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ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE. DECEMBER, 1928.

Vol. II, No.3Âˇ

EDITORS. rgz8-g

W. H .

JoHNSON,

GREEN,

Editor. Asst. Editor.

DE PERSONIS ET REBUS AULARIBUS. OF THE VISITOR OF THE HALL.

the death of Viscount Cave the Hall has been deprived far too soon of Âˇ a Visitor who during his brief tenure of the Chancellorship showed a close interest in its progress and welfare. A tribute to his memory will be found under a separate heading. To his successor, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, the very cordial congratulations of the Hall are due on his appointment as Chancellor of the University.

OF THE RESIGNATION OF THE PRINCIPAL.

On February r6 it was announced that the Principal had been appointed to the Suffragan Bishopric of Sherborne. Many times since that day members of the Hall, past and present, have taken occasion, formally and informally, collectively and individually, to make known to him the mixed feelings with which Aularians must needs greet his appointment. In the last issue of the Magazine we recorded the congratulations of the Hall on his appointment to a prebendal stall in Salisbury Cathedral. Little did we expect then that in less than twelve months the diocese of Salisbury would have wholly appropriated him. Elsewhere in this issue of the Magazine we give some record of the ways in which Aularians have joined in expressing to him their recognition of his notable tenure of the principalship. \iV e would epitomize here these many congratulations by wishing, in the name of the Hall, that as Bishop he may be as happy as we believe him to have been and as successful as we know him to have been as Principal of the Hall. But with congratulation there is mingled regret. His going has

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deprived the Hall of a most active and devoted leader who has I Âˇshown himself fully a ppreciative of its traditions and a live to it s possibilities. Year b y year during his principalship there have been chronicled in the Magazine the ma ny developments in th e Hall that will make his tenure a memorable one. And at the sam e time successive issues of the Magazine have r ecorded the appointmen ts in the University an d elsewhere t hat multiplied upon him. During th e eight years of his principa lship the Unive rsity has had good rea son to be grateful to him for his energetic participation in its councils and affairs. All these activities have redounded to the honour of the Hall. Th ere are ma ny w ho wonder whether Dr. Allen has n ot learned the secret of p erpetual yo uth. There is an increasing number of those who believe that the Hall, too, is possessed of an infinite capacity for rejuvenation. It has certa inly proved a ve ry opportune conjuncti on that our society should have come under th e invigora ting rule of one who when b e lay down th e principalship was still in years the youngest H ead of a House in the University. The Principal was consecrated Bishop 111 L ambeth Palace Chapel on Sunday, May 6. Th ere were present from the H all the Vice-P rincipal, the Senior Tutor, the Chaplain, the President of the J.C.R. (B. J. Rushby-Smith), and the Steward of the J.C.R. (G . E. }anson-Smith). Owing to the very limited seating accommodation in the Chapel it was not possible for more members of th e Hall to at tend th e service. Although it was arranged that his resignation of the principa lship should take effect on his consecration, Dr. Allen fortunately was enabled to continue to act as Principal until the end of the Trinity Term . Consequently, until July I, th e H a ll still remained his headquarters. DE NuTRICULA EPISCOPORUM. In congra tulating Dr. Allen on his appointment as Bishop of Sherborne, the Public Orator made a happy reference in the Creweia n Oration a t Encaenia to the fa ct that two successive Principals of th e H a ll had b een promoted to th e episcopate, by describing th e H all as ' nutricula episcop orum. ' Prior to these two recent a ppointment the only Principal to be thu s promoted was Thomas Lancaster, who was made Archbi shop of Armagh in I s68. It is p erhaps worth notin g in t his connexion that Lan caster was for som e time a suffragan to the Bishop of Sal isbury, having Bishop Jewe! as his diocesan,

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OF THE NEw PRINCIPAL.

On May 30 the Governing Body of the Queen's College, with whom rests the right of appointment, elected to the principalship the Rev. George Bernard Cranshaw, M.A., Fellow, Bursar, and Chaplain of the College. Mr. Cronshaw was not in gÂˇood health when he was appointed, but hoped that with the Long Vacation in which to take a complete rest he-ould be fit enough to enter upon his new duties in October. vVhen, however, Michaelmas Term began, it was obvious that he was still far from well. At his Institution as Principal; and at the Admission of Freshmen, his ailing condition, in spite of his plucky endeavour to disguise it, was evident. He Âˇwas soon obliged to take to his bed. Unwilling to a-cknowledge defeat, he attended the Dinner in Hall on St. Edmund's Day. This was his last appearance among us. His doctors insisted on him retiring again to bed, and would not allow him to come down to preside at the Collections at the end of term. On D ecember g, the first Sunday after term, he became very rriuch worse, and his doctors gave no hope of his recovery. He died at 7-40 on the morning of Thursday, Dec. 20. After the happy annals of recent years it is with very great regret that we have to record so tragically brief a principalship. Elsewhere in the Magazine there will be found a tribute to the memory of Mr. Cronshaw and an account of the many-sided activ ities in his College , in the University, and in the City of Oxford upon which he had spent himself unsparingly before he came to the Hall. If when he became Principal he had still been in enjoyment of the robust h ealth and boundless energy which until late years he so fully possessed, we may be sure he would have devoted himself to the service of the Hall with all the vigour and boldness which had always characterized his work, and would -have presided over our society with the hospitable friendliness which had made his name a by-word among- many generations of .Queen's men. But, unhappily, it has only been permitted us to know him during the last ten weeks of his life, when he was fighting a losing battle against the dictates of a constitution which he ha d severely overtaxed w ith the burden of his various activities. To Mrs. Cranshaw we extend, in the name of all its members, the sincere sympathy of the Hall in her great loss. Vl/e had hoped that she would find in the Lodgings a happy hom e for many years, where she might .have joined with the P ~in c ipal in exercising the gentle art of hospitality of which he wa:=; ~o liberal an exponent.

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The funeral of the Principal, of which an account is given later in the 1\!Jagazine, took place ·o n Saturday, December 22.

OF THE BuRSARSHIP.

As Mr. Cronshaw on becoming Principal decided to discharge the duties of Bursar himself, the Vice-Principal ceased to be Bursar at the beginning of Michael mas Term.

OF THE CHAPLAIN.

The Chaplain crowned the conclusion of a very busy term by becoming engaged to be married at a time wheri, if we were to have judged from the piles of examination papers in his room, he had little enough time for meals, far less for thoughts of matrimony. But the Chaplain seems to have annihilated time. Members of the Hall on coming up for the Michaelmas Term found that he had not only become engaged during the Long Vacation, but had already been married a fortnight. On Tuesday, October 2, at 2 o'clock, in the church of St. Peter-in-the-East, the marriage took place between the Chaplain and Miss Cynthia Mary Woolner, second daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Hugh \tVoolner, of Crooms Hill, Greenwich. The Bishop of Sherborne, vested in cope and mitre, performed the ceremony, assisted by the Principal-elect and the Rev. A. H. Stanton, vicar of the parish. The bride was given away by her brother, Major C. G. Woolner. The Vice-Principal acted as best man to the bridegroom. The chancel screen was very cha rmingly decorated with tall bamboo begonias sent by Lady Fitzgerald from Buckland, and so, too, was the Dining Hall, w here the reception took place afterwards. The presents were exhibited in theN ew Library. Later in the afternoon the Chaplain and Mrs. Fletcher ran the gauntlet of a larg·e gathering of friends, and left by car for \tVells on their way to Exmoor. On behalf of the Hall we congratulate the Chaplain very cordially and convey to him and Mrs. Fletcher the fullest measure of Aularian good wishes for their happiness. The Junior Common Room has planned to present him with a replica in little of the two-handled cup and cover given to the Hall in 1701. The Chaplain has been appointed Rector of Westcott Barton, a picturesque hamlet fourteen miles north of Oxford. This does not involve, we are g·lad to say, any severance of his connexion with the Hall.

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CONGRATULATIONS.

In addition to the congratulations elsewhere recorded, the congratulations of the Hall are due : To L. W. Hanson on being placed in the First Class in the Final Honour School of Modern History, and on being elected a Senior Exhibitioner of the Hall. To all other members of the Hall who ab examinatoribus honore digni sunt habiti, and especially to the following who were placed in the Second Class in their respective Honour Schools : R. S. Orchard (Engineering), J. D. Fox (Theology), S. D. Mangan (French Language and Literature), F. G. Roberts, P. Young (English Language and Literature), L. G. Hayward, F. W. Wilson, W. T. Wilson (Modern History). To G. H. Aldis for obtaining ' Distinction ' in the Examination for the Diploma in Education. To E. L. G. Powys on his election to a Heath Harrison Travelling Scholarship in French and to tbe De Osma Studentship in Spanish. To F. H. Trott on his election to a Heath Harrison Travelling Scholarship in German. To M. A. McCanlis on his captaincy of the Oxford University Cricket Club, especially in the ma tch against Cambridge, which Mr. P. F . Warner has described a s 'the most memorable match for twenty years.' To D. K. Daniels on representing the University against Cambridge in Hockey, and on obtaining a Southern Trial for the third time. To G. H. Aldis on playing Hockey for the University, and on obtaining a Southern Trial a second year. To our Âˇcongratulations we add our sincere regrets that he should have missed his ' Blue ' through a most un t imely attack of measles. In the report of The Times on the match aÂˇgainst Cambridge it was remarked that 'the absence of G. H. Aldis at right half-back was seriously felt.' To E. P. Carter on representing the University agai nst Cambridge in Water Polo. To A. E. Smith on his election as Secretary of the Oxford University Chess Club, on representing the University against Cambridge at Chess a second year, and on winning the University Chess Championship. To A. S. Chandler and N. C. Moses on running Cross-Country for the University and on being selected as 'reserves' for the meeting against Cambridge.

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To E. R. Welles on representing the Universi ty in the 4 Mile Race in the Relay Meeting against Cambridge. To R. M. Parker on running Cross-Country for the University during the Michaelmas T erm. ' To F. G. Roberts on his poem in Oxford Poeb'y, 1928. To C. F. Cardale on being elected to the Authentics. To A. W. U. Roberts on being elected to the Greyhounds. To the Hockey XI on w inning IS matches out of ZI during M ichaelmas Term, and to R. C. Thomas on his successful captaincy. OF

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HILARY TERM, 1928.

Certificate in General and Regional Geography: W. vV. R. Clotworthy, J. C . Vv. Ludlow, M. A. McCanli s. In Schola Literarum Graecarum et Latinarum: Class III, G. M. Mercer. T~I N ITY

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In Scientia Naturali (in Chernia): Part I, P. G. Higgs ; Part II, Class III , D. H. J. Marchant; (in Scientia Machinali), Class II, R. S. Orchard. In Sacra Theologia: Class 11, J.D. Fox; Class IV, H. W. Palmer. In Literis Modernis : Class II, S. D. Mangan (in lingua Gallica); Class IV, J. H. Beeley (in lingua Ga,llica). ln Literis H1~manioribus : Class III, H. Bagnall. In Literis Anglicis : Class II, F. G. Roberts, P . Young; Class III, J. H. T. Clarke, F . G. Phillips; Cl~ss IV, vV. J. S. Cooke. In Historia 1Vfodema: Class I, L. vV. Hanson; Class II, L. G. Hayward, F. vV. Wilson, W. T. vVilson ; Class III , S. A. C. Dickins, W. ]. Lancaster, B. J. Rushby-Smith. Examinatoribus Satisfecerunt: Group A. I, R. H. Barff; Group B. z, E. P. Carter; Group B. 6, J. E. T. Phillips; Group D, R. L. Hordern. Exa1nination in the Theory, Histo1'Y and Practic e of Education : G. H . Aldis (with distinction), H. Cloke, G. H. Franey, H. B. Linton. Qualifying Examination for the Degree of B.D .: N. K. Brownsell, R. St. ] . Fisher. MICHAELMAS TERM.

Ex,a minatoribus Satisfeceru.nt: Group A. 3, D. C. Barker, R . J. Hamlyn, F. S. vV. Simpson; Group B. r, R. H. Barff, K. C. Oliver; Group B.6, G. C. Pownall, J. C. Toland; Group D, C. P. Carter, J. E. T. Phillips.

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On February 21, Mr. R. L. Hill, B.A., having· submitted a thesis on ' The Attitude of the Tory Party to Labour Questions, 1832-46,' satisfied the Examiners appointed by the Board of the Faculty of Modern History for the Degree of B.Litt. OF A BEN EFACTION.

An Aularian, who for the present wishes to remain anonymous, has transferred to the Trustees of the Hall forty shares of roo dollars each in the Canadian General Investment Trust Limited, to form a fund to be known as the M. M. Bursary Fund. The initials signify that ' the means to found it,' as the donor himself writes, ' is forthcoming mainly as the fruit of thrift and self-denial on the part of my dear mother and my wife, both named "Mary." ' It is the intention of the founder of this Fund that the income -from it shall be used to assist any member of the Hall who is a candidate for ordination in the Church of England, and 'whose character has already been satisfactorily tested by a year's residence as a member of the Hall.' The g rants are not to exceed £4o or to be less than £20 in value. This is a most. welcome and most generous benefaction designed to render a much-needed service. OF THE CHAPEL.

The VISiting preachers in Chapel during 1928 were the Right Rev. the Bishop of Malmesbury on January 22, the Right Rev . the Bishop of Carlisle on June ro, and the Rev. H. S. Footman, Vicar of Carisbrooke, on November r8 . Stephen Fu Shan Li ·and his wife were confirmed in Chapel by the Principal on Tuesday, May 22 . This was the Principal's first episcopal act after his consecration as Bishop of Sherborne. OF · THE NEw LIBRARY.

The best thanks of the Hall are due to the following donors for gifts to the New Library,_ To J\II,r. Harold S. Rogers, F.R.l.B.A., F.S.A., architect of the New Building, for his very generous present of the two circular oak tables which he designed for the Library. To the Rev. C. A. PI axton for his gift of £2 ros., with which an oak reading-desk and books have been bought. To Mr. N. K. Brownsell 'for his g ift of £5 to be expended in books. To the Rev. J. W. C. Wand for his gift of a copy of his book on The De71elopment of Sacramenta/ism.

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To Mr. A. L. Clegg for his gift of a copy of vV. E. Hall's A Treatise on International La·w, a very acceptable response to the suggestion made in the last issue of the M,a gazine that duplicate copies of the more expensive text-books usually read for the Schools would be very welcome. OF

A SENIOR ExHIBITIONER .

vV.

Hanson, who was placed in the First Class in the Final Honour Sch_ool of Modern History, has been elected a Senior Exhibitioner (Honorary) of the Hall for as long as he shall be in residence working for the degree of D. Phil. L.

EXHIBITIONS.

An examination, beginning on Tuesday, March 13, was held for the purpose of awarding two Exhibitions in Modern Languages (English or French) of the annual value of £40. As a result of this examination the following election was made : E. C. R. Hadfield, Blundell's School, Tiverton : English. A. F. Colborn, Derby School: English. An examination, beginning on Tuesday, June z6, was h~ld for the purpose of awarding two Exhibitions in Classics and lVIodem History of the annual value of £40. As a result of this examination the following elections were made : N. A. H. Lawrance, Christ's Hospital: Classics. C. P. R. Clarke, Liverpool College: Modern History. F. H. Trott has been made an honorary Exhibitioner in recognition of his election to a Heath Harrison Travelling Scholarship (German). The Exhibition examinations for 1929 will be held as follows:On Tuesday, March 12, and the two follpwing clays for the purpose of awarding two Exhibitions in Modern Languages (English or French) of the annual value of £40; and also for the purpose of awarding a Musical Exhibition of the apnual value of £35· On T~esday, April 23, and the two following days for the purpose of awarding two Exhibitions in Classics or Modern History of the annual value of £40. OF

THE NEw BuiLDING.

The New Building 'has been paid for. The total expenditure on its erection and equipment, and on the alterations made in the Principal's Lodging .in connexion with it, amounted in all to £6,6zr r4s. rd. At the end of the year the total contribution made by

ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE Aularians to the New Building Fund had reached the very helpful sum of £r,6s7 ros. sd. The assistance which has come from members of the Hall, past and present, has been invaluable : without it the cost of this undertaking would have very seriously embarrassed the finances of the Hall. And, even as it is, the effort on the part of the Hall to provide funds enough has been a very severe one. The 3rd list of subscribers to the New Building Fund will be found at the end of this issue of the Magazine. · The Fund will be kept open fo·r one year more. It is hoped that, in addition to further instalments from Aularians who have already subscribed, any who have not yet contributed will take steps before the end of 1929 to associate themselves with the most important addition to its buildings that has been carried out in the Hall for nearly two hundred and fifty years. OF THE PUMP.

In the last issue of the kiagaz-ine it was predicted that the well was to be connected with a pump, which was to be erected close by the spot where the Hall pump once stood. A pump co-\,ered in an elm case has been erected, anid the ornamental face of an old Oxford leaden pump cistern, bearing the date 1783 , has been incorporated in it.

OF THE HALL BuiLDINGS.

Scaffolding in the Quadrangle during the Long· Vacation made it evident that portions of the older buildings of the Hall were claiming the attention of architect and builder. A thorough examination of the external fabric of the Hall was made in May by Mr. R. Fielding Dodd, architect, and Mr. E. R. Babbs, buildmg· surveyor. As a result of this examination it was decided that there was certain work that ought to be undertaken at once. It was found that th e north-east bay of the Chapel roof was sagging owing · to defects in purlin and rafters; this tendency to collapse has been checked by the insertion of additional timber supports which will arrest further movement. The walls and ceiling of the Chapel have been re-decorated, with most benefi cial results to its general appearance. The carved oak vases bearing fruits and flowers -w hich form the finials at the ends or' the stalls have been carefully restored, as all of them had been chipped during the two hundred years and more since their erection. The mullions and ·transoms of the windows in the Old Library were found to be seriously defective. Unfortunately the builder of

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the · Chapel and Library so constructed the lintel of each of these windows as to place the joint in the stone-work over the centre of the mullion, that is to say, at the weakest point in the arch. The mullions and transoms have been reinforced by the insertion of galvanized steel plates behind them. The eastern half of the building on the north side of the Quadrangle also needed attention. The wall for a space of about six feet from the eaves downwards overhangs about si inches; this seems to be due to the thrust of the roof, which is slated with heavy Stonesfield slates on the north side. The problem of this displacement has been satisfactorily dealt with by inserting galvanized steel tie-rods to reinforce the floor beams and brace the two outer walls together and by the fixing of oak puncheons to support the beams at the ends nearest the Quadrangle. In the course of these operations it was found that the beam over the fire-place in the Vice-Principal's sitting-room, . together with the floor of the room above, was in a very unsafe condition. A new beam has been installed, and the danger of the precipitate apparition of the occupant of No. z8 room on the Vice-Principal's hearth has been averted. OF BLAZONRY AND A CHRONOGRAM. · During the Long· Vacation the coat of arms over the entry to the Hall has been blazoned and the cartouche containing it has also been decorated with gold. Below there has been carved and gilded a chronogram giving the date of the canonization of St. Edmund of Abingdon: SANCTVs EDMVNnVs HVIVs AVLAE LVX. OF THE 0. U.O.T.C. The number of members of the Hall serving in the University Officers' Training Corps is on the inet·ease. During the academical year 1927-8 they numbet·ecl five. A good report on their work has been received from the Lieut.-Colonel Commanding. In the Cavalry Unit, P. J. Sandison is reported on as having 'clone some excellent work and been a great asset,' and C. R. Hiscocks as 'very keen.' In the Artillery Unit, A. W. Henderson is also reported on as ' a very keen member.' In the Infantry Unit, W. V. Brelsford and R. M. Parker are reported on a·s 'both keen and capable members.' In Michaelmas T erm G. E. Marfell, in the Signalling Unit, was a member of the Oxford team chosen to compete with Cambridge.

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OF THE 0. U.D.S. The congratulations of the Hall are due to Brewster Morgan on several counts in connexion with the 0. U. D. S. :-on his election as Librarian ; on his success as Stage Manager in the memorable production of The Clouds of Arisfophan.e s in Trinity Term; on his production of Mr. Eugene O'Neill's one-act play, Where th e Cross is Made路, and a slightly abbreviated version of Mr. John Galsworthy's Es cape a t .the Oxford Playhouse in the Long Vacation for the Oxford Summer School of American Women Teachers and Undergraduates; on Interlude Diplomatique, an excellent one-act play written by himself, which was on路e ' of the four plays presented by the 0. U.D.S. for their Play Week in the Michaelmas Term; and on his selection as Producer of Othello for the O.U.D.S. performa nce in Hilary Term, 1929-it is the first time for many years that an undergra duate has been chosen to produce a play for th e Society at the New Theatre. In the performance of Romain Rolland' s The路 Fou-r teenth of July given in Hilary Term, G. E. ]anson-Smith took a picturesque but not too onerous a revolutionary part. In the performance of The Clouds of Aristophanes in the following term, J. E. Beswick a nd F. Yates figured dutifully among Socrates's pupils , and Mr. Charles Rawlings, serva nt of the Hall, opened each performance of the play with most convincing cockcrowing.

Or A PRESENTATION TO M1~. BEST. A clock has been presented to Mr. William Best by past and present members of the Boat Club in recognition of his thirty years' faithful service as Boatman to the H all. The presentation of the clock was made on the Barge by B. J. Rushby-Smith, exCaptain of Boats, on O ctober 27th. It is accompanied by a framed illuminated testimonial recordii1g th e names of those who have joined in this well-merited tribnte to Mr. Best. This presentation does not predict his early retirement. vVe hope that for several years more the Boa t Club may enjoy the services of 011e whom many g enerations of' its members regard as the 路 Best of Boatmen. The following letter has been received by B. J. Rushby-Smith from Mr. Best : ' I am delighted with .the clock. Very many thanks to the donors. No words can express my gratitude for all your _kindness. The clock wi ll always remind me of 'Teddy' when I hear the chimes. Yours very gratefully,

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BEsT.'

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Several pieces of Hall silver were included in the Loan Exhibition of Oxford College Plate which was held in the Ashmolean iVluseum between November 7 and 28. The selection, which was made by the Hon. Andrew Shirley, of the Ashmolean Museum, and Mr. vV. Vv. Watts, F .S.A., late of the Victoria and Albert Museum, consisted of the gilt Communion flagon (1691) given by Henry Partridge in 1692 ; the two-handled cup and cover ( 1701) given by Drs. Josiah Woodward, Lily Butler and White Kennett after they had proceeded to the degree of D. D . ; the tankard and cover (1703) given by John Bennett in 1703; the two-handled cup and cover (17II) made for Dr. Thomas Tullie, Dean of Carlisle, and given by his descendant, the Rev. Tullie Cornthwaite; a caster (c. 1730); a sauce-boat (1740); a waiter (1740); two candlesticks (1792); and two trencher salts (1792).

OF ST.

EDMUND'S

DAY.

The toast of Floreat Aula- at Dinner in Hall on St. Edmund's Day was proposed by Dr. J. Wells, sometime Vice-Chancellor . and Warden of Wadham , one of the Trustees of the Hall. He spoke of the special opportunities for developing the communal life which a small society enjoyed, and referred appreciatively to the part taken by the Hall both in the Schools and in the general life of the University . . It was, he said, a matter of particular satisfaction to him that the Hall was well maintaining the tradition whereby a high proportion of its members took Holy Orders. The Principal, after thanking Dr. Wells for his encouraging speech, expressed the hope that this the first time that he had presided on this family occasion was for him the beginning of a happy and prosperous association with the Hall. What had impressed him most, he said, on taking up the principalship had been to find everything working so smoothly and efficiently like a welloiled machine; 'Principals may come and Principals may go, but Vice-Principals go on for ever.' He desired to see the Hall taking a prominent place in the life of the University, and promised that he would do his utmost, as far as his health allowed, to further that aim. In addition to members of the Hall in residence, there were present the Right Rev. Bishop Wild, the Rev. Professor D. C. Simpson, Professor E . G. R. vVaters, Mr. H . M. Margoliouth (Secretary of Faculties), the Rev. T. H. Croxall, the Rev. H.

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Livesey, Mr. R. L. Hill, the Rev. R. St. J. Fisher, Mr. N. K. Brown sell. The offertories at the services in Chapel were devoted to the Fund that has been instituted for the renovation of the roof of the Abbey Church of Pontigny, where the body of our patron, St. Edmund of Abingdon, lies. Once again the Rev. R. N. Lawson commemorated the day by sending a donation to the Exhibition Fund for the benefit of a candidate for ordination.

OF N U MBERS.

There are in residence this term ro Bachelors of Arts and 105 undergraduates. Again a record has been broken : the number now in residence is the highest in the history of the Hall. But, as was stated in the last issue of the JV!p,gazine, the problem of accommodation presses hard. Unless some solution to it can be found in the near future, a decline in numbers is inevitable, and it ·.m av · · . --- ~~~- ·, :/'·,.;. be steep. The number of undergraduates who can be accom!,'l!fg~ dated in rooms in Hall is 25 (the two sets which Dr. Allen'.Pr6\iiaea in the Principal's lodgings are no longer available). A' si~ple arithmetical calculation only is needed to make clear how many sets are necessary if even the present minimum of one year of residence in Hall is to be mainta ined.

OF THE

J.C.R.

The officers of the J. C. R. elected for the academical year rgz8-g a re: President, G. E. Jan son-Smith; Steward, M. J. Print. A. vV. Henderson has been re-appointed Junior Treasurer of the Amalgamated Clubs.

OF TWO NEW ETCHINGS OF THE HALL.

Two etchings of the Hall have been made by Mr. R. B. E. Woodhouse, the one giving a view of the eastern half and the other a view of the western half of the Quadr;;tngle. They make quite an attractive record, especially the latter. They can be obtained from Messrs. Hills and Saunders. The edition is limited to fifty impressions from each plate_ The price of each etching is 31s. 6d. unframed and 40s. framed, subject to five per cent. discount for cash. Packing and posta ge amount to rs. on t,mfrm:ned find zs. 6d, on framed copies,

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THE REUNION, 1928. The Sixth Reunion of old members of the Hall took place on Tuesday, April 24th. After Evensong in Chapel, dinner was served in the Dining Hall. There were present at the dinner : The Rev. W. L. Martin, the Rev. J. M. Ford, the Rev. R. S. 0. Tayler, the Rev, Canon A. D. Barker, the Rev. R. C. Shipton, the Rev. A. L. Browne, the Rev. K. M. Ffinch, the Rev. E. C. Lace, the Rev. P. Cunningham, the Rev. G. F.S. Gresham, the Rev. VI. G. Boys Johnston, the Rev. T. E. R. Phillips, the Rev . C. vV. Fisher, the Rev. F. G. Croom, the Rev. Dr. T. H. D. Long, the Rev. T. E. R. Wilford, the Rev. Dr. A. C. Keene, the Rev. H. W. Thorne, the Rev. P. A. W. Skinner, the Rev. G. Branson, the Rev. D. Armytage, the Rev. L. H. Coles, the Rev. Canon A. C. Davis, Mr. C. D. \\Talker, the Rev. vV. A. Congdon, Mr. Robert Sayle, the Rev. H. W. Butterworth, the Rev. Frank McGowan, the Rev. S .. A. Howard, Mr. H. C. Ingle, Mr. B. C. W. Johnson, the Rev. Herbert Livesey, Mr. G. J. O'Connor, M1'. J. J. G. \Valkinton, the Rev. E. L. Millen, Mr. J. \V. L. Symes., the Rev. C. A. Flaxton, Mr. F. W. Benton, Mr. J. vV. Blair, Mr. A. C. Corlett and Mr. G. C . Smith. The Principal, in his review of Aularian events, referred to the continued success of members of the Hall both in the Schools and in other fields of activity; the Hall was proud of the distinction of numberingÂˇ among its members the Captain of the University Cricket Eleven. One outstanding event of the year had been the publication of the Vice-Principal's book, An Oxford Hall in 1\II edieval Times. The Principal said that old members of the Hall would be the first to realise the importance of this work, and they had cause to congratulate themselves as well as Mr. Emden on his achievement. He then made touching reference to his own impending departure, and paid a warm tribute to the loyalty and devotion of the Vice-Principal and Tutors who had been with him during his period of office. He went on to say that the relationship which existed between tutors and undergraduates was, he believed, ideal in every way : there was no affected ' heartiness,' but a genuine cordiality which made for a kind of family life unique in Oxford. This he considered to be in true keeping with the tradition of the venerable society to which they were proud to belong. He could not help thinking that St. Ec!munq Hall commanded a larger

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measure of affection from its members than that accorded to any other Oxford society. Not easily would he, who had found such happiness in serving the Hall, say his farewell when the time finally came for him to leave it. In conclusion, he said that he would aivvays welcome Aularians who visited him in his new home. The Bishop of Carlisle, Dr. Allen's predecessor as Principal, respond ed to the toast of Flore at A nla. He welcomed his old friend Bishop Vl ild, and expressed the hope that he would find renewed health in his Oxford retirement. He congratulated the Principal on his appointment as Bishop of Sherborne, and said that he would be much missed in Oxford generally as well as in the Hall. Aularians well knew their indebtedness to him : his unflagging enthusiasm for the place had made possible a ll the farreaching developments which had marked the last eight years. The Principal was handing on to his successor a flourishing society which was playing a large and important part in University life. Continuing, the Bishop said that he felt an especial tribute was also due to Mr. Emden, the Vice-Principal, whose zeal a nd energy had been instrumental in effecting improvements formerly undreamt of. The New Building, he said, afforded a tangible example of what could be done by a man of the Vice-Principal's calibre. He was a man who ' got things done.' He went on to speak .of Mr. Emden's book, which, as everyone knew, was a consid erable contribution to the histotÂˇy of the Univet~sity . lt !tad been reviewed in terms of the hig hest praise by those com pdent to judge: it was, moreover, a contribution of th e very .greatest importance to the life of the Hall to-day, for it brought the place into peculiar prominence not only in Oxford but throughout th e cou ntry. The Bishop endorsed the Principal's remarks about the unique cla ims which the Hall made upon the affection of its members. Speaking for himself, he loved the place. Members called for a speech from the Vice-Principal, who rose with reluctance . He thanked the Bishop of Carlisle an d the Principal for their kind references to him . . He said that if members would " forgive him he would prefer to continue con fining himself to action rath er than speech: After dinner a general meet ing of the Aularian Association was held in the Dining H a ll. On vVednesday Holy 8.30 a.m. tl-

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THE AULARIAN ASSOCIATION. The Executive Committee met at the Principal's Lodgings on Tuesday, April 24th, rgz8. The following members attended the meeting: The Principal (in the chair), the Vice-Principal (Hon. Treasurer of the Association), the Rev. D. Armytage, the Rev. P. Cunningham, the Rev. C. vV. Fisher, the Rev. W. L. Martin, the Rev. F. McGowan, the Rev. Dr. A. C. Keene, the Rev. R. S. 0 . Tayler, Mr. C. D. Walker, and Mr. R. Sayle (Hon. Secretary). The Hon. Auditor, Mr. H~ C. Ingle, was also present. The General Meetin_g was held, · as in previous years, in the Dining Hall after the Reunion Dinner on the same evening. The President took the chair. After the confirmation of the minutes of the previous meeting, the Hon. Treasurer made his report. His accounts, which had been audited by Mr. H. C. Ingle, covered the period from the institution of the Association to March 31st, 1928, and showed an avai lable credit balance of .£46 rgs. od. The publication of th e Aularian Directory had cost £r2 2s . 6d., and the Treasurer in formed the meeting that the Executive Committee had authorised the expenditure of £ ro a year to cover the liability involved in making alterations from time to time to keep the Directory up to date. Referring to the Activities Fund, the Treasurer said that there was a proposal to allow the amount now standing to the credit of the Fund to accumulate on deposit. He felt that this was a matter. on which he would like to have the opinion of the meeting and invited comment. The proposal was unanimousiy adopted. He then dealt with the difficulty of collecting subscriptions. He ~aid th~t he noted with much satisfaction the increasing use of Banker's Orders, and he urged the members present who l;ad not already availed themselves of this convenient method of dealing with a recurrent obligation to obtain from him the necessary form and thus ensure the prompt and automatic payment of their subscriptions. The Hon . . Secretary made a statement regarding the ' letter and Magazine' canvass which he had carried out du;·ing the year, The meeting considered that, ·on the whole, the response had been satisfactory, and he was asked to continue his activities in the same direction until particulars of the Association had been brought to the notice of all known old members of the · Hall who had not yet joined. Th~ election of Officers and Committee followec). The Pres\-

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dent thanked the Vice-Principal and Mr. R obert Sayle for their work and proposed th eir re-election as H on. Treasurer and Hon . Secretary respect ively. Under Rule 9 the m embers of th e Committee rep resenting the years r 87s -r884, the R ev. Canon Barke r and the R ev . R. S. 0 . Tayler, r etired. They were un animously re-elected. The President anno uQced tha t, under t he same rule, there were two further vacancies on the Committee : one open to members representing the years r88s-r 894 and one for a representative of the period r9r81924-Âˇ The retiring m embers were the Rev. C. A. P eacock and Mr. H. A. Blair. The Rev. T. E. R. Ph illips and Mr. J. J. G. \i\lalkinton were elected to take t heir places. T he President pointed out that Rule 9 as it stood at present m ade no provision for the representation of the decade beginning 1925 on the Executive Committee. It was decided to ma ke the neces sary alteration to the fir st part of the Rule, which was therefore amended thu s : 'That there shall be a n Executive Committee to consist of the officers of the Association and certa in elected m embers : that these last-nam ed m embers shall be elect ed a t the Annual General Meeting a nd sha ll be chosen in s uch a way that each period of ten years shall be represented by two members of the Committee . ' It was decided to hold th e next Reunion on Tuesday, April 231Âˇcl, 1929. The fo llowin g a re m embers of th e Executive Commitfe,e for the year rg 28-rg29 :--- r8 6s- r874 Rev . vV. L. Martin and Rev. vV. G. D. Fletcher. r87 5~ r884 Rev. Canon Ba rker a nd R ev. R. S . 0. Tay.ler. 188s- i 8g4 R ev. P. C unnin g ham and R ev. T. E . R . Phillips. r8gs- rgo4 Rev . C. vV. Fisher and Rev. Dr. A. C. K eene. rgo_s -rgq R ev . D. Armytage and Mr. C. D. W alker. r gr5 -1924 Rev. F. McGowan and Mr. J. J. G. Walkinton: R.S. N.B. -- As it has been thoug ht expedient to hold the 1929 Exhibition E xamination in Classics and J\1odern History during the week before the Summer Term, instead of during th e week after the end of that t erm as heretofo re, it will not be possible to arrange for the Reunion to take place in O xford, accommodation in Hall being required fo r Exhibition candidates. It has been decided, however, t hat for this occasion the Reunion Dinner shall be held in London at t he pre-arranged date, Tuesday evening, April 23. All members of th e Aularian Association will receive fu ll particulars in due course.

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THE PRESENTATION TO DR. ALLEN N the appointment of Dr. Allen as Bishop Suffragan of Sher~ born e being made known , all Aularians who had been at the H a ll under him and all th?se in residence we re invited to joi n in m a king a presenta tion to him by way of marking their ap.Preciati on of his memorable tenure of the principalship. A subscription of five shillings was suggested. It was proposed that the presentation should take the form of an episcopal ring and a p ectoral cross in gold. There was precedent to be followed; the jewel chosen for the ring given to the Bishop of Carlisle on a similar occasion was a sapphire-the ston e ·w orn by St. Edmund of Abing don in the ring described by Matthew Paris-and the pectoral cross given to him was designed in the form of a cross patonce in accordance with the arms of the Hall. For the Bishop of Sherborne's ring the Vice-Principal happened upon a star sapphire-a stone reputed in medieva l times to b ring both the recipient and the donor good fortun e. This stone was set in a r ing designed and executed by Mr. George H. Hart , of Chipping Campden . A pectoral cross, in the form of a cross patonce , ornam.ented with scrolled fo li age , was executed by the same craftsm an. Ring and pectoral cross we re finish ed in tim e to be presented to the Principal before his consecration as Bishop. Th e presentation was m ade by the Vice-Prin cipa l at a meeting of the ]unio1· Common Room held in the Dining Hall on April 31st. The Vice-Principal spoke as follows: 'You have r eceived, Mr. Principal, the individua l congra tulations of a very large number of members of the H all, p as t and present; but we wish h ere tocnig ht, with the friendly informality that h a s a lways characterized all our rel a tions with you , to record our collective cong ratulations tc; you on your appointment to the bishopric of Sherborne; to express, in so. far as any words of mine can do so, our collective sense of gra titude to you for your notable tenure of the principalship; a nd to present you with some visible token of the esteem and the . affection in which yo u will always be remembered by a ll who have been at the Hall under you. \Ve do, indeed, congra tula te yo u most cordially on your promotion to high and historic office in the Church; and we congratulate yo u, too, that your a ppointm ent ta kes you to a diocese in which since boyhood you have had m any and ha ppy associations. We may be s ure tha t th e Hall w ill have added for you ye t another association to these in the n ew conn exion which it bring s · with the memory of our patron, St.

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Edmund of Abingdon, who seven hundred years ago was Treasurer of that glorious cathedral, then building, in the precincts of which you will reside. But the measure of our congratulation on the appointment which you are about to take up is the measure of our regret at the severance with the Hall which it involves. The Hall has flourished exceedingly during your principalship. Since you came to the Hall as Principal eight years ago, you have identified yourself wholeheartedly with the life and progress of our society in every field of its endeavour. The keen pride you have taken in the Hall, the lively interest you have shown in following all its activities, your friendly accessibility to all have been apparent from the first and have been much appreciated. No member of the Hall bas been more delighted than you have been when some one of our number has won an academical success, or some Hall club has scored a notable victory ; no one has been more depressed when a reverse on the field or on the river has been registered. You have entered intimately into all our ardours and enthusiasms. This is common knowledge to us all. But there are other ways, guessed at by some perhaps, but less generally known among us, in which you have rendered the Hall inestimable service. 路When you came to the Hall eight years ago you came with the experience of life in two colleges ; you came with the invaluable knovvledge of University administration which 路 the proctorship confers. But in taking up this appointment you took up one of the most arduous and most responsible appointments in Oxford; for such is the co~stitution of this ancient Hall that in the last resort the entire responsibility for the welfare and maintenance of the society rests upon the shoulders of the Principal and upon him alone. Many of your friends wondered why you left the substantial comfort of a college fellowship for a post which is genera1ly regarded as being as onerous as it is honourable. When the Governing Body of 路the Queen's College invited you to become Principal, you very properly consulted your former tutor, who, as it happened, had himself created the vacancy in the principalship by his promotion to the See of Carlisle. On crucial occasions he is a man of few words; and he replied to you, 'Take it.' You did ; and the Hall has had reason ever since to be profoundly g~ateful to him for his advice and to you for your 路d ecision. During his principalship, interrupted though it was by the War, your predecessor opened up great possibilities for the Hall. But only a beginning had been made with their realization . If these possibilities were to be translated into achievement, there

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was need of confidence, of courag-e, and of authority in his successor. From the outset you have shown unswerving confidence in the development of the Hall; you have shown courag-e and pertinacity in meeting and overcoming difficulties which have arisen from time to time; you have spoken and acted with authority on behalf of the Hall. All your efforts for it have been characterized by an invincible cheerfulness and vitality which have contributed not a little to making this the happy society it is. We are proud, too, of the important part you have taken in 'the general administration of the University. The position and prestig-e of the Hall among- academical societies has never stood hig-her than it does to-day. Your name, Mr. Principal, will always be associated with this renaissance of our ancient and incomparable society. You have earned our lasting gratitude. You are most fully assured of our affection and of our remembrance of you in your new work.' The President of the J . C.R., in the course of a short speech, also expressed the regret felt by all members of the Hall on losing their Principal, a regret tempered by the pleasure they felt on his important appointment. He alluded to the progress of the Hall during Dr. Allen's principalship and to the prominence which had been given to the Hall by his active participation in University affairs. On one occasion, he instanced, at a meeting- of a UniverÂˇ sity Society which he had attended, a personage of great standing in the University had remarked, in reference to the passag-e of a certain measure by the Hebdomadal Council, that all would be well because the Principal of St. Edmund Hall was on their side. In conClusion, the President of the J.C.R. referred appreciatively to the great interest the Principal had shown in all the activities of Hall clubs by his frequent appearance ..on the touch-line and the towing-path. The Vice-Principal then presented to the Principal the ringand the pectoral cross. In accepting these gifts, the Principal expressed very appreciatively the gratitude that he felt to all who had contributed to make him this farewell present. After describing the historic symbolism that belonged to such insignia, he spoke impressively of the way in which he would treasure their possession. He then went on to speak of his eight years of residence as Principal as the happiest he had known, and made affectionate acknowledgment of the co-operation and support he had unfailingly received from his colleagues. With assurances of his lasting reg-ard for the Hall and of his continued mindfulness for its welfare, the Principal concluded.

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The Manciple and servants of the Hall combined to make the Principal a present on their own beha lf. The present took the form of four handsome pieces of cut glass-two bowls and two vases. On the occasion of the Aularian Reunion a wish was expressed by several of those present w ho had been at the Hall prior to Dr. Allen's principalship that they might join in making him a present in token of their admiration of the work he had done for the H all. Subscriptions were contributed forthwith, and it was subsequently arranged that the Principal should be g iven a set of episcopal robes. The names of those who joined in making these presentations are record ed elsewhere in this issu e of the Magazine.

OF THE EIGHTS WEEK CONCERT.

ACED with a progra mme and a difficulty, we decide to be . honest. The programme is tha t of a concert in May; the difficulty is that we have to attempt to write an account of it in December. The honesty shall show itself in a confession that we have no very precise recollection of some parts of the entertainment. This must certainly be admitted ir.~ regard to the viola solos, of which we can onl y recall the gallant attempt by Mr. Purcell (Exeter) to disguise commonplace compositions by sympathetic performance. Mr. Clapham (New College) astounded us by a private confession of nervousness of what he alleged to be his first appearance in public : but his delicate singing of E~izabethan songs and his vigorous versions of Sea-shanties revealed a competence and attractiveness which we are not surprised to have seen recognised la tely by the U ni versity Opera Club. Mr. Lid ell (Exeter) provided a varied group of class ical favourites, a nd a n altogether different group of unfamiliar Scandinavian songs : in the former he showed a n exceptional capacity of wide sympathy; but in the latter he was -still happier, being obviously at home an d enjoying it. As fo r contributors from the H a ll, Trott played his Brahms excellently , with just t he rig ht colour and tona l control. The Hall quartet were not quite jolly enough in ' Hark , jolly shepherd,'but it is difficult to feel really jolly in singing a difficult archaic composition; Robert Jon es ' s part-song they sang with really charmin g balance a nd unity of conception-the best part-singing heard in recent concerts. The Madrigal Club, having g racefully yielded its customary Sea-shanties to Mr. Clapham, turned inland to Som erset and produced fo ur genuinely bucolic folk-songs : it was most ref1Âˇeshing to hear folk-songs s ung w ith stolid solidity

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and no nonsence about it, in place of the emasculating 'interpretations' of the 'trained' singer. And after all we seem to have recollected quite a lot, which is a sound compliment to the concert. R.F.

IN PARTIBUS CARLIOLENSIBUS. The Bishop of Carlisle and :Mrs. Williams arranged this summer a gathering of the Aularian clan settled in the diocese. The reunion took place at Rose Castle on Tuesday, August 14. There were, unfortunately, several who were unabLe to come, as they were away on their holidays. The Vice-Principal, the Senior Tutor and Mrs. Brewis came up for the occasion. The pleasure which these gatherings give was well voiced by the Senior Tutor, who was present for the first time, and by Canon Gilbanks in the felicitous and informal speeches which they made after dinner. The Bishop celebrated Holy Communion in the Chapel of the Castle on Wednesday morning. Breakfast followed ,, and then the third gathering of the clan reluctantly disbanded. There were present the R ev. Canon Gilbanks, the Rev. H. M. and Mrs. Ainscow, the Rev. A. B. Selwyn, the Rev. J. B. Wood, the Rev. F. J. Buckle, and the Rev. H. H. Vickers.

THE INSTITUTION OF THE PRINCIPAL

HE Rev. G. B. Cronshaw was instituted Principal by the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. F. W. Pember, Warden of All Souls, on Wednesday afternoon, October ro, in accordance with the formalities usually observed on such an occasion. At a quarter to four the Vice-Chancellor, accompanied by the Proctors and the Registrar of the University, proceeded to the Common Room at the Queen's College, where the Pro-Provost, the Rev. E. M. Walker, presented him with the Sealed Instrument of Appointment on beha!.{ of the Governing Body of the College. Procession was then made to the Hall ; first, the Vice-Chancellor, Proctors and Registrar, preceded by a Bedel, then, next following, the ProProvost and Mr . Cronshaw, and then the Fellows of the Queen's College and other members of the University. In the Dining Hall, where the Vice-Chancellor presided, the Instrument of Appointment was read by the Registrar. The Pro-Provost then formally presented Mr. Cronshaw to the Vice-Chancellor, who thereupon formally admitted him to the principalship cum omnibus iuribus et

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pertinentiis uni71ersis . This having been done, the Vice-Chancellor in a few words cong ratul ated the new Principal on his a ppointment, and expressed the hope that the Hall would flourish under his governance as notably as it had done under that of his immediate predecessors. The Principal made a brief reply, thanking the Vice-Chancellor a nd endorsing the hope which he ha d expressed. The Vice-Chancellor then entered the Principal's name in the Ruttery .B ook of the H all a nd signed the entry ; this was countersig ned by the Pro-Provost of Queen 's and the R egistrar of the University; and, after the Principal had signed the Inventory of the Plate of the Hall, the proceedings in the Dining Hall terminated. The Principal and Mrs. C ra nshaw then entertained their g uests to tea in the Quadrangle.

THE AIRA YS AND THE HALL. IFTS of books and papers of Aularian interest continue to multiply. This year the Libra ry h as had a notable accession in the gift of a volume and t h ree documents w hich relate to Adam Airay, Principal of the H all from 1632 to r6s8, and to two other members of his family, also connected with the Hall, Christopher Airay, a nephew , and a son of the latter, also named Christopher. This very welcom e gift was made by Mr. J. L. \1\Tatson, a g rea t-great-great-great-great-great-grea t-n ephew of this seventeenth century. Principal. The volume is a composite one : it comprises the Book of Common Prayer, printed in r 6 r3, th e Bible, printed in r6ro, commonl y kn ow n as 'the Breeches Bible,' T1vo rig ht pro fiabl e and fruitful! Concordances, printed in r6r3, and Sternhold's' and Hopkin's metrical version of th e Psalms, printed in r6rs. All th ese works are bound up together in a g reen s tamped morocco binding, fitted with two clasps in the form of scallop-shells. On each cove r of the binding there a re initials sta mped, on the front A. A., and on the back C. A., signifying that this volume was a gift from Christopher Airay to his uncle Adam; and, since Christopher was a bookbinder, we may presum e that this well-bound volume is a product of his bindery. On one of the fly-leaves is written: 'Baptiz: rs84 March IS ;-the date, I presume, of Adam Airay's ba ptism..:.._and below some precepts in verse , the last t wo lin es of which run: ' Let rule and reason guide ye all thy dayes, Rig ht and r eligious yen shalbe thy wayes.'

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Adam Airay is numbered among our benefactors. He has left his memorial among us in the oldest portion now standing of the Principal's Lodging, which, as Anthony Wood has recorded, Airay built ' at his own charges' about the year r635. He was also the first Principal to effect a reconnexion between the Hall and the site of the Grammar-Hall which had been attached to it in later medieval times. One of the documents which Mr. J. L. \iVatson has presented to the Library furnishes us with an epilogue to this Principal's career. It is the sheet of accounts written out by Christopher Airay, after the Principal's death, giving full particulars of the funeral expenses and of all his disbursements as executor under his uncle's will. Adam Airay died on r 5 December, r6s8, at Charlton-on-Otmoor, an Oxfordshire village which most of u s will have visited. He had been eight years rector there, holding the benefice in conjunction with the principalship. The funeral of this worthy Principal, on a winter's day in the year in which Cromwell died, needs no other description than that pictured for us by the successive items in his nephew 's schedule of accounts with its tale of mourning attire a nd substantial comforts . I give them in full as they stand :~ Ex pens: since uncle dyed web was Dec: rs r658 & first for ye funerall expenses. December ÂŁ s . d. 00 os 00 Bred at his laying forth I :l ' 00 !2 00 A coffin 00 or 00 Carridg of the coffin from Bister 00 or 10 Lyme & branns for ye coffin 00 10 00 Wine cakes ro duz: dim: Other cakes ro duz: of Drak . rss. L 3li . 3s. j 03 r8 oo 63 duz: of bread drak . 01 16 oo Oxon beere 2 barrels at 18s. 00 o8 o6 Beere for Ringers 00 o6 oo To 6 Ringers 00 16 o6 Beeff 8s. mutt: 8s. 6d. al 00 02 o6 Vid: Gambull for dressing diner 02 o8 00 Clarrett r 2 gall ens at 12d . a qt. 00 13 00 Suger r 2 p6i:md at r 3d. 00 og 00 Sack Synamon, Cloves, & Rosewater wth 00 04 00 other perfumes for ye room J Mourning suits for me, my wife, & the t r6 00 00 child, of Tho: Harrison f or 12 00 To ye tayler for makeing of them Shoemaker for one pare of boots & 2 l 01 04 00 pare of shooes f 00 or 04 A pare of spurs

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On Adam Airay's death the lease which he had obtained of the on part of which our New Building now stands passed to his nephew Christopher. And there is reason to believe that Christopher intended in his turn to benefit the Hall, but his plans for doing so were not completed before his death in 166g. In the Aiagazine of 1925 I gave some account of the Lodgings which Christopher Airay erected, and which for some time bore his name, and of their too short-lived conne},_ion vvith the Hall. One of the documents which Mr. J. L. vVatson has presented to the Library is Christopher Airay's will, dat<"d 14 December, r667. Therein he makes bequest : ' To my dear & loving wife Elizabeth Airay all my Messuages Tenements & Gardens & other ye premises thereunto belonging with ye appurtenances scituate lying & being within ye Parish of St. Peters in ye East in Oxon & all my estate, right, title, interest & tearm of years yet to come & unexpired in & to ye same being holden by Indenture of lease for ye tearm of fourty years, under y" president & schollers of St. Mary Magdallens Colledge in Oxford. . . . The yearly revenue thereof to be imployed for & towards yc better Iivelyhood & mentainance of my sd \1\life and of my younger Children which I shall leave at yc time of my death; & for & towards ye education ?.nd preferment of such younger children after my decease, & to be imployed to & for no other use 01Âˇ uses whatsoever.'

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\iVhatever may haxe been his ulterior intentions for benefiting the Hall by his erection of a five-storied building on the site of the present New Building, their frustration is easily explained when it is known that his eldest child had only been born seven years before, and that there were three younger children still who survived their father's death in I 66g. Another of the documents given by Mr. J. L. vVatson relates to one of these younger children, named Christopher after his father. Christopher the younger became a member of the Hall, matriculating in January r68rj2; and this docrment is the Testimonial he received fr.om the Hall after he had g-raduated as a Bachelor of Arts in July, 1686. It is signed and sealed by Dr. Mill, Principal, by William Osborn, Vice-Principal, and by Francis

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Loder, Henry FitzHerbert, Richard Codrington, Nicholas Penwarne, all .M.A. s of the Hall. Ch ristopher the younger eventually inherited the family property of Cell'aron in \ tVestmorland. He had Jacobite sympathies, and was very possibly involved in the .troubles of the 1715 rebellion. He lived at Burford in" later years and died in 1735. In giving into the. keeping of the Hall the volume and docu ments which I have described, Mr. ]. L. \Vatson has found a resting-place for them where the name of Airay is still held in gt·ateful recollection. I was glad that a vis it in the neighbourhood of Oxford in the Long Vacation gave him an opportunity of bringing them himself and of seeing the New Building which has reclaimed a site which two of his ancestors had hoped to settle 'to the publick uses of the Hall> A.B. E.

THE OLD LIBRARY. ESIDES the Airay Bible and pap et·s, there are two other gifts to the Library which call for particular notice. We are very grateful to Canon Grigson for presenting to the Library several volumes of separately · printed sermons by Dr. Liddon (Vice-Principal 1859-62), which fill an important gap in our Liddon collection. I have been able to add another volume once in the possession of Thomas Hearne, which has also the added interest of having previously been in the library of another member of the Hall, Sir \tVilliam Glynne (matriculated 1679), sometime a Burgess of the University. The volume is entitled Marniora Arundelliana; sive Saxa Graece ii1cisa, by John Selden (London, 1628; small 4to; 1st edition, 1st issue); it is an account of the works of classical art collec~ed by Thomas, second Earl of Arundel, and subsequently presented to the University. It contains Hearne's autograph with his motto, S1~um Cuique, and the date, Jul. S· MDCCXXIX, and a lso the autograph of Sir William Glynne. Hearne must have purchased this volume of Wilmot, the bookseller in the Turl, who bought up a part of Sir William Glynne's library. (See Hearn e's Collect-ions, ed. H. E. Salter, x, 153, under the date July 5, 1729~) The grant of £25 made last year by the Editorial Staff of the Magazine towards the repair of books has made it possible to have the leather bindings of 24 books repaired. A valuable beginning has been made with the re-cataloguing of the Library, thanks to N. Dawson and ]. C. W. Ludlow, who

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devoted many afternoon hours to this good work. It is hoped that other competent volunteers may be found to carry on the task. Including those given by Canon Grigson, the following books of Aularian interest have been presented to the Library during the year:From the Rev. Canon Grigson :___, (I) A volume of 44 Sermons by Dr. Liddon preached between I86s and I87s (Penny Pulpit Series).

(2) Explanatory Analysis ofI the Epistles to the Romans and I Epistle to Timothy, by Dr. Liddon; the gift of the author. (3) A volume of IS sermons, four of them by Dr. Liddon. (4) A volume of 32 pamphlets, including Dr. Liddon's on the Purchas Judgment. (5) Edward Bouverie P1lsey, a sermon by Dr. Liddon, preached .2o January, I884. (6) A sermon by Dr. Liddon, preached 28 March, I86g (Penny Pulpit Series). From the Vice-Principal:BATE, George (matric. I624). Historical .'l.ccount of the Rise and Progress of the Late Tro11bles in England. 8vo, London, I685. Together with History of the Composing the Affairs of England by the Restoration of King Charles II and the Punishment of the Regicides in I66g, by Thos. Skinner. LIDDON, Henry Parry (Vice-Principal I859-62). (I) University Sermons, 2nd Series. (z) Practical Reflections on the Holy .Gospels.

A GREAT CHANIPION OF THE HALL. O more authoritative tribute to the services rendered to the Hall by its Âˇ Visitor, Lord Curzon, in his capacity as Chancellor of the University, has appeared than that which finds place in the concluding volume of Lord Ronaldshay's admirable biography. The whole passage merits quotation in full. 'A lasting memorial of Lord Curzon's effective and vitalizing Chancellorship is a resuscitated St. Edmund Hall. The Commission of I877 had decreed, as Curzon notes in the Red Book, -the absorption, subject to the life interest of existing Heads, of the old public Halls in Colleges. Only St. Edmund Hall, the oldest, the most picturesque, remained, thanks to Dr. Edward Moore,

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who, appointed in 1864 as a young man of 29, was still Principal in 1907, w hen Lord Curzon succeeded; a nd continued so until 191 3· But it was Ji v ing with a halter round its neck. The Chancellors we re the Visitors of the H a lls, and, encouraged by the advent in 1907 of a new and vigorous Patron, some of its m embers mad e an a ppeal to him in the December of that year. Lord Curzon from the first showed himself sympathetic. The Bishop of Carlisle, who b ecame Principal in 1913, spoke at a later date with justice of his "constant kindness to the Hall.'' H e favoured its preservation a s an independent academic entity. Bu t there were many difficulties . Queen's Coll ege, though inclined to be generous w ith pecuniary assistance, was at first, and not unnaturally, reluctan t to forego its claims; and, indeed, it was doubtful whether th e Hall could ma intain itself a lone. vVithout support it pretty certainly could not. To strengthen its pecuniary position an Act of P arliam ent had to be passed severing the Benefice of Gatcombe from the Principalship. In this Sir vVilliam Anson was most helpful. T hen a new statute must be adopted by the University and a pproved by the King in Council. It was not till 1913 that these difficulties were overcome. Then in June, 1914, encouraged by the C hancellor, w ho himself gave £wo, a public appeal was put out. Money was coming in, and over £ r ,ooo had been promised w hen the War s uspended a ll operations. U nforgetful and undaunted, the Chancellor took the matter up again in the spring of 191 9 in a letter to Council, suggesting that the University should now espouse the cause of the Hall as an institution of its own . H e also pleaded its case with the Endowment Fund Trustees. Hi s advocacy was s ucces sful with both . The Hall was set on a sound fo oting. l iVith a new constitution, increased numbers, the old buildings repaired, a nd fresh accommoda tion a dd ed, it is more prosperous to-day than it has ever been.' It is g·ood th at there should be set out thus fully a record of the invalua ble a id and encouragement given by Lord Curzon at a per iod of g rave crisis in the hi story of the Hall. In England no les s than in India he will always b e remembered as a great protector of the architectural and institutional heritages of the past. It is very fit t ing, as Lord R onaldshay rig htly claims, tha t in Oxford St. Edmund Hall should be accounted his memorial, for it was largely due to his powerful intervention and assistance that a cause that seemed lost has been conve rted into one full of promise. A.B. E.

GEO R GE D l XO\', D. D. PR l :\ CI I'Af. l/6<r-S {.

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A PORTRAIT OF DR DIXON. PRINCIPAL, 1760-1787. HERE has been added to the pict. ures belonging to the Hall a portrait in oils of Dr. George Dixon, w ho was Principal of the Hall from r76o to 1787. It was during his time that the Hall came to be widely advertized throughout the country on account of the expulsion of 路six of its members from the University for Methodism. The story of the expulsion of the Six Students has been told in full by Canon Ollard (Vice-Principal 1903-13). All who have read his excellent account of this unhappy affair will have closed the book convinced that of all the dignitaries concerned in it Dr. Dixon is the only one who comes out unscathed. In the course of his little book (The Si x Students of St. Edmund Hall, pp. 4, 31-34), Canon Ollard has drawn an attractive portra it of this kindly Principal, of w hom it can be claimed to his lasting honour that he 'defended his men, notwi thstanding their Calvinism, because he recognized and bore public witness to their genuine piety.' His character and the chie f facts of his ca reer a re there retraced fo r us, but his faci a l features find no illustration , for, 路when Canon Ollard wrote, it was not known in England that 路 a portrait of this Principal existed. By a curious coincidence, it must have been about the time when Canon Ollard's book was in the press that Dr. Moore (Principal r864-1913) received the following letter : New Glenelg, The Master, South Australia. St. Edmunds Hall, 5 May, 1910. Oxford , England.

SIR,

I have in my possession a half-length portrait of my g-reatgrand-uncle, Dr. Dixon, who was at one time your predecessor. As I have no heirs I propose to bequeath it to your . college if you care to repay m y executors the cost of transmission. The painting (in oil) is in excellent preservation, and is a carefully finished portrait representing him in wig, bands, gown and scarlet 路hood. Being nearly 70, it IS not likely many years will elapse before it can be forwarded. I am, sir, Your obt. servt., SAML. DIXON.

On the corner of this letter there is a note in Dr. Moore's handwriting: 'Yes, certainly, if in my lifetime; but suggested that he should make it sure by empowering exors. to pay cai-riage.'

ST. EDMUND HALL lV!AGAZINE Dr. Moore's reply brought the following answer from Mr. Dixon:-' New Glenelg, South Australia, 20 July, rgw. REvD. AND DEAR SrR, I have pl easure in acknowledging yours of 6th June, and will take the necessary steps to secure the portrait for your college; indeed, it is more fitting to rest there tha n be at some future time used, as is quite possible, by some of the vulgar rich in this country as a peg to hang a bogus pedigree on. My health is not of the best, so there is a strong possibility of your living long enough to receive it, in which case I hope it will arrive in good order. Believe me, Yours very faithfully-, SAML. DIXON .

When in 1924 I came across these letters, which had been sent to the Hall for record by Dr. Moore in 1915, a year before his death, I rath er expected to find that Mr. Dixon had died without having taken the requisite steps to ensure the portrait coming into the possession of the Hall. I addressed, however, a letter to Mr. Dixon and was not left long in uncertainty, a s I received from him a prompt reply. 'My uncle Tom,' he told me in his lette1Âˇ , 'was the eldest son and about So years ago squandered the family estates and illegally broke the entail, and I am now the last survivor of the Dixon family of Calthwaite Hall, Cumberland.' . In April this year a letter came from Mr. Dixon's solicitors ,to say that he had died and had by his will bequeathed the portra it to the Hall. The portrait is well pa inted and gives a pleasing representation of the Principa l, as may be judged by the illustration of it here given. Unfortunately the authorship of the portrait is not known. It is a very welcome acquisition. To the last of the Dixons of Calthwaite we owe a tribute of gratitude. He has done honour to our society and to his kindly ancestor by securing the return of this portrait from South Australia to take its place on the watls of the Dining Hall where his ancestor presided for twenty-seven years-the very years, it is curious to reflect, when the coasts of the new continent of Australia were being explored. A'. B. E.

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AN APPEAL FROM PONTIGNY. HE Abbey Church of Pontigny-perhaps the finest Cistercian building in the world-must have for all members of the Hall a very special associa tion. Since the year 1240 it has been the honoured resting-place of our patron, St. Edmund of Abingdon, whose body lies enshrined over the high altar. No longer the home of a relig ious order, this spacious church, most impressive in the severe si mplicity of its desig n, serves as the parish church of a small village lying in the secluded valley of the Serain. The R ev. H. W. Butterworth, who, as befits every Aularian who visits Champagne or Burgundy, went on pilgrimage to Pontigny this summer, brought back n ews of an appea l for funds w hich those responsible for the upkeep of thiÂˇs great building are making for the restoration of the roof. Ab!;>e F. Via nnes, the Cure of Pontigny, writes: 'La toitmÂˇe entiere c!oit etre renouvelee . Sans cette reparation il serait impossible de soustraire tout le monument a une ruine generale. La surface de toiture a rcparer es t immense. L e clevis s'eleve a une somme considerable dont une grande parti e clo it et re fo urnie par le cure a uquel est confiee la garde de cette magnifique eglise. ' His a ppeal is supported by the Archbishop of Sens, Monseig neu r C hesnelong, in w hose province Pontigny is situated. 'Cette ri:paration,' the Archbishop writes, ' s' impose avec urgence. Elle es t !'unique moyen de fa ire echapper a une ruine prochaine l' un des plus beaux joyaux de !'architecture cistercienne du moyen-age et l'un de nos sanctuaires les plus venerables pm Jes grands souvenirs qui s'y rattachent et par le corps de Sa int Edmond dont il est devenu Je splendide reliquai re.' Upon us sons of St. Edmund this appeal has an obvious claim. It was decided , therefore, th at th e offertories in Chapel on St. Edmund's Day should be allocated to this purpose . Members of the Hall not _in res iden ce who would like to be associated with an Aularian resp onse to the a ppea l m ade by the Cure of Pontigny are invited to send their contributions to the Ch a plain of the Hall, who will acknowledg e t heir receipt. A.B.E.

A WHITE KENNETT MEMORIAL.

HE Right Rev. Dr. White Kennett, Bishop of P eterborough, who m atriculated as a member of the Hall in 1678 and was Vice-Principal from 1691 to 1695, died on December 19, 1728. No place with which he was connected has better cause to com-

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memorate the centenary of his death than the Oxfordshire village of Amb rosden, of whi路c h he was vicar. He was appointed to be vicar there in 1685 on the presentation of a n old member of the Hall, Sir \iVilliam Glynne, Ba rt., in w hose gift it was. Sir \ i\lilliam's eldest son was a contemporary and fri end of Kennett's at the Hall, hence th e a ppointment. During the fi fteen years he was vica r Kennett did much to merit his recollection by successive g enera tions of parishion ers. 'His first Care at A m ersden,' writes his biographer, '(next to a most dil igent D ischarge of the Duties incumbent on him) was to bea utify the Vicarage- House, to wall in the Ga rden, and to put an Inscription upon the Grave-Stone of Dr. Stubb ing, w ho well deserv'd to be r em embred, for the good vVork of Building the Vicarage-House. He then set himself to Repair and Adorn the Church: h ad the Bells recas t ; a n ew Pulpit and Font; a Fane on the Steepl e ; the Churchyard enclos'd with a strong high Wall, and Gates 路with Peers, and many oth er I mprovements of Strength and Bea uty. ' Moreover, he r ecovered for his parish certain church houses and Janel w hich h ad been a lienated, and secured the vesting of this estate in new trustees, ' to b e employ 'cl according to the firs t Purposes o f R epairing and Adorning the Church of A m ersden. And the R ents accordingly were a fterwards employ' d to th a t Purpose very faithfully, to the great Satisfaction as well as Cred it of the Parish.' The researches which he pursued with this restitution of parochial property in view led him to the writing路 of a book which ma de the name of his r emote country parish to be familiar in all places w here English a ntiquarian studies were cherished . . Kennett's 'Parochial Antiquities attem pted in th e Hist ory of Ambrosden, Burcester , and other adjac ent Parishes in the Counties of Oxfor d and Bucks, ' which a ppeared in r6g5, has b ecome the a rchetype of all parish histories, a nd ha s thereby broug ht to the little v ill age of Ambrosden, which even to-clay only numbers a bout four hundred and fifty parishioners, a distinction which it could not otherwise have expected. Most fittingly the present vicar, the Rev. C. C . D. Oake, has marked the centenary of his predecessor's death by enlisting the interest of hi s p ar ishi oners and others in g iving a memorial bell to the church. This bell a nd another given in memory of those from the pa ris h who fell in the Grea~ Vlar were dedicated by Bishop Shaw at a sp ecial service on Friday evening, December 7 路 At this service the H a ll was represented by the Chaplain a nd Mrs. Fletcher a nd m yself. There was a f ull c hurch and a g ood gathering of local clergy to do the occasion honour. After the Bishop had dedicated the two new bells a nd re-dedicated a tenor bell that had

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been re-cast, a course of Stedman Triples was rung. In his address the Bishop first spoke of Bishop Kennett, and especially of his connexion with the Hall and with Ambrosclen, and then very suitably explained the history a nd significance of church bells, emphasizing- the appropriateness of their use as a memorial. Another course of Stedman Tt·iples was rung, followed by round ringing, as the congregation left the chu rch and made their way out through the churchyard to those ' Gates with Peers ' which Kennett erected. A. B. E.

THE FUNERAL OF THE PRINCIPAL. HE coffin. containing the Principal's body was removed from the Lodgings on the evening of Friday, December 21, and taken to Queen's College, as it was decided that it should rest that night in the Chapel of the College with which he had been so closely connected since his undergraduate days. The coffin was met at the main gate of the College by the Rev. Canon Streeter and the Rev. E. A. Berrisford. Procession was then formed, and the coffin, followed by the Vice-Principal, the Principal's Secretary, and the nurse who attendee! him, and by several of the Fellows of the College, was carried to the Chapel, where a few prayers were said. At 8 .30 on the morning following a Requiem celebration of the Holy Communion took place in the Chapel of the Hall, at which th e Chaplain celebrated. A wreath of reel and yellow chrysanthemums and carnations, tied with the Hall colours, was placed in front of the Principal's stall. To it was attached a card inscribed : ' From the Vice-Principal, Tutors and Scholars of St. Edmund Hall, in tokei1 of their regard.' After the service the wreath was taken by the Vice-Principal and placed on the coffin in the Queen's Colleg·e Chapel. The funeral service took place at noon in the Church of St. Mary-the-Virgin. The coffin was met at the north door by the clergy taking part, the Rev. E. lYT. Walker, Pro-Provost of the Queen's College, the Rev. Canon Cronshaw, brother of the late Principal, the Rev. Canon Sawyer, Headmaster of Shrewsbury School, and the Rev. 0. R. A. Byrde, both great friends of his. The coffin was then carried into the church, followed first by Miss Cronshaw, his sister, Miss Lefroy, Mrs. A. M. Hall, his secretary, and Nurse White. Next came the Vice-Principal and Tutors of the Hall, with the Fellows and Honorary Fellows of the Queen's College follo·wing. The service in St. Mary's was taken by the

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Pro-P rovost of Queen's and Canon Sawyer. The lesson vvas read by t he Vice-Principal. The · service was ve ry largely a ttended. The Vice-Chancellor was represented by the Provost of Oriel. The Mayor and Corpora ti on were present , as also wet'e t·epresentatives of the Radcl iffe Infirma ry and of severa l other bodies with which the Principal had been connected. A few undergraduate members of the Hall who happened to be in Oxford attend ed. The unusually large attend<1!1ce- the largest since the funeral of Sir William Anson-wa s a conspicuous tribute to Mr. Cranshaw's popularity and repute in Ox for d. The interment took pl ace in Holywell Cemetery, where the concluding pa rt of the service was taken by Canon Crenshaw and the Rev. 0. R . A. Byrcle.

THE LIDDON CENTENARY. Dr. Liddon (Student of Christ Church 1836-go, Vice-Principal of the Hall r8sg-6z , a nd Canon of St. Paul's r87o-go) was born on zo August, r8zg. The H a ll is proposing to celebrate the centenary of his birth a nd is co-operating in this with Christ Church a nd L iddon House. The elate and other particula rs of this celebration will be made known as soon as the necessary arrangements h ave been made.

OBITUARY THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE, V ISCO UNT CAVE, D. C. L . , CHAN CELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY, VISITO R OF THE HALL .

AN Y tributes have been paid to the m emory of Lord Cave, reviewing· his distinguished career and appraising highl y his ma ny public services. Here, however, it is fitting that the tribute we offer to his memory should be limited to placing on record our gratitude for the way . in which he interpreted his relat ion ship to the Hall as our Visitor . In replying to the congratulations of the Hall on his election as Chancellor of the U niversity, he expressed his readiness to prove himself as firml y its fri end as Lord Curzon had been. It will be remembered that he took an early opportunity of showing his personal interest; indeed, it was on one of his first visits to Oxford after his appointment tha t h e came to the Hall to make an informal circuit of our build-

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ings. And when the New Building was completed he .made :a memorable day in the annals of the Hall more memorable by coming to Oxford to perform the opening ceremony. In the speech that he made that afternoon, as also in conversation and in letters before and after, he made known his active concern for the welfare of our society. It was characteristic of his kindliness and accessibility that he should have expressed to the Principal, as he left the Hall on that occasion, the hope that he might soon be given another opportunity of marking his interest in the progress of the Hall~his Hall, as he was pleased to call it in f"riendly emphasis of his official connexion with it. In St. Edmund Hall we certainly have had reason to endorse the opinion that ' Lord Cave was the most human and kindly of Chancellors.' GEORGE BERNARD CRONSHAW, PRINCIPAL, 1928, FELLow or- THE QuEEN' s CoLLEGE,

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The Principal, who was born in 1872, was the second son of the Rev. Canon C. Cronshaw, an active and successful Lancashire v1car. From Manchester Grammar School he entered the Queen's College in 1891 as a Berry Exhibitioner: He gained a 'First' in Chemistry in the Honour School of Natural Science. On graduating路 he went to Leeds Clergy School preparatory to ordination. After he had been ordained deacon in 1895 he was for three years curate of 路 Holbeck, Leeds. In 1898 he returned to Oxford as Chaplain of his College, with which duties he combined a curacy at St. Cross, Holywell, during路 the next two years. In 1890 his College appointed him Lecturer in Chemistry, and in 1902 a Fellow. Three years later he became Junior Bursar and in 1912 Senior Bursar, and until recently he discharged both these offices. H e was indefatigable in the service of his mother society, and his genial presence came to be regarded as an essential feature of all g-atherings of old Queen's men. For many years he devoted himself with equal energy to a wide rang路e of activities in the University and in the City of Oxford, and elsewhere. He was Junior Proctor in 1909-10, a member of the Hebdomadal Council from 191 I to 1923. For varying periods he was Acting Curatm- of the Schools, Visitor to the Museum, and a member of several University Boards and Delegacies. He did eminent service both as chairman and secretary of the Committee of College Bursars, especially during the session of the Statutory Commission and the recent re-rating of the City of Oxford. During

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his treasurership St. Hugh's College obtained its present site on the Banbury Road, a · bold move of which he was largely the insti gator. Outside th e University his name will be long remembered in connexion with his devoted work for the Radcliffe Infirmary, of which he was treasurer and chairman of committee from Igio to Igz8. ' It is not too much to say,' writes a colleague of his, ' that it was owing to his energy a nd driving power that the Infirmary developed in these years as never in the past. To him chiefly is clue the establishm ent of the electrical, the throat and ear, and the maternity departments.' The acquisition of the Manor House estate for the Infirmary and of a site at Cowley for the Children's Convalescent Hom e were his schemes. In recognition of his great work for the Infirmary, the City Council hac\ the intention of conferring upon him the honour of the Freedom of the City of Oxford. The news of this resolution, which gave him, as it did all his friends, very great satisfaction, came to him on his last birthday, December I I, within a few days of his death. He was also prominent as a Freemason, being three times P~incipal of the Apollo University Lodge, Gra nd Senior Warden of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Oxfordshire, Grand Chaplain in the Grand Lodge of England, and holder of high offices in the Mark and other Masonic deg rees. Outside Oxford he represented his College a s a member of the Governing Body of several schools with which it is connected. He was for many years chairman of the Governors of St. Bees School, and was one of the Gove rnors of King Edward VI School, Southampton, of Heversham, Keswick, of Appleby and of P enrith Schools. He \Vas Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Chichester from I9I9 to rgzr, and to the Bishop of Carlisle, his penultimate predecessor as Principal, from the latter year. . In 1925 he mar ried Miss Dorothy Wardle, th e onl y child of Mr. and Mrs . Bernard Wardle, of Scarthwaite, near Lancaster. All his friends hoped that this event would mark the beginning· for him of many years of happy ma rried life . But his constitution soon began to show signs of the strain which his multifa rious activities hac\ put on it. When Dr. Allen resignee\ th e principalship on becoming Bishop of Sherborne, it was thought by the Governi ng Body of the Queen 's Colleg·e that Mr. Cranshaw would find in the principalship congenial scope for his energy a nd experience, and that he had sufficient recuperative power to enable him to shoulder the la rge responsibilities of new office. But matters had g·one too far ,..,·ith him, a nd, in spite of his clogged determin a -

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tion to do what he could, his h ealth from the outset proved uneq ual to the task. WILLIAM BOYD. The Rev. \N illi a m Boyd, M. A., died at his residence in London on February r6, at the age of 83. H e was born in Jama ica of a Scottish Bord er family . He came up fr om Hurstpierpoint College to the Hall as an E xhibition er in Mich aelmas Term, r864, but mi grated at the end of his second year to Worcester College on being elected to an Organ Schol a rship th ere . His love of music brought him many friends in the University. H e was organist not only at \iVorcester , but also a t t he Hall , at Trinity and at P embroke. Afte r leav ing O xford he took to coaching. In 1877 he was orda ined to the curacy of Charlcombe, Somerset . H e was ten yea rs rector of Wigganholt, and twe nty-five years vica r of All Sai nts', Norfolk Squa re, London, which la tter livi ng h e resigned in rgrS. H e is, perh a ps, most widely known as the composer of the tune w ith vvhich t he singing of the famous hymn ' Fight the good fight' is most familiarly associated. This t une, w hich was originally written to th e hymn ' Come, H oly Ghost, our souls inspire,' was appropriated to the other hymn by Sir Arthur Sullivan, much to the horror of the composer at fi rst. SAMUEL EDWARD CHETTOE . The R ev. Samuel Edward Chettoe, M.A., vicar of St. Mat-y's , H endon, di ed at his vicarage on August 13, rgzS, at the age of 68, after a long illness. He was the eld est son of Mr. Frederick Chettoe, of Brockmore, Staffordshire. H e entered the H a ll as an Exhibitioner at the age of r 8, matricul ati ng M ichaelmas T erm, 1877· After reading the H onour School of Theology he gra duated B.A. in r88o. After spending· a post-g raduate year in Oxford studying Ori ental la ng uages an d Theology, h·e took charge of a mission in Lincolnshi re which the Navvy Mission Society had started for th e benefit of 3,ooo navvies engaged on railway extenston. In r88z he was ordained deacon at Lichfield , and in r883 priest. His first curacy was a t Christ Church, Stafford. After two years he moved to Holy Trinity with St. Andrew 's, Gravesend, where he was senior curate a nd mission er under the St. Andrew's V/aterside Mission. From there he was appointed in rSSs Wilberforce Missioner for St. Gabriel 's, Newington. In r 8gz he returned to the Thames-side a s vicar of St. John's, vV oolwich, and was in the same year appointed Chapl a in of the training-ship Warspite, a post he greatly enjoyed. Overwork a t Woolwich at the end of

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five years necessitated his taking the country rectory of Cossington, Leicestershire. From there he went to be vicar of Hendon in 1907 and entered upon a notable Âˇi ncumbency of twenty-one years, which coincided with the envelopment of his large parish in Greater London. While he was vicar, his parish of Hendon became the mother of four new parishes. His help in the formation of these new parishes, his work in carrying out the enlargement of his own parish church of St. Mary , his preaching, all contributed to make his incumbency a notable one. THOMAS HENRY KETT. The Rev. Thomas Henry Kett, B.A., Rector of St. Paul's , Shadwell, E., died in the London Hospital on June 14. He matriculated as a Commoner of the Hall in Michaelmas Term, 18g9, and pmceeded to the degree of B.A. at the end of three years. H e was ordained deacon in 1902 and priest in the following year. He was curate for seventeen years at St. Michael's, Camden Town. In 1919 he was appointed rector of St. Paul's, Shadwell. A.B. E.

UT FAMA EST. The Bishop of Carlisle (Principal 1913-20) and Mrs. Williams have given a silver processional cross to Carlisle Cathedral in thanksgiving for their twenty-five years married life. The cross is 8ft. 6 in. high and is u sed at all Cathedral choral services . All Aularians who were at the Hall with Canon Ollard (VicePrincipal 1903-13) will be pleased to !ea rn that hi s eldest son Peter has been elected a scholar of Eton College. Canon Ollard is a lso to be congratulated on the first volume of Archbishop Herring's Visitation Returns, York Diocese, 1743, in the editing of which h e has had a large share. vVe hope to review this in the next issue of the Magazine. Professor Hodgson (Vice-Principal 1914-19) with Mrs. Hodgson, Brigicl, and Christopher, paid his first visit to England thi s summer since taking up his post at the Central Theological Seminary, New York. He stayed in Oxford during July. He is to b e congratulated on his book And vVas Made J\l[an, an introduction to the study of the Gospels, and on his essay on The Incarnation contributed to Essays on the Trinity and the Incarnation, edited by Dr. A. E. J. Rawlinson (Longmans, Green & Co.).

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Professor E. G. R. Waters is to be congratulated on his scholarly edition of The Anglo-Norman Voyage of St. Brendan, by Benedeit, which the Clarendon Press has recently published. We are very glad that the Rev. J. VI. C. Wand, Dean and Fellow of Oriel, has been brought into closer connexion with the Hall by his appointment as Lecturer in Theology. He is to be congratulated on his study of The Development of Sacramenta/ism (Methuen). vVe hope to review it in the next issue of the Magazine. The Rev. D. C. Barker was ordained deacon by the Bishop of London on Sunday, December 23 , to St. James the Great, Bethnal Green, E.z. The Rev. K. C. Bickerdike, !VI. C., has been appointed Rector of St. Paul's Shadwell. He is to be congratulated on his book, The Church and the Boy Outside, published by Messrs. Wells, Gardner and Darton. Mr. H. A. Blair has been appointed to the Colonial Administrative Service; Gold Coast. He contracted appendicitis soon after his arrival at Accra and had to undergo an operation, but we are glad to learn thathe has made a good recovery. When last heard of, he was at Yendi in the Northern Territory. The Rev. J. W. Blair was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Carlisle in the Chapel at Rose Castle on vVhit-Sunday, to Cleator Moor. The Rev. J. Boultbee has been appointed Vicar of.St. Luke's, Vvolverhampton. The Rev. W . L. Bunce has been appointed priest-in-charge of St. John's, Caversham. J. E. A. Bye has been appointed to the Colonial Administrative Service, Fiji Islands. The Rev. W. R . M. Chaplin, vvho has been at Ely Theological College, was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Carlisle on December 23, to St. James's, Barrow-in-Furness. Mr. A. R. Clark was home on leave from Gambia this summer; he spent a few days in Hall in the last week of the Long Vacation . Mr. W. W. R. Clotworthy has been appointed to a housemastership at the Royal Masonic (Junior) School. Mr . S. Cox has been appointed an assistant master at Hertford Grammar School. The Rev. P. Cunningham has been appointed Rector of Compton with Shawford, near \iVinchester, and Rural Dean of Winchester. The Rev. I. Evans has been appointed ReCtor of Nolton, Pembrokeshire.

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The Rev . Canon d ' Arcy is to be congratulated on the progress he has ma de with the resto ration of \t\Torksop Priory. He is at present engaged in rebuilding the south transept. . The Rev. E. S . Ferris is curate-in-charge of All Saints' Chapel, Lockport, New York. The Rev. R. St. J. Fisher was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Blackburn in Blackburn Cathed ral on St. Matthew's Day, to Fleetwood Parish Church. The Rev. A. J. Foster was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Carlisle on D ecember 23, to St. J a mes 's, Barrow-in-Furness. The Rev. Canon Gilbanks is assured of our sincere congratulations on 路 his completion of forty-five years as Rector of Great Orton, near Carlisle. On Saturday, September I, a special service was held in the Norman church of Great Orton to celebrate this event. In the course of the service the Bishop of Carlisle dedicated a prayer desk, given by th e parishion ers, and a chalice, given by Canon Gilbanks . The Ven. J . Godber has been appointed, by way of an exchange of livings, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Twickenham. The Rev. W. D. Gower-Jones was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Manchester on St. Thomas's Day, to Christ Church, Moss Side, Manchester. Mr. G. E. H. Grigson is in London on the staff of The Yorkshire Post. The R ev. ]. H. D. Grinter has b een appointed Rector of lngworth, nea r Norwich. The Rev. W. L. Gu yler is at St. Peter's Parsonage, Kirkland Lake, Ontario. The Ven. F . W. M. Hamerton has t路etit路ed from the Archdeaconry of Bombay, and has been appointed R ector of Stanwick, near vVellingborough, Northants, on the presenta tion of the Lord Chancellor. The Rev. L. vV. Hart has been appointed Rector of Smallburgh, near Norwich. The Rev. R. H. H awki ns, Vicar of St. George's, Barrow-inFurnes s, has been appointed Rural Dean of Barrow. Mr. R. L. Hill is to be congratulated on proceeding to the degree of B. Litt., and on the acceptance of his thesis, To1路yism. and the Peo ple , r8]z -r846, for publication by Messrs. Constable. H e has gone out to Atbara on the staff of the Sudanese Governm ent Railways and Steamers. The Rev . A. Hill-Jones has been appointed Rector of Steppingley, Beds.

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Mr. B. C. W. Johnson was promoted to -the rank of Major (Territorial Army) in January. The Rev. W. K. Knight-Adkin, O.B.E., is to be congratulated on his appointment as Chaplain of the Fleet. He takes up this important appointment on January 25, 1929. The Rev. R. N. Lawson has been a ppointed Rector of H a rlaston, near Tamworth, Staffs. The R ev. A. E. Maund has accepted the office of priest-incharge of St. Alban's, a mission church in the parish of SS. Ma1·y and John, Cowley, Oxford. Mr. H. J. Mills has been appointed ari assistant m as ter at Kii1g's School, Peterborough. The Rev. A. R. H. Morris has been appointed priest-in-cha rge of St. Barnabas, Caversham. The Rev. E. C. Mortimer, Vicar of Chittlehampton, has been appointed Rural Dean of South Molton, Devon. The R ev . A. MeL. Murray has resigned the Oversea Secretaryship of the S. P. G., and has been appointed Rector of Ousby, Cumberland. The Rev. A. C. Parr was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Newcastle on Trinity Sunday, to · Benwell, near Newcastle. The Rev. J. S. Payne has been appointed Vicar of East Anstey and Rector of West Anstey, near Dulverton,. Devon, on the presentation of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich. Mr. R . Phillips is an assistant master at the Boys' Modern School, Luton. The R ev. C. A. Flaxton has been appointed assistant priest at St. Martin's, Salisbury. The Rev. E. Reid , Rector of St. James', Exeter, after twentyfour years of continuous work in that city, has been appointed Vicar of Harberton, near Totnes, on the p1·esentation of the Dean and Chapter of .Exeter. The Rev. F. D. M'. Richards was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Gloucester on December 23, to St. Mark's, Gloucester. The Rev. B. G. Richings has been appointed Vicar of St. Kew, near W adebridge, Cornwall. The Rev. F. N. Robatha n has been a ppointed to a Minor Canonry in St. Paul's Cathedral. Mr. H. C. Robertson, M.C ., of the National Savings Committee, has been transferred from Lincoln to Halifax. He is to be congratulated on the birth of a daughter on February 15. The Rev. H. J. A. Rusbridger was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Exeter on Whit-Sunday, to St. Simon's, Plymouth.

ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE Mr. E. G. Rowe has been appointed to the Colonial Administrative Service, Tanganyika Territory. He is at present stationed at Tanga. The Rev. E. Royle was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Southwark on Trinity Sunday, to St. Mark's, East Street, Walworth, the parish that is attached to the Wellington College Mission. Mr. R. Sayle is to be congratulated on his appointment as Headmaster of Coleshill Grammar School. The Rev. G. H. Sharpe has been appointed Vicar of St. Barnabas, Rainbow Hill, Worcester. The Rev. F. C. L. Shaw路 is a curate at SS. Peter and Paul, Teddington. The Rev. R. Shepheard has been appointed Rector of Maidford, near Towcester. The Rev. R. C. Shuttleworth has been appointed Vicar of St. Clement's, Sheepcar, Leeds, on the presentation of the Bishop of Ripon. The Rev. F. A. Smalley is at the N. China Language School, Peiping. Mr. C. D. Smith is with 路Lewis's at Manchester training for a managerial post. The Rev. P. S. Sprent was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Southwark on December 23, to St. Margaret's, Streatham Hill. Mr. W. H. Taylor, who is in the路 Tropical African Educational Service, is on the staff of the Arab School, Mombasa. Mr . N. B. Trenham is to be congratulated on his marriage to Miss Margaret Lorain Noble, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Seth Noble, on August 29 at Glendale, California. Mr. H. C. Trevor has been appointed organist of St. Peter's , Eaton Square. Mr. I. F. F. \Vebb has left vVells Theological College and is school-mastering for one year at New Brighton, Cheshire, prior to ordination. Mr. W. C. Webber was back on leave in January before going to Minatitlan, Veracruz, Mexico, as an assistant chemist on the staff of the Mexican Eagle Oil Company. Mr. F. B. Wesley is an assistant master at Humphrey Perkens School, Barrow-on-Soar, Loughboroug h. 路 The Rev. E. S. Williams is to be congratulated on his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Lindsay Anderson, daughter of the Rev. A. M. and Mrs . Anderson, on December 21, 1927, at the Church of Scotland Mission, Kidugala, Tanganyika Territory.

ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE The Rev. R. B. \iVhite is to be congratulated on the birth of a son on August 14. The Rev. P. \IV. \iVorster has been appointed Vicar of St. Mary's, Northampton, on the presentation of the Bishop of Peterborough. The Rev. R._ F. Yates was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Derby on December 23, to Holy Trinity, Ilkeston. We have gathered the following particulars concerning those Aularians who have gone dovvn since the last issue of the MagaZine:G. H. Aldis has been appointed an assistant master at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate. N. K. Brownsill has been 'coaching' before going to Cuddesclon College. J. H. T. Clarke has been appointed an assistant master at Exeter School. D. K. Daniels, who has been appointed to the Tropical African Administrative Service, is at Arusha, Tanganyika Territory. N. Dawson has been appointed an assistant master at Beverley Grammar School. H. B. Linton has been appointed an assistant master at the Methodist College, Belfast. M. A. McCanlis has been appointed an assistant master at Cheltenham College. D. H. J. Marchant has been appointed an assist~nt master at East Sheen Secondary School. F. G. Reeves has been appointed an assistant master at Ludlovv Grammar School. P. J. Sandison has been appointed to the Sudanese Political Service and sailed for Khartoum in December. V. E. H. Card has been appointed an assistant master at Charney Hall, Grange-over-Sands. J. D. Fox is at Cuddesdon College. \i\1. }. Lancaster is at Ripon Hall. S. D. Mangan has been appointed an assistant master at Epworth College, Rhyl. R. S. Orchard has joined Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Manchester. H. W. Palmer is at Cuddesdon College. F. G. Phillips has been appointed an assistant master at Chichester Grammar School. P. Young has joined Messrs. Dunlop & Company, Birmingham.

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R. D. Linton is on a course at the Tropical College of Agriculture, Trinidad. During the course of the year the following Aular1ans have been ordained : Deacons: J. \1\1. Blair (Carlisle), E. Royle (Southwark), H. J. A. Rusbridger (Exeter), E. C. Parr (Newcastle), R. St. J. Fisher (Blackburn), vV. R. 1\1. Chaplin and A. J. Foster (Carlisle), D. C. Barker (London), \iV. D. Gower-Jones (Manchester), F. D. M. Richards (Gloucester), R. F. Yates (Derby). Priests: R. R. Nattrass (London), A. B. Dex (Blackburn), B. P. Mohan (Guildford).

SOCIETIES, 1928. THE DEBATING SOCIETY. HILARY TERM, rgz8.

P1'esident-S. A. C. DrcKINS. Vice-President-A. W. HENDERSON. Secretary-]. A.

SMITH.

The Debating Society suffered from its usual complaint during this term of the academic year, a shortage of numbers in its devotees. In spite of this drawback the usual high tone of the Society was maintained and, if anything, the standard of oratory was a little higher than that of the preceding term. Mention is especially clue to gentlemen in their first year for good attendance and the consistency with which they made speeches at nearly every meeting. A remarkable financial acumen was displayed in ' private business.' Possibly this was in part due to the heroic efforts made by other clubs of the Hall to effect an economy in every conceivable item. But to the Debating Society alone honour is due for devising a scheme whereby a certain accessory, to wit, a cigarette box, will be acquired without outlay by the Society. Great interest was shown in the movements and acting of the officers. On more than one occasion, the Grand Patriarch, P. J. Sandison, was hard pressed with questions as to every sphere of his official activities. It is only fair to add that all queries were answered in a perfectly satisfactory manner. The only cause for regret that can be found in Sandison's term of office was a rash promise made by him to the effect that he would endeavour to grow a beard every Wednesday. A meeting was arranged to which two luminaries of the Union Society were invited, Mr. D. M. Foot (Balliol), President, and Mr.

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E . A. G. Shackleton Bailey (Worcester), Librarian. At this meeting, in view of the approaching vacancy, a Principal of the H all was elected according t o the ancient custom. The existence of such a custom was proven to everyone's satisfaction at the commencement of the proceedings by the Grand Patriarch, several apt quotations from a certain recent and famous publication in connection with the Hall providing the basis of his proof. For the office there were proposed : Lord Birkenhead by Mr. Foot, Canon BullockWebster by Mr. Shackleton Bail ey, and the Mayor of Barrow by our member of that locality. After a lively and interesting debate, Lord Birkenhead was elected Principal. It is rumoured that he has been duly informecl, but declined the honour on the score of unworthiness. At the last meeting of the term officers for Michaelmas Term were elected , A. W . Henderson President, J. A. Smith Vice-President, and H. F. Green Secretary. S.A.C.D. MrcHAELMAS TERM.

Pres ident~A. Vice-President~

SMITH.

HEN DERSON .

Secreta-ry~H.

GREEN.

The term's businessÂˇ has been characterised by unusual solemni.ty; private business has been brief; no votes of censure were moved against the officers ; there were no farcical meetings ; we did not even hold a debate with one of the women's coll eges . The reason for the Jack of variety was not clue t o failure of interest, but rather _to the keenness of the debates on motions in public business. The attendance was uniformly high; it never fell below twenty except on the night of November sth, when the attractions of the riotous Cornmarket left only sixteen members in the House; yet of these sixteen, no less than thirteen spoke. Fittingly enough, the hi ghest att endance of the term, thi rty-four, was at the following debate. This was easily the best debate of the term ; the motion was on the nationalisation of charities and public services. Fifteen members spoke, all the speeches were well thought out and argued, and although a wide variety of view vvas expressed, the subject was never obscured by verbiage. The motion was eventually lost by twenty votes to thirteen. The Society received excellen t support from the freshmen. Twelve freshmen spoke in deba te during the term, and the quality of their speaking was higher than that of any other year I can remember.

ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE At the last meeting of the term, officers were elected for the Hilary Term: R. H. Thorne was elected President, H. F. Green Vice-President, and E. R. Welles Secretary. A.W.H.

THE ESSAY SOCIETY. HILARY TERM, Ig28.

President-B.

R usHBY-SMITH.

At the first meeting of the term A. vV. H enderson gave a vivid description of Barrow-in-Fumess, commenting on the life of the inhabitants and their partiality to political struggÂˇles. N ext week K . A. Muir claimed a place for Mr. Humbert vVolfe among the greatest poets. R. H . Thorne drew the attention of the Society to the 'Greatest Revolution' threatening mod ern civilisation, which was caused by the rise to importance of the unintellectual classes. H e suggested a remedy in the methods of eugenist philosophy. Brewster Morgan later persuaded the Society that the Renaissan ce owed little to the influ ence of Byzantine and Greek culture. The originality of the movement was to be found in the vernacular a nd creative literature of the \1\Test, and was expressed in painting and architecture. Mr. D. Ogg, Fellow of New College, read a delightful essay a bout \Nilliam Prynne, w hose life was vividly described with much gentle satÂˇcasm and hum our. G. vV. Thornhill ended the term by trying to convert the Society to a belief in ' the amazing genius' of 0. Henry, and in the depth and understanding of human nature which characterised his writings. At this meeting vV. Johnson was elected President for the Michaelmas T erm. B.J . R .-S . MrcHAELMAS TERM .

President-W .

JoHNSON.

The papers read this term were recapitulatory rather than provocative. No essayist prophesied the imminent downfall of society, or discovered in the past any universal panacea for present ills. But if somewhat lacking in the spirit of adventure, the papers put before the Society gave interesting topics for discussion. vVitb L. vV. Hanson we lifted up our eyes to the hills and learnt the creed of a mountaineer. He set little store by the rom a ntic cult of the eighteenth century, and declared that it was the scientists who really discovered mountains. B. M. Forrest rated the modern conception of athletics higher than that of the ancients, but it was agreed that prin ciples of fair play could hardly be expected in

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Homeric contests when the position was likely to be reversed at any moment by a deus ex machina. After F. R. H. MunÂˇay had traced the development of the Don Juan legend from its Spanish source, the Society was privileged to hear a stimulating paper by Mr. A. J. Cary, who championed the cause of modern schools of art. Discussion waned when Mr. Cary produced many reproductions of the works of modern artists, and the Society gave itself over to their appreciation . The Society went a long way with J. N . C. Holland in his enthusiasm for Savoy Opera, but showed itself loath to believe in the existence to any serious extent of an intermediate sex. Thus the discussion on G. E. }anson-Smith 's pa per was largely hypothetical, but he succeeded in showing that the freemasonry of the sexes which the 'urning' enjoyed had important artistic and social implications. At the final meeting J. M. Knowles voiced the spirit of the new Germany as reflected in the life and oul:look of Kiel, 'the Reel City.' G. E. Janson-Smith was elected President for Hil a ry Term. W.J.

JOHN OLDHAM SOCIETY. HILARY TERM,

President-F. G.

RoBERTS .

rgz8.

S ecretary-G. E .

}ANSON-SMITH.

The Society began its reading with an excursion into the next world as interpreted by Mr. Sutton Vane in' Outward Bound.' The journey left the Society impressed rather than perturbed, but by the next week awe had so far departed that members could enjoy the tilting mundane wit of Mr. Noel Coward in' Hay Fever.' The complications of 'The Way of the World' rather puzzled those members unaccustomed to the crowded incident of Congreve, but all were able to admire the conversational grace of Millamant. The readings-of Housman's 'Prunella' and Georg Kaiser's 'Gas' were not quite so successful, as the Society is not easily attracted to the fantastic or inclined to full modernism . At the final meeting of the term 'The Liars,' by Henry Arthur Jones, was read. A marked feature of the session was g-reat improvement in reading and interpretation of parts. For while the Society frowns on declamation and almost prohibits gesture, it seeks i:o bring into its pleasant evenings something of the spirit of the play as the author imagined it. During the term the John Oldham Society became affiliated to the British Drama League . F.G.R.

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President-G. E.

JANSON-SMITH.

Secretary-K. A ..

MuiR.

The Society has once again avoided Scandinavian plays, but has read the usual Elizabethan, this term 'The Knight of the Burnin g Pestle.' The heroic ' Cyrano ' was a n effective contrast to the unheroic ' H a iry Ape·, ' by Eugene O'Neill; Masefield's ghostly 'Melloney Holtspur ' contrasted with the fleshly ' Our Betters,' whil e the brill iant a nd thoughtful ' Madras House' was a suitable foil to the funn y bu t thoughtless farce, 'Nothing but the Truth .' The offi.c ers elected for the Hilary Term were : President, K. A. Muir; Secretary, A. vV. H enderson . K.A.M. THE MUSICAL SOCIETY. HILARY TERM, 1928.

P1·esident- THE

CHAPLAIN.

S ecre tary- R.

T ·reasurer----<F. G ..

C. THOMAS.

PHILLIPS.

During this term the Society met four tim es at intervals of a for tnight, a nd, with the exception of the third meeting, th e attendance proved that it was both flouri sh ing and popular. At the first meeting of the term Mr. R . J acq ues, Organist o f The Qu een's Coll ege, addressed the Society on the s ubject of Church Music. He emphasised the importance of con gregation al singing in all churches, and said that many a bad tun e was justifiable, owin g to its popularity, even though it did not necessaril y g ive mu ch chance to the choir. He gave variou s examples of tunes which were suitable either for the choir or for the congregation, a nd concluded a most interesting evening with the second movem ent of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. On February 8, Messrs. Acott's once again provided a gramophone concert in t he Dining H all , which was designed to show the perfecti on reached in the new electrical recording process , and to enable the Soci ety to hear items which had only recently been recorded. At the thi rd m eeting of the term the Organist, T. V. Nicholson , read a paper entitled ' The Elizabethan Madrigal,' in which he endeavoured to show that in its own sphere it was the hi g h-watermark of the music o f tha t period, and that it formed the connectin g link between polypho nic and mod ern music. He hoped that the interest shown in the m ad rigal at the present time would cause a revival of the study of polyphonic mu sic.

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On March 7, an informal musical evening was held, by the President's kind permission, in his room . The p rogramm e, though varied, did not include a dance band, which had been somewhat popular the year before. F . H. Trott and S .D. Mangan gave piano solos, the Secretary sai1g some songs, but the most popular items were the sea-shanties, in which the verses were sung by volunteers. It was the most enjoyable evening of its kind that the Society has yet held. T.V.N. MrcHAELMAS TERM.

President-THE

Secretary-M.

CHAPLAIN .

Treast~rer-N.

P HINT.

PERRY-GORE.

We set out with great enthusiasm at the b eg·inning of the term, and held a gramophone concert in the J. C. R. on October 3 r ; we have recollections of a vet·y pleasant evening, and our thanks are clue to Messrs. Acott 's for the loan of the gramophone and records. W e had hoped for an operetta at the end of the term, but we were unable to find a ny wo rk of a c ha racter suitable to the particular · talent available in the H all. Vve still hope, however, that we shall be able to construct a programme of som e description, and g ive an entertainm ent towards the middle of next term . M. J .V.P.

THE MAKERS SO CIETY. HILARY TERM, 1928.

P1·esident-C. R. HrscocKs.

Secr etary-W.

JoHNSON.

At the beginnin g of the term, the Society survived _a severe self-examination and emerged the stronger for it. Three other meetings were held. Mr. A. L. Howse, of All Souls, read a paper entitled ' Politics and the Younger Generation ,' delightful for its combination of scholarship, vigorous radicalism, and several supremely good literary passag·es . Brewster Morgan read a very attractive ' Stage Hi story of H amlet,' w hich dealt with the productions of the play and the interpretation s of the c haracter on both sides of the Atlantic, and left the impression that few people could have dealt so well with the same subj ect. The las t meeting was devoted to the Magazine Reading. Th e Society sat round the fire, in semi-gloom, and listened to the reading of about a dozen original and anonymous compositions. At the end of the evening, a round game was indulged in at the expense of the authors' identities. C.R.H.

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President-W.

JoHNSON.

Secretary-A. W.

HENDERSON.

Still somewhat shaken by their activ.ities of the previous session, the Makers this term deferred any further creative efforts and settled themselves comfortably at the feet of eminent men. At the beginning of the term the President confronted the Society with a sheaf of apologetic letters from literary celebrities who were unable to address it. Vllhile having some value as a collection of autographs, they promised nothing more tangible in the way of entertainment for the Society. Fortunately, later requests were more successful, and we had th-e honour of entertaining two distinguished Oxford men. At the first meeting the Rev. Dr. A. J. Carlyle denounced biography , as 'the most tiresome form of mendacious fiction,' and proceeded to sketch its development, delighting his hearers by many lively excursions and personal sallies. He eventually decided that good biog-raphy depended upon the bold selection of details. It is not essential to know that General Gordon occasionally drank too much, but it is eo:sential to know that Florence Nightingale hurried Herbert Spencer into his grave. At the second meeting we had the privilege of hearing Sir Michael Sadler, Master of University College, on 'Sandford and Merton, and its author Thomas Day.' Sir Michael told us with unfailing humour and charm of Day's earnest pursuit of matrimonial bliss, and of the two unhappy foundlings whom he attempted to train in the hope that one might be eventually fitted to become his wife. The name of this simple, credulous man lives in the book which he wrote for children, and in it, as Sir Michael pointed out, we see him playing with high explosive, nothing less than the theories which helped to make the French Revolution. The ex-President, in expressing to Sir Michael the Society's appreciation and thanks, voiced the general feeling when he said that it was the most delightful paper he had heard. At a business meeting A. vV. Henderson was elected President and K. A. Muir Secretary for the ensuing term.

W.J. THE ORDINANDS' SOCIETY.

rgz8. Secretary-IN.

HILARY TERM,

Chairman-N. K.

BROWNSELL.

J. LANCASTER.

The meetings of Âˇ this Society in the Hilary Term, with N. K. Brownsell as chairman, were highly successful. Although still

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m its infancy, it is generally felt that the Society ts a regular feature of the life of the Hall. Two special services, and a corporate Communion on the last Friday of term, were held, and there was a ve r y satisfac tory attendance. Th e Society met four times on Sunday evenings to hear papers of a very varying nature. Our Vice-President, the Chaplain, read a paper on ' Religion and Art'; K. M. Bishop one on 'Evangelicalism'; the Rev. Canon Streeter, F ellow of Queen' s, one entitled' The Cl ergy' ; a nd J. N. Keeling dealt with the subject of 'Marriage and Divorce.' It was very pl easingÂˇ to note that at every meeting the discussion had to be curtailed owing to lack of time. For the next two terms J. N. Keelin g was elected Chairman and L. P. Burnett Secretary. W.J.L.

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Chairman-

KEELING.

Secretary-L. P .

BuRNETT.

The first meeting of the term was ori. Sunday, M ay 6, when the D ean of Ori el, the Rev. J. vV. C. Wand, read a pape r on 'Sacram entalism . ' The second meeting was on June 3, when H . W. Palmer read a p aper on ' Reunion of the Catholic Church.' Bot,h these meetings were well attended and were followed by interesting disc ussion s . J.N.K.

MICHAELMAS TE R M.

The first meeting was on October 2 I, when the Principal, the new Presid ent of the Society, was given a hearty welcome. A very satisfactory number of freshmen was prese nt. The President gave some very useful advice to ordinancls, and his remarks were much appreciated. The second meeting was on November 4, when the R ev. L. V\! . Grensted, F ellow and Chaplain of Unive rsity College, spok e o n ' Psychology and Religion.' This paper proved to be one of the most interesting since the foundation ~f the Society, and was followed by a lively discussion. On November r8, L. C. Baker read an interesting papetÂˇ on 'The Church and Social Problems'; and, on Decemher 2, D. E. M. G. Jones gave a paper on ' Asceticism.' During the year corporate Communions and devotional services have been held in Chapel, and the Society expresses its gratitude to the Chaplain for his active support of the Society. J.N.K.

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CLUBS, 1928. THE BOAT CLUB. HILARY TERM, 1928.

Captain--B.

RusHBY-SMITH.

Secretary-R. E.

'NALKER.

During the first week of practice the Torpid showed every signs of settling down into a hard-working crew, but unfortunately , owing to a strained wrist·, G. M. Mercer was forced to r etire from the river for two weeks, while E. P. Carter was unable to row owing to illness. Thus when full training· bega n the crew had not made the prog·ress expected. However, by the time the races were to be rowed, the members of the crew had become sufficiently dissatisfied with their past performances to develop an attitude of determination which was to be of great advantage . For the last ten clays of training Mr. H . N. Hodel (Keble) took over the coaching. H e was successful in instilling into the crew ideas of work, length and racing capability. Thus prevented from a,ny over-confidence by their earlier discouragement, the crew developed the s pi1·it of determination necessary for all suc~essful racing. The: races were rowed in splendid weather conditions. For the first four days the crew rowed behind University II; on the first day they mad e their best attempt at bumping, coming within halfa-length by the 0 . U. B.C. By the third day the c rew seemed to have suffered from their unsuccessful attempts and were unable to keep their distance, but Wadham II, who were following, never showed any signs of catching up. On the fourth clay, however, University II bumped Magdalen II, and we rowed over well ahead of \Vadham II. On the fifth day the · prospect of bumping Magdalen II roused the crew to great efforts; they rowed with better rhythm and cleaner blade-work, and responded magnif1cently to the guns; as a result they bumped Magdalen II by the Stone. On .the last clay we were again successful in bumping Christ Church II, cox executing a most skilful bump. The vast improvement m ade by the crew during the races had a well-earned rewa rd in two bumps to its credit. CHARACTERS OF THE TORPID.

Bow, H. E . PEGG, rost. 10lbs. Made quite a satisfactory bow. His chief faults were a weakness of the wrists and a refusal to keep his h ead still, which, combined with a c rooked swing, made his work less effective. He was quite a good time-keeper and rowed very pluckily in the races.

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No. 2, P. S. SMITH, I r st. 3lbs. He was handicapped by weak backmuscles; thus he always rowed with a rounded back in a somewhat aw kward manner, 路tending to row too mu ch with his arms. But he tried hard and worked 'h ard. No. 3, A. C. HoRDERN, ro st. g lbs . Tended to over-reach and was rather unsteady on his feet; he was inclined to get agitated when rowing. H e was, howeve r, prepared to row himself all out m a race . No. 4, G. M. MERCER, 12 st. 6lbs. He improved a great deal on last year's form. His chief fault was a failure to drop his hands, together with a slowness during the first part of the swing forw a rd which caused him to swing out of time with the rest of the crew. He had, however, cured himself of the tendency to row deep, and moved a great pile of water. No. 5, A. W. HENDERSON, 13 st. 2lbs. His original and cheery attitude made him generally popular. H e found great difficulty in getting his body squeezed down and also could not drop his oar sufficiently at the finish. He pu lled his weight, however, a nd was one of the hardest and m ost conscientious workers I have ever seen. No. 6, lVI. J. V. PRINT, I2 st. 7lbs. About the best oar in the boat; he pulled his weight, was firm on his feet and rowed with a s traight back. But he tended to grip his oar too tightly and skied his blade.路 He rowed well in the races. No. 7, N. A. PERRY-GORE, II st. I lb. He was too erratic to be a good No. 7, and was very heavy-handed, while his swingforward was uncertain and he tended to crouch . But he did his best to back up stroke. Stroke, E. L. G. PowYs, I2 st. IJlbs. He possessed a stroke's temperament, being sensitive and enthusiastic, with some ideas a bout driving a crew. He was seve rely handicapped by an inability to maintain a good rhythm, and rowed jerkily instead of smoothly and precisely. He worked very hard for a stroke, and showed up well in the later days of racing. Cox, J. N . KEELING, 8 st. 6lbs. A cox who u sed his commonsense and possessed a rema1路kable control over the rudder-strings. He was sufficiently independent to hold his own with any membe1路 of the crew. He kept both his judgment and his nerve in the races. TRINITY TERM . The Eight came up a week early as usual. During the last fort~ight ofthe Hilary Term Mr. H . N. Hodel and Mr. H . A. Blair had coached p rospective Eights, so during the first two weeks of t raining, with Mr. R. Bone, of H e rtford, as coach, we made fair progress. Our coach gave us plenty of wo rk and long pieces of paddling which included a long journey down to Radley. When full training began Mr. N. H. K. A. Coghill, Exeter, took over the coaching and set out to m ake of us a hard-working c rew capable of a high rate of striking. \Vhen we kept our rhythm and length .we seemed quite capable of going really fast. In the races after the first night we showed quite good form and had every

ST. EDMUND H ALL MAGAZINE chance of doing well until R. E. Walker, at No. 3, was forced to retire from the boat on the fifth day owing路 to mumps; J. E. T. Phillips, who came iri as substitute, rowed very pluckily, but the change upset the morale of the crew, who had been together all through training. The first night was memorable because we made a bump and were bumped. Lincoln II, the boat in front , were fouled by a bump ahead and we rowed round, cox not realising what had happened and failing to ' easy us.' The crew naturally became a little flustered, and University II, who were quite a fast crew, bumped us by the 0. U.B.C. It was decided at a committee meeting of the 0. U. B. C., held after the race, to row the race again at noon next day. On Friday we 路 were successful in catching Lincoln I I after a minutes' rowing, and so s tarted in the afternoon behind Merton II, whom we bumped just by the Free Ferry, thus making two bumps in one day, a notable event in the annals of the Club. On the Saturday we just missed bumping Queen's II in the Gut, and were un~ able to catch them again before the finish. The next night, however, we made certain of the bump , and caught them along the Green Bank. On Tuesday we started behind Wadham II with every chance of getting路 them, had not No. 3 been taken ill; as a result we rowed through, never getting within a length. The last night the crew were a little nervous. University II were behind us again and wei路e rowing rather well; and try as hard as we could , cox washing them off and steering away from them along the Green Bank, they caught us just before the O.U.B.C. H o:w ever, we had ga ined two places after a somewhat varied series of mishaps. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CREW. On the whole there was plenty of hard work, but its effect was lessened owing to unsteadiness over the stretcher. We were quite a heavy crew, and as a result rather ponderous and unbalanced' and somewhat inchned to be short : once we could ' get on our feet' and keep it long, the boat travelled well. Bow, N. A. PERRY-GORE, I I st. o lbs. He would not drop his hands at the finish, tended to hunch his shoulders coming forward, and skied his blade just before going in : his slide work was uncontrolled, but he was worth his place in the boat and improved considerably during practice . No. z, H. E. PEGG, ro st. ro lbs. Hi s faults in the Torpid were exaggera ted on a slide. He swung out of the boat, tend ed to ride upon his slide, and did not understand the proper way to use it at

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the beginning of the stroke. His blade work was at times quite good. Like bow , he s uffered from inexperience but improved during practice. No. 3, R. E. WALKER, I I s t. I2lbs. He rowed with a somewhat peculiar style : his finish was the weakest point in his stroke; this was caused by an exaggerated effort to get his hands away. \iVhen coming forward h e allowed his slide to come up too suddenly a nd tended to overreach. However , he did use his legs and rowed hard in a ve ry determined fashion, sending clown a good puddle. No. 4, E. ,L. G. Powvs , I I st. 7lbs. He tried so seriously and with such concentration that sometimes when correcting one fault he fell immediately into another. As an oarsman he was erratic and n ervous. He sent down . a huge puddle, due to a sudden snatch at the wate1Âˇ at the beginning of the stroke; he was smart with his hands but slow with his body at the recovery. Thus his sense of rhythm was not good. When he tried ha rd he could control his slide, which usually travelled at varying speeds. But he improved and at tim es rowed quite nicely : he rowed Âˇvery hard in the rnces . No. 5, A. W. HENDERSON, I2 st. II lbs. Conscientious, hardworking and keen, he was an asset to the crew. H e was physically incapable of getting a long swing forward, and thus nea rly always hunched his shoulders. A little ponderous a nd inclined to be heavy-handed, he was slow into th e water. He made, however, a good No. s, for he was quite steady. No. 6, M. J. V. PRINT, I2 st. 7lbs. He worked very h ard, but he had contracted faults which he found hard to get rid of. His worst offence was skying his blade, which tended to lose all the effect of an otherwise good b eginning. He was inclined to rush forward, and when rowing hard tended to stiffen up. His aim should be precision of movement, with g reater suppleness and economy of effort . No. 7, B. J. RuSHBY-SMITH, I 1 st. glbs. Was inclined to hurry forward, but cured himself of a tendency to overreach. H e rowed with a fair ly long swing, but pulled his stroke through in two pieces; thus his finish was inclined to be a little weak. Kept time fairly well and b acked up stroke. Stroke, W. V. BRELSFORD, r I st. o lbs. About th e best oar in the boat. Very much of a stylist, he would have been better if h e had been quicker with his hands a nd had striven to obtain more length. His rhythm was sometimes good, but even the best stroke has difficulty in holding back a crew w ho hurry forward. He had much _stamina, though he was not always successful in driving the crew 111 a race. Cox, J. N. KEELING, 8 st. 10 lbs . . The error on the first night was not r eally his fault . He executed three good bumps and used his head when in a melee; he made th e best use of his good knowledge of the river, but was a little inclined to use too much rudder. The gratitude of all members of the Club goes to the coaches, Mr. H. N. Hodd for the Torpid, and Mr. R. Bone and Mr. N. H. K. A.. Coghill for the Eight. We owe very much of our success to their enthusiasm and good advice. B. J. R. -S .

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Captain-R. E. WALKER. S ecre tary-M. ]. V . PRINT. We began the year well by persuading almost all the freshmen to come and see how they liked the river, and although some made visits of but short duration, we were able to put on four Mawdesley Fours, in spite of the depredations of other Clubs. These crews were all well up to standard, and the final produced a very good race-too good, doubtless, for the performers themselves, for it resulted in a dead-heat, necessitating a re-row. In this race, 'A' crew pulled away rather easily, the losers b eing obviously tired out, though stroke tried hard to bring them on. The winning crew was:-

Bow路. E. C. R. Hadfield . 2. A. F. Colborn. 3路 C. I. Record. Str. P. S. Smith. Cox. B. Mi. Forrest. Practice for the Torpid .began directly afterwards and continued in strenuous manner until the end of term, spirits being continually buoyed up by the magic thought of ' slides next term.' Congratulations are due to J. N. Keeling for coxing a Trial Eight for some time. R.E.W.

Captain~H.

THE CRICKET CLUB. B. LINTON. Sec路r etary-K. C.

OLIVER.

The Cricket Club enjoyed a very successful season: of the fourteen matches played, seven were won, only two lost, and the remainder drawn. The batting was very reliable throughout the season, and the two defeats were sustained after we had declared with only half our wickets down. R. C. Thomas and C. F. Cardale were a brilliant opening pair, and could g路enerally be relied upon to give the side a very good start. D. K. Daniels played some fin e innings, and on his day was the best bat on the side. On the few occasions when the opening ba tsmen failed, the team proved itself to be no Manx cat, W. Johnson, J. N. C. Holland, A. H. Mead and W. W. E. Giles all playing some useful innings. The best performances were Daniels's century against Hertford, and a magnificent stand of 135 by the first wicket pair against Dean Close School. The bowling, though rather weak at th e beginning of th e season, improved with every match. Once he had become accustomed to the English wickets, W. W. E. Giles bowled really well, and at the end of .the season was very dangerous. [K. C . Oliver's clever bowling also proved of the greatest value to the side.-Eo. J

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The change bowlers were rather unreliable, but Johnson bowled well on several occasions, and A. J. Foster made a welcome return at the end of the season. Daniels, wh-en he played, proved invaluable as a bowler ahcl greatly strengthened the attack. The fielding of the whole team was consistently good, very few catches being dropped, and the ground fielding maintaining quite a high standard. Especia lly good were Daniels, Cardale, Thomas and Mead, while Holland was a very sound wicket-keeper. The whole team played really well together throughout the term, but a great deal of the credit for the success of the season mtl,Â§t be given to the skill and enthusiasm with which H. B. Linton led the side. He could always be relied upon to make runs, while his fielding in the slips set an example for the rest of the team. His skill in managing the bowling went a long way towards covering up the weakness in this department. Colours were awarded- to C. F. Cardale, Vv. vV. E. Giles and J. N. C. Holland. At a meeting of Colours held at the end of the season, K. C. Oliver was elected Captain and C. F. Cardale Secretary. K.C.O. THE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB. HILARY TERM, 1928.

Captain- R. S. 0HCHARD. Secretc~ry-W. JoHNSON. The Hilary Term proved rather disappointing. Our Cup-tie took place against B.N.C., the Cup-holders, early in the term, and, as was feared, we lost. After the Cup-tie a change was noticeable from the keen spirit whi ch had been displayed hitherto, and, as usual, a la rge number of fixtures were scratched. The Secretary, G. vV. Thornhill, unfortunately felt compelled to resign owing to an InJury . W. Johnson was elected in his place. J. A. Smith has played consistently well at serum-half, although his proper place is at forward. A. F. Lee has led the forwards with great ardour, and the pack, though light, has played very hard indeed . vVe were seldom able to field the same three-quarter line on two consecutive occasions, and too often the backs Jacked good combination. At full-back the Secretary has been a tower of strength, his kicking and tackling saving the team on many occasiOns. Colours were awarded this term to A. F. Lee, C. F. Cardale and J. N. C. Holland. At a meeting of Colours, W. Johnson was elected Captain and J . N ; C. Holland Secretary for the ensuing season. R. S. 0 :- Âˇ

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Captain-\N. JoHNSON. Secretary-]. N . C. HoLLAND. \Ve can look back upon fairly successful term. The number of permanent Rugger players is not large, and the general keenness has been shown by the way in which several members of the First Team have turned out in Second XV games. While this has resulted in an excellent Second XV record, and has even given rise amongst our opponents to the legend that the two sides differ only in name, it has at times been a cause of staleness in the First Team. An unfortunate crop of injuries disorganised the team; and we lost several matches by very narrow margins when a little more cohesion would have given us victory. Ori the rare occasions when we did get out a full side we touched really good form. Keble were beaten on their own ground-an achievement probably without precedent in our annals~ and attractive football was played against Merton later in the term. The pack is rather on the light side, and has not been able to give the backs the opportunities they deserve. Thus the return of G. W. Thornhill and M. J. V . Print was particularly opportune: both made good use of their weight, and the former has done excellent spoiling work. A. F. Lee has led the forwards with great vigour, and has been well supported by C. E. Passey and J. P. Thorp, while J. A. Smith's duties Âˇas hooker have not prevented him from playing keenly in the loose. J. R. Ormiston, the only freshman who gained a permanent place in the serum, has done sterling work throughout the term. The spirited play and enthusiasm of the Secretary have been invaluable. \Ne have been fortunate in finding a capable pair of halves. P. S. Hordern gets the ball out well and saves pluckily, but he should talk to his forwards a little more. A. J. Phillips is speedy in attack and kicks well, although he is inclined to overdo the pl\nt ahead . The centres have shown a tendency to lose touch with their wings, who have consequently received few scoring chances. A. W. U. Roberts runs strongly and will be a great asset to the side. He has not been able to play regularly for the Hall owing to the calls of the Greyhounds XV. H. F. Green plays a determined game and is always dangerous when he gets the ball. J. M. Edmonds has shown that he possesses the essential qualities Âˇof a wing three-quarter, speed and straight running, and H . E. Pegg has defended well. A. H. Mead has deputised ably at full-back, but his handling is weak. We have drawn St. Catharine's in the preliminary round of the Cup.

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A. Smith, C. E. Passey and \ N .J.

THE ASSOCIAJ'ION FO OTBALL CLUB. HILARY TERM, 1928 .

Captain-L. G. H AYWARD . Secretary-E. URRY . The team had a very enjo yable term, m ar red only by the fact that we did not achieve the s uccess we h ad anticipa ted. W et w eather seriously handicapped us, but we s uffered most by the absence of H . Cloke, w ho has for fo ur yea rs don e sterling service as goalkeeper for the team . Our initial set-back was to lose to St. Catharine's in the first round of the Inter-Collegiate Cup, a fter victory had seemed ass ured in the first half of the gam e. But thereafter misfort une clogged us in the gÂˇ ui se of injuries, and so the fulfilm ent of our ambition to r each the semi-final had once more t o be postponed. Individually, the play of the t eam was encouraging; but, as h as so often b een the fault, that combination and cohesion which are essential for success were sadly lacking. On the few occasions he appeared , R. L . Franks proved a n able successor to H . Cloke; the mainstay of the defence, however, was E. Urry, Âˇwho showed splendid judg ment in his tackling a nd kicking . 0. C. Trimby s ho wed improved form at full-back, and is rapidly develop ing a habit of clearing first time. Th e wing halves were a lso good ai: times, though F . Yates was erra tic, and C. E . Shaw, while playing well in attack, sh owed an inability to position him self well for defensive work. The for ward lin e proved more effective than during the previou s t erm , W. J . L ancaster m aking excellent use of hi s sp eed. R. Vv. Britton and D. M. J ohn were skilful and earnest in their play in miclfie]d, but unfortunately their effor ts were not so s uccessful whe n near goal. At a meeting of Colours h eld at the end of term , E. Urry was elected Captain a nd 0. C. Trimby Secretary for the ensuing season . L.G.H . l\1JICHAELMAS: TE RM.

Captain-E. URRY. S ecretary-0 . C. TRIMBY. With most of last yea r's team still up, much was expected of the XI this season, but r esults ha ve been on t he w hole disappointing . A fairly creditabl~ position has been gained in the League, but with more forceful play and a little more luck far better results mig ht have been obtained. T he t eam was al wa ys erratic a nd inconsistent, winning in good style on cert ain occasions and failing unaccountably on others. It must be said in defence that the composition of the t eam has varied from match to match, the

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great d ifficulty being th at , as us ua l, we had too many defenders a nd not a complet e lin e of fo rwa rds. This n ecessitated the conver sion into forwards of va rious members of the defence. The forwards have been gen erally weak. vV. J. La ncaster seems to have lost that power to accept chances which ma rked his pla y la st season. D. M . J oh n displayed extraordinary vigou r and speed , a nd played some r eall y good g ames. R . W. Britton played useful footba ll , but is inclined to wa nder. The defen ce has been , except on one or two unfortunate occasions, very sound . R . W aye is a n excellent centre-ha lf w hose tackling and heading are particula-rly g ood . F . Yates works ve ry hard and tackles vig orously a nd effectively, but hi s passing is fa ulty ; he should learn to use hi s left foot. The full-b acks were on the w hole very relia ble, thoug h there should be a better understanding b etween them. · 0. C. Trimby still seem s at times a little reluctant to get the ball away, but his ta ckling was ve ry reliable. C. Broadhead tackled a nd kicked particula rfy well. C. Rawlinson was always courageous in g oal , but hi s judg ment a nd kicking were often at fa ult. N o Colours have b een awarded. R. vVaye played in F r eshmen 's Trials. E.U. THE HOCKEY CLUB. HI LARY TERM, 1928.

Captain-J. H. T .

CLA.HKE.

Secretm·y- R. C.

T HOMAS.

T he Hockey T eam thi s term suffered two severe handicaps : D . K . D a niels and G. H . Aldis we re not a va ilable, a s t hey were pl ay ing for the U nivers ity, a nd H . B. Linton and F. G. R eeves were a bsent from O xford , teaching. Considering these handica ps, th e team was not un s uccessful. L. Vv. H a nson developed into a very capable goalkeeper , a nd G. E. Janson-Smith showed distinct pos sibilities a s a wing· fo rwa rd . R. C. Thomas continualfy .improved throughout the te rm. T he full-backs were slow, especially in g etting into position . The main difficulty was in g·etting the t eam to work togethe r , but later in the term we ha d some very good m a tches . For the Cup-tie ma tches we managed to collect the whole team, a nd a s a result beat St. Ca tha rine's 3-2 in the first r ourtd, Oriel 1-o in the second round . Unfortuna tely we m et N ew College in the third round under a ppalling weather conditions, which upset our play more than theirs , and so we lost. · w e should like to th ank the Cha plain for his valuable a ssist~ a nce to the team throug hout th e term.

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At a meeting· of Colours, :R· C. ·Thomas was elected Ca ptain and L. W. Hanson Secretary for nex t season . J.H.T.C. MICHAELMAS TERM .

Captain-R. C.

THOMAS.

Secretary-L. \N.

HANSON.

The Hockey Team has en joyed a most encouraging term. Several important vacancies were quickly and more than adequately filled. The keenness of every member has enabled us to turn out the same team on practically every occasion and thus to develop a mutua l understanding, which in past seasons we have not a lway s possessed. • L. W. Hanson in goal has played consistently at the top of his form, which, as opposing forwards realise, reaches a very high level. The backs have co-operated well with each other and with the goalkeeper. The experience of R . L. Franks has been of great value . VI . W . E. Giles tackles a nd clears relentlessly, but sh ould refrain from inspiring terror in his own as well as the opposing forwards by hitting equally hard on every occasion. C. G. Lawrence has been particularly successful at centre-half, a nd his defensive work and sense of position are excellent; but, together w ith the wi ng halves, he could sti ll afford to move up more fr equently with the forwards into the opponents ' circle. The wing halves are a lso good in defence, F. R . H. lVIurray often showing considerable initiative in coming across to clear when both backs have been beaten. E. L. H. Kentfield is nearly always fast enoug h for his wing man, but does not tackle soon enough; his stick-work and sense of position are good . The h alves and backs pass cleanly and acc urately; the fm-me1· would be still more effective if they wo uld draw their man before making their pass . The forwards have combined well and shown considerabl e clash a nd vigour. G. E. J anson-Smi th works untiring ly and feeds his w ing man well, but his shooti~g might be better. K. C. Oliver keeps the forward line together very successfully, and his stickwork and shooting are rapidly improving. M. M. Hawes is always a dangerous man with a hockey-stick, and is a good shot. Towards the end of term he occupied a new position on the right wing with con siderable success. J. C. Toland on the left wing has fill ed a difficult position admirably . He has greater speed a nd neater stic k-work t han formerly, a nd has scored many useful goals by coming in and shooting from a narrow angle. Matches played, 24; lost, 6; drawn, 3; won, rs. Colours were awarded to G. E. Janson-Smith and C. G. Lawrence. R.C.T.

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Captain-A. S. CHANDLER. Secretary-F. G. PHILLIPS. Th e activities of the Club this term were limited to the InterCollegiate Sports and to a cross-country race against Magdalen College School. In the former, the Hall gained 7i points and was placed fourth in Group II, just failing to qualify for the final. Points were gained by:W. F. Cummings 2 S. D. Mangan ... N. C. Moses L. G. Hayward ... \N'. J. Lancaster . The cross-country race was run over the School course, across the Chilswell Hills, and resulted in a win for the School by 2 points. At a meeting of Colours, ]. H. Beeley was elected Captain a nd N. C. Moses Secretary for the ensuing season. A.S.C. MrcHAELMAS TERM.

Captain- ]. H. BEELEY. Secretary-N. C. MosEs. The results of the Athletic Club's activities during th e Michaelmas Term were not as good as had been hoped. This was due, in some deg-ree, to the fact that several prospective runners were unable to take part in the Relays owing to injuries; but it was a lso partly due to a lack of support on the part of the Hall. Until more members of the Hall are ready to take an active interest in the Club, one can hardly expect more than a mediocre record. !n the Inter-College Cross-Country the Hall ran sixth out of twelve, a creditable perfo rmance considering we were without one of outÂˇ best runners. However, in the Relays, having failed to obtain a point, we can hardly congratulate ourselves, although some colleges finished up with minus scores owing to their failure to enter teams for various events. Colours have been awarded to E. R. Welles, R. M. Parker and G. E. Janson-Smith. J.H.B. THE SWIMMING CLUB. TRINITY TERM, I gzS. Captain- E. P. CARTEIL More talent wa s evident than in recent years, and we were able to enter a team for the Inter-College Cup. We were clrmvn against St. Cathe rine's and B. N .C., and although we we re last in the heat,

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E .P. C. THE TENNIS CLUB. TRlNITY TERM, rg28.

Captain-R . L. FRANKS. Secretary-M. M. HAWES. For perhaps the first tim e in the history of the Club, the seaso n proved not only enjoyable, but successful. The number of victories, compared with two in 1927, was due to an improvement of form generally, and the inspiring leadership of R. L. Franks. A not unimportant contributory agÂˇent to the success was the excellence of the teas provided by Mrs. Barrett, to which our visitors devoted possibly too much of their atte ntion when playing matches on our ground. In short, the hope , expressed in the report of the Club last year, that we should g ive a better account of ourselves in rg28, was fully realised. We drew New College in the first round of the Cup-ties last term , and they proved too much for us, while we we re ful"ther cfemora lised by the enforced absence of our captain, who was overage. The credit for winning the only set for the Hall on that disastrous a fternoon must go to C. F. Cardale. Colours were awarded during the course of the term to G. E. J anson-Smith, J. C . Toland, R. S, Orchard, and M. M. Hawes. J. C. Toland was elected Captain and C. C. Shaw Secretary for next year. M.M.H.

A NOTE ON THE EXPULSIONS OF 1768.

OR the last five-and-twenty years the six undergraduate s expelled from the Hall in r768, I will not say have haunted, Âˇ I would rather say have attracted me. I have never, for very long, been able to keep clear of their story. They have not been quite what Kirig Charles's head w<ts to Mr. Di ck, for I have sue-

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ceeded in keeping them out of my conversation, as a rule; yet ever . since I first came across them I seem to have been brought back to them again and again. I remember well when I heard of them first : it was in London late in 1902 or early in I903. A friend .s howed me the third volume of the Report of the Historical MSS. Commission on the MSS. of Lord Dartmouth, which contains twiJ letters of April and May, I768, referring to the proceeding at St. Edmund Hall. My friend (who vvas specially interested in the history of the Evangelicals) asked me what the story was; I did not know. Very soon after I became Vice-Principal (in January, I903) I set to work to read the story, and I had become so much interested in it that I preached about it in Chapel on Trinity Sunday, I903. This was far from laying the ghosts the story had raised for me; I went on with it, and seven years later, in two successive numbers of a monthly magazine, The Treasury (December, 1910, and January, Ign), I told the tale at some length, with illustrations. Finally, in April, I9I I, I wrote the story, so far as I could discover it, in a book, The Six Students of St. Edmund H,all, etc. I thought that then I had done with it, but I was wrong. I have gone on stumbling upon more facts, but I hope now I have got pretty well to the end of it. Briefly , I may remind readers of this note that on I I March, I768, six undergraduate members of the Hall were expelled by the Vice-Chancellor practically for being ' Methodists,' their accuser being the Vice-Principal of the day, the Rev. John Higson. I tried in my book to trace the subsequent career of these six undergraduates after their expulsion : James Matthews was befriended by Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, and went, I believe, to her college at Trevecca, opened on 24 August, 1768. I have still no information about his later years : I suppose I shall come across it, in time. Joseph Shipman was also befriended by Lady Huntingdon, overworked, and died on 3I October, I77I, at Upton-onSevern, aged 24. I recently found a good deal about him in Sidney's Life of Sir Richard Hill (I83g), pp. 522-528, which I missed, I think, when I wrote my book. Thomas Grove became an Independent Minister and died on 5 October, r8I7, at Walsall. Erasmus Middleton, after having been at King's College, Cambridge, and then ordained in Ireland, became a well-known Evangelical divine, and died at Turvey, Beds., where he was Rector, on 25 April, I825. These facts I recorded in my book.

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Thomas Jones was duly ordained, Deacon 177 1, Priest 1772, by the Bishopof Lincoln, and in time became curate-in-charge of Clifton Reynes, Bucks, till 1791 or 1792, when his absentee Rector died. For the facts which follow I am indebted to a distinguished old member of the H all, the Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, F.S.A., who unearthed them in 1912. lVfr. Jones lost his wife (sister of Cowper's friend, Lady Austen) on 25 June , 1795; she died at Olney and was buried there. Mr. and Mrs. Jones had, it seems, retired to live a t Clifton, near Bristol. After his wife's death, Thomas Jones in 1796 became minister of St. George's Church, Bolton, Lanes., and remained there until r8o 1, when he was appointed minister of St. George's Free Church, Liverpool. He died sud denly at an hotel in Birmingham in 1804. One of his sons, Samuel, was chaplain of the H. E. I. C. at St. Helena when the Emperor Napoleon was a prisoner at Longwood. The last of the six men long eluded my research: Benjamin Kay. I knew that he was the son of Francis Kay, of Halifax, Yorkshire, that he was 20 when he matriculated in July, 1765, and that he was on the eve of taking his degree when he was expelled. Some yea rs ago I discovered , I forget how, that he was ordained Deacon on 26 May, 1771, Priest on 22 December, 1771, by the Bishop of Lincoln, and licensed to the curacy of Bloxholme cum Digby, Lines . Strangely, his fellow-suffere r, Thomas Jones, was ordained Deacon at the same ordination as Benjam in Kay was ordained Priest. Presumably Lord Dartmouth or some other important Evang·elical had some influ ence with Dr. John Green, the then Bishop of Lincoln, influence enough to induce him to ordain two such marked men. Having traced Benjamin K ay into Holy Orders and a Lincolnshire curacy, I was checked for years : I tried to find clues, but in vain. Last year, however, I was reading in the train a book in which I was trying to trace a Yorkshire pluralist of 1743· It was the History and Topography of Kirk Burton, by H. J. Morehouse, published at Huddersfield in 1861. As I glanced down the list of vicars I came on the name of Benjamin Kay. It seemed half-familiar, and, as I read the rather unfavourabl e account of the man, some chord of memory woke, and it dawned on me that I had possibly blundered on the last of the six men, who had eluded me for so long. As soon as I got home I looked up my book, and there was no doubt of it: here was Benjamin Kay at last. The account which Morehouse gives of him wi ll be found on pp. 68-71 of his Histo ·ry of Kirk Burton. Briefly, Mr: Kay became

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Vicar of Kirk Burton on 9 March, 1779, succeeding one who would be called a High Churchman of the old school. Very soon the new Vicar was at odds with his people. I quote Mr. Morehouse : Mr. Kay was 'of an irritabl e and imperious temper.' This involved him in fierce and angry strife with his parishioners over the annual collection of the vicarial tithe, and at length led to lawsuits. Finally, Mr. K ay died, insolvent, on 16 January, 1793. He ' rebuilt th e greater part of the vicarage house and greatly improved the g-arden and grounds.' Mr. Morehouse acids : ' He was a popular preacher , possessing a fine voice and a commanding person . His doctrinal views were highly Calvinistic.' The last words show that Mr. Kay remained true to the opinions he had held as an undergraduate. It is difficult to reconcile the exact dates in Mr. Morehouse's account, for he says that Mr. Kay died on 16 January, 1793, a g ed 47 years, 'having been twelve years Yicar' : in fact, as the record of his institution in the Archbishop's Registry at York shows, he held the benefice nearly fourteen years. I confess this account of Benjamin Kay made me feel rather more kindly towards the Vice-Principal of 1768, John Higson, of whom I wrote rather fiercely in my book, fo r I thought him the villain of the piece. I see now that there was something to be said for him; these rather unlearned young Calvinists may easily have been very trying to deal with. I had failed, when I wrote in I9II, to trace Mr. Higson' s career after the expulsion of the six undergraduates. But seven years ago I got a clue from tha t most g enerous and encyclopaedic of scholars, Mr. Falconer Madan, of B.N.C. I followed it, with these results: John Higson was appointed a Chapla in of Christ Church in 1754 (he was already Vice-Principal of the H a ll, having been appo inted by D r . Shaw in 1751). In November, 1766, he was appointed by Christ Church (th en, as now, the patrons) to the vicarage of Batheaston, tvvo miles from Bath. I cannot find , from the present incumbent, that he left any record there, but he was vicar till he died in 1787, some time before 25 June of that year, for on that date his successor was appointed. How Mr. Higson's papers came to m e, and from me to the present VicePrincipal, is recorded on pp. 17, 18 of the St. Edmund Hall Magazine for 1925. There a re still some touches necessary to make the picture complete : some Visitation records between 1767 and 1787 should reveal whether Mr. Higson was res ident a t Batheaston, and possibly the Gentleman's M agazine may reco rd his dea th and give a notice of him. Perhaps research at Cheshunt College, Cam-

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bridge, might reveal some traces , too, of the elusive James Batthews: I shall be most grateful if some reader of this Note will attempt the quest : it has taken me a quarter of a century to get .as far as I have got in the story. S. L. 0LLARD. H ere is one more scrap of information concerning Thomas Jones, which I owe to his great-great-great-grandson , C. R . Hiscocks, Exhibitioner of the Hall. Mr. G. T. Malthouse in A Short History of the Congregational Church in New port., Shropshire (p. 35), states that Thomas J ones, who was born at Newport, possessed landed property there, and came back for a time to live in his native place, ' laboured in the town and neighbourhood, preaching and holding meetings,' and he further records that Jones in 1765 'gave a piece of ground for the erection of a small chapel in Newport to a Captain Scott, a gentleman of great piety and labour. The Captain Scott here referred to was the Rev. Jonathan Scott (r73s-r8o7), an energetic Congregationalist minister. A.B. E.

IN MAGDALEN CHAPEL. Immobile thou liest throughout the centuries, Cool and calm in thy alabaster shroud ; And all around the intricate traceries Of fluted flower-stem and lily proud,~ Their gilding faded, the hands that wrought them dust,Keep thee confined, serene and tranquil-browed. Faintly translucent hands are joined in prayer; The sire of Waynflete prays for time eterne, Encased and shuttered in his cerements there Where dimly may the worshipper discern The features' moulding, the embossed and archingÂˇ vault, Illumined when the guttering candles burn. Echoing the feet fade from the cloister still, Nor ever stirs the suppliant from his sleep; Deep-chaunted hym ns monotonously fill The aisle where he must infinitely keep This slumbering vigil, his stony figure rapt In muted orison and silence deep. H.F .G.

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SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE AND THE WITS. ' Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me the cause that wit is in other men.' Henry tv, Pt. II, Act r,

IR Richard Blackmore was perhaps the most abused writer of his generation . He matriculated at St. Edmund Hall in the year r669, after being at vVestminster School; he took his B.A. in 1674 and became a Master of Arts two years later. According to Colley Cibber he continued to reside at Oxford for some years more, but there is little evidence for Hearne's assertion that he became Vice-Principal. He may have done some teaching in the University, and was certainly a teacher at some period of his life, a circumstance of which his foes the Wits took advantage. Samuel Johnson, with memories of his own academy, said 'to have been once a schoolmaster is the only reproach which all the perspicacity of malice, animated by w it, has ever fixed upon his private life.' After leaving Oxford he appears to have travelled extensively and to have obtained a degree in medicine at P ad ua. He practised on his return to England and rose to eminence in his profession, becoming a Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1687 and later Physician-in-Ordinary to William III, being knighted at Kensington in 1697. He continued to practise, though, according to Cibber, with diminishing success, until his retirement to Boxted in Essex in 1722, where he died some years later. It is a remarkable thing that a busy physician ever found time to compose the many and miscellaneous litera ry works that are associated with his name. He says : ' Poetry has been so far from my business and profession- that it has employ'd but a small part of my Time and then, but as my Recreation and the entertainment of my idle hours.' It was a prolonged entertainment, for Blackmore composed four epics, three very long philosophical poems, several scriptural paraphrases, besides theological, politica l and medical tracts, and a number of prose essays, verse, satires and occasional poems. His prolixity was one of the charges levelled against him by the Wits; another reason for their anger was the profound didactic na ture of all his writings and his own attacks on the life and literature of the time.

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In the Preface to his first epic, Prince Arthur (16gs), he gives his views on the fun ctions of all kinds of poetry ; considering the giving men ' Pleasure and Delight, but a subordinate subaltern end,' compared to the promotion of the ' publick Good of Mankind.' He attacks the stage poets of his day. ' Our poets seem engag'd in a general Confederacy to ruin the End of their own Art, to expose Religion and Virtue, and bring Vice and Corrup tion of Ma nners into Esteem and R eputation. The Poets that write for the Stage (at least a great part of 'em) seem deeply concern'd in this Conspiracy . ' Then he proceeds to inveig h against the characters of fashionable comed y w ith their disregard of morality ; it was the cry of the lingering Puritanism to which Jeremy Collier was g iving more famous utterance at the same time. As a practical measure of reform Blackmore declares tha t his design in writing Prince Arthur was ' one Effort towards the r escuing the Muses out of the hands of their R avishers, to restore th em to their sweet and chaste Mansions, a nd to engage them 111 an Employment suitable to their Dig nity . ' The most extensive criticism of Prince Arthur is that undertaken by John Dennis in his Remarks on a Book, entitul'd 'Prince Arthur,' an H eroick Poem. It is a criticism according to the rules Rene Le Bossu set fo rth in Trait e du Poeme Epique. Dennis designs to show that 'Mr. Blackmore's Action h as neither unity, nor integrity, n or morality, nor universality, and consequently he can have no Fable and no Heroick Poem.' But that was only to be the contents of the first part of his criticism, for the second was ' to come to the Narrative a nd to show that it is neither proba ble, nor delightful, nor wonderful. ' The whole of D en nis's Remarks is very technical, a nd it is w ith a certa in relief th a t one feels the humanity of th e a uthor in his concluding words : ' I h ave now just g one through half my Method, and I am so thorougÂˇhly tired m yself that. it would be unreasonable to beli eve that I have not wearied my R eader.' Jonathan Swift's Battle of the Books began to circulate in manuscript in 1697, seven yea rs before its publication. In it Blackmore appears a mong the Moderns contending with Lucan, and earning a measure of his approval so that they ceased to fight and gave gifts to one a nother , Lucan giving Blackmore spurs and the physician p resenting L ucan . with a bridl e. But after Blackmore had a bused Swift in the first volume of his Essays (171 6) as an 'impious buffoon' for writing the Tale of a Tub, Swift treated him with scorn a nd in his Rhapsody on Poetry (1732) set him on . the throne of dullness.

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Undeterred by criticism, though acknowledging faults, 'Proceeding partly from defects of Judgement and Genius, partly from want of Leisure and Retirement,' Blackmore published King Arthur in twelve books, with another provocative preface, in 1697. But it contained unslinted praise of Congreve's Mourning Bride, 'the most perfect Tragedy that has been wrote in this Age.' The continuance of the tedious Arthurian dynasty attracted the criticism of Dryden and Samuel Garth, another poetical doctor whose career offers strange parallels to that of Blackmore. In his Dispensary, Book IV, line 172, Garth represents Blackmore as addressing a Horoscope with some lines taken from his epics and receiving sharp rebuke from an attendant Fury : ' Then dare not, for the future, once rehearse The dissonance of such untuneful verse. But in your lines let energy be found, And learn to rise in sense and sink in sound.' He is advised to learn from Wycherley, Addison, Congreve and Prior. ' Such just examples carefully read o'er Slide without falling ; without straining soar.' _In his Preface to .t he Fables Dryden gives peace to the 'Manes of his Arthurs.' He considered Blackmore had filched the design of his epics from suggestions given by him in a Preface to Juvenal. ' From that preface, he plainly took his hint; he began immediately upon his story though he had the baseness not to acknowledge his benefactor, but instead of it to traduce me in libel.' For Dryden was among those dramatists whom Blackmore was assailing for their lack of morals. The publication of A Paraphrase on the Book of Job by Blackmore in 1700 also attracted th e scorn of Dryden in the Preface to the Pilgrim, furnished by him and spoken on the occasion of his benefit on 25th March, 1700, about a week before his death. Blackmore is called ' Quack Marius ' ' At leisure hours in Epic Song he deals, \Vrites to the rumbling of his coach's wheels.' He is the bold man who invades the realm of Sternhold and Hopkins, but Dryden deplores his art : 'One would have thought he could no longer jog, But Arthur was a level, Job's a bog.'

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who are urged to reflect that ' Poetry is indeed an Ornament to those that have more noble and more useful qualities, yet when it becomes a profession 'tis one of the meanest and lowest sort.' He also objects to the Christian poet calling on all occasions upon 'the Rabble and Riffraff of Heathenish Gods.' At this time Blackmore must have been assailed on many sides by the friends and followers of Dryden and the dramatists, the poets and poetasters of the coffee-houses and clubs, who were in direct opposition to the views of the ' City poet.' Tom Brown, who lodged in Cheapside, has left behind a dubious reputation and four volumes of Essays, Epigrams, Letters, Epistles and Poems. While at Oxford he made the famous lines on Dr. Fell, and seems always to have possessed an agile if wanton wit, which once took him to prison for a political satire. He ridiculed the Arthurs and Job, and depicts Job himself composing a comprehensive curse against his interpreter. In one of his essays he tells how he conducted ' a modest Indian' to see Sir Richard at Garraways. l-ie instructs his pupil: 'You must cry, your paraphrase of Job outdoes your Arthurs, but for your dear Health's sake, don't say, in Dullness.' There were doubtless many other obscure Vi'riters who followed Dryden's lead at this time. At least Blackmore was sufficiently roused to retaliate, and, in the same year as Job, appeared A Satyr against TVit. The poem is filled with personal and topical allusions, most of which have been elucidated by Mr. J. E. Spingarn (Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, Vol. III). Published anonymously, the poem establishes the dangers of Wit and its exponents : 'vVhat well-form'd Government and State can last When Wit has laid the people's Virtue waste?' It is a sickness in the land, invading schools and colleges, a danger that should be regulated, and the poet appeals to the great literary patrons of the clay for aiel against the grossness and irreligion of the Wits :

' 0 Somers, Talbot, Dorset, Montague Grey, Sheffield, Cavendish, Pembroke, Vernon, you \i\Tho in Parnassus have Imperial sway, \Vhom all the Muses' Subjects -here obey, Are in your service and receive your Pay, Exert your Soveraign Power, in Judgement sit To regulate the Nation's Grievance, \Vit.' The project is mooted of establishing a Bank of Wit, where the currency can be examined and re-minted. The principal wits

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attacked are Dryden; Tom d'Urfey, the dramatist; Smallwood, the divine; vValter Moyle, politician and classical scholar; Jacob Tonson, that 'chief merchant of the Muses' ; Samuel Garth and his friend Christopher Codrington, whose life has just been well written by M)r. Vincent Harlow; Mat Prior, a nd a certain Captain Tom. There is a side reference to Addison which infuriated Captain Steele : ' In Garth the Wit, the Doctor has undone In Smallwood the Divine, Heaven's guard poor Addison.' Dryden is depicted a s being flung into the melting-pot at the new Mint: ' Into the melting pot when Dryden comes What horrid stench will rise, what noisome fumes.' But Blac.k more saw something of the greatness of the poet : ' But what remains will be so pure, 'twill bear Th' examination of the most severe.' The victims of the attack were not slow in replying. In the same year, r7oo, Tom Brown collected and published Commendatory Verse s, on the Author of the. Two Arth1trs and the Satyr against Wit, by someÂˇ of his particular Friends. An opening prose epistle, addressed to ' All the Honourable Citizens within the Bills of Mortality,' describes the desultory manner of composition for which Blackmore was notorious. 'Nay, even in Coffee houses he is editing Heroics on the back of a Newspaper with his pencil, while other men are having their talk out, and he stumbles upon Distic hs with the jolting of his coach.' This ' worthy Gentleman ' is to be made fre e of all the City companies and carried to all entertainment for his preaching of virtue in poetry. Colonel Codrington opens the collection with his vigorous biographical lines : 'By Nature meant, by Want a Pedant made, Blackmore at first profess'd the Whipping Trade; In vaine his Druggs as well as Birch he try'd. His boys grew Blockheads, and his Patients dy'd.' Steele wrote, remembering Addison, 'To the throne of British Knighthood ' : 'Must I then passive stand ! and can I hear The Man I love, abus'd, and yet forbear?' William Burnaby, Dr. Smith, the Hon. Richard Norton, the Countess of Sandwich, 'To Sir R.B. on the Two Arthurs being condemn'd to be hang'd,' Thomas Creech, one Mildmay, Sir Charles Sidley, Henry Boyle, Edward Blount, and Samuel Garth all contributed to the volume, and there are several poems from the pen of the editor.

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Reply provoked counter-reply, and there appeared before the public Discommendato·ry Verses on those •which are Truly Commendatory on the Author of the Two Arthurs and the Satyr against 1/flit. The purpose is to turn the ·words of the authors of Commendatory Verses upon themselves. 'Some of 'em are quality by their clothes but forfeit the name by their expressions.' The replies are most personal and abusive. Col. Codrington is ' This little prodigy of rhymes and wit.' There are verses addressed 'To the Noble Captain who was in a Dam'd, Confounded Pet'; 'To a Rhimer who, if he takes pains, writes as if he did not.' Tom Brown comes in for a heavy measure of abuse. 'To the Quibling, Dribling, Scribling Poetaster who has let himself out for scandal to the Wits at \Vills' Coffee House': 'Be not puff'd up with punning, friend of mine, I've slept on many jests as good as thine.' \Vhile poor Lady Sandwich, the lady 'dignified and distinguish'd,' 'Believe me, Madam, that your Muse has shown So foul a Face, I beg you hide your own.' Aitkin, in his Life of Steele, mentions the existence of other pamphlets against Blackmore, as A Satyr upon the late Pamphlet entitled, a Satyr against Wit and Satyr against Satyr·, but these are difficult to trace. In 1708 appeared The Kit-Cats, A Poem. This anonymous work may be safely attributed to Sir Richard, as it is included by him in a rare volume of collected poems, published in 1718. It is stated in the Advertisement to the Kit-Cats that the poem was written some years before and 'not design'd for the Press,' but that the author has been forced into publication by the circumstance of a copy having left his hands, ' having reason to believe it will otherwise come abroad by means of that copy.' The poem has a certain merit as mock-heroic work. It is concerned with the Kit-Cat Club which included so many prominent men of the time amongst its members, who devoured the famous pies and drank out of the glasses inscribed with verses to reigning beauties. The Wits, his old enemies, are described as assaulting its fortress, among them, 'the poor Devil Brown,' sent by the ' scribling Rakes ' from his garret. At the end there is discussion in the Club owing to the curse of the god of Dullness. Advice to the Poets (17o6) has the same theme as Addison's Campaign, and Blackmore calls in the poets to praise Marlborough. He maintained his views on moral writing and the virtuous uses of poetry all his life. In the Preface to his Essays Upon

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Several Subjects (r7r6), didactic essays in rather lumbering prose, he has all the old vigour and persuasion. ' The more I advance in years and the nearer the future state is presented to my view, the more I am pleased with reflecting on what I have written on Divine and Moral Subjects, and whatever Appellation of Reproach men of Pleasant Humour think fit to give to this disposition of Mind, they cannot enjoy so great satisfaction in deriding it as the Possession of it gives to me.' In a passage in An Essay upon vVriting Blackmore refers to a 'godless author who has burlesqu'd the First Psalm of David in so obscene and profane a manner, that perhaps no Age ever saw such an insolent Affront offer'cl to the establish'cl Religion of their Country.' This author was Alexander Pope, who wrote in revenge the most famous lines ever aimed at Blackmore, explaining his provocation in a note : 'But far o'er all, sonorous Blackmore's strain; Walls, steeples, skies, bray back to him again. In Tot'nam fields, the brethren, with amaze, Prick all their ears up, and forget to praze; Long Chanc'ry-lane retentive rolls the sound, And courts to courts return it round and round ; Thames wafts it hence to Rufus' roaring hall, And Hungerford re-echoes bawl for bawL All hail him victor in both gifts of song, Who sings so loudly, and who sings so long.' Dunciad, II, 259. But Blackmore has earned something more than abusive notices. Joseph Addison in the Spectator. No. 339, gave very high praise to the philosophical Creation, and John Dennis was reconciled to its commendation. Samuel Johnson wrote his life. Perhaps he was attracted by the solemn character of the man, for morality and hatred of irreligion were no pose with Blackmore; it was much of his life and is reflected in his sturdy features. One of the most interesting comments is in the Life of Blackmore written by Colley Cibber, that pleasant actor who became laureate to his own surprise. ' He struggled in the cause of virtue, even in those times when vice had the countenance of the great and when an almost universal degeneracy prevailed . He was not afraid to appear the advocate of virtue in opposition to the highest authority, and no lustre of abilities in his opponents could deter him from stripping vice of those gaudy colours with which the poets of eminence had cloathed her.'

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RoBERTS .

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REVIEWS. Under this heading there are n oticed O'l' 'l'e,viewed recently published boo ks or articles that possess a special A ularian interest due to their authorship or to their contents. TÂĽ e shall be glad to ha<.â&#x20AC;˘e such books and articles brought to our notice. Edmund Rich, A rchbishop and Saint. By iVI. R. NEWBOLT. 1928. I 52 pp., with 9 illustrations. S. P. C. K. ss. It is twenty-five years since the life of St. Edmund of Abingdon was made the subject of a book, and, even so, W 'ard's St. Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury, which was published in 1903, does not claim to be more than a collection of passages from the Lives and other contemporary sources, translated from the Latin and arranged chronologically so as to present a picture of St. Edmund's life as it appeared to men of his own time. There have been no new biographies of him written since The Life of St. Edmund of Canterbury, by Dom Wallace, appeared in 1893, and St. Edmund of Abingdon, by the Baroness de Paravacini, in r8g8. In view of this interval it was to be hoped that when the story of his life should be told again it would be based on a thorough reinvestigation of the available materials. It is a pity that no such claim can be made for Canon Newbolt's little book. This new life of St. Edmund is admittedly dependent for its facts on the three works mentioned above; as a contribution to history, therefore, it is an opportunity missed. It is, however, very pleasantly written, and gives an attractive and intelligible portrait of a great English saint who h as not received in the Church of England the honour due to his achievem ent and to the example of his life. There is justice in Canon Newbolt's complaint that the name of St. Edmund, which ha s not found a place in the English Calendar since the Reformation, should not have been reincluded in the Calendar by the latest revisers of our Prayer Book. 'Yet on many counts,' writes Canon N ewbolt, 'he is worthy to stand high among his p eers, the great saints of the thirteenth century. He is no semi-legendary figur e, but a character about whom a great deal is recorded, and his life may teach us lessons applicable to the days in which we live. We, too, need scholarship allied to sanctity, and our generation, like his, is overwhelmed with an access of fresh knowledge which requires to be assimilated by religious thought, and is assailed by an epidemic of unbelief which only doctors of the faith can conquer. Social injustice and the

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forc es of moral evil enthroned in the government of the stat e take different and more democratic forms to-day, but we can imagine circumstances in which the lea ders of the Church could serve the cause of righteousness best by even such uncompromising opposition as Edmund's. This is well said, and is in the spirit of the earliest Lives of the Saint. There are some points to be noted which invite criticism. The reference ma de by Canon Newbolt, in the second parag raph of Chapter r, to Professor Maitland ' in his book Social England' is not calculated to generate confidence in his readers . The reference is; in fact, to the short article on Legal History whi ch Maitland contributed to Volume I of Social England , edited by H . D . Trail!. Ca non N ewbolt states definitely that the Church of St. Ni cholas, Abingdon; is the burial-place of St. Edmund's mother (p. r8); Berna rd \Vard in an Appendix on the subject was content. to leave it an open question. As he finds room for an imaginative conjecture of his own that Hiley Church is 'one of the places in which St. Edmund prayed' (p. 22), we might have expected mention to be made of the ancient tra dition which connects the Lad y Chapel in the Church of St. P eter-in-th e- East with St. Edmund. Canon N ewbolt commits himself to the assertion th at 'Edmund's diocesan Bishop, who presumably gave him the sacrament of Confirma tion, was St, Hugh of Lincoln, in whose vast diocese Abingdon then lay' (p. 25); but, in fact, from !075 to I22I Abingdon lay in the diocese of Old Sarum, a nd from 12 2 1 to r836 in that of New Sarum, o r Salisbury . In one place Grosset este is described as a pupil of St. Edmund (p. 27), in another as a fellowstudent (p. gg) ; but has Canon N ewbolt a ny firm er ground than had Anthony \i\1 ood for the former of these statements? According to the Lanercost Chronicle, our only informa nt on this point, the grammar school which St. Edmund attended in Oxford was situated at th e west end of St. Mary's churchya rd; this does not support the conclusion that ' he attended some school attached to the Church of St. Mary the Virg in' (p. 42). In telling the charming story of the vision of the Boy which St. Edmund saw one clay as he walked musing in the meadows by the Cherwell (p. 42), it is misleading to describe the meadow as near St. Clement's Church without indicating that the reference is to Old Clement's Church . The House of Augustinian Canons at Merton in Surrey should be d es ignated a Priory and not an Abbey (p. 23, p . 67). In conÂˇnexion with St. Edmund's preferment to be Treasurer of Salisbury, Canon New bolt remarks th at 'the Bishop under whom Edmund Rich served was by a freak of coi ncidence named Richard Poor'

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(p. 84) ;· the coincidence is an illusory one, for there is no evidence that St. Edmund ever bore the -surname of Rich as did his father; ·moreover it has been suggested that the name Poor originated in the word Poer, the Norman French for the Latin Puer, and was given to the Bishop when he was a boy to distinguish him from his father, a lso named Richard-Richard of Ilminster, who took Holy Orders late in life and became Bishop of vVinchester. The mention which Canon Newbolt makes of the Abbey Church of Pontigny (p. IJI) is open to misunderstandii1g. 'The church,' · he writes, ' was begun in I I so, being a foundation of St. Stephen Harding from Citeaux'; but the church built 111 uso, here referred to, was the second church to be built by the Cistercian community at Pontigny : it was preceded by an earlier church which dated from the foundation of the abbey by St. Stephen Harding in 1114. Soissy, where St. Edmund died, is not' northeast of Paris' (p. 133), but about fifty miles south-east, in the neighbourhood of Provins. It is hardly true to say that St. Edmund's body 'remains intact save for the right arm' (p. 142), as is shown by the facts given in Bernard \11/ard's note on 'the Present State of the Relics of St. Edmund' (Appx. E, pp. 255-6). A more recent visit to Oxford than Canon Newbolt seems to have had the good fortune to be able to make would have prevented him from still describing the Octagon Chapel, now the Hertford College J.C.R., as forming part of a shop (p. 20), and from including, as his illustration of our own Hall, a photograph showing the Quadrangle wreathed in creepers, the last of which were removed about eight years ago. To be of any real value the four illustrations given of drawings from MSS. need adequate description. Only in one instance is the origin indicated. The drawing of an Archbishop on p. r 5 is entitled 'St. Edmund from an early MS.' It may well be that this ascription is the correct one, but it is by no means certain that it is St. Edmund who is represented in this very interes-t ing thirteenth century pen-drawing, which is to be found in a beautiful Psalter made for Westminster Abbey and now preserved among the Royal MSS. in the British Museum. In the title to the drawing given on p. 103 ·Henry II' is obviously a slip for' Henry III.' A.B . E.

And Was Made Man : An Introduction to the Study of the Gospels. By LEONARD HoDGSON. rg28. Longmans; gs . This book will be sure of a welcome from Professor Hodgson's former pupils at the Hall. Under the heading 'An Admirable

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Apologetic,' its excellencies have been well commended m The Church Times. 'Professor Hodgson,' writes the reviewer, 'will acid immensely to his reputation for clear thinking and sober and discreet judgment by the publication of this altogether timely and admirable volume. It provides a possible key to the solution of a number of religious problems, of which the discussion has at present rea ched a position of stale-mate, and its pack of' thoughtful suggestions supplies th e means of making fresh starts in various direction s. And again we may quote from the con clusion of this same review, which has our entire endorsement: 'This is a book of real importance, both for Gospel criticism and for Christology, and is sufficiently clear and simple to serve for prolegomena to any who, without being specialists, are acquainted with the general run of thought upon these subjects. We specially and heartily commend it to the clerg·y and the educated laity. It belongs to the very best class of apologetic work.' A. B. E.

The Church and the Boy Outside. By the Rev. K. C. BrcKERDIKE, M.C. 1928. \Veils Gardner, Darton & Co. 3s. 6d. There is only one way in which the Church can get into contact with the ' Boy Outside,' and tha t is through the medium of boys' clubs. H ere, at last, is a most practical and useful book on the starting, maintenance and expansion of boys' clubs, and, what is most important, on how these clubs can bring a real vital religion into the lives of working boys. The author writes from a long and intimate experience of work among boys, and his book is full of useful hints, set out in a most attractive way. It is to be thoroughly recommended to those who are contemplating starting a club, a s well as to those a lready managing one; and one may echo the hope of the Bishop of London that the last chapter will stir up many who have never thought of doing so to begin this arduous but delightful work. G. E.J.-S.

The Gentleman's Rec·r eation. By NicHOLAS Cox. With a Preface by E. D. CUMING. 1928. xxiv + 136 pp., with frontispiece . The Cresset Press. 1 2s. 6d. In this book the Cresset Press has produced a delightful reprint of the part of Cox's work that relates to Hunting. The edition, which is limited to 650 copies, is very tastefully printed in · Monotype Cochin. As a frontispiece, the ' large sculpture giving easie directions for Blowing the Horn '-a plate frequently missing in present-day copies of the earlier editions of Cox's work-has

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been carefully reproduced. M;r. E. D. Cuming has contributed an entertaining preface in which he does our literary Manciple full justice and tells much that is interesting about the several' chases,' or quarries, with . which Cox deals. He duly acknowledges that ' for what little is known of Nicholas Cox his admirers are indebted to the industry of Mr. F. G. Roberts, who embodied all he had been able to discover in a contribution to the St. Edmund Hall i11agazine of December, rg26.' It is to be hoped that the Cresset Press will follow this edition with another comprising that part of Cox's excellent work in which he treats of Fishing. A.B. E.

Place Poems. Norwich.

By FREDERICK KEELING ScoTT. rs.

Jarrold & Sons,

The simplicity and directness of this little book of verse gtves it a certain charm. The opening of the first poem, Come with me And see our little Town. 'Tis very old and wide and brown : A reddish brown below, But up above, with tiles I love, A burnt-up, deeper brown'~ is a better invitation to Swaffham than the unromantic name of the .Place. There are other poems descriptive of places as far removed as Venice, Egypt, and the Holy Places. 'The Last Freeman of Fordwich' is the best piece in the book. Two quotations will reveal its quaint merit. The author is recalling a conversation with the Last Freeman on the riverside' I mind his trowsis, seen 'em from behind, 'Twas like an elephant's backside, so 'twas, Solid and stately wide. I know, because He turned is back on me one time And again.

The Last Freeman speaks-

' That's history, so 'tis, and all this Town Is full of history, and I'm the last Freeman o' Fordwich, wot knows all the past. This town will end when I go underg-roun'.'

H. Under the heading ' A Forerunner of Whitaker's Almanack ' The Times Literary Supplement for July 26 contained an entertaining Leading Article on A ngliae N otitia, or the Present State of England, started in r66g by Edward Chamberlayne, who matriculated as a member of the Hall in 1634, and carried on by

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his son, John, in 1723. This series of publications, invaluable to all students of British public life for the period they cover, is well described by the author of this article. ' The reader of A ngliae N otitia,' he writes, ' whether English or foreign, could, if he chose, be furnished with a vast amount of information and not a little philosophical reflection in the handiest possible form, a dumpy octavo, afterwards enlarged to about the size of the original issues of the Gentleman's Magazine, well indexed, conveniently arranged, and full of interestingÂˇ matter such as the modern reader may get from combining the study of an English Baedeker with Whitaker's Almanack. But the language is a good deal racier and less official, especially in the earlier volumes, where the prose of the seventeenth century is more vigorous and highly coloured than that of the later volumes.' This article drew an interesting letter from Professor Howson of Columbia University, New York, which appeared in The Times Literary Supplement for September 6. Professor Howson gave the text of a letter, from the collection of autograph letters in Columbia University Library, written by Edward Chamberlayne to a correspondent, which he describes as ' a model of tact,' and one which ' might serve as a typical answer to many letters received by editors of almanacs.' In excusing himself for some errors pointed out to him, Chamberlayne pleads that ' I have now scarce Ieasure enough every yeare to renew this, the trouble whereof is above & beyond what you can easily imagine & yet without any considerable encouragement besides the pleasure I take in doing something acceptable to my King and Country.' Professor Howson draws attention to the fact that he has not been able to find any record of the issues of this almanack in the IIth edition (1678) or the 13th edition (r68o-8r). These two missing editions are something of a mystery. Neither the British Museum Library nor the Bodleian possess copies of them. They are also wanting in the set which I presented to our own Library in 1925. A.B.E. The opinions of John Kettlewell, the matriculated as a servitor of the Hall analysed, in so far as they relate to the Miss L. M. Hawkins in Allegiance in Problem of the N onjurors in the English

eminent Non-Juror, who in r67o, are admirably subject of her study, by Church and State: The ReÂˇv olution. E.

Mrs. Williams has written an admirable little pamphlet, Pastores in Agro, on behalf of the Laymen's Fund for the Aug-

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mentation of Small Livings in the Diocese of Carlisle . . It is not only an appeal very happily expressed, but it is also a most understanding record of the. ·con ditions under which the clergy of this diocese among mountains liv e and work. The reading of it leaves one wishing th at Mrs . \ iViibams had written more about the Cumberland countrysid e since the appearance of her novel, The S arrow Stone.s, fifteen years ago. E. Mr. F . .E. Ray contributed a paper on The Synthesis of a, ~, y - Trimethylglutaric Acid to Th e Journal of the Ame·r ican Chemical Society, so, 558 ( 1928). E.

DEGREES CONFERRED. B.A. : S. Cox. M.A. a nd B.A. : R. J. Bluett. B.Litt. : R L. Hill. M.A. : ].' S. Tennant. B.A.: C. G. Coghlin, P. G. Higgs. M.A. : H. G. L!ckes, V. W. Miles. B.A. : R. L. Hordeth,; H. Vy. Palmer. M.A . : Rev. C. · A. Plaxtoq. · EtA . : H. Bagnall, J. H. Beeley, W. J. S. Cooke, L; W. Hanson, L. G. Hayward, W. J. Lancaster, S. D. Mangan, F. G. Phillips, F. G . Roberts, B. J. Rushby-Smith, R. E. Walker. November 24. B.A. : J. D. Fox. D ecember 17. B.A. : R. J. Hamlyn . .

Feb. r8, 1928. Ma rch 31. June 9· June 28. July 21. Aug ust 4 ·

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Exhibitioners i C: P. R. Clarke (Liverpool College). A. F. Colborn (Derby School). E. C. R. Hadfield (Blundell's School, Tiverton). N. A. H. Lawrance (Ch'fist's Hospital). Cornmone·r s: W. W. J . Bollan~ (Durham School). C. Broadhead (P.enistone Grammar School). C. Cairns JEdinb~~r.gh lJ!iliversity).

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ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE D. 1· Cockle (King's School, W 'o rcester). C. A. Coomber (Sevenoaks School). R. G. Cornwell (Soham Grammar School). 1· R. Curry (Durham University). 1. M. Edmonds (St. Bees School). P. S. Hordern (Bloxham School). E. L. H. Kentfield (King Edward VI School, Southampton). C. G. Lawrence (Colston's School, Bristol). Prince L. Lieven (Monkton Combe School). G. E. Marfell (W'r ekin College). H. A. Maxwell (Inverness Royal Academy). W. R . Niblett (Bristol University). 1· R. Ormiston (Daniel Stewart's College, Edinburgh). A. 1- Phillips (Non-Collegiate Student). E. Rawlinson (Haslingden Grammar School). *A. W. R ead (University of Iowa). C. I. Record (King's School, Worcester). A. W. U. Roberts (Bromsgrove School). A. P. Rose (Henry Smith's School, Hartlepool). H . \i\1. Sugarman (University of British Columbia) . C. H. Sutton (Monkton Combe School). S. W . E. Taylor (King Alfred's School, \,Vantage). 1. B. Torrens (Christ's Hospital). G. S. Wamsley (St. Edward ' s School, Oxford). R. Waye (Shrewsbury School). E. R. Welles (Princeton University). H. S. 0. v\Tood (Rossall School). * Rhodes Scholar.

PRESENTATIONS TO DR ALLEN. The total sum contributed amounted to £6o. The names of those members of the Hall who subscribed to the presentations made to Dr. Allen on his resignation of the principalship : Allan, 1· B. Baber, L. C. Bagnall, H. Baldwin, C. E. Barff, R. H . Barker, D. C. Beddow, Rev. F. M. Beeley, 1. H. Bennett, Rev. E. 0.

Beswick, 1· E. Bird, D. L. Bishop, K. M. Blair, H. A. Brelsford, vV. V. Brewis, G. R. (Senior Tutar). Brice, E. P. Britton, R. W. Brownsell, N. K.

ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE Buchanan, Rev. F. Bunce, Rev. W. F. Burnett, L. P. Butterworth; Rev. H. W. Bye, J. E. A. Card, V. E. H. Cardale, C. F. Carlin, G. V . Castle, N. P. Chandler, A. S. Chaplin, vV. R. M. Clark, A. R. Clarke, J. H. T. Clayton, J. M. C. Clegg, A. L. Cloke, H. Cooke, VI. J . S. Cooper, A. C. Cooper, G. P. Cooper, T. B. Corlett, A. C. Cox, S. Cummings, W. F. Daniels, D. K. Dawson, N. Ellis, A. E. Emden, A. B. (Vic e-Principal ). Espinasse, P. G. Evans, F. vV. L. Ferris, Rev. E. S. Field, F. J . Fish , Rev. F. J. Fisher, Rev. R. St. J. Ford, J. W. Forrest, B. M. Foster, A. J. Fox, J. A. Fox, J.D. Franey, 'G. H. Franks, R. L. Gilbert, Rev. T. W. Giles, W. W. E. Godfrey, S. N. Godwin·, Rev. E. T. H. Gordon, A. A. Gower-Jones, W. D. Green, H. F. Guyler, Rev. W. L. Hanson, L. W. Harvey, L. N. Havergal, D. E. Hayward, L. G. Henderson, A : VI .

Henderson, L. D. Herbert, Rev. T. D. Heritage, T. C. Higgs, P. Hill, R. F. Hill, R. L. Hindle, Vv'. H . Hiscocks, C. R. Hodgson, A. B. Holland, J. N. C. Hook, H. H. Hopkinson, J. F . . Hordern, A. C. Hordern, R. L. Hustwayte, R ev. H. L. Iguchi, Sadao. Ingle; H. C. Janes, Rev. A. R. }anson-Smith, G. E. Jenkins, Rev. J. L. John, D. M. Johnson, B. C. W. Johnson, W . . Jones, D. E . M. G. Keeling, J. N. Knight, G. W. Knowles, J. M. Lamb, A. J. Lamb, E. C. Lamb, G. P. W. Lambeth, Rev. W. E. Lancaster, W. J. Lee, A. F. . Li, S. F. S. Linton, H. B. Linton, R. D. Livesey, R ev. H. Ludlow, J. C. W. Lummis, C. Murray, Rev. A. MacL. Mangan, S. D. Marchant, D. H. J. McCanlis, M. A. McGowan, Rev. F. Mead, A. H. Mercer, G. M. Miles, V. W. Millen, Rev. E. L. Mohan, Rev. B. P. Mohan, Rev. T. G. M·o ore, G. T. Morris, Rev. A. R. H. Moses, N.C.

ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE Muir, K. A. Munro, D.)(. Murray, J. R. l:L Nicholson, T. V. O'Connor, G.]: Oliver, K. C. Orchard, R. S. Palmer, H. W: Parker, R. M. Parr, Rev . A. C. Parsons, D. J. Passey, C. E. Pegg, H. E. Perry-Gore, N . A. Phillips, F. G. Phillips, J. E. T . Plaxton, Rev. C. A. Porter, J. F. A. Pownall, G. C. Powys, E. L. G. Print, M. J. V. Reddick, Rev. P. G. Reeves, F. G. Reynolds, W. V. Richards, F. D. M. Roberts, F. G. Robinson, R. S. Rowe, E. G. Royle, Rev. E. Rushby-Smith, B.J. Saberton, Rev. D. L. Sampson, Rev. C. Sayle, G. Sayle, R. Scutt, J. M. Sharpe, Rev. G. H.

Shaw, C. C , Shearman, H. C. ,-.路路Simpson, F. S. \i\T ..___ Smith, A. _E . Smith, J. A. Soulsby, M. J. Sprent, P. S. Spriggs, Rev. P. B .. , Sulston, A. E. A. Symes, J. W. L. Tackley, F. J. Tadman, J. L. Thomas, R. C. Thorne, R. I-l. Thornhill, G. W. Thorp, J.P. Toland, J. C. Trendell, Rev. A. IVL Trenham, N. B. _ Triffitt, H. A. Trimby, 0. C. Trott, F. H. Urry, E. Vickers, Rev. H. H. Walker, R. E. Warclle-Harpur, Rev. C. N. vVebber, IN. C. \iVestcott, P. L. J. vVhite, Rev. R. B. \Nilson, F. W. vVilson, vV. T . Yates, A. D. Yates, F. Yates, R. F. Young, P.

The names of those Aularians who, on the occasion -of tHe Old Members' Dinner in Hall, April 24, contributed to make a present to Dr. Allen in recognition of his memorable tenure of the principalship : Armytage, Rev. D. Howard, Rev. S. A. Branson, Rev. G. Johnston, Rev. W. G. Boys. Coles, Rev. L. H. Keene, Rev. Dr. A. C. 路 Croom, Rev. F. G. Martin, Rev. W. L. Cunningham, Rev. P. Phillips, Rev. T. E. R. Davis, Rev. Canon A. C. Shipton, Rev. C. P; Ffinch, Rev. K. M. Skinner, Rev. P. A. vV. Fisher, Rev. C. \V. Tayler, Rev. R. S. 0.' Thorne, Rev. H. W. Fletcher, Rev. vV. G. D. W 'a lker, C. D. 路 Ford, Rev. J. M. , _ Gresham, Rev. G. F. S.

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THE PRESENTATION· To- MR. WILLIAM BEST. Th e names of members of the Hall Boat Club and others who contributed to the presentation made to the Hall Boatman, Mr . "Wi lliam Best :Munro, D. K. Ainscow, Rev . H. M. Baber, L. C. Murray, F. R. H. Beswick, J. E. · · · : N icholson, T . V. Bird, D. L. Oliver, .K. C. Blair , Rev. J..vV. Orchard , R. S. Brelsford, vV. V. Palmer, H .. ·vV.· Brewis, G. R. (Senior Tutor and Parker, R . M . Senior Treasurer of A mal- · Payne, Rev. J . S. gamatedClubs). Pegg , H. E. Buchanan, Rev. F. · P erry-Gore, N. A. . Carter , E. P. Flaxton, Rev. C. A. (Captain Chandler, A. S . of Boat s, 1924-5). Chaplin, ,V. R. l\11. (Captain of Phillips, F. G. Boats, 1922-3). Ph illips, J. E. T. Cla-rke, J . H. T. P owys, E. L. G. Print, M . J. V. Clegg, A. L. Cummings, W. F. R eid, Rev. E. (Captain of Daniels, D. K. Boats , 1899). Emden, A. B. ( Vice -Principal). Roberts, F . .G. Forrest, B. M . Ru shby-Smith, B. J. (Ca ptain F letcher, Rev. R. F. W. of B oats, 1927-8). (Chaplain) . Sandison, P . J. Green , H. F. Selwyn, R ev. A. B. Heath, Rev . C. M.P. Sh epheard, Rev.. R . Henderson, A . W. Smith, P. S. Higg s, P . G. Stuttaford, Rev. J . I. Hiscocks, C. R . Sulston, A. E. A. Hopkinson, J . F . Tackley , F. J. Hordern, A. C. Tadman, J. L. Hustwayte, Rev . H. L. Tott, Rev. A. C. John, D. M . Trott , F. H. Keeling, J. N . V\Talker, R . E. (Captain of Lee, A. F. Boats). Marchant, D. H. J. ' Vestcott, P . L. J. Mercer , G. M. White, R ev. R . B. Mohan, Rev. B. P . ' Villiams , Rev. C. (Captain of Moses, N .C. Boats, 1919). Muir, K. A. Wilson, R ev. H. A.

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THE NEW BUILDING FUND. We very gratefully record below the Third List of Subscriptions that have been received on behalf of t he New Building. The New Building F und will remain open for another year.

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