Editorial

Editorial ... Oxford Open Scholarship Commemoration, 1952 C.C.F. Inspection O.P. News The Frank Pick Prize for Design Valete and Salvete School Officers, Easter Term, 1952 House Notes ... The Oxford Cup, 1951-52 Games Committee Meeting Chapel Notes The Choir The Curia The Library The Debating Society Correspondence—"Another School Poll" Historical Note—The School in 1589 ... Music ... The Science Society ... The Photographic Club ... The British Ship Adoption Society ... "My Holiday Work" The Swiss Tour ... C.C.F. Notes Senior School Scouts Shooting ... Squash ... Hockey, 1952 Athletics and Cross-Country Correspondence—The Cross-Country Race Cricket Fixtures, 1952 ... Boating ... The Junior School

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attractive in the Calendar of Events, and that, as like as not, disease will decimate the class-rooms, fill the San. to overflowing, and even, perhaps, bring the term to an abrupt and unwelcome conclusion. And to the fog and flood, the sleet and the snow (the blizzard which blotted out the Sports Day of 1951 remains a vivid memory) might be added the inconvenience of innumerable power cuts.

None of these things happened. The weather was as kind as we have a right to expect; of sickness we had none to mention; and the power cuts remained paper possibilities on a premonitory list of dates obligingly sent to us by a considerate Electricity Board. The term moved peacefully along its pre-ordained course to the rigorous and valuable discipline of the Trial Examinations and its finale of an interesting and exciting Sports Day at which the result of the interHouse competition remained in doubt until the last relay race of the meeting. It was indeed a most enjoyable Easter Term,

Our good fortune extended to the holidays (we write as they are drawing to a close), and we have been grateful for the delightful Spring weather which contributed so much to the enjoyment of the Scout Trek in the Lake District and the Continental Tour, which we are now justified in regarding as an annual "fixture". The visit to Montreux, of which we publish a full account in this issue, proved even more successful than the excursions to Belgium and Paris in previous years. Several of the 28 boys who formed the party were in a position to make comparisons with the tours of 1950 and 1951, and they were unanimous in their preference for Switzerland in the ideal weather conditions which prevailed this year. We are grateful to Mr. Le Tocq and Mr. Craven, whose enthusiasm and organising talent (backed now by ample experience) make possible these most enjoyable holidays.

At the end of the term we said "good-bye" to Mr. A. G. Collier, who has been Art Master since 1947. During these five years he has done much to foster a subject (if Art can be so rigidly classified) which, as in many schools, had tended to be neglected in earlier years. Under his able and enthusiastic guidance the work of the formal art classes reached a high standard (as was proved by the many exhibitions which he organised). Talent which might easily have remained unsuspected was, by his infectious enthusiasm, developed to the full. Perhaps more important than his success in the class-room were the keenness which he evoked for Art as a hobby and spare time activity and the appreciation of visual beauty which he fostered in those who themselves were not endowed with any particular artistic ability. His personal qualities—kindliness, a sense of humour, an unruffled temperament, and an inexhaustible zest for life—ensured his popularity both with the boys and his colleagues.