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MARCH, 1961 No. 123

MAGAZINE COMMITIEE

President : The Headmaster. Chairman: Mr. B. Davies.

urer: Mr. F. Bury.

Committee: Mr. G. F. Eastwood; Mr. W. H. Proctor; A. Ashton; R. H. Bamber; D. M. Child; R. Davenport; E. J . Matthews; I. K. Piper; F. J. Seed; N. Whalley.

Editor: D. E. Ambrose.

lEbttorial THE right to take up for his own personal use at least a page

of each issue of the " Blackburnian " is the prerogative of any editor. This is a privilege which, quite frankly, is often more of a burden than anything else, especially when the traditional ed itorial " we " is not able to put together i ts presumably unqualified number of heads and come up with a single idea worth printing.

Any editor of a school magazine, though he may have a great deal of freedom from censorship in its preparation. bears responsibility directly and indirectly to so many different quarters that even the most tentative hint of controversy in h is own comment is self-stifled by a profusion of presupposed apologies to all religious and political sectarians who may happen to stumble across h is humble lines i n search of the cartoon section. The question of what shall I (or " we " when " we " are disguised as the editor) write about this time becomes more and more pressing as every issue slips into the past and a place in posterity as a bound volume in the library.

The young editor, fresh and enthusiastic. at work on his first issue. is more than likely to tackle with disconcerting zeal some topic such as " The Black Situation in South Africa " (without even noticing the disastrous pun) or perhaps "Nuclear Disarm-

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ament." However, after m�eting with the unanimous ridicule of the sixth form inteIlect around the Radcliffe Room table, and having been squashed by the humiliatingly tolerant chuckles coming from the direction of the staff room, his plan for a follow-up editorial on "Moral Re-armament " in the next issue generally seems to get lost somewhere in transit during the course of the term. The last straw comes when some typesetter with a "sick " sense of humour turns his well-meant discussion of philosophy into a farrago on Disneyland by substituting "Pluto" for "Plato."

By about its fifth effort - as in the present case - the editorial mouth-piece is careful to open no wider than is necessary to emit a yawn of feeble nonchalance, followed by one of those "Well, well, here we are again in the Easter Term already " pieces of journalistic constipation. Another of the favourite fall-backs is the "Up and a t them thar exams, chaps " approach, assuring the reader that to die in relative comfort at the age of fifty is well worth living in an intellectual purgatory for the first thirty years of one's life. Also catalogued in the editor's" Preparation Book" are general variations on the old themes of "Rule Britannia ! " "Please, please write something, because it is YOUR school magazine," and "Isn't it really time you bigger boys stopped chalking on the school walls and started thinking about doing it in university instead ? "

This term the editorial is a simple statement of fact and a request to those who actually do write for the magazine. Do remember :

( 1 ) If you are responsible for wntmg reports for Houses, Societies, or Sports, be sure to hand them in on time and with the minimum of dragooning: otherwise you may never appear in print again . After all, you cannot expect to be hounded around the school every term, .like an unsociable coney, by an editorial committee whose natural instincts might well run quite contrary to such blood sports.

(2) Write legibly, or you may still never appear in print. If this i s asking the physically impossible, kindly reflect that both the typewriter and block printing have been in existence for quite some time now.

(3) Please (and this is a plea from the printers) whatever you write, do so only ON ONE SIDE OF THE PAPER, otherwise the second half of your article could well be missing.

(4) Finally, all cartoons on white paper and in indian ink, please.

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SCHOOL NOTES p RIZEGIVING took place on Friday, December 1 6th. The

service in the Cathedral was conducted by tbe Very Rev. tbe Provost of Blackburn, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. S. B irtwell, M.A., an Old Boy. At the proceedings in King George's Hall, the prizes were pn;sented by Professor W. Mansfield Cooper, LL.M., Vice-Chancellor of Manchester University.

A Christmas Party for children of staff and of friends of the school was held in Big School on December 3 1 st ; and a Staff and Parents' Dance on February 17th. There was a Prefects' Dance on February 1 0th.

Final Ministry approval has now been received for the playing-fields development scheme.

Miss Sheila EIIerton, our fii'st and very successful Canteen Supervisor, left at the end of last term to take up an appointment with BJackburn Corporation. Sbe has been succeeded by M rs. M . Yates.

Last term the Sixth Form acquired a new uniform, and the Upper Sixth a new status. Reference was made to these in the Headmaster's report at Prizegiving (see below).

We congratulate 1. S. Read on being awarded an Entrance Scholarship in Physics at Imperial College, London.

We acknowledge with gratitude the gift of a Tennis Cup by R. J. H. Weall, an Old Boy of the School . I t will be competed for on a house basis.

The Dramatic Society's production from February 22nd to 25th this year was R. B. Sheridan's " The Rivals." This production was in conjunction with the Girls' High School. A report and photographs appear below.

Our congratula tions go to S. 1. Holding on being chosen as reserve for the County X I during the Christmas programme. Also to Holding, H. F. Bendix and D. Cox on their selection for the Northern Grammar Schools' Team during the season.

Congratulations also to W. Howe, who has been selected to train with the Northern Counties Residential Swimming Team at Blackpool this Easter.

SPEECH DAY, DECEMBER, 1960 IN his opening remarks the Chairman, Mr. Henry WhiUaker,

spoke as follows : Ladies and Gentlemen,

Looking back over the Last ten years. 1 am greatly impressed by the magnitude and the rapidity of the development, which the school has undergone, both externally in its buildings and internally in the steady growth of its numbers and the advance made in activities and attainments.

An opportunity of seeing some of these changes is given to parents. each year, in the summer term.

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The Governors are still .only in the middle of their full development !programme. 1 WIll not antlclp�te the headmaster, in his detailed report of what has bee� achieved . durmg the

. year, and what is immediately in

prospect; but I wIsh to say Just two things regarding this programme. The first IS to acknowledge the enterprise and vigour with which

the headmaster . approaches the problems constantly arising in the course of these extensIOns and to recognise the vision, ability and enthusiasm with which he overcomes them .

. . My second point closely concerns the boys at present in the school. LIVIng as they do, among these additions and developments J would like them to see in them a symbol of the exceptional opportunitie

's in education

whIch thIS generatIon of schoolboys enjoys. The buildings and the equipment. the teaching and encouragement,

the financial assistance available, all these have never "efore reached such a high standard or been on so generous a scale.

Do not take this state of things for granted; but supplement them with your sustained greatest effort.

In my day we were enjoined to climb the so called ladder of success. In the course of half a century this ladder seems to me to have become a staircase, which is both wider and less steep, but take your place upon it. and press forward and upwards!

Mr. Whittaker congratulated Alderman Eddie, a Governor of the School, on being elected a Freeman of the Borough of Blackburn, and then introduced the principal guest, Professor W. Mansfield Cooper.

I n present ing his report, the Headmaster reviewed the ach ievements of the past year. He signaIled out for special mention the gaining of eight State Scholarships and twenty-three Distinctions in the G.C.E.; a nd the success of three Old Boys who had been awarded First Classes at the universities. This had also been the most �uccessful year for games since 1 956, and he drew attention to the rising standard in swimming and athletics. Amongst recent developments at the school there were the institution of speech­training classes: the opening of common-rooms throughout the school to cater for the increased numbers who were staying at school for dinners; and the very popular new record-player and library of records in the Garstang Room. He concluded as foIIows:

We have given much thought during the past year to the needs of our expanding Sixth Form. What . are these needs? Briefly, they. are those of an individual who enters the SIxth Form as a boy, but who, If he stays three years in it. becomes a: youf!g man before he becomes an Old Boy. Our aim is that bcys should feel It an honour and a pnvJiege to be SIxth formers: and that they should regard the Sixth as an institution in which they will grow naturally to maturity:-maturity of th.e whol.e pers<;Jnality -and equip themselves for care.ers III which they Will reahze theIr full

p()tential value to the commulllty and find the fullest development of thei r powers. . . . .

This development is, of course, contllluous; It IS our aIm to see that -as boys mature. they acquire a more adult status and lIl

,creased respon­

sibilities towards the younger boys. It IS,

convelllent III practIce to mark. out "two turning-points-the m

,oment at whIch a boy ent�rs the Lower SIxth,

',lIld begins advanced studies; and the moment at whIch, after two yea:rs, he enters the Upper Sixth. provided tha:! he has gained at least two passes

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First uniform. The abolition of the wearing of caps by boys in their fifth year

' has been followed by the institution of the Sixth Form tie and

Sixth Form blazer, with a specially designed crest. Black blazers and jackets will not be worn by boys below the Lower Sixth as from next September. . . .

The Sixth Form unIform IS an outward sign that the wearer has committed himself to a strenuous course of study in chosen subjects, and has assumed increased responsibility fO! his work and progress. The Crowther Report set forth with pride the great value of the intellectual discipline of an English Sixth Form, for the boy who meets its challenge. The boy who does this will be the boy who develops enthusiasm for his subjects intellectual curiosity, and the habit of independent study. It will not be

'the one who does the minimum demanded of him, nor, if such a

one is lucky enough to get into a university, will he be likely to succeed there . Bu� for the boy who rises to the challenge we believe that even two years in the Sixth can be of very great value.

For the boy aiming at the university, a third year is almost essential. both to give a firmer basis of knowledge for the university course, and also to bring greater maturity and a better chance of university success. I have now recognised the special position of the Upper Sixth former; they are not all needed as prefects, but they are no longer, like the rest of the School, subject to prefectorial discipline; on the contrary, I am asking them to assume various functions of a prefectorial character, particularly in connection with the younger boys: this service will be of great value to our community.

The Sixth Form calls for a different kind of relationship between master and pupil-more individual and less formal. The institution of the tutor system this term in the Arts Sixth was designed to ensure that each boy became the responsibility of one master, who' is actually teaching him, throughout his time in the Sixth, in respect of his whole work programme, his general progress, and his university intentions. This does in a different way, what has already been achieved in the Science Sixth by a tripartite division of forms accordin� to courses.

This being a day-school our responsibility for the six former's Reneral development is shared with his home, and also-it is worth observing­with his home town. We shall offer all we can. I hope that all ou! Sixth Formers, as well as taking their studies seriously, will also profit by the development of general studies in the Sixth Furm; will use the library fully-more are doing so this term; and will participate in one or other of the various out-of-school activities. The reconstituted Sixth Form Club hllS had a good hrst term, with two meetings and a successful trip to the theatre in Manchester, and we hope that this will develop as general forum for the Sixth, one where senior boys and staff may meet and discuss. matters of moment on equal footing.

In conclusion, Sir, I would ask all present once more to show their appreciation of all that Dr. Tyler and the rest of the Staff are doing for the boys of this School, both in and out of the form-room, at school or on the game� field. In all our new schemes I have had most willing and loyal support from them, and I have no hesitation in saying that at this time we have at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School as fine a staff as you could find in any comparable school in the country.

After presenting the prizes, Professor Mansfield Cooper spoke as follows:

.• It is a matter of great pleasure to be with you this evening, and to bring you the greetings of that University which might, I suppose, be regarded as your elder brother. The life of a great institution, such as the University to which I belong, draws much of its strength from the region in which it lives and even more from the schools of that

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region so that I . never tire, when I have the opportunity, of visiting schools and meetmg staffs and students .

.. I know, of course, that most young people looking vut from school to University look towards Oxford and Cambridge. There is much that is exciting and valuable in those Universities. As you walk their streets history hurls itself at you from every stre�t corner and ancient stone buttress.

"Yet we should not permit that which is obvious to deceive us overmuch-and it is permissible to remind ourselves that history walks with us in our own village or town - though sometimes one has to seek it out. I t was in my own University that much of the seminal work in nuclear physics took place. When you have been in Manchester it is possible that you may have rubbed shoulders with that great old man who was Lord Rutherford, ccnfidante, friend and chief technician in the great days between 1907-1919. Just as I, as a very young man, used to see in the Central Library a patriarchal old gentleman whom, I thought, heaven forgive me, looked d trifle down at the heel and uncared for, but whom 1 was to know later as Samuel Alexander, a Member of Her Majesty's Most Excellent Order of Merit, a philosopher of international repute and more than these (he would have agreed more than these) the guide and friend of generations of Manchester students, good, bad and indifferent. He loved human beings, mind you, whatever their capacities or incapacities.'-

Professor Mansfield Cooper went on to say that the point he was making was that "worth and value are around us already if we have the care to look for it."

This was a point with special application 10 those whose last speech day Ihat was. But it also applied to all who were determined to go on learning even when school days were over

It was the habit of young people to drop the old and take up the new with great enthusiasm and then to remember sometimes when it was .a little: too late that one had not adequately respected and appreciated the worth and value which had placed itself at one's disposal throughout school life, which had encouraged one when the way looked dark, which pushed one ahead unobtrusively, and which slipped into the background whenever questions of credits were involved.

There were two things he particularly wished to say_ These were exciting and curious days. Exciting because daily_ almost hourly. man was showing how he could control his environment. Yesterday he was content to try to control the earth; today he mastered the air beyond, sending satellites spinning through space-tomorrow there was no doubt he would try to colonise other planets.

The days in which we lived were not only exciting-they were also curious. Curious because though that frail creature, man, pitted himself successfully against the most titanic forces of nature, his control of his own nature and his own immediate affairs remained almost-not quite­but almost as feeble and as pitiable a thing as it ever was.

h The boy who makes a real contribution to the solution of this problem will be a genuine benefactor of mankind in a way no other discoveries can be," said the Professor. "It is a problem which ought to attract any of you who have been touched at any point of your school career by an interest in the things of the mind .

.. You are privileged to belong to a grammar school and grammar schools are under attack today. Nevertheless I'd like you to think that the real stamp of a grammar school education persists and is recognisable througl1 the centuries, quite mdependent of whatever is our - subject.' It's there whether you've read science, or history, classics or modern languages.

_. I find it significant, and should like to feel that you find it significant also, particularly if you are a budding scientist, that if you want to find Ihe most succinct and all-inclusive expression of properly clIltll'ated man

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throughout the centuries you have got to turn to a Roman poet writing in an allegedly dead language.

"Describing another, this poet said: 'Nothing hUman was alien to him." There, in half a dozen words, is a picture of a man upon whom, in the end all progress depends, whose passionate concern for the human situation

' causes him to be alike in the first attack and in the last ditch."

This was an exciting, troubled and curious world. He hoped their years at the school had touched them with something of that curiosity which would enable them to rise to the challenge of their own times.

Lord Rutherford, when some experiment had justified itself beautifully, used to rub his hands gleefully, stand back and say, "And to think that what we're doing can be no conceivable use to any man." Times were to prove him wrong, for the atom-powered submarine "Nautilus" could never have sailed beneath the Pole if Rutherford hadn't worked. But though his facts were wrong his attitude was right. He combined scientific method with scholarly approach - to which there was no alternative­and without which the cleavage between man's control of his environment and his control of himself would widen and imperil all the things in which he believed.

The Professor went on: " Within the friendly protective walls of our schools it is good fun to bicker with one another about the relative merits of ancient and modern studies - it's good fun for the classic to look snootily at the scientist - and get the retort by the scientist that the classic lives in the past. But the world doesn't understand - how could it ­what the unity of science means. There is no conflict between science and the arts. The conflict is between ignorance and knowledge - between poverty and adequacy.

"There is the real battle for you both and I pray most profoundly that your generation may go in and win it "

The vote of thanks to Professor Mansfield Cooper was moved by Alderman G. B. Eddie (leader of the Town Council).

Speaking of the relationship between the school and local authority he said he was very proud that Blackburn was high on the list of towns which were generous in enabling young people to get the best out of education.

The relationship between Blackburn Education Committee, the local authority as a whole and Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School would be no less happy in the days to come, he said.

Blackburn would soon be planning fairly big changes in the structure of its secondary education. Some alternative to the ll-plus examination had to be found and plans made to provide young people with still better opportunities.

"You can take it from me that, whatever education is decided upon, no decision will be made without the fullest co-operation with people like your Headmaster.

There would be, Alderman Eddie repeated. the fullest co-operation between the Education Committee and the schools. Whatever the decision, the future of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School was going to be even greater than in the' past.

Alderman J. Stirrup seconded the vote of thanks.

SPEECH DAY CONCERT THE School Choral Society, mustering its b iggest membership

ever ( 1 29), was in fine form, both at the service in the morning at the Cathedral, and later on the platform in King George's Hall,

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where they sang Bach's " Peasant Cantata," with Mr. Dewhurst at the piano. Numerous eyebrows raised when Bach was originally mooted, dropped again when such numbers as "Good fellows, be m erry " revealed the great master in an unusually rollicking style. The solos were sung with great effect by Mr. Beaumont and I an Sharp. Mr. Duerden and his team have cause for much satis­faction with their efforts. This was the best Prizegiving performance for some time, and gave much pleasure to all present.

"THE RIV ALS " THE play chosen this year for the School's February concert

was R. B. Sheridan's " Th e Rivals. " The play was produced by Mr. R. F. Sharpe, whose enjoyable and successful production was a well deserved reward for all his hard work and meticulous care. Much of the success of the play was due to the fact that the School Dramatic Society combined with girls from Blackbum High School, for, to quote the producer, " however realistically boys portray females on the stage, there is nothing like having real girls to play the female parts.

The ultimate success of any schoQ} dramatic production depends not only upon its providing its audience with entertain­ment but also upon its being enjoyable, beneficial and satisfying to those taking part. On this occasion the pleasure and enjoyment of the cast-even had we not been assured of it by the producer -was obvious to all. And this pleasant feeling of mutual co-op­eration shown by the cast was in no smaLl part con tributary to the pleasure and satisfaction felt by its audience.

"The Rivals " is a play which derives its effect from the humorous dialogue of a very carefully contrived and often intricate plot. Careful diction and clear enunciation are, therefore, of the greatest importance for the enjoyment of the play. Admittedly there were occasions when words were missed-most noticeably in the street scenes and mostly due to accents unnatural to the actors, but for the most part diction was clear and no i mportant links in the plot were missed.

Of the leading parts the largest and probably the most difficult is that of J ack Absolute. R. H. Davenport achieved commendable success in this role, for he was word perfect and nearly always very audible. The only criticism of him would be that some of his mannerisms and movements-especially his nervous and certainly very dangerous handling of his dueLling sword-did not give the impression of a soldier with true military bearing. But for an that he is to be congratulated on a very good performance. It is always difficult for a boy to portray an elderly man, but I. Pickup was very convincing as the irascible 'and violent Sir Anthony

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Absolute and astounded everyone with Ihe power and durability of his vocal chords. Sandra Redfern was a very charming Lydia -,L.anguish and proved herself a very convincing and confident actress. Her domineering aunt, Mrs. Malaprop, was very well played by Dorothy Smith, who made sure that her audience did not miss a single Malapropism and got al1 her expected laughs.

The three male character parts Acres, Sir Lucius O'Trigger and Faulkland were played by W. R. Snape, R . I . Davies and J. Leigh respectively. Snape's performance was clearly the result of much thought and attention to detail. He was a·lways amusing and his portrayal of Acres must surely be the nearest approach to perpetual motion yet d iscovered. R. I. Davies was perhaps the most convincing and natural actor in the cast. He presented a fine figure on the stage and moved very confidently. He" carried " many of the difficult street scenes, was always very amusing and did very welJ to mainta in his White Rose brand of Irish to the end. Leigh looked and sounded the very epitome of the d iffidence and awkwardness he was ca].]ed upon to play.

Of the smaller parts especial mention must be made of M. Howard, whose portrayal of the perpetually worried David was very real and won the sympathy of all. One wondered whether the same handkerchief had outliVed his manhandling for alJ five performances. Lydia's confident friend was nicely played by Sally Hudson. H. E. R urlander (Fag), P. S. Ormerod (Coachman) and Angela Coles played their supporting roles well and succeeded i n keeping the play moving and the audience informed about their parts in the plot. Other supporting parts were played by J. Taylor, Joan Adams, I. Boswell and M. Stirrup.

There can be few plays which require more scene changes than ,. The R ivaJs " and in this respect the efficient and unobtrusive work of the stage management team received the admiration of all. To be really effective scenery must be so natural as to go virtually unnoticed. The sets, designed, drawn and arranged by Mr. F. R aby, were the perfect background to the setting of the play and very effective-in spite of the efforts of the more clumsy visitors to Lammack !

It i s unintentional that the " back-room boys " should have been left until the end, for without them all that has been written about above would not have taken place. It i s sufficient to say that the prolonged applause of Saturday evening's audience was significant of the appreciation felt by all for their hard work.

The school orchestra, augmented by members of the High School, under the direction of M r. H. Miller, both before each performance and during the intervals played a selection from Suite (Purcell); Slow Movement 1 st Symphony (Beethoven): Air a nd Rondo (Purcell ) ; March and Canzonetta (Rossini-Britten); Trumpet Voluntary (1. Clarke). Their playing added much to the complete enjoyment of the evening's entertainment.

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NON - FICTION SECTION IMAGINATION PLUS . . .? ARTICLES, large and small, good and indifferent, "cribbed"

and original, emerge when the appeal for magazine material is issued. The variety is inexhaustible even if the quality is unpredictable. I n the amorphous mass presented for this par­ticular edition there occurred a selection of descriptive essays. Their subject was " a room" - an ideal room, a dining room or a bedroom. The titles were ordinary enough, in fact there was nothing remarkable about the individual essays. However, con­sidered comparatively some interesting aspects emerged - quaint, if not of world-shattering significance.

The approach, perhaps naturally, or possibly inculcated, was from the general to the particular. Invariably the essays began with vague impressions :-

" The room was shining with light and spotless." " It was a spacious room. "

and then proceeded to more detailed references. There was, how­ever, one striking exception. This essay began in a dramatic manner :-

" As I entered, the first thing that struck me was the size of the four poster bed, a magnificent oaken structure."

and this tone was maintained until the final line :-"So this was to be my bedroom "

We have a dramatist amongst us! The dramatic technique was mirrored in the fact that he moved round the room, his " gaze travelled" and he "noticed for the first time " Only in one other essay was there any mention of the writer moving. The descriptions were therefore static and pictorial, but by no means without life. For instance there is the perverse a pproach: given the title: " A Dining Hall," one essay begins :-

" I t was a small. compact room with only two round tables." Included in this general pictorial a pproach was a pre­

occupation with cleanliness and light. No less than six of the eight essays had such references :-

" I saw a beautifully, clean room." "It is clean, tidy and catches all the sun

Perhaps a reaction against the industrial North. Windows were mentioned in all but two essays and occassionally came in for some romantic treatment:-

"and a stained glass window above." "a large stained glass window, depicting Drake in the act of

sinking a Spanish ship." The strictly functional. however. was not completely forgotten : ­

"With a sky-light in the middle giving ample light." This e say was in fact notable for its practical attitude :-

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" Under the bed there were various lockers containing food and clothes."

A room after all is a place to live in ! However the practical was usually subordinated to a riot of

i maginative musings :-" In the centre was a long thin table with two great candle­

sticks on each side." ., There was a large fire with a deer on a spit." " When a button is pressed, the trap door would open and

down would come a train layout." Even when necessities were considered imaginative modifications were made : -

" Cupboard space would be provided with built-in cup-board in the wall which would have sliding doors."

Nevertheless imagination was curbed, and although actual walls were only mentioned in three essays the traditional box-shape of a room was maintained. The floor figured in al l the descriptions except two and was always the subject of some comment : -

" The floor, was made of finely polished wood, was covered in front of the fire by a thick sheepskin rug."

The ceiling was introduced only once though with suitable em­bellishments : -

" The ceiling was spanned b y dark oak b�ams Colour was a quality which was rarely omited. Bright

colours with vivid contrasts were to be expected - and we were not to be disappointed :-

" Three walls lime green and one white." " The wallpaper had bright red spots on a white background."

This vivid description of colour was confined to general i m­pressions. Details of colour were only introduced when an actual room was the subject : -

" The curtains are black with large white leaves stitched on in a n intricate pattern."

The range of colour was infinite. Only in the decoration of a dining hall was there a ny correlation - a distinct preference for oak floors and stained glass windows was shown. This was probably due to the characteristics of Big School, an influence which is repeated at least four times a week.

Comfort, naturally, was a principle consideration. A bed was never mentioned without the accompanyine; adjective, "soft " or "springy." At times, however, the furnishings of the dining hall became decidedly Spartan : -

" Small, hard, wooden chairs with big arms." The human imagination can take many forms but it usually maintains some contact with reality. Thus amid the varying qualities appeared the homely features :-

" In the fire-hearth there was a purring cat warming itself." " On the floor was a lovely, cosy-looking rug "

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Home is the point of departure for most imaginative musmgs of this sort.

(Apologies to 3C. for cutting their essays about.) R. H. BAMBER .

THE EVOLUTION OF M ODERN SCIENCE

IT wsa not until the time of Galileo that science turned from cosmology to mechanics, when an attempt was made to explain

every day phenomena in terms of rational theory. The assump­tion was then made that what applied to objects of tangible science also applied to nature as a whole ; the outlook was known as. mechanism. Perhaps to illustrate the line of thought in terms of a physicist of the mechanistic period a quotation from Huygh�ns ( 1 690) will suffice.

" In true philosophy, the causes of all natural phenomena are conceived in mechanical terms. We must do this in my opinion, or else give up all hope of ever understanding physics."

The other principle so widely used parallel with the mechanism idea was that of " The Uniformity of Nature," which was simply the application of the basic mechanical concept, meaning that no matter how many times an experiment is performed the results must always be the same when each time the experiment is carried out under similar circumstances. Ideas raised at a later date were not in agreement with this and in 1 930 Dirac wrote :

" When an observation is made on any atomic system that has been prepared in a given way and is thus in a given state, the result in general will not be determinate (i.e. if the experiment is repeated several times under identical conditions several different results may be obtained). If the experiment is repeated a large number of times it will be found that each particular result will be obtained a definite fraction of the total number of times, so that one can say there is a definite probability of its being obtained every time the experiment is performed."

The acceptance of the "Uniformity of Nature" philosophy was subsequently not taken without " a pinch of salt " as many of its conclusions were contrary to intuition and experience, here the conflict between mind ! and matter raised its ugly head for the first time-scientists not being able to effect the union of themselves and their subject. Small changes were made to the original beliefs. only to add even greater disorder to the confusion, as science tried to shake off its bands and reorganise. Only in more modern times was the strangulation stopped and the new ideas formulated.

The new pbysics demanded the withdrawal of the old common­sense science and the adoption of more subtle and unconditional ideas; man had freed himself from the anthropomorphic error of imagining that nature behaved as he expected, of identifying science with himself, be had to look for a new angle, a new philosophy, a refinement of the experimental art.

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Sir lames leans once compared the position to that of a new born child in a prison cell, only able to judge the outside world by telephone communication but never. able to view it directly. .S�an­dards of judgement would by necessIty be taken from the condItIOns of the immediate environment. A view of reality would then be obscuredby the whims and caprices involved in the attempt at judgement, the only objective reality being th() telephonic .li n k between the confinement and t h e external world. The analogy i s by n o means perfect but serve� t o i l lustrat.e t�e difficulties in obser­vation encountered when lookmg for a sCIentIfic truth.

The di lemma was only realised at the beginning of this century, �he effect on scientific thought creating a revolution with effects s imilar to the Renaissance in Italy. New basic concepts had to be laid down upon which the foundations could be firmly planted. Each step, however, could only be regarded as more fundamental as science went beyond its limits into abstract philosophies and metaphysics, until the non-scientific untruth showed that an objec­tive reality was impossible to observe directly. The human mind for the first time was confused and disillusioned by something far greater .han itself, more complex and more simple, perfect and apparently beyond human comprehension, not experienced in the narrow confinements of our own planet.

Many of these abstractions which are characteristic of modern theoretical physics are to be found discusssed in the philosophy of past centuries. At that time these abstractions could be disregar­ded as mere mental exercises by those scientists whose only concern was with reality, but today we are compelled by the refinements of the experimental art to consider them seriously. This does not mean that there is no objective reality, the concern of modern science being simply to find out to what extent the human element enters into observation and by removing this rrom view to obtain results which will be in exact accordance with nature. The evolu­tion of physical science in the twentieth century is the emancipation of science from the pprely human angle of vision, our contact with objective reality being light (whether waves, particles or neither)­the telephonic communication.

As science tends towards the probable and improbable and steadily moves away from our subjective vision we must become increasingly aware of our responsibilities and try to overcome diffi­culty with Imagination, failure with success. Only then can we expect ourselves to be capable of the superhuman endeavour required for our progressive enlightenment in the exciting years to come. A. 1. PENDLEBURY, U.6Sc.

DECIMAL AND DUODECIMAL SYSTEMS THE popular press and public have recently become interested

in changing our coinage to a decimal system . The magic of the decimal system is that our whole system of numbers is based on

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multiples of ten and consequently it is only lugical that our coinage, weights and measures should be based on this multiple too.

However, there is no fundamental reason why our system of numbers should be based on ten, and the duodecimal system, i .e., a system based on multiples of twelve, has its advocates. Before outlining the duodecimal system it is necessary to examine our present system. We use the Arabic system of numbers and we owe a great debt of gratitude to the fathers of this system. Those who question this statement should try to multiply CXLIV by X I I or to add CCLXVI and MCDLX I I . In both cases the answer i s M DCCXXVIII.

The beauty of the Arabic system lies in its combination of brilliant innovations. The Arabians gave a different unit symbol to each number from one to nine, inclusive; they gave a special significance to the position of each symbol in the numbers above nine and they introduced zero as a space filler. Without these features we might be doing arithmetic with beads.

Despite the brilliance of the Arabic system there is nothing unique about the number ten, and a numerical system can be based on multiples of two, five, twelve or any number of units, provided that unit symbols are given to all the last numbers in the multiple. Suppose a system is based on multiples of five and we use the same symbols for the first four units as at present. The numbers would then be written as 1 , 2, 3 , 4, 10, 1 1 , 1 2, 1 3, 14, 20, 2 1 , 22, 23, 24, 30, 3 1 , 32, 33, 34, 40, 4 1 , 42, 43, 44, lOO, etc. We should need new multiplication tables but a cheering thought is that there would be only three of them, apart from the one times and the 10 times, and each table need be only five units long. Obviously, a system based on multiple s of five repeats i tself more often and large numbers become longer. Thus 1 ,000,000 in a system based on five would be 1 5625 in the present system.

The d uodecimal system requires two more unit symbols than we have at present. We could choose a reversed 6 and a reversed 3, give them names, and put them in after 9. The system becomes I , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, x, y, 10, etc., up to yy and then 1 00 Obviously, 100 i n the duodecimal system corresponds to 1 44 in the decimal system. The advantage of the duodecimal system appears in arithmetic. Thus k = 0.2. l = 0.3, t = 004, ! = 0.6, 5 = 0.8, � = 0.9 and = 0.8.

Of course, we should have to learn a new set of multiplication tables going up to 100 in the new system .

The duodecimal system may seem difficult but it is only strange. Twelve already occupies a specia l place in our lives as we have 12 in a doze n , 12 dozen in a gross, 12 hours on the clock, 1 2 inches in a foot, 12 months in a year and J 2 pence in a shilling.

Perhaps if the duodecimal system were taught i n schools we could consider a duodecimal system of coinage, weights and measures. R . M. ROSE.

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THE SOLAR SYSTEM TH E Solar System consists of nine major planets and many

smaller planets called " Asteroids " and also the sun. The planets are :-Mercury, Venus, Earth, M ars, J upiter.

Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in tbat order from the sun. As far as tbe scientists know the earth is tbe only planet that

is inhabited, although tbere have been people who thought that Mars and Venus may have been inbabited.

Jupiter is the largest of the planets about 87,000 miles in diameter and it takes twelve years to go round the sun. It has 1 2 moons and it takes 9 hours 50 minutes to spin on its axis which is one day. At a distance of 483 million miles from the sun it must be extremely cold and i s certainly not inhabited because it is surrounded by an atmosphere of poisonous gases (ammonia and methane).

Saturn is the second largest vf the planets and bas 9 moons. It is 7 1 ,500 mile s in d iameter and takes 29! years to go round the sun. One day lasts for 1 0 hours 1 4 minutes, and at a distance of 886 million miles from the sun it must be colder than J upiter. Thi s planet also like J upiter has an atmosphere of methane and ammonia. The largest of its moons is called Titan.

Uranus is the third largest planet and was discovered by William Herschel, with a home-made telescope, in 1 78 1 . It i s 29,500 miles in diameter, 1 ,783 million miles from the sun, it takes 84 years to complete one full circle of the sun. l ts day lasts 1 0 hours 4 8 minutes and i t has five moons, also like J upiter and Saturn it cannot possibly be inhabited because it is surrounded by methane.

Neptune, the eighth planet from the sun is the fourth largest planet at 26,800 miles in diameter and is 1 ,000 million miles past the orbit of Uranus and takes 1 65 years to go around the sun. Its day lasts five hours longer than a day on Uranus. But thi s planet has only two moons, and the largest part of its atmospbere, like the two former planets, is deadly methane.

Our planet, the Earth, is the next largest witb a d iameter of 7,900 miles and spins round the sun at 1 9 miles per second at a distance of 93 million miles. It takes 365{ days at 24 hours a day to go round the sun and has, as everybody k nows its only satellite the moon. On the 1 5th of February, 1 96 1 , there was a total eclipse and the next total eclipse will be on the 1 1 th of August, 1 999.

Ve nus is the brightest planet in the solar system and is 67 mill ion miles from the sun and is surrounded by clouds of car�on dioxide which traps the heat. It is only 300 miles less in diameter than the Earth. Venus' year lasts for 225 days and it is tho�ht that it takes 30 days to spin once on its axis. and it has no nlOcns.

Mars, the fourth planet from the sun is the neare� to me earth and is about half as big. Mars takes 24 hours 37 lfllllutes to

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complete a day and a Martian yeal lasts for 687 days. The two tiny moons of Mars are called Phobos and Deimos and are less than 1 2 miles in diameter.

Pluto is the second smallest planet and the furthest away from the sun and was only discovered in 1930. This planet is 3,700 million miles from the sun and is thOUght to take 61 days to spin once on its axis. Pluto is a frozen planet and takes 248 years to go round the sun.

The nearest planet to the sun and the fastest is Mercury. It is 36 million miles from the sun and is 3,000 miles in diameter. The year of Mercury lasts for 88 days that is the time of one day because it does not revolve. One side, the side facing the sun, is hot enough to melt lead, but on the other it is colder than ice. Mercury has little or no atmosphere and owing to the heat and cold i t is most unlikely to be inhabited and like Venus i t has no moons.

K . AINSWOR TH, 3B.

A VISIT TO MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE SOME time ago I visited Manchester Stock Exchange. It was

founded on the 1 2th of M ay, 1 836 and was originally situated in Cross Street, but in 1 906 it moved into a specially designed building in Norfolk Street. It is near the city centre and is close to the General Post Office and the Manchester Royal Exchange.

There is a special visitors' gallery which overlooks the hall where you can see the stocks and shares being bought and sold. In the hall there llre desks each having a separate telephone but in

'the centre there are no desks, this is where a broker goes if he has any stocks or shares to sell. After a broker has agreed to buy them the) go to the Settlement Room where the brokers' clerks meet for the settlement of the transaction .

The Exchange is officially opened at 1 0-30 a.m. and work is su;)posed to stop at 3- 1 5 p.m. but the members do not usually disperse until 4-0 p.m. On one of the walls there is a large black· board which has all the current prices of the shares on it. In one of he corners there is a man in charge of a switchboard which lights up separate members on a large board which shows a broker that if hi;; number lights up someone is ' phoning h im. In another of be corners there are 10 men known as shunters: these are i n connct 'vith other main exchanges e.g. London, Birmingham and Cadiff.

A. THOMPSON, 2A.

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COFFEE MOST of us enjoy a cup of coffee .from time to time, but I

wonder if many of us stop to think where the coffee comes from.

Coffee plants are found wild in Abyssinia, but the greater part of the world supply is grown in Brazil .

The coffee plant grows best on well-watered slopes and in a wild state they are eighteen to twenty feet h igh, but when culti­vated are trimmed to eight feet.

The plant yields its best crop in its fifth year. The fruit, a fleshy berry about the size of a small cherry, contains two seeds, which are a bluish tinge in colour and are very hard and tough. When ripe the frui t is plucked and left in the sun to dry, to enable the beans to be extracted. R oasting is a skilled process and should realIy only take place before grinding, as the coffee soon looses its smell.

R. J. KEMP. 4E.

SALISBURY CATHEDRAL SALISBUR Y CATHEDRAL is famous for its magnificent spire, which was built of pale grey Chilmark Stone in 1 334- 1 365 by

Richard Farley during the life of Bishop Wyvil. The timber used for the spire mostly remains as it was erected by the original builders. A series of ladders lead up the interior of the scaffolding to the " Weather Door," at the top of the spire which i s 400 feet high and i s the tanest in England.

Contained in the spire is a 1 4th century winch, which is stilI used at the present day, as it was originally, for lifting building materials into the spire for repair work.

When the cathedral was built, it had only a very small tower, this is when R ichard Farley built the beautiful spire on four 6ft. square pillars, which supported the weight of 1 ,650 tons. it is the paintings of John Constable which have made it famous through­out the world.

In Salisbury Cathedral is the oldest clock in England. It was made in 1 386 and fitted into the separate bell-tower, where it struck the hours one one of its bells until 1 790 when the bell-tower was pulled down. The clock was then removed to the lower part of the spire. There it worked until 1 884 when a new clock was installed and the old one forgotten until 1 929 when it was rediscovered . In 1 93 1 it was cleaned and erected in the North transept, but i t was not working until 1 956, when it was repaired and new parts made where necessary. They were crudely made as much like the old ones a s possible, and were coloured dark green t o distinguish them from the old ones. The clock was then set up in the nave and connected to the Bishop's Bell, which long ago warned the bishop of the beginning of the service. This clock was made nearly 600 years ago

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and struck the hours for 498 years a nd after a lapse of 72 years is once more working. It has ticked over 500,000,000 times, a great piece of workmanship.

On a recent visit to Salisbury, I entered one of the Cathedral's chapels and saw a man doing brass-rubbings on the brass tops of tombs. Brass-rubbings are taken from the brass plate of the tombs.

Some of the copies of brass-rubbings are sent to the British Museum for keeping h istorical records. After I had watched the man for a time he said, " If you wai t a bit longer I'll let you do some." After I had waited a bit he let me do some and gave me my work to take home.

J. D. ROTHWELL, 2D.

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HORNCLIFFE SECTION

PERCY'S VIOLIN Percy practised very hard

To play the violin, But the sound he drew from it

Was an awful din.

So on his violin he scraped With all his main and might,

And all the neighbours who passed by Turned nearly white with fright.

But Percy broke h is violin , And he began to cry,

And so his mother said to h im, "A new one you must buy."

"Here's sixpence for another one, So go and buy a Strad,"

But Percy bought some sweets instead, And everyone was glad.

R . D. Y ATES, Trans. A.

MY COUNTRY COTTAGE I bave a country cottage In a quiet country lane, And by it is a meadow, And tben a rolling plain.

There is ivy on my cottage, There are trees and flowers tall. Whicb have a lovely fragrance Tbat smells good to one a nd all.

Tbere are robins, sparrows, bluebirds, And I love them all sO dear, And tbeir tiny singing voices, You can always, always bear.

My little country cottage Is a very humble place, And God has blessed it well, Witb His Jove a nd peace and grace.

N. C. BRP<MLEY-HAWORTH, Trans. A.

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THE KING O F BIRDS A LOT of people have seen " The K ing of Beasts," b ut how

many of us have seen " The King of Birds," the golden eagle ? The highland chief still wears i n his bonnet three feathers

of the eagle as a sign of his chieftainship. To the highlander the eagle has ever been the sign of great strength.

The eagle is the only bird to be found on the highest of our mountain-tops in the dead of winter. It can always find food even in frost and snow. It preys upon the ptarmigan and the red grouse. Sometimes it carries off .large b irds, rabbits, and even lambs.

The length of the golden eagle is almost three and a half feet, and when the wings are expanded to the full they measure eight feet. Its bill is about three inches, and its eyes are a bright hazel colour. The body is dark brown in colour, the legs are yellow, short, and of great strength . The claws or talons are very powerful.

The eagle flies higher than any other bird. Its sight is very acute, and it can sense its prey at a great distance. I ts powers of flight are remarkable. I t seems to delight in soaring into the wildest of storms, and when it is flying against blinding snow, it protects i ts eyes by drawing across the " third eyelid." This is a layer of sk in.

I t is generally found to the north of Perthshire in Scotland. a nd around Snowdon in North Wales.

P. J. ROBINSON, Trans. A.

HOU SE REPORTS DRAKE

ISJNCE my last report the House 1 st X I football team has played three matches.

The first of these matches was against Frobisher. Both teams had to battle with weather conditions but through consistent good foo�b31J the match resulted in our favour 6 goals to 2. The next two matches were against Howard and Hawkins. Against both these teams the house played well and came off the field easy victors, the scores being 1 3-0 and 1 0-2 respectively. It is a pity I think that the house football team has not received more encouragement from

SIR fRFII'ICIS DRM£ . other house members. On every occasion this season the number of supporters could

have been counted on one hand and this, I feel. we should be ashamed of in a house of nearly 1 50 members. Come on members of Drake let's have some support from you and stop leaving the work to the willing few. Next term brings the House cricket com-

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petition for three age gro u ps and I expect a distinct improvement in the attendances at House matches.

Towards the end of this term the inter-house cross-country race takes place and we wish our team the best of luck. We wish luck also to our 1 st XI football team who have reached the final of the Robinson Cup Competition.

Next year an Inter-House Badminton competition will be started and it is hoped that Drake will be successful in this event. Any members of the House interested in badminton please keep this in mind .

In the academic field, Drake remains in the third position. Much improvement is needed here, However we congratulate

those boys who have scored points for the House. In conclusion I would like to thank Mr. Eastwood and his

Housemasters for all the interest they take in the House activities. J .B.

FROBISHER A LTHOUGH this term has passed with

relatively l ittle activity, there has been one notable achievement by a member of Frobisher. Thi s has been the gaining of an Open Scholarship at Imperial College, London, by J. S. R ead. Our congratula­tions therefore go to R ead and best wishes for the future.

We should also like to congratulate Entract on his elevation to the rank of school prefect and also Barton, Hindle, Sloan, Bailey, Philli ps and Malone on their

51R MARTIN f ROPlISH£R appointment to House prefects. Owing to the gloom cast by inclement

weather, this school year has been notable for the regularity with wh ich House football fixtures has been postponed. Two matches however have been played in which our team, under the captaincy of Davis, played well, and were unlucky to lose to a strong Drake eleven by the margin of six goals to two. The team however par­tially redeemed themselves by defeating GrenviIle 3- l .

The other most outstanding event of this term is undoubtedly the presentation of the School play, which, except for the actual prod ucing, was said by Dr. Tyler to be laid solely on the shoulders of Members of the H ouse. As well as several members of the cast, the House provided many assistants backstage.

House Prayers this term have been held in the Garstang Room where there is a piano and we are grateful to Bailey and also Dean for their enthusiastic playing. The quality of hymn-singing has greatly increased this term despite the rather marked lack of breath­ing space.

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Once again the Marsden Merit Competition has become a familiar sore point with Frobisher. We are still at the bottom of the li st. There appears to be only a few odd boys who are prepared to work for the House. The great potential of Frobisher in the academic field has been unrealised for the past eighteen months, and our position in the Marsden Merit Competition could be greatly i mproved if more boys, especially those members of the House i n the fourths and below would take the trouble to concentrate on their work.

Each member of the House should feel it his duty to help Frobisher to regain its rightful position by gaining a position at the head of his form list-there are over a h undred boys in Frobisher­academic qualifications should not be as lacking as is apparent. The above does not apply to everyone and we sincerely thank the following who have obviously developed the right attitude to their classwork.

CunlifIe, 5 M , Whalley UVGB, 3 points; Preston 4C, Rurlander SB, 2 points ; and Howell, UVGB, Foster, UVGB, Lomax, 4C, Wilkinson, 4D, Kidson, 2B, 1 point each.

Finally as is customary let me finish this report for the Easter term with a reminder that next term holds the G.C.E. examination and Sports Day-and if we are to be successful now is the time to begin practising and working.

R .N.T.

GRENVILLE THE Easter Term, this year, is remark­ably short and, as in every year, most

of the excitement occurs at the end. At the end of last term two of our

House stalwarts, Lowe and Field en, were made School Prefects to be followed at the beginning of this term by another, F. Seed . These three boys are to be congratulated on their appointment.

The House 1 st XI football team has been rather disappointing having lost two matches, one to Hawkins, by four goals to two and one to Frobisher, by three goals to

J lf\ �J( HQ f;R[tlVILL[ one, the latter under atrocious conditions. The team's one excuse is that it has been

weakened by illness or by the calls of Junior School games. I hope that there will be better support for the team in the final games, for there were more House Masters present than boys.

In the Marsden Merit, the performance of the House con­tinues to be very good, many boys gaining points on all the mark sheets. Let's have some other boys scoring as well.

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Prayers this term have been held i n H ut 1 and we have been joined in our hymns by our next door neighbours. Hawkins in Hut 2, Haydock playing the piano with his usual skill. Although this system has not worked in the past. this term it has been , most successful.

At the end of term there will be the House Cross-Country Championships and I hope that the competitors will pull their weight and start training in good time.

The House record for punctuality has been very good but as always there is room for improvement.

A big effort now. GrenvilIe. to make this a year to remember. P . L. J .

HAWKINS DIURING last term the main sporting activity has been football, but bad

condition of the ground has resulted in several matche� being postponed. The record to date is not too encouraging on the surface, but the team has played well against even more experienced sides. The results are as follows :-

Against R aleigh, lost 5 goals to 0; against GrenviIle. won 5 goals to 2 ; against a very strong Drake side. lost 1 0 goals to 2. Hawkins still has an outside chance of appearing in the Final. but our main hope

SIR JOHN HF\'rlI\IN� ' i s the U - 1 4 X I who play i n the semi-final of the Forbes Cup Competition later this

term. Sport activities this term are rounded off by the Inter-House cross-country race. This has not been previously one of our strong points but we hope to do better this year.

Both Morris and Smethurst have been appointed school pre­fects, and we offer them our congratulations. House prayers this term are held in the H uts, and I would like to thank GrenvilIe for their co-operation i n the services.

I would like to remind the House that next term the emphasis wili be on cricket. athletics. and examinations. Some hard prac­tice in the Easter vacation wilI benefit both the individuals and the House.

One or two individuals have already been punished for excess of lates. this i s not good enough. so will the people concerned please try to arrive at school earJier.

D.M.C.

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HOWARD

THE Lent term is the least eventful in the school year for activities are con-

fined almost solely to football. The U- 1 4 X I have done very well reaching the semi-finals of the Robinson Cup after some very hard fighting. The Senior football team, consisting of Wade (captain), Sutton, Ski llen, Martin, Tart, Sanderson, Monk , Eamshaw, Waugh, Boswell and Walton have only played one game this term and was beaten unfortunately by Drake. ( I th ink the house team is unusual in having in it three goalkeepers from school teams.)

LORD HO'riARD Our position in the Marsden Merit Competition could be improved if every­

body wiIl j ust make that little bit more effort at their work. I would remind boys in the Upper School of the proximity of the G.C.E. examinations. Points awarded on the results of this examination can have surprising effects on the final order in the competition.

Towards the end of this term there is the I nter-House Cross Country R unning Competitions and we hope to be the victors. With plenty of training I feel sure that this i s well within our reach .

We look forward next term to the Athletic and House Cricket competltlOns. We stand a fair chance of doing well in cricket and with plenty of practice I hope this will be the case. Sports Day also is not far off-the t ime to start training for it is now.

House prayers are being held this term in the Science Wing and it is pleasing to record that attendances have been better with fewer boys arriving at school after nine o'clock. Our thanks must go to Mr. Raby and M r. SmaIley who, using the school tape-recorder, provide the musical accompaniment for the hymns.

Finally I should Eke to thank the House Masters for all the hard work they put into the activities of the House and also the prefects who help to make the House run so smoothly. J.G.R.

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RALEIGH � weekly House Assembly has been

held in Big School this term, so we have enjoyed the benefit of the piano to accompany our meetings. A word of thanks to W. G. P. McGowan, 4A., would be appropriate at this point. He prepares the list of hymns for each term, and also accom panies the singing when a piano i s available.

In the last Marsden Merit placing the House emerged in second place with 66 �oints to Grenville's 73. We congratulate all members of Raleigh who have regularly

�IR WA l1£R RlllEI&H gained first and second places in their forms: we hope they will maintain their high

standard in the future, and with a little more effort on the part of other members of the House there is no reason why we should not ga in first place.

Our best wishes go with S. S. Hird, who left school at the end of the Michaelmas term to train as an engineer with the Lancashire County. He is missed especially by both the House and School Cross Country R unning Teams, and also by the House First X I .

This term two more Sixth Formers have been promoted to the office of House Prefect : D. M. Smith, U.6Sc., and J. Duck­worth, 6 Arts.

The only sporting events of this term have been two vic­tories for the House First XI : the first was a 5-0 defeat of Hawkins, a nd the second a 2-0 defeat of GrenvilJe. At the time of writing the House has a good chance of reaching the final for the first time in five years. D.E.A.

SCHOOL ACTIVITIES LIBRARY REPORT W ITH much pleasure kind gifts to the Library are acknowledged

from the following : Mr. Norman J e pson (Governor), Messrs. Murray (publishers) and from two 0 8s, T. Sharratt and H. L. Scholl ick, the latter of whom was so kind, on reading in the Christmas number of this magazine of the losses sustained by the Library during the preceding year, as to replace those books which are publi�hed by his firm of B. H. Blackwell Ltd. , of Oxford, and to make other gifts.

This has not been a busy term in the Library ; about three dozen books have been put in, but as about eighty have been bought in a local book sale, it may be possible to get these on to the shelves

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by the end of term or during the Easter holidays. With the opening of the new financial year in April, the book-buying season opens in earnest, and next term sees a very busy time for the Librarians.

K. L. W.

SIXTII FORM CLUB THE initial enthusiasm of launching a newly organised society

has passed. The stage has been reached when the programme has to compete with other attractions. This is as it should be and will, no doubt, keep the committee on its toes. However, it i s gratifying t o note that although numbers have decreased the energy and enthusiasm of the remainder continues.

Towards the end of last term the Editor of " The Evening Telegraph " paid us a visit. After some opening remarks by the Editor, Mr. Watson, the meeting was thrown open and a lively discussion followed. Mr. Watson was quizzed as to the function of the Press both nationally and local,ly. The part the Press could play in issues of regional importance was discussed. I am sure a more critical i nterest in " The Evening Telegraph " has been aroused.

In complete contrast to the above evening a visit by some Nigerians staying i n Blackburn was arranged for this term. We were pleased to welcome about a dozen foreign visitors each of whom undertook to portray some aspects of h is country. A very full picture of Nigeria was painted ranging from politics to ethnic groups, from religion to industrial development. Africa in general and N igeria in particular are obviously places of the future.

Other activities have been arranged including a debate on Capital Punishment, a visit to Arnold Wesker's " Roots," and a film. Our aim is to cater for aIJ tastes. ALL suggestions are welcome.

R .H.B.

MIDDLE SCHOOL DEBATING SOCIETY SIINCE the last report a ppeared, there have been three debates,

two last term on the motions " This house believes that under present conditions it is unrealistic to expect a Christian to attend a place of worshi p on Sundays " and " This house would like to see the metric system introduced into England," and one this term on the motion " This house believes that television is destroying reading and the art of conversation." All were carried.

Attendances were very good indeed. and the Chemistry Lec­ture Theatre is often almost full. More debates are planned for this term, and all boys i n the fifths or below willing to l isten quietly to a serious debate, or, better still, to make a useful constructive contribution from the floor. are welcome. P.B.

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JOINT ENGLISH PLAY READING UNFOR TUNA TEL Y there is l ittle one can do either about flu or a crowded calendar. Thus the first meeting of the term was

postponed and has yet to take place. The delights of Ibsen's " Wild Duck," therefore, have had to wait.

However towards the end of last term two plays were read­Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock" and the Lancashire comedy "Job for the Boy." Both plays were thoroughly enjoyed in their varying capacities.

I hope that in the next magazine there will be more to report. 1 am sure this will be so as enthusiasm has not waned.

R .H.B.

MUSIC SOCIETY REPORT A TTENDANCE this term has been very encouraging. The Head-master has generously added more records to the school col­

lection; we thank him very much for all h is help and co-operation. Members and friends have continued to make records available, especially Mr. Lawler, who has also kept a careful eye on the pro­vision of tea and biscuits. We have considerably broadened our repertoire since the last report, with playings of Old English Key­hoad Music, " The Planets" Suite. the "Emperor" Concerto, I nci­dental Music to " A Midsummer Night's Dream," music by Mozart, to say noth ing of our great favourites Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. At the last meeting, Mr. Watson very k indly introduced a recording of " Der Rosenkavalier" by R ichard Strauss. We now have a fine record library of almost 50 long playing records.

The lunchtime meetings on Tuesdays have had continued success.

D.S.

ORCHESTRA REPORT A S usual the orchestra provides the music for the school play,

and this term has been taken up in practising music by Purcell, Beethoven, Rossini and others. I should like to take this oppor­tunity of thanking the girls from the High School for coming to lend their support to our somewhat sma]'l numbers. Despite this, however, a very creditable standard was reached by the time of the actual performance. I must once again appeal for any boy who can play a string instrument to come along On Friday nights to our practices. If there are any boys who would like to learn to play the violin, viola or cello, see Mr. M iller in the Garstang Room, and a lesson time will be arranged.

D.P.B.

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GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY S INCE the last report we have had several meetings. On 2 1 st November Mr. Watson gave a very useful illustrated talk on

the Yorkshire Dales, and we ended the term with a series of films on Brazil, by courtesy of the Brazilian Embassy.

At the beginning of this term Dr. M. E. D. Jarrett, the eminent father of a former Committee Member. gave an extremely interest­ing illustrated talk on Australia.

On February 1 6th we had a joint meeting with the Scientific Society when Mr. J. Yerburgh gave an illustrated talk on "Fores­try." I hope there will be further co-operation with the Scientific Society in the future, and regret the lack of support from our Society at this meeting.

We closed the year's programme with a series of films on India, and an outside trip is being considered.

When I assumed the Secretaryship of this Society I was told I must " keep up the good standard of last year." I can report that the attendance this year has equalled, if not surpassed, that of last year (an average of 36 per meeting), and all our meetings have been of great use to the Georaphy sets of the Arts Sixth .

For this success I am extremely grateful to Mr. Tate for his help and advice, to my committee for their suggestions, and to our loyal members for their (generally) unfailing support.

D.J .N .

HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT the time of the last report we only had one meeting to our

credit. Since then we have shown the fUm " Christopher Columbus " to an audience of 45, and last term's programme closed with a discussion of the merits or otherwise of Philip I I of Spain a nd Cardinal R ichelieu. Messrs. Wade, Sloan and Boyes gave introductory talks for or against these two characters and then the questions were thrown open to the Floor. A lively dis­cussion took place, and this novel idea is likely to play a large part in our future programmes.

This term was opened by a most interesting and useful lecture by Dr. Wilson of Leeds University on " Religious Sects through the ages," and on February 9th the film " The Iron Duke " was shown to an audience of over 50-an excellent attendance. We hope to end with a visit to the Town Library to inspect some very old and valuable books.

We are very grateful to Mr. Eastwood, our President, for his help and advice, and to all our many supporters.

Th is Society, in the short space of six months, has established itself among the ranks of the major school societies, and fills a wide gap in the structure of these. J am confident it will continue to flourish and progress. p.J.N.

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SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY S I NCE the last report two members of U.6Sc. have given lectures

to the Society. D. M. Smith gave a lecture entitled: " From Matchlock to Pinfire " and 1. D. Moorhouse spoke on " Bird Migration." This meeting was welI attended. At the end of last term the film " The Titanium Pigment Story " was shown. Our activities this term began with another film show, the film " Metals of the Nuclear Age " being shown. Immediately after half-term Mr. J. Yerburgh gave an excellent lecture on ., Forestry " at a joint meeting with the Geographical Society. Two further meetings have been arranged this term. P. F. Haslam, of U.6Sc., is to speak on " Alchemy " and there will be a fi·lm show at the end of the term. There have been two visits so far this term. The junior section has visited Roe Lee Mills and the senior section the Black­burn works of Foster, Yates and Thorn Co., Ltd. A visit to Vulcan Foundry at Newton-le-Willows, has been arranged for end of term. 1 would like to express our gratitude to Mr. King for his continued interest in in our activities.

J .S.R .

CHESS REPORT THE C�ess Club welcomed Mr. Iddon. who became president in conjunction with Mr. Lawler last term. The former has

already organised a ladder competition which is now in full swing. Unfortunately the club lacks support from the upper part of

the School, any boy wishing to learn the game or improve on his play will be made most welcome.

K .H .

STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT A N attempt has been made this term to revive this society which has met with some success. At the initial meeting Miss le

Gros Clarke, the regional secretary, gave helpful advice on how to run the society which was taken up by a selected committee consisting of the Rev. R . S. Woodall and Mr. Dishington ; Hayhurst, BIackshaw, Haworth, Halpin and Child. These latter organised a Christian Forum which consisted of a panel of three, and it is with pleasure that we thank Canon Swan, the Rev. C. Holgate and Mr. G. H. Tate for answering our questions. A com­mittee is already working out the details for a second meeting wh ich will take the form of a discussion.

D.M.C.

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STAMP CLUB TH E Stamp Club has continued its activities as usual this term.

Attendances have increased slightly this term but still more support is needed from the senior end of the school.

A talk was given earlier in the term on " British Postage Stamps "; flaws and varieties of 'the past 40 years, by a member of the Club.

At the end of the term an auction will be held, which, in an endeavour to encourage membership, is to be thrown open to the entire school.

Members wish to thank Messrs. Holt and Davies for their attendances at the Club's meetings.

The Club does not meet next term, but will resume next September, when a hearty welcome will be extended to all, especially new members.

P.W.

THE SCOUT TROOP Group Notes:

We are very grateful to the ladies of the organising committee and to all who gave their support to the Annual Parents' Dance held in January. From every point of view this was a most suc­cessful and pleasant occasion. Preparations are now being made for the Jumble Sale which will be held before the end of term, and we are looking forward to the Motor Treasure Hunt on Wednes­day, 1 4th June.

The annual Bob-a-Job week is from 3rd-8th April, and we hope that parents and friends will encourage the Scouts who are keen to perform a service and earn a contribution to the funds. On Saturday, 29th April, we shall be taking part in the County Rally which the Chief Scout will attend in Accrington. All sec­tions of the Group have arranged expeditions to the Lake District during the Easter holidays, and preparations are now being made for the summer camp at Tarbert in Argyll.

Senior Troop: This term, first-aid classes for the Ambulance Badge have

been occupying most of the time at meetings. Those who have gained the badge have been busily repairing the roof of our den, which is now half finished.

Congratulations to E. J. Matthews who was awarded the Queen's Scout Badge at the end of last term, and to all those who have gained proficiency badges.

During the Easter holiday a party of ten will spend a week at Youth Hostels in the Lake District. Looking even further ahead, we are preparing for the summer venture in Scotland.

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Eagle Troop: During the last two terms several new ideas have been intro­

duced into our Scout activities. Most important of all is the decision to train as far as possible Scouts for 1 st and 2nd class. This has involved week-end activities for both levels which have met with a great deal of success, although the vagaries of the Bri­tish weather have prevented several scouts from gaining their fire­lighting.

In the near future several outdoor activities have been planned, including a revival of the Easter hike to the Lake District. Day hikes and possibly week-end camps have also been discussed, and given time these plans should materialise.

At the end of last term the Christmas party was held and was a great success. The programme included the enrolment of the last recruit, John Murray, bringing the troop up to full strength. This term Les Ainsworth was presented with his 2nd class badge, and given more clement weather, there should be several more gained by the end of this term.

Kestrel Troop: The enrolment of G. Gray, M. Stirrup and A. Tomlinson has

now brought the troop up to full strength. G. M. Boardwell has been appointed second of the Raven patrol, and S. R . . Duxbury has been awarded the Smallholder badge. The 2nd class badge has been gained by M. Mowforth, and other scouts are now only waiting for the outdoor tests before they qualify for this award. Quite undaunted by weather conditions, two scouts have achieved the distinction of cooking a meal on an outdoor fire in February !

Most of the troop are now preparing for 1st class tests i n first­aid and knotting on which mucli of the instruction has been based this term. The Falcon patrol are being closely challenged in their efforts to repeat the success of winning last term's patrol competi­tion.

We are looking forward to our Youth Hostel hike in the Lake District at Easter, and to the summer camp in Scotland.

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I t's about a 40 - m i nute fl;ght, or three days as a man walks. STEP EN B RA DLEY, 2A.

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FICTION VERS LmRE

Amid the starry heavens, the glorious galaxies R otating are : majestic di.adems of light, circling eternally. Circling in the bright eocene sky, above the slumbering swamps And arid plains; where stalked in strange grandeur the monsters Of the age : alien, hideous ancestors of man who fought Like warriors battling in the Median dawn, Before the fateful walls of Babylon-o'ershadowed by their

splendid dQom. For the might of flesh may not prevail . As the lofty citadels of Babylon, the wonders of that gorgeous time, Crumbled to dust before the onsweeping Persian hosts, So the fearsome creatures of that dream-like time Were vanquished by a sea of crimson death, Pouring from the jagged mountain peaks in raging majesty Before the terror of their eyes. But across the darkening courts of heaven the chariots of night Still journeyed on the lonely highway of the void Serene; and still a star shines bright in Orion. At length arose from the chaos of time a nobler race, the race of

men. And soon the distant plains resounded with the marching feet Of fighting men ; and mighty k ings bestrode the earth like splendid

conquerors, And emperors of Babylon, of Greece, of R ome Built their tall m inarets upon the floating stream of time. The noble mind of man is shackled, And from each age arose philosophers, Who looked in awe upon the curving skies And sought to find some meaning to it all, Some meaning to the hand that wrought humanity. And yet those far off nebulae, those turning islands of the timeless

sea Turned on in majesty. And when the sombre earth, in the final shadows of her evening, Devoid of gorgeous remembrance of ancient kings, Devoid of hope, Devoid of the joyous mind of old humanity, That noble mind, which once would seize from the starry wastes. Th e pearl of truth, Shall rest in solitude amid the void, Before the fiery portals of the sun, her motion ceased, Then those splendid galaxies still move Triumphant through the distant skies proclaiming " NO MAN MAY HALT THE WATERS OF DESTINY ! "

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No man may conquer the essence of his being, The impartial mechanism of space and time. The noble mind of man i s shackled To that proud image of mortal ity ; Dust i s i t s being and dust i ts sombre destiny. Dust which at the final chasm of l ife's course is scattered To the endless polar seas, To the arid Arabian sands To the darkling sky. But the eternal ocean murmurs still upon the burnished shore, A tranquil garment of the world.

Consider then this tragic destiny of man, And ponder on the mystery of life, The flux of destiny, And ponder on the meaning of it all.

ANONYMOUS, SA.

IN MIrrON ROAD Lights tickling the flooding dark around Glim bulbous in a sphere of no sound While snow-flakes flagging through the iron cold Entomb a socket heart already old The skeleton she made is veiled in wind-wrapped sheets And gauntly antiseptic greets the night With prayers from l ips bled fleshless white, Shrine to the wind.

Through summer's amber melody rills in the crotchet trees. Again return the memories that once could please And skim the eye around with acid bite . . . The image of a leaden, horizontal day When overhead the sky hangs vastly grey In suspended cadence of i ntensity And old, old poetry sifts through the whispering grass The brown earth's, reassuring mass Breathing life beneath The tableau swims, dissolves.

The epic scene locked in its skull, the spirit turns And walks again the road of haunting pain Nursing still the chilling flame that burns And swills the sky across with crimson rain . Honeycombed insanity leers hungrily again, With blind, rude fingers probes the orifices of the brain Whispers twisted j ingles in his ear. In his bome, a cancelled echo of the night, Tracing mystic poetry with a sympathetic pen He will earn h imself the pity of his fellow-men, Feebly polishing a deepening grey yesterday . .

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In ber eyes be bad not seen The embryo of an enemy, Nor could his buoyant beart foretell This maggot victory-

TELEVISION

F. J . SEED, 6A.

ONE is led to wonder nowadays where television is going to end up, for programmes continue to appear week-in, week-out i n

a n almost monotonous progression. Some are even worse, and can be seen any day of tbe week. Tbe news is an excellent example. For instance, it features items like the following with unfailing regularity:

" Good evening, viewers. Here is the news : " ( 1 ) It's been a day of surprising sunsbine today and thousands

took advantage of it to get to the seaside. The A.A. reckoned that cars were leaving London at the rate of a thousand per hour. The temperature on the Air M inistry roof, !;!tc."

This is followed" by a piece of film taken at Brighton accom­panied by bright remarks from a commentator. Now comes tbe more serious stuff.

" Mr. Kruschev today accused the West of further aggression in the Congo following the kicking of a dog by a British journalist . The dog belonged, he said in an official statement from Moscow, to tbe uncle of the Soviet ambassador to Paris, who happens to be in the Congo.

(3 ) A six-year old girl was found lying dead a hundred yards from her home at Chelsea today. Her head was battered in, and she had three rifle bullets in her heart. Police suspect foul play and would like to interview a man seen shooting her whom they think may be able to help them with their enquiries.

(4) Cricket-In reply to England's 78 all out, Austral ia have scored 28 1 for 3 at the end of the second .day's play in the first test. In England's innings, May scored 3, Cowdrey 5, and Statham 2 1 . (Film follows).

(5) The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh both have slight colds and will remain at home tbis week-end. They were to have opened the model railway exhibition at London. This ceremony will now be performed by the R ight Honourable Sir Waiter H. Sherman-Mclntyre, MA. PhD. Ml'es etc., who will be assisted by Ted Post-and so it goes on."

Now for some of the adverts for which T.v. is so famous. " Good news for lovers of good chocolates." " Any time, any place, acid indigestion can catch y ou OUt . . . " And if that i sn't enough: " Cancer is not beaten yet! Give generously! Contact a

member of your local committee."

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. , You get free gifts if you smoke ' " cigarettes." But we haven't come to the highlight Qf the evening yet! This

is the play, and will follow forthwith. The scene is set in the slums of Dublin in 1 960, and concerns

a young man of 20 who is out of work and has been to gaol twice for stealing, his father, who is a drunk and also out of work (he comes in at the beginning of the play carrying a green bottle, sits down at the table and remains there consuming the contents there­of until the end) and his mother, a hopeless drug-addict. They are the only characters in the play, and the plot describe� various q uarrels that arise due to the quality of whisky, who should win the election, whose turn it is to look for work next, etc., etc.

Lastly, an exciting detective story in which the criminals know that they will benefit from the will of an old man. Guess what?­they rub him out-you've guessed it! The hero, finds out � as always-and in the course of his investigations i s knocked out, involved in a fight against three men, i s shot in the arm, and res­cues a good looking girl. One never quite k nows whether to say: " c'est la vie " or " c'est la guerre,'" and that reminds me: accord­ing to the late night news Mr. Kruschev . . . .

P. MURPHY, L6A.

" LEST YE BE JUDGED " THE Judgment Seat was not in the least as ornate as he had

expected it to be. To be truthful he had not expected it to be anything at all, he had never thought of giving it a detailed consideration - many years had passed since he had decided to live for the present alone. And yet, now, here he was. He passed his finger between his trubenised collar and the beads of perspira­tion on his neck. Just what was one to do in sucn a position ? H e was not left much time to think but was pushed forward by unseen hands-

" He's called Tillotson-Iower middle olass." " Lower middle class, eh ? " boomed the Celestial Voice,

and then, resignedly, " Ah weLl, here we go again ! " Tillotson could not quite get used to his environment. He was

confused: he felt as if h is life and his being no longer belonged to h im alone . . .

" And just what did your life amount to ? " went on the Celestial Voice, obviously failing to notice TiIlotson's inferiority oomplex.

To be truthful the poor man was beginning to feel distinctly uncomfortable, a feeling which was quite foreign to him.

" I say . . . , " he muttered. " Well don't," the Voice retorted, " just watch." Out came the Celestial Screen and the Celestial Projector and

Tillotson felt more u ncomfortable than ever. He watched, horrified, as his innermost thoughts, his ambitions, his conceptions,

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in fact the wbole structure of l ife as be personally bad seen it was flashed onto the screen witb amazing reality.

" Well, can yOU justify it ? " said the Celestial Voice at lengtb, when it was all over.

" Justify what ? " mumbled Tillotson, after so much besitation. By now he was quite overawed by i t all.

" Wby, your pbilosophy of life," boomed the Voice, " surely you bad a pbilosopby ? "

" Philosopby ? " said TiUotson blankly. The Celestial Hands were thrown up in despair. " I can see," said the Voice, " that we are going to bave to

start at the very beginning. Did you ever wonder why you lived down there at all ? "

" Oh ! you mean religion," ventured a somewhat relieved TilIotson, " oh yes, I was a sidesman for 45 years at St. . . . "

I t was some time before the Celestial laughter died down .

" That," said the Voice, when i t had regained its composure, " is one of the best we have had for some time."

TilIotson began to forget his surroundings. He became more than somewhat indignant.

" I ," he said, thrusting out his chest, " I was faithful to my Church and to my Country. I worked hard and I was successful. I earned money and I supported my family and saw that they lived decent lives. I gained the respect and admiration of those around me. In fact," he went on, feeling that his words were bound to have some beneficial effect, " . . in fact, I lived an emin­ently respectable life."

" Oh no ! " sighed the Celestial Voice, " not another one !" To say that TilIotson became somewhat deflated would be

more than an understatement. He d id not quite know what to say next. He began to think, not about money, not about h is work, not about h is family, but about the basic fundamental reasons for his actual being. And yet now it was too late for him to do little more than begin th inking.

" If I have exp,lained this once," went on the Celestial Voice, " I have explained it a hundred million times. You have lived a respectable life-so what ? You were but tamely following a lead given by other mortals before you. You say that you were ' religious '-so what ? Did you never try to think for yourself ? "

TiIlotson was vainly trying to make up for this deficiency­his brain was working overtime, but he had a queer feeling that it was too late

A Celestial Finger tapped him somewhat roughly on the head,-

"You were given a brain," continued the Voice, " but you never use it - instead you preferred to follow other men. You sold the freedom of your soul in order to gain respectability. Shall

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J tell yOU what you mean to me ? - the atmosphere was filled with foreboding - "to me you are nothing - nothing at all."

I t is impossible to say just how disillusioned TilIotson was for the Celestial Hand had already been waved and he had been vaporised, wafted across the Ether and was drifting along in myriads of tiny particles - out into Eternity. E. BOYES, U.6A.

MY PROBLEM Across the white and shining page

The pens all smoothly go, But when J hold the pen myself

It never seems to flow.

Now this is strange, for when I talk. I scarcely need to ponder ..

Oh ! how much better if my tongue Across the page could wander.

J . WILKINSON, S M .

SEEDS A N D WEEDS Out in the garden,

Where I had sowed seeds, A lot of pretty plants grew up,

But I was told, "they're weeds."

Some had small pink flowers And some had golden cups,

But I was told, "they're buttercups." "Good gracious! dig them up."

I don't know why we spend, Each year, some money buying seeds,

If what I 'm told is really true, Why don't we just grow weeds?

P. R . ABBOTT, 3B.

THE NEUROTIC SLEEPS When he walks night's avenues He does not dare look back ; Death through his darkness seethes, A symphony in black. Wrapp'd in the lint of night his wound Conceals its naked nerve in sheaths of dreams That heave, a boa circle, 'round his bed, And press from bloodless lips chill, voiceless screams. He lives the swallowing night in bitter rags or shade ; He lies a gleaming bone and hears the sexton's spade Putting life in place among the budding stars.

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Aspirin particles of ships that saii The hemisphere world within his skull Bring dreams of empires ,lost and won In clutching blanket fields of snow. Here in the throb of flowering sleep That folds dark petals calyx round his brain He sweats his dreams in frosty sheets, Shrouds to his bubble happiness. How can he find the sun of true content ? How can he fight the world's malicious plot ? His soul fades to a crimson spot Of pain and puzzlement.

F. J. SEED, 6A.

TOMORROW OR TODAY ? TH E sun; large and red, the type sailors quote as being a forecast

of good weather, setting in the west covered the dusty rubble in a pink hue, and made the particles of dust glisten a nd shine in the sti'lI air. The buildings had been torn and broken into grotesque shapes and the broken stone littered the streets. Scattered amongst the empty shelIs of the ruined houses lay the bodies, dark and ugly, cut and bleeding. They lay sprawled i n weird postures, their limbs twisted and broken, from which fragments of tom cloth hung. Tom paper and rubbish blew across the street, paused on the bodies and moved on, carried by wind that groaned in th'" shrivelIed trees.

Over five thousand years of civilisation, and two thousand years of Christianity had been reduced to this silent, smouldering mass of decay in just 12 hours of war. Cities that had resisted the storms of nature and the ravage of time lay dead and empty in an eternal sleep. I n the streets a few of the dying groaned, futile, wasted groans for they had already half-completed the journey across the thin line that separates the troubles of life from the oblivion of death. Soon the dust would settle, soon Man's extinction would be complete.

Across a block of stone a young woman lay, spread out in a sacrificial posture. Her once beautiful face was cut and torn by flying stone and debris but still retained some of that quality of beauty that defies death a nd nature. One of her arms was thrown across her in a child�like gesture as if she was trying to protect herself from the falling dust and accompanying death, but it was useless for life had already quitted her body. Her hair hung over the stone, long and shining, the tips dipping into a pool of water on the ground. Here was beauty in the midst of death, loveliness in the midst of horror.

The sun sank lower behind the darkening stones, and the shadows lengthened. The stark, twisted skeletons of the buildings threw up their giant metal fingers to the sky and their rafters

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creaked in muffled prayer. The corpses in the street grew cold and stiff and a breeze stirred the shreds of clothing covering the girl. A lone rat scuttled frorr. a building and fell dead at her side.

All was now gone. Love, hate, and fear had been blasted into oblivion in Man's final gesture at the futility of life. Man was done, he had been as a candle, lit, burnt to give light, and then extinguished. The light was out and with i t hope.

The earth spun on in its endless journey through /Space, unquestioned and undisturbed by the hollow infinites around i t that slept on in disinterest.

J. D. HOUGHTON, 6Sc.

SUICIDE Fire burns you

Acid stains Hang by a rope

Not worth the pains.

Knives are messy Too much blood

Poison hurts you Not much g09d.

Jump from a house To the ground below

But I really think That's much too slow.

I nto a cauldron You could dive

Too much trouble? Then stay alive.

C. M . CASTLE, SM.

SOMETHING H A D HAPPENED TH E train had only gone a few miles when through the window of my compartment I noticed a young woman at a level crossing.

Why my glance fell on her I do not know; she was not beautiful, nor even pleasing to the eye, and I wonder indeed why she held my attention at all in the first place. She was leaning on the gate, apparently for the purpose of watching this express train from the North go by. I n her eyes it must have symbolized people, adven­ture, easy living, splendid leather suit-cases, celebrities and film­stars, a marvellous sight which came by once a day and in addition was perfectly free.

And yet, as the train rushed past her, she was not looking in our direction (although she must have waited a long time to see us); with her head turned the other way, she was giving all her attention

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to a man who was running up behind her, shouting something which we on the train were of course unable to hear. It was as if he were running as fast as he could to warn the woman of some danger. All this lasted only a moment; the train was past them in a flash and I wondered what misfortune the man could possibly have been telling the young woman of. 1 was on the point of dropping off to the sleepy rhythm of the train, when quite by chance-certainly it could be no more than a simple coincidence-I noticed that a peasant standing on a low wall was shouting as loudly as he could in the direction of the fields, his hands held up to his mouth to help carry his voice. Again this lasted only for a second, for the express sped quickly on its. way, but not before I had caught a glimpse of six or seven people running across the ploughed fields without a thought for the crops. It must have been for something very important. They were coming from all directions, one from a house, another emerging from a hedge or vine, aB of them making for the low wall onto which the young man who was shouting had climbed. They ran (heavens. how they ran ! ) as if terrified by some sudden warning whose full significance they could not quite grasp a nd which had destroyed all their peace of mind. There was no time to see any­thing more. It was gone as if it had never been, a tiny cameo full of feeling and meaning to which I was fated never to hold the key.

How strange it is, I thought, that within s.uch a short distance here are two examples of people confronted with a new turn in events . . . At least, that was the conclusion I had drawn. From then on, vaguely troubled, I scrutinised the countryside, the roads the villages. and farm with intense curiosity, a prey to anxiety and dark foreboding.

Perhaps it was just the mood I was in, but it seemed to me, the more I observed the people-peasants, wheelwrights, farmers, and the rest-that some rousing force was affecting them all. If not, why all the movement in the vineyards, the panic-stricken women, the. wagons, the cattle ? We were travelling too quickly for me to form a clear impression of just what was happening every­where. Perhaps there was an important fair in the district ? Perhaps the people were getting ready to go to market ? But the train hurried on, and everywhere the entire countryside was prey to a sort of agitation, to judge by the confusion that prevailed. Then I realised the connection between the woman at the level­crossing, the young man on his wall and the agitated movement of the peasants: something had happened and we in the train knew nothing about it. -

I studied my travelling companions, those in the compart­ment, those who remained standing in the corridor. They didn't seem to have noticed anything. They were undisturbed and a lady opposite me, about sixty years old, was ready to fall asleep. Or did they after all suspect something ? Yes, yes, they too were unea y, all of them, and they were afraid to speak . More than once

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I surprised one of them as he quickly shifted his gaze fearfully out of the window. What was more, the lady who was dozing was peeping at me from between half-closed lids. What were they afraid of ?

Naples. Usually the train stops. But that day ours did not. The old houses sl ipped by at eye-level, and in the dark alleys we could see windows lit up, and men and women in their bedrooms­in the space of a moment-busy pack ing their bags, fastening up their suit-cases as it seemed. But surely I was mistaken, surely it was only a trick of my imagination ?

They were getting ready to leave. Destination unknown. Therefore it wasn't good news that was firing both town and country with agitation. A threat, a danger, warning of some major d isaster. Then I rebuked myself thinking : if it were so serious the train would have been stopped too; and on the contrary, the train was rolling along as smoothly as one could wish, with the signals always on " go " and the points perfect, as if i t were on its maiden journey.

A young man sitting next to me had got up, as if to stretch his legs a l i ttle. In fact, he was trying to get a better view and he bent over me to get a l i ttle closer lo the window. Outside, the country, the sun, the white roads, and on these roads, waggons, traps, groups of people travell ing on foot, long caravans comparable to those which go to shrines to honour some saint or other. But as the tra in travelled further north, the crowds became thicker, more and more compact. They were all heading i n the same direction, running southwards, fleeing before a peril towards which we were he�ding at a lunatic speed, rush ing towards war, revolution, plague, fire and who knows what else ? We would have to wait five hours to find out, and then no doubt it would be too late.

No-one said a word. No-one wanted to be the first to give way. Obviously we were each one of us doubtful, as I myself was in the uncertainty that all this panic was real, and that it was due simply to a wild idea, an hallucination, one of those absurd fancies that sometimes came to you on the train when you are a little tired. The lady in front of me gave a little sigh as she pretended to waken up, and mechanically lifted her eyes, as if accidentally, to the com­munication cord. We all looked at the little red chain with the same thought. But no-one spoke, no-one dared to break the silence, or perhaps simply lacked the courage to ask the other if they hadn't seen something just a little alarming outside.

Now the roads were swarming with vehicles and people head­i ng southwards. The trains that passed us going in the other direction were packed. And the expressions on the faces of the people as they saw us go past were full of amazement. The stations were cram-full ; people made signs to us; others yelled sentences at us of which we could only make out the vowels, like mountain echoes.

The lady opposite began to watch me fixedly. Her hands,

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dripping with jewels, fiddled nervously with a tiny handkerchief, while with her eyes she begged : if you can speak, do so; if you can end this terrible silence, ask those questions that can deliver us all from this uncertainty, and from which no-one will take responsibility.

We arrived at the outskirts of another town. As the train slackened speed to pass through the station, several people got up, unable to resist the hope that the driver would stop. But l ike a noisy whirlwind we passed along the platforms where an anxious crowd was thronging breathlessly towards an outgoing train, in the middle of chaotic piles of luggage. A small boy tried to run after us with a bundle of newspapers, waving one of them at us. I ts entire front page was taken up by a large black headline. Then, with a quick movement the lady opposite me leaned out of the window and managed to grab the sheet as it flew past, but the wind caused by our speed snatched it from her. Only a small fragment remained between her fingers. Her hands started to tremble as she unfolded it. It 'Was a little triangualr piece. We could just see the name of the newspaper and three letters only of the large title. " TON " was all that we knew about the state of the world around us. Nothing more. And on the other side were fragments of an uninteresting report.

Silently the lady lifted the scrap of paper a little higher so that we could all see. But we had already looked at it, and every one of us pretended to attach no importance to it. The more our fear grew, the more we compelled each other to this senseless pride of uncommunicativeness. We were running like madmen 'cowards someth ing that ended in "ion," something which must be terrible since whole populations had taken flight on hearing the news. A new happening, terrible and immense, had shattered the life of our country ; people's only thought was for their safety, as they aban­doned their homes, their work, their business, everything while our cursed train sped on in stop-watch regularity, like soldiers tracing the route of the retreating army to get back to their trench, where the enemy is already dug in. And for the sake of propriety and our wretched human dignity, none of us had the courage to react against it.

There were still two hours to go. In two hours time when we arrived we would know the fate reserved for us. Two hours, an hour and a half, one hour. Dusk was already falling. In the dis­tance we could see the lights of the city we loved so much, and their unmoving splendour, casting a yellow halo in the sky, restored our spirits a little. The locomotive sounded its whistle, the wheels grated on the maze of points. The station, the black arch of the awnings, the standard lamps, everything was in its normal place.

But . . . the station was deserted, the olatforms and rooms empty and bare, with no human face in sight wherever I looked. At last the train stopped. Everybody started to get off and surged towards the exits in search of their fellow-men. In a dark corner

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to my right I thought I glimpsed a station employee with his little cap vanishing behind a door, terrified. What was wrong with him ? Weren't we going to find a living soul in the city ? Silence. Until the shrill voice of a woman fell onto the emptiness with the sharp­ness of a whip-crack and sent a shiver down our spines.

"Help! help !" she screamed, and the shout reverberated beneath the glassy vault with that hollow resonance that belongs to places abandoned for ever. F. J . SEED, 6A.

HARD LABOUR Chewing at my pencil,

Wracking at my brain, Trying to write a poem

Is an awful strain. That word rhymes with this word,

Does this line sound right? Have I got the rhythm?

I'll be at this all night. Who would be a poet?

'Tis said they starve and die, Will I be a poet?

No thank you, no, not I . 1 . CHIPPENDALE. 2C.

EVOLUTION Walking one day down our village street The queerest of fellows I chanced to meet. He said, "Good morning," as he passed me by. I replied with a smile and then a sigh, For looking down, I noticed his feet Were just like a duck's, with webbing complete. At long last it's happened As the cynics foretold, Our climate has recast us In amphibious mould.

R . G. SOWERBY, 4A.

THE MONSTERS On this earth in days gone by, Dinosaurs with evil eye, Roamed abou( by night and day, Seeking out their helpless prey.

Today a million years ahead When all the dinosaurs are dead, Other monsters now approach, The car, the bus, and motor coach.

J. A. DA WSON, Form 3B.

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THE WORSHIPPER The swind swept mercilessly over the rocky mountainside,

biowing bitter flecks of ice and snow along with it. A party of about thirty people struggled valiantly against its force. These were no ordinary climbers, for they each carried large bundles of newspapers. They were in fact worshippers, people who believe in the importance of facts rather than ideas.

Presently they arrived at a small cave amongst rocks, they stopped to regain their breath and then entered.

The cave was lit by a single torch and was empty save for a bare altar and a magnificent gold book-case containing a set of encyclopedias, those wonderful books which can both solve the problems of the world and help children in thcir school life. The priest, the leader of the worshippers, a tall impressive man in jeans and duffle-coat, spoke to his gods :

" 0 mighty ones, we have come here today to pay homage to you and to feed you with glorious facts."

His voice echoed round the cave and the light flickered, the priest sank to his knees. Two acolytes then lowered themselves to the floor and the remaining worshippers followed suit. Prayers were offered to the books, weird prayers containing the words " knowledge," " rhubarb " and " beatnik," repeated many times. After ten minutes oi this, enthusiasm began to fade alld the worshippers stood up. Tbe fact-feeding ceremony began. The large bundles of newspapers, magazines and comics which had been so laboriously carried up the mountain, were piled on the altar and kindled from the torch. As the papers burned the books visibly expanded and became satisfied.

The people stood back apprehensively eyeing the books. Presently volume D of the encyclopedias spoke, in deep cultured tones.

" It is right that you should come and worship us and feed us glorious facts-"

" So sorry," it said apologetically. "I ate my meal too quickly." After further similar interruptions it continued, " Today I have

great and happy news for you. Volumes X and Y have presented us with a booklet."

The worshippers looked, and, sure enough, a baby encyclo­pedia was sitting on the shelf, squeezed between its parent volumes. Seeing this, the priest and h is followers began to dance gaily round the cave-in pairs, shouting words of praise and admiration. Volume D spoke again and they stopped. Its deep voice rolled. " This child must be carefully fed on digestible facts, facts which have not yet been put on paper. Go, find them ! "

The following day the same motley crew arrived at the cave, again carrying masses of paper, and also wooden hoardings upon which bye-laws had been written. This time however, they had with them a stranger. an ace reporter from one of the great daily

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newspapers. The group entered the cave. The same prayer ritual was

performed as previously, then volume D spoke. " I see yOU have indeed brought fine food for the baby," it said

grandly. " Let the meal begin." The unfortunate reporter was rapidly caught, bound and

gagged, and a fire was prepared on the altar with the papers and hoardings. The priest shouted incantations above the muffled screams of the terrified victim. The two acolytes gently lifted the struggling man on to the altar. The booklet gurgled happily, and then all was silent save for the sizzling of fat and tlesh. A sickly odour of burning meat pervaded the cave, forcing the worshippers out.

Another ace reporter had bitten the dust, but the gods were well sa' isfied .

T. D. MOORHOUSE, U .6.Sc.

SPORTS FOOTBALL REPORT 1961

ONCE again the report is chiefly one of success and with only four more games to play it may be safely stated that this

year's team has reached, if not surpassed, the high standard set during the past four years. At the time of writing the First X I appear to be riding on the crest of a wave of success being undefeated this Term. Their record reads Played I S, Won 9, Lost 5, Drawn 1 .

We started the Season with seven old colours, but in spite of this we took some time to settle down with a regular forward line until the two wing positions were finally filled to our satisfaction by moving S. J . Holding back to h is natural position from inside to outside right and promoting R . F. Parkinson from last year's Under 15 X I to play out of position at Outside Left. Though possessing few star players, the side has built itself into a most effective force whose chief asset has been team spirit, backed by a modified form of the 4-2-4 plan has paid rich d ividends.

Finally I should l ike to thank the Captain of the side, P. L . J ones who has "sk i ppered" the side extremely well and is perhaps the most improved player in the side from last Season. Thanks are also due to the Vice-Captain H. F. Bendix for his duties, and to our Head Groundsman Mr. V. Chester for supplying the best playing surfaces possible under the most appalling weather con­ditions. Finally my thanks to the whole team for many enjoyable spectating hours.

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Nov. 1 2th, 1 960. School v. Baines G.S. at Poulton. The School travelled to Baines G.S. for their next game. In the first

half, the School played up the slope, facing a strong wind. After a very few minutes, Baines took the lead with a well-taken goal . Almost immediately the equaliser came through Davies after very good work on the left by Parkinson. Again Baines took the lead, but the School equalised again through Davies from a cross by Parkinson. The School defence took a battering for the rest of the first half, and the expected goal came j ust before the interval.

Half time: Baines G.S. 3 , Q.E.G .S. 2. ]n the second half, as migbt be expected, the Scbool dominated play,

but unfortunately only as far as tbe edge of the penalty area. M any fine cbances provided by the half backs were squandered by the forwards due to too much individualism. A very disappointing resu lt considering the territorial advantage held by tbe School in the second half.

Full time: Baines G.S. 3, Q.E.G.S. 2. Team : Wade; Cox, Horrocks; Coupe, Bendix, Jones; Holding,

Lindsay, Davies, Almond, Parkinson.

Nov. 1 6th, 1 960. School v. Bolton County Grammar School, at Bolton. The ground was in a terrible state. The wings were qui te bad, b u t

around the centre circle conditions for playing football were quite impos­sible. The recent rain had turned the ground i nto a morass. Tbe game proved only a trial of stamina. Davies quickly scored and Parkinson added another, but the home team fought (being the operative word) hard and just before half time reduced the deficit.

Hal f time: Bolton County G .S. I , Q.E.G.S. 2. The School were playing with the slope in the second half but tbe

advantage proved of no avail. Accurate passes were few and far between. Brewer, shortly after the break, i ncreased the School's lead, but Bolton County repl ied almost immediately shots from Almond and Davies beat the goalkeeper but just refused to enter the net, sticking in the mud on the l ine. Parkinson scored again, but the home side replied.

Full time: Bolton County G .S. 3, Q.E.G.S. 4. Team: Wade; Cox, H orrocks, Coupe, Bendix, Jones; H olding, Davies,

Brewer, Almond, Parkinson.

Nov. 1 9, 1 960. School v. Liverpool Ramblers, at Liverpool. The game was expected to produce a great deal of good footbal l , for

our opponents are renowned for their consistency. The ground was perfect, but the rain proved very disconcerting. The Ramblers in the first half, rather overran the School, cutting up the defence with q uick accurate passing. By half time they were three goals in front.

Half time: Liverpool Ra mblers 3 , Q.E.G.S. 0. Soon after the restart the home team increased their lead to 4-0,

and things looked very black for the School. However, the Ramblers seemed to be losing some of their former dominance, and tbe School replied through Brewer and Parkinson, and when Davies added one, i t scemed that the School might bring off a shock, b u t the home side hung on, and in the last minute broke away to clinch the game.

Full time: Liverpool Ramblers 5, Q.E.G.s. 3. Team: Wade, Cox, H orrocks; Coupe, Bendix, Jones; Holding, Davies,

Brewer, Almond, Parkinson.

2 1 st January, 1 96 1 . School v. Preston G.S. at Preston. For the first game of the new year, the School were away to Preston

G.S. The ground was in a beautiful condition although the weather could not be described as such. The rain was pouring down and it was i ntensely cold. The School, playing some beautiflll football, immediately took command. The School took an early lead through Brewer, after he had resisted sllccessfully tackles by two defenders. However, if the School

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expected to have things all their own way, they were sadly mistaken. Preston G.S. fought back and were rewarded for their efforts by a goaL

Half time: Preston G.S. I, Q.E.G.S. 1 . After the restart, many o f the players seemed to be affected b y the

cold, but both sides still managed to play some good footbal l . It seemed as if a draw was going to be the result, for the second half was extremely evenly fought. However, Brewer, again a solo effort, ran through the home defcnce to score with a well-placed low drive.

Full ti me: Preston G.S. 1 , G.E.G.S. 2. Team: Wade; Cox, Horrocks; Coupe, Bendix, Davies; Holding, l ones,

Brewer, Almond, Parkinson.

Feb 6th, 1961. School v. Bolton School at Bolton. The long awaited day had arrived. Again the ground was i n a beautiful

.:ondition. Stimulating football was expected and was produced. Brewer, receiving a pass on the right wing, cut through the home defence, beat the centre half, and pushed the ball past the goalkeeper as he came out to challenge. Shortly afterwards, tragedy. Bendix, attempting to block a shot, only succeeded in diverting it past Wade. lust before the interval, a Bolton forward, shot through a ruck of p layers, and Wade was unsighted until the last moment, and could not reach the shot.

Half time: Bolton School 2, Q.E.G.S. 1 . I n the second half, the School took complete command, playing some

delightful footbalL Davies was fouled jn the penalty area, and Holding converted, giving the goalkeeper no chance with a rising drive. Holding, playing at his very best, scored two glorious goals to give the School a surprise but very well-deserved win.

Full time: Bolton School 2, Q.E.G.S. 4. Team: Wade; Cox, Horrocks; Coupe, Bendix, Davies; Holding,

Almond, Brewer, lones, Parkinson.

Feb. 18th, 1 96 1 . School v. Hulme G.S. at Lammack. This match was also eagerly awaited, for the School was determined

to get revenge for the 5-1 defeat at their hands last term. The School playing down the slope, took the lead through B rewer in the first few minutes. The score remained the same throughout the first half. The mud proved advantageous to the home side for the opponents are a very good footbal l ing side.

Half time: G .E.G.S. 1, Hulme Grammar School O. The School had decided beforehand that vigorous football would

prove the best. The idea was to catch the player in p ossession, and it succeeded completely. It up3et the opposing team brand of football, and Parkinson and H olding added great goals. Hulme battered the defence unceasingly but were unable to pierce i t, not putting in one decent shot. However, just before the end. they reduced the arrears through a well­planned free kck. The ball was slipped over the defence and the ri�ht winger shot high into the top corner.

Full time: Q.E.G.S. 3, Hulme G.S. 1 . Team: Wade; Cox, Horrocks; Coupe, Bendix, Davies; H oldi ng, lones,

Brewer, Almond, Parkinson .

Feb. 23, 1960. School v. Clitheroe. At Clitheroe. Second Leg of the Peter Cross Cup.

School, having won the first leg at Lammack 3-1 , went to Clitheroe with a good chance of regaining the cup from Clitheroe who won it last season. School lost the toss and had to kick down the slope j n the first half. The play started at a fast pace with play very even. However Clitheroe soon went ahead when Wade fumbled a tricky shot and a Clitheroe forward bundled the ball over the line.

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Left to right : M r . Raby, D. Coupe, R. H orrocks, M. Wade. S. Holding. I. Davies. D . Cox. H. Bendix. P. L J ones (Capt . ). 1. Brewer, R. Parkinson.

G. Taylor, K . Almond.

Left to right : P. S. Ormerod , J . A. Taylor, M . B. Sti rrup, H . R u rlander. 1 . Adams, M. Howard.

Left to r ight : 1 . Davies W. R. Snape, S. Redfern, D. M . Smith , r . Pick up. R . H. Davenport.

D R A M AT I C SOCIET Y P R ODUCf I ON OF " T H E R I V A LS " (See Report)

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H olding scored an excellent equal iser a few minutes later when he ran on to a well placed through-ball from Almond. This was the last score before half time and School had not gained their much-wanted lea:d while k icking with the slope.

Half time: Cl itheroe 1, School 1 . Shortly after half time Clitheroe scored an opportunist goal and things

looked black for the School. Clitheroe turned on the pressure now but the School defence, covering well and tackling fiercely, held them out . Suddenly Davies, with a n excellent clearence, found Brewer l u rk i ng i n the Qitheroe half. Brewer collected the pass and ran through t o shoot past the advancing goalkeeper. Now it was all the School and before long Holding scored a fine goal from a narrow angle. This proved to be the winner.

Full time: Clitheroe 2, School 3. On the aggregate of the two games School WOIl by six goals to three

and so regained the Peter Cross Cup. Team: Wade, Cox, Horrocks; Coupe, Bendix. Davies; H olding, Jones,

Brewer, Almond, Taylor.

TEAM CRITICISM M ichael Wade has kept goal well d uring the season. This is his

second year with the team. Contact lenses and a better clearance kick would brinl!: him into the ranks of the best goalkeepers this School has produced.

Derek Cox and Roger H orrocks linked together because there is l ittle to choose in their ability have been truly outstanding. Tackling, covering and distribution have been immaculate and both have a very promising future i n the game.

David Coupe has played extra centre half and his promotion from last years' Under 15 team has been more than j ustified.

H ugh Bendix is a veteran centre half of course, this being his thircl Season i n the position. H is heading has been good and his tackling has been anything but gentle yet sure. Centre forwards find him very difficult to play.

The left half position has been occupied of late by Jan Davies who has taken to the round ball very well. I t i s a credit to his abil ity that he should make the First X I after only one Season in the Seconds prior to his retirement from Rugby which he played before coming to us.

Stew. H olding is another with three seasons experience in the Team and he has recently hit top form with disastrous resu lts for the opposition. H e is a player with a great deal of football skill and his selection as reserve for the County XI came as no surprise.

Keith Almond is another j unior promoted from the Under 15 XI of 1 959-60. He is a player with an intelligent football brain with the skill to go with it. My only advice is to take more porridge for breakfast before we resume in September.

Jack Brewer has finally found his niche at centre forward. H e has improved beyond all recognition. from last year and has developed the happy nack of scoring the winning goal at the right time. Our Captain, Phil . lones has been the utility player of the side, playing in the forward and half back line alternately. He is another old colour who has improved his own personal prowess this Season and has proved himself to be a very able leader.

Finally R. F. Parkinson has played out of position on the left wing with success. Despite his age and physique he has developed into a fast winger with goal scoring potential with stamina which one expects in a more mature player.

Gordon Taylor has stepped into the breach on a number of occasions and has proved himself of First Team standard at inside forward or as a winger, he would do well to eat porridge.

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Alan Baxendale has made a valuable contribution to our games by his efforts as linesman, and together with N. Whalley the Football Secretary we offer our grateful thanks.

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS' SIX-A-SIDE COMPETITION,. 1961 HA V I NG attended five Public Schools' Sixes Tournaments I have concluded that it is a very fair competition in that the

best two teams reach the final game. Quite frankly we got as far as we deserved this year in reaching the Semi-final. Our team never really settled down to the game and never played as well as they had done against a strong Old Boys team in practice. How­ever the Semi-final game against Allyns School which we have previously beaten on two occasions was closely contested and had we not missed two gift goals early in the match the decision might well have gone in our favour. We still have the best record of any School competing since the competition started five years ago.

[eam:- M . Wade; D. Cox, P. L. lones; S. 1 . Holding, J. Brewer and R. F. Parkinson. Reserves: K. Almond and R. D. Horrocks.

1 . Davies, F. Smethurst and D. Coupe gave valuable assistance in practice games.

SECOND ELEVEN AS was mentioned in the last report, the early promotion of our

centre-half to the 1 st Eleven necessitated various positional switches. However the problem seems to have been resolved with adoption of the 4-2-4 formation. The defence has played con­fidently with the system. T he forwards have been, up to date, less happy but with more match practice their assurance should return. The leading goal-scorers, to date, are Snape and Gibson each with eleven, closely followed by Seed wIth nine.

The promise of the substantial win against Bolton County G .S., towards the end of last term, has been realised only moder­ately. The following week the team again failed against adults -losing 2-5 to Liverpool Ramblers. This term, the team is to be congratulated on playing so well in some atrocious conditions. On a pitch bordering on the farcical a good win was scored over Preston G.S. (3-2). The following week we lost to Bolton School by the odd goal (2-3). Considering the number of reserves we fielded this was quite a creditable performance. The 4-2-4 formation was introduced against Hulme G.S., Old ham, when despite initial uncertainty a convincing win was achieved (4-2). A tough game with Clitheroe R .G.S. resulted in a fair draw (3-3) in spite of an early injury to Foster.

In defence, Skillen has been a reliable and, often heroic, goal­keeper; Preston, at his best when up against it, and Morris have been the most consistent ; Foster and Bamber have improved steadily and, on their day, have played very well.

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I n saying that the attack has been le�s successful, it should be realised that rarely has the same formation taken the field i n suc­cessive matches. Perhaps the most i mproved player is Snape, while Seed and Gibson have scored some useful goals. L indsay and Taylor, although often holdi ng the ball too long have schemed well. Smalley, coming in towards the end, thoroughly deserved promotion from the U - 1 5s with some promising displays.

Though not always playing the football of which it is capable, the whole team has shown tremendous spirit at all times, especially during the last ten minutes of the Preston game, when nine effective men toiled in the mud to maintain a slender lead. The spirit, which rarely flagged reflects great credit on the Captain, Bamber, an in­spiring and efficient captain throughout a successful season.

The team would like to thank linesman Green, who, �part from performing his duties most efficiently, has introduced a new note of sartorial elegance for li nesmen-the Continental influence now on our arbiters ?

Liverpool Ramblers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Preston G.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Bolton School . . . " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . flulme G.S. Oldham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clitheroe R.G.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

UNDER 15 FOOTBALL REPORT

2-5 3-2 2-3 4-2 3-3

SINCE the team was formed three years ago, this has been the most successful season to date. We were surprised to find

this so, for last year's showing did not augur well for a good under 1 5 year.

The results in the League matches played before Christmas were very good: P.8, W.7, D. I , Goals for 54, against 9. Some excellent football was played, and the most pleasing aspect was the growth of team spirit. For the first time, we reached the League Final, which was played at Griffin against the Technical and Grammar School. This was lost by 4 goals to 1 , and two points emerged. Firstly, the team did not play at their best after many weeks without a game, due to bad weather: secondly, the courageous display of Higson, who stood out for his tenacity in the tackle.

Surprisingly, during this very successful League season, the team failed to win a friendly match. But a good sign was a 2-2 draw at Haywards when two star forwards were absent.

I n the Lent Term, friendly matches have produced some fine football. Hulme were beaten 5- 1 , and Haywards 3- 1 ; in the latter game, the score does not reflect the overall supremacy of an experime'1tal team. It has been our policy to select on form rather

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than reputation, and several previously unknown players have emerged as a result-even if only to fill vacancies due to illness or Town Team matches.

Our reserves, though losing heavily each week in practice games, have stuck to their task manfully. Without their aid on Friday afternoons, the team could not have been so successful. The final record up to press is P. 1 5 , W. 9, D.2, L .4, Goals for 69, against 30.

Since very few boys support school matches, brief descriptions of their classmates are given below: GOAL.-Duerden. A most capable 'keeper, who is worth at least 2 goals

start to us in each game. Ever present, he has not played a bad game. BACKS.-Ranson. An excellent coverer, who tackles very strongly. His

positional sense is well developed, and distribution sound. Difficult to pass . . . ! Higson. Smiles on tbe faces of large wingers bave rapidly disappeared as the ball has been fiercely whipped away from tbem. Valentine. Greatly improved, he is very good in the air. and yet is guaranteed to collect more mud even than tbe 'keeper.

HALF-BACKS.-Smith. A very skilful ball player, who possesses all the arts, plus a crafty elbow. He has been a drive in attack, and also covereif very well in defence. Addison. A hard player to beat, who never gives up when be makes a mistake. H e now prefers wandering about successfully at wing balf, and has been succeeded by Edmondson who is a good stopper, but sometimes tries to score for the other side; fortunately his shooting is not very accurate. Dixon was our regular left half. and has now been moved up front on tbe heavier ground. He always plays hard, and turns in some "steel ing" performances. Simm is a discovery who has been very useful recently in the mud wi th strong, two-footed clearances. When beaten, he comes back for more.

FORWARDS.-Watsou. He has lIsed his great speed to advantage, and impressed with improved control, the aoility to use both feet, and fighting for the ball. SmaIley, like most of tbe forwards, bas willingly played in many positions. An encouraging captain, he has led the team unselfisbly, and scored some fine goals. Grogan, a master tactician, has turned in some excellent performances. He specialises in scoring goals from unlikely positions with either foot, but dislikes sitting in muddy puddles, unlike Eamshaw P. W. who has worked hard and played somc useful games. H i s new keenness has been most pleasing. McLeod has operated successfully on either wing. This term he has been a much greater menace, and scored some handy goals; a very tricky winger. Swnner. The regular outside left for mucb of the season. he is fast and has a powerful shot with his right foot!

D.e.S.

UNDER 14 XI TH I S season has u p to the present been one of mixed fortunes

for us. After a very successful run last year the team remained unchanged for our first game against Manchester last September. With an apparent increase in strength. stamina, and

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ability, it was possible for me to change the style of play from basically individual to that of finding and using the open spaces and working on the basis of the player without the ball playing the football by creating the opportunity.

Then again the reserves have improved tremendously i n several departments and have earned a chance t o play in the X l . This has meant that for certain games the team has been a little unsettled.

These two combined factors have meant that, although the potential was there, things have not always gone according to plan, for one cannot easily change one's style of play nor gain an immediate understanding with a new member.

Despite these two factors, however, we have a fair record . Whenever we have been beaten it has been rather heavily as the results at Bolton School (6-3) and Hulme G.S. (6- 1 ) show. On the other hand we have drawn at Cl itheroe. R oyal G.S .. always a thorn in our side, and only recently we were successful against Hayward Schools, where the -result was 4-2 at Lammack.

I feel that, had we been able to spend more time on coaching, we would have fared even better. Unfortunately the weather has been against us, directly in the case of high winds and heavy rain, and indirectly in the state of the grounds which have not been conducive to good football, and bearing this in mind our team deserves heartiest congratulations on their wholehearted play and good sportsmanship.

The season's results are as follows: Played 1 5 ; Won 9; Drawn 2; Lost 4.

and the boys who have represented the School are: Goal-Halpin, Holbeck, Whittaker. Full back-WaIton, Law, Wilkinson D.T. Half back-Martin, Jones, Edmundson, Gillam. Wilkinson N . Forwards-McNamee, Holmes, Hope, Barker l . , Sharpe,

Catlow, Pemberton A., Pemberton K. J.W.M.

UNDER 12 XI REPORT AFTER an indifferent beginning to the season, the 'babes' have

struck winning form and as yet since Christmas are undefeated. Although mud is disliked by all, it has brought about a tremendous change in our fortunes, as the record prior to Christ­mas was Won I, Lost 2, G.F. 1 4, A. 1 7. Since Christmas we have played 4, won 4, 1 3-4 being our goal average.

Whatever the result in the local league the team has improved enormously after a shaky start to the season and lived up to the fine reputation of its predecessors.

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Results: v. Tech. and Grammar, Away, Won 4-3.

v. St. Mary's Sec. Mod., Home, Won 5-0. v. Shadsworth Sec. Mod., Home, Won 2- - l . v . Audley Sec. Mod., Away, Won 2-0.

We have been represented by : Rarwood (capt.), Walsh, Shepherd, Ormerod, Wynne, Morris, Schofield, Churchill, Sumner, Fletcher, Wallace, Si mpson, Rogerson, Bolton.

Goals scored by Simpson 5 , Bolton 4, Sumner 2, Harwood and Rogerson 1 each .

CROSS COUNTRY RUNNING Fixtures 1 0 : Won 5 : Lost 5 . THE Cross Country Running Team has had mixed fortunes this

season. Of the 10 fixtures completed so far, five have been won and five lost.

Victories were recorded aga i nst Darwen G.S. (Home and Away); Bury G.S. (Away) ; Clitheroe R .G.S. (Home); and Hutton G.S. (Home) ; Hutton G.S. (Away) ; Chorley G.S. (Home and Away) and Clitheroes R .G.S. (Away).

Once again this season the team was left with only two regular members of last year's eight. These were B . Parkinson and S. J. Monk, who were appointed captain and vice-captain respectively. With these two to form the nucleus of the side some very promising runners came forward to the trials. Outstanding of these durin<:, the season have been J. Wilson and AUsup who have had some excellent placings.

Other members of the team have been Heath, Ponsonby, K irk man, Hindle and Rakestraw.

On Saturday, February 1 8th, the following boys represented Black burn in the Lancashire Schools' Championships held this year at Blackburn.

Under 1 5 : J. Sutton (38th) Under 17: J. Wilson (29th)

R. AUsup (56th) U nder 1 9 : B. Parkinson (26th)

S. Monk ( l 8rb) H. Ponsonby (45th) K. Rindle (48th)

Congratulations to them all, but especially to S. Monk who as a result of the competition has been chosen as 1 st reserve for the Lancashire team i n the English Championsh ips to be held at Peterborough on March 1 8th.

H,df-colours h ave been re-awarded to B. Parkinson, and awarded to S. Monk, J. Wilson, R . Allsup and T. Heath .

B.P.

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Ztl)c �lb :fSlackburniall A Review and Reminder of

Old Boys' Activities

BY OLD BOYS FOR OLD BOYS

OFFICERS President : LORD J USTICE O R M E ROD.

HOIl. Secretary : M R. H. BURROWS, 1 9, Victoria Street, Blackburn.

Hon. Treasurer : MR. R. B . SMITH, 5, GranviiJe Road, Blackburn.

Chairman of Committee : MR. G. N. FORBES. Vice-Chairman : M R. E. C. MARSDEN.

Sub-Committee Secretaries : Athletic : M R. W. K. FORBES. Dinner : M R. H. BURROWS.

Football : MR. W. LAZENBY. Social : M R. A. EASTHAM. Editor : M R. W. H. PROCTOR.

OBITUARY

Kenneth Parmley

( 1 924 - 1 929)

Kenneth Parmley, Chairman and managing director of Ayrton and Hunter, Ltd. , wholesale provision merchants, Blackbum, died in Blackburn I nfirmary at the end of February. He was 47 years of age. He was taken ill about two months prior to his death but had sufficiently recovered to attend to business matters. He was in London when he was stricken a second time and immediately brought back to hospital.

Mr. Parmley was prominent in business circles throughout East Lancashire and took a keen interest in the work of the North of England Provision Merchants Association. He was a member of the Old Blackburnian's Association, a member of Remem­brance Lodge of Freemasons, Accrington and of Blackburn R otary Club.

To his widow and daughter we extend our sincerest sympathies.

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ELECTION OF OFFICERS - HONORARY TREASURER

At the Annual M eeting of the Association held in November, 1 960, Mr. R . B. Smith was elected Hon . Treasurer in succession to Mr. C. M audsley who was resigning after 1 2 years' service.

We take this opportunity of expressing to Mr. Maudsley our sincere thanks for all his work in connection with our finances, and we assure him that his services were very much a ppreciated.

Will members (Old Boys) please note the new Treasurer's address :-Mr. R . B. Smith, 5, Granville Road, Blackbum.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR DEA R SIR,

I shall be most grateful if you will allow me a small space in your next issue of the School M agazine to publicise the details of the 1 96 1 Annual Dinner of the London Branch of the Old Black­burnians' Association. This will take place on Saturday, April 22nd, at the "Duke of York" Restaurant. Victoria, London. 7 p.m. for Dinner at 7-30 p.m. Dress informal .

All members will, of course, be notified by letter giving all particulars but i t occurs to me that there may be other Old Boys whose names and addresses I do not have and who may wish to attend. I shall be very pleased to hear from any such Old Boy readi ng this notice.

Arrangements have been made for a party to attend the Fulham v. Blackbum Rovers game at Craven Cottage, Fulham, in the afternoon. The cost per head will be : Dinner only, 1 7/6 ; Dinner and Football Match, 25/-.

To complete my arrangements I shall be pleased to receive any applications by April 6th for both events or April 1 3th Dinner only.

M r. H. King, at School, will, I am sure, be pleased to supply any further information regarding this occasion to anyone who is able to contact h i m before the end of the term at school or at his home address during the Easter Vacation.

It is hoped that both the Headmaster and the President of the Association, Sir Benjamin Ormerod, will be present and I would appeal to all Old Boys who can possibly join us on April 22nd to do so.

Yours sincerely,

E. B. NORMAN, Hon. Sec. 3, K EMNAL PARK ,

THREE GATES LANE, HASLEMERE,

SURREY. February, 1 96 1

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LEITER FROM LEEDS UNIVERSITY DEAR SIR,

Here is the Easter report from Leeds University, which we hope will satisfy curious O. B.'s elsewhere.

Our numbers have been somewhat increased this year, although the freshers seem to keep to the libraries and other obscure places. The established members continue their usual varied pursuits-Mr. Catlow is seen slightly less frequently than Mr. Calvert behind a hand of cards. Mr. Nash has mysteriously broken his collar bone, claiming that he doesn't know how, and so is no longer seen zooming around Leeds on his motor-scooter. Mr. Hosfield, on finals this year, keeps fit by playing rugby-football, and Mr. Charnley continues to represent the U niversity at bad­minton. Mr Duerden plays soccer for the Medical School, and practises life-saving with Mr. Davies.

All so far have kept away from the arm of the law and other bodies in authority, and no unpleasant upheavals are expected until the summer examinations loom their ugly heads after Easter.

Yours faithfully, O. B.'s, LEEDS.

c / o 32 EBOR PLACE , LEEDS 6.

7th February, 1 96 1 .

OLD BLACKBURNIANS' ANNUAL DINNER A highlight of the annual dinner of the Old Blackburnians'

Association in Big School on December 1 7th was the presentation to Mr. Henry Whittaker, O.B.E., FS.A ., chairman of the School Governors and a former chairman for 1 7 years of the Association, of h is portrait in oils, to be hung in B ig ' School.

The presentation was made by J udge Allan-Walmsley, Q.c., before a record gathering of 1 60 guests and old boys.

I n his usual gracious and urbane manner H is Honour said: " I have been asked to perform the very happy task which has been entrusted to me, because of a n assurance that I possess one excellent qualification for doing it, and that is that I can claim to be Mr. Henry Whittaker's oldest friend of anyone in this hall. We met actually at this school, it may be in this very hall-I'm not going to tell you what year i t was. I'm not even going to tell you the century. By a curious coincidence, we b oth arrived here on the same day, not at the beginning of term, but at half-term. After leaving the school, Mr. Whittaker was articled to that distinguished Town Clerk of Blackburn, Sir Lewis Beard; but later, forsaking the municipal world, in 1 9 1 2 he commenced in private practice. For forty years he wa<; the Honorary Secretary of the. Blackburn Society of Antiquaries. and last year-I am sure deservedly. after forty years as their Sec­retary-he was made Chairman . He was one of a small band of men

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devoted to the antiq ue and the beautiful, who saved Samlesbury Old Hall from destruction. He became one the first Trustees, and since 1 943 has been the Chairman of the Trustees of Samlesbury Old Hall. He has given 2 1 years of not only devoted, but tireless, energy to the National Savings Movement. For that length of time he has been the Chairman of the Blackburn Savings Committee and for part of the time also of the Blackburn Constituency Savings Committee, and I am sure you will all agree w ith me that it is very fitting that, first, in 1933 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of A ntiquaries, and then i n 1 95 1 he was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. But of course it is his connection with this school in which we are all most interested. I need not remind you, I am surc, that from 1 933 to 1 950-that is for 1 7 years-he was the Chairman of the Old Boys Association. In 1932 he had been elected a Governor: in ] 944 he became the Vice-Chairman of the Governors; and on the 1 7th of May, 1 950, he was elected the Chair­man of the Governors of his old School.

" 1 have had the pleasure of serving under him as a Governor­partly with h i m and partly under him-for many years, and I can testify to his clear-sighted perception of what needed to be done, and his sound common-sense in devising ways and means of doing it. I n other words h e has an uncanny talent for getting h is own way, all this combined with patience, geniality and good h umour; and let us add to that, with generosity. You k now that in Mr. Whittaker you have a most generous benefactor of this school. I need not remind some of you, particularly the younger ones, of the school bell, the clock, and the weather-vane, that face West Park Road. You will all have seen, I hope, the Burne-Jones stained glass win­dows by William Morris that adorn the science wing; and, perhaps one of the most valuable of his gifts, the contemporary portrait of the First Elizabeth which adds beauty to this h all . It is good to think that the donor of these gifts is the governor with the longest period of service on the board of governors, and I know that you will all join with me in the hope that he will long continue to give the school the benefit of h is ripe experience and sound judgement.

"Well now, perhaps some of you may half expect me at this stage, in that well-known Monday night television manner, to pro­duce a handsomely bound book, and to say "Henry Whittaker. O.B.E., this is your life." Instead of that, Mr. Chairman, it is my privilege and my pleasure to say " Henry, that is your portrait" . . . (prolonged applause). I am going to ask you, Mr. Whittaker, to accept this as a gift from fellow Old Boys of this school, as an expression of their regard and affection for you personally, and a tribute to your many useful activities and services away from here; but above all, as a mark of their gratitude for all that you have done, are doing, and we hope will long continue to do for the welfare and advancement of this ancient grammar schof)l" (prolonged applause).

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Mr. Wbittaker characteristically replied : "Gentlemen, I count i t a great honour and privilege to have my

portrait hung in the Hall of this ancient School in company with those of many distinguished Governors, old boys and benefactors of the School.

The English language provides three words in which to express the gratitude I feel today-" I thank you," and if you take that as I know you will, as coming from the bottom of my heart, it is all I can say to you in return for your k indness; but you will k now at the same time that i t means all the gratitude I can possibly convey to you for such k indness.

I am deeply touched by the generosity of the terms in which your Honour has referred to my active i nterest in the School and the Association. I appreciate the very k ind mention of other spheres of �ctivity connected with this town in which I have played some small part.

I am deeply grateful to his Honour Judge Walmsley, whose name is ari· household word in this district, for his k indness in leav­ing the comfort of his own fireside at Lytham tonight and coming to Blackbum to present th is portrait. I shall always cherish with affection the memory of his speech tonight as long as I shall live.

I should like to take the opportunity of thanking his Worship [he Mayor for h is great k indness in gracing our proceedings by h is presence here to-night. He is an old and valued friend of mine and it is many years ago since a Mayor or the Borough attended our Dinners, and we all appreciate the attendance of his Worshi p here to-night very much indeed.

This portrair was pained by James Quinn an Australian artist. As a youth he won a £400 scholarsh ip to the Paris Arts Schools and dfter studying art there he came to England to practise h is profession .

Whilst here he painted three large portraits of the Queen Mother -one for the Government of Australia. When this Association pre­sented the portrait of the late Mr. J . W. Marsden, Chairman of the Governors, to the School, the Association deputed its Chairman, the late J ames Kenyon Hoyle of blessed memory, Mr. J oh n Yates, whom we are pleased to have with us here tonight, and myself to choose an artist. We went to London to interview the Secretary of the R oyal Society of Portrait Painters, whom John Yates k new and he put us in touch with three young artists of promise. We inter­·/iewed these artists and saw something of their work and decided to give the commission to J ames Quinn .

Quinn came t o Blackburn t o carry out his work. Whilst here we were able to get h i m further commissions. In addition to painting Mr. Marsden he was commissioned to paint the l ate Canon J. E. Samuel, the late Dr. R. Y. Aitken whose portrait now hangs in the Blackbum R oyal I nfirmary, the late Wm. Self Weeks, the Town Clerk of Clitheroe, and Mrs. A.spinall of Standen Hall, Clitheroe,

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and one or two others. Quinn then wanted to paint me and I gave him one sitting in B lackburn and then he went back to London. I had to go to London for the remaining sittings, eight in all, making a total of nine sittings for the portrait. I used to catch the one o'clock train to London on a Saturday and arrived there about 6 o'clock. After attending the 8 o'clock service at St. George's Church, Blooms­bury, next door to the Kingsley Hotel where I stayed the night. I presented myself at Quinns studio in Chelsea at 1 0 o'clock on Sun­day morning and sat until 1 2-30 when we repaired to a local hostelry and regaled ourselves with boiled sheep's head for lunch with beer and cheese.

Quinn was a real Bohemian . When in Blackburn he used to lunch off brown bread and butter and oysters at Kennedy's Oyster Bar in Lord Street. We returned to his studio at 2 o'clock and I sal again until 5 o'clock and then caught the 6-5 train from Emton to Blackbum, arriving Blackburn shortly after 1 1 o'clock. This as I say I did on eight occasions. This portrait which is the re�ult of his efforts has hung in the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon.

Quinn used to yearn for the sunshine of Australia. The climate of England did not suit him, so he returned to Melbourne, where he built up an extensive practise and there amongst other notabili ties he painted the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne.

I t is to me a matter of profound satisfaction to know that this portrait will hang in this Hall; I sat here as a boy-way back in the nineties of the last century. J udge Walmsley also sat here, but not for long; in a year or two he went to Sed bergh School. I t was sur­prising i n my day how many boys made this their Prep. School. I remember off hand, in addition to J udge Walmsley, Sidney and Guy Waterworth, Max Brothers and Leslie Brothers. Bob and Teddy Spencer and Brewer, all left to go to Sed bergh. Our late President Edwin Leach Hartley, who was the youngest of five brothers to attend this School, after a few years followed his brothers to Shrews­bury-the School of our present Headmaster. The process still goes on. The son of our good friend Gcorge Mason after being here for a few short years migrated to Rossall.

Big School, was, at that t ime equipped with long rows of locker desks with hard oak benches, all grouped so that five forms could be taught simultaneously.

I have seen this room gradually emerge, in the course of years, from this plain severity; and transformed by its windows, its panel­ling, its two war memorials and its portrait gallery into what we see it to be today.

As a Governor, and as Chairman of the Board of Governors, I have been privileged to be associated with a group of bold adven­turers, who for eleven years, governed the school when it had embarked on independence, and who have steered it back again into the calmer and surer waters of Direct Grant.

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I will not dwell on the progress of our new development plan ; except to say that you may see evidence of i t around you, in new classrooms, magnificent new laboratories, new kitchens and l ibrary, a nd generally in the new look at every turn.

Throughout thi s period of expansion, we have had much encouragement and financial help from the town, from industr.ial firms, from the I ndustrial Fund for the Advancement of Science in Schools, from many friends, and from this Association. We are most grateful for the help and the magnificent response to our appeal.

I would not have you think that the G overning Body confines its interest to the fabric of the School. They are well aware that the reputation of a school does not rest on the magnificence of its build­ings ; but on its spirit, character and achievements.

We are fortunate in that In the Headmaster and the staff we have men who are giving devoted service to the school. They identify themselves closely with it and its fortunes, many are old-boys main­taining and extending its best traditions. It is clear that the boys themselves are aware of the rich opportun ities which they enjoy, for the scholastic achievements are creating new records each year.

If you will bear with me for three more minutes, I should like to say a few words regarding these annual dinners of the Association .

There are a few faithful members here tonight who can remember the first annual dinner of the revived Association. It was held at the Old Bull Hotel, in December, 1 924, under the Chairman­ship of Sir William Thorn, an old boy of the School. It was a splendid occasion and there were present 1 28 old boys and Governors. For six years following this the dinner was held at Furness' Cafe. We came here, to this room, in 1 930 for the first time, and have continued ever s ince.

In the years immediately preceding the second World War the popularity of the dinner grew each year, as we embarked upon the practice of inviting distinguished men as chief guests.

In 1 932 we had Sir Thomas Insk i p, the Attorney General. Sir Thomas l ike myself was a member of the House of Laity of the Church Assembly. After a m'!eting of the House on one occasion I approached Sir Thomas and invited him to come and present the prizes and be our Chief Guest at the Old Boys' Dinner. He came and I gave hirr. a very busy time for in addition to attending these two functions, I took h im to Billinge Lodge of Freemasons on the Wednesday evening. On the Thursday evening he presented the prizes at King George's Hall. As he walked on the platform from behind he was greatly surprised to find i n the Hall 3000 people waiting to receive him. He turned to me and said facetiously -"Whittaker you are blame for alI this." As I was President that year of the Law Student's Debating Society, I got Sir Thomas to give an address on the Thursday afternoon to 60 Law Students drawn from East and West Lancashire. Alderman William Kenyon, the Mayor and Chief Magistrate of the Borough presided at the

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gathering and after thanking h im for his attendance at the meeting. he said to me, "Wh ittaker, if you hadn't invited me here I would still h ave come." During his stay in Blackburn he was the guest of Sir John Taylor. Sir Thomas afterwards became Lord Chief J ustice and Lord Chancellor.

Amongst other important guesls we had Professor Bompas Smith of Manchester, Sir WaIter Smiles, Profs. John Garstang. Waiter Garstang. J . P. Kilner from Oxford. Sir William Prescott Chairman of the Metropolitan Water Board, a Blackburn old boy, Basil Catterns, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, and an old boy of the School. His father was Vicar of Church Kirk.

Perhaos the highlight was reached in 1 938, when Sir Arnold Wilson delivered the Morley Oration. This remarkable and masterly performance brought the whole assembly instinctively to its feet at its conclusion, with tumultuous applause and appreciation of an exceptional achievement. The address was printed in full in the March, 1 939, issue of the "Blackburnian." This meeting proved to be the end of the series of dinners before the war.

I need not speak of those of recent years which have taken place since the series was resumed in 1 947, beyond a word of appreciation and recognition to the committee which arranges this annual event. Let them be assured of our sincere gratitude for the trouble they take in carrying on this enjoyable re-union each year and our hope that they will never tire in the good work. Especially we are indebted to Mr. Harold Burrows for all he does to make the dinner a success.

I must apologise for the length of this reply and will end by ;enewing my thanks to you all for the honour you confer on me to­night with the assurance of the pleasure it will. always give me to recall that speech of his Honour J udge Walmsley.

Mr. Whittaker was long applauded for his sincere words and i nteresting recollections.

Mr. E . B. Norman, proposing the toast to the school, said that to anyone who had recently followed the term-to-term fortunes of the school in the pages of " The Blackburnian" it must be evident that Queen Elizabeth's was flourishing. It is certainly apparent to me," he said, "that the school has, improved out of all recognition since I left. One today has only to walk round the school to see the many obvious improvements that have occurred since my day. All these many improvements �o the school buildings have been made essential over the years by the real criterion of any school's pro­gress- -the steady increase in the number of boys at the school. I am convinced that this evidence of the school's development and prest;ge has not been an haphazard thing," he declared, paying a tribute to the devoted duty of successive headmasters and the Boan! of Governors' wise guidance of the school's affairs. Referring to the foundation of a London branch of the Association, he said that there were now ] 1 0 members.

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Mr. B. H. Kemball-Cook , the headmaster, in his response to the toast, said he knew flj.ll well Mr. Whittaker's constant solicitude for the past, present and the future of the schoal. R eferring to' the Londan branch, he said that this was the first territarial branch out­side the hame district. " I see no reasan why this departure in the South shauld nat be capied elsewhere. I dO' hape we shall have a branch gaing saan in Liverpaal. This schaal is designed far bath use and astentatian," he cantinued. "We think we are daing well and looking well and we thank the aId boys' assaciatian far same af the aspects in which we are laak ing well." The playing fields' develap- ­ment would begin next spring. When it was finished they haped that their playing fields-eight faatball pitches and two cricket squares­wauld be as fine as any in the country. An aId bays' association was anly really valuable if i t facused the interest af the members an the schaal as well. " Th i s assaciatian is daing that," he added. "It is a gO' ad assaciatian and an behalf af the schaal I wauld ask you to' accept my very grateful thanks."

Mr. Miltan W. Taylar, M.A. , M.B .E., adviser to' the Ministry af Agriculture, prapased the lIaast to' the guests and:. Mr. Harald Waolley, President af the Natianal Farmers' Unian, respanded. He referred to' the problems facing British farmers awing to' the farma­tian of the two econamic blacs-the " Sixes and Sevens" as he called them-and indicated the lines an which he thaught a solutian to these problems might be reached.

One aId boy, Mr. John Haworth, the New Yark gealagist, flew the Atlantic to' attend the dinner. He had arranged a business trip to' this cauntry so that he cauld be present. Had it not been far the dinner he wauld have pastponed his trip until after the New Year.

The Editar would like to' acknawledge his ind ebtedness to' the good friends af the Assaciation at present emplayed on the staff af the " Even ing Telegraph" and " The Blackburn Times" who generously gave af their time to' repart the event and frO' m whose accounts many af the details autlined abave are taken.

THE HENRY WHITT AKER PRIZE When the Committee of the Old Blackburn Assaciation decided

to present Mr. Henry Whittaker with h i s partrait the questian arose as to' whO' shauld paint the portrait. The Cammittee approached Mr. Whittaker and as he did nat wish to' sit again far anather partrait he. offered the Committee his partrait painted by James Quinn at the .

same price he paid far it . The Committee accepted the offer and in inviting subscriptians inti mated tha n any surplus would be devoted to the endowment of a prize. Mr. Wh ittaker later decided instead of charging for it, to' give the Quinn portrait to the Committee so that all the subscriptions cauld go (a the endawment af a prize. A sum of

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£200 has been raised in this way and the money will be invested and the income applied to provide a prize to be awarded annually on a basis -yet to be determined by the Committee of the Old Black­burnians Association.

MANCHESTER OLD BOYS' DINNER The Annual Dinner of the daughter Association of Old

Blackburnians was held at the Grand Hotel, Manchester, on February 23rd. Mr. H . King, B.Sc., Senior Chemistry Master at School, was chief guest. .

The members and their guests were received by the officials in a private suite and later conducted to a sumptuous meal in most attractive surroundings. After dinner, the chairman, Mr. E. I. Whalley proposed the loyal toast and the toast to the School. The Headmaster, Mr. B. H. Kemball-Cook, M.A., responded, .congratulating members on their academic successes and outlining the School's present progress. He was most pleased to be able to witness the continued growth of Old Boys' Societies in the Universities and hoped they would be extended on a regional basis to include other Old Boys living in the area.

The Secretary, M. T. D. MalIoch, proposed the toast to the guest, expressing his delight that so many, including Mr. D. G. Hartley, Chief Education Officer, Mr. G. Mason, Chairman of the Education Committee, M r. William Hare, J unior, Governor of the School, and Mr. G. N. Forbes, Chairman of the Committee of the parent Association, had been able to be present. He called upon Mr. King to reply.

Mr. King thanked his hosts for their indulgent hospitality. His speech maintained that there were sti1.I virtues, such as love of truth and loyalty, which were not fully realised. The profound seriousness of Mr. King was characteristically relieved by his

. humorous remarks and fund of anecdotes. Some 40 members enjoyed an evening of good cheer and

companionship.

OLD BOYS' GOLF COMPETITION The annual Golf Competition for the Judge Walmysley and

Sir Gilbert Gerrard Cups is to be played over the course of the Wilpshire Golf Club on Wednesday. 7th June, 1 961 , commencing any time after 2 p.m. to suit your convenience, by k ind permission of the Council of the Wilpshire Golf Club who have also generously requested their members to �ive our competition the right of way. Comnetit<)rs to play-off their lowest Cluh Ha nd icap with a limit of 20. � � . .

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The competition is confined to Old Boys and Past and Present Masters of the Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School.

Entrance Fee (including Green Fee) 7/6 each. No officia.l supper will be arranged. Will competitors requiring refreshment� kindly make their own arrangements with the Stewad.

To assist me please arrange for your own partner and to avoid congestion in the evening kindy start as soon as possible after 2 p.m.

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TREASURE HUNT AND TENNIS MATCH A motor car treasure hunt for Old Boys and Staff will be held

one weekday evening in May. Mr. John Bolton, M.A., has kindly agreed to organise the event for us. For the more energetic Old Boys there will be a triangular tennis match-American style­between the Old Boys, Staff and the School. This, too, wiU take place one evening in May.

Any Old Boy who would like to take part in either or both of these activities, please contact Mr. A. Eastham, at the School or 52, Addington Street, Blackburn, from whom further details will be forthcoming.

OLD BLACKBURNIANS' A.F.C. Since our last report the Cl ub's 1 st X l have not been having

too good a time, and are finding goal-scoring difficult on the very heavy grounds of this season.

They were eliminated at Lammack by Liverpool Police in the 2nd Round of the Lanes Amateur Cup, and in the Annual Boxing Day game, the visiting Universities XI scored the only goal of the match. In all the side has so far PI . 27. W. 1 0, D. 4, L. 1 3 , For 49, Ag. 6 1 and is in 10th position. D. L. Stevenson and E. Wilkinson are joint leading scorers with 10 goals each. The 2nd team occupy 8th position, and the leading goal-getter with l l goals is R . G. Sharp in a record of Pl . 23, W. 1 1 , D . I , L. 1 1 , F. 70, A. 60.

The 3rd X I , although having fallen slightly from grace since our last report. have still the best record of any of the Club's. sides having PI. 1 8, W. 1 4, D. 2, L. 2. F. 99, A. 25 and 3 1 goals stand to the credit of M. T. J. Bolton. In 2nd League position however, they stand little chance of overhauling the leaders. Old Farn­worthians.

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F. Shuttleworth has scored 24 times for the 4th team in a record of PI . 2 1 , W. 1 4, D. 2, L. 5, F. 1 07, A. 45-a really remark­

. able performance for the team who have so often to give up their players for replacements in the higher X I . They lie in 3rd position, immediately behind the Club's 3rd X l .

The Club will again be touring Western Lakeland over the coming Easter weekend, but at the time of going to Press. the fixtures are not yet finalised, although 3 games will be played.

At the time our last report was submitted, our late Chairman, Mr. Norman Robinson was still very actively at the helm of the Club's affairs ; but his very tragic and sudden death was reported in another section of the last magazine. It is literally impossible to put into words all he meant to our Club in the post-war era. He first became an Officer of the Club in 1 950, and served as its Hon. Treasurer for 7 seasons before taking over the Chairmanship on the resignation of Mr. Donald Forbes. I t was the Lammack ground, however, that Norman put at the top of his list ; and the pitch, despite this winter's hammering from the weather, stands as a won­derful tribute to all his efforts. He also did a tremendous amount of work for football outside our Club, and it may not generally be known that he was, for several seasons, Results Secretary for the Northern Section of the Lancashire Amateur League. The esteem in which he was held in Amateur Football circles was fully con­firmed to the writer, by the many letters of sympathy received from all corners of the County.

OLD BOYS' SUCCESSES

We again offer congratulations to all those Old Boys who have been honoured by academic or athletic success, promotion or singular achievement since we last went to press in December.

HARRY AINSWORTH ( 1 932-39) has joined the staff of Alliance Dye and Chemical Co. Ltd . , Bolton, as Technical Representative in the Lancashire area. He was formerly technical manager of Elton Cop Dyeing Co. , Bury, and has been manager of the dyeing section of Jannick Ltd., Darwen.

DR. D. W. BARRON, M.A . , PH.D. ( 1946-53) Elected Fellow of Down­i ng College, Cambridge.

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ALAN BRADSHAW ( 1953-60) was chosen to play for the Universities Athletic Union team to play an F.A. Amateur side at Reading on February 28.

� . COWBURN ( 1 93 1 -36) has passed the final examination of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries.

TREVOR HA WORTH ( 1 947-56) has gained the degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery at Manchester University.

R EV. KENNETH HOGHTON, M .A. ( 19 1 9-26) Vicar of All Saints', Clayton-le-Moors, and Rural Dean of Accrington, was together with four other nominees, appointed honorary Canon of Black­burn Cathedral in December by the Bishop, the Rt . Rev. C. R . Claxton, M .A.

NORMAN J EPSON, B. COMM. ( 1 9 1 8-22) was appointed chairman and managing director of Walpamur Co. Ltd . , Darwen, in Decem­ber. We congratulate h im on this signal honour accorded him and wish him much joy and success in his new duties.

KEITH MILLER ( 1 943-47) gave a talk on " The Saltoro Expedition, 1 960 " in the Lecture Hall, in December. Together with Dr. Jon Stephenson (of Dr. Fuch's Antartic Expedition), he started planning the expedition five years ago whilst the two of them were at London University together.

lAIN D. NEWTON ( 1 947-55) passed final examination of the I nstitute of Chartered Accountants.

G EORGE A. POOLE ( 1933-35) Deputy Director of Public Relations in Blackburn has been made an Associate of the Institute of Public Relations.

GOROON SMITH B.SC. (Pharm.) ( 1 934-39) has been appointed manager of Ballards Lane, Finchley, Branch of Boots the Chemists.

DR. S. J. E. E. ST.-LoRANT ( 1 947-53) appointed to a post in Nuclear Research at Cern, Geneva.

BARRIE STONES ( 1948-54) has won his first major award while competing in Blackpool Inter-Academy hairdressing competi­tion.

JOHN KELVIN TYLER, B.SC. ( 1 948-54) has obtained the degree of Ph.D. in Chemistry at Birmingham University after com­pleting three years' research in micro-wave spectroscopy.

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