AGS Magazine November 1927

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Aberbeen &mina Scf?ool tlTaga3ine Vol. XXXI.

NOVEMBER, 1927.

No. I

The " Grammar School 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 (the 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 of address.

A Message to Former Pupils.

I write these notes with the impressions left by two notable gatherings still fresh in my mind.

The first was the formal presentation of " The Shanghai Clock." The donors will be pleased to know—let them question their emissary—that their gift was acclaimed with the full-throated exuberance of an appreciative School.

Mr. Begg's speech was a model of precision and artistic restraint. The Chairman—Dr. Bulloch—was in his happiest vein and gripped the " Boys of the Grammar School ' from start to finish. None will regret more than they that distance and the pre-occupations of his job make more frequent visits from him impossible.

Then followed the Club Dinner. Once again, Dr. Bulloch was more than equal to the occasion. His vivid personality and inimitable wit, his shrewd thrusts at denationalized Scotsmen, his undisguised and unbounded affection for the city of his birth—voiced in a purity of vernacular utterance which prolonged contact with the Sassenach has signally failed to contaminate—all this will linger in the memories of those who attended what, admittedly, was one of the most successful Club Dinners ever held.

In view of this recent contact between past and present, and the full knowledge of our doings which the courtesy of • the Press and the pages of your Magazine enable you to enjoy, there seems to be little reason for dwelling on the minor episodes of the Term.

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Yet it has not been without features. Shanghai gave an impulse as well as a clock. The handsome gift of £500 by Colonel Waters, of London, in memory of his brother, is a noteworthy addition to our benefactions. The Committee appointed to consider its disposal will submit its suggestions in due course. I have referred, previously, to Mr. John. No Dawson's endowment of a prize for proficiency in scholarship and games.

It has, indeed, been an annus mirabilis for the School.

May the coming year bring its quota of refreshing showers !

There are some other items of interest to record. W. A. B. Hamilton—" consul for the second time "—topped the Bursary Competition list again and, incidentally, provided us with a welcome mid-term holiday. He will, if we mistake not, shed further lustre on the School.

We had visible evidence that the School is growing by finding the old Gym. transmuted into Classrooms, and a new Gym.—the last word in elegance and comfort—ready for occupation. Mr. Summers is free, at last, to extend his wings, and the sight of eight lusty Grammarians pendent from a lengthy beam suggests Turkish reprisals on the population of Armenia.

Games are going ahead with the usual vigour and enthusiasm. The 1st XV have done remarkably well so far, but the most testing of the season's fixtures have still to be faced.

A handsome new flag for the Rubislaw Pavilion has arrived, purchased with a specially ear-marked subscription to the War Memorial. It bears the School arms and motto, beautifully wrought in silk, and only awaits a flag-staff for its display.

A hint for the next benefactor !

We remembered our gallant dead on Armistice Day in a brief but deeply impressive service at which Professor Pittendrigh assisted. It is the one day in the year on which one feels the spiritual pulse of the School. This hushed assembly of over seven hundred boys is an unforgettable memory.

Visions of Christmas and of a welcome respite from the drudgery of lessons begin to loom large, but many reams of foolscap will be consumed and many blue pencils sharpened before the order of release is given.

Our thoughts will be with you during the Season of Remembrance, more especially with those of you whose lot is cast in far-distant lands.

D. M. A.

Aberdeen Grammar School

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

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

William H. M. S. Aitken (1914-24) left in October for South Africa, where he is to engage in farming. He received his early training on his father's farm at Echt.

John Campbell Anderson* (1909-13) has recently become a Life Member of the Club. He is now with the Rhodesian Congo Border Concessions Ltd., N'Changa, via N'Dola, Northern Rhodesia.

Thomas Edge Anderson* (1912-21), M.B., has been elected to the Alexander Anderson Scholarship in Medicine at Aberdeen University. He has gone to study in Paris, where at present he is working in the Pasteur Institute.

Wilson Anderson* (1919-22) left for the United States in October, and has been successful in securing an appointment with Messrs. Arthur Young & Company, accountants, New York. He is very grateful for assistance given to him by WILLIAM MACKINTOSH* (1893-96), the Club Consul there.

William Rogie Angus* (1915-21), M.A., B.Sc., has been awarded one of the Robbie Scholarships at Aberdeen University of the value of £100.

Christopher Charles Barnett* (1915-21), M.A., B.D., was in October ordained as Assistant Minister of John Knox Parish Church, Aberdeen.

Frank William Begg* (1894-97), M.B., who has been for some years in medical practice in Aberdeen, recently sailed with his family, including his sons James Hudson Begg* (1923-27) and John Hudson Begg* (1923-27), for Melbourne.

The two boys are going to attend Dookie Agricultural College for three years, with a view to taking the degree of B.Sc. (Agr. ) at Melbourne University.

Robert Bell* (1916-19), C.A., who received his training as an accountant with Messrs. Bower & Smith, C.A., Aberdeen, has recently left for Colombo, where he has received a post as accountant with Messrs. Lewis Brown & Co., Ltd. * Indicates Member of Former Pupils' Club.

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Charles Barron Bisset* (1909-18), M.A., B.Sc., has been appointed by the Colonial Office an Assistant Geologist in Nyasaland, and is leaving for his new post at the end of November. He was the Geologist of the British Arctic Expedition of 1925.

Douglas Maitland Bisset* (1901-08) is now on Ningham Estate, via Wubin, Western Australia. He went out to Singapore in April of last year, but stayed there only for a short time. He recently presented two emu's eggs to the School Museum.

Charles W. J. Bodie* (1914-18) is a railway draughtsman in New South Wales and likes his occupation very well.

He says that he read with interest " A New Chum Writes Home" in the March Magazine, and heartily endorses all that is said in the letter. " This is truly a grand country, and I do not think I'll leave it in a hurry." He has recently become a Life Member of the Club.

William George Rowntree Bodie* (1913-22) has received the Diploma in Architecture of Robert Gordon's Colleges, Aberdeen.

Arthur Richardson Brown (1884-90), M.A., K.C., was in October appointed Sheriff-Substitute of Lanarkshire at Hamilton. He was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh, in 1903, and was made a K.C. in 1925.

Geoffrey Farquhar Brown* (1921-25) has received a six years' appointment as an assistant on one of Messrs.

Harrisons & Crosfield's tea and rubber estates in Sumatra.

John Malcolm Bulloch* (1877-80), M.A., LL.D., the President of the F.P. Club, is no longer connected with The Graphic, of which he was appointed Editor in 1909. He is now Literary Critic on The Allied Newspapers, and since the middle of May has been contributing the "Writers and Books " column to The Sunday Times. This paper, and the other leading Sunday paper, The Observer, have a special interest for the School, as the former has every week a signed review

by Dr. Bulloch, and the latter frequently has signed reviews

by Howard Alexander Gray* (1880-84), M.A., who is its Assistant Editor.

George Norman Clark* (1916-22), M. B., was in July appointed an assistant in the Anatomy Department of the University of Aberdeen.

James Bryce Clarke* (1896-99), Manager of the AngloPolish Bank, Warsaw, in a letter written in July, says—" I have just been reading in the Magazine the excellent Empire Speech by Professor Gray. Speeches like that are of the most vital importance to-day, and it comforts me to note that you have men in, Aberdeen who have such clear vision. Since the

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War there has been a tremendous effort on the part of all anti-Christian elements to wreck our civilization. Its strength seems sometimes to be waning, but the danger still exists, and it is only by making this clear to the rising generation that these elements will be overcome. " I arrived here two years ago, and you did me the honour of appointing me Club Consul. In this period no single F.P. has turned up to make use of my services. Why don't some of these motor-cycle enthusiasts spend a holiday on the roads of Europe ? There is always adventure to be had, and a guid Scotch tongue takes you anywhere."

As will be seen from another page, our Consul was married in July, and he brought his accomplished Countess to see the beauties of Braemar in August and September.

Duncan Scott Cochran* (1914-24) and John Christie Wishart* (1919-24) were chosen as members of the XV representing the North and Midlands of Scotland in the match against the Waratahs at Aberdeen in October. Both played an excellent game. Robert Mackay Ledingham* (18971909), M.A., LL.B., Honorary Secretary of the North District of the Scottish Rugby Union, was responsible for the arrangements for the match.

Sinclair Couper* (1876-78 and 1882-85), M.B., who has been in medical practice at Blackpool since 1894, was last year elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Douglas Scott Cruickshank* (1918-23), M.A., B.Com., has been awarded the John Stephen Scholarship in Economics at Aberdeen University. The Scholarship is of the annual value of £90, and is tenable for two years.

John No Dawson* (1900-04), Club Consul at Singapore, has been home on furlough during the past summer. As mentioned on another page, he has presented £50 to the School to form the foundation of a prize or prizes for combined excellence in scholarship and games.

Abercromby Gordon Donald (1896-97), M.A., has been appointed Head Master of Jamestown Public School, Vale of Leven. Since 1913 he has been Head Master of Condorrat Public School, Dumbarton.

Douglas Watt Duthie* (1915-21), M.A., B.Sc., has been awarded a Robbie Scholarship of £100 at Aberdeen University.

Sydney William Duthie* (1918-23) has since last April been in the service of the Anglo-South American Bank at Puerto Deseado, Patagonia.

Alfred John Meldrum Edwards* (1908-21), M.A., B.Com., who was for a time a teacher in the service of the Aberdeen Education Authority, is now continuing his studies (and, incidentally, his athletics) at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.

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Ernest D. Logie Danson* (1892-94), M.A., D.D., Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak, was home on furlough during the past summer. The Secretary of the F.P. Club caught a glimpse of him entering a Lyons' Corner House in London on a warm June afternoon, but missed seeing him when he was in Aberdeen. [Block kindly lent by The Bon-Accord.]

John Nicol Farquhar (1882-83), M.A., D.Litt., D.D., Professor of Comparative Religion in the University of Manchester, has been appointed for three years to the Wilde Lectureship in Natural and Comparative Religion at Oxford.

Edward Wyllie Fenton* (1895-1908), M.A., B.Sc., was in July appointed to the staff of the Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture as head of the Biology Department. Since 1920 he has been head of the Biological and Botanical Departments of the Seale-Hayne Agricultural College, Newton Abbot, Devon, and has been carrying on pioneer work in mycology, geology, and forestry. He has likewise specialized in research work, particularly on grass pastures, and has several publications on grasses, weeds, etc.

Alexander John Findlay* (1898-1904), M.A., B.Sc. (Agr.), who was recently home on leave, has returned to his duties as Assistant Director of Agriculture in Nigeria, a

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position to which he was promoted in April last. During his leave he had a pleasant trip to America, where he represented Nigeria at the International Congress of Soil Sciences held at Washington in June. He says that if there are any F.P.s who are contemplating a career in Nigeria, especially in the agricultural line, he will be pleased to give them any assistance and advice as to conditions in what is now a rapidly developing and increasingly important Colony.

Matthew George Fisher (1896-1900), M.A., LL. B., is secretary to the Scottish Ecclesiastical Commission. At the meeting of the Commissioners held in Edinburgh in July to consider the draft schemes proposed by the Town Council of Aberdeen under the Church of Scotland (Property and Endowments) Act, 1925, for the future ownership, maintenance, and administration of each of the six Burgh Churches in Aberdeen, and for the payment of stipend to their ministers, and objections and answers to these proposals lodged by the General Trustees of the Church of Scotland, two other F.P.s were engaged, John R. Wardlaw Burnet* (1899-1901), B.A., LL.B., advocate, Edinburgh, being one of the counsel for the General Trustees, and Archibald M.Macrae Williamson* (1906-16), M.A., LL.B., advocate, Edinburgh, counsel for the Joint Committee of Aberdeen Presbytery and the Kirk Session of St. Nicholas.

Robert Fleming* (1891-98) says that in the capacity of Club Consul in Toronto he sees some F.P.s from time to time. Stanley Noel Grant* (1902-13), M.A., B.Com., and John Taylor Copland* (1912-13) often call on him, and sometimes an F.P. passing through looks in to chat about conditions in Canada and at home. Our Consul was in Scotland during the past summer, but was in Aberdeen for only one day.

George Topham Forrest* (1879-89) , F.R. I. B.A., Superintending Architect of Metropolitan Buildings, and Architect to the London County Council, has collaborated with Sir Reginald Blomfield, R.A., and with the Chief Engineer of the L.C.C. in the designing of the new Lambeth Bridge over the Thames, the final plans of which were approved in August.

A sum of nearly three-quarters of a million pounds will be spent on the work.

In recent issues of The Newspaper World there have been notes about three F.P.s. James Gray Fraser (1887-88) has been London Editor of The Glasgow Herald since 1914 ; Hubert Douglas Henderson* (1901-04), M.A., Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, is the Editor of The Nation and Athenceum, and Robert Jackson Maclennan (1882-86) is Editor of The Glasgow Evening News.

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appointed minister of Queen's Cross U.F. Church, Aberdeen.

He graduated in arts at Aberdeen University in 1902, and after studying at New College, Edinburgh, was ordained minister of Fairlie U.F. Church in 1907. In 1911 he went to Callander, and in 1920 to Langside Hill U.F. Church, Glasgow.

Three years later he was appointed to the New North U.F. Church, Edinburgh, as successor to the Rev. Dr. Sclater.

Charles Wright Glass* (1904-10) has obtained a permanent appointment as Assistant Civil Engineer on the engineering staff of Trinity House, London.

Alexander Reid Gordon* (1884-88), M . A. , D. Lit t . , D.D., Professor of Hebrew in McGill University, Montreal, is one of the four Biblical scholars responsible for the new American translation of the Old Testament, recently published by the University Press of Chicago. He translated the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.

Samuel John Hally* (1893-1901) is at present on Hansara Tea Estate, Doom Dooma P.O., Upper Assam.

James Walker Harper* (1873-77), Senior Canon of S. Ninian's Cathedral, Perth, Chaplain of S. Serf's, Culross, and Curator of Dunimarle Castle, has been appointed by the Bishop of St. Andrews to be Dean of the Diocese. He has served the Scottish Episcopal Church continuously for the long period of forty-three years, of which thirty-seven have been spent in the diocese of which he is now Dean. He has been a very welcome contributor to recent issues of the Magazine, and will be heartily congratulated on his new appointment.

Robert Blake Worsley Holmes* (1895-96), O.B.E., Colonel, R.E., General Manager of the Palestine Railways, was the subject of a special article, with portrait, in Modern Transport in July. His first appointment under the Colonial Office dates from 1900, when he was made an assistant engineer in connection with the construction of the Lagos Railway, Nigeria. In 1901 he proceeded to Mexico on behalf of the firm of S. Pearson & Son, Ltd., who were then engaged upon the construction of the Salina Cruz Harbour and the Tehuantepec Railway, but in 1905 he returned to Nigeria to take up the position of Assistant Locomotive Superintendent of the Government Railways. Thereafter he was successively appointed Works Manager, District Locomotive Superintendent, and Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Nigerian Eastern Railway, returning to England in 1916, when he was asked by the War Office to form mechanical and shipyard formations of the Inland Waterways and Docks Branch of the Royal Engineers at Richborough, Kent. In April, 1919, he was demobilized, but was recalled in the following June,

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and proceeded to Damascus as Assistant Director of Railway Traffic in charge of the Hejaz Railway, in which connection he was responsible for the entire evacuation of troops by rail from Syria. In December, 1919, he was appointed Director of Railway Traffic, Egyptian Expeditionary Force; while in March, 1920, he was gazetted Colonel and appointed General Manager, Palestine Military Railways. Later, though still retained in the Army, he was taken over by the Civil Government as General Manager, Palestine Railways. In addition to the railways within Palestine, the terminus of which is Haifa, the Palestine Railways administration operates the line from Rafa, on the southern boundary, to Kantara, on the Suez Canal, at which point a connection with the Egyptian State Railways is effected. Colonel Holmes is also vested with the administration of the Hejaz Railway, which consists of a single line, and was originally constructed as a Holy Railway for the conveyance of Moslem pilgrims to Medina and Mecca.

The line is at present operated to Medawara, on the frontier of Transjordania and the Hejaz, a distance of nearly 429 miles.

Henry George Chambers-Hunter* (1912-15) has recently become a Life Member of the F.Y. Club. He is ranching at Philiphaugh, Salisbury, Rhodesia.

Alexander Johnstone* (1904-10), M.A., M.B., D.P.H., of Dumbarton, has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for Greenock. He was previously Assistant Medical Officer of Health and Tuberculosis Officer for the County of Dumbarton.

Norman Macdonald Johnstone* (1895-1905) left Santos, Brazil, over a year ago, having severed his connection with the London and Brazilian Bank, Ltd. Alexander Smith Black Kemp* (1907-16) has secured an appointment as an engineer with the Burmah Oil Co., Ltd., in Burmah. He was previously with the Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd., in Persia.

Henry Laird (1882-85), Divisional Accountant, NorthEastern Area of the London & North-Eastern Railway Co., has recently been appointed Divisional Accountant of the Southern Area. He entered the service of the Great North of Scotland Railway in 1889.

George Elder Levie* (1884-88), C.A., has been elected a Director of Messrs. George Ingham & Co., Ltd., worsted spinners, Greetland, near Halifax.

John C. M. Ligertwood* (1903-06), Club Consul for Alberta, says that his duties have been exceedingly light for some months past, his only visitor being Gordon Couper Grant* (1904-17), B.Sc. (For.), who is farming with Harold W. Shirreffs* (1915-16) near Camrose, Alberta. Ligertwood

Aberdeen Grammar School Magazine. is this year President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta, and was one of the two official delegates from Alberta to the Dominion Chartered Accountants' Convention, which was held in Winnipeg in September. At this convention were chartered accountants from all over Canada, and there were present as visitors about 20 representatives of the American Institute of Accountants, en route to their Convention in Del Monte, California. He says that in spite of great damage done by hail, Alberta has reaped a bumper crop, and a very optimistic spirit prevails in every section of the Province.

Eric Robert Russell Linklater (1913-16), M.A., has resigned his appointment on the editorial staff of The Times of India, and returned to Aberdeen, where he has been appointed assistant to the Professor of English in the University.

Three songs of which he was joint-composer when a student at the University are included in the recently published " British Students' Song Book."

Norman Henri Lyall* (1912-16), C.A., who for some years has been in the service of Messrs. Lewis Brown & Co., Colombo, has recently been appointed Assistant Accountant at Lisbon to the Vacuum Oil Company (of New York).

Norman Harley Savory Macbeth* (1919-24), son of HERBERT NORMAN MACBETH* (1882-85), and grandson of JAMES MACBETH (1866-68), has gained the certificate of the Federated Board of Music Industry for player-piano work, having studied at the Trades' School in the Northern Polytechnic, London. He is joining his father in the business of music seller and pianoforte manufacturer, Aberdeen, and represents the fourth generation of the family in the firm.

Eric Douglas McDonald* (1909-13) has recently been appointed Divisional Clerk with the rank of Sergeant and is in charge of the West Riding Constabulary Office at Tadcaster. He was specially selected last year to attend a course of criminal investigation at the Crime Clearing House, Wakefield, the only one of the kind in England, and received instruction in the most up-to-date methods of " thiefcatching," including finger-prints and the system of tracing criminals known as the " M.O." system. (M.O. is the abbreviation for " Modus Operandi.") This course is held only once in every five or six years, and he was naturally rather pleased to be selected to attend. Only 20 out of 1,500 men are picked for the course.

John Macdonald* (1919-22), M.A., has been chosen by the National Committee for the Training of Teachers as one of the two Scottish students to be awarded scholarships in America under the Reciprocal Interchange of Students Scheme. He graduated at Aberdeen University in March,

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1926, with First Class Honours in Classics, and has since completed his year of training at the Aberdeen Training Centre.

He sailed in September for Montreal, where he is attending McGill University, and studying American educational conditions and teaching methods.

Alexander Morrice Mackay* (1882-91), M.A., LL.B., K.C., has just been appointed by the Lord Advocate to be Senior Advocate-Depute. He was called to the Scots Bar in 1902, and became a K.C. in 1920.

George Mackay* (1890-92), M.A., Drumblade, in July attained his semi-jubilee as an ordained minister of the United Free Church, and to mark the occasion he and his wife were presented with handsome gifts. He has been at Drumblade since 1912.

Alexander David Mackintosh* (1913-23), who has been for four years in the Bank of Scotland, Aberdeen, has received an appointment in the Imperial Bank of Persia, London, and expects to be going to Persia before long.

John Maclennan* (1914-20) and James Fenton Wyness* (1915-20) have had their Diplomas in Architecture endorsed by the Governors of Robert Gordon's Colleges, Aberdeen, on their successfully completing a course of postdiploma study.

Duncan McMillan* (1881-87), M.Inst.C.E., who has been Engineer-in-Chief to the Government Railways of Ceylon for a considerable number of years, has recently retired and returned to this country.

Alexander Gunn MacNeill* (1905-09), who was Resident Engineer at the R.A.F. Aerodrome, Catterick, left there in April for Chinwangtao, North China.

The Hon. Dougall Meston (1901-02), son of LORD MESTON* (1876-80), stood as Liberal candidate in the recent by-election at Southend, Essex, and polled nearly 12,0(1) votes. He is in 'practice in London as a barrister, with chambers in the Temple, and is only 32 years of age.

Alexander William Michie* (1910-22), M.B., has been appointed a House Surgeon in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

John Forbes Michie* (1881-82), who is the head of a large business in Toronto, visited Aberdeen during the past summer and was a keenly interested spectator at the Lonach Gathering, Strathdon.

James Yule Miller* (1897-1900) was shut up in Hankow for several months, and has just arrived in this country.

Donald Hunter Munro* (1916-17) has been Assistant Station Director at the Aberdeen Station of the British Broadcasting Corporation since March, 1926.

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Sir Francis Grant Ogilvie* (1872-74 ) , C. B., M. A . , B.Sc., LL.D., the President of the Museums Association, at the time of the meetings of the British Association at Leeds in September addressed a representative conference of delegates of corresponding scientific societies in a paper full of hints for the encouragement of what he called " side lines."

He wished to see a steady increase in the number of people who enjoyed following the by-paths of science, and said no more satisfactory or effective means to that end existed than the maintenance of healthy life in the societies in every great centre of population. The regional surveys now going on in many parts of the country aimed at bringing into compact conditions and reasonable compass the work shared by many local societies, and the co-operation of these societies, however specialized, was most desirable, as the regional surveys offered a fine field for team work.

Edward Alexander Paterson* (1916-21), M.B., has been sailing as a ship's surgeon in the Far East.

Alan Reid* (1911-14), who is in the service of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, formerly in Japan, is now stationed at Hongkong.

David Herbert Rennett* (1910-21), who received his training as an architect in the office of Messrs. Kelly & Nicol, Aberdeen, has recently received an appointment in the Architect's Department of the London County Council, under G. TOPHAM FORREST* (1879-89), F.R.I.B.A., the Chief Architect.

Robert Lindsay Graeme Ritchie* (1894-99), M.A., I).Litt., Professor of French in the University of Birmingham, had a letter recently in The Times about the heart of Voltaire.

In the letter he pointed out that the heart is not in the Pantheon, Paris, with the rest of Voltaire's mortal remains, but is in a7gilt reliquary, in a casket, in the socle of the cast of Voltaire, by Houdon, in the Bibliotheque Nationale.

William George Robertson* (1884-90), M.A., B.D., ex-Principal of the University College in Ahmedabad, India, and latterly minister of the Established Church at BartholChapel, Aberdeenshire, was in August elected to the Parish Church of Cullen, and was inducted there in October. We note that he has recently been crossing swords in the correspondence columns of The Aberdeen Press and Journal with another member of the F.P. Club, JAMES IRONSIDE STILL* (1871-72), M.A., D.D., of the U.F. Church, BanchoryI)evenick, over the question of the Basis of Union.

Patrick B. Sangster* (1884-88), C.M.G., D.S.O., Colonel Commandant of the 20th Infantry Brigade at Shanghai, returned in September with his Brigade to India. The Times

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correspondent at Shanghai wrote at the time, as follows :— " Shanghai owes a debt of gratitude to this Brigade for its work in the defence of the city. The first defence scheme was prepared by Colonel W. F. L. Gordon, Commandant, Shanghai Volunteer Corps. It was adopted by Colonel Sangster on his arrival. Barbed wire entanglements were set up on the outs':irts, and the British and Indian Troops held their allotted positions during days of continuous rain without relief, while deserters from the Chinese Armies threatened to invade the settlement during the Nationalist advance which drove the Northerners out of Kiangsu. Colonel Sangster, before the arrival of Major-General Duncan, saved Shanghai from looting by the judicious disposition of his troops."

Ronald Maclure Savege (1913-14), M.C., M.B., was in July admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.

Herbert Brebner Scott* (1905-08), one of the donors of the Shanghai Clock, who is in the service of the Royal Insurance Co., Ltd., has been home on leave since the spring of this year. He has just left for the East again, having been promoted to the Calcutta office of the Company.

David A. Silver* (1871-72), agent of the Evan Street Branch of the North of Scotland Bank, Stonehaven, retired on 30th July. He entered the service of the Town and County Bank at Stonehaven in 1872.

George Taylor Simpson* (1910-20), who is Club Consul for Rajputana, says that the only other F.P. he knows of definitely in that part of India is Douglas J. T. Jamieson* (1893-98), who is in the service of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway at Kotah. Simpson spent ten days' leave in Naini Tal in May, where he met William R. Tennant* (1904-10), M.A., of the Indian Civil Service. An uncle of our Consul is Frank Douglas Simpson (1879-84), M.A., who entered the Indian Civil Service in 1894, and is now Judge at Naini Tal. William Douglas Simpson* (1901-13), M.A., D.Litt., Librarian, Aberdeen University, was in June appointed to represent the University at the inauguration of the first monument raised in Poland to the memory of Henri Sienkiewicz, author of " Chevaliers Teutoniques," " Trilogie," and " Quo Vadis ? " etc.

Charles Edward Smith* (i923-24) has received a five years' engagement with Messrs. Harrisons & Crosfield, and has gone out to one of their tea estates near Quilon, South India. For the past three years he has been engaged in the jute trade in Dundee.

James Tindal Soutter* (1898-1902), I1.A., minister of the parish of Whitekirk, East Lothian, was in June appointed

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to represent the University of Aberdeen at the Jubilee of the Free Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Paris, celebrated on 9th and 10th November.

John Redford Stevenson* (1913-19) is in the service of the Canadian Bank of Commerce at St. Thomas, Ontario.

Sydney Cardno Still* (1904-10), M.A., minister of Cove and Kilcreggan U.F. Church—a son of JAMES IRONSIDE STILL* (1871-72), M.A.; D.D., of Banchory-Devenick—has accepted a call to Queen's Park West U.F. Church, Glasgow, as junior minister.

Ian Hay Storrie* (1921-26) and William Charles Storrie* (1921-26) are now attending the Crypt Grammar School in Gloucester, and there have brought no small measure of credit both to themselves and to their former School. Ian, who obtained his colours in the A.G.S. 1st XV, soon secured his cap in his new school. He occupied his usual position at left wing three-quarter, and as evidence of his speed and ability it may be mentioned that he obtained more tries during last season than any other player in the team. At the school sports he was the most successful competitor. William played regularly throughout the season for the 2nd XV, and on one occasion turned out for the first team, when he secured a try. He also distinguished himself at the school sports.

Charles James Strachan* (1917-21), East Town, Tarland, has taken up an appointment in Colombo. Before leaving for Ceylon he received a presentation, subscribed to by the inhabitants of Tarland and the surrounding country.

Adrian Stronach* (1899-1902) is now agent of the North of Scotland Bank at Aboyne. He was responsible for the arrangements for this year's Aboyne Games, which in spite of bad weather were most successfully and creditably conducted.

George Joss Taggart* (1910-16), M.A., has been appointed head master of Crudie School, Aberdeenshire.

George James Gibson Taylor* (1917-22) was recently appointed Modern Languages Master to the Grammar School, Wolverhampton.

James Frater Taylor* (1886-88), a director of the W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth Company, is to represent this company in Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., the new company with a capital of £21,000,000 in which the interests of the two great engineering and armament firms of Vickers and Armstrong, Whitworth are to be brought together.

William Robert Tennant* (1904-10), M.A., Indian Civil Service, who was formerly Deputy Accountant-General at Allahabad, United Provinces, has recently been appointed Deputy Secretary in the Finance Department, Imperial Secretariat, New Delhi,

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George Joseph Cathcart Thompson* (1914-22) has received an appointment with the Dominion Tobacco Company of Great Britain.

Douglas Stewart Walker* (1903-16), M.A., LL.B., has just been assumed as a partner in the firm of J. C. & A. Steuart, W.S., Edinburgh. Another partner in this firm is GAVIN LEITH ALLARDYCE* (1894-1900), W.S. Frederick Roberts Watt* (1905-16) is now farming at Balnastraid, Dinnet.

Alexander Charles Wood* (1910-19) is in the service of Barclays Bank (D. C. & O.) at Nairobi, Kenya Colony.

Douglas Macpherson Wright* (1904-1910), who was in the Inspectors' Department of the Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, for eight years, was in April last appointed accountant of this Bank's Hope Street Branch in Glasgow.

Maxwell Campbell Wright* (1902-14), M.C., M. B. , is in medical practice at Higher Openshaw, Manchester.

Edward Lawrence Yule* (1910-21) has passed the Scottish Chartered Accountants' final examination. He served his apprenticeship with HARVEY HALL* (1852-56), C.A. ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY DEGREES AND PRIZES. At the Summer Graduation of Aberdeen University degrees were conferred on the following F.P.s :— Master of Arts (M.A. )— Alexander Donald Stewart Anderson (1918-24).

Charles Grant Brown* (1921-24).

James Lindsay Duncan* (1911-24).

Cecil Arthur Grant Savidge* (1913-24).

Douglas Moir Wood* (1912-24).

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)— William Rogie Angus* (1915-21), M.A., B.Sc., with Second Class Honours in Chemistry.

Douglas Watt Duthie* (1915-21), M.A., B.Sc., with Second Class Honours in Chemistry.

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.)— Douglas Alexander Robb* (1913-23).

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B. )— Arthur David Troup (1919-22), M.A. Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.) and Bachelor of Surgery (Ch. B. )— George Norman Clark* (1916-22).

Gordon Moncrieff Dean* (1909-18), B.A. (Cantab)— completed Final Medical Professional Examination with Much Distinction.

William Harold Emslie* (1919-22).

William Ellis Johnston* (1917-22).

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William Craib McIntosh* (1915-20), M.A. Alexander Wallace Michie* (1910-22).

Maxwell Gerard de l'Isle Sturm (1916-17).

William Renton Topping* (1914-20).

The Town Council Prize in Economic Science was awarded to James L. Duncan* (1911-24) ; The Lizars Medal in Anatomy to Ian A. Anderson* (1912-24) ; and the John Murray Medal and Scholarship (awarded to the most distinguished graduate in Medicine [M.B. and Ch.B.] of the year 1926-1927) to Gordon M. Dean* (1909-18), B.A. (Cantab).

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An Interesting F.P. Group.

The photograph reproduced above (by the courtesy of the Bon-Accord) was taken at the annual inspection of the Aberdeen Waterworks on 31st August last. The group consists of : WILLIAM BULLOCH* (1877-80), M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Professor of Bacteriology in the University of London ; Lord Provost LEWIS* (who is, ex officio, an Honorary Vice-President of the F.P. Club) ; the late Dean of Guild DAVID M. KILGouR* (1876-82), whose death is recorded on p. 24 ; and GEORGE TOPHAM FORREST* (1879-89), Architect to the London County Council.

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OBITUARY. " Uganda Macdonald."

Sir James Ronald Leslie Macdonald* (1873-76), K.C.1.E., C.B., LL.D., Major-General, died at Bournemouth on 27th June, aged 65 years. He was the eldest son of the late Surgeon-Major James Macdonald, M.D., and after leaving the School attended classes for a time at Aberdeen University, whence he passed first into the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Here he quickly established a reputation for remarkable ability, and came out at the top in February, 1882, carrying off most of the prizes. On completing his two years' course at Chatham, Macdonald sailed for India, and was attached to the Bengal Sappers and Miners for a period before entering the Military Works Department.

Between 1885 and 1887 he was employed on the construction of the Harnai Railway in Baluchistan, by which Quetta was linked up by rail with India proper in March, 1887. In 1888 he gained his first experience of active service, in the Hazara Expedition, obtaining a mention in despatches and the Indian Frontier Medal and Clasp. Subsequently he was employed at Army Headquarters, Simla. The young subaltern gradually came to have a considerable knowledge of the North-West Frontier of India, and of the tribes and their language ; and he was accordingly selected to carry out the project for a railway survey up the gorge of the Kabul River, and started off on this mission early in 1890. Despite the difficulties with which he had to contend, Macdonald brought the survey to a successful conclusion, and received the special commendation of the Government of India for the work he had accomplished.

SOLDIERING AND SURVEYING IN EAST AFRICA. Macdonald, now a Captain, was next employed on another frontier railway survey, which had for its object the investigation of the country lying between Quetta and Dera Ismail Khan, by way of the Zhob Valley. On the completion of the plans and estimates for the Zhob Valley Railway during the summer of 1891, Macdonald at length obtained his first leave home, but little leisure was granted him, for soon after his arrival in England, he was offered and accepted the appointment of Chief Engineer for the Preliminary Survey of a projected railway between Mombasa and Lake Victoria, commonly called the Uganda Railway. Comparatively little was then known of the regions to be traversed in order to discover a possible railway alignment between the coast and Uganda ; while the question of equipment, food, and transport for the venture was no small problem to solve in England by one with no previous experience of African travel.

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Macdonald has himself described in " Soldiering and Surveying in British East Africa, 1891-1894 " his varied and stirring experiences during those early days of the British occupation of East Africa. Here it may suffice to say that the survey under his direction definitely proved that a serviceable railway could be constructed between the coast and Uganda at no prohibitive cost.

After the conclusion of the survey, he remained in East Africa till June, 1894, taking part in various exciting events, involving arduous expeditions against the Nouma and operations in Unyora (in which he was chief staff officer), quelling a Mohammedan rebellion, and thus helping to save Uganda.

For his services during this strenuous period Macdonald received the brevet of Major, two medals, the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar, 2nd Class, and an acknowledgment of his valuable work from the Government of the day.

THE FASHODA INCIDENT. In 1897 an unpleasant complication arose between this country and France owing to a secret endeavour by the latter to forestall Britain by establishing a belt of French territory right across the African continent from their western possessions to Abyssinia, thus barring access to Britain along the Nile from the Sudan to Uganda. The French were warned that their contemplated action would be regarded by the British Government as an unfriendly one ; but since they paid little heed to the warning, it was decided to despatch a British expedition from Mombasa through East Africa to reach Fashoda, if possible, before the French General, Marchand, could get there. Macdonald was at once selected for the command of this important undertaking, and landed at Mombasa early in July, 1897, at the head of a force consisting of ten British officers, thirty Sikhs from India, and some 500 locally enlisted Swahili porters. On arrival at Kibwezi, 200 miles from the coast, Macdonald was taken seriously ill, and it was feared he might have to be invalided home, but his powerful will gradually conquered his physical weakness, and he insisted on proceeding with the expedition, carried now in a hammock and now in a waggon, until he slowly recovered his normal strength and energy. It was well for the country that he did so, as it was largely due to his outstanding personality that Uganda was later extricated from one of the most grave crises of its history, owing to the outbreak of the Sudanese Mutiny, which threatened at one time to drive the British out of the Protectorate. The story is told in " With Macdonald in Uganda," published in 1903. It was at this time that his younger brother, NORMAN ALEXANDER MACDONALD (A.G.S. 1876—84), was killed before his eyes in an engagement with the Sudanese mutineers at Lubwa's Hill.

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For close on nine months Macdonald's Expedition was employed on active operations over a wide stretch of country, far removed from the coast ; and it was not until May, 1898, that Macdonald felt justified in handing over the command of the operations to the senior officer of such reinforcements as eventually arrived. By that time the mutineers had been driven out of Uganda, and as the safety of the country seemed assured, Macdonald decided to resume his original mission, so far as possible with his sorely depleted numbers and stores.

Any attempt to reach Fashoda before Marchand, however, was out of the question, and Macdonald had to rest content with himself penetrating to the Latuka country, and despatching another column to the north of Lake Rudolf. For his invaluable services Macdonald received the thanks of the Government, a brevet Lieutenant-Colonelcy, C.B., and a medal with two clasps. He was still a Captain in the Engineers, though promoted to Major later in the year.

IN CHINA AND TIBET. For a brief space thereafter Macdonald remained in England, being posted to Aldershot shortly atter the outbreak of the South African War ; and when the Boxer trouble broke out in 1900, he was despatched to China in command of a balloon section. He was found far too valuable a man, however, to be employed in that minor capacity, and was early appointed Director of Railways for the China Expeditionary Force. By a strange coincidence, Macdonald and Marchand now met for the first time far from the Sudan, when both were honoured guests one evening at an official dinner held at Pekin. Macdonald's services in China were rewarded by a mention in despatches, followed by a brevet Colonelcy and the China medal.

In 1903 the Government of India decided to despatch a Political Mission to Tibet, in order to counter Russian intrigues, and by means of a treaty to put an end to recent truculent actions on the part of the Tibetans. Lord Kitchener, then Commander-in-Chief in India, at once selected Macdonald, whose organizing abilities were well known, to command the troops under the protection of whom the Mission was to proceed to its destination. As soon as fighting broke out with the Tibetans, political considerations had necessarily to give way to military ones, and Macdonald was vested with the chief command of the operations, which terminated in a successful entry into Lhasa, after various engagements on the way, the signing of the treaty there, and the safe withdrawal of the force to India. The operations had lasted nearly a year, and some 25,000 men were employed in them. For his services during this arduous campaign, under peculiarly trying climatic conditions, Macdonald was made a K.C.I.E.,

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and received the medal and clasp granted for the expedition.

His health had been severely tested, however, by too long residence in altitudes of 15,000 feet and more above sea level ; and it was probably during this period of his life that the mischief was done which later seriously affected his heart, and resulted in his early death.

IN RETIREMENT. In 1905 Macdonald was given the command of the Presidency Brigade, with headquarters at Calcutta, and was transferred to command the Lucknow Infantry Brigade in 1907. Whilst holding this latter appointment, he was promoted to Major-General at the, then, early age of 46 ; and closed his active career by commanding the troops in Mauritius from 1909 to 1912. Here his health showed signs of completely breaking down, and under strong medical advice he resigned the appointment and returned to England. In 1913 he retired, and was placed on the Reserve of Officers. When the Great War broke out in 1914, he sought service in the field, but was unable to satisfy the medical authorities as to his fitness for the task. Towards the close of the year 1914 the military situation was such that the War Office felt that it could not ignore the possibility of a landing of enemy troops on some part of the East Coast of Britain, so preparations to meet this possibility were taken in hand. Macdonald was then residing near Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, and was selected as the Military Member of the Emergency Committee for the Aberdeen District, and in this capacity rendered very valuable service. In July, 1924, he was selected to fill a vacancy in the Colonels Commandant of the Corps of Royal Engineers—an honour much appreciated by him in his retirement. He was also in receipt of a Good Service Pension, granted him in recognition of his services to the State.

Macdonald was naturally of a shy and retiring disposition, though a fluent and entertaining conversationalist with those whom he regarded as his intimates. His versatility and memory were amazing, and he seemed to be one of those gifted individuals who, having once done, read, or heard anything, remembered it ever after. Despite his unobtrusive manner, he was a man of much determination. He rejoiced in positions of great responsibility, and did not lightly tolerate interference with his carefully thought-out plans to attain success. He trusted his subordinates to the full, while expecting them to give him of their best. Had his health and vigour not been unduly sapped by the ceaseless labours of his earlier days, he would undoubtedly have risen to still loftier heights both as a soldier and an administrator.

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standard for students of botany. This unique work was concerned with the classification of flowers and plants, and Macdonald's orderly mind and methods enabled him to compress, by means of tables and other devices, within 250 pages of one volume the researches comprised in seven bulky books dealing with different branches of botany. It is illustrative of his thoroughness that, in order to cope with the task, he again took up the study of Latin after the lapse of well-nigh fifty years.

[The foregoing account of General Macdonald's career has to a large extent been taken, by permission, from a memoir by Brigadier-General H. H. Austin, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., in The Royal Engineers Journal of September, 1927.

A photo. is reproduced facing p. 30.--Editor, A.G.S. Mag.] The Senior Member of the F.P. Club.

John Smith* (1849-54), M.A., D.D., Minister-Emeritus of St. John's Presbyterian Church, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, died on 27th June in his 88th year. He passed away suddenly from heart failure, after attending Church in the morning and reading the customary announcements. He spent the usual five years at the Grammar School, during the rectorship of Dr. James Melvin, and passed to Marischal College, where he graduated with honours in arts in 1858.

Thereafter he attended the Free Church College in Aberdeen, and was licensed as a preacher by the Presbytery of Aberdeen, holding temporary charges until he sailed for Natal in the spring of 1865. In October of that year he was ordained in the First Presbyterian Church of Maritzburg as co-pastor.

About five years later he was inducted to the charge of the newly-formed Second Presbyterian Church, shortly afterwards named St. John's. Altogether he was a minister for 54 years, and minister-emeritus for seven years—a unique record in South Africa. In 1897 the Presbyterian Churches throughout South Africa were formed into one body, and by unanimous consent the Rev. John Smith was chosen as its first Moderator.

In 1903 he was again elected to this high office. Four years later his Alma Mater conferred on him the Degree of Doctor of Divinity. In October, 1915, Dr. Smith celebrated his ministerial jubilee, and this was made the occasion for all sections of the community to join in congratulating him..

In March, 1920, the jubilee of St. John's Church and also of its Pastor was celebrated at a crowded meeting in the City Hall of Maritzburg.

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is now held by ROBERT COLLIE GRAY (1851-54), S.S.C., Edinburgh. As recently as last year, when in his 87th year, Dr. Smith contributed to the Magazine an article on Dr. James Melvin, giving his memories of that famous Latinist ; and in a letter written to the Editor later in the year he mentioned his willingness to contribute another article on " other personalities and incidents and situations of at least three score years and ten ago. I am thinking specially of the four sessions during which I wore the red gown with the velvet collar, which last was peculiar to Marischal College, and distinguished it from the cloth collar of King's College. There were some ' characters' in those days : best, perhaps, however, to let the dust of oblivion lie untouched on them."

Charles Russell Stewart Chedburn (1901-04), a son of the late Rev. William S. Chedburn, Baptist Minister, Aberdeen, died suddenly in London, on 10th September, aged 30 years. After being trained as a chartered accountant in Aberdeen, he went to Edinburgh in 1908 to learn the hotel business in the North British Station Hotel. He afterwards went to New York as controller of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, and thence to Pittsburgh, as chief controller of the Ritz Hotel there. Later he became chief reception clerk at the Savoy Hotel, London, and then manager of the Imperial Hotel, Birmingham.

David Macdonald Davidson* (1880- 82), C. I. E., M.1) . , of the Indian Medical Service, died recently. After graduating in medicine at Aberdeen in 1887, he joined the Indian Medical Service in the same year, and rose to the rank of LieutenantColonel in 1907. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire on 1st January, 1921.

Peter Ferries (1883-85) died in Aberdeen on 18th October, aged 54 years. He was latterly owner of the Queen's Hotel, St onehaven .

Norman Oliphant Macaulay Foggo (1907-10) died at Vancouver on 2nd August, aged 28 years. He was the eldest son of the late WILLIAM STEWART FoGGO (1878- 82), who was a solicitor in Aberdeen for 15 years, and then became a fruit farmer at Coldstream, Vernon, British Columbia. Norman Foggo studied mechanical engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. During the latter part of the Great War he served in the Royal Air Force, being in France from June to 8th August, 1918, when he was wounded and made a prisoner of war.

Eric Alexander Wemyss Fulton* (1912-17) died of pneumonia in London on 20th October, aged 27 years. A son of Dr. T. Wemyss Fulton, formerly Superintendent of Scientific Investigations under the Fishery Board for Scotland, and Lecturer on the Scientific Study of Fishery Problems in the

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University at Aberdeen, he graduated in medicine in 1924.

Not long afterwards he was appointed clinical assistant to the West-End Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London, and then first junior and next senior resident medical officer, and indoor registrar. Last year he was selected from a large number of candidates for the post of resident medical officer in charge of the post-encephalitis lethargica unit at the Northern Hospital, Winchmore Hill, of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, under the Ministry of Health ; but his appointment was delayed for some time by a severe attack of bronchopneumonia. From the beginning of August last year until his death he occupied this post, holding at the same time that of clinical assistant to the out-patient department of the West-End Hospital for Nervous Diseases.

Colin Fraser Gordon (1860-63) died at Toronto, Canada, in July last. He was born at Mains of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, in 1849, and the family moved to Summerhill, Aberdeen, in 1856. After leaving the School and serving for a time in one of the railway offices in Aberdeen, he went to London in 1869, and entered the service of a bank there. Two years later he proceeded to Canada and joined the staff of a bank in Toronto, and thereafter was for a time in Chicago. He ultimately joined the firm of John Kay & Co. (departmental stores) as Treasurer, from which position he retired in 1905. He took a very keen interest in all Scots affairs in Toronto.

Charles Cormack Greig (1863-65), M.B., C.M., died at Bridgend, Fyvie, on 24th November, in his 80th year. He was a son of Dr. ALEXANDER FIDDES GREIG (1823-29), aryl after graduating in medicine at Aberdeen University in 1873, immediately succeeded his father in practice at Fyvie, and continued there right up to the time of his death. A son, FIDDES MANSON GREIG, was at the School 1898-1903, and died while a student of medicine, on 17th December, 1905.

Peter Harper* (1878- 86), M.A., M.D., a son of the late Hugh Harper, of Thorn Villa, Seafield, Aberdeen, died on 28th May, 1926. He was for many years in medical practice at Crouch End, London.

George Harvey* (1868-69), M.A., died at Grantown-on Spey on 7th November, aged 72 years. After graduating at Aberdeen University in 1874, he became Assistant Classical Master in Ayr Academy, and then Classical Master in Albany Academy, Glasgow. In 1881 he was appointed Classical Master in the Aberdeen Grammar School, under the newlyappointed Rector, James Moir. He continued at the School until 1887, when he retired from the teaching profession.

For many years he had lived at Grantown-on-Spey, maintaining his interest in the School through his membership of the F.P. Club.

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John Jameson* (1871-75) died at Milltimber, near Aberdeen, on 25th September, aged 67 years. On leaving the School he entered the head office of the Town & County Bank, Aberdeen, now the St. Nicholas Branch of the North of Scotland Bank, and was latterly in the head office of the North Bank. He retired about three years ago, and since then had travelled extensively in North America.

William Morley Jameson (1876-82)--a brother of the foregoing JOHN JAMESON, of the late ALEXANDER S. JAMESON (1873-78), and of WALTER G. JAMESON*(1874-75)— died at Vancouver, B.C., on 2nd September. He went to Canada about 1887, and was for a time in the Government of Canada Customs Service in British Columbia.

David Macdonald Kilgour* (1876-82) died in Aberdeen on 3rd October, aged 60 years. He was the eldest son of the late Mr. James Kilgour, of Messrs. Kilgour & Walker, woollen manufacturers, Berryden Mills, Aberdeen. After leaving the School he received instruction in engineering with Messrs.

William McKinnon & Co., Aberdeen, and then went to Ceylon, where he was on a tea estate for about three years. He then came home and joined his father in business. In course of time he became joint manager of the firm, and was latterly managing director. From his early days he was a prominent member of the Weaver Incorporation, and about ten years ago was elected Convener of the Incorporated Trades. He was also for a long time a prominent member of the Aberdeen Guildry, and in November of last year was elected to the office of Dean of Guild. For over ten years he was an active member of the Court of Governors of Robert Gordon's Colleges, and for the last five years was a Governor of the North of Scotland College of Agriculture. Always keenly interested in music, and himself a good singer, he was one of the founders of the Bach Choir in Aberdeen, and was the first President of the Bach Society. He is survived by his wife and an only son, JAMES GRAY KILGOUR* (1909-16), who is associated with the firm of Messrs. Kilgour & Walker, Ltd. Donald Lamont* (1886-88) died in Edinburgh on 31st October, aged 55 years. He served as an apprentice in the head office of the North of Scotland Bank, Aberdeen, and at Fraserburgh, and later was appointed accountant in the Great Western Road Branch, Aberdeen. In 1897 he became manager of the New Inn, Ellon, and in 1899 proprietor of the Royal Hotel, Crieff. Since 1906 he had been lessee of the Douglas Hotel, Bo'ness.

Colin Arthur McLaren* (1902-05 and 1909-10) died at Cairo on 14th October, aged 34 years. He was a son of the late Mr. Mitchell McLaren, of Fernielee, Murtle, and after leaving the School entered the service of the Great North of

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Scotland Railway, first at the Locomotive Works, Invertirie, and thereafter in the Traffic Departme In 1920 he was appointed Assistant Divisional Traffic Superintendent in Lower Egypt of the Egyptian State Railways. When the War broke out, he was mobilized as a driver in the 2nd Highland Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C., and in March, 1915, received a commission in the Royal Field Artillery, being posted to the 157th Brigade. He served with this Brigade from March, 1915, to July, 1916, when he was wounded, and again from December, 1916, to August, 1917. He was transferred to the R.A. Command Depot, Ripon, in November, 1917, and was Adjutant of the R.A. Tank Corps Command Depot, Catterick, from March, 1918, to January, 1919. After occupying various other posts, he was demobilized in September, 1919, with the rank of Captain. His brother, IAN MALCOLM MCLAREN (1896-1901), was killed in action in France in October 1916, while serving with the London Scottish.

James Mowat (1868-70) died at Stonehaven on 29th September, aged 72 years. He was the third son of the late William Mowat, tanner and currier, founder of the firm of Messrs. W. Mowat & Sons, Stonehaven. After leaving the School, he became an apprentice in the Stonehaven branch of the North of Scotland Bank, where he acquired an excellent business training. While still a very young man, he was assumed as a partner in his father's business, of which later he became managing director. He took a very keen interest in local affairs, and was Provost of Stonehaven from 1895 to 1904. He was a member of the Kincardineshire County Council from 1892 to 1925, being Convener of the County from 1919. In 1901 he contested, as a Unionist, the constituency of Kincardineshire against the late Mr. J. W. Crombie, but was defeated. In 1920 he was appointed a DeputyLieutenant of the County, and he was also an Honorary Sheriff-Substitute.

Thomas Murray (1885- 88), son of the late Rev. Thomas Murray of the Free Church, Midmar, died during the past summer at Penalonga, near Salisbury, Rhodesia.

Henry Alexander Richards* (1901-05), advocate, died at West Cults, Aberdeen, on 27th June, aged 38 years. He was one of four brothers who were educated at the School. He served as an apprentice with Messrs. F, J. Scott & Morrison, advocates, Aberdeen, becoming chief assistant and procurator to that firm. He qualified as a law agent in 1911, and was admitted to the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen in 1917.

From 1918 he was junior partner of the firm of Messrs. A. C. Morrison & Richards, advocates, Aberdeen. In the work of the local battalion of the Boys' Brigade he took a very warm interest, being secretary for a period of five years after the

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War, and at the tune of his death was treasurer to the battalion.

He is survived by his wife, a daughter of the late Rev. Thomas D. Watt of Powis, Aberdeen, and of Glengairn, and by three young children.

William Selbie (1863-66) died at Pasadena, California, on 24th September, aged 76 years. He served as an apprentice in the National Bank of Scotland, Aberdeen, and thereafter went to London. In 1871 he proceeded to the United States and engaged in railway and banking business in Minnesota, Dakota, and in Pasadena, California. Latterly he acted as a confidential accountant and private adviser. He was the elder brother of Professor Selbie, of the United Free Church College, Aberdeen.

Lindsay Lyall Shepherd* (1900-07) died suddenly at Aberdeen on 31st August, aged 36 years. He was the youngest son of the late Mr. George Shepherd, wine merchant, Aberdeen, and served as an apprentice with the North of Scotland Bank. After the War he became a director of Messrs. Simpson Shepherd & Sons, Ltd., wine merchants, Aberdeen. When the War broke out in August, 1914, he was a Lieutenant in the North Scottish Royal Garrison Artillery, and was immediately promoted to the rank of Captain. He served on the Scottish Coast Defences to September, 1916, and after being for a short time in Siege Artillery Training Camps, was in France to September, 1917, and thereafter on Coast Defences at home from November of that year to February, 1919, when he was demobilized. He was promoted to be Major in June, 1916.

Robert Park Simmers (1910-12) died as the result of a motor accident on 14th August, aged 32 years. He was motor-cycling on the road from Aberdeen to Hatton about midnight when, it is thought, he collided with a barrel at a point about two miles from Ellon, where the road was being repaired, was hurled against a tar tank, and received injuries to the head from which he died. He was on the way to join his wife, who was staying at his father's house at Hatton, and left Aberdeen late at night. At the place where the road was under repair a red lamp was shown, but Simmers had either failed to notice that the road was being repaired, one side at a time, or he did not realize until it was too late which side was closed to traffic. A watchman who was on duty heard nothing until between two and three o'clock in the morning, when his attention was attracted by feeble groans.

He found Simmers lying unconscious in the ditch near the tar tank, only ten minutes before he died.

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and Sons, fruiterers, Aberdeen. During the War he was first of all a Private in the Gordon Highlanders, and later a Second Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion of that regiment, serving with it in France to August, 1917. In November of that year he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, and served in France and Germany with the 149th Squadron, R.A.F., from May, 1918, to April, 1919. He was one of the best amateur golfers in Aberdeen, and was champion of the Murcar Golf Club.

He is survived by his wife and a son, Robert Knowles Simmers, aged eleven years, who entered the Infant Department of the School in 1924.

Charles Lawson Smith (1884-94), M.B., Ch.B., only son of the late Charles Smith (of Anderson & Thomson, Aberdeen), and of Mrs. Smith, 21 Belvidere Street, Aberdeen, died at Welwyn, Herts, on 1st October, aged 50 years. After qualifying in medicine at Aberdeen in 1900, he served in hospitals in Dublin and in London. In 1903 he became a medical practitioner at Hertford, and was for 16 years a member of the honorary medical staff of the Hertford County Hospital, and for some years past, Senior Surgeon. It was largely due to his skill as a surgeon that this hospital reached its present very high state of efficiency. He took a very active interest in bringing the hospital up to modern requirements in its equipment, and the skilled work done by him and under his guidance was comparable to that done in any London hospital.

Henry Stephen (1865-66), M.A., D.D. (Aberd. ), D.Phil.

(Calcutta), Professor of English Literature in Calcutta University, died at Calcutta on 1st September, aged 80 years.

He graduated M.A. at Aberdeen University in 1870, with first-class honours in classics, and second-class honours in philosophy. Having taken a full course in divinity in the Free Church College, Aberdeen, he acted for some time as assistant to the Professor of Greek, and then was appointed Classical Master at The Institution, Dollar. Later he accepted a call to missionary service in India, and went out as Professor of Science in the Duff College, Calcutta. When this College a-id the General Assembly's Institution were amalgamated and became known as the Scottish Churches College, Dr. Stephen taught philosophy until his retirement in 1913.

Subsequently he joined the Post-Graduate Department of the University of Calcutta, occupying the chair of English Literature. Extremely simple although erudite, he was devoted to his work and to his pupils, and may be said to have died in harness, for he retired only a few months ago. Professor Stephen gave notable service in the Christian cause in India, exerting an influence, intellectual and spiritual, upon the youth of India equalled by few missionaries of the British Churches.

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Maxwell John Macdonald Tindall* (1868-71) died in Aberdeen on 2nd November, aged 71 years. He was a son of the late Mr. Robert Tindall, Fraserburgh, who established the firm of Robert Tindall & Sons, iron merchants, in 1841, and died at the age of 98. He entered his father's business, and for many years was managing director of the company.

His only son iS ROBERT TINDALL* (1891-98), M.C., M.B., Hurworth-on-Tees, Darlington, and a brother is FREDERICK MAYFIELD TINDALL (1881-84), M.D., Bedlington, Northumberland.

Alexander Forbes Wight* (1855-61), advocate, of Camphill, Lumphanan, died in Aberdeen on 19th October, aged 84 years. He was Dux of the School in 1860, and graduated M.A. at the University in 1867. Thereafter he was apprenticed to the now extinct legal firm of Messrs. Duncan and Clyne, advocates, and he became a member of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen in 1871. At the time of his death he was the third oldest member of the Society, the other two being ROBERT COLLIE GRAY* (1851-54), who joined in 1864, and HARVEY HALL* (1852-56), who joined in 1866.

From 1871 to 1890 Mr. Wight was in practice as an advocate and notary public on his own account, and built up an extensive connection in court work. In the latter year he was joined in partnership by Mr. G. M. Aitken, who gradually took over the court work from Mr. Wight, while he devoted himself to the development of a large chamber practice.

He acquired the estate of Camphill, Lumphanan, in 1883, and interested himself actively in the affairs of the district. A nephew of Mr. Wight is Professor JOHN WIGHT DUFF* (1877-82), M.A., D.Litt., I.L.D., Vice-Principal of Armstrong College, Newcastle.

Marriages.

(1909-17).--At Newhall, Kenrossie, Perth, on the 30th December, 1926, DOUGLAS IAN BROWN, Wellriggs, Carluke, son of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Monaltrie Lodge, Ballater, to Annie Grant, danghter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross, Newhall.

Campbell (1908-17).-At Fife Arms Hotel, Banff, on 4th August, DONALD CAMPBELL,* M.B., Ch.B., youngest son of the late James Campbell, F.E.I.S., Aberdeen, and of Mrs. Campbell, Evanston, U.S.A., to Helen Isabella (" Ella "), elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Watson, of Melrose, Gamrie.

Cantlay (1903-10).—At Penang, on 17th September, ALFRED VERNON WHITE CANTLAY,* Siantan, Sumatra, youngest son of the late Alexander Cantlay, Auchterellon, Ellon, and Mrs. Cantlay, 108 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen, to Margaret O'Donnell, only daughter of the late W. R. Trail and Mrs. Trail, 110 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen.

Clarke (1896-99).—At the Church of St. Alexander, Warsaw, on 12th July, JAMES BRYCE CLARKE,* elder son of John Clarke, LL.D., and the late Mrs. Clarke, of Chanonry House, Old Aberdeen, to Marie Angele, younger daughter of Count and Countess Andre Choloniewski, of Janow, Podolia, Ukraine.

Dawson (1905-07).-At Blisworth, Northants, on 30th September, Brown

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WILLIAM MAURICE GRANT DAWSON,* SOH of Colonel William F. G. Dawson* (1863-67) and Mrs. Dawson, Hill View, Insch, Aberdeenshire, to Margaret Boyd, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tait, The Lowndes, Blisworth.

Duffus (1908-14).--At Londonderry, on 7th November, HAROLD WATT DUFFUS,* B.Sc., third son of the late Alexander Duffus (1871-76), advocate in Aberdeen, and Mrs. Duffus, 54 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen, to Florence Marion, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. McCullagh, 16 Queen Street, Londonderry.

Dugan (1902-08).—At St. Mary's Chapel, East Parish Church of St. Nicholas, Aberdeen, on 16th August, DOUGLAS Ross DUGAN,* M.B., Ch.B., younger son of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Dugan, 53 Argyll Place, to Isobel Forbes, M.A., younger daughter of the late David Durie, Cawnpore, India, and of Mrs. Durie, 85 Beaconsfield Place, Aberdeen.

Easton (1895-1905).-At All Souls', Langham Place, London, W., on 1st September, JOHN MURRAY EASTON,* F.R.I.B.A., son of the late David Easton (1862-63) and of Mrs. Easton, of Aberdeen, to Ruth Meryon, elder daughter of the late H. A. Tinker, of Croyde, Devon, and of Mrs. Tinker, of Folkestone.

Edwards (1905-14).—At the United Free Church, Nethy Bridge, on 15th September, HENRY GEORGE EDWARDS* (Equitable Life Assurance Society), Glasgow, elder son of Henry J. Edwards* (1878-85).

Aberdeen, to Ruth Margaret Louise, M.B., Ch.B., daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. John Ross, United Free Church Manse, Nethy Bridge.

Fowler (1905- 08).-At St. Stephen's, Worcester, on 16th July, JAMES JOHN FOWLER, M.A., son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Fowler, 38 Rosebery Street, Aberdeen, to Kathleen Mabel, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Minchin, Worcester.

Gilchrist (1900- 03).-At All Souls', Langham Place, London, W.1, on 5th July, ADAM GILCHRIST,* M.B., Ch.B., of Burslem, Staffordshire, son of the late Adam Gilchrist, farmer, Rothienorman, Aberdeenshire, to Winifred Mary Sampson, M.B., B.S. (London), eldest daughter of R. W. Sampson, Sidmouth, Devon.

Grant (1904-06).—At the Star Hotel, Montrose, on 12th October, ALEXANDER GORDON GRANT,* eldest son of the late Mr. A. D. Grant (of Singapore) and Mrs. Grant, 59 Abergeldie Road, Aberdeen, to Catherine Wilson, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Stormont, Rosebank, Montrose.

Hendry (1907-14).—At the Gordon Arms Hotel, Inverurie, on 31st August, ALLAN CRUIRSHANK HENDRY, M.C., M.B., Ch.B., Bucksburn, youngest son of the late Mr. George Hendry and Mrs. Hendry, 41 Beaconsfield Place, Aberdeen, to Peggy, elder daughter of Mr. Alexander Cruickshank, Woodbine, Inverurie.

St. James's, Cruden, on 20th July, EDWARD Knox (1908— ? ) WILSON KNox, son of the late Mr. Joseph Knox and Mrs. Knox, 182 Mid Stocket Road, Aberdeen, to Anne Christie, second daughter of the late Mr. James Boddie and Mrs. Boddie, Ivan Cottage, Cruden Bay. Laing (1909-14).—At Kintore Arms Hotel, Inverurie, on 14th October, ROBERT MAINWARING LAING,* eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Laing, 82 High Street, Inverurie, to Hilda Mary, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Gray, 131 High Street, Inverurie.

McCallum (1910-17).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 1 1 th July, ROBERT FRANCIS GORDON MCCALLUM,* elder son of the Rev. and Mrs. W. A. McCallum, Stirling, to Rica, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Henderson, Aberdeen.

McDonald (1909-13).—At St. Michael's Church, Wakefield, OH 9th July, ERIC DOUGLAS MCDONALD,* only surviving son of the late D. M. McDonald, Aberdeen, and Mrs. McDonald, Tadcaster, to Mildred Ruth, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Boynton, Plumpton, Wakefield.

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Milne (1876-80).-At Bournemouth, on 8th August, JAMES BLACK MILNE,* M.D., son of the late Alexander Milne, of Corse, Huntly, Aber-

deenshire, to Harriet, widow of Arthur Edward Bennett, of Tolles Road, Leicester. the House of Hope Church, St. Paul, Minn., Morton (1881— ? ) U.S.A., On 20th July, ROBERT BUCHANAN MORTON,• director of music in the House of Hope Church, and professor of music in St. Paul, to Zylpha Lauretta, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus W. Sharpe, of St. Paul.

Mowat (1909-16).—At Mather's Hotel, Dundee, on 16th November, ALEXANDER GOODSIR MOWAT, M.B., Ch.B., son of Dr. and Mrs. Mowat, Jalna, India, to Aileen Maud Balfour, daughter of the late John G. Cockburn, Harris Academy, Dundee, and Mrs. Cockburn.

Philip (1915-19).—At the Imperial Hotel, Aberdeen, on the 22nd November, PETER WILLIAM PHILIP,* M.B., Ch.B., second son of Mr. and Mrs. John Philip, Balmedie Park, Belhelvie, to Mary Rezin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Donald, Kemlyn, Huntly.

Ritchie (1903-08).—At Hillpark, Wormit, on 8th November, ADAM ALEXANDER RITCHIE,* M.A., B.Sc., Indian Educational Service, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Ritchie, Heliopolis, Anderson Drive, Aberdeen, to Vera Mary, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Davidson, Hillpark, Wormit.

Rose (1900- 09).-At St. Ninian's Church, Alyth, on 14th September, GILBERT WOLRIDGE ROSE,* M.B., R.A.M.C., eldest son of Dr. and Mrs. Rose, Aberdeen, to Phyllis Margaret, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fyfe Jamieson, Ruthven, Meigle, Perthshire.

(1909-18).—At U.F. Church, Banchory-Devenick, on Skinner 6th September, DAVID SKINNER, M.B., Ch.B., Burnley, Lancs, son of the Rev. Dr. Skinner (late Principal of Madras Christian College) and Mrs. Skinner, to Janet Duncan, third daughter of the Rev. Dr. James Ironside Still • (1871-72) and Mrs. Still, Banchory-Devenick.

Stewart (1905-17).--At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on the 7th October, JAMES GORDON STEWART, M.B., Ch.B., KM of Mr. W. A. Stewart, 44 Morningfield Road, Aberdeen, to Audrey Winifred, second daughter of Mr. James Findlay (1879-82), Balquharn, Portlethen.

Stott (1898-1904).—At Ferryhill Parish Church, Aberdeen, on 1St July, WILLIAM NORMAN STOTT,* second son of Mr. and Mrs. George Stott, 12 Osborne Place, Aberdeen, to Ellen Norrie, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Scott Hall, 301 Holburn Street, Aberdeen.

Thomson (1909-14).-At Belmont Congregational Church, Aberdeen, on 7th September, DOUGLAS ROBERTSON THOMSON,* son of Alexander Thomson, Hazledene, Hazlehead, to Gertrude Edith Hilda, second daughter of Mr. W. J. Cruickshank * (1887-92) and Mrs. Cruickshank, 71 Beechgrove Terrace, Aberdeen.

Walker (1903-16).-In King's College Chapel, Old Aberdeen, on 3rd October, DOUGLAS STEWART WALKER,* M.A., LL.B., of Aberdeen, elder son of George W. S. Walker * (1876-82) to Edythe Margaret, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Murray [" Hamewith " ], of Alford, Aberdeenshire.

(1906-08).—At Tor-na-Coille, Banchory, on 26th Williamson October, WILLIAM JACK WILLIAMSON, second son of the late Mr. Laurence Williamson and of Mrs. Williamson, 88 Fountainhall Road, Aberdeen, to Jeannie Linton, youngest daughter of David Douglas, 3 Queen's Gate, Aberdeen.

Wright (1906-17).—At St. Ninian's Parish Church, Aberdeen, on 30th July, JAMES CAMPBELL GRAHAM WRIGHT,* third Son Of Rev. M. J. Wright, to Christina,third daughter of the late Alex. Macnaughtan, of the Royal Scottish Corporation, London.

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Major-General Sir JAMEs RONALD LESLIE MACDONALD, K.C.I.E., C.B., LL.D., Colonel Commandant R.E.

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The Shanghai Clock.

After an unfortunate delay, due to the fracture of the framework of one of the dials in transit from London to Aberdeen, the Shanghai Clock was installed in the Clock Tower early in November, and the Presentation Ceremony took place in the School Hall on Friday, 18th November.

The Clock has two dials of glazed white opal, for illumination, each five feet in diameter. It is fitted with a Lord Grimthorpe's Gravity Escapement, which ensures accuracy to within three seconds in the week. It was originally intended that there should be a bell attached to the Clock, but it was found that owing to the way in which the Clock Tower had been constructed, the sound would travel only a very short distance. It was accordingly decided to drop the idea of having a bell, and, instead, to provide automatic mechanism for illuminating the Clock at night, so that it might be a boon to passers-by, and to those dwelling in the neighbourhood. The Aberdeen Town Council, when approached by the Education Authority, readily agreed to supply electric current for the lighting.

On the movement of the Clock a plate has been attached bearing this inscription :— Presented to the School by Twenty Former Pupils resident in Shanghai. November 1927.

The Twenty who have been associated with raising the fund for the Clock are: P. D. L. Raeburn (1876-78), W. R. Butchart (1889-94), E. G. Tait (1892-94), R. W. Robertson (1892-94), W. R. Myers (1895-99), J. Y. Miller (1897-1900), D. M. Whamond (1900-02), C. B. Ogilvie (1902-04), W. E. D. Smith (1904-09), A. M. Halley (1904-12), H. B. Scott (19051908), Alex. G. MacNeill (1905- 09), G. A. Buyers (1906-08), W. N. Buyers (1906-10), J. R. Nisbet (1908-09), T. A. T. Begg (1909-10), S. D. Begg (1909-10), E. J. Harper (19091914), H. Gow (1909-17), S. Y. Yeh (1913).

The Presentation Ceremony.

The Presentation of the Clock took place in the presence of the School staff and as many pupils as the Hall could accommodate. The Chairman was Dr. John Malcolm Bulloch, the President of the F.P. Club, and he was accompanied by two members of the Shanghai Branch of the Club—James Y. Miller and Stewart D. Begg. Unfortunately another member of the Branch—H. B. Scott—who had hoped to be present, had to leave for the East the day before the Ceremony, and others who had been home on furlough during the

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summer had to return to China before the installation of the Clock. There were also present on the platform members of the Education Authority, of the Secondary Schools Management Committee, of the Executive of the F.P. Club, and the heads of departments of the School.

After the Chairman's greeting to the " Boys of the Grammar School," which was enthusiastically received in the timehonoured fashion, Mr. Stewart D. Begg, as the representative of the Shanghai Branch of the F.P. Club, said :— Dr. Bulloch, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Boys of the Grammar School : I am afraid this is an entirely new and strange role I find myself in this afternoon, and while highly appreciating the honour that has been done me, I am only sorry that a more senior and worthily-suited member of the Shanghai Branch is not available. However, I am very fortunate at the last moment in having at least the moral support of an ex-member and, incidentally, a very ardent supporter of the Clock, Mr. James Y. Miller from Hankow, and I am sure you will all overlook my obvious shortcomings.

I think most of you have a fairly good idea of where and when the " Shanghai Clock " was first mooted, but before asking Dr. Bulloch to formally make the presentation, I shall roughly It was in the autumn of 1925 that our outline its birth. worthy Shanghai Consul, Mr. George Buyers, was home here on furlough, and voicing the sentiments expressed by members at previous Annual Dinners in Shanghai—always very cheery and home-loving affairs—he approached Mr. Theodore Watt with the suggestion that the Shanghai F.P.s might do something for the School with which to cement and perpetuate their association with it. Mr. Watt, in return, pointed out that there was a vast empty space in the School Tower which would undoubtedly be the better of a little decoration, and that a handsome time-piece was obviously the thing to fill it. This, I am afraid, was a little more than Buyers bargained for, but not to be beaten, he returned to Shanghai without a murmur, and at the following Annual Dinner broached the subject. There was only a handful of us on that occasion, and its reception at the outset did not appear any too rosy, but thanks to a few very generous senior members, and a very hearty meal, all obstacles were later simply pushed aside, and at the next Dinner, which was the last we had, the " Shanghai Clock," which now adorns your School Tower and has Mr. Buyers filled that vast void, came into actual being. has been untiring in his efforts throughout, and I should feel sadly lacking in my duty to him and all concerned were I to close without expressing a very, very warm vote of thanks to our Honorary Secretary, Mr. Theodore Watt, for his wholeheartedness in the project. Nothing whatever has been too

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much trouble to him, and I know that when our Consul and members in Shanghai hear of the perfectly wonderful reception that the whole affair has been given, they will feel highly proud of their little effort. Dr. Bulloch, on behalf of the Shanghai F.P.s, might I please call on you to formally present " The Shanghai Clock " ?

Dr. Bulloch at once captured the interest of his audience by his forceful personality, and his speech was frequently punctuated with loud applause and laughter. He said that it was 300 years since the Clock, or part of a clock, was first thought of for the School. In 1625 Burgess Robert Fergusone presented " ane bell, new stockit " to the old Grammar School, which did duty for over 100 years. It was recast in 1733, but some time after that it was badly knocked about—as a matter of fact the boys were " ill-trickit loons " in those days, and they stoned the bell. That bell was now in the School Museum. The gap in the Tower had been waiting since the present building was erected in 1863, and it was now filled in the way the architect originally intended it to be.

The Clock would never have been there but for the Former Pupils' Club, to which he proceeded to pay a tribute. He emphasized the fact that the life of a boy at the Grammar School did not end when he left the School, and he quoted the following sentences from Hugh Walpole's recently published story " Jeremy at Crale " :— " This school, which has been going on in one sort of way or another ever since the Eleventh Century, hasn't made itself. It's been made by the boys who cared for it and have done something for it. Its influence is increasing and so your influence through it is increasing.

People are always wanting to be immortal. Well, here's as good a chance for immortality as one knows. Do something for this school and you do something decent for yourself, for England, and for everyone who comes after you. That's worth while it seems to me."

With very little alteration, Dr. Bulloch said, this extract applied exactly to the Aberdeen Grammar School. By joining the Former Pupils' Club and doing something decent for it, the boys would be doing something decent for themselves, for the School, and for the country. He did not know of any Former Pupils' Club to equal that of the Grammar School. In some ways he regretted that the present School building looked so new. Although it had been standing for 64 years, the granite was so fresh that people thought it was a structure of yesterday; and it was difficult to believe that the School had really been in existence in some form or another since 1256 at any rate.

Dr. Bulloch concluded by reciting the following lines, which he had written specially for the occasion :—

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THE SHANGHAI CLOCK. Your last excuse for being late Has passed away.

You must not dawdle at the gate And try to say Your watch was slow, You didn't know The time o' day.

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For high upon your tapering tower They've filled the gap With moving minute hand and hour That tell a chap He mustn't snoove, But get a move— Or else the strap.

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And when your School days take to flight And you withdraw, You still may sight its light at night, And hear with awe It's voice reply* Across the sky To Babbie Law. And as its notes reverberate We'll bless our flock In lands of willow-pattern plate Who dowered this " knock."

Thus I commend To my old friend The Shanghai Clock.

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Mr. George Duncan, " the old friend " referred to in the poem, accepted the custody of the Clock on behalf of the Education Authority, of which he is Chairman. He said it was one of the surest signs of the vitality and life of the School that it should attract so many gifts from old pupils all over the world. Within the last few weeks he had had the pleasure of acknowledging no fewer than three such gifts—one of £500 given in memory of an Old Boy who was a pupil more than 70 years ago, and another of £50 from Mr. J. I. Dawson.

The present gift would not only be of great use and a great ornament to the School, but a lasting memento of the Former Pupils across the seas. He asked Mr. Begg to convey to his friends in Shanghai the grateful thanks of the Education Authority, whose thanks were also extended to the Town Council for undertaking to light the Clock.

The Rector, voicing the thanks of the School, assured Mr. Watt and the members of the Executive of the Former Pupils' Club, that the Club was an inspiration to the School, and that the sympathetic and persistent contact between past and • This is poetic licence.—Ed. A.G.S. Mag.

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present pupils was one of the most splendid things connected with the School. The School was touched by this latest gift, which came at a time when the business community of Shanghai must have been very much pre-occupied and concerned about the future. It was wonderful to think that during that time of danger and anxiety the thoughts of the Old Boys should have gone winging back from Shanghai to their School, and that the token of their affectionate regard should have been consummated at that time.

The pupils, led by the Rector, then gave three cheers for Mr. Begg and the Shanghai Branch of the F.P. Club.

Councillor W. W. Carry, Convener of the Watching and Lighting Committee, expressed the thanks of the Town Council and the citizens for the Clock, which he described as " a timely gift." He said that the City of Aberdeen was very proud of the Grammar School, and that the citizens watched with very great interest the wonderful work performed by Former Pupils. He asked Mr. Begg to take back to Shanghai the appreciation and thanks of the Town Council and the citizens of Aberdeen for what was a gift not only to the School but to the City as well.

On the call of Mr. William Murison, the Senior Member of the School Staff, the Chairman was most enthusiastically thanked for his services, and in reply gave a delightful impromptu speech, of which, unfortunately, we have no report.

A small party from the platform then proceeded to the Clock Tower, and after a flash-light photograph had been taken (which is reproduced in this issue of the Magazine: the flash explains the apparent somnolence of some members of the group 1), Dr. Bulloch started the pendulum, and the electric light behind the dials was switched on by Mr. Begg.

This was instantly followed by a resounding cheer from the great assemblage of pupils and others at the base of the Clock Tower. The hands of the Clock, which up to that time had been stationary at XII, were moved forward until they indicated 4.25. And so, at this hour in the afternoon of 18th November, 1927, " The Shanghai Clock " was set agoing.

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University Arts Bursary Competition.

For the fifth year in succession the School was successful in obtaining the first place at the Arts Bursary Competition of Aberdeen University, held in June. The First Bursar this year is WILLIAM A. B. HAMILTON, the elder son of Mr. Brown Hamilton, H.M. Inspector of Schools, who also secured the first place last year, while a pupil in the second highest class. As Professor Pittendrigh said at the Prize-giving in June, Hamilton " with a fine courage, some would say with a reckless prodigality, threw away the First Bursary in order to complete the curriculum of the School in the Sixth Class, and he was present that day as the Dux of the School on the Classical side." JAMES M. GOSSIP secured the 12th place, and CLEMENT MARSHALL, who was Dux of the School in the Modern side this year, was 22nd on the list.

The History of the School.

At the Prize-giving Ceremony at the end of the last School session in June, Rev. Professor Pittendrigh, D.D., a former Dux and Gold Medallist, appropriately presided, in his capacity as Convener of the Secondary Schools Management Committee of the Aberdeen Education Authority. In the course of his speech he said that he was very happy to be permitted to announce that Dr. W. Douglas Simpson hoped soon to start writing the History of the School. It was a task of such magnitude that it must take a number of years to accomplish, but the task could not be in more worthy or more capable hands, for by heredity, devotion to the School, and historical equipment Dr. Simpson was of all men most fitted to complete the work of his distinguished and revered father.

We understand that Dr. Simpson has already begun to tackle the History in earnest. An enormous amount of research work, particularly in the archives of the Aberdeen Town Council, will be necessary ; but there is no one who will decipher the script and pick out the essentials more swiftly and more unerringly. than Dr. Simpson. The School is indeed fortunate in having the voluntary services of a trained historian of such recognized standing as Dr. Simpson's, and all past and present pupils will look forward to the not very distant day when there will at last be a history worthy of the School.

A Baptism in the School Hall.

It will be news to many that a baptism once took place in the Hall of the School. It appears that in the early 'nineties the congregation of Rutherford Free Church was worshippingfor a short time in the Hall, and during that period at least one baptism took place, so that a lady, still resident in Aberdeen, is able to relate with pride how she was baptized in a boys' school !

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ANNUAL BALL, TUESDAY, 27th DECEMBER. The BALL will be held in the Large Hall of the MUSIC HALL BUILDINGS, Aberdeen, on the above date, from 8.30 p.m. to 1.30 a.m. The Committee have made arrangements, including the special engagement of Miss Alice Stephenson's Band, which, they believe, will make this year's Ball even more attractive than those of past years.

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With a view to giving F.P.s, especially those from the south and abroad, an opportunity of meeting their friends, the Committee have arranged with the management of the Palace Hotel to serve dinner in a private room, at separate tables, on the evening of the Ball, from 7 o'clock, at a charge of 5s. 6d. for each person (payable at the Hotel). As it is necessary for the management of the Hotel to know beforehand how many are to take advantage of this arrangement, members who desire to dine with their guests at the Palace are requested to fill in the annexed form B, and to send it to me not later than 20th December. Please note, no reservations

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A Visit to the New York 'Change.

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Perhaps my most interesting experience lately has been a visit to the New York Stock Exchange. I was fortunate enough to secure an introduction to a leading member who, himself, took me to the members' gallery.

The Exchange room is a large, almost square, hall, with a very high ceiling. On the north and south walls are enormous blackboards, on which little numbers keep appearing and disappearing. Each broker is allotted a number, and when he sees his number flashing on the board he goes at once to his booth, where his clerk has an order waiting for him. The members' booths line the walls. In each booth is a clerk, standing by the private telephone line to the broker's office, from which the buying and selling orders of the customers are sent to the floor.

Dotted on the floor are rows of short pillars, around each -of which are eager knots of men. Each pillar is the centre for dealing in some particular line of stocks—say, railroad shares or steel shares.

Suppose you ask your broker to sell 100 shares of General Motors at current price. The order is telephoned to the Exchange, the clerk in the booth presses the button which flashes the firm's number on the board, the member on the " floor " seeing the number comes to the booth and gets the order. He then goes at once to the General Motors pillar and finds another broker who has an order to buy. A glance on the pillar indicator shows the last price the stock fetched, and, with a nod, the transaction is closed. The price, if a new one, is marked up on the pillar. It is also written on a slip and handed to the " ticker " operator. He types it out on a special machine, and instantly, over the electric wires, it is printed out on the running ribbon of paper in every broker's office in New York, and also in many other cities, even as far across the continent as San Francisco. Next day the shares are delivered and paid for.

Millions of dollars change hands every day with no more than a nod—not a note is signed, nor is any security given.

The ticker is a marvellous instrument. Five operators are stationed at various points on the floor, all " typing " hard on their machines without pause. All their quotations appear on the same " tape," and yet, automatically, they are reproduced one after another.

Some of the members are " specialists," dealing only in one stock, and to them come the other brokers. The specialists keep a little book, purchases on one side, sales on the other, and, during the day, though many thousands of shares pass through their hands, they are never more than a hundred or

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two shares over-bought or over-sold, and a good specialist will see that any margin is on the " right side of the market."

The scene is a busy one. There are about 1,000 " seats " on the Exchange—though, of course, all the members are never on the floor together. Some people may be seen hurrying across to their booths, or moving from one pillar to another, intent upon executing some urgent order. In strong contrast are the occupants of the chairs at either end, brokers sitting idly waiting for their numbers to appear on the board, and meanwhile turning over the pages of some newspaper.

There are a few curious rules of the Exchange. One prohibits running across the floor. On busy days this is a wise provision. Another, to lessen confusion, prohibits clerks from leaving the booths, and allows none but members themselves on the floor. Perhaps the strangest—to hardy Aberdonians—forbids members from wearing hard straw hats in the Exchange: they must wear soft panamas in the summer, or go bareheaded.

When a member retires, he sells his " seat " to the highest bidder. Before the purchaser can become a member, however, a special committee carefully scrutinizes his credentials, and none but those with an unimpeachable reputation can hope to become members. The price at each successive sale becomes higher and higher, and the last one cost the purchaser almost £50,000. This enormous price just shows how much the new member expects to reap afterwards in brokerage. The American view of the market is that it exists not for investment, as the English regard it, but primarily for speculation. Every office boy has a market " tip," and as soon as he can scrape together a few hundred dollars, starts to " play " the market on margin. Every clerk, though most offices forbid it, has all his available money in speculative stocks, and during the present boom many fortunes have been won—and lost ! In March, 1926, when there was a tremendous slump, there were few people in Wall Street who had not had their savings wiped out.

These days of frenzy on the market present a sight which cannot be paralleled. The ticker, which usually prints each sale about one minute after it is carried through, has on such occasions fallen as much as twenty minutes behind, while the number of shares sold—usually at greatly reduced prices —has risen to over 3,000,000 in a single day. (An average day sees about 1,000,000 shares change hands.)

A book could be written on the romances of speculation, but the advice my guide gave to me was—" Don't ever have anything to do with this game, even as a broker."

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School Memories of the 'Seventies.

By T. VV'ARDROP GRIFFITH, C.M.G., M.D., LL.D., Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Leeds.

The photograph of cricketers rerroduced in this issue of the Magazine (facing page 54) was sent to me by Mr. Theodore Watt, who said that as I appeared in it, he had been wondering if the sight of it would stir old memories in me and induce me to record some of them in the pages of the Magazine.

The photograph I know well, and a copy was in my possession till quite lately, but it must have got destroyed in one of those Teufelsdr0ckhian earthquakes or gaol deliveries which are necessary from time to time. Mr. Watt is in some doubt as to the date : " 1875 or 1876 " he says. It was certainly taken on the 24th of May, 1876, just before the great annual event of the match on the A.C.C. ground with the " Gym." I remember it so well. Alas, I made two ducks ; I don't think I have ever fully recovered from this. I was not much use as a cricketer. The year before, I was taken in as a substitute and somehow managed to make the " cock " score, which I think was 8. This was my undoing, for there attached to me thereafter a spurious reputation which I well knew I did not deserve. I was looked upon as a safe catch in the long field, but this also was a view founded upon imperfect data.

In the photograph—and I am sitting on the right hand of John Inglis and with Little Mitchell half sitting on me—I am looking quite pleased with myself. I did not know what was in store for me.

All the boys in the group I remember as well as if it had been taken yesterday instead of 51 years ago. Our best cricketer was without doubt Sam McPherson ; he was somewhat handicapped by a weakness in the muscles of his left arm, but he rose superior to this, and was not only our best bowler but a first class batsman. During his short life after leaving School—for he died in 1879, and I remember going to his funeral—he was a prominent member of the Aberdeenshire Club and played in their best matches. John Inglis, who kept wickets, was a very steady batsman and always went in first. He qualified in Arts and in Medicine and was till the time of his death in practice at Hastings, where he was a great favourite. David Mackinnon and I were, throughout our medical studies, fast friends ; he was one of the ablest fellows I have ever met, and his practical knowledge of his professional work was remarkably sound.

Had he lived he would have gone far, but alas ! he died of yellow fever in British Honduras in 1890. John Lamb graduated in Arts in 1880, and in 1882-83, when I was Demonstrator of Anatomy under Sir John (who was then Dr.)

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Struthers, he was one of my pupils, and ran Patrick Whyte Rattray (G.S. 1872-77) very close for the first place in the Anatomy Class. Little Mitchell, so called to distinguish him from his brother, who was two years older but in the same class, was really at that time a very little fellow, and it was always a marvel to me how he played such a good game ; his cricket pads almost met his jacket, but he played with a straight bat, and I remember in the following year, when I was playing for the Aberdeenshire against the team composed -of Grammar and Gym. boys, hearing J. Forbes Lumsden commenting on him as being a lad of great promise, and admiring the pluck with which he stood up to the bowling.

I think it was on the occasion of this match with the Gym. that Charlie Urquhart drove a ball out of the ground over the paling to the north of the wicket, and thereby scored six.

The big, benevolent-looking fellow forming the ace of -diamonds with his crossed legs and with elastic-sided boots, which I have no doubt he changed before playing (but after all we must remember that Whymper did all his Alpine climbing in elastic-sided boots !) must for me be always PETER Leslie. He graduated in Medicine in Edinburgh and was called to the Bar and has for many years been a trusted and much loved medical man in the West End of London. I do not know why we called him Peter. " President Henault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour, how difficult it often is to ascertain not only why, but even when, they were conferred, takes occasion in his sleek, official way to make a philosophical reflection." Thus Mr. Carlyle in the opening words of his " Revolution," and I can throw no light on the origin of our friendly nick-name. Of the Bishop of Rum-ti-foo it is recorded that " They called him Peter, people say, because it was his name," but my old friend's name is and was William Murray Leslie. I went so far as to write to him the other day to ask if he could explain, but he tells me he has not the " foggiest notion," so we must leave it there.

I remember being asked by my father why a certain boy was always spoken of as " Goggles," and giving what seemed to me to be a perfectly adequate reason, namely that his father wore spectacles. Peter was a fine fellow and we all liked him.

He covered the School with glory by carrying off the first prize at a great " Spelling Bee " held in the Music Hall. I remember that George Esslemont, who afterwards represented one of the divisions of Aberdeen in Parliament for ten years, .and who in those days was always referred to as " The Baillie," out of compliment to his father, had to leave the platform at an -early stage of the proceedings for spelling " fillip " as " Philip."

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I remember Leslie's taking the part of Dr. Pangloss in George Colman's play of the " Heir at Law," in a dramatic entertainment held in the School Hall. I do not remember who took the other parts, but I do remember very clearly Leslie's excellent acting and his" I've often wished that 1 had clear For life, six hundred pounds a year."

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It was, I think, on the same occasion that Charlie Urquhart took the part of Mrs. Honeyman in " The Happy Pair," and very well he did it. He had an awkward stammer, which caught his breath in ordinary conversation, but in singing or reciting this completely went. We also had two songs— to wit : " A life on the ocean wave " and " Wilkins and his.

Dinah," from one who has now attained to such eminence that— " His name I shall not mention : No one of finely-pointed sense Would violate a confidence, And shall I go And do it ? No !

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Yes, the sight of this photograph has indeed stirred old memories. My brother, Dr. A. Hill Griffith, and I have often talked and laughed over the old times. In a former number of the Magazine he has recounted many of his recollections with a charm and with a humour to which I cannot attain.

Like him, I was one of " Leggie's " boys, and joined the first class in 1871, two years after my brother. Many of my classfellows start to life before my eyes, just as they were in those far-off days : Alexander Duffus, always smart and tidy, with a blue cloth—not serge—suit, a well-spoken and wellinformed, and even in those days a well-read boy. Mr. A. F. Munson, to whom I owe my first introduction to classification, once asked the class at large for an example of a " universal truth," and Duffus promptly came out with " Fluids seek the lowest level": nothing could have been better. I saw Duffus the last time I was in Aberdeen, in 1922, and had a long talk with him, and it was with great regret that I learned of his death some time afterwards. When I met him he told me that George Pittendrigh was in Aberdeen, and so I dropped in upon him without giving my name : we had not met since 1876, but he knew me. He had had a most useful career in India, and the University recognized this when it bestowed on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity the same year. I remember him so well as a lad ; he came to the School in 1872 and joined our class, which was then the Second. A little older than most of us, he was actuated by rather more serious views as to his responsibilities, and made rapid pro-

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gress. I can see him now standing up to construe with his book and his chin held high—a most excellent observance on the part of a speaker, and one which, if more often followed, would conduce to the comfort of many an audience. Then there was Leslie P. Shirres, who developed great mathematical abilities, especially towards the end of his School career, and who rose high in the Indian Civil Service. James Nicoll Ogilvie, one of a distinguished family, whose work I have heard spoken of in high terms of praise by those competent to form an opinion, after long service in India became Moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1918, and his death last year, during the meeting of the General Assembly, came as a great shock to all. We had some correspondence in 1918, and I remember his expressions of delight at hearing from me, and my joy at learning that he was pleased to get my letter.

The years were absorbed and we were boys again together.

It must in no wise be looked upon as any disparagement of my other teachers when I say that my recollections turn mainly to the personality of Mr. Legge. My brother has referred most understandingly to his methods of maintaining discipline without resorting to the more usual and summary proceedings. This he effected, in milder offences and as a preventative, by kindly ridicule; and in cases requiring more recognition, where he had to impose such a piece of drudgery as that of writing out " Page 4 " of Bain's Grammar, he conveyed the impression that he was merely the creature of circumstance, and this removed all sting from the punishment. His fine sense of humour is well illustrated by his comment on one lad's statement in a written examination on Roman History, that " Hannibal had got possession of the Roman powder magazine " somewhere. " So great was my ignorance," he quietly remarked, " that I thought gunpowder was a comparatively modern invention."

I remember the excitement caused by one of the many visits of Wombwell's Menagerie, and how complimentary tickets were freely distributed to the various schools of the City, entitling us to admission at a reduced figure to the show in the Castlegate. Finding that the matter was absorbing rather too much attention, " Leggie " restored a due sense of proportion by dropping on one boy, whose feelings of anticipation were getting the better of him, with the remark, " Oh, Andrew ! and are you going to see the growliewowlies ? " I have always regarded this as worthy to be placed alongside of my brother's story of his covering a trifling boy with confusion by asking, " Is that a mannie or a horsie that you are drawing ? " He knew so well how to ignore minor offences without seeming to be blind to their significance, but he usually took

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good care to let the offender and others see that he had grasped the situation fully. When, for example, Tom Philip was banging with the Class roll-call on the desk and conjugating for our amusement a verb—" Lego, LEGGIE," he thought he had escaped observation in the scrimmage to places when our teacher appeared. Later in the hour, however, he found himself called upon to deal with the verb in question, to his great embarrassment, which was not lessened by the suppressed grins of his fellows, and by the perfect gravity of his tormentor. When he was calling our attention to the meanings of certain abbreviations such as M.A., and was explaining the significance of the doubling of one letter as indicating the plural, and had got as far as starting to explain LL.D., he saw Louis Graham Oliver Wilson (I love to be accurate !) sniggering and about to speak to his neighbour, and at once, with a form of mock gravity under which could be seen a suppressed smile, he remarked in a tone of gentle remonstrance, " No, Louis, it does not mean that at all ; it does not mean ' lang leggit deevil ' ; it means Doctor of Laws." Louis confessed to me afterwards that that was exactly what he was going to say.

In the five-minutes' interval a group of us were looking at the roll-call, which had been left on the desk on the little platform. We were not doing any particular harm, of course, but I suppose it wasn't our business to take advantage of its not having been put away, and it was somewhat embarrassing when " Leggie " appeared at the door. There was a scuttle, and I, who I must say happened to be in the position least conducive to escape, grasping at once that we had been detected, did not join in the stampede but, no doubt with an expression of innocence and mild surprise at the undignified retreat of my fellows, closed the roll and walked to my place.

I should greatly like, even at this length of time, to know exactly what was passing in my dear old teacher's mind when he made his comment, " The wicked flee when no man pursueth ; but the righteous are bold as a lion." I can only say I did not feel like a lion, and I guess he knew all about it !

Mr. Legge knew well when to allow laughter and when to discourage it. Possessed as he was of a keen sense of humour, he must often have been in difficulties. Once, and once only I think, did he laugh when he greatly wanted not to do so. ..Esop's fables were being dealt with, and we were laboriously translating the improving tale of the husbandman who, finding a serpent apparently dead from cold, took it up and brought it back to life by cherishing it in his bosom, when it promptly, and in a most unsportsmanlike spirit, stung him, with, if I remember aright, fatal results. It was to find the appropriate English of the word for " bosom," which puzzled

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the boy who was on his feet at the moment, and in the hope of stimulating his imagination, that " Leggie " pantomimically moved his two hands gently upwards to the upper part of his chest, with the startling result that the word oxter was confidently suggested.

With the aid of Mr. Watt's " Grammar School Roll," published in 1923, I have spent many happy hours, sometimes tempered with sadness, in tracing the fortunes not only of those who were strictly my contemporaries, but of many who were known to me through my brothers or in other ways. I always read the Magazine with great pleasure, and it conveys to me a sense of the development which has gone on in the School since my day. If these lines should meet the eye of any of my old classfellows, may they carry my most cordial wishes for their happiness. I cannot but think that to many there must come, as it comes to me ever more clearly with the passing years, the gentle rhythm and cadence of dear " Leggie's " voice as he called the roll, beginning " AlexanDER Daniel, AlexanDER Duffus," and ending " Thoma Griffith, Thoma Jamieson, Thoma Philip." The first name only was latinized, and the slight emphasis laid upon the last syllable of " Alexander " gave expression to this.

Dinner to " Shaforce " F.P.s.

The Shanghai Branch of the F.P. Club held a dinner on 18th May last at the Shanghai Club in honour of the F.P.s then serving with the Shanghai Defence Force. The following members of the Branch were present :—P. L. D. Raeburn (1876-78), E. G. Tait (1892-94), W. R. Myers (1895-99), C. B. Ogilvie (1902-04), W. E. D. Smith (1904-09), A. M. Halley (1904-12), Alex. G. MacNeill (1905-09), G. A. Buyers (19061908), and E. J. Harper (1909-14). The Guests were :— Colonel-Commandant P. B. Sangster (1884-88), C.M.G., D.S.O., commanding the 20th Infantry Brigade ; Major D. G. Cheyne (1901-05), M.C., R.A.M.C. ; Surgeon-Commander C. E. Greeson (1902-05) ; Captain J. S. B. Forbes (1903-10), R.A.M.C. ; and Captain j. F. Ferguson (1904-06), G.S.O.3.

After the toasts of " The King " and " The School " had been pledged, W. R. Myers proposed the toast of " Our Guests." In a short speech he expressed regret at the absence of the Chairman of the Branch, R. W. Robertson (1892-94), who was unfortunately indisposed, and he welcomed the guests on behalf of the local F.P.s. Colonel Sangster replied, relating several amusing reminiscences and incidents during his School days at the " Grammar." A very enjoyable and entertaining evening was spent as a result of the guests insisting on there being speeches all round.

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A Generous Gift to the School.

During the Summer Holidays the Rector of the School received from The Right Honourable Lord Alness (Robert Munro-1884-85), Lord Justice-Clerk of Scotland, a letter in the following terms :" I have been asked by a friend of mine in my political days—Lieut.-Col. George Waters, Lorrenden Lodge, Beddington Lane, near Croydon—to send you the enclosed cheque for £500 for the benefit of the Aberdeen Grammar School. Col. Waters makes this donation in loving memory of his brother, Mr. John Waters, who was educated at the Grammar School, and he desires that fact to be recorded in an appropriate manner. . . ."

The receipt of this letter was reported by the Rector to a meeting of the Secondary Schools Management Committee of the Aberdeen Education Authority on 7th September, and on the motion of the Convener (Rev. Professor Pittendrigh), it was agreed to recommend that the Authority express to the donor their acceptance of the gift, and their very grateful appreciation of his generosity and interest in the Grammar School. It was also agreed to appoint a sub-committee to consider proposals for applying most appropriately the donation for the benefit of the School, and to report.

The name " Joan : Watters " appears in the Catalogus Publicus Scholee Grammaticce Aberdonensis (1795-1863) among the " Extranei " of " Quinta Classis " under the date "October 1850."

In a letter to the Editor of the Magazine Lieut.-Colonel Waters, who joined the Indian Medical Service as far back as 1869 and retired in 1901, says : " It was, I think, at the Aberdeen Grammar School that my brother John began to write his name with two ts. A master at the School told him that there should be two t s. We the young ones at home followed suit, though none of our relations adopted that orthography. On seeing my birth certificate, which had to be sent to the India Office before I was allowed to compete for a commission in the Indian Medical Service, with my name spelt with one t only, I saw that that must be correct, and at once dropped the second t.

"The Waters were among the Saxon English, hailing originally from Holstein in Southern Denmark, where they were called Walders or Wulders, and this, by Grimm's Law, became Walters. This some of the Walders adopted, but it was in the remote past: some wrote Walters and others Waters, while in confusion some wrote two ts instead of It. Thus Waters and Walters are of the same significance With varied orthography."

Colonel Waters has kindly supplied the photograph of his brother which is reproduced opposite this page.

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Bank Anti-Hold-up Devices in the States.

RODERICK FRASER THOMSON (1905-08), who is the Auditor of the Commonwealth-Federal Savings Bank, Hammond Building, Detroit, Michigan, in a letter recently received by the Editor, says :— Since I offered to write an article for the School Magazine, several things have combined to hinder me from getting started.

The Bank of which I am the Auditor combined with another of about the same size in June, and since then we have been kept very busy getting things co-ordinated. A new system of figuring our earnings which had already been installed in the other bank had tib be put in, and this necessitated several changes in our system, both in the Auditing and Operating Departments. This has kept me busy during the day, so that it was impossible to get anything done then.

Our hours are rather different from what I was accustomed to in the North Bank, Aberdeen, under Mr. D. M. CHRYSTALL [1888-90]. If I remember rightly, we used to get on the job around 9.30 a.m., and finish up about 4.30 p.m. Here we get to work and punch the clock (from the President down) at 8.30 a.m., and finish up any time between 4.30 and 6 p.m.

As Ferndale (where I live) is nine miles from the Detroit City Hall, it is nearly 7 p.m. when I get home, and by the time dinner is over and I've got settled down for the evening, I haven't felt very much like writing.

To add to the stress under which we are working, a new bank building is being erected across the street from our institution, which is going to be forty-seven stories high.

The steel work is being erected, and it is impossible to have the windows open on account of the racket of the riveters.

These fellows seem to have as many lives as a cat, and they go on working hanging on by an eyebrow. On Saturday we had a little excitement, as a large pin flew across the street and through one of our plate-glass windows, showering two of our officers with glass. Fortunately it was not a red-hot rivet, and no other damage was done. I have heard it said that the efficiency in the surrounding offices has been decreased 50 per cent. on account of the noise and the distraction caused by watching the fellow who heats the rivets throw one three or four stories to the catcher, who receives it in a can, shaped somewhat like a megaphone. Occasionally the latter misses one, and it shoots down through the building till it lands on something solid.

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spinning a yarn when I tell them that we had no protection at all in Aberdeen ; that gold and silver were piled up on the counter so that a man with a fairly long reach would have had little difficulty in removing some, if he took a real fancy to it.

In Canada the tellers' cages are surrounded either with wire or glass, but on account of the difference in law observance, bank hold-ups are not quite so popular as they are here.

It is rather hard to give you an adequate reason for the necessity of our precautions here. To do so I must give you a rough idea of the mixed population in Detroit. I suppose there is a representative here of every race, with whole sections made up of Poles, Jews, Russians, Armenians, Negroes, etc., etc. Naturally, some of these people have their own ideas of law and the value of life. Then, being on the bank of that river said to be the only one in the world which is dry on one side and wet on the other, we have more than our share of bootleggers and their like. In addition to this, good roads and the general use of the automobile make a " get-away " easy. Of course, it is usually the car of some peaceful citizen which is used, and there is no difficulty in picking up another when the gas gets low, or in forcing the attendant at a filling station to replenish the supply at the point of a gun.

It has been made necessary to protect both our cash and the lives of our employees with every device possible.

Our branches are equipped with bullet-proof glass above the counters to a height of about eight feet, above that there is bullet-proof steel, and over that, to the ceiling, wire mesh.

As some of our staff were sceptical of the resistance of the glass, a demonstration was made at Police Headquarters, and the result showed that it would take more than six shots fired at a range of less than twenty feet to do more than splinter the glass. No bullet went through the glass.

A speaking tube is in the window in front of the teller, through which he converses with customers. The glass comes down flush with the counter, and a tray or scoop is under that, through which money is deposited or withdrawn. This opening is so constructed that the average man would have difficulty in getting his closed fist through, and it is impossible to get a hand through holding a gun, with the exception of a 25 automatic (a gun not at all favoured by gunmen on account of its unreliability). Even if it were possible to get a gun in, it would be impossible to aim, and the bullet would be deflected to the ceiling.

The tops of the cages are protected with the bullet-proof wire mesh, which is quite effective. This protection is also used on rear windows. The doors leading to the back of the office are of bullet-proof steel, and the cages under the counter are lined in this manner.

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In addition to this, buttons are placed in certain places, whith ring an alarm at Police Headquarters and also release tear gas, which fills the vestibule of the office. The employees have gas masks of the army type. This gas has been released occasionally by mistake, and it has proved its effectiveness by keeping customers out for a few hours.

The bank is a veritable fort, so that when the staff arrive in the morning, they can lock themselves in and keep off a small army.

The hold-up men, however, have other ideas of getting into the bank vaults than by a frontal attack. We had a case where one of our managers arrived in the morning and entered the bank to find that two thugs had followed his teller and ledger-keeper as they came in, stored them safely away, and waited patiently for him to open up the vault. To overcome such incidents we have a system of informing the main office of the whereabouts of our staff which it might be imprudent for me to divulge, but so far it has been most effective.

From this you will gather that in the banking world here we have to indulge in the arts of war, ever remembering the maxim that the price of safety is eternal vigilance.

Portraits for the School Hall.

Through the kindness of Rev. GEORGE STANLEY RUSSELL (1894-1901), M.A., Minister of Grafton Square Congregational Church, Clapham, London, a fine enlarged portrait of James Moir, M.A., LL.D., D.Litt., who was Rector of the School from 1881 to 1893, and Co-Rector from 1893 to 1899, has just been added to the collection of portraits in the Hall.

Mr. Russell spent his summer holiday this year on Deeside and seized the opportunity, when passing through Aberdeen, to visit the School. He was grieved to find that there was no portrait in the Hall of his old teacher and friend, and offered at once to supply the deficiency.

Through the good services of another Former Pupil— WILLIAM DOUGLAS SIMPSON, M.A., D.Litt.—two portraits (framed together) of another Rector of the School, Sir William Duguid Geddes, M.A., LL.D., Litt.D., have also been hung in the Hall. Sir William was, when a young man, appointed an Under Master at the School in February, 1848, and in August, 1853, was appointed Master (or Rector) in place of James Melvin, LL.D., deceased. He continued Rector until the autumn of 1855, when he was appointed to the chair of Greek in the University and King's College of Aberdeen.

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With the biting Boreas and its freezing forces at work, benumbing our senses and chilling our fingers, and with the Christmas examinations looming ahead, we are inclined to take rather a pessimistic view of life. But on looking over some of the School's past activities, and on looking forward to the future, we brighten up and think it only right to try and brighten others up. * * * To dispel the gloomy thoughts of winter, recall by imagination the glorious sunny days of June. In that month the Annual Athletic Sports took place under the most favourable weather conditions, when the Athletic Champion of the School proved to he T. H. Murdoch. * * * After a very keenly-contested struggle with Melvin House, Byron House emerged the winners of the House trophy, which was presented to the House Captain, A. M. Scrimgeour, at the Annual Distribution of Prizes on 30th June. This session the struggle for supremacy between the Houses is going to be even more strenuous, and the House that is to be victorious will have to prove its worth. * * * appeared, the School Magazine Since the last issue of the has had to say farewell to one of its masters, Mr. Wilson.

In connection with the Dramatic Society, as well as in other departments of School life, Mr. Wilson showed himself to be a tireless worker. We wish him all success in his new sphere. * * * To fill vacancies in the Mathematical and French Departments, four appointments have been made. Mr. I. M. Park, B.Sc., and Mr. C. Maclver, M.A., (a Former Pupil of the School) are the mathematical teachers, while T. W. Himsworth, M.A., and Mons. Georges Vedier (who succeeds Mons. Andre Christol) have come to the French department. Along with Miss Cassels, who succeeds Miss E. I. R. Alexander in the Lower School, we welcome all these teachers to the staff, and desire that they may long remain to impart their knowledge to the pupils of the Grammar School. * * * What is, perhaps, becoming one of the School's annual

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events, is the holiday given when the School proves its merit by taking the first place in the University Arts Bursary Competition. This year we again have the pleasure of showering our congratulations on William A. B. Hamilton for repeating his performance of last year in gaining the first place. For the past five years the School has had this holiday, and it is already looking forward to next year's one. But it will have to look to its laurels, for we believe that Gordon's College is going to make a big effort to gain the first place. Is there any hidden genius in Classical or Modern VI (or Classical or Modern V) who will bring distinction to the School once more ? * * * When the New South Wales team came to play the North of Scotland at Aberdeen, the Secondary Schools were granted a half-holiday so that they could watch the match. The game was all the more interesting to the School as two Former Pupils were playing for the North—J. C. Wishart and D. S. Cochran. It was a fine game, especially in the second half, and the North did extremely well to be defeated only by five or six points. The standard of play at Rubislaw should certainly improve after such a fine exhibition. * * * Two splendid gifts have recently been made to the School, one in kind and the other in cash. The first is the clock which has been presented by the Former Pupils of Shanghai, and the second is the munificent sum of £500 given by Colonel Waters.

What is to be done with the £500 has yet to be decided. The " Shanghai Clock," as it is called, has now been installed, after a long delay due to a mishap on the railway journey.

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With its sprung maple floor and its mechanical appliances for raising and lowering the beams, the new Gymnasium, which has been erected at the west end of the School, in line with the old Pavilion, affords ample scope for developing the gymnastic powers of the School. Through the half-opened windows one can hear the sound of many cheery voices, the stamping and running of many feet, and the dull thud of some unlucky body meeting the floor, as the youthful gymnasts show off their powers to their class-fellows. The Gymnasium is wide and airy, and as it is provided with all the needful apparatus, the classes enjoy the period of relief from Latin verbs and mathematical problems, and can practise their gymnastic " stunts " with much more comfort than they could in the old Gym. in the Westfield building. * * * Where is the old Gym. ? With true Aberdonian instinct the Authority has converted it into three classrooms, in order

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to provide better accommodation for such classes as used to suffer from a " bad housing scheme." * * * This year's Prefects are extremely fortunate in having a room for their own use. The " Prefect's Room " serves two purposes. Inside its sacred portal a kind of " study-circle " meets frequently to discuss literary matters of pressing importance. But that same " sacred portal " on the outside is the object of " fly-kicking " from the junior members of the School—much to the annoyance of the learned ones within, and greatly to the detriment of the door. We express the hope that this form of Rugby will be restricted to the proper quarter, namely Rubislaw Field. * * * It is always with great eagerness and delight that the School looks forward to addresses at " prayers." " Why," we ask, " this incredible zeal for speeches ? " Perhaps we had better not pry into matters that do not concern us. The School, however, has already this session had the great pleasure of listening to a very interesting and instructive talk on the " League of Nations " by Mr. Harris. In order to keep the interest of the younger generation, Mr. Harris told a thrilling smuggling story in connection with the League, and told it in a particularly vivid manner. Altogether his address was well worth listening to and thinking over. The School, we feel sure, would jump at the chance of another such address—on condition it lasts twenty minutes. * * * After its most successful work of last session, the School Orchestra, under the able leadership of Mr. Mackenzie Forbes, is expected to do great things. Ad altiora tendo is the Central School motto, and we commend this excellent aspiration to the Orchestral Society. This year the President's chair is filled by Horace Walker, while Patrick Burr holds the office of Vice-President. We believe that there are some vacancies in the orchestra, and anyone who can play any instrument, excluding the gramophone and the " submarine," will he made heartily welcome. * * * This season the weather was so rainy that very few successful excursions of the Art Club were possible. The only really good Saturday was spent far afield, at Stonehaven. The sketches reproduced in this issue of the Magazine are, therefore, mainly the work of members during the summer vacation.

The membership of the Club is small, but what is lacking in numbers is made up for by enthusiasm. * * * The Literary and Debating Society, with Mr. Murison kindly acting as chairman, held a general meeting on Friday,

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23rd September, to elect office-bearers for the session. Ian F. Begg was elected President, and, with the help of A. B. Donald, Secretary, he has drawn up a very attractive syllabus, which provides a great variety of lectures and debates. * * * The first meeting of the Society was held on 27th October, when the Annual Masters' Debate took place. Mr. Eddison and Mr. Farquharson were the speakers on the subject—" Which gives the greater pleasure—the drama or the novel ? " The following week Mr. Munson gave a very interesting lecture to the Society on " The Adventurous Life of George Borrow."

A fuller account of these meetings will be found elsewhere. * * * Compared with last year's record membership of 97, this year's membership (so far) numbers only 50 odd. In order to make the Society the success it ought to be, everyone in the Middle and Upper Schools who possibly can ought to join the Society. As a School Society it ought to be supported by the School—and not by the Committee ! Those who wish to join should communicate with the Secretary, A. B. Donald. * * * Both the Junior andythe Senior Sections of the School Dramatic Society, under Mr. Farquharson and Mr. Eddison, have been hard at work since October. The Society intends to produce four one-act plays in the School Hall on Thursday, 15th December, at 7.30 p.m. The plays to be performed are " Laying a Ghost," "The Rehearsal," "The Poetasters of Ispahan," and " X =O." The School Orchestra, under Mr. Mackenzie Forbes, will assist. We feel sure that the School will enthusiastically support the Dramatic Society by turning out in large numbers to what is sure to be a most enjoyable entertainment.

The School Museum.

It is hoped that there will be in the next issue of the Magazine a few notes dealing with recent additions to the School Museum. Meantime mention must be made of several very welcome gifts. By a Former Pupil, Mr. Scott, Carden Place, a stuffed jaguar, a delightful specimen, has been presented; and by Miss Sutherland, a mistress in the Infant Department, two porcupine fishes. Mr. G. F. Rose, Calcutta, who in the past has been so munificent in his presentations to the Museum, has gifted a further collection of Indian butterflies. A large quantity of Indian moths, all named and classified, has also been presented recently by Mr. James Florence, Kievcote, Coonoor, South India. Two emu's eggs have come from Mr. D. M. Bisset, Western Australia. To all these donors the School is very deeply grateful and tenders its thanks.

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Random Notes.

One morning at the beginning of the term, after announcing that a new clock had been presented to the School, the Rector said that when the clock was put in its proper place in the tower, boys would have no excuse whatsoever for being late.

Might we venture to remark that we think it extremely improbable that everybody would be in time, even if an alarm clock were presented to each persistent late-corner ? * * * are not kind-hearted Masters our that say who The critics should be silenced by the following :—Last session it was stated in the report of a certain boy that he was 22nd in Divinity, and, although there were only twenty-one boys in his class, his progress was declared to be satisfactory. * * * even the gloom of the pierces A ray of light occasionally French class. A short time ago a youth translated Trop de pudeur [modesty] est sans doute un (Wiwi, as " Too much powder is indeed a fault." We take it that the youth in question has suffered the inconvenience occasioned by the indiscriminate use of this feminine commodity. * * * It was stated by someone in a recent discussion at the Debating Society that " the child in his play merely imitates unintelligent people." The parents of the " child " who said this would have been less amused at the remark than the audience was. * * * It has been suggested in official (?) circles that, since the Masters have not recently been very successful in their games against the boys, they should strike out in another line of sport. The game under consideration is " tug-of-war." We admit that if the Masters persuaded the janitor to act the part of " anchor," the Masters' team would indeed be formidable. ' * * * Many boys in the Middle School will be astonished to learn that the wire receptacles in the corridors are meant to hold waste paper. They are chiefly used at present for holding the books of those who wish to have two hands free in order to pursue with greater success their pugilistic encounters. We believe that unless the corridors are kept much tidier than they are at present, the School will be boycotted by the " School Cleaners' Union." * * * A youth in the Fifth Classical. reading Cicero, thought he

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had discovered a new Highland clan when he came across the name Manius Glahrio in the form M`Glabrioni. * * * Mud baths are now being supplied at the Field every Wednesday afternoon, free of charge. These baths take the place of the old-fashioned Rugby football. Since beauty specialists tell us that mud is good for the complexion, it is then quite obvious why Grammarians are becoming so handsome. * * * What one might call an outstanding feature in the School grounds is the imposing statue of the poet Byron. But there are several questions we should like to ask concerning this same gentleman.

First of all : " Did Byron ever use a pen-wiper ? " If he did, why has he not one handy on his statue ? If he did not possess one, will no one give him a Christmas present of a pen-wiper ? For, if he is like most schoolboys, the inside corners of his " toga " must he black with the ink of several years.

In the second place we ask : " When is Byron going to have his first wash in five years ? " The School has a horror of dirty boys, and it is a disgrace that an unwashed F.Y. should stand in front of its main entrance. * * * YOUTH AND AGE. [The Poetical muse has been stirring the heart of someone in Classical V, with the result that he has penned his lyrical emotions for the Magazine. The subject chosen may seem somewhat sentimental, but we would impress on our readers that it is a scathing satire against some of the modern activities of the young— and also the old.—EDIToR.]

O'er the green earth, while Delia lightly trips, Will Damon sigh and hang upon her lips.

He finds in love alone the utmost truth, And loves and dreams away his careless youth, Twines flowery verses, wreaths from every spray, And woos his lass with light and lyric lay ; Or, if he's up-to-date, he quashes fancies, Seeks truth in Tango steps and Negro dances, Portrays with true and realistic passion The power of love according to the fashion.

Lo ! Lady Delia, with consummate grace, With half-perspiring and half-painted face, Kicks, flings, and hops, in wild contorted shape, Jigs from the Congo, waltzes from the Cape ; Glides, glances, wriggles, murmurs, ogles, charms, Caressed and patted in her partner's arms.

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Her dusky sister's folly all her care, She doffs her petticoats and docks her hair.

Sir Damon blunders by with sheepish grin, Turns to admire--and hacks her on the shin.

Breathless apologies—a female shriek— My lady's dancing's over for a week.

Anon appears the greying pall of age, The fatuous lover is the foolish sage.

No more for him the shepherd's piping flute, The gay guitar, the courtier's lisping lute.

He grows a beard and struts in Wisdom's guise, Quotes Plato and appears profoundly wise ; A madder, mother conceit to try, He seeks the motliest—philosophy.

Death comes. Whatever Kings or Commons crave, The first, the last, at best is but the grave.

A. R. M. SONNET TO SHAKESPEARE. Clear wit, bright mirth, tragedy, pure love, Flowed in sweet numbers from that living pen ; Descended earthwards, scaled the heavens above, Shakespeare, creator, very god 'mongst men.

He, only he, as man for man, could sing Wisdom, wisdom hidden in the arms of mirth, And mingled by the muse words clamouring T o live are held in sway, while he on earth Seizes from heaven the living vine, and gives It luscious, sweet to man. Shakespeare is dead ; But in immortal words his spirit lives, And still he leads, as long ago he led.

Alone Shakespeare, bright star, with mortal eyne, Life in its truth, God in His power, has seen.

I. F. BEGG. FALLEN LEAVES. Scurrying over the cobbles, Chattering as they go, Whispering, now weary, Rushing to and fro, The leaves, dry, wasted, withered, Wander the lone, cold street ; Once flushed in the pride of splendour, Now trodden under our feet.

Men all wandering lonely, Like leaves by the wind's cold breath, See splendour, see triumph, see glory, Then withered—see death.

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School Rugby Football.

Prospects for this season were quite bright, as we had six of last year's caps and two colours back. Of these, however, G. W. Bowes will not play until next year owing to a recent illness. In the remainder we have been very unfortunate, for, owing to an unprecedented number of injuries, we have never played with a full side, only two of last year's side having played in every game. Our greatest difficulty was in finding a scrum half, and although seven games have been played, results in this part are not satisfactory. In contrast to last year we have also a light pack, which, owing to injuries, has never settled down, but we hope that the return of J. R. S. Third, after an absence of three weeks, will hold them together and give our backs a fair chance. The full back position has been ably filled by A. A. N. Bath, one of last year's 2nd XV forwards. Up to the present School have played eight games, of which two have been lost and six won.

10th September. School v. Scratch XV of Public Schools, at Rubislaw.—School lost the toss and were made to play against the wind.

The Public Schools had heavy forwards, who easily pushed the light School pack, which consisted of seven men for the greater part of the game, and obtained the ball frequently from scrums and always from line-outs. The School backs, however, were superior to their opponents, and scored three tries in the first half—one being converted by J. Hay. In the second half the forwards seldom procured the ball in scrums, with the result that only one try was added. Scorers—McPherson, 3 ; Stephen, 1. Score—School, 14 points ; Public Schools, 0.

17th September. School v. A.G.S.F.P.s, at Rubislaw.—School played with the sun behind them in the first half, and gave a good account of themselves, especially the forwards, who occasionally held the weightier F.P. pack. For the first fifteen minutes School easily held their opponents, but weight soon told, and two tries and a goal were scored before half-time. In the second half F.P.s scored frequently, while McPherson scored an unconverted try for School. In this game the School forwards played very well, while A. N. Smith, although in a light pack, hooked excellently. Scores- School, 3 ; F.P.s, 32.

24th September. School v. Bankers, at Rubislaw.—In this, the School's first League game, a brilliant start was made, the School backs having a very fine run in the first minute, which ended in Stephen scoring between the posts. After this, however, the School failed to impress, their play being very scrappy. In the second half McPherson, who had been tried at centre, was changed to outside three again, but the School backs continued to handle badly, and run across the field, Stephen and Saunders alone showing usual form. The forwards heeled slowly against a heavier pack, but quickened up in the second half.

Booth kicked very well, converting five out of six tries, and also played a very sound all-round game. Scorers—McPherson, 2 ; Stephen, 2 ; Saunders and Donald, 1 each. Scores—School, 28 ; Bankers, 3.

1st October. School v. Gordonians.—In this game School were unfortunate in being without their hooker, A. N. Smith. The game started quietly, play going from end to end of the field. After about fifteen minutes' play, however, Gordonians scored an unconverted try. Shortly afterwards J. Hay kicked a very fine penalty goal, which left the scores level at half time. On resuming, Gordonians scored immediately, owing to bad marking and tackling on the part of the School backs.

At this point the School play was vastly improved, the forwards holding and pushing a heavier pack, and after a loose rush, Hay scored at the corner, and converted with a very fine kick. After this, School were mostly on the offensive, Stephen scoring an unconverted try far out.

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the backs had a very fine run, which ended in McPherson scoring.

The School played quite well, except at the beginning of the game, when the marking of the centres was poor, while Gordonians were unfortunate in having to finish the game with only thirteen players.

Scorers—Hay, 1 try and 1 penalty goal ; Stephen and McPherson, 1 each. Scores—School, 14 ; Gordonians, 6.

8th October. School v. Strathallan, at Rubislaw.—The School played with both wind and sun behind them in the first half, but failed to make much headway. The first score was from a scrum in the Strathallan line, when Hay broke away and scored an unconverted try. The play of the School forwards was very disappointing, the Strathallan pack obtaining the ball from scrums and line-outs with almost unfailing regularity, owing to the bad scrumming of the School pack. The School backs had only three opportunities of runs, from which two scores and almost a third resulted. Both were converted by Hay. Just on half time McPherson scored from a loose rush, and Hay made a creditable but fruitless effort with his kick, thus leaving School with a clear lead of 16 points at half time. On resuming, Strathallan pressed and were able to give the backs many opportunities, and after about ten minutes' play a goal was dropped, and shortly afterwards an unconverted try scored. Towards the end of the game School scored two good but lucky tries owing to break-throughs by Saunders, who ran half the length of the field to score the first, and after another brilliant individual effort gave the chance to Hay to score the second far out.

Hay converted the first, and just failed with the second. In the last five minutes a break-through by a Strathallan wing three-quarter gave them five points. Play throughout was very scrappy, the School backs being responsible for their side's victory ; while the Strathallan backs were too prone to run across and bunch their wings into touch.

The play of the School forwards was very disappointing, while of the backs, Sloan had to be moved to outside three-quarter owing to a bad heel. A. A. N. Bain was very sound at full back. Scorers—McPherson, 2; Hay, 2; Saunders and Donald, 1 each. Scores- School, 24 ; Strathallan, 12.

15th October. School v. Black Watch, at Rubislaw.—In this game School were unfortunate in being without their full back, A. A. N. Bain, and the loss was soon apparent when the game began, Hay, who took his place, being out of position on several occasions. The School pack showed considerable improvement, and although pushing against a very heavy pack, obtained the ball on several occasions. The Black Watch were much superior at half, and by the end of the first half had established a lead of 14 points, School being unlucky in not scoring on two occasions. In the second half the play was very even, although the Black Watch added 6 points. The best forward on the field was T. G. Rennie of the Black Watch, who was the originator of most of his side's scores. The School played quite well, but were greatly outweighted and were rather slow in heeling the ball. Scores—School, 0 ; Black Watch, 20.

22nd October. School v. Glenalmond.—Match off.

28th October. School v. Gordon's College, at Rubislaw.—School won the toss and elected to play with a strong wind behind them, on a fairly heavy pitch, with a dry ball. Play at first was in midfield, but Scores came freSchool, without much difficulty, dominated play. quently from McPherson (4), Stephen (2), and Donald (1), while of these Booth converted three. The School, although very poorly represented forward, were superior throughout, but were troubled by the continual offside of their opponents. Result-School, 27 ; Gordon's College, 3.

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their opponents in their own half of the field, but although the forwards were obtaining about 80 per cent. of the ball, the School backs failed to get going. After about 15 minutes' play, however, a run in which all the backs handled allowed McPherson to score far out, and Booth almost converted with a fine kick. Play was becoming very scrappy, and just on half time a goal was dropped, giving School a clear lead of 7 points—a not too sure position when playing with a strong wind.

Soon after resuming, the 'Varsity scrum half broke away to score an unconverted try, and shortly afterwards another try was scored, but although the attempt at goal was successful, it was disallowed owing to the kicker handling the ball after it had been placed on the ground.

Towards the end of the game a passing run by the School backs allowed McPherson to score a good try after beating several opponents. The School were still without Saunders and Stephen, whose places were taken by Cruickshank and Gray, while Third and Bowes were still off.

Scores—School, 10 ; 2nd 'Varsity, 6. Scorers—McPherson, 2 ; Donald, 1 dropped goal.

12th November. School v. Dundee High School.—Match off.

School 2nd XV. 24th September.-2nd School played their opening match against 2nd Bankers, at St. Machar. Result—School, 6 ; Bankers, 11.

1st October.-2nd School again played 2nd Bankers, this time at Rubislaw. For this match 2nd School had almost a full team, and amply avenged their first defeat. Result—School, 10 ; Bankers, 0.

8th October.-2nd School travelled to Strathallan, where, after a hard struggle, they were defeated by 12 points to 3. Strathallan scored one goal, one try, and one drop kick. School made many fierce attacks, but their only success was a try scored by A. Gray. Result—School, 3 ; Strathallan, 12 points.

15th October.-2nd School played 2nd 'Varsity, and the School team being very much under strength was easily defeated. Result— School, 3 points ; 'Varsity, 26 points.

22nd October.-2nd School were unable to play 2nd Gordon's College owing to the ground being unfit for play.

29th October.-2nd School travelled to Inverness to play 1st Inverness Royal Academy. The School played a very hard game, during which A. Gray scored a brilliant try for School, while Inverness scored a try and converted a free kick.

2nd School was very unlucky in losing this game, as on several occasions they crossed their opponents' line.

Two free kicks were also narrowly missed, and the School team attacked during the greater part of the game. Result—Inverness, 6 points ; School, 3 points.

The School Literary and Debating Society.

This year, as might be expected after the record membership last year, the Society is much smaller.

At the Annual General Meeting, held on 23rd September, with Mr. Munson in the chair, the following were appointed as acting officials for the coming session :—President, I. F. Begg ; Vice-Presidents, J. B. Cameron, G. W. Bowes, I. F. Booth ; Secretary and Treasurer, A. B. Donald ; Members of Committee, J. S. Dunnett, J. S. Stephen, H. Walker, and A. D. Morgan.

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drama was held between Mr. Eddison, who took the side of the novel, and Mr. Farquharson, who spoke on behalf of the drama.

Mr. Eddison opened the debate, and after various witty remarks, showed by a graphic description of a night at the theatre how tiring, He next how boring, and how utterly unenjoyable the drama was. drew a word picture of the novel-reader at his fireside, with all the comforts of life around him. Mr. Eddison then went on to enumerate the good points of the novel, and after a very able paper concluded with a few well-chosen remarks.

Mr. Farquharson then opened his side of the debate with a few humorous observations, and pointed out how much older the drama was as compared with the novel, which is merely a paltry two centuries old. With a quotation from Aristotle he endeavoured to impress the point, how the instinct of imitation is a delight to everyone. After a very sound paper he discussed the conditions, the company, the worldwideness of characters and incidents, dialogue, etc., of the drama, and how all these gave pleasure, while the novel could not give half so much or such good variety. The debate was then thrown open, but speaking was slow. Thereafter both speakers summed up, both " summings-up being witty and humorous, and when a vote was taken, it was found that the novel was more popular by three votes.

3rd November.—On this evening the Society was given a lecture by the Hon. President, Mr. Munson, on " The Adventurous Life of George Borrow." Mr. Munson began by telling the Society of Borrow's early life, especially the time spent at the Royal High School, and described many " bickers " (small fights between rival sections of the Town) which made the riots of the General Strike seem tame. One description was especially interesting—as our hero was just about to be hit over the head with a chair-leg by one of the " Auld Tooners " when " Wild Davie " rushed in with the spoke of a cart-wheel and put the " Auld Toon " to flight. Mr. Munson then told us how Borrow ended his schooldays.

Borrow was severely flogged and suffered such physical pain that he lay in bed for a fortnight and refused to go to school again. Before his journey to Spain, Borrow spent an adventurous time in England, waging a feud with a " tinker," whom he ultimately thrashed. But once in Spain, said Mr. Munson, we come to one of the most curious parts of Borrow's life, for he was an unofficial distributor of Bibles—a curious occupation for a man who never turned his other cheek, and whose greatest maxim when attacked was, " Say ' Lord preserve us,' and hit out with your right hand." On concluding a very interesting lecture, the President, Mr. Begg, said the greatest compliment the Society could pay Mr. Munson would be to go home and beg, borrow, or steal a volume of Borrow, and after the uproar had subsided Mr. Munson received a hearty vote of thanks.

Syllabus for Session 1927-28.

1927.

Oct. 27.—Masters' Debate—" The Novel or the Drama: which, provides the greater pleasure ? " Former—J. S. M. Eddison, Esq., M.A. Latter—G. W. J. Farquharson, Esq., M.A. Nov. 3.—Lecture—" The Adventurous Life of George Borrow."

W. Munson, Esq., M.A. „ 10.—Debate. „ 17.—Lecture—G. Middleton, Esq., M.A., D.Litt.

24.—Lecture—" Rugby Reminiscences." W. Mackay, Esq. Dec. 1.—Lecture—" Walter Greenway, Spy." Rev. J. M. Ballard, M.A. , 8.—Lantern Lecture—G. M. Fraser, Esq. „ 15.—Debate.

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Jan. 12.—Debate.

20.—Inter-Debate with Girls' High School. „ „ 26.—Lantern Lecture—" The Land of the Pharoahs." Professor Findlay, D.D. 2.—Lantern Lecture—" The Story of Dunnottar." W. D. Feb. Simpson, Esq., M.A., D.Litt.

9.—Debate.

16.—Debate.

23.—Lantern Lecture—" From Trail to Trail." G. Cameron, t, Esq., M.A. March 1.—Debate. „ 8.—Debate.

15.—Musical Evening—J. Mackenzie Forbes, Esq., M.A. „

Scout Notes.

All who are interested in the School Scouts will be glad to know that Mr. Paterson has been appointed District Scoutmaster. This position became vacant when Mr. Hyslop left for Manchester three years ago, and had never been filled. It was felt, however, that some official chief was needed to act as link between the Scoutmasters and the Rector, and to represent the Grammar School Troops on the Scout Executive Committee. All agreed that Mr. Paterson was the man for the post. Since Mr. Paterson became a member of the School staff he has taken a leading part in all branches of School life—scholastic, social, and athletic—and before he came to Aberdeen he was Scoutmaster at George Heriot's, in Edinburgh. His help has already proved of the greatest use to the Scout movement in the School.

While we welcome Mr. Paterson, we are sorry to have to say good-bye to four of our Scoutmasters.

Mr. Arthur G. Hutchison has had to leave the Ninth Troop, of which he has been Scoutmaster for four years, as he has been awarded a scholarship in geology at Cambridge. Mr. Hutchison knew scouting thoroughly, having passed through every rank from Wolf-cub to Scoutmaster. He combined complete technical knowledge with idealism and originality. Under his care the Troop has undoubtedly progressed and widened the scope of its activity. In geology Mr. Hutchison has been a brilliant student, and, we may add, his enthusiasm for that science was first kindled when he attended the Scouts' class for the Prospector's Badge. Mr. William J. A. Nelson succeeds him in the Ninth Troop.

Mr. Alfred W. Grafton also, we regret to say, has had to leave the Scoutmastership of the Thirty-eighth Troop owing to pressure of work.

Mr. Grafton came from the Ninth Troop to start the Thirty-eighth two years ago, so that he has carried over the methods and traditions of the old into the new Troop. To the technical proficiency which one expects from a scion of the Ninth, he added a power of leadership and a particular charm of personality. His humour and good nature were invaluable in his dealings both with his Scouts and with their parents ; for he understood the need for carrying the parents with him and winning their confidence and support.

His place was taken by Mr. Ian A. McDougall, but unfortunately Mr. McDougall's reign has been a very short one, as he has had to leave this country, being appointed to a post in Winnipeg. To Mr. McDougall, second only to Mr. Grafton, is due the successful launching and the present flourishing condition of the Thirty-eighth Troop. No Scout-

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master could have had a more loyal and energetic assistant than Mr. Grafton had in Mr. McDougall, especially during the last half year or so, when lack of leisure has obliged Mr. Grafton to entrust to Mr. McDougall more and more of the work of running the Troop. He goes to Canada, followed by the good wishes of all who knew him, leaving behind him the memory of one who is a stout fellow in every sense but the literal one. The new Scoutmaster of the Thirty-eighth is Mr. W. Russell Scott, who also comes from the Ninth, but has been assisting for some months with the Tenth (Shuttle Lane) Troop.

Finally, the First Troop also has lost a highly valued leader in Mr. Ninian B. Wright, who has been its Scoutmaster for the last three years.

During this period Mr. Wright has devoted an immense amount of time and trouble to the management of his Troop, the largest of the School Troops. The management of the Café Chantant, which we mention later on in these notes, was the last of his many services to the Troop.

Only those who have had experience of such an undertaking can judge how much hard work, care, and forethought it must have cost him.

And all his labours for the Troop have been equally tireless and ungrudging. In his hands the great reputation of this, the oldest and one of the largest Troops in the City, has been ably upheld and confirmed. His successor is Mr. James M. McLeod.

All four Troops, under new Scoutmasters or old, are flourishing like green bay trees. Last June the Seventeenth again won the Aberdeen County Flag, and the Ninth Pack of Wolf Cubs gained the Totem Pole.

At the Sports, the Norrie Athletic Shield was again carried off by the Ninth, and they took second place in the Swimming Sports.

When holidays dawned in July, the camping season dawned also.

The First this year camped by Loch Kinnord on a grassy stretch sprinkled with birch trees, close by the lochside. The weather was, considering the season, not bad : the midges' attacks were survived : Lochnagar was climbed. It was, moreover, a record camp for the passing of first and second-class tests.

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The Ninth's camp was among the woods almost overlooking the splendid artificial lake in the grounds of Pitfour House. There was boating as well as bathing in the lake, and the Scouts were allowed to cut down as many trees as they liked, for, alas I Pitfour House is dismantled, and the woods are sold for timber. In the old riding-school near the House a concert was held for the edification of the natives of the locality—a successful concert, for with the proceeds the Troop was able to make an expedition to Cruden Bay. The Seventeenth Troop returned this year to Belmuir Woods, Methlick, and occupied a kind of natural amphitheatre of sandy turf encircled by trees. At the foot of the slope flowed the Ythan, inviting to bathe. About thirty were present in camp, who concentrated on first-class work and did their first-class " hikes." Pioneering was also taken up and several huts were built. The Troop had the assistance of S.M. Hunter Will of the Twenty-fifth Troop, and A.S.M. Douglas Bruce of the Twenty-first. The Troop, also, owe a deep debt of gratitude to Mr. Shinnie, who once more lent the lorry in which they were taken to camp.

The Thirty-eighth encamped at Bucket Mill, Finzean, far away in the wilds of Feughside, hidden from the road by pine trees and entirely cut off from the outer world by the Feugh. The camp was most jolly in spite of thunderstorms, though one of these made the stream almost unfordable for a day. The Troop climbed Clochnaben and the neighbouring hills,

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Lower down the Feugh, at Blackness Farm, near Banchory, the First Wolf Cub Pack had their camp. There were fourteen Cubs under the charge of C. M. William Walker, and all of them enjoyed the camp, though, owing to one of the very heavy downpours that swept Deeside, the C.M. was obliged to return home a day sooner than he had intended.

The Ninth Pack held their camp beside that of the Ninth Troop, at Pitfour. C.M. Wallace Porter was in charge. The success of this camp was marred by no such misfortune. The Cubs were visited by S.M. the Rev. Hugh J. Lovibond of Old Deer, who was so much struck with the appearance of the Pack that he determined to start one of his own. On 29th October, at Mr. Lovibond's invitation, the Cubs went to give a demonstration and so assist in the starting of a Wolf Cub Pack in Old Deer.

Various small camps also were held during the holidays. Some members of the First went a walking tour in the Highlands. Several of the Seventeenth visited the " Chalet " at Braemar, and one party spent a very pleasant week there at the end of August.

Since School resumed, the Troops have been getting on with their winter's programmes. The Thirty-eighth were a little late in starting, for they had to wait till the new Gymnasium was ready. The Seventeenth are busy preparing for the Benmore Shield Competition in December. This competition is open to the holders of County Flags throughout all Scotland, and is the crown of a Scottish Troop's ambition. Good luck to the Seventeenth 1 P.L. Douglas Mackie, of this Troop, has gone off to Australia under the Scout Emigration Scheme.

The Ninth have now the assistance of A.S.M. Stevenson Buchan, from the Peterhead Troop, as instructor in first and second-class work.

But the most important recent event has been the First Troop's Caf€ Chantant, Dramatic Concert, and Dance, on 29th October.

The Café Chantant in the afternoon was very well attended; the Hall was full at the Concert, and so was the Gymnasium afterwards at the Dance. Sir Thomas Jaffrey, LL.D., opened the Café Chantant. Three plays were presented at the Concert—Lord Dunsany's " The Golden Doom," a Scout play called " Bill's Revenge," and F. Anstey's " Vice Versa," all ably produced by Mrs. Henry Davidson.

Of these plays the most ambitious was " The Golden Doom," a Babylonian phantasy, artistically staged, and acted with Oriental dignity. " Vice Versa," the old favourite, was presented with freshness and spirit. " Bill's Revenge," a realistic portrayal of everyday life in camp, when it did make a start, brought down the house. Between two of the plays a camp-fire Concert was given by members of the other three Troops. The Scout's camp-fire sing-song is developing into a new art.

The sum of £175 was raised. The Troop very heartily thanks the parents and friends for their assistance once more generously given. Such a success cannot be gained without hard work. For weeks the School has been made ill with toffee sold by the First Troop Scouts. Great efforts had also to be made in advertising. The School corridor was made gay with their posters. The press published photographs of scenes from the plays. But the first Troop is not the only one that understands the value of publicity. The photograph of the Court of Honour of the Thirty-eighth Troop lately appeared, in the course of a single week, not only in the Bon-Accord, but—such is fame —in the People's Journal as well.

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The Former Pupils' Club.

FOUNDED 1893.

tote0iDeilf : JOHN MALCOLM BULLOCH, M.A., LL.D. ViceoPresibent anb Cbatrtnati of Executive: ALEXANDER MCKENZIE JOHNSTON. Secretar2 ani) Creasurer : THEODORE WATT, M.A., The Rosemount Press, Aberdeen.

2Issistant Secretarr: DONALD A. DAVIDSON, B.L., 6 Golden Square, Aberdeen.

Secretaries of Sections: London Section--JOHN THOM, 51 Charterhouse Street, E.C. 1.

[This Section comprises, without additional subscription, all Members of the Club resident in London, and within a radius of 50 miles.]

Rugby Section—RICHARD IRVIN, 86 Queen's Road.

Hockey Section—DANIEL J. WALKER, 22 Rosebery Street.

Cricket Section—ALEx. J. ALLAN, Lilydale, Salisbury Place.

Tennis Section--G. E. S. HERVEY, Monteviot, Springfield Road, Mannofield.

Motor Section—C. G. BROWN, Westwood, Craigton Road.

Rates of Subscription for Membership : £5 5 0 . . . . . .

Membership Life Ordinary Membership-For those under 21 years of age at commence. 0 2 6 ment of Club year (1st January) 0 5 0 For those of 21 years of age and upwards .

Club Colours.

Members of the F.P. Club are reminded that the supplying of Club Colours has been placed by the Executive in the hands of a single firm and that Messrs. Esslemont & Macintosh, Ltd., Union Street, Aberdeen, are the sole official outfitters to the Club. The object of the Executive in appointing only one firm was, as previously stated, to try to prevent the sale of Club Colours to unauthorised persons. Members of the Club are, therefore, earnestly requested to deal only with the official outfitters, who have been supplied with a list of the members of the Club, and who take every precaution to prevent the Colours being sold to any but those who have the right to wear them.

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The Annual Club Dinner.

The Annual Dinner of the Club was held in the Palace Hotel, Aberdeen, on Saturday, 19th November, the Chairman being Dr. John Malcolm Bulloch, the President of the Club, and the guest of the evening being the Very Rev. Principal Sir George Adam Smith, M.A., D.D., LL.D., Litt.D., F.B.A. The Dinner was, with one special exception, the best attended in the annals of the Club, and the proceedings throughout were of a most enjoyable character, thanks very largely to the outstanding personality of the Chairman, who, supported by excellent speakers, kept the company keenly interested and in the greatest good humour.

The following is a list of the Members of the Club who were present, arranged in order of School seniority :— J. F. KELLAS JOHNSTONE, LL.D. (1857-59).

PETER BEVERIDGE (1865-70).

GEORGE PITTENDRIGH, M.A., D.D. (1872-76).

ROBERT K. SMITH (1877-83).

JAMES M. MUNRO (1880-84).

A. G. Nicol. SMITH, D.S.O. (1880-88).

HENRY ALEXANDER, M.A. (1881-91).

WILLIAM A. CAMERON (1882-87).

JAMES F. RossoN (1883-95).

EDWARD W. WATT, M.A. (1883-94).

FRANCIS W. MICHIE, M.A., H.M.I.S. (1885-91) JAMES W. MONRO (1885-93).

CHARLES J. DAVIDSON, M.A., B.L. (1886-91).

WILLIAM M. ALEXANDER, M.A., B.L. (1887-96).

WILLIAM J. CRUICKSHANK (1887-92).

JOHN A. DuNN (1889-97).

HARVEY G. FALCONER (1889-95).

THOMAS S. SLESSOR, M.A., M.B. (1889-94).

ALFRED SMITH (1889-96).

THEODORE WATT, M.A. (1889-1901).

SIMPSON SHEPHERD (1890-97).

JAMES C. LYON (1893-1900).

NORMAN J. J. WALKER, M.A., LL.B. (1893-1902).

WILLIAM G. CRAIGEN, M.A., LL.B. (1894-1902).

J. VASS LORIMER, O.B.E. (1894-1906).

J. MINTO ROBERTSON, M.A., Kemnay (1894-1901).

WILLIAM SHEPHERD (1894-1903).

D. RONALD MACDONALD (1895-1903).

JOHN A. Nicol., M.A., B.L. (1895-99).

ALEXANDER M. WATT (1895-1903).

GEORGE J. ALLAN (1897-1902).

JAMES C. DUFFUS, M.A., LL.B. (1897-1904).

ROBERT M. LEDINGHAM, M.A., LL.B. (1897-1909).

ROBERT M. MORGAN (1897-98).

WALTER A. REID (1897-1909).

ALEXANDER McK. JOHNSTON (1898-1903).

JAMES J. WILLIAMSON (1900-02).

JAMES H. M. GORDON, M.C. (1901-02).

WILLIAM M. LITTLEJOHN (1901-02).

W. DOUGLAS SIMPSON, M.A., D.Litt. (1901-13).

EDWARD B. REID, C.A. (1902-13).

RANALD ESSLEMONT (1903-13).

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GODFREY P. GEDDES, D.S.O., M.A. (1903-11).

ARTHUR R. HORNE (1903-05).

ALAN MCBAIN, M.A., C.A. (1903-14).

CHARLES G. KENNAWAY, M.A., B.Sc., C.A. (1904-16).

IAN MCBAIN, C.A. (1904-14).

GEORGE A. WILLIAM SON, B.L. (1904-12).

GEORGE ESSLEMONT (1905-15) .

JAMES LEITH (1905-17).

JOHN G. LORIMER (1905-14).

NORMAN J. WILSON, M.A., LL.B. (1905-15).

DOUGLAS P. COCHRAN (1906-15).

HERBERT J. EDWARDS, M.A., LL.B. (1906-17).

JOHN L. Firioxs (1906-16).

J. PATRICK JEFFREY (1906-18) .

R. BERTRAM WILLIAMSON, M.A., LL.B. (1906-18).

STEWART D. BEGG, Shanghai (1909-10).

DOUGLAS R. Tnomsox (1909-14).

JOHN K. SELLAR (1910-12).

CHARLES W. WILLIAMSON, B.A. (1910-17).

JOHN P. MITCHELL (1911-13).

JOHN H. LEITH (1912-23).

ROBERT J. MAITLAND (1912-18).

ERIC M. MUNRO (1912-23).

WILLIAM J. HUTCHEON (1914-23).

RICHARD IRVIN (1914-18).

Jowl M. YULE (1914-24).

GEORGE DUNCAN, M.A., Chairman of the Aberdeen Education Authority (Honorary Member).

JAMES DAWSON, D.S.O., M.A., Director of Education, Aberdeen (Honorary Member).

MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL STAFF.

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DAVID M. ANDREW, M.A., Rector.

WILLIAM DONALD, M.A. GEORGE W. J. FARQUHARSON, M.A., Ed.B. GEORGE E. HAY, M.A. (1895-1902).

WILLIAM M. HENRY, M.A. JAMES F. WALKER, M.A. (1902-14).

GUESTS OF MEMBERS. Messrs. James Allan, C. E. Beveridge, J. M. Davidson, A. G. Dingwall,

Henry Donald, D. S. P. Douglas, James Fiddes, J. Fraser Geddes, Robert Gellie, R. W. Gibbon, James L. Glegg, Professor Hendrick, Aberdeen University ; Messrs. H. L. Hill, J. M. Ironside, R. W. Johnston, James Johnstone, William M. Lamont, C. E. Lumsden, James A. Mackie, George MacPhee, L.D.S. ; Walter B. Menzies, B.A. ; Captain J. Miller ; Messrs. A. T. Morrison, Alex. Munson, Jack Reid, J. N. Reid, J. G. Ross, W. F. Sutherland, Alex. Thomson, William Veitch, Editor, Aberdeen Press and Journal ; J. L. Williams, and John S. Yule.

After the toast of " The King " had been given by the Chairman, the Secretary of the Club intimated several apologies, and read the following telegram, which was greeted with loud applause :—" From the Grammar School of England to the Grammar School of Scotland greetings of a loyal son.— Douglas Miller, Manchester."

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Dr. W. Douglas Simpson, in proposing the toast of " The School," said there were three things that caused the Grammar School to hold such a big place in the life of the city and far beyond—its great traditions, its progress on the material side, and the spirit within the School. Traditions, he said, were held too lightly in the world to-day. It was a world which lightly set aside the standards of the past, and was full of the noise of things breaking. In such a world, anything that had a past was a thing they should look to and conserve.

(Applause.) The past records of the School not only took a grip of the former pupils, and remained with them wherever they went, but they were also at work, every day and every hour, in the minds of the present pupils.

On the material side there were splendid buildings, new class-rooms and laboratories, the playing field, the pavilion, and the gymnasium. As for the spirit of the School, all were satisfied that it was as sound to-day as ever, under the present most capable Rector and staff. (Applause.)

The Rector, who replied to the toast, said that no young Grammarian could fail to be impressed by the fact that he stood in the line of a great succession. That was the secret of the splendid loyalty of which they had conspicuous manifestation in recent weeks. (Applause.) He gave the assurance, in no spirit of self-complacency, that the credit of the School never stood higher than it did to-day. Overflowing numbers, outstanding successes in scholarship, and growing prestige in the arena of sport were sufficient proof of this. (Applause.) " The Club."

After the usual interval, Dr. Bulloch made what was regarded as one of the best " hits " of the evening. " Alexander Bain," he said, " gives in his Grammar an instance of the present tense with a future meaning. It is ' Duncan comes here to-night.' Well, not only does Duncan come here to-night, Duncan is here to-night, and I now call upon him to propose the toast of ' The Club.' " Mr. George Duncan, Chairman of the Aberdeen Education Authority, said that the Former Pupils' Club was initiated by that great Rector of the School, Dr. Morland Simpson, and he never did a better day's work for the School than when he set the Club agoing. (Applause.) It had given the School a corporate unity which it had not previously possessed, and it now had " Consuls " in all parts of the world. It was a great thing for the Club that Dr. Bulloch had consented to act as its President. (Applause. )

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Dr. J. M. Bulloch's Speech.

Replying to the toast of " The Club," Dr. Bulloch said :— One of the great drawbacks of living in London is that we never see the sea. We see people feeding the gulls on the Thames Embankment, regarding them as symbols of the sea.

(Laughter.) And so, on my journeys up from London, whenever I see the sea at Stonehaven, I know that I am coming back to God's own country. (Applause.) I am a very poor traveller, and I can't sleep, even in a sleeper, and coming up last night I read two books—one entitled " Caledonia," by a man called Thomson, and the other entitled " Albyn," by a man called Grieve. They give a lamentable account of Scotland, both of them. But Thomson has decided, in his own mind, that whatever happens to the rest of Scotland through the inrush of Catholic Irishmen, Aberdeen is still Scotland.

I don't mind telling you that I spend a good deal of my life strengthening that position—that Aberdeen is still Scotland.

(Applause.)

When I get to Stonehaven, and see the marvellous sea, I stand in the corridor for the rest of the journey, and look through the misty window pane as we steam along the bleak, rock-bound coast, then through the rocky canyon of Tullos Hill and past Girdleness, to feast my eyes once again on the embosomed panorama with its spires and towers, as we circle gracefully into the Silver City.

That sensation never grows stale for me. If anything, it increases its fascination the older I get. But yesterday morning the sensation was more wonderful than ever, for I was going back not only to Bon-Accord but to Bon-Record.

(Applause.)

I have known the Grammar School since I was very young.

I was born in Osborne Place. There have been great changes since then. For instance, the Gilcomston Dam has disappeared and there is a culverted Den Burn-a miserable place into which no respectable " bandy " would now go. (Laughter and applause.) But the School remains, and since my day it has become greater than ever it was before. Yesterday you filled up a gap in the School by putting in the " Shanghai Clock." When I went to the Grammar School in 1877— twenty years after our dear old friend Dr. Kellas Johnstone, who I am glad is here to-night—(applause)—there was what I would call the Great Gap in the history of the School. That gap may be said to have stretched from the year 1855, when William Duguid Geddes resigned the Rectorship for the much more congenial chair of Greek in the Aulton, to the year 1881, when Dr. Moir arrived on the scene. In that gap, extending over 26 years, there were no fewer than three regular Rectors, and three temporary ones. One was Thomas Waller Some-

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thing Evans—(laughter)—a man with a most resounding name, but who was familiarly known as " Paddy " Evans.

(Laughter.) Why he came here I have never been able to discover, and where he went to, even Dr. Douglas Simpson or Mr. G. M. Fraser would find it difficult to discover. (Laughter.) The other Rectors had little more personality than Evans.

The truth, of course, is this—that the Great Gap was created, not so much by the lack of competent Rectors, as because the School had to face a new demand in the way of education, and it was not ready for the transformation. True, it put on a new skin by moving in 1863 to the present buildings, but it did not put on a new soul, and I doubt whether Melvin or Geddes, great as they were, would have been able to meet the new calls.

The consequence was that other schools had sprung up in opposition to the Grammar. Not only were there private schools, but a new idea of education, co-ordinated under the State and a local authority, was beginning to take the field.

The private schools had the immense advantage of being conducted by men of outstanding personality. There was Billy Dey at the well-named Old Barn; there was the Gym., under " Guvvy " Anderson, a powerful character : and there was Gordon's Hospital, which was to blossom out under the potent influence of Dr. Ogilvie.

But for the fact that the Grammar School was a very old institution, it might not have come out of the trough of the sea in which it was labouring heavily when I joined it.

The influence of age and tradition is of inestimable value to any institution, helping it to survive the temporary mistakes in management which come to the best organizations. The Grammar School is an admirable example of the ability of an institution with roots deep in history to go on living—in striking contrast to an activity which is dependent on the personality of its conductor at any particular time. The Grammar in my day, and for long before that, had hardly any personality at all.

I was only at the Preparatory Department of the Grammar School, and my memories of the Grammar School masters are only of seeing them. I sometimes think of dear old Legge, and he brings to my mind the figure of Eugene Aram.

(Laughter.) Another one I knew was Alexander Green— he was green not only by name but by nature, for he was indeed an evergreen. (Laughter.)

After three years, rightly or wrongly, I popped across to the Old Barn. It is a curious thing that there was I, living at the very door of the School, and yet I had to walk along the Spital those cold, wintry days to Billy Dey's school. I

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have also to confess that I took chemistry classes at Gordon's.

(Laughter.) Another confession I have to make is that I once tried to get a bursary at the Gym.—so you see, I almost boxed the compass. (Laughter.)

The Grammar School of our day was a very different place from what it is now. Take the question of athletics. There When I went into the Gymwas no such thing then. nasium yesterday, an agile instructor asked me to go round on the horizontal bars and get photographed. (Laughter.)

The only reason why I—a pillar of a non-athletic age—might ever have played cricket, would have been to reduce what the Americans call, with their fine sense of phonetic values, my fig-ure. (Laughter.) But the late W. G. Grace chased a ball for fifty years, and he had a fig-ure twice the size of mine.

(Laughter and applause.)

At any rate, there was nothing like that in the Grammar School of my day, and you have made an enormous advance with these athletic schemes. What I am afraid of, however, in many of these schemes, is the attempt to mimic methods that are wholly foreign to our national instincts. If a man came to me with his young son and asked me to do something for him, I would say, " What has he done ? " The father would probably say, " He made 101, not out, against Harrow."

I would say, " Take the boy away—I want a boy to sit on a seat." (Laughter and applause.) I think there is nothing more ridiculous than in a town like this, with a splendid School, which has a history going further back than most of the English schools, to see boys being sent away to these schools, or to schools in Scotland which are based upon English methods. (Applause.) I am not decrying the English public schools. They are suited to the temper of the English people.

I have lived more than half my life across the Border, and I think I know the English people better than any man in this room. I have an enormous respect for them ; but they are fundamentally different from us, and we shall never be like them. (Applause.) The English veneer that some of us in the north here have adopted always reminds me of a Swiss watch in an English hunting-case. (Laughter and applause.)

I am also reminded of what I heard Principal Sir George Adam Smith say one Sunday evening in the year 1882, in Queen's Cross Church. He said there was a disposition in the community, and it was becoming very much more marked, towards what he called " parenthood by proxy." He even went the length of saying that some people would bear their children by proxy, if they could. (Laughter and applause.)

This practice of sending young boys to schools outwith this city seems to me to he a species of sheer snobbery and a kind of parenthood by proxy ; and it simply breeds the habit

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in a boy of looking upon his parent as a much cow. And I support him in that view—all the more so since I have no son of my own. (Laughter.)

I regard this Club as one of the greatest things the Grammar School has ever achieved. The Club does not stand alone.

The Club is a manifestation of the way people in this part of the country express themselves. I have been tremendously interested in the attempt to preserve our very wonderful vernacular—whether it is a dialect or not I do not know, but when I say the vernacular, I do not mean merely the " Johnnie Gibb o' Gushetneuk " language, but the whole spirit and outlook of the North-East. There is no doubt as to the foolishness of this imitating of the Englishman. The Englishman does not want us to be like him. He is out for variety.

(Laughter.) When I was a boy, the man who wore a kilt was flouted off the face of the earth. (Laughter.) We never saw anybody but soldiers and Englishmen wearing the kilt —(laughter)—and we never heard anybody but " tinks " playing the bagpipes. (Laughter.) But that is changed now, and I regard the Club as a very great bulwark of our character, and an expression of ourselves. (Applause.)

The Grammar School is a testimonial to personality.

That personality began with Dr. James Moir, and it has gone on ever since. It was brought to a high pitch by Dr. Morland Simpson, whom I regard as the second founder of the School.

(Applause.) I am afraid he had a pretty up-hill fight at first, but he had tremendous tenacity of purpose, skill, and a sense of the continuities of history, of which his son has spoken so brilliantly to-night. (Applause.) One of the most charming things is that the Grammar School has sent to the University Dr. Douglas Simpson, to form a new link between these two places. (Applause.)

The Club also is noted for personality. There is no club run without a personality. At the back of every committee there is always a man, and in all this rubbish that we hear about levelling up under socialistic schemes, we know that there has always got to be a man. (Applause.) The man at the back of the Club is Theodore Watt. (Applause.) I have known him since before he knew himself. Mr. Watt's father introduced me into my business-if I was an actor I would call it " my calling." (Laughter.) At first appearance Theodore Watt puzzles me. He seems the most unromantic realist I have ever known. He doesn't seem to have any sentiment. As a matter of fact, he is full of sentiment. Take his Magazine. (Applause.) It is a marvellous magazine.

(Applause.) Or take his " Roll of Pupils." (Applause.)

Have you any conception of the enormous amount of work Mr. Watt put into the " Roll " or continues to put into the

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Magazine month after month ? I consider that a man who has not got an uneconomic hobby is dead and damned. When you are paid for a job, you have got to produce what the fellow who is paying you wishes you to produce ; but in all uneconomic hobbies there is the enormous benefit of being able to say to the world—well, if you were an Irishman you would say, " To hell with you all." (Laughter and applause.)

Mr. Watt's work on this Magazine is, in my opinion, a wonderful thing, and I consider you are very lucky to have such a pillar as Mr. Watt. (Applause.)

Somebody asked me to-night if I was going to give you some more rhyme. I am not; but I have here a little jingle which I jotted down for a different occasion :— Fan I'm feelin' dowff and dowie Wi' the trachle o' the toon Till I canna tit the towie Wi' the yirk that mak's a soun' ; Fan I'm tyauvin at the tether I think naething wad be grey Gin I saw a glint o' heather Or a burnie an' a brae.

(Loud Applause.)

I feel the same when I see the sea, and I feel the same at this wonderful gathering here to-night, which marks an interesting epoch in my own life, and another milestone in the history of the School. (Applause. ) " Our Guests."

The Rev. Professor Pittendrigh proposed the toast " Our Guests," making special reference to Principal Sir George Adam Smith and Mr. William Veitch, editor of the Press and Journal.

Sir George Adam Smith, who replied, referred to the great success of Grammar School pupils in the University Bursary Competitions, and the links which bound the School and the University together.

Next year, he said, the new regulations were coming into force at the University for the degree of Master of Arts. These had been very carefully considered, with a view to stopping the possibility of getting what might be, after all, very cheap and easy degrees in Arts. There had been a good deal of criticism levelled at them because of the large compulsory nucleus of four subjects which they had instituted, but they had done that with a sincere desire to make the Master of Arts degree of Aberdeen University as worthy as any degree throughout the whole world. (Applause.)

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would their founder, Bishop Elphinstone, have said to that ?

He was not going to enter further upon a controversial subject.

In conclusion, he said that they of the University were exceedingly proud of, and grateful to, the Grammar School for all the students it had sent them, and for the positions it had given to so many of their eminent graduates, including its present Rector. (Applause.) " The Chairman."

The Chairman's health was proposed by Mr. A. M. Johnston, and, in acknowledging, Dr. Bulloch said :— One of my great regrets is that Aberdeen is so far away from Gray's Inn Road. Every time I am able to come back here, it is a sheer delight. Where in the world can you get anything like the " guff " coming out of the New Market ?

(Laughter). In Union Street you have multiple shops now, tearing out your beautiful fronts, and putting in those abominable steel beams. But there is the dear old " guff," coming from a combination of Finnan haddocks, smoked roe, tripe, sweets, toys, and old books—there is nothing like it in the world. (Laughter and applause.) When I come here I see kent faces. It is not so much that I recognize the individual owners, but there is a type of face here which it is always a pleasure to me to see, and which makes me feel at home.

They are curious, hard faces, due, I suppose, to our granite.

There is another reason why I like to come here. Mr. Johnston, in proposing this toast, called me Bulloch, and I live in a place where they can't say " Bulloch " for nuts.

(Laughter and applause.) I got a telegram from a man in London to-day, addressed " Bullough "—as if he had mistaken me for the husband of Lily Elsie. (Laughter.)

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The Cricket Section.

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The Cricket Section has had quite a successful season, notwithstanding the unsettled weather. Our best performance was against Mannofield XI in the first round of the Aberdeenshire Cricket Cup, when the F.P.s gained a great victory. Much of our success was due to the fine batting and bowling of A. McBain.

In the second round of the same competition, the F.P.s were narrowly beaten by Huntly, the Cupholders.

The membership has increased slightly from last year, with the result that we were able to run a second eleven, who confined their activities to evening matches.

The Section hopes that next season they will be able to run two elevens to play Saturday matches.

Some of the best individual performances during the season were :-BATTING. A. McBain . .

J. L. Wilson . .

J. S. R. Cruickshank .

A. J. Allan . .

R. S. B. Hervey .

J. Lindsay . .

51 runs against Mannofield XI. 45 runs against Huntly.

36 runs against Gordonians.

39 runs not out, against St. Ronald 70 runs against Bankers.

53 runs not out, against Bankers.

BOWLING.

A. J. Allan .

J. F. Richardson A. McBain .

A. M. Gauld .

A. M. Gauld .

A. J. Allan .

A. M. Gauld .

J. L. Wilson .

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5 wickets for 20 runs against School.

4 wickets for 9 runs against Royal Asylum.

5 wickets for 19 runs against Mannofield Xl. 7 wickets for 17 runs against Banchory.

9 wickets for 63 runs against Huntly.

5 wickets for 13 runs against Gordonians.

5 wickets for 17 runs against Gordonians.

6 wickets for 20 runs against St. Ronald.

Season 1927: Saturday Matches.

Played.

17

Won. 5

• Lost.

6

Drawn.

6

BATTING AVERAGES. • A. McBain . .

R. S. B. Hervey J. S. R. Cruickshank .

J. L. Wilson J. Lindsay . .

A. J. Allan .

A. M. Gauld . .

G. R. Symmers .

J. F. Richardson .

J. R. Donald Alex. Wilson . .

G. G. Wilson . .

F. H. King . .

J. J. Donald . . .

A. J. Wilson •

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Innings.

2 5 3 8 12 11 13 13 14 12 12 6 14 14 11

Times Not out.

0 0 0 1 1 3 2.

4 0 0 2 4 0 0 3

Runs.

51 101 50 114 143 103 100 67 99 83 53 10 65 63 30

Average.

25.5 20.2 16.6 16.2 13 12.8 9 7.4 7 6.9 5.3 5 4.6 4.5 3.7

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A. McBain .

J. L. Wilson • A. M. Gauld A. J. Allan F. H. King.

J. F. Richardson.

Alex. Wilson J. J. Donald J. Lindsay .

R. S. B. Hervey .

Overs. Maidens.

4 19 4 34 42 185 58 218 2 12 23 107 7 0 5 0 12 0 37 8

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Runs. Wickets. Average.

7 4.7 33 10 11 110 11.5 44 507 450 12.1 37 3 13 39 17.1 240 14 2 18 36 1 22 22 1 52 52 1 84 84

CATCHES. Jas. J. Donald .

A. J. Allan J. Lindsay J. R. Donald J. F. Richardson A. M. Gauld F. H. King

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J. L. Wilson . .

G. R. Symmers J. S. R. Cruickshank .

Alex. Wilson .

A. J. Wilson . . .

G. G. Wilson .

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Season 1927 : Evening Matches.

Won. 3

flayed.

15

Lost.

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Drawn.

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BATTING AVERAGES.

R. S. B. Hervey A. J. Wilson J. R. Donald .

W. W. Porter F. H. King .

J. Scott .

J. F. Richardson D. Cran .

J. B. Smith . .

C. Skene W. Cruickshank G. G. Wilson .

W. A. R. Smith G. A. C. Walker .

A. Fraser G. R. Symmers

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Innings.

7 13 8 8 12 12 4 8 12 9 5 5 11 4 4 3

Times not out.

2 3 0 2 2 1 0 1 1 3 0 0 1 0 1 0

Runs.

72 105 79 41 65 48 17 29 39 20 15 8 15 6 4 4

Average.

14.4 10.5 9.87 6.83 6.5 4.36 4.25 4.14 3.54 3.33 3 1.6 1.5 1.5 1.33 1.33

BOWLING AVERAGES. I). K. Smith G. R. Symmers A. J. Wilson J. Scott .

R. S. B. Hervey J. F. Richardson G. G. Wilson .

W. A. R. Smith F. H. King .

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Overs. Maidens. Runs.

2 40 16 8 0 4 23 225 101 134 19 77 2 71 28 4 30 16 1 12 7 6 179 57 11 95 40

Wkts. Average.

6.66 6 28 16 8 3 1 11 4

8.03 8.37 8.87 10 12 16.27 23.75

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The Tennis Section.

The summer was rather disappointing, but enthusiasm for Tennis has not diminished. A successful season was carried through, although the Grammar School Section, with three courts, does not get the support it should.

A match played in drizzling rain was lost 5-4 to Ferryhill, and the return match was not carried through owing to holidays. The Former Pupils' Club was leading Alford by three matches to two when play was abandoned owing to rain. One Club, for some unaccountable reason, did not turn up, and others were put off owing to holidays.

The Section would like a strong team next season for match play, but this can only be obtained by a large membership and a great deal of practice.

The Motor Section.

The Motor Section recently concluded one of the best, if not the best, season of its history. The membership has risen and the attendance at events has been very encouraging indeed. Although the weather this summer has been very inclement, the Motor Section seems to have been fortunate, in that most of the events have been carried through in excellent weather. One proof of the Motor Section's ability may be mentioned—practically every event carried through by the Aberdeen and District Motor Club has been won by a Grammar F.P. This shows that the Motor Section has among its members some of the finest riders in the North of Scotland, and is in no way behind the other Sections of our famous Former Pupils' Club.

The Section's prizes have also improved, and competition for the various Cups has become keen indeed. A Silver Cup for Reliability has been presented to the Section by Mr. I. B. Munro, and another one for Speed by Mr. J. P. Jeffrey. Since June the greater part of the programme has been carried through, and although each event would furnish an interesting article in itself, it is impossible to give details, and the results alone are here set forth.

12th June. A social run was held to Loch Builg.

18th June. Trick Hill Climb.-350cc class—(1) S. Hurry ; 600cc class—(2) C. S. Brown.

2nd July. Reliability Trial.—lst D. L. Rennet, winning Munro Cup ; 2nd J. S. Brown.

31st July. Speed Trials.-350cc class (1) S. Hurry, winning the Secretary's Prize ; 600cc class (1) C. S. Brown, winning Cullerlie Cup, presented by J. P. Jeffrey for fastest time of the day.

10th September. Reliability Trial.-1st D. S. Fairweather, winning Michie Championship Cup ; 2nd G. O. Hector ; 3rd J. G. Brown.

It was decided that the Section should hold a Dance in connection with the Prize-giving this year, and the Committee arranged to hold this " event " in the West End Café on Friday, 18th November.

The Rugby Football Section.

Season 1926-27.

F.P.s retained the North and Midland's Cup by defeating Gordonians and Kirkcaldy in the semi-final and final rounds respectively.

The match with Gordonians was played at Rubislaw on the 12th March and resulted in an easy victory for F.P.s by 20 points to 3.

F.P. M. McLeod; P. J. M. Walker, J. S. Abernethy, N. Esslemont, J. B. Esslemont ; J. Yule, R. C. Scrimgeour ; J. McLeod, J. F. Richardson, R. D. Bain, J. C. Spark, J. G. Kilgour, A. Gray, I. A. McDougall, A. W. Grafton.

The final was contested at St. Andrews on 26th March. At -no side the scores were level, each having scored a try. It was agreed to

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play extra time, and in the twenty minutes allotted F.P.s scored 13 points. Result—F.P.s 16 ; Kirkcaldy 3.

F.P. XV—J. M. McLeod ; P. J. M. Walker, J. S. Abernethy, N. Esslemont, J. B. Esslemont ; J. Yule, R. C. Scrimgeour ; J. McLeod, N. Begg, R. D. Bain, J. G. Kilgour, J. C. Spark, D. M. Wood, I. A. McDougall, G. E. C. Barton.

1st XV—Season's Analysis.

Played Won Lost Drawn Points for Points against 17 11 4 2 226 77

Season 1927-28.

At the Annual General Meeting the following office-bearers were elected :—Captain, P. J. M. Walker ; Vice-Captain, N. Begg ; Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, R. Irvin.

The results so far have been very disappointing. Of the six matches played four have been lost, as compared with one up to the same date last year. Three of these games, however, have been played away from home and, on each occasion, only a very weak team could be got together.

Owing to this difficulty in getting players to travel, the back division has never settled down, and the Selection Committee has had great difficulty in getting together a reliable and effective three-quarter line. Like last year, the scarcity of centres has been the chief difficulty, and the problem of finding the right players does not appear to have been solved. The forwards are again very promising, and when necessary the first team has good material to draw upon from the other packs.

R. D. Bain, N. Begg, J. M. McLeod, and P. J. M. Walker have been chosen to play for the North of Scotland versus the Midlands at St. Andrews.

J. F. Richardson has had the honour to play for his own county (Durham) on two occasions.

1st XV Results.

Sep. 17. v. School, at Rubislaw • • • . Won 32- 3 Oct. 1. v. Edinburgh Academicals, at Edinburgh . Lost 0-24 „ 8. v. Hillhead H.S.F.P., at Rubislaw . . Draw 11-11 „ 15. v. Panmure, at Forthill . . . . Lost 0-31 „ 29. v. Black Watch, at Elgin . . . . Lost 6-14 Nov. 5. v. Aberdeen University, at King's (League) . Lost 3-10 2nd XV Results.

Oct. 1. v. Gordon's College, at Rubislaw . . . Won 16- 0 „ 15. v. 2nd Gordonians, at Rubislaw . . . Won 11- 0 29. v. 2nd Aberdeen University, at Rubislaw . Lost 9-11 Nov. 5. v. 2nd Gordonians, at Rubislaw (League) . Won 20-, 3 A XV Results.

Nov. 5. v. 2nd Bankers, at Rubislaw . . . Won 11— 6 F.P. XV v. School.—J. M. McLeod ; P. J. M. Walker, J. B. Smith, N. Esslemont, J. B. Esslemont ; J. Yule, R. C. Scrimgeour ; N. Begg, J. F. Richardson, R. D. Bain, A. W. Grafton, A. Gray, I. A. McDougall, G. E. C. Barton, D. Middleton.

F.P. XV v. Edinburgh Academicals.—J. M. McLeod ; P. J. M. Walker, R. C. Scrimgeour, N. Esslemont, G. W. Dodds ; G. L. Cruickshank, A. M. Scrimgeour ; N. Begg, J. F. Richardson, J. G. Kilgour, A. W. Grafton, D. Middleton, A. Gray, I. A. McDougall, E. R. Sorley.

F.P. XV v. Hillhead H.S.F.P.s.—J. M. McLeod ; P. J. M. Walker, J. S. Abernethy, N. Esslemont, J. B. Esslemont ; J. Yule, R. C. Scrimgeour ; N. Begg, J. F. Richardson, R. D. Bain, E. R. Sorley, A. Gray, D. Middleton, A. W. Grafton, I. A. McDougall.

F.P. XV v. Panmure.—J. M. McLeod ; R. C. Scrimgeour, J. B. Smith, N. Esslemont, J. B. Esslemont ; J. Yule, A. M. Scrimgeour ;

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The Hockey Section.

The Hockey Section anticipate having a successful season, and are fortunate in having almost all of last year's 1st XI again available.

This XI will be considerably strengthened by the return of players such as N. S. Rose, C. Stewart, D. W. Duthie, and R. D. Strachan, who are now resident in Aberdeen again.

Of the first three matches played one Was won and two lost, the XI winning against Gordon Highlanders by 7-3, and losing to Aberdeen, 1-0, and to 'Varsity, 5-1.

The 2nd XI have a very strong team this year, and should do well in the Junior Division. The first four games played have been won.

Home and Away fixtures have been arranged with all the local teams, also with Mackie Academy F.P.s (Stonehaven), Stonchaven, and Banchory. The 1st XI have also arranged a fixture with United Colleges, Dundee.

Any F.P.s wishing to take up the game should communicate with any member of the Section, or with the Secretary.

The Office-Bearers for season 1927-28 are as follows :. . J. Ewen Wilson.

1st XI Captain . . J. R. Donald.

Vice-Captain .

Hon. Sec. and Treasurer D. J. Walker, 22 Rosehery Street. . A. J. M. Cruickshank. .

2nd XI Captain . . J. B. Watt.

Vice-Captain . Ian Rennie, 60 Desswood Place. .

Hon. Secretary

Club Room Section.

This Section, about which there have been several notices in the Magazine, was inaugurated on 3rd October, after a meeting held on 27th September, and since then the Club Room at Rubislaw Pavilion has been open on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from 7 to 10.30 p.m., these being the evenings which appeared to be most suitable, and will continue open until the end of April. A fair number of F.P.s have become members, and all are agreed that the Section fills a long-felt want, but the Committee would like to see a much larger membership and are sure that any who join will not regret it. The Committee have on one or two occasions extended the hospitality of the Club Room to the Rugby Section for the purpose of informal talks and discussions, and it is felt that the Club Room affords an excellent meeting-place for members of Sports Sections.

It is, of course, understood that evening studies must prejudice many against joining, but everyone is better of an evening off occasionally, and the Club Room is the ideal place to spend that evening. To all students or other F.P.s interested the Committee extends an invitation to come up any night and see for themselves how_the Section is faring.

At the meeting on 27th September, the following office-bearers were elected for the year :—President, J. Lennox Riddell ; Secretary and Treasurer, James Leith, Jun., 66 Queen's Road ; Committee, A. J. Allan, J. Patrick Jeffrey.

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LIFE MEMBERS. Anderson, John Campbell (1909-13), Rhodesian Congo Border Con. cessions, Ltd., N'Changa, via N'Dola, Northern Rhodesia.

Bodie, Charles W. J. (1914-18), " Kama," Alviston Street, Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia.

Cox, George Frederick (1899-1906), M.A., B.D., The Manse, Harray, Orkney.

Farquhar, Robert Warrender (1919-22), Keringet, Molo, Kenya, British East Africa.

Hunter, Henry George Chambers- (1912-15), Philiphaugh, P.B., Salisbury, Rhodesia.

Mackie, James Craib (1924-27), 96 Queen's Road, Aberdeen.

McLeod, Charles Stewart (1908-20), M.A., 120 Hamilton Place.

Simpson, George Taylor (1910-20), Jodhpur State Railway, Jodhpur, Rajputana, India.

ORDINARY MEMBERS. Hamilton, William Aitken Brown Anderson, John Taylor (1912-17), (1921-27), 17 Mile-End Avenue, Florence, 79 Marine Parade, Elwood, Melbourne, Australia.

Aberdeen.

Hird, William (1924-27), 22 HolBaker, Joseph John (1925-27), 14 burn Road, Aberdeen.

Albert Street, Aberdeen.

Begg, James Hudson (1923-27), Low, Ritchie Allan (1915-27), Inverawe, Woodside, Aberdeen.

183 Gt. Western Rd., Aberdeen.

Emerson Macdonald, Alfred Begg, John Hudson (1923-27), (1922-25), Craigton School183 Gt. Western Rd., Aberdeen. house, Peterculter.

Begg, Stewart Duncan (1909-10), c/o Butterfield & Suire, Shang- McGlasson, John Christopher (1919-27), 19 Stafford Street, hai.

Aberdeen.

Booth, Alexander Graham (1907 14), 17 St. Swithin St., Aberdeen. McMillan, Duncan (1881-87), 7 Marine Terrace, Aberdeen.

Brands, Alexander Campbell (1925-27), 1 St. Peter's Terrace, Marshall, Clement (1915-27), 2 Fonthill Terrace, Aberdeen.

Peterculter.

Brown, Ernest Duncan (1913-17), Mitchell, John Paterson (1911-13).

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157 Station Road, King's NorMollison, George Croll (1917-25), ton, Birmingham.

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Craig, George (1920-27), 52 Murray Terrace, Aberdeen.

Murdoch, Thomas H. (1921-27), 6 Cran, Douglas Smith (1922-24), 38 Carlton Place, Aberdeen.

Murray, George Quintin (1922Grampian Circle, Aberdeen.

27), " Shanghai," Newburgh.

Dodds, George Walker (1920-27), 105 Whitehall Place, Aberdeen. Panton, John Stuart (1921-27), 631 King Street, Aberdeen.

Ducat, John Ledingham (1916-27), 53 Carlton Place, Aberdeen. Ross, Alexander Fraser (1923-27), 113 Broomhill Road, Aberdeen.

Duffus, Neil Collie (1916-27), 13 Argyll Place, Aberdeen.

Scrimgeour, Arthur Martin (1921Duncan, Douglas McKenzie (191827), Eastleigh, Peterculter.

25), 88 Stanley Street, Aberdeen. Sharp, John Hall Davidson (192527), Ordeans, Banchory.

Engstren, Victor Ralph W. (1923Smith, John Adam Ritchie (192227), Hawthorn Bank, Cults.

Flockhart, Ian (1915-27), 44 27), 46 Fountainhall Road, Forest Road, Aberdeen.

Aberdeen.

Forbes, James Francis (1921-27), Still, Robert (1924-27), Coleford, Peterculter, Aberdeenshire.

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Frame, George Taylor (1920-26), Walker, Ronald Powlett (191627), 24 Rubislaw Ter., Aberdeen.

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Gossip, James Marcus (1921-27), Wrigglesworth, H. (1922-27), 46 Desswood Place, Aberdeen.

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Caps with Badge, 2/6. Pocket Badge, 2/6.

Belts with Badge Buckle, 2/6.

Ties, If-, 1,6, 2/6.

Shop by Post, we pay Carriage.

58 ST. NICHOLAS STREET, ABERDEEN (Near Woolworths).

TELEPHONE 122.

The Ideal Gift for Friends Abroad.

WE PACK AND POST FOR YOU.

FINGER-

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MITCHELL & MUIL, Ltd., Aberdeen.

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Interesting to F.P.s in Tropical Countries.

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SUPPLY

Aertex Cellular Underclothing.

It washes well and does not shrink.

Undervests, Half Sleeves, price 4/6.

Trunk Drawers, 5/-.

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When ordering, please send Chest and Waist measures.

W. J. MILNE, Ltd., 249-251 UNION STREET, ABERDEEN. (Opposite Royal Northern Club).

'Phone 1293.

Blexr• Elithen antN $ons painters & !Decorators 335 •

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Union %treet • •• • ElberOeen.

MACMA HON Artistic Portraiture in all Modern Styles CHILD

STUDIES,

ETC.

502 UNION STREET

'PHONE 187

ABERDEEN

Established 18091

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James Angus BOOT MANUFACTURER and REPAIRER, 2 ROSEMOUNT PLACE,

ABERDEEN. OUR SPECIALITIES: Boots of all kinds made to measure.

Those having Bunions and Corns should give us a trial.

Our own make of BOYS' FOOTWEAR is well known for Durability.

REPAIR DEPARTMENT is complete with Modern Machinery for turning out good work. Moderate charges.

WORKS

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At Your Service

FRED WATT MEN'S WEAR SPECIALIST

23 BRIDGE STREET ABERDEEN 'PHONE 3515

ABERDEEN

ABERDEEN

EDUCATION

AUTHORITY.

GRAMMAR

SCHOOL.

1256.)

DAVID MIDDLETON ANDREW, M.A.

(POUNDED PREVIOUS TO

Rector

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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, Middle, 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 Control Examination of the Education Authority, while the Senior Classes are examined for the Day School Certificate (Higher) and the Leaving Certificate of the Scottish Education Department, passes in the latter examination being recognised as exempting from further examination in the corresponding subjects of the Preliminary Examination for graduation in Arts, Science, Law and Medicine at the Scottish Universities.

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, Tennis Courts, and a field for Cricket and Football.

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ABERDEEN HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. Headmistress

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HE IIIGH SCHOOL provides a liberal education for Girls from 5 or 6 to 18 or ro years of age, and aims at fitting them for home life and for professions open to women.

The School buildings occupy an excellent and spacious site in the West end of the City. The furnishings and equipment of the School comprise, in addition to numerous Class-rooms fitted up with many modern conveniences for teaching purposes, an Assembly Hall, Gymnasium, 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.

The School is organized in three Departments—Infants, Primary, and Secondary.

The Classes in the Infants and Primary divisions are graded in accord• ante with the requirements of the Scottish Code. The pupils are prepared for the Control Examination of the Education Authority. Pupils in the Secondary Department are prepared for the Day School Certificate (Higher) and the Leaving Certificate of the Scottish Education Department. The subjects of study include—Scripture, English with History and Geography, Mathematics, Classics, Modern Languages, Experimental and Domestic Science, Art, Class Singing, and Physical Exercises.

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.

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.

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Everything Photographic CAMERAS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Films, Plates, Printing Papers, ' • ' Chemicals, &c., &c.

DEVELOPING and PRINTING BETTER

PRINTS

QUICKER

SERVICE

LOWER PRICES

Enlarging, Copying, Lantern Slides CAMERAS

BOUGHT,

HIRED,

SOLD,

REPAIRED

Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention.

ELECTRIC LIGHT STUDIO FOR HIGH-CLASS PORTRAITURE AT

MODERATE

PRICES

The Aberdeen Photographic Service, Ltd. MARISCHAL PHONE 450

STREET PRICE LISTS FREE

Civil Service and Business Institute Principal - J. Strath Wishart, F.Inc.S.T.

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The largest and most successful Tutorial Institute in the North for Shorthand, Typing, and all Business Subjects, General Education, University Prelims., Professional and Civil Service Exams.

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TYPISTS SUPPLIED (For Testimonials, Business Circulars, MSS., etc.

CROWN TYPEWRITING Gammeter Duplicating-20 to 20,000 copies— t OFFICE perfect work.

10 NORTH SILVER STREET -

ABERDEEN

ESTAB. 1885.

'PHONE 380.

SCHOOL BOYS are proverbially HARD ON BOOTS BUT THAT'S NO REASON WHY

BOOTS SHOULD BE HARD ON SCHOOL BOYS JOHN A. DUNN'S Boots for boys arc easy on their feet, fitting snugly where support and protection are needed, and roomy across the toes, so that the muscles can flex and recover without hindrance. = (As Illustrated)

Boys' Box Calf Derby7Boots, stout hard-wearing soles, weather-resisting uppers, sizes zo to 5. Prices, 12/6 to 16/6, according to size.

Repairs done on shortest notice.

Mechanical Appliances fitted for the relief of foot trouble.

JOHN A. DUNN 46 UNION STREET (Opposite the Adelphl) rItIN:KU AT 1 1r. K<SILMOUN I' PAS..., AA-tit:JAHN.

Boots and Shoes made to measure.