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THE PETERITE vol. XLV

JANUARY, 1953

No. 332

EDITORIAL The Old Peterite Rugger match, which took place on the last Saturday of the term, was a singularly enjoyable occasion. The result of the game is not perhaps of enduring importance, though the School may congratulate itself on its victory over an O.P. side which looked very formidable on paper. The match had been originally arranged for the previous Saturday but bad weather caused a postponement—a fortunate chance for the School, perhaps, since changes were thus necessitated in the O.P. side, and Wyatt-Gunning and his team did not, in fact, have to face the well-nigh invincible O.P. XV originally chosen. But apart from providing an enjoyable game the afternoon proved a pleasant social gathering. In the nature of things O.P. rugger sides include many Peterites who have not long left the School, and the game attracts many younger O.P.s as spectators. A very pleasant tea-party, at which the Head Master and Mrs. Dronfield were present, embraced several members of the Staff and a large number of O.P.s besides the actual participants in the game. This reunion of so many Old Peterites whose memories of their schooldays are still green, the renewal of their acquaintance with the present XV, whom they would remember perhaps as insignificant juniors, and the opportunity of contact with House Masters and other members of the Staff—all this had an intimate flavour which was unique. We hope this innovation of an extended Old Peterite tea after the match will he continued in future years.

The appointment of the Head Master to the North Regional Advisory Council of the B.B.C., reconstituted under the new charter— an item of news which we gleaned from the Press towards the close of the term—is, we feel, an index of the standing of St. Peter's in the North of England, and we can enjoy a reflected satisfaction in the distinction conferred upon him. Perhaps the value and amount of voluntary public service which Mr. Dronfield generously undertakes is not sufficiently realised. He is keenly interested in all forms of social welfare work, and his duties as a Magistrate entail the Chairmanship of the Juvenile Panel and of the Probation Committee. He is, too, one of the Board of Visitors of the Askham Bryan "prison

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CONTENTS PAGE

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Editorial King George VI Memorial Fund Exam. Result Obituary. Basil Radford and Frank Roberts Rugger, Items Old Peterite News Valete and Salvete School Officers House Notes Games Committee Chapel Notes The Choir ...

The Curia The Library The Debating Society The School Play ...

The St. Peter's Players The 'Music Society The Science Society The Photographic Society The 'British Ship 'Adoption Society The Film Society ...

The Young Farmer's Club A Trip to Canada ...

'C.C.F. Notes Service Notes Scouting Shooting Squash Hockey Fixtures, ;1953 ...

Rugby Football The Junior School Illustrations : `The Taming of the Shrew' Arthur Basil Radford

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"THE TAMING OF THE SHREW"

[Photo Studio John.

A. G. D. STAINES

as PETRUCHIO and E. I. MOORE as KATHARINA.

without bars". We, who know' from inside, the time, energy, and boundless enthusiasm which he devotes to the exacting task of being our Head Master, are best placed to appreciate his self-sacrificing attitude to the public good. We live in an age when voluntary service is perhaps too little regarded, and we must admire him the more.

In this issue we print the first of a series of "Notes from the Services", the material for which is supplied to us by the Central Office of Information. While we are aware that the latter gesture is not entirely disinterested and that the copy is tainted, if only mildly, with the all-pervading scent of propaganda, we have readily acceded to the request to include the matter in the body of the magazine and not relegate it to the advertisement pages, to which indeed it is hardly suited. Many Peterites today are thinking of careers in one or other of the Services and to them these articles should prove particularly instructive and helpful, as they will no doubt be interesting to our readers in general.

The performances of "The Taming of the Shrew" during the last clays of the term met with enthusiastic receptions which were thoroughly deserved. We congratulate all concerned on the high quality of the production. It is nine years since this play was last presented by the School Players, and, of course, comparisons are impossible. We will content ourselves with saying that it is difficult to imagine that the performances of A. G. D. Staines and E. 1. Moore in the leading roles could have been bettered.

A busy and successful term ended with a supper, presided over by the Head Master and Mrs. Dronfield, at which the boarders and the Staff and their wives were treated to an excellent foretaste of Christmas fare.

KING GEORGE VI MEMORIAL FUND A collection for this fund received a ready response from all departments of the School, and the Head Master, on our behalf, was able to hand over to the Lord Mayor of York the extremely satisfactory sum of £106 I ls. Od. The Lord Mayor's appreciative acknowledgment of St. Peter's contribution to his fund is printed below.

MANSION HOUSE, YORK. 3rd November, 1952.

Dear Mr. Dronfield, I am writing to express to you my appreciation of the magnificent response by your School to the King George VI National Memorial Fund (York Appeal) and should be grateful if you would convey my thanks to all those who contributed so generously.

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ARTHUR BASIL RADFORD.

I am sure we all wish to perpetuate the memory of our late King, who by his devotion and high example of self sacrifice won the II. admiration of all his subjects, and this money will help in establishing a fitting memorial.

With kind regards,

Yours sincerely, C. W. WRIGHT,

Lord Mayor.

EXAMINATION RESULT We congratulate R. B. Atkinson on gaining Distinction in the Grade VII (Advanced) Examination in Pianoforte of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

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OBITUARY

BASIL RADFORD With the passing of Arthur Basil Radford (1911-15) St. Peter's has lost not only its most distinguished representative in the world of the stage and screen but also one of its most loyal and enthusiastic Old Boys. His death, in a London hospital, on 20th October last, at the age of 55, was not perhaps a surprise to those who knew something of the constant battle he had had to fight against ill-health for some eighteen months previously. Those who were intimate with him could not fail to marvel at his indomitable struggle against odds.

His courage enabled him to return at the last to the stage he loved.

(For, despite his many screen successes he considered the "celluloid drama" a pale reflection of the living stage.) The tumultuous welcome which he received on the first night of his re-appearance, after so long an absence from the West End stage, in "Affairs of State" at the Cambridge Theatre, testified to the affection in which he was held by the public. Rejoicing, unhappily, was short-lived. In that same play, after but a few performances, he took his last bow. As an actor he was described by a London newspaper as "The Eternal Englishman". The description was no less true of the man.

We tender our sincere condolences to Mrs. Radford and to his son, George (St. Peter's, 1939-1948), who also has adopted the stage as a profession.

The following account of his career is taken, by permission, from "The Times" obituary notice : "Mr. Basil Radford was a versatile actor best suited, on the stage

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light comedy.

He endeared himself to theatrical and film audiences as the Englishman of a popular romantic convention. No great shakes as a thinker, this Englishman never lost his sense of values, and in the thick of fearful hazards was less dismayed by the likelihood of imminent capture than by the news that' England had collapsed in the second innings. These parts showed the eternal small boy twinkling through the wrinkles of middle age; but Radford's range was much wider than is suggested by his successful hold on a single type. Indeed, versatility was, perhaps, his foible.

He believed that an accomplished actor should be capable of dealing effectively with emotional as well as comic situations. As the distraught Salathiel in John Drinkwater's Biblical play, A Man's House, and in other pieces, he made good his theory; but when he chose to represent men of the world, eminent lawyers and the like, a sense of strain sometimes appeared and the emotional effects came by contrivance rather than through a complete identification of self with part. There was always something irrepressibly boyish in his playing, and he was happiest in those comedies which helped him to exploit this amiable quality.

The first film in which Radford appeared was Barnum was Right in 1,929, but it was not until several years later that his real chance catrie' on the screen, and good use he made of it. In such fans as The Lady Vanishes and Dead of Night, he portrayed, in partnership with Mr. Naunton Wayne, the dim-witted, but dogged and amiable, sportsman with a good effect, which was less easy to sustain when transferred to the medium of broadcasting. That his place in fi.m comedy was secure is shown by his appearance recently in such successful productions as Passport to Pimlico and Whisky Galore.

Basil Radford was born at Chester, on 25th June, 1897, and was educated at St. Peter's, York.. He was on active service from 1915-18, and on his return to civil life studied for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, making his first appearance on the London stage in July, 1924, in Collusion at the Ambassadors'. From 1927 until 1931 he was abroad, first touring New Zealand in The Ghost Train, and thereafter at San Francisco and Los Angeles. For nearly two years he played with the British Guild. Players at Vancouver, and then, returning to England, reappeared at the Strand, in May, 1932, in The Love Pirate. From then on he appeared in a great variety of plays, notably Night Must Fall and Spring Tide. Since the last war he has played in Clutterbuck, Blind Goddess and The White &aeon.

In the Summer of last year his health began to give trouble, and he decided to take a holiday. He made several gallant attempts to resume acting, but after several collapses, the last of which occurred last August, he was compelled to relinquish his career.

In 1926 he married Miss Shirly Deuchars. They had one son."

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MR. F. W. ROBERTS The news of the death of Mr. F. W. Roberts at his home at 24 St. Clement's Road, Harrogate, on 17th September, at the age of 78, will be received with sadness by the very many Old Peterites who became his friends during his long period of service to St. Peter's, as Head Groundsman and Cricket Professional.

Coming to the School in 1913, for 25. years, until his retirement in 1938, "Fred" coped almost single-handed in a pre-mechanised age with the problems of maintaining ever-increasing playing fields, and in the time made a cricket square of which any school or club might be proud. In addition he bowled indefatigably at the nets, and by his wise and sometimes caustic comments helped many a budding cricketer to develop.

Fred, too, had a fund of cricketing stories, which many will remember, especially those starting "There was me and Wilf. Rhodes and Scofe Haig, and the rest were rabbits".

But apart from his work many of us will remeTber with gratitude the many kindly and helpful acts which he so unobtrusively performed, his good-natured Yorkshire wit, his real enthusiasm for the School, and his interest in the doings of all Old Peterites.

During the war, even after his retirement, Fred came back to help the School by umpiring, and he has been a regular visitor at Commemoration. During the 1952 Commemoration at the cricket match, he was met and greeted with delight by many Old Peterites who had not seen him for some time.

Many of us will feel his loss sadly. He, Adams, and Puddick were all such good and. faithful friends to the School, and with the death of Fred Roberts, the last of them, it feels as if a chapter in the School's history has closed.

On behalf of all those connected with St. Peter's from 1913 who knew him and appreciated him so well, we offer our sincere sympathy to Mrs. Roberts.

RUGGER ITEMS in the Christmas holidays A. N. Wyatt-Gunning and G. B. Pullan played for the Leeds and District XV against a Wharfedale XV. C. W. Thompson and W. G. A. Maxwell were both selected to play for the Sheffield District XV v. Bradford, but the latter was unable to play.

A. N. Wyatt-Gunning, our sole representative in the Yorkshire Schoolboys Final Trial at Leeds, brought fresh honours to himself 5

and to the School by being appointed Captain of the Yorks Schoolboys XV for the matches against Durham P.S. and the W Schoolboys XV. He has the rare distinction of being selected to for this team for the third year in succession, and the almost um experience of leading the side to victory on both occasions, the time against Wales since 1932.

OLD PETERITE NEWS LONDON DINNER, 1952 The London Dinner was held on Wednesday, 12th November, 1952, at Brown's Hotel, London. Forty Old Peterites and a representative of the London Editor of "The Yorkshire Post" were present.

R. H. Metcalfe took the Chair. The toast of "The School", to which Mr. Dronfield replied, was proposed by his predecessor, Mr. S. M. Toyne. John Rodgers, M.P. for Sevenoaks, Kent, proposed the toast of "The Old Peterite Club", to which Kenneth Rhodes, Hon. Secretary of the Club, replied.

During the evening, the gathering stood in silence in memory of the late Basil Radford, a well-known London Old Peterite, who had recently died.

Next year's London Dinner will be held on Wednesday, 11th November, 1953.

The following is the list of those who attended :Archer, L. H. J., 1922-26.

Houghton, C. C., 1925-30.

Black, V. M., 1935-42.

Brindley, R. A., 1940-45.

Brockbank, J. T., 1928-39.

Carom, J. P., 1927-31.

Claybourn, G. R., 1942-46.

Colley, W. H., 1901-07.

Cooper, A. B., 1927-31.

Dixon, J. B., 1932-36.

Dixon, R. S., 1934-38.

Douglas, F. H., 1923-28.

Dowson, R. E., 1927-30.

Dronfield, J. Easten, G. P., 1923-28.

Easten, J. A., 1881-90.

Eccles, J. D., 1940-45.

Garbett, P., 1942-46.

Gedge, J. B., 1916-20.

Gray, B. A. C., 1916-22.

Griffiths, J. C., 1944-50.

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Hunter, J. A., 1948-50.

Hunter, 0., 1918-23.

Mammatt, S. E., 1922-26.

Metcalfe, R. H., 1913-18.

Millhouse, G., 1912-13.

Norwood, D. P., 1945-50.

Pick, T. S., 1909-12.

Ping, W. H. W., 1932-42.

Porteous, C. C., 1949-50.

Rhodes, K. H., 1914-20.

Rodgers, J., 1919'-25.

Scholefield, J. 1920-25.

Sergeant, C. W. H., 1913-14.

Shadwell, C. M. W., 1910-14.

Shardlow, P. J., 1942-47.

Tee, P., 1940-43.

Thompson, H. A., 1932-38.

Toyne, S. M. Yeoman, W. G., 1910-17.

OLD PETERITE LODGE The Old Peterite Lodge of Freemasons (No. 6412 on the Register of the United Grand Lodge of England) was founded on the 5th of March, 1947, with the object of furthering the masonic association of Old Boys, Masters and Governors of the School, and meets at the Masonic Hall, Duncombe Place, York, on the third Wednesday in March, May, June, July, October and November.

At the Annual Installation Meeting held on 18th June, 1952,

Wor. Brother G. N. Paul Crombie was installed as Worshipful Master. and the following Officers appointed and invested :Immediate Past Master : Wor. Bro. M. T. Clegg.

Senior Warden : Bro. J. Saville, J.P. Junior Warden : Bro. J. N. Blenkin, O.B.E., M.C., T.D. Chaplain : Bro. The Rev. H. N. Hodd, T.D. Treasurer : Wor. Bro. H. L. Creer, J.P. Secretary : Bro. W. S. Moore.

Director of Ceremonies: Wor. Bro. R. A. Wilkinson.

Senior Deacon : Bro. A. S. Rymer, O.B.E., J.P. Junior Deacon : Bro. D. L. T. Creer.

Assistant Director of Ceremonies : Wor. Bro. F. W. Organist : Bro. R. H. Buckton.

Assistant Secretary : Bro. & R. Gossop.

Inner Guard : Bro. W. Elliott, O.B.E., T.D. Stewards : Bro. P. F. Ringrose.

Bro. D. T. Rumfitt.

Tyler : Bro. S. E. Howe.

Charity Representative : Wor. Bro. C. Oliver.

B. Pacey.

All correspondence for the Lodge should be addressed to the etary at 148 Manor Drive, North, Boroughbridge Road, York.

ITEMS J. F. W. Addey (1946-48), who is reading for his Bar Finals, has been awarded a Scholarship to study International Law at Harvard University, U.S.A. The award, which is for one or two years, dates from September, 1953. Addey, whose absorbing interest in acting was manifest when he was at the School, has been invited to produce the Coronation Pageant at Sheffield University. * * * A. A. Collins, LL.B. (1916-23), is President of the Lincolnshire Rugby Football Union for the season 1952-53. Incidentally his son joined St. Peter's as a boarder in School House in September last.

* * * P. Penniston (1939-44) is Vice-Captain of Headingley R.F.C. He has played occasionally for Yorkshire this season, but the claims of business must in future restrict his rugger. It is unfortunate that a year or two ago, when he was able to devote himself more wholeheartedly to the game, an untimely illness frustrated his hopes of international honours.

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OBITUARY We regret to record the death, on 29th December .1951, of Brigadier Claude Willmott Richards, R.A.S.C., at the age of 61.

He was born at Birkenhead on 2nd January, 1890, and was at St. Peter's from 1900 to 1908, proceeding to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

The death of Basil Radford (1911-15) in October last was, of course, widely reported in the national Press. To Old Peterites who knew him his demise at a comparatively early age is much more than the passing of a distinguished figure in the world of entertainment. They will feel a sense of personal loss. A full obituary notice is printed elsewhere in this issue.

BIRTHS BUCKLER.—On 27th November, at Alexandra Nursing Home, Plymouth, to Tessa (née Northcott), wife of Lieut. F. N. Buckler, R.N., a son—Patrick Noel. [1930-42.]

EASTWOOD.—On 15th September, at the Middlesex Hospital, to the wife of Major B. J. Eastwood, O.B.E., a son—David Scott.

[School House, 1930-36.]

GRAHAM.—On 29th November, 1952, at the Christopher Home, to Mary Carol (nee Guinness) and Dr. Pieter Graham, a son— Anthony Richard Pieter—a brother for Robin. Badger Green, Wigan. [1935-40.]

MARRIAGES HILLYARD—GREENWOOD. On 3rd January, 1953, at St. Mary's Church, Haxby, York, Francis Henry Hillyard, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Hillyard, of Poppleton House, York, to Mary Elizabeth Lough Greenwood, daughter of the late Rev. A. H. Greenwood and the late Mrs. Greenwood, formerly of York.

[1935-46.]

STUART—WHITTAM. On 20th December, 1952, at Walker Parish Church, Newcastle-on-Tyne, James Eric Stuart, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Stuart, : of Aldwych, Seaburn, Sunderland, to Margaret Alice Whittam, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Whittam, of 3 Brunton Crescent, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

[The Rise, 1941-48.]

ENGAGEMENT HUDSON—KANE. The engagement is announced between Charles Keith, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Hudson, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, and Elizabeth Anne, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel C. J. Kane , late R.E., of Long Bredy, Dorchester, Dorset, and Mrs. Louise Kane, of 17 Egerton Gardens, S.W.3. [1943-47.]

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CAMBRIDGE LEI 1ER CAMBRIDGE.

January, 1953.

Dear Sirs, We must first offer sincere apologies for the absence of letters from the Cambridge Old Peterites in previous numbers, but now that the "Iron Curtain" may be lifted with comparative safety we can once more inform you of our doings.

For those who were privileged to enjoy the bright and carefree days of the Long Vacation Term with afternoon punting parties, evening concerts and leisurely games of croquet, the bustle and serious atmosphere of a new academic year come as reminders that work and lectures may be things of the future as well as of the past. Also, more energy must be expended if only to keep warm. Not all of us can indulge in beards, moustaches and those fashionable garmentsduffle-coats.

We note with pleasure that our numbers seem to be increasing annually and should continue to do so despite the demands of National Service.

W. H. Andrews (St. Catherine's) p'robably lives somewhere near the gasworks. At least nobody seems to have explored the regions of his domicile. He has, however, been seen plodding towards the farm with E. D. Thornton and this evidence suggests a course in Estate Management. Or could they have been walking home?

P. T. Baker (St. Catherine's) proudly claims that he can already direct anyone to the Copper Kettle or the K.P., where he drinks coffee like an addict. Bemoans the fact that there are too many University sportsmen in St. Catherine's, but after a late start, due to injury early in the season, he has made some progress in the rugger world.

S. D. Daneff (St. John's) seems to have assumed the role of a recluse. A familiar figure disguised by a duffle-coat has been seen in King's Parade occasionally; but possibly this was our imagination.

R. Frater (Emmanuel) practised hard for the Emmanuel Concert this term. Resounding noises, as of a trumpet, were heard to echo through the College courts. Refuses to agree with any of the current generalisations. Has been heard to mutter something about work next term.

G. C. Greetham (King's) claims that teaching boys and singing for two hours every day necessitates inspiration. Rumours have it that he seldom fails to find it. This probably explains why it is unlikely that he will be found at home unless previous knowledge of

his presence is supplied by reverberating bass sounds issuing from a window overlooking the market square. Plays hockey regularly for King's.

J. C. Griffiths (Emmanuel) cannot understand why he should be expected to work during the Michaelmas Term. Appears quite regularly on the hockey field with some distinction, but seems to require leisure time in which to recuperate. Has been seen eyeing bottles in wine merchants' windows.

P. Jenkins (Emmanuel) has been seen at parties, we understand, but when questioned about his activities the conversation somehow turned to bridge. Whatever he may have been doing this term we don't believe it has been chemistry.

C. P. Lascelles (Selwyn) has at last been recognised. His "Roman" disguise has disappeared. Is this a confession that it had to be removed before he could bask, with a clear conscience, in the candle. light of King's College Chapel.

P. J. R. Mason (Clare) would rather sing than write prose. We agree with him but can also see the examiners' point of view. We understand that his practice for week-end tea parties is to invite more guests than he expects, anticipating that the length and rigours of the journey will help to produce the required numbers in the end.

J. B. Mortimer (Emmanuel) finds his inspiration at the K.P. Claims to have lead a completely celibate existence except for certain trips to London ostensibly to eat Bar Dinners at the Middle Temple.

Thinks Cambridge has possibilities !

J. D. Swale (Gonville and Caius) masquerades as a musician (coping with pestilential parsons and parasitic professors a speciality).

Regularly in the Whim at 11 a.m. and the "Boar" at closing time.

Belongs to societies commemorating the more notorious artistic personalities of Cambridge (i.e., Shadwell and Staggins—very Restoration !)

E. G. Thompson (St. John's) seems to take life very seriously. Or can that worried look be the result of sharing rooms in college? Sang with the C. .U.M.S. chorus in Stanford's Requiem.

E. D. Thornton (St. Catherine's) has begun Cambridge life energetically, playing hockey and squash. Appears to take a great interest in the Ladies' Rowing Eight. Enters into conspiracies with Baker and innumerable questions concerning these secret doings resulted in unintelligible remarks about bicycle lamps.

R. J. Townshend (Emmanuel) hasn't been seen outside College.

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lead us to think that probably he has been partaking of all the good things of college life.

To all those who have left us we extend our best wishes for the future and for successful careers in the outside world. If there are any of our number whom we have overlooked this term we should be delighted if they would make their presence known as it is proposed that we should hold an unofficial dinner in Cambridge towards the middle of the Lent Term.

Wishing the School every success in the future, • We remain, Sirs, Yours very sincerely, THE CAMBRIDGE OLD PETERITES.

VALETE AND SALVETE VALETE (December, 1952) THE GROVE 1 M. J. F. Everitt, 1948-52 '(St. Olave's, 1944). Chapel Monitor. School Monitor. Upper VIth Science. School Cert., 1950. Colts XV, 1950-51.

2nd XV, 1951-52. Colours, 1951-52. "A" XV, 1951-52-53. Played for 1st XV, 1951-52. 1st XV Colours, 1952-53. Played for Colts XI, 1950.

Played for 2nd XI, 1952. Member of Curia, Chairman 1952-53. Debating Society Committee. Science Society Committee. Founder Member of Young Farmers' Club. Choral Society. School Orchestra. Flt/Sgt. in C.C.F. (2 i/c R.A.F. Section), Flying Scholarship, 1951. Pilot's "A" Licence, 1952. Cert. "A", Part 1, 1949. Proficiency, 1949. Efficiency Badge. 1st Class Shot.

J. A. E. Wick. 1949-52 (St. Olave's, 1946-49). Vc. 1st Shooting VIII, 1950-51-52. Colours, 1950-51-52-53. Played for 2nd XV, 1952. Science Society Committee. Member of the Photographic Society. Cdt. in C.C.F. (R.A.F. Section). 1st Class Shot.

THE RISE A. N. Wyatt-Gunning. 1947-52 (St. Olave's, 1942). Head of School. Head of Rise. Upper VI Science. School Cert., 1949. West Riding Major I Scholarship, 1952. Colts XV, 1947-48-49-50. Colours, 1948-49-50.

Captain, 1949-50. "A" XV, 1949-50. 1st XV, 1950-51-52-53. Colours and Cap, 1950-51-52-53. Captain, 1951-52-53. Played for Leeds and District Public Schools, XV, 1951-52-53. Captain, 1952-53. Played for Yorkshire Public Schools XV, 1951-52-53. Captain, 1953. 2nd XI Hockey, 1949. 1st XI Hockey, 1950-51-52. Colours, 1950-51-52. Colts, XI, 1949.

2nd XI, 1950. Colours, 1950. 1st XI, 1951-52. Colours, 1951-52. Cap, 1952. Debating Society Committee. Games Committee. Chapel Committee. Chairman of Young Farmers' Club. Member of Curia.

C.S.M. in C.C.F. Cert. "A", 1950. Efficiency Badge. 1st Class Shot.

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SCHOOL HOUSE M. J. Firth. 1949-52. Remove. Colts XI, 1950. Colts XV, 1951. 2nd XI, 1952. Played for 2nd XV, 1952. A.B. in R.N. Section. 1st Class Shot. Proficiency Badge. C.C.F. Band. Cert. "A", Part 1.

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D. J. Bird. 1948-52 (St. Olave's, 1943). L.VI Science. House Monitor.

Special Entry, R.N. College, Dartmouth, 1952. G.C.E., "0" Level, 1951.

Science Society Committee, 1951-52. Choir, 1943-52. Choral Society, 1948-52. 2nd VIII Shooting Captain, 1951-52. 1st VIII, 1951-52.

Colours, 1951-52-53. A.B. in C.C.F. (Naval Section). Cert. "A", Part 1, 1951. Leading Seaman Exam., 1952. 1st Class Shot. Efficiency Badge.

B. Potter. 1949-52. Remove. House Monitor. Choir, 1949-50-51-52.

G.C.E., "0" Level, 1952. Cpl. in Army Section of C.C.F. Sig. Instructor.

Classified Signaller. Cert. "A", Part 1, 1951. Part II, 1952. Efficiency Badge. 1st Class Shot.

A. E. Simpson. 1949-52 (St. Olave's, 1947). Transitus Maths. G.C.E., "0" Level, 1952. Colts XV, 1951-52. 2nd XV, 1952-53. Played for 1st XV, 1952-53. Ldg. Seaman in C.C.F. (Naval Section). Cert. "A", Part 1, 1952. Ldg. Seaman Exam., 1952. 1st Class Shot. Efficiency Badge.

SALVETE (September, 1952) THE GROVE

P. L. Bellwood (Shell A), N. J. Dick (Shell A), D. Kirby (IVA), D. C. Mayson (Shell A), J. F. Miers (Shell a), D. W. Pickup (IVc), C. J. Quickfall (Shell A), H. W. H. Unwin (IVA), J. G. Walker (Shell a), R. V. Webster (Shell A).

THE MANOR

S. M. Badham (Shell A), D. N. Brocklebank (Shell A), C. B. M. Gregory (IVa), P. J. Ladd (Shell A), J. M. Lennox (Shell a), J. F. Liversidge (Shell Al, A. G. Muxworthy (INN, D. R. Procter (Shell A), I. N. Ridley (IVs), T. G. Tomlinson (Shell a), M. B. Wilson (IVA), C. D. M. Wood (Shell A).

THE RISE K. Brown (IVA), G. P. Burden (IVA), H. B. Burnett (Shell 13), J. F. Franklin (TVs), M. G. Hancock (IVA), D. B. Irvin (IVA), G. F. B. Mitchell (IVA), W. N. Richards (Shell a), F. Sheldon (Shell A), C. B. Speddings (Shell A), J. G. Spink (Shell a), E. W. Trevelyan (Shell A), F. F. Watson (Shell A), S. J. S. Wroe (IVB).

SCHOOL HOUSE

M. Collins (Shell A), C. M. Jones (Shell A), S. Mackintosh (IV's), M. Ruddock (Shell A), R. J. Sharp (Shell a), T. Watson (Shell a).

TEMPLE

R. G. Bingham (Shell a), P. B. Brown (Shell a), P. H. C. Burn

(Shell

a),

W. E. Butland (Va), I. C. Bytheway (Shell A), C. J. Carolin (Shell A), T. Chilman (IVA), J. C. Cooke (Shell a), W. D. Dodsworth (Shell a), K. Gosling (IVA), J. V. Littlewood (Shell A), T. Piercy (Shell A), G. C. Sanderson (Shell a), D. H. K. Simpson (Shell A), A. 0. Sutcliffe (Shell A), D. H. Sutcliffe (Shell a), N. D. Taylor (IVA), M. Veal (IVB), J. M. Ward (Shell A), T. G. M. Wharram (IVc), J. A. Whitmore (Shell a), K. Wilson (Shell A).

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SCHOOL OFFICERS Christmas Term, 1952 HEAD OF SCHOOL: A. N. WYATT-GUNNING.

SCHOOL MONITORS : Head of The Grove: M. J. WOOD. Head of The Manor: J. B. WEIGHTMAN. Head of The Rise: A. N. WYATT-GUNNING. Head of School House: C. K. SMITH. Head of Temple: J. E. FAWCETT. Chapel Monitor: M. J. F. EVERITT.

G. B. PULLAN.

HOUSE MONITORS

:

The Grove: M. N. COATES, T. A. FOY, T. WILKINSON. The Manor: A. T. BOOTH, R. J. DELITTLE, J. G. HUMBLE, M. J.

QUARMBY, C. W. THOMPSON.

The Rise: D. H. GUDGEON, D. A. HAXBY, J. C. OLDROYD, E. A. M.

REID-SMITH, D. I. W. SMITH, R. D. WHEATLEY.

School House: D. C. HOLMES, J. M. HOLT, J. N. T. HOWAT, G. B. HUDSON, D. N. SIMMONS. Temple: D. J. BIRD, R. T. CLARK, J. C. M. HERRING, B. POTTER,

P. G. TAYLOR, D. K. TIMMS.

GAMES CAPTAINS

:

Captain of Rugger: A. N. WYATT-GUNNING. Captain of Hockey: J. E. FAWCETT. Captain of Boats: C. W. THOMPSON. Captain of Shooting: J. B. WEIGHTMAN. Captain of Squash: M. J. WOOD. Captain of Fencing: J. G. HUMBLE.

EDITORS OF "THE PETERITE"

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R. D. WHEATLEY, P. G. TAYLOR, C. K. SMITH, M. J. QUARMBY, T. A. FOY.

HOUSE NOTES THE GROVE At the start of the School year many new appointments were made. Our Head of House was M. J. Wood, M. J. F. Everitt was Chapel Monitor, and G. B. Pullan an additional School Monitor.

M. N. Coates, T. A. Foy and T. Wilkinson were appointed House Monitors.

The new members of the House soon settled down and are playing an active part in both House and School activities.

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As usual the work of the House has earned us a high position in the Work Cup, and we hope that after the exams, at the end of the year we will see the Cup once more on the Grove shelf.

In the Junior House matches our team was young and inexperienced and lost in the first round to a stronger Rise team.

Our senior team went through without a point being scored against them, beating School House 20-0 in the first round, Manor 13-0 in the semi-final, and comfortably beating Temple 34-0 in the final.

As a result N. W. M. Carr, D. Dick and M. J. Kent are to be congratulated on the award of their House Colours.

Many members of the House played in School teams. G. B. Pullan was awarded his 1st XV Cap and M. N. Coates, W. G. A. Maxwell, C. M. C. Burdass, and M. J. F. Everitt were awarded 1st XV Colours. M. J. Wood, N. W. M. Carr, P. L. Bardgett and M. J. Kent played for the 2nd XV, and Pfluger was in the Colts team.

T. G. Stephenson captained the Junior Colts and N. J. Magson, M. D. Fish, D. Kirby, and E. Turner played in the team. M. J. Wood captained the Squash team in which G. B. Pullan and W. G. A. Maxwell also played.

In the School Play the House was well represented. P. L. Bardgett, M. J. Baddeley, and P. L. Bellwood were in the cast, although unfortunately Bellwood was taken ill after the first performance. Hawkins played in the Orchestra. M. J. F. Everitt, T. A. Foy, D. A. Stabler, and R. Shepherd played a prominent part behind scenes.

The hobbies room was in constant use throughout the term. The House library continued to flourish and many more books were added to the collection, mainly by old members of the House.

At the end of term several competitions were held which were popular, and the majority of the House took part in them.

Finally, we must say farewell to M. J. F. Everitt and A. E. W' and wish them every success in the future.

THE MANOR On our arrival at beginning of term, two striking changes were apparent : there were twelve new faces, and there was much new paint. The new faces rapidly acquired names and "characters" ("the quiet one", "the very fair one", "the one who can't keep clean", and so on, but not "the noisy one" or "the willing one" (that would distinguish nobody)), and became absorbed into the House within a matter of days. Our numbers are now 55, which must be about maximum capacity for the House. The new paint made a vast difference to the appearance of common rooms and dormitories, and every'where seems lighter and roomier, as well as more cheerful. We hope to keep it in good order for a long time.

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The term has not been distingushed by any games successes by the House as a House, for we lost the Junior Rugger—not ingloriously —and the Senior in the semi-finals, both to the ultimate winners.

We probably had our best teams of the past three or four years.

Lapidge, Bulmer, and Brocklebank have signed the Junior Colours Book, while Booth and J. A. Jackson have been awarded their House Colours. Both have a good record in representative House teams.

It is rather, however, in its contribution to School activities that the House has had a good term, finding : Captain of Boats, Captain of Shooting and Captain of Fencing; four 1st XV Colours, Captain of the 2nd XV and a number of members of Junior teams; the Secretary of the Science Society; members of the Players, before the scenes, behind the scenes, and in the orchestra. We could, however, perhaps wish for more speaking members of the Debating Society, and the level of squash is not high enough, in spite of a number of keen devotees.

As Christmas, with the need for presents, was approaching, some members of the House discovered a new hobby, creative and profitable. In the Senior middle common room, gaunt white shapes with weird colour schemes half-applied could be seen adorned with notices, "Do Not Touch". The finished articles, plaques and other ornaments, and useful things like book-ends, varied, naturally, in quality, and some were frankly experimental, but a considerable number were really excellent, especially Jordan's. Basket-making, model aircraft, the ever-popular cooking, games of the "Monopoly" type, some chess and a couple of gramophones with a collection of records calculated to keep those of sensitive ears at a distance, all helped to fill leisure hours, of which there were many more than usual because of the weather.

THE RISE We returned with the customary enthusiasm and curiosity regarding those in authority for yet another term. The Juniors soon acquainted themselves with the "regular habits" of the House, and we feel that the usual uneasiness soon passed. Our numbers were slightly increased on last term's and as a result three senior members of the House enjoyed the admirable sleeping accommodation provided

by Mr. Waine. It is even rumoured that they were awakened on occasions by "light music".

A. N. Wyatt-Gunning returned to be Head of House and Head of the School, and H. P. G. Shaw became Vice-Head of the School.

J. C. Oldroyd, R. D. Wheatley, D. H. Gudgeon, E. A. M. Reid-Smith, and D. I. W. Smith joined D. A. Haxby as House Monitors.

The end of term came very quickly upon us, and it is now time to look back and take heed of all that we have done. If the higher

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material honours—the Junior and Senior Rugger Cups—have escaped us, we have the great consolation of knowing that at any rate our efforts have been wholehearted, and that the energy we expended has at least not been wasted. We convincingly beat Grove in the semifinal of the Junior rugger, but we met our match against a strong School House team in the final—although well beaten the team played very creditably against far superior opposition. The Senior rugger was a disappointment, and when at last the thaw arrived, we were deSeniedly beaten by a spirited Temple team. Our only remaining hope was that the cold weather would return ! But this was not to be, and we forfeited the Cup to the Grove, who easily beat Temple in the final. If only we'd had some of the stalwarts who left us at the' end of the Summer Term Wyatt-Gunning once again captained the 1st XV, and Reid-Smith and T. A. W. Kettlewell were awarded their 1st XV Colours. Wheatley, Ibberson, Butterworth, J. R. Moore, and' Lewis played for the 2nd XV; and Kirkus and Stubbs played for the Senior Colts. !

Turning to the scholastic achievements of the House we found ourselves second to Temple in the Work Cup for yet another year.

We feel that with more effort from the more junior members the Cup would have been ours; our congratulations are, however, due to the senior part of the House upon excellent examination results, and in particular to Wyatt-Gunning and Haxby on gaining West Riding County Major Scholarship and City of York Exhibition awards, respectively. Shaw and Haxby disappeared for the last week of term —they are rumoured to have competed for Scholarships at Cambridge.

We wish them every success.

Towards the latter end of the term an oak board bearing the nam of the Heads of House since the beginning of the Rise, was placed the hall. It was fittingly appropriate that Mr. K. H. Rhodes, bein the first Head of House, gave us a brief history of the Rise illustrat by some of the more amusing episodes to commemorate this occasio We offer our most sincere thanks to Mr. James who very kincU presented the board. '

The Rise Philatelic Club has been most active under the guidance of B. N. Nendick, and members from other Houses have joined us so that we now "trade" under the name of the School Philatelic Society. The Railway Club has been very efficiently run by J. B. Claydon and several juniors wishing to become engine drivers have at last fulfilled their ambitions.

We take pride as a House in possessing so large a nucleus of Debating Society members, and on one memorable occasion all four principal speakers were Risites. Our part in this Society is undoubtedly connected with our readiness to argue—which in many cases has become a "hobby".

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As usual the School Play was a great success and E. I. Moore, R. M. Kirkus, W. R. Ibberson, D. J. Oldman, M. A. Butterworth, and E. W. Trevelyan are all to be heartily congratulated upon their respective performances. It seems hardly fair to single out any one person from such an admirable cast, but E. I. Moore gave an outstanding performance as Kate, but this will undoubtedly be commented upon more fully elsewhere.

SCHOOL HOUSE Fresh after our holiday activities, whether of an energetic or sedentary nature, we return to a House in wh:ch we see few strange faces, indeed as few as six, to a large extent the cons-quence of so small a number departing last Summer upon their varied careers. Though small in number they have proved themselves to be strong both in enthusiasm and ideas, and we are glad to say that they have quickly settled down to House routine and fitted into the congenial atmosphere of the Junior Common Room.

It was inevitable that some junior members of the House would return to find that they had made little advance along the road of seniority. This has by no means lessened their spirit or keenness, and they will find that in the end they will reach the senior parts of the House as rapidly as if there had been no wait at the beginning.

With reference to new appointments, C. K. Smith is to be congratulated on his Headship of the House, and Hudson, J. N. T. Howat, Holmes, and Simmons on their House Monitorships.

Regarding games this term, the Junior Rugby team, under the

captaincy of Wetherell, triumphed through three successive rounds to win the cup without allowing their opponents to score a single point; Temple 5 -0; Manor 6-0; and in the final, Rise 17-0.

These victories largely depended on the enthusiastic play of the forwards coupled with the speed and opportunist breaks-away of the backs. Subsequently Robbins-Jones, Hardy, Bell, and Nesham were awarded their Junior House dolours. Though the Senior team did

not gain the same success against Grove, hampered as it was by a back injury to Macpherson in the first few minutes of the game, it nevertheless gave a very creditable performance against a side far superior

in skill and experience. Macpherson, Wetherell, and Ridley were subsequently awarded their Senior House Colours, and Clayton and Peat their Junior Colours.

Though House representation in the 1st and 2nd XVs was comparatively sparse—Macpherson gaining his 1st XV Colours and Nelson his 2nd XV Colours, while Hudson, Smith, and Griffiths gained places in the 2nd XV—there was, however, no lack of it in the Colts 17

teams, a bright augury for the future. The Senior Colts team drew its Captain, Wetherell, and two Colours, Ridley and Bell, from our ranks, while Crosskill, Pacey, Peat, and Wilistrop gained places in the Colts XV, as did Clemons, Kirby, Robbins-Jones, and Sharp in the Junior Colts. Mention should also be made of Hudson, Ridley, and Bell who played for the 1st XV, Firth, Gardner, and McCallum for the 2nd XV and Nesham for the Colts. Keen marksmanship was displayed by Lewis and Griffiths who gained places in the Shooting team.

As last year, towards the latter part of the term, all rugger was prevented by the advent of severe frost, but this did not unduly upset the spirit of the House. With commendable zest the Seniors proceeded to furnish the House with ample recreation, by organising squash, table tennis, chess, canasta and subuteo competitions. Squash and chess competitions were won by Macpherson and Simmons respectively, but the term closed before the others were decided.

As usual there was much enthusiasm in the House for the School Play, and ten members either took parts or worked as stage-hands.

They are all to be warmly congratulated on contributing towards a fine performance. It is pleasing to reflect that over half of them gained their first experience of stage-craft in previous House productions.

Special mention should be made of the Hobbies Room which has, this term, been virtually transformed into a panorama of miniature locomotion by Wheatley, Rice, and a number of keen Juniors. The House Library has continued to flourish under the able management of Thomas, assisted by McNeil, and we extend our thanks to them, and to all who have made contributions of books.

This term the new season of the House Proms. has received its usual strong support. A series of excellent programmes of gramophone music was arranged by J. N. T. Howat, but we would particularly recall the entertaining piano recital in the music room given by Mr. Wicks.

We cannot end these notes without some reference to the Work Cup. Our place in the competition is at present in the hands of the Fourth and Shell Forms, and though we note with approval the high positions in form of Hardy, Mackintosh, Pattison, and Watson, we think that most members of the House could work still harder.

Finally it is our sad task to say goodbye to wish him every success in his future life.

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TEMPLE Temple House returned after the Summer holidays to find that, with an influx of twenty-two new members, it had the record complement of eighty-four.

Our first notable success of the term was our winning of the Work Cup for the year 1951-52. Temple's exam. results were very gratifying and our late Head of House, J. T. Ankers, is to be warmly congratulated on his State Scholarship. Yet another success was obtained when D. J. Bird was accepted into the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and we congratulate him on this. In the School Play we saw an unusual side of Staines' character revealed and the audience beheld a most life-like performance. Mr. Howat provided him with soft lights and the Atkinson ensemble the sweet music.

While on the subject of music, Temple was, as usual, well represented in the Choir. In the Debating Society Baines waged a one-man crusade in an effort to bring culture to the masses— incidentally we would like to congratulate Baines on his award of the Queen's Scout Badge—and Templars provided an evening's entertainment for the Science Society.

Turning to sport, the House was on the whole unsuccessful in the Inter-House Rugger Competitions, but this was certainly not from lack of enthusiasm. In the semi-final the Senior House team raised our hopes with a well-merited victory over the Rise, but in spite of a creditable performance it was overwhelmed by a superior Grove side in the final. As a result of this match, House Colours were awarded to Taylor, Jesper, and A. E. Simpson. The Junior House team presented a formidable appearance on paper, but School House—who went on to win the final—were not impressed, and after a close struggle they ran out victors. Beckitt, J. R. Dodsworth, and Dobson were awarded their Junior House Colours.

Temple contributed much to School teams. Taylor was ViceCaptain of Rugger and was awarded his 1st XV Cap and Colours; Bough received his 1st XV Colours, and Jesper and A. IE. Simpson also played. Simpson was our sole representative in the 2nd XV, but Fawcett, Herring, Jesper, and J. M. Welsh were "also rans". Beckitt and Heap played regularly for the Colts XV and also Staines at less frequent intervals, while Hopwood, Bytheway, and Netherwood graced the Junior Colts XV with their presence. Bird was re-awarded his Shooting Colours, while Hewson, as first reserve, doubtless hoped to see a few unpunctured targets. "They also serve, who only stand and wait !"

Members of the House continued playing chess and table tennis with their usual fiendish zeal, and in the House table-tennis competition Jesper and Lacy carried off the laurels.

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Finally we say farewell to Bird, Potter, and A. E. Simpson. thank them for all they have done for the House and wish them 1 in their future careers.

GAMES COMMITTEE MEETING Frozen grounds and wintry weather prompted the Games Committee to meet for the first time this new school year and look into the future. It was proposed and carried unanimously that `members of House teams in Boating, Athletics, Squash and Crosscountry should in future wear vests bearing their respective House colours'. Further it was proposed that 'anyone who is of Co'ts age, on being awarded 1st team Colours in either Rugger or Cricket, should automatically be awarded his Colts Colours'. This proposal was also carried unanimously, and there was no further business.

THE CHAPEL The climax of the Christmas Term is our Carol Service on the last Sunday. As is our custom now the Junior School had their own "Ceremony of Carols" in the afternoon; and, while this was as beautiful as ever, the outstanding feature was the improvement in the singing both of the Choirs and of the congregation. This is largely due to the fact that for the last year the Junior School has had its own daily service in Chapel at 9-0 a.m., and therefore singing in Chapel is no longer strange and somewhat awe-inspiring. The Senior School Service of Nine Lessons and Carols followed its traditional lines; but owing to the excellence of the Choir and of the congregational singing, this was as beautiful a Carol Service as most of us can remember. Both services were worthy Acts of Worship offered to God in thanksgiving for the birth of His Son. Fifty-nine boys began their preparation for Confirmation at the beginning of term; and the actual Confirmation will be on Thursday, 19th March, when the Archbishop of York has promised to come.

A special word of thanks is due to the Chapel Monitor, M. J. F. Everitt, who is unfortunately leaving us this term. He has been an excellent Chapel Monitor, and done all his work most conscientiously, promptly, and without fuss. To our band of Servers, many of them new to this privilege this term, we are also most grateful. The number of Communicants has been greater than in any previous Christmas Term; but there is still considerable room for improvement in regularity in some cases. t20

' Chapel Collections during the term, including the Carol Services, amounted to £108 5s. 2d. A donation of £10 was voted by the Chapel Committee to the Christmas Appeal of the National Institute for the Blind; and after paying our share of the cost of printing the Carol Services we were able to send £9 12s. 10d. to the Lord Mayor of York's Christmas Cheer Fund, and £13 9s. 5d. to St. Stephen's Orphanage, York.

It is part of our purpose in the School Chapel to train boys to take their part in the worship of the Church in their own parishes at home.

Parishes in this country are increasingly making the Parish Communion the central service of Sunday. This means a Sung Communion at some convenient hour, usually about 9-0 a.m., with all those who are Confirmed making their Communion. So for some years we have had a "Parish Communion" on special occasions, and we had one this term on All Saints' Day. Increased familiarity with this, and especially with Merbecke's setting of the sung parts of the Holy Communion Service, has made this a really fine Act of Worship.

Perhaps we are sometimes in need of reminding ourselves that everything that is done in Chapel must firstly be "for the greater glory

of

God".

C.P.

THE CHOIR When the Junior School, at the beginning of the Summer Term, started holding its own Chapel services on weekdays, we were faced with an empty row of stalls on each side of the Choir where Olavite trebles, who now came only on Sundays, no longer sat on weekdays.

During this last term many of those Olavites have come up into the Senior School and would anyhow have filled many places, but there has been also a welcome tendency for Peterite trebles who had not a regular place in the Sunday Choir to come forward and help on weekdays. Some of these have found their way into the Choir on Sundays by assiduous attendance at practices on the off-chance that a regular member of the Choir would be unable to attend. They are to be thanked for their keenness and congratulated on their tenacity.

This term we are sorry to bid farewell to B. Potter, who came to us with the remains of a fine treble voice from the Minster Choir and who leaves us as a Bass, and D. J. Bird, who has been in the Choir for nine years, a span which cannot often have been exceeded. They carry with them our best wishes.

During the term we sang Stanford's Evening Service in B flat and added, on the first two Sundays in Advent, a Faux Bourdon by Orlando Gibbons, with the School singing the plainsong verses. A new Anthem was sung on the Sunday next before Advent, Vaughan William's "Antiphon". The accompaniment, which is really for full orchestra, 21

does not readily lend itself to the organ, so a piano was wheeled into Chapel on which Mr. Waive played the more flamboyant passages, while Mr, Wicks lent weight to the rest on the organ. Other Anthems sung during term were :"Give us the wings of faith"—Bullock.

"Thou visitest the earth"—Greene.

"Let thy merciful ears"—Weelkes.

"What are these that glow from afar"—Gray.

"Save us, 0 Lord"—Bairstow.

The term ended with the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, account of which appears elsewhere.

THE CURIA Chairman: M. J. F. Evmurr.

Secretary: J. C. OLDROYD.

After many vain, and somewhat half-hearted, attempts a meeting of existing members was held at half-term to elect new members. A week later the first full meeting of term was held and a lively discussion, "Conditions in England are ripe for a Dictatorship", proved to be a promising beginning to the year's programme. Mr. Bevan, of course, was the obvious choice of those supporting the motion, whilst those opposing contended, amongst other things, that the importance of royalty in this country was overwhelming. At the same meeting new officers were elected and it was unanimously decided that a fixed meeting time should be arranged, viz. : fortnightly on Friday evenings.

The next meeting took the form of a "One Minute, Please" session.

Talent in loquacity and verbosity was discovered, in some cases even wittiness too, but several opportunities to object were missed, and the interpretation of the subjects was not all it could have been. At the final meeting, Chancellor Harrison spoke to us informally on the Minster Archives, bringing with him numerous documents, many in an excellent state of preservation.

It seems that each year successive members discover only too well that the success or failure of the Society depends on the members themselves. The three meetings we have had have been of a high standard and well attended, but continued success must be ensured by the efforts of all. Finally we must thank the Chaplain and the Domestic Bursar for furthering the success of the third meeting.

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THE LIBRARY Librarian: L. BURGESS,

ESQ.

Library Monitors: C. K. Sum!, H. P. G. SHAW, D. A. Haxay, J. C. M. HERRING., R. T. CLARK, D. C. HOLMES, P. G. TAYLOR.

As a result of the complete overhaul the English section received in the Summer it was obvious that this section, somewhat deficient as it was in both textual and critical matter, deserved attention in the near future. Every effort has therefore been made to strengthen this particular section, though at the same time, as can be seen from the books entered throughout the term, the other sections have by no means been neglected. In this direction Colonel W. T. C. Huffam kindly helped us by his presentation of the books listed below :The Essays of Elia—Charles Lamb.

The Works of Longfellow.

The Works of Sir Walter Scott.

The French Revolution—Burke.

The French Revolution—Thomas Carlyle.

Short History of the English People—J. R. Green.

Undertones of War. The Last Days of Pompeii—Lord Lytton.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy—L. Sterne.

In the Steps of the Master—H. V. Morton.

Jew Suss—Leon Feuchtwanger.

The Man-Eaters of Kumaon--Corbett.

Presented by the Dean of York, on behalf of the Minster—York Minster Anthems.

Other additions include :Selected Essays—T. S. Eliot.

Collected Poems, 1909-1943—T. S. Eliot.

Four Quartets—T. S. Eliot.

Murder in the Cathedral—T. S. Eliot.

Gulliver's Travels and Selected Writings in Prose and Verse—Swift.

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

The Letters of John Keats.

The Achievement of T. S. Eliot—F. 0. Matthiessen.

Geoffrey Chaucer—Lowes.

The Essential Shakespeare—J. Dover Wilson.

Characters of Shakespeare's Plays—W. Hazlitt.

A Companion to Shakespeare's Studies.

Shakespearean Tragedy—A. C. Bradley.

Shakespearean Comedy—H. B. Charlton.

Prefaces to Shakespeare, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th Series—Harley, Granville-Barker.

Shakespeare Criticism, 1919-1935—Anne Ridler.

Shakespeare Criticism—D. Nichol Smith.

Keats and Shakespeare—J. Middleton Murry.

Essays and Lectures on Shakespeare—Coleridge.

Aspects of the Novel—E. M. Forster.

The Living Novel—V. S. Pritchett.

Jane Austen and Her Art—Lascelles.

Shelley, Godwin and their Circle—Brailsford.

Shelley—A Life Story—Edmund Blunden.

Biographia Leteraria, Vol. I and II—G. T. Coleridge.

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On the Poetry of Pope—Tillotson.

John Newton—Bernard Martin.

The Road to Xanadu—J. Livingstone Lowes.

Gods, Graves and Scholars—C. W. Ceram.

The Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia, Vol. X. The Oxford History of England (Whig Supremacy).

The Second World War V (2 copies)—W. Churchill.

King George V—Harold Nicolson.

The Reign of Elizabeth—Black.

Elizabethan Life in Town and Country—M. St. Clare Boyne.

The Seventeenth Century Background—Basil Willey.

The Eighteenth Century Background—Basil Willey.

The Government of British Trade Unions—j. Goldstein.

An Introduction to Economic Geography—Pounds.

Human Geography—Jean Brunhes.

A Geography of Europe—Jean Gottmann.

Climate and the British Scene—Gordon Manley.

100 Years of Phosphorous Making, 1851-1951—Threlfall.

Laboratory Physics—Avery and Ingram.

Modern Aspects of Inorganic Chemistry—Emeleus and Anderson.

Observing the Heavens—Peter Hood.

The Atmosphere—Peter Hood.

Atoms and Atomic Energy—R. W. Hallows.

Fluorine and its Compounds—Hazeldine and Sharpe.

Elementary Chrystallography—Evans and Davies.

Materials of Tomorrow—Capt. P. I. Smith.

Electric Welding, Heating and Electro-Plating—E. Molloy.

THE DEBATING SOCIETY Chairman: L. C. LE TOCQ, ESQ., M.A., B.Sc. Secretary: R. D. WHEATLEY. Committee: T. A. FOY, G. D. GARDNER, R. N. JOHNSON, C. H. LEWIS, J. C. OLDROYD, A. G. D. STAINES, J. 0. WALTON, J. B. WEIOHTMAN, A. N. WYATT-GUNNINO.

This term can be considered to have been very successful for the Society, considering that it sustained the loss of so many prominent members, who left last term. As usual five meetings took place during the term.

On 27th September the first meeting was held and the motion for discussion was "That this House is glad to be back at School".

The proposition, R. D. Wheatley and C. H. Lewis, thought that the petty hardships of School life were o ershadowed by the many advantages such as games, societies, and House activities. A sense of leadership and the desire to do well were encouraged by many varied incentives at St. Peter's School. The opposition, represented by A. G. D. Staines and G. D. Gardner, contended that School life was misery. They reviewed with disgust life at School : dull clothes, C.C.F., Latin, French, School food, hard chairs and the climate of York, were examples of the miseries of School life. The speeches from the floor of the House seemed to favour a return to School life, and this sentiment was confirmed when the motion was carried by 85 votes to nine with 32 abstentions.

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The next debate, a fortnight later, was rather disappointing. The motion was "That this House considers democracy to be impracticable". 1 Mr.Wiseman and H. P. G. Shaw, proposing, said that true democracy contained the seeds of its own destruction and internal conflicts were bound to occur. Democracy could only work where there was a well-educated middle class capable of neutralizing the two extremes. R. N. Johnson and J. H. Baines opposed the motion, maintaining that equality and the chance to take responsibilities were the great assets of democracy. Without democracy, they suggested, we would be in a much greater mess than at present. The House did not agree with this, and the motion was duly carried by 46 votes to six with three abstentions.

The third meeting of the term proved to be much more lively.

A. N. Wyatt-Gunning and J. C. Oldroyd were opposed by Mr. D. G. Cummin and D. A. Haxby when they proposed that "There is no time like the present". The proposition contended that we must accept the potentialities and amenities of the present time and not look back upon the so-called "good old days". The opposition argued that the past was looked upon in the wrong way and they ridiculed some of the many peculiar features of modern life. The general opinion of the House was in favour of the present, and the motion was carried by 97 votes to 14 with five abstentions.

The fourth meeting of the Society provided an opportunity for members to discuss the question of limited membership, when, before the main debate, H. P. G. Shaw proposed the abolition of limited membership. After a prolonged discussion on the subject it was decided to institute a ticket system, but later on, after advice from the Head Master, the present system of limited membership was retained.

Rather belatedly Mr. L. C. Le Tocq, seconded by M. T. Powell, proposed "That the power of tradition is declining". They maintained that tradition had declined since the Industrial Revolution and that in most aspects of modem life—transport, entertainment, clothes, for example—there was no tradition. The opposition, M. J. Quarmby and M. G. Hancock, illustrated their case by pointing out the many pleasant traditions that still remain. New traditions, they said, were being made every day. When the debate was thrown open to the House the speeches from the floor sided with the opposition. On being put to the vote the motion was defeated by 21 votes to 16 with nine abstentions.

The last meeting of the term took the form of the usual lighthearted meeting of the year. This year the Committee decided to have two short impromptu debates and a session of "One Minute, Please". The two speakers for the first debate were C. H. Lewis, proposing, and G. D. Gardner opposing. H. C. Bulmer drew out the subjects for debate and the Society selected one of these, whereupon Lewis rose to propose "That this House believes in Father Christmas".

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He argued that Father Christmas was the centre of a child's Christmas and was, after all, a good excuse for getting presents. Gardner asked the House to be sensible and not to be deluded by this myth, but the House was in full support of Santa and believed in him by 132 votes to two with one abstention. This debate was followed by a session of "One Minute, Please". It proved to be a very enjoyable innovation for the Society and was efficiently run by M. J. F. Everitt, the Chairman, and J. C. Oldroyd, the timekeeper. The subjects varied from Blackpool Tower to a pantechnicon, about which a member of the "Commons" team laughed his way through a minute. The "Lords", ably lead by Lord Butterworth, eventually beat the "Commons".

The second impromptu debate followed. After M. Ruddock had drawn the subjects, the Society again chose one with a seasonable flavour. The Chairman then called upon R. D. Wheatley to propose "That this House thinks that Christmas dinner is the best part of the Christmas festivities". He gave a very tempting description of a Christmas dinner in which the word "turkey" figured prominently.

A. N. Wyatt-Gunning, opposing, maintained that the best part of Christmas was when Santa Claus came down the chimney. The speeches from the floor were mainly of an anti-Christmas dinner flavour and so Wheatley and his band of pro-turkey supporters were doomed to defeat by 92 votes to 29 with 14 abstent:ons, with A. N. Wyatt-Gunning's pro-Santa Claus and pro-mistletoe elements in possession of the field. This meeting was a great success and provided a suitable ending to this term's debating. R.D.W.

THE SCHOOL PLAY It is six years since the School acted a play of Shakespeare's; and though our incursions into more modern drama, such as "The Twelve Thousand" and "The Lady's not for burning", were amply justified, it was a joy to return to Shakespeare, and to see what some at least think is his best comedy, "The Taming of the Shrew". Few can really appreciate the greatness of Shakespeare, and his amazing competence as a dramatist, without acting his plays : and it is an experience which is abundantly worth while to do this. Moreover it is not only a rewarding, but a very enjoyable experience : and perhaps the most striking feature of "The Shrew" this year was the obvious enjoyment of all those who acted in it. This enjoyment communicated itself to the audience, and everyone who came to see the play must have spent a thoroughly happy evening, and for this we are most grateful.

Inevitably the play centres round Petruchio and Katharina, and it is no disparagement of the rest of the cast to say that A. G. D. Staines and E. I. Moore stood out somewhat conspicuously : they must do so, or the play would fall to pieces. Here we had two really

excellent performances. Staines seemed of all the performers the most "at home" on the stage; and his acting, his timing, and his appreciation of Shakespeare's poetry gave even his most violent moments in taming his Kate a reality and a beauty that were remarkable. Moore's Kate was equally outstanding. He has an admirable voice and used it well. But, more important, he got inside the part, and the change from the choleric Shrew of the earlier scenes to the tamed and devoted servant of her lord and master was admirably done. Finally Kate spoke her last lovely speech on marriage really well. This is no easy task. It is a fine speech and lovely poetry, but it has to be delivered after a boisterous and exciting scene, and the change is very sudden. That Moore could and did hold his audience throughout that speech was remarkable. Both Staines and Moore showed how terribly important it is for an actor (or a reader, for that matter) to vary his speed in speaking, and to use as large a compass of his voice as possible. Several others in the cast could, with great advantage, have copied their example more closely.

R. M. Hick as Tranio, for example, rather marred an otherwise good performance by speaking throughout at a fast and almost unchanged speed. This was a pity, since Hick obviously enjoyed his part and was in many ways admirable. C. K. Smith as Hortensio had a good sense of the character of one of Shakespeare's "foppish" characters, and was at his best as the music master to Bianca. Perhaps a greater contrast might have been made between the real Hortensio and the musician, and there was some monotony of gesture. There were good performances too by P. L. Bardgett as Baptista, who spoke admirably (though clenched fists can be overdone), and R. M. Kirkus as Gremio. T. E. Thomas, a natural comedian, as Grumio, and W. R. Ibberson as Biondello were both good, and J. B. Weightman, a competent suitor to the young Bianca, well played by D. J. Oldman, even if he did hold his head almost uncomfortably high. D. N. Simmons as Vincentio seemed rather to force his voice, which handicapped him; but he and M. J. Baddeley as a Pedant, and P. W. Middlebrook as Curtis were entirely adequate, and Middlebrook had a real sense of character. The really minor parts, which so often let a play down, kept up the standard : and a special word of commendation is due to E. 0. Trevelyan, who played the Widow at a few hours' notice.

Once again Mr. Howat, aided and abetted by R. Hawkins, produced an admirable "set" out of nothing. But what we must most thank Mr. Howat and his stage hands for is the really excellent change of scenes. The changes were small, but significant, and to have to change scenes, place and remove chairs and tables, and with very limited access to the stage, and to do it all so quickly and noiselessly was a great triumph. "Scene shifting" often spoils a play, and can cause unnecessary and rather boring pauses. This effort was a model of quietness, competence, and speed.

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Oscar Wilde remarks in "The Importance of being Ernest" that "if one plays good music people don't listen, and if one plays bad rhusic people don't talk". The interval music for the play was good and well performed, and people did listen. The Atkinson brothers, W. B. Hawkins and J. Ford were an admirable quartet, and the music well chosen and well played. The first night your reporter was there R. B. Atkinson could not play the piano owing to a minor injury in the final House match; but his "substitute" was the Director of Music.

So we can congratulate ourselves !

Lastly a word must be said about the Production and‘the Producer.

It means almost everything to our School plays to have as experienced and expert a producer as Mr. Burgess. The players know best how much the whole play, and their own interpretation of their parts, owe to Mr. Burgess. How he does it all, handicapped by a small stage, we do not profess to know. But, despite his habitual pessimism where a School play is concerned, he does do it : and "The Taming of the Shrew" can clearly, and by common consent, be acclaimed as a great success. We thank him and all his players for a thrilling evening.

C.P. The cast was as follows :Baptista (a rich gentleman of Padua) ... P. L. BARDGETT Vincentio (an old gentleman of Pisa) ...

Lucentio (son to Vincentio) Petruchio (a gentleman of Verona) ...

Gremio Suitors to Bianca Hortensio ••• Tranio •• Servants to Lucenti Biondello '•' Grumio Curtis Servants to Petruchio ••• i • •• ••• ••••• A Pedant ••• Katharine i Daughters to Baptista 1 ••• Bianca "• ...

Widow ... ... ... ... ...

Tailor ••• Haberdasher "• 1st Servant "• 2nd Servant •" 3rd Servant •" —• Waiting Woman "' '

D. N. SIMMONS J. B. WEIGHTMAN A. G. D. STAINES R. M. KIRKUS C. K. SMITH IL M. HICK W. R. 1BBERSON T. E. THOMAS P. W. MIDDLEBROOK M. J. BADDELEY

E. 1. MOORE D. J. OLDMAN P. L. BELLWOOD

M. WILLSTROP M. A. BUTTERWORTH P. K. LAPIDOE D. N. SIMMONS C. G. HOWAT P. L. BELLWOOD

THE ST. PETER'S PLAYERS We reprint the following note from the programme of "The 'taming of the Shrew". It may be of interest to the general readers of "The Peterite" :The tradition of dramatic performances by boys of St. Peter's School goes back to the beginnings of the secular theatre in England. We have two records of St. Peter's productions during the Headmastership of John Pullen (1575-1591).

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The first is in the Chamberlain's Book of York Minster for the year 1575 : XXs to my Ld. Stafford men players.

XXs to the Scollers of the Horsefair players.

Xs to Lancashyre men players.

(At that time the School was housed in the former St. Mary's Hospital, in the district known as the Horsefair, where it remained until the destruction of the premises in the Civil War.) The second is found in the York City Chamberlain's Book for 1585 : To John Pullen's Skollers wch played in the Common Hall 40s.

To E. of Worcester's Players 10s.

To L. of Oxford's Players 20s.

It is an intriguing thought that Guy Fawkes, who was 15 at the time, might have taken part in the latter performance before the Lord Mayor and dignitaries of the City.

In Elizabeth's reign such companies of boy players were associated with the Chapels Royal and several of the schools, including, besides St. Peter's, St. Paul's, Westminster, and the Merchant Taylors'. Their popularity was a matter of concern to the professionals, as we know from Hamlet (Act II, ii) : "There is, Sir, an eyrie of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question and are most tyrannically clapped for it : these are now the fashion and berattle the common stages."

We hope that the present representatives of the tradition are not unworthy of a lineage which goes back 20 years before Shakespeare wrote The Taming of the Shrew in 1595. L.B.

THE MUSIC SOCIETY lion. Secretary: J. N. T. HOWAT. Hon. Librarians: P. L. BA.Rnovrr, E. TURNER.

The Society organised two Saturday evening meetings, the first a concert given by members of the Music Staff and the second a group of lectures given by three members of the Committee with gramophone illustrations. The informal Friday meetings given in Big Hall between the end of morning school and dinner took place weekly until the coming of the play, foreshadowed by the erection of the proscenium arch, made it seem best to discontinue them until next term. These recitals were well supported and were as follows :— Tchaikovsky—programme devised by the Secretary.

Overtures—programme devised by M. A. Butterworth.

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A piano recital by Mr. Waine.

Marches—programme devised by J. C. Oldroyd.

Beethoven Overtures—programme devised by M. J. Quarmby.

Music descriptive of Spain—programme devised by the Secretary.

We would like to congratulate W. B. Hawkins on being selected as a viola player in the National Youth Orchestra. He took part in the recent performance under Walter Susskind at the Edinburgh Festival. We are glad to hear that he has been accepted for the N.Y.O. 1953 season. When are we going to hear some gramophone records made by this orchestra?

MUSIC SOCIETY CONCERT Saturday, 18th October, 1952 Taking for granted the popularity of the Saturday night societies, their appeal may best be judged from the proportion of senior to junior supporters. The former attend because they are attracted by the programme of music, the subject to be expounded, the motion to be debated, or because they anticipate that the matter will be attractively presented or because they like the personality of those taking part. The latter may be influenced by all these considerations or they may merely be escaping organised "prep.". This is not necessarily undesirable if their interest is awakened in a subject new to them.

The point has a bearing on the arrangement of the concert. The programme on this occasion was planned on historical lines, with the result that it was not until the fourth item that the younger members of the audience heard music composed in a style with which they were familiar. This may have been meant as a compliment to their taste and intelligence, but as propaganda for the cause of good music it risked being ineffective.

The evening's music was launched into the cold atmosphere of Big Hall by Mr. Walker and Mr. Wicks playing the Sonata in C minor

by Handel. Neither side, performers nor audience, seemed to be entirely happy, which may have been because so early in the programme the audience had not yet settled down to the agreeable task of giving its whole attention to the music. This may have been reflected in a somewhat diffident approach by the performers.

In his interpretation of Haydn's pianoforte Sonata in G., Mr. Waine invested Haydn's robust style with a delicacy and charm which proved an admirably contrived contrast to the splendid sonata for violin and piano in B flat by Mozart which followed it. This magnificent work received at the hands of 'Mr. Wicks and Mr. Walker a memorable and vital performance. By now the audience was acclimatised to the music and showed its appreciation of this work of genius with the first hearty applause of the evening.

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There followed a group of Nocturnes. The first by Field and the next two by Chopin, who wrote later and is said to have taken the form from Field, the originator of Nocturnes as salon pieces. Fully expecting that compared with the Field, the Chopin would display sentimentality, we were glad to find this was not so, but rather that Chopin was bringing to full realisation something that was implicit but not stated in the Field. The last Nocturne was Gabriel Faures early nocturne in E flat. Faure was a late 19th century composer (who, like Beethoven, became deaf in later life), and recently his music has become popular in this country. He is a master of pianoforte texture and is capable of writing music of sustained intensity. In this nocturne we were impressed more by the superb intricacy of the pianistic writing than by the lyricism of the melodies. Mr. Waine's interpretation showed true insight into the varying styles of this group.

Mr. Walker's last group included three commentaries on themes of old Spanish composers by Joaquin Nin. Nin is a Spanish solo pianist held in great repute in Latin-American countries and a distinguished composer and musicologist. These commentaries are admirable display pieces for the violin, the last being particularly lively with a strong feeling of gypsy music.

Mr. Waine started his last group of piano solos with a vigorous performance of Chopin's "Revolutionary Study". We were on familiar ground here, but immediately he launched out into the uncharted seas of Lennox-Berkeley's Preludes. Here we wished that more weight had been transferred to the latter end of the programme from the earlier numbers, for we would have found even a single Chopin Prelude interesting for comparison. Like Howard Ferguson, Lennox-Berkeley has mastered the knack of effective and economical writing for the pianoforte. The Preludes are romantic in mood and yet characteristically modern in idiom.

It was only in the piece by Delibes that the audience unconsciously began to keep time and a sudden, though gay end came to the advertised concert when Mr. Waine gave a delicate yet lively treatment of the "Hurdy-Gurdy Man" by Eugene Goossens. As an encore Mr. Waine added a piece in similar vein by Arthur Benjamin, "Soldiers in the distance", and the concert which had started so seriously with three sonatas ended with a smile.

We thank all those who were concerned with producing the concert and we hope in the near future to enjoy a programme drawn up on more personal and less conventional lines.

J. C. OLDROYD. Editor's note.—Mr. Waine tells us that he hopes it will be possible to give Oldroyd an opportunity of working out a programme for a Saturday evening concert next term.

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LECTURES Three lectures were delivered at the meeting of the Music Society on Saturday, 22nd November. After a preliminary speech by Mr. Waine from the chair, we were enlightened upon the subject of "The minuet and trio in orchestral music" by J. N. T. Howat. It seems that it was the French composer, Lulli, who first conceived the idea of minuet and trio. Mozart and Haydn took up the thread and followed a similar pattern, but Haydn forsook the stately splendour of the old minuet and gave it "light-hearted humour", while Mozart kept to much the same lines, though rather more subdued. The minuet and trio forms the third movement of most symphonies written by classical composers (i.e., up to Beethoven) and is also common in quartets, sonatas, and other chamber works. We heard the third movement of Haydn's "Oxford" Symphony and Mozart's 39th Symphony, sometimes sub-titled the "Clarinet" Symphony. The Clarinet has his solo in the trio (so called because it was originally written in three-part harmony). In his symphonies Beethoven further revolutionised the minuet and trio until in the "Eroica" it became more of a Scherzo and trio, although the form remained similar. We heard an inspiring example from Beethoven's 1st Symphony and heard how Beethoven had pursued the idea to its logical conclusion in a stirring performance of the third movement of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony with the famous horn trio.

The second talk appeared to be more popular than either of the others. M. J. Quarmby called his lecture "Jazz appreciation". This subject is connected with minuets and trios, in that both are forms of dance music. Jazz was born in New Orleans in America at the beginning of the twentieth century. It developed from negro inspiration : the rhythms they used before they were enslaved : the tunes they sang at work, and, strange though it may seem, the Victorian hymn-tune in their first Christian services. The negroes eventually taught themselves various brass instruments, of which they were particularly fond. By 1920 the jazz had so developed that it was heard not only all over America, but in this country too. It wa3 in this period that authentic or purist jazz (as opposed to swing, boogie-woogie, and others) reached its height. The lecturer claimed that the essential difference between swing and jazz is that for jazz there is no printed music; it is merely a theme and variations. In swing there is generally a vocalist and the urge to dance. It is, he asserted, almost impossible to dance to jazz. The rhythm section of the jazz band is based on the piano, string bass and drums, and the tune is played by the guitar, clarinet, trumpet, cornet, and the later additions, trombone, saxophone and tuba, the brass instruments, more often than not, being muted. Jazz bands breed brilliant virtuosi.

Concluding, our lecturer advised us not to support jazz at the cost of classics, but to treat it just as negro folk music. Jazz is now, without doubt, stepping aside to let swing take its place.

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M. A. Butterworth rounded off an instructive and enjoyable evening with a talk on Saint-Sans' Pianoforte Concerto No. 2 in G minor. Saint-Sans was born in Paris on 9th October, 1835, and he died at a very ripe age in 1921. His early works, which were mainly vocal or operatic, were not very successful. He wrote five pianoforte concertos, but only two of them (numbers 2 and 4) are played today.

Of the two, number 4 has more technical detail, but number 2 is undoubtedly more popular. It was first performed in 1868 by him in Paris. The first movement opens with a solemn declaration on the piano—a sort of cadenza—at the end of which is an introduction by the orchestra followed by the first theme on the piano. Butterworth illustrated this opening passage with a recording. The introduction is appallingly hard as far as the ensemble is concerned, and in the example, the ensemble is not good. The second movement, marked "Allegro Scherzanda", opens wi.h a short introduct:on on the timpani (very muffled on the recording). The well-known sprightly air, atter being bandied about by the piano and the orchestra, is followed by the piano thumping out a "lolloping" figure, accompanying the orchestra which plays a robust melody. After this, the orchestra sinks to a whisper while the piano plays a fairy-like tune over it. This state of bliss is broken by increasing chords and the second theme, accompanied by the rhythm of the first theme, leads into a recap:tulation and conclusion of the second movement. Our speaker was disgusted with the last movement ("Presto"). It starts in a mighty fashion and points to a mighty movement, but the orchestration is weak, and most of the work is left to the pianist. We did not dwell on that movement.

Mr. Waine, closing the meeting, thanked the speakers for an W. B. HAWKINS. excellent evening's musical instruction.

THE SCIENCE SOCIETY Five meetings were held this term, the first of which consisted of five films of a general nature. They were (i) "The Wonder Jet", an account, to date, of jet propulsion. The story started as far back as 1926, when Sir Frank Whittle was a young cadet at Cranwell.

The film showed how at first he was met by failure after failure, and in the closing stages it showed some of the first meteors in action against the flying bombs of the Second World War. (ii) "Faster than Sound" dealt with the problem which was presented to scientists as planes reached higher and higher speeds— that of the sonic barrier. The film showed us a research station, and how this problem was attacked by means of pilotless rockets. (iii) "Wonders of the Deep" was concerned with the new technique of underwater exploration being developed as a result of daring 33

exploits of the frog divers during the war. In the last part of the film we were shown a film taken underwater, by a frogman. of a submarine firing its torpedoes; the closest of the shots being taken at 15 feet. (iv) "Birds of the Village". This film was divided into two sections, the first of which dealt with English resident birds, and the second.

Summer visitors. The latter part of the film showed how experiments were being carried out to see if the rook was a useful or harmful bird to farmers. (v) "New Hobby" was a film about the making and racing of model cars. The film took us to the private workshops of some of the experts in this field, and in the latter stages of the film were shown some of the cars in action on a roof-top in London.

At the second meeting of the term Mr. F. Waine gave a lecture, entitled "The Measurement of Time". He began by explaining that the sun was not a good time-keeper, and he traced the history of clocks from the earliest one handed down to the most accurate modern clocks, such as the cathode ray tube signals, and quartz crystal. The transparencies shown during the lecture were kindly prepared by Mr. Robinson. Mr. Jeffs was in the Chair.

At the third meeting of the term Mr. Harris showed some films on "Oil", the first of which was entitled "Detergents". It showed that a detergent was really a wetting agent, that is, it enables writer to penetrate thoroughly and wet any material with which it comes in contact. The second film of the evening, "Gasoline", was divided into four parts. (i) The first part dealt with octane number, and showed how gasolines were blended to suit various compression ratios. (ii) The second section showed how, with the growth of the combustion engine, and the need for a large volume of good quality gasoline, there remained residual products, which the manufacturers were unable to deal with. The final part of the film showed how the residual products were "cracked" to form a gasoline of fairly high octane number. (iii) The third film dealt with high octane compounds for aviation gasoline, and showed how the need for high-grade gasoline was met by modern processes. (iv) The last section of this film was concerned with aviation gasoline blending, and told us that the high octane compounds previously mentioned were too expensive for every-day use. The last part of the film showed how, by blending a little high grade gasoline with some base stock, and treating with tetra ethyl lead, a gasoline of high octane number was produced.

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The last film, "Solvent Extraction", showed how the aromatic hydrocarbons, which cause paraffin to give a smoky flame when burning, are removed. ,

It was decided by the Committee that, as in previous years, each House should provide an evening's programme. Rise was the first House to do this, and they provided three lectures. (i) Messrs. Bolton and Ibberson gave a lecture on "Catalysts".

They demonstrated some typical Catalysts, and explained their uses.

They also explained the difference between positive and negative catalysts. (ii) The second lecture was given by Reid-Smith and Claydon on the phenomena of "stroboscopy". They ably demonstrated this effect by means of a disc rotating at ultra high speeds. (iii) The last lecture, given by Butterworth, was on Interplanetary Travel. He explained many of the difficulties which have to be overcome before it is possible to leave the earth's surface, and ended by describing some of the probable different types of space ships. Mr. Crews was in the chair.

Temple provided the speakers for the last meeting of term. The first speaker was Staines, who gave a lecture on Badgers. He explained the layout of a "set", which may be shared by foxes and rabbits. He ended by showing us some photographs of badgers by means of the epidiascope. The next lecture was given by Netherwood on "Oil".

He described how it was formed, and ended by showing a film entitled "Drilling for Oil". Bird, who was to have given a lecture on "Nickel", was unfortunately indisposed, but a film he had obtained, "Man made Canyon", was shown. This was about an open pit-style mine which was a mile long, quarter of a mile wide and 400 feet deep. Mr. Ping was in the chair.

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Chairman: E. K. ROBINSON, ESQ. Secretary: P. G. BROOKE. Treasurer: W. G. A. MAXWELL. Librarian: M. L. RICE. Elected Committee: D. A. STABLER, J. M. SAVILLE, B. N. JACKSON.

The Society started another School year with 26 members drawn from all parts of the School.

Three lectures were given by members during the course of the term, the first being given by P. G. Brooke on the 9th October on "How to Develop a Film". On the 16th of the same month D. A. Stabler lectured on "How to Enlarge". The last of the lectures was given on 6th of November by E. K. Robinson, Esq., on "Filters", this lecture was illustrated with material from Kodaks and Ilford.

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The dark room was frequently used by all members, this being encouraged by the presence of a new vertical enlarger.

But perhaps the highlight of the term's activities was the attendance of members at the York Camera Club meetings, permission for which was obtained from the Head Master. P.G.B.

'1111. BRITISH SHIP ADOPTION SOCIETY At the beginning of term the "Moun'park" was loading sugar on the Queensland coast for Eastern Canada, the actual ports of loading being Cairns (26th Aug.-13th Sept.) and Mackay (15th---17th Sept.).

Mr. Ellis sent photographs of both these towns, which, together with a photograph of the ship at Wellington, formed the basis of a small exhibition in Big Hall.

The passage from Mackay to Montreal, via Panama, with a call for oil fuel at Aruba, took 55 days (17th Sept.--111th Nov.), and was uneventful. Mr. Ellis was struck by the speed and efficiency of the discharging arrangements at Montreal, where 1,200 tons of sugar were unloaded daily, about four times the speed of port-working in the Antipodes.

The "Mountpark" was one of about 20 ships waiting to load grain for Western Europe, and there was a great rush to get them away before the St. Lawrence froze up for the Winter, the average date for this being about mid-December. "Mountpark" left 'Montreal on 28th November, completed loading at Quebec (28th Nov.-5th Dec.), and as term ends we await news of her destination in Europe. In any case it looks like "Christmas at home" for the ship's company, after a voyage which started on 13th November, 1951, and has taken the ship around the world.

In reply to a question, Mr. Ellis has sent us the following interesting account of some features of this passage :"The sea temperature between Cairns and Panama ranges between 70°F. and 80°F. For most of the passage there was a current of about one knot against us. The sea is clear, and there is very little bird life unless there are islands in the near vicinity.

After leaving Colon we get a current with us to Aruba at this season of the year, and from Aruba to about three days off the St. Lawrence we are in the Gulf Stream carrying a current from one to two knots and a sea temperature of 85°F. to 75°F. After we left the Stream the sea temperature dropped to 44°F. There is not not much to see from Father Point, where we pick up our pilot, to Quebec. From there up to Montreal you see more industry and all the way up the ship is stemming a strong current, especially passing Three Rivers."

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THE FILM SOCIETY "The Ghost Goes West" was the first film that Rene Clair made outside his native France : if Gallic wit did not make a good Channel crossing, there were some amusing digs—visual ones—at the antics of pre-war American millionaires, and the film, as a whole, was not without French polish : if it appeared at times to be a little slow, its age may well account for that; for it was made about the year 1935, I believe. There were some instances of good "editing", in particular the swift cut to the transatlantic liner with the accompanying music of the ships orchestra was effective—so effective, in fact, that it was only afterwards one realised that one had been looking at the photograph of a model in a tank.

"In Which We Serve" was appropriately chosen for the evening of Remembrance Sunday. The story and the script were obviously Coward's : he is a past master in the art of assaulting the emotions and very seldom shows signs of letting sentiment get out of hand : even for a "cold war" audience there were many moments of deep feeling, moments that I remember being even more effective in 1942 when the film was new and the war was still to be won. The technical excellence of the film we must credit to the co-d:rector, David Lean : it is surely not given to one man to be so technically efficient in two media so widely divergent, I insist, as stage and screen.

"The Magnet" was a charming and unsensational story filmed by our own Ealing Studios under the direction of Charles Freud; in particular it was a well lit film, and had the incomparable advantage of having had T. E. B. Clarke in charge of its script. The stcry was set on Merseyside—that was a pleasant change. William Fox was brilliant as the boy; but then boys often are astonishingly good as themselves on the screen, and that much under-rated actress, Kay Walsh, was excellent as his mother : Hollywood would have built her up into a second Myrna Loy. "The Champion" is possibly not a vintage Chaplin, but good enough to remind us that we are in the presence of genius : who, save Chaplin, in embarrassment at the applause when he felled his hulking opponent, would have conceived the idea of plaiting his feet along the lower rope of the ring? Or who, save Agag, once the idea was conceived, would have trodden it so delicately?

The last showing of the term was Jacques Tati's "Jour de Fete".

Tati, hailed in a first flush of enthusiasm as the French Chaplin, has certainly given us a French film with a d_fferaice : in the first place he took his camera out of doors and kept it there; secondly, he did not give us polish or wit but "slapstick". The film began rather slowly as it depicted the arrival of a fair in a French village, but "stepped up" the pace to a rousing finish as it showed the efforts of the village 37

postman, played by Tati himself, to emulate the "hustle" methods of the U.S.A. postal system, after seeing a film of the same in a travelling cinema which was part of the fair. A tribute, I think, is paid to the visual and, therefore, real qualities of the film when I say that without sacrifice of enjoyment we could ignore the French dialogue and probably, in our ignorance, most of us did.

It would be most ungrateful to conclude these notes without thanking Shepherd for the immense amount of work he has put in to improve the acoustics of our films; we have only one problem left now—how to stop him trying, during the course of the film, to make good even better. F•J•W.

YOUNG FARMERS' CLUB Leader: MR. K. G. COULTHARD. Committee: C. M. C. BURDASS (Chairman), R. D. WHEATLEY (Vice-Chairman), D. C. HOLMES (Secretary), H. C. BULMER (Treasurer), C. W. Thompson (Librarian), A. N. WYATT-GUNNING, A. G. QUARMBY.

The Annual General Meeting of the Club was held on 25th September, when R. D. Wheatley, H. C. Bulmer, and A. G. Quarmby were elected to the Committee, together with the four old members.

Thirteen new members were then elected to the Club.

On 9th October we visited Northern Dairies, Ltd., where we were shown the various processes which lead up to the bottled milk, which is familiar to everybody.

On 30 h October we visited Richardson's Fertilizers, Ltd., where, after a very enjoyable tea, the members were shown round the factory and saw the comp'ete process of the production of artificial fertilizer from the raw materials to the bagged product.

The first lecture of the term was given on 6th November by Mr. Trowbridge, of the Yorkshire Institute of Agriculture, who talked on "Dairy Husbandry". As his subject was a vast one he divided it into two parts. Firstly he talked about the various breeds of cattle and pointed out their good and bad points with respect to milk production.

The second part consisted of a film strip on milk production, which strongly emphasised the importance of hygiene at all stages.

On 20th November two members of the Club gave lectures. The first was by A. G. Quarmby, who spoke on the "Milking Mach'ne".

In his lecture he described the Alfa-Laval machine and its workings.

The second lecture was given by A. H. Sneesby, who spoke on "Pest Destruction". He described the methods of eliminating both rats and rabbits, and produced examples of poisons, traps and snares to stress his points.

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On 4th December Mr. J. W. W. Wood, from the British Oil and Cake Mills, brought a film called "Cowmanship". The film, made in conjunction with the Royal College of Agriculture, Cirencester, stressed the need for helping the small farmer to obtain a high yield at a low cost per cow. The film showed two new ideas, namely "premilking", milking before the cow calves, and "steaming up", by which a cow is heavily fed with proteins.

On 1 1 th December the Club held a Quiz on Farming when a team captained by D. C. Holmes beat a team captained by R. D. Wheatley D.C.H. by 29 points to 251.

A TRIP TO CANADA (The writer, Ft./Sgt. J. B. Weightman, R.A.F. Section, C.C.F., was one of the first cadets to gain his Flying Badge and obtain a Civil Flying Licence. He was selected as a representative of this country in exchange flights with Canada in the Summer of 195:2. The following is an account of his experiences.)

A sight-seeing tour of over 12,000 miles to Canada leaves much to write about. As it all took place in 19 days, my impressions of that great country may be, perhaps, some way from the truth. However, no one can dispute my first one : Canada is a mighty big place.

I am not unique in this, as they say that that is everyone's first impression on visiting the Dominion.

We were flown to Canada by the R.C.A.F. in a North Star aircraft, crossing the Atlantic on the Great Circle route via Iceland and Goose Bay, Labrador. For those who like facts and figures, it took 18k hours flying time from Northolt, London, to Dorval, Montreal, making 24-k hours altogether, counting stops.

We arrived at Goose Bay in the early hours of the morning and landed with the aid of a flare path. During our stay there of three hours we had our introduction to the most numerous inhabitants of Canada—mosquitoes. As it was just beginning to get light, our attackers were unseen, and I thought that my feeling of a lack of comfort was due to nothing more than tiredn.:ss and travel. When there was enough light to see what it was we all fled away from the huts and on to the tarmac where we stood in defensive groups, keeping the insects away with handkerchiefs.

After leaving Goose Bay the terrain over which we flew was the same for three hours. Labrador is a country of lake and forest. From the air there appears to be just as much water as land, all arranged in almost parallel lines. In some time past the land must have suffered considerable glacial action, as the lakes are scooped out of the rock, 39

having long straight chains of islands and sandy spits. Throughout this northern part of Canada the pine trees appear to grow feebly, as the cold Winters break their branches off short. When we arrived at Montreal we went straight to the R.C.A.F. Sta'ion Lachine, where we were billeted during our stay there. We soon got used to the idea of bacon with two eggs or geddle cake and maple syrup for breakfast, a plate full of meat for lunch every day, and plenty of milk and butter at all meals.

We learned that our itinerary was to be from Montreal to Calgary, Alberta, then Banff, National Park and holiday resort in the Rockies, and finally Vancouver, which was to be our main objective. We saw that we were but half-way there, as it is just as far across Canada as across the Atlantic.

While in Montreal we saw a Big League baseball match. Montreal Royals were playing Buffalo, and we were told that it should be pretty good. It was, after the first half-dozen or so innings, when we were figuring out what was happening. Each side has nine innings in a game; if there is no resu.t then, they go on having an innings each until it is not a draw when they have both played the same number of innings. That is what happened in the game we saw. The score was two apiece after the ninth innings, but in the tenth the Royals scored two more runs, and they strengthened their position at the top of League by a 4-2 victory.

We stayed a few days in Montreal seeing its beauty spats and getting used to the five hours we had gained, before we had any more thrust upon us, and then boarded our North Star, once again westward ho ! Some people may enjoy flying over Canada's prairies, but I am not one of them. As we could not get above the bumps, we rode them; but even though it was broncho bustin' season, I'm no cowboy. Half an hour away from our destination I was sick. At Calgary there was a temperature of 89°F. and a cowboy band on the tarmac to greet us.

We spent the evening at the ranch of a Mr. Cross, a wealthy millionaire, who did us mighty proud with curried chicken, etc. Real western hospitality and cooking !

The next day we went by bus to Banff. What truly wonderful scenery there is in the Rockies. We spent the night at the Army Cadet camp at Banff, which is a kind of reward camp for first class cadets, sheltering beneath a mighty mountain called "Cascade". During the time spent there we went up a mountain by ski chair, swam in the hot sulphur springs at a temperature of 86°F. through a thunderstorm, and saw brown bears at home from a distance of a couple of yards. The Albertan Provincial Committee of the Canadian Air Cadet League gave us lunch at the Banff Springs Hotel, the largest and best hotel of this great tourist centre, to give us something extra to write home about.

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From Banff we caught the noon train bound for Vancouver. I learned much of Canadian trains just from this one trip. When the C.P.R. engineers cut that track through the Rockies they did a marvellous job. It climbs up and through the mountains, timbered over in places as protection against winter avalanches, and the snow at that season seldom holds a train up more than two days over the 600 mile stretch through the Rockies. It must get pretty cold in the Canadian Winter, and they realised that in designing the coaches.

The ventilators are small and let very little air in, and the windows are double with only the inner one opening. It must be nice and cosy in those carriages in the Winter, but in the August heat they are unbearable until the cool of the night. They do do something about the heat, however. They sling under the carriages large ice-boxes which are kept loaded with great quantities of ice. Most of us spent our time on the train in the observation car which was about a quarter of an hour's walk down the train. The real difference between our railways and the Canadian Pacific was in the dining-car. I never heard or received anything like simple courtesy from any of the dining-car attendants. Still, I don't suppose we can ever have everything. We spent a comfortable night on the train, myself in a lower berth, but we were all glad when we arrived in Vancouver and freed ourselves from the motion of the train.

We spent a week in Vancouver, and our daily sorties were from the R.C.A.F. camp on Sea Island, just outside the City. We went to a lumber mill at New Westminster, where the day before the temperature had been 112°F. in the shade, and it can't have been much cooler when we were there; we went round the Imperial plant of the British Columbia Packers, Ltd., and followed salmon along the conveyor belt from the trawler's hold to the packing of the tins, and were given a lunch of roast salmon; we went by crash launch to Powell River, the 80 miles being covered in three hours, where we looked round the pulp and paper mill (a photograph of one of its gigantic newsprint machines is in a geography textbook current at School); in fact we saw an example of every industry in British Colombia.

Our stay in Vancouver had its social side, too. The Royal Vancouver Yacht Club were kind enough to invite us to their annual regatta. We were all accommodated on the various clas es of boats, and spent the afternoon acquiring a rudimentary knowledge of how to man an ocean-going yacht—and an overdose of sunshine. None of us had our backs again exposed to the sun for more that a few minutes for the rest of our stay ! There was a garden party for us, too. We were taken to see "Finian's Rainbow" at the Theatre Under The Stars in Stanley Park, and had to stand up to let the rest of the audience see us, as they had been told that we were visiting cadets from the Old Countries. As a matter of fact, the party consisted of 22 cadets from 41

England, three from Scotland (they wouldn't allow us just to say that there were 25 from the U.K.), and two each from Norway, Sweden.

Denmark and Holland, all of whom spoke Eng'ish very well.

One day we went by Dakota to Victoria, capital of British Colombia, on Vancouver Island. We went sight-seeing around Victoria, were given a luncheon by the Kinsmen Club, and had tea with the Lieutenant Governor and his wife at Government House. To round off our stay in B.C. we had weiner roast at the house of Air Vice Marshal and Mrs. Nairn, who had some pipers of the Canadian Seaforth Highlanders to entertain us, playing hidden in the dark among the trees. The pipers gave us one of the finest examples of how to do the Sword Dance that any of us had ever seen, the Scots cadets included.

Every one of us was very sorry to have to say goodbye to Vancouver and its fine, generous inhabitants. There is a friendliness offered by the casual stranger met in the street that is never encountered in this country. They all seem so eager to help you in every way that you cannot be anything but deeply impressed. Our return trip across Canada was much smoother, but unnapp ly there was a thick layer of cloud over British Columbia and we only saw one solitary Rocky piercing it. The journey was broken for three hours at Winnipeg and we were given a meal in the officers' mess. It was dinner to them, but was actually our lunch. Back once again in Montreal we had our final send-off party. Mr. C. Douglas Taylor, Honorary President of the Air Cadet League of Canada, who ware our hosts with the R.C.A.F. throughout the tour, invited us up to his house in the Laurentians. Unfortunately it rained all day, but that did not prevent some of us from learning how to water ski or shoot clay pigeons. We were given many presents (and speeches) and returned to Montreal to be homeward bound.

During the time we spent in Canada we did have a chance to see a little of the U.S.A. As we needed visas for entry we tried to ge them, but they would not give us any (I guess we hadn't been screened). However, we had reached the border before learning that we had failed to get them. Having got so far, our guide was not to be outdone, so we went off the main road to a small one-man customs barrier, and the U.S. man very kindly let us through to say we had been in the States. We returned after spending three hours in the U.S.A. and thanked the customs man profusely. He risked his j maybe, but he said he didn't want us to go away disappointed.

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We left 'Canada with dream-like memories, fully aware of all it could offer us should we return. But I, myself, will die happy if I

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C.C.F. NOTES The first intake of Scouts to the Recruits, under the new training scheme, entered the C.C.F. this term. They did a condensed course and passed out with last term's Recruits at the end of term. It is greatly to their credit that all ex-scouts were in the top two-thirds in the final order of merit. Cadet Megginson was first, followed by an ex-scout, Cadet Worsley. It is interesting to note that the proportions in the new Basic Section next term will be much the same as before, with only a slight decrease in the R.N. Squad and an increase in the Army Squad.

The Armourers visited us in the first week and gave a satisfactory report. The assistance of a retired Army Pensioner to help Armourer Sgt. Wilson with the work in the Armoury has proved very welcome.

The N.C.O. Training Cadre was restarted this term on a broader scale. Potential N.C.O.s from all three Sections joined and carried out a comprehensive training programme. Some did extremely well and received responsible posts after the final examination. Cpl. Potter, especially, is to be congratulated on his result. It is significant to note that a keen cadet in one of the specialist sections like the Signals can obtain an executive post in one of the Service Sections. It was also noticeable that those who had attended camp passed out high on the list.

On Tuesday, 21st October, the C.C.F. was invited to attend the Trafalgar Day Celebrations at H.M.S. Ceres at Wetherby. It was most unfortunate that the ceremony was somewhat marred by the poor weather, but the rain cleared at the close and the visiting Admiral came round and had a word with us. After a picnic lunch by the Memorial to the "Battle of Marston Moor" we started the second part of the day's activities, the re-enacting of the Battle over the ground where it was fought some three hundred years ago. The T.E.W.T. started on the high ridge overlocking the whole moor and then proceeded to Willstrop Wood. Near the wood the T.E.W.T. developed into an exercise—the chase of Rupert's forces over the river at Poppleton. As a departure from the usual account we include extracts from the O.C.'s report that appeared on Orders the day afterwards.

The Exercise.

It is difficult to assess the success of one side or the other in an exercise covering such a wide area, but the general opinion of umpires is that as many of Rupert's men escaped as were captured.

From information collected from umpires, O.C. would like to draw particular attention to the following :'1. The oustanding success was the efficient work of the R.N. Section, under P.O. Shaw, in getting to the area on time, and organising the crossing so smoothly.

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2. The Signal Platoon proved most useful to the umpires over the considerable distances.

3. The Recruits, well led by the Cadre N.C.O.s, displayed great keenness and physical endurance. They covered a far greater mileage than any other Section and finished in excellent order. The following squads are particularly to be congratulated, Potter, Sparham, Crowe, Wilkinson and Shanks.

4. The Army Basic Section, though rather slow, did manage to cross the River Nidd with ropes. The river was quite vide, fast-flowing and deep. The best crossings were made by Rice, Dodsworth, and Moore, E. I. 5. Ft./Sgt. Weightman organised a tactically sound ambush, which would have worked 100% but for the rapid appreciation of a difficult situation by P.O. Shaw and S.S.M. Smith, C. K. 6. Of the "back room boys" of H.Q., who always work very hard on these occasions, mention should be made of the work of the new Armourer, Sgt. Wilson.

7. The return trip of the whaler was well handled by Leading Seaman Humble and his crew.

In the first week of November six new No.8 022 rifles arrived.

These rifles will mean considerable changes in the shooting as they are so much heavier to handle than the Mos3bergs. It will be interesting to see how many are able to qualify for First Class Shots under the new conditions. It looks as though we shall soon return to the day when a "first class shot" was really something to achieve; recently few have failed to get one. It is doubtful whether many will reach the Marksman's standard.

The Basic Section qualifying examination proved to be most useful, the standard in all Sections was high and promises well for the future, but there is still considerable work to be done before the main examinations take place at the end of next term.

On 2nd December Group Captain Greenaway, New Zealand Air Force, Second-in-Command at No. 64 Group H.Q., paid us another informal visit. It was an opportunity for him to address the newly formed flight in the R.A.F. Section.

Throughout the term there have been the usual Ceremonial Fall-ins with the Duty Bugler. C S.M. Wyatt-Gunning has insisted on a high standard throughout, and he will be greatly missed.

R.N. SECTION The two main events of the term were the Field Day and th e intake of new members from the Basic Section.

On Trafalgar Day the C.C.F. was invited to attend the annuali parade at H.M.S. Ceres, Wetherby, and the Naval Section, especially, 44

was proud to be present at this parade. Afterwards, a snack lunch was taken at Marston Moor before the Section returned to York to man the whaler for the main task of the day. The object was to pull the boat up to Overton and transport troops across the river. Prior to Field Day there had been a feeling amongst quite a large percentage of the Section that too much was required of them. However, although wearied by the time the whaler was secured in its berth again, the crews responded well to the hard work and completed it splendidly. It was largely through their efforts that the Field Day was such a success.

Shortly after Field Day it was decided that the whaler required a refit, not so much because it had been damaged on Field Day, but through general wear. When the time arrived to pull the boat to Naburn, it was found that the river was rising rapidly and the operation would have been rather hazardous. However, conditions improved the following week and the crew, by some hard pulling, arrived on schedule. Major Crews and Lieutenant Waine kindly met the crew at Naburn and brought it back to School.

Near the end of term the R.N. Basic Section took the examination, which it has been found advisable to hold before any member of the C.C.F. becomes a rating in the Naval Section, even though he may have passed Cert. "A", Part I. Through the example set by their N.C.O.s, Leading 'Seaman Ibberson and Leading 'Seaman Simpson, great spirit has arisen in the Basic Section and there were very few failures in the examination. It is to be hoped that all the new members of the Naval Section will continue to work hard in the C.C.F., for it is only by hard work that examinations are passed, as well as making what to some is a very distasteful afternoon into an enjoyable part of School life.

P.O. Shaw, by his own personal smartness and enthusiasm, has set a very good example to the whole Section, while Leading Seaman Quarmby has carried out some good work with the Recruits. A.B. Leonard has put in much extra time in the R.N. Stores, which he continues to run most efficiently.

Finally, D. J. Bird is to be warmly congratulated on gaining entry into the Executive Branch of the R.N. Members of the R.N. Section will also be pleased to hear that J. M. Smithson, who left School in 1951, has recently gained a Commission in the R.N.V.R., and is now serving out in the Mediterranean in the minesweeper H.M.S. Plucky.

R.N. CAMP, 1952 Owing to the anti-mump precautions a rather depleted R.N. Section arrived at Portland for the camp which was held in H.M.S. Implacable, a fleet carrier. This ship, together with the Indefatigable, which was visited last year, forms the training squadron. Implacable is the flagship of the squadron and wore the flag of Vice-Admiral Stevens.

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A very full programme had been arranged which emphasised the practical aspect of the training. On the first afternoon we were shown the engine rooms by a Leading Stoker, who was obviously master of his job. First we visited the boiler regulating equipment. We then descended a rather warm ladder into the boiler room, where, although only one boiler was in operation, the temperature was unpleasantly high. We ended our visit to the engine rooms with a visit to the propeller inspection shaft. On the following morning we embarked in Headingham Castle, a frigate, and spent the entire day at sea; we saw how a ship is organised for seagoing. Everyone became a member of a seaboat's crew which was piped away whilst the ship was under way. The trip included a visit to the wheelhouse, emergency steering and the engine rooms.

Practical experience in steering was gained in an M.F.V. outside the harbour when each cadet took a trick on the wheel on two separate occasions. On one of these trips we saw the new antisubmarine weapon, the squid, being fired from a new Daring class destroyer.

As Captain Robertshaw was a sailing enthusiast, a great deal of sailing was arranged and enjoyed immensely. One afternoon the Captain, Mr. Waine, another officer, Humble, Bird, and Macdonald took a whaler away and sailed into Weymouth and up the Wey. As we sailed past a fisherman, seated on a bollard, he called to our Captain (Captain of a 30,000 ton aircraft carrier !) : "Hi, Jack, watch yourself when the mail boat arrives !" On the return journey, as the wind freshened, we took in a reef, but even so waves were breaking over the gunwale as we came alongside the ship. On another occasion all the cadets went away in a cutter and two whalers and picnicked on the beach near Weymouth, after an enjoyable swim.

A final interesting afternoon was spent in the p'otting rooms in "the island", where we saw the plots and the radar. We were shown actual plots of the last exercise Implacable took part in.

The factors which made the camp so enjoyable were the wellplanned programme, the sailing, and, believe it or not, P.T. on the flight deck to the accompaniment of the Marine band. We are all indebted to Capt. Robertshaw and Lt. Evans for arranging so full and enjoyable a programme, and to Sub-Lt. Waine for his help and enthusiasm. D.T.B. and T.G.H. THE ARMY CAMP, 1952 The Army contingent of the C.C.F. will remember 1952 as the year when Cadet Gray, by contracting mumps, changed the course of its history for a whole week. For the annual camp was held, not on Fylingdales Moor with other schools, but in isolation in Farnley Park, Otley.

Gray developed mumps on the last day of term. It was reported to higher authority and permission to join the Fylingdale's camp was withdrawn. What were we to do? Could we send the cadets home?

Could we find another site? Could we recast all our plans at the eleventh hour? Perhaps we felt some irritation with Cadet Gray as we faced these questions. Yet, very soon, as the difficulties were resolved, as we adjusted ourselves to new prospects, and when finally the change proved to have been perhaps in many ways a very happy one, we felt more warmly disposed towards him. In fact, by the end of the week, some of us felt he had rendered us a signal service.

Gray, however, had merely touched off the new train of events and then retired quietly to the Sanatorium. Major Crews was the active force who created new order out of chaos. No sooner had the Army pronounced its verdict, then he busied himself making those personal contacts by which the lofty decisions of remote authority are usually undermined or circumvented. When he retired to bed in the early hours of the morning he had already some prospect of finding another camp By noon the following day he had already visited Farnley Park Camp, arranged for our reception, ordered transport and obtained the "unexpired portion" from the School kitchen. As a result of this activity the contingent arrived at its new destination at the very time when, had nothing intervened, it would have arrived at its original one. It was accompanied by Lieut. Jeffs and those Naval personnel who, because they had not had mumps, were not allowed to go to the Naval camp, and by F.O. Harris, R.A.F., who now joined us to supervise the Signals training.

In such circumstances as these it is natural for the ordinary soldier or cadet to feel some bewilderment. "Order, counter-order, disorder' s, mutters the barrack-room demegogue. "Why aren't we going?

Where are we going? Why are we going at all?" If such feelings arose they did not last long. When we arrived doubt gave way to amazement and delight. For here was no tented camp, no palliasses to fill, no metal plates, no prospect of sleepless nights spent in diverting streams from one's kit and bedding, no mere flopping, canvas N.A.A.F.I., but solid huts, spring beds, shining crockery, and a vast canteen with stage and concert hall complete. Three cheers for Mr. Shinwell ! Bravo, Billy Butlin !

Then, of course, there was a training programme to prepare. We had to reconnoitre our training areas and to discover the nearest rifle range. Major Crews again proved equal to these problems, and the training in no way fell below that of previous years. Indeed, in many respects it was more interesting and enjoyable. The mere fact of being thrown on our own resources was stimulating. Of course we missed the set demonstrations we should have had at Fylingdales, but we were able to improvise some of our own. We found and utilised good training ground on Otley Chevin; we had the usual night exercise

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near Almscliffe Crag (with the inevitable rain); and we had a full day on the rifle range on the moors above Menston. The culmination of our training on the final day was Operation Traitor, the main object of which was to smoke out a former member of the staff who had recently transferred his allegiance elswhere and was known to be lurking in the neighbourhood of Giggleswick. This involved a pleasant coach-run out towards 'Malham Tarn and then a long march over moor and fell before we finally concentrated on Arncliffe for a belated and very welcome lunch. We captured our man and though no very exciting battles developed we had some healthy exercise and a good blow on the hilltops.

No doubt because our base was such a comfortable one the spirit of the contingent throughout training was excellent. It was gratifying to see potential N.C.O.s showing intelligent initiative and to find most cadets keen to do an all night guard and take a pride in its efficiency.

It was notable, too, that the Signal Section showed itself more than usually efficient in establishing communications and was able to put visitors to the camp immediately in touch with the contingent in the field.

Annual Camp would, however, be incomplete without those activities other than formal training which help to cement comradeship or to keep everyone pleasantly and profitably occupied. Perhaps helping in the cookhouse would count rather as training than as entertainment; yet several even of the senior N.C.O.s responded eagerly to the appeal for help (Moore, J. R., no doubt gained a new insight into hotel management). We had several film shows. We played the local pioneers at "Soccer". 'At our Sports Meeting R.S.M. Power proved a popular and gallant goalkeeper as well as an efficient organiser; and our only non-scientific officer was proud to defeat his colleagues by applying scientific principles to the carrying of an egg in a spoon. The climax of our entertainment was the Contingent Concert. Major Crews was most anxious that this feature of pre-war camps should be revived, and very successful it was. We had a concert hall and stage ready to hand and S.S.M. White did a grand job in getting a good team of performers together : Shepherd at the piano, Annequin in the role of "Forces Sweetheart", Staines as "raconteur", the senior N.'C.O.s in close harmony. But what of the Officers? Here was a problem. What could they do which did not require rehearsal? The matter was put off from day to day. A halfhearted decision was made, a scenario was sketched out; but it was with the flimsiest of preparation that the Officers mounted the stage to give a Western melodrama in which Messrs. Crews, Jeffs, Harris and Craven fell naturally into the parts of Little Nell, the handsome Commander Hornblower, Flash Harry the Villian, and the Voice behind the scenes. Fortunately, as it turned out, plot and dialogue were entirely unnecessary as the mere appearance of the protagonists ,

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brought the house down, and each hitch in the mime provoked fresh laughter.

On Sunday, after returning from Church Parade at Otley Parish Church, we were delighted to welcome our parents and friends, and on Monday to show the Head Master and Mrs. Dronfield how well we had settled in our new camp. Yes, we felt Gray had, after all, done us a good turn. But we have to thank not only him but Brigadier Deltall, of Northern Command, who made the new arrangements possible; Capt. Heath, of East and West Riding Area, who did all he could to provide whatever facilities we required; the Officers of the Pioneer Company in the camp for their hospitality; and principally to our own Commander for his energy, initiative and resource throughout the week. And now some of us entertain a sneaking hope that some other cadet will again next year sacrifice himself to the good of the contingent.

R.A.F. SECTION The organisation of the Section has been very largely changed because of the successful results of the Proficiency Examination last Summer, and because of the considerable number of very senior boys in the Section who have been called upon to fill important positions in the C.C.F. as a whole, rather than in the R.A.F. Section in particular. As a result, the stripes on R.A.F. uniforms at present would make a tiger look rather plain, but this is an indication of the opportunities in the C.C.F. for proficient cadets.

Advanced training has started, and some cadets have successfully undertaken a course in the N.C.O. Cadre, which puts them at the top of the list for N.C.O. posts.

The smartness of the new entry to the Section, and Number II Flight, on their first parade, was most marked, and has set a standard to be maintained in future.

'Among those leaving is Flight Sergeant M. J. F. Everitt. As one of the pilots trained under the Flying Scholarship scheme, he has brought credit to the Section and to the C.C.F. We thank him for his valuable services as an N.C.O., and wish him success.

CAMP The R.A.F. Camp at Cottesmore was generally regarded as well organised and successful. , The number attending camp this year was disappointing. We can hardly be justified in asking for special arrangements by the R.A.F. for visits to airfields during the School year if more than half our numbers excuse themselves from camp, where the fullest possible arrangements are made for cadets.

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. NOTES FROM 'MR SERVICES (No. I ADMIRALTY)

FLYING IN THE ROYAL NAVY TIM introduction of the big gun into ships of the Navy by Henry VIII some 400 years ago, changed the duties of a Naval Officer from those of a mere sailingmaster to those of Captain of a man-of-war, who had to "fight" his ship. Modern weapons and equipment of ever-increasing complexity demand specialised knowledge, so the Royal Navy now has Gunnery Officers, Submarine Officers and others who, although primarily seamen, are experts in one particular branch of Naval warfare.

The largest body of specialists is now to be found in Naval Aviation — the pilots and observers who fly and operate the aircraft of the Fleet. These officers learn not only to fly, but to fly with the skill and precision required for carrier landings at sea. They are specialists indeed. This branch of the Service has had several titles, Fleet Air Arm included, and has passed through many phases. From 1923-1939 it was a mixture of Royal Air Force and Royal Naval personnel but just before the Second World War the Admiralty assumed full control. The flying branch then became an integral part of the Royal Navy and since that time all personnel have been Officers and Ratings of the Navy, taught by the Navy, operating aircraft designed for the Navy, and working from carriers at sea and Naval Air Stations ashore. The Second World War confirmed that carrier-borne aircraft are essential in sea warfare, and the fighter, strike and anti-submarine aircraft of today form the Navy's first and most formidable weapons of attack.

The pilots and observers, who man these aircraft, combine the pleasures and excitement of flying with the adventurous nature of life at sea. They are usually either:—

Officers serving in permanent Commissions, who either enter as Cadets at 16 and 161 or between I74 and 184 years of age, or ratings promote! from the lower deck.

Officers serving under 8 year Short Service Aviation Commissions, who (b) enter between the ages of 174 and 24 and have the chance of gaining a permanent Conunission in due course.

National Servicemen who learn to fly as R.N. V.R. Officers during their (C) 2 years compulsory service, and then either join R.N. V.R. Squadrons for week-end flying, or transfer to 4 and 8 year R.N. Commissions with the opportunity of making the Navy their career.

It is essential that Aviation Officers keep in constant flying practice in (a)

order to keep abreast with the rapid developments in modern service flying.

Nevertheless, every opportunity is taken to keep them well trained in all their other duties as Naval Officers. You will often see Commanding Officers and Officersof-the-watch in Destroyers and Frigates wearing wings on their sleeves. The Commanding Officer of H.M.S. OCEAN, the carrier operating against the Communists in Korea, was a Naval tighter pilot of the 1939-1945 war.

Information regarding all types of Commissions in the Royal Navy can be obtained from

QUEEN

THE SECRETARY OF THE ADMIRALTY (CW. BRANCH), DEPT. (BM/54), ANNE'S MANSIONS, LONDON, S.W.I.

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SCOUTING THE GROUP Yet a further stage in the development of the Group was reached at the beginning of the past term by the formation of a Senior Troop under the charge of Mr. K. G. Coulthard. For twelve months a Senior Patrol had been operating to a large extent alongside the other Patrols, which have now been in continuous existence in the Senior School since 1942. This September it was found possible to create a second Patrol of Senior Scouts, sufficient to form a Senior Troop.

The opportunity has also been taken of reorganising the other Patrols in the Junior and Senior Schools, which, though one Troop in theory, have latterly been training separately. A Senior School Troop has now been formed under Mr. R. Bennett, and a Junior School Troop under Mr. K. G. Chilman, thus regularising a somewhat anomalous state of affairs. By the end of the coming term there will be well over one hundred Scouts and Cubs in the Group.

1. SENIOR SCOUT TROOP This term, with eleven Senior Scouts, we became officially a Senior Scout Troop of two Patrols, the extra Patrol being named after David Livingstone. M. J. Baddeley remained P./L.(S.) of the Scott Patrol, while J. E. H. Quickfall became P./L.(S.) of the Livingstone Patrol.

The highlight of the term was that P./L.(S.) M. J. Baddeley and Sec.(S.) J. H. Baines became Queen's Scouts. They are to be congratulated on achieving this very high standard of Scouting and, at the same time, maintaining a very satisfactory rate of progress in the C.C.F. They will be presented with the Royal Certificate by Lord Rowallan, the Chief Scout, probably during the Easter holidays.

Much progress has been made by the rest of the Troop. Four Venturer and a number of other proficiency badges have been gained and meetings have concentrated on training for the Ambulance Badge on the lines laid down by modern St. John's methods. A Log Book is now being kept, and it is hoped to make it a complete record of the activities of the Troop, including many of the less serious moments.

During the last few weeks of term anxious hours were spent trying to find a key in which we could all at least try to sing. We decided to go carol-singing in Christmas week as a Christmas Good Turn in aid of the National Institute for the Blind. We thoroughly enjoyed our two evenings singing and eating and drinking until we felt that the best good turn we had done was to ourselves. All contributed generously and a social gathering of the Senior Scouts' parents on the second evening swelled our total collection to £8 15s. Od., which made us feel that perhaps our voices were not so bad after all !

During the Easter holidays we are cycling into southern Scotland, staying at Youth Hostels. We are planning to visit Edinburgh and to explore the Southern Uplands. As only one Hostel provides meals we should have plenty of cooking practice before Summer Camp.

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2. SCOUT TROOP There has again been an increase in numbers this term and a fourth Patrol, the Foxes, has been formed.

As usual in the Winter Term many of the meetings have been held indoors and training for First Class tests has been mixed with games and stunts. A Field Day in October was much appreciated.

Each Patrol followed a cross-country route of about eight miles and all met in mid-afternoon near K;rkham Abbey for tea and biscuits before returning by bus to York. The recruits took this opportunity of passing their firelighting and cooking tests in pleasant surroundings by the Derwent.

In the last few weeks of term the Scout Hut was given over to toymaking and though the results were not quite up to the standard set last year, the toys produced were much appreciated by the young children who received them. The term's programme was completed by a very enjoyable Camp Fire. In the Inter-Patrol Competition the Seals are leading, closely followed by the Otters and Foxes.

Plans for the Easter Hike have been made during the holidays.

The party will go by train to Keswick on 15th April and will return from Windermere to York on the 22nd. This arrangement makes it possible to visit parts of the Lake District which we did not see in the last two years.

(News of the Junior School Scouts will be found later in our pages.)

SHOOTING The term began, as usual in September, with the task of building up an VIII for matches under "Country L'fe" conditions. Four old Colours were still available, and with some promising young shots, coming on, a sound and reliable, though not brilliant, team emerged.

Of the four fixtures arranged for the term, one was not completed by our opponents, and the other three were won. Details are :St. Bees 581 St. Peter's 596.

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St. Peter's 610.

St. Peter's 628.

St. Edmund's 577.

Trent College 615.

It is doubtful whether this improvement and run of success can be maintained, for two old Colours, Wick and Bird, are leaving this term. They have both done much for the School team in the last two years, and their places will not be easy to fill. They were both re-awarded their Colours.

Another difficulty next term will be getting used to the new No. 8 rifles. We have had some practice with them, and opinions are very mixed. Their weight will be a handicap to younger and smaller boys,.

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the lack of lateral adjustment of the back-sight is a nuisance for fairly high standard match shooting, and many find the foresight too thin, so that it becomes indistinct. On the other hand their robust design, pleasant trigger pressure and high accuracy are very pleasing features.

The proposed amendment of "Country Life" conditions to suit this new rifle are awaited with interest.

'Classification rules have been changed for cadets over 16, and are a great improvement on those under which we have shot for some years. The older rules were by no means selective enough, and to become a First Class Shot was no distinction at all. This will no longer be the case, and in addition there is a "marksman" category which will be a great incentive.

Classification has been started during C.C.F. parades, with Sgt. Gudgeon as N.C.O. in charge. It may, perhaps, be interesting to record that Cadet Roy was the first to achieve a "possible" in all practices (under 16 group) using the new rifles, and the first First Class Shots under the new regulations are Cadets Scales and Tomlinson.

There are no "marksmen" as yet.

SQUASH The game has been as popular as ever throughout the term and both the School court and the Railway Institute courts have been in constant use, particularly during the bad weather. Two compe t itions were started during the latter half of the term. Only one match was played, which was against R.A.F. Cranwell, which the School won by 3 matches to 2.

M. J. Wood, won, 2-9, 9-1, 9-3, 9-3.

W. G. A. Maxwell, lost, 4-9, 4-9; 5-9.

E. A. M. Reid-Smith, won, 9-7, 9-0, 9-3.

M. Willstrop, lost, 2-9, 8-10, 5-9.

G. B. Pullan, won, 4-9, 9-6, 9-2, 9-3.

HOCKEY FIXTURES, 1953 1st XI ...

7th Feb. Ashville College Sat., Wed., 11th Feb. Styx H.C. Wed., 18th Feb. Scarborough College Sat., 21st Feb. York H.C. ...

Wed., 25th Feb. Bootham School Sat., 28th Feb. Old Peterites Wed., 4th Mar. Worksop College Sat., 7th Mar. Trent College

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Away Home Away Away Away Home Home Away

2nd XI 7th Feb. Ashville College Sat., Sat., 14th Feb. Bridlington School Wed., 25th Feb. Bootham School Wed., 4th Mar. Worksop College Sat., 7th Mar. Trent College

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1st XI ... ... ...

Away Away Home Home Away

O.P. Hockey XI Will any O.P. who wishes to p'ay in the O.P. Hockey match on Saturday, 28th February, please write to P. M. B. Steele, Esq., 25 Westminster Road, Clifton, York, stating position played.

RUGBY FOOTBALL, 1952 RETROSPECT News of Wyatt-Gunning's return for a further term of captaincy of the School XV not only came as a most agreeable surprise but raised our hopes considerably for the season ahead. On paper the material amongst the forwards looked thin, but Gunning's leadership was likely to offset much of this weakness, and, indeed, such was the case.

An unusually large crop of injuries, the price paid for inexperience and lack of fitness, did nothing to ease the difficulties of team-building, and so bad was the situation by the third week of term that it was deemed inadvisable to submit a team of young raw recruits to be "Wooded" against the brawn of the local York side, and the fixture was cancelled. This breather gave us an opportunity to lick our wounds before taking the field against Bradford. As against Durham, large slices of good fortune made us victors in this match as well, and the 1st XV emerged from their teething troubles with considerable success.

All this while, in spite of being on the injured list himself, Gunning was putting life and spirit into a lightish pack (average weight—barely 11 stone) and teaching them above all the art of quick heeling in the loose. Six of the back division were automatic selections for one position or another, and as soon as it became evident that Pullan had found his niche at full-back, the three-quarter line took shape.

The team proved notoriously bad starters, almost conveying to their opponents a false sense of security, before settling down to the real job of dominating the run of play. Dare we say that the Ampleforth, Leeds, and even Denstone matches were lost by such tactics? The tale was invariably the same. However, we must give credit where credit is due and recognise the fact that Denstone made us look like a lot of beginners in the first half when gaining a 17 point lead, but we can derive considerable consolation from the fact that the three tries scored 54

by the School in the second half were probably more than any other school scored against Denstone throughout the season.

For all our faults then, we had our moments, and for this the forwards were largely responsible. Denstone had taught us the lesson, and we were quick to respond. It became a de!ight to watch a light pack outwitting their heavier opponents time and time again by their speed from loose scrum to loose scrum in mid-field and their effective tactics when there. The backs had opportunities in plenty but seldom realised them, and early promise never materialised. Almost without exception they were slow off the mark, their passing was laboured, and the value of taking the ball on the burst was seldom practised.

In all there was a dearth of individual stars, but no lack of good teamspirit.

The season will have been of inestimable value to much younger material remaining to do service for at least another season. The other support teams, '2nd XV and Colts, have given us plenty of food for thought but not much encouragement, only one school match being won between them. Undoubtedly individual practice lacks purpose and the art of kicking, each of three ways, reveals itself as a general weakness throughout the School, and will remain so unless it is more exhaustively practised.

The season was successfully concluded with a visit to the University Match at Twickenham by the large majority of the team; a completion of the House matches in spite of a fortnight's continuous hard frost; and a most enjoyable O.P. match on the final Saturday of term.

1st XV CHARACTERS WvArr-GUNNING (Captain), 1950-51-52. Open-side wing-forward.

Height 5 ft. 11/ ins. Weight 11 st. 6 lbs. His own play has been largely affected by his concern for the pack supporting him. His customary dash and abundance of energy have not been so noticeable as in the past, but his thoughts and energies have been directed more towards the success of the team as a whole, and his ability as a captain has been quite outstanding.

He is a most knowledgeable player, who should go a long way in the game.

Ett ins. *tP. G. TAYLOR (Vice-Captain), 1951-52. Hooker. Height 5 ft.

Weight 10 st. 71 lbs. He took a very long time to get fit and for the most part failed to recapture the zest for being a bundle of energy in the loose. His hooking, however, has remained effective. *tG. B. PULLAN, 1951-52. Full-back. Height 5 ft. 91 ins. Weight 10 st. 5 lbs.

He has always been cool, calm and collected—his greatest asset, which gave the side much confidence. His covering and movements are still a bit slow, but his positioning, fielding, falling on the ball and tackling have been very sound. His kicking with both feet is developing and generally he has shown good rugger sense.

N. COATES, 1951-52. 2nd row forward. Height 5 ft. 1111 ins. Weight 11 st. n lbs. A good packer in this position. His play in the loose has been spasmodic, so much depended upon his temperament and mood of the moment. He was often guilty of the lazy habit of knocking the ball back in the line-outs instead of indulging in the more constructional form of play.

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A. MAXWELL, 1951-52. Fly-half. Height 5 ft. 51 ins. Weight 11 . st. I J lbs. His constructive play has developed considerably especially when his individual brilliance appeared to be on the wane. He should be able to combine both in future and be a thorn in the side of any school team. His hand-off is very strong and he takes a lot of bringing down, especially when moving to the right. tC. M. C. BURDASS, 1952. Blind-side wing-forward. Height 5 ft. 5i ins.

Weight 10 st. 11 lbs. A good opportunist who made considerable improvement as the season progressed. A good dribbler and shows a surprising turn of speed in attack. With greater physique he should develop well.

D. A. MACPHERSON, 1952. Scrum-half. Height 5 ft. 71 ins. Weight 10 st. 71 lbs. A useful young player, but he needs above all to develop his speed of service from the scrum. The ball is held too long in his hands before it is out and away. His slight stature need not be a handicap to him, but it should enable him to develop quickness of movement and so make it an asset.

4G. W. THOMPSON, 1952. Prop. Height 5 ft. 91 ins. Weight 12 st. 3 lbs.4 His play is developing well, and he is obviously deriving considerable -• pleasure from the game. He got through a lot of useful work, but he is still rather clumsy with the ball at his feet. tE- A. M. KEID-SMITH, 1951-52. Wing three-quarter. Height 5 ft. 8 ins.

Weight 11 st. 41 lbs. As a reserve scrum-half he played an invaluable role, and it is arguable that this is his best position. From the team point of view, however, it was essential that he played in the three-quarter line.

Opportunities for him have been few and far between. He shows considerable dash but his anticipation is slow and methods rather crude. tit. G. BOUGH, 1952. Centre three-quarter. Height 5 ft. 6 ins. Weight 10 st. 81 lbs. First and foremost a stylist. His technique is invariably sound and there is no lack of good rugger sense, but the tempo of his play requires speeding up two-fold. With greater speed he could develop into a class player. Injuries have been the bogey of his life up to present. f M. J. F. EvEarrT, 1952. Centre three-quarter. Height 5 ft. 101 ins.

• Weight 10 st. 131 lbs. Early promise was not fulfilled. He took too long to get into his stride, and seldom used his full pace. He is probably more suited to the full-back position or wing three-quarter. f T. A. W. KETTLEWELL, 1952. 2nd row forward. Height 6 ft. 1 in.

Weight 11 st. 8 lbs. A very young player developing fine physique.

Although not as yet very nimble on his feet, he got around and put in some most useful work, particularly in the line-out. To have played in the under 14-11 XV one year and the 1st XV the next has been a great achievement and was well-merited.

Weight R. J. Da LITTLE, 1952. Lock forward. Height 5 ft. 7* ins.

9 st. 1 1 lbs. His lack of stature and pace in the open did not enable him to play the proper role of one in his position, but he was the best scrummager available, and used his rather diminutive size to good effect.

Blind-side wing-forward is about his mark. f J. A. JACKSON, 1952. Prop. Height 5 ft. 91 ins. Weight 11 st. 71 lbs.

A hard-working forward who knew how to get tough when required, and applied his energies to good purpose. He worked hard and often unobtrusively. f A. T. BOOTH, 1952. Wing three-quarter. Height 5 ft. 81 ins. Weight 9 st. 12 lbs. He was no flyer but his pace could sometimes be quite deceptive. Although he seldom relished a game of rugger, he played his part and did his best. Tackling was never his favourite pastime but he buckled down to it. t Colours. * Cap.

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SEASON 1952-53 2nd XV.—J. B. Weightman (Capt.),* R. A. Jackson,* G. B. Hudson,* R. Nelson,* N. W. M. Carr, C. K. Smith, J. R. Moore, M. J. Wood, R. D. Wheatley, M. A. Butterworth, P. L. Bardgett, M. J. Kent, A. E. Simpson, C. J. Griffiths, W. R. Ibberson.

Colts XV.—O. C. Wetherell (Capt.),* H. C. Bulmer,* G. Ridley,* N. J. Bell,* P. K. Lapidge,* E. W. Peat, W. B. Crosskill, B. A. Heap, D. Pfluger, P. S. Roe, R. B. Wilson, R. M. Kirkus, R. D. Beckitt, F. J. Pacey, M. Willstrop. * Colours.

Junior Colts XV.—I. C. Bytheway; G. R. H. Clemons, E. H. N. Turner, I. N. Ridley, M. D. Fish; T. J. Robbins-Jones, P. J. Netherwood; N. J. Magson, D. J. Oldman, F. A. L. Kirby, T. G. Stephenson (Capt.), R. J. Sharp, J. F. Liversidge, A. P. Hopwood, D. Kirby.

SUMMARY OF RESULTS 1st XV

"A" XV

Result

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8 Home Lost 9 Home Won Cancelled Home 8 Home Won 15 Away Won 9 Home Lost Home Drawn 6 8 Away Lost Home Won 23 11 Away Lost Cancelled Away Home Won 11

Sat., 4th Oct. Headingley "A" Wed., 8th Oct. Durham School Sat., I 1 th Oct. York R.U.F.C. ...

Sat., 18th Oct. Bradford G.S. ... ...

Wed., 22nd Oct. Trent College ... ...

Sat., 25th Oct. Denstone College 1st Nov. Harrogate R.F.C. Colts Sat., ••• ...

8th Nov. Leeds G.S. Sat., ...

Sat., 15th Nov. Giggleswick School Sat., 22nd Nov. Ampleforth College Wed., 26th Nov. Worksop College Sat., 13th Dec. Old Peterites ...

Wed., 5th Nov. Ripon G.S.

... Home Won 34

2nd XV Wed., 8th Oct. Durham School Wed., 15th Oct. Drax G.S. 1st XV Sat., 18th Oct. Bradford G.S. ...

Sat., 25th Oct. Giggleswick School ... ...

8th Nov. Leeds G.S. Sat., Wed., 12th Nov. Rishworth School 1st XV ...

Sat., 22nd Nov. Ampleforth College ...

Wed., 26th Nov. Worksop College

9 ••• Away Won 6 •• • Away Lost 3 •• • Home Lost 0 •.• Away Lost 3 •.• Away Lost 8 ••• Home Lost 3 . • . Home Lost Cancelled • •. Away

COLTS XV 9 Ilomc Lost ...

Sat., 11th Oct. Durham School 8 ... Away Lost ...

Sat., 25th Oct. Giggleswick School Sat., 1st Nov. Harrogate R.F.C. Colts "A" XV Home Won 17 0 ... Away Lost ...

Wed., 5th Nov. Ampleforth College Sat., 15th Nov. Army Apprentices, Harrogate ... Home Won 26 Cancelled ... Home ...

Wed., 26th Nov. Worksop College .1 UNIOR COLTS XV ...

Sat., 15th Oct. Drax G.S. Sat., 1st Nov. Pocklington School Wed., 12th Nov. Rishworth School ...

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11 Away Won 9 Away Won Home Won 33 0 Home Lost Cancelled Home

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6 ti 25 6 11 3 16 9 0 5 25 17 3 20 14 12

17 13 0 29 0

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SENIOR HOUSE MATCHES 1st Round. Grove beat School House by 20 points to 0.

Semi-finals. Grove beat Manor by 13 points to 0.

Temple beat Rise by 14 points to 9.

Final.

Grove beat Temple by 34 points to 0.

JUNIOR HOUSE MATCHE 1st Round. School House beat Temple by 5 points to 0.

Semi-finals. School House beat Manor by 6 points to 0.

Rise beat Grove by 15 points to 8.

Final.

School House beat Rise by 17 points to 0.

SCHOOL MATCHES SCHOOL v. DURHAM SCHOOL WED., 8m Oct This first inter-school match of the season was played at home under excellent conditions.

Durham attacked immediately from the kick-off and took play into the School "25". After continual pressure from the Durham forwards, who were an unusually big pack, they scored with a penalty goal given for a scrummaging infringement. After this reverse the School forwards, though outweighted, were settling down and as a result the backs were getting more of the ball from both the set and loose scrums. Play was taken into the Durham "25" and Gunning levelled the scores with a penalty goal. Shortly before half-time Maxwell received the hall from a loose scrum, and by dummying and side-stepping, scored a fine try near the corner flag. The conversion failed.

The second half began, as had the first, with a strong attack by Durham from which a forward scored a try which was converted.

The Durham pack, although handicapped by the loss of a forward, continued to dominate the game—but the weakness of the School tackling tended to flatter their efforts. The attack, having lost Bough in the centre, lacked penetration and came to rely on the kick ahead, which did eventually take play back into the Durham half. Jus before no-side the School were awarded a free kick and Gunnin kicked a magnificent goal from the touch line to give the School lucky victory.

This was a disappointing display which did not reveal the form possibilities shown in the match against Headingley "A".

Result : Won, School 9 pts., Durham School 8 pts.

SCHOOL v. BRADFORD G.S. SAT., 18m OcT. Played at home under very favourable conditions for open footba ll The first half began disastrously for the School with Bradfo rc taking the lead within three minutes—their right winger , receiving th ball from a scrum on the School "25", ran round Reid -Smith to sco n an unconverted try in the corner. No sooner had we kicked off a gait 58

than the "dose" was repeated—again the Bradford right wing scored the try, which, however, proved to be too far out to be converted.

Both these tries would have been avoided but for half-hearted tackling which was typical of our play until the final minutes when we eventually shook off our lethargy. Bradford continued to press, and it was only their inability to finish off movements that prevented any further score before half-time.

The second half began with Bradford attacking again, but after a timely clearance by Pullan we penetrated the Bradford "25". From an ensuing scrum Maxwell received the ball and, outwitting his opposite number, scored near the posts. This try was converted by Gunning. Shortly after this a Bradford forward was penalised for "holding", and from this infringement Gunning kicked a penalty goal which cannoned off the post to put the School in front. In the few remaining minutes Bradford had the misfortune to lose two players —but the final whistle went with no further score.

This was another lucky win in a game from which little satisfaction could be derived.

Result : Won, School 8 pts., Bradford G.S. 6 pts.

SCHOOL v. TRENT COLLEGE WED., 22ND OCT. This was the first away match of the season, and, as is usual at Trent, the ground was firm, giving every opportunity for fast rugby.

The School were missing the services of Gunning and Macpherson, both injured.

We quickly settled down and Burdass, following up a clearance, gathered the ball to cross for an unconverted try in the corner. This proved to be a great inspiration to the team and shortly afterwards Everitt broke through the centre to score another unconverted try under the posts. Trent, however, soon retaliated and from a knock-on near our line one of their backs scored an unconverted try. After further play in which both sides looked dangerous, Maxwell increased the lead with a penalty goal. In the few remaining minutes before half-time Trent decreased the margin by converting a penalty goal.

The second half began with the School forwards—for whom Burdass and Jackson were outstanding—gaining repeated possession, which, however, was made little use of by the backs. Burdass picked up a loose ball to score a good try and this was followed by a further try scored by Coates.

This was a great improvement on previous displays and the forwards played their best game to date. Pullan played admirably at full-back, giving the team greatly needed confidence; and Reid-Smith, deputising for Macpherson at scrum-half, played well throughout.

Result : Won, School 15 pts., Trent College 6 pts.

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SCHOOL v. EYE'NSTONE COLLEGE SAT., 25TH OCT. This game was played at home and, although losing, the School XV played well throughout in a game that possessed everything.

Denstone were superior in every department yet the School stuck to their task with rare determination. We were soon in arrears when Denstone scored two unconverted tries after about 10 minutes' play.

This lead was soon increased when their captain dropped a goal.

Although outweighted the School pack obtained adequate possession in the loose but the backs lacked penetration against superior opponents. Before half-time Denstone scored two more tries, one of which was converted. This gave them a half-time lead of 17 pts., being the outcome of good combined play.

The second half was much more evenly contested and at one period we scored nine points in as many minutes, with the Denstone defence spreadeagled. These tries were scored by Maxwell, Macpherson, and Booth respectively. After this period of pressure—in which the School might well have increased their total if they had fully exploited their opportunities—the Denstone forwards took play into the School "25", where they were awarded a penalty goal which was converted. The scoring came to an end when the Denstone captain broke away to score a further try, which was converted.

If the first half had been as evenly contested as was the second, the score would undoubtedly have been closer—yet throughout we had an even share of the game territorially.

Result : Lost. School 9 pts., Denstone College 25 pts.

SAT., 8TH Nov. SCHOOL v. LEEDS 1G.S. The Leeds pitch was in surprisingly good condition considering the amount of rain that had fallen prior to the match. Soon after the kick-off Leeds scored an unconverted try near the posts—this was due to some thoroughly bad marking by the School backs. For the first 20 minutes Leeds were almost completely on the attack and our line might have been crossed on several occasions but for overelaborated approach work. The School forwards, who had by this time settled down, then took the ball into the Leeds "25" and only a timely interception prevented our scoring. However, the forwards were not to be denied, and after heavy pressure on the Leeds line Burdass pounced on a loose ball to score in the corner. This try was converted by Gunning who, having recovered from injury, was back in the team, together with Bough. Half-time came with no further score.

The second half was vigorously contested, and the School pack, although outweighted, were playing their best game of the season, and as a result we were able to dictate the run of the play. A School 60

player was then unfortunately off-side and Bellow kicked a magnificent goal to put Leeds ahead. The School forwards continued to dominate the game but Taylor's hooking was not advantageously exploited by the backs. Against the run of play Leeds took advantage of a misunderstanding between two School players to score a further try, which was converted by Bellow. This lead was soon decreased when Gunning kicked a penalty goal—for the last ten minutes we were continually attacking and two attempted drop goals by Bough only just missed the posts. No-side came with Leeds maintaining their slight lead, and if we had only been quicker to settle down, defeat would have been avoided.

Result Lost, School 8 pts., Leeds G.S. 11 pts. :

SCHOOL v. GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL SAT., 115m Nov. The team played their best game of the season in the last home match, against Giggleswick. To score 23 points in heavy conditions was no mean feat.

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Gunning kicked a penalty goal in the opening minutes and this was quickly followed by Macpherson finding a gap round the base of the scrum to score an unconverted try. The half-backs, Macpherson and Maxwell, were combining well together and it was not long before Maxwell followed up a kick-ahead to increase the lead. After further pressure Everitt broke through and passed to Burdass, who scored in the corner.

The second half began, as had the first, with the School attacking in the Giggleswick half, and Maxwell soon found a gap to break through for another unconverted try—this, however, brought about a Giggleswick revival in which Hartley, receiving an inside pass, scored his side's only points. The School forwards took the ball back into the Giggleswick "25" and Taylor scored a "push-over" try from a scrum on their goal line. Gunning converted and brought the scoring to a close by scoring a try soon afterwards.

This was a most satisfactory performance by the team in which so much "latent ability" had at last revealed itself.

Result : Won, School 23 pts., Giggleswick School 3 pts.

SCHOOL v. IAMPLEFORTH 'COLLEGE SAT., 22ND Nov. In what proved to be our last school match we found ourselves playing under very wet conditions at Ampleforth. We started off very shakily and took a long time to settle down. Ampleforth soon took advantage of this, and from one of our own passing movements their outside centre picked up a loose ball and ran on to score a converted try under the posts. This reverse was soon followed by their kicking a penalty goal given for off-side. The School forwards 61

were beginning to "hold their own" but the centres crowded each other so that consequently our attack was very limited. Gunning eventually opened the scoring with a penalty goal and during this period of the game the forwards were pressing in the Ampleforth "25". The score was levelled when we were awarded a penalty try which Gunning converted. Just before half-time the Ampleforth left winger ran round his opposite number to score under the posts—this try being converted we had a 5 point deficit at half-time.

We had the advantage of a slight cross-wind in the second half and should have reduced the lead with a penalty goal awarded near the posts, but the kick was sliced. We did score, however, when Burdass and Gunning took the ball through at their feet for the former to run on and gain the touch down. This try was unconverted and Ampleforth, retaliating, passed the ball out to their right winger who outstripped our defence to score in the corner, and so put the result beyond doubt.

This game would probably have been won but for the bad start— which has been prevalent throughout the season—and some ineffective attempts at goal. The match did, however, prove beyond doubt the merit of the School pack, who fought back from a poor start to equality and finally superiority.

Result : Lost, School 11 pts., Ampleforth College 16 pts.

SCHOOL v. OLD PETERITES

SAT., , 13TH DEC.

For the second year in succession it looked as if the weather was once again going to foil our attempts to play the O.P. match. The decision whether to play or not on the 6th December, the original date fixed, was never in doubt. Two weeks of Arctic conditions had frozen everything hard, and from that moment a new O.P. team had to be assembled for the following Saturday. The response was splendid and the following O.P. team fore-gathered :—A. W. Driver; I. H. Baker, P. T. Baker, P. R. G. Graham, D. A. White; D. I. Fletcher, B. D. C. Walker; J. M. Ryder, T. Hobson, P. Leigh, J. S. Megginson, P. C. Knowlson, R. Parker (Capt.), J. U. Burdass, F. D. Browne.

The School had to field three reserves against this formidable array, and the interesting experiment of playing three Colts, G. Ridley, H. C. Bulmer, and N. J. Bell, proved very successful.

A fast, open game ensued, providing plenty of good entertainment Before the Old Boys had time to settle down Burdass opened the scoring for the School with a try under the posts after a forward rush, and Gunning converted.

The O.P.s, with Tim Hobson as hooker, soon began to get a monotonous share of the ball from tight and loose scrums alike, and

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with such potential scorers as P. T. Baker and P. R. G. Graham in the O.P. back division, the School were placed in an unenviable position. The School's tackling, however, was one of the outstanding features of the game, and no one more so than Gunning contributed to this success. Apart from one try scored by P. C. Knowlson, the O.P.s were kept out until half-time, when the School led by 5 points to 3.

The second half was much the same story with the O.P.s looking very menacing with the ball in the possession of their backs. The first of Graham's two tries gave the Old Boys the lead, but the School retaliated when Kettlewell scored. A further try by C. M. C. Burdass gave the School a 5 point lead, but when Graham broke right through to score between the posts in the closing minutes of the game, a draw seemed almost inevitable. The kick, however, went wide, so the School won by a goal and 2 tries (11 pts.) to 3 tries (9 pts.).

G. S. Spink (O.P.) kindly refereed.

THE JUNIOR SCHOOL The beginning of the Christmas Term and the new School year saw St. Olave's as full of life as ever. Even more so, for we had 209 boys this term, and, of course, several of our old boys who were wearing long trousers had to make the "crack" that the Olavites looked smaller than usual, and so much smaller than the boys were in their day ! That bird's eye view is a matter of proportion—or so Mr. Ping says, and he may know.

Mr. Peter Lanning has taken over the Housemastership of Alcuin House and he has indeed given himself heart and soul to doing things for the good of his House and the interest of the boys. We should like here to wish him continued success as Housemaster, for we gather that Alcuin House has had a very good term under Mr. Lanning's guidance.

We again have ten Forms in St. Olave's, and the 5,1 new boys were distributed, of course, according to age and ability. By the end of term we think that most of them considered they were becoming "good Olavites".

At about half-term Mr. Waine and Mr. Wicks arranged a "private" and informal musical concert at which boys from each Form in turn gave some item, either chorus or part song, piano or violin solo. The concert was very enjoyable and was very useful and instructive.

Once again the Annual Gym. Display was held towards the end of term, and we may say it was well up to the usual standard; in fact Sergeant-Major Power had introduced several quite new features which brought variations into the usual exercises. The Gymnasium was quite full of parents and visitors on both afternoons.

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All the boys of St. Olave's have attended Morning Prayers in the School Chapel on five mornings each week and the benefit of this arrangement to the boys has been apparent in many ways.

An account of the Junior School Carol Service on Sunday after-

*bon,. 14th December, appears elsewhere in the Peterite, but we must

refer here to the keenness of the boys to take part in this Service, and to the excellent way they all tried to do their best.

Our final Assembly and the Mark Reading were taken by the Head Master on Monday, 15th December, when we broke up in the Usual "St. Olave's" way.

SALVETE Christmas Term, 1952 BOARDERS

J. N. Arundale (St. 0.).

R. G. Armstrong (St. 0.).

S. D. Baker (W.).

D. P. Coles (A.).

L. P. Dobson (W.).

M. H. Dukes (St. 0.).

C. G. Evans (St. 0.).

R. L. Evans (W.).

D. H. Gee (A.).

C. W. A. Groundwater ( W .).

M. R. Hornby (St. 0.).

D. L. Marshall (St. 0.).

A. May (W.).

W. May (W.).

R. G. Quirk (A.).

A. R. Barrett.

A. N. P. Butland.

J. M. Charnley.

A. A. Dytch.

B. M. Fraser.

K. W. Headlam.

G. M. Holgate.

3. R. Humpherson.

R. E. Jaques.

M. C. M. Jesper.

J. M. Lord.

M P. W. Raahauge (W.).

D S. H. Ridley (W.). .

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C. I. D. Tomlinson (St. 0.).

M H. Watson (W.).

R. A. B. Wood (A.).

D G. Woolley (St. 0.). .

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DAY BOYS

P. J. H. Mann.

D. Marsden.

J. B. Pickering.

R. J. W. Pulleyn.

S. H. Reiss.

P. Richardson.

W. M. Sessions.

1.. R. Shannon.

B. K. Smith.

J. M. Smith.

P. N. B. Smith.

R. A. Spencer.

M. G. Staveley.

H. D. C. Steward.

M. C. Thain.

A. J. Wakefield.

A. R. Ward.

C. M. Wilkinson.

J. F. Yeomans.

THE ANNUAL PHYSICAL TRAINING DISPLAY Wednesday, 3rd December, 1952, at 2-15 p.m.

I. 2.

4.

5.

6.

Thursday, 4th December, 1952, at 2-15 p.m.

Exercises by Form Ji. Exercises by Form JiiA. Exercises by Form Pis. Basket Ball Match by boys from Form Jvi and JvA. Exercises by Form JivA. Exercises by Form JvA.

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2.

3.

4.

Exercises by Form Jiis.

Exercises by Form Pia. Exercises by Form Jivs.

Basket Ball Match by boys f Form Jvi and JvA. 5. Exercises by Form Jvs. 6. Exercises by Form Jvi.

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SCOUTING The Junior School Troop We are pleased to welcome Mr. Lanning to help with the Troop.

For the past year he has been attached to the Pack, whose loss will be ...

I . our..;gani. We hope that he will enjoy his Scouting with us.

An innovation in the Troop has been the introduction of Patrols Composed entirely of boarders. This is an experiment and a complete departure from previous policy which was to mix boarders and day boys as much as possible. Owls became the Patrol for Wentworth House, and Hawks for Alcuin. The immediate result has been to make the Patrols uneven in numbers due to an increased number of recruits from the boarding houses. and Parkin, F. N. and G. D., both passed the Hobbies Badge. Training r the First Class Badge has progressed satisfactorily and half a dozen Scouts are well advanced for the time of year. ,' We were all pleased to hear of the award of the Queen's Scout Badge to M. J. Baddeley and J. H. Baines of our Senior Scout section, both of whom are ex-members of the Junior School Troop.

WOLF CUBS This term has been a successful one, but there is the usual dearth of second stars. We have gained eight first stars and fourteen badges, which is very good, but without a number of boys with their second stars we cannot call ourselves really efficient.

Apart from the normal meetings in the gym., we played in the first round of the football competition, being beaten by York Garrison Pack 1-0. We also held a riotous party in the New Building, the traditional treasure hunt being employed to shake down the tea. One Six would have done better if it had read the clues before tearing them up and scattering them.

WORK SHIELD After one term's work, Trojans have established a spectacular lead,

and unless brain fever attacks them in large doses, it would seem that they are the favourites for the Shield. The score at the end of term

was :Trojans —16.02 points per boy.

Spartans —412.7;1 points per boy.

Thebans —411.66 points per boy.

Etruscans-1131 points per boy.

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JUNIOR SCHOOL GAMES Out of five games played we won 2 and lost 3, the details being as follows :Thurs., 9th Oct. v. Ampleforth Coll. Juniors, at home Won 8-3 Thurs., 16th Oct. v. Pocklington G.S. Juniors, away ...

Thurs., 30th Oct. v. Ampleforth Coll. Juniors, away ...

Thurs., 6th Nov. v. Drax G.S. Juniors, away Thurs., 13th Nov. v. Pocklington G.S. Juniors, at home

Lost 5-3 Lost 16-0 Lost 9-3 Won 21-0

The following boys represented the School :—D. Robinson (Capt.), D. C. Parry (Vice-Capt.), M. L. Swain, J. J. Rhodes, M. J. Kershaw, R. M. Wheeler, D. G. Macpherson, J. R. Maxwell, J. J. F. Knapton, R. R. Baldwin, R. Baxter, W. House, G. P. Lowley, 'M. P. Stanton and J. A. Bygate—also played : C. J. Partridge, R. T. Burdon, G. W. Blenkhorn and H. A. G. Raley.

The following are to be congratulated on being awarded their Junior School Rugger Colours Robinson, D. C. Parry, R. R. Baldwin, D. G. Macpherson, and J. R. Maxwell.

In the House Finals :Etruscans 1st XV (Seniors) beat Spartans 1st XV (Seniors) 21-0.

Spartans 1st XI (Middles) beat Etruscans 1st XI (Middles) 6—I. Spartans Juniors XI beat Etruscans Juniors XI 2-1.

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