of superiority which derives from our personal rejection of names that were once to be reckoned with. Reflection, however, will show that these are symptons of an unwillingness to grasp and understand what, may be different or difficult—or, to give it other names, bigotry, philistinism, and narrow-mindedness. In an age that prides itself on the honesty of its re-assessment of old values, we must be equally honest, about whether our judgments are in fact pre-judgments, about whether we have really made the effort to understand. In his Hints for Eton Masters of 1862, William Johnson showed some understanding of young people when he wrote: Why, they are bored by our voices, and our movements and our ways, bored by our recommendations of books, by our schemings for their good, by our warnings against their foibles, against their master-foible itself, their boreableness. It is a condition everyone knows well enough—satiation under bombardment from advice, preaching, being got at, and I-told-you-so's. But it is the best that any system of education can offer the new generations—to try to show them how to select and use the "best that has been thought and done in the world."
SCHOOL NOTES At the beginning of term J. R. W. Thirlwell was appointed a School Monitor, and P. R. Hart and J. M. Mordue House Monitors. * * * We welcomed Mr. J. H. G. Shearman and Mr. S. Wroe for their teaching practice, and thank them for all that they contributed. * * * We congratulate Mr. C. P. M. Duncan and Miss Susan Grimshaw on their recent marriage, and offer them our best wishes for their future happiness. * * * The School attended the Epiphany Service in York Minster on 23rd; January; as usual, the Senior and Junior School choirs joined the Minster choir. * * * On 3rd February we were visited by a party of Commonwealth and Overseas Educationalists. * * * The Fleet Air Arm Presentation Team, which visited us in January, eventually found it safer to arrive by motor-car than helicopter, because of the weather; their lecture was well received. * * * The Montgomery of Alamein Prize was won by C. J. A. Smith, with his talk on T. E. Lawrence; R. B. Phelps and D. J. Emsley were the other finalists. * * * Queen's were unluckily prevented by the 'flu epidemic from staging their play. But later in the term the Rise put on "The Government Inspector", the Manor "It should Happen to a Dog", and School House "A Doctor in Spite of Himself".
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