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AULARIAN CALENDAR 1959-60 ST. EDMUND'S DAY Monday, r6th November London Dinner .. .

T uesday, 12th January

H all Ball (if arranged). ..

Friday, 17th June

ReunionDinner(Oxford) Friday, 24th June Residence for Full Term: Michaelmas Term Hilary Term ...

Trinity Term Degree D ays

Sunday, nth October to Saturday, 5th December Sunday, 17th January to Saturday, 12th March Sunday, 24th April to Saturday, r8th June Saturday, 3rst October ; Saturday, r4th November ; Saturday, 28th November ; Saturday, 12th December ; Saturday, 27th February; Thursday, 28th April ; Saturday, 4th June; Thursday, 23rd June; Saturday, 9th July; Saturday, 3oth July.

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KEY TO THE HALL PHOTOGRAPH The names arc given from left to right as viewed by the reader Back Row D. W . Wilson, J. H . Phillips, R. G. Hope, D. D. Mussell, C. F. Hughes, J. M. Mander, Sir A. J. O utram , A. C. Ga rrod, W . W. Budden, A. J. Nia!, J. F. Pa yne, J.B . Grant, R . Kemp, T. D. Day ,J. C. Atkinson, M.J. Row botham , M. H. Botton:lcy, M . J. Senter, ]. C. Hemming, R . Mizen, A. ll. Holdsworth , D.R. A. l'earrc, D.]. Harrison, M . L. Somers, S. V. K. Canepa, P. Burns, F. J. Farrell, A. J. Featherstone, G. P. Fox, A. D . Beck, B. J. Thomas, G. R . Heritage

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J. D. Kesby, M. ]. Beard, J. R . Wardle, G. R. Mihell, B. J. Whittaker, M. C. Highstead , A. G. P. McGinn, B. A. ]. Walshaw, J. L. Hibberd, D. A. R . Poole, R . H . B. de Vere Green, R. E. M. Irving, I. D . T aylor, P. S. C la yson, G. E. Wiley, R . H. Ca ddick, D . 0 . Cosgrove, M . Yeger, G. N. ]. Smart, ]. A. Turner, I. ll. Madnncs, A. J. D. Smith, L. L. Filb y, E. M.]. Hilt, M. J. Ca nsdale, K. D. Lea ver, R. A. Gilbert, A. G. Rutfhead , J. T. Young, J. N. Aptaker, N. A. J. Swanson Sixth R ow J. B . Clark , T . G. Cook, R . N . Jarman, J. F. O'Donnell, M . L. Bird, C. ]. Lawless, ]. E. Aves, W . A. M. Clarkson, P. G. Croissant, R . B. Cook, C . C. Nich ols, ]. D. Hincks, B. E. Amor, M. Jones,]. M . Eva ns, R . G. Emer y, ]. R . M . Harvey, F. H . ten Bos, ]. P. Propert, R. S. Paul, W . I. Flant, A. ]. Scharer, E. P. Smith, W. A. Porter, A. S. Golightly, G. A. Blakeley, B. P. Middleton, R . S. M acleod,]. L. Smith, 13. R . T erry, D. Pugh Se1m11Ji R <>111 K. Gosling, R . M. Siedle, A. L. Stewa rt, C. Wymer, M . D . Duck, D . J. Wilson, M. F. Lowe, Mr. G. R . Allen, Mr. R . B. Mitchell, Dr. D . C. M . Yardle y, Mr. C. F. W . R . Gullick , Dr. R . Fargher, Mr. G. D . R a!l" say, C. ]. Macdonald-Bennett, The Principal, Dr. H. M . N . H . Irving, Mr. E. G. Mid!!lcy, Professor W . HumeR othery, Mr. H. E.]. Cowdrey, Dr. G. W . Series, Mr. H . G. Barnes, Dr. J. D. T odd, L. T. Lombard , G. W . R oberts, M. L. Andrews, E. S. G. Jelinek, C. G. Done, 13. F. T aylor,]. A. P. Ra y,]. N . Davie,]. C. Markwick Fro11t Row D. A. Clarke, P. V. Kite, P. G. Slip, M . J. Clarke, M . J. Rider, S. T.J. Mazzarella, L. A. C hester, R. K. Phillips, B . Quinn, A. G. Coo per, N . 0. de Villiers, D. K. R .

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ST. EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE Vol. VII, No. 4

OCTOBER, I959 EDITORS 1958-9: M. S.

P. J.

Editor Assistant Editor

FOWLER,

TINDALE,

DE PERSONIS ET REBUS AULARIBUS THE PRINCIPAL AND FELLOWS has been appointed to the Council of The Royal Holloway College in the University of London. In September he acted as one of the two Co-Presidents of the Second International Patristic Conference, which was held in Oxford. Last December he delivered the second of the Advent Lectures at Sion College, taking as his subject 'Scripture and Tradition'. On 21st June he preached the Commemoration Sermon before the University, and on Friday, 26thJune, the Graduation Sermon at St. David's College, Lampeter.

During the year he has preached at Westminster Abbey, Keble College, The King's School, Canterbury, Radley College, and St. Edward's School, Oxford, and he has distributed the prizes at Warwick School, St. Edmund' s School, Canterbury, and Roade Secondary Modern School.

The Vice-Principal was principal speaker at the International Congress on Co-ordination Chemistry which was held in London during the Easter Vacation.

Dr. R. Fargher was appointed Chairman of the Faculty of Modern Languages in Hilary Term. The Dean (Rev. E. G. Midgley) gave the Holy Week addresses at St. Edward's School, Oxford, and preached at All Saints', Margaret Street, on Whit Sunday.

Dr. D. C. M. Yardley has examined for the Final Honour School of Jurisprudence. Mr. R. E. Alton has been Chairman of the Examiners for the First Public Examination (English Language and Literature). Dr. G. W. Series paid a visit to the United States of America in June in order to read, by invitation, a paper to the Conference on Optical Pumping held at the University of Michigan.

He has also examined for the Final Honour School of Physics.

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Mr. R. B. Mitchell is to be congratulated on being . permitted to supplicate for the degree of D.Phil. Mr. G. R. Allen has examined for the Diploma in Agricultural Economics. He has also carried out, on behalf of the World Food and Agricultural Organization, an extensive tour of most of the countries of East, West and Central Africa. The Rev. H. E. J. Cowdrey has examined in Responsions.

He is to be congratulated on his marriage on 14th July, and the Magazine extends its sincere good wishes to him and Mrs. Cowdrey.

Mr. H. G. Barnes was obliged, owing to illness, to absent himself from his duties during Hilary Term, but the Magazine notes with satisfaction that he is now fully restored to health. Dr. J. D. Todd has examined for the Final Honour School of Engineering.

The St. Edmund Junior Fellow, Mr. V. A. Kolve, was granted leave of absence from 3oth March to 28th September to enable him io carry out the tour of active duty required of him by the United States Army.

The Magazine congratulates the Rev. Dr. L. Hodgson, Honorary Fellow, on his election to an Emeritus Studentship at Christ Church, and Professor H.J. Hunt, Emeritus Fellow, on the appearance of his book Balzac's Comedie Humaine (Athlone Press) and the favourable reviews it has elicited.

HON. D.LITT.; F.B.{\.

FOR DR. EMDEN this has been a year of achievement and triumph.

In the first week of June the third and final volume of his opus

grandissimum, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500 (Clarendon Press), appeared, only eighteen months after the publication of the first. Thus is brought to completion a work of meticulous and wide-ranging scholarship which illuminates the history of medieval Oxford with a thoroughness and distinction without parallel in existing studies of the other great medieval univerisities of Europe. What is perhaps most remarkable is the fact that this vast and endlessly fascinating compilation, based on a close examination of original sources, is not the result of team-work, but has been carried through from start to finish by the labours of one man. In the same week, on 2nd June, the University conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters in recognition of his services to scholarship, to the University, and to the Hall over which he presided for so many years. This signal but amply merited honour has rejoiced the hearts of Aularians everywhere, who unite in offering Dr. Emden their warm and delighted congratulations. The degree was conferred in the Sheldonian Theatre, and it has been thought desirable to print here a free translation of the Latin speech which the Public Orator (Mr. A. N. 2

Bryan Brown, of Worcester College) delivered when presenting him to the Vice-Chancellor: 'It seems almost superfluous to expatiate on this man's merits in this house, but custom enjoins it and friendship makes it a pleasure.

As a scholar of Lincoln College he devoted himself to Modem History. Later, after a brief study ofLaw, he accepted Alec Paterson's suggestion and ran a hostel for boys in London. He served as an A.B. for four years during the first war. When peace returned, he did not (like Plautus' s famous duck) find himself out of his element on dry land, but immediately became the life and soul of St. Edmund Hall. If you want to see his memorial, glance at that pleasant quadrangle and reflect on the way in which the Hall's strength was increased, its numbers multiplied, its status enhanced and its corporate spirit fostered. One man more than anyone else was responsible for this, and as Tutor, Bursar and Principal he exerted himself even more than his strength warranted. Let me shortly summarize his many activities. He served on Hebdomadal Council for twelve years. During the second war he commanded the 0.U. Naval Division. He loves and seeks to preserve our countryside, its birds, its flowers. He studies medieval decorated tiles. He has given unremitting service to the Church and to a number of schools.

But his particular claim to academic honours is that, besides two earlier works of great distinction, he has compiled a comprehensive biographical register of some fifteen thousand members of the University down to l 500 A.D. He began this work while firewatching during enemy air-raids, and finished it in his Headington retreat. The splendid volumes are now appearing from the Clarendon Press.

'I present to you Alfred Brotherston Emden, Honorary Fellow of Lincoln College and of St. Edmund Hall, a diligent, learned and devoted student of the history of universities, for admission to the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters'.

Only a few weeks after the ceremony in the Sheldonian Theatre, a further rare honour was conferred on Dr. Emden. On 9th July it was announced that he had been elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy. This is a crowning distinction which only a handful of scholars at Oxford hold, and the Magazine joins with all his Aularian friends in expressing its pride and satisfaction.

A MEMORIAL SERVICE A MEMORIAL SERVICE for the late Percy Alfred Scholes, 0.B.E., M.A., D.Litt., Hon.D.Mus., Doct. es lettres (Lausanne), Hon.D. Litt. (Leeds), Commoner of the Hall 1906-9, Trustee 1950-7, and Honorary Fellow 1947-58, was held in the Chapel at 2.15 p.m. on Friday, 31st October, 1958.

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NEW FELLOWSHIPS THE MAGAZINE has learned with much satisfaction of the promotion of Joseph Derwent Todd, M.A., D.Phil., from Lecturer in Engineering to Fellow and Tutor in that subject. In the first place, Dr. Todd is an Aularian pur sang, having come to the Hall from Keswick School in 1942. He was Captain of Boats and Junior Treasurer of theJ.C.R. in 1943, and after serving in the Army from 1944 to 1947 returned to Oxford and graduated with Class I Honours in Engineering in 1949. He then engaged in research and was awarded his doctorate in 1953. He has for some years been University Demonstrator and Lecturer in Engineering and has been in charge of much of the administration of the Engineering Department, including the planning and organizing of the new buildings which will shortly be rising in the Keble triangle. In the second place, his election is a further indication of the pioneering policies at present being pursued by the Hall, for, apart from the Fellowship at Brasenose earmarked for the Professor, this is the first college Fellowship in Engineering to be established at Oxford. This fact has already given rise to much favourable comment in the University at large. We extend to Dr. Todd our warm congratulations, and wish him every happiness and success in his new position.

The Magazine also welcomes the election of Ralph Bernard Pugh, M.A., to a Supernumerary Fellowship. Mr. Pugh is Editor of The Victoria History of the Counties ofEngland, and has for some years been non-stipendiary Lecturer in Administrative History. A Queen's man himself, with a distinguished career in the Public Records Office and, during the war, the Dominions Office, he is a close friend of the Hall, and his closer association with it which his election implies is a matter of mutual congratulation.

THE LECTURERS congratulates Dr. D. ter Haar, Lecturer in Mathematical Physics, on his election to a Fellowship at Magdalen College.

The news that he has received this amply deserved honour need not be tempered by too many regrets, for we understand that he intends to continue his teaching at the Hall so far as his new duties permit.

The Magazine is sorry to learn that Dr. R. P. Beckinsale has felt obliged, in view of his commitments elsewhere, to relinquish his Lecturership in Geography. The Hall owes him a great debt for many years of splendid service, and it is pleasant to know that, as a result .of the system of tutorial exchanges which prevails in the Geography :School, Hall men will continue to receive tuition from him. The Magazine is much gratified by the news that his successor as LeeTHE MAGAZINE

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turer is to be David Ian Scargill, B.A. Mr. Scargill is one of the ablest geographers the Hall has produced, having come up as an Open Scholar in 1954 and taken his degree with Class I honours in 1957¡ A keen cricketer, he has played regularly for the Second XI, and has also been an active member of the Essay Society. In 1957 he was President of the Herbertson Society. The School of Geography has at the same time appointed him to a Departmental Lecturership.

We predict a fine academic career for him, and it is satisfactory that the Hall is to have the first claim on his services.

While the Governing Body does not think the time is ripe for creating a Lecturship in Psychology, it has this year taken the interesting step of appointing a liaison officer between the Hall and the Institute of Experimental Psychology. The person appointed is Mr. B. Babington Smith, M.A., of New College, Senior Lecturer in Experimental Psychology, and his duties will be to supervise men reading for the Honour School of Philosophy, Psychology and Physiology, and to advise the Principal on the selection of candidates desiring (as they increasingly do desire) to read Psychology.

VISIT OF A GREAT LADY ON THURSDAY' NINTH APRIL, the Hall had the honour of a visit by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Along with members of her family she was paying a private visit to the Bodleian Library, and in particular to the library of Rhodes House. In the absence of Bodley's Librarian, Mr. L. W. Hanson, as Sub-librarian and Keeper of Printed Books, was responsible for her entertainment, and he arranged for Mrs. Roosevelt and her party to have luncheon in the Hall. She arrived about l o-clock accompanied by her granddaughter Nina, her cousin Mrs. W. Forbes Morgan and the latter's young son and daughter, and her secretary, Miss Maureen Corr.

The Vice-Chancellor was present, and also Mr. and Mrs. Hanson, Mr. L. B. Frewer (Superintendent of Rhodes House Library) and Mrs. Frewer, and the Bursar. The Principal acted as host, receiving the party in his Lodgings, and luncheon was served in the Emden Room; a move was later made to the Old Library for coffee. It was a very informal but none the less memorable occasion, and Mrs. Roosevelt clearly enjoyed every moment of it; the young people were particularly fascinated by the glimpse they were given of the J.C.R. and typical undergraduate rooms. Mrs. Roosevelt added to the interesting possessions of the Old Library by signing her name in a copy of her recently published volume of memoirs, On My Own.

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A SPLENDID BENEFACTOR IT CAN NOW properly be disclosed that the benefactor who between 1954 and 1958 presented the Hall with lavish sums of money totalling ÂŁ19,500 was the Reverend Claude Jenkins, D.D., F.S.A., Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Canon of Christ Church. So long as he was alive, Dr. Jenkins was insistent, for reasons that are readily understandable, that his identity should be kept a strict secret-with the result that, since he was a by no means infrequent guest at the high table, it occasionally happened that he sat at dinner next to a Junior Fellow who was completely oblivious of the casual connexion between his neighbour and the emoluments he enjoyed. When he died at Tunbridge Wells on Saturday, 17th January, 1959, he was moving towards his 82nd birthday, and the discerning obituary which appeared two days later in The Times correctly stated that 'by his death the University and the Church lose a scholar of almost legendary learning, and Oxford a churchman whose idiosyncrasies lent variety and amusement to its society'.

This is not the place to dwell at length on the life and personality of Oxford's most learned and lovable eccentric, whose public career moved between four famous centres-Lambeth, where he was Chaplain to Archibishop Davidson, and for many years Librarian; King's College, London, with which he remained associated through a steadily ascending series of offices for over thirty years; Canterbury, where he was residentiary canon from 1929 to 1934; and Oxford, where he was as familiar and active a figure on the library committee of the Union Society as on the Faculties of Theology and Historybut whose private interests and affections, for individuals and for institutions, extended farther and more widely than his best friends suspected. The Hall was fortunate to be one of his loves; as he explained once to the Principal, he had known and admired it ever since he first came to Oxford, and had enjoyed close friendship with all its Principals from Dr. Moore to the present day. In the letter enclosing the first of his five benefactions, dated 24th May, 1954 (he delighted to note that 24th May was his legal, as opposed to his real, birthday; the latter fell on 26th May), he spoke of the fondness he had always had for it 'as (medievally regarded) one of the most worth-while things in Oxford'. The gratitude of the Hall and all its members goes out to him in fullest measure, but his abiding memorial will be the Junior Fellowship and the Open Scholarships which he planned with such foresight and endowed so nobly. It is good to learn that the Principal was able to persuade him in 1956, not without his producing many characteristic objections, to submit to having a portrait of himself in water colours executed

by Mr. H. S. Freeth, and it is hoped that this will shortly be hung in some public room in the Hall.

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A NEW WISTARIA to announce the planting of a new wistaria to replace the famous tree whose sad demise was reported in the Magazine last year. This youthful plant, a vegetatively propagated specimen of Wistaria sinensis, is the gift of Dr. Emden, who purchased it from a famous horticultural firm at Winchester. As was most fitting, he came down from Headington on 15th May to plant it himself, shovelling the soil about its roots as the Principal held it in position, and liberally sprinkling the ground with bone meal. The site chosen is the flower-bed against the north face of the quadrangle, immediately to the right of the pump-sufficiently removed from the ill-omened, gas-impregnated spot where its noble predecessor perished from asphyxiation. At present the stripling is only two or three feet high, but it is a stalwart, bushy tree, with a rich lavender-coloured flower, and as the years go by it will spread long arms eastward to the Chapel and westward to the dining-hall.

IT IS PLEASANT

GATCOMBE: THE END OF AN ERA should be interested to hear that the connection between the Hall and the rectory of Gatcombe, in the Isle of Wight, has been severed, the Governing Body having agreed with the Church Commissioners to surrender the Hall's right to an annual charge of ÂŁ150 on the income of the parish in exchange for a capital sum of money. This connection goes back to 1821, when the University purchased the advowson and right of presentation to the living of Gatcombe on behalf of the Hall, using for the purpose the sum of ÂŁ1,000, which the Rev. George Holme, D.D., of Headley in the county of Southampton, had bequeathed to the University in trust for the Hall by his will dated 1763, along with the interest accumulated in the mean time. Between 1821 and 1913 the Principals of the Hall were also Rectors of Gatcombe, but in 1913 an Act of Parliament was passed enabling the parish to have a resident incumbent of its own and compensating the Principal of the Hall (or the Vice-Principal, or Chaplain, if the Principal should not be in holy orders) by the annual charge mentioned above. This drastic modification created a much healthier situation for the parish, and of course represented a considerable sacrifice on the part of the Hall, but even so it has come to be regarded increasingly as an anomaly in recent years, and has on occasion been the cause of serious embarrassment. The Governing Body thus felt justified in taking the initiative and proposing to accept a composition in lieu of the annual charge. Now that the matter has been happily settled, it is perhaps worth remarking that the Hall has shown itself by no means unAULARIANS

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generous, for it will be several years before the sum which it suggested, and which was finally agreed, will when invested produce ÂŁ150 a year.

THE CHAPEL saw the completion of the process of cleaning and refurbishing the Chapel which was begun as long ago as 1952, when the plaster-work of the ceiling and walls was re-painted throughout. The next step was the replacement of the antiquated and highly unsatisfactory lighting by a series of shaded seances, in the seventeenth century style, affixed to the panelling; and during the winter of 1956-7 a draught-proof inner door was erected in the ante-chapel. The coats of arms on the north and south sides of the Chapel were re-painted, and the altar was then reduced to its original proportions and covered with a throw-over frontal of rich floral design, mainly red in its colouring, harmonizing with the period of the building; a new green carpet was placed on the floor in front of it and on the steps leading up to it. A new altar-book and lectern Bible were presented last year, and the Ceri Richards picture of the Supper at Emmaus was placed behind the altar last Michaelmas Term. Now a completely fresh set of kneelers, including long, continuous ones for the front stalls, have been purchased and placed in position; they are of the same dark red shade as the books and tone in well with the altar frontal. The total effect is very splendid, and there is much more brightness and colour than previously, and the picture makes a fine focal point. The photograph which is included in this issue gives a good impression of the 'new look'.

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THE BISHOP ALLEN LIBRARY now housed in the Besse Building, has been designated 'The Bishop Allen Library' in commemoration of the Principalship of the Right Rev. Gerald Burton Allen, D.D. (1920-8). The new name has a special appropriateness, for it was in his reign, in 1921, that the then diminutive collection of books was transferred from the ground-floor room of Staircase 1 (now no longer in existence) to the long double room on the first floor of the Principal's Lodgings (now the Emden Room), where it remained, augmented as the years went by, until last summer. During the present summer the Bishop Allen Library has itself received considerable, and much needed, enlargement through the incorporation of the spacious adjacent apartment, hitherto occupied by an undergraduate.

The best thanks of the Hall are due to the following who have presented a book or books to the Bishop Allen Library: J. L. THE UNDERGRADUATES' LIBRARY,

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Bartlett, C. B. Benjamin, the Rev. J. D. Carr, Dr. D. ter Haar, the Rev. Dr. J. N. D. Kelly, J. L. MacLaren, and (a substantial gift of books dealing with the natural sciences) Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. The Magazine is asked to repeat the request that any old members who may have in their possession editions of standard works which they no longer use should consider sending them to the Librarian. The greatly increased number of undergraduates in the Hall has increased the pressure on the Library's facilities, and the Librarian would be delighted to receive lists of such possible gifts so that he may indicate which items are likely to be of value.

MEMORIAL IN GLASS REGULAR READERS of the Magazine may recall that in 1950 the late Mr. E. Gordon Rowe, of Princes Risborough, presented the Hall with a number of fragments of late medieval glass from his collection. The hope was then expressed that they might find a home in some part of the buildings where their excellent qualities-they date from the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries-might be displayed to advantage. This aspiration has now been attractively realized through the generosity of an American Aularian, Mr. George B. Barner (matric. 1935), now resident in Boston, Mass.

The glass has been reassembled in two circular medallions which have been inserted in the two windows of the staircase leading up to the Old Library (Senior Common Room), and an inscription has been added in the bottom right-hand corner recording that this has been done in memory of Mr. Barner' s late wife Vivianne (whose tragic death occurred in 1958). The whole operation has been carried out on the advice and under the personal supervision of Mr. D. G. King, of G. King and Son (Lead Glaziers) Ltd., of Norwich, the noted connoisseur of ancient glass who has been responsible for arranging the interesting panels of medieval and later glass which are now hanging in the windows of the Bodleian Library. The Hall is grateful 'to Mr. Barner for providing what is at once a graceful tribute to his wife and an enhancement of the beauty and interest of our buildings.

GIFTS TH~ BEST THANKS of the Hall are due to the following for gifts which they have kindly presented: To Mr. Beresford Barrett (matric. 1919), for four drawings and Water-colours of the Hall in the early 'twenties; To Professor W. Hume-Rothery, for four silver menu holders, for use on the high table; 9

To Professor C. R. Ritcheson (matric. 1948), for two silver dessert dishes for bon-bons, in commemoration of the christening of his daughter, Brenda, in the Chapel on 9th May, 1959; To Mrs. Scholes, for the academic robes of the late Dr. Percy Scholes, Honorary Fellow; To members of the International Study Group on Child Neurology and Cerebral Palsy, in conference at the Hall, 21st to 27th September, 1958, for a gavel and block for the high table, the gavel being adorned with carved carnations, the symbol adopted by the conference; To the Market Research Society, in conference at the Hall in June-July, 1958, for the sum of £10 for the purchase of a piece of silver; To the Aularian Association, for three silver half-pint tankards to conunemorate the winning of the inter-collegiate cups for Rugby, Association Football and Athletics in 1959.

HEARNE SENIOR SCHOLARSHIP in Michaelmas Term elected Geoffrey Latham Little, Commoner of the Hall, Bachelor of Arts of the University College of North Staffordshire, to the Hearne Senior Scholarship. Mr. Little has subsequently been granted the degree of M.A. with honours by the University of Melbourne.

THE GOVERNING BODY

TWO PRIZES AND A GRANT for the Francis Bennion Prizes in Jurisprudence this year was 'The influence of commercial custom in the English Law of Contract'. The winning essay was submitted by R. F. O'Brien, Open S~holar, who thus qualified for the first prize of £10 in books. The winner of the second prize, consisting of £5 in books, was W. W. Budden, Open Scholar.

In Trinity Term the Governing Body made a grant of £30 from the Graham Hamilton Travel Fund to R. A. G. Douglas-Miller.

The project which he submitted was a trip to East Africa in July with the object of undertaking two safaris. The purpose of the first was to photograph and study the habits of wild elephants in the Narok District, and of the second to attempt to photograph a bongo in the forest on the slopes of Mount Kenya. As experts will confirm, this recently discovered animal, rather similar to the wildbeest, has been photographed on very few occasions.

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NO. 16 LINTON ROAD AULARIANS will be interested to hear of the purchase by the Hall of the remainder of the lease (it has just under fifty years to run) of No. 16 Linton Road, Oxford. The property consists of a substantial house standing in a fine garden, and it has proved possible to divide the main portion of the former into two flats for married Fellows. Out of the rest of the house a maisone_tte has been constructed which the Governing Body proposes to let. In the garden there was a much dilapidated, slightly undersized squash court.

This has been leased by the Amalgamated Clubs, and under the skilful direction of the Senior Treasurer an extensive restoration has been carried out, including the bringing of the court to a more orthodox size. Thus at a single blow the convenience of the married Fellows and the long-standing need of the Hall for a squash court of its own have been met. In view of the large numbers playing squash at the moment it has been decided to retain, for the present at anyrate, the rights which the Hall has for many years enjoyed in the Queen's College courts in Iffiey Road.

MORE ACCOMMODATION a modest but useful increase in the available accommodation falls to be reported. In the first place, the Hall having entered on the occupation of No. 55B High Street, hitherto in the hands of the Kemp Hall Bindery, it has been found possible to create in it three bed sitters for undergraduates, as well as to adapt the substantial and well-lit basement beneath them for use as a music room and all-purposes room. In the second place, by skilfully dividing certain rooms which were awkwardly large, the number of sets has been increased by eight. As against this, one large apartment in the Besse Building has been swallowed up in the extension of the Bishop Allen Library, and a writing room has been added to the Junior Common Room which now occupies the whole of the ground floor of the North Wing of the Front Quad. The net result is that l 33 undergraduates can now be homed in Hall as against 124 last year.

THIS YEAR AGAIN

STAFF ARRANGEMENTS Mrs. Margaret Walker, who was appointed Manciple in the Easter Vacation of 1956, was obliged, for reasons of ill health, to offer her resignation. While appreciative of the valuable service she had rendered the Hall and of the useful improvements she had effected, the Governing Body felt that it had no option, in the circumstances, but to accept her decision. All

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who know Mrs. Walker will join in wishing her a speedy and complete recovery. As her successor the Governing Body has appointed, with the greatest satisfaction to everyone _at the Hall, the Chef, Mr. D. Filer. The new Manciple joined the Kitchen staff as a boy of 15 in 1926 and has been in the service of the Hall ever since except for the war years 1939-46, when he was serving with the Royal Artillery and, later, as a Cook Sergeant with the Royal Army Catering Corps. He received a splendid training from the former Manciple, Mr. Reeve, under whom he was appointed Chef in 1954¡ In his new role he will continue to preside over the Kitchen (his skill in the culinary art is renowned throughout Oxford), but in addition will assume the wider administrative duties and special precedence appropriate to the office of Manciple. Other consequental changes include the creation of the new office of Steward, subordinate to that of Manciple but involving charge over servants and general administration. Mr. Townsend, who came to the Hall from St. John's in Michaelmas Term, has been appointed acting Steward, the appointment to be subject to confirmation later.

The Assistant Chef, Mr. Edwards, has been promoted to the office of Chef; while Mr. Cyril Anslow, in addition to his duties as Principal's Butler, has been appointed Hall Butler, with charge of the cellar.

THE HALL BLACKBIRD: AN OBITUARY reports with regret the death of one of the Hall's resident blackbirds. He was found dead, entangled in the honeysuckle of the Back Quad in November 1958 and according to the British Museum's records-he had been ringed-he was about five years old. He had never wandered far, the Botanic Gardens being his nestling place.

The Dean offered a Christmas prize for the best verse obituary on him, and we print the winning entry by Mr. P. J. J. Leech.

THE MAGAZINE

Through summer and the sodden winter-time He was our guest, a blackbird, small, But always neatly dressed, and in his youthful prime When he was made a member of the Hall How he would strut and stare with curious eye, Not timid nor deterred by anything.

The black of academic pomp he could outvie By merest rippling of light-catching wing.

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Enclosed in ageing walls, which daily sense The rush of Cowley traffic, he Would conjure quiet times, and urge a kind pretence That there is still the old tranquillity.

Now he is dead, flung in a twisted heap Of muddy silk; his beak is set Agasp, and down his eyes the filmy shutters creep, To show the tenant gone, the house to let.

0 Holy Edmund, by your power above Reward the service of our friend, And join your prayers with Francis; ask him, for his love To mark with favour this disciple's end.

That now, for him who brought the sweetest air Of meadows to refresh our days, St. Francis and the angels may prepare Some heavenly Hinksey for his rest always.

OFFICERS OF THE ].C.R. THE OFFICERS ELECTED at the end of Hilary Term, 1959. to hold office until the end of Hilary Term, 1960, were: President: C. ].

MacDonald-Bennett; Steward: Sir A. J. Outram; Treasurer: P. ].

Bentley.

THE SUMMER BALL Teddy' Bears' Picnics and Underwater Dreamland, one would have thought that the ingenuity of the Dance Committee in disguising the Forum Restaurant for the Summer Ball had been taxed to its full. Far from it. This year the dancers who attended another 'Sold out' affair entered a lush and plush Edwardian ballroom with purple and white quilted ceiling, gilded rococo mirrors and near-classical doorways and pillars. In the Dining Hall, again used for the night-dub dancing, the wall had sprouted a crop of shapely female legs springing from frilly skirts, and the Quad looked at its loveliest with the open-air floor surrounded with flowers, the air swinging with Chinese lanterns, and the lawn filled with s~ped umbrellas around the flood-lit fountain. Nat Temple was his usual suave self and his rhythms as compulsive as ever; the buffet supper excelled previous years in its plenty and succulence; and Dudley Moore' s cabaret tum provided an uproarious pause in the evening's more energetic activities. A. tremendous amount of AFTER

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work and planning goes into this evening which seems to pass so quickly, and again the Magazine would like to thank and congratulate the Dance Committee on such a splendid event. It would also like to thank those faithful few who, on the morning after, turned up to help in the task of clearing up the ruins of the revels, the faded roses, the champagne corks and the fallen lanterns and all the other sad debris of an evening past.

HIGHER DEGREES R. HARRIS, having submitted a thesis on 'Latin IRE and its rivals in the romance languages: an onomasiological study' for the degree of D.Phil., satisfied the examiners appointed by the Board of the Faculty of Medieval and Modem Languages.

R. Carpenter, having submitted a thesis on 'The Outward Bound Schools: a means for the development and assessment of character' for the degree of B.Litt., satisfied the examiners appointed by the Board of the Faculty of Social Studies.

T. Turner, having submitted a thesis on 'Isotope shifts in the atomic spectrum of tellurium' for the degree of D.Phil, satisfied the examiners appointed by the Board of the Faculty of Physical Sciences.

R. B. Mitchell (Fellow) having submitted a thesis on 'Subordinate clauses in Old English poetry' for the degree of D.Phil., satisfied the examiners appointed by the Board of the Faculty of English Language and Literature.

SCHOLARSHIP ELECTIONS AND EXAMINATIONS AS A RESULT of the Open Scholarship Examinations in Modem Languages, Geography, English, Classics, Modem History and Natural Science, held in December 1958 and February and March 1959, the following elections to Scholarships were made: IN MODERN LANGUAGES:

Anthony Pennington Gorringe (Vamdean School).

IN GEOGRAPHY:

Michael Rohen Oakley (Weymouth Grammar School) David Francis Braund (Sutton County Grammar School) IN ENGLISH:

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IN CLASSICS:

Graham Edward Alfred Kentfield (Bancroft's School) Holy Family Scholar.

IN MODERN lilSTORY:

John Walters (Swanwick Hall Grammar School) Terence George Coghlin (Ardingly College) IN NATURAL SCIENCE:

Michael John Maclean Saltmarsh (Chigwell School) In Physics.

Ian Malcom Walker (Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-uponTyne) In Chemistry.

John Keith Bowen (Christ's Hospital) to the Armourers' and Braziers' Company Open Scholarship in Metallurgy.

IN MUSIC:

John Stuart Burrows (Newcastle High School, Staffs).

Scholarship examinations for the academic year 1959-60 have been arranged as follows: The Scholarship Examination in Modem History and Classics, in conjunction with Merton, Oriel, Lincoln and Brasenose Colleges, Christ Church and Jesus College, will be held on 8th December, 1959. The Hall is offering two open scholarships for History of £80 and £50, one open scholarship for Classics of £50, and one open scholarship of £50 for either Classics or History for candidates intending to read for the Honour School of Jurisprudence.

The Scholarship Examination in Modem Languages, in conjunction with New College, Lincoln, Jesus, Wadham, Pembroke and Worcester Colleges, will be held on 8th December, 1959. The Hall is offering one open scholarship of £80 and one of £50 and one Abbott's scholarship of £50.

The Scholarship Examination in Natural Science, in conjunction with University, Balliol, Exeter and Oriel Colleges, New College, Magdalen, Brasenose, Corpus Christi, Trinity, St.John's, Pembroke and Worcester Colleges, will be held on 8th December. The Hall is offering one open scholarship of £80 and one of £50.

The Scholarship Examination in Geography, in conjunction with Jesus, Hertford and Keble Colleges, will be held on 8th December, 1959. The Hall is offering one open scholarship of £80 and one of

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. The Scholarship Examination in English, in conjunction with Lmcoln, Jesus, Wadham, Pembroke and Keble Colleges, will be he!d on 15th February, 1960. The Hall is offering two open scholarships of £80 and £50 and one Abbott's Scholarship of £50.

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THE SCHOOLS TRINITY TERM Honour School of Natural Science: Physics: Class II: P. M. Garvey.

Chemistry: Part I: Pass: R. D. Gillard, D. Henderson, A. G. P. McGinn, G. G. Williams, G. T. Woods. Part II: Class II: J. L. Dellar, J. M. Hardman. Engineering Science: Class III: P. C. Machen. Class IV: A. B. Bromley. Animal Physiology: Class III: J. R. Friend. Class IV: N. 0. de Villiers, J. B. M. Robinson.

Honour School of Theology: Class II: M. A. Bourdeaux. Class III: J.C. Atkinson, T. J. W. Baker.

Honour School of Geography: Class II: J. B. Clark, D. H. Fielding.

Class III: M. C. Highstead, J. P. Pro pert, J. W. J. Pinnick.

Honour School ofJurisprudence: Class II: M. J. Cansdale, J. C. Markwick, M. P. Reynolds, K. H. Ross. Class III: P. M. BevanThomas, P. S. Clayson, A. F. Ham, M. P. Hickey, R. F. O'Brien, A. Page, R. S. Paul, A. D. 0. Williams. Class IV: J.M. Evans, S. H. Wamsley.

Honour School of Modern History: Class II: J. D. Andrewes, D. B. Brown,]. H. Cooper-Poole,]. H. Ducker, C.J. Lawless, P. G. Slip, G. Wilkinson, R. W. Winstanley, A. P. I. Youell. Class III: E. I. Clark, D. C. Hughes. Class IV: D. C. G. Jones.

Honour School of English Language and Literature: Class II: G. A. Blakeley, F. J. Farrell, S. T. J. Mazzarella, P. J. Probyn-Franck, B. D. Short, H. D. Sinclair, G. E. Wiley. Class III: R. H. Caddick, J. P. Debax, A. J. Featherstone, P. E. Garland, J. Gurney, A. N. H. Jolly, G. J. Partridge, A. D. Titcombe, Outstanding for Honours: M. B. M. Ffinch.

Honour School of Modern Languages: Class II: M. G. Bates, M. L. Bird, J. M. Doney, J. G. French, B. D. Kingstone, K. G. Meadows, W. I. Plant, M. J. W. Rider, L. P. Tempest, B. T. Webb, B. J. Whittaker. Class III: B. E. Amor, T. G. Cook, A. G. Cooper, J. R . M. Harvey, J.B. Macqueen.

Honour School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Class II: R. M. Siedle, A. W. J. Thompson. Class III: I. C. Funnell, M. Jones, G. C. H. Shakerley. Class IV: R. J. Barber, R. G. Emery.

Honour School of Mathematics: Class II: E. M. J. Hilt.

Honour School of Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology: Class III: I. P. Johnson.

Bachelor of Medicine: General Pathology and Bacteriology: Pass: D. M. Child, I. P. Unsworth. Human Anatomy and Physiology: D. 0. Cosgrove.

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Diploma in Agricultural Economics: Pass: R.H. Clough, D. Baytelman.

Diploma in Theology: Distinction: J. H. Hooker.

Diploma in Education: Distinction: R. 0. D. Hughes. Both Parts: J. L. Bartlett, H.J. Davies, M. C. Gillett, C. N. P. Harrison, R. Knowles, B. Quinn, B. S. Wilks, P. Williams, T. R. Wright. One Part: (Having previously satisfied examiners in other part): E. J. McLaren.

THE REUNION, 1959 of old members was held on Saturday, 27thJune, 1959¡ There were present: The Principal, J. B. Allan, R. E. Alton (Fellow), J. B. Anderson, C. A. Blackman, W. A. H. Blair, R. B. Bluett, R. M. Blornfield, A. W. Boyce, G.]. F. Brain, R. J. L. Breese, C. Broadhead, M. A. Brown, B. T. Buckle, D. M. M. M. Carey, P. Carpenter, Q. D. Clough, J. Doctorow, A. R. Douglas, N. A. Dromgoole, D. S. Dunsmore, W. R; Dunsmore, L. H. Elliott, D. W. Everton, A. A.J. Foster, H. I. Fuller, J. C. Graffy, C. F. W. R. Gullick (Fellow), L. W. Hanson, D. A. Harding, P. H. Harris, L. G. Holmes, C. J. Hayes, W. A. E. Hirst, H. M. N. H. Irving (Fellow), I. Jackson, R. G.Jeans,J. A.Jerman, G. K.Johnston, C.J.Jones, K. T. Kitching, C. Lummis,]. N. McManus, H. D. Michell, E. G. Midgley (Fellow), F. H. Moeton,J. A. Mudge, A. H. W. Nias, C.R. Owston, A. C. M. Panting, G. J. Paxman, P. L. Poel, N. C. Pollock, M. B. R. Preece, E. G. Price, G. D. Ramsay (Fellow), F. A. S. Roche, C. E. Ross, D. G. Russell, P. B. Saul,]. L. Scott, A. Shepherd, T. W. Silkstone, E. A. Simmonds, W. H. Slack, 0. P. Snow, J. H. Spruyt, C. F. Taylor, F. G. Thackeray,]. Thornton, B. Tulloch, K.A.Wainwright, D. Walser, R. Waye, C. J. Weir, W. Weir, R. V. West, N. J. Williams, M. C. Winsor-Cundell, N. B. W orswick.

The toast of Floreat Aula was proposed by the Principal. He welcomed back to an ascetical society a gathering which showed every manifestation of prosperity. Unfortunately Mr. Emden was not well enough to be present, for all were anxious to congratulate him personally on the completion of his magnum opus and on the honorary doctorate conferred upon him by the University. Two new Fellows had been appointed, J. D. Todd in engineering, who was by a curious coincidence an old member of the Hall, and R. B. Pugh, who had been elected a non-stipendiary Fellow.

It was difficult to decide during the past year how far the Hall had become a long-haired and artistic society. The picture committee Was pre-eminent and there could be no doubt that the altar piece painted by Ceri Richards at their commission was a great work of THE ANNUAL REUNION

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art. The President of 0.U.D.S. was a member of the Hall as were the Presidents of the Opera Club and the Poetry Society. The editor of the Cherwell was also a Hall man. Yet the aesthetes were not having things entirely their own way. The Hall had won the Rugger, Soccer and Athletics Cups and to crown all had gone Head of the River. A long and consistent effort over many years had culminated in this last achievement, the tangible reward of which was a ghastly cup of grandiose proportions needing two good first-eight men to carry it. Externally the Hall was having its face lifted. The present cleaning and renovating would, it was hoped, restore the fabric to its pristine state.

The annual general meeting of the Aularian Association was held after the Reunion dinner. The Treasurer read the accounts, which showed a deficit, the result as the President explained, of extremely careful planning by the Executive Committee. The following allocations were made: £300 for the Magazine; £400 for scholarships; £100 to the Sports Grant Fund; £50 to the Principal' s Discretionary Fund; £ 60 to complete the binding of the Law Reports; three tankards to commemorate the winning of the Rugger, Soccer and Athletic Cups; and £75 for a piece of silver to celebrate the Headship of the River. The retiring members of the Executive Committee, Ven. F. McGowan,].]. G. Walkinton and C. Lummis were re-elected as were the Hon. Treasurer and the Hon. Secretary. It wa~ agreed to hold the next Reunion on Friday, 24th June, 1960.

L.W.H. LONDON DINNER, 1959 of Aularians gathered at Simpson's-in-theStrand for the London Dinner on Tuesday, l3th January. In the hazy aftermath-it was a foggy night-no two diners could agree about the final total and an indulgent management rated us no higher than eighty-six, but others who could only join us for part of the evening brought the total to an impressive eighty-nine.

This year for the first time there was a formal seating-plan. The Committee had met the wishes of all friends who had asked to be seated together and had placed others next to contemporaries.

This arrangement was pronounced successful and doubtless will become part of the canon of the second Tuesday in January.

The chair was to have been taken by J. B. Allan, Treasurer of the Association, but he was prevented by illness from attending.

His place was taken by N.]. Williams, Secretary of the London Dinner Committee, who welcomed the Principal and proposed the toast Floreat Aula in a happy vein. He amused us with a tale of A RECORD NUMBER

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Glasgow-and more-but sounded a genuine note of pride, that was echoed by all those present, in the recent achievements of the Hall 'now riding very much on the crest of the wave'.

The Principal in responding to the toast reviewed the great progress of the Hall since the last Dinner, and looked ahead to future developments, notably the building of a second quadrangle. This, he said, was perhaps the most important step in our seven hundred years of existence. In due course an appeal for support for this great scheme would be made, and he felt convinced that when the time came Aularians would give generously. His speech was most vigorously applauded.

After dinner everyone had the opportunity of meeting everyone else in the congenial atmosphere of the lounge. Here as usual old friendships were renewed and new friendships made. All agegroups were represented, and it was no more than a middlemiddle-aged Aularian who confessed that the second Tuesday in January was for him 'one of the really important days in the year'.

Let us hope a good round hundred Aularians muster on l2th January, 1960, then there will be no disputing the figure.

Among those present were: The Principal, J. S. Brewis, C. F. W. R. Gullick, R. B. Pugh.

1919: D. J. Parsons, J. F. A. Porter, H. C. Shearman. 1921: S. Cox, C. Lummis, C. A. Plaxton. 1922: E. P. Brice, A. R. Clark. 1924: R. St. J. Fisher. 1925: D. K. Daniels, L. W. Hanson. 1926: K. C. Oliver, J. C. Toland. 1928: C. Broadhead. 1929: G. S. Cansdale, G. D. Cluer, D. K. Dixey, L. Thorpe. 1930: C. J. Hayes, W. L. Herbert. 1931: E. E. Lowe. 1932: D. Floyd. 1933: J. C. Adamson, F. H. H. Finch, E. F. Foxton, F. H. Frankcom. 1934: G. J. P. Courtney, F. R. Mountain, F. R. Rawes. 1935: D. M. M. Carey, A. R. Clark. 1936: G. R.R. East, S. V. Peskett, R.R. Rylands.

1938: R. E. Alton, C. Dobb. 1940: H. Hedley. 1941: M. A. Hooker, P. Janson-Smith, E. G. Midgley, A. T. G. Pocock. 1943: W. R. Dunsmore, W. Weir. 1944: E. G. Price. 1945: A. A. J. Foster, J. R. Paul. 1946: F. R. Crozier, D. S. Dunsmore, A. H. Overell, N. J. Williams (Chairman). 1947: B. T. Buckle, C. R. Campling, W. A. Osman, C. A. H. Skelton. 1948: C. A. Blackman, ]. S. Clarke, M. J. Plowden-Roberts, P. F. White,. J. C. Graffy.

1949: R. J. L. Breese, M. A. Brown, B. V. Clifton, A. R. Douglas, J. H. Hedgely, R. J. Southan, P. R. Sykes. 1950: J. M. Kershaw, J. D. S. Purves, R. V. West, R. H. Irvine. 1951: J. A. C. Ellis, P.R. Evans, H. M. Plowden-Roberts. 1952: W. J.M. Chaplin, S. D. Graham, C. J. Lummis, P. Brown. 1953: L. H. Hall, H. D. Tymms, A.J. Kember.

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CONGRATULATIONS

MICHAELMAS TERM M. J. 0. Sutherland on a First in English.

P. E. Garland and R. K. Phillips on appearing in the O.U.D.S. production of 'Oedipus Coloneus'.

R. S. Macleod on appearing in the E.T.C. production of'Bloomsday'.

L. T. Lombard, D. M. Davies, D. Jesson, A. O'Connor, F. H. ten Bos, W. I. Plant and J. R. C. Young on playing rugby against Cambridge.

R.H. Caddick and M. D. Duck on playing soccer against Cambridge.

P. J. Bentley, J. W. J. Pinnick and I. D. Taylor on running in the relays match against Cambridge.

T. E. Evans and H. Hardy on representing Oxford in the field events match against Cambridge.

D. C. Hughes on playing hockey for Cheshire.

W. J. S. Moorcroft, M. Yeger and R. A. Payn on being elected to the Occasionals.

D. R. Bouwer, D. Jesson, R. M. Siedle and I. D. Taylor on being elected to Vincents.

S. A. Schorr-Kon on fencing for the University.

HILARY TERM D. C. Hughes on playing hockey for the North against the East.

D. Jesson on being elected Secretary of O.U.R.F.C. R. M. Sutton on playing hockey for Kent.

P. J. Bentley, T. J. Reynolds and J. A. Turner on being elected to the Greyhounds.

G. C. H. Shakerley and J. E. Aves on being elected to Vincents.

D. C. Hughes, R. M. Sutton, R. A. Payn and I. D. Taylor on playing hockey against Cambridge.

P. J. Bentley and T. E. Evans on being elected to the Centipedes.

G. R. Crosse on having a violin sonata performed at the Wigmore Hall.

D. M. W. Bolton on being elected to the new office of Captain of Centaurs.

J. B. Clark, G. R. Heritage, D. C. W. Jones and B. T. Webb on being elected to the Centaurs.

S. C. H. Douglas-Mann and J. L. Fage on rowing in the Boat Race.

I. D. Taylor on playing in the final England hockey trial.

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W. J. A. Steel and D. J. Harrison on playing golf against Cambridge.

H. Koschitzky on playing ice-hockey against Cambridge.

C. N. P. Harrison on playing badminton against Cambridge.

G. P. Fox on playing lacrosse against Cambridge.

L. T. Lombard on boxing against Cambridge.

G. R. Heritage on playing soccer for the University.

M. C. Highstead and L. A. Chester on representing Oxford against Cambridge at gymnastics.

J. Ellis, W. A. Porter and B. D. Kingstone on being awarded Heath Harrison travelling-scholarships.

P. E. Garland, R. S. Macleod and R. K. Phillips on taking part in the O.U.D.S. production of 'Coriolanus'.

R. Kemp on playing hockey for the University.

J. R. C. Young on being selected for the Barbarians Easter tour.

D. M. W. Bolton, R.H. Caddick, G. H. Heritage and R. W. Jackson on playing for Pegasus.

F. H. ten Bos on the award of his first Scottish cap.

R. G. Cook on shooting against Cambridge.

D. B. Brown, R. Kemp and M. Oldaker on being elected to the Occasionals.

R. W. Smithers on being elected President of the University Opera Club.

C. J. MacDonald-Bennett and Sir A. J. Outram on their election as President and Steward respectively of the J.C.R. and P. J. Bentley on his appointment as Junior Treasurer.

TRINITY TERM J. R. C. Young, I. D. Taylor, J. W. J. Pinnick and H. Hardy on competing against Cambridge in the athletics match.

J. R. C. Young on being selected to tour Australia with the British Lions. .

J. M. Doney on being elected to the Centipedes.

D. Jesson, L. T. Lombard, A. O'Connor and F. H. ten Bos on being selected to tour Japan with the combined Oxford and Cambridge team.

M. E. Morris, Sir A. J. Outram and M. Y eger on being elected to the Penguins.

D. C. Hughes on being elected to Vincents.

I. D. Taylor on being invited to go to Munich with the British hockey side in October and to Poland in August.

H. Hardy on being elected Junior Treasurer of 0.U.A.C. I. D. Norton on playing cricket for the University.

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M. E. Morris on playing tennis against Cambridge.

L. L. Filby on winning the Farrand Cup. I. D. Taylor on representing Oxford and Cambridge against Harvard and Yale.

I. D. Norton, M. D. Duck, M. E.W. Vincent and L. S. Leask on being elected to the Authentics.

G. Josipovici, Sir A. J. Outram and M. Yeger on being elected to the Penguins.

K. Gosling for cycling against Cambridge.

J. W. Harrison and G. R. Mihell on being appointed Editor and General Manager respectively of Cherwell.

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DE FORTUNIS AULARIUM R. A. Adcock has been appointed first Warden of Comberton Village School.

0. A. Alakija has been appointed an administrative officer under the Ministry of Agriculture, Abadan, Nigeria.

J. R. Allchurch holds an appointment with British Insulated Callender' s Cables Ltd., Karachi.

G. G. Allen is Librarian to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization's Sheep Biology Laboratory, at Prospect, N.S.W. ¡ J. D. Alun Jones holds an appointment with Henry C. Stephens Ltd., ink manufacturers.

B. E. Amor has joined the export sales department of Wiggins Teape and Co. Ltd. J. D. Andrewes has been articled to the firm of Thornton and Thornton, Chartered Accountants, Oxford.

C. H. Armitage has been appointed Lecturer in English at the University ofWestern Ontario, Canada.

J. E. M. Arnold holds an appointment with the FAO/ECE Timber Division of the European Office of U.N.O., Geneva.

B. C. Arthur has been appointed Senior English Master at Dunstable Grammar School.

B. W. Atkins has been teaching at Denstone College Preparatory School.

J. N. Badminton, having been awarded his L.R.A.M., has been appointed organist and choir-master of St. John the Baptist Cathedral, Bulawayo, and has joined the staff of the Rhodesian Academy of Music.

T. J. W. Baker is at St. Stephen's House, Oxford, preparing for ordination.

L. E. Baragwanath has been elected to an official tutorship in Economics at St. Catherine' s Society.

J. H. Barker has taken up an appointment with Messrs. W. V. Marchant Ltd. J. L. Bartlett has been appointed assistant master at Ashford Grammar School, Kent.

M. G. Bates has taken an appointment in Liverpool with the Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd. J. E. Bayliss has obtained a teaching appointment at Rugby School.

C. S. Beaty is in Tokyo, teaching English at the University there under the auspices of the British Council.

M. H. Beech holds an appointment with Hartwells Garages Ltd., Banbury Road, Oxford.

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J. G. Bellamy is teaching at Swanwick Hall Grammar School, Derby.

C. B. Benjamin has obtained an appointment with the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.

G. A. L. Bennett holds an appointment with Ashton Containers Ltd. (a subsidiary of the Imperial Tobacco Co. Ltd.).

M. L. Bird has accepted an appointment in the Container Buying Department of Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd. F. D. Bishop has been appointed to H. M. Overseas Service.

J. M. Blackburn is an executive with the J. Allen Rubber Co. Ltd., Lydney, Glos.

The Rev. P. J. Blake has been appointed Priest-in-charge of West Cross, Oystermouth, Swansea.

G. A. Blakeley is at the College of Europe, Bruges, working for the Diploma in Economics.

M. A. Bourdeaux has been awarded a World Council of Churches Travelling Scholarship, and has gone to Russia to make a study of the Russian Orthodox Church.

A. W. Boyce has been appointed to the managerial staff of Quasi-Arc Ltd., Bilston, Staffs.

D. W. Boyd is a house physician at The Hammersmith Hospital, W.12.

I. R. Briars has been appointed assistant master at Leeds Grammar School.

D. K. Britton holds an appointment with the Timber Division of the European Office of U.N.O. at Geneva.

W. (Wallace) Brown has been granted the degree of M.A. at the University of Nebraska, and has been appointed a teaching assistant at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is working for the Pd.D. degree.

The Rev. C. V. Browne-Wilkinson has been appointed Prebendary and Canon of Lincoln Cathedral.

The Rev. J.P. Burrough has been obliged for reasons of health to leave the Korean Mission and return to England; he has been coaching the Hall Boat, and has taken up work as Chaplain to expatriated coloured people in Birmingham.

I. C. Byatt has been appointed Lecturer in Economics at Durham University.

R.H. Caddick has been appointed Junior House Tutor at Berkhamsted School.

M. J. Cansdale has been articled to the firm of Stephenson, Harwood and Tatham, Solicitors, Cheapside.

D. M. M. Carey (in addition to his other ecclesiastical responsibilities) has been appointed Registrar of the archdiocese of Canterbury.

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E. A. V. Casale has been appointed Assistant Master to Emanuel School, S.W. II. J. F. Chadderton is teaching at Barrow-in-Furness County Grammar School.

J. K. Chadwick Jones was appointed in 1957 to the scientific staff of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology.

D.R. Chapman is a manager with Thos. Hedley & Co. Ltd., and is preparing to contest Middlesborough East in the Conservative interest.

M. K. Chatterjea has been called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, and is now working with A. J. Collins and Co. Ltd., brokers.

A. T. Clark, having left the country, is teaching at Prempeh College, Kumasi, Ghana.

E. I. Clark has accepted a traineeship with Messrs. Owen Owen.

J. B. Clarke has obtained an appointment with Henry C. Stephens Ltd., ink manufacturers.

P. S. Clayson has joined the staff of Barclays Bank D.C.O. R. H. Clough has been appointed Farm Economist in H.M. Overseas Service, Kenya.

D. E. Cohen (sometime St. Edmund Junior Fellow) has been appointed Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics at Birmingham University.

The Rev. J. J. Congdon has been appointed Priest-in-charge of Woodthorpe Church, Nottingham.

T. G. Cook has been appointed assistant master at Liverpool Collegiate School.

A. G. Cooper has been awarded a British Council Scholarship and is training at the London Institute of Education.

A. J. Stapleton Cotton is articled to the firm of Barlow, Norris and Jenkins, Solicitors, Guildford.

G. J. P. Courtney has been appointed Headmaster of Isleworth Grammar School, Middlesex.

J. Cox has been acting as assistant to the production staff of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and is going to Germany to study opera production.

P.J. N. Cox is Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School,_and also Consultant Children's Physician at . St. Mary's Hospital and Paddington Green Children's Hospital; he is spending a year in New York with a medical research Fellowship.

The Rev. A. M. Crowe has been appointed assistant curate at St. Paul's Church, Stockingford, Nuneaton.

The Rev. N. E. Curry is Vicar of St. Edward's, Holbeck.

R. D. M. Darling has joined Messrs. Lambe and Robinson, advertising agents.

H. J. Davies has been appointed assistant master at Bembridge School (Junior House), T.O.W. 25

The Rev. C. H. Davidson has been appointed assistant curate at St. John the Baptist Parish Church, Peterborough.

J. P. Debax is at the University of Toulouse, where he is preparing for his Agregation.

R. H. B. De Vere Green has taken up a traineeship with an engineering firm. .

J. M. Doney has been awarded a British Council Scholarship and is training at the London Institute of Education.

J. H. Ducker is teaching at Monkton Combe School.

A. C. J. Eastwood, having left the Colonial Service, has accepted a teaching post with the City of Portsmouth Education Authority.

P. M. Edmondson has obtained an appointment in the City Treasurer's department, Salford.

R. C. Emery has joined Messrs. Arthur Anderson & Co., as an articled clerk.

N. E. Ensign has retired from the Chair of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the University of Illinois, and has been given the title of Professor Emeritus.

A. B. Fabri has resumed his studies at the University of Vermont, where he is working for the Ph.D. degree.

J. L. Fage has been appointed to a traineeship with John Summers and Sons Ltd., steel manufacturers, Chester.

The Ven. W. G. Fallows has been appointed Principal of Ripon Hall, and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Sodor and Man. R. A. Farrand holds an appointment with the Readers' Digest, London.

F. J. Farrell has been appointed to a graduate traineeship with Martin's Bank Ltd. R. Fell is Chief Works Chemist with Marcham Products Ltd., Whitehaven.

D. H. Fielding has been appointed to H.M. Overseas Services, Sarawak, and is taking the preparatory course at Cambridge.

E. M. Fitch is Special Representative of the General Manager, the Alaska Railroad, Office of Territories, New Interior Building, Washington, D.C. R. B. Fletcher is teaching at the Grammar School, Walton-onThames.

J. Fletcher-Cooke has been appointed Chief Secretary, Dar-esSalaam, Tanganyika.

D. C. Ford has been appointed Lecturer in Geomorphology at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.

M. J. Forster¡has been appointed Resident, Simanggang, Sarawak.

P. J. Frankis has been appointed Dozent in Medieval English at Tiibingen University.

J. G. French has obtained an appointment with Shell Mex and B.P. Ltd.

J. R. Friend is at St. Thomas' s Hospital, continuing his medical training.

The Rev. E. P. A. Furness has been appointed Vicar of Worsthome near Burnley, in the diocese of Blackbum.

P. E. Garland has joined the Bristol Old Vic. D. A. Garnett is teaching at Barrow-in-Furness County Grammar School.

P. M. Garvey has been appointed scientific officer at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell.

S. E. George has been appointed Assistant Careers Officer in the Careers Advisory Section of the L.C.C. Youth Employment Service.

T. R. Gillard has been appointed a sales administration and statistics officer with Quantas Air Lines Ltd. J. E. Gillman holds an appointment with Thomas French and Sons Ltd., Manchester.

G. R. Gleave has been appointed assistant master at Solihull School.

C. D. Glynne Jones has been appointed to a traineeship with John Summers and Sons Ltd., steel manufacturers, Chester.

The Rev. D. E. M. Glynne Jones has been appointed Rural Dean of Wrexham.

J. S. Godden has been elected an Associate of the Library Association and appointed Senior Library Assistant in Camberwell Public Libraries.

G. D. Gosling holds an appointment with the University of California Press, Berkeley, U.S.A. J. Gurney has been appointed assistant master at Bembridge School.

C. G. Hadley has been appointed Head of the Modem Languages Department at King George V School, Stockport.

N. S. Haile is Acting Deputy Director, Geological Survey, British Borneo.

A. J. Hall has been appointed Assistant District Welfare Officer by the Nottingham County Council.

J. H.P. Hall, on leaving the Sudan, was transferred to the Overseas Service, and now holds an appointment in Uganda.

R. W. Hall, after being in the U.S.A. for the past two years, has returned to the London office ofW. R. Grace and Co. Ltd. J.M. G. Halsted is with the British Council in Tehran, Iran.

F. Ham has taken up an appointment with the J. Rank Organizatton.

J. E. Hancock has entered into articles with the Town Clerk of Stoke-on-Trent.

J.M. Hardman has been appointed chemistry master at Reading School.

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M. F. C. Harvey has been articled to the Town Clerk of Colchester.

F. M. Hemms is working with Smith, Mackenzie and Co. Ltd., Kenya.

The Rev. M. M. Rennell has been appointed Principal of St. Aidan's College, Birkenhead.

The Rev. J. Hester in addition to being Secretary to the Actors' Church Union has been appointed Chaplain to the Society of the Sisters of Bethany.

M. P. Hickey has been appointed to a traineeship with the Metal Box Co. Ltd. W. N. Hillier-Fry is at the British Embassy, Ankara.

P. J. Hillson is now an H.M. Inspector of Taxes.

E. M. J. Hilt has accepted an operational research position in Venezuela with Messrs. Shell Ltd. D. J. Hockridge is teaching Modem Languages at Manchester Grammar School, .and has been admitted to the Inner Temple.

The Right Rev. R. L. Hodson has retired from the suffragan bishopric of Shrewsbury.

The Rev. Augustine Hoey, C.R., has been appointed Prior of St. Francis Priory, N. Transvaal.

W. A. Holt has been appointed Branch Librarian of the County Branch Library, Wednesfield, Staffs.

M. A. Hooker has joined the firm of George Cuming Ltd., advertising agents.

The Rev. D. R. Hooper has been appointed assistant curate at St. Mary & All Saints, Walsingham.

D. C. Hughes has been appointed assistant master at Liverpool College Junior School.

R. 0. D. Hughes has been appointed assistant master at Wallington County Grammar School.

P. Humphris has taken up an appointment with Messrs. R. S. Caplin Ltd., advertising agents.

R.H. Irvine is market research manager with Allied Foundries Ltd. D. H. H. Isitt, after teaching for a year at Avesta, Sweden, has accepted a permanent appointment with the British Centre at Stockholm.

A. L. N. Jay has qualified as a solicitor; he is to be congratulated on winning the world championship for fencing (foils) at Budapest.

The Rev. R. Jeans has been appointed Vicar of Chipping Norton with Heythrop, Oxon.

G. H. Jeff is at Wells Theological College, preparing for ordination.

H. G. Jelinek has been appointed to the educational branch of H.M. Overseas Service (N. Rhodesia).

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J. S. Jenkins has accepted an appointment with Messrs. Mather and Crowther Ltd., advertising agents.

M. F. Jerrom is Officer-in-charge of the British Council, Tripoli, Libya.

A. F. Johnson is a trust administrator in the Executive Trustee Department of Lloyds Bank Ltd., Wolverhampton.

C. G. Jones spent June and July on an exchange visit from St. Mary's Hospital to the medical school of Pittsburgh University, U.S.A. M. Jones has joined the firm of Phillips and Drew, stockbrokers.

The Rev. T. G. Keithly has been appointed curate of St. Matthew' s Cathedral, Diocese of Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. D. C. Kennedy is practising as a barrister in the City Magistrates' Court, Nairobi, Kenya.

A. J. Knight has obtained a teaching appointment at Exeter School.

P. D. Lawrence is teaching at Lydney Grammar School, Glos.

H. N. R. Leach is working for Trelawny Estates Ltd., Jamaica, and holds the post of cultivator manager.

P. S. Leathart, having left the Colonial Police Service, has been appointed Secretary to the Royal Forestry Society of England and Wales.

M. G. Lewis has gone to Canada, where he holds a position with the firm of Clarkson, Gordon and Co., chartered accountants, Toronto.

P. R. Lewis has been promoted to the rank of Flying Officer, R.A.F. C. J. Lummis is now an assistant solicitor, and is in charge of the Hassocks office of Montague, Williams and Piper, Solicitors, of Brighton, Hurstpierpoint and Hassocks.

The Rev. R. B. Lunt has been appointed Honorary Canon of Worcester Cathedral.

M. H. MacCormack has joined the Bank of London and South America as an Overseas Trainee.

I. F. Mcintosh has been studying pastoral psychology for a year at the Louisville Baptist Seminary, Kentucky.

The Rev. J. H. J. MacLeay has been appointed assistant curate in the parish of St. John the Evangelist, East Dulwich . . The Rev. A. R. H. Macleod has been appointed assistant curate m the parish of St. John with St. Wilfrid, Bognor Regis.

J. N. McManus is teaching at Wimbledon Technical College.

J. B. MacQueen has been appointed to a traineeship with Messrs.

Courtaulds Ltd. Pilot Officer P. C. Machen has returned to the R .A.F. College at Henlow to complete his technical training.

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M. Mahdi is Secretary for Training and Recruitment in the Ministry of Education and Social Welfare, Sierra Leone.

U. M. Malla has returned to Nepal to resume his appointment in the Government service.

D. J. Marshallsay has been appointed to a general traineeship with Messrs. Cadbury Bros. Ltd. M. D. Martin is a graduate apprentice with Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd. A. M. Mathieson has taken an appointment in London with Jaeger Ltd. C. H.J. Miller has been appointed assistant master at Shannigan Lake Preparatory School, Canada.

The Rev. T. G. Mohan is Secretary to the Church Pastoral Aid Society, and has been appointed an Honorary Canon of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, N.S.W. W. J. S. Moorcroft has taken an appoin~ment with International Computers and Tabulators Ltd. I. 0. M. Morin has spent a period as a junior technician with the Radiobiological Research Unit of the M.R.C. at Harwell.

P. L. Mortimer has been appointed Senior Geography Master at Giggleswick School.

J. A. Nash has accepted an appointment with I.B.M. United Kingdom Ltd., Wigmore Street. W.r.

M. J. Neal has gone to Canada, where he holds a position with the firm of Clarkson, Gordon and Co., chartered accountants, Toronto.

D. M. Nelson is taking the advanced course in Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck College, London.

A. H. W. Nias has been awarded a Clinical Research Fellowship by the Medical Research Council, and is spending six months at Glasgow University in the Department of Biochemistry.

B. A. Nicholas has been appointed assistant master at Ranelagh Grammar School.

B. C Nixon is Personnel Officer in the London office of Bird's Eye Foods Ltd. The Rev. R. H. Norburn has been appointed assistant curate in the parish of St. Gregory with St. Peter, Sudbury.

R. F. O'Brien has been appointed to a traineeship in the finance department of the Cheshire County Council.

A. O'Connor has accepted an appointment in the Research Department of I.C.I. (Plastics Division).

The Rev. C. R. Oilier has been appointed Vicar of Fenton, ¡ Stoke-on-Trent.

N. H. H. Osmund has been appointed Assistant Lecturer in French at King's College, London.

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J. Owen-Smith is a teaching assistant in Geography at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, D.C., U.S.A. ¡ C.R. Owston has been appointed to the staff of York Technical College.

A. Page has been articled to R. S. Page, solicitor in the City of London.

J. C. Palmer (matric. 1951) is teaching in the modem languages department of Liverpool College.

C. E. G. Parkhouse has been working with a news agency in Surbiton.

M. W. Parkin is teaching at Barrow-in-Furness County Grammar School.

R. S. Paul has been articled to Pannell, Crewdson and Hardy & Co., chartered accountants, London, E.C.2.

The Rev. H. H. E. Peacock has been appointed Honorary Canon of St. George's Cathedral, Capetown.

A. G. Pearson holds an appointment in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Salisbury, S. Rhodesia.

H. E. Pegg is Education Liaison Officer at Rhodesia House, London, and is responsible for the general welfare of Rhodesian students.

S. V. Peskett has been appointed Principal of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution.

M. M. Philpot is Assistant Traffic Superintendent, Uganda, and is in control of all rail and marine workings in Uganda.

A. J. Pickett has been gaining experience in the rubber industry and is now Editor of the journal Rubber and Plastics Age. P. L. Poel has been appointed Senior English Master at Gravesend Grammar School.

M. S. Porcher is Acting Colonial Secretary at Georgetown, British Guiana.

The Rev. J. D. D. Porter has been appointed assistant curate at St. Mark's, Smethwick.

B. K. Poulteney is teaching at Whittinghame College, Brighton.

B. Quinn has been appointed assistant master at Northampton Grammar School.

J. C. Ralphs has been appointed Senior English Master at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown, S.A. The Ven. P. G. Reddick has been appointed Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Bristol.

A. R. S. Reynolds has taken up an appointment with the Economic League, S.W.1. . R. F. Reynolds, having successfully completed his course at the Liverpool Institute of Education, has been appointed assistant master at Brookfield Comprehensive School, Kirkby.

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]. W. G. Ridd is Third Secretary at the British Embassy, Buenos Aires. ]. G. Rideout is Chairman of the Department of English, HustonTillotson College, Texas.

M. A. Ritchie has founded and is the first Principal of a new educational organization, The Individual Postal Tuition Service.

The Rev. F. N. Robathan, having resigned his canonry at Ely, has been appointed Vicar of Cardington, Bedford.

The Rev. R. H. Roberts has been appointed a Chaplain in the Royal Navy.

P. G. D. Robbins is teaching at King Edward VI School, Birmingham. ' D. M. Roff holds an appointment with I.C.I. Ltd. A. W. Ross has been appointed Lecturer in Physics at Christ Church University, New Zealand.

K. H. Ross has entered Edinburgh University where he is reading for the LLB. degree.

E. G. Rowe has been appointed Supervisor, Overseas Service Courses, Oxford.

The Rev. F. E. Rushy has been appointed Vicar of Fyfield with Tubney and Kingston Bagpuize, Berks.

The Rev. S. Salter has been appointed Rector of Coningsby and Perpetual Curate of Tattershall with Tattershall Thorpe, Lincoln.

J. L. Scott has been appointed assistant master at Leeds Grammar School.

G. C. H. Shakerley has obtained an appointment with Messrs.

Butterfield and Swire Ltd. ]. C. C. Shapland has been promoted to the rank of Colonel; he is at the War Office and has charge of the selection, promotion and posting of officers in the R.A.S.C. A. Shepherd took part as surveyor in the Makerere College Ruwenzori Expedition in June 1958.

B. D. Short has been awarded a British Council Studentship and is at the London Institute of Education.

H. D. Sinclair has been appointed to a post with Messrs. Matthias and Ferguson, advertising agents.

C. A. H. Skelton is Production Manager at Drew and Hopwood Ltd., Printers, Birmingham.

P. G. Slip has been appointed a trainee cost accountant with the Ford Motor Co. A. P. Smith is Senior District Officer at Kaduna, Northern Nigeria.

E. M. Smith has been appointed trust officer in the Executive and Trustee Department, Lloyd's Bank Ltd., Liverpool.

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I. N. Smith has been appointed administrative assistant with the South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.

The Rev. J. E. Spence has been appointed Vicar of Thornton-leStreet with Thornton-le-Moor, Thornton-le-Beans and North Otterington, Yorks.

The Rev. J. C. Stephenson has been elected Master of the College of Guardians and Administrator of the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham.

J. T. Stoakley, who is with the Forestry Commission based on Princes Risborough, has been admitted as a student of the Inner Temple.

P. D. Stobart, having returned from Libya, is now at the Foreign Office, London.

D. Sullivan has accepted an appointment as a field geologist with the Anglo-American Corporation.

W. A. Summers, after joining the aero-engine division of the Rolls Royce Company in 1956, has been transferred to the new international division as contracts negotiator.

M. J. 0. Sutherland has been teaching at the Berlitz School of Languages . Berlin, and has now accepted an appointment with Agfa A.G. Farbenfabriken, Bayer, Germany.

The Rev. D. R. Tassell has been appointed Rector of Lexdon, Colchester.

C. F. Taylor has been appointed assistant master at Wellingborough Grammar School.

L. P. Tempest has talcen up an appointment with the Bank of England.

I. L. Theaker has been appointed assistant master at Woking County Grammar School.

D. R. Thomas has taken up a teaching post at Ankara, Turkey.

G. Thomas has left Edinburgh Academy and is now teaching in Rhodesia.

H. R. Thomas is Senior History Master at Tottenham Grammar School.

R. W. M. Thompson has been admitted as a solicitor and is now attached to the firm of Bowcock and Pursaill, solicitors, Leek, Staffs.

A. W. J. Thomson has taken up an appointment with Messrs.

Unilever Ltd. D. M. Tierney has been appointed assistant to the pharmaceutical manager with Messrs. Fisons Ltd. A. D. Titcombe has been appointed to a traineeship with Messrs.

Hoover Ltd. N. Tonkin holds an appointment at Windscale, Cumberland, under the Atomic Energy Authority.

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R. W. Truman has been appointed Assistant Lecturer in Spanish at Birkbeck College, London.

The Rev. M. H. Tupper has been granted a year's sabbatical leave from Shrewsbury School, and is visiting Kenya as chaplainlecturer.

A. E. H. Turner has returned from Australia and has taken up an appointment in West Africa with John Holt Overseas Ltd. D. A. G. Turner has been appointed Senior English Master at King Edward VII School, Stafford.

R. Turner has gone to Canada as a Research Fellow under the auspices of the National Research Council of Canada.

H. D. Tymms hold an appointment at the London Sales Office of I.CJ. (Plastics).

I. P. Unsworth is at St. Mary's Hospital, doing his clinical course.

The Rev. K. Unwin has been appointed Vicar of Dodworth, Barnsley.

S. H. Wamsley has taken up an appointment with Shell-Mex and B.P., Leeds.

D. Ward has been articled to D. Atkinson, Esq., solicitor, Carlisle.

E. R. L. Ward is Speaker of the Legislature of the Federation of the West Indies.

J. 0. Ward has been appointed editor of The Oxford Companion to Music.

The Rev. C. N. Wardle-Harpur has been appointed Honorary Canon of Durham.

The Rev. F. H. Warwick has been appointed Rector of Aldbury, Herts.

J. Warwick is lecturing at the University of Western Ontario, where he holds a Canada Council Scholarship. He is President of the London (Ont.) Rowing Club.

B. T. Webb has taken up an appointment with English Sewing Cotton Ltd. J. A. Webber has been appointed Senior English Master at Ludlow Grammar School.

A. Westaway, having completed two years with The United Nations Organization at Santiago de Chile, has returned to U.N.0. headquarters, New York.

W. R. Weston is studying for the Diploma in Social Science at Bristol University with a view to taking up probation work.

The Rev. E. C. Whitaker is Vicar of Kirby-in-Furness, Lanes.

D. B. White has taken up an appointment with Philblack Ltd., Bristol.

R. M. Whitfield has returned to this country from Rhodesia and holds an appointment in the firm of Whitfields Ltd., drapers, Huddersfield.

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B. J. Whittaker has been articled to Messrs. Whinney, Smith and Whinney, chartered accountants, London.

The Rev. Canon R. B. White has been appointed the first Suffragan Bishop of Tonbridge; he has also been appointed Chairman of the Evangelical Churchmen's Ordination Council.

D. B. White has been appointed Principal of Namor School, Quebec.

G. P. T. Whurr is teaching at College Fecamp, Seine Maritime, France.

The Rev. B. J. Wigan has been appointed Vicar of Markbech, Edenbridge, Kent.

C. C. B. Wightwick has been appointed Head of the German Department at Denstone College.

B. S. Wilks has been appointed assistant master at Minchenden School.

The Rev. E. H. B. Williams is serving with the Baptist Missionary Society at Serampore College, Calcutta.

J. H. B. Williams is working as a medical practitioner in Oxford and has joined the firm of the Hall doctor.

N. J. Williams, while retaining his present position in the Public Records Office, has been appointed by the Master of the Rolls to be Secretary of the Advisory Council on Public Record, and has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

P. Williams has been appointed assistant master at Monkton House School, Cardiff R. H. Williams has been appointed to a traineeship with Messrs.

Whitbreads Ltd., Brewers.

D. B. Wilson has been appointed an Instructor in English at the University of Houston, Texas.

D. H. A. Wilson is at Salisbury Theological College, preparing for ordination.

H. J. Wilson-Price has been appointed personnel assistant to the director of a company in the Pye Group.

R. W. Winstanley has accepted an appointment in the 0. and M. department of the Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd. The Rev. D. 0. Wiseman is Rector of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; he is also Secretary to the Convocation of Europe.

M. 0. Wood is joining the firm ofJ. F. Flint and Co., chartered accountants, Mansfield, Notts.

N. B. Worswick has been appointed Headmaster of Langton Secondary School, Woodcote, near Reading.

D. A. H. Wright has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

T. R. Wright has been appointed assistant master at Spondon ¡ Park Grammar School, Derby.

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BIRTHS

J. R. Allchurch: a son, Toby James, on 12th February, 1958.

B. C. Arthur: a son, Philip, on rnthJune, 1958.

I. P. Asquith: a son, Jonathan Peter Keith, on 9th May, 1959.

C.};... Blackman; a daughter, Juliet Eve, on 27thJuly, 1958.

D. Burden: a daughter, Rachel Ann, on 31st December, .1958.

F. Busson: a daughter, Valerie, on 29th July, 1959.

A. T. Clark: a daughter, Sally Elisabeth, on 26th February, 1958.

J. J. Congdon: a son, Peter Mark, on 12th February, 1959.

S. G. Downey: a son, on 20th April, 1959.

R. E. Ford: a son, Richard John Farmer, on 8th April, 1959.

M. B. Foster: a daughter, Elizabeth, on 14thJanuary, 1953; a son, Birket, on 2nd May, 1954; a son, Robert, on 23rd November, 1955; and a daughter, Caroline, on 28th October, 1957.

P. J. Frankis: a son, Michael Peter, on 4th September, 1959.

E. P. A. Furness: a daughter, Rosemary Helen, on 22nd May, 1958.

P.A. Garrett: a son, Michale Geoffrey Matthew, on 21st September, 1957.

S. E. George: a son, Eric, on 18thJune, 1957.

C. D. Griffm-Smith: a son, Christopher Julian, on 15th May, 1959.

L. H. Hall: a son, Michael Howard, on 21st November, 1958.

R.H. Harris: a daughter, Laura, on 22nd February, 1959.

P. R. Henwood: a son, Martin John, on rnth August, .1958.

R. Jeans: a daughter, Clare Dorothy, on 21st July, 1957.

A. J. Knight: a son, Charles, on 16th August, 1958.

H. A. B. Latimer: a son, Christopher Scott, on 27th May, 1959.

C. A. A. MacPhee: a daughter, Deborah Sue, on 25th November, 1957.

N. Macdonald-Smith: a daughter, Alison Jane, on rnth August, 1957.

D. D. Moor: a son, Philip Drury, on 15th July, 1959.

G. J. Paxman: a son, Timothy Richard, on 1st January, 1959.

R. D. Peverett: a son, Michael, in August, 1957.

D. Phipps: a daughter, Sara Charlotte, on 8th August, 1958.

E. G. Price: a daughter, Sara Pauline, on 17th December, 1958.

I. P. Rigby-Smith: a daughter, Ruth Yvonne, on 28th November, 1952; a son, Christopher Martin, on 16th April, 1955; and a .daughter, Claire Elizabeth, on 3oth June, 1956.

C. R. Ritcheson: a son, Charles Brendan Spackman, on 28th :September, 1958.

D. M. Roff, a son, Alastair John Arthur, on 9th April, 1959.

A. W. Ross: a son, Andrew William, on 27th October, 1958.

R. A. Simmonds: a son, Christopher, on nth August, 1958.

J.E. Spence: a son, Christopher John, on 23rd October, 1958.

W. A. Summers: a son, William Edmund, on 24th March, 1957· A. Westaway: a son, Paul, on 2ndJune, 1959·

MARRIAGES J. S. A. Ashby married Carol Jean Gass at St. Peter' s-in-the-East, Oxford, on l5th February, 1959· I. P. Asquith married Jean Mary Pearce at St. James's Church, Wakefield, on 21st August, 1958.

B. W. Atkins married Anne Elizabeth Roe at SS. Mary and John Church, Oxford, on 8th August, 1959· J. N. Badminton married Barbara Ringrose at the Parish Church, Ascot-under-Wychwood, on roth April, 1958.

H. P. Beaumont married Rosemary Sykes at St. Margaret's Church, Oxford, on 3oth May, 1959· D. R. Bouwer married Sara Margaret Holcroft at St. Peter'sin-the-East, Oxford, on 4th July, 1959· E. A. V. Casale married Jean Marjorie Robins at St. Mary Magdalen' s Church, Bolney, Sussex, on 25th April, 1959· D. R. Chapman married Mary Robinson in August, 1958.

The Rev. T. E. F. Coulson married Virginia Lamb at St. Stephen's Church, Hampstead, on 26thJuly, 1958.

The Rev. H. E. J. Cowdrey married Judith Davis at St. Peter' sin-the-East, Oxford, on l4th July, 1959· D. C. Ford married Margaret Clare Rebbeck at the Registry Office, Bath, on 5th September, 1958.

P. A. Garrett married Juana-Maria Bravo Albares at the Church of the Espiritu Santo, Madrid, on 26th June, 1956.

S. E. George married Suzanne Cockson at St. Mary's Church, Beddington, on 24th March, 1956.

J. Gurney married Hilary (Sally) Reed at St. Mary's Parish Church, Luton, on l5th August, 1959· L. H. Hall married Audrey Pamela Busby at St. Mary's, The Boltons, Kensington, on 2nd November, 1957· D. J. Hockridge married Dilys Ann Rees at Elmwood Church, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, on 3oth December, 1959· A. L. N. Jay married Patricia Carole Monk at Brighton Synagogue on l9th January, 1959· A. F. Johnson married Betty Edwards at All Saints' Church, Gobowen, Shropshire, on 5th July, 1958.

C. Gwyn Jones married Margaret Jenkins at St. Peter's-in-theEast, Oxford, on 28th March, 1959.

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K. W. Laflin married Dorothy Reita Hirst at Keysoe Baptist Chapel, Beds., on 5th April, 1958. · M. G. Lewis married Elinor Mathias at St. James's Cathedral, Toronto, on 3lst January, 1959· N. H. Lockhart married Marigold Elisabeth Bassett at Holy Trinity Church, Brampton, on l8th October, 1958.

E. J. Mclaren married Eleanor Barbara Greenough at Christ Church, Todmorden, on l5th August, 1959· J. Maddison married Maisie Richardson at the Central Methodist Church, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham, on l6th August, 1958.

M. Milliken married Susan Mary Gilliland at The Queen's Chapel of the Savoy on 6th Decemher, 1958.

P. Moret (Lecturer re~ident at the Hall) married Madeleine Trouille in the Cathedral of Saint-Pierre; Nantes, on l7th January, 1959· R. J. Nightingale married Marilyn Odell at Christ Church, Victoria Road, London, on 7th February, 1959· R. F. O'Brien married Mary Agnes Alcock at SS. Peter and Paul Church, Great Crosby, on 3lst March, 1959· B. C. Osgood married Hilary Mary White at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Ealing, on l9th October, 1957· C. R. Owston married Margaret Mary Webster at St. Aelred's Church, York, on 3oth March, 1959· B. K. Poulteney married Philippa Green at St. Paul's Church, Great Yarmouth, on 2othJune, 1958.

J. M. Preston married Patricia Ann Hassall at St. John's Church, High Lane, Chorlton, on 4th July, 1959· G. I. Raftesath married Neleke Metz, of Bloemendaal, Holland, in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Durban North, S.A., on l8th April, 1959· The Rev. F. E. Rushy married Sheila Margaret Coney at Louth Parish Church on l7th May, 1958.

J. B. Shepherd married Ann Gaffey at St. Peter's Parish Church, Berkhamsted, on 3oth March, 1959· S. E. Shepley married Thelma Ann Murray at the Registry Office, Ilford, on 29th July, 1959· I. P. Smith married Elizabeth Margaret Rigby on 31st March, 1951, and has changed his name by deed poll to Rigby Smith.

P.R. Snoxall married Miriam Rosalie Ray at All Saints' Church, Kampala, on l3th December, 1958.

Julia Somerville (sometime Hall Secretary) was married to W. Bristow Stevenson at St. Columba's Church, Pont Street, S.W.1, on l5th November, 1958.

The Rev. R. D. Strapps married Anne Eloise Wright at St. Aldate's Church, Oxford, on l9thJune, 1959.

N. Teller married Sheila Brown at Hendon Synagogue on 2oth October, 1958.

H. D. Tymm~ married Pamela Anne Harvey at St. James' Church, Badsey, on 18th April, 1959· · C. R. Ullyatt married Janet Susan Matthews at St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church, South Ascot, on IIth May, 1959· A. C. Warr married Margot Heather McGregor at St. Boniface's Church, Chandler's Ford, on 28th March, 1959· E. C. Windsor married Patricia Stapleton at the Chapel of St. John the Baptist, Forest School, Snaresbrook, on 23rd November, 1958.

OBITUARIES The Reverend Edward Reid, M.A., Prebendary Emeritus of Exeter Cathedral, died at his home at Redmarley, Gloucestershire, on 22nd June, 1959· Educated at Bishop Field College, Newfoundland, he was admitted to the Hall by Dr. Moore in 1897, and after taking his degree in 1900 proceeded to Ely Theological College, being ordained at Gloucester. While at the University he had been a distinguished athlete, and while serving his first curacy, at Kempsford, he played Association Football for Swindon, being at that time the only amateur to have been invited to play for that club.

In 1904 he moved to Exeter, becoming assistant curate at St. James' s, and in 1910 he was appointed Rector of St. Paul with All Hallows', Goldsmith Street, and St. Pancras in the same city. Between 1918 and 1928 he was Rector of St. James's with St. Anne's, Exeter, moving out to become Vicar of Harberton, near Totnes, in the latter year; from 1935 to 1951 he was Rector of St. Mary Arches, Exeter. He had been an honorary chaplain to the Bishop of Exeter from 1927, and in 1930 was given a prebendal stall in the Cathedral.

In recognition of his remarkable services to Exeter diocese, the giant bell of the Cathedral, Big Tom, which by custom is only tolled for a priest actually officiating in the diocese at the time of his death, was tolled on the occasion of his funeral. Prebendary Reid was always a vigorous man who identified himself wholeheartedly with the life of the various communities in which he found himself, but he reserved a special affection for the Hall.

He took pride in his membership of the Executive Committee of the Aularian Association, and his counsel and fellowship will be much missed at Aularians reunions.

The Reverend Percy Elborough Tinling Widdrington, M.A., Honorary Canon of Chelmsford Cathedral, who died at the age of eighty-five on 13th February, 1959, was one of the leaders of the Christian Socialist movement in the Church of England. OfNorthumbrian stock, he entered the Hall in 1897, and while at Oxford 39

became secretary of the local branch of the Fabian Society. Rumour has it that in this capacity he engineered an escape for Bernard Shaw down a drainpipe when that challenging visitor was besieged by a mob of excited and not too friendly undergraduates in his rooms at the Hall. Ordained deacon in 1897 he went as curate to the well-known Socialist priest at Newcastle, W. E. Moll, only to find that the staff also included Conrad Noel, who became his life-long friend. In the early years of the century he worked in parishes in Lancashire, but it was at St. Peter' s, Coventry, that he entered upon a twelve-year pastorate (1906-18) which made an immediate and astonishing impact on the workers of the town. In 1916, unconventional priest though he was, he was summoned by the Bishop of Worcester to become his diocesan missioner for the National Mission for Repentance and Hope, and from that moment he was able to carry his great gifts into the full stream of the Church's life. After twenty years in industrial areas, his translation in 1918 to a country parish in Essex might not have seemed likely to presage success, but in fact the thirty-five years he spent as Rector of Great Easton enabled him, while exercising his pastoral qualities to the full, to make his influence felt both in the diocese and in the Church at large. Of his manifold activities the ones which perhaps most deserve mention here are two, his share in the promotion of the Anglo-Catholic Summer School of Sociology in 1925, and his devoted and deeply understanding work for the Russian Church of the, mostly poverty-stricken, exiles in Paris. As a result of the latter he had conferred upon him, in 1948, the Archpriest's cross which he ever afterwards wore. He was Rural Dean ofDunmow from 1934 to 1954, and was appointed Honorary Canon of Sigeberht in Chelmsford Cathedral in 1939.

ORDINATIONS John Viccars Andrews, Priest (London).

Guy Bennett, Priest (Canterbury).

Derek Burden, Priest (Southwark).

Anthony Murray Crowe, Deacon (Coventry).

Derek Royston Hooper, Deacon (Norwich).

Robert Henry Norbum, Deacon (St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich).

John Dudley Dowell Porter, Deacon (Birmingham).

Philip John Swindells, Priest (Oxford).

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BAPTIST MINISTRY

Edward Holman Bentley Williams.

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'THE SUPPER AT EMMAUS' FEW EVENTS in the recent history of the Hall have provoked such widespread, excited interest or enhanced its reputation so brilliantly as the purchase of Mr. Ceri Richard's oil painting, 'The Supper at Emmaus', as an altarpiece for the Chapel. As a matter of fact, the credit for this belongs entirely to the Junior Common Room, or rather to its enterprising and imaginative art committee. For some time there had been a feeling that a picture behind the altar would add distinction to the Chapel, and so, when the Hall was granted its charter in 1957, the art committee decided to present one in commemoration of the historic event. The procedure they adopted was to invite six artists to submit sketches, and a moderate fee was offered to each. The artists were John Piper, Stanley Spencer, Ceri Richards, Theyre Lee-Elliott, Louis Jones and Roy de Maistre. One of tl1e six had no time, another wanted a higher fee, the rest studied the Chapel and submitted designs; the subject was suggested by the Chaplain, but they were not bound to conform to it. When the designs arrived more than a year ago, the art committee voted on them, and Mr. Ceri Richards was offered a fee of three hundred guineas to go ahead with a large painting. The picture arrived in the last week of November 1958, the Junior Common Room made a formal offer of it to the Hall, and the Governing Body accepted it witl1 gratitude early in Hilary Term.

Set in a plain gold frame, this powerful representation of the Risen Lord revealing himself to the two disciples in the breaking of the bread fills the big panel behind the holy table. From the moment of its hanging the Chapel has been a centre of artistic pilgrimage in Oxford-connoisseurs recall that Mr. Richards is one of our most distinguished younger artists, whose pictures have been bought by the Tate Gallery and the National Museum of Wales. During the first few months a display of photographs of earlier paintings on the same theme, selected and arranged by Mr. R. E. Alton, was mounted in the ante-chapel. These included pictures by Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian, Veronese, Caravaggio and Jan Steen, and the net result was to show that, for all his modem idiom (or perhaps because of it) Mr. Richards stood in the great tradition of the masters. The press generally greeted his work with applause and admiration, Mr. Nevile Wallis of The Observer and Mr. John Russell of The Sunday Times each devoting paragraphs of appreciative analysis to it, and the latter remarking that 'It is a picture built to last, and honours both artist and those who commissioned him'. As for the general public, hardly a day passes without individuals or parties, from Oxford or farther afield, sometimes from overseas, arriving at the Hall and asking to see it.

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This is not to say that the reaction of beholders in uniformly favourable. As Mr. Terence Mullahy wrote, commending its purchase as an act of enlightened patronage, 'Some people will, I suppose, dislike it, and controversy seems inevitable'. There are many, not only in the ranks of the low-brow, the unsophisticated or the past-fifties, who are honestly disturbed by what they consider its crude colouring and by such features as the deliberately enlarged, distorted hands and feet; while many more, though perhaps finding much to admire in the painting itself, judge it out of place in the quietly elegant Caroline building which forms its setting. Curiously enough, the division of opinion seems to be sharpest among the undergraduates of the Hall themselves, and controversy raged in the Junior Common Room during Hilary and Trinity Terms.

According to some estimates, the majority of them dislike the picture, or at anyrate think it unsuitable in the Chapel. It is in a way a tribute to the vigour and quality of Mr. Richards's work that it should stimulate such strong feelings. Only time, of course, will reveal what the final verdict on it should be, but the fact remains that its merits have been immediately and enthusiastically recognized in circles which are cognizant of the contemporary movement in art. A fine example of this recognition is the appreciation which Mr. J. R. Hale, Fellow of Jesus College, contributed as Editor to The Oxford Magazine, and which is here printed with the permission of both the author and the publisher: 'St. Edmund Hall now possesses one of the most compelling religious pictures in Oxford. The presence of Ceri Richards' s 'Supper at Emmaus' on the altar gives a focus to the formerly rather bare Chapel just as its emphasizes the part played by the Chapel itself in the life of the College as a whole. Though the colours are bright and the idiom contemporary, the painting does nothing to impair the quiet harmony of the Chapel's proportions or to daunt the early and unemphatic Burne Jones window above it.

The painting is a large square. Christ is shown seated at a yellow table with his back to a window; the yellow light which streams through this and falls on the floor beneath forms the upright of a cross whose crossbar is the table; Christ, as he sits at supper, was but recently the Christ of the Cross. His body, dressed in yellow, is almost dissolving into the light that surrounds him; only his hands and one foot, prominently marked with the stigma, stand out plainly. He is blessing bread, one hand raised in a gesture that is part benediction, part exposition; the sacraments are the culmination of written precedents, the Christ who is about to reveal himself by a mystery has recently been talking to the two disciples as a teacher going over written evidence with his pupils. One of them, facing Christ, with his back to us, has just recognized the stranger's

identity; he rises awkwardly, pushing his chair aside with a hand that has grown huge as if in quick sympathy with the wound sensed in the raised hand of Christ. The other disciple, seated at the table, is disturbed but uncomprehending; his clasped hands are pressed to his mouth in the gesture of a slow man gaining time to re-adjust his mind. The spectator is invited imperatively to identify himself with the anonymous (the face is hidden) figure of the first disciple whose back rises across the canvas, and to share his recognition of the calm, reasonable, intelligent figure across the table in the cross of light. Indeed, the combination the subject offers of timeless icon and sudden or delayed apprehension makes it ideal for an undergraduate chapel. The handling is bold, the expressionist devicesnarrowing of wrists and ankles, distortion of fingers-simple and effective, the unrealistic treatment of colour and space always has a direct iconographical justification, deepening the significance of the scene as a whole (the only exception being the square shadows at the feet, which are presumably devised to keep the figures anchored). The eye is kept firmly locked within the picture space and reposes most naturally on the central figure and on the bread and wine in front of him.'

As the picture is so striking in itself and has been the subject of so much comment, it has been thought that many people, both members of the Hall, and others, will probably like to have a reproduction of it. The University Press has therefore been invited to photograph it in colour, and the resulting prints are available, in the form either of Christmas cards or of ordinary postcards, at the price of 6d. each. Those interested should write to the Bursary Clerk, stating the number of copies they require. It may be added that, as might have been expected, the University Press has made a splendid job of it, and the cards with their rich and glowing colours are absurdly cheap at the price.

J.N.D.K.

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CLUBS & SOCIETIES, 1958-59 THE DEBATING SOCIETY MICHAELMAS TERM President: R. S. MACLEOD Vice-President: P. S. CLAYSON Secretary: D. D. WOTHERSPOON of the officers this was undoubtedly a disappointing term, for attendances were poor and the standard of speaking, on the whole did not reach a very high level. Discussion of the more serious subjects often degenerated into pure boredom, whilst the intended 'witty' debates became little more than aimless collections of old jokes.

The first subject for discussion was the perennial proposal, newly phrased, 'That this house welcomes the recent signs of a revival of confidence in H.M. government'. Quite clearly, however, the House did not welcome the lengthy arguments of Mr. J. N. Aptaker and Mr. J. M. Mander, who proposed and opposed the motion respectively. Nevertheless the proposers won sufficient favour for the motion to be carried by twelve votes to six. The second meeting saw the terrnly trek to St. Anne's and once again the added attraction produced a large crowd. Mr. D. M. W. Bolton proposed 'That this House prefers Palais to Ballet' and met with such success that the motion was passed despite the opposition of the Secretary.

The House returned to the Emden room and its usual numbers for the debate 'That the rise of Journalism will be the Death of Literature'. Proposed by Mr. M.J. Clarke and opposed by Mr. D. H. Idwal, this was the most seriously argued motion of term, but even so was not entirely successful as methods of presentation were in general poor. .

A Balloon Debate was the form taken by the fourth meeting with several members of the society representing characters caught in a perilous plight, and called upon to plead their cause. By far the most entertaining speech of the evening was made by Mr. J. M. Derring, who duly won the day. Mr. R. W. Winstanley as Wilfrid Pickles despite a good speech was unable to overcome the dislikes naturally connected with the character represented, and was among the first dispatched.

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meeting. The motion 'That this House would prefer to go UP the DOWN escalator' was proposed by Miss Anna Home (St. Anne's) and opposed by Miss J. Everitt, also of the aforementioned institution. The motion was rejected but quite obviously neither the speakers or the audience cared anyway.

HILARY TERM

President: P. S. CLAYSON Vice-President: D. D. WOTHERSPOON Secretary: J.M. DENING Once again this term an attempt was made to make more worthwhile the subjects to be discussed. However, once again it was proved that the society has become too settled in its ways to be changed radically. The first meeting was a case in point. Mr. J. M. Davie and Mr. C. Wymer strove nobly to present valid points for and against the motion 'That scientific progress is retarding the advance of civilisation'. The House however was not really prepared to accept the diet they offered and speeches from the floor returned more or less to the old fare.

The visit to St. Anne's this term had lost its novelty and apparently had little else to recommend it. The motion 'That this House sympathises with Troglydites' was proposed by the ubiquitous Miss Everitt and eloquently opposed by Mr. L. A. Chester, whose maiden attempt was very promising. The motion, after constant interruption from Mr. R. H. Caddick, was put to the vote and narrowly passed.

Once again the committee debate loomed up and passed with little distinction. The motion before the House was 'That this House is a shambles'. And that was just about all.

D.D.W.

THE ESSAY SOCIETY MICHAELMAS TERM

President: G. E. WILEY assembled for its first meeting in the new Emden Room, a place long honoured by dusty books, not often read.

The change was accepted without comment, as was not the absence of the 'green goddess', unaccountably the symbol of our intended pursuit of truth.

Mr. B. J. Whittaker attacked angry young men, and the intellectual arrogance of science, whilst praising Pasternak in an essay THE SOCIETY

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entitled 'Heretics Triumphant'. A title which, according with a long tradition of the society, bore only an impressionistic relation to the material of the essay.

Mr. A. P. I. Youell, in an essay beautifully written and splendidly read, pleaded for the return of mystery to the relationship of man and woman. In an era oppressed by biological and psychological analyses on the one hand, and on the other by a decadent mouldering gentility, the essayist, or so the President liked to think, pleaded for a further evaluation of the relationship. Mr.]. D. Kesby, in an essay 'Libido Encaged', seemed to threaten an attack upon the essay of the previous week, but instead he discussed the possible bases for morality. In fact it was the Archbishop of Canterbury who dominated the week's meeting, drawing the majority of members to St. Mary's.

Whilst airing his legal learning Mr. W. W. Budden aroused considerable opposition by proposing that 'the rule oflaw is essential to all progressive societies'. The society considered itself a living testimony to the falsity of the assertion.

Mr. F.]. Farrell transported us from civilisation and the problems of law and order to his native lake-district. The Society languished in the beauty and tranquillity of Cumberland captured so successfully in Mr. Farrell' s prose.

With Christmas approaching Mr. I. P. Johnson thought it appropriate to expound to us certain facets of determinist philosophy, and the society found itself at its obscivantist best. Appropriately following Mr. Johnson, and on Advent Sunday, the President concluded the term with an essay entitled 'Timor Mortis', moving from a consideration of the four last things to a discussion of leisure in terms of tobacco and smoking.

G.E.W. HILARY TERM President: B.]. WHITTAKER

At home by now in the new Emden Room the Society sought for escapism and was recalled to its duties by theology. Mr. B. D. Kingstone compared the romantic writers to the Angry Young Men of today, to the disadvantage of the latter, and in discussion many authorities were quoted by those expert at oneupmanship. Mr. J. C. Atkinson reacted against this and discussed the place of the Gospel in religion. By the end of the meeting the two and seventy warring sects were united in agreement on the closer co-operation of the Churches in this century.

Mr. A. J. Featherstone and Mr. M.]. Rider examined beauty and taste respectively, the former advising us to seek beauty everywhere,

and some sought it among his audience, augmented for the occasion, and the latter rebelled against criteria of taste dependent on the position of those who set them, and looked for absolute standards of good taste. Mr. E. M. ]. Hilt in one of the more remarkable meetings of the term related his title to his subjects and discussed cosmology and the spiritual problems caused by various conceptions of the Universe. The meeting was made the more noteworthy for Mr. Kingstone's story about St. Augustine and the demand of a guest, who had obviously grasped the spirit of the Society, for a definition of infinity.

Mr. J.-P. Debax took us to Martinique and the poems of Leopold and we relaxed until Mr. Mileg's definition of spiritual united the Society against him and we passed from escapism to theology.

The President promised to follow the escapist tradition, but despite an excellent dinner and much mulled claret it became clear that he was preaching heresy-his attempt to escape into the world of the Organization Man and the Society's idealism was too strong.

B.J.W. TRINITY TERM

President: D. C. FORD During the term the Society sought to plumb the depths of the philosophies, its essayists evidently intent upon furnishing a meal of more than usually large proportions for digestion during the long vacation. Mr.]. Walmsley served advertisers laid bare upon toast, scorning to take butter to them, in a thoughtful contribution which examined the increasing impact of their media upon Society.

Mr. ]. S. S. Whiting was yet more uncompromising. In a do-ityourself course, he asked members to fish in the deep waters of Quantum Theory, indicating a delicate morsal of the Spirit which he had withdrawn from them. And so to the body ecclesiastical for the main dish. Mr. M. B. Page warmed members with the blood red wine of rectification, where they had feared pink gin; Mr. R. W. Truman, in a farewell essay, took meat from the Established body, contrasting its succulence with that provender charred in Jesuitical heat and the raw stuff of Nonconformism. Members' taste for the ¡ meat varied, but there were none who denied the excellence of the sauce of style served with it.

Mr. M. S. Fowler chose a cold pudding. The Hall had gone head of the river the night before-what else remained? Merely schools a few days hence; the Society was offered suicide as an alternative and a subject. To sweeten the corporate organ, Mr. J. Smith plucked fruits from a rich source, the Drama, and sought to show where the art lies in acting. The President suspected a duty to distil 'the liqueur 47

from the heady vapours of the feast, but feared it too much and hastened members instead to that not infrequent aftermath, the ribald song.

For the first time in several years, the Society arranged a croquet match with the Senior Common Room. It was played in the Parks on 17th June and resulted in a draw, one game all, the Senior Common Room being represented by Mr. Gullick, the Dean, Mr. Allan and that doyen of Irish croquet, Mr. Ramsay. The occasion was enjoyed by all and it is hoped that this match may be made into a regular fixture.

D.C.F.

THE MUSICAL SOCIETY MICHAELMAS TERM President: M. J. CANSDALE Secretary: R. W. SMITHERS HILARY AND TRINITY TERMS President: R. W. SMITHERS Secretary: D. H. PHILLIPS has ended with the Society in an encouragingly vigorous state. This has been to a large extent due to the support given to the Society by a group of enthusiastic freshmen. A measure of the Society's pi;ogress can be seen in the improvement in the standard of this year's programmes compared with those of previous years.

It is hoped to continue to perform works of larger scale and high quality rather than miscellaneous collections of short pieces.

Three concerts were given during the year. Their details are as follows: THE YEAR

CHORAL CONCERT Given on Friday, 28th November, 1958 in the Church of St. Peter-in-the-East Anthem: 'O, What their Joy' Anthem: 'O Lord, Increase my Faith' Anthem: 'When David Heard' Motet: 'Tu es Petrus' Requiem, Opus 48

W. H. Harris Gibbons Weelkes Palestrina Gabriel Faure

Soloists: Soprano: JACQUELINE GoRBOULD Baritone: R. W. SMITHERS Organist: c. BUSSARD-BARNES Conductor: M.]. CANSDALE CHAMBER CONCERT given in Hall in the seventh week of Hilary Term, 1959

Madrigals 'Sing We and Chant It' 'Softly, Softly drop Mine Eyes' 'Hark, All Ye Lovely Saints Above'

Morley Wilbye Weelkes

Suite Francaise Dr. H. M. N. H. Irving (Piano)

Poulenc

Motet 'This Have I Done For My True Love'

Holst

Three Lieder 'Standchen' } 'Von Ewiger Liebe' 'Minnelied' Baritone: R. W. SMITHERS Piano: M. J. CANSDALE Five English Folksongs 'The Dark Eyed Sailor' 'The Springtime of the Year' 'Just as the Tide was Flowing' 'The Lover's Ghost' 'Wassail Song'

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arr. Vaughan Williams

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held in the Quadrangle on Monday, l5th June, 1959 Works for Brass Ensemble John Caldwell Fanfare Antiphon on 'Assumpta Est Maria' Gordon Crosse (Both works conducted by the composers) Trumpets: B. CAMPBELL, D. C. W. JONES Hom: A. PmLIP Trombones: D. GREER, F. REYNOLDS D

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Fantasia in F Minor, Opus 103 Piano Duet: Dr. H. M. N. H.

IRVING

Schubert and Mr. G. D. RAMSAY

Three Hungarian Folk:songs Matyas Seiber Small Choir conducted by G. R. CROSSE Sonatina for Violin and Piano, Opus 100 Dvorak Violin: M. J. ARCHER Piano: G. R. CROSSE Two Rounds Now Robin, Lend To Me Thy Bow .. Anonymous I Gave Her Cakes and I Gave Her Ale Purcell The Hilarian Consort conducted by G. R. CROSSE Liebeslieder Walzer, Opus 52 Piano Duet: T. GREAVES and D. H. PmLLIPS The Choir conducted by R. W. SMITHERS

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Two Pieces for Brass Ricercar Del Suesto Tono Ricercar Del Duodecimo Tono

Gabrieli D.H.P.

THE JOHN OLDHAM SOCIETY MICHAELMAS TERM

President: M. PAGE

Secretary: J. L. SMITH

FRESHMAN SUPPORT at the first meeting of the year encouraged the Society to enter once again for the O.U.D.S. Drama Cuppers.

Under the producing hand of the Secretary, the play-Arlet' s 'Midnight to Dawn'-went into intensive rehearsal for Tuesday of Fourth Week. In the event, it was a successful venture. Although the preceeding piece had been a farce of the most riotous, side-splitting variety, the Society was able to reassert and maintain a serious mood, which gripped the audience from start to finish. Criticism centred mainly on the choice of a costume drama, but effects of lighting and music were commended, and the. acting, in the hands of Michael Binks, David Murray-John, John Phillips, Tony Phillips and Brian Terry was authoritatively described as the best of the evening. Brian Terry in particular received a critical accolade for his portrayal of a centenarian abbot, whose mystical experiencre provided the crux of the drama.

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Encouraged by the success of its opening batsmen, the Society put more experienced members through their paces in a series of weekly readings. A liaison with Somerville College Dramatic Society supplied ¡ us with some brilliant actresses, some pleasant social gatherings, and a renewed Hall interest. Miss Elizabeth Bosworth partnered John Kesby as Sir Peter and Lady Teazle in a reading of Sheridan's 'She Stoops to Conquer', and this was followed by a reading produced

by Stanley Golightly ofT. S. Eliot' s 'Sweeney Agonistes', and Samuel Beckett's 'All that Fall'. After these experiments with new dramatic techniques, the Society returned for its final reading of the term to the more conventional poetic drama of Christopher Fry, and in an atmosphere heavy with Michaelmas spirit, 'The Firstbom', was given a most memorably sensitive hearing, outstanding in particular for the delicate psychological insight brought by Kevin Phillips to the difficult and controversial role of Moses. , Perhaps to rectify an apparent insularity in approach, the Society ended the term by invading the professional theatre at Stratford-onAvon, and over thirty members of the Hall set forth one foggy December evening to combat the misadventures of coach punctures and minimal visibility with the heady intellectual elan of Mr. Michael Redgrave' s Hamlet. As the conscious members of the party sleepily agreed during the return journey, it had been a very busy term.

J.L.S. HILARY AND TRINITY TERMS

President: ]. L. SMITH

Secretary: G. R. MIHELL

In the early weeks of the Hilary Term we held two play readings, both in conjunction with Somerville Dramatic Society. Bearing in mind the glacial state of St. Giles, chivalry prevailed over creature comforts and both meetings were held in Somerville; the English winter, however, did not prevent good attendances and successful readings. The plays read were Shaw's 'You Never Can Tell' and 'Crime Passionnel' by Sartre.

The Society then turned to preparations for the Summer production. It was decided that James Smith should produce 'The Alchemist'

by Ben Jonson, at the Unicom Theatre, Abingdon. This play was accordingly read and cast. Although the depredations of the Prelims. examiners later caused the importation of a partnership from Jesus, it speaks well of the support for the Society that such a large cast could be found from within the Hall.

The producer and principals began rehearsing a week before the Trinity Term and continued at increasing intensity until the Friday of third week when the play opened before a full house, who had been successfully transported from Oxford by coach. For four nights 51

we filled the theatre, with its reconstructed Elizabethan stage in the medieval Checker Hall of Abingdon Abbey. Outstanding in the title role was Roland Macleod, well supported by Kevin Phillips as Face: mention must also be made of Gordon Crosse' s original music.. A full and less partisan report appears elsewhere in this magazllle. .

The party was over, but the Society was far from somnolent. In the seventh week of term, the recovery was general enough for an organised reading, this time of Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest'. After the full-throated fun of 'The Alchemist', Wilde's conversational epigrams and du Maurier manner provided the Society with a challenging contrast, to which it rose with intellectual finesse. Miss Eliane Kelsey produced a character of Lady Bracknell which owed everything to her own imagination, and nothing to the more recent professional attacks at the part, and Richard Haddon, a newcomer to the Society, read Algemon Moncrieff with a delightful air of interested languor.

The Society concluded one of the most active years in its recent history .with a punt-party in Eighth Week. Aided by the most perfect summer evening, and abetted by the delectable catering of Miss Penelope Stewart, the Society floated languidly down the river, paused at a deserted island, and in the gathering twilight luxuriated alternately in the polished cliches of Noel Coward and the delights of strawberries and cocktails.

G.R.M.

THE HEARNE SOCIETY MICHAELMAS TERM

President: R. W. WINSTANLEY

Secretary: T. R. BALL

Mr: R. B. Mitchell, the Junior Dean, addressed the Society on 'The History of England as seen in its Language'. In his paper, Mr. Mitchell showed how it was possible for the philologist to trace the Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Danish and Norman invasions of England, as well as later contacts with India, the Americas and the East. He also indicated the changes in social attitudes revealed by the use of the same word throughout the ages.

At the Society's next meeting, Mr. J.E. C. Hill ofBalliol College read his paper on 'The Levellers and Diggers'. Mr. Hill pointed out that the Levellers arose as a political party in London in 1646-7 and were particularly strong in the Army. Their radical social programme included the abolition of a tax on beer and in the Putney AT THE FIRST MEETING OF THE TERM,

A SCENE FROM 'THE ALCHEMIST'

THE FILM GROUP ON LOCATION

Debates they put forward a demand for political rights based on Reason and the Rights of Man. The Diggers who were led by one Gerard Winstanley, regarded the existing law as a mark of human bondage, but an attempt to put their own ideas into practice in a collective farm outside London collapsed after one year.

The final paper of the term was read by the Society's Secretary, Mr. T. R. Ball on 'The Theatre Royal, Bristol: an historical survey'.

The speaker lucidly traced the development of this, the oldest English theatre building, which has been used continuously since 1766. He described how opposition from Methodists and Quakers in the theatre's early years was overcome and then illustrated changing theatrical conditions with extracts from the 'Royal' s' rich traditions.

HILARY TERM President:' R. W. WINSTANLEY Secretary: T. R. BALL The first meeting of Hilary Term was addressed by Mr.]. W. Gough of Oriel College who read a paper entitled 'The Social Contract-a rival version of its history'. The speaker carefully traced the history of the two versions of the history of the Contract Theory as expressed traditionally by Gierke and recently and more controversially by the Italian, D' Addio. Mr. Gough concluded by suggesting that D' Addio was possibly reading the meaning of the 'social contract' into writers who probably had no knowledge of the theory.

'Paganini-Eccentric-Italian-Musician' was the subject of the term's second paper which was read by Mr. M.]. Archer, a member of the Society. Mr. Archer traced Paganini's turbulent career from his birth in Genoa in 1782 until his death in Nice in 1840. Numerous suitable recordings from Paganini's work ensured that this was an entertaining as well as an instructive evening.

Having fortified the members with mulled claret, the President, entertained the Society in its last meeting of the term with his paper on 'A Social History of English Campanology 1550-1900'.

The speaker began with an apologia for his subject dwelling on the light to be thrown on modem attitudes to bell-ringing, the unsatisfactory nature of the standard authorities and Thomas Hearne' s own great interest in the subject. The President then traced the progress of Bell-ringing through its hey-day in the eighteenth century to its revival in the late nineteenth century. illustrating his talk with many an amusing anecdote usually associated with the ringers famous jug of beer and often culled from a fascinating periodical entitled 'The Ringing World'. After the Presidential Paper, officers for the forthcoming year were elected.

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THE LIDDON SOCIETY MICHAELMAS TERM President: G. WILKINSON Secretary: W. W; BUDDEN THE SOCIETY' s first meeting of the term turned out to be the most interesting and most well attended. The Rev. Canon V. A. Demant, B.Sc., M.A., D.Litt. spoke on 'Christians and War'. The speaker said the subject was more than pacifism or non-pacifism. There was a moral view that could be shared by all Christians and it was unfortunate that there was such division of opinion. The early Fathers spoke in a pacifist strain, but in the fifth century the Church compromised its standards-notably from the time of Constantine.

Augustine and Aquinas justified certain acts of war, but it was wrong to think of war in term~ of completely wrong or completely justified.

The Chaplain spoke to the Society on 'Taking thought for the morrow'. Mr. Cowdrey said that the Biblical idea of time was much richer and fuller than our own today. The difference was essentially between Xpovos and KaLpos. We should thus plan ahead on practical lines whilst not being anxious for the future.

At the third meeting of term the Rev. Colin Morris, M.A., Chaplain of Pembroke College, discussed 'The Established Church'.

He said that the concept of Church and State had changed since the seventeenth century, when both were regarded as a single entity.

As compared with the seventeenth century the Church was disestablished already, only a few privileges remaining. The speaker, though agreeing that it was ludicrous for the Prime Minister to appoint Bishops and Deans and for Parliament to veto its legislation, yet wondered whether the disadvantages of the present system outweighed the advantages.

At the final meeting ef term the Rev. ]. de Satge, Chaplain of Wycliffe Hall, appropriately talked to the Society on 'Advent'. He said that the Second Coming should not be thought of as happening on this earth but as the final revelation in Heaven. The term 'Second Coming' was an unfortunate one, the Greek word llapovaia really reflecting a state of being present. This provoked a good deal of discussion, and it was refreshing to hear such an intelligent interpretation of this important subject.

HILARY TERM Secretary: W.W. BUDDEN President: G. WILKINSON

The term opened with the Dean speaking on 'Obscenity and the Faith'. He suggested something of the complexities of a subject too often seen as simple, involving the Christian doctrine of man 54

and the dignity of his body, the attitudes of makers and audience in obscenity, and the possible part the wit and satire of obscenity has to play in stopping man, especially in this age, taking sex in an obsessionally serious way. In the subsequent discussion it was suggested that if people were less prudish, bathed in the nude and generally treated sex more naturally-then perhaps obscenity might be less attractive. This however was doubted by many. It was a good meeting.

At the final meeting of term the Rev. John Beddon of Cowley addressed the Society on 'Easter'. He drew a sharp contrast between Good Friday and Easter Day, but stressed that the distinctive symbol was the Cross and not the tomb. Part of the answer to the problem of suffering was found in the Cross, and we should meet our suffering as the Son of God met his.

The Society started this term a series of Friday evening intercessions in the Chapel. The usual procedure is to hear a short exposition of the epistle and gospel for the coming Sunday, followed

by Compline.

TRINITY TERM President: A. FLETCHER Secretary: D. L. BARTLES-SMITH At the first meeting of term Mr. G. W. Series, M.A. talked on the relationship between Science and Religion in a talk entitled 'Down to Earth'. Mr. Series said that Christianity covered the whole of life, whereas Science only covered a part. Science deals with those things which have given us life and made us, and here Religion and Science do intertwine, but are not opposed to one another.

Christians should use the principles of scientific reasoning in finding out the truth in their larger field of the whole of life.

At the second meeting of term the Rev. J. Macdonald spoke on 'Pentecost'. He said that the spirit working in us was one of the strongest magnets for bringing .people into Church, as it had been on the day of Pentecost when 3,ooo were converted. We should make a good preparation for Pentecost as for all other important feasts. The gift of the spirit given at Baptism and Confirmation should be kept alive by prayer and religious reading, based on the Bible. The last meeting of term then ended on a turbulent note when H. B. Thorpe questioned the speaker on Baptism-being ably supported by the Secretary.

D.L.B-S.

THE DENTON SOCIETY THERE WERE NO MEETINGS THIS YEAR, and there is therefore no report to give except of the Society's-we hope-temporary inactivity.

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THE SOCIETY OF COSMOGRAPHERS President: D. J. INGLE

Secretary: M. H. BOTTOMLEY

THE SOCIETY continues its tenancious existence which might appear 'brandy to the parson', whereas in fact, membership of this select group entails more than just the capacity to eat and drink in a seemly manner. Reflecting the ability of its members to survive the gruelling trial of geographical scholarship within the University, its growth over the past few years has shown that when put to the test, cosmographers seldom fail to show a good deal of worldly wisdom.

New members were introduced at the Michaelmas Term cocktail party. Having won their way through to the Trinity Term, they helped to make the annual buffet dinner a great success.

This year we were graced with a full complement of guests, though all fought shy of giving us any words of encouragement. Nevertheless we were very pleased to welcome Professor Gilbert, the Principal, Mr. and Mrs. Gullick, Dr. Beckinsale and Mr. Pollock into our midst, and conversation both at the meal and afterwards was fast and free. Special guest was anthropologist Dr. Butt of South America fame whom we were delighted to entertain.

Professor Gilbert reluctantly declined to start the Society's second tradition by speaking to us once again. However feeling safe from the burden of speech making all our guests managed to improve the evening with their own brands of anecdotes, and after a meal which began with a giant salmon kindly donated to us by G. N. J. Smart's father, beer was served in Mr. Macdonald-Bennett's room amid a genial atmosphere. The President's address at the dinner included congratulations to D. I. Scargill upon his election to a Lectureship in Geography, which we would like to re-echo here. .

M.H.B.

THE QUANTA MICHAELMAS TERM

Chairman: P. M. GARVEY

Secretary: M. SOMERS

TWO MEETINGS were held during the term. At the first Mr. J. S. S. Whiting gave a talk on 'Cyclotron Resonance in Semi-Conductions' in which he outlined the theoretical basis of these experiments, described how they are carried out and explained what sort of results it is hoped to achieve. In the second meeting Mr. Garney talked on 'Counters', giving a description of the methods available to physicists for counting elementary particles.

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HILARY TERM

Chairman: B. C. MASTERS

Secretary: E. M. J. HILT

Three meetings were held. At the first the attention of the society was diverted from the problems of modem physics when Mr. E. M. J. Hilt read a paper on 'The Astronomy and Cosmology of the Pre-Columbian Maya Civilization'. He drew extensively on knowledge and photographs obtained during his travels in Central America in the summer vacation. In contrast the second talk was given by the Hall's lecturer in mathematical physics, Dr. D. ter Haar, on the 'General Theory of Relativity'. To the relief of members he omitted most of the mathematics.

Mr. N. Tonkin returned to give the third lecture which was on 'Nuclear Reactors', a field in which the speaker is now working.

TRINITY TERM

Chairman: K. D. LEAVER

Secretary: D. PUGH

Papers were given by Mr. M. Somers and Mr. R. Turner.

Mr. Somer's paper was on 'Radio Aids to Navigation', the author having had some practical experience of the subject while in the Navy. Mr. Turner spoke on 'Forbidden Lines'. He discussed certain spectroscopic lines which according to simple theory ought not to appear.

The second annual dinner of the Society was held on rst June in the Hearne Room.

The Chairman and Secretary elected for Michaelmas Term 1959 are respectively M. Somers and N. Steer.

D.P.

THE CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE SOCIETY President: F. J. FARRELL THE SOCIETY was formed somewhat tentatively in the Hilary Term but its subsequent meetings have assured members that it is a desirable newcomer to the ranks of Hall Societies. The Dean has not only permitted the Society to use his rooms-he consented also to read the first paper, on T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. After revealing the significance of the poem's careful structure, he proceeded to lead on into a more detailed exploration of its meaning.

Gerard Manley Hopkins was the next poet to whom the Society gave its attention. J. N. Davie gave an illuminating introduction to his work. Several poems were examined in detail and definition was attempted of some of the elusive concepts, such as inscape, which emerge from his letters.

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J. B. Walmsley rebuked our insular tendencies and successfully enlarged our horizons with a paper on some American poets of the 'Beat Generation'. Though the meeting was held in the shadow of Schools, it was much enjoyed by those able to attend.

F.J.F. THE FILM GROUP of spending money on making a college film met with an initially dubious reception at a J.C.R. meeting in the Trinity Term 1958. However, a grant of ÂŁ20 was secured to make one original film, and a newsreel of the various Cuppers matches in which the Hall featured.

Having found a cast and unit, filming began at the beginning of the Hilary Term 1959 on 'The Furies', the story of the relentless chase of a youth by three others of a supposedly supernatural character. The idea was from the outset, suspect, and had the support of neither director nor producer. Both felt that it would be impossible in the time available to put over successfully its very ambitious themes. However, their protests were unheeded, and 'The Furies' went ahead. In addition to hoping to produce something interesting which would justify the expenditure, it was regarded by those in the unit as an opportunity to gain experience, and every chance was taken to make full use of the newly-acquired medium.

If it was interesting, then we would consider we had succeeded.

In fact, the reception it had when it was shown at the beginning of the Trinity Term was extremely gratifying, and we are all very thankful to the many who attended for ¡having borne with us through a few technical imperfections.

The Producer was P. J. Gee; Director, J. B. Grant; Cameraman, M. J. Clarke; Assistant Cameraman, A. G. Ruff head. M.J. Clarke's work received some well-deserved recognition. The youth and trio were played by W. I. Mclachlan, R. K. Phillips, J. T. Young, and M. J. Archer.

Naturally, we made a few mistakes. But it was the first effort, and we look forward to future productions with confidence, and considerably more experience.

J.B.G. THE IDEA

THE J.R.C. PICTURE COLLECTION J .R.C. has been purchasing pictures for many years now, and the Magazine thought that it would interest members of the Hall and serve as a useful historical record if we listed the pictures which are in the possession of the Hall at the present time.

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IvoR HITCHENS: Flowers in a room with two windows.

JAMES LEHMAN: First Snow.

3. PIETRO ANNIGONI: Venice (Water Colour).

4. ALAN PRICE: Kensington Gardens.

5. L. S. LowRY: Houses in Cumberland.

6. MARK GERTLER: Vanitas.

7. HUMPHREY SPENDER: Dunwich Tree.

8. J. PLUMB: Boats.

9. H. LIVERSEEGE: Cobbett's Weekly Register.

IO. JOHN PIPER: Weston Portland.

II. E. BURNE-JONES: Girl's Head.

12. R. 0. DUNLOP: Thames at Kingston.

13. T. KEATING: Thames at Greenwich.

14. J. PLUMB : Lock Gates.

15. LEONARD APPLEBEE: Campagne Orovioa.

16. LEONARD APPLEBEE: Pears, Paper and Pink Flowers.

17. PAUL NASH: Sands at Dymchurch.

18. PETER CUMMINGS: Lake Garda.

19. JOHN MILTON: Albo, Corsica.

20. LUCIEN PISSARRO: Water Meadows from Cherry Street.

2r. DEREK FOWLER: Theresa.

22. EDWARD SEAGO: The Estuary.

23. RONALD SEARLE: The Oysterman (a sketch).

24. STANLEY SPENCER: In Cookham Church (commissioned 1957).

25. JoHN BowEs : Lydney, Monmouthshire.

26. E. PLACHT : The Quadrangle, St. Edmund Hall (presented by the Painter in 1939).

27. JOHN CHRISTOPHERS: Manchester Street Scene.

28. The Oxford Almanac, 1747 (print of S.E.H. Quad) (presented

by GEORGE E. JANSON-SMITH in 1951).

29. CERI RICHARDS: The Supper atEmmaus(commissioned 1958).

30. JOHN MOWBRAY CLARKE : The Venus (a sculpture) (presented by the artist's wife).

JI. JOHN MOWBRAY CLARKE: Two Sisters (a sculpture).

32. Print of an early Renaissance oil (acquisition doubtful).

33., 34. R. B. E. WOODHOUSE: Two etchings, views of S.E.H. Quadrangle.

35. G. HOLLIS: St. Edmund Hall from Queen's Lane (a print 1638).

36. ACKERMANN print of S.E.H: Quad, 1814.

37. JOHN OLDHAM (reproduction of a print by ROBSON).

38. H. A. FREETH: Alfred Brotherston Emden, M.A.} not be39. H. A. FREETH: George Robert Brewis, M.A. longing to 40. H. A. FREETH: Leonard Hodgson ].C.R. 4I. THEYRE LEE-ELLIOTT: Supper at Emmaus (a sketch in competition for the Chapel Commission 1958).

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42. Loms JONES: A proposed decoration for S.E.H. Chapel (in competition for the Chapel Commission 1958).

43. Roy DE MAISTRE: Supper at Emma us (a sketch in competition for the Chapel Commission 1958).

44. MARIO DuBSKEY: Nude.

45. GERALD LEVENE: Still Life.

46. JANET ALLEN: Still Life (etching).

47. K. AURORA: Still Life (oil).

THE BOAT CLUB MICHAELMAS TERM

Captain: G. C. H. SHAKERLEY Secretary: M. G. SHERRATT TWO FOURS came up early to start training at Henley for the University Coxswainless Fours Races.

The order of the First IV was soon decided and they settled down under the coaching of M. Buxton, Esq. Shortly after their return to the home reach S. C. H. Douglas-Mann was injured when, through no fault of their own, they were in collision with another IV. J. H. Ducker came in to substitute at bow on two or three occasions, but otherwise they were unable to boat for nearly ten days. On the Saturday before the races, coached by J. Pinches, Esq., the IV went to Cambridge and paced the Jesus IV from Ditton Corner to the finish. Starting on back station the Hall rapidly closed their distance and pushed Jesus home. This proved to be the start of a rapid build up towards racing form, under the coaching of J. J. Vernon, Esq. In the first round the Hall was drawn against the Keble IV which had beaten them to win the Visitors at Henley. This score was settled, when after a very close race Keble were beaten by l .2 sec. in the fastest time of the day. In the second round the Hall met Christ Church, the first of several engagements with that college during the year. The race ended in a dead heat after a very exciting struggle. In the re-row Christ Church won by o.8 sec., after another close race. They went on to win the event.

The Second IV was coached by Mr. H. Arlett and included three freshmen. It was some time before a boat in good condition could be found. They started in one which had seen better days. Training was uninterrupted, but no real uniformity was achieved, although on times the IV appeared to be the second fastest.

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THE RUGGER CUP-WINNING TEAM

THE HEAD OF THE RLVER

In the first two rounds W adham and Exeter were beaten easily but in the Semi Finals Corpus Christi I, the eventual winners, won by three sec.

After IV's an eight was formed and coached by R. L. S. Fishlock and M. G. Sherratt for the Christ Church Regatta, which was held on the Godstow Reach. This innovation proved a great success and it is to be hoped that it will become a permanent event in the calendar. The VIII was composed of some of last year's Second VIII and some freshmen. They proved to be a vigorous, fighting crew which amply deserved victory. They beat Merton, New College and Lincoln to win the Shell VIII's event.

In the University Pairs S. C. H. Douglas-Mann, rowing with M. J. W. Hall of Lincoln, beat a Keble pair but were surprisingly beaten by R. B. Norton and H. H. Scurfield of Hertford who went on to win the event.

Several people were required for University Trials: C. W. Holden stroked one Senior Trial whilst S. C. H. Douglas-Mann rowed seven in the other. M. L. Pelham and J. F. Hewitt were rival sixes in the Junior Trials.

FIRST IV

SECOND

IV

Bow R. C. I. Bate

Bow S. C. H. Douglas-Mann (steersman) 2 R. L. S. Fishlock 3 J. L. Fage Str. C. W. Holden

(steersman) M. L. Pelham 3 M. G. Sherratt Str. J. F. Hewitt 2

CHRIST CHURCH REGATTA, SHELL VIII Bow E. A. S. Hutchinson 2 W. K. Patterson 3 I. B. H. Murray 4 D. C. W. Jones 5 D.S. Dormor 6 J. W. Amos 7 G. H. Blake Str. R. C. I. Bate Cox P. J. Reynolds M.L.P.

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HILARY TERM Captain: G. C. H. SHAKERLEY Secretary: M. L. PELHAM The First Torpid came up a week early and started training under C. E. L. Mather, Esq., who, in spite of the difficult weather which cut down the number of outings available, quickly welded the crew together. The VIII was continually hampered by the weather, but circuit training and running soon built up an underlying basis of fitness. Whilst up at Godstow boating became impossible on the Oxford reach and the VIII gained three or four extra outings.

This credit was however soon cancelled out when first M. L. Pelham and then J. F. Hewitt were tried in the Isis crew.

R. H. B. de Vere Green and R. L. S. Fishlock carried on the coaching for the first fortnight of the term and a great deal of progress was made in spite of the interruptions. J.M. Barry, Esq., then took over the crew and during the next ten days raised the rate of striking from paddling to rowing. At this stage the feeling of quiet determination, which is so necessary, grew in the crew and the outlook seemed bright.

The Torpid lived up to its promise and by the races had aquired a pleasant killer instinct towards any opposition. But on the first night Christ Church who were in front of us bumped a very slow Worcester crew when we were only a few feet away from our bump, thus robbing the Hall of the chance of the Headship. On the second night Worcester were bumped just after the Concrete Bridge. On the third Queen's were bumped about the same place and on the last night Christ Church fell in the bay before the Gut. The Hall finished second on the River and was generally agreed to have the fastest boat.

The Second Torpid had very few outings and were not very fit. On their first night they stayed away from St. Peter's Hall II and on the second bumped Christ Church II, who had just come down. On the third they again rowed over, but on the last night they fell to St. Peter' s Hall II. For the first time a third boat took the water and made three bumps, St. John's III, Corpus III, Lincoln III on the first three nights and rowed over on the last.

It is to be hoped that Torpids will be continued unless a better form of racing can be found. It would be a great mistake to think that they were unprofitable or even to just change the event for the sake of change. This year's Torpid crew was of Eight week standard and was unlllcky not to get the chance of going Head.

After Torpids the First boat started training for the Putney Head of the River Race. There was one change, A. G. Williams dropped 62

out owing to work, G. H. Blake moved to seven and J. W. Amos came in at two. Training was very upset by exams, and the crew was never able to reach its best form. It started 55thandfinished23rd.

We should like to thank Westminster School for giving us the use of their boathouse.

Bow

2 3 4

5 6 7 Str. Cox

Bow

2 3 4

5.

6 7 Str. Cox

FIRST TORPID D.S. Dormor G. H. Blake I. B. H. Murray A. ]. Goddard ]. F. Hewitt M. L. Pelham A. G. Williams R. C. I. Bate P. ]. Reynolds TmRD TORPID M. P. Reynolds W. K. Patterson M.J. Senter R. G. Hope R. Mizen D. C. W. Jones A. S. Hutchinson ]. W. Amos G. R. Mihell

Bow

2 3 4

5 6 7 Str. Cox

SECOND TORPID D. E. Mellish C. F. Hughes A.]. D. Smith M. P. Hickey I. P. M. Unsworth D. A. R. Poole M. G. Sherratt R. L. S. Fishlock A. N. H. Jolly

PUTNEY H.O.R. CREW Bow D.S. Dormor 2 ]. W. Amos 3 I. B. H. Murray 4 A. J. Goddard 5 J. F. Hewitt 6 M. L. Pelham 7 G. H. Blake Str. R. C. I. Bate Cox P. ]. Reynolds M.L.P. TRINITY TERM

Captain: G. C. H. SHAKERLEY Secretary: M. L. PELHAM

The prospect for Eights Week looked excellent and there seemed a chance of producing three full-time crews. The composition of the First VIII remained uncertain for some time as it was doubtful whether]. L. Fage and S. C. H. Douglas-Mann would be available to row for the Hall after their great achievement against Cambridge in the Boat Race.

Dr. Ian Scott of St. Edward's School introduced the crew to the pre-term delights of rowing at Streatley, where they remained for ten days. J. L. Fage came into the boat before it returned to Oxford, and R. H. B. de Vere Green, who had been invited to row for Isis, rowed as a substitute. At the beginning of term the crew moved to the Godstow Reach, already showing considerable promise, as a

number of individual faults had been corrected and the blades appeared to be well covered throughout the stroke.

Dr. D. H. Richards, who took on the next stage of training, steadily increased the pressure, transforming what had been a collection of individuals into an obviously powerful crew. Unfortunately the otherwise steady progress was interrupted when J. F. Hewitt temporarily succumbed to a bout of flu, and more serious, R. L. S. Fishlock had the misfortune to catch jaundice. It was soon clear that he would not be fit to row again in time and R. C. I. Bate moved up from the Second VIII to take his place.

In the meantime, the Rev. J. P. Burrough, recently back from Korea, gallantly stepped into the boat to fill the empty seat.

Ten days before Eights Week the crew moved to Henley where Mr. D. H. Mays-Smith rapidly changed them into a most effective racing machine. A friendly race had been arranged with Jesus College, Cambridge to return their hospitality earlier in the year, and this was rowed on the first Saturday. In the morning the Hall was paced by its second crew, who were going well. Conditions during the afternoon were difficult but after a false start the Hall managed to take three-quarters of a length off Jesus in four and a half minutes. This was a most satisfactory day's work. J. H. Ducker rowed as a substitute in the morning and R. H. B. de Vere Green in the afternoon.

A week later, conditions were foul and the crew, instead of rowing a final course, put in some valuable bumping practice with Leander, achieving their bump within one and a half minutes, and later taking three lengths off them in as many minutes.

The idea, as far as possible, was to return to ¡the Home Stretch like a bolt from the blue. This was successfully achieved and it soon became obvious that the Hall were the fastest crew, and barring accidents, had a good chance of going Head.

It was important, though not vital, that we should bump Merton before they bumped an undoubtedly slow Queen's crew on the first night. The fact that Merton bumped Queen's with only a canvas to spare was a disappointment which was, though, not unexpected.

Thursday and Friday nights went more to plan; the Queen's falling

by Donnington Bridge and Merton just before the Gut. Christ Church, at the Head, were a powerful crew and could be relied on to take advantage of the smallest mistake but, in the event, the Hall went up on Saturday from the start and steadily overhauled their opponents. A well practised bumping spurt caught Christ Church two-thirds of the way along the Green Bank, a most satisfying finish to a year's rivalry on the river. The Hall had gone Head in a most convincing manner, in spite of the fact that M. G. Sherratt was none too well during the race. The crew rowed into

the raft, perhaps just a little disbelievingly, to a barrage of welldeserved gunfire.

The Second VIII also came up early to row before term, as there seemed a good chance of producing a reasonably fast crew. Mr. I. P. Foote gave them some valuable tubbing but they were unable to settle down as a crew before the beginning of term as D.S. Dormor had moved to the First VIII and A. G. Williams was no longer available. The remaining reserves came in and it was not long before Mr. E. R. Strouts had instilled into the crew the determination, which was such a noticeable feature until the eight eventually disbanded. But here progress was checked by illness in the First VIII. R. C. I. Bate moved up and J. W. Amos took over at stroke.

C. C. Nichols was persuaded to row again and soon showed that even a comparative novice could reach the required standard.

An outing had been arranged with Monkton Combe School who had done some work with the First VIII the year before.

The crew gained confidence after an unsteady patch or so and soon showed that they were a match for their opponents.]. W. Harrison came in when D. A. R. Poole stepped down through shortage of time.

M. L. Pelham added the finishing touches, bringing the crew up to racing pitch. Their entlrnsiasm was almost embarassing, particularly alongside the First VIII, but it was to stand them in good stead later.

Eights Week proved easier than was expected. Magdalen II on Wednesday and the Queen's II on Thursday soon fell. But Lincoln II, defending the sandwich position, put up a stronger fight and were finally bumped some way up the Green Bank. Balliol II also fought hard but were soon overwhelmed. Not content with being Head of the second boats, the Hall went on to score their easiest bump on Exeter I on the last night, and without doubt could have gone further.

Because illness and examinations had seriously depleted the membership of the Boat Club the prospective Third VIII was never formed. Once again the Schools VIII defended the position. As third highest of the third boats they suffered from the improved standard of the second boats behind them, and were hampered by a shortage of coaches and lack of time. In the circumstances they did well to hold offHertford II on the first night, though eventually dropping three places.

The getting-on races were not a success, though one of the four Hall crews entered only just failed to make the grade. We made the mistake of allowing crews to row as they came along instead of selecting them on merit, with the result that many of those who deserved to row in Eights Week were unable to do so. At the same E

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time there can be little doubt that the standard was higher than it has been for years. Nevertheless it is probable that there were more Hall oarsmen on the river during the year than ever before.

Bow 2

3 4 5 6

7 Str. Cox

FIRST VIII D.S. Dormor R. C. I. Bate J. F. Hewitt M. G. Sherratt J. L. Fage M. L. Pelham S. C. H. Douglas-Mann C. W. Holden P. J. Reynolds

Bow 2

3 4 5 6

7 Str. Cox

SECOND VIII E. A. S. Hutchinson J. W. Harrison C. C. Nichols D. C. W. Jones I. B. H. Murray A. J. Goddard G. H. Blake J. W. Amos J. L. Toole

THIRD VIII (Schools) Bow M. P. Reynolds 2 M. J. W. Rider 3 M. C. Highstead 4 M. Jones 5 A. G. Cooper 6 M. P. Hickey 7 D. A. R. Poole Str. C. F. Hughes Cox A. B. Bromley G.C.H.S.

THE CRICKET CLUB Captain: C. N. P. HARRISON Secretary: M. E.W. VINCENT

THE 1959 SEASON in terms of statistics seems measurably satisfying. The three losses were well redeemed by the number of victories, with eight draws an indication mainly of some close finishes (one or the other side fighting for survival) rather than of any regular anaesthetising influence of sun or marl. But before one gets too dizzy with contemplation of statistics, seeking eminence in sets of averages, it would be fairer to comment more generally, since in college cricket a player's game is usually geared to the exigencies of the situation. This approach produced some handsome victories (notably against Trinity, Old Cliftonians and Oldhill), and bright cricket and hard fast wickets.

Among the bowlers C. N. P. Harrison (an unruffled and thoughtful captain) was the most consistent, with length and direction 66

rarely lost. He was steadily aided by R. Knowles (who stormed the breaches with 6 for ro against Pembroke), and D. J. Wilson, an intelligent seamer. Then of course, when you have recovered from the whirlaway action of M. H. Bottomley, and finished envying the pounding run of charger J. D. Hincks (armed with his occasional crude rustic thumper), you begin to think that the side is composed solely of pace bowlers. Although in fact, they did provide the brunt of the attack, spinners L. S. Leask and M. Oldaker bowled consistently enough against batsmen looking for runs.

The Hall batting showed considerable strength. C. N. P. Harrison scored freely, and H. I. Sutherland, decorative and successful, produced a century v. R.A.F. Halton in partnership with Harrison (74) bringing victory aided by J. D. Hinck's figures of 6 for 74.

Throughout the season there were many prominent performances in this department, notably by J. J. J. Bell (63 and 51) against Oldhill and the Old Cliftonians supported by I. R. Briars (50) and R. M. Siedle (71). I. R. Briars after his spells at mid-on chewing a philosophic cud, then opened the batting consistently well. He bowled (once), to a row of pickets round the long boundary and thus at long last qualified as an all-rounder. I. D. Norton however laid true claim to this last epiphet, and with the batting so strong it would be too lengthy a task to praise every worthy individual performance; M. Oldaker produced a fine 50 against the 0.U. Authentics, as did D. J. Playle against the S.O.A. In retrospect then, Hall cricket soon reached a sustained level of excellence, with creditable results (from an on the whole well balanced side), in a season clement in weather and lively and enjoyable in event.

Hall colours were awarded to I. D. Norton, L. S. Leask, J. J. J. Bell, G. R. Brown, H. I. Sutherland, D. J. Wilson, M. Oldaker.

M. D. Duck, I. D. Norton, M. E.W. Vincent, L. S. Leask were elected to the O.U. Authentics.

Appointments for the season 1960 are: Captain: H. I. Sutherland, Secretary: D. J. Wilson.

RESULTS: FIRST

Played 20

Won

Drawn

9 SECOND

IO

XI

3

Lost

8

3

2

4

XI

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THE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB MICHAELMAS TERM Captain: W. I. PLANT

Secretary: L. S. LEASK

THE FRESHMENs' TRIAL, held on Saturday, nth October, provided excellent entertainment and, with the Captain and Secretary of O.U.R.F.C. both on the touchline, most of the players realised that in fact it was almost a University Trial. Some players of obvious talent were prominent and were in due course to move into higher realms. In fact one third of the freshmen, at the first O.U.R.F.C. Trial, were provided by S.E.H.R.F.C. The immediate problem was to provide enough games for the members of the Club, then totalling over seventy. In the course of the first term, thirty-five people played in the seven league matches and only eight of them in five or more games. With such a policy it was not surprising that the side was criticised for a lack of teamwork. This was aggravated by a super-abundance of good players in some positions and a comparative dearth of them in others.

However, with mixed fortunes we finished as runners-up in the first league. From runners-up in the second league to runners-up in the first league was not, in one term, such a bad effort!

The Second XV played good rugger and despite winning their league had some closely fought games. Thus they enjoyed more . satisfying rugger than in the virtual walk-overs of previous years.

J. R. C. Young, D. Jesson, A. O'Connor, F. H. ten Bos, D. M. Davies and W. I. Plant were invited by L. T. Lombard to represent 0.U.R.F.C. at Twickenham in the match against Cambridge.

HILARY TERM Despite the availability of six out of our seven blues and four Greyhounds, the selection of a Cuppers side was far from easy.

In those places, for which persons did not automatically select themselves, there was much competition. J. R. C. Young was the only three-quarter to play in all five matches and all told twentytwo players represented the Hall during the competition.

The game against Oriel in the first round was scrappy; but, considering the hard ground and the fact that the team had never even trained together, far less played together before, the result .of 21-0 was not discouraging. Lincoln proved a hard tussle against .a strong side, especially in the forwards, and it was in this game that .our line was crossed for the first and last time in Cuppers. A final result of 15-3 was a reasonable reflection of play. Hertford and Worcester proved less strong opposition in the third and semi-final :rounds respectively. The tally, on the two games, of 62 points for, 68

with none against, is inlpressive enough in itselÂŁ The latter game produced, on a ground conductive to open play, rugger of the highest calibre.

The final played against Corpus Christi College on the Iffiey Road ground, as seems to be usual in Cuppers' finals, was won by a margin of only three points. The game did not lack in excitement, but failed to produce the football expected of the Hall side. However, with a good penalty by I. D. Norton, we won the day and the mythical cup remained in Hall for yet another year.

We are indebted to W. I. Plant for his leadership and infectious enthusiasm throughout the competition.

Teams: R. M. Siedle, J. R. C. Young, P.]. Bentley, T.]. Reynolds, ]. A. Turner, D. H. Johnson, P. Williams, K. P. Please, I. D. Norton, L. A. Chester, A. O'Connor, L. T. Lombard, D. Jesson,]. R. M. Harvey, L. S. Leask, F. H. ten Bos, R. S. Paul, L. L. Filby, W. I. Plant (Capt.), D.R. Bouwer, C. C. Nichols, and A. S. Hill.

Colours: P.]. Bentley, J. A. Turner, P. Williams, I. D. Norton, A. O'Connor,]. R. M. Harvey, F. H. ten Bos, R. S. Paul, L. L. Filby, A. S. Hill, R. M. Jarman, B. L. Spencer, and P. G. Slip.

For next season C. C. Nichols was elected Captain and I. D. Norton, Secretary.

L.S.L. THE ST. EDMUND HALL RUGBY TOUR OF THE NORTHEAST OF ENGLAND The Rugby Club capped another successful season with a tour of the North-East of England. However, the coincidence of the Varsity tour, injuries and the demands of more August clubs meant that of the Hall's seven blues only two, W. I. Plant and J. R. C. Young, were able to go on the Tour. Fortunately, the Hall's strength in depth provided fully adequate replacements.

The Tour lasted five days, the first of which, Sunday, 15th March, was spent travelling by coach. On the other four the party, which, including late reinforcements, numbered only twenty-two, played three hard matches. All were lost (Durham Colleges 11-18, Percy Park o-8, Hartlepool Rovers 8-17) but far less detisively than the scores suggest. However, the entertainment of the hosts and their supporters was the main object-an object which did not necessarily entail beating them. The tributes of their opponents convinced the Hall team that this object was attained and, by the by, an eulogy on the Hall's play appeared in the 18th March issue of the Newcastle Journal for all the world to see.

During the first three days the party was domiciled in Durham.

The first at the 'Three Tuns' and the other two in various parts of Hatfield and University Colleges. While Durham may be an exacting place to live in-all the streets are up or down, nothing is on the level-it is undeniably a happy town to visit. The Palace Green enclosed on three sides by the Norman cathedral, the Norman castle and the parvenu Union has a distinctive spacious charm. But spaciousness is not a characteristic of Durham. Narrow, inclined, cobbled streets predominate, sprinkled with harrassed policemen struggling to confine the heavy traffic to their anachronistic surfaces.

On Monday, a fresh Hall team played Durham Colleges and were unlucky to lose. The game only swung Durham's way after L. A. Chester, and I. D. Norton sustained crippling injuries late in the second halÂŁ One collective drink, sing and hangover later the party arrived in North Shields to do battle with the star-studded Percy Park side, generally accounted the best in the North-East. Again only lack of weight forward prevented the Hall exclipsing their distinguished opponents for the college backs were far superior in speed and ideas.

After the game the Hall received lavish entertainment for which Plant rendered due thanks in a pretty after dinner speech. All hands arrived safely back in Durham although Plant, Young and Chester were all but left on Newcastle station, cuddling twenty-one packets of fish and chips. The six who lived in Castle evinced their contempt for medieval fortifications by climbing in.

Thursday was the day of rest. The Hall bade goodbye to Durham and hailed West Hartlepool though R. K. Phillips and K. P. Please lost themselves somewhere in between. That night the remnants of the party were paired off and farmed out to the homes of Hartlepool Rovers club members.

The final day of the Tour was more-arduous. In the morning the party subdued its picaresque nature and consented to be led in sober reverence around Percival-Westgarth' s, one of England's largest electrical engineering works. The Prodigals returned.

The final match did not reach the high standard of the others.

Despite fresh reinforcements, in the persons of J.E. Aves and T. J. Reynolds, and the willingness of the spirit, the flesh was too weak to contain the home side.

After a convivial evening, during the course of which a Welshman was moved to tears by the Hall's singing, the Tour officially ended and the players wended their different ways home. It had been a splendid five days, full of incidents which, suitably embellished with the passage of time, will brighten many a rugby conversation of the future.

The gratitude of the team goes to the many people who made the Tour possible: the Principal for a generous grant; the Northern 70

clubs for victualling and housing the Hall warriors; L. S. Leask, the Secretary, for his organisation and to many others besides.

The touring party comprised: W. I. Plant (Capt.), L. S. Leask, R. K. Phillips, K. P. Please, A. S. Hill, D. H. Johnson, L. A. Chester, I. B. Macinnes, J. L. Phillips, C. C. Nichols,]. R. M. Harvey, I. D. Norton, B. L. Spencer, R. M. Jarman, J. F. O'Donnell, L. L. Filby, J. R. C. Young, and G. R. Brown.

L.A.C.

THE ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB MICHAELMAS TERM Captain: T. G. COOK

Secretary: R. W. JACKSON

as to the quality of the freshmen to herald in another year, the Hall looked forward confidently to toppling Pembroke from their pinnacle. Unfortunately only two of the rumours materialized into good players, one of whom, M. D. Duck, was immediately removed from our care by the University side. The vital league match of the season seemed likely to be our first, with Pembroke, but before this we had games with Hertford, won without undue exertion 7-0, and St. John's, Cambridge, in which, as events later proved, we lost any hope of reclaiming the championship. The match itself was won 3-2, but in the process we lost M. B. Rowbotham with a fractured right leg and D. M. Parfitt with a dislocated ankle, which, added to the continued absence, through injury of the Captain, meant that we fielded a reserve defence against Pembroke on the following Monday. That we managed to hold our own territorially and only lost 5-3 through inability to accept chances reflects much credit on the reserve strength of the Hall.

Making the most of fourth year 'educationists', the Hall defeated Wadham in a friendly 4-0 and brought back a creditable draw from Emmanuel, Cambridge, where the general state of affairs can be assessed from the appearance of the regular goalkeeper at outsideright, and of the Captain, a left-back, in goal, with an injured ankle.

The next league fixture against Jesus saw the Hall produce some of its best open football in a 7-1 victory and this was followed by a 4-2 defeat of Brasenose in a friendly.

One of the most enjoyable games of this term proved to be that against Oxford House, a team from East London (not the South African version), whose links with the University extend beyond WITH THE USUAL CROP OF RUMOURS

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their name, and who provided us with a spirited and stimulating game which the Hall eventually won 5-3. Unfortunately the stimulation and spirit persisted no longer than Saturday evening for two days later the league match against Balliol was lost 4-1, despite the predictions of the Press, in a most lackadaisical and uninspiring performance. Faced by a strong Christ's, Cambridge, in the same week the Hall produced a more resolute defence to keep intact a solitary goal lead until the 75th minute, but then conceded 4 goals against a fast and strong attack. The irritating inconsistency of the team was to show itself again in the league match against Worcester which was won comfortably 6-1, but reached its peak in the next league game against W adham who gained their first points in a 3-1 win, lightened only by the referee's inability to tell the time. A disastrous week continued with a 6-3 defeat by the Centaurs and a similar fate, 5-1, at the hands of King's, London.

Thereafter with the return of injured players and with a little more luck, the Hall managed to convince their supporters that they might be worth watching in at least one round of Cuppers. The league fixtures against Queen's, 4-2, and Keble, 3-1, showed more imagination in attack and a goal-scoring ability on the part of D. A. Clarke who netted 15 goals in the final 9 games, while the defence assumed greater solidity and a better appreciation of the value of covering. The friendly fixtures against Southampton University, who had earlier decisively beaten the Centaurs 6-1, Imperial College, London, and Culham College showed the same qualities and held out more hope of a successful Cup side than would have seemed possible earlier in the term; these scores were 3-2, 5-2, 4-4 respectively. .The annual fixture of fifth week against the Aularians proved as entertaining, if rather wetter than last year, though nothing, apparently, dampens the irrepressible Mr. Foster whose efforts, mainly vocal, still failed to prevent a 3-2 victory by the youngsters.

The Choughs played half their league fixtures this term and won 4 out of the 5, with a goal average of 27-7, and did very well to finish with an aggregate goal average of 70-38.

RESULTS: FIRST XI

League Friendlies

Played

Won

7 13

4 8

Drawn 0

2

Lost 3 3

Goals Against 25 17 46 35

For

CHOUGHS League Friendlies

5 II

4 6 72

0

I

27

0

5

43

7 31

THE SOCCER C UP-WINN ING TEAM

THE ATHLETICS CUP-WI

I G TEAM

League Team players: B. T. Webb, J. Gurney, C. J. Alborough, A. D. Titcombe, T. G. Cook, R. C. Coleman, R. Knowles, R. W. Jackson, M.J. Archer, C. N. P. Harrison, G. R. Heritage, D. M. W. Bolton, J. D. Lees, J. B. Clark, D. A. Clarke, R. Turner, J. C. Hemming, G. Josipovici.

R.W.J. HILARY TERM Having failed to unseat Pembroke in the Michaelmas Term from . their position at the head of the League Division I, the Hall now looked to Cuppers to restore it kudos. An additional incentive was provided by the keen desire to avenge last year's defeat by Keble in the Final of the competition, and so to bring the victor's trophy back to the Hall after its temporary absence of one season.

Unfortunately, however, the weather during January turned out to be worse than could have been bargained for and three First XI fixtures had to be cancelled as well as four Choughs games owing to the bad state of the pitches. The hard ground, snow, and sometimes fog, did not prevent the players from beginning a serious training programme under the watchful eye of Mr. P. James, but the lack of matchplay prior to the first round of the competition became evident in the lack of cohesion in the Hall play during the first half of the game against Trinity. Playing on a hard pitch with a soft surface both teams found it difficult to play concise and attractive soccer, and at the interval the Hall were only leading 2-r. But the second half saw a change in the Hall play, their overall superiority man for man producing a greater cohesion which resulted in two further goals which brought the winning score to 4-r.

After holding King's College, London, to a 3-3 draw on Saturday, 7th February, in one of the fastest and most exciting games of the term, the Hall took on Magdalen on the following Monday in the second round of Cuppers. This match turned out to be almost a repeat of the game against Trinity, a hesitant first half followed by a more controlled and deliberate spell of play in the second. The game was won 3-1 and the Hall was safely into the next round.

A new fixture against Nottingham University proved to be an excellent game from the point of view of matchplay practice.

Our opponents turned out in completely scarlet kit, and the initial shock was as difficult to overcome as the very light ball. A r-r draw was a fair result for a game which produced some of the best soccer played in the Parks this season.

Having been favoured with home fixtures for the first two rounds of the Cuppers competition, the Semi-Final against Balliol was played on a neutral ground, that of Christ Church. The sun was shining brilliantly as the game began and the play developed with 73

like intensity, the Hall on the attack for long periods maintaining a pressure which had to bring goals. These came in the form of two well-taken opportunities by D. A. Clarke, which put the Hall in front at the interval. Although trying hard to upset the rhythm of the Hall approach work Balliol, found their task too much for them, and with further goals from Clarke (which completed his hat-trick) and Caddick the Hall was safely into the Final for the fourth consecutive year.

With only four minutes to go before the K.O. in the Final against St. Peter' s Hall at Iffiey Road the Hall supporters numbered precisely two !-a mere shadow of the vast array of S.P .H. supporters lining the opposite touch-line. However, at the appointed time the Hall supporters rallied in their customary manner only to find their team one goal down inside a few minutes from a surprise breakaway.

Undaunted the Hall soon got into their stride and had reversed the tables by half-time with goals from J. D. Lees and G. R. Heritage (a very subtle lob indeed). After the interval the Hall continued their scoring with a goal from Clarke, but their lead was reduced to 3-3 with further goals from S.P.H. But with only twenty minutes to go, and the crowd at fever pitch, the Hall brought their final pressure to bear with three excellent goals from Lees, Clarke (caught on the rebound from a Caddick shot) and J. B. Clark (a lovely volley into the roof of the net). These goals completed the scoring and the Hall had won 6-3.

The Hilary Term saw the completion of the Reserve League which the Choughs managed to win on goal average from St. Catherine' s, thus retaining their position.

Cuppers XI players: B. T. Webb, T. G. Cook, C. H. Hemming, D. M. Parfitt, M. J. Archer, G. R. Heritage, R. W. Jackson, M. D. Duck, D. M. W . Bolton, J. D. Lees, D. A. Clarke, R.H. Caddick, J.B. Clark.

Colours were awarded to : Archer, Duck, Clarke, P.A. Garvey, Hemming, Parfitt, A. D. Titcombe.

May we thank the following referees for their invaluable aid during the season: I. R. Briars, P. S. Clayson, and R. 0. D. Hughes.

Officers for the season 1959-60: Captain, M. D. Duck; ViceCaptain, G. R. Heritage; Secretary, D. M. Parfitt.

D.M.P. S.E.H.A.F.C. CHRISTMAS TOUR OF BELGIUM Deprived of two of its playing staff through the cancellation of British Railways services, the combined Hall and Brasenose team was nevertheless full of confidence both in its ability to withstand the trials of a wintry North Sea and in its competence to deal with the waiting Belgian opposition. The customs were hardly behind us, 74

before the more cold-blooded had set out on the task of eliminating the Nor.t h Sea from their thoughts; others, less easily daunted, agreed to pose before Mike Archer's camera, of 1907 vintage, and soon the bar was more crowded than ever! John Sweetman, Brasenose's answer to Sir Stanley Rous, had drilled, inspected and counter-inspected his men a good twenty minutes before disembarking at Ostend and so we were able to secure comfortable seats on the Brussels train. We arrived at our hotel, La Providence, near the Gare du Midi, 9! hours after leaving London. Those who were impatient to discover the wonders of the city set off on a preliminary reconnaissance and, in fact, John Lees immediately proved his worth as chief scout, showing a remarkable facility ,in timing his entrance for 3.30 a.m. (Many of the Hall, on learning of the apparent lack of success have jumped to the same conclusion as for last year's trip to Paris : if this article does nothing else it will at least prove that they were only seven-eighths correct in their judgement!)

The team had four games in the next four days, and to enable us to fulfil all our fixtures we hired two Volkswagen buses. The Hall men mindful of the necessity of sobriety in all 'conducteurs', left Tony Turl (Worcester) and Gerry Harrison (Brasenose) to do it all for them. The first match, on the Monday, was a practice and acclimatization game against Christ's, Cambridge, who evidently had not seen enough of us in term. With players being continually changed, the match was not one of the most remarkable ever played.

The combined team lost 3-1, perhaps a little unluckily.

The next day saw us on our way to Deinz, a small town to the south-west of Ghent, where we were to play a Belgian 3rd division side. A small, compact ground, cloudy English weather and hospitable, faltering English welcomes seemed to augur well for an enjoyable game, and such proved to be the case. The game was tense, close and sporting, and but for a couple of missed chances early on, the combined team would have been able to snatch a draw. As it was, a ball that would not have been out of place on Ostend beach and a solitary goal brought them defeat without disgrace. And this defeat was sweetened by homely, friendly hospitality, not lavish, but in sufficient quantities to see us back to Ghent, where the pipe-smoking Lees and Ron Coleman established a profitable beer-mat concern in a small bar, and finally to Brussels.

Hereafter, the Furies, obviously in training for their epic encounter with Mr. Mclachlan, refused to leave us alone, and our luck turned from bad to worse.

Tuesday again saw us bowling along the fine Belgian autoroutes to Anvers (one of the Volkswagens went to Antwerp before they discovered their mistake !) close to where we were due to play the British Advanced Base. On arrival, we discovered the reason for the 75

adjective, the camp being situated on the only hill of any size in Belgium or so it appeared. The game began in a rainstorm, blowing in our faces naturally enough, and ended a quarter of an hour after the interval when the referee found even his whistle full of water.

By this time the Hall who had borne the brunt of the gale were losing 3-0 and dreaming of pleasant, lazy Channel crossings. This, be it noted, was the first, and all vowed, the last occasion in which the Hall appeared in Continental strip. After a sumptuous Naafi repast, we all adjourned to Antwerp to look for the bright lights but for the most part succeeded only in proceeding from Pepsi-Cola or Stellar Artois to Hommes.

The organising secretary had retired early tQ Brussels to plan the renaissance of the teain for the next match against Maurage, near Mons. The day dawned bright and hopes were high for our first victory, but fate had yet to deliver its coup de grace. The match was to be under floodlights, newly installed by the 3rd division side and the start was ~cheduled for 6.30 p.m. Unfortunately one of the Volk"'wagens broke down on leaving Brussels and despite frantic telephone calls to every comer of Belgium, the seven occupants of this bus only arrived at the ground at half-time. Meanwhile the remainder of the team had done their best to appease the bloodthirsty mob, who having seen their sherry disappear at the civic reception now demanded some sort of payment in kind. 'Mr. Lees' performed heroic deeds with a football before the crowd and succeeded in delaying the start until 7 p.m. and in covering himself with a muddy glory. Finding further delaying tactics undiplomatic, they agreed to play with five Belgian reserves, with unprobable names like Angelo and Gianni. To add to the difficulties oflanguage, technique and temperament, the game was played in a snowstorm.

The six Hall men fought valiantly until half-time, when they trooped off, 4-1 down. A completely different team emerged in the second half and though failing to improve the score, again through poor finishing, managed to please the crowd of l,500 or so with some good football in appalling conditions. Our cup of woe seemed to be full when we were presented with four buckets of ice-cold water and a dressing-room, one side of which was a large window, evidently installed for the delight of lady supporters who made the most of the display of mud-spattered flesh. The smooth tongue of Bob Jackson, muttering convincing but inaudible words of apology and stressing the entente cordiale, the diplomatic persuasion of Tony Turl, the singing of Dave Parfitt and four or five rounds succeeded in making the evening, if not the game, a memorable one.

The match arranged for Saturday had to be cancelled, together with every other football match in Belgium that weekend, as the snow and ice took a firm hold on the grounds. The remains of the

World Fair, the various cinemas, night-clubs etc. of Brussels sufficed to see us through the last two days and our last few francs and we finally boarded the train for London with Dave Clarke vowing to work for Prelirns and Chris Alborough and Geoff Heritage never to sleep in the same room again.

The A.F.C. wish to express their thanks to the J.C.R. both for their support of the dance which was held in October and for their more direct financial assistance in making the tour possible.

The party included: A. Newson (Wadham), D. M. Parfitt, C. J. Alborough, R. W. Jackson, J. Sweetman (Brasenose), M. J. Archer, G. Harrison (Brasenose), G. R. Heritage, A. R. Turl (Worcester), K. Davies (St. John's), R. W. Coleman, M. Lock (Brasenose), J. D. Lees, D. A. Clarke, T. G. Cook.

R.W.J.

THE HOCKEY CLUB MICHAELMAS TERM Captain: R. G. EMERY Hon. Secretary: R. C. HOLT WITH SEVERAL of last year's team still available, and with some promising freshmen, we had the material for a successful side. In fact the results were only reasonably good, and once again we failed to realise our full potential. However, there were several good wins, notably those against a Southampton Area XI, Trinity College, Cambridge, City of Oxford and Swindon, and we finished the term on a high note by defeating a strong Occasionals side.

The first round of Cuppers gave us an easy 6-o win against Hertford. In the second round we defeated Merton 2-0, but only after a hard struggle. We had much more of the play, but the goals would not come, and it was not until midway through the second half that we scored our first goal. In the third round we met University College, and we lost a very exciting game 3-r. Here, as last year, the story was one of missed chances, and, after leading at the interval, we allowed our opponents to get on top. The chief factor in our defeat was the noticeable lack of enthusiasm in our play. The material and skill was there, as is shown by the fact that at the end of the season we had four Blues and six Occasionals, abundant talent for a winning side.

The Second XI lost all its matches, largely because of a constant variation in the composition of the side. However, the games were enjoyed, despite the fact that the matches against the ladies' sides were all cancelled.

Cuppers XI: W.J. S. Moorcroft,J.J.J. Bell, D. B. Brown, R. C. Holt, R. M. Sutton, M. Oldaker, R. G. Emery, D. C. Hughes, I. D. Taylor, M. Yeger, R. Kemp. Also played: J. R. Friend, L D. Norton.

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HILARY TERM As is usual this term, many matches were cancelled because of the weather. With Cuppers played last term, the games were of a less serious nature, and the side was rarely at full strength. However, some promising debuts were made by members of the Hall, and those who played against R.A.F. Halton will long remember the splendid equalizing goal scored by a third-year mathematician in his first-ever game.

I. D. Taylor, D. C. Hughes, R. M. Sutton and R. A. Payn are to be congratulated on representing the University against Cambridge; D. B. Brown, M. Oldaker, R. Kemp and M. Yeger on their election to the Occasionals H.C.; D. C. Hughes on playing for Cheshire and the North; I. D. Taylor on playing in the England Trial and on being selected to accompany the Great Britain side to Munich.

Colours were awarded to: M. Oldaker, R. Kemp, J. J. J. Bell, M. Yeger and G. N. J. Smart.

For the 1959-60 season R. M. Sutton was elected Captain, R. Kemp, Vice-Captain, and G. N. J. Smart, Hon. Secretary.

FOLKESTONE EASTER HOCKEY FESTIVAL The annual visit to the Easter Festival at Folkestone proved to be a great success. We were able to take down a reasonably strong side, though those who look at our results will perhaps doubt this. We had the honour of playing in the opening match of the Festival, in which we drew r-r with St. Thomas's Hospital after a good game on an excellent pitch. The next match was against the Royal Artillery, who fielded a strong side and beat us 3-0. The game against the Sparrows was also lost 3-r. Here we had most of the play, but failure to score goals again proved our downfall. Our final match was cancelled, and so we were left without a win to our credit.

However the team generally played well, and the results were perhaps rather unfair.

It was really on a social scale that the team distinguished itselÂŁ Minor injuries were sustained on the bumper cars, but at the end of the Festival all went away having had a most enjoyable time. .

I. D. Taylor and R. M. Sutton were selected to play for the Festival XI. The following represented the Hall at the Festival: R. A. Payne, J. J. J. Bell, S. B. Kossuth, R. C. Holt, R. M. Sutton, M. Oldaker, M. Baxter, M. E. Morris, I. D. Taylor, G. Tembe, J. Flecker, R. G. Emery, R. A. Gilbert.

R.C.H.

THE LAWN TENNIS CLUB Captain: R. C. HOLT

Secretary: R. W.JACKSON

DESPITE a promising crop of freshmen, the Club failed to maintain its position as winners of Cuppers and champions of the First Division. With four players of Cuppers' experience and four newcomers with substantial reputations, it was hoped that the successes oflast year would be repeated, but with R. 0. D. Hughes unfortunately out of action through injury and D. B. Brown suffering from some academic troubles, the Cuppers possibilities were reduced to six, and the vital element of competition for places was lost.

M. E. Morris, partnered firstly by R. W. Jackson and in the semifinal by G. Josipovici, won every game in the four rounds of Cuppers which we contested. Though the second pair of R. C. Holt and M. Y eger never fulfilled its full potential, it nevertheless succeeded in winning the two necessary games in all but the semi-final, even if, at times, the state of the Captain's racket was severely jeopardized.

The third pair of A. J. Outram and G. Josipovici, on paper as strong as the other pairs, never quite achieved the purposeful harmony required to beat opposing second pairs. New College, Trinity and Worcester were all beaten 6-3 in comfortable fashion, but against Balliol, in the semi-final, a combination of loss of form and a strong wind brought defeat by 5-4, a result which on most days would have been reversed.

In the League we succumbed to St. Catherine' s, by far the strongest team in the University, by 7-2, and a similar score saw us go down against Brasenose. It seems likely that we shall finish runners-up in the final placings. Several players made promising debuts in the League team, which was represented throughout the term by R. C. Holt, M. Yeger, A. J. Outram, C. H. Marriott, J. D. Lees, J. Hincks, J. A. Turner, A. C. Garrod, D. B. Brown, D. C. Hughes, A. J. D. Smith, R. W. Jackson.

The Principal's Knock-out Tournament was once again played off through the term, the eventual winners of the prize being R. C. Holt and J. J. J. Bell.

Officers for next year: Captain, A. J. Outram; Secretary, M. Yeger.

R.W.J.

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THE ATHLETIC CLUB MICHAELMAS TERM President: J. W. J. PINNICK

Secretary: B. A. J. W ALSHAW

is the least important in the Athletics year, which is perhaps fortunate for us as our sprinters are occupied playing Rugby or Hockey while the middle-distance men run cross-country.

Thus down at Iffiey Road are to be found only the Field Events enthusiasts, ever intent upon developing muscles and improving technique. In order to accommodate them the Inter-College Field Events competition is held. This passed off quietly with the Hall coming third.

The six Inter-College Relays also takes place this term. The Hall gained an overall position of second (to University College) in Division I, a very good result considering that we were disqualified in one of the races. In the other five we gained two first places and three seconds. The highlight came when our 4X 220 yards team (P. J. Bentley, T. E. Evans, I. D. Taylor, J. R. C. Young) broke the Inter-College record in r min. 32.8 sec., beating the previous record by r. 5 sec.

Apart from College athletics, Taylor, Bentley and J. W. J. Pinnick represented the University in the Oxford v. Cambridge Relays, while Evans and H. Hardy were in the Field-Events.

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HILARY TERM As a rule an athletics match may be predicted with reasonable accuracy. It might therefore be thought that, as we won Cuppers last year and had retained nearly the whole of our team intact (while finding some good athletes among the freshmen), we could forecast a win this year. But of course the strength of a team is relative and it might well be that some other College, drawing upon the youthful talent of the country, had a better team than ours.

The second factor casting doubt upon the outcome was that the points system had been altered from 5, 3, r (last year) to 5, 3, 2, r.

The first factor was remedied by a survey of the athletes of the other Colleges; but the second alas was irremediable as the points change defied mathematical analysis !

Thus it was with hope and determination that we looked forward to the coming Cuppers tussle. We had hope because other Colleges did not appear to have improved all that much (or at least not the ones that mattered last year) and we had determination that mere accounting should not prove our downfall.

At the beginning of the term the track could not be used. Indeed it was under water for the first month. Therefore the original 80

Cuppers knock-out system had to be modified to consist of an Eliminating Round, a Semi-Final and a Final. In the Eliminating Round we were competing against four Colleges, none of which was very strong. We beat St. Peter's Hall (our runners-up) by 185 points to u6 and thus slid gently into the Semi-final.

The Semi-final was run against University College. Young and Taylor dominated the two sprints and the Long Jump as did Pinnick the Hurdles races. But we lost some points on the middle-distance running in which University College were strong. However the result was a comfortable victory by 92 points to 71. Comedy was added to this normally stem sport when it was found that the Three-milers inadvertently had been allowed to run an extra lap.

The times were a little slow.

Thence to the Final. We had been watching keenly to see whom our opponents would be: Pembroke or Merton. On the whole we felt that Pembroke would be more desirable-and thus it was decreed. Pembroke just beat Merton, the result depending upon the Hop, Step and Jump.

Pembroke had been our strongest opponents last year. We were therefore very much on our mettle and had a keen fit team. The turning-point of this match really came right at the beginning when Pinnick beat Van Rossum in the 120 yards Hurdles (15.4 sec.).

From that time onward the Hall never looked back. Young jumped his best-ever in the Long Jump (23 ft. o in.), while Taylor won a fine 440 yards (51.1 sec.). T. J. Reynolds and R. A. Dunbier both cleared 5 ft. IO in. in the High Jump thus gaining a three-way tie with Stromberg the University representative. L. A. Chester and D. L. Bartles-Smith had best-ever performances in the Pole Vault (9 ft. 9 in.) and Mile (4 min. 39.2 sec.) respectively. H. Hardy once again won the Discus (132 ft. 8 in.) and Weight (40 ft. 7 in.) completing a run of victories unbroken throughout the Cuppers competition. The result was 94j points to 69i points-a convincing win to the Hall.

Hall Colours were awarded to: Bartles-Smith, Chester, Taylor, R. Holliday and P. J. Tindale.

At the end of term B. A. J. Walshaw was elected President of the Club and Tindale was elected Secretary.

B.A.J.W. TRINITY TERM

President: B. A. J. W ALSHAW

Secretary: P. J. TINDALE

The University Trials were held in the vacation, four members of the Hall being selected to compete against Cambridge, J. R. C. Young and I. D. Taylor in both sprints, J. W. J. Pinnick in both Hurdles events and H. Hardy in the Discus. B. A.J. Walshaw F

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missed selection but returned his fastest time (1 min. 55.6 sec.) in the 880 yards trial. With so many athletes competing regularly for the University the season was necessarily a patchy one for the Hall team, but this is not to suggest that there is no depth of talent in the Hall, for in the middle distances there have had to be trials before matches, a thing unheard of in other Colleges. Serious weaknesses did, however, show themselves in the throwing events.

The following is an account of the matches in which we took part.

Thirteenth of May v. Bristol (away), a disastrous defeat by 49 points to 85, Walshaw's track record in the 440 yards and his win in the 880 yards and A. Klein's triple-jumping being the only redeeming features.

With a much stronger team we went to Birmingham on the 16th and had a clear-cut win over the University and Trinity College, Dublin. With Taylor winning both sprints and the Long Jump, and Pinnick taking both the Hurdles distances, we were well set fairly early in the afternoon for our first win. Points result: St. Edmund Hall 75, Birmingham 59, Trinity, Dublin 42 points.

At Bournemouth on 23rd May we found ourselves well-matched against the local club team and the result (lost, 67 points to 75) was in doubt until the last couple of events. Although we provided the individual winner in many events our second strings were not usually strong enough in support. Walshaw once again took the Quarter and Half Mile, Tindale the Mile, Hardy the Discus and Weight and Knowles the Javelin, but it was just not enough.

On 27th May against King's College, London it was really the same story. Taylor recorded yet another 10.0 sec. 100 yards, without being seriously tested and also won the 220 yards and Long Jump.

Walshaw repeated his double in the 440 and 880 yards, and Reynolds cleared 5 ft. 8 in. in the High Jump, but we still won by only 75 points to 68.

On 2nd June we returned to London to compete against Imperial College and the Royal Veterinary College, the Hall finishing second (Imperial College 120 points, St. Edmund Hall 96 points, Royal Veterinary College 89 points). Once again, with a sadlydepleted team our main weakness was in field-events, though Klein, with a Triple Jump of 39 ft. and Knowles who threw the Javelin 142 ft. both won their events.

However we finished the season on a brighter note with an easy victory over Southampton and University College (Oxford) at Iffiey Road. W alshaw' s running again provided a high-light and it really looked as though he was going inside 50 sec. for the Quarter Mile for the first time, but there was no-one to push over the last stages and he had to be satisfied with 50.4 sec.

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On the whole this was a successful season. Chester, Evans, Reynolds, Aves and Walshaw competed for the Centipedes against Alveston (the equivalent in Cambridge) and the performances of our men at the White City speak for themselves. Finally may we thank Pinnick, our retiring President for the work he has done and for his enthusiasm and unfailing encouragement, and wish him the very best of luck.

P.J.T.

THE CROSS-COUNTRY CLUB MICHAELMAS TERM

Captain: H. B. THORPE NOT UNFAIR to say that we had a more successful season this year than last. The fact that we only won two matches out of six is misleading in that on the whole our fixture list is a strong one, and indeed in our inter-College matches we were unbeaten. Other matches were against Birmingham, Southampton and Bristol Universities, all of which proved too strong for us. No explanation is offered how it is that the Athletics team usually has the measure of these Universities while we struggle on at a distance.

In Cuppers we were able to return into the top places, coming fourth. It is always interesting to try to explain improvements of this kind-it will be remembered that last year we were twelfth.

Probably the solution does not lie in the fact that on the whole the team trained less and was therefore fresher, but that this year we did have a very reasonable team overall. This always seems to be the deciding factor in Cross-country matches, and certainly, no-one could claim that the Hall team is 'packed'. Rather, as one seems to have heard elsewhere, did strength lie in depth.

It was good to welcome Freshmen into the team, and also to know that only two of the regular runners will be going down.

Soon the unprecedented need of selection before one can represent the Hall, will be upon us.

Tindale ran for University teams while the rear rank was occupied by a selection from Doney, Walshaw, Fowler, Shepley, BartlesSmith, Steer, Day, Knowles and Thorpe, with the odd additional stalwart who stood in where necessary.

In the Hilary Term Athletics Cuppers interfere with these rustic pastimes and the sport tends to wane. However, following a hurriedly arranged match with the local Borstal in the Michaelmas term, we were able to welcome them back here and to defeat them.

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In addition the annual.Road Relay in Hyde Park drew us down to London, but of our fortunes there the less said the better.

At the end of the season, Bartles-Smith was elected Captain for next year.

H.B.T. THE SQUASH CLUB Captain: A. W. J. THOMSON Secretary : C. H. R. MAR~IOTT for a convenient site for the construction of our own courts continued unsuccessfully during the Michaelmas and Hilary terms, the necessity for which becomes more apparent as the Squash Club increases in popularity. The James Street courts have this season been used to capacity by enthusiasts of all standards; a measure of success being reflected in the match results.

Our promotion to Division I last season allowed the Hall to rise to third place in the League, a position which might be held with luck next year. In the Cuppers, St. Anthony's granted a walk-over; Corpus put up slight resistance; the Hall then lost 4-1 to Lincoln the eventual finalists.

Other fixtures show 9 wins to 5 defeats. A wide variety in standard of players gave service to the Club during the season.

The final of the Principal' s squash tournament has been reached, .between A. W. J. Thomson and the Principal himsel£ Thomson eventually won the prize. Officers for the coming season elected were: Captain, J. J. J. Bell; Secretary, H. Dale. ¡ Colours being awarded to B. E. Amor, C. H. R. Marriott, H. Dale and M. Oldaker.

C.H.R.M. THE SEARCH

THE BADMINTON CLUB Captain: P. G. SLIP

Secrerary: D.R. A. PEARCE

w AS A SEASON of mixed fortunes. A large number offreshmen came forward at the call for new players and in consequence the Hall entered four teams in the six divisions of the League; a fact which later proved very harassing for the Secretary. Three promising freshmen re-vitalised a side that had lost some of its good players the term before. Of these M. E. Morris was quickly picked to play in the Cuppers side in the Hilary Term and A. D. Beck and R. D. Haddon soon fitted into the second League team, together with K. D. Leaver and D.R. A. Pearce.

The First IV was unfortunately relegated from Division I, having been unable to win a match. The Second IV finished fifth in Division THIS

IV, winning two and losing three matches. The Third and Fourth IV's did rather better, finishing second and third respectively in Division V and Division VI, but did not play all their matches.

During the Hilary Term the Cuppers Competition progressed slowly, but for the Hall successfully. Having beaten Merton in the First Round, the Team, consisting of C. N. P. Harrison, M. E. Morris, A. S. Hill and R. W. Jackson, had a walk-over against Jesus and then played Queen's, the holders, in the semi-final. Drawing level at two games all in the doubles, Harrison then went on to beat the Queen's Captain in the deciding singles game. In the Final (played in Trinity Term) against the much-favoured Keble, we had a repetition of the serni-fmal; this time Harrison was unlucky to lose against the University Captain.

Several friendly matches, amongst which were Culham College and Osberton Radiators, were played and traditionally lost. A match against the newly formed O.U. Ladies B.C. proved a very enjoyable fixture, though the result was always in doubt!

Harrison played in the Oxford University team for yet another year-and his third Varsity match.

Colours were awarded to Hill, Jackson, Morris, Pearce and Slip.

The officers for next year are: D. R. A. Pearce, Captain; A. D. Beck, Secretary.

A.D.B.

THE SWIMMING CLUB

President: L. J. FILBY

Secretary: J. M. WEBSTER

made a brilliant debut in the Michaelmas Term by appearing in the First Division, but despite winning the polo match owing to the non-appearance of any challengers, was demoted to the Second Division the next week. The inspired leadership of M. Jones was for this meeting confmed to dry land, so it was not surprising to be relegated to the Third Division. But here the Hall showed its mettle and having put out a strong team came third and as usual lost a bitterly contested, but informative polo match. All thanks must go to those who loyally turned up to swim in face of such unrewarding honours.

On 1st June the Farrand Cup race was swum, and won by L. L. Filby, with D. Murray-John and H. B. Thorpe second and third.

The weather may perhaps be blamed for a lack of competitors but not for the startling lack of spectators. .

It can only be hoped that those members of the Hall who have realised man's natural ability to stay afloat, will experiment more earnestly with this potential in the future. ¡J.M.W.

THE TEAM

THE TABLE TENNIS CLUB Captain: I. R. BRIARS

Secrerary: D. B. BROWN

THIS YEAR we were rather more successful than last, winning three league matches and managing to retain our place in Division II. We had the misfortune to meet a strong Worcester side in the first round of Cuppers and suffered a narrow defeat. At the beginning of the season a number of friendly fixtures were played in an attempt to give the side some match practice. Next season's prospects are much brighter as at long last a table-tennis table is to be provided in the Hall. M. E. Morris is to be congratulated on reaching the semi-final of the Freshmans' Tournament, where he lost to the eventual winner.

Cuppers Side: Morris, R. C. Holt, J. ]. ]. Bell. Others who represented the Hall in League fixtures were: I. D. Norton, J. H. Phillips, B. F. Taylor, Brown, Briars.

D.B.B.

THE SAILING CLUB is experiencing a decline in interest and fortune at the moment, and has decided not to put a full report into the Magazine. There are only three members of the 0. U.Y.C. in the Hall, and they have sailed, according to our informer, with utter lack of distinction in the Sailing Cuppers which were held in Hilary Term.

May the Magazine express its hopes that this sport, so dear to the heart of a nation of sailors, may soon experience a revival and a return to the successes which it once had in the Hall records.

THE SAILING CLUB

THE GOLF CLUB Captain: B. E. AMOR

Secretary: R. A. GILBERT

has been enjoying a most successful year in many sporting fields, it can fairly be said that the Golf Club has contributed its modest share of achievements to this total. It may not be known to many members of the Hall that college golf organisation is only known in a few colleges. We have played only seven matches this year which may not appear many, but during the past three or four years, our playing strength has annually increased both in quality and in quantity, and with it our organisation has improved, to such an extent that a week's tour was projected, only .being postponed, we hope, one further year.

Cuppers were played in Michaelmas Term. In this we defeated Exeter and New College before meeting Christ Church in the WHILE THE HALL

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semi-final. Here we were narrowly beaten by the eventual winners.

Cuppers teams consist of only four players and were a larger team required to be fielded, it is felt that our strength might have added yet another glory to the Hall. We were all very pleased when D. J. Harrison and W. J. A. Steel were invited to play for the University against Cambridge at Burnham and Berrow in March, and congratulate them on their successes.

During the Hilary Term we played University College, London at Southfield and won narrowly. The main programme was held during the Trinity Term. We played three ladies' clubs around Oxford and were regally entertained by each one. Whether it is to our credit or not, we also won each match fairly comfortably.

One Oxford College, Brasenose, and one Cambridge College, St. John's, were also beaten and, in our other match, against a local side, the Dominos, the result depended on the last match which was halved. There was a large entry for the Annual K.0.

Tournament, which was to be played on handicap. There were some very keen matches. In the semi-final Harrison was opposed by R. Kemp, who narrowly defeated R. A. Gilbert in the previous round, and A. W. J. Thompson was to play D. H. Johnson. Harrison and D. H. Johnson came through to the final and Harrison was the Wlllller.

Next season it is hoped to secure more fixtures, and with the large amount of talent apparent in the current freshmen the Hall Golf Club should do well for the next few years.

R.A.G.

HILARIANS R.F.C. President: P. G. SLIP

Secretary: I. B. MACINNES

that the Club was founded in a fit of absentmindedness, it has succeeded in fulfilling, with remarkable efficiency, its purpose this year-to give games of rugger to the less professional members of the Hall. Around roo different people played for the Club in 26 games of which 14 were won and 12 lost. Perhaps we are more professional than we imagine. Under the leadership of an ambitious President the Club undertook a tour of the West County over the Easter week-end, losing two matches, to Old Sulians and Clifton, and winning against Old Colstodians. Next season the Club hopes to continue with equal success. It hopes to hold its annual dinner in February and have as guest of honour someone no less illustrious than last year's guest, Peter Robbins. The responsibility for this lies on our Social Secretary, J. Fletcher-O'Donnell, under the no doubt efficient guidance of Secretary, R. Haddon, and the DESPITE THE FACT

nominal Presidency ofl. B. Maclnnes. Some have called the Hilarians 'a stepping stone to a Blue', others have not. But, after all, it does not really matter.

I.B.M.

THE JOHN OLDHAM SOCIETY'S SUMMER PRODUCTION THE ALCHEMIST

by BEN JONSON HAVING ABANDONED the Clarendon Press Institute for the Unicom Theatre at Abingdon, a thirteenth century building with an Elizabethan stage, the Society sensibly produced a Jacobean play.

Without considering the play itself and its present production apart, the Unicom Theatre proved at least more fashionable than C.P.I., and practically every seat was sold, not that the Society broke with tradition by making a profit on the production.

Jonson himself insisted that the end of art was moral instruction, and the constant butt of his classical comedy was the acquisitive attitude of the mercantile era, involving men who stood outside the current traditions. In so far as this play accords with Jonson's own maxims concerning comedy and art's moral intention, alchemy provided not only examples of quackery and credulity, but symbolised the desire for infinite riches. Yet it is true that in 'The Alchemist' the punishment of vice is not fully effected. Face escapes unscathed, whilst Doll and Subtle suffer no greater indignity than a hasty escape over the garden wall. The element of comedy dominates that of satire, and James Smith's production was geared to emphasising the supremacy of the comic.

It was an excellent production; fast-moving-perhaps at times a little too fast-in which no character was a failure, though some scenes, notably the first and the last left much to be desired. In writing 'The Alchemist' Jonson took pains to differentiate his characters most clearly, though all are bent upon acquiring wealth or position.

The magnificent costumes by Christopher Denyer, and the careful distinction of the idioms of speech, served only to emphasise what Jonson had already achieved in the text of the play.

The present reviewer, whilst recognising Roland MacLeod's considerable natural talents, found himself in disagreement with the characterisation of Subtle, and hoped that Jonson might have done so too. He lacked something of both the dignity and sinister powerwhich Jonson intended he should have. However, the producer obviously required us to accept the change of emphasis, and once accepted we must acclaim Roland MacLeod's performance as brilliant. Surely 88

here is the finest comic actor Oxford has known for many a year.

He displayed a range of facial expression and a variety of intonation perfectly expressing the character as he conceived it, leaving the audience gasping with laughter and admiration. Only in the opening scene where the producer sacrificed sense to sound and pace could one fault the portrayal of Subtle, considered on its own terms.

Second only to that of Roland Macleod was the performance of John Binfield as Sir Epicure Mammon, who with his fine voice and fine stage presence commanded our attention, and spoke the verse of the play with compelling sensual lushness, without trace of the banality which always threatens such speeches. The knowledge that John Binfield was not a member of the Hall was the sole cause of regret. Here is a man capable of doing something like justice to the character of Falstaff.

The remainder of the characters had been well cast, with Jonathan Aptaker as Dapper, the lawyer's clerk, Raymond Smithers as a delightful Abel Drugger, John Phillips as a forceful Angry Boy, and Laurence Reith as the gamester Surly, though his portrayal as a homosexual was questionable. Kevin Phillips gave an energetic and very competent performance as Face. What he lacked in subtlety he rendered in mobility and energy, and the producer must have been well pleased with his success in holding the various threads of Jonson's plot together. Vyvian Arthur was adequate as Doll Common, giving us something truly excellent in the mock gentility with which she approached Sir Epicure Mammon.

Although the casting of the corpulent John Wardle as Ananias bore its own comment and was excellent, something was lost in the handling of the Anabaptist scenes. Jonson's serious satire of the religious sects was never realised. His intellectual wit was swallowed up in an excess of farce. The attempted Welsh accent of Roger Cook as Tribulation did not help matters.

No criticism can deny praise to James Smith's production, which required to be judged by higher standards than those usually invoked by university dramatics. At its best, it revealed the subtlety of Jonson' s satire, and when he 'adapted' Jonson, James Smith showed commendable appreciation of his actors' potentialities. Christopher Denyer who designed the costumes, and Gordon Crosse who composed the admirable music,-very successful in the creation of tone, and especially helpful when John Binfield spoke the play's verse,-did much to lighten the producer's task.

The ending of the play, which is in itself something of an anticlimax, fell rather flat. The return to comparative sanity in the person of harewit, Michael Binks, surrounded by his neighbours, had not received-at least by the time of the first night-the careful consideration which the producer gave to the remainder of the play. It was

a pity, but it scarcely mattered. James Smith's production had justified itself with a sensible and balanced handling of Jonson's play and the natural talents of the actors at the producer's disposal.

If Jonson's satiric intention was unduly lightened, one can only point rather ruefully to the nature of most Oxford audiences, and anyway, acquisitiveness has long been considered commendable.

G.E.W.

A VISIT TO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MAYA AREAS

(The following is an account of a visit by Mr. E. M. ]. Hilt towards which a grant was made from the Graham Hamilton Travel Fund.) of the more than respectably sized St. Edmund Hall contingent on this year's Canada Club plane left Idlewild for gainful employment in the Canadian backwoods, I defered such lucrative quests by seeking the greatest of the indigenous North American cultures, south of the Border. There I intended studying both the pre-Columbian civilisations of the Mexican plateau, and later the older Mayan civilisation of the low-lying rain forests of Chiapas, Yucatan and the Peten in Guatemala.

My first goal, Mexico City, some 3,000 miles away, was reached by five days hard hitch-hiking and night driving, so that I was in time to witness Mexico's first 'completely democratic' (no shooting) Presidential election on 6thJuly. The next four and half weeks were spent-apart from some ostensibly mathematical reading at the ultra-modem University City-attending archaeological courses, surviving double-packed rattling bus journeys to the great site at Teotihuacan, the Toltec site at Tula, the Chichimec site at Calixtlahuaca, and the Aztec temple at Tenayuca, and also meeting the leading Mexican archaeologists. Soon it became apparent just how much study there was yet to be carried out on all the Pre-Hispanic civilisations to bring our knowledge of them up to those of the Middle East. Even such well-known Aztec works as the great Calendar Stones admit to wildly different interpretations; one morning Dr. A. Caso was explaining how it was impossible to give mathematical values to the carved symbols, while the same afternoon Lie. Don Raul Noriega (also under-secretary for the Treasury) with calculating machine and four hours hard work just about convinced me to the contrary. Fortunately the Mayas, my main study, had a much clearer idea of recording their mathematical calculations than the philistinistic Aztecs.

To study these, on 4th August, well equipped with medical WHILST THE REMAINDER

supplies, I left the relatively cool plateau for Coatzacoalcos on the humid Gulf of Mexico. My first Maya city was to be Palenque, situated in the foot-hills of Chiapas Sierra Madre. Fortunately some seven years ago a railway had been constructed as the only link between the Yucatan and the rest of Mexico, and even more fortunately this railway was the only one which had not come out on strike the previous day, so there was really no cause to complain when the news drifted round that Tuesday's train would leave a day later. The 'rapido' after weaving a torturous 150 miles through low rainforest reached Palenque late on the 6th, and a Landrover took us up to the village for the night.

Soon after dawn, as the violently green hills were still skirted with low banks of mist, I set off to walk the eight miles to the ruins.

Eventually the silent track gently climbed and opened onto the plaza separating the superb Temple of the Inscriptions and the Palacio. Climbing the steep broad staircase to the top of the temple, I was then able to descend by flash-light down the cold and narrow tunnelled stairs to the centre of the pyramid and the Tomb of the High Priest. This tomb, the only one of its kind yet found in the Maya area, was discovered by Dr. Alberto Ruz seven years ago.

The low relief carving of the tree of life on the coffm' s monolithic cover was exquisite in its preserved perfection, and yet was wrought with nothing more than stone chisels twelve hundred years ago.

It seemed for a moment as if those years ceased to exist. But only for a moment, for on returning to the brilliant sunlight, I saw that the Landrover had brought a fellow traveller, Dr. Schneider to the ruins.

The remainder of the day we made notes and sketches of some of the inscriptions before returning to the village in torrential rain.

After spending the night sleeping beside the railway, in an illfounded hope that the next train might come through not too many hours late, our patience was finally rewarded in the morning and we were able to resume the slow journey to Campeche. From there the Puuc and Chenes sites of Kabah and Uxmal were in easy reach by ancient local bus, which as always was double-packed with humans and animals. Later we were very glad to be given a lift into Merida

by Brother Cornelius, who has been working amongst the Mayas for many years. The two cities, or more correctly religious centres, for this is all the Maya 'cities' were, being late Classical (roth century) had but one stele, but both had the most perfected limestone carvings of serpent Gods, and the walls and cornices were covered with charming and delicate carved patterns. In many ways these sites compared favourably with the best of the Classical ruins in Europe, and my memory of them is only marred by the knowledge that the Pyramid of the Magigian took the life of a brilliant mathematician in an accidental fall a year ago.

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From Merida, Dr. Schneider and I visited Chichen Itza, a ruin restored by the Carnegie Trust between the wars, and on the advice of Dr. Ruz in Merida, I visited the newly discovered site of Xhanantunich some miles north of the city. Having studied the Northern Yucatan ruins, I was particularly anxious to visit some of the earlier (4th, 5th centuries) ruins in the heart of the Peten jungle in Guatemala. Tikai, one of the oldest, and the largest of the cities is normally only accessible from Guatemala City some 500 miles from Merida, but I hoped that there would be a chance to get in from British Honduras. As the track across Quintana Roo was already a quagmire, and more rain was on its way, I flew to Chetumal. From there the 'Bulldog' bus full of calypso-singing negro creoles leisurely took a day to meander to Belice.

Since archaeological work had begun at Tikal, there was an airstrip there, and the British Honduras Airways would have been prepared to let me charter one .o f their two planes to go in, but diplomatic relations with Guatemala prevented this. Relations with Guatemala are never good, but an abortive attempt by the Guatemalan President to gate-crash the border a few weeks before had not improved them. There was however a chance of getting into Tikal from the border, if one was lucky enough to get an Avieteca (Guatemalan airlines) jungle hopper at Fallabnn, but the last to do this had taken a fortnight over it! The thought of the 230 foot high temples was enough to make the attempt worth-while, and I got a lift to Benque Viejo with Mr. James, who was teaching the Indians how to use the plough. After spending the afternoon at the nearby temples, I had my first sound sleep in a Maya hamock. Crossing into Guatemala on the 15th, I was most lucky to make Tikai in a couple of hops.

This was the climax of my visit. Five temples rising sheer out of the jungle carpet, and hundreds of smaller ones spread over many square miles, some still unlocated in the dense tangle. Carved and dated stelae, altar stones and carved wooden door lintels made the four days I stayed there most worthwhile. Now the city as for the last thousand years still remains shrouded by the jungle, but in ten years time the University of Pensylvannia hope to return it to its former glory. But my time was rlliming out, and I had to get back to Mexico City, where I hoped that there would be an anwer to my advertisement to share driving to California. But before leaving the Peten I walked to Uaxactun 18 miles way to see the oldest dated Maya structure (328 A.n.), but this was practically unrecognisable as the secondary jungle has recovered the site since its excavation 20 years ago. The next day an Avieteca plane arrived at the village, and made Guatemala City ¡in four or so hops from village to village. From there a mad rush through the Highlands by 92

bus, taxi and plane was necessary to return to Mexico City on time, and to remind me that we live in the twentieth century.

I should like to express my thanks for the hospitality and help I received from archaeologists, the British community in Belice, and particularly those kind descendants of the Mayas in whose villages I stayed. I should also like to thank the founder of the Travel Fund.

THE AULARIAN BOOKSHELF THE FOLLOWING PUBLICATIONS by members of the Hall have come to our notice. We would be glad to have news of any such publications for inclusion in this article. We thank all Aularians who have sent us copies of their works in the past year; we are especially glad to receive them and arrange for them to be placed on the Aularian shelves in the Old Library where a collection of books and articles by Aularians, past and present, is being gradually built up. In the following list an asterisk against the title of a book indicates that the author has presented a copy to the Hall. *G. R. ALLEN (Fellow) Agricultural Marketing Policies. Oxford, 1959· *D.S. BOTTING (matric. 1954) Island of the Dragon's Blood. London, 1958.

J. S. BREWIS (Emeritus Fellow) We have a Gospel. The Bishop of London's Lent Book, 1959· London, 1958.

W. J. CAMKIN (matric. 1941) The World Cup, 1958. Hart Davis.

D. G. CHARLTON (matric. 1953) Positivist Thought in France during the Second Empire 1852-70. Clarendon Press, 1959· *I. V. CocKSHOOT (matric. 1947) The Fugue in Beethoven's Piano Music. London, 1959· *T. A. B. CORLEY (matric. 1942) The True Book about Napolean.

London, 1958.

A. B. EMDEN (Honorary Fellow) Education, a chapter in Mediaeval England, edited by A. L. Poole, Oxford, 1958. *A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500, Volume II, F-0 and Volume III P-Z 1959· *P. J. FRANKIS (matric. 1948) Two Minor French Lyric Forms in English in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen I. LX 1959, pp. 66-7r. *A. T. GAYDON (matric. 1948) Editor of The Taxation of 1297 in Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical .Record Society, XXXIX, 1959· *N. S. HAILE (matric. 1945) The geology and mineral resources of the Lupar and Saribas Valleys, West Sarawak, in Geological Survey Department, British Territories in Borneo, Memoir 7. Sarawak 1957· (With H.J. C. Kirk) Bukit Tibang and the Baleh Headwaters, reprinted from the Sarawak Museum Journal, vol. viii, 1957· 93

D. TER HAAR (Lecturer) On the theory of transport phenomena in solids, Proceedings of the Brussels Conference on Statistical Mechanics, lnterscience Puhl. 1958, p. 192. On the Hall-effect in Bismuth, Physica 24, 848, 1958 (with R. A. Coldwell-Horsfall). The quantum nature of matter and radiation, in Turning points in physics, NorthHolland Puhl. Cy., 1959, p. 30. Problems of collective motion in physics, Nature 183, 866, 1959· On the ferroelectric behaviour of KDP, Proceedings of the Royal Society, A 250, 266, 1959 (with J. Grindlay).

Collectieve verschijnselen in de natuurkunde, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde, 25, 89, 1959· *Introduction to the physics of many-body systems, Interscience, 1958.

R. L. HILL (matric. 1922) Egypt in the Sudan, 1820-81. Oxford, 1958.

T. K. (Augustine) HOEY (matric. 1935) Go Quickly and Tell.

London, 1959· Friends of God. London, 1958. *H. J. HUNT (Emeritus Fellow) Balzac's Comedie Humaine.

London, 1959· H. M. N. H. IRVING (Fellow) Indium Content of Rocks and Minerals from the Skaergaard Intrusion, By. L. R. Wagner, J. van R. Smit, and H. Irving, Geochimica et Cosmographica Acta, 1958, 13, 81-86.

Steric Hindrance in Analytical Chemistry. Part W. Some Sterically Hindered Complexones. By H. Irving, R. Shelton, and (in part) R. Evans, Journal of the Chemical Society, 1958, 3540-3549.

Diamagnetism in a Quasi-tetrahedral Nickel (II) Complex. By H. Irving and B. Gill, Proceedings of the Chemical Society, 1958, 168. The Preparation of Metal-free Acids, Alkalis and Buffer Solutions of High Purity. By H. Irving and J. J. Cox, The Analyst, 1958, 83, 526-528.

Opredelenie Indiya Radioaktivationym Metodom, By H. Irving, Trudy Komissii po Analiticheskoi Khimii, 1958, 9, 249-263. *D. R. JONES (matric. 1938) The Traditio of the Oracles of Isaiah of Jerusalem, in Zeitschrift fur die Altestementische Wissenschafi, Bd. 65.

1955· *J. N. D. KELLY (Principal) Early Christian Doctrines. London, 1958.

G. WILSON KNIGHT (matric. 1954) The Sovereign Flower. London, 1958. .

A. P. LEARY (matric. 1956) Letter from Oxford. Article in Approach, 30, 1959· Rosemont, Penn.

J. McMANNERS (Emeritus Fellow) An eccentric Cure of XVIII century France, in Tasmanian Historical Research Association. Vol. 7, 1958. *M. M. MARTIN (matric. 1922) I was sick and ye visited me. New revised edition, London, 1958.

E. G. MIDGLEY (Fellow) The Wanderer, lines 49-55, in Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. X, no. 37, 1959· E. C. MORTIMER (matric. 1907) Blaise Pascal: the life and work of a realist. London, 1959· 94

*G. J. PAXMAN (matric. 1950) A study of spontaneous mutation in Propsophila Melanogaster, in Genetica 29 (1957). Differentiation and stability in the development ef Nicotiana Rustica, in Annals of Botany, n.s. Vol. :XX, no. 78, 1956.

R. B. PUGH (Supernumary Fellow) The Colonial Office, 18011925, being chapter XIX in the Cambridge History of the British Empire Vol. III. G. W. SERIES (Fellow) Resonances Hertziennes du niveau n=4 de l' atome D'helium une fois ionise (with W. N. Fox) in J. Phys. et Radium. 19,850. 1958. Pompage optique d'ions paramagnetiques dans les solides (with M. J. Taylor) in]. Phys. et Radium, 19, 901, 1958.

Note on the Li II spectrum (with K. Willis) in Proc. Phys. Soc., 71, 274, 1958. Radio-frequency spectroscopy of excited atoms, in Rep. Prog.

Phys. 22, 280, 1959· P. C. SWANN (matric. I940) Chinese Painting. Paris and London, 1958-9. *D.R. WHITE (matric. I952) Holidays in Paradise, a book of verse.

Neame, 1959· N.]. WILLIAMS (matric. 1946) Contraband Cargoes: seven centuries of smuggling. London, 1959· Knaves and Fools. London, I958. *P. G. WINCH (matric. 1947) The Idea of a Social Science, and its relation to Philosophy. London, 1958.

D .. C. M. YARDLEY (Fellow) 'The English Lands Tribunal', in The Conveyancing Review, November, 1958. 'Commonwealth et Decolonisation', in Les Cahiers du Droit, March, 19 59. *'The Purpose of Mandamus in English Law', in The Juridicial Review, April, 1959· *'The Grounds for Certiorari and Prohibition', in The Canadian Bar Review, May, 1959· 'The Work of the English Lands Tribunal in the Field of Real Burdens', in The Conveyancing Review, May, 1959· J. N. D. KELLY, Early Christian Doctrines. pp.

5or. London, A. and C. Black. 30s.

Dr. Kelly's new book admirably supplies a long-standing need both of the theologian and of the educated layman, by providing a concise and judicious survey of the history of the main Christian doctrines from the close of Apostolic times to the Council of Chalcedon (451).

The book begins with a survey of Greek, Hellenistic, Roman and Jewish thought, in so far as they provide the background of Christian theology. This is most welcome, for together with the other prolegomena, on the relation between scripture and tradition in the Early Church and on the canonization and interpretation of the Old and New Testaments, it opens up many of the ways of Patristic thinking before the principal ideas of the Fathers are introduced.

For example, one of the most suggestive themes of the book is how Platonism influenced the Fathers. We are reminded of the

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ideas of Plato himself, and informed in due course of the peculiar features of the Middle and Neo-Platonism on which so many of the Fathers were nurtured. As we read on, we are shown how far Origeni Platomism led to the subordinationist aspects of his treatment of the Trinity; while on the other hand Platonist ideas save the Cappadocians from the reproach ofTritheism. In presenting his thought about redemption, St. Athanasius r<Âľi into.danger because of his Platonist idea of man; yet St. Augustine owes to the same philosophical tradition some of his sublimest insights about the Church as Christ's body.

The central part of the book falls into two sections, divided chronologically. The first expounds the leading themes of Christian belief-the Trinity, the incarnation, man, his redemption, the church, its ministry, discipline and sacraments-until the Council of Nicaea (325). The second resumes the subject in a similar way down to the Council of Chalcedon. Dr. Kelly offers throughout a full, careful and well-documented account of the teachings of the Fathers upon each topic in its due order. Occasionally, he refers by way of illustration and criticism to the theories of modem historians of dogma, especially Loafs; but his own profound knowledge and critical use of them must usually be inferred from his way of presenting and assessing the ancient writers. At the same time, Dr. Kelly constantly stimulates our thought by stating the conclusions of his own study. Especially noteworthy are his conclusions about the Apologists and about fourth century Trinitarianism. We are warned against the common anachronism of judging the Apologists in the light of the language and debates of the post-Nicene period; sympathetically considered as men of the second century, they are cleared of the stock reproaches that they failed to distinguish the Logos from the Father before creation, and that they subordinated the Son to the Father. Again, apart from some Western bishops, the Fathers ofNicaea did not probably hold, with regard to the Trinity, that there was a numerical unity of substance in the Persons of the Godhead; they simply believed that the Son was fully God and equal to the Father. In taking this minority view, Dr. Kelly nails his colours bravely to the mast: its corollary, that the Cappadocian Fathers and St. Augustine were chiefly responsible for the ultimate formulation of Trinitarian orthodoxy, is stated at the outset of a chapter entitled 'The Doctrine of the Trinity', which begins with St. Athanasius's third exile in 356.

Besides doing justice to St. Augustine as a Trinitarian thinker, Dr. Kelly deals with the Pelagian Controversy, and gives a full and not uncritical estimate of his thinking about grace and predestination. The post-Nicene part of the book also contains particularly important and satisfying discussions of redemption, the church and

the sacraments. Dr. Kelly ends with an epilogue devoted to the Christian hope, as expressed in the ideas of the early church about the last things, the resurrection of the body and eternal life.

It can safely be said that this will be the standard work for many years to come on the early history of Christian doctrine. It will be indispensable for students in our universities and theological colleges: But on account of its conciseness and of the sure judgement which everywhere controls the lucid exposition, it will be best appreciated, and most fruitfully used, by those who already have some knowledge of the subject, or who wish to inform their minds after some years of mature Christian thought. By current standards reasonably priced, it is a book which everyone who has studied theology in the past will want on his shelves for reading and reference. The general reader will find it a valuable guide to the thought of the creeds. For Aularians, it will have the added savour that the tones of a familiar voice echo in the cadences of every page.

H.E.J.C. THE ENDOWMENT FUND the appeal for the Endowment Fund has continued to make steady, if somewhat unspectacular progress.

Gifts, Deeds of Covenant or Bankers' Orders have been received from eighteen new subscribers. By 3I St July, when the Hall books were closed, the total receipts for the financial year, including tax recovered, amounted to £938. us. 4d. As the Fund stood at £9,892.

5s. id. at the end of the previous financial year, this means that it has now reached the grand total of £rn,830. 16s. 5d.

Below is attached a list of subscribers whose subscriptions or gifts had been paid into Lloyd's Bank Ltd., Oxford, by 31st July. An asterisk against a name indicates that the subscriber has paid by Banker's Order, and a dagger that he has made a single gift-in several cases a gift annually repeated; all the remainder have completed Deeds of Covenant. It is hoped that if any subscriber's name has by an oversight been omitted, he will at once communicate with the Bursary Clerk. Needless to say, the gratitude of the Hall goes out in fullest measure to all who have so generously contributed. . While no special appeal is being included with the present issue of the Magazine, it is earnestly hoped that old members who are not already subscribers will seriously consider whether they should n<:>t begin to contribute to this all-important Fw1d. The future development of the Hall in every direction, as well as its general consolidation, depends on a constant inflow of fresh money, for only so can the lack of endowment from which it so grievously suffers be compensated. Anyone who is interested should communicate with the Principal, who will gladly supply him with appropriate forms.

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MICHAELMAS TERM Scholars: Bean, John Duncan (Kent College, Canterbury).

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M.A.: R. J. Southan.

3oth April B.A.: J. E. Bayliss, *M. A. Nightingale.

M.A.: T. E. F. Coulson, *J. T. Hollin, *G. A. Moss, *M.A. Robson, R. W. M. Thompson, *D. R. White.

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6th]une B.A.:

P. D. Bailey, A. J. Hall, R. S. Hurren, J. Maddison, A. M. Mathieson, P.H. R. Mercer, B. K. Poulteney, R. F. Reynolds, K. L. Suddaby.

B.A.& M.A.: M. Milliken.

M.A.: *A. B. Curry, S. D. Graham, *T. G. Keithly, J. A. Nash, M. J. Ockendon, P. G. Tudor, *J. A. Webber.

25th June B.A. H.J. Davies, R. 0. D. Hughes, G. P. T. Whurr.

B.A.& M.A.: J. H. A. Godwin.

M.A.: J. D. Anthony, J. Doctorow, *G. J. Insley, *R. C. Poston, *E. Rhodes, *A. Shepherd.

D.Phil. & M.A.: R. Turner. nth July B.A.: M.A.:

B. W. Atkins.

D. C. Davies, C.R. George, *P. E. M. Holmes, P. D. Lawrence, J. C. Palmer, *P. L. Poel, B. F. Pritchard, M.W.Wood.

ISt August B.A.: C. J. Lawless, *M. G. Lewis, J. C. Markwick, A. Page, ' R. S. Paul, M. P. Reynolds, K. H. Ross, R. M. Siedle, A. D. 0. Williams.

M.A.: *P. J. N. Cox, *W. Hardy, *I. F. Mcintosh.

D.Phil.: *R. B. Mitchell. *In Absence

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AULARIAN ASSOCIATION BALANCE SHEET AS AT 3oth APRIL, 1959 LIABILITIES ACCUMULATED FUNDS

£

s. d.

£

s. d.

General Fund Balance as at 30.4.58

2715

9 9

Less excess of Expenditure over .....

0

-..J

Income for year to date

248 12 4 2466 17

5

Publication Fund Balance as at 30.4.58

Add Royalties

141 4

5 3 0 0 145

5 3

Old Library Fund Balance as at 30.4.58

49 12

6

£2661 15

2

ASSETS INVESTMENTS AT COST 3! % Defence Bonds Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society National Savings CASH Lloyds Bank Limited Current a/c

£ 1000

s. d.

0

0

1400 0 0 100 0 0 161 15

2

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3oth APRIL, 1959

£

INCOME

Membership Subscriptions Amrnal Payments Composition Receipts Activities Fund

3! % D~fence Bond Interest ....

0

Cheltenham and Glo11cester B1.1ilding Society Interest Excess of Expenditure over Income carried to balance sheet

s. d.

11 12 6 933 13 4 I2 1 o

957 35

6

I0

0

0

44 18 4 248 12 4

00

EXPENDITURE

Magazine 1957-58 Directory 1958 Grant to Scholarship Fund Grant to Sports Grant Ftmd Grant to Principal's Discretionary Fund Grant towards binding Law Reports Three silver tankards to commemorate sporting achievements Income Tax Printing Postages Cheque Book

s. d.

0 0 17 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

79 15 14 17 I 5 48 18 4

0 6 6

0 0

£1285 17 6

£1285 17 6

J. Rth Jime, 1959

£ 274 216 400 100 50 100

S. A. PORTER Hon. Auditor J.B. ALLEN Ho11. Treasurer

PRINTED AT THll HOLYWBLL PRll8S ALl"RllD STRllllT OXFORD

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