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CONTENTS. .. .. Facing page 30 Portrait of Professor John N icol Farquhar Professor William Leslie Davidson •• „ 31 „ Mr. G. W. J. Farquharson and of Mr. A. H. Gray „ „ 46 „ Mr. Andrew Milne and of Mr. Henry Paterson „ „ 47 IP

.. .. .. .. The School Boarding House Five French F.P.s and their Grammar School Ancestors .. .. .. .. .. Two Ropes in Savoie .. .. .. .. .. Notes About Old Boys .. .. .. . Boys' Golf Championship .. •• •• .. .• •. Obituary .. •• .. .. •• .. •• •• Marriages .. .. .. .. •• A Message to Former Pupils .. .. •• Head of the Classical Department .. •• .. •. ••' .. School Notes .. .. .• . .. •• Random Notes .. .. .. .. Autumn. Triolet. (Verses) •• .. .. .. The Library. School Cricket .. .. .. .. .. .. School Rugby .. .. Byron House. Dun House. Keith House .. .. Melvin House. Dramatic Society Notes •• .. .. The Literary and Debating Society .. .. .. .. .. .. Scout Notes .. The School Museum. A Byron Relic • • The Former Pupils' Club— .. •• .. .. The Annual Dinner .. .. .. .. •• Club Consuls .. .. .. •• •• .. The London Centre .. Visiting Register. Hockey Section .. •• Rugby Football Section •• •• .• •• •• Cricket Section •• New Members " Bon Record." List of

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Aberbeen Orammat School Maga3ine -

Vol. XXXIII.

NOVEMBER, 1929.

No. r

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. • s' Members of the Club are requested to inform the Secretary of any change of address.

The School Boarding House. In the June issue of the Magazine full particulars were given of a very handsome offer in connection with the Boarding House Scheme that had been made by Mr. George Watson, London, who had stated that he was prepared to take a mortgage on the property up to £1,500, and to subscribe one-third of the capital remaining to be raised, adding that he proposed that his whole interest in the Boarding House Company should eventually revert to the School for the foundation of a scholarship or scholarships. In order to fulfil Mr. Watson's condition it was mentioned that a sum of over £1,300 remained to be raised, As a result of the appeal that was made in the Magazine about £700 has come in either in donations or in payment of shares. About £600 has therefore still to be raised before Mr. Watson's gift can be secured for the School. This seems a very trivial amount in view of the large membership of the F.P. Club. Surely there are a dozen F.P.s who, if not prepared to give donations of £50 each, are perfectly willing to take up 50 shares ; or two dozen who would subscribe for 25 shares each. We think that the absence of response from many members of the Club must be due to their not having taken time to grasp what exactly the Boarding House Scheme and Mr. Watson's offer mean for their old School. We would express the very earnest hope that a sufficient number will speedily be moved to provide the comparatively small amount of capital that is required to complete the scheme.

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All interested in the School will be glad to hear that the Boarding House Company has got a very good start, and that its financial success is assured. At the First Annual General Meeting, held on 3rd October, 1929, the Directors reported that the house 8 Queen's Road had been in full use for the whole of the School session 1928-29, and that the profit for the year amounted to £208. 7s. 04d. " Keeping in view the relatively small number of boarders which could be accommodated during the year, the Directors regard this result as very satisfactory. The number of boarders in the house was thirteen, but there are twenty-six boys at the house this term. It is hoped that occupation of the adjoining property, 84 Queen's Road, will have been obtained before the end of the Christmas holidays, and meantime other accommodation has been obtained for the additional boarders." Out of the profit for the year it was decided at the meeting to write off £109. 3s. 5d. of the preliminary expenses (reducing these to £100), and to carry forward a balance of £99. 3s. 70. The Chairman stated at the meeting that while it had not been considered advisable to recommend the payment of a dividend for the first year, the prospects for future years were excellent. There can be little doubt that the accommodation of the combined houses will be taxed to the utmost within a comparatively short time. At the Annual Meeting the Chairman paid a well-deserved tribute to the splendid services that had been rendered by Miss Mayor, the matron ; by Mr. Eddison, the house master ; and, not least, by Mr. James C. Duffus, the indefatigable Secretary of the Company. Since the last issue of the Magazine the following very welcome donations to the Boarding House Scheme have been received :— Dr. J. Bell Cruickshank, 240 Stockport Road, Levenshulme, . . . £2 . . . . . Manchester 1 George B. Gauld, P.O. Box 1051, Wellington, New Zealand Rev. Alexander King, cio Mr. Stanley Howard, Athens, 5 . . . . . . . Ontario, Canada . 10 Dr. R. D. Lawrence, 16 Devonshire Place, London, W.1 1 Dr. Robert A. Lendrum, D.D., Pearsemount, Brechin Arthur C. Lothian. M.A., I.C.S., The Residency, Jaipur, . 10 . . . . . . . India . Colonel John F. Michie, 7 King Street West, Toronto, . 5 . . . . . . Canada . . Major Maurice J. Williamson, M.B., Ch.B., R.A.M.C., cio Messrs. Glyn Mills & Co., 3 Whitehall Place. . 10 . . . . . . London, S.W. . £44

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Aberdeen Grammar School Magazine.

Five French

F.P. s and their Grammar School Ancestors.

There is in Aberdeen a photograph album bearing the following inscription :— " To Eliza Lorimer, as a remembrance of very kind attention, EUGhNE DE FAYE MARIE DE FAYE ALEX. DE FAYE CLINENT DE FAYE MARGUgRITE DE FAYE

during their illness, March, 1878." Of the six. persons mentioned two are still alive, namely, Eliza Lorimer, now Mrs. Dingwall, Aberdeen, a charming lady of great personality, keen and bright in her ninety-third year ; and Marie Garden de Faye, who resides in Paris with the widow of Eugene. In all there were eleven de Faye children, and five boys attended Aberdeen Grammar School. How did these French boys come to be in Aberdeen ? Well, their father was a French Protestant minister, whose grandfather, a stout Protestant, was driven out of Poitou, France, in 1750, and found refuge in Jersey. France lost 300,000 worthy citizens in this way, through the long persecution of the Huguenots, after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Clement de Faye, the father of the boys, was born in Guernsey, became a Protestant minister in Jersey, and afterwards at Lyons and Brussels. He preached frequently in Aberdeen in French and in English in the 'Seventies, and died in Geneva in 1906, aged 78. Their mother was Catherine Leslie Henderson, daughter of Dr. William Henderson (A.G.S. 1800-1805), lecturer in Materia Medica in Marischal College, who travelled extensively on the Continent, and translated several French medical works into English. Doubtless Catherine met Clement de Faye on the Continent. The de Faye children were educated in Aberdeen, living with their grandfather at 49 Schoolhill in winter, and at Caskieben House in summer. Their grandfather died in 1877, and when their grandmother died in 1883, they all went off to Switzerland. WILLIAM MURRAY DE FAYE (1864-1866) was born in Aberdeen in 1851 and named after his grandmother, Margaret Murray, daughter of James Murray, merchant at Campvere and a baillie of Aberdeen. He was a good pupil, but died at 49 Schoolhill in 1866 of typhoid fever, and is buried in St. Nicholas Churchyard in the grave of his great-grandfather, John Henderson of Caskieben and Jamaica. EDOUARD DE FAYE (1866-1872) was born in Lyons, and

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was not keen upon his lessons at School. He was full of " ill tricks," and on one occasion upset Mrs. Dingwall, the housekeeper, while she was carrying a tray downstairs. But he took up engineering at Lausanne, and was second in command at the construction of the Mersey Tunnel. He died in 1918, and his only child, a daughter, died in the same year. EUGRNE DE FAYE (1873-1876) : we shall speak of him last. ALEXANDER DE FAYE (1876-1880) was born in Brussels. His name adorns the wall of the School as Dux in 1879. But in those days it was the first prizeman in Latin who was called the Dux of the School. He was weak in mathematics, and the Gold Medal for the boy with the highest aggregate of marks was awarded to Charles W. Sleigh, now factor at Strichen. Alexander de Faye was a slim, delicate boy, and the pal of Dr. Frank L. Collie (1877-1880), brother of James and George Collie (both 1869-1872 and 1873-1875), advocates in Aberdeen. At Aberdeen University, where he was a classmate of Mr. William Murison, formerly English Master at the School, he was obliged to give up his studies altogether. He was a great favourite with his grandfather, who used to say of him, " He is a jewel." He moved with the others to Geneva, and carried on international social work there until he died of pneumonia in 1891 at the age of 27. He knew seven languages well enough to correspond in each, and his sister Marie, the only survivor of the family, served as his secretary. An interesting relic of Alexander de Faye's School class in 1879 has recently been presented to the School by Charles W. Sleigh ; it is the Class Magazine, hand written, and entitled " The Fifth Class Paper, 1879." The names of the readers of the magazine, in rotation, are Couper, Riddell, Baker, Sleigh, Taylor, Urquhart, Middleton, Smith, Dalgamo, Anderson, Still, Sutter, Donald Gordon, Reid, Robertson, de Faye (Frenchman), and John G. Adam, editor. CLEMENT DE FAYE (1879-1882) was born in Brussels. He qualified in medicine at Geneva in 1888, took his D.D.S. in Philadelphia in 1890, and practised dentistry in Paris till his death in 1926. His only child, a daughter, is married to an architect in Paris ; she has two boys, who are greatly interested in their grandfather and great-grandfather, both pupils of the School. Marguerite de Faye married a German in Halle, and her two sons—Heinrich Franz Lehmann (who has a daughter, Marguerite Henderson Lehmann, aged lf years) and Wolfgang Herbert Lehmann—assure me that they are coming over to see the School of their ancestors very soon.

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Now we return to EUGhIsTE DE FAYE (1873-1876), who became the most distinguished of the family. He was born in Lyons in 1860 and died in Paris in 1929. In 1881 he graduated at Aberdeen University with first class honours in Classics. While at the Grammar School, he resolved to enter the ministry of his father's church, L'Eglise Reformee de France, and Mrs. Dingwall tells me how she asked him one evening at 49 Schoolhill to take family worship, as his grandfather was confined to bed. He could not have been more than 16 years of age. Eugene yielded to coaxing, read the lesson and plunged into prayer :—" Oh, Lord, Thou knowest . . . Thou knowest . . . that we are all but . . . but . . . ashes and cinders !" The poor boy was, of course, struggling to find the phrase " dust and ashes." Such reverence was observed in family worship in those days that all present remained on their knees as solemn as judges. How many Grammar School boys of 16 could conduct family worship now ? His school pal was Professor George Pittendrigh (1872-1876), M.A., D.D., who remembers Eugene as a fine lovable lad with gentle, unobtrusive, and winning ways. In April 1877 he joined Bon-Accord Free Church by profession of faith. In 1884 he completed his training in theology at the Faculte de Theologie Protestante in Paris, and then spent a year at Gottingen and Berlin. His first charge was at Roubaix, from 1885 to 1890. Then he was appointed minister at the Chapelle du Nord in Paris, and quickly gathered a fine congregation around him by his simple message, his obvious sincerity, and his application of the Gospel to modern problems. Very soon he was appointed to lecture at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes upon the history of the Church in the first centuries, and for fifteen years he carried on both tasks. In 1908 he was appointed in the place of Professor Jean Reville to the chair of Patristic Literature in the Faculty of Protestant Theology in Paris, and gave up his church. In his own subject his reputation was world-wide. In all the universities of the world it is recognized that there is but one approach to the study of Christianity in the second and third centuries, and that is through the works of Eugene de Faye. His authority is proved by the homage paid to him by both Catholics and non-Christians. Wherein lay this authority ? Solely in the severity of the method which he practised in building his volumes, from his first thesis to his latest work on Origen. He had but one formula, " Nothing but the original texts." He never trusted to the analyses, interpretations, or résumés by others ; he read his texts again and again, until he became steeped in the originals ; he drew his inspiration from first sources only. He had a perfect knowledge of Greek, enriched by daily readings ; he must have been one of the best Hellenists

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of his day. Through this continuous study of original sources he communed with the early Christian personages whom he was studying ; he identified himself with them, and that is why his works are so full of life. His friends envied him the fine training in classics which he had received in the School and in Aberdeen University before going back to France. His chief works are :— Les apocalypses juives, 1892. Clement d'Alezandrie, 1898 and 1906 (Doctorate Thesis). Origines des eglises apostoliques, 1909. Gnostiques et gnosticisme, 1913. Couronne par rAcademie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. Prix Bordin. Second Edition, 1925. Idealisms et Rialisme, 1920. An application to post-war problems of the political and social ideas of Plato and Aristotle. Origen. Vol. I. Biographie et Oeuvres, 1923. „ Vol. II. Ambiance philosophique, 1927. Vol. III. Sa doctrine, 1928. „ This last volume was issued at Christmas, 1928, and he died on 12th February, 1929. It, too, was crowned by the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. It was Eugene de Faye who took the initiative in providing France with a Dictionary of the Bible. But he was something more than bookish. He was a keen worker for home and foreign missions ; he served as a chaplain during the War, in the 32nd Army Corps, 1915-1917, and became a strong supporter of the League of Nations, lecturing all over France ; he was one of the greatest forces in French Protestantism. The University of Aberdeen conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity upon this distinguished son in 1921. He lectured upon Gnosticism at Oxford University in 1914, upon Origen at Upsala University in 1924, and after his death, an invitation came from Oberlin College, Ohio, U.S.A., to go out there and give a course of lectures. Eugene de Faye had one son, named Alexander after his able brother, the Dux of the Grammar School. Alas ! this brilliant young man was killed on 1st October, 1918, at the age of 22, after being mentioned six times in dispatches, and winning three Palms and the Legion of Honour. His Letters from the Front were published, and revealed marked literary ability and a lofty moral and spiritual tone. Doubtless it was through love for this son, through love for his young students in general, that Eugene de Faye worked so hard for international understanding and peace. •

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the School from 1800 to 1805. I find in the Town Council Records that he was second in Class III (there were only five classes then), and was awarded as a prize Adams' Classical Geography! He graduated M.A. at Marischal College in 1809 in his seventeenth year, and in medicine at Edinburgh in 1813. From 1818 to 1858 he was lecturer in Materia Medica at Marischal College, at the same time as he practised his profession at 49 Schoolhill. He was a member of the First Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1843, being Session Clerk, etc., of Bon-Accord Free Church, and author of " A Concordance of the Bible," a volume of 700 pages published in 1869. It was he who in 1843 wrote the Statistical Account of Aberdeen City, a rich mine of information for all interested in local history. By his will he founded the Henderson Bursaries in medicine at Aberdeen University. The de Faye boys were lucky to be brought up in the home of such a distinguished grandfather, and to spend their holidays at his country house of Caskieben. By his first wife, Alexia Macdonald, of the family of Clanranald, of South Uist, Dr. William Henderson had a son, John Macdonald, Captain of the 78th Highlanders, who assumed his mother's name, and erected on the Castlehill, Inverness, a statue in bronze to Flora Macdonald, and a Celtic Cross to his own mother in St. Nicholas Churchyard, Aberdeen. Mary Henderson, sister of this Captain John, married Victor von Guggenthal, son of an Austrian Baron. Dr. William Henderson had an older brother, Charles (A.G.S. 1800-1804), likewise a physician, who settled in St. Brieux, in Brittany, and whose grand-daughter, Madame Alexia Arquint, called upon the band of " Grammarians " in their hotel in Rennes, France, at Easter, 1929, to ask about her grandfather's old school. In fact, without knowing the relationship, I taught a great grand-daughter of this Charles Henderson in the Sunday School in Rennes in 1913-1914 ! While we do not marvel to find F.P. connections throughout the British Empire, is it not astonishing to find descendants of one " Grammar" family in Austria, Germany, France, and Switzerland ? The grandfather of the de Fayes had a half-brother, who was also a " Grammarian," Alexander Farquharson Henderson (1791-1794). Mr. Theodore Watt's " Roll of Pupils " begins at the year 1795, but all the prizemen in the School from 1700 to 1872 are recorded in three volumes of Minutes of the visits of Aberdeen Town Council to the Grammar School which are kept in the Town House Charter Room. Here we find Alexander Farquharson Henderson a prizeman in October each year, awarded in 1791, Class I, fourth prize, " Eutropius "; in 1792, ninth prize, " Horace " ; in 1793, first prize, " Guthrie's Latin Grammar " ; and in 1794, seventh prize, " Homericus,"

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probably a Homeric lexicon, or a scribe's error for " Homerus." He attended Marischal College for three years but did not stay to graduate, proceeding to Edinburgh, where he graduated in medicine in 1803. Inheriting from his father the estate of Caskieben, near Aberdeen, and Friendship Plantation in Jamaica, he did not practise medicine, but resided mostly in Mayfair, London, and sometimes at Caskieben. He travelled widely on the Continent and wrote a remarkable book, "The History of Ancient and Modern Wines," which is beautifully illustrated with engravings by William Harvey, pupil of Thomas Bewick. It was so well known on the Continent (being translated into German) that the author was able to produce upon his table thirty-two kinds of wines, sent by wine-growers who were anxious to have their produce mentioned in the second edition ! This large quarto volume of 408 pages reveals a profound knowledge of the classics and of modern languages. In his lifetime, being a bachelor, he wisely gave away much of his wealth and enjoyed the pleasure of giving. He founded the Chair of Medical Logic and Medical Jurisprudence in Marischal College, and he gave £500 to each of the Industrial School Association and the Female School of Industry. In his will he left to Aberdeen University his valuable collection of pictures, bronzes, vases, etc., which were catalogued by Sir W. M. Ramsay. He founded the Model Lodging House in Virginia Street, and was one of the original founders of the " Aberdeen Association for the Improvement of the Dwellings of the Labouring Classes," which institutions are still in existence. To these Hendersons of Caskieben we owe the protection and lay-out of the Standing Stones of Dyce, one of the finest stone circles in Scotland, and likewise the " Tappie," or cairn, on Tyrebagger Hill. Alexander is buried at Tullich, near Ballater, among his mother's people, the Farquharsons of Whitehouse and Shiels. The great-grandfather of the de Fayes, John Henderson, returned from his plantation in Jamaica in 1785, with his black servant, Thomas, and purchased Caskieben in 1792. He founded two Arts Bursaries in Marischal College. Fearing lest he should die before his young sons, Charles and William, had finished their course at the Grammar School, he included this recommendation in his will : " I advise and enjoin my sons, Charles and William, to bind themselves apprentice to some trade or profession—almost any trade or calling will answer, if steadfastly persevered in with attention." Last Saturday, with Class III A, we made a circle on foot around Caskieben estate, examining the relics of the Henderson owners (1792-1880)—the fine Stone Circle, well dyked, and planted with trees ; the " Tappie " on the highest point of the estate, and now disintegrating ; the well-made service

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roads leading to the estate meal-mill and linking the Inverurie turnpike road with the railway at Kinaldie ; the woodlands planted by these distinguished F.P.s ; and the many crofts and small farms made by them out of moorland and marsh. So successful were they in trenching, draining, and improving their estate that the rental rose from £212 in 1795 to £1,000 in 1840. The name de Faye has been associated with French Protestantism since the Reformation: this is proved by the existence of the following book—" Propositions and Principles of Divinitie propounded and disputed in the Universitie of Geneva by certain students of Divinitie there, under Theod. Beza and Anthonie Faius . . . wherein is contained a Methodical Summarie of the Commonplaces of Divinitie." Translated out of Latine into English by John Penry. Edinburgh, R. Waldegrave, 1591. A. A. C. ABERDEEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL,

31st October, 1929. ADDENDUM.—The " Roll of Pupils " mentions only one volume of minutes of Town Council Visitations to the Grammar School, viz., 1764-1856 ; P. J. Anderson, in his Spalding Club volume dealing with the Town House Records, mentions two volumes ; as a matter of fact there are three, viz., 1700-1763, 1764-1856, 1857-1872. Next year the School will once more come under the wing of the Town Council : let us hope that the Town Council will resume its annual official Visitations upon Prize Day.

Two Ropes in Savoie. The smell of a coiled climbing rope slung over the shoulder puts a leap into the heart. One whiff of the rope and all its old mountaineering associations rush to the mind—its associations with buttress, slab, and chimney ; with snow-bridges, crevasses, and bergschrund; with loose rock and sound ; with care-free glissades and punctilious belaying ; with overhangs, knife-edges, and ledges ; with couloir and refuge huts ; with team work and comradeship. When, therefore, one night in Savoie I slept with two others across two narrow beds kept from drifting apart by the rope wound round and round their iron uprights, my thoughts were all on climbing. My nose was to the rope and a week's climbing behind me. One breath of rope and the mind was eleven thousand feet up in the Alps. A week before, eight of us had gathered at the Les Evettes chalet-hotel, in Savoie, close upon the French-Italian border. All that week we had set out regularly in the dawn for the peaks which sentinelled Italy and which encircled the glacier coming down to our chalet from the south. They had been

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mornings of 3.30 to 4.30 a.m. risings out of comfortable truckle beds into hard, practical climbing kit ; lamp- and candle-light mornings kept fresh by hot coffee and buttered French bread, and rare glimpses of moonlight on the glacier and rosy dawns on the peaks. Daily we had tramped up the stony paths by the side of the glacier, over the moraines and the glacier itself until, the crevasses opening across our path, we had to rope up and follow, each party, its leader. The two ropes were never on the same peak together. Peter and Hal, who had experience of Alpine climbing, were leaders, and they led their ropes each up a different mountain from day to day. We were, therefore, mainly concerned with • Chlet--hohel

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for the progress of our own rope ; but we kept an eye open the trail of the other. There was, for instance, the morning our rope, Hal's rope, for hours stuck at the back of a 'schrund —the crack where the glacier came off the rock-wall of the mountain—and watched Peter's rope ascend and descend Albaron, whose summit was some thousands of feet higher than that of our mountain. There was the day we traversed Grande Ciamarella and looked down upon the other party's assault upon Petite Ciamarella. There was, moreover, great at delight derived from an inter-rope discussion over dinner amusing quite pitch a such and such found had night : we yesterday ; how did they find it to-day ? Quite " amusing " ! Hal said this to Peter one night across Ciamarella the table. " I think you'll find the north ridge of and Hal's to-morrow," it try you if Peter, quite amusing, his rope told and plans eyes twinkled. Peter had no other 3.30. at called be they would

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Our rope rose late and went up Pic Regaud to watch the fun. Ciamarella by the north ridge had been our climb of the day before, and it had taken from 4 in the morning to 8 at night. We knew our times from point to point, and it was going to be an amusement to compare them with Peter's. Here was to be something in the nature of a race. We looked for Peter's rope first at the top of the north ridge. Some two hours before Peter was due there, we picked up a party of four well above this point on the ice of the summit ridge. H'm, we thought ; someone is well ahead of Peter : he is having company on Ciamarella to-day. We climbed leisurely to our own summit and spread ourselves there in the blazing sun to eat breakfast and watch for Peter's arrival at the top of the north ridge. We looked in vain. Our attention was drawn to the ice-ridge running down from Petite Ciamarella : four silhouettes were slowly descending. These, we argued, must be Peter's forerunners on Ciamarella : they had reached the summit and had traversed, as we ourselves had done yesterday, westwards to Petite Ciamarella and were now coming down to the glacier by Selle d'Albaron. Someone made the ridiculous suggestion that this was Peter's rope ! As figures were still not forthcoming upon the north, ridge we accepted another suggestion, far less ridiculous, that Peter had failed, and gave our attention to the party descending Petite Ciamarella. We watched it move along the skyline to Selle d'Albaron. Soon it became evident that this party was not yet descending but was carrying on still farther west to climb Albaron. We lost interest in Peter and these four peak-baggers, and went down Pic Regaud. Over lunch at the foot we looked hard and hopelessly for any sign of Peter. The problem-party, however, was again in view at the Selle d'Albaron on its return from Albaron, and was moving down the ice towards us. It was going quickly, and possibly it might overtake us on our way back to the chalet. Two miles from home, about 3 in the afternoon, we were going at our ease down the bouldered path when we heard a shout. We turned, and there, leaping and running towards us, flourishing ice-axes, came Peter's rope ! The ridiculous suggestion, then, was the right one ; it had been Peter's rope all along. Peter had traversed the whole Ciamarella-Albaron ridge in twelve hours : we had taken sixteen hours to the traverse, and we had missed out the long climb up Albaron. The race was easily Peter's. A defeat by a peak and four hours, however, did nothing to lessen the pleasure of our own climb on Ciamarella. When, at 7 in the morning we gained the north ridge, we stood for many minutes to look down upon the billowy sea of clouds

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which filled the great plain of Italy and out into which ran ridge after ridge of mountains, like headlands along a sea-coast. Thereafter, tranquil outlooks were somewhat disturbed by uneasy stances. There was the awkward eighty-foot traverse along the junction of ice and rock wall where the first check to a fall—let us say of rock !—was the 'schrund, or crack, hundreds of feet down the long and steep ice-slope. There was the corniced ice-ridge of Ciamarella broken, most unexpectedly, by a crevasse, a crevasse bridged by snow just where it cut the cornice—a most delicate pathway, with Italy and clouds immediately on our left ; France and a fine crevasse on our right, and a free circulation of air and daylight through the snowbridge under our feet. There was, very soon after, the prolonged step-cutting up an ice-slope to the summit itself, wherefrom we looked down a gully, moving with disintegrating rock and mud, flanked by a cliff like Beachy Head, and on whose tip one of our party momentarily fell asleep ! There was the summit itself, where we missed, according to Peter, the effigy of a saint in a shrine, and where, over a late breakfast, we sat in Italy wondering if Italian Alpini would surprise us and march us off at revolver point to Turin. There were the ticklish scrambles on bad rock, and the fruitless attempts to get off the ridge, which compelled us to go up Petite Ciamarella, a summit finally gained by crawling on ice under an overhanging rock-wall. There was the airy passage along the cliff top to Selle d'Albaron, where we looked down into the couloir, or gully, whose ascent two days before had taken us seven and a half hours ; and where, espying two Alpini on the glacier to the south, we dared not photograph until they were out of sight. There was the prolonged halt when we did take out our cameras and train them upon Mont Blanc, rising high out of the peaks to the North and upon the whole of the magnificent ridge we had just traversed—Pointe de Chalanson, Petite Ciamarella and Grande Ciamarella behind all. And we had said, " We shall make Peter do it all to-morrow and see what he thinks of it ! " A fine thing it is to have a bathe after a strenuous day's climbing. We were too late for one that day of Ciamarella. All other days we went down to the rock-pools under the chalet to soap and swim and sun. The water there was deep and warm ; and when the French were sailing their wood and paper boats in one pool we would go to another and have it to ourselves for an hour. Our enjoyment was shared by the folks at the chalet. The visitors who came up the mountain path from Bonneval sat out upon the rock platform of the chalet and watched our fun. Two days after our arrival the chalet-keepers erected a wire fence around the platform, with a gate at the end of the Bonneval path ; and the laugh went round our party that they were charging for admission to see the English bathe !

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A daily marvel was Mont Blanc. I first saw the peak on the morning our rope climbed the couloir, or gully, on Petite Ciamarella. At 7 a.m. we had made a delicate crossing of the 'schrund, or crack, at the head of the Les Evettes glacier and were ensconced in a trench between the rock and the ice by the side of the couloir. Hal was making a daring lead on the rock above, out of sight ; and all we knew of his existence was by the rope being drawn out and out, and by disturbed loose rock bounding down over our heads into the 'schrund underneath. Hal took out the entire hundred feet of rope and Tony, D'avid, and I had an hour or two to look about. The sun had not yet come round upon us, and we shivered as we lay back against the rock, our feet on ice. The Les Evettes glacier trailed away below to the chalet on its rock. Beyond that rose range after range of peaks ; and beyond all rose a dome of purest white—a kind of Polly's cap—Mont Blanc, the ancient Monarch of the Mountains. Was this the mountain top upon which Michael and I—unguided, as Michael proposed —hoped to set our feet before we left France ? Impossible, I thought, that the ascent of such a massif could be a " most commonplace exploit." A mutter as of distant thunder stirred my curiosity. " What's that ? " " Avalanches," I was told. The ominous sound continued. A shout from Hal and the free end of the rope came hurtling down upon us ; it was Tony's turn to rope up again and follow Hal : he climbed over and left the panorama and the rumble of the avalanches to David and me. We looked towards Albaron. Peter's rope, which we had seen on the glacier when first we entered our cold trench, was moving on the sky-line not far off the top ; and here were we, struggling with the entrance to a couloir, at the very bottom of our peak ! Gradually Mont Blanc began to extort respect : in strength such as his, I felt, there was nothing to sentimentalize about ; I must have no pretty illusions about him ; Mont Blanc, surely, was " beautiful and horrible, cruel and kind," and utterly implacable. All that forenoon as we climbed the couloir—for we all got into it at last—Mont Blanc, with unclouded brow, kept his strength before our eyes, emphasized and augmented from time to time by the endless difficulties of the couloir—the looseness of its rock, the giving of a massive handgrip, the temporary steepening of slope, the uncertainty of a way out at the top. And when we were only half-way up we could see Peter down again from Albaron on the glacier below. At last, at 2.30 in the afternoon, we found our way out upon the Petite Ciamarella ridge and at a spot where we could have breakfast. Mont Blanc was at our backs, out of sight behind the ridge, and we were now looking south over Italy to the Maritime Alps, running out in a long tapering point eastwards into a haze of clouds. The sardines went down,

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the pate de foie gras, the cheese, the chocolate, the raw prunes. We packed up. Too late to continue the climb to our summit, we turned west along the ridge to Selle d'Albaron. Mont Blanc came again in sight. His hopeless savagery had gone ; only his sublimity remained. What comfortable security follows a good breakfast ! A feeling of security still more complete is to be found in an Alpine chalet-hotel. " You in settled lands, unless you know what trouble is, have never seen the serenity of evening when you have found, without expecting it, shelter for the night ; you don't know what the taste of bread' and meat is, nor what it is to sleep." Whoever said that might have been thinking of an Alpine chalet-hotel—that at Entre des Eaux, where I lay with my nose to the rope dreaming of Les Evettes and Ciamarella and Mont Blanc and afternoon breakfasts. We came to the chalet as darkness fell. At 5 in the morning we had left Les Evettes and gone down the path into the Valley of the Arc, through Bonneval, and along the busy road to Modane. Cow-bells were never silent ; grasshoppers—winged blue and carmine fellows—sprang and sang everywhere; chapel-bells rang out ; dames on mules went to devotion ; cars and bicycles passed up and down; stonebreakers hammered at their heaps ; fishers cast in the muddy stream ; French artillery thronged Llanslebourg ; there were greengages and peaches to buy and clear streams to drink : the Arc valley was a joy to walk that Sunday morning. At Termignon, in the afternoon, we turned off the Rodane road to Entre des Eaux in the north. Pine woods high ahead promised cool shade ; but long before we came to them we were hot and exhausted, our backs breaking with ropes and full rucksacks. Our party split without intention and wandered upwards in two sections. We strayed, 0 joy! into woods and along the cool bed of a stream. In the late afternoon we came together again upon the heights on a path cut in the solid rock,where mules were going up and down with their loads. We rested, and the view down into Termignon was worth a broken back. We carried on, painfully blistered, up tantalizing zig-zags,until the path straightened out on the watershed. Now much farther ? Hal alone knew. Rain came, and an early dusk. We looked now into a new valley. The rainclouds passed, and the snows of the Grande Casse—the peak of our heart's desire—were in front. Rejoiced, we hurried down into the valley, each by his own short-cut, and gathered at a stone bridge over a torrent. Darkness came, and Hal led up the side of a dyke that ended in the yard of a farm—the chalethotel of Entre des Eaux—a resting-place at long last. Nothing proclaimed to the traveller that here were meat and beds ; but it was no mean shelter. In a few minutes we had taken over two bedrooms and had washed the dust of

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twenty-five miles off our bodies and had patched up our feet. Within half-an-hour we were down to a dinner that even long forewarning of our arrival could not have bettered : and in another hour Peter, Tony, and I were in the double-bedded structure held together by the rope, with Gordon blanketed on the floor at our feet. I was not alone in my sense of security that night. Tony dreamt of his homecoming and stroking the head of his Aberdeen terrier that rushed to greet him. There was proof of Tony's dream, for Tony had wakened me in the night by soundly ruffling my hair ! Two days later we were again out of bed at the dawn and off to our peaks. From Entre des Eaux we made an easy day's trek to the chalet-hotel of Felix Faur at the foot of the Grande Casse, a centre less delightful than Les Evettes. There was too much of the tripper atmosphere about Felix Faur. I remember being inwardly annoyed at sight of an elderly lady standing on top of the last rise of the path as we approached the chalet. She was a worthy soul, no doubt ; but her presence there at once removed all sense of remoteness from char-a-banc routes and watering-places and millinery stores. At the chalet itself bunches of edelweiss, hung on the pegs with cameras and binoculars, were disgustingly common. Even the Grande Casse at its foot was not a pleasure to the eye —a vast grey-black rubbish heap, the end-moraine of its glacier, which was like nothing so much as a town's dustbin dump. The dawn could not clothe Felix Faur in truly Alpine robes. When, however, we got on the heights we were alone with the real thing—the aiguilles and the ice, and the blue skies and the little birds called choughs ; and the Grande Casse, if it had its feet in the mud, had its head in the stars ; and over against it in the south was the splendid white snowfield of the Vanoise, which caught the sun at dawn and recalled moorlands in Scotland under the sun of a January afternoon. We saw Peter's rope climb the Grande Casse. From a giddy breakfast table on the Petite Aiguille of the Gliere we watched his party working their way up the glacier near the summit, and we wondered if his difficult bit of work was to have its reward ; for the blue skies of other days were rapidly becoming hid by rolling cloud masses. Peter succeeded, and all his rope were buoyed up with the joy of a fine climb. Our rope never made the Grande Casse. When, the morning after Peter's achievement, Hal rose at 3.30 to awaken our rope, he could see scarcely anything for clouds : all he did see was a substantial fall of snow whitening the rocks. The day for the Grande Casse, therefore, was spent amusing the hens around the door of the chalet—hens so unkept that George wondered at their ability to lay such scrumptious omelettes.

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We had to depart next day. But before we went from Felix Faur in the evening, we had the thrill of the meet in the traverse of the Aiguille de la Vanoise. Hal's rope began at one end of the ridge and Peter's at the other ; and both ropes met on top for breakfast. A sardine (if the eater's hand was shaky) fell a clear thousand feet into the valley below : and if the eater was facetious and threw the sardine over his shoulder, it had five hundred feet to fall to the floor of another valley. Tiny trippers coming up from Pralognon on the thousand-foot side, would have been amazed, no doubt, to have a sardine drop upon them from the blue. With their binoculars they might have spotted us on the ridge over their heads ; and if they had, they would have sat down and thought, " Well, if these chaps ever come down alive, we shall forgive them the sardine," for they would have seen Hal's rope go east and Peter's go west along what appeared from below a truly sensational ridge. We taking part had the sensational shared with the aesthetic sense : it was a thrill with a view, and the appeal of the latter kept our heads steady. Peter's rope had the glory of the Pralognon valley, and we the sublimity of the Grande Casse summit continually before the eyes. That evening we went down to Pralognon, and I well remember how Gordon and I went along singing all the way from under our aiguille of the afternoon, through the valley, with its tinkle of cow-bells, through the woods—O, joy! to be in woods again—and into the outskirts of the town. Next day we went all together by char-a-banc along the road to Chamonix, we—even we—travelling as did the elderly ladies with lapdogs. And from the comfortable seats of the char-a-banc we saw the outer ramparts of Mont Blanc. At that moment the feeling of security was dominant ; for on a nearby Alp a little girl was sitting at the feet of her granny, tending the cows, and Mont Blanc was all in a picture of profound peace. At Le Fayet, under Mont Blanc, Michael and I said farewell to the others and left them to run on to Chamonix. We went off to an open-air breakfast and to preparations for Mont Blanc. And Mont Blanc we climbed. Coming down into Chamonix in the late afternoon of the day of our climb, Michael and I entered woods. Across our path ran little streams, pure and cool ; and raspberry bushes grew laden with fruit. We drank and picked and ate, for we had thirsted bitterly on Mont Blanc. Like the sailor home frcim sea, I sighed, " Why can't I always be where a lad can pluck an apple from an overhanging tree " : but I knew that I should not, any more than the sailor, stay long among the orchards at home. ARTHUR G. HUTCHISON.

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• .• 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. James George Allan* (1919-25), formerly of Pityot, Muchalls, is now on the. Lellopitiya Estates, Ratnapura, Ceylon. Albert John Angus* (1919-20) is in the Bank of Montreal at Ayr, Ontario. He entered the Bank's service at Hamilton, Ont., in May, 1928. John William Benzie* (1912-19) has passed the final examination of the Chartered Accountants of Scotland. He served his apprenticeship with Messrs. James Meston & Co., C.A., Aberdeen. Frank Charles Briscoe Black* (1914-17), who has been for some years in the service of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, latterly in New York, left London in September to take up duty in the office of the Bank at Hongkong. He expects to be there for about five years. Edmund Blaikie Boyd* (1900-12), M.A., of the Colonial Office, has been made secretary of a committee appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies " to consider and report on applications for assistance from the Colonial Development Fund in furtherance of schemes likely to aid and develop agriculture and industry in the Colonies, Protectorates, and Mandated Territories, and thereby promote commerce with, or industry in, the United Kingdom." William Bulloch* (1877-80), M.D., LL.D., F.R,S., Professor of Bacteriology in the University of London, has written an elaborate introduction to the Medical Research Council's Report on the preparation of sterilized surgical ligatures, which was published at the beginning of November. He traces the whole history of the use of catgut, which, it appears, is one of the oldest aids to surgery. There is a record that it was used by Galen, who died in 201 A.D. The origin of the word " catgut " is obscure, for from time immemorial catgut has been made from the intestines of herbivorous animals. • Member of Former Pupils' Club.

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James Jolly Calder* (1866-69), M.A., who has been minister of the parish of Cairney, Aberdeenshire, since 1900, celebrated his ministerial jubilee in June. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Aberdeen in 1877, being appointed in that year assistant in Huntly, and on 19th June, 1879, he was ordained and inducted to the parish of Rhyme, Aberdeenshire. William Robert Clapperton* (1899-1901), M.A. (Durham), Ph.D., D.D., Rector of the Scots College, Rome, at a " seduta intiparatoria " held in July by the Congregation of Sacred Rites to decide on the beatification of the Scottish martyr John Ogilvie, acted as postulator in defending the martyr's case against the objections advanced by the " Devil's Advocate." He was supported by a delegation from Scotland, who maintained a firm national attitude, insisting that Ogilvie be beatified apart from certain English martyrs, and possibly ahead of them. George Norman Clark* (1916-22), M.B., Ch.B., is at present House Surgeon to the Belgrave Hospital for Children, London. William Robertson Clark* (1907-11), of the Gold Coast Railways, sails for home at the end of November after completing a " tour" of 18 months, over twelve of which have been spent at Kumasi. This, he says, is a fine station, cool and healthy, and he has not had a day's illness. James William Spence Cobban* (1920-21) is on the Masuri Sana Tobacco Estates, P.O. M'tepetepa, Bindura, Southern Rhodesia. He says that things are far from bright and out there at present. The tobacco market is glutted, The only a very small part of this year's crop has been sold. " home smoker seems quite unable to appreciate our tobacco, and the American stuff seems to be as much in favour as ever." The maize crop, however, is above the average this year, and that is the only thing that will keep the tobacco growers going. Harry George Coutts* (1908-13) is with the Dooars Tea Co., Ltd., on Grassmore Estate, Nagrakata, Dooars, Bengal. John Ross Donald* (1913-24) recently received an appointment on a rubber plantation in the F.M.S. with Messrs. Harrisons & Crosfield, Ltd., and sailed for the East in the beginning of October. Percival Howard Douglas* (1913-22), having completed the Diploma Course at the Aberdeen School of Architecture, has received an appointment in the offices of the London County Council. James Lindsay Duncan* (1911-24), M.A., LL.B., ' five summers ago left a visitors' book at the Shelter Stone on the slopes of Ben Macdhui near the head of Loch Avon, in the

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heart of the Cairngorms. When the book was deposited, it was left inside a tin for protection. Four winters having reduced it to a rather sodden condition, the donor last August left another book in its place. The pages of the first book Among the names of contain very interesting entries. visitors to the Shelter Stone there appears that of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister. In view of the inaccessibility of the place, it is remarkable how many people travel up the mountain slopes. On the average, the Shelter Stone appears to have about 100 visitors in the course of a year. The description of experiences undergone nearly all tell the same tale of hardships endured by reason of the inclemency of the weather. Alfred George Emslie* (1912-24), who graduated M.B., Ch.B. at the University in July, was appointed, as from 15th September last, one of the Resident Medical Officers at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Robert Forgan* (1898-1908), M.P., M.A., M.D., has been appointed a member of the Colonial Advisory Council on Agriculture and Animal Health. George Topham Forrest* (1879-1889), Architect to the London County Council, will have his work greatly increased on the 1st of April next when the Local Government Act, 1929, comes into operation. This Act imposes new duties on the London County Council, embracing institutional management, administration of outdoor poor relief, maintenance and treatment of the sick poor in hospitals, and classification, maintenance, and care of persons suffering from mental infirmity or defect. The volume of work and responsibility involved may be gauged by the fact that there are about 77,000 persons in the various buildings to be taken over. Mr. Forrest's responsibility includes the design and erection of all new buildings, alterations, adaptations, and enlargements of existing buildings, and requires the application of specialized experience in hospital work. Douglas Christian Fraser* (1907-17), who has been home on sick leave for about eighteen months, is returning to Upper Assam to take up an appointment on the Lukwah Tea Estate. James Milner Fraser* (1918-20) has been for over two years in the service of the Singapore Improvement Trust. He says that they have a very interesting job out there, and that there is plenty of room for "improvement." The amount of work to be done is reflected by the fact that when he arrived there were three European assistants—or rather Australians—and now there are thirteen, and more are coming along. The latest addition to the staff was William B. S. Pigge* (1914-21), who arrived in the spring of this year.

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Stanley Fowler Gaiter* (1915-16), who has been in Colombia since 1921, has recently been appointed Chief Accountant of his company—Cia de Luz y Fuerza Electrica— at Cali. William Wares Georgeson* (1911-23), M.A., in June obtained a Second in " Greats " at Oxford, where he was a classical scholar at Pembroke College for two years. In September it was announced that he had secured a place in the open competition for the Indian Civil Service. He has been posted to Madras, but will be at Pembroke College for another year. William Cowan Glegg* (1898-99) has recently received an appointment as Hydrographic Surveyor to the Government of the Federated Malay States. He previously held a Government appointment at Port Harcourt, Nigeria. John King Grant* (1914-16), M.B., Ch.B., who has been for some time on the staff of the Aberdeen Royal Mental Hospital, has been appointed Senior Medical Assistant at Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum. James Harvey* (1870-75), M.A., D.D., who was Principal Clerk to the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland, has become Joint Senior Clerk of the General Assembly of the reunited Church of Scotland. He has been minister of Lady Glenorchy's, Edinburgh, since 1890, and was Moderator of the U.F. Church General Assembly in 1925. He was appointed Junior Principal Clerk of this Assembly in 1916, and Principal Clerk in 1920. John Rae Hay* (1910-13) is on Kemuning Estate, Tebong, Malacca. Robert Blake Worsley Holmes* (1895-96), O.B.E., who has been General Manager and Chief Engineer of the Palestine Railways since 1920, is resigning his appointment this year. He commenced in service under the Colonial Office in 1900, when he was appointed an assistant engineer on the construction of the Lagos Railway. During the War he did valuable work, rising to the rank of Colonel in the Royal Engineers, and was responsible for the entire evacuation of troops by rail from Syria. Herbert Owen Hopkins (1914-18), M.A., has resigned his position as Organizing Secretary to the North of Scotland District Council of the League of Nations Union, and taken up duties as Assistant Secretary to the Famous Lasky Film Service, Ltd., in London. Arthur Gilbertson Hutchison* (1909-21), B.Sc., left in October for Sarawak to engage in oil exploration under " Dutch-Shell." He expects to be there for the next three years. James Patrick Jeffrey* (1906-18) has passed the final

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examination of the Chartered Accountants of Scotland. He served his apprenticeship with Messrs James A. Jeffrey and Co., C.A., Aberdeen. Norman Macdonald Johnstone* (1895-1905), who was formerly in the service of the London and Brazilian Bank, is now resident in Vancouver, B.C. John Laird (1901-03), M.A., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Aberdeen, is the author of a volume recently published by the Cambridge University Press entitled " The Idea of Value." Eric R. R. Linklater* (1913-16), M.A., has followed up his first novel, " White Maa's Saga," with a second, entitled " Poet's Pub." This is a farcical comedy. " The story is one long series of improbabilities, but that does not matter in the least. The book is first-rate entertainment." William Still Littlejohn* (1872-75), M.A., Principal of the Scotch College, Melbourne, was the subject of special notice in the May issue of the Scotch Collegian, the splendid magazine of the College, the occasion being the conferring on the Principal of the honorary degree of LL.D. by the University of Aberdeen. " A tribute of a kind rarely accorded to an Australian Head Master," it says, " has this term come to our Principal from overseas. The conferring of the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by Aberdeen University is something of which every Scotch Collegian may well be proud. Our School was founded in 1851, and Dr. Littlejohn was appointed Principal in 1903, so that out of the seventy-eight years of its existence, twenty-five have been passed under the control of the accomplished, devoted, and popular head who is now, and has long been among the acknowledged leaders of Empire education. This latest honour, to say the least, shows that the work of the School in general, and of our Principal in particular, has spread beyond the limits of Victoria and Australia. We can only offer our congratulations, and express satisfaction that the labour devoted during the past twenty-five years to the task of developing this, the largest Public School in Australia, has at last been acknowledged, and that the acknowledgment comes from a source that makes it all the more appreciated." This issue of the Scotch Collegian is adorned by a fine portrait of Dr. Littlejohn, and by a reproduction of Mr. Jackson Simpson's etching of King's College Chapel and Crown. The Old Scotch Collegians' Association entertained Dr. Littlejohn at dinner on 27th March, which was the actual date on which the University of Aberdeen conferred on him the LL.D. degree, and by a strange coincidence was exactly fifty years from the day when the same University granted him the degree of Master of Arts. Norman H. S. Macbeth* (1919-24) sailed in November

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to take up an appointment with the Elk Hill Coffee Estates, Sidapur, South Coorg, India. Robert Forbes McFarlane* (1921-25), B.Com., has recently entered a market-garden and fruit-growing business at Kingsburgh, Prestonkirk, East Lothian. Alexander Morrice Mackay* (1882-91)—Lord Mackay —M.A., LL.D., is Chairman of the Royal Commission which has been set up to investigate the whole field of legislation relating to the sale and supply of excisable liquor in Scotland, and to report what amendment in the law, if any, is desirable in the public interest. Lord Mackay, it will be remembered, was raised to the Scottish Bench last year. Alfred Scott Mackie* (1905-09), M.B., Ch.B., has been promoted to the rank of Senior Medical Officer in the Colonial Medical Service, and transferred from Kenya Colony, where he has been for nearly ten years, to Tanganyika. John James Rickard Macleod* (1884-93), M.B., Ch.B., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., Regius Professor of Physiology in the University of Aberdeen, was in August appointed a member of the Medical Research Council by an order of the Committee of the Privy Council, after consultation with the Medical Research Council and with the President of the Royal Society. Professor Macleod has also been appointed the John Farquhar Thomson Lecturer in the University of Aberdeen for 1930-31. John MacMurray (1902-04), M.C., M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, was in September appointed Grote Professor of Philosophy of the Mind and Logic in University College, London. It is interesting to recall that a previous occupant of this chair was another F.P.—GEORGE CROOM ROBERTSON (1853-57), who was elected in 1866, and ten years later became the first editor of Mind. Alexander Gunn MacNeill* (1905-09), A.M. Inst .C.E., has recently terminated his engagement as Harbour Engineer to the Kailan Mining Administration of Tientsin, North China, and intends to settle in England for a time. He mentions in a recent letter that he " saw a lot of Major Gordon Cheyne [1901-05] up in the North during the ' wars ' of 1928, as our Port of Chinwangtao was used as a base by the British forces who rushed to the protection of our mines at Tongshan. Cheyne held an important post on the Medical Services Staff." Edward George Marnoch* (1918-21) is now in the service of Messrs. Babcock & Wilcox, Renfrew. He was previously with Messrs. Spencer, Ltd., Melksham, Wilts. James William Slessor Marr* (1913-19), M.A., B.Sc., set sail on 1st August on board the Discovery from the East

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India Dock, London, as plankton expert of the BritishAustralian-New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition. Two years' research is to be carried out in the south Australian seas under the direction of Sir Douglas Mawson. One of the objects of the expedition is to endeavour to chart some of the great gaps along the Antarctic coastline, and to study the life and habits of the whale for commercial purposes. The possibility of making settlements is another object of the expedition. The settlements would not be merely for the fishing—which is the richest in the world—but for the mining of the great mineral resources which abound there. The exact location of the coastline of the sector to be explored is of material importance to Australia. Tedious hours will be spent in locating and charting miles of coast, islands, rocks, and shoals. . Robert Pearson Masson* (1903-04), M.A., LL.B., who for some years has been a partner of the firm of Messrs. Lumsden & Davidson, advocates, Aberdeen, joined the firm of Messrs. C. & P. H. Chalmers, advocates, in the beginning of September. He served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Chalmers, and was an assistant in their office for a number of years. He has been Lecturer in Roman Law at the University of Aberdeen since 1926, and was previously Lecturer in Agricultural Law. Keith Robert Thomson Matthew* (1912-24), M.B., Ch.B., has received a hospital appointment in Glasgow. James Mearns* (1890-93), who after the War became chief diver for Messrs. C. J. Wills & Sons, contractors, Westminster, is now resident at Lampton, Hounslow, Middlesex. John Minto* (1878- 80), M.A., Librarian of the Signet Library, Edinburgh, has compiled a volume entitled " Reference Books : A Classified and Annotated Guide to the Principal Works of Reference," which has recently been published. The work has been prepared under the auspices of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and the Library Association. Every student and research worker knows (says The Times Literary Supplement) that the value of good works of reference is only equalled by the difficulty of finding a clue or guide to the work of reference that he needs. This most useful book will tell him a thousand things quickly and without effort—it lists, for instance, the vast and valuable publications of the Public Record Office and Record Commissioners, details of which, without such a guide as this, are only to be acquired by exercise of considerable labour. The librarian, research worker, or general reader is provided with a guide which will save him time and ensure him, so far as this is possible, against overlooking something which he needs. Charles H. Moir* (1873-76), who is the F.P. Club Consul

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for Guatemala, where he has been resident almost continuously since 1892, reports that he had a visit recently from JOHN Ross EssoN* (1893-97), who was on a business trip to Central America. " Over a friendly dinner we enjoyed a chat about Aberdeen and reminiscences of the old School. You can imagine how pleasant it was for me to see him and have news of town and School, especially here, where I am (as far as I know) the only Aberdonian, and the only member of the F.P. Club in this part of the world." Mr. Moir says that there is not much doing in the consulship. He receives only occasionally a letter from an old " Grammarian " asking for information about the country and its prospects ; also requests for an exchange of postage stamps. He says his stock for this purpose is now almost exhausted 1 Robert Buchanan Morton*. (1881-91), organist and director of music, House of Hope Presbyterian Church, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A., recently published an article on " Church Music and Worship" in the New Music Review. He was a delegate to the National Association of Organists Convention held in Toronto, Canada, at the endof August, in conjunction with the Convention of the Canadian Organists. Donald Hunter Munro* (1916-17), chief assistant director of the Aberdeen Broadcasting Station has recently been appointed studio manager at 2LO. Ian Mackenzie Munro* (1921-23), M. B., Ch.B. (a brother of Donald H. Munro), has been appointed house surgeon for special subjects in Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle. Hugh Alexander Murray* (1919-25), M.A., was in October awarded the Fullerton, Moir and Gray Scholarship in Classics at Aberdeen University. Alexander Adam McIntosh Nicol* (1915-17), M.B., Ch.B., has started in medical practice in Sunderland. David Bruce Nicol* (1900- 02), M.A., B.D., of St. Mark's Parish Church, Dundee, was in July called to Govan Parish Church. He is a son of the late Professor Thomas Nicol of Aberdeen University, and a brother of JOHN UNDERWOOD NICOL* (1900-01), who is resident secretary in Aberdeen of the Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society. William Nicol (1917-18), C.A., who is with Messrs. Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Co., C.A., London, has been admitted to membership of the Aberdeen Chartered Accountants' Society. Douglas Petfield (1912-16), who came prominently before the public three years ago as one of the survivors of the disaster to the Eastway, which was sunk in a gale off the Bermudas at the same time as H.M.S. Valerian, was in July charged in Glasgow with murder. The case was dealt

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with at the autumn sitting of the High Court of Justiciary in Glasgow, when the presiding Judges were two Former Pupils of the School—the Lord Justice-Clerk (Lord Alness) and Lord Mackay. Pet field was found to be insane, and was ordered to be " detained in strict custody until His Majesty's pleasure be known." Eric McLeod Raffan* (1913-24), who served as an apprentice in the North of Scotland Bank, Aberdeen, has received an appointment in the Royal Bank of Canada in Cuba, and sailed for Havana in November. David Herbert Rennett* (1910-21), who is on the Architect's staff of the London County Council, has recently gained a three years' studentship at the Royal Academy School of Architecture, London. James Leslie Rennett* (1913-26) left in October for Sumatra to take up an appointment with Messrs. Harrisons and Crosfield on one of their estates there. John Scott Riddell* (1876-79), M.V.O., C.B.E., M.A., M.B., C.M., LL.D., has been appointed Honorary Colonel, R.A.M.C. Units, 51st Highland Division, Territorial Army, vice Hon. Col. Sir ALEXANDER OGSTON (1855-58), K.C. V. O., M.D. (deceased). Douglas Alexander Robb* (1913-23) has passed the final examination of the Chartered Accountants of Scotland. He served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Flockhart & Grant, C.A., Aberdeen. George Stanley Russell* (1894-1901), M.A., was on 22nd September last inducted minister of Deer Park United Church, Toronto. He was chairman of the London Congregational Union last year, and has taken a prominent part in the work of the Congregational denomination throughout England. Cecil Arthur Grant Savidge* (1913-24), who passed into the Indian Civil Service last year, sailed in November to take up duty as Assistant Commissioner in the Central Provinces, India. He has agreed to act as F.P. Club Consul for these Provinces. James Harold Sim* (1901-06) has been for a number of years on the staff of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in its Lombard Street office, London, and has recently been appointed accountant at the Halifax branch of the Bank in Nova Scotia. Sir Andrew Skeen* (1880- 86), K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C. M.G., Lieutenant-General, late Chief of the General Staff in India, who was chairman of the Indian Sandhurst Committee which reported on the subject of Indianization early last year, gave witness in July before a meeting of the Statutory Commis-

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sion and the Indian Central Committee held at the House of Lords, when attention was turned to questions of defence, such as further Indianization of commissioned officers' ranks. Robert Stewart Slessor* (1927-29) has gone to Kiel for six months to study German, prior to starting as a medical student at Aberdeen University. James Cruickshank Smith* (1882-83), B.Sc., has gone to reside at San Gervasio, Barcelona, Spain. He has been connected with the paint, colour, and varnish industry in London for thirty-six years, and in future will confine his attention to consulting work. Archibald Douglas Spark* (1905-10), M.C., Major, 2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders, is at present stationed at Ballykinler Camp, County Down, Ireland. John Hastie Speirs* (1911-24), M.A., is studying at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. John Stewart* (1898-1905), M.A., who was appointed U.F. Church of Scotland Missionary in Manchuria in 1914, expects to be resident for the next few years at Hing King, by Moukden. Charles Strachan* (1919-25), M.A., has been awarded the Fullerton, Moir and Gray Scholarship in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. James Gordon Sutherland (1872-75), M.A., B.D., has been appointed Junior Clerk of the General Assembly of the reunited Church of Scotland. He is a son of the late Rev. James Sutherland (1832-37), of Turriff, and was for over 40 years minister at Galston, Ayrshire. He was elected Junior Principal Clerk of the General Assembly of the U.F. Church in 1920. James Runcieman Sutherland (1907-17), who is a lecturer in the University of Glasgow, has edited, supplying introduction, bibliography, and notes, a volume entitled "Three Plays: Tamerlane, The Fair Penitent, and Jane Shore," recently published by the Scholartis Press. The volume was the subject of a front-page article on Nicholas Rowe in The Times Literary Supplement of 10th October last, which concluded thus :—" Rowe knew his audience, his players, and the fashionable craft of the day. He reaped his reward in public favour, in substantial office, a fine tomb in Westminster Abbey, and, not least of all, in an editor who in 1929 reasonably indulges a mild enthusiasm for his performances and claims for him with justice and moderation a place in the history of the British theatre." James Frater Taylor* (1886-88), a director of Sir W G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd., has been appointed a member of the committee which has been set up by the Chan-

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cellor of the Exchequer " to inquire into banking finance and credit, paying regard to the factors both internal and international which govern their operation, and to make recommendations primarily for the relief of industries and calculated to enable these agencies to promote the development of trade and commerce and the employment of labour." Mr. Taylor, who was formerly president of the Algoma Steel Corporation, and a director of the Canadian Car and Foundry Company, was brought back to this country by the Bank of England in connection with the crisis in the affairs of the ArmstrongWhitworth Company. Ralph Spence Walker* (1910-22), M.A., is at present studying at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. He was in June awarded the James Dey Scholarship in Education in the University of Aberdeen. Maurice Joseph Williamson* (1894-1903), M.B., Ch.B., Major, R.A.M.C., when sending a cheque in July to help along the Boarding House Scheme, which, he says, " there can be no doubt will be a jolly good thing for the School," was at the time taking a holiday from the heat of Peshawar 8,000 feet up at Gulmang, Kashmir, which apparently is a regular golfers' paradise, with two really good courses. There were two other F.P.s up there to his knowledge—Lieut-Colonel HECTOR EDMOND* (1894-98), R.A., and Major FRANK GRIFFITH (1905-07), I.M.S. " Griffith and I hope to have a whack at the `Schools' foursomes next week. We are both single-figure handicaps, so we ought to have a chance of hoisting the School's name on the board in the Golf Club which chronicles the results for years back." This winter sees the end for him of a prolonged "tour" (six years) in India, and he hopes to be next year in Aberdeen once more. Andrew A. Willox* (1893-1900), formerly of Messrs. Harrisons, Barker & Co., Ltd., Klang, Selangor, F.M.S., is now resident at Cults, Aberdeen. George Alexander Wilson* (1920-23), M. B., Ch . B., is assistant medical officer at the South Wales Sanatorium, Talgarth, Breconshire. John Ewen Wilson* (1910-20) received an appointment at the end of last year as assistant engineer in the Public Works Department, F.M.S., and is at present stationed at Ipoh, Perak. John Leslie Inglis Wilson* (1913-18) has just left to take up an appointment in Buenos Aires. John Stevenson Wilson* (1919-23) has passed the final examination of the Chartered Accountants of Scotland. He served his apprenticeship with Messrs. James A. Jeffrey and Co., C.A., Aberdeen, and left in September to take up an appointment with Messrs. Price, Waterhouse, Faller and Co. at Buenos Aires.

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Douglas James Wood* (1908-21), M.A., is now Assistant in Latin in the Victoria University, Manchester. He was appointed Croom Robertson Fellow at Aberdeen University in 1927. John Houston Young* (1921-27) is at present studying at the College Lafayette, Chavaniac-Lafayette, Haute Loire, France. ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY DEGREES AND PRIZES.

At the Summer Graduation at Aberdeen University degrees were conferred on the following F.P.s :— Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)— John Wilford Foster (1911-14), M.B., Ch.B., Bieldside—with Honours. Thesis—" An Enquiry into the Correlation between Diet and the Incidence of Disease in two Contrasted African Tribes." Master of Arts (M.A.)— Charles Watt Michie* (1923-25), with Second Class Honours in French-Spanish. William Christie* (1919-23), with Second Class Honours in Latin-Spanish. James Smart Abernethy* (1925-26). Robert William Ingram Band* (1924-26). John Paterson Beveridge Gill* (1920-26). Charles Alexander Low* (1915-25). Alexander Cruden McBain (1921-26). Alfred Emerson Macdonald* (1922-25). John Smith MacRae* (1923-26). Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)— Ian Winsted Davidson (1912-24). Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (B.Sc.Agr. )— Thomas Yirrell Watson* (1919-25). Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.Sc.Eng.)— Godfrey Roy Symmers* (1912-24). Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.)— Robert Forbes McFarlane* (1921-25). George Alexander Riddell* (1915-26). Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)— Charles Grant Brown* (1921-24), M.A. Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.) and Bachelor of Surgery (Ch.B.)— Alfred George Emslie* (1912-24), with Second Class Honours. James Clark Bell* (1918-24). John MacArthur Croll* (1912-24). Ronald Duncan MacRae* (1916-23). Keith Ronald Thomson Matthew* (1912-24).

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In the Faculty of Law James Lindsay Duncan* (19111924), LL.B., was awarded the Edmond Prize (to the student graduating in law in 1928-29 with the highest number of marks). In the Faculty of Medicine Alfred Emerson Macdonald* (1922-25) was awarded the Lizars Gold Medal in Anatomy. South Africa : A Word of Advice. James Wyness MacGregor* (1910-23) went out to South Africa early in 1928 to take up fruit farming in Cape Province, but, to quote his own words : " After I had been at that game and had gone into the prospects and financial aspect thoroughly, I came to the conclusion it was a mug's game. It seemed to involve the maximum of work with only a minimum of return. Several farmers who exported fruit to England had last year. instead of getting a nice fat cheque, to pay out, as the prices realized did not cover railage, freight, and agents' charges. As far as I could see the only fruit farmers who were on a sound footing were those who had a private income. The others existed by running poultry and pigs. " When I had made sure of my opinions, I interviewed Colonel Morris of the 1820 Memorial Settlers' Association, who confirmed my views. I put myself in his hands, and was before long sent by him to Victoria West on the Karroo to a big sheep estate there, run by the ex-chief of the Government sheep and wool department. On this farm I remained till January of this year as a student. Again the 1820 Settlers' Association took me in hand and found me a billet on one of the leading stud sheep farms in the Free State. I got a contract for a year, and since May have been entirely on my own. The experience I am getting is extremely valuable, and I may say is all at other people's expense ! " The position of the wool industry is very insecure at present, and till it finds a footing securely, it seems unsafe to invest in land, which is high and is hardly an economic proposition with wool at its present level. The life, however, of either the flock or stud sheep farmer is ideal. It is hard work certainly, with very long hours. There are constantly worries and little troubles with sheep and kaffirs, but they are balanced easily by the fact that a freer, healthier life couldn't be found. " One thing that strikes me at present is that the antiBritish feeling is as strong as in the time of the Boer War. To begin another wouldn't be difficult. The Government is Dutch, and half an eye can see that we British folk are not wanted. The natives are getting out of hand all over the country, and there will be trouble before long with them.

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These points ought to be rubbed into anyone thinking of coming out. " The Flag question is only a means of stirring up ill-feeling between the races, and is a childish affair. The language question is a bit awkward to a newcomer, but it is very simple to learn Afrikaans when you have to speak it. " Really if I began to tell all that is wrong with South Africa, I'd fill pages. I may say it isn't all it is made out to be by a very long chalk, but even so, I guess there are many places infinitely worse to live in. Anyway I am satisfied and intend making my home here. Hospitality is the keystone of the English-speaking section, who I have found since coming up country to be a real good crowd to live amongst. " Before I stop I'll say a word or two in praise of Colonel Morris and the 1820 Settlers' Association. Without them I'd have been lost out here. They have been good friends, willing to help and advise. What is more, they do help very materially, and undoubtedly have put their best foot forward to help me. If any F.P. intends coming out to South Africa, for his own sake and safety advise him to come out under the Association. It is worth it every time."

Boys' Golf Championship. Great interest was aroused in August among both present and former pupils of the School in the Boys' Golf Championship at Barnton, Edinburgh, when JOHN SCOTT RIDDELL, who is at present a pupil of the School (and, by the way, one of the occupants of the School Boarding House), brought distinction to North of Scotland golf by his feat in entering the final round. Riddell is a member of the Duff House Royal Club, Banff. He iS a son of GEORGE STEEDMAN RIDDELL (1883-86 and 1889] 892), solicitor and banker, Macduff, and was born in April, 1913. In 1927, when he was scarcely 14, he was one of the sixteen qualifiers in the Peterhead tournament, and was beaten on the twentieth green by A. R. Grosert, of Murcar, Aberdeen. A year later Riddell was among the qualifiers at the Duff House Royal and the Cullen tournaments. To qualify for the final of the Boys' Championship Riddell put up two very dogged fights. In the 36 holes final against J. Lindsay, of Falkirk Tryst, the early play indicated a win for Riddell, but his opponent squared the match at the fifteenth hole, and at the next took the lead for the first time. With two halved holes following Lindsay finished the round one up. In the second round Lindsay completely out-classed his opponent, making excellent recoveries to win holes which he seemed certain of losing. At the turn Lindsay was five up, and eventually became six up with six to play. The match ended with Lindsay six up and four to play.

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OBITUARY. Dr. William Leslie Davidson. A Beloved Professor. WILLIAM LESLIE DAVIDSON* (1859-64), M.A., LL.D., Emeritus-Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Aberdeen, died on 2nd September, in his 82nd year, while holidaying in Elgin. The son of Dr. Samuel Davidson, a very well known medical practitioner in Aberdeenshire, he was born at Meikle Wartle, and passed from the village school there to the Aberdeen Grammar School, entering in 1859, when it was still conducted in the old buildings in Schoolhill. He was a pupil at the time when the School was transferred in October, 1863, to its present site, and often recalled the opening ceremony, and other incidents of his School days. He entered the University of Aberdeen in the autumn of 1864, and graduated in 1868, with first class honours in philosophy. In the same year he became assistant to Professor Alexander Bain (A.G.S. 1835-36) and held the appointment during his attendance at the divinity classes in King's College. In 1873 he was appointed (by patronage) to the parish church of Bourtie, Aberdeenshire, and for 23 years ministered there with great acceptance. He frequently examined in mental philosophy and English at Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities, and was Burnett Lecturer at Aberdeen from 1892 to 1895. In 1886 the University of Aberdeen conferred on him the degree of LL.D., and it is noteworthy that with the exception of Professor George Chrystal (1863-67) of Edinburgh, he was then the youngest man who had received this degree at Aberdeen. In 1895 he was appointed by the Crown to be Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Aberdeen, and for 31 years he discharged the duties of the chair with outstanding ability and unfailing devotion. His lectures were marked by extraordinary lucidity, and an abundance of happy illustrations. By his powers as a teacher and his numerous contributions to the literature of his subject, Professor Davidson maintained and enhanced the high traditions of Aberdeen University in mental philosophy, and secured for himself a place among her more eminent logicians, metaphysicians, and moralists. His first philosophical work, " The Logic of Definition," appeared in 1885, and he also published " Theism as grounded in Human Nature," "A Philosophical Centenary: Reid and Campbell," " Christian Ethics," and " The Stoic Creed." He edited the " Autobiography " of his master and intimate friend, Professor Alexander Bain, and contributed numerous articles on philosophical subjects to Hastings' " Encyclo-

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pmdia of Religion and Ethics," and the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." Perhaps his most important work was his " Political Thought in England : the Utilitarians from Bentham to J. S. Mill," which appeared in 1915. In 1921 he published a work on " Recent Theistic Discussion," which is a brief and lucid summary of the more important of the Gifford Lectures. Than Professor Davidson the Grammar School had no more loyal and loving son, and he was always delighted to render her any service he could. For Dr. Morland Simpson he had the highest regard, and it is an open secret that it was mainly through the Professor's instrumentality that the late Rector received the degree of LL.D. from Aberdeen University. Professor Davidson was President of the F.P. Club for a number of years, and presided at its Annual Dinner more than once. His great opportunity for showing his affection for the School came at the time of the University Quatercentenary Celebrations in 1906, when, largely owing to his encouragement, the 13th Jubilee of the School was also celebrated. Professor Davidson was chairman of the committee in charge of the arrangements, and as he was also taking an active part in the shaping of the University programme, the School celebrations were happily commingled with those of the University, so that many returning graduates were given the opportunity of re-visiting their old School at the same time. "On Tuesday, 26th September, 1906," says the official record, " the Grammar School Former Pupils' Club seized the opportunity presented by the University celebrations of welcoming once more within the walls of the School the many distinguished former pupils who had congregated in Aberdeen. A company which numbered nearly 1,000 ladies and gentlemen assembled within the School buildings." During the evening many had been present at a banquet given by the Town Council, from which Professor Davidson had slipped away to preside over the proceedings in the School Hall, but not before he had induced several of the outstanding guests to promise to come along later to the School. It was undoubtedly one of the proudest moments in the Professor's life when about midnight a party of guests arrived at the School from the Corporation banquet, and he was able to introduce Lord Strathcona and the Archbishop of Canterbury, who both received a rousing reception, and. even at that late hour addressed the gathering. A correspondent writes :—The news of the death of Professor Davidson—" Bourtie," as we always called him—must have awakened affectionate memories in many a former

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student of his. My own first meeting with him was surely unique. It occurred in this way. As a bajan at the beginning of the present century I had to be at King's College at 10 a.m., at which hour the Professor had also to be there to take his own class. In those days he always walked from his house in Queen's Gardens to Old Aberdeen, and the familiar figure with the silk hat, morning coat, striped trousers, and silvermounted walking cane, will readily be recalled. As I lived in the same part of the town as the Professor, it was not long before I saw him one day walking ahead of me on the north side of Carden Place, while I, resplendent in the red toga which he so loved to see, gradually overhauled him on the other side of the street. By the time we had got to about the Grammar School I had drawn level with him, and before long, was forging ahead. Judge of my surprise when I had my attention called by a curious sibilant noise behind me, and on turning round, saw the Professor almost running across the street to overtake me. After he had introduced himself, the rest of the journey to King's was accomplished in delightful intercourse, and that was the beginning of a friendship that gradually ripened into something particularly intimate. No student will ever forget the weekly "At-Homes" in Queen's Gardens, where any member of his class or any former student was most welcome. The proceedings began in the genial atmosphere of the Professor's study, with himself in his favourite arm chair ; and then, after the company had finished their cigars or cigarettes, an adjournment was made upstairs " to see Miss Davidson." Here the gracious lady who did so much to help her brother was waiting for us, usually accompanied by some of her charming nieces and other interesting young people. Before long, natural shyness and reserve on the part of the male visitors would be broken down, and songs, recitations, and choruses would be forthcoming, one of the star turns, if memory serves, being " King Arthur ruled the Land." Refreshments followed, and somewhere about 11 p.m. the evening came to an end with a hearty good night " to each and all from the Professor on his doorstep. Charles Grub (1866-70) died at Winchester on 1st September, aged 74 years. He was the youngest son of the late Professor Grub of Aberdeen University, and was trained as a student at the Theological College in Edinburgh of the Scottish Episcopal Church. He was admitted a Deacon in 1879 and ordained a Priest in 1881. His first curacy was that of St. John's, New Pitsligo. After holding a number of other curacies, he was successively Rector of St. Mary's, Montrose, and of Holy Trinity, Dunoon, and latterly was Vicar of Corhampton, near Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire.

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Dr. J. N. Farquhar. An Interpreter of Indian Religious Culture. JOHN NICOL FARQUHAR (1882-83), M.A., D. Litt. (Oxon . ), D.D. (Aberdeen), died at Withington, near Manchester, on 17th July, aged 68 years. The only son of Mr. George Farquhar, 16 Castle Street, Aberdeen, he was born on 6th April, 1861, and entered the Grammar School at the unusual age of 21. From it he passed to the University in 1883 as First Bursar. Before completing his course for a degree at Aberdeen, he went up to Christ Church, Oxford, as a classical exhibitioner in 1885, and took firsts in both the classical schools. He graduated M.A. at Oxford in 1895, and in 1916 received the degree of D.Litt. He was also a B.D. of Manchester, and an honorary D.D. of Aberdeen. Dr. Farquhar went out to Calcutta in 1891 as Professor of English in the London Missionary Society's College, Calcutta, of which he afterwards became Principal. In later years he joined in the work of the Y.M.C.A., becoming Literary Secretary of the National Council of India and Ceylon. His service in India, chiefly in Calcutta, covered 32 years,. with occasional interludes on scholarly work, such as his Lamson Lectureship at Hartford Theological Seminary, Connecticut, in 1913. Indifferent health compelled him to quit the Indian field at the close of 1923, and he was immediately appointed Professor of Comparative Religion in the University of Manchester. " Long before the idea gained widespread acceptance "— we quote from the excellent obituary notice in The Times— " Dr. Farquhar came to a full recognition of the need for clear understanding of the relation in which the best side of Hinduism stands to Christianity_ He sought the upbuilding of a Christian vernacular literature which should be truly Indian in every possible way. His main work was that of a presentation of Indian religious thought which was sound and scholarly. The foundations were laid by years of patient study, and it was not until he had been more than two decades in India that he published his ' Primer of Hinduism '—the portal through which thousands of readers have been introduced to the study of that many-sided system. His 'Crown of Hinduism,' which came two years later, has had an influence both wide and deep on the Indian Church and on Christian thought in this country and America. In 1915 came the book for which Oxford awarded him the degree of D.Litt., ' Modern Religious Movements in India.' This is a comprehensive survey, not only of the better known and more influential movements, but also of a host of smaller cults. In 1920 he brought out his monumental ' Outline of the Religious Literature of India.' All this time he was writing largely in the

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serious reviews and in works of reference, such as the ' Encyclopxdia of Religion and Ethics.' Still more notable were his editorial labours. Three series of books were planned, and for each Dr. Farquhar was associated in the general editorship with some other scholar. The ' Religious Quest• of India ' series are largely volumes published by the Oxford University Press ; the ' Religious Life of India ' and the ' Heritage of India ' series are produced in India at popular prices, and have been welcomed by non-Christian as well as Christian readers. He attached great importance to the Indian issues as helping to widen the minds of educated readers and providing the foundations for a worthy Christian vernacular literature." In The Observer of 21st July, 1929, " A Correspondent " —easily identified as HOWARD A. GRAY (1880- 84), the Assistant Editor of that paper—wrote : " For me he will always be the swarthy young man who took his seat among us boys of the Aberdeen Grammar School forty-seven years ago. We were twelve to fourteen: he was twenty-one. For nine years he had been a draper's assistant. But at the Mechanics' Institute he had proved a ' dab ' at French, and a wise dominie there, finding him a natural linguist, egged him on to further conquests. So he came back to School with a little Latin, no Greek, and, I fancy, next to no money. He went through the classics at a rate which forestalled the motor-car. There was intensity in his every word and movement. No games for him, and no frivolity even in talk, for he was chasing the years. We all felt something of his consecration : the most thoughtless never gibed at his alien seniority. To walk from School with him—if his short rushing steps could be called walking—gave a strange sense of refreshment. He had the purest of taste in literature, and some of us owed him our first relish for Scott and Thackeray." His only son, GEORGE NEIL FARQUHAR, was a pupil at the School from 1903 to 1909, and joined the Ceylon Civil Service, after winning the M.C. in the War. John Mitchell Bruce* (1861-62), C.V.O., M.A., M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.P., died at 23 Harley Street, London, on 7th July, in his 83rd year. A younger brother of the late Dr. WILLIAM BRUCE (i848-51) of Dingwall, he was born at Keig, Aberdeenshire, and after spending a year at the School, entered the University of Aberdeen, where he graduated. M.A. in 1866. He then studied medicine at Marischal College and at Middlesex Hospital, London, and graduated M.B. of London University in 1870 and M.D. in 1872. After spending some time, on the Continent, he returned to London and engaged in pathological research under Sir John Burdon

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Sanderson and Professor Emanuel Klein. Having started in practice on his own account, he joined the staff of Charing Cross Hospital and taught first physiology and pathology, then materia medica and medicine, and later became Dean of the School. For twenty years he was physician to Brompton Hospital. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1878, served as Senior Censor of the College in 1911, and delivered the Harveian Oration in 1913. He was also Treasurer, and afterwards President, of the Medical Society of London, and President of the Section of Medicine of the Royal Society of Medicine. He engaged in medical literary work on the Medical Times and Gazette, and later was co-editor of The Practitioner, and assistant editor of " Quain's Dictionary of Medicine." His best-known medical work is " Materia Medica and Therapeutics," of which nearly 70,000 copies have been printed. His " Principles of Treatment " is also widely known. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Aberdeen in 1900, and was created a C.V.O. in 1919. Alexander Robertson Clark* (1887-88) died at Rocky Linn, Braemar, on 14th August, aged 58 years. He served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Davidson & Kay, chemists and druggists, Aberdeen, and then was at Hove, Brighton, for three years. He qualified as a chemist in Edinburgh in 1897, and thereafter until the time of his death was in business on his own account in Braemar. He was a son of Mr. David Clark, merchant there. William Cruickshank (1871-73), M.A., senior minister of the U.F. Church, Inverurie, died in Aberdeen as the result of a street accident, on 1st October, aged 73 years. He graduated in arts at Aberdeen University in 1877, and after studying at the Free Church College, was in 1883 ordained minister of the Free Church, Cluny, Aberdeenshire. Two years later he became minister of the Free Church at Inverurie, and for 38 years he laboured there, retiring in 1923 owing to the impairment of his eyesight. After his retirement he settled in Aberdeen, and for the last four years acted as librarian of the United Free Church College, rendering services of the utmost value to the library. He was outstanding as a teacher, preacher, and pastor. His sermons were powerful, always scholarly, and gave evidence of the preacher's culture and wide reading. John Ellis (1889) died at Stonehaven on 17th August, aged 55 years. After leaving the School he entered the employment of Mr. A. Marshall Mackenzie, architect, Aberdeen. For health reasons he later went to South Africa, and built up a business in Pretoria. He returned to this country in 1910 and thereafter was in practice as an architect and surveyor in Stonehaven.

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Kenneth Cuthbert Emslie* (1925-28) was drowned on 2nd August while staying at the Y.M.C.A. Camp, Chaintreanville-Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France. He was the youngest son of the late Rev. W. Emslie, China Inland Mission, and of Mrs. Emslie, 82 Mile-End•Avenue, Aberdeen, and was in his 19th year. He had gone to France to study French, and was bathing near Fontainebleau with three companions, when he suddenly disappeared and was drowned. Arthur W. Farquhar (1892-93) died at Aberdeen on 19th August, at the age of 52. Over twenty years ago he succeeded his father in business at the Bucksburn Engineering Works, Aberdeen. John Macdonald Henderson (1911-14), elder son of the late JOHN MACDONALD HENDERSON (1877-84), died at Weybridge Cottage Hospital on 10th August, 1929, aged 25 years. He was well known as a racing motorist. While travelling in a trial spin at Brooklands at 100 miles an hour his car turned a somersault, and he was thrown out, receiving fatal injuries. James Wilson Legge* (1879-80)—a nephew of the late Rev. James Wilson Legge, classical master at the School— died at Rondebosch, near Cape Town, in February, aged 64 years. After being at the School he went to Fiji, but had to leave on account of his health. He then engaged in banking in Australia, and later was in business in South Africa. He served during the South African War for twelve months in Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry, for twelve months in Driscoll's Scouts, and for four months as a Field Intelligence Scout, reaching the rank of Sergeant-Major. He received the King's Medal with two clasps, and the Queen's Medal with six bars. From the conclusion of the Boer War he held a post in the South African Railways, and retired in 1925. Samuel McMath (1885-87) died at Scotstoun, Glasgow, on 15th January last. He served as an apprentice with Mr. John A. Sangster, engineer, Aberdeen, and then went to sea for a number of years. Latterly he was in the employment of Messrs. John Brown & Co., Ltd., shipbuilders, Glasgow. William Hope Maxwell (1910-11), younger son of Sir William Maxwell, Aberdeen, died at a nursing home in Manchester on 25th August, aged 31 years. In the War he served at first as a private in the Black Watch (T.F.), and received a commission in the Highland Light Infantry (T.F.) in November 1917. He was attached to the Labour Corps in France from August, 1918, and was demobilized in October, 1919. Thereafter he started in journalism in the Glasgow Citizen, and in 1921 was appointed sub-editor of the Hull Daily Mail. Three years later he became sub-editor of the Daily Despatch, Manchester, and latterly was leaderette and note writer on the Manchester Evening Chrcnicle.

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John Morgan (1901-03), third son of the late Mr. George W. Morgan, photographer, died in Aberdeen on 26th September, aged 40 years. Shortly after leaving the School he entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company, and spent one year in Labrador. He then was for another year on a sugar estate in Demerara. For the past eighteen years he had lived in London, where he was engaged as a manufacturer of photographic apparatus. James Masson Pirie* (1885-93) died at Hove, Sussex, after a long illness, on 20th September, aged 52 years. He served as an apprentice architect with Mr. A. Marshall Mackenzie, Aberdeen, and after being estate architect to the Marquis of Huntly, started in practice on his own account in Aberdeen in 1899, being later in partnership with Mr. George Sutherland. In 1907 he gave up architecture and left Aberdeen to join the well-known lock manufacturing business of Messrs. N. F. Ramsay & Co., of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Birmingham, and London, where he resided permanently. When in Aberdeen he was a prominent member of the Aberdeenshire Cricket Club, being honorary secretary for two years. He was a smart wicket-keeper and a dashing batsman. William B. Walker (1882-84) died at Aberdeen on 20th November, aged 61 years. He was a son of Mr. William Walker, of the firm of R. & W. Walker, fish curers, Aberdeen, and on leaving the School went into his father's business and served his apprenticeship as a cooper. Later he started on his own account in the fish trade in Aberdeen, and about twenty-three years ago took into partnership Mr. Andrew Walker, when the firm became Messrs. W. & A. Walker. He retired from business six years ago. William Alexander Watson* (1898-1901), M.B., Ch.B., died at Norwich on 21st August, aged 46 years. He was a son of Dr. Henry Watson, a well-known medical practitioner in Norwich, who graduated in medicine at Aberdeen in 1876. He himself qualified as a doctor at Aberdeen in 1908, and from 1911 was in partnership in a general medical practice in Norwich with his brother, HENRY WATSON (1896-97). Latterly he was in partnership with Dr. Phillip Murphy. During the War he held a commission in the R.A.M.C., and saw service in East Africa. Alexander Wood (1884-86), M.A., M.B., C.M., died at Longside, Aberdeenshire, on 4th October, at the age of 60. He had been in medical practice at Longside for nearly thirty years. While at the School he played in the cricket 1st XI, and later became an enthusiastic player of association football, his place being full back. He was also noted as a jumper and sprinter, and latterly became an expert golfer. George Hogg Yule* (1893— ? ) died at Blackwell in

Professor JOHN NIcoL FARQUHAR, ALA., D.Litt., D.D.

Professor WILLIAM LESLIE DAVIDSON, M.A., LL.D.

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Oklahoma, U.S.A., on 16th July, aged 47 years. After serving as a bank apprentice, he went to Canada many years ago and entered the service of the Royal Bank of Canada, being latterly manager of this Bank's branch at Beausej our, Manitoba. He was a warm supporter of and untiring worker for anything that was for the general advancement of the Province, and was a member of the Executive and Treasurer of the Eastern Manitoba Development Bureau. He also tried to get farmers, individually and collectively, interested in agricultural plans that would increase their earnings and bring increased prosperity to their communities. For good roads he was a keen advocate, and as an official of the Manitoba Motor League had much to do with the furthering of the Trans-Canada Highway. His death took place unexpectedly while he was on a motor holiday trip through the States. William Alexander Gay Yule (1895-1901) died at San Diego, California, on 13th July, 1929, aged 44 years. A son of Mr. Christopher B. Yule, Wollaston, Massachusetts, he studied electrical engineering in Aberdeen. In 1902 he went to Boston, Mass., and Was employed in electrical works there, and later in Lynn, Mass.

Marriages. Adam (1909-17).—At All Saints Church, Litcham, Norfolk, on 20th August, ANDREW WILSON ADAM, fourth son of the late Dr. J. Wilson

Adam, Aberdeen, and Mrs. Adam, to Ethel Margaret, only daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R. N. Highmoor, Litcham. Adams (1915-18).—At the Palace Hotel, Aberdeen, on 21st August, WILLIAM CROMBIE ADAMS,* second son of Mr. and Mrs. William Adams, 262 Broomhill Road, Aberdeen, to Jessie Sim (" Babs "), younger daughter of Mr. Louis Harper (1881-83) and Mrs. Harper, Seafield House, Aberdeen. Aitken (1918-22).-At Sutton Congregational Church, on 27th July, JOHN ABEL AITKEN,* second son of Mr. William Aitken* (1882-87) and Mrs. Aitken, of Caledon, Cults, to Gladys Duff, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald F. Rae, Broadlands, Sutton, Surrey. Allan (1897-1902).—At the Central Wesleyan Church, Eastbourne, on 2nd August, GEORGE JOSEPH ALLAN,* civil engineer, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. William Allan, 60 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen, to Mavis Mary, only daughter of the late Mr. George Beeney and of Mrs. Beeney, Hailsham, Sussex. Bruce (1882-85).-At St. John the Baptist's, Chester, on 19th November, GEORGE BRUCE, M.A., M.B., C.M., Fairford, Cults, Aberdeen, to Frieda Elizabeth, younger daughter of the late Rev. Arthur Myers, M.A., rector pf Ruskington, Lincs., and of Mrs. Myers, The Cottage, Melbourne, Derby. Bulmer (1910-16).—At S.S. Peter and Paul, Wymering, Hants, on 30th July, GEORGE GORDON BULMER,* only son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Bulmer, of Inverness and Aberdeen, to Sybil, youngest daughter of Mr. S. Brogdale and the late Mrs.Brogdale,of Saltwood, Kent. Burnett (1864-67).—At Fetteresso Parish Church, on 31st July, ROBERT CARR BURNETT,* M.A., 18 Camperdown Road, Aberdeen, to Bessie A. Rankine, infant mistress, Lochgelly, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Rankine, Hailymires, Stonehaven.

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Christie (1908-21).—At St. Endellion Church, N. Cornwall, on 6th July, HARRY DONALD CHRISTIE,* M.B., Ch.B., 20 Richmond Road, Islington, N., son of Mr. Alexander James Christie* (1883-87) and Mrs. Christie, 14 Carlton Place, Aberdeen, to Eileen May, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Courtenay, Port Gaverne, N. Cornwall. Craib (1897-1903).—At Scots Church, Colombo, on 3rd September, ARTHUR PATRICK CRAIB, Ratnapura, to Helen, daughter of the late Andrew Duncan and Mrs. Duncan, of Balbithan, Inverurie, and widow of Peter B. S. Simpson (1897-1903). Esslemont (1908-20).—At King's College Chapel, Old Aberdeen, on 23rd November, ALEXANDER GORDON ESSLEMONT,* B.Com., elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Esslemont, 21 Louisville Avenue, Aberdeen, to Anne Elizabeth Duncan, M.A., LL.B., elder daughter of George Duncan, M.A., advocate in Aberdeen. Ferguson (1904-09).—In London, on 24th August, Captain JOHN FREDERICK FERGUSON'', Durham Light Infantry, son of the late Major John Edward Ferguson and Mrs. Ferguson, of Aberdeen, to Vera Millicent Pile, only daughter of Brigadier-General F. C. Lloyd, C.B., and Mrs. Lloyd. Finlayson (1910-22).—At St. Ninian's Church, Aberdeen, on 16th November, KENNETH MACDONALD FINLAYSON,* M.B., Ch.B., Hayes, Middlesex, to Margaret, younger daughter of Mr. John Bremner Innes (1862-64), M.A., Parkmount, Cornhill Road, Aberdeen. Gill (1910-22).-At Bucksburn Church, Newhills, on 7th October, JAMES MUNRO GILL,* M.B., Ch.B., 30 West High Street, Inverurie, third son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Gill, of Rogell, Bucksburn, to Elizabeth Mary, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Proctor, Noel House, Bucksburn. Grant (1906-12).—At Cults Parish Church, on 18th September, JOHN GRANT,* M.A., C.A., son of the late Mr. Alexander Drimmie Grant and of Mrs. Grant, 59 Abergeldie Road, Aberdeen, to Wantha Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. A. P. Thom and Mrs. Thom, Wydgee, Western Australia. Gray (1903-11)—At St. Andrew's Scots Kirk, Colpetty, Colombo, on 27th October, PATRICK MoIR GRAY, youngest son of Mr. Andrew Paton Gray (1865-70), of 14 Carden Place, Aberdeen, to Milly Marie, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Walker, formerly Middleton House, Pitfodels, Aberdeenshire, now of 17 Royal Circus, Edinburgh. Henderson (1906-12).-At St. Mary's Church, Kuala Lumpur, F.M.S., on 7th November, GRAHAM HENDERSON,* M.C., elder son of Mr. and Mrs. William Henderson, 126 Broomhill Road, Aberdeen, to Minnie, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Dutton, 96 Union Grove, Aberdeen. Henderson (1913-21).—At Rubislaw Parish Church, Aberdeen, on 20th August, JOHN HARTLEY HENDERSON,* of Rangala, Ceylon, only son of Mr. and Mrs. John Henderson, 90 Osborne Place, to Nell, youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Gordon, 93 Forest Avenue, Aberdeen. Leith (1905-17).—At St. Ninian's Parish Church, Aberdeen, on 3rd September, JAMES LEITH,* junior, distiller, Aberdeen, to Margaret Lesley, only daughter of Mr. Robert Moir Williamson* (1882-86) and Mrs. Williamson, 22 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen. Lindsay (1905-17).—At Queen's Cross Church, Aberdeen, on 9th October, JAMES LINDSAY,* L.D.S., youngest son of the late Mr. William G. Lindsay, publisher, and of Mrs. Lindsay, 9 Gladstone Place, Aberdeen, to Evelyn Tocher, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Reith, 21 Cranford Road, Aberdeen. McPherson (1913-16).—At the Columba Hotel, Inverness, on 19th November, JOHN CROLL MCPHERSON, baker and confectioner,

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Inch, to Avril Marion Jane, only daughter of the late Mr. MacLean and of Mrs. MacLean, Seaview House, Mallaig. Main (1907-11).—At Cults Parish Church, on 25th June, WILLIAM KNIGHT MAIN,* younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Main, 23 Ferryhill Place, Aberdeen, to Nellie, twin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, St. Clair Cottage, West Cults. Martin (1910-14).—At the United Free Church, Ballater, on 28th September, ALEXANDER VINCENT MARTIN, son of the late Alex. Vincent Martin (1872-73) and Mrs. Martin, 15 Lilybank Place, Aberdeen, to Nessie, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Duguid, Inchgarth, Ballater. Milne (1909-12).-At Seremban, F.M.S., on 16th October, JOHN NORMAN MILNE,* Seleba Estate, Teluk Anson, F.M.S., younger son of Mr. Arthur P. Milne* (1881-83) and Mrs. Milne, of Aberdeen, to Barbara Mary Theresa, only daughter of the late Mr. C. H. Grace. ,of Hongkong, and of S. Devon, England, and of Mrs. Grace, of Nilai, Negri Sembilan, F.M.S. Ogilvie (1909-15).—At St. James's, Piccadilly, London, on 16th November, THOMAS OGILVIE,* elder son of Colonel Thomas Ogilvie* (1884-87), C.B., C.M.G., and Mrs. Ogilvie of Culblean, Banchory, to Dorothy Georgina, only child of the late Mr. George Litkie and of Mrs. George Litkie, 34 Elvaston Place, London, S.W.7. Rattray (1882-84).—At Le Havre, France, on 3rd August, WILLIAM RATTRAY, M.A., F.E.I.S., 54 Stirling Road, Leith, to Renee, daughter of M. Leon Villemot, 137 Rue de la Fuye, Tours, France. Reid (1909-13).—At Rubislaw Parish Church, Aberdeen, on 5th September, MAURICE JOHN SPRING REID,* son of the late Thomas Reid and of Mrs. Reid, 21 St. Swithin Street, to Jane Ross, daughter of the late James Booth and of Mrs. Booth, 23 Orchard Street, Aberdeen. Stewart (1912-19).—At King's College Chapel, Old Aberdeen, on 14th September, WILLIAM NEILSON STEWART,* son of Mr. and Mrs. James Stewart, Granville Lodge, Great Western Road, to Dorothy, second daughter of the late James Legge Chalmers (1867-69), Statistical Commissioner, Chinese Customs Service, Shanghai, and Mrs. Chalmers, 55 Gladstone Place, Aberdeen. Thom (1882—84).—At Aberdeen, on 4th July, Jois' THOM,* retired tea planter, Mariani, Assam, eldest son of the late Capt. Thom, Outseats, Aberdeen, to Betty, eldest daughter of the late Philip Wood of " The Plain," Epping, Essex. Thomson (1913-15).-At Brisbane, Australia, on 23rd August, JAMES FERGUSON TnomsoN,* Captain, M.M., to Nellie Deeth, of Brisbane, Australia. Thow (1911-22).—At St. Andrew's Church, Ravelstone, Edinburgh, on 6th July, WILLIAM GEORGE Mow,* L.D.S., R.C.S.E., son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Thow, 170 Skene Street West, Aberdeen, to Violet Theresa, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Blackstock, Edinburgh. Walker (1916-21).—At the Station Hotel, Stirling, on 1st August, ROBERT JACKSON WALKER,* M.A., eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Walker, 22 Rosebery Street, Aberdeen, to Tillie, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Reid, 16 Ashley Terrace, Alloa. Walker (1915-24).—On 22nd August, WILLIAM SUTHERLAND WALKER,* only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Walker, 94 Union Grove, Aberdeen, to Violet, youngest daughter of Lieut.-Commander G. Sim, R.N., and Mrs. Sim, Home Farm, Tullos, Nigg, Aberdeen. Wilson (1908-13).—At St. Andrew's Scots Kirk, Colombo, on 29th October, ERIC ELACKETT WILSON, eldest son of Dr. Wilson, East Sheen, London, W. 14, to Jean, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mackay, Thomyhill, Fettercairn.

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A Message to Former Pupils. The Editor's call for another Message is a reminder that the long Christmas Term will soon have run its course. It will be chiefly remembered by present pupils for the remarkable sequence of really fine days which it has witnessed. There has been no need to emphasize the compulsion of games. Rubislaw Field has been filled to capacity, and the zest of th( players is a delight to watch. The general condition of the Field after its long summer rest was very satisfactory. Chemical treatment and th( systematic extraction of weeds resulted in a marked improvement and, given a continuance of reasonably good weather, the pitches should last the playing season better than in previous years. If the record of the School XV has not, so far, been inspiring, it is due solely to the fact—no doubt mentioned elsewhere—that it is a team in the making. If boys are in a hurry to become F.P.s, football must suffer, and the phcenix needs time to rise from the ashes. We returned in September to find some further changes in the buildings. If you wish to visit Mr. Winkley's manual room, you must make a detour to the back of Westfield, and there in the hall, where School luncheons were formerly served, you will find an up-to-date Workshop, with benches and other appointments of the latest design. The lighting, both natural and artificial, is an immense improvement on former conditions. The old Workshop has given us three new Classrooms, one of which is in occupation by the Lower School. The improvements in the Hall make steady, if somewhat tardy progress. The proscenium of the stage is finished and the organ should be ready soon after Christmas. What the Hall needs now is the replacement by chairs of the present unsightly desks. This must be our next objective. The Library has been overhauled and a re-arrangement of the books according to subject—carried out with much labour by our English Master and the Librarian—will add greatly to its usefulness. Incidentally, it is rather remarkable and not a little humiliating that the literature dealing with Byron is very inadequately represented. Some of you may find it possible to help with the nucleus of a Byron collection. The appointment of Mr. Andrew Milne to succeed Dr. Middleton was well received by the School. He has a fine record as a scholar and he should prove no unworthy successor. You will find it difficult to realize that there has been a change in the headship of every department in the Upper School during the past five years. The Boarding House goes from strength to strength. If there is no unforeseen hitch, the second house should be in occupation at the beginning of next Term. Even with this,

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it may be difficult to satisfy the applications for admission if they continue on the present scale. The Boarding House is the greatest boon that has been conferred on the School in recent years, and the promoters of the scheme have good reason to be satisfied with the success of their efforts. Those of you who are resident abroad should receive this issue of the Magazine with your Christmas mail, and it is appropriate that I should convey to you a message of remembrance and goodwill from the School. We hope that you will have abundant success and satisfaction in your work throughout the coming year, and that you will repay whatever debt of nurture you owe your School by an abiding and undiminished interest in her welfare. D. M. A.

Head of the Classical Department. Mr. ANDREW MILNE M.A., was in June appointed by the Aberdeen Education Authority to be Head of the Classical Department of the School, in succession to Dr. George Middleton. At the School (1903-09) and the University (1909-13) he had a brilliant career, taking at the former the first place in every class, and leaving as Classical Dux and Gold Medallist. He entered the University as Second Bursar, and graduated in 1913 with first class honours in Classics, at the same time being awarded the Simpson Greek Prize, the Liddel Prize for Verse Composition, and the Lady Geddes Prize for Translations. In 1915 he was appointed Croom Robertson Fellow at the University, and as such, delivered two courses of lectures on " Origins of Satire." The award of this Fellowship, which is the most valuable that the University can bestow, reflects the very high opinion in which Mr. Milne's scholarship was held. Immediately after graduation he was appointed Assistant to the Professor of Humanity in the University, and in the following year became Assistant Teacher of Classics in Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen. His service here, however, was interrupted by the War, and shortly after he was demobilized at the end of 1918 he was appointed Principal Teacher of Classics in Montrose Academy. From there he came in 1926 to the Grammar School as Second Master in Classics. In the testimonials which Mr. Milne submitted, Professor Harrower spoke of him as being quite the most brilliant student of his year in Classics. " He has a fine literary sense, which displayed itself in remarkably tasteful translations, both in prose and verse.. Much of his work, in verse particularly, had a polish rare in a student of his years, and would have graced any collection. . . . He is admirably fitted to occupy the post of Chief Classical Master."

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Heigh-ho ! Another year has passed, our summer vacation is now but a pleasant memory, and once more we see Lord Byron as he stands on his pedestal in the grounds like a Recording Angel, stylus in hand, awaiting the perspiring but faithful band of late-comers, who, toiling up the drive, books under arm, wonder whether they will be met with that hushed and reverent silence which betokens that Hall is " in." The activities of another term have commenced, and once more the interior of the School hums with life. * * * ' We wish, on behalf of the whole School, to assure Mr. Hay of our sincere sympathy with him in the great loss which he has sustained by the recent death of his father. * * * It is our privilege to congratulate Mr. Andrew Milne, M.A., on his appointment to the post which Dr. Middleton relinquished in June. A more worthy successor could not have been found. Mr. Milne, who had a distinguished career at Aberdeen University, is a former Dux of the School, and came to us as Assistant Classical Master four years ago. He is well known throughout the School as a good friend and a zealous and painstaking master. We voice the sentiment of the whole School in wishing him every success. * * * To Mr. William M. Dewar, who comes as Assistant Classical Master, we wish a long and happy stay with us. Mr. Dewar, who is a graduate of Edinburgh University, held a Vans Dunlop Scholarship, a mark of great distinction, and his all-round qualities as a cricketer and as a rugby player will form a close bond between him and all " Grammarians." * * * The School staff has lately faced an unprecedented succession of illnesses. We are glad, however, to welcome back Mr. Mackenzie Forbes, Mr. Soutter, and Mr. Walker, who have completely recovered, and to whom we wish the best of health in the future. * * * We regret that Mr. Mackenzie Forbes's recent serious illness has made it necessary for him to give up the conductorship of the School Orchestra, an organization in the interests

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of which he has never spared himself. It is evidence of Mr. Mackenzie Forbes's interest in the Society that he has found so eminently suitable a successor as Mr. Falconer, to whom the School wishes a happy and successful conductorship. * * * We have great pleasure in welcoming two new members of the Staff—Miss Garriock, who succeeds Miss Watson in the Infant Department, and our old friend, Monsieur Georges \Wier, who succeeds Monsieur Richard. We wish them both a very happy stay with us. * * * At 10.45 on Monday, 11th November, the whole School assembled in Hall to observe the Two Minutes' Silence. After the Rector had read from the Scriptures, Professor Pittendrigh led us in prayer. Thereafter a bugler in the main corridor sounded the Last Post, and for two minutes we stood in reverent silence. Following upon the sounding of the Reveille, the whole School sang the National Anthem. The memory of a School Armistice Day Service is one of the mind-pictures which every boy carries away with him into after life. * * * A brief but interesting ceremony took place in Hall on Monday, 16th September, after Prayers, when the Rector presented the Prefects for the session 1929-30 with their badges. We wish to congratulate H. B. Grant (Senior Prefect), A. J. Slessor, G. F. Hamilton, S. R. Smith, L. Findlay, E. W. M. Watt, W. D. Swinney, and R. J. Milne on their appointment. * * * Meanwhile the various School Societies, which continue to prosper under the care of the Rector and of members of the Staff, are engaged in their winter's work. * * * The Literary and Debating Society has arranged an extremely attractive syllabus for this winter, and the President, G. F. Hamilton, and the Secretary, G. E. Swinney, are to be congratulated upon the inviting series of Lectures and Debates which they have drawn up. The Annual Masters' Debate, between Mr. Maclver and Mr. MacLennan, was attended by an audience who were all eager to hear the views of these two gentlemen on the question, " Is Youth a Golden Age ? " Dr. Cormack's le;ture, " With the Boys in Brittany," also proved very popular, and it was gratifying to see many parents and friends of the boys among the audience. * * * At the Business Meeting of the Dramatic Society, W. D. Svvinney was elected President and D. S. S. Marr, Secretary. Both the Senior and Junior Sections of the Society continue to prosper under the tutelage of the Honorary Vice-Presidents,

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Mr. Farquharson and Mr. Eddison, assisted by Mr. Maclver and Mr. MacLennan. The Society is at present rehearsing three one-act plays for production in the month of February. * * * The School Orchestra, like the proverbial bay-tree, continues to flourish, and at the first meeting for the Session H. Shiach and A. E. Bennett were elected President and VicePresident respectively. We feel sure that under the conductorship of Mr. Falconer the Orchestra will maintain its already high reputation. * * * Under the untiring guidance of Mr. Millar, the School Art Club has commenced another year's work. At the business meeting of this Society W. R. Gauld was elected Secretary and Treasurer for the current session. Although the membership is this year larger than ever, the Club, owing to various difficulties, has unfortunately found it impossible to have reproduced in the Magazine the usual selection of sketches done by members of the Club. Mr. Millar wishes it to be known, however, that the calendars which in previous years have proved such popular purchases at Christmas-time will be on sale as usual. * * * As was recorded in the last issue of the Magazine, the Reference Library has been entirely rearranged, under the supervision of Mr. Farquharson. A time-table for the several classes has been drawn up, in order to relieve the congestion which formerly obtained in the Library, and the abolition of the subscription should encourage everybody to make use of the Library more fully. The attention of parents and pupils is drawn to the report on the Library which appears on another page. * * * Through the kindly action of Mrs. Gordon Bruce, youngest daughter of the late Rev. James W. Legge, sometime Classical Master in the School, the Reference Library has been enriched by the addition of several volumes from his fine collection. They deal, for the most part, with the ancient studies, but included with them are several works by German authors, of whom Mr. Legge was a devoted admirer and student. There are also a number of volumes won as School prizes by Mr. Legge's son, Angus Forsyth Legge, who was killed while helping to quell the mutiny of native troops at Singapore in February, 1915. Our thanks are due to Mrs. Bruce for her kindness in thus renewing an old and honoured association with the School. * * * Cycle-camping found favour with several groups of " Grammarians " during the summer vacation. We hear of

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one party of five of the Upper School, duce Mr. Milne, who made a grand tour of the Scottish Lake District in Perthshire, taking the leap between Aberdeen and Perth by train. The route followed was by Pitlochry, Tummelside, and Loch Tay, westwards to Loch Awe, touching the sea at Loch Fyne and Loch Long, and then home by Loch Lomond, the Trossachs, and Strathearn. Occasional rain and adverse winds but helped to season a sumptuous feast of our country's finest scenery, while the exhilarating fun of moving camp-life enhanced all the joys of the open road. Incredible as it may seem, the total cost, including travelling expenses to and from Perth, came to the lordly sum of twenty-seven shillings and sixpence per head ; but what else could one expect from " Aiberdeen Awa' " ? * * * While' looking back on last summer, we realize what a successful season the Cricket XI had. The weather was, on the whole, remarkably fine, and with eight of the previous XI again available, the team went almost undefeated. This says much for the enthusiasm of the Captain, R. J. Thom, and indeed, for the keenness of the whole team. As the record of the matches will be found elsewhere in the Magazine, together with the batting and bowling averages, we need not poach on the Sports Editor's preserves. * * * The School Rugby XV has so far this season been most unfortunate in the matter of injuries, having been deprived of several players at almost every match. Nevertheless, the all-round improvement in play reflects great credit on Mr. Macgregor, who, as usual, has given himself unsparingly to coaching the team. We wish the Captain, H. B. Grant, and the XV itself, better luck in the future. * * * And now we address ourselves to the pii vates et Phoebo digna locuti. Not that there was any real need for us to call them " devout bards, dedicating their inspiration to Apollo," but we have quoted Virgil in order to show them what they could do if they tried. In a word, we implore all the literary fledglings of the Middle and Upper Schools to send in contributions either of prose or of verse. We assure them that any meritorious work will appear in the School Section of the Magazine in due course. * * * Those who knew the School as it was a few years ago would now find it very much changed. The interior of the building itself is shining under a new coat of paint, but that is a mere bagatelle in comparison with the alterations and additions which have been made. Gone are the paths which in winter used to lie deep in mud and slush. We now walk

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daintily round the front of the building on paths paved with stone slabs. * * Another change has been made with regard to the Manual Department, which has been removed from its former situation to the hall of the old Chalmers School behind the Westfield Building, in order to allow of the provision of three classrooms in the latter. * * * A splendid proscenium in oak has been erected in the School Hall, and this does away with the somewhat cheerless aspect which the platform had of yore. The new organ has not yet been installed, but we hope to see and hear it before the March issue of the Magazine is published. * * * the School as it was some back on Casting our minds twelve years ago, we— but no ! We shall spare you our reminiscences. Instead, we take leave of you for the present, in the fervent hope that you will all enjoy a Merry Christmas.

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Random Notes. It is a curious but indisputable fact that there has always been somebody with a " tall" story to tell, from Baron Munchausen to a famous French explorer whose name for the moment escapes us. But, in the words of Al. Jolson, the American film actor, " You ain't heard nothin' yet." * * * One afternoon, when we were on the point of accompanying Virgil into the depths of Avernus, we were startled by a voice from the corridor which was saying, in tones charged with emotion, " Pinch me. It can't be true ! " On emerging to investigate, we found a worthy and dignified member of the Sixth in an attitude which would have done credit to Mrs. Patrick Campbell in the sleep-walking scene from Macbeth. We offered him our arm, and led him tenderly thrice round the Byron statue, " widdershins." When his eyes had lost their glassy stare, and his limbs their rigidity, we elicited from him the following wild—nay, incredible—story. He had approached Mr. So-and-So with a view to being allowed to leave the class five minutes before the end of the period. On proffering his request, he was shaken to the depths of his soul by receiving the enthusiastic reply, " Certainly! take ten minutes if you like." Truth is stranger . . . * * * " The thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts," as a

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certain member of the Staff realized one morning when he was endeavouring to impress a class, which is not renowned for its intelligence, with the spiritual beauty of Shelley's " Ode to a Skylark." He was eloquently describing how the skylark beats with its wings against the very gates of Heaven, when a thoughtful voice asked from the back seat, " Please, sir, is it true that pigs can see the wind ? " * * * We hear from various sources that " Socrates was a great thinker who lived in B.C. like Alexander the Great " ; that " next we collected the gas and had a look at its smell " ; and that a youth who should have known better has perpetrated that hardy annual, the " tale " of a dog. One other interesting item of knowledge is that " Boadicea marched to London and sacked the Ninth Legion." * * * We notice with regret that a small but faithful band of kindred spirits is in imminent danger of being dissolved. We refer to those weary souls who, from time immemorial, have been in the habit of retiring into the cloistered seclusion of the Library in order to forget in wakeful slumber the turmoil without. Now that the subscription has been abolished, they will no longer be able to fall back on the plea of penury when exhorted to take full advantage of the opportunities extended by the Library, instead of using it as a dormitory. Alas ! these fine old School customs . . . * * * One month a certain class had the Hygiene lesson in place of Divinity, and this led to some misunderstanding. In one case a bewildered " Grammarian," on returning home, said to his incredulous father, " Oh ! we had Mr. Blank for Bible to-day and he told us all about our bowels." Truly Divinity " covereth a multitude of sins." * * * Meantime, fresh light is being daily thrown on various passages for translation which have hitherto been regarded as having no deep-hidden meaning. Who would have suspected, for instance, that Cur, 0 domine, servum tuum verberas meant " 0, lord! the dog has bitten thy servant," or that Rosa poussa un grand soupir meant " Rosa pushed over a hefty supper " ? * * * We present to you, with no little hesitancy, the following anonymous effusion :— '0, father ! tell me, who is this Who rises with a whinny ? " " A prominent debater, child, The tear-provoking S—y." And now we retire.

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Autumn. I. The summer wears away, Time must go on. The verdant splendour fading as it dies. Dark nights encroach upon the light of day And herald winter's snow with leaden skies. The trees now shed their leaves, no longer green, Which spread a mantle o'er the fields and lanes : They add soft shades of brown to every scene Of wooded hill and vale, where nature reigns. Yet what is Autumn but a changing stage Between two seasons, as in human life, When from the prime, man passes to old age And signs of natural decay are rife ? Still, though in Autumn Nature shows decline, An act of God, its beauty is divine. S. R. SMITH (Modern VI). II. When russet tint of ruddy Autumn lies On Nature's form, like Joseph's envied coat, And taking turn in Time's eternal rote, The wind through bare, bleak boughs now sadly sighs ; To earth now thrown, now flung to cloudy skies, As to some great ethereal spirit's note, Now hurled in rage, now as slight cob-webs float, The fallen foliage of the forest flies, As if to tell us what we dare not think— That Man, too, fadeth like the summer rose, And each short day comes nearer to the brink Of that which none can tell when once he knows ; For each—the Man, the Leaf, the Rose—doth sink Towards a dreaded ever-nearing close. A. MCKENZIE (Modern IVA).

Triolet. The ancient classics are not dead, For generations they've endured ; And now, though centuries have fled, The ancient classics are not dead. By cynics scorned, by scholars read, They've stood the test—we rest assured The ancient classics are not dead ; For generations they've endured. R. G. SANGSTER (Classical V).

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26th October.—School v. Gordon's College, at Seafield.—School, unbeaten by Gordon's College for over ten years, were defeated by one dropped goal and one penalty goal to two tries. As the score suggests, play was on very even lines, although Gordon's did most of the attacking. Behind the scrum School held the advantage, but the School pack were inferior to their heavier opponents, especially in the loose. Play went to the Gordon's twenty-five from the kick off, but School were unable to score, and Gordon's gradually gained ground by clever touch-kicking. Following a scrum in front of the School goal, the Gordon's scrum-half snatched up the ball and dropped a good goal. Shortly afterwards, from a scrum at mid-field, Slessor cut through and passed to Greig, who went over for an unconverted try. Half-time score—School, 3 points ; Gordon's College, 4 points. School pressed from the kick off and, from a scrum just outside the Gordon's twentyfive, Slessor again cut through and passed to Keenan, who went over at the corner ; the kick failed. School were now forced to defend and, except for one good movement by the backs, play was confined to the School twenty-five. Gordon's scored from a penalty and continued to attack until no-side. Final score—School, 6 points ; Gordon's College, 7 points. Best for School were A. J. Slessor, R. F. Greig, and S. R. Smith.

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2nd November.—Daniel Stewart's College v. School, at Inverleith.— School were beaten by 3 tries (9 points) to 1 try (3 points). As the score suggests, the sides were fairly evenly matched. Stewart's backs had a slight superiority and were mainly responsible for the victory. The School pack, however, both in the tight and in the loose, had their opponents well beaten ; School's fine dribbling was a feature of the game. From the kick off School attacked, but were unable to score, and Stewart's took play to the School goal-line by a fine forward rush, where only a determined defence by School prevented them from scoring. Stewart's continued to attack strongly, and their efforts were at last Shortly rewarded when they scored an unconverted try far out. afterwards Stewart's again scored, and continued to attack until half time. Half-time scores—School, nil ; Stewart's, 6 points. Playing with the wind in the second half, School did the bulk of the attacking and carried play from the kick-off to the Stewart's line, where, following a scrum near the touch, Deacon scrambled over for a try ; Watt hit the cross-bar with a good kick. The School forwards immediately carried play back to the Stewart's twenty-five by clever dribbling. Stewart's gained ground by good touch-kicking however, and from a line-out scored near the corner flag. School again attacked, but were met with a determined defence and were unable to score, although pressing hard until no-side. Final score—School, 3 points ; Stewart's, 9 points. S. R. Smith and A. D. D. Hutton were the pick of the forwards, and R. F. Greig at left centre three-quarter, and A. S. Deacon at scrum-half, were the outstanding backs.

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9th November.—School v. 2nd Aberdeenshire, at Rubislaw.—School were vastly superior in all departments and won easily by 43 points to nil. In the first half, although both the slope and a strong wind were in their favour, School played half-heartedly and only established a lead of 15 points. After half time, however, the forwards wakened up and gave the backs plenty of opportunities. School scored repeatedly and brought the total to 43 points. The weakness of School's kicking was very apparent in this game ; of the eleven tries scored, only five were converted, and five of the remaining six were missed from easy positions. A. J. S. Second XV Matches. 5th October.-2nd Strathallan v. 2nd School, at Forgandenny.— In this, their first inter-school match of the season, School were deci-

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Byron House. First of all we must congratulate ourselves on winning the House Trophy last year. W. H. Stephen, our last year's Captain, in particular, must be thanked for his untiring efforts on behalf of the House. Provided that every member does his best and co-operates with the others, we ought to retain the Trophy this year with little difficulty. At the Annual Meeting, held at the beginning of the session, the following officials were elected :—House Captain and Rugby Captain— A. J. Slessor ; Vice-Captain—G. A. Paterson ; Swimming Captain— A. M. Gill. This year our 1st XV is extremely strong, especially behind the scrum, as our backs are all members either of the 1st or 2nd School XVs. The 2nd XV is a heavier and bigger side than usual, and should easily win all its matches. We can truly say that our outlook is very bright. In the opening game of the season we had an easy victory over Melvin House. The speed and scoring ability of our backs were very apparent in this game; they ran through almost as they pleased. It should be remembered, however, that Melvin were not able to field their strongest side. The 2nd XV also won by a large margin. The Junior XV, too, is a strong side this year, having already gained victories over Melvin and Keith. Our last year's swimming team has returned to School, and we look forward to being " cock house " in swimming, athletics, and cricket, as well as in Rugby. A. J. SLESSOR, House Captain.

Dun House. At the House meeting, held at the beginning of the term, the following officials were elected :—House Captain and Rugby Captain—S. R. Smith ; Vice-Captain—C. M. Liddell ; Swimming Captain—G. Bisset. The prospects for Rugby this season are very bright, as we have several 1st and 2nd School XV players in our House team. On 9th October the opening Inter-House match was played against Keith House. Keith had the wind during the first half, and after five minutes' play Dun House scored the first try. The score rose quickly, and by halftime, Dun was 31 points in the lead. In the second half, facing a stiff breeze, we succeeded in passing the score of the first half by 8 points, giving a final score of 70 points to nil. Among those who scored were J. Watson, W. F. Mayor, M. Smith, E. W. M. Watt, and G. D. Allan. W. F. Mayor converted most of the tries, and W. Coull had some good long-distance kicks. 2nd and Junior Keith were defeated by our 2nd and Junior XVs, the latter winning by over 30 points. The results of these games promise a successful season, and it is hoped that the House swimming will be equally successful. S. R. SMITH, House Captain.

Keith House. Our congratulations go to Mr. Edward, our former House Master, on his appointment to be President of all four Houses, and we welcome Mr. Gray, who takes his place. At our annual House meeting the following office-bearers were elected :—House Captain—W. Smith ; Rugby Captain—J. Fyfe ; Swimming Captain—J. G. Munro. The appointments were in each case unanimous.

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Owing to the fact that many of our best players left at the end of last session, our Rugby prospects are not too bright. In our first match we were unfortunate to be without the services of two three-quarters--J. Fyfe, who was injured, and A. C. Halliday. This gap in our defence was felt keenly, and we lost to Dun House. Best for Keith were J. S. Maclachlan and A. B. Hay. In our future matches we hope to field a. full team, and to obtain a more satisfactory result. Our prospects for cricket and athletics are reported to be much brighter, for we have some excellent material, especially in the junior classes of the School. We also look upon our swimming prospects with'anticipation, for we have back at School, en bloc, the extraordinarily fast combination with which we won the House Race so easily last session. On the whole we may look forward to a very successful year in all branches of School activities. W. SMITH, House Captain.

Melvin House. Melvin House, although beaten in the Relay Race, gave a good account of itself at the Swimming Sports last summer. The prospects for this session's swimming are as bright as ever. Every member of Melvin who swims should practise as much as possible, so that the House's traditional swimming prowess may be kept up. Last season's Rugby XV, which at first glance seemed to be very strong, was a complete failure. Only one game was won, and that against a very weak Keith House side. But this year's XV displays a better all-round strength, which should lead to victory in the Rugby field. Our first inter-House game was played against Byron on 9th October. Melvin fielded a XV which was decidedly below strength, while Byron had an exceptionally strong side, especially in the back division. This superiority was soon felt by the Melvin backs, who were quite incapable of coping with their speedy and heavy opponents. Melvin forwards played a very plucky game, being equal to the opposing pack in tight scrums, although somewhat outplayed in the loose. Robson, at stand-off half, was the best of the Melvin backs, his defence being very sound, while in attack he was frequently dangerous. Still, at full back, played well, although his kicking was frequently erratic. Robertson was the pick of the Melvin forwards. The game was a little one-sided, as the final score of 50 points to 0 suggests, but the side, as a whole, played very pluckily. But let us not be down-hearted, Melvin ! When we can field our strongest XVs, we will give a much better account of ourselves, and we may rank as " Cock House " as in former years ! H. B. GRANT, House Captain.

Dramatic Society Notes. The work of the Society is now in full swing. The Junior Branch of the Reading Circle met for the first time this season on Friday, 8th November, while the Senior Branch held its first meeting on 15th November. The Society intends to present three plays, two of one act and one of three acts, on the 7th and 8th of February, 1930. Rehearsals for these have already started, under the guidance of Mr. Farquharson, Mr. Eddison, Mr. Maclver, and Mr. MacLennan. In view of the great enthusiasm of the Society as a whole, the performance of these plays should be an unqualified success. D. S. S. M.

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The Literary and Debating Society. This year the membership of the Society is, we are pleased to say, speakers . larger than it was last year ; but though some of the younger are quite good, we miss the stalwarts who have left us. Mr. The Annual General Meeting was held on 12th September, Farquharson in the chair, to elect officials for the ensuing session. Mr. Murison, Mr. Charles Davidson, and Dr. Middleton were elected Patrons of the Society ; Mr. Farquharson was elected Hon. President, and Mr. Milne, Hon. Vice-President. The following were appointed as acting office-bearers :—President, G. F. Hamilton ; Vice-Presidents— W. D. Swinney, L. Findlay, R. J. Milne ; Secretary and Treasurer, Smith, G. E. Swinney ; Members of Committee—G. S. Whitson, W. R. Fraser, and C. G. Cruickshank. 18th October.—On this date the time-honoured tradition of opening being the session with the Masters' Debate was observed ; the day altered from Thursday to Friday for the sake of convenience. The subject was " Is Youth a Golden Age ? " Mr. Maclver supporting the affirmative and Mr. MacLennan the negative. Mr. Maclver opened the debate, and after discussing childhood as disorders, the " putty age," the age of whooping-cough and sundry other that and manhood as the age of money-grabbing, went on to prove was Youth, the age of imagination, freedom, poetry, and romance, with indeed a Golden Age. Mr. MacIver then illustrated his remarks quotation a few examples from the Staff, and concluded with an apt from Celtic Mythology. MacIver's Mr. MacLennan then commenced a witty attack on Mr. poetic contentions, and completely destroyed the beautiful picture of burn ' ? " youth, by such questions as " Did we enjoy ' paidlin' in the hats, long He then discussed how discontented Youth is, assuming later, in a trousers, and other accompaniments of maturer age ; and fanciful picture fine burst of hyperbole, he amused the Society by a of a youthful pipe-smoker. was fairly When the debate was thrown open, the after-speaking confessions good, and not a little amusement was afforded by dramatic Both speakers of a member of the Staff, whose name we wisely suppress. have won by then summed up briefly, and the negative was found to usual votes of the casting vote of the chairman, Mr. Hamilton. The vigour. thanks were proposed, and accorded with characteristic debate on hear a to turn-out fair a was There — October. 24th in which Mr. Findlay the subject—" Can a Man get Rich Honestly ? " The President supported the affirmative and Mr. Whitson the negative. was in the chair. debarred Mr. Whitson, opening, declared that mankind was naturally wickedness, and from acquiring riches honestly because of innate of lust, and therecondemned all accumulation of wealth as the result by a majestic fore, dishonest. He then elaborated his statements style, which so simile of a diseased chicken, a simile in the Homeric later. Mr. Findlay, captivated the Society that much was said about it sterling honesty, of men of examples gave paper, good equally in an had become millionwho Leverhulme, Lord and Cadbury Mr. as such into the world aires. He then, as was expected, dipped for a moment Ford car. the of subject inspiring the on finished and politics, of amount of When the debate was thrown open, there was a fair everything— speaking, younger members taking part in discussions on to attempt from safety-razors to millionaires whose names we hesitate Swinney, Bryant, and Milne, Messrs. were Prominent pronounce. to 20 votes to 17. Fraser. On the vote being taken, Mr. Findlay won by and friends, parents including 31st October.—A large assembly,

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met in the Hall to hear Dr. Cormack deliver his lantern-lecture, the title this year being—" With the Boys in Brittany." This annual lecture, which is one of the most largely attended on our syllabus, was quite up to Dr. Cormack's usual standard. He gave us a graphic description of the journey to and the stay in France, showing how everything was cut as finely as possible and (publish it not abroad) how the Railway Company cheated itself of £1. on each fare. He then told us of the old-fashioned life led in the part of France that was visited, particularly in the realm of agriculture, and gave us a great deal of information about the district generally. He then made us green with envy at seeing our schoolfellows figuring on the screen, and told us about most of their expeditions. Following upon this, Dr. Cormack showed us many slides of the places, without any embellishments in the form of " Grammarians," and generally filled us with a desire to accompany him on his next expedition. For this excellent lecture Dr. Cormack was thanked in the usual way. G. E. S.

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1929. Oct, 18.—Masters' Debate—C. Maclver, Esq., M.A., and C. MacLennan, Esq., M.A. „ 24.—Debate— „ 31.—Lantern Lecture—" With the Boys in Brittany," Alex. A. Cormack, Esq., M.A., D.-es-L., Officier d'Acad0mie. Nov. 7.—Lecture—" Shakespeare," Very Rev. H. Erskine Hill, D.D. „ 14.—Debate— „ 21.—Lantern Lecture—" Campaigning Memories of the Last Crusade," Rev. Professor A. F. Findlay, D.D. 28.—Lecture—" The Fascination of Stamp Collecting," with display of stamps, W. Edmund Bell, Esq. Dec. 5.—Debate-„ 12.—Lantern Lecture—" A Visit to Greece," D. M. Andrew, Esq., M.A. „ 20.—Serenading. 1930. Jan. 9. Lecture—" Canada," Professor J. J. R. Macleod, D.Sc., I,L.D., F.R.S. „ 16.—Lecture—" Travel Talk," Charles Davidson, Esq., M.A. „ 24.—Inter-Debate with Girls' High School. • 30.—Lantern Lecture—Professor Alexander Findlay, D.Sc., F.I.C. Feb. 6.—Debate— „ 13.—Lecture—D. H. Crawford, Esq., H.M. Inspector of Schools. „ 20.—Debate— „ 25.—Lantern Lecture—" The Cathedral and Castle of Marienwerder in Pomerania," W. Douglas Simpson, Esq., M.A., D.Litt., F.S.A. (Scot.). Mar. 6.—Lecture—" Irish Humour," G. W. J. Farquharson, Esq., M.A. „ 13.—Debate— „ 20.-Musical Evening—G. Falconer, Esq., A .R.C.M,. A.TS.C.. ,

Art Club Notes. A printing press has now been installed in the Art Room, and a new interest has been added to the work in that department. Some attractive prints have already been made, and a few of the more advanced boys are attempting prints in two or more colours. The press is also useful in the teaching of design, as the patterns can be easily repeated. W. R. G.

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Scout Notes. Most of the School Troops held camps this summer during the coldest and wettest fortnight of July, yet all agree that they enjoyed themselves thoroughly. The 1st Troop in particular refuse to complain about the weather, because they were camping in Glendye, their old love, which, as a camping site, is unrivalled in many ways, notably for the grandeur of her scenery and the multitude of her midges : this year, however, her only disadvantage was almost nullified by the coldness of the weather, and the Troop was able to enjoy to the full her many advantages. The 17th were encamped among the birches by Loch Kinord, with Sandy Donald in command, and the 38th were not far off—at Deecastle, under Russell Scott. Billy Nelson was in charge of the 9th Troop camp, which was, as last year, at Pitfour. There, some of the 9th had great fun building huts for their Camper's badges ; but whether it was fun trying to sleep in them on the wet nights we are not informed. After the big camps, scouts from all the Troops went off hiking on their own. Members of the 17th explored the Cairngorms, the Trossachs, and the Border country, and some of the 9th made themselves useful beating near Braemar. In September the 1st Troop camped at The Hut, and the 9th at Mill of Dyce. All the Troops sent representatives to the World Jamboree at Birkenhead, where they had a short but unforgetable week among their brothers of forty-two nations, and came back covered with foreign souvenirs and Cheshire mud. The Jamboree was held to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Scout Movement, and to help the scouts to appreciate the brotherhood of mankind all over the world ; that it succeeded in this latter aim who will deny ? considering how many Aberdeen scouts now number among their friends' scouts from Australia, U.S.A., India, Brazil, Palestine, separated by thousands of miles, but united by correspondence and a common interest in Scouting. In September, at the Aberdeen Scout Sports, the 38th Troop had a splendid victory, winning the Norrie Shield by 30 points to 19. The 9th Group took a high all-round place, the Troop being second, and the Pack first equal with the 1st Pack for the championship. The 9th Troop won the County Flag, which was competed for at the end of June, and the 17th were runners up. The Cubs are still increasing in number. There are now four Packs, each of which meets in the School Gymnasium one night of the week. The youngest Pack, the 38th, which was started more than a year ago by Joe Carry of the 17th, and Tony Wyness, then Cub Commissioner and now Main Headquarters Secretary, is being carried on by Russell Scott and Ferrier Mayor. Joe Carry is now Cubmaster of the 17th Pack, and Charlie France of the 1st Troop is helping him as an Instructor. Bill Swinney has left the 1st Pack, but his brother George and C/M Stott are going to come back when their exams are over ; in the meantime Wilson Ross is running the Pack, assisted by Dunny McDonald and Fraser McLusky of the 1st Troop. The Pack now numbers 21 cubs, but is still open for a few recruits. The Pack had a very successful camp in July at Midmar Castle, under Floyd Stott and the Swinney twins, with D. McDonald and David Stuart from the 1st Troop to do the dirty work. Last June the 1st Pack was visited in Aberdeen by the 1st Kemnay Pack, and in October the visit was returned. In the 9th Pack, Second Ferguson Smith of the 9th Troop is acting as Instructor. This Pack is very full and flourishing, and is to be congratulated on having performed a splendid hat trick in having gained the Totem Pole for the third time in three years. The second and third places for the Totem Pole were also gained by School Packs, the 38th and the 1st. The 38th Troop proposes to hold a Café Chantant this winter in order to raise funds to purchase a headquarters of their own. The date

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and details are not yet arranged, but a start for the fund is being made by holding a whist drive at Main Headquarters, 25 Belmont Street, on 12th November. Of course the other Troops will not require to be told twice to support the 38th, their youngest brother. The 9th Troop are going to have a dance, run by the 9th Rovers. The winter work of the Troops will be much as usual, varied with talks and debates. The 9th Troop Dramatic Society is being carried on under Harry Fraser. In the 1st Troop the P./L.s are taking a large share in running the meetings, and will soon be competent Scoutmasters. On the last Friday of October, Cecil Savidge gave a talk to the 17th Troop on " Scouting During the War." This is to be Cecil's last visit to the Troop, as he is going very soon to India. He will be bitterly missed, both by his own Troop and by scouting in Aberdeen as a whole, where his enthusiasm and energy have always been at the service of the Movement, in spite of his many other activities. His ability in all branches of scouting work and his genius for organizing will hardly be equalled ; the 17th Troop, in particular, will always remember how much they owe him for his enterprise and careful planning when he took them to Paris. It was due to Cecil's able training of the 17th Troop that they won the Benmore Shield a few years ago. The other Troops are also suffering losses from among their scouters. The 1st Troop is to be deprived of A.S./M. Ross, who has become Assistant County Secretary. Goggles, however, is still to carry on the work of Cubmaster of the 1st Pack, so that he has not entirely severed his connection with the 1st Group. We wish him luck in his exalted position at Main Headquarters, and feel sure that he will make his personality felt there. A more complete loss is that of the 9th Troop, whose Hon. S./M., Arthur Hutchison, is leaving for Borneo, where he has got a post as an oil prospector. He takes with him the good wishes of all who knew him during his many years of active and valuable service to the Movement, especially in the 9th Troop. P./L. Colin Chalmers has left the 9th Troop to start farming at Tomintoul, and Second G. Watt takes his place. In the 38th Troop P./L. F. Lindsay has become an Instructor, and Second G. Burns is promoted to P./L. Seconds Potter and A. Forsyth of the 17th Troop have been promoted to take the places of P./L. Nigel Cowan, who has left the Troop, and P./L. Carry, who has become C./M. of the 17th Pack, since Ian Thom has unfortunately been compelled to give up the Cubmastership owing to ill health. Mr. J. Walker has now become District Scoutmaster of the four Grammar School Groups.

The School Museum. There has recently been presented to the School by ALEXANDER MUNRO HALLEY (1904-12) some bullets made of cardboard, as used by the Northern Chinese Troops outside Shanghai in the civil war of 1925. These bullets were taken from Chinese soldiers who were allowed into the Foreign Settlement on condition that they laid down their arms. An examination of the bullets helps one to realize why " war " in China generally appears in inverted commas.

A Byron Relic. Miss Mary Stewart, Tassack Lodge, Dinnet, recently offered to present to the School a table in her possession associated with the boyhood of Byron. The history of the table appears to be authentic, Byron having resided as a boy for about six months at the farm of Ballaterach, Dinnet (where Miss Stewart was born). Miss Stewart's offer has been most gratefully accepted.

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The Former Pupils' Club. FOUNDED 1893.

PresiDent: The Right Hon. Lord MESTON, K.C.S.I., LL.D. WiceoPresibent ant) Cbatrotan of Emotive : GEORGE GORDON NICOL, D.S.O., A.M.Inst.C.E. Secretarg a:0 Creasurer : THEODORE WATT, M.A., The Rosemount Press, Aberdeen. Secretaries of Sections: London Centre -Thos. D. H. BROWN, Esbourn, Lawrie Park Cresent, Sydenham S.E.26. [The Centre comprises, without additional subscription, all Members of the Club resident in London, and within a radius of 50 miles.) Rugby Section—IAN F. BOOTH, 17 St. Swithin Street. Hockey Section—CoLIN J. STEWART, 403 Great Western Rd. Cricket Section—ALEx. J. ALLAN, Lilydale, Salisbury Place. Tennis Section—GEORGE A. COOPER, Jun., 65 Albury Place. Motor Section—REx FOWELL, Huntcliffe, Cults. Rates of Subscription for Membership : . . . . £5 5 0 . Life Membership . Ordinary Membership— For those under 21 years of age at commence. 0 2 6 ment of Club year (1st January) For those of 21 years of age and upwards . 0 5 0

The Annual Club Dinner. This year's Dinner is to be held in the Palace Hotel, Aberdeen, on the evening of Saturday, 14th December, at 7 for 7.15 p.m. The Chairman will be the President of the Club, The Right Honourable Lord Meston, K.C.S.I., LL.D., the Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen. It is anticipated that there will be a very large attendance of members of the Club to welcome its distinguished President. In accordance with the Constitution of the Club, all members in Aberdeenshire and Kincardine have been circularized about the Dinner. Any member resident outside these counties who wishes to be present should communicate immediately with the Secretary of the Club. Members from a distance, and especially those home from abroad on leave, are always made very welcome at the Annual Dinner.

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Club Consuls. Again there are several changes in the list of Club Consuls to be recorded. As foreshadowed in the last issue of the Magazine, a Consul has now been appointed for Kenya Colony. This is HECTOR BRODIE (1906-17), who since 1920 has been up and down the colony, and certainly knows it fairly well. He says that though he is mainly interested in coffee-growing, he could no doubt be of use to F.P.s in other spheres. He has returned to his old district of Nyeri, and taken over the managership of a coffee plantation there. With regard to the placing of pupils on estates, he says that this can very easily be done. The young colony is going through rather a rough time just at present, as there have been two bad years of drought. " However, good times may be ahead of us, and all new countries cannot hope to escape these set-backs. It is undoubtedly a country of great promise, and even in the short period of nine years I have seen great improvements. The opening up of the more outlying districts is slowly pushing the game further afield, and spots where a year or two ago I have had to get up the nearest tree double-quick to avoid herds of elephant and rhino, are now planted out in orderly lines of coffee bushes. But there is still plenty of fun to be got for those who are keen on hunting." JOHN FORBES FRASER (1879-83) has resigned his Consulship for Southern India, as he has retired from tea planting and come home. CECIL ARTHUR GRANT SAVIDGE (1913-24), of the Indian Civil Service, has agreed to act as Club Consul for the Central Provinces of India, in succession to JOHN HALL RITCHIE (1903-09), who has been transferred to Bombay. Louis WILSON (1872-75) has recently sent in his resignation as Consul for the Island of Hawaii, as he has decided to leave that part of the world for good. In a very welcome letter he says: " During the several years my name has appeared in the list there is only one case in which I have been called upon for information by a young man. I wrote at length and gave him every pointer I could think of that would help him to decide whether he would come out or try somewhere else, but as after a year or eighteen months he has not turned up, I suppose he has tried some other country to locate in. In these circumstances, I question very much if it would be any great loss to the Club if no successor to me were appointed. " Circumstances have changed very much since I first came out twenty-one years ago, and between the fact that intending newcomers have to come in under the U.S. quota for immigrants, and the recently-developed prejudice against

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aliens, there is really not much inducement for British subjects to come here now. It is a difficult and expensive journey to make in the first place, and unless a newcomer is ready to forswear his own country and become a citizen, he is discriminated against in the second place. These conditions did not obtain when I first came out, and fortunately for me I got a fairly secure position before they came into being." Mr. Wilson's intention was to go to Singapore and see his son, RAYMOND GRAHAM WILSON (1906-17), probably staying a little while with him ; but he had no definite plans as to where he would ultimately settle. From Uganda GRAEME GEORGE SUTHERLAND (1903-09) reports that he has had several inquiries from F.P.s. " Kenya and Uganda," he says, " are capitalist countries. There is little prospect for the young man looking to planting or farming in these countries as a profession, as one might look to rubber in the East. With private means to convert to advantage experience gained by a short term of service with a farmer or planter, an energetic fellow has every chance of making good. Should such a person require guidance or assistance in any way, I shall be pleased to put what knowledge I have of planting, especially the financial side of it, at his disposal." List of Consuls. AUSTRALIA (Victoria) :—THOMAS G. WATSON (1896-99), Box 26, Stock Exchange, Melbourne. BORNEO :—Rt. Rev. E. D. LOGIE DANSON (1892-94), D.D., Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak, Bishop's House, Kucking, Sarawak, via Singapore. CANADA (Manitoba) :—JOHN CHARLES MURRAY I.IGERTWOOD (1903-06), C.A., c/o Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., 201 Huron and Erie Building, Winnipeg. CANADA (British Columbia) :—WILLIAM ERNEST MILNE (1881-90), 347 Water Street, Vancouver. CANADA (New Brunswick) :—WILLIAM MENZIES KESSON (1893-98), Fredericton. CANADA (Nova Scotia) :—GEORGE MACKENZIE WOOD (18801882), c/o Messrs. Joseph Wood & Co., Central Wharf, Halifax. CANADA (Ontario) :—ROBERT FLEMING (1891-98), C.E., c/o Messrs. Wood, Fleming & Co., Royal Bank Buildings, Toronto. CENTRAL AMERICA (Guatemala) :—CHARLES H. MOIR (1873-76), 8a Calle Poniente No. 36, Guatemala, via New Orleans

and Puerto Barrios. CEYLON :—DAVID SCOTT (1886-94), c/o Messrs. Lewis Brown & Co., Colombo. [Residing at 36 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen, till end of the year.] CHILE :-JAMES ALEXANDER RHIND (1902-04), The AngloChilian Consolidated Nitrate Corporation, Tocopilla. CHINA (Hongkong) :—ALAN REID (1911-14), Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Hongkong.

CHINA (Shanghai) :—WILLIAM ROBERTSON MYERS (1895-99), Commissioner, Chinese Maritime Customs, Shanghai.

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CHINA (Tientsin) :—JOHN CAMERON TAYLOR (1904-06), c/o Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Tientsin. CZECHOSLOVAKIA :—Captain JOHN WILLIAM TAYLOR (19061911), M.A., F.R.G.S., His Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul, Prague. EGYPT :—HAMISH FORREST MACLENNAN (1908-15), Turf Club, Cairo. F.M.S. (Negri Sembilan) :—DONALD TRENCH SKEEN (18951899), M.B., Seremban. F.M.S. (Perak) :—WILLIAM CLARK WARRACK (1898-1909), Sungkai Estate, Sungkai, Perak. F.M.S. (Selangor) :—COLIN HAY MILLER (1900- 04), Lenggeng Estate, Semenyih P.O. FIJI :-KENNETH JAMES ALLARDYCE (1894-95), Nabavatu. GERMANY :—JAMES GORDON DANIELSON (1896-1901), Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Monckeberg Strasse 27, Hamburg, 1. GOLD COAST COLONY :—WILLIAM MILLER (1894—?), Resident Engineer, Takoradi Harbour Works, Sekondi. INDIA (Assam) :—WILLIAM H. G. HALLY (1889-96), Singlo Tea Co., Ltd., Jaboka Division, Sonari P.O. INDIA (Bengal) :—G. F. ROSE (1881-92), c/o Messrs. Andrew Yule and Co., Ltd., 8 Clive Row, Calcutta. INDIA (Bombay) :—JOHN HALL RITCHIE (1903-09), M.A., B.Sc., c/o Yacht Club, Bombay. INDIA (Central Provinces) :-CEC IL ARTHUR GRANT SAVIDGE (1913-24), c/o Secretariat, C.P. Government, Nagpur. INDIA (Punjab) :—WILLIAM NORMAN LESLIE (1892-95), M.A., B.L., Southern Punjab Railway Co., Ltd., Ferozepore. INDIA (Rajputana) :—GEORGE TAYLOR SIMPSON (1910-20), Jodhpur State Railway, Jodhpur. KENYA COLONY :—HECTOR BRODIE (1906-17), Sonamerg Estate, P.O. Songbor. MEXICO :—ALEXANDER and ROBERT YOUNG (1914-21), c/o William Young & Co., S.A., Avenida el Salvador 102, Mexico City. NEW ZEALAND :—Dr. THEODORE GRANT GRAY (1895-1901), Government Buildings, Wellington. GRANT Provinces) :—CAMPBELL (Northern NIGERIA McKENZIE (1910-12), Gombe, Bauchi Province. NIGERIA (Southern Provinces) :—Dr. WILLIAM EDWARD GLOVER (1896-98), c/o The Principal Medical Officer, Lagos. PALESTINE :-ROBERT BLAKE WORSLEY HOLMES (1895). General Manager, Palestine Railways, Haifa. POLAND :—JAMES BRYCE CLARKE (1896-99), Anglo-Polish Bank, Warsaw. RHODESIA (Southern) :—NORMAN ALEXANDER SINCLAIR (1913-16), Midlothian Syndicate, Midlothian Farm, P.B., Salisbury. SOUTH AFRICA (Cape Province) :—Dr. ALEXANDER MARR GEDDES (1897-1903), c/o Lady Buxton Home, Newlands Road, Claremont, Cape Town. SOUTH AFRICA (Natal) :—DAVID STRACHAN (1893-1902), 19 Hulston's Buildings, Durban.

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As is generally known, the Club has in London a very flourishing Centre, which is composed of members residing in the Metropolis and within a radius of approximately 50 miles thereof. At present there are about 250 members in the Centre, the President of which is Mr. John Malcolm Bulloch, M.A., LL.D. During the winter season the Centre arranges a series of Dinners. These are quite informal affairs, morning dress being worn. They are well attended, and afford Old Boys resident in the neighbourhood an opportunity of meeting together and renewing friendships of bygone days. The price of the Dinner (which is of excellent quality) is very moderate, and is collected during the evening. The President and Committee of the London Centre accordingly desire to extend a very hearty welcome to any Old Boy visiting town to spend an evening with them. The programme of Dinners for the current season is as follows :

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Thursday, 5th December, 1929: Annual Meeting. After Dinner the Right Hon. The Earl of Birkenhead will deliver an address. Thursday, 30th January, 1930 : after Dinner an illustrated lecture on the Cairngorms will be given by Mr. Henry Alexander, M.A. Thursday, 13th March, 1930 : after Dinner there will be an address by a speaker to be announced later. The meetings will be held at 7.30 p.m. in the Holborn Restaurant, Kingsway. The Secretary of the Centre is Mr. Thos. D. H. Brown, Esbourn, Lawrie Park Crescent, Sydenham, S.E.26, who will be pleased to reserve a place for any provincial or other member who desires to attend one or more of these functions, on hearing from him ; or, if time does not permit an Old Boy to make arrangements beforehand, all he need do is to ask for the Secretary on his arrival at the meeting. Members of the Club taking up residence in the London Area are requested to get into communication with the Secretary of the London Centre, who will send a copy of the Rules of the Centre and a list of all London members of the Club.

Visitors' Register. For a number of years a Visitors' Register has been kept at the School, under the charge of the Rector's clerk. The idea is that Former Pupils, and particularly members of the F.P. Club, who are paying a visit to Aberdeen and renewing their acquaintance with the School, should sign the Register. From the comparatively few entries in the Register it would appear that its existence is not well known, and it is hoped that in future many more visits to the School will be recorded in it, so that its interest and value may be greatly enhanced. The Secretary of the F.P. Club will be pleased if members from a distance visiting Aberdeen will, in addition to signing the Register at the School, pay him a call at The Rosemount Press. He is always delighted to be brought into personal touch with F.P.s, and is pleased that so many of the younger members, before leaving for posts abroad, spare a few minutes to report themselves and say good-bye.

The Hockey Section. The Section is in a flourishing condition this season. Owing to a large influx of young blood, much of which is very promising, we are able to run three teams for only the second time in the Section's career. The 1st XI has so far lost only one match out of six, but we have a long way to go yet. The following is a list of matches and results for the season up to date :— For Against v. Gordonians " A " . . . 1 . 6 v. St. Ronald . . . . • 1 2 v. Richmond . . . . 2 1 v. Aberdeen . . . . . 1 0 v. Mackie Academy F.P.s . . . 6 0 v. Gordonians . . . . 4 . 2

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The Aberdeen Grammar School Former Pupils have, so far, had rather a disappointing season, for, through injuries to some of their best players, they were defeated by Aberdeen University and lost to Perthshire at Perth. At full strength, however, F.P.s will most certainly endeavour to wipe out these defeats in the return games. The School has sent up several good players, two of whom show great promise and are an asset to the side. One bright feature is that the Rugby Football Section has an increased membership, and matches had to be arranged for an " A " XV ; moreover, there is a wealth of really good forwards, and F.P.s have been strengthened by the addition of Drs. Weir and Wishart. The team keeps fit by evening training in the Boys' Club Gymnasium, and the awarding of half-colours and colours has caused keen competition amongst the players. The following are the awards. Half-colours :— I. F. Booth. R. D. Bain. J. M. McLeod. R. A. Low. G. W. Bowes. N. S. Cowan. A. M. Scrimgeour. Sep. 14. 21. „ 28. 30. Oct. 5. 12. „ 19. 26.

1st XV Results. . . v. School, at Rubislaw . v. Howe of Fife, at Ladybank . v. Aberdeenshire, at Rubislaw . v. Cambuslang, at Rubislaw . . v. Perthshire, at Perth . . v. Gordonians, at Seafield . v. Aberdeen 'Varsity, at King's . . v. Engineers, at Rubislaw

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Bowes, N. S. Cowan ; G. L. Cruickshank and A. M. Scrimgeour ; R. D. Bain, I. F. Booth, Dr. J. C. Wishart, Dr. J. P. Weir, R. A. Low, D. P. Cochran, D. M. Wood, T. D. Harrow. F.P.s, playing up against the wind and a strong sun, were early on the defensive, and in ten minutes' time Aberdeenshire opened the scoring with a try through Hay, their scrum half, and R. I. Scott converted with a fine kick. The F.P.s attacked hard from the kick-off, and only fine defensive work by D. Smith, the 'Shire back, prevented F.P.s from scoring. At last, from a penalty kick awarded to F.P.s, J. M. McLeod tapped the ball into his own hands, ran hard until tackled on the 'Shire goal line, and the ball, going loose, was touched down for a try by I. F. Booth, who had followed up. The kick at goal failed. The F.P.s did not work well together, the threes being weak in defence, and before half-time, 'Shire scored two more tries to make the scores 11 points to 3 in favour of Aberdeenshire. In the second half F.P.s forced the pace, and scored through N. S. Cowan, T. D. Harrow and J. W. B. Cruickshank, J. M. Mcleod kicking two goals. Aberdeenshire counterattacked with great vigour, and their big, bustling forwards made several fine rushes, from one of which they scored a goal, to make the scores level. The final whistle blew to end a disappointing game from which F.P.s came out with little credit, for they were beaten at three-quarter, half-back, and forward. Only J. M. McLeod and R. D. Bain played up to form. Result—F.P.s (2 goals, 2 tries), 16 points ; Aberdeenshire, (2 goals, 2 tries), 16 points. 30th September. F.P.s 1st XV v. Cambuslang, at Rubislaw.— F.P.s—J. M. McLeod ; J. H. Gray, J. W. B. Cruickshank, D. S. Cochran, J. W. L. Bain ; A. B. Donald and C. M. M. Murray ; I. F. Booth, D. P. Cochran, R. A. Low, A. N. Smith, J. A. Hay, D. Middleton, J. P. B. Gill, J. R. S. Third. F.P.s, who had the assistance of 'Varsity players, fielded a strong XV. Playing uphill, F.P.s attacked strongly, but were kept out by the good marking of the opposing forwards. At last, after continued pressure, D. S. Cochran broke away, following good work by A. B. Donald, and scored close to the posts, J. M. McLeod kicking a goal. The visitors counter-attacked immediately, but weak handling by their three-quarters nullified the efforts of their forwards. Thereafter, until half time, the play was of an even nature. Half-time—F.P.s (1 goal), 5 points ; Cambuslang, 0 points. From the kick-off F.P.s attacked, and after five minutes J. A. Hay kicked a penalty goal for F.P.s, and A. B. Donald scored a great try, which J. A. Hay converted. Once more Cambuslang were penalized, and J. A. Hay kicked a perfect penalty goal from the touchline. Cambuslang, 16 points in arrears, seemed to lose heart, and F.P.s scored tries through J. A. Hay, J. W. B. Cruickshank, and J. P. B. Gill—J. A. Hay converting one, and J. M. McLeod one. All the F.P. forwards worked hard, A. N. Smith hooked well and showed to advantage in the loose. The three-quarters were erratic, but far superior to those of Cambuslang ; J. M. McLeod was safe at full back, but the half-backs, A. B. Donald and C. M. M. Murray, played an excellent game throughout. Result—F.P.s (4 placed goals, 2 penalty goals, 1 try), 29 points ; Cambuslang, 0 points. 5th October. F.P.s 1st XV v. Perthshire, at Perth.—F.P.s— J. M. McLeod ; J. H. Gray, J. W. B. Cruickshank, J. Yule, N. S. Cowan ; G. L. Cruickshank and H. T. N. Sands ; J. C. Wishart, A. N. Smith, D. P. Cochran, D. M. Wood, J. E. Bothwell, T. D. Harrow, J. P. Jeffrey, J. A. Hay. F.P.s travelled to Perth with a weakened team, six members being unable to travel. They began with a rush but their attack was easily repelled, and in five minutes' time Fisher kicked a fine penalty goal for Perthshire. F.P.s scored a very short time later through N. S. Cowan, after all the three-quarters had handled, and Hay converted. The Perthshire forwards, with their superior weight, dominated the tight

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scrums and gave their backs many chances, but the defence of the F.P. backs held out until just before half time, when, as a result of bad marking Perthshire scored twice in quick succession. Half time—F.P.s, 5 points ; Perthshire, 11 points. The second half was evenly contested, for the Perthshire advantage forward was counteracted by the superiority of the F.P. backs. F.P.s had several good loose forward rushes, in which J. C. Wishart, T. D. Harrow, and A. N. Smith were prominent ; but in the tight scrums Perthshire got the ball with monotonous regularity. After some good passing by the Perthshire backs Allan scored at the corner. Just before full time F.P.s scored the best try of the match, J. H. Gray crossing the line after an excellent bout of passing. H. T. N. Sands was injured, and had to be assisted off ten minutes before the close. Best for F.P.s were—all the three-quarters; and of the forwards, J. C. Wishart, A. N. Smith, and T. D. Harrow. Result—F.P.s (1 goal, 1 try), 8 points ; Perthshire (1 placed goal, 1 penalty goal, 2 tries), 14 points. 12th October. F.P.s 1st XV v. Gordonians, at Seafield.—F.P.s---J. M. McLeod ; J. H. Gray, J. W. B. Cruickshank, J. M. Yule, N. S. Cowan ; G. L. Cruickshank and Dr. J. P. Weir ; R. D. Bain, I. F. Booth, Dr. J. C. Wishart, J. I. Morrice, A. N. Smith, D. M. Wood, T. D. Harrow, A. J. Adams. Gordonians attacked from the kick-off, but J. Yule relieved the pressure with a fine kick to touch. The play was very keen, although not much good Rugby was to be seen, and both packs of forwards worked tremendously hard in the tight. F.P.s at length opened the scoring through R. D. Bain, who broke away from a line-out and scored far out after a splendid run of forty yards. J. M. McLeod converted with a fine kick. For the next few minutes F.P.s maintained their pressure on the Gordonian line, but weak passing among the backs nullified the efforts of the F.P. pack. A forward rush nearly resulted in a try, but fine defensive play by Gamblin, the Gordonian back, kept F.P.s out. Gordonians now were getting more together, and J. McLeod was kept busy at full back fielding loose kicks from the eager Gordonian forwards. Robison broke away, but was tackled by J. McLeod just on the line, and the F.P. forwards carried the ball into touch on the twenty-five • yards line. R. D. Bain barged through the Gordonian forwards and nearly got away, but was tackled finely by Gamblin. F.P.s were awarded a penalty kick in front of the posts, but J. M. McLeod was wide with his attempt. Half time—F.P.s—(1 placed goal), 5 points ; Gordonians, 0 points. The second half was as keenly contested as the first, and time and again each side was within an ace of scoring, but good tackling by both backs saved the line. The F.P. backs lost countless chances by kicking ahead instead of passing, and the halves were very weak. On several occasions F.P. forwards were up for a pass, but the three-quarter was tackled in possession. The strength of F.P.s lay at forward, where they held their own in the tight and were superior in the loose. The wing three-quarters were feeble, and although at times he played quite cleverly, J. W. B. Cruickshank was not too sure at centre. J. M. Yule played a sound game. In a hard-working pack, both in the loose and tight scrums, R. D. Bain was always prominent. J. M. McLeod played a very fine game at full back, being sure in his fielding and kicking. Result—F.P.s (1 placed goal), 5 points ; Gordonians, Nil. 19th October. F.P.s 1st XV v. Aberdeen 'Varsity, at King's College. F.P.s—J. M. McLeod ; J. H. Gray, C. A. G. Savidge, J. M. Yule, N. S. Cowan ; G. L. Cruickshank and H. T. N. Sands ; R. D. Bain, I. F. Booth, Dr. J. C. Wishart, A. N. Smith, T. D. Harrow, D. M. Wood, J. E. Bothwell, J. L. Ducat. The team against 'Varsity was severely handicapped owing to injuries to five players. F.P.s attacked from the start and secured the ball from several loose scrums, but the 'Varsity three-quarters defended well. At last G. L. Cruickshank punted the ball ahead, and the 'Varsity

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full back fumbled, to allow the F.P. forwards to rush in and score near the posts through J. L. Ducat. J. M. McLeod kicked the goal. F.P.s continued to press, but a long kick by A. B. Donald sent play to the F.P.s twenty-five. A rush by the 'Varsity forwards resulted in Middleton's scoring a try, which was not converted. The 'Varsity forwards shoved the light F.P. pack in the tight scrums and plied their backs with the ball, and tries were scored by J. Bain, Middleton, and Donald. The F.P.s were much inferior to 'Varsity at three-quarter and did not combine well, but the forwards played well in the loose, and many rushes were made on the 'Varsity line. At half time the score stood at 16 points to 5 for 'Varsity. In the second half the F.P.s fell away after a promising start, and only desperate defence kept the 'Varsity out. The " threes," however, did have one good combined run, which ended in N. S. Cowan being tackled near the goal-line. A tremendous combined rush by F.P.s carried the ball over the 'Varsity twenty-five, and J. C. Wishart, gathering the ball, kicked ahead for G. L. Cruickshank to score an unconverted try. This great bout seemed to have tired the F.P. forwards, who had to work terribly hard to hold the heavy 'Varsity pack, and tries were scored by the 'Varsity through A. B. Donald, who was the best back on the field, D. Middleton (2), and J. W. L. Bain. As the time for no-side drew near, the F.P.s made desperate attempts to score, and attack after attack was made on the 'Varsity line, but the defence was unbroken. So terrific became the struggle that injuries were frequent on both sides, R. D. Bain being carried off. In the last ten minutes F.P.s were nearly always in the 'Varsity twenty-five, and the final whistle blew with F.P.s close up on the 'Varsity goal-line. F.P.s were thoroughly beaten by a side which had a set of brilliant three-quarters and a very heavy pack of forwards. Lack of weight had a great deal to do with the result. Special mention must be made of J. M. McLeod's really magnificent defence at full back. His display was outstanding. Result—F.P.s (1 goal, 1 try), 8 points ; 'Varsity (4 goals, 5 tries), 35 points. 26th October. F.P.s 1st XV v. Engineers, at Rubislaw.—F.P.s— J. M. McLeod ; J. H. Gray, J. M. Yule, C. A. G. Savidge, N. S. Cowan ; G. W. Bowes and A. M. Scrimgeour ; R. D. Bain, I. F. Booth, A. N. Smith, R. A. Low, T. D. Harrow, D. M. Wood, J. E. Bothwell, J. L. Ducat. In a very uninteresting game at Rubislaw, F.P.s emerged victors by 27 points to 6. The game throughout was very scrappy, and very little good back play was seen. In the first half F.P.s scored through C. A. G. Savidge, whose try was converted by J. M. McLeod ; and N. S. Cowan twice. The Engineers' policy of keeping the ball on the ground gave their backs no scope for passing, and the game became more and more dull and uninteresting because of this. A feature of the game was the partnership between G. W. Bowes and A. M. Scrimgeour, and they combined very well indeed, remedying a weakness of the previous weeks. G. W. Bowes scored two tries ; J. M. McLeod and N. S. Cowan, one each. J. M. McLeod converted two. N. S. Cowan gave a much improved display at wing three-quarter and the halfbacks were excellent, but the forwards appeared to be somewhat upset by the unorthodox play of their opponents. Result—F.P.s (3 goals, 4 tries), 27 points ; Engineers, (2 tries) 6 points. R. D. Bain, I. F. Booth, G. W. Bowes, N. S. Cowan, J. W. B. Cruickshank, T. D. Harrow, J. M. McLeod, A. M. Scrimgeour, and A. Nicol Smith played in the Local Trial at Rubislaw. R. D. Bain, I. F. Booth, G. W. Bowes, J. M. McLeod, and A. M. Scrimgeour played for the North against the Midlands, and R. D. Bain was selected to play for the North against the South, in the Scottish Rugby International Trials.

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The Cricket Section. •

The Section has had only a moderate season. Difficulty has been experienced in getting a strong side together. Unfortunately the Section is not getting the support that it should from the pupils leaving School. As usual we entered for the Aberdeenshire Cricket Association Cup, but did not survive the first round. Our bowling was, if anything, slightly weaker than last year. Our best performance was against Strathmore (Forfar), when we put on a score of 190, mainly due to the brilliant partnership of A. J. Lockhart (86) and James Lindsay (43), who ran up a score of 89 before Lindsay was dismissed. Owing to the match being a timed one, we were unable to record a win, but when stumps were drawn, we stood in a winning position, Strathmore having scored 100 for 7 wickets. Unfortunately during August only one match was played, owing to the weather conditions, our inability to raise a side on account of holidays, and the small membership of the Section. The Section hopes that any F.P. who is interested in cricket will come forward next season and give the Section the encouragement it deserves.

Season 1929: Saturday Matches. Played 12

Won 4

Drawn 2

Lost 6

BATTING AVERAGES.

A. J. Lockhart J. R. Donald . J. Lindsay . E. M. Anderson . G. P. Marr . A. J. Allan M. K. Duguid . . A. Wilson . J. R. Leith J. M. Ross . E. M. Wilson . J. J. Donald . G. G. Wilson A. J. Wilson . W. Christie .

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Not Most in Innings. out. one Innings. Runs. . 7 1 86 127 . 9 2 61* 127 . 11 0 65 181 . 3 0 46 27 . 9 1 39* 118 2 26 71 . 9 . 2 0 11 20 . 8 2 17 52 28 . 8 0 64 . 5 0 11 29 . 2 0 10 PO . 6 1 19 25 . 9 1 17* 39 . 6 1 7* 18 . 4 2 1* 2 * Denotes not out.

Average. 21.1 18.1 17 15.3 14.75 10.1 10 8.6

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BOWLING AVERAGES. A. J. Lockhart G. G. Wilson . A. J. Allan A. Wilson . . G. P. Man . J. R. Leith A. J. Wilson . M. K. Duguid J. R. Donald . . J. Lindsay

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Overs. Maidens. Wkts. 56 13 15 9 1 5 . 159 33 28 . 30 3 6 . 84 15 14 . 5 1 1 • 34 1 6 . 19 4 2 . 12 1 2 . 50 5 5 .

Runs. 135 59 406 97 240 18 129 46 53 202

Average. 9 11.8 14.5 16.1 17.6 18 21.5 23 26.5 40

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The best individual performances were :— BATTING. May 4. J. Lindsay against Royal Mental Hospital. „ Balmoral . „ 25. G. P. Marr „ 25. E. M. Anderson „ Balmoral . . „ Aden June 1. J. Lindsay . Huntly 8. A. J. Allan „ Strathmore „ 22. A. J. Lockhart Strathmore „ 22. J. Lindsay July 13. J. R. Donald 11 St. Ronald . Brechin July 27. J. R. Leith 13 Gordonians Aug. 3. G. P. Marr * Denotes not out. May 4. 11. • June 1. • 8. July 13. Aug. 3.

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Season 1929: Evening Matches. Played. 8

G. G. Wilson . E. M. Anderson A. J. Lockhart G. P. Marr J. M. Ross . J. R. Leith A. J. Wilson . W. B. Richardson . A. Waters M. K. Duguid . J. R. Donald . W. Christie . • •

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Lost 2

BATTING AVERAGES. Most in Runs. Not Innings. out. one Innings. 1 35* 109 . 6 28 19 3 1 . 26 69 0 . 5 24 0 15 . 3 27 18 . 4 0 25 14 0 . 5 8 8 . 2 0 . 15 11 0 . 5 . 6 11 1 . 5 5 5* 1 . 3 3 3 . 2 0 2 2 . 2 0 • • • • • •

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Average. 21.8 14 13 8 6.75 5 4 3 2.75 2.5 1.5 1 Average. 3.4 4.1 4.4 5.4

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" Bon Record." Older readers of the Magazine will recall that, in commemoration of the Thirteenth Jubilee of the School in 1906, the late Rector, Dr. H. F. Morland Simpson, compiled a volume ox " records and reminiscences of the School from the earliest times by many writers." The title of the volume was the School motto, " Bon Record." A considerable number of copies of the book were sold at the time of its publication, but it appears that there are still copies at the School available for sale. As a new generation of F.P.s has arisen since " Bon Record " was first published, it is thought that some would like to procure a copy, especially as the price has been reduced to 6/- (inclusive of packing and postage). The volume contains a great deal of very interesting information about the early history of the School, the mortification, the archery medals, and Byron's connection with the School ; also reminiscences of the School in the nineteenth century by a number of distinguished F.P.s. The book is illustrated, and altogether is one that cannot but appeal to former pupils. Anyone wishing to secure a copy of " Bon Record " should communicate at once with the Secretary of the F.P.Club, enclosing remittance of 6/-.

List of New Members of the Club. LIFE MEMBERS.

Brown, Norman Dalgarno (1910-14), 58 Queen's Road, Aberdeen. Gillespie, John William Albert (1918-29), 93 Osborne Place, Aberdeen. Gore, Herbert (1925-29), 7 Grampian Circle, Balnagask, Aberdeen. Ironside, Redvers Noel (1907-17), M.B., Ch.B., 89 Harley Street, London, W.1. Ironside, William Dalton (1914-24), 30 Gladstone Place, Aberdeen. Jaffrey, Lawrence (1909-14), Itakhooli T.E., Tinsukia P.O., Assam, India. McBain, Ian (1904-14), C.A., 88 Queen's Road, Aberdeen. Mackie, Norman Ord Alexander (1919-25), Marchmont, 42 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen. Spence, Patrick Magnus (1904-06), M.C., Common's Corner, Tadworth, Surrey. Strachan, Charles James (1917-21), Lellopitiya Estate, Ratnapura, Ceylon. Walker, George Alexander Craig (1917-23), 21 Devonshire Road, Aberdeen. ORDINARY MEMBERS.

Aitken, William Noel (1924-29), Caledon, Cults. Fothergill Edward Anderson, (1922-29), 81 Fonthill Road, Aberdeen. Bain, Alexander Adam Ness (1916-29), 2 King's Gate, Aberdeen. Bisset, James Gordon, Jun. (191929), 8 Ashley Gardens, Aberdeen. Boyd, Leslie George (1918-29), 10 Devanha Gardens West, Aberdeen.

Christie, Albert (1919-29), 40 Carlton Place, Aberdeen. Collie, James Michael Vernon (1918-29), 10 Bon-Accord Crescent, Aberdeen. Clark, Norman Stuart (1919-29), 160 Bon-Accord Street, Aberdeen. Cormack, George (1923-29), Roselynn, Braemar Place, Aberdeen. Craig, Andrew (1924-29), 261 Victoria Road, Aberdeen. Cramb, Maurice (1916-29), 28 Louisville Avenue, Aberdeen.

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James William Cruickshank, Brewster (1926-29), Margaret Villa, Bieldside. Dewar, Frederick Scott T. (192329), 4 Hammerfield Avenue, Aberdeen. Duff, Harold Bisset (1923-29), 119 Broomhill Road, Aberdeen. Duguid, Marshall Keith (191929), Deebank House, Ballater. Duncan, Alexander Stuart (192429), 212 Springfield Road, Aberdeen. Forbes, Thomas (1918-28), 10 Southhill Park Gardens, Hampstead, London. Fox, Arthur Alexander (1923-29), 155 Mid Stocket Road, Aberdeen. Fox, John Angus (1923-29), 155 Mid Stocket Road, Aberdeen. Fraser, Andrew William (1922-29), 148 Mid Stocket Road, Aberdeen. Garbutt, William Percival (191013), 81 St. George's Road, London, S.W.1. Giles, Alexander Rennie (1927-29), Gateside, Old Meldrum. Grate, Robert Alexander (192029), 10 Polmuir Road, Aberdeen. Hay, David Sinclair (1907-11), Inverdon, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen. Hunter, George Alexander (192129), 286 Great Western Road, Aberdeen. Jeffery, James Olav (1923-29), Sclattie House, Bucksburn. McCombie, George Henry (191629), 22 Carlton Place, Aberdeen. Mackenzie, Alan Theodore Lewis (1927-29), Aldersyde, Banchory. Mackenzie, Ashley Mackintosh (1927-29), University Union, Edinburgh. Mackie, Alexander George Angus (1924-29), 20 Ashley Road, Aberdeen. Milne, Ronald James (1924-29), 16 Louisville Avenue, Aberdeen. Milne, William Francis (1925-29), 16 Louisville Avenue, Aberdeen. Mitchell, Gardiner (1919-26), 3 Lansdowne Road, Handsworth, Birmingham. Mitchell, Thomas Gerald (1922-28), 274 Hilton Drive, Aberdeen. Munson, David Donald (1922-29), 48 Great Western Road, Aberdeen.

Murray, Charles Halliday (18951900), 20 Bayview Road, Aberdeen. Paterson, William James (191829), 153 Montford Avenue, King's Park, Glasgow. Pennie, William Alexander Durance (1924-29), The Rectory, Bucksburn. Potter, John Lewis (1921-29), 3 Elm Place, Aberdeen. Raffan, Eric McLeod (1913-24), 37 Richmondhill Road, Aberdeen. Robb, James Harold (1925-29), 2a Ferryhill Place, Aberdeen. Robertson, John Moir (1923-29), 261 Great Western Road, Aberdeen. Scott, Alexander Gordon (192529), 34 Abergeldie Terrace, Aberdeen. Scott, Trevor Alexander Pringle (1926-28), The Manse, Gowan Street, Arbroath. Sellar, Adeh Murray (1920-28), Bucksburn House, Aberdeenshire. Shepherd, James Gordon (192029), 89 Hammerfield Avenue, Aberdeen. Slessor, Robert Stewart (1927-29), 24 Saltoun Place, Fraserburgh. Sloan, William Gibson (1927-29), 18a St. Quintin Avenue, North Kensington, London, W.10. Smith, Robert Watson (1923-29), Fuchsia Bank, Cults. Sommerville, George Smith (192329), Helen Cottage, Calsayseat Road, Aberdeen. Spiby, Thomas Dickson (1921-27), 40 Victoria Street, Aberdeen. Stewart, Ian Jackson (1923-29), 44 Gray Street, Aberdeen. Taylor, George Angus (1917-22), 16 Elmbank Road, Aberdeen. Thom, Robert Jamieson (1923-29), 15 Great Western Place, Aberdeen. Tulloch, William James Cameron (1923-29), 106 Brighton Place, Aberdeen. Wallace, Gordon Prof eit (1920-29), 6 St. Swithin Street, Aberdeen. Watson, David Henderson (192129), 55 Carden Place, Aberdeen. Wood, Douglas Mitchell (1918-29), 47 Argyll Place, Aberdeen.

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