twelfth man, since the Headingley Test Match began the next day. The presentation was a fitting climax to Rayson's distinguished career in School Cricket and we wish him all success in the future.
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It has long been realised that the environment of the School was a likely site for the discovery of Roman antiquities, since the Roman road north from Eboracum passed through it. It was not, then, entirely a surprise that the excavations in connection with the rebuilding of the Rise revealed a quantity of fragments of Roman pottery and human skeleton remains. The hopes of a second Mildenhall hoard had less basis in history and were not realised. * * Visit of the Rev. J. W. de Graft Johnson The School was fortunate in being able to hear at first hand some details of West Africa from a native of the Gold Coast, the Rev. J. W. de Graft Johnson. Mr. Johnson had taken a London B.A. in Mathematics and was a teacher in an African school, but, after deciding to enter the Methodist Ministry, came to England to study Theology at Cambridge, and has taken his B.D. here. Mrs. Johnson also came to England to qualify as a teacher and to learn as much as possible about our hospitals. Their intention is to be missionaries among their own people. Mr. Johnson came to School on Thursday, 26th June, and spoke to the VIth forms on the history of missionary enterprise in the Gold Coast. In addition he gave to the geographers of the VIth details about his native country and interested two forms of the Junior School with his anecdotes. So impressed were many boys that they asked if Mr. Johnson could not pay another visit to St. Peter's. Accordingly, he came a second time, on Monday, 7th July, and interested a large audience by describing the life of the boys in the large, well-known boarding school for boys at Achimota, and other details of the life of the natives of the Gold Coast. Numerous questions were asked at all of his talks, which were enlivened by touches of humour. By the time this appears in print, Mr. Johnson will be back in his native home. We heartily thank him for coming to St. Peter's and wish him success in his work. H.e proposes to return to England in 6 years' time to take his Ph.D.
THE SCHOOL ARMS The beautiful shield so long associated with the School, and so familiar to many generations of Peterites, is identical with the arms of the Dean and Chapter of York; and its use by the School commemorates the fact that the School has been throughout the centuries the Minster Grammar School. The shield, as used by the School, is accompanied
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