Grove started with the part song "Never weather-beaten sail", by Thomas Campian; their tone was pleasant, although they did not seem in all respects sure of themselves. Queen's followed with "When Laura smiles", by Philip Rosseter, and School House, again with an even performance of "Never weather-beaten sail". Rise, Temple and Manor all sang "Cupid plague thee !", by John Ford. Rise ran into some difficulties with balance of tone, which seemed to derive from their lack of suitable voices capable of carrying the upper parts. Temple gave a distinguished performance. In the unison song, School House and Grove both sang a setting of "Cargoes", by Balfour Gardiner, while Rise, Temple and Queen's sang "Drake's Drum". Of these, Temple and Queen's both gave good performances; Rise, in the course of a vigorous rendering, did not rely entirely on the music to secure their effect, although it is not known what impression this left on the adjudicator. Manor's choice was the only unison song free from any nautical flavour; they sang an arrangement of an aria by J. S. Bach. Their performance gave pleasure, although it was perhaps lessened by a tendency to miss entries, somewhat damaging to the character of the music. The general standard of the singing was, as the several speakers remarked, undoubtedly high. Temple were placed first in both categories, with School House and Queen's second respectively in the part song and in the unison. The individual marks were :-
Grove ... Manor ... Queen's ... ... Rise School House Temple ...
Class I 82 80 79 74 85 86
Class II
Total
Place
73 73 85 81 77 88
155 153 164 155 162 174
4
6 2 4
3 1
R.M.N.M.
THE BRITISH SHIP ADOPTION SOCIETY As will be seen from the summary given at the end of this note, voyage 7 of the "Clan Stewart" has taken her round the world. When term began the ship was already loading in Australian ports and she arrived in Britain in early May. It was very unfortunate that her call at Hull lasted only a few hours, and that, together with petrol rationing, prevented our visiting her. At the time of writing, voyage 8 is in progress, and on 3rd July the ship called at Dakar, outward bound for Beira. We are indebted to Capt. Graham for a very interesting account of the voyage, and especially for notes on the passage of the Panama 39
