Chapel

DAY BOYS. VALETE.

R. Barton. 1929-31. B2. 2nd XV, 1930. 2nd XV

Colours, 1930. 1st XV, 1930-31. 1st XV Colours, 1931. 2nd XI, 1930-31. Cadet in O.T.C. D Kirk. 1927-31. B1. 2nd XV, 1930. 2nd XV Colours, 1930. 1st XV, 1930-31. 1st XV Colours, 1931. Cadet in

O.T C F. A. Brown. 1930-31. A3. 2nd XV, 1931. Cadet in O.T.C. E. C. Bean. 1929-31. B1. Cadet in O.T.C. P. H. E. Shouksmith. 1929-31. A3. J. S. Sproule. 1930-31. Bl. Cadet in O.T.C. A. P. Crosk ell. 1929-31. Bl. 2nd XI, 1931. Cadet in

O.T.C.

The following were the preachers for the term :Jan. 24. Septuagesima.-The Headmaster. „ 31. Sexagesima.-Rev. F. H. Barnby. Feb. 7. Quinquagesima. Organ Recital : P. H. Sykes, M.A. „ 14. 1st Sunday in Lent.-Lantern Lecture : Rev. C. C. Bell, M.A., Canon of York. „ 31. 2nd Sunday in Lent.-Address by the Headmaster in Big Hall. „ 28. 3rd Sunday in Lent.-Sacred Music. Mar. 6. 4th Sunday in Lent.-Service at Garrison Church, 10 a.m. „ 13. .5th Sunday in Lent.-10 a.m. * Rev. H. N. Hodd, M.A., 0.P., Curate of Leeds Parish Church. „ 20. Palm Sunday.-Rev. F. H. Barnby. „ 27. Easter Day.-The Headmaster. Tuesday, March 22nd.-School Confirmation. Bishop Heywood of Hull.

* Hodd had a distinguished career at St. Peter's. He was head of the School, Captain of Boats, Hon. Secretary of Football, and Under-Officer in the O.T.C. Besides these athletic achievements at School, he later became a Trial Eight's man at Oxford. His other activities included being head librarian and editor of the " Peterite."

The Rev. Canon C. C. Bell gave a lecture with slides on " The Architecture of York Minster," on Sunday, February 14th, at 8 p.m. He started with a historical introduction to show the development of Christianity in the North of England, thus leading to the foundation of the Minster. This introductory part was somewhat too long perhaps, for it shortened the time for the architecture, but we all had a good grounding when he came to the latter part of his lecture. The slides were excellent in showing every detail, and Canon Bell pointed out the wonders of the Minster in. a very interesting manner. He gave us all the information that is essential to enable one to appreciate the Minster properly. We hope the " howler " of the examination candidate from this school, who admitted that he could not attempt an essay on an English Cathedral, will not be repeated.

On Sunday evening, February 28th, there was a recital of Bach and Handel Sacred Music in the Chapel. The orchestra was present, though not quite in full strength. The Bach Church CantataS were performed quite successfully and the choir did their bit well, but the school considered this part of the programme rather above their heads, and appreciated it more with their eyes than ears. " He shall feed His Flock " was easily the best item. Miss E. C. M. Toyne sang this beautifully, and the orchestra made an effective accompaniment, playing very softly with muted strings. The descant, sung by Miss Toyne, to " Praise to the Holiest " was also effective.

The Overture to " Jeptha " went well, but called for a more accomplished orchestra, as it was rather too much for some of the violinists. The Handel items were, in fact, more suited to the school's taste, though the Bach Cantatas were performed well. The programme is given below.

PROGRAMME.

Music by J. S. Bach (1685-1750), and Handel (1685-1759). 1. Overture " Jeptha " Handel 2. Extended Chorale " Jesu, Joy of man's desiring " Bach 3. Recitative and Aria (from " Messiah ") Handel Recit. : " Then shall the eyes." Aria : " He shall feed His Flock." 4. Sinfonias from Church Cantatas, Nos. 150 and 196 Bach (a) No. 150 : " Unto Thee, 0 Lord, do I lift up mine eyes." (b) No. 196: " The Lord hath been mindful of us." 5. Sarabande (from Second French Suite) Bach 6. Extended Chorale " What God doth, that alone is right " Bach 7. Chorale " My soul, there is a country far beyond the stars " Bach

Library..

The following have been added to the Library :— A. 225a—Jeeves Omnibus—P. G. Wodehouse. B. II 16—Laws of Pianoforte Technique—Matthay. F. VIII 2a—Shakespearean Dictionary—Cunliffe. 9—Shakespearean Tragedy—A. C. Bradley. 9a—Shakespeare's Workmanship—Quiller-Couch. 17a—Wordsworth, Lectures and Essays—Garrod. G. III 4r--King Lear—First Folio Facsimile. G. III 75—Little Plays of St. Francis—Laurence Housman (Presented by Miss Moore). G. VII 27b—The London Perambulator—James Bone. K. V 11 a. b. c.—History of English Law, 3 vols.—Holdsworth. D.—History of English Legal Institutions—Carter. E.—Concise Legal History—Hammond. F.—Leading Cases in Constitutional Law—Thomas. G.--Pitman's Elementary Law—Cope. (Presented by W. T. S. Stallybrass, D.C.L.)

School Officers.

School Monitors W. Allport (Head of Clifton Rise). J. A. Brittain (Head of Clifton Grove). H. A. Butler. J. N. Emery (Head of School House). N. J. L. Brockbank (Head of Day Boys). C. E. T. Moore. F. P. Marrian. F. W. P. Lupton. D. F. Dodd. E. A. Harrop. Captain of Hockey : W. Allport. Hon. Sec. of Hockey : J. A. Brittain. Captain of Boats : E. A. Harrop. Hon. Sec. of Squash : N. W. D. Yardley. C.S.M. of 0.7'.C. H. A. Butler. Editors of 'The Petertte' : J. A. Brittain. j. N. Emery. N. J. L. Brockbank. C. E. T. Moore. Librarians : J. A. Brittain. N. J. L. I3rockbank. D. F. Dodd. F. P. Marrian. E. A. Harrop.

Obituaries.

J. It FOWLER. Gt.r. Vd74"

We regret to announce the death of J. H. Fowler, Esq., O.P. The following appreciations have been taken from The Times of January 18th and 19th.

ENGLISH LITERATURE IN SCHOOLS.

Mr. John Henry Fowler, late Sixth Form master at Clifton College, who died at BristOl on Saturday at the age of 72, was a schoolmaster of culture and humanity who was also a scholar of attainments in modern English literature. He had a strong sense of the opportunities his profession gave for the influencing - of character by instruction lying outside the regular educational curricula, and he never subscribed to the view that the claims of modern life make early specialization at school desirable. In a letter to The Times last year he summed up from this point of view the experience of 35 years of teaching. He was satisfied that his own methods, of which the inclusion of a regular English essay was the principal, were nearly always justified in the after-life of those whom he had taught. And many generations of his pupils would agree that what they learnt from him outside their special course, in whatever specific form it was given, was of lasting value.

Fowler was the eldest son of the Rev. H. Piggin, of Hanley, Staffordshire. After attending Manchester Grammar School and St. Peter's School, York, he was elected in 1880, with Sir Michael . Sadler (Master of University College) and the late Sir A. V.

Paton, of Liverpool, to one of the 13 classical scholarships on the old foundation of Trinity College, Oxford, then under the Presidency of the Rev. John Percival. There he took a first class in Honour Moderations, and (soon after adopting his mother's surname) a first class in Literae Humaniores. In 1886 he was awarded the Chancellor's Prize for an English essay on " The -Influence of the Theatre on - Life and Character." As an undergraduate he had been one of the founders of the College " Gryphon " Essay and Debating Society, and had taken special interest :in the literary subjects which became first his hobby and then his occupation as .a schoolmaster.

After eight years' work with the Classical Sixth form at Manchester Grammar School, -Fowler was appointed by Dr. Glazebrook to an assistant mastership at Clifton College, which he held until 1920, partly in charge of the Lower Sixth form, partly as generally responsible for the direction of English _studies in the Upper School. Like his friend there, Mr. S. T. Irwin, he was content to exercise his influence unobtrusively and

just where it would appeal to suitable individuals ; but, while he was singularly placid and even staid, his character was felt to be forcible by reason of the depth and sincerity of his intellectual and moral convictions. His earlier publications—from 1909 to 1920—were mostly selections, e.g., from Gibbon or de Quincey, or " English Prose, 1470 to 1900," or as " English Exercises " ; but a sort of primer on the " Teaching of English Composition " attracted some attention and encouraged him to put out more original work. In 1922 he produced by request a competent memoir in one volume of Bishop Hicks of Lincoln, whom he had known well at Manchester. Later, he published scholarly annotations to Palgrave's Golden Treasury and (in collaboration with Mr. R. L. Binyon) a " Golden Treasury of Modern Lyrics."

Fowler devoted much of his leisure after his retirement to the works of Thomas Hardy. He edited scenes from The Dynasts, wrote introductions to some of the Wessex novels, and delivered several lectures on Hardy which attracted the attention not only of local literary associations but of the British Academy. His own style was singularly clear and correct, and seemed to reflect the simplicity of his character and his quiet enjoyment of life, in which (in spite of some domestic anxieties) he could say he never had a moment's unhappiness " except in attending public meetings." He was married, but had no family.

Mr. A. V. Houghton, Secretary of the English Association, writes :—

May I, as one who, for many years, has had the privilege and pleasure of seeing Mr. J. H. Fowler every month, add to the excellent obituary notice published in The Times of January 18th a word or two in appreciation of the very valuable services which he gave to the English Association?

Mr. Fowler was one of the founders of the association in 1906, and showed his confidence in its aims and activities by instituting a branch at Bristol in 1907. He was still at the time of his death a member, of its executive committee, whose meetings in London he attended most regularly, and the work he did for the association and its branches, both as lecturer and as writer, to encourage a high standard of scholarship in the teaching of our language and literature and to spread a knowledge and love of it cannot be over-estimated. Indeed, it is true to say that most of his publications, to which your article refers, began in the form of pamphlets (" English Literature in Secondary Schools," " The Teaching of English Composition," " De Quincey as Literary Critic," " The Novels of Thomas Hardy "), which were first published by the association. Perhaps the work of his which had the most far-reaching effect was that on " School Libraries,"

which he wrote for the association in 1915, and for which there was so great a demand that it was revised by him and issued again in 1928. The English Association owes him a very great debt of gratitude, and his death is a very severe loss to its members.

The School was represented at the funeral, which took place at Bristol, by the Rev. P. E. Lord.

In addition to reprinting this notice from the " Times," we reproduce below the obituary and some more appreciations from the " Manchester Guardian." The cuttings were sent by the editors of the paper, who asked us specially to include them in the " Peteritc."

Mr. J. H. Fowler, late Sixth Form master at Clifton College, who died at Bristol on Saturday, at the age of 72, was for eight years master of the Classical Sixth at Manchester Grammar School. He had himself been a pupil at the Manchester Grammar School and at St. Peter's School, York. He had a distinguished undergraduate career at Oxford, where he was elected, with Sir Michael Sadler, to a classical scholarship on the old foundation of Trinity College, and subsequently took a double first in Greats.

Even in those early days of his teaching career when he was a master at the Manchester Grammar School his exposition of the classics was illuminated and warmed by an ardent enthusiasm for that English literature to which in later years he came to devote more and more of his attention. He was an excellent reader, and to his reading aloud of some of the great passages of the English masters of prose and verse many of his pupils owed their first insight into the meaning and value of literature. Intellectually and morally he was a man of broad humanity, with a passionate devotion to truth both of mind and of conduct, to whom anything loose or shuffling in speech, thought, or behaviour was a cause of genuine distress. He was too fastidious to cheapen his teaching with any of the demagogic arts, and so his appeal was not universal ; but to those capable of the best he was an unfailing inspiration. In his personal relations a somewhat cold and formal exterior hid the warmest heart ; in spite of a natural diffidence, he spared himself no pains to get to know intimately the boys he was teaching, to win their confidence and friendship, not so much for his own happiness as with a view to increasing the opportunities of inspiring them with his own ideals. An idealist he was first and last, who never spared himself in the service of the ideals he worshipped, rigorously training and coercing a naturally delicate constitution to stand the strain of an exhausting devotion to his work ; morally incapable of an unclean or unkind thought ; intellectually resolved, with a gradually increasing purpose, to

devote his energy and abilities to the apostolic mission of spreading as widely as possible his own enthusiasm for what is best in human thought and expression.

A GOOD SIXTH FORM.

Many Manchester people will read with regret the announcement of the death of J. H. Fowler. He was at 'his retirement, some pears back,, Sixth Form master of Clifton College, but he will also be remembered by an older generation as Classical Sixth Form master at the Manchester Grammar School. He left Manchester for Clifton soon after Glazebrook, the High Master, but Manchester had had his younger and possibly his best years. Certainly he was a very successful teacher. He was rather mincing in -manner and speech, prim to old-maidishness, and a precisian in matters of form—qualities that one would hardly expect to endear him to northern schoolboys, yet have undoubtedly had their value, for Lancashire boys rarely lack natural vigour and force, and Fowler brought them the elegancies and subtleties.

Outside his school work Fowler was best known as a writer on the teaching of English. Exquisite Latinist as he was, he taught Latin and Greek as though they were part of English, never as mere philology. In consequence he made the Greek and Latin classics really alive. You were never allowed to forget that exact scholarship and good taste in a speech of Cicero were the preparation for the same qualities in the use of your own language. I fancy Lord Hewart, who was one of Fowler's favourite pupils, must have learned much from him.

I have just been looking at a photograph of a Manchester Grammar School Sixth Form under Fowler in the early nineties. Out of twenty boys in it one became head of the Treasury, Lord Bradbury, another is Professor Williamson, of Bedford College, another is an eminent journalist known to some of your readers as a " student of war." Five others became Indian civil servants, including such names as Henriques, Dixon, and Vernon. Yet another was Sir James Mason, who developed Kelantan, in the Malay States, became a mighty hunter, and •was killed by a fall from his horse yon the first day of his Governorship of British North Borneo. There are two future Craven Scholars and one Ireland Scholar in the photograph—a good Sixth Form, I think.

We regret to announce the death of Canon T. B. B. Ferris, O.P., formerly a master at this, School ;. the following obituary notice is reprinted from The TiMeS of December 14th, 1931 :—

CANON FERRIS.

Canon Thomas Boys Barraclough Ferris, who died at Nottingham on Saturday, at the age of 86, held the rectory of Gonalston, Notts., for 29' years, and when he retired in 1926,, he had completed 58 years' service, having been ordained in 1868. This year he assisted at two Nottingham churches. From St. Peter's School, York, he went to University College, Durham, and, obtaining high honours in mathematics, was elected a Fellow of Durham University. For 11 years he was a master at his old school, and was successively vicar of St. Thomas, the Groves, York, and St. Matthew's, Nottingham. In 1.897 he was made Hon. Canon Omnium Sanctorum in Southwell Cathedral. In Masonry he was P.P.G.C. and P.P.G.S.W. Canon Ferris married, in 1870, Maria Teresa, daughter of Dr. William Swaine, of York, and had eight sons and two daughters.

We regret to announce the death of Miss Isobel Owen, sister to the Rev. Canon E. C. Owen, headmaster of this School' from 1900 to .1913, during which time Miss Owen took an active part in the management of the School House. We take the liberty of reproducing the following appreciation from The Times.

MISS ISOBEL OWEN.

A friend writes :—May I send a few words in affectionate memory of Miss Mary Isobel O'Brien Owen, who, as announced in The Times of February 22nd, has died at Wychbold Vicarage, Droitwich, where her brother, Canon E. C. Owen, has been vicar since 1930. Miss Owen was with Canon Owen at York, where he was headmaster of St. Peter's School from 1900 to 1913 ; but her greatest work was done at King William's College, Isle of Man, where, during her brother's time of office for the 17 years from 1913 to 1930, she devoted herself unsparingly and untiringly to the service of the college. Generations of old boys will hear of Miss Owen's death with a sense of personal sorrow; and among them, as among the masters and boys of King William's, the memory of her unfailing kindness, her entire forgetfulness of self, and her deep. interest in every concern of the college, and specially in the province of music, will be an unfailing inspiration.