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Vol,. XX.
OCTOBER, 1909.
No. 192
SCHOOL LETTER. E have come once more—eheu fugaces .1— to the beginning of another school year, which we hope will be prosperous in every way. We are sorry to miss old faces but this is the Term when the School has annually to deplore the loss of many of its prominent members. We wish them every success in their future careers and, are glad to welcome those who have come to fill up our ranks. Our good wishes to A. E. Schroeder and his " merrie men " for a successful season ! his task seems likely to be difficult, owing to the lack of ' backs' in the School. Still, though the team was in very poor form in the first half of the Old Boys' match, they played a much keener game in the second half. That they are in good training was shown by the way they improved towards the end of the game and this is no doubt due to a great extent to the help which Mr. Tendall has been giving them in their practices. The Pageant interrupted the school work for a short time at the end of last term, but we are proud to think we took so prominent a part in it. It is now a thing of the past though there are still many traces of it. The Museum Gardens have not yet recovered their former glories; and, in the School, echoes of the Triumph Song and the Carmen may still be heard floating down the corridors, prompted by the musical memory of some ardent chorister, while, in Mr. Walker's form-room, the Banner awakes sweet memories in the mind of the would-be mathematician. On October 2nd, Mr. Symmons, of Debenham & Co., very kindly gave us the first opportunity of seeing his lantern slides of the Pageant. They were much appreciated, especially those in which members of the School were portrayed.
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" OLD PETERITE " NOTICES. The Old Boys' Match will take place on Tuesday, December 21st, instead of Saturday, Dec. 18th, as on the fixture cards. Those wishing to play should write to H. C. Scott, Esq. (0.P.), St. Peter's Grove, York. The Old Boys' Dinner will be on Wednesday, December 22nd. Those wishing to attend should write to the same address, or to A. Peters, Esq. (O.P.), Rosenlaui, The Avenue, Clifton, York.
PRIZE-GIVING. The Prize-giving was held, by the wish of the Bishop of Bristol, in Pageant Costume, the Dean of York presiding. The Headmaster, at the outset, announced the following awards : Leaving Exhibition : J. A. Molony ([5o per annum for three years); Foundation Scholarship : H. A. Lees ; Free Scholarship : A. D. Trotter ; Hey Scholarship : W. H. Haynes. The list of honours for the year is as follows : J. A. Molony, History Exhibition, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge ; W. Ingham, Goldsmiths Exhibition (classics), Cambridge ; J. D. Wells, Civil Service (junior clerkship) ; J. H. B. Sullivan, Choral Exhibition (tenor), Christ's College, Cambridge ; I. M. Smith, Proxime Accessit, Choral Exhibition (bass), Caius College, Cambridge. The honours gained by old scholars of the school during the year were : D. NV: Roy, F.R.C.S. ; W. H. Crosthwaite, F.R.G.S. ; G. Edmundson, Ford Lecturer in Oxford University ; Rev. H. H. Williams, Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Llandaff and select preacher in Oxford University ; C. F. C. Padel, Headmaster of Ashby-de-la-Zouche ; Sir Frank Swetenham, Chairman of the Committee of Investigation into the finances and administration of Mauritius. It was not the custom, continued the Headmaster, to read a report of the year's work, but he generally supplemented the list of awards with a few remarks. The three top boys of the school were all young, and as they would be there for some time yet he hoped they had before them a still greater number of satisfactory honours. Out of a choir
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which contained only five tenors and basses, two had either got or qualified for choral exhibitions, and there were others who might do the same. It was not the fir.,t time they had secured choral exhibitions, and that was great testimony to the keenness of the school and to the splendid work of the organist and choirmaster (Mr. Tendall). A list of honours, however, was not a real test of the work for which the school existed—the training of the average boy. He felt very strongly himself that teachers were not doing their duty when they devoted themselves to the clever boys. They must endeavour to enable the average boy to make the best of himself. They had had during the year the maximum number of boys in the school for 15 or 20 years past. The health of the school had been splendid during the year. One thing which gave him the utmost satisfaction was the growing power of self-government throughout the school. He had never had a more trustworthy body of monitors, and it was with great satisfaction that he watched the growing sense of responsibility extending from top to bottom of the school and right through the preparatory school. That sense of responsibility enabled them to live as a corporate body, all working together for a common end instead of being antagonists divided into hostile camps. In conclusion the Headmaster paid a high tribute to the work of his staff, and said that the school banner carried in the York Historic Pageant, was entirely the work of his colleague, Mr. Walker, even to the pole and the sewing on of the gold braid. The Carmen sung by the boys was the work of the Bishop of Bristol, who spent a long time in writing it, and the music was composed by Mr. Tendall. The costumes worn by the boys that day represented accurately the dress of school boys in the eighth century, when the school was founded. They were as faithful a representation as possible of the dress worn by the scholars at the first prize day at St. Peter's School. The DEAN OF YORK, in introducing the Bishop of Bristol, said his mind went back to the dark night when the south-western tower of the Minster was a blaze of flame. The choir had been burnt down some years before and scarcely restored ; and then,
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through the folly of a labourer the belfrey and south-western tower was set on fire and the whole building was ablaze. The city was stirred with a feeling of consternation. The streets were thronged with people who pressed in the direction of the Minster, being with difficulty restrained by the troops. From it all emerged a little child carried by his nurse to a place of safety. It was feared that the great tower might come thundering down on Petergate, and the child was hurriedly taken from his warm bed and carried to safety. He looked round that room and saw in that little child the Bishop of Bristol. They felt thankful for that life so preserved to do a great work in the affairs of the Church. The BISHOP OF BRISTOL, in a short address to the scholars, recalled the time when he got prizes at that school. He got a prize in his first half-year ; he was not first in anything, but third in everything ; but when all the thirds were added together he came off just a little less than anybody else. Touching some cricket bags on the table, the Bishop said the Dean, probably remembering his (the speaker's) sermon at the Minster last Sunday, asked if they contained sermons. Continuing, he asked permission to add one detail to the Dean's story. On that night his mother was away at a concert. Hearing that the Minster was burning she made off home, but could not get past the troops. She told an officer who stopped her that she had seven children there at home all alone, and begged him to let her pass. Ile answered " No, madam ; my orders are precise. I cannot let anyone pass." But he said it so gently that she stooped down, ducked under the horse, and got away on the other side. Turning then to other matters, the Bishop said he was glad to hear the Headmaster give expression to the principle that a school like that, and indeed all schools, ought to attend chiefly to the training of the average boy. The real success of a school in the world depended very much more on the average boy and the way in which he performed his duty in life than upon a few stars who went out, took up big positions, and so on, but who were not playing some stable, consistent, sturdy part in the general working of the world. The real work of the world rested not with a few stars, but with what he might call the
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mass of well-educated, level-headed, sturdy, stable middle-class. The great lesson that forced itself upon him as lie got older was that the business of a boy should be to become a useful man. Some people were pushed up into high positions whether they liked it or not, but a high position was not, as some people imagined it to be, a position of great happiness. It was a position of great responsibilities and deep anxieties, and the fact that it was high took a man rather out of the ordinary happiness of family life, which he was constantly compelled to leave, or of social life, which again lie was too busy to attend to. The useful man, seeking to be useful, gathered around him streams of happiness and kindliness. There was a pleasant atmosphere about the useful man, which the man in a high position missed very much indeed. The older he got the more unwilling he was to say a single cynical word to any man or boy. A great many old people tended to be very cynical, and their cynicism was very crushing to young people. Who did not know the old fellow who would meet a youthful burst of enthusiasm with the words " Wait till you get to be my age, my boy, and you won't say that." He was quite the other way ; so was the Dean. His conviction was that the world was all the better for those who prepared themselves to be useful and were guided by moral principles, and particularly religious principles. The sorrows and distresses of life did not strike down a man who so lived as they did less worthy people. If they did hear old people say anything cynical, or if they read in books cynical remarks, he counselled them not to pay heed to them for a moment. In conclusion, the Bishop said he would like to add a word to those who were going to other places of learning. In his time that school had a considerable proportion of successes up in Cambridge and a certain number at Oxford. When he went there he found that to come from St. Peter's School at York was in itself an introduction. The school was known there. And the scholars were not all duffers. The Bishop recalled the fact that he himself once at cricket made the longest hit at Cambridge up to that time, and ran nine for it. At the British Association Meeting in York two years ago he went to hear a lecture on radium, in the department
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of physics, and in a particular part of the room there was a seat to hold three. He sat down. Presently he was joined by another man, and then by a third, and the)' discovered that they were all at school together at St. Peter's. With dry humour the Bishop then complimented the boys on the agility they displayed in climbing over the benches when coming forward to receive their prizes, showing what Gregory the Great thought was so charming, the shapeliness of their limbs.
PRIZE LIST. The Archbishop of York's Prize for Classics : R. T. Brode. The Dean of York's Prize for Mathematics : E. Benson. The Bishop of Bristol's Prize for Divinity : R. D. Foster. Dr. Hallow's Prize for History : I. A. E. Schroeder ; 2. J. A. Molony. Headmaster's Prize for Latin Prose : A. E. Schroeder. Headmaster's Prize for Latin Verse : I. A. E. Schroeder ; 2. A. J. Peters. Old Boys' Reading Prize : Senior, I. M. Smith and J. H. B. Sullivan, equal ; Junior, G. A. Hyde. Mr. and Mrs. Wells' French Prize : E. Benson. Whytehead Divinity Prizes : Lower V. Classical, H. E. K. Reynolds ; V. Modern, E. Benson ; IV. Classical, H. Hopkins ; Lower School, P. Henty. Form Prizes : VI., A. J. Peters ; Upper V. Classical, A. W. Jackson ; Lower V. Classical, H. E. K. Reynolds; V. Modern, E. Benson ; IV. Classical, H. Hopkins ; Lower School, I. J. Mould ; 2. H. B. Greenwood. Mathematics : Divisions i and 2, second prize, F. Ferguson ; Division 3, B. M. Smith ; 4, H. Hopkins ; 5, J. Mould. Science : Form V., C. C. Taylor ; IV., R. R. Hicks ; Lower School, T. S. Pick.
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History : Form V., W. V. Lawton ; IV., H. Hopkins ; Lower School, r. T. S. Pick, 2. P. Henty. Music : 1. J. H. B. Sullivan ; 2. I. M. Smith and R. D. Foster. Drawing : Form V. Mod., K. Norwood ; IV., R. F. J. Strange ; Lower School, J. C. Foster. Miss Husband's prizes for Photography (general), G. H. Mills ; (natural history), G. G. Wallace. Painting : 1, J. C. Foster ; 2, D. Fernandes. Batting Average.—J. H. B. Sullivan (46). Bowling Average.—C. C. Taylor (37 wickets at 12 runs per wicket). South Kensington Certificates for Model Drawing : ist Class, C. G. Barraclough ; ist Class, R. F. J. Strange ; and Class, W. V. Lawton. PREPARATORY SCHOOL (ST. OLAVE 7 S).
Upper School, Division I. A. C. Fairbank, term and examination ; 0. V. Beale, Latin ; S. Wilson, mathematics ; 0. T. Durrant, French ; R. A. Harpley, English ; J. C. Stainthorpe, divinity. Division II. G. L. Newman, term and Examination ; W. G. Yeoman, Latin ; G. H. Jennings Bramley, English. Lower School, Division I. H. D. Badger, rank ; J. M. Ferguson, arithmetic ; A. B. Radford, divinity. Division II. R. H. Metcalfe, rank ; H. H. Oxley, English ; K. G. Chilman, arithmetic ; C. Y. Fisher, reading. Division III. C. E. Birks and H. R. Hardcastle. Division IV. D. S. Thirsk ; music, S. Wilson. Cricket: Batting, H. M. L. Durrant ; bowling, 0. T. Durrant. AlcuinHouse : R. G. deLittle, term and examination ; K. Poad, Latin ; W. Weston, mathematics. SWIMMING SPORTS.
One Length (senior).—r, A. J. Peters ; 2, C. C. Taylor. Two Lengths (senior).—i, A. J. Peters ; z, C. C. Taylor. Quarter Mile (open).—I, A. J. Peters ; z, L. G. Barry ; 3, L. F. Wood. Diving (senior).-1, C. C. Taylor ; 2, P. A. W. Richards. Two Lengths (junior).—i, P. A. W. Richards ; 2, L. G. Barry. Six Lengths (junior).-1, L. F. Wood ; z, W. H. Farquharson. Diving (junior).—i, P. A. W. Richards ; z, L. F. Wood.
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THE YORK PAGEANT.
VRBI EBORACO ET SCHOLAE S. PETRI DEDICAT
Pulchra venit hora cum Mundus omnis iterat Schola Petri floreat, Floreat Eboracum.' Sol per iter prodiit Paene jam bis milies Ex quo magis in dies Urbs superba floruit. Constantini saeculo Inclita jam creverat ; Paene aboleverat Rex Normannus odio. Sed vices contrarias Fortis nunquam pertimet ; Salva semper exiett Per fortunas varias.
J. F. D. Tuque, Schola, Saxonum Vigens e temporibus, Formas piis moribus Puerorum ingenium. Tempus non defodiet Laudes Vrbis et Scholae; Sanctus Petrus optime Semper vos custodiet. 0 Triumphe, gloriae, Ne recludas ostium ; Pereat vis hostium, Fulge, lux adoreae ! IV. Kal. Sext. A.S. MCMIX.
Exiet—Hand imprudens while' ; optimus Horatius (quo nil accuratius) peccat hoc vocabulo, cf, Carm. " Merses profundo, pulcrior evenit," ubi a nonnullis legitur exiet.
THE YORK PAGEANT. A BRIEF HISTORICAL SURVEY. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid, and a city that is on the natural route between North and South, between London and Edinburgh— with a navigable river flowing through it—cannot fail to play an important part in history. Such is the city of York, and the Pageant which its citizens, with the assistance of many members of leading Yorkshire families, are to present during the week ending with July 31st, is practically a Pageant of English History. We may leave the pre-historic period to the specialist, and begin our story with the coming of the Romans. Yorkshiremen have always been downright, and have not seldom called for the heavy hand of authority to keep them in order. The Brigantes, whom
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the Romans found on the spot, were of the same character and required, like the Ordovices of North Wales, and the Silures of South Wales, the presence of a Roman legion to ensure peace and quietness. The Roman road and the Roman city, with its baths and fortifications, necessarily came after the Roman legion—and then what a roll call of soldiers and rulers follows! Not all men of the highest type of Roman greatness, but all men who have left a name behind them for good or evil. Hear them : Ostorius Scapula, Agricola, who, thanks to his son-in-law, and vales sacer,' Tacitus, is the most intimately known to us, Adrian, Severus, Caracalla, and Geta, Constantine the Great ! And when the needs of Rome drew her soldiers from Britain for the defence of frontiers nearer home, we have another roll of fame, that of the English Kings and Churchmen who made the history of their own day so strenuously ; Edwin and the lady Ethelburga, Oswin, " a vigorous ruler and zealous Christian " (he it was who very wisely decided to follow the Roman observance of Easter, rather than that of the followers of Columba, who had evangelised Northumbria); Eadbert (whose brother, Archbishop Egbert, founded St. Peter's School), the conqueror of Strathclyde ; Athelstane, the Victor of Brunanburgh, where he subdued Anlaf, King of the Danes of Ireland, accompanied by a great host of Vikings, Constantine, King of the Scots ; and Owen, King of Cumbria ; Siward, the avenger of the murdered Duncan ; Tostig, whose ally, Harold Hardrada, required, or at any rate was offered, seven feet of English earth for his grave ; Harold, the son of Godwin, and the hero of Stamford Bridge ; and the ChurchmenPaulinus, the sainted Aidan, and the learned Alcuin, who, after making the School of York famous, became Charlemagne's Minister of Education, and spread the renown of his beloved school and city through Europe. We have said nothing of the Danes, who found the Humber and the Ouse so convenient a highway for their dreaded warships, and who have left their indelible mark on the history of Yorkshire, as of England further south. Then William the Norman, dark, stern, inscrutable, cruel, though according to his lights a just man, dominates the story. He
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pardons the Yorkshiremen, but on their rebelling again ravages with merciless cruelty, to which his own Doomsday Book bears undying witness, the whole district between the Humber and the Tees. And though we hate his ruthlessness, who does not admire the soldier who, by sheer will-power, led his recalcitrant mercenaries from York to Chester across the pathless woods and morasses of the Pennine Chain in the depth of winter ? So to Stephen, Thurstan the Archbishop, and the Victory of Northallerton, the famous battle of the Standard, when the banners of St. Peter of York, St. John of Beverley, and St. Wilfrid of Ripon, led the English to victory over their neighbours, those active and pertinacious plunderers, the Scots. Then follows the Massacre of the Jews, which fills the darkest page in the history of York. Next come Edward the Second, and his mate " the she-wolf of France," and Despenser the younger, and Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, with the shame and sorrow of the white battle of Mytonon-Swale ; and the land is not thoroughly cleansed of the Scots till his warrior son, Edward III., with the help of the English archers—soon to be the terror of other lands—wins the battle of Halidon Hill, and the English recover their self-respect. The Pageant shows us his meeting with his youthful bride, Philippa of Hainault. Then Richard II. bestows on the Chief Citizen of York the coveted title of Lord Mayor, and loses his throne to Henry IV., who sends a thrill of horror through England and Europe by the execution of Archbishop Scrope. For thirty years England suffers from the Wars of the Roses, and the Palm Sunday of 14.61 sees through drifting snowstorms the defeat of the Lancastrians on the bloody hillside of Towton, the most sanguinary of all English-stricken fields ; for the Yorkists entered the battle filled with fury after their long march from the south through their own lands and villages which the Lancastrians had wasted with fire and sword, while the Lancastrians, with the flooded river Cock in their rear, fought with desperation. Margaret of Anjou must flee from the ancient city, with but a handful of attendants, and Edward IV. will take down his father's head from Micklegate Bar and replace it with those of the Earls of Devon
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and Wiltshire. Another Yorkist King, Richard III., visits the city ; and so we pass on to Henry VIII. and the famous Pilgrimage of Grace of 1536, when Robert Aske and his friends were cheated by the Duke of Norfolk and Henry VIII.. as unscrupulously as Archbishop Scrope had been by the Earl of Westmoreland on Shipton Moor in 1405. The Tudors and their glories gone, James I., in full belief of the divine right of Kings, and claiming for his own folly more than had been conceded by a willing nation to the tact and wisdom of Elizabeth, passes to the promised land upon which his hopes had been so long fixed, and where he was destined to experience so much disappointment. The Pageant closes with the memorable battle of Marston Moor (1644) and the surrender of York to the Parliamentarians, but not before Charles I. has been presented to us with his beautiful wife and evil genius, if report be true, Henrietta Maria, the daughter of that Henry of Navarre who had dubbed James I. " the wisest fool in Christendom." We see, too, the versatile and chivalrous Rupert, whose ability as a general is only now receiving justice at the hands of historians. The last figures of the long and glorious roll of fame to pass away into the deep shadows of the fragrant lime trees and the hawthorns and elms that border the arena, backed by the still stately ruin of the nave wall of the Abbey Church of St. Mary, are Lord Fairfax, Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Earl of Manchester. And so the sun goes down and leaves us—like Tennyson's Sir Bedivere when he was parted from King Arthur—" revolving many memories "—memories of great names, great deeds, and great causes. Two points strike us particularly as we look back upon the Pageant : one is how great is the part which the Church has played, not only in the history of the city of St. Peter, but in the larger story of our country ; the other is that, with the exception of Caedmon, no great poet plays a part in the Pageant, though the scenes of its wonderful drama are full not only of eventful history, but of the richest, the most inspiring, and. the most
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The sound of the above words is very familiar to us, especially to those who acted in the scene depicting the foundation of the school. The school is amongst the lucky few who will be able to say that they took part in one of the greatest Pageants. Those who acted in the episode must have felt a little nervous and yet quite important as they marched on to the arena before thousands of spectators and there upheld the honour of the school. Their anxieties were many, especially one day when at least three of the principal actors arrived just as the last call-bell sounded. But all the performances went smoothly and we may congratulate the performers, and especially the principals, on the way they acted. The story of the episode was as follows :— We see the meeting of King Eadbert and Archbishop Ecgbert. They complain to each other, the King saying that he is " tired of ruling " and wishes to give up his kingdom, whilst the Archbishop says that his work prospers but ill, and that " Holy living is little thought of" in his province. We get a proof of this immediately, for two sturdy peasants are seen quarreling amongst the crowd, but being brought before the King their dispute is quickly and amicably settled. On this the King advises that a school should be founded, and the Archbishop, gladly welcoming the suggestion, turns to the Acolytes following him saying that they shall be his first pupils. The King, struck by the eager looks of one of the boys, asks his name. " Alcuin," he is told by the boy is the name by which his playmates call him, and thus we get a glimpse of that great scholar who made St. Peter's School famous by his learning and wisdom. Here the scene closes. Amongst all the goodly array of Kings in the Pageant it would have been impossible to find a more noble figure than Mr. Yeld as King Eadbert, or one who more thoroughly looked ' the part. The Headmaster, too, did not in the slightest degree fall short of our high ideas of Ecgbert, our Founder. Mr. Richards' acting in the part of Hugh, the brawling citizen, was splendid, and he delighted the audience every day with his comical representation
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of the part. He was ably backed up by I. M. Smith as Aylwin, the other brawler, and the whole quarrel was extremely life-like. We are sure that no Archbishop has ever had a following of priests so pious and holy, at least so far as looks go, than had Ecgbert, and the nobles and warmers attending the King were indeed a formidable bodyguard. We give below a full list of characters. Rev. E. C. Owen Archbishop Ecgbert • • G. Yeld, Esq. •• King Eadbert Rev. A. W. Richards fl ugh two brawling citizens .• I. M. Smith Aylwin .. J. T. Grey, Esq., L. Proctor, Esq., •• Nobles A. E. Schroeder, R. D. Foster. C. C. Taylor, A. C. B. Molony, R. F. Strange, Warmen A. J. Peters, A. 0. Lacy, R. T. Brode, G. G. Wallace, D. L. Fernandes, B. Northcote. J. H. B. Sullivan, J. A. Molony, Priests . J. L. Heath, M. Weeks. J. F. Northcote (Alcuin), R. M. Baskett, E. H. •• Acolytes Nledhurst, J. Mould, H. E. K. Reynolds, A. K. Proctor.
DYING DAY. At even, when old Sun, high-journeying, Has fallen to the level of our sight, And, thro' his grand extravagance of light, Bids all the birds his parting hymn to sing ; Then have I greater wealth than any king, For throned in fancy at my spirit's height I watch the dusk, slow-moving twilight bring From all around the curtain of the night. Now, when the heavens are wrapt in sombre shades Still in the west is seen the dying glow Of evening's camp-fire; And ere yet it fades The bolder lights of Heaven begin to show— Then all the stars are eyes of angel-maids, And Love's clear stream the stronger seems to flow.
Amo !
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CRICKET RETROSPECT. The cricket season of 1909 can be looked back upon as a successful one—in reality a more successful one than the figures show. We had the satisfaction of beating Pocklington, Hymer's, Crowther's, and Romany, and though defeated by Durham twice, we should, had time allowed, in all probability have beaten Bootham twice ; while our match with Ampleforth was only lost by one wicket. The feature of the season has been the cricket of J. H. B. Sullivan. He has batted magnificently, and considering the wet season his average is very fine. As a bowler and field he has been most useful, and as Captain he has had a large share in the successes we have had. The fielding of the team has been excellent—particularly that of Sullivan, Taylor, and Peters, while Lacy developed into a very capable wicket-keep. Everyone showed a remarkable keenness which made for success, and shows promise for the future. The Second Eleven achieved a notable success in beating Bootham Second Eleven. FIRST XI. CHARACTERS. J. H. B. SULLIVAN. Has made a first-rate Captain. Good field, useful fast bowler, and fine bat. Ought to be heard of in the future, as he has all the strokes of a first class cricketer. Our success has been largely due to him. "A. J. PETERS. Has been disappointing as a bat, though he has played several useful innings. Must remember not to draw away from the wicket. Fair bowler ; excellent field, especially in the slips. *C. C. TAYLOR. A good slow bowler, with break both ways. Dashing bat, and good field at point. A most useful all-round player. A. 0. LACY. Good bat, and would be better if he held his bat closer to his legs ; at present he " lofts" them too much on the off. Has kept wicket better to the fast bowling than to the slow.
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Good steady medium pace bowler—had one phenomenal success. With better luck would have had a better analysis. *D. L. FERNANDES. Promising bat, rather stiff, but can hit well. Uncertain field with a quick return. *W. V. LAWTON. A good hitting bat, who got runs when wanted, also got wickets when wanted. F. FERGUSON. Bats in good style, but hardly fulfilled expectations. Should be good next year. G. G. WALLACE. Promising hat, and improved field. G. H. MILLS. Plays straight and hard and should improve. K. NORWOOD. Promising slow left-hand bowler. Fair bat and keen field. *R. D. FOSTER.
* Signifies 1st XI. colours.
SECOND XI. CHARACTERS. *B. C. CAMM. As a bat he has perhaps been the most successful on the side, but he makes all his strokes stiffly and he must learn to use his wrists. A good field. *P. HENTY. He did not quite come up to expectations in batting. He bowled extremely well in a few matches and was the most consistent of the attack. *C. L. ARMSTRONG. Though small he has good style and will improve when he gets more strength. A keen field. *L. F. WooD. When he likes he is a good bat, but he often throws away his wicket by careless strokes. He will certainly improve, if he perseveres. A poor field. *W. R. WRAY. His batting has not been good, but he too will doubtless improve when he gets older. He is a smart field. *A. E. SCHROEDER. He captained the team with great keenness. He made runs at times, but has no defence. A safe field. E. H. MEDHURST. He is very young but has quite an idea of batting. His strokes on the off side especially are good. He has been useful in the attack sometimes. H. HOPKINS. The most promising bowler on the side. He has an easy action, but must learn to control his length. A poor bat and field,
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He has been disappointing as a batsman. He does not stand up to the bowling. His bowling might be good, but he is erratic at present. G. W. HARGREAVES. Kept wicket with some success. He is young and should do well. His batting has no style as yet, and he must cure himself of the habit of drawing away. R. M. BASKETT. A sturdy bat with a fairly good defence, but he has not much idea of punishing a loose ball. A keen field. W. H. HAYNES.
The following also played : J. A. Molony, I. M. Smith, R. T. Brode, H. R. K. Webb, K. Shann, and T. M. Darling. Signifies znd XI. colours.
FOOTBALL FIXTURES. President : REV. E. C. OWEN. Captain : A. E. SCHROEDER.
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Leeds G.S. Ripon G.S. Durham School Leeds G.S. Ripon G.S.
Groun Res' 11 away lost home away home away
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FOOTBALL PROSPECTS. This season our prospects seem promising. We have six colours left—two forwards and four backs—and several candidates of the last season's team. The forwards, at the present moment, though the pack is light, are energetic and persevering. Their scrumming is fairly successful, and they are getting to use their feet more. Yet they have to bear in mind that they can go harder, and must follow the ball always. We are lucky in retaining two colours as our half-backs, and no apprehension need be felt in their respect. The threequarter line however, is not so encouraging. Their combination is slow and weak in places, and ball passing somewhat undecided. Throughout the team, the tackling is poor. Forwards and backs alike, have still to learn the lesson of "going low" for their man, and bringing him down smartly. They must also (and this applies to the whole team) mark their men more carefully, and get on them quickly. With continued practice, we have no doubt that all these points will improve. Owing to the fact that the first match was dated only ten days from the beginning of the term, a more vigorous system of training had to be resorted to, and the team has responded well. Though badly beaten in the first match against the Old Boys, the result is distinctly encouraging. The O.P. team was exceptionally strong, yet, when we had got together in the second half we more than held our own, scoring five points to
the O. P.'s three.
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The Second XV. ought to be good this year. The forwards are heavy, and they have all had some experience. Yet they suffer from lack of pace. The backs show combination, and in some cases, exceptional talent for tackling. Mr. Tendall is very kindly coaching the team this year, and our heartiest thanks go to him for his untiring energy and increasing interest in the football of the school.
FOOTBALL. ST. PETER'S v. OLD PETERITES.
Played on the school ground on October znd. The school played down hill and Colley kicked off for the Old Peterites, who immediately carried play into the home 252 There some scrambling play resulted in two free-kicks to the school. Despite this they were forced to touch down, and from the drop-out the Old Peterite backs combined splendidly and Wood scored, the try being converted. Wood again got away, but was well collared by Lawton. The Old Peterites continued to press and Richards scored. The goal was kicked. After this the opposing backs frequently broke through and at half-time the score stood at 32—o. The second half produced a more even game. The forwards played with more dash and after some good dribbling in which Molony and Ferguson were prominent they brought play into their opponents' 252 Then the ball went from the scrum to Taylor, who made a good opening for Fernandes to score. Lawton converted. After this the Old Peterites pressed and Price Jones and Peters relieved for the school. Just on time Richards scored again. Score : Old Peterites, 35 pts. ; School, 5 pts. W. Ingham, R. M. Wood, G. D. Shann, M. Pick ; half-backs, M. W. Peters, C. W. Richards ; forwards, N. T. Crombie (capt.), H. C. Scott, P. H. Yeld, W. H. Colley, M. T. Clegg, J. F. Wallace, R. D. Foster, I. M. Smith. OLD PETERITES.—Threequariers,
VALETE.
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SCHOOL.—Full-back, W. V. Lawton ; threequariers, C. C. Taylor, R. F. Strange, D. L. Fernandes, L. F. Wood ; half-backs, A. 0. Lacy, A. J. Peters ; forwards, A. E. Schroeder, A. C. B. Molony. G. G. Wallace, R. T. Brode, H. Price Jones, L. G. Barry, L. F. Jones, F. E. Ferguson.
VALETE. R. D. FOSTER. Dayboy. Entered Jan., [901. VI. Classical. Head Monitor. r st XV. 1906-09. Captain of boating. House Fives Colours, 1909. Choir. IV., 1908. Dayboys IV., 1909. Bishop of Bristol's Prize for Divinity, 1909. House. Entered May, 1905. VI. Classical. I. M. SMITH. Monitor. Head of the House. 1st XV. 1908-09. Editor of
Peierite.
House. Entered Sept., 1902. Re-entered J. A. MOLONY. Jan., 1908. VI. Classical. Monitor. i st XV. 1908-09. Editor of Peterik. Librarian. Dr. Hallows' Prize for History, 1909. Open History Exhibition at Sydney Sussex, Cambridge. J. H. B. SULLIVAN. Dayboy. Entered May, 1899. Re-entered Sept., 1907. VI. Classical. Monitor. ist XV. 1907-09. 1st XI. Captain, 1909. Fives Captain, 1909. Dayboys IV., 1908-9. 1908-9. Victor Ludorum, 1909. Choir. Choral Exhibition at Christ's College, Cambridge. House. Entered Sept., 1907. IV. Modern. M. WEEKS. House IV., 1909. A. F. RAMSDEN. House. Entered Sept., 1907. Form III. P. HENTY. House. Entered June, 1908. Form III. znd XI. 1909. A. P. APPLETON. Dayboy. Entered Sept., 1906. Form III. F. E. H. APPLETON. Dayboy. Entered Sept. 1906. Form III.
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STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE.
SALVETE. SCHOOL HOUSE.
DAYBOYS.
VI. Classical H. Price Jones.
IV Classical. J. C. Stainthorpe R. C. Bethell. 0. V. Beale.
Lower V. Classical. C. T. E. Birks. H. W. Hussey.
Form G. T. Fairbank. E. F. Monkman. H. L. Chilman. F. W. Wood. R. A. Harpley. W. S. Allen. G. C. Nelson. H. Richardson. W. C. Chapman. A. D. Foster. G. B. E. Reynolds. A. G. Wilson. C. A. F. Grier.
IV. Classical. 0. T. Durrant. Form 1.11. N. A. Buck. G. B. M. Reed. H. L. Waddington.
STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS & EXPENDITURE JULY 1ST,
1908, TO JUNE 30TH,
1909.
GAMES' CLUB. • s. d. Balance from 19,37-8 Boys' Subscriptions :—
M.T. E.T. S.T.
•.
3, 7
,4-3o 32
0
6 6
30
18
0
93
I0 2
6
o
4124 16 2
s. d. Levelling Cricket Ground . 6 II 18 0 Rent of Football Field 8 Repairs to Fences .. Expenditure in— Io I 6 Football Cricket 38 0 7 2 Hockey 7 71 6 .. I I2 Rowing Sports .. • • 6 I o 1 O o Gymnasium Swimming • 0 I 0 6 116 II Horse .. St. Olave's Sports O 4 41 Dark Room .. O 4 81 Shooting .. o 8 8k Loss on Sale of Vest .. O 2 I Sundries I 9 8 • • Balance forward .. • 34 1 7 o ‘124
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NOTES AND ITEMS.
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LIBRARY. .. .. Balance in hand Subscriptions :— 6 M.T. .. X.6 E.T. 6 4 6 .. S.T. •• 5 1 7 0
s. d. 8 10 3
18
3
0
£26 13
3
s. d. ,4* s. d. 4 8 6 9 7 II 5 118 6 Morley, Printing .. 1 18 6 Potter, Binding 5 0 0 Loan to Shooting Club 0 2 10 Holtby, Repairs .. .. 10 2 0 Balance .. Sampson.. Do. ..
3 4
£26 13
3
PETERITE. 21
s. d. 6 5
10 Balance from M. T. Clegg.. 0 O. P.Contribution to Dec. '908 18
3 4 9 6 6 II
Balance in hand .. Subscriptions :— M.T. • ,4-3 E.T. .. 3 S.T. .. 3
9 9 5
2 2
0
‘50
6
‘ s. d. H. Morley, Printing .. 9 6 6 .. II 10 0 Do. do. Do. to Dec. 1908 9 15 0 Do. to June, 1909 6 0 6 Balance .. •• • • 13 14 2
450
2
Examined and found correct, R. OBORNE WALKER.
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2
CHAS. A. SWIFT, Hon. Treasurer.
NOTES AND ITEMS. BIRTH.—The wife of the Rev. John Atkins Easten, M.A. (Cantab. and Sask.), (0.P.), on the 4th August, of a son. APPOINTMENTS.—C. F. C. Padel, O.P. (Assistant Master at Marlborough College), to be Head Master of the Grammar School, Ashby-de-la-Zouche. It is an interesting fact that the Rev. J. A. Easten (O.P.), was admitted some time ago to the degree of M.A. (ad eundem) in the newly founded University of Saskatchewan, thus becoming one of the very first graduates and as member of its first Convocation, taking part in the Election of its first Senate.
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NOTES AND ITEMS.
G. A. Fisher (O.P.), passed second into the General Consular Service. P. H. Yeld (O.P.) sailed for Bombay on October 5th to take up an appointment on the Indian Government Railways. A. E. Schroeder and I. M. Smith passed the Higher Certificate in July. C. C. Taylor passed the Army Qualifying Certificate, 1908. E. Benson passed the London Matriculation (and division). W. V. Lawton passed the Architects' Preliminary Examination, 1909. K. Shann and H. E. K. Reynolds have entered the School House. The following are the Monitors this term :A. E. Schroeder. Head Monitor. Secretary of Games' Committee. Captain of Football. C. C. Taylor. Head of the House ; Captain of Shooting. A. J. Peters. Captain of Cricket. Head of the Choir. Editor of the Peterite. Secretary of the Natural History Society. A. C. B. Molony. Librarian. R. T. Brode. Editor of the Pe/el-lie. Head Librarian. J. L. Heath. Librarian. Secretary of Debating Society. A. 0. Lacy. Secretary of Football and Cricket. -The following O.P.'s are playing football at Cambridge: M. T. Clegg, for Jesus College ; W. H. Colley, for Emmanuel College ; M. W. Peters, for Christ's College ; W. Ingham, for Selwyn College ; P. H. Bulmer, for St. Catharine's College ; At Oxford :R. 0. Husband, for Merton College ; A. A. Phillips, for Queen's College.
FOOTBALL.
J. F. Wallace and C. W. Richards have been playing for the York Harlequins.
OBITUARY.
OBITUARY. August 18th, 1909, The Rev. J. E. FARROW (O.P.), Aged 25. July 13th, 1909, DR. CHARLES KIRKBY ROBINSON (O.P.), Aged 83. On Tuesday, July 13th, died at Risplith House near Ripon, his Yorkshire residence, Dr. Charles Kirkby Robinson, Master of St. Catharine's. Born in 1826, he was the eldest son of Charles Robinson, both his father's and his mother's family—the Kirkbys of Acomb—being among the best known in the North Riding. He was educated at St. Peter's School, York, and entered St. Catharine's in 1845, gaining a scholarship in the following year and graduating as 2 2 n d Wrangler in 1849. In 1852 he won the Maitland Prize. He was elected to a Fellowship and from 185o to 1859 served as Assistant Tutor in the College. In the latter year he was appointed Vicar of St. Andrew's the less. As an incumbent he was remarkably successful, and the work he did in Barnwell is yet remembered by its older inhabitants. He took a keen interest in the local government of the borough and it was largely due to his efforts that order was evolved out of municipal chaos, and the relations between University and Town authorities were defined. In 1861 Dr. Philpott became Bishop of Worcester and Mr. Robinson was elected Master of the College, and Canon Residentiary of Norwich. At Norwich his great capacity for business was extremely serviceable to the Chapter, and in the Cathedral itself his artistic skill and reverent spirit enabled him to render the services with singular charm : whilst his sermons were always able and convincing. His fine taste showed itself in his appreciation of Cowper, his love of music and in his rare collection of china and furniture.
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