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CONTENTS Portrait of George Alexander Combe, C.B.E., M.A. „ „ William Still Littlejohn, M.A., LL.D. „ „ Miss Elisabeth W. Davidson . .

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Facing page z6 " " 27 . „ 58 If

A Message to Former Pupils . . . . Page i • • • Professor A. F. Murison's Fifth Translation . . . . " 3 The Prize List of 186z • • .

• • • • • " 4 Notes About Old Boys • • . .

• • • • ,, 8 A Link with the Past • • • „• 25 • • • • • Obituary .

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• • • From the Polish Consul—Report No. 2 . . . . ,,, 35 An F.P. Journalist's Life . . . . . . . . „ 36 Alt Bayern. By Lieut.-Colonel A. Irvine-Fortescue, D.S.O., M.B., B.Com. . . . . . . .

• . „ 40 • A Tourist in Tahiti. By R. D. B. .

• • . . . " 47 Some Impressions of Poland. By G. T. R. Watt . . „ 50 School Section— School Notes . . . . . . . „ 56 • • R 57 Miss Elisabeth W. Davidson . . . . . . " 38 The Jamboree of 1933 . . . . . . . „ 59 The Night Tide . . . . . .

61 School Athletic Activities . . . . . . . „ 6z School Football . . .

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House Notes . . . . . . . . . „ 68 The Literary and Debating Society . . . . . „ 69 School Dramatic Society . . . . . . . „ 70 Scout Notes . . . . „ 71 . . .

The Library . . . . . . .

• • 73 Admission to Rubislaw Field . . . .

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The Former Pupils' Club— The Club Consuls . . . . . . . . „ 75 The School Boarding House . . . . . . " 77 The London Centre . . . . . . . . - 78 The Glasgow Centre . . . . . . . . „ 78 The Edinburgh Centre . . . . . . . „ 79 Rugby Football Section . . . . . . .

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Hockey Section . . . . . . . „ 8z Dramatic Section . . . . . . . . " 83 List of New Members . . . . . . . „ 84 The Club Colours . . . . . . . . „ 84 andom

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Aberdeen Grammar -School Magazine 49th year : No. 125 (New Series, oth year, No. 116).

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Vol. XXXVII.

No. 1

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. _

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A Message to Former Pupils.

The Summer vacation of 1933 will long be remembered.

Campers, hikers, and devotees of almost every form of sport, except fishing, had the time of their dreams. There was possibly more reluctance than usual to return and face the ordered routine of School, but there is always an element of interest in the reunion, to say nothing of the thrill of having new masters and advancing one stage further in seniority.

The vacation this year, as last, took toll of our staff. Miss Elisabeth Davidson died with comparative suddenness in the first week of July after a year of indifferent health, although she remained on duty till the end of Term. Reference is made elsewhere in the Magazine to Miss Davidson's services to the School.

There is no change in the building except that a muchneeded repainting of the external woodwork has been carried out. The School garden made an unusually brave show this summer, and Linton was justifiably proud of the produce of his vines.

Rugby had a good send-off in weather conditions which were more suited to cricket. One of the chief worries of the Sports Master seems to be the finding of room at the Field for the numbers with which he has to deal. Within the past five years and, more notably, within the past two years, there has been a steady rise in the percentage of Rugby-playing boys, and the enthusiasm which obtains should have favourable reactions on the senior clubs. Our 1st XV is good, much better in fact than the satisfactory results to date would indicate. The junior teams are full of promise and a credit to the Masters in

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charge. A new arrangement whereby the Gymnastic Instructor, Mr. Lawrie, assists with games at the Field on two afternoons per week has proved very helpful. In previous seasons difficulty was always experienced in finding Masters who were free to assist with the juniors.

The School Concert last May left us with a surplus sufficient to purchase a radio-gramophone, which is now functioning with much benefit to the teaching of music and foreign languages.

There is a possibility that a cinema projector for use with educational films may be added to the equipment of the School at a future date. What we should like to have above everything else is a swimming bath, and I commend the idea to potential benefactors.

An innovation, introduced this Term, has been the sharing by the Prefects of the duty of reading the Scripture lessons at the Morning Assembly in Hall. Following the excellent lead given by the Senior Prefect, they have acquitted themselves with credit, and the practice in all probability will be permanently established. On the day on which the Prefect reads, the organ accompaniment to the hymn is played by one of the boys.

It is gratifying to note the ever-increasing success of the Boarding House. I do not wish to repeat what may be said in another page of the Magazine about the House, but it is abundantly clear that the scheme has more than justified the hopes of the Directors, and that the additional accommodation which will be available in September will be fully taxed. If one may judge from the unsolicited testimonials which are received from time to time from parents, the boarders are very happy and well cared for at " Grammar School House."

Three cartoons by " Spy " of Vanity Fair came into my hands recently and have been framed and hung in the Library. The subjects are Sir J. C. Inglis (A.G.S. 1863-67), General Manager of the Great Western Railway; Sir Thomas Sutherland (1844-48), G.C.M.G., Chairman of the P. & O. Company ; and the Right Hon. Sir James Stirling (1846-51), who, after a distinguished career as a scholar, became eventually a Lord of Appeal.

So far as the after-School employment of our boys is concerned, there has been a slight improvement in the situation within recent months, and enquiries from business firms, banks, and insurance offices are becoming more frequent. To the best of my knowledge there is hardly a single case of a boy who has failed to secure suitable employment. Last week two of our recently-lefts secured appointments with a prominent firm of East India merchants and will receive a two years' training in London before going abroad.

There remain the customary Christmas greetings from the School. 1 seem to recall in such messages as were sent in the immediately preceding years a concomitant note of sympathy

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with you in the lean times through which many of you were passing. While there are no solid grounds for satisfaction yet, it is certainly true that optimism is a less ridiculous pose than it was. Anyhow, School is the habitation of youth, and youth, knowing nothing of pessimism, is confident that 1934 is going to witness the turning of the tide. If so, it is our fervent hope that Grammarians, the world over, will have a goodly share in such betterment as may be vouchsafed.

D. M. A. 18th Norember, 1933.

Professor A. F. Murison's Fifth Translation.* In this volume there is no falling off from the high standard of excellence which the venerable Professor displayed in his former translations.1- In all respects, whether in purity and lucidity of style, or in fidelity to the original, or in vigour and easy flow, this book will challenge comparison with its predecessors. The amount of careful thought expended on the work would do credit to a much younger man, and when the author's age is considered, is little else than phenomenal.

Professor Murison has in a remarkable degree the power of word-painting, and many such felicitous renderings might be quoted. One of these must suffice at present—the delightful description of Paris (vi, 514), " mightily pleased with himself."

Objection might be offered to the large proportion of dactyls in the translation. This feature tends to give the verses a certain monotony, but has probably been employed with the intention of reproducing the martial character of the original Greek.

This handsome volume, printed at The University Press, Aberdeen, can be cordially recommended to Former Pupils, among whom it should find a wide sale, as the work of one of the most distinguished scholars connected with our School, to which, by the way, he is extraordinarily devoted.

Readers will be interested to know that the translator dedicates the book to his sons, A. L. Murison, physician and surgeon; and Sir James W. Murison, late Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements.

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The Prize List of 1862.

The Rector came across recently among some School papers a copy of " The Prize List of The Grammar School, Aberdeen, for the year 1861, and Programme for 1862-65." As Professor A. F. Murison's name figured largely in the List, the Rector sent it on to him, and has received a very interesting reply, which we are permitted to reproduce below. From this old print some interesting information about the School can be gleaned.

The Fees in each of the Five Classes, for all the Branches, were Half-a-Guinea per Quarter, except in the November Quarter, when Half-a-crown additional was charged for Fire and Light. " The Fees are collected on a day named soon after Quarter day. No accounts are previously sent out, but receipts are always given on payment of the Fees." Porter's Fee, One Shilling each half-year, was payable on i st March and 1st September.

The holidays were not quite so extensive as they are now.

At Christmas the School closed on z4th December and reopened on 5th January. For the " Spring Communion Week " the School closed on 7th April and re-opened on 14th April.

At Midsummer the School closed on z6th June and re-opened on rah August. One particularly bright spot, however, must have been the forerunner of the Autumn Mid-Term Holiday (now a week-end)—" The School is also Closed for a week at the Competition." (This, of course, refers to the University Bursary Competition, which was always held about the end of October.)

In those days classes for Writing, and for Arithmetic and Mathematics were taught in the Town's Public Schools in Little Belmont Street. Writing was under the charge of Mr. Francis Craigmyle (whose daughter, Miss Bessie Craigmyle, died in Aberdeen a short time ago), the fee being 5s. per quarter for one hour daily ; and the Arithmetical and Mathematical Classes were under the charge of the Rev. Robert A. Gray, the fees being 5s. per quarter for one hour daily, and 7s. 6d. for two hours daily. French and German Classes, under the charge of Mr. Muller, were taught in the Grammar School at such hours as were found most convenient—fee, 15s. per quarter, " if a Class of at least 8 be formed."

Prefixed to the Prize List of each Class is a resume of the work gone over during the past year. In the case of the Fourth and Fifth Classes " [Latin] Versions were written twice every week, on Tuesday and Friday Afternoon in School; and usually three Exercises, viz., a Translation, a Greek Exercise, and Latin Sentences, were written at home weekly. The Tuesday's Version is always a Trial Version, i.e., the errors are counted, and the place of the pupil in the class is assigned accordingly. The Translation is read, examined, and criticised

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in school, and the Greek Exercises and Latin Sentences are carefully examined, corrected, and returned to the pupils.

Frequently on Monday Afternoon, a Translation, or a Greek Exercise, or a Version was written in School without the use of Notes or Dictionaries, and afterwards examined and corrected."

In the Prize List of the Fourth Class, which had 44 ordinary and 18 " extranean " pupils, A. F. Munson is recorded as being ist in Latin, 1st in Greek, 1st in History, and in Geography [What a falling off was there!], 1st in Private Latin Readings, 1st in Private Greek Readings, and 1st in General Excellence.

He was also awarded the 1st " Extra Prize for Visitation Exercise." And now, in his 87th year (his health does not seem to have suffered permanently from over-pressure while a pupil!)

Professor Munson writes of his School-fellows in the Prize List as follows :— Professor Murison's Annotations.

Yes, meminisse juvat. It appears to be 71 years ago (I) when, as the magnates were descending from the platform on Prize Day, one of them (Councillor Harper) genially bent down to me and said " Have you ordered a Pickford ? " I had got such a heap of books—one of them Liddell & Scott (Latin 1st Prize), a godsend at the right moment, which I have used ever since, and which is lying at my hand this moment: amazingly great work—greater the more you test it : like the British Museum!

Ah yes, all dead, I fear, except John Hector and myself— and perhaps one more : for I fancy G. S. Forbes is Sir George Stuart Forbes, K.C.S.I., son of the F.C. minister of Drumblade (whom I remember well—but that is another story). I believe, and hope, that Sir George is still alive. * The most ancient personage mentioned in the " List " that I remember is Gavin Turreff, Dux in 18181-115 years ago!

One day, probably in autumn 1864, when I was privately assisting Dr. Barrack for a short time, he chanced to call on Dr. B. I-Ie said he had just come from an auction of books, where he had grieved to find Butler's Analogy going for 8d., and had bought it: whereon he incontinently asked me to accept it, with his blessing. I never saw him before or after, but his memory remains vividly. So the famous book was not a stranger to me when I met it later in the prelections of Professor Martin.

Alexander Beverly, Dux 1840 : later classical master; shrewd, caustic, kindly ; brother-in-law of Mr. Martin (Rector).

John F. White, Dux 1844, miller and art critic ; whom I first met at the hospitable table of Sheriff Dove Wilson, at the Savile * Yes—one of the Honorary Vice-Presidents of the F.P. Club.—Ed.

A.G.S. Meg.

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Club. John Scott, Dux 1861 : swept the board of prizes ; never did I marvel at anybody so much ; eminent doctor at Manchester.

In the Fifth Class : John Hector, Dux 186z, valiant protagonist in a strong class ; bright, genial, and spirited, like another famous John : " My name it is little Jock Elliot, And wha daur meddle wi' me ? " Patrick Nicol (son of doctor in Belmont Street), gracious youth, died early. James Valentine (son of Editor of the Journal, I think), odd character, with out-ofthe-way stories and sayings, and eye and manner of the Ancient Mariner. James Gillan—D.D., minister of Alford. E. L. Kesson (good conduct prize), fragile, died next year at College.

I still see his calm, resolute face as he trudged to lectures in his very last days along the Spital, supported by two other students.

David A. Davidson, of Hatton (Cruden), brother of my very accomplished friends, Thomas, "the Wandering Scholar" (Greek Sixty of his year), and of the wayward John Morrison Davidson, barrister, journalist, and author, who, Dr. W. A. Hunter, M.P., used to say, " just missed being a poet." John Adam (Mathematical Sixty), son of the minister of the Free South Church, Aberdeen, Principal of Pachaiyappa's College, Madras, and later barrister and Public Prosecutor—adapted my " First Work on English " to Indian students. A. W. Robertson, of a distinguished family, Public Librarian, suffered from overtasking an inadequate constitution : brother of Professor Croom Robertson, and of Charles, Dux 1849, of Indian Civil Service.

Alexander Milne (twice as old as most of us), later First Bursar.

William Duffus, blithe and modest : China missionary. Thomas A. Stewart (Greek Sixty), son of bank agent, Grantown, temporary Rector of the School (after Mr. Martin), and Inspector of Schools—acharni grinder. Can John Bruce be my very dear friend, most eminent (though too modest ever to be " honoured") of London doctors—J. Mitchell Bruce (from Keig) ? I wish I could recall the fine appreciation of him by Sir Lauder Brunton in the dedication of one of his works. George McInnes : irrepressibly genial: is this the man that was a minister—and eventually a Bishop or Archbishop in Australia ? * In my own (Fourth) Class : James M. Rae, elderly student, previously draper, devotedly religious, shared lodging with me in first session at College: Al fellow. Thomas Mitchell, minister near Stonehaven: rejoicing in early luxuriance of whiskers. George Ledingham, son of keeper of a private school in Correction Wynd—slight, gentle. William McKilliam, of the house of confection fame in Broad Street : lank—and naturally sweet. Charles McCombie, of Free Press McC.s, died young—poor constitution, overwork. George W. * Actually Moderator of General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales in 1894.

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Hutchison, from Banchory (son of Rev. Dr. H.). Alexander Slessor, near relative of G. M. Slesser, Senior Wrangler. James Scott, Consular Service, Chinese scholar, compiler of dictionary of Korean language, elder brother of Rev. W. Scott of Foveran.

Robert Massie, son of a darger up Turriff way, frightfully hard worker, died prematurely, a minister in or near Edinburgh.

Patrick Mitchell, doctor at Rayne, cousin of Patrick Nicol, and, like him, a gracious youth.

In Third Class : James Shepherd, famous Indian Medical Missionary: gave me introduction to lodgings in Berlin, 1871 : grand fellow. Matthew Dickie, son of Rev. Andrew Dickie, St. Paul's : great friend of J. M. Rae : later, a minister.

Peter Forsyth, son of postman (like Rev. Dr. S. D. F. Salmond) —Principal of a London Theological College, and author: idealistic, unconventional : great friend of Sir Alexander Glegg (alas, dead a month or two ago). William L. Davidson—is that the genial Professor of Logic (Bourtie) ? William Walker —is that the man of expansive whiskers and ultra-macassared tressure that ran a private school in Aberdeen for a time ?

In Second Class: George S. Gibb—surely Sir George Stegman Gibb, of N.-E. Railway fame. William J. B. Moir, one of the early African (Loveday) missionaries—brother-in-law of my very dear friend the late Rev. J. B. Duncan of Lynturk.

And is James Reid, the Dux of three years later, Sir James Reid, Bart., G.C.B., etc., etc., Queen's physician ? f so, I examined his work for the Dux-ship, under the eye of Barrack, and knew him well in London.

In First Class : William R. Pirie*—can't say I knew him much, but I remember him well—with his wild chevelure.

David M. L. Salmond was a younger brother of Rev. Dr. S. D. F. Salmond, who went up to Cambridge and died very early. James Ferrier, placid and diligent, went (I think) into the ministry somewhere.

I must not forget Davie Sinclair: surgeon (Colonel or General) in the Madras Army, son of a farmer over Nigg way.

Last time I saw him I met him in Union Street, and he promptly carried me off to lunch at Watson's. Spruce and military; looked a Major-General much more than a medico, reminding one of Ralph Roister Doister's vast, ingenuous self-complacency : " Ah, why did God make me so comely ? " But kinder heart or more vigilant eye never watched over an ailing man.

But, dear me, all this maundering wearies you—unless you have taken it as read. And I am forgetting that I have to struggle with Iliad XV. . . ! . * For many years parish minister of Nairn ; now resident in retirement at Leith : member of F.P. Club.

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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.

RESIGNATION OF THE LORD JUSTICE-CLERK.

The Right Hon. Lord Alness* (Robert Munro—t884-85), P.C., M.A., LL.D., has recently resigned his appointment as Lord Justice-Clerk, and his retirement from the Scottish Bench marks a further stage in a distinguished career. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1893, and at a comparatively early age attained a large practice. In 1906 he became Sheriff Court Depute, and later was appointed Junior Counsel to the Treasury. In January, 191o, he entered Parliament as Liberal member for the Wick Burghs, and in 1913 became Lord-Advocate as a member of Mr. Asquith's Government.

When the Coalition Government was re-formed under Mr. Lloyd George in December, 1916, he became Secretary for Scotland, a post he held until his appointment as Lord JusticeClerk in 1922. He continued as M.P. for the Wick Burghs till the elimination of the constituency under the Redistribution Act, transferring in December, 1918, to Roxburgh and Selkirk. " The conditions of government during the War," said The Scotsman, " threw heavy additional burdens on all the administrative Departments, but both as Lord-Advocate and as Secretary for Scotland he carried through his duties with a zeal and thoroughness which fully justified his promotion to a seat in the Cabinet. In the legislative sphere the most notable statute during his term at the Scottish Office was the Scottish Education Act of 1918, a measure with which his name will long be associated. He was also largely instrumental in guiding through Parliament the Church of Scotland Act (1921), which helped to clear the way for the union. Lord Alness performed his duties as a Judge with the same conspicuous ability that marked his career as a Parliamentarian and administrator. His opinions, whether written or extempore, were distinguished for their orderly marshalling of facts, cautious reasoning, and a remarkable lucidity of expression." * Members of Former Pupils' Club.

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Than Lord Alness the Grammar School has no more devoted son. Although he was a pupil for a comparatively short period, it was long enough to engender in him the most intense devotion to and affection for the School. Ever since he became a member of the Former Pupils' Club, now many years ago, he has done all that he possibly could to help both it and the School. When Secretary for Scotland he presided in December, 1918, at the meeting in the Hall at which the School War Memorial Scheme was inaugurated; and in May, 1923, he unveiled the War Memorial in the Hall, delivering a singularly beautiful and touching address. He was President of the F.P. Club for 1928-29, and at Annual Dinners of the Club and of the London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh Centres has delivered speeches which will not soon be forgotten by those who were privileged to hear them.

William Rogie Angus* (1915-11), M.A., B.Sc., Ph.D., who is Lecturer in the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry at University College, London, reminds us that there are two other F.P.s on the staff of the College, namely, JOHN MACMURRAY (1902-04), M.C., M.A., who has been Grote Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic since 1928, and JAMES RUNCIEMAN SUTHERLAND (1907-17), M.A.(Aberd.), B.Litt.

(Oxon.), who is a Senior Lecturer in English. It remains for these two distinguished scholars to become members of the F.P. Club and of the London Centre.

Alexander Nicol Archibald* (1959-23), who served his time as an engineer with John M. Henderson & Co., Ltd., Aberdeen, has recently gone out to Assam, where he has received an appointment as junior assistant at Chandpore Tea Estate, Chandpur Bagan P.O. James Alexander Barclay* (1920-25), M.A., B.Sc., has just been appointed President, and Alan Douglas Morgan (1919-28), M.A., has been appointed Secretary of the Students' Representative Council of the University of Aberdeen.

George Edward Colledge Barton* (1923-26), M.A., has recently been appointed an assistant teacher in the Primary Department of Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen.

Douglas Maitland Bisset* (1901-08), who has been in Western Australia for a number of years, has recently become a Life Member of the F.P. Club.

George William Bowes* (1915-28) is now in his final year at the Aberdeen School of Architecture. On completing his fifth year last June, he was awarded prizes from Alexander C. Barker's Legacy, the Aberdeen Society of Architects, and the Former Students' Association. Bowes is well known as a leading member of the F.P. Rugby ist XV. William Stratton Bruce (1862-64), M.A., D.D., who was

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for 5 z years parish minister of Banff, and died on 3 oth March last, aged 86 years, left personal estate valued at £23,581.

Arthur Campbell Cromar Bruce (1897-1903), who is a journalist in Vancouver, recently sent an interesting contribution to the Aberdeen Press and Journal, in which he described an interview he had had with a Former Pupil who is in his ninetieth year. This is WILLIAM MCCOMBIE (1857-58), a son of the first editor of the Aberdeen Free Press. The nonagenarian was one of the early reporters on the original weekly Free Press, and later was a sub-editor on the daily Free Press. Mr. Cromar Bruce reports that Mr. McCombie, though now frail in body, possesses a most virile and active brain. " Of all subjects for a man who has wandered about the world as he has and earned his livelihood in a variety of ways to be interested in chiefly, surely bi-metallism is most out of the ordinary! But this is a subject on which Mr. McCombie speaks, if not with authority, certainly with conviction and emphasis. And he not only speaks on the subject at every opportunity, but he writes. His old newspaper training has not deserted him in his ninetieth year." After his term as a reporter on the weekly Free Press, Mr. McCombie went to Australia, but returned to Aberdeen in 1880. The wander fever got him again, however, and he set sail for Canada, where in the past fifty years he has worked at a big variety of jobs, eventually entering the hotel business.

Gordon Burns (1926-33) and John Morrison Smith (192432) have recently received appointments with Messrs. Steel Brothers and Co., Ltd., Fenchurch Avenue, London.

Robert Henderson Calder* (1921-24) has been in Australia for the last six years, and is in the service of the Australian Tesselated Tile Co., Ltd., at Mitcham, Victoria. In a recent letter to the Secretary of the F.P. Club he says : " I have never regretted coming to this sunny land with its friendly, hospitable people, who are essentially British in every characteristic, retaining the very best instincts of fair-mindedness and sportsmanship, combined with an unswerving loyalty to the Old Country such as would pour confusion and shame on any ' little Englander.' . . . It has been apparent during the last few months that Australia has been gradually showing signs of recovery from the depression, and with the rise in the world prices of wool and wheat, a brighter future is confidently expected." He continues to have an unfailing interest in the doings of the School, and like a good soldier preserves his lines of communication by means of the Magazine.

Alexander Chalmers* (1917-26), M.B., Ch.B., was until recently Resident Medical Officer at St. Mary's Hospital, Plaistow, London, E. 13, and is now House Physician at the National Temperance Hospital, London, N.W. i.

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John Alexander Cheyne* (1921-26), C.A., has recently received an appointment with the General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation, Ltd., at Swansea.

John Gordon Chope* (191 5-22), who graduated this year B.A., with honours in English, at Cambridge, is now studying for the diploma at the London School of Librarianship.

Andrew Clark* (1895-1901), M.A., who was appointed Secretary and Treasurer of the Cathcart School Board, Cape Province, South Africa, in 1917, was at the beginning of this year appointed out of 84 applicants to be Secretary and Treasurer of the Queenstown School Board, Cape Province. He says that Queenstown is a much larger centre than Cathcart, and there is consequently much more work to do. So far he has met only one other F.P., namely, Dr. ALFRED W. H. CHEYNE* (I 905 -00, the Medical Superintendent of the Mental Hospital at Queenstown. This is a very pleasant inland town and owes much to the late Hon. Sir WILLIAM BISSET BERRY (1848-53), M.A., M.D., LL.D., who settled there in 1864 and took the keenest interest in its municipal and educational needs. He was Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Cape of Good Hope from 1898 to 1907, and was elected to the Parliament of the Union in 1910 as member for Queenstown. He died in June, 1922.

William Robertson Clark* (1907-11), who is Assistant Engineer of the Gold Coast Railway at Kumasi, has been home on furlough for some months.

Thomas Collet* (1910-14), who was reported in the last Magazine as having been appointed Secretary, Treasurer, and Organizer of the Greenock Royal Infirmary, was in October appointed Secretary of the Royal Scottish Corporation, London.

Queen Elizabeth, it is said, kept down the Scotsmen in London to the astonishingly small number of fifty-eight, but with King James came a host of traders and craftsmen who failed to get employment in the City—hence the institution of the " Scottish Box," a sort of friendly society treasury. The " Scottish Box " has grown into the Royal Scottish Corporation, from which relief is given to deserving aged, sick, and destitute Scots in London. The invested funds amount to a quarter of a million.

Collet entered the Civil Service by open competition, and was in 1920 appointed to the Inspecting Grade of the Inland Revenue.

In 1923 he resigned from the Civil Service and took up an appointment with the Foreign Mission Committee of the United Free Church. For six years he directed the affairs of the Jalna Co-operative Bank, Ltd., Hyderabad, India. Later he became Organizing Secretary to the Forward Movement of the Church of Scotland, and then received the appointment in Greenock.

Sir John Collie* (1873-76), C.M.G., M.D., is the editor of " Recent Progress in Medicine and Surgery, 1919'1933,"

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published this autumn by H. K. Lewis & Co., Ltd. The object of the book is to bring together in one volume succinct records of recent medical and surgical progress, so- that general practitioners may have the means of keeping themselves abreast of the latest developments. In the book men who are leaders in their special subjects embody in a series of very readable and concise chapters the summation of all they know of the departments to which they have devoted themselves. There have, for instance, been revolutionary advances since 1920 in the treatment of diabetes and glycosuria, and ROBERT DANIEL LAWRENCE* (1900-09), M.A., M.D., summarizes the management of insulin (for his work in connection with which Professor J. J. R. MACLEOD,* M.B., Ch.B., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., was awarded jointly with Dr. Banting in 1923 the Nobel Prize in Medicine) and the emergency treatment of diabetic vetosis.

Edwin William Connon* (1916-25), B.Sc.(Eng.), having completed a student apprenticeship course with the English Electric Co., Ltd., at Stafford, is now in charge of the Installation Research Laboratory of the company at Stafford Works.

James Stanley Rowland Cruickshank* (1914-2,I), B.A. (Cantab.), LL.B.(Edin.), son of ALEXANDER THOMAS CRUICKSHANK* (1882-87), O.B.E., M.A., advocate, was in July appointed lecturer in Constitutional Law and History in the University of Aberdeen. From the Grammar School he proceeded to Trinity College, Glenalmond, and thence to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he read for the Law Tripos during his three years' residence, and graduated B.A. in 1928. He next went to Edinburgh, where he was an apprentice for three years in the office of Messrs. Shepherd & Wedderburn, W.S., and during his apprenticeship took the degree of LL.B. at the University of Edinburgh. He was admitted a member of the Society of His Majesty's Writers to the Signet in December, 1932, and thereafter returned to Aberdeen, becoming the junior partner in the firm of Messrs. Brander & Cruickshank, advocates. In March of this year he was admitted a member of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen. He has been appointed to the lectureship at the unusually early age of 27.

Robert Watson Cruickshank* (1880-84), M.B., C.M., who graduated in medicine at Aberdeen in 1895, and has been in practice at Eynsham, Oxon, since 1901, has now retired from practice, and is resident at Summertown, Oxford.

Peter McLaren Davidson* (1908-13) is now resident at Kirk Sandall, near Doncaster.

William Leslie Davidson (1859-64), M.A., LL.D., who was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Aberdeen from 1895 to 1926, and who died in September, 1929, is commemorated by a bronze medallion, in the Logic Classroom at King's College, which was presented in July to the

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University. The marble surround of the medallion was designed

by JAMES CROMAR WATT* (1875-78), LL.D. A replica of the medallion, framed in oak to a design by Dr. William Kelly, has been placed in the Aberdeen Training Centre. It was presented to the Aberdeen Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers in October, when CHARLES WILLIAM SLEIGH* (1874-79) M.A., LL.D., the Chairman of the Committee, accepted custody of it. Professor Davidson was a member of the Provincial Committee for fifteen years, and was Chairman from 1918 to 1920. In addition to the erection of the two medallions there has been established a William Leslie Davidson Memorial Fund, the revenue from which is to be applied towards helping matriculated students in any faculty of the University of Aberdeen who may require assistance at any time either through limited means or on account of illness.

Ronald Grant Dingwall* (1912-21), M.B., Ch.B., is a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and has been serving in H.M.S. Kent in Far Eastern waters.

John H. Ducat* (1881-86), of Messrs. Ducat & McRobb, Ltd., motor engineers, Aberdeen, is Convener of the Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen for the year 1933 -34. Douglas George Milne (1904-08), of Messrs. D. Milne and Sons, engineers, Aberdeen, is First Master of the Hammermen ; James Gray Kilgour* (1909-16), M.A., of Messrs. Kilgour & Walker, Ltd., is Deacon, and Charles C. Adams (1884-86), of Messrs. P. & C. Adams, drapers, is First Master of the Weavers. The Clerks and Assessors of the Incorporated Trades are George W. S. Walker* (1876-82), advocate, and George Robb* (1892-97), solicitor.

Robert Hutton Duguid* (1918-23), B.Com., C.A., has for the past tear been in the service of Messrs. Duncan Brothers and Co., Ltd., Calcutta.

Walter Angus Elmslie* (1904-1o), who is an Admiralty harbour engineer, has recently been moved from the Portsmouth district to London.

Alfred George Emslie* (1918-24), M.A., who in 1930 was awarded one of the Commonwealth Fund Fellowships, tenable

by British graduates in American universities, studied physics for three years at Cornell University, and received the degree of Ph.D. last July.

Robert John Esslemont* (1920-23) in July passed the Board of Trade Examination for master mariners (foreign trade).

He served his apprenticeship on the King Cadwallon, whose career was ended tragically by fire some four years ago in the Southern Indian Ocean.

Ernest Andrew Ewart* (1882-83) continues to write most acceptably under the pen-name of "Boyd Cable." To the

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Manchester Guardian he contributed in August an article entitled " Iron Rations," in which he recounted some of his experiences in the Boer War of 1899-19o2. Apropos of the new iron ration of the Army, he recalled the old South African ration, which was much more fittingly described as an " iron ration," as it was contained in a metal cylinder some seven or eight inches in length. This was divided into two compartments, one holding a concentrated form of meat extract, and the other a strong, pure chocolate. " I was one of many," he wrote, " who had the ration served out on

embarkation for the Cape in early 1goo, carried it continually through over eighteen months on the veldt, and actually brought it home with me unopened. A heartless War Office (or Quartermaster) then had the ration ' returned to store,' and I had to hand in my battered and dinted, but still intact, cylinder. I did (and do) think we might have been allowed to keep those rations as a permanent souvenir and monument of a will as iron as the ration, for on innumerable occasions we felt like putting up with being ' crimed ' for the sake of a square meal. In the last war it was something rare for a man to be hungry or thirsty, especially after the retreat was over.

In South Africa the rarity was not to be ravenously hungry. Half or quarter rations were the rule rather than the exception, and often we had these unbrokenly for weeks on end. A quarter ration was a 1 lb. tin of bully beef meticulously divided into four slices, a biscuit of the familiar square dog; biscuit pattern and taste (or lack of taste), and a fraction about the size of half a thumb, one-sixteenth of an ounce, of tea one day, coffee another. . . . . A spell of quarter rations for a young and growing man (as I was then) brought a state of hunger that was a continual gnawing pain and an obsession of the mind."

John Frederick Ferguson* (1904-09), Major, Durham Light Infantry, was in October appointed a Chief Constable in the Commissioner's Office at New Scotland Yard, London. A son of Surgeon-Major JOHN EDWARD FERGUSON (i866-69), M.B., C.M., of the Indian Medical Service, who died in 1904, he received a commission as Second Lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry in 1912. In the War he served on the Indian Frontier, in Mesopotamia, and in Palestine, where he was wounded and taken prisoner in April, 1918. He was promoted to be Captain in 1917 and Major in 1931. He passed the Staff College Examination at Camberley with distinction in 1926, and in the following year was at Shanghai as one of the General Staff Officers of the Shanghai Defence Force. His new appointment took effect on ist November.

George Topham Forrest* (1879-89), F.R.I.B.A., as Architect to the London County Council, has, in collaboration with the engineers, Messrs. Rendel, Palmer and Tritton, prepared the design for the widening of Waterloo Bridge by the process of corbelling-out. This design has been approved by the Royal Fine Arts Commission and also approved generally by the London County Council. The Times of 25th October reproduced a photograph giving the clearest possible notion of what the bridge will look like when it has been reconditioned, and in a leading article said :—

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" To all intents and purposes Rennie's noble design will be retained, while the structure, strengthened and largely rebuilt by the engineers, will, thanks to the architectural resources of Mr. Topham Forrest, henceforth carry four lines of traffic instead of three, and will be accordingly all the wider. So ends at last, and in the happiest manner, a controversy which began ten years ago ; and it is now certain that as a monument of beauty and of utility it will have suffered nothing by the quite intelligible delays which have preceded this final decision. Not only does Mr. Topham Forrest's design meet the general desire to save the bridge, but it agrees logically with the conditions which govern the traffic over it. Four lines of wheeled traffic are as, much as can be handled at the bridgeheads. This simple fact was an insuperable objection to a still wider bridge. Circumstances, not art or engineering, were against six lines of traffic ; and that being so the case for a completely new bridge, as long as engineering could rehabilitate the old, fell to the ground. There can be no question now that the better counsel has prevailed. Mr. Topham Forrest's projection of the cornice on either side involves no alteration in the piers, arches, and waterways ; that indeed is its great merit. To the uninitiated the design may appear to be a very simple and trivial matter ; and that may well be true, but it is all the more a testimony to the ingenuity and to the essential reverence of Mr. Topham Forrest's plan. It has in fact been well worth while waiting all these years for so satisfactory a solution."

Archer Irvine-Fortescue* (1892-97), D.S.O., M.B., Ch.B. (Aberd.), B.Com.(Edin.), Lieut.-Colonel, R.A.M.C., in June passed with credit the intermediate examination for the degree of Master of Arts with honours in modern languages at the University of Edinburgh. In the intermediate honours language classes he obtained " high distinction " in German and " distinction" in French. Until recently he was in command of the Military Hospital at Edinburgh, but he is now stationed abroad. A very welcome article from his pen appears in this issue of the Magazine. His usual form of recreation and amusement is either to qualify in some foreign language or to take an additional University degree, according to the facilities for study offered by the particular place in which he happens to be.

George Sutherland Fraser (1924-33), son of the Town Clerk of Aberdeen, has become an arts student at the University of St. Andrews. With a one-act play, written while he was still a pupil at the School, he took the first place in the annual competition held by the Mermaid Club, the drama club of the University. The reception of the play was most enthusiastic.

James Gibb (1870-76), D.D., who was commissioned to the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, Australia, in 1881, and ordained as minister at Melbourne in 1883, celebrated the jubilee of his ordination at Wellington, New Zealand, in September of this year. He was appointed minister of the First Presbyterian Church, Dunedin, in 1886, and of St. John's Church, Wellington, in 1903. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of New Zealand in 1901, and retired from the active ministry in 1926. He still resides at Wellington, New Zealand. A full newspaper account of the jubilee celebrations has reached us through GEORGE

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BERTIE GAULD* (I878-8z), who is in the Wellington office of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, Ltd. Charles Gillespie (191o-18), who is a professional actor, had a leading part in " White Horse Inn" when it visited Aberdeen for a fortnight in September.

William Cowan Glegg* (1898-99), A.M.Inst.C.E., who since the War has spent a considerable time abroad as a harbour engineer, both in the F.M.S. and in Nigeria? has recently become a partner in the firm of Messrs. Rogers, Ltd., contractors, Willenhall, near Wolverhampton.

Alfred William Grafton* (1 912-22), C.A., formerly with Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Co., chartered accountants, London, has since July been Assistant Secretary to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Ltd., 83 Pall Mall, London. He says that he has now discovered that motor cars do not run on the roads without a big lot of work behind the scenes!

James Masson Hector (1889-190o), B.Sc., Professor of Agricultural Botany in the University of Pretoria, was this year President of Section C of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and at its meeting in Barberton in July, in the course of his presidential address, discussed the origin of certain cultivated plants. In interviews with leading members, a newspaper correspondent obtained opinions on the value of the work done by scientists in the Union of South Africa during the past year. All were agreed that outstanding work had been accomplished in the botanical and anthropological sections. " The address of Professor J. M. Hector of Pretoria shows that he has really done an outstanding piece of scientific work.

Its importance lies in the review which he gave us of the work that has been done on the genetics of domestic plants, the food plants of man, and of cotton. His work will greatly help botanists in producing new races of plants."

Alfred Alexander Harper* (1918-25), M.A., M.B., Ch.B., has been awarded at Aberdeen University the Alexander Anderson Scholarship for the years 1933-35.

Stanley Frank Walker Humphrey* (1 91 z-z 2), who qualified as a C.A. in 1930, is now with a firm of chartered accountants in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Robert Younger Hunter* (189 5 -1904), M.A., LL.B., continues in the service of Messrs. Thomson, Dickson and Shaw, W.S., Edinburgh.

Stanley Hurry* (1916-21), B.Sc.(Eng.), is now with Worthington-Simpson, Ltd., 38 Bath Street, Glasgow. He was for a time in the F.M.S. Charles Ross Irvine* (1922-26), B.Sc., M.A., was in June appointed assistant mathematical master in the Central Secondary School, Aberdeen.

.,/lherdeen Grammar School Magazine Reginald Andrew Baxter Jaffray* (1910-18), M.B., Ch.B., is now in medical practice at Buntingford, Herts.

Francis Henry King* (1916-26), who entered the service of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in 1928, has recently been posted to Hongkong.

John Laird* (19o1-o3), M.A.(Edin. et Cantab.), Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Aberdeen, was in July elected a Fellow of the British Academy. The only other F.P. member of the Academy is Professor JOHN WIGHT DUFF* (1877-82), M.A., LL.D., D.Litt., who recently retired from the professorship of Classics at Armstrong College, Newcastle-onTyne.

Charles Ludwig* (1917-26), who is at present studying medicine at Aberdeen University, was in September the leader of a party which climbed the hitherto unconquered " Mitre Ridge ' of Ben Avon, one of the Cairngorms. This ridge of sheer rock is the boldest feature of the south wall of the Garbh Choire, which is on the north side of the well-known " Sneck," between Beinn a Bhuird and Ben Avon. It is a majestic rock, boo feet high, cleft at the summit and having from one angle the appearance of a bishop's mitre. Ludwig is well remembered as the scaler of another height—the central spire of the Mitchell Tower of Marischal College, which he climbed on a dark, windy night in December, 1931, and affixed to the weather-vane a weird effigy stuffed and draped in pyjamas, socks, and rubber gloves, with one arm pointing skywards, and the headpiece consisting of a human skull, crowned by a silk hat. We suppose there are still a few more " inaccessible pinnacles in this country left for him to conquer, so that, unlike another conqueror, he need shed no tears yet.

John Macdonald* (1919-22), M.A., was in July appointed one of H.M. Inspectors of Schools in Scotland, and assigned to the Glasgow and Bute district. He graduated at Aberdeen with First Class Honours in Classics in 1926, gaining at the same time the Dr. Black Prize in Latin. After completing a year at the Aberdeen Training Centre for Teachers, he held a scholarship at McGill University, Montreal, where he continued his work in classics and studied Canadian and American educational systems and methods at various centres. Thereafter he taught in the classical department of Leith Academy, and latterly was a teacher of classics in the Morgan Academy, Dundee.

James Wyness MacGregor* (1910-23), who was for a time in the employment of the Rhodesian Railways and later was Acting Town Engineer of Umtali, has now been appointed Town Engineer. Umtali is an important town on the eastern border of Southern Rhodesia, a railway centre, well laid out, with excellent water and electricity supplies, good roads, etc.

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William Maclver* (1923-26) received in the early part of this year an appointment at short notice as wireless officer on the s.s. Hansa, of the Union-Castle Line. He was trained in Greenock.

Alfred Scott Mackie* (1905-09), M.B., Ch.B., who entered the East African Medical Service in 1919, and was appointed Senior Medical Officer in Tanganyika Territory in 1929, has been compelled to resign this appointment on the ground of ill-health. He has now settled at Leighton Buzzard, Beds.

John Macmurray (1902-04), M.A.(Glasg.), Professor of Logic in University College, London, is the author of a philosophical work, "Interpreting the Universe," published by Messrs. Faber & Faber last summer. He also edited a volume entitled " Some Makers of the Modern Spirit," published by Messrs. Methuen in September. This book is an educational symposium of twelve talks which were broadcast in the spring of this year. Professor Macmurray in his introduction defines the modern spirit as " that outlook on life which is common to us all in spite of superficial differences," and the series aimed at exemplifying this attitude through the lives and thought of historical personages who have definitely contributed to the development of the modern spirit.

Ronald Duncan MacRae* (1916-23), M.B., Ch.B., Lieutenant, Indian Medical Service, is at present stationed at the Indian Military Hospital, Meerut, United Provinces.

Ernest Main (1903-08), M.A., who after a spell of journalism in this country, has been for some years on the staff of a newspaper in Iraq, contributed in August to The Times an authoritative letter, which was prominently displayed, on the Assyrians in Iraq and the problems of peaceful settlement. The problem of the Assyrians, he pointed out, is one of those problems of politics in which nationality, race, and religion are all major factors. What makes it apparently insoluble is the fact that the Assyrians are a nation in arms—and first-class material at that. " As the result of their taking service with the British iin the Great War], the Assyrians, about 37,000 in number, can put in the field about io,ooo men, fully trained on British lines, with full experience of British discipline and tactical methods, and each armed with a modern British rifle given to him on discharge from the British-maintained Levies. As fighting material the Assyrians can have few equals to-day in the Middle East. . . . The exLevies have come to regard themselves as all but British, and the Arabs have found their superior attitude most galling. That I believe to be a factor in the problem which has not been sufficiently emphasi ed."

The Right Hon. Baron Meston of Agra and Dunottar* (1876-80), K.C.S.I., received at the end of June from the University of Edinburgh the honorary degree of LL.D. He received the same degree from the University of Aberdeen in 1913.

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became acute at the end of the Great War, the Government took the unusual step of transferring a Provincial Governor to the Viceroy's Council, where his genius was needed to correlate and consolidate the accumulated mass of evidence necessary for the Parliamentary legislation of 1919. This he did in despatches that elicited the admiration of the Parliamentary Committee for their clarity of expression and literary elegance. Those who were behind the scenes during that period of turmoil recognized his cool, evenly-balanced judgment in equating the necessarily conflicting factors of the Indian complex. Edinburgh was proud to be associated with Aberdeen in offering honour to one who had served the Empire faithfully abroad and still continued to devote his energies to the public interest at home.

Lord Meston presided over the Section of Geography at the meeting of the British Association at Leicester in September, and in a graceful and fascinating presidential address discussed geography as a mental equipment. He painted a vivid picture of the changing world, far back in the mists of time ; pointed out the influence of geographical situation in shaping religions and maintaining morals ; and said that geography might warn the League of Nations where to expect those causes of economic and territorial friction which imperil world peace. To an older generation geography was the dreariest part of the school curriculum, said Lord Meston. To-day it was vividly human, and as a science was sponsored by the gallant succession of explorers who had accomplished the opening up of Arabia, the surveys of the Antarctic Continent, and the flight over Everest. " We mortals of the day live, it is surmised, in an inter-glacial epoch. It is only a fraction of time since this green and pleasant land of England was buried deep under an ice cap, such as Admiral Byrd saw with something akin to terror when he was flying in the Antarctic. It may be only another fraction of time before all that we see around us to-day is thrust into oblivion by another glacial visitation." The day after the address the Press and Journal assured its nervous readers that the "fraction of time" was likely to be so immense that the submergence of Britain under another glacial epoch might be contemplated with equanimity I Lewis Middleton* (1919-32), who is an arts student at Aberdeen University, was the winner this year of the Peterhead, Aberdeen, and Banchory open golf tournaments. He reached the third round of the Scottish Amateur Championship played in July at Balgownie.

George Poison Merson* (t9r8-z8), M.B., Ch.B., is at present assisting a medical practitioner in Crewe.

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in Glasgow, and Secretary to the Scottish Council of the Student Christian Movement.

Hugh Mackintosh Morgan* (1914-20) is accountant at the West George Street Branch in Glasgow of the North of Scotland Bank, Ltd. Alexander Wyness Mortimer* (1924-27), who was formerly in the service of J. & N. Philips & Co., Ltd., in Aberdeen, has recently been transferred to their Manchester office.

Charles Mitchell McQuibban Murray* (19 i 4-26), M.B., Ch.B., is at present in the service of Sarawak Oilfields, Ltd., Miri, via Singapore.

William James Adair Nelson* (1914-24), C.A., who for more than three years was in the service of Messrs. Spicer and Pegler, chartered accountants, London, has recently received an appointment with Messrs. Ford, Rhodes, Thornton & Co., chartered accountants, Colombo, and has gone out to Ceylon.

Alexander Falconer Murison* (1861-63), K.C., M.A., LL.D., the author of translations from German, Latin, and Greek that have been published recently, has deposited in the Library of University College, London, translations of a Greek paraphrase of Justinian, a book from the Dutch, another from the French, and a fourth from the Danish. In addition to all these languages, Professor Murison is an expert in Italian.

In his knowledge of Continental languages he seems to be a rival of another renowned Aberdeen alumnus, the late Sir Thomas Urquhart.

Sir William Robertson Nicoll (1865-66), C.H., M.A., LL.D., the well-known journalist, who died in May, 5923, comes into Lord Riddell's recently-published " Intimate Diary of the Peace Conference and After." The diarist pictures " the lovable old boy" at work early in the morning sitting up in bed dictating articles to his secretary, with a huge fire burning and powerful lights turned on, and his two favourite black cats sitting at each corner of the bed, which was covered with manuscripts, proofs, and remains of his breakfast. His publisher, Sir Ernest Hodder Williams, used to allege that on one occasion, in a fit of abstraction, Sir William packed the hotel sheets in his bag in mistake for his night clothes, and that on another occasion, at a reception for authors, he heartily congratulated one of the waiters on his latest book, much to the waiter's mystification.

Alexander Paterson* (1910-21), M.B., Ch.B., is now in medical practice at East Sheen, London, S.W. 14. lain Henry Pattison* (1921-30), who in December, 1930, was awarded a scholarship tenable for two years at Geelong College, Victoria, Australia, and who, as recorded in the last issue of the Magazine, became Captain of the College, has now

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returned to this country and is at present working at the Duthie Experimental Stock Farm, Rowett Institute, Bucksburn.

Alan Reid* (1911-14), who for a good many years has been in the service of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, formerly in Japan and latterly in Hongkong, has recently been transferred to the Karachi office of the Bank.

Robert Richards* (1899-1904), M.A., M.D., was in November appointed to the new Lectureship in Forensic Medicine that has been established at Aberdeen University on the abolition of the Chair in that subject. Dr. Richards, who is one of the leading medical practitioners in Aberdeen, was assistant to the Professor of Forensic Medicine from 1920 to 1926, and in 1927 was appointed Lecturer and Head of the Department of Forensic Medicine in the University.

James Garvie Ritchie* (1928-31) is in the service of the Commercial Bank of Scotland in Aberdeen.

John Hall Ritchie* (1903-09), M.A., B.Sc., officiating Principal of the Agricultural College, Nagpur, India, who joined the Indian Agricultural Service in 1913, has recently been appointed to officiate as Director of Agriculture, Central Provinces.

Robert Lindsay Graeme Ritchie* (1894-99), M.A., D.Litt., Professor of French in the University of Birmingham, had an interesting letter in The Observer in October, over the unmistakable initials and address " R.L.G.R., Birmingham," in which he said :— "Observator" remarked last week that Mr. Laurence Housman's theory " does not explain the puzzling words with which Macbeth received the news of the death : She should bare died hereafter." To my mind it does.

It is not for me, having been born at an undue distance from the sound of Bow Bells, to comment on the differences between " should " and " would."

But I have heard that in Shakespeare's time they were not what they are at the present day, and have noticed cases where "hereafter" seems almost equivalent to "in a little," "before long." In reading "Macbeth" (merely for private edification), I have always taken these words to mean : " She would have died before long," in any case, i.e. whether by sleepwalking, or by suicide, or just because all " brief candles " go out before long.

William George Robertson* (1884-90), M.A., B.D., minister of the Old Church of Cullen, has presented to that Church a stained-glass window of exquisite design, in memory of his parents and of his wife. The window, which is the work of Mr. John M. Aiken, A.R.S.A., consists of four lights, with six small lights in the basket-traceried arched window-head.

The subject depicted is " The Crucifixion on Mount Calvary."

The Rev. W. G. Robertson was appointed Professor of English Literature in the Wilson College, Bombay, in 1898, and became Principal and Professor of English Literature in Gujarat College, Ahmedabad, ten years later. He entered the Indian Educational

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Service in 1912, continuing to hold the same position as before in Gujarat College. He retired from India in 1926, and after being for a short time minister at Barthol Chapel, Aberdeenshire, was appointed to Cullen in 1927. His father, JAMES ROBERTSON, M.A., D.D., who is commemorated by the window, was a pupil at the Grammar School in 186t-62, became a missionary in India in 1871, and was Principal of the Free Church Institution, Calcutta, from 1881. In 1887 he was appointed Professor of Church History in the Free Church College, Aberdeen. Many of the older F.P.s will remember him as a forceful chairman of the Aberdeen School Board, and associate his name with the great " Westfield " controversy of 1896-98. He died in 1901.

Herbert Brebner Scott* (1905-08), son of the late WILLIAM J. SCOTT (1879-89), who after the War entered the service of the Royal Insurance Co., Ltd., has recently been appointed resident secretary of the " Royal" Group at Shanghai. He was stationed in Shanghai before, and was one of the donors to the School of the Shanghai Clock, but for the last six years he has been in the Calcutta office of his Company.

Alastair George Sharp* (1918-24), B.A., of Clare College, Cambridge, son of the late ALEXANDER SHARP (1889-91), has been awarded a Harmsworth Law Scholarship, valued at £2OO a year for three years. He was placed in Class I of the Classical Tripos, Part II, at Cambridge in June of this year. He has spent part of the autumn in America debating for the Cambridge University Union.

Sydney Herbert Smith* (1881-87), A.M.Inst.E.E., who was appointed chief engineer of the Kent Cement Works (Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers) in 1922, has recently joined the outside engineering staff of The English Electric Co., Ltd. Archibald Douglas Spark* (I 90 5 -io), M.C., Captain, znd Batt. The Gordon Highlanders, is at present Staff Captain of the 5th Infantry Brigade at Aldershot.

James Stewart* (1863-66), who was formerly a marine superintendent and consulting engineer in Newcastle-on-Tyne, and now lives in retirement at Laurencekirk, rang up the Secretary of the F.P. Club a short time ago, announcing that that day was the seventieth anniversary of his entering the Grammar School as a pupil at the commencement of its first session on the present site. Mr. Stewart is one of the few surviving members of the Club who were pupils at the opening of the present buildings and who attended the Club Dinner held in the School Hall in October, 1923, to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of that event. The other survivors are Rev. WILLIAM ROBINSON PIRIE* (1861-66), M.A., D.D., formerly parish minister of Nairn; WILLIAM A. SMITH* (1861-65), of Messrs. James Smith and Son, wholesale watch and clock makers, Aberdeen ; and Rev. PETER

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THOMSON (1862-63), D.D., senior minister of St. Serf's, Dunning.

John Alexander Stewart* (1897-99), M.A., of the Indian Civil Service, has been appointed Lecturer in Burmese, School of Oriental Studies, University of London.

Henry James Strachan* (5917-24), M.A., was in June appointed principal teacher of classics at Galashiels Academy.

From 1929 he was assistant classical master in Dunfermline High School.

Alexander Alexander Thomson (1895-98), B.Sc., mining engineer, of Sir Robert Williams & Co., Ltd., London, who was killed in the disaster to the Imperial Airways Liner " City of Liverpool " on 28th March last, left personal estate in Great Britain valued at L30,973.

James Ferguson Thomson* (1913-15) has recently been home on six months' leave from New Guinea, where he has been trading amongst the islands for over four years as the Captain of one of the ships of Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd. George Findlay Walker* (5907-2o), who qualified as a chartered accountant in 5926, and thereafter had a four years' agreement with Messrs. McAuliffe, Davis & Bell, C.A., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is now in the employment of Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming, C.A., Hongkong.

John Thomson West* (188z-86), M.B., C.M., retired on ist January, 5933, from the position of surgeon in the Glasgow Royal Samaritan Hospital for Women, after 39i years' service on the staff, during which period he had occupied the various posts from House Surgeon upwards. On the occasion of his retirement he received a presentation, and at the same time he was appointed Honorary Consulting Surgeon to the Hospital.

Alexander Macgregor Williamson* (5908-I I), who was for a time in the service of the Cawnpore Woollen Mills, Ltd., at Cawnpore, and later agent of the British India Corporation, Ltd., at Rangoon, is now proprietor of the Rose and Crown Hotel, Haverhill, Suffolk.

George Alexander Wilson* (59 zo-z3), M.B. , Ch.B., son of GEORGE ALEXANDER WILSON* (188z-8 3 ), obtained the Diploma of Public Health at London University in July last.

Alexander Charles Wood* (191o-19), who is in the service of Barclays Bank, formerly at Nairobi, Kenya Colony, is now stationed at Arusha, Tanganyika.

Ninian Blundell Wright* (191o-13), M.A., B.D., was in August inducted to the charge of the Kirk o' the Covenant, Dalmellington, Ayrshire. For the last two years he held the Wilson Travelling Fellowship of Aberdeen University, and as such took part in archxological excavations in Samaria.

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At the Summer Graduation at Aberdeen University degrees were conferred on the following F.P.s :— Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) :— James Edward Smith (1916-22), B.Sc. Thesis— " The Norites and Associated Rocks of the Maud District of Aberdeenshire."

Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) :— Duncan Campbell Robb (1918-z3), M.A., M.B., Ch.B. Thesis—" The Ketogenic Diet in the Treatment of Infections of the Urinary Tract."

Master of Arts (M.A.)— Ernest Renan Mitchell (1922-29), with Second Class Honours in English (Language and Literature).

Robert Jamieson Thom* (1923-29), with Second Class Honours in English (Language and Literature).

Eric Imlay Harper* (1918-30).

Henry Shiach (1925-30).

George Smith Sommerville* (19 z3-29).

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)— Mearns Bruce Watson (1920-29), with Second Class Honours in Chemistry.

Walter George Swan Benzie* (1917-19).

Gilbert Frewin Hamilton* (1921-3o).

Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (B.Sc.Agr.)— Alexander Rennie Giles* (1920-21 and 1927-29).

Bachelor of Science in Forestry (B.Sc.For.)— Robert Gray Sangster* (1919-3o).

Bachelor of Science in Engineerng (B.Sc.Eng.)— Sydney Robertson Smith* (1924-3o)—Civil Engineering.

Frederick Lewis Dude 0920-20—Mechanical Engineering.

Alexander Roger Wilson* (I 912-2 5 )—Mechanical Engineering.

Alexander Merrie Hardie* (1918-28), M. A. — Electrical Engineering.

Bachelor of Law (B.L.)— George Francis Collie* (1916-z6).

Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.) and Bachelor of Surgery (Ch.B.)Ian Alfred Anderson* (1912-24), B.Sc., with First Class Honours. Passed Final Medical Professional Examination with Distinction.

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Alexander Milne Rennie* (19z 5 -28), with Second Class Honours.

James Ross Sinclair Third* (1916-28), with Second Class Honours.

George Poison Merson* (1918-28). Passed Final Medical Professional Examination with Distinction.

Diploma in Public Health (D.P.H.)— John Downie Trail (192o-26), M.B., Ch.B. James Strachan Walker* (1913- x 7), M.B., Ch.B. James Webster* (1920-26), M.B., Ch.B. ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRIZES.

The following were in the University Prize List at the Summer Graduation :— Hunter Memorial Prize— Gilbert Frewin Hamilton* (1921-3o).

Sutherland Gold Medal in Forestry— Robert Gray Sangster* (1919-3o).

Davidson Smith Prize in Diseases of Children— Alexander M. Rennie* (1925-28), proxime accessit.

Fife Jamieson Memorial Gold Medal in Anatomy— Ellis Edward Paul Murray* (t 9,25 -3 o).

Lizars Gold Medal in Anatomy— Alan Hamilton Cruickshank (1920-3 a), proxime aecessil.

Murray Gold Medal and Scholarship (awarded to the Most Distinguished Graduate in Medicine—M.B., Ch.B.)Ian Alfred Anderson* (1912-24), B.Sc. Bertie Russell Gold Medal in Pathology— George Mackie Stephen* (192o-26), M.A.

A Link with the Past.

The following intimation will doubtless come as a surprise to many of the older F.P.s. It will recall memories both grave and gay of a forceful personality :— SLEIGH— At Kirksyde, Tarves, on 5th August, 1933, Agnes Lumsden, widow of Charles Sleigh, M.A., Aberdeen, in her 88th year.

Charles Sleigh graduated M.A. at Marischal College in 1850.

He was for a time Rector of Peterhead Academy, and was appointed Mathematical Master at the Aberdeen Grammar School in 1872, on the retirement of Rev. George McArthur, M.A. After serving in the School for over 21 years, Mr. Sleigh was superannuated in the autumn of 1893, and died on 22nd June, 1894, aged 64 years. Mrs. Sleigh, it will be seen, survived her husband for nearly forty years.

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OBITUARY. A CONSUL-GENERAL IN CHINA. George Alexander Combe* ( I 889-95), C.B.E., M.A.,

one of His Majesty's Consuls-General in China, died at Victoria, British Columbia, on 26th October, 1933, aged 56 years. He graduated M.A., with honours in classics, at Aberdeen University in 1899, and two years later entered the Consular Service in China, having taken the ninth place in the open examination for student interpreterships. He passed through the usual stages of promotion and became a Vice-Consul in 1917, having been Acting Vice-Consul at Canton in 5955, and Acting Consul at Chefoo in 1914. In June, 1917, he was seconded for service with the Chinese Labour Corps, and with the rank of Captain was in charge of a company of Chinese coolies in France from October, 1917, to December, 1918. On returning to China in 1919, he was promoted to the rank of Consul, and while in Chengtu, near the' borders of Tibet, he received in 1924, on the King's Birthday, the honour of C.B.E. Five years later he was again promoted, and became one of H.M. ConsulsGeneral in China, being posted to Tsinan. From 1928 to 1930 he did good work as one of two British Commissioners appointed to co-operate with two Chinese Commissioners in assessing claims presented by British subjects for injuries and losses by looting during the Nanking " Incident " of March, 5927. A picturesque photograph 9f this Sino-British Joint Commission appeared in the Magazine in March, 5929. Unfortunately Combe's career was cut short by a serious breakdown in health, which obliged him to retire in October of last year. He was in this country at the beginning of this year, and then went to Victoria, B.C., with the idea of settling in that part of the world, but he died in hospital at Victoria as the result of a stroke, from which he never rallied.

In 5926 Combe published through Messrs. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., a remarkable book entitled " A Tibetan on Tibet." This is an account of travels and observations in Tibet by a native.

When Combe was stationed at Chengtu in the province of Szechuan, on the Tibetan border, he had occasion to visit Tachienlu, a small township on the Sino-Tibetan border, 8,5oo feet above sea-level and regarded as the main gateway to Tibet from the east. Here he met an English-speaking Tibetan, who unfolded such an interesting story of his earlier days in Tibet, including an account of various pilgrimages he had made with a lama, that he was engaged by the Consul to go every evening for an hour or two and discourse to him about Tibet and the Tibetans. Combe suggested to the Tibetan that his story would interest a wider public, and the outcome was the publishing of the book.

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The Consul iS survived by a son—ROBERT FORBES COMBE* —who was at the School from 1923 to 1930, and was one of the team representing Scotland in the Fourth International Chess Tournament held at Folkestone last June. His brother, ROBERT GRIERSON COMBE (1894-97) was awarded the V.C. posthumously in 1917. He was killed in action in France while serving as a Lieutenant in the Manitoba Regiment of the Canadian Infantry.

AN OUTSTANDING AUSTRALIAN HEAD MASTER. William Still Littlejohn* (1872-75), M.A., LL.D., Principal

of the Scotch College, Melbourne, died there of pneumonia early in October, aged 74 years. A son of the late Mr. William Littlejohn, watch and clock maker, Turriff, he passed from the School to the University of Aberdeen, where he graduated in arts in 1879. His first appointment was assistant resident master, Clydesdale College, Hamilton, where he remained a year, going to Highfield School, Melrose, in a similar capacity.

In 1881 he went to New Zealand, and was assistant master in Nelson College from 1882 till 1899, when he was promoted to be Principal. Five years later he was appointed Principal of Scotch College, Melbourne. In 1929 he received from the University of Aberdeen the honorary degree of LL.D., " a tribute of a kind rarely accorded to an Australian head master," said the Scotch Collegian at the time. " 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 19o4, so that out of the 78 years of its existence 25 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."

A correspondent of The Times wrote : " When he arrived at Scotch College in 1904 there were less than 400 boys on the roll ; he raised the numbers to well over 1 ,ooo, making it the second largest public school in the Empire. Among his early innovations were the introduction of the prefect system, and later the house system, and the founding of the school magazine, which occupies a special place among productions of its kind.

Always prepared for reasoned change, Dr. Littlejohn was constantly adding to the list of school activities, and only the other day set up a new society for the discussion of international affairs. Perhaps the most important event during his headmastership was the transference of the school from the centre of Melbourne to a site of 7o acres some miles out. Dr. Littlejohn was a man of outstanding personality, and character was the thing he wanted most for his boys. To this end he allowed the freest development of personality, while enforcing rigid discipline." When the Principal was home on a visit in 1911

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Aberdeen Grammar School and Scotch College exchanged flags, and the Grammar flag, with the letters " A.G.S." emblazoned on it, was hung in a prominent place in the new college hall at Melbourne. Dr. Littlejohn intended to retire at the end of the present year. He is survived by his mother, who is aged 97 years, and resides in Wellington, New Zealand.

William G. Bannochie (188o-82) died at Aberdeen on 5th August, 1933, aged 65 years. He was a son of the late Mr. James Bannochie, plasterer, and became a member of the firm of James Bannochie & Son. He went to America in 1923, but returned home five years ago in ill-health.

John Coutts (1876-8o), M.A., minister of Croick, Ardgay, Ross-shire, died there on 6th August, 1933, aged 77 years.

He was an arts student at Aberdeen University for four years, but did not graduate M.A. until 1889, after he had spent four years travelling on the Continent as a private tutor. For a time he was an English master in Ealing Grammar School, London, and then senior assistant in the Church of Scotland Practising School, Normal College, Aberdeen. He next studied divinity at Aberdeen University, and was successively assistant minister at Turriff, Keith, Markinch, Culsalmond, Alvah, Gamrie, and Monymusk, until finally in 1918 he was ordained to the church at Croick.

James Bell Cruickshank* (1886-89), M.B.E., M.B., C.M., died at Levenshulme, Manchester, on 24th October, 1933, aged 61 years. He graduated in medicine at Aberdeen in 1893, and had been in practice at Manchester since 1896.

George Kinnear Fleming* (1866-71) died in Aberdeen on 18th November, 1933, aged 78 years. He was Dux of the Grammar School in 1871, and in the following year was withdrawn from Aberdeen University to enter the business of his father, the late Mr. John Adam Fleming, wholesale warehouseman, Broad Street, Aberdeen. He retired in 1911, and for the past ten years had been in failing health. He was a man of fine literary taste and a great reader.

James Andrew Sandilands Grant* (1889-91), M.A., M.B., Ch.B., died at Montrose on 7th October, 1933, aged 59 years.

He was a son of the late JOHN GRANT. (1847-49), who was for long the leading merchant in Methlick, agent there for the North of Scotland Bank, and widely known as a farmer and successful breeder of Aberdeen-Angus cattle. After graduating in medicine at Aberdeen in 1900, Dr. Grant settled as a general practitioner in Montrose, and there developed an extensive practice. During the War years he acted for several of his colleagues on service, but this imposed on him a strain under which his health gave way, and he retired from work five years ago. In his student days he was well known as an athlete, and he displayed a keen interest in all forms of sport while health permitted.

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Kenneth Stuart Hector (1893-1901), the youngest son of Rev. JoHN HECTOR* (18S7-62), D.D., died at Cheltenham on 19th August, 1933, aged 47 years. After being trained in banking in this country, he went to India in the service of the Bank of Madras, which was later amalgamated with the Imperial Bank of India. He was agent at various stations in the Madras Presidency, and was latterly acting as Secretary and Treasurer at the Presidency headquarters. He retired and settled in Cheltenham last year.

James Younger Hunter* (1881-89) died at West Cults, Aberdeen, on Toth September, 1933, aged 6o years. He was the second son of the late Mr. James Hunter, shipbuilder, and after passing through the Grammar School, served his apprenticeship as a marine engineer, and thereafter was at sea in that capacity for three years. In 1897 he joined the firm of Hall, Russell & Co., Ltd., shipbuilders, Aberdeen, and on the death of his father in 1909, was appointed a director of the firm.

Mr. Hunter was a quiet, unassuming man and was universally popular. His main hobby was gardening.

James Hutcheon* (1868-7i), formerly General Manager of the North of Scotland Bank Limited, died at Aberdeen on 16th November, 1933, aged 77 years. Immediately after leaving the School, he entered the service of the North of Scotland Bank at the office in Methlick, and was soon promoted to the head office in Aberdeen, where after serving in nearly every department, he was made Junior Inspector in 1880, and Senior Inspector in 1888.

Eight years later he was appointed Secretary of the Bank, and in 1905 he became Manager. In 1908 he was largely instrumental in carrying through the amalgamation of the North of Scotland Bank with the Town and County Bank, and he became General Manager of the new company, which at first took the rather cumbersome name of The North of Scotland and Town and County Bank Limited, but later abbreviated this to The North of Scotland Bank Limited. Mr. Hutcheon devoted his life to the work of the Bank, and under his care its record was one of unbroken progress. He retired in June, 1922, when he was presented by the Bank staff with his portrait in oils by the wellknown artist James McBey. This portrait is in the Aberdeen Art Gallery. Mr. Hutcheon was a Sheriff-Substitute for the counties of Aberdeen, Banff, and Kincardine.

Henry Jackson Kilgour (1887- ? and 1896-97) died in a nursing home in Shillong, Assam, on 3oth October, 1933, aged 53 years. He was one of five sons of the late Mr. James Kilgour (of Kilgour & Walker, woollen manufacturers, Aberdeen) who were educated at the Grammar School. He went to Assam in 1905 and was latterly manager of the Khowang Tea Estate.

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William Macintosh, M.A., Ph.D., who was a pupil at the School in the early 'seventies, died at Crowborough, Sussex, on 22nd June, 1933. He took both his degrees at Halle University in 1891, and ten years later became a deacon of the Scottish Episcopal Church, and a priest in the following year. After holding curacies at Glasgow and Kidderminster, he was a chaplain in Germany of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, at Gotha and then at Freiburg, from 1906 to 1914.

During part of this time he was also English tutor to H.R.H. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. A few months after the War broke out, he was allowed to return to this country, and he was rector of St. Paul's Church, Kinross, from 1919 to 193o, when he retired and settled at Crowborough. He was editor of The Anglican Church Magazine for North and Central Europe from i 912 to 1930, and the author of " Scott and Goethe : German Influence on the Writings of Sir Walter Scott," published in 1926, and also of "Burns in Germany : Scoto-German Studies."

James Godsman Mearns (1864-65) died at Aberdeen on 4th August, 1933, aged 84 years. He was formerly in the office of the Town Clerk, Aberdeen. His sons, JAMES GODSMAN MEARNS (1913-20), B.Sc. (Agr.), and WILLIAM JOHN MEARNS (1916-2o) are both members of the F.P. Club.

Andrew Richardson (1862-64), M.B., C.M., died at Craigellachie on 19th September, 1933, aged 85 years. Dr. Richardson, who was born in i 848, did not graduate in medicine at Aberdeen till 1896. He had a practice in Buxton, and retired about four years ago to Craigellachie.

David Alexander Silver* (1871-7z) died at Cults, Aberdeen, on 23rd July, 1933, aged 75 years. On leaving the School he entered the service of the Town and County Bank at Stonehaven, and in 1877 became accountant at Banchory. Two years later he was transferred to the head office in Aberdeen, and in 1884 was appointed inspector of branches. In 1913 he became agent at the Evan Street Branch, Stonehaven, of the North of Scotland and Town and County Bank, Limited, and retired in 1927, thereafter residing at West Cults.

William Sinclair* (1872-77), M.B., C.M., died at North Loirston, Nigg, on 1st October, 1933, aged 73 years. He was the son of the late Mr. David Sinclair of Loirston and Altens, Nigg, and from the School passed to Marischal College, where he graduated in medicine in 1882. He then joined the staff of the Royal Mental Hospital, Aberdeen, and after being for a short time in Manchester, started on his own account at Schoolhill, Aberdeen, where he built up a large practice. He also acted as assistant surgeon in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

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the Infirmary. This post he held till 1919, after which he devoted himself to farming at Kirkhill, Nigg, which he had bought from his father in 19oz. Here he started a Friesian herd, the first of its kind in the county of Kincardine, and one which acquired a very wide reputation. He purchased the farm of North Loirston in 1920, and disposed of Kirkhill. In the work of the County Council of Kincardine he took a very active part, and he was a keen Volunteer and Territorial. When the War broke out he was a Major in the R.A.M.C. (T.F.), attached to the 3rd (Res.) Battalion Gordon Highlanders. He served in Aberdeen to September, 1915, and thereafter was Senior Medical Officer, Aberdeen Defences, Orkney and Shetland, to March, 1919. In the previous year he was promoted to be LieutenantColonel. His son, DAVID SINCLAIR* (1912-21) joined him in partnership as a farmer some years ago.

Lewis Smith* (1894-95) died suddenly at his residence, 5 3 Queen's Road, Aberdeen, on i lth September, 1933, aged 53 years. He was a son of the late Mr. Isaac Forsyth Smith, and a grandson of the late Mr. Lewis Smith, who attended the School in 1809-1o. He carried on with great success the wellknown firm of Messrs. Lewis Smith & Son, wholesale booksellers, stationers, and printers, which his grandfather founded in 1822. Apart from his interest in the business, he had few outside activities. During the War he served as a Private in the Mounted Transport of the Army Service Corps, at home from 191 5 to 1917, and in France from 1917 to 1919.

James Watson (1868-73), M.A., died at Ballater on 24th September, 1933, aged 77 years. A son of the late Mr. James Watson, jeweller, Aberdeen, after graduating in arts at Aberdeen University in 1877, he served as an apprentice with Messrs.

Adam, Thomson & Ross, advocates, Aberdeen. He built up a high reputation for himself as a court agent, and later was made a partner in the firm. He was admitted a member of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen in 1886. On the recommendation of the late Mr. J. B. Balfour, who was afterwards Lord President of the Court of Session, Mr. Watson was appointed solicitor to the North British Railway Company in Edinburgh in 1892, a post which he occupied for thirty years, retiring on the amalgamation of the railways in 1922. On his appointment he became a solicitor in the Supreme Courts, Edinburgh. Mr. Watson, who acquired a mastery of railway business routine, was well known in Parliamentary Committee Rooms, and both there and before Commissioners under the Scottish Private Legislation procedure, he took part in many conflicts involving the public interests and that of his Company. Throughout his life he had a great affection for Deeside, and spent a month at Ballater nearly every year. When he retired eleven years ago he took up permanent residence there.

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Alexander Morrison Williamson* (1871-73), M.A., died at Norwood, Cults, on 5th August, 1933, aged 75 years. The oldest of five sons of the late Mr. George Williamson (1829-34), of Shempston, Elgin, who all received part of their education at the Grammar School, he graduated in arts at Aberdeen University in 1877, and thereafter became indentured as a law apprentice with the firm of Graham, Johnston and Fleming, W.S., Edinburgh, at the same time attending the law classes at Edinburgh University. On qualifying as a solicitor, he returned to Aberdeen and joined Mr. James Paull in the firm of Paull & Williamson. He was admitted a member of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen in 1882. Gradually he built up a large business, in which he was joined in 1891 by his brother, ROBERT Mont WILLIAMSON* (1882-83), M.A., LL.B., and a few years ago by his nephews, GEORGE ALEXANDER WILLIAMSON* (1904-I2), B.L., and RO BERT BERTRAM WILLIAMSON* (1906-18), M.A., LL.B. In the early years of his professional career Mr. Williamson devoted himself to the law of real property, and in 1892 published " Scottish Conveyancing Cases," which was well received and had a large sale. About twenty years ago he took a leading part in founding the Scottish Northern group of Investment Trusts, of which his firm have all along been secretaries, and of which for some years he was himself a director. From that time he devoted himself more and more to investment business, and his knowledge of companies, not only in this country but in the United States and Canada, was extensive and accurate.

Thomas Clarence Wilsone (1894-97) died on z6th June, 1933, aged 49 years. He was the younger son of the late Mr. Thomas Wilsone, partner in the firm of Wilsone & Duffus, advocates, Aberdeen, and on leaving the School became a naval cadet in the Britannia, and later a midshipman. He was gazetted a sub-lieutenant in 1903, and two years later, lieutenant, being appointed to the command of T.B. No. 87. His other appointments prior to the War were to Cornwallis in 1908 ; to command of T.B. No. 13 in 1910 ; Lieutenant to R.N. Barracks, Chatham, 1911, and to H.M.S. Bulwark in 1913, in which year he was promoted to be Lieutenant-Commander. During the War he served in H.M.S. Colossus from January, 1914, to January, 1917, with the Grand Fleet ; and in H.M.S. Bacchante to March, 1919. He was in command of H.M.S. Bibiabat in the Caspian Sea from May to October, 1919. In 1920 he was created O.B.E., and also received the Order of St. Stanislas, and Class, with crossed swords. He retired some years later and lived in Norfolk.

Robert Mortimer Yule (1864-68), M.D., died at Aberdeen on 16th August, 1933, aged 81 years. After graduating in medicine at Aberdeen in 1873, he was for a time at Inverkindie,

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Aberdeenshire, and then went to Shetland, where he was in practice for 5z years, first at Scalloway, but for the greater part of that long period at Lerwick. He was for many years County Medical Officer for Zetland.

Harry Zamek (1887-88) died at Durban, South Africa, on 14th July, 1933, aged 61 years. He was elder son of the late Mr. Alexander Zamek, and was for several years in his father's business—Zamek & Edelshain, watchmakers, etc., Aberdeen.

He then went to South Africa, and after serving through the South African War, was in business in Cape Town, and later at Durban.

A BENEFACTOR OF THE SCHOOL.

We record with deep regret the death of Lieut.-Colonel GEORGE WATERS, late of the Indian Medical Service, which occurred at the beginning of August. Although he was not a former pupil of the School, he took a great interest in it. In 1927, through his friend the Right Hon. Lord Alness, Lord Justice-Clerk of Scotland, he sent to the Rector a cheque for k 5 oo "for the benefit of the Aberdeen Grammar School."

The donation was made " in loving memory of his brother, Mr. John Waters, who was educated at the Grammar School."

This handsome gift was devoted to the purchase of an organ for the School Hall. The organ was inaugurated on z4th January, 1930, and bears on its console the following inscription : " This organ was presented by Lieut.-Colonel George Waters, I.M.S. (retired), Lorrenden Lodge, Beddington Lane, near Croydon, in loving memory of his brother, Mr. John Waters, a pupil of the School in x85o."

Lieut.-Colonel Waters, who was born in 5846, qualified in medicine at Edinburgh in 1869, and in the same year joined the Bombay Medical Service. He rose to the rank of BrigadeSurgeon Lieut.-Colonel in 1896, and retired in 1901.

A correspondent to The Times wrote :—" Without any family connections with India he succeeded by sheer force of character and ability in reaching an eminent position in the Indian Medical Service. He arrived in Bombay on May 27, 187o, with only four sovereigns in his pocket. . . . In 1874 he obtained three months' leave, and performed the remarkable feat of riding alone from Bushire through Persia to Resht, on the shores of the Caspian, a distance of over 900 miles, in 16 days. . . . Since his retirement in 19oi Waters had lived at Beddington, Surrey.

A typical Scot and a genial companion, with a fund of anecdote and a keen sense of humour, he will be sadly missed by his many friends on both sides of the Border."

A few years ago he printed for circulation among his friends his " Travel Reminiscences," a copy of which he presented to the School Library. He contributed to the Magazine in 1929 a most interesting and racy article on " The Persian Gulf."

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Marriages.

Benzie (1912-19).—At St. Nicholas Church, Aberdeen, on 16th September, 1933, JOHN Wit,: rAm B N .E,* son of the late A. Emslie Benzie of Morkeu, Cults, to Margaret Helen, twin daughter of William Watson, 98 Broomhill Road, Aberdeen.

Cochran (19o6-15).--At the Caledonian Hotel, Aberdeen, on 14th September, 1933, DOJG. A, PATE t ON C ,Cr RA ,* son of F. T. Cochran, 438 Great Western Road, Aberdeen, to Frances Grant, daughter of J. Anderson Meff, 48 Fonthill Road, Aberdeen.

Cochrane (I894-19o1).—At St. Alban's Church, Streatham, London, on 30th October, 1933, WILLIAM G.BS,. N C.)( HRANE, younger son of the late Thomas Cochrane, 3 Queen's Terrace, Aberdeen, to Ethel Gertrude Bowman, Streatham, London.

Donald (z882-86).—At Mannofield Parish Church, Aberdeen, on 27th June, 1933, DA rto M. C. D A L,* solicitor, Aberdeen, to Helen Dow, eldest daughter of Alexander Davidson, East Balbridie, Crathes.

Emslie (t9I8-z4).—At Altoona, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on 12th July, 1933, A IRE, GLoa 1F E .ts .E,* M.A., Ph.D., eldest son of A. G. Emslie, 145 Broomhill Road, Aberdeen, to Mary Haldeman, daughter of Dr. Samuel Lloyd McCarthy, Altoona.

Harper (i9w-17).—At the Caledonian Hotel, Edinburgh, on 16th August, 1933, L )uts ReG NA 0 HARPER,* second sun of Louis Harper (188183), Seafield House, Aberdeen, to Margaret, second daughter of B. Cartwright, 15 Scott Crescent, Galashiels.

Jeffrey (19o6-18).—At King's College Chapel, Old Aberdeen, on 29th August, 1933, JA PATAICK J ?FRE) ,* C.A., only son of James A. Jeffrey, C.A., 128 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen, to Bella Emslie, only daughter of the late John A. C. Bain, 2 King's Gate, Aberdeen.

Johnson (i9i9).—At Gilcomston Park Baptist Church, Aberdeen, on 27th September, 1933, LE NAR) C- A TON J HN ON, second son Of H. C. Johnson, 487 Union Street, Aberdeen, to Rosanna McKechnie, only daughter of John M. Wiseman, 41 Spital, Aberdeen.

Leith (I917-24).—At Mannofield Parish Church, Aberdeen, on 9th August, 1933, JAMES Rift H E LEI H,* C.A., son of James R. Leith, 71 Devonshire Road, Aberdeen, to Flora Macdonald, daughter of John Duffus, 17o Hilton Avenue, Aberdeen.

M‘Bain (19o3-14).—At East St. Clement's Church, Aberdeen, on 13th October, 1933, A AN McBA • ,* C.A., SOD of John McBain * (1877-79), 12 Rubislaw Den North, Aberdeen, to Ella, third daughter of the late Andrew Walker, Thomgrove, Aberdeen, and of Mrs. Walker, 23 Rubislaw Terrace, Aberdeen.

Mackenzie (1921-23).—At St. John's Episcopal Church, Aberdeen, on 28th July, 1933, ROY i HN MACKENI.IF,* M.B., Ch.B., son of the late J. J. Mackenzie, solicitor, Banchory, to Eveline Margaret, daughter of the late Captain E. C. Nutten, Aberdeen.

M'Laren (1913-I9).—At St. Andrew's Church, Oxshott, Surrey, on t2th August, 1933, IAN HASTINGS M`LAREN,* A.R.I.B.A., son of Arthur C. M`Laren, Vancouver, B.C., and nephew of the late Dr. J. Lewis M'Intyre, Abbotsville, Cults, to Ivy Scott Lunan, B.Sc., youngest daughter of W. S. Lunan, Woodhouselee, Cults.

O Connor (19o9-17).—At St. Peter's Church, Streatham, London, S.W., on 27th June, 1933, Dr. WILLIAM JOHN O'O.NN-)11,* High Wycombe, Bucks, to Phyllis Emily, only daughter of the late Ernest Marx.

Ogilvie (x9io-'2).—At St. Mary's Church, Wimbledon, London, on June, 1933, GORDON OGILVIE, son of James Tough Ogilvie* (1881-90),

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43 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen, to Lorna Weston, daughter of Sir William Henry Wells, Wimbledon.

Souper (x898-19o9).—At the Parish Church of St. Laurence, Wormley, Herts, on 3ISt July, 1933, JAMES LORIMER S0UPER,* Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum, to Dorothy, youngest daughter of G. F. Emery, Wormley Lodge, Broxboume.

Spark (1918-21).—At St. Columba's Parish Church, Blackhall, Edinburgh, on 29th July, 1933, JAMES CHRISTIAN SPARK,* son of the Rev. R. Spark, M.A., formerly of Durris, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Rev. Duncan MacGregor, B.D., Inverallochy, Aberdeenshire.

Stuart (x 9 x 3-25).—At the Parish Church, Great Yarmouth, on 27th July, 1933, Jomq MITCHELL STUART,* M.B., Ch.B., " Coreen," Goodmayes Road, Goodmayes, Ilford, Essex, elder son of Mitchell Stuart * (1883), 22 Gordondale Road, Aberdeen, to Margery, elder daughter of Alfred E. Harwood, z Trafalgar Square, Great Yarmouth.

Wood (19o8-20.—At Altrincham Baptist Church, on 5th September, 1933, EDWARD JAMES WOOD,* elder son of the late James M. A. Wood, 32 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen, to Marion Grace, elder daughter of W. S. Chorley, of Bowdon.

From the Polish Consul—Report No. 2.

Having said a good many nasty things about the Editor in the last issue of the Magazine, I feel it my duty to tell you that he has now mended his ways and has, in the intervening period, almost rehabilitated himself in my eyes. The matter about which I complained, in fact, had only to be brought to his attention for him to take immediate steps to put it right, and I must suppose that he is such a busy man that my existence had simply slipped his memory. However that may be, the print had barely dried on the pages of the June issue of the Magazine, when he instructed me by telegram to stand by for the arrival of an F.P. I rose early, donned morning coat, white spats, and my grey topper, and with the consular staff, in our best limousine, repaired to the railway terminus. The Transcontinental Express slipped into the station, its blue and gold shining in the rays of the morning sun. * There was an enormous engine, four sleeping cars, one dining car, and one luggage van, a staff of twelve attendants, one old gentleman and his wife, and a very fine specimen of Grammar School F.P., immediately distinguishable to my practised eye from a product of any other seminary in the world.

After the usual presentations, we proceeded to the Consulate, and everything up to that point was extremely impressive; but of course, Aberdeen is always Aberdeen, and my F.P. told me that he had spent the night in Berlin, where people in the hotel were so polite to him that he thought he must have been mistaken for one of the younger royalties, whom he no doubt resembles in general bearing. He had had an excellent * This appears to be poetic licence: the F.P. actually arrived in the evening I—Ed. A.G. S. Mag.

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breakfast and had asked the porter to send a telegram, during which time he would go up to his room and pack his luggage.

The porter told him his luggage had been packed for him and had been sent to the station, where he would find it in his compartment, and handed him his hat. All the staff, from the manager downwards, bowed him out, and he was treated in every way with the greatest honour and respect. On arrival in Warsaw, however, he realised that he had not paid his bill, and from his jacket pocket he produced an enormous key with a kind of hand grenade attached to it, which he said was probably the key of his room. I am glad to say that the matter was hushed up and an international incident avoided. Still it is a touch of home, and almost brought tears to my eyes.

The F.P. then disappeared into the wilds of the country, and being engaged in consular duties elsewhere, I lost him for a time ; but on my return to Warsaw a fortnight ago, he turned up looking none the worse, and having seen a good deal of Poland, he will no doubt at a later date give you his impressions of this country. When leaving, he was good enough to say that the statement in my last report that one could have a very good holiday in Poland had been borne out, and it is a great satisfaction to me to know that I have spoken the truth once.

I now reg lin more keenly the dignity of my office, and I shall be very glad if the Editor does not forget all about me again.

If any other F.P. would like to take the risk and visit Poland, he may rest assured that he will receive a hearty welcome.

J. B. C. loth October, 1933.

An F.P. Journalist's Life. " GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS : MEMORIES AND FRIENDSHIPS OF FORTY YEARS." By W. Hutcheon. London: John Murray. Pp. 2 39. 5s. net.

WILLIAM HUTCHEON was the youngest of three out of four brothers who came into Aberdeen from Inverurie and attended the Grammar School. He entered it in 1881 at the age of 13, joining the First Class of the then newly-formed Modern Side of the Upper School, and left it in 1884. In this attractive book he devotes a chapter each to the Grammar School and to King's College as he knew them. The Grammar School of Aberdeen, he says, is no ordinary school. " It is one of the most ancient halls of learning in the British Empire, with practically an unbroken record from 1256 onwards. It has an inspiring history, with Byron as its most distinguished Old Boy. In these later days there has been an amazing development of school pietas." In this connection Mr. Hutcheon pays a tribute

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to the infectious example of the late Dr. Morland Simpson, to the present Secretary of the F.P. Club, and to Lord Meston and other Old Boys of much distinction. " As a consequence," he continues, the School " now boasts a huge Former Pupils' Club, with loyal sons as ' Consuls ' in every land, and a Magazine—the Magazine—that, penetrating to the remotest corners of the earth, is read with equal avidity by the boys of to-day and those who were boys half a century ago, and who love to recall the far-off days when they settled their little quarrels with fisticuffs in the neighbourhood of ' the Kitts '."

Apparently the Masters made a more lasting impression on Mr. Hutcheon than did his School-fellows. Of the latter only Anthony Mitchell, the future respected Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, is mentioned ; but of the former, Dr. James Moir, the Rev. James Wilson Legge, Samuel Pope, Charles Sleigh, A. V. Lothian, Hugh F. Campbell, and J. Simon Clapasson come under review.

At King's College the future journalist was a "private student," and the classes he took made him a Bajan and a Semi at the same time. The result was that he came in personal contact 11 ith a much larger number of students than would otherwise have been the case. These included William Brownie, " pawkie, slow, but sure, who became a master at the Grammar

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School and died early," and various well-known F.P.s, including Norman Macdonald, a brother of Macdonald of Uganda; Howard Gray, afterwards Garvin's lieutenant on The Observer; R. W. bmes, one of the editors of Alma Mater, whose premature death robbed journalism of a promising recruit ; William Findlay, John Lendrum, James Salmond, Leonard Comper, J. B. Rennet (now Rennett) and his brother Fred, " two out of a bunch of half a dozen Foggos of Invercauld," J. M. Bulloch, John Minto, J. Wight Duff, John R. Macmillan, and Lindley Scott. Looking back, he thinks he most admired John Nicol Farquhar, the First Bursar of 1883. " His brilliant future—not to be measured in cash results, for Farquhar was utterly unworldly, but by his thirty years' missionary work in and for India—was a certainty from the beginning." The author never met the late William Keith Leask, but " throughout the years since I was a Bajan, I have always been drawn to him by his wayward genius. That indefinable sense of comradeship and sympathy must have betrayed itself later in a review of ' Interamna Borealis ' I wrote for the Morning Port, and which drew from dear old J. D. Symon, that journalistic link between us, the accompanying note which I have always treasured : ` Oh, well done, well done, indeed. The heart of our ancient will prize your review above all that has been written of " Interamna."

Gratias tibi from him also who acted as howdy in the parturition.' "

After a brief sojourn at King's, Mr. Hutcheon entered journalism, of which he says : " If one has journalism in one's blood—and I think I may say that I have—the drudgery [of which he had been well warned] has its enjoyments as well as its drawbacks. No day (or night) is absolutely like another, and there is no opportunity for an active mind to rest." Through the kindly intervention of the late Dr. William Alexander, Mr. Hutcheon was permitted to " frequent " the office of the Aberdeen Free Press with a view to mastering the rudiments of journalism. The paper at that time was under the editorial direction of the fathers of the present President and the present Secretary of the F.P. Club, but very little is said about them.

There are, however, various entertaining glimpses of life on the Free Press in the 'eighties. After the embryo journalist had been working for ten months for nothing, he received the offer of a position on the Bradford Observer, at z 5s. per week—" wealth beyond my wildest dreams." " I seized a telegraph form and wrote : ` Accepted. When will I come ? '

I showed it proudly to Legg. He smiled. ' My boy,' he said, ` if you send that telegram you never will come.' Then he explained to me the mysteries of ` will' and ' shall' so clearly that, when I did reach the promised land, I never (in print at least) went glaringly wrong, for if the construction proved puzzling as to whether I ` would' or ` should ' do a thing, I looked the matter boldly in the face, altered the construction, and passed on."

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Manchester Guardian. The ten years he spent in Manchester were not altogether happy, " but they were supremely helpful years, and I shall always remember with pride that for a decade I was closely associated with a paper that stands and has always stood to me for the best of all English journalism." After the ten years had passed very slowly and very deliberately, and life had become stereotyped and flavourless, at long last the opportunity came. Mr. Nicol Dunn (a Mearns man, educated in Aberdeen), the editor of the Morning Post, asked Mr. Hutcheon to come to London, and in January, 1904, he took up his new duties, becoming first Night Editor of that important paper. " Suddenly there came a gorgeous spring time, followed by a long happy summer reminiscent of the wonderful Jubilee Year of 1887, and Heaven opened its gates widely. There was spring in my heart too. Journalism in London proved to be human and full of new interests : beauty, colour, and variety were all around my new Wimbledon environment.

Life was worth living again ; work—and there were busy months ahead of me—became a pleasure."

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Followed intense activity not only on the author's part for twenty years but for a time in the air also, for one lovely autumn evening in 1915 the Morning Post was bombed. Of this and other German air-raids an extraordinarily vivid description is given. In April, 1924, the control of the Morning Post passed from the Borthwicks to a syndicate, and this proved to be the end of an era. A year later the paper appeared in new and attractive format. In August there came rumours of drastic changes, and " in one week seven members of the staff, holding positions of responsibility and trust, passed out into the chilly night. They included, alas! the Morning Post's first Night Editor! " But Mr. Hutcheon has no rancour. He realises that conditions on the Press, like those in other industries, have changed, and changed for ever. He regrets the breaking up of a great comradeship that had for so long worked in amity and with success to build up a great newspaper. The conclusion of the whole matter for him is this :— " Forty years of hard labour, of unremitting toil by night, strenuous,

exacting. And the end of it all a legacy of jarred nerves, of worn and frayed eyesight, and a pocket but scantily and inadequately lined. Thus baldly stated, it is not an exhilarating record, either in prospect or retrospect.

But a truly faithful scribe must add that it has been a full life, an interesting life, a life of modest achievement, and that in his day he could have wished for no better, and would have exchanged it for none other."

To read Mr. Hutcheon's book has been a great delight: it is full of interest from beginning to end. The frontispiece is a sketch of the author (here reproduced by permission) by James McBey, whom he first met a few days after the etcher's arrival in London, when he had just exchanged his stool in the head office of the North of Scotland Bank, Aberdeen, for a perilous and precarious adventure in art. We unreservedly commend the book to all F.P.s.

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Alt Bayern.

By Lieut.-Colonel A. IRVINE-FORTESCUE (1902-07), D.S.O., M.B. (Aberd.), B.Com. (Edin.).

The story begins on a blazing hot July afternoon in the Bazaar of the Vinegar-distillers in the picturesque but odoriferous city of Stambul. No one would dream of visiting the shores of the Golden Horn for pleasure in the height of summer, but my leave from Iraq had to fit in with the " Grammar " summer holidays, and the Bosphorus lies on the direct landroute from the Upper Tigris, where I had been doing a job of work, to the Upper Danube, where I proposed to spend a month with the family. Owing to having missed a connection at Aleppo I had failed to catch the Orient Express, and the only way to reach Nurnberg, my immediate destination, on time, was to continue my journey by what the Albanian landlord of the lokanda, at which I enjoyed a saffron pilan, called a " windhackney-carriage " (" Hawa-arabasi ").

It appeared that there was a daily service of 'planes leaving Stambul in the morning, and after calling at Bucharest, Beograd, and Budapest, reaching Vienna at night. Accordingly I set off and was whisked, as on a magic carpet, from capital to capital.

The rugged Balkans, the cation of the Iron Gate, the vast, treeless, Hungarian plains seemed to fly beneath the great machine, and evening saw me at supper " zum weissen Wolfen " under the shadow of St. Stephen's Cathedral in the capital of Austria. An early start next morning, a brief halt at Prague, and by noon I stepped out on the aerodrome at Furth. A bus of the Lufthansa Company was waiting, and duly deposited me quarter of an hour later on the steps of the Wurtemberger Hof, just outside the walls of the ancient city of Nurnberg.

Why should one bother to go to Bavaria in general and to Nurnberg in particular? Well, I am an unrepentant romanticist. In this age of materialism and monotony one must create for oneself a dream-world to which one can retreat from the blare of the loud-speaker, the dazzle of the sky-sign, and the omnipresence of the lipstick. Such a dream-world must be far from the routine of city life in Britain, distant in time or space. Distance in space is achieved by residence among the more primitive peoples of Asia, distance in time by absorbing the atmosphere of those towns of western and central Europe which still retain the walls and gates, the towers and battlements of chivalry, or of those Mediterranean lands where the marble columns of classical antiquity still mirror themselves in the wine-dark Aegean.

In the dear old days when I sat on a bench in the " Third Middle," Mr. Bentley Philip gave us a fascinating account of a recent trip of his to Germany. How interesting geography

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would be if only teachers of that neglected subject could visit and describe at first hand the lands a knowledge of which is demanded for the Bursary Competition and the Higher Grade Leaving 1 Mr. Philip's glowing picture of the walls and bastions of Nurnberg made me firmly determined to see them for myself. " Step by step you get to China " says the Persian proverb, and sure enough, here I was, after nearly forty years of chequered existence, on the threshold of the Frauentor.

Nurnberg is a vast manufacturing city of over 400,000 inhabitants, and it is famous nowadays for machinery, toys, and gingerbread ; but embedded in the heart of a great area of ugly modern streets and featureless industrial and commercial buildings lies the Altstadt, very much as it was when Gustav Adolf marched out to his last great fight at Liitzen one autumn day in 1632. The great Swedish soldier has always been one of my favourite heroes on account of his liking for Aberdeen men.

We should never forget that his Scots brigade, 12,000 strong, was largely officered by Leslies, Barclays, and Gordons from the North-East Neuk.

The city walls are most imposing, nearly 3o feet high, and almost entire. At intervals are circular towers solid enough to resist heavy artillery. The Altstadt is dominated by a rocky hill, on which stands the Kaiserburg, the ancient citadel. Here in the Funfeckige Turm is a torture chamber still containing many of the ingenious instruments which served to make death really unpleasant. The most famous is the Eiserne Jungfrau, a wood and metal hollow figure of a woman in which the victim was fastened and then, when the apparatus was closed, steel spikes entered his eyes and his heart. When I was a schoolboy I took a gruesome delight in poring over Fox's " Book of Martyrs " and was always puzzled as to the modus operandi in the form of execution known as " breaking on the wheel." Here in the Kaiserburg was the complete outfit necessary for carrying out this interesting procedure, and a picture showing exactly how to set about the business.

I refrain from a detailed description, lest I should be accused of sadism.

Apart from the Kaiserburg, the streets of the Altstadt are most charming. They present an almost infinite variety of quaintly carved gables turned toward the roadway. Most of the houses date from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the great days of the Trade Guilds, when every prosperous mastercraftsman vied with his neighbour in the elaborate architecture and intricate carving of his home. Two of the most interesting houses are those of Albrecht Diirer and Hans Sachs. In the former one sees a wonderful collection of woodcuts and engravings from the hand of the great master ; and in the latter, where one recaptures the true atmosphere of " Die Meistersinger," one sees the bench and awls used by a master-shoemaker

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in the early sixteenth century. To me Hans Sachs, devoting himself to a handicraft by day and to the cultivation of the Muses after work was over, sets an example of what might be done in these days when we are all told that everyone must work shorter hours and have more leisure. Surely the ideal life is to divide the time between working hard at a profession and concentrating on one serious intellectual hobby. So many people nowadays have dozens of hobbies and never have time to get on with any of them.

The Altstadt of Nurnberg is a glorious relic of the German renaissance, but the memories of the past are sadly disturbed by the roar and bustle of the great modern industrial city just outside the walls. Less than forty miles to the west lies a town which has been practically unaltered since the Thirty Years' War. Rothenburg ob der Tauber has had the good fortune to escape the blight of industrialism. No philistine town-planning expert, no soulless sanitary authority has here been permitted to perpetrate his so-called reforms. Made a free city of the Empire toward the end of the twelfth century, Rothenburg has remained a market town set among green fields. The population is about 9,000.

To avoid several changes of train at uninteresting junctions we motored from Nurnberg. The carefully cultivated fields, the trim pine woods show that the Bavarian peasant still loves the land and that economic conditions have not, as in Scotland, drained the countryside of man-power and capital.

Rothenburg looks like an illustration from "Grimm's Fairy Tales." The battlemented walls are still entire and date from the latter part of the fifteenth century. The course of the fortifications is diversified by a series of picturesque towers, no two alike. One can walk round the battlements and peer through the very loopholes through which the Swedes fired on Tilly's storming party. Within the gates one finds a maze of narrow, winding streets, bordered by a multitude of fantastic gables, many surmounted by storks' nests. The centre of the town is a sleepy Marktplatz, bordered on one side by a magnificent Rathaus with arcades, balconies, stair-towers, and corner oriels in the best style of the German renaissance. We had intended to put up at the Gasthof zum Greifen, a most quaint half-timber house built in 1390 by the great burgomaster Heinrich Toppler. All the accommodation was, however, occupied, and the landlord directed us to some furnished apartments kept in a building of great antiquity by the widow of an apothecary. Here we were in luck, for our landlady's daughter happened to be playing the heroine's role in the town's own Festspiel, " Der Meistertrunk," due to be staged in the Kaiser Saal, the great hall of the Rathaus, on the following day. The amiable and charming young lady contrived to obtain excellent places for us, though most of the seats had been booked weeks before.

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"Der Meistertrunk" is a sort of local pageant performed annually to celebrate the escape of the good town of Rothenburg from pillage and arson during the Thirty Years' War. Rothenburg had declared for Protestantism and admitted a Swedish garrison. The famous Johann Tserclaes, Graf von Tilly, laid siege to the town. After a gallant defence of some months' duration, the garrison having been decimated and supplies exhausted, the imperialists captured the Galgen Tor, and the valiant burgomaster, Wilhelm Nusch, was forced to surrender unconditionally. Tilly, infuriated at the protracted resistance, arrested the burgomaster and his councillors, and announced that, following his procedure at Magdeburg, he would hang the Council and sack and burn the town. The young and lovely daughter of -the burgomaster produced at the critical moment a huge glass jug containing a gallon or so of foaming beer.

Tilly, struck by the size of the jug, enquired whether the men of Rothenburg were capable of emptying such a tankard at a sitting. The girl assured him that the great beaker was sometimes drained at a single draught. " If any man of Rothenburg can drain this tankard before me at a draught," said the hardbitten old general, " I shall spare your Council and your Town."

Burgomaster Nusch himself stepped forward, and to the amazement of Tilly and his staff, successfully fulfilled the challenge, falling senseless as he swallowed the last drops. "Heiliges Element! " cried Tilly, " ein Meistertrunk! Er hat die Stadt gerettet."

This stirring tale is performed annually in the great council hall of the Rathaus. Interest is greatly heightened by the fact that the incident took place in the very room in which the drama is staged, and that Nusch and his councillors were seated on the very chairs used to-day, when the dreadful news was brought : " Der Galgentor ist jetzt in Tilly's Handl " The parts are taken by citizens of Rothenburg. Our landlady's daughter played Fraulein Nusch with great verve. The costumes, armour, weapons, furniture, and other properties, including the Meistertrunk tankard, are either original pieces or accurate copies. When Tilly, in his buff coat, cuirass, jack-boots, and wide-brimmed plumed hat, strode into the hall, followed by a large crowd of his officers and men-at-arms, the scene was most dramatic. When Burgomaster Nusch sank unconscious to the floor, after draining his enormous flagon to the dregs, the applause was deafening.

On the day after the Meistertrunk drama the old-world atmosphere of Rothenburg is heightened by the fact that many of the citizens don the costumes of three hundred years ago and take part in an elaborate country dance, " der Schafertanz," in the Marktplatz. The dancers enter the square, preceded by pipers (the Dudelsack is remarkably like the Piobh Mor) and by two men, each of whom carries a fat goose, to be awarded at

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the end of the dance as prizes to the best lady and gentleman dancer. A black sheep, symbol of pastoral life, is solemnly led in the procession. The figures of the dance reminded one of the eightsome and strip-the-willow. Again the landlady's daughter came to our assistance and secured us places on one of the balconies of the Rathaus, from which we had a magnificent view of the proceedings. The costumes were charming, the dances graceful, and the music lively and tuneful. It was delightful to find that the citizens of Rothenburg take such pride in their glorious old town that large numbers of them are willing to spend time and money in reviving the great days of their city's past.

Some twenty miles south of Rothenburg lies another smaller but very perfect mediaeval town, namely, Dinkelsbiihl on the Wornitz. Here there are only 5,000 inhabitants, and the atmosphere is peculiarly sleepy and peaceful. Nevertheless, Dinkelsbiihl is proud of her martial past. Her walls, towers, and gates have been carefully preserved, and once a year she stages an open-air pageant representing the triumphal entry of Gustav Adolf and his Swedes and Scotsmen on the 2 1st of July, 1632. We motored from Rothenburg over the fertile Bavarian uplands with their ripening fields of barley and wheat, of hops and tobacco. Comparing the landscape with that of Aberdeenshire, one is struck by the absence of walls and of permanent pasture. Arable land here is too valuable to leave fallow ; the domestic animals are stall-fed, and high protective tariffs enable the peasant to make a living on his holding by keeping up the price of the crops he raises.

As we entered the old town through the vaulted Rothenburger Tor, our eyes were caught by a large notice in Gothic characters :—" Vergessen wir nie die Schadenfriede von Versailles ! " In fairness to the nationalistic fervour of the majority of young Germans to-day, one should remember that over 27 million square miles of German territory in Europe were, in 1919, handed over to France and Poland, and that, by the formation of the Dantzig Corridor, the large and important province of East Prussia was amputated from the rest of the Reich. The map of modern Germany is, to every patriotic son of the Fatherland, a perpetual incentive to a new Befreiungskrieg.

We found quarters in a most picturesque and comfortable hostelry, the Deutsches Haus, a splendid half-timber building of 1625, with a towering and elaborately-carved gable abutting on the Weinmarkt. Directly opposite, across the square, stands the finest late-Gothic church in South Germany, Sankt Georgs Kirche, with its zoo-foot tower.

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unconditional surrender, and declared that he would pillage and burn the town as a reprisal for the atrocities committed on those of his men who had the ill-luck to be captured by the infuriated Catholic peasantry of the surrounding country. The burgomaster and his council were filled with despair, and as a last effort to melt the heart of the conqueror, a deputation of little girls dressed in white, wearing veils and carrying flowers, proceeded to Gustav's headquarters and begged for mercy on themselves and their parents. The Lion of the North was deeply touched, and declared with tears in his eyes that he did not make war on children. Dinkelsbuhl was saved.

In the pageant a procession of little girls in the costumes of the seventeenth century, wearing white veils and carrying nosegays, walked through the streets singing. They were followed by a procession of little boys dressed like Gustav Adolf and his famous infantry. Gustav himself, aged about ten and obviously full of pride and vainglory, was mounted on a white pony. As the boys marched along, their pikemen and musketeers headed by a youthful fife and drum band, they sang lustily : " Ich hat' einen Kameraden, einen besser findst du niet."

There was a great crowd in the street and my youngsters were not able to see much. Suddenly some Boy Scouts appeared and asked if they could take the children to the front of the crowd. In a trice they had cleared a path through the masses of people, and the kiddies found themselves in the front row, surrounded by a bodyguard of Scouts. I had a talk with the patrol leader. They were lads from Berlin on a walking tour and were carrying bivouac tents and camping out. I told them that I thought it particularly courteous of them to help British children, but they all declared that they were pro-English.

We parted with many protestations of mutual regard and esteem.

The walls of Dinkelsbuhl are surrounded partly by the river Wornitz and partly by a broad, water-filled moat full of waterlilies. The view of the town from the river-side is particularly charming.

Another twenty miles south takes one to yet another mediaeval town with completely preserved walls, towers, and gates, namely, Nordlingen. Close by, in 1634, the Swedes under Horn sustained a crushing defeat at the hands of the imperialists under Ferdinand of Hungary. The town gates are particularly fine, great vaulted archways pierced through massive and lofty towers. There are many fine half-timber houses, the gables to the street and the upper storeys projecting on quaintly carved brackets.

A dozen miles down the valley of the Wornitz from Nordlingen lies the curious little village of Harburg, dominated by a lofty rock which rises some Soo feet above the river and is crowned by a huge castle built in the 13th century. We motored

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from Dinkelsbuhl via Nordlingen and arrived too late to see over the castle, so had to find quarters for the night in the rather primitive village inn.

The Gasthof zum Goldnen Lowen was a fine old half-timber building with lofty bracketed gables and a weather-beaten lion, from which most of the gold paint had disappeared, swinging above the door. The inn parlour was a large, low room with a sanded floor and a ceiling of huge, blackened, oak beams. The landlord, a tall, thin man with a long drooping moustache and clad in a white shirt and green corduroy trousers, supported by embroidered Hosentrager after the fashion of the local peasants, was seated by the tiled stove, smoking an enormous pipe, the kind that the German caricatured in the comic papers is always provided with. " Gruss Gott! " said he, rising very slowly and deliberately on our entering. We were soon on the best of terms. He was much interested to see the " Schottische Nationaltracht," as he called the kilt, and warmly agreed that national costumes should be carefully preserved. We made some enquiries about visiting the castle and found that it was occupied for the summer by a boys' orphanage. " EM altes Raubritternest," said the landlord, and told us that the fortress had been unsuccessfully besieged in the Bauernkrieg, when the peasants, driven desperate by the high-handed exactions of the Robber-knight of Harburg, assaulted the castle in vain. After supper, several village worthies—the priest, the schoolmaster, and the miller—dropped in for a tankard of beer and a game of dominoes, and the landlord was eager to show off his Scottish guests. Evidently the Golden Lion was never patronised by British tourists.

Next morning we climbed the winding track through the pine forest to the great arched entrance in the outer wall of the castle. A mummified wolf's head was nailed above the door.

A buxom lady, caretaker for the owner, Furst von (Ettingen, took us round. It was an ideal place for boys to spend the summer in, a glorious situation, splendid views of the Wornitz valley, and lots of wheel-stairs and queer corners simply made for hide-and-seek. The little orphans were playing games in the wide, grass-grown court and looked bronzed and fit. There was a great well some hundreds of feet deep, a lofty keep built in 125o, with walls 20 feet thick, a late Gothic Chapel, and a great hall, the Rittersaal, with a finely timbered ceiling. The place was immensely strong both by nature and art. No wonder the peasants failed to take it in 1525.

Reluctantly we descended from our commanding view-point on the battlements of the huge old tower, and scrambling down the steep path through the pine woods, gained once more the " Goldnen LOwen." That afternoon an ancient and weatherbeaten but still serviceable Ford conveyed us to Donauworth, and so across the Danube to Augsburg. But the rest of our

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trip must lie over till the next time the Editor is really short of copy. Let me conclude with some lines of Leonhardt Wachter : Kennt ihr das Land, so wanderschon In seiner Eichen griinem Kranz ?

Das Land, wo auf den sanften Die Traube reift im Sonnenglanz ?

Das schOne Land ist uns bekannt Es ist das deutsche Vaterland !

A Tourist in Tahiti.

Robert Keable in his book, "Tahiti—Isle of Dreams," writes " Tahiti is Queen of the South. . . . She holds true sway only in her more remote districts, and you must do homage to obtain her. Mostly her visitors do not. They are content to see her where she sits on Papeete Bay, tamed, demoralized, and a little shamed, and since it is so easy (for she is lovely even so), they write home fantastic lies."

Well, perhaps what I am going to write is just another tissue of fantastic lies, for being a typical tourist who spent barely twenty-four hours on this lovely island, I didn't have a chance to explore the more remote districts. But there were at least three of us who were severely tempted to leave our liner and linger in Tahiti for a month, until the next liner came along.

One morning, a week after leaving New Zealand, we woke to hear that the island had been sighted and went on deck to see for ourselves. Sure enough, there was a cloud on the blue Pacific horizon away on our port—the island of Moorea.

Another cloud on our starboard was Tahiti.

As you steam up the channel between these two islands, Moorea is a mass of fantastic, jagged, sharp peaks wreathed with mist and covered with a riot of vegetation. The shore is fringed with cocoanut groves, lonely and deserted ; the white surf is foaming on the reef ; and between the two is the blue lagoon—everything a romantic South Sea Island should be.

Moorea is indeed a lovely island, but a fellow passenger had a grim tale to tell of it. It is (or was—the custom may have ceased now) the practice to bury malefactors alive in the sand with only the head protruding. This is covered with honey to attract the ravenous armies of red ants, which soon swarm over the wretched man and have the skull picked clean in twenty minutes. Not a particularly pleasant form of death!

At a distance Tahiti looks much the same as Moorea. The tops of the great peaks of Orohena and Aorai and the Diadem are buried in cloud, and their slopes descend to the fringe of flat land studded with cocoanut groves. These slopes are broken by great gashes, down which rivers foam to the sea.

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iron roofs, spires -of churches, and lines of villas. This is the town of Papeete, the " Paris of the South Seas," and the only town in ten thousand miles of ocean—fortunately.

Lying at anchor in the bay were a dozen or more island schooners—one of them belonging to Zane Gray, who spends a good deal of his time deep-sea fishing around the island. The entire population of the town seemed to be on the quay awaiting our arrival. This isn't to be wondered at, considering there is only one liner calling each way per month. Taxis were also waiting on the quay. Their drivers descended like a cloud of locusts upon the tourists as they descended the gangway, using all the eloquence they possessed to persuade them to take taxi trips here, there, and everywhere. In the end we were persuaded to charter a car to take us out to Point Venus.

Point Venus was so christened by Captain Cook, who on this spot observed the transit of Venus in 1769. He did this for the Royal Society, and for this reason the islands are known as the Society Islands. At Point Venus is a lighthouse and a monument which Cook set up in commemoration of his work.

There are two roads out of Papeete, the one running east and north, and the other running west and south. To reach Point Venus we had to take the former. It is a beautiful road, every step of the way luxuriant with gorgeous flowering shrubs and overhung with trees. On the left the mountains sweep down to the cocoanut groves ; on the right is the sea. Soon the road climbs the hill of Haapape, the only hill of any size up which a road runs in the island. At the top of the steep ascent we stopped to admire the glorious prospect at our feet. The black and silver and golden beaches fringed with cocoanut palms, the lagoon in every shade of purple and emerald and sapphire, the long Pacific rollers breaking on the coral reef, and on the horizon the island of Moorea shimmering in the heat of the sun. It seems to be the proper function of Moorea to provide a lovely view for Tahiti. A couple of miles further on we came to Point Venus, where we inspected the monument and were entertained by a native boy who shinned up palms and threw down cocoanuts to us—of course for a " consideration." We were glad to quench our thirst .with the cocoanut milk.

Back by the same road to Papeete, we lunched at the Diadem Hotel—a somewhat primitive establishment. The meal was not a success—the fish didn't appear to be too fresh, the meat .was tough, and the salad not over clean. None of us enjoyed it much and wished we had gone aboard for lunch.

After lunch we set out to explore the town of Papeete and buy those souvenirs dear to the heart of every tourist. I remember I bought one of the wide, lightweight straw hats which seemed to be the universal headgear among the male population.

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Chinese are the universal shopkeepers of the Far East and the South Seas. In Tahiti the population consists for the most part of Chinese, Europeans, and half-castes ; those of the old Tahitian blood are very few.

One of the places we visited was the local hospital run by the French authorities (Tahiti, of course, is a French colony).

As two of us were medical men we were naturally interested in seeing how it was run. I'm afraid we were not very favourably impressed. Evidently some of the native inhabitants shared our impressions, for we were told that many of them when ill preferred to go to the British hospital at Raratonga, a two days' journey by sea. One only hopes that they are not in such dire straits as to expire before reaching their goal.

Trekking around the town for several hours under a tropical sun had made us thoroughly hot and sticky, so we decided upon a swim in the sea. We had been told that Arue Bay was the best place for this. So there we went, back along the road we had already gone in the morning, bordered with mimosa, scarlet flamboyants, and the lovely white Tahitian tiare, which has a, remarkably sweet perfume. Arue is the most beautiful spot imaginable for a bathe. We undressed in a little bamboo hut on the shore, ran across the beach of black volcanic sand, and plunged into the blue lagoon. It was glorious!

That night we went to a night club—incongruously named " The Lido." It was situated several miles out of Papeete, on the seashore, in a most romantic setting overlooking the lagoon, amongst tall cocoanut palms silhouetted against the tropical moonlit sky. We had been told that we would see the real hula-hula danced by the lovely girls of the South Seas. And we were not disappointed ; they entertained us for hours with this dance, which is very fascinating to watch. Encouraged by the seductive strains of a Tahitian ukelele and guitar band, they stamped their feet, clapped their hands, and wriggled their abdominal muscles and other parts of their anatomy, finally working themselves into a perfect frenzy as the music got louder and faster. Some of the girls were really beautiful and all wore the white tiare flowers in their hair. We had been presented with garlands of these flowers and wore them around our necks.

For our benefit, I suppose, the native orchestra played the one European or American dance tune in their repertoire. It was " It ain't gonna rain no more "—this at least half a dozen years after it was the rage at home!

It was about 3 a.m. before any of us got back on board ship and turned in to our cabins. Nevertheless all were up on deck at 6 a.m. to wave farewell to Tahiti. It had been a delightful interlude in our voyage between Australia and America, and not a few of us wished that it had been longer.

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Some Impressions of Poland. " Poland! that's a part of Russia, isn't it ? " was the usual response when I mentioned I was just leaving for that country.

The ignorance of people at home about Poland is amazing— as was my own before the opportunity came to go there.

Many F.P.s must have longingly read our Consul's article in the last issue of the Magazine, and wished to see for themselves whether his remarks approximated to the truth. My luck was in, for in a few weeks word came that a young Polish Count was desirous of improving his English and wanted someone from this country as a guest for two months. As I got the offer of the billet, the obvious thing was to go, and I went.

The boat from Harwich was delayed by fog, so that I missed the train at The Hook, and had to pass a night in Berlin, which city is worth a visit just now, under the new regime. Curiosity led me into a coffee-house, which displayed Nazi swastikas at every point of vantage ; and uniformed Hitlerites were much in evidence, all saluting each other with uplifted arm. Even the band consisted of Brown Shirts : one player, aged about sixty, looked rather ridiculous in his scout-like attire, sawing away at his fiddle. A walk along Unter den Linden, still quite gay, concluded my adventures of that night.

Next morning I boarded the luxurious " Nord Express," which runs from Paris to Warsaw, and found myself one of about a dozen passengers in the whole train : I believe this is considered " heavy." Having crossed the Oder, we came by degrees to Stentsch (a natural sequence), and then reached the frontier, where the Polish customs officers were far too polite to search luggage, and did little else than salute. A few hours more of exceedingly dreary travel, through the flattest country I ever saw, brought us to Warsaw, a very welcome terminus.

There, on the platform, I had no difficulty in distinguishing our Consul, with his staff, who dealt with my baggage, and soon we were in the official car driving to the F.P. Consulate, a most attractive establishment, admirably equipped to fulfil its function.

The following morning was spent in visiting the British Consulate and Embassy. Luncheon followed at the F.P. Consulate, and there I met the Count, my companion-to-be. In the afternoon we sunbathed on the Vistula, and the day was crowned by a visit with the Count and some of his friends to a fashionable night-club, where I first saw various types of Polish beauty, quite unsurpassed in this country, and beheld dancing as it should be. The Poles are nothing if they are not beautiful dancers.

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were as atrocious as is usual in Poland. It is fortunate that most of the country traffic consists of horse wagons, which do not require good roads. When the Government can spare money to re-make the highways, the country ought to be about the fastest in the world for motoring, as straight stretches, miles long, are very common and corners are rarely sharp.

A short delay due to a puncture—still a bugbear to the motorists in Poland—demonstrated the happy-go-lucky nature of our chauffeur, and what is there that will disturb the " ataraxian " demeanour of the Pole in any motoring incident whatsoever, from nerve-wracking skids to complete breakdown?

From time to time on various excursions we were treated to really hair-raising gyrations on the part of our conveyance. On one occasion a peasant, on seeing us slithering about all over the road, leapt from his cart and stood aghast, obviously expecting to pass immediately beyond the veil.

To revert to my story : we presently arrived at our destination —the Count's residence—an old house situated in a charming garden, in which were stately trees, shady avenues, and three little lakes bordered by flowers in a perfect riot of colour.

Like so many other country houses, it had suffered from the Bolsheviks in the invasion of 192o, who having seized it for a fortnight, had ransacked it from top to bottom. Accordingly it still showed some signs of violence : for instance, a writingdesk had a gaping hole where a bayonet had entered to lay bare any secreted money.

In the house were the typical Polish stoves, in place of open fires. These are of brick, faced with tiles, often decorated, and reach almost to the ceiling. In the morning they are lit, and once a good blaze is going, the door is screwed up to conserve all the heat. Presently the whole contrivance gets very warm and remains so without further stoking or attention for about twenty-four hours, giving plenty, if not excessive, warmth to the room. Coal fires are rarely to be found : where they do exist, they usually supplement the stove, and are simply for the sake of cheeriness.

The people about the place I found most charming—carefree and easy-going, doing their work contentedly, and ever ready to oblige. With my half-dozen words or so of Polish, it was surprising how well we got on. Rarely was I at a loss to make myself understood ; and nothing was too much trouble when I wanted anything either in the house or when I went riding. " The Englishman " was a constant source of amusement to young and old. At first he must have showed not a little awkwardness when he was supposed to understand and reply to a volley of dialectal Polish, which to him might as well have been Hindustani, but the situation grew less tense by degrees as he learned with much lingual gymnastics to pronounce —no easy task—the words for breakfast, water, etc., and to

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gesticulate, in the national manner, to about the same extent as a semaphore signaller. However, the acquisition of the phrase " Prosze, Pana," literally meaning " Please, Sir," but in practice meaning almost anything in the way of a polite remark, indicated a very solid advance in his transactions and interactions with those about him.

During my stay in the country I had plenty of opportunity to ride and shoot. The former was hardly a pleasure at the beginning, especially as my first mount was a high-mettled Arab, which incidentally knew no English! However, promotion to a beast which had served in the cavalry made riding a sheer exhilaration—that is to say, once I was up! With regard to shooting, I don't think I increased the annual mortality among the local partridges to any noticeable extent!

Several times I visited Warsaw, but the journey, however accomplished, was rather a wearisome one. The method by train and bus was a bit strenuous. One had to be up by 4.3o a.m. and drive with horses to the nearest town, and then proceed by bus to the railway station, some zo miles away, whence another hour in the train brought one to the capital. It was surprising to see so much activity at so early an hour. The stations were thronged with people of all types—aristocrats, democrats, Jews, and school-children. What would railway officials at home give to see wayside stations enlivened by such activity ?

The trains themselves are quite good and certainly clean, but rather crude in comfort, except the long-distance ones. On some of these there are radio installations. Almost everybody travels third class, and it is quite an education to follow suit : in this way I met some interesting people, as diverse in character as imaginable, every one exceedingly polite : fastidiously so, it might seem to the foreigner. On one occasion an officer sitting opposite me, with whom I had not exchanged a word, rose to get out, but before doing so, bowed to me gracefully.

In Germany I noticed a marked antithesis : there the people often took no notice at all of each other, even in the dining-cars.

Politeness is a cardinal constituent of the Polish character : every man, woman, and child is polished in his manners to a degree unknown at home. Even men shake hands with each other constantly, and hat-raising in the street among men is done to such an extent that, were we to follow their example here, we should never be free from chills!

In conversation pleasant themes are the general rule, and the foreigner is usually made a good deal of : but when the talking gets animated, one might suspect that the various parties were at daggers-drawn, whereas they are usually still the best of friends.

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beauty and art in every form, as is demonstrated by the many writers, poets, and painters who have added their quota to their country's heritage.

The Pole takes a very placid view of life : nothing worries him, and things are taken just as they come : heaven and earth are not moved without really serious provocation. It is exasperating at first for the Scot to have to deal with such a temperament, but very soon he becomes acclimatized, with the result that, on returning home, he feels annoyed with all the bustle and " tyauve."

The Pole has always been known for his hospitality to visitors, and he takes a great interest in them and their culture. The upper class have a great aptitude for learning foreign languages, and frequently have a complete mastery of them : indeed, the majority of the people I met could speak French and German ; many were well up in English, and not a few had more than a passing knowledge of Russian. It was a common occurrence for many of my acquaintances to say that they understood English but could not speak it. It turned out, however, that they could convey their meaning in English perfectly well. Such is the modesty of the Pole.

In the matter of entertaining they do not as a rule make special preparations for the foreigner as we do in Scotland, but, instead, give him a completely free hand both inside and out : he is just made one of themselves and allowed to do as he likes with anything and everything. The more liberties he takes, the more pleased they become. They are very proud of all that pertains to their country and themselves, and if the visitor can show that he appreciates things, the better it is for all concerned.

In the cities café life is very prevalent. As Paris has its open-air cafes, Berlin its biergartens, so Warsaw has its indoor cafés. Daily the fashionable places are crowded with patrons whiling away an hour or so : such places are very typically Polish. Needless to say, I patronized quite a few and learned quite a lot.

The restaurants are also rather good. They were frequently crowded, for as far as I saw, most people took their meals regularly at such places. The food was very attractive : indeed, the catering was excellent, except for the colossal helpings, and a deficiency at times in proper balance.

Like every Scot abroad, I had a look at the night-life in various towns. To take the cinemas first—they suited me admirably, for the talkies were mostly in English, with the Polish written on the screen. The reason for this is that as yet the country cannot afford to have its own talkies, and it gets English-speaking ones instead, unfortunately mostly from America. Hence I probably followed the films better than the rest of the company, for the screened words gave only a very sketchy idea of the dialogue. I saw one Russian film—

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in Russian, of course—which might have roused the ire of an Englishman (as opposed to a Scotsman) of the John Bull, British Constitution type: it was thoroughly propagandist, a fine piece of technique in itself, and was based on the recent British trial in Moscow. To say the least of it, some remarks were anti-English, and somewhat caustic at that! But the biggest thrill occurred when the Consul and I went to see " Cavalcade." In the news was an item entitled " LondynAnglia " : nothing less than the King driving to Crathie Church.

We felt like making a demonstration!

Scotland is nothing more than a county of England to the Poles, and I lost a good many pints of perspiration in explaining the essential difference—a process as exasperating as expounding Pythagoras to " Kinos " were enjoyable : night clubs likewise, but these were nightmares as well. Certain members of the community of the city of Lemberg will not forget my appearing in one hotel arrayed in my kilt ; nor will I, for that matter. They probably regarded me as a new type of human species, or at least a lunatic. Many dinner parties were prolonged in order that the diners might see the freak retire—and they did. At table I had to answer one or two awkward questions, which required a certain amount of tact. For instance : " Ah, my dear, vat is underneath ? " or, " Monsieur, you must be cold."

With difficulty I managed to skate over such thin ice.

We proceeded to a night club—the best in the place, and danced. Of course, the floor was about empty, and spectators were numerous—most of them army officers and Jews, with a sprinkling of fast females tittering in the gallery. The band players winked at each other, for the cabaret obviously had an extra turn that night. . . .

Many other amusing experiences did I have. There was the officer who asked, " Who is Tipperary? "—the lady who thought Aberdeen was in Ireland, and the other lady who had never heard of it—the car conductor who, not being able to give me change, did not take my name and address and have an account sent to me : oh, that this was the attitude of conductors on the Rosemount trams 1—the gentleman who, having been in London, had seen " De great bus who go en Ecosse! "— the cinema manager who, being able to say O.K., considered that he knew English—my friend who vowed he understood no English, but laughed at all the English jokes—and the numerous people who were always scrounging for tips : a perfect scourge, but I understand they have their counterparts in this country.

The crowning event of my sojourn was a two days' visit to Cracow—quite the gem of Poland. My object was to be present at a great cavalry review in commemoration of the Battle of Vienna in 1683, when King John III Sobieski overthrew the Turks and so saved Europe from the latter.

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1 travelled to Cracow alone, intending to see my friend and guide-to-be next day. It was after midnight when the train reached the city, and I very soon discovered through a fellowtraveller that not a bed was to be had, so great was the influx of visitors. But through the great kindness of my friend, arrangements had already been made for me : these I learned at the hotel previously recommended, and presently I got the only bed available in the city.

Next day our party, consisting mostly of Government officials, took places in the " seats of honour" on the parade ground. The President of the Republic was there, as was• also Marshal Pilsudski, who was to review the troops. Before us were drawn up twelve cavalry regiments, numbering some seven thousand horses and men. Each unit had its brass band mounted on white steeds. I did not envy the men who had to gallop and hold on to their big " tootaroos." When the Marshal drove up in his new Rolls-Royce, the troops filed past at a trot, the seven thousand of them, and they did present a fine spectacle, complete with their distinctive pennons. Such things are not seen every day : nevertheless let us hope that they will eventually slip into the realm of forgotten things and " battles long ago."

Of course, our Aldershot Tattoo is just as militaristic : when will this war spirit die and be buried ? Post-mortem examination is no doubt a good thing after a war is over : but why continue with artificial respiration, which so often tends to be only too successful?

That night I strolled about the city to see the wonderful effects of flood-lighting. The great castle, the Wawel, on its rock presented a weird spectacle of light and shadow, with every window ablaze as the great reception within progressed.

Moreover, the mediaeval city wall and an old gateway, partly extant, were all aglow with flaming torches piercing the gloom.

In such circumstances it was not difficult to imagine oneself back in the time of Sigismund.

Such was the grand finale to my various adventures in " them forrin pairts," and two nights later the Consul's job was done for the time being : a mutual disappointment. We had been much together, and he had done everything possible to make my trip enjoyable from start to finish. My way lay through Gdynia—the new port on the so-called Corridor—Danzig, and Berlin to the North Sea once more. . . .

Eventually the train swung through the cutting at Nigg, and Girdleness shone as of old : I was home, enlightened and satisfied—on the whole our Consul's statements are unimpeachable.

G. T. R. WArr (1918-31).

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SCHOOL SECTION. School Notes.

We have to offer our sympathy to Mr. Himsworth on his continued absence from School. We wish him a speedy recovery. * * * This term both the September and the Mid-Term Holidays were unfortunately marred by the usual holiday weather.

School, however, madc good use of these respites. * * * We have to congratulate the following on being appointed to the office of Prefect :—G. H. Henderson (Senior Prefect), W. Sutherland, A. R. Taylor, J. R. S. Imes, W. Black, T. J. T. Nicol, D. Jamieson, A. L. Watt, and D. Y. Lobban. * * * Although results have not been quite so good as expected, the ist XV have so far been fairly successful, one notable victory being over Glasgow Academy. We have to congratulate the new Caps :—W. Black (Captain), W. Sutherland (Vice-Captain), S. Cameron, and W. J. G. Meldrum ; and the new Colours :— D. Y. Lobban, J. R. S. Innes, H. J. Rae, J. Catto, and D. Craib. * * * M. Meyzaud, our new French student-teacher, has already made himself a firm favourite in School. Cheerful and conscientious, he does his best to lighten the tedious round of work, in which respect some other masters might copy him ! * * * A departure from the usual mode of procedure in Hall was made on z6th October, when the Senior Prefect read the lesson, and, to quote a Master, " read it better than many a Head of a Department." The Prefects are now taking it in turn to read the lesson in Hall. * * * This term sees an addition to the number of the School Clubs-a Badminton Club. This Club, under the captaincy of of A. R. Taylor, is already full, and although the standard of play leaves room for improvement, the members derive much enjoyment from the meetings. * * * The Debater, too, is in full swing, having had a fine send-off by a very amusing Masters' Debate. This session there has been an added attraction in the shape of an Inter-Debate with the Central School. This was really an excellent debate, and it should become an annual event on the Syllabus.

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One afternoon, while passing the Music Room, we stopped in amazement. Surely it was not jazz that could be heard ?

Yes, undoubtedly it was. Then we remembered. It was not a new School dance orchestra, but Mr. Falconer trying out the "radiogram." This magnificent instrument, a seven-valve Marconiphone, purchased with the proceeds of the last School Concert, has at last arrived, and now is installed in the Music Room. Already stations as far distant as Rome and Berlin have been logged in daylight, while Aberdeen was broadcasting. * * * On z6th October the Gym. Team spent an enjoyable evening at the Lads' Club. After a display of gymnastics and " Rugby Touch," they played the Club in various games, all of which, we are sorry to say, they lost. * * * On 3rd October, the majority of Classes 1V, V, and VI spent a most enjoyable afternoon at the rehearsal of the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. For this privilege we thank him most heartily.

Random Notes.

The most notable event of the passing term has been an outbreak of an old disease in a new form which, for want of a better name, we shall call " embellishing fever." The cure for this is not as in the old days, " a good old-fashioned hiding," but the culprits must sand-paper off the marks which they have made on the School's fabric. We cover our heads in very shame for the decadence of the modern schoolboy. * * * Great was our excitement when one morning the long-lookedfor " Machine," or radio-gramophone, arrived. In a demonstration, exclusive to the Sixth Year, there came crashing over the ether a rhythmic sound that suggested someone at work on a scrubbing-board. " America" said the class expert, and we listened with joy to the strains of a " hot rhythm " band, until a certain sameness in melody caused the suggestion that it might be the pump of the School heating-apparatus. We have lost faith in radio-grams ! * * * The Sixth Year Latin class in the course of their study of the iEneid have added distinctly to the information on golf gained by modern research. Mr. P. G. Wodehouse, in an excellent treatise, points out that the first record of golf played on earth is contained in the works of Chaucer, who thus describes a long shot to the green : " For which behoveth him a ful longe spoone." We discovered, however, that as early as the time of iEneas, golf was played by the " Shades " in Hades. Vergil

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describes their bad bunker-play in the phrase "fulva luctantur harena." . * * * It was rather unfortunate that German politics should have been so much in the public eye when Modern VI were reading Moliere's " L'Avare." Otherwise one of its members would never have translated the speech on the subject of marriage, " Un amant comme vous serait pour elle un ragout merveilleux," by " A lover like you would be for her a wonderful hash." * * * Another, and still better effort from the same source, was, in the middle of a beautiful piece of natural description in the best French classical style, to translate, " I1 s'asseyait a part pour contempler la nue fugitive," by the outrageous statement, " He would go and sit down apart to contemplate the nude fugitive." Literal translations are not always the best.

Miss Elisabeth. W. Davidson.

The Grammar School has lost a well-known and highly esteemed member of its teaching staff by the death of Miss Elisabeth W. Davidson, Junior Mistress. In one capacity or another she had served the School for almost forty years, and the number of boys who passed through her hands must be considerable. They will cherish, every one of them, the kindliest recollections of her sincere interest in their welfare and of her jealous regard at all times for the good name of the School.

The influence which she exerted was of an unobtrusive kind ; indeed she had an almost morbid dislike of publicity, so that one hesitates to enlarge on the qualities which won for her so secure a place in the affections of the School. It is, perhaps, sufficient to say that as a teacher and as the guide and inspirer of those who worked with her in the Lower School, she fulfilled her responsible duties with credit, and that she enjoyed in full measure the confidence and respect both of her colleagues and of her boys.

A Tribute.

It was with the deepest regret that we learnt, last July, of the death of Miss Elisabeth Davidson, Junior Mistress of the Lower School. Owing to the position she occupied, she had a better chance than any other teacher of coming in contact with us as we stepped up the School. Those of us who were so fortunate as to pass through her hands at that period of our lives when she was able to exercise a profound influence on us all, will sadly miss her. The fact that by her kindly disposition she had established herself as a favourite with boys and teachers alike, makes her loss all the more difficult to bear.

CLASSICAL V.

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The Jamboree of 1933.

This summer I spent a very enjoyable fortnight at the Fourth World Scout Jamboree, held at Godollo in Hungary.

We, that is the six comprising the Aberdeen contingent, left Aberdeen at 5.3o p.m. on 19th July and, after a somewhat tedious journey, arrived at Dover in the evening of the next day. Ostend was reached about midnight, and there we got into the German train that took us straight to Hungary. Before it left, there was no little fuss between a member of the British staff and the Belgian guard about the addition of an extra carriage, and, as the guard won, accommodation was rather limited.

The train was composed of third-class carriages with wooden seats, and there were at least six passengers to a compartment.

Luckily the luggage racks were fairly wide, and we managed to get to sleep eventually, two lying on the racks, two on the seats, two on the floor, and any extra in the corridor. Having experienced all positions, I think the racks were best, although there was a support that hit you in the ribs every time the train jolted.

We awoke to find ourselves in Cologne, where we went to breakfast in single file, between two rows of Nazis, like convicts.

Leaving Cologne, we went along the narrow Rhine Valley, with its terraced hills, surmounted by towers, on either side. At Mainz we left the Rhine and made for the Danube valley through Bavaria. On the way we stopped at Wurzburg, where we were met by a guard of honour of Nazis and a brass band.

Here we encountered our first Continental " packed lunch."

This usually consisted of a slab of doubtful meat, some fruit, a roll, some extremely " high" cheese, and a bottle of tonic water. If the power of tonics were proportional to the vileness of their taste, this tonic would certainly be a panacea. We certainly did not appreciate it and the main use of the water was for pouring out of the window, in the hope that someone would be leaning out further along the train. We managed to subsist, however, and after crossing Austria by night, we entered Hungary and were soon at Godollo.

Godollo is a small town of about ha,ooo inhabitants, lying about eighteen miles north-east of Budapest. It is situated in the Royal Estate, where the Jamboree was held. The camping grounds were very extensive, covering about 700 acres on three sides of the town. This was a far larger area than that used at the last Jamboree at Birkenhead, and here there were only 35,000 Scouts in camp, as compared with 50,000 at Arrowe Park. These 35,ooo came from forty-three different countries, some as far distant as Japan, the Philippine Islands, and Iceland.

The main camp was divided into ten sub-camps, and in addition to these, there was a Sea-Scout Camp on the Danube near Budapest, an Auxiliary Camp, a Cub Camp, and a Flying

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Camp at the Jamboree itself. The Flying Camp had five aeroplanes and about fifteen sailplanes and gliders flown by the Poles, who gave displays every day. All these camps enjoyed somewhat extra-territorial rights and were policed by a specially trained body of Hungarian Rovers.

In addition to the shops in Godo118, the Jamboree was served by a temporary Shopping Centre of about one hundred shops and six cafes and beer-gardens. These shops were of all descriptions, and practically anything could be bought in them.

Near the shops was the Sports Ground, in size slightly smaller than Pittodrie, where displays were given and football played.

The more important displays and rallies were held in the Rally Ground, the main arena. This was a field bigger than Rubislaw, with five stands accommodating about io,ooo people.

As for entertainments, there were a theatre and cinema near the Shopping Centre, each of which gave two performances daily. The theatre had a fully equipped stage, where performances of professional standard were given by the Hungarian Scouts. In addition to these entertainments, camp-fires were held in several sub-camps each night. These were really open-air theatres, where the different contingents gave items, for the displays were presented on a wooden stage fitted with footlights, spotlights, and even with amplifiers connected to the camp broadcasting station. Loud-speakers were placed so that you were never far out of range of one. They began to give music at 6.3o each morning, and played intermittently throughout the day. When they were not playing, we enjoyed (?) the music of the ten brass bands (very brass!), which seemed to play perpetually and always to play the same tunes. In fact, one morning we had to listen for three hours to a brass band playing " God Save the King." This was in preparation for the first Jamboree marriage, at which the Aberdeen contingent was the guard of honour.

While at the Jamboree we were allowed two excursions, one to Budapest and one to some other town. We went to Gyor, a town on the Danube about halfway between Budapest and Vienna. There we had a marvellous reception. The whole town was on holiday and came to the station to meet us. After a speech of welcome by the mayor, we were conducted to the places of interest in the town, and, what was more important to us in the terrible heat, we were taken to the open-air baths.

After a bathe, we went on to a garden party given in our honour by the ladies of the town, where we had gifts and mementoes of all sorts showered upon us. Our reception at Gyor was not exceptional ; everywhere the towns entertained their guests very well indeed.

We also visited Budapest several times, This beautiful city is situated on both banks of the Danube—Buda, the hilly part, on the west bank, and Pest, the flat district, on the east.

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With its wide, tree-lined streets, it is better laid out than London, and it is also much cleaner, while it contains many beautiful buildings, such as the Royal Palace, the Fishermen's Bastion, and the Houses of Parliament. These last, which took nineteen years to build, are very imposing, standing by themselves on the bank of the Danube ; and inside they are very magnificent, with many beautiful paintings and statues.

When not on these excursions, we usually spent our time in seeing the other camps, many of which, especially the Hungarian ones, were beautifully decorated. Each camp had its own gateway, and some were very effective. The best were very simple, one good one being two large, carved horns, set on low pillars and flanked by coats of arms ; while another was a large, wooden horse ; and another an outsize in Scout hats, built in straw. The largest, but by no means the best, was the American Gateway. This consisted of two huge towers about thirty feet high, painted to represent log-cabins. With true American hustle, these were finished several days before the end of the Jamboree.

The Jamboree meant a great deal to the Hungarians, and they did their utmost to make it a success, and certainly succeeded.

It was not only the Hungarian Scouts, however, who did their bit towards its success. Towns entertained large contingents of foreign Scouts, and gave them a wonderful time ; in cinemas, theatres, railways, baths, and in many other places, Scouts were charged only half-price ; and for a week after the Jamboree many families had a foreign Scout staying with them.

The Hungarians, too, were extraordinarily kind and helpful in other ways. Many were the " little unremembered acts," which all helped to make the Jamboree more enjoyable. The Hungarians succeeded not only in holding a successful Jamboree but also in giving us an extremely enjoyable holiday and a never-to-be-forgotten experience.

J. G. D.

The Night Tide.

So soft, so still, so slow, O'er miles of gleaming sand, Lit by the silvery glow Of the pendent moon above, Still wet from the flowing tide Changing from ebb to flow, Rippling across the shore, Smoothing its troubled brow, Sparkling in yonder cove, Swirling from that far cave, The night tide thus departs So soft, sc still, so slow.

J. GRAY (Cl. IV).

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School Athletic Activities.

Whatever the present session may be producing in a purely intellectual sense—and that too is, we believe, likely to be satisfactory—there can be little doubt that so far as games and character are concerned the position is good.

Not for a long time has a set of boys more enthusiastic, more alive, more easy to lead in the right direction, been in the Upper and Middle Schools. Prefects, for instance, are not chosen for games ability : the basis of choice is naturally an all-round one, Yet there are this year in the 1st XV eight out of nine Prefects, which shows that in the 1st XV, which to a large degree sets the tone of the session, the best character elements of the School's life are to be found.

We have been fortunate, more fortunate than for a long time, in regard to the returning of senior boys to School after the summer vacation. The formation of 1st, znd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th School XVs has given no trouble, and on Wednesdays we have 6th and 7th XVs, all drawn from the Upper School, with, in addition, numerous junior (under 15) and minor (under 14) XVs. There is actually a struggle for places in the 6th XV. Seven of last year's 1st XV were again available, and the team rapidly took shape as a good all-round side, with better team work than for a long time. An early misfortune befell us, skin trouble, that bugbear of forwards, getting into the front row of both the 1st and and XV packs, and for a time we had to make shift without a hooker. Then our scrum-half was injured. These two buffets of fortune account for the extent, but not the fact, of our defeats by Glasgow High School and Glenalmond. Both these Schools have since proved their high quality.

The 1st XV had a record win over Strathallan, and also for the first time defeated Glasgow Academy. The Gordon's College match was played in a downpour of rain with a high wind, conditions which we understand our opponents had earnestly desired, and which were all against free scoring and the open type of play favoured by the School.

Both the znd and 3rd XVs have done well. The znd have a victory over Morgan Academy 1st, and a draw with Dundee High School 1st to their credit, while the 3rd have won all their matches, except one, in good style ; the exception being a defeat at Dundee by the High School znd by 18 points to 16 points. All three teams are undefeated at Rubislaw Field.

If one looks a little further ahead, the prospects for cricket and athletics seem pleasant. Seven of last season's 1st XI have returned to School and a fair proportion of the znd XI. In athletics we have two of our three best sprinters of last session, our two best milers, our best jumpers, hurdlers, and shot putters.

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So far as our Former Pupils are concerned, the summer was notable for the many golf successes achieved by Old Boys of the School. Six or seven of the 'Varsity Golf Team, including the Captain, were F.P.s, and L. Middleton, D. G. Dempster, J. S. Riddell, and W. F. Mayor between them had a big haul of tournament successes.

In the Rugby sphere, the Captains of the University, Aberdeenshire, and Engineers are all F.P.s and a large proportion of the members. The 'Varsity 1st XV has again ten or eleven F.P.s in it.

In conclusion, might we ask F.P.s to please note that the School Athletic Sports will be held this session on 15th and 16th June. These days, we hope, will more and more become days of reunion, when friendships of School days can be renewed, and when Old Boys can see that in every way the tradition of the School is being maintained.

School Football.

1st XV Matches.

3oth September, 1933.—v. Strathallan, at Rubislaw. Team :—H. D. Jamieson; J. R. S. Innes, J. V. Hay, W. Sutherland, J. Catto; G. H. Henderson and S. Cameron ; W. Black, W. J. Meldrum, D. L. Begg, D. Y. Lobban, A. L. Watt, D. A. Craib, D. A. Milne, D. I. Campbell.

Strathallan kicked off, and a period of midfield play ensued. The School pack, weakened by the absence of Rae, the hooker, were losing the ball in the set scrums, but good marking by the backs, and an over-tendency to kick on the part of the Strathallan stand-off, nullified all efforts at attack.

School soon settled down, and after several raids by the backs, limes was sent over for a try, far out, which Black failed to convert. Good work in the loose by the forwards, who were combining well with their backs, resulted in Black and Hay sending Innes over for another try, which Black converted. The Strath forwards were still gaining possession in the set scrums, but received little support from their backs, and School, with a lead of eight points to nil, continued to attack until half time. From a long kick-off School attacked, and Catto was narrowly beaten for the touch-down after a good forward dribble. Black was also unlucky not to score from a clever cross-kick by Innes, who was taking his chances very well, and who romped over soon after for a further score, which Black converted. There was no holding the School backs now, and Sutherland beat the whole defence to score under the posts. Black brought out full points. A Strathallan forward-rush carried play to the School " twenty-five," but School soon returned to the attack, and after good work by the backs, Imes crossed the line, far out, for a try, which was not converted. Final score—School, 21 points ; Strathallan, Nil. 7th October,—v. Glasgow High School, at Anniesland.—Team :—H. D. Jamieson ; J. R. S. Imes, J. V. Hay, W. Sutherland, J. R. Catto ; G. H. Henderson and S. Cameron ; W. Black, W. J. Meldrum, D. Y. Lobban, A. L. Watt, D. A. Craib, T. J. T. Nicol, A. G. Cameron, and S. Duff.

School kicked off, but were soon on the defensive, the forwards failing to get the ball in the set scrums. The High School backs were playing like a well-regulated machine, and only a solid defence kept them from scoring. Gaining the ball at the line-out, the School pack sent the backs away on several occasions, but they could make nothing of their chances.

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pass and raced through, to score an unexpected try, which was converted.

After this reverse School were mainly on the defensive, but an occasional attacking movement kept the game from being one-sided. A further try was added, however, before half-time, full points being brought out.

Half-time-School, Nil ; Glasgow High, to points.

In the second half the Glasgow backs, liberally supplied with the ball, made good use of their chances, crossing the School line four times. The kicks at goal failed on each occasion. Towards the end School rallied and kept presssing the Glasgow line. From a free kick just inside the " twentyfive ' A. G. Cameron kicked a fine goal. Although encouraged by this score, School were unable to keep out their opponents, and when the final whistle blew, the High School were leading by the substantial margin of 19 points.

Result—School, 3 points ; Glasgow High School, 22 points.

14th October.—v. Glenalmond, at Glenalmond. Team :—H. D. Jamieson ; J. R. S. Innes, W. Sutherland, J. V. Hay, J. R. Catto ; G. H. Henderson and R. E. Wetherky ; W. Black, W. J. Meldrum, H. J. Rae, D. Y. Lobban, A. L. Watt, T. J. T. Nicol, D. A. Craib, and D. A. Milne.

For this game School were without the services of S. Cameron, at scrumhalf, whose place was taken by R. E. Wetherley. Glenalmond kicked off in ideal weather, and mid-field play ensued. The School backs, plied with the ball by the forwards, who were dominating the game at this point, soon got going, and looked like scoring on several occasions. A series of freekicks for " feet-up " carried play into the School " twenty-five," and a mistake in defence let a Glenalmond player through, for an unconverted try. School retaliated, and good work by the backs let Catto off on the left touch line for a fine try, which Black converted. School were now in the lead, but more free-kicks for Glenalmond carried play up-field, and after failing to score from a penalty, " Coll." secured another unconverted try. Half-timeSchool, 5 points; Glenalmond, 6 points. In the second half, School were a very poor lot. The team-work was deplorable, while, with the exception of Sutherland, the defence of the backs, left as they usually were with an extra man to bring down, was also weak. Thus the Glenalmond backs, combining well with their forwards, were soon over the School line for another try, which was not converted. School rallied somewhat, and on two occasions scores would probably have resulted had the ball reached the wing, with Innes unmarked. At this point Wetherley put in some good work by stopping several forward rushes. Unable, however, to cope with the College team either in speed or in team-work, School were forced to concede other two tries, one of which was converted. Result—School, 5 points ; Glenalmond, 17 points.

21st October.—v. Gordon's College, at Seafield. Team :—H. D. Jamieson ; J. R. S. Innes, J. V. Hay, W. Sutherland, J. R. Catto ; G. H. Henderson and S. Cameron ; W. Black, W. J. Meldrum, H. J. Rae, D. Y. Lobban, A. L. Watt, D. A. Craib, T. J. T. Nicol, and D. A. Milne.

For this game School were at full strength, the only doubtful starter being Black, who, however, turned out, although suffering from a severe cold. Gordon's kicked off in weather adverse to rugger, play being spoiled by intermittent showers of rain and a strong wind. School soon established themselves in Gordon's territory, making good use of the wind by kicking ahead and handling only on the College line. As a result of this policy Catto raced over at the corner for an unconverted try, after a good back movement. Dominating the scrums, the School pack enabled the backs to put the " kick-ahead " to good use, so that it was quite in accordance with the run of play when another splendid effort by Catto resulted in a score at the corner. The Gordon's pack rallied somewhat, but the backs made nothing of their chances when put in an attacking position, and School were leading by six points to nil at half-time. In the second half School again settled down to attack, but conditions were against handling, and the backs, plied with the ball, did everything but score. Gordon's apparent hope of scoring lay in their dribbling rushes, but it was altogether against the run of play when they did score, after kicking ahead a loose ball in mid-field. The

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kick failed. School retaliated, but met with a solid defence. Good work in the loose by the College eight was only nullified by the excellent heeling of the School pack in the set scrums, and the accurate touch-kicking of the half-backs. Near the end School were unlucky not to score from a crosskick, and the final whistle blew with School attacking. Final score—School, 6 points ; Gordon's College, 3 points.

4th November.—v. Glasgow Academy, at Rubislaw. Team :—H. D. Jamieson ; J. R. S. Innes, J. V. Hay, W. Sutherland, J. R. Catto ; G. H. Henderson and S. Cameron ; W. J. Meldrum, H. J. Rae, D. Y. Lobban, A. L. Watt, D. A. Craib, T. J. T. Nicol, D. A. Milne, and D. I. Campbell.

School kicked off against the wind, and after some mid-field play, Meldrum, following up a punt ahead by Innes, dashed over for an unconverted try, the full back being caught napping. From the kick-off the exchanges were even for a time, but, after good work by the forwards, the Academy levelled matters with a score at the flag. A moment later the School line was again crossed, full points being brought out this time. School retaliated, and Catto rounded off a beautiful passing movement by a great race for the line. The kick at goal failed. At this point, only a heroic defence kept the School line intact. Finally a breakdown in passing by the Academy backs relieved the pressure, and at half-time School were pressing. Half-time— School, 6 points ; Academy, 8 points. In the second half good touchkicking put School on the offensive, and from a scrum close in, Henderson dropped a goal. Academy attacked, and from a scrum on the School line McDowall burst over for an unconverted try. Then followed another period of resolute defence on the part of School, which was ultimately relieved by a long kick up the centre. Good handling let Catto away on the wing, but the winger was bundled into touch just on the line. Academy again attacked, but in vain, and near the end a kick-ahead by Henderson let Innes over for an unconverted try, after a misunderstanding between two defenders. Final score—School, 13 points ; Glasgow Academy, ri points.

The game was very even, and School had to go all out to win. r rth November.—v. Dunfermline High School, at Dunfermline. Team : H. D. Jamieson ; A. W. Ogston, J. V. Hay, W. Sutherland, J. R. Catto ; G. H. Henderson and S. Cameron •' W. Black, W. J. Meldrum, H. J. Rae, D. Y. Lobban, D. A. Craib, A. L. Watt, T. J. T. Nicol, D. A. Milne.

Dunfermline kicked off uphill and facing the sun, and play settled down in the School half. Playing very well against a most formidable pack, the School forwards gave the backs several chances to get properly going, but these chances were usually nullified by poor handling, due to the deceptive condition of the ball. Accurate touch-kicking by the Dunfermline backs brought play to the School line, and only a stout defence kept the High School from scoring. Eventually School were penalized for off-side, but the kick at goal failed from a good position. A good dribbling rush by the pack put School in an attacking position, and Black was unlucky not to score from a free-kick in front of the posts. Half-thne came without either side scoring, which reflected fairly the run of play. In the second half Dunfermline came away with a rush, and only a magnificent defence kept the School line intact. At last, however, the High School stand-off found an opening and raced over for a clever try, which was converted. Play now developed into a ding-dong struggle between the packs. The School eight had the measure of their opponents, and again and again worked their way up field, only to be returned by good touch-kicking. From a melee on the School line the Dunfermline winger rather unexpectedly went over for an unconverted try. School rallied, and should have scored when Ogston rounded off a good back movement by passing to Sutherland •' but the centre dropped the pass, with a clear field ahead. Near the end School provided the best Rugby of the game, when with fourteen men, they hemmed the High School in their own " twenty-five" and did everything but score.

The final whistle blew with School at least worthy of a draw. Result— School, Nil ; Dunfermline High School, 8 points.

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;oth September, 1933.—v. znd Strathallan, at Forgandenny. The game was very hard, and played at a fast pace. The School forwards took a while to settle down, but when they did so, they got the ball well back. A slip by the Strath. full-back let Cruickshank dribble over the line for a try, which was not converted. Soon after, the same player again touched down after a good run. Another try was scored by Wishart, who dummied his way through the defence. Both kicks failed. Half-time: School, 9 points ; Strathallan, Nil. In the second half Strathallan scored far out, after a mistake in the School defence. At this point the game was very fast and even.

Midway through, Nicol broke away from a scrum and ran in, to score a good try at the post, which Ogston converted. This further score made Strathallan desperate, and they were almost over, but the School defence was sound, and play returned to the other end, where Moir dodged his way over for a grand score, which was not converted. Play remained at mid-field and full time came with School worthy winners. Final score—znd School, 17 points ; znd Strathallan, Nil. 7th October.—v. Dundee High School 1st XV, at Dundee. In this game School were up against a very heavy team, the forwards being out-shoved both in the set-scrums and in the loose. The School pack, however, played extremely well, while the backs did the best they could. After keeping play outside their own " twenty-five" for the better part of the first half the School forwards tired, and, profiting by their lapse, Dundee scored two tries, one of which was converted, thus establishing a lead of 8 points at half-time.

The second half was a repetition of the first, School waging an unequal battle of brain against brawn. In this half Dundee scored another eight points.

Near the end a score almost resulted after a great run by the School backs, but the winger was bundled into touch. This was the only occasion on which School attacked. Result—and School, Nil ; Dundee High School 1st, 16 points.

28th October.—v. Morgan Academy ist XV, at Rubislaw. Playing with the wind in the first half School attacked steadily, and Ogston scored two clever tries after good play by the School backs. A third score resulted when Cruickshank ran through on his own for a try, which Cameron converted. School had the measure of their opponents who, although good enough at forward, were very weak behind the scrum. Half-time came with School leading by i i points to nil. In the second half play was more even, and Morgan reduced the leeway through a clever try by the scrum half.

School attacked, but play was eventually returned to home territory, and near the end Morgan scored another unconverted try. The finish of the game proved most exciting, Morgan striving in vain for the all-important goal. Final score-2nd School, it points ; Morgan Academy 1st XV, 6 points.

4th November.—v. and Glenalmond, at Glenalmond. School lost the toss and kicked off facing a strong sun. The pack, which was very much under strength, took some time to settle down, and in the first part of the game the Glenalmond forwards obtained the ball steadily. About ten minutes after the start the Glenalmond stand-off cut through well, to score between the posts. The try, however, was not converted, and after the kick-off play settled down in mid-field and was evenly contested, until just before halftime, when the Glenalmond right wing scored a try in the corner, after a good movement. In the second half School were well on top, the forwards particularly playing magnificently. Glenalmond were penned in their own half, but sound defence kept the School backs out, although, on one occasion, Wetherley was unfortunate to stumble when clean through. Out of an excellent pack Stewart and Duff were outstanding, while Moir and Wetherley were the best of the backs. Result—Glenalmond, 6 points ; School, Nil. 11th November.—v. Dundee High School 1st XV, at Rubislaw. Play was very fast and ranged from end to end of the field. The lighter School

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pack was holding its own very well against the heavier Dundee forwards, who averaged 13 stone. The backs also were good, except for a poor full back. A quick break through by the Dundee stand-off, who was badly missed by Cruickshank, gave his team a try. It was not converted. School returned to the attack and were more than once unlucky not to score. At half time Dundee were very fortunate to be leading. Half-time—Dundee High School, 3 points ; School, Nil. Right from the kick-off School kept their opponents in their own half, but the backs could not get through the sturdy Dundee defence. The forwards were holding the ball a good deal and consequently play was rather scrappy. A good move by the backs saw Wetherly break through on his own to score a grand try. The kick was not successful, and full time came with no further scoring. Result—Dundee High School, 3 points ; School, 3 points.

3rd XV Matches.

3oth September, 1933.—v. 3rd Strathallan, at Forgandenny. School lost the toss and kicked off against a strong sun. In the first part of the game the quick breaking of the Strathallan forwards confined the movements of the School backs, but two tries were scored by Dumo in loose rushes, the second of which he converted himself. Play was evenly contested until half time, and another unconverted try scored by Campbell just represented the slight superiority held by School. In the second half School over-ran the opposition. Simmers opened the scoring with a try between the posts, which was converted. This was followed by a dropped goal by Taylor. In a loose rush by the School pack Strachan added another unconverted try, and before full time School scored again through Simmers (z), Strachan, and Cameron, two of which tries Dumo converted. Result— School, 39 points ; Strathallan, Nil. 7th October.—v. Dundee High School and XV, at Rubislaw. School kicked off against the wind and were quickly on the offensive. Although heavily outweighted, the School forwards were faster and cleverer and succeeded in gaining a fair share of the ball. Persistent School pressure was soon rewarded by an unconverted try by Kelly. Almost immediately after the kick-off Forbes broke clear away from a line-out, and, beating the full back, scored between the posts : the try was converted. School backs were making good use of a limited supply of the ball, and first Taylor and then Paul broke through the Dundee defence to score tries, the first of which Taylor converted.

After half-time School kept up their pressure, and after a loose rush had been held up on the Dundee line, the ball was quickly heeled for Paul to score an unconverted try on the blind side. Shortly after this, a kick ahead by a School three-quarter was rather unluckily blocked by a Dundee forward, who gathered the ball and went on to score an unconverted try. Just before the final whistle, Taylor broke through the opposition to score a try which he himself converted. Result—School, 24 points ; Dundee High School, 3 points.

4th November.—v. 3rd Glenalmond, at Rubislaw. In this game School met with the stiffest opposition so far. Glenalmond kicked off and held a territorial advantage for most of the first half. Quick marking by the School backs and lack of speed on the Glenalmond wings, however, kept them from scoring. Just before half-time School scored rather against the run of play ; as the result of a series of loose rushes the forwards gained a footing in the Glenalmond " twenty-five," and from there Watt broke away from a scrum and scored after a very fine dribble. School thus led by 3 points at half-time. After half-time the School pack supplied their backs steadily with the ball, but the first score came when Spark, a forward, crossed the line after good work by the pack. Williamson completed the scoring by rounding off the best movement of the game, to score a try, which Cruickshank converted. Result—School, It points ; Glenalmond, Nil.

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House Notes.

Byron House.

At a meeting held at the beginning of the session the following officials were elected :—House Captain and Vice-Captain of Rugby, G. H. Henderson ; Captain of Rugby, W. Black ; Captain of Swimming, A. M. Watson.

With a House team containing no fewer than six members of the School XV, Byron's rugger prospects for the present season are bright. Up to date we have played two matches. We won the first against Melvin in convincing fashion by the margin of 36 points to nil. In this game all the backs played very well, both individually and as an attacking unit, while the forwards, by their superior height and weight, completely dominated the game, D. A. Milne being outstanding.

For our second fixture, with Keith, who are likely to be our closest rivals, we were compelled, through injury, to field a team composed for the most part of junior players, who, although defeated, put up a great struggle and did well to keep the score down to 19 points as against 9 points. Dawson and Paul defended well among the backs, and the two Meldrums were outstanding in the pack.

Our znd XV, weakened by the demands of the 1st team, has lost both its games, but this state of affairs should be remedied when both teams return to full strength.

In conclusion, I would urge every member of the House, and chiefly the younger members, to practise hard and turn out regularly for the House at Rugby, so that we may repeat the success of last year.

G. H. HENDERSON, House Captain.

Dun House.

At the House merting, held at the beginning of the term, the following officials were elected :—House Captain and Rugby Captain, D. Y. Lobban ; Rugby Vice-Captain, J. R. Catto ; Swimming Captain, G. A. Robertson.

The 1st XV has made a promising start this year, as we have a hardworking and enthusiastic team. We were unlucky in being beaten by Keith in the first inter-House match by 8 points to 3. Our forwards played a good game and combined well, obtaining the major share of the ball in the scrums and line-outs. This was all to our credit, as the ball was wet and difficult to handle. Behind the scrum the backs played a good game, while J. R. Catto, at stand-off, played with tireless energy.

In the game against Melvin House, Dun were worthy winners. We pressed from the start, and as a result early tries were scored by J. R. Catto and S. Duff. At half-time Dun were leading by so points to nil. In the second half we resumed with a burst, adding a further 9 points before the final whistle went. Most credit for winning the match goes to J. R. Catto, S. Duff, J. S. Wishart, and R. Wetherley.

Our 2nd XV, although young and very light, won their first match against Keith, but were narrowly beaten by Melvin.

Swimming prospects appear to be very bright this year, far brighter than in former years, and it is hoped that all Dun House boys will take every opportunity to practice.

D. Y. LOBBAN, House Captain.

Keith House.

At a meeting held at the beginning of the session, the following officials were elected :—House and Rugby Captain, W. Sutherland ; Vice-Captain of Rugby, J. R. S. Innes ; Rugby Secretary, A. L. Watt.

We should like to take the opportunity of congratulating J. R. S. Innes and D. A. Craib on winning their 1st XV Colours, and H. O. C. Cruickshank on winning his and XV Colours.

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The Rugby prospects for Keith House this session are fairly bright.

We have a light but hard-working pack, which is beginning to combine quite well, and the backs are fast and experienced.

In the opening match of the season, against Dun, we won by 8 points to 3.

Owing to the wet condition of the ball, handling became difficult, but nevertheless a good combined movement by the backs resulted in a try.

In the second half, Innes gathered a loose ball to go over for a good try.

Craib was the best of the forwards.

Against Byron, we won by 19 points to 9. Although handicapped by the loss of J. Anderson, who was injured early in the game, our three-quarters proved too much for their opponents. The forwards, too, amongst whom Craib and Watt were prominent, played well.

The znd XV were disappointing against znd Dun, but had a substantial victory over znd Byron.

It is only by constant practice and the developing of the " team spirit " that Keith House can win the Rugby Cup and so uphold the prestige that the House has formerly enjoyed.

W. SUTHERLAND, House Cap/ain.

Melvin House.

At the annual House meeting, held at the beginning of the term, the following officials were elected :—House Captain, H. D. Jamieson ; Rugby Captain, H. J. Rae ; Rugby Vice-Captain, H. D. Jamieson ; Swimming Captain, T. J. Nicol. Since the start of the Rugby season the following awards have been made to Melvin players :—rst XV Colours, H. J. Rae ; znd XV Colours, T. J. Nicol, H. D. Jamieson.

This year our Rugby XV is not a particularly strong one, but in both inter-House games, against Byron and Dun, we gave a spirited display.

Against Byron, who were a much heavier and faster team and easily overran us, we were defeated by 34 points to nil. Those who played best for Melvin were Rae and Nicol. In the second game, against Dun, we gave a much better display, and had we been at full strength, we might have won. I. M. Drummond at stand-off was unable to play, and Milne at full back had to go off after five minutes' play. To lose by only 19 points to nil under such conditions was quite good. Rae and Nicol were again the best of Melvin's side. The znd XV has played very well, winning both their games.

In the remaining House matches we hope to do much better, there being no good reason why we should not win them all.

H. D. JAMIESON, House Captain.

The Literary and Debating Society.

Although the membership of the Society is not so high as it was last year, the session so far has been most successful. The attendance has been good as well as the speaking, and if this continues throughout the session, it will be one of the most successful in the history of the Society.

5th October, 1933.—Owing to the inability of some of the Masters to attend, the Masters' Debate, with which the session usually begins, was postponed for a week. On account of this, the session opened with a debate on the subject, " Is War Inevitable?" The Secretary, speaking for the affirmative, showed that fighting was part of a man's nature, and that it was impossible to keep him from war. Mr. Sutherland, supporting the negative, said that war was man-made and not divine, and added that the causes of war could be remedied by economic methods and not by war itself. The after speaking was good and lasted for a considerable time.

When a vote was taken, the affirmative was found to have won.

1zth October.—On this date the Masters' Debate was held on the subject " That xsthetically we are on the down grade." Mr. Park, opening for the affirmative, deplored the standards of art and personal beauty. He caused

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much amusement by describing the garments of women in order to show that modern dress had become too standardised. Mr. Dickie, for the negative, confounded this argument by pointing out that women were dressing far more sensibly than before. They did not wear any unhygienic clothes now, but sensible garments in which they could walk freely. Mr. Stewart, in support of Mr. Park, said that men no longer took a pride in their work, and kept the Society in laughter over his description of the work of the mere " hands " of the present day. Mr. Milton, seconding Mr. Dickie, pointed out how far ahead we were of former generations in respect of railways and other forms of conveyance. The after speaking was excellent, particularly good work being done by Mr. Gray of Classical IV. On a vote being taken, the negative won by a large majority.

26th October.—Owing to the inability of our lecturer, Mr. Colmar, to attend on this date, there was a debate held on the subject, " That Musical Comedy is detrimental to Real Drama." Mr. Henderson, opening for the affirmative, showed how well supported all the musical comedy shows were.

He pointed out that the shows had no real story at all, and that their actors were merely personalities. " In this way," he said, " real drama is being ruined." The negative was supported by Mr. Gray, who stated that musical comedy was in reality an offspring of drama, and therefore in no way detrimental to it. The after speaking was again good, and when the vote was taken the affirmative won by a small margin. and November.—On this date there was a lecture given by one of the members of the Society, Mr. J. G. Dawson, on his experiences at GOdo116, in Hungary, on the occasion of the Scout Jamboree. In a most interesting and instructive lecture, Mr. Dawson had scarcely time to tell us all the interesting details of the Camp itself. During the lecture he passed round some very interesting snaps and souvenirs of the places of interest which he had visited, and caused much amusement when he told us that the Hungarian girls burned with curiosity to know if they wore trews under their kilts. The Society showed their appreciation of the lecture by giving Mr. Dawson three hearty cheers.

9th November.—There was an inter-debate held on this night with the Central School on the subject, " That Professionalism in Sport is necessary."

Mr. Taylor, opening for the affirmative, drew a sorry picture of all the various sports without their professionals. He said that if there were no professionalism in sport, the average man would lose all his interest for sport, as all its savour would have been taken away. Miss Clarke, supporting the negative, confounded all those arguments. In a brilliant paper she showed how professionals played merely to make money, and pointed out how much better was the amateur's idea of sport. To drive home her argument she closed her speech with an apt quotation from Kipling. The negative was well supported by Miss Barr, and the affirmative by Mr. Dawson. The after speaking threatened to be poor, but Mr. Gray livened things up with a learned dissertation upon race-horses. Then the speaking improved, and when the speakers summed up, the negative won by a small margin.

School Dramatic Society.

The Society held its first meeting this session on 28th September. A. Forbes was chosen as President, R. A. Spark as Vice-President and Stage Manager, D. T. S. Currie as Secretary and Property Master, J. C. Craigen and D. McNaught as Electricians. Besides these, the Committee includes— G. Hay, I. G. Ross, D. Reith, and M. Jack. Shakespeare's " Henry IV " is now in process of rehearsal, under the supervision of Mr. Farquharson.

It is hoped to present the play after the Leaving Certificate Examinations are over. The I unior Reading Circle has re-commenced its meetings under the direction of Mr. Maclennan.

D. T. S. CURRIE, Secretary.

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Scout Notes.

This summer has been one that will never be forgotten by the Scouts.

Never have any of them experienced such a fortnight for camping as was the first fortnight of July, 1935. The heat was unprecedented, so that clothes became an intolerable burden. Phcebus Apollo was indeed too munificent, and too much of a good thing had sometimes painful consequences for those who exposed their backs too rashly to hot Titan's beams. The Scouters' ambulance boxes were called upon nightly for ointment for backs and arms and legs to ward off blisters from sunburn. Bathing was the only thing that anyone could think of for the first week : the second was not quite so hot and was blessed with a few cooling showers.

The 1st Troop held their summer camp at Glentanar, a new site which proved an excellent one, beside the River Tanar. A monkey bridge was constructed over the river. On Wednesday, 5th July, a treasure hunt was held up the Red Craig ; and a party from the Troop climbed Mount Keen on Thursday, the nth. Second-class badges were gained by three Scouts, and inspection was won by the Beaver Patrol. The midges, unexpectedly, gave little or no trouble.

The 9th Troop camped on another new site, near Loch Davan. This site, they dedare, is the best they have yet seen, and it will be long before any of them forget this camp. Several of the Troop learnt to swim, and some vigorous games of " touch rugger " were played in the shallow waters of the Loch. One day the Troop climbed Morven, completing the climb in the middle of a thick mist with the aid of map and compass. During this climb, it is worth mentioning, practical use was made of a knowledge of the Morse code to communicate with a party of the Troop that had gone on ahead—an event which would seem to indicate that Scout training is not, after all, of a purely academic character. One night the Troop were visited by the x7th, who were camping near. Another night some of both Troops assisted in subduing a moorland fire near Cambus O'May. The 9th Pack also held a camp under Cubmaster Alexander S. Robertson at Craigton, near Banchory.

The 17th Troop spent their summer camp on the banks of Loch Kinnord for the fourth time in succession, and every one of them is more decided than ever that this is the best of all camping spots. Here again scout work had to take second place : the only thing possible was " dooking." The Parents' Day was the warmest ever known, and brought out a countless swarm of parents. The Troop visited the 9th, who were not far off, and spent the evening with them in games of rounders and tennikoit, finishing with a combined camp fire. In the games the 9th won, but the 17th would, indubitably, have been avenged had they met the 9th on their own ground.

Twice, however, rain forced the 9th to put off the return visit. Several of the older Scouts made their first class hikes and were blessed with good weather to do so. The Patrol hikes were somewhat spoilt by occasional showers, but Culbkan was climbed, and the 1st Troop, at Glentanar, as well as the 9th, at Loch Davan, were visited. The 17th Pack, under Cubmaster J. Scott MacLauchlan, camped again at New Kinnord, on Dinnet Moor.

During the summer the usual hikes were made by various parties of members of the Troop, Loch Shin, Kyle of Tongue, and Skye being the most distant spots visited.

The 58th Troop held their summer camp at Finzean, by the River Feugh.

As none of the Scouters of the Troop was able to attend, the Troop were indebted to two former Scouters, Edgar B. Bright and Alexander P. Milne, for managing their camp. Two excursions were held, one up Clochnaben, and the other to Peter Hill, by way of the valley of the Avon. Though several of the Troop could not swim when they arrived at the camp, yet by the end everyone was able to swim. The Pack held a camp, under Cubmaster Arthur Kellas, at Haddow. This year makes a record in Cub camps,

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for never before have three of the four Packs camped in the same year , and, for that reason, it was especially fortunate that the first week of July was so fine.

Eight members of the 9th Troop attended the Scottish Scout Rally, held in Perth at the end of June, and had the honour of carrying the Aberdeen County Flag there. One member, P.L. J. Gordon Dawson, attended the World Jamboree at Godollo. After the summer camp half a dozen members spent some days at the new Aberdeen Scouts' camping-ground at Maryculter.

There they made themselves useful by preparing part of the ground for a Scouters' Training Camp, held at the end of August, of which two members of the Troop were on the Staff. The camping season closed on the September Holiday with another week-end camp at Maryculter—a very wet camp but enjoyed none the less. During the summer an unusual amount of first and second class badge work was done, and no fewer than seven second-class badges were completed during the summer camp.

Last year the 9th Troop raised some E3oo by their Café Chantant and Concert. This money, and more, yet to be raised, is now being spent on the erection of new headquarters in Anderson Drive, near Norfolk Road.

Work on the building began in the middle of November.

The event of the winter will be the Café Chantant and Concert which, this year, is to be held by the t7th Troop in the School Buildings on 9th December. As soon as School recommenced, the Troop started in earnest to prepare for the great event. Name cards, toffee, and such like were sold, and fretwork calendars, rope brushes, bowls, and all sorts of weird contraptions were manufactured for the Scout Stall. Although still happy in what has been their home for the last eight years, they fear that the expansion of the city's housing scheme will molest their ancient solitary reign and compel them to seek pastures new. They hope on the 9th of December to raise something substantial that will help towards the building of new headquarters.

We have to congratulate Mr. Robert L. Milne, late Scoutmaster of the 9th Troop, on his promotion to Commissioner, and we are particularly glad that his district is the Western District, which includes the four School Troops. He resigned command of the 9th at the end of June, after being in command for two years. One of his former Assistants says :" Robbie's resignation will be a severe blow to the Troop, for he was the nearest approach to the perfect S.M. that the Troop is ever likely to have. His efficiency was shown when he ran our last Cafe Chantant with such success that the takings made all previous records look small : that this was not done at the expense of the scoutiness of the Troop is proved by the Troop's success in winning the County Flag. But Robbie was more than efficient : he had what many efficient people lack—any amount of tact and a personality which at once made him popular with the Troop and enabled him not only to hold each individual member but to make them all pull together successfully. We are all delighted that he is to be our Commissioner." His place as Scoutmaster has been filled by A.S.M. Norman S. Clark, to whom we offer our congratulations. We offer them also to A.S.M. Harold A. Nelson on his promotion to Scoutmaster of the 38th Troop. Although the youngest of the A.S.M.s of the 9th, he had already shown that he was fully capable of managing a Troop of his own. A.S.M. James Donald, who acted as Scoutmaster for most of last year but is unable to continue to do so this winter, has, fortunately for the Troop, remained as A.S.M. Two Cubmasters have left us, Miss Margaret Watt and Mr. Arthur Kellas, both of whom could very ill be spared. Miss Watt had been Cubmaster of the 1st Pack for nearly a year, but, having been transferred to another school in the city, was obliged to resign, to the disappointment of us all. Mr. Kellas had been Cubmaster of the 38th for a year and had taken the Pack to its first camp. Two such capable, enthusiastic, and trustworthy Cubmasters are hard to replace.

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the r7th Troop, but as yet no permanent successor to Miss Watt has been appointed. We are indebted, meanwhile, to Mr. Robert Rennie, late of the 19th Pack, for carrying on the 1st Pack during the vacancy.

Both the 9th and the 17th Troops are well filled at present: the 9th, in fact, now numbers fifty and is definitely closed to recruits in the meantime.

The 1st and 38th are both under strength and would be glad of a few new members. The following promotions are announced :—xst Troop: Seconds Robert Semple and Basil Brocks to Patrol-Leaders ; Scouts Maxwell Scott and John Watt to Seconds. 9th Troop : P.L. Ian K. Hay to A.S.M. ; Seconds J. R. S. Innes and Douglas Mackinnon to P.L.s ; Scouts Norman Wilson, William Gibb and John Howitt to Seconds. r7th Troop : Seconds Ernest Strachan and Colin Angus to P.L.s ; Scouts Ronald Macgregor and Ian Seggie to Seconds. 38th Troop: P.L.s Robert Campbell and Douglas Dempster to A.S.M.s ; Seconds David Coull, Alan Hutchison, William Boyd, and A. A. M. Ducat to Patrol-Leaders.

The Library.

Borrowing has not been so good during the first ten weeks of this session as it was at the same periods in the three previous sessions. Altogether 1,126 books have been borrowed : of these, the Lower School has borrowed 496, Lower IVA being the Class in School making most use of the Library (297). In the Middle School IA (107), and Is (99) are borrowing well, while IIIA (39) and all the Its (v) are borrowing moderately well. The whole Upper School is failing to take full advantage of the excellent collection of books that is available.

A good friend to the Library in the past, Mr. Louis Wilson, has, during the term, added a series of volumes of great use.

Admission to Rubislaw Field.

At a recent meeting of the Executive of the F.P. Club it was decided that in connection with matches arranged by the Rugby Football Section the charges for admission to Rubislaw Field should be : Gentlemen, Is. ; Ladies, 6d. It should be pointed out that the card of membership of the F.P. Athletic Association gives free admission to Rubislaw Field on all occasions except when the ground has been let or rented for any special match, and that all members of the F.P. Club are eligible for membership of the Association whether they are or are not active members of one of the Athletic Sections.

The subscription for membership of the Association for the year from 1st October to 3oth September is, in the case of members of the Club who are not members of a Section affiliated to the Association, 3s., and in the case of members of an affiliated Section, is. 6d.

The Secretary of the Athletic Association is D. P. COCHRAN, Royal Exchange Assurance, 15o Union Street, Aberdeen.

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the 17th Troop, but as yet no permanent successor to Miss Watt has been appointed. We are indebted, meanwhile, to Mr. Robert Rennie, late of the 19th Pack, for carrying on the ist Pack during the vacancy.

Both the 9th and the x7th Troops are well filled at present : the 9th, in fact, now numbers fifty and is definitely dosed to recruits in the meantime.

The 1st and ;8th are both under strength and would be glad of a few new members. The following promotions are announced :-1st Troop: Seconds Robert Semple and Basil Brocks to Patrol-Leaders ; Scouts Maxwell Scott and John Watt to Seconds. 9th Troop : P.L. Ian K. Hay to A.S.M. ; Seconds J. R. S. Innes and Douglas Mackinnon to P.L.s ; Scouts Norman Wilson, William Gibb and John Howitt to Seconds. 17th Troop : Seconds Ernest Strachan and Colin Angus to P.L.s ; Scouts Ronald Macgregor and Ian Seggie to Seconds. 38th Troop: P.L.s Robert Campbell and Douglas Dempster to A.S.M.s ; Seconds David Coull, Alan Hutchison, William Boyd, and A. A. M. Ducat to Patrol-Leaders.

The Library.

Borrowing has not been so good during the first ten weeks of this session as it was at the same periods in the three previous sessions. Altogether 1,126 books have been borrowed : of these, the Lower School has borrowed 496, Lower IVA being the Class in School making most use of the Library (297). In the Middle School IA (107), and Is (99) are borrowing well, while IIIA (39) and all the Its (47) are borrowing moderately well. The whole Upper School is failing to take full advantage of the excellent collection of books that is available.

A good friend to the Library in the past, Mr. Louis Wilson, has, during the term, added a series of volumes of great use.

Admission to Rubislaw Field.

At a recent meeting of the Executive of the F.P. Club it was decided that in connection with matches arranged by the Rugby Football Section the charges for admission to Rubislaw Field should be : Gentlemen, is. ; Ladies, 6d. It should be pointed out that the card of membership of the F.P. Athletic Association gives free admission to Rubislaw Field on all occasions except when the ground has been let or rented for any special match, and that all members of the F.P. Club are eligible for membership of the Association whether they are or are not active members of one of the Athletic Sections.

The subscription for membership of the Association for the year from 1st October to 3oth September is, in the case of members of the Club who are not members of a Section affiliated to the Association, 3s., and in the case of members of an affiliated Section, is. 6d.

The Secretary of the Athletic Association is D. P. COCHRAN, Royal Exchange Assurance, 15o Union Street, Aberdeen.

(Telephone No. 2322.)

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The Former Pupils' Club.

Founded 1893.

President : Lord Provost HENRY ALEXANDER, M.A. Vice-President and Chairman of Executive : DOUGLAS P. COCHRAN. Secretary and Treasurer : THEODORE WATT, M.A., The Rosemount Press, Aberdeen.

Secretaries of Centres : London Centre—D. M. WRIGHT, 16 Piccadilly, W.I. [The Centre comprises, without additional subscription, all Members of the Club resident in London, and within a radius of 5o miles.]

Glasgow Centre—H. G. EDWARDS, 43 Marlborough Ave., W. 1.

[The Centre comprises, without additional subscription, all Members of the Club resident in the South-Western Counties of Scotland—west of a line drawn from Stirling to Carlisle.]

Edinburgh Centre.—J. S. ABERNETHY, LL.B., W.S., 6 Hill Street.

[The Centre comprises, without additional subscription, all Members of the Club resident in Scotland south of the Tay and east of a line drawn from Perth to Stirling, and from Stirling to Carlisle.]

Secretaries of Sections : Cricket Section—JOHN M. HENDRY, 15 Richmondhill Place.

Hockey Section—NV. M. TODD, 4 Deemount Terrace.

Rugby Section—D. P. COCHRAN, 150 Union Street.

Tennis Section—WILLIAM C. GERRARD, 171 Forest Avenue.

Dramatic Section—MAURICE CRAMB, z8 Louisville Avenue.

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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.

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The Club Consuls.

A considerable number of changes has occurred since the list of Consuls was last printed in the Magazine. In the course of time there are bound to be changes : in some cases there have been resignations, and it has not always been possible to fill the vacancies immediately; in other cases Consuls have themselves received new appointments and have been good enough to undertake Consular duties in their new spheres ; in one or two cases entirely new appointments have been made.

Captain JOHN WILLIAM TAYLOR (1906-I I), who was formerly H.M. Vice-Consul at Prague, has recently been promoted to be H.M. Consul at Vienna, and consequently his Club Consulship has been transferred from Czechoslovakia to Austria.

In Victoria there is at present a vacancy, as THOMAS G. WATSON (1896-99), Melbourne, has now left Australia. He found the duties light, but he says that the little he did do, gave him intense satisfaction.

ALAN REID (191I -14), who has been in the service of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China for a good many years, latterly in Hongkong, has recently been transferred to the Karachi office of the Bank. He has consequently resigned the Consulship at Hongkong and been appointed to represent the Club at Karachi, in the Sind Division of Bombay.

In Assam, DOUGLAS CHRISTIAN FRASER (1907-17) has been appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William H. G. Hally. He has been out there for over ten years..

For the first time there is now a Club representative in Portuguese East Africa. This IS FRANK BRUCE F. DUGUID (1919-26), who is stationed at Beira. He hopes to get into touch with any F.P. who may be passing through that port en route for the hinterland of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland.

It is expected that before long it will be possible to announce a number of other new appointments.

List of the Consuls.

AUSTRIA :—Captain JOHN WILLIAM TAYLOR (1906-11), M.B.E., M.A., His Britannic Majesty's Consul, Vienna.

AUSTRALIA (Victoria) :—Vacant.

CANADA (Manitoba) :—JOHN CHARLES MURRAY LIGERTWOOD (1903-06), C.A., c/o Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., zot Huron and Erie Building, Winnipeg.

CANADA (British Columbia) :—WILLIAM ERNEST MILNE (1881-9o), 347 Water Street, Vancouver.

CANADA (Nova Scotia) :—GEORGE MACKENZIE WOOD (1880188z), c/o Messrs. Joseph Wood & Co., Central Wharf; Halifax.

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CANADA (Ontario) :—ROBERT FLEMING (1891-98), C.E., c/o Messrs.

Wood, Fleming & Co., Royal Bank Buildings, Toronto.

CEYLON :—DAVID SCOTT (1886-94). At present resident at 36 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen, CHINA (Hongkong) :—Vacant.

CHINA (Shanghai) :—GEORGE ALSTON BUYERS (1906-08), C.A., a Canton Road, Shanghai.

CHINA (Tientsin) :—JOHN CAMERON TAYLOR (1904-06), c/o Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Tientsin. [At present home on leave.]

EGYPT :— Vacant.

F.M.S. (Negri Sembilan) :—DONALD TRENCH SKEEN (18951899), M.B., Seremban.

F.M.S. (Perak) :—WILLIAM CLARK WARRACK (1898-1909), Chumor Estate, Chemor, Perak.

F.M.S. (Selangor) :—COLIN HAY MILLER (1900-04), Lenggeng Estate, Semenyib P.O. FIJI :-KENNETH JAMES ALLARDYCE (1894-95), Nabavatu.

GERMANY :—JAMES GORDON DANIELSON (1896-1901), Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Monckeberg Strasse z7, Hamburg, 1.

INDIA (Assam) :—DOUGLAS CHRISTIAN FRASER (1907-x7), Lukwah Tea Estate, Lukwah P.O., Upper Assam.

INDIA (Bengal) :—DAVID INGLIS DUFF (1915-16), c/o Messrs.

Barry & Co., z Fairlie Place, Calcutta.

INDIA (Bombay) :—JOHN HALL RITCHIE (1903-09), M.A., B.Sc., c/o Yacht Club, Bombay.

INDIA (Central Provinces) :—CECIL ARTHUR GRANT SAVIDGE (1913-24), c/o Secretariat, C.P. Government, Nagpur.

INDIA (Madras) :—BERTRAM JOHN A. G. BARR (1909-13), Mercantile Bank of India, Post Box No. it, Madras.

INDIA (Rajputana) :—GEORGE TAYLOR SIMPSON (1910-20), Jodhpur State Railway, Jodhpur.

INDIA (Sind) :—ALAN REID (1911-14), Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Karachi.

MEXICO :—ALEXANDER and ROBERT YOUNG (1914-21), d/.

William Young & Co., S.A., za San Jeronimo, 31, Mexico, D.F., Mexico.

NIGERIA (Northern Provinces) :—CAMPBELL GRANT McKENZIE (1910-12), c/o The Secretary, N.P., Kaduna.

NIGERIA (Southern Provinces) :—Dr. WILLIAM EDWARD GLOVER (1896-98), c/o The Principal Medical Officer, Lagos.

POLAND :—JAMES BRYCE CLARKE (1896-99), Anglo-Polish Bank, Warsaw.

PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA :-FRANK BRUCE F. DUGUID (1919-26), c/o Messrs. Allen, Wack and Shepherd, Ltd., Beira.

SOUTH AFRICA (Cape Province) :—Vacant.

SOUTH AFRICA (Natal) :—DAVID STRACHAN (1893-1902), 19 Hulston's Buildings, Durban.

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SOUTH AFRICA (Transvaal) :—JOHN EWAN HENDERSON (1884-87), 24 Saxonwold Drive, Saxonwold, Johannesburg (P.O. Box 4466 ; Telephone—Rosebank 951).

SOUTH AMERICA (The Argentine) :—REGINALD J. G. WILSON (1905-11), Anglo-South American Bank, Buenos Aires.

SOUTH AMERICA (Brazil) :—A. BAIN MACKIE (1896-1904), Royal Bank of Canada, Caixa do Correio No. 300, Rio de Janeiro.

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS (Penang) :—JOHN RHYS DANSON (1897-1903), Municipal Office, Penang.

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS (Singapore) :—JOHN IVO DAWSON (1900-04), c/o Messrs. Guthrie & Co., Singapore.

SUDAN :-JAMES LORIMER SOUPER (1898-1909), The Gordon Memorial College, P.O. Box z86, Khartoum.

SUMATRA :—EDWARD PERCY BARNETT (1895-1903), The Bandar Sumatra Rubber Co., Ltd., Bandar Pinang, P.O., Galang, E.C., Sumatra.

UGANDA :—GRAEME GEORGE SUTHERLAND (1903-09), Mengo Planters' Ltd., P.O. Box 19, Kampala.

UNITED STATES (New York) :—THOMAS B. G. HENDERSON (1894-1900), Messrs. Lybrand, Ross Bros. and Montgomery, 90 Broad Street, New York.

WEST INDIES (Tobago) :—KENNETH REID (1901-04), King's Bay. WEST INDIES (Trinidad) :—ARCHIBALD YOUNG (1885-93), c/o Messrs. Alston & Co., Ltd., Port of Spain.

[Consuls are requested to inform the Secretary of the Club of changes in their addresses.]

The School Boarding House.

The Fifth Annual General Meeting of the Aberdeen Grammar School F.P. Club Boarding House Co., Ltd., was held in the Registered Office of the Company, 7 Golden Square, Aberdeen, on loth October, 1933, Mr. Edward W. Watt, M.A., Chairman of the Company, presiding. The report stated that the financial results of the year's working had again been satisfactory, the average number of boys in residence during the year 1932-33 having been 32. There was a considerable increase this session, however, the number at present in the House having risen to 37. In view of the increased demand for accommodation and the desirability of improving the common-room, bathroom, and lavatory accommodation, the Directors some time ago decided to add a wing to the Boarding House. A substantial part of the cost of this work, the report stated, could be met out of the Company's existing resources, and satisfactory arrangements had been made for financing the balance. The work was begun at the beginning of last June, and considerable progress has been made. The extension is not expected to be ready for full use until after the Summer Holidays next year, but the House will then be capable of taking up to 5o boarders, and the accommodation available will be of the most modem character, and the whole working of the House will be considerably simplified. In connection with the extension scheme it has been necessary to make alterations in the existing House, and the Directors' proposal to provide a substantial sum out of revenue towards the cost of this part of the alterations was approved.

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The profit for the year, after allowing for depreciation, . £502 3 I . . . . . . amounted to to which had to be added the amount carried forward at 31st . .

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The London Centre.

During the coming winter season the London Centre is arranging to hold a series of meetings on the lines of previous years. These take the form of Dinners, followed by a short lecture or a musical programme. These functions have been extremely well supported in the past, and another successful season is confidently looked forward to by the Committee.

The Annual Dinner is to be held in the Hotel Victoria, Edward VII Rooms, Northumberland Avenue, W.C. a, on Thursday, 7th December, at 7 for 7.3o p.m. The guests on this occasion will be Sir Alexander Roger and Lady Roger, and Sir James Donald and Lady Donald, the past and present Presidents of the London Gordonians. A splendid musical programme has been arranged, the artistes including the Western Brothers (the popular Wireless Entertainers) and Miss Kirsty MacLennan, the wellknown Scottish and Gaelic singer. Ladies are invited to the Annual Dinner, and a very hearty welcome is extended to the wives and other friends of the members.

For Thursday, 25th January, 1934, an informal Dinner is being arranged, and following on it, an address on Lighthouses will be delivered by Mr. Chas. W. Glass, A.M.I.C.E., of Trinity House. The lecture will, undoubtedly, be a most interesting one.

In conjunction with the London Gordonians, a joint Dinner is proposed for Friday, 23rd February, 1934, and a special committee representing the Centre is to meet representatives of the London Gordonians next month to make the final arrangements for the function.

Members of the Club taking up residence in the London area are requested to communicate with the Secretary, Mr. D. M. Wright, 16 Piccadilly, London, W. I, who will send them a copy of the rules of the Centre, and a list of the London Members of the Club.

The Glasgow Centre.

The Annual General Meeting of the Glasgow Centre was held on Tuesday, 31st October, Mr. J. Murray Tomory, President of the Centre, in the chair.

There was a fair attendance of members.

The Committee's report stated that the membership of the Centre stood at 53, and that until an improvement in the industrial situation brought more F.P.s to the district, there was little probability of an increase in numbers.

The finances of the Centre continue satisfactory, the season having closed 7s. 3d. with a balance in hand of Mr. Henry G. Edwards was unanimously re-appointed Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, and the following Committee was appointed—Messrs.

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George Lawrence, Douglas C. Sangster, G. A. Murray Saunders, H. L. Watson, and Dr. Keith R. T. Matthew.

The date of the Annual Dinner of the Centre is Friday, 19th January, 1934, when the President of the Club, Lord Provost Alexander, will be the principal guest.

Any F.P.s coming to the Glasgow area are invited to communicate with the Hon. Secretary of the Centre, Henry G. Edwards, 43 Marlborough Avenue, Glasgow, W. 1.

The Edinburgh Centre.

The Annual General Meeting of the Edinburgh Centre was held on 3oth October—Lord Mackay, Vice-President, occupying the chair. In succession to Lord Alness, who had resigned office, Lord Mackay was elected President; Rev. Dr. George Lawson was elected Vice-President, and Mr. J. S. Abernethy, W.S., was re-appointed Honorary Secretary and Treasurer. Messrs. J. A. Lillie, K.C. ; Eric R. Birkott, C.A. ; J. L. Duncan, J. McDonald Walker, and Rev. P. D. Lawrence were elected members of the Committee.

In expressing appreciation of Lord Alness's services to the Centre, Lord Mackay said they were very fortunate in having, at the time of the formation of the Centre, an old Grammar School boy as Lord Justice-Clerk. As President for the past two years Lord Alness had acted very energetically on behalf of the Centre. He had been an excellent chairman, his presence at meetings had always been an attraction and would be missed by other associations as well as their own.

Lord Mackay also expressed appreciation of Dr. C. H. Milne's services on the Committee.

It was unanimously agreed that, in recognition of his services as President of the Centre, Lord Alness be invited to a complimentary dinner to be given by the Centre in his lordship's honour. Lord Alness is to accept the compliment, and arrangements are being made for the dinner to take place in Edinburgh on Saturday, z7th January, at 6.3o for 7 p.m.

Members of the Club residing outside the Edinburgh area who wish to be present are requested to communicate with the Secretary of the Centre (J. S. Abernethy, W.S., 6 Hill Street, Edinburgh, 2), before 31st December.

It is hoped that every member of the Centre will make a point of being present on this occasion.

Informal luncheon meetings will be held in the Balmoral Restaurant on the three Mondays, 11 th December, 22nd January, and 26th February.

Members will be circularized regarding these.

F.P. Rugby Football Section.

In the March issue of the Magazine, F.P.s had just qualified for the final of the North and Midlands Cup Tie against Waid Academy F.P.s. This game was played at Forthill, Dundee, on 25th March, and F.P.s ran out the worthy winners to the tune of 31 points to 8, thus becoming the holders of the Cup once more, on the 4oth anniversary of F.P.s entering the Scottish Rugby Union.

On Saturday, tat April, F.P.s entered two teams for the seven-a-side competition held at Seafield—" A" Team: N. S. Cowan, J. A. Innes, G. W. Bowes, I. L. Smith : R. D. Bain, J. Trail, J. S. MacLachlan. " B " Team: J. G. Fyfe, E. H. Still, R. E. M. Paterson, E. B. Bright ; L. Middleton, G. R. Burns, G. D. Bisset.

F.P.'s " A " Team came up against Dundee High School F.P.s in the first round, and beat them by t6 points to 8. In the second round, however, this team fell to 'Varsity " A ", the score being 11 points to 8.

In the first round, the " B " Team was drawn against Gordonians " A ", and were beaten only by the narrow margin of 5 points to nil. Gordonians reached the final against Panmure, who won the Cup, so that the performance of the " B " Team was very creditable.

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There is little doubt that F.P.s, although not making too good a show on paper up to the time of writing, are gradually coming back to and should improve upon last season's form, as the material at hand is, if anything, better.

So far as the supply of players is concerned the School is undoubtedly extending its whole-hearted support, and F.P.s are doing their utmost to justify this move.

The membership this season is practically the same as that of the past two, viz. :—Playing members approximately 6o, and total membership just over too, which is very satisfactory.

The Rubislaw Field Pavilion is still utilized on Thursday evenings for combined training, discussion, and social purposes—activities which are progressing favourably.

A further activity of the Section is a Gym. Evening, which is held every Tuesday at the School, under the able supervision of Mr. Lawrie, to whom the Section is much indebted for the interest he is taking. The class is without a doubt the most successful of any one of its type which has been held in recent years.

F.P.s' contributions to the Trials, to date, are as follows :— Local Trial on 21st October, at Rubislaw—R. D. Bain, E. K. Cruickshank, J. A. Innes, J. S. MacLachlan, L. Middleton, J. I. Morrice, J. B. Thomson, J. Trail.

North v. Midlands, on 4th November, at St. Andrews—R. D. Bain, J. A. Innes, J. S. MacLachlan, J. I. Morrice. Reserve—E. K. Cruickshank.

North v. South, on 18th November, at Dunfermline—R. D. Bain, J. S. MacLachlan, J. I. Morrice.

Results since issue of last " Magazine." icst XV. 1933.

Cup Final—v. Waid Academy F.P.s, at Dundee . . . v. Aberdeenshire, at Rubislaw . . . v. Whitecraigs, at Rubislaw . . v. Gordonians, at Seafield . . . . . . v. Panmure, at Dundee . . v. Engineers, at Rubislaw . . . . v. Aberdeen University, at King's „ 1I. v. Dundee High School F.P.s, at Rubislaw .

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1st XV Matches.

23rd September, 1933.—v. Whitecraigs, at Rubislaw. F.P.s: I. J. Stewart; A. G. Nicol Smith, S. W. Wood, Dr. D. S. Cochran, J. B. Thomson • C. W. France and I. L. Smith • R. D. Bain, J. Trail, J. S. MacLachlan, J. I. Morrice, L. Middleton, W. P. Smith, J. E. Bothwell, E. W. M. Watt.

Whitecraigs kicked off in glorious weather, and scrummaging followed in the F.P. half, until Trail burst through and took play downfield. Trail and Bain, in a burst from the line-out, put the Whitecraigs' line in danger, but a free kick relieved matters for the visitors. F.P.'s " threes" were having plenty of the ball, but bad handling prevented a score. From a scrum the ball went along the line to the Whitecraigs' wing three-quarter, who scored a good try. The kick at goal failed. Prior to this, Cochran had retired with a leg injury, and MacLachlan was withdrawn from the pack to take his place. Half-time—F.P.s, Nil ; Whitecraigs, 3 points (I try).

F.P.s were keeping up the pressure, but good defence by the Whitecraigs' backs kept them out. A sudden burst by France and Middleton resulted in Watt touching down. The same player failed with an easy kick at goal.

A long dribble saw Bain at the visitors' line, but he just failed to cross the line. A period of play in the Whitecraigs' "twenty-five" saw Smith burst over for a good score, after several attempts had been held up on the line. Result—F.P.s, 6 points (z tries) ; Whitecraigs, 3 points (I try).

7th October.—v. Gordonians, at Seafield. F.P.s: I. J. Stewart; A. G. Nicol Smith, I. L. Smith, J. A. Innes, J. B. Thomson •' C. W. France and E. K. Cruickshank • R. D. Bain, J. Trail, J. I. Morrice, J. S. MacLachlan, J. E. Bothwell, L. Middleton, E. W. M. Watt, F. G. D. Smith.

End-to-end play prevailed for some time until a penalty taken by Morrice took play to the opponents' " twenty-five," where Inns nearly got over.

Another free kick to F.P.s saw Imes miss the bar by inches. F.P.s continued to press, but owing to the wet ball, the attempts of the backs were nullified.

F.P.s were not having the best of it in the set scrums, but Gordonians' backs were not making the most of their chances. A long kick by Innes was followed up by France, who almost got over after beating three men in his run through. Steady rainfall now made handling very difficult. Gordonian forwards dribbled the ball up to the F.P. " twenty-five " and, when it was heeled, a dropped goal was just missed by a narrow margin, the ball hitting the bar. The rebound was, however, gathered, and a try resulted.

The kick at goal failed. Morrice took play to the other end from a free kick, but Innes, after taking the ball well, failed with an attempt to drop a goal.

Half-time—Gordonians, 3 points (t try) ; F.P.s, Nil. A raid by Gordonian forwards on the resumption was just repelled in time by F.P.s, who got possession and took the ball to the other end. The game, owing to the state of the ball, had resolved itself into a forward battle, and it took F.P.s all their time to hold their own. During the last quarter of an hour, F.P. forwards were making great efforts to break through, to at least square the match, but Gordonians held out. Result—Gordonians, 3 points (I try) ; F.P.s, Nil.

F.P. Cricket Section.

On the whole the Section had a satisfactory season in 1933.

The 1st XI played eleven Grade games, winning five and losing six.

Four of the defeats were by margins of ten or fewer runs, and only twice was the team really outplayed.

We were ousted from the Cup competition in the second round by Gordonians, after a close game in weather entirely unsuitable for cricket.

The znd XI played games regularly with other clubs, but towards the end of the season it became more difficult to raise two complete elevens.

It is hoped that new members of the Club from the School elevens will join the Cricket Section in season 1934, and help to maintain the standard expected of F,P, cricket teams.

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The following is a list of the batting and bowling averages for season 1 933 :—

J. L. Conner .

E. M. Anderson O. H. R. Still .

J. S. MacLachlan J. R. Tocher . .

J. Trail .

J. A. Donald .

J. M. Hendry .

J. L. Bruce • G. P. Marr .

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J. A. Donald G. P. Marr J. G. Fyfe J. M. Hendry

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F.P. Hockey Section.

At the beginning of the present season the following office-bearers were elected :—Hon. President, Mr. D. M. Andrew, M.A. ; Hon. Vice-Presidents, Messrs. D. P. Cochran, A. T. Cruickshank, D. W. Duthie, J. J. Williamson, W. N. Stewart, J. Aitken, J. R. Donald, and J. E. Wilson ; Captain of ist XI, C. Maclennan ; Captain of and XI, I. Thomson.

The prospects of the xst XI for the season are very bright, as the team with one or two exceptions is the same as that which finished last season so strongly. Perhaps the most notable absentees are N. Munro, goalkeeper, and G. H. McCombie, right back. Their places, however, have been well filled by E. K. Morrison and J. H. G. Ross respectively.

In A. Michie and A. Fraser, the two newcomers to the forward line, we have been fortunate in securing a pair of real goal-getters.

The and XI, reinforced by a number of new members, also promises to have a good season.

The results of games played by the 1st XI to the time of writing have been, with one exception, very satisfactory, viz.:— . . Won-4-3 v. 'Varsity . Won-2-o . v. Aberdeen v. Depot Gordons . Won-9-o v. Gordon's College . Won-4-o v. Ruthrieston F.P.s . Lost—I-4 In our opening fixture against Aberdeen, played in very unpleasant weather, we took a long time to settle down, but managed to secure the victory by 2 goals scored in the second half by J. L. Bruce.

Our next game, with Gordon's College, was rather one-sided, although, in the first half especially, the College put up a good fight. We eventually ran out winners by 4 goals to nil.

Our defeat by Ruthrieston F.P.s was a .great disappointment, as we had fully as much of the play as the opposition. Our forwards, however, failed near goal, and Ruthrieston, thanks to the opportunism of theirs, won by 4-1.

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We redeemed ourselves, however, the following week against 'Varsity by winning a high-scoring game by 4 goals to 3. In spite of losing an early goal, the F.P.s retaliated strongly and led 3-I at half-time. Although the 'Varsity succeeded in equalising, the F.P.s secured yet another goal and the victory.

The game against the Depot Gordon Highlanders was much too one-sided to be enjoyable. The F.P.s secured a comfortable lead early in the game, and by adding to it at regular intervals, finished up winners by 9 goals to nil.

The znd XI has also done quite well, having won one, drawn two, and lost one of the four games played to date.

It is hoped that when the players settle down in their positions, the number of wins will increase considerably.

As we are attempting to field a 3rd XI, any F.P. wishing to join should communicate as soon as possible with the secretary, W. M. Todd, 4 Deemount Terrace, Aberdeen. No F.P. should hesitate to join because he has never played before, and most newcomers will be assured of getting a game fairly regularly.

F.P. Dramatic Section.

To Members of the F.P. Club in Aberdeen.

This Section is presenting Patrick Hamilton's " Rope " in the School Hall on Friday and Saturday, 2 znd and 23rd December. " Rope," a three-act play much after the style of " The Speckled Band," achieved an enormous success on the London stage four years ago. We chose " Rope " because we knew you would like it, and we have selected a very strong cast to present it. Give us your support and we guarantee you a thoroughly enjoyable evening's entertainment, for the play is full of witty dialogue and tense dramatic situations! Your physical well-being has also been carefully considered, and if you book in sufficient numbers, more comfortable seating accommodation will be provided.

The Friday night is to be a Special F.P. Gala Night. It will be under the patronage of the President of the F.P. Club, Lord Provost Alexander, and it is hoped that all F.P.s in town will back up the Section and help to establish a third item in the Club's Annual programme. We have the " Dinner " and the " Ball " already—now we want to add the " Dramatic Night."

To save you the trouble of applying for tickets, vouchers are being sent out with this number of the Magazine. Full particulars are given in the letter from the Club Secretary. Please note that for the first two weeks booking is restricted to F.P.s. We are giving you the first chance because we believe you can fill the Hall for the two nights of the show.

The Section has spared neither time nor expense on the production.

We are going to make it an artistic and dramatic success : you must make it a financial and social success. If we do not clear our expenses we shall have to disband the Section, so please give us your support and make our, or rather your, show an outstanding event of the Club year.

MAURICE CRAMB,

Hon. Set., Dramatic Section.

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List of New Members of the Club.

LIFE MEMBERS. Angus, William Rogie (1915-25), Ph.D., University College, Gower Street, London, W.C. x.

Bisset, Douglas Maitland (1901-08), c/o Messrs. Joseph Muir & Williams, Solicitors, St. George's Terrace, Perth, Western Australia.

Grant, John (1921-23), C.A., Bank House, Methlick.

Grant, William, Jun. (5923-25), Bank House, Methlick.

Harper, Francis Gordon (5925-28), Forestry Department, Oda, Central Province, Gold Coast, West Africa.

Kynoch, Douglas John (x908-11), M.C., L.R.C.P.S., L.D.S., 4 Rubislaw Place, Aberdeen.

Rennie, James Cooper (1953-58), 53 Cradock Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Young, Robert William (5954-25), Fuschia Bank, Cults, Aberdeenshire.

ORDINARY Baxter, Robert George Leslie (193033), Ugie Bank, Oldmeldrum.

Bolton, George Wilson (5926-33), 72 Forest Avenue, Aberdeen.

Brown, Lyall (593i-33), Campfield House, Glassel.

Cahill, Robert Edward, Jun. (192433), 42. Forest Avenue, Aberdeen.

Calder, Charles Cumming (5925-33), 12 Desswood Place, Aberdeen.

Catto, William Stephen (5895-59oz), z3 India Street, Edinburgh.

Cowie, William Yule (5959-24), 365 Mid Street, Keith.

Craig, James (5922-3z), " St. James," 54 King's Gate, Aberdeen.

Fyfe, James Gilchrist (5922-32), 211 Forest Avenue, Aberdeen.

Gow, Thomas Wilson (5920-33), 56 Gladstone Place, Aberdeen.

Hay, Ian Kennedy (5920-33), 3 Albyn Terrace, Aberdeen.

Jordan, Leslie Robert Dixon (192433), Stoneywood House, Bucksburn.

Laird, John (1901-03), M.A., F.B.A., Powis Lodge, Old Aberdeen.

Lightbody, Alexander (5922-33), 13 Devonshire Road, Aberdeen.

Lillie, Hubert Jack (5 924-33), 44 Ashley Gardens, Aberdeen.

(1928-33), McIntosh, Murdoch 8 Lovat Road, Inverness.

MEMBERS. McLeod, Douglas James (1930-33), 593 Westbum Road, Aberdeen.

Meikle, John Cunningham (592 4-33), 54 Holywell Avenue, Monkseaton, Northumberland.

Meikle, Robert Coulson (1924-33), 54 Holywell Avenue, Monkseaton, Northumberland.

Milne, Alexander (1929-33), 21 Bath Street, Stonehaven.

Morrison, John James Todd (192832), 365 Great Western Road, Aberdeen.

Nicholson, Francis William (1927-30), c/o Messrs. Fred. Leyland & Co., Ltd., Liverpool.

Paterson, Henry Knox (5920-33), 48 Richmondhill Place, Aberdeen.

Shepherd, William Black (x921-33), cio Black, III Willowbank Road, Aberdeen.

Smith, Frederick Alastair (5930-33), 5 Queen's Cross, Aberdeen.

Symon, Douglas Haig (1922-31), 55 Fonthill Road, Aberdeen.

Thomson, Ian Stuart (1926-33), To Ruthrieston Terrace, Aberdeen.

Watt, Charles Chamberlain McC. (1922-27), 5 St. Swithin Street, Aberdeen.

Wilson, Eric Cooper (1925-33), 57 Westbum Drive, Aberdeen.

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SUIT-CASE MAKER and LEATHER MERCHANT Has an excellent selection of Leather and Tools for

ART WORK AND GLOVE MAKING. LADIES' HANDBAGS. SCHOOL BAGS, CASES, AND FANCY GOODS.

FULL CHROME LEATHER COATS From 50/-.

Prices Moderate.

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Satisfaction Guaranteed.

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SHOP

11 BACK WYND, ABERDEEN Branch-19

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Confectionery Bakery Fresh Fruits Vegetables, Etc.

Branch Shops at CULTS, BALLATER, and BRAEMAR Telephones : Cults 28 ; Ballater 14 ; Braemar 12

Andrew Collie & Co. FAMILY GROCERS AND WINE MERCHANTS

269-271 UNION ST., ABERDEEN Telephones: CENTRAL 4800 (3 Lines)

W. LUMSDEN & SON 58 UNION STREET, ABERDEEN.

GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, ::

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WINES and SPIRITS, ALL

OF'

HIGHEST

QUALITY.

HAVANA CIGARS in Great Variety.

Telegrams: "TRAVELLED, ABERDEEN."

'PHONE 260.

ROBERTS (ABDN.) LTD. Cabinetmakers, Upholsterers, Carpet Warehousemen

RECOGNISED AS EASILY FIRST IN

FURNITURE VALUE Our enormously increasing business testifies to the popularity of our good class and dependable productions.

We employ a large staff of highly-skilled craftsmen, and You will their number is being steadily augmented. find our prices surprisingly low.

AS AN INVITATION, PLEASE ACCEPT THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO INSPECT OUR LARGE STOCK OF FURNITURE AND FURNISHINGS. NOTE ADDRESS:

419 Union Street, ABERDEEN

IRONMONGERY A LARGE AND VARIED STOCK ALWAYS ON HAND SHEETMETAL WORK A SPECIALITY

H. LEITH & SON 26 and 28 NETHERKIRKGATE Phone 259

ABERDEEN

ELLON STALL NEW MARKET, ABERDEEN Famed for Aberdeenshire

Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Poultry.

Honey—Clover and Heather (in combs or extracted) Also Jams, Jellies, and Marmalade

EGG GRADING MACHINE WORKING DAILY J. B. MILNE, Propr.

(ALL OUR OWN MAKE)

Tel. 746

SCHOOL OUTFITS tr%

ESTABLISHED 1844

BROGUES, HOUSE SHOES, GYM. SHOES FOOTBALL

BOOTS,

CRICKET

SHOES

JAMES LORIMER & SON BOOTMAKERS

16z UNION STREET Telephone No. 724

ABERDEEN TOWN COUNCIL - EDUCATION COMMITTEE.

ABERDEEN

GRAMMAR

SCHOOL

(FOUNDED PREVIOUS TO I2f6.)

Rector

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DAVID MIDDLETON ANDREW, M.A.

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

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

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

The situation of the School in the West end of the City is open and healthy. The Class-rooms are large, and the Grounds for Recreation include separate Playgrounds for Juniors and Seniors, Tennis Courts, and a field for Cricket and Football. There is also a Boarding House run in conjunction with the School.

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ABERDEEN HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. (ALBYN PLACE.) Head Mistress - Miss BEATRICE M. ROSE, M.A. (Aberd., Oxon.)

HIGH SCHOOL provides a liberal education for Girls from THE 5 to 18 years of age, and aims at fitting them for home life and for professions open to women.

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

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

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

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

Information as to Fees, Scholarships, Courses of Study, etc., at the Grammar School and High School for Girls is given in the School Prospectus, which may be had free on application to the Director of Education, Education Offices, 21 Union Terrace, or to the Rector or Head Mistress respectively.

Royal (Dick) Veterinary College EDINBURGH. Principal:

0. CHARNOCI{ BRADLEY, M.D., D.Sc., M.R.C.V.S. After attendance on Complete Courses of Instruction in this College, Students may proceed to the Examinations for the Diploma of Membership of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (M.R.C.V.S.), and for the Diploma in Veterinary State Medicine (D.V.S.M.).

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

The College being recognized as a Central Institution under the Education (Scotland) Act, 1908, Students arc eligible for Bursaries granted by Education Committees in Scotland.

A Copy of the College Calendar, containing particulars of Scholarships, Fellowships, etc., may be obtained on application to A. C. DOULL, C.A., A.S.A.A., Secretary and Treasurer.

RUGBY . ' . HOCKEY REGULATION GYM. SUITS ATHLETIC FOOTWEAR : : Specify " DUNLOP "

CAMPBELL & CO., 18 Bridge St. 'Phone 157.

ABERDEEN

Telegrams, " Rubber."

THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ABERDEEN. - OCTOBER TO MARCH. WINTER SESSION - APRIL TO JUNE. SUMMER SESSION Courses for B.Sc. (Agr.) Ordinary and Honours Degrees ; College Diploma in

Agriculture ; National Diploma in Agriculture ; Special Farmer's Course ; Diplomas in Dairying and Poultry-keeping; Planter's Certificate Course, etc.

Residential Course in Rural Domestic Economy for Girls at Craibstone.

Calendar giving full particulars of Courses of Instruction, Syllabus of Experimental Work, and particulars of advisory Work undertaken by the College; and prospectus of fraibstont School of Rural Domestic Economy, may be had on application to

THE SECRETARY, 411 UNION STREET, ABERDEEN.

SAVINGS ESTABLISHED 1815

FUNDS Z10,000,000

-THE

ONLY WAY.

Ever since the days " when we were very young," most of us have had the pleasantly worrying feeling of being " hard up." There are so many things we could be doing with— " if only we could spare the money," we say.

They are things, we know, that would make life fuller, richer, more worth living; and we sigh as if they must for ever remain beyond our grasp. The truth is, that many now enjoying the blessings for which we sigh, once thought them unattainable too, until they decided to "save" for them.

An account with your local Savings Bank is the Open Sesame to many of life's richest pleasures.

HEAD OFFICE19 UNION TERRACE, ABERDEEN.

JAMES R. FIDDES, ACTUARY.

BRANCHES THROBGITOU I' THE CITY:AND CBE NTT.

TRUE VALUE IN BOYS' BETTER-GRADE FOOTWEAR MEANS

SAFETY FIRST! BECAUSE, Care should be taken in selecting FOOTWEAR for Growing Boys.

When you buy JOHN A. DUNN'S Footwear for Boys you're buying Satisfaction.

SATISFACTION in Fit, Style, Quality and Price.

BOY'S BOX-CALF SHOES, Oxford or Derby Shape.

Leather or Uskide Soles. Price, 8,'6 to 17, 9

EVERY PAIR FITTED WITH THE

AID OF OUR

X-RAY PEDOSCOPE

JOHN A. DUNN 46 UNION STREET

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ABERDEEN

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