one unfortunate fact: their buffoon-like antics bored the people so much and looked so silly that the people saw that this funny little game of politics didn' t mean anything, and that anyway with the old H-bomb floating about nothing meant anything any more. But Hypocrite Harold and Twister Ted did nothing to help people find a meaning ....

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So when Audrey Hipburn turned them all into toads everyone was very pleased a nd they found that with all the politicians gone life was very much easier and it was just about possible to think for yourself agai n instead of having to follow the party line and everyone li ved in multilateral disarmament ever afterward."

B.G.Powell

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"Sit down, and let me have my say. For once let age tell youth a thing or two Important. It must be nearly thirty years ago .... the year before the war, I think it was when first 1 came here." To look around I tho ught three hundred years a better guess. What's changed, or aged, but yo u, since time bega n ? I sat and heard him out. "Not that nothing's happened here. Bombs, enthronements (three, or is it four?) kings and queensand yet, because you come with collars Tazor sharp and shining shoes, and turn from young enthusiasm

to leave in older, thoughtless irreligion (you neither think nor care) you say that nothing ever hap pens here. This isn't so. Jt's still a place of pilgrimage, a place of worship too, for many people: a crucible for God on earth fed by voluntary experiment, We worship here in hopethat we may be the ones to find the Christ, the wiseman's stone, and save our souls"- or turn the world to gold. 207

ON HEARING A PERFORMANCE BY JULIAN BREAM C. G. A. Phalp It was a perfect June evening. The sky was a beautiful turquoise in the west, the after math of th e su nset. We entered thro ugh the glass doors and were faced with a modernchapel, a pseudo-S utherland tapestry hanging behind the altar. We followed the crowd past the chapel and into the theatre, which was also modern, with ceilingÂˇto-ftoor windows

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and black and white. op-art curtains. The stage had rows of chairs on it facing towards the aud itorium, and in the centre of the hall was a dais with a single empty chai r. The a udience assembled, filling th e theatre until thcre was not an empty seat left. People from all walks of life, young and ,?Id. Girls in mini-skirts, young men in jazzy hipster slacks. Men In dark SUits, women 111 summer dresses, all waltmg for the artist. Silence fell. A short plump man in evening dress made his way to the dais. The lu tanist had arrived. Since the advent of the orchestra his k ind had di ed a quiet death, the gentle mUSIc of 1115 In strument fallen out of favour in the cou rts of Europe. He took up his instrument and played a few quiet chords, and made final infinitesimal tuning adjustments. First, he played a Pavan, with great feeling, bending over his instrument until at times his head rested on it, his long fingers drawing out the sad melody from the strings .. Th~ a udie~ce remained silen,t, intent, the notes ~Iaying on their cars, bu ilding up whole tiers In the a ll', cascades tumbling down, long sustained notes rising up into the roof and becoming lost in the farthest recesses of the hall. The stately Pavan came to an end. It was followed by a Fantasia, a Galliard, a Volte, a Fancye, a succession of beautiful melodies caressed out of the instrument by his sensitive fingers. The music chosen was written by the greatest of the sixteenth century lu tanists Luiz Milan from Spain, Hans Neusidler from Germany, and from England, William ' Byrd, and perhaps the greatest of them a ll, John Dowland. Outside noises so unded stran gely loud in that silent hall. The voices of ch ildren playing fo.otsteps, a girl's laugh, a car horn, could distinctly be heard, coming in through the ope~ WIndows from the Slimmer dusk. Sounds that wou ld fade into nothing at normal times.

After the interval, Julian Bream returned with a guitar, and the pieces he had chosen were designed to show ofT the virtuosity of the instrument and the range of its tone, from a gentleness comparable to that of the l ute, to a harshness and insistency which the lute could never attain. A Fugue by Bach demonstrated the virtuosity of the instrument- and of the artist- while more subtle pieces by Villa Lobos and Sylvius Weiss showed the range of feeling and tone that can be produced by a real artist. The audience applauded, the musician bowed and left, the lights on the dais dimmed the lone seat was once more empty. The audience slowly filtered out into the now cooi ni ght air, talking and laughing, the tension of the evenin g past. A last door slammed the lights went out, the last footsteps disappeared down the corridor. The hall was no;v as quiet as during the performance, but then the silence had been charged; now it was dead. 208

THE INFORMATION BUREAU

A. J. Bailey

Radio Iniquity News Bcam:-

(Soullds oj drums and hollolV bells- electronic bOllg.) The Prime Minister (and other members of the Unions' Representative Party) has expressed deep concern about the welfare state of inhabitants in a certain city in South~East England. A thing of cubical design, and having an unusual spectra l arrangement, has been acquired by the People's Council, and now forms the hub of a new order of Knowledge. The construction appeared suddenly, almost unnoticed, and for some time remained silent, as if meditating intangible philosophy. Envoys, sent by the local authorities to in vestigate its begetting, were mentally over~powered and became its spokesmen. Through them it feeds visitors to the communal shopping centre (and infidels from across the oceans) with a menu of facts. It appears that the cube functions on ly with the help of its a ides, as it only comes alive while they are present ; they a lone have full power to alter its proclamations and announcements, which are displayed externall y. The doctrine of the super-cube, as the townsfolk have nicknamed it, is one of potted knowledge (which is, being interpreted, a condensed, e ntirely~factu a l explanation of events, wit hout any consideration of the underlying principles involved .) Throughout its ho urs of waki ng, people queue to pose it search ing questions, and are always satisfied, indeed, entranced with the answers they receive. To take a typical example, it voluntarily disclosed the dates of the beginning and end of Christianity as being 101 B.C. and 29th February, 1977, respectively. Other replies have been even more fantastic, but not so popu lar, yet everyone is guaranteed correct, and no request goes unanswered. No reasons are given as to how it arrives at these answers, but the publ ic still seem to accept the utterances of its henchmen with a fervour comparable to that of the Salvation Army. The potentia l of thi s "being's" power is phenomenal. It gives perfect solu tions to compl icated financial problems, compounds unique religions to suit the taste of any indi vidual, and claims that, if give n th e sup port and co-operation needed, it could make gorgeous Hell on ea rth. However, there have been some alarming undercurrents of opinion detectable concerning the purpose and consequences of the machine's presence.

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Some cynics have suggested th at it has been left within the wa lls for a purpose similar to that fulfilled by the Wooden Horse of Troy, by a foreign power or external civilisation jea lous of our historical heritage. Others claim it is the beginning of a new religion, its ph ys ical form being associated with the Kabah of Mecca. A certain minority of Conservatives considcr it to be a subterfuge, engineered by prominent Left Wing politicians, jealous of the constituency's Tory tendencies, who intend to lull the public into a false sense of confidence, and then indoctrinate them with Unionism.

As for ourselves, we reserve our judgement and await developments .... 209

Dilly-doilY Bell

J. E. Fidler

Death has been in this house, Death has come to play. See here is the room Where the coffin lay, Here the Druid circle on the floor, The furniture courtiers round in disarray, They had to move them outwards Slightly; wood for wood made way. The curtains are open again now. Yet still I feel all is clothed in its black velvet. I am alone for a while here, With an unsensed smell of ashes and sackcloth, So many have go ne to visit the church, And one won't be riding back.

I knew that one from a distance, In him it seemed that death Had made its claim and started work, Yet while we still heard breath hiss Through his lips, saw eyes flicker, or listened To his whispered words of uncertain clef, We carried on, as though this were just a tired Out-patient, and not a tenant of death. Still we tread soft in respectful calmness, Though death has 11ad its final say, With total release, sale act of mercy. And now coffin and shroud have gone away. Delaying surrender makes the battle more tragic? I no longer know what tragedy is. I know only of communion-chalice purity, Purity that fear, love, hate can give. One man has found the ultimate security, And brought a communion with death, peath is the perfect purity. 210

God

J. E. Fidler

I am sitting here staring at all these books. In particular I am staring at Aristotle's Theory of poetry and fine Art, Which is a nice book. I read all their books, once. I am waiting for more books to be published. I used to look right through their booksWithout opening them. I used to see T heir books before they were books. I used to watch them being planned, In the author's brain, and then executed. I do not trouble any more, I just Wait for more to come out.

Sometimes in their books They say they no longer believe In me. That does not surprise me. I no longer believe in them. I just read their books.

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0" Tile Dole

He sat, Dejected, forlorn hope occasionally showing in his eyes, Like a worn-out November sun, through a cobwebbed window. His chin the colour of the tattered sky, His hair like stranded seaweed on a chalk rock. All day he sat on the cracking bench, While his will to live drifted away, Like the last wisps of smoke From a factory chimney. 2 11

THE CAR

F. Hallam

He deceived us all. He always looked a very ordinary sort of fellow. Ordinary face; no ear missing or that haunting one-in-a-crowd look; no trace of a second nature skulking

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under his ordinary hair, ord ina ry choice of clothes; he played golf on a ha ndica p of 16; he even had Kell ogg's Corn Flakes for breakfast every morning, add ing the milk before the nin th ch ime of the clock had died away. He read the Daily Telegraph, wa tched the six o'clock news every evening and always had a coffee, with one "A fter Eight" Mint, before going to bed. There was only one extraordinary thing about him. He was so very ordinary. Our surprise was therefore all the greater when he became in volved in a mesh of events that battered his ordered mind into a state of collapse. Many of us in life ha ve a fa iling, some quirk which is never give n the opportunity to bedevil us. His "Achilles heel" was placed in the worst possible set of circumstances. It all began at fifteen seconds past nine, one morning. He was in the act of taking his second mouthful of corn flakes, when something about the packet on the table ar rested his spoon in mid-air. A strange feeling hovered beneath hi s large expanse of white shirt and then travelled rapidly upwa rds towards his throat. A shudder rippled down his back as the words : "Another competition " fell upon the silent room.

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Ten minutes and thirty seconds later, the front door closed behind him, but he left his gloves on the hall table and a square cavity in the cardboard face of his corn fl akes packet. That morning, another postcard joined the millions of others which were making thcir way to "The Sunshine Car Com petition", and the writing of the address was neat, if rather ordinary. That was in March. One hundred and twenty days later, as the s umn~er sun was caressing 34 Carlisle Road, a shadow passed the two hundred and tenth mIlk bottle, wh ich perched on the sta in of the previous two hundred a nd nine. The letter was placed on the sideboard, next to the largest saucepan , while the remains of a breakfast layout were methodically cleared away. As the occupant of that house opcned it with the spcciall y dcsignated letter-opening knife and unfolded the contents, his face assumed a look which had never wandered across it before. Meanwhile the milk behind him bubbled over the side of the ever-bright pan onto the ever-bri ght gas cooker where its meanderings died out and beca me a dirty brown evcr-ingrained mess. It was the beginning of the end. Weeks passed. D ay and night, the workings of de,tiny shook the serenity of Carlisle Road. It was October. The postman, renowed both for the size and emptiness of his head, was passing by number thirty-four. A large blue saloon was runnin g smoothly in the backyard, helped by the fact that its back wheels were not in contact with the ground, but propped up on bricks. The following day a roof-rack ap peared as if by magic; the day after, chains on the back wheels. In the days that follo wed, the amazed fellow saw luggage appear on the rack, stickers saying "Sunny S?uthend- b):, saloon" or. otl~er s~lch literature thickening on the back window and spreadm g to the SIde ones; tIger s. tails protruded from the petrol cap, the upholstery and the steenng wheel were gIven the Jlmgle look wIth a leopard's skin, a radio ariel sprouted from the bonnet and a sear~hhght jomed the roofrack. But the crowning glory was the periscope that appeared, late m the month , when the car had become little more than a mechanical pin-cushion. 212

= When the car's possibilities were exhausted, the whole house became a massive garage. Even the name changed from "G reen Tiles" to "The Lotus Pits". The owner was often seen, dressed in goggles, racing overalls, and a crash helmet, making his way past the petrol cans and twelve spare lyes which were parked outside the garage, or sliding on his trolley, from beneath his brain ch ild. "No Parking" signs appeared on the road outside and one day even a "Caution-concealed entrance" one was placed on the lamp-post of number 32. We, as his neighbours, became more and more anxious as the days went by. The house became a picture gallery and library of the motoring world. The doorbell was replaced by a car horn and the garden was left to the weeds. But worse was to come. For the next few days he slouched along, trailing a little black cloud, periodically practising his ha nd signals in the High Street and with his eyes glued to the pavement ahead. The ma nager of the bank where he worked gave him a n extension to his holidays, but it was no good. When he did return, he was fired for doodl ing pictures of cars on the backs of cheques that he handled . The priest began to visit him, but gave up when he was taken for imaginary rides in "the old gir''', at the same time receiving a running commentary of the countryside through which only one of them was passing. There is a lovely little house five miles outside Watford, but the buildings themselves a re obscured by a high wall. It is run with great efficiency by the white-overalled staff. The rooms are very pleasant, with locks on the outsides of the doors and richl y padded wa lls. The visitor is assured of a warm welcome, especially fro lll a rather ordinary sort of fellow, who sits outside in all weathers, telling whatever audience he has of the times when he so nearly "came a cropper" at Druids' Corner in 'fifty-two.

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B. C. 6. C. Hart

Oh to be back, three years ago, With Singapore and Beatles. While Cock-dow pattered on the patio, And Dong clattered in the kitchen.

Or while the monsoon, like a mist, Obscured the shell island fl a re, And bullfrogs croaked from the monsoon drains And crickets chirped from steaming grass. Or la zing above a coral reef, With colours like a diadem, And eddies, like soft cotton sheets, Smoothed over the world's fervour. But more cherishcd are the memories of 80,000 miles, Of there, and back, and there again, [n 200 flying hours: hanging a silver bolt, above a rippled sea, Or coming down with popping ears to Cairo's desert sands. 213

STORY

Ahmadzadeh

He was lucky. He had got away. Driving through the night he smiled to himself. But was it, he wondered, only luck? Would it not be truer to say that he was where he was and they were where they were, because he alone possessed the resource and nerve to

escape from a tricky situation? "Heard a scream", he had said, "and wondered what was up."

"Your name and address, sir ?"

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A fi ctitious one, of course, and the copper had let him walk away. But suddenl y he frowned. After all those weeks of planning, who would have thought that on that very night the elderly watchman wou ld have been replaced by that fi st-flailing youngster? Even managed to set ofT the alarm before they had sw ung at him with a piece of lead piping. He shuddered as he recalled the sickening so und. But he hadn't looked- he never looked. Ever since he was a kid, the sight of blood had reduced him to screaming horror. As the sound of the alarm faded awa y, the others had run out the back, hoping to escape over the high wall. But by the time they had scram bled down to the pavement, the squad cars were turning the corner. The long wai l of the siren sounded in his ears as he walked through the front entrance and waited in the silent street for the copper to come up to him. His mouth twitched at the thought of himself in the role of a pUblic-spirited citizen. "Anything I can do, officer?" The casual approach, but what would the other two, Jones and Morgan, know about that? Already he had put nearly a hundred miles between himself and the crime. That the others would have talked was beyond doubt. That the police were looking for him was equally certain. No t for the first time he blessed the fact of his nondescript appearance. An ordinary-looking man, middle-aged without any singular cast of features or noticeable blemishes. Quiet in manner and well-spoken. Not a man anybody would look at twice, let alone associate with a crime of violence. 214

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With the aid of his dashboard light he glanced at his watch . With luck, he should be in London in something less than an hour. And then? Fortunately his share of the proceeds of the last job were still almost intact. There was always someone willing to lay on an escape route if the reward were rich enough . He would ditch his car somewhere on the outskirts, not far from the small hotel which would accommodate him for the night without first askin g awkward questions. In the morning he would start making plans that would take care of the future. Ten miles to London. The illuminated sign flashed into view and he settled more comfortably into the driving seat. If he were going to be stopped it would have happened by now. Then suddenly, peering ahead through the misted windscreen he saw the unmistakeable glare of headlights. Facing the wrong way. A police cordon? He straightened and drove on at the same steady pace. Well, he had nothing to fear, he was completely in command of himself. The words he wo uld utter were already on his tongue. As the car slid gently to a halt, a red-faced policeman put his head in the open window. "Sorry to stop you, sir, but . . . ."

"That's all right, officer", he answered, obligingly, "but [ hope whatever it is, it won't take too long." He pointed to the stethoscope on the back seat. "As you see, I'm a doctor and I'm just on my way home after an urgent call .... " "A doctor?" the policeman broke in. "That's almost too good to be true. I was only going to tell you there'd be a hold-up for a bit. But as it is .... " "The ambulance it on its way, but meantime", he waved an arm in the direction of the

grass verge, "the poor chap looks likely to bleed to death . So if you'd be kind enough just to take a look at him .... " Blood! The sight of blood! He was powerless to move. He just went on sitting there, muttering to himself and shivering. Sitting there, until eventually they pulled him out of the car and led him away.

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Around us in Qur warm July, flowers 'I,

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duel incessantly, colour aga inst colour, interrupted by the burst of a new generation of fresh-fleshed birds. The poppies flicker their hot skirts, palely, as flame ignites their gases. Anaesthetic fumes rise like a drug, cupped mouths red and wailing. In our gardens the flowers and old trees are more than ornaments, not just enamel on our greystone cathedral; even the lawns take a place and make the geography of our dreams. For each corner, and every arched building is sculpture, and these precincts a vast hall, silent and filled with treasure. Memories of this place fail to fade like a sepia photograph, or a slide- . this is the changeless Eden of our honeycomb mmds, always there, behind our closed eyes, columns and walls beyond the retina, changing our actions, an unseen, unthanked advisor. What to you is a nice snap is the ageless Atlantis of what we have been, always there, submerged, time-past.

2 The cathedral is not a room for the statued dead, but a gothic palace of unexplored mysteries, carved tunnels hidden staircases, catacombs bored through'the ground li ke a termite-nest. In white surplices we move through the cave, tasting the coolness along passages, past the dogtooth arches of the dark quire, then burst like a shell through the lacybone door into the open nave, the suo's anTIS blazing its vaults to furnace-heat-gold, and the organ roars light into trumpets. We are close here to Persepolis, and to Memphis. 216

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3 It is here that we first learn to map ourselves, to find the formula of self, in black hours turn the key in our sealed-from-light souls, The moon, faded and thinned to the fringe of a fingernail held to the candle; the light hinges of an eyelid, its mauve veins; the glass drops of rain hanging on rails. Fascinated we name and define, ga ining control, cutting to size down, sculptor feels raw-cut-rock. Waking and finding worse than nightmare the IllIge marblemass of doubt, not seeing the shape locked in stone, not feeling God's pattern boned in our flesh. 4

Friendships grow, seeded by chance meeting, delicate as a Chinese painting on fine silk, easily destroyed, easily decayed . Now boys of summer, moving with a new strength find the force that drives the flower through earth , and moves seas to tide. This is the moment, the high hawk poised before his death dive, when beauty is viewed in a private dark and the pigment has not yet faded out to show skin sallow. Dogday years when the pulse runs its hot race through and the honey does not sour our sugar throats.

5 Hopes now purer than radium will die with time, ideals change for facts and hates, guilt, greasing like Hiroshima ash and eating in. But there are no weapons in our handwe are young, we have nothing to do with explosions. Today for many of us sees the end of an age and we leave our cathedral for town streets with torn posters, coffee bars, the traffic. We may forget names we know now and lose the addresses of fr iends. But th is ground cannot change. You will always be with us.

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This has undoubtedly been one of the most disappointing seasons for many years and this has been mainly due to a sharp deeline in the quality of the batting. Although it was anticipated that the batting would fa ll short of that of recent years it was certainly hoped and expected that some of the newcomers to the side would bring with them more skill and determination than their play has revealed. Some of the reasons for their poor performances are patently obvious to those who know and understand cricket. Because of the loss of form of their captain there was no player to set a standard and for match after match the batting ranged from the tentative to the adventurous and there was little or no soundness to see them through. Of course there were some good innings played but few of these were of sufficient duration or dimension to have left behind any lasting lmpression. However, one can recall with some pleasure the face-saving innings of C. C. N. Bridge against St. Lawrence College, that of J. R. Kilbee against the M .C.C., and of these two and J. R. Wilson against the Band of Brothers, and it requ ired but few more of these In the course of the season for more than these three matches to have been won. Time after time the bowlers put the side into a winning position only to see their splendid efforts dissipated by the batsmen. J. D. W. Wright is a bowler of considerable merit and is as fast and as accurate as any we have had for some seasons, and the support he was given by M . J. Gray, J. R. Ki lbee, C. J. C. Rowe, and later by J. Frankland, was more than adequate. Fairly frequent changes were made to the team in an effort to improve the batting but none of those who were tried really made the grade. Other changes were made to improve the field ing and in this department of the game there was some success. Gray showed his customary brilliance in the gully, Kilbee took some fine catches at slip, and G. K. Jaggers seemed to enjoy doing a really good job in the covers. The standard of throwing was again high. R. G . S. Draycott started t he season promisingly a nd made two or three useful scores against good elub bowling but when it came to the school matches he was amongst those who fai led. Jaggers and Wright are both attacking players and some quick and quite goodlooking runs came from them now and again but they were too inconsistent to be said to have had good seasons. Gray was a determined and useful opening batsman who never found a satisfactory partner. Kilbee often looked good but he undoubtedly felt the strain that the rest of the batting imposed upon him and he was seldom sufficiently relaxed to do himself justice. Some of the best inn ings came from Bridge who, in spite of faults in technique, has the right temperament and not a little experience behind him. 220

• It is certainly true that much of cricket is in the mind of the player, and success with the bat can only come from those who apply themselves with concentration and determination and who can properly appreciate the cond itions and the state of the game. Net practic~ does not rea lly help to develop these attributes and although several of those who were tried in the XI looked good in the nets they were lacking in experience of batting in matches.

With the notable exception of Rowe none of the newcomers had much success, though J. Frankland, whose entry into the side was delayed by injury, did enough with his offspinners to inspire high hopes for the future. Although not yet fifteen, Rowe is already up to. lst XI standard as a batsman and his leg-break and googlie bowling is exceptionally prom!SlIlg. Bridge is now a very good wicket-keeper and D. G. Gallyer. who substituted for him in some of the club games shows fa ir promise. However, as with some others, he will have to show improvement next season if he is not to be overtaken by keen younger players in the School. C.F.

1st XI Matches

K.S.C. v St. Lawrence C.C. Played at St. Stephen's on May 12th Match Drawn Heavy overnight rain made the pitch and the outfield very slow. St. Lawrence lost their first two wickets for 3 runs and half the side were out for only 34 runs, but Jones was batting very well and pulled his side out of trouble with 85 out of 123, King's ,made a £:ood start and in pa rt icular Draycotl batted very well, scoring 49 in his firs t match, Wright made 19 III even {!Ole and when he was out 25 nlnS were needed in the last quarter of an hour but instead of taking quick singles the batsmen tried to hit boundaries and lost thei r wickets in the process: At the end King's were only 3 rllns short of victory. ' St. Lawrence

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K.S.C. v Dulwich College Played at Dulwich on May 14th Lost by 5 wickets King's started disastrously, losing their first wicket with the fi rst ball of the match. Wilson batted well Kn is.ht. This was the start of a collapse and it was Wright for an .hour before he \yas bowled for 36 and Bndge who by addmg 25 runs for the mnth WIcket made the score a little respectable.

The Dulwich 'opening pair seemed to have little trouble from the King's opening attack. Knight batted well for his 64 and although King's claimed some wickets nea r the end, there was little doubt that Dulwich deserved to win.

K.S.C., 126 (Knight 6-42); DullVieh College 180·5 (Knight 64). 221

• KS.C. v Eton Ramblers Played at St. Stephen's on May 21 st Lost by 3 wickets King's started well before D raycott was run out attempting a third fUll. However, fro m the fallof this wicket unti llullch the batsmen were always struggling against the accurate bowling. After lunch, Jaggers and Rowe batted well and put on 31 runs before the latter unluckily hit his wicket. The Eton R amblers started with a bang, scorin g 24 fLlns off the first three overs. However, the scoring rate slowed down and when the seventh wicket felllhc score was only 99, but Eckersley and G unnery saw the Eton Ramblers home to a three-wicket win. K.s.C., 129; Elon Ramblers, 132-7 .

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8t. Lawrence also started badly, losing their first four wickets for only 6 runs, but with Wright bowling very fast, King's did not let them off the hook. King's fielded well and keenly and 8t. Lawrence were all out for 58 in 100 minutes with Wright fini shing up with 5-15. THE K INO'S SCHOOL R. G . S. Draycott, c Nagenda, b Bray........ 1 M. J. Gray, c Nankivell, b Townsend.......... 24 J. R. Kilbee, b Dixon... 4 J. R. Wilson, b D ixon ..... 0 J. A. Youl1g,lbw, b Dixon......... 0 G . K. Jaggers, b Dixon....... 4 15 J. D. W. Wright, b Dixon...... P. S. K. Johnson, c NankiveJl, b Townsend.. 3 C. J. C. Rowe, c and b Dixon........ 15 C. C. N. Bridge, c and b Dixon...... 64 6 H. 1. Holdstock, not out............................ 9 Extras... . .... .. ....... ......

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Pl ayed at St. Stephen'S on May 28th Lost by 7 wickets King's won the toss for the fifth sllccessive time and started well with Draycott, Ki lbee and Wr igh t all making useful scores. H owever, the lower order batsmen failed and from a lunch score of 106-4 King's were a ll out for 155. The Kin g's opening a ttack failed to make an early break through and it was not until the score was 57 that King's got the first wicket. However, Gi lliatt batted well for his 61 and the Royal Navy won easily by 7 wickets. K.S.C., 155 (Smith 6-78); The Royal Navy 158-3 (Gill iatt 6 1 not Ollt, Ca mpbell 52).

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The Buccaneers

Played at St. Stephen's on Ju ne 4th Lost by 41 fllns The Buccaneers brought down a very strong side, including three Cambridge Blues of recent years in Hutton, Kerslake and Harvey. However, in the Buccaneers' inni ngs it was on ly Kcrslake who showed any form and made a chanceless 50. At lunch the Buccaneers were 109-9 bu t added a further 22 valuable nms aft er lu nch. King's started well with Draycott o ft en steppi ng away to leg and hitti ng Hutton to all 'parts of the ground , much to his d isgust. After the first wicket had fa llen at 47, the rest of the batting crum bled to the accu rate bowli ng of Harvey. The Buccaneers 131 (Kerslake 50); K.S.C. 90 (Harvey 5-29).

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The M.C.C.

Played at St. Stephen's on June 9th Won by 3 wickets The M.C.C. batted first but never got o n top o f the pace attack of Wright a nd Kilbee. When 6 wickets were down for o nly 57 it looked as if King's might get the M.C.C. out very cheaply, but attack ing batting by Silcock retrieved the sit uat ion and they were all out for 129. In reply, King's lost a quick wicket but Kilbee batted very well for his 55. When the sixth wicket fell, 47 r uns were st ill needed but Amiot in his first match bl asted King's to their second win of the season, hitting five boundaries in his 2g not out. M.C.C. 129 (Wri ght 4-40, Kilbee 4-50); K.S.C., 132-7 (Kilbee 55).

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KC.S. Wimbledon

Played at Wimbledon o n Ju ne 11th Lost by 54 rLlns K.C.S. started slowly but gradually got on top of the King's bowl ing and at lunch they had lost only one wicket. After lunch, Holland completed his 50 in 148 minutes, wh ich contained only two boundaries. After losing a couple o f wickets in goi ng for quick run s, K.S.C. declared at 185-5. King's started badly again, losing a wicket with the first ball, and G ray, Jaggers, Wright , Amiot and Bridge all were out having reached double fi gures. Jaafar and R owe, the last pa ir, batted very well for an ha lf-an hOllr before Rowe mistimed a hook. K.C.S., Wimbledo n 185-5 dec. (Holl and 87 not out); K.S.C., 131 (Owen-Thomas 5-32). 223

K.S.C. v Dover College Played at St. Stephen's on June 23rd Lost by 71 fun s

Dover College batted fi rst and started slowly and at !Lmch the score was 81-4. H0'l':'cvcr, ~ ra ven-Ph illi ps and Ross set about the bowling and added 125 runs before Ross was fun out, at which pomt he decl ared, King's did not start too well but Gray and Jaggers put o n 67 fo~ the third wicket; however when they w~re out, King's lost quick wickets in going for the runs. Th~ last 7 wl.ck.e~s fell 35 runs a l~d Dover,won ":'Ith 6 minutes to spare by 71 runs. According to a great cricket statist iCia n this was Dover s first Win agamst King's since the War.

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Sevenoaks Vine C.c.

.Played at St. Stephen's on June 30th Lost by 6 wickets King's batted first and with Gray and Kilbee batting well the 50 was !-lP with only one wicket ~own. Then Ki lbee was out for 17 and as so often happens after a long partnersh ip, the other partner qUIck ly foll ows back to the pavilion. From 51-2 King's slumped to 52-5 and a lthough Jaafar and Rowe stayed together for over half-an-hour, King's never recovered and were all out for 102. Although Wright claimed a wicket in his second over the Sevenoaks Vine battif!g got on top of the ~owling. Gallyer took a brilliant diving catch off Kilbee and although Gray took two wickets, Sevenoaks Vme won easily by 6 wickets. K.S.e., 102 (Smart 6-16) ; Sevenoaks Vine e.e., 103-4. 224

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Eastbourne College

Played at St. Stephen's on Ju ly 2nd Match Drawn East bourne batted first a nd against the accurate bowling of Wright and Kilbee they found ru rtS hard to come by. At lunch off 32 overs the score was 48-2 but after lunch the two East bourn e batsmen, Barford and Benedict, began to get on top of the King's bowling. With the score at 132-3, King's broke through and the next 6 wickets fell for 8 runs. The highlight was the King's fie lding, in which Bridge excelled by taking five catches. King's started well but Gray, Kilbee and Jaggers were out for the addition of only five runs. Jaafar and Wright kept the score moving before Jaarar was bowled. When Bridge came in there was some very good run ning between the wickets before Bridge and Wright were out in consecuti ve overs. Wilson and Rowe played out the last ten minutes to earn a well-deserved draw. East bourne College 140·9 dec. (Barford 65, Kilbee 4·19); K.s.C., 104-7.

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The Band of Brothers

Played at St. Stephen's on J uly 9th Won by 66 runs King's started badly, losing the first four wickets fo r only33, but for once the middle order batsmen were successru l, Kilbee a nd Bridge began the recovery and at lunch they had taken the score to 88. Arter IUllch, Kilbee, Bridge a nd Wilson all batted very well and took the K ing's total to 176. Wright soon took the first wicket, bu t Weaver bega n to revel in his half volleys and the score began to move along fast. However, Rowe, who was bowling the best he has bowled all season, took the next fi ve wickets for 23 before rain interrupted play. After the rain the last three wickets took an hour to capture and so King's won by 66 runs with 20 minutes to spare. K.s.C. 176 (Taylor 7-47); T he Band or Drothers 11 0 (Rowe 5-4t).

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The Free Foresters

Pl ayed at St. Stephen's on July 16th In between the showers King's took only 2 wickets for 65 before lu nch. Arter lunch, accurate bowling by Frankland and Rowe changed the pattern of the game and the Free Foresters slumped to 109-9, but then in 18 minutes the last wicket added 38 runs before Gray held a brilliant catch in the sli ps. King's started ·disastrollsly, los ing the first fOllr wickets for only 28, but Bridge had good partnerships with Wright and Wi lso n wh ich restored the situation. When these three were o ut, King's needed 35 to win with only 3 wickets left. Another wicket soon fell but Sherrell, playing in his first match, defended courageously fo r 46 minutes and at the end Kin g's were on ly 2 runs short of victory with 1 wicket left. The Free Foresters 147 (Rowe 4-3/, Frank lancl4-44); K.S.C., 145-9 (Bridge 53, Canney 5-5 1). 225

K.S.C. v The O.K.S. Played at St. Stephen's on July 22nd and 23rd Match Drawn Although there had been almost cont inual ra in for three days before the match , the sun shone bri?ht ly for both days. As a result the pitch was slow and Jackso n was much slower than last year. Howcvcl. the OKS had ideal bowlers for the cond itions in Tuohy and Ca lt rall . On the first day, the School were all Ol'l t fo~ 130, in spite of another va luable innings by Bridge. ] n reply, at the end of the first day. the O.K.S. were

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2nd XI The overall record of Played 9, Won 2, Lost 2, Drawn 5 is a ~air ycprescl,ltation of the abi lity of the side. At the start of the season everything went very well when Dulwlch Just aVOIded dereat and St. Lawrence Ramsgate were soundly beaten. Thi ngs then, however, started to go wrong and Cox, the captain, h.ad the unenviable task of trying to weld a side out of the less sliccessful members of the 2nd XI and the d iscards from the 1st XI. The constant changing of the side resulted in a loss of tcam spirit and frequently a promising situat ion

would be built up only to be wasted by poor batt ing, dropped catches or questionable field placing. The end of the season was enli vened by a good win agai nst Eastbourne and an astonishing recovery aga inst the st rong University side when a score of 31 for 7 reached 115 for 8 by the close. Langley-Hunt, Howard-Wi ll iams and Holdstock sh~red the pace attack successfully and Miller and Ha llam provided the sp in . Keeble emerged as the lead mg all-rounder and Jaafa r, Johnson, Draycott and Wilson each made their presence felt with fifties when rested from the 1st XI.

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Results K.S.C. 110; D ul wich 97-9. Drawn. K.S.C. 16 1-8 dec.; St. Lawrence College 2nd xr 50. Won by I II funs. K.S.C. 119-5 dec.; Dover G.S. 1st Xl 12 1-3. Lost by 7 wkts. K.8.C. 137-5 dec.; Canter bury Hockey Club 129-8. Drawn. K.S.C. 56-6; Worth School 1st XI 92. D rawn. K.S.C. 11 5-8; University of Kent 157-5 dec. Drawn. K.S.C. 96; Dover College 2nd XI 127. Lost by 31 runs. K.S.C. 11 7-3; Eastbourne 2nd XI II 6. Won by 7 wkts. K.S.C. 79- 1; St. Lawrence College 2nd X l 150-6 dec. Drawn. The fo llowing players represented the side:- Cox, Keeble, Yotlng, Johnson, Howard-W ill iams, .Hull, Hallam, Ga llyer, Miller, Thornton, Clarke, R. 0., F rankland, Carey, Braddel, Jaafar, Playcott, Wilson , Hetherington, Langley-Hunt, Holdstock.

3rd XI The third Xl were a happy side, well captained by McDona) d al"!-~ they enjoyed their cricket. T he r~ord of Played 7, Won I, Lost 1, Drawn 5 in no way reflects their ability. The only m.atch lost was .a.gamst a strong Haymakers side at the start of the season and two of the draws ended with the oPPosi tIOn well short of the target set, with their last pair toget her. The ca refree batting was at its best against Kent College 2nd X~ when a score of 164 for 5 was achieved in 90 minutes, and at its worst against C hatham HOllse when, facmg a total of 83, the score change~ from 61 for no wicket to 78 for 9 in the last hou r ! Blackburne-Kane and Warren were the most effective a llrounders Gordon the best batsman and Kennedy the best slow bowler. They were, however, essent ia lly a team, ~nd everybody contributed something worthwhile. The fo llowing played:- McDonald, Warren, Dlackb urne-Kane, Jakes, R. B. Kennedy, Darroch , G. E. Holdstock, Gordon, Niell, Marshall and Thornton. Results Haymakers 150 for 6 dec.; K.s.C. 28. K.S.C. Ill; Kent College 2nd Xl 93 for 9. K.S,C. 139 for 7 dec.; Dover O.S. 2nd Xl 1M. K.S.C. 164 for 5 dec.; Ken t College 2nd X I 63 for 2. Chatham House 83; K.S.C. 78 for 9. K.S.C. 145 for 6 dec.; Sir Roger Manwoods J 13 for 9. Dane Court School 94 for 9 dec.; KS.C. 65 for 9. 228

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Colts' XI Played 7, Won 2, Lost 1, Drawn 4 sounds rather more dreary than the season really was. The draw with St. Lawrence was our most exciting game, and two ot hers were to Ollr advan tage. More important is the fact that the wins were in the last two matches and both in their own way excellent. A fine opening partnership of 126 and olltstanding field ing and catching helped us beat Eastbourne, while determ ined batting in a crisis followed by fine bowli ng defeated St. Lawrence in ou r return match . At Colt's level draws are a necessary evil. It should not be possible to get future First X l players out in the very short time ava ilable, so a game should always be able to be saved in a crisis. Jt was encouraging that at Highgate (our on ly, and very valuable, allÂˇday game) after a poorish start, the side were able to bat for their all otted span, a lbeit rather too slowly. T his was a side of limited talents, but they made up for it by teamwork, intelligence, determination and a lot of hard work. Collins' captaincy improved stead ily and by the end he showed excellent control and ski ll in managing the team in the fie ld. A ll the bowlers seemed to be lea rn ing to bowl to their fiel ds and the vital importance of control. Taylor and Nash were the ousta nding wickeHakers, the one fast and very accurate, the other a gen uine off-spinner who fina lly learn t to bowl a full length, using plenty of air, and trust his fielders: result, six wickets in each of the last two matches. The batt ing, wit h the possible exception of Mount, Sherren and Dav ison, was poor in basic technique and range of shots, and the work for the term has been largely confined to developing a sound defence. Attention to innumerable deta ils is vital in a good side; the encouraging thing about this one has been their obvious capacity to learn from match-experience and some rather lengthy post-mortems! All in all, therefore, it was not a bad season. ncsults v Dulw ich. K.S.C., 133 for 8 (Mou nt 43); Dulwich, 103 fo r 7. Drawn. v St. Lawrence. K.S.C., 152 for 3 (Sherren 52); St. Lawrence, 142 fo r 8. Drawn. v K.e.S., Wimbledon. K.C.S., Wimbledon, 142 for 6 dec.; K.S.C., 128 fo r 4 (Sherren 46). Drawn . v Tonbridge. Tonbridge 225 (Langdon 120; Taylo r 6 for 77); K.S.C., 115 (Pargeter 40). Lost. v H ighgate. K.S.C'., 131; Highgate, 39 for O. Match Abandoned. v Eastbourne. K.S.c., 165 for 4 dec. (Sherren 7 1; Mount 64); Eastbourne, 100 (Nash 6 for 35). Won. v St. Lawrence. K.S.C., 95 for 8 dec.; St. Lawrence, 76 (Taylor 4 for 17; Nash 6 for 51). Won. R.W.J.G.W.

Junior Colts This year's J unior Colts X I has had rather more than its usua l share of talen t. Except fo r one lapse, the batting has been above average wit h Hamblin, Gaskell, Spells, Docherty and H unt making most of the runs. Shires has impressed as a most improved batsman and has taken several bri ll iant slip catches. Griggs has also batted well on occasion a lthough he has yet to make a big score. The attack has been varied with the fast offÂˇcutters of Gaskell doing most of the damage. He has bowled consistently well throughout the season and has turned in some splendid perfonnances, particularly against K.C.S. Wimbledon and Kent College. Hamblin and Harris have also bowled well and taken a share of the wickets. Hunt, Stewart, Spells, Johnson and Shires have a ll bowled at one time or another and show promise. T he fieldi ng has been generally good and Docherty has been a dependable wicketÂˇkceper. Hamblin has captained the side with sk ill and intelligence. If any cr iticism is to be made it is that the indiv idua l members have not always played together as a team. However, if th is can be remedied, they should provide the basis for a strong Colts xr next season. M.E.M. D.M.W. 229

Results F'iayect 9, Won 2, Lost 2, Drawn 4, Tied 1

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v Dulwich. Match Drawn. K .S.C. 121 for 6 dec. (Gaskell 42, Docherty 32 not o ut) ; Dulwich 48 for 9 (Gaskell 4 fo r 16, Hamblin 3 for 18). v SI. Lawrence College. Match Drawn . K.S.c. 123 for 3 dec. (Hamblin 51 no out, Hunt 31 not o ut) ; St. Lawrence 116 for 8. I' Sutton Valence. Lost. Sutton Valence 11 2 (Gaskell 5 for 22, H arri s 5 for 34); K.S.C. 29. \I R.M.S. D over. Lost. K.S.C . 73; R.M.s. D over 74 for 5. \I K. C.S. Wimbledo n. Won. K.C.S. Wimbledon 87 (Gaskell 7 for 29); K.S.e. 89 for 6 (Hamblin 32). II Chatham H ouse. Match Drawll. K.S.C. 129 for 8 dec. (Dochcrty 33, Spclls 25. Hamblin 20) ; C hatham H o use 82 for 3. v Dovel' College. Won. K.s.C. 125 for 4 dec. (Gaskell 52 not OUI , Spells 35); D over College 53 (Gaskcll 4 ror 28). v Eastbou rne Co llcge. Tie. Eastbourne 124 for 7 dec . (Gaskell 4 for 42); K.S.e. 124 (Dochcrty 44). I' Kent College. Draw-match abandoned ow ing to rain. iK.S.C. 139 for 5 (Spells 28, Hunt 27, Docherty 35 not o ut); Kent College 67 for 6 (Gaskel l 6 fo r 28).

Under Fourteen XI The Under 14 C ricket Team won only two matches this year, but could claim moral victories in each o f the fOllr d rawn games. After a draw against the J.K.S. and a t en -w i~ke t win aga inst R.M.S. D over, the team beat St. L'lwrence by scoring four off the last ball of the match. SIIlCC? then. matches were lost and \~on alternately, losing to Sutton Valence, Chat ham H ouse and SI. Lawrence, III the return fixture, and draw mg against Worth, Kent College, and Dane Comt. The batting only fai led once in the season, and that was ,against some good bowling at Chathan~ H OllS~, otherw ise totals of a roll nd 100 were common, ailho ugh o lten scored too slowly. Fewster, Mack Ie, C raig and Thorne were the most consistent batsmen, the lat ter scoring a good fifty against Wort h. The ma in defi ciency in the team was a pair of opening bowlers. No-,?ne in the side was able to bow l above medium pace wit h any accuracy, a lth ough McDouall showed pr~m L se to.wa rds tl.le e!ld o.f the seaso n. Bottom ley, who shared the opening attack, was able to move the ball III the aLI' but hLS d irection was ve ry erratic. The sp inners, Craig, Allen and Fewster, bowled well and kept the runs down, but the attack lacked variet y. Although in the game there were many aspiring wicket keepers, n~ one showed o utstand ing abi li ty . Suarez competently occupied the berth ror most o f the season but at no time was he able to stand up for the spin ners. The field in g improved through the season but ea.tehes .were too ,fl'equc!lt ly gr,ounded in t1~e slips. Tho rne captai ncd the side very well and handled the bowling wit h maturity. HIS battmg an d fi eldmg were always an exa mple for the rest of the tea m. Played 9, Won 2, Drawn 4, Lost 3

Team: Thorne (Captain), Fewster, Craig, Mack ie, Suarez, Langley-Hunt, Allen, MeDouall , Bottomley, Dorward, Thring. Also flayed: Dennett, Peters, Bailey, Ditchburn. M.T.H . T.RIl. 230

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THE BOAT CLUB ROWING 1st Eight For the fi rst time for severa l yca rs the 1st VII[ did not make its usual visit to Cam br idge in the Easter hol idays; this was prima ri ly beca use the Putney result in March showed that some rearrangement of the fi rst two crews was necessary and it was more sensi ble to boa t the crews together. 30th eights, therefore, with the kind permission and assistance of the School, ret urned to C1 nterbury for a week's boating before term bega n. Mornin gs were spent in tubbing and sculling and the afternoons in eight s; variolls orders were tried and by the end of the week encouraging progress had been made towa rds settlin g the final crews. Durin g the nex t three or four weeks the 1st YIn worked hard to improve basic tech nique wit h a fair measure of success and soon the boat was moving much faster tha n at any time duri ng the Easter Tenn. On May 24t h both 1st ancl 2nd Eights visited R ichmond to have a joint ou lin g with U.C.S. The 1st VIII had a hard outing with its opposite number, including rowing six 500 metre interval s, which gave them some much needed experience of side-by-side row ing. .It was a most useflll day's boat ing for both crews and we arc very grateful to U.e.S. for their hospitality.

Twickenham Regatta On May 28th the Eight was entered for Junior-Sen io r Eights at Tw ickenham Regatta and registered a well-deserved victory. Ba rclays Ba nk having scratched, the School had to row ovcr in their firs t heat and then in the second round they beat Twickenham R.C by 1 length. The semi -final was a hard-fought race with Hampton G.S.; here the School's better watermanship in the cho ppy water proved decisive and they won by half a length in the fastest time of the day. Tn the fina l ag.:1 inst Jm pcrial College, the School , startin g at 44, went right away in the first minute and won by Ii lengths. This was a good day's racing with the Eight showing a welcome determina tion in their racing.

Walton Regatta The Eight's seco nd regatt a appea rance was at Walton, where the J uni or-Sen ior event at tracted an entry of 23 crews. They bad an easy win in the fi rst round over R.A. F. Cran wcll, who had the misfortune to break a rigger in the first minute, but in the seco nd round they had to race hard to beat a tough Bedford R.C. crew by th ree-quarters o f a length. The semi-final was again against Ha mpton G.S., who were anxious to reverse the Twickenham result; both eights raced very hard bu t King's were once more able to wi n by hair a length . In the final, the School, rowing their fourth race in under six hours, gained an early lead over a strong Radley crew but they were unable to hold them over the second ha lf of the cou rse and lost by It lengths. These two regatt as showed that the Eight had a good turn of speed off the start and tha t they had now developed an excellent racing spirit; what was less satisfactory was a loss or cohesio n in lo nger rows after about three minutes. Tn the three weeks between Walton and Henley, there was much concentration on technique, individually and collect ively; some promising full-courses were rowed and, particu larly in the last week before Henley, there was a marked improvement in toget herness with the boat running well between the strokes.

Henley Royal Regatta The eight moved to Henley on the Saturday before the regatta; condi tions for pre-regatta pract ice were marked by rain arid a st rong and gusty head-wind, but for the rega tta itself, the wind changed to crossfollowin g and the sun shone fo r much of the time. 1n addition to a fu ll-course rowed on the Saturday before the regatta the eigh t had somecnjoyable and va luable practice outings with Thames R.e. , Manchester University a nd Trinity College, Dublin. There were 33 entries f0r the Princcss Elizabeth C up, including four crews from American schools. 231

Wed nesday, June 29th : v King's School, Chester. The Scht?ol had a go~d start and. led at o nce, rcachi!,s the Ba rrier a bout a length in the lead in 2 min. I sec. T hey mcreased this lead steadIly by Fawley (3 mill. 24 sees.) and went on to win comfortably by 31 lengths in a time of 7 min . 8 secs. Thursday, June 30th: v S hrewsbury School. This was a very exciting race with not more than l\~0 <;>1. three fect separating the crews for much of the course. Both crews started well ~nd reached the Barner 111 2 min. I sec., wit h King's perhaps a couple o f feet in t!,e lead; from here to the MIle the ~ rews rowed alm.ost level, passing Fawlcy in 3 min. 26 secs. Around the Mde the School's old weak ne~s ofa ~h ght loss of cohesIon in the third quarter of a race became appa:路ent and Sh rewsbu ry for the first time gamed about a can vas; they proved sli ghtly stronger in thei r fini shing sprin t up the enclosures and beat the School by I length in the good time o f 7 min. 4 sees. Shrewsbmy d id not survive the quarter-final o n Fr i ~ay against Rad ley, who in turn were beateH. by the o utstanding Emanuel School crew on Saturday morn mg. Emanuel we.nl on to a co m~ortable Will ov~ r the America n crew, H alcyon E.G from St. Pa ul's Concord, thus becom mg t h~ fi rst English school to Will the Princess Elizabeth Cup since th e foreign schoo ls were a ll owed to compete III 1964. The School eight improved out of all recognition during the Summer Term and f~H路 short distanc?s certainly went faster than any previous King's crew , It w~s unfo rtunate that the technical. weak n ~sses 1.11 the eigh t could not be overcome earlier in the season as th IS accounted for the lack of consIstency III theu路 pcrrorma nce over longer courses. But this was duc to no lack of effort on the crew's part and it is llluch to their credit th at the raw material of the Eastcr Term bccame o nce aga in an eight worthy of the School's namc at H enley. G. J. R . Bell proved an excellent capta in and it is in no sma ll measure due to his tireless efforts that the season proved so enjoyab le to both coach and crew. D.S.G.

2nd Eight The crew, togcther with the 1st VlIf, asscll1~ l ed at the Sch~o l a few days before th.c beginning o f term, and during this peri od a profitable spel l o r tubbmg,. b.ank tubbing and sculll'.1g was ea l:n~d Out. Thro ughout the season there were many disruptions to the tram1l1g schedule, through Illness or mJury, apart from the except io nal number o f days when strong winds were blowi ng at P!ucks Gutter. As a r~sl!It, progrcss was slow, and it took a long time ror the crew to master the baSIC esscntlals of boat contro l, tlmmg, and cover.cd blades. We were again entertained at Richmond by V.C.S., and spent a very p.rofitable afternoon wIth the crews working side by side, at padd ling and I:owing ratin gs. As a fina l set piece, the crews raced for about th ree minutes, King's drawing ahead to wm by ha lf a length. Twickcnhmn Regatta. May 28th. School Eights 1st round v Windsor G rammar School 1st VIII. Tn a rat her rushed start, lack o f boat cont ro l ca used a serio us lurch which resulted in one member of the crew ca tching a cra b and being thrown ou t of the boa t. Walton Regatta. J une 4th. Cadet Eights Tn the week between these two Regattas, a little progress was made by improvement of t e~ h nique and cohesio n. Tn the first round against Lat ymcr Upper School, King's were not as powerrul as thclr opponents who drcw ahead to win by two lcngths. Latymer, who also rowed at Henley, won the final by thc sa me distance. The crew improved considerably in thc ten days before Marlow. They became quicker off the sta rt , and rowed with greater power and better timing. Marlow Regatta , June 18th. Schools' Vase lst round v St George's College 1st vm and Clifto n College 1st v ln. King's rowed well in this but wcre no match for th'e strongcr S1. Geoq;e'~ crew, who drew away. t~ win by tw.o lengths. K ing's had a goo,d race wit h Cl ifton, the latter on the mSlde o f the last bend, gaJll mg the verdIct by a few feet. St. George s later won the fina l. Later Harrow 1st VfII challenged King's to a race over the Rega tta course, and this we gladly accepted. H arrow' lcd off the sta rt but King's, rowi ng wit h a bcttcr stride, drew levcl at the Church and wenl o n to win by three-qua rters o f a length . This was an average 2nd vn r, always will ing .to work hard and th~y achieved a reasonable degrec of proficiency, alt hough not equalling that of the eIghts of th e two prev Ious seasons. Marlow Reg~tt a was again a most pleasant occasion, and we arc indebted to Mrs. W halley and Mrs. Payne fo r then路 lllany kindnesses and hospitality.

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3rd Eight The first month of term was rather disturbed by changes of order filte ring down from the 1st and 2nd VIlI s but the crew maintained a cheerful morale and a high degree of flex ibility which were very useful assets. In the a lways enjoyable fix ture against U.C.S., on June 2nd at Richmond, King's made a good start a t a lively ra ting and soon d rew away. It was an effective row, resulting in a win or over three lengths, although the last minutc could have been better toget her. Two days later, in the Junior event at H orseferry Regatta, King's were drawn in the first round against St. Paul's 3rd VH f. An anxious official started the race soon after a large stcamer had passed, so that, by the ha lf-way mark, wit h King's lead ing by a length, they had caught up this vesscl, and its wash, A ner ve-wracki ng race now ensued, through a heavy swcll, until King's emerged ahead of both the steamer and St. Paul's, who had come in shore into ca lmer water. Approaching the finish, stroke'S oar was caught by a wave and wrcnched parallel wit h lhe boat, but the crew were undeterred and finished with their length's lead undiminished and stroke exhort ing them frol11 the " at ease" posit ion, King's thus qua lificd ror the fin al aga inst a powerrul a nd emdent Emmanuel 3rd VIII , rowing on thei r own wa ter. A very determined start gave K ing's a sligh t lead, but Emma nuel going rather bellcr thro ugh popply wa ter, wen t ahead by ha lf a length. King's made a great efrort in tile last minute but tile verd ict was a win by two feet for Emmanuel. Nevertheless this had becn most valuable and encouraging racing fo r a relatively inexperienccd crew of whom only one had been in an eight before February. JIlness again necessitatcd changes bcfore Pangbourne on June 22nd, but the crew was still dcveloping well and putting in fast practice times and was able to ret urn to its origina l order two days before the regatta, save for the exchange of places by four a nd six. We felt that tile first round draw, aga inst the same Emmanuel crew and Eton, was an unkind one, but o n the day King's produced a magnificent row. We were a canvas up after a minute a nd twenty very determined st rokes at the first signa l increased th is to half a lengt h over Emmanuel and a length over Eton , which was maintaincd to thc finish in the fastest first round time. We did not expect the scm i-fina l to be so hard, but, as usual, expectat ion proved unwisc. The Nautical Collegc, Pangbournc, had not rowed Ollt their first rou nd owing to an accident and were allowed into our semi-final as a fourth crew. Arriving unhcralded at the start, they rather ratt led the King's crew, who found them stIll on terms at half-way. We finally won by half a length wit h Bed fo rd and Monkton Combe two lengths away, The final line-up (first two in cach semi-final to qualify) was: R ad ley, K ing's, Emmanuel, Pangbourne. Since Emmanuel had won their semi-final by a quarter of a length , thcre was good gro und fo r opt imism. Sta rt ing above the 45 mark , K ing's wcre slightly ahead after a minute but were not so effective in thei r twenty stroke burst as before. R adley, rowing wi th smoothncss and cont rol and having wisely saved themselves in their semi-final, drew away slightly on the inside stati on. A ft er a splendid race thc final order, with intervals of a le.lgt h a nd half lengths, was: Radley, Emmanuel, K ing's, Pangbourne. Despite some d isa ppointment in this last race, the crew had prod uced their very best rowing at Pangbourne. They were a lways weU together, attacked evcry stroke wit h vigour, and had vcry good boat control. Dctermination and keenness made it a very fine third eight and a greal plcasure to its two coaches. Much is due to our willing subst itute, J. W. Stedham, who after many milcs o r rowing at th e G utter was unl ucky not to get a race. Pangbournc o rder: Bow, H. S. A, Slater; 2, D. J. L. Glennie; 3, R . H . Vaughan; 4, R. H. L. Taylor; 5, O . A. Pearce ; 6, N. W. Jackson; 7, A. E. Winch; stroke, M. H. Roberts; cox, J . W. Hudson. R.D.H.R.

Colts' Eight Tn thc Lent Term select ion seemed a lengthy process and the resultin g crew showed from the beginning the lack o f a goo.d roundation which ca n only be la id by the carerul and consistent coaching of novices. Tn the Summer Term the crew progresscd well for a couple of weeks and acquired some cohesion at paddl ing ra tes. Train ing in the eight then had to be suspended after a bad accident to the boat, and th e crew was inevitably undertra ined by the time of Windsor and Eto n Regatta , whcre we lost by 3 lengt hs to EmanllCl.

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Plenty of hard work and emphas is on togetherness saw a much better prepared crew go to U,C,S, fo r our anllL131 " friendly" fixture, wh ich we won comforta bly by about 3 lengths. T he visit was particularly interesting as we rowed in a "German" rigged boat, and the consequent change in order of the bow four was managed with no d iffic ulty. More hard work before Pangbourne produced a crew likely to race with spirit and one which although not outstandi ng was in the righ t class. But t he performance a t Pangbourne was very disappoint ing. In the first round we were faced with Eton and Shrewsbury, but in the event the opponents p roved un important. At a stage in the race when it seemed we might well finish second, sufficient to ensure progress under the repechage system , a crab in the bows stopped the boat. Conditions were difficult, with a stiff fol lowing breeze and popply water, bllt th is is no excuse for lack of watermanship. Aga in this result emphasised that basic techn ique not learnt as novices is acquired later only more slowly and more painfu lly. The crew as a whole deserve credit for a willi ngness to work hard , and Banks at stroke showed lip particula rly well as a strong and determined leader, a nd Turt le at cox was a great asset wit h his cheerful ness and sk ill. J.L.G.

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The Crews 1st VIII: C. M. Sout ham, bow; A. D. Troup, 2; N. P. Press, 3; N. M. Cumber, 4; G. J. R . .Bell, 6; T. G. D avies, 7; M. G, Dover, stroke; P. E, Runda ll, cox. 2nd VllI: H. N . Gale, bow; J. M. Read, 2; R. W. Troup, 3; A. J, Brown, 4; G. T. Will ia ms, 5; M . S. F reeland, 6; P. K. Jenkins, 7; M. W. Vaines, stroke; M. W . Su llivan, cox . A. E. W inch a lso rowed vice G. T. W illiams at Marlow Rega'tta , 3rd VIII: H. S. A. Slater, bow; D. 1. L. Glennie, 2 ; R. H, Vaughan, 3; R. H. L. Taylor, 4; G. A. Pearce, 5; N, W. Jackson, 6; A . E, Wi nch, 7; M . H. Roberts, st,.oke; J. W . H udson, cox. Colts' VIII: N. McK, Rae, bow ; J. P. R. Heyland, 2; B. T. Marsh , 3; J. F , M. Done, 4; M. P. Blackmore, 5; C. D, Hall-Thompson, 6 ; J-1 . N. Halfter, 7; D. J. D. Banks, stroke; J. A. Turtle, cox.

Fordwich and House Rowing Th.e re has aga in been plenty of act ivity a t Fordwich during the SlImmer Term and und er the orga nisa tion o f C. G, F . Rob inson, the Secretary, a full programme of tubbing, scull ing and rours has been ca rried out. The attempt to co-ordinate the coachi ng of j unior rowing met with a fair measlll'c of success and the installation o f an additional bank-tub in the Easter Term has proved in valuable, The house "A" and HB" League Fours were run o n the usuallincs; the better fo urs were of a higher sta ndard than last year and some keen racing resulted in Luxmoore winn ing the "A" Fours and School House the " B" Fours. It has been felt for some time that the "C" Fou r Compet ition was not sat isfactory as boys were rowi ng at high ratings long before they had mastered the most fundamenta l principles of boat-moving. A new competition, devised principally by Mr. Wilk inson, was thererore inst ituted this summer by which the "C" Fours were put through a series of tcsts in boa t-drill and manoeuvring, light and finn padd le, and were awarded points for each sect ion by five judges. The scheme attracted much interest and was taken seriously by all the competitors; the standard of "C" Fours th us produced was unquest ionably higher than ever before. School H ouse were worthy winners or this new competition but Luxmoore and Marlowe wcre not far bchind them . The School Regatta for Senior H ousc Fours was held on July 20th at Pluck's Gutter. Th is was nearly a fo rtnight later than in recent years and the ext ra practice time avai lable for the crcws was refl ected in the considerably higher standa rd of the fours. Meister Omers were unfortunate in being st ruck by last-minutc injuries and had to wit hd raw rrOll1 the racing, but t his apart, all the races were keenly contested and there were no easy verdicts. Galpin's and Schoo l House, Luxmoore and Walpole fought out the sem i-finals and the result of a good final was a win for a strong Luxmoore Four over Ga lpin's. Thc sculling finals werc a lso decided the same afternoon; the new trophy for Junio r Sculls, the Ga rdner Cup, presented by Mr. Gardner of the Mint Yard in memory of Mrs. Gardner, was won fo r the first time by C. G. Steer or Meister Omers. The Novice Cup was won by C. R. Whallcy (S.H,) and N. P. Press (Wa lpole) was again the winner of the Whalley Cup for Senior Scul ls.

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[Fisk Moore 1st XI CRICKET S tanding: D. G . Gallyer, I. Jaafar, J. Frankland, R, G. S. Draycott, A. R. Amiot, G. K. Jaggers, C. J. C. Rowe Sillillg: C. C. N. Bridge, J. D . W . Wright, J. R. K ilbee (Capta in), M. J. Gray, J . R. Wi lson

[Entwistle 1st V I I[ Stalldillg: N. M, Cumber, C, M. Sout ham, N, P. Press, A. D, Trou p Silting: M. R. F. Reeson, M. G. Dover, D. S. Goodes, Esq., I. G. D avies, G , J, R , Bell, p , E, Rundall (Cox)

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TENNIS TEAM Slanding: M. D. Macfarlane, A. W. Berry, R. S. Hallam , P. A. SLC. Braude SilTing: M. A. J. Cronk, K. A. C. Gross, Esq. , P. M. Romer (Captai n)

[Entwistle FENCING TEAM S landing: P. N. Hanet, J. C. Marks, J .. K. E d en, ~ . K. Wahnesl.ey, C. R. Wand-Tet ley .. Silting: R. Bird, L. S. Burr, R. A. R lIlg (Captalll), M. E. Mli ner, Esq., E. J. Olyrnpltls, R. Deigh ton, N . E. de Silva

Aftcl' thc presentation of the troph ies by Mrs. Newell, thc Headmaster handed over to Mr. Goodes a stop-watch which was a further generous gift from Mr. Gardner. The afternoon's proceedings concluded with thc launching of the School's new eight, which, on behalf of the Boat Club, Mrs. Newell namcd "The Wife of Bath". This fine ncw boat will be used by thc 1st VIlI next summer and the Boat C lub is very grateful to the Headmaster and to many generous pa rents for making it possible. Wc arc also grateful to the Headmaster and Mrs. Newell for find ing the timc ill a busy King's Week to come to Pl uck's Gutter. The Doat Club would also like to thank a ll the masters who have devoted sueh time and energy to coaching at Fordwich and Pluck's Gutter. Our thanks are also due to Petcr Will is for the usual miracles which he performs in keeping all the equipment in such good order ; to Mrs. Stewart and the cateri ng department for thei r kindness in looking after the cight; to Mr. Mi lner for much valuable training advice and fi nally to all parents and O.K.S. who by their support and interest on and off the tow-path do much to make our boating both enjoyable and worthwhile. D.S.G.

The O.K.S. Race The an nual race against the O.K.S. Associat ion was held on the lIsual day, the last Sunday of the term, and it a ttracted a good crowd at Pluck 's Gutter, despite the uncertain weather. The O.K.S. gathered a strong crew, all of whom had competed at Henley th is yea r, includi ng the F reeman brothers, and fo r a scratch crew their performance was impressive. The Schoo l eight were at full strength and they had the added incentive of rowing thei r first race in the new eight, " Thc Wi fe of Bath". Rowing from back-station, Dover took the School off at 42 and ga ined rap id ly on the O.K.S. during the first minute. Both crcws sett led down well for the rema inder of the course but the O.K.S. cou ld not get away aga in and the School won by about 2 lengths. O.K.S. Crew: P. C. Ament, bow; D. H. Ki ng, 2; C. M. C hant, 3; R. A. D. Freeman, 4; C. H. Freeman, 5; M. H. Carter, 6; D. N . T. Waiton, 7; D. M. P. Ba rnes, stroke; P. D. Miller, cox.

SAILING Sailing is now possible at weekends on the lakes at Sturry due to the format ion of the Westbere Frostb ite Sailing Association. The School can usc the fac ilities of the Club under two categor ies. T he Naval Section possesses two boats, a R.N.S.A. fib l'eglass dinghy and a G.P. 14, and boys from the section may sail on Sunday afternoons under a group membership scheme. The alternative is for boys to join the Club as Junior members (1 0/- per year), and some boys, particularly those with their own boats, have already d one thi s. Through the generosity of a parent, the Schoo l possesses its own Heron dinghy which boys, interested in sa iling, may. use. The sai li ng is run in close co-operation wit h J .K.S., who have their own Heron and Gu ll dinghies. During the com ing year, we hope to increase the fleet of Herons, as this class of d inghy is best suited to the condit ions found on the lake. In due course we hope to arrange races aga inst cadet members of the coastal sa iling clubs, some of which have already shown interest in the scheme. N.H.S.

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SWIMMING This has undoubtedly been the Club's most successful season ever. We have lost only one match, and that by one point to one of the strongest school sides in the South of England who train throughout the

year in their own indoor heated pool. The Sen iors whi le not being as successful as the Juni ors, have been a very strong team and t he i llness of

key swimmers' lms often meant defeat by narrow ma rgins to teams we would otherwise have beaten. The Juniors have, however more than made up this deficit in all matches- bar the o ne aga inst City of Londonan d it has been particularly encou raging to have such an influx of talen t in such abundance in one year to augment an already strong J unior tea m. I ndeed, this has often posed selection problems and regular team-members from last year have been hard-pushed to regain their places.

MATCHES King's 142 v Kent College 76 As thl! score would suggest, this match was little more than a Wa rm-l!p at~d its practical lise was to get us in the swing of competitive swimming. There were no really o utsta ndmg tUlles, due part ly to cold water and an unfam iliar pool. This was the first time we had seen some of our juniors in action and North rop and Aust in were out sta ndi ng in the Frecstyle cvcnt. K ing's 117 v Sutton Valence 83

Without ou r main freestylers Sutton Valence were able to beat liS narrowly in the seniors but our breaststrokers were supreme and Irvine beat the 100 Yards Backstroke record with a time of 70,7 seconds. The juniors, however. made a clean sweep in all bu t one event and accoun ted for Ollr convincing victory, King's 85 v Westminster 75 Again our sen iors were beaten by a mere 2 points, but Irvine in the 100 Yards Backstroke broke the short bath record with a time of 69.2 seconds and both Phafp and Eadie broke the Breaststroke record- the former by a margin of 4.8 seconds, lowering it to 74 sec?nds. Tn the j Ul~i ors, ~or.throp swam an incred ibl e 61.5 seconds in the 100 Yards Freesty le, and yet was stdl beaten. Again the JUT1lOl'S swam extremely well and paved the way for victory.

King's 138l v R.M.S., Dover 12l! This was a th ree-tiered match in volving seniors, middles and juniors and we did well to beat this very keen sw imming school in all divisions. In the seniors, Willis broke the toO Yards and 66i Yards Freestyle records wi th times of 57.7 and 35.6 seconds respectively, The breaststrokers met their match but again lrvine won his two events equalling the 66i Yards Backstroke record. In the middles, Northrop equalled the 100 Yards Freestyle r~cord a nd Mason swam well in the Butterfly, The junior team relied to a great extent upon Allen and Austin and bot h rose to the occasion well. King's 85 v E.1stbournc 79 Times are never fast in this 50 yards sea-water pool but this was a most exciting match, the final result depending on the ou tcome of the last relay, This relay itself was very hard -~ough t all~ King's only ~ame through to win it in the last 10 yards, Indi vid ual performances are hard to pIck o ut WIth such poor tImes, and everyone will probably remember the match more for the discomfort ca used by the sea-water. King's 97! v City of London 98! v Highgate 73 With a junior international swim ming for them, City of ~ ondon were more than ord inarily difficu!t to beat in the sen iors, However, Willis ran the latter close 111 the 66~ Yards Freesty le and lowered hIS record to 35.2 seconds, Irvine, while on ly com in g third, brought his 100 '(ards Backstroke record d?Wl~ to 70.3 seconds, and Phalp and Eadie surprisingly gained first an d secon d III the Breaststroke. The JUl1lors had a convincing and well-deserved win, Northrop lowering the 100 Yards Freestyle record to 65.6 seconds, and Mason doing likew ise in the 33t Yards Butterfly with a time of 20.3 seconds. Bath Cup. Public Schools Freestyle Relay While our time dropped by 0.3 of a second .from last year, we suyprisin gly went up I?n~ place to 21st. Indi vidual ti mes were: Jones 54.6 seconds, Elhott 56, 1 seconds, Irvllle 56,5 seconds, Wllhs 49.4 seconds.

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King's 132 v St. Lawrence 104 Again this was a three-ti ered match in which thc middles were the most successfu L Again, fast times are never produced in this pool and turns arc well nigh impossible. Sf. Lawrence had exceptional senior breastst roke and backst roke men but we did well in the freesty le events. The midd les nearly made a clea n sweep and in the juniors, Allen was outsta nding in winnin g th ree events at different strokes. King's 111 v Tonbridgc 69 There appears to have been a remarkable decline in Tonbridge swimm ing for this was our easiest victory on record. We won all the senior events and Phalp broke the 100 Yards Breaststroke reeord with a time of 78.3 seconds. Irvine likewise in the 66i Yards Backstroke, when he recorded a time of 73.8 seconds. In the jlll1 iors, Northrop again broke his 100 Yards Freestyle record in a time of 64.6 seconds, despite obvious sufferi ng from illness, All middle times were fast but it is wort h recordin g that th is was the first and o nly time throughout the season that the seniors beat their opponents by a greater margin than the juniors.

HOUSE COMPETITIONS Under Willis's enthusiast ic leadership, the Grange won all four swi mming competitions this year, including the newly-introduced shuttle relays. The School swimming owes a lo t to him , and his depart ure will be a great loss. Perhaps as the result of unfavourable wea ther, entries for some events in the heats were rather thin, but there were some good performances. Irvi ne broke the 220 Yards Backstroke record, and Phalp the 100 Yards Breaststroke, both going on to improve their performances in the finals. Will is did One Length Freestyle in 16.3 sees., and both Freestyle Relay records went to G ra nge, the Senior ill 68 ,6 sees, and the Middle in 74,9 sees, The fin als of the 200 ya rds races were swum as "pre-sports" events ; Irvine and Eadie broke the Backst roke and Breaststroke records respeetively, Sports Day produced some good races, and three new records. The tariff Diving, a new event, arollsed some interest. POINTS.- I, Grange, 219t; 2, Galpin's, 119; 3, Linacn::, 92i; 4, Meister Omers, 54; 5, Luxmoore, 48; 6, Marlowe, 46; 7, Walpole, 45; 8, School H ouse, 14,

SPORTS RESULTS Seniors 200 YARDS FR13ESTYLE.- I, Willis (Gr.); 2, Jones (Ga l.) ; 3, Ell iott (Gr.), Time: 2 min. 25.5 sees. 200 YARDS BRHASTSTROKE.- I, Ead ie(Lin.); 2, Phalp (GaL); 3, I. T. Kennedy (Gr.). Time: 2 min. 56.7 secs. (New Record), 200 YARDS BACKSTROKE,- t , R. G, Irvine (M.); 2, Knightley (GaL) ; 3, Steer (M,O.). Time: 2 min, 39.2 sees. (New Record). 100 YARDS FRHSTYLE.- I, Willis (Gr,); 2, Ell iott (Gr.); 3, Jones (GaL). Time: 57.7 secs. (Eql/als Record). 100 YARDS BREASTSTROKE.- I, Phaip (Gal.); 2, Eadie (Lin.); 3, r. T. Ken nedy (Gr.). Time: 76.3 sees. (New Record). 100 YARDS BACKSTROKE.- I, Irvi ne (M.); 2, Knightley (Gal.); 3, Steer (M.O.). Time: 70.4 secs. ONE LENGTH B UTfERFLY.- l , Winchester (Lin,); 2, Ellio tt (Gr.); 3, Knightley (Ga\.). Time: 20,2 sees , LIFESAVING .- I, Phalp (GaL); 2, R, B. Kennedy (Gr.); 3, Winchester (Lin.). Time: 27.9 secs. (New Record). ONE LENGTH F REESTYLE.- l, Will is (Gr.); 2, Carmichael (Gr.); 3, Elliott (G r.), Time: 16.4 sees. PLAIN D IVING,- I, CaW'all (Lu x,); 2, McKil1iam (GaL); 3, Scott (Gr.), TARi fF DIVING.- I, Headley (Wa1.) ; 2, McKilJiam (Gal.) ; 3, Scott (Gr.),

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INDIVIDUAL MEDLEV.- I, W ill is (G r.); 2, Irvine (M.); 3, Eadie (Lin.); 4, K night ley (Gal.); 5, H owa rdWilliams (M.O.); 6, R id ler (S.H.). Time: 97.~ sees. FREESTVLE R ELAV.- I , Grange; 2, Galpin's; 3, School House. Time: 69.6 sees. MEDLEY RELAV.- I, Galpin's; 2, L inacre ; 3, Grange. Time: 83.2 sees. M iddles 100 YARDS FREESTVLE.- l , Northrop (M .O.); 2, Aust in (Gr.); 3, Wi llett (G r.). Time: 65 .9 sees. Two LENGTHS B REASTSTROKE.- I, Baker (Wal.); 2, Stephens ( Lin.); 3, Thomson (M .O.). Tillie: 52.4 sees . Two LeNGTHS BACKSTROKE.- I, Daker (Wa L); 2, Willett (Gr.); 3, Irvi ne (M.). Time: 51.0 sees. ONE L ENGTH D UTIERFLY.- l, Mason (Lux.); 2, Ba ker (WaL) ; 3, A llen (G r.). Time: 20. 1 sees. (New

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Record). ON E L ENGTH FREESTYLE.- I, H ard ie ( Li n.); 2, M ason (Lux .) ; 3, W illett (G r.). Time: 17.7 sees. D IVING.- I, Moore (G r.) ; 2, Catlrall (Lux.) ; 3, Scott Wi lliams (G r.) . INDIVID UAL M EDLEV.- I , Mason (Lux.); 2, Baker (Wa L); 3, Moore (Gr.) ; 4, Stephens (Li n.); 5, An nis (GaL); 6, Ho ll is (M .); 7, Lloyd (S.H .). FREESTVLE RELAv.- I, Grange; 2, Li naere; 3, Meister Omers. Tillie: 75.5 sees.

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Two LENGTHS FREESTVLE.- I, Nort hrop (M.O.); 2, A ustin (Gr.); 3, Annis (GaL) . Time: 41.9 sees. ONE LENGTH BREASTSTROKE.- I , A llen (Gr.); 2, Thomson (M.O.); 3, H ollis (M.). Time : 23 .7 sees. ONE LENGTH BACKSTROKE.- I , Stewa rt ( Li n.); 2, A llen (Gr.); 3, H ambl in (Lux.). Time: 24. 1 secs. ONE LeNGTH FREESTYLE.- I, A ustin (G r.) and A llen (G r.); 3, Northrop (M.O.). Time: 18.2 secs. MEDLEV RELAV.- I, Meister Omers; 2, Grange; 3, Walpole. Time: 68.4 sees.

S H UTTLE RELA YS On the whole this proved a popular and sllcce~sful innovation, though some houses had di ffic ulty in producin g fu ll tea ms. G ra nge d id o utstandingly welt in winning all three races. Mr. Paynter very ki ndl y presented a CliP for t he competition.

IlcsuUs I, Gra nge, 24 points; 2, Galpin's, 15; 3, Linaere and Luxllloore, 14; 5, Schoo l House, 1\; 6, Meister Omcrs, 10 ; 7, Walpole, 6; 8, Ma rlowe, 4. D.C.G.B.

STANDARDS COMPETITION Results I, Grange, 8.32 po ints ; 2, School I-IOllSC, 6.67; 3, Linacre, 6.50; 4, Meister Omers; 5, Walpole, 5.6 1; 6, Luxl11oore, 5.22; 7, Ga lpi n's, 5.21; 8, Marlowe, 5.08 . T he n umber o f sta ndards to be swum was decreased this year, with the result that there was less difficulty in swimming a ll the events in the time available. Some limes were c ha nged, allowing anyone who could swi m reasona bl y co mpetently to score a few points. D.C.G. B.

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THE GENERAL INS PECTION [Kelt/ish Gazette

THE FENCING CLUB Arter the successes of last tcrm the Fencing team con fi rmed their high standard by win ning the Pearsoll C up i n the Public School Champ ionships helel in L ondon during the E.:1.stcr Holidays, They were also ru nners-up in t he Bartlett Trophy . This was an ach ievement which established their position as one of the top schoo l tcams in the country. W it h some 200 competitors from 40 schools tak ing part, E. J. Olympitis, R. Bird and R. A. Ring reached the last six in the Epee Fina l, being placed 2nd , 4th and 51h respecti vely. Olympi tis also rcached the Foil F inal, being placed 6th, and Deighton the Epee Semi-final. Particular congratulations arc due to Olympitis for reaching both finals. In Cou nty Compet itions Ihis term, the tea m won the Kent S:hoolboys' Tea m Foi l Championship, the Schools Sabre Team Champion ship and L. S. Burr had a well-deservcd success by wi nni ng the Schoolboys' I ndi vidua l Sabre Championship, with Olymp it is 2nd and Ring 6th. In the Kent County Men's Open C hampionships, howcvcr, Olympit is had a grea t triumph, winning the Open Foi l Championsh ip and the Opcn Epee Championship on successive days. Th is is certain ly the first time a schoolboy has held two Ken t County Open Championsh ips- a really outstandi ng pcrformance.

Great credit, too, must go to R. Gird, who fenced splendidly to win the J unior Open Foi l Championship at the same venue. Ot her members of the team were well placed in the Open Championsh ips. D eighton came 6th in the Foil and BlIrr and Ring 5th and 6th respectively in the E pee. O lympitis a lso managed to ga in 5th place in the Open Sabre Championsh ip .

All Schoo l matches th is term have been won and it was particula rly pleasing to be s uccessful against a strong Maidstone Springboks side. A six-team fixture against K.C.S. Wimbledon was also won decisively. Thlls at t he end o f the most successful year in the history of the Fencing Club a ll fiftec n School matches have been won, also the Publ ic Schools Pearson Cup and no less than ten Coun ty Championships. The I nter-House Fencing Competition was won yet aga in by Galpin's (Olympitis, Deighton, de Silva). T he Capta in of Fencing, R. A. Ri ng, and another member of tile team, N. E. de Silva, are leaving this term . Ring's determined fenc ing and q uiet. conscient ious efficiency has been a grea t asset to the Club. We wish them both every success in the future. M.E.M . Fenci ng Club Results, 1965-66 15 School Matches won. Kent County Schoolboys' Foil Champion: E. J. Olympitis. Kent County Schoolboys' Epee Champion: R. Deighton. Kent County Schoolboys' Sabre Champion: L. S. Bmf. Publ ic Schoo ls' Championships- Pearson CliP: K. S.C. Kent County Schoolboys' Foi ! Team Championsh ip: K.S.C. Kent County School boys' Epee Tcam Championship: K.s .C'. Ken t County Schoolboys' Sabre Team Championship: K.S.C. Ken t Schools' Team Foi l Championship: K.S.c. Kent Count y Men's Open Foil Cham pion: E. J. O lympitis. Kent County Men's Open Epee Champion : E. J. O lympitis. Kent County Juni or Open Foil Championship: R . Bird.

1st Team: R. A. Ring, E. J. Olympitis, R. Deighton, L. S. Bu rr. 2nd Team: R. Bird, N. E. de Si lva, J. K. Eden, J. K . Wall11cslcy. Jlll/inr Tealll: C. R . Wand-Teller, P. N . Manet, S. A. Cross, J. C. Marks.

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TENNIS Tn spite of the bad weather, which spoiled four of our matches, this season has seen the improv<:rncnt we hoped for. Although only two of last yea r's players (P: H . Romer and M. A. J. Cronk) remamed III the 1st VI the twelve matches have shown that the team has unproved as a whole. At first, however, the 2nd and 3rd Pairs were definitely unsettled , and had the team wl~ich was fina ily chosen rc-playc~ the first t~o matches (Kent College and Du lwich College) it wou ld most likely have won the first and given Du lwlch a much harder fig ht. Even S0, however, Kent' College, who have ill1prov~d this year, had to adm it that they won the victory w it h far more difficulty than expected. The rc-shuffle III the team was sliccessful, for we won a conv incing victory over Sir R oger Manwood's School (7- 2)- a n improvement on last yea r's.5-:-4 ..A week later the team was put to the test agai nst K.C.s., Wimbledon, who won 5-4 last year, and thIs tIme It was a 5~-3! victory: in both these matches, R. S. H all am and A. W. Berry showed that they were a very strO!,g attack in g 2nd Pair, and in the match against Eastbourne College, when unfo ~tlll~a tely ~ h e l ~t and 3rd Patrs cou ld not find thei r form the 2nd Pair saved us from a defea t of 8i- t by wlllm ng tWIce: In so domg they kept their record of being' unbeaten by any 2nd or 3rd Pair. The 1st Pair (P. H. Romer and M. A. J. Cronk), though not so steady, played a strong, attack ing game wherever possible, and the success o f this was shown especially in the matches against Sir Roger Manwood's School and St. Edmund's. On the whole the 2nd VI were relatively strong th is year, but it was unfortunate that two of the matches were cancelled. ' Again the team was fair ly unsettled at first, and could do little against the experienced play of Dulwich College, although two of the games :-vere brollgl~t to three sets. H owever, they won a decisive victory over St. Edmund's 2nd VI. wh ich has unproved thIS year. The Colts have been very strong this year; the two matches they played (Dulwich College and St. Lawrence) gave them an unbeaten record , and although the remaining two matches (Ton bridge and D over College) were cancelled, it seems likely that they would hav~ held their own ve~y ",:ell in b~th. ~ .. W . .Berry and M. D. Macfarlane were, in fact, of Colts' age, but their standard of play Justtfied their posItion In the 1st v r, and fu rthermore, it has given them valuable experience for next year. It is reasonable to hope that the improvement made over the last few years will continue in 1967.

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Kent College. Lost 4--5 (Home) Dulwich College. Lost 0- 8 (H ome) St. Lawrence College. Rain stopped play at 2-2 (!-lome) Sir Roger Manwood's. Won 7- 2 (H ome) K.C.S., Wimbledon. Won 5--4 (Away) Highgate. Rain stopped play at 3- 3 (Away) St. Edmund 's School. Won 8- 1 (Home) 2. Eastbou rnc CoJtege. Lost 2t-6t (H ome) 24. O.K.S. Lost 3- 6 (Home)

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2 1. Dulwich College. Won 3- 1 (Home) 24. St. Lawrence College. Won 7--0 (Home)

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THE SHOOTING CLUB The Slimmer Term is the high-point in the year for the Shooting Club when, after spend ing two whole afternoons a week practising at the 200 yard and 500 yard ranges, the team competes at Bisley for the AshbUrlon Trophy for schools in the United Kingdom. Though there are the occasional compla ints about the loss of "work ing-time" due to shooting, there is no doubt that it is defin itely well wort h the effort as our ever-progressive results in the Ashburton and other ind ividua l compet itions over the past few years have amply illust rated. Shooting this term began o n a high -note with the resul t of the Coufltry Life .22 compet ition, shot last term, in which K ing's came 27th out or the 163 school s competing, the best position we have ever held. Nevertheless, because o f the loss of almost half o f last yea r's Bisley team, the Club had to admit a far younger age grOllp than in previolis yea rs, with the resu lt that th is year's team is comparati vely inexperienced in competit ion shooting, even though, for the firs t ti me, there were two shou lder-Io-shoulder ma tches arranged for May and Ju ne, one with t he O.K.s. who once again beat us decisively wit h a strong team consisting almost ent irely o f the 1961 Bisley team! and one with Dover College which we won by a sol id nine-point lead. The C lub has been shooling at Conyer Ranges a ll the season and has coped very well with the usual obstacles of range-fouling by ships behind the butts and the occasio nal st ray animal. I would like to thank Colonel G ross, Mr. Bradnack and Mr. Noble for their va luable assistance o n the range and especially Mr. Herbert, the R.S.M., ror his continual encouragement and invaluable tuit ion on the firingpoint which has guided a ll of us, at one time or anot her, through our inevitable " bad-patches". We can o nly hope that our scores at Bisley on the 19th J uly do justice to him.

The Team : L. S. BlIfr (Captain), N. G. Scott, N. 1. Day, J. H. Churchwell, A. D. Cobley. M. R. Sandford, M. J. H . N icholls, T. P. Clarke, J. A. Hampton, W. R . Roberts. T he Swele CliP The Inter-House .303 Shooting Competit io n was shot o fT on F ield Day under excellent conditions, wit h blazing sun a nd no wind, yet there were no really ou tstandi ng shoots except for R. A. Eadie who scored 34 at 500 yards. Thanks to an excellen t "blind" lookollt, there we re no hold-ups dlle to range-foul ing as in prev iolls competitions, so that we were fin ished in record time. The Result

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Thi s annua l .22 Competition was shot on the last Sunday in June. After a rather slow start in the morning, Walpole took the lead and held on to it ten uously during the afternoon when the more tricky 25/500 yard targets were used. The fina l result was a decisive win for Walpole who retain the cup by a clear 12 points rrom G range. lt is encouraging to note the overall increased standard o f shooting in the Houses.

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Bisley

The wettest and most successful Bisley on record. It rai ned hard for the whole day with hardly a momen t's respite a nd as a result the scores were greatly affected by th is. Matters were correspondingly confused by the new idea of holdin g a ll the schools' compet itions on the T uesday instead of spreading them over two days as in prev ious yea rs. T hus during the morning the team was rather harried and disillusioned by the to!Tential rain and thi s, added to the fact that we had hardly had a chance to pract ice our " rain -drill" during the season, led to a rather low score in the 200 yard Ashburton and the Cadet Pair. But in the afternoon we had become accustomed to the wet and the shooting improved grea tly in the 500 yard Ashburton with the very commendable score of 246 wh ich was one of the best scores of the day. The Marl ing, Pu blic Schools' Snap and Supported were cancelled because of the ra in. In the final result King's came 13th with a score of 483 from a tOlal entry of over 110 schoo ls, the best position by 27 places t hat we have ever come since we started goin g to Bisley in 1957. N. G. Scott did except ionally well to come 2nd in the Spencer Mellish individual com petitio n a fte r an exciting tie-shoot with two others. He and M. J. R. Nicholl s both gained Schools-Hu nd red Badges for thei r scores in the Ashbu rton. The rest of the team are to bc congra tul ated on a very fine effort ,L.S.B.

THE JUDO CLUB The Club has not enjoyed a very good season this term, the main reason being the old one of poo r attendances at meetings. This was ma inly due to cricket, school rowi ng and people suffering from cold fect at the prospect of exams. later on in the term. I hope next tcrm attendances will be much improved. We have had three matches, not the sched uled fOlif. These were against Worl h School, the London Judo Society (L.1.S.) and the Medkwa i. The match against Worth School on the 4th Ju ne was held oUI-of-doors on the G reen Court ; the result was a win to Worth by a small margin after a long series of enjoyable con tests. This is the tirst time that the Club has conceded a match to a school team. A trip to the L.1.S. up in Town was thoroughly worthwhile and good experience for the team. rn the actual match King's lost with 25 points to 27; a very close group of contests fought hard by both teams. We were then invited to practise with the higher grades at the L.J.S. that day ; some team members impressed these greatly and all of us gained much useful knowledge. The Medkwai fielded a very powerfu l team- as we had ex pected- and the result of the match was understandably a win to them by the comfortable margin of 50 points to 10. Once aga in the team benefited greatly from the experience of the Med kwai Judoka in the subsequen t randori. In all matches this term we very much missed the serv ices of our two team members in Scbool Eights. The following represented thc School in matches this term : M. A. Cowell (Ca ptain), A. M. N. Shaw, M. J. Hulme, C. F. ('lark, J. D. T. Shaw, G . A. Blackmore. We were unable to have a grading a t the end of term and it is hoped that we may obtain a good crop of grades next term. I should like to thank both Mr. Gross and our instructor (Mr. Lockhead) for their help d uring the term. MAC.

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ATHLETICS SCHOOL ATHLETIC SPORTS In the Pre-Sports events at the end of last term there were a number of notable performances. Bishop at last broke the Three Mile record by over 11 secs., showing great determination in a well-judged run with a time of 15 min. 42. 3 secs. In the Triple Jump, J. D. W. Wright was below his best at 39 ft. 8 in , However, at the end of term in t he L. A .G Schools' Com pet ition he improved by some 11 inches to set up a new School record. Whalley made a great effo rt in the Middle 880 Yards, but was foiled by the wind. His time was just a second behind the record . 1n the Junior Hi gh J um p, S. A. Cross showed that he should have a good future in School ath let ics by wi nning at 4 ft. II in. , only t inch below Baxter's J unior record. Lee and Simpson also looked very prom ising at this event. In other Ju nior events, Simpson in the H urdles. Singleton in the Discus and Ditchburn in the Long Jump showed considera bl e ability. Berry went very fast in the Middle Hurd les and clipped I second off the prev ious record in t he time of 15.8 sees. The Pentathlo n provided an enjoyable afternoon's sport wit h competitors evenly matched. However, J . D. W. Wright fi nally wo n narrowly from Wa reham with Munns a close thi rd a nd Revingto n fourth. On Sports Day we were once again fort unate with the weather. A fine day wit h a light wind a nd the track in good cond ition. Taking the Senior events first : R. G. Mu nns was in good form and took both the sho rt sprints in fast times with Hayes second . However, Hayes had a good win in the 440 yards latcr in the afternoon . Wareham was under 16 secs. in the Hurdles and Revington was first in the Hi gh Jump at 5 ft. 5 in. after a long tussle wit h A. J. Bailey, who excelled himself by clearing 5 ft. 4 in., winnin g the Di scus and com in g seco nd in the Javelin. 11 woul d have been good to have seen this form ea rlier in the season. Other performances wort hy of note included so me good long-j umping by R. n. Kennedy and a fine race between Wood and Parry in the 880 Yards which Wood surprisingly won. In the Mile, Bishop made a brave try for the rccord but the wind had increased by the end of the afternoo n and fai led by 4 seconds, but it was a good race with Parry second and Hull third. The Middle sprints were bot h won by M. F. Taylor, who seemed to be back to his old form at last. However, in the 440 Yards, Whalley had the stamina necessary to get ahead over the last 10 yards. Graves had a grea l run in the Midd le Mile and finished only one second outside the record, wit h Waterhouse and WandTetley second and third. This was a good performa nce. Marsh was well below his best in the Hi gh Jump, as was Am iot in the Javel in, but Harvie did well to win the Long Jump at 18 feet with Hammond second. The Weight was won by Cronk from McKilliam, but bot h shou ld improve considerably next season. rn the Junior events o n the day, Fi ndl ay ran well to win both sprints from Pitceathly in the 100 Yards and Cross in the 220 Yard s. However, the outstanding Junio r performance of the afternoon camc fro m Stephens, who ran a magnificent 440 Yards to break the thirteen-years-old record by 5 seconds. This was after having won the 880 Yards earl ier in the afternoon. Com pet ition between Houses was close up to half-way through the Sports but Meister Omers, who were ahead at the start from the pre-Sports events, were never seriously challenged and went on to win by over 30 points from Galpin's with Linacre a close third. Meister Omers are to be congratulated o n being the first House to win the Athletic Sports, the Athletic Standa rds Competiti on and the Tnter-House Relay Compet ition. A fin e ach ievement. M.E.M. INTER-HOUSE ATHLETICS CUP Ist, Meister Omers, 1 64~Âˇ points; 2nd, Galpin's, 133 point s ; 3rd , Linacre, 130 poi nts. INTER-HOUSE RELAYS COMPETITION SAM UEL CUP

1st, Meister Omers, 35 points; 2nd Luxmoore, 34 points; 3rd, L inacre, 33 po ints. INTER-HOUSE ATHLETIC STANDARDS COM PETITION 1st, Meister Omers ; 2nd , Linacre; 3rd, Grange.

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100 YARDS- 1st, Munns (M.D.); 2nd, Hayes (S.H.); 3rd, Blackmore CW.). Time: 10.5 sees. 220 YARDS- 1st, Munns (M.O.); 2nd. Hayes (S.H.); 3rd, Winchester (Lin.). Time: 23.5 sees. 440 YARDS- 1st, Hayes (S. H.); 2nd , Browne (Lux.); 3rd, Munns (M.D.). Time: 54.2 sees. 880 YARDS- 1st, Wood, W. J. (Lux.); 2nd, Parry (M.O.); 3rd, Powell CW.). Time: 2 min. 6.4 sees. MILE- 1st, Bishop (Lux.); 2nd, Parry (M.O.); 3rd, Hull (Lux.). Time: 38.7 sees. 120 YARDS HUR DLES- 1st, Wareham (Lux.); 2nd, Rcvington (S.H.); 3rd, Payne (M.O.). Time: 15.9 sees. HIGH JUMP- 1st, Revington (S.H.); 2nd, Bailey (GaL); 3rd, Sales (Ga1.). Heighl: 5 ft. 5 in. LONG J UMP- 1st, Kennedy, R. B. (Gr.); 2nd, Payne (M.O.); 3rd, Hodson (S.H.). Distallce. 19 ft. 7 in. WEIGHT- 1st, Sa les (Ga l.); 2nd, Bridge (M.O.); 3rd, Bentley (S.H.). Distallce: 39 ft . 10 in. DISCUs- 1st, Bailey (Gal.); 2nd, Colton (Lin.); 3rd, Bridge (M.O.). Distallce: 118 ft. 7 in. JAVELI N- 1st, Bishop (Lux.); 2nd, Bailey (Gal.); 3rd, Cowell (M.O.). Distallce: 134 ft. TRIPLE J UM P- 1st, Wright (GaL); 2nd, Gilchrist (Gr.); 3rd, Sales (GaL). Distallce: 39 ft. 8 in. 4 X 110 YARDS RELAY- 1st, Schoo l House; 2nd, Luxmoore; 3rd, Linacre. Time: 46.8 sees. MEDLEY RELAY (880 YARDS-440 YARDS- 220 YARDS- 220 YARDS)- Ist, Luxll1oore; 2nd, Meister Omers; 3rd, Grange. Time: 3 min. 50 sees. (Record). THREE MILES- 1st, Bishop (Lux.); 2nd, Parry (M.O.); 3rd, Wood, W. J. (Lux.) . Time: 15 min. 42.3 sees. (Record). PENTATHLON- 1st, Wright, J . D. W. (Ga l. ); 2nd, Wareham (Lux.); 3rd, Munns, R. G. (M.O.). MIDDLE no YARDS- 1st, Taylor, M. F. (Lin.); 2nd, Cronk (W.); 3rd, Marshall (M.O.). Tillie: 11.1 secs. 220 YARDS- 1st, Taylor, M. F. (Lin.); 2nd, Marshall (M.O.); 3rd, Baker (W.). Time: 25.5 sees. 440 YARDS- 1st, Whalley (S.H.); 2nd, Taylor, M. F. (Lin.); 3rd, Dick (Gr.). Time: 56.5 secs. 880 YARDS- 1st, Whalley (S.H.); 2nd, Graves (Gal.); 3rd, Waterhouse (M.O.). Time: 2 min. 9.4 secs. MILE- 1st, G raves (Gal.); 2nd, Waterhouse (M.O.); 3rd, Wand~Tetley (Gal.). Time: 4 min. 49.8 sees. 110 YARDS HURDLES- 1st, Berry (Lin.); 2nd , Ma rshall (M.O.); 3rd, Faithfu ll (M .). Time: ' 15.8 sees. (Recm·d).

HIGH JUMP- 1st, Marsh (Lin.); 2nd, Ashforth (Gal.); 3rd, Black burn~Kan e (M.O.). Height: 4 ft. 10 in. LoNG JUMP-1 st, Harvie (Gal.); 2nd, Hammond (Lux.); 3rd, Berry (Lin.). Distance: 18 ft. WEIGHT- 1st, Cronk (W.); 2nd, McKiIliam (Gal.); 3rd, Berry (Lin.). Distance: 36 ft. 6t in. DiSCus- 1st, Amiot (M.); 2nd, McKill iam (GaL); 3rd, Blaekburn~Kane (M.O.). Distallce: 117 ft . JAVELIN: 1st, AmIot (M.); 2nd, T hornton (S.H.); 3rd, Hardie (Lin.). Distallce: III ft. 4 X 110 YARDS RELAY- 1st, Linacre; 2nd , Walpole; 3rd, Meister Omcrs. Time: 50.2 sees. JUNIOR 110 YARDS- 1st, Findlay (GaL); 2nd, Pitccat hly (M.); 3r<l, Docherty (Lin.). Time: 11.2 secs. 220 YARDS- 1st, Findlay (Gal.); 2nd, Cross (M.O.); 3rd, Docherty (Lin.). Time: 25.8 sees. 440 YARDS- 1st, Stephens (Lin.); 2nd, Dochert y (Lin.); 3rd, Ahmadzadeh. M. (W.). Time: 57.9 sees. (Record). 880 YARDS- 1st, Stephens (Lin.); 2nd, Ahmadzadeh, M. (W.); 3rd, Quine (W.); Time: 2 min. 16.8 secs. 110 YARDS HURD LES- 1st, Simpson (Lux.); 2nd , Stephens (Lin.); 3rd, Ditchburn (Gr.). Time: 17 secs. HIGH JUMP- 1st, Cross (M.O.); 2nd, Simpson (Lux.); 3rd, Lee (Lin .). Height: 4 ft. t I in. LoNG J UMP- 1st, Ditehburn (G r.); 2nd, Mann ings (S.H.); ~rd, Bedford (Lux.). Distal/ce: 15 ft. 2 in. WEIGHT- 1st, Seller (M.O.); 2nd, Lee (Lin.); 3rd, Austin (G r.). Distance: 33 ft. 4 in. D iscus- 1st, Singleton (M.O.); 2nd, Quine (W.); 3rd, Ashenden (Gr.). Distallce: 88 ft. 7 in. JAVELIN- 1st, Clarke, P. J. (M.O.); 2nd, Man (W.); 3rd, Pargeter (Gr.). Distance: 102 ft. 9 in. SUMMER ATHLETICS This term, a small group of boys was able to do some athletics, using the faci lit ies at Luxmoore. The main targets were the Kent A.A.A. Junior and Youths' Championships, held in June. W. Q. Wa reham was the most sllccessful athlete, taking 2nd place in the 120 Yards Hurdles, and 6th in the 2,000 Metres Steeplechase. His times in these events gained him A.A.A. Junior Standards. 1'1. H. Hayes, 5th in the 220 Yards, and C. R. Whalley. 5th in the 880 Yards, also did well. Valuable experience of open competition was ga ined by all who took part. Later, W. Q. Wareham, N . H. Hayes, H . F. Parry and D. W. Bentley took part in a Pentathlon com~ petition, kindly organised by St. Lawrence College. This was most exciting, and resulted in a win for the K.S.C. team by 2 points, with Wareham taking the individual hon ours. Just before this meeting, a small party had travelled to London to see the G.B. and U.S.S.R. match, and this may have inspired them! Summer athletics is a voluntary activity, and the response and resul ls have been most encouraging. If even more boys take an interest next year, it is hoped that the scope may be widened. D.J.R. 244

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Photographic Bell-Ringing Art

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As always, at the end of a school year, we have to say good-bye to many who have rendered stalwart service to the Schoors music. Some are mentioned in the vario us Society notes; b ut the two MOllltors for MusIc deserve specIal promInence. Body (who this term combIned his onero us task with that of King's Week Secretary) and Arnold have wo rked extremely hard in so metimes difficult circumstances, and there is n o doubt that th e former deserved his H onorary Music Scholarship. The latter, together with C. W. Blake, successfull y acted as Orchestral Secretaries. 1 a m very grateful to them, a nd also to R. J. Winchester fo r his zeal in organising the Cho ir. The remai ning secretaries a nd orga nise rs to whom we owe so much, return next term, a nd their rewa rd will be morc hard wo rk! ' T he School's music generally, a nd King's Week in pa rtic ular, makes great demands on many members of the Staff, not least those who give us their valuable help in the Orchestraaltho ugh the enco uragement of those who regularly support the C hoi r and C horal Society must not go unrecognISed. In partIcu lar I must personally record gratefu l appreciation of the enormous hel~ given in so many directions, no~ least in Sectional rehearsals, by Mr. Scott, Mr. Mornsh and M r. Goodes. All those dIrectly co ncerned know just what we owe to these gen tlemen. In so me programmes I receive from ot her schools, the names of the Music Staff are prin ted in fu ll. There a re, perhaps, rat her too many here to make this possible. Nevertheless, I should like to pay tribute to thei.r l o~a l ty and to the understanding way in which they cope WIth the many problems that mevltably beset them . I ca nnot mention all by na me, but I must reco rd with gratitude Mr. Myerscough's work for the Orchestra and also say how much we a ppreciate Mr. Dudley's un fai ling help in both Orchestra and Band. We a re grateful, too, for Mrs. Phillip's service to the Orchestra, Mr. Dacombe's to the Band, a nd Mr. Thatcher's eve r-h elpful concern ove r the School's instruments. E. J.W . Choir

Th e. Choir has main tai ned an except ionally high standard both in performances and attendances dUf.JI1g the term. (Even punctuality has improved!) To q uote from tile Ken/ish Observer: Âˇ'Mr .

. Wright has a very fine body of voices at his d isposal .... with a much stronger treble line than has s<?metllnes been the case". 1n9eed, tbe trebles have lasted out ext remely well. The performance of Kodal y's dlffi~lllt Jesus alld the Traders JIl the Choral Concert was en trusted to the Choir, and seems to have been wetl receIved. D espite th~ I?ressures of King's Week , we managed to sing two new anthems at the end of term: EXliltate (Vaugha n Williams) and Blessed City (Bairstow). R.I .W. C.M.S. Anthems sung during the term:Blessed be the God (Wesley) o Lord, the maker (Joub ert) Praise to God (Campbell) Let all mortal flesh (Bab'stow) The heavens are telling (Haydu) Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake ( Hi/lOll) Thou visitest the earth (Greene) Fxpeetans expectavi (Wood) clap your hands (Vaughall Williams) Let thy celestial concerts (Handel) God is a Spirit (SJerndale Benl/ett) A t thy feet (Bach) Ho ly, Holy (Grelchanilloff) Exu lta te (Vaughan Williams) Quoniam (Haydn) To Goel give thanks (Bach) o most merciful ( BlIllock) Blessed City (Bairstow) Bea li Quorum (Stal/ford)

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First O rchestra

The Orchestra during the term concent rated main ly 011 preparing for the King's Week Concert, and a greM dea l of hard work was put into the rehearsals. The number of players was rather larger than hitherto. D espi te the pressure of the impending concert , time was found fo r us to devote va luablc hours to rehearsing for the Oratorio Concert in the Nave.

A review of the concert wi ll be found elsewhere. We were grateful to Mr. Kenneth Jones fot giving up time to attend rehearsa ls of his pieces (which we admit we found rather difficu lt !) and to Mr. Ronald Smith for his generous help at rehearsa l ~ of the Eml.'eror COl/certo. We have to say goodÂˇbye to de Silva (vio lin), Winchester ('cello), Hodey (do uble-bass and trombone), Winlow (oboe), Phalp (bassoon), Rennie (clar inet) and Coxhead (trombone); their services will be greatly missed. [So will those of Al'I1o/d (clarinet) alld Blake (fillte).- E.J. W.J R.W.A. C.W.B.

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After only three rehearsa ls Ihis term, we competed in the Kent Mu sic Fest ival at Ashford. Playing Berl ioz' /illllgarian March and the Finale of Beethoven's Fifth , we won both our classes aga inst our strongest ever competition. We arc most grateful to Mr. Morrish and for arranging our trip to Ashford.

Because of exams and King's Week, furthe r rehearsals were suspended unti l next tenn .

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Attendance levels during May and J une set the danger signals going . Serio us thought s of cancell ing om King's Week concert were entertained. It is becoming very apparent that 5.30 on a sll llliller's evening, with sporting and other activities in full spate, is a time which taxes the compet ing loya lt ies of our members. A change of time or day must surely receive earnest conÂˇ sidera tion if our standards are to be maintained. As in so many other organisations in the School, the Society was kept on its fee t during this difficult term by a hard core of faithfu l supporters- genera lly those who had the least nced of practice. A ll possible thanks to them. Choral Society

As the performance d rew nearer, no doubt helped by the end of the G.C.E. examinat ion, we gathered momentum and, in the event, the concert was one of the best in recent years. Jt was p leasing to note that, partly due to a substa ntial number of their recent o ld boys in the treblc li ne, wc di d not need any help fr om t he Cathedral Choristers. (A review o f the concerl appears elsewhere in this issue.) We thank all those concerned fo r their efforts and hope that the Society will con tinue long into the futlJre. E. !-I.B.

C.S.V.

This term the Society has expanded to a membership o f thirty. Tbe bigger the Society the more difficult it is to get a fu ll attendance at rehearsals. I-louse photographs, and extra tuition are some of the reasons which have made the maintenance of good standards difficult to achieve. Next term we intend to ClIt down the numbers, and we hope that this will lead to some improvemen ts. Madriga l Society

On Ascension .Day, the Society performed its an nua l, one might a lmost say traditional function o f singing Stanford's Coe/os Ascel1dit Hodie and some hymns from the top of the Belt Harry tower, at 7 a.m. On Whit Sunday we sang the Eucharist in the C rypt. The Society's singing in the Serenade ill the Cloisters is rev iewed elsewhere. CM.S.

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The weather favoured our allIwal concert for the Invalid Tricycle Association in the Water "ower Garden. There was a very large audience (which includcd the Dean , the Mayor and the Member of Parliament). T he memb~ rs of this Association come veri large distances, and, we are told, look forward to our lllll Sic the whole year round. We played for a long time, exhaust ing Ollr comp lete current programme, bu t even stl, they wanted us to play more. Unfortunately, the proximity of the garden to the Crypt means that we must finish before the School congregation gathers for Evensong. We played several new numbers, of wh ich FilllOlu/ia (Sibclius) proved a great favourite. B'lIld

As the final musical item of the term is the Band Concert on Speech Day, the writer, a t least, regrets that we are placed at the side of the Green Court where we can hardly be heard by many. Perhaps a more central position wou ld give a grea ter incentive to the players, many of whom find it a iiltle d ifficult to summon up energy and inl\!rest after playing themselves oul at the Symphony ('oncert the previous evening. If its pllrpose is simply background music, then it might be better to put the music on tape. Ou r gratefullhanks go to our leavers (see Orchestral notes). I must thank H. F. Parry for his help during the term , and wish him and 1. H. B. Poole (who wi ll be assisting him) the best of luck in the future.

Our thanks arc due to Mr. Wright. whose devotion and enth usiasm is the inspira tion of King's Music.

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This term we have been working mainly for the Serenade ill the Cloisters in King's Week, in which we will sing two of the songs of Yale (SlolV Motion Time and We lVere gathering up the Roses), and a few Negro Sp irituals (some of which arc arrangements by the Ya le Glee

Attendances at rehearsa ls have been generally reasonable, bearing in mind the inconvenience caused by the Cadet Force's having to meet two weeks running on Tuesday instead of their usual and proper time of Wednesday. We have had a va riety of pianists to accompany us (R. J. A. True, N. A. H . McNair, N. D. King and R. J. S. Shaw). Our thanks to all of these (especia lly True who, it is hoped, will play at the Serenade) and, of course, to our never-Hagging conductor, Mr. Morrish.

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THE SOCIETIES Geological

The Society has continued to thri ve this term, and membership has increased to thirty. The highlights of this term were the Society exped ition to Herne Ray and the formation of a crystallography section.

The Society exped ition to Herne Bay was o n the 23rd June. Although the number of specimens collected was not as great as in previous expedit ions, a number of large Shark's teeth were found by J. F. Newman and Watkinson. The Society crysta llography section, although small , has succeeded in building a nucleus of keen members. The activit ies of this section arc primarily concerned with the cultivation of crystals of metallic salts. We are greatly indebted to Mr. K. H. Yates fo r his permission to uti lise the facilities of the Chem istry Laboratories in the prepa rat ion of the sol utions and seed crystals which a re required for the cultivation of crystals. The Society is also grateful to Mr. K. H. Yates for the dona tion of a small collection of minerals to the Society. The scope of the Society is to be increased next term by the formation of two new sections; a Soil sect ion whose primary function will be the analysis of local soi l, and a Physical Geology section whose function will lie in the making of models of structura l phenomena. C.W.ll. The term has been a fairly act ive one and the darkroom has been heavi ly booked. However, it was very disappointing that the Secretary should be the on ly entrant for the Gough Photography Prize; the Junior Prize was won by Grant. The President, Mr.1. N. Wilkinson, very kind ly gave us a lecture and demonstration of the Polaroid Camera, which was extremely well attended. The climax of the term shou ld be the exhibition. M.P.P . Photographic

As always, this term has not been one of great advance, mainly because of the pressure of ot her activities, such as rowing and G.C.E. However, those who did attend regularly were able to ring changes by the end of term, and loca l ringers have offered to help us establish a change- ringing band next term. It is also hoped that we will be ablc to ri ng the Cathedral bells for ~he Commemoration Service on Speech Day although final arrangements have not yet been made. AscenSIon Day provided an ideal opportunity for a full-day outing, and we were able to ring at six towers in Thane!. We are grateful to Mr. Pittman for helping us during the day and for driving the minibus. Bcll-n. inging

However, there has been one big disappointment for the Society. Of the six new members elected in the Lent Term, o nly two still attend practices regularly. This behaviou r will cripple the Society if allowed to continue, and [ hope that next term's new members will provide a better example of enthusiasm, and continue to attend practices until they leave the school. D.W.G. Undoubtedly the highlight of the term was the lectu re on "Br itish Painting in the Sixties" by M r. William Townsend, to which the Art Society invited the whole school. There was an excellent attendance and Mr. Townsend was most impressed by the interest shown by such a large proportion of the school. The changi ng series of reproductions of paintings on the Art Room landi ng have st imulated a certain interest but it is felt that more members of the school could profitably have come to sec them. The last two exhibitions were of reproductions of Rennaissance drawings and this series will be continued for the whole of next term, taking us up to drawings of the present day. Its comprehensive range should be of interest as much to the scho lar as to the art lover.

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Our first real d ifficulty was to find somewhere to act the play. We are extremely gratefu l to the Headmaster for allowing us to use the Memorial COllrt, ideal in tila t it closely resembles the average Ancient G reek theatre, and comprises severa l ind ispensable components o f the scenery of the CIOII(ls, such as Socrates' "Think-Shop" and St repsiades' house. Many other obstacles were overcome by the producer, the President, who did more than the actual actors to make the production a SliCceSS. O ur thank s are also due to his har d ~wo rkin g helpcrs, such as the Ward robe and Business Managers. We are sorry that not everyone saw the play who would have liked to, and were flattered by the petition organized by certa in masters, ask ing us to repeat the performance. However, by the time it rcached us, everyt hing had been d ismant led; in any case, we had to start work ing for " 0" and "A" levels. To everyone who participated and to a ll those to whom our acknowledgements are due-too numerous to men tion individually- we are truly grateful. Perhaps this is a su itable place to welcome the new members of the Classical Sixth who wi ll increase it s size by 621 %.

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,II The Summer Term is always a busy one, wit h a profusion o f activities, sporting and cultural as well as the threat of examinations, to interfere wi th the running of the societies. Masters and boys alikc are consequently unwilling to sacrifice va luable time for debates, so there have been only fi ve "practice" debates this term ; the Society wou ld li ke to thank Mr. Dillon, Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Pit tman and the Captain of School for taking the Chair at these debates, and it is hoped that they do not fcel that their time was wasted.

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Despite the small num ber of debates, they have been mostly of good qua lity, and surprisingly well ~ attended for the Summer Term ; particularly good pla tform speeches have been made this term by Harris, Flick, Hampton, D avies and Hall, most of whom will still be wit h us next terln . However, the overall quality o f the flo or-speeches is still poor, and would be im proved if more sen ior boys came and aired their views o f the various subjects; it is hoped that a Ju nior D ebating Society will be for med next term, and so tha t the audiences in the Senior debate will consist entirely o f Sixth Form boys. On T hursday. July 2 1st, there was a debate held at Benenden School on the motion that " Life is unfai rly weighted in favour of the Male". J. K. Harris pro posed the motion and the Secretary opposed it, and seven ot her members were taken to give floor-spceches; the motion was fairly conclusively defeated, by 98 votes to 52. With a debate on nearly every Saturday, the problem of mot ions always arises, and the Secretary would therefore apprecia te any suggest ions offercd to him personally. The Society would like to thank its Presiden t, Mr. Ball, for all hi s work and carc durin g the year.

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The term , which we rega rd as our slackest, has proved to be more vaded than was at first Woodwork envisaged. Lathc work is st ill popular, the preparatory work bei ng carr ied out wit h a thought for the finished article in mind ; now we are producing bowls with lids that fit! The number of picture frames prod uced spells well for the Exh ibit io n of Paint ings this year. Coffee tables and fruit bowls as presents for home cause us to take more care than usual. We are hoping that when our building programme is finished we shall be left with a nice Store in which we can bui ld up a stock of fin e and rare timbers once aga in. E.H.B.

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Shortly before the start of the Summer Term, Mr. Peett celebrated his Golden Wedd ing Anniversary, and the Society made a presentation to mark the occasion. We have made great progress under his gu idance and look forwa rd to an eq ually bright future whilst th is help continues.

Last term's notes were unfort un ately o mitted, and since the term was fairly busy. mention is here made o f the eleven new members who all showed cons iderable interest in the Society, and the five major program mes competently executed by N. J . C. Thomas, M. W. J. Yo ling, F. Hodge, J. D. Foster and R. H. Hamblin, as a result of which N. J. C. Thomas, F. Hodge and R. B. Hambl in were elected fu ll members of the Society. Another smaller programme was well printed by N. A. V. Poulsen- but he must show greater ca re with his d issing. However, the magnum opus of the term must su rely have been C. W. Blake's Th e Grange Newsletter- a t we nt y~page magazi ne which has won praise from everyone who has seen it. Our o uting was to the Monotype Corpo ration- a tremendously cntertaining and interest ing day. In the Summer Term we moved to Palace 3 by permission of the Headmaster, so as to avoid closing down when our o ld room was demolished . The move has actually given us tcmporarily more space, though the promise o f a washbasin in the rebuilt room is an incen tive to move back promptly! The term was furth er brightened by Mr. Osmond's visit at Whitsun, when the secretaries entertai ned him to tea. As usual the majo r work of the term came with King's Week when we printed four programmes: Lear, the Anthology, the Serenade, and one for r .K.S. Those mainly involved were J. S. Foster, C. W. Blake, M. W. r. Young, R. n. Hamblin , r . D. Foster, F. Hodge and W. M. Lattimer- although a number of Associates also gave va luable help. To add a grand finale to the term R. B. Hamblin arranged an exhibit ion. helped mai nly by his brother, R. F. Hames and M. K. G. Stevens. Although the pamphlet was not as sllccessful as last year's, the o rganisat ion was probably better. Certa inly it impressed a ll those who saw it. Thanks must now be given to al1 full members o f the Society-and to some o thers-who have helped so much over the last year. And especially of cou rse to C. W. Blake, whose consistently high standards arc the envy of an members. Tt is to be hoped (and expected) that these standards will be ma intai ned by next year's officers : M. W. J. Young as Hon . Secretary, and R. B. Hambli n as Hon. Treasurer- the last named being the first winner of the "Foster-Blake" printing trophy for "t he most promising printer of the yea r" . l .S.F. C.W.B.

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SOCIAL SERVICE Canterbury is undoubtedly one of the more beautifu l English ci ties; that being so, it is perhaps strange that one of its more important natural assets, the river, has been made to contribute so little to the genera l effect. Landscape gardeners and town planners orten go to great pains to fit a well-sited stretch of watcr into their schemes; but the variolls branches of the Stour flow through Canterbury almost unconsidered.

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A vigorous body of responsible private citizens has now taken up this matter, and formed the "StOll!" Group" to explore the possibilities of developing the river in and around Canterbury. . . . . .deaning it, removing obstacles to small-boat navigation, and making the banks more accessible and attractive. As the eightce nth~ century landscape gardener, Lancelot Brown, used to say, "there is considerable capab ility fo r improvement here." The river and its banks have been used as a casual dtlmping~ground by litter~louts; quite large areas of land, unsui table for building, have been left empty except fo r nettles, rubble and jungly bushes' there are many and variegated eyesores. ' The work to be done falls into three categories- investigat ion of the situation (including the historical and lega l aspects), planning of possible improvements, and execution of the work. Various bodies and organisat ions have offered help to the Stom Group, including several Canterbury schools, of which King's is one. Boys from the Social Service and Pioneer sections have a lready done some useful work in the first and th ird categories- charting the river and its banks, and removing rubbish of the lighter sort. The project has the approval of the City authorities, and a representative party of King's School boys attended a formal occasion at the Westgate Gardens on 6th July, when the Mayor of Canterbury gave the workers his blessing. T he Group hopes to hold an exhibition shortly, to which the school party will be able to contribute. Th is new undertak ing has prov ided a valuable contrast to the work already being done by the school among old people in Canterbury. After meeting with initial scepticism, it has aroused real en thusiasm among those taking part, and is provid ing valuable experience in both the problems and the possibilities of ind ividua l effort in improving social amenities. rt involves practical, sometimes strenuous work, giving an immediate return in the shape of visible achievement, and the less tangible, but possibly more important rea lisation that this is a piece of service to the community at large.

n is immensely important that this sense of disinterested service should be developed. To take only one example, English local government today is suffering bad ly from a shortage of able public~spir i ted voiLmteers with an understanding of the need for planning, and the effects of this can be seen throughout both town and countryside, where the unrestricted play of sectional economic interest is ruining our en~ vi ronment. England is not a scenically dramatic country, but it is, so to speak, sensitive: a little effort in the right direction, a little carelessness in the wrong one, can bri ng about rema rkable changes, which affect those who live with them, perhaps more than they know. We hope that the Stour Project is an effort in the right direction; we hope also that tho!>e who help with it may learn its lesson for another place and another time. M.StJ.P.

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C.C.F. NOTES ARMY AND BASIC SECTIONS A very good Inspection, taken by General Sir Charles Richardson, K.C.Il., C.B.E., O.S.O., the Quarter~ master Genera l to Her Majesty's Forces, was succeeded by Field Day, the Drill Competi tion and the new Inter~House Competition. Sir Charles was impressed by the calibre of the senior N.C.O.s., both on parade and off. For Fjeld Day the two senior training platoons and the Post Proficiency Platoon joined forces for an all night exercise. As a pilot scheme it had great success, much was learnt, and it shou ld be possible to give this special type of training in future as the opportunity arises. The junior platoons continued towards Pro~ ficiency, wh ilst the more specialised Headquarters Company were variously engaged in . rock~climbing, signa ls techniques, or re ~assembling a Morris engine. The Swete Cup was competed for on Conyer Ranges, and congratulations must be given here to those members of the Corps who shot at Bisley this year- to come th irteent h in conditions reminiscent of the flood is magn ificent indeed. The Drill Compet it ion had a new look and the standard was good- in all Houses save one. Grange were worthy winners, closely pu rsued by Meister Omers. The Section Cup Inter~Holise Competit ion was introduced this term, to allow a ll sections of the C.C.F. (not just the A rmy Section) to compete for Luxmoore Points. In essence, there will be four parts to the competition each yea r, and these may be varied. The most exciting and demanding pa rI this year was a ri ver crossing. Each House team was given a minimum of equipment, two minutes to assess the situation, and a task to accomplish . Clearly organizational capacity counted as greatly as physical ability and stamina, and Grange won this event by a short margin from Luxmoore. There were, however, th ree other events to this competi tion and it was Meister Omers, consistently high in the marking order, that eventually won the overall competition, includ ing the Drill Markings. Grea l interest was shown by a\l the competitors, more than I had hoped for, and new ideas are already simmering qu ieOy ready for next year. So much has happened and so many have done so much that there is not room for everything, yet our thanks must go especially to M r. Herbert, the Regimental Sergeant~Major, for his un tiring and successful efforts, a nd then to C.S.M. George Bell, Captain of School, Senior C.S.M. of the Conti ngent, who has worked ha rd and long to enhance the standa rd of the Corps, whether taking the parade for the A nnual Inspection as he did so excellently- the Advance in Review order was exceptionally good- or controlling and organizing the Friend ly Forces on the All Night Exercise. And so to Stanford P.T.A. for Summer Camp. Promotions this term:To C.S.M.: N. S. Browne; To Sgt.: R. B. Howard~Wi ll iams , N. A. H. Dawnay, L. S. Burr, H. J. Holdstock, I. G. Davies, C. H imsworth; To L/Sgt.: A. R. N. Sm ith, M. J. R. N icholls, C. G. F. Robinson, W. J. Davies, S. P. C. Scott, C. D. Rennie, M. J. N. Baker; To Cp!.: R. A. Eadie, N. G. Scott, J. R. Harrop, N. J. S. Scott, T. S. Radcliffe, R. J. D. Haswell, D. 1. Foat, J. N. Oatridge, A. A. Ranick i, A. H . Steele, P. R. Beech; ToL/Cp!. : B. A. K irsch, J. A. Harnden, J. H. O. Hughes, D. C. Quine, M. H. Roberts, A. E. Winch, P. A. L. W inter.

ROYAL NA VAL SECTION At the Annual Inspection we piped the General over the side and demonstrated lifesaving, ra ising and lowering a seaboat, bends and hitches, whipping and splicing and other aspects of seamanship. We ended by transferring the General to the R.E.M.E. by Light Rig Jackstay, and at the speech afterwards received a special mention for our marching and turnout. We had one of our best Field Days of all time when we took part in the Home Fleet's Seaday Exercises off Portsmouth. We were divided between H.M.S. Rhyl, H.M.s. Dainty (Commander F. E. B. Brown, R.N., O.K.S.) and the submarine H.M.S. Opossum, and took part with H.M.S. Tiger and other ships in a number of high~speed manoeuvres and firings involving, among other things, dive~bombing by aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, anti~subma ri ne attacks by helicopters, and replenishment under way at sea and in the air. It was an impressive and thrilling display, not least when H.M.S. Brave Bordel'er, in wh ich several of liS went to sea in Scot land last August, sped past us at 50 knots.

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ROYAL AIR FORCE SECTION In this short term, we have managed to fit in a visit to Manston for Chipmun k flying and another to West Mailing for some gl id ing experience. The Field Day was a complicated compound of examinations, in wh ich the results were very satisfactory, primary gliding, in wh ich the bungey wen t flaccid on us, and an escape and evasion exercise, in which half the evaders fail ed to live up to their title. The summer hol idays are the best time for cadets to make use of the wonderful opportunities of flying ava ilable to R.A.F. cadets. Coulson and Day will hope to end up with Private Pilot's Licences and Rundall, Cox, Day, Ga le and McKilliam should achieve "B" Certificates for G liding, and we wish them all the best of iuck-especially meteorological ly. At the end of the term, we say good-bye to our two Flight Sergeants, Hews and Sm ith, both power and glider pilots, who have done much to maintain the spirit and commonsense of the Section. We hope they are both able to keep lip their aeronautica l interests and thank them for a ll they have done.

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May I voice a word of approval and confirmation on the subject of your Editorial in the April issue and underli ne some of the important matters ra ised or implied in the art icle. Music in a public school, and at King's in particu lar, offers an opportunity and a privilege which is unique in the educational experience of this coun try. On the one hand, a boarding school, with its con ~ tinuous life and activity, affords an infinitely wider scope for making music than a day-school, and on the other, with its synt hesis of every field of education and enlightenment, it provides the serious musician with a sense of perspective unattainable in a full-time musical academy. Active participat ion is the most vital component in a musical education. For only by personal cont ribut ion can a boy truly experience the world of music, the riches of the chora l and instrumental tradition. By performing the best music, rehearsed in detai l, not only does he awaken a keener perception of beauty in sound but he also begins to discover why a work is a supreme masterpiece and so learns to discriminate between its greatness and the mediocrity of trash . Your editorial referred to Martin Cooper's comment on "the mora l virtues of patience and selfsubordination" in music-making. Nowhere are these more abundan tly necessary than in the preparation of a symphony or oratorio where the boy brings his talent, as instrumentalist or singer, to a corpora te function and after hours of sometimes ted ious work enjoys the communal satisfaction of a successfu l achievement in which all have cont ri buted their share, yet effaced their ind ividual personalit ies. 11 is indeed deplorable that at King's of all places so many conflict ing acti vit ies either o n the gamcs field 0 1' in society

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outings should receive official sa nction during the brief hour of weekly rehearsal allotted to the Chora l Society. The eventual outstanding success of the King's Week Oratorio in the C.at~edral is the mor,e not~Â wort hy in the face of such frustrating odds, and yet surely all would agree that It IS the rehea rsa ls In theIr own right that provide educational value, not the performances. A fina l word about the significance of the Prepara tory Schools. It could be well argued that the prosperi ty of the public school system as it stands today will depend upon the flourishing development of these inst ituti ons. It has al ready been stressed that the teaching of science ShOllld begin well before a boy reac~es his public school, and in the playing of musical instruments this prerequisite has long since proved essentIal to real progress. Already it is virtually too late for a boy to begin a st ringed instrument when he reaches us, and we can o nly remain thankful that our music scholarships continue to attract orchestral players from preparatory schools where music flourishes. Un fortunately for the coun try at large there are all too few of them. Yours etc.,

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Walpole House. 271h JIlIIC, 1966. Sirs, One of the most pressing problems facing this school is the grow ing lack of individual ideas. There are few gentlemen with a real sense of self-respect, who can carry themselves with unaffected poise and personal pride. There is a growing tendency in the ot her direction; everyone is con tinually having his own life organised for him. Careful decisions made by oneself are not encouraged. To remedy this problem, the most "avant-garde" suggestion is to give everyone a greater sense of persona l responsibility. Th is would invo lve relaxing many rules in the Rotulus, and, by implicat io n, expect ing everyone to behave like adults, At the mo ment "gentlemen" are treated li ke chi ldren and thus, occasionally, they act like child ren. In very many cases, indiscipline is a sympton , not a cause, of the rules. Second ly too many societies have to be presided over by masters. There is no necessit y for this; it is one of those immutable tradit ions. I see no good reason why a society sho uld function if no one is very keen that it should exist. It shows that there is something sadly lacking if people are not prepared to turn up to meetings. We should show our individuality by dissolving such redundant socicties and, what is sad ly lacking, erecting new societ ies where they are wan ted. Our potentia l individuality is repressed by havin~ minor decision.s, such ~s whe.n we. should go. to be.d, made for us. Even if the younger gentlemen a re meapable of havmg senSIble mmds III a case hke thiS, o lder members of King's should be encou raged to make their own decisions as to how they will use their own time. This is one of the many decisions taken for us by author ities who, in their infinite wisdom, know that the mind of a thirteen-year-old works in the same way as the mind of an eighteen-year-old. To say that this school is more liberal, and that it promotes individuality far more than other schools, is no argument for denying that we can improve our present high standard. Tt would be as well to remember that when someone is given even a morsel of freedom, he will want more. All we do now is merely to pay lip-service to those who are forcefu l enough to ensure that their individuality docs get su nk beneath an over-efficient admin istrative system. Yours faith ful ly, L. C.

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The King's School, Canterbury. June 18th, 1966 . Dea r Editors, As I become more and more aware of my surround ings and of the attitudes of those who surround me, I am increasi ngly appalled by what r see in this school, narrow-minded, Phi listine cynicism towards li fe, and especially towards an act ive minority who try to keep the reput ation of the school at a high level. This is exemplified by the behaviour of some boys at House Pl ays and at other cultural activities; however, it is hardly surprising that this happens at compulsory plays, and not at, for instance, compulsory Rugger matches, for it seems the "done thing" these days to despise culture or any form of mental discipli ne; to prove that yo u are " tough", "virile", a nd "with it" you have to affect an air of disdain and nonchalance to art, literature and music. If you enjoy classical music or good art yOli are considered as a fai lu re; YOll are "stuffy", "square", and you are avoided; if yOli happen to enjoy working you are classed as a " book-wor m" or a "swot", and if Rugger does not appea l to you, then people ca n only pour scorn on you. Of course we should not a ll become intellect uals, deserting the playing-fields for the concert-hall, for each man has his own tastes and has the ri ght to follow these tastes without the interference and criticism of others. Every man has his own li fe to lead, and it is not the place of ot hers to impose their tastes upon him. If anything is likely to bri ng mediocrity into this school it is the cynicism, which people are tend ing to adopt; jf there were to be an " Int ell igent Woma n's Guide to the K.ing's School Cynic" it would doubtless read thus: " He wearS a permanent sneer on his face, which immediately rejects all effort s at politeness or kindness towards him by anyone, mak ing life intolerab)c for a ll arou nd him . A cheap and immature versio n of the true cynic, he scorns a ll divergence from the norm and from his bourgeois and mediocre values. Politeness, kindness, friendliness, conscientiousness, generosity and cheerfulness- all these arc qualities which he despises in others. Taste is a personal matter, and shou ld not be imposed upon anyone, even when the imposers are backed by the tastes of the majority; nevertheless, it is the practice of many members of th is school to criticise all those whose tastes differ from their own. This kind of narrow-mindedness is selfish, and the sooner people realise this and increase the scope of their endeavours, the sooner the school will be a happier, more active and more tolerant place in which to live. I am, Sirs, Yo urs sincerely, R. N. JARMAN.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES The Editors acknowledge the receipt of the following magazines and apologise fo r any omissions:The Aldellhamian, The AlleYlliall, Tlte Beacon, Bradfield College Chronicle, rite Chronicle (Giggleswick), The Chrollicle (St . Edmulld's Schoo!), rhe City 0/ LOlldoll School Magazine, The Dale College Magazine, The Dovoriall, Th e Elizabethan, The Epsomiall, The Felsledia", Felsted Bllry, Glellalmol/d Chronicle, The Gresham, Hursl-Johllian, Kaleidoscope, Kent College Magazille, Killg's College School, The Killg's School Magazine, The Lawrellliall, The Loreltol/iall, The Lynx, Marlburian, The M eleor, The M illler COllrt Chronicle, The Ollsel, The Pauline, Th e Pilgrim, The Radleiall, Reptol/ian, The RojJellsian, The School Tie, St. Edward's School Chronicle, The S/ollyhurst Magazille, The TOllbridgiall, Whilg/fliall, The Worksopiall.

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We congratulate MAJOR-G ENERAL O. LE F . PAYNE, c. n.E. (1925- 29) on his C. B. in the Birt hday Honours. He is Director of Ordnance Services at the War Office. P. C. H. HOLMER (1937--4 1) moved to Singapore in March to be Deputy High Commissioner. Th E REVD. R. T. IZA RD ( 1946--47) has moved to Bognor Regis as Assistant Priest. He invites O.K.S. to drop in to see him at 44 Southdown Road . SQN. LDR. B. A. JAM ES, M.C. (1928-32) is at the British Em bassy in Prague, "a beautiful city and Embassy Life pleasant". CAPTAIN D. R. N EVILE (1950- 53) is in the 1st Batta lio n, The Parachute Regiment, in Aldershot. Before that he was A.D.C. to the G.O.C. Aden and then in Bah ra in. He has also played rugby for the Army recent ly. LI EUT. I. B. R . FOWLER (1955- 59) is in the 7th Parachute Light Regiment , R.H.A. at Lille Barracks, Aldershot, where he would be delighted to see O.K.S. This year he ret urned from Bahrain by Landrover. 1. C. POTfER (1952- 57) is due to finish his Ph.D. at Sydney next year. Meanwhile he has played hockey for the combined universities hockey XI in 1964 and 1965. J. M. DRAPER (1952- 57) writes from New Zea land where he is responsible for marketing im ported drugs in South Island. He will be very pleased to see 0.1<..5. at II Brake Street, Christchurch 4. H . L. FOSTER (1954-60) has passed his M.Sc. and is in Uganda working on soil fert ility problems. THE REVD. J. W. R. MOWLL (1 956-60) is a deacon in the parish of Oughtibridge, diocese of Sheffield . W. A. C. BAKER (1930-35) writes from Hong Kong, where he has " had a very pleasant meet ing with J. NETILETON (1932- 36), who has been a Queen's Messenger for some yea rs. R. L W. GILLAM (1957- 63) passed out at Sandhurst at the end of 1965. G. HAMI1ER (1946-52) has passed F .R.e.S. at Edinburgh and is practising in Andover. H. L. S. PEARSE (191 4-16) is due to retire from hi s farm this year. E. L. WORSFOLD (1 919- 25) has been appointed Agricultural Advisor to the South Eastern Electricity Board . D . F. KELLIE (1909- 11 ) has been elected Master, a nd O. A. YOUNG (1926- 32) and W. C. YOUNG (1 928- 38) have been elected Renter Wardens of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers of th.e City of London. We were pleased to receive newsletters from O.K.S. all over the world. N. T. EDWARDS (1955- 60) writes from Hong K.ong: " It may come as a surpri se to many readers of The COfllllarilm to hear that there is an active O.K.S. Association in Hong K ong .... On the 11th February we held our fourth Annual Dinner. .... Despite the fact that the South China Moming Post described the gathering as " large", seven O.K.S. were a ll that could be mustered at the time! . . .. I. F. AucoTT (1930- 34) is a Director of Jardine,

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ENGAGEMENTS GALLWEY- JAPY.- P. H . Gallwey (1955- 61) to Mlle. Douce Japy. DARTINGTON- WALLlS.-T. Darlington (1950- 61) to Jud ith Wallis.

MARR IAGES HOLFORD- MICHAEL.- R. L. Holford (1950-54) to Mary Michael. STANLEY-SMITH- MAGUlRE.- A. P. G. Stanley-Smith (1949---":'57) to Penelope Maguire. ATKII'~S- PALMER.-J. Atkins (J951 - 59) to Sarah Palmer. CoNSTERD INE- HAYWARD.- P. Consterdine (1956-61) to Yvonne Hayward. MORCOM-HARNEIS- GILLET.- R. Morcoill-Harneis ( 1957- 61) to Martine Gillet. HAMMOND- JOHNSON.- P. E. Hammond (1953- 57) to Eleanor May Johnson in November, 1965.

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DEATHS GLEN WILLIAM N ILS COATS (1948- 51) White Horse Common, North Wa lsham, Norfolk.

CANTUARIAN LODGE At our meeting in April, REGINALD FISH ER (1915- 18) was re-elected Master and cont inues in office for the present year. In November last we were delighted to welcome D. J. M. RAY ( 1957- 62), who was elected a member of Ihe Lodge. This year, on 4th June, the joint meeting of ourselves, the Old Lawrentian and Old Dovorian Lodges was held at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate, where a most enjoyable evening was spent by those who were able to attend. Next year the joint meet ing will be held at Canterbury. A. Fox-MALE (1925-26) is st ill our Secretary but he has changed his address to White Horse Cottage, White Horse Common, North Wal sha rn , Norfolk. 258

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Wimbledon Putting Tournament

The Society again entered a team for this tournament which is played in the evening on the wonderfu l putting greens at the Royal Wimbledon Club. The team, which won the competition two seasons ago, was not so sllccessful this year, but even so finished third out of the eight teams in its section.

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OBITUARIES ADRIAN KENT H e was not one to let a shining trust rust like unused nail; not one to try. and fai l, and blame his mirage on the desert dust.

And then the feathered arrow fo und its dark mark as it did please; but he was still at ease, watching his rainbow writhe and bend and break, disperse and disarray its seven fold a rc.

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old ruby sluff; it was for him enough su to deca nt his sense of the divine.

Let nothing then but Ollf remembering bring to ardent eyes the rare remote surprise of honey garnered from the comb's sundering.

E.SD. GLEN WILLIAM NILS COATS (1948- 51) I remember chatt ing to Canon Shirley in the Grecn Court one break and seeing a fair-haired Scandinavian boy smi le at liS both most courteously. "Who is that?" I asked. "Glen Coats, old ma n", replied the Canon, "and he's in your house". Those were the spacious days when it was Quite possible, especially in Marlowe House, for a boy to arrive without first meeting his house-master. And of all those post-war individualists Glen was the most d ist inctive. He li ved at a place called Wormshill that no one had heard of. His dai ly journey involved a (technically illegal) motor-cycle journey to Sitt ingbourne, where he caught a bus that often brought him laic to school. His family lived in Sweden, and although he consented to li ve in our house and play our games, he treated us all with the k ind of patient astonishment that I found attractive, but professionally exasperating. He was a boy of great charm who knew exactly what he wanted to do with his life. For a boy of th irteen he was a bri lliant talker with interests and a vocabu lary far beyond those of the average new boy. The news of his death will be dist ressing to all of his generation who knew and adm ired him. J.C.

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EDITORIAL There are few men who as they look back do not find in the past something which is an anchor as well as a memory. For some it will be the village where they were born and brought up, for others the church where they were baptised or married, but for many it will be their school. They may remember it with pride and happiness for what it gave them and for the friends they made, or with wry amusement and a faint distaste transmuted by time into something precious. But there is more to it than memory, for the experience of those four or five years has helped to make them what they are, and when doubt or disillusionment overtake them that link with the past will be a stabilizing influence in their lives. This is true of any school which is concerned with the values of the past no less than with the claims of the present and which endeavours to impart not knowled ge only but standards of behaviour and the ideals which enrich the mind of man . Of no school is it more true than King's which by the very beauty of its surroundings evokes an immediate awareness in all who come to it; and however much that awareness may be dulled by familiarity it is poignantly rekindled in their last term and when . 263

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the time comes for them to leave. O.K.S. we then call them, or Old King's Scholars, and the ambiguity has much to commend it. It suggests that all who have come here once wore the Scholar's gow n and surplice, enjoyed some special privilege and walked in solemn procession to Cathed raland that thereafter intellectual eminence is their destiny and due. At least there is charity in the euphemism. And who knows but that the term may inspire to nobler effort and so prove its own justification? A school community is in some ways like an iceberg, if th at is not too chilling or too familiar a simile. The greater part of it is never seen and in the busy press of school life it would be easy to forget its existence if it were not for the occasional reminder like Co mmemoration, or a dinner, or a rugby football match where pristine vigour engages greater weight or guile. The O.K.S. Canterbury Dinner was this year a specially happy occasion- not least for me. The company was larger than usual, and the genial words of the President whose brother- a n ol.d friend of mine from Yorkshire-was a most welcome guest Âˇ of honour did not di sguise his determination to respond to the challenge and to make his time of office a period of signal advance in the support given to the School by the O.K.S. Association. It is no secret that the public school of today faces a testing time, but the very uncertainties of the future bring with them their compensating benefits. They make for unity and they elicit a vigo rous response. This term after much preliminary thought and work there has been launched The O.K.S. Educational and Benevolent Trust. Wholly independent and unassailable by the State, it has two prime purposes-to assist the School financially in such ways as may be suggested by the Headmaster and commend themselves to the Trustees, and in case of need to provide help for O.K.S. who might not otherwise be able to send their sons to King's. Other schools have benefited greatly from such a Fund, and I am co nfident that with its wealth of loyal and generous support King's will do likewise. The Appeal is signed by the Archbishop as our Visitor, the Dean as Chairman of the Governors, the Headmaster and the President of the O.K.S. Association. It is addressed to all O.K.S. and other friends of the School in the confident hope that there will be many who will wish to express in tangible fashion their support of independence in education and the high value they set upon this School. A progress report will be published from time to time in The Cantuarian, and here I gratefully acknowledge our indebtedness to all those who have made possible this significant advance in the long history of King's. 264

THE SCHOOL Captaill oj School: J. R. Wilsoll Vice-Captaill : A. D. F. Hodson, K.S.

J. R. Wilson A. D. F. Hodson, K.S. C. M. Saunders, M.S. T. S. Radcliffe P. R. Ensor N . P. Press J. D. W. Wright I. Ja'afar

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SCHOOL MONITORS J. R. Wilson, A. D. F. Hodson, K.S., C. M. Saunder,s, M.S., T. S. Radcliffe, P. R. Ensor, N. P. Press, J. D . W. Wright, l. Ja afar, J. O. DaVIes HOUSE MONITORS P. B. Kent, O. J. Kent N. W. Jackson, N. J. S. Scott, C. J. Scragg, H. S. A. Slater, J. J. Carmichael C. J. Hinds, O . A. Pearce, L. C. Rutland, M.S. . . . Walpole HOllse: R. O. A . Munns, M. A. Cowell, C. C. N. Bndge, L. Thlstlethwalte, Meisfer Dmers: R. O. Clarke Mar/owe House: J Adam, A. M. Heslop, C. N. Wright Luxmoore Hot/se: I: O. Davies, S. P. Hutto n, A. R. Parrott, N. S. Browne, M. O. D over, D. T. Oli ver, K.S., A. J. Ramsay D MeL. Roberts, T. A. Ling, M.S. , J . A. Thomson, D. M. Young, K.S. Galpin's: J. Â·M. Hu tchinson, O. K. Jaggers, J. R. Oroom, P. S. K. Johnson . Linacre HOl/se: J. R. Wilson Captaill oj Rugby Football M. O. Dover Captain oj Boats H. F. Parry Captain oj Cross-Colin try R. B. Kennedy Captain oj Athletics M. A. J. Cronk Captain oj Tennis E. J. Olympitis Captain oj Fencing L. S. Burr Captain oj Shooting C. C. N. Bridge Captain oj Squash Rackets C. R. Whalley Captain oj Gymnastics M. A. Cowell Captain oj Jlldo C. S. Varcoe, K.S., M.S. Monitor jor Mllsic

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VIRTUTE FUNCTI MORE PATRUM DUCES AHMADZADEH, J.- Came Sept., '61; House Monitor, '66; Upper VI. ARNOLD, R. W.- Came May, '6 1; M.S., '61; Secretary of First Orchestra' Monitor for Music, '66; Roses Charity. ' BAILEY, A. J.- Came Jan. , '62; House Monitor, '65; 1st XV Colours, '65; 1st Athletics Colours, '65; Secretary of Athletics Club, '66; Editor of The Cantllarian; Upper VI. BAKER, M. J. IN.- Came Sept., '61; Riversleigh House Monitor, '65; House Monitor, '65 1st Cross-Country Colours, '66; Secretary of Walpole Society; Lance-Sergeant ' C.C.F., '66; Upper VI; Leathersellers' Company Exhi bition. BEECH, P. R.-Came Sept., '6 1; Lattergate House Monitor, '65; 2nd Hockey Colours '65' Secretary of Hockey Club, '66; 1st Hockey Colours, '66; Upper VI. " BELL, G. J. R.- Came Sept., '61; Hon. K.S., '65; House Monitor, '65; Head of House and Captain of ~chool, '65; 1st VIII Colours, '65; Captain of Boats, '66; Secretary of Marlowe Socle~y; ~ecretary of Tenterden Society; Upper VI; Trevelyan ScholarshIp; Exhibition III HIstory to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. BLAKE, C. W.-Came Jan., '62; M.S., '62; Secretary and Treasurer of Caxton Society' Secretary of First Orchestra; Upper VI. ' BODEY, D. R. L.- Came May, '61; Hon. M.S., '66; House Monitor, '66; Monitor for Mus!c, '66; 1st Squash Colour.s~ '66; Captain of 2nd VI Tennis, '66; Secretary of MusIc CIrcle; Secretary of MilItary Band; Secretary of King's Week, '66; First Orchestra; Upper VI. DAVIES, W. J.- Came Sept., '61; Hon. Sen. K.S., '66; Lattergate House Monitor '66' House Monitor, '66; Lance-Sergeant, C.C.F., '66; Upper VI; Open Schol~rship III Modern Languages to New College, Oxford. DAWNAY, N. A. H.- Came Sept., '61; K.S., '61; Sen. K.S. , '63; First Orchestra' Sergeant, C.C.F., '66; Upper VI; Oliver Johnson Gift for Physics and Chemistr/ Postmastership to Merton College, Oxford. ' DE SILVA, N. E.- Came Jan., '62; Hon. K.S., '65; Fencing Colours, '65; Sacristan and Server; FIrSt Orchestra; c.P.O., R.N. Section, C.C.F. , '66; Upper VI' Trotman Senior Exhibition; Crawford Exhibition and Gilbert-Shepherd Gift. ' FOSTER, J. S.- Came May, '61; House Monitor, '65; Secretary of Caxton Society; Upper VI; Oliver Johnson Gift. GAY, C. D.- Came Sept., '61; House Monitor, '65; 2nd Hockey Colours, '66; Captain of 2nd Hockey XI, '66. GRAY, M. J.-Came Sept., '61; Head of House and School Monitor '65' 1st XV Colours, '65; 1st XI Colours, '66; Captain of Hockey and 1st Hocke'y Colours, '66; Upper VI. HALLAM, R. S.- Came Sept., '61; K.S., '61; House Monitor, '65; School Monitor '66' Squash Co1ours, '66; Tennis Colours, '66; Secretary of MarJowe Society; Sergeant' C.C.F., '65; Upper VI; McCurdy Exhibition. ' HAYES, N. H.-Came Sept., '61; Riversleigh House Monitor, '66 ' 1st Athletics Colours '66. " HEWS, R. G.- Came May, '62; House Monitor, '66; 2nd Hockey Colours '66' Captain of 2nd XUHockey, '66; Flight-Sergeant, R.A.F. Section, C.C.F., '66; 'R.A:F. Flying Scholarship. 268

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HOLDSTOCK, H. J.-Came Sept., '6 1; K.S., '61; House Monitor, '65; Head of House and School Monitor, '65; 2nd Xl Colours, '64; 2nd XV Colours, '64; Captain of 2nd XV, '65; Sergeant, C.C.F., '66; Upper VI. HOUSE, N. G.- Came Sept., '6 1; House Monitor, '66. HOWARD-WILLIAMS, R. B.- Came May, '61; House Monitor, '65; Head of House and School Monitor, '66; 2nd VllI Colours, '65; 2nd XV Colours, '64; 1st XV Colours, '65; Sergeant, C.C.F., '66; Sidebotham Exhibition. HULL, S. T.- Came Sept. , '6 1; House Monitor, '65; 2nd Athletics Colours, '66; 2nd Xl Co lours, '66. JENKINS, P. K.- Came Sept., '61; House Monitor, '65; School Monitor, '66; 2nd XV Colours, '65; 2nd VlI I Colours, '66; McCurdy Scholarship. JONES, C. E.- Came Jan., '62; Acting House Monitor, '66; Swimming Colours, '65; Secretary of Swi mming Club, '66; Sergeant, R.A.F. Section, C.C.F., '66; Upper VI. KILBEE, J. R.- Came Jan. , '62; Hon. K.S., '65; House Monitor, '65; Head of House and School Monitor, '66; 2nd Xl Colours, '63; 1st XI Colours, '64; 2nd XV Colours, '65; 2nd Hockey Colours, '66; Secretary of Cricket Club, '64; Captain of Cricket, '66; Upper VI; Open Exhibition in History to St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. KING, C. J. H.- Came Jan ., '6 1; House Monitor, '65; General Fund Exhibition. KNIG>ITLEY, M. J.- Came Sept., '6 1; House Monitor, '66; Swimming Colours, '65; Cadet Instructor, R.N. Section, C.C.F., '66; Upper VI; Bunce Exhibition and Mitchel Bursary. McDONALD, C. W. F.- Came Sept., '61; K.S., '6 1; Sen. K.S., '63; Captain of 3rd XI, '66; Upper VI; Open Exhibition in Modern Languages to Jesus College, Cambridge. NICHOLLS, S. J.- Came Sept. , '6 1; House Monitor, '65; 2nd Vill Colours, '64; 1st VIII Colours, '65; 2nd XV Colours, '65 . PI-IALI>, C. G. A.- Came Sept. , '6 1; HOllse Monitor, '66; Swimming Colours, '64; 2nd Hockey Colours, '66. POWELL, D. G.- Came Sept. , '6 1; House Monitor, '66; Upper VI; Open Exhibition in History to Selwyn College, Cambridge . POWELL, M. P.- Came Sept., '6 1; Riversleigh House Monitor, '65; House Monitor, '66; 2nd Athletics Colours, '66; Secretary of Photographic Society; Upper VI. RANICK I, A. A.- Came Jan. , '65; Hon. K.S., '65; Han. Sen. K.S., '66; Upper VI; Open Scholarship in Maths. and Physics to Trinity College, Cambridge. REESON, M. R. F.- Came Jan., '61; House Monitor, '64; Head of House, School Monitor and Vice-Captain of School, '65; 1st VII! Colours, '65; Vice-Captain of Boats, '66; 2nd XV Colours, '65; Lance-Sergeant, C.Q.M.S., C.C.F., '65. RENNIE, C. D.-Came Sept., '61; House Monitor, '66; Full Member of Caxton Society' Lance-Sergeant, C.C.F., '66; Upper VI. ' REVINGTON, J. P. G.- Came Sept., '61; House Monitor, '65; Head of House and School Monitor, '66; 1st XV Colours, '65; 2nd XI Colours, '65; 1st Athletics Colours, '66; Waddmgton Fund Gift. ROllINSON, C. G. F.- Came Jan. , '61; House Monitor, '65; 2nd Athletics Colours, '65; Secretary ' of Boat Club, '66; Lance-Sergeant, C.C.F., '66; Upper VI; Oliver Johnson Gift. SCOTT, S.P.e.- Came Jan., '63; Lattergate House Monitor, '64; House Monitor, '65;

2nd XV Colours, '65; Secretary of Judo Club and Judo Colours, '65; Lance-Sergeant C.C.F. , '66. ' 269

SMITH, D. L.- Came Sept. , '61 ; K.S., '6 1; Sen. K.S., '63; Ri ve rsleigh Ho use Monitor, '65; H ouse M onitor and School Monitor, '65; Secretary of Harvey Society ; Library Monito r; Flight-Sergeant, R.A.F. Section, C.C.F., '66; Upper VI; Open Exhibition in Natural Sciences to Trinity College, Cam bridge. SOUTHAM, C . M .- Came Sept. , '64; House Mo nitor, '66; 2nd VIII Colours, '65; 1st VJI[ Colours, '66. STEELE, A. H.- Came Sept. , '61; Ho use M oni tor, '66; 1st XV Colours, '65 ; 1st Athletics Colou rs, '65; Captain of Athleti cs, '66. TRO UP, A. D.- Came Sept. , '61; Ho use Monitor, '65 ; 2nd VIII Colours, '65; 1st VIII Colo urs, '66; Captain of 4th XV, '65; Upper VI; Stanho pe Fund G ift. WILLI AMS, G. T.- Came Jan. , '62; Riversleigh House Monito r, '65; 2nd XV Colo urs, '65 ; 2nd VII I Colours, '66. WILLIS, N. T. G .- Came Jan. , '6 1; Ho use Monitor, '65 ; Head of I-louse and School Monitor, '65; 2nd XV Colo urs, '64; 2nd Hockey Colo urs, '65; Swimming

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SCHOLARSHIP A WARDS VARCOE, C . S., Awarded Top Choral Scholarshi p to King's College, Cambridge . BAILEY, E. H., Choral Exhibition at Caius College, Cambridge. BARKER, S. S. , Exhibition at Corpus Christi College, O xford. POPE, A . G., Open Scholarship in Natural Sciences, Pembro ke College, Cambridge. FLICK, A . J. , Open Exh ibition in English, Go nville and Caius College, Cambridge. WALMSLEY, J. K. , Parker Exhibition in Modern Languages at Corpus C hristi College, Cambridge. GROOM, J . R., Open Exhibition in History to Lincoln College, Oxford. MARSHALL, A. B , Open Exh ibition in Classics at Kin g's College, Cambridge. BRYSON, W. N ., Open Scholarship in English at King's College, Cambridge. LA NDYMORE, P. J. A., Open Demys hip in Histo ry at Magdalen College, Oxfo rd . HUTCHI NSON, J. M., Open Scholarship in Natural Science (E ngineering), Worcester College, Oxford. KERMODE, J. c., Open Scholarship in Mat hematics with Phys ics, St. Jo hn's College, Cambridge. GOTIESMANN, F. E. W. L. , Scholarship in Modern Languages at Trinity, Cambridge. HODSON, A. D. F., Open Minor Scholarshi p for Law at Wadha m College, Oxford. SHAW, A. M. N., Exhibition in History (Law) at Trinity College, Oxford. DEIGHTON, R. , Exhibition in Engineering at Clare College, Cambridge. JOHNSON, P. S. K., Open Scholarship in Natural Science at Hertford College, Oxford. EADIE, R . A. , Exhibition in Mathematics at Trini ty, Cambridge. OLIVER, D. T ., Open Schola rship in Nat ural Science for Engineering Science at Keble Co llege, Oxford. 270

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THIS AND THAT On October 23rd a debate was held by the Tente rden Society on the The New Look motion : "This H ouse thinks that The Can lllarian is in need of drastic change" .. Predictably, the motion was carried by a good majority. . A few practIcable suggestIOns were offered ; whether these wou ld in fact im prove the magazme IS, of course, a m,atter of opmi on. So the ed itorial collegiate, brushing away a few cobwebs, decIded to Implement two at leas t : the abolition of subsidiary indices and the use of coloured paper for the Co ntributions secti on. We've a lso meddled with th~ old type-headings. Here it is th en: outraged conservatives should despatch their complaints to ... We were very sorry to hear of the death of Dr. Hewlett Johnso n, the The Red Dean "Red" Dean of Canterbury and ex-officio Chairman of the Governors from 1931 to 1963, on Octo ber 22nd. Most o f us still remember the blueand~white placard , with its unambiguous message, Christians Ban Nuclear Weapons, which once graced the front of the Deanery. This may be viewed now, by a ppo intment, in Parke r Study, Walpole. I,

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Someone pointed out earlier this term that the res ul ts o f the Lu xmoore Trophy (for the best house all-rou nd) have not been published in The Canluarian for some time. To help redress this catastrophe the res ults o f the last three years are given:' 1964 Galpin's. 1965 Meister Omers. 1966 Galpin's .

Luxmoore Trophy

Mistaken Identity?

EXTREMELY NEW Boy (peering into the bedroo m o f his Ho usemaster on his first morning) :

"Have you got the House Matron in there, please, sir?" Mr. Sopwith, whose picture appeared in th e last issue of The Canlllariall celeS.S.S. brated his 80th birthday on November 18th. He returned to King's (he' came a~ a. boy in 1901) from Shrewsbury School in 1948, with the alleged intention of . . retlflllg wlthm a few years. Those who know him can scarcely imag ine such an event even now. Floreat usque ad centum! La Troupe Franraise

On Saturday, 29th October, La Troupe Fran9aise presented Le Barbier de Seville in the Shirley Hall . This was attended by all Modern Linguists and pupils from a number of local scho ols. '

Mr. Roberts of Luxmoore.

We congratulate Mr. R. D . H. R oberts on his appointment as Head master of Wycliffe School, fro m August, 1967. H e is less than half th e age of th e retiring Headmaster. Mr. R. M . A. Medill will succeed him as Ho usemaster

We hope that o ur two new masters have enj oyed thei r first term here at King's: they are Mr. D. G. M. Thomas who teaches Ru ssian and German, and incidentall y spent a few weeks teaching here in the summer, a nd Mr. R. l. H. Gollop, of whom it has been well said: " His subject Divinity: his reli gion Rugby Football" . New Masters

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The rece ntly-fo rmed Police Cadet secti o n of the C.C.F. received conPolice Cadets siderable publicity in both local and national newspape rs: one optimistically said it was composed of senior schola rs ! Interesting that the Hertford shire Constabul ary a lso has started a training group for girls, between the ages of sixteen a nd eighteen; there ought to be a co nnection so mewhere. Freudian Slip?

A Science Shell B History essay: "On 28th June, 1914, in Sarajevo, the Archdeacon Franz Ferdinand was assassinated ... "

Althou gh th e weather during the greater part of this term has been like the babywet and windy- Sunday afternoons have been reasonably fine with good sailing cond iti ons. The School Heron and the Naval Section dinghy have been in frequent usc, together with the fo ur boats owned by boys. The Frostbite racing season started with an Open Meeting on October 29th-30th. Racin g took place on Sa t~lrd ay afternoon, and both Sunday morning and afternoon. The School was represented in th e vari o lls classes by two Gulls, a Hero n, a n Albacore, and a few boys who crewed in other boats.

Sailing

Stanley Reid

We we re most upset to hear of th e death of Mr. Stanley Reid on 19th December. He tau ght music at King's for several years and was an enthusiastic member of the First Orchestra. A fuller obituary appears near the end of the magazi ne.

On Thursday, 17th Nove mber, a star-studded tea m of Masters, led by P. M. Whelan, Esq. (and augmented, I may say, by a couple of outsiders) defeated the 3rd XV 3- 0. We will not easily forget the moment when M r. Gollop lost hi s "ear" in a ruck! This is the first time the masters have wo n fo r some years.

The Masters' Match

Problem Child?

Co ngratul atio ns to L. S. Burr (of Luxmoore) on being appointed an ho no rary ho use monitor (of School Ho use).

Shortly after half-term a tota lly unofficia l "Society for the Further Appreciation of Poo h" was ina ugurated . This in vited all members of the Uppe r VI who were " eccentric, uncynical, witty and thoroughly delightful" to join it, and ad vertised that meetings would be "frequent and frivolous". I feel incapable o f assessing this o rganisation objecti vely as I have a vested interest in it, but [ wo uld say th at activities have ranged from honey-tasting to hum-si nging, and that more money has been spent in two meetings than most societies wou ld get through in ten! Also, we have absolutel y no connecti on wi th t he recently-formed "Society for the Metamorph osis of th e Girtonian Image" or other more du biolls associati o ns as has been suggested. The Society for Pooh

Pooh Revisited Postman, on delivering a telegra m addressed to The President of the Poo h Society : " And to th ink th ey pay for thi s bloo m in' education!" 273

For some time residents In Palace Street have been complaining about Palace Street the musical cacophonies which have issued for th from the School practice Residents rooms. Notable amongst the statements reco rded by the Kenlish Express was Mrs. Kinnai rd's: " We got on to Mr. Edred Wright, the director of music, before and he was very nice about it, but I do n't think he realised what was going on ... " The city's chief Public Health Officer tried to measure the decibels of the music, but his attempts were foiled by the roar of passing traffic, familiar to all who have freÂˇ quented the Palace classrooms. I fear too that the "peace" of Palace Street was also disturbed last term

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by the contractors who were busy demol ishing the old Fives Courts by Walpole, to make way for the new classroo ms now under constructio n. Certainly at the beginning of term mo rning prayers became a com petitio n with the noise of their pneumatic drills, etc. As fo r the classroo ms, I' m told that there was considerable speculation in Walpole each morning as to how high a wall wo uld reach before it was knocked down and rebuilt. Well, it a ll keeps someone busy.

K. C.O.A.

On 19th Nove mber, the Madrigal Society sang Evensong for the Kent County Organists' Association. Judging by the letter which the organists sent Mr. Wright, they thoroughl y enjoyed the evening's singing.

The Half-Term Exeat extended from 2 p.m . on Friday, 4th Novembe r to 4 p.m. on Monday, 7th November. This meant we avoided commutertrains and enabled us to get back to afternoon lessons (cheers!). Our gratitude is due to the Headmaster for sk ilfully procuring cheap wee kÂˇend returns from Briti sh Rail. Frankly, fire- works were a wash-out, but presumably these were n' t the onl y scheduled activit ies! Congratulations anyway to at least two gentlemen who managed to fly to Eire and back in time. Half-Term

NORMALLY DI FFIDENT FAG: Er, Hodson, was th at yo u 1 saw hav ing lunch Sign of the in a caravan on the way to Birley's 1" Times VICE-CAPTAIN or SCHOOL (benignly): "Yes, qu ite possibly." FAG (emerging awkwardly from shell): " Well , yo u looked a ri ght twit." Vice-Captain staggers away groani ng (reputedly) 0 lempora! 0 mores!

A letter from Mr. B. W. J. G. Wilson, ex pressing his views on the "Sex and Morality" report appeared in The Times on October 26th. His conclusion, fortunately for some perhaps, was unambiguo us : "Therefore the Report should be given a warm welcome, not a hot reception!" On 13th November we were also treated , by courtesy of the Pater Society, to his talk on "Myth and Agamemnon". This was a work of vast enterprise and eruditi on, and proved utterly fascinating for specialists of all departmen ts. I am not the only one who eagerly awaits the publication of the ten volumes which alone will be able to contain the width and depth of Mr. Wilson's scholarship. Mr. Wilson

Thinking about Mr. Wilson's " divine Fiat" I was reminded of that old , fictitious but eminently plausible joke, when the man replied to the question : When's the first menti on of a car in the Bi ble?- "Oh, Moses, burning up the desert in his Triumph ... !" Holy Cars

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Ou r wannest congrat ulations to Ro bert Frankl in, O.K.S., Scholar of Christ Fellows of Chu rch, Oxford, who was awarded a Fellowship of All Souls College in All Souls November. He joins another O.K.S ., the Revd. D. L. Edwards, Dean of Kin g's College, Cambridge, who was selected Fellow in 1952: the School now has the rare distinction of having two former pupils as Fellows of All Souls.

Gifts to the School

We should like to thank A. D. Wilson, Esq ., O.K.S. for his gift of a stereogramophone, and an anonymo us donor for his gift of a very handsome sanctuary lamp for the Memorial Chapel.

After a lapse of a year or so, the National Youth Orchestra is to be re-formed. For many months nation-wide auditions have been held, and we a re delighted to learn that from hundreds of applicants, J. H. B. Poole (doubleÂˇbass), C. Waltham and J. D. Williams ('cellos) have all been invited to joi n the orchestra. It was with great distress that we heard that Mrs. Mowll, sister of the Mrs. Mowll Archdeacon of Canterbury, had died on November II tho She. always maintained a deep interest in the School and boys, and will be missed by a ll who knew her. J . F. Chesshyre, O.K.S. has written an obituary which appears later III this issue. We congratulate Mr. Curtis, the School Steward, on compkting, this term, fifty years in the service of the School ; he has been under SIX Headmasters Virtute altogether which seems a remarkable achievement. functi .. Mrs. B~nn, too, has now worked for fifty years in the School Tuckshop. We hope they will be with us for years to come . National Youth Orchestra

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J. R. Wilson , the Captain of School, is leaving in December, and, in my The Captain recollection at least, is the first who has not stayed the full 'year. Our best of School wishes to him for the future. Far be it from me to pass Judgement, but I shall always remember him for his exercise in ballistics at ~r~yers one morning : he shied us wi th va rious permutati ons of cutlery from the School dmmg-room, such as Giaco metti might have been proud to produce. Rumours that the offenders. were the sons of Mr. Hampton (recentl y ap pointed Master Cutler in Sheffield) are scurnlous ! Headmaster'S Illness

A few weeks after half-term the Headmaster went into the Kent and Canterbury District Hospital to have an operation. We are delighted to say that he has now completely recovered, and was fully mobile for t~e last two weeks of term. Mr. Paynter was acting-Headmaster dUring hIS

absence. Small boy a n return of Headmaster : "Gosh, he looks terribly thin : they Sick Joke 'must have taken an awfu l lot out! " We shall miss the cheerful countenance of the Revd . D. J. The Rcvd. D. J. Marriott Marriott, Headmaster of the Choir School, when he leaves the Precincts to marry Miss E. Willway. 275

The following table is an extract from The Times Educational Supplement of 28th October, which places King's 5th from the 103 schools listed in winning Scholarships and Exhibitions. School V I Formers Open A l!'ards Total Oxford Cambridge S. E. S. E. Manchester G. S. 569 I3 5 18 13 49 Dulwich 450 6 8 II 25 K.S.C., Wimbledon 306 6 4 7 7 24 Winchester ... 350 5 5 5 9 24 King's, Canterbury .. , 375 6 7 5 5 23

Oxbridge Awards, 1965

The Librarian gratefully acknowledges the bequest of many valuable volumes The Library from the estate of the late R. G. W. Saw, O.K.S., of Morden College, Black. heath; and the gift of books from the Headmaster, M. J. Gray, O.K.S., Sir Harry Townend, O.K.S. , K. V. Jones, O.K.S., Dr. J. M. Courtney, O.K.S., N. S. F. G. Browne, M. V. H. Spells, F. G. Fidler, Professor P. Stirling (University of Kent), P. J. Yeend (the Kmg'S School, Parramatta), R. C. Harr is, and A. Binney, Esq .

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MONITOR: And what do you suppose wou ld happen to yo u if you met Nell Nell Cook Cook late out one Friday night? NEW Boy: Well, I expect I'd be expelled or something . .. Clarence Myerscough

Congratu.lations to MI'. Clarence Myersco ugh, the distinguished leader of the FIrSt Orchestra, on his marriage to Marie-Loui se Scherer on 3rd September at the Franziskanerk irche, Luzern. Which reminds me, I hope he will come and play his viol d'amore again sometime in the near future.

We should like to thank MI'. Maple, who has supervised the Book-binding Mr. Maple at King's for many years, for all that he has done with that activity, and . we regret that he can no longer devote his time and energy to it. A true craftsman m th~ finest tradItIOn, he has always encouraged a high standard of workmanship among hIS pupils; thIS approach has been reflected repeatedly in the excellent work wh ich h~s grac~d numerous art exhibitions at King's. However, we arc pleased to say that he Will contmue to keep a frIendly eye on the Book-binding Society and that he will be most ready to give what help he can in the future. ' Old Choristers' Association

Last term an association was formed ill school for all ex-Cathedral or Collegiate choirboys. They sang carols at St. Augustine's Hospital, Chartham on 15th December, and, after the end of term, in the Precincts and at the Kent and Canterbury District Hospital.

Congratulations to 1. N. P. Low on winning a Squash Blue at Cambridge last term: unfortunately his team lost to Oxford 4--1. S. S. Barker had a very good chance of an Oxford Rugby Blue, [ hear, but became so disillusioned with the prevailing attitude to sport there that he determined to find solace in his books, and was, incidentall y, awarded an exhibition at his college, Corpus Christi. O.K.S. Sport

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We congratulate Mr. R. H. Prior, who was housemaster of Meister Omers from 1946 to 1960, on his recent appointment as Headmaster of the new Oxford School. In 1963 he taught Mathematics at Bradford Grammar School, a name which rings a bell!

R. H. Prior, Esq.

Jazz Concert

The annual Jazz Concert took place in the Shirley Hall on Sunday, 30th October and was received with great enthusiasm. A review appears elsewhere in the magazine.

We were pleased to welcome as preachers this term: the Revd. Canon G. W. H. Lampe, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; the Right Revd. the Lord Bishop of Bradford; Donald Hughes, Esq., Headmaster of Rydal School; the Revd. M. C. O. Mayne, O.K.S., Vicar of Norton, Letchworth; the Revd. D. W. Cleverley Ford, Vicar of Holy Trinity with All Saints', S.W.7.

Visiting Preachers

Mr. Fairservice, who has coached the 1st XV for the past twelve years, hands over this responsibility to Mr. Gallop from January, 1967. The 1st XV played splendidly for him last term: they lost only one school match, and last XV by winning all ten others created a record, since previously (in 1963) the highest number of school matches won in a season had been eight. They thoroughly deserved the photographs and eulogies which appeared in the national press on several occasions last term and the thrilling match against the unbeaten team from Rugby School, which was won 14--0, was the logical conclusion and the fitting tOllr de force to a very good season. Our thanks to the Headmaster who allowed this match to be played on the last Monday of term, the first time that the two schools have ever played each other.

"Fairey's"

We are sad to see the departure of Mr. Morrish this term who has done so much Vale for music in particular, at King's. We wish him all success in his new post at Marlborough. Condolences to C. G. Howard-Williams, O.K.S. and D. F. Waters, O.K.S. (sometime contributors to this magazine!) who planned a round-trip of Europe in the autumn. They managed to cross the Channel but were, sadly, deported from Calais. Pas d'argent, trop de cheveux or so they tell me. Congratulations, though, to Robin Troup, O.K.S. who also crossed the Channel, rowing a 30-foot skiff from Folkestone to Boulogne with four Salopians. They collected ÂŁ100 from Sir Billy Butlin for doing the crossing in five hours. Our three intrepid adventurers who travelled to Russia and Afghanistan last summer still seem to be making capital out of the expedition: Nigel Ash, for example, is now writing his fourth book! Our Men Abroad

Harold Goodburn

Harold Goodburn, an O.K.S. and for many years senior Biology Master at King's, died on 14th December here in Canterbury, where he returned to live a year ago. He will be remembered well by many O.K.S. and especially the doctors among them. 277

Walpole Art Exhibition All who visited this Christmas exhibition of art were impressed by the variety and good quailty of the work on display.

Marlowe Concert

On Sunday, 20th November, we were invited by Marlowe to their Concert an entirely new idea for house entertainment and a thoroughly enjoyable one: Thanks to all who made It possIble. A revIew appears later in the appropriate section .

On a more exalted plane perhaps, the School Concert took place on Sunday, The School 18th December. The whole School attended the performance and we are Concert ho~oured that Mr. Charles Groves, Conductor of the Royal Liverpool PhllharmoDlc Orchestra, has written the revIew for this magazine. Those who weren't completely hoarse after cheering at the Rugby Match The t:;arol managed to make the Carol Service a memorable occasion; and, as always, ML Wnght mamtamed a JudICIOUS balance between choir and congregation, ServIce whlie mtroducmg several new carols . .The choir began with Tell Out the News, . written and composed by A. B. Curry, O.K .S., whIch was followed later with When Christ was, Born oj Mary Free, a carol sent to. ML Wright by Edward Heath, M.I'. Es ist ein Ros enlsprungell, Three KlI1gs from Persian lands afar and Wassail, wassail wassail were also new additions. The Madrigal Society, singing fro.m behind the high altar again, sang two beauuful carols: . G/ona /II ExcelslS l!eo and Smg Lullaby. Quire and transepts packed to capacIty bore wItness to the reputatIOn of thIS most touching service. . Replete from our Break-up Supper, we drifted or crawled to the Shirley Hall The Film to see the film The Longest Day. It was long, which maybe accounts for the absence of the perennial Walt Disney cartoons-sadly missed by some! Our grateful thanks to Mr. Stanger and those others who helped provide this entertainment. Illustrations

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We congratulate. C,. C. N. Bridge on capping his outstanding success for Squash Rackets the School by wmnmg both the Kent and the Hampshire Junior Championships in the Christmas holidays. Two editors are leaving this term: A. J. Flick, who has done a lot of Apr.s moi valuable work and has produced several articles of prose and verse for Ie deluge.. The ClIlltuarian, and A. B.. Marshall, who, though never actually having . burst mto prmt WIth a contributIOn, has (or so he likes to think!) performed conSIderable feats for the ~agazme backstage. And while I'm in this giving vein, I would ilke to thank on everyone s behalf, Mr. Medlil, the unsung Editor of The Cantuarian for all the hard work which so unobtrusively he does for it. ' 278

MRS. MOWLL Last August, Mrs. Mowll was taken ill with slight heart trouble; in November, apparently well on the way to recovery, she suffered a sudden collapse of the heart, and died. Her death was a shock; her absence is an ever-felt loss to the school, to all those O.K.S. whose particular friend she was and to her brother, the Archdeacon, who has all our sympathy. We all know how great a friend she was to the school, and in how many practical ways she helped it; year after year, she and the Archdeacon have allowed the school to use the garden of No. 29 for some of the most memorable and enchanting King's Week productions : there can hardly have been a House Play which had not thanked Mrs. Mowll for the use of some precious prop; and every aspect of the life of the school had her keenest attention and interest. In the cathedral, she was one of the guild of women who devote hours of work to cleaning and upkeep, and her exquisite flower arrangements have been a familiar sight for many years. (The Friends of the Cathedral are publishing a .calendar for 1967 illustrating some of them.) In every year, a few members of the school, from the Grange in particular, knew Mrs. Mowll as the warmest of personal friends. A year spent in the little upstairs room above the drawing-room bow window; hours worked in the complete isolation and quiet of "Paradise" (for the uninitiated, a small comfortably furnished room up a narrow spiral stone staircase at the old western end of the house); countless delicious Mowllery teas, when work began to pall (or, perish the thought, when work had only just begun!); carols sung at Christmas over sausage rolls and ginger wine; even, for one O.K.S. of several years standing, 'clandestine garaging for an illegitimate motor bike- these things will never be forgotten by those who knew them; nor will the advice, reproof, criticism, interest and encouragement which she wholeheartedly gave. Mrs. Mowll was more than a kind old lady; she was in every way a most remarkable person. She was a skilled and prolific water-colourist and an accomplished embroideress. In addition, she used to knit celebrated shawls and blankets from undicd wool which she herself had spun. She had a rare sense of humour and of fun, and she was a person of great character (she thought nothing of, on one occasion, walking out of a House Play to which she had been invited, but of which she disapproved.) Finally, she was a woman of sincere and unaffected piety. Her death is more than a personal loss. A part of Canterbury has disappeared. J.F.C. Reprinted from "The Times", 24th October, 1966

THE VERY REV. DR. HEWLETI JOHNSON The Very Revd. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury from 1931 to 1963, and popularly known as the "Red Dean", died on Saturday, 22nd October, 1966 at the age of 92. He was a baffling, complex and controversial figure. No Dean of Canterbury aroused more hostility; no Dean of Canterbury achieved such an international reputation. His critics were' apt to speak of him as a clergyman who used his official position to advocate political doctrines which were held to be incompatible with Christianity. What they did not always appreciate was the comparative lateness of his championship of the Soviet Union. It was not until he had reached his sixtieth birthday and had been at Canterbury for some years that he made the visit to Russia that left such an impression upon him. 279

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Hewlett Johnson was born on January 25th, 1874, and was educated at King Edward's School, Macclesfield, and at Manchester University. Although he was trained for a business career, his social work in the slums of Manchester, combined with his religious upbringing, led him to offer his services to the Church Missionary Society. He entered Wad ham College in 1900, taking his B.A. degree in 1904 and his M.A. four years later. But he was no longer persona grata with the Church Missionary Society. His liberal interpretation of the Scriptures offended the conservative evangelicals, and he was not enlisted; instead he became Vicar of st. Margaret, Altrincham. Although his outspoken social views were not appreciated by some of the wealthy industrialists in the neighbourhood, the parish flourished under his vigorous leadership, the two .outstanding features of his incumbency being the crowded children's services on Sunday afternoons, and the summer camps for young people. His work was recognised by the diocese and in 1919 he became an honorary canon of Chester Cathedral, and in 1922 Rural Dean of Bowden. In 1917 Oxford gave him the degree of Bachelor of Divinity and in 1924, for his work on the Acts of the Apostles, the Doctorate of Divinity. In 1924, Canon Johnson was appointed to the deanery of Manchester. His relations with the Chapter were not always cordial, but even his critics admitted his ability to attract large congregations to his popular evening services. And although 40 years have passed, Manchester still remembers a Dean, courteous ajld erudite, whose love for children was such that they came in increasing numbers to the cathedral where he personally welcomed them. In 1931 Johnson was transferred to Canterbury, and at this time the Dean's political affiliations were uncertain. How was it that a man of his marked intelligence and great ability soon found it possible to applaud a regime that was avowedly atheistic? In all probability Johnson committed himself without fully realizing the implications. Hewlett Johnson always had had a passion for foreign travel-he claimed to have visited every cathedral in Europe----and, for a long time, he had had a deep concern for .. social studies. These two bents now coalesced. His chance came in the mid-thirties, when the Kremlin switched to a policy of coexistence with the western democracies. Its leaders were quick to appreciate the Dean's qualities as a propagandist. They were careful to impress him favourably. They knew the things that would appeal to a Christian, a social worker, and an engineer. Johnson saw, and was conquered. Having decided that Soviet communism was helping the cause of human betterment, he refused to criticize. He held fast to what he wanted to believe, and dismissed from his mind anything that might shatter his illusion. In 1964, when he was 90, he went to China. And what of his work as Dean of Canterbury? Visitors to the cathedral could not fail to be impressed by his fine presence and resonant voice, and, if they met him personally, by his courtesy and friendliness of manner. As at Manchester, he could be a charming host and an interesting guide. The beauty of the cathedral and its great tradition of dignified 'ceremonial and music, appealed strongly to the conservative strain in his character, and his judgment andÂˇtaste in aesthetic matters were sensitive and well-informed. But the apparent inconsistency between his position as Dean and his position as chairman of the editorial board of the Daily Worker cut at the roots of his influence. In fairness to Hewlett Johnson it must be said that he had so adjusted himself that he was unconscious of any inconsistency. On the contrary, he thought it was his over-riding duty to humanity in general, and to the Church of England in particular, to reconcile communism and Christianity. 280

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COLIN FAIRSERVICE "Rugby is a young man's game", and with these words Colin Fairservice comes to the end of 30 years of highly successful rugger coaching. He came to King's in January 1954 from Stonyhurst to organise the games and to coach Rugby and Cricket and though he is handing over the 1st XV to Mr. R. 1. H. Gollop, we look forward to years of equally successful Cricket coaching and to his continued concern for Rugby Football. The record of School matches won and lost show the outstanding success achieved but it is difficult to know which was his best year. In some ways the 1963 team, with S. S. Barker as captain, was the most successful, because they won all eight School matches which included two wins on the Northern tour of Ampleforth and Sedbergh (this is the only time in four tours that both matches have been won) and to crown their success they won the Public Schools' Seven-a-Side Tournament at Roehampton, beating St. Edward's Liver pool 30-0 in the final. Colin Fairservice has five times had a team in the final of the Seven-a-Side Tournament, which must be a record for any coach in the country, and of these two have been from King's. Appropriately his last team provided a grand finale and broke a record in winning ten out of eleven School matches. They played a fine open game throughout the season, and concluded by defeating the previously unbeaten side from Rugby. Colin Fairservice's methods of coaching at King's must have been unique. He very rarely took a physically acti ve part in training, but he was always there, complete with umbrella. Given a natural player he had the ability to make him excel and with the lesser player he had a superb way of bringing the best out of him and making him feel an integral and valuable member of the team. He would often take a player aside, giving advice or asking his opinion on certain aspects of play and he was always encouraging and cheerful, rarely raising his voice even when it seemed necessary. Above all he taught people how to enjoy Rugby- the only real reason for playing any game and one which many coaches seem to forget in their anxiety to win matches. Generations of King's boys will look back with affection and gratitude to "Fairey's" very real contribution to their understanding and enjoyment of the game. School Matches: Played \09, Won 86, Drawn 5, Lost 18, Points for 1,443, Points Against 456. J. D. W. WRIGHT.

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MR. ROBIN MORRISH The School's music is suffering a severe loss with the departure of Mr. Robin Morrish. No one who has watched our musical development during recent years can fail to recognise what it has owed to his many-sided contributions. Both the First Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra have been nourished by his highly talented playing and coaching; whilst his own pupils will miss his inspired teaching. The Second Orchestra, too, with his devoted tuition, has made notable strides forward , and many are the young players in whom he has instilled a deep love of music-making which will be of lasting value. Although the violin is his first love, Mr. Morrish, when he came here, brought with him for our benefit a wealth of choral experience. I knew him before he went up to King's College, Cambridge as a choral scholar, when at Cathedral Courses which I was running for the Royal School of Church Music I had many opportunities of appreciating his gifts and single-minded enthusiasm. His work here, for the Choir, Choral Society and in particular the Glee Club, has been of a very high order. The latter, as the result of his patient, pains taking and enthusiastic leadership, has given us many memorable performances of a remarkably high standard. Both his colleagues and the boys with whom he worked know just how much we are in his debt, but others may not. I would like, therefore, to place on record our deep appreciation of all that Mr. Morrish has done for us, and to assure him of our gratitude. We wish him every success in his new life at Marlborough. E.J.W.

THE MAUGHAM LIBRARY When in 1961 Somerset Maugham opened the library at the King's School built to house his books, he said: "The books I am giving you are the working materials of the author I have been ... I like to think that no school the size of King's will have such a substantial library as I am providing you with." Since then, the question has arisen as to how representative of his own library, reputedly 5,000 books, are the 1,670 volumes which the School has received, and has only recently been resolved by his former secretary, Alan Searle, who wrote in reply to this query that "the remainder of Mr. Maugham's library was distributed among various hospitals and institutions and a few of them are being sold at Sotheby's in the spring of next year (1967). Nothing much of interest except his bedside books". Maugham's gift has now been shelved and catalogued, and in the 282

knowledge that no more additions to the Collection are likely to come our way, it is possible to assess its literary worth and to make its contents and features more generally known.

The books have been classified into sixteen di visions: poetry, drama (English and English translations), prose (literary criticism and belles-lew'es), novels (English and English translation), French literature, Italian literature, Spanish literature, German literature, the Bible and the Christian Church, philosophy and logic, psychology, anthropology and comparative religion, history of civilisation, travel, biography and au tobiography, law, a miscellaneous section (which includes several books on the playing of bridge), and dictionaries and encyclopaedias. The comprehensive collection of poetry includes many of the classics and some volumes of modern verse several of which were presented to Maugham by their authors- the Sitwells, Dam Moraes, and John Wain, among others. The drama, again classical and modern, contains an excellent six-volume edition of Shakespeare published by the Nonesuch Press, New York. The Collection has all Conrad's works, much Dostoevsky, Thackeray, and Turgenev, and twenty-eight volume limited editions of the complete works of Kipling and H. G. Wells signed by the authors. Maugham's own novels, given to the School on a previous occasion and beautifully bound in green leather, have been added to this section. His particular literary enthusiasm is reflected by the three hundred French volumes including with much else the complete works of Maupassant and Stendhal and a twenty-two volume edition of the Goncourts' Journal: Memoires de la Vie Lilteraire. Italian, Spanish, and German literature are less well represented. The books concerning the Christian religion, including twelve volumes of Baring-Gould's The Lives oj the Saints (were they frequently consulted ?), are considerably outnumbered by those on philosophy and logic in which A. J. Ayer and Bertrand Russell feature prominently, and by much material on the religions of the east, psychology, and anthropology. Maugham's interest in history must have been slight for this section is sparse; nevertheless, he found room on his shelves for A History oj the King's School, Canterbury by D. L. Edwards and Canon Shirley's Richard Hooker and Contemporary Politicalldeas. The biography, science, and law divisions are similarly thin and contain little of note save for the six-volume The Story oj My Life by the nineteenth century diarist, Augustus Hare. Finally, there are various dictionaries, books on English usage, and the eleventh edition of The Encyclopaedia Britannica- a useful assembly of reference works. Few of the books are of interest to bibliophiles or have much monetary worth. But this is not to deny their value to the serious student of Maugham as a literary craftsman. For example, many volumes on philosophy have been extensively annotated ; the marginalia in the literary studies of Tolstoy indicate Maugham's interest in the Russian novelist's tempestuous marital affairs; pencil1edÂˇ on"theÂˇfly-leaf of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations are what appear to be numerous possible titles for future novels and plays. For those less concerned with Maugham's writing and more curious about the details of his life there are many fly-leaf inscriptions and dedications written in by donors or authors, often giving intriguing glimpses into the complicated tangle of his personal relationships. Edith Sitwell prefaces her The Song of the Cold with a double greeting: "For W. Somerset Maugham with homage from Edith Sitwell" and "For Willie with love from Edith" . Jean Cocteau writes: ''Cher voisin, voici Le Discours d'Oxford avec- toute mon amiti': fid ele. Jean. J'aimerais vous faire visiter Villefranche." The inscription in G. B. Stern's The Dark Gentleman perhaps throws some light on Gerald Haxton, Maugham's companion for 283

twenty-five years: "To Gerald with innumerable whimsies and quaint allusions to To-To and Elsa and Winnie-the-Pooh from his elfin wistful little friend from the Never-never land. Peter. January 1st, 1935." The fly-leaf of Brewer's A Dictionary oj Phrase and Fable enigmatically states: "To Willie S.M. from Christabel (presumably Aberconway). 21 October, 1933. (an amende honourable for an old lady's dress . .. see p. 40 ... )." As a last example, H. G. Wells is not content to des~atch his Complete Works with: "!o Willie, God bless him, H.G.", but also draws a comIc sketch of hImself III the nude wIth all his "works" churning round in his stomach like a machine.

Somerset Maugham concluded his remarks at the opening of his Library by saying: "When I look back on my long life, I realise reading has been one of the most enduring pleasures life has offered me. I hope that you may have that pleasure too". Members of the School are invited to avail themselves of his generous gift and to fulfil his aspiration. R.N.P.

THE CONCERT The Christmas Concert in the Shirley Hall on Sunday, December 18th, consisted of a miscellaneous first half followed by Part I of Handel's Messiah . It was stimulating to hear the spirited performance of God Save Ihe Queen with which the concert began and this put the audience in a good mood for Humperdinck's Overture Hansel and Gretel. The start of this is very difficult for the horns and bassoons and apart from one or two moments of doubtful intonation they did well. One was pleasantly surprised when the strings first entered to hear the warm, sonorous tone, and woodwind and trumpet dealt briskly with the Witch's Dance. The great amount of contrapuntal writing in this overture was mostly clear, the balance of the orchestra was good and Edred Wright hit the various changes of time to a nicety. After hearing the full orchestra (and what a splendid thing it is to be able to produce so large a band in a school) it was good to listen to the chamber orchestra, directed by David Goodes with Clarence Myerscough and Robin Morrish as soloists, in Vivaldi's C oncerlo jar Two Violins in A minor. Both soloists played on violins by Maggini (1580- 1732) and produced powerful yet mellow tone, notably as when Mr. Morrish played his cantabile tune in the third movement against Mr. Myerscough's brilliant spiccato accompaniment. They had excellent support from the strings but a harpsichord continuo would greatly have improved the performance both stylistically and tonally. One should mention the excellent double bassÂˇplayer in this ensemble. Tempi were well chosen but there was a tendency to rush the"last movement and more care could have been taken with unanimity of pitch throughout.-II!" Back to the full orchestra (minus harp) for Turina's Symphonic Poem La Procesion del Rocio. Composed in 1912, this brilliantly effective work depicts one of those striking processions in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary of which Richard Ford writes in such picturesque fashion in the old edition of Murray's Handbook to Spain (1845). Every year in the month of June Le Procesion del Rocio takes place in Seville: "the cort~ge is headed by devotees carrying richly chased lamps hung on staves, and the parish priest follows bearing the glittering banner on which is embroidered the representation of the Immaculate Vjrgin". 284

The music's mixture of religious pageantry and carnival gaiety was extremely well realised, . . the players responding punctually to Mr. Wril;ht's lively directi?n. .. 1t was gratifying that JrJessiah, Part I, was given With Handel S ongmal instrumentatIOn , the orchestra (now with harpsichord continuo) using the Peters' Edition and faithfully foll owing Handel 's instructions as to Soli and Tutti which add greatly to the variety of tone and ensure th at the principal singers are heard clearly. They were Bnan GlppS (Treble), Edward Bftiley (Tenor) and Christopher Saunders and Stephen Varcoe (Bass), wlule three boys, Andrew Lyle, Anthony Dawson and Nicholas McNair were collectively responsible for the alto part. All gave well-prepared and thoughtful performances and the ornamentation attempted made a bas is for something morc elaborate at future performan~es. The

trebles sang Rejoice greatly with spirit and a beautifully light tone and accomphshed the runs well on tlie whole, only becoming untidy when running out of breath. The full choir responded well to an alert beat, although there is no doubt that an organ would help the ensemble. There were time when those at the back, pa~ticular1y tenors, we re sadly behind the beat. It is essential for every eye to watch the stlck when only a light accompaniment is used. . . . . The whole performance. however, was fresh and true to the Handehan SplI'lt, provmg beyond doubt that music is a very real force in the School and that those who take part in it are sin cere in their de votion to their art

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WALPOLE AND GRANGE HOUSE PLAY "BY JINGO" To incorporate all the people attached to two houses in one evening's theatrical entertainme nt their only necessary qualification being the desire to take part, must surely be no mean t~sk. That the boys of Walpole and Grange acquitted themselves so laudably under the circumstances is remarkable: for many of the items in Mr. Peacocke's presentation of the Victorian Music Hall By Jingo were vigorous and entertaining.

There were advantages and disadvantages to the employment of a cast of such dimensions. It resulted in a programme that was too long bl:' a good 25 minutes. .on the other h":nd the full company on stage did present a splendId spectacle, and Its SIll&lllg was rousmg and provocati ve of audience participation to some extent. It was a Pity that full-~st

appearances were limited to three. One felt that they could have been better. explOIted at the expense of some of the rather repetitive small-cast numbers, thereby Improvmg the balance of the whole. The programme contained melodrama, farce, acrobatics and comic sketches as we ll as

musical items. Of the latter, notably good for their clarity, rhythm and sense of fun, were Wailing at Ihe Church sung by a suitably pert and pretty Davies, and Again alld Again and Again, by P. Baskerville, Williams, Moore, Sargent and G. A. HarriS. The 285

straight understatement of this last was most enjoyable. Parsons in pantaloons was fun too, and obviously popular. ln the comic field , Carey and Jerman excelled, being quick , poised and very much within the music hall idiom. A History oj Farce by Keeble, Carmichael, Bacon and Short was also well-executed and funny and nicely deadÂˇpan. There is something basic about custard-pie humour which appears to melt the most so phisticated of audiences. In The Fatal Gazogene the style of Victorian melodrama was only partially achieved . This was the fault of the material not the actors. One felt that a much simpler plot with a more clearly defined and blacker villain, and a more trag ically betrayed hero ine would have provided better opportunities for that glorious villain music and lighting, and those wonderful asides, bringing with them the relevant audience responses . Throughout the evening movement around the stage was good, and full use was made of the apron, giving audibility even at the back of the hall. Much praise is due to every boy who took part for his admirable stage presence a nd bearing; also to Mr. Peacocke who was energetic and extravagant in true music hall fashion. Your critic find s himself wondering whether such material as he saw this evening was worth the expenditure of effort and time by all concerned. A given house has only a restricted opportunity of becoming familiar in any participative way with the stage. One fee ls that perhaps a dramatic form of more weight and movement would have been a better choice for a hOllse eA'ort. Tll.A.

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MARLOWE HOUSE CONCERT The spirit of endeavour and enthusiasm wh ich engendered this evening of "domestic" music-making was rewarded a hundredfold by the event. We of the audience were treated to an evening of sheer, delightful entertainment, whose variety and standard of execution must have evoked the admiration of all those present. A rousing version of the National Athem immediately arrested our attention to the House Orchestra's opening, home-grown Overture by Richard Hathway; remarkab ly well conceived for the assembled forces who performed it with zest and sparkle, tidy ensemble and fine intonation. The Ballet from Debussy's Pelite Suite which fo llowed was an ambitious achievement, again imaginat ively arranged by Nicholas King for the occasion and a tour de force by the conductor, Mr. Goodes, whose precision and grip handled the rhythmic complexities and hazards of the piece in masterly style. More Debussy continued as the first of two piano solos by Nicholas King. The Images is the epitome of French Impressionism, with its sweeping waves of atmospheric sound, but this performance, thou gh scintillating, lackcd somewhat of the essential liquid luminosity. King evinced some lovely, poiscd playing in the Andante of the Mendelssohn which followed, but the reading "Prestissimo" in the Rondo Capriccioso unfortunately eclipsed the dancing playfulness of this typical piece with little more than a helter-skelter of scurrying, albeit brilliant semi-quavers. 286

A Malcolm Arnold Diverti mento is sure to be bubbling over with absurd jocularity, especially if written for flute , oboe and clarinet! There were some exciting effects an,d colours in the renderlJ1g, showmg fine techmcal skill, espeCially from Andrew Lyle s clarinet. But uncomfortable in tonation, wh ich seems at present to be our chronic disease and occupational haza rd in the woodwind section, bedevilled this performance to a degree. N igel Pitceathly's playing of two movements from th~ Telema.nn Viola Concerto was a revelation of what can be donc; not only on th iS traditIOnally Cmderella-hke Instrument of the orchestra, but also on one of our more notorious school violas to boot! In the Largo he drew every ounce of full-blooded tone available and the splendid Allegro was full of verve and excitement. Music for handbells- what next! Again we were treated to an intriguing surprise item, played with a pol ish and simple charm wh ich caused evident delight to both audience and players. But the climax of the evening was to follow in the presentation by the whole house with voice or instrument of Four Songs from Carmina BUl'ana by Carl Orff. Although the chorus sounded a trifle insecure and restrained (probably because of vocal limitation), the excellent efficiency of the percussion and two pianos, together with the fine, extended singing of the solo tenor part by N icholas Curtis, an old boy of Marlowe, produced a thri lling performance of this earth y, powerful work. The second half of the concert opened with music for two pianos by Arensky which was excellentl y played by the well-matched pair, N icholas King and Christopher Smith. This "salon music" which is a cross between Johann Strauss and Chopm, IS pleasant on the ear but grows ted ious after a while; th is waltz could have been a deal ~h~)fter ,,:ithout serious loss. The Recorder Trio Sonata by the unknown 17th century Wilham Wllhams was a worthwhile discovery; imitativc of the birds, the two wind players produced a beautifully rounded quality of tone with good timing, well supported by sensitive continuo playing from piano and 'cello- altogether this was a quite delightful item . Nicholas Curtis next returned to give us tenor songs by Warlock, Britten and Roger Quilter. His light, lyrical voice is finely suited to the English vocal tr~dition and although his interpretation of the slow songs was too fast to allow their emotIOnal meanIng to tell with deep conviction, his account of the gay, mischievous numbers was admirable. The first movement of Schumann's Piano Quintet was rather too serious an item to appear so late in the concert. The formid~ble problem of intonation. makes this an ambitious and difficult assignment for the strIngs, but the attempt was highly creditable, ".!though it particularly needed the more flexible ebb and flow of the Romantic idiom. Finally the evening concluded in light-hearted mood with Haydn's Toy Symphony, wherein the row of House Mon itors took their parts as cuckoos, nightingales and the like with a concentrated demeanour and application that caused much amusement! A pity that so few of the rest of the School were present to witness what one house can do; nevertheless, our thanks go to all the members of Marlowe for displaying such outstandingly varied talent, both recognised and hidden, in a first-rate concert. But praise is chiefly due to the director, Mr. Goodes, whose tireless capacity for hard work and relentless determination to be satisfied with nothing less than the best had so obviously infused the prolonged preparation for this concert; and appreciation too to Mr. Pollak for Marlowe House in which such an enthusiastic spirit of communal enterprIse flouri shes so splendidly. R.E.S.M. 287

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BRUNO HOFFMANN Except for those who had been fortun ate enough to be present at Bruno HolTmann's earlier visit, there were probably few at his recital who had ever heard the sOllnd of a G lass Harp before. Owing to the difficulty of playing this instrument, which has a tone like a harp crossed with a fiute, it is not surprising that it disappeared after a period of popularity in the last two centuries, and was .only revived in this one by Herr HolTmann. The programme began with a group of eIght fo lk-songs from van ous countnes, a nd three chorales by J. S. Bach. Then followed a brief resu me of the instrument's history, starting with the renown it gained from Benjam in Frankl in's developments in 1763. Then known as a GJass Harmonica, it prompted Mozart, Beethoven and Gluck to write music for it. When we heard a representati ve selection of this music, we were immediately struck by its charm and grace. The reason for the demise of the instrument at this time was that it was believed to exercise a bad effect on both player and listener, whose ears were apparently too delicate to bear it! But before we heard some of the music that is written for it no wadays, we were shown the inside of the instrument itself. Apart from the difficulty of making glasses exactly the right size, we saw that its construction is. very simple, but that playing it calls for a well-developed technique, especially in such pieces as Herr Hoffmann's own Etoiles ji/antes (Shooting Stars); this music demonstrated the possibilities of the instr ument in fi lm music. A highlight of the concert was the Quartet by J. G . Nauma nn, in which the recitali ~ t was joined by Mr. Morrish, Mr. Baldwin, and E. H. Badey. The performance of thIs piece gave us the opportunity of hearing the Glass Harp in combination wit h other chambe r instruments (flute, viola, 'cello) as it was intended to be played. And although Na uma nn can hardly be termed a great composer this piece was much enjoyed, as we re the two encores that the gratifyingly large audience demanded; with so many other things to claim everyone's time, it is a pleasant duty to record that Bruno HolTmann's excellent playing and natural humour justified their interest and cl ose attention. RJ.A.T.

I THE JAZZ CONCERT Sunday evening saw the Shirley Hall full of excited yet well- behaved enthusiasts eagerly awaiting what promised to be a varied and noisy evening of Beat music. First, T must congratulate all those who had obviously made great efforts to ensure that the evening was well prepared and rehearsed, especially those excellent comic comperes, A. J. Flick and C. M. Saunders, who provided light relief and ensured a smooth changeover between the groups. "Minus One" started the concern with considerable ve rve. Their rendering of Take it or leave it and their Rolling Stones number were obviously well received, as was their slower and quieter number. 288

They were followed by the "Vandals", who relied rather heavily. o~ their rhythm. They played one quite pleasant comic blues, but towards the end of thelf t Ime the audIence dId not reall y enjoy the rather monotonous beat. When they let thelf gUlta" st, Gerard Lohan, come in to his own, one cou ld appreciate some in teresting ideas. Both these groups made the erro r of mistaking sheer volume fo r music, with the resul t that the amplifiers sometimes drowned both the instruments and especially the vocalists. Dunn of the "M inus One" was really only aud ible when he threw back his head and shouted. Undoubted ly the most interesting sound of the evening came from "The Brass", a new gro up in King's, who feature two trumpets and a trombone. Though they had not really warmed lip during their short appearance, Spanish Flea and S!vingillg from Seville drew a lot of applause. It is to be hoped that we will hea r more of them. The climax of the concert came with the "Aftermath", whose smooth and controlled music showed how well they wo rk together as a gro up. Those of us who had heard them at the Benenden dance knew how well they can ma ke an evening go. They really had the audience with them in their own excellent number, Claudine.

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"LE BARBIER DE SEVILLE" LA TROUPE FRAN<;AISE Because o f half- terms, not so many other schools as usual were able to join us this year for a performance ofLe Barbierde Seville by Beaumarchai~, presented by La Troupe

Fram;aise. Th is resulted III less audIence reactIOn than otherwise might have. been, and in poor acoustics. The difficulties facing any touring company must be mamfold, even more so fo r a French com pany, who, having presented a different play in Tarenton the day before, attempt to perform a difficult play in their native language in front of an English audience. As fa r as adaptation to the Shirley Hall stage is concerned, La T roupe Fran9aise succeeded in presenting a fluent and compact productIOn, and, occaSionall y, pu t the aud ience Into a French sense of humour, in itself an achievement in England. Although the actor who took the role of Figaro was most amusing, there did seem little to distinguish this character from the common run of French "stock" servant-types . There was disappointment, however, because of the choice of play. Those who had fortunately read it beforehand found that the wit did not come across clearly enou~h, and of course the subtleties of the language were quite lost for those who were meetmg this play for the fi rst time. It may well be that this play proved too difficult for the partictrlar a udiehce, despi te the polished act mg of the company. The plot IS, Irke most plots in French comedy, a cliche, and, on this occasio n, the audience found this a help, sohd signposts in the mist of verba l subtlety; the latter of which misfired, due to the audience's lack of detailed know ledge of the particular play chosen.

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"WHY ALL THE FUSS ABOUT THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS?" SIR SYDNEY CA INE Few days pass without a reference from politicians to the balance of payments a phrase ' which they assume is well understood by their audience. Yet is is do ubtful if much more is conveyed than a sense of fu ss abo ut a mys tery. The

ylth Form were fortunate to have the opportu nity of hearing the distinguished Director of the London School of Economics explain this controversial topic, in the first lecture to be dehvered to the School by a professional economist. Sir S~dney' s lecture c?mbined lucid analysis with an origin,al and politically unpalatable conclusIOn. C~nc~ntratlJlg on the key problem, over-spendmg, of wh ich th e balance of payments deficit IS a symptom, he considered fi ve possible remedies. Two solu tions

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devaluation and direct limitation of imports, he thought wo uld be only temporary in thei; effect: willie he pOinted out that an i~crease in productivity could be too dearl y bought If accompamed by a di sproportIOnate Illcrease In wages. A wage-freeze wou ld have point if Ollr export prices were too high, but he saw no evidence for this. Turning to the reduction of spend ing, he doubted if an increase in taxation wo uld do !"lore than reduce saving. The government itself, when facing the problem of reducing Its own spendlllg, tended to c ut down on capital projects for the future rather tha n on current spendi~&. As the curtailment of such projects had the disadva ntage of reducing future produchvlty, S" Sydney concluded that the most fruitful area for the red uction of government spending was the social services. The decision on what spending shou ld be cut was naturally a political o ne: but it was the economist's function to make clear the

necessity for choice. . Sir S>:dney answered questions on our entry t o the Common Market, on sterling as an InternatIOnal currency, on our overseas commitments, and on the Selecti ve Employment Tax . On the last, he saw no point in th e S.E.T. bonus which encouraged manufacturers to hoard scarce labour: indeed, he saw a negative point.

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LIFE AND ACTION IA N BALL A lecture by a well-known photographer might be thought to be inevitably technical, but the one we were pnvlleged to hear thIS term proved to be far from a simple de monstratIOn of techmcal skill. The content of the lecture was true to the title and we were entertaIned to a series of magnificent colour slides fro m a wide range of activities. Mr.

Ball's many fine rugger slides were particularly impressive; and his positioning, timing and equipment brought action nearer to the eye than the spectato r might otherwise want it! Although still-life was less represented in the lecture, such examples as Mr. Ball did show w~re a t.ri~ute to I~i s teclu;ical ab ility. Thr<? ugho ut the evening Mr. Ball accompanied his slides wittily and mstructlvely. and entertamed rrom first to last a large cross-secti on of

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THE WILD LIFE OF AFRICA CA PTAIN T. MURRAY-SMITH Captain Murray-Smith has li ved in Africa for over forty years. In that time he has been a professional h~lIl ter and then a Game Warden, making the transition from the shooting to the preservatIOn of ga me at the time when the camera was steadily replacing the rifle. His .first step was to dispel all the wrong ideas about professional big game hunters. We thlllk of them as shooting. elephants, and so they did at one time. But nowadays the profesSional hunter has two Jobs : government control work and that of taking safari parties into the bush. A hunter must love his work. He must supervise and organi ze the trip and be able to answer questions. He must be a doctor, naturalist and crack shot. The animals are no't

dangerous unless disturbed ; then the dan ger rises one hundred per cent. in a few seconds. 1t is necessary to have an iron nerve, because not everybody can stand in front of a charging buffalo and drop it only feet from them. Captain Murray-Smith has often looked death in the eye. He has been tossed about and crushed under an elephant's head and mauled by a rhin oceros, but somehow he survived every time. The beast he most respects is the buffalo. This reasonably ordinary sort of animal is naturally vicious and extremely dangero us. A full y grown bull may weigh three thousand pounds. The most fea red animal is the crocodile. This loathsome reptile lacks any redeeming feature and causes the death of about 20,000 Africans every year. However, he had some more agreeable creatures to talk abo ut, such as the giraffe, wi th its un gainly and comic drinking habits. Captai n Murray-Smith has been witness to ma ny stran ge sights, including that of an elephant drawin g water from its "spare tank". This "tank" is an extra sealed-off stomach

into which the elephant may pump fifty gallons through its trunk and withdraw it by regurgitation . He went on to tell us about the roaring of lions and gorrillas' chest-beating, and fini shed by mentioning two of the wei rdest creatures, the okapi and the hairy frog. He urged us to go to the great tropical forests of the Congo, where he is sure there are as yet some undiscovered phenomena. But he warned us that unless one really felt stron gly inclined to this risky career, it is best to forget it. J.J.R.

HOUSES OF HAIR AND ROSE-RED TEMPLES MAJOR S. H. WOOLF It is probable that many of the large number of boys who attended Major S. H. Woolf's lecture on "Houses of Hair and Rose-Red Temples" did so out of a sense of curiosity for the intriguing title, which in fact described the dwellings and places of worship in ancient Jordan . No r we re they dISappointed, for Major Woolf's talk was informative, amusing, authoritati ve and excellently illustrated by slides, which portrayed the vivid colours of the Jo rdanian landscape, as shown in the film of the life o f Lawrence of Arabia on whom Major Woolf claimed to be "somewhat of an expert" . He is well acquainted with this fascinating pa rt of the world, having li ved there for a number of years, and his talk was thus spiced with many personal anecdotes, which added local colour to his information. 291

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Major. Woolffirst described the custom~ of the local Bedouin tribes: their hospitality, theIr eatmg habIts, and therr relIance on lIvestock such as camels and sheep, all of which have altered little since Biblical times; however, these tribes are sadly dying out in favo ur of the more modern and "civilised" way of life offered by the towns and cities of Jordan. The last half of Major Woolf's talk was concerned with the ancient city of Petra, which ~ust be the highlight of any visit to Jordan; founded in the 2nd century A.D., and redIscovered only in the 15th centnry, this city is fascinating both for its impressive temples bUIlt 1I1to the rock-face, and for the beautiful rose-red tint of the rock. . On this colourful and impressive note, Major Woolf ended his talk, leaving us with an ImpreSSIOn of Jordan as a country of vivid colours, strongly contrasting ways of life and above all of a mysterious and long-hidden past. ' R. N J.

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SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

SIR JOHN COCKROFT This term Sir John Cockroft honoured the school with a lecture entitled "Science and Society". Now Master of Churchill College, Cambridge, Sir John was a colleague of Lord Rutherford, and is in fact himself a distinguished nuclear physicist. The main line of the lecture was the ways, for good or bad, but mainly good, by which science. can affect the development of the wo rld. Sir John provided a background for the dISCUSSIOn by narrating the present views on the origin of the universe and life, pointing

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more immediate factors such as the scientific production of food supplies, health (challenges as well as achievements), the essential part pure scientific research plays in technology, and the contributions of technology to society, especially the quick means of spreading culture provided by modern communications. Sir John cited numerous other possibilities for technology, but stressed that more effort than at present should be made in helping underdeveloped countries through the provision and training of scientists. Passing on to the more profound matter of the social effects of science, Sir John struck a more pessimistic note, in contrast to what had gone before. As a counterbalance for predictions of more leisure, greater health, a better economy, there were visions of a meadowless, noisy world with the threat of nuclear war even greater than it is now. It

was on these strains that Sir John Cockroft came to the end of his speech. A less factual discussion ensued from the questions afterwards. Problems such as the duty of scientists to hide dangerous discoveries, and the relationship there ought to be between the artist and the scientist, were raised. Sir John's view on the latter point was that art and science should be complementary interpretations of the universe. He also said in answer to a question that science and society should ever stri ve to become more

and more at one with each other. J.A.B . 292

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THE RAINCOAT

Such a raincoat as this in Morris Schuman's clothing store is a raincoat in a millionno doubt at all. Here is one of God's very few gifts to weatherproofing. Ah, what a coat! Imagine in your eyes a dream of blue, shiny, waterproofed, non-shrinkable material, with a rich lining, that is scarlet and looks like silk, but isn't. And it's got pockets here and pockets there, with buttons there and buttons somewhere else, with zips and flaps and a belt and shiny buckles so that it is out of this world. Well, there it is in Morris's window and my hands are itching to get a feel of the cloth, and I am wanting this raincoat very much- very much. Such a garment-I am telling myself-could do fine things for a man. With such a raincoat 1 could go anywhere, and wearing that raincoat-then would my sweetheart, Rachel Blum, be proud of her Mossy boy. Because I know that the outside appearance of a man means much to a woman. And although my camel overcoat is still strong and warm, and I am ever thankful to my uncle Isaac, please God by him, that he should bequeath it to me; still, it is somewhat shabby already and does not quite carry the appeal of a raincoat, such as the one before my eyes at this moment. There it is. On the stand in the centre of the display. That is for me. I take a step back, and then to the right and then to the left. Oi, is this a coat! But then something is telling me that I must be just a little bit praktisch. So I place on my nose my glasses and approach the window. There is the ticket and if I can move to the left, I can see with a strain that the raincoat costs seven-no, wait- yes, eight pounds, and what is that?-just a little to the right-so! ÂŁ8-9-1 1. So immediately that little something, which is called Thrift, is whispering that this is many moneys. And that little lady, which is Vanity replies that this is a very beautiful raincoat. Thrift: Better you should put away a little moneys for a rainy day, for a little peace and comfort in your old age, please God. Answers Vanity: Rather you should be ashamed to take your sweetheart, Rachel Blum, to the cinema or to dancing in that camel overcoat, which is nearly a rag, with due respect to your uncle Isaac. So in my mind am I all a turmoil as can be seen, and I decide that a decision should be made in the Tea Rooms of Frieda Mittelbanger, which are on the other side of the road from Morris Schuman's clothing store. Thereupon I enter into this very eating house, where I am immediately confronted by Miss Mittelbanger, who is looking marvellous, considering her age, which is great, so I tell her this and request milky tea, that is not too hot and without sugar. Then I am by the window, and am being able to see the raincoat on the other side of the road. And there is a hammer and tongs between Thrift and Vanity in my head, and my tea is slopping with much vigour, until Thrift is down and Vanity is leading me by the nose and out to the street across to Morris Schuman's clothing store. And there is the coat, and there am I watching the bilious smiles of Morris Schuman's face, who is moving the aforementioned article of weatherproofed clothing from the window and is placing it upon the person of a youth with a perm and acne, who is giving Morris Schuman the required moneys in greasy notes and who is then, under my very nose, walking out of the door wearing my raincoat-under my very nose, mind you! 293

So the next minute I am inside and asking Morris where is my coat and I am pointing to the empty space in the window, whereupon he is saying that there are many others of this same beautiful raincoat all nice and clean in his storeroom downstairs, and how silly is this youth, who is foolish and with a perm and acne, for wanting the one in the window, and I should have a nice fresh one, in two blinks of his eye, which he will show me, and not a dirty one in the window. "But that was my coat in the window, Morris, and that you should sell my coat to such a youth as it was, shall I never understand. How could you do it, Morris?" I said. So Morris is calming me down and explaining that the raincoats downstairs are the same as the one in the window, and please I should wait a second. And then here is another one, and please that I should feel the quality of the cloth and the lining-what class!and I should not be upset and such a raincoat is really just me, and this being so, and me being a friend of the family, I can have with a pound cheaper. So mazeltov, and much happiness with it. But I am shouting at him, that I want only my raincoat, that was, but two minutes before, in the window and this coat is not my raincoat and please God, no one should ever have to wear such a thing; and at the top of all my lungs am I saying that never more shall I, Mossy Schwarzman, be a client in the clothing store of Morris Schuman, and with a crashing of the door am I in the street, where, in a blink, I realise how I am a fool. So I kick Vanity somewhere hard and remark to Âˇher under my breathing, where she may get off. Then I bring Thrift round again and thank him for the youth with a perm and acne, and I clutch to my bosom my wallet and am walking with resolution to the Post Office Savings Bank. For better it is that I should be inside with a warm fire on that rainy day, than outside in the cold, albeit with a raincoat that is blue and has a red lining. Amen.

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The rain in London is dank and grey Quite different from country rain Where chandeliers of clear-cut glass Come hissing onto dead leaves. The rain in London is evil. It soaks new shoes and suits And you flee into expensive restaurants Or draughty shop-doorways and bus stops. All taxis disappear, and buses vanish Like candy-floss at Battersea. In the country it is different. For there, rain is like spring-water And jewels from the coffers of Heaven. The rain rattles on the car As we swish through shining puddles Towards hot tea and crumpets. 294

LES ARENES [This cofltribution lVas handed to the editors anonymously and lVas considered to be lVell

worth publishing: however, as a rule, we discourage anonymity, and ask aI/future contributors to bear this in mind.- Eds.]

The station square was wide, and white, and haunted by dust-devils; but inside the Porte de la Cavalerie there was no wind, and the dusk had already fallen, breathless and aioli-laden. The street twisted and turned- aimlessly, it seemed, but tlus was a delusion: the traveller was being sucked inexorably into the inmost penetralia of the city, towards his real goal. Not his hotel, as he in his ignorance might think, but the ancient and still potent presence which broods over the subject city, and to which the first respects must be paid even by the unenlightened- Les An'nes. It appeared, as it has appeared for 2,000 years, with shocking suddenness, closing the vista of the narrow street, looming dark and immense against the sunset skyline. The dim tiers gaped cavernously, the grim arcades frowned with weary majesty; the houses huddled round, as if obsequiousness nlight avert the threatened thunder of wrath. To senses honed by a weary journey, the hush seemed more tban vesperal; there was a waiting feeling in the close, still air. But duty was done for the time being, and the street relented; the cool tranquillity of the hotel was soothing, and a trellised vine made an opulently elegant ceiling to the courtyard. In the incomparable light of a Provencal morning Les Arenes seemed altogether less threatening, more welcoming: overwhelming still, but with the splendour of daylight magnificence rather than the menace of evening gloom. Seen from without, wlllte arches marched across blue sky, and then from the darkness of the narrow entrance the banks of seats rose from the sanded arena like the sound of trumpets. The Cyclopean disorder of the upper works flung sprawling, turbulent defiance at the hammer strokes of the sun and the scythe sweeps of the Mistral alike. The vaults staggered and reeled gigantically above the great abyss, the self-hypnotised rhythm of the arches pulsated drunkenly, interminably round the endless oval. The whole morning was charged with expectancy. Away from the rioting stone of Les Arenes, the streets were throbbing, and the cafes clattered and rang to the excitement of the aficionados. And today everyone was an aficionado, for tomorrow was the corrida! The great posters blared lurid from the walls, the ticket shops swarmed with hasty buyers, and here, there, and everywhere were the Spaniards-darker, smoother, slighter than the men of Aries, treading soft and lithe, ragged camp-followers of the ancient cult of Poseidon. All day long the tension mounted and the crowds grew, and in the evening the guitars thrummed and tinkled through the dusk. There were shouts, too, not all of them reassuring to hear, and the clatter of running from shadowy alleys. The old gods nlight have been stirring, slipping in the dark from the desecrated coolness of the MusOn Lapidaire, flitting through the half-hearted Christianity of St. Trophime's shaded cloister, thronging down the cypress-gloomy avenue of the AJyscamps. The ancient rite was to be celebrated again, and the old pagan capital was waking to the event. The day of the sacrifice dawned clear, and before the sun was high in the sky it seemed as if the whole world converged on Aries, and all Aries on Les Arenes. Only the RhOne swirled indifferently past the broken bridge and the brown brick Baths of Constantine; the Mediterranean was near. 295

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In Les Ar~nes, Rome born anew. Down by the sanded floor, in pompous boxes of immense price, sat the senators in the full pride to be expected of men of note and lineage. Only the band was a little idiosyncratic. And above them surged the plebs, loud and gesticulating, forceful but unorganised, variously dressed according to inclination and necessity, coarse in the mass but subtle in detail. They flooded over the allotted seats and swarmed over the upper ruins and dangled their legs over fearful drops; some of them paraded with trumpets, some of them basked like graceless lizards in hollows of the stone; all of them chattered, in all the languages of Europe and some others besides. The crowd was interesting; but the setting was compelling. The spirit of the place was dominant, and the humans were under its sway. Deep in the labyrinthine stone bowels there were bellowings, and neighings, and weird reverberating shouts, and the sudden hollow sound of tremendous blows against wooden walls. Notices and barriers and padlocks barred entry to the curious, and heightened the apprehension, but no partitions could prevent the passage of the smell-a heavy smell, of earth and sweat and straw and dung, a smell warm with the warmth of animals, but also dank with the cold dankness of stone; a strange smell, because it suggested cheerful, friendly things like cattle-byres and stables, and yet at the same time the cold came through, cruel and fearful: the smell of fear; a disturbing smell. On the tiers above, the crowd was pullulating, immense; but then the eye slid over the masses, and scale re-asserted itself-Les Arenes far vaster than the greatest crowd, engulfing them in its huge maw, immovable, gloating. The flattened tile roofs of the city sprawled in jumbled confusion round the feet of the monster, and the three towers that rose from the circuit of the arches called as equals to the encircling mountain ring. The tiny figures perched on the highest ledges, where the mounting stone wave broke into space, danced and gesticulated against the sky, a puny frieze on a backbround of caerulean blue. On the half-shaded sand the preliminaries came to an impatient climax as the band disintegrated in a frenzy of unconscious syncopation. Silence, hungry and shocking; the big doors flung open, and with a roar the rite had begun. Six times the bull died, and six times the crowd renewed its strength. Fierce, feeble, skilful, clumsy, six times man met beast, steel against horn, and six times, ritually, the man prevailed. The crowd roared and gasped, cheered and booed, pelted roses and beer cans, lickle and contemptible and human: the animals were silent and dignified in death. The horses dragged the corpses away, horns scoring the sand, and little men with sand-pails, rakes and brushes ran forward to efface the traces; but the signs could not be concealed for long, and the bloodstains spread across the ground . The crowd dispersed, glutted; still talkative, but subdued now, almost contemplative, disposed to discuss the liner points. The carcases departed separately, discreetly, destined to grace the boucheries where triumphant placards would proclaim their provenance. The camp followers disappeared, tactfully. Aries was respectable once more. But Les Ar~nes remained. The tourists straggled back, and scrabbled round the careless stone flanks, and tried manfully to deface the faceless slabs with their ephemeral initials, and committed fleeting prodigies of tastelessness to clicking or whirring film. Les Ar~nes remained, contemptuous in the pitiless sun, and ruminated, gloating, over bulls, and Jions,

and gladiators, and criminals, and Christians. The waiting feeling had almost disappeared; almost, but not quite-for 2,000 years there has always been a next time, and next time will surely come before long. So the blood dried in the sand, and Les Arenes waited. 296

The Tortures of Valhalla I. 6. E. HetheriRgton Sickening, yellow and lumpish I st~mble from the restless sw~at-rags, Puking. Black dancing amoebae Amid a purple haze, swim Before the blindness of sockets That .revulsion boarded up disgusted. HeavlOg out the bilious taste From a feverous mouth I Grab at the match-box.' Angry t~ars dse, hot and dry, FrustratIOn 10 my throbbing pulse As matches, like broken dolls Lie headless at my feet Tbe victims of uncontr~llable Finger-like frankfurters. At last tbe blessed spark And blast as gas bites tin. A second's relief in tbe hell I feel as the bubbles too slowly Come to the boil. The air is foul and full Of green stench, and the Hate of having to breathe. Like ~he hate of having To thmk, grates deep within. But no need ..... . The automaton of my craving Reache~ for the last precious phial; Tremblmg I linger for the rag In my pocket, and quivering Offer the naked punctured tyre Of my arm to that needle's lunge. A drowsy nausea numbs the sensesÂˇ From my throat to groin inwardly , And miserably I retch. Very Soon after life is bearable Again, and jacket donned For action, depart my sheltering Tenement for tbe life witbout. Life there IS high-tension hen coop Where energy abounds ' Unclouded by mental fatigue. 297

Alone no more everything swings, King of the castle until .. . . . Undermined, the elastic breaks, The illusion slips From the back of this pitiable creature To reveal beneath . The underbelly body, defenceless and pink. Of a sudden, the bright lights That wooed me in the city, Glare harsh and fluorescent And pain my tortured eye-balls. The hard pavement beats my soles As my ears ring with a new noise That splits my brain. r shiver, Feeling the serpent of reality creeping through My veins, like an icy blast Along bloodless rivulets. Hollow, with my new-purchased joy, The stairs are long and piled up Against me as I struggle upwards. 'lhe key to my pep-punctuated Existence rattles in the lock And forever my ritual envelops me With the dark stigma of despair.

THE WALL

F. S. Hallam

I loved that wall. It lived outside my bedroom window and belonged to the house next door. My mother's bedroom did not have one, for she lived on what she called the "semi-detached side of the house". It was a perfectly constructed wall; those rectangular, ruddy bricks, separated one from another by the cement that had died, petrified, as it had oozed out, like cream from between the two halves of a bun. In the winter the wall became a dark red colour when it rained, and stains appeared on its surface that gave it a slightly mottled effect. When it snowed, the flakes clung to it and froze into weird patterns. In the spring it glowed with a fresh, scarlet beauty. Summer found a creeper meandering across it and the red rock behind the foliage became hot and brittle when the sun lanced into every crevice. However, some of its features remained constant throughout the year. The texture of the bricks allowed the onlooker to find innumerable images on its surface, which, once recognised, could never be mistaken again. As I lay on my bed my window provided the picture frame. On the top right-hand corner was a horse, rearing on its hind legs. I often wondered what had frightened it until I noticed the snake, hidden in the inflexible red grass beneath it. There were boats, faces that smiled, laughed, cried, and shouted, my mother and father, trees, flowers, bombs and water scenes of destruction. My wall was life, for in it I saw a reflection of my mind, my hopes, fears, love and hate. 298

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I can remember a time when I was ill. I had a high temperature and was extremely feverish. My skin crawled and rippled over my burning flesh. On the wall I saw devils, long, cold fingers, empty coffins and burning coals that throbbed in my eyes and lasted long into the night when only the street lamps remained to throw any light on it. Then in the summer, after long, warm days, as r lay awake in bed, I saw corn fields, luscious reed-beds and quiet water scenes in what had become the mirror of my life. My dog, Sukie, died. I was nine at the time; the bottom had fallen out of my world. On the night that she died I went to bed leaving an empty basket in the kitchen downstairs. The wall that night held images that I had never seen before. There were large and small dogs of every description: running and sitting, begging and barking.. As r slowly went to sleep, it was as if the whole dog kingdom had come to comfort me. The next day, they were gone, a new chapter in my life was beginning and the wall obeyed my changing mood. As time passed by, r made the wall a form of escape. When I was at a loss for something to do, I would retire to my room, lie on my bed and watch intently as life passed before my eyes against the petrified background of my wall. It was as if the wall was my comment on all that happened and its cement my imagination. Then came the letter that was to change my life and the wall's. The council had decided to effect new building schemes in our area. The houses in our row were amongst those ear-marked for demolition. The two year's "grace" before my parents and I left marked the zenith of my wall's influence upon my life. It had now become a companion to me through happy and hard times alike, and, as the cracks on its surface multiplied so the bond between us became ever strengthened. On my last night at number thirty-four, I said goodbye, and, as r did so it seemed to me that the wall replied in its own solid way. The rain that had been falling incessantly for days was like the tears at our parting. r went and the wall was soon to go. Where my wall used to be there is now a large block of flats. We live out in the country now and the view from my window is of a garden fringed by trees and a field. However, natural though it is, this scene always leaves me with the feeling that something is lacking. Somewhere, deep inside me, my heart yearns for a little red wall and a little red view of life.

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Tile Ballad of Earl Marischal

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I speak of a nobleman long dead, Whose silvery shimmering smoke has long since vanished. Alas! For now an ecstasy, a cherished gem has gone Like a famous monarch, to the gallows. It began as a sleek thundering 2-8-2, It ended as a bulky lumbering 4-6-2. As if doomed from its first blazing burst into the light Earl Marischal was mntilated and distorted Then reformed to continue as a cripple. Once more into the light it came, It did not leap, and frolic as of old, It wandered limply with disfigured limbs Until it was saved by death. It could not work to pay its keep Âˇ At last its end had come, And to the scrapheap it~umbly went And never more did run.

THE PRIEST-KING

G. R. G. Keeble

[He who is a killg should be a priest; he mllst also be willing to die. This story is based ~n the myth that the king keeps his position by survival, with the suggestion that his death IS something oj a redemption.]

The night falls once again, bringing with it the dangers of the shadows and the gloom. Down at the foot of ~he slope, through the pattern of ohve-trees, hes a curve of white sand and the .sea. The sea IS clear, and fresh, and it speaks to me. But I cannot leave this grove, for thIS IS my sanctuary and I cannot leave- not yet. I won this grove, I fought to become ItS kmg and I was proud of my position. In the darkness are the other members of this game. WhIle I am strong ram the priest-king. When I fail, I die. I can die at any time, because Jealousy and ambItIOn he III the darkness. So here I am tonight waiting not daT1~g to ~Ieep. I close my eyes~ but I hea: a stirring in the shadows. I watch the' big, placId, dlsmterested moon smile III the magIc of the MedIterranean sky. This is a grove of souls, of the dead, of the cTlckets and the bat-spirit flapping widly to free itself from my grove, out towards the sea. I want to go with it .... 300

The flat is in a terrible mess, but that's in the image of decadence. Tonight I will clear it up; it's a beginning, a definite beginning. The flat is expensive. Expensive disorder. The furniture is modern, comfortable of course- you can't lie around drinking, partying, being adequately avant-garde in new ideas of promiscuity unless you're comfortablesmells of stale cigars, the after-shave I use on the flowers, socks and burnt frying pans. Sports car outside, and the hip-elite pub across the way where all the dollies come to see if I'm interested tonight. Soho. The King's Road. Pubs, clubs, bars, cars, legs, hair, colour, gawds, broads. Hi, like a drink? What's your name? I'm the priest-king, pick you up at eight. One day, I'll do it wrong. My instinct will go kaput and I'll ask some good, pure virgin who will tell all her friends she was nearly raped. That's the time to get out. Somebody will notice I'm off form, and I'll be the one-time fastest gun sought for by all the hot-shots. Tonight I feel settled. A drunken settledness. In my own mind I'm tipsy but everything outside seems in perspective. A see-saw. When I'm sober everything seems terrible, when I'm drunk everything seems marvellous. Tonight I'm drunk, but not from drink. I'm drunk because I know I'm going to be free. I know where I'm going, I'm going where I want. The phone. Hullo, yes this is me. No, I don't want to take you anywhere. No, you cannot come here. Who are you anyway? Get lost, will you? ... Looking at the great white moon, feeling the warm breeze, melting into the night-noises and the mystery I realise myself. The orgies of Rome were the sighs of a dying civilization. My death is my freedom. The shadows stir. They are coming to get me, I know. I'm not quite ready yet. My blood will be shed, and then the sleepless nights, the terror, the futility are no longer mine. My soul will follow the bat and quench its thirst in the sea. As I sip my beer from the can, lying on the floor against the gramophone in jeans and shirt, I see decadence as a sign of the rat-race. My grove has pleasure, but no value. Party mania, beer and

coca~cola,

cheap wine. Pseudo-promiscuity, frigid girls in warm colours,

tight dresses, short skirts. Decadent parties to impress with the novelty, but it's neither impressive nor new. It's sad, and perhaps it's evil.

Free from my grove, I will visit it from the outside, watch those drugged black eyes, sense the tired organs that lost their passion long ago. Watch this damn game of blindman's buff. I will advocate my grove to free myself from this cycle of substitution. Of sex for love, records for music, machines for men. Lamentate. But when I'm free I will be the God, not the priest-king, who sees his people sin, and laughs .... The night is turning cold. I wrap my robe around me, put down my sword, and put my horn to my lips in a last defiant blast. I'm still here, you worms, but I'm going. I walk forward, towards the moon, over the sea. I smile back, as I start down the hill. The shadows move behind me, a knife glints in the moorIlight. My feet stumble down the rocky path. The air is fragrant, fresh, the wind blows straight from the stars. The sea shimmers ahead, my flow, the medium of my spirit, to my freedom. My feet feel the sand pulling on them, footsteps follow. I reach the waters edge, and discard my robe. The knife cuts deep into my back, into my heart but it is a distant pleasant pain and I fan forwards into the moon's reflection on the water.

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Leaves Leaves weave And dance fervently Now they are dead. Unnoticed before They have been free to themselves By Autumn's dank death door They can go where they will Their joyous brown souls flit Through the garden gate. They queue by the lawns Waiting for the next wind They are leaving old friends For new hollow embraces And other entrapping places. They are entranced but unaware For this is their life's death song With the end of the year, long Ago started in hope. Then they were green and young Now with abandon they curl and leap Round their lustful burial ground Only the mournful sound Of their arch-friend the wind Sighs a farewell.

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Dear Sirs, Towards the end of this term I was filled with consternation by the sight of four sinister persons disguised as The Average British Workman uprooting and dismantling a tree by the Lattergate garden wall. My first reaction was a violent suspicion that they might be the agents of R.O.O.T. or the Revolutionary Order for the Obliteration of Trees, who might have hoped to bring off a coup through the very audacity of their plot, right under the noses of S.P.R.O.U.T. (Society for the Prevention of the Removal, Obtruncation or Underestimation of Trees) which as you know has lain dormant recently-even ignoring the blatant absence of any scheme for a replacement for the Moribund Mint Yard Tree. However, such impudence on the part of R.O.O.T., or perhaps P.R.U.N.E., or even G.N.O.M.E., the neo-fascist Scottish organisation for the proliferation of car parks, was not to pass uninvestigated. I accosted the most shifty-looking of these persons just as 302

he was. patting down the earth where that paragon of arboreal virtue had so recently reared Its noble head heavenwards. "Aha I" I cried. "Such insolence will not be tolerated not ev~n from R.O.O.T.l Explain y~>urself." The malefactor, who had obviously bee~ well-bnefed, first began With a grovellmg apology for his very existence and then produced some cock-and-bull story about gas-leaks and dead flowers in Lattergate garden. "No doubt," I retorted, "there is some Chap As Dense As A Post who would believe such rubbish-" I knew he was cracking when I was interrupted by a spate of hysterical gabble to the effect tha.t this tree was to be supplanted by a giant Trafalgar Square type Christmas Tree, round which the School would be holding the Carol Service prior to a "gastronomical orgy" (sic) in the Great Hall. To cut a long story short, he confessed under torture to being ~ hirelin& of the D"n and Ch~ptÂˇr, ~nother sinister organisation financed largely by a tightly-knit body of elderly ladles, which was committed to the total abolition of trees in the precincts. I think, sirs, I need do no more than conclude with those prophetic words of Tacitus: "Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant." "They make a desert and call it a car park." Yours indignantly, A.D.F.H. [p.S.-Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat? You may well ask.]

Rhyme oder nieht seinP J.K. Eden It's not fashionable to Rhyme So why should I? All the other twits Manage Without its help. It's high time That rhyme's cry Was finished for ever, With no last clever yelp. 303

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RUGBY FOOTBALL 1st XV Retrospect, 1966 Played II; Won 10; Lost I; Points For 130; Points Against 49. No XV can or ever will be perfect and the few inadequacies there were this season were cheerfully tolerated by all of the players, who, by means of organised co-operation, did their utmost to cover them up. This, surely, is the very essence of team-work and it is upon this basis that the 1st XVs of recent years have flouri shed. However, much of the success of this School's 1st XV in the last decade has been largely due to team-spirit of another kind. All of the coaches of all of the School games have co-operated to the fullest extent possible and here [ must pay tribute to, and express my warmest appreciation and thank s to th ose many masters who, year after year, have worked

so hard and so ably to ensure a steady fl ow of well-equipped players to Games 1 and 2 at the begi nning of each season. I know full well that it is much harder and more time-consuming work to coach the beginners, the Under 14s, the Junior Colts and the Colts' games, than it is to manage a 1st XV, and it is right that these masters should share in the pride and pleasures that a successful 1st XV provide. These are fa r too many for all to be mentioned by name and I know that the others will forgi ve me if 1 say a very special "thank you" to Mr. Bradnack who looks after the beginners, and to Mr. Wenley who has worked so closely and so cheerfully with the 2nd XV and myself, and who, over many seasons, has maintained a supply of replacements and reserves of the highest quality to the 1st XV. The attitude of mind with which the XV approaches the game is all-important, both for the results it brings and for the pleasure it gives to players and spectators alike. Many of the comments made in Press reports of our matches thi s season accurately and fairly

reflect the King's reliance on attack and open play, and this approach to the game has now come to be expected of the XV at all times. The 1966 XV has not only maintained but even enhanced the reputation of the School's Rugger and has been much helped in this by the splendid captaincy and leadership of J. R. Wilson. He has been enthusiastic but very composed withal, and his quiet efficiency, together with his complete understanding of each of his team-members, made this XV one of the happiest that there has ever been. As a player he is a very strong prop-forward and his place-kicking was invaluable to the side. The pack as a whole worked well , and in M. W. Vaines and A. J. Ramsay we had a fine pair of genuine hard-working second-row forward s. When Ramsay was put out of

the side by injury M. S. Freeland took over and did very well, particularly in the line-out. G. A. Pearce was a stalwart prop and like the others he never spared himself in the mauls and rucks and he and Wilson gave good su pport to W. J. Griffiths who took over the hooking from S. P. Hutton after the first few games. M. A. Cowell successfully sealed off the blind-side and J. M. Hutchinson, who replaced A. R. Parrott as wing-forward, seemed to improve with every game. He excelled in the line-out. G. K. Jaggers, a former full-back , filled the No.8 position in the most exciting way possible. His splendid stamina and his ubiquity gave the impression that King's were

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. J. D. W. Wright to come up into the attack from full-back often enoug h for his good hands and speed to be used to the full est advantage. This fine example of team-work was well rewarded by Wright scoring many thrilling tries for his side. In defence his field ing and k icki ng were usually of a very high standard and, th anks to t he excellence of the defence further up-field, he was rarel y under extreme press ure. The presence of C. C. N . Bridge at stand-olT half proved to be a co nsiderable fac tor in the XV's success. His good handlin g and experienced gene ralship, all ied to his own bustlin g an d thrustfu l running and very finn tackl ing, made him a tower of strength, and well as P. C. C ranfield deputised for him in several games, he was so rely missed when inj ury kept him out of the side. H e was remarkably well served by C. R. Whalley who had an excellent first season in the XV and who pro mises to become a fu ll y accomplished scrumhalf. The ce nt res were A. M. Heslop and M. R. D over who by and large did th eir jobs well in attack, particularly when qu ick passing was called for, and whose fine hard tacklin g qu ickly put a stop to most of the elTo rts of the ir o pponents. N . J. S. Scott has had a very good season on th e right-win g a nd has made th e most o f limited number o f chances. H e showed good speed and his defence was first class. The other wing-th reeq uarter position was shared by R. G. A. Munns and R. B. Kennedy a nd both did good work when called upon. Kenned y had the misfo rtune to .b reak a collar-bone in the Eastbo urn e game and Munns celebrated his ret urn to the XV by playing a fine game at Epsom . The fact th at t he Jun ior Colts and Under- 14 XVs have both been undefeated this season brings great credit to themselves a nd to those who coached them and their success au gurs very well for the futu re. I am SUfe that the 1st XVs of the next few seasons will Hourish in the practised hands of my successo r, and it is my sincere wish and confident expectation that, between them, they will derive as much enj oy ment fro m the game as T have do ne. C.F.

1st XV Matches King's, JJ ; O.K.S. ,3 The O.K.S. brought down a reasonably strong side for this match- it was a much fitter side than has been seen on SI. Stephen's Piece before. The O.K.S. opened the scoring with a penalty kicked by A. D. H. Turner in fro nt of the posts. However, the superio r tca mwork of the King's pack grad ua lly took play deep into the O.K.S. " 25" and from a loose maul, the King's back row broke away and clever interpassi ng resulted in a try by Ramsay, a second row fo rward. The conversion made it 5- 3. T he second King's try was sco red in an ident ica l fashion. Ramsay again received the ba ll from a loose ruck and galloped to the line. The kick failed. Ha lf-t ime 8- 3. Altho ugh the O.K.S. never looked really dangerous in the second ha lf, they stuck to their task gamely and King's on ly further points came from a penalty kicked by Wi lson. Final score 11 - 3.

King's, 6; Blackheath, 5 The match opened in a fine drizzle which made handling difficult, bu t the going underfoot was fairl y fi rm. This did not seem to deter the open style of Rugby that the XV had displayed at St. Paul's the Wednesday before. The opening score started wit h a line-out in one corner and the ba ll was passed a long the line for Wright to corne up fro l11 full back wit h perfect timing to tak e a pass from the right winger, Scott, and crash over- a fine orthodox move. The kick fa iled. Black heat h were superior in the line-out and from the tight they qu ickly put themselves 5- 3 IIp wit h a goa l lmder the posts. King's got the ball from the loose where they were most effective, keepin g the crowd well entertained and some fine open att ack ing ru gby was played by bot h sides. Ja ggers showed (hat he is developing int o a fin e No.8. The sides changed over wit h King's three points up.

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, Although King's were lack ing in possession, they entrenched in the Dlackheath half fo r long periods but the fina l break through evaded the!ll. Scott pounced on a loose ball, scooped it up and out-paced the Blackheath ~I efenc:e fo r a fine opportUllJst try in !he corner. The kick fai led. Th is sparked off fine attack ing movements III wh Ich fo rwa rds and backs combmed. The most memorable example of this was when the ball twice crossed the field and with more tha n a dozen passes given the ba ll went loose over the Blackheath line.

King's, 3; Canterbury R .F.C., 5 welco m e~ tile ~omJJ1a t e~ l~rocee(lI n gs.

resumption of th is o l~ fixture. Fro.m the firs t whist le the Ca nterbury pack They won total possession ~rom the lIne-ou ts and hceled against the head many tunes. Kmg s were o ft en perplexed by the fast runnmg game played by the Ca nterbury scrum hair who ' caused ma ny anxious moments. However, there was no score at hal f-lime. 0- 0. Kin g's look the lead with a good penalty kicked by Wilson du ring one of their rare raid s on the Ca nt erbury line (3- 0). Ca nterbury came straigh t back and scored when their serum half made a fine break to link with a centre who scored far o ut. T he conversion was a good one to make the fi na l score 3- 5. K i.ng's

King's, 16; K.C.S. , Wimbledon, 9 The K .C.S. pitch was in excellent. con~ ition and the weather fine wi th a slight breeze, indeed, condit ions for a fast, open game. For the firs t five mmutes, before the packs had had time to feel each other out a good movement by the King's backs and the " overlap" provided by Wrigh t com ing up to joi n the line &0111 full back resulted in the first try, scored by Wright in the co rner. An excellent conversion by Jaggers put King's 5--0 in the lead. A short time later, ~ing's w,cre pena lized in front of thei r posts and the kick succeeded, making the score 5- 3. J\fter a scrum m the KlIlg's "25". K .C.S. heeled the ball and their fl y-half dro pped a goa l; King's now traJled 5- 6. About half-way throu gh the first half King's fa iled the fin a l touch wi th a mid-field kick bu t Wright , springing up, gat hered the ball and after kicking it over the opposi ng rull back dribbled down the right wing and scored in the corner. The kick fa iled a nd King's now led 8- 6. Not long before ha lf-time the King's backs once agai n fOlJlld an "ov~r1ap" with Wright running up on the wing; the opposition having been completely beaten by the move, Wnght was able to run rou nd a nd touch down under the posts. The kick went over and King's increased thei r lead to 13- 6. The second half saw many fOJ'war~ rushes and moves by bot h sets of backs, a ltho ugh no sco re resulted a s.ye~. A penalty was awa rded to KlIl g's near the K.C.S. " 25" and Jaggers succeeded in kicki ng it over ; Kmg s now Jed 16- 6. Towards the end of the seco nd hal f, K .C.S. were pressin g strongly <lIld after a setscrum in the King's "25" from whieh they got the ball , K.C.S. put over their right wi nger in an ort hodox move. The kick failed and the final score was 16- 9.

King's 6; DullVich, 3 .T he D u l wic~ pitch was very ~et and Iy!uddy,. mak ing open Ru gger very difficu lt. However, in the opening mmutes, despIte much pubhca llon of thIS tacllc, Dul wich allowed Wright to score with the o verlap on the wing. The kick left the sco re at 3--0. T he match now settled down to King's acting as desperate defenders warding off DuJwich attacks with a fine impenetrable defence, occasiona lly clearing the ba ll with dangerous three-quarter movements. The DuJwich pack ad mittedly had superior possession but fai led to use th is possession for const ruct ive moves often using desperate one-man plunges. ' Well into t~le .second ha lf, the press~r~ fina.l1y caused King's t.o give away a penalty, which was well co ~ ve rt e~, bnngmg the ga me to a':l e~c ltJllg chmax. H?wever, Km g's were very soon awarded a penalty wh Ich "YJlson ca lmly put o~e r. Kmg s now held Dul wlch ofT more or less on the half-way li ne until the fin al whIstle blew, and two tIred tea ms left the field , with a 6- 3 victory 10 King's. The cred it must be undoubt edly given 10 the fl ne derence of the backs.

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King's, 3; Richmond, 6 Almost con tinual rai n for a few days befo re this match made the 1st XV pitch waterlogged and so the match was played on the second game pitch. Richmond . who brought down a very strong side, soon look the lead with a try by the No.8 forward, who di ved over the line after a fivcÂˇyard serum. This was soon followed up by a dropped goa l and so after Icn minutes, King's were trailing 6-0. Play ing into the wind and up the slight incline, King's defended courageollsly. Cn the second half, the K ing's forwards were playing wit h much mo re fire and as a result King's obtained morc possession of the bal l. Wilson reduced the arrears with a penalty goal but in the end th e more experiÂˇ enced Richmond th ree-quarters handled and llsed the greasy ball to more advantage than King's.

King's, 5; Newcastle R.G. S., 3 The very bad cond itions caused the crowd to expect a close scrum game, which to King's , an essential ly dry ball side, was probably a disadvantage. But King's were determ ined to play open and thus some dangerous, though excit ing handling was seen. Newcastlciwon the hook ing battle, with fourt een against the head , but fai led to use this advantage with a lack of thrust in the centre. King's found themselves a try behind when a sliced kick from the try line caused the Newcastle winger to score in the corner. King's wit h eight versus seven in the pack, dLle to the unfortunate injury of a wing forward , now forced the play into the Newcastle area aga in . From clean possession in the line-out, C ranfield, mak ing a fine debut, deputising for C. C. N. Bridge, placed the ball with a beautiful cross kick in the corner of Newcast le's "2S". From the resu lting loose ruck, Whalley made a fine opportunist try, scoring with a Ijghtning dive. A fine kick enabled King's to leave the pitch with a S- 3 victory behind them, but a very close 'and enj oyable one.

King's, 12; Epsom College, 9 King's kicked off on an ideal pitch despi te a heavy mist. The first half saw much kicking, much of it from Epsom, who preferred to kick rather than nm with the ball. When King's got possession they looked the more dangerous, and were unl llcky not to score in the opening minutes fro m a cross kick which bounced awkwardly. The opening score came from Epsom, when they were awarded a pena lty under the posts. King's soon replied when Wilson landed a fine 40-yard penalty. With good possession from the back of the line-outs, notably from the 6' 3* open side-wing forward, J . M. Hutchinson, King's applied strong pressu re. D esp ite this, it was Epsom who took the lead when King's were again penalised. However, five minutes before half-time, King's scored a try' when H utchinson pounced on the ball healed from a S-ya rd serum. The try was unconverted. The second half opened with mllch attacking from King's. A quick heel from a set serulll in the Epsom "2S" enabled King's to execute a beautiful orthodox movement which led to Scott sco ring in the corner. The try was unconverted. It was now Epsom's turn to app ly the pressure, but although their forwards fought well and gained much possess ion from the set pieces, they were unable to penetrate outside. Neverthcless, five minutes from time Epsom scored an unexpected drop goal. which aga in brought the sides level. King's with a new determinatio n renewed their attack which brought them into the Epsom "2S". Clea n possession again from the back of the line-out brought a beautiful movement, wh ich enabled Wright to score in the corner, once again jo ining the line in characteristic style.

King's, 3; Eastbourne,5 The match was played in idea l conditions fo r open rugby, and a fine, fa st game soon developed. King's pressed frequen tly, especially down the left flank, but the covering o f the Eastbourne forwards was magnificent and each ti me a sco re looked li kely the fina l King's player still fou nd a fresh wave of opposition funning at him, ever-ready to crash him into tOllch. On the few occasions that Eastbo urne did break away, however, they looked extremely dangerous, and, on one occasion, an admirable tackle by Jaggers prevented a score. Eastbourne were skilled in attack ing with a double line of three-quarters- just as they defended with fresh waves of opposition, so a King's three-quarter found not o ne man running at him but two, so frequently Scott on the right wing experienced an over lap. It speaks well fo r the King's defence that these movement s were smothered before the change of direction could be achieved . Half-time 0- 0. 308

In the second half, Eastbourne opcned thc scoring with a fine movement just aner the re-start of play. The usua l, orthodox movement flowed out towards the left wing, when sudden ly the Eastbourne centre passed back inside to link lip again with his forward s- it was an excellent move, catching the King's covering defence on the wrong foot- and foll owing a short bout of interpassing, the way was open fo r an EastbOlll'lle forward to crash over. The kick was successful. King's,O; E.C. , S. King's reta liated strongly in defence of their unbeaten record but Eastbourne had closed cvery gap, and we never appeared to look like sco rin g as in the first half. We were rewarded, however, with a penalty by J. R. Wilson. Eastbourne's fl y-half then started kick in g for the fi rst time until the end, never bothering to put his backs in act ion again.

King's, 1 J; Tonbridge, 3 Despite a st rong Tonbridge pack, King's deserved ly won by a goal, a penalty goal and a Iry to a penalty goal. As the conditions warranted, Tonbridge used their serum as a spearhead, using the good. old-fashioned tactics of hard forward sloggi ng. However, King's were undaunted, and despite treacherous conditions, gambled successfu lly on the backs 10 run with the ba ll. A fine movement, with a fine reverse pass from the wi ng back to his outside-centre. Hcslop, sent the latter crashi ng over fo r a fine early try in the co rner. Wilson with a fine round the comer kick made the score S- O. A penalty goal was awardcd to To nbridge to make the score 3 - S at half-t ime. A fine penalty goal by Wilson put up the score to 8- 3. Then rrom a clean heel by H utchin son at the back of the li ne-oul, he slipped the ball back to his scrum ha lf. Then very quick flieked passes to the wing gave Scott his chance to show his speed. With a rantastic SO'yard snake like sprint, Scott evaded va in tackles and was only tack led over the line to end the game with an I t- 3 victo ry.

King's, 3; Ample/orth, 0 Owing to the fact that Birley's was water-logged, the match was played on the pitch at Canterbury Ba rracks. The game on the whole was an open one, and a lt hough the score SllggestS that the game was a close one, this was never so. Ea rly on in the game Amplefort h ]Jllt K ing's undcr some pressure but this never proved dangerou s. During much of the game, Ampleforth were content to spoil thei r opponents' possession, particularly at the back of the scrum and in the loose mau ls. King's, in contrast, were prepared to feed their three-quarters, who received much of the ball. In the first half, King's did most of the attacking and were un lucky not to score on a number of occasions. being pena lised close to the line. H ard tackl ing by Ampleforth's ou tsides made the task more difficult, and despite some penalty cha nces the score was 0 - 0 at half-time. Tn the second ha ir, King's continued attacking. Good kick ing with the wind often found King's on Ampleforth's line. Yet with the clever movements ou tside King's were unable to penet rate even when only inches from the line. After ten minutes or the second half, the No.8 cleverly kept the ball in the serum and Wilson kicked a fine 40~yard penalty. King's kept on the pressure and the final score remained 3-0.

King's, 14; Rugby, 0 For their send-off to Colin Fail'Service, the Ist XV excelled themselves with a display of champagne rugger. r cannot reca ll enjoying a game more, and the half-hour o r so spanni ng half-time showed a team playing with such audacious, confident ascendancy that one cou ld only sympath ize with Rugby, looking somewhat jaded, bewildered, without thei r captain, but never giving up. In their centenary year, R ugby came for the first time to Canterbury with a rormidable rep utation and record: they had won 12 school matches and only been held to a draw by Bedford. But King's were at their peak, playing better as a team than at any time during the term. Rugby's awesome pack was not merely held but out played, and for once the possession clearly went to King's; we won twice as lTI'\ny line-ou ts. five tight scrums against the head to Ru gby's two, and the vital loose play was rar more often in our favour than previouslyÂˇ against stiff opposition. The three~quar t ers produced some fluid moves and tackled devastatingly hard. The signs became clearly legible early in the game: the gradua ll y improving possession was gone and Kin ~'s pressed and pressed. J. R . Wilson , who played a tough . efficient game, m issed two difficult penalties and then stood down to allow G. K. Jaggers a third attempt from 30 ya rds out. right of the posts, which brought King's a deserved lead about midway through the first half. Pressure was maintained, and short ly 309

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bcfore half-t ime Rugby fatall y whceled the serum sOI~le I ~ yards .from their line whilc he.e ling: t~c ~all came to C. R. Whalley, who broke superbly on the blmd side to give M. A. Cowell a sconng pass mSldc , 100 far Olll fo r Jaggers to convert. Half-time score: 6-0. . King's continued to press in the second half and perseverance was rewarded after some fifteen minutes, when a movement to the left appeared to end in R. G . A. Munns being checked- the next moment he had broken clea r and was streaking in wards past a host of wh ite Rugbeian sh irts to diver over for a fine try about half-way ou t, wh ich Jaggers converted . II~ s~i t e of a dangerous break by RlI~~hy's sta':ld-off h.alf, which a ll but led to a try, not long afterwards Km g s confidence of success a~serted Itself aga m : a. tight scrum some 20 yards out in front of Rugby's posts, and th e~e was C:. C. N. Bndge,. who had a maglllficent game , wipi ng the toe of his boot in readi ness. He made no mIstake ~llh ~ carefully alm~d, cooly tak~n dropgoal. The score remained at 14--0, a nd the tempo was such th at inevitably more ~l11 s~akes crept mto the game. Bllt not even the great team of two seasons ago had played more authOritatIve ru gger, a nd the whole team arc to be congratu lated as onema!1 for this .perfo rn~an ce a':ld their fine season's re~o rd. To me, perhaps the most impressive memories of thei r play Will rema m the lIreless excellence of their covel' , and their constant d ri ve to attack and counter-attack. G.S.P.P.

2nd XV It has not been an all-vanqui shing team li ke last yea r's bu t the games have been enjoyabl.e. and the!'e has been a happy spirit. Unfortunatcly , we have not a lways made thl? best .of our opportunit ies and , m one o r two of ou r draws and losses we could have turned the scales With qUicker reaction s and commonsense. The latter half of the term , the ground s were in a terrible state and this explains t.he low scori.ng, but it does show how imperative it is to make the 1110st of o.ne's chances when they arnve. The POllltS record of 66 for-34 against in 9 matches is , on the whole, satIsfactory. . Thistlethwa ite captained the team well and the serum sta lwarts , Kent .. Hutton , Davlcs and Freeland , helped hi m, wit h assistance latterly from Weir , to secure adequ?-te posseSSIO n. The back row was very fas t off the ma rk , especially Gray. as I know to my cost, and Hmds, Parrott and Stowell all pla.yed w~ 1 1. Keeble had his first term at sCfllm-h alf and did commendab ly well but was not always accurate m findmg Ja'afar and somehow this link often seemed to slow down the passing movements. There were Jllany change~ in the three-quarters but the basic line-up of. Gilchrist, Baker, Cranfield and Hodson ~ere sl~re handed in trying conditions. Their defence was also qUIte so~md and so was Berry's at full back HIS fieldmg and gigant ic left-footed touch-kicking often turned defence mto attack. The team was: A. W. Berry; S. C. D . G ilchrist, H . A. Baker , P. C. Cra nfield , A. D. F. Hodsc:m; I. Ja'afar, G. R. G. Keeble; L. Thistlethwaite, S. P. Hutton, O. J. Kent, M. S. Freeland, I. O. ,navies. R. F. G ray, C. J. Hinds, A. R. Parrott. Also played: Munns (5), Weir and Stowell (3) , Radcliffe and Colton (2) and others. R esULTS

,O.K.S. Ir. Won 6-0 v K .C.S., Wimbledon n. Drew 6- 6 v Dulwieh II . Lost 0-5 v Dover rI . Won 19--0 I' Worth School r. Lost 6-14 v Eastbou rne H. Wo n 17--0 v R.M.S., D over n. Won 6-0 v Chatham House r. Lost 3- 6 v Co lfe's G.S. r. Drew 3- 3

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3rd XV II has been an unbeaten season in spite of extensive losses to the o rigina l team through exa ms. and inj uries in higher teams, as well as in the thirds. Because o r these cha nges, the tea m did not a lways work well together, but under pressure it played very well, even if it did relax too much aga inst weaker opposition. The forwards did well most of the season, owing more to a common hatred of the opposition, probably, than to co-operation among themselves. However , the backs were disa ppoint ing unt illhe last two or three matches, when they made good use of the ba ll. R esULTS

Dulwieh 3rd XV. Won 6--0 v Dane Court 1st XV. Wo n 11- 3 v R.M .S., Dover 3rd XV. D rew 6- 6 v Sir Rogel' Manwood's 2nd XV. Won 8- 3 v Kent College 2nd XV. Drew 3- 3 The fo llowing played severa l times: Jackson, Carmichael, G lennie, Ensor, Cox, Radcliffe, Cotton , Jerman, Weir, Read, Ha ndley, Stowell , Titford , Macfa rla ne, P. n. Ken t, Hughes, Winch, Binney, F. S. Ha llam. N.W.J. J.L.G. I'

The 4th XV The 4th XV had , as always, a successfu l and enjoyable season, and were, as usua l, unbeaten. In six matches, the team scored 137 points, wit h 18 poi nts seored against, and Clarke and Hetheri ngton shared the captaincy. Last season, the 4th XV extended its scope somewhat , in that it served as a practice team for the Colts and the 3rd XVs, thus giving a great many more people a chance to play for the side, and also making a change for the Co lts and 3rds. Despite this, the 4t h XV st ill retains its individuality, with an enjoyable afternoon the main criterion. Finally, the 4th XV wou ld li ke to thank Mr. Fairservice for his enormous contribu tio n to King's Rugby.

Colts' XV Played 9; Won 5; Lost 4; Points for 46; Points aga inst 42 Although the playi ng record of the Colts' XV is not q uite as good as o ne wou ld like it to be, it is very pleasant to be able to say that certain weak nesses which were appa rent at the beginning of the season are no t so evident now. The main problems were lack of th rust in midfield, weakish tackli ng and a lack of wing forwa rds who cou ld attack as wcll as defend. T hroughou t the season the nucleus of the team remaincd morc o r Icss the sa me, with changes at scruiUhalf and wing-fo rward. At full back. Pargcter showed himself to be developing into a very competent kickt:r with both feet, but some of his field ing, especia lly of the high ball, was weak; with mo re experience this faull can be remed ied. Mannings and Blackmore on the wings ran hard , the latter tending to try to run through his men rather tha n round. In the centre, Stephens showed considerable determination , although not a nat ural ba ll- player, and his tackling and handling improved; Waterhouse ran well , but his tack ling needs much more fire about it. Bot h the half-backs performed well. Davison showed considerable promi se and with more experience he should develop in to a useful player, whilst N ort hen improved well. The pack never rose to great heights but on the ot her hand it was never complelely ollt-played, except possibly at Dover. Forwards can not afford to be benevo lent, and to them falls the du ty of trying to give the backs "good ba ll", i.e., the pack go ing forward . This we generally fai lcd to do in loose, set and line-out. fn the fro nt row,' Sellcr a t prop, a competent scrummager, needs to improve his flicking, whi lst Barclay needs to aim at consistency. Tsemelis hooked the ball regularly, and in the second row Fidler and Chambcrlin showed improvement , the latter even managed to keep o n side in the last match! The final back row of Ramsay, Clark and H eyland , gave us a much-needed boost and wi th more experience all three shou ld do well. Heyland, who has played consistently well , has capta ined the side in a very experienced manner and has been a great hclp to mc in my first lenn. I II

Finally, and I am su re all the Col ts' Team would join me, I wou ld .I ik~ to t.hank a.llt he res~rves who have turned out regula rly, many of whom have shown progress; Mr. Aknll fo r I11S help 111 coaching; and lastly, "George", for a lways having a pitch for us, whatever the weather. The followi ng played regularly :- R. S. Pat'geter, M. P. Blackmore, C. S. Stephens, J. P. Waterhouse, H . W. P. Mannings, D. P. Davison, - P. L. Northen -, C. H . Seller,- C. A. Tsesrnelis, - E. A. Barclay, R. A. Chamberl in, F. J. S, Fidler, C. F, C lark, J , P. R. Heyland ,- E. C. R~msay . Also played:- C . E. Short, J. Goodman , P. A. Mou nt , M. MeD. Simpson , M. C. Moore. â&#x20AC;˘ Co lour

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Junior Colts

Played 9; Won 8 ; Dra wn I ; Po int s for 114 ; Po ints aga inst 17 This has been a 1110st successfu l season and in spite of mud dy cond itions and a strong fi xt ure list a large tally of poi nts was o btai ned . The only weak ness was a lack of a place kicker, fo r o f the 31 tries scored, only 3 were converted. The season sta rted. with a few pro.blems such a~ the lack of a ho?ker and full ~aek, but by the end it was a balanced side which play<?d parllcularly well III a fi!le 15-0 ~vm over Tonbndge. The outsides were always menacing. Docherty IS ,il powerfu l runner and IS developing th.e sk ills n,eeded for a first class centre, but alt ho ugh he scored 12 tnes, many of these were made by the sk Jl ful passmg of Hamblin and Thorne. D itchbu rn is an elusive run ner, and he and Gaskel l are deadly defenders. Ahmadzadeh, who captained the side brill iantly, sel!t O ~lt a s lr~am of long ptJ.sses. a!lCl ":as beginning,lo kick well by the end o f term. Hamblin 's strength lay millS ad heSive hands, and III hiS IIltclh gent , aggreSSIve kickin~ , . ' , The pack were never outplayed , except on occasIons 10 hooklOg , although the tremendous shove often gained the ball after the opposition had hooked il. They realised the importance o f "good" ball and usually managed to drive the other side back in the set pieces and the loose. Stc~va rt led t!le rorwa,rds well and his falling on the ball was a lesson for all. Bedrord and Box Illana~cd to don~lOat e the Imes-ou,l III most m atc l~cs a nd with Austin were usefu l in th e loose. The back row o f QUlOe, Mak rIS and Ashenden lin proved stead ily and were quick int o attack and in d,efence. . . The most notable aspect o f the Side was ItS defence. The tack ling o f the t hree-qll arle r~ was superb, as was the covering of the pack, especially that of th e back row. Docherty was top scorer WIth 12 tnes, then Ditchburn with 5. Team: Sh ires; Ditchburn , Docherty, Thorne, Gaskell; Hamb lin, Ahmadzadeh; Bedford , Stewart. Edmondson; Box, Austi n ; Quine, Makris, Ashenden. Also playcd :- Rowe. Price, Baxter, Northrop , Jennery. v K.C.S. Wo n 6- 3 I' Dul wich. Wo n 14-3 v D over, Won 24-0 v Worth. Won 9- 8 v Chatham House. Won 3-0 v Eastbourne. Won 14--3 v R .M,S, Drew 0-0 v Kent Co llege. Won 29-0 I' Tonhridge. Won \5- 0 G. I-I .J.F.

P.M.W.

Under Fourteen XV This has been in some ways a frustrating tel'lll. The matches against our potentially strongest opponents had to be canceiled and the t~am has o nly brieny shown the collective rorm of which it has been capable. On the other hand it has been an 1mbeaten season , and some of the play has been very exciting. The pack, in particular has ~gain proved our greatest strengt h, and o nly Rochester fielded anything like its equal. Lawrance h;s led the forwards well and has been ubiqu itous in his covering. Scott Williams is a so und prospect as hooker, and wi ll be a co n s i ~er~ bl e asset next year when he will st ill be under 14. Bird has not used his height to the fullest adva ntage III lmes-out, bu t has nonetheless been a tower of strengt h. The back row of Raffety,.1-[addon-Cave a nd Hunter has developed rema rk ably, and it has ~ n possible to e~ploit wit h them tactics of an advanced nature. Haddon-Cave has been perh aps the most Improved player III the team. Foster shou ld be accounted unlucky 11 0t to get a ga me with the tea m , as he has come on well at blind-side. 3 12

The back division , by cont rast, has been lack ing in penet rat ion a nd the scoring has been consequently lower than last year. Craig, at serum-half, is already a very accomp lished player, and could be very good in the future. Outside him, however , only Bo lam , a fine player, has shown competence in the basic skills. This does not include tack ling , where the standard has been unusua lly high. Warren-Stone, though sare and with a good kick, lacked both the speed and dexterity o r hand to make a dangerous fly-half. He may well end as a good fu ll back , where he played well in two matches. Two of the ot her backs, Karim and Fleming, were converted forward s. They have played gamely and, at times, eITectively, especially in their tackling. They have improved considerably, but both have much to learn . The side never looked li ke losing any of its matches , even a t Rochester, where very strict refereeing somewhat reduced the initiative or the team. Sir R oger M anwoocJ's were beaten comfortably, as were Chatham House. In this match , the team revealed its somet imes irksome reluctance to capita lise on advantage by sett ling for a 15 points lead with twenty minutes to go. Kent College provided sterner opposition than last year, and the away match saw some of the most exciting moments of the season, There were some others in two ma tches aga inst a Luxmoore Junior League side-a successful new venture, with hono urs even. Warren-Stone has capta ined the side well , using his knowledge o f the game fu lly. One reward ing feature of the season has been the great depth of ability. Many of those who have not gained places in the team have improved greatly, and may well be strong contenders for the Junior Colts' side next season. A "B" XV wh ich took on Dea l Secondary School in two enjoyable fix tures, proved to be very competent, under the strong leadersh ip of Annis. In connex ion wit h this, our thanks are due to 1. R. Wilson, captain of Rugby, and C. C. N. Bridge, who have devoted much time a nd energy to training some of these boys. We hope that the Deal fixtures wi ll continue next yea r, and tha t the unofficia l Under 14 inter-house sevens competition, won th is year by Meister Omers, wi ll a lso become a regu lar reature. Such events have added spice to a generally successful season fo r Juni or Rugby. M.J.H.

D.J.R.

The following were selected fo r at least o ne match:- Warren-St one (Captai n), Jones, Karim , Fleming, Bo lsover, Bolam, Craig, Lawrance, Scott Williams, Hutchins, Bird, Chamberlin , Raffety, Haddon-Cave, Hunter , Annis, Lasker, Foster. R ESU LTS v Sir Roger Manwood's (A). Won 6-0 v Kent College (H). Won 17- 3 v King's, R ochester (A). Drew 3- 3 v Chatham House (H). Won 15- 3 v Kent College (A). Won 3-0

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v Dea l Secondary School (H). Lost 3- 6

v Deal Secondary School (A). Won 6- 3

THE JUDO CLUB Th is term has not been a particu larly inspiring one for the Club , due to a number of reasons, the primary one being the lack of senior members who were able, or who made an effort, to attend meetings. A large number of juniors joi ned the Club this term , amongst whom are some very promising j udoka whom J hope will remain with the Club and help to form an excellent fou ndat ion ro r teams in the next few years. One of the difficulties encountered in the instruction of members this term has been the large age gap between them. With the majority o r regu lar attenders being juniors, the instruction has been particularly geared to them and perhaps some senior members have felt rat her sllperl1uous. Thi s is, unfort unately, inevitable and will probably rema in so unt il the senio r section of the Club can be enlarged. The Club has had four matches thi s tenn. The first , against the Kyushindo K wa i, resulted in a good win ror them after a series of well-fought contests; the inst ruction gai ned in the subsequent randori was much appreciated. The second match , aga inst the Med K wai, was a mere formalit y and ended in a good victory for the Chatham club; once again the subseq uent randori was very userul. O ur third match , against Wort h Schoo l away at Worth, resu lted in a win for King's 100-50 , and every contest was fought with spirit and determination by both schools. The last match against the London Judo Society we lost 100- 130; the School team was olltgraded and the closeness of th e result does them credit. I

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It has been suggested that an Inter-House Judo Compet itio n should be held and it is hoped this will encourage boys to take up and maintain an interest in the sport. The compet ition will probably take the form of a series of contests between House teams at the end of a term and attendance at Club meetings during the term will also be taken into account. I should like to thank the fo llowing for their services in the judo teams this term: A. M. N . Shaw, M. 1. Hulme, G. A. Blackmore, J. D . J. Shaw, C. F. Clark, M. Erskine, R. F. Page, P. Mason. No grading was held this term, primarily due to the three-month period of j udo instruction required by the authorities before novices may grade. T hope a large number of these will grade next term. The Captain leaves this term and wishes his successor, M. J. Hulme,luck and success during his captaincy of the Club. M.A.C.

THE SHOOTING CLUB With the match against Allhallows in the last week of term , the Club concluded the most successfu l year in the history of the Shooting Club. During this year, the team has gained 27th place in the Country Life Competit ion-a rise of 13 places on Ollr previous best-ever position- achieved 13th place in the Ashburton Shield at Bisley, came 2nd in the Spencer Mellish and, during the relative quiet of this Christmas Term won the shoulder-lo-shoulder match with Tonbridge and also six of its eight postal matches with the score; cont in ually topping the 76 mark. An excellent record. Even though only four "old" members were left after the mass exodus at the end of the Summer Term there was no difficulty in raising a competent team. N, J. Day and J. H. Churchwell shot excellently throughout the whole season and were unlllcky not to score the long-awa ited " possible". M. J. R. Nicholls after a slight lapse in the first month, soon came back on form agai n. R. A. Eadie rejoined the Club afte; a long absence and has proved hi mself to be a valuable asset to the Club as a consistent high-scorcr. After a rather shaky start, M. E. Ersk ine improved beyond all expectation, and is to be congratu lated for scoring the Club's first "Ton" since 1962. W. R. Roberts and 1. A. Hampton vied with each other fo r the number eight position in the team and provided a steady series of scores. Consistency, high scoring and an amicable rivalry were the main reasons for this term's success, coupled with an encouraging keenness on the part of everyone, even in the coldest and wettest weather. The shoulder-to-shoulder match aga inst Tonbridge was held on December 3rd. Even with the absence of L. S. Burr and J. H. Churchwell , the 1st vrn scored a very commendable 762/800 against Tonbridge's score of 749. The match was enjoyed by all'and a return match has been fixed for next.term under Country Life condit ions. Two more cups were presented to the School by O.K.S. The Dawnay Cup for the best monthly .22 average wh ieh was won by N. J. Day in October with a score of 97.0 and by J. H. Churchwell in November witry 97.S. The S~ott Cup will be competed for in the Summer Term when the Club starts full-bore shooting aga m. T wou ld like to thank N. A. H. D awnay and N. G. Scott and his brot her for their generosity. ~ext term the Club will be under the new captaincy ofM. 1. R . Nicholls, ably assisted by J. H. Churchwel l. I WIsh them both the best of luck fo r the next year. I would also like to take this opportu nity of thanking R.S.M. Herbert for his enthusiasm and time wh ich he has spent in coaching the team so admirably. The lsI V/l/: L. S. Burr (Captain), N. J. Day. M. J. R. Nicholls, J. H . Churchwell, R. A. Eadie, T. P. Clarke, M. E. Ersk ine, W. R. Roberts. Ni"th Man: J. A. Hampton. L.S.B.

GYMNASTICS For the first time, an Inter-House Gymnast ic Competit ion was held this term and proved to be a most enjoyable and attractive event. Compct it o~s who had trained hard are to be congratulated on the generally high standard achieved. In t he JUlllor Event, Datt (W) showed fine style, and in the first half was ahead of his closest rivals Fairbairn (Lx) and Cornwall (SH). Howcver, the consistently high quality of Fairbairn's performance won hi m a well-deserved victory in the lndividual Event , although Cornwall, who showed very good form 314

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Senior Team

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Points 1. School House

{WhalleY Cornwall Herrington, J. J. Blackmore, G. A.

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Whalley (SH) Headley (W) Morton-Clarke (Lx) Cornwa ll (SH) Watkinson (W) Munns (MO)

Points 388 383.5 382.7 376.5 360.2 359.5

756.2 744.7 696 686 658

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1. School House 2. Luxmoore 3. Walpole 4. Grange 5. Galpins 6. Linacre

{Cornwall Herrington, J. J. Fairbairn Uine D att Bradfield Blackmore, S. P. {Moore Pargeter Vaughan {FOrd Stewart

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

259.7 257.5 248.8 238.3 236.5 219.8 315

Fairbairn, A. E. C. (Lx) Cornwall (SH) D at! (W) Herrington, J. J. (SH) Vaughan (Gal) Moore (Gr)

Points 257.5 254.2 243 242.9 236.5 235.3

BASKETBALL The Junior Inter-House Basket ball was as keenly contested a nd enthusiast ically supported as ever, with the usual number of very exciting games.

1n the first round, School H Ollse, for whom Davison scored 48 points, had a comfortable win over Meister Omers. as did Marlowe against Grange, but Galpins had to fight hard aga inst a fast improving Luxmoore, and Linacre were only 4 po int s ahead of Walpole in another very even match. The sem i-fina ls were desperately close. Accurate long shots by Fagg and fine play by Thomson gave Galpins victory by 3 baskets over Linacre, with D ocherty and Creed also showing outstanding form for the opposi tion. The other match between Marlowe and School H ouse was a tough st ruggle. Both sides marked tightly and Davison was given little scope near the basket. At h alf~tillle, Marlowe were seven points ahead, but Schoo l H ouse came back int o the attack in the second half, scoring nine baskets to seven by Marlowe, but the experienced Marlowe side kept calm under pressure and held Ollt to win by three points. The final between Galpins and Marlowe was a splend id match with clean , hard basketball from both sides. For Marlowe, Collins played a magnificent game, splitting the Galpins zone~defencc and sett ing Cantor up for a shot time and again. Heyland and Jones were a lso excellent in defence and attacked whenever an opportu nity presented itself. The Galpins side with Fagg and the ubiquitous Thomson aga in to the fore, were rarely ab le to penetrate the Marlowe zone and Fagg's long shots were not so sllccessful. H owever, by determined play they were only two po ints down at the interval. In the second half, despite rallies by Oalpins, where Thomson scored some good baskets, Marlowe gradually increased the pressure and went further ahead to win by 46 points to 32. Teams: MARLO WE: Coll ins, Cantor, H ey land, Jones. GALl' INS: Thomson, Fagg, Th ring, Zuntz. M .E.M.

THE FENCING CLUB This term we bid farewell to E. H. Olympitis, the Captain of Fencing, L. S. Burr and R. D eighton, the last remaining members of a team whose many achievements have been described in earlier reports. How~ ever, with their record of success st ill unbroken over the past two years, only one defeat in three a nd a half yea rs and the winni ng of almost every Cou nty Championship at both schoolboy and adult level, they mllst go down as being the most successful team in the histo ry of King's fencing. We wish them the best of good fo rtune and hope to hear o f their fut ure act ivities. As previollsly ment ioned, all matches this term have been won and the victory over a strong West Wickham F.C. team was 1110st pleasing and excit ing to the last. W ith only one old colour left, the Club must now face a period of team building and although good progress has been made, the lack of top level experience will be a handicap. However, the new colours, J. K. Walmsley, Wand~Tetley and Eden, have done well this term , and Hanet, Cross, Wa nd and C. N . Wood, show good abi li ty in the Junior team. Among the new members th is term it has been encouraging to note a few young fencers of real promise. It will be interesting to sec how the team fares in its matches next term. M.E.M. 3 16

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v WEST WICKHAM F.C. 1st Team (Foil, Epee, Sabre). Won 14-11. v SUlTON VALENCE 1st Team (Foil). Won 27-0. Juniors (Foil). Won 13- 3. v DANE CoURT 1st Team (Foi l, Epee, Sabre). Won 14-13. 2nd Team (Foil, Epee, Sabre). Won 17- 10. Juniors (Foil). Lost 9- 7. v KING'S, ROCHESTER 1st Team (Foil , Epee, Sabre). Won 25- 2. 2nd Team (Foil, Epee, Sabre). Won 21 - 6. Juniors (Foil). Won 11- 5. v K.C.S., WIMDLEDON-Club Match at Foil Six teams. Won 42- 17. l SI Team: E. J. Olympitis (Captain), L. S. Burr, R. Deighton, R. Bird. 211d Team : J. K. Walmsley, C. R. Wand-Tetley, J. K. Eden, J. C. Marks. JUllior Team: S. A. Cross, p, Hanet, C. N. Wood, D, V, Pugh, J. A. Griggs.

SQUASH RACKETS With three members of the Squash V in the 1st XV, we have never been so hard hit by injuries; we were only able to turn out our full side in two out of nine matches. Nevertheless, we defeated Winchester 3-2, Wellington 3-2, The Leys 5-0, St. Lawrence 4--1 and Dover College 4-1, but lost to Merchant Taylors' 4-1 and Brighton College, almost certainly the strongest side of the year, 5-0. We also lost to the O.K.S" to the Kent S.R.A. and to a very strong Jesters side which included the international H. E. Truman, brother of Christ ine and Nell, and the Kent Captain, R. M. D. Cardew, at No. 2. They very kind ly coached the rest of the side after demolishing their opponents- unfortunately, this was one of the occasions when our Nos. 1 and 2 were both unable to play through rugger injuries, We say good-bye this term to our Captain, C. C. N . Bridge, who is quite the best player the School has ever produced. Not only is he one of the finest boy players in the country, but he plays the game in a delightful manner both on and off the court, and we shall follow his future in the game with great interest: We also lose Ja'afar and Hutch inson, but of those who remain our new Captain, Jaggers, is a splendid fighter, and Ashforth is a mueh improved player with some good wins to his cred it , notably aga inst Wellington, when all depended on him. There are others, too, not least among the juniors, of whom Braddell is particularly promising. The Co lts lost to The Leys 2- 1, but defeated St. Lawrence 3-0. The following played in matehes:lst V: C. C. N. Bridge, G. K. Jaggers, 1. Ja'afar, S. J. Ashforth , J. M. Hutchinson, S. P. H utton, J. A. Harvie, P. A. St. C. Braude, M, A. J. Cronk , M. D. Macfarlane. ColIs' Ill: H. M. G. Braddell , J. Goodman, J. P. Sherren, A. P. Docherty, D .W.B. 317

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music The Christmas Term gathered in a larger number of musicians than usual, with the result that music lessons now amount to close on 350 per week, an all-time peak. Such an influx, if welcome, strains our resources to the uttermost. As a large proportion of boys cannot have lessons during school periods, considerable ingenuity has to be exercised by the teaching staff to fit everyone in. T~e .p,roblem is greatly aggravated when a boy learns two o r more instruments. I can well understand that ~ct1:-'ltles such as House Sports sometimes are inconvenienced; nevertheless, lessons ~lU.St. have some prlOnty, and boys must obviously try and fit in some practice. We do all we can to hmlt mterference With ~port, and hope the customary tolerance and forbearance will continue to be e~!ended-fC?r"the difficul!ies mcre~se every tern:" T hcre is a feeling , expressed somet imes, that a boy who. does mUSIc does nothmg fo~ hiS Ho~se. This is manifest ly untrue. Yet even were it so, it is hardly an attitude one would expect to find m a pubhc school today, and certa inly not in a school which like ours believes in li.beral principl~s and the c~eation of a society in which an individual may have the opportun ity to develop hiS talents on hnes best sUited to him. In reviewing the term's act ivitics, 1 must first offer congratulations to Edward Bailey and S.tephen Varc?e on their Choral Scholarships to Cambridge. The .Iatt~r, who has taken on th.e post of Momtor ~or MUSIC, has been elected an Honorary Music Scholar. Highlights of the term have mcluded the splendid concert by Marlowe House, the "By Jingo" entertainment of qrange-~alpo l e, and the visit o.f t~e Kent â&#x201A;Źounty Organists' Association. On the latter occasion, the Madngal Society had the honour of smgmg the statutory Cathed ral Evensong, following a short recital in the Shirley Hall giv~ n by Mr. Morrish and Mr: Scott, assisted by Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Miller. After Evensong, the o rgamsts attended a fu ll rehearsal of the First Orchestra. Also worthy of mention is the fo rmation of an Ex-Choristers' Association, the membership of which is open to boys who once sang in Cathedral or Collegiate choirs. It .made an excellent debut when, under . Richard True , the Association provided music at the Voluntary Service o n O~tober 30!h. Finally, I would like to record the fact that the attend~nces at. Choral Society practices dunng t.he term were higher than for many years. It might be embarrass m ~ tc? give Hou~e ,Percentages, but I feel It ~orth pointing out the House with the highest attendance record (mcldentally gammg the most Luxmoore pomts!) was Marlowe-a remarkable achievement for day-boys. Because of the performance of Messiah, Part I , at the end of term concert the Second Orchestra , Band and Glee Club were denied the opportunity of entertaining us. 11 is hoped'that a mid-term concert at the end of February will offer them an occasion to do th is. E.l.W. A considerable percentage of our treble line this term has come from Oxbridge. collegiate choirs. Many people have indeed remarked that the treble tone has been completely different to that of last year. . Two unusual things have happened th is term: first, the voluntary Evensong on October 30th was a special service, sung by a new institution- the Old Choristers' Association: second, on the first Sun~ay in December, the preacher, Canon Shirley, had asked for an anthem- Blessed Jesu (Dvorak)- whlch we duly performed. . ' . The two Hon. Secretaries (C. S. Varcoe and E. H. Bailey) were very glad to gam Choral Awards to Cambridge. Unfortunately, E. H. Dai ley is leavin::; us. This term's anthems:I heard a voice (Goss) Let all the world (Chapmau) My sou l, there is a country (Parry) o come, ye servants (Tye) o Thou, the central orb (Wood) Insanae et vanae curae (Haydu) o Lord,look down (Battishi/l) o taste and see (Vaughan Williams) Blessed Jesu (Dvorak) Come my way (Harris) Turn back, 0 Man (Holst) Out of the deep (Morley) Jcsu, the very thought (Bairs/ow) o Heart subdued (Brahms) Hosanna to the Son (Weelkes) Hail, gladden ing light (Wood) Lo , round the throne (Ley) C.S.V. E.H.B. Choir

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Most of the term was spent rehearsing the Orchestra's contribution to the Christmas ConcertOverture: Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck) and Turina's La Procesioll del Rocio. However, we found time to look at some other works in our li mited rehearsal time. Among these we particularly enjoyed playing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Clarence Myerscough. We are grateful to him for leading us throughout the term, and we also proffer our thanks to Edred Wright for his skill , wisdom and patience, both in rehearsal and at performance. We are sorry to lose E. H. Bailey ('cello), P. A. SLC. Braude and R. D. Meadley (trumpets), P. S. K. Johnson and M. V. H. Spells (violins) and thank them for helping to maintain the high standard of the Orchest ra. R.J.A.T. This term we have played Smetana's Vltava, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March , and a Second march from Carmen. In spite of our hopes of a concert being disappointed, attendances Orchestra have been consistently very good throughout the term, and we have reached quite a high standard. At the beginning of term we heard that Mr. Morrish is leaving us to go to Marlborough. For sixteen terms he has conducted, coached and encouraged the Second O rchestra, and we are very gratefu l for all he has done for us. Our consistent success in the Kent Music Fest ival is but a sma ll tribute to his hard wo rk. We wish him the very best of luck in his new job. Next term the Orchestra will be conducted by Mr. Anthony Ward , and N. A. Jakes will be Secretary. P.l. This term the Chamber Orchestra has been mainly concerned with preparing for the end of Chamber term concert, in which the Orchestra is accompanying Mr. Myerscough and Mr. Morrish Orchestra in a Vivaldi COllcert%r Two Violills al/d Orchestra, and also accompanying the Chora l Society in Part 1 of The Messiah. As well as studying these works, we have also read through other pieces during the term, including Britten's Simple Symphony, Grieg's flolberg Suite, and a Mozart Divertimell/o. We are very grateful to Mr. Goodes for conducting us and to Mr. Robertson , our leader. T. A. L. This term we have worked at Handel'S Messiah, Part I, in preparation for the end of term Choral Society concert. By doing Part I this term, we can reduce the work in the Summer Term if, as we hope, we do the whole oratorio in the Cathedral in July. Attendances have been very good this term, and the Society should give a good account of itself in the Concert this term. (The Concert is reviewed elsewhere in this issue.) We hope that those younger members who have found the rehearsals a little trying wi ll feel that their efforts have been rewarded after the concert. We are a ll grateful to Mr. Scott for accompanying the Society in practices, Mr. Goodes for preparing the Orchestra, and Mr. Wright for his encouragement and keenness in conducting us. T.A.L. K.L.J.A. It is largely due to Mr. Morrish's unceasing encouragement, training and good humour in Glee Club rehearsals that the Glce Club has been so successful musically and so happy a group at a ll times. The task of conducting us must be very discouraging at times, as membership is entirely unrestricted, and as we are, of necessity, of secondary status to the Madrigal Society. But Mr. Morrish has succeeded in achieving high results at all times. We started the term by rehearsing The Daniel Jazz by Herbert Chappel: a humorous "cantata" for unison voices and piano, based on the famous Biblical story of Daniel. Unfortunately, the concert at which we were to perform it was cancelled. We may, instead, sing it at a Music Circle Concert next term. The rest of this term was spent singing, for our enjoyment only, a wide variety of songs, many in unison, including some Gilbert and Sullivan choruses, and some hits from musical films and plays of this century. Our deepest gratitude and very best wishes go with Mr. Morrish to Marlborough, whcre, in addition to his other duties, I believe he plans to form a new Glee Club. G.F.P. Our only engagement this term was the Remembrance Sunday Service in the Memorial Court at Band which we played the Pilgrims' March from Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, as well as the usual hymns. Much of our rehearsal time was taken up wit h sight-reading music, from marches to an arrangement -of a Haydn symphony, the original compositions for band being generally the more popular. This has proved good practice, especially for the more recent members. Attendance throughout the term has been remarkably good. Our grateful thanks go to Mr. Wright, Mr. Morrish, who has conducted most of our rehearsals this term , and all those who are leaving. H.F.P. l.H.B.P, First Orchestra

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THE SOCIETIES The Society has continued to expand th is term, and work has progressed in all fields. There have been a number of appointments : D. O. Lovett (Treasurer); R. N. C. Watkinson (Librarian and Fossil Section); P. L. Laney (Crysta llography Section); and J. D. Foster (Soil Sect ion). Most of this term's work was centred around the organisat ion of the large collection of books left to the Society by the late Prof. G . Y. Wayland. This large collection of books is being sorted out and will be available to members of the School by next term. The books cover a wide range of geological subjects as well as a few non~geological subjects. Although there was no outing this term because of a glut of unwanted specimens, it is hoped that we will visit the London Natural History Museum next term. C.W.B. Geological

At a business meeting held at the beginning of the term, it was decided that the pract ice time be changed to Monday at 6 p.m. So far, this new time has been very successful. A practice has also been introduced on Wednesday evenings to instruct the more experienced members in the a rt of change-ringing; we are grateful to Mr. Pittman for his help at these practices. On Saturday, November 26th, during the afternoon, seven members, Mr. Pittman and the President went on a short outing, visiting Ospringe, Hernhill , St. Stephen's (Canterbury) and Petham. We were jOined by Nicholas Davies, O.K.S., the founder of the Society, and his wife. Tea was taken in the comfortable surroundings of Petham House , and this provided a pleasant interval to the afternoon. As these notes go to press, C. Handley is the new Secreta ry, taking over from D. Grimwood, who leaves at the end of the term. However, there is another change likely, as N. Press has resigned as Captain through pressure of more important activities. D .W.G . Bell-Ringing

In spite of being reduced to one working machine for the first half of term by unavoidable delays in the replacement of worn roliers, the Society has done much useful work. A French play programme was well printed by R. F. H ornes, and the Walpole-Grange musica l song-sheet was printed on a Wharfedale flatbed mach ine at the Nort hgate Press by a Walpole team led by F. Hodge. Our thanks to Mr. Arthur for the use of the machine. The song-sheet was not perfect, but, considering the strangeness of the machine, was a commendable effort. Those primarily concerned in the printing of the Christmas cards were M. W. J. Young, W. M. Lattimer, M. K. G. Stevens, 1. K. Ashton and J. R. Gawthorne. However, they were assisted by many other members. Next year we hope to produce proofs in the summer so as to avoid an inconvenient rush at the end of term. We admitted eleven probationers this term, of whom several have shown great keenness. All members should realise that the standard of general tidiness in the print room must improve if the Society is not to deteriorate. 1 wou ld like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Thring on behalf of the Society for kind ly arranging to have new parts made for " Old Fait hful" by the l C.I. apprentice school. "Old Faithful", ou r original machine, is now back in active service once again. We arc hoping to be able to replace our least efficient machine by a second-hand automatic Heidelberg platen in the ncar futu re. The Headmaster has given his provisiona l permission for the purchase and the practical problems involved arc at present being sorted out. M.W.J.Y.

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We bad to endure the first half of the term without any heat in the Art R oom and, because of this, very litt le work was done. With the return of heat, things bucked up, and an interesting body of work was produced. Lectures were able to begin aga in , and the Secretary gave a successful, wellattended lecture on "Landscape Painting Through the Ages". Exhibitions of reproductions from the President's seemingly inexhaustible collect ion have been shown on the Art Room Landing and this term we have reached as far as the end of the nineteenth century. Walpole House held their own Art Exhibition during the last week-end of the term . It was the firs t of its kind. Other Houses may care to follow their lead. Finally, we have an item of sad news. In November, Bert , who had shown such an interest in Art Room activities, became ill at work and had to be taken home. We miss his cheerful.smile and wish him all the best in his retirement. C.L.H, Art

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Through vicissitudes or demolition and rc-build ing, we a re very much in evidence-we eye Woodwork each marked out room and wonder whether "t hat " will be our timber store. Having had two very damp and cold months, the hcat arrived very suddenly. Now we know that wood is hygroscopic and have heard the word " humidity" ad l1ausealll. I n spite of all the above, bowls, bookcases, bird-tables, bedside cabinets, coffee tables and trays have been produced in va rying degrees of quality. Craftwork does give an opport unity to produce something unique every time. Twice one wi ll always be two- but our work in the Shop is commensurate with the trouble, time and applicat ion paid to it. The finished product is always unique , not even Pythago ras discovered it!! Why, every time a piece of wood is planed we have a complete " unseen". Two of our pupil s (see O.K.S. News) arc happi ly established in Co lleges of their choice. D. Richardson says a mortice and tenon is just the same in the London College of Furn it ure. E.H.B.

As is our custom, we started the year by read ing a Shakespeare play: this year Til e Mercllant 0/ Vel/ice. J. K. Harris (Shylock) and H. Konigsberger (Portia) deserve specia l mention for excellent renderings of their part s. The introductio n of a short break in the evening with coffee has proved a n excellent innovation, allevia ting the strain of two or three hours' cont inuous concentration. The disadvantage wit h most of the plays of Ibsen , as far as we are concerned, is the sma ll number of characters (there being seventeen in the Society). To avoid too many people's being bored by having no part to read, we split the Soc iety into two groups, of which one read A Doll's HOllse, and the other, the following week, He(k/a Gabler. Th e Physicists, by Di.irrenmatt, was enjoyed by a ll , although in a di scussio n afterwards opinions differed as to its sign ifica nce. The last play we read was Rhinoceros, by lonesco. Many had read it before, but appreciated it more this time , rea lising the connection between Rhi noceros and Nazi sm. The part of Derenger was well port rayed by J. Ca rey. The Marlowe Th ea tre Company put on a Festiva l of Elizabethan Drama. Til e Duchess 0/ Malfi was one of the fou r plays, and most of us saw this. The acting and production were good, but the play itself was found uninspiring. and possibl y rather too long. We also ma naged to obtain tickets for the film of Richard III with Sir Laurence Oli vier in the title role. Thi s was much apprccia ted by a ll , and is well above any cri ticism by me. Some of us also went 10 a performance of three modern o ne-act plays at Christ Chu rch College: The Dumb Waiter, by Pinter ; Tile Lessol/, by lonesco; and Zoo Slory, by Albee. On the whole, these, too, were enjoyed by all who saw them, and although the acti ng was at times a little unpo lished , the plays thcmselves mai nt ained the interest. The standa rd seemed to improve during thc evcning , but the programme was considered by some to be slight ly too long. Qu r An nual Christ mas tea this year was a t the County Hotel instead of the customary Ca thedral Tea Rooms, as the latt er were too busy at this time of the yea r. The food was quite good (but could have been better), and many amusing articles were read. G.F.P. Walpole

One member of our very pri vileged group- Irwin- lcft last term , leav ing a vacancy which was filled by Kerr-Peterson. He is, therefore, one term behind the rest of us, a lthough this docs not seem to have been of too much consequence. As Mr. Brown has only two wheels, we split into two groups, of which one worked o n the wheels for the first half of the term , while the o ther, jointly, made a ceram ic mura l. The lattcr shou ld look interest ing ifnot art istic. At half-term the groups changed round , giving each of us four or fi ve weeks on the wheel (which, toget her wi th the kiln, is the fundamenta l tool of the potter). Imber has made an excellent set of six cups , and de Vroome some interesting coffee mugs. de Vroome has a lso made some unusual glazes from a Span ish book, which were a su rprise to all but the experienced and patienl Mr. Drown. G.F.P. Pottery

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The Harvey Society has had a full and varied programme this term. There have been four lectures which have varied considerably both in standard and attendance. T he first was a lectu re on "Low Temperature Physics" by a very amllsing and interest ing professor, Dr. Brown, fr om Ca nterbury University, who ca rried out a liquid Helium experiment. According to Dr. Brown , th is was the first time this experiment has been carried out for a public audience. The other lectu res were "Adding and Accounting Machines", by Mr. M. G. Brookman, the "Channel Tunnel" by Mr. E. W. Jacumb-H ood, an engineer actually work ing on the project, and " British Railways Research", by Dr. A. O. Gi lchrist. There was also an out ing to the B.P. Research Centre at Sunbury-on-Thames. The subject matter stretched the knowledge of most, but the party was very well looked after. There seem to be two possibilit ies open fo r the future development of the Society: to keep the lectures very genera l and of interest to a large number of the Schoo l, both scientists and non-scientists, which creates a problem in that one is never quite sure how the lecturer will approach his subject, or alternatively to have a rest ricted membership with a subscription and therefore Illore ambitious possibilities for outings and lectures. Thi s would also lead to more specialised ta lks. J am very grateful to Mr. Stanger for what he has done for the Society this lerrn. Harvey

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After Ihe fever ish acti vity of th is Socicty in the past yea r, it was clear that debates were too frequent to sustai n interest in them throughout the Schoo l; it was decided, then , at a meeting of the Society at the beginning of term, that the number of debates should be cut down. The first debate of the term di scussed the merits of The Cafllilariall in it s present form: the audience disapproved of it by 47 votes to 26. and both sides were ab ly presented by two Editors, Bryson and Flick, for and again st the motion respectively; the standard of the floor speeches was most encou raging, and certai nly a great improvement on previous terms. The Society would like to thank Mr. Pittman for taking the Cha ir in th is debate at very sho rt notice. On the last Friday of term there was the School Debate; the mot ion before the very full Hou se was " That the Corps shou ld not become a corpse", with Mr. G. S. P. Peacocke proposing and Mr. R. W. Harri s opposing the motion, backed by A. J. Flick and C. L. Hampton. The motion was defeated by 184 votes to 49 with many abstentions, and a lthough the Opposers won most of the votes, the Pro posers presented a less obviously popu lar case with vigour and sk ill , and won a surprisi ngly high proportion of the votes. The floor specches, though too lengthy and therefore few in number , were fluent and lively, notably those of Jakeman, Ha llam and G. A. Harris; but throughout the debate the main issues fa iled to come out clea rly, and the arguments were often, therefore , blll!'red and irrelevant, which destroyed much of the bite and sharpness of the debate. We hope to arrange about th ree debates next term , and hope also that those who have supported us this term will continue to do so. R,N.J, Tenterdcn

The Som ner Society has had an acti ve term. There have been lectures by R. W. Boss, Esq., on " Magic a nd its Primiti ve Origins" and Frank Jenkins, Esq., F.S.A., on " Wingham Roman Villa", at which the Society has been digging. fnteresling talks have also been given by J. H . Findlay on "The Princes in the Tower", and A. J. Blackmore on " The Cistercians", and a fascinating paper deli vered by A. B. Ma rshal l o n "Mysteries, Miracles and Moralities in the Midd le Ages". Over the first half of the term the Mediaeva l Group visited Wye, C hartham and Ch ilham C hurches to study the heraldry and rub the brasses. Under Ihe direction of P. J. Hall and R. W. Davies an Ind ustria l Archaeo logy Group has been formed th is term ; it specia lises in the disused rai lways, canals, harbours and other relics of Industria lism in the district. Hall gave a lecture on "The Whitstable Railway" which was followed by a visit to Whitstable a few days later. This mea ns that there are now foll!' groups operating under the aegis of the Somner Society, and to co-ordinate activities it has been decided to produce a Society ca lendar for next term. Since no report appea red in The Cmlli/ariall last August, mention must be made of the Somner Societ y Exhibit ion, the first of its kind, held at the end of the Summer Term. It proved to be a great success, and ou r thanks are due 10 the Society brass-rubbers, and to A. I. Blackmore and C. H . Willis, for their most capable organisation. R ,n, Sornner

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O~lr f1~st meeting too.k place on October 2nd when M. J. Wells, O.K.S. spoke on " Lingui st ics" wl ~ h hiS customary wn, and showed what scope there is for imagi nativc thin ki ng in the sphere of plllio logy. Next, we h.~ard. t:-vo !ectures at the An,~ua l Genera l Meeting of the Kent Classical Society at the University: the fi rst on PolitiCS Ifl Greek Drama and the second on "G reek Music", by Dr. Landells. The laller was ex tremely interesting and the speaker's practical demonstration of the 1/ ; â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘\ 0" caused much amusemen t. We were also privileged to hear a solemn and evocative reconst ruction of a musical score engraved on the wall of. the. Ath~n ia~ .Treasury. at Delph played o n a F rench horn. But one wondered whether the player was Justlfied m glvmg the piece Iha.t particular rhythm that he chose to employ. On November 13th , Mr. B. W. J. G. Wilson gave, to an aud ience in the region of 60 people one of the best talks r. have heard as S~retary of. the Society- " Myth and the Agamemnon Story". H~ may take as a complm~ent t.he awed Silence whIch followed the invitat ion fo r questions, so exhaust ive was his coverage of hIS subject. ,We look forward ~o .the next occ~sion he may address the Society. One Wednesday evenmg, Mr. r. N. Wilkinson very kindly agreed to be a one-man Brains Trust and answer questions on the relationship between Lucret ius' atom ic theo ry and the views of modern scientists. It turned out that Lucret ius was often startl ingly, if accidenta lly up to date and we are most gratefu l to Mr. Wilkinson fo r his acute and lucid exp lanations. ' , . Our las~ ta lk was fro~n Mr. S. C. Pa rsons, who came, armed wi th splendid ill llstrat ive material including hIS own SIzab le colleclio n, to tell us somethi ng abollt Greek coins' his enthusiasm commu nicated itself and 0r'!e le~ rn t far more from. s~eing actua l coi~s .and. handling thel~l than one co uld from any ot her war: I relinqUIsh the Secretaryship In confident antICipatIon of great th ings from my successor, J. S. Gay, K.S.

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Tl.le PreSIdent would hk~ to add ~ note of thank s to A. D. F. Hodson for all his work as Secretary, and parllcuh.lfly for the enthUSiasm which was a powerful force behind the Society's new enterprise of PlayproductIOn last summer; and to congratu late him on his scholarship to Wadham.

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C.C.F. NOTES ARMY AND BASIC SECTIONS Camp at Stanford Pract ical Trai ning Area was high.ly sLlcc~ssful and . a g rca~ deal of milita.r~ ~n~ paramilitary field training was accomplished, cu lminating In alJ-~lghl exe,rcises which test,cd the m ltla tlve a ~d ski lls of the whole Con tingent, not just the N:.C.Os. ~lea nn g.gue nJl a. from the ,th ick scru b of COI?P1CC woods, attack ing at night after le n gt l~y patrols, In the ~atn, l ear ~m g to pitch cam~ In the da rk, searchmg a mile or two of unknown terrain at fli ght seekmg elusive terrol'lsts, or ropc-crossmg a stream commandosty le to rout the Viet-Congo were all fitted into the e~ercise~. Eluding the, fronti,er gendarmerie by various guiles and subterfu ges, speed ing round a wood land onenteen ng c,?u rse, trymg vamly 10 capllll~e the obstacle cou rse record, or practising assault boat dr! ll , all added to the vanety o~ a very full camp. Qlllte apart fro m a packed programme (wh ich included a visit 10 an .exc~l lent dem~nstrall~n of the fire~power of the modern, mechanised Army), there were two other very sat lsfymg happemngs. Firstly, on the Sat~l~day, we lo,?ked in on the fasc inat ing agony of the World Cup Final. T~en, on ~he Sund<l:Y, before we vlslt~d Cambndgc , the School Chapla in , David Hard ing, held a Commu mon Service at wh ich there were quite forty com ~ mu nicants. . The success of the Camp undoubtedly grew fro m the " liule ext ra" that everrbody gave ..T~l~S produced a willi ng cheerfu lness that overcame a ll obstacles, and. created a comrade~y cha m of respo n sl~lilty amongst all ranks that was remarkably in f~ct i ous. 1. sh.ould II~e to thank .Captam.Brad nack., Cap.ta m .Fac~r, and Lieu!. Wilkinson for their enlerpnse and skil l m creat mg and takmg part m these highly Imagmatlve and successfu l schemes under the exacting conditions of having o nly fou r Officers at Camp. The Camp e.S.M. , R. B. Howard~Wiliiams came th rough his first command with fly ing colours, and we were all delightcd to Icarn that he had been 'accepted by the Roya l Marines, in which he is now a Second. ~ieutenan!. This term has been one of the dampest on record, yet we have completed most tra mmg programmes. For most of us, Field Day was litera lly a wash-out , a lth oug~ fift~ mi les away.' he Comma nd o Sect,ion were learn ing the ski lls of rock climbi ng at the ~ ow l es Mountameermg 9ymnaslll lll u~d e.r su nny skies. T he Proficiency Exami nation showed a very creditable standard , but certam weak nesses mdlcale that we ca n do even better next time. Promotions during the Christmas Term:---:. To C.S.M. : J. D. W. Wright, I. G. DaVIes. To Sgt.: B. P. Jubb, M. J. R. Nicholls, H. S. A. Slater, M. A. Cowell , C. N. Wright, A. R . M. Smith, P. A. St. e. Braude, R. D. Meadley, R. A. Gordon .. To LjSgt.: N. P. Press, D. M. Young, R. O. C larke, R. K . Eden, M. O. Morpurgo, R. A. Eadie, T. S. Radcliffe, R. O . A. Munns, J. R. Harrop, M. A. H. Saunders. To Cpl.: C. L. Zuntz, G. A. Pearce, D. Mc. L. Roberts, A. R. S. Bussey, A. J. Ramsay, C. J. Hinds, P. T. G. Keh rer, A . R. C . Weir, J. D. Selman, A. M. N. Shaw, D. C. Quine, J. W. Stedman, R A. Kirsch, J. J. Carmichael, P. J .~. Ha ll. To .LjCp!.: J. R. K. Browne, R . J. David, D. J. L. Glennie, H. V. Neill , M. J. Shaw, C. S. W. Smith, N. D . Kmg, P. D. L. Evans, D. F. Richmond-Coggan. W.J.R.HÂˇS.

ROY AL NAVAL SECTIO N In the su mmer holidays, Lieutenant Comma nder Baq took a pa rty of cadt;ts to sea for a week in H .~ .S. Easrbol/rne. They sailed from Plymouth in compa ny With the three other ships of the Dartmouth Trammg

Squadron and anchored off Skye for a Sailing Regatta and expeditions ashore. An ex~ellent training pro~ gramme at sea and high speed manoeuvr~s ~omp leted ~ most va luable wee.k. Sub Lieutena nt Bee took another party to sea in an M.F.V. for navlgallona l exercises among the Scottish lochs. So much more can be learnt in a week at sea than in months in Canterbury, and we hope next August's Annual Training at B.R.N.C., D artmouth and in Northern [reland will again be fully subscribed. As th ose who have been will test ify, it provides a marvellous week's holiday at the Roya l Navy's expens~! The term's programme was directed towards the A.-B., the Nava l.Proficlency and the Advanced.Nayal Proficiency Exams. The Practical results, in seamanship , turn~ out, drill , power of comm.and and dellvermg a lecturette were very good but the Written results were not as good as usual. A cont nbut ory factor may have been the cancellat ion of a promising Field D ay programme involving three ships owing to ext remely bad weather. We hope for better things next term.

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ROYAL AIR FO RCE SECTIO N T here can not have been a worse term for opera tin g the Primary Gl ider. We have only been able to get it airborne during one pa rade and the bad weather a lso spoilt our Field Day visit to Ma nston , where the junior half was expected to begin its A ir Experience Flyi ng. The senior ha lf went to London Airport for a tou r a rra nged by RE.A., which proved interesti ng and enjoyable. We say good~bye this term to most of our N.C.O.s, with special thanks to FjSgt. Grimwood . Cpls. Day and Coulson , who completed their Flying Scholarships in the summer, and Sgt. Cox and Cp ls. Rundall and Thomson, who obtained gliding badges , will also be missed. Cpls. Day a nd Wa rren are joining the R.A.F., probably via Cra nwell, and we wish them the best of luck. It is hoped that an interest in flying, and in the R.A. F., wil l still th rive in the Section after this exodus , as it is a great pity not to ma ke use of the opportunit ies offered. P.G.W.

SOCIAL SERVICE

Over the past few terms, we have rou nd that the best results, as far as Tuesday afternoon acti vities are concerned, are achieved by sma ll groups of boys who follow the same job through from week to week , developing a work ing knowledge and lmderslanding of their assignment. This makes the boys more com~ petent, and the work more interesti ng. On this basis, we have contin ued to visit almshouses in Longport and Lower Chantry Lane, and to work for the Stour Group. We have a lso taken on a fresh picce of work, at the City Council's Winchcap Training Cent re for the menta lly handicapped. A. J . Flick, S. J. Farnfield and J. M. E. H udson havc made weekly visits to the Cent re, where each has been attachcd to a pa rticu lar class- nursery, juniors and woodworkand given whatevcr help was possible to the professional staff. This has proved to be a most rewarding venture, and we are very grateflll for the opportunity. A . J. Fl ick writes below about his impressions of the work . The grea test handica p to vo luntary socia l work in Canterbury is undoubtedly the lack of co-ordi nat ion, both of informat ion and effort. The Ci ty authorities a re 1110St helpful, as far as their resources allow, and we are gratefu l also for the assistance derived from private sources. But there can be no question that a local Cou nci l of Socia l Service, such as ex ists already in severa l dist ricts, cou ld achievc a great improvcmcnt by d irccting the many willin g workers on to the ma ny jobs which await them , but wh ich at present they can only find by a spccies or accident. (This situation is high li ghted when one discovers that some old people are bei ng a lmost over-visi ted by eager volu nteers from vario lls groups , whi le others, less fo rt unate o r less effcctive at making their need known, are completcly neg lected.) Ea rly next term an attempt is to be made to remedy th is state of affairs, by setti ng up somc form o f co~o rdin at i on body. The School has been invited to help in this, and we hope to give whatever assistance we ca n to such an important new development. M.SU.P. Visit ing the Wincheap Training Centre When we were first shown round the Centre at Wincheap, we thought we were going into a totally alien world. However, we discovered very quickly that the difference was not so alarming as a casual glance might have indicated. We wcre not missiona ries going int o the jungle; we were sim ply ollrselves find ing Ollt another area in ourselves. The Centre is a very happy place, and thc simple aim there is to help people to whom timc mcans li ttle, to spend their lives in contentment. Of course, there is relatively littlc one can do in an hour or two each week, and it is obvious fro m the professional teachers' comments that making people of this kind ha ppy can be a long and wea rying business, demand ing infinite attention and hum ilit y. toget her with a persistentl y down~to~earth and humorolls approach at all times. We can share only very little of the struggle of these devoted teachers, but the achievcment of communication and content ment in a class has come to mattcr very much for us. Various activities are provided, and we help for exam ple with Bingo and card games: the really serious train ing work is done earlier in the day. Once YOll have got used to being in a room wit h twenty human telephones ringing simultaneously, each with his or her personal prob lems, it is no t difficult to participate in the general gay abandoned cheerfuln ess which usually (though not always) predom inates in the classroom. We hope that in attempting to establish personal relationships with most of the Centre com mun ity we have given a litt le help with a problem th at needs far more attention than it commonly receives. A.J .F.

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CORRESPONDENCE Meister Omers, The King's School, Canterbu ry. The Editors, "The C(ffltlloria,,", Sirs, As >:ou may be aware, there is, above the art room , a valuable collection of wild birds. The Stonham colle~tlO!l ~s one of the largest in this country, and, r fear. the dustiest. It IS ndrcl,lIolis th~t such a collect ion should be stored away in what is virtually an attic, visited only by the occaSIOna l art ist or the errant musician. Unless immediate action is taken I fear that the cont in ued existence of th is collect ion may be threatened. ' There are several courses o f action which can be taken. The Ca nter bury L ibrary has a collection o f birds too. Were part of the King's collection to be lent to this "public" one, at least the benefit derived fron; it would be greater. Another possible idea wou ld be to re-establish Ihecollection , together with the newly-acquired possessio ns of the Natural History Society, in a more accessible place. This could be of va luc, bot h to that society and to those m~mbc rs of the I?ublic, and th er~ arc many, who arc interested in orn it hology. Should either o f these Ideas prove fnlltless, the problem could at least be attacked as it stands; bcttcr li ght~n.g in the att ic, morc systematic presentat ion of the specimens , renovation for those that are decaying , publicit y and a new coat of paint on the walls. Tn anyone of these ways the collection would be assured of the permanence and appreciation which it deserves. r am, Sirs, Faithfully yours, FRANCIS S. Ht\LLAM,

, Luxmoorc H Ollsc, The K ing's School, Canterbury.

Sirs, 11 seems that informed opinion in Great Britai n is remarkably unwilling to accept the excellence of the policies of Apartheid practi sed in Sou.th Africa. Perhaps Englishmen arc the dupes of their nationa l press, and. they shou ld certa mly only make Judgements arter assessing the facts for themselves, by visiting South Afn ca and watching Apartheid in operation. Surely it is significant that all SOllth Africans, inelud ing even the black leaders of the self-governing Bantu tribes, are thoroughly in favour of Apartheid? Afrikaans especia lly suffer from the "jackboot" image. Yet they are only tryi ng to protect themselves. Some of them have been in SOllth Africa for three hundred years, and live in fine mansio ns which their ancestors built in the eighteenth century. Surely they have the right to fight for their su rvival against a hostile majority? By what criterion should a tribe of heathens divide a fine 20 000 acre Afrikaan farm int o ?O,OOO allotments, each with a hut a.nd a goat ?- thc kind o f subsistence farmi~g which , if practised by the Ignorant, could transform South Afn ca's economy from being one of the strongest in the world to one of the weakest. Yet if the natives are ignorant, the moralists protest, then they must be educated. This is being done a1th.ough education is dangerou s fo r a black; and it must be done slowly, for we have seen all over black Afn ca the effects of a hurried programme of education an d independence. Somet imes a sjambok is the best means of educating a black man who does no t understand white law, and it must take at least fifty yea rs to prepare the Kaffirs for full independence. Other fu lly independent blacks are dependent on Great Brita in for aid, but in South Africa this aid must come from the Afrikaners. Surely therefore they deserve 10 retain the reins of power, as indeed do the British elsewhere? For the Afrikaners are not idea lists like the British. They arc not living in the eighteenth century world of the noble savage, peopled by the imagi nat ive creat ions of Montesquiell and Rousseau. Savage the black man is. but not noble , and the pragmatical Afrik aners reali se this. For who can eq uate the naked Tu rkana

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tribesmen , loping in from the bush to vote under a democratic system for the party of bis choice (which he ident ifies in the booth by its emblem- a cockerel o r an car of corn), with his clothed Mall Mall brother who believes that by dismembering a prelly little wh it e girl, and by smearing the blood over her li ving bro ther, he can prove that his country is ready for politicallllanhood? Unt il the Kaflirs have been taught not to be savage, il is right that they should not have equality wit h their white superiors. No honest Englishman would countenance the appointment of a black Lord Chief J ust ice or a coloured Member of Parliament over himself- why should the Afrikaners? The Boers are a tough race, and it is well-known that Boers and blacks arc incompatible-therefore they must be kept apart. Furthermore, the English who crit icize our government's policies shou ld conce ntrate first on the mistakes in their own regime. YOllrs faithfu lly, N. S. rITZ-G lmt\!.D BROWN I!.

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Sirs, So much has been said about racialism, both black and white, in connect ion with the Rhodesian crisis that it is all 100 easy to forget the economic real ities that underlie the whole problem. A letter like Mr. N, S. Browne's merely adds to the cont\Jsion. The question is not just black versus white or natives versus intruders, bllt rich versus poor ; and no constitu tional sett lement can evcr be reached unl~ss the Rhodesian d istribution of wealth is taken into account. This l:nay seem <;>bvio.us en.ough; but it is surprising to find so many li beral-minded people in this count ry sll'pportmg educat lona iEsm, III the hope th .... t once the African has learned about political issues, Rhodesia WIll become a he.:1.lthy democracy. They fail to realise that true democracy is impossible in a country where ~he economic .interests o f the nation are superv ised by a closely-k nit minority. To take the same sit uation III Ol! r own 11Ist~ry, the great reform a~ts <;>f the nineteenth century fo llowed, or rather corrcsponded to, the flse of the mIddle classes: the constltullon embraced not numbers but interests. To examine Rhodesia in th is way is, of course, far mo re depressing than to see it from the educationali st's viewpoint. You ca.n educate a nation in twenty yea rs, but it takes much longer 10 redistribute it s wea lt h. Neye rth7 I es~, the dlm~llity is ,:,ot how t<;> teach polilics to a backward populat ion, but how to persuade the white mmonty to sa~flfice theIr econ<;>nllc control. The rise of our own middle and lower classes took place freely and undramallcall.y o~er a pen od of decades: but in Rhodesia, the minority is aware of the danger of the economy developmg m such a way as to detract from their power, and happens to be in a posit ion where the finances ca n be contro lled to suit its interests. ft is as though the clock were set permanently at,say,1820. Such is the pr?blen., . .In I~ly own opinion , t!,C present cri.sis !s a bagatelle beside what must inevitabl y come. We are st lllthmkmg III terms of educallon and constItu tions: we should look ahead and consider what will happen after educat ion has done its work, how will socialism react on an economy based on the interests of a few families, and not just in Rhodesia, but th roughout Africa. Yours, etc. , N. BRYSON.

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Sirs, Fo r one week, in o ne term , with help fro m o ut side, King's proves its cul llJra l prowess. The plays a nd concert s are the resul t of intensive rehea rsalthro ugholl t that term ; the exhibiti ons of painting, woodwor k and photography, and- to look a head- the Oratorio are all the result of one yea r's preparation. Yet what evidence is there for a cont in uous sense of communal cult ure througho ut the year? Aro und what centra l va lue does K ing's ult imately revolve, as a school, and as a community? Our cu lt ura l activities in the Advent and Lent Terms are as follows:Compu lsory attendance 1st XV matches; House Plays; music concerts and compet itions; lectures from outside ; C ho ra l Society; ot her Societies. Of all these , only two ca n be co nsidered successfu l attempts 10 bring the general member of the School to a sense of communal culture; the icy, dreary a rtern oons spent standing and (occasiona lly) , cheering, offer a very passive chore, yet support a t a 1st XV match does encourage the players and unites the Schoo l. T he Cho ral Society is no t compu lsory, and yet its contin ued ex istence indica tes not only the keenness of its organisers, but a lso an increasing School interest. Ot her Societies tend to be esoteric, and the Society whose essential function it is to provide members wil h cult ural stimulus- the Walpo le Society- has ridiculous rest rict ions of age-group a nd numbers. The ideal house play is hard 10 fin d , yet, when it is found , producers arterwards tend to evade, rather tha n emulate , the ideal. flarleqllillllde, comic yet thoughtful, pit hy but brief, was 10 my mind the ideal. Yet the most recent " play" had passed the time-lim it set by H ar/equillllde at the interva l. Recent excursions into Victoriana have shown that the best of performa nces cannot overcome a really bad script. Seriolls plays offend the firs t three (or is it ten, now?) rows. T he success of a o ne-nighter can only resu lt from a conscious gearing to the tastes of the particu lar audience. The House Music Competit io n blackens cu lt ure's name in the eyes of most participants; few are ever satisfied with the j udge's decision. In tended to fill a ga p in Ollr winter cu ltu re , th is whi te elephan t of an evening merely wi dens it. Lec tures depnd on the lectu rer's abilit y to be unafraid in a uthorit at ive instruct io n. There can be no use in "talking down" to an aud ience. Of late, o ne or two disti ngu ished experts gave the School vcry undistingu ished lectures , made up of common-place ideas. A more ca rcful selection of lecturers is strongly urged; week -day evenings can be va luable to fifth- and sixth -formers. Is there any remedy? T he Tenlcrden Society is providing at the moment a hea lt hy o rgan of central ised self-criticism for the Schoo l as a who le. A closer look, perhaps in the framework of a debate, at the cultu ral problem, would inspire such suggest io ns as thesc: a more comprehensive Walpole Society (compa re the const itution of the Somner Soc iety) ; the a boliti on of the HOllse Music Competiti on a nd its replacement by an evening of va ried musica l perfo rmances by the Cho ral and ot her musical societies, or by a dramatic product ion. If a comm una l sense of culture were to become the centrc of King's activities, as I believe it shou ld, then we would find ou rselves again as a schoo l; the Choir might not always havc to si ng alone in Cat hedral services- an essentia l part of OUf culture; voca l support on Birleys wou ld improve in quali ty of sound and sense ; we should all , evcn the aesthetes, be betlcr fit ted to take our part in an age of disi ntegrat ion. Yours fa ith fu lly, A . J. F LI CK

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THE 1966 O.K.S. CANTERBURY DINNER The Ca nterbury O.K.S. Week-cnd got ofT to a damp start on the 1st October, and there were many damp spirits during the artcrnoon rugger matches , but similar spirits served to cou nteract the weather latcr in the evening. The dinner was again held in the School Dining Hall , and about 140 O.K.S, were delighted to welcome Mr. Bernard Gadncy. the dist ingui shed brother of the new President of the Association , as their guest of honour. After thanking the Headmaster for his hospital ity to the Associat ion, Mr. Cyril Gadney explained the purpose and wo rkings of the proposed O.K.S. Trust Fund Appeal , which wou ld be lau nched as soon as Ihe Archbishop of Canterbury had signed it. Mr. K. A. C. Gross was Secretary of the Appeal (as well as of the Associa tion), and it was hoped to collect £100,000: the generosity o f an O.K.S. present at the dinner had already guaranteed the sum o f £ 10,000. The Pres ident next thanked the retiring Secretary and Treasurer, Alan Wilson , and presented him with a piece of antique pewter as a mark of the Associat ion's gratitude for his services over many years. Cyril Gadney then introduced his brother, form erly Headmaster of the famou s York shire Preparatory Schoo l, Mal sis, and a renowned nigger player in his day. The guest of honour showed tha t he knew a great dea l abollt the past and present achievements of King's, and abollt it s distincti ve atmosphere. His speech was agreeably spiced with nigger anecdotes, mostly linked with Welsh tours! His serious theme was the need to preserve the va lues implied in the phrase "a decent Christian gentlema n", and with that in mind he proposed the toast Floreat Seho/a Regis. The Headmaster began his reply by drawing attention to the fa ct that the School Steward, Mr. Curt is, wou ld be celebrat ing his jubilee with the School in November. He reca lled that he was the six th Headmaster to serve under Harry Curt is, but there was no mistaking the sincerity of the appreciat io n expressed by the Headmaster fo r the help a nd support he had received from Mr. Curtis. Warm and pro lo nged applause mll st have conveyed someth ing of the affect io n which Harry 's loya l service to the Schoo l had won fo r him amo ng a ll O.K.S. There was li kew ise o bvious appreciation of the Head master's commen ts on the successful years the Schoo l XVs had enj oyed under the wise guidance of Co lin Fairservice, whose last season of coaching the 1st XV th is would be: loud applause made obvio us the regard in which Colin Fa irservice is held by O.K.S. And so the speeches ended, and the com pany, in small talkat ive grOllps, drifted towards the marquee. T his even ing is a wonderfu l opportunity to indu lge in an o rgy of nosta lgia , even if masters are often set the difficult exercise o f remembering names, complicated by trying to LIndo visually what effect time has had on a lithe IS-year-o ld fi gure. Equa lly, it speaks much for the memory training thai boys received at King's, that they seem to have li ttle d ifficulty in remembering masters (despite changes in their shape)- and even what puni shment s they suffered at thei r hands! If the even ing helps to foster a closer understanding and connection between the School and the Old Boys, then it can be regarded as a sllccessful enterprise. And if we get good food and amiable company as well , what mo re can o ne ask for? Long may it continue! P.G.W.

O.K.S. NEWS In case anyone shou ld have been misled by a slip in the notice of the Canterbury Dinner issued in August, the date or the Speech Day is Thursday. July 27th , no t the 28th . it is always pleasant to welcome d isti nguished O.K.S. back into the Association , a nd Major-General S ir Evelyn F~Ulshawe (I909- 12) has just joined us. His add ress is Gu ilsborough House, Northant s.

Itll1ay come as a su rprise to Illany readers of The Call1llarian to hear that there is an act ive O.K.S. Association in Hong Ko ng which has, in fa ct, been functioning for the past few years. The fifth Annual Dinner will be held this spring at the H ong K ong Cl ub; and although the present membership is not what one wou ld describe as large (last February seven O.K.S. were all that could be mustered!), it is certainly on the increase. Th ey are : T. F. Ancott (1930- 34); Col. F. A. Eustace (1922- 26); M. C. Caswell (Master, 1955- 57); M. A. H. Lovatt (1 940--44); A. D. Stewart (1956- 61); N. W. Stevens (1953- 57); and N. T. Edwards (1955- 60). Group Captain P. R. Mallorie, A.F.C •• has been appointed to com mand the V-bomber base at Wittering. J. D. Moss (1937-1939) is Head o f D rama with the Nata l Performing Arts Counci l, at Overpor!. Natal (P.O. Box 32 Overpor!), producing Afrikaans as well as English plays. He has moved there from Durban , o n promotion. N. J. Flower (1 935-44) is now Chairman of the Patent Committee of the British Pharmaceutica l fndu st ry. J. R. Flower (1939-45) is now a flilly-fledged chartered aCCOlmlanl. 330

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D. M. Morea u ( ~937--46) is 110.W maJ~ag.ing d.irect~ r of the U.K. and Commonwea lth Compa ny of Syntax Phannaceuucals Ltd., and IS p~lbIJ.s hli1g IllS tlmd novel through Mayflower Books th is month. D . L. Quested (1940--47), now a Major III the Roya l Marines , has been in Aden and is due back by now at the Eastney Barracks, Southsea. P. R .. Snoxall (1946- 50) has moved from Canberra to Monash Uni versity Library, at C layton, Victoria, Australia. G. Hamber (1946- 52) is going as a surgeon with the R uanda Mission to Buru ndi in Central Africa for four years from Janua ry. Address: E. A. B. Buye, Ngozi, Blifundi Africa. R. L: Holford (1950-:-54~ is no,":, lec~uril1g at Berkeley Univer;ity, California. Since leavin~, he has been with Sta nford UnlVerstty, California , the U.S. Navy, and New York University for varying perio d~ Some of yo u may have seen the engagement of G. S. Spathis (1 948- 54) in the paper ill October. . 1. MeL. Young (1947- 55), ~h o went. through the R.M.A. but contracted diabetes and was medically discharged, after some years wil h the Vickers Group, was awarded their commercia l schola rship and is ' now wit h l.C.T. J. Gingell (1~ 50-5~), after five yea rs with Standard-Trillmpl.l Sales, is now in Nortillimberiand , handling exports for a big plastics firm .. Add ~·ess:. Coast House, Day View, Amble, N ortllllmberJand. G. C. ~I eteh~r (1.951- 57) IS movmg m January. from Canford School, where he has been teaching , to Macquana Umverslty, Eastwood, N.S.W., Austra lia , where he is to be Lecturer in Physics. P. W. Barker (1953- 58) is now w~t h Babcock & Wilcox at their New York Office, at 161 East 42nd Street, New York, N.Y . 10017, and WI I! be glad to see any O.K.S . in the a rea. A. E. 1-1. Bates (1953- 58) is now a chartered account ant in the Bahamas, with Price Waterhollse Nassau D. L. Thomas (1954-58), Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, has been ind irectly much in the headline; recently, as he is serving in H .M.S. Tiger. I. n. R. Fow l e~ (1950- 59) has been with 7th Parachute R egiment, R .H.A., for over two years. Last year he was in Bahram, and saw mllch of the area. At present he is at Lille Barracks Aldershot. D. K. Thorpe (1954-5~) is wit.h tl~e [mper!al Tobacco Co. of [ndia, at Kanl;u r, Uttar Pradesh, Ind ia. C. F. Black ( 1955- 60) IS teachmg III the Histo ry Department of G lasgow University. T. G. Bewley (1956-61) has taken up a teaching post under V.S.O. at the Ad va nced Teacher Training College at Owerri, E. Nigeria. J . R. Palmer (1956-6 1) is also doing a year's work in Nigeria. J. P. Perkins (1956-61) is working fo r the degree of Master of Philosophy. D. J. M. Ray (195 7- 62) has moved with his bride to Bonn, where he is at the Un iversity working for his Ph.D. Address : 53 Bonn/Duisdorf, Gartenstrasse 1. ' We are delighted to hear that A. R. A. Iremongcr (1 898- 1901) is st ill a regu lar reader of Th e Call/Ilariall a nd what he calls " a keen amateur rhymster" . The Rcvd. D. Clift. curate of Caversham , is to be Vica r of Upper Arley and part-t ime Chap lain in the Kidderminster Jndustrial Area. . Nigel Thoma~ writes from Shri venham ~o s<l:Y that life is hard work in a very pleasa nt atmosphere. He IS glad Ihat he IS there rather than at Umversily, partly because o f the superb equipment at his d isposa l ' and pa rtly, because he has a batman to clean his shoes, etc. S. S. Sopwith (1901 - 05) celebrated his eigh tieth birthday at King's in November and a ll the teaching • staff dined him Ollt to mark the occasio n. . Nicholas ·~hompsoli. w r~t es to us froll.l Eli.ot ,C?llege, Kent Uni versity, to say how much he is enjoying li fe up the h il l; a nd m view o f the Vmversily s Image among liS downlanders the edi tors thought it wise to quote from his letter: "S irs, There mu st be a great number of your readers who will soo n be faced with the problem of trying to find a place at a university. Th ose who have missed the boat as far as Oxbridge is concerned may well be wondering where to include on their UCCA form the highly geometric st nJcture up St. Thomas' Hill. Let me assu re those in doubt that it is an extremely active place with over 110 undergraduates in two colleges- and there .wi ll. be more. The wC? r~ itself is far fro l11 over-st renuous, and r myself do only about 12 hO~lrs a ~eek, ~hlch IS ?t least a 'safe ~nlJ1 l1nUI11'. There are innUl~1erable societies fo r budding politicians, MarXists, tlddlywmk add icts, conservatives, rugger-players, badmmton ians, almost anyth ing you care to name. The reputation of the new universities is a lways rising , and Kent is one which 1 am sure wi ll become recogn ised fo r its undoubted ly high standard . My advice to friend s down the hill is come to V.K.S. And if anyone is intercsted, please dro p me a linc. ' Yours, NICHOLAS THOMPSON." Lynton Tucker is to be congratulated on wi nning a Hardwicke Scholarship to Linco ln's rnn , and from what we hear stands a very good chance o f gettin g a fen cing bilic. He will be staying al Oxford for a fourth year to take a B. C.L. degree. 331

M. C. A. Spencer (1933- 38) has been appoi nted Headmaster of the Junio r Schoo l at Li verpoo l Co llege. starting September, 1967. He has been a HOllsemaster at the Co llege since 1954. Simon Carrington has been appoin ted a do uble-bass player in the B.Re. Northern Orchestra. The Li brary wishes to thank John Handman for renewing the subscript io n to the South Ajric{lIl Pallorama for another year. His address: P.O. Box 449, Blantyre, Ma lawi. John Williams is now the Director of M usic at the recently reinstated Royal Chapel in the Tower of London, as well as being a professor at the Royal College of Music. Antony Budgen has comp leted eighteen months of management at the Theat re Roya l at Bury SI. Edmunds, which was re-opened in 1965 after a gap of forty years, and must be congratu lated on making it one of the most elegant and successful prov incial thea tres we have. Tom Taylor is a lieutenant with 42 Commando serv ing in Sarawak . Richard Julian (1 958-62) has retu rned from his tOllr of Ca nada and the U.S.A . and has been awarded a B.Sc. in Estate Management at Lond on University. John Powell has been in the news recent ly as the man behind R.T.D.'s multi-millio n development of the steel industry in Ebbw Vale. H is has been a remarka ble success story, and we expect to hear a grea t deal more o f hi m in the fu ture. Major R. J. N. Norris wishes to inform O.K.S. that from Janua ry unt il Apri l his address will be: Mountjoy Private Ho tel, SI. Michaels-on-Sea, Natal, South Coast, Sout h Africa; and from May to D ecember, Seabrccze Hotel, 55 Gillespie Street, D urban, South Africa. R. E. T. Clark is to be congratulated on obta ini ng Second Class Honou rs in the LL. B. D egree at University College, London.

ENGAGEMENTS Spathis- Messinczy.- Dr. G. S. Spathis to D r. M. D. Messinezy. of Geneva. Pau l- Usher.- C. R. Pau l to Jane Usher.

MARRIAGE Ra y- Tulloch.- D . J. M. Ray (1957- 62) to Barbara Mary Tulloch.

BIRTHS Billdon.- On 28 th August, 1966, to Margaret, wife of Donald Bindon (1947- 52), a son, Andrew Timothy August ine. Whelan.- On 30th A ugust, 1966, to Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Whelan, a son, Alan Patrick. Bodger.- On 27th N ovember, at Kent and Ca nterbury Hospital, to June and John Dodger, a daughter, Susa n Mary. Young.- On 1st Janua ry, 1966, to An ne an d Tan McLeod You ng (1947- 55) , a son, A lnister Angus.

DEATHS Braddcll.- Sir Roland SI. Joh n , S.P.M.J., M.A. (1894-99), on 15th November, 1966. Healc.- Commander Henry Trcby, O.B.E. , R.D., R.N.R. (ReId .) (189 1- 94), on 5th June, 1966. Miller.- Jall1es Hugh (1 960- 65), on 12th August, 1966. Mount.- Colo nel Robert Spencer, T.D., J.P. (1 9 17- 25), on 19 th March, 1966. Saw.- Regina ld G. W. (1 901 - 03), o n 5t h October, 1966. Scabrook .- Francis Hubert, M.l.e. r;" M. I.W.E., o n 2 1st July, 1966. Rcid.- Stanley, on 13th N ovember, 1966.

O.K.S. CAREERS ADVISORY SERVICE A number of O. K.S. have agrccd to be ava ilab le to advise boys o n careers and to supplement the advice avai lable from the School Careers Master and Housemasters. Boys at School, as wcll as at University, or after leaving , are welcome to make use of Ihis advice which covcrs a wide range of careers in the ProÂˇ ressions, Services o r Tndustry. This is usually given by letter, or, if necessary, by a private talk wit h the boy or his parents. Boys at School shou ld apply to their Houscmaster or the Careers Master, or those who have left School to Mr. W. C. Yo ung, Fair Acres, Tydcombe Road , Warlingham, SlIf rey. who will put them in to uch with the appropriate person. 332

THE O.K.S. TRUST All O.K.S. whose correct addresses we have, will already know abo ut the appeal which the O.K.S. Association is making to form an endowment fund under the name of " The O.K .S. Ed ucationa l and Benevolent Trust", but I a m glad of the op portun ity to reach others as well. The Trust is based on an anonymous gift of £10,000, and has as its objects to supplement bursarships and so enable the sons of O.K.S. to reach the School who could not otherwise do so, to help in cases of ha rdshi p among O. K.S. or King's staff, and to help the School to provide equi pment which it cannot afford out of school fees. The Trustees have close liaison with the Association and the School, and adeq uate provision is made against any possible take-over by the State. The Trust is recognised as a charity, and covenants are therefore the most effecti ve way of helping. Our target is £ 100,000, and the total so fa r, since November 1st, is a bout £ 15,000, and our visitor the Archbishop of Canterbury has given us much encouragement with generous material sup port. Whether you a re an O.K.S. or not, if you read these lVords, and have not had an Appeal Booklet already, please send me a postcard with yo ur add ress, a nd I will send yo u one: K. A. e. GROSS, The King's School, Canterbury.

THE O.K.S. EDUCATIONAL & BENEVOLENT FUND FIRST SUBSC RIPTIO N LIST His G race the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. The Revd. P. L D. Allen. R. A. T. Anderson. Col. G . R. M. Apsey, M. D. Dr. V. M. Apthorpe, PH.D. Mrs. B. M. Arnold. N. e. Attwater. R. G . A. Baker. e. R. Barber. D. M. P. Barnes. Brig. e. H. Barnett, M. A. Lt.-Col. R. A. Baynton, T.D. , D.SC. J. R. Bearn. A. J . Beet. M. E. Billinghurst. J. M. Bodger. Dr. J. D . Borham.

Lt.-Cdr. G . W. M. Carter. The Revd. Canon R. F. Cartwright. P. K. W. Cashell . Lt.-Col. J. H. Clark, M. C., R. E. Lt.-Col. E. H. Clarke, O.D.E., R. Sigs. S. Collier. Dr. J. M. Co urtney. Maj.-Gen. Sir Gordon Covell, C. I.E., M.D. e. P. Cowper. Lt.-Col. H. L. H. Cremer, M.B.E., D. L., J.P . A. E. T. Cunningham. G. M. Davis. T. H. Davy. H. D. Dawson, A.R.I.Il .A . Dr. K. B. Dickson, T.D. , M.A., M. D. Lt.-Col. R. M. L. Dutton, O.B.E., M.C. C. M. East. D. J . East. J. G. East., Surg. Lt.-Cdr. D. H. Elliott, R.N . P. R. H. Elliott. D. F. L. Evans.

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J . W. M. Maynard. C. I. Meek, C.M. G. N . C. Mellor. B. T . G. Moffatt. M . A. B. Morpurgo. The Revd . Canon J. P. Newell. J. W. Norton . W. E. R. Oatridge. The O.K.S. Association. J. B. W. Padley. P. F. Page. Lt.-Col. A. L. Paris. C. G. A. Paris. L. F. Paris. J. A. G. Paris. Lt.-Col. R . C. Paris. H. L. S. Pearse. M. J. Price. G. K. Prior. D. S. Raven. J. S. Reacher. J. R. Reeve. P. G. Roberts. Capt. P. K. B. Ross. Brig. J. A. Rundall, O.B.E. , M.C. D. C. Ryeland . R. B. Ryeland . P. L. Salzman. Mrs. Sargeaunt (daughter of George Gardner (1862- 66). The Ven. A. Sargent. R. P. Scott. Dr. A. H. Shelswell, v.o. , R. N.V.R. E . J. Smalman-Smith. M. H. Smithers. A. J. W. Smythe. S. S. Sopwith. D. W. Squier. A. P. G. Stanley-Smith. K. W. Stevens. The Revel. R . H . C. Symon. G . H . Taylor. The Revel. W. Telfer, M. C., D.O. C. H . G. deB. Tempest-Radford. Sir Harry Townend. D . G. Trickett. M. C. Trousdell. J. P. Trowsdale.

Dr. M. L. Hudson Evans. J. G. Everist. A. G. Eyre. Lt.-Col. R. A. Finn . P. J. Flower. I. B. E. Fowler, IUI. A. H. J. Frampton. S. J . Freebairn-Smith. C. H. Gadney, M.B. E. Majo r A. Gardner, a.n. E., M. e. I. Gascoigne-Pees. J. H. P. Gibb. M. J . H. Girling. J. F. Glenn ie, M.l. e .E. H. H. Goldsmith, A.R. I. B. A. W. E. Gooday. G. A. Gordon. Lt.-Col. W. P. H. G orrinclge. J . B. G oudge. G. C. Goudge. A. M. Gregg. A. J. Grey. K. A. C. Gross, O.B .E. , 1'.0. J. B. Harris, M.C. J. E. C. Hinchliffe. W. A. Hodges. P. C. H. Holmer. Lt.-Col. B. L. Hooper. E. B. Horton. Capt. M. D. Hudson-Peacock. D. B. Hughes. Sir Bertrand Jerram, K .C. M.O .

Major D. 1. B. Jervis. Miss Norah Jervis. The Revd. E. R. G. Job. K. M. S. Johns. E. G. F. Johnson . W. J. C. Kemp. L. A. Kenny. R. A. Lawrence. P. R. Leggatt. C. G. Lewis. Col. E. C. Linton, M.R. C.S., Capt. R. H. Lowry. M. Lynch & Son Ltd. 1. P. D. Mallinson. C. M. Martin. J . A. W. Martin.

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O . Willsdon. A. D. Wilson. J. Wiltshire, A.C.I.S. The Revd. Dr. J. E. Wood ruff. C. Worsfold. J. R. C. Wright. I. M. Yo ung. W. C. Yotlng.

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OBITUARIES SIR ROLAND BRADDELL (1894-99) Sir Ro land 8t. John Braddell, one of the most dist ingui shed advocates and solicitors to pract ise in Singapore and the Federation o f Malaysia, d ied at his home in London o n 15t h November, at the age o f 86. Sir Roland came from a fami ly of prominent lawyers: his grandfather, Mr. T homas BraddelJ , was Attorney-General of the Stra its Settlements in 1874, and his father, Sir Thomas Dc Multe n Lee Braddcll , was Chief Judicial Commissioner in the Federated Ma lay States frolll 1913 to 1917. H is depart ure severs the last lin k of the Braddcll fa mi ly with Malaya and Singapore. Si r R o land came to King's as a Scho lar in 1894, and later won a Senior Scholarsh ip. In 1900 he went to Worcester College, Oxford, and graduated in Jurisprudence; he was ca lled to the Bar in 1905, and, the foll owing year , to the Singapore Bar. In subsequent years he appeared in some o f the most important cases heard in the cou ntry : he served as Municipal Commissioner in Singapore during the First World War. After this he became a member of the Housing Comm ission, of the Execut ive Cou ncil and Council of State in Johore 1932-40, and of the Execut ive Council , Singapore 1949- 50. In 1948 he was legal adviser to the United Malays National Organisation during negot iations for the Federation o f Malaya: in the same year he was awa rded a knighthood fo r his services to that country. Si r R o land was , in additi on, an authority on many aspects of Malaya n histo ry, particularly old Singapore and trade wit h Malaya since the ea rliest days. In a visit to Britai n in 1954, he was elected a Fellow of the R oyal Society of Art s, and, the fo llowing year, a Fellow of the R oya l Geographica l Society. He was President of the Malay Branch of the R oya l Asiat ic Society fr om 1948- 51, a nd wrote two bo oks : Til e Ligllts of Sillgapore and Tlte Legal SUltliS of the Malay Stales. He was a figure held in great esteem in Ma laya and Singapore, and he will be remembered with alTcction. The Braddcll fam ily still has connections with King's: Mr. D'Arcy Draddell , the architect, designed a num be r o f bu ildi ngs for the School, includ ing the Shirley Hall bu ilt in 1958, llnd H. M. G. Braddell is II pup il at King's now. A.D.M. STANLEY REID N ot only musicians will learn wit h sorrow of the death of Stanley Reid in November at the age of 75. H is long association wit h Ca thed ral and School began just after the Great War when he was appointed a Jay clerk in the Cat hedra l Choir, an appoint ment which he held for some thirty years. Prominent in Canterbury circles, not only as a singer, but a lso as a violinist, he joined our Music StalT in the Lent Term of 1946, under D r. Suttle, and taught violi n, vio la and 'cello , later on extending his teaching to the double-bass. At the time of his death. he was st il l a member of the School Orchest ra, a nd it was a bitter disappointment to him that he was unable to play in King's Week last su mmer. Music-ma king seemed to be his whole life. and there will be many o f his pupils over the past twenty years who remember with gratitude his kindliness and pat ience. His cou rtesy, gentleness and del ightful sense of humour wi ll a ll be sadl y missed as well as hi s va lua ble contributions to the Schoo l's music. We extend ou r deepest sympath y to hi s widow and fa mily in their Joss. E.J.W. 335

REGINALD G. W. SAW (1901 - -<)3) Mr. Reginald G . W. Saw was born at Blackheat h on 27th September, 1886. and a fter attending two prep. schools, he ca me to the King's School for two years, 1901--03, being one of the original members of Mr. C. W. Bell's house in St. George's Road. He left here to study Law and was articled to his fat her's firm of Mess rs. Saw & Sons of G reenwich , being admitted a So licitor and becoming Deputy Superintendent Births, Marriages and Deaths under his father until the war took him away and he never returned to his profession in England. In 1921 he went to Germany and took up teaching and trans l atin~, and also advising on Engl ish Law, event ua lly becoming Reader in English at Cologne University. The Second World Wa r spoilt this career, too , and he spent twelve years at the Bank of England, writ ing a history of the Bank for thei r 250th birthday in 1944. Retiring in 195 1, he went 10 Rhodesia for five yea rs for the benefit o f his health and a year after his return to England he was elected a member of Morden Co llege, Blackheath , wit hin a few hundred yards of the house in which he had been born. There he occupied himself largely wit h work in the valuable li brary, catal oguing the whole cont ents and renovat ing mlny o f the leather bindings. E.B.A.G .

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Isolated? Can it mean? Walter Pater with his lame leg limping up the Dean's Steps; Christopher Marlowe, small boy, watching ELizabeth on a white horse canter the Precincts- HI ride with my red hair, and I eat men like air"; or maybe Maugham, Maugham who lasted only a few years here, in his garden by the sea, rose hedges to the water's edge, gouted by ennui and bald stiff. Yes, they would, even if their education had been ideal, have put some smoke between themselves and the world; but why did they all agree, over four centuries, that they would never be again as they were. Spite? The products of the system, perhaps, Emerald Uthwait and the fighter pilots may help. Their physique, of course, athletic, bronze legs. The cuirasse aesthetique. Even their smile has the candour that wins friends in any town: but the rest, how can we be sure, what does it imply, charm? Charming; no-one would say no. How are they intense, whereabouts do they keep their emotions? In five years we ha"e seen the infrequent anger-fit, and one or two religious conversions, very little besides. They seem to live a continuum, gliding on oiled parallels to no-one knows 339

what termInus, and no breaks, no cliffs, no shrieks of vertigo. If it weren't for their good looks and virtus we shouldn't give them a think twice. That bizarre word, prowess, and all the old associations-"waneth the watch, but the world holdeth. Tomb hideth trouble. The blade is layed low"-all the old lies, and people believe them. Dark shadows under the eyes give a certain air of depravity, and the heh-heh of their staccato laugh, we suppose the sort that fought the Battle of Britain. But how can one tell, or anyone ever deduce from the candour, the rest, the luna obscura, the muscle logistics, the pyramid-building. We never know. No matter how intimate, even with the sickening breathing intimacy of these studies, great enigmas, photographs on desks lie like betrayals, the false identities of spies, trahi so n des clercs, stuffed birds in the bell-jar.

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And this can hurt, being too tiny to climb the wall, and the easy slipping out of touch afterwards, though no-one (hypocrite lecteur!) can be told. You tread on the pavement, and suddenly you're linked up by arteries with everyone on every pavement in the country; and the earth is just inches away, you can reach it with a pick, even in Oxford Street. The dead bell, the surplices and procession, shoe-wax, the sky pouring into the hole, ash to ash. Times and times we've woken at dawn, pillow crackling like a wad of straw, and tugged at impossible problems, or listened to the long current of breath rising up into the air like a madrigal. It can for so me hours seem like an organism, strong as an athlete, the plus and minus of metabolism. Stupidly happy running from class to class; flu shed and warm, squelching in puddles, collar soiled ; evening, octagons of light, the world suddenly turns, turns to smoke, and the cathedral pours its dark space out in clouds that roll round the Precincts. By Lardergate, walls of corpses; whispers on the stair in Lattergate. Dog-tooth arches low enough to. touch, so dark it is neutral each side of the stained glass. But for Pater and the rest it's too cheap at the price. The years are trickling through our fingers like water. Is Pater dead, is he sleeping? He has lived his life at Brasenose, with flowers fresh every day. He will not write any more books. They say he has a diary in his left-hand drawer. And he will walk and talk in these Precincts, tall as a tower, when you' are hours dead in your grave, round the cloi ~te rs that lamed him, the cathedral, the stoned pit.

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THE SCHOOL Captaill oj School: C. M. Saunders, M.S. Vice-Captains: T. S. Radcliffe, N. P. Press

Head oj The Grange Head oj Marlowe House Head oj Walpole H ouse Head oj School House H ead oj Meister Omers Head oj Luxmoore House Head oj Linacre House Head oj Galpin's

C. M. Saunders, M.S. T . S. Radcliffe N. P. Press P. B. Kent R. O. Clarke A. R. Pa rrott, K.S. J. M. Hutchinson, K.S. T. A. Ling, M.S.

SCHOOL MONITORS C. M. Saunders, M.S., T. S. Radcliffe, N. P . Press, P. B. Kent, R. O. Clarke, A. R. Parrott, K.S., J . M. Hutchinson, K.S. , T . A. Ling, M.S., M. G. Dover HOUSE MONITORS N. J . S. Scott, R . N. Jarman, C. S. Varcoe, K.S., M.S. Marlowe House: T. Adam , A. M . Heslop, C. N. Wright Walpole House: C. J. Hinds, G. A. Pearce, L. C. Rutland, M.S. , C. L. Hampton, K.S. School H ouse: G. J. Kent, J. M. Read , M. S. Freeland Meister Orners: A. R. C. Weir, H. F. Parry, M.S., J. H. B. Poole, K.S., M.S., J. D . Selman Luxmoore House: M . G. Dover, A. J. Ramsay, P. C. Cranfield , P. J. A. Landymore, K.S. , R. H. L. Taylor Linacl'e House: G. K. Jaggers, D. C. Lovett Galpin's: R. A. Eadie, K.S., M. L. Brown, F. L. Graves

The Grange:

Captain oj Boats Captain oj Hockey Captain oj Athletics Captain ()j Cross-Country Captaill oj Rugger Captain ()j Fencing Captain oj Shooting Captain oj Squash Rackets Captain oj Tennis Captain oj Gymnastics Captain oj Judo Captain oj Swimming Monitor jor Music

M. G. Dover R. O. Clarke R. B. Kennedy H. F. Parry N. LS. Scott R. Bird , K.S . M .. J. R . Nicholls G. K. Jaggers M. A. J. Cronk C . R. Whalley M. J. Hulme R. A. Eadie, K.S. C. S. Varcoe, M.S., K.S . .

The Cantuarian Editors: The Captaiti of School (ex-officiol, N. Bryso n, K.S., J. E. Fidler, K.S., A. J. Jones, K.S., M.S., G. K. Jaggers 341

SALVETE D. P. Blackie, D. Bleazard, D. J. D. Booker, J. T. Brooks, R. S. Campbell, G. P. Dobbs, G. N. Elliott, C. M. C. Fairbairn, A. D. Fletcher, T. P. Harris, J. W. Hart, M. W. Holmes, D. N. Houlding, M. A. Hughes, R. A. Jeffries, R. S. L. Johnston, R. H. M. Lassetter, J. C. Mainwaring, N. C. Marden, D. P. Medhurst, A. D. Miller-Smith, M. J. Phillimore, P. L. Pinder, T. J. Priestman, S. C. L. Ray, C. S. Russell, J. J. G. Sanders, A. L. Sloane, J. H. Speakman, P. J. Suchet, M. J. Wenham, N. J. O. Wheeler, D. V. Woollett.

VALETE E. H. Bailey, P. A. St. C. Braude, C. C. N. Bridge, S. F. Bone, D. A. Bond, N. S. Browne,

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P. J. F. Hall, J. R. Harrop, I. G. E. Hetherington, A. D. F. Hodson, P. M. Hook, S. P. Hutton, I. Ja'afar, N. W. Jackson, P. S. K. Johnson, S. N. Jolley, D. F. H. Lovelace, A. B. Marshall, R. D. Meadley, M. G. Morpurgo, S. G. Mundy, R. G. A. Munns, J. P. Norfolk, D. T. Oliver, E. J. Olympitis, A. G. Pope, D. F. Richmond-Coggan, D. McL. Roberts, P. H. Rundall, C. J. Scragg, A. M. N. Shaw, M. J. Shaw, H. S. A. Slater, M. V. H. Spells, N. J. Steele, C. G. Steer, R. D. J. Stewart, L. Thistlethwaite, J. A. Thomson, R. J. J. Warren, J. R. Wilson, J. D. W. Wright, D. J. Wylson, D. M. Young.

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VIRTUTE FUNCTI MORE PATRUM DUCES BAILEY, E. H.-Came Jan. , '63; M.S., '63; Hon. K.S., '64; Upper VI; Secretary of Choral Society and Choir; Choral Exhibition to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. BRIDGE, C. C. N.-Came Jan., '62; House Monitor; 1st Rugger, Cricket, Squash Colours; Captain of Squash, '64. BROWNE, N. S.-Came Sept., '61; House Monitor; Upper VI; C.S.M., C.C.F., '66. BURR, L. S.- Came Jan. , '62; Head of Lattergate; Shooting and Fencing Colours; Captain of Shooting; Upper VI. CARMICHAEL, J. J.-Came Sept. , '62; House Monitor; Upper VI. COWELL, M. A.- Came May, '62; House Monitor; 1st Rugger and 2nd Athletic Colours, '66; Judo Colours and Captain, '65; Upper VI; Sergeant, C.C.F., '66. Cox, P. F.-Came Sept., '62; Lattergate House Monitor; 2nd Cricket Colours; Captain of 2nd XI and 3rd XV; Sergeant, C.C.F., '66. DAVIES,1. G.-Came Sept., '61; House and School Monitor; 1st VIII, '65; 2nd XV, '66; C.S.M., C.C.F., '66. DAY, N. J.-Came Sept., '62; Lattergate House Monitor; Shooting Colours. DEIGHTON, R.-Came Sept., '62; K.S., '62; Fencing Colours, '64; Secretary of Fencing, '65; Exhibition in Engineering to Clare College, Cambridge. ENSOR, P. R.- Came Sept., '61; Captain of House and School Monitor; 1st Hockey Colours, '66; Secretary of Harvey and Bell-ringing Societies. 342

FLICK, A. J.- Came Jan., '62; Monitor for Voluntary Social Service; Editor of The CantuariaJl; Open Exhibition in English to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. GOTTESMAN, F. W.- Came Sept., '62; Hon. K.S., '66; Upper VI; Open Scholarship in Modern Languages to Trinity College, Cambridge. GROOM, J. R.- Came Sept., '61; House Monitor; Upper VI; Open Exhibition in History to Lincoln College, Oxford. HODSON, A. D. F.- Came Sept. , '62; K.S., '62; Head of House and Vice-Captain of School; 2nd Rugger Colours; Upper VI; Able Seaman, C.C.F., '65; Secretary of Pater Society; Open Minor Scholarship in Classics to Wadham College, Oxford. HUTTON, S. P.- Came Jan. , '62; House Monitor; 2nd XV, '66. JACKSON, N. W.- Came Sept., '62; House Monitor; Captain of 3rd XV; Upper VI; Sergeant, C.C.F., '66. JA'AFAR, I.- Came Jan., '62; Head of House and School Monitor; 1st Hockey and Squash Colours, '66; 2nd Cricket and Rugger Colours. '66; Upper VI. JOHNSON, P. S. K.- Came Sept., '62; House Monitor; 2nd Cricket Colours, '66; 1st Orchestra; Upper VI; Leading Seaman, C.C.F., '66; Open Scholarship in Natural Sciences to Hertford College, Oxford. JOLLEY, S. N.- Came Sept., '62; K.S., '62; Senior K.S., '64; Upper VI; Able Seaman, C.C.F., '65. MARSHALL, A. B.-Came Sept. , '62; K.S., '62; Senior K.S., '65; Riversleigh House Monitor; Editor of The CantuariaJl; Treasurer of Somner Society; Open Exhibition in Classics to King's College, Cambridge. MEADLEY, R. D.- Came Sept., '62; 1st Orchestra; Upper VI; Sergeant, C.C.F., '66. MUNNS R. G. A.- Came Sept., '61; House Monitor; 1st Athletics and Rugger Colours, '66'; 2nd Rugger Colours, '65; Upper VI; Secretary of Natural History Society. OLIVER, D. T.- Came Sept., '62; K.S., '62; House Monitor; 1st Hockey Colours, '66; Upper VI. POPE, A. G.-Came Sept., '62; K.S., '62; Upper VI; Open Scholarship in Natural Sciences to Pembroke College, Cambridge. ROBERTS, D. M.-Came Sept., '61; House Monitor; 2nd Hockey XI, '66; Upper VI. SCRAGG, C. J.- Came Sept., '61; House Monitor ; Upper VI ; Leading Seaman, C.C.F., '65. SHAW, A. M. N.- Came Sept. , '62; Lattergate House Monitor; Judo Colours and Secretary of Judo Club, '66; Upper VI; Exhibition in History to Trinity College, Oxford. SLATER, H. S. A.- Came Sept., '62; House Monitor; Upper VI ; Sergeant, C.C.F. , '66; Secretary of Walpole Society. THISTLETHWAlTE, L.- Came May, 1962; Riversleigh and House Monitor; 2nd Rugger Colours and Captain of 2nd XV; Upper VI; THOMSON, J. A.- Came Sept., '66; House Monitor; Upper VI. WILSON, T. R.- Came Sept., '61; Head of House and Captain of School; 1st Rugger Colours and Captain, '66; 2nd Cricket Colours, '65. WRIGHT, J. D. W.- Came Sept., '61; Head of House and School Monitor; 1st and 2nd Rugger Colours, '65 and '66; 1st and 2nd Athletic Colours, '65 and '66; 1st Cricket Colours and Secretary, '66; C.S.M. , C.C.F., '66. YOUNG, D. M.- Came Sept., '6 1; House Monitor; Upper VI; Hon. Secretary of Marlowe Society. 343

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THIS AND THAT The old game about the date of King's foundation charter has revived recently and we have had a number of letters sent to us asking for precise information, The contestants are: St. Peter's, York, Winchester and King's; those who wish to take part in the game may write to any periodical supporting anyone side against the other two. The actual facts dealt out are:For Winchester- William of Wykeham's fourteenth-century foundation; King's- Augustine's monastery of 598 and the Tudor charter; St. Peter's- The foundation in 627. The most useful complications are: that the Royal Charter of King's was granted as late as the sixteenth century by, of course, Henry VIIT; that we were functioning centuries before Winchester, but seem to have dwindled down to eight pupils at the time of Archbishop Odo; and the fact that, in the words of the Headmaster, "We boast two saints among our old boys but as one of them, st. John of Beverley, combined this with being Headmaster of what was to become St. Peter's, theirs is the greater triumph," Age of King's

The late R. G, W. Saw, O.K.S., whose obituary appeared in last term's The Saw Cantuarian, bequeathed to the school his well-chosen collection of 129 first Bequest editions, private press books, and other volumes of literary interest. They include an autographed copy of Wilde's Portrait oj Mr. W.H. and a 1907 edit;on of Salome with Beardsley's drawings; first editions of Byron's Don Juun and the Corsair, Gulliver's Travels, and Pater's Emerald Uthwait. The collection is to be commended for its completeness and unity, and I advise anyone interested in books to go and see it, rather than let it suffer the fate of the Walpole Collection, unread, unprotected, and underinsured .

As we all know, Oxbridge is trying to abandon its privileged-class image as Old School much as it can without alienating the privileged classes. In January, 1966 Tie an Oxford newspaper of wide repute quoted a don from New College as saying "All things being equal, r would choose a grammar school boy because I would expect the public school boy to have done better." Tn spite of this, our statisticians tell us that at Oriel, Trinity and Magdalen, four out of every five awards have gone to people from public schools, with an overall Oxford average of 62 % (both sexes), Whether this is the result of prejudice, talent, or the unjust distribution of teachers with good degrees, [ am not able to say. At any rate, King's got 19 awards last year, four down on 1965, but still in the top four or five with Manchester and Bradford Grammar Schools, K.C.S. and st. Paul's.

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M. J. Simpson, O.K.S" has been awarded a research fellowship at St. John's College, Cambridge (after a Ph.D, Thesis on the behaviour of Siamese fighting fish) to study the mother/infant relationship in the Tower 345

The Mayor and Mayoress of Canterbury attended school Matins Mayor and Mayoress on March 12th . No Cambridge man can be so twisted and warped in his sympathies that he will not congratulate C. H. Freeman ("Mini muscles") and Peter Miller on their splendid victory on March 25th. It was Oxford's third win in succession for the first time in over fifty years, and King's have been represented in all three, by David Mills, the Freemans, and Peter Miller. We were also pleased to see that R. C. W. Church was in the Trinity Lent Boat which fini shed Head of the Lent Races at Cambridge. Boat Race

James Harris, who still, miraculously, ranked as a Junior, has been awarded the Junior Call1uarian Prize for his short story, The Raincoal. Not a terribly profound story, but very neatly told, with a cruelly Prize accurate imitation of the technique of the Jewish raconteur. It could have come from the lips of Lou Grade. The Senior Prize was to have been awarded to the author of Les Arenes, but since no one knew who he was a nd there was absolutely no way of finding out (and rather than waste the Âˇ30/-) it was given to Norman Bryson for the Epilogue he wrote for Speech Day.

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They tell me that in Roman Catholic Cathed rals they fill their censors full of incense and swing them, but this may be a misprint. Which brings to mind the story about two young men in Brompton Oratory who, seeing a surpliced religious procession, called out to the incense-bearer, "Watch it, duckie, your handbag's on fire! "

Athletics

Congratulati(lns to the Senior Athletics Team who have maintained their unbeaten record for the second successive season.

The Fencing Team have had another extremely successful season, winning all their matches. The team has now had only one defeat in over forty matches. Further congratulations to R . Bird on winning the Kent County Men's Open Epee Championship- a splendid achievement. Also on being runner-up in the Public Schools' Epee Championship and the Kent Schoolboys' Epee Championship. Also to J. Griggs on winning the Kent Schoolboys' Junior Foil Championship.

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Mr. Alan Searle, the late Somerset Maugham's personal secretary, is putting the contents of the Villa Mauresque up for sale at Sotheby's this summer. The lot includes Maugham's fabulou s collection of Cambodian sculptures, and the books originally willed to King's, but now in Mr. Searle's possession. The conspicuously empty shelves in the Maugham Library have now been filled with English text books. Viii. Collection

We notice with amusement that the Captain of School has planted Great trees out of . .. a twig in the Mint Yard. He reckons it will start to sprout in 20 17. [ would like to make some kind of apology to Nicholas Thompson, the O. K.S. who sent us a long letter from the University up on the hill, which we printed in abbreviated form in the last issue. [t seems that the Kenlish Gazelle somehow noticed and quoted a passage in which he mentioned that the safe minimum tuition was 12 hours a week. We quite understand Mr. Thompson's embarrassment at the publicity (we are sure he has to work much more than 12 hours a week) . The mind boggles at the prospect of what might have happened if the affair had escalated further (Daily Mirror? David Frost? Crossman?) and we are sorry the letter caused so much misunderstanding.

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Such is the discretion of its members that it never prints a Society report The *arl*w* in The Cal/Illarian; even its members don't know who else belongs to it Society and its existence is never hinted at outside except in nervous whispers in the dormitory at night. But something must, must be said about its activities publicly, if only to make it seem even more exclusive. This term we talked about politics, Mao, a paper was read on Ihe dissociation of sensibility, Mr. P' ac*ck* talked about state education, and Councillor Mrs. Keith Lucas, the wife of the professor, described her work in housing, and her struggles as a Liberal minority of one in a rigidly Tory council. Finally, we were coni scant, hyperebullient and mattoid at an infor mal party where we drank claret, yes claret, fro m real wineglasses. In the words of Eamonn Andrews, may it be the first of what one can only describe as the last of many. The January issue of the Musical Times, reviewi ng the Christmas term's musical activities at Oxford , wrote that "the best performance among College concerts was Bach's Magnifical from New College Chapel. The choir and orchestra we re conducted by Howard Williams with an assured control and breadth. " (NOTE.- H oward Williams was 1965's Monitor for Music, and should not be confused with the Howard-Williams who was deported from Calais.) Oxford Music

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A number of students from up the hill came down and sat ou tside the Olive Branch for what they called "a 48-hour vigil to stop the atrocities in Vietnam." This was one of their less successful demonstrations (it will be remembered that a number of them marched down the hill last year, and finding little enthusiasm among the citi zens of Canterbury, marched up again) although we were amused by their badges. The one original touch was the fact that they ate no food during their vigil , altho ugh, as one Luxmoorian en route said of the demon-

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strating girls, "much thinner than that and they'll have runner beans growing li p them." Reminds me of another sad little political sto ry that I found in the autoOur Man in biography of H . G. Wells, describing his momentous visit to the Kremlin: Moscow " I tri ed to interest Stalin in the Pen Clu b," he wrote hopefully, "but unfortunate ly he failed to kindle."

Our Seven-a-side Team reached the last 16 out of over 100 competitors in the Rosslyn Park Sevens. They i:>eat Oakham 11 - 0 and Gravesend G.S . 10- 6 before losing to Plymouth G.S. 3- 6 in extra time. Perhaps it is worth mentioning that the King's team had never played together as a seven before the first match of the tournament. Seven-a-side

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OUR CONTEMPORARIES Aldenhamiall , AI/eynian, Ample/orlll JOllrnal, Ardil1g/y Allllals, Beacon, Benellden Magazille, Bradfield College Chronicle, Bradford Grammar School Magazine, Campbell/all, Th e Chronicle (Giggleswick), The Ch ronicle (Sf. Edward's), The Chronicle (St. Edmund's), Crall/eighall, Decalliall, Dovoriall , Eastboumiall, Elizabethan, Epsomian, Felstediall , Glena/mond Chronicle, Gresham, Haileyburian, Holmewood HOllse, Hurstjohnian, Kaleidoscope, King's College School Magazine, Kent College Magazine , King' s School Magazine (Pal'ramatta), Lancing College Maga zine, Latymeriall , Lorel1onian, Laurentian, Lower Callada College Times, Malverniall , New College School Maga zine, Ousel, Pauline, Radleighall, Reptoniall, Roffellsian, Rugby School Magazine, Saga, Sedbergh School Magazine, Sherborne School Magazine, Stollyhul'sl Magaz ine, Slort/orelian, SlIttolliall, TOl/brielgiall, Wellington College MagazilU~, Whilg/llian , Worksopian.

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HOLY WEEK 1967 T he School was most fortunate to havc Father C. R. Bryant, S.S.J. E. to lead its devotions in Holy Week, and we are most grateful to him for givi ng so abu nd antly of his energies in helping us to understand something of the meaning of the Christian Faith taken in the context of Christ's Passion and Death. Father Bryant spoke at the main school services on Palm Sunday, Good Frid ay and Easter Day; but in add iti on voluntary services were held in th e Parry Hall on Monday Tuesday a nd Wed nesday. These did not last more than half an hour, and th ose who we r~ present hea rd Father Bryant speak about the mea ning of faith , human nature, and the Church. On. Maundy T hursday he led our dcvotions at the evening Holy Communion With hymns, III the chapel of Our Lady U nd ercroft- an especially joyful occasion for those who came to commemorate Christ's Last Supper and to make their Communion with Him. On th e eve ning of Good Friday there were many visitors in the Eastern Crypt when The PaSSIOn, With muSic by William Byrd , was sung by the Madrigal Society, thus summing up for us o ur own meditations on C hrist's Crucifixion . This was a perfect choice for the occasion, an d the fine singing conveyed with great feeling the austere beauty of the work.

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Chapel on Saturday evemn g and a large number were there on Easter morning at 7.45 a.m. when Father Bryant celebrated a Sung E ucharist, though the Memorial Chapel had been full to overfl owing at an earlier celebrat ion. Tn add ition to the services of Holy Week, Father Bryant had the opportunity of discussion with many boys in the cou rse of visits he madc to different Divinity classes. He was also able to meet boys mformally when each evening he visited a different house. H seems that this was a particularly valuable form of contact for Father Bryant. We hope that he enjoyed his visit to us as much as we enjoyed having him.

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The Concert was marked throughout by great enthusias m and energy, and if, as in the Second Orchestra's first piece, the clarinet, presum ably in his eagerness to begin , had not tuned perfectly, then at least he played vigorously o ut of tune a nd what he lacked in pitch he made up for in gusto. Amongst the other enjoyable points of the Orchestra's perfon~~nce we re the warm string tone in the slow movement of the Suite by Roman, the aglhty and accuracy of the double-bass, and the elega nt bassoon playing in the Smetana. The Glee Club sang their glees with a sense of stylc and a careful observation of all the dyn amics which made these slight and neglected pieccs come to life. Later in the evenin g their singing of some Negro. Spirituals and "The Daniel Jazz" was pleasing if rather E nglish and refined: the growling of the hungry lions in the den was more like the contcnted purnng of some well-fed , over-cosseted cats. However, the creamy-rich dairy-milk chocolate tones of C. M. Saunders were well supported by the Club in a beautiful performance of Swing Low Sweet Chariot. 349

One is accustomed to hearing so much of Ravel's music originall y conceived fo r the piano played in his own highly successful orchestral transcriptions, that it was a n interesting expe rience to hear the orchestral parts of the Concerto in G a rranged for and played on the keyboard. Necessaril y it was not an entirely satisfactory arrangement, for the almost orchestral effects of the solo part were not easily distinguished fro m the genuine but transcribed orchestral effects on the other piano. Both pianists played di ffic ult parts brilliantl y and with great assurance, and valia ntly attempted to differentiate their separate roles in the cascades of glittering notes. C. S. Varcoe tended to over-act Vaughan Williams' Songs oj Travel, which was a pity, as, with his fine voice and excellent vocal technique, he could have a fforded to dispense with the theatrical gestures, and instead let this simple and eloquent song-cycle speak for itself. True provided a most sensitive and musical acco mpaniment. The Concert concluded with music from the Military Band under the infectiously enthusiastic direction of Mr. Robert Scott. The clarinets swirled on, the trumpets blared , the tuba eructated with gay abandon, and even the normally coy and reticent triangle pinged away with conviction. So ended an evening's listening that was never less than enjoyable because all the music was perfo rmed with visible enjoyment. P.S.B.B.

THE SECOND MUSIC CIRCLE CONCERT On Sunday, March 12th, a small a udience of boys, parents, masters a nd friends was given a short but pleasant evening concert in the Recital Room. The items were introd uced by the Monitor for Music. We heard first three songs sun g by Wagner: two of his own compositions, That Yonge Child (which went to the publishers the following day) and Ave M aria, were moving a nd occasionall y haunting, thou gh somewhat hesitantl y performed ; Purcell's Preach not me your musty runes was sung more confidently and with great agility. The two " Brothers Hampton" presented three folk songs (using guitars a nd a banjo) including a catchy Flamenco Copla. Their style was, in their own wo rd, "bumptio us", with a sincere expression and delightful va riation in tone : they really seemed to enjoy playing together, and though they usually sang to themselves rather than to the a udience, it was difficult to see why the latter was so reluctant to join in the choruses. The First Movement of Mozart's Oboe Quartet was a difficult assignment, even for Heath, Rutland , Ling and Williams ; they added to their problems by sitting wide apart (and in a line), a nd they were consequently not always together. The oboe sometimes stumbled on the tricky phrasing, but the gro up kept going well. Probably the most widely appreciated item was Malcolm Arnold's Wind Quintet, played by G . S. Thomson, P. M. C. Elliot, a nd Messrs. Baldwin , Miller and Pittman. It must have been extremely well rehearsed , and was presented in a really decisive manner which not only made the most of the strange harmonies and rhythms, but also caught the lighthearted fl avour admirably. The opening came as a deliberate shock, but one was soon able to enjoy the amusing effects and tricks which the composer had played on certain well-known sea-shanties. N . A. H. McNair gave J. O. J. Lawrence's simple Fantasia for the piano its first performance ; the themes seemed unnecessarily repetitive, but one grew to feel for and like 350

them as the music progressed. Probably a fa irer judgement could be given if one had heard them a second time. McNair hi mself had wri tten some songs, and they were sung by Elliot. His H orseman (from de la Mare) and Epitaph sounded pleasant, but we re over before one had had time to consider them. The First Movement of Schubert's Trout Quintet, played by True, Rutland, Ling, Will iams and Poole, was a worthy climax. In spite of a scratchy, hasty start, the performance was expressive and bold (fierce when required), with good tone and care over dynamics. Each instrument ca me out well- nota bly the first violin (with lavish use of vibrato and bow) and the double bass ; the middle instruments scru bbed away patiently and carefully, usually avoiding too much solidity and sentimentality for Schubert. We were treated to so me Yale G lees, well practiced, with very amusing inflexions. The singers- Powell , Ling, Heath and Alder- were effectively contrasted. The concert fin ished with a laugh, when Powell and Low sang, to music appropriately reminiscent of school carol services, a conversation (composed by Low) abo ut a driving test. The mi xture was a pt, the time not too long, and the concert much appreciated by all present. A.T.J.

THE SCHOOL CONCERT The Lent Term concert took place on Easter Sunday, March 26th , in the Great Hall. The First Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra , and the Choral Society took part, and playing with them (" those who can, do") were those best fitted to write this review. The onl y attainable quality in a potential reviewer seemed thus to be the inability to say no. However, as so o ften when conventional skilled labour is sho rt, the situation was saved by women a nd immigrants. Your reviewer had the luck to be seated next to Mrs. Akrill and behind Mr. C. W. Ward (a former master at Kin g's who was visiting the school), a nd it was the work of a moment to p rovide each of them with a pencil and pad, fi x them with the eyes of a drowning spaniel, and thereafter relax into a sensuous reverie witho ut having to worry about what it's ca lled when a violinist makes a noise like a bee. So, it is certain that the wo rds that fo llow made good sense once, as they were written down for yo ur reviewer by two skilled musicians: but he may have jum bled them up, and blame for nonsense mllst be laid at his door. The concert opened with two pieces played by a n augmented Cha mber Orchestra under Mr. D. S. Goodes. Fi rst came the Impresario Overture by Mozart, and then the Brandenburg Concerto No . 4 in G by Bach, with L. C. Rutla nd solo violin and P. M. C. Elliott and M. J. Cooper, Outes. In both pieces the orchestral playing was crisp and precise, yet full of zest ; the 'cellos sounded particularl y good . Tn the Bach, Rutland's tone had a richness which made one forget some slight intonation difficulties : "playing of this quality must be judged more by professional than by customary school standa rds". Elliott a nd Cooper played extremely musically and sensitively, combining these essential qualities with accuracy and precise timing. The first piece played by the full First Orchestra (conducted- need it be said ?- by Mr. Edred Wright) was D avid Sto ne's arrangement of " The Great G ate of Kiev," from 351

Mussorgsky's suite, Pictures at an Exhibition. An impressive big beginning- "a terribly

Russian sound"- and the cabbages (or were they octopi?) decorating the Great Hall ceiling swelled into the white clouds of the vast Ukranian sky, under which the broad Dnieper rolls slowly and muddily- a bit like the orchestration. Despite this, Mr. Wright elicited excellent clarity from an orchestra that enjoyed itself, and delighted the audience. The woodwind, and especially the oboe, made particularly nice noises. Next on the programme was Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No.2 in D minor, in which the soloist was K. L. J. Alder. The piano was wheeled into position by athletic musicians (so Greek), the orchestra tuned down nearly a semi-tone, and we were off. It is difficult to say whither, for the piece meanders; and the way is less beguiled by melody than is usual with Mendelssohn. Alder's playing (from memory) was liquid and sensitive, yet not without force, particularly in the last movement. The Adagio brought to at least one listener's mind Eddington's query, "whether undifferentiated sameness be distinct from nothingness?" and it needed all Mr. Wright's skill to maintain continuity during one or two moments when bearings became blurred. The audience, rightly judging that no superficial charm in the music had made the artists' task an easy one, generously applauded their achievement and insisted on several returns of the soloist. ' To open the second half of the concert the Choral Society, massed wall to wall on the Great Hall stage, sang Purcell's "Soul of the World" (from St. Cecilia's Day). The trebles and altos achieved a pleasant and delicate tone but the tenors, perhaps because of their greater experience of the muffling acoustics of the hall, over-exerted themselves and tended to stridency. The basses were not always audible. The doubled piano accompaniment (Mr. R. P. Scott and R. J. A. True) was remarkable for its rhythmicality. One wonders whether it is not practicable to suspend some kind of sounding canopy over the stage on these occasions, and so reduce the hostility of the hall to musical balance? The next piece was The Horse, a setting by the contemporary composer David Cox of an excerpt from a mediaeval Bestiary. The exciting texture of this work, its vigour and strong contrasts, made thrilling listening. The First Orchestra joined the Choral Society for the final work of the evening, the Polovtsian Dances from Borodin's Prince Jgor. In a preliminary announcement, Mr. Wright blamed limited space for the omission from the printed programmes of the words sung by the chorus. As the chorus consists largely of maidens charged with the entertainment of guests among a people renowned for unreserved hospitality, other considerations may also have contributed. The opening bars of the work brilliantly establish the wider setting of the action, the immense solitudes of the Tartar steppes. Gradually, as the Khan's encampment is approached, the sound grows in richness and colour, till the full orchestra- trombones, side-drums, tambourine, shrilling piccolo, and all- sweeps the hearer into the midst of barbaric glory. Suddenly the sound of voices bursts through, and with it a mood of longing and sadness begins to tinge the music. A bitter-sweet ambiguity is maintained for a while, but vigour and passion triumph in a tremendous climax. Tn

response to enthusiastic and persistent applause, and to win a bet he had made that the concert would last exactly 90 minutes, Mr. Wright and the players and singers treated the audience with even enhanced verve to an encore of the finale. The review of a school concert in that school's magazine is not the place for false modesty; so let a knowledgeable outsider's opinion be quoted: "I know of no other school in the country that could match King's in the consistently remarkable quality of its music-making".

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. It was with great pleasure that we welcomed Mr. Gordon Clinton, already well-known III these parts, who had come to Judge the House Music Competition. The Instrumental sectIon took place first m the Iate afternoon and throughout it was obvious that, to quote Mr. Clinton, the ensemble thmkmg was good the performers themselves enjoyed playing and certainl~ he for one, enjoyed hearing th~m. The pieces chosen were, for the most part, well SUited to the players and much hard work had been put into the preparation for the performan,ce. The well-deserved winners were Walpole who played a Trio for VIOlin , pIano and cello; they were above average and played with confidence and style. Close runners-up .w~re Lmacre who played a quartet by Boyce. It was an excellent performance, for theIr IlltonatIOn was good and there was plenty of vitality. Bracketed third were Marlowe and School House. The former played a quintet by Fibich' the instruments were well balanced, although the intonation at the start was not good, but they soon settled down and. the~e was plenty of colour and a good rhythmic approach. School House plaY"d theIr PI~no Qu~rtet by Mozart very musically. Luxmoore were without stnngs or wmd but theIr two-pIano Fugue by Mozart proved a happy diversion, for there was a good balance between the planas, rather hard to achieve when one piano is on the platform and one .on the floor of the hall. Galpin's played a Trio from the 8th Symphony by Beethoven; dIfficult, but they tackled It well. Perhaps the horns were a little too predoml,nant, but that may well be ~ecause of where one sits in the hall. The Grange and MeIster Omers wer" ,not far behmd and both deserve praise for attempting to play more unknown e?mposltJOns. The atta~k of these two Houses was not firm enough, there were IndeCISIOns, but tIme and plaYIng together more will soon put that right. In the evenmg came the Vocal and House Song events. Here Mr. Clinton was hard put to it to find the winner, for the singing was good and as he said "I was able to sit back and enjoy it all". His criticisms were apt and helpful and he stressed the need for a good sense of rhythm and imagination. Ag.ain W!'lpole won the House Song Cup, and probably deserved to do so .. They chose a dIfficult one, Dos [rdische Leben, by Mahler, and here True must be mentIOned for his excellent accompanying of this song. The marks were extremely close in both sections reflecting the even spread of vocal talent in the school. C.R.

LINACRE HOUSE PLAY THE SIDNEY STREET SIEGE "A Documentary Play Improvised by Linacre House", so the programme's sub-title boldl~ decla~ed:. and boldness IS the word I associate most closely with what Mr. Gillespie and hIS mu.Itlf~nous cast and helpers gave us. We must applaud a House Play built around an lo;provlsatlOn. GIven a strong story line, a good producer and a keen willingness to contrrbute on the part of all concerned, such an experiment is within the range of any group.. profeSSIonal or an:ateu~, S~hool or House. Linacre chose a fascinating story and gave It the shape of an IllvestJgatJon (the simplest shape, always likely to be effective). It was only a PIty that the final script was largely Mr. Gillespie's, not the boys'. Neverthe.less, several seq~ences did evolve er,rtirely from the boys' own work on the story. Both scnpt and productJon were strong, SWIft, and bore the well-drilled drily humorous stamp of Mr. Gillespie's expertise. ' 353

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Most admirable of all was the panache with which the boys played through their inquiry into the events at Houndsditch, Sidney Street, Clapham, and into the personalities of Steinie Morrison and the mysterious X. The stylization of settings, sounds and movements was very well managed, the narrator's link between the sequences and between play and audience was vigorously maintained by A. 1. G. French, and we were never in any doubt at all that we were watching an investigation, from the splendid opening when a chaotic, seething siege erupted and swayed on the stage to be told by French that this was the wro ng place to start. Later events were punctuated by some delightful vignettes, notably those centring on the family of the typically jingoistic C. T. Lambrick, at their superbly drilled breakfast or at "Family Patriotism", a telling piece of satire. After the siege the events were dominated by the pathetic figure of Steinie Morrison, excellently played by P. T. G. Kehrer. An occasional detail jarred, such as The Times leader being read from the Personal Column on the front-page- in 1911! But I admired the consistent quality of all the acting and its briskness. Ultimately it was not the actual events centring on Sidney Street and Morrison that were central to this play, for within its hour's duration was packed a host of information, polemic, criticism and satire, legal, moral, political , social. The Man of Property, the conditions in London, the police, the courts, all came out badly, and rightly so. But, in spite of the stunning bomb-in-the-audience ending, perhaps we were asked to watch too many targets being peppered at once, the Anarchists must have puzzled those unfamiliar with European history over the past 100 years, and many of the you nger boys in the audience were bewildered by what they saw and found it hard to follow. Yet the point is not that there was a measure of inevitable failure, but that this improvised docu ment succeeded so well. I for one enjoyed myself very much, and I trust we shall see more of this sort of thing at King's, it is worth all the effort put in-so hats off to Linacre for leading the way. G.S.P.P.

THE PENNY READING The old tradition of the Penny Reading, an evening's entertainment by and for the boys alone, was revived this year after a gap of three years, and its success in the School and the high standard of amusement attained definitely suggest that this is a tradition well worth Âˇretaining. Overall, it was an extremely lively and varied evening's entertainment, which never descended into bad taste or low humour; the programme was well arranged, smoothly run and of a good length, and though one or two items ended weakly or were too heavyhanded, the quick and lively pace of the show was soon re-established. The "star" of the show was undoubtedly C. M. Saunders, who was helped in the compering by R. O. Clarke and M. G. Dover; all three were extremely lively and amusing, even if their sketches were occasionally too prolonged, and their high spirits successfully held the audience's attention from one item to the next. Of the individual sketches, several stand out as particularly good; the opening number, a film made by several of the boys, was excellent, and sent the evening off to a good start; a sketch written by P. J. A. Landymore was very witty, and performed with pace, polish and a lively sense of performance. "The Aftermath" were called in at very short notice, and if they did not quite reach their excellent standards of previous terms their excuse was lack of practice; nevertheless, they were still good, and greatly appreciated by the School. Music was also provided by C. M. Saunders, who played two of his own jazz 354

compositions, with N. G. W. Heath on the drums and R. D. McKilliam on the guitar; these were greatly enjoyed by the audience, and were only spoiled by a slight lack of balance and co-ordination between the players. The show ended hilariously with a sketch written by C. L. Hampton, and featuring J. R. Carey and J. L. Jerman; this was thoroughly excellent, being well scripted, well acted and well presented, and it brought a highly entertaining evening to a suitable and successful close. Individual performances that deserve special mention were P. B. Kent as "Charlie", P. Mason as a prep-school headmaster, and R. N. Jarman in an imitative introduction to one item.

Though many took part in the Penny Reading, special thanks and praise must go to C. M. Saunders as the leading spirit in arranging and performing it; also to the Stage Manager, R. N. Jarman, for taking over organisation Âˇin his absence, and to the electricians and stage hands for helping to make this a very successful show. After such success it is hoped that a Penny Reading will become a more regular feature in the School Calendar, as it gives a special opportunity for boys to provide and to receive their own particular kind of humour.

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THE MILLAIS EXHIBITION BURLINGTON HOUSE I took some members of the Art Society to London during this term to see the Millais Exhibition. One knew that there had been a growing interest in Victoriana since the end of the last war but it had always seemed to me to have been inspired by an attempt to revive something that had little inherent survival value and of which much was better forgotten. Here seemed to be the chance to find out the opinion of the coming generation on this matter. So I asked the boys to write a few lines saying what they felt about this exhibition, and it was interesting to see the unanimity with which they found Millais technically gifted but unimaginative"He showed more interest in the subject than in the actual painting of it .... " "Uninspiring and lacking in creative imagination . .. . " "A Victorian camera man. He had skill but no imagination .... " "His art is often grossly and even embarrassingly sentimental ... ,"

"His technical skill does not compensate for his overall lack of integrity and desire to please . . . ," "His knowledge of the human form is immense and the colour and texture of his paint can be beautiful but much of his work is sentimental and looks like the illustrations in children's prayer books . ... "

"He obviously had an enormous amount of skill in realistic representation but he didn't apply this in such a way that the outcome was pleasing. He lacked all imagination ... ." Such comments made me think of Cezanne on r. L. David- "the finest palette in France, but what did he make of it?" How interesting that boys of fourteen upwards can now see this. When I was this age I was bowled over by displays of technical virtuosity and, I was well over twenty before I began to see that technical skill , used as an end rather than a means, was mere ostentation and van ity.

I am afraid that, so far as the Art Society is concerned, Millais has had it. A.G.C.B. 355

"MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL" School film s are always a musing, even if one likes them for the wrong reasons. Those who saw the film of Eliot's Murder ill the Cathedral certamly seemed to enJoy themselves. With the geysers from Coco-Cola cans, the flying pellets of sweet-paper,. the alarming volume from the loudspeakers, and what must have been the scratcluest ~nnt ever made, the Parry looked like the scene of some psychedhc Happemng. F~r the first ten mlllutes there were so many jerks the film seemed to be suffenng from visual hiCCUPS, and the remainder was so badly cut it required an expert knowledge of the play to follow what was going on. No t that many made the effort. . .. . . . Eliot's play was designed as an expenment 111 stylIsatIOn, and In the oflgmal stage production only minimal concesSIOns were granted to realisn:. A successful tra nslat~o n

into film would have taken this into acco unt, and wo uld have am ed at as much formahsm as the medium allows, eliminatin g casual lighting, in timate close-u ps, conversatio nal delivery a nd so on. It seems that H oellering made some attempt to adapt the play, but the rno; t we got was a strange sequence of images, from a che,ss-gam: to a sea-sho re, a

Canterbury capital, a cloud , a tree, a ca ndle; and there was some mterestlng frontal came~aÂ work from Norman K oskey. Apart fro m that, the film was a record of the play, with Eliot's rhetoric (" You we re right to express a certain incredulity") sounding more absurd than ever in an alien medium. A great waste. It IS often said that If Shakespeare lived in this century he would turn his verbal image patterJ?s mto cmema lI'!1agc ,Patterns; Eltot made extensive use of patterns which might have easily been treated m thiS way ; but the opportunity was missed. The great strength of the film was the convincing perfo rmance by Father John Groser as Becket. Actors usually find it ha rd to play pnests and H oelleflng was fight to choose the real thing. G rosser had a wonderful craggy, saintly face and tre mendous stage pr;:sence; yo u could feel archiepiscopal a uthority behi nd every word . The other difficu lt r<;>le, the fourth tempter, was read by Eliot himself in his inimitable way, extremely rhythmic, With a kind of high-pitched strain, like a '40's ne\~sreader. The ch.orus consisted ? f extremely ugly-interesting looking women With thClf hal.r pulled out of Sight under mediaeval cowls, about twenty of them , like a room full of Edi th Sitwells, filmed fronta lly m formal poses. In fact the choruses we re the most memorable part of the film . Eliot a nd Groser were excellent in their way, but these bald women had a hypnotic sybil-.quality that felt deeply religious. But again , they would have been better off on stage or III modern ballet. And this was the fl aw of the whole production. T he right thing, but the wrong medium. N. B.

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R EFLEC TIONS ON IN TERNATIONAL HISTORY F. H . HINSLEY On 10th March, Mr. F. H . Hinsley, Reader in International History in the University of Cambridge, lectured on the pattern which was discernible in international history. He showed that for most of the history of ma nkind warfare was an almost continuous phenomenon. In the eighteenth century, however, a new pattern emerged. As a result of the growth of the new State system wa rs became more formidable, but at the same time they were now interspe rsed by long periods of peace, sometimes as long as forty yea rs. Wars still continued , partl y because of the disparity of strengths between the Powers, a nd pa rtl y because of the ina bility of rulers to restrain their generals and their peo ples. Mr. Hinsley suggested that it was possible that th is periodic alternation of war and peace might have ended in 1945. Gove rnments were now more and more reluctant to resort to major wa rs; th e consequences of wars we re morc terrible than in the past. But above

all, wars had ceased to be profi table. An y State wo uld now be better advised to build a computer than to engage in a wa r. At any ratc, a major war was extremely unlikely before

the year 2000 or 2040. Public opinion was so contra ry to the idea of war in many countries that it was possible that governments wo uld not be able to launch war, even if they desired to do so. Mr. Hinsley was severely critical of successive British Governments for the way in which they had played down British power, and their persistence in drawing attention to problems which in fact hardly existed. His opinion of the present handling of British foreign policy was such that your reporter thinks it tactful to omit it from this review. Altogether, Mr. Hinsley gave us a stimulating a nd instructive paper. R.W.H.

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THE CABINET AND THE CABINET OFFICE R. L. L. FACER Giving a lucid and concise talk on the subject of the Cabinet and Cabinet Office, Mr. Facer discussed its nature, size and composition, and the role of ministers both collectively and individ ually within it. Moving on to the part played by the Cabinet Office and the committees, he showed how they relieved much of the burden of detailed work from the Cabinet itself- the central policy-makin g and co-ordinating organ of government- and the extent to which they influenced both legislation and administration. With well-chosen and sometimes amusing examples he illustrated the development of Cabinet government from the Nineteenth Century onwards; but at the same time he warned that its nature depended on the personalities of its members and above all , on the Prime Minister. Mr. Facer obviously possessed great insight into his subject from his own experience in Âˇ the Office a nd in departmental administration. This was particularly useful when he replied to questions from masters and boys; his replies not only informed us further about the mechanics of the Cabinet, but also deviated to the personal views of a civil servant on various political a nd constitutional topics. R.F.G. 357

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WORLD AFFAIRS DAVID ENNALS, M.P. Mr. Ennals is Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Home Office, recently moved in the Labour Cabinet reshuffle frolll being Under-Secretary for the Army. He has been expected a number of times, and at last we had the pleas~re of hearing his views on "World Affairs". Despite his change of office, the subject remaIned the same. The outcome was at times interesting.

Mr. Ennals began by speaking of the inevitable limitation.s the govern.ment faces, such as the strain of Commonwealth ties and the fact that Bntam lS not as lmportant as she used to be. He then stated the aims of British policy. These were to make a contribution to a more peaceful world, to improve East-West relatio~ s, to promote disarmament, to maintain the Commonwealth , and to shape a correspondIng defence poltcy. After a short speech, Mr. Ennals answered qu~stio~s, which were, on the whole, probing. They included such issues as Disarmament, Bntam s Defence CommItments lD the hght of her decreased status, the Common Market, and Rhodesia. Rhodesia was the most obvious question and took up most of the time. Mr. Ennals handled the questions with a politician's skill , subtly disallowing anyone who probed too near the quick a supplementary q~lestio~. Mr .. Ennals presented his ca.se in very high-minded and unselfish terms. He ran mto d.lfficultles, howeve:, over the dIscrepancy between his late support of Nucle.ar submannes, and hIs deSIre to p:omote disarmament; the question was unsatisfactonly argued. Mr. Ennals dId not conVInce us of the practicability of the idealism he professed. Nevertheless, though nothing astonishingly new was revealed, Mr. Ennals presented his talk with fluency and wit. It was an interesting evening. G.R.G.K.

RUSSIA SINCE KRUSCHEV EDWARD CRANKSHA W

It is customary in these things to co~c1ude. with "and than~s to Mr; So-and-so a v~ry

pleasant evening was had by all". Takmg thlS for granted- smce an mterestmg and lDformative lecture this one most certainly was- consider the substance. Most of the ledture was in fact devoted to Russia before and during the period of control by Kruschev. This was reasonable, since, as Mr. Cran~~haw pointed out, a vast country like Russia is too slow to react instantaneously to polthcal changes of temperature, and since Kruschev returned to plain "Mr." a scant two years ago, there has hardly been a fair trial period to assess the country. B?t, Mr. Crankshaw implied, it is possible to find some idea of the way things may develop m the reasons underlymg the nse and fall of Mr. K. Kruschev rose because Stalin's methods had become obsolete and he appeared to offer a solution. Stalin had been obsessed with the need to industralize, to make Russia ready for the time when she would have to defend her political dreams against hard reality in the shape of tanks and guns. So, in the years 1928-39, he transforr:'ed R~ssia from a stagnant agrarian economy, nearly ruined by the Great W~r, into an mdustnal economy . capable of facing Hitler. This he did, brilliantly and bloodIly. But after the war he continued this now-obsolete technique, and nearly destroyed hIS perfect machine by over-rigid centralization an? complete indifference towards agri?ulture and light industry. Stalin died- very convemently- and Krusch<;v emerged. H1S task was to permit political and cultural "thaw", open th.e .c.onc.entratlOn camps and let. the writers express themselves; and to create greater flexlblhty 10 the econom!c mechamsm. 358

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These were difficult tasks, since he had to control the rate of thaw in each sectormollifying the liberals, appeasing the die-hards- and he managed pretty well. And yet he fell. This, Mr. Crankshaw argued, was because he cured symptoms, not causes. He loosened up the machine; he did not rebuild it. He observed over-centralisation, he merely made the procedure more flexible. He saw the collectives; he failed to introduce proper incentives to increase supplies from the peasants and be able to do away with the collectives. So Kosygin was brought in to rationalise the economic system, in particular by introducing (very cautiously) the profit motive, Brezhnev meanwhile keeping the internal situation under control. In foreign policy Russia has in fact continued Kruschev's policies, in broad outline: the search for a detente, while seeking to drive wedges into the Western bloc- in fact, Realpolitik as she is spoke by the filthy capitalists. A stimulating lecture, and one hopes that Mr. Crankshaw enjoyed it as much as the audience. J.K.W.

"A TALK TO THE VIth FORM" MR. EDWARD HEATH Mr. Heath treated his audience to a display of concise exposition that the teachers among us could only envy and the boys could have experienced only rarely before. He surveyed the postwar history of Britain's attitude to Europe from the days after 1945 when it seemed that the nation state had failed, and Churchill's vision, exemplified in his Fulton speech could inspire the development of NATO and the Strasbourg parliament, and the Marshall plan demonstrated the Europeans' wish to co-operate to solve their problems. In 195 1 the Six proposed the formation of a community, first for Coal and Steel, later Euratom, and in 1956 the European Economic Community. Mr. Heath emphasised the word community with its co-operative and idealistic overtones in preference to the word market with its suggestion of self-seeking haggling. Mr. Heath then considered why we should join the EEC and the obstacles we should face. In favour of joining he saw the political advantages of membership of a group of 200 million people which would have great influence in the world; and the economic necessity for new scientific industries to operate in a market comparable in scale to those of the USA and the USSR. Obstacles to be overcome included the role of sterling, a common defence policy and the relationship between national governments and the community.

In or out of the EEC, Britain needed "to pull herself up by her own shoe-strings", and make structural economic changes. For example, the decline of old industries and their replacement by new ones must be accelerated; Trades Unions must be reformed by legislation and their attitude to restrictive practices changed; craftsmen and managers must be

better trained; tax changes must provide incentives for enterprise; and the social services

must be reformed so that those with higher wages make higher contributions and in return obtain a greater choice of service'

In answering questions Mr. Heath showed a detailed mastery of his subject, whether it was defence policy, the complexities of changing from subsid ies to import levies in agriculture, or Viet Nam. The total impression Mr. Heath left was of an immensely able man, with a deep emotional and intellectual commitment to Europe as a community. Little of his personality emerged, for he seemed to operate on a tight rein, but glimpses there were in wry humour or in rapport with a questioner which suggested a warm and likeable man beneath the fordmidably efficient exterior. 359

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The Editors, "The Cal/fuarial/". Kent. Sirs. A second-hand, ungenerous, and unconvincing ana lysis did duty in your last isslie for the King's School's farewe ll to the late Dr. Hewlett Johnson . His relations wit h us would probably have been of little interest to the readers of The Times: but why did not The Call1lwriall at least record what Canon Shirley several times expressed- gratitude to Dr. Johnson for unreserved help and backing when Canon Shirley was beginning his great work for King's? Gazing afield, Dr. Johnson's "inconsistency", you repeat, "Cll t at the root s of his influence"; no doubt: but not among the many ordinary people of Canterbu ry who still talk with admiration about his bearing and solicitude during the great air-raids of the war. SliII, his voice is a llowed to have been "resonant"- what a footling evaluation of a great artist of the spoken word! Self-delusion is your borrowed obituarist's whitewash for Dr. Johnson; but does he need whitewashing? The "Christians, ban nuclear weapons" placard on the Deanery was perhaps his last conspicuous gesture: an appeal to men to t ake a stand, in a great matter, because of their religion. Th is may have been extravagant, unrealistic, or misguided : but it had nobility. Yours faithfully, P. POLLAK .

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School Housc, The King's School, Canterbury. To lhe Editors, " The Canluarian". Dear Sirs, Association Football is played a ll over the world. The World Cup, staged in Great Britain for the first time last year, gave ample proof of the game's potential as a sport with eminent spectator appeal. In recent years the game has been extensively theorised and every team now professes to playa certain complex "tactical system". But in spite of this the game remai ns essent ially simple. There are only 17 laws, all easily interpreted . And since the ball is round the player can obtain pred ictable results from his skill. A high standard of fitness is requ ired and yet (what is mo re important) the drudgery of orthodox physical training can be alleviated by frequent practice in the elemental skills of the game. fn playing Soccer, both brain and brawn are needed in equal proport ions, and thus ample opportunity is given for players of smaller build to show their sk ill . Hence we feel that this school should certa inly participate more extensively in this sport. There is no lack of precedent among other Public Schools and in the sout h the following have been playing soccer for many years: Aldenham, Bradfield, Charterhouse, Eton, Lancing, Westminster and Winchester. Severa l other Public Schools are just star ting to play soccer on a small scale. 1 quote the example of Taunton from a recent press-cutting;"The World Cup backlash has reached the Public Schools. Rugby-playing Taunton in Somerset has entered a Soccer Team in the Taunton Sunday Yout h League with the full app roval of 35 year-old Headmaster, Dr. John Rae, a former Rugby Master at Harrow." Mr. Dennis Howell , Minister for Sport, crit icised schools which concentrated too much on one particular sport;"The choice of sports in schools is extremely important. f have no time for schools which play Rugby to the exclusion of Soccer or Soccer to the exclusion of Rugby ... ". The School House F.e. have already played several matches aga inst other HOllses and have had conÂˇ siderable success. Already an Inter-House Competition, to be played on Sundays, seems practicable and, judging from the numerous challenges we have received, would be very popu lar. After that "King's" could perhaps enter a team for a local Youth League and then possibly progress towards full status as an eminent soccer-playing school. But above all in a school with such a great and varied spo rting tradition as "King's" has, we must have a wide "choice of sports". Yours etc., M. THOM (on behalf of the S.H.F.C.).

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.. School House, The King's School, Canterbury. 23rd March, 1967.

Dcar Sirs, The f~rce of today's .hock~y. Court must ha ve shown others that the whole system of the awarding of colours IS due for drastiC reVISion. Today we find ourselves in the absurd situation of award ing the same colour to a fellow who has pl'.ly~d two games in the 2nd X l as to one who has played the whole season in the 1st XI. The reason for. thiS IS perhaps that as th7 1st X l has had a comparatively unsuccessfu l season, there would be an outcry If the .whole team were given first colours. Surely, however, if the team plays together and ~he.n only a few of Its members receive their colours, the whole idea of working as a team is destroyed? Sim ilarly, does someone who has played the whole season in an unsuccessfu l first team not deserve a higher reward than someone who has played two games in an equally unsuccessful 2nd team? By the ~a me token, surely the gent lemen of the 2nd Ylll and the 2nd XV, who give up every afternoon for one or III the case of the 2nd VIII , two terms, deserve something more than to be given colou rs equal to those of the Hockey player who has given up three afternoons a week for half of a term? Much of the bitterness that is caused at present in this School by the superficia l equating of the rank of all the so-called "Majo r Sports" could be eliminated if each sport had its own tie signifying first colours. Then C<,tch member of. the 1st l.eam could wear the tie of his respective sport, and the argument that a rugger player IS more deserVing of hiS co lours than a hockey player would be eliminated. At the same time we might consider raising Fencing to the rank of a maj or sport- su rely a team that has brought so much su~cess to the name of the School cannot much longer remain classed as a "minor" sport? The reintroduction of the "Blue Book" would serve a far more useful purpose if it incorporated some changes about the "colours" system, rather than attempti ng to reinstitute cllstoms concerning the angle of boaters. Yours faithfu lly, M . W. SULLIVAN.

Linacre House, The King's School, Canterbury.

Sirs, May I point ou.t, for the reco rd , that the Luxl1100re Trophy was won jointly by Galpin's and Linacre in 1966? In the last Issue of The Callfuarian you regretably failed to mention the fact that Linacre had tied with Ga lpin's. It seems incredible that there should have been a t ie, and I thin k that this obviously indicates an ~Irge nt need for the poin ts system to be widely publicised to the whole School, if we arc to have a wort hwh ile Cup fol' the best a ll-rOllnd House. You rs faithfully, C. T. LAMBRICK. [The Editors regret Ihat there is 110 space here to give a detailed account 0/ the point system but tlris may be obtained from IJOusemastel's. Since all tire poillts are scaled down for the filial tlecisioll alld no hal/-pOints are allowed, there is nothing suspicious about the lies. ' The Grange, The King's School, The Mint Yard, Canterbu ry. Dear Sirs, It is well-known that tbe School is a yery critica l, even if not discerning audience, and the House Play seems lO have suffered more than anythmg from a barrage of vociferous demonstration. Why is this so? Does th~ fault lie with the choice of play (or entcrtainment), the quality of production or the schogl itself? Certain ly, the School can be accused of very bad manners in its behaviour at certain House Plays but t~lis i~ irrelevant to t~e reason for the discontent. It is surely unreal istic to suppose that this lack of appr'ecia. tlon IS mere perversity. 1 . At prescn~, all House Plays are comp.ulsory, and it is this policy which is responsible for the unpleasant Sit uation as It now stands. The School IS compelled to attend a funct ion wh ich if it is not in the nature of a farce, is, for th~ ~ajority, a bore. There is a limit, however, to the number of'times producers are willing to pander to majority tastes . ~h i s situation c~ nn ot fail to worsen unless the present policy of unqualified compulsion is dropped. In Its p l ~cc,.a policy of .voluntary or. compulsory attendance, according to the desire of each producer, cOllid .be mSlltuted. !n tll1~ way, expenmental or merely serious drama could be made a voluntary occasio n, at whic h those genumely mterested could attend without the d istraction of a crowd of malcontents. Yours etc.,

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C. S. VARCOE.

"THE AFRICAN DEBATE" Sirs, It is obvious from Mr. N. S. Browne's letter on apartheid in South Africa that he considers himself better qualified than the average reporter to describe the truc state of affai rs. 1 am therefore surprised that he can present an opinion backed up by nonÂˇ facts and misinterpretations which are obviolls to anybody who has had any experience whatsoever of the Union. (1 suspect that his views are so mewhat flavoured by hi s selfÂˇ confessed experiences with the Mall-Mall in Kenya, which he apparently considers sufficient basis for his sweeping generalisations.) I would be grateful if Me. Browne would explain why the South African Government considers it necessary to impose a confinement, amount ing to imprisonment, o n Chief Mobotu and the many other Bantu leaders when, in his own words, they are " thoroughly in favour of Apartheid", (Incidentally, I note with cynicism his use of a cap ital letter for that word.) Why is it necessary for censorship of the severest kind to be imposed upon the pitifully inadequate Bantu universities, and any " nigger" publication ? How does he account for the Sharpesville massacre and the lise of troops in Johannesburg in 1964 to quell racial protesters, if as he says the "di rty Kaffi rs" are in favou r of the policy? Why is it im possible for a black to obtai n a perm it for any sort of firearm and whites are given special training to put down ci vil r ioters during their period of carefully segregated military service ? South Africa is a police state, controlled by t he iron grip of ex-Nazis who hate negro sympathisers even more than they detest the blacks themselves, it is a place of react io n and autho ritar ianism, a place of fear and tension a nd a frighte ning experience for anyone with any feelings for the liberty of the individual- that is the truth of South Africa. Mr. Browne claims the natives are being educated. 1 defy him to produce facts to prove this on any perceptible scale. The so-called equality of apartheid is a myth, despite Mr. Verwoerd's protestations during his violent life (justifiably ended by a violent death) that he was working towa rds equal conditions for black and white . The condit ions for Kaffirs in their townships and reservations has to be seen to be believedand t hat is just why visitors are carefully directed to selected and tourist-prepared examples. Educat ion for the black is a farce, when there a re ten times as many schools for whites as there are fo r ten times as many blacks. Welfare services for niggers do not ex ist on any comparative basis, public offices and equality of incomes are simply not there. The Boer is supreme in South Africa, he has been there for centuries, and regards everybody else-from the British " ruidneks" of Natal, down t o the bestial blacks with contempt , derision, fear and hatred. The sum total of his wealth and prosperity (and there are many poor white men in Sout h Africa) has been created on the fo rced la bour of the African. He has ruled with a sjambok and a gun , he has created "h is" country by brutali ty, prej ud ice and savagery o n a parallel to the fan aticism of Hitler and his ideas of civilised conduct . The Afrikaaner is proud o f his tradition, his pure blood (a mixture of multifarious European races and nationalities), the Fascist state he has ca rved out of a continent in opposition to a horde o f naked , primitively armed savages, who nearly resisted him even then . He glo ries in the fact that he has yet to fi ght for anything regarded as worth fi ghting for by the rest of the world and that his true worth to humanity can be measured when one views his cu ltural cont r ibut ion to mankind (whites only. of course) through a ny other values than those o f pragmatism, fun ctionality and self-interest. My own exper ience of South Africa has convinced me that it is a place of fear and tensio n, awaiting with trepidation the terrible retribution which is surely co ming. Yo m s, etc.,

O. W.

COLLI ER.

5/1a Greycliffc Street , QucenscJ iff, N.S.W. , Australia. Sirs, With reference to the letter by Mr. N. S. F itz-Gerald Browne in the December. 1966, issue: as Mr. Browne believes that the sjambok is the best means of educating a black man and as there are no differences between white and black man other than the colour o f their sk in and the effects of environment , I hope that the Captain of School, who was also head of Luxmoore H ouse, has been administering the customary eigh t strokes of the cane for a H Ollse Monito r (called "an old Granger" in my time) twice each term as an a id to the education of Mr. Browne. Ifhe has not , he has, according to Browne's own standards, been fai ling in his duty. Yours faithfully, T. STAPLETON. P. S.- In the photograph of the 1st XV in the same issue, MI' . J. R. Wilson looks as though he would have been capable of carrying out his duty effectively. 1t is to be hoped that his successor can continue Browne's ed ucation equally well. [O wing to lack 0/ space we were IInable to pri"t more tho" Iwo of rite letters we received in reply to Mr. N. S . Browne's. We acknowledge letters /rom Mr. E. Blizzard alld MI'. R. Hortoll alld would like 10 assure (hem Ihal Mr. Browne's views are his OWII alld 1101 necessarily represelll(lfive of Ihe School. ] 362

Amerika, Ameriks

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With a grotesque four-foot bow Pierrot scratches on a viola; Standing like a stork on one leg, Sadly pinching a pizzicato. Pierrot, Pierrot, your arms Elongated like Picasso, rich 88 Solomon; Mrs. Vanderbilt your Sheba and her Boston vaults, and all she can do is stare and stare while you balance on the circus ball and swing from the mantlepiece and she wears glasses made of wood and paints her eyebrows with a stick. Pierrot, Pierrot, with your bell-jar cape and your stove-pipe hat with the face you keep in a tin by the door, the more you play the more she stares, until the strings scrape to a haIt; for all her vaults and all her airs Pierrot, Pierrot, the water's off, the mains is cut and Wall Street falls like a Nineveh tower. Manhattan. New England grand canyon. The skyscrapers catch the moon in a net, and Batman jumps from roof to roof; megaphones on every sidewalk, on each streetlamp like a black daffodil; and helicopters fitting posters in place, the planes caught in trees like cockroaches, grass growing through their wings, and waxworks, waxworks with their boneless heads sitting in the cockpit. Jude, jude, and love by jazzlight. Garbo playing to empty cinemas. Is there a plane? Any plane, even if it is a black cigar-plane, with lattice windows? Intolerable. The heat melts the phones. Europe, what will become of us? It goes on.

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January 19th, 1965.

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A Feathe,. in Tire CIOfrds

S. Tuite

I'm feeling weary; drowsy, exhausted, faint, sinking, flagging, dropping, worn out, prostrated, weather-heaten, done-in, knocked-up, spent, ready to drop, more dead than alive, dog-tired, burdened, loaded, sick, nauseated, blase and life-weary. o for some quiet relaxation, mental calmness, tranquillity, slow, smooth, untroubled, peaceful, soft sleep, sleep, sleep in calm repose, immobility and stillness midst the soft white sheets, so my head floats down into the downy pillows. Just unwind; the troubles whisper away off the mind, unburdened: all is still, and the soft carpets of the room are hushed.

J. F. Mal,le

Fog

The day is mournful, The sky overcast; November is on its way out, As the grimy smog makes its entry. Looming and loathsome, The repulsive mixture winds its way in and out, Covering the musty warehouses With an ominous cloud of gloom. It spreads out, and increases its speed of descent; A malevolent directness is contained in its yellowy masses, Making no effort to smother its personal hatred, It wraps itself round me like a clammy towel. I slipped into a nearby store, Hoping, thus, to escape its clutches; But even in there it had found its way, Even the feel of the bales of cloth was cheerless. Realising the futility of my actions, I walked out again, Half-expecting something to happen ... No respons~only the fog. 366

, TO ERR IS HUMAN

}. K. Walmsley

It was big drama, the newscasts were full of it, the disc-jockeys slipped it in between numbers one and two in the Terrific Twenty or the Fantabulous Forty, "Folks, that was Last Train to Parksville by the Chimps, and now before Snoopy v Moses Caddion by the Royal Cardsmen, here is the latest newsflash-", the elderly ladies whispered it to each other as they got their weekly dose of romance from the public library, the kids talked about it in the classroom until their teachers clobbered them with Taylor's Theorem or irregular verbs. Everybody knew it: that the first expedition to Pluto had somehow come unstuck, that two of the crew were dead, that MacPherson, the only survivor, was holed up somewhere in one of the great unknown ranges, temperature about -400Â°F., and with only two days' power at most for his heater. Everybody knew that the boys from the Titan base were working flat out to get there in time. Nobody knew if they would or not. Consequently, there was much interest throughout the whole system, so that when L/Cpl. Bloggs slipped and ruptured himself with the urgency of the business the news was flashed over a billion miles. Still, very few people understood the situation. MacPherson knew all about it. He understood it as no-one else did, because he was somewhat more closely involved than the others. He understood with all his heart and soul that unless they got to him inside two days, MacPherson would be just one more landmark on the Plutonian landscape, frozen into eternity, looking upwards for ever at the silent stars, the body that had hoped beyond all hope for help quiet now, not to be touched by any breath of air, fated only to be washed by the weak light of the distant sun until maybe some wanderer, in an inconceivably warm, well-lighted space-tractor might one day pass by and notice "Why, Myrtle, here's one of them old-timers all frozen up! Musta been real old-time to wear that kinda junky suit, eh Myrt?" and then maybe the local Borough Council might get around to putting up a plaque: "George MacPherson 2012-41 He gave his life that Man might reach to the stars" or some such bumpf. MacPherson was depressed. It was fortunate for him, however, that he had with him Ossian as a companion. Ossian was absolutely the latest thing in sophistication in humanoid design. He'd been built with simulation tests in mind to see if 25G's would be too much to take in the new Lockheed anti-grav cabin, so he was as near a perfect replica of the human body as the tech-men could make him. But then they'd changed their minds because the Lockheed contract fell through and they switched him over to one of Kassim's pet hobby-horses (Kassim being the then head of the design team). This was the induction of subconscious phoneme-association. 367

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ich bill des Treibell8 mi;de" C. R. Romberg

In vergoldeten Garagen Blitzelt Krom im Neonstrahl; Dort gibt's Meinschel, Manomag Und Merzedes aus Kruppstahl. Die, die Spanien hinterlassen, Sonnen sich am Bodensee; Und es stehen in allen Gassen Opel, Ford und B.M.W. Fernsehen gibt's in drei Programmen, Und ein Volk wartet gebannt Auf die neueste Reklame Von Pall Mall und Stuyvesant. '()berall gibt's Waschmaschinen, Spiilmaschinen fur's Geschirr, Schuh-, Zahn-, Auto-putzmaschinen. Himmel, was solI das Gewirr! Neckermann und Lufthansa Steh'n im Lichtreklamenglanze; Jeder Mund voll Bier und Eisbein; Wirtschaftswunder heisst das ganze. Wenn wir mit der Arche Noah Bald vor dieser Sintfiut fiiehen, Lass sie, lieber Gott, doch bitte Nicht ab Luxusdampfer ziehen.

In the gilt garage chrome gleams in the neon light; there's guomelaI Meinschels. Mercedes and Manomag. Spain behind them, they're sunbathing by the Bodensee; you can see in every alleyway Opel, Ford, and B.M.W. Three channels on the box, and the people spellbound wait for the latest ad for Pall Mall and Stuyvesant; and everywhere. cleaning machines-the washing, the dishes, shoes, teeth, ears. God, the mess! Ads by Neckermann and Lufthansa shine from the glass billboards. Each mouth fuU of beer and snails; and the whole thing called an economic miracle. When we try to get out before the flood, please God, listen, don't let our Noah's arks be leather-seated jets!

A. F. Allen

A BUILDING-SITE

Evening has fallen. Everywhere there is a deathly hush. A dark skeleton of a building stands erect, silhouetted against the sky. Bricks in neat piles, plaster and workmen's tools lie about me sending out evil shadows. The wind blows, making a howling sound, as it travels through the network of scaffolding. All the dust around has settled. Occasionally the sound of the wind shifting the dust reaches me. The smell of ashes from the workmen's fire holds me in a momentary spell but the cool fresh breeze knocks myself back into me. 370

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Slowly the sun pours out its golden rays, morning has come, and bathes the building-site with smooth glowing rays. The workmen come, yawning and chattering to themselves, another day's work awaiting them. I catch a few phrases, "Hello, mate, how are you 1" "All right, how are you?" "Where's da guv.?" "Over d'ere." "O.K. back to work now."

Gradually the noise of the workmen builds up. First the sawing, then hammering, the whirr of their lift, the deep throated roar of the tractor and the yells of the workmen. Each day new things appear; window frames dotted around the site, piping fitting into the building, drains, a new cement-mixer. Everything is covered in a thin film of dust. Bricks go up to the top of the building by a lift. I notice the grin of a red skull and crossbones 'under the lift saying, "Beware of Lift, DANGER!" Day by day the building goes on and on. I think that all the credit for the building goes to the workmen. Each day each individual carries on his work in using his particular skill in speeding up the slow building of the bUilding. Workmen are always out in all kinds of weather. When it rains not all of them work, but a few carryon inside the spider-web of the building. The rest hang around inside their hut drinking tea and all huddling round a small fire. Early in the morning the workmen arrive fairly clean. When they leave their faces are smeared with mud and have a greyish appearance owing to the dust. Their faces and hands are crinkled. Patches show in their old clothes. New rips are tattooed in; more work for their wives. Their big chunky boots are plastered with slimy mud slowly drying into crisp crackle plates. As they "knock off" you see cigarette ends about the place. The workmen go home with other cigarettes hugged between their teeth. Without these workmen there would be no buildings; these workmen who smile all the day and every day.

Exhortatioll to the C.C.F. Arm" J. A. Northell Take your place in cornu ludi Bare your forearm et pedes nudi Exite, and fight the foe Let's retain our status quo. Wash the sword et interfic Jlle fights, and look at hie! Surely you are no ignaviSlaughter him quem non amavi! Neca the worthless hostem, quick! Gladius intret, and finish him sic! lam venisti to the test Videamus your very best. Puto auxilia per venire Possum clamores iam audire, Sed Civis Romanus sum, and so,

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Another Poem

c. B. Bamberg

Behind the stars there stands a man His fleece is white as snow And round and round his carousel A billion planets go We go around his roundabout And in the middle God Just stands and murmurs something like "-Path the Saints have trod" So saints have been and trod it But punks and creeps as well The Primrose path to heaven Or the mean strip to hell And roundabouts are one way streets And all roads lead to Rome It's just some turn off earlier And sooner you'll be home Glassy spheres all turn around This introspective alley Meanwhile celestial music Accompanies their ballet My ears my eyes cannot deceive My sensuous receivers Inside them all a little god Is trying to work the levers I grow my hair long write a song And sit here by the way And watch as all humanity Goes trudging on all day So I just sit and watch them all 'Cos somewhere they have trod And somewhere there are people And somewhere there is God.

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EASTWARD HO or THE MID-LONDON MOCK

F. S. Hallam

Under the dustbin behind Harrods, the Emergency Council had reached a desperate phase. Wily Willie had just received a tremendous ovation from his colleagues, the retice!!t right wing reactionaries. It seemed that he would carry the Senate House with him but It was at this moment that Antony the Unadvised got up. HIS speech ran as follows: "Fellow ants", he said, "as you all know, it has been a long and exhausting summer. Our well laid eggs were destroyed by an inexplicable rush of tea the other day and our position over the next few months looks desperate. We only have c~nsolatlOn 10 the less~)Q that is now well learned, namely that it is dangerous to lay all one s eggs 10 one dustbm. To make matters worse, we have had to rule the dustbin as unsuitable for use. Only recently forty of our number were crushed to death by a falling sardine can while on a foraging . expedition and only Leggy Clogg here escaped ~o tell the ta!e." Leggy waved his antennae modestly and ~hifted hiS weight on to his back fo,!r I.egs. Antony halted the murmurs of the crowd with a wave of hiS foreleg before c0!lUnwng: "Worst of all we have discovered a strange white powder on the ground. This IS fatal to our constitutions and all attempts by our Underground laboratories to break it down have proved unsuccessful. I therefore move that Harrods has become unsuitable for habitation and that we should move to a new site." Pandemonium broke loose, voices were raised and the meeting was threatening to become a riot when the voice of the Chairman was raised, "The vote, the vote", and the vote It was. The reticent right wing reactionaries lost and orders were given to collect belongings. At six o'clock, all was in readiness. Pale ants glittered in the dymg rays of the sun and tension was evident on every face. Antony gave the command: "Forward fellow ants to Luba's Bistro, Great Yeoman Street", and the long column struggled ov'er the threshold of the dustbin, hugging the line of Harrod's Wall. Imagine the scene as it was enacted, one unending line of surging red ants- stocky red mothers With habes on their hacks, workers dragging vast crumbs of bread or sugar along-a seethmg mass of grunting, suffering ant life. And then at the back came the rellcent fight wmg reactionaries, banners in hand, sullen and morose.

After an hour of struggling, the ant column reached the main road, and, fro":! a crack in the masonry the advance section viewed the horrors to be surmounted. On either Side of the road was a couple of miles of squared paving, each square covering roughly an acre of ground and over this the humans passed with gigantic strides. If only the column could stick well to the gulleys between the squares they could survive. And so the column moved forward, through the break and out into the crack. It was dark and shadowy in the gully 373

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and every now and then the ants were plunged into total darkness as yet another human passed by overhead. Total silence was observed. Once one of the younger members strayed out of the gully and out of the acreage above. There was one short scream and then the column continued silent and shaken. Eventually the forward section arrived a~ the precipice overlooking the road. After this there were expected to be heavier casualties. Soon the whole cO!'tmgent was marching along at the foot of the precipice. At intervals they passed deep grilled caverns where far below murky waters glistened invitingly. The scream of the hu!"an vehicles filled theIr ears. The time to cross the road arrived. There was a last leave-taking and rubbmg of antennae and the column moved off across the miles of tarmac that stretched before them. The first part was enough, the second tragic. As the forward section moved onto a well-worn section of the wmac, a spinning rubber disc that ~arked one of the four corners of a human vehicle scythed amongst them. Many were killed IDstantaneously, others fiung aSIde IDlnus several limbs and others were carried away by the spmrung CIrcles of death. Dusk found them at the long white expanse that marked the centre of the road, and here the~ lay, exhausted but momentarily safe from the heaviest of the traffic. Slowly the sun dIpped over the roof of the now distant Harrods and they were bathed, first ID a soft cnmson lIght and then in comforting darkness. Morning found them safe, if battered, at the foot of the opposite precipice. The roll was called, and, of the four hundred thousand who had lert Harrods the night before, half would never taste the prolDlsed milk and honey of Luba s Bistro that now loomed before them. Suddenly from around the precipice appeared a new and uncalculated terror. The Black Ants of Gamley's! The fighter ants were called up and .a charge made. Casualties were heavy as many as 10000 on each side, but the supenor bltmg power of our frIends proved too m:uch for the we~k-gummed Gamley ants who retreated in disarra~. Four hours later they were installed in a cosy nook of the Luba BIstro pantry. What joy was theirs, food stretching further th~n the eye can see-sumptuous soup powders, translucent jellies and every imaginable delicacy. . . On the 19th August of this year, the following ann<?uncement appeared m The Times: "As a result of the findings of the Royal ComnusslOn IDtO London Restaurants the following recommendation has been made; that from the 26th August the Luba BIstro should be closed to the public pending an enqmry by InsectIcIdes Incorporated; and. that this state of affairs should continue until such insects as are now presented III theIr dIshes are removed from their fare."

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MY IMPRESSIONS OF THE KING'S SCHOOL

U. Gelbke Mr. Peacocke asked me whether I was prepared to write a little report about my opinion of the King's School. I need not explain your school and school system, because you know much more about it. So I only have to write my own impressions. I think it is best if I start with the main part of the school. It is, of course, the system of teaching, and it forces me to criticise it a little bit, although I don't know very much about it. I personally do not like the specialisation in some subjects in a school when a pupil is only about 14 years old, because I think it is important to give the pupil a broader view of all the important and not so important subjects. So that when he leaves school it will be easier for him to choose his own subject, which interested him very much. Now, you may say that if he has fourteen subjects and he is only interested in four, the other ten are useless to him. But what will he do about changing them when he notices after four years, some months before leaving school, that he is not interested any more in these four subjects. Then the choice is very difficult, because he doesn't know about science, when he had studied languages before! But another thing is very good; you start to learn languages very early. The lessons are very successful because the classes at King's are very small, so you must pay attention in the lessons and it isn't possible to sleep through them very easily. The second quite important thing is the system of the monitors, which is very typical of King's. Here, my opinion is short and very positive. It is a good idea because the monitors, who are the oldest boys in the house, learn to lead a group of younger boys and the boy himself learns faster to live in a group of boys who are as old as himself. The rooms where you work, called studies, are not of the best, because you cannot work really, when you live with six or seven boys together, and when two listen to t~e radio it is impossible to work. Of course, I know that the school has grown very much III the last years and that the school tries to buy other houses, but nevertheless, I think you will agree that you cannot work very well. In this school the relations between the masters and the pupils are as good as in my school. Although here the boys have more respect for the masters that doesn't mean that we have no respect for the masters in my school, but we don't say "Sir" after each sentence. We only call them Mr. MUller or Mr. Schmidt. So it was very unusual for me to say "Sir" after each sentence. But you learn to esteem older people, and it is a pity that we haven't such respect for our masters, because my school thinks that the relations between both groups must suffer under such respect. But the King's School showed me that this is totally wrong. In my school ambition in sport is very small, but here sport is very, very important. It is fine to have an Athletics Club or a Rugby Club and so on. And it is a great honour for everybody to be in the team. It is, I think, a typically English idea to have so much sport in the week, and it is a good idea, because the boys get a greater ambition and that not only in sport, and they get a "team spirit" which is necessary in such a big school. The uniform was very new to me at the beginning, and at first I didn't like it. But after some weeks I noticed that this school is very proud of its 1633 year old tradition and so I could understand the sense of the uniform. And I can say that this uniform is pleasant, 375

and that it is a "sign" of King's. The wearing of the uniform is like a link which unites all the boys of the school. I, a foreigner, had the feeling of being a member of King's because I looked with the uniform like a normal King's boy. My stay at the school was very enjoyable and interesting for me and I hope that Our schools have more exchanges with foreign schools, because this is a good means of understanding foreign people. I must not finish my report without saying thank you all for my nice time at King's. I shall remember King's with pleasure.

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The Frozen Forest of P and beyond J.K.Eden Crackle along the track Into the crystallic forest. The trees hang, drip, glitter in the bars of sharp light, Harsh geometrical colour reflects on pallid skin, Veins of sap sheathed in magnetic splinter work, The hatchet-hacks of iron studded angular facets Sparkle, glimmer, freeze the mind, numb the will. Barbed, bladed, fern-encrusted mosaic rock Tears, rips, slices at deadened feat. Above interlocking canopies of fleur-de-Iys ice, Blossoming spray of brittle translucent spikes, Gothic sculptured friezes, classical pendants Shimmer, spread in spectral heraldic arcs, Glistening stained glass embroidered with green jade, Ruby gargoyle and prismatic emerald, livid sapphire cornice, Uncut quartz cluster thickly in the blue-black brilliance. Sudden cascade of whirling multi-coloured light As an opalescent bespeckled bird Showers \vith a kaleidoscopic aureole into the sterile air. Must escape this unnatural cathedral of glass spires This dew seqninned, fagged, fragmented, dead world Of oscillating brilliance, its fountains frozen in time, Its bifurcated sepulchral crystalline corona Of hate, death and slow suppression of the individual being. Chandelier of vitreous firefly grains break and arrow Down at me, the hall of mirrors slowly begins to fracture, The deliquescing light grows wilder, dappled glace splinters Strike and stick me melting spear-like towards the deep Mindlessly seeking to poke and pierce my very heart. Run! Run! Before the frost's gems break me to death. 376

THE ODENWALDSCHULE

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"Is it really true that the masters still beat boys in your public schools 1" was the first question they asked me on my arrival in Germany. The German conception of the English school, and above all the public school, seems to be one of a very strict, archaic institution, where the boys live in spartan, almost prison-like conditions, under the ever threatening shadow of the cane. The situation is now somewhat reversed. It used to be Germany that was the land of harsh militarism and uniforms. What I saw in Germany was a positive reaction against the uniform and all that it stands for. This reaction is, of course, only natural. The youth of modern Germany is very cosmopolitan. Apart from the fact that they speak German, they could just as easily be English, French or American. As such, they are a very important factor in the community, in that they act as a bridge between the old war generation and the rest of Europe. To rather a large extent the British idea of the typical German is that of the fat, travel-brochure Bavarian dressed in Lederhosen, with a pipe in one hand, and a beer mug in the other. Just as with most typical pictures this is far from the truth. The Odenwaldschule, in which I have just spent one term, can by no means be taken as a general guide to the German system of education. It is one of the very few private schools in Germany, and is an exception even among this group of exceptions. Situated at about half-an-hour's drive from the university city of Heidelberg, the cluster of chaletlooking houses, in which the pupils live in small groups, resembles a little village. It is very much an independent and self-contained community. To a certain extent one can say this about any school. Being isolated as it is, this is much more so for the Odenwaldschule. King's, for instance, is very much ruled by the presence of the town and of the cathedral. And more than anything, it is ruled by a long and great tradition. This has its pros and its cons. Tradition, a very powerful force, sometimes acts as a brake on progress and innovation. It is more difficult to bring about change in King's, surrounded as it is by old customs and codes of behaviour, than it is in the OdenwaidschuJe, where they have only today to answer for. On the other hand, in the OSO (OdenwaldschuJe Ober Hambach) one does sense a certain lack of tradition, which does, however one may rant against it, have effectual binding power in a communtiy. In Canterbury one does have the feeling of walking against an historical backcloth. One cannot help being conscious of strong Jinks with the past, of former generations, which must be bettered, of old records, that must be beaten, whether it be in the long-jump pit, or the number of "A" level passes. In the OdenwaldschuJe there is really not much sport at aU, definitely no sport tradition, as in King's; and no one ever fails his Abitur (the German equivalent of the English "A" level examination), because if the masters do not think you are going to pass, you are not allowed into the Abitur form, but have to wait another year. 377

The school is very much a school for the pupils, run by the pupils. All school business is done by the "Parliament", each form electing its own representatives. There are no monitors, but people are delegated to committees. One may arrange the theatre outings, of which there are many. Another may be responsible for the Blockbaus: a log-cabin, which the pupils built themselves, and where there is dancing at the weekend. Of course, the masters have their own "Konferenz", in which they deal with matters of more major policy. But, as far as everyday school business goes, it is the pupils themselves who look after it. Rules are few, punishments are not particularly severe (corporal punishment is forbidden by law in Germany), behaviour on the whole is good. One of the main points of difference between the Odenwaldschule and King's, is that the former is co-educational. It seems to me that co-education is really the most natural educational system. The boys and girls in the OSO live together in a very good atmosphere. In the presence of girls, I think boys are more polite, more considerate and generally more pleasant. On the other hand, the boys are also a good influence on the girls, often bringing potentially shy Frauleins out of their maidenly shells. It is simply like living in one big family. Indeed the family atmosphere is accentuated. The pupils are divided up into what they actually call "families", each under the supervision of a "Familienoberhaupt". Of course, this is made much easier in a school which is so small: only 250 pupils. Moreover, when there are boys and girls together, one has plenty of opportunity for dancing and other such social activities. This, apart from being very pleasant, is extremely beneficial as regards one's social education. But I suppose that the most important aspect of school life, whatever one says about character building and so forth, is still the academic side. In the German, as in the French system, one is educated on a much wider front. I, for my part, have never studied chemistry or biology. In Germany this would not be possible. They have none of the mad rush that is so frightening here, and which is dictated by exams. This is because it does not matter, if you wait till you are nineteen or even twenty, before you take the Abitur. And there is no other important exam. like "0" level in between. In Germany you take things in your stride. However, I would say that on our more limited subject span the academic education at King's is better. The atmosphere is more scholarly and lends itself more easily to study. Nevertheless, we have every right to be jealous of some of the facilities which the OSO owns: their very modem language laboratory for example. I think that possibly in the Odenwaldschule less attention is given to the brain, and a little more to the person in general. It is more of an up-bringing than an actual academic education. My stay in the Odenwaldschule has been very interesting, because it has given me the opportunity to see another school, of the same high standard as King's, but which is run on completely different lines. I have been thinking, in the event of my ever having children, to which of the two schools I should rather send them. I should probably choose King's because, when one comes down to it, the best school for an Englishman is really an English school. However, if the opportunity should ever arise to visit a school like the Odenwaldschule, it should never be missed. It is not only a way of learning a language, but perhaps even more important, it allows one to see how other people think, act and simply live together. And if only for this reason, as a means to seeing and understanding for myself, my stay in Germany has been a most valuable experience. For I believe it is only through making the actual effort to understand other people that all the hate and mistrust in the world can begin to be dispersed.

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HOCKEY Retrospect Disappointment and frustration must be keenly felt by all those interested in the 1st Xl's record this year. There has been no season in the past, to my knowledge, when the side has not only failed to beat a single school side but has also lost all but one of those matches. What has been the reason? Has this been a bad side or merely unlucky? Or are we remaining static or even falling behind the rising standards of other schools? On the technical side, it is difficult to learn the finer skills of the game on our muddy pitches made uneven by continued rugger playing in the wettest autumn in memory. We we:e slow to cohere, and even at the end of the season certain basic moves and techniques

had not been fully mastered. The worst of our failures were in the circle; in our own the clearances particularly in the first half of the season, were slow and ineffective, and in attack the f~rwards were never quick or decisive enough at snatching chances of shooting. This was the real fault of the side; we were never beaten by any large margin, but it was our failure to score which let us down time and again. The defence in fact performed adequately by any standards, and very well if age an? inexperience are tak~n into consideration; and Ashforth at centre-half was outstandmg. He showed beautIful control, timing and hitting, and his selection for the County side was only just. The remainder had to pay the price of their inexperience, but all looked far better players by the end of the season. Hamblin in goal has a good eye and will with time develop into a sound player, from whom much will be expected next year; of the backs, Braddell is a natural player who promises to be really good once he has grown a little more, while Frankland unaccountably lost form for most of the season and regained his place in the side only at the end. Gallyer was the better of the wing-halves, beautifully balanced and neat, if unimaginative in his passing; Keeble became left-half after a spell in the forward line and usually managed to contain his wing. The forwards put in plenty of hard work, which was not always well directed, and the prevailing idea seemed to be that fitness would prevail over thought and skill. Many moves were spoilt by haste or poor finishing, coupled in several cases with the bad luck that often attends an unsuccessful side, and Clarke himself, while leading the side enthusiastically despite its misfortunes, tended to overrun the ball in excessive haste. Young and Jaggers were a capable pair of in~ides and looked very good until they got into the circle where neither had qUIte the skIll necessary to complete the move. Baker vaned good and unimaginative play on the left-wing, while Blackburne-Kane adapted his play to the other wing well after an uncertain start. Standards in other schools are rising fast, and we can no longer be certain of beating those who a few years ago could be reckoned to provide an easy victory. This being so, we cannot afford to continue to play the game with half the time (for the majority of the club) and on bad pitches. If the defeats by Dulwich and Tonbridge were unlucky, several of the others were caused by poor technique and inexperience; cohesion takes time to achieve, and though individually there were plenty of good players in the side it was only in the O.K.S; match that they were given sufficient scope to combine. Given better conditions of play, this could have been a good side, as some of the festival matches at Oxford showed; as it is, to the disappointment of a stout-hearted band of players, this season must be written off as a failure with only the minor consolation that the majority of the side will be still here next year. G.P.R. 379

. 1st XI Matches K.S.c.,O; An East Kent XI, 5 King's took the field with a young and inexperienced team facing the challenge of an East Kent Xl as always, strong, skilful and experienced. The condit ions were poor, and yet the King's team, especially 'the goalie and halves, faced up t? adversity ~xtremely well. ~hey managed to blunt a good attack, confining East Kent to shots from the sides of the circle, and at hal r~tlme the score stood at 0--1. King's continued to fight hard in the second half- bu t in the last quarter of an hour East Kent got 4 more goals- all from short corners. ~he forwards approached well, especially the wings, but could not get into the circle, the only two shots commg from the centre-forward.

K.S.C., 1; St. Lawrence College, 2 . Arter having lIs~d a muddy ~ract ice pitch so far t~ i s ~er m, it was a pleasure to play on the smooth, though sli ppery. 1st Xl pitch. Yet thiS game saw the begmnmg of what was to become an unp leasan tly familiar occurrence; St. Lawrence scored twice in the opening minutes when King's seemed on ly half-awake. After 51. Lawrence's two well-taken goals, King's were jerked out of their complacency and play was fairly even ~p to ha)f-time. In the second half, 0- 2 down, King's began to play very well. Clarke and Jaggers several times dfl bbled right through thei.. defence-yet some good goa l-keeping kept King's out until Jaggers, who played very well. received a good cross from Cla rke. and hit a lovely goal. King's cont inued to press hardthe centre-forward scored- but was offside, and right till the final whisde the forwards. excellently supported by [he halves, pressed- but in vain.

K.S.C.,1; Dulwich College, 2 The pitch was flat and well-rolled- but, unavoidably, very wet and slippery. Again the opponents set a fast pace-but King's were unlucky to be 1--0 down at half-t ime through an unfortunate goal-keeping error. Fo~ the rest of the first ha lf, play switched from end to end, with great equality, with Young and Ashfo~th playlOg well . The goalies on both sides saved severa l good shots. After half-time, it looked as though Kmg's would pull the game round and after ten minutes, Jaggers drew the defence to the right, flicked the ball across to Young, who rounded the keeper and scored. However, within a minute, Dulwich were back ~head, .when, after a defensive error, their centre-half flicked a beautiful goal. King's still came back, ye\ Immediately Young received a head wOlll1d and had to leave the fie ld. With ten men, King's kept at it and shots from Baker and Clarke were very well saved- but no further score resllited.

K.S.c., 1; St. Edmund's, 2 Here K ing's opening lethargy was stark ly revealed. St. Edmund's sent a strong team, and within five minutes were two goals lip due to poor defensive work. Yet the attack was as bad as the defence to begin with and only this shock allowed King's to find some of their rhythm. However, up to half-time, St . Edmund's were well on top. As seems to have become a habit, after ha lf-time K ing's began to play forceful hockey, with a lot of drive and purpose, and the St. Edmund's defence was sorely tested, especially by the inside trio, who played some very fine hockey. The defence, too, was at times magnificent, except on St. Edmund's right wing, yet it all came too late, much too late. King's only reward for unrelent ing pressure was a short corner goal by Ashforth, and the score at t he end, 1- 2.

K.S.c., 1; Tonbridge,2 Having learnt by experience, King's were fully warmed up at the beginning of th is match, and the effect was obvious. Right from the beginning the teams were fighti ng an even battle. The halves linked well with the forwards in attack, though this left the defence caught upfield too often, especially on our left flank; and it was from here that Tonbridge scored before halfÂˇ time. Only good goa l-keeping had kept Tonbridge out several times before. After the interval, King's bored into Tonbridge, and half-way through were rewarded with a good opportunist goal from Clarke. However, the effect on Tonbridge was to inspire, on K ing's to lull into complacency- a feeling pervaded that the game was theirs for the taking . This time the weakness Jay on our right flank - several times the defence was spreadÂˇeagled before Tonbr idge, inevitably, sco red thei r' second, despite, again, some fine keeping. And fo rce as King's might, no furt her score was forthcoming.

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.. K.S.C., 1; The O.K.S., 0 At las1- a win- and a deserved one. Not having been beaten fo r eight years, the O.K .S. sent down a fairly strong side, but they found King's in a determ ined frame of mind, bent upon proving their wor th to the Old Boys. R ight from the start the match looked even : the O.K.S. had the edge in sk ill and experience: King's were fitter and faster. In the first ha lf dead lock enslled: there were good shots well saved at both goals, and no score at half-time, and th is lasted well into the second half with Baker looking particularly dangerolls, and Ashforth and Braddell holding the defence together; unt il Baker, after a good run, centred to the back of the circle, and Clarke banged it th rough the goalie's defences. After this the O.K.S. nearly sco red several times, but King's held Ollt to the end.

K.C.S.,O; Canterbury XI, 3 King's did well in this match, and at times seemed to be at least equal 10 Canterbury, however, in a short burst in the first half, Canterbury sco red three quick goals. Apart from th is, King's played commendably aga inst the stronger and mo re sk ilful Canterbury, with Braddell, especially, playing very well in defence.

K.S.C. , 1; Sir Roger Manwood's,2 The same score- a different SIO;'y. A match King's could, and should, have won, yet because Manwood's never lost hope, and King's grew complacent, they did. In the fi rst ten minutes King's were completely dom inant yet could not score, though Young had one glorious shot. Then, gradually, Manwood's crept back into the game. Ashforth neatly placed a short corner wide of the goalkeeper to put K ing's one upand yet th is slender lead was no longer ind icative of the run of play. The forward line seemed to lose its fire and they were ill-suppor ted by the defence. Above all, they were slow in the circle, and only Clarke managed two dangerolls shots in the second half. In the last quarter of the game Manwood's scored once, then again, just befo re the end, preying on the lackadaisical attitude of the defenders.

K.S.C. , 1; Kent College, 2 A most enjoyable game. Though the sco re was depressingly fami liar, the play was excit ingly new. King's, on this excellent Kent College pitch, raised thei r game immeasurably in accordance with the improvement in condit ions. They revelled in the smoothness of the sllrface, playing extremely well, and only losing because Kent College were that much more used to such a surface. In part icular, it was heartening to see the forward li ne working so well, though the cross pass from left to right was sadly neglected. The inside t rio, wi th Clark, C. F., at centre-forward, moved very smooth ly, and shots from Clark, C., and Clarke, R. o might have put King's ahead. At ha lfÂˇ time, however, there was no score. 1n the second half, King's continued to play well , and the only two mistakes in an otherwise impeccable defence allowed Kent College to score. After Kent College's first goal, Ashforth equalized with a well-taken short corner, yet they quickly scored aga in. Only now did King's lose some of thei r composure in trying to avoid defeat, and there was no furthe r score.

K.S.C.,2; Dover, 3 This match was re-arranged after cancellation at the beginning of term. The pitch was rock-hard yet fairly smooth and King's played some good hockey, soon taking the lead through a fine Ashforth goal, after a short corner; however, though both flanks worked well, there was sti ll a woeful lack of crossÂˇpassing from the left to Âˇthe right, and of center ing from the left wing. Nevertheless, K ing's played well in all depa rtments in t he first half, and the score at half-t ime was 1- 1. In the second half, however, Dover took command, using their midfield opportunities much more ably and seizing a ll their few scoring chances with great speed. T hese two poi nts were King's great weaknesses in the second half, and the score moved ,to \- 3 before K ing's replied through Blackburne-Kane ncar the end. Sustained pressure, however, could not produce an equa lizer.

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Colts' XI This has been in many ways an encouraging season. Six regu lar members of the side had played virtually no hockey before, but showing natural ability they all justified their places and quickly learnt the tactics . Lack of sophisticated stick work was made up for by swift and good lise of the ball. The victories over Du lwich and Tonbridge therefore were more than well earned, in which teamwork and tenacity played a significant part. The inside-forward trio of Thorne, Hunt and Creed scored between them some good goals in these games, combining intelligently in mid-field. Good approach work however was too often wasted this season and poor shooting was a real weakness. Those matches drawn or narrowly lost could easily have been won if a marksman had been present. In defence we were never wholly reliable, mistakes being made at crucial moments and rather slow to cover, a fast moving forward line soon found any weak spots. This partially explains the heavier defeat s by St. Lawrence College and Kent College, but we were also faced with stickwork that spoke of much practice on smooth, dry grounds. Spells at centre-half played outstandingly well and Singleton in goal saved the day frequently, showing much promise and talent. The Junior Colts who jOined the side for the last fOllr matches proved valuable additions, Orme in particular giving punch to the attack on the left wing. Team from:- C. O. Singleton, T. J. Cantor. C. A. Lee, C. J . C. Rowe, C. E. H . Spells, P. M . D. Shires, R. L. M. Wohanka, J. P. Sherren, S. J. Warren-Stone. H. R. Creed, N. J. Hunt, M. W. J. Thorne (Captain), O.Orme. Also played:- C. S. J. Finch, Y. D. Datt, A. S. R. Lipski, P. J. Hall, A. A. Nash, C. N. H. Foster. 382

Results v St. Lawrence College. Lost 1-4 v Dulwich College. Won 2- 1 v St. Edmund's School. Lost 0- 2 v Tonbridge School. Won 2-0 v Canterbury H.C. Lost 0- 1 v Sir Roger Manwood's. Drawn I - I v Kent College. Lost 0-5 v Dover College. Drawn I - I

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Junior Colts Hockey is not a game which can nourish on the basis of a five-week season, a third-rate pitch, ~nd generally the worst weather of the year. Boys of this age particularly need a lot of play on truc surfaces If they are to acquire the sk ills fundamental to the game; unti l this fact i~ recognised and t~e.problem attended to '!'Ic must not expect to produce anything more than a moderate Side and a token trammg-ground for the semor King's teams. . . ' . . d d Bearing this in mind, one can say that thiS year's. Juntor CoilS! despite an ummpresslve. recor . an an addiction to "sticks", were a respectable enough SIde and certamly a keen and always Impro,":mg one. One o r two matches ought to have been won on the run of the play. Unfortunately there wert:: crUCial weaknesses on the wings and in defcnce and these brought the lack of the all-round s~rengt h e~sent1al f~r succ~ss. The defence, notably Foster, did develop encouragingly, however, and were startmg to qUIcken thC;lr covermg and clearing by the season's end . The ha lves all prospered: Wohanka at centre-~alf has the aphtu~e to do really well at this game if he can speed up his passing, Inman was a safe left-half WIth neat reverse-~tlck play, and Robinson added some fif/esse to natural belligerence. Orme and Warren-Stone were the pick of the forwards, who only rarely moved decisively as a unit; some of the forward-line. indeed, tended to playa sound miniature game of hockey but really needed to cover .mo re ground. . The following constituted the final team: M. L. W. Baybs, C. N. H. Foster, G. H . Lambnck, H. J. F. Robinson, R. L. M. Wohanka (Captain), R. J. M. Inman , R . Suarez, G. Orme, S. J. Warren-Stone, M. J. K. Craig, B. H. Bailey. RESULTS v Dover College. Lost 3-4 v Dulwich College. Lost 0-2 v Kent College. Drawn 2- 2 v St. Edmund's School. Drawn 2- 2 v Tonbridge School. Lost 1- 2 J.N.H. G.H.J.~

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ATHLETICS Retrospect The Senior Athletics Team has maintained its unbeaten reco rd for the second year funning. The Junior Team has been defeated on ly o nce, losing narrowly to Eastbourne in the first match of the season. At the beginning of term such an achievement seemed far from possible with only one old colour left and an almost comnletely new senior team. Tn Ath letics. as in Illost sports today. a good competitive standard can only be reached by much hard work in physical and menta l preparation pills a conscientious application to the development of tech nique. The enthusiasm and determination shown by members of both teams in fo ll owing these principles has been responsible to a large extent for t heir Sliccess, o rten against schools with far better faci lities. Ad ded to t his a good fighti ng spirit shown both on the track and in the field events has produced results above what cou ld have been expected , on those occasions when they were most needed. Although it is hard to single out anyone for special mention, reference must be made to the superb sprint ing of A. J. Blackmore. who has been unbeaten over the 100 yards and 220 yards in every match and in the Eton Athletics Meeting at the end of term with some twenty schools taking part. However. the real strem.!.th , as last year, has been in the standard achieved by all members of the team who are to be con~ratlliated on their soJendid record. It has been well earned. J would also li ke to add a persona l note o f apn reciation on the quiet, capable captaincy of R. B. Kennedy and the cheerful efficiency of secretary D. W. Bentley. M.E.M .

Athletics v Eastbourne, at Eastbourne. March 4th T he fir st fixture of the season oroduccd some exciting ath leties in near perfect conditions. The Seniors d id well to beat a side which had lost few peoDle from last year. The match was very close until the final s ta~es. when maximum point s in the Long Jump. and a convincing win by the relay squad in 46.3 sccs. settled the issue. Earlier, Blackmore comnleted a fine sorint double, record ing 10.6 sees. and 23.5 sccs. Our middle distancc strength was revealed by Parry and Graves, who took the 880 Yards and Mile respectively, in the good carlv season times of 2 mins. 7.3 sccs. and 4 mins . 40.9 sccs. There were also some encouraging successes in the field, by Gilchrist in the Long Jump, Ken nedy in the High Jump, and Cotton in the Javelin . Bentley had a busy afternoon, with good oerformances in all three throws. The Juniors disannointed a little, but this was due mainly to inexper ience, both of athletics matches and of the vagaries o f the Bastbourne track. T here were several good performances. notably new U nder 15 records bv Ahmadzadeh in the R80 Yards. with 2 mins. 10.5 secs., and bv Ou ine who threw the D isclls 119 ft. 6 in . Fi ndlay took the 220 Yards in 25.2 sees., and Cross won t he High Ju mp at 5 ft. Several other peoole were only na rrowlv beaten. including Bolam , whose t ime of about 58 secs. in the 440 Yards was remarkable for a 13-year-old. Eastbourne's victory was due main Iv to one or two outstanding ind ividuals, and our greater all rOllnd potential promised well for future matches . Seniors : K.S.C. 53 points, Eastbollrne 4 1 points Ju niors : K.S.C. 46 points, Eastbourne 51 points Athletics v Tonhridgc v Berkllamstead, at Home. March 11th The match was held in very poor conditions. with a strong wind and a muddy track. after a week of rain . At one t ime it looked as if the match might have to be cancelled. and as it was. the groun d was too wet to perm it t he Hl1 rdles events to be run. Tn the ci rcumstances performances were not o lltsta ndi ng. esoecially on the track. but the comoetition was keen and excit in ~. O nce as;:a in Kin~'s showed the vallie of all round st renQth. recording comfortable victories in both Senior and Junior matches. Tn the Senior match, the highlight was again the success of Blackmore in the Sorints. H is t imes of 10.7 sees. in the 100 Yards and 24.8 sees. in the 220 Yards were remarkable in the mud. He also ran an imnressive leg in the Relay victorv. as did Scott. nentlev won the Javelin and the Shot. complet ing our tally of individual victoric.... Yet high placinl!s were achieved bv both strinQs in mo..t of the other events. and th is was the vital fa ctor. as always in a triangular match. Cotton's throw of 123 ft. in the Discus and Kennedy's 5 ft. 3 in. in the HiQh JUIllP were oarticularly noteworthv. but most people made effect ive contribut ions. For the visitors. there was a I!ood Lonl! J umo of 19 ft. M in. into the wind bv Fisher (Berkhamstead). and some strong running by Brown (Ton bridge), who won both 880 Yards and Mi le.

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In t he J llIlio r match, K ing's had only three ind ividua l wins, by Clarke in the Javelin, Pitceath ly in the D isclls, and Ashton, who clea red 5 ft . I in. in the Higl} J ump. uut, as with the Senio rs, second and t hird places were dom inated by King's, notably Pltceath ly, who was second in three other events. This is the way to win athletics matches, and way in which every member of the team can playa va luable role. There were several good performa nces by the visito rs, especially in the J unior 880 Yard s and Junior Mile, bOl h won~by an.outstand ing young runner from Tonbridge. SENIOR: King's 72 points, Tonbridgc 42 points, Berkhamstead 31 points J UN IOR: K ing's 59! points, Tonbridge 43 points, llerkhamstead 42!- points

Athletics v Eton II Bradfield, at EtOIl , March 16th Once again, King's athletes responded magnificently 10 t he sp lendid Eton hospital,ty and facili ties, to record their third successive victory in this annual triangular I undoubted ly the toughest engagement o f the season. Every boy gave of his best, and success in bo th J unior a nd Senior matches was due entirely to the a ll ~rollnd excellence of the leam. The opposition had outstanding individlla ls, but little in support. In the Senior match, Blackmore's Sprint double again impressed . His times of 10.4 secs. and 23.1 secs. showed that he is developing inlo a sprinte r of considerable promise. Gilch rist won the Long Jump at 18 f1. I I i in., a respectable leap in the difficult 'pit. Kennedy took the High Jump al 5 ft. 2 in.,and the T riple Jump at 4 1 ft . 3 in. Graves came th rough well in the Mile to win in 4 mins. 39.9 sees. Severa l other people put up personal best performa nces, notably Bentley in the Shot, and Eadie and Whalley in the 880 Yards. The Re lay squad had a poor changeover which cost us the race, and, probably, the record . It was a victory wh ich few really anticipated, especia lly in the absence of Parry and Scott, but it was thorough ly deserved, a nd showed team athletics at its very best. The J unior match was much closcr, and saw some exciting compet ition. Pitceathly, o bliged to a ppea r in six events because of last mi nute inj uries, excelled. Competi ng nOll-stop th roughout the meeting, he won the Disclls and was second in thrcc other events. There were th ree Under 15 records. Bolam's 57. 1 sccs. in the 440 Ya rds was a remarkable effort for a boy of 13, and Ahmadzadch's 2 mins. 9.0 secs. ha lf·mile was also outstandi ng. Ditchburn showed fine style in the T riple J ump which he won at 38 ft. I I in. Waterhouse and Stephens first in the 880 Yards and second in the Mile respectively, were both only just outside the middle records. Most others were close to their best, and showed the kind of fight ing spirit which augurs very well for the future . SEN IORS: K .S.C. 73 points, Eton 54 points, Bradfield 38 poin ts JUN IORS: K.S.C. 59 points; Bradfield 56 points; Eton 49 poi nts

Athletics v Highgate, at H ighgate, M arch 23rd Th is match saw t he fourth and easiest win of the season. This was Highgate's first match, and their track had been out of use for some time, so the rcsult was not unexpected. Nevertheless it was a pleasant afternoon's athletics, and there were some ou tstanding performances. In the Senio r match, Blackmore again won both Spri nts, to finish with a tota l of eight wins in eight starts. But for the unusual arrangements for the 220 Ya rds, he would almost certain ly have broken the record for that cvent. Parry won both the 880 Yards and Mile, wh ile Gilchrist jumped 19 f1. 1 in ., his best of the season. Bentley's Shot and D iscus performances were also his best, though t hc latter was down a considerable slope. Several people had well deser ved wins fo r t he first time, includ ing Read (Hurdles), Winch (440 Yards) and Morton-Clark ( High Ju mp). The Juniors swept the board in every event except the 440 Yards and the Javelin. Pitceathly had three wins and two seconds, and included a fine Discus throw of 135 f1. Docherty, appearing in the Weight for the first time, won it, and Gelbke, he:c for the term from Germany, won the High Jump . Simpson took the Hurdles, and Waterhouse the 880 Yards. Two of the best performances of the day, however, came from t he Junior long·jumpers. Finding a sympathetic pit at last, Ditchbu rn jumped 18 ft. It in. , only! in. below the Under 1"5 record, and Munnings 17 ft. 9i in . • both very promising leaps. Thus, King's wound up their matches undefeated fo r the second year in succession in the Sen iors, and with a very sllccessfu l Junior record, augur ing well for the future. SEN IORS: K .S.C . 76 points, Highgate 41 J UNIORS: K .S.C. 78 points, Highgate 29 points

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Schools' Athletics Meeting at Eton, March 25th This meeting, admirably organised by Eton College, brought together athletes from some twenty schools. As it fell for the first time dunng term, we were able to send abou t th irty boys to compete on an individual basis. The standard of competition was high, and some good performances were recorded. Some King's athletes were below par, partly beca use of tIredness after a hard season, and par tly because of inexperience of this kind of open competition. Others shone, however, and Blackmore extended his remarkable winning sequence by taking the 100 Yards and 220 Yards in lO.7 sees. and 23.3 secs. The ti mes were good, considering the st iff headwind, but much more impressive was the way in which he demolished two good class fields with his seemingly effortless running. He must be one of the best sprinters produced by King's in many yea rs. Read won the 120 Yards Hurdles in 16.2 sees. The competition was not so strong in this event, but it was a success well~deserved after his hard work this term. It also won him a A.A .A. Grade 3 Standard . These national standards arc based on summer performances, and to reach the standard at this time of year represents a considerable achievement. Besides Black more a nd Read, Kennedy in the Triple Jump, and Qu ine and Pitceathly in the Youths' Discus, also reached the A.A.A. Standa rd. Qu ine's th row of 134 ft. beat the School Under 15 record by 9 f1. Bolam also set an Under 15 record in the 440 Yards with 56.8 sees., his third such achievement this term. Eadie achieved his best performance of the season with 2 mins. 8.8 secs. in the 880 Yards. Yet he came fift h in a race won at 1 min. 58.3 secs., and the afternoon generally provided usefu l and salu tary experience. as well as being an enj oyable cl imax to a successful seaSOn. D.J.R.

Athletic Sports, 1967 As usual the Pre~Sp ort s Events provided a nu mber of notable performances main ly from the Junior and Middle Age Groups. Simpson equa lled the Midd le Hurdles record in a time of 15.8 secs. with Cross not far behind and P. Qu ine broke the existing record in the Junior Discus by some 15 ft. with a throw of 125 f1. 11 in.- he subsequently increased this distance in the Eton College Schools Meeti ng to 134 ft., a splend id efTor1. Docherty, who only discovered his considerable ability as a shot putter la te in the season, achieved 38 f1. 6! in. in the Junior Weight to set up another new record . He also showed promise in the Junior Hurdles, which he won from Karim and HalJ. Ditchbul'll, who has had a successful season with the Junior Ath letics Team, won both the Junior Long Jump and Middle Triple Jump and should have considerable success next year. Among ot hers, Thring and Lipski also showed promise in field events. The Pentathlon, scored fo r the first time under the International Decath lon Points System, provided a most exciting afternoon's ath letics with Hutchinson (Lin.) scoring 2,741 points to win from A. J. Blackmore (W.) by the slim margin of 20 points. Other noteworthy performances included an authoritative win by Parry frolll Young and Graves in the Three Miles, some consistent throwing by Pitceathly in the Middle Discus, a fine run by Stephens in the Middle 880 Yards and a good win by Kennedy in the Triple Jump. On Sports Day, the rain cleared, the sun shone and the track, though damp, was in good condition, I:)ut a stiff breeze made fast times unlikely. However, the wind did favour the 100 Yards competitors and in the Senior events, A. J. Blackmore did his fastes t time to date with 10.1 sees., equalling the record . Winch surprised by taking second place from G ilchrist and must also have had a very fast time. In the 220 Yards, Blackmore docked up his fifteent h win in fifteen races in an unbeaten season and considering the conditions, . his time of 23.6 was very creditable. Winch, obviously on top form, again took second place fro m Marsh. Parry, showing speed and stamina, won the 880 Yards and the Mile from Graves, who seemed rather below his best. Kennedy, however, rose to the occasion to take the Long Jl!mp with a leap of nearly 20 ft. into the wind, but was beaten in the High Jump by Morton ~Cl arke, who won at 5 ft. 5 in ., once again a good effort in the bl ustery conditions. In the throwing events, Bentley had a great day, winning the Shot, Discus and Javelin with a good performance in each. Cotton, who came second in Discus and Javelin , was not at his best, but it was a welldeserved success for Bentley, who has improved steadily throughout the season. The other performance worthy of special mention was by Read in the HUI:dles, who showed what an improved athlete he is by winning in a personal best time of 15.8 soos. ]n the Middle Events, Findlay a lso showed improved form to take both the 100 Yards and 220 Yards from Pitceathly by inches, both athletes having the same time. 386

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Stephens won the 440 Yards from Wheatley. who showed surp rising sta mina, but the wind d id 1I0 t help his lime. 'Waterho use took the Mile fa irly comfortably. showing a good finish, bu t again was slowed by the wind . In the High Jump. G elbkc cleared 5 ft. I in . to win again from Ashton, but Cross, who did not have a good day. was o nly able to gain fo urth place, which was d isappo inting. Singleton showed p romise in t he Weight , a nd Clarke, P. J. , who wi ll do much better when he can get mo re speed into his throw, took the Javelin with 127 ft. R a msay, who a lso shows at hletic abili ty, won the Long Jump from Baskerville, a nd one felt sor ry fo r Ma nnings, who, inj ured a few days befo re the Spor ts, was una ble to compete in this event. The J unio r Events are always o f special interest and this year we are fo r tu na te in hav ing a number of outstanding you ng a thletes who should next season fo rm the nucleus of a st rong Junior Ath let ics Team. Some have been mentioned earlier in the repor t of the Pre-Sports events, of the others, Bolam, the J un ior 440 Yards record holder, won his event as expected . Peters ran well to win the 100 Ya rds from R owe a nd eame second to Docherty in t he 220 Ya rds. Another young a th lete of great potentia l, M. Ahmadzadeh, wo n t he 880 Ya rds but was no t a ble to match his previo us record timc o f 2 mins. 9 sees. a nd it was good to see discus-thrower P. Quine comi ng th rough to take second place fro m T ho rndike, who also showed abi lity in this event. A number of these J un iors have a lready represented t he School with distinction and as they will still be under the age-lim it next year , the experience gained shou ld stand them in good stead. It is hoped that others who were well-placed will a lso joi n the Athletics C lub and go on to further successes. M.E.M. R ESULT S SEN IO R

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220 Yards 440 Ya rds 880 Yards Mi le Three Mi les 120 Yards H urdles High Jump Long J ump T ri ple J ump We ight Discus Javelin Pentathlon

Relay (4 x l iD Yards) Medley R elay

I, Blackmore, A. J . (W); 2, Winch (S H); 3, Gilch rist (G r) . Tillie: JO.I secs. (equals rccord). I, Blackmore, A. J . (W); 2, Winch (S H); 3, Marsh (Li n). Time: 23.6 sees. I, Blackmore, A. J . (W); 2, Winch (S H); 3, Eadie (Lin). Tillie: 54.1 sees. I, Par ry ( MO); 2, G raves (Gal); 3, Hutchi nson (Lin) . Time: 2 mins. 7.6 secs. I, Pa rry (M O); 2, G raves (Gal); 3, Wand-Tetley (Oa l) . Time: 4 mins . 52.5 sees. 1, Pa rry (MO); 2, You ng (S H); 3, G raves (Oal). Time: 16 mins. 12.6 sees. I, Read (S H); 2, H utchi nson (Lin); 3, Stedham (S H). Time: 15.8 secs. I, Morton-Clarke (Lux); 2, Kennedy (Or); 3, H ulme (S H). Height: 5 ft. 5 in. I , Kennedy (O r); 2, Gilchrist (O r); 3, Harvie (Gal). Dis/alice: 19 ft. I II in . I, Kennedy (Or); 2, O ilchrist (Or); 3, Read (S H). Dis/alice: 39 ft. I I in. I, Bentley (S H); 2, Cronk (W); 3, Cotten (Lin). Distallce: 41 ft. 3 in. I, Bentley (S H); 2, C otten (Lin); 3, Amiot (M). Distallce: 11 5 ft. 6 in . I, Bentley (S H); 2, Cotten (Li n); 3, Am iot (M ). Distance: 136 ft. I, H utch inson (Lin); 2, B lackmore, A. J. (W); 3, Oilch rist (O r). Score: 2,74 1 points (record). I, L inacre; 2, Walpole; 3, School House. Time: 47 sees. (880 Yards, 440 Ya rds, 220 Ya rds, 220 Ya rds) I, L inacre; 2, School H ouse; 3, Meister Omers. Time: 3 mins. 55.8 sees.

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100 Ya rds 220 Yards 440 Yards 800 Yards M ile 110 Yards Hurd les H igh J um p Lo ng Ju mp Tri ple Jllmp Weight Discus J avelin R elay (4 x l iD Ya rds)

1, Findlay (Ga l) ; 2, P itceat hly (M ); 3, Lee (Li n). Time: 10.9 secs. t, F indlay (Oa l); 2, Pitceathly (M); 3, Lee (Li n) . Time: 24.8 sees. I, Stephens (Lin); 2, W heatley (MO); 3, Pargeter (Gr). Time: 58.4 sees . I, Stephens (Lin); 2, Wa terhouse (MO); 3, Roberts (Gr). Time: 2 mins. 9.7 secs. I, Wate rho use (MO) ; 2, R oberts (Gr); 3, Letts (M). Time: 5 mins . 4.5 sees. I, Simpson (Lux) ; 2, Cross (M O); 3, W heatley (MO). Time: 15.8 sees. (equals record). I, G elbke (W) ; 2, Ashton (S I-I ); 3, R a msay (Lux). Height : 5 ft. I in . I, Ra msay (Lux) ; 2, Baskerville (Gr) ; 3, Collins (M). Distance: 16 ft . 5f in. I, Di tchburn (O r); 2, Pa lme r (Lin); 3, Hanna h (O r). Distallce: 37 ft . I in . I, Singleton (MO); 2, C larke. P. J. (Lin) ; 3, Lee (Lin). Dis/alice: 36 ft. 3 in . I , Pitceath ly (M); 2, Cla rke, P . J . (Lin); 3, Singleton (M O). Distance : 129 ft . 2 ;n. I , Clarke, P . J . (Lin); 2, Pargele r (O r); 3, Ma n (W). Distallce: 127 ft. 1, Ma rlowe; 2, L inacre ; 3, School House. Time: 49.7 sees . 387

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Peters (S 1-I ); 2, Rowe (MO) ; 3, T uite ( Lin); Time: 11.7 sees. Docherty (Lin); 2, Peters (5 1-1); 3, Ditchbu rn (Gr). Time: 26.3 sees. Bolam (MO); 2, Ahmadzadeh (W); 3, Peters (SI-I ). Time: 57.6 sees. Ahmadzadeh (W); 2, Qlline, P. (W) ; 3, Thorndike (G r). Tillie : 2 mins. 13.8 sees. I, D ocherty (Lin); 2, Karim (Ga l); 3, Hall (S H) . Time: 16.9 sccs. I, Box (MO); 2, Bird, A. (W); 3, ~ Karim (Gal), Bown (SH), Bax ter (Lin). H eight: 4 ft. 8 in . I, Difehburn (G r) ; 2, Bolam (MO); 3, Rowe (MO). Distance: 16 fl. Ii i in. I, Docherty (Li n); 2, Th ring (Ga l); 3, P. Qu ine (W). Distance: 38 ft. 61- in . (record). I, Quine, P. (W); 2, Lipsk i (Gal); 3, Austin (Or). Distollce: J25 11 in . I, Webber (W); 2, Ro berts (Ga l); 3, Thring (Gal). Distance: 102 n. 3 in . I, I, I, I,

Discus Javelin RESU LT I, Linacre 184 points; 2, School HOllse 155 poinl s; 3, Walpole 11 8 points; 4, Orange 11 4 points.

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Athletics Standards The result of standards '67 was as follows: Meister Omers 7.38, Linacre 5.80, The Grange 5.53, School House 5.4 1, Walpole 5.34, Marlowe 5.25, Luxmoore 5. 15, Galpin's 4.98. The Meister Omers average, 7.38 po ints for each boy in the house out of a possible maximum of 10, represents a new "reco rd" for the competitio n. The rea lly remarkable thing is not, however, the record itself but the measure of superiority it represen ts over the other houses. In 1968 t he age lim its are to be altered again, and consequently there wi ll be many new standards; I hope that this will present an opportunity to dethrone Meister Omers fr om the position which they have now held for too many years . T.B.A.

THE BOAT CLUB This season's land-tra ining began half-way through the Christmas Term with a group of about twenty boys who met twice a week fo r weigh t-tra in ing; despite other calls on their time, attendance was mostly good and the basic technique for moving weights was soon acquired . As a result the main group forming "A" and " B" crews were able to work effect ively at the principal strengthening exercises from the very beginning of the Lent Term and there was a considerable increase in strength and co-ordination by the end o f ter m. In marked contrast to 1966, Fordwich boating bega n in calm and relatively mild cond it ions and good progress was made with the early t ubbing a nd ollt ings in fo urs. Only nine oarsmen, including t wo first colours, rema ined from last year's 1st, 2nd and 3rd eights, bu t it was good that a ll but one of the 1966 Colts were avai lable and these have formed a hard-working nucleus for this year's " B" crew. With very few exceptions, technique in bladework and watcrmanship were at fi rst rudimentary, but tubbing and much more scu lling than in past years have done a great deal to remedy these defects. " A" and "B" crews improved quite rapidly at first in eights, but there was a fortnight at the beginning of March when some o f the worst gales we have had at Pluck's Gutter meant vi rtually no progress. We have sometimes in the past been unable to boat because of lack of water, but we have never before abandoned an outing less than half-way through because of the fo rce of the wind. A week before the P utney race "A" and "B" crews gained valuable experience from a long ou ting on the Tideway. fo r which we were grateful to London R.C. As usual a "e" crew was for med under t he guidance of Mr . Robert s, and for the first time a Colts crew, coached by Mr. Noble, was sent to the Schools' Head Race; this proved a most successful experiment and the Colts have a good foundat ion for their summer rowi ng. We have welcomed th e skilled and fri endly assistance of Mr. Peter Leroy of Queens' College, Cambridge, with the eights; we are grateful for all his help and wish him every success. The Schools' H ead of the River Race was held o n Ma rch 22nd and attracted a record entry of 134 crews fo r the two~mi l e row from above Hammersmith to P ll tney. Conditions were quite good with fairly calm water, though a fresh and ch illy wind made waiting at the start unpleasan t. " A" crew starting 10th had a good, hard row, go ing ofT at 36 and maint ain ing 33~34 for th e bulk of the course wit h the boat r unn ing well between the strokes; they made up some th ree lengths on latymer "A" who started 9th and were level 388

wi th them at the fi nish. The efficient electrical t im ing of the orga nisers placed liS 4t h, fractiona lly behind Hampton " A", though with the same time to t he nearest second. " ll" crew a lso had.a go!=,d ro\~', a~d did well to hold their place at 13th ; "C" crew lost a few places but were nevertheless the tlllfd highest C crew in the fina l order. As a new entry the Colts had to start 125th; but they rowed well and can be very pleased at gaining over 70 places and fini shing less than a second behind the "C" crew. Leading Results and Times Emanuel "An 7.51, lsi; S1. Pau l's " A", 7.56, 2nd ; Hamp ton " A", 8.01, 3rd; King's "AU, 8.01 , 4th; Winchester " A '" 8.02, 5th; Westminster " A", 8.03, 6th; Ealin g "A", 8.03, 7th; Emal1llel " B", 8.03, 8th; Bryanston "A",'8.04, 9t h; Bedford Modern " A" , 8.06.. 10th ; King's "B" were 13t~ in 8.10, King's "C" were 48th in 8. 31 and the Colt s crew were 49th, also m 8.31. There were 134 entCies. Crews "A" Crew: M. H. Roberts, bow; D. J. L. Glennie, 2; H. N. Gale, 3; M. W. Vaines, 4; G. A. Pearce, 5; M. S. Freeland, 6; N. P. Press, 7; M. O. Dovel', stroke ; C . C . Born, cox. " B" Crew: M. P. Blackmore, bow ; D. J. D . .Banks, 2 ; C. D. H a ll ~Tho mpson, 3; J . P. R. Heyland, 4; A. R. C. Weir, 5 ; R. 1-1 . L. Taylor, 6 ; J. L. Jerman, 7; J. F. M. Done, stroke; M. W. Sullivan, cox. "C" Crew: C . J. Trickett, bow; N. C. Bacon, 2; J . A. Medcraft , 3; J . P. W. Ford, 4 ; P. N. Halfter, 5; E. C. N. Taylor, 6; M . A. H. Saunders, 7; N. McK. Rae, stroke ; J . A. T urtle, cox. Colts' Crew: N. R. Jennery, bow ; P. W. A. Booker, 2; A . T. Jones, 3; C. E. Short , 4; J. M . F rye, 5 ; M. O'K. Webber 6' A. G. H. D avidson, 7; A. P. Bedford, stroke; C . W. P. Bradfield, cox . F. J. S. Fidler and'T. J . Freeman also rowed regularly in the Colts' and "C" crews. In order to give some raci ng to ~ small group who .narrowly missed. s~lec tio n for the eigryts, an " A" IV was formed in March under the gUidance of Mr. Hard mg and Peter WilliS. They competed m the Medway Head of the River Race on March 18th , fi nishing 15th; they were a little olltclassed in competing aga inst the 1st fou rs of local schools and clubs, but they showed a determined spirit in their rowing and gained useful experience. The crew were: S. A. Spowart, J. A. S. Halsall , N. G. W. Heat h and C. H. Willis, and t hey were coxed by J. F . Newman. . The Boat Club adds its own congratu lations to C. 1-1. Freeman ( 1st VIII 1963- 64) and to Peter Miller (coxed 1st VIIl1 964) for their share in Oxford's .fine win over Ca~brid~e!=,n March. 25th ; Miller's s.teering came in for high praise from many quarters. ThiS was Oxford's thIrd W I11 m successIon for the first tlm.e for over fifty yea rs and it is a particular cause for sat isfaction that K.ing's were represented on all three occasl~n s: David Mills in 1965 the brothers Freeman, R. A. D . and C. H. 1111 966, and C . H. F reeman and P. D. Miller in 1967. We were ~Iso delighted t o see that R. C. W. Church was in the Trin ity Lent Boat which fin ished Head o f the Lent Races at Cambridge. These successes should encourage present members of the Boat Club and we look fo rward to a hard and enjoyable season d urin g the summer. D.S.G.

THE SHOOTING CLUB This term we have been firing on Country LIfe targets, as is usual during the Lent Term, in preparation for the COllI/try Life Competit ion, which was fi red on 17th March. Team results have not been as good as was hoped , a lthollgh there we r ~ some outstanding i~d i vidua l s ~ l ccesses .. R . A. Ea~ie sco re~ the Club's first triple " possible" for some time . Next term we Wi ll be shootmg .303 In preparatIon for Blsley, and we hope to be able to ach ieve last yea r's high placing, with the help o f the fOllr new zoom telescopes the School has purchased. The Dawnay Cup was won by J. H. Ch urchwell fo r the highest February average, and by R. A. Eadie ror the highest March average. Colours were awarded to R . A. Eadie. . The "Country Life" Competition This was shot in very cold conditions owing to our very open range, and hence results were qUite low. Whereas in past years we have had a ninth man sighting the team on to the landscape target, we tr ied a new system thi s year. M. J. R. Nicholls.gave the fire control orders, and G. ~. Black more shot on .the landscape. The resu lts o f this change were qUite pleasing, as more of the team achieved the highest pOSS ible sco re than last yea F. (Our positi on will not be known un til next yea r. ) M.J.R.N. 389

RUGBY FOOTBALL 1st XV Retrospect, 1967 This term's rugger has been more for enjoyment's sake, and the matches have been played with that aim in mind. Because or the varied strength of the opposition practica lly everyone rrom newcomer to old Colour, took part in a match . ' The first match did not take place, due to Christ Church College's inabi lity to produce a team. Thi s was followed by a match against Dane Court. We fielded a strong side and avenged our last year's dereat (Score 35- 3.) The following Wednesday we played the U,K.C. and won a hard game (Score 10-6): Then we fielded two sides against Dover Grammar. The "A" XV won (Score 35- 3) but the "ÂŁ" XV lost. We won the new fi xture against St. Augustine's despite their hard tackling (Score 17- 5). The last and perhaps the most enjoyable game was the match against Elon. Careful select ion by our coaches made for two very evenly matched sides. King's after some slick movements in the second half came out on top (Score 11- 8). A.M.H.

Kent Seven-a-Side Tournament The 1st Vll got to the final of the Kent Schools Tournament at Tonbridge, where we met Dulwich' a resume of the King's/ Dulwich struggle: The Times said of the game: "The final was a magnificent gam~ and a fine example of courage in adversity". The score was 18- 11 to Dulwich at "No side". The 2nd VIl were knocked out in the second round .after making a fine effort. The follo~jng pla'yed regu larly: Berry, Gilchr!st, Heslop, Scott, Kennedy, Hughes, Tilford, Carey, Munns, DavIson, Bmney, Whalley, Kent, Hutch mson, Parrott, Chamberlin, Ramsay, Stowell Hinds Griffiths, Lambrick, Tsemelis, Landymore, Seller, Mount, Holdstock, Hannah , Ford, Baskervill~ Jones' ' , Coll ins, Ingram. A.M.H.

Rosslyn Park Seven-a-side Tournament The 1st Vll beat Oakham 11-0 in the first main round of the Tournament and Gravesend G.S. 10- 6 in the second, but lost to Plymouth G.S. 3- 6 in the third . lsi ':'11: J. D. W. Wright, H. A. Baker, N . J. C. Scott , A. R. Parrott, G. J. Kent, C. R. Wha lley, J. M. Hutchmson.

SQUASH RACKETS With no less than three members of the 1st V having left at Christmas, including the Captain, C. C. N. Bridge, who won both the Kent and Hampshi re Junior Championships in the holidays, the second half of the season was bound to be a lean one. However, we defeated Westminster 5-0 and on ly lost to Tonbridge 3- 2 after one of our players lost 9- 7 in the fifth game . A very strong Canford si de reversed last year's score and beat us 5-0, but S. J. Ashforth played bri lliantly before going down 3- 2 to their Captain and F. S. Hallam a lso lost 3- 2 after playing well. Dulwich and Kent University beat us 4- 1 and 5-0 respectively in matches that were closer than the score suggests, while the Masters, who hope to enter a side in the Kent Club Tournament next season, won the first six strings to defeat us 6- 3. The Senior House Matches were an exciting affair this year, with Linacre just beat ing Meister Omers and Galpin's in the semi-final and final- the first timc any HOllse except Galpin's and Meister Orners has won since House Matches began twelve years ago. In rhe final of the Junior House Matches, Meister Omers beat Linacre, while fou r of next year's 1st V will probably be from Galpin's and Meister Omers so that they are unlikely to surrender their remarkable record for long. ' The following represented the 1st V in matches: G. K. Jaggers (Captain), S. J. Ashforth J. M. Hutchinson, J. A. Harvie, B. A. Kirsch, F. S. Hallam, R. O. Clarke, H. M. G. Braddell, A. R. Parrott, C. J. C. Rowe. The results of the Individual Tournaments were as f01l0ws: SENIOR: G. K. Jaggers beat S. J. Ashforth 9- 2, 9- 5, 9- 6. JUNIOR: J . P. Sherren beat A. E. C. Fairbairn 4- 9, 5- 9, 9- 1, 9- 2, 9- 6. D.W.B.

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THE FENCING CLUB In school matches, the first team, unbeaten for more than two years are sti ll undefeated. How IllllCh longe.r this record can b~ maintained is l~ncertain but. great credit mu'st go to the Captain of Fencing, R. BIrd, !"lot only for .h ls own very conSiderable ach Ievements, but for his efforts to maintain a high standard III the ~Iub sll1ce t.he departure of last year's record breaking trio. Walmsley and Eden have worked hard to Im prove their performance as have Hanet, Wood, Clarke and others. Cross and WandTetley have had tI~e claims of ath}etics to contend with and so have on ly been able to attend part of the time. However, the JU!1lors show conSIderable promise and J. Griggs is to be congratulated on winning the Kent Sc~ool?oys' JUOIor Foil Championship. A. Bird did well to come third in this competition, and Boardman, Fairbairn and .Sharp also reac~ed the semi-final. This was a particular ly good effort by Sharp, who has o nly been fenclIlg for a short time. The outstanding achievement of the term, however, was by R. Bird, who won the Kent County Men's Open Epee Championship at Bexleyheath. He is the third King's boy to hold this cha mpi onship- a fine performance against adllit opposition. In the Kent Schools Epee Championships however he was not quite so successful, losing the barrage for first place. " Sim ilarly in the Public Schools Epee Championships at Dulwich he was again runner-up with the vital hit going against him when at three hits each with the eventual winner, West of Brentwood. Nevertheless it was an excellent effort bearing in mind that there are normally over 150 competitors in this event. ' M .E.M. Results K.S.C. v KING'S 1st Team: 2nd Team: Junior Team:

SCHOOL, ROCHESTER (Foil, Epee, Sabre). Won 20- 7. (Foil , Epee, Sabre). Lost 6-2 1. (Foil). Won 9- 7.

K.S.c. V DANE COURT SCHOOL 1st Team: (Foi l, Epee, Sabre). Won 17- 10 . 2nd Team: (Foil, Epee, Sabre). Won 14- 13. Junior Team: (Foil). Won 9- 7. K.S.C. y ETON COLLEGE 1st Team: (Foil, Epee, Sab re). Wo n 16- 11. 2nd Team: (Foil, Sabre). Won 10-8. Junior Team: (Foil) . Won 6- 3. K.S.C. v K.C.S., Foil Match. 1st Team: 2nd Team: 3rd Team: 4th Team: 5th Team:

WIMBLEDON Won Won Won Won Won

7- 5. 15- 0. 13- 2. 12- 3. 6- 3.

KENT SCHOOLS FOIL CHAMP IONSHIPS Senior Championship: 5th, R. Bird (K.S.C.). Junior Championship: 1st, J. Griggs (K.S.C.); 3rd, A. Bird (K.S.c.). Team Championship: 3rd, K.S.C. KENT COUNTY MEN's OPEN EPEE CHAMPIONSH IPS (Bexlcyheath) 1st, R. llird (K.S.C.). KENT SCHOOLS EPEE CHAMPIONSH IPS (Maidstone) 2nd, R. Bird (K.S.C.). Team Championship: 2nd, K.S.C. PUDLIC SCHOOLS EPEE CHAMPIONSHIPS (Dulwich) 2nd, R. llird (K.S.c.).

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CROSS-COUNTRY Run] I, Won 4, Lost 7 J anuary 28t!t: 1st VH I y Cater,harn, Ardingly" Whitgift and South London Harriers, at Caterham. South London Harriers won wIth Wll1tglft close behmd. We fo llowed some way behind with Cater ham and Ar~ingly trai ling. This was a cred itable performa nce, consider ing that we had considerably less time to tram than the first two teams. Parry came 9th (this low position probably due to 'flu ), followed by Stephens (11th), Ahmadzadeh (13th), Graves (14th), Wand-Tetley ( 15th) and Hawes (23 rd). Febru'!-ry 4th: 1st VIII v Sutton Valence. Regrettably this match was cancelled due to an epidem ic of measles m Sutton Valence School. Fc~ruar.y 11th : 1st an~ 2nd Vilis II Tonbridgc and Sutton Va lence, at Tonbridge. The long, flat course was m. fa irly good cond ition, so the r<l:ce was hare! and fast: The excellent Tonbridge team won easi ly (37 pomts), but we beat Sutton Valence In a close fims h (69 PO ints to 76). Parry ran very well coming 2nd Graves unfor tunately lost ~ shoe but still came 9th, followed by Stephens and Ahmadzadeh ( 1'1 th and 12th) wLt h Kent and Lovett takmg 17th and 18th places. The 2nd teams lost to Tonbridge 41 points to 31.

February 16th: Senior and Junior House Races. The Senior race with Galpin's com ing second, 1n an exci ting race, Parry (MO) and Graves (Gal) came 3rd, Young (SH) 4th and Whalley (S H) 5th. battle between Luxmoore and Linacre, with Luxmoore winn ing by followed by Roberts (Gr) and Quine (Wa l).

was won most convincingly by Linacre Jaggers (Lin) crossed t he line together' The Junior race produced an exciting I poin t. Ahmadzadeh (Wal) came 1st '

February 18th: 1st VJII v Dover College. This resu lted in a very close match wit h Dover winning. However, ou r team was somewhat depleted and tired because of the House Races the previous Thursday. Pa rry won by over a minute from Graves in a fast time for the appalling conditions. Then fo llowed some Dover ru'"!-ners and thereafter runners of both teams came in close together, with Dover gaining the verdict by 3 pomts. February 25th: 1st Vlll v Berkhamsted, Harrow, Felsted and Highgate, at Berkhamsted. 1st Harrow (54); 2nd, Berkhamsted (84); 3rd, Highgate (94); 4th, King's (114); 51h, Felsted (14 1) . OUl: rLinners found Lt dLfficult to settle down over the short, hilly cou rse. However, Parry ran extremely well in a very close race for first place, being beaten only over the last few strides. Ahmadzadch and Graves came 13th a nd 14th, Bussey came 25th, Kent 28 th, and Stephens 32nd. . Alth~ugh the results might not seem impressive, it must be borne in mind that the team was young and mexpenenced. So it is to be hoped that the team wi ll show great improvements over the next few seasons ' as the present runners mature. Good performances have been recorded especia lly by Graves and Ahmadzadeh (still on ly 15) and Parry had a most successful seaso n to end his career with the Club. ' Our thanks are due to the indefatigable effo rts of ou r coach, Mr. Boorman. Represented 1st VIII: H. F. Parry, F. L. G raves, M. Ahmadzadeh , C. S. Stephens P. B. Kent, D. C. Lovett, A. R. S. Bussey, P. L. Lancy, C. R. Wand-Tetley, R. F. Harris, J. S. Roberts. ' 1st Colours re-awarded to H. F. Parry. 2nd Colours awarded to F. L. Graves. H. F.P. F.L.G.

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THE JUDO CLUB This term we welcome Mr. M. J. Hatch as Master in Charge of the Club, at the same time sincerely thanking Mr. K. A. C. Gross for his invaluable services. The Club has had three matches th is term. T he fir st against the London J udo Society, which is withou t doubt our most valuable fixture, resulted in a win to King's of 45--0. However, it must be pointed out that as with all matches against clubs, the result is often meaningless and misleading. All the clubs we fight have a much wider choice of members, both in size and skill, and thus if we fought their best team the result wou ld be rather pred ictable. However, the purpose of fix tures with clubs is to take full advantage of the variance of their members in the "randori" (free pract ice) after the formali ty of the match. Thus away matches are much more beneficial . Our other club match, aga inst t he Kyu Sh in Do Kwai at Deal, was also very profitable. For the first time a ju nior team was included. The selection of this team was difficu lt as there are many ju niors of a very similar standard; however, the fo llowing were chosen : Am ies, C. A., Hall, c., Chan, S., Hewson, L., and Price, R., of whom Amies and Chan fought very impressively. The resul t was a win to the Deal club o f 32- 27 and as might be suggested most of the contests were close and hard fought. The senior team lost by a wider margin of 7- 27, but many of these contests were drawn as although ou r team had skill in defence, they lacked relative size and strength in making wholly successful attacks. Our only school match this term was at Tonbridge ; rather disastrous as we lost by a considerable margin (almost as large as ou r victory t he last time we fought t hem two years ago). Tonbridge produced a very heavy team which overpowered us on the whole by st rength rather than skill; also, our Capta in was not avai lable. The grad ing the foll owi ng day was ralher more successful. About 20 members entered and the fo llowing promotions were made: Rae, N., to G reen Belt; Blackmore, O. and Erskine, M. to Orange Belt; Mason, P., Annis, C., Hewson, L. and Letts, C., to Yellow Belt. The remainder all ga ined White Belts. Again the Captain was unable to attend. Apart from the matches already mentioned, S1. Edmund's brought t2 members down fo r Randori on Su nday, March 12th. This proved most worthwh ile and an officia l match has been arranged against them next term. The Club has a new school fixture next term, against Westminster. It should be very valuable as their team seems to be of a simi la r standard to ours. We also have matches against the London J udo Society, Kyu Sh in Do Kwai , Worth Schoo l and S1. Edmund's . M.J.H.

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r C.C.F. NOTES ARMY AND BASIC SECTIONS A very good term! How simple it is to sum up when everything turns Ollt so well, yet how much is thereby left unsaid. This has been the busiest term, as Mr. Herbert has already testified, and the amount of conscious

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hard work on the part of the officers and N.C.O.'s in every Sect ion has been rewarded by a higher all round standard and by impressive results in the variolls Section exam inations. The Proficiency Examination results were the best for some years and it is hoped to keep to the new style

of training for "A" Company candidates in future. The Signal Section all passed th eir Classifica tion, and Cpl. C. L. Zuntz gained his Assistant Inst ructor's Certificate, whilst L/ep!. D. J . D. Banks has qua lified to operate the No. 19 Wireless Set in vo ice and morse, which allows the Section to operate this set once again on the Schools Net. We understand that all but one of the R.E.M.E . Section have passed Certificate T, but the final results have not come through. The Commando Section provided the team that won the double canoe event in the new ly sponso red Canterbury Canoe Race for Schools. J. F. Newma n and A. p, Hard ie won this race despite th ei r rudder breaking and locking to one side, Second and fourth places were taken by S. C . Osborne and J . C. B. Roberts, and by N. A. Dick and N . G. W. Heath respectively. T hese were excellent results and the Section is looking forward to competing again: the Mayor prom ised simi lar races in the future. Future events include the Arduous Tra ining Camp in the Derbyshire Peak Distr ict; the Annua l Genera l Inspection which wi ll be held , God will ing, on the G reen Court; and the Summer Camp at Holme in Ger~ many. PROMOTIONS

To C.S.M.: Wright , C. N., Clarke, R. 0., Press, N, P. ; To Staff Sergeant (C.Q.M.S.): Smith, A. R. M.; To Sergean t: Eadie, R. A. , Eden, J. K. , Radcliffe, T. S., Saunders, M. A. H. To Lance~Sergeant: Bussey, A. R, S., David, R. J ., Hinds, C. J. , Kehrer, P. T. G., Kirsch, B. A., Neill, H. Y., Pea rce, G. A., Ramsay, A. J. ,Selman, J. D., Weir, A. R. C.; To Corporal: Bacon, N, C., Harnden, J. A., Bent ley, D. W. , Blackmore, A. J. , Elliott , S. M. P.. Foster, J. M. G., Hallam , F. S., Hulme, J. A. , Jerman, J. L., King, N. D., Penny, R. A., Reacher, T. J., Richardson, H. A., Romberg, C. R. , Sargent, D. A., Talbot, A. J. B.; To LanceCorporal : Banks, D. J. D. , Churchwell, J. H., Fidler, J. E., Griffiths, W. J. , Heath , S. F., Read, J, M., Vaines, M. W.

ROYAL NAVAL SECTION With better Proficiency results and a part icu larly interesting Field Day visiting the Nllclear Department of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich , and also the Mar it ime Museum and the Cutty Safk, the Sec tion is in good heart. Regular week-end sailing is taking place at Westbere for all who are interested, and promising Summer Camps are in store at Dartmouth and Londonderry. We hope to include a Field Gun Display and a demonstration of ship ~t o - sh ip transfer by Light Rig Jackstay in our programme for the Annual lnspect ion in June. D.W.B.

ROYAL AIR FORCE SECTION The shortage of N .C.O.'s, trained and capable of lcctll ring, is becoming critical and so a combined Advanced squad and cadre course has been started, under the gu idance of F light Lieutenant Wilson, and we hope a steady succession of experienced teachers wi ll eme rge. Field Day was a successfu l operation with half the section, most for the first time, getting air experience in the back seat of a Manston Ch ipmunk and the other half having a fairly lu xurious flight in an Argosy to Thorney Isla nd, an interesting programme there and a flight back. The launching pad for our primary glider arrived this term and we had a demonstrat ion of its effectiveness from a visiting instructor, It consists of three sections of ro ller~bea rin g track and ensures that the glider takes to the air with the minimum loss of K.E . through friction. Flights, of varying qualities, were had by t he two sect ion officers and then, as a leaving present, Sgt. Hutchinson was allowed on the seat and given two trips, which he managed very weJl. We are running two camps in the Easter holidays, fourteen boys going to the Lightning station at Wattis~ ham in Suffolk and eight boys going to the Lightning/Hunter/Wessex station at G utersloh in Germany. Our main hope is for good weather and plenty of flying. P.G.W.

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T THE SOCIETIES A t the beginning o f term, Nigel Press, who felt he could no longer act as Capta in since he was too busy elsewhere (?), resigned from the Society. In the follo wing meeting the Society elected the fo rmer Secretary, C. Handley, to be Captain and J. K . Eden as the new Secreta ry. Press very generously invited part or tile Society to tea in his study which was enjoyed by all. The practices this term were fixed for 6 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays- Monday being devoted to begi nners (what they lacked in numbers they made up in gusto), and ~ednesday being deyoted to the cha nge ringers. Good progress was made by both groups, the latter bemg helped very conSiderably and consi derately by M r. R. W. Pittman. There has been no Joss of limb or li fe this ter m since the bells have, with the exception of No.2 now and again, been well looked after by D. J. D. Banks and the Captain, and have probably been freer on their mountings than ever before. Next term's outing has been planned to include a number of eight bell towers which wi ll give LIS some good practice and experience and will also expand our horizons beyond the lim itations of SI. Alphege's six bel ls. 1.K.E . The Cine Society can never hope to operate until it has somewhere to put its equ ipment. But this CJNE term 1 have tried to collect the forces ; if we were to get a room the fi lm-mak ing side of the Society wou ld be able to fl ourish . In the more passive fiel d of watching films I have had the idea of obta in ing recen t circu it films at the weekend. The H eadmaster has offered a subsidy, provided that we can raise a certain amount of self-help . This summer we will make some sto ry films if we can muster enough equ ipment and find a place to put it. In general though, th is has been a dormant tenn. F.H. BELL-IUNGJNC

We began the term with sligh t apprehension that ou r adventurous programme o f nine lectures, SOMNER seven by members of the school and two by guest speakers, might have been a little too ambitious. 111 the event, however, on ly one had to be cancelled and the remainder were al l ofa high standard and attended by a keen nueleus of twenty-five members. Mr . Detsicas, ably assisted by Mr. Harrison, gave us a brilliantly concise and informative ~cco unt of the techniques of ROr"!lan archaeology~ with particu lar reference to his own d ig at Eccles, near Maldstone. The Revd. D. A. Hardmg gave the Society a fascinating insight into mediaeva l warfare. N. B. K. Mansergh talked on the architecture of Vienna, illustrated by some lovely slides; the secretary-general gave a reassuring paper on the Dead Sea Scrolls and their implications' and J. Pet ley a delightful lecture on "Foll ies" . At the end of term W. N. Bryson, somet ime secretary-ge~era l, gave us two sparkling talks on the aesthetic va lue of the Cathedral and on the Norman glass. His departure from the school will be a great loss to the Society. In addition, P. J. Leroy, Esq., R. W. Davies and M. J. Graham gave lectLlres to the Indust ria l Archaeology Group. During the term the Tnd ustr ial Archaeology Grollp visited Whitstable, and the Med iaeva l Group, Bodiam and Salt wood Castles. The disciplined perfection of Bodiam contrasted wit h the romantic, rambling heap o f Sa ltwood and our visit to the latter was made more enjoyable by Sir Kenneth Clark's kindness in personally eScortin g liS rou nd his house and showing liS hi s collect ion. Pla ns a rc already afoot for ou r whole-day outing next term, and for the SOl1lOer Society exhibition to be held at the end of Ju ly. rn add ition it is hoped to produce a Society magazine and a guide book to places of archaeological intercst in and aroun d Canterbury. R.B. The Society has continued to prosper and many new members have joined. The highlight of this te rm's activities was the outing to London. This consisted of a visit to the Geological, Natural History and Science Museums. It proved to be both instructive and entertai ning and was enjoyed by everyone. It is hoped that comprehensive cataloguing and shelving of the Wayland Library will soo n begin under the d irection of R. N. C . Watkinson (Librarian) and C . W. Brewer ( Hon. Secretary). Due to an early printing of last term's Callfllariafl, deta ils of Mr. P. M. Whelan'S lecture were omitted. The subject was "The Weald". This was illustrated with slides and was of great interest to bC!th old and new members. It was a pity, perhaps, t hat attendance shou ld have been low on stich an occaSIon. On behalf of the Society [ would like to thank Mr. Whelan for this lecture. Next term a number o f geology outi ngs to the Larkey Valley Woods are planned. R. N. C. Wat kinson has been appointed Deputy Honorary Secretary. C.W.B. GEOLOGICAL

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I Owing to the abundance of other school activities on Su nday evenings this term, we have only met three times. At the first meeting we read A Passage /0 India- a dramatisation of E. M . Forster's novel. On the 12th February the Secretary gave a n informal talk on "The Evolution of Music", the emphasis being on recent developments. Several shor t illust rations o n gramopl~o ne records were played, and a lively d iscussion followed . On the 12th March we ! ead Everyman, a medieva l morality play. Few members, unfortunately, could turn up, so a lot of doublmg of parts was necessary. The peak of the term's activities was the annual outing to London on th.e 23rd ~ebruary. W.e had been hoping to see The Roya/ 11ullt 0/ the SUfi by Peter Schaffer at. the Old VIC, b.ut tIckets for thiS were not available. lnstead, we saw Yo/pone by Ben Jonson at the Garnck Theatre, WhiCh, although not the most stimulating of plays, was produced with vigour and h.umour, and was. enjoyed by a ll. As usual, owing to the pressure of exams. , we wlll not meet durmg the Su mmer Term. G.F.P. WALPOLE

There has been a lot of varied and lively painting this term and the Art Room has been continuously busy rising to a climax of activity during the second half. Ea rlier in the term a group went to the Tate Gallery and the Millais Exhibition at the Royal Academy. OUf thanks ar~ d~le to Mrs. St.e~art, who supplied us with packed lunches and a late supper without a murmur, to J. E. M IUals, whose pamtmgs we found extremely skilful but dull co mpared with what we saw at the Tate and most of all to Mr. Bennett, whose careful organisation made the outing a success. There has been one lecture this term on "Pai nting in Oil and Water" by D. P. Imber, which was wellattended by an interested audience. Pottery has progressed well th is term under the guidance of Mr. :BrC!wn, whose a.ble. hands seel~1 to be able. to save the worst of pots from perdition. We have made some PUll Jugs and their lids, and coiled pots 01 a ll sizes decorating them with colours and glazes . . . . There have been more fortnightly exhibitions of drawings of the nmeteenth and twenueth cenlul'lcs . We are sorry to say good-bye to C. L. H3I~l pto n , who I~as been ou r ~on ora ry Secr~t ary for many.terms and has, if possible, put as much hard wo rk II1to the runl1lng of the Soc iety as he has mto the execution o f numerOllS paintings. D. P.1. ART

With perhaps less ill ness than usual, attendances have been well up to average. Our C.C.F. releases have kept a very good marks book. Our work still proves attracti ve, both as a hobby and even with ser ious intent of occupation: "there is only one thing of importance- get your Maths." . . .. . Modern methods of production rob the operative o ~ any opportunity t? enJOY craftsn~ans~lIp: thus boys in our workshop here are learning to car ry ou t wor k WIth method s for wh ich modern society IS not prepared

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~-. . . the doo r). Perhaps. there ha~ been a mo re We are still using o ur fu ll capacity (onl y occaSIonally lockmg satisfying trend to the us.e o f PFoper)oinls and cOI~seqlle n!l y the steady and more serl ollsly patient ~pp roa c h essent ial to be able to view With pride and use With confidence. Importance to be able to recoglllse tools, the right tool for the job the best timber for the job- all are st udied in the actual carryi ng out of our work. The ability to be abld to put in a screw correctly, "make sure it holds"; " don't forget the grease", is an asset to be of use for ever for boy and man, husband and father. E. H.B. Rather surprisingly, C. N . D. Headquarters failed to produce a speaker for our end-ofterm debate. As it proved difficult to arrange an alternative subject and speakers at sho rt notice, our only debate this term was o n the motion that " The subjects !aught at school are tedious, irrelevan t, and fail to educate", which was nar rowly defe ated, and was malllly notable for excellent speeches from the floo r from Mr. D. G. M. Thomas and P. J. A. Landymo re. This term we lose our indefat igable and extremely helpfu l Secretary, R. N. Jarman , bu t we are confi den t wc have a worthy successor in F. S. Hallam. D.W.B. TENTERDEN

Our first meeting took place on the 25th February in Mr . Wilson's room where we read Phil ip Vellacot t's translation of Euripides' lliPfJolylllS. It was an enjoyable evening but fcw people had rehearsed their parts and consequent ly some of the dramatic moments in this play lost much of their impact. , On March 1st we went to King's College, London , to see their product ion of thc Hippo/yIIiS. The Times crit ic was, r th ink, very lavish in his praise of it and I do not agree with !lim when he says ~he "perfo rmancc was a great success". It was mode rate and in some pari S good (the ending was very effectl vc and powerful) but it had fault s. PATER

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I On Saturday, March 4th there was the Annua l Kent Class ica l Association Latin and Greek Read ing Competition held lIlis year at Maidstonc. In the Junior Section (Latin), A. J , Chamberlin took second place; in the Middle Section (Latin), D. V. Pugh took second place a lso; in the Open Latin Sect ion, J , S, Gay won. C. S. W. Smith and N . V. W. Hayes both read the passage of Herodotus well in the Open Greek Sect ion and gave a superb rendering of a piece from Sophocles' Philocleles. It was wrong that no mention was made of them by the adj udica tor. On Pa lm Sunday we were lucky enough to have R. J . A . Talbot, Esq., O. K.S. , who is at Corpus Christi Cambridge, and M. J. Wells, O. K.S. , who is a t University College, Oxford, to speak on "Classics at Oxford a nd Cambridge". Thei r tal ks were interesting, informative and willy. 1 should like to thank them fo r co ming }, down to add ress such a small audience. We have been engaged thro ughout the term in translating the M osteIJar l:a (Ghost) of Plaut us for the productio n nex t term and we hope to have the casting complete soon. We a lso hope to hold a reading of Aeschylus' Agamemlloll befo re th is term ends, but th is will depend on people's co mmitment s ove r the next week o r so. 1 wo uld, fin a lly, like to than k Mr. Miller, Mr . Mack int osh and Mr. Wi lson for all they ha ve do ne for the Society this ter m. l.S.G .

The Caxto n Society has had a long wai ting list of jo bs this term partly beca use many members have been preoccupied with work for next term 's exams., and partly d ue to a sharp increase in the amollnt of work offered us . We have reached the stage at which we must begin to refuse work in order to concentrate on quality rather than quantity. The larger items printed this term have been a programme fo r the Linacre House play, which was well designed and competently printed by M. K . G. Stevens, and a programme of the Holy Week activities enthusiastically accomplished by I. B. Godman. At present in hand are programmes fo r the House Music Co mpetition and the end of term concert. At the end of last term we succeeded in buying an old automatic Heidelberg platen and a large q uantity of second hand type . The Heidelberg was very kind ly stri pped down, tra nsported from Whitstable and reassembled here fo r us, free of c h a rg~, by Smith and Yo ung Ltd. The magnitude of this task can only be appreciated when one realises that the machine weighs ove r a ton. Many thank s to Smith and Yo ung Ltd. for thei r cont inued generosity. T he senior members of the Society are gradually becoming more efficient in the use of this machine and it has already printed severa l jobs of good quality. We adm itted six new probatio ners this term, of whom several have shown great keenness. T he print roo m, afte r the init ial confusion of the advent of the Heidelberg, has been satisfactorily tidy this term. Thi s is essential to efficiency and must be mai nt ained. Our annual ollt ing was to Sun Printers Ltd., at Watford. We were initiated into the mysteries of pho togravure and saw ad vance numbers of colo ur sections and periodical s. The out ing proved of va lue and enj oy ment to all. M.W.J.Y. CAXTON

The Harvey Society has had three lectures t his term , which though very interesting, were rather undersubscribed. Mr . Sage, from the Department of Aeronaut ics and Space Technology of City Un iversity in London. gave a talk entitled "Problems of Space Travel" , on Tuesday, 7t h February. This conta ined some detailed ex planatio ns of the many var ious problems encountered by the engineer intending to build a space rocket. Mr. G reenaway, Deputy Keeper of the Science Museum in Lo ndo n, started at a di sadvantage: the title of his lecture was "Dalton , his wo rk, and its usefulness in Modern Society", and boys o n the whole did not seem very interested in Dalton. The lecture was, however, tackled from a more historical tha n scientific po int of view, and was very interesting. I am so rry tha t Illo re histo rians did not attend , as 1 am sure it would have interested them . The last lecture was acco mpa nied by a host of visual and aural aids : a fi lm, slides and various tape recordings. This gathered a big crowd fo r Dr. Ca rthy's tal k on "Animal Co mmunication" . He gave us some useful analysis (by slowi ng down tape reco rd ings, and by using a audiospectrograph) of the calls of various crickets and bi rds. Dr. ea rt hy has just been elected as Directo r of Field Stud ies by the Field Stud ies Council , a nd he gave a few min utes' explanation of what these field stud ies entai l. D. L. Smi th, o.K.s.,a nd a few ot her O.K.S. were going to come down to talk to the Society, but at the last moment the trip was put off beca use D. L. Smith was ill. We hope they can come down next term. Th is has bee n a most successful term , and I would like to than k o ur President, Mr. Stanger, for helping to mak e it so. R.A.E. HARVEY

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This term wp sang two new anthems.: The Sorrows 0/ Mary b:y R. R. Bennett and a Litany by Waiton, which were very succcssful mdecd. The trebles especially, fewer in number than they have been for a considerable time, have done very well. We are very pleased to have had four School Monitors in our ranks this term, but next term there will be only .three- R. O. Clarke is leaving. Anthems : Come Holy G host (Attwood) Tholl knowest LQrd (Purcell) The Sorrows of Mary (R. R. Bellllett) T he Lord's my Shepherd (Schubert) o Saviollr of the World (Goss) o for a closer walk wi th God (Slall/ord) Fait hfu l C ross (Johll 0/ Portugal) A Litany (Drop, drop) (Walloll) C hrist is risen (Joubert) Hosanna (Weelkes) Glorious is thy name (Mozart) Wash me th rollghly (Wesley) o Lorde the maker of a l th ing (Joub ert) o most merciful (Wood) C .S.Y. P.!. CHOIR

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Thc Spring term was chieny spent in rehearsing for the conce rt at the end of term; we a lso looked at some works for the Symphony Concert in the Summer term, and for our own enjoyment. Tn the Easter Day concert, which is reviewed elsewhere in this issue, we performed Borodin's Polovtsiall Dallces, Mendelssohn's Second Piano Concerto, and the Gre(ll Gate of Kiev (Mussorgsky). Most rehearsa ls were well-attended, but the hard work done by our cond uctor and leader could perhaps be balanced by a little more keenness and promptitude from o ne or two members, especially at Saturday rehearsals. R.!.A.T. FIRST ORCHESTRA

This term we have been pleased to be able to welcome Mr. Anthony Ward as our new condu~!9.r., ":Ie have only rehearsed. two pieces for. the whole of the term, playing both at a MUSI C Circle concert. The first IS the symphoOlc poem Vltava by Smetana, and it is supposed to describe the journey of the River Vltava from South Bohem ia up throllgh Prague to Hc1n ik, where it joins the Elbe. Towards the end of term, there has grown into the piece a greater sense of the cont inual motion of a river. The second is a Suite for. Orchestra by Roman which although technically more easy than the Smeta na, proved a diffic ult piece from an intonat ion and p:ecision standpoint. Next term we will be playing in thc Kent Mu sic Fest iva l, with R. J. A, True cond ucting us for it. We are grateful to A. R. Gi llott, who has becn an efficient librarian, and to C. L. Zu nt z, who has helped wit h the administration. N.A .!. SECOND ORCHESTRA

Most of our time this term has been spent in preparing for the concert at the end of term in wh ich we performed the Impressario Overture by Mozart and Bach's Fourth Brmll/enburg Concerto. A review of the concert appears elsewhere in this issue. It has been a pleasant change this term to play something which requires a fu ller orchestra than merely strings . We therefore welcomed a certain nllmber of woodwind and brass players to the orchest ra for a few rehearsals this term. We are, as always, grateful to our conductor, Mr. Goodes, for his patience and encouragement. T.A.L. CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

We have sung various pieces this term , j:.reparing especially for the end of term concert, in CHORAL which we performed Borodin's Prillce Igor, a piece fro m Of Beasts by David Cox, and Purcell's SOCIETY SOIlI of the World. Attendance has fluctu ated considerably this terlll, and on the whole has been wo rse than last term. We hope that even morc people wi ll come next term , \\.' hen we plan to rehearse Handel's M essiah for a perfo rmance in King's Week. K.L.!.A.

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Under Its new democrat ic organisation the Glee Club has flo urished this term. The GLEE CLUB conductor has been R. J . A. True, who has maintained a lively interest among members at rehearsals. At the Music Circle Concert on the 26th February we performed three 17th and 18th century glees : Oreathe soft, ye wbllir by William Paxton, Where the bee Slicks by Robert Johnson, and To all you ladies now Oil land by Dr. Caicott; these were foll owed by two Negro Spirituals : Swillg Low (in wh ich the Captain of School kindly agreed to sing the solo) and De Bailie ob Jericho. We fin ished with The Dalliel Jazz, a light-hearted cantata by Herbert Chappel, originally written for treble voices and piano, Since then, having no concert to prepare for, we have sight-read a wide variety of songs, including some by Hindemith and Bartok, of which we may perform some at the Serenade ill the Cloisters in the Summer term. G.F.P. MADRIGAL SOC IETY

For the first time for many terms, the Society has been able to sing plenty of madriga ls for fun rather than for performance, and the expe rience has proved most pleasureable. On Good Priday the Society sang Byrd's Passion music wit h co nsiderable polish. C.M.S

Our efforts th is term were directed mainly towards the mid-term Music Ci rcle concert. We performed most cred itably Holst's Second Suite for Military Oalld. The rest of the rehearsal time was taken liP with reading through several work s with varying degrees of success. Our gratefu l thanks go to o ur conductor , Mr. Scott, fo r his forbearance and encouragement. Our best wishes go to next term's secretaries, Zu ntz and Braddell. H.F.P. ! .H.B. P.

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SOCIAL SERVICE The .River Stour Project School participation in the River Stour Project has changed its direction this term. Several boys attended a lecture concerned with t he possibi lities.of re-developing the river in and around Canterbury, given at the Canterbury Technical High School by Mr. Robert Paine, Principal of the Architectura l College, which provoked much local interest. Commando canoe teams from the School were entered for the round-thecity race o rganised by the Stom Group, and came first, second and fourth . Fi nally, September has been fixed as the date for an exhibition, organised by Mr. Peacocke, of the work done by the various youth groups working on the Project, and it is hoped that there will be several School entries. Tn the Cathedral Library, R. N. Jarman and J. K . Walmsley have been prepar ing material fo r an historical ex hibit, and a group of yOl1n ~e r boys, under the guidance of M. W. Sullivan and N. V. W. Hayes, have been preparing exh ibi ts of a more artistic nature. Thanks must go to Mr. Bennett for his help in this direction . The following have been engaged in photograph ing or drawing the river: R . B. Barter, N. W. Beswick, P. F, Ben lley, J. T. Brooks. L. S. F. Hewson, R . C. T, Raine, J . I. D. Rawli ns, P. A . You ng. M.W.S.

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THE O.K.S. TRUST The results to March 25th show that 256 O.K.S. or friends of the School, have so far raised a total of ÂŁ21,881, plus the original gift of ÂŁ10,000.

O.K.S. NEWS D. P. R. Hews (1954- 64), after two-and-a-half years' service with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service (which supplies the Royal Navy with everything) has decided to transfer to the receiving end, and will be joining B.R.N.C., Dartmouth, as a cadet in April. Recently, while serving aboard R.F.A. LYlless, he met Douglas Roberts, now a midshipman in H.M.S. Agillcourt, and Peter Gibbs, H.M.S. Dar;llg, who is also a midsh ipman . J. G. East (1922- 25) is a member of the 1967 Committee of L10yds of London. A. C. S. Adams (1923- 28) is Political Adviser to the Commander-in-Chief, Far East. Brigadier A. E. C. Bredin (1920-29) has been appointed Colonel of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment. H. R. Carter (1956- 61) recently made a return overland journey to India in a landrover. Whilst in India he worked in hospitals in the Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. S. A. R. Cawston (1938--42) has been promoted Lieutenant-Colonel. K. D. Walker (1939--42) is in New Zealand, at Kihikihi, Te Awamatu, having been ordained in 1962. He dairy-farmed in New Zealand from 1953 to 1959, and then decided to take Holy Orders. J. J. Seager (1946--50) has been living in the U.S. and Canada for fourteen years, and is now in insurance, living at N 1092 1, Spokane, Washington. His wife is English, and they have two children. Sqd. Ldr. P. R. Newsome (1945- 51) is now stationed at Scampton, flying Vulcan Mk 2's, after a tour in Labrador. D. W. Molesworth (1944--48) was with him, but has now been posted to the Ministry of Defence in london. R. O. A. Norris (1946--51) has been teaching at Hilton College, Natal, since 1959, and became a housemaster in 1961; his son, aged 6, is down for King's. He confines his hockey activity now mostly to coaching. W. E. S. Thomas (1950-54) has recently been appointed to a Lectureship in Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford, having been at York University. R. E. Tilman (1950-54) has been in South Africa for about ten years, and is now at Rivonia, Johannesburg, where he would welcome O.K.S. visitors. C. W. Watkins (1950-55) is in the Military Police in Aden, where also are all three Veitch brothers. Jeremy (1958-61) and Alistair (1951 - 56), who is now married, and Trel'or (1955- 60). The Veitch's are all in the 3rd Royal Anglian Battalion, which is something of a record for the battalion. They are at Radfan Camp, and M. Turner is also in that battalion. G. W. Lane (1953- 58) has been three years with the Wo/verhamptoll Express ami Star, as leader-writer, critic and reporter. He writes that his brother Richard (R.A. 1951- 56) is on the antique furniture side of Knight, Frank & Rutley, wh ile Martin (M.H. 1957- 62) is hoping to combine law wit h music, making his way as a professional counter-tenor at the same time as working to qualify as a solicitor, having already a Cambr idge degree in Law. B. S. Guard (1955- 59) is also a budding musician: he has deserted chemical engineering to play drums with "The Undergrads" at the london Hilton and at Quaglino's. 402

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S. J. M. Harnelson (1956- 60) has been at Osnabruck with the 1st Battalion The Royal Scots. and is off in the latc summer to be A.D.C. to the Governo r of Victoria, Australia, Major-General Sir Rohan Delacombc, an ex-Colonel of the Royal Regiment. He expects to be there about two years. C. G. Lewis (1956- 61) is now an ordi nand at Cuddesdon College, Oxford. He recently took part with Malcolm Muggeridge in a B.Re. documentary, The Road to Canterbury, and before that had travelled extensively in the Far East, particularly Tibet. His experiences are described in Tibetall Vellture, to be published soon. M. J. Baker (1959- 63) recently directed a play and revue for the Triangular Club, which was performed at several schools in Oxford. D. N. T. Walton (1959- 64) missed by one vote the Captaincy of Boats at Trinity College, Dublin, but to make up for it he has got engaged. W. R. Lock (1960~ 65) is in his second ycar at the University College Dental School, where J. H. Hardy (1958- 63) and A. C. Murch (1953- 64) are on the cou rse as well. A. J. Flick (1962- 66) is at a kibbutz at Nathanya, Israel, where he is the "commu nity bard", and reads them Dickens and Conan Doyle aloud every evening. T. G. D. S hannon (1961 - 65) is doing a lot of shooting at Cambridge, where he is at Jesus College. He hasn't enough t ime to do full~bore, but is in the 2nd VIII for small bore.

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East.- On 16th November, 1966, a son (Simon Jeremy) to Carolyn and David East (1947- 58). Morpurgo.- On 4th January, 1967, a son (Horatio James) to Clare (nee Lane) and Michael Morpurgo, a brother for Sebastian. Reading.- On 4th March, 1967, twins (Ross Keith and Christina Mary) to Angela and Richard Reading (1945- 51).

ENGAGEMENTS Jolley- Hook.- S. N. Jolley to Petra M. Hook.

MARRIAGE Man-Strange.- John A. G. Man to Angela St . Clair Strange, on 14th January, 1967. The service was taken by Dr. F. J. Shirley. in Canterbury Cathedral.

DEATHS Buckland.- John (1926--33), on 9th December, 1966, aged 49 years. Frewer.- G. D. (1891 - 95), on 30th December, 1966, at Lake Worth, Florida. Goodburn.- Harold, a former Master at King's, on 21st December, 1966. Townshcnd.- D. C. W. (1950-54), very sudden ly on 1st February, 1966. Wilkinson.- Flying Officer G. W. (1958- 62), on 23rd February, 1967, as the resu lt of a flying accident in Germany, 403

OBITUARIES JOHN BUCKLAND (1926-33) We were sorry to learn of the sudden death of John Buckland on 9th December, 1966. He entered the Junio r King's School in September, 1926, and was at King's from January, 193 1 to December, 1932. On Icaving King's he worked at Ford's for a time, and then cntered the Royal College of Music. From an early age he had wanted to compose and after leaving the College wrote much background music for the B.B.C., including the music for a production of Macbeth. He also wrote a wor k for stri ngs, Piela, which was recorded at E.M .I. and att ended by Vaughan Williams. Since the wa r he had taught games and French at severa l schools, and fin ally at the K ing James I School in the Jsle of Wight. A poem of his was broadcast on the Third Programme recently. We extend our sympathy to his wife a nd famil y. J. E. F. JA MES HUGH M ILLER (1957- 65) It was with grea t regret that we learnt of t he sudden deat h last summer of James Miller. He entered Milner Court in September,1 957 and reached the Senior Schoo l in September, 1960. He was a shy boy and, having a slight li mp, cou ld not join in the rough and tumble of games, so he so ught companionship and solace in his work. 1n this respect, he exceeded all ou r expectations because, the term after his " A" Levels, he won an Open Award in Histo ry to Kebl e College, Oxfo rd, and was made an honorary Ki ng's Schola r. He left in March, 1965 and began his university ca reer in the following October. Since he held such obvious academic promise, his early deat h is all t he more tragic and ou r deepest sympathy is ofre red to his fam ily and all his friends. P.G.W. FLYING-OFFI CE R GEOFFREY WILLIAM WILKI NSON ( 1958-62) It was with a great sense of personal loss, as well as shock, that we learned that Geoffrey Williamson's Canberra had crashed on a training night in Germany, on February 23rd . He was a boy whom all t hose who knew him in Lu xmoore, in the Language Sixt h and in the R.A . F. Section of the C.C.F. , will remember with much affect ion and respect. Visits from him as an O.K.S., now thought of with a special sense of privilege, showed that he was profoundl y happy and at home in the R.A.F. His memory is well-expressed by famil iar words ; " gent le and generous, noble a nd sel f-fo rgetfu l, honourable and of good report " , As one of his fr iends put it, "Geoffrey's death takes away from this life a solid, trus tworthy fr iend to those who were privileged to know him. Although not in the fi rst rank of scholars, nor in t he fro nt row of sportsmen, he possessed qualities which were of greater value and which set a nobler example than academic or athletic prowess. He was a person with whom it was easy and rewarding to strike up a fr iendship, and his wide circle of frie nds test ified to his warm-hearted nat ure. He was never afra id to speak his mind where an injustice had been done; reproof he accepted wit h humility; succour he gave unfa ilingly; respect he received openly from high and low. At school he was popular with all and he was well-liked and admired in the R.A.F. , where of late his progress had been rapid and where the fie ld of opportunity was wide open to him. All his friends extend their warmest sym pathy to his pa rents, whose loss defies measure, but who may seek consolation in the Sllre knowledge that those who knew him mourn his death as much as they." D.M.P.B. R.D .H.R .

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FLYINGÂˇOFFICER GEOFFREY WILLIAM WILKINSON (1958-62) It was with a great sense of personal loss, as well as shock, that we learned that Geoffrey Williamson's Canberra had crashed on a training flight in Germany. on February 23rd . He was a boy whom all those who knew him in Luxl11oorc, in the Language Sixth and in the R.A . F. Section of the C.C.F., will remember with mllch affection and respect. Visits from him as an a.K.S., now thought of with a special sense of privilege, showed that he was profoundly happy and at home in the R.A.F. His memory is well~expressed by familiar words; "gentle and generous, noble and self-forget ful , honourable and of good report" . As one of his fr iends put it , " Geoffrey's death takes away from this li fe a solid. trustworthy friend to those who were privileged to know him. Although not in the first rank of scholars, nor in the front row of sportsmen, he possessed qualities which were of greater value and which set a nobler example than academic o r athletic prowess. He was a person with whom it was easy and rewarding to strike up a friendship, and his wide circle of friends testified to his warm-hearted nature . He was never afraid to speak his mind where an injustice had been done; reproof he accepted with humility; succour he gave unfailingly; respect he received openly from high and low. At school he was popu lar with all and he was well-liked and admired in the R.A.F., where of late his progress had been rapid and where the field of opportunity was wide open to him. All his friends extend their warmest sympathy to his parents, whose loss defies measure, but who may seek consolation in the Sll re knowledge that those who knew him mourn his death as much as they." D.M.P.B. R.D.H.R.

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THE CANTUARIAN VOL. XXXI NO.6

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FJ.S. The death of Canon Shirley overshadowed the end of an excellent year. Unfortunately, to many boys now in the School, very few of whom were privileged to know him, he is little more than a name, albeit a somewhat legendary one. It would be difficult to exaggerate how much King's owes to him-and those who now enjoy the benefits of King's should be aware of how much these are due to him. Statistics abound which show the rise of King's in almost every field during the twenty-seven years he was Headmaster; but statistics alone would certainly not do justice to a man of such ability and character. In place of an Editorial in this edition we have asked five people from the whole School community- Governors, masters, boys, parents and staffto write something of their personal experiences of Canon Shirley. At the end we print a letter and a telegram which Mrs. Shirley received, the first from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and the second from Her Royal Highness Princess Marina. I The success story of Canon Shirley has been fully treated elsewhere, and I think that this is the place for a more personal reminiscence, so I would like to mention two thoughts about John Shirley which have come to me through intimate knowledge of him for thirty-two years. In his ministry as a priest and as a schoolmaster he had a wonderful warmth of heart for those who do not have an easy passage in life. There 407

ate a good many such in the life of the School- boys from broken homes boys with temperamental and moral handicaps, problem cases. H~ showed some o~ his greatest ql:lalit!es, and matchles~ skill in handling them, I:InconventlOnal no doubt III his methods, but With a unique power of gettlllg below the surface to the root of the trouble. He could do it because he cared with all his heart, and because the boys knew in themselves that he was their friend. In the same way, if some deep sorrow came to a boy, maybe the sudden death of a parent, he knew what to do and how to do it. Or, if a boy himself were in danger of death he felt the tragedy of it with utter intensity. I remember him telling me ~ome years ago of a boy who was dying of cancer, and of how he had walked for miles in the country, praying for him as he went as he had never prayed before. John Shirley cared deeply for the success of his School he worked unsparingly for its achievements and its fame, he gloried in the notable perf?rmances of its scholars and ~thletes; but perhaps the tenderest spot III his heart was for those who might fall by the wayside if no-one were there to help them. Secondly, he turned to the cross and death of Christ as the heart of his creed. His tenderness for boys in their times of difficulty was but one aspect of his revolt against the cruelties and sufferings of life. It was one of his many criticisms ~f the Church that it seemed to do so little to fight them; he reproached himself that he could not do more. He could never find a convincing answer in the field of reason to explain suffering' he could not be satisfied with blin~ unquestioning orthodoxy. But he knew that somehow the answer lay III the cross as the proof of the suffering sympathy of God. To it he turned in his heart for an answer to the problem of pain and sin. To it he turned in all humility for a resolution of the c0l!-f1ic~ which, like all of us, he felt in himself between the warring elements III his own nature. One of the most valuable things that he did was the production of the King's School Hymn Book. His choice of hymns i~ an. i!1dex to his. mind, with its special emphasis on the depth and simplicity of the wnters of the 17th century. Let me mention two of them: 59: "Never weather beaten sail more willing bent to shore"-written words and music, by Thomas Campian, a priest who suffered death for hi; faith' and 134: "Calvarie mount is my delight ' A place I love so well Calvarie mount, 0 that I might Deserve on thee to dwell. They speak of a capacity for devotion, humility and penitence which I believe was deeply embedded in John Shirley's character. 408

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A young O.K.S. said to me at the memorial service: "You know, till now I had not realised that I thought he was immortal". Well, men have immortal souls; they live on in their children; their achievements, their reputations, their ideas, may last a long time-a few of the latter, perhaps, " for ever": but the immortality this young man had unconsciously associated with Canon Shirley was, I think, of yet another kind. To a small child his mother is immortal simply because without her existence is not imaginable: the speculation "What would it be like without her?" does not lie within his mental scope. An analogous thought for a rather simple English ~dult might be "Wh~t w?uld life be like without. weather?": without somethlllg that one never IS :<Vlthout. Those whose hves we~e to any considerable extent bound up With the School under Canon Shirley may not find the comparisol:1 absurd, thou~~ certainly defec~ive in its suggestion of non-human, Impersonal actlvlt~. In ~he nO~lOn ?f a pervading, accepted, power that has shaped a~d IS shaplllg one s envlr?nment (and through it one's life), that can brIng moments of exaltatlOn and of powerless fury, that can thwart and that can inspire, t.h~t is a d.atum of existence in such a notIOn they may perhaps find a surpnslllgly faithful image of o~e facet .of t.heir ~xperi~nce of the phenomenon "Shirley". This image lacks a hlstoncal dlmenslOn (~here ~us: have been, I suppos~, a pre-Shirley King's School, and there IS a Klllg s School now), and It also lacks humanity-something of a drawback in any attempt to present a man so thoroughly human that he was three or four (or maybe a dozen) persons in one. All these persons were indubitably and without selfcontradiction Shirley, just as music is music: but a Bach Cantata modulating into Macnamara's Band, or a ~wit~h from Eskim? Nell t.o Love. Divi'!e, all loves excelling, could be bewilderlllg; and one s deallllgs With him tended to be ruled by omen-reading (including the scrutiny of victims' entrails) rather than by more rational procedures. He was not, il!- any of his avatars a man of reason, although he could be, breath-taklllgly, matter-of-fact (and he was not bad at finance): I doubt if intensely creative men ever are. And creativity is perhaps the key to his complexity-or rather the label to tie on the key if ever we understand deeply enough to make one. Whether this seemingly inexhaustible fertilising energy welled out to fulfil a previously determined purpose may be doubted: but it was there it made life more abundant, the fittest survived, and a wonderful creation dmerged. Of course, this analogy of something irresistibly seeking an outlet, no matter where, must not be pressed: it was not really a toss-up whether he would make a King's School or, say, a volcano; nor could 409

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r the school have been made without plans, forethought, cunning, and "ability" in the everyday sense. But what was characteristic was the feeling-it could be frightening-that through him one came into the orbit of something elemental-the authentic vis viva. For those who did not know him no description or analysis is likely to evoke an image that is not faint, distorted, and incomplete. My attempt in the preceding lines might, for example, be precised as: pervasive, unpredictable, powerful. Hardly the recipe for a lovable man, or one to approach for help in difficulty: yet among the strong feelings that he aroused affection generally prevailed (he must have had the greatest collection of unreceived letters of resignation, to be Irish); and I have known a very slight acquaintance turn to him for advice in an intimate domestic perplexity (it was, typically, unsentimental-almost cruel-and unquestionably sound). No, I am afraid that those who did not know this great man will not learn much from attempts to describe him. He was great. III In my last year at school I received from "Fred" a constant series of his well-known and characteristic notes, as well as frequent and often very detailed letters on various aspects of the life of the school. I think it is a most significant tribute to him as a man and as a Headmaster that I wanted to keep all those notes and letters, and that I have them still. I know that I was not the only one to do so, sensing that these were authentic reflections of a unique personality. Re-reading them in these last few days I have felt that one or two quotations from them would remind us of what he meant to us personally and to the school. Here, for instance, is one, which strikes a typical personal note, and reveals his concern for the well-being of every boy, especially the youngest and most vulnerable, as well as the assumption that this concern will be automatically shared by the monitors, to whom he gave such personal trust. "Some time before long I'd like an hour one night with the Head boys. They might tell me from personal observation how the new boys are doing". The same note ends with a suggestion which reminds me very vividly of his interest in the individual boy, and his gift for sensing where there was trouble or unhappiness. "Have a look at 'So-and-so' (the name of a School House 15-year-old)-rum mood they tell me." Fred's intuitive sense was the secret of his wonderful control of the school's pulse, whether in great things or in small. "I see that on Tuesday 410

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last, at 11.30 p.m., one young gentleman from Grange and one from M.O. returned! Know who?" It was not difficult to respond to this informal and quizzical tone; which also dominated his Assemblies, hours of virtuoso entertainment, rich with wit, information, gossip, inspiration and wisdom. Underlying all was his naturalness which made for the most direct contact between man and boy. I remember being sent for to No. 15 one evening and finding "Fred" in his bedroom, cleaning shoes. My own, as he often told me were down at heel and scarcely shiny. We discovered that we took th~ same size and I went away with two gleaming pairs from his very considerable range, but without the slightest idea why I had really been summoned. The element of the unpredictable invested all his doings with glorious uncertainty and infinite possibility. "Shall we have a Cantuarian this term, or not, what about dropping it?" No doubt this casual note was intended to prompt some activity from the editors, no doubt also it succeeded. In this category of sudden inspiration were the unheralded Exeats, the school walks between Reculver and Westgate on a fine February morning, the discovery of a new Portia in the last week before the performance. Overriding all else was "Fred's" deep concern for the School as a "place", his favourite word, his love for it, to be shared and answered by us all. "Fifteen years ago we were only one of the many King's Schools", he wrote to me once in a long and very moving letter. "But are we to stop on this rung of the ladder? You and your contemporaries cannot wish that, for the very love you bear the place .... " Love was the great theme, love for the School, for one's neighbour and as the centre of the Christian life. It echoed and re-echoed in his sermons and with it he signed his letters. It was a great message for us and richly exemplified in his life and work.

When John Shirley retired from the Headmastership, I mentioned in a piece for The Cantuarian the rebellious spirit that he encountered when first he came to the School. We were set in our ways and determined to resist the tide of fresh and vigorous ideas he generated. I make the point again now, -because the regard and affection in which he was held in later years must have led many people to suppose that his position was fortified even from the start by the devotion of his pupils. But boys are conservative creatures and John's struggles on our behalf in those days of near bankruptcy in the mid-'30s were not only with outside bodies and personalities. 411

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l He had first to overcome us before we would consent to share his visions of what King's could become. There are many ways of measuring his success in winning our hearts, but none is more telling than the attachment which so many of that small generation who were already at the School in 1935 have continued to shew to John Shirley and the School together- for it is hard to distinguish between the two. For how many of us over the years did the energy and pungency of his correspondence substitute for the vivid conversation which could only be enjoyed on occasional visits to England? And when did he ever fail, when called upon, with advice, or guidance, or support? J n the end the greatest compliment is to consign one's own son to the same hands from which one had oneself emerged; and it came as no surprise, when my boy was at the School, to find the roll so full of names I had known in my own time. He was a mellower "Fred" by then, of course, with the evidence of his achievement all around him in a thriving community almost as many-sided as the old champion himself. But he was still the same in his sharp eye, in his sense of fun and in his passion for the School's scholarship and artistic life and sport. Success and achievement are mostly ephemeral things, but there are few monuments so enduring as a lifetime of masterful service, if I may so term it, to the young, and an enduring relationship thereafter with all whom he nurtured. V

I first met Canon Shirley when he came from Worksop to look at the School. We immediately became friends. Inevitably we did not always see eye to eye, which on his part he would show in a most forceful manner. For instance, I remember quite well an incident in Cornwall, at the entrance of the hotel which was the School during the war period. We had disagreed on some domestic point, and he, losing his temper, kicked the fire-bucket. It was heavy, full of sand, and he put himself to bed at Trenarren House for a fortnight. When he returned to School I met him on the stairs and he said simply, "Well, old man, that served me right, didn't it?". He was one of the kindest and simplest men I have ever known, particularly helpful to anyone in trouble, and never too busy to listen. In his last letter to me, in February, he said, "Our partnership began 32 years ago .... ". This was how he thought about people- as his fe1Jows. I shall never forget him. 412

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CLARENCE HOUSE, S.W.1. 27th July, 1967. Dear Mrs. Shirley, I write at the bidding of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to convey to you a ".'essage of Her Majesty's deepest sympathy at this time of your great sorrow. Queen Ehz~beth held your husba nd in the highest regard and understood so clearly how much he dId to restore the fortu nes of King's School during his brilliant term of office as Head".'aste~. The Queen Mother so much enjoyed coming to the School- a nd your husband wIth hIS gaiety, kindliness and great sense of fun .was someone. after her own hean. For you ~nd your family Her Majesty knows well, this must be a time when sadness IS overwhelmmg, but the Qu~en Mother so much hopes that you will find comfort in the knowledge of the love and respect in which your husband was held- and the wonderfully happy memones which all his friends will have of him. Yours sincerely, MARTIN GILLIAT. BUCKINGHAM PALACE. MRS. SHIRLEY, 15 THE PRECINCTS, CANTERBURY I send you and your family my heartfelt sympathy in your great loss. I am deeply distressed to lose such an old and valued friend. MARINA.

THE FUNERAL SERVICE OF THE REVEREND CANON F. J. SHIRLEY On Monday, 24th July, in company with many hundreds of friends gathered in the choir and nave of Canterbury Cathedral, we paid our last respects together to our former headmaster, Canon F. J. Shirley. The service was timed to stayt at 2.30 p.m., but by 2 p.m. mo~t of the choir seats were filled and in an expectant qllletness, Without any organ mUSIC and without the busy hum on~ associates with a large congregation, we sat waiting for the funeral. Those from the school were mainly in the oaks near the organ screen; then next to the Cathedral choir stalls sat the School Choir, augmented for the occasion by several O.K.S., a happy mingling of young and old all equally conscious of the musical tribute they were about to olTer. The close relatives, Mrs. Shirley, Mr. and Mrs. DaVId Shlrl~y, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shirley, Dr. and Mrs. Richard Barlow and Mr. Roger Barlow, took their places and with them one who had been so much associated with ~ur former headmaster, his secretary, Miss M. E. Milward. Near them were representatives of the many fields associated with Dr. Shirley, including Lord Harris, the Lord Lieutenant of Kent, the Mayor and Mayoress of Canterbury and the Sheriff, Viscountess Broome, Lo~d ~nd Lady Fitzwalter, Sir Frederick Bovenschen, representi~g offiCially the O.K.S . Asso.clalI?n, with Lady Bovenschen, Dr. G. Templeman, the VIce-Chancellor of Kent UmvefSlty, Governors of the School, Headmasters, representatives from Worksop College, St. Edmund Hall Oxford the Headmasters' Conference, the Friends of the Cathedral and many others. O~ the st;ps leading from the lectern to the altar were members of the tea~h.ing ~taff, wives and matrons, workmen of the Cathedral staff and many O.K.S., all waltmg Silent in their own thoughts. 41 ,

Suddenly from beneath the o rga n screen came the singing of the funeral sentences set to William Croft, and we all rose as the long procession entered: first the processional cross, then the Precentor, the Organist and the Cathedral Choir; the Minor Canons a nd SixPreachers, the Honorary Canons and the Residentiary Cano ns who took their stalls; the Dean's Verger preceded the Dean, and the processio n of bishops, the Bishops of Dover and Stockport, and the Right Reverend K. C . H. Wa rner and the Right Reverend N. H . Clarke; the cross of Canterbury preceded the Archbishop of Canterbury, in white mitre and purple cope, to his throne. After him came members of the Cathedral Foundation, the King's Scholars, cementing together even more closely the Cathedral and School links of Canon Shirley. The King's School Monitors in purple gowns a nd ca rrying wreaths, acted as pall'bearers as the bier was carried in at the end of the procession. The funeral sentences having been sung, the Cathedral Choir now sang Purcell's Thall knoll'est, Lord, the secrets of aliI' hearts, and rarely can this beautiful music have sounded so effective, as the bier was lowered gently to rest in fro nt of the high altar. The congregation joined in singing the 23rd Psalm to the well-known Walmisley chant, before sitting for the lesson from St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Chapter 8, read by 'Canon Waddams. Those of us who had heard Canon Shirley proach, especially on Sunday evenings, could not fail to have been moved especially by the continual references to the love of God, a nd particularly by the last sentence, '~neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor thin gs present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ

Jesus our Lord". The School Choir, under its Director of Music, Mr. Edred Wright, then sang the Campian setting of the hymn Nevel' IVealller-beaten sail. Like the two other hymns sung at the service, this was a favourite of Dr. Shirley and particularly placed by him in the school hymn book he edited. The Dean led the prayers a nd then was sung the 17th century poem, set to music from Este's Psalter of 1502, Call'arie M ount is my deligh t. This may have been unfamiliar to non-school listeners, but was a well-known one to the School, and the writer can well remember Canon Shirley's voice singing lustily through his desk microphone when it was sung at a School matins. The Archbishop pronounced the blessing and then the service fini shed triumphantly with the hymn The strife is o'er. As the words of the great resurrection prean rang out, the pall was removed from the coffin and the procession moved out of the Cathedral. Canon Shirley's body, which had Jain in the Cathedral Crypt since the previous Saturday, and had been brought from the Chapel of Our Lady Undercroft at the beginning of the service, now passed for the last time through the Oaks, past his canon's stall, under the screen, down the long nave to the West Door, where it was placed on the hearse. The many people who owed him so much had paid their last farewell s.

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THE SCHOOL Captain oj School:

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SCHOOL MONITORS C. M. Saunders, M.S., T. S. Radcliffe, N. P. Press, P. B. Kent, T. A. Ling, M.S., M. G. Dover, G. K. Jaggers, A. J. Ramsay, N. J. S. Scott, A. R. C. Weir, R. A. Eadie, K.S. , R. H . L. Taylor HOUSE MONITORS R. N . Jarman, e. S. Varcoe, K.S., M.S., J. K. Eden G. A. Pearce, L. C. Rutland, M.S., F. Hodge, R. Bird, K.S. . , Marlowe House: J. Adam, A. M. Heslop, C. N. Wright, A. R. S. Bussey G. J. Kent, J. M. Read, M. S. Freeland, D. A. Young, M. H. Roberts, School HOllse: M. J. Hulme M. L. Brown, F. L. Graves, J . K. Walmsley, K.S. Galpin's Luxmoore House: M. W. Vaines, D. W. Newbery, J. E. Fidler, K.S. D. C. Lovett, D. J. L. Glennie, R. R . Wild, C. T. Lambrick Linacre House: J. D. Selman, P. Jakeman, J. M. G. Foster, F. S. Hallam, B. A. Kirsch Meister Orners :

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Editors: The Captain of School (ex-officio), J. E. Fidler, K.S., G. K. Jaggers, J. K. Harris, K.S., M. Thorn, K.S. Secretary: A. T. Jones, K.S., M.S. 415

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SALVETE J. M. Block, A. G. Burbridge, R. H. T. Christophers, J. R. H. Crusoe, R. H. DallasSmith, C. W. Dawes, M. E. D. deStyreea, R. A. K. Dinwiddie, R. M. Edwards, M. C. Fagg, J. P. Franks,. S. Ghosh, B. !3. Godman! ~. J. Hamilton, T. G. C. Hart, R. A. Hartley, M. A. Hawkms, S. C. I. Hill, R. C. KIlhck, I. R. King, R. M. Lane, D. J. A. Phillip, M. H. Reacher, S. R. Smith, M. G. Stainer, J. R. Sterck, D. C. H. Vowles, J. M. R. Waller.

VALETE W. N. Bryson, R. O. Clarke, P. C. Cranfield, J. U. Gelbke, C. L. Hampton, N. V. W. Hayes, C. J. Hinds, C. F. Honeyman, J. M. Hutchinson, P. J. A. Landymore, A. L. Parrott, H. F. Parry, H. C. Phillips, J. H. B. Poole, N. G. Tee.

VIRTUTE FUNCTI MOREPATRUM DUCES BRYSON, W. N.-Came Sept., '62; K.S., '63; Senior K.S., '65; Upper VI; Hon. Sec. and Treas. of Somner Society; Treas. of Art Society; Editor of The Cantuariatr Foundation Scholarship in English to King's College, Cambridge. ' CLARKE, R. O.-路Came May, '62; House Monitor; School Monitor and Head of House '67; Upper VI; 1st Hockey Colours, '67; Captain of Hockey, '67; 2nd Cricket Colours, '66; C.S.M., C.C.F., '67. CRANFIELD, P. C.- Came Sept., '62; House Monitor; Upper VI' 2nd XV Colours '66' Captain 2nd VII, '67; Sergeant, R.A.F. Section, C.C.F., '67.' , , HAMPTON, C. L.-Came Sept., '62; K.S., '62; House Monitor; Upper VI; Hon. Sec. of Art Society; Treas. of Walpole Society. HAYES, N. V. W.--Came Sept., '62; K.S., '63; Cannon Scholarship. HINDS, C. J.-Came Sept., '62; House Monitor; Upper VI; 2nd XV Colours, '66. HUTCHINSON, J. M.- Came Jan., '62; Hon. Senior K.S., '67; House Monitor' School Monitor and Head of House, '67; Upper VI; 2nd and 1st XV Colours, :66' 2nd Athletic Colours, '67; Squash Colours, '67; F/Sgt., R.A.F. Section, C.C.F.', '67; Open Scholarship to Worcester College, Oxford. LANDYMORE, P. J. A.- Came Sept., '62; Hon. K.S.; Senior K.S., '66; House Monitor' Upper VI; Demyship in History, Magdalen College, Oxford. ' PARROTT, A. R.- Came Sept., '62; Hon. K.S., '66; House Monitor; School Monitor and Head of House, '67; Upper VI; 2nd XV Colours; 1st VII, '66 and '67. PARRY, H. F.- 路路Came Sept., '62; House Monitor; Upper VI; 2nd Cross-Country Colours '65; 1st Cross-Country Colours, '66; Captain of Cross-Country, '67; 2nd and 1st Athletics Colours, '66; First Orchestra; Secretary of Military Band; Hon. Sec. of Natural History Society. POOLE, J. H. B.- 路Came Sept., '62; K.S., '63; Edmund Davis M.S., '63; Hon. Senior K.S. , '66; House Monitor; Upper VI; 1st Orchestra; Secretary of Band. TEE, N. G.- Came Sept., '62; K.S., '62; Upper VI; School Golf Team' Corporal R.A.F. Section, C.C.F. ' ,

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THIS AND THAT Morning Prayers on July 20th took the form of a short Memorial Service to Canon Shirley, during which the Headmaster quoted the words from the plaque in the entrance to the Shirley Hall: "By his faith, devotion and genius he inspired this School and led it to high achievement'",

Memorial Assembly

Mr. C. R. Ward

Mr. Edred Wri::ht

The Headmaster re-visited Sedbergh School on May 13th to give the address at the Memorial Service for Mr. C. R. Ward, Second M aster of the School and an old friend of his from Sedbergh days. We were very pleased to hear that the ability and, hard work of Mr. Edred Wright has been recognised and he has been awarded Associate Membership of the Royal School of Church Music.

The Madrigal Society braved the hostile weather on Ascension Day to sing at the top of Bell Harry. Unfortunately, The Times' photographer had gone to a less noble tower in Cambridge, but the Society did ,a t least appear on television, and the local press described the custom, now thirteen years old, as "an old Ascension Day tradition". Later in the term the Society were invited to sing in the Chapel of the Tower of London.

Tradition in the Ascendant

We must add our congratulations to the Shooting Club on their fines! season ever, in which they won the Kent Public Schools Shooting Competition, and came second in the Ashburton Shield at Bisley, ', a fitting reward both for their own efforts and those of Mr. Gross , and R.S.M. Herbert. As someone at Bisley was heard to say afterwards: "They shot like angels". , War in Heaven?

The first House Elocution Competition was ably judged by Mr. Speaight, The Bodey Cup who made nonsense of the well-worn belief that the acoustics of the Shirley Hall make elocution of any kind almost impossible. Though some would have liked to hear the exact marking, few would quibble with the result which gave School House the Cup, with Walpole second. N

\dd'f We congratulate Mr. and Mrs. D. J. D. Miller on the birth of a son, and I Ions Mr. and Mrs. R. D. H. Roberts on the birth of a son.

Two Men in a Boat

Lectures this term have been notable not only for their content but also for the manner of presentation. We were especially glad to welcome Captain J. Ridgway, who spoke laconically of rowing the Atlantic in a twenty-foot boat. All the lectures are reviewed more fully further in the magazine. From a divinity prep.: "Some Communists don't believe in God, and . From an exam. paper: "Shakespeare was a great psychiatrist . â&#x20AC;˘ . ."

Modern Theories viceMversa".

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The sale of the Maugham villa collection was noted in the press recently Mr. Alan Searle in connection with King's. Mr. Alan Searle wrote to the Headmaster on July 1st: "Before Mr. Maugham sent his books to The King's School he selected a number that were of interest to him and gave them to me for my own library. Of those that remained he made a further selection and distributed them to local libraries. What was finally left over was put out as useless and was taken away for refuse, everything being out of date. "In his last years Mr. Maugham was rather vague and if he mentioned to you that more books were coming to The King's School, he was referring to my own library- a good small library-which I intended to bequeath to the School." Mr. Searle was kind enough to confirm his intention in his subsequent letter of July 7th. He hopes to visit King's in the autumn when he will be staying at Godmersham . Despite the controversy, reported in one house magazine, as to what dress should be worn, we carried offa total of twenty-four firsts and fifteen seconds a magnificent achievement. Particularly to be praised are N. D . King'~ success in winning the Piano Challenge Cup and R . .1. A. True's in winning the Mozart class for piano. Other performances described as "nearly perfect" by the adjudicator were those ofC. S. W. Smith, J. D . Williams and a trio played by J. D. Williams, C. Waltham and K. L. J. Alder. Kent Music Festival

Talking of house magazines, four were contemplated this term- known eventually as the perennial, the printed, the photostatted and the still proposed. Unfortunately, only Marlowe's Fore could be called a house magazine. Walpole's Interpole and Luxmoore's Inllocence were deliberately lavish in production and general in content. If this is the shape of things to come it might be better for the School to produce a second magazine, as many schools do. It might also be better if a few more people wrote for this one; although in one editorial, com"petition with the "Official School Gazette" was disclaimed, any magazine of general content is bound to do this. Editorial Grouse

Brigadier L. P. J. Herbert, C.R.E., D.O.O.S., inspected the C.C.F. this term and was surprisingly generous in his praise of it. He also saw demonstrations of a variety of activities, including river crossing, handling a glider and life-saving.

The General Inspection

Day of J IIdgement?

Cry echoing several times across house lawns from Junior Hall: "It's no good, it's just not worth it any more" .

Old Choristers The eye,!ing service on the I~th Jun~ ~'as sung by the Old Choristers' AssocIatIOn, and well enough, m my OpInIOn, to ment a far larger audIence. There was drama at the King's versus an M.C.C. Xl match when a local lady of good intention informed the fire brigade that a plane had crashed on St. Stephen's (" .. . . It seemed to be wobbling rather a lot .... "). Three fire appliances, two vans, the fire chief in his own car, and many perspiring firemen promptly arrived on the scene, only to find the plane parked in a corner of the field, and the pilot, who had flown safely from Biggin Hill, as is his custom, Changing into his cricket flannels, unaware of the stir he had caused. Flames and Flannels

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1 The Bluebook and the Music Scholar ties finally arrived and though some were loth to part with a shilling for the former and some would have preferred a single crotchet to eight demisemiquavers on the latter, they are both now "an accepted part of the King's scene" as the newspapers ....'ould have It. Hard to Please

One section of the Bluebook at least appears to have had some effect, viz., during a morning rehearsal of Mostellaria, Mr. Harding who played a taxi driver, was having considerable difficulty in moving a large sllitc~se down into the Memorial Court. Seeing this, a passing boy leapt off his bicycle and inquired politely: "Can I help you with that, Sir?" Manners maketh....

As a prelude to Field Dayan exercise took p!a?e the night befo.re, involving sixty boys and several masters. Those arnvIng at the tramlllg area the next day found themselves in the middle of a hard fought battle which presumably formed the climax to the night's activities. It was certainly a noisy one.

Night Games

Meanwhile those who have left the ranks in order to join the Social Service Social Survey have been helping the City Council. Walking across the traffic light corner of the High Street one Wednesday afternoon I spotted a King's boyan the other side but looking for a sign of recognition received none; instead a mark was made on a sh;et of pape~. Shaken, I turned the corner~ where I '!let another also markin~ a printed form. However, It was not a new form ofSecunty Screenmg, but .mer~ly a pedestflan survey. "The purpose?", I enquired. "I don't know. I suppose they mIght Improve thlssome day."

Walpole House ConceIt

On 25th June, Walpole gave us another of their yearly (we hope) concerts. The recital room overflowed, and an appreciative audience heard a varied programme ranging from Folk to Warlock, via Handel, Mozart and Elgar. There were "electronic" songs, a madrigal, and a piano piece

for eight hands. Judging by the youthful talent on displa¥, the house need noUear for the future musically speakmg. R. J. A. True, P. M. C. Elhott and L. C. Rutland see~ed to be the ;"'ain promoters of this delightful function- the latter acting as an unobtruSIve comp~re .

Invasion

The annual tea held in the Shirley Hall by the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral took place on the 25th June. We were glad to welcome them, for the Fnends have always been most generous to the School in the past.

A matter of form ••..

••.. and fact

A certain American member of the School, when asked (during a discussion on Schumann): "Do you know exactly what form his madness took?" replied, "Oh,- insanity, I guess".

Comment by our Sports Editor: "I'm pretty thick when it comes to poetry- 1 can only understand Shakespeare". 419

T At Henley the first eight had a fairly easy draw despite meeting Winchester in the Iirst round, whom they beat in possibly their best race. They lost to the eventual winners, Eton, in the semi-Iinal. Still, the races were tough, the gIrls lovely, the weather glorIous- and Henley was just as Edwardian and splendid as ever. It would indeed be a pity if the pressure or timing of " A" Levels were to exclude us from it in future years.

Floreat Edwardiana

Summer is of cou~se the season of outings and expeditions. This year, the Upper SIxth Itahan Set vIsIted the Aldwych Theatre, the Somner Society visited Ightham Mote and other places, the Pater Society nearly visited Bradfield, and the Headmaster visited Boarzell on June 24th and D ownside on July 15th to present the trophies on Sports Day, and presented the prizes at Milner Court on July 25th a nd at St. Ninian's School on July 28th. . Olltmgs

Pink Participation

In the last four days of term the School Monitors included six members of the Choir, and one ex-member, undoubtedly a record. There was consternation at Luxmoore one Sunday when

The Martians are Coming

what looked like a satellite or flying saucer was sighted hovering in the sky. The whole house turned out to watch but could not discover what it was. A newspaper report the next day ide ntified it as a meteorological balloon, to the disappointment of all. Obliging Assailant

Art Master to member of Judo Club: "Could yo u defend yourself against an attacker who jumped on you at night?" "Only if he took hold of my lapels, Sir."

The King's Week booth went into operation from July 1st as usual but despite the sign outside the general public seemed unaware that it was a box office. There was the flood of toddlers which charged towards it, then stopped disillusioned to declare, "Oh, it's not a Sweet Shop" a nd the small boy who pointed at it saying, "Daddy, 1 think the toilet's in there". It got to such a point tha t one foreign girl who asked rather indistinctly "Ver Stamps" was told "Les Dames, madam, just round there", ' Anyway, one adept salesman had the pleasure of an embarrassed young lady's hand on

Box Office Blues

his shoulder and the comment, "Jo thinks yo u're rather nice",

Still, my fa vo urite request was that of another teenage girl: "Have yo u got one of those pandas you sew on your coat?"

To C. J. C. Rowe, who, in the Eastbourne match, took two wickets Congratulations . â&#x20AC;˘ .. with his right arm and then changed round and took three more with his left. Since he is not yet sixteen, we look forward to even more interesting developments. To A. J. Blackmore on being selected to represent Kent at Athletics against four other counties on Ju ly 26th. To P. J. P. Wachsmann, O.K.S., on winning 1st Class H onours in Music at Durham U niversity, the lirst to be given there for seven yea rs. He hopes to go on with composition in which he became interested during the year he spent in America on an Excha nge Scholar: ship at India na University. To Mr. and MFS. Clarence Myerscough on the birth ofa da ughter on Saturday, July 29th. 420

T The Ven. Alexander Sargent, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors, celebrated his Silver Jubilee as Archdeacon of Canterbury this year. He is now the longest serving Canon Residentiary. Apart from his services to King's, Canon Sargent has been one of the architects of "revitalising" the Cathedral; and there have been few projects connected with the Cathedral or King's to which he has not given his whole-hearted support. Governor's Jubilee

Nineveh hrought low

Explana tion of the plot of It should happen to a dog by a member of the cast: "Well, you see there's this bloke called Jonah who has to go to the King of Nivea .. . ."

King's should be seen widely on German television this year after the visit of a three-man Germa n film unit which was making a documentary on boarding schools in the U .K. There are two other units Iilming similar schools in France and West Germany and the film should be shown next winter.

From our pUblicity agent

The libra rian gratefully acknowledges the gift of books from the Headmaster, the Archdeacon of Canterbury, A. Binney, Esq., Dr. A. L. Rowse, R. Forwood, Esq., W. J. R. Hildick-Smith, Esq ., The British Embassy, Washington, Miss J. Daly of Sydney, J. D. Hardman, O.K.S., W. N. Bryson, O.K.S., G. C. Low, and a most generous donation from E. R. Fattal, O.K.S.

Uhrary Books

King's Week Reviewers

Our outside reviewers will be Kenneth Jones, the O.K.S. composer, who will review the Symphony Concert; and Hedi Thimig, assistant lecturer in German at U.K.C., who will review

the Life of Galileo. The Robbery

Both we and St. Edmund's were broken into shortly before the end of term. The Bnrsar's office was completely ransacked and about ÂŁ100 stolen. It was thought to be an outside job.

Reckless Excuse

Note (in capitals) at bottom of short exam. essay: "Unfinished-Rash sprung forth on writing finger .... "

At the Kent Schools Golf Championships held at the Rochester and Cobham Golf Club on July 20th, King's won the mai n competition and Junior King's wo n the junior competition- to our knowledge only one of the 1.K.S . team is coming on to King's.

The right links

Chapel Collections May 28. Children's Country H olidays Fund June 18. Friends of Canterbury Hospitals July 9. Jerusalem and the East Mission Jul y 23. British Deaf and Dumb Association Chapel General Fund 42\

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r We were glad to welcome the following preachers at Evensong services Visiting Preachers this term: A. O. Van Oss, Esq., the Right Revd. the Lord Bishop of Southwark, the Revd. H. Spence, O.K.S., the Revd. E. R. G. Job, O.K.S., the Revd. Canon J. N. D. Kelly.

Brought to the wrong place

Heard after the Messiah: (sarcastically) "Can you get us to the pub now?" Which, for incongruity, remi nds one of the old story of the remark of one boy to another as they emerged from a sermon by Archbishop Fisher: "I wonder what this Cathedral weighs? ... "

We were pleased to welcome during King's Week for the last match of their tour a squash team from Shawnigan Lake School, British Columbia. Their Headmaster and Mr. Ball played for Oxford University together. They arrived with four matches won and four lost, their victories being over Eton, Wellington, Cheltenham and an Oxford University side. We took them to four King's Week events and, with England's and Mr. Ball's honour at stake, we wo n the squash by three matches to one.

Squash Visitors

Luxmoore Troph)'

Congratulations to Meister Omers, who won the trophy by quite a wide margin. Scaled points gained by the first four houses were: Meister Omers 662, Luxmoore 576, Walpole 557, Linacre 549.

Several masters are leaving this term, as has been noted elsewhere, and we wish th~m all su~ss in their future posts. We have had two temporary masters wIth us thIs term: Mr. R. Routledge on a term's sabbatical lea~e from S~uth. Af~ica, and ~r. Br?~dbent from King's, Cambridge. Mr. Routledge, beSIdes partlclpatmg m many Kmg s a~t1VIt1es dId a great de.al of valuable cncket coaching; and Mr. Broadbent, apart from helpmg Mr. Peacocke wIth language teaching, had the honour of umpiring a 2nd XI match although he had never played cricket before in his life.

Those Departing

I feel I must thank the person who included an article about "the mysterious Mitla" among the press cuttings sent to me. For those interested the Mitla is half dog, half cat and may have a bit more light thrown on it by a British Expedition to the Mato Grosso.

Most mysterious

We welcome J. K. Harris and M. Thom to the board this term, which makes it remarkably scholarly (some might say). May I thank all those who have contributed articles, photographs and drawings, during the year al?oiogise for mistakes made and thank our printers, Gibbs, for performing near miracles: Fmally, our thanks to Mr. Medlll, WIthout whose hard work and enthusiasm the magazine would never have been produced at all. We wish him every success as housemaster of Luxmoore. He will be succeeded on The Cantuarian by Mr. J. N. Holt. Tbe Editors

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R. D. H. ROBERTS Richard Roberts, K.S., Captain of School, Scholar of Jesus College, Cambridge, tutor in the Grange, housemaster of Galpin's for three years, housemaster of Luxmoore for seven yea rs, head of the Modern Languages department, coach of 3rd VIlIs. So might an encyclopedia record him, but how little of him, since he more than most men is to be known not by his public success but by his private personality. It is ten years since my first meeting with Richard Roberts when he was already a housemaster, just taking over Galpin's from its founder, Mr. Sopwith. I was his new and impressionable house tutor and my impressions are s(ill vivid. At once I was accepted and treated as a friend, not sized up nor dressed down. Such will have been the experience of all those, both boys and staff, who have come in contact with him. The generosity of his personality and his easy good nature are to be seen by all. Less readily seen, perhaps, are the sources of his influence- he rarely makes demands, and at times seems not to notice, but his effects are achieved by inspiration rather than by compulsion and his patience to the recalcitrant is formidable. When Pope John XXIll died, Richard and I discussed The Times obituary of the Pope and we were struck by the sentence, "his view of government was to see everything without seeming to see much, and to correct it without seeming to do so", and this sentence gives something of the style of Richard's authority. His two houses, Galpin's and Luxmoore, his VIlIs, and I am sure, his linguists, have all found that individuality flourishes under his guid ance, but that his personal concern for standards and his zest for life have permeated the whole enterprise. The boys in his houses and his pupils will have reason to remember him gratefu lly; and his colleagues will know that they are losing in him and Wendy and their children a sure place of friendship. We wish them every happiness and are conscious of the good fortune of Wycliffe College. J.L.G.

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R. A. L. BALDWIN Robin Baldwin came to .King's in September, !960, and since that time he has helped wIth a. wIde range of actIvItIes. In addItIon to hIs valuable contribution to the teaching of Lat!n, Greek and EnglIsh at all levels, he has assisted with nIgger, cricket and swimming, and hIs helpwlth the Corps has been very much appreciated; he attended a number of camps and hIs knowledge of armoured tactics made training more interesting. His love of musIc and talent as a flute player had full scope and he contributed a great deal to the School musIC; he played In the Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra as well as being a regular member of the ChoIr. Many wIiI remember his sparkling production for Meister Omers of Lord Arthur Savile's Crim~. Among other things he took charge of the allotment of pnzes, one of those overlooked Jobs whIch need most attention at the busiest time of term.

He leaves us to take up the challenging t~sk of building from its foundations the English department at a newly bUIlt Compr~henS!ve school at Crawley, which opens next term. There hIs deep socIal conscIence, whIch lay beneath an outward equanimity, should find fulfil!",e~t, and the qualItIes of tolerance and u~derstandi~g which he brought to his work at KIn!! s ~hould prove 111valuable. Our best WIshes go WIth hIm and Sylvia, and we hope they wIiI VISIt us here before long. . A.S.M.

D. C. G. BRADNACK There is no doubt at all that King's is going to miss David Bradnack very much when he leaves at the end of the Summer Term. It is probable that we will not find out how much untIl another full >:ear has gone by because his tireless energy made itself felt in some actlV!ty or another 111 every term. I n the last few years, he has coached every beginner in the not-so-gentle art of rugg.er whIch has meant up to five afternoons a week on Birleys, he has taken an actIve part m the short and hl11g range shooting, he has been one of the officers of the C.C.F. and fin~lIy h7 has 01:ga111sed all the School swimming activities from matches to standards to beg111ners coachmg besIdes mastenng the chemical complexities of the filter plant. He came here seven years ago and, after a short spell with Lattergate, has been a guide and lioad to a successIOn of MeIster Omers boys 111 the role of House Tutor. Recently, as a resident tutor, hIS happy and helpful approach has ensured the respect, in a friendly and cOMoperahve way, of the House, and the HOllS~, to its own advantage, has got to know him better. If the boys can lea~n to approach theIr careers and life in the same unselfish and unflaggl~g n:anner, they WIll have Iear~t something to their own advantage. We WIsh hIm all the very best of luck 111 hIS new Job at Thame, where he is to be Head of the Modern Languages department, but we expect him to visit Canterbury, car and all as often as pOSSIble. ' P.G.W. 424

G. H. J. FACER George Facer came to King's in September, 1961, straight from Oxford: but clearly he had inherited (from his father, a Senior Science Master), blood rich in chalk dust as well as litmus, and he rapidly reached a state of highly dynamic equilibrium in many of the School's activities. Equally at home with the Upper Sixth and the I.K.S. "Nuffield" Class, he has been very much alive to the present winds of change in Science teaching though not carried off his feet by them: and he has left his mark on the reorganisation of his laboratory (though disclaiming personal responsibility for the ceiling decorations there). He will be greatly missed from the playing fields, where he shared the coaching of the Colts' XV (unbeaten last season), and took an active and enthusiastic part in hockey and cricket : from the C.C.F. Army Section: and from Luxmoore House, where he was Tutor. Other known activities have included music (ranging from the School Choir to the Corps Band), and House-managing School plays. His six years at King's must have broadened his experience as a spectroscopist, revealing the whole academic spectrum from ultra-S to infra-O- including some possibly unsuspected low-absorption bands in the Sc. Vc region! We trust that at Dulwich he will find full scope for his versatility, and wish him and Mrs. Facer every success and happiness there. It is feared, however, that he will now find time to write the text-books with which he threatens the next decade of K ing's chemists.

KH.Y.

T. B. AKRILL The School, and in particular the Physics Department, loses a valuable and genial member at the end of this term when Tim Akrill leaves for Clifton, where he has been appointed to succeed the Senior Physicist. Coming to us from Oxford via Denstone in September, 1963, he very quickly made an impact from the Upper Sixth to the Shells by his refreshing outlook; it is delightful to see his interest in the new view-points and techniques of physics which have been developed in stimulating programmes both here and in the U.S.A. during the past ten years. One learnt also to be wary with him of a Socratic avowal of ignorance: the would-be informant found himself closely questioned, and the parts of "teacher" and "pupil" were progressively less easy to distinguish. Even to the most casual observer of the School's activities it is obvious that he took a very active part in games and sports. His excellence at coaching Rugby football is not a matter for surprise-he comes from Wales- nor is the mastery of the peculiar dynamical problems presented by athletics odd in a pole-vaulting Blue. Why, however, he should enjoy paddling a canoe on a dark, cold night (or a scrabble over an overhanging cliff-face) with the Commando of the C.C.F. is rather harder to understand! Masters and boys (particularly of School House where he was a Tutor) will miss him a great deal. We wish him well in his work at Clifton, and hope that he and Mrs. Akrill will be very happy there; needless to add, they will both be welcome guests at King's at any time. F.S. 425

KING'S WEEK The new King's Week, exactly one week long and olfering a most intensive programme of events, got olf to a tough but auspicious start this year. After the wet and clam my cold of 1966, it was a blessing to have such tactful weather: with ten out of fourteen performances scheduled for out-of-doors, and each one destined to fulfil its schedule, the warmth and sunshine undoubtedly helped to make our bill of fare as palatable as it was. For many tbis was the best King's Week for many yea rs, for some even the best ever. Certainly the new pattern needs some reorganisation to make it functi on more smoothly and simpler to prepare, but it should be able to maintain itself. Tn the event, two performances in one day and the lack of time fo r more leisurely meals proved rather daunting for our many visito rs, but perhaps we can balance performances more ca refully and a lleviate tbis. Meanwhile, the new pattern has some definite advantages : more scope for the boys, no dragging of time, the bringing of our various Exhibitions properly into the focus of King's Week, with the Art and Crafts Exhibition at their centre, a nd a general feeling of bustle and activity that promotes the particular atmosphere of this short, eloquent period of the School's rhyth m of life. This last also adds to our biggest headache: so many rehearsals to be packed into so short a period, with examinations dragging on the way they now do. It is here that rationalisation is necessary and a lso possible, I hope. All of us who have contributed to this year's King's Week will have obtained reward for our elforts by the reception they got from every quarter. My personal than ks are due to every single person on the stalf, in the Houses, the offices and kitchens of the School, and the hundreds of boys who contributed and participated in one way or another (well over half the School in a ll). I also wish to thank the Dcan and Mrs. White-Thomson for the loan of their garden, and the Dean and Cha pter for all their generous help in making this festival possible. In the printed brochure, we estimated that some 8,000 wou ld witness the results of all this work, but the real figure proved to be 10,000 or even more. Who will forget the sardine-packed Nave for the Messiah, the crowds on the Green Court for the displays, the absorbed full houses on the nights of Galileo, the audiences in the Water Tower Garden and Memorial Court reinforced by fa scinated passers-by, or the humming-full Shirley Hall for the Symphony Concert and our celebrated visitors? And what charming, gracious and ge nerous visitors Max Adrian and the Spinners proved to be! Most of those to' whom special credit is due appea r on the brochures and programmes, but behind the scenes there are those without whom King's Week would never even start. For the first time, King's Week was organised wi th a committee of boys and masters throughout the Easter Term providing excellent suggestions, comments and criticism as p lans developed. Mr. Wright was his own invaluable self, Mr. Hatch, learning the fina ncial ropes- a nd most helpful he proved in the time-consuming work on the complex bookings; C. S. Varcoe and R. J. A. True represented music, C. M. Saunders attended as Captain of School; and there was a lso the inner caucus of K ing's Week administration, R. N. Jarman (Secretary), R. A. Eadie (Box Office) and J. K. Walmsley (Press). To these three my special tributes and thanks are due, not only for their efficiency, but also for their pleasant cheerfulness throughout. I have the highest praise for Richard Jarman, a most reliable, capable and hard-working Secretary. Without him by my side, a nd the multifarious elforts of the other hundreds, including the often unrecognised hard work of the dozen Commandos under G. J. Kent, we could not have got through our packed programme so well- or perhaps at all. Maybe we can all derive satisfaction from the fact that Bryanston has this ye.a r begun a similar venture, openly modelled on ours. We wish them all success. G.S.P.P. 426

â&#x20AC;˘ B. A. KIRSCH AS GALILEO [G . F. Phillips

"THE LIFE OF GALILEO" For a continental like myself amateur theatre is something which is looked at with suspicion. School-theatre at home is usually directed at the parents, aunts, uncles and all the other relatives of the pupils, who love seeing their own flesh and blood romp about the stage-the rest of the public is rarely invited and could not care less. A prolonged stay in th is country, however, has totally changed this attitude for me and three consecutive King's Weeks have convinced me that the theatre offered here is something far beyond the usual amateur a nd/or school drama. The choice of plays has a lways been very ambitious, the presentation of the plays ve ry impressive. This year's The Life oj CaWeo has followed in this tradition a nd our high expectations have, once more, not been disappointed. The Life oj Cali/eo was written by an exiled Brecht. BertoH Brecht (not Bertholt- an avoidable slip on the programme!) had to ftee his own country for his convictions. Although his were political and not scientific ones, one could enumerate dOlens of parallels between him and his central cha racter. The play is a mammoth work of fifteen scenes, featuring one of the most complex characters in dramatic literature. Galileo is a devoted scientist a nd a man devoted to his personal comfort, a hero and a coward, a sain t and a crim inal, a revolutionary and a reactionary. He sufiers for his faults and the end of the play leaves us with a man who thoroughly despises himself- or so he says. But he says a lot of things in the course of the play and not all of them are meant to be believed. He is always present throughout the play- either in person or in the words of the other characters, of which there are plenty in this play, some of them with only a very rew lines, and yet the Life oj Gali/eo wo uld not be possible without them. To stage this play was a gamble, to stage this play in the open air was an even greater gamble, but it was well worth it. The play took place on an ingeniously devised revolving stage with ve ry good backdrops, sparse but wholly sufficient furniture and good costumes a nd make-up. I saw the last performance and some of the beards might have been a little the worse for wear for that reason. In dealing with the actors let me .first of all congratu late all who were in the play, as it is impossible to mention everybody in detail. It was due to the small and smallest parts that the performance was as homogeneous as it turned out to be. All of them were true supporters to the leading man and for an amateur performance this is indeed a compliment for the cast and the producer. The central part was in the very capable hands of B. A. Kirsch. In the beginning I felt that he was a little unsure of himself, many short laughs in the middle of his speeches made them a little monotonous, but he grew as the play went on and in the end we knew that we were witnessing a very mature performance of a very difficult part. Galileo's counterpart is the Clergy. One can present them in two ways : either one lets them act as fools, showing us how stupid , worldly and contemptible they are and how right it serves them to lose their battle agai nst science; or one lets them have their effects through their words only, thus showing how certain they are that they are right, how sinister they are in this certainty and how pathetic. One cannot claim that one interpretation is more correct than the other. The important thing is that the producer makes up his mind how he wants to show them to us and the cast stick to the chosen interpretation. In this performance the C lergy were the fools; J. K. Harris and J. K. Allen as the Cardinals Barberini and Bellarmin were most remarkable here. J. K. Harris co uld have been even more effective

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if he had not been deprived of one of the most im pressive scenes of the play by having to get into the papal robes with his back to the audience. R. M. Plant as the Cardinal Inquisitor a lso stuck to the interpretation and he was, perhaps, the only reason for my doubting whether the chosen interpretation was the most convincing one. P. G. F. Turner was a delightful young Andrea, H. V. Neill was well chosen for the older Andrea, but he let his emotions run away with him too oft en and his speech suffered a little because of that. R. H. Lawrence battled bravely with the rat her difficult part of Virginia, A. N. G. Harris was rather more successful with the part of Mrs. Sarti. W. M. Latimer was a convincing Little Monk who became the central figure in the recantation scene.

P. Mason was the Narrator and the Ballad Singer and clearly a n asset to the performance. The music was composed and very well played by R. D . McKilliam a nd J. D. Selman. It is, however, debatable whether the style of the music fitted the style of the play. But if one cannot get hold of the origi nal score, this is probably one of the best substitutes T ha ve heard. Christopher Gillespie was the producer and managed his difficult task perfectly. To get a group of such young and mostly inexperienced actors together and make them into a whole is more than many of us can hope to achieve. Here lies one of the great achievements of the King's School thea tre. Mr. Gillespie could have made some cuts and thus preve nt some occasional slowness - but T, as a Brecht fanatic, am always gratefu l if the whole of his work is presented and if it is presented with such expertise and enthusiasm I cou ld not wish for more. H.D.T.

SERENADE IN THE CLOISTERS THURSDAY, J ULY 20TH

There was more emphasis on vocal than instrumenta l music this yea r. The Madrigal Society was as always superb. Even with the accoustic difficulty of the Cloisters the clarity of tone and diction came across well. Echo, by Orlando de Lasso and l.ascialemi mO!'i!'e! by Monteverdi were proba bly the highlights of their performance. In these they showed great control and sensitivity. The tota l silence at the end meas ured the audience's appreciation. The Monteverdi madrigal of War and l.ove was less successful. T here was at times a lack of balance between continuo and sin gers, and the piece did not quite come

together as a whole. The first gro up of madrigals was foll owed by a wind quintet by Reicha . This was a farewell performance by Robin Baldwin, whose flute playing will be missed. Reicha was a prolific composer and this quintet is one of the few of his pieces which is still played regularly. It was played well and with obvious enjoyment a nd the second movement was particularly good. At times the tempo became a little ragged but this did not spoil the overall effect of the performance. The timing of the Lark Ascending was excellent, for as it was played the last of the evening swallows were wheeling above the Cloisters, and the stai ned glass windows of the Chapter House were coming alive. This lovely setting was surpassed by the delicate playing of Clarence Myerscough and the unobtrusive accompa niment of the Cha mber Orchestra. My one regret in the Sel'enade was that the Chamber Orchestra did not have a real opportunity to show their skill. 428

The Glee Clu b was conducted by R. J . A. True this year and showed at once that the panache that had been learnt under Robin Morrish had not been forgotten. True brought . the best out of the group, particularly in the melodious Sweet and Low. . Next came three duets su ng by C. M. Saunders and C. S. Va rc~e. TheIr vOIces bl:nded with each other and they showed their considerable ability and feehng for musIc both m the . lyrical Purcell and in the spooky Five /fyes. This was an excellent start to Kmg s Week, a concert of good mUSIC, well performed

in beautiful surroundings.

G.H.J.F.

THE FRINGE PLAYS The plays should , of course, have been a disaster. Taking a l?w priority in rehearsal time running on a shoe-stnng budget, out of doors before an aud Ience at least three tImes too big who had paid good if not excessive money to see them (or at least the top half of them) nothing less than disaster could reasonably have been expected. It i; not clear why expectations were confounded. It might be thought the weather helped- -but those on the sunny side sought standing relief in the shade. Perhaps It was that there was time for a leisurely lunch beforehand a nd the prospect of tea ~fter! rat.her than a hurried supper and the washing up to do afterwards. Obhgatory canmbahsm IS a much funnier subject to the internally comfortab1e.

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The plays themselves we re agreeable. Wolf Mankowltz seno-comlC stnp bnngmg up-to-date the story of Jonah would have been dreary without J. K. Harris as David Kossof as Jonah but then we did have J. K. Harris, so that was all n ght, and ~avld Kossof wIll have to keep in close touch with his agent. The other characters .magn.ammously accepted their pasteboard parts as foil to the human, and therefore multId!mensJOnal, Jonah. Slawo mir Mrozek's anthropophaglC fantasy, a mantlme versJOn of the balloon g~me, in a marvel of com ic compression explored the workings of the democratIc ~ystem 111 a population of three and was a fine piece of team work: all were egual e~peclally C. ~. Saunders who as the Fat Castaway made a sort of likeable HItler and If that IS not dram~tlc genius I've go t the wro ng idea about Hitler. The best bit part I have seen for a lonl! tu~'le was J. R. Carey's Postman, who breathed that d~gree ~f helpful, tolerant 1I1corruptlblhty only to be found in the hu".'bler ra nks of th.e ClVll ServIce. . . The Interlude was soothmg, and by begmnmg offstage the musIc ~Ilo~ed pohte C~)!lÂ versation to be made in the interval, and then by coming on stage let It dIe na~urally Just as it was becoming boring. Admirable tact. In fact this is probably why dISaster was avoided : the production never showed off; it let the aud ience relax a nd be gently entertained, no bad thing in Kin g's Week . I.N.W.

THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION DISPLAY The Physical Education Display, het.d abo ut every three ,Years, during ,ICing's Wee~, provides a Âˇ valu able opportumty fo r VISItors to see somethmg of the .vaned gymnastIc activities that take place in the School. PhYSIcal educatIon and Its alhed sports are ~n integral part of school life, and a ll boys are .hlfluenced t~ a large d.egree. by the".'. QUIte apart from their role I,ll educ~~lOn , these acti VIties are excltmg sports 111 their own rIght, and have inherent aest hetIC quahl1es. 4Z9

All this was quite evident in this year's splendid display on the Green Court. The first part of the programme included sil11ult~neous disl'lays by. the Judo, Basketball and Fencing Clubs, wIth the 1st VIII showmg some CIrcuIt tral1Hng. ThIs arrangement, made necessary by the varIety of t~e p:ogram1!'e, did mean perhaps that the seated spectators found it difficult to take everythmg m, and It was best to be mobile. The quality was high throughout. The Basketball Club played a hard game of what is one o.f the. most arduous games of all,.and gaye a good demonstration of tactics and skill, espeCIally m the creatIOn of opportul1ltIes and m zo ne defence. Sometimes the fini shing was suspect, but a good number of baskets was scored. Judo has now replaced b,?xing in most schools, and is a very popular sport at King's. Though It looks da ngerous, It se.ldom IS, and the Judo Club, under the direction of Richard Lochhead, !l~ve an ImpressIve dIsplay of throws, counter throws, and contests. The climax was an exhIbItIOn of self:defence, the practical application of the sport. Th,? Fencmg Club, whIch has been so successful in recent years, showed a wide range of techl1l9ues and strokes,. and mcluded contests at all three weapons, using the electrical recordmg apparatus whIch has been such a. boon to the sport. Circuit training, regarded not so long ago as new-fangled and of margmaluse, and now recognised as basic to nearly all sports,. was ably demonstr~ted by the 1st VIlf. They move heavy weights in their land trammg, and the value of It IS surely reflected m their success this yea r. The second part of the programme was devoted to an exhibition of advanced vaulting and gymnastIcs by the Gym Club, which had been in training for this for most of the year. The result was a fine spectacle and ~ymnastics of ~ high quality. Faultlessly led by C. R. Whalley, the ,gymnasts executed a wIde varIety of hIgh vaults, sholVing split second timing, grace and skIll. The most excIting sequences were those where vaulters approached the box froll! dIfferent angles and crossed each other. Only a great deal of practice could have made thIS so successful. A series of py~am ids then followed, all done smartly and with an impressive overall effect. On ly one hft needed a sec,?nd attempt, and all held steady in very difficult positions. The gymn~sts then completed their l?rogramme WIth some 1!'0re well co-ordinated vaulting tl? the .strams of the Thunder and Lightlllng Polka, concludmg WIth a series of hair-raising hIgh pIke somersaults over the buck and went off to a well-deserved ovation. One personal regret was thatno ground work was included in the programme. The productI.on lVas .very slic~, especially in the timing, and in the synchronisation of the a~companYI.ng musIc: The Director, Maurice Milner, and all the participants, deserve the hIghest praIse for thIS dIsplay, and one looks forward to the next. Gymnastic Display Team: C. R. Whalley (Captain), c. A. Hcadley, S. J. Morton-Clarke A. G. F. Munns, R. C. Truman, R . N. C. Watkinson, M. P. Richmond-Coggan, S. P: Blackmore, y. D. Datt, P. A. Vernon, M . H. Vaughan, M. C. Moore, J. V. Cornwall ' A. E. C. FairbaIrn, D. A. Cattrall. After the gymnastic display at the Saturday performance, the spectators were entertained by the Cor~s of Drums of the Junior ~oldiers' Company Depot, The Queen's Regiment, under the directIOn of their Drum-Major, Mr. W. Clark, M.B .E. These young soldiers all aged between 15 and 17t are being trained as drummers for the four regular battalions of the Queen's Regi1!'ent. Without a sin!?le spoken word of command throughout their perf,?rmance, they d!splayed an astol1lshmg standard of precision and drill, and their playmg of ~r. Clark s mgel1lous arrangements was a delight to the large audience fr0111 the first shattermg drum-beat to the last. D.J.R. 430

[G. F. Phillips, J. M. Frye [G. Rober/SOli, G. F. Phillips

"THE MESSIAH'Âˇ SATURDAY, J ULY 22ND

The Messiah at the end of a hot day gives a pleasantly antipodean sense of Christmas in summer, and this was not the only tradition dispensed with in the Cathedral on 22nd July. Musical interpretation today tends to be more scholarly than popular, but in the case of this 1V0rk its wide popularity and the ritual performances around Christmas each year have made the traditional versions and arrangements harder to do without. To a n ear attuned to these renderings the scrunch of an unresolved chord in a recitative is not always pleasant at first hearing, and the effect of "double dots" in slow movements, though crisper and livelier, may evoke nostalgia for the lusher melodies of tradition. But this performance demonstrated well how effective the scholarly approach can be. The orchestra was not augmented (compared with Bach's B Minor Mass, heard in the Cathedral a fortn ight before, the effect was rather monochrome, though this may be largely due to Bach's richer harmonies): and the chorus was smaller than usual, which had the practical advantage that they were all banked above the orchestra in stead of spilling over the floor of the Nave. How authentic the fast pace of some of the choruses was, especially in Part I, I do not know: it is probably true that no one knows just how fast this music should be taken . It certainly made for some exciting music, but combined with the Cathedral acoustics it muddied much of even Handel's limpid harmony. And the opening of the Overture, marked "Grave" in my score, was taken so fast that it sou nded more like a joyous danceand why not? For the chorus, however, the gain from these tempi was great. Composed almost entirely from the School (as far as I could see on ly the tenors included one or two from outside), they were galvan isecl to sing with enormolls vigour, which increased as the performance went on. And th is lVas not at the expense of polish: the time-lag between baton and voice was minimal, and the ba lance and intonation excellent throughout--conspicuously good here were the unaccompanied passages, Since by mall came death and As in Adam all die. Of the four sections, the trebles deserve the highest praise: just occasionally their slow singing was a little cxpressionless in the earlier part, and one sometimes felt the need for a greater volu me of sound than they could manage, though they were never drowned, but the hard work of their preparation and the enthusiasm of all their singing, un helped this year by the Choir School contingent or by a single sopra no, put their performance on a par with their elders'. There were some glorious sounds from the tenors : the altos sang with feeling and good tone, and could be heard even in fortissimos (I have often wondered how Mr. Wright manages to achieve th is without the grating sound of fa lsetto) : the weakest, tho ugh this is not to condemn them, were the basses, who seemed to rely too much on the stronger voices and were sometimes slow to the beat. The orchestra, also almost entirely grown on the estate, played immaculately: the odd sharp or flat was forgotten and the occasional bar miscounted, but tone, balance, intonation and mu sicianship were excellent. I personally regret the cutting of the Pastoral Symphony to a third of its length, but it was delightful wh ile it lasted, and the accompaniment of the soloists was sensitive, tactfu l and 431

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~ccurate. Of the soloists, Nicholas Curtis, O.K.S. (tenor) sang gloriously- the Cathedral I~self seem~d too small for him: Rae Woodland (soprano) sang I knolV that my Redeemer

'.vetil exquIsItely, but elsewhere used too much rubato for my taste- her interpretation was m?r~ operatIc than the others'. Raymond Hayter's full, clear bass was sung intensely and bfllhantly, and Helen Attfield (contralto) sang with beautifully rounded tone and a fine lower register. There were very few cuts in this performance, and it was done almost entirely by the School. . That a criticism which makes no allowance for amateur status or the pressures of school hfe should leave such a healthy credit balance reflects very highly on all who took part, and especially on Edred Wright, whose energy and inspiration we all admire and value so greatly.

R.A.L.B.

MAX ADRIAN AS G.B.S. SUNDAY, JULY 23RD

To hold t?e attention of.an audience and to keep it amused and interested for nigh on three hours 18 no mean achievement for any companyÂˇ-for one man it is an extraordinary feat. Max Adrian's G.B.S. was a mammoth and marvellous role. His portrayal of Shaw ~as vital, intimate and informative, deriving its context mainly from diaries, journals and mterviews, so giving us deep insight into Shaw-Âˇthe man. There were unfortunately acoustic problems. Some of the more intimate asides and the ends of lines were often lost to those members of the audience in the rear half of the Hall. However, one cannot really blame Mr. Adrian for being unaware of the limitations of the Shirley Hall. Neverth~less, despite this slight drawback, Mr. Adrian's performance was a delight to eye, ear~ mllld and heart. From hIS first energetIc entrance as the bouncy, unknown young man, with rather more brains than were good for him, until the final black-out at the age of ninety-four, we watched him imperceptibly become more grey and infirm as he gained in fame and worldly stature. ' Mr. ;\dria?'s perfor,?ance was pOlis.hed, varied and colourful, revealing throughout his great VIrtuoslty- techmcal and otherWIse. We must thank our good fortune the Director of King's Week, and of course Mr. Adrian and his entourage for making'this excellent evening possible. J.K.H. 432

THE SPINNERS MONDAY, JULY 24TH

It was perhaps rather a gamble when a little-heard-of professional folk group were asked to give a concert for King's Week. However, it was a wise one, for the Spinners maintained the high standard of entertainment that is given by visiting artists. They provided a most enjoyable evening of ballads, shanties and humorous and communal songs, bringing to us the revival of a great heritage of folk music from all over the British Isles. II was obvious from the start that the audience was very willing to participate in the choruses, and it was this and the atmosphere created by it that led to the evening's success. The Spinners started off their concert with a song which everyone knew-"What shall we do with the drunken sailor", and so the difficulty of starting the audience to sing was quickly overcome. They then sang two Jamaican songs followed by three sea shanties, in which they displayed much musical talent in their unaccompanied harmony singing. Following this they sang songs from Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Notable among these was an excellent rendering of a Scottish ballad by Hugh Jones, and an amusing Irish song about the two conflicting religions, the "Orange" and the "Green". They ended the first half with a general all-purpose advertisement which was most amusing and performed with great polish. After the interval they played traditional English folk songs and some contemporary "Folk" songs written in the past few years. Among the former, Mick Groves' rendering of the old "Little Matty Groves" ballad is particularly worth mentioning as an excellent example of a difficult guitar technique most ably performed and sustained during a long song. The contemporary songs were all excellent and very widely varied, from an African "initiation" song in which the audience sang in three parts, to a ghost story which was definitely not for those of nervous disposition! Finally, after two more Jamaican songs, they did a comic version of "Frankie and Johnny" called "Stanley and Dora" which was interspersed with battles between Hugh and Tony on various weird instruments on which they played with some virtuosity. The evening ended tremendously with two encores which showed the appreciation of the audience for both the Spinners' type of music and the professional and varied way in which they performed it. J.A.H.

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MOSTELLARIA TUESDAY, JULY

25TH

How very modern the Romans were! Apart from the occasio nal references to slavery,

the language and action of Mostellaria were well suited to the modern dress of the production. The situation is sim ple and timeless; a gullible business man returns to his home after being abroad for three years and it is essential that he should not lea rn of the goings-on of his son, aided and abetted by his steward. To preve nt this, Tranio invents a tangle of lies, part of which brings in the Ghostery of the title. T. P. fagg as Tranio, the dishonest steward, bore the brunt of the action, a nd played with verve a revoltingly slick Cockney wide-boy who knew exactly which side his bread was buttered. His timing was excellent and his accent faultless. He was nasty enough to make one happy to see him dragged off to meet a well-earned fate. G. A. Blackmore as Philolaches was suitably la nguid and debauched and the scene in which he watched Philematium (P. J. Wagstaff) at her toilet was delightful. Philematium was most decorative, well worth the ÂŁ750 Philola.ches paid to free her! R. M. Pla nt was convincing as a very tipsy Callidamates, and C. S. W. Smith was suitabl y vague and credulous as Theoropides; I do not think I should have trusted him with much business. The guest artists, Mr. Chappell and Mr. Harding, were splendidly anachro nistic, Mr. Harding especially drew applause as a taxi-driver (Turkish, perhaps ?). Mr. Miller is to be congratulated on this excellent production. He made full use of the beautiful setting that the Memorial Court provides, and under his direction the Pater Society gave us a delightful rendering of Plaut us in a translation that rang true. A.P.R.N.

SYMPHONY CONCERT After the varied and heady delights of an outstanding Kin g's Week, the Symphony COllcert formed the apex to these achievements. At first glance where there may have been doubts in the substance of the programme, the execution of it assigned all such doubts to the dustbin of idle speculation. In presenting the pattern of overture, two concerto pieces and a symphony, a platform was provided for the individual and corporate talents of King's musicians. To hear a Rossin i Overture, is to remind us of a master-musician, prepared to seize his aud ience by its ears a nd compel, not invi te, its attention. That the overtu re Il Barbiere di Sil'ig/ia may have served a number of operatic purposes, neither fru strates nor confuses 434

our enjoyment o f its musical qua lities. The wa rm tone of the strings made an immediate impact, enhanced latcr by the rock-lik e intonation and rhythmic precision of .t~e lower

strin gs. The finely phrased solos of the ob?e ~nd horn confounded those cr.ltlcs, who assert that Rossini wrote unnatura ll y for w1I1d Instruments. But th e general mtonatlOn

of wind chord ing was va riable, due largely to the unstable pitch of the bassoons and a lack of agreed pitch between tl~e clarinets. ~h ere.the fundamental is inse~u:e:, there can ,~e no tru e intonatio n. The excitement and Intensity of the famous RO SSIni crescendo was

ad mirably realised by Edred Wright, who summoned from a reluctant brass section a brilliant climax. In delicate contrast, Faure's ÂŁIegie proved a most suitable vehicle to introduce lonatha n Williams ('cello) as soloist and to reveal the orchestra as a sensitive accompanying instrument. Conceived by the composer as a single arch in two spans of finely wrought deta Il, the work offers scope for a wide range of soloishc contrasts. The opening theme revealed in the soloist a deep ly expressive quality. The warm a nd dark tones produced a truly elegIac effect made more eloquent by the shapely phrasing. A certain caution in his playing wo uld indic~te a greater concern for orchestral ensemble than for musical necessity. There was a loss of dynamic strength in the upper register, making for a ?ifficult bala nce with the full orchestral force. The technica l hurdles of the middle epIsode were cleared WIth an assurance that showed a n ac ute res ponse to qu ick position-adjustments. The final restatemcnt with its subtle change of colour completed this delicate and imaginative performance aga inst the backcloth of sustained string chording. It was a pleasure to greet the appeara nce of the next s~lo i st, Richard True (piano). After ma king so valuable a contribution to King's Week III dIverse musIcal gUIses, ~e rewarded us with a scintillating performance of Weber's Konzertstuck. The work IS a uselul introduction to the concerto form, but without the "programme" backbone, the musical unity would be arguable. The opening had a distraught quality about it, in that intonation was unstable and ensemble raggcd, the wi nd being unab le to agree on the length of quavers and semiqua vers. The entry of the soloist established the true melodic weight and shape of the main theme, as well as remind ing us that the orchestra might have tuned more carefu lly to the pia no on such a ba lm y evening. The supple yea rning and desperate sense of an xiety were fully realised; the impulsive and driving momentum of the Allegro .superbly maintained. Admirable in the soloist, was his perception 111 alternatIng hIs functIon from prima donna to chaperone. By thinning the accents and playing . a crisp staccati ssiI~ o, there wo uld have been less comedy in the March. In my humble lImItatIOns, I can vIsualISe this only in the theatre. The fina l return of the hero was brilliantly characterised by the soloist, who ravished us wit h his bravura and expert clarity. The whole movement da nced with joy and gleeful abandon. . After the interval the orchestra returned with ren ewed vigour to show therr own excellence. D vorak's Symphony (From the Nell' World) challenges every section of the orchestra at some point or other. The cha llenges we re met and disposed of with appa rent ease. The opening three bars set an immediate tone of hushed nostalgia, of things known 435

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as against the excitement of things unknown. Each dramatic interjection drove relentlessly towards the exciting horn-call of the Allegro. The whole movement pulsated with nervous energy and rhythmic excitement. Though difficult to do justice to all, mention must be made of the pure-toned flute and noble, ringing tone of the horns. With expectation set high, it was with a sense of disappointment that the masterly chorda l progression of the second movement sounded insecure and unbalanced. In such an exposed passage breathing must be unanimous and it is as important to finish notes unanimously as to begin them. The cor anglais tune lacked that treacle-in-the-boots sound, so characteristic of the instrument. Throughout this movement the string tone and phrasing was mellifluous to a degree, and special mention to the basses for their perfectly tuned and balanced end-chord. The Scherzo was marred by rhythmic imprecision in the syncopated Illtli. This caused some lack of clarity in the whole texture. The trios were played with much grace and charm. The triangle-player could develop a more bell-like tone. The Wagnerian anvi l appeared to be in the vicinity. From the first incisive notes of the strings, the last movement generated and maintained a momentum of excitement and power that gripped the whole audience, until it could release itself only in tumultuous applause after the final chord. The whole concert was an outstanding achievement, and only the highest praise can be accorded to the conductor, Edred Wright, to the leader, Clarence Myerscough, and to all these members of the orchestra who have contributed to make this concert oossible and to make music so real and dynamic a part of school life. . It is not unfitting to pay tribute here to the late, beloved Canon Shirley, who in his wisdom gave every encouragement and stimulus to the art of music. In 1940, in spite of difficult conditions, poor instruments and limited practising facilities, from a handful of players he established the basis of what was to grow into a fully-serviced and disciplined symphony orchestra. As we honour him, so we honour Canon Newell who by his sympathy and interest has given invaluable support to the inexorable demands of those who serve this hi gh art of music. K.Y.J.

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SPEECH DAY, 1967 JULY 27TIÂˇI, 1967 THE HEADMASTER'S SPEECH Mr. Dean, Mr. Mayor, My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, I was somewhat unnerved a short time ago to receive a letter from the National Association for Mental Health asking for support for a conference they propose to hold for the Headmasters of Public Schools, and J have been pondering the implications ever since. Was it for instruction, I wonder, or for therapy and treatment? And if the latter, could it perhaps be a subtle recommendation of the more forward-looking members of the Public Schools Commission? At any rate I know that if to-day I understandably show any signs of nervous strain you will charitably forgive me. First, however, if I may, a welcome to you a ll- to the Governors who give generously of their time, interest, encouragement and support; to parents who, a las! in these days must give generously in other ways as well; to the prize-winners who form so effective a backcloth to these proceedings; and to all of you who show by your presence here to-day that you are true friends and well-wishers of this School. It is indeed good to see you and I hope you have not been inconvenienced by this change of date from Monday to Thursday. I had thought to apologise for it, but when planning ahead last year I discovered that I too was only reverting to an older tradition; for in the Kenlish Gazelle-or it may have been The Times, certainly it was one of t.he quality newspapers- there was an account of Speech Day exactly a hundred years before, and it was held on a Thursday in 1866 as I think it will be for the future. And now very briefly and following my normal custom let me say something about our record in the past year in work and games and in our activities generally. Most notable, as you will have seen, is the wide spread of academic ach ievement. In the list of Oxford and Cambridge awards- still (I am glad to say) a valid criterion of high intellectual endeavourthere is scarcely a subject which does not find its place, and though rather more than half our boys go to the civic or newer universities there is clear evidence there that whatever their chosen course of study they will leave here well prepared for it- prepared, too, to work hard and not just to stay out or sit down or sleep in by way of protest or demonstration against this or that real or fancied injustice or in sllpport of some transient cause which may have attracted the passing attention of an anarch ist minority or rebellious fringe. Of our music J need say little for it will have delighted you this week as it has delighted me, but it is worth mentioning that as the fame of Mr. Wright's achievement spreads so, too, does the range of our recruitment. It is in happy recognition of his work that he has recently received signal honour from the Royal School of Church Music; and though we have for some time enjoyed a close association with many of the great cathedral choir schools besides our own, we have recently forged new links, too, with York, Durham and Llandaft". And how fitting it has been that this year chosen on otller grounds as well we should have had in Christopher Saunders a Captain of School who was also a Music Scholar. When T turn to our games, three things deserve particular mention. One is our spectacular success at Bisley, the second is the practically unbroken success of our 1st XY which won more school matches than we have ever won be.fore-and if that is in part because they played one additional game, no-one can impugn the record, just as no-one 437

would wish to deny how much their triumph owed to the coaching of Mr. Fairservice. It may be his last season with the I st XV, but it is. not his last season as master in charge of games and lt lS good to know that we shall cOHtlOue to have the benefit of his wide knowledge and experience. The other notable success has been that of the Athletics Club which again won all its matches in spite of rain and mud which often made training co~ditions deplorable and which would have quenched a lesser enthusiasm- ·so much so that I could not help thinking how splendid it would be if some benefactor with a devotion to Athletics were to present us with an ath letics cinder track, just as in a frosty May I have sometimes th~ught how welcome to our swimmers would be a heating system for our open-air sWlmmmg bath. I have not said much about our achievements, for time is short; but [ have said enough to let you see how much we owe to those who give so devotedly of their time and energy to make these things possible. To them I offer my warmest thanks and to all those too so~etimes less obviously visible who on the administrative side ~f things enable ~s t~ thnve and prosper-I will not say without disagreement (for without the give and take of free expression how could there be progress?) but effectively and to the furtherance of our common purpose for the education of your sons. I must thank you, too, ladies and gentlemen, for your g.enerous s~lpport of the Headm~ster's Fund for special purposes; and Pfizers of SandwJCh for thelr valued help and advice and for the financial assistance which they. have so readily given to so many of our boys; and let me also acknowledge the great servJCe done to the School this year in the launching by its past members of the O. K.S. ~ducational and Benevolent Trust which is already more than a third of the way towards ltS tarllet of £100,000 and with the twofold purpose of improving our amenities and helping those In .need. They have already shown that they ~ean business by very generously undertaking to bear half the cost-more than £ 1,000 In a ll-of re-making the dock at Pluck's Gutter, and I know that the Boat Club will warmly endorse my gratitude. It may be that some who have not already done so would like to contribute to the Trust; if they a:e not themselve.s O.K.S.! I am sure that need be no barrier, and the Secretary will gladly give them fuller mformatton. Lastly, I would thank our Commemoration Preacher and you, too, Mr. Mayor, for your presence here to-day. OUf "catchment area"- to use the current educational jargon-may extend from Montevideo to Katmandu and from Tokyo to La Paz, but we belong to Canterbury and of our close and precious links with this city your presence with us is a happy outward sign . More ge~e~a lly, I should like now to say someth int; about schools, and public schools, and unlverSllles. You may have noticed that these tOPICS have been much under discussion this ~ast year. Almost every.one has thought it right to have a go, and often enough it is the ~lews of those least qu~hfied to speak which have received the greatest publicity-for ?bv!ous .reasons: One emment professor has stated, however, that public schools are ]uslI.fied m a penod of cultural decadence because they are preservatives; they slow down dechne and .embody an imperishable legend. There is something to ponder there, too. I am not qUIte sure how to take It, but I thmk I can detect a note of praise. For myself, I would go further and emphasise the glory and splendour of such schools- at their best and in the euphoria of Speech Day I naturally assume that you see them at their best her~ at King's. Of course, there are strange obsessions current about independent schools. You have only to have one gain some unpleasant notoriety, and all a re at once tarred with the same brush. No school is perfect, and no doubt there are strange, outlandish places where primitive customs survive. But are there not schools elsewhere where masters 438

regard teaching as a part-time employment and where all concern for the boys or girls in them ends sharply at four o'clock on Fridays if not before '{ Let us therefore judge each at its best and realise how much each has to give the other in reciprocal benefit-with the growing together in curricula of primary and prepar~tory s~hoo ls, and in the fruitful interchange of pupils who would benefit by the boardmg or sixth form educatIOn which we with our long experience might bappily provide. I believe in bridge-building, not isolation, and 1 have made it clear in the right quarters that I shall always be happy to play my part in so constructive a cause. H is a truism that these are times of change, and to resist all change would in any case be as foolish as with reckless abandon to throw over the wisdom and values and experience of the past. Of course, there mllst be mllch wider opportunity for all who can benefit by it. Not only justice demands it but our !,atio.nal interests, too. 1 have never been allainst comprehensive schools. What I am agamst IS their wholesale ImpOSltl?n by arbitrary authority from above regardless of local or natIOnal needs and wlth mak.eshlft arrangements which make nonsense of true education and gen ume concern for the mdlvldual. Schools are living organisms. They take time to grow but you can destroy them overnight. And if the harsh administrative wind blowing from a central authority is not tempered to the realities of the human situation, the day will come when the weaknesses of a rigid comprehensive system are seen in all their nakedness, when even the most purblind or prejudiced of politicians will see how much has been destroyed and how Iffemedlabl~, when high standards will again be needed and seen to be needed and they wlll have vamshed wlthout trace. Premature selection by a rigid 11 is immoral just as the denial of opportunity is wrong, and we have done much to temper the one and to provide the ~ ther; but it would be a strange, sad irony if what began as proper concern for the underpnvlleged should end as a recipe for national disaster. As another and less eq uivocal professor has perceptively pointed out, tbere is danger in the attempts to exploit education for purposes not strictly educational, and to that extent sociology with an exclusive emphasis on equality is rightly suspect. For it may blind people to equally important truths- the very real risk, for example, of downward pressure towards a single uniform system in which standards are set by the pace of the slowest and which lS supported by prejudices to. which the mass media so successfully pander ready, as they are, to sense an entertainment many rebelhon agamst authonty of any kmd and out to explOit it. No doubt there are many in positions of leadership who do not accept these views but feel it is too difficult or too uncomfortable to say so. No doubt there are many teachers and parents who do not accept the assumption in the Public Schools Com.mission 9~estionÂ naire that such schools are to be condemned because they are socially dlvlSlve-an assumption which is neither pr.oved nor particularly relevant to the job those schools ~re doing. No doubt too many umverslty teachers are very doubtful about the way university expansion is being tackled and who feel that the student malaise springs from a real unpreparedness for the personal sacrifice which higher education rightly demands. This, however is a time for courage; and unfortunately such people as T have mentloned do not alw~ys see it as their duty to tell the truth- Âˇthat there must be both selectivity and effort. To neglect or to discourage the student of high ability, that way madness lies and herein lies our real danger. For we need among other things an aristocracy (not a popular word these days), an aristocracy not of birth or wea lth, but of intellect, principle, leadership and judgement; and without it our future would indeed be grim . Not all our boys go on to the University nor is it necessarily right that all who qualify by their own efforts or by

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good teaching should do so, but because many rightly do I believe [ am not going beyond the bounds of propriety in offering to those concerned with higher education some little return for the information and advice which they generously give to us. And what I would ~ay to them is this. Recognise the need for real tutorial and pastoral concern on your part lor those "hom you teach--and your generous staif ratio should make it comparatively straightforward. Let your "research" be often more responsive to the needs of the country and less wasteful of potential teaching power. And above a ll , reassure the schools that you will not in the name of freedom or equality connive at a gradual lowering of standards. The debate, of course, continu es and in it we have a noble part to play. It is our concern both to recognise the need for change and to urge upon ourselves and others the need for high standards not only academic. That is why 1 rejoice not on ly at the successes of our sixth form and at other evidence of high achieveme nt- ÂˇÂˇnot least a fine crop of Firsts at the university, bUl also at the widening of interests and frontiers and at the clear signs of growth and development in our teaching programme enabling each boy to make the best of his abi lities at whatever stage- the modern approach to Mathematics, the Nuffield Science which begins in our Junior School, the greater emphasis on Politics and Economics new techniques of learning in English and Modern Languages, and in the Sixth Form ~ wider choice of subjects which yet never in the interests of variety descends to the level of a cafeteria curriculum. Not all our boys come to ' us as scho lars; indeed, OUf Common Entrance standard demanding little more than a 50% average is comparatively modest and if many of average ability do we ll it is because they are we ll taught and because they have- most of them- learned the invaluable lesson of hard work. You may perhaps think, ladies and gentlemen, that it must be difficult to reconcile these differing objectives---as difficu lt as it is to combine with the increased professionalism now needed that liberal genera l education of the who le man which we rightly value. And so perhaps it sometimes is. flut then, as I hav~ said before, King's is a place of paradox and contrast- a place of tradItion and 1Il110vatlOll, of old values and new enterprise. l.et me give you examp les. We li ve in precincts- -a quiet oasis, as people tell me, a place of refuge untrou bled by the pressures and rivalries of modern life; but that is not altogether how I see it. We have our cloisters but use them for a serenade itself, surely, a proof (if proof were needed) that there is nothing very monastic about liS. Our archi tecture ranges from early Norma n to contemporary, and though one of ou r Governors told me he wondered if it was quite contemporary enough, you wi ll be as glad as I am to see our new classroom block complete. And then there is our Canterbu ry Dress. A relic, some may say, ofa fo rmer age; but no more divisive (in the wrong sense) than a policeman's uniform or a miner's helmet, and there is the true if sentimental sto ry of the little boy of three or four who was brought to Canterbury and on seeing a King's School boy complete with boater cried, "I want to go to that school", and here in fact he is. An archaic survival, your modern-n:inded man may s~y. Yet pinstripes are very dignified and now again, I believe, most fashIOnable too. And If half of Canterbury Dress is most appropriate for a wedding I am told that a recent O.K.S. went in the whole of it- and most successfully- to a fancy dress dance. Yes, we are a place of contrast and because we val ue the new as we ll as the old, a place of change- something we ll illustrated by a true story of an encounter in the squash courts early this year, though not as early as all that. The Vice-Captain of School was alone and practising his drop shots. Over the balcony leant the small figure of a new boy. "Care for a game?" he said in pipin g treb le. "Certainly", said the Vice-Captain with some surprise but with exquisite courtesy. The new boy descended. "And what is 440

your name?" the Vice-Captain kindly asked. T he youngste r told him and then added, "And what's yours?" These things would not have happened in my day, and those who write with obloquy about the public schools do not rea lise that times have changed since their own day. We change, too, and it wi ll be very odd if the present generation write for the Sunday newspapers in thirty years' time about the enormities of their school experiences unless their memories are very short or their financial needs are very great. It seemed right, ladies and gentlemen, to touch to-day on some of the serious topics of education as well as on the special qualities of King's, and I hope I have not wearied you; at least I have kept within my self-imposed time limit allowing for the brief and pleasant interlude of the Speeches which give their name to the day and for which I hope you will a ll stay. But one thing remains and that the most important- a very personal note, and it is this. I mentioned the special qualities of King's, and no one could be more conscious than I of the proud inheritance bequeathed by Canon Shirley. We all , or very many of us, have our own particular memories- a boy from overseas, for example, now elevated to the purple and a University candidate who was admitted to the School in May, 1962 without the fo rm ality of Common Entrance and who proudly reported on his progress each year, "0" Level and "A" Level, much to the great and evident delight of Canon Shirley. For myself, I remember a long conversation- one of many- which I had with Canon Shirley at the beginning of this term when it was clear that his concern for the School, its welfare and its interests, was as close and deep as ever; and I remember too how one day five years ago in early September we made a tour of the School together at my request. With a natural trepidation and a mild foreboding wh ich you will readily understand, I mentioned in passing that for me the new term with its equally great but very different and very challenging responsibilities now loomed ahead. As many of you know, Canon Shirley understood the subtle meaning of words. He turned to me and said quizzically and in characteristic fashion: "Don't let it loom, man". I don't think it has, and from those words of his both then and afterwards I derived no little encouragement. We mourn his passing, but we remember him with gratitude and affection; and on this occasion of high ceremony 1 wou ld ask that there be conveyed to Mrs. Shirley by the Captain of School as his final duty a personal message not only of deep sympathy but of recognition of a great task nobly achieved and of respectful admiration for her own unfailing kindness and for her courage and tranqu illity. Thank you, Mr. Dean.

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ACADEMIC AND OTHER DISTINCTIONS GAINED 1966-1967 OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARSHIPS E. H. DAILEY

N . BRYSON

R. DEIGHTON R. A. EADm ... A. J. FLICK •.• F. E. W. L. GOTTESMANN J. R. GROOM A. D. F. HODSON J. M. HUTCHINSON P.

K. JOHNSON

KERMODE

P. J. A. LANDYMORE

A. D. MARSHALL D. T. OLIVER

A. G. POPE ...

A. M. N. SHAW

c. s. VARCOE J. K. WALMSLEY G. W. COLLIER

P. R. ENSOR . ..

F. E. W. L. GOTTESMANN N. W. JACKSON

Choral Exhibition, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Open Scholarship in English, King's College, Cambridge Open Exhibition in Engineering, Clare College, Cambridge Open Exhibition in Mathematics, Trinity College, Cambridge Open Exhibition in English, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Open Scholarship in Modern Languages, Trinity Hall, Cambridge Open Exhibition in History, Lincoln College, Oxford Open Minor Scholarship in Classics (for Law), Wadham College, Oxford Open Scholarship in Natural Science (Engineering), Worcester College, Oxford Open Scholarship in Natural Science (Chemistry), Hertford College, Oxford Open Scholarship in Mathematics with Physics, St. John's College, Cambridge Open Demyship in History, Magdalen College, Oxford Open Exhibition in Classics, King's College, Cambridge Open Exhibition in Natural Science, Keble College, Oxford Open Scholarship in Natural Sciences, Pembroke College, Cambridge Open Scholarship in History (for Law), Trinity College, Oxford Choral Scholarship, King's College, Cambridge Parker Exhibition in Modern Languages, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Awarded an Industrial Scholarship by Automative Products Ltd., Leamington, tenable at any University Trinity College, Oxford. Awarded an I.B.M. University Scholarship tenable from October, 1967, and Ford Studentship Awarded Harveian Society Prize Awarded a University Scholarship by Richard Thomas and Baldwin 442

A. T. JONES ... C. J. LEE G. A. PEARCE N. M. S. PITCEATHLY N. P. PRESS ...

C. M. SAUNDERS

C. WALTHAM

Passed Associated Board Examination, Grade VIII (Violin)-Merit Awarded Civil Engineering Trust Scholarship at Oxford Awarded Rolls Royce Engineering Student Scholarship Passed Associated Board Examination, Grade VIII (Piano) Awarded Scholarship by the Overseas Mining Association to read Mining Geology at Imperial College, London Awarded a Drapers' Company Commonwealth Scholarship at McGill University, Montreal Passed Associated Board Examination, Grade VIII ('cello)-Distinction

AWARDS GAINED AT THE UNIVERSITIES N. A. H. DAWNAY

R. M. FRANKLIN

C. J. HUDSON R. D. KENT ...

C. LAWRENCE

C. J. LEE S. R. ST. J. NEILL 1. P. l)ERKINS A. A. RAN ICKI A. M. 1. RonOI NS

M. P. SCOFIELD

Awarded a Leathersellers' Exhibition at Merton College, Oxford Christ Church, Oxford . First Class Honours in Modern History. Elected Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford Jesus College, Cambridge. First Class Honours in English Corpus Christi College, Oxford. First Class in Classical Honour Moderations and awarded an Open Scholarship St. John's College, Cambridge. Passed M.B., B.Chir. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lincoln College, Oxford. First Class Honours in Physics, Mathematics and Engineering Science Balliol College, Oxford. First Class Honours in Natural Science- Zoology University of Southampton. First Class Honours in Electrical Engineering. B.Sc. (Eng.) Trinity College, Cambridge. First Class Honours in Mathematical Tripos, Part IA Aberdeen University. First Class Honours in the Meteorology part of the Forestry Course. Awarded Laing Memorial Prize for Botany Lincoln College, Oxford . First -Class Honours in English Language and Literature 443

P. M. A. SHERWOOD

D. L. SMITH ... R. J. A. TALBERT

L. A. TUCKER

H. TURNER

P. J. P. WACHSMANN

St. Andrew's University. First Class Honours in Chemistry; awarded the Irvine Jubilee Medal for the most distinguished student in Chemistry; the Forrester Prize for the best student in Chemistry on the results of the Degree examination; and awarded the Class Medal for the year's work. Accepted by Magdalene College, Cambridge, as a Research Student to read for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded a Science Research Council Studentship Trinity College, Cambridge. First Class Honours in Mathematical Tripos, Part IA Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. First Class Honours in Classical Tripos, Part I. Awarded Sir William Browne's Medal for Greek Epigram St. Catherine's College, Oxford. Awarded Hardwicke Scholarship to Lincoln's Inn Gonville and Ca-ius College, Cambridge. First Class Honours in Law, Part II. Elected Scholar of Gonville and Caius College and awarded Munro Tapp Postgraduate Scholarship Durham University. First Class Honours in Final School of Music

OTHER DISTINCTIONS

M. A. S. BURGESS

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THE REVEREND D. L. EDWARDS

C. H. FREEMAN P. D. MILLER A. SEAL M. 1. A. SIMPSON 1.

O. STROM-OLSEN ...

W. E. S. THOMAS

C. VERNON-SMITH

E. J. WRIGHT

University Lectureship in Slavonic Studies Cambridge ' Appointed Hulsean Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Rowing Blue, Oxford Rowing Blue, Oxford University Lectureship in History, Cambridge Elected Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Ph.D. Research Studentship at University of New Brunswick Elected to Lectureship in Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford. Lecturer in Law at York University Ph.D. at St. John's College, Cambridge Awarded Associate Membership of the Royal School of Church Music in recognition of former school students who have distinguished themselves in their chosen field of church music. 444

SERVICE AWARDS

N. M. CUMBER H. N. GALE ...

Passed out of Mons Officer Cadet School Awarded Royal Navy Reserved Cadetship.

D. P. R. HEWS R. B. HOWARD-WILLIAMS

Cadetship at Dartmouth. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal

J. H. LANGRISHE

Awarded Royal Navy Reserved Cadetship.

P. M. C. RANDRUIJ ...

Passed out of Sandhurst

S. J. ROBERTS

Passed out of Sandhurst.

Marines

PRESENT HOLDERS OF EXHIBITIONS GENERAL FUND EXHIBITION

P. C. Cranfield to Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London University L. C. Rutland to Royal Academy of Music

GILBERT & SHEPHERD FUND GIFTS

A. D. F. Hodson to Wad ham College, Oxford F. E. W. L. Gottesman to Trinity Hall, Cambridge

ROSE'S CHARITY GIFT

M. J. R. Nicholls

STANHOPE FUND GIFT

J. Adam

BUNCE FuND

T. S. Radcliffe for King's College Hospital, Medical School

ANDERSON GIFT

N. J. Day to Imperial College, London

WADDINGTON GIFT

C. M. Saunders to McGill University, Montreal

SIDEBOTHAM EXHIBITION

M. L. Brown to London School of Economics

MCCURDY EXI'[[BlTIONS

T. A. Ling to The Queen's College, Oxford A. R. M . Smith to St. Edmund Hall, Oxford

CRAWFORD EXHIBITION

P. Jakeman to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Medical School.

OLIVER JOHNSON GIFT

R. A. Eadie to Trinity College, Cambridge

SALTERS' COMPANY EXHIBITION .. .

M. E. Erskine

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Form Prizes: New Shell Lower Shell S.SH.e ... S.SH.n ... S.SH.A .. . A.SH.e ... A.SH.n ... A.SH.A ... A. Remove S.Ve S.Vn S.VA A.Vo A.Ve A.Mid.V A.Vn ... A.VA ...

A. J. Hamilton D. V. Woollett C. S. P. Knowles R. C. N. Warren A. F. Allen C. A. Letts R. D. Carter A. J. Groom R. F. Harding F. A. Karim N. P. W. Watson A. G. L. Lyle S. P. B. Tuite M. J. Evans W. D. B. Edmondson G. S. Thomson A. J. Chamberlin

Geography: Lower School ... Middle School...

R. F. Harding D. J. Wylson

History: Lower School ... Middle School (Gordon) Upper School ...

R. L. M. Wohanka J. H. W. Lloyd P. J. A. Landymore

English: Lower School ... Middle School (Galpin) Upper School ...

M. W. Iliff J. H. W. Lloyd W. N. Bryson

Science Prizes: Lower School: Biology Physics: Chemistry

R. C. N. Warren N. C. Ellis N. C. Ellis M. E. Erskine M. E. Erskine R. B. Parsons E. H. Bailey {J. H. B. Poole ... R. A. Eadie ... J. H. B. Poole

Middle School: Biology Physics Chemistry Upper School: Biology Physics Chemistry

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Modern Languages Prizes (Greaves) Lower School: French

J. M. Barson J. M. Barson R. H. W. Duckworth R. J. A. M. Bunzl F. E. W. L. Gottesmann C. R. Romberg

German Middle School: French German Upper School: French German Mathematics Prizes (Harrison):

A. J. Groom A. J. Turner R. A. Eadie

Lower School ... Middle School... Upper School ... Latin Prizes: Lower School ... Middle School... Upper School ...

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R. L. M. Wohanka R. H. W. Duckworth A. D. F. Hodson

Greek Prizes: R. J. M. Inman D. V. Pugh A. B. Marshall

Lower School ... Middle School... Upper School ...

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The O.K.S. Salvete Essay Prize

A. J. Groom

The O.K.S. Music Prizes ...

L. C. T. C.

Carpentry Prize

G. A. Harris

Pfizer Company's Prize

R. K. Scott A. P. Bedford C. Handley J. A. Hampton J. A. Barnden

Cathedral Prizes

A. S. Hallam C. N. Wood J. F. Maule 447

C. Rutland M. Saunders A. Ling S. Varcoe

Archaeoiogy Pdzes (Geoffrey Wells) : Junior Senior

P. J. Wagstaff N. J. C. Manby C. H . Willis

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History (John Crawford): Lower School ... Middle School... Upper School ...

T. B. Jeffery B.P.Decie G. R. G . Keeble

History (H. V. Crawford): Lower School ... Middle School... Upper School ...

P. T. Erskine N. J. C. Manby Not awarded

Musical Appreciation (Alan Baker)

K. L. J. Alder R. J. A. True

Cantuarian Lodge (General Paper)

J. H. W. Lloyd

O.K.S. Science: Lower School ... Middle School... Arts VB Arts VA Sci. VIB

P. O. Mullender R. J. S. Shaw R. P. Harding N. W. Beswick R. B. Parsons A. N. G. Harris J. P. Carver

O.K.S. Mathematics : Lower School .. . Middle School...

J. Scott-Williams B. D. Rapson

Cantuarian Prizes: Junior Senior ...

J. K. Harris W. N. Bryson

Harvey Society (Blore)

R. A. Eadie

Divinity Prizes : Lower School (Lady Hertslet) Middle School (Marshall Wi/d) Upper School (Brough/on) ...

A. S. Hallam Not awarded A. B. J. Willett

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Drawing Prizes: Junior Open ...

M. J. Stanger P. C. Cotton

Photography (Gough): Junior Open ...

B. L. Thorndike J. M. Frye

History (Everitt) (Stanley)

Not awarded N. J. C. Manby

English (Evans)

Not awarded

King's School, Parramatta Prizes: Middle School...

G: F. Wilson J. R. Letts Not awarded

Upper School ... Natural History

A. B. J. Willett

Music (Courtney)

B. J. L. Gipps J. C. Groves

Music (Ryley)

J. D. Williams

Greek Verse ...

Not awarded

Latin Verse (Blore)

A. D. F. Hodson

Reading and Elocution (Harvey Boys): Junior ... Senior .. .

J. F. Maule Not awarded

Modern Languages: Middle School (Scratton) Upper School (Mitchinson)

A. J. Chamberlin N. R. L. M. Raemaekers

Natural Science (Mitchinson)

I. B. Godman

Mathematics (Mitchinson)

R. A. Eadie

Latin Prose (Horsley): Middle School .. . Upper School ...

A. J. Chamberlin A. B. Marshall 449

Greek Prose (Dean Farrar) : Middle School... Upper SchooL..

J. N. Lawrance R. M. Plant

Classical (Broughton)

J. S. Gay

Headmaster's Poetry Prizes: Junior ...

C. H. R. Hutchison G. F. Wilson A. J. Ramsay

Senior '" Headmaster's Prizes

J. K. Walmsley C. R. Romberg R. B. Kennedy R. N. Jarman F. S. Hallam G. K. Jaggers M. G. Dover N. P. Press

Lady Davidson Prize

J. R. Wilson

Captain's Prize (Mitchinson)

C. M. Saunders

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AN ACADEMIC MIRROR

N. M. S. Radin

The radio blared its motorway message. Fence flicked by. Flyovers passed overhead and the deep thud beats of road layers signalled their monotonous code. Flashing beacons marked the kerb and overtaking vehicles blurred past. Dusk feU in a blanket. Drowsiness pervaded the car. The occupants chatted silently and the roar of passing sports cars made the radio buzz furiously. The commentator cracked his cliche clause, there was a roar and the giant screech of clawing brakes. The cars smashed together in a mangled configuration of twisted metal. A B.B.C. newscaster told motorists to avoid the motorway until the mess had been cleared away; six were declared dead and one critically ill. Ambulances rushed and men with binoculars stood on flyovers trying to see, as blood spread like water across the three-lane tarmac and the stench drove women away. The ambulances sped off, spurting their sides with blood, and hospital doors swung open, aU the way to the theatre, where an emergency operation took place. Relatives were told that there was little chance. The patient was laid in crisp, antiseptic sheets and a nurse stayed on duty all the time, as two-hourly injections were plugged into him. The nurse sat in a corner, out of the patient's range of vision, reading her book. The patient lay unconscious for days. He showed no signs of life at all and the hattle was lost in all but the final signature of defeat. He stirred restlessly in the blue shadow haze of unconsciousness and vaguely attempted to grasp life, but sank back into his foamy dreams of grey space and nothing. Every now and then sound came to its rushing climax and the cars reached their bloody smash as the syringe was extracted, but no corpses fell from the cars and blank lived in his mind and his face became clear and ghostlike. The nurse retired to her fairy story seat in the corner, and gradually singeing dust danced and materialised in golden balls by the sunlit window. Eventually the world loomed up on his lost senses and startling white walls, completely bare, represented the ultimate in life for him, as consciousness returned. He lay bathed in blood and watched plain waUs edged with ephemeral shadows. He gazed, and after some time, painfuUy craned his neck-and there was a mirror, on the opposite waU. He watched. Everything was quiet. Pain throbbed in his strained neck, but he watched without noticing it. He looked at the mirror, which reflected the glass door behind him, through which could be seen the corridor outside his room. White walls, framed by blue pipes with one picture suitably placed stared back at him. He watched. Through the mirror a completely new world was added to his life. His enjoyment of life was doubled and he refused to lose this life. There was a boom of echoing voices chiming along the spirit corridors and a bunch of nurses flashed through the mirror. One second they were there and the next they had disappeared. He longed to be able to see the rest of the corridor, which was not revealed in the mirror. As time passed, he became extremely experienced at retaining the nurses in his mind for a long time. Savouring them. Examining them in minute detail until the next object for analysis slipped past.

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Bursts, breaking control, glowing Power updrive, sudden towering Vision of the mind plant flowering. Distant crowd scenes of sound shift Through fluorescent oozing green, Supple shapes in incense drift, Rice paper butterflies, hardly seen Flutter from the whichaway clamour Into a crescendo which numbs the senses With a blurred vortex of sensual colour, Glimpsed through ecstatic parabolic lenses. Slowly float to the surface Clung with strangling weed Grope and grovel in the shallows Then blinding burdensome light. 452

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VOLUNTARY SOCIAL WORK IN CAMBERWELL J. A. Barnden, N. A. Karim & J. A. Medcraft

About half-way through the Lent Term we heard various rumours that we might have a chance to "take a census . ... of old women's living conditions .... in top-storey flats in London", during the Easter holidays. When asked whether we should like to do this for three or four days, we made tentative affirmative noises. We thought it would be an interesting and useful experience-and when we learnt that in reality we should be looking at alcoholism, mental health, help for "vagrants" (tramps), and so on, we realised that we were on to something more rewarding than the affairs of old women. We had been given an idea of what we were likely to see in the way of down-and-out characters, but we were still rather taken aback when we were interrupted by a drunk, just outside the Oval Underground . Actually we had quite an interesting conversation, covering such topics as his proficiency at soccer (as illustrated by twenty-seven England matches), and touching upon the character of the typical young Scot-who, we unanimously decided, is without exception an incurable bigot: ...... but I can shee you're not b-Scotsh-you're very, very nishe boysh". With boosted ego we pressed forward on our pilgrimage to St. Giles', Camberwell, half a mile down Camberwell Church Street. Tea in the Vicar's fiat was most welcome, as was the talk he gave us in which he provided a background to what we were to learn later, telling us mainly of the alcoholism and of the commercial homosexuality in London. Unfortunately, in this summary we have room to write about only a few of the many things we saw in Camberwell. The mainstay of our study of social service in south-east London was the Crypt of st. Giles'. Until recently this Crypt was packed with corpses, but now it is very much full of life, helped no doubt by the theoretically bottomless Maxwell House jar. A canteen, tables, sofas, and subterranean security all help to provide a place where anybody with any sort of problem can go. The value of the Crypt lies in the company and friendliness to be found there, as well as in the material help given: problems of food, money, and work are often due initially to loneliness or to any of a great range of psychological disorders. The staff, consisting of a very able director, a secretary, and some Community Service Volunteers, have developed personal links with the Police, employers, Alcoholics Anonymous, various mental institutions, and so on; this greatly increases the versatility of the Crypt in dealing with problems such as those of drink, food, money, work, family, mental illness and loneliness. We must stress that no money is given. Money causes more problems than it solves and far more value lies in the methods used by the Crypt. The work to be done is limitless and requires much patience, as many cases need months-long attention; to help those who are prepared to talk about their problems and those who have resigned themselves to vagrancy it is necessary to build up a friend ly relationship, by playing cards, draughts, and 453

so on (as well as serving and drinking large quantities of tea and coffee!). Thus a small amount of money can have no eftect on personal problems, while large amounts are of course impracticable. Naturally St. Giles' does not have room for actually lodging applicants. This sort of service is provided by the Camberwell Reception Centre. Anybody who has read DOlVn and Ollt in Paris and London, by George Orwell, will know the sort of place we are writing about; also, in the recent film B1olV-Up one of the opening scenes pictured this Centre, as cinema-goers may recall. With accommodation for about a thousand people, the Centre accepts any tramp (but not his alcohol) for the night, at a cost of two shillings if he can pay it, or free if he has less than that amount. Constant efforts are made to persuade "casuals" (those staying for only a night or two) to become "residents" (those staying for weeks or months}-thence on to a stable job and a useful life. The task is not easy: a steady 20 per cent. of the "vagrants" have mental problems, and an equal number are alcoholics. In all the facets we saw of social service, alcoholism was a leading problem. As a matter of fact, we went to an open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. Imagine a small room in a dim Methodist Chapel, with a few alcoholics present, making autobiographical speeches. This is the way A.A. works-friendly sympathetic discussions in which alcoholics well on the way to recovery help those who are in a worse state. It is a pity we do not have room for more on alcoholism-it makes a fascinating study. However, here is an illustration of the seriousness of the problem: everybody has heard ofmeth-drinkers-but when the alcoholic is too poor to buy meths., he takes to "surge" (surgical spirit); and when even this has become too expensive, floor polish in various mixtures is used. Bubbling mains gas through milk apparently makes quite an intoxicating drink, taken by a fair number of youths. We were also able to find out something about the problems of mental health . We were shown various Centres, including one for elderly people and another for children . Since these units are run by the State, they need not concern us here; but one thing that forcibly struck us was the friendliness and joviality of the children we saw. Take for instance this conversation: I I

SMALL BOY (holding lip playing card): "What's this card 1" OURSELVES (anslVering in tllrn, lVith condescending amllsement): "The King of Spades, of course!"

SMALL Boy: "Wrong, it's Batman!" [Exit, only to retllrn later lVith same card.) SMALL Boy: "What's tbis card 1" OURSELVES (conjounded): "Urn, er, Batman, chum.' SMALL Boy (scornjully): "No, it's Robin!" We also went to a centre which caters for schizophrenics (schizophrenia being quite common), manic depressives, and attempted suicides, among others. We met one woman who had jumped into the Thames seven times because she was so depressed, and who regretted that she had been rescued. St. Giles' is in close contact with such centres: this is but one of a number of ways in which the Church can help and is helping in all spheres of social work. Even in those areas already catered for by the State, the Church can add personal touches, and there will always be new fields for the Church to pioneer in. Moreover, there are no signs of st. Giles' dropping out of the scene quite yet, as at the moment there is being built a group of buildings incorporating a new vicarage, offices, social service headquarters, a Scout Hall, and a Youth Club, with an associated gymnasium. All this shows that in the future, St. Giles' will still have an important part to play in the public welfare of Camberwell. 454

B. J. A. Tulbert

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"Is that a face beneath that hair that traileth on the floors? "And are those arms and legs I see (I rather think tbey're paws)? "Are you by chance a Cavern Man (from Liverpool, perhaps) 1 "And why do birds nest in your hair1 Sir, a dreadful lapse." "Look, Dad, I'm a significant singing man from Nashville, Tennessee. "I'm hip, I'm in, I groove, I swing, I'm stuffed with L.S.D." "Is tbat so 1 All rigbt, come in, and enter Hell, you gnome. "If you feel you really must, you may, but please obtain a comb. "I tell you what, though Hades is with punishments well and truly crammed, "Just pop downstairs, and sing your songs unto the Really Damned. "I'm always keen for something new, and I think you'll do the trick: "Your face alone makes me quite ill, and your music makes me sick. "So take your ttabor, your locks, and your garments strange and odd, "Torment the Dead, and fill the Ghosts with the Fear of God." • The text is uncertain at this point. It may read, "M. Jagger". t The guitar was unknown to the Greeks.

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Then we create a tapestry And every look is a new look With a fresh mind Each strand carefully woven Sacrosanct- not-to-be-examined Not-to-be-analysed

Each man dreams-alone And wishing to be together All consider Perhaps a composite One of this, one of that Picture could be

This being the highest aim That men can aspire To ever

That all strands shall be One and all tapestries a unity For all eyes

When that time comes All being one The One that is I And the One that is you Will be no more.

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It was fun while it lasted But after a while His red rimmed Blue eyes Seemed to bore into my conscience.

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LileP The only dimension is pity A paradox in a reality; It is easier to sleep through life Than obscure the sin, squalor, strifeWe are alive but dead, We laugh but are depressed, We are a confusion of thoughts And a complexity of doubts, Blind trust, and blind suspicion; Suicide is the way to salvation. 457

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He tore off his tie-pin and savagely stuck it into his thigh, hoping that the sharp pain would help to sober him up. The surprise he felt when the point tore through the soft skin jangled in his deadened senses, shocked his tired body, made him cry out loud. He made an effort to escape from the soft armchair which trapped him, but Harry pushed him back and splashed beer into his mug until it was pouring over his trousers. He could only laugh ridiculously. Laugh, like all the others. Not that there was anything funny, he thought. Not funny at all. Ten animals staggering against the walls and crawling over the worn, stained carpet. Human beings, really, just like himself. Drunk. He managed to stand up. The room swayed, sending flashes of colour and smell through him. Jack collapsed at his feet, sending him crashing into the cheap, flowery wallpaper. Oh God he thought nearer the door. By sliding along the wall, he could just reach the ha~dle. The door wa; huge, swollen, but it was not like the liquid floor. The hinges creaked, and they reminded him of a song which he tried to whistle as his feet glided over the hall to the front door. It was open, and he slid into the cold night. Thank God no-one had noticed him going. The bus stop was about half a mile away, over the bridge and past the row of shops. The street lights tinted everything with orange, even the trees he hew so well. The wall hy the river flowing by timeless and cold. The nver knew no passIOn; boredom and the tide for eve;y day of its history. Swirls of water varied its motion, weeds broke its surface. He stared for a long time at the broken crate, floating from side to side, and spat at a flower. The sourness of sudden nausea twitched inside him, bubbling away like the passing spasms which shook his body. Icy, penetrating wind chilled the sweat on his clothes, and stabb~d at him. He shivere~, and vomited long and hatefully into the filthy gutter. The wmd whIpped away h,s wretched moan, spreading it over the fronts of the houses where resp~ctabl~ people lived, people who slept with their ugly wives and put two spoonfuls of sugar m their warm, weak tea. But God, how he envied them, these respectable people. They mIght be unhappy, but not miserable. Ragged flaps of newspaper moved uselessly down the empty street. On, on, he walked, fast and light on the grey pavmg stones. Only the wmd dIsturbed him, for he was supremely happy. After all, these trees grew, the nver flowed and he lived. Why should he know the reason? He was young, and he could take a share of the world before he died. The blurred feeling of houses smoothed away the clouds round h,s braID, and now only his cold, damp body was drunk. The body, just a lump attached to the soul of movement and creation, felt pain, but pain-this sort of pain-did not belong to the soul.

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A girl was leaning against the parapet of the bridge. As his footsteps approached, she looked up and smiled . She did not notice his stained clothes in the orange light. He stared at her orange face, her orange arms, and laughed at her. "Why a girl?" he thought, as he walked past, bitterly sorry as she stared at him. He saw the bright strip lighting of the shops as he drifted across the road and stared at the brightness of the white counters. He looked back. The orange girl was moving away, past the newspaper scraps, and away to the next lamp. Her cold shadow was grey beside the orange movement of her legs. Away .... Turning from the girl and the shops he moved towards the few trees beside the car park. He felt ill .... God! How sick .... the clouds round his dry thought .... He lay in the grass while the wind tore at his suit. He lay unconscious and black in the nigbt. The leaves rustled far away .... His body turned over in the dawn light, chilled and numb. He felt ill, and sick from tbe bottom of his clogged mind, which flickered and shook in the light of the day beginning to rise in the drawing of curtains and rattling of tbe early milk crates. Disgust and pain swept over him as he began to walk towards the house where Harry had held the party. It was mostly curiosity which helped him make his way to the front door. It was unlocked, and swung wide open when he pushed it. He saw the broken mug which, he remembered vaguely, had been thrown at the faded photograph of a stern Victorian ancestor in a moment of anger. The ancestor stared hard at him, and seemed to be giving him a lecture against strong drink, alcohol, the destroyer of God's finest creation, that which turneth noble man into a raging beast. He laughed, and saluted the photograpb. Rather surprisingly, tbe stiff-collared Pillar of the Empire did not salute him back. But, of course, he had been dead a hundred years, damn him. A worn voice called out from the beer-stained room: "Tbat you, James?" "No, it's me", be said as he entered tbe room and looked round it. A mixture of flat beer and burnt-out cigarettes covered the table. Someone was asleep in the chair in whicb he had been sitting since nine o'clock, still with a mug hanging onto his clenched fingers. The smell was foul, and he coughed as he fell into a chair. Harry sat opposite, reading the papers and filling his mug from time to time from the crate on the floor beside him. He crumpled up the paper and looked at tbe pale figure slouched in the cbair. "What bappened to you last night?" he asked. "I didn't see you go." "No, I slipped out quietly. I didn't want to drink any more." "Then you didn't see Jack walking upstairs on his head. He'll have a phenomenal hangover, the silly Junkie. There he is, over in the corner. Well, how's life?" Suddenly, he felt clearer. He lit a cigarette, and threw the match at the body in the corner of the room. It fell off the arm of the chair, sending up a thin spiral of smoke from the carpet. "Okay", he replied. "Any beer left?" "Help yourself." Harry threw a bottle at him, and finished off his own beer. "Thanks." He twisted off the stopper, and picked up a glass from the floor. The cool beer frothed and sparkled, and he drank it in one gulp. "What the heir', he thought. He put his glass on the table, made an attempt to thank Harry, and walked out. Out, and into the rising life of the day. He laughed and threw his cigarette into the river. It hissed, and swung with the water as the sodden paper melted into the current. 459

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J. H. Eden

Stone in the stream Parts the water Shelters the bream From the moonlight, which Pours bright cupfuls Down through the cool Soft green love pulls On the waterweed. Stickleback darts From the tree roots Round the old cart's Broken spoked wheels. Under the bridge All in a line Among the sedge Lie old dead bottles. Freshwater crab Scuttles for prey Misses its grab And sidles away. The reeds together Whisper in hope For good weather To make life easier. All is so brief Nothing lives long But new water Still sings the same song.

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Corn lor my gener"tion J.E.Pidler

o new men of the springtime

Intensively not bothering Why do you wear green shirts Pink vests And no bow ties? By our walking so much faster Will we make our day last longer Or is the sparkling of the season A clue To the pinkness of your sldn Or the flitting of a bird Through the sky Was tomorrow all done yesterday Or can the clashing of a cymbal Change the themes That wander through this cacophony. Our history. Am I part of you Are we searching, are we running? Are we scared? Are we seeldng all the answers '! Or do we no longer know The right questions To ask?

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Epilogue 1967

c. B. Bomberg

Far on the scaffold of my years to come Will I tum round before the noose of death And judge my judges with just fairness or with hate? Will I in misconceived blind anger then Kick out against an unknown world And blame my life on circumstance my death on chance? Now is my time of trial and of crime. Here am I judge and judged alone. Here is that heritage of hearts Here on the hearth of our experience In clustered courts of spiritual divide. Never was stronger that gilt chain of life That binds me to reality. It's in the pilgrim's shrine of truth That my mind thrives on thought. Worship the synagogue of sight Bow to the minaret of understanding Unite them all in my computer's cell. Here in the shadow of cathedraled heights Stood my sweet knowledge-tree within my grasp. Here while in my ascending years My life was clear my goals in sight My hopes stretched to horizoned lengths My spirit burned with happy fire Even my soul was half ajar to death. And so the head turns round Over the shoulder of our present thoughts To gaze out on the conquered wake of our experience. Even hell is soma-sweet And every staggered footstep of the painful present Seems an ecstatic purging of the elated soul When filtered through the laurel lush of memory. That man should sink so low. ls this our Brave New World? Or can we cry: No lotus-eatersl Nol Spit out The sickly spice of candled past. When standing on the foothills of the present do not stare Down at the verdant lowlands left behind But high above at icy crags Of conquests yet to come. Learn from today but watch lest evening's thrill Should mask the dawn that follows-there lies life. So in this shrine of momentary presence We can with Janus' gaze look to the future with the eye of memory. 462

THE BODEY CUP "Mend your speech a little Lest it may mar your fortunes"-Killg Lear

Adjudicator:

Winning House:

MR. ROBERT SPEAIGHT

SCHOOL HOUSE

The competition for the Bodey Cup, held in the Shirley Hall on 21st May, being the first of its kind, was necessarily experimental, and perhaps the most useful thing your reviewer can do is to try in his assessment to include suggestions which may be helpful for the future. The main lesson which must be learnt is that speaking in public requ ires a technique different from all private modes of speech. It is a technique which must be learnt; it requires considerable physical effort and mental awareness. It is not an activity in which amateurs naturally excel. The second is that dramatic pieces require most careful and meticulous production ; they do not just "happen"; they must be induced by all the subtlety and skill of which the producer is capable. Inaudibility and poor production were the greatest crimes committed in this competition. Characters turned away from the audience, shuffled about, and at times reminded one of T.V. characters when the sound had failed. Marlowe House had an original Exposition which would have been twice as effective if it had been half the length. Their dramatic excerpt was a mistaken choice, poorly performed. The Galpin's entry left a good deal to be desired. An adjudicator would have found difficulty in award ing many marks, unless for the pleasing quality of C. L. Zuntz's voice. The evening began to become a live with The Grange programme. R. N. Jarman's Exposition was good, the argument clear and the presentation vigorous, although with some stylised mannerisms. The scene from Man and Superman was played with lively conviction. C. S. Varcoe was impressive, although too fast, and G . F. Wilson displayed an acting ability which makes him a young man to watch in future . For Meister Omers, B. A. Kirsch recited Dylan Thomas in an audible and pleasing voice, although he could have made more of the beauty of Thomas's words. It was a pleasure to hear F. S. Hallam's Exposition, and the pity was that in moving about so much he dried up. The Schoolfor Scandal scene was well played, and J. C. Richards revealed a fine voice. The scene was well set with the use of portraits: altogether a great pleasure. Luxmoore's Henry Vaughan poem was well enunciated and the voices gave great pleasure. P. Mason had a most sensible Exposition, and looked entirely right, but was inaudible. The "Salome" Excerpt was nicely stylised, and M. McD. Simpson managed the difficult speech with skill. The Tetrarch acted with conviction, but it was a mistake to face Salome when he should have faced the audience. Inaudibility cost them much. For School House, M. Powell's poem was genui nely touching, although not always easy to hear. The Exposition was aud ible, vigorous and with a clear and effective argument. The dramatic excerpt was played with enjoyment, and the theme and material were such as to make an immediate appeal to the audience. It managed to capture humou r, pathos and action all in the space of seven minutes. 463

Linacre's Ballad of Reading Gaol was spoken in a good voice, and with an effective, easy manner which was very successful. Rhythms were not quite right, and the whole was too fast. This was so good that it was worth making it a good deal better. The Exposition was audible, with a sound argument and easy delivery. The Excerpt was played with the same natural style which was effective, but the choice of scene was faulty in that it lacked variety, point, or a real punch line to make it powerful. In Walpole's Ballad, H. Konigsberger and J. R. Carey spoke beautifully, and they captured something of the pathos of the lines. R. Bird's Exposition was an excellent choice of subject, but one felt that he could have hammered the picture dealers even harder. The scene from The LOllg and the Short alld the Tall was a good choice, and J. K. Harris displayed the ability of a natural actor although he spoke too fast. J. R. Carey carried conviction, but other performances were inadequate. Lines taken too quickly lose their effectiveness, and actors should learn the dramatic effectiveness of pauses. Next year, Houses may be well advised to take advice about their productions, and to rehearse more carefully in the Great Hall. Ability to speak in public is an invaluable attainment which the Bodey Cup may do much to encourage. R.W.H.

ROWING THE ATLANTIC CAPTAIN RIDGWAY Most of us when young decide that we wish to be famous, and many of us may find at some time in our lives that we are in danger of becoming du ll ; few of us combat this by doing anything as remarkable as rowing the Atlantic in a twenty-foot boat-Captain Ridgway and Sergeant Blyth did. Captain Ridgway's account of the venture was bound to be fascinating and it was further enlivened by his presentation, which was a nice blend of dry humour with a clear appreciation of the dangers which they had to face. Captain Ridgway told us of the extensive preparations which had to be made, and the fitting out of the boat. Even so, on the actual crossing there were many unforeseen discomforts which they had to adapt to: the lack of space with only 8 ft. by 4 ft. to move in, the sudden storms which soaked and buffeted everything causing lack of sleep and which ruined much of their food, and the adverse winds which meant that virtually no progress was made for several days at a time. Finally Captain Ridgway stressed the need to maintain the routine of civilised life, even in simple things like shaving and cooking, to keep up morale, and he told us of the slowing down of mental processes which accompanies the routine of continual rowing. In fact to have any chance of survival (even if the weather had been calm, which it frequently wasn't) they had to change their rowing schedule, so that they ended up by each rowing for eighteen hours of every day, for the last sixty days. The six hours of intermittent sleep were taken in three two-hour periods, while the other man rowed on. For those who missed the talk, their book, A Fighting Chance (an autographed copy of which is in the library) provides an even more fascinating and gripping account of what it is like to have to fight the North Atlantic in all its moods for ninety-two days. J.E.F. 464

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IS MODERN POETRY TOO OBSCURE? DR, R. A. FOAKES On the lIyelfth of May, a Friday, Dr. R .. A. Foakes, Professor of English Literature at the UmvefSlty of Kent, gave a talk to celtam members of the Sixth Form in the Societies ~oom. Dr. Foakes had modifie~, his original subject, "Obscurity in Modern Poetry", to Is Modern Poetry too Obscure? ,as the former would really have been too vast a topic. Dr. Foakes spoke well, creatmg a plea~ant, relaxed, mformal atmosphere. His main pomt was tha~, whe!eas poets up to the nllleteenth century could have some certainty of shared values m thelr readmg audlence, the modern poet was all too conscious of the lack of common backgn,mnd- social, economic and religious- in his. And while Tennyson could expect an audlence OfSlxty thousand, the .modern poet is lucky to get five thousand. Therefore the modern poet lS constantly searchmg for a new foundation of values a new standard, on which to base his work. And in this search the allusions often tend to become specialised and obscure. This, Dr. Foakes' main point, was well made and illustrated. One of t.he hit;hlights .of the evening was. his reading of Henry Read's poem, Judging DIstances, 111 whlch he vlvldly evoked the dlfferent moods of the poem. Questions at the end of the lecture wer~ not n.umerous,. but those that were asked were intelligent, and the answers .were very II1terestll1(l,. pOSSibly more so than the main speech, because they lacked th~ shght element of repetlhon. Nevertheless, it was a most informative and enjoyable evenll1g, and we are very grateful to Dr. Foakes for giving up his time to talk to us. J.K.H.

THE CIVIL SER VICE MR. W. G. WILSON "J'he speaker,. having started in a style which some might have taken to be a remarkable

car~c~ture of hls namesake, soon rev.ealed that he was a hearty cynic about politics and I?ohhclans.lt; general. The popular mlsc~lllceptl,?n of the dreary deskwork in the everyday

life of a clvli servant was exploded by IliustratlOns from Mr. Wilson's own and some of hiS c,?ntemporanes' expenences and by some highly amusing anecdotes of Civil Service life. Desplte the fact that he went out of his way to emphasise the purely negative, faceless character of the execuhve, by: the end of the lectu~e one was even more firmly convinced that the backbone of the adml~lstratlOnhes l~ Whltehall and perhaps some of the brains. The enormous vanety. and. Wide expenence m the work was clearly illustrated and the speaker himself made It eVident that he was equally fitted to be financial adviser to the G~:lVernment of a colony in the tropics as to be organising the building of the new accident wl~g at the K~nt and Cante.rbury Hospital! With a dry ironic style of speaking, Mr. Wlison neatly mterspersed.wlth flashes of hum~lUr and pleasant self-depreciation a talk which, at the end, one reahsed had been hlghly mformahve and greatly enlightening. G.W.C. 465

THE HISTORIAN AND SHAKESPEARE DR. A. L. ROWSE A visit to the School by the distinguished Elizabethan historian Dr. A. L. Rowse is always a long-awaited event, and his talk on "Shake~peare and the Historian" fully lived up to expectations. As a lesson in lecturing techm.que I~ was su~erb, a great deal of information being spiced with witty asides to keep Ius audience on Its toes. The theme of his talk was the light historical research could throw on the study of Shakespea re. For instance, it is often sugg~sted that Shakespeare dIed a Cathohc, but examination of his will shows that It was wfltten III the Protestant, and not the Cathohc, style. This by way of an entre, Dr. Rowse then went on to tackle the mam c?,ursethe "unsolved" problems of Shakespeare's}<;>nnets. !hese are ~he IdentItr. of the young ma n" of the early sonnets, and that of the flvalpoet and the dark lady .. The first two problems are in fact soluble, Dr. Rowse told us, If only we get our datmg fight. By takmg key passages from va rious sonnets, and relating them to contemporary events, he showed us quite conclusively that the "rival poet" was Marlowe (a blow to those members of the audience who thought Dr. Ro wse was gOing to prove that It was Marlowe who wrote Shakespeare's plays) and the "young man" was none other than Shakespeare's patron, the Earl of S o uthampto~. The mysterious "W.H." who appears in the dedication to the ~onnets is probably only Sir William Harvey, the man. ~ho actually procured t~e manuscflpts f~r the publisher. He rounded off his talk by giVing us a few insights Into Shakespeare s characters. It was a stimulating evening, and one could not fail to be impressed by the soundness of Dr. Rowse's conclusions.

R.B.

CAREERS We would like to express at the end of another school yea r our gratitude to Mr. Young who, despite his own business comn:itments, so cheerfully finds O.K.S. speakers on a great va riety of careers, and acts as a hal son between the O.K.s. Socl~ty and those p~rents who are anxious to discuss a pressing problem concerning entry b~ their ~ons to a partIcular career. In 1966-67 there have been talks, followed by dlscusslons"pyen bY"Mr. A. J. M.unro, a.K.S., of "Vickers Instruments"; Mr. G. Wtl,l,sdon, O.K . ~ . , of DIstillers -Care~~~ in the Chemical Industry; Mr. M. K. Lester, O.K.S.- Careers WIth B.E.A. and B.O.A.C. , and Mr. R. Bussell, O.K.S., of "Harp Lager"- A Career as Brewer. These. speakers have most graciously travelled long distances in their limited free time and at thell' own expense 466

to give always an interesting accoun t of their own careers and to appraise the opportunities

today in their respective areas of commercial and ind ustrial activity. The talks have always been followed by a number of questions put to the speaker by boys seeking clarification of points raised or pressing for more detailed information . This opportunity of questioning the speaker is an invaluable part of the proceed ings. It is thus disappointing to have to mention that .audiences, which are always vo luntary, have several times shrunk to a size

that does not adequately honour the occasion. For the large number of boys in the School who feel themselves in no way committed to a particu lar career there is a benefit in listening to a man talking about his job and the form of service it takes to the general community, and in asking questions in pUblic. They are urged to come and listen and by their presence to express the School's gratitude to the O. K.S. panel of Careers speakers. Note has been taken that the showing of colour films has been particularly appreciated and that this is perhaps the way to an increased interest in the accompa nying but curtailed talks in the future. Tnterest has been maintained in the Short Careers Courses which take place in the holidays and last four or five days. Boys have attended courses arranged by Vickers, Unigate, the B.B.C., the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, British Rail, B.A.C. (Guided Weapons Division), and the Westminster Bank. Their written reports show how well they were instructed and entertained at the expense of the Compa ny and how val uable they fou nd this introduction to the industrial and commercial life of the country. In the Easter holidays there a re some 130 courses for which boys can apply in competition with boys from some 200 schools, but rarely does a boy find himself without acceptance if he offers himself for three or four courses. Boys have likewise attended the Manchester a nd the York P.S.A.B. Courses for which a fee of ÂŁ8 is required. It is felt that through the co-operation of Housemasters boys are steadily becoming aware and in sufficient time of these opportunities

to find out for themselves the kind of training and the variety of careers offered . Recently an a nal ysis has been undertaken with the help of Tim Ling of the information available to the School concerning the choice of a career made by leavcrs during the last fifteen years. No attempt has been made in the limited time available to make a statistical breakdown of the information nor to evaluate by graphs emergent trends. Rather did we seek to answer such straightforward questions as :Question: How many boys have left School since 1951? Answer: 1,843. Question: How many of these were undecided about a career when they left? Answer: 187. Question : How many proceeded to a University or College of Ad va nced Ed ucation and were postponing a decision meanwhile? Answer: 493. 467

Question: What order of preforence for a particular career is revealed in the case of boys who had reached a decision?

Answer: Engineering (all categories) ... Law (Solicitor and Barrister) Agriculture ... Medicine Armed Services Accountancy ... Architect

Insurance Commerce Music Banking Merchant Navy Estate Agent ... Surveyor

162 105 94 91 82 76 31 22 21 20 19 18 17 15

Hotel Management and Catering ... Dentist Journalism ... Aviation Clerk in Holy Orders Economist ... Foreign Office Teaching Police Stock Exchange Oil Companies Veterinary Surgeon Advertising ... Biochemist ...

15 14 13 12 10 9 9 9 9 9 8 8 8 8

Below this figure there emerged a wide choice of careers to be adopted:- Actuary (5), E lectronics (5), Brewer (5), Diplomat (7), Industrial Management (7), Stage (7), Films (7), Metallurgist (5), Pharmacist (4), Printer (4), Publisher (4), Wine Trade (4), Optician (4), Broadcasting (4), Auctioneer (3), Coal Trade (3), Timber Trade (3), Zoologist (3), P.T. Instructor (2), Coffee Planter (2), Diamond Trade (2), Draper (2), etc., etc. For furt her

diversification the figures reveal one poet, one politician, one zoologist, one jockeyand one Pop Singer. Not all will have realised their declared ambitio n. Not all will have accepted the rigorous training required, but the main pattern of career preference does emerge from even this cursory and incomplete enquiry into the intentions of those boys who had a declared objective at the time they left us. E.R .C.D.

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CRICKET i

Retrospect 1967

With no Old Colo urs availa ble at the beginning of this season, prospects may have appeared to be somewhat bleak. However, there was a sprinkling of players who had had some first eleven experience and these, under the splendid Icadershi p of G. K. Jaggers, formed the nucleus of what did in fact turn out to be a very successful team. Of th e 7 school matches, 4 were won, I lost, 1 drawn and I was washed out. The on ly defeat was at Dover, where the Xl fo und themselves quite at sea und er conditions which were very d ifferent to those which they had experienced elsewhere and the different bounce of the ball contributed to five batsmen being caught in the "si ll y" position. By beating them, we spoiled the good records of both Highgate and Eastbo urn e, and the other victims were St. Lawrence and Amplefort h who, two days later, trounced Tonbridge. There was an exciting draw with K. C.S. when they got to within I run of o ur 200 for 6 dec. The results of the Club matches are maybe not quite so important as the standards of play which the Xl show in these, and here agai n there was little cause for complaint. In these games the Xl is provided with the oppo rtunity for practice against mo re experienced opponents but, as the results show, yo uthful determinatio n and a good team spirit can often equal or even overcome more experienced opposition. The fine weather of Ju ne and July produced faster wickets which enabled the batsmen to play their shots with safety and very many more runs were scored than in the last two or three seasons. This good summer has been a large factor in making it possible to improve the standard of battin g which at times, and agai nst very good bowling, has been of excellen t quality. The hi ghligh ts of the many good batting performances were undoubted ly the pa rtners hips of well over 100 between C. J. C. R owe and J. A. Young in both the K. C.S. and O.K.S. matches. Where the batting did d isappoint was in the fact that the XI was rarely off to a really good start a nd usually lost o ne or two quick wickets. Ho wever, the depth of the batting was such that Nos. 7, 8 a nd 9 were as ca pable of gettin g runs as were Nos. 1,2 and 3, and the middle o rd er batsmen were remarkably consistent. D. G. Gallyer looked a good player but seldom got going and a lthough his wicketkeeping was on the whole satisfactory, and often good when sta nding back, he did miss several chances and we shall hope for still more improvement in this department next season. P. A. Mount was give n an ex tended trial as an opener but failed to keep his place in race of the keen competition for places. J. P. Sherren was recalled for the Eastbo urne match and batted extremely well, as did C. B. Hamblin, and to show that this was no flash in the pan they made some good runs in later matches. G. R. G. Keeble was a useful batsman at No. 3. He showed a health ily aggressive attitude towards the bad ball and on the whole served the side well. Rowe completely fulfilled the promise he showed last year when his average was only 8. He has the ab ility and other qu alities such as concentration and determination to become as good as whatever the limits of his ambitions may be. He put the stam p of real quality on

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the batting of the team and Young frequently made him an excellent partner. Young was another of those who showed some promise last season when he averaged 2.75 but his form this season must have far exceeded what many had expected of him. He plays particularly well off the front foot and must be regarded as one of the most improved players in the School. Jaggers and A. R. Amiot both played some ve ry valuable innings. Both hit the ball very hard and are ideally suited to the lower-middle order in this batting side. In the later matches Amiot showed that he is capable of batting in a more correct and restrained way and should contin ue to deve lop along these lines rather than in the completely carefree ma nner to which he had been accusto med. It seems rid iculous that a player of the merit a nd qua lity of D. W. M iller shou ld sometimes have to bat as low as No.9. He must have felt frustrated for much of the time but it is hoped that he may be up at No.3 next season. The bowling presented some problems. In the early part of the season when the pitches gave the bowlers a little help it looked as if our attack wo uld be adeq uate. D. G. Darroc h, T . R. Langley-Hunt and J. Frankland all bowled fairly well and all took wickets but then came the faster pitches and the limitations of the attack were fully revealed. The openers lacked penetration and F rank land lacked the gui le \\ hich a slow bowler must possess to succeed under these cond itions. However, these faster wickets suited Rowe and Miller, who was usefully employed at the other end. Rowe had some good figures, particularly in the Highgate, Eastbourne a nd F ree Forester matches, and is now approaching the stage when perhaps he should settle dow n and try to perfect his cont rol of just two of the many varieties which he ca n bowl. The left arm should be reserved for use when it is thought necessary to try to "buy" a wicket. Late in the season M. F. Taylor was tried as an opener and at once succeeded . He had much more control of length and direction than the other openers and his 4 for 4 at Eastbourn e was a fine performance. H e spra ined his an kle in the third over in the first innings of the O.K .S. match and there is little doubt that this affected the result of this ga me. Although the field ing was usually good there were two or three occasions when it fell below standard and it is fairly certain that the bowlers would agree that rather too many catches we re dropped. In helping to make this such a happy a nd successful side much credit must be give n to the Captain, Jaggers. He did not expect miracles from his XI but by encouragement and example he got the best out of them. The XI responded well to his firm but friendly leadership and he earned their respect by never being afraid to take decisions, some of which could not have pleased everybody at the time, but which were und oubtedly to the advantage of the team .

It is disappointing that cricket at most levels seems to have lost some of its spectator appeal and this X I p layed cricket ofa qua lity that was worthy of considerably more support and appreciation than it received. C.F. 470

1st XI Matches

K S.C. v Dulwich College Played at St. Stephen's Piece on May 13th. Match Drawn King's 60 for 6. Rain stopped play (perhaps to our advant age !).

KS.C. v St. Lawrence C.C. Played at S1. Stephen's Piece

May 18t h. Match Lost

.On a ra~her overcast day, King's lost the toss and were put out to field. After a quick wicket, King's missed their cha!lces, and the two left-hand county batsmen soon raised their score to a hundred until a good catch at nlld-on by Jaggers en.de? the stand . King's went in after tea wit h a large total to chase, but soon found themselves 12 for 5. Kmg s were all out for 56, Jaggers having had a Captain's innings of 34. K.S.C. 56; St. Lawrence e.e. 178 for 5.

KS.C. V Eton Ramblers Played at St. Stephen's Piece on May 20th. Match Drawn With a slightly amended team, Kiog'~ were 83 for 6, Gallyer hav ing scored a well hit 38. Rain having dela~ed the re-start for half-an-hour, Km~'s went o n to score 149, No.8, Mi ller, having played a dogged unbeaten .38. Only three overs, from w.lllch orye run was scored, were bowled before ra in stopped play. A great Pity as the game was set for an mterest mg finish. K.S.C. 149; Eton Ramblers 1 for O.

KS.C.

St. Lawrence College

Played at St. Lawrence on May 23rd. Match won by 8 wickets Having lost the toss, King's went in to .field. Good fie lding, and heavy pressure caused the St. Lawrence batsmen to be nervous, and snatch at their shots rather than stroke thcm. As a result King's bowled them out f~r a meagre 55. Darroch and Frank land caused most of the damage with four wickets each. ThiS low ~core was soon ~eached for the loss of only two wickets, Davison at No.2 starring in his first appearance m the 1st x r, With an unbeaten 32. K.S.C. 56 for 2; St. Lawrence College 55.

KS.C

The Royal Navy

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Pl ayed at S1. Stephen's Piece on May 27th. Match won by 26 runs and I wicket G?od batting a~most all the way th~ough enabled King's to reach a total of 175 runs and declare in time to gl~e the opposition hopes of reachmg the tota l. A superb innings by Young of 61 contributed largely to thiS total. â&#x20AC;˘ , The Royal ~avy C.C., ~s w~. saw by virtue of their splendid open cricket, must be staunch supporters of that slogan Bnghter cncket . !'I0wever, they fe ll shor~ of our total, though keeping our field in constant movement. Darroch took four Wickets for 44 runs. TIllS was a most exciting and enj oyable match. K. S.e. 175 for 9 dec. ; The Royal Navy t49. 471

K.S.C. v Highgate Played at St. Stephen's Piece on June 3rd. Match won by 20 runs With no choice in the matter, King's went in to bat first. With several members of the team scoring between 15 and 30, King's totalled 188, with extremely useful runs from the ta ilMcnders. Highgate reached 90 for the loss of only one wicket, making things look very unhappy for us. But consistent good bowling and fielding soon made the break, and Highgate were dismissed for 139, with a very tense and excit ing ending. (Rowe 23 overs, 5 wickets for 34 runs; Frankland 27 overs, 3 wickets for 88 runs.) K .S.C 189; Highgate 139.

K.S.c.

The Buccaneers

Played at SI. Stephen's Piece on June 10th. Match Lost Again a good team effort of 197 for 7 declared by King's enabled the game to have a very good and close ending. All the middle order batsmen made the twenties or thirties, with Jaggers going on to make 54 not out. On a lovely sunny day, with the pitch a beautiful batsman's wicket, the Buccaneers, a really strong batting team, went out and made the necessary runs in superb style, but winn ing only in the last minute, and perhaps rathel helped by a final four overthrows by a here unnamed fielder!!! K.S.C. 197 for 7 dec.; Buccaneers C.c. 201 for 6.

K.S.C.

The M.C.C.

Played at St. Stephen's Piece on June 15th. Match Drawn A cold, overcast day rather dulled the potential jocularity of the game. King's put out to field did well before lunch and had the C lub 137~5, but some "extraordinary" field ing after lunch let them right off the hook to enable them to make a sporting declaration. With a la rge task ahead, King's batted sensibly, letting the runs come from the fast wicket. Again a team effort enabled King's to reach a h igh score with a fair scoring rate, but unfortunately just behind that required for victory, and leav ing the result as a draw. Keeble's knock of 86 was a fine effort and most useful. K.S.C. 189 for 7; M.CC 228 for 5 dec.

K.S.C.

K.C.S. Wimbledon

Played on 8t. Stephen's Piece on June 17th. Match D rawn King's chose to bat first on another bitterly cold day. At 43 for 3, th ings looked bad, but a brave 4th wicket stand of 143 enabled King's to declare at 200 for 5, giving K.C.S., Wimbledon a hard task. However, they went all out for it and their Capta in (Owen~Thomas) played a fine innings of 127. Again this match ended in an incred ibly close and tense manner, with two runs lacking to give them a victorious total. (Young. J. A .â&#x20AC;˘ 76; Rowe, C J. C, 73.) K.S.C. 200 for 5 dec.; K.CS. 199 for 3.

K.S.C.

Dover College

Played at Dover on June 22nd. Match lost by 9 wickets King's elected to 'bat first and were sk ittled out for a meagre total of 52 runs. This can largely be attributed to the difference in pace of the wicket from that of St. Stephen's Piece, and the inexperience of the team,leading to five being caught in front of the wicket from mis~timing their shots and playing too early. Dover had no d ifficulty in knocking up the required total and d id so with the loss of on ly one wicket . K.S.C. 5~; Dover 55 for I.

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K.S.C.

The Band of Brothers

Played at St. Stephen's Piece on June 24th. Match Drawn. Rain stopped play Pl.lt in to bat first, .the Ban.d .of Brothers knocked up 21.4 in true "~aymakers" style, wit h M. Press (O.K.S.) l eadll~g the attack with a bnlhant 88 not out. D. W. Miller, off spm bowler took all four wickets cla,·med by Kmg's. ' King's were in a weak position of 34 fo r 3 when ra in stopped play. K.S.C. 34 for 3; Band of Brothers 214 for 4 dec.

K.S.c.

Sevenoaks Vine C.C.

Played on SI. Stephen's Piece on June 28t h. Match Drawn. (Ha lf day game) After a good l uneh~ Sevenoaks Vine elected to bat, and despite the fast wicket found themselves 29~4 But ~ome sloppy fieldmg let them rlln away to a tota l of 178 for 7 dec. . . With two hOl:'rs .to get th is total, the King's total of 168 for 5 must be considered a good effort. This mcluded a fine mn mgs by Rowe of 69. K.S.C. 168 for 5; Sevenoaks Vine 178 for 7 dec.

K.S.C.

Eastbourne College

Played at Eastbourne on July 1st. Match won by 3 wickets and 113 rllns A very hot and sunn~ day promised a fine day's cricket. The luck of the toss on our side, King's went in to bat on a firm, fast wicket full of rllns. A fine team effort enabled K ing's to declare at 207 for 7 having two and a half hours to bowl the opponents out. ' A fine start had Eastbourne 7 for 2 before tea (with two fine catches by Frankland and Keeble). Then the fi rst three balls after tea saw two well held catches beh ind the wicket by Keeble and Jaggers Th is left M. F ..Taylor's figl~res after n ine overs at 4 for 4, which is a fine effort. C. J. C. Rowe, as usual 'dealt with the ta"~enders takmg 5 for 32.. ~owever, I fee) that it deserves a ment ion that he astounded ~ost of the spectators (and players) by obtam.mg.three of 1115 wicket~ bowl ing with his left arm, his natural action being nght·handed. Eastbourne were d ism issed (for the first lime this season) for 91 , and tasted their fi rst defeat. K.S.C. 207 for 7 dec.; Eastbourne 92. THE K ING'S SCHOOL

EASTBOURNE COLLEGE

D. G. Ga llyer, b Hutchinson.......... . 22 J. P. Sherren, b Dickson.............................. 41 G. R. O. Keeble, c Hawkins, b Dickson......... 0 C. J. C. Rowe, c McLean, b Dickson............ 29 J. A. Young, c and b Hutchinson..... 35 C. B. Hamblin, c Dickson, b Hawkins... 44 O. K. Jaggers, not out......... 25 D. W. Miller, not out........... ............... 4 D. G. Darroch J . F rank lano } . M. F. Taylor did not bat Extras................ .............. 7 Total (7 wkts. dec.) ..... .

.. 207

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D. West, c Keeble, b Taylor.... ..................... C. Goole, c Keeble, b Darroch...................... M. Barford, c Frankland, b Tay lor. ...... M. Gourley, not Ollt................................. B. McLean, c Jaggers, b Tay lor..................... R. Dixon, c Frankland, b Tay lor................. A. Trigg, b Rowe. .. .............................. .. .. J. Hawkins, Ibw, b Rowe......... B. Hutchi nson, st Rowe... ............ ... ..... ...... K. Chester, b Rowe....................... ........... A. Wolfe, b Rowe........................ ............ Extras................. ......... .......... .. .........

1 0 1 63 4 4 3 0 2 0 8 10

Tota!. .......... •. .......•.. ........ ..........

Bowling

A. Wolfe ........... ... J. Hawkins............... K. Chester ............... R. Dickson... ........... M. Ba rford ............. M. Gou rley .............. B. Hutchinson..........

o. II 12 7 16 II I 24

Bowling M.

3 3 I 7 3 0 5

27 25 22 35 23 8 60

0 I 0 3 0 0 2

K.S.C.

o. D. G. Da rroch......... 8 M. F. Taylor ........... 9 C. J. C. Rowe .......... 13 D.W. Mil ler ....... ..... 5

I 6 3 I

19 4 32 16

I 4 5 0

The Free Foresters

Played at 51. Stephen's on July 15th. Ma tch won by 4 wickets After a fort ni ght 's rest and with a sl igh tly depleted tcam, all because of exams.â&#x20AC;˘ and after a treacherous toss of the coin. King's went in to field. A firm start of 60 for the loss of no wickets, seemed to promise many runs. However, again, Rowe proved very efficient, taking 8 for 59. though claiming only one victim with his left arm this time. The total set was 169 in easy time. A shaky start had us two for as many wickets. However, steady batting saw Sherren and Rowe safely to their 50's and Amiot and Jaggers finished it off with a couple 9f unbeaten JO's. K .S.C. 170 for 6; Free Foresters 169.

K.S.C.

Ampleforth

Played at St. Stephen's Piece on July 18th. Match won by 3 wickets Ampleforth batted first on a very dry, rock hard wicket, which promised a lot of runs. However, they were all out soon after lunch for the un imprcssive total of 124. King's werc away to a bad start, losing two quick wickets. and kept the game interesting throughout the whole match by losi ng wickets at crucia l moments. King's fina lly made the total after a hard st ruggle for the loss of seven wickets. Amiot again pulled us out of trouble with a 31 not out. K.S.C. 126 fo r 7; Ampleforth 124 (Rowe 4 for 44. Miller 4 for 37).

II I,

K.S.c.

The O.K.S.

Played at St. Stephen's Piece on Friday and Saturday. July 21st and 22nd. Match lost by 4 wickets King's batted first. making an unspectacular total of J 60, which was really not enough to contain the O.K.S., who had brought a st rong team. on such a fast wicket. Th is total was made by a few individuals rather than by team effort. AmIot narrowly mi ssing his first half century. As feared, the O.K.S. knocked off the runs that evening with three wickets to spare. and carried on the next morning to declare (generously enough) with a lead of 45 runs. Disaster struck the opening batsmen of our second innings, and we found ourselves at 4 for 3, that is40 for 3. However. Rowe and Young fou ght very ha rd, and set up a fin e stand of 11 2. Rowe was out, having scored a bealltifu l 85, and the tota l reached was 184.. This meant that the O.K.S. only had 140 to reach, which they did for the loss of 6 wickets. Perhaps the worst feature of this most enjoyable match (and, it might be said. for the whole season) was the number of catches (hard and simple) put on the floor. Had we held our catches, many matches might have had different results. O.K.S. 205 and 143; K.S.C. 160 and 184. 474

THE KI NG'S

First lllllillgs

D. G. Gallyer. Ibw, b Jackson....... 5 2 J. P. Sherren. b Jackson G. R. O. Keeble. c Wright~ ·b..C~t·tr·~ ii ..... :: :::::: 36 C. J. C. Rowe, c Weaver b Kilbcc 13 J. A. Young,.c and b Wr'ight.. ........:::::::::::::: 12 ~. ~. ~alb'm, c fryer, b Kilbee........... .. 28

0: K·. Ja~g~~s.bc~~~~t: ..b..C~it;~i ::. ........ .... D. W. MJller. run out............ .......... D. Darroch. not .out M O. I . . .......................... .. . FET ayor, b Wnght......... ....... ........ ........ xtras.. ...... ...... ...... .... ..... .......... ....... Total .. ....... .

1~ 0 I

0 5

.. ....................... 160 Bowling

o. 14 It 16

J . D. Wright .......... .. H. R. Jackson .......... M. R. Tuohy........ ... 1. R. Kilbee..... ........ 13 P. 1. Cattral ............. 17

SCHOOL

Secolld IUI/ings

c Fryer. b Jackson. .. ........... ..................... .............

c rycr, b Collier.. ......... ......... ...... ... .. ...... fbBalb· ~Weaver ..................... ......... ..... b I eaver..................... ...................

0 4 0 85 44 0

fbe'J~i~r? fa ckson........ ~ ... ~::....:.'. :: :: :: :::· .. ····

y• b Kilbce..... ... .. .. ........ bFjUOkh ac . so n..... .... ... ............ .. ....

W. bW;::I~~::::·:.:::·:. .:::::::::::·:: .......................

not

'~~i;~t.'t . .::. ::.::.::::..................

Total ....... ......... .................... ... ... 184 Bowliu/!

4 2 8 4 8

31 43 25 27 29

2 2 0 3 2

o. J. D. Wright.. .... .... .. 9+ H. R. Jackson.......... 9 M. R ~ Tuohy ........ 3 J. R. Kilbec .......... 12 P. 1. Cattral... ... ...... 15 S. 1. Weaver ............ 16 R. 1. M. Collier .. 3

I 5 0 4 4 4 0

33 17 15 26 33 42 19

3 3 0 I 0 2 I

THE O.K.S. R. G. S. Draycott. c Darroch b Taylor M. R. Tuoh Ibw b ' ........ .. 4 Ibw, b Rowe... ............... ........................... 14 S. J. Weave!,'lbw:b R~~e .................. ...... .. 25 Ibw,bMillel'.......................... 8 58 fb Gallyer, b Miller..... ... .. .. : .' . . .. . .. 30 T. M. Bale, run ou t.. .........:::: ::::: ... .. 4 b ~~~ Miller. .. . . . ...................... 3 M . J. N. Bridge. c You ng b Miller o J. R. Kilbee, c Gallyer b Keeble ........... .. . .. R J M C I' , ................. . 46 not 7 run out.. ..... ...... ... ........... ... I J.·n: 17 not out. .................. .. ................. :::::: ::::::: 0 A. R. Fryer, c Hamblm, b Rowe ...... . . 3 ~ . JRc!ackslfn. not out.. .... .. .................... .. 21 . . attra, not out. ......... .... .. 6 Extras ............................ . ............... . 13 Ext ras ................. .. ... .......... ..... ........ . 11 Tota l (9 wkts.) .... .. .... . ..... .. ........... . 205 Total ............................... ............... 143

our. :::::. . :::::::: :::'. :. . . . ::: : ::::::: :::::::::::::: 1i

w: wrl~~i, ~ ~a::~s: ·b·D~~;·~~i~: · :··::::

Bowling

o. D. G. Darroch......... J I C. J . C. Rowe......... 21 D. W. Miller............ 16 M. F. Taylor.......... 3 G. R. G. Keeble.. .... 3

\\'

9 75 48

4 7

Bowlil/g

o. D . G. Darroch........ . 2 C. B. Hamblin ..... ". 2 C. J. C. Rowe .. , ..... .. 17 D. W. Miller ........ .. 14 +

1 I

475

9 12 63 46

o o

o o 2

K.s.c.

Canadian Touring Xl

Played at St. Stephen's Piece on Monday, July 24th. Match won by 110 funs and 6 wickets A rather tired Canadian team were put out to field, on a glorious hot, sunny Monday morning. The~. droppi ng their catches, enabled liS to reach 248 fOl: the lo.ss of only 4 Wlc~ets. C. J. C. Rowe scored his first century ever (and his umpteenth half-century!) m a qUick tnne of 135 mmutes. G. K. Jaggers managed to score 54, and Gallycr just missed his 5 0 . . bl . D h" . Time being the only factor left in the game, Wickets fell at a reas0!la e rate,. arroc 5 msw!ogers put them neatly into the waiting hands behind the wicket. The last Wicket fell Wi th only three minutes to go . A fine way to end a happy and sliccessful season.

Batting Averages Played 17, Won 7, Drawn 6, Lost 4 C. J. C. Rowe ............. ..

G. K. Jaggers ....... J. A. young ................. A. R. Amiot.. G. R. G. Keeb le ... C. B. Hamblin ....... D. W. Millcr. .... J. P. Sherren ............ D. G. Gallyer .............. D. G. Darroch .... Also Batted P. A. Mount.. ........ J. Frankland ....... H. Braddel!. ....... T. R. Langley-Hunt.. ...

Matches 17 17 17 12 16 8 17 9 16 16 9 14 2 .12

Illnillgs

N.O.

RUlls

II.S.

16 .\6 17 12 16 8

2 4 I 2 1 2 4 0 I 4

548 319 391 229 273 96 110 130 205 47

103' 54' 76 46 56 44 38' 52 44 17

58 II 4 10

19 7 4' 6

11 9 16 8 9 3 2 4

I 0

Average 39.14 26.58 24.44 22.90 17.06 16.00 15.7 1 14.44 13.66 11.75

Catches I

8.30 5.50 4.00 2.50

0 4

8 4 2 7 4 7 1 18 4

0 2

â&#x20AC;˘ Not out

Bowling Averages M. F. Tay lor ................... C. J. C. Rowe...

...... ....... .

D. W. Miller ..... D. G . Darroch. J. Frankland ........... Langley-Hunt ... G . R. G . Keeble. A. A. Nash ..........

..... ...

Balls

Overs Maidells

235 1,081 749 1,008 965 420 72 36

39 180.1 124.5 168 160.5 70 12 6

12 31 33 44 40 16 I I

RlIn.~

112 566 326 482 514 22\ 53 22

Overs bowled at 22.8 per hour 476

Wickets

Average

9 33 17 23 24 5

12.40 17.20 19.10 20.90 21.40 44.20 53.00

Best Pelformance 4-4 8-59 4-37 4-24 4-13 2-14 1-14 0-22

2nd Xl In terms of results the season has not been very successful because only one match was won and two were lost. The defeats were unfortunate as in the first case only two hours cricket were possible and our declarat ion proved to be far too generous, and in the second case on ly six regular members of the side were avai lable. The batting, on good wickets, was excellent and in our only two home games we scored over three hundred runs for the loss of eight wickets. Carey, the captain, had the happy knack of scoring runs when they were most needed. He was also a shrewd judge of the quick single, though there were occasional miscalcu lations! Mount invariably made runs when he played and though Davison, Braddell and Sherren each made fifties, the innings of the season was undoubtedly Blackburne-Kane's 62 aga inst Eastbollrne. Nash, with his oft'-breaks, was the most effective bowler and he was well supported by Dudbridgc with leg spin. The pace bowlers did not get much chance to shine though Langley Hunt proved eft'ective in the last match of the season. The side enjoyed its cricket and played wel l together as a team. The happy atmosphere that prevailed was entirely due to the captain, and his managing of the side, both on and oft' the field, was wholly adm irable. The follow ing played for the team :- Ca rey·, Mount·, Davison·, Braddell *, Blackburne-Ka ne·, Sherren·, Collins·, Baker, Nash·, Dudbridge*, Wylie, Taylor*, G ilchrist. Once only:- Amlot, Jones, Ho ldstock, Palmer, Hamblin . • Colou rs. Results

K.S.C., 77-8 dec.; Dover G.s., 78-2. Lost. K.S.C., 142-4 dec.; St. Lawrence, Ramsgate, 71-3. Drawn. R.M.S., Dover, 109-8 dec.; K.S.C., 63-7. Drawn. K.S.C., 145-8 dec.; Worth School 1st Xl, 84-6. Drawn. K.S.c., 161-4 dec.; Dover College, 104-7. Drawn. Eastbourne, 154; K.S.C., 157-9. Won. St. Lawrence, Ramsgate, J 13; K.S.C., 60. Lost. R.P.B.

3rd XI The thirds this year have again been essentially a happy team, enjoying their cricket. We have had indifferent success, winn ing only the first match of the season, in a very exciting game with Kent College. We had six peop le who played for last year's 3rd Xl, and so it was not difficult for us to play happily as a team from the beginning of the season. Albe it that our figures are not amplitudinolls, but KerrPeterson's excellent 32 against Chatham House stands out. Before Wylie joined the 2nd XI he had the best bowling average, but of our full-time bowlers, Thornton comes top with an average of 6.6. Holdstock is top of the batting averages with 12.00. Our thanks go to Messrs. Boorman and Facer who have coached us so wel l. Those who played: Hamblin, Wyl ie, Kerr-Peterson, Jakes, Penny, Holdstock, Palmer, Rutland, Neill, Thornton, Sm ith, Hughes, Sumner, Hall. N.A.J. M.A.K-P.

Colts' XI For a side that looked promising at the start, and had no less than six all-rounders, this was a disappo inting season, as the stat istics show- Played 7, Won 2, Drawn 2, Lost 2, Tied 1. Somehow, after beginning with a classic victory over Dulwich, where they paced the game to perfection, they never quite rose to the heights again. The batting remained strangely brittle, only Hamblin (later "elevated") and Spells showed d istinction; but Shires, though he looked unsound, proved at least as effective as either. Yet we had eight batsmen capable of making nllls; alas, they rarely did, and so innings built on sou nd foundations collapsed . 477

Of the bowlers, Gaskell was faster than anyone. we met in t~e season and had good control though little va riety of delivery. Tho rne, once he learned to give the ball a ir? caused much .havoc. But we sad ly lacke.d a leg.spinner who could turn and flight the ball- our support mg bowlers bemg sound but not eccentnc , .... enough to take many wickets regularly. Fielding was ou r weakest and st rongest point. Baskerville, our' profeSSional slip fielder, took some remarkable catches and showed great powers of conccnt ratio~. Elsewhere, though ground fielding was . tidy, we dropped too many catches, and so, deservedly! we ,Pa id the I?enalty. In general, therefore, this was a side that n~ver realised I ~S potential. They played some good, tight, tough cricket and their running between the wickets was delightful, but they lacked the ruthlessness and fin al determination that yields results. T he final side was:- N. J. Hunt (Captain), A. Ahmadzadeh,~ . G. Baskerville, V. D. Datt, A. P. Docherty, I. C. Gaskell, J. A. Griggs, T. D. G . Johnson, P. M. D. Simes, e. E. H. Spells, M. W. J. Thorne. Jl.W.J.G.W.

G.H.F.

'Junior Colts The Junior Colts' XI has achieved fairly good results this season, and there is some justification for confidence in their future. . Competently captained first by Fewster, an~ then by J o~es, the team ha~ played With commendable spiri t and goodwill , and many of them ~a,:,e .tned ~13rd and Jmpr~)Ved acc?~dmgly. The wealth of natural talent, which needs only to be further dlSClplmed, IS clearly seen 111 the ability of the reserve pl<;tyer~, who, when called upon, invariably gave a good account of the.J1lselve~. For e?,ample altho~l gh SIX different bowlers appear in the match~bY·l11atch accounts, no name IS mcnltoned tWice. The battmg too has been pleasantly varied in character; the runs have come both from correct players, and from the free stroke players who have a less sound technique. . . Perhaps the least satisfactory department has been the fieldJO!;. Thoug~ on heavy grounds It was sel?om severely tested, it was not sufficient ly positive to be an aggressive attacklllg force. Returns to the Wicket were generally ragged. . The team lost to Dulwich after a declaration , but were outplayed by Tonbndge, who were the only school to be clearly our superiors in all departments. P.M.W. Results Played 9, Won 5, Drawn 2, Lost 2 v Dlilwich (Away). K.S.C. 137 for 7 dec. (Warren·Stone 30·); Dulwich 140 for 7. Lost. v St. Lawrence College (Away). St. Lawrence 100 (Nelson 4 for 16); K.S.C. 103 for 3 (Fewster 40·). Won. v Sutton Valence (Home). Sutton Valence 124 for 8 dec.; K.S.C. 100 for 6. Drawn. v Tonbridge School (Home). Tonbridge 11 3; K.S.C.49. Lost. v Worth School (Away). K.S.C. 93; Worth 49 (Fcwster 4 for 7). Won. v X.e.S., Wimbledon (Home). K.C.S. 79 (Miller·Smith 4 for 10); K.S.C. 80 for 3 (Jones 30·, Orme 30·). Won. v Dover College (Home). Dover 74 (Warren-Stone 6 for 16); K.S.C. 78 for 1 (Jones 38·). Won. v Eastbollrne (Away). K .S.C. 123 fo r 7 dec. (Craig 31); Eastbourne 93 for 8. Drawn. v St. Lawrence (Home). K.S.e. 145 for 4 dec. (Onne 58); St. Lawrence 68 (Fleming 4 for 21, Jones a hat·trick. Won. Team: (from) G. M. Jones (Captain), J . A. Fewster, D: e. Bo.1am, M. J. K. Craig, H. S. Flem ing, F. M. Haddon·Cave, R. J. M. Inman, T. D. Jeffery, A. D. MIJler·Smllh, A. R. Nelson, G . Orme, R. Sua rez, S. J. Warren-Stone, and R. L. M. Wohanka . • Not out. 478

Under Fourteen XI This has been a very interest ing season. The side has batted well but the bowling has lacked penetration. Four ~im~ over a hundred runs have been s~ored and ~evera l good indi vi ~ual totals made. Overall batting technique Improved well and there was adm irable readmess to learn. InnIngs were built rather than scores acquired and the approach to the game was in general good. Once again the team suffered from the lack of a pair of opening bowlers. No one was able to bowl above medium pace and even then length and direction were erratic. The spinners showed promise but tended to drop the ball short and were reluctant to buy wickets although they became more adventurous as the term progressed. The fielding improved steadily but occasionally wilted under pressure. There was some good retrieving and throwing from the covers but behind the stumps reactions were often slow. Marshall's captaincy matured well and he had severa l good personal performances as did Firth whose prolific scor ing and determination set a good example. The following played:- Marshall, N. R., Firth,Suchet, Crusoe, Block, King, 1. R. , Vowles, Dallas·Smith Scott·Wi1Iiams, J., Price, R. K., Priest man, Kal'imjee, Hawkins, Bentley, P. ' M.J.H.

T.RB. Results Played 9, Won 2, Drawn 5, Lost 2. v SI. Lawrence. K.S.c. 108 for 9 dec. (Fi rt h 39); St. Lawrence 57 for I. Match abandoned. v Sutton Valence. Sutton Valence 113 for 4 dec.; K.S.C. 99 fo r 6. Drawn. v Dane Court. Dane Court 29 (Suchet 3 for 12); K.C.S. 30 for 4. Won by 6 wickets. I' R.M.S., Dover. R.M.S., Dover 99 for 6 dec. (K ing 3 for 25); K.S.C. 45 for 6. Drawn. v Chat ham House. K.S.C. 43; Chatham House 44 for I. Lost by 9 wickets. v Kent College. K.S.C. 122 for 7 dec. (Marshall 43 not out); Kent College 123 for 7. Lost by 3 wickets. v R.M .S., Dover. R.M.S., Dover 105 for 5 (Suchet 3 for 19). Match abandoned. v Kent College. K.S.C. 131 for 6 dec. (Firth 63, Suchet 31); Kent Co llege 90 for 6. Drawn. v Dane Court. K.S.c. 128 for 5 dec. (Marshall 38, Dallas·Smith 37 not out); Dane Court 54 (Marshall 5 for 19). Won by 74 runs.

THE HAYMAKERS' C.C. This year, as always, the Haymakers have mixed enjoyment with sllccess. The weather and the wickets have not always been of the greatest help but th is has not deterred the team from playing their natural game. The highlight of the season was a visit to Lorenden to playa Canterbury Diocesan XI . We are extremely grateful to Major and Miss Jervis for their great hospitality. Good weather and welcome refreshment made it a very enjoyable day. J. R. CAREY, Chief Waggoller.

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THE BOAT CLUB CANON SHlRLEY The Boat Club wishes to pay its own special tribute to the memory of its late President, the Revd. Canon F . J . Shirley; the building of the Maugham Boathouse, tbe acquisition of the eights and the School's subsequent ach ievements at Henley and Marlow.all had their origin in his genius and inspiration and thIS we remember wIth pride and gratItude.

1st Eight Summer training began this year in the last week of the Eastel: ho li d~~s. at Cambridge, where we were fortunate in being again able to make use o f the ex~ellent boatmg facilities of Jesus College RC. The new trailer meant that the eight were able to take thelf own boat which was an ad~ed advantage. Ab.out sixty mi les were covered in the eight and this was supplemcn~ed by much useful tubbmg and bank-Illbbmg. It was a most valuable a nd enjoyable week on and ofT the fi ver and we afC very gratefu l to Jesus College B.C. for their continued help and interest. . . â&#x20AC;˘ Despite a spell of strong winds good progress was, mamtamed on the return to Pluck s Gutter, and the crew were soon ready to star't a full programme .of interval rC!wing. A useful ~a'y's experience of side-by-side rowing- the lack of which is probablr the b~gges.t smgle d isadvantage of t ramm~ on the narrow Stour-came with a vis it to Richmond to row With Umverslty College School. Here the eight rowed four 500 metre sprints with the U .C.S. 1st VIII : o f ~hese King's won ~wo, U.C.S. one and t.here was one dea~Â heat and the average time recorded for the sprmts was encouragmg at an early stage 10 the season. This was an enjoyable day and we appreciated the kind hospitality afforded to us by V.e.S.

Twickenham Regatta On May 20th the eight was entered at Twickenham Regatta .for the event for Junior-Sen ior Eigh~s which this year attracted a very small entry. After a comfortable wm of ~wo lengths over St. Bartholomew s Hospital, the School met Furnivall Scullers' Club, a st~ong club crew, m the final. At the ~alf-way m~rk King's looked set to win but a determined spurt by Furnlvall up the enclosures ga,:,e them a Will by one-tlurd of a length in a time only one second slower than the event for Thames Cup eights.

Walton Regatta .. Tn the fortnight between Twickenham and Walton, the crew moved into the new eight, The Wife 0/ Balh: from its first outing this boat showed that it can. be mc.>ved much fas t~r than rhe 'Y0llnes. Preest~ but that it requires a much higher degree of watermanshlp, bemg harder. to SIt. Thus durmg thiS fortmght so~e fast times for 500 metres were recorded, but there was an alarmmg tendency for the crew to get off their .. . . . . feet at high speed and to have minor shipwrecks. At Walton Regatta there was a strong entry of 18 crews for JUnior-Semor eights, mcludmg eight Henley schools. Against St. Edward's, Oxford in the first round King.'s had a g.ood start and rowed weB. away in the first minute to win by two lengths. In the next round agamst Impenal Co!lege the School agam. h~d an early lead of a length but a series of crabs in the popply water allowed Impena l College to come Wlthm ha lf a length ' the School then settled down to row well to the fin ish and they maintained their half a length lead comfort~bly. The sem i-final was against ~adley Co!lege; the SchC!ol wen! off very fa~t and had ne.arly half a length's lead in the first minute, but, as m the prevIOus race, a ser.'es of disastrous shipwrecks nullified th is advantage. By the time the ~choo l settled down R~dley had gone mto t~e lead and WIth the bend now in their favour they went on to wm by Jt lengths.. They III t~l rn wer~ defeated III the fina l by the fast RM.A . Sandhurst crew. This was a valuable day's racing e?,penenc7 ; II showed that the School eight had an excellent turn of speed at the start of a row, but that III any disturbed water they were not at all confident at the finish of the stroke. 4~O

Henley Royal Regatta The i~terva l betwecl~ Walton and Henley was deyoted to improving technique and watermanship and to lea~nmg h~w to stn~e the .~oat over a longer distance. The Henley distance was covered every day at. vanolls ratmgs and m. addilion to sets of 500 and 1,000 metre intervals, some promis ing full-course !nals were ro,,:",ed. The eight. worked hard and effectively during this period and there was an all-round Improve.ment m speed, techmque and watermansh ip. The eight move~ to Henley on the ~aturday preced ing the regatta; owing to the temporary indisposition o f the present writer, the crew were m the charge of the Revd. Peter Allen (K.S. 1st VIII, 1954-55 and J~us College) ~nd un~er hi~ lively !lnd enthusiastic coaching they made excellent progress. They had en~o:rable practice outlllgs with H olllngw~rth l:ake R.e., Queen's College, Cambridge, and 1st and 3rd Trlntty B.C. and 'c.>0ked fo~ward to the raCing "':'ltI~ confidence. There were 30 entries, includin g three U.S. crews, for the Prmcess Elizabeth Cup and Kmg s were drawn against Winchester College in the first round.

~cdnesda)'~ JUlie 28th v Willchcstc~ College. After an untidy sta rt at 45, the School settled down well but It was :W1 ~chester who showed slightly ahead at the quarter-m ile signal. By the Barrier (time: 2 min. 4 sees.), Klllg s had taken .the lead and they steadi ly i".creased this to about a length at Fawley (3 min. 25 secs.) ~nd we!,' on to Will a ~ood race by I; lengths III 7 min. 28 sees. With a fair stream runn ing and a head wmd, thiS was a good tnne. Thursday, June 29th y Canford. De~pite another messy start, King's led at once and drew steadily away from Canford. They reached the Barner a length up in 2 min. 6 sees. and rowing with good stride and COIlfidence, they reached Fawley in 3 min. 36 secs. and went on to win by 3 lengths in 7 min. 38 sees. Friday, J une 30th v Bedford Modern School. Wi thout d oubt this was the School's best row of the whole seas\ln: . after .a superb start at 46 they rowed stead ily away from Bedford Modern at 40 and reached the Barner JO 2 mlllutes about three-quarters of a length in the lead. King's rowed the middle part of the course at 36 an~, alth.ough Bedford Modern rowe~ well, they were not able to get on terms again. King's reached ~awl~y JO ~ mm . 26 secs. and ~ent o n to wm by 2 lengths in 7 min. 13 secs., o ne second slower than Eton's tmle III their quarter-final aga mst V.C.S. Saturdar, J~ly 1st: Semi-Final v Eton College. At the start the Schoo l led by a few feet but at the 9uarter-m lle. signal Eton had a lead of ab~)lIt a quarter of a length. In a strong head-wind they stead ily JOcreased thiS lead to a length a~ Fawley (lime: 3 min. 28 sccs.) and went on to win by 1; lengths in 7 min. 25 sees. ~he School rowed q UI te well but there was not the precision and fi re of Friday's row. In the ot her senll-final Tabor Aca~emy (U.S.A.) beat their compatriots, Kent School, by 3t lengt hs. ]n the lale afternoon when the head-wllld had dropped, Eton rowed a magnificent race to lead Tabor all the way and by three-quarters of a lengt h to keep the Princess Elizabeth Cup in this country again. From very humble begi."nings in January this year's eight made remarkable progress and they are to be c0!lgratulated .on reach mg the last four crews at Henley on Saturday. They owe much to the quiet and effective leadership of M. O. Dover who was ably.bac.ked lip at.7 by t~e vice-cap~~in, N. P. Press; behind them the wh.oJe eight sh,?wed considerable dc.termmatlOn combmed With an unfailing good humour which has made .thls a most enjoyable s~ason . ~PCCI~ I thanks arc due to Peter Allen for his kindness to the eight a~ Cambndge and fC!r the splendid way m which he took over the crew at Henley and in spired them to a high standard of racmg. The Boat Club would like to express its grat itude to the O.K.S. Trust for their decision to contribute generously towards repair work to the slipway at Pluck 's Gutter. This wooden st ructure was installed in . 1953 and. the t~p section is no.w in a poor condition; the Trust's generosity means that next season thiS top ~tlon Will be a substant ml concrete structure which will greatly improve the launching facilities for the eights. D.S.G.

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2nd Eight The crew went into training at the beginning 01 term, and alter the first lew. outings, reached the same standard as that achieved at the end of the Easter Term, when they came 13th In the Schools Head of the River Racc. A day at Richmond on May 11th, t rainin~ with the U.C.S. 2nd Vll l, did much to develop t~eir racing ability. During the afternoon, four 500 met re Interva ls were r<?wed, the a,:er~ge overall r~ult bemg a win to King's by a fraction of a second. rn the ten days before T Wlckcnham, timing and techn ique were gradually improved.

Twickcnham Rcgntta. Jl!ly 20th. J unior Eights In sp ite of the unpleasant weather, this proved to be a sllccessfu,l Regatta. In the firs! _:ound K.ing'~ beat Twickcnhall1 R.C. by .It lengths after a moderate row. A splend~d stayt " and some spirited rO";'lng In the semi-final, helped King's to beat Kingston R,e. by 1 length, and III a snnliar type of race, King S went on to beat Walton R,C, in the final by I length, During the nex t fo rtnight, the crew concentrated on building up stamina by interval rowing, and improvi ng individual and collect ive faults, Walton Regatta. J une 3rd. J unior Eights The crew had a relat ively easy first race against Oundle, winning by, 2 lengths, ,In the second round against Walto n R,e., K ing's gained a lead o f t lengt h by ha lf-way, but ~urmg the ~ow 10 they n~ar ly a llowed Walton to slip by on the inside of the bend, K ing's were lucky to gam the verdict of 2 fee,t, 10 th~ fastest time recorded for this event. The semi-fina l against a st rong Radley Hedsor crew, was Kmg's thll'd race in just over 2!- hours, They rowed well in th~ rOllgh conditions, but Radley succeeded in ho ld ing ofT King's to win by a ca nvas, In the period between Walt on and Pangbou rne Regattas, fitn ess and racing technique were improved. At Pangbourne, each race was four abreast, the first two crews in the first and semi -final round s qualifying for the final. T he Nat ional Schools Regatta, Pangbournc. June 21st. Elscnham Trophy In the I st round v Emanuel Ound le and W inchester, K ing's and Emanuel drew ahead of the other two crews by half-way and, ma i nt~ i ning a sa fe po~ition, King's ,fi,nished second to Emanuel by 3 feet. I n the sem-fi nal v Eton and Bryanston, K ing's rowed m second pOSit iOn to Eton for most of the course, but cou ld not hold Brya nston off over the last 200 yards, losing by a canvas. This type of R egatta was a novel experience for the crew. With .no fac ilities at Plucks Gulter for YNO abreast rowing, to have four crews abreast was somew~at overpowenng. On the o~her hand, many excltmg races took place during Ihe day, and va luable expenence for the future was gamed by the crew. This year's 2nd VII I developed fr0111 very moderate beginnings, not overbl~ssed with a high standard of individual technique, into a fast and lIscful crew. TI~ey fitted together adm irably, raced ha rd , and fully deserved their successes during the season, all o f which made the crew a pleasure to coach. N. H.S.

3rd Eight The crew tra ined with much enthusiasm but did not fully develop the cohesion and racing pace of its recent predecessors, T he first race, aga inst V.e.S, at Richmond, on May 18th , ca me early and its result was somewhat upsett in g to confidence. After abo ut twenty strokes the crews clashed o n the corner at the botton~ of Eel Pie Island, King's then being about a thi rd of a length down , ~oth crews were ~orced to stop r~wmi; but, in the absence of any umpire's instructions, V,C.S. reacted qUIcker, started agam and were qUIck ly m an unassa ilable lead. T he next event was the J unior Eights at Eton and Wind~or on May 29th. Here we ~ere drawn aga inst Barclay's Bank and, starting well , gained an early lead , resisted a challenge over the Imddle of the course, and drew out easy win ners, rn the second round, however, the Molesey crew were too powerful and efficient and were not held after the first minute. 482

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Chang~s i,n order were made bcro:r~ Horseferry Regatta , 011 J Ulle 10th, a nd Co tto n was int rod uced a t N? 5 brmgmg more power ,and sohdlty. TI,l~ crew moved faster but the competitioll in Schools' Eights thiS year outclassed us an~ It was not surpnsmg that we suffered a three lengths defeat by the Emanuel S~hoo l 2 n~ VIII, after rowmg th rough s,ome very awkward water at the top of the tide and with a contrary wmd. ThiS and the use of the boaHral ler made for useful experience, , Good, progress was made before t~e National School R egatta at Pangbo urne though the West Cup hne-up m the first round ~ead mo re like a prospect ive fin a l: Eton, King's, Radley, Shrewsbury, King's ra.ced well to half-way bu~ It was then cI~r that th~y would no t qua lify for the final directly so energies were wls~l y reserved for the ,repechage by coastmg home m four th place. It was thus necessary to win the repochage which brought .us aga mst a Heref<?rd Ca~hedral School crew and the Rad ley 3rd VIII again . King's made a most determ med start and led lI,,:,me~13tel,y, by rat ing higher than the other two crews they were still ~ head at htl:lf-way, but could nO,t mamtam qll1te, the power and the rating to the fin ish, Hereford and Radley Just squeezmg. by after, a maglllficent race. TIllS was a most satisfying row, by far the best of the season and a good clllnax to It. ' This cre~ has shown a good spirit an~, a lt hough rela!ively light and inexperienced, gave an excellent account C!f Itself at Pangbo~rne . Perhaps ItS greatest defiCien cy was in boat-handling; it must have created a record m cracks and brUISes to th~ shell: One <?f the greatest features of the season has been the use of a secho~al boat, ~ deve,lopment wh ich Will permit greater flexibility, especially if a restricted boat could be obtamed allowmg thiS crew to compete more easily in its proper class. R.D.H.R. It is sad for the Boat Club to realise that the above notes are the last to appear above the initials R,D',H,R: Mr. Roberts has ~en the coach of successive and success ful 3rd eights fo r the past ten years; despite hiS other heavy ,comm itments as hOllse':1aster of the largest house in the School and as head of a departmeryt, he has durmg these years always given unsparingly of himself and his time to the Doat Club. In 1964 ~ IS crew won the 'Yest Cup at Pa,ngbourne and many ot her appearances in fina ls and semi-finals have test l ~ed to th~ ent~uslasm and effec.tlveryess of h is coach ing. 1n expressing the gratitude of the Boat Cl ub to hll11 we Wish h im every success III hiS appointment as Headmaster of WyclifTe College. D.S.G .

Colts' Eight The ~ight had a reasonably ,good season and by the end was going extremely wel l. Our first regatta was .Wmdsor and Eton, at which there were a number of anomalous results- to quote The Times . We con s~der that ours was one .o,r these, as the very strong current favo ured the inside station , and we had the ol1tsld~. We had a very eX~ltmg ra~e and we were beaten by Emanuel Colts by three feet in a very fast time. They m turn had the outSide stahon and lost to Eton, This year we had a most ,enjoyable fi xture. with Westminster Colt s at Putney, whom we beat easily. At Pan;&bourne we ca~le first m our heat, beat mg Radley 11 by half a length, with St. P aul's and Canford behmd. In the sem i-final we had a tremendous race, going o fT the stake-boat at 46, and lead ing Eton and Cheltenham by a len~th . However, we never really lengthened out, and Eton slowly gained on us to win by half a length . ThiS year, unfortunately, only one semi-finalist went through to the fi nal. A.P.R.N .

School "A" Four , The IV c~mpeted at two regattas. In the R eading Amateur Junior Regatta on May 27th they were beaten m the NOVice Fours by Eastbourne College " B". For an inexperienced crew the compet itio n was keen and they were down to Eastbourne from the start. At the Maidstone Schools Regatta on June 17t h they led Col fe' s Grammar School for. some two furlo~ gs bu.t were unable to maintain the advantage, It was unfort~mate that o n both occasl~ns the IV l os~ 111 their first race for they needed to gain experience, Their rowmg was .marked b,y e nt hu s I ~ s m , an~ stamma and style improvcd. 11 was clearly va luable for senior boys who had fa iled to gam places m VII I s to see somethin g of the rowing world beyond FOl'dwich.

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The Crews 1st V II!: M. H. Roberts, bow; D. j , L. Glennie, 2; H. N. Gale, 3; M. W. Vaincs, 4; G. A. Pearce, 5; M. S. Freeland, 6 ; N. P. Press, 7; M. G. Dover, stroke; C. C. Born, cox. 2nd VIII: M. P. Blackmore, boll'; D. J. D. Ban ks, 2; C. D. Hall-Thompson, 3; J. p, R. Heyla nd , 4; A. R. C. Weir, 5; R. H. L. Taylor, 6; J. L. Jerman, 7; 1, F. M. Done, stroke; J . G. Adam, cox. 3rd VIIl: M. A. H. Saunders, b,olll ; N. McK. R ae, 2; J. L. Medcraft, 3; J. P. W. Ford, 4; P. C. Cotton, 5; E. C. N. Taylor, 6; C. J . Tnckctt, 7; N. C. Bacon, Mroke; J. A. Turtle, cox. P. N. Halfter a lso rowed in the ea rlier regattas. CoIls' VIII: N. R. Jenncry. bow; .p. W. A. Booker, 2; A. T . Jones, 3; C. E. Short, 4; F. J. S. Fidler, 5; M. O'K. Webber, 6; A. G. H. D avIdson, 7; A. P. Bedfo rd . stroke; C. W. P. Bradfield, cox. School " A" I V: J. A. S. Ha lsall, bow; N. O . W. Heath, 2; S. A. Spowart, 3; c. H. Willis, stroke; J. F. Newman, cox. At Maidstone Regatta A. J. Ramsay rowed vice J. A. S. Halsall.

Fordwich and Honse Rowing At Fordwich the usua l fu ll programme of tubbing, sculling and racing in fOllrs has been ca rried oUlunder the general supervision of Mr. Wilkinso n and with the excel lent organisation of the Secretary, M. W. Sull ivan and hi s assistant, J. D. Selman. The many problems of boating a large number of crews on a narrow and crowded river have been largely overcome and severa l of the house league crews ach ieved a good sta nd ard of boa ting through the coaching of senior boys and of the various masters who give unselfishly of their time to helping at Fordwich. This year the "A" and "B" FOllrs rowed their races on a single-ladder system which gave the better " B" fours a chance to try their sk ill against "Au fours. The head boal was a good " A" fo ur from School House and the highest "B" four was M.O. M.O. a lso won the new-style "C" four compet ition instituted last season. As an experi ment to attract mo re spectators and to facilitate organisation at a busy stage of the term , the School Regatta was this year held at Fordwich. As a result of much hard work by M. W. Sullivan and his band of assistants, a full and compl ica ted programme of races was rowed wit h a rema rk able degree of smoothness and efficiency; house crews rowed in d istinctive colours, a loud-spea ker ad dress system was insta lled and many other details added to a most enjoyable afternoon's entertainment for a large crowd of boys and parents. We are very gratefu l to the Headmaster and Mrs. Newell for sparing the time to see the fin al races and to Mrs. Newell for presenting the trophies. In the senior house fours Wa lpole, School House, Marlowe and Luxmoore were the first-round winners and in two good semi-final s Wa lpole beat School House and Luxmoore narrowly defeated Marlowe. In the final, Walpo le establi shed an early lead and with so lid and powerful rowing went on to win by severa l seconds, despite Pearce breaking his oar a few strokes rrom the finish. Other events were won as follows: Novice Sculls : R. D. R. Barber (G r.); Gardner Cup: J. P. Waterhouse (M.O.); Ha ndicap Sculls: M. H. Roberts (S. H.); Whalley Cup for Senior Sculls: N. P. Press (Wal.). It remains to express thanks to many people who have helped the Boat Club on their way during the season, in particula r Mr. Milner fo r his advice o n land-training and Peter Willis, who has agai n performed wonders in keeping the equi pment in first-class order ; the 1st YIlT are grateful to Mrs. Stewart and Deni s Curt is for their kindness over extra mea ls and they would also like to express their appreciat ion for the many telegrams and messages received at Henley. Pi nally, we would like to th ank many parent s and O.K.S. who by their presence at regattas and at Pluck's Gutter have done much to encourage the crews in their rowing.

The O.K.S. Race The annual fixture between the School and the O.K.S. was held at Pluck's Gutter o n Sunday, July 23rd. Although some leading O.K.S. oarsmen were not ava ilab le through o ther commitments, some of the crew had rowed at Henley this summer. This year instead of the normal single race over a longer course, it was decided to row the best of three 500 metre sprints to add variety and interest for the spectators, who thus saw far more of the crews and of each race. The School crew, rowin g in their Henley order, got away well in each of the first two sprints to win by about It lengt hs and a deciding third row was not needed. Both spectators and crews pronounced this experiment a success and it is likely to be repeated in future yea rs. O.K.S. Crew: B. W. Richardson, bow; R. D. H . Robert s, 2; P. C. Ament, 3; C. J. H . King, 4 ; J. G. Davies,5; D. H. K ing, 6; p , J. D . Allen , 7; R. C. W. Ch urch, stroke; J. S. Medhurst, cox. D.S.G.

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SWIMMING After last ~ea r's successes wh ~n we only lost one match (a nd that by o nly one oint) th iS season ,m lgh~ seem a.n antlclllnax; but when one considers that there were OnlyPthree of last yea r s semo rs left 111 the team, and that we had lost three people who between them hold .abo ut 60 % of the School records, then this season's record (won five lost three) is certainly better than normal. ' In the seni or team, although we ha ve had some ve ry good first string swimmers our second stnng has o n the who le been rather weak, a nd we cou ld usually recko n on ihem comll1g. last. In the Colts! howeve r, the story was entirely different, and with three Ju niors sWllnmmg almost a ll the tllne as Colts, selectio n of a team sometimes posed some problems ~e~dl~ss to say, 111 the two mat~hes that we swa m a Junio r tea m, with o Llrjun iors swimming as J~l11ors, not as Colts, we wiped the board without ach ieving a single last place Smce very few team members wi ll be leaving befo re next yea r it looks as tho~gh the prospects fo r the future arevery bnghtmdeed. My sympathy lies with the captain for his plOblem of chOOSing a seillor team, wJth so many promising Colts as se niors.

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King's 104 v R.M.S.) Doyer 135 In the seniors and colts we were sound ly thrashed, winning only one event in each age group. They a lso won all four rclays in these age groups. Their bath is unfortunately only 28 yards long and so we SWUIll 112 yards and 56 yards races; if there had been some "sensible" distances 1 feel sure that some records would have fallen, since there were somc fast times. 1n the juniors, however, the position was the opposite. We won both relays and most of the events ; but even th is was not enough to sway the balance of the seniors' and colts' losses. King's 100! v Westminster 78t This was a very successful match, perhaps because they only brought 11 people for both their senior and colts team (whereas we had 21). They had one swimmer (Skelton) who swims for Kent and who swam a total of 366 yards during the match, winning three races. Elliott swam a good 100 yards race to beat Skelton. Willett unexpectedly was beaten into second place in the 100 ya rd s and into thi rd plaee Âˇin the 33 yards. In the Colts we won every race but the Backstroke; we also won both relays. T his meant that we won the whole match overall quite convincingly.

Public Schools Freestyle Relay Without Willis in th is event we finished with a time 3.8 sees. slower than last yea r, although most of our times were better than last year's. Individual times were: Ell iott 54.0 sees., Mason 55.3 secs., Northrop 55.5 secs., Munns 53.9 sees. We were placed 27th against last year's 21st. Since the team will presumably be the same next year, we can hope for better things then. K ing's 83 v Highgate 95 v City of London J04

This match was held at Highgate this yea r. The reSlllt was almost inevitable as both Highgate and City of London reached the finals of the Public Schools Medley Relay. Highgate a lso reached the finals of the Public Schools Freesty le Relay. and City of London st ill have Berman (an internationa l swimmer). Incidentally, Highgate is the first schoo l since the War to reach the fina ls or both the Medley and the Freestyle Relays while tra ining in an indoor bath. So much for excuses, now for the match. In the senior match we achieved no firsts and only one second place, which was Eadie in the 100 yards Breaststroke wi th a time or 75.7 sees., breaking the School record. We also only achieved one third, which was Willett in the 100 ya rd s Backstroke, where we came third and fourth. We also carne third in both relays. In the Colts match we had slightly more success with three thirds, and in fact beat Highgate to come first equa l with City of London. Both Northrop and Webber had tough races to win by a touch, and we only had one sixth place. We won the Freestyle Relay quite convincingly and came second in the Med ley. There were a lot of times wh ich were well below normal; Willett's 75.3 sees. on the 100 yards Backstroke and Irvine's 83.6 sees. in the same event; Stephens' 82.4 sees. in the 100 yards Breaststroke (even though he came last with this time); and Munn s' 66.9 sees. in the 100 ya rds Freestyle. King's 115! v St. Lawrence College J24! This was a disappointing match to finish off the season with, as we lost both the seniors and the colts (for once' the colts lost by more than the seniors) and we did not win by very much in the juniors. However, two records were equa lled. The 33 yards Freestyle record of 16.3 sees. by Elliott and the 33 yards Breaststroke record of 22.0 sees. by Eadie. This is interesting in that the on ly two matches in which Ead ie did not win a race he broke a record. Northrop and Allen are to be congratulated on winning at least one race each in all the matches but one.

SPORTS RESULTS Sen iors 200 YARDS FREESTYLE.- I, Mason (Lux.); 2, Elliott (Gr.); 3, Osborne (Lin.). Time: 2 min. 29.6 secs. 200 YARDS BREASTSTROKE.- I, Eadie (Lin.); 2, Stephens (Lin.); 3, Kehrer (Lin.). Time: 2 min. 56.5 secs. (New Record). 200 YARDS BACKSTROKE.- I, Willett (G r.); 2, Graves (Ga L); 3, Irvine (Mar.). Time: 2 min. 56.5 secs. 100 YARDS FREESTYLE.- I, Ell iott (Gr.); 2, Mason (Lux.); 3, Munns (M.O.). Time: 63.4 sees. 100 YARDS BREASTSTROKE.- I, Ead ie (Lin.); 2, Collins (Mar.); 3, Stephens (Lin.). Time: 79.5 sees. 100 YARDS BAC~TROKE.- l, Willett (Or.); 2, Baker (Wal.); 3, Halfter (Lin.). Time: 76.1 sees. 33 YARDS FREESTYLE.- I, Elliolt (G r.) ; 2, Morton-Clark (Lux.); 3, Munns (M.O.). Time: 16.3 secs. 33 YARDS BU'n'ERFLY.- I, Mason (Lux.); 2, Baker (Wa l.); 3, Ead ie (Lin.). Time: 19.9 secs.

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LIFESAVING.- J. Baker (Wa l.); 2. Kennedy (Gr.); 3, Hardie (L in .), Time: 25.3 sees. (New Record). PLAI N DIVING.-l , Scott Williams (G r.); 2, McKiliiam (Gal.); 3, Catt rall (Lux.). TARIFF DI VING.-l . Price (Gal.); 2, Scott Williams (Gr.); 3, Eadie (Lin.) and Moore (Gr.). INDTvlDuAL MEDLEY.-- l , Elliott (Gr.); 2, Mason (Lux.); 3, Eadie (Lin .); 4, Baker (Wal.); 5, Munns (M.O.); 6, Ervi ne (Mar.); 7, McKilliam (Gal.). Time: 104.6 sees. FREESTYLE RELAY.- l . Grange; 2. Luxmoore ; 3, Meister Omer5. Time: 69.3 sees. MEDLEY RELAY.- l , G range ; 2, Luxmoore; 3, Linacrc. Time: 80.6 sees.

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100 YARDS FREESTYLE,- J , Northrop (M.O.); 2, Austin (Gr.); 3, Annis (Ga L). Time: 63.3 sees. 66 YARDS BREASTSTIWKE.- 1, Allen (Gr.); 2, Thomson (M.O.); 3, Hollis (Mar.). Time: 52.0 sees. 66 YARDS BACKSTROKP..- l , Allen (G r.); 2, Stewart (Lin.) ; 3, Finch (Lin.). Time: 48.1 sees. 33 YARDS FREESTYLE.- I, Rowe (M.O.) ; 2, Nort hrop (M .O.); 3, Hollis (Mar.). Time: 16.8 sees. (New Record). 33 YARDS BUTIERFLY.- I, Allen (G r.) ; 2, Austin (Gr.); 3, Nort hrop (M.O.). Time: 21.4 sees. DIVING .- J, Cattrall (Lux.); 2, Scott Williams (Gr.); 3, Lhermette (Ga L). INDI VIDUAL MEDLEY.- I, Allen (Gr.); 2, Whi taker (Lux.) ; 3, Stewart (Li n.); 4, Holl is ( Mar.); 5, Boardma n (M.O.) ; 6, Lasker (Wal.); 7, Edwards (Gal.). Time: 106.7 secs. FREESTYLE RELAY.- J, Grange; 2, Linaere; 3, Meister Omers. Tim e: 75.2 sees.

Juniors 66 YARDS FREESTYLE.- I, Webber (Wal.); 2, Anni s (GaL); 3, Fa irbairn (Lux .). Time: 4 1.5 secs. 33 YARDS FREESTYLE.- I, Webber (Wal.); 2, Annis (Gal.) and Wh itaker (Lux.). Time: 18.6 sees. 33 YARDS BREASTSTROKE.- I, Whitaker (Lux.); 2, D o bbs (Lin .); 3, Conway (Lux.). Time: 24.8 sees. 33 YARDS BACKSTROKE.- I, Annis (Ga L) ; 2, Webber (Wa l.); 3, Fa irbairn (Lux.). Time: 22.9 sees. MEDLEY R ELAY.- I, Linaere ; 2, Luxmoore; 3, Galpins. Time: 70.8 sees.

HOUSE COMPETITIONS R eslllts.- l , Grange, 182; 2, Linaere, 130; 3, Luxllloore, J lSi; 4, Galpin's, 65 i : 5, Meister Omers, 62; 6, Walpole, 52; 7, M arlowe, 37; 8, School House, O. Grange again walked away with this competition together with the ot her three (Water Pol o, Standards, and Shuttle Relays), which makes it the second year running that they have wiped the board in the Swimming Compet itions. My heart iest congrat ulations go to their orga nisers a nd their swi mmers. In the Heats, two records were broken; the 33 yards Freestyle by 16.2 sees. by Elliott and the 33 ya rds Breaststroke by 21.8 sees. by Ead ie. Also Rowe, after spend ing most of the term o n the cricket pitch, ended his successful term by equa lling the 33 yards Freestyle middle record of 17.0 sees. On Sports Day he went o n to break it aga in and bring it down to 16.8 sees.; a very commendable time. Also on Sports Day the Lifesaving record was broken by Baker to 25.3 sees. : 2;\- sees. knocked ofT.

STANDARDS COMPETITION Results.- I, Grange, 7.6; 2, Linacre, 6.2; 3, Meister Omcrs. 5.6; 4, Wa lpole, 5.4; 5, Galpin's, 5.0; 6, Luxmoore, Marlowe a nd School House, 4.6. On the whole lhe results are not as high as last year, but this may well be due to the interference o f Exams. and King's Week wh ich seem to have come closer toget her th is year. G range aga in are a clea r margin a head of the ot her houses and do not look as though they ca n be toppled next year.

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SHUTTLE RELA YS ReslIlts.- I. Grange, 23; 2, Luxt11oore, 20; 3, Ga lpin's, 15; 4, Walpole, J4 ; 5, Linacrc, 12; 6, Meister Omers, 9 ; 7, School House. 8; 8, Marlowe, 6. This competition which was only started last year has been very successful and is thoroughly enjoyed by all those taking pa rt. Grange this year just fa iled to win a ll three age groups since Luxmoore beat them in the Juniors. To fin ish, I would like to thank Mr, Bradnack for all he has done for swimming since he took over a few years ago; not only by training the team, but a lso for encouraging swimming amongst the rest of the School; for encouraging boys to entcr the life-saving and personal surviva l tests. He has been always ready to give a few words of advice at a genera l bathe, or to spend half an hour or more coaching and coaxing boys to swim. The School is indebted to him, and on behalf of the Swimming Club I wou ld like to thank him fo r everything he has done fo r it. His successor has a hard job ahead to kecp up the high standard, but I have every confidence in his success. R.A.E.

TENNIS With a comparatively young team, the 1st VI came very much up to expectations, four of the ten interschool matches being won, with three narrow defeats by Highgate, K .C.S. Wimbledon, and Tonbridge. Many lessons were to be learnt from this season, and, if these are absorbed, next season's team should do well against some of our stronger opponents. Aspects of play such as being able to ki ll easy volleys and to return service efficiently are vil al in school matches, and in these the team was too inconsistent. Indeed, inconsistency was the outstand ing featu re of most matches; the second pa ir in particu lar were too unreliable to be sure of at least two wins. The games against Highgate and Tonbridge were typical examples, where they managed good wins over the opposing fi rst pairs and then were easi ly beaten by the second pairs. Both matches wou ld almost cert ain ly have been won but fo r this. At first pa ir, Cronk alternated between partncring Berry and Mansergh, owing to an unfortunate injury to Berry which prevented him fro m playing in five matches and a lso robbed the team of valuable experience. Consequently, Cronk never really settled down with either partner, and the best tennis from the first pair came from the widely separated matches against S1. Lawrence and Tonbridge. Macfarlane and Hammond played throughout the term at second pair. Their inconsistency must partly be att ributed to their failing at times to accept a challenge to fight themselves out of a difficult position. But they also had some cred itable wins over good-class opposition. A. E. C. Fairbairn, still a junior, played regularly in the third pair, variollsly partnering Mansergh, Northen, and Lee. With more strength and experience, he should do well next year if he can sharpen his volleying and backhand. The stand ard of play of 2nd Y[ members was very similar and there was no obvious choice to replace Berry in some of the 1st yr matches. The Colts' lY proved to be a strong team a nd won all four of their games; in a year or two they should be challenging strongly for 1st VI places. Members of the teams are very grateful for the amount of time that Mr. Holt and Mr. Medill have devoted to the C lub this season both in playing with liS and also giving invaluable teaching to the juniors. We are also gratefu l to Mrs. Campbell for providing such excellent teas for the teams. Colo urs re-awarded to:- M. A. J . Cronk, A. W. Berry, M. D. Macfarlane. Colours awarded to :- N. B. K. Mansergl1, A. L. Hammond, A. E. C. Fai rbairn . M.A.J.C. 488

Results 1st VI

v Dulwich College. Lost 2t-6t v Kent College. Lost 2- 7 v Sir Roger Manwood's. Won 6- 3 v S1. Lawrence, Ramsgate. Won 7- 2 v Highgate. Lost 4-5 v Dover College. Won 7- 2 y K.C.S., Wimbledon. Lost Jt.- 5' v Eastbourne College. Lost 0- 9 v St. Edmund's. Won 6-3 v Tonbridge. Lost 3t-5t )' O.K.S. Won 61-2!. 2nd VI

v Dul wich College. Lost 3- 6 v St. Lawrence, Ramsgate. Won 7- 2 v S1. Edmund's. Drawn 4j---4! v Tonbridge. Lost 1- 8 Colts' IV v Dulwich College. Won 3- 1 v Dover College. Won 3- 1 v S1. Edmund's. Won 4-0 v Tonbridge. Won 4- 0 At Wimbledon our results were as follows:YoulJ Cup

Beat Bedford School. Lost to Magda len College School. Thomas Bowl (under 16)

Beat Eton College. Beat Felsted. Bcat Clifton College. Lost to Lancing. J. N. H. 489

THE SHOOTING CLUB The hopes created by last season's success were more than ful fi lled by this term's achievements. To win the K ent Schoo ls' Cup was a record , being the first shooting cup the School had actually won: special mention should be made of R . A. Ead ie, who, with his score of 68 out o f a possible 70, came secon d overal l. But even this victory was totally overshadowed by the o utsta nd ing results at Bisley. The Cadet Pair shot well; Eadie gained the highest possible score in the Wellington, and was placed 8th in a tie shoot (a nd he is almost certai n of a position in the Schools Hund red); Raemakers excelled himself with a score of 34 at 200 yards- a score eq ualled by Churchwell, Eadie and Nicholls. Because this standard was maintained throughout the team, we reached the unprecedented posit ion of second in the Ashb~l~ton Shield . Much cred it for this success must be attribu ted to M r. Herbert, and to the superVISion of Mr. Gross ; we are also grateful for the accommodation provided by Epsom College during the Bisley period. As there was no Supporters Match this yea r, there was no shoot ing for the O .K.s. Colours are awarded to M. E. Ersk ine (who will be captain nex t term), T. P. Clarke and J. D. Williams.

M. l. R. Nicholls J. H. Chu rchwell R. A. Eadie ...

T. P. Clarke

M. E. Ersk ine

200'

Kent S chools 500· Tolal H .P.S.

34 33 34 31

J. D. Williams

N. R. L. H. Raemak ers W. R. R oberts C. L. Zuntz ... M. J. Coopcr l . H. W. Lloyd

31 34 34 34 29 32

65 67 68 65 57 66

70 70 70 70 70 70

25 31

56 59

70 70

Grand Tota l 503 Spcncer Mcll ish.- R . A. Eadie 47 (H.P.S. 50).

Ashburton S hield 500· Total H.P.S. 34 65 70 31 65 70 33 67 70 32 65 70 31 61 70 32 62 70 31 65 70 32 63 70 9th Man 30 31 61 ~g }cadet Pair 33 29 62 Gra nd Total 513

200· 31 34 34 33 30 30 34 31

M.l.R.N. Mueh of the success of the C lub throughout the season was owing to the quiet cont ro l exercised by the Capta in (M. J. R. Nicholls). K.A.C.G.

THE JUDO CLUB This has been one of the Club's most successful terms, both in respect to ach ievement and to building of future potential. The first match of the term was a new fixture, at Westminster School, which resulted in a victory to K ing's of 54-10. Despite the highly favourabl e score most of the contests were close, with King's just having the edge on their opponents in sk ill, jf not always in weight. The standard and hospita lity of the Westminster Judoka make this a fixture well wort h keeping. Our next fixture was at home to S1. Edmund's School. This is regarded more as an opportunity for Rando ri (free practice) than as a ma tch, and as such went well. However, we did have a ten-man team contest which resulted in a fairly comfortable victo ry to us. The senior members o f our team, on the whole, fought well; however, there was a very noticeable lack of basic contest technique among the j uniors. Fortunately, St. Edmund's su ffered similarly. This deficiency in the juniors was even more apparent in our next fixture, at Wo rth School, where for the first time a junior team was taken as well as a senior (5 Judoka in each). The juniors lost 10- 30, having some unimpressive contests, all seem ing to lack determination. This presumably was due to little previous contest experience. The sen iors, however, fought well, beating what was, if anything, theoretically a slightly stronger side 55- 30. M. J. Hulme, P. B. Kent and H. Mann ings being undefeated in both their contests.

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As 3: result of this and previous victories b);' the senior team, Minor Sports Colours were awa rded to the follow1l1g:-~ . J. Hulme, N. Rae, M. Ersk me, O. A. Blackm ore, P. B. Kent and H. Mannings. Between th iS a~d our next fixture, at hom? to the London Jud o Society (L.J.S.), the Club concentrated on contest work m an .effort to overco:ne tl1l5 th.en apparent weak ness. This proved very worthwh ile, the weaker membe~. particularly, benefittmg from It. The LJ.S. brought down a well matched side of ten although favounn g the central me~bers.of o';! r side:, i.e.~ P. B. K~nt, P. Mason, H . Mann ings and C. Annis: where we. clearly had .an,advantage 111 weIght If not m ~k lll, result.lIlg in several easy contests, which led to a n overa!l victory to Kmg s of 62- 14. Afte r the relative forma lity of the contests, we all gained valuable expenence from the excellent Judo style and technique of the LJ .S. in Randori. Our only other scheduled ~atch! against the Kyu Shin D o Kwai (Deal) at home unfortunately had to be cancelled due to transport difficulties. . .Af~er our match, ~ucces~es a very ,fruitful ~nd of term grading was an ticipated. However, due to minor mJunes and other more-Important con~mH ments several members, with potential of a higher belt, were unable to grade. Neverthless, those that did grade, on the w!lOle, did well and the fo llowing promotions were made :- M. J. Hulme to Green Belt ; P. B. Kent, H. Mannmgs and C. Annis to Orange Belt and all White Belts and beginners to Yellow Belt. ' At the time of writin~, o~ly one of the l'Yo judo displays had been performed, going as well as could be expected, but whet her It wil l have the deSired effect of attracting sportsmen to the Club rather than the " bullied" will have to be awaited. I should like to thank Mr. Richard Lo~h head for his excellent coach ing and the following team members for a very go.od term:- !'f. Rae, M. E~sk me,.G. A. Blackmore, P . .B. K ent, H. Mannings and C. Annis. The Captam leaves thiS term and Wishes 1115 successor, N. Rae, luck and success during his captaincy of theCllib.

M.J .H.

THE FENCING CLUB .Only two l!latch~. were arr~nged f~r t ~is ~e~m as most members have been training for the King's Week plsplay. ThiS trammg combmed With mdlvldual lessons has considerably improved the style o f many JUnior members. In the first ~,,:tch the 1st Team lost to a strong Maidstone Springboks' team by 15 bouts to J2 in a hard fough~ competition. ,!~e only other match, a handj~ap f?il fixture aga inst Benenden, was won easily. In mternal competitIons the I nter-Ho use Champlonslup was retained by Galpin's (J K Walmsley P. Hanet, C. R. Wand-Tetley) by 5 bouts to 4 in an exciting fina l aga inst Walpole (R Bird' A ' Bird C N ' ,.. Wood). . , . A J unior Foil Com.p~tition was. won by S. (\.. Cross and the Novices Fo i! by R. L. Sleep with A. J. Groom 2nd. The ~chool In~lvldual ~eoclllÂĽ Championship at alllhree weapons for the Gardner Sword was won by the Captam of Fencmg, R. Bird, With J. K. Eden 2nd. In externa l competitions, R. Bird and R . Deighton (O.K.S.) were s~lected 10 represent Kent at Epee in the Excalibur Trophy InterÂˇ County Competition at Bath and acquJtted themselves well. . L. S. Bun: (O.K .S.) w.o n the Sou.t~-East Sect ion Epee Competition . Mr. D. J. Miller came 3rd and R. Bird 6th. WIth J . Ogley (O.K.S.) gammg a Blue at Oxford earlier in the year it is good to sec the members of last y.ear's most slIccessful School tcam st ill dOing wel l. Thl~ ten!' we lose J. K. ~almsleYI secretary of the Club and a most valued member o f the 1st Team. We Wish h im every s.uccess m the future.. Th~re will .be many oppo rtunit ies next term for younger members and we hope they Will work hard to mallltall1 the high standards which have been set over the past years.

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THE BASKETBALL CLUB A School Basketball Club was fo rmed this term and despite the d ifficulty of obtaining fixtures out of seaso n had a tho roughly enjoyable and sllccessful time before the onset of examinations. With enough members for two tcams and time for proper training in the skills and tactics of the game everyone benefited and a generally high standard of play was achieved. Two fixtures for both I st and 2nd Tea ms were arranged . In the fi rst, aga inst St. Edmund's, King's showed overall superiority in bot h games and displayed the advantages of high speed passing and a fa st moving attack com bined with determined defence. Result: 1st Team : Won, King's 66; St. Edmund 's, 2 (Heslop 24, Whalley 18, Scott 16). 2nd Team: Won, K ing's 58; St. Edmund's 16 (M. L. Brown 42). In the second fixture aga inst Eastbourne College at Eastbourne both matches were very excit ing and desperately close. The 1st Team took a little time to settle down but after being down by a few points at the first interval they managed to take a one point lead, which they hung on to grim ly for the rest of two very tense quarter s and event ua lly increased. The 2nd Team ga me was equally close, first one side then the other go ing ahead. Eastbourne only snatched victory in the fina l minute of the game. R esult: 1st Team : Won , King's 39; Eastbourne 34. 2nd Team: Lost, King's 26 ; Eastbourne 28. 1st Team: A. M. Heslop (Captain), C. R . Whalley, N. ~ . Scott, C. N. Wright , S. J. Ashforth. 2nd Team: C. J. Tilford (Captain), M. L. Brown, D, J. Binney, E. Ma rsland , C, Handley, J, W. Stedham. M.E.M.

Senior Inter-House Basketball The Senior House Basketball Competition now held in the Summer Term produced the usual quota of exciting matches. Being able to use the ful l ~s i zed open-air courts on Bl ore's instea d of our small gymnasium was a tremendous asset. In consequence the standard of play was raised and the true character o f the game shown, Grange G alpi n's and Marlowe all got through the first round fai rly casily but the match between School House and Walpole was very close and produced some o f the best basketball of the competition. School House eventually won by 25 points to 18-:-a ~plen did m a tc~. In the sem i-finals, G range lost to Ga lplIl's III a game which one felt they could have won had t hey used the right tactics. In the other game, School I'louse fa ced Marlowe and agai n found. themselv.es against worthy opponents, This produced another fi ne match with sound defence from both sides keeping the scores down. School House won in the final quarter by 28 poi nts to 23. The fina l between School Ho use and Ga lpin's was rather d isappointing in that School House after two hard matches were at the top of their form and showed superiority in all departments of the game. Galpin's were not at thcir best and despite their sk ill were quite unable to penetrate the School House defence. Ashforth was successful with shots over the zone but there were few ot her scores, For School House, w~o played really spark ling basketball throughout most members of the team got baskets and Whalley was agam top scorer with nineteen points. Result: School House, 41 ; Galpin's, 20, T EAMS:

S chool HOllse: R. C. Spr unt (Captai n), R, W halley, C. j, Tilford, j, J . Herrington, J. Cornwall Kerr-Peterson. Galpin's: M. L. Brown (Captain), Bin ney, Harvie, Ashfort h, Fagg, Low, Graves, M.E.M .

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ATHLETICS There is a time and a place for everything and this has been proved by the success of the Athletics Club's first fullÂˇtime summer season o n ~uxmoore. In the quiet o f the long summer evenings, with an average attendance of over fift een, the sessions, under tile hcadmgs sprint s, lo ng distance and fie ld were a combinati<,> n o f. ha rd stamina ~or~ and co.mpetitive training, the aim being to combine jl11pro~ed performances with enjoyment. The Sit uatIOn was Ideal, a n~ore perfec~ site being difficult to fi nd , and the gruelling tra ining of the wet Lent Term blossomed out to prOVide ten natIOnal grades and three School records. A. E. Winch was awarded first colours and A. J . Blackmore was in.vited to represent Kent during the summer holidays. E,,:eryon~ made attempts to master other events, and 10 some cases the results were more than eye-raising. W ith th iS nuclells, pentathlons were a rranged against Dulwich, Sf. Edmund 's ~ nd SI. Lawrence College, The results of the Pentath lons were: y Dulwich. Lost 10,998 to 12,201. v St. Lawrence, Won 12,822 to 10,699. v St. Edmu nd's. Won 11,918 to 11 ,617, Other matc:hes were held at St. Lawrence, R.M.S. Dover, and we took part in an inter-club meeting at the Archbls~op's Schoo~ .. Kennedy woJ.1 a Decathlon competition held at Luxmoore with 4,534, and Clarke the JunIOr Competlhon. Outstanding performances this season have been: Blackmore : Pentat hlon (School Record), 2,847 points; 800 Yards, 2 mins. 0.4 sees.; 400 Yards, 52.9 secs. Kennedy : Long Jump, 20 ft. 2t in.; High Jump, 5 ft, 7i in.; Trip le J ump, 4 1 fL 8t in. (Record). Ditchburn : J unior Triple J ump, 39 ft . lOt in. (Record).

The Coun ty Championships at the Crystal Palace !he highlight. of the season.. in probabl.y the be~t .British stad ium, produced a terrific day's athletics. With such ~ van.ety of events, It was essent ial to ~rnve ea rly and thus everyone had plenty o f time to warm lip and acclimat ise themselves. The track had dned well after two days of torrential rain, and the weather could not have been bettered. ' In the junior every.ts, Black more had a first and secon d in the 220 and 100 respectively, a very cred itable performance on which he was awarded hiS county place. The 440 produccd a well-deserved 53.8 secs from Winch, for only his hard work and conscientiolls tra ining has brought about this result. Wand-Tetley ran v.cry well in .the ~ i le, ~howing great d~termmation in c1oc~ i ng 4 min, 44.S secs., a personal best. Kennedy was m great tnple Jumpmg form, COl11ll1g second and takmg the School record with 41 ft. St in. He, Mo rtonÂˇ C1arke and Read also competed well in the High Jump. Read though below last term's form and having an abominable start, showed his hurd ling skill by taking seco~d place. 1n the final event Lancy enjoyed himself greatly- or so it seemed- to take th ird place. ' In the youth's events, nerv~ were playing a great part. Athletics is a very psychological sport and nerves ca n o nly be lessened by experience. jUOiors must learn by their mistakes and it is hoped that this summer season has succeeded in this field. ' Find lay was in great form in the 440, just missing the record in a time o f 55.4 secs. Pcters also had a useful run in this evcnt and should continue .to impn?ve. His sincer.ity and willingness to work will carry him on. The throwers had nerves to overcome 10 ,the D ISCUS, though Pl tceathly st ill managed the respectable distance of 133 ft, In a nove l event, the One Mile Walk, Ho rton shone to take second place in his best time A.A,A. National Grades were ga ined by Blackmore, W inch, Bentley, Kennedy, Read, Find lay, Pitce~ thly and Horton. D.W.B. M)' thanks arc due to all the at hletes who have worked hard to make this summer season a success ' and espec ially to Bentley, whose performances have improved considerably, and who has been o f enormous help as Secretary,

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GOLF CLUB Golf 's played aU through the year but the main activities of go lfers in the School take place dlll}ng t~e S Imme; term The Club has been successful this year in winning the Kent Schools' G olf Championship a~d has no t been beaten in any of its in ter-school matches. In the Kent Schools, held on July 20th at the Rochester a~d Cobham P~ rk G olf Club., we were represented b J A I-Iarvie J ACini D . W. Bentley and J. C. Richards. Playmg as two pairs they returned an a~gr~gate total ~f i 74'(7 8 plus 96), thus tieing with St., Lawrence Co llege, Ramsgatc. We only emerged victors after check ing on the better team over the last nlOe holt?S. , . On June 15th, the Inter-House Tournament was held at P~mce s Golf Club, Sandwich, for what may have been the last time. The weat her was. kind to us, there. being no more than a strong b.reez~. The Cup was won for Galpin's fa irly easily by HarvIe and H. S. FlemJO~ .rrom a very you~g LuxmoOl.e.palr, O. Orme and C. M . C. Fa irbairn. In the afternoon both the ~o ng dflvJl:g and the putt JOt; compet~tt?ns were won by Cini who is incidentally the Kent J unior ChampIon, HarvIe was.run,ner-up III the d flVII:~ and A. F. Acquie~ in the putti ng. We thank the O.K.S. Golfing Society and Prince s Golf Club for bemg our hosts for this excellent day. Results v St. Lawrence College o n 23rd May, at Nort h Foreland. Won 4! -lt. v K. C.S., Wimbledon on 17th June, at Canterbury. Drew 3-3. v Eastbourne College on 1st July, at Eastbourne. Wo n Âˇ4!-1!. G olf in the school relies o n the goodwi ll and generosity o f surround ing clubs, partic;ularly t.he Canterbu ry Golf Club. We would like to thank them and to express the hope that our relatlonsillp floun shes. T.B.A.

SAILING Sailing continues to flouri sh as, during the course of the term , ma.ny boys have taken. advantage of the fa cilities offered by the West bere Club. Apart from the Scho<?I .Helon, ~he Naval SectIon fl~et has been increased to two dinghies by the resu rrection of the G.P. 14, ongma lly ~~lIlt by ~he Nava l SectIon fourt~en n an increase in the number of boys sa llmg theIr own boats, all o f whIch 1. t years ago. There has also bee . r speaks well for the interest a nd enjoyment boys ga m rom t liS spor . N.H.S.

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music We sang a new anthem, Faire is lite Heave" by Wi ll iam Harris, for commemoration this year which is a very welcome addition to our repertoire. The H eadmaster also asked for a repeat performance of Drop, drop, slow tears by William Walton which we were ve ry pleased to do. Two Sunday evening services during the term were for the sixth fo rm, and the middle and lower schoo ls respectively, and consequently the anthems for these two services were 1 will lifl up mine eyes by Walker for alto, tenor and bass, and 0 lovely peace by Handel for two treb le parts. The retiring secretaries wish to thank everyone concerned for their co-operation during the term, all those leaving for their ind ispensable services, and, o f course, Me. Wright for his usual patience. Anthems this term : God liveth still (Bach) o lovely peace (Handel) Let all mortal flesh (Bairstow) Faire is the heaven (Harris) God is a spirit (Bennett) Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake (Hilton) Give us the willgs of faith (Bullock) How healltiful upoll the mOlllllaillS (Stainer) o mosl merciful (Bullock) Hymn 10 the Trinity (Tchaikovsky) o praise God ill his holiness (Dyson) o worship the Lord (Travers) o praise the Lord (Goss) I will lift lip mine eyes (Walker) ThOll visitest the earth (Greene) Drop, drop, slow tears (Walton) The Cherubic H ymn (Gretcharinoff) Blessed he Ihe God (Wesley) Let their celestial concerts (Handel) Thol/ wilt keep him (Wesley) C.S.V. CHOIR

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FIRST ORCHESTRA

We have spent the Summer Term rehearsing fo r the Symphony Concert, at which it is hoped Robi n Mo rri sh and Jeremy Poole will play. As past members of the Orchestra they will soon be joined by Messrs. Jakes, Jakeman, Ling, Rutland, Saunders, Selman and Varcoe, to whom we extend our gratefu l thanks for their services over the years. R .J.A.T.

Our first prio rity this term was the Kent M us ic Fest ival at which we played Vltava by Smetana and Suite for Orchestra by J. H. Romain. We lost one o f the two classes we tried for to Simon Langton. Instead of disbanding after the fest ival we have continued playing throughout the Summer Term this year. The long term target is to put on a concert of our own in either the Winter or Lent Terms. To this end we have concentrated on work ing up Cimarosa's overt ure Three Brothers and Boieldieu's overture The Caliph of Baghdad, finall y looking briefly at Delibes' La Source and Amers' Wee MacGregor Patro/. Next term we hope to add Haydn's Divertimel1lo to our repertoire. We should like to thank our former secretary, Neil Jakes, for a ll his hard work, Bryan Gipps who has led the orchestra fo r most o f the term and Richa rd True who conducted the orchestra at the K ent Festiva l. But most of all our grateful thanks are due to Mr. Anthony Ward who has coached us so well throughout the term. A.R .O.

SECOND ORCHESTRA

The orchestra has become, as always in the Summer Term, the "o ratorio" orchestra. It has spent the term practising H andel's Messiah, in which it will accompany the Choral Society when they sing the work in the Cathedral during King's Week . When the orchestra again meets next term in its rightful capac ity, three members will have left- the leaders of the vio lin, viola and 'cello scctions. We wish thcm the best of luck and thank Ihem for their loyal support.

CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

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We have spent this term learning the last two parts and revising the first part o r Handel's CHORAL Messiah, which we are performing in the Cathedral during King's Week. SOCIETY The Society has met at a new time this term as an attempt to counteract the usual drop in attendance experienced in the Summer Term at the 5.30 p.m. rehearsals. This term we rehearsed during the lunch hour on Mondays, which did help to keep attendances at a reasonable level, although "0" and "A" level examinations towards the end of term disrupted this rehearsal time as well. The quality of the singing has been good at times, despite the fact that the treble line is the weakest that we have had for some time. A review of the performance of the Messiah appears elsewhere in this issue. T.A.L. K.L.J.A.

Enthusiasm has fluctuated alarmingly this term, attendances at rehearsals ranging from GLEE CLUB four to twenty. An extensive campaign in the last few weeks succeeded in attracting enough people to two rehearsals and the final run-through to prepare some music for the Serenade in the Cloisters. Despite hindrances such as games and the Cadet Force coinciding with Ollr limited rehearsal time, a small number of us turned up regularly, forming a useful "nucleus group". In the Serenade we shall sing Lachrymae Crocodili- an excerpt from a cantata by David Cox; How merrily we live-a glee by Michael Este; Sweet and low- a somewhat sentimental song by the Victorian composer, John Bamby, and Laughillg- a German drinking song by Franz Abt. We arc indebted to R. J. A. True, M.S. and N. A. H. McNair, M.S., our conductor and pianist respectively, who we hope will continue with us next term. G.F.P.

On the second day of term, the Madrigal Society was faced with its annual tradition of trudging up to the top of Dell Harry Tower to sing Ascendit Hodie (Stanrord) and a few hymns at seven o'clock in the morning on Ascension Day. This year we were unable to awaken those who were slumbering because wind and heavy rain made sweet voices rather sour. However, we did manage to entice a press photographer to accompany us; he sent his pictures to Southern Television who showed the pictures that evening. Inevitably, the Kentish Gazette honoured us. Our second publicity piece was to sing at the Cha pel of St. Peter Ad Vincula at the Tower of London on 28th June. Unfortunately Mr. Wright could not be with us owing to a "bug" which affected several masters at that time. However, half-an-hour before we were due to sing we heard over the radio that the 1st VII[ had beaten Winchester quite easily at Henley- with Mr. Goodes down with the same illness as Ollr "coach", and so we were inspired by their success to make a good job of our recital. Richard True conducted for us, and we sang very competently indeed. At the time of writing we are working on our Serenade programme, a review of which appears elsewhere in this issue. On behalf of the Society I would like to wish our leavers the very best of luck in their future careers: Stephen Varcoe as a choral scholar at King's College, Cambridge, Louis Rutland at the Royal Academy of Music, and Chris Saunders at McGill University, Montreal. And finally, all our thanks to Mr. Wright. who always toils with us heroically. Stephen Varcoe, Louis Rutland and myself have much to thank him ror. C.M.S. MADRIGAL SOCIETY

The Band has had a successrul term with an increased membership which has made for a much more worthwhile and enjoyable tenn. Attendance was on the whole excellent. Our thanks arc due to Me. Wright who conducted us and to Mr. R. P. Scott who stood in for him. We played at the Invalid Tricycle Association Tea Party, and will play on Speech Day. Items played include Rossini's Boutique Fa"'a.~que, three Brahms Hunga rian Dances. the Ballet Suite from Coppelia by DeJibes, and assorted marches. H.M.G.B. C.L.Z. BAND

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THE SOCIETIES The 1110st impor.tant event, ror tI~e. ~ubl!c Schools this term has been the holding, for the first time ART everâ&#x20AC;˘. of I:l Public Schools ~xh lblt!on In London. Forty schools sent six pictures each and our . co.n~nbutJon stood up well In relatIon to some other schools where more importance is attached to thiS ~ctlVlty. A group or fourteen members went to see this exhibition and a lso spent an hour or so in the NatIOnal Gallery. The last six weeks before Kin~'s Week were .rully occ~pied by leading members in designing and painting ten large flats! amongst,other things, for The Life of Galt/eo. The efforts of D . P. Imber and P. J. de Vroome deserve the highest praise. Six members gave the President invaluable help in mounting an exhibition of the work of the year. General comment suggests that the standard of work is still rising. Two years of pottery has secn the production of some interesting pieces. The members concerned hope that next year, their final year, will see some even better work. The panelling on the Art Room landing will be extremely valuable for displaying exhibitions of paintings and so on, which have in the past been rather complicated to hang. V~riou s school jobs have been, or are in the process of being, done. Christmas card designs are being considered; A. S. Hallam bas designed a poster for The River Stour Exhibition and the President has been ' responsible for two programme covers and a house magazine cover. ~h.is h.as been a very successful and abllnd~nt year for the Society. and it is with our usual eager anticipatIOn that we look rorward to further activity next term. D.P.I. ',This tern:t has no~ been t;l0tably succ~sful for the Society. partly due to the difficulty BELL-RINGING III attendmg meetlllgs oWing to .co~m ltment s elsewhere, but mainly due to the general sense of apl:lt~y among the majonty of the Society's members. A number of new mem.bers j~ln~d, .were !aught to ring in a. short time, were obviollsly interested and yet lost the chance or qU ick aSSimilatIOn With the more expenenced ringers because none of these were t~ere to help. At ~11 costs this must n.ot be a.1lowe~ to .happen in the Christmas term. More acceptable t l m~ for the practices would be a ~tep III the nght d.lrechon and the help of more experienced ringers from outSide. to keep everyone progressing to new techOlques would be invaluable. . ~he Idea has. been put rorward that there should be special training sessions on C.C.F. afternoons for jUlllors not yet III the C.C.F., who would be taught by members who have left the C.C.F. The help of the ringers at the university would be invaluable and could be called upon to assure a class of at least four in the belfry cach Tuesday. . ~he~e is a g,?od deal ~o be. worke~ for next term. There is th~ outing to be prepared, and we have had IIlVltatlOns to nng peals In nelghbounng churches whenever we Wish. There is the Carol Service to be rung. We can always depend on the hclp of the Revd. D. I. Hill and the ringers or the University and we should take more advantage of their kindness. The Christmas term wi ll see a new Hon. Secretary with my own retirement. J.K.E. The first pa~t of this term was <;luiet as usual with most members deep in exam. reVISion. CAXTON However, With the advent of Klllg's Week the tempo quickened. This year we undertook four programmes, those for the "Lire of Galileo", the Fringe production the Pater Society's "M~s~ellaria". and the ,Symphony Concert. This arrangem~nt of doing four programmes, each less ambitiOUS than last year s three, spread out over a longer penod, meant that we could be more leisurely than usual. The ~rogramme for "ÂĽostellaria" included some interesting typography and was well produced by B. '!" :,Rlchard~~.n . The Fnng~ Pl~y:s pro&;ramme was for the first time in our history printed in Gill Medium. ThiS sans senf face has a slmphclty which blended well with the character of the programme A difficult paper was chosen for the "Galileo" programme and the smooth ness of the production reflects well on all those concerned. That for the Symphony Concert proved to be the most troublesome of the four and encroached upon the time allotted for our exhibition. However, the end product was much better'than was at one stage t!:lought possible. During next hol!days our machinery. (or part of it- we will have to abandon Old Faithrul, our Original machme, and pOSSibly one other machme through lack of space) will be moved into our new room in the new bl~k ~y Walpole, and we expect to have to spend some time re-planning o ur work berore attempting any major jobs next term. M.W.J .Y. R.B.H.

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This term saw the beginnings of a timely revival of the Natural History Society after a sad NATURAL spell of inactivity. HISTORY The initial meeting on May 13th was well supported and many sensible ideas for future activity were discussed. A provisional committee was decided as- A. B. . J. Willett (Hon. Secretary)- Reptiles, Mammals; A. G. F. Munns and 1. D. Cox- Ornith.ology; and J. Purseglove and S. W. Warburton- Botany. Outings: Several species of warbler, and grebe, snipe and bearded tit were among the birds seen at Stodmarsh this term. We were very fortunate in knowing Mr. Bean- a local gamekeeper and an extremely knowledgeable and interesting expert on the Kent cou ntryside-who was very kind to lead two outings round his beat near Tyler Hill. He showed us all the arts of gamekeeping and of snaring and trapping foxes and badgerswell illustrateo by dozens of skulls of these animals, and gin, wire and clam traps galore! tvtr. Wetherilt started a freshwater Biology project to collect and record incidences of various species of leech, dragonfly and water snai l in Kent. Enthusiasm was shown especially by Box and Dudbridge and SOme previously unrecorded species have been found. The major outing of the term was an Ornithological one to Sheerness, kindly taken by Mr. Wilkinson in his car, loaded to the brim! It was a fine day, and the outing was much enjoyed and successful. Observation of fox and badger activities around Tyler Hill is planned and may prove successful. In the Christmas term we hope to have some films and lectures and perhaps a fun gal foray and other outings. A.B.J.W. We have not been inactive this Summer term. A great deal of time has been spent rehearsing our own translation of Plautus' "Mostellaria" which we have performed twice-once for a school audience on June 9th and then again on July 25th as a public performance in King's Week . I take this opportunity to thank the President very much indeed for Jhe time he has spen t and the bound less energy he has devoted to producing this play and all the encouragement he has given us. Our only meeting was on Friday, July 7th at which a number of the Classical Sixth together with Mr. Mackintosh, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Baldwin and the President assembled in Mr. Wilson's room to read Aeschylus' Agamemnon in the Greek. The play was familiar, indeed very familiar, to all of us and much time had been spent in the rehearsal of parts; consequently the reading was very successful and the tense atmosphere of foreboding was sustained t.hroughout the drama. I thank Mr. Wilson very much for letting us loose in his room for the evening and giving us much-needed refreshment after the reading. J.S.O. PATER

We must apologise to the Harvey Society for an over-bold claim we made in the "Mostellaria" programme to be the longest-lived school society. Some glances at back numbers of The Cantuariall reveal that the Pater Society was not founded until 1929. Some other' societies which already existed then. such as the Photographic. have not been ill continuous life ever since; but the Harvey has been going strong ever since the nineteenth century. and so is easi ly the longest-lived . D. J. D. MILLER. In spite of the frustrations of exams, the Society has been able to carry out severa l outside SOMNER activities tbis tenn. The annual outing, which this year was to Knole and Sissinghurst, was a great success, although we were told that the latter, a fine Tudor building imaginatively restored and rocently given to the National Trust, would have looked st ill more beautiful if we had gone on a brighter day earlier in the year, when the spring blossom was out: Shortly afterwards, Julian Pet ley gave the Society a most deJightfullecture.about the restorers of Sissinghurst, the eccentric authoress, Victoria Sackville-West, and her husband, Harold Nicholson. The individual groups have also been active. The Romano-British group has done some more digging at Wingham Roman' villa. The Industrial Archaeology group spent a most interesting afternoon visiting the brickworks at Pluckley which have been in continuous use since the end of -the eighteenth century. The Mediaeval group has brass-rubbed at Herne, Upper Hardres, Chart ham and Thanington churches, and ollr thanks are due in particular to Louis Rutland who did much to encourage the less experienced rubbers. ' 498

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At the time of writing all efforts were directed towards preparing the Somner Society King's Week Exhibition. Since it was so successful last year, we have been moved this year to the Parry, and tht! frames to house the exhibition were constructed by C. N. Wood and G. A. Harris. There are, amongst others. sections on coins (organised by R. Lassetter and D. Woollett), Roman pottery (including A. Burbridge's collection). brass-rubbing, the "Precincts in Pictures" and Industrial Archaeology. The Secretary-General is retiring after a year's " hard labour" and his successor will be A. J. Blackmore. R.B.

At our first debate of the term the motion "This House is frightened of the dark" was carried by 90 votes to 26. It was proposed by R. Bird and G. P. Percival and opposed by J. K. Walmsley and J. K. Harris. with notable speeches from the floor from R. M. Plant, C. M. Saunders, R. N. Jarman, G. A. Harris and P. L. Clark. Spi ne-chilling stories of the Cathed ral and Dark Entry carried the day against the argument that we are not frightened of the dark, but of what is or may be in the dark. , The event of the term was the Sixth Form Debate in the Chapter House on the mot ion "Britain without 'the Public Schools in their present form would be a better place", We were delighted to welcome Dr. Michael Drake of the University of Kent to propose this motion and William Deedes, M.P. to oppose, and also Miss Prunella Gee and Miss Philippa King of Benenden to speak second for and against the motion respectively, Eight other members of Benenden's Sixt h Form also visited us and added greatly to the enjoyment of the evening. R. N. Jarman and C. M. Saunders spoke third for and against the motion. De. Drake's case was based on the nation's need for efficiency and social eq uity. Over 50 % of the nation's top jobs go to the 2 % educated at the top schools. It is therefore essential that the 2 % should include the nation's best people, and not merely those able to afford the fees. Also, we no longer think it right to be able to buy comm issions or seats in Parliament or slaves; do we sti ll think it right to be able to buy better jobs? Many speakers from the floor, amongst whom G. S. P. Peacocke, Esq. and R. M. Plant were the most entertaining, wanted the doors opened much wider, and it took all Me. Deedes' debating skill to reducc the motion to a straightforward vote for or aga inst the Public ~chools. His brilliantly enterta ining appeal ("to the heart") won the day, and the motion was defeated by 164 votes to 123, with 19 abstentions. D.W.B. TENTERDEN

In spite of the exams this has been a good term with much sat isfying work done and a good attendance from our c.c.P. release members- with like enthusiasm. Wonders have been carried out on our splendid lathe and we are having to learn to overcome King's " usual trouble"- the Jack of space. , The opportunity to bend ones hands and mind to fash ioning wood after hours in the classrooms provides relief to a mind clogged with facts which results in construct ive achievement and the acquisit ion of a vital skill. The soothing swish of a sharp plane curling off sweet smelling shavings of pine has calmed many shattered exam nerves! However, our cramped workshop would soon lose its atmosphere of industry and contentment were it not for the guidance of Mr. Brown. Ever patient, ever helpful and encouraging- but never intruding, the benefits of his experience and kindness are the framework of our success, N.l .C.T. WOODWORK

I should first like to thank Mr. C. Dudley of the Christ Church College SCHOOL ART EXHIBITION of Education, and Mr. Peter Hills of Tonbridge School, for their kindAND HOUSE COMPETITION ness in coming to judge the House Art Competition, and for the care and thought that they gave to their decision. They were particularly impressed with the skill shown in book-binding and woodwork as well as with the variety and liveliness of the paintings. Walpole's all-round effort deservedly won them the competition; Galpin's, Marlowe, Linacre and Luxmoore, on the other hand, each relied more on outstanding individual artists. The Grange, li ke Walpole, made a good concerted house effort but lacked exceptional contributors. The scores in the Competition were:- lst, Walpole, 143 points; 2nd, Galpin's, 139 points; 3rd, Marlowe, 11 8 points; 4th, Linacre. 109 points ; 5th, Grange, 98 points; 6th, Luxmoore, 69 points; 7th, Meister Omers, 67 points; 8th, School House, 50 points. . A.Q .C.BÂˇ

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C.C.F. NOTES ARMY AND BASlC SECTlONS One of the most successful Arduous Tra ining Camps took place this year in the Pea k District. Into the cxpcctedly arduous exercises was fitted a snow storm during a night in bivouacs ; a talk on survival by the Warden o f the area followed later at the suggestion o f Captain Facer by the unexpected disappearance of Capta in Bradnack ~s a mock casualty wh ich created the conditions for an excellent and instructive pract!ce of mountain rescuc' and an evening's instruction on the S.L.R. from some paratroopers who were with us for the week·end: The Camp as a whole I?foduc,cd some very fine, te~m work and, ultimately, a healthy respect for unexpected and underestimated difficulties of the Peak D lslnct, where not so long before some Rover Scouts had perished over-night. The Summer Term saw the beginning of a new venture. Instead of the whole Corps taking part in the Inspection Parade, only some of the senior tra ining platoons practised th~i~ drill for the ceremonial para~e, whi lst the rest of the Corps used the good Slimmer weather for extra tram mg. In the result the Inspectmg Officer was very pleased both with the Ceremonial Parade (which v..:as held on Green Court for the first time) and with the programme of training, which he saw at Scotland Hills, at Blore's, and back at the School. Next year we hope to repeat the success of this innovat ion and perhaps improve on it. Field Day's most notable achievement was the nigh~ exercise, depicted with such admirably d~y irony in Fore. The night work was, after a false start, exceptionally good, an~ the N.C;:::O.s on bot h S l~es learnt much from the experience of commanding detachments under these testmg conditions. The mornmg stage, oddly enough proceeded 100 slowly mainly o ut o f over caution and a desire to make no mistakes. We a ll learnt a great 'deal and the knowledge ga ined will help next year's N.C.O.'s. The Drill Compet ition was judged by Lieut.-Colonel K. A. C: Gross, O.B.E., E.R:D., T.O., who, as .many will remember gave the Drill Cup to be competed for. The Icadmg Houses set a lugh standard and It was Meister Omcrs under Sgt. A. R. C. Weir and Galpin's under Drum-Major T. A. Ling who tied for first place. The Section Cup with its emphasis on as wide a representat!on. in the House Teams as possible from R.N., Army and R.A.F. Sections, was closely contested, and thiS .tlme yva!P?le came through to the fron t showing all round strength, although o ther Houses had won smgle mdlvldual events. This year Summer Camp is in Germany and we shall be the guests of 26th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. This term we have to say good-bye to Captain Bradnack, Captai.n Facer and Mr. Akrill. They have given so generously of their time and inspiration to ~he Corps that ?ur .slmple thanks are all too ,Poor: They h:1 ve helped to set a standard of achievement by theIr plannmg, theIr friendly help and counsel, either m term-tIme or at camp which we shall endeavour to emulate. We are extremely sorry to see them go, but glad for them, and we wish them a very happy future. PROMOTIONS

To R.Q.M.S.: Smith, A. R. M.; To Bugle Major: Kirsch, B. A.; To Sergeant : Ling, T. A. , Selman,

J. D., Weir, A. R. C.; To Lance-Sergeant : Bentley, D. W., Churchwell , J. H., Foat, D. J., Hulme, M. I ., Jerman, 1. L., Penny, S. M., Quine, D. C., Stedham, 1. ; To Lance·Corporal: Stockell, J. P. R .

ROYAL NAVAL SECTION

At the Annual Inspection, after we had led the March Past w~ demonstrated. sh!p-to-ship t~a!1sfer by light rig jackstay. life·saving, rigging a sailing boat" bends and hitches, and whlppmg and spllcmg, and received favourable mention for our efforts. Our FIeld Day was one of the most complex feats of organisation yet (partly owing to the Israeli war), but it was. also one of the ~ost worthwhile. Part of the Section travelled to Portsmouth by train and returned ove~mght to C;:hatham m H.M.S. A~/rora, a Leander Class frigate. The remainder went to sea from Ramsgate m three ships of the HydrographIc Department, H.M.S. Echo, H.M.S. Eger;a and H.M.S. Enterprise. Sail ing has been popular at week-ends, and by kind permission of the Headm,,:sler, we did our Prep. during an afternoon and had a glorious Sailing Evening on the Westbere Lakes, WIth a record number o f boats and cadets out at once. We are grateful to Mr. N . H . Scott and Mr. C. H. Copeman for their enthusiastic help in this connection.

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In the summer holidays Lieutenant Commander Ball is taking a party to H .M.S. Sea Eagle in Londonderry, and another party is going to B.R.N.C., Dartmouth, for a week 's tra ining as Officer Cadets. Others are going on a navigational course and to an arduous training and sea manship camp in Scotland, so that the opportunities are there for those who are willing to make use of them. It is with regret that we say good~bye this term to Cadet Instructor P. Jakeman, who has been o ne of our keenest and most efficient Cadet Petty Officers-in-charge o f all time, but we have a promising successor in Cadet Petty Officer M. K . O. Stevens. D.W.B.

ROYAL AIR FORCE SECTION H a Section is to be judged by how much fl ying experience it receives in the year, we have done quite well , though, of course, it was mainly in Chipmun ks. If a Section is to be judged by the enthusiasm of the cadets for aeronautical matters and for cadetsh ip in general, we do not come out o f it so well. For the pleasure of some back-seat aerobatics, we must pay the price of drill parades, serge uniforms and classroom lectures. Though the programme is arranged to be as varied as possible, it ca nnot please o r interest everyone all the time, and cadets must realise this. The altitude of "What can 1 get out o f it?" is almost as deplorable as " When can I get out of it?" Much to their surprise, the cadets in the ceremonial drill squad, led by Sgt. Varcoe, did enjoy the experience, o btaining pleasure from doing a difficult and somet imes ted ious job well. It is hoped therefore that the five lucky cadets who are on gliding courses th is su mmer will return next term infectious with their enthusiasm and that others will come forward for further gliding courses and Flying Scholarsh ip training. We say good~ bye, with regret, this term to FISgt. Adam, who has been a stalwa rt o f the Section for a long time, and thank him fo r all his help. P.O.W.

II SOCIAL SERVICE As the numbers concerned with Social Service increase, and the variety o f their occupations multiplies, any attempt to write a balanced report on their work is bound to seem more and more like a catalogue of apparently unrelated aetivities. We recognise, however, that there is no special virtue in variety per se; indeed, an extension in the number o f j obs undertaken might well signi fy nothing more than a d iffusion of effort. We hope that we have not fallen into this trap, and that the diversification o f o ur work really represents an endeavour to meet genuine needs- a need for the work to be done, and a desire o n the part of the vo lunteers to do that sort of work. As usual, the spa re-t ime volunteers and the " non-Corps regulars" have pursued their independent but complementary courses. Some twenty of the former group have been engaged in regular visiting of the old and sick, and o n two occasions have provided ten flag-sellers in the town for charitable causes. Their work goes on a lso during the summer holidays, when members of Marlowe give substantial help to the Meals on Wheels service in the city, assisting with driving and deliveries. On Corps days, a group larger than ever before has been continuing the well-established activities of visiting, gardening and assisting old people; helping the staff at Wincheap Training Centre; and pressing on with the long task of improving the River Stour. C. T. Lambrick and M. J. Muirhead, J. M. E. Hudson and M. W. Sullivan have led these groups respectively. In addition, two new jo bs have brought some ten boys into contact with the work of Local Authorities- to the benefit of both parties, we hope ! At the suggestion of the Canterbury City Engineer, two boys supervised by M. L. Brown have been regularly walk ing the public footpaths and bridleways around the city, and reporting on their condition ; they have been able to give early notification of cases of litter-dumping and vandalism and have arrived at a better understanding of the problems facing Local Authorities in these respects; in addition, their experiences have prompted some interesting ideas o n the functions and ut ility of path-systems as amenities.

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The other new venture has been carried out under the direction of the City Deputy Planning Offi.cer, Mr. J. G. Hannen, who has most generously given of hi~ time ~o come to. t.he School on several occasIOns to direct and advise o n our work. Eigh.t boys, l.mder the IInm~du~te supervISion of~. N. Jarman, hav~ been plotting the flow of pedestria n traffic In the City, both quahtatlv~ly (who .uses this route and why.) and quantitatively (how many people use this route~). When e!lol1gh mformatlon has been collected, we h<?pe to build up a comprehensive picture of pedest rian traffic m t}le centre of Canterbury. Modern planmng thought is increasingly recognising the importance of pedestrian, rather than motor traffic, as the proper governing factor in town centres especially where o ld towns such as Canterbury are concerned; but relatively little research has yet b~en done on this sl!bject-:-nothi~g by school groups, as far as we know. . The prospects here are exciting : King's could be ploneermg an Important new development.

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OUR CONTEMPORARIES We acknowledge the receipt of the foll owi ng maga~ines and apologise for a~y omissions:" Aldellhamiall, AlleYlliall, Ample/ortll Joumal, Ar4mgly AII"als~ Beacon, Blad.(ield College CII! .omc/e, Brad/ord College Chrollic/e, Brcul/ordioll, Campbelltan, Cho/melelall, The Chrolllcle (SI., Edward s), '[he Chrollicle (Giggleswick). D ecalliall , Dovoriall, Dlilwich <;ollege Preparatory, Sc"o~/ Magazlll~, E~slbollrmall. Elizabethall, Epsomiall, Felstediall, G/el/a/molld Chrolllcl~, Gresham: Ha"eybl~rlall, HllrstJohlllOl! , Impala: Killg's College School Magazine, The Killg's ScllO.O/ M(I~aZ/lI~ (Pawlna,tla), La~lclIIg ~o~~ege Magaz llle. LOl?el Cal/ada College Magazille, Ma/bwian, Ma lvemulII, MIll HIll Magazllle, OIiJe/! Pwk.Hde Re~ord, Rad/el,an. Ro!fensia", Rugby School Magazille, ~aga, 8,ch,oo.l Tie, StollY~lIIrsl Ma.gazme. Slorl/ordlO" , SlItlOlI/all. TOllbridgiall, Wellillgtoll Col/ege Magazttle, WIII/gl/mlll, Worksoprall. York,st.

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THE O.K.S. TRUST

The first stage of the Appeal for the O.K.S. Trust has brought it in a total of £37,300. If this achievement is modest by comparison with the aim of £100,000, it nevertheless represents a great deal of hard work on the part of the representative O.K.S. in different areas who bore the brunt of the collection. Their names are given below, and the Trustees would like to record their gratitude to them for their efforts. Some of them made contact with nearly all the O. K.S. in their area, and persuaded a good number of them to contribute; others were less successful, and if you have not been approached, and are reading these words, please feel that as an O.K.S. you should at least consider making a contribution now: if you send a card to me at the ScllOOI, I will send a copy of the Appeal, and a covenant form. For the Appeal must now take a new shape, and try other methods too for the next stage. One of these is the production in colour of copies of a most attractive map of Canterbury, dated 1572, which shows the school building as it was then : and Christ11\as cards will be made of the same colour reproduction, reduced in size. Details of these will be sent out in August with the notice of the Canterbury Dinner, so please hold up your orders for Christmas cards till then. Meantime the Trustees have a small account of income available, and have decided to supply half the estimated cost of a new concrete slipway for the School Eights at Pluck's Gutter, and the Headmaster's Fund is supplying the other half of the £1,100 required. This will be of great benefit to the School, and the Trustees considered it a good beginning to the operation of the Trust. K. A. C. GROSS, Hon. Secretary. (My warmest thanks: it is a splendid start, and I know the Boat Club and its many supporters would wish me to express our gratitude.- J.P.N.)

THE AREA J. M. Bodger. Canterbury J. Hembry. Thanet D. C. Ryeland. Dover Faversham J. Moor. G. M. Lynch. Ashford J. C. Corben. Maidstone Tunbridge Wells M. J. H. Girling. Bromley T. H. Boultbee. C. I. Meek, C.M. G. East Sussex J. B. Lumsden. S.E. London R. A. Godby. S.W. London Rest of London M. Herbert. M. E. W. Vincent. N.E. Surrey W. C. Young. S.E. Surrey West Surrey· Lt.-Col. D. S. Lucas. Lt.-Col. W. P. H. West Sussex Gorringe. J. S. Billinghurst. Hampshire H. H. Goldsmith. Somerset

MANAGERS Dorset Major W. N. Hayes, M.C. Devon, Cornwall J. A. B. Denton. Norfolk, Suffolk Brig. W. L. Gibson, C.D. E. Essex Major R. S. Whalley. Middlesex C. H. Gadney, M.B.E. Hertfordshire E. S. Dawkins. Cambs., Hunts. J. Polglase. Beds., Bucks. F. G. J. Norton. Maidenhead area R. B. Horton. Berks., Oxon R. A. Lawrence. Glos., Worcs. G. M. Housden. Leics. , Northants l R D F Bream Derby, Notts. f' .. . Warwickshire A. H. M. Hoare. Wales J. D. Ommanney. Salop, Cheshire D. G. Trickett., Lincolnshire G. H. Taylor. A. J. Munro. , Yorkshire Lancashire The Revd. E. R. G. Job.

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THE O.K.S. TRUST SECOND SUBSCRIPTION LIST N. P. Finn P. D. Finn, O.B.E. R. C. U. Fisher Bishop J . Frewer N. J . C. Gent Capt. A . C. L. Gibson Brig. W. L. Gibson, C.B.E. R. A. Godby Dr. R. V. H. Goulder B. W. Graves Dr. P. R. Graves, M.B.E. S. C. Hardisty J. H . Hard y D. S. M. Harriss Major W. N. Hayes, M.C. D . P. R. Hews A. H. M. Hoare D. F. K. Hodge P. R . Houchin G. M . Housden W. E. G. Housden S. G . Huntbach T . I. Hurst R. E. Iggulden Col. A. R. A. Iremonger A. K. P. Jackson D. D. Jevons Sir Leslie Joseph B. G . E . Kain Capt. D. F. Kellie, M.B.E. B. G . King A. A. Kneller C. P. Lardner C. E. Latter P. D. Leighton Lieut.-Col. D. S. Lucas Dr. P. F . Lucas J. B. Lumsden A . J. Lush Dr. G. P. McMullin Major C. B. Manning-Press, R.A . Dr. W. d'A. Maycock, M.V.O. R. C. Maylam Miss M. E. Millward

The King's School, Parramatta Old Boys' Union The O.K.S. Association The Hon. Sir Mvles Abbott The Revd. K. D~ Agnew B. H. Arnold P. H. Arnold H. C. Ashenden, M.e. Major W. A. C. Baker, M.B. E. R. S. Bancroft G. G . Baxter & Co. Ltd. R. E. L. Beardsworth Capt. P. M. Benham, R.T .C. J. R. Bennett J. T. Bennett F. H . T. Bosher J. E. Boultbee T. H . Boultbee R . G. Box A. E. Bragg V. StG. Brealy Lieut. M. E. C. Brown, R.N. N. S. Fitz-Gerald Browne G. A. Burtwell 1. A. Campbell Dr. W . B. Clegg J. C. Corben D. H. Cowie C. McK. Cray Lieut.-Col. A. H. Crowther H. R . Curtis L. T . Dadds & Co. Ltd. J. P. Daniell E. S. Dawkins R. H. T. Dawkins M. D. Dawson K . D. Dent J. A. B. Denton C. H. De St. Croix T. C. C. Dumas P. Embery C. A. U. Embery Col. F. A. Eustace, R,M. H. A. H. Finch 504

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J. Moor The Revd. J . W. R. Mowll W. R. Mowll G. E. Needham The Revd . Canon J . P. Ne well Sqn.-l.dr. P. R. Newsome, II.A .F. N. H. Nicholls J . H . H. Nicolls R. O. A. Norris F. G. J. Norton R. H. Osborne N . Paine Dr. R. J. F. H. Pinsent A. B. Pollok R . G. Powell W. S. Price A. J. Red path C. M. Reeves D. D . Rennie R. D . H . Roberts A. Robertson Sir Thomas Scriven or, C. M.G. P. T . Simms

O.K.S. NEWS Archbishop R. W. H. Moline, who was with us last year, writes from Australia regretting his absence on Speech Day. He writes: "At my age (78) I am restricting myself to long journeys every ten years", D. Clarke (1926- 30) has been appointed Principal of Swinton Conservative College, near Ripon. Maj.-Gen. H. E. N. Brcd in (1926-34) is to be Director Vo lunteers, Territorials and Cadets in May. 1968. Dr. C. A. B. Clcmetson (1937--42), Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of CaHrornia Med ical Center, has been appointed Chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Met hod ist Hospital, 506 Sixth Street, Brooklyn, New York, and Associate Professor at the State University of New York. R. N. Murch (1951-55) has been ordained curate at S1. Augustine's Church, Wisbech. W. H. Chippendale (1953- 56) is serving afloat with the United Baltic Corporation, aner studying for his Master's Certificate in Plymouth. Notice of his marriage appears below. A. P. Ayling (1952-57) has been ordained at Salisbury, and is to work at Holy Trinity Church, Weymollth . He was at Wells Theological College with Robin Murch. Dr. C. VernonÂˇSmith (1 952-58) was awarded his doctorate in January, 1967, and remains at St. John 's College, Cambridge, doing post-doctorate work for the U niversity. P. J. Seymour (1 951 - 59) is now working for B.M.C. Services Ltd., in the Experimental Technical Department, and visits n.M,C. Overseas Distributors. 505

T. J. Stevens (1951 - 59) I)as been appointed Deputy Director of the Walker Art Gallery. Liverpool, having been at the Gallery since 1964. M. J. A. Simpson (1954-59), a research student at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, has been awarded a three-year Fellowship at St. John's College, Cambridge. C. G. Lewis (1956-61) is to be ordained by the Bishop of Newcastle, to serve in the parish of All Saints, Gosforth, Newcastle. He spent a year in Ind ia, between Cambridge and Cuddesdon Theologica l College, working with Tibetan refugees, and his book, Tibetan Veil/lire, was published in May. S. A. Saward (1956-61) qualified as a chartered accountant in May, 1966, and :notice of his marriage appears below. M. Turner (1958- 62) is a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Royal Angli an Regiment, and appeared in a recent . recruiting advertisement, as an example of Univers ity Direct Entry. T. J. I. Howard-Jones (1958- 63) finished at Manchester University in June, 1966, and is now at the Britannia Roya l Naval College, Dartmouth, prior to starting flying training with the Fleet Air Arm. P. D. Miller (1955- 64) is now Secretary of the Oxford University Boat Club. M. M. Steer (1960-64) is resident organist of St. Paul's Church. Kingston, Surrey; he bas com posed a choral work, The Nalivity, and is working on a "Passion", and songs for soprano voice. C. S. K. Austin (1956-65) has moved from Hong Kong to Canada, and writes that the Hong Kong O.K.S. held a dinner-party in May at Mr. AucoU's house. . A. B. Marshall (1962-66) is in Valencia, where he teaches English to mixed classes, aged from 14 to 94, and writes that the beauty of Spanish women is no fiction, and that the Mangold Institute has so far failed in its purpose of making him "grow up a bit". The accuracy of these notes would be made more certain if O.K.s. would give their full initials, and preferably years also.

CANTUARIAN LODGE In common with all other organisations connected with the School, we share the grief at the sad loss of Canon Shirley, who was one of our Founder Members. Indeed, it was largely due to his initiative and encouragement that the Lodge was originally formed . With his great knowledge of succeeding generations of O.K.S. and with his sympathy and understanding, he is virtually irreplaceable, and, although he was seldom able to attend our functions of recent years, his absence will be sincerely fclt. During the past year we have welcomed three new members into the Lodge and other applications are in hand. At the Installation Meeting last April Reg Fisher, who had occupied the Chair in a most distinguished manner for two years, handed over his office to Philip Elliott. On that occasion we enjoyed the company of H. C. Read from the Lodge of the King's School, Parramatta, who has spent a life-time on the staff of our daughter school. Jt was stimulating to be made to realise how strong the bonds are felt to be. not only between the two schools, but also between the Dominion and ourselves. We took the opportunity of reciprocating the recent prcsentation we had received from the Lodge of the K.S., Parramatta. In June we enjoyed the hospitality of the School for our triennial meeting with the Lodges of Dover College and St. Lawrence, Ramsgate, after which some forty of us dined at the County Hotel. O.K.S. and fathers of K.s., who are qualified to attend, are always most welcome at our meetings which take place at the Mostyn Hotel (near Marble Arch), usually at about 5 p.m., on the fourth Thursday in February, April and October and the first Thursday in December. Enquiries as to membership, etc., shou ld be addressed to A. Fox-Male, White Horse Cottage, White Horse Common, North Walsham, Norfolk. 506

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O.K.S. GOLFING SOCIETY The members of the Society have enjoyed some excellent golf this summer and are looking forward to the Autumn Meeting at Canterbury. especially the afternoon game with the boys. V. E. Barton is Captain of the Kent county side this year and although we were beaten in the second round of the Halford Hewitt by Charterhouse ou r prospects for the future appear to be very good. We hope to include Cini, Harvie and N icholas in the 1968 tcam if they are available and hope that the supply of excellent young golfers will continue in the future. Recently the Committee of the Society decided that members under the age of 21 should not pay a subscription, and hoped that all golfers Icaving the School will take advantage of this offer.

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·- Bredin.- To Anne (m}e Hardie) and Maj.-Gen. H. E. N. Bredin (1926-34) on 7th July, 1967, a daughter (Sarah Alexandra). MowlJ.- To Susan (nee Bullen) and the Revd. J. W. R. Mowll (1956-60) on 16th March, 1967, 'a son (Benjamin). Ricketts.-To Jane (llee Spark) and Howard J. Ricketts (1955- 58) on 21 st July, 1967, a son. Consterdine.- To Yvonne (llee Hayward) and Paul Consterdine (1956-61) on 10th Ju ly, 1967, a son (Mark McKaig).

ENGAGEMENTS Nicholls- Dcan.- N. H. Nicholls (1946--56) to Isobel J. Dean. Agnew- Holland.-A. J. Agnew (1951-57) to Elizabeth A. Holland.

MARRIAGES Molfatt.-B. T. G. Moffatt ( 1945- 50) in May : Stemborough Mill, Leire, Nr. Rugby. , Herbert-Madsen.- M. Herbert (1947- 53) to Anna Madsen, on 17th June, 1967, in Soeby, Denrilark . Chippendale-Dennis.- W. H. Chippendale (1953- 56) to Sheila Mary Dennis, on 30th March, 1967, Seymour-Sansom.- P. Seymour (195 1- 57) to Barbara Sansom, on 15th June, 1967. E l wort hy-H~nd ry.-A. A. Elworthy (1953-58) to Penelope Hendry,Pon 28th January, 1967. Scott- Fairfax-Lucy.- J. E. Scott (1956-60) to Mary C. A. Fairfax-Lucy. Saward- VaIJat.-S. A. Saward (1956-61) to Patricia Vallat, on 1st April, 1967. Redpath-Stcwart.- B. N. Redpath (1957-62) to Elizabeth Stewart, on 8th Ju ly, 1967. Viner-Rumsey.-A. J. Viner (1943-47) to Elizabeth Rumsey, on 29th July, 1967. Hadficld-Humphrey.- M. Hadfield (1954-58) to Gill ian Humphrey, on 8th July, 1967.

DEATHS SJlelswelJ.-Dr. A. H. Shelswell, V.D. 0910- 13), on 1st June. 1967 in his nnd year. Glennie-J. F. G lennie, M.Le.E. (1925·30), suddenly on 29th July, 1967 507

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