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CONTENTS. AN F.P. TO CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST .

THE SCHOOL IN THE 'EIGHTIES ..

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PRO PATRIA MORTUI, 1914-1919 ..

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NOTES ABOUT OLD BOYS .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. " C.D." •• •• •• •• •• THREE DAYS IN THE CAIRNGORMS WHAT OUR SCHOOL STANDS FOR, BY J. M. BUI.LOCH, M.A., LL.D. .. .. ..

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The " Magazine " is issued under the auspices of The Former Pupils' Club, in March, June, and November. All communications with regard to the " Magazine " should be addressed to the Editor and Secretary and Treasurer of the Club, THEODORE WATT, M.A., The Rosemount Press, Aberdeen.

• ,* Members of the Club are requested to inform the Secretary of any change in their address.

An F.P. to Climb Mount Everest.

To reach the most inaccessible places on the earth has always been a problem that has appealed to the imagination.

In the many attempts that have been made to penetrate the wastes of snow and ice that surround the North and South Poles, Old Boys of the Grammar School have taken a prominent part. In recent years JAmEsoN BOYD ADAMS (1893-94), for instance, as a member of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-09, got within 97 miles of the South Pole ; and ROBERT S. CLARK (1894-1901) was biologist to the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-16. Last year we recorded the pioneer flight over Africa from North to South of Dr. P. CHALMERS MITCHELL (1879-80), ending with the crash at Tabora. Now comes the announcement of an expedition which has as its aim the ascent of the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest.

From time to time the Himalayan expeditions of Dr. Alexander M. Kellas (1881-84) have been recorded in the Magazine. In 1911 he ascended Mount Pawhunri, 23,180 feet, in Northern Sikkim, and last year he reached a height of over 23,500 feet on Mount Kamet in Garhwal. No one, it

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is recognized, has done better work than he in Himalayan exploration, or knows more about the effects of high altitude on the human frame. It was only natural, therefore, that the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club, which are jointly organizing the Mount Everest expedition, should have arranged to have the services of Dr. Kellas, the result of whose explorations and physiological tests will be of the utmost importance to the expedition, both in making its preparations and in its subsequent conduct. He is at present in •India, and is to join the reconnaissance party which is this year to examine the mountain from every angle' and test the possible ways by which, it is hoped, the summit may be reached next year. " The expedition," says a writer in The Times, " will undoubtedly be the most important one to explore the great mountains of the earth ever attempted. For not only will there be Mount Everest to climb, but the survey and exploration of the entirely unknown district that lies to the north of the mountain will be carried out as far north as the Brahmaputra or Tsan-pu river. There will be considerably over 10,000 square miles of new country to be explored, a country about which we know practically nothing."

Through Dr. Kellas the School will have a deep personal interest in this great expedition, and will follow its progress with closest attention.

The School in the 'Eighties.

Anthony Mitchell, Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, was a pupil at the School from 1882 to 1886, when he went on to the University as Gold Medallist and Dux. I remember those years very well. As an infant of six, I entered the " Initiatory," under Miss Watson, in 1883, and by the time I had worked my way up to the Lower School, Anthony Mitchell was in the highest class, and acknowledged leader of the School. I can still vividly recall his appearance and manner.

He seemed to us small boys to be a big manly man, a prodigy of learning and athletic prowess. During my eleven years at the School I never knew a senior boy who was more respected or looked up to. He was our beau ideal. I well remember one day when a cricket ball was hit into a garden which ran down to the west bank of the Denburn. The future Bishop, I think, was the hitter, and he and one or two other big boys climbed into the garden and began to search in a fine crop of potatoes for the lost ball. The householder, naturally, did not view this proceeding with equanimity, and he went out and began to " tell off " the intruders with considerable vigour, until Mitchell came forward, and with a handsome

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apology, made amends for the invasion. These memories have been stirred up by reading the very interesting chapter about the School in Principal Perry's admirable " Life " of the Bishop. Anyone who wants to get a lifelike picture of the School as it was a generation ago may be confidently recommended to read this chapter. Discussing the curriculum, the writer says :— Whatever the faults of the system may have been, there is no doubt that it was extraordinarily stimulating to boys of ability, and even among the average produced an admirable type of general culture. There was an invigorating intellectual atmosphere in the School, and Mitchell, after his experience of the narrow outlook of the village school, enjoyed to the full his four sessions within the walls of " the Grammar," as with every term that passed he found fresh outlets for his interests and energies, and new scope for his ambition in competition with boys who, having started life with more advantages than had fallen to his lot, could put up a fight for the first place in class or in games.

The system certainly stimulated Mitchell. " In his last year at school," we are told, " the variety of his interests was amazing. He was Secretary of the Football Club, Captain of the First Cricket Eleven, a frequent contributor, both in prose and verse, to the School Magazine, a keen member of the Literary, yet he ended the session as Gold Medallist and Dux of the School." Like many another boy of his age, Mitchell began to keep a diary, and we are grateful to Principal Perry for giving us a glimpse into its pages. In it there is " much shrewd insight into character, as well as a keen sense of humour, and a power of graphic description which in a sentence or two hits off effectually a character, or a name, or a scene." It is good to have the delightful story of the Bannermill Football Club's challenge preserved, and there are many Old Boys who will thoroughly appreciate the following entry, dated 28th January, 1886 :Salisbury turned out of office yesterday and " Signs of the Times " were apparent. The Rector was glum as a monk, while Mr. C. was in a phenomenally good humour. His face was positively beaming with smiles—though it wasn't shaven.

Mr. C. is happily still with us in Aberdeen, and his good humour still prevails.

In the following week we find this :— Wrote to-night to School Board about Cricket Club. We are about £9 in debt, and want them to clear it off. Don't expect they will, though.

Rector says they are a scrubby lot.

Much has happened since these days. We have had a School Board who have rightly considered it to be their duty to provide a playing field (with the assistance of the F.P.'s), and if the F.P.'s will make a further comparatively small effort, we shall soon have an adequate pavilion.

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PRO PATRIA MORTUI, 1914-1919.

ADDITIONAL NAMES. In the course of preparing the annotated " Roll of Pupils " for the press, the Editor has found that the deaths during War service of the following Former Pupils have not previously been recorded in the pages of the Magazine :— Bteganber Clarke abbie (1893-95), Private, Lancashire Fusiliers, was killed at Poelcapelle in September, 1917.

On leaving the School he entered the office of a chartered accountant in London, and thereafter was successively a bank clerk in Mexico City, and an assistant manager on coffee and tobacco plantations in Cuba. He served in the Yeomanry Corps in the South African War, 1901-02, receiving two medals and five clasps. He was engaged in mining in Nevada, U.S.A., from 1902 to 1904, and for the next eight years was a commercial traveller in London and the provinces. In 1912 he went to Cobalt, Ontario, as assistant manager in a silver mine. In September, 1914, he joined the East Kent Regiment as a private, and served in the Army Pay Corps at Hounslow till the end of 1916. After training at Dover till June, 1917, he went to France with the Buffs, but transferred to the Lancashire Fusiliers and served in Flanders. His death was due to his being caught by a sniper after a heavy day's fighting.

Oeoroe 'otson (Brant (1911-12), Private, 12th Royal Scots, was killed in action in France on 25th April, 1918.

Prior to the War he was serving his apprenticeship as a bank clerk at Echt, Aberdeenshire. He enlisted in the R.A.M.C. in 1915, being subsequently transferred to the Royal Scots.

Vonalb McCallum (1912-13), 2nd Lieutenant, Scottish Rifles, was reported " missing " at Loos on 25th September, 1915, and was never heard of again. On leaving the School, he went to the Royal Dick Veterinary College, Edinburgh, and joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on the outbreak of war. He attained the rank of Sergeant, and was commissioned in January, 1915. l4orman inacikinnott (1907-08), Lance-Corporal, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was killed in action in France on 14th March, 1917. He was engaged in teaching in Bayble School, Stornoway, until he enlisted in the 14th A. & S. H. in August, 1915. He crossed to France about June, 1916, and was on the eve of returning to England to train for a commission when he was instantaneously killed by a shell.

Malcolm Macrae (1906-11), M.C., Captain in the Canadian Army, was killed in action in France on 29th September, 1918. On leaving the School, he entered the service of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, and was subsequently stationed in various places in Quebec Province. He enlisted in the 1st Mounted Rifles, Canadian Army, in 1915, and crossed

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to England in 1916. He subsequently received a commission, and was awarded the Military Cross for service in France.

3obn MacGregor !Beams (1907-08), Sergeant, Machine Gun Corps, Canadian Expeditionary Force, was killed in France in May, 1917. He was a water conduit inspector in Alberta, and on the outbreak of war enlisted in the 31st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He later became a Sergeant in the Machine Gun Corps.

IlIat[Liam Mitchell (1906-07), Private, 31st Canadian Battalion, C.F_.F., died on 16th November, 1917, of wounds received in action. On leaving the School he entered the service of a firm of advocates in Aberdeen, and thereafter was for some years with Messrs. Sangster & Henderson, Aberdeen. In 1913 he went to Canada, and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force soon after the outbreak of War. He was a son of the late Mr. Robert Mitchell of Chapelton, Esslemont, Ellon.

3ames E. f. Stuart (1888-89) was drowned in the Mediterranean in January, 1916. After serving as an apprentice engineer at Aberdeen, he went to sea and was latterly for several years a chief engineer in the service of the Mercantile Steamship Co. Ltd., During the War he was chief engineer of the s.s. Coquet of London, which was engaged in the service of the Government. This ship, while on a voyage from New York to the East, was torpedoed by two Austrian submarines in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Tripoli, on 6th January, 1916. The chief engineer, who with others had taken to a boat, was ordered by the enemy to go back to the sinking vessel, probably to secure its final destruction. The crew were thereafter abandoned in the open sea in their two small boats. The Captain's boat, after six days' of successful handling in tempestuous weather, reached the coast of Tripoli, where the party was attacked by the Senussi, several being murdered. The survivors were carried inland, and after terrible sufferings were rescued some three months later.

The other boat, in whose company was numbered our F.P., was never seen or heard of after the 7th of January, when flares were exchanged during the night between the two boats.

R. C. Carson Smith (1899-90), Lance-Corporal, Fort Garry Horse, Canadian Expeditionary Force, was killed in action near Amiens on 10th August, 1918. On leaving the School he entered his father's business of architect in Bideford, Devon, and thereafter was for several years engaged in farming in Saskatchewan, Canada. He enlisted as a Trooper in the 10th Canadian Mounted Rifles in January, 1915, and after training in Canada and England, was transferred to the Fort Garry Horse, and sent to France in 1916. In April, 1918, he was promoted Lance-Corporal and decorated with the Military Medal on the field for despatch-riding under heavy fire.

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• 4,* It is requested that the Editor be informed of all new appointments or interesting incidents in the careers of Former Pupils.

The dates given in parentheses after names indicate the sessions of attendance at the School.

Robert Aitken* (1897-1903), who prior to the War was a civil engineer in the service of the Greek Ministry of Marine, is now serving with Sir John Jackson, Limited, at Athens.

Cecil W. Anderson* (1911-12), who received a Regular Commission in the Indian Army in January, 1918, and was posted to the 9th Bhopal Infantry, after serving in India and Mesopotamia was invalided out of the Army on account of illness contracted while on active service. He has recently taken up an appointment under the Royal Bank of Canada at Havana, Cuba.

Norman J. Anderson* (1913-16) went out in August last to take up an appointment with the Malayalam Rubber and Produce Co., Ltd., on the Lahai Group, Vadaserikara P.O., Travancore, South India.

John Eric Bain* (1908-13) has entered the service of Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Company, Bombay.

Edward Percy Barnett* (1895-1903) is now manager of the Pamoedian Rubber Estate, Siantar, East Coast, Sumatra.

Wilfrid Philip Barron* (1896-1903), M.C., A.M. Inst. C.E., has recently received an appointment as chief engineer to the Port Commissioners of Chittagong, Bengal, and has left to take up his new duties.

John Richardson Bell* (1905-14) is on the Changkat Salak Estate in Perak, F.M.S. William Beveridge* (1875- 80), M.A., minister of the U. F. Church, New Deer, has received six months' leave of absence to superintend the work of the U.F. Church's Jewish Mission at Buda-Pest.

Henry J. C. Boulton* (1882-89) has returned to service with Messrs. Pauling & Co., Ltd., and is at present engaged in the construction of the Trans-Zambesia Railway from Beira to Chinde.

Hector J. Brown (1884-90), who served with the Canadians in the War, rising to the rank of LieutenantColonel and being awarded the D.S.O., on his return to Canada in January, 1919, was appointed Provost Marshal for Nova • Indicates Member of Former Pupils' Club.

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Scotia, and took charge of the repatriation of Chinese coolies across Canada in 1919-20. On leaving the Army in August last, he organized the Canada Maritime Investigation Agency, Limited, of which he is President and Managing Director.

The headquarters of the Agency are in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

In a recent letter he says that he often thinks of his School days, and realizes the value of the sound training imparted at the School. "Like many other Scotsmen, I have determined to send my boy back to Scotland for his education, for the more I travel, the more I realize the inestimable value of our Scottish education." [Will Dr. J. M. Bulloch please note ?—Ed. A .G.S. Mag.] Robert Brown (1895-99), M.D., holds the post of anesthetist and lecturer in ansthetics in the Egyptian Government School of Medicine, Cairo.

Donald R. Burnet (1912-15) has been serving with the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and while recently on special duty was accidently wounded.

James Cadenhead (1870-74) was in February elected an Academician of the Royal Scottish Academy.

John Campbell (1894-96), who represented a London firm of engineers in Petrograd from 1911 to 1918, is now engaged at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hants.

Charles Alexander Carmichael (1903-06), son of Sir George Carmichael* (1876-81), K.C.S.I., who passed out of Woolwich into the Royal Engineers in September, 1914, and resigned his commission in October, 1919, is now in the service of Messrs. Andrew Yule & Co., Ltd., Calcutta. His brother, William B. G. Carmichael (1906-08), is at Balliol College, Oxford.

William Robert Clapperton* (1899-1901), M.A., Ph.D., D.D., who entered the Scots College, Rome, in 1907, and was appointed Vice-Rector in 1914, has recently been appointed a Cameriere Segreto (Private Chamberlain) to His Holiness the Pope. He is now styled " Monsignor."

James Cooper Clark (1894-96) is at present living in Florence, where he has recently purchased an entire collection of 3,600 Roman and Greek coins, some of which are exceedingly rare.

William Robertson Clark* (1907-11), A.M.Inst.C.E., is now assistant engineer, Gold Coast Railways, at Seccondee, British West Africa. In a recent letter he says that he is in the best of health and enjoying the life out there.

Duncan Cran (1906-09), who served in France with the Canadian Infantry, received an appointment in May last as forest ranger in the Forest Branch of the Department of Lands of British Columbia, and is stationed at Thurston Bay, Sonora Island. His ranger district extends from Knox Bay and Green Point Rapids in the north to Cape Mudge in the

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south. In a recent letter he says :-" I think they have made a fair start in forming an efficient Forest Branch in B.C., although there is a tremendous lot of room for improvement. Five launches (about 40 ft. ) are now equipped with wireless telephone and there are three land stations (wireless 'phone) . . . This is a great country for rapids (salt water), whose speed at half-tide ranges anywhere between three and fourteen knots ; such as the Seymour Narrows and the Yuculta Rapids. I have most of them in my district. Sonora Island is about as far as the Spaniards got when they accompanied Captain Vancouver on his voyage of discovery."

Newell Burnett Cran (1910-11), who served in France with the Second Rhodesian Regiment of South African Infantry, has entered the service of the municipality of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.

Samuel Graham Crowden* (1865-67) has recently become a member of the Club, and when joining wrote :—" I must confess to feeling rather proud of being an old pupil (although it may be said : ' quorum minima pars fui ') of the Aberdeen Grammar School, and have a pleasant recollection of that day on which my late brother, Dr. Crowden, introduced C. T. Wakeham (now Canon Wakeham of Argyll)and myself to the Rector, the late Dr. Barrack, and after a little formal exam. we were handed over to the care and tuition of the late amiable and gentle Rev. Mr. Legge, who was beloved by all. " Amongst my lares and penates are the Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary, Melvin's Latin Grammar, Campbell's ' Pleasures of Hope,' and some other books I used at the Grammar. On the front page of one of them is written :— ' Hic liber est mews, Deny it who can Samuel G. Crowden A right honest man ; In Muchalls by Stonehaven He is to be found

Si non moriatur

Or laid in the ground.

InY omnibus periculis

May Heaven him defend,

Per vitam, aetatem.

World without end.—Amen.'

" I wonder if any of the present pupils make such an entry on the name plate of their ' Ex libris.' " George Cruden* (1864-66), M.A., who, although born in 1850, put in four years' active service in the War, including a year with the Labour Corps in France and Belgium, has recently become instructor of a class in physical training in London for business and professional men over 50 years of age.

George William Cruickshank (1881-85) was last year appointed Assistant Engineer of the Metropolitan District and London Electric Railways.

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John Fleetwood Cumming (1879-80), O.B.E., has been appointed Convener of the County of Elgin.

Alexander Campbell Davidson* (1904-06) is now studying at the School of Agriculture, Vermilion, Alberta, Canada.

David Macdonald Davidson* (1880-82), M.D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Indian Medical Service, was at the New Year appointed a Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire. He entered the Indian Medical Service in 1887, and is at present civil surgeon at Lahore.

Ernest George Dawson (1896-97 and 1902-04) has resigned his appointment as accountant at Robert Gordon's Technical College, Aberdeen, in order to take up an appointment abroad.

James Catto Duffus* (1897-1904), M.A., LL.B., has been assumed a partner in the firm of Messrs. Wilsone and Duffus, advocates, Aberdeen.

Norman Watt Duffus* (1904-05 and 1912), who entered the service of the British Bank of South America, Ltd., in April, 1919, took up duty at the branch of the Bank in Bahia, Brazil, in April, 1920.

Alexander W. Duncan* (1892), who joined the Indian Army in 1917 and served in Baluchistan, Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, has latterly been in command at Shillong, Assam.

Herbert Spencer Duncan (1880- 83), M.A., was last year appointed Principal of the Presidency College, Madras. He joined the Indian Educational Service in 1894.

Erwalda W. Elwell (1894-97) is now Assistant County Engineer, Yakima, Washington, U.S.A. James S. B. Forbes* (1903-10), M. B., recently joined the Army Medical Service as Captain, and has been stationed at Peshawar, India.

Thomas Guthrie Forbes* (1898-1902) is farming at Marshall, N.W. Saskatchewan.

William N. G. Fowler (1885-89) is director of Messrs.

R. L. Esson & Co., Ltd., printers and lithographers, Johannesburg.

Archie R. Fraser* (1902-07), M.D., has been appointed Medical Inspector of Venereal Diseases to the Union Government of South Africa, and Advisor in Venereal Diseases to the South African Defence Force.

Frederick Sharpe Gammack (1884-89) is Instructor in Poultry Culture at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., U.S.A. Francis A. Garden (1885-91) has been appointed to succeed Ernest G. Dawson [see above] as accountant of Robert Gordon's Technical College, Aberdeen.

James Scott Gardner (1889-92), who was formerly in the Civil Service of Rhodesia, was last year appointed Assessor, Reparation Claims Department under the Peace Treaties, London.

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William Garvie (1883-89), M.A., minister of the U.F. Church, Ballantrae, Ayrshire, has, owing to ill-health, resigned his charge, and is at present engaged in the official Records of the U.F. Church.

Go Khek Ghee* (1904-08) is a member of the firm " The Pacific Trading Company," which is engaged in contracting, engineering, and architectural work at Hankow, China.

Another F.P. in Hankow is Dr. H. J. Shu (known while at the School (1894-97) as Cornelius Agnew Suvoong), who is in medical practice there.

Gavin A. Gillespie (1894-99), who entered the service of the Standard Bank of South Africa in 1903, is now accountant in the Pretoria Branch.

Thomas A. M. Gordon (1885-94) is engaged in business in Molteno, Cape Province, South Africa.

William Jamieson Gordon (1896-97) is in the service of the National Bank of South Africa, Ltd., New York.

George Urquhart Graham (1898-1900) is now in the office of Messrs. De la Cour & Co., coffee exporters, Santos, Brazil.

Ian Grant (1910-11) is assistant on a tea garden in Upper Assam.

Henry Gray (1881-92) is now in business in Ohura, King's Country, New Zealand.

Clarence Edward Greeson (1902-05), M.D., was commissioned as a surgeon in the Royal Navy in April, 1914, and had a wide range of service during the War, including the Battle of Heligoland Bight and the Battle of the Falklands ; the Dardenelles Campaign and action along the Turkish and Bulgarian coasts, 1915-17 ; the North Sea, 1917-18; and the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora, 1920. He has recently been promoted Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander.

Walter Greig (1899) has gone to India to take up an appointment with the Alliance Bank of Simla.

Charles Grub (1866-70) has since 1919 been vicar of Corhampton, near Bishop's Waltham, Hants. He was formerly rector at Dunoon.

Victor Thornton Gurner (1902-04) is managing clerk to a firm of Essex chartered surveyors. He served in France with a Survey Battalion of the Royal Engineers, engaged principally in the preparation of war maps.

James G. Hadden (1885-86) is proprietor of a general store in High River, Alberta, Canada.

John Levack Hall (1903-07) is manager of Koravantavalam Estate, Travancore, South India.

Edward John Harper (1909-14), who qualified as a wireless operator in 1917, is at present acting as senior operator on board s.s. Andalusier, trading between Texas and Antwerp.

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Barnett Harvey (1883-86), after serving in France as a Major in the Canadian Forestry Corps, has taken up his former post of Cadet Instructor of Gymnasium, Victoria, British Columbia.

Arthur Joseph Hawes (1899-1900), M.C., M.B., has been appointed resident medical officer of the City Hospital, East Liverpool.

David Sinclair Hay (1907-11) is at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, into which he passed in September, 1919.

John Crawford Matthew Hay (1892-95) has received a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force, and is at present Captain and Adjutant at the Aeroplane Experimental Establishment, Martlesham, Woodbridge, Suffolk.

James Henderson (1867-69), M.A., who was Senior Chaplain, Bombay Presidency, . 1899-1905, and thereafter Admiralty Chaplain for Presbyterians at Portsmouth, retired from the latter appointment on 1st October last.

Thomas Best Gibson Henderson (1894-1900) has since 1st January, 1918, been a member of the firm of Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery, certified public accountants, who have offices in several of the largest cities in the United States. During the War he and his firm were employed by the U.S. Government in many ways, but chiefly in developing the accounting system for the Aircraft Bureau. This was a stupendous task, involving the assignment of nearly 200 members of the staff for over one year. Henderson qualified by examination in 1918 as a member of the American Institute of Accountants.

Robert B. W. Holmes (1895), O.B.E., has a very interesting War record. Prior to the War, he was Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Nigerian Eastern Railway.

He returned to England in September, 1916, and was asked by the War Office to go to " The Mystery Port " of Richborough, Kent, to form the Mechanical and Shipyard Formations of the Inland Waterways and Docks Branch of the Royal Engineers, being at the same time gazetted Major. In March, 1918, he was promoted to the rank of Colonel, having under his command 9,000 officers and men. In April, 1919, he was demobilized, and returned to the Colonial Service, but two months later was recalled to the Colours as Assistant Director of Railway Traffic, and went to Syria as General Manager of the Hedjaz Railway. In November of that year he carried out the evacuation of all troops by rail from Syria, and in December was appointed Director of Railway Traffic, Egyptian Expeditionary Force. In March, 1920, he became General Manager of the Palestine Military Railways (Colonel, Grade T), and in October was taken over by the Civil Government as General Manager of the Palestine Railways, but has not yet been demobilized.

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James Inkster (1882-88) is in command of the Anchises, of the Blue Funnel Line.

Alexander Innes (1895-98), who served as a law apprentice in Aberdeen, is now a partner in a cattle ranch at Oswego, Montana, U.S.A. Alexander Allan Innes* (1909-13) and Robert Edward Innes (1903-06) are now joint proprietors of Mains of Fordoun, Kincardineshire.

Charles Stewart Jackson (1909-11), who held a commission in the Durham Light Infantry, has gone to Malacca to engage in rubber planting.

Charles Johnstone (1884-89), who served in the Matabele War and the South African War, and in the Great War came across in Strathcona's Horse with the First Canadian Contingent, has been for the last four years in the Audit Office of the Canadian Forces at Ottawa.

Charles Simpson Johnstone (1903-07) is employed with a firm of chartered accountants in London.

Thomas Russell Johnstone (1907-10) was appointed in August last sub-editor of the Daily Sketch, Manchester.

George Gordon Dinwiddie Kilpatrick* (1895-99) was appointed minister of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Ottawa, in November, 1919. Throughout the War he served as a Chaplain with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, being latterly Senior Chaplain of the 3rd Division, and was awarded the D.S.O. in October, 1918.

Rev. George Alexander Frank Knight (1878- 85), M.A., is the author of a recently published volume entitled " Nile and Jordan, being the archaeological and historical interrelations between Egypt and Canaan." He has been the minister of College and. Kelvingrove U.F. Church, Glasgow, since 1914.

Thomas Hamilton Lamb (1902-05) is engineering adviser to the Sentinel Motor-Waggon Works, Ltd., Shrewsbury. While a pilot in the Royal Naval Air Service he was employed at Luce Bay Naval Airship Station during 1918 escorting convoys from the Atlantic into Liverpool. After the Armistice he was transferred to the Royal Naval Airship Station at East Fortune, and, as messing officer, took part in the historic journey to America and back in July, 1919, of H.M.A. " R.34 " (now, alas, no more).

David Glass Larg* (1905-11) received a Carnegie Scholarship for 1921, but resigned on his appointment as Lecturer in French in Sheffield University.

James Wilson Legge* (1879-80), who has been in South Africa for many years and served throughout the Boer War, holds a post in the South African Railways at Rondebosch, near Cape Town. In a recent letter he says :—".It is many years since I saw the Grammar School, but well I remember it. Mr. Martin was Rector in these days, with my uncle

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[Rev. James Wilson Legge] as Classical Master, and dear old Sammy Pope, too. The last thing I did for him was an illuminated text, and I shall never forget the number of bangs over the head I got before it was done to his satisfaction ; and Mr. Sleigh, too, a man of few words, but oh, what a hard hand he had ! " Yaik Foo Loke* (1905-14), who returned to the F.M.S. in 1915, is now a partner and director of the firm of Messrs.

Chow, Kit & Co., Ltd., Kuala Lumpur, with branches in Singapore and Penang, and an office in London.

Alexander Low* (1883-86), M.A., M.D., Lecturer in Embryology in the University of Aberdeen, has received a Carnegie Grant for the investigation of the Freemartin.

Donald Neil Lowe (1903-05), M.A., was in June last appointed head master of Tobermory Higher Grade School, Argyll.

Edward Lumsden (1906-09) holds a permanent commission in the Royal Field Artillery. He passed into the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in October, 1914.

William Lumsden (1881-83), M.B., D. P.H., was recently appointed School Medical Officer for the County of Durham.

William Monro Macbey (1871-73), who was for many years in the service of the Public Works Department in Basutoland, South Africa, has now retired and is resident at Lossiemouth.

Frederick Kerr McClement (1894-97), M.A. (Cantab.), D.C.L. (Rome), has been a Catholic Chaplain in the Royal Navy since May, 1918. During last year, while serving with the Black Sea Squadron, he was in action with the Bolsheviks at Novorossish in the Caucasus, and later with the 4th Battle Squadron against the Turkish Nationalists at Mundanin and Sea of Marmora ports. He is at present on H.M.S. Benbow at Constantinople.

Henry C. McCormack (1879-88), who since 1912 has been chief clerk in the Superintending Engineer's Office, South Midland District of the Post Office, during the earlier years of the War was responsible for all telephonic and telegraphic communications' associated with Home Defence in the South Midland area, comprising the South Coast, the Eastern Army of Defence, the Aldershot Command, as well as the outer air defence works of London and district. These communications were received at all hours of the day and night, night work being transacted on the telephone at his private address. The average for two years was twenty to thirty telegrams per night.

Anthony J. McCreadie (1905-08), M.B., has been admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

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Hugh Macdonald (1899-1904) is now accountant with a firm, of stockbrokers in Toronto. He served throughout the War with the 2nd Canadian Field Ambulance.

Claude William Macgregor (1910-11) passed into the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1915, and now holds the rank of Lieutenant on H.M.S. Excellent.

George McKenzie (1887-92) has been since 1918 in the service of a firm of wholesale produce merchants in Vancouver, British Columbia. He went out there in 1907.

John Mackenzie (1884-93) M.A., M.B., D.P.H., who passed into the R.A.M.C. in 1902, now holds the rank of Major, and is Deputy Assistant Director of Pathology in the Canterbury, Dover, and Shorncliffe sub-areas.

Robert Charles Mackenzie* (1911-15) went out last year to the F.M.S., where he has received an appointment on a coconut estate.

Charles Mackie (1900- 09), who went out to Honolulu in 1911 to engage in sugar planting there, is now a public accountant in Los Angeles, California.

William Souter Mackie (1895-1901), M.A., Lecturer in English in Hartley University College, Southampton, has been appointed Professor of the English Language in the University of Cape Town at the salary of £1,000. He was a scholar of Christ Church, Oxford.

Ali ster Mackinnon (1896-99) , M.B.E., who from 1916 was a member of the British War Mission to the United States, being Inspector of War Supplies in charge of the Cleveland, Chicago, and Buffalo district, is now a civil engineer with Balfour d 'Ornellas et Cie, contractors, Paris.

Norman Riddell McLean (1897-1902) is in the service of the Lisbon Electric Tramways Company, Portugal.

Murdo Macleod (1908- 09) is studying at the College of Veterinary Surgeons, Toronto.

John Duncan Macrae* (1904-09), M.A., who went to South Africa in 1913, having received an appointment under the British South African Company as assistant civil irrigation engineer, returned to England in November, 1914, and has since then engaged in teaching. In October, 1919, he was appointed a master in the High School, South Shields.

Allan E. Maitland (1888-91) is engaged in the Government service prospecting land in North Queensland.

Alexander Manson (1901-04) in May last resigned his appointment as lecturer and county organiser under the North of Scotland College of Agriculture, and is now farming at Old Meldrum.

Duncan George Morison Mearns (1896-98), who for several years was in the service of the Bombay, Baroda, and

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Central India Railway, is now with the Bombay Port Trust, stationed at Bombay.

Harald Merrylees* (1895-98) is managing director of the Newcastle Shipbuilding Company, Limited, at Hebburn-onTyne.

The Hon. Dougall Meston (1901-02), heir of Lord Meston* (1876-80), now holds the rank of Captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery. He joined from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and served continuously in France throughout the War. Harry Middleton (1901-02), M.B., D.P.H., is Deputy Medical Officer of Health for the County of Denbigh.

Charles Napier Gordon Milne (1893-94) has recently become managing director of the firm of Thomas Bigg, Limited, chemical manufacturers, London. Prior to the War he was assistant to the Highway Commissioner of Manitoba.

Garland Cowie Milne* (1897-1901) has returned to British Columbia and is again with the B.C. Electric Railway Company at Vancouver.

William John Milne (1908-14) has been since 1918 with a firm of underwriters at Lloyds, London.

John Marsters Mitchell (1903-05), M.B., temporary Captain, TZ.,\.M.C., who received the O.B.E. (Military Division) in March, 1920, for services rendered with the British Military Mission in South Russia, is now a Captain in the Indian Medical Service.

Patrick Robertson Monro (1889-96) is engaged in electrical engineering at Tucuman, Argentina.

Alexander James Morrison (1903-05), M.A., was last year appointed minister of the First U.F. Church, Thurso.

William Morrison* (1866-67), M.A., who was engaged at Glengorse, Eastbourne, from 1897 to 1920, preparing pupils for entrance scholarships to English public schools, has now retired and is resident at Watford, Herts.

William Gray Murray (1897-98), M.A., B.D., resigned his appointment as minister of the U.F. Church, Reay, Thurso, in 1918, and is now a missionary on the Gold Coast, West Africa.

William R. Murray (1885-92) is Burgh Electrical Engineer for Stirling.

Fredrik Nielsen (1879-80), who entered the service of the Great Northern Telegraph Company at Aberdeen, was prior to the War stationed at Petrograd and remained there until December, 1918, after which he returned to his native city, Copenhagen.

William Gordon Officer (1906-08) is in the office of the secretary, Premier Mines, Pretoria.

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John Simpson Ogg* (1904-07) was last year appointed Comptroller of the National Aniline and Chemical Company (Inc.), New York.

William Peters (1900-06), M.A., was last year appointed H.B.M. Commercial Commissioner for Baltic States in the Department of Overseas Trade. He was Secretary of the Economic Mission to Russia in 1918.

James Charles Philip* (1886-89) , D.Sc., Ph.D., Professor of Physical Chemistry, Imperial College of Science, London, has just been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a brother of Mr. J. Bentley Philip, Grammar School.

Sir David Prain* (1872-73), C.M.G., C.I.E., M.A., LL.D., was in November re-appointed Treasurer of the Royal Society.

Charles G. Reid (1899-1903) is at present District Director of Appointments Department, Ministry of Labour, Glasgow.

George Reid (1865-68), O.B.E., M.D., is examiner in State Medicine in the University of Cambridge.

Henry Farquharson Begg Reid (1900- 01) has since demobilization become a member of the firm of Robertson & Partners, Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia. During the War he held a commission in the Royal Engineers, and after the Armistice was attached to the Disposals Board.

He was placed in charge of a large section (120 miles) of railways laid down by the British in France and Flanders, and had the responsibility of handing these over to the French and Belgium Governments, after costs had been ascertained and checked.

Thomas Wemyss Reid (1897-1900) in January of this year accepted a temporary cadetship in the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and was recently stationed at Beggar's Bush Barracks, Dublin.

Theodore Francis Ritchie (1888-93), D.S.O., M.B., who retired last year from the R.A.M.C. with the rank of LieutenantColonel, is now on the staff of the League of Red Cross Societies, Geneva.

Arthur John Robb (1880- 87) has been appointed manager of Oaklands Tea Estate, Dibrugarh, Upper Assam.

Percival Robertson (1905- 09), after serving with the Australian Army for over four . ears in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France, returned to Australia in May, 1919. He holds a sheep run of some 1,100 acres, and latterly has joined a firm of stockmasters and auctioneers at Bungendore, N.S.W. Thomas Roy* (1879-84), O.B.E., has since 1917 been general manager and engineer-in-chief of the Shire Highlands and Central Africa Railway Companies, and is engineer-inchief of construction, Trans-Zambesia Railway.

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Harold William Frederick Scholle (1904-07) is Lecturer in Agriculture, State of Washington, U.S.A. He joined the American Army as a private in the spring of 1917.

Douglas Somerville Scott (1907-11), M.B., is now in the Government Medical Service in the Tanganyika Territory (late German East Africa).

William Philip Selbie* (1901-06), M.C., M.A ., who served in the War with the 8th East Surrey Regiment, has received an appointment in the Army Educational Corps.

David McHardy Semple (1901-06) is managing director in Manila for Messrs. Catton, Neill & Co., Ltd., Honolulu.

Walter Smith Semple (1905-08), who joined the staff of the Royal Bank of Canada in the autumn of 1919, is now employed as assistant accountant in the office of that bank in Santiago de Cuba.

Harry Edward Shand (1906-09), M.A., B.Sc. (Agr.), has recently been appointed farms manager to the Marquis of Northampton, Castle Ashby, Northampton.

Charles Harvey Simpson* (1897-99), M.A., has been appointed principal teacher of English in Biggar High School, Lanarkshire.

George Taylor Simpson* (1910-20) has received an appointment on the Bombay, Baroda & Central India Railway at Bombay. He is at present training with the Great North of Scotland Railway at Aberdeen.

James Graeme Sinclair (1882-85), on relinquishing the chairmanship of the Planters' Association of Ceylon, has been appointed Rural (Planting) Member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon.

Alexander Douglas Smith (1907-09 and 1916-18) is in the employment of the British and Foreign Marine Insurance Company, London.

James Drummond Smith* (1900-08), M.A., has been awarded a Carnegie Fellowship. His subject of investigation is " The Effects of Government Control of Prices."

James Lawrence Smith (1877-79), C.B., M.B., Royal Navy, who was specially promoted to Surgeon Rear-Admiral in 1916, retired in 1919. He entered the medical service of the Navy in 1884.

William G. W. Souttar (1885-91), who for 15 years was Inspector in the Salt, Abkari, and Separate Revenue Department, Madras, has latterly been engaged in farming in Berwickshire.

Francis William Squair (1888-90), M.B., holds the appointment of Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services, 51st (Highland) Division, T.F., and is resident in Aberdeen.

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Maxwell Stephen* (1906-18), after two years' training, passed out of the Military Academy, Woolwich, first on the list as the result of the examination held in December last, also gaining the King's Medal. He now holds a commission in the Royal Field Artillery.

Robert Petrie Stott* (1912-18) is now on the Mundakayam Estate, South India.

Arthur William Strachan* (1893-1901), who received a commission in the Indian Army in December, 1914, is at present Captain in the Supply and Transport Branch.

David Sutherland (1872-76), M.A., who was Chaplain of H.M. Convict Prison, Peterhead, from 1891, has been since January, 1920, parish minister of Eday and Pharay, Orkney.

William Summers Sutherland (1871-72), M.A., D.D., was at the New Year awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal for Public Services in India of the First Class. He is a member of the Scottish Universities' Mission at Kalimpong, Bengal.

George Leslie Smith Thompson (1906-10), M.A., has accepted a unanimous call to be minister of the Gilfillan Memorial Church, Dundee.

George William Thomson (1859-60), well known in the City of London, has recently retired. In 1888 he founded the first European bank in Persia, and in recognition of his services was decorated by the Shah with the Order of the Lion and the Sun. He followed this in 1891 by founding the African Banking Corporation, Ltd., of which he is a Director.

James Ferguson Thomson* (1913-15) is now with the Aberdeen Line as 4th officer on the Themistocles. He joined the Mercantile Marine in June, 1915, and during his apprenticeship was twice round the world on the barque Birkdale of Liverpool, visiting many ports in South Africa, Australia, and North and South America. He also touched at the lonely island of Pitcairn in the Pacific, where the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty still live.

Charles A. Walker* (1894-1902) has returned to the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. During the present winter he is managing the Company's Sturgeon Lake Post in Alberta. Writing in November, he says :—" Our winter has set in. Lakes and rivers are frozen over, and the fur trade is in full swing."

James Walter Walker* (1894-96) is manager of a sugar estate at Barah Chakia, Champarun, belonging to Messrs.

Begg, Sutherland & Co., of Cawnpore.

Robert Andrew Walker (1900-02), who came to the School from Oporto and returned there in 1903, is now a member of the firm of Walker Brothers & Co., merchants and commission agents, Lisbon and Oporto. In a recent

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letter he says :—" One of our main objects in business is the furthering of British trade with Portugal, and we are always pleased to accept the agencies of first-class British manufacturers. Naturally, it always gives me great pleasure if I can sell Aberdeen-made articles. . . My time in the old School was a very pleasant one, and recalls many pleasant m emories. " Robert Cameron Watt (1908-09), who was a Foundation Scholar of Fettes College from 1911 to 1916, and Head of the School in the latter year, took a First Class in Classical Moderations at Oxford last year.

William Riach Wyllie (1899-1908) last year entered the service of Messrs. Harrisons & Crosfield, Limited, in the F.M.S. The University of Aberdeen has decided to confer Honorary Degrees on the following F.P.'s :— Degree of LL.D. John Malcolm Bulloch* (1877-80), M.A., Editor-in Chief of The Graphic, London.

Sir George Carmichael* (1876-81), K.C.S. I., Indian Civil Service.

The Right Hon. Robert Munro* (1884-85), P.C., M.P., K.C., Secretary for Scotland.

Degree of D.D. Right Rev. Ernest Denny Logie Danson* (1892-94), M.A., Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak.

Professor Eugene De Faye (1873-76), M.A., Professor of Church History in the Protestant Faculty of the University of France, Paris.

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Alexander Webster (1851-52), advocate in Aberdeen, died at Edgehill, Milltimber, on 15th November, aged 80 years. He spent three years at Marischal College and became a member of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen in 1866.

In the same year he was taken into partnership with his father (who had also been educated at the Grammar School), the name of the firm being Messrs. J. and A. Webster. Mr. Webster was a man of culture, deeply interested in the fine arts and literature. He had travelled extensively and visited every European capital.

James Tawse (1852-54), M.A., advocate in Aberdeen, died at Rose Cottage, Lumsden, on 31st December, aged 87 years. He was admitted a member of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen in 1863, but retired from the practice of his profession in 1872, owing to ill-health.

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James Robertson (1854-55), M.A., D.D., LL.D., formerly Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages in Glasgow University, died at Edinburgh on 23rd December, aged 80 years. After graduating in arts at King's College, Aberdeen, in 1859, he studied divinity at St. Andrews, and on the completion of his course went as a missionary to Constantinople, in connexion with the Church of Scotland Mission to the Jews.

In 1864 he took charge of the station at Beirut.. During eleven years' residence in the Levant, Dr. Robertson acquired a sound knowledge of Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, which he subsequently taught when he was appointed, in 1877, to the chair of Hebrew in Glasgow University. For a short period before he began his professorship, Dr. Robertson was minister of Mayfield Parish Church, Edinburgh. He retired in 1907, having received honorary degrees from the Universities of Aberdeen, St. Andrews, and Glasgow.

Robert Alexander Watson (1856-60), M.A., D.D., late U.F. Church, Dundee, died at West Cults, Butterburn of Aberdeen, on 3rd February, aged 75 years. He graduated at Aberdeen in 1864, and afterwards entered the Theological Hall of the United Presbyterian Church. In 1871 he was ordained minister of the U.P. Church in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, and in 1879 was translated to Butterburn U.F. Church, Dundee, where he continued until his resignation in 1898.

He received the degree of P.D. from Aberdeen University in 1891. He was well known both as an author and as a poet.

Alexander Meffet (1857-62), advocate in Aberdeen, died at Aberdeen on 26th November, aged 75 years. He was admitted a member of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen in 1872, and was a partner in the firm of Messrs. SinclairSpark, Meffet and Taylor, which was dissolved in 1911, since when Mr. Meffet carried on business on his own account. His sons, Alexander and John, were at the School 1903-08 and 1906-10 respectively.

Alexander Whyte (1858), M.A., D.D., LL.D., formerly Principal of New College, Edinburgh, and minister-emeritus of St. George's U.F. Church, Edinburgh, died at 22 Church Row, Hampstead, London, on 6th January, in his 85th year He was, strictly speaking, an F.P., but his connexion with the School was confined to six weeks' preparation for entering the University.

Archibald Forsyth (1859-64), who was engaged in business in Ceylon from 1874 to 1902, and thereafter in London until he retired in 1911 to Wareham, Dorset, died on 19th March, 1920.

James Alexander Stephen (1863-64), M.A., died at Keith on 12th February, aged 73 years. He was for many years a solicitor andibank agent at Keith.

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David Rait (1861-62), late collector, Inland Revenue, Aberdeen, died at Aberdeen on 3rd February. He entered the service of the Inland Revenue as assistant at Aberdeen in 1866.

Patrick James Lawrance (1867-68), M.B., who was a ship's surgeon, latterly with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company sailing to South America, died on 9th October, 1920. He graduated in medicine at Aberdeen in 1874.

William Gilchrist (1869-71), youngest son of the late James Gilchrist, Wells, Rothie-Norman, died at Edinburgh on 12th December, aged 66 years. He was for some years engaged in business abroad, and latterly resided in Edinburgh.

Frederick Lachlan McKinnon* (1872-75), engineer, died at 1 Albyn Terrace, Aberdeen, on 21st January, aged 60 years. He served his apprenticeship as an engineer in Aberdeen, and after working in various parts of England, returned to Aberdeen and was admitted a partner in the firm of Messrs. William McKinnon & Co., Spring Garden Iron Works. When the firm was converted into a private limited company in 1906, he became managing director of it.

Benjamin Scott (1872-75), M.B., who had been in medical practice in Manchester since he graduated in medicine at Aberdeen in 1882, died at Manchester on 28th June, 1920, aged 61 years.

David Sutherland (1872-73) died at Innerpeffray, near Crieff, on 8th September, 1920. After studying at Edinburgh University, he was in the service of Edinburgh School Board from 1883 to 1914, and thereafter was Librarian at Innerpeffray.

James Broomhead (1877-80), M.B., who was engaged in medical practice at Haslingden, Lancs., died on 9th September, 1919. He served for one year of the War in the R.A.M.C., and thereafter returned to Haslingden to take up the duties of Medical Officer of Health.

Robert McNeill* (1885-92) died at sea on his way home from Nigeria on 2nd August, aged 43 years. He served as an apprentice with Messrs. Anderson and Thomson, warehousemen, Aberdeen, and thereafter was for some years in London. In 1899 he went to West Africa, becoming principal agent in Lagos for Messrs. Miller Brothers, Ltd., West African merchants, Liverpool. The following is taken from the Nigerian Gazette of 12th August, 1920 :-" It is with the deepest regret that His Excellency has to announce the death of the Honourable Mr. Robert McNeill of Messrs. Miller Brothers, which took place at sea on' board the s.s. Abinsi on August 2. Mr. McNeill had been in Nigeria for twentytwo years, and had an intimate personal knowledge of her varying conditions and needs, more especially in the Southern

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Provinces. He served for nine years as an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony, and in the deliberations of that body his counsel and advice were always given with the idea of the advancement of this country and without the slightest taint of self-interest. By his death Nigeria has lost a faithful servant, and many Nigerians, official and unofficial, a true and well-beloved friend."

James Jolly Rose (1885-87), M.A., minister of the U.F. Church, Dyke, near Forres, died at Forres on 10th December, aged 51 years. He graduated in arts at Aberdeen University in 1891, and was classical master in Ayr Academy for seven years. In 1904 he became a licentiate of the U.F. Church, and after being assistant in Glasgow, Perth, and Hamilton, was appointed minister of Dyke.

Herbert Harrison Chinn (1886-91) died at Sunderland on 12th September, 1919, as the result of exposure when his ship was torpedoed. He joined the Mercantile Marine as an apprentice and served in it for 27 years, attaining the rank of 1st Officer. During the whole of the War he served as 2nd Officer of a Government transport.

Clement Rickard Macleod* (1894-1903), M.C., M.B., D.P.H. (Camb.), late Captain, R.A.M.C., died at Murtle, Aberdeen, from illness contracted during war service, on 16th November, aged 34 years. He was the younger son of Rev. Robert Macleod, senior minister of John Knox U.F. Church, Aberdeen. After graduating in medicine at Aberdeen, in 1909, he became assistant to Dr. ARTHUR A. MORRISON* (1870-73) Three years later he returned at Alexandria, Egypt. to this country, and when war broke out, was resident physician at Selly Oak Infirmary, Birmingham. His record of War service is as follows :—Lieutenant, R.A.M.C., 12th August, 1914. Medical Officer in charge, Land Guard Fort, Harwich Fortress, 12th August to 23rd November, 1914 ; in No. 5 General Hospital, Rouen, to 4th May, 1915 ; with No. 2 Field Ambulance, 1st Division, France, to 18th March, 1918 ; in No. 4 Stationary Hospital, Argues, France, to 29th September ; in No. 51 General Hospital, Etaples, France, to 20th February, 1919 ; at No. 2 Casualty Clearing Station, France, to 9th March (invalided home). Captain, 12th August, 1915.

M.C., September, 1917.

William Bisset* (1895-1903) died at 38 Albyn Place, Aberdeen, on 5th February, aged 33 years. He was the eldest son of the late Mr. William Bisset (1866-68), of Messrs.

J. & W. Bisset, wholesale merchants, Aberdeen, and was himself a partner in that firm. Before the War he held a commission in the Highland Divisional Royal Engineers (T.F.), from 1906 to 1912. In September, 1914, he re-joined as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 404th Highland Field Company, R.E.

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(T. F. ), and was promoted Captain in December, 1914, and Major in June, 1915. He served with the 51st (Highland) Division in France in command of a field company from May, 1915, to January, 1918, when he was invalided home. After several months in hospital, he resigned his commission in May, 1918.

In January, 1916, he was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Military Cross. At the time of his death a striking tribute appeared in the Aberdeen Free Press, from which the following is taken :—" To all his friends the outstanding characteristic of Major Bisset was his indomitable pluck. While in France he developed heart trouble, which was greatly aggravated by his continuing on active service much longer than the state of his health warranted. When it was no longer possible for him to carry on, he returned home a confirmed invalid. Though repeatedly laid up for a time, so far as he was physically able he resumed his ordinary business and social activities. With his keen sense of humour, his happy turn of expressing himself, and his cheerful outlook on life, no one was allowed to guess at the pain and suffering he bore so patiently and bravely, or at the very serious nature of the illness that afflicted him. He was never heard to complain, or, to use a soldier's term, to ' grouse.' In his conduct in these years after the War, Major Bisset was a living example of the spirit of those countless thousands who <lied on the battlefields of Flanders, France, Gallipoli, and elsewhere, and as truly and as cheerfully as any of them he gave his life for his country."

Patrick Grant Margetts* (1896-99) died at Sydney, Australia, on 4th September, 1920, aged 36 years. He entered the service of the Caledonian Insurance Company at Aberdeen in 1900. After passing through the various departments, he was appointed assistant inspector at Aberdeen, and was transferred to the head office of the Company in Edinburgh in 1907.

He left for Australia in December, 1911, and entered the service of Messrs. Coulson, Hay & Co., Melbourne. Immediately on the outbreak of war in 1914 he joined the Australian Imperial Force, and was eventually posted to the 23rd Battalion, 6th Infantry Brigade, with the rank of Sergeant. After training at Melbourne and Heliopolis, Egypt, he was sent to Tel el Kebir, and then to Gallipoli, where he was wounded. He subsequently went to France with the first A.I.F. contingent in 1916, and was severely wounded at Posieres in July of that year. He was admitted to the 13th General Hospital, Boulogne, on 1st August, and finally to the Hammersmith Military Orthopedic Hospital at Shepherd's Bush, London. He had been recommended for a commission, but never received it, owing to his being wounded. He was in hospital until he sailed for Australia in May, 1919, and his death there was due to the wounds he received while serving in France.

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In the February, 1916, issue of the Magazine there appeared a letter from " Pat," giving a very vivid picture of trench warfare at " Lonesome Pine " in Gallipoli. He was a keen footballer, and used to sing, recite, and play on the banjo and whistle. To his talent as an artist the family Bible and hymn books in the church at Ellon bear silent testimony.

Francis William Davidson* (1898-99), M.B., died at Banchory on 9th February, aged 38 years. He graduated in medicine at Aberdeen in 1904, and thereafter was House Surgeon in the Royal Hospital, Richmond, Surrey, until 1907, when he joined his eldest brother in medical practice at Thornton Heath, Surrey. There they built up a large practice, and were later joined by a younger brother. In April, 1916, he received a temporary commission in the R.A.M.C., and served as Registrar in the Nasrieh Hospital, Cairo, from May, 1916, to April, 1918, when he was demobilized. He was mentioned in dispatches in 1917. At the end of last year he gave up practice on account of bad health, and came to reside at Banchory.

Alexander Morrison (1902-03), son of Mr. Alex. Morrison, Habost Ness, Stornoway, who was an Inspector of Schools in the Cape Province, South Africa, died at Stellenbosch on 6th March, 1920, aged 37 years. He went to South Africa in 1910, and was Vice-Principal of 'the secondary school at Winburg, Orange Free State. In 1914 he became head master of the secondary school at Ficksburg. During the Rebellion in 1915 he served in the local forces as a Captain.

In 1917 he was appointed head master of the secondary school at Kroonstad, where he had over 1,000 pupils under his charge ; and two years later he was appointed Inspector of Schools in the Cape Province. Several times during the War he made determined efforts to enlist, but he was always rejected on account of heart trouble, which was the cause of his death. * * * Many F.P.'s will learn with regret of the death at Aberdeen on 19th February of Mr. William Rankine, M.A., who was a teacher on the classical side of the School in the early days of Dr. James Moir's rectorship. Mr. Rankine was not himself a Former Pupil, but always retained a very keen interest in the School, and was delighted when he was elected last year an honorary member of the F.P. Club. For over quarter of a century after leaving the " Grammar " he was schoolmaster at Chapel of Garioch.

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MARRIAGES. Angus (1888-92).—At St. Mary's Church, Carden Place, Aberdeen, on 20th January, GEORGE METHVEN ANGUS,* advocate in Aberdeen, to Mary Annie Shepherd, widow of Frank H. Davidson, Ceylon, and of 66 Polmuir Road, Aberdeen.

Burnett (1893-97).--At Holy Trinity Cathedral, New Westminster, • on 5th January, ERSKINE BURNETT, Vernon, B.C., son of the late A. G. Burnett of Kemnay, to Alice Ruth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Gurney, of Burnaby, B.C. Clyne (1902-09).—At Port Herald, Nyasaland, on 28th December, JOHN MIDDLETON CLYNE, youngest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Clyne, 18 Albert Terrace, Aberdeen, to Elsie Spark, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Middleton, 97 Leslie Terrace, Aberdeen.

Duitlus (1912-14).—At All Saints' Church, Cairo, on the 13th November, Flight-Lieut. JAMES' LOGIE LYALL DuFFus,* R.A.F., eldest son of James Duffus, M.D., and Mrs. Duffus, of Auchenblae, Kincardineshire, to Helen Vera Mary, fourth daughter of Mrs. Hanson and the late Arthur Stephen Hanson, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., M.D., of Titchfield, Hants.

Duncan (1890).—At Rubislaw Parish Church, Aberdeen, on 15th January, GEORGE MELLIS DUNCAN,* M.B., C.M., eldest son of the late James Duncan, The Home Office, London, to Anne Geddes, eldest daughter of the late John Carmichael Bennett, advocate, Aberdeen, and Mrs. Bennett, 32 Carlton Place.

Ewart (1881-83).—At St. Mary's Parish Church, Dundee, on 12th February, Major JOHN Kiiox EWART, D.S.O., son of Major and Mrs. J. K. Ewart, Banff, to Isabella Simpson Cummings, daughter of the late Michael and Jeanetta Cummings, Birkendale, Alloa.

Findlay (1897-1901).—At Aberdeen, on 10th February, Captain ALFRED J. FINDLAY,* Indian Army, second son of Superintendent and Mrs. A. Findlay, Poynernook Road, to Flora Matilda, second daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Y. Pattison, Aberdeen.

Forbes (1860-64).—At St. Luke's, C,rayshott, Hants, on 21st October, Sir GEORGE STUART FORBES,* K.C.S.I., to Muriel Kendall, widow of Francis Brace, East Yorkshire Regt., and daughter of the late William Valentine Felton, of Sandgate, Sussex.

Maerae (1896-1901).—At the Chapel Royal, Savoy, London, on 25th November, Captain ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL MACRAE,* Indian Medical Service, younger son of the late Archibald Macdougall Macrae, of Tirhut, Bengal, India, and Mrs. Macrae, of Aberdeen, to Margaret Euretta Skelton, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Skelton, of Thorpe-next-Norwich.

Macrae (1910-14).—At St. Duthacs, Dornie, on the 25th November, DUNCAN MACRAE, to Kate. eldest daughter of William Lovie, 5 Wallfield Crescent, Aberdeen, late of 40 View Terrace, Aberdeen.

Masson (1905-11).—At the United Free Church, Fordyce, on 29th December, W. 1'. MASSON, M.A., head master, Craigievar Public School, to Nan, second daughter of John and Mrs. Kindness, Nicholson Park, Fordyce.

Scarth (1910-12).—At Harry Parish Church, Orkney, on 21st July, 1920, ROBERT SCARTH,* of Binscarth, Orkney, to Hester Victoria, younger daughter of Rev. W. J. Steele Dickey, D.D., T.D., Harray Manse, Orkney.

Scott (1907-11).—At All Saints' Church, Stanger, Natal, on 25th November, DOUGLAS SOMERVILLE SCOTT, eldest son of the late James Scott, I.S.O., late of Canton, China, and of Mrs. Scott, 54 Birch Grove, West Acton, London, to Dorothy May, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher, of Durban, Natal.

Shepherd (1900-07).—At St. Luke's United Free Church, Montrose, on 17th November, Major LINDSAY LYALL SHEPHERD,* youngest son of George Shepherd, 6 Marine Terrace, Aberdeen, to Margaret Eleanor Edwardes, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mackay, Rosenderg, Montrose.

Shepherd (1894-1903).—At the North British Hotel, Edinburgh, on 1st December, WILLIAM SHEPHERD,* F.S.I., third son of George Shepherd, Marine Terrace, Aberdeen, to Jennie Cousin, younger daughter of Sir Richard and Lady Mackie, Leith, and widow of Captain Napier Armit,M.C., Royal Scots.

Smith (1907-09).--At St. Margaret's Church, Aberdeen, on 14th December, TREVOR ALEXANDER HOWARD SMITH, M.B., Ch.B. (Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield), elder son of A. J. Smith, )3ramb1ehurst, Aberdeen, to Margaret Johnstone, M.B. Ch.B. (Madge), third daughter of Alexander Dufton. Huntly.

Sorley (1899-1909).-At St. James's Church, Aberdeen, on 9th November, HERBERT TOWER SORLEY,* M.A., Indian Civil Service, Bombay Presidency, eldest son of John T. Sorley, M.A., City Chamberlain of Aberdeen, and Mrs. Sorley, Merlebank, Ruthrieston, to Marjorie Davidson, only daughter of the late Dr. George Niven, West Didsbury, Manchester, and of Mrs. Niven, 55 Carlton Place, Aberdeen.

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" C.D."

MR. CHARLES DAVIDSON, M.A. I hope I am still far from the stage of writing either reminiscences or obliviscences of my Grammar School days, but the departure of Mr. Charles Davidson to a lectureship at our University may well give some of us Old Boys cause to wonder what the School will be like without " C.D." The School has possessed " C.D." so long that it seems something like a betrayal on his part to leave it now. He hardly had the right to please himself. As it is, the Authority has had to hunt in Ireland for his successor as Spanish master. But, schoolmastering apart, where will they have to go to find such another School Choregus or Master of Revels ? " C.D. "—those simple initials greeted me my first day

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at the " Grammar " in the early 'nineties, when I was ushered into the presence of a black-robed, youthful Elisha, to whom the pupils in the class, as their names were called, made mysterious individual response of " Adsutn," while I, knowing no Latin, miserably exclaimed, amid general laughter, " Here, Sir." But there was more than Latin to puzzle the unwary newcomer. I was fresh from an elementary school, where the rule was one class one teacher, and, as the teachers were ladies, nicknames were not in vogue. At the " Grammar " it was all delightfully different. We had a different teacher almost for every subject. All the teachers were men, and each of these was called something for short. Where these curtailed names were not obviously nicknames the new boy might easily go astray, accepting the name on its face value.

He might quite naturally expect " Bentley " to be a surname, and address " Mr. Bentley " as such, quite innocently. Not so with " Puggie," which was clearly a nickname. But then, once bitten, and now twice shy, he might think " Brownie," too, a pet name, and allude next to " Mr. Brown." But how should our Verdant Green appear when he told another master " I got this book from Mr. Seedy " ? In later days in the Upper School we did make some atonement, though tardy, for that awful imputation. Wise now with the wisdom of Mr. Middleton in the puns and double entendres of classical literature, we would chant imitatively and facetiously—of the Rector : " Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old " ; and of " Puggie " and his " afternoon levees " and the holding out of " yir laift haund " : " Puggie Oh, pugio* to me ! " ; but of spruce Mr. Charles Davidson, Beau Brummel of pedagogues : " 0, C. D., least seedy of all preceptors ! " Looking back now, and trying to analyse it all, one can see that the distinctive mark of Mr. Charles Davidson as a teacher was his joie de vivre. It is a quality not always evident in the leaders-out of youth. But he had it in a preeminent degree, his tonsure notwithstanding. Whatever the subject he taught, French, Latin, Spanish, or English, he radiated life, interest, charm. He had the bonhomie of the traveller and the bearing of a man of the world—qualities all too rare in the schoolmaster, and withal he retained the dignity of the dominie. I never knew a boy who presumed on the good-nature of Mr. Davidson in class or out of it.

It goes without saying he was an actor, or, resorting to French—and how can one hope to re-capture the flair of " C.D.'s " personality without a soupcon of the language he oftenest indulged in ?—he was par excellence a poseur. He was master of the beau geste, and boys love such an one. I can still see Bertie Dunn lifting ineffable fingers of disdain for * Latin for a dagger.—Ed. A.G.S. Mag.

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the windows to be opened, and exclaiming, " There is a frightful smell of boy in this room " ; or again, as he held aloft some unfortunate handkerchief, asking in his most supercilious vein, " Who is the owner of this rag ? " But who of adolescents or adults can reproduce " C.D. " on a play-night, at the front door of the Hall, receiving the " silver collection," and for every coin above a sixpence returning courtly thanks, and, for every miserable threepenny bit, looking past the donor in stony silence. So did Marius look, we are told, in that last " march past " of all his foes, and in such a night, at such a moment, our debonair " C.D." was Marius personified !

The underlying tragedy of all school teaching is the everpresent, glaring contrast between one who has apprehended and one who does not even press toward the mark, but rather creeps unwillingly to it. It is present in the infant-room as much as in the sanctum of the Bursary Compers. That hint of tragedy became one of comedy in the domain of " C.D." I have referred to his " grand manner," so perfectly in keeping with the alleged avuncular archbishop. The contrast sometimes with callow youth was ludicrous. It pleased " C.D." once to have a manicuring " stunt " in a certain class, and boys used to file past him into class, lifting supine hands of bleachedness and trimmed nails. Now behold Pat Margetts approach, with laggard steps, and puffing and perspiring as well—Pat, you should understand, usually constituted himself the core of any football " scrum " at the interval— -behold Pat, I say, trying to justify his grimy paws to the immaculate "C.D.," and say if not here was delicious comedy !

But all this was mere " outward flourish." With it all, we well knew, went a shrewd Scotch head and a warm, kindly heart. At school we take things very much for granted, but later in life we realize the vast amount of time and energy given by our masters to fostering the out-of-class activities of school life. In this capacity " C. D." excelled. All those years he has been the resourceful stage-manager of the " Debater Dramatics." My own memory of him starts with " Paul Pry," and himself in the title-role. The Magazine, now secure from financial worries, is regarded as an established institution. But time was when it was in abeyance, and I rather think it was " C. D." who was the editor that revived it.

Certainly for a number of years he edited the piquant and racy F.P. Notes, which are now so distinctive a feature of the " Mag." His lectures in the " Debater," his articles in the Magazine, were but supplements and off-throws of that discursiveness in class which was his outstanding characteristic as a teacher. He could always be depended on to enter into any boyish ploy. His own spirit was boyish. Only a

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winter ago I happened to be in the Hall at a Bov Scouts' concert. There was a conjurer on the platform who invited any member of the audience to come up and act the disinterested assistant in a particular trick. Who should it be ? asked the professor of legerdemain, and at once the 'cry arose hundred-throated, " C. D ! " A teacher truly of many parts ! " Paul Pry," the stately Provost of the Harlaw Pageant—an ancestor, to be sure ; the sentry in the Greek plays, the tutor of war-worker boys in the haughs of Turriff and the forests of the North—nothing human was alien to him. He has given colour to a rather grey profession, even apart from the geranium knickers ! My mind naturally lingers round his sojourn in Turra toon. " C. D," of the bon ton, Aramis of the Musketeers, the gay, insouciant galliard, bargaining and chaffering with our Turra farmers at the mart—truly it verifies Meredith's phrase about our " joyous era of democratic equality." Certainly it reconciles one exile to his lot.

Mr. Davidson has gone to the University as lecturer in Commercial Spanish, and he may not have the same scope there for his tales of the Spanish Bull Fight. But we may be sure of this—he will still retain his youth. Indeed, I will stake my reputation as a prophet on this last word, that neither student nor schoolboy will ever see the hoary locks of " C. D." J. M. R.

Three Days in the Cairngorms.

The first day was dry and warm, though there was quite a lot of mist on the higher peaks. The mist had a settled look about it, too, but we made optimistic remarks about morning mist and heat haze, and set off up Glen Luibeg. Our objective was Cairn Toul, which holds the proud place of fourth in order of altitude among our British mountains.

• Proceeding at a good pace, we were soon struggling over the shoulder of Cam a Mhaim : as we breasted the slope, we got a view of the Larig Pass, with the Devil's Point strikingly prominent. Cairn Toul was swathed in mist, as was Braeriach, its northerly neighbour ; the peep up Glen Geusachan was very imposing, and we made a vow to return some day and explore its dark recesses. We had no time, however, to linger long enjoying the view. Our motto was " business before pleasure."

This does not mean that mountaineering is not a pleasure, far from it ; it simply implies that it is best to accomplish as quickly as possible what one sets out to do, and then the view may be enjoyed.

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We struck down the slope and across the river Dee, here nothing more than a hill burn, and commenced to ascend the south-east corner of the Devil's Point. This mountain is remarkably steep, and like most of the Cairngorms, covered with loose stones and rocks of all shapes and sizes. As it was our first expedition for some time, we soon found the grind beginning to tell on us. We halted every now and then to look at the view and get our breath, amusing ourselves the while by rolling rocks down the side of the mountain. This, by the way, is a highly reprehensible practice and should on no account be permitted or indulged in. During one of these halts we had a magnificent view of a golden eagle. It was flying along close in to the cliff about 250 feet beneath us. So clear was the atmosphere that we could see every mark on its plumage. No doubt these noble birds breed in the sanctuary of lonely Glen Geusachan. May they long continue to enjoy their mountain home undisturbed !

The top was soon reached, but we were not destined to get a good view, for no sooner had we reached the summit than the mist came down, blotting out everything beyond a radius of about 100 yards. We were not likely to get lost, however, for we had map and compass, and the ground was familiar to one of the party. The mist was decidedly cold, and loitering on the top was not the pleasure it so often is.

We descended hurriedly to the col between the Devil's Point and Cairn Toul, and commenced to climb the latter mountain.

The ground here is strewn with boulders of all sizes, and walking is consequently slow. The mist was thick, too, and necessitated frequent halts to verify our direction. Despite this, the summit was reached within two hours of starting to climb the Devil's Point. The mist was thicker here, and there was no view whatsoever. We next decided to go along the ridge as far as the Angel's Peak, and if the conditions did not improve, we could cut down into the Gharbhchoire ; on the other hand, if the weather did improve, we would go along the ridge as fax as the top of Braeriach and cut down from there into the Larig. The top of Angel's Peak was reached in about half an hour, and the weather was, if anything, worse.

The descent into the Gharbhchoire requires to be carefully made, especially in misty weather, otherwise one might easily get landed in a nasty place from which retreat might be difficult. We made our way down over a marvellous natural rock garden—every corner and ledge was covered with innumerable Alpine plants, most of them delicate saxifrages, with considerable quantities of the beautiful moss campion.

The Larig was soon reached, then the sun came out and the afternoon was almost cloudless. We consoled ourselves with the fact that climbing on such an afternoon would hardly be a pleasure. It would be more like a vapour bath.

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The climb back over the shoulder of Cam a Mhaim was distinctly fatiguing, but the long descent on the other side more than made up for it.

Our second expedition was to Ben Muich Dhui, which, as everyone knows, is the second highest mountain in the British Isles. We intended to make a circular tour of it, approaching

by Glen Derry and Corrie Etchachan, and returning by Glen Luibeg. Glen Derry is a beautiful glen, being well wooded at the start. As the path winds higher, however, the trees cease, and there is nothing but the imposing grandeur of the lofty mountains. The first five miles of our journey lay up this glen, and then we turned westward up Corrie Etchachan. This corrie is one of the wildest I have ever seen. To my mind it is even more desolate than Glen Sligichan in Skye. The way is steep here, but there is a path of sorts, with cairns every now and then, so that there is little danger of losing the way.

Loch Etchachan is soon passed. This loch is, I am given to understand, the highest loch of any size in Great Britain.

Its surroundings are inspiring in the extreme. Great cliffs rise directly from the water's edge for about 1,000 feet.

The last 1,000 feet or so of Ben Muich Dhui is composed of stones, over which the walking is extremely hard. Vegetation does not exist save in a few favoured spots where a trickle of water escapes from under the stones, and even there only the hardiest of our plants can grow. There was still a considerable quantity of snow lying about, for the summit is not far below the line of perpetual snow. Indeed, two days after we were up, there was a fierce blizzard on the mountain, and this in the height of summer. A little below the summit stands the ruined hut built by the members of the Ordnance Survey Department who completed the survey of this district.

The people who live up at this altitude for any length of time must indeed be hardy.

The view from the summit was magnificent. Right across to the west lay the huge mass of the Western Cairngorms— Cairn Toul and Braeriach, with their off-shoot to the south.

We saw the hills of Perthshire—ridge upon ridge as far as the eye could see. To the east we could see to the Hill of Fare.

Northwards lay the Moray Firth, with the sun shining on the sand along the coast. The view was one of the best we have ever had. Up to this time misfortune in the shape of mist had followed us, but that one view amply repaid us.

The descent was made into Glen Luibeg, and continued down the glen by the side of the Luibeg burn. This is a lovely stream, crystal clear with delightful pools every few yards. Waterfall follows waterfall in rapid succession, and the rock architecture in its miniature gorges is magnificent.

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make a night ascent of Beinn a Bhuird. The day was spent in loitering about in Glen Luibeg, and at 6 p.m. we started up Glen Derry en route for our mountain.

Beinn a Bhuird is an old friend of ours. We first made its acquaintance from Corgarf over the top of Ben Avon. That was on a memorable occasion when we were walking for more than eighteen hours, covering in the course of the day over 45 miles, and climbing Ben Avon and Beinn a Bhuird after spending the morning in wandering over Ben Avon in a dense mist.

The evening promised well, and we were looking forward to an enjoyable climb. Our route was over old ground as far as Corrie Etchachan, but here we turned to the east instead of the west, and struck up the left bank of the Glas Allt.

This soon landed us on the plateau which extends round the head of the Dubh Ghleann. From here we had a fine view of Beinn a Bhuird, and before long we were standing on the summit. To the south and south-west the view was good, but we noticed a heavy bank of cloud rolling over the Cairngorms from the north and north-west. All the east was under a thick mantle of cloud. The mist descended with extraordinary suddenness. It was a nasty thick mist, too, but fortunately it was not cold or wet. We turned south towards the South Top, and reached it without an incident, save for several thrilling peeps down the immense precipice on the eastern side.

From the South Top we struck down to the head waters of the Quoich, no easy matter in the darkness. We had hardly got into the valley when the rain began. It was not heavy, but it had a nasty persistent sort of feel about it. We stumbled on, tripping over heather roots, and saying how fine it was, and congratulating ourselves on the magnificent time we were having, and sympathizing with those poor mortals who are sane and don't try mad schemes. We were, however, distinctly glad to reach the Linn of Quoich and get a road under our feet. It was one o'clock in the morning by this time and very dark. We got along somehow, guided by instinct rather than sight, until we reached the Deeside road, where it was a little less wooded. The journey back up Glen Lui was done at a good pace. We reached camp at 3.30 a.m. and immediately began to pack up our goods and chattels. That afternoon saw us in Aberdeen, well pleased with our three days.

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What Our School Stands For.

JOHN MALCOLM BULLOCH,

M.A., LL.D.

It is rather presumptuous on my part to address the Club, for I never attended the Grammar School proper. All I did was to go through the Preparatory School, from which my desire to get the full benefit of a real old-fashioned Scots grammar school led me to the. never-to-be-forgotten " Barn " and Billy Dey, involving as that did a daily tramp of two miles each way. But, while I did not go through the whole of the new Grammar School, the castellated pile which houses it had been more familiar to me all my remembering life than • An Address to the Aberdeen Grammar School Former Pupils' Club, London Section, in the Dean Hotel, Oxford Street, 27th January, 1921 : LordiMeston, the President,!in the Chair.

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any other public building, for it stood like a fortress at the bottom of my street of abode, Osborne Place, and its architect, the late Provost James Matthews, had the biggest pew in the church in Belmont Street which my family attended.

The name Osborne Place, while standing as a sort of pointer to my transference across the Border, and to certain anglicizing tendencies which have crept into the Scots grammar schools, has always got on my nerves, for despite eight and twenty years residence in London, I believe in all that thorough-going Scotsness which is summed up in the phrase, " oor ain fish guts for oor ain sea-maws "—a phrase which might well be taken as a subsidiary motto to our city leopards, for the sea has been so bounteous to Bon-Accord, especially during recent years, that the city may be said to stink of fish.

ABERDEEN STREET NAMES. The Grammar School lies amid streets, the nomenclature of which is redolent of local history. Thus, we have Skene Street, Leadside Road, Gilcomston, Short Loanings, Craigie Loanings, the Denburn, and Carden Place, which was clearly named after a carding mill, and not, I feel sure, after the Pavia physician, Jerome Cardan, as Mr. G. M. Fraser has suggested.

But these good old names came to be considered rather vulgar by the essentially vulgar Victorian, who among other things pretended that he could not speak our expressive Doric, and set himself assiduously to cultivate the horrid hybrid which I have nicknamed more than once " Albyn Place English." Touching which, I have always thought it grimly ironical that it should have been left to the head master of Albyn Place School, the late Mr. Alexander Mackie, to popularize Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk, of which the author was so doubtful that he smuggled it into the obscurer pages of his weekly newspaper. Thus it was that English and foreign names like Victoria Street, Albert Street, Osborne Place, and later Gladstone Place and Beaconsfield Place and Stanley Street, began to creep into the nomenclature of our streets.

Perhaps there is a Lloyd George Crescent to-day, but I fancy the craze has gone out of fashion.

THE CASTLE IN SKENE STREET. The Grammar School had been transferred from the appropriately-named Schoolhill less on educational grounds than to fill in the magnificent town-planning visions of Sir Alexander Anderson, who seems to have been fascinated by the great Baron Haussmann, whose fate he ultimately shared.

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Grammar School. The architect even got away from the severe classicism of Simpson, who dotted the town with Greek and Roman temples, and from the Italian eves which villa and mansion builders were beginning to build for burghers with a good balance at the bank. Matthews, on the contrary, fell back on the old Franco-Scots castellated style, relegating his one attempt at the classic circular style to the strangelynamed " Kits." But even in its old castellated style, the Grammar School has always looked aggressively new, thanks largely to the character of its granite and its distance from factory chimneys. I have often thought this a misfortune, for the actual fabric of the School gives you no idea of its great age as an institution, in the way that that fact is twinned at King's College by the mellowing freestone and surfacestone, which the absence of pneumatic tools forced the old . builders to use.

If the Castle in Skene Street was erected from the townplanning rather than the mind-building point of view, there is no doubt that the time had come for placing a new superstructure on an old foundation. I have entitled my remarks "What our School stands for." Whatever that may be —and nobody seems quite sure about it—it certainly does not stand for what it stood for during most of the years that preceded its removal from the Schoolhill. Indeed, in a world essentially dynamic, life in general and education in particular cannot remain for long static ; and if the changes seem to have been more rapid of recent years, the need for them had begun many years before the removal ; and if Sir Alexander Anderson was unable to say why they had arisen or how they were to take effect, his farsightedness probably led him instinctively to include the School in his great improvement schemes in the west, if only to shake off the cobwebs of tradition which had gathered in the Schoolhill.

THE UNIVERSITY AND THE SCHOOL. About the middle of last century, before the School even thought of flitting, the centre of gravity in education had shown signs of shifting, one of the most unmistakable evidences taking place in the union in 1860 of the two Universities— the 1494-founded Catholic University and King's College and the 1593-founded Protestant Marischal College and University. The latter handed over its humanities to the older institution, and devoted itself to the purely technical faculties, the expansion of which made for the training of men for other businesses in life than those of the church and the schoolroom.

Up to this time the Universities, and indeed all the Scots Universities, had really been the supreme Education Depart• ment of their respective districts. They stood as Rome— literally and metaphorically, for they were avowed copies of the great continental latinized universities, like Paris and

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Bologna—and all roads led, and had to lead, to Rome. These roads began in the country parish school where the dominie, almost invariably a graduate, was full of the University tradition. I myself am indirectly the product of just such a school, situated in the back o' beyond parish of LeochelCushnie, where my maternal grandfather, Andrew Malcolm, who entered King's College in 1820, a hundred years ago, presided, with the support of his brother William in the parish pulpit. These dominies selected and laid themselves out to cultivate the clever loons, with a view of training them for the " Comp." How often I have heard my mother—for I never knew my grandfather—tell of some of these boys, notably Peter Shepherd, who was killed as a Surgeon-Major in the Zulu War, and who used to tramp all the way from Aberdeen to Leochel-Cushnie with his laundry, returning on foot, and perhaps getting a lift in a carrier's cart, with a pyock of meat. Another boy from the same district who did the same thing was the late Sir William MacGregor. The town boys had the Grammar School, admittedly bent on training them for the University, which linked up the whole system of education closely, if not in actual black and white, from the bottom to the top. This close and invaluable nexus has never been known in England, where the two original universities are not only sui generis among the universities of the world, but have not, until very recent years, through their extension lectures, got into touch with the whole gamut of the educational system down to the elementary school.

Up to quite modern times the Scots University curriculum still remained to a large extent where the medieval schoolmen had left it—dominated by classics, and philosophy ; and as the primary schoolmasters had themselves gone through the course, they had no difficulty in training boys to endure it.

Melvin was a perfect type of what I mean.

But in course of time it began to be discovered that many pupils did not want to go to the University at all ; and that the Grammar School with the Aulton in its eye was not sufficiently elastic. So all sorts of auxiliary schools began to spring up.

OTHER ABERDEEN SCHOOLS. There had, for example, been a special Writing School since 1607. Then there was the Public Commercial and Mathematical School conducted by a very brilliant mathematican, James Gordon. The Grammar School, which was beginning to be conscious of its limitations, invited him, in 1835, to come over and teach its boys arithmetic. But Gordon declined the suggestion, feeling so outraged that he wrote a very vigorous pamphlet, denouncing the hold of classics on the Grammar, to say nothing of the pecuniary loss of £40 a year which would have been involved in the transference. He afterwards went to London, and conducted for many years

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a school of navigation in the Minories, although he had to end his days as a pensioner in the queer old institution known as Morden College, Blackheath, where he was still publishing textbooks on navigation as late as 1872. Gordon's type of school was maintained vigorously in our own time by Davie Rennet, whose classes supplemented the mathematical education which the University gave.

Then private schools for elementary pupils in general education began to spring up in the shape of Academies. I myself started in one of these, known as Union Row Academy, conducted by a dear old soul, Robert Sim, a pupil of Melvin.

Similar Academies were conducted in Silver Street—they all seemed to like discreet side streets--by Mr. Rattray and by Mr. Michie, and at a much later date by the very select Mr. Walker.

For a different class of boy, whose parents, living at a distance, wanted him to be properly housed, or who had higher social ambitions, there was in our time the boarding school known as the " Gym," conducted by " Guvvy" Anderson, the grandfather of the famous Geddes brothers.

THE " BARN " AND " GORDON'S." All these rival private institutions rested on powerful personal authority—the most striking example of which was that of Billy Dey, at the Old Town Grammar School, to whom and to which I owe a heavy debt. When the " Barn " was winning bursaries in the early 'eighties, and had to increase its primitive accommodation by the erection of a corrugatediron shed, it used to be said in a sour-grape way that it was a mere cramming establishment, and did not form character.

Nothing could be further from the truth, as I can testify.

Billy Dey was, first and foremost, a character-builder, and his whole system was erected on a moral foundation of almost Spartan severity, even to the choice of textbooks. Thus, instead of Caesar, he fed us on the Ciceronian ethic, such as De Officiis, De Senectute, and so on. Every morning he opened the classes, all assembled in one room, not with a perfunctory gabbled prayer, but by reading a passage from books like Robertson of Brighton's Sermons, particularly his lectures on Corinthians, and especially the one on the text, " Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." While he clung to the old Scots type of grammar school education, Dey was the only schoolmaster in Aberdeen, in my time, who had had any experience of teaching in boarding schools in England ; yet he had the rare good sense to see that that system was quite unsuited for Aberdeen. Of course, when he retired, the school collapsed, for it had been carried on against all corners, far more powerfully buttressed, by his pervading personality. In just the same way, Gordon's College in our day owed much to the resourceful forcefulness of Dr. Ogilvie, a splendid specimen of the old dominie, a

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master of technical equipment and full of character, who had inherited the instincts of the teacher from a family of instructors. I have called him resourceful, for he was out all the time for new ideas. Nothing showed this better than the way he adapted the method from that of the master of Gordon's Hospital to that of the school liberated into the College ; and still more, by his management of the splendid evening classes in science, where I spent some happy evenings in studying chemistry, unavailable elsewhere.

THE PERSONAL EQUATION. The plain fact is, and it was never more necessary than now to recognise it, that the personal equation in education stands for a very great deal. It is perfectly true that the private school is unlikely to survive the control of its private founder, and the school which is more or less a public institution may hang on under very indifferent leaders ; but it is equally true that without powerful personal leadership, it will do no more than exist. The Grammar School in the old days was never more powerful than during the twenty-seven years in which it was conducted by James Melvin, who was not only a great Latinist, but also a great administrator. Since his death in 1853 several great mistakes have been made in the choice of a Rector, which has been all the more unfortunate in view of the fact that if a powerful individuality was needed to run it in the old one-horse shay way, such as that which obtained at the " Barn," it needs an even greater personality to handle and inspire the increased team of teachers in front of the modern head master, and to tackle the body of critical, not to say captious, controllers at the back of him, who by the fully-reported discussion of his qualifications in public have done much to impair the force of discipline and efficiency.

The curtailment of the personal factor is, of course, not confined to education. The failure to recognise its vital importance constitutes the damning indictment of the system of bureaucracy from which this country is suffering acutely.

It has really arisen in its more acute form from the idiotic practice of Government by analogy, which makes us mimic methods suitable to other countries, but quite unsuitable for ourselves.

THE STATE STEPS IN. In any case, it was the German system which transformed our educational system, although it was not primarily adopted

by Scotland, where the desire to learn needed no statutory compulsion. It was imposed on Scotland through the interposition of England. It was not that England demanded education for its own sake. Except for the well-to-do, there had been no tradition of elementary schooling in England,

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as there was in Scotland, and the idea of compulsory schooling was abhorrent. Even to this day, elementary education in England is hopelessly mixed up with all sorts of sectarian squabbles, the church still making big claims to control.

And even more marked is the disinclination to spend money on education. Thus there is applause when the Government, having squandered millions on Arabian Nights schemes in Mesopotamia, begins so-called economy by cutting off, or at least cutting down, the Education Minister's supplies. England might have taken a leaf out of Scotland's book long before 1872, but she steadily declined. What really made her put the Education Act into force was her jealousy of Germany.

And so it was that seventeen years after the death of Melvin, and seven years after the transference of his beloved school to Skene Street, the Grammar School found itself face to face with the Act of 1870, and even if that ill-digested measure was intended at first only for the elementary school, its repercussion has been felt all along the line. To begin with, it meant the transference of the centre of education gravity from the sympathetic University to the blind-eyed State, although in recent years the University has got back a little of its own by definitely training the teachers for their profession, which even in the old days it did not do directly. The Act also, in course of time, transferred the Grammar School from the good-natured and negligible control of the Town Council to a special educational authority, much more inclined to meddle with the curriculum, without being very much more competent to do so.

The Education Act, indeed, so far from being democratic in the real sense of the word, opened up new avenues of social differences. The better-to-do class of citizen withdrew his boys from schools now controlled by the Board, and the Board, popularly elected, hit back at the Grammar School, which had absorbed the overflow. To do this, the Grammar had to depart from its centuries-old custom, and set up a Preparatory School, which was not long in killing out the private academy. In course of time the " Gym " was abolished, and the "Barn," which was the Grammar's most successful rival, faded away, its place being taken by Gordon's College, where the once despised " Sillerton " has had to be reckoned with.

Furthermore, the Grammar School has not only had to make room for all existing organizations, but has made new experiments for itself, some of them clearly suggested by English methods, especially in the matter of physical training, even to the extent of a special Sports Master. That is all to the good—if the School resists the temptation to rank Jack Hobbs higher than " Leviathan " Hobbes. As if by way of resistance to the road-rollering tendency of the educational

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authority, the School has also set up a pride in its own long and peculiar traditions. This movement is admirably represented by the Magazine, and by the very existence of the Former Pupils' Club, which has a great function to fulfil.

TEACHING THE VERNACULAR. I am confident that the Grammar is capable of even greater adaption and improvement, but I am equally confident that these improvements must be carried out on the lines of our national temperament, and still more of local idiosyncracies, which seem to me to be hardening against the forces that tend to disintegrate them. Thus I should like to see the Grammar taking a part in that teaching of Scots language which is coming. The other week I heard Professor W. A. Craigie of Oxford lecturing the newly-formed Vernacular Circle on the present state of the Scots language, and pointing out that decaying languages like Friesian, like old Norwegian, and like the tongue of the Faroe Islands, had within living memory been deliberately cultivated by educationalists and literary men until they completely gained their former potency.

Much was done in this direction with regard to our own splendidly-vigorous Doric by Alexander Mackie, who, by reading Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk up and down the countryside, and even 'in Canada, gave that classic a wholly new significance. Our Doric, of course, has lived quite independent of the Grammar School, nay in spite of it. It is preserved, with many corruptions, by thousands of board school pupils in its pristine efficiency, and may be heard in perfection any Saturday afternoon at Pittodrie, where the excitement of a football match rouses the emotions and blows all the anglicizing tendencies of the Education Act into smithereens. But if the Grammar School were to make the teaching of Scots in some form or other (though not by way of grammar and . syntax) an integral part of the curriculum, it would be playing a real part in that strengthening of nationality which is going on all over the world, and is very marked throughout our little islands—with excellent effects in Scotland, though with much less satisfactory results in Ireland ENGLISH AND SCOTS SCHOOLS CONTRASTED. To develop, but to develop on its own native Scots lines— that is my ideal for the Grammar School. But side by side with it is a practice which I regret to see creeping in. I refer to the fashion for some of the better-off Aberdeen citizens— victims either of the lazy process of parenthood by proxy, or else of sheer snobbery—to send their boys to schools away from home, and especially to English public schools. I regret this, not only for the loss of material to the Grammar School,

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but even more for the sake of the young emigrant, especially when he is sent to an English public school. I base my regret on the fact, of which I become yearly more conscious, that the mentality of Scotland is quite different from that of England, and it is never so much different as in the schools of the two countries, for the very obvious reason that the schools of a nation are at once the result and the cause of differences in psychology ; that is to say, a nation creates an educational system on the lines of its temperament, and the schools indoctrinate that temperament on every new generation. As a matter of fact, there has been a greater difference between the education of Scotland and that of England than between the education of Scotland and that of some foreign countries, for as I have shown, the Scots universities were copies, almost slavish copies, of the medieval universities of the continent. That is not to be wondered at, if we accept the theory of Baron von Hugel, the learned Catholic philosopher, long resident in our midst, who, in his penetrating study of the German soul, points out that the Scot has what he calls the " continental mind," whereas the Englishman is essentially an islander, highly idiosyncratic. His public schools in particular are sui generis : they have no analogies anywhere, except where they have been imitated. To take but one example : until recent years they were pronouncing Latin as nobody in the world does. The Scot pronounces it like everybody else ; and that is a symbol of the fact that he is far more international—on the top of his keen sense of nationalism.

The differences between the two peoples were partly recognised by a special adaption of the Education Act for Scotland. Even these adaptations involved essentially alien methods. Not to take due advantage of these adaptations, and to place a Scots boy wholly under the English system seems to me very much like dressing a pigeon to look like a peacock. I am not criticizing the English school—for the Englishman : it fits him like a glove. But it does not fit the Scot, especially if he has to return to Scotland and spend the rest of his life in keeping level with his astute fellowcountrymen. I do not think, for instance, that a rich trawlowner's son and heir, fresh from Eton or Harrow, stands a dog's chance in handling men who deal in dogfish or lemon soles at the Fish Market. Indeed the whole training—for a Scot at least—at the Scots grammar school is far more useful for wide-world use than the exorbitantly expensive terms at an English public school.

The case is quite different in the matter of the Scot's going to Oxford or Cambridge—the summum bonum of the late Sir William Geddes's idea of human aspiration—for character is definitely formed before the " arenas of the south " are reached.

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MANNERS RATHER THAN MENS. I have said the Englishman is not really interested in education. His public schools are essentially social institutions, and " castey " at that: educators of manners, rather than of mens—and, of course, of his own manners, which are peculiarly his own. All this was brought up during the War, touching which I have two vivid memories.

During one of the worst weeks of the War, when it looked as if John Bull had been knocked out like Beckett by all the adroit Carpentiers—native and foreign alike—a charming young matron of my acquaintance told me that her eldest son had gone to Charterhouse. I could sympathize with her sense of relief that he at least was young enough to escape the shadow of conscription, and the horrors of the mad massacre. But her pride in his choice of a school puzzled me, for the lady had fallen an easy victim to the political panic of the moment, which indirectly had produced the most pernicious and the most fallacious doctrine promulgated by the War, namely, the belief that a gentleman is a Juggins.

Seeing that whatever else Charterhouse can do, it aims at producing gentlemen, I could not help feeling that the young matron was guilty of a sort of infanticide in sending her son there, to be incapacitated for the struggle for life in the work-a-day world.

My other experience was even more contradictory. Soon after the Armistice one of those hard-faced men, innocent of any public school, who, as somebody has admirably said, look as if they " had done well out of the War," told me with swelling chest that he had managed to get his boy into Eton— a very difficult task in these days, when the sons of the new rich are standing in long waiting queues at every public school throughout the country. If this proud parent had told me he had sent his boy to Fagin's kitchen, I would have been less astonished, for he belonged to the type of commercial man who has long flouted the public schools, and indeed, whose rise politically has been effected at their expense.

Our caustic countryman, Lord Kames, would not have been the least astonished at the business man's suddenlydeveloped admiration for the public school, for he hated them heartily. In his Sketches of the History of Man, published in 1774, he maintains that young men were trained in them " to selfishness not to patriotism. Keep what you get and get what you can, is the chief lesson inculcated at Westminster, Winchester, and Eton." According to Kames the English public school of his day was an ideal training-place for prospective profiteers, for he says the boys " put themselves in the way of receiving vails [that is to say perquisites], from strangers : and that dirty practice continued,

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though far more poisonous to manners than the giving vails to menial servants."

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL IMPEACHED. For many years before Armageddon, the public school system had been widely impeached, especially by people who had never gone through it ; but it .was our peril in the War which roused criticism to a great clamour. It was quite freely acknowledged that the rank and file of public school men had answered the call to the colours with amazing alacrity, as every roll of honour tragically shows us. What the country was led to doubt was the capacity of the public school man to lead. Thus, one heard—not once, but a thousand times—and even from old public school men themselves—that if, as Wellington declared, Waterloo was won on the playground of Eton, the great war against his then ally ran the risk of being lost to us by precisely the same process.

But the soldiers, despite all their alleged grip of a higher morality, shifted the onus. They prompted the man in the street—has not Lord French boldly confessed as much ?—to turn his wrath on the " politicians "—that is the name we give to people who profess politics opposed to our own, whereas the man who holds our politics is called a " Statesman."

So the man in the street, very much at his wits' end, incontinently kicked all the politicians with a public school or university training downstairs, and promptly installed the so-called " business man " in their place. You remember how we were told that he was the man who " does things."

Most of us have now an unpleasing suspicion that he is doing us. Certain it is, he did not look for inspiration to the tradition . of the Arnolds, the Temples, the Thrings, the Haig-Browns, or anything so hopelessly old-fashioned. Not for him the Republic of Plato, the Ethics of Aristotle, the teaching of history : in short, the very things the public school and the university stand for. The idea of playing-the-game on which the English public school man prides himself immensely seemed futile when we were at war with such an enemy as the Germans. The men who. still stuck to public school precept and practice " must go "—by fair means or foul ; and they did.

THE F.P. CLUB AND THE SCHOOL. The result of this queer form of government, by analogy ; of the child-like conviction that a store and the State are identical and interchangeable terms ; of arguing from the particular to the general, and believing that success in curing herrings fits you for a cure of souls ; the result, I say has been—what it has been. It is no more surprising than

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would be the attempt to quarry Rubislaw with a darning needle. And yet these very business men who were vigorously denouncing the public school yesterday are now so crazy to get their boys into one to-day that Harrow, to take one example, is at this moment blocked up for ten years to come, and a friend of mine here, an old pupil of the Grammar School, on applying for the admission of his boy to Charterhouse four years hence, was informed that he had given " too short notice." A logical and a remembering man like the Scot may be craning his ears to hear the ironic laughter of the Arnolds, the Temples, and the Thrings in their Elysian Fields. I do not think any of the great heads would do anything of the kind. Englishmen to the core, they would feel that the puzzling topsy-turvydom was, in that typically English phrase, all in the day's work, and when the assault on their ideals was at its height during the War, I have little doubt they got over any apprehensiveness with a consoling " Wait and See." They understood the character of their countrymen, recognising long before Mr. Galsworthy finely defined it, that it was based on the conservation of nervous energy, which does not waste time on explaining yesterday's pre-war principle by to-day's post-war practice. So the Englishman now characteristically saves himself the trouble by nick-naming a principle a " Shibboleth." In other words, the Englishman is ultimately true to type. It is, of course, not our type ; and it is no good pretending that it is, for with all his capability, the Scot is a poor actor and a mediocre mimic. The English public schools have their own character, but the Scots grammar schools have also theirs, and that character is far better suited for their purposes in life. The very existence of this Club means that those purposes will be much more closely looked after than they were before the School got into touch with those sons who went through it, and have now gone out into the world ; for they will thus be able to keep the old School far better informed than it was as to what the world expects of it, and how the world can benefit from it. That is the only real way of considering what our School stands for.

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" Encouraged by the success (ahem !) which has attended our previous efforts, we have been persuaded to publish another little volume, which, we hope, will not fail to find favour in the eyes of our most patient readers " (cf. introductions to most of our modern poets). For this noble resolve we ask no praise, but attribute it to the gentle, yet firm persuasion of our enthusiastic F.P. editor. * * * Well, gentle reader (ibid.), although by the time this reaches your hands you will be looking forward to Christmas again, we shall not fail to extend to you our best wishes for the New Year. The end of last year and the beginning of this year passed in rotten weather, and most of us will agree that, apart from the social functions enjoyed therein, the Christmas Holidays were rather a frost (due chiefly to the lack of that commodity). We certainly needed a quiet and restful time after the Test Exams., which were of their usual killing nature. We trust that all who desired (?) to be entered for the Leavings have received the fulfilment of their wishes.

We beg to extend our deepest sympathy, but wish all candidates the best of luck and a safe recovery. * * * The School continues on its usual routine uninterrupted by the convulsions of the world around. We regret to hear, however, that Mr. Ritchie has severed his connexion with us.

As was mentioned in the last issue of the Magazine, he has been in bad health for some time. He did not despair of returning to his post, but, on taking up his duties for a short time after the Christmas Holidays, he found them too much for him and has sent in his resignation. The general feeling of the School is with us, we are sure, when we express the hope that he may soon be restored to health again. * * * Mr. A. C. Cormack, M.A., masters, After Easter two new and Mr. A. F. Hyslop, M.A., will take up their positions at the School, the former as a teacher of French and Latin, the latter of English and Classics. Mr. Hyslop is a distinguished F.P. and by no means a stranger to the School, but we extend-to him, as well as to Mr. Cormack, a very hearty welcome,

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and hope he will find the life of a teacher here as pleasant as that of a scholar. * * * The football season continues to be one of the most successful we have seen. To begin with, the weather has been exceptionally fine, so fine indeed that only on one afternoon had the games of the Upper and Middle School to be abandoned owing to rain. The Field on Wednesday afternoon now presents a most animated appearance. There are always several games in progress, and these are entered into with an enthusiasm which speaks well for the future of the School in this direction. The new optional Rugby jersey, with blue and white stripe, is rapidly finding favour, chiefly, we presume, because it "lends an air of distinction to the wearer." Vanitas vanitatum. The state of the Field at present, however, is not conducive to the keeping up of a good appearance. We have heard it suggested that the Education Authority be approached on the advisibility of providing skates for the players. * * * The First XV have done exceedingly well this season, the run of successes in the last few matches being almost unprecedented. The team is in the Junior Rugby Football League and has every chance of standing high in the list. So far, there has only been one team able to vanquish the School, and the result of the final tussle is eagerly awaited. Our old rivals, Gordon's College, have suffered severely at our hands, and the last match, which they were very confident of winning, ended in their defeat by twenty-nine points to nil. * * * The First XV had their first experience of first-class Public School football when, on 1st February, they travelled to Glenalmond. The journey was made by train to Perth and thence by motor to Glenalmond. On their arrival the team were shown round the College and its surroundings, and after lunch they changed for the fray. The Glenalmond First were a very heavy lot, and, at the beginning of the game, it looked as if the School would suffer a defeat. By hard work, however, they kept out their opponents and a try was registered in favour of the School. In the second half the School scored again and Glenalmond retaliated. The game ended after a furious struggle in a win for the School by six points to three. The team are to be congratulated on their splendid show, and also on the fine account they gave of themselves at dinner in the train on the homeward journey. * * * A considerable sum is still wanting to permit of the erection of the Memorial Pavilion at the Field. Meanwhile the Educa-

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tion Authority has, in a welcome burst of generosity, erected an Army Hut to serve as a dressing room for the teams. This was one of the most crying needs at the Field, and we are glad to see it has been met to a certain extent. * * * The Literary and Debating Society has so far had quite a successful series of meetings. These have been, as a rule, very well attended. The lectures have been most interesting and instructive, and the debates have been keenly sustained.

We should like, however, to see more of the younger members taking an active part in these. It is they who will have the management of the Society in a year or two, and it is but right that they should gain some practice in carrying on the debates. * * * The Sing-Song was attended with its usual success. Songs and chorused were rendered during the evening, and quite a " galaxy of talent " was displayed. We might throw out a hint to the Musical Director-to-be, to try the higher classes in the School if he is looking for musical appreciation. The Annual Serenade was carried out after the Sing-Song, and a good number of the masters were found at home. The usual expressions of goodwill were exchanged and the company broke up at a late hour. * * * On Friday, 21st January, the School Dance, which we hope has come to stay, was held in the Hall. There were over a hundred couples present, including a large number of F.P.'s, and several members of the Secondary Schools Management Committee graced the occasion. The function can only be described as a tremendous success. The School was tastefully decorated, and the Library, which was used as a buffet, had a delightful appearance. On entering the main corridor the guest found himself sinking luxuriously into a thick carpet instead of clanking along a hard stone floor, and saw palms and other such tropical vegetation, if not actually growing out of, at least growing above the spaces between the flags on the floor. " An orchestra discoursed excellent music and dancing was enthusiastically engaged in till a late hour," as most of the evening papers say. The great mistake about the Dance was that all these decorations were removed next day. There would be much more inducement to come to the School if it were transformed into the dwelling of an Eastern potentate, and one could, at the intervals between each period (fifteen minutes we beg to suggest), stroll up to the Library and have an ice, or drop into Hall for a dance.

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School was considered and unanimously approved. It was decided to accept Messrs. Watt Brothers' estimate.") * * * The School Orchestra is no longer a figment of the imagination but an actual body. The members are most fortunate in having such a keen musician as Mr. J. Mackenzie Forbes as conductor. His enthusiasm is wonderful, and he has the power of instilling it into the players. What if the violins are perhaps not all at exactly the same pitch, and the cornet has a strange faculty for playing double notes ! The orchestra is a very live body indeed, and its rendering of Mr. Forbes's compositions at the School Play show that there is no lack of ability. We wish this newly-formed Orchestral Society all success, and urge those who have any musical ability to take up the study of some instrument and help to swell its numbers. * * * On Friday and Saturday, 4th and 5th February, members of the School gave a performance of " The Heir at Law " in the School Hall. The attendances at both performances were good, and those who came enjoyed themselves immensely.

The talent displayed by members of the cast was remarkable, each entering into his part with a zest which was most praiseworthy. We can single out no one for special mention, as the display of all was equally good ; but a word of thanks is due to Mr. Charles Davidson for the interest he took in the Play and the time he gave to the rehearsals. Though now he has nominally severed his connexion with the School, we know that he is still with us in spirit, and that he may be relied upon to give a helping hand on similar occasions. Thanks are also due to Mr. Leslie Millar and Mr. J. H. N. Craigen for their work of " making up " behind the scenes, and to Mr. G. T. Simpson for his services as business-manager. A fuller account of the Concert and Play will be found elsewhere. * * * ' With the approach of fine weather the activities of the Art Club will be commencing again. The fruits of last year's excursions were shown in the little sketch book which the Club published near the end of last year. This book contains some very fine little drawings, and reflects the greatest credit on the members of the Club, who must have given plentifully of their time and energy to its compilation. We offer our heartiest congratulations to the Club and its hard-working secretary, A. G. Hutchison. * * * The Librarians still continue to hand out the volumes from the Lending Library to clamorous youngsters. We could wish, however, that more members of the School would join, for we

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are sure they would find it greatly to their benefit. The Education Authority is, we understand, likely to sanction the expenditure of £30 on the purchase of books for the Reference Library. As most of the volumes at present in it are hopelessly out of date, this grant should be of great service in making the Library really useful. * * * The Easter Holidays are comparatively early this session, but they will be none the less acceptable to the hard-working members of the Sixth. The effects of overwork can be readily seen on their pale and furrowed countenances. We hope that they will be able to drag their weary existence along till the holidays arrive, when they may recover their lost strength.

After extending this wish of a good holiday to the whole School, we lay down our pen with a sigh of relief. Actum est.

" The Heir at Law." Large and gratifying audiences in the School Hall were delighted on the evenings of Friday and Saturday, 4th and 5th February, by the performances of George Colman's sparkling 18th century comedy, " The Heir at Law," given by members of the School.

The play was preceded by a most enjoyable concert. The singing of the vocalists, Miss Lena Dunn, Edward G. Abercromby, James I. C. Crombie, and Mr. J. Mackenzie Forbes, was greatly appreciated. A feature of the concert was the first public performance of the School Orchestra, under Mr. Forbes as conductor. The pieces played were compositions by Mr. Forbes himself, and he is to be congratulated not only on their account, but also on having brought the orchestra to such a high state of efficiency in the short time at his disposal. The School Instrumental Quartet, consisting of J. I. C. Crombie, N. G. Marr, H. A. Munro, and E. J. Wood, played selections at the beginning and the end of the Assisted by W. Harkins, they also played concert. between the acts of the play.

The play tells us the amusing story of the trials of a newrich family in their efforts to live like the true nobility. Daniel Dowlas, a chandler of Gosport, on the death of a distant relation, unexpectedly succeeds to the title and estates of Baron Duberly. The very learned Doctor Pangloss, LL.D., A.S.S., is engaged to " larn " the new baron good English and to mend his cacology or " cackleology," as the baron himself puts it. The baron not proving a very apt pupil, Dr. Pangloss becomes tutor to his son, Dick Dowlas, instead. But the worthy doctor is no more successful with this pupil than he

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had been with his last one ; for young Dick Dowlas, although he has no " cackleology " to mend, is too wild and careless to learn the classics. Dick has a great struggle in his mind as to whether he must now give up his old friends, Zekiel and Cicely Homespun, or whether he can be " genteel " and at the same time keep up his acquaintance with them. Fortunately his better feelings prevail, and he is just about to marry Cicely when the rightful heir to the late Baron Duberly turns up, having been thought for a long time to be dead. But just as this startling announcement is made, Zekiel Homespun rushes in with the news that he has succeeded to a fortune of £20,000. Dick and Cicely, accordingly, are happily married after all.

The following were the Dramatis Persona :— Daniel Dowlas (alias Baron Duberly) ..

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Mr. Hamish A. Munro.

Mr. George T. Simpson.

Mr. C. C. Barnett.

Mr. T. Anderson.

Mr. G. J. Anderson.

Mr. Ronald Dingwall.

Mr. George Cochran.

The whole cast are to be congratulated on the excellence of their performances. One and all of them caught the exact spirit of their respective parts.

Henderson, Dingwall and Simpson kept the fun going throughout the play.

Munro played his difficult part extremely well, and Barnett and Cochran were also very capable as Zekiel and Cicely Homespun. The minor parts were admirably filled by T. and G. Anderson.

At the close of the performance on Saturday, Mr. George T. Simpson, in a short speech, thanked Mr. Charles Davidson for his kindness in directing the production, and, on behalf of the cast, made him a small presentation as a token of their gratitude. Mr. Davidson, in reply, said it was always a pleasure to him to lend his services at the production of plays at the School, and thanked the actors for the splendid way in which they had worked, having had only three weeks for rehearsals.

The proceeds will go to the Byron Statue Fund.

The Secretary for Scotland on the School. " Claudius Clear," when recently reviewing in the British Weekly Dr. Perry's " Anthony Mitchell," wrote : " He [Bishop Mitchell] went to the Aberdeen Grammar School.

The other night I heard Mr. Munro, the Secretary for Scotland, say that if there was a better school than that, either in England or in Scotland, he had never heard of it."

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Random Notes.

Undaunted by criticism on all sides, we again take up our pen. We have been asked who the School Poet is, and what he is doing. He has put in an appearance, accompanied by a few friends. Their joint productions, however, " degenerate into downright gush " (Hudson).

Our serenade is past. When we had visited a few of the masters, someone shouted, " Who do we want? " The reply, loud and long, was " Caesar," whereupon a young lady • took to precipitate flight. We failed, however, to see an account of our serenade in the Sunday Post, but our careful and diligent search was rewarded by our finding, in the Agony Column, " Will you give me the key of your heart ? Trot it out, you see."

We believed that one youth deigned to attend the first meeting of the School Orchestra and politely asked if he could be allowed to play the gramophone. We also have it on good authority that the first practice was held in the Infant Department, that the other practices have all been held there, and that they are getting on Allegro con spirit°.

Boys will be boys : we found a photograph of the Old School, and in the foreground were two youths with their hands deep in their pockets. Next day we received a circular stating that a free afternoon was to be given for compulsory sports. We enjoy our sports, but we have yet to enjoy our free afternoons.

The School Dance, which we hope has come to stay, was a howling success. We were told that H. K. H. absorbed a syphon and a half of soda-water at one sitting. As Horace himself says : "Ille terrarum mihi palter omnes Angulus ridet." We also believe that the same person fell asleep in the ballroom, and was rudely awakened by someone tripping over his outstretched legs. Who was heard to ask a fair maiden, " May I have the pleasure of this dance? " and on the latter blushingly faltering " Yes," undauntedly replied, " I am so sorry, but I can't give you this one, but I'll give you the next " ; and who, on hearing the bell sound, asked what it was next hour ?

Extract from the local newspapers :— " The Fiscal explained that one of the offenders, who was designated as a ' law student,' was not a law student. ' I knew,' said the Fiscal, ' that he was not a law student from his statement to the policeman. He told the policeman— " You cannot prosecute me. I am only 19, and you cannot prosecute anyone in this country under 21. You know that, don't you ? " We shall not give the offender's name. The crime was cycling without lights, and the fine 10s.

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The School Literary and Debating Society.

15th October, 1920.—The Society's opening meeting for the session was held on this date when Mr. William Murison, M.A., delivered a lecture entitled " A Fellow in a Long Motley Coat guarded with Yellow." Mr. Murison described different kinds of fools, such as court fools and town fools, giving historical examples of each. The lecturer went on to relate some splendid stories connected with fools, such as Jamie Fleeman, the Udny fool, all of which were greatly appreciated.

29th October.—The debate on this evening was : " Ought Divinity to be taught in Schools? " Mr. Crombie, for the affirmative, spoke well and set forth numerous convincing arguments. Mr. Wood then read his paper for the negative, in which he said that though he thoroughly believed in the teaching of divinity he did not think that school was the correct place to teach it. When the votes were counted, Mr. Crombie was found to have won the debate by a majority of three.

12th November.—The Rector presided over the Society on this evening, when Rev. T. Angus Fraser delivered a lecture entitled " A Trip with Sancho Panza, his Moke and his Master." Mr. Fraser first discussed the author of " Don Quixote," then the story of the book, and finally the philosophy of it.

In concluding, Mr. Fraser pointed out the moral which the book taught, namely, " There is a particular place for everyone in this world."

19th November.—On this evening Rev. James Smith delivered an illustrated lecture entitled " A Trip to Egypt." Mr. Smith opened his lecture by describing the various routes by which one could reach Egypt. Then a number of slides of the Pharaohs of Egypt and of the modern rulers were thrown on the screen. Many beautiful views of the Pyramids and the Sphinx were shown. Mr. Smith brought his lecture to a close by showing some of the wonderful mosques of Cairo.

26th November.—" Has the Theatre a greater influence than the Cinema?"

Mr. Christie spoke fluently for the affirmative. He thought the beneficial influence of the theatre greatly exceeded that of the cinema. Mr. Barnett followed with his paper for the negative. After a lively discussion the vote was taken, which resulted in a win for the affirmative.

10th December.—Mr. Duncan Macgregor, Games Master, delivered a lecture entitled " Physiognomy." He first discussed the forehead, since it is the most important feature so far as physiognomy is concerned. He then passed on to the eye, pointing out the significance of the eyebrows and eyelids.

Mr. Macgregor concluded his lecture by describing shortly the meaning of different forms of nose and mouth.

24th December.—On this date the annual Christmas Sing-Song was held, Mr. Barnett presiding. Solos were given by Messrs. Crombie, Barnett, Anderson, Pigge, and Munro, while Mr. Barnett delivered a recitation. The accompaniments were tastefully played by Messrs. Wood and Munro.

14th January, 1921.—" Ought there to be Prefects in the School ? " Mr. C. Walker opened for the affirmative, giving it as his opinion that Prefects would raise the standard of discipline in the School. Mr. T. Anderson then spoke for the negative. He said he thought that it would be impracticable to have Prefects in a day-school such as the Grammar School. The meeting, however, voted strongly for the affirmative.

28th January.—Dr. McLeod delivered a lecture entitled " Wireless Telegraphy, mechanically explained," to a large number of members. Dr. McLeod very skilfully explained the fundamental principles of a highly technical subject. He performed numerous experiments illustrating what sound waves are and how they act.

11th February.—" Will the Omnibus supersede the Tramcar?

Mr. Munro, speaking for the affirmative, delivered a long paper which had been carefully prepared. Mr. Watt then spoke for the negative. He pointed out that the tramcar was cleaner and more comfortable. The vote resulted in a narrow win for the negative.

School Rugby.

9th October, 1920.—School v. Gordon's College (friendly)—In the first half the game was fairly evenly contested, both packs being about the same strength. The School, however, had the better backs and scored through Paterson (2), Edwards, and Walker. In the second half the School forwards began to assert their superiority, and Margach and Edwards succeeded in crossing the Gordon's line. Result : School, 28 points ; Gordon's College, nil.

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16th October.—School v. 2nd F.P.'s (friendly)—The F.P.'s put a strong XV in the field. The game was very even throughout, first one side pressing then the other ; but neither could score. Just before half-time, however, Walker scored for School far out. Spark failed with the kick. The second half was a repetition of the first. After a good combined run F.P.'s scored a try, which was converted. This was all the scoring. The best for School were Spark, Walker, Margach, and Lawrence. Result : School, 3 points ; 2nd F.P.'s, 5 points.

30th October.—School v. 2nd Gordonians (friendly)—Gordonians opened strongly and only the sound tackling of the School threes kept them out.

As the game proceeded, the School forwards, who were without Spark, began to improve. While the School were pressing, Pirie seeing his opportunity, had a beautiful drop kick. Gordonians pressed from the kick-off and scored an unconverted try. Both teams scored once in the second half. The best for School were Laurence and Middleton. Result: School, 7 points; 2nd Gordonians, 8 points.

13th November.—School v. Gordon's College (League)—School were unfortunate to be without Margach and Cruickshank in this, their first League match. It was an even game throughout, both teams scoring once. Spark converted the School try, while the Gordon's one was unconverted. All the School forwards played a hard game, Spark especially being conspicuous.

The threes were not up to their usual standard. Result : School, 5 points ; Gordon's College, 3 points.

4th December.—School v. 2nd Gordonians (League)—This game, the second with the Gordonians, was as evenly contested as the first. The Gordonians gained the points by a single goal to a try. It was a fast game throughout, both sets of forwards working hard. Matthew scored for School in the first half, while Gordon ians scored a rather lucky try in the second period. Result : School, 3 points ; 2nd Gordonians, 5 points.

1 1 th December.—School v. 2nd F.P.'s (League)—The game opened evenly, but School soon began to show superiority. After a combined forward rush, Spark scored a try, which was converted. In the second half, School continued to play well. The threes had some very fine runs, in two of which Middleton scored. One of the tries was converted. Just on time the F.P.'s crossed the line, but failed to improve upon the try. The School forwards played an excellent game and Middleton was outstanding at three. Result : School, 13oints ; 2nd F.P.'s, 3 points.

15th January, 1921.—School v. Gordon's College (League)—Gordon's were keen to reverse the previous result and presented a strong team. School, however, were in good form, and it was seldom that Gordon's passed the School 25 line. Walker (2); Spark, and Margach scored in the first half. In the second half Gordon's were kept on the defensive, while the School added to their score. Result : School, 29 points ; Gordon's College, nil.

22nd January.—School v. 2nd 'Shire (League)—'Shire were considerably below strength, with the result that the game was vet), one-sided. There was a fine understanding between the School forwards and backs. Spark and Grafton were conspicuous among the forwards, who were heeling much better than usual. Cochran scored in the first half, and the School, though playing against the wind, crossed over with a lead of 12 points. This lead was increased in the second half by Walker, Yule, and Campbell. Result : School, 31 points ; 2nd 'Shire, nil.

29th January.—School v. 2nd F.P.'s (League)—F.P.'s put only thirteen men in the field, nevertheless the game was very even. The ball was very greasy, which prevented good passing. Stirrat, Spark, and Crombie worked hard among the forwards, and the pressure maintained by the School was bound to tell. The F.P.'s line was crossed three times in the first half, but none of the tries were converted. The School continued to press in the second period, scoring twice. Just on time, after a forward rush, Skinner scored far out for F.P.'s. Brown failed with the kick. Result : School, 17 points ; 2nd F.P.'s, 3 points.

1st February.—School v. Glenalmond (friendly)—The School travelled to Glenalmond to play this match. During the first fifteen minutes Glenalmond pressed, and only the good tackling of the School backs kept them from scoring.

The School, however, soon found their feet, and Grafton rounded off a good forward rush by picking up and scoring a try, which Spark failed to convert from a difficult angle. In the second half School added to their lead by another unconverted try. Towards time one of the Glenalmond threes, intercepting a pass, scored a well taken try. During the last ten minutes the game was very fast, but the School stuck to their lead of three points. Result : School, 6 points ; Glenalmond, 3 points.

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The Former Pupils' Club.

FOUNDED 1893.

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" The Speckled Band."

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The Dramatic Section of the Former Pupils' Club, after the lapse of the War years, made a new start on 16th December with a revival of Sir A. Conon Doyle's " The Speckled Band," one of their great successes of pre-War days. Many of the original members of the cast were again available, and the play was given in fine style, without hitch or blemish.

The most remarkable thing about the production was the high level of character acting. The play gives full scope for this type of playing, and full advantage was taken of it.

Mr. W. G. Craigen was back in his part of the great detective, and if he was somewhat greater in body than we imagine Sherlock Holmes to have been, the spirit of his acting was great enough not only to compensate, but to make one forget everything except that impression of mastery, quiet strength, and relentless humour. His disguises were part of the fine character acting.

Holmes's protagonist, Dr. Grimesby Rylott, was again played by Mr. J. H. N. Craigen with all the sinister touches that make the contrast of the collapse in the last scene so effective. It is a difficult part to sustain at the required level, but Mr. Craigen has all the grip and incisiveness necessary.

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minor parts, but for sheer skill in characterization Mr. W. S. Morgan's Mr. Armitage would rank high in any performance, amateur or professional. Very near to him was Mr. G. Gordon Nicol's study of the pathetic old butler.

The ladies of the cast--Mrs. J. H. N. Craigen as Enid Stonor and Miss Florence Shirras as Mrs. Staunton—were excellent in contrast, and kept the balance admirably.

The parts of Dr. Watson and the Coroner and Billy were very well played by Mr. J. C. Duffus, Mr. A]an McBain, and Mr. A. V. Morgan respectively, and Mr. Kenneth Robertson showed how effective a mostly silent part can become by " listening."

The long list of players included Messrs. D. P. Cochran, E. W. Fulton, Leslie Huss, Pat Watson, A. G. Walker, H. G. Edwards, L. G. Smith, John Aitken, Jun., W. G. Hutcheon, James Leith, J. S. W. Marr, Hugh Morgan, G. Simpson, and W. N. Stewart.

Mr. Douglas Sangster was business manager.

A small orchestra under Mr. Harry Townend and Mr. J. C. Lyon added to the evening's enjoyment.

The London Section.

A Preliminary Meeting to discuss the revival of the activities of the London Section of the Club was held at the Scottish Office on Thursday, 25th November, 1920, when about thirty members of the Club were present. Dr. David Nicolson, C.B., took the Chair, and Mr. T. J. Wilson, C.A., was elected Secretary. After the Secretary had explained the position of the Section and made a general statement on the objects of the meeting, the Chairman asked for suggestions as to possible activities of the Section. There was a general discussion, in which the following gentlemen took part :—Sir John Collie. C.M.G., Mr. C. E. Garland, Mr. F. P. Morton, Dr. R. W. A. Salmond, Mr. F. Wishart, Mr. Harald Merrylees, Dr. J. B. Rae, Mr. J. M. Easton,'Dr. A. L. Thomson, and Brigadier-General Mowat.

Mr. J. Drummond Smith proposed, and Sir John Collie seconded, that a Committee be elected to discuss all questions as to constitution, rules, finance, etc. ; to manage the affairs of the Section ; and, in particular, to arrange for a monthly informal meeting, with or without a dinner at a moderate price, and an annual formal Dinner—the Committee to prepare a report to be submitted to the first subsequent informal meeting. This motion was carried unanimously, and the following Committee was appointed, with power to add to its number :—Dr. J. Burnett Rae, Brigadier-General Magnus Mowat, Mr. J. Drummond Smith, Sir John Collie, Mr. F. Wishart, Dr. R. W. A. Salmond, Mr. F. P. Morton, Mr. J. Murray Easton, Dr. A. I.andsborough Thomson, and Mr. C. E. Garland.

At a meeting on 2nd December the Committee co-opted as additional members Messrs. Charles Reid, G. Topham Forrest, Edmund B. Boyd, and William Hutcheon, and made arrangements for four monthly informal meetings of the Section to be held in the Dean Hotel, 87 Oxford Street, W. 1., on the last Thursdays of January, February, March, and April, 1921 : the meetings to commence at 8 p.m. and to be preceded at 7 p.m. by a 5s. dinner.

The dinner is optional, and each diner pays his own bill to the waiter.

The first of these meetings was held on 27th January, when between fifty and sixty members were present. After an informal dinner, Mr. J. M. Bulloch read a paper on " What Our School Stands For," which is printed in this issue .of the Magazine (see pp. 91-102). The lecture was greatly appreciated by all present, and gave rise to some discussion, which was joined in by Mr. Howard Gray and Dr. Frank Collie.

Lord Meston, who has accepted office as President of the Section, also gave a short address, in which he congratulated the Section on the success of its first gathering.

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At the second monthly meeting on Thursday, 24th February, between forty and fifty members, presided over by Lord Meston, sat down to dinner, and several members dropped in later. After giving the toast of the King, the President introduced Colonel E. A. Ewart (" Boyd Cable "), who spoke on " The Wandering Scot," and related some of his personal experiences, chiefly in Australia and South Africa. Thereafter several members got reminiscent.

On 31st March, Mr. G. Topham Forrest, F.R.I.B.A., Superintending Architect to the London County Council, will give an illustrated lecture on some of the interesting relics dug up in London recently.

• ** All members of the F.P. Club residing within a radius of 50 miles round London are ipso facto members of the London Section.

F.P. Tennis Section.

During last season this Section proved highly successful. A meeting was held in October to go over the accounts, which showed a satisfactory result. It was decided that a meeting be held about the end of March, 1921, in preparation for the coming season, and everyone wishing to become a member is cordially invited to attend.

List of New Members of the Club.

LIFE MEMBERS. Fiddes, Edward (1876-81), M.A.. 173 Wilmslow Road, Withington, Manchester.

Allan, Basil Sydney (1897-1902), 8 Fonthill Terrace, Aberdeen.

Macdonald, George Grant (1895-96), M.A., M.D., 55a Welbeck Street, London, W. Philp, Robert Charles Penny (1911-12), 9 Roland Gardens, Kensington, London, S.W. 7.

Henderson,Hubert Douglas (1901-04), M.A., Clare College, Cambridge.

Kilgour, O. Lowell (1911-12), 72 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen.

Milne, Garland Cowie (1897-1901), 997 Thurlom Street, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Milne, George (1893-94), I.C.S., Craigellie, Lonmay, Aberdeenshire.

Yule, George H. (1893—?), Manager, The Royal Bank of Canada, Beausejour, Manitoba.

Buyers, George Alston (1906-08), New Engineering and Shipbuilding Works, Ltd., Yangstzepoo Dock, Shanghai, China.

Loke, Yaik Foo (1905-14), Desswood, Kuala Lumpur, F.M.S. Additional Subscriptions Irons Lite Members.

The following, who became Life Members of the Club when the subscription was £2. 2s., have remitted the additional sum of £3. 3s. in order to bring their subscriptions up to the new rate of £5. 5s.

Johnstone, R. M., c/o Government Railways, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa.

Jameson, W. G., 164 Market Street, Aberdeen (£5. 5s. additional).

Morrison, William, M.A., 1 Rickmansworth Road, Watford, Herts.

Strachan, Arthur W., go Messrs. Grindlay & Co., Bombay, India.

Moir, James. M.A.. D.Sc., P.O. Box 1080, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Crombie, John, 18 Rubislaw Den North, Aberdeen.

ORDINARY MEMBERS. Symons, William Dawson (1907-17), Baker, Samuel (1881-89), China Sugar 33 Abergeldie Terrace, Aberdeen.

Refinery, East Point, Hong Cooper, Allan Patrick (1897-1900).

Kong, China.

Millburn, Insch.

Irvine, Rev. John (1886-88), The Walker, Patrick J. M. (1914-20), 61 Rectory, Insch.

Osborne Place, Aberdeen.

Morgan, Hugh Mackintosh (1914-20), Lamb, Donald Lawson (1914-20), 36 58 Mid Stocket Road, Aberdeen.

Abergeldie Terrace, Aberdeen.

Strachan, George (1919-20), Roslin• Shirran, Edward H. P. (1914-19), 39 Cottage, Banchory.

Constitution Street, Aberdeen.

Wilson, Alexander Gordon (1916-20), Cameron, Major R. B. M. (1886-89), Birley Brae, Cults.

Sparrowhatch Lodge, Bet h ers- Gray, Guthrie Clark (1915-19), 36 den, Ashford, Kent.

Osborne Place, Aberdeen.

Messrs. MORGAN, Photographic Artists, Miniature Painters, and Makers of Artistic Frames

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393 UNION STREET, ABERDEEN.

Special Terms to Grammar School Students.

10 a.m. till 5 p.m.

Telephone No. 603.

ROBES et MODES.

WATT & MILNE, 172 Union St., ABERDEEN.

FOURRURES et MANTEAUX.

As British as the Weather —but reliable!

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Rainhard Dexter takes very seriously the responsibility of protecting the public from the weather's worst, and of providing a smart and perfectly tailored coat. . .

Your exact fit is ready for you at

ALEXANDER BOOTH 127, Union Street, and 37, St. Nicholas Street, ABERDEEN

Headquarters for ARTISTIC FLORAL WORK. Bouquets, Wreaths, and Floral all Tributes promptly supplied at Moderate Prices. : :

PRINTING. The .

Central Press (JOHN MILNE),

General Printer, Lithographer, AN))

Stationer.

M. H. SINCLAIR, Florist and Bulb Merchant,

61 Belmont Street,

347 UNION STREET,

ABERDEEN.

ABERDEEN. 'Phone 1121.

Telephone No. 809.

Aberdeen Grammar School Magazine.

Anderson, John Edwin (1916-20), Newtonhill, Kincardine.

Brodie, Edward (1910-19), " Dunella," Arduthie Road, Stonehaven.

Menzies, Graeme Mitchell Mill (191720), Schoolhouse, Banchory.

Tindall, Robert (1915-20), 69 Leslie Road, Aberdeen.

Michie, George B. (1911-15), 14 Grosvenor Place, Aberdeen.

Farquharson, John Ross (1916-20), Waterkloof P.O., Steenbokfontein, via Koster, Transvaal.

Ross, Alexander (1863-65), Arngrove, Torphins.

Munro, James M. (1880-84), 3 Bayview Road, Aberdeen.

Johnston, James (1897-99), " Kephalo," Cearns Road, Oxton, Birkenhead.

Duncan, Ernest Paul (1899-1903), M.B., Victoria Road, Kirkby-inAshfield, Notts.

Innes, Charles (1883-84), St. Leonard's, Stonehaven.

Lamont, Donald (1886-88), Douglas Hotel, Bo'ness.

Farquharson, John C. A. (1891-94), 8 Halsey House, Red Lion Square, London, W.C. 1.

Fiddes, Alexander McPherson (188186), M.B., 310 Catherine Road, London, E. 7.

Hindmarsh, James (1893-95), " Brendon," Heath Park Avenue, Cardiff.

Ducat, Andrew (1902-06), N. of S. & T. & C. Bank, Ltd., Mile-End Branch, Aberdeen.

Grant, James Main (1881-86), 18 Great Western Road, Aberdeen.

Saunders, Captain Kemp (1871-74), 58 Wanstead Park Avenue, Wanstead Park, Essex.

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Greeson, Rev. Basil Lewin (18981902), Binbrook Rectory , Lincoln.

Williamson, Alexander Morrison (1871-73), M.A., advocate, Norwood, Cults.

Crowden, Samuel Graham (1866-67), 12 Kilmaurs Road, Edinburgh.

Kilpatrick, Rev. George Gordon Dinwiddie (1895-99), 282 O'Connor Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Gilbert, Walter Lothian (1902-06), 2a St. Swithin Street, Aberdeen.

Reid, John, (1875-76), Monaltrie, Alford.

Thomson, George Morrison (1906-12), M.A., c/o Mrs. Stanger, Carlton Cottage, Stromness, Orkney.

Chedburn, Rev. Jackson Stewart ( 1896-99), Y. M. C. A., Foss Bridge House, York.

Begg, Alexander Thomson (1909-10), The Northern Assurance Co., Ltd., 6 Royal Exchange Place, Calcutta, India.

Anderson, Archibald S. K. (1900-06), M.A., M.B., 13 Westburn Drive, Aberdeen.

Black, William (1892— ? ), Hope, Tongue, Sutherlandshire.

Robson, John Ajmere (1876-78), 33 Kensington Park Gardens, London, W.11.

Macrae, John Duncan (1904-09), 4 Wardle Avenue, Mowbray Road, South Shields.

Hay, Arthur Colson (1901-02), 68 Land Street, Keith.

Gill, John (1879-80), P.O. Box 62, Pretoria, South Africa.

Legge, James Wilson (1879-80) 4 Erin Terrace, Rouwkoop Road, Rondebosch, South Africa.

THE SCHOOL WAR MEMORIAL. £3440 11 Subscriptions previously acknowledged or definitely promised Mearns, Mrs. James, Tillyhouse Croft, Banchory-Devenick, in memory of her grandson, Lance-Corpl. John MacGregor ..

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Mearns, Canadians Forrest, G. Topham, New County Hall, London, S.E. 1., in memory 5 5 of the late Major A. K. Robb, Durham Light Infantry 3 3 .. ..

Walker, James F., 24 Rubislaw Terrace, Aberdeen Aberdeen Grammar School F.Y. Club (Dramatic Section)—proceeds from performances of " The Speckled Band," per Mr. 43 8 .. .. .. .. ..

Douglas C. Sangster.

Amount held by the F.P. Club on account of the Recreation 147 16 •• .. .. .. .• Ground Fund .. £3642

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Our Contemporaries.

We acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of the following :— The Glenalmond Chronicle (December).

[Records the appointment of an " Old Glenalmond," Mr. J. Mackay Thomson, as Rector of the Aberdeen Grammar School, and the death of another,

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Aberdeen Grammar School Magazine.

Raymond Verel, O.B.E., M.B., who was at the " Grammar" for three years before going to Glenalmond.]

The Fettesian—Jubilee Number (November).

[Fettes College opened on 5th October, 1870, and like several other Edinburgh schools it has been celebrating its first jubilee. We gather that it regards itself as " the premier school of Scotland—premier in standing if not in age." The Fettesian was started in 1878.j Schola Regia (Christmas).

[Records the visit, in November, to his old school in Edinburgh of Dr. Graham Bell, the world-famous inventor of the telephone. Dr. Bell was at the Royal High School when our Old Boy, Sir James Donaldson, was its Rector.]

Edinburgh Institution Chronicle (December).

[The Institution was transferred from Queen Street to Melville Street on 30th November last. The following, from Sir Alfred Ewing's address on the occasion, will be heartily endorsed by many of our F.P.'s. Discussing why it is that Scotland sends out relatively such a large proportion of youths to play their big parts in the government of the world, the Principal said : " I think one of the reasons is that the middle-class boy i❑ Scotland is for the most part trained, not by being sent to a residential school of the type known as the English Public School, but rather to a day school. The influence of the home plays an important part in shaping character, which in the English Public Schools is a little apt to become almost moulded into uniformity."]

The Watsonian (Dec.), Stewart's College Magazine (Dec.), The Herioter (Dec.), The Merchistonian (Dec.), The Edinburgh Academy Chronicle (Nov., Dec., and Feb.), Glasgow Academy Chronicle (Oct. and Dec.), Glasgow High School Magazine (Dec.), The Edward Alleyn Magazine (Oct.), The Westovian, Westoe Secondary School, South Shields (Dec.), The Boltonian (Dec.), The Erasmian, High School, Dublin (Oct.), School News, Royal Belfast Academical Institution (Dec.), Our School Times, Foyle College, Londonderry (Nov.), C.A .1., Coleraine Academical Institution (Sept. and Dec.), South African College School Magazine (Nov.), The Scotch Collegian, Melbourne (Aug. and Dec.).

Royal (Dick) Veterinary College EDINBURGH. Principal :

O. CHARNOCK BRADLEY, M.D., D.Sc., M.R.C.V.S.

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After attendance on complete courses of instruction in this College, Students may proceed to the Examinations for the Diploma of Membership of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (M.R.C.V.S.).

Students of the College may also present themselves for the Degree of Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Veterinary Science conferred by the University of Edinburgh.

The College being recognised as a Central Institution under the Education (Scotland) Act, 19O8, Students are eligible for Bursaries granted by Education Authorities of Counties, and certain Burghs of Scotland.

A Copy of the College Calendar may be obtained on application to F. P. MILLIGAN, W.S., Secretary.

N.B.—The College has been transferred to the new buildings at Summerhall, East Meadows.

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Meats, etc., selected from display are grilled in view of Customers.

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Private Luncheons, Dinners, Weddings, Dances, Meetings, Celebrations, etc., specially catered for in handsome apartments reserved for the occasion.

Enquiries should be addressed to—

MANAGER, PALACE HOTEL.

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Select your Overcoat where you can have a large choice. — You will find one of the largest selections in Aberdeen of Smart, Stylish Overcoats at 33 BRIDGE STREET. In all makes of Cloth, FLEECY, SHETLAND, HARRIS, Etc. Prices very reasonable for really High Grade Overcoats.

McGEE,

PATRICK TAILOR

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OUTFITTER,

33 Bridge Street, Aberdeen.

TELEPHONE 618.

Patterns and Prices sent on Application.

M. GERARD, WATCHMAKER, JEWELLER, & SILVERSMITH,

411 UNION STREET (wEsT).

Telephone - 447.

ENGAGEMENT AND WEDDING RINGS, DIAMOND AND PEARL JEWELLERY, BROOCHES, PENDANTS, ETC., ALSO WATCHES,

CLOCKS,

TOISESHELL, AND

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UNION STREET,

251

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Appointed Agents for

ROYAL :

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NORTHERN CLUB

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Telephone 1293.

& BURBERRY COATS

text, ilithen ant, %oils Vaintere & IDecorator6 333 'Union Ztreet • •• •• • • Ethert,een.

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R. J. MACKENZIE, LTD. Artist;c and Effective Furniture.

OUR Stocks will be found to be the Largest in the Northern District . . and our Prices are moderate.

DEPARTMENTS: Antique and Modern Furniture.

Cabinetmakers.

— Upholsterers.

Second-hand Furniture of good quality.

Carpet and Linoleum Factors.

Fine Art Dealers visit our Art Saloon.

Auctioneers and Valuators.

NOT13.-Our Carpet Stock is extensive and well worth a visit.

Only best quality stocked.

WAREHOUSES-

419 UNION STREET, ABERDEEN. Goods Entrance-6 Justice Mill Lane.

Wires—"Assets, Aberdeen."

'Phones 1168—Private Branch Exchange.

Hours-9 to 6; Sat., 9 to I.

Established 1859.

FOR

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Telephone 1750.

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MILK and CREAM, BUTTER, EGGS, TEA CAKES, SCONES, & OATCAKES, TRY .

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FINDLAY'S DAIRY, 457 Union Street, and Branches, ABERDEEN; Also, THE SQUARE, CULTS, And 6 EVAN STREET, STONEHAVEN.

Telephone No. 1891.

ARCHIBALD McKELLAR, Family Grocer and Wine Merchant,

456 Union Street, ABERDEEN. . .

Ve Specialise in . .

Cooked Gammons, " Sinclair's" Belfast Smoked Hams, " Harris's " Wiltshire Bacon.

Medicinal Wines—Vibrona, Hall's, Wincarnis, Glendenning's.

ELLIS & M`HARDY, 18 REGENT QUAY & 134

UNION STREET.

Importers of Household and Steam Coals.

Delivered by Careful and Experienced Drivers.

Telephone 2889.

George Bisset, Complete Outfitter and Hatter,

5 & I5 UNION ST., ABERDEEN.

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Highland Outfits a Speciality--FOR

BOYS,

YOUTHS, AND GENTLEMEN.

If you want a treat in

CHOCOLATES

HOME-MADE

get our Crown Assortment.

SPECIAL COVERING.

SPECIAL CENTRES.

From

Manufacturing Confectioner, 402 and 404 UNION STREET.

THOMSON,

Telephone No. 1524.

Telegrams : " Bruce, Cycles, Aberdeen. -

Established 1584.

Hol burn Motor & Cycle Works GEORGE BRUCE & SONS9 Is Holburn Street, Aberdeen.

Blacksmiths, Engineers, Motor and Cycle Agents.

— :o:— Agencies : Reading Standard, Williamson, Wilkins, Ivy, Radco, and the G. N. Cycle Cars.

- :0:THE OE LUXE IVY TWO-STROKE. Isle of Man Sporting Model.

Works, 1 Alford Lane.

TELEPHONE 523.

ESTABLISHED 1832.

A. CRUICKSHANK & CO., 105 UNION STREET, •

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ALL CLASS OF SHETLAND GOODS AND CLAN TARTANS IN STOCK.

Phone 1624.

Get your Photographic Requirements at

D. Souter Allan's Pharmacy 35 HOLBURN STREET (Near Holburn Junction), Photographic Department.

A Large Stook of Cameras, Plates, Films, Papers, and. Accessories. .

Dept for Kodaks and Kodak Supplies.

Developing and Printing executed by an Expert an,1 delivered in 24 hours.

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THE ABERDEEN

JAS. FYFE & SON,

SCHOOL OF SHORTHAND,

PAINTERS

TYPEWRITING

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OFFICE AND SIDOW1FlOOMS:

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19 & 21 Crown Street Established 1884.

'Phone 875.

Telephone 304.

Telegrams—" Fyfe, Painters."

TAYLOR CORNA 6 TH

PORTABLE FOLDING

For Drawing Instruments

TYPEWRITER.

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SCHOOLHILL,

ABERDEEN Telephone 2870.

This wonderful Typewriter has every modern improvement, Standard Keyboard of 84 keys, Back Spacer, Two-Colour Ribbon, etc., and at the same time weighs only 9 lbs. in its case, and can be carried about anywhere. Above all it is reliable. Thousands went through the War, often in front line trenches.

Price only :5 Sole Agent for North A- Scot1,1d—

CHAS. H. WEBSTER 446 Union Street, Aberdeen

SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS

FRED HARDIE, Photographic Artist, 416 Union Street,

Microscopes and Microscopical Apparatus.

Students' Requisites Micro. and Dissecting.

Slide Rules. lathematical Instruments.

ABERDEEN

For every style of In- and Out-Door Group, Composite Groups & General Portraiture, Etc.,

PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS Chemical, Physical, Bacteriological Glassware.

Thermometers, Hydrometers, etc., etc.

Acids. Filter and Test Papers.

NICOL SMITH CO.,

AT POPULAR PRICES.

St. Nicholas St., ABERDEEN.

TELEPHONE 851.

Telephone 1315.

D. Wyllie & Son 247 Union Street, Aberdeen.

J. GEDDES, High Class Tobacconist and Cigar Importer.

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Jit Agents for Ordnance Survey Maps.

Booksellers, Army and Navy Stationers.

Circulating Library in connection with Mudie's, of London.

Engraving, Bookbinding, and Printing of every description.

Fountain Pen Emporium.

Premier House in the North of Scotland for the sale of Scottish Publications.

Publishers and Proprietors of "The Aberdeen Book-Lover."

Established 1814.

1 elephone 402.

Telegraphic Address: "Wyllie, Booksellers, Aberdeen."

Telephone— No. 3346. ‘ 44

All kinds of Smokers' Requisites.

Varied Stock of Walking Sticks by best London Makers.

.Ifient for the FAMOUS DUNHILL PIPES.

478 Union St., Aberdeen

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GRAMMAR

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(FOUNDED PREVIOUS TO 1256.)

J. MACKAY THOMSON, M.A. (Ellin.), B.A. (Oxon.)

(Late Scholar of Oriel College. Oxford.)

HE GRAMMAR SCHOOL provides for Boys a complete course of Study, both Elementary and Secondary, Classical and Modern.

The School, which is organized in three Departments—Lower, Intermediate, and Upper Schools—contains excellent laboratories handsomely furnished and equipped, including a Chemical Laboratory, Science Theatre with Physical Laboratory attached, Natural Science Laboratory, Art Room, Gymnasium, Workshop, Botanical Garden, Library, Reading Room, and Museum.

Pupils in the Lower School are prepared for the Qualifying Examination, while the Senior Classes are examined for the Intermediate and Leaving Certificates of the Scottish Education Department, which are accepted in place of the Preliminary Examinations for the Universities, etc.

The situation of the School in the West end of the City is open and healthy. The Class-rooms are large, and the Grounds for Recreation include separate Play-grounds for Juniors and Seniors and a field for Cricket and Football.

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ABERDEEN Headmistress

HIGH

SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.

(ALBYN PL A CZ.) Miss LUCY L. WARD, B.A. (Lond.)

HE HIGH SCHOOL provides a liberal education for Girls from 5 or 6 to r8 or ig years of age, and aims at fitting them for home life and for professions open to women.

The School is organized in three Departments—a Junior, an Intermediate, and a Secondary.

The curriculum in the Junior and Intermediate Departments embraces the ordinary branches of an English Education, and in the Secondary or Higher Department, pupils receive advanced instruction in English Literature, Latin, Mathematics, French, German, Natural Science, Drawing and Painting, Artistic Needlework, Domestic Economy, Cookery, etc. The course in the Secondary Department also includes preparation for the Leaving Certificate of the Scottish Education Department and for the Entrance Examinations to the Universities.

Pupils whose parents desire it are taught Theory and Practice of Music (Pianoforte, Violin, and Organ) in preparation for the Examinations of Trinity College of Music, London, and of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music. Advanced pupils are prepared for the Licentiate of the Royal Academy.

The School buildings occupy an excellent and spacious site in the West end of the City. The furnishing and equipment of the School comprise, in addition to numerous Class-rooms fitted up with many modern conveniences for teaching purposes, an Assembly Hall, Art Rooms, a Lantern Room, a School Library of 2,000 volumes, spacious Cookery and Laundry Rooms, and a suite of Laboratories of the most approved description for the teaching of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.

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Information as to Fees, Scholarships, Courses of Study, etc., at the Grammar School and High School for Girls is given in the School Prospectus which may be had free on application to the Director of Education, Education Offices, 22 Union Terrace, or to the Rector or Headmistress respectively.

Established 1864.

THE SIGN OF GOOD TEA. Lists 011 aAbliCatiOn. Read New Booklet— " The Scandal of the Tea Table" (erah's).

Ask your Grocer for

• John E. Esslemont TE A In Large Variety to suit all tastes

Many Blends to select from

Including the Super Tea for the I lousehold

Good as Gold sTa" Tippy Tea

OJOHN E. ESSLEMONT, Ltd., 16-22 King St., ABERDEEN,

:The House

Specialist in Fine Teas and Coffees.

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J. Williamson & Son

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MEAT PURVEYORS,

1, 2, and 3 MARKET BUILDINGS ('Phene 452),

ABERDEEN.

Service.

Branches:

35 FOUNTAINHALL ROAD ('phone 1724).

THE SQUARE, CULTS ('Phone, Cults 2).

Garden and Farm Seeds and Plants.

Forest and Ornamental Trees and Shrubs.

Fruit Trees and Bushes.

Bedding and Border Plants and Bulbs.

Herbaceous and Rock Plants.

Stove and Greenhouse Plants, etc., etc.

Catalogues, descriptive of all the newest and best varieties, post free on application.

W. SMITH & SON. Exchange Seed Warehouses, ABERDEEN.

THE ROSEMOUNT PRESS PRINTERS AND LITHOGRAPHERS FARMERS' HALL LANE, ABERDEEN

TELEPHONE 1035

1 1 3-1 1 9 Union Street, Aberdeen,

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R. K. SMITH'S service of READY-TO-WEAR CLOTHING is so well-known that we have no hesitation in asking you to call and see the big variety of styles and fittings we offer at prices that enable you to dress with economy and good taste.

Our name on your suit is a dependable guarantee of quality and style—and there is no guess work about the workmanship either.

Telegrams—"Clothing, Aberdeen."

Telephone No. 315.

DUNN'S SHOES —

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John A. Dunn 26 and 175 UNION STREET, ABERDEEN. DUNN'S No. 7142-36'6 AT THY. ROSESIOUNT PRP:SS, AhLiKIJEEN.

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