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THE MANOR. The activities of the Manor during the past term have been by no means uncreditable. In the Rugger House matches we held our own up to the final, when we had a very hard match with the School House, which, although the play was in our favour for the first part of the game, resulted in a defeat by 12-5. In Hockey we have prospects of a very useful House team. In Boating we did not have a place in the final, as we have done in the past two years. but this is hardly surprising as we met the winners in the semi-final round. The House has shown a lively interest in Squash, and several members have entered for the School Championship. In the Cross-country we were not exactly successful : our first three came in 7th, 13th, and 14.th, but as our fourth place was rather disastrous—. But we must not grumble because one House must be last and we heartily congratulate the Grove on their fine performance in winning the Plate.
In the matter of work our efforts have been quite praiseworthy. More than half the House is in " A " block, and nearly half of those are in the VIth Form, and we wish candidates the very best of luck next term in the School and Higher Certificates.
THE JUNIOR SCHOOL. We would not say that the term has been uneventful, but with one or two exceptions the events of the term have been fairly prosaic, that is to say, nothing extraordinary. Up to the time of writing, illness has been kept within bounds and none of the dreaded Easter term epidemics have appeared. Everybody was sorry when the doctor said it was necessary for " Bill " Sykes to have his adenoids out, but he quickly got over it, and in fact seemed to have had a jolly good time ! The Literary Society has continued to flourish ; papers have been read by K. Simpson on " Sugar Beet," L. Atkinson on " British Butterflies," D. Bushell on " Motor Cars," and by C. Perry on " A Naturalist's Nightmare." Mr. Ping showed us a large number of slides of the Yorkshire Coast, Mr. Chilman took us a long walk, fortunately this time by pictures, through " Old York," and Mr. Woodcock gave us another interesting talk on " Insects."
