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Mr. C. R. Featherstone, Senior Science Master and House Master of Clifton Rise, died on Thursday, January 23rd, the day after the School Term began. He had not been well during the Christmas •holidays, and, after attending the meetings of the Science Masters' Association in London at the beginning of the year, he had gone for a rest cure to Bexhill. He seemed on the way to recovery, but then came a sudden failure of strength, and late on the 23rd he passed away.

Mr. Featherstone joined the staff of St. Peter's in September, 1910, as Senior Science Master, and was at first resident in the School House. In January, 1917, he opened Clifton Rise as a School Boarding House.

From the first he instilled into the science work of the School a spirit of energy and enterprise which quickly spread to those who• worked with and under him. His broad view of what a liberal education should be saved him and his pupils from any narrowness or prejudice, and he was careful to keep his work alive and up-todate by repeated visits to Oxford for research, and by taking an active share in the wider scientific interests of York. Whether as• President or as Member of the Committee, he did much quiet and useful work for the York Field Naturalists' Society. As founder of the School Scientific Society, he not only arranged the annual series of winter lectures and meetings, and the summer expedition, but also organised the periodic Science Exhibitions. These were a valuable training and inspiration to all who took part in them, and he gave himself unsparingly to the heavy labour which their preparation entailed. In addition, he edited the Annual Report which recorded in permanent form the many activities of the Society.

When Clifton Rise was opened as a House in 1917, he impressed upon it from the first the stamp of his personality and ideals. Though never the largest House, it took its full share in, and made its full contribution to, the history and the successes of the School, whether in scholarship or in games. His spirit informed it in all that it did—the spirit of meeting both success and failure with equal good grace and good humour, and of realising that a full human life has its share both of work and of play. He was always insistent that the keenest rivalry with other Houses could be a friendly rivalry, and that a generous acknowledgment of the prowess of others was the finest ingredient in one's own success. To the better type of boy—i.e., to the majority of boys— this chivalrous spirit made an irresistible appeal, and brought out a similar response. Even to the other type, where it occurred, this attitude must have brought a dim suspicion that here was