in the 1st VIII at bow and seven respectively. Ward also succeeded in breaking his own 440 record in the athletics match against Bootham School, and Pawson (who was awarded his Athletics Colours), Anderson and Cantrell were also in the School team. Unfortunately we lost the Fencing Cup to Queen's, but Pawson (The Yorkshire Senior Schoolboys' Champion), Anderson and Reiss successfully retained their places in the School teams. We wish them every success in the Public Schools' Fencing Championships which will be held in the Easter Holidays. We also gained fifth place in the Senior Cross-Country (both Ward and Peacock being well placed) but our main achievement was in the Junior Cross-Country, where we gained 2nd place—Cantrell being the outright winner. In the Inter-House Athletics match we were seriously hampered by having gained only 146 points to the Grove's 205—something which we must in the future attempt to rectify. However, on the afternoon of the Sports Ward succeeded, while equalling the record set last century, in retaining the Gof ton Cup for the 440 yards, and Hudson won the Junior Cricket Ball. Owing to the remainder of the team's efforts we had gained 166 points to the Groves 2761 by the end of the afternoon, to gain only 6th place. We must therefore, in the future, attempt to gain more points in the Standards if we are to help the Athletics team; but, we look forward to the challenge of the Summer Term, when we hope to do well at every available opportunity.
THE CHAPEL Once again we were given the privilege of joining in the Epiphany Procession in the Minster on the first Sunday of term. It is a wonderful and dramatic reminder that Christ has come to bring light into a world in which there is so much fear and suffering. In another way the power of faith in a time of distress was expressed by the gift of a fine Processional Cross to the Junior School by Mr. and Mrs. Dodds in memory of Peter. It was dedicated in a short and moving ceremony in the course of St. Clare's morning Service on Quinquagesima Sunday. We were so glad that Mr. and Mrs. Dodds were able to be there. Normally we have our Sung Communion on the morning of Quinquagesima Sunday, but on this occasion we took the unusual course—for us— of having it in the evening. This is a fairly wide-spread practice nowadays and a number of people were quite surprised to find how appropriate it seemed. We have had a wealth of preachers this term, the Dean of York, the Headmaster of Durham School and Mr. Burden, the Chaplain of St. Olave's who came to preach for the first time. We are very grateful to them all; and to Mr. Cummin, who preached on Ash Wednesday at Evensong, continuing a welcome feature of having members of the staff to preach. On the Wednesday evenings in Lent Mr. Burden very kindly came again to give us an interesting course of talks on "Prayer in the modern world", after our Voluntary Compline Services. We were very sorry indeed that at the last moment the Archbishop of York was prevented, by complete loss of his voice, from taking the Confirmation, on 17th March. Providentially the Bishop of Selby was 13
