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KEY TO H.-\LL PHOTOGJ{ .-\l'H The 11a111 es arc givc 11 fro111 left to right as viewed by til e ·r eader.

13ach Row: R. R. Young , J.C . Ralph,,\\'. H. S lack, J. S. Godde n, D . R. C hapman , D. J . D ay , D. 1.\ . H anling, E. D. Moylan, R. C. '.\1. Cooper , A. J. \Vaters, M. A. Robson, J. C. Bingham,.-\ . J . Gray, J. \ ' . .-\n dre\\·s, :-.i. B. Hall, J . C . Voigt, J. A. :-.iash, ..\. Lynch.

S econd Row: ]. T. Hollin, C. C. B. \\' ight\\·ick, I'. L. ;\lorlinw r, J .C. Palmer, B. Y . C udmore, R. M. \\'hitfi eld, M. W. \\'oud, R . D. M. Darlin g, C. R. George, ;\I. ;\I. Vhight, I'. i\l. Hugh es , D. R. \\'hit e , :\ . J . Harding, R. T ay lor, ;\, G. Barnett, Dougl as F . Jones , T. i\I. Connor , D. B. White , J. H. J. MacLeny , M. J. Ockencle n.

Thi·rd Row: J . R . M. Branston, D. G. G. Hoa re , R . G. Lunn , D. P. :\l yl es, M. J. Campbell, I. C. R. Hyatt, B. Walburn, D . J. McCa rthv , A. G. Felse ns tein, R . R. Gree n, J. S. J e nkin s, i\I. J. Kelly, B. F. Pritchard, D. :\1. Lai ng, C. I. Drummond, R. H . Roberts, J. Pa tel, R. :\I. Trotter, J. H . Sprnyt, N. Macdonald-Smi th.

Fourth Row: R . \\' . M. Th ompson, J. H. Kemps ter, I. F. :Vlclntosh, P. Brown, D. Rosenb erg, J. E. :\I. .-\rn old, P . B. Ma:rn·e ll, N. F. Lockh a rt, G. E . Efetie, B. K . E. Le"·is. K. W . La flin, J. N. Badminton, D. J . V. vV.-ight, J. M. Blackburn, .f. D . Alun -J ones, C. J. Lummis. H . M. Plowden-Robert s, D. N. Thompson, D. B. \\-right, J. B. Staples , P. B. \ Vright , R. C. J ennings, T. Bendh em, P. D. L mH ence, P . /\ . H. Currah, J. Thornton.

Fifth Row: J. F. Claxton, C . J. J ones , E . :\. Simmonds, P . R. H e n\\·ood, .J . Ba rton , F . P . F ergu so n , B. C. ;\ixon, J . A ..-\kroyd, G ..-\. L. Benn ett, A. G. P oy nter, D. i\I. J acobs . .J. Dunl eav ie, K ..-\. Lund, M. B. F oster , C . D. Griffin-Smith, B. J. (:ole, R . H. French, ..\. T . G. Jon es , R a j K. S . S. Pitamber, J. R. Allchurch.

C. J. D . Saund er s-(;riffith s , C. :\1. Armitage, J. T . S toa k ely, H. \\'. Goldsworthy, J . H . W . La ph a m .

Sixth Row: D. C. D a,· ies, J . E. Farra nd , R. H . \\'ill iams, I~. J. Lee , T. E. F. Co ul so n, J . D . Anthom·, D ...\ . Lilli crap, B. T . G ibso n, ]. F . Fos ter, S. D. Graham, D . F .

Bourne-J ones, A. C. Johnston, D. B. Coltman, D.:\. A. W eston , H. ;\ . R. L each, J. H. A. Godw in, F. E. Ru sby, W. H. C. BrO\rn, J. H . H ea l, D. B. Ogih·ie, A. E. H. Turn er, W. H. A. Sand erson, \\'. J. i\f. Chaplin, J. C. D . Holmes, G. M. H a rtl ey, Derek J. J ones , F. H. Moeton , W. J . Ell iot t, J. L. Scott.

Seve11th Row: J. Whee ler ,) c\ . C. M. P a nting, T . P . Denehy , J. E . Ear le. G. H. H a ll smith D. H . F. Lay, M. K. Chatte rj ea , ;-.;_Teller, J . .-\ . W ebber, Mr. C . H . J enner, Dr. R . F a rgh er , The R ev. J. McM a nn er s, Mr . G. D. R a m say , J. D.S . Pun·es, The Prin cipa l, The Vice-Principa l, Mr . C. F. W. R. Gullick, Mr. E. G. Midgl ey, R . E. Waddington-Jon es, D. Sephton, P . R. E rn ns.

Eighth Row: G . B. Arch er, G. Th om as. J. !\I. Skinner, C. G. Hadl ey. H . Lea r, D. :\. Singleton,:\. R. D ougl as, P. G. Tud or,(; :\I. Burt, H. C. Osgood; G . I. de De ney.

ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE Vol. VI, No. 3

JULY, 1953

EDITORS 1953: C. H.

FLETCHER,

Editor

D. H. F. LAY, Assistant Editor

DE PERSONIS ET REBUS AULARIBUS THE MAGAZINE AND THE

DIRECTORY

WO vital changes affecting the Magazine and the Hall Directory have recently been agreed, and as they closely concern Aularians we hasten to give them the prominence of this initial paragraph. Since its inauguration the Magazine has been based upon the calendar year, each issue recording the sequence of Hall history from January to December. The unnaturalness of this p lan must often have struck our readers, for what counts in the life of schools, colleges and universities is the academic year, which in our case begins in October and ends in July. The Executive Committee of the Aularian Association has now recommended that henceforth the Magazine should be geared to the academic year.

Those responsiple for its production have readily fallen in with so c ommonsense a suggestion, and if the present number should seem somewhat slimmer than usual, that is because it marks the transit io ;1 between the two systems and, only covers the Hilary and T:-:nity Terms. In future it is hoped that a Magazine covering the previous academic year will be issued annually in the Christmas vacat:on. At the same time the Executive Committee, which generously finances the Directory, has reached the conclusion, with the greatest reluctance and regret, that it will no longer be possible to produce this useful address-book more frequently than once in every two years, and that the next issue will have to be pos•poned till next Christmas vacation. The reason for this change 1s the ever-mounting cost of paper and printing. Whereas before

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the war this amounted to ÂŁ30 at most, it nowadays reaches something over ÂŁ100. It seems obvious that, with so many worthwhile objects competing for its support, this represents an altogether disproportionate share of the Association's annual income.

As a slight compensation for its less frequent appearance, it is hoped to make the Directory even more accurate and complete than it has been in the past. We would therefore exhort Aularians to co-operate by punctually notifying the authorities of the Hall of any change in their addresses.

THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS

The Principal has had the honour of being invited to preach before the University of Cambridge. He fulfilled his duties as Select Preacher on Sunday, 19 April, the opening Sunday of the Cambridge Trinity Term, and an a)>stract of his sermon, as is customary, was published in the following week in The Cambridge Review. He has also accepted an invitation from the Rector and Fellows of Exeter College to be Catechist of the College for the year 1953-4. This office was instituted in t he early years of the eighteenth century, and has been held by an illustrious succession of divines . The Wightring Lectures which he delivered in Chichester Cathedral in July 1952 have, by request, been published

by S .P.C.K. under the title What is Catholicism? and have excited considerable interest. He has been reappointed a member of both the Oxford University Appointments Committee and the Dispensation Committee. In Trinity Term he was the guest of honour at the annual dinner of the Bournemouth and District branch of the Oxford Society.

The Vice-Principal, we note with satisfaction, is now a member of the Council of Public Analysts. We publish elsewhere a n~te on his lecturing tour in the United States of Ae,merica We congratulate Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Ramsay on the )>irth of a son, .Malcolm Nial. It is pleasant to record that on Sunday, 22 February, at 3 p.m., Joseph Hug h, the infant son of the Chaplain and Mrs. McManners was christened by his father in the Hall Chapel. The Principal and the Junior Dean (Mr. E. G. Midgley) stood as godfathers, and the wife of the Senior Tutor, Mrs. (Etta) Gullick as godmother.

ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE We note with satisfaction that Dr. R. Fargher has been elected a member of the Modern Languages Faculty Board, and also a Delegate of Local Examinations.

THE TRUSTEES

We congratulate Dr. P.A. Scholes, who in addition to being a Trustee is an Honorary Fellow of the Hall and one of its most distinguished old members, on having the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, conferred upon him by the University of Leeds. As a Yorkshireman }>orn in that very city, Dr. Scholes must find this honour peculiarly gratifying. For our own part, we note with respectful admiration that this is the fourth doctorate with which his signal musicological achievements have been crowned.

The Magazine also offers its congratulations to Sir Henry P. Price, who was a Trustee for a few brief years after ~he war and only resigned the office reluctantly on medical advice, on being promoted to a baronetcy in the Coronation Honours List. It is further interesting to record that Mr. D. Veale, C.B.E., who represents the Inter-Universities Council for Higher Education in the Colonies on the Council of Achimota University College, visited the Gold Coast and took his seat on the Council in January. While in West Africa he was invited to join in the deliberations of the Council of the University College of lbadan, and took advantage of the opportunity to study the problems facing the College, particularly in the development of its medical faculty, with a view to ascertaining the help which this country might be able to give.

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EMERITUS FELLOWS

Taking advantage of the powers conferred by the new Hall Statute (the provisions of which are fully explained elsewhere), the Principal and Fellows have elected Mr. G. R. Brewis and Professor H.J. Hunt, of Holloway College, London, to Emeritus Fellowships. The election of Mr. Brewis, of course, merely gives formal and public ratification to his informal appointment to the same office two years ago, when the decision to rank him inter .4.ulares as Emeritus Fellow pending the assumption by the Hall of power to bestow this distinction caused widespread gratification.

Professor Hunt's numerous pupils and the many other Aularians.

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who knew him as Tutor and then Fellow between 1929 and 1945 will be equally delighted to learn of his election, which symbolises the official return of a dear and honoured friend in gremium ,Aulae.

FELLOWSHIP IN JumSPRUDENCE

Mr. F. A. R. Bennion, who assumed the duties of Lecturer in Jurisprudence only a year ago, has been appointed an Assistant Parliamentary Counsel to H.M. Treasury and has accordingly tendered his resignation to the Principal and Fellows. In view ·of the great importance of the new position offered him, they have had no option but to accept his resignation with the deepest regret.

In so doing they would express the Hall's best thanks to Mr. Bennion for the admirable way in which, in so brief a space of time, he has organised the instruction of the ever expanding army of _young lawyers at the Hall: the results in Schools have already ·begun to give proof of the excellence of his teaching. Mr. Bennion, · it should be added, has generously consented to continue as Lecturer until his successor can enter upon office. To assist him , ·the services of Mr. N. C. H. Browne-Wilkinson, of Magdalen Colleg e and Lincoln's Inn, at present w9rking at the Bar, have been secured at week-ends. Mr. Browne-Wilkinson is the son of .an Aularian, Canon A. R. Browne-Wilkinson, M.C., M.A., Precentor of Chichester Cathedral and Provost of the Southern Division of the vVoodard Schools, and while .u p at ·M;agdalen ·Obtained his Blue for Squash as well as a First in Jurisprudence .

In view of Mr. Bennion's impending departure and the number ·Of men reading Law at the Hall, the decision has been taken to establish a Fellowship in that subject. This is a step of far-re:iching importance, involving as it does a strengthening of the governing body as well as an enlargement of the teaching staff; and it is perhaps a token 'o f the Hall's generally robust and healthy condition :at the moment that it finds itself able to enter into such a momentous, expensive 'c ommitment. lt is understood that, when the freshly created post .was advertised in Trinity Term, the fielci of · :applicants proved large a:nd of gratifyingly high quality. The choice of the Principal and Fellows has fallen on David Charles Miller Yardley, who was .edu~ated at Ellesmere College and then ·proceeded to Birmingham University, where he graduated Bachelor ·of Laws with a brillian't First Class. ·After doing his National :Service irt the R.A.F., iri which he gained his commission, he

ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE e ntered Lincoln College two years. ago in order to pursue research with a view to a doctorate . He has completed his thesis this summer, and the Board of the Faculty of Jurisprudence has recommended him for the degree of D.Phil. Mr. Yardley has had the distinction of being awarded the Byloe Teaching Fellowship at the Chicago Law School; and in view of this the Principal and Fellows, while dating his appointment as Fellow of the Hall as from Michaelmas Te rm, have given him leave of absence for a year in order tha t lie may benefit to the full by the experience which a year's residence in that famous cen t re of juridical learning is bound to impart. \i\Then he takes up his work at the Hall in Michaelmas Term 1954, he can be sure of mee ting with a warm and encouraging welcome from a ll its membe rs, senior and junior.

NEW LECTURER S

The Principal and Fellows have appointed R. P. Beckinsale, D.Phil. , M.A. (Reading), and G. vV. Series, M.A., D.Phil., a.s Lecturers in Geography and Physics respectively. Dr. Beckinsale, originally a member of St. Cathe rine's Soci~ty, is University Lecturer in Geography and also holds a Lecturership in that subject at University College: his published works are numerous and widely knO\vn. Dr. Series is a St. John's man , and is University Demonstrator in Physics. These appointme nts are indicative of the increasing importance of these subjects, pa rticularly ,Physics, at the Hall.

At the same time, in the interests of learning generally, the Principal and Fellows have created an entirely new (non-stipendiary) Lecturership in Administrati ve History, and have appointed R. B. Pugh, M.A. , to occupy i.t. Formerly of Quee n's College, Mr. .

Pugh served for se veral years .in the Public R ecord Office and is now estapli.s hed in the Royal Institute of. Historical Resea路rch as Editor of The Victoria History of tl1 c Counties of England. His interest in the history of administra tion-he himself worked in the Dominions Office during the recent wa r-is recognised, and the results of his explorations in that field are eagerly awaited.

THE BURSAR 'S RETIREME:'.l."T

路Four years ago the 1\fagazine offered a warm welcome to Mr. C. H. Jenne r on his appointment as Bursar: now it bids him, -in 路 the name of all the Aularians who. have come to know him, an affectionate farewell. Time has sped 路s,~iftly since 1949, and Mr.

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Jenner's youthful zest and spirits belie the fact that he has reached the age fixed for the retirement of officers of the Hall. Though his tenure of the Bursarship has necessarily been brief, it has been crowded with activity, and much has been accomplished in which his sagacity, experience and inventiveness have played their part.

Some of the changes he has supervised have been spectacular: witness the adaptation, furnishing and inauguration of the Besse Building. Others, no less important, have been carried through silently, like the better ordering of our domestic arrangements, the improvement of meals, and the introduction of system in departments where previously it was lacking. While grateful for all these, Aularians will not forget to thank him for the expert, loving care he has lavished on the lawn, the flower-beds and, particularly, the patch of gar<len in the back quadrangle. As Bursar he has made himself accessible to undergraduates, always lending a sympathetic ear to their pleas; and he has interested himself in the sporting activities, academic achievements and the wider fortunes of the Hall with infectious keenness. The undergraduates generally, many of whom had become his personal friends, signified their regard at the end of Trinity Term by presenting him with a silver cigarettebox: the domestic staff, too, made him a presentation of their own.

Our sincere prayer is that his retirement may be filled with every blessing and happiness.

THE NEW BURSAR

As Mr. Jenner's successor the Principal and Trustees have selected Mr. R. E. Alton, M.C., M.A. The new Bursar needs no introduction to Aularians, having !>een closely associated with the Hall since his admission as an undergraduate in 1938. A distinguished soldier, he served throughout the war, first with the Sherwood Foresters and then with the Eleventh Hussars (P.A.0.), and was decorated with the Military Cross. Since taking his degree, he has held office as Lecturer in English Litei:ature both at the Hall and at Jesus College, and has scored some remarkable successes as tutor. In 1948 he was appointed Librarian of the English Faculty Library, where he gained useful administrative ex,Perience. He enjoys a notable reputation on the cricket field, being an Authentic and having been awarded his Oxfordshire County cap. While supervising the Bursary, he will retain his status as Lecturer in English. and '\vill continue to hold a limited

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number of tutorials. The office upon which he entered on I September is a key one in a modern educational institution, and everyone at the Hall will extend to him a hearty welcome, confident that he will tackle his responsibilities with drive, efficiency and more than a touch of gaiety.

THE CORONATION

Sunday, 3I .May, was observed, by the Queen's command, as Coronation Sunday, and large congregations attended the morning and evening services in Chapel. A special combined University and City service was held in St. Mary the Virgin at I .I a.m. On the following day more than half the junior members of the Hall made their way, by a surprising variety of modes of transport, to London, there to camp in the street or, if more provident, to prepare for taking their prearranged places by the processional route next morning. Tuesday, 2 June, the actual day of the Coronation, was a Unive,rsity holiday, and in the evening a Coronation Banquet was held in the dining hall and was attended by the Principal and Fellows and a goodly body of undergraduates who had not made the journey to London. The Principal gave the loyal toast, in which all present, including the servants, joined with enthusiasm. The Manciple and his staff had presented the Principal with a magnificent cake, bearing on its richly iced top a replica of the coronation coach drawn by nine horses, and this the Principa l and Fellows, along with the wives of the latter, consumed before watching the ceremonies in the Abbey on television.

The ' Teddy Bears ' celebrated the occasion by playing a cricket ' match against Stanton Harcourt, the stakes being four and a half gallons of beer.

OXFORD TREASURES IN LONDON

To mark the year of the Coronation the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and the Oxford Society arranged a notable display of historic treasures of Oxford in Goldsmiths' Hall. In addition to paintings, drawings, tapestry and illuminated manuscripts, this exhibition included a splendid collection of University and college silver, and it is pleasant to record that the Hall, although not richly endowed with such precious objects, was able to cm~tribute two outstanding pieces reflecting the beauty of English design and craftsmanship at very different periods. The first was the

ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE magnificent covered tankard, with open scroll thumbpiece, which was made by Samuel vVastell in 1703 and was presented to the Hall in the same year by John Bennett (matric. 1701). The second was the three-piece coffee set , designed by A. E. Pittm.a n and made by Wakely and 'i\Theele r Ltd. in 1951, which was recently purchased out of a bequest made by Peter Young (matric. 1925: d ied in an air accident 1947)· THE RHODES REUNI0:-1

·Hig h a mong the memorable happenings of 1953 must be reckoned the celebrations which the University and colleges, co-operating with and assisted by the Rhodes Trustees, arranged in order to mark the centenary of the birth of Cecil Rh~des and t he jubilee of the foundation of his Scholarships. For four complete days, 29 June to 2 July , several hundred Rhodes Scholars, in many cases accompanied by their wives and families, roamed as free.men of the University , renewing acquaintance with one another a nd their respective colleges. There were receptions, g·arden parties, a service in Christ Church, a special Convocation at which cieg.r ees were conferred, a sumptuous banquet in Rhodes House. .Perhaps most moving of all, and likely to linger longest in the recollection of all concerned, were the smaller, more intimate re unions which colleges organised for their own Scholars, culmiriating in Gaudy Dinners on Wednesday, .~ July. The Aularian contingent comprised six names_:_F. D. Walker (1921: University of Arizona), N. B. T~enh.am (1921: University of Arizona), S. R. Dunlap (1935: University of Iowa), J. \V. Vail (1947: Pririce of Wales School. Nairobi). H. M. Long (1949: Alabama Polytechnic Institute), and K. A. Lund (1951: Mount Allison University, N .B.) : a very creditable proportion of the total number of Rhodes Scholars, hardly more than a score, who have been ac.lmitted to the Hall. In welcoming· them and making them feel at home the Principal anc.1 Fellows had the added pleasure of meeting the wives of some of them-Mrs. vValker, Mrs. Trenham_, 1.\1rs. Vail and Mrs. Long-as well as Noble, the son of N. B. Trenham (who was immediately enrolled as an honorary Aularian for the occasion). At the c.legree ceremony in the Sheldonian Theatre on l July both F. D. '1\Talker and N. B. Trenham p~o­ ceeded to their degrees , and in the evening of the same day the Principal and Fellows entertained the six Rhodes Scholars, along with Noble Trenham, to a Gaudy Dinner in the Hearne Room.

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The presence of Mr. E mden at this function brought particular satisfaction to everyone . In a brief speech the Principal g ave the toast of the Aula rian Rhodes Scholars, both those who were present and those who , thoug h oblig ed to be a bsent, no doubt were united w ith the company in their thoughts . F. W. ¡walker , as the senior Schola r, replied in felicitous terms, while N. B. Trenham followed with a speech in richly reminiscent vein. After the port had circulated in traditional fashion, hosts and guests adjourned to the Senior Common Room, where the celebrations were prolonged to the early hours of the next morning .

V I S ITS O F THE BESSE FAMILY

After being in occupa tion for exactly one yea r, it is gratifying to record that the Besse Building has amply fulfilled all the hopes which attended its adaptation and inauguration. Visitors to the Hall, both old members and members of other colleges, are united in admiring both the extent and amenity of the accommodation it offers. Perhaps the pleasantest tributes , however, have been received from the close relatives of the benefactor to whose munificent gift the incorporation o(the Building is due. On Tuesday, 23 June, Madame Besse, the widow of Monsieur Antonin Besse, honoured the Hall with a visit and was taken on a tour of inspection of the Building by the Principal and several of the Fellows.

She showed herself quick to appreciate the importance of the extension to the Hall, and was evidently keenly interested in all the practical aspects of the adaptation. In the last week of the Long Vacation, on 6 October, her da ug hter Monna Besse, now l\frs. Adie, accompanied by her husband , took luncheon with the Principal, who afterwards conducted them over the Building.

Both Madame Besse and Mrs .. Adie remarked, after noting the g reatly increased facilities which it has put at the Hall's disposal as well as the e nhanced possibilities which it opens up, tl:~at i.t corresponded e xac tly to Monsieur Besse 's dreams and, had he lived, would haYe g iven him the greatest satisfaction .

. THE EMDEN ROOM

The Emden Room , planned since 19511 as the Aularian Association ' s chief memorial to Mr. ¡ A. B. Emdcn 's Principalship, was formally inaug urated o~ 27 June during the R eunion. Situated in the Besse Building, it comprises two large rooms with the

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partition wall removed: with fireplaces at each end and two spacious bow-windows, it has an overall length of more than forty feet. The furniture, which the Association has provided out of subscriptions and a grant from its furids, conforms to the modern style and has been universally admired: a tribute is owed to Messrs. Druce & Co. Ltd., who designed and made it. The dominant hue of the thick Wilton carpet and the heavy windowcurtains is russet, while the long main table, side-tables and chairs are of light oak. The last-mentioned , like the comfortable easychairs, are upholstered in olive green. The' pendant and standard lamps and the other furnishings take up the same soberly modern note. The Junior Common Room has also made its contribution, supplying rich dark green velvet curtains to hang at the pilasters between the two original rooms and to be drawn if required, and lending select pictures from its collection of contemporary works of art to adorn the walls. Mr. Emden's portrait, done in water colours by Mr. H. A. F'reeth, hangs over the main fireplace and bears an appropriate inscription. While the formal opening had to be postponed until the Reunion, the Room was used several times during Trinity Term in an experimental way. Its usefulness as a setting for meetings, discussion groups, sherry parties, dinners and gatherings of all kinds has already been abundantly attested.

BrsHor Wn.LIAMS

LECTURE RooM

During the summer the Lecture Room at the bottom of Staircase VIII has been thoroughly redecorated and refurnished, the glass roofing over the north end being also reconstructed and, it is hoped, made waterproof. A carpet has been laid, new and more suitable tables have been installed, additional bookcases have been fixed against the west wall, and the room has been illuminated by fluorescent lighting. The collection of books presented by Bis¡h op Williams has been housed in one of the bookcases, while the others have been filled with the books belonging to the theological section of the Undergraduates' Library. The portrait of Dr. Williams as Bishop of Carlisle, which was painted

by Mr. Richard Murry in 1929 and used to hang in the dining hall, dominates the room from its new position over the fireplace.

In recognition of his benefactions to the Hall and as a link with his Principalsh ip from 1913 to 1920, it is proposed to desig¡nate

T HE EM D EN ROO:VI Th e: po r t rait of :\fr . . \ . B . E 111 ck n ca n b e: sc:e n on t he far wall , a ncl t hat o f Ca non H odgson o n d ie le ft

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the room henceforth as the Bishop Williams Lecture Room. In its ' new look ' the room lives up to th_e honoured name it now bears, and is an attractive addition to the public apartments of the Hall.

GIFTS FROM BISHOP WILLIAMS

The Hall is this year indebted to Bishop H. H. Williams for a series of handsome gifts. In Hilary Term a fine collection of books arrived in two crates, the majority of them dealing with philosophy, both ancient and modern, and the borderline between philosophy and theology. The prize item of the collection is an original copy of David Loggan 's Oxoni'.a lllustrata containing in its entirety the famous sequence of prints of the colleges, halls and public buildings of the University. In the Easter Vacation the Bishop presented the Hall with the portrait in oils of himself which Mr. R. G. Eves, A.R.A., painted in 1936. This is a distinguished canvas, draw,n with a fine perception of character, and has been hung in the dining-hall, where it replaces the portrait by Mr. R. Murry. It may be recalled that Mr. Eves painted two ide~tical portraits of the Bishop at the same time: the other ha¡ngs in Rose Castle in the collection of portraits of Bishops of Carlis!~. Dr. Williams _has also conveyed to the Hall a commodious chest packed with miscellaneous pieces of silver. These include several pairs of candlesticks, a large variety of pepper castors, salt-cellars, spoons, forks and serviette rings, two salvers, an ~legant Victorian coffee-pot and a large oval Georgian tea-pot, and - ~ number of lesser items. The most remarkable piece is a splendid Scandinavian silver-gilt peg tankard, the lid bearing a coat-of-arms and bifurcated thumb-piece, with a bold scroll handle and three pomegranate feet, and date pricked 1657. These variegated gifts add greatly to the amenity of the Hall, and invite the warm-hearted gratitude of all Aularians.

TELLTALE SILVER

This year sees an interesting addition to the silver which embellishes the dining hall and enhances the comfort of diners. It is a one-pint tankard with a single handle, lightly engraved with a pattern of leaves. For an inscription it bears the initials J.A.B., R.A.C., H.H.P. under the date 1937, and A.W.B., D.E.W., D.P. under the date 1952. If this should strike the uninitiated as e'nigmatic, they should recall that three Aularians , J. A. Brett,

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R. A. Cooper and H. H. Pennington, were invited to play for the University in the Rugby Match against Cambridge in 1937¡ The two first of these and the f;unily of H. H. Pennington, who was killed in the war, have had the happy thought of presenting the tankard to signalise the fact that fifteen years later the same fine distinction has fallen to the Hall in the persons of A. W. Boyce, D. E. Wood and D. Pollard.

OTHER GIFTS TO THE HALL

We record with gratitude several interesting gifts, all of them of high artistic quality, which have recently been made to the Hall. The Aularian Association has presented two portraits, one of Mr. A. B. Emden and the other of Mr. G. R. Brewis, to hang in the Emden Room. Executed in water colours, they are the work of Mr. H. Andrew Freeth, who enjoys an outstanding reputation in this field. Mr. Emden himself has commissioned from Mr. Freeth a similar portrait of the Reverend Canon L. Hodgson, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church, sometime Vice-Principal and now Honorary Fellow: he has presented it to the Hall, and it too hangs in the Emden Room. In addition he has presented the Senior Common Room with two silver . decanter labels. An American Aularian, ~fr. G. B. Barner (mat¡ric. 1935), now settled in Boston, who paid a brief but pleasant visit to the Hall in the smmner, has gener.ousl~' provided the funds for the purchase of an arm-chair for the Emden Room; while Mr. C. R. Ullyatt (m<itric. 1941) has embellished the Room with a beautiful Orrefors (Swedish) glass ashtray. To commemorate the Coronation, a donor who asks to remain anonymous has presented an extremely graceful miniature table-bell made by Messrs. Wakely & Wheeler Ltd. to the design of S. T. Bishop. It -bears the special Coronation mark, and is to be rung at high table to signalise grace, the drinking of toasts, etc. The beauty and dignity of the services in Chapel have been increased by the gift of a crimson chasuble by Mr. E. G. Midgley, and green and white chasubles by the Rev. J. C. Stephenson (matric. 1934).

A SUNDIAL RESTORED For generations a picturesque ornament of the north side of the quadrangle has been the square sundial, affixed high up in the centre of the range of buildings and displaying in black and

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white a miniature sun with its rays and the signs of the zodiac in addition to the numerals .marking the hours. In Trinity Term the decision was taken to refurbish it, but when it was taken down the woodwork was found to Pe warped and, in places, to have r-otted away. An entirely new sundial has accordingly been constructed, conforming faithfully in size and design to its predecessor, but painted in rich and splendid colours. A gold sun circled with flaming red now emits golden rays which find their way, through borders of royal blue, to golden numerals. To commemorate the Coronation a Latin inscription has been added which happily combines reverence for the Throne with a practical recognition of a sundial's limitations: Au SPICE ELIZABETHA II HoRAS :"ON NuMERO Nrsr SERENAS. The cost of the operation, it can be properly disclosed, has been defrayed out of ¡a small gift which Mr. R. B. Pugh, formerly of Queen's College, Editor of The Victorin Histo1''Y of t he Counties of Engl.and, makes annually to the Hall to be expended at the Principal's discretion. As Mr. Pugh has been appointed a Lecturer of the Hall, we suggest that Aularians can best express their gratitude by forming the habit, as they hasten to his lectures , of timing their arrival by glancing up at the shadow falling athwart the glittering colours of the sundial.

THE PROCTORSHIP This year it fell to Queen's College and the Hall to nominate one of the two Proctors, the other being appointed by Pembroke College. After discussion it was agreed between the two societies that their Proctor should be Mr. A. D. Woozley, Fellow and Praelector of Queen's College, and on the afternoon of Friday, 25 February, his name was proposed jointly by the Provost and the Principal at a meeting of all those entitled to vote held in the dining-hall of Queen's. As one of his two Pro-Proctors Mr. vVoozley has nominated Mr. R. E. Alton, Lecturer in English and Bursar of the Hall. We congratulate him on this honour, confident that he will wield the rod of discipline firmly but with understanding.

THE SUMMER DA."1CE The Dance Committee under the Chairmanship of H. N. R. Leach organised anoth'er most successful and enjoyable dance on the evening of 19 June. Once again the Forum Restaurant was

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the scene for the dancing and Chappie D'Amato and his Orchestra returned to provide music of all styles and tempos. A muchenjoyed innovation this year was a cabaret provided by members of the E.T.C. Revue which entertained the company with lyrics and sketches. After the many exhausting eightsome reels it was pleasant to sit and see somebody else working. The Front and the Back Quads were again illuminated with floods and ¡fairy lights, and the dancing and parties went on until the dawn started to break, ending another happy Hall occasion and another swnmer term.

A N OT'EWORTIIY

CONFERENCE

vVhile two or three interesting conferences have been lodged in the ¡ Hall this year, one of them stands out as of special importance. This was a conference on colonial training, with particular reference to the reorganisation of the Devonshire Courses, which was organised by the Secretary of State for the Colonies and presided over by the Under-Secretary of State, the Earl of Munster. Opening on 14 September, it was attended by representatives of the several colonial governments, the Colonial Office itself, and the three universities concerned with the Devonshire Courses--Oxford, Cambridge and London. For its duration a very distinguished company of colonial administrators and experts ate, worked and slept within the precincts of the Hall. At the opening session in the Emden Room the Vice-Chancellor, Sir Maurice Bowra, outlined the scope of the discussions, while the Principal in a brief speech welcomed the delegates to the Hall.

The recommendations reached as a result of their deliberations , subject as they are to the approval of the Secretary of State and endorsement by the governments concerned, should be of farreaching importance for the future of the colonial em{'.iire.

HIGHER DEGREES

J..A. Gibb, having submitted a dissertation on ' Factors governing population density of birds of the genus Parus' for the degree of D.Phil., satisfied the examiners appointed by the Board of the Faculty of Biological Sciences.

C. Dopb, having submitted a thesis on ' Life and conditions in London prisons, 1553-1643, with special reference to contemporary literature' for the degree of B.Litt., satisfied the examiners

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appointed by the Board of the Faculty of English Language and Literature.

N. S. Haile, having submitted a thesis on 'Tertiary intrusive sheets and stocks of part of the Kling-kang Range, Sarawak ' for the degree of B.Sc., satisfied the examiners appointed by the Board of the Faculty of Biological Sciences. ¡

NATURAL SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIPS

For the first time in its history the Hall has this year felt itself able to offer an Open Scholarship in Natural Science. This important and most welcome departure, which has been made possible by the earmarking of a portion of the Besse Benefaction for open awards, corresponds to the growing strength of scientific subjects at the Hall, and encourages the hope of even more noteworthy academic successes in this field in the future than have fallen to our lot in the past. For examination purposes the Hall has linked itself with the group of which University and Balliol Colleges, New College, Trinity and St. John's Colleges are members. The number and quality of the candidates making the Hall their first choice at this year's examination, which was held in March, were highly creditable and, as is recorded elsewhere, the first award has already been i:nade. It is understood that the Principal and Trustees are proposing to offer two Open Scholarships next year.

SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATIONS

As a result of the Open Scholarship Examinations in English Literature, Modern Lang uages and Geography, held in conjunction with Jesus, Lincoln, Worcester and Wadham Colleges on Tuesday 6 January, and the two succeeding days, the following elections to scholarships were made: Eric Halton Rhode, Fettes College (English Literature).

Michael John Olorenshaw Sutherland, Leamington College (English Literature).

Ronald Francis Reynolds, Alsop High School, Liverpool (Modern Languages).

David Ian Scargill, Batley Grami:nar School (Geography).

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New College, Trinity and St. John's Colleges on Tuesday 17 M;arch and the succeeding; days, the following election to a scholarship was made:Eric Michael John Hilt, Royal Masonic School for Boys (Physics).

Scholarship examinations in 1954 have been arranged as follows.

The Scholarship Examinations in English Literature, Modern La nguages and Geography , held in conjunction with Jesus, Lincoln, Worcester, Wadhain, Pembroke and Hertford Colleges will be held on Tuesday, 5 January, and the following days. The Hall is offering one Open Scholarship of £80 for English, M;odern Languages, <Yr Geography and three Open Scholarships of £40 for English, Modern Languages and Geography .

The Scholarship Examinations in Natural Science, held in conjunction with University, Balliol, Exeter, and Oriel Colleges, New College, Magdalen, Brasenose, Corpus Christi, Trinity, St. John's , Pem):>roke, and Worcester Colleges, which were held this year in March, have now been moved forward and will be held on Tuesday .

8 D ecember, 1953· The Hall is offering two Open Scholarships of

£40.

The Open Scholarship Examination in History will be held in November and the Hall is offering two scholarships of the value of £40.

On Tuesday, 5 January, 1954, and the following days the first examinations will be held for a new Hall Scholarship, the Holy Family Scholarship in Classics, of the annual value of £40·

STOP PRESS

The cooking range which has done the Hall such sterling service and cooked many thousands of Aularian meals, has come to the end of its long and useful life. Experts have examined it and pronounced it beyond cure and repair. The Hall is now faced with the prospect of purchasing a new range and with a· bill for over £300. In a Society such as ours where the budget is worked out to the smallest detail and where we must live on an income and expenditure basis without endowments or free investments to dra·w on, such an expense is a serious problem.

We have thought fit to break away from the historical limits of this Magazine, which covers Hall events down to the encl of Trinity Term 1953, to bring- this matter to the not=ce of old Aulari?.ns as soon as possible, in the hope that they might help ·w hat we are

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sure is a worthy cause-the provision of a new range to improve even further the gastronomic well-being of present undergraduates.

This must be a subject which, one way or another, must have provoked as much interest and used up as much space in the Suggestion Book with every generation of Aularians as it does with the present.

Any contri.butions, large or small, to the Kitchen Range Fund will be gratefully receiYed by the Bursar and we will report progress in our next edition of the .\~agiazine. \Ve hope all .\ularians will rally to support this most practical appeal, and provide the Manciple with better equipment to fight his battle on the Kitchen Front.

THE SCHOOLS

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Na.tu.ml Science: Physics: Class I: E. H. B. \\,-illiams. Chemistr~¡ II: Class II: P. T. Ford, D. ~\. Kinsley . . lnimal Ph ysiology Class I: D. :\. Lillicrap. Class II: J. H. B. \Villiams. Botany: Class II: G. J. Paxman.

Jnrisprwleiu:e : Class II: C. D. Griffin-Smith, K. :\. Lund, J. D. S. Purves, A. Lynch. Class III: -.\I. B. Foster, R. H. Irvine, J. M. Kershaw.

History: Class II: J. G . Hellamy, G. Heddle, vV. H. A. Sanderson, P.R. Snoxall. Class III: J. R . .-\llchurch, R. E. \ l\TaddingtonJoncs. Class IV: D. E. T. Groocock .

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English: Class II: .\1. Baldwin, G. M. Burt, J. F. Earle, W. ].

Elliott, G. H. Hallsmith, P. D. Lawrence, J. L. Scott, M. C. Seymour, D. A. G. Turner. Class III: T. P. Denehy, D. B. Heffer. Class IV: ~~ . Milliken . .Modern J,angua.ges: Class II: B. C ..-\rthur, B. T. Gibson, N. Harvey, R. J. Lee, D. Pollard, D. G. Russell, P. E. Smith, ]. \Varwick, D. B. \Vright. Class III: D. Sephtori, G. Tho111as.

P.P.E'.: Class II: H. M. P enn, J. Preger . Class III: J. H. Heal.

Geograpl1,oy: Class III: J. T . Hollin, P. L . .\fortimer.

Forestry: Class I II : A. J. Grayson.

11{usic: ¡ Class I : A. B. Curry.

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Groups: A.1: Pass; ·]. Thornton. A.3: Pass, C. J. D. SaundersGriffiths. B.6: Pass, J. H. Spruy.t . D: Pass, J. Thornton , : (2nd B.M. Special Pathology Forensic Medicine): ..f>ass, . G. Bennett. Taken in Hilary Term.

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Economics and Political Science : M. A. Ritchie.

Public and Social Ad;ministration: P. S. D. E. Gass (Distinction}.

Theology: P. G. B. Barket: (pass).

B.D. Qualifying. Exa.mination: T. W. Silkstone (Pass).

Theology: P. G. B. Barker (Pass).

THE NEW LIBRARY

The best thanks of the Hall are due to the following donors for gifts of books to the New Library: Bishop Williams, The Rev. E. P. M. Elliott and M·r. J. A. C. Ellis.

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CONGRATULATIONS HILARY TERM

A. J. G. Jones on being elected to Vincents Club.

D. E. Wood on being elected to Vincents Club.

J. T. Hollin on being elected Chairman of the Oxford University Exploration Club. · R. H. French on playing Badminton for the University.

D. E. Wood, A. W. Boyce and D. Pollard on being invited to play in the University XV against Cambridge at Twickenham.

R. G. Lunn on playing for Pegasus . .

R. H. French on being elected to the Woodpeckers.

J. D. Alun-Jones on being elected to the Squirrels.

M. M. and P. P. Wright . on playing ta):>le-tennis for the University.

J. R. Allchurch on playing hockey for the University.

J. M. Skinner on his election to the Occasionals.

J. W. Smith on playing' for the Centaurs.

ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE E . ./l.l. Simmonds on hi.s election to the Centipedes.

C. D, Griffin-Smith and A. L. N. Jay on fencing for the U.ni,v e.~sity

against Cambridge .

.. . D. Bloom on being e.l ected to the Standing Committee ()f the L!nlo,n; R. G. Lunn on being elected captain of the 0.U.A.F.C. ¡ The Hall Rugger XV on reaching the Rugby Cup Final s . ¡ TRI~ITY TERM c. . R ;: G .. Lunn on gaining his Amateur International Cap .

H. vV. Goldsworthy on touring Germany with the Greyhounds.

R. (I. Lunn on touring Norway with the English Soccer Team. !'J. F. Lockhart on being elected to the :\uthentics.

A. R. Douglas on being elected to the Penguins.

A. L. N. Jay on ~ing elected Captain of the Oxford University Fen9fn15 Club, and winning the Epee competition in the 4th Macf abiah Games in Israel. }\~j_ Kumar S. S. Pitamber on being elected President of Vi~~nts Club . . J. :C. Ralphs on being elected President of the J.C .R. and C. J: Lumrnis on being elected Steward. .

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THE LONDON DINNER, 1953 Oni:e more on the second Tuesday of January the London Dinner was held at Simpson's in the Strand. Mr. J. C . Toland was this year's Chairman, the Principal was the guest, and 83 members atteqded. Except for the years 1923, 1924 and 1940, every year fron~ 1g18 to 1949 was represented by at least one Aularian.

The Chairman welcomed the Principal to his second dinner as Principal and President of the Aularian Association, and proposed the toast of the evening, ' Floreat Aula '.

In reply the Principal recalled that in his speech the year before, he ha'd admitted that he was wearing 'L' plates both as a Principal and as a motor-driver. This year the 'L' plates were off in both senses of the word. As a driver the whole of England and its pedestrians were open to him, and as a Principal he was in that dangerous . stage before conservatism set in ! He reported the openltig of the Besse Building and the many subsequent changes

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in Hall life, and outlined some of the many problems to be faced in the future. It had been a great year for the Hall both in Schools and in the field, with four Firsts, three Rugger Blues, one Soccer Blue and a Bump Supper. To the undisguised ahmsement of the Solid Sporting Bloc he could add that we had also won first place · in the newly established Dramatic Cuppers.

The )>y now well-established custom of short speeches and little formality was well maintained and, amid a cloud of prosperous-smelling cigar smoke, the company descended to the bar-lounge and to a variety of refreshment, discussion and gossip until a pleasantly late hour.

AULARIAN ASSOCIATION The Annual General Meeting of the Association followed the Reunion Dinner. In the absence of the Treasurer, the Principal read the Treasurer's Report, which was adopted, and which is printed at the end of the Magazine. The following allocations were made: £300 to complet~ the furnishing of the Emden Room; £40 for a scholarship; .£so to the Publications Fund; £25 to Miss Dormor for clerical assistance. The Principal was also empowered to offer up to £50 in two instances to enable outstanding sporting clubs to tour or to attend regattas and the like. The retiring members of the Executive Committee (Canon McGowan, Mr. \Va:kinton and Mr. Lummis) were re-elected. :M;r. R. J. L. Breese was elected to represent the decade 1945-54. The officers of the Association were re-elected. It was agreed to hold the next meeting on Friday .

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THE REUNION The Reunion was held on Saturday, 27 June, 1953. Those present were: The Emden, Adcock, Arthur,

Principal, The Right Rev . Dr. G. B. Allen, Mr. A. B. The Rev. Dr. L. Hodgson, Mr. G. R. Brewis, Mr. R. A. Mr. R. E. Alton, Rev. Canon D. Armytage, Mr. A. Mr . ]. N. Badminton , Mr. R. T. Beckwith, Mr. I. E. N .

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Besley, Mr. G. S. Bessey, Mr. W. A. H. Blair, Maj. Gen. A. B. Blaxland, Mr. G. J. F. Brain, Mr. C. Broadhead, Mr. V. A. Bulbeck, M;r. M. A. Canning, Mr. A. R. Clark, Mr. D. A. Clarke, Mr. B. V. Clifton, Mr. G. J. P. Courtney, Mr. R. Day, Mr. D. J. Derx, Mr. T. E. Dowman, Mr. J. D. Duncan, Mr. S. R. Dunlap, Mr. G. R. R. East, Mr. J. M. Edmonds, Rev. Canon W. (i.

Fallows, Mr. F. H. H. Finch, Mr. A. A. J. Foster, Mr. D. G. Fowler, Mr. H. I. Fuller, Mr. S. E. George, Mr. D. F. Goldsmith, Mr. N. S. Haile, Mr. L. W. Hanson, Mr. H. S. Harris, Mr. C. J. Hayes, Mr. R. C. Hayes, Mr. J. H. Hedgely, Mr. C. R. Hill, Mr. K. M. Horner, Mr. J. P. S. Howe, Professor H. J. Hunt, Mr. J. E. Jackson, Mr. P. R. Jones, Mr. H. A. R. Long, Mr. C. Lummis, Mr. R. Mcisaac, Rev. J. McManners, Mr. C. A. A. MacPhee, Mr. E. G. Midgley, M;r. C. A. Morgan, Mr . C. Mounsey, Mr. C. R. Owston, Mr. H. E. Packer, Mr. ]. Park, Mr. H. K. Pusey, Mr. F. G. Roberts, Rev. C. E. Ross, Mr. T. Schuller, Mr. J. Shipwright, Mr. T. W. Silkstone, Mr. J. Sinclair, Mr. H. A. Skinner, Mr. D. G. Smith, Mr. J. W. E. Snelling, Mr. C. J. H. Starey, Mr. J. F. Stephens, Rev. J. C. Stephenson, Mr. E. G. Stokes, Mr. L. I. Stowe, Mr. D. J. R. Thomas, Mr. J.C. Toland, Mr. N. B. Trenham, Mr. vV. J. Tunley, Mr. M. Turi, Mr. C.R .

Ullyatt, Mr. A. Ward, Rev. F. H. V/arwick, Mr. R. \i\Taye, Mr. vV. \.Veir, Mr. N. J. \·V illiams, Mr. A. H. \i\Tilson, Mr. P. G. vVinch and Mr. E. C. C. Wynter. .

This was a quite unprecedented number and made necessary the use of both the gallery and the H earne Room for dinner.

Before this, however, the Executive Cominittec had dCliberated at length in the Principal's Lodgings; Chapel had been filled; and sherry had been served in the Emden Room, where the furnishings had been much admired and the portraits subjected to a critical and on the whole a most approving inspect ion.

After dinner the Principal was so cager to give old me mbers account of the progress of the Hall that he forgot the Loyal Toast, an omission most gracefully retrieved aftc1· ' Floreat .-\ula' h.!i\1 been drunk. The year had been one of steady if not spectacular achievement both in the Schools and in spurt. The increased numbers of the Hall had caused fresh problems of accommodation , of finance and of catering-, but he hoped that all were capable of solution.

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NEWCASTLE' REUNION DINNER On Friday, 18 Sept.e mber, 1953, at the Turks He.a d Ho~el, Newcastle upon Tyne, there took place the first Aularian Dlno.er to be held in the North of England, the first we belie~e ev~r · to ~ held outside Oxford and London . .

S. N. Godfrey (matric. 1920) presided over a company .of .no less t!rnn twenty Aularians, some of · whom . had travelleci ; l~pg distances but none so far as the Pr.incipal.himself, whose presence gave grace and pleasure to the evening. In his opening sp~~~p _of welcome, Mr. Godfrey explained how the Dinner had come to b e held; how the plot was hatched by a few members of the Ha\l . ~t a\1 Oxford Society (Newcastl!'! Branch) cocktail party some mon°t_ h's i)reviously, and worked out by John King (ma~ric. 1945), on behalf of an ' Indeterminate committee' . \'

. The Rev. H. H. Vickers (matric . . 1919), in a graceful .sHeech p.roposing the toast of ' Floreat Aula .', obvio1,.1sLy reflected . the feelfngs of u~ all when he spoke of his g~eat p1ea~ure in being ~ble to welcome the Principal. .W e all watch the .progress of the Hall r , \,,,. • \ ' • with pride and satisfaction and we a.r e confident that the great successes achieved under-'the guidan~~ :'o f Mr. ~mden will be cQn~ i:inued under the present Principal.

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The Principal, clearly enjoying himself, c?nfessed to feel~ng;S which, he supposed·, properly belonged to a bride upon . ~ing shown off to her husband's friends and relations: he was \Jeing shown off to the North , and hoped that he was deemed worthy.

He passed in witty review recent activities of the Hall, payittg particular attention to the Besse Buildings, and left us in no doti~t that the ·Hall \vas indeed flourishing. ··: ~ 1

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DE FORTUNIS AULARIUM J. B. ' Allan ,has been promoted to . be Manager of the Oxford Branch of Lloyd's Bank Ltd. J. R, . Allchurch has been appointed to a traineeship with ·British Insulated Callenders' Cables Ltd. !

G. R; 'Allford has been appointed assistant master at Ashville College; ·Harrogate.

J.. B.' Antlerson is assistant master at the Secondary Technical ·School, _West Hartlepool.

G. R. : Archer has been appointed assistant master at Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall.

A. Arthur has ·b een appointed personal assistant to the Managing Director of a group of leather companies in Leeds.

The Rev. R. C. Austin has been appointed assistant priest at St. Peter's, Wolverhampton.

N. G~ B~tne'tt has been appointed assistant master at Queen Elizabeth's' Grammar School, Wakefield. · B. E. Bate is assistant master at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School,' :S~tton Coldfield.

C! . ., I Art~:ur , ~,txter has been appointed assistant master. at the Grammar .School, Stafford. . , The R:ev.

Q. Bennett, M.C., has. been appointed Vicar of Becke~met and Priest-m-charge of Ponsonby, Cuinberla~c{. • R. Blomfield has return~ to Australia ahd resumed his appoi~~~~i;it, i at. _Geelong Grammar School.

The Rev. J. H. Boothroyd has been appointed assistant master at a P~epll.ra~ory school in Littlehampton . .. .

Th~ . Rev. G. T. Brett has been appointed Vicar of St. Peter's, ,Roche!1~e.r: ,1 W :. E. Brook is on the staff of the British Council at Kano, Nigeria.

M. A,)3rown has been articled to -.the firm . of C. Grobe!, Son and Co., Solicitors, Lincoln's Inn. The Rev. F, .. 1Buchanan has been appointed Vicar of Polesworth, Warwickshire.

D. Bu.rcfon has been appointed Assistant at . the Lycee Augustin Thierry, Blois. '··· .. The:Rev.·]'. P. Burrough h<fs been appointed Priest-in-Charge of St. Benedict's, Chung-chu, Korea.

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G. M. Burt is preparing for the ~ethodist M;inistry at Wesley Hall, Cambridge.

P. Carpenter has been appointed Assistant Tutor at the Oxford UniYersity Department of Education.

The Rev. J. D. Carr has been a ppointed Vicar of St. Andrew's, Oxbridge, and a lso Priest-in-charge of St. John's, Uxbridge Moor.

J. H. T. Clarke, after serving from 1949 to 1952 as Chief of.the Transportation Division of the U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, Bangkok , was in 1952 appointed Transportation Member of the U .N. Economic Mission to El Salvador and .

Deputy Chief of the U .N. Transportation Mission to · Central America .

J. V. Cockshoot 1ias been appointed Lecturer in ¥,usic at 'Nas.h ingto n Hall Training College, Chorley, Lanes .

C. H. Coleman holds an appointment on the st<iff of the Glcncag·lcs Hotel, Scotland.

J. J. Cong don is preparing for ordinati on at Wycliffe Hall.

B. E. Cooke has joined the staff of the ' iV cst Africa Company, . \ ccra , fiold Coast.

T. A. B. Corley has been seconded by the Bank of England for a pcriocl of t\\'o years to the National Bank of Irak, . ~~ghdad, where he occ.upi cs the pos ition of Director of the Issue Q~m~.rtment.

C. \V. B. Costeloe has returned to England from Tanganyika and is atl'ending- the second DeYonshire Course at the Colonial Department, Oxford.

H. Crane has been called to the Bar in the Middle Temple.

P. J. Croft has been appointed to the antiquarian department of M;essrs. B. H. Blackwe ll Ltd. The Rev.~- E. G. Crutwell is to be congratulated o n discovering a hitherto unide ntified s pecies of grass (Poa. Cru.twellia) on the s ummi t of !\·f ount Simpson , Papua , New Guinea. H t.: has been on le'ave in this country, a nd has been invited by thc B.B. C . to broadcast in the' Lift Up Your Hearts' series C. ·G. Cu llerne-Hown has been appointed to tht· s taff of the Bristol E<Jt~ 11i11g Post as a trainee.

A. B. C urry is preparing for ordination at \Velis Theological College.

R. iVL Dat e has b een a ppointed headmaster of the Junio r .School at Quc,cn Elizabeth's Grammar S chool , ' iV akefield.

J. R. E. Davies has been appointed assistant master at 1-fcadfort School, Kells, Co . Meath.

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R. Day has been appointed to the staff of the British Information Service, Washington, D.C. T. P. Denehy has optained an appointment with the Midland Regional Sales Organisation of Imperial Chemicals Industries Ltd. T. V..T. Ditchburn has been appointed administrative assistant at the Whitehaven and \ Vest Cumberland Hospital.

The Rev. M. v..~ . Dittmer has been appointed Rector of Yatton Keynell, and also Rector of Castle Coombe and Bidctlestone and Slaughterford.

J. Doctorow graduated as a Master of Business Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in June, and is now e mployed by the vVillys-Overland Export Corporation.

T. S. Donaghy has been awarded the degree of B.Sc. (Econ.) with Class II Honours, at London University. :'\. R. Douglas has been appointed assistant master <It Sutton Valence School.

J. R. Do,¥nes has joined t he staff of the M:edia Department of :Yiessrs. J. Haddon and Co. Ltd., Advertising Agents.

N. A. Dromgoole has been appointed Head master of Belmont College near Ba rn staple.

The Rev. A. R. Duncan-Jones has been appointed Vicar of .-\rnport with Monxton, near Andm·er.

The Rev. P. Durnford has been appointed minister in the Brink" ·orth circuit of the Methodist Church.

The Re Y. Thomas Dyson was with the .-\rab Legion and the R.A.F. in Amman and \Yas Chaplain of the East Jordan Forces during August and September.

J. F. Earle has joined the finn of Crow, Catchpole and Co. Ltd., Civil Engineers, London.

L H. Elliott is to be congratulated on the award of a British :VIcmorial Fund Fellm\·ship: he has gone to Melbourne Uni,·e rsity to study the historical and political geography of Victoria.

The R eY. H. . H. Faulkner has been appointed assistant curate at Hoylake.

A. F. Finch has been appointed assistant master (residential) at Cheadle Hulme School. Stockport.

F. H. H. Finch has )Jee n appointed .·\ppointme nts Officer of the Society of Incorporated Accountants. )i. G. Fisher ;s Chief Education Officer to the City of Manchester.

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Fletcher-Cooke, C.M.G., has been Acting Governor of Cyprus. : . D • .Floyd has for some time been Moscow Correspondent of Th e Daily. Telegraph .

D. :M . Forster, of Gray's Inn , has been called to the Bar. M. B. Foster has obtained an appointment in the Legal and C laims Department of the Anglo-Iranian Co. Ltd. , , D. :A. Garnett has been appointed assistant master at King George V School, Southport.

P. S. D. E. Gass is preparing for ordination at Wells Theological College.

A: T. Gaydon has been appointed Assistant Archivist in the Bedfordshire Record Office.

B. T. Gibson has been appointed to a traineeship with the Bank of London and South America Ltd . .G. :D .. Gilling Smith has been appointed to the Life and Pensions Department of the Legal and General Assura nce Society Ltd. P •. W ; ·Glover has been appointed an administrative assistant with the West Midlands Division of the National Coal ]3oard.

C. :D. Griffin-Smith is preparing for the Bar Final Examination a t Gray's Inn. The Rev·. ·W. L. Guyler has been appointed Vicar of Gedney , Lines.

C. G. Hadley , having been a warded a Rotary Foundation Fellowship, is e ngaged in research at the University of AixM a rseille.

R. W. Hall, having spent an exhilarating year at Stamford University, California, has returned to England .a nd is preparing to go back ·to:the U.S.A. to undertake a business career.

G. H. Hallsmith has begun his career as a professional actor by a ppearing in Jack Hulbert's production of 'The Housemaster '.

J . .M. G. Halsted has been appointed Teacher at the General vVingate .Secondary School, Addis Ababa, under the auspices of the British · Council.

K. Hardacre has been appointed senior English master at Bushey. Grammar School.

H. S. Harris has been . appointed Lecturer in Philosophy (temporary) ; at · .the University · of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana , Illinois.

M. :,A,. ·B. l-larrison has been . appointed assistant master at S ibford School , Banbury.

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· :- N~ Harvey has been appointed to H.1\1;. Colonial Service iand is attending the Colonial Course at .London University. , , .iifhe «Rev. J. ;: Q; , L. :Hawkins ; has.· been appointed Vicar of Thornton with Allerthorpe and ..Melbourne, Yorks. _., :; :E; F. Hayes has ,qualified as a solicitor. · i, The Rev. J. W ; 1R. Head has been appointed to the staff of W es.tminster Cathedral.

The Rev. W. P. Head is serving as a Chaplain to the Forces ;with :the Grenadier Guards in the Middle East.

J. H. Heal has been articled to the firm of ·w are ·ward, Accountants, Exeter . . D.. B; Heffer has _volunteered for two years' service with the Royal Navy.

C. R. Hill has joined the staff of tl~e Canadian General. Electric Co.i Tpronto.

J._. Hobbs· has been appointed assistant master at Gillingham .Grai;n.11.i ar School.

The Rev. J. J. Hogan has been · appointed assistant cl'Jrate at Cannock Parish; Church.

W. A. Holt, having passed in two parts of the Registration .t;:xamil}ation of the School of Librarianship at Loughborough, has be~n appointed seni~r assistant at the Pub)ic Library, Mus.et~m and Art .Gal,lery, Bilston, Staffs. · · . ·· · ·.· · M. A. Hooker has been made a Director of Unicorn ..Head Visual Aids Ltd. He is to be congratulated on being awarded the degree of Ph.D. · by the University at Witwatersrand for a study of Bishop Colenso. He has also been appointed Honorary Secretary of th~ East and Central Africa Group of the Conservative Commonwealth Council.

K. M. Horner has - ~n appointed _assistant master at Cyfarthfa Cast~e G.rammar School, M;erthyr Tydfil.

J. ·:P. S. Howy is assistant master at Price 's School, Fareham.

The Rev. T. :b~ Hoyle has been ' appointed assistant curate at s·r. 'Pa'ul's, Winchmoi-e Hill, N .21.

J. E. Hughes has been appointed English master at Verdi· iVaUey' Sch'ool, Sedbna, Arizona. ' . .

J. R. Hughes has been appointed ~ssistant master at Dulwich Coll~ge. ,., · · ' <

R. H. Irvine, having been awarded a Smith-Mundt Scholarship to the. U.S.A., is· taking the course in business administration at Stamford University , California.

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J. E. Jackson has been appointed assistant master at Joseph Priestley Secondary School, E.9.

M. Jcrrom ha~ left Egypt and has taken up an appointment in the head office of the British Council.

A. J. G. Jones has taken up his appo.i ntment as an Assistant District Officer in Ji.M. Colonial Service, Tanganyika.

Lt. Col. J. du M. Kenyon is British Military Attache at Beirut, Lebanon.

J. M. Kcr;;haw has been appointed assistant in the Secretary's Department of the London Press Exchange Ltd. D. A. Lillicrap is attending the clinical course at Guy's Hospital.

The RcY. T. A. Littleton has been appointed Vicar of Carli'nghow, Batley, Yorks.

A. R. J. Lloyd has been appointed Resident Consultant in the Production Division of Urwick, Orr and Partners Ltd., Consulting Specialists in Organisation and Management, Park Lane, W.1.

H. A. R. Long has been appointed Assistant Land Agent on the staff o.f the National Trust.

The Rev. G. H. D. Lovell has been appointed Chaplain of St. Catherinc's Home, Ventnor, 1.0.W. J. Lukasiewicz has been appointed manager of the pharmaceutical department of Messrs. Burrows Welcome, Bangkok, Siam.

K. A. Lund has returned to Canada and is continuing his legal studies at Dalhousie University.

A. Lynd1 has been articled to the Chief Solicitor to the British Transport Coi11 mission.

C. J. :.\labey has been appointed permanent under-secretary to one of th e ¡M inistries ¡ at Lagos, Nigeria .

R. i\kAdams has been appointed assistant master at Lord 'Veymouth's Grammar School, '\Tar.minster.

The Re,-. N . E. l\1;cCurry has been appointed' Priest-in-charge of SS. Mary and George, Sands, High Wycombe.

J. l\'IcElhcran has obtained a temporary appointment at Ampleforth College.

J. R. :.\kGove rn holds an appointment with Thos. Hedley and Cu. Ltd. (Newcastle branch) .

R. Mcisaac has been appointed Headmaster of Ryde School , 1.0.Vv'.

D. L. Maiclment has taken up an appointment with Messr;; . J. Holt, of LiYerpool. in the French Cameroons.

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A. J. Marcham has been appointed assistant master at Sandon House School, near Chelmsford. · The Rev. M. M;. Martin, in a<idition to being· Rector of St. Jaines's, Colchester, has ·b een appointed R ector of St. Nicholas's and St. Runwald's, Colchester.

The Rev. R . A. Mason has been at the " ' est Ham Central Mission since 1951.

C. A. Morgan has obtained a laboratory a ppoi ntment with Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd. E. J. Morgan has been appointed :l..ssistant Lect urer in French at Glasgow University.

J. E. Morris has been preparing for the London Certificate of Education at Westminster College.

J. A. Mudge has joined the staff of The Eastern Bank Ltd., arid has been posted to Bahrein in the Persian Gulf.

The Rev. Vil. H. Murdoch has been appointed assistant curate at St. Mary's Church, Egremont, Cumberland.

G. I. Needham has been pursuing research in Old English and working for the B.Litt. degree at Glasgow UniYersity. ' P. Nichols has been appointed to the staff of The Times.

J. O'Halloran is preparing for the Roman Catholic priesthood at St. Sulpice, Paris.

T. O'Keeffe holds an appointment on th e staff of Messrs.

Hutchinsons, Publishers.

W. A. Osman has been appointed assistant master at Highgate School.

W. R. von l'achelbel Gehag has been appointed to the Foreign Office of the West German Republic .

M. W. Parkin has been appointed assistant master at Wisbech Grammar School.

M. Paterson has been appointed editorial and administrative assistant at the Institute of Hospital Administration.

The Rev. D. J. Paxman has been appointed assistant curate at Holy Cross Church, Bearsted, Kent.

G. J. Paxman is pursuing research in the Department of Genetics at Birmingham University.

The Rev. H. H. E. Peacock has been promoted to be . Senior Chaplain at Bedford School.

B; M. Penn has joined the South ..\frican (Johannesburg) branch of Tootal Broadhurst Lee Co. Ltd.

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: P.. lL Phizackerley has been a ppointed Geologist to the Tri~idad Petroleum Developme_nt Co. Ltd. ·N. C. Pollock has returned to Oxford for a year's research and teaching. .

H. E. Pope is senior Modern . Languages master at Kjl)g E<i,ward VI School, Nuneaton.

The Rev. R. M. W. Powell has been appointed .Vicar of Crowie, Worcester. · M. B. R. Preece is to be congratulatt;l;l on ..the success of the Sea Cadet Corps at Bedstone School ,in being rated by . the Admiralty among the select list of most proficient units for 1953.

J. B. Price has joined the staff of T.he Rea<fers' Digest.

J. J. D. A. P. M. Quinn holds an ~ppoi'nt~j!nt with the F~m;i Foundation, U .S.A. · ,. · · · '

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C. R. Ritcheson has been promoted . _A ssociate Professor of History at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, U.S.A . . The Rev . Capon F. N. Robathan, o.~.E ., has been appointed to a res.i dentiary canonry in Ely Cathedral. · · · F. A. S. Roche has been appointed assistant master at Newent S~h~l, Gloucestershi~~. · . ,'._ .

The Rev. C. E. Ross has made a three-mont'h tour of Canada i11 connection with the appeal for funds for the building of Coventry Cathedral.

A. L. Rox!:>urg h , having completed his course in ecology, 4a.s returned to Nigeria to resume his appointment as a Colonial Officer.

D. G. Russell has been appointed tb a traineeship with Messrs.

Macleans Ltd. .'

Th~ Rev. S. Salter has been appointed Curate of FelpHain an_d Priest-in-charge of Middleton-on-Sea. -'' '\.\/". H. A. Sanderson has joined t~e shipping department of E lder, Smith and Co. Ltd ., Australian merchants.

I); Sephton has been appointed personal assistant to one the directors of Lewis Berger Ltd. , Paint Manufacturers. "· ., E'. F. W. Seymour has been appointed Lecturer in PhysiCs in the University of Leeds. · A. W. Shaw has joined the Sou th .'\frioan (Cape Town) branch of Messrs. Powers-Samas ·Ltd. ' .. D. J. A. Shears has been appointed :one of Reu ter's represen tatives at The Hag ue.

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."\. Shepherd has been appointed temporary Assistant Lecture:: in Geography at the University College of Fort Hare, Natal.

D. A. Singleton has been appointed assistant in the Treasurer's Department, Gloucestershire County Council.

The Rev. R. W. M. Skinner has been appointed ~.ssistant curate at Bath Abbey. ·; 1.

P.R. Snoxall has joined the firm of J. Holt and Co. Ltd., Liverpool. .. .

R. J . Southan, of the Inner Temple, has beeri called to the Bar. E. D. Sprague has been appointed Associate Professor of Philosophy at Arkansas Polytechnic College, Arkansas.

J. G. Squirrell has obtained an appointment with J. L. Denham and Co. Ltd., W.1, wine merchants. . .

N. D. Stacey is to be congratulated on having conipleted successful lecture-tour of a great number and variety ,.of schools putting before the pupils the claims of the sacred ministry.

The Rev. J.C. Stephenson has paid an extensive visit to South :\frica, doing duty for the Church of the Province.

D. L. Stevens has been appointed assistant master at Widford Preparatory School, Essex.

P. D. Stobart has been appointed British Consul at Pott Said.

E. W. Sudale is staff tutor in the Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, Leeds University.

The Rev. M. E. H. Suter has been appointed Vicar of St. Mark's, Noel Park, N.22.

P. C. Swann has been appointed assistant to the Adviser to the University of Oxford on Eastern Art. G. Lloyd Thomas is an a dministrative officer in Sarawak.

B. F. W. Thomas has been appointed Secretary to·' the Royal . Eye Hospital, S.E.1.

J. Thornton is preparing for ordination a t Westcott House, Cambridge.

D. A. G. Turner has been appointed accountancy assistant in the Treasurer's Department of the Derbyshire County ·Coundl.

The Rev. B. N. Y. Vaughan has been appointed Tutor at St. David's College, Lampeter.

R. E. Waddington-Jones has been appointed assi's tant ·master at ..\rdingly College.

F. E. Wakel~n is an assistant master at Birkenhead Scho~I. .

J ; J. G. Walking ton is to be congratulated on . being .:a warded the O.B.E . (Military) in the New Year Honours Ust of •195o ·for

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service with the Army Cadet Force (Lt. Colonel of the 2nd East Yorkshire Cadet Battalion). j. 0. vVard has resumed his 路w hole-time duties as literary secretary to Dr. Percy Scholes.

J. Warwick has been appointed to a traineeship \\'ith .\ssociated Portland Manufacturers Ltd., Grays, Essex.

The Rev. J. R. C. Vlebb has been appointed Vicar of St. Peter's, Battersea.

G. D. West has been appointed assistant master at 'Villiam 路 Hulme's Grammar School, M;anchester, and is to be congratulated on ~ing awarded the degree of Ph.D. by London Cniversity.

R. West has been appointed. to the staff of the Ncm11an Bookshop, Oxford.

A. Westaway has been appointed translator to the United Nations Org-anisation in New V:ork.

D. A. A. Weston has bee.n studyii1g at the c.:M.S. Training College, Chislehurst , in preparation for going out to the illission field.

The Rev. ,P. F. \Vhite has been appointed assistant curate at Drypool Parish Church, Hull.

The Rev. H. V. 'Vhitsey has been appoint~d Vicar of Farington Moss, Preston.

P. A. Wilde has been appointed British Vice-Consul at Ziirich .

E. H. B. W'illiams is preparing for the Baptist :.\Iinistry at Regent's Park College, Oxford.

J. H. B. 'Villiams is doing the clinical part of his medical course at the 路Radcliffe Infirmary.

M. J. Willi a ms is preparing for ordination at \Velis Theological College.

N. J. Williams has been elected .Honorary Editor of the Records Branch of the 'Viltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.

G. Windass has been appointed assistant master at Beaumont Grammar:路School, Angl~sey .

G. H. \Vinter has joined the legal departme nt o.f the Pearl Assurance Co. Ltd. A. Woodhouse Smith has been apprenticed' to the firm of Moody , Stuart and Robertson, Chartered Accountants, Dundee.

T. G. C. \Voodford is to be congratulated on being appointed . Headmaster of Leeds Grammar School.

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G. M. vVoodman holds an appointment at the General Hospital, N.ewcastle.

G. Worsley has been appointed assistant master . a t Ruabon Grammar School.

H. A. Wydell has been appointed manager of a farm near Henley-on-Thames.

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B. Anderson: a son, John Ross, on 14 June, I95I. G. Bennett: a son, Michael Timothy, on II February.

G. J. F. Brain: a daughter, Joanna Elizabeth, on IQ March.

Vv. E. Brook: a daughter, Philippa Dorothy, on I4 November , I952, at Kano, Nigeria.

0. T. Brown : a d a ughter, Esther Riach, on IQ June .

P. Carpente r: a son, Andrew, on 24 August.

K . G. Coulthard: a daughter, Alison Jane, on 29 August.

M. B. Foster: a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, on 14 January.

P. M. Haynes: a daughter, Sarah Bridget Elizabeth , on 26 December, I952.

The Rev. M. M. Hennell: a son, Thomas Charles, on I2 September, I952.

J. Hobbs: a daughter, Joanna Catherine, on I8 l\~arch.

P. E. M. Holmes: a son, Timothy Marcus, on 26 November, I952.

Rev. T. 0. Hoyle: a son, Richard Andrew, on 3 July, I952.

P. J. Janson-Smith: a daughter, Deirdre, on 8 June.

E. C. Jones: a daughter, Susan Alice, on I3 June.

A. R. J. Lloyd: a daughter, Janet Margrethe, on 6 December, I952, at Odense, Denmark.

H. M. Long: a son, Hugh Garrett, on 14 December, I952¡ N. Los sky : a son, Andrew, on 24 April. ]. R. McGov,ern: a daughter, Jane, on 3I October, I95I; and a second daughter, Judith, on 9 August.

W . S . Mills: a son, Bernard Alastair Stuart, on 26 August .

L. T. Podmore: a son, Timothy John, on 5 September, at Singapore.

M. B. R. Preece: a daughter, Deborah Elizabeth, on 20 May, I95I. G. D. Ramsay (Fellow): a son, Malcolm Niall , on 5 July.

L. G. D. Sanders: a son, Dale, on I3 May. P. D. Stobart: a son, Jonathan James, on 2 February, at Bonn.

M. J. Summerlee: a son, Alastair James Scott, on 25 March.

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The Rev. D. L. Thawley: a son, John David, on 10 May. The Rev. J.C. Townsend.: a son, Stephen John , on 6 J.anu~ry.

P. G. Winch: a son, David Stephen, on 9 March.

MARRIAGES J . B. Anderson married Betty Drinkald, S.R.N ., C.M;.B., on 7 August, 1950, in St. Nicholas's Church, Sunderland .

L. D. A. Baron married Desiree Nash on 4 July in the Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, London.

N. W. Barr married Jean Elizabeth Crook on 3 . September in St. Mary the Virgin Parish Church, Pilton, Barnstaple.

Arthur Baxter married Joyce E. Dyche on 15 March, 1952, in St. Paul's Church, Stafford.

N. S. Broome married Joan Driver on 9 May in St. Mary Abbot's Church, Kensington.

The Rev. C~ R. Campling married Juliet Marian Hughes on q July in Holy Trinity Church, Roehampton.

R .- C. M. Cooper married June Bicknell on 25 July in St. Peter'sin-the-East, Oxford.

T:. A . .B. Corley married Margaret Elizabeth Ashfield on 22 August in St. Elizabeth's Church, Richmond.

C. W. B. Costeloe married Thelma Williamson on 25 February, 1952, at Tabora, Tanganyika.

J. R. E. Davies married Sheilagh Ann Brown on 5 August at Greyfriars Church, Kirkcu<lbr;ght.

The Rev. P. Dui:nford married Jean F. McClaren on·20 December, 1952; at· Ruislip. · G. D. Gilling-Smith married M;ai-The Henr.iette Alma Robin on 16 September, 1953; in·the C})apelle of the Paroisse Universitaire , Bordeaux.

C. N. Gowing married Enid Marie Ladislava Johnson on 20 October, 1951, at St. Mary's Church, Prittlewell.

J. M.. G. Halsted marr,ied Rosemary Catherine Harley on 8 August in Colinton Parish ,Church,, Ediri·o urgh.

H. S. Harris married Ruth Koski in June, 1952, at Urbana, Illinois , U.S ,A; C.R. Hillma·r ried M'iss 'P. G: G. McGuire on 12 September in St. John's Church, Woking, · r r · The Rev.]> J• Hogan married Patricia Anne Russell on 3 January in Christchurch, M;a1vern. r·. ,.

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M. James ·married Marjorie Patricia Richmond on I2 September at Christ the Saviour, Ealing, W.5. · .-\. J. G. Jones married Monica Wright on 4 April in \IVinshill Parish Church (St. M;ark 's), Burton-on-Trent_.

M. J. P. Lancaster married Betty Phillips on I 2 September in the Avenue Congregational Church, Southampton.

The Rev. R . A. Mason married Audrey Nicholas in April, I95 2, at the West Ham Central Mission .

The Rev. W. H. Murdoch married Maud Danby on 14 April in St. Michael's Church, Stockton-on-Tees.

D: P'a:xman married Jennifer Brookes-Smith on 8 April in Holy ·· Tri~ity Church, Hawley, Hants.

G. J. Paxman married Janet Jarris on I 1 July in St. Peter 's Church , Dorchester.

C.. R, Ritcheson married Shirley Marie Spackman of Portland , Oregon, on IJ June in St. Luke's Church , Chickasha, Oklahoma.

A. ·w. Shaw married Eliza)Jeth Ann (Jill) Plummer on II April in . Hellingly Parish Church, Sussex.

A. R. Stewart married: Barbara Jean Sharpe on 4 April.

H . . E. Street married Marjorie Olga (Christina) Gerhardi on 19 . July', 1952, at the Chelsea Registry Office.

B.. Tulloch married Rosemary June Morris bn 28 March in St . ·. Cross Church, Oxford (the Chaplain officiating). · The Rev. M . H. Tupper married Jane Margaret Taylor on 15 April , in the Chapel of Shr~wsbury School.

A': E. H. Turner married Joy Pryke on 23 May in St. :Peter's-in-theEast, Oxford. · J. H. B. Williams married Margaret Colyer on 15 August 111 Kenwyn Parish Church, Truro.

N · J. Williams married Betty Dorothy King on 5 September m Christ Church, Copse Hill, Wimbledon.

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The- Rev.' The "Rev·.

M. N. Dobbyn, priest (Chichester).

J. J. Hogan, deacon (Lichfield).

P. Kent, priest (Durham).

D. J. Paxman, deacori (Canterbury).

M. S. Rogers, priest (Oxf~rd).

T. W. Silkstone, deacon (Birmingham).

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The Rev. R. W. M. Skinner, deacon (Bath and Wells).

The Rev. P. F. White, deacon (York).

In the Roman Catholic Ministry The Rev.

J. W. R. Head, priest (Westminster Cathedral).

In the Nonconformist Ministry

The Rev. R. A. Mason (in 1951) OBITUARY Wilfred Cole, M.A., Priest, Exhibitioner of the Hall (matric. 19n), for thirty-four years a member of the staff of Oundle School and Chaplain since 1933, died after a long illness on 21 November, 1949.

John Theodore Waterman Greenidge, Commoner (matric. 1917), Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, died in Bloomsbury, London, on 1 October, 1953.

Albert Parkington Haworth, Commoner (matric. 1948), died on 4 May, i953. :Stanley Arthur Howard, M.A. (matric. 1919), Priest, sometime Chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfield, Vicar of Maer (1926-29) and of Wednesfield (1931-42) and Rector of Stoke-on-Tern (1945-48), died at Worthing on 6 February, 1953.

Anthony Michael Maslen, B.A. (matric. 1943), assistant master in Modern Languages at Laurence Sherriff School, Rugby, died suddenly of poliomyelitis in September, 1953.

David Evan Newell, M.A. (matric. 1935), Senior Auditor in the service of the Sarawak Government, died ·on 16 April, 1951.

SOCIETIES, 1953 THE DEBATING SOCIETY HILARY TERM

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The first debate of the term provided an opportunity for the ·S.C.R. to dazzle the Society with a display of forensic skill. The Dean proposed the motion that ' This House prefers Prudes to Proctors and Dowagers to Deans ', pointing to the honourable .opposer, the Jun,ior ·Dean, as an example of the baseness of the

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whole Dean genre. The object of this onslaught maintained that a prude has never sinned , a dowager has forgotten her sins, while a Dean has sinned and still remembers. The House was enthralled

by Mr. Midgley's history of non-compression brass pots in feudal England. Mr. D. Thompson spoke from the floor of the need to bomb China and build tunnels. The main tenor ¡ of the Vice-President's remarks was ' Rose, Rose, I love you ' . The motion was lost by five votes to fourteen : For the second debate the society had the pleasure of welcoming g uests from St. Hugh's , St. Hilda ' s a nd St. Catherine's.

Mr. J. Moir (St. Catherine 's) moved 'In the opinion of this House, the More the Merrier', and assured the Preside nt. that his one-legged cousin was known as 'Hopalong Chastity '. Mr. M;.

Bould, opposing, spoke a great deal of Bull-Papal Bull. Miss S. de Grouchy (St. Hugh's) speaking third addressed the House as 'Ye Unholy Ones' much to the House's delight. In the floor debate Mr. C. Price (St. Catherine's) advocated polygamy, Mr. P. Finn (St. Catherine ' s) advanced the claims of English as a universal language, while Mr. A. Jay spoke of taxide rmists and Mr. I. Mcintosh of tartans. The motion was lost by only one vote~leve n to twelve.

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Only one debate was held in the Trinity T erm. Mr. J. S. Jenkins moved that ' In the opinion of this House, Music is the Brandy of the Damned ' . He was dubious of \i\Telsh culture and deplored the Crowning of the Bard, but admitted that he felt something moving inside hitn at the Ca rdiff ..\'"ms. H e lamented the effect of American soldiery on our young a nd innocent womanhood.

Mr. W. H. Slack, opposing, quailed at the thought of a musical temperance union, and pointed out that musicians were good trade unionists, and' were thus incapable of being damned .

Mr. G. A. L. Bennett, during the floor debate , wandered with his umbrella from one side of the House to the other , hut ended up against. He maintained that more than music and brandy were necessary to damn one. Mr. D. Harding said that Shaw was always wrong, Mr. G. de Deney deplored Senator Macarthy's activities

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and Mr. Slack (concluding, against) saic.1 he was in a hurry ancl wouldn't . ; .· Officers for Michaelmas Term: President, J. C. Bingham; VicePresident, P.R. HenwoQd; Secretary , N. T eller.

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HARVEY,

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T. HOLLIN ·:

r\.s reported in ithe last magazine, a Constitutional . defect, rapidly remedied, led to the election of two Presidents for the Hilary Term. Alternating as chairmen, the Presidents found it hard to read each other's minutes, and real harmo.n y was achiev~d . oniy at the first meeting, when there was a joint reading of the Constitµtion. A feature of the early meetings was the large number . of lady guests invited, and t.here were appeals for the more sl?_a ring issue of invitations. The essays read to the Society began with a vigorous contributio~ from 1\1;. A. Robson, who deplored the destructive idleness of National .Service, gave a sorrowing account 1pankind'? inclination to viol~nce and the~ somehow ende,d on note of optimism. D. A. Singleton described the oc7asion,al pleasures of really bad art, as shown by the extremes of all form and no content and all content and no form. The first he found in some Spanish architecture, and the second in some atrociously moral Victorian verse. D. A. G. Turner's essay was a witty encomium of his notorious motor-car; biit 'i:nembers were sceptical, so many ~f thein having experienced terror and near-death iri or. in fr:ont of this machine. An essay on tattooing by J. C. Ralphs argued t hat this is an illogical and depraved art,. but the Society di~agr.eed so long as the tattooed chose such amusing designs as hinge.~ on all their joints or a dotted line and the slogan ' Cut here ' their necks. A. C. Johnston in his essi;iy reminded the Society · that the full proverb reads ' Good life and manners makyth man ', and he ridiculed various old handbooks of etiquette. The Presidents both used their essays to air their likes and dislikes. J. Hollin, . in a plea for the rapidly disappearing human sense of smell, ~dvo~ated an . energetic search for olfactory pleasures, but N. Jfarvey, enchanted with his life both in term and vacation, found . p)easur.e effortless-it just rolled over him. 'Sheer damned laziness' ·sai<l Mr. Robson. The term ended ·with the usual extension mee:ting. ·:

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President-D. A. G.

TURNER

M. C. Seymour, in the first essay of the term, attempted to convert .the Society to the cult of ' Miiserablism ', but was only _plunged further into its depths by the refusal of other members t,o join hin:i. P. S .. D. E. Gass claimed that ' Mars is Marvellous ' in, ;;i. study of science-fiction, glancing at its history but dealing in mor:e detail with its literary standing; the Society was not wholly co~­ vinced of the lasting importance of the genre, but several admirers proved to be' 'present. ' In My Spare Time' was a study by W. H. Slack of the -modern phenomenon of leisure, and .the pro):>lem of educating the idle to make use of their free time, which stimulated a heated discussion on the distinction· ktween work and leisure.

G. I. de Deney was delayed by dinner in the Principal's lodgings, but eventually arrived to take the Society on a tour of Western . European .c quntries with particular reference to their educatidn systems .in ·an essay called ' Summer '; the Society quickly returned however to Oxford, for.

'We are we are you admit we are superior.' .' ' Well, Are We?' M. M. Philpott's essay was not concerned with this statement but with the question ' the English-are they human?', Coronation year being an apt time for a summing up of .t he English character. The usual Englishman's opinions, of the .foreigner's._ opinions of the Englishman, and the usual eulogies of English modesty and earnest analyses of his sense of humour appeared in the discussion. D. J. Day considered every aspect of ' Greetings ' with particular reference to the modern greetings card in all its varieties, and the Society speculated on the significance of its development. · The President's essay 'Charaeters' was received · politely _by some members, with hysterical laughter by ,.pthers, with gentle snores from a few, and not at all by the r~st who, owing to the demands of Schools, had made a hasty exit after an excellent Presidential dinner.

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President-A. B. CuR.Rv

Secretary-D. B . .HEFFER

The Society held a concert on Tuesday, 2-J. February. Performance was of a consistently high standard. The sextet o~ A. H. Chatterley received its world premiere. The choir was conducted

by A. B. Curry. The programme was as follows:

x. Part Songs Linden Lea R. Vaughan Williams Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron - arr. T. B. Lawrence ' Sonata in E minor for violin and piano lV. A. Mozart J. c. PALMER, K. W. LAFLIJ'\ J· Rondo in C for String Quartet ]. Haydn J. c. PALMER, A. R. JOHNSON, R. COOPER, li. LOENING +· Sextet, 'Christmas Morning', for Strings, Trumpet and Voice .4. H. Chatterley J. c. PALMER, H. WINTER, R. COOPER, u. LoENING, c. LUMMIS, A. B. CURRY :>· Songs 0 Ruddier than the cherry from the opera' Acis and Galatea' G. F. Haendel Old Mother Hubbard - V. Hely-Hutchinson ·- H. Purcell Sound the Trumpet (duet) A. B. Cc.:RRY (bass), J. vVILLIAMS (baritone) 6. Part Songs I bought me a cat - arr. Aaron Copland - Herbert Hughes Dr. Foster went to Gloucester -

TRIXITY TERM

President - K. W. LA FLIK

Secretary-]. C. PALMER

On Tuesday, 26 May, the Society held its annual Eights Week Concert in the Quadrangle. The choir was conducted by J. C. Palmer. The programme was as follows: r . Madrigals April is in my Mistress' Face - Morley Clorinda False Morley ' Flute Quartet in A major (K. 298) Mozart M·. TENNANT, J. c. PALMER, R. COOPER, J. 0. WARD

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3. 'Songs of the Sea ' : Drake's Drum, Homeward Bound - C. V. Stanford A. B. CURRY 1u:companied by K. LAFLIN and the choir 4. ' Facade' TVilliam Walton At the p·iano : H. M. N. H. IRVING, G. D. RAMSAY poem s declaimed by E. G. MIDGLE Y ::i .

:\dagio and Allegro from the trumpet concerto in E flat - Haydn c. LUMMIS, A. B. CURRY

6. ' La Oracion de! Torero ' ]. c. p ,\LMER, A. R. JOHNSTON , R. J. 0. WARD, A. DAVIES

- ] oaquin Turina COOPER,

, . i\1adrigal: Sa y. Gentle Nymphs Ballet: vVha t Saith my Daintly Darling? -

- Morley - Morley

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THE MAKERS' SOCIETY HILARY T E RM

President- J. S .

GoDDEN

Secretary-D. R .

CHAPMAN

The distractio n of Preliminary Examinations so affected the Society this term that only one of the large number of .active Freshmen found the opportunity to read his work, and -more than one meeting was depopulated. Nevertheless the prolific output and loquacity of the .' old g uard' of the Society enabled ·four excellent meetings to be held .

On three occasi o ns J. C. D. Holmes continued the serialisation . of his fantastic novel, The Brontisaurus. With equal frequency, M. Baldwin offe red to the Society various of his poems. J. S. Godden provided a Yi sual s ide to the Society 's activities with a display of five paintings. Two further members, R. Trotter and D. R. Chapman read poems , while short stories were added to the term's activities by R. Trotter in his 'Shadows' and J. S. Jenkins in his ' Something of the Girl ' . At the last meeting of term Miss J. Joseph, a guest of the Society, read a poem ' Initiation into Autumn ' which was greatly admired.

D.R.C.

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Presid~nt-D. R.

CttA PMA!\

Secretary....:.... J .· C.

D.

HOLMES

Five lively, meetings were held during the term, in which the Society llstene~l appreciatively to two of A. G. Felsenstein's short stories .~rititled 'Albert' and 'The Tramp'. D.R. Chapman read one poem and M. Baldwin ·read poems, the prologue of the first chapter of. a novel and the first line of a letter from his publishers. · R. M. Trotter contributed two short stories and A. J. Harding read three poems. ·Another chapter of The BrontisauriM was read by J. C. D. Holmes . J. S. Godden continued to display his paintings regularly and N. Teller produced a short play for television.

To the final meeting of .t erm the Society welcomed Mr. . Alan Harlow, ·Who displayed paintings for the sets and costu~~s . of se.v,eral London and Bristol stage productions, as ~ell a~· some stri'king unrealised designs for Verdi's opera' Don Carlos'.

J.C.D.H.

THE JOHN OLDHAM SOCIETY HILARY' TERM

President - M. A.

ROBSON

Secretary- A. C.

JOHNSTONE

Si'nce 'C ~nci . ·rehearsals occupied most of the Society's time, there were. no play-readings this term, in accordance with. decanal · regulations. The terin was notable for the large number of. Society members who appeared in " Richard III ', the 0. U .D.s : major production at the Oxford Playhouse. Those who took part were Messrs. Ralphs, Hallsmith, Robson, Day, Coltman and D. Harding. The Society can once more bear the name of 'Th~ . Green Roo~ of Oxford', as it was known during David King-Wood's presidency almost twenty years ago.

M.A.R.

TRINITY TERM

. Pr~side;it - M. A. RonsON

Secretary - N. : T .ELLER

' Brilliant production ... the finest college production that one may ·hope ta see., In the.Se no 4ncertain terms one of the Oxford critics hailed Derek Coltman 's· ·presentation of . ' Cenci' by ·P. B. Shelle,r.;

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Rehearsals ·had begu·n during Hilary. Nevertheless many of the c ast were back on the job before the start of the Trinity Term.

Those three weeks before the first night remain in the mind as a .confused jun1ble of memories, small and larg·e -rehearsals in New CoHege Boys ' lC\ub, ·and .signs round the quad pointing to I. Byatt's rooin, turned for the occasion into the box-office; hawking the small posters round the Oxford shops, and a May Morning rendered especially memorable by the enormous posters announcing the John Oldham Society's coming presentation .

'It is impossible to speak too highly of the herculean efforts put into the technical side of the production, especially by J. F. Earle.

He, ,too, not only chose all the incidental music, but also composed the beautiful setting . tp Be.a trice's song in the last Act. J. S. Godden's imaginative and artistic stage designs were, with the exception of two pillars (hoped for, but never achieved), translated faithfully from two to · three· dimenslo.n s by the hardwo~king stage staff, among whom D. Alun-Jones, P. Brown, A. Felsenstein, R .

Green, R. Trotter; C. Ford-and J . Claxton deserve special mention, w'o rkihg under the highly efficient and ever-helpful A. Harding . .. ·The c redit titles for this ·production are: CAST

Cami!Jo Count Cenci Andrea, his s.erva,nt : ,~ ·; Beatrice, C~nci' s daughte·r Orsino, a priest -. . . ..

Savella, chief justiCiary Prince Colonna ,.: Lucretia, Cenci' s second wife Bernardo, Ce1~ci'~ youngest son Orsino's co.usin ,- .

Giacomo, Cenci's eldest son Mar:rio .. ! -· ·6 \ympio Officer Judges NEVILLE

- JOHN HOLMES -

SHEILA GRAUCOB - }ACK DODD - DESMOND DAY -

DAVID HARDING -

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JACK RALPHS BRIAN OSGOOD

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JOAN KEEYS

DAVID PARDOE HOWARD SLACK

MICHAEL ROBSON -

JOHN PALMER

DOUGLAS JONES DEREK BOURNE-JONES TELLER, GEOFFREY DE DENEY

.MARTIN BLACKBURN, D AVID

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Setting by John Godden Beatrice's song composed and music selected by James Earle

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Stage Director Chief Electrician Stage Director's A.ssi.stants;

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ANTONY HARDING DENNIS COOMBER

ALAN FELSENSTEIN, PETER BROWN,

RAE TROTTER, DEREK ALUN }ONES, ROBIN GREEN

Electricimi' s A.ssistants FVardrobe Mistress Business Mana.ge·r Publicity Manager Front of House Manager Box Office lvla11ager Production Secretary -

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COLIN FORD, JOHN CLAXTON -

AILEEN COOMBE - DESMOND DA y How ARD SLACK - PETER EVANS -

IA:-< BYATT

- NEVILLE TELLER

It would perhaps be appropriate to record here some of the press notices ' Cenci ' won from the Oxford journals. ' . . . it gave the players of the John Oldham Society .. . scope for soh1e astonishingly fine acting. Sheila Graucob .. . not only took my breath away by her dark · beauty, but also held everyone spellbound by the intensity of her acting ...

'The supporting cast, especially Jack Dodd as the doubledealing priest, Orsino, were commendaple for their precision and clarity.

'The ·production, by Derek Coltman, was exactly in the right key . . . ' (Oxford Mail) ' . . . Jack Ralphs, a young actor of rare brilliance . .

Mr. Ralphs was a)>etted by Michael Robson, who, as Giac0mo, . gave a serrsitrvely felt and spoken performance . . . ' (Oxford Times) ' ... Derek Coltman ... and his distinguished star deserve all praise. ' The unity of lighting, music, grouping and speech in"the production revealed not only an iron grip on his cast, but a clear decision on each effect to be achieved ; and none of these effects were brought a)xmt for their own sake, but all joined together in swelling the power of the drama from scene to scene, from act to act, until it finally burst with a crescendo of pure art in the last scene where the audience sat gripped to a man. ' Of Sheila Graucob as Beatrice I can say ... that there was a touch of greatness in her performance ...

'Jack Ralphs' Cenci was intelligently thought out and executed \\'ith superb technique ... ' (Cherwell) The other big event in our calendar during Trinity was the radiO reading of 'The \Vhite Devil' by John Webster, produced

by N. Teller.

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The aim had been to make it more than merely a play-reading recorded on to tape. The producer hoped to give it the polish of a 'radio production', but time was the great enemy. The whole performance had to be recorded between 9. 15 on Wednesday night and 2 o'clock on Thursday morning. As midnight approached, our female leads had to slip away, one by one, in haste-fortunately having recorded their scenes. The president and the producer cut, re-recorded and filled in sound effects until 4 .30 a.m.

Among the cast Mrs. Keeys, the Lucretia of ' Cenci ' stands out for a memorable performance as Vittoria Corombona; Miss Storey as Isabella, Miss V errey as Cornelia and Miss Burke as Zanche played the female roles against M. Rop-son as Flamineo, H . Hallsmith as Brachiano, D. Coltman as Monticelso and D. Day as Francisco de Medici.

A term memorable for two unusual achievements.

N.T. THE HEARNE SOCIETY HILARY TERM

President - P. R.

SNOXALL

Secretary- G. A. L.

BENNETT

At the first meeting of the term, Mr. G. M. Story of McGill University and Oriel College read a paper entitled ' William Alabaster and the Elizabethan Unrest '. Alabaster, it appears, was a recusant who became involved in Essex's rebellion, who seems to have been in every gaol except the Fleet, who changed his religion not once but at least four times, who, all in all, was a most intriguing gentleman. The discussion after the paper ranged from such topics as the origin of the word ' clink ' to the more abstruse points of Alabaster's writings and play 'Roxana'. vVe are much indebted to Mr. Story for giving us such an entertaining evening; At the second meeting of the term, Mr. C. Benbow read a paper entitled ' Santa Marta-the most disgraceful episode in British Naval History.' The battle of S'.lnta Marta lasted six days and its importance lies in the treachery of Admiral Benbow's subordinates .

Most of his captains were faint-hearted and demanded a return home. Benbow was seriously wounded but lived long enough to court martial the culprits and see two of them despatched to Plymouth for execution. It appears from the evidence Mr. Benbow put before us that the court martial was 'arranged '-but we have no doubt the captains got their just deserts.

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A lively discussion followed the paper and the microfilms of the ships' logs which Mr. Benbow brought along added to its scope and interest. An invigorating evening and one we shall remembe r for some time.

TRINITY TERM

President-R.

C.

M.

COOPER

Secretary- P.A. H.

CuRRAH

Only one meeting of the Society was held. Mr. A. C. Whitby, B.A., of St. Edmupd . I:Iall and Nuffield . Co,ll~ge, read a paper entitled ' Matthew Arnold arid' the Non-Coriforfuists '. Mr·. Whitby: explained that he was still studying this subject and therefore his paper was to be considered not as a verdict but as a tentative report on work in progress. Mr. Whitby confessed that it was a great relief to read Arnold's prose after the volumin~us works of the NonConformists, who displayed more ardour than literary ability.

This very scholarly and interesting paper provoked a discussion which started by considering the ethics of marrying one's deceased wife's sister and went on to the subject of the affluence and generosity of Nuffield College. When it was suggested that Mr. Whitby might obtain a grant to travel around the country studying the buildings of the Non ~Conformists, wanderlust flashed in Mr. Whitby's eyes.

P.A.H.C. THE QUEEN'S BENCH HILARY TERM

Master of the Moats -

J.

C.

BINGHAM

After an interval of a year during which the Hall had not been associated with the Queen's Bench, contact was re-established and the new office of Master of the Moots was created. This office is to be filled permaneptly by a member of the Hall, thus ensuring a closer co-operation between the Hall and the Society.

The first meeting of this term was a Freshmen's Moot , on 27 January before Mr. Tyler of Balliol. The subject of the moot was larceny, and S. D. Graham argued with some force, but autho1'.ity was unfortunately too, strong for .him. On 18 February, the SoGiety entertained two ladies from St. Anne's to a moot on tort before : Mr. Heusten of Pembroke. J. C. ~ingham elllployed a useful knowledge. of the scientific properties . of nitric. acid which prevailed against the greater lt;gal knowledg~ 9£ th~ .fair opponents . . Othe" activities during the term jnclu,ded,:a v\,sit · to the Elden So~ )etv. . oJ . . '· . '' .

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University College to hear Mr. Basil Henriques give an interesting talk on juvenile delinquency, and the visit of the Pembroke Law Society for a moot on contract presided over by Mr , :Butterworth of · New College.

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The only activity of the Society this term was the annual dinner held at The George Hotel on 15 June when the guests were Mr. Hall of Exeter and Mr. Heuston of Pembroke, both of whom made witty and learned speeches.

J.C .B. THE BOAT CLUB HILARY TERM

Ca.plain-]. WHEELER

Secretary-A. F. R.

EVANS

With a very inexperienced crew, it was decided to add a week to the normal period of training. A fortnight's invaluable instruction was also received from Major A. T. M. Durand at Hen"tey, so that by the time racing began, we had a competent crew at. low ratings.

Unfortunately the lack of experience told on the first night when w.e were bumped . by . Christ Church. After rowing over on the second night, however, we bumped University very quickly on the third, and on the Monday night had our revenge upon a very surprised Christ Church. By being bumped. ~n the last night by the powerful Magdalen crew, we finished where we had started, a fact which reflects much credit upon the enthusiasm of the crew and the coaching of K, R. Spencer and R. D. Hill.

The second T~rpid suffered a setback on the first night, but after a good row-over on the second, improved beyond all recognition to make four very satisfactory bumps.

CREWS Bow. 2.

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7· Str. Cox.

FIRST TORPID A. J. Waters J. A. Webber D.R. White R. Taylor E. F. Henzell A. F. R. Evans D. B. White .

N. B. Hall P. G. Tudor

SECOND TORPID D. C. Davies 2.

I. D. P. Jones B. Staples J. 3· D. B. Myles 4· H. H . F. Lay 5.

6. J. Thornton 7. M. W. Wood Str. D. B ~ Heffer .

Cox. N. Lossky '"' A.F.R.E.

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Although the First Eight's record this year cannot be regarded as spectacular, it did however serve to bring together a large number of freshmen and to bring out qualities and faults which could only be observed in racing. Over the whole week we managed to maintain our position on the river, and indeed after being bumped

by University on the first night, and bumping vVorcester on the third, we came extremely near to bumping Christ Church on the Monday.

Our somewhat uninteresting performance was due principally to. a failure to realise that the standards of oarmanship nearer the top of the first division require controlled rowing ¡and not merely an ability to strike a high rating, but other factors such as a lack of confidence, early indecision and a certain element of staleness all coml>ined to prevent our going really fast.

The Eight was coached py Dr. D. H. Richards and R. C. T. James and we cannot be too grateful for the tremendous amount of time and trouble that they put into their difficult task.

The other Eights, however, all acquitted themselves extremely creditably. The Second Eight, although rough, soon learnt to move their boat fast and under the coaching of R. C. T. James and M. J. P. Lancaster, eventually went up on two nights after being involved in a re-row on the first two nights.

The Third Eight, once again well stroked by J. A. C. Ellis , made another six bumps. This makes a total of seventeen bumps in a row and one can only hope that they will repeat the process again next year.

It was also decided to form a Fourth Eight for the first time, and they too did well, making four bumps altogether.

The climax to the whole week was on the Saturday night, when for the first time, four Hall boats all made a bump, but the Fourth Eight also tried to set up records of their own, as for instance when they made a bump on the first night in the remarkably short time of eight seconds.

CREWS FIRST EIGHT

2.

P. T. Ford D. B. White

3.

4.

E. F. Henzell N. B. Hall

Bow.

5.

6.

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W. J. M. Chaplin A. F. R. Evans 7. J. Wheeler Str. H. W. Goldsworthy P. G. Tudor

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D . H . F. Lay 5· M. W. Wood 6. R. Taylor J. A. \ i\Teb)ler D. R . White 7· A. J. Waters D . B. Heffer Str. H. M. P lowden-Roberts Cox. D . N. 'fhompson THIRD

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M. J. Kelly :W. J. Campbe ll D. Bloom J. E. Farrand I. C.R . Byatt J. Thornton R. R. Young B. F. P ritchard N. T eller

At a rneeting of First Eight Colours after Eights W eek, A . F . R. Evans was elected Captain, and W . J. M. Chaplin Secretary for t·he coming year.

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THE CRICKET CLUB Secretli-ry - .\ . E . H . TURNER R. K. PITA:\IBER

The Cricket XI proved this season that it has reached a standard a s high as that of the winte r sports, and it is only because there a re no trophies t-o be won that it did not receive recognition of its p rowess. Not a game was lost, and the victories were nearly always by a large margin. Of the few g·ames drawn, in only two were we in anything ,but a favourable position. The team was well ba lanced. J. R . M. B ra nston and D . Phipps, the opening bowlers, took a good share of the wickets, a nd J. Smith, b owling left-arm slows, provided admirable support. Branston and D . W. Keighle." regularly scored half-centuries, and were ably backed at times b-)· P . R. Maxwell and C. J. D . S aunders-Griffiths, to the d isgust o f the tail-enders, who were rarely allowed to have their knock . The Captain, R. K. Pitamber, a nd Phipps played fairly regularly for O. U . Authentics . N . F. Lockhart was unfortunate to be injured when he seei:ned in the runni ng for the University team: his a p pearances for us were regrettably' curtai le<l by this and regular D

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inclusion m the Authentics side. The Second XI also had a full fixture-list, and though ¡it lost as many matches as ;it won, the . competition for inclusion in the team promises well for future seasons.

The . officers for next year are: Captain, C. J. D . SaundersGriffiths and Secretary, P. B. Maxwell.

A.E.H.T. THE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB HILARY TERM

Captain -

H. N. R.

LEACH

Secretary -

J. H. W ." LAPH1u1

This term the Hall XV, strengthened by the inclusion of three Blues, was chiefly occupied with Cuppers. H aving beaten Worcester 5-0, Balliol 10-0, Oriel g--6 and Lincoln 3-0, the Hall lost to Brasenose in the Final, o--g. The narrow rnarg.i ns of victory and defeat show how fiercely all these games were ¡fought.

In the match against Worcester, H. W. Goldsworthy scored round the blind side from a five yards scrum and J. D . S: Purves c:onverted. The same pair repeated the action in the ~atch against Balliol, and Purves also converted a try ;s cored by D. E . Wood fro'm a scrimmage on the Balliol line. It was unfortunate that in this match A. W. Boyce had to retire with a damaged shoulder and was unable to play for the rest of the season.

At half time in the Oriel match Hall was losing 3-6 (one penalty and one dropped goal against a try scored by B. T. Gipson) , but a few minutes later after several bouts of passing amongst the backs, D. Pollard and then G. M. Hartley scored.

The Lincoln game was marred by a succession of injuries on both sides, Lincoln unfortunately losing their fly-half, Baker. It was not until late in the second half, after repeated assaults on a Lincoln line held by excellent covering in defence, that Pollard was able to score in the left hand corner to send us into the final against Brasenose.

Brasenose fielded a very strong side and won by two tries and a dropped goal to nil. Though unfortunately outclassed in the three-quarters, the Hall held its own by dint of hard work amongst the forwards, especially by Wood, M. H. Beech and H. N. R. Leach, and by some first-rate tackling by the three-quarters.

Brasenose's two tries came from unfortunate mistakes on our part, and Kittermaster dropped a beautiful goal from forty yards out.

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Quite , undeterred th:e BaPA!J.u ght . b,ii.ck and continued , tq . attack until the final whistle blew.

The team was: .J.... .. ~ .. f..Voigt, .B . . F. Pritch<1rd, D," Pollard , " ' .

J.. D. S. Purves, G: M. Hartley, B. T. Gibson, J. M .. Kershaw, ,B:.

W. Goldsworthy , H. , i'J .f . Le~ch, G~ Thom!ls, J. Farrand, • .J .. , ; •.

J. H. W. Lapham, 1\1 . .H: ,Beech, R. B. Pettifor, C .' J. Lummis , ,:\. W. Boyce, D. E. \\[oop, D . A. Lillicrap. ].H,W.L. I .

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(:apttti.11-D. G. Ho,\.itE .

Secretary-D.

B.' a·GlLVll~

This season has been a period of transition for the Soccer Club.

The close of the previous season left us with the Cup and without the g reater part of the team that won it, so that a comparatively ' junior' side, composed almost entirely of first and second year men, had to make the !best' of .a . very changed situation.

On the whole the HaJ1,. acquitted itself well, although not well e nough to retaip. the . \:up. A bye into the first round of q .u ppers and a 3-0 win against Exeter launched us happily enough, but ;S t. Catherine's Society··, proved too 'strong for us in ·the third ·round. The score of 7_:..2 ·was more emphatic than neces.s a'r y, but they were undoubtedly worthy of their victory.

However, there was compensation for this defeat in the results of friendly matches generally, and particularly in the apotheosis of 'R. G. Lunn, who has played :in three Amateur lnternationai mat ches for England this se~son: . . O f the fourteen friend.ly matches played, the Hall won eig ht , beating Southampton University Second XI 7-4, and both of the ' Ca~n):>ridge colleges, Jesus and St. John's, 4-0 and 3-2. At f'hc beginning of the term we were pleased to entertain a CorinthianCasuals team, and a very .satisfying game resulted in a 2 -.1. win for . the Casuals.

The Choughs were unfortunate in . having- five Qf their dght cancelled by their opponents. In the three they were able to.play they lost 0-3 to St. Cath's, beat New College by the same score, and finally capitul;ited gracefully to the Hall · First X I. netting two goals against th.e ir four . . fixture~

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awarded to Smith, Mcintosh, J. Forbes, P. R. Evans, and D. W. Keighley.

At the annual club dinner held at the Eastgate Hotel, we were honoured by the company of the Principal, the Dean, the Senior Tutor, the Junior Dean, Mr. Norman Morris, and secretaries of the Hall Clubs. The Principal and the Dean fulfilled all expectations with speeches which, if not easily classifiaJ>Ie as regards subject matter, were more than entertaining. The Captain and Secretary endeavoured to reply, and other speeches were made by the Senior Tutor, the Junior Dean, and Mr. Norman Morris, who brought the occasion to a close with some salutary words on the need for training.

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Ca ptain-B . M.

PENK

Secretary - C . .H.

FLETCHER

The results of this term's matches weighed slightly on the credit side-there was no lack of willing effort, but our finishing was nearly always poor. The encouraging feature, however, was the performance of the Cuppe rs side. Sheer determination beat Wadham in the first round, a result only being obtained in the second replay, after a total playing time of over 250 minutes. In the second round C. J. D. Saunders-Griffiths proved too good for St. John's, and he was to a large extent responsible for the score of 4-1. In the quarter-finals we lost to New College 1-3, Saunde rs-Griffiths scoring our solitary goal from a short corner, in a game in which no quarter was asked or given. With luck we might have beaten them, but one felt that the better side had won.

During the season Saunders-Griffiths again played for the University and Wales on the left wing, and B. M. Penn and J.M .

Skinner played regularly for, and were elected to, the Occasionals.

At the end of the season, Hall colours were awarded tq G. H. Hallsmith, D. Sephton, J. Kempster, W. H. A. Sanderson, T. P . benehy, J : M. Skinner, J. G. Watson and N. F. Lockhart. For the following season C. H. Fletcher was elected Captain and N . F. Lockhart Secretary.

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THE ATHLETIC CLUB HILARY TERM

President-P. S. D. E.

GASS

Secretary-C. C. B.

WIGHTWICK

This term the club's energies were devoted to putting out a team for the Inter-College Cuppers, in which we had finished fourth and third in the last two years. This year the main trial of strength was in the heats, against our rivals in the preceding year, Magdalen, who had not been seeded. After a ver;i. close. race, the Hall won its heat by eleven points, thus again reaching the Final. Here however we finished in fourth place some way behind Exeter.

Keble beat Brasenose by two points for first place. Our strength a s a team lay in the high standard of our hurdling, and in the Field Events, where we were one of th.e few colleges to enter a full team of reasonably competent performers. We felt the need, however, . as we always have, for a cadre of really first-class a thletes, or at least of men whose major sport is athletics.

The Cross-country VIII beat both Culham and Huntercombe Place at home, although in the latter victory the calculation of points was a little confused by the opposing side running from Kennington to Jackdaw Lane via Folly Bridge and the High Street, some two miles more than the course a dopted by our runners. In the Hyde Park Road Relay the team found the pace much high~r than the year before, and sank to 23rd place, despite greatly increased proficiency.

At the end of term, R. W. M. Thompson was awarded Hall Colours for Cross-country, and M. H. Beech fo r the Shot.

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The endeavours of the Club may be said to have been more fruitful this term than is usually the case. We actually en gaged ourselves to amalg amate with Lincoln in a three-cornered Athletics match , but it was discovered that the date chosen happened to be the Saturday of Eights Week, so that the Oxford contingent had to withdraw. It is not impossible that this attempt may, in the future, inspire a new zest in the Hall for summer athletics . . E. A. Simmonds was awarded his Centipede and competed regularly for that Club. C. C. B. Wightwick was elected President for the following year and C. J. Jones Secretary. R . ~T. Thompson was a ppointed Cross-country Representative.

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H ALLSMITH

·This.•was an unsatisfactory season. The .First VI did managcto retain its place in the First Division since it started the season with three .League victories in a row,.,..,...,.)Je~ting Jesus, Queen 's and Brasenose .. But not another League rnatch was ,won, and in :the Cup the Ball went out 2-7 to Merton in the . second round. , Two things .spoiled the season-rain, whi~h caused .the cancellation or postp<>nement of many rnat:ches, and impending exams, which prevented the more experienced members of the team , G~ H. Hallsmith . .\. R ... Douglas, \ V. H. A. Sanderson .and .C. ; J .. D, Saunder.sGriffiths,, from .playing regularly. When they were available, Hallsmith .and .Doug las were an im·incible fipit:.pai:r . .The second and third pairs varied considerably. though'among. t.he Freshmen, J. D .

Alun-Jones, A. Vv. Boyce and C. ]. Lummis played frequ ently, as did ·A . .E. H. Turner and J.C. Forbes .of the Seniors.

Perhaps the most satisfactory ·match was. that played on one ·or t he few su·nny afternoons, against the· Old -Aularians. The result is forgotten-as it should. be in such .a pleasant, friendly match.

The· ·Second VI · had a ~dismal season, .·few . matches be ing arranged for them, and even · fewer played because of rain ..

A . R. Douglas was elected to the Penguins·. .C.;J:.. Lummis was awa rded his Colours and elected Captain, and J. D. Alun~Jones was elected Seeretary. ' ,.

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THE SWIMMING CLUB .'

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Captain-C. M. ARMIT~G~

ln· t he -Inter-College Water. Polo Leagl,le,~ the :Hall , by winning· three :Of . jts five matches',· enjoyed · a .season r·m ore successful than usual. I~ · m·ight be adde<;l ·that in both the defeats ,, :our opponent;; took. advan_tage of the . controversy at;>01,1:t .borrowii:ig players to a.s~i~t ::depl~ted _ . sides~ . ~ : ..: ,·\ ', .::-) .:· , . ;~: -'.: _ -,: !:· ~ "' ., · .. r • •• . T4e team•.:was: C.. M. Armitage, J: ~: Bi·ngham; ].'E. Farrrun<;l, H. Lear, and B. \:Vall.:>Urn in goal. · R , ·R ;· : Y~ung'.· played on two · 1

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. In Water Polo Cuppers, we had a bye into the second round where we 'met Christ Church . Although the Hall did most of the attacking, . the only goal was achieved when their captain, a Blue, sco red with a long-range shot in the clos.i ng seconds of the match.

The teah1 was: Armitage, Bingham, Farrand, H. N. R. Leach, a nd Walburn in goal. ·' · ' , In Swimming Cuppers the Hall was drawn in a strong heat. ' In . the individual events, Armitage and: ·:Farrand gained .·second 1places; .~n the medley and free-style r:elays we were placed third . . \!\Tith a total_of.23 points, we finished . third ~hind Wadh,am (42) ·~md Keble (28) ; both of whom prqcee<led .to the Final. : . ··. The Hal!; was represented by . the above-named, and .. Leach, i .Harvey. and : mngham.

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The lbbg~clistance race for the IVIa{he'Ws Cup was held on the 'e vening of June 12th in miserable conditions: Of so.me dozen prospective''ertfoints, five finally presented thetnselves for the statt frohi the O.U. Boat House . Armitage and .Farrand quickly went into the ·lead, a·nd · wf!re going strongly down 'the Green . Bank, _ wh~n !.'\rmitage had retire indisposed. : With Farrand steadily increas~ ing his lead. oyer the rest of the field, the race became a procession , a nd, hl ri:!ach'id ~he bridge at Donningtdrt Lane a very t.bmfortable \viririer: ' Hrs' 'fime of 16 minutes 56 seconds was, howe,ver,: a Iliinutc and a half slower than that in which he 'Won the race the ye~r' hefore'.

C. J. fon'e s was second, B. \~/album third, and H. Lear fourth.

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'C ap<tain -~~) .J. G. ;

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,5;ecretary -C. H . .Br;NBOW . . . \

This vvas <11ot a successful term. Ou:tof fifteen First V ' iriatches, .only three were won and in Cuppers we wtire massacred by·the very s'trong< Ch~tiist'.C::hurch side for the s·ecorid year running . . However; there were sorne mitigating factors.iin otir {freary record. Of the six leadin'g p1aye rs iri the Hall, two were fouttl'I yei:fr ·m en and seemeci past the stage, '-vheri they wante'di'exerci~e of any forrn, .and two others!w~re taking Preliminary Examinations. It must also be said

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that in six of the matches we lost we only went down by the odd match.

During the term J. D. Alun-J ones was elected to the 0. U .

Squirrels and was awarded Hall colours .

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Captain-R. H .

Secretary -

FRENCH

J.

BARTON

In their League matches , the H all Badminton team beat both University College and St. Pcter 's Hall. Having lost to St. Catherine 's Society in the Michaelmas Term, a play-off against that college was neces~itated to determine future Leag~e positions.

This match was unfortunately lost, and so the Hall was ' relegated to the Third Division .

The chief weakness seemed to be in the Hall's second pair, who failed to take a set throughout the season . The main difficulty was in finding a court where regular practice could take p1ace, since the court normally used by the University suffered from serious over1~ rowding .

The tea m 's first pair .. did well, not dropping . a 0 '.set:- ..1,mtil we playe<l Lincoln in the second round of Cuppers, and . ;er~ Jl:IJocked out.

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J. Barton was given two games with the O.U. Woodpecker's Badminton Club, and it is hoped that he may play more .regularly for therp during the season 1953-54.

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Cciptain-D. R.

S1rnl\'TOK

Secretary - N . F.

L OC KHART

The term was de\·otcd to the remaining three rounds of Cuppers, which were run on the Swiss systeh1. Although it is very difficult to assess strength in the Oxford chess world, it seemed that the first team, consisting of J. R. Allchurch, G. I. de Deney, and D.R. She nton, had e merged with some distinction, while the rest of us, if not finding scintillating form, did at least enjoy ourselves.

The officers for the Mi~haelmas and Hilary Terms . are N. F. Lockhart, Captain, and D . S. W. Dargan , Secretary.

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A CONSTITUTIONAL ADVANCE The present year has witnessed a further important advance in the constitutional development of the Hall. \Vhile the changes carried through are concerned mainly with the administrative structure and have little or no direct impact on the general body of Aularians, they are indicative of the Hall's steady progress as an academical society, and so cannot fail to arouse the interest of all who have its welfare at heart.

It is well known that the status of the Hall is regulated by a Statute of the University which was approved by the King in Council on 21 December, ~937· This epoch-making piece of legislation, the fruit of patient planning and negotiation .on the part of the then Principal, proYided for its ad~ninistration as ' an independent self-governing institution'. Under the terms of this Statute the government of the Hall was entrusted to two overlapping bodies, (a) the Principal and Trustees, and (b) the Principal and Fellows. The Trustees, four of whom were to be severally representative of the University, Queen's College, the Fellows and the :\ularian Association, while the remainder, not exceeding six in number, were to be co-opted, had the responsibility of supervising, along with. the Principal, matters concerning the finances and property of the Hall. To them was also transferred the· ~.tl-important function of appointing the Principal, which since tlic sixteenth century had been exercised by the Provost and Fellows of Queen's.

The Fellows, on the other hand, who were called into existence by this Statute to replace tlw former Tut·ors, were empowered to collaborate with the Principal in matters concerning discipline and educational policy.

Such in brief has bee n the Hall ' s constitutional position during the past fifteen years. It represents a remarkable ach-ance on the situation prior 10 19~7. ,\"lien (to single out but two points) Queen's College still retained a Ye ry real hold over its si11aller neighbour, and the Tutors were the nominees of the Principal for the time being ancl enjoyed none of the rig-hts considered indispensable for I• ellows of Colleges. From the start, ho"\ve ver, these arrangements were understood to be transi tional, be ing adapted to the period whe n the Hall was getting used to its new-found freed~m and its teaching- staff was relatively small, and since the end of the war at least the desirability of t:1king· a further step forward has been increasingly apparent. In particular, it was becoming obvious that ,

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with the e,nl~rged number of Fellows, the great expansion of the Hall and the stability of its general position, a~ improvement in the statiis ·of the Fellows could not be postponed indefinitely. As a partial and temporary measure to meet this need the representation ' of the · F~llo:Ws bh the body of Trustees was, within the framework of the 1937 Statute, deliberately raised to two in 1949 and to four in January 1952; hut in Michaelmas Term 1951 tlie decision had already ·been taken to initiate a more extensive reform l:>y means of an amending Statute. The preparation of this, · involving as· it did a considerable amount of discussion ·and negotiation between the several' interested parties, occupied a large part of the academic year 1951-2, and the Statute eventually drafted was promulgated in Congregation in December last year. It was introduced, most appropriately, .. by Dr. G. E. F. Chilver, Senior Tutor of Queen's and the Representative Trustee of the College; and it is fitting to record. at this.· point the good will and encouragement which the ' authorities of,the Hall have encountered at e:very stage :from the College; The Statute received the approval of the Queen in Council ·on 30 April, .1953, and came into operation forthwith.

Its ·objects :are, in the main, two, and they can be shortly outlined. The.·first, as has beeru e:Xplained, is to consolidate the position of the Fellows, and ,this it achieves by in effect breaking down the partition wall between them ·and .the Trustees. Instead of having the right to nominate a sirigle Trustee to represent them, all .th<: Fellows; and , all · foture . Fellows, now become Trustees auto"rnatically by virtue bf their office. · Their sphere of responsibility, ·in collaboration wiith the Principal, is thus expanded from the supervision ; of discipline and educational policy so as to cover every aspect of the Hall's life; and when the Principalship falls vacant, instea.d . ()f m.ef:ely having the ,right to put forward nominations to . the Trustees, theY.now share, as Trustees, equally with those Trustees who are not fellows, the right and responsibility of electing a new Principal. . Moreover, to prevent the new and enlarged body of Trustees f~om becoming unweildy .and to ensure that the Fellows have .a .-s.ufficient yoice on it, ,the number of Trustees who are not Fellowshas been .reduced: the Representative Trustees who are not Fellows ,remain three, . but the total of Trustees who may be .co-opted has -~ep. 1.im:ited to four instead of ~ix, . The general effect of th~f>;C changes . ~-~ that wjlile the .Hall can still avail itself of the experience. and .counsel of non-.Fellow Trustees (which in the past, it should be g.q1tefully acknowledged, has proved a valuable source

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of .str.c:lngth) , the balance of influence between the m and the ·fellows who teach and bear the day-to-day routine .of::work at the }{all .has b_een adjusted, the position of the latter being made to .approximate to that of Fellows of Colleges. · . . The second object of the new Statute is, by extending the classes Of Fellowships which can be held at . the Hall, to enable it both .to enlarge and strength_e n its own governing )Jody and, at the same time; to meet its . wider responsibilities in the University more satisfactorily than- has been possible in the past. Hitherto only two kinds .of Fellowships have been available at the Hall-,--ordinary or Official Fellowships, held ):>y the tutorial staff, and Honorary Fellowships, tenable by distinguished persons connected with the Hall or eminent benefactors. The new Statute !:>rings the Hall into line with the Colleges by providing, in addition to t:hese, for Emeritus Fellowships and Professorial Fellowships. An Emeritus Fellowship is an -honorarv rank to which the Principal a nd Fellows are entitled , at their discr~t ion, to elect a pe rson who l~~s vacated a Fellowship or some other office at the Hall which in their opinion renders him eligible .for such promotion. Professorial .Fellowships are tenable.

by Professors .or Readers of the University, or!by the .holders of other :.University' offic~s which the University ·has .formally · certified as ,~ar.ry ing with them professorial s.tatus. It :is customary for such pcrs6is 1·who normally draw the ir stip.ends fro:m tbe University, to be provided with a . College connection ·and to be accorded·the rights , · J:>rivileges and dut ies of Fellows in the Colleges to which they are assigneµ. In the case of Professorships proper the College is usually given r.adequate representation on :the. ·eledoral board which makes appointments to the chair. In ' these days , when there has been a vast pullulation· of such posts and most . Colleges are reluctant to add to the nuniber -of· Professorial Fellowships to .i vhich they arc comq1itte9:, there is every reason to suppose that the Hall is doing the University a substantial service in laying itself open to receive one or more Professorial Fellows (the number, it should be noted, is limited to a fixed proportion of the Official Fellows) . But if this feature of the Statute has created a favourable impression in Oxford generally, it should be no less warmly welcomed nearer home. Lacking endowment, the Hall finds it difficult to maintain a Senior Common Room commensurate in numbers either with its present undergraduate population or with the governing bodies of eve n the smaller Colleg-es . The addition of one or two Professorial F ellows should help to remedy this and should make its position

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comparable with that of the latter at any rate. Taking a longer view, it must redound to the Hall's advantage, as it does to that of the Colleges, to have distinguished scholars of this kind closely associated with it.

The earlier phase of the Hall 's constitutional development was conditioned, to a large extent, by the overriding necessity of winning and consolidating its independence .. This having been so strikingly achieYed in the 'thirties, the problem now is to work towards the form of polity which seems best adapted to ensure the continuance and healthy functioning of an academical society of the size and character that the Hall has assumed. No longer an undersized, slightly eccentric institution on the fringe of Oxford, it has in the past thirty years equalled most of the Colleges in general record and outst ripped several in numbers, and through its Fellows and Lecturers it provides for the tuition of the great majority of its junior members. Such )Jeing t he case, there seems little doubt that the goa l at which it should aim is a fully collegiate constitution under which its g overnment and administration would be vested in a single corporate body consisting of a ¡ head and Fellows possessed of all the rights and responsibilities which belong to Fellows of Colleges. This is the type of polity which experience at Oxford ,_ as much in this post-war epoch as in former ages, shows to be qios t suit.able, from¡ every point of view, for a large and fuUy mature societ y . Looked at in .this light, the present amendi~.g Statute, with the proposals outlined above, can be regarded as a modest but none the less definite step in the right direction; and it is significant that Dr. Chilver, when commending its provisions to Congregation, made the point that they amounted to no more than was deinanded by the record of the Hall and the distinction o( its Fellows since the ratification of the earlier Statute in 1937.

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THE VICE-PRINCIPAL'S AMERICAN TRIP If it is a truism that the world has grown smaller than ever before in the twentieth century, it remains equally true, by some malign paradox, that the intercourse of scholars and savants has become more difficult and even hazardous in the last few decades.

Hence we congratulate the Vice-Principal on the variegated and successful lecture-tour which, after some initial frustrations and false starts, he has heen enabled to carry out in the United States of America this summer. The following is a synthetic picture, . pieced together by a journalistic stylo, of a scientist's brief Odyssey -in retrospect, we gather, it has acquired an almost dreamlike, mythological character-which has brought Dr. Irving back to these shores a happier, wiser ma·n , and which has left the new world with a healthy respect for t he scholarship, practical good sense and human affability of the old, particularly as personified by the Hall's own representative.

I t all began in August 1952, when the Vice-Principal was invited to read a paper at a conference on Coor<linationcompounds to be held in the ensuing summer at the University of Bloomington, Indiana. ..\s Dr. Irving ·pu.rsed his lips, calculating the deLcate relationship between the undoubted honour and the no less indubi table effort and expense, other in vitations followed thick and fast.

Would he kindly consent to be Visiting Professor for 1953 at Ames University, Iowa? Would he please consider opening the summer symposium of the American Chemical Society in ..\lbany, N. Y.?

What about being principal, nay only, speaker at the banquet scheduled to be" held in connection with the latter? }lodest inan though he is, it does not need many suggestions of this sort to persuade the hard-working English chemist that he is needed across the Atlantic, and that duty pids him abandon the latter portion of Trinity Term and, worse still, the major portion of the delectable Long Vacation, to ensure that our ,\merican cousins are not deprived . of the latest fruits of British scholarship.

Duty may bid, but Senator McCarthy has powe r, at any rate temporarily, to forbid, and the ·d evotees of Natural Science are the least exempt froin his scrutiny. With tickets purchased and transatlantic reservations booked, Dr. and :VIrs. Irving found themselves unaccountably held up: a \"isa, it appeared, although applied for months previously, could not be procured. Why, no one seemed able, or willing, to explain. If the uninitiated may

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venture a guess, it is possible that the Vice-Principal's actry1t1es on ~half of the British. Gove.r nment in the field of atomic energy rriay have aroused the suspicions of the United States authorities.

Ho~ever that may be, the delay, anxious and indeed exasperating v&b:il~ ' it lasted, was eventually brought abruptly to .an end, and 0 ;1.

25 J tine Dr. and Mrs. Irving set sail in the Queen Elizabeth. Almost a month had expired since the date on which they . had originally pl~'nried to leave, but after so many alternatio~s of hope and despair; so' n,iany interviews with evasive officials and so many examples oi' the .balking of other people's hopes, they counted themselves' lucky to JJe oh the · high seas With the ship ' s course set for the land of freedom and democracy.

New York was reached on 30 June , and from this moment onwards the Vice-Principal and Mrs . Irving found themselves invofved in an exhausting but exhilarating whirl of activity, ;both social and academic. From New York they sped by air to Chicagb and thence by railroad to Ames, w11ere as their first taste of the lavisli~ess of ' Ame~ican hospitality they had a furnished house , gadgets and all, placed at their disposal by a colleague on furlough.

Their stay here lasted a fortnight, during which Dr. Irving delivered an intensive course of lectures on Chemistry in hi s capacity as Visiting Professor. From Ames they returned to Chicago, finding accommodation in the Quadrangle Club on the campus of the University. Here there were more lectures before the University, and in addition lectures at North Western University and at the Argonne Laboratory. At the latter, a Government insfrtutiori for atomic research, the Vice-Principal, ruefully mindful · of the treatment he had received in the matter of visas before leaving England, refused point-blank to produce any evidence of idenfity whatsoever, and (such are th~ p~radoxes of bureaucracy) managed to get in nevertheless.

From Chicago they proceeded to the University of Illinois, where they were the guests of Professor G. F. Smith, the recipient of this year's Fischer Award in Analytical Chemistry. Profess~r Smith, incidentally, in his spare ·time owns and manages the G. F. Smith Chemical Company, ·and some forty factories for the manufacture of Instant Whip Cream. After a brief hut exciting period studying the United States way of life (learning., inter alia, .the ways of one-armed bandits and the sophistication of the drive-in cinema), they moved on to Columbus, whei:e Dr . .Irving lectured at the Ohio State Unive rsity. The ne xt ·stop. was Buffalo, near

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Niagata: a trip financed out of the proceeds of a lecture-visit to Linde Air Products. Inevitably the Falls caine in for inspection , and it was fa scinating to contrast the view of them by floodlight one evening and by daylight next morning.

Feeling that a spell of relaxation was both desira)>le and deserved , Dr. and Mrs. Irving next went up to the Adirondack :Mountains to spend a few days a t Lake George . By a happy chance the hotel in which they stayed overlooked the Lake and provided a superb view of the National Wate r-Skiing Cha mpionship. After a day in Albany, they went on- to Schenectady, where the Vice-Principal resumed lecturing, this time for the benefit of the General Electric Company and the .Knolls Atomic Powe r Laboratory. Boston was the next stop, with more lectures at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Then on to Ne'w York , where Dr. Irving put in a good deal of time preparing further lectures, but a good deal more getting acquainted with the fantastic city itself. The curriculum to which he submitted himself started with Radio City, but did not omit China Town, the Bowery or the Museum of Contemporary Art. After this, dejected by the thought of a protracted rail journey, the two of them flew to Indianapolis , covering the rest of the journey to Bloomington by car, and then the Conference on Coordinationcompounds began. That is perhaps an over-modest way of describing the inauguration of a veritable whirlw ind of business, discussion, social entertainment, .fraternisation with colleagues, not to mention the delivery of the â&#x20AC;˘paper itself. The fact that Dr. Irving emerged from the whirlwind not only unscathed but triumphant may !:>e not unconnected with the fad that he was housed in a luxuriously equipped women' s dormitory rejoicing in the name of Sycamore Block.

Five hectic days accomplished, they left by car on a 300 mile trip to the University of Nassau and the University of Perdue at Lafayette, where they were houseguests of Profes!?or and Mrs. Melon. To his surprise and delight, the Professor showed the VicePrincipal several beautiful colour photographs of the Hall which he had taken when lunching in the Senior Common Room in September 1952 and now treasured among his most prized relics. From the University airfield (an academic refinement which Oxford might well imitate) a small plane took them back to Chicago, where they changed to a Constellation and made the return .journey to New York. One of the most memorable experiences of:the whole tour was that of arriving at their destination after midnight and

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hovering- m the great aircraft over the gigantic city spread out below them with its blaze of myriad lights. v\"hile Mrs. Irving remained installed in New York, the Vice-Principal made day-trips to the neighbouring State of New Jersey to visit the Bell Telephone Laboratory , the firm of Merck and Company, and the Du Pont Experimental Station at Wilmington. Not for 1-he first time he discovered that serving as scientific consultant to a large industrial firm is more lucrative than lecturing at universities, but much harder work. In the intervals , despite record-breaking- temperatures of 100 degrees · ih. the shade, he and Mrs. Irving contrived to visit Radio City again, take part in a television broadcast, see ' Guys and Dolls', and sample sundry 3D films. They set sail from ::-.J"ew York in the Queen Eliza.beth on 2 Septern.ber.

So ended a trip which will live long in the recollections of the lucky ones who took part in it. The initial disappointments and frustration s over visas soon faded into the background like a crazy dream that is forgotten in the daylight. What iinpressions stand out? The lavishness and warm-heartedness of t he hospitality-the astonishing level of material wellbeing a nd convenience-standards of hygiene that took one's breath away, whether it ·was a · case of the abundance of haths or the care· taken in wrapping meat-the ability of Americans to live thirty hours a day, and to make their guests do the same and enjoy it. Invaluable in a different way was the experience of meeting colleagues working in. the same or kindred fields and exchanging ideas and conclusions with them. By such contacts learning is enlarged and . the individual scholar returns to his own laboratory refreshed and, perhaps, inspired.

THE O.U.D.S. DRAMATIC CUPPERS To produce Th e Insect Play at all is a challenge, a nd to give it dramatic unity is difficult; to do this when condensing it to half its normal le ngth seems nearly impossible. That Derek Chapman succeeded .in-doing it well enough to win the O.U.D.S . Cuppers is a magnifice llt · tribute to himself a nd to the quality of the Hall' s actors. That we should win for the second year running is proper to our place 1in Oxford dramatics.

The production was richer both in humanity a nd humour than the play at first s ight demands. In presenting men as insects , masks and the cla ptrap of elaborate costm'nes were almost coi11pletely igriored a nd what rema ined was, paradoxically, more .

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important as satire. The audience was called upon to readjust its sympathies and judgments. This was live theatre and good psychology.

In the first episode Michael Robson interpreted Felix with unusual sympathy. In stead of the tea-party poet in a cruelly seductive butterfly world, he presented an agony always more genuine than precious, though never merely lush . This was ea:;ily the best performance of the evening-high praise indeed, for the quality was almost uniformly high. H e showed a grace of quick movement which is exceptional on the amateur stage.

The first scene was flawless in acting and production. Jaquelin e \forgan ..as Clytie and Cynthia .-\bsom as Iris acted their brittle parts with a rare sophistication and a genuine sense of enjoyment. · Desmond Day was a poised, sinister and contemptuous Victor, and Derek Alun-Jones as Otho g·ave a ponderous study of pipesmoking extraversion which the audience was quick to appreciate.

This sense of sympathy was again evident in the scene of the · C reepers and Crawlers '. Philip Currah as the Parasite elected not to crawl in but to arrive in a red shirt. David Harding, almost outstandingly good as the Ichneumon Fly, was not produced as a cold-blooded capitalist but as the doddering small-city businessman.

His murder of Mr. and Mrs. Cricket (the charmingly domesticated Howard Slack and Jane Reeve) was not caused only by economic impetus but by genuine love for his lava. This emotionalism enriched the satire.

Mr. and Mrs. Beetle (Desmond Day and Sally Hinchcliffe) provided a harsh note in the scene with their affection for that beautifully inanimate thing, their 'pile'. Desmond Day was excellent here (how many voices has he?) Not in a long time will Oxford hear ' M y Gawd' said -w ith such feeling and lyric abandon.

The third episode, ' The A~ts ', was easily the best in technical production, but it was not so well worked out. In handling this satire oµ the totalitarian state, the inhumanity of industrialism and of war, the producer did ·well to concentrate on the last. Jack Dodd and Neville Teller were produced monotonously rather than insistently, hut the producer was perfectly cor_rect in concentrating the scene on this pair rather than on the more incoherent background.

Jack Dodd especially deserves mention. Though a little too loud , his _e xploitation of two voices, one to thunder his nihilistic orders. the _other to pray to the ' Great God of the Ants ' was inasterful, and pointed the essential cruelty of the satire at this point. That E

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Neville Teller played interpreter to such a performance and that he showed such good response and gestic ula tion is in itself its own praise.

For the others: John Holmes was delightfully fragile as the inve nto r, thoug h the fragility of head rather than body was not so convincingly produced. Derek Alun-Jones reappeared well as the journali.st and David Isitt as the messenger won an ' Oscar ' .

A first-rate touch was Martin Blackburn's oriental accent as C.-in-C. of the Yellows. The part was well spoken and the voice cut expressively across the da rkened stage. At the close Philii:, Currah and Desmond Day (again !) were a sufficiently loathsome pair of snails. It is hard to know quite how to praise snails.

Finally among the actors we come t~ the Tramp. This is a difficult role, part choric part dra matic. He says so many things not quite releva nt to the play; his death is a mystery ; what happens after his death is ne\¡er clear . Yet Tony H a rding did very well as this difficult character. He combined. the choric lines with a fierce bewilderment wh ich was convincing to a n extent the writing does not deserve.

In this first-rate production the set was good , the lighting good e noug>h. There was some fastidious make-up, and this in itself was a pleasant departure from usua l Oxford standards.

M.B.

THE AULARIAN BOOKSHELF The following puplications by members of the Hall have come to our notice . We should be very glad to have news of any such publications for notice in this article or for review in the Magazine. \ Ve should be especially glad to receive copies of them to place on the Aula rian Shelves in t he Old Library where we are building up a complete collection of the works of Aularians, past and present.

R. G. FuRNIVAL (M;atric. 1947) . Stephen Duck: The Wiltshire Phenom e n on, 1705-1756 (article in The Cambridge Journal, :\ fay 1953, Vol. VI, No. 8, pp. 486-496).

C. R . H1scOCKS (Matric. 1926) T he He-birth of Au.stria. Oxford Unive rsi ty Press , 19.=;3.

R. ILLSLEY (Matric. 1938). Enviro 11ment and Childbearing (in conjunction with Professor D. Baird, M.D. (Article in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine , February, 1953 , Vol. 46, No. 2, PP ¡ 53-59).

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H . M. N. H . IRVING (Vice-Principal) with R. J . P. Williams: Partition Chromatography (article in Science Progress, No. 163, July 1953).

With R. J . P. 'N'illiams: The Stability uf 'l'-ra11siliu11 Metui Comp.fexes. (A rticle in The Journal uf the Chemical Suci.ety, October, 1953. (637) .)

G. 'VILSON KNIGHT (Matric. 1921). Th e Shakespearian Tenip est.

Methuen , 1953.

K. A. MurR (Matr ic. 1926). The Pai11full Aduentures of Pericles, Prince of Tyre , by George Williams, an ed ition . University P ress of Liverpool, 1953.

C. R . RITCHESON (:Vlatric. 1948). The Prepamtion of the Stamp .4ct. (Article in The H'illiam· and J11Iar31 Quarterly, 3rd series , Vol. X, No . 4, pp . 543-559 ; October, 1953 .)

P .. \ . Sc HOLES (Matric. 1906). The Life and Activities uf Sir / ohu Hawkins . Musician, Magistrate, and Friend of / ohnso11 .

Oxford U nive rsity Press. London : Cumberlege, 1953.

1'1'L R . SEYMOUR-SMITH (.Matric . 1948). The Fa.11 fasy Poets. No. 10.

Oxford U niversity P oetry Society, 1953 .

N . J . W ILLIAMS (Matric . 1946). The Co ronation of Qneen Elisabellt I . (Article in The Q uarterly Review, No. 597, July 1953.)

P. G . WINCH (Ylatric . 1947). Th e Notion of ' Suggestion· i11 Thomas Re id's Theo ry of Percept£011.

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