chess-players, consisting of five representatives from each House. To the uninitiated, it would have seemed an impossible feat to win even half of the boards ! But Alderman Croysdale had no difficulty in winning or drawing with seventeen of the players, and succumbed only to Dook, Miles and Drummond, who are to be congratulated on their success. On 10th October we enjoyed a very interesting display of naval films by Lieut.-Commander Rogers. Three films were shown, which dealt with a modern battleship, a modern submarine and the art of deck-landings. On Advent Sunday, 3rd December, the School paid its annual visit to the Minster. The series of lectures on careers was continued this term, when Mr. S. J. Wright, Director of the National Institute of Agricultural Engineers, gave the senior forms a talk on Agricultural Engineering. This was an entirely new idea to many of us, and our enthusiasm was aroused, though Mr. Wright insisted that for any profession which involved agriculture an innate love of farming was necessary, and, as he put it, " plenty of experience of muddy boots ; " but, for those who were really interested, there was indeed a great opening, and he himself was already offering suggestions to the Ministry of Agriculture for an organised university training for agricultural engineers after the war.
HOUSE NOTES. THE MANOR. Although the House returned at the beginning of term to find many familiar faces absent, we quickly settled down and enjoyed a full term. In the realm of games, the Senior Rugger House Matches found us drawn against the Rise in the semi-finals, whom we beat 8-0 after an extremely close and well-contested game. In the finals we lost to School House, 51-0, after a much closer game than the score suggests. The fact that the School House team contained five of the six 1st XV backs was perhaps one of the leading factors in 4beir win. In the Junior House Matches, the Rise turned the tables on us and won 3-0 after an equally well-contested game. We should like to congratulate the following upon their appointments :— P. A. Shardlow, Head of the House ; R. Hobson, School Monitor ; M. G. B. Jones and G. M. Smith, House Monitors ; P. A. Speight, Captain of Shooting. It also should be noted that the School -Shooting team contains six people from the Manor. Congratulations to P. A. Shardlow and R. Hobson upon the award of their 1st XV colours ; W. Graham and B. Tomlinson on the award of their Colts colours ; G. M. Smith and D. C. Drummond on their House Rugger colours. Lastly, we say " Good-bye " to R. Hobson, who is leaving us this term, and wish him all possible success in his future career. THE RISE. We wish, first, to welcome Mr. and Mrs. Wiseman to the Rise, and to congratulate them on the way in which, in such a short time, they have established themselves as an integral part of the House. Secondly we should like to congratulate T. F. Morris on his appointment as Head of the School. Although his School duties have occupied much of his time, he has, nevertheless, devoted himself to leading the House. We were unsuccessful in both the Rugger events this term. We were beaten in the semi-finals of the Senior Rugger match against the Manor. This was rather disappointing, and we cannot help feeling that our team was halfasleep. However, we should like to congratulate the Manor on their victory, for which they fought hard. We had a little more success in the Junior event, defeating the Manor 11
