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The Library
from Feb 1957
by StPetersYork
seem to share the Choir's enthusiasm for the seventy-three verses of Psalm 78; though, , of course, the psalm had added interest for the Choir as they had to dash about between five different chants. During the last weeks of term all efforts have been concentrated on preparing for the Carol Service; the choice of music for this has largely been governed by the fact that the Minster Epiphany Service is only one day after the beginning of next Easter Term. However, this did not prevent the Carol Service being as successful an act of worship as ever.
At the end of term the Head Master thanked the Choir for all their efforts this term and assured us that we had successfully sung for our supper. E.W.T.
Over ninety books have been added to the Library this term, and about twenty British Council pamphlets on various English writers from Swift, Shaw, and the Brontë Sisters, to T. S. Eliot and George Orwell. They are written by well-known critics such as C. V. Wedgewood, John Middleton Murray, and Phyllis Bentley. They should prove extremely valuable to those studying English Literature.
We have been trying to build up and modernise the Biology section of the Library this term, and we hope in the near future to improve the Physics and Chemistry sections, for inevitably more people in the School are continuing their scientific studies to an advanced level, and there is a growing demand for books on these subjects.
We should like to thank all those who have presented books in the past term. They are as follows :—
Cirkev v case rozhodavani (The Church in a time of decision), by
Dr. Frantisck M. Hnick, presented by the author. Lectures on the French Revolution, by Lord Acton. Lectures on Modern History, by Lord Acton. The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, by Thomas Carlyle. An Introductory History of England (Volumes I, II, III), by Fletcher. Oliver Cromwell, by John Morley. England under the Normans and Angevins, by H. W. C. Davies. England under the Stuarts, by G. M. Trevelyan. England since Waterloo, by J. A. R. Marriot. England under the Tudors, by Arthur D. Innes. The American Commonwealth, by James Bryce.
All presented by the Reverend Canon C. Patteson. Readings in Market Research, edited by Frederick Edwards, presented by John Rodgers (O.P.). The Marn'll Book, edited by Ernest Roscoe i(O.P.), presented by the editor.
