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THE PETE RITE Vol. XXXII

JANUARY, 1940

No. 293

EDITORIAL. The Editor of " The Peterite," in December, 1914, made the shrewd observation that " territory must be violated and Editorials must be written." He then dismissed the war and continued with an explanation of why the First Fifteen played such putrid rugger, and why his epistle was so short; the latter part he did very nicely with brief reference to Mother Nature and her " wearisome flights." Presumably his attitude was justifiable.

This time it is different: some schools were evacuated and forced to start the term later than usual, while others experienced a decrease in numbers. St. Peter's, however, found themselves in the fortunate position of being able to remain on the school premises, because of the work done by the staff during the Summer holidays, and to begin the Winter term on the advertised date. In addition to this, the School was not only stronger in numbers, but had as many boys as could conveniently be accommodated. And all through the term there have been few things with which we could associate war.

We are sorry to lose Mr. K. G. Chilman to the antiaircraft defences and Mr. G. S. Stead to the Royal Air Force.

To both we wish the very best of luck. We welcome to the staff L. Burgess, Esq., M.A., Rev. P. P. Noble Fawcett, C. G. Molony, Esq., M.A., and Mrs. Bainton.

The First Fifteen succeeded in playing eleven matches, of which five were won and five lost. The remaining game, against the old enemy, Worksop, was drawn without any score, and was the best match of the season. As an allround team, this was the best produced by St. Peter's for some years.

The term ended, as usual, with the School Carol Service, which was held in the early afternoon on account of lighting restrictions, and the School play, " The Fourth Wall," by A. A. Milne, was produced, in which the author ceases to be whimsical in favour of being slightly melodramatic.

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In keeping with the vigour and renewed growth of our ancient School in the last few years, " The Peterite " has of late become correspondingly portly. If the present volume appears somewhat slender, we ask our readers to blame present conditions. For ourselves, we are as verbose as ever, but at present must content ourselves with recording the facts and discarding the trimmings.

OLD PETERITE NEWS. We are glad to have news from various sources of numerous O.P.s serving with H.M.'s Forces. We append their names, but are asked by the Press and Censorship Bureau to give no details regarding locality, etc., Lieut. R. White, Active M. B. Watson (Manor) .

Service (Rise).

G. E. Watson (Manor).

A. W. Josephy, Active G. D. Nichol (Sch. H.).

Service (Manor).

E. V. Elgey (Sch. H.) .

W. A. Clarke, Active Service C. P. Denby (Sch. H.).

(Sch. H.).

G. Tankard (Sch. H.).

M. Deas, R.A.F. (Sch. H.).

R. N. Rimmer, R.A.F. (Sch. N. L. Colbeck, Army (Sch. H.).

H.).

J. B. Dixon, 102nd O.C.T.U. G. K. Crisp, R.A.S.C., Sec(Sch. H.). tion A, 1st Heavy ArmJ. L. Boden, 396 Co., oured Brigade Co. (Sch. W.Y.A.A., R.E. (Sch. H.) .

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Capt. R. C. Baker, R.A. Capt. S. Anderson (Temple).

(Sch. H.).

N. W. Smithson (Temple) .

Capt. B. C. Baker, R.A. F. F. Weatherill (Rise).

(Sch. H.).

P. G. T. Ward (0.0b.) (St. J. Fitton, K.O.Y.L.I. (Sch. Olave's).

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B. McCall (Grove).

L. Atkinson, A.A. (Sch. H.).

H. W. Scatchard (Rise).

P. A. Johnston, R.E. (Rise).

T. N. Boddy (Sch. H.).

W. Buttimer (Rise).

C. W. V. Kennedy, R.A. R. A. Wilkinson (Sch. H.).

(Sch. H.).

G. S. Pawle (Sch. H.).

N. B. Corner, Tank Corps (Sch. H.).

I. H. Segar, R.A. (Temple).

2nd Lieut. J. M. Dickenson J. H. Denby, R.A. (Sch. H.).

(Rise).

T. D. Ambler, R.A. (Sch. H.).

2nd Lieut. K. J. Jarvis, 2nd 5th West Yorks. (Sch. J. A. Russell, O.C.T.U. (Sch. H.).

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Sgt. H. W. Richardson, M. I. H. Sproulle (Sch. H.).

R.A.F. (Temple).

M. Hollway, Army Pay P. W. Kirkness (Grove).

Corps (Sch. H.).

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Lieut. F. W. Fineron, Border R. S. Currie, Pilot Officer, Regt. (Temple).

R.A.F. (Sch. H.).

P. B. Cockburn, O.C.T.U., Royal Signals (Rise).

J. Rodgers has been appointed Commercial Relations Officer at the Ministry of Information.

Flying Officer J. S. P. Phillips (Sch. H.), 608 Squadron, R.A.F., has passed the Preliminary Examination of the Institute of Civil Engineers.

Lieut.-Col. H. A. Cape, D.S.O. has been granted the rank of Local (Unpaid) Colonel whilst performing the duties of D.A.D.R., Northern Command. Col. Cape was formerly Bursar of St. Peter's School.

S. Dodds (Temple) has been promoted to Flight Lieut., with effect from September 15th.

Lieut. H. E. Barker (Sch. H.) has been promoted to the rank of Major, with charge of the new Pontefract Battery, No. 287 of the 96th Anti-Aircraft Regt. of the R.A. Basil Radford, after his achievement in " The Lady Vanishes " and other films, is now adding successfully to his laurels in the new farce, " Giving the Bride Away," at the St. Martin's. * * * We append a few extracts from a letter sent by E. Antrobus (Rise) from 2804 Hillegas Avenue, Berkeley, California. " I have been out in America for three years. I came directly to San Francisco, California. For the last eight months I have been working as a reporter on a morning paper in San Francisco. Previously to this I had worked with an insurance company. I liked the newspaper life much better, and I am looking forward to going back to it. I left the paper to go to the University because I thought I could do very much better if I had more education.

The University of California has seventeen thousand students, which makes it the largest University in America.

The Universities in America allow foreign students a year's advanced standing, making it possible for them to take their degree after three years instead of four years of studying. This advancement is given because Universities consider foreign students have had a better preparatory education and because three years is the usual University course given in England."

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We have received the following news from O.P.s at Cambridge :" We have received into our bosom many budding R.A.F. officers, and with them we were glad to welcome Mr. Stead, who was here for a short time. If any O.P. happens to be stationed here, we will be only too glad to hear from him and offer him the best of our meagre hospitality.

The Club's main activity this term has been a sherry party, given in honour of Basil Radford's visit to Cambridge.

The party was held in King's, and was attended by Messrs. Radford and Waynne with most of the cast, including Pauline Winter (late of the York Repertory), and Old Peterites with friends. A good time was had by all, and we can thoroughly recommend " Giving the Bride Away " as a first-class farce.

Of individual O.P.s, the less said the better, but for your information :J. T. Brockbank (St. John's) is never to be found in his rooms, but fame tells us that he plays a lot of squash and upholds the antiquity of St. Peter's against Canterbury's presumptions. He boasts that he has done more work than the rest of us combined.

J. C. Houghton (Selwyn) sits on Conservative committees and strongly upholds all Tory policy. He was last seen at a Communist Rally wearing a Conservative tie, Requiescat in pace.'

J. M. Rucklidge (Emmanuel) inhabits the remote parts of Cambridge, and has got into the bad habit of working. We are told he may be seen adorning various Cambridge squash courts." * * * The following news has been received from O.P.s at Leeds University:— R. Warin. Qualified M.B., Ch.B. in March, 1939, with 2nd class honours. Took post of House Physician at Leeds Infirmary for six months, and is now doing six months as House Surgeon. Still finds time to play Hockey regularly.

W. Boyes (1932-36). Medical School. Does a great deal of work which occupies most of his time. Occasionally plays Rugger for the Medical School.

G. H. Briggs (1933-38). Medical School. Likewise does some work of sorts, but also plays regularly for the University 1st XI at Hockey.

G. C. Brown. Medical School. Apparently working hard.

Not much has been seen of him this term. Takes a keen interest in Varsity Rugger.

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G. E. Shepherd joined us this term in an attempt to become an engineer. Has been seen sitting in a boat, pulling gently (also member of Shooting Club).

C. J. Lynch is Secretary of the Boat Club, and so has become a very civil electrical engineer.

E. R. Lax. Does a great deal of work. Is a prominent member of the University 1st XI Hockey team.

S. Corner. Finds engineering rather tedious, having had to start his first year over again.

E. Dickinson (Agric.). Seems to find amusement in breaking up rocks armed with a hammer, apparently looking for fossils.

ENGAGEMENTS. The engagement is announced between Francis Moore Beachell, younger son of Alderman Harry Beachell, J.P., and the late Mrs. Beachell, Holme Wold, Dalton Holme, Beverley, and Freda Byass, elder daughter of Mr. Digby Byass, J.P., and Mrs. Byass, Eastfield, Lund, Driffield. * * * The engagement is announced between Leslie Charles, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Le Tocq, of Mount Row, Guernsey, and Edith Mary Laine, only daughter of the late Mr. H. A. Le Patourel and Mrs. Le Patourel, of Fosse Andre, Guernsey. * * * The engagement is announced between Denis Featherstone, second son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Dodd, of Sutton Coldfield, and Emily Lavington (Ba), only daughter of the late Hugh Lindsay, of Edinburgh, and Mrs. Lindsay, of Barnet, Herts.

MARRIAGES. BEACHELL—SHIPLEY. On October 19th, at St. Peter's Church, Rowley, by the Rev. D. C. Urquhart, Samuel Laverack, only son of Mr. Sam and the late Mrs. Beachell, of Beswick Hall, Driffield, to Kathleen, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Shipley, of Manor Park, Little Weighton.

HICKS—CLAY.—On October 7th, at Moseley, Captain A. L. Hicks, R.E., son of the late H. Percy Hicks and Mrs. Hicks, Wyndale, Corbridge, Northumberland, to Margaret, daughter of the late Dr. E. L. Clay and Mrs. Clay, Moseley, Birmingham.

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BIRTH. FERGUSSON. On December 16th, 1939, to Alice Alyne, wife of J. D. Fergusson, F.R.C.S., a son.

JACKSON. On January 1st, 1940, at The Old Manor, Epperstone, Notts., to Elizabeth (née Addison), wife of Capt. Brian H. W. Jackson, of Thirsk, Yorkshire, a daughter.

OBITUARY. Egerton Melville Hingston was the fourth son of the late Dr. Hingston, for many years Medical Superintendent of the North Riding Asylum, York. Educated at St. Peter's and Aberdeen University, he entered Parrs Bank in 1899, retiring on September 30th, 1939, after 40 years service.

He was made manager during the War, and came to Cheltenham in 1922 to open the new branch of the Westminster Bank.

He took a great interest in his old School, and was keenly interested in Cricket and all sports, especially Golf, at which he excelled, and he was a popular member of the Lilleybrook Golf Club. He was much respected by his colleagues and other business men in the town. * * * Mr. Robert Stanley Russell, partner in the firm of Huntly, Foster and Russell, solicitors, of John Street, Sunderland, died at his home in The Grove, aged 64, on December 6th.

A native of Malton, Mr. Russell was educated at St. Peter's School, York, and originally articled to a solicitor in Malton. He practised for a time in Scarborough, and came to Wearside more than 30 years ago to join the John Street firm on the retirement of one of the partners, Mr. Errington Huntly, J.P. Mr. Russell was a member of Sunderland Law Society, and former president. He was a warden at Christ Church for many years, and connected with Sunderland Conservative Association.

Mr. Russell was a keen bowler and connected with Sunderland Football and Cricket Club at Ashbrooke, where he was on the governing board. He leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter. * * * William Basil Worsfold, editor of the " Johannesburg Star " from 1904 to 1905, and the author of numerous books, many of them dealing with South Africa, died in a nursing home at East Grinstead on Tuesday, September 26th.

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W. B. Worsfold was born on December 5th, 1858, his father being the late Rev. John Napper Worsfold, rector of Haddlesey, Yorkshire. He was educated at St. Peter's School, York, and at University College, Oxford, where he obtained a first class in Classical Moderations and a second class in " Lit. Hum." In 1887 he was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple and joined the Oxford Circuit four years later. From 1891 to 1900 he lectured on Economics and Literature for the Oxford Extension Delegates and the London Joint Board.

Worsfold's writings covered a large field, but he will be best remembered for those on Africa. He was widely travelled and had the eye of a true historian. In 1887 he wrote " An Abridgment of New Zealand Statute Law," and four years later published an account of " A Visit to Java " under that title. His first book on South Africa appeared in 1895 to be followed in 1898 by another entitled " The Story of South Africa." The next year he produced a volume on Portuguese Nyasaland, and then in 1900 and 1901 respectively were published " A History of South Africa " and " The Story of Egypt." Next he devoted himself to editing " Browning's Men and Women " : he had produced in 1897 a book on the Principles of Criticism. Other works written by him before the last War included " Lord Milner's Work in South Africa, 1897-1902," " The Union of South Africa," " The Reconstruction of New Colonies Under Lord Milner " and " The Future of Egypt."

"The Empire on the Anvil" was Worsfold's first volume of the War period, and was described by the late Lord Sydenham as a " very interesting and opportune book." It was the work of an enthusiast for the idea of a federated British Empire, and in the course of the book, Worsfold showed himself to be a master of the fascinating pursuit of " constitution framing." His next book was " The War and Social Reform," in 1919, and then he wrote a study of " Sir Bartle Frere," which was published in 1923. Worsfold then began to take a keen interest in the future of Palestine, and went to that country in 1925 to observe the making of the new chapter in the history of the Jews. As a result he wrote " Palestine of the Mandate," a clear and full picture of certain aspects of the administrative and economic situation of the Holy Land, a well-documented book, eminently readable even in its most technical chapters, and illustrated by the author's excellent sketches and photographs. His South African experience enabled him to draw an interesting parallel between the Chartered Company in Rhodesia and the Zionist organisation. Turning his attention to the problems in North Africa, Worsfold produced in 1930 7

" France in Tunis and Algeria." It was a remarkable combination of a good guide book and very able studies of French colonial administration. Aspect after aspect of a many-sided land was depicted clearly, completely and attractively, and the most lasting impression left by the book was that in French North Africa there was being built up a new Latin nation which was destined to play a very important part in the affairs of Europe. A delightful book was Worsfold's "Twenty Centuries of England : being the Annals of Bishop's Stortford," which was printed in 1935, and was lavishly supplied with maps, reproductions of old prints and drawings by the author which sealed his claim to be recognized as an artist also. Though not a native of Bishop's Stortford, he occupied for eight years the birthplace of Cecil Rhodes in the town. With his intimate knowledge of South Africa and its history there was perhaps no one more fitted than Worsfold to write the history of the town in which was born the man who was to become the greatest figure in that country. As well as his books, Worsfold found time to write many articles for the quarterlies and the " Encyclopaedia Britannica." He also wrote occasional letters to "The Times," and on March 26th, 1926, contributed an article on the Doullens inscriptions commemorating the entrusting of the supreme command to Foch, exactly eight years before, and recalling the circumstances in which that momentous decision was made.

In 1898 he married Jessie, daughter of the late Mr. R. J. E. Symons, of Wadebridge, Cornwall.

ON ACTIVE SERVICE. HOLLINGTON. Missing, believed killed, Flying Officer John R. Hollington, R.A.F., aged 21, late of St. Peter's School (1st XV), third son of Mrs. M. S. Hollington, Hazelbrook, Canford Lane, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.

EXTRACT FROM GERMAN NEWSPAPER. English Airman Buried at Husum.

At Husum the English Flying Officer J. R. Hollington was buried with Military Honours at Pellworm.

After the orchestra from the Reich Labour Service had played Beethoven's " Eroica," Pastor Peterson, who himself took part in the World War, spoke, saying that " We do not know the deceased whom the waves of the North Sea have carried to our coast, but we do know there are people who will grieve for him, and long for the moment when they can stand by his grave. We honour the brave soldier, even from a hostile army." To the tune of Beethoven's Funeral March the coffin was then carried to the grave.

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SCHOOL OFFICERS. CHRISTMAS TERM, 1939.

M. S. DOUGLAS (Head of School, Head of Clifton Rise) .

Monitors : R. C. LYNCH (Head of Temple House).

T. F. CAMERON. J. H. BUTLER. P. R. G. GRAHAM (Head of School House) .

H. A. MILBURN. Captain of Rugger—H. A. MILBURN. Hon. Sec. of Rugger—M. S. DOUGLAS. C.S.M. in O.T.C.—M. S. DOUGLAS. Hon. Sec. of Shooting—R. EARLE. Hon. Sec. of Squash—T. F. CAMERON. Editors of " The Peterite " : T. F. CAMERON. C. M. ROBSON. G. W. VERO. F. F. STEELE. G. LONG.

VALETE AND SALVETE. VALETE. CLIFTON RISE. M. S. Douglas. 1935-39. Upper VIth Classical. School Monitor. Head of School. Played for 2nd XV, 1936-37.

2nd XV Colours, 1937-38. Played for 1st XV, 1936-37-38-39-40. 1st XV Colours, 1937-38-39-40. 1st XV Cap, 1937-38-39-40. Vice-Captain of Rugger, 1938-39-40. Played for Yorkshire Public Schools, 1938-39. Played for 2nd XI, 1937-38-39. 2nd XI Colours, 1938. Played for 1st XI, 1938-39. Boxing Team, 1938. School Librarian. Member of The Curtain.

Certificated C.S.M. in O.T.C. G. C. Brown. 1935-39. Upper VIth Modern. 2nd XV Colours, 1937-38. 1st XV Colours, 1938-39. 2nd XI Colours, 1937-38. 1st XI Colours, 1938-39. Editor of " The Peterite." Cadet in O.T.C. Certificate " A." J. M. Couldwell. 1935-39. Vb. Played for 2nd XV, 1937-38-39. 2nd XV Colours, 1938. Played for 1st XV, 1938-39. 1st XV Colours, 1939. Rowed for 2nd IV, 1939. Cadet in O.T.C. Certificate " A." K. A. Warren. 1936-39. Shell. Coxed 1st IV, 1939. Coxing Colours, 1939. Cadet in O.T.C. 9

SCHOOL HOUSE. J. H. T. Hunter. 1936-39. Upper VIth Modern. Played for 2nd XV, 1937. Played for 1st XV, 1938. 2nd XV Colours, 1938. 1st XV Colours, 1939. Rowed for 2nd IV, 1939. Rowed for 1st VIII, 1939. Member of Games Committee. Cadet in O.T.C. Certificate " A." R. M. S. Parker. 1935-39. VIth Modern. Played for 2nd XV, 1938-39. 2nd XV Colours, 1938. Played for 1st XV, 1938-39. 1st XV Colours, 1938-39. L/Cpl. in O.T.C. Certificate " A." J. R. Walters. 1936-39. Va. Played for 2nd XV, 1938-39.

Played for 2nd XI, 1938-39. Cadet in O.T.C. Certificate «A„

J. Osborne. 1937-39. Va. Cadet in O.T.C. J. R. Scholey. 1936-39. Vb. Played for 2nd XV, 1939-40.

Played for 2nd XI, 1939. Cadet in O.T.C. Certificate 44

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TEMPLE HOUSE. G. W. Harding. 1935-39. Lower VIth Modern. House Monitor. Played for 2nd XV, 1939-40. 2nd XV Colours, 1939-40. Played for 1st XV, 1939-40. 1st XV Colours, 1939-40. Shooting VIII. Cpl. in O.T.C. Certificate Li

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K. C. Brown. 1937-39. Lower VIth Modern. Played for 2nd XV, 1937-38. 2nd XV Colours, 1937-38. Played for 1st XV, 1937-38-39-40. 1st XV Colours, 1939-40.

1st XV Cap, 1939-40. Played for 2nd XI, 1937-38.

2nd XI Colours, 1938. Played for 1st XI, 1939. 1st XI Colours, 1939. Cadet in O.T.C. Certificate " A." R. W. Wright. 1931-39. Lower VIth Modern. Played for 2nd XV, 1938-39. 2nd XV Colours, 1939-40. Played for 1st XV, 1939-40. Rowed for 3rd IV, 1938. 2nd IV Colours, 1939. Rowed for 1st IV, 1939. 1st IV Colours, 1939. School Shooting Team, 1938-39. Shooting Colours, 1938. Individual Shot, 1939. Hon. Sec. of Shooting, 1939. Cadet in O.T.C. Certificate " A." A. J. Doherty. 1934-39. Upper VIth Modern. Cadet in O.T.C. N. Porter. 1936-39. Vb. N. M. Oudney. 1938-39. Va. Cadet in O.T.C. J. R. Marley. 1938-39. IVb. Cadet in O.T.C. 10

T. M. J. Scott.

J. E. A. Ward.

G. K. Ward.

T. B. Boulton.

J. C. Robson.

R. L. Connelly.

SALVETE. SCHOOL HOUSE. P. F. Tee. T. C. Middleton.

CLIFTON RISE. T. G. Robson.

TEMPLE. H. P. B. Young.

JUNIOR SCHOOL. SALVETE. Day Boys. I. W. J. Haysey, R. Passey, G. K. Taylor, C. D. Goode, J. N. Armgill, A. J. Cameron, M. G. Darley.

Boarders. J. Gillgrass, B. Lee. VALETE. Day Boys. R. C. Anderson.

CHAPEL. CHRISTMAS TERM, 1939.

Sept. 24. 16th Sunday after Trinity.

Oct. 1. 17th Sunday after Trinity. Rev. P. P. N. Fawcett.

8. 18th Sunday after Trinity. „ 15. 19th Sunday after Trinity. The Headmaster. „ 22. 20th Sunday after Trinity. „ 29. 21st Sunday after Trinity. Rev. P. P. N. Fawcett.

Nov. 5. 22nd Sunday after Trinity. „ 12. 23rd Sunday after Trinity. Rev. J. Nankivell. „ 19. 24th Sunday after Trinity. „ 26. 25th Sunday after Trinity. Rev. P. P. N. Fawcett.

Dec. 3. 1st Sunday in Advent. Service in York Minster. „ 10. 2nd Sunday in Advent. „ 17. 3rd Sunday in Advent. Carol Service.

Special mention must be made of the " Isle of Dogs Housing Society," about which the Rev. J. Nankivell gave us an absorbing lecture. This Society is demolishing the slum 11 11

buildings on an island, dreadfully overcrowded, in the Thames, and building new houses. They require, at present, old clothes, shoes, etc., and if anyone has any, would they please send them to :—G. R. Younger, 3 Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, London, W.C.2.

A large crate of shoes and clothing was collected by Temple House, and despatched to the Society early in the term.

THE CAROL SERVICE. On December 17th the annual Carol Service was held in the School Chapel. This year there were many more solos than previously : R. F. Harding, Esq., beginning the service as the King in " Good King Wenceslas " and M. Norwood replying very well as the Page. " King Jesus hath a Garden " was the next carol, with C. Bendall, Esq., and E. S. Jeffs, Esq., singing the solos. " In dulce jubilo " was sung very well indeed by the whole choir, and we must congratulate Mrs. Baird on her excellent arrangement. Then followed " Sleep, Holy Babe," the solo taken by C. M. Robson.

Between each carol sung by the choir alone there was a short lesson. These were read by C. Crow (St. Olave's), L. W. Jefferson, E. P. Davison, P. R. G. Graham, R. C. Lynch and M. S. Douglas.

The last carol with solos was " We Three Kings of Orient are," the kings taken by M. S. Douglas, J. B. Shillitoe and C. G. Molony, Esq. The service was very well attended, and on behalf of the School we thank Mrs. Baird and the choir, and congratulate them on the success of the Carol Service, Christmas, 1939.

LIBRARY. Librarian : H. A. WRENN, Esq. Assistant Librarians : E. J. HILLYARD, G. LONG, J. H. MOTUM, J. B. SHILLITOE, F. F. STEELE, H.L. TAYLOR, M. S. DOUGLAS. The Dewey System was in operation in the School Library this term, and has been an unqualified success. An important acquisition this term was the Electric Stylus 12

Pencil, which is used to print the Dewey classification numbers on the backs of the books. The printing is in gold leaf, and so is becoming to all books. Metal shelf clips for the shelf labels are another useful addition. The copy of Euclid in Greek and Latin, which is thought to be almost unique, has been handsomely re-bound in brown leather.

Many other books have been re-bound. A Suggestion Book has been instituted, and all suggestions for books will be considered. So many books have been added to the Library this term that it is impossible to give a list of them here.

However, a full list of them may be seen in the Library. A hundred and twenty books have been added to the Fiction section. The Rev. F. H. Barnby has presented over a hundred books, a gift which is sincerely appreciated. Books have also been presented by A. W. Ping, Esq. The books presented by Mr. Barnby fall under the following headings : Sociology, Fiction, Literature and Religion. W. Brown, Esq., has presented several books to the History and other sections. R. F. Oakes presented " Yorkshire Rugby Union Football Club " In Memoriam, 1914-18, which contains all the members of the Rugby Union who were killed in the last war.

HOUSE NOTES. TEMPLE HOUSE. We were extremely sorry at the beginning of the Christmas Term to have to say goodbye to Mr. Stead, our Housemaster, who has been called up for service with the Royal Air Force. We hope that we shall soon have him with us again.

We wish to welcome Mr. Wrenn, who has taken on the duties of Housemaster in Mr. Stead's absence.

We were pleased to see Lynch among us once more, some time after the beginning of the term, having braved the terrors of an Atlantic crossing. R. W. Wright had filled the post of Head of Temple in Lynch's absence, assisted by G. W. Harding, Monitor.

Temple met with very little success in the House Rugger matches. The House Second XV was soundly defeated by the School House Seconds, and Temple First XV fared little better against the School House first team. However, quite a few of the Temple First XV were incapacitated and in each match the House has the satisfaction of knowing that it did its best 13

Brown (K. C.) is to be congratulated on being awarded his First XV cap. Chudleigh and Harding are to be congratulated on their First and Second XV colours, and Belchamber on his Second XV colours. Congratulations to J. McN. Inglis on becoming a House Monitor.

CLIFTON RISE. First, we should like to take this opportunity of welcoming Miss Hannon to the Rise.

We won the 2nd XV Rugger, beating School House by a large margin. Then, in a mud-fight, we beat School House 9-6 in the Senior Rugger, thus retaining the cup for the third year. Congratulations to School House on their magnificent fight.

The Rise has been well represented in the 1st XV, again monopolising the pack with six colours and with two colours among the backs.

The Rise gave a concert on November 25th, and from comments on it we gather it was a magnificent success, the highlights being the Band, the Cherubums and the masters' scene, the last bringing the house down.

We congratulate the following: C. M. Robson and J. H. Butler on being re-awarded their Rugger caps, and T. F. Cameron, J. B. Shillitoe, G. R. Morris, F. F. Steele and H. L. Taylor on being awarded their School Rugger colours.

THE RISE CONCERT. On Saturday, December 2nd, the Rise presented a concert to the School, which had been arranged and produced entirely by the boys.

A dummy microphone was in use on the stage, through which T. F. Cameron, who was compere, announced each item.

The first item on the programme was entitled " Taking Over," and Shillitoe appeared on the stage to take over his " new house." He received visits from various tradesmen, and all of these seemed to be very keen that he should have an aspidistra in his window.

Twice during the performance the Rise band, consisting of Taylor, Douglas, Ramsden and Shillitoe, played a selection of the popular tunes of the day, and these were much appreciated by many of the audience.

Douglas and Robson appeared in a turn in which they called themselves the " Cherubums." Both were clothed in 14

most odd attire, and by means of subtle jokes and comic actions they raised much laughter from the audience.

Hort played two very fine solos on the pianoPaderewski's " Minuet in G " and Schubert's " Serenade."

He is to be congratulated on a very fine effort.

The last turn was probably the most popular of all, at least with the boys; the masters may have felt rather embarrassed, however. Instead of the masters teaching, they were taught by one of the boys—J. E. Thompson.

Douglas, Steele, Robson, Ping, Short and Butler gave excellent imitations of some of the more prominent masters in the School, and hence the cause of the masters' probable embarrassment.

Only the more prominent items of the show have been described above, but besides these a few other good performances were included in a most enjoyable show.

SCHOOL HOUSE. This term we arrived back to find that the House was fuller than ever, and it is to be hoped that this state of affairs will continue.

Perhaps the black-out was one of the most important features of the term, and in order to overcome the " blues," sundry competitions were organised, and we extend our congratulations to the winners of these.

Early on in the term it was decided to produce a House • play, and accordingly a performance of W. W. Jacob's play, " The Ghost of Jerry Bundler," was presented to the School on November 18th. A short account of this will be found below.

In the world of sport we met with little success. Temple House 1st XV was beaten by 43 points to 0 after a gruelling battle in the mud. Our opponents were considerably depleted by injuries, and we extend our sympathies to Lynch, who was " crocked " early in the second half. After another hard-fought struggle in the mud, this time with the Rise, we were beaten by 9 points to 6, but nevertheless the whole team is to be congratulated on a very fine effort.

Our 2nd XV beat Temple House by 50 points to 0, but in the final we were beaten by the Rise by 23 points to 6.

May we take this opportunity of congratulating the Rise on the excellent concert that they presented to the School.

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We must congratulate Sleight and Graham on receiving their 1st XV colours, also Graham on being awarded his cap; Hunter, Buckler and Clephan on receiving their House Rugger colours ; Earle on receiving his House colours for winning the Hobby cup ; and Clephan and Buckler on receiving their 2nd XV colours.

THE SCHOOL HOUSE PLAY. On November 18th the School House gave a presentation of " The Ghost of Jerry Bundler," a one act play by W. W. Jacobs.

The cast was as follows :— Hirst • •• P. R. G. Graham Dr. Leek • •• H. A. Milburn • •• Penfold ... G. W. Vero • •• Somers A. S. Clephan Beldon • •• J. H. T. Hunter Malcolm • •• J. R. Scholey George ... J. A. Cato The rest of the School greatly appreciated the performance, the only comment being that if anything it was a little too short.

Mr, Rhodes is to be complimented on stage managing another successful play.

THE SCHOOL PLAY. " THE FOURTH WALL." Mr. A. A. Milne's detective story was presented by the St. Peter's Players on the 16th and 18th December, with the following cast :— Jimmy Ludgrove ... P. R. G. Graham Susan Cunningham ... D. G. Middleton Adams F. N. Buckler Edward Laverick H. A. Milburn Edward Carter • • T. F. Cameron Major Fothergill A. S. Clephan Mrs. Fulverton Fane . G. E. K. Reynolds Jane West ...

• • . ... B. Rodwell Arthur Ludgrove ... G. W. Vero .

P.C. Mallet ...

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C. M. Robson " Sergeant " Mallet ...

J. H. Butler Production was by Mr. K. H. Rhodes. The Rev. P. P. Noble Fawcett was responsible for stage management, and A. E. Schofield was stage carpenter and electrician.

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The Players undoubtedly scored a success. The merit of the performances was recognised by appreciative audiences, and the quality of the acting improved progressively from the dress rehearsal (for the School a performance proper) to the final presentation on the Monday night. With the mental reservations inevitably implicit in the appraisal of the work of amateurs and schoolboys, one might have described it as an unqualified success, but this would be a poor compliment to both the actors and those responsible for production. Praise may be no less damning by its fulsomeness than by its faintness. The reputation of the Players and the valiance of their effort with " The Fourth Wall " deserve a higher standard of criticism. There were faults as well as merits in the production.

The fundamental mistake was the choice of play. It is true that the times are out of joint, and there is much to be said for a mélange of murder and detection nicely covered with a pie-crust of humour. But Mr. Milne's happens to be a bad play which in places would tax the powers of the most experienced professionals. Amateurs (and schoolboys) were faced with an impossible task. Mr. Milne " gets away with it " so frequently by the sparkle of his dialogue : and in his perfect blending of the sinister with the light, airy badinage which he cannot help writing lies the secret of his success with the thriller. The Players failed signally with the veneer of humour. There was no pie-crust, and the net result was to expose the weakness of Mr. Milne as a constructive dramatist.

There is no mystery in the plot. Murder is perpetrated in the first act—and satisfactorily perpetrated in that our timbers were adequately shivered. Thereafter the dramatist has the difficult job of keeping us interested in the process of detecting the perpetrators—difficult because we know all about it already. It is here that the dramatist fails, and the play drags wearily. An audience which has savoured an adroit enough murder at the close of Act I has to wait until Act III, Scene 2, before its palate is again tickled. Having tasted villainy we ask for further fare in the form of interesting developments, but instead of bread Mr. Milne gives us a particularly undigestible stone—the long-drawn presentation of the villains' alibi in Act II and the even prosier discovery of its flaw in the following scene.

The latter, after nearly twenty minutes' " great argument about it and about " (and about something very much twice-boiled cabbage to the audience), was particularly trying. And when the flaw in the evidence-

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a flaw suspected by Susan's feminine intuition, and finally run to earth by Jimmy's masculine reasoning—is presented to us, it is but a poor thing compared, say, with the chronological gymnastics of " Ten-minute Alibi." Graham and Middleton wrestled manfully with a hopeless situation, and they had our sympathy. But neither the fact that the dialogue took place at midnight nor the attempt to create a semblance of movement by making the actors occupy the settee by turns could save the scene from dullness. Mr. Milne practically admits defeat by his uninspired introduction of a diversion in the form of a pause for drinks! When, at the end, the door (through the unaccountable carelessness of an otherwise intelligent criminal) swings eerily open of its own volition, he is hopelessly beaten. Our withers remain unwrung, and we are not to be fooled out of our conviction that we have been bored by a flat scene at a point when no play can afford to be boring, and flatness is unpardonable.

The undeniable fact is that the dramatist has nothing whatever to tell us throughout the long " middle " of his play except that his criminals have become suspects—a necessary prelude to the conviction and arrest in the final scene, when at last our flagging interest is reawakened, and the play comes to life again by its recovery of movement.

On the other hand, there was the equally obstinate fact that the play had to keep going for three acts .. .

It has been necessary to dwell at some length on the play itself because its shortcomings explain why the production left us only moderately satisfied. Mr. Milne is apt to conceal the poverty of the land by the easy humour of his dialogue, and doubtless the original West End production concealed it very successfully. Not one of the St. Peter's Players proved capable of the light and shade necessary to blend the exquisite fooling which is the true Milne with the development of a sinister theme. " The Fourth Wall " demanded a nice mixture of grave and gay, the attitude of mind which turns momentarily aside from a serious matter to smile at the absurdity of a name like " Pumblechook." The actors were unable to produce the mixture, and, perforce, since the plot itself is serious, had to be grave. They used bludgeons instead of rapiers. The loss to the production was incalculable because, as has been said, without the crust the absence of real meat in the pie was only too apparent.

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play. Cameron, in the important part of Carter, was strong and convincing. One felt confident when he was on the stage. A certain clumsiness of movement detracted from his performance, though this was probably exaggerated by his being a very large person on a very small stage. Milburn, too, as the aider and abettor in villainy, was satisfactory.

Graham (Jimmy Ludgrove) marred an otherwise good piece of work by a certain nervousness of voice and gesture, though one suspects that his youthful enthusiasm came closest of all to the author's conception of a particular part.

Vero, as Arthur Ludgrove, the cause of all the trouble, was not so happy, and bravely though he tried with an uncongenial part, there was no disguising the fact that he was miscast.

As the country policeman (an easy, clean-cut part), Robson got his laughs with some heavy-handed humour which depended rather too much on the repetition of the same joke in a slightly—very slightly—different guise. But he should remember (as indeed should many of the cast) that slowness of enunciation is not compatible with picking up his cues smartly. Time after time he slowed up the scene in which Butler as " Sergeant Mallet," the brains (if the anatomical extravagance be permitted) of the arm of the law, interviewed the suspects capably enough. Time after time there were pauses (full-stops almost) when one said to oneself " P.C. Mallet is now about to say something funny "—probably about his tomatoes. Some day, Robson will undoubtedly play character parts well. But the time is not yet. He has much to learn in the school of experience.

At present he is unaware of the distinction between an actor, who fits into a pattern, and a music-hall comedian, who has the stage to himself.

The " ladies " undoubtedly " pulled it off," and, after the first inevitable shock, one was not troubled overmuch by the reversion to Elizabethan convention which is the unavoidable lot of school productions. Middleton, as Susan Cunningham, in particular did well. His acting in the last scene with Cameron was praiseworthy. This combination was one of the strongest things in the play.

There were times, indeed, when the producer might have concealed the masculinity of the ladies more effectively.

Middleton, for instance, in his scene with Graham, sat for long periods on a pouffe with the soles of his feet—large feet—turned towards the audience. It was particularly unfortunate because at that point the audience had little else with which to occupy its mind. The same pose, but with the

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feet upstage and so hidden, would have been immeasurably better, and similar attention to detail in the female impersonations generally would have avoided much unladylike angularity of elbows and largeness of extremities.

Still, the " ladies " were good and earned symbolical bouquets no less genuine than the actual ones handed over the footlights at the last performance. Mrs. Fulverton Fame (Reynolds) was a sufficiently hopeful widow, and Rodwell, as Jane West, made the most of his opportunities, especially when (rather surprisingly) Jane leapt into prominence in the last scene. It is doubtful, one thinks, whether the author meant Jane to look quite so dissipated. One would not have been surprised had she pulled out a hypodermic and taken a shot of cocaine : and Mr. Milne's characters are usually much too nice to do that kind of thing.

Clephan, as Major Fothergill, got a reasonable amount from his small part, and Revill was a satisfactory manservant.

On the whole the acting was competent. Every line was clearly audible, even those which, rightly and with nice judgment, were " thrown away." The tempo was about right, and in the places where the play dragged, the responsibility was generally not the players'. Too often facial expression did not support the spoken word. Quite frequently the actors failed to convey, as good acting should convey, that they were really thinking what they were saying, and the result was a mechanical reproduction of memorised lines. Anticipation was another fault. One knew that an actor was going to refer to the waste-paper basket because quite a long time beforehand he looked to see that it was there, or that a letter would shortly be produced because a preliminary gesture had already told us so.

And the value of the pause (which should last much longer than may seem reasonable to the over-eager actor) in pointing an important line was rarely exploited adequately.

But when criticism has shot its bolt, the fact remains that the Players gave good, enjoyable performances; and Mr. Rhodes is to be congratulated heartily on the results of his very able production. Mr. Fawcett and Schofield, whose work was as efficient as ever, dealt with the set and the lighting in a way which left little to be desired. A little more of what, in the jargon of the professionals, is called " nonsense " would have given atmosphere to the room and created the impression that it was a place in which a particular kind of person lived, and moved, and had his being.

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characteristic oddments which would in no way have added to the already serious difficulties of floor-space. As it was, one felt that there was nothing on the stage which was not a " property." Mr. Ludgrove apparently never read the papers or had any correspondence other than what was concerned with the actual play, and he was painfully and impossibly tidy in his habits. When the curtain went up for Act III one thought immediately—" Ah, there is a new property, a tray with glasses. Later in the scene the actors will have a drink." This sort of obviousness, unimportant though it may seem, should be avoided.

The make-up was excellent, at any rate as seen from L.B. the gallery.

THE DEBATING SOCIETY. President: THE HEADMASTER. Chairman: L. C. LE TOCQ, Esq. Committee : J. H. BUTLER, C. M. ROBSON, H. A. MILBURN, G. D. JEFFERSON. The first meeting of the Society this term was held on Saturday, October 14th. It opened with the election of Milburn and Jefferson to the Committee. A demand for the minute book brought forth an apology, which is now becoming a hardy annual, to the effect that it was missing.

A vote of censure was then passed on the old committee.

The Chairman then called on F. F. Steele to propose the motion that " Propaganda will win the War." Steele opened by quoting the proverb, " If you throw mud hard enough at a, wall some of it will stick," and then said that the Nazi leaders had hammered into the Germans statements like " Germany's destiny is to rule the world, Jews are creations of the devil," for so long that the Germans had now come to regard this as true. If the Germans could be made to retain their belief in these various dogmas, they would take a lot of beating. If the English propoganda could persuade the Germans that their leaders were a set of gangsters using Germany to line their pockets, the discontent, already considerable, might be fanned into a furnace, destroying Nazidom.

The German propaganda to England was bad, and helps England by providing her with light relief from the B.B.C. programmes.

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His speech was long and rambling.

Milburn, who is about the best debater in the School, opened the opposition by quoting Mr. Chamberlain's statement, " deeds, not words, will win this war," and then tore to pieces some of Steele's more obscure points.

Vero, supporting Steele, said that propaganda was effective only when the armies were at a deadlock, a state of affairs which seemed imminent.

K. H. Rhodes, Esq., seconding the opposition, said that propaganda in the form of words would only have an effect on the weak-minded. The deciding factor, in his opinion, would be an economic blockade, not propaganda.

The debate was then thrown open to the house, and several members spoke on subjects connected remotely with the motion.

Steele's chief point in his summing up was that not many people seemed to have realised that bad propaganda was helping the other side to win the war.

After Milburn had summed up his case a vote was taken, in which the motion was defeated by 26 votes to 10.

The second meeting of the Society, held on October 25th, was opened by reading the minutes of the previous meeting.

Several caustic comments on Steele's speech were made, and so Steele got up and proposed a vote of censure on the Committee for " failing to realise the genius of his speech."

This was passed.

This meeting was a " mystery " meeting. Ten volunteers spoke for four minutes with four minutes' preparation on previously arranged subjects. The draw for subjects was as follows :Brown—" Food Committees."

L. C. Le Tocq, Esq.—" Qui s'excuse, s'accuse."

J. S. Cooper, Esq.—" Ghosts."

Barker—" Walking as a Pastime."

Milburn—" Love."

Revill—" The early bird catches the worm."

Denby—" Friendships cannot be bought."

Ward—" Gaudeamus igitur dum u venes sumus."

Motum—" A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse."

Ping—" That this sort of meeting is a good thing."

The speakers found great difficulty in finding sufficient material to fill the allotted time, and all resorted to various expedients ; for example, speaking at a funereal rate or reading poetry. Mr. Cooper gave us his experience of ghosts 22

and made the best speech of the evening. Mr. Le Tocq finished up by a lecture on French grammar, and Motum steered his subject into channels of aviation.

We heartily agree with the last motion, and want some more meetings of this type.

The last meeting of the Society was held on December 9th. This meeting took the form of a trial, and was not very successful, due chiefly to the muddle of times in the case and the dullness of counsels' speeches. The trial was of Guy Wilkinson Denby, who was accused of the wilful robbery of valuable paintings from J. H. Butler, of Clifton Rise. The officials of the court were as follows:Judge—H. A. Milburn.

Clerk of the Court—G. D. Jefferson.

Usher of the Court—C. M. Robson.

Counsel for Prosecution—J. A. Cato.

Counsel for Defence—J. H. Motum.

A jury was selected from the house, and after they had been sworn in, elected J. I. Sleight as its foreman.

The case opened with Cato's description of the facts of the crime. These were badly muddled and required continuous explanation from the Judge. Various witnesses were called, sworn in, and were asked questions which still further muddled and contradicted prosecuting counsel's evidence. Denby and Milburn enlivened the proceedings considerably, Denby by showering his counsel with numerous notes, and Milburn with caustic comments to all and sundry.

Motum's plea was that someone had for some unknown reason, planted the paintings in Denby's study. The evidence was so scrappy that the only possible verdict was the one returned unanimously by the Jury—Not Guilty.

Thus ended a meeting which could have been really amusing and good entertainment, but was in reality a flop.

THE SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY.

President: THE HEADMASTER. Vice-Presidents : W. N. CORKHILL, Esq., D. K. CREWS, Esq., E. S. JEFFS, Esq., L. C. LE TOCQ, Esq. Hon. Treasurer: A. W. PING, Esq. Hon. Secretary: F. F. STEELE. Rise Representative : F. H. HILLYARD. House Representative: G. W. VERO. Temple Representative: J. McN. INGLIS 23

The first meeting of the Society was held on Saturday, October 21st. Its objects were twofold : firstly, to elect officials for the coming School year; secondly, to listen to a lecture by J. Inglis on " The Human Eye." The officials of the Society were duly elected ; Mr. Ping then proposed the motion that the termly subscription be discontinued, as the Society was at present incurring no expense. This motion was passed unanimously.

Business over, Inglis began his lecture, admirably illustrated by slides.

He divided his talk into four parts. The first part of the lecture showed how light was refracted in different ways by the various types of lenses. He also described a spherometer, an instrument used to determine quickly and accurately the power of a lens. He then passed on to the spectrum, and explained the formation of a rainbow. The second part of the lecture dealt with the anatomy of the eye, and some excellent slides were shown depicting the various muscles and nerves ; their functions were explained by likening the eye to a camera. The third part consisted of slides demonstrating the various defects of vision and their correction, and the last part showed the effects of various diseases on the eye.

The second meeting of the Society was held on 4th November. Two lectures were given: one by Mr. Corkhill, who gave a practical demonstration of developing a film ; the other by Mr. Ping, who gave a lecture, illustrated by slides, on " Weather and its Ways."

Mr. Corkhill first gave a short theoretical discussion: a photographic film consists of fine particles suspended in gelatine. When light falls on these grains, silver is formed at that point. The silver is then made visible by " developing " the film, i.e., immersing it in a solution of a reducing agent, which will reduce the silver bromide to silver preferentially where there is already a nucleus of silver. The negative thus produced inverts the dark and light portions of the original image. It is made permanent and stable to light by " fixing," i.e., dissolving the unchanged silver bromide in a bath of " hypo."

These various operations were then carried out experimentally.

Mr. Ping's lecture dealt with the various types of cloud formations, the effect of weather on the growth of trees and rainfall.

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The third meeting of the Scientific Society was held in the lecture theatre. A lantern lecture was given by Mr. Le Tocq on " Sea Coast Birds." He dealt with three families of birds which include the more well-known species. He interposed his lecture on the slides by showing some very good specimens of the eggs of these birds. Mr. Le Tocq gave many examples of these birds from his own home, The Channel Islands, where they are known to abound in large numbers.

The slides shown were all of excellent quality. That, coupled with the interesting talk, made the lecture a very well spent evening for all who are at all interested in wild birds.

In thanking Mr. Le Tocq, Mr. Ping gave some of his own experiences of sea coast birds, mentioning the occurrence of two gannets, one on the Ings, and another found by F. H. Hillyard at Poppleton, in this last year.

There being no further business after the lecture, the meeting was closed.

FAMOUS OLD PETERITES-III. THOMAS MORTON (1564-1659).

Thomas Morton was born in the Pavement, at York, in 1564, and attended the School under the headmastership of John Pullen. At school he was noted mainly for his excellent football ability, but he was not by any means devoid of brains, for, when he went up to St. John's College, Cambridge, he became fellow of that college and obtained his degree. In 1592 he was ordained, and from then until 1598 he held the post of university lecturer of logic, and at this time he was presented to the living of Long Marston, where in 1602 he greatly distinguished himself. The plague swept the city, and in an attempt to isolate the disease the sick were placed in tents on Hob Moor ; Morton was the only clergyman who would visit the sick, and daily he used to ride in on an ass which was laden with provisions, and many were the blessings showered upon his head by the patients.

His rise in the ranks of the Church was rapid, and for this he was indebted to his piety and learning, for there was hardly a man in England who was as great in learning as he. He held successively the Deaneries of Gloucester, 1606, Winchester, 1609, and the Canonry of York in 1610.

Six years later he became Bishop of Chester, and in 1618, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, and finally in 1632 he reached the peak of his career when he became Bishop of 25

Durham. In this diocese his name will long be remembered, for he spent much money in doing good work for the community at large. With the advent of the Commonwealth the episcopate was abolished, and although he was promised a pension it was never paid to him, and the remainder of his life was passed in retirement. His death occurred a few months before the Restoration, and the only thing that he possessed was his chalice, which he left to the parish church that he knew so well in his boyhood—All Hallows, in the Pavement.

During his life, Morton wrote many books, amongst which are the anti-Roman Catholic works, " Apologia Catholica," 1605, and " A Catholicke Appeale," 1609.

Perhaps the finest example of his universal popularity occurs when he met the Presbyterian member of Parliament, Sir Christopher Yelverton. After his expulsion from the Church he set out on horseback to London in order to find a quiet place in which to die. As he rode, Sir Christopher Yelverton overtook him. He was known to Morton, but did not know him himself, and he asked the Bishop who he was. " I am that old man, the Bishop of Durham, in spite of all your votes," was the reply. On hearing this, Yelverton took the old man home and tended him as though he were his own son.

Thus the life of another Old Peterite has been recorded in our magazine, and his name will be passed down in the annals of our School.

G. D. Jefferson, Form VI.

S.S. HOLMPARK. When war started we had grave fears that the British Ship Adoption Society might have to abandon its work.

Happily, these fears were soon allayed, though, of course, the connection with the " Holmpark " has become a little less close, as we are unable to follow her voyages, as information of her whereabouts cannot be published. The personal contacts, however, remain unimpaired.

Two batches of letters from the ship arrived in September, and extracts from some of the letters are published below. During the holidays the ship had crossed from Nayoya to Vancouver Island in ballast. Ore concentrates were loaded there for the Atlantic coast of U.S.A., and we have had an interesting account, with photographs, of the mines and mill where the ore is obtained and partially refined.

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It was while the " Holmpark " was on this voyage that war broke out, and the next news that we had was from Liverpool, where the ship had arrived after an Atlantic crossing in convoy. Since then several boys have received gifts and curios brought from the Far East by Capt. Rickard and Mr. Thompson, the Chief Engineer, while the Wireless Operator, Mr. Martin, paid us an all-too-brief visit. However, we were glad to see him, and hope he will not miss an opportunity to come again and stay longer.

We are not at liberty to speak of future movements of the ship, though Capt. Rickards says he expects to be " South of the Equator " for Christmas. Our best wishes go with them. * * Extracts from Letters from Capt. W. W. Rickard, Master, S.S. Holmpark.

North Pacific Ocean, August, 1939.

JAPAN. Misumi.

This is in the island of Kyushu and is about half-way up a gulf called the Shimabara Kaiwan. This gulf runs in an easterly direction for about twenty miles and then northerly for about the same distance. Misumi is on the eastern shore and has a narrow entrance between a hill about six hundred feet on one side and an island about 250 feet high on the other, the channel for a ship this size being less than 400 feet wide. It then widens for a stretch of about one mile, when you again pass through a short narrow channel into the main harbour. The harbour is formed by the mainland and a number of islands. There are deep water berths for a number of ships, but like nearly all ports in Japan there are practically no quay berths as we know them.

Ships mostly lie at buoys and make a running moor, so nearly all loading and discharging is done to lighters or barges.

Round about Misumi the mainland and islands are very hilly; within 4 mile of the ship, one hill is 1,400 feet high, and all the hills are covered with small trees or cultivated terrace fashion. So it is quite a pleasant sight after seeing nothing but sea for many days. As regards the town, this is not much of a show, not much more than a village and not very clean or tidy. Harbour works are in progress, and along the north or town side they are making a fine quay wall, but as far as I could gather, this is only for small craft. The tides in the entrance are strong, so it is necessary to wait for slack water. Apart from this it is a very pleasant place to visit.

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Miike.

This port is on the Chimabara Kaiwan and lies north of Misumi, and is about 22 miles from that port on the eastern side of the gulf. This is entirely an artificial port; a dredged channel leads from the gulf to an outer basin, where small craft can berth, and there is also one berth with a coal elevator for large ships. Other deep water berths are being built in this basin and the basin is being enlarged. Leading from the basin are locks for the wet dock. In the dock a number of ships can be berthed, about four on the east side where the coal tips are, the other berths being for general cargo. This port is practically owned by the Mitsui Co. This is mostly a coal shipping port, and in normal times a big trade is done in bunker ships. The town of Miike is about half an hour's walk from the docks, and is much the same as other towns in Japan, that is, most of the shops and houses are built of wood and are low; high brick or stone buildings being unusual in a typical Japanese town. Miike also joins the larger town of Omhuta, there being an electric tramway between the two.

Moji.

Moji is on the eastern side of the Shimonoseki Strait, which is actually the western entrance to the Inland Sea, and so, of course, very much resembles a river. About the best way to describe the strait is to say that it forms a letter S ; it varies from one to two miles wide and the tides are strong. Here again the surrounding land is hilly, and Moji stands on the foot and slope of the hills. Again in this port there are few quay berths, so most ships are moored. There was much congestion while we were there, so we had to moor where the current was strong. You may have noticed us among the casualties, as when swinging one day we had the misfortune to hit a Greek with our stern; our damage was slight and there was a little to his upper works, rails, boats, etc., but nothing very serious. I did not go ashore at Moji, but this is a busy town and port, so has quite a number of good buildings, all the roads were good and the town well cared for.

Nagoya.

This is at the head of a gulf called the Iseno Umi, the harbour being about 35 miles from the entrance to the gulf.

This town is on the island of Honshu. The entrance to the gulf is narrow, less than a mile, between a high island and a low point on the mainland ; from there the gulf is wide and deep, or rather of a moderate depth. Nagoya harbour is again a built harbour, being mostly dredged out of a

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swamp and low-lying ground, and a lot of reclaiming is going on. This is about the third largest town in Japan, so the port is a busy one ; there are mooring buoys for a number of ships and also some quay berths. The land near the port is fairly flat, but in anything like clear weather the hills a few miles away show up. The port is several miles from Nagoya, the run taking about half an hour by street car. Nagoya has fine, well-paved streets, with a good service of electric cars, and also several large department stores, some large and good hotels on the English and American system, and quite a number of good restaurants.

Crossing the North Pacific.

Well I don't think much of the North Pacific, and the person who named this ocean could not have crossed it before doing so. This is a summer crossing, and we started off too well with two days of splendid weather; then we had five days of dense fog and moderate winds ; since then we have had a mixture of moderate winds and gloomy weather, and our friend the sun seems to have deserted us for this passage, and it's a long time since we had so many overcast days. However, most of the winds have been westerly, so the old ship has bucked and rolled along at fairly good speed, our average to date being 10.3. Since leaving the coast, eleven days ago, we have seen no ships, but there are four or five other British ships of our class going across a bit ahead or astern.

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JAPANESE DRESS. Nagoya proper is five miles from the port, but there is a large town at the port called Chikko Nagoya. The latter is all Japanese, in spite of its contact with foreign ships.

The ladies all wear the kimona, in fact, everyone does. The ladies wear it at all times, but the men and boys usually wear European clothes by day and change into kimonas in the evening. The women have beautiful embroidery on their's and the little girls look just like dolls. Men and boys wear plain kimonas and the usual wooden footgear. This consists of a piece of wood shaped to the sole of the foot, and having underneath two cross-pieces about an inch or an inch and a half deep. All the weight of the body is taken by the cross-pieces, thus keeping the sole off the ground. Very smart youths may have cross-pieces four inches high. This is the usual type, though there are as many styles as there are shoes in our own country. I find them quite easy to walk with and they are fine for keeping the feet dry. Wooden shoes, kimona and fan completes 29

the dress of most males, although very natty youths may wear a bright sash and a coloured headcloth. All have a fan, however, and it is an amusing sight to see the lads of the village gathered on the street corners, talking and fanning themselves with highly ornamental fans. The ladies wear a more complicated dress. There hair is very elaborately I have not arranged and has a number of combs in it. touched it, but they tell me it is kept stiff with grease. I do know that at night they have special wooden pillows to rest the head on so that the hair is not disarranged.

Extract from letter from F. Martin, Esq., W/O., S.S. Holmpark.

Japan, July, 1939. * * *

DISCHARGING AT MISUMI. Our phosphate was intended for the farms, and large sampans loaded it and carried it off to villages in various parts of the many inlets near. In the evening a few large sampans came alongside ready for the morning, and while mother cooked the evening rice, father and the family came on board to nod and smile. That's as far as we could get the first day. They seemed friendly, anyway, and we could hope that their fellows would prove equally so. At seven next morning (they always come in the middle of the night like that) came the gangs—practically all women. There were six women in each gang, and each gang had a boy to handle the empty tubs and to hook on the full ones. The winches were worked by men. It will seem that the women had the heavy work to do, and though they looked solid enough, such heavy and dirty work seemed hardly fit for women. The boys were fragile looking lads, and always reminded me of the egg shell porcelain made in the country.

They could do the work and laughed and joked all day long, and at the end of a ten-hour day would scamper up the iron ladders from the holds, strip and leap over the side for a swim. The women, too, seemed fresh at the end of the day. Everyone carried paper fans—and used them. Sometimes when a slight delay occurred a boy or woman would ask for a cigarette, and were all bows and smiles when handed one. There was always a reward, and next morning you would get a large bunch of flowers. We each became attached to some of the gangs for no reason that I could discover, and the boy belonging to that crowd would bring flowers every day. The saloon looked like a florist's shop.

Extract from letter from F. Martin, Esq., W/O., S.S. Holmpark.

Japan, July, 1939.

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MINING AT BRITANNIA BEACH, VANCOUVER ISLAND. In this case it is not one mine, but several, and to reach the entrance of any one of them it is necessary to go much further up the mountain side. There are three levels, but I have forgotten the heights and some other details, my excuse being that I expected to write about it long before this. Each shaft is driven into the mountain side in the same way as a railway tunnel, and actually becomes one, as a light railway is used to bring in, or out, miners and gear. The material dug out is—to the untrained eye—just earth and stones, but the mill sorts it all out and delivers gold, copper, iron and lead, as well as a number of byproducts—from different mines, of course. Each mine produces some of each product, but is referred to as the " goldmine " or whichever is the chief product of that particular level. Passengers and goods are taken to the various levels by rail.

THE MILL.

Here the chief interest lies at the mill. The material from the mines enters at the top storey and is passed down from floor to floor. At each floor it is washed and dried and certain products extracted. The din is terrific. Huge steel drums full of rocks revolve and sort the rock into sizes.

These pass into crushers, then into more drums. In order to increase the noise—and to grind the rocks into powder— these drums are half full of cast iron balls about the size of cricket balls. They do their job all right. When the drums are emptied they produce thick mud, but what wonderful mud it is Gold, a little silver, copper, iron, lead, etc., are all removed from it at lower floors.

Extract from letter from F. Martin, Esq., October, 1939.

W/O., S.S. Holmpark.

THE SCHOOL IN WARTIME, 1914 AND 1939.

On glancing through " The Peterite " for 1914 several interesting comparisons presented themselves. First, and perhaps not naturally, the O.T.C. seems to have been flourishing with increasing vigour. There were two full parades a week, one of which was a full dress parade during a half-holiday. Another rather interesting point which came to light was the fact that soldiers appear to have been 31

present everywhere. One form-room and the fives court were used by the Pay Corps, while the range and fields were put at the disposal of the 6th West Yorks. Regiment.

Perhaps most effected by the war was the School Rugger.

Apart from matches there were no senior games, as the West Yorks. used the fields, which were half under water in any case.

The problem of blacking-out the School did not raise its ugly head to such an extent in 1914 as it has done in the " Second World War." It appears that the danger of air raids was so slim that the School was asked to extinguish all bright lights between the hours of 5 and 7 p.m., as it was between these hours that the likelihood of a zeppelin " coming over " was greatest. This request forms an amusing comparison with the law-enforced restriction of lights to-day.

Nowhere in this copy of " The Peterite " could any reference be found to trenches or gas-and-bomb proof cellars.

If such existed in 1914 no indication was given in the School magazine. Perhaps the greatest difference between the two wars is the omnipresent gas-mask. The now familiar object was in 1914 absent, of course. To revert to the O.T.C., it appears to have been even stronger in 1914 than at present.

Also there was a great deal of corps activity in the way of field days.

Another inconvenience which the community was spared in 1914 was the rationing of petrol. Although this is not so great a consideration for the School as for the rest of the public, it does limit our fixture list of away matches. As a direct consequence of the universal black-out the shortening of morning periods and the beginning of afternoon school twenty minutes earlier were tried this term. This was not, of course, a consideration in 1914, when black-out restrictions were less severe.

Taken as a whole, the School was not particularly disturbed at the outbreak of either war. The school life goes on in the same old channels as it did in pre-war days.

N. A. Chudleigh, Form V.

JOURNALISM-AND SPORT.

By S. G. S. Pawle.

Judging by the small number who stray from the well trodden paths of the leading professions, or who contemplate following any other than their fathers' career, there seems some justification for maintaining that the average public 32

schoolboy nowadays lacks enterprise. Of the many hundreds of Peterites known to me, I can recall only one who has chosen journalism as a career, and for that reason I am particularly glad to accept your Editors' invitation to discuss one or two aspects of a job which is often arduous, sometimes precarious, but always so intensely interesting that anyone who has ever worked on a newspaper cannot stay away from journalism for long.

Any newspaper man will tell you that his life has one or two obvious drawbacks. To start with, the steady decline in the number of national and provincial newspapers increases the intensity of competition, and the journalist has not, in many cases, the security of the normal professional or commercial life. Although many papers act with great generosity in this respect, there is no universial pension scheme, and in the stress and strain of modern press work the younger man holds a big advantage—an advantage which may seem somewhat cruel to that man when he himself reaches the " not so young " stage.

The hours of work are often long. When I joined Yorkshire's leading newspaper nearly nine years ago, I soon found that even as a sporting journalist one frequently started work at 9-0 a.m. and was still in the office at 11-30 p.m., the evening having been taken up with the " covering " of a big dinner or an important meeting of some major Cricket or Football organisation.

On the other hand, unless one is a sub-editor, one is not generally chained to the routine of office work, and particularly on the sporting side one gets plenty of opportunity for travel all over the country—and, in the case of the national papers, further afield. A friend of mine on one London Sunday paper went to America and back for one of Joe Louis's fights which lasted, as far as I can recall, for about a couple of minutes.

The space at my disposal makes it impossible to deal with more than a few points in the life of a journalist, but in view of the general interest taken in the normal games played at a public school, some observations on the routine of reporting sport may not be out of place.

Many people envisage the " covering " of a Cricket or Rugger match as a leisurely occupation, involving a little casual taking of notes, which can be written up into a report when the game is over. They generally forget the time factor, which compels the reporter to begin his description for the following morning's paper long before play in a Yorkshire Cricket match, for instance, has finished. If 33

Yorkshire, for instance, are playing Gloucestershire at Bristol, upwards of a column report has to be completed not later than 7-30 p.m. and in the hands of the post office authorities for transmission by telegram to the North. So that, when play often nowadays continues till 7-0, it is necessary to start your story soon after the tea interval and write steadily with an eye to the play still proceeding, the clock, and your notes at one and the same time.

If any vital change in the fortunes of the game takes place in the closing hours, the whole trend of your description may be changed, and a late hat trick by Verity may spoil an hour's patient work. Cricket fortunes fluctuate to such a remarkable degree that reporting of the game presents many traps for the unwary; on one memorable occasion a well-known writer suggested that Leicestershire were so deplorably weak that it was an insult for the Champion County to have to waste time in meeting them at all. On the same day that his report appeared, that particular match took a sudden and unpredictable turn, with the result that Leicestershire gained a crushing victory, and their supporters invaded the press box intent on lynching the unhappy writer in question.

The " covering " of Football matches for evening papers and big fights (which generally take place late in the evening) for morning papers give one little chance for quiet reflection. To my mind, Rugger " takes the biscuit." One is frequently confronted by thirty players of whom one knows only one or two by sight; half-way through the game on a December afternoon they are probably so covered with mud that even the referee has his work cut out to distinguish them. And yet the hapless Rugger reporter is expected to know in an instant the scorer of a try on the opposite side of the ground, the names of everyone who handled the ball in the preceding movement, and the identity of the goal-kicker. While he is hurriedly describing the try someone is probably scoring for the opposing side in a rapid counter attack—and all the time the writer's telephonist is jogging his elbow with frantic reminder that the " Evening Express " is waiting on the line for the next batch of " copy." Small wonder that you sometimes see mistakes in sports reporting.

But mistakes of that sort are excusable; one faux pas which was not so excusable was perpetrated by a certain young (very young) reporter who came up to me once on Sports Day at St. Peter's. He sought information about the results of various events. Mr. Rhodes and I supplied the 34

winners and times, which he wrote down till we came to the 100 yards. " So-and-so-10 4/5 secs.," we told him. " Oh, I won't bother about the 4/5," was his startling reply!

Shades of Jesse Owens !

S. G. Pawle.

ATHLETICS. This Lent Term will once again see the outdoor activities of the School devoted largely to athletics in one form or another. As last year, the cross-country race will be held probably within the first four weeks of the term, and towards the end of the term the standard-time contests will start, to be followed by the School sports. Unfortunately a visit from the Achilles Club or any such club will be impossible this year, but it is hoped that a triangular meeting can be arranged with two other schools.

Training for the cross-country race should begin right at the start of term by all those who are eligible to compete.

Care should be taken to see that the training progresses by easy stages, ranging, for example, from jog-trotting and walking every quarter of the distance, then by eliminating the walking and gradually increasing the pace and distance all the time until the completed course has been covered.

Each performance makes the next more easy, but by all means in training avoid running to a state of exhaustion.

Much the same method of procedure should be adopted for the School sports at the end of term, but here skill is more essential in order to be really successful. Good style is most important right from the beginning, and for most of us this has to be learnt until it has become second nature, for it is style which largely accounts for the difference seen in the efforts of good and indifferent performers. The longer a thing is practised the longer it takes to forget it.

Finally, to attain maximum efficiency in many of these movements, it will probably be necessary for various muscles of our bodies to be stretched by different forms of exercises, and above all, our bodies must be properly warmed up before any attempt is made. Frequent short practices are better than a few long ones, so long as the short ones are longer

than warming-up periods.

R.H.

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SCOUT NEWS. ST. PETER'S SENIOR SCOUTS. We started off the term with the usual meetings, but very soon were obliged to alter our times owing to the " black-out." It soon became almost impossible to meet together, so we had to have small classes for those who were able to attend. By this means we managed to get through a good deal of 1st class and 2nd class badge work. We were very grateful to Mr. Le Tocq for examining the 1st class map reading and drawing. Two meetings were taken up with firefighting and methods of escape. Several scouts were bold enough to be lowered from the Scout Loft to test out the rather risky knots of others ! The " escape " rope caused much amusement and proved to be a very easy method of escape, particularly for the athletes. For the firefighting practice a large fire was lit and then extinguished by means of chemical extinguishers. These extinguishers are very effective, but wasteful, as once they are started they continue to send out a powerful jet of water and gas until the container is empty.

Several times when it was impossible to arrange a proper parade, small parties of Scouts did some very useful jobs down at the School trenches, digging, carting earth, filling sandbags, making a path, and a host of other tasks.

Twice at the end of term we sent, together with St. Olave's, a party to collect the waste paper and take it to the " dump," somewhere in York, where it was sorted and despatched.

We were very disappointed to hear that the " Public School Scout Certificate " had been abolished. Instead, the Senior Scouts, who had hoped to work for this, had to spend what time they had to spare on 1st class badge work, a very good training, though, for those who wish to become Rovers or even Scouters in the future.

Once again we must thank all those who have so generously given us their services throughout the term.

THE FIVE MILLION CLUB. The Secretary wishes to thank all those who have generously subscribed to the Club.

Now that the war is on, the Club is devoting a substantial proportion of its revenue to the provision of recreational facilities for evacuated children. The Club has already purchased large numbers of footballs, rounders sticks, tennis balls, etc., and these are to be distributed among the 250 villages where such equipment is most needed and will be most welcome. 36

NOTES AND ITEMS. Congratulations to C. M. Robson, who represented the North of England Public Schools Rugby Union team against the South of England at Twickenham on Wednesday, January 10th.

At the Carol Service at the end of term, which was arranged by Mrs. Baird, the collection produced the sum of four guineas, which was sent to the Lord Mayor's and Sheriff's Xmas Cheer Fund.

Alderman J. B. Inglis, J.P., presented the School with a handsome silver cup, to be known as the Work Cup, and which is held during the present year by Temple House.

This year provides a double link between the School and the City of York. We respectfully congratulate Alderman R. J. Pulleyn, a parent of an O.P. and a present pupil, on becoming Lord Mayor of York, and Councillor J. H. Moore, who represents the City on the School's Board of Governors, and who is this year Sheriff of York.

Only one meeting of " The Curtain " was held during the term, when " The Fourth Wall " was read. This three act play by A. A. Milne was subsequently adopted for the School play.

An A.R.P. practice took place early in the term for the whole School, and places were allotted in the cellars and trenches. The Boarders have night practices from time to time.

The Saturday Society has temporarily abandoned the policy of inviting professional entertainers, and to replace these, other interests have been organised together with an occasional House concert.

The School attended Evensong, as usual, on the First Sunday in Advent in York Minster.

We congratulate C. M. Robson, J. H. Butler, P. R. G. Graham and K. C. Brown on being awarded their 1st XV caps for the current season ; J. B. Shillitoe, R. C. Lynch, T. F. Cameron, J. I. Sleight, G. W. Harding, H. L. Taylor, F. F. Steele, N. A. C. Chudleigh and G. R. Morris on being awarded their 1st XV colours ; A. S. Clephan and F. N. Buckler on being awarded their 2nd XV colours.

Congratulations to M. S. Douglas on being appointed Head of the School, and to R. C. Lynch on being appointed Head of the School for the coming term.

P. R. G. Graham and H. A Milburn have been appointed School Monitors.

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R. Earle is to be congratulated on being appointed Honorary Secretary of Shooting.

F. F. Steele and G. Long were appointed Editors of " The Peterite."

G. Long, E. J. Hillyard, J. B. Shillitoe and H. L. Taylor were made Assistant Librarians.

The Editors of " The Peterite " were pleasantly surprised to receive a copy of another "Peterite " last term.

We have long exchanged magazines with St. Peter's College, Adelaide, whose journal bears the same title. This " Peterite " was sent from St. Peter's College, Ceylon, a large and distinguished Catholic school. The school would appear to be run on traditional English Public School lines, and the school lists include Indian, French, Spanish and English names.

We hope to have further news of St. Peter's College, Ceylon, in a later issue, and meanwhile send them our best wishes.

O.T.C. NEWS. This term has seen a very encouraging increase in the number of cadets, with the result that the Corps is now over a hundred strong.

No. 1 platoon is composed of people who have obtained " Certificate A " and are preparing for the promotion exam.

No. 2 platoon is composed of cadets bent on taking ." Certificate A " practical next term.

Nos. 3 and 4 platoons are this term's recruits, who, incidentally, are making very good progress. This term, No. 1 platoon's training has been mainly schemes on the sand-table and lectures. No. 2 platoon has had alternate lectures and semi-dress parades. Nos. 3 and 4 platoons have been undergoing arms training.

By order of the War Office, cadets passing " Certificate A " practical have been awarded their " Certificate A." The first six cadets in order of merit who passed their promotion exam were made lance-corporals.

The following have obtained " Certificate A ":—Cadets Sleight, Milburn, Clephan, Hunter, Steele, Garnham, Cameron, Inglis, Robson, Motum, Scholey, Revill, Earle, Veitch, Scott (T.), Ramsden, Belchamber, Brown (K. C.), Cave, 'rumen, Denby, Shearston, Ogley, Pulleyn, Ruddock (P.), Hort, Ward (J.), Lynch, Taylor and Wright . (R. A.).

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Passed Promotion Examination and promoted lancecorporal :—Cadets Clephan, Steele, Milburn, Cameron, Inglis and Robson.

Other promotions :—Sgt. Douglas to C.S.M.; Sgt. Butler to C.Q.M.S.; Cpl. Vero to Sergeant; L/Cpls. Graham, Jefferson (G.D.), Harding and Cato to Corporals.

There has only been one full-dress parade this term, mainly to ensure that uniforms were in good condition and well-fitting. The band has been making good progress this term, although most of the experienced drummers have left, the new recruits are remarkably efficient. The bugles have acquired six new instruments, which brings the total number up to fourteen, a very impressive array.

SHOOTING. Owing to wartime black-out arrangements, the scoring has been rather below the usual standard, but will doubtless improve when the team becomes more accustomed to the new conditions. Meanwhile, practising for the " Country Life " competition carries on.

Four league matches have been shot this term, two of the results are as yet unknown. There has also been a friendly " Country Life " competition against Ampleforth.

Result :—Earle, 80 ; Inglis, 76 ; Vero, 66 ; Revill, 62 ; Harding, 61; Langstaff, 69; Steele, 59; Cole, 46 ; Total, 519.

Ampleforth, 602.

The result of the Recruits' Shooting Competition was as follows :-1st, Morris. Then in order of precedence: Young, Hey, Amcotts, Hanson, Harper, Million, Godsmark, Blakey, Claybourn, Wyman, Anderson (W.B.), Ward (G. K.), Smith, Penniston.

RUGBY FOOTBALL, 1939.

RUGGER RETROSPECT. There can be no doubt that we shall always be able to look back upon this season with extreme satisfaction. At the beginning of the term we found ourselves living in the first few weeks of the war, not knowing what times lay ahead of us, with the result that our fixture list inevitably had to undergo several changes. The realities of the blackout had to be faced, and travelling presented various difficulties, but for all this we did manage to play eleven very enjoyable matches, and the opposition encountered on the whole was about as strong as usual. Unfortunately, our fixtures with Trent College, Mount St. Mary's College, Leeds 39

Grammar School and Denstone College all had to be cancelled and, by comparing the results during the season, we were probably robbed of several victories.

We naturally had our ups and downs, and in the very first match of the season the School suffered a very serious piece of ill-luck, by losing J. H. T. Hunter, as it turned out, for the remainder of the season. The absence of this old colour seemed to unsettle the pack, which for the first half of the term were a very ragged eight. It may have been that they took a long time to get fit, or it may have been due to their odd sizes and shapes, however, very suddenly they became a most formidable pack, as was clearly demonstrated in the Worksop match, and they more than held their own against all-corners for the remainder of the season from the York match onwards.

The three-quarters, who were mainly old colours, also had their difficulties, principally due to one or two injuries in the line, and so little was the reserve of talent at centre three-quarter that either Cameron had to come up from full-back with the inclusion of Clephan, or else Milburn had to fill the gap, with the inclusion of Buckler at scrum-half.

This latter alternative was usually adopted, but it was quite impossible for Milburn to emulate the potentialities of Brown in the centre, and as a result the three-quarter line lost much of its thrust. For a time the tackling was too high, and far too many points were scored against us, but this defect was soon remedied and the backs were able more easily to concentrate on attacking.

We finally ended the season by scoring 125 points for, in comparison to 130 points against. Nothing could be much more even than this, and it might be as well to remind ourselves that twenty-seven of these points were scored against the School by a very strong Headingley side, which included no fewer than seven of their regular 1st XV side which was so successful last year. In the school matches we put up a very disappointing display when losing to Durham School, and we were confidently and eagerly awaiting the return fixture in order to avenge our defeat, but this had to be cancelled by Durham. We defeated Giggleswick in an unspectacular game, and lost to Ampleforth College by 21 points to 10. On this occasion we were up against a first-class school side, and we did well to score as many as ten points, especially when we learnt at the end of the season that Ampleforth only had 35 points scored against them throughout the season, and had lost only one match, and that by a narrow margin to Sedbergh School.

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Unfortunately, many of the 1st XV will be leaving us this year, but we earnestly hope that they will not allow their days of Rugger at the School to be at an end. It is a great encouragement to all those who are continuing to maintain the tradition of Rugger at the School to have old boys coming down to play against them, and those of you who are leaving us this year must see to it that you form the nucleus of Old Peterite sides for years to come.

Points P. W. L. D. F. A. 1st XV ...

11 5 5 1 125 130 2nd XV ...

4 0 4 0 6 132 Colts 4 1 3 0 30 69 1st XV CHARACTERS. * Denotes a cap. The whole team are colours.

H. A. Milburn*. A most able captain. For a large part of the season he had to adapt himself to playing centre three-quarter instead of remaining in his accustomed position at scrum-half. Whatever task confronted him he could always be relied upon to do his utmost. If only he had had the opportunity of playing at scrum-half all the term he would probably have had a most successful season, as he had cured himself of many of his faults.

M. S. Douglas* (Vice-Captain). Wing forward. Did not perhaps come up to expectations, but nevertheless a most useful member of the side. Good in the line-out, although apt to knock the ball back when hard pressed.

A most valuable long-distance place-kicker, and leftfooted touch finder.

C. M. Robson*. Front row forward. The live spark of the pack. A grand forward, especially in the loose, where he brought off some superb tackles. He knew how to use every ounce of his energy, and was a fine example to the pack. He will be greatly missed, and if given the opportunity he must continue with the game.

J. H. Butler*. Second row forward. The sort of forward one rarely sees. He used his weight to good effect, but he lacked the necessary speed ever to be prominent. Credit is due to him for his success in leading the pack.

P. R. G. Graham*. A very keen and hard-working fly-half, who could be called neither fast nor elusive, but nevertheless became the spear-head of the side's attack through his strong running and opportunism. At times 41

pernaps he might have been blamed for overdoing his kicking, but much of it was invaluable. He possessed a good pair of hands and always concentrated on getting his three-quarter line quickly off the mark.

K. C. Brown*. Centre three-quarter. The most natural footballer on the side, possessing a sound sense of positioning and strong in both attack and defence. The School, however, was rarely able to benefit from his talent, as for the second season in succession he had the misfortune to be kept out of the game by injury.

R. C. Lynch. A very keen and hard-working wing threequarter, who lacked, however, the necessary speed ever to be termed an attacking player. His defence was generally very sound, and in attack he had to rely mainly on kicks ahead and determined following-up, in which he showed up to good advantage.

T. F. Cameron. Probably much to his relief he was able to retire to full-back, where there is no doubt he is much happier. For the last half of the term he was playing splendid Rugger, showing a sound sense of judgment and plenty of dash and courage. He lacks real stamina, which gradually he should try to rectify.

J. B. Shillitoe. A strong attacking wing three-quarter, but still weak in defence, although improving. He has not yet fully acquired the art of checking his opposing fullback, but his speed and strong hand-off often brought him success.

G. R. Morris. Front row forward. A solid young player who improved tremendously as the season progressed. If he starts next year where he left off this year he should be a very promising player.

J. I. Sleight. A centre three-quarter who relied more upon his dash and courage than any form of cunning. He had a lot to learn at the start of the season, and he did his job well.

F. F. Steele. Filled an awkward breach in the second row very well. A very good forward with the ball at his feet. With this year's experience he should be a very useful member of the side next year.

N. A. C. Chudleigh. Third row forward. Managed to fit into the scrum in spite of his giraffe-like build. A most useful forward in the line-out, but he must try and throw himself about a bit more.

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H. L. Taylor. Without being harsh, he is simply and solely a hooker, and a very good one at that. A fine striker at the ball, who could often retrieve it when lost.

G. W. Harding. Wing forward. Was brought into the side late in the term owing to his sound tackling. He still has a lot to learn, but he showed his capabilities of bumping the opposition when he got into contact with them.

RESULTS. 1st XV.

Sat., Oct. 7th ...

Sat., Oct. 14th ...

Wed., Oct. 18th ...

Sat., Oct. 21st ...

Sat., Oct. 28th ...

Thurs., Nov. 2nd Wed., Nov. 8th ...

Sat., Nov. 11th ...

Sat., Nov. 18th ...

Sat., Nov. 25th ...

Sat., Dec. 2nd ...

F. A. ... Won 18-15 K. Lockwood's XV ... Lost 3-11 Durham School ... ... Won 20-12 K.O.Y.L.I. ... Lost 10-21 Ampleforth College York Railway Institute ... Lost 6-14 ... Won 10— 3 Giggleswick School ... Won 27— 6 Naburn Fabbers ... Won 12— 6 ...

York ... Lost 8-27 Headingley ... Drew 0— 0 Worksop College ... ... Lost 11-15 St. John's College 125-130 2nd XV.

Wed., Oct. 18th ...

Wed., Oct. 25th ...

Wed., Nov. 15th...

Wed., Nov. 22nd

Drax G.S. 1st XV Ripon G.S. 1st XV Ampleforth College Drax G.S. 1st XV

... ... ... ...

F. A. Lost 0-62 Lost 3— 8 Lost 0-45 Lost 3-17 6-132

COLTS XV. Sat., Oct. 21st ...

Sat., Oct. 28th ...

Sat., Nov. 11th ...

Wed., Nov. 29th...

Wed., Dec. 13th...

Worksop College ...

Durham School ...

Giggleswick School Boys' Training Co., Signals, Catterick Ampleforth College

R.

F. A. Lost 0-17 Won 25— 8 Lost 5-14 Scratched Lost 0-30 30-69

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1st XV CAPS. Milburn, Douglas, Robson, Butler, Brown (K. C.), Graham.

2nd XV COLOURS. All the 1st XV plus Wright (R. W.), Buckler, Clephan, Belchamber.

1st XV MATCHES. ST. PETER'S SCHOOL v. DURHAM SCHOOL. Played at Home, Saturday, October 7th.

Result: St. Peter's 3 pts., Durham 11 pts.

The School started in very lively fashion, and it seemed at first as if the pack was going to control the game. The Durham backs were quick to settle down, and Orwin and Burchnall often caused immediate danger by breaks through which generally ended by failure to pass soon enough. The School backs were neat but mechanical, and Graham's kicking was responsible for most of the ground gained.

The School lapsed badly when Salmon, the Durham scrum-half was allowed to dive over and score after a loose scrum had formed about five yards short of the line near the corner. This produced a short burst of enthusiasm from the School pack, and for a while Durham were very much back on their heels ; Robson and Douglas were particularly noticeable.

Durham scored again against the run of the play in a similar manner, but this time Orwin converted it. This swung the fortune of the game again, and half-time alone brought relief to the School defence.

After ten minutes of the second half a forward rush by the School swept right through the Durham defence, and Robson, backing up hard, got the touch half-way out on the left.

For a time it looked as though the School would draw level, but Milburn's splendid service from the scrum was wasted on the three-quarters, who, in addition to being less clever than their adversaries, were slower.

The game was settled, however, by a good movement

by Orwin, who veered away from Graham, clear of the winging forwards, and threw a fairly long pass to Burchnall, who had a clear run in on the right. And since that happened ten minutes from the end, the School had no reply.

Team :—T. F. Cameron; J. B. Shillitoe, J. I. Sleight, W. R. Child, R. C. Lynch ; P. R. G. Graham, H. A. Milburn; C. M. Robson, H. L. Taylor, G. R. Morris, J. H. Butler, R. W. Wright, F. F. Steele, N. A. C. Chudleigh ; M. S. Douglas.

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ST. PETER'S SCHOOL v. AMPLEFORTH COLLEGE.

Played at Home, Saturday, October 14th.

Result: St. Peter's 10 pts., Ampleforth 21 pts.

It was a dry day and very favourable to open play.

Ampleforth at once used this to their benefit, and were rarely out of the School half before some loose marking enabled their right wing to shake off two tackles and dive over in the very corner, at the same time falling unpleasantly on the corner flag. There was immediate retaliation, and when the School pack had asserted themselves well in the Ampleforth " 25," Douglas kicked a fine penalty goal from a very narrow angle.

The game became fast and even, with both fly-halves tending to kick rather than set the three-quarters moving.

At half-time there had been no addition to the score, but after the interval there was a spate of it.

Ampleforth regained the lead with a try, which was turned into a goal, by a three-quarter movement which exposed a large gap in the defence, and went further ahead with a neatly dropped goal by Parker, the Ampleforth captain. The School then attacked, and after a complicated combined movement the ball went to Brown, who drew the defence and then sent a perfectly-timed pass to Shillitoe. whose progress to the line was never seriously impeded. The game was now in an interesting position, for having been set an example, Graham was liable to drop a goal at any minute and bring the score to 12-10, but suddenly Parker dropped another one from about the same place as his first.

On top of this the School defence again broke down in the centre to give the left wing a clear run in. This, too, was converted.

The School pack never gave up, and actually had much the better of the exchanges towards the end, and a quick heel and an accurate pass from Milburn enabled Graham to drop his goal from forty yards.

Team :—T. F. Cameron ; R. C. Lynch, J. I. Sleight, K. C. Brown, J. B. Shillitoe ; P. R. G. Graham, H. A. Milburn ; J. E. A. Ward, H. L. Taylor, C. M. Robson, J. H. Butler, R. W. Wright, F. F. Steele, N. A. C. Chudleigh, M. S. Douglas.

GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL v. ST. PETER'S SCHOOL.

Played at Headingley, Thursday, November 2nd.

Result: Giggleswick 3 pts., St. Peter's 10 pts.

The School showed abnormal sluggishness at the beginning of this match, and were penned in their own half for quite ten minutes. They took the lead however, against 45

the run of the play, by a fine run by Shillitoe, whose speed carried him right round the defence from the half-way line to touch down near to the posts: Douglas kicked the goal.

Both packs scrummed hard and were evenly matched, while the defences were superior among the outsides, so that the game was one of stalemate for long periods. At times there was some interesting play, for Sleight on three occasions beat several men before the good he had done was wasted by faulty passes, and at odd intervals the weight in the Giggleswick's centre threatened danger. Half-time was blown amid great exhortation and counter exhortation from the forwards.

Giggleswick improved in the second half ; their most dangerous move was the diagonal kick into the open, which was hard to recover from because of the width of the field.

This was how they scored their only try, an attacker getting his foot to the ball first and scoring too far out for the conversion of a heavy ball.

Had they scored again, as they might well have done when Lynch just touched down in time behind his own line, Giggleswick would probably have won, but ten minutes from the end the School returned once more to the attack, and Shillitoe, coming round and receiving a pass on the open side, ran clean through yards of defenders to score. Douglas again converted with a fine kick.

Team : T. F. Cameron ; R. C. Lynch, J. I. Sleight, H. A. Milburn, J. B. Shillitoe ; P. R. G. Graham, F. N. Buckler; C. M. Robson, H. L. Taylor, G. R. Morris, J. H. Butler, R. W. Wright, F. F. Steele, N. A. C. Chudleigh, M. S. Douglas.

ST. PETER'S SCHOOL v. WORKSOP COLLEGE.

Played at Home, Saturday, November 25th.

Result: St. Peter's 0 pts., Worksop 0 pts.

There is generally much in favour of a dirty day for the Worksop match, and the game this year was not so much an illustration as a classic example. It had rained solidly for twenty-four hours and the ball was like tripe from the first bounce.

At first Worksop had slightly the better of the game territorially and heeled the ball more from the tight, but Milburn was round like a flash on to his opposite number, whose hurried passes often went sadly astray. Worksop's fast back division was very orthodox and tried to feed Evans, whom Lynch marked very well on the left.

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The School forwards were quick onto fumbles, and dribbled occasionally to near the line, but when their turn came the three-quarters were just as ineffective as their adversaries. So the game settled down to a mud-fight with nothing much happening until Evans got past Lynch and looked like causing trouble before Graham seized him by the shirt collar and flung him into touch. Possibly someone had a shot at goal at some stage, but if memory serves aright none got anywhere near.

After half-time, Buchanan and Naismith embarked on a large campaign of diagonal kicking ahead, causing the anxieties of defence to fall elsewhere. The School were now playing with the breeze, and both Milburn and Graham pinned Worksop in their own half for long periods by kicking for the right hand touchline.

The School pack was in fine form, Robson, Douglas and Butler being particularly lively, and a good rush was checked just short of the line. Brown had the misfortune to break his collar-bone in falling on the ball, but even with fourteen men the School pressed, and for the last ten minutes Worksop were rarely out of their twenty-five. Their defence did not give way in the least, and no-side came with no score.

Team : T. F. Cameron ; R. C. Lynch, J. I. Sleight, K. C. Brown, J. B. Shillitoe ; P. R. G. Graham, H. A. Milburn ; C. M. Robson, H. L. Taylor, G. R. Morris, J. H. Butler, G. W. Harding, F. F. Steele, N. A. C. Chudleigh, M. S. Douglas.

The following have represented the 2nd XV :Wright (R. W.) *, Buckler (F. N.) *, Clephan*, Belchamber*, Ward, Cato, Garnham, Taylor (D.), Pulleyn, Scholey, Short, Brown (A. C.), Broadhurst, Shearston, Evans, Child, Frost, Beetham, Wright (R. A.), Dench. * Colours.

The following have represented the Colts this season:— D. Cole, C. A. F. Cookson, A. Broadhurst, A. C. Brown, J. R. Frost, F. N. Buckler, W. R. Child, G. Long, R. A. Stratton, P. R. Dench, W. E. Veitch, W. H. Ping, J. S. Turnell, P. M. Steele, J. A. Dennison, B. Rodwell, D. Taylor, R. L. Pryer, R. McKinley, G. K. Ward, R. Langstaff and J. D. Bulmer.

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HOCKEY FIXTURES, 1940.

North Riding Mental Hospital ... Away Sat., Jan. 20th.

Home ... ...

Clifton Sat., Jan. 27th.

Home St. John's College Sat., Feb. 3rd.

Home ...

Sat., Feb. 10th. Southlands Away Wed., Feb. 14th. Leeds University Home ... ...

York Sat., Feb. 17th.

Home ...

Sat., Feb. 24th. Rowntree's Away Wed., Feb. 28th. Worksop College

THE JUNIOR SCHOOL. To write an account of the doings in the Junior School now that we have come to the end of term makes us think the term has been a very long one, and yet it has gone very quickly for us. We feel it has been a very successful term because we have " put in " a complete term of work and games almost as if the country had not been under the shadow of war.

A few of the boarders returned to School a week or so before the term actually started, and did Mr. Ping keep them busy or was it vice versa? Something of both, perhaps!

However, on September 19th, when term started, we found that 23 new boys had joined the Junior School, and that St. Olave's was quite full of boarders so that an overflow party of the day boarders had to have their mid-day dinner at the Sanatorium. Four of our boys who had travelled abroad during the summer were unable to return, so we scarcely know whether to congratulate or condole with Derek and Geoffrey Janes and Douglas and Michael Lynch on missing the joys of our English winter! The Janes' are in Egypt and the Lynch's in Barbados. We missed Mr. Chilman (now Lt.-Colonel Chilman, T.D.), who was, of course, on duty with anti aircraft work, and we welcome Mrs. Bainton, who has very ably and successfully taken most of the forms in various subjects.

Miss Mason has stirred up a good deal of interest in her Art and Handicraft lessons, and some of us have had a grand time doing clay modelling. Some of the results were no doubt wonderful, and quite a number were wonderfully good. But Miss Mason has been responsible for an entirely new departure in St. Olave's, viz., instruction in puppet making and the production of puppet shows.

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Mr. Fawcett was also very kind and certainly very clever in making a splendid stage, with a working drop curtain for us to show and work the puppets.

On the last day of term various boys gave a series of shows for the entertainment of the rest of the Junior School, and for a first effort we think the chatter and patter of the performers was very good indeed.

The details of our football matches are given elsewhere, but we should like to congratulate the players in the Rugger and Soccer teams most heartily on winning all their School matches, and Mr. Cooper and Mr. Crews who coached them so well are to be congratulated, too.

The outstanding feature of the term—that is, in the minds of most Olavites—was the innovation by the Headmaster in allowing a real half-term holiday. We actually " broke up " from Friday mid-day until Monday afternoon.

The arrangements for journeys caused almost, if not as much excitement as at the end of term!

Various crazes have had their innings in the course of the term, and the roller skating track has been well used.

We think we must mention Mr. Ping's " lumbering " efforts (you will be sure to put that word in inverted commas, Mr. Editor, won't you ?). On several occasions some of us have been out with Mr. Ping to a certain wood armed with axe and saw, and having attacked fallen trees and branches, returned triumphantly with the ancient car well loaded.

The last three weeks of term seemed rather a dark time, especially for the boarders, as owing to the "black-out," afternoon school finished at 3-30. However, when suitable curtains were fixed up in the Common Room those who wished to play noisy games had their chance, and those who wished to read or play quieter games came into the House.

Chess proved a fairly popular game.

The " black-out " caused one big disappointment for the Junior School. It was not possible to hold our annual Gym. Display or French Play which we have produced for so many years. We hope to be able to do something about it during the Easter Term.

The Junior School went to see the School Play, and, as usual, were very appreciative and thought the whole performance well up to standard.

This must now finish our record of the Junior School during the first term of the war. We had no epidemics and the attendance has been excellent. In point of fact, we have 49

all endeavoured to get on with School work and life as normally as possible, and after our practice air-raid warnings had taught us what to do in the event of an alarm, we left our gas masks safely in their pigeon holes.

May we from the School send our very Hearty Greetings for the New Year to all Old Olavites.

ST. OLAVE'S GAMES REPORT. This term the games days have been altered to Mondays and Wednesdays, and we have had occasional voluntary games on Saturday afternoons. Since it was difficult to find sufficient opponents at Rugger, we played Terrington Hall twice and Mr. Mr. Cooper's XI once at Soccer. We had two Rugger Matches, one against the St. Peter's Juniors and one against Grilling Castle, the Ampleforth Preparatory School.

The Boarders were victorious against the Day Boys at both Rugger and Soccer, but the latter had their revenge in a Cross-country Run, when they defeated a combined Boarders and Day-boarders team in spite of the fact that Hart was the first man home.

We should like to thank Mrs. Stead and all those members of the staff who have taken games. They have been most helpful, especially since Mr. Chilman is away on active service.

ST. OLAVE'S RUGGER. ST. OLAVE'S v. ST. PETER'S JUNIORS. We opened the season with a match against St. Peter's Juniors, a team which included several Old Olavites.

The game started off very vigorously with a try for St. Peter's in the first few minutes. St. Olave's very soon replied to this with a fine drop kick by Hart. The game continued as it started, and by half-time the score had risen to 17-16 in favour of St. Olave's.

It was evident after half-time that St. Peter's had decided to take the lead, and started pressing hard. The excitement among both players and spectators never wavered, and the game ended with the very equal score of 27 points to 20 for St. Peter's Juniors.

ST. OLAVE'S v. GILLING CASTLE. This match proved to be even more exciting than the previous. The ground was in perfect condition, and the sun was shining. St. Olave's won the toss and chose to play 50

towards the School, and against the wind. The game was extremely fast, and very soon after the start, Hart, with one of his characteristic runs, scored for St. Olave's. Soon afterwards this was repeated.

Gilling by this time had decided to play a forward game, making some very dangerous rushes. In the set scrums, Hutchinson hooked extremely well, and was supported by a very lively pack. The marking and tackling among the three-quarters was good. The game ended with a win to St. Olave's, 19-10.

SOCCER. On October 21st we played Mr. Cooper's XI on the Riverside Field. Our opponents, although some of them were rather late in getting going, were a large and cunning side.

Mr. Le Tocq, at back, proved a most powerful kicker, and Mr. Corkhill had obviously played the game before. Mr. Crews, at centre-forward, had many mighty, but not always well-directed efforts to cut the goal-keeper in two. At halftime we were losing, 2-1, and, with only five minutes to go, we were two goals down. However, a goal scored from a scrummage and a superb long-range shot from Hart made us level, and the game ended in a draw. The score was four all. The team played very well against superior weight, Hart, Clark and Smith (A.) being outstanding. Hart and Clark each scored two goals.

Team : Norwood ; McDermid, Ward ; Fryer, Price, Andrews ; Hart (Capt.), Forshaw, Clark, Smith (A.) and Wakenshaw.

On November 1st we played Terrington Hall away. Our opponents had not had much practice, and we proved much too strong for them. We won 15-2, the scorers being Clark 6, Hart 4, Smith (A.) 4 and Stratton 1.

Team : Norwood ; Barker, Ward ; Andrews, Price, Stratton ; Speight, Smith (A.), Clark, Hart and Forshaw.

On November 27th we had a return match against Terrington Hall, and beat them 5-0. This was a much more even game, and our opponents were unlucky not to score on more than one occasion. The score at the end of the first half was 3-0, but shortly before half-time, Clark strained his leg, and we were playing without a centre-forward for the rest of the match. The scorers were Clark 2, Boyes 2 and Hart.

The team was the same as before, except that Legat took Norwood's place in goal and Boyes came in instead of Speight.

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SCOUT REPORT. In spite of Mr. Chilman's absence we were able to carry out a full programme this term, and much useful work has been done. We should like to thank Mr. Crews for assisting Mr. Cooper in the running of the troop.

Several of the " old hands " are within reach of their 2nd class badges, and all the new scouts have made good progress. We welcome the following new scouts :—Moreton, Chantry, Denison, Norwood, McKinney, Bramwell, Price, McDermid, Inglis, Speight and Gillgrass.

On Saturday, November 18th, volunteers from both St. Peter's and St. Olave's did their share of collecting waste paper for the Nation. Loads were taken through York on the hand cart to a depot, and Mr. Crews assisted with his automobile. We also took another load on the last Saturday of term.

We played many wide games, including a new one invented on the premises. It was christened Naval Engagement, and is much appreciated, since it entails the abduction of Hitler by armed force. The players have the choice of being anything from an aeroplane to a floating mine, and so everyone can be easily satisfied.

CUB REPORT. We welcome the following new cubs to the pack :— Radford, Wheway, Harrison, Bainton, Gowen, Graham, Harrison (R.) and Roseigh. All of the new cubs are well on the way to gaining their 1st stars, and have shown great keenness in passing their tests.

Haugh and Edinger are to be congratulated on gaining their 2nd stars, and we have also gained two more proficiency badges. Edinger has got the collector's badge and Andrews has a team-player's badge.

In the inter-six competition, Red have won this term and Blue are second. We have had a variety of competitions, finishing the term with a button-sewing match. Parents will probably be pleased to hear this! A wide selection of games has been played, including Naval Engagement.

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CONTEMPORARIES. The Editors acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the following publications, and apologise for any omissions:— The Reptonian, The Babu Lal Jaiswal High School Magazine, The Haileyburian, The Leodiensian, The Ashville Magazine, The Artists' Rifles Gazette, The Denstonian, The Ousel, The Johnian, The Bootham Journal, The Brighton College Magazine, The Sedberghian, The Malvernian, The Merchistonian, The Stoneyhurst Magazine, The Ampleforth Journal, The Limit, The Monktonian, The Giggleswick Chronicle, Danensis, The Dolphin Magazine, The St. Peter's College (Adelaide) Magazine, The Cranleighan, St. Bees' Magazine, The Eastbournian, The Framlinghamian, The Dovorian, The Journal of the Honourable Artillery Company, The Worksopian, The Nottinghamian, The Draxonian, The Scardeburgian, The Eagle, The Hurst Johnian, The Dunelmian, The Journal of the Royal Air Force College, The Cantnarian, The Hymerian, St. Peter's College (Ceylon).

EDITORIAL NOTICES. " The Peterite " is the magazine of St. Peter's School, York, and is conducted by the boys.

The Editors solicit literary contributions and general correspondence from past and present Peterites.

No notice can be taken of anonymous correspondence.

Contributors may, if they prefer it, send their name in a separate envelope, which will not be opened unless the contribution is accepted. Where the contributor's name is not intended for publication, his " nom-de-plume " should be enclosed as well.

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If any members of the O.P. Club should not receive their numbers of " The Peterite," the Editors would be obliged if notice could be sent at once to Lt.-Col. H. C. Scott, Secretary of the O.P. Club, 1 Clifton Green, York.

The Editors of " The Peterite " are H. A. Wrenn, Esq., T. F. Cameron, C. M. Robson, G. W. Vero, G. C. Brown, G. Long.

The Editors of " The Peterite " will be glad to supply any past numbers which they may have to those desiring them, at the price of 6d. per copy.

Applications for advertising space to be made to The Bursar, St. Peter's School, York.

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THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS CLUB (1919) LTD. Telephone: Grosvenor 3535.

Telegrams: Skooclub Audley London.

100 PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.1.

THE CLUB IN WAR-TIME. 1. Honorary Membership. Temporary Honorary Membership is being offered to all Public School men who are serving in H.M. Forces or in Civil Defence. So far, advantage has been taken of this by some 250 Public School men, who find it a most congenial place to foregather when on leave.

2. Bedrooms. As a war-time measure, the prices of bedrooms have been standardised at 7s. 6d. per night, including breakfast and bath.

3. Meals. Full service is maintained in the Dining Room (lunch 3s., dinner 3s. and 4s., or a la carte).

4. Squash Courts remain open for use by Members until " blackout " time, but the demand does not at present justify a marker.

5. Billiards. Open as usual, but without marker.

6. Ladies' Annexe. The right of entertaining lady guests to lunch, tea or dinner is extended to Temporary Honorary Members.

The Ladies' Cocktail Bar is open at lunch time, and will be re-opened in the evening if there is sufficient demand. In the meantime, drinks may still be ordered and served in the Ladies' Annexe in the evening.

7. Vouchers for Lady Relatives. Some disappointment has been expressed that consideration of the Ladies' Voucher Scheme was postponed at the General Meeting. It has therefore been decided, as a war-time measure, to give it a trial. It will be restricted to full Members only, and responsibility in all respects will rest on the Member introducing. He may now obtain from the Secretary or Hall Porter a form on which he may apply for a voucher, renewable annually at the discretion of the Committee, to be issued to his wife, mother, sister or daughter. On issue, the lady will be entitled to use the Ladies' Annexe, to pay her own bills, and to introduce her own guests. The cost of the voucher, payable by the Member, will be 10s. 6d. for the remainder of the year, and then two guineas annually.

C. Martin Sperry, Secretary.

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