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J. R. P. O'BRIEN Vicegerent 1967-8; Lecturer in Natural Science Photograph by courtesy of B. J. Harris, Oxford.
R. B. McCallum receiving his Honorary Degree, University of Dundee, 19th October, 1967.
LIST OF MASTER AND FELLOWS Michaelmas Term 1967 MASTER VACANT *
FELLOWS M.A., Lecturer in Philosophy. Lecturer in in M.A., Senior Tutor and Lecturer
DONALD GEORGE CECIL MACNABB, GODFREY WILLIAM BOND,
Classics. REVD. COLIN MORRIS,
Chaplain, Lecturer Lecturer in in Modern Modern History History M.A., Chaplain,
and Theology. B.Sc., M.A., Vicegerent and Lecturer in Natural Natural Science. Science. PIERS GERALD MACKESY, M.A., D.Phil., Lecturer in Modern History. Physical Science. Science. JOHN WILKS, M.A., D.Phil., Lecturer in Physical M.A., D.Phil., Lecturer in ROBERT ANDRE EDOUARD BALDICK, Modern Languages. ZBIGNIEW ANDRZEJ PELCZYNSKI, B.Phil., M.A., D.Phil., Dean of Graduate Students Graduate Students and and Lecturer Lecturerin inPolitics. Politics. ARTHUR DENNIS HAZLEWOOD, B.Phil., M.A., Lecturer in Economics. Language and and Literature. Literature. DOUGLAS GRAY, M.A., Lecturer in English Language Bursar and and Lecturer Lecturerin inAncient Ancient PETER JOHN CUFF, M.A., D.Phil., Bursar History. Engineering Science. Science. EDGAR LIGHTFOOT, M.A., Lecturer in Engineering ALISTAIR CAMPBELL, B.Litt., M.A., Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon. Anglo-Saxon. Professorial Fellow. Fellow. ARTHUR LAURENCE FLEET, M.A., Professorial and Research Research Fellow Fellow in in IAN PHILIP GRANT, M.A., D.Phil., Dean and Mathematics. Admissions and and Lecturer Lecturer VERNON SPENCER BUTT, M.A., Tutor for Admissions in Biological Science. JOHN RICHARD PERCIVAL O'BRIEN,
* From 1 January 1969 SIR GEORGE WHITE PICKERING, D.M., F.R.S.
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JOHN RAYMOND ROOK, M.A., Lecturer in Mathematical Mathematical Physics. Physics. ALEXANDER CRAMPTON SMITH, M.A., Nuffield Nuffield Professor Professor of of AnaesAnaes-
thetics. Calouste Gulbenkian Professor Professor of of Armenian Studies. GORDON HARLOW WHITHAM, M.A., Lecturer in Chemistry. WILLIAM RICHARD KEATINGE, M.A., Lecturer in Physiology. JOHN DAVID FLEEMAN, M.A., D.Phil., Lecturer in English Literature Literature and Language. Language. JOHN MICHAEL EEKELAAR, B.C.L., M.A., Lecturer in jurisprudence. jurisprudence. SAVILE BRADBURY, M.A., D.Phil., Nuffield Nuffield Research Research Fellow Fellow in in Medicine, Lecturer in Human Anatomy. Anatomy. CHARLES JAMES FRANK DOWSETT, M.A., D.Phil.,
SUPERNUMERARY FELLOWS HERBERT STANLEY DEIGHTON, B.Litt., M.A. ROBERT FRANCIS VERE HEUSTON, M.A. GEORGE RICHARD FREDERICK BREDIN, M.A., C.B.E. HONORARY FELLOWS SIR ABRAHAM JEREMY RAISMAN, M.A., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I. SIR DONALD LESLIE FINNEMORE, M.A. HON. JAMES WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, M.A., Hon.D.C.L. SIR THOMAS PERCIVAL CREED, M.A., K.B.E., M.C., Q.0 . SIR THOMAS MALCOLM KNOX, M.A. PHILIP NICHOLAS SETON MANSERGH, M.A., D.Phil., D.Litt., O.B.E. LEWIS ARTHUR LARSON, M.A., D.C.L. CHARLES STEWART ALMON RITCHIE, M.A. ROLAND ALMON RITCHIE, B.A. CHARLES LESLIE WRENN, M.A. SIR ROBERT REYNOLDS MACINTOSH, M.A., D.M. JAMES MCNAUGHTON HE S TER, M.A., D.Phil. LAWRENCE FITZROY POWELL, M.A. RONALD BUCHANAN MCCALLUM, M.A.
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VICEGERENT'S NOTES The most notable event in the past year 1967-68 was the resignation of the Master, Mr. R. B. McCallum. Since Trinity Term 1967 the College has, to all intents and purposes, been without the guidance of Mr. R. B. McCallum. For in Trinity Term he was, for the first time in his association with Pembroke from 1925, on sabbatical leave and in Michaelmas Term, at the end of which he officially resigned, on leave of absence. After 42 years of great contribution to the College as Fellow, Tutor in History, Senior Tutor, Vice-Master and Master, he left to be Principal of St. Catharine's, Cumberland Lodge, sited in Windsor Great Park. This unexpected move by the Master was naturally not without its anxieties. Although the present Record contains an appreciation of our last Master by Mr. Bredin, I feel, as an old Pembroke man, I must record my deep appreciation and gratitude for all that he has done for Pembroke and for his kindliness and his support which he showed to me in our joint ventures to foster the development of science in the College. To his credit may be placed a revolutionary change in the face of Pembroke, the greatest since the time of Jeune: an influx of new Fellows, a greater undergraduate and graduate body, the creation of a new quadrangle by taking in Beef Lane and the houses on Pembroke Street. With all this went a rise in the academic distinction of the College and yet overall Pembroke reserved its own features and characteristics. It may truly be said that Mr. R. B. McCallum served the College magnificently and is to be ranked as one of its finest and most enterprising Masters. In Michaelmas Term the Fellows recognised Pembroke's debt to the Master by giving him and Mrs. McCallum a Dinner in Hall on 28th November. This was a magnificent occasion. Presentations of gifts of a silver tray and bracelet respectively were made to the Master and Mrs. McCallum. The evening reached its height in one of the finest and most memorable speeches Mr. McCallum has made as Master of the College in Hall. The second event worthy of note was the opening of the new building in the North Quadrangle to accommodate 25 undergraduates. It was the last function at which Mr. McCallum acted officially as Master. The ceremony was performed, on October 7th, by Sir Thomas Creed, Honorary Fellow of the College, with a speech of vigour and of great compliment to the Master. Some 550 old alumni with their families and friends took tea in the Hall.
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It was indeed a great pleasure to the Governing Body that so many old members spared the time to visit the College and to inspect the buildings to which they had generously contributed in the College Appeal. In this this and and other other respects respects the the College College followed followed the course of progress it has shown over recent years. It maintained its level of performance with with 88 Firsts Firsts by byF. F.I.I.M. M.Hazeel, Hazeel, J. J. J. J. L. academic performance Smith (Modern History); History);A. A.Coombs Coombs(English); (English);D. D.J. J. Smith Whiteley (Modern Chamberlain (P.P.E.);P.P.Chamberlain (Oriental Studies); M. G. Phelps Phelps (P.P.E.); (Chemistry);A. A. 0. 0. Smith, Smith,K. K.Waterson Waterson(Engineering (Engineering Science). (Chemistry); Firsts were also obtained in Engineering Moderations in Trinity Term 1967 by I. Childs and D. Q. Parkin. The College also had its fair share of University prizes and distinctions. B. Haronski (Arnold Historical Essay Prize); D. Lindley (Violet Vaughan Morgan Prize for English); M. B. Wright (Turbett Prize in Chemistry for 3rd year work); R. G. Ware (Shelley Mills Prize); G. R. Squire (S. E. Wilson Scholarship in Forestry); E. K. Weir (Prize in Medicine in Oxford Medical School); P. A. Stanworth (Radcliffe Infirmary Prize in Surgery). In sport, I am well pleased to record an upsurge of interest in all games and a desire to represent the College. Although as yet we have not gone great lengths in distinguishing ourselves, it is not without effort. The Boat Club is still as alive as ever and celebrated a Bump Supper last year — the first for many years — for a magnificent performance of the 1st Torpid. I can now report that plans are well and truly under way for the building of a Boat House which will be shared with St. Edmund Hall. Pembroke's contribution to this new Boat House is of the order of £25,000, which is partly made up from monies from the College Appeal, College funds and benefactions. The last issue of the Record reported the award to Mr. Nigel C. G. Campbell of a Baker Scholarship at the Harvard Business School. This high academic success has been repeated this year by another Pembroke man, man, Mr. Mr. David David 0. 0. Silber, Silber, who who graduated graduated from the College in 1964. The designation of Baker Scholar (so named Baker, former former President of the First National Bank after George F. Baker, of New York and a benefactor of the Harvard Business School) represents the highest scholastic honour the School can give prior to graduation, and is confined to a handful of outstanding students each year. Mr. Silber's future plans are not yet known but in a recent letter he expressed the hope that he would not become a part of the "brain drain".
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A further Pembroke impact on the business world across the Atlantic is provided by an alumnus of an earlier generation, Mr. Robinson Ord, who has been appointed by the Prime Minister for Canada as the President of the Cape Breton Development Corporation. Mr. Ord, who came originally from County Durham, matriculated at the College in 1925 and joined the Monsanto Chemical Company in 1930. He became President of the Canadian Chemical Company in 1958. His new task, in which he has the heavy financial backing of the Canadian Government and that of Nova Scotia, will involve the re-organisation and management of the coal mining interests in Cape Breton of the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation and the promotion and development of modern industry on Cape Breton Island. It is equally pleasing to report upon the success of a former Rhodes Scholar, Mr. Richard G. Lugar (1954-57), who was President of the J.C.R. during his residence. Last year he was elected Mayor of Indianapolis, and is the only Republican Mayor of any city of over half a million except New York. I cannot, cannot, as as the the Master Master has has done done in in previous year, report upon great changes in the Governing Body. This year has been remarkably quiet. We have gained no new Fellows and lost none. The Fellows continue to gain distinction by their publications and other activities but one matter I wish to mention is the Henry Adams Award of a bronze medal for research by the Institute of Structural Engineers to Dr. Edgar Lightfoot, our Fellow and Tutor in Engineering. I myself wish to recognise my debt to the officers of the College, the Bursar, Dr. Peter Cuff, the Senior Tutor, Mr. Godfrey Bond, and the Tutor for Admissions, Dr. Vernon Butt, in maintaining the College affairs at a high level of administrative efficiency. O'BRIEN. T. J. R. R. P. P.O'BRTrN.
ELECTION OF NEW MASTER On 28th February, 1968, the Fellows of the College elected Sir George White Pickering, F.R.S., Master of the College. Sir George is from Pembroke College, Cambridge, and has been Regius Professor of Medicine and Student of Christ Church since 1956. He will take up office on 1st January, 1969. He brings with him to our College a world-wide reputation in medical research and a wealth of experience in academic finance and administration.
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The following following speech speech was was given givenby bySir SirThomas ThomasCreed Creedat atthe the ceremony for the opening of of the the New NewBuilding Buildingat atPembroke PembrokeCollege, College, Oxford, on Saturday, 7 October, 1967. If a person or a public body wishes to obtain a building which will meet his needs, it will be found that there are four steps of great difficulty in the process. In the first place he must own enough land — preferably, especially in the case of a college, freehold — and if he either does not own it or is not in a position to acquire it, his purpose is thwarted at the outset. How grateful Pembroke has reason to be to its great neighbour, Christ Church, for it is the House which by selling some of its freehold property to Pembroke has made possible the construction or conversion of these buildings as an integral part of the College. What good reasons could have been advanced for a refusal to help! Pembroke men will not forget the help which the House has so readily given. Secondly, in order to build it is necessary to obtain the approval of the building authority. Anyone who has been connected with new building in recent years will not be slow to realise the importance and usually the difficulty and length of this process. Again the College was fortunate in securing the ready co-operation and assistance of the Local Authority. The demise of that great and splendid thoroughfare, so well known to generations of Pembroke undergraduates, Beef Lane, will hardly be deplored even by the most conservative of Pembroke men. But it is not merely a question of the demise of Beef Lane. The entire building scheme has met with the wholehearted assistance of the Local Authority and we are grateful to them. Thirdly, it is necessary to secure an architect who combines an appreciation of beautiful buildings with a due consideration of the convenience of the user — not always an easy task. Here again the College has been fortunate in having one architect throughout, Mr. Peter Cleverly, and let me add fortunate also in having one firm of contractors throughout, Messrs. Benfield and Loxley. We can see and admire their skill and their handiwork and at the same time from the very fact that they have been employed throughout the whole scheme we may be confident that they have shewn themselves competent men of business. It is the fashion for governments and members of both political parties to pretend that universities and colleges are unable to conduct business efficiently, thereby seeking under the pretext of economy to impose their mastery upon universities whose freedom from political control both parties appear to resent. We may be thankful that in this College so far government interference with its finances has been kept at arm's length. May
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it so continue. I suggest that if any young politician would like a course of instruction in economy he should attach himself to the Head of a College, because he will find that Heads of Colleges and Governing Bodies dare not waste money because if they do so, they have a swarm of angry dons and academic staff at their throats asking why the wasted money was not devoted to the furtherance of their own particular field of study. But there is another and fourth vital need, if success is to be achieved, the finding of the necessary money to carry out the plans. It is indeed heartening that such large sums have been forthcoming for the execution of these schemes. There have of course been some generous donations from outside bodies but the College has rightly looked to its own members and their relatives for the main provision of funds and it has not looked in vain. The response to the appeal has been a magnificent demonstration of the affection with which all Pembroke men and relatives of Pembroke men regard this College and of their willingness to come to its aid in the hour of need. Although this is essentially a domestic occasion it would not be appropriate, indeed it would be impertinent, for me to mention individual senior members of the College to whom this new building and other new buildings in the College owe so much. But, if you will give me leave, I must make two exceptions. First, I am sure that it would be the wish of all those acquainted with the recent history of the College that a special reference should be made to one who has been a personal friend of mine down the years, since we both joined the Sudan Service in the early twenties, always throughout those many years, whether in the Sudan or in this country, the most efficient, the most selfless of administrators, a man who has been heedless of his own interests or advantage if those purposes prospered which he valued most. One of his colleagues in the University once remarked to me "We each mount our favourite hobby horse in true academic style. We parade our views with gusto and determination. At length we tire and even long to dismount from our hobby horses, if we dare. Then George Bredin says in his quiet manner wonder if by any chance it would be a good thing if we were to take such and such a line of action?' George wins and it surprises us all that so obvious a solution to our problem had not occurred to us before". To George Bredin this College, like his beloved Sudan, is under a great debt. He will not be forgotten by those aware of his achievement. I now ask your permission to speak of one who has served this College faithfully and well for over forty years, whose reputation as
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a true academic thinker and statesman in the great liberal tradition has spread far beyond the confines of this University. Like his great liberal predecessor of the nineteenth century, Bishop Jeune, he has led the College into paths of true progress. Bishop Jeune was responsible for the building of the quadrangle in which the Hall and Chapel are situated and for outstanding innovations in organisation of the academic work of the University of Oxford. To the present Master it has fallen to take up the mantle of Bishop Jeune and again to extend substantially the College buildings, having first fostered and encouraged at every turn those financial measures which produced the resources necessary for the growth of the College. Moreover, to a greater extent than Bishop Jeune the Master has been the mainspring behind the expansion within the College of the fields of academic study and behind the raising of its academic standards. His kindliness, his modesty and his pervading interest in the resident undergraduates and graduates alike, his interest in the alumni of the College have built up a massive fund of good will on every side which found its great opportunity of expression in the splendid response to his appeal for funds for the development of the College. Moreover, the Master's extra-mural activities, his work on the City Council, for the Oxford Society, for the Oxford Magazine and for the health of the student body, to name only a few of his many activities, have brought great distinction and breadth to the life life of of the the College. College. I must must be be one one of of the many in this assembly who enjoyed and appreciated their undergraduate years to the full but who on visiting the College in these recent years feel no sense of nostalgia for a faded past and who delight in looking forward with assurance and confidence to the College's great future the foundations of which have been laid by Ronald McCallum. Master, we salute you. You have done great things for Pembroke and we wish you well. It is with great pleasure that at the close of your distinguished tenure tenure of of office office as as Master Master I declare this new building open.
RETIREMENT OF THE MASTER Ronald Buchanan McCallum was born on 28 August 1898 at Paisley, Renfrewshire, the fourth son of Andrew Fisher McCallum, master dyer of that burgh. He was educated at Paisley Grammar School (founded, like Pembroke, by King James) and then at Trinity College, Glenalrnond. Glenalmond. There he rose to be head boy of the classical VIth and is said to have put his knowledge of Latin and
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Greek to good use by writing parodies of Horace and Euripides satirising his school fellows and the staff. Coming of military age in March 1917 he went to a cadet battalion billeted in Jesus College, Cambridge, and in July was commissioned in the Labour (now Pioneer) Corps having been graded unfit for more active service by a severe stammer. After serving for a year on the Western Front near Ypres he was demobilised in February 1919 and, aided by the fact that his Glenalmond form master had in the meantime been appointed History Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, matriculated there (without examination) in April 1919. At Oxford he indulged in the usual student activities specialising in rowing, fives, throwing the hammer and work on the Standing Committee of the Union. In the Final Honour School of Modern History in July 1922 he took a First after a gruelling 35-minute viva in the course of which his questioners took him from Cedric the West Saxon to Gladstone and Salisbury. After applying for various university posts he was appointed Procter Visiting Fellow to the Graduate College of Princeton. The story goes that he was chosen after two teas with Vice-Chancellor Farnell who asked him the same questions each time and showed no sign at the second tea that he had ever seen him before. The successful candidate assumed that his rivals had had only one tea. Returning after his year at Princeton, during which he studied the life and work of Calvin, he lectured at Glasgow on English Mediaeval History at the then handsome salary of ÂŁ350 a year. In the spring of 1925, in response to the advice of his tutor Roberts, he applied for the vacant History Fellowship at Pembroke and was appointed to the post which he held for the next 30 years. In addition to carrying out a heavy lecturing and tutoring programme he started writing books on political matters. In 1936 he published a short Life of Asquith and in 1944 "Public Opinion and the Last Peace" together with "England and France 1944" at the request of the Foreign Office. Towards the end of the War, under the sponsorship of Nuffield College, he undertook to produce a history of the first post-war General Election. This he did, and in 1950 wrote a chapter linking Volume IV of Halevy's History of the English People, which ended in 1852, with Volume V beginning in 1895. In addition to some editing of Mill and various contributions to collected historical and political works, in 1961 he wrote and published "The Liberal Party from Earl Grey to Asquith". His only absence from the College was for one term during the War when he accepted a Rhodes Travelling Scholarship to Chun-
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hut while he was on his way news came of the king in Free China, but attack on Pearl Harbour and he had to turn back after getting as far as Tennessee. His activities outside the College were manifold. As early as 1929 he became involved in the activities of the Oxford Magazine, of which he was for many years a staunch pillar, and delighted its readers with his articles and dialogues over the name of Vernon Fork. For his last seven years at the College he was a very active Deputy Chairman of the Oxford Society: he gave long service as a University Representative on the Oxford City Council and as one of the two Pembroke members on the Governing Body of Abingdon School, and was for some years on the Council of Reading University. In 1964 he undertook the Chairmanship of the body entrusted with drawing up the constitution for the University of Dundee, and crowned his delicate and exacting task with a success which earned him an Honorary Degree conferred upon him by the hand of the Queen Mother in October 1967. In 1959 a series of casualties in other Colleges brought unexpectedly to his door an invitation to the Vice-Chancellorship. Ready as he was to assume this further responsibility, and well fitted, as his colleagues well knew, to discharge it with credit, he felt bound to seek medical opinion before making a decision. This so firmly recommended him not to subject himself to the inevitable strain of such an office that, very regretfully, he felt bound to refuse. This account of Ronald McCallum's career at Pembroke has left to the end a reference to his Mastership. Although he only assumed full office in 1955 on the death of Dr. Homes Dudden he had, as Vice-Master, Vice-Master, exercised exercised virtual virtualHeadship Headshipsince since1953. 1953. His tenure of office will go down in the history of the College as witnessing an academic and material expansion rivalled only by the stirring days of the great Francis Jeune which saw the building of the Hall and the creation of the Chapel Quadrangle over 100 years ago. The growth in the teaching strength of the College, particularly on the science side, the expansion of the College fabric and provision of new accommodation for students and Fellows, the improvement in amenities and the rise in the standing of Pembroke among her sister Colleges, have been phenomenal. Throughout Ronald McCallum provided the mainspring of this great and sustained effort, winning and retaining the confidence and vigorous support of a Governing Body whose unity and enthusiasm owed much to his leadership and inspiration. His election to an Honorary Fellowship will furnish a welcome and valued link with the College in the future. The resounding success of the College Appeal, launched in 1963,
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was not only a manifestation of the generosity of the alumni and of their loyalty to the College but also a tribute of personal affection for the Master who conducted it. The keen interest which he had always taken in the student body during his long service at Pembroke and the friendships maintained through a voluminous correspondence provided a firm bond between them and the College. His unaffected concern for their welfare and careers, his kindly manner and the warmth of his welcome are things which Pembroke men will always remember. He and Margaret McCallum will be sorely missed and carry with them into their new responsibilities the gratitude and good wishes of a host of Pembroke men everywhere. G.R.F.B.
PEMBROKE 1925-1967 I have been asked to write some recollections of my forty-two years as Fellow and then as Master of Pembroke. When I was elected in June 1925 the College consisted of the Master, a professional whole-time Bursar, Mr. Salt, and three teaching Fellows. These were Mr. Drake, the Senior Tutor, whose control of the academic part of college life was all-pervading, Mr. R. G. Collingwood, one of the greatest scholars of his period, both in philosophy and Roman History, and Mr. A. B. Burrowes, who held the offices, then combined, of Chaplain and Dean and taught with great assiduity a wide range of subjects for the Pass School which then occupied the attention of a large proportion of the undergraduates. There was also the last of the old Life Prize Fellows, Dr. Ramsden, who was then a Professor of Biochemistry at Liverpool and whom we saw but little until his retirement when he lived with us till his death in 1947, taking an active part in College meetings and interesting himself especially in the medical students. It would be tedious to recite the various stages by which the College was enlarged in terms of Fellows, but the Oxford Calendar Calendar of 1967 exhibits 24 Fellows of Pembroke, of whom 20 are engaged in College teaching, three are Professors and one, Mr. Fleet, is Deputy Secretary for Administration in the University. Of these 13 have degrees from other universities. The undergraduates in 1925 numbered about 125 and continued at a similar figure during the inter-war period. There was a slow change in the intake over the years, as Oxford entry became somewhat more competitive and the numbers reading for honours degrees
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increased. There was a notable advance in academic competence about the mid-nineteen thirties. The undergraduate entry was predominantly from public schools but there was always a good variety. The most famous of the public schools did not patronise us much, Eton, Winchester and Harrow, but they were usually represented by one or two members. Mr. Drake once calculated that during his years as Senior Tutor from 1912-1950 the two schools which sent us most boys were Abingdon and St. Paul's, both connected with us by closed awards, Abingdon being linked with us from the foundation. It is gratifying that these two schools are still well represented in the College. The College was one of the smaller colleges and certainly one of the poorest. Our revenues just sufficed to maintain our establishment and no more. Over four decades many large and small benefactions have made our situation much easier, and the College now ranks among the second division made by the Franks Commission in wealth of colleges and rather at the lower end of that division. It was on the whole a happy college. It was small enough for everyone to know everyone else; it was comfortable and even cosy. It was perhaps too cosy and not sufficiently ambitious. The College athletic clubs flourished. Rowing was usually keen and we had some very successful years. Of the other games rugger had the most esteem and we often had very good sides. In those days, while sport was entirely a matter of free choice for the individual, the spirit of the College tended to secure that anyone who had any talent at a game was rather "expected" to use it and his stature and influence in college life was much affected by his willingness to support the College on field or river. This was general in Oxford then. I remember in my own days at Worcester a man being referred to contemptuously as a "monopentist", one who only played fives and did nothing in corporate sport. This tyranny or worship of athleticism, often much derided by the intellectuals, has now receded almost to vanishing point. In so far as it represented a false sense of values among university men that may be welcomed. But it may well have gone too far. I would even say that one does not have to look very long at present day undergraduates with an eye to physique to say that it has gone too far. Senior Common Room life was very regular. Each night from four to six Fellows would process to the High Table, led by Mr. Drake. The Master dined regularly on Wednesdays and Sundays. On guest nights we were hospitable and an invitation to Pembroke was welcome. We kept a good table, the menu being rather old
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English in its flavour, and our port was, and remains, the best in Oxford. On the undergraduate side Pembroke was known for a remarkably strong beer, brewed for us to a special formula by Simmonds of Reading. It was really much too potent for lads of eighteen drinking freely for the first time and we had a reputation for this by no means to our credit. The Fellows after some time passed a limiting order which reduced the quantity anyone could have at one time in Hall. Professor Tolkien, in a minority of one, protested against this enactment, alluding derisively to the continued potations of our very formidable port in the Senior Common Room. But enacted it was and one result was a marked dropping off of Reports from the Proctors of delinquencies by Pembroke men. One institution was carefully kept by us during both the preand post- war periods and that was the Pembroke Eights Week dance which became a feature of the Oxford season. According to the usages of the time in pre-war days it was a much more regulated affair. There were programmes and indeed each separate dance was announced by the blowing of a horn. This contrasts with the corybantic phantasmagoria of our present dances. It is all a matter of taste. will pass pass over over Pembroke Pembroke in war time which might well be the I will subject of a separate article. Conscription meant that many men came up for short periods before service but the numbers slowly dropped until in the latter years there were only about two dozen. Then in 1945-46 came the returning ex-service men. These were very different from the ex-service men of my generation, in 1919, who were mostly young subalterns. A longer war and a smaller casualty list brought us men well into their twenties, majors, squadron leaders and so on. They were a splendid crowd and we who tutored them were perhaps so busy in teaching and examining them that we did not get to know them as well as we should. In the post-war period there is a division between the late forties and fifties when the majority of matriculands came up after a period of National Service and the present era when they come as they did before the War War at at eighteen eighteen plus. plus. II will will enter enter into into no no judgments as to which is best. The College until the nineteen fifties was very much an arts college. The science side was not much cherished, although individual scientists distinguished themselves of whom one, Mr. O'Brien. O'Brien, is now Vicegerent. To this there was an exception, the study of medicine. In 1908 an alumnus of the College, Dr. Theodore Williams, endowed a scholarship for boys intending to study
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medicine and in 1938 a benefaction from Lord Nuffield added to our resources in medical scholarships, which put us first in the university in this respect. We lead the colleges in our medical applications now. Up to 1950 scholarships, apart from medicine, were offered only in classics, which had the lion's share of available awards, and in modern history. Since then, by the increasing revenues from our trust funds, wisely invested, we were able to provide scholarships for other subjects, including general science. We may now claim to offer awards and receive students in as many subjects as any other college. Our proportion of scientists among the students and among the teaching Fellows is about the average in the university. Slowly after the War and recently somewhat rapidly there have been many more graduate students and the Middle Common Room has been provided. This development in graduate study is another matter that might be the occasion of a separate article. Of course we at all times had men who had graduated elsewhere, more especially the American and Canadian Rhodes scholars and also men from the Scottish universities. But with few exceptions they read for the Honour Schools. They did however provide an element of diversity and maturity in the undergraduate body. The greatest change in the College, and this would apply to Oxford in general, is in the test for admission. Probably it applies more to Pembroke than elsewhere, for under Dr. Homes Dudden and Mr. Drake, the Senior Tutor, examination by any form of paper work was not used. It was purely a matter of interviews, separately conducted by Master and Senior Tutor. From that we have moved by stages to the present form of entry now centralised through the university admissions office and UCCA. The result of this and of the much more careful provision for teaching Fellows has been a remarkable improvement in the academic performance of the College in comparison with the other colleges. This severe test for admission raises problems general to the whole country. If the use of places of higher education is to be most effective there must be some form of test for admission that will judge the aptitude and ability of the candidate for severe intellectual work which at Oxford means in most cases an Honour School; and the Honour Schools are probably by slow degrees becoming more specialised and exacting. Educationists are now turning their minds to the problem of what the best criteria for university work may be. There is obviously some danger that as in our present society power and emolument go so much to university graduates there may arise a degree of specialisation in the types
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chosen, a specialisation which is psychological and even physical. Are the men of future power and influence likely to be too much of a kind? Are they becoming too intellectualist, in common speech, too intense and nervy? Are they even tending to have the same physical characteristics; are they, one might even put it, the right shape? These are questions much too deep for an article in the Pembroke Record by a Master-emeritus. I take great pride in the marked improvement of our academic results in the last decade or so. But when I reflect on the mystery of finding talent and judging young men at the age of 18 or 19 I do not find it easy to say what is best. The free and easy methods in use in my early days at the College, of which I was consistent but unavailing critic, were not capable of any logical defence nor would I now attempt one. We have improved upon them. Yet I reflect on some of the products of that time — a Chairman of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a Canadian High Commissioner and his brother a Supreme Court Judge, a Cambridge Professor of high distinction (I omit eminent alumni who won college scholarships and who would have won a place under the present system), a versatile producer and creative man of the theatre like Mr. Bernard Miles — to mention some of the more obvious cases. There is no assurance that such men would have passed through the meshes of a tighter academic scrutiny. So my conclusion would be; have a good system; if you can, make it a better system, but do not make yourselves a prisoner of any system. R. B. MCCALLUM.
THE COLLEGE SOCIETY The Annual General Meeting of the Society was, as is customary, held immediately before the London Dinner in the Connaught Rooms on Friday, 7 July 1967. Of the business transacted and resolutions passed at the Meeting the following items are of particular interest. Following on a recommendation received from the Committee of the Society it was agreed that, in view of the desirability of publishing the Pembroke Record annually rather than biennially, a request be submitted to the Governing Body of the College for the necessary increase in the annual grant from College funds. This application was duly made and most generously met by the College, resulting in the present issue of the Record. A copy of every issue
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is now being sent to every alumnus and not only to members of the Society. It was agreed that an approach be made to the Governing Body of the College requesting that the Society be allowed to hold its Annual Dinner in the College Hall about once every three years, possibly just before the beginning of Michaelmas Term, and further that a suggestion be made that once every four years the College should hold an "Open Day", providing lunch and tea for alumni and their families, at a charge to be assessed by the Bursar. Both these proposals are under discussion between the Bursar and the Secretary to the Society, the result of which will be broadcast in due course. Sir Donald Finnemore, Mr. A. C. Snowden and Mr. K. Jeffery, who were due for retirement from the Committee but eligible for re-election, were re-elected for a period of three years. Mr. G. R. F. Bredin was re-elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Society for the coming year. The Meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the Master for all the long and valuable service which he had given to the Society throughout his term of office, first as Fellow and then as Master of the College. The motion was passed with acclamation. G.R.F.B. G.R.F.13. PEMBROKE COLLEGE SOCIETY DINNER 7m 7TH PLY JULY 1967 A most interesting and enjoyable dinner was held at the Connaught Rooms on the 7th July, under the able Chairmanship of Mr. N. S. Marsh. There were 48 Members present, a list of whose names is given below, and the success of the evening was to a great extent due to the fact that the Chairman and the responders to the Toast of the College, Dr. W. R. Keatinge and the Secretary of the Junior Common Room, Mr. S. W. Duck, complied with the Master's wishes and spoke wittily and briefly. The occasion was an historic one in that it was the last appearance of Mr. R. B. McCallum in his capacity as Master of the College, but we are sure that we shall see him as one of our Honorary Fellows on future occasions. This was the last Dinner to be run by Mr. A. Chaplin Snowden who, in common with all other Members of the Society, is extremely grateful to the Rev. Rev. Dr. Dr. 13. B. A. A. C. C. Kirk-Duncan Kirk-Duncan for so gallantly
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accepting the responsibility of running future London Dinners. We cannot close this report without expressing our sincere thanks to Mr. Chaplin Snowden for running the dinner for 21 years and B.A.C.K-D. for doing everything in such an excellent way. of those those present present at the Dinner: Dinner: List of 1943 1943 F. F. J. J. Whitworth 1912 B. B. B. Smyth J. D. D.Nowson Nowson 1946 S. J. 1923 H. T. Hopkinson A. J. M. Schooling R. C. Martindale K. M. Willcock H. R. S. Pocock. 1948 M. Andrews 1927 A. C. Snowden 1951 1951 J. J. J. Forty 1928 M. S. Close 1952 J. E. Barlow G. F. Snowden D. C. Gordon J. R. Williamson 1954 P. G. B. Letts Letts 1929 F. H. Goldsmith J. Otway 1930 W. G. Monk 1955 Rev. W. J. J. T. Brockie 1932 J. A. Grant R. J. Lorimer N. S. Marsh F. W. Morgan 1933 F. Brewer R. D. Vernon D. M. L. Doran 1957 D. W. Heath 1934 Rev. O'Brien Hamilton 1961 J. A. Kissel! C. H. R. Hillman 1962 J. L. Barlow 1935 D. G. Brown N. K. Maybury H. W. S. Horlock 1966 S. W. Duck E. H. A. Stretton 1936 T. R. Bingham Mader Master and Fellows Fellows Rev. Dr. B. A. C. Kirk-Duncan Mr. R. B. McCallum 1937 J. H. Cumberland Mr. G. R. F. Bredin 1939 T. T. D. Young Dr. W. R. Keatinge 1940 St. C. C. Hood 1941 J. H. Price Mr. J. R. P. O'Brien FINAL HONOUR SCHOOLS SCHOOLS:: FIRST CLASS TRINITY TERM 1967 Modern History: F. I. M. Hazeel; J. J. L. Whiteley. English: A. Coombs. Oriental Studies:: D. J. Smith. Smith. Oriental Studies P.P.E.: M. G. Phelps. Chemistry, Pt. II: P. Chamberlain. Engineering Science: A. A. 0. 0. Smith; Smith; K. Waterson. Engineering Science: Firsts in Engineering Moderations: I. Childs; D. Q. Parkin.
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UNIVERSITY AWARDS 1967 Arnold Historical Essay Prize: B. Haronski. Violet Vaughan Morgan Prize (English): D. Lindley. Turbett Prize in Chemistry for third year work: M. B. Wright. Shelley Mills Prize (English): R. G. Ware. S. E. Wilson Scholarship in Forestry: G. R. Squire. Prize in Medicine in Oxford Medical School: E. K. Weir. Radcliffe Infirmary Prize in Surgery: P. A. Stanworth. Theodore Williams Scholarship in Pathology 1967: M. J. B. Chare, proxime accessit.
THE CHAPEL Older members will be relieved to hear that the Chapel still stands, unchanged — cracks in the plaster, initials in the woodwork and all. They will be glad, no doubt, to hear that it is still used — by at least as great a proportion of young men as attend their own chapel in other colleges. But the prevailing mood is to think of individuals not institutions, of personalities not buildings. That is a healthy mood, as it underlines the often overworked fact that church society and chapel building are not ends in themselves, but a context in which the individual can find his own level of maturity. So then, as much by accident as by design, we are thinking more of community and communion than of the material fabric of the Chapel. The revised Communion office in Chapel; the less formal setting of a room Eucharist; the termly corporate communion and At Home are at the heart of the matter in helping to discover and to articulate the relationship that should obtain between fellow worshippers and fellow seekers — and also the responsibilities that go with it. This is not, however, to write down the work put in by the Sacristan, Stuart Leamy; or by the Master of the Chapel music, David Lindley, or by the Maker of the Chapel music Stephen Bell — their work has led to a high standard of competence in the ordering of services and music. It is simply to say that for the moment our responsibility for the Chapel is expressed in disentangling the ends and means of religious growth. D. J. LANE, Associate Chaplain,
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THE COLLEGE LIBRARY This year the Library has made no expansion of territory, but a new system of recording borrowings is now in operation. Readers fill in duplicated slips which are filed for easy reference: a Register is no longer practicable when there are some 6,000 entries a year. Towards the end of 1966 the College, along with many other learned institutions, received an appeal from Magdalene College, Cambridge, which wished to acquire the first part of the Caxton MS. of Ovid's Metamorphoses, the second being already in its possession. Subscribers of ÂŁ.100 to the fund were offered a facsimile reproduction of the work, to be ready in the spring of 1968. Pembroke duly contributed, the money being given partly from Library funds and partly by the College. In June 1967, after a gap of nearly twenty years, the Oxford Bibliographical Society paid another visit to Pembroke College Library; Dr. L. F. Powell spoke about the Johnson manuscripts, and members then inspected an exhibition of books and manuscripts. Afterwards, on their way to tea in the Browning Room, they were able conveniently to see Johnson's desk and teapot in the S.C.R. A warm letter of thanks from the Society's Secretary was received later. During the preparation for this visit, the Assistant Librarian was fortunate enough to re-discover, in the Muniment Room, the College's letter from Charles I which had not been seen for many years. It asks for contributions of silver plate to help pay the Royalist army, then based in Oxford. A generous gift of 500 dollars, to be spent on hooks for the P.P.E. section, has been made by Mr. P. Baguley (1961-1964) as a joint gift from himself and his mother-in-law. A casual enquiry from an undergraduate, in the spring of 1967, about the identity of a bronze bust in the Library, led to lengthy enquiries and final success. Neither the Master nor any of the Fellows who were asked could help; nor could either of two earlier Librarians. A firm of art dealers in London, whose label was on the base of the bust, were able to say that the sculptor was Kathleen Scott (Lady Kennet), but no complete list of her bronzes could be found, and an illustrated book on her work, borrowed from Gloucester Public Library, did not produce the answer. Finally her son, Peter Scott the naturalist, was consulted, and replied that if we could send a photograph he was sure he could help. So on a sunny day in September a professional photographer chose a spot in the quad and took the picture: he remarked that he did not usually have to carry his subjects about.
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BENEFACTIONS 1'. B. B.BARNES BARNES (1911), who died on 16 February 1968, left £500 to be used for the benefit and advantage of the College. R. T. ROWE (1938), who died on 3 April 1967, left £100 to the College in his Will. MR. AND MRS. HEDGES sent £125 for a prize of £10 per annum to be awarded in memory of their son John (1965), who died in a sailing accident on 26 October 1967. his mother-in--law, mother-in-law, Mrs. P. BAGULEY (1961) and his Mrs. Becker, Becker, gave 500 dollars for the purchase of books for the P.P.E. section of the Library. MRS. R. W. CHAPMAN gave a mezzotint of Dr. Johnson. MRS. D. B. WILLIAMS gave records from her father's papers concerning the College and Abingdon School. T. A. GOOD (1920) gave two manuscript letters from Robert Graves. APPOINTMENTS N. G. WRIGLEY (1959): Research Scholarship, Australian National University, Canberra. K. J. FARROW (1961): The Birkenhead and Macaskie Scholarships, Gray's Gray's Inn. M. R. SEEKINGS (1962): Canadian Rhodes Scholarship for 1965 M. for postgraduate study in a Canadian University. Mr. Seekings, who was placed in the First Class in Engineering Science in 1965, is reading for an M.Sc. in Traffic Engineering at Toronto. JAME S, B.M., B.Ch. (1963): Lecturership in the Anatomy N. T. JAMES, Department, Sheffield University. R.HURLEY HURLEY (1966): Lecturership in Social Science Department, J. R. University of Ottawa. THE MIDDLE COMMON ROOM ROOM
The M.C.R., M.C.R., now now aawell-established well-establishedCollege Collegeinstitution, institution, has a membership of about 80, of Junior Junior College. College. 80, or or nearly nearly aa quarter quarter of Among these these are are an an increasing increasing number number of of graduates graduates from other universities, many from overseas. In the last twelve months or so there has been a steady effort university level, level, to meet some of the special needs of of graduates. graduates. At university
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the M.C.R. Presidents meet regularly to discuss common problems. And at College level the purchase of a house in Sunningwell Road for the use of graduates has been a valuable contribution to solving the problem of accommodation. We have also to thank Senior College for a grant towards the purchase of badly needed lockers. Contacts with the S.C.R. have also included a cricket match, in which the M.C.R., after a few anxious moments, gained a narrow victory. The officers for the past two years are as follows: 1966-7 President: D. R. Baird. Secretary: S. J. Lloyd. Treasurer: R. I. Crane. 1967-8 President: C. T. Boam. Secretary: H. T. G. Hands. Treasurer: R. J. Mullinger. C.T.B. THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM President: M. Gardner. Secretary: S. W. Duck. Treasurer: G. R. Squire. This year has at last seen the redecoration of the Ward-Perkins room, opposite the J.C.R., which is now a very pleasant room for society meetings. It is unfortunate that the improvements to the College Bar has meant that the J.C.R. television has had to be kept in the Ward-Perkins Room, as this has led to a certain amount of friction between societies and would-be viewers. Lady guests are now allowed into the J.C.R. itself after a long period of misogyny and so as to ensure their comfort it was felt necessary to buy a number of new chairs. Recent dissatisfaction with the increases in subscriptions led to the disaffiliation of the J.C.R. from the National Union of Students. A new cafeteria system of lunches was begun. S.W.D. THE BOAT HOUSE The College has wished to build a Boat House for several years, but until recently no other College has been ready to join us in building a double Boat House of the standard type. However, we
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can now state that St. Edmund Hall have agreed to co-operate with us, and that negotiations are in progress with Christ Church for a site adjacent to the most recent of the other Boat Houses. Part of our share of the cost will be covered by the residue of the Appeal funds left after the completion of the new Pembroke Street building opened last year; the remainder will be borne by the College. Plans have been drawn up and are now awaiting approval by the City. We hope to commence building this summer, and to have the new Boat House fully completed in time for the Eights of 1969. J.W.
EIGHTS WEEK DANCE 1967 As in the previous year, the 1967 Eights Week Dance was a great Who,and other backing groups success with the star attraction, The Who, combining to provide excellent entertainment. This year the College Dance will take place on Saturday, June 1st, and although based on similar lines as before the main cabaret will be a well-known folk-type singer backed by several well balanced bands. As before the North Quadrangle will be used for the buffet which is included in the double ticket costing 5 guineas. Tickets and sitting-out rooms may be ordered from me as early as possible. MEYNELL (President, Dance P. J.J.MEYNELL Dance Committee). Committee).
THE MUSIC SOCIETY The Music Society followed up its first concert (reported in the last issue of the Record) with a choral concert in Trinity Term 1967. A college choir with soloists and instrumental ensemble performed Cantata 189 by Bach and the 'Seven Last Words' by Schutz. In Michaelmas Term 1967 another choral concert was put on in the Chapel. The main works performed were a Motet by Schutz and the Magnificat by Pergolesi, together with Bach's 4th Brandenburg Concerto in its transcription for harpsichord, and a number of solo items. Both concerts were directed by D. Lindley. Plans are now in hand for a further concert of orchestral music to be held in Hilary Term 1968. It seems as if the possibility of establishing a continuing musical tradition in Pembroke, despite its very serious lack of undergraduates reading music, is an attainable one provided present enthusiasm is maintained. D.L.
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A former member of the Music Society, Nigel Wickens, 19581961, has been winning distinction as a singer. The following is a Times of 20 April 1967: report from the Music critic of The Times "Nigel Wickens, who made an impressive appearance in Sandford's Opera The Travelling Companion a week ago, gave a song recital at the Wigmore Hall last night and provided great pleasure in a programme ranging from Purcell to Lennox Berkeley and including Lieder by Brahms and a good deal of twentieth century French music. He has cultivated his fine baritone voice to some purpose in his studies in Paris and Berlin as well as in London". THE BLACKSTONE SOCIETY It has been an active year for the Society, and we have entertained speakers from the Bar, Local Government and Industry. All the meetings were well attended and an insidious movement to substitute beer for port has been checked. Our thanks are due to Mr. J. M. Eekelaar, our Honorary Vice-President, who has given so much encouragement. R.J. de S.C. THE BEAUMONT SOCIETY The Officers at present are D. Lindley (President), R. G. Ware (Secretary). During 1967 meetings have been held irregularly and included papers by A. Coombs, 'Autumn Journalese'; by G. Lloyd, Dostoevsky's 'Minor Novels'; by D. Lindley, 'Jane Austen's Early Novels'. D.L. THE PEMBROKE PLAYERS PLAYERS The climax of the Society's year was undoubtedly Dennis Cashman's successful production of Congreve's "Love for Love", the first of the College summer open-air productions, which was performed in the third week of Trinity Term in the Chapel Quad. The production, which was staged in modern dress to remind us that the foibles of the twentieth century are not so very different from those of the Restoration, was immensely enjoyed by the cast and, so it seemed, by the audiences. Our other production of the year has been Daniel Freudenberger's able and ambitious production
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of Pinter's "The Lovers" for the O.U.D.S. Cupper's competition. We continue to have weekly play-readings and are gaining a widening circle of readers. The officers of the Society are R. J. de Ste. Croix and P. K. M. Longley. P.K.M.L. THE TEASEL CLUB Secretary: T. V. Blackstone. 1967 Steward: J. P. H. Hunt 1967 was a most active year for the Teasel Club, there being the maximum number of elected members. As well as holding two cocktail parties in the winter, two dinners were also held, one to which lady guests could be invited. A most popular innovation. The culmination of the year's activities was the cocktail party in the summer held on the steamer 'The Mary Stuart', which cruised down to Abingdon. This was considered to he such a success by those present that it was unanimously agreed among the members that it would become an annual event. J.P.H. CHESS CLUB 1966-7 Captain: P. S. N. Kendall. 1967-8 Captain: T. D. Harding. The season 1966-7 was successful for Pembroke in that, led by English International, A. J. Whiteley, the 1st VI won the intercollege Cuppers (knock-out) competition, whilst weak teams performed creditably in the inter-college League (2nd) and county open lightning chess championships (3rd). Strengthened now by the arrival of G. S. Botterill, an English student International, we have every hope of surpassing last season's achievements, encouraged by Mr. Whiteley's third place in this year's British Championship. T.D.H. SPORTING ACTIVITIES RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB 1966-7 Captain: G. Gancz. Secretary: K. C. Vaughton. Treasurer: C. C. Ford. This, unfortuately, was not a very successful season. The first XV were unable to hold their position in the 1st Division of the League. They won only one match in the League competition and
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were relegated back to the 2nd Division. In the Hilary Term success was still not forthcoming and, as in the previous season, we were knocked out by Balliol in the first round of Cuppers. 1967-8 Captain: K. C. Vaughton. ViceCaptain: C. C. Ford. Secretary: R. A. J. Corkett. Treasurer: I. D. Cormack. Michaelmas Term: A very encouraging intake of Freshmen players provided the club with valuable new blood. The keenness and enthusiasm of all players was the main factor in ensuring the success of the teams in the League competition. The 1st XV, playing open and imaginative Rugby, finished as 2nd Division League champions, thus achieving promotion to the 1st Division next season. Their record for all games in the Term stood as follows: P D Points For For Against Against W L 10 9 1 0 157 52 The 2nd XV also played very well and maintained their position in the 4th Division of the League. K.C.V.
FOOTBALL CLUB 1966-7 Captain: C. Ryan. Secretary: A. Smith. Treasurer: P. J. Durrans. A successful season in which the 1st XI finished runners-up in Division I and reached the semi-final of Cuppers for the third successive season. There was also keen interest in the 2nd XI, which finished runners-up in Division I of the Second XI League. M. C. S .D. BOAT CLUB 1967-8 Captain: C. C. Hodson. Secretary: R. S. Workman. Treasurer: J. A. D. Watters. Committee Member: R. H. Cumberland. While the Boat House has got no further than the Architect's drawing-board, which is on the other hand a great advance on
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nothing, the Boat Club has recently been equipped with two good boats, and with their help made 1967 a most successful year for Pembroke. In Torpids, the first crew, in the brand new restricted boat, rowed over at the head of the third division on the first day and went on to make a total of five bumps in the three remaining days, bringing them to eleventh place. The Second Torpid at the same time managed to hold its position, so the Senior College agreed that the First Torpid's achievement should be celebrated with a Bump Supper. In the summer, the First Eight made three bumps, and this means that the 'Sir Donald Finnemore' has moved up the river nine places since it was launched in 1965. Pembroke's rowing was no weaker in the lower divisions either, with both the Second and Fourth Eights making four bumps, so that the Second Eight has now made thirteen bumps in three years, and this is surely a sign for continued good fortune in Pembroke rowing. C.C.H. CRICKET CLUB 1967 Captain: A. F. Smith. Secretary: A. Dickens. 1968 Captain: R. J. de Ste. Croix. Secretary: L. Morgan. The Club enjoyed a fair season, there being no lack of seam bowlers while the batting often proved to have surprising depth. Owing to the irregular surface, batting in the practice nets was a harrowing experience. R. J. de Ste. C. HOCKEY CLUB 1967-8 Captain: K. Gibson. Secretary: R. C. Procter. A very satisfactory season so far. We reached the quarter-finals of Cuppers and enjoyed good games against Imperial College, London, and Pembroke College, Cambridge. On this performance promotion in the League next Term seems likely. J. P. Hunt must be congratulated on getting his Blue. K.G.
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1966-7 Captain: J. Birkin. Secretary: M. Gardner. 1967-8 Committee: R. W. Monk, M. Silverberg, I. D. Tinsley. The past season has not been a good one for College Athletics. In October 1966 we were in the position of having lost many of our best athletes but managed to stay in Division I of the relays by running in every event bar one. However, this was of no avail the following year and a crop of injuries killed off any chances we may have had of avoiding relegation. In the summer we were eliminated from Athletics Cuppers in the semi-finals. Cross-country has shown the opposite trend. We faded out of the League in 1966/7 due to lack of runners. This year an influx of enthusiastic Freshmen has strengthened the team a great deal and we expect to finish high in the League. Pembroke won its first Cross-country League race this year. University representatives have been: J. Birkin — Centipedes and Tortoises 1966-7, Seniors v. Freshmen, October 1967, 880 yards. R. W. Monk, M. Silverberg — Freshmen v. Seniors, October 1966, 100 yards, 220 yards. J. P. Shemilt — Freshmen v. Seniors, Freshmen v. Cambridge, 1967, 1 mile. Tortoises v. Cambridge, 1967. J. McLaverty — 3rd Team Cross Country 1967. M.S. LAWN TENNIS CLUB Captain: Captain: T. T.J.J.King. King. Secretary: P. D. Burge. 1967 was a very successful season for the Lawn Tennis Club. We gained promotion from the 3rd to the 2nd Division of the League, and got through to the 3rd round of Cuppers. Prospects for 1968 are good. P.D.B. SQUASH RACKETS CLUB Captain: R. S. Hallam. Secretary: R. J. de Ste. Croix. Boosted by the keenness and efficiency of its present Secretary, the Pembroke Squash Rackets Club has enjoyed a considerable
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revival this year. The First V has gained promotion to Division 3 of the inter-college League, where we hope to continue our rise next season. Moreover, the depth of squash-playing ability and the popularity of the sport in the College are reflected both in the success of our Second V, which has yet to be beaten, and in the revival of the squash ladder. The College courts have been redecorated, for which we have Dr. Wilks, the Treasurer of the Amalgamated Clubs, to thank; and one can only hope that even more use will be made of them in the R. S.H. future. TABLE TENNIS CLUB 19667-7 Captain: J. Birkin. 1967-8 Captain: A. J. Hooker. The 1966-7 season was very successful with the first team finishing 4th in Division I and the second and third teams finishing in 1st and 2nd places in the Second Division. This season we have several new players and the 1st and 3rd teams are so far undefeated. There are good chances of the first team completing the league and cuppers double and thus improving even further on last season's success. J. Birkin represents the University regularly. A.J.H. UNIVERSITY SKI-ING The following is an extract from a report by its special correspondent which appeared in The Daily Telegraph of 19th December 1967: "Oxford beat Cambridge at Courchevel by 1.28 F I S points in the two giant slaloms today. The lead is due to the magnificent effort of Oxford's Dave Rikert (Pembroke College), former American team member, who won both giant slaloms by two seconds and by one second, each time from Cambridge's A. Baird". OBITUARY The deaths of the following have been reported since the last issued:: Record was issued 1911 Barnes, T. B. 1914 Betts, Rev Canon R. N. 1929 Bulkeley, E. H. 1891 Carden, Sir Frederick, Bart. 1903 Corelli, E. C. C.
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1948 Coward, N. J. 1957 De Domenico, G. E. 1898 Eldridge, J. M. 1904 Greenfield, Sir Henry C. 1965 Hedges, J. G. (in a sailing accident). 1906 Kane, J. K. L. 1932 Kendall, W. 1939 Kilner, J. M. G. 1919 McKenzie, Rev. Canon A. D. F. 1927 Markham, D. F. 1931 Mehdi, S. H. 1910 Nelson, Rev. C. D. 1949 Norton-Amor, B. 1919 Peacock, H. D. 1927 Pennell, J. S. 1903 Reid, Ven. Archdeacon E. G. 1936 Sandelson, D. L. 1910 Selbie, Lt.Col. W. P. 1905 Spencer-Jones, Rev. E. 1922 Strachan, F. D. M. 1909 Tyndall, Very Rev. E. D. LT.COL. W. P. SELBIE, M.B.E., M.C: The following is an extract from an obituary notice for the Pakistan Society by the Rev. 0. G. Lewis: William Philip Selbie was the elder son of the Rev. John A. Selbie, D.D., Professor of Hebrew, Christ's College, Aberdeen, one of the outstanding scholars of his day. The son inherited his father's devotion to sound learning and exact scholarship, a quality which he retained to the end of his life. "Bill", as he was known to a wide circle of friends, was educated first at the Grammar School and then at King's College, Aberdeen, where he graduated First Class in Classics. From thence he passed on to Oxford where he took a further degree in Classics at Pembroke College. The coming of the 1914-18 War diverted him into the Army and while serving with the 9th Bn. the East Surrey Regiment on the Western Front he was awarded the Military Cross. There was a story, probably apocryphal but so descriptive of the man, that Bill went "over the top" on one occasion with a copy of Horace in one hand and a revolver in the other. The Armistice brought him in the spring of 1919 to the Southern
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Divisional School, Mulheim-am-Rhein as an instructor, and later to an Indian posting in the Army Education Corps. In 1921 Selbie became an instructor on the staff of the School of Education at Wellington and later to be Commandant of the King George's Royal Indian Military School at Jhalum. His love for that school was very deep and it appears to have gained a response from both the boys and their fathers, for the latter once came to him with the offer of a house and land in order that he might make his home with them after his retirement, and keep an eye on their sons' behaviour after their death. Such was the affection that this gallant Scottish scholar had aroused in the hearts of the martial classes of what is now Pakistan. It was some time after the outbreak of war in 1939 that Selbie Gcorge's Royal Indian Military became Commandant of the King George's School at Ajmer. Instead of Muslim boys he now had the care of Hindu youngsters. But they, like the others, became "my children" and it was with the eye of a true father that he regarded them. The breaking out of hostilities between Pakistan and India pained him deeply. "My children are killing each other", he commented on one occasion. He said little, brooding in silence and, like Rachel, would not be comforted. During the earlier years of his retirement Selbie renewed his Oxford links by attending the College Gaudy from time to time where he was always a most welcome guest. He died in hospital after a short illness on April 7th, 1967. WILLMOORE KENDALL (1932-1935) Willmoore Kendall, who died in Dallas on 30th June, 1967, came to Pembroke as Rhodes Scholar from Oklahoma, having previously studied at the Universities of Oklahoma and Chicago. He was a man of great scholastic ability and acumen and was one of the last Pembroke men to benefit from Mr. R. G. Collingwood's tuition. At the time of his death he was Professor of Political Science at Dallas College, Texas. Kendall became recognised as a political theorist of importance and his principal study was on John Locke's political philosophy. Those of us who remember him in his time here in the thirties remember him as a keen economist and politician, an eager debater and disputer on all subjects. He was then something of a socialist and a man of the Left as was frequent amongst Rhodes Scholars with political interests at that time. The experience of the war and its aftermath entirely reversed his political position. He became a man very much to the Right and he
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also became a member of the Roman Catholic Church. He was associated with Mr. Christopher Buckley and his journal The National Review. Review. In this way he ran counter to the prevailing trend of American academic political thinkers and his firm adherence to his unpopular views and the uncomfortable skill and tenacity with which he maintained his point may have made him an uneasy partner on faculties of generally "liberal" views. He kept up a correspondence with me and some other Pembroke friends and visited us once or twice in the post-war period. His untimely death is a personal loss to us. He had remarkable powers in argument and disputation. His opponents and critics, and most of those whom he talked with were opponents, may at first have thought that they were dealing with a somewhat crude "reactionary", but very soon the breadth of learning and the subtle and unexpected strains of thought and history brought to bear revealed a mind both full and acute. Those of us who knew him cannot but feel that we are intellectually impoverished by his death. R.B.McC.
DAVIES GILBERT (1767-1839) of Sir Sir (Davies Gilbert came to Pembroke in 1785. His discovery of Humphrey Davy Davy is is mentioned mentioned below, below, but but he he has has another another similar claim to fame. He was the guardian guardian of Beddoes, the the of Thomas Lovell Lovell Beddoes, poet, whose father had been his friend and and fellow-scientist; fellow-scientist; father father and son had had been been Pembroke Pembroke men. men. Readers Readers in in the the College College Library Library may have noticed the marble bust of Davies Gilbert in the north alcove). Two centuries ago this year was born an outstanding Englishman named Davies Gilbert, in whose honour a bicentenary exhibition is being held in the Towner Gallery at Eastbourne. Who, then, was he? Davies was no mere local worthy but a man peculiarly apt to modern needs because all his life at the highest level he bridged the humanities and the physical sciences, a thing essential today. I know of very few people who brought to the age of the Industrial Revolution — he was born in 1767 and died in 1839 — a versatility almost comparable with that of Sir Christopher Wren and reminiscent rather of the seventeenth than of the nineteenth century; he was to the full a "universal man of the Renaissance". Yet he was very modest and he used his wealth to help and encourage others.
Sir Malcolm Knox (1919) receiving his Honorary Degree. University of Dundee, 19th October 1967.
PEMBROKE COLLEGE SERVANTS — JULY 1967 E. A. Wheeler; I. Hearne; G. Hook; A. Young; A. Henshaw; A. E. Willoughby; E. M. Dowse; C. Mackintosh; H. F. Pullen; I. East; E. M. Thomas. W. D. Collett; T. W. Minns; H. R. Greenwood; W. J. Taylor; K. E. Howse; D. A. Turner. H. Turner; N. E. Read; W. T. Turner; A. C Kimber; W. Davidson. J. Douglas; K. J. Underwood; R. W. G. Adams; C. Eeles. J. Cunningham; W. F. Kerby; T. W. G. Rand; H. W. Reeves; H. R. Powell; F. Parsons; L. M. Montgomery; F. A. Gardner; J. Aguilar. A. E. Ashfield; G. Willoughby; E. V. Organ (Chef); E. J. Cox (Manciple); H. E. Merry; A. Aguilar, T. N. Curtin (Head Porter); H. A. Orchard; P. G. Dawson (Head Scout); P. L. Miles.
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Landowner, High Sheriff, Deputy Lieutenant, magistrate and Member of Parliament — that sounds ordinary enough. But wait. He was also Treasurer and then President of the Royal Society; he was a key figure in the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall; and only ill health led him to refuse the Presidency of the Institute of Civil Engineers. He was important in the Linnaean Society; he studied digitalis, the atmosphere of the sun and moon, the velocity of windmills; he even calculated the correct angle to give the best cutting edge to a razor. Truly, "The world is so full of a number of things I am sure we should all be as happy as kings". At the Royal Society he pronounced the eulogy on Smithson, founder of the Smithsonian Institute, who, like him, had been at Pembroke College, Oxford; as President he succeeded Sir Humphrey Davy. This was typical. It had been Gilbert who had discovered Davy, the boy of humble origin, and promoted him, Gilbert who was content that Davy should precede him to that high honour. He was at home with chemistry and an authority on mining who rewarded working miners with premiums; as an expert on steam engines his efforts on behalf of inventors belong to the first rank. Many of these things were beginning to matter overseas; he followed developments in Mexico and South Australia. As an economist he wrote responsibly on bullion; as an engineer he notably improved Telford's original scheme for the Menai Bridge and he put us all in his debt by selecting Brunel's design for the Suspension Bridge at Clifton. His education had, of course, been classical; he remained actively interested in the classics and also in archaeology. He was responsible for a four-volume history of Cornwall and for collecting and printing the words and music of plays and carols in the then recently extinct Cornish tongue; he was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. His father had been a Cornishman named Giddy; he married a Sussex heiress, Mary Anne Gilbert, and took her surname. She was herself a remarkable woman; their estates in Cornwall and Sussex were managed with great ability. As M.P. Gilbert was nearly elected Speaker and his work in Committee is to this day unsurpassed. His friendships ranged from Pitt, Fox and Wellington to Herschel and Erasmus Darwin. I know few things more touching than his baby-clothes, which are being exhibited; he was an only child not expected to survive infancy. That from clothes even for a frail baby so tiny, so delicate could have emerged such a record of achievement and service and
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humility is humbling indeed. Certainly he bridged the sciences and EDMUND ESDAILE. the humanities. It can be done. (Pembroke 1929-33). Broadcast by Broadcast by the B.B.C. on 8th November, November, 1967, 1967, and reproduced reproduced by by permission permission of of Edmund Esdaile.
THE COLLEGE STAFF Ever since the Oxford Colleges began to provide residential accommodation for their students there has arisen and persisted a very special relationship between the students in residence and those responsible for their material welfare. Most graduates revisiting their Colleges find a particular pleasure in meeting once more those who shared in so intimate a way the joys and anxieties of three eventful years. Not that the duties of the staff themselves have remained unaltered. Gone are the days when coal and water had to be carried daily to every room up narrow winding stairs and when all meals (except evening Hall) were served separately in undergraduates' rooms. But with the easing of these burdens have come others to take their place. The number of students living in the College has more than doubled in recent years. Ou.r more senior alumni will be surprised to see from the accompanying photograph how much more Pembroke — once so uncompromisingly a male stronghold! — has had to rely upon the distaff side in coping with these new responsibilities. Furthermore what was once the unbroken peace and leisure of the vacation has now been shattered by a succession of Conferences in many ways more demanding than undergraduates in term time. The insistence with which any institution, once admitted to Pembroke, clamours annually to return is in itself a testimony to the courteous and willing service which has been rendered to its members. Pembroke has long been fortunate in having on its staff men and women whose day to day work is inspired by a pride in and an affection for the College of which they very properly regard themselves as ann integral part. The Record publishes this photograph of the College Staff not only as an item of particular interest to our alumni, but also as a tribute to those who play so essential a part in our College affairs and who, throughout the years, have done so much to maintain its high standards.
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