Notes and Items

For one week at the beginning of the term, the School was granted permission to attend the four Gilbert and Sullivan operas which were being played by the D'Oyly Carte Company. Everybody who went enjoyed them immensely, and for some weeks after it was not unusual to hear a raucous voice informing all and sundry that he had " a song to sing-o," or else that he was taking " a pair of sparkling eyes."

During the term, on Saturday, 14th March, the Charles Taylor String Quartet visited the School, and an enthusiastic audience greatly appreciated their renderings of quartets by Haydn, Schubert, and Dvorak.

A small party—some of those who took part in the School play of last term—were taken by Mr. Burgess to Leeds to see John Gielgud's production of " Macbeth." The fortunate ones enjoyed it immensely, although we disagreed with some aspects of the interpretation of the play; as, doubtless, we were meant to do, since the production was in many ways deliberately provocative.

On Thursday, 12th March, the Rev. Parkinson gave the Senior and Junior Schools a lecture, with the aid of a film, on the propagation of Christian literature in all parts of the world, and his audience was very intrigued to know that " Pilgrim's Progress " had even been translated into Tibetan.

On Monday; 23rd of March, the Senior School heard a most interesting and stimulating lecture on Esperanto. It was given by Mr. Montagu Butler, who said that he was one of the first converts to this international language. The School was amazed at its grammatical simplicity, and for the last week of term many boys were learning Esperanto with considerable success. This might present a problem next term to those in authority.

We welcome to the School as San. Sister Miss J. D. Britten, and, as Matron of the Rise, Miss D. E. Hardy.

A. C. Brown, J. A. Denison, G. E. K. Reynolds and J. R. Frost are to be congratulated upon being appointed School Monitors, and Barker, McKinlay, Hort, Ping, Dodd, Cookson, Bulmer and Wyman, upon being appointed House Monitors.

P. L. Hort is to be congratulated upon his appointment as Captain of Squash, and C. A. F. Cookson as Captain of Athletics.