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CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS. Portrait of Principal Patrick Dun, M.D. . . . Facing page 44 The Grammar School, on School lIill, ,757,863 . . 45 Portraits of Mr. Archibald G. Baxter, M.A. ; Mr. William Cunningham, M.A. ; Mr. William Christie, M.A. ; and Mr. John I. W. Milne, M.A. . . . . . 48 The Grammar School House . . . . . . 49 /I

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. A Message to Former Pupils . . . . . . Page a Suggestions for Benefactions . . . . . . . 3 A Defence of the Classical Sixth. By Eric Linklater, M.A. . . t, 4 Virgil, " Georgics," IV, 470-484. By W. J. G. Meldrum . . >, 7 . . . . . . . „ 8 Notes About Old Boys . . . . . . . ,, z8 Obituary . . . . . . . . . s, 35 . Marriages . . . • . Squash Rackets. By Alexander Gray, LL.B. >, 37 The Tercentenary of Dr. Patrick Dun's Bequest to the School. . . >, 41 . . . By W. Douglas Simpson, D.Litt. . . Four New Masters . . . . 48 • • • . . . . . ,, 49 The Boarding House on View . . . . . . . . Grammar School House . . . . Annual Meeting of the Boarding House Company . . ., 53 Juvenile Humours and Confusions. By W. M. H. . . . . . . . . 6o Life in Cuba. By D. K. C. . . . . ., 6x . . . An Interesting Memento 92

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Aberdeen Grammar School Magazine 5oth year: No. r28

Vol. XXXVIII

(New Series, .irsi year, No. rz9)

NOVEMBER 1934

No. I

The " Grammar SchoOl Magazine " is issued under the auspices of The Former Pupils' Club, in March, June, and November. AU 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.

A Message to Former Pupils. The beginning of the current Term coincided with a notable event in Aberdeen—the meeting of the British Association. The deliberations of this learned body did not, of course, concern the average boy, but no one could be insensible of the presence in our midst of so many distinguished men and of the efforts which were made to enhance the beauty of our City. School had its quota of interested and interesting visitors, one of whom, Professor Adams, Warden of All Souls' College, Oxford, was kind enough to speak to the boys in Hall. " The old order changeth " so far as the staff are concerned. Mr. Mackenzie Forbes and Mr. Speirs have retired and their successors have already approved themselves to the School. There are now eleven retired members of our staff, all of them resident in Aberdeen. In an institution which is normally well behaved, it was disappointing that so important an adjunct to our comforts as the School boiler refused to function and was condemned as unsafe. Paraffin stoves were the only available substitute, but they offend one at least of the senses and, as often as not, are rudely ejected from the classrooms by the more susceptible masters. Three new boilers of the latest pattern have been installed, and in about a week's time we shall make the pleasant transition from " Greenland's icy mountains to India's coral strand." I shall never be forgiven by the boys if I say nothing about the School XV. " The best team on record " is a claim which may be disputed by those whose memories reach further back. I venture to think, however, that there is solid justification for it, but I shall leave the question of corroborative evidence in

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the more competent hands of the Games Master. Anyhow, School is very definitely on the Rugby map of Scotland at the moment, and we should finish the season with a considerably enhanced prestige. Two interesting gifts have been made to the School recently. One—from the University Court—is a Silver Bowl which was presented by the Town Council of Aberdeen to Mr. (afterwards Sir) William D. Geddes, when he resigned the Rectorship of the School in 1855 to become Professor of Greek in the University. The other is a collection of native curios which belonged to the late Rev. W. Nicol Lawrence of British New Guinea, whose son, Mr. Harcourt J. Lawrence of Assam, is a Former Pupil of the School. These gifts are much appreciated, and I reiterate my previous appeal on behalf of the School Museum. The Boarding House has had its resident staff augmented by the appointment of Mr. A. J. M. Edwards, Lower School Master, as Assistant House Master. In view of the fact that a large proportion of the Boarders are Juniors, the liaison now established between the House and the Lower School should prove beneficial. The social occasion at the House last Friday to mark the visit of the President of the Club is doubtless referred to elsewhere in the Magazine. It is sufficient to say here that our visitors were much impressed by the appointments of the House and by the skill shown by the architect in carrying out his plan of reconstruction and extension. The Annual Dinner of the Club was most enjoyable. It was unfortunate that another function, the Dinner of the Incorporated Trades, robbed us of some regular attenders, but the more limited numbers created an atmosphere of intimacy which is lacking in a larger gathering. The speeches were commendably brief and unprecedentedly sparkling. The time limit imposed by the Committee worked well, and it should be continued in future years. The President was warmly received. His speech in responding to the toast of " The Club " was a happy blending of reminiscences and reflections on a business career which has been unusually wide in its contacts. Mr. Watson hopes to pay a visit to the School before his year of office expires. There are still five weeks of the Term to run, and if Christmas greetings seem premature as I write, they should be appropriately seasonable by the time the Magazine is in your hands. Last December I expressed the hope that better times were coming, and it is satisfactory to note that a measure of improvement has materialised. Meantime, School joins with me in wishing you good fortune and happiness throughout the coming year. D. M. A. i9th November, 1934.

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Suggestions for Benefactions. In the course of his speech when presiding at the School Prizegiving last June, Rev. Professor G. D. Henderson said :— I must refer to the interesting and useful gift which the Misses Fleming have made to the School in memory of their brother, George Kinnear Fleming, who was Dux and Gold Medallist in the year 1871, as you can see by looking at the lists upon the wall. Their gift, which we have very gladly accepted, consists of this table at which I stand, and these three handsome platform chairs, elegant pieces of furniture and a real enrichment of this Hall. We are most grateful ; and I trust that this latest gift to the School will be a stimulus and inspiration and encouragement to others to seek some similar way of benefiting this place to which they owe so much. I am convinced that possible donors of important gifts are sometimes misled into doing nothing by the fact that this School is directly, and not merely indirectly, supported from the public rates. This is mistakenly supposed to mean that every need is automatically provided for, or at least that the public authorities are the responsible parties in all such matters. This is very far from being the case. The Town Council is, of course, generously interested in a School which for so many centuries has been one of their proudest possessions, but they may not, in justice to all the other claims upon them, provide more than something very like a minimum of requirements, and all extras have to be found independently. We know to what an extent extras are the salt in the porridge, the flesh on the bones, the colour in the landscape. There is, therefore, abundant opportunity for Old Boys and other friends attaining fame by giving something really magnificent to the School. We could do very well, for example, with some good Entrance Scholarships, which would enable certain picked boys to come to the School and distinguish it as well as themselves in Bursary Competitions and elsewhere. And why should not some Former Pupil present the School with a grand stand for the Playing Field ? And when we are finding that the facilities for swimming at Aberdeen are so utterly inadequate, and when there is so much anxiety and irritation in the matter, why should not some Old Boy solve the problem and make his name immortal by presenting the Aberdeen Schools with Swimming Baths of their own. That would be a form of charity which even the Educational Endowments Commissioners could scarcely divert from its original purpose. I am serious in suggesting that there are many ways in which the School might be much enriched and for which it looks to private donors, and I believe that there are people who could and would gladly offer splendid gifts if only their imagination were touched and their attention called to the needs and to the possibilities.

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A Defence of the Classical Sixth. BY ERIC LINKLATER, M.A.

[The following is the speech, " scintillating and profound," as one who was present characterked it, delivered by Mr. Linklater at the recent Annual Dinner of the London Centre of the F.P. Club, a report of which appears on pp. 83-86.] At a pious gathering such as this, whose purpose is to commemorate association in a common school—do not misunderstand me—the usual tone of all speeches is a complacent variation of the Te Dean : we think of the Old School in terms of other masterpieces of creation, and pat ourselves on our Pharisaical backs to remember that we once occupied those much-whittled but glorious desks. In opposition to this amiable temper, however, a tendency has lately risen, especially among people who write books, to regard the Old School—any old school— with such scorn and hatred as may be spun out to make a fulllength novel. On the one hand we have people who always, even with pyjamas, wear the Old School Tie ; and on the other hand are people who always go about with a hammer, ready to nail down the Old School Lie. With that instinct for compromise, however, which is the genius of our race, I avoided both these extremes when the necessity arose, a few days ago, of preparing a brief address for this notable occasion, but taking a small hammer in one hand, and an Old School Tie in the other, I wrapped the former in the latter and knocked, very gently, at the door of enquiry : to be exact, at Mr. Theodore Watt's door. And I asked him, " How many people are sitting Higher Greek nowadays ? " It was a serious question, and Mr. Watt, though somewhat startled, took it seriously. But his reply shocked me. It appears that Higher Greek is not so popular as it used to be. It even seems that the Classical Sixth no longer enjoys the favour and high esteem it was accustomed to enjoy. I have gathered from various sources that the Classical Sixth is regarded, by many parents as an unnecessary luxury, and by many boys as an unnecessary bore. I have been told that parents are anxious for their sons to enter, as soon as possible, on some occupation more immediately profitable than the study of Horace and of iEschylus ; and I have been told that the sons of these foolish and selfish parents connive at their fathers' penny-wisdom and protest their own eagerness to exchange the tedium of Homer and of Terence for the intense excitement of University instruction in botany and inorganic chemistry. The result, of course, is that the Classical Sixth is becoming like those parts of Arabia which, once called Happy, are now

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called Desert. It has acquired, without reason, a reputation for sterility, and that room which was once so eagerly and so densely populated now resembles the stricken plains of Mesopotamia, across whose empty vast expanse there wanders occasionally a solitary shepherd more conscious of his loneliness than of the enduring benevolence of Allah. Nor is this phenomenon—the desertion of the Classical Sixth—local to Aberdeen. It is a widespread phenomenon, and the number of those who can find amusement in the writing of Greek verse grows annually less. This, I am sure, is a pity, and I should like to say some forty words in defence of the Classical Sixth. It would, perhaps, be rather sweeping to say that the Classical Sixth is all that differentiates us from the beasts of the field : and yet even in such a rash assertion there would be more than a grain of truth. For it stands, pre-eminently, for that kind of education which, till a few years ago, was regarded as the only true education, and which, I believe, has still more than half a claim to be so considered : that is, a classical and a literary education. But to-day the barbarian hordes of industrialism and commercialism are storming at the Classical gate, and the Classical garrison, diminished in numbers, finds its spirit also weakening : it is ready to admit, in some quarters, that a commercial or a technical education may take the place of a classical education, and may be accepted as a decent substitute for it. But that is heresy. I do not say that a technical or a business training may not usefully be added to a classical education: but I cannot believe they are effective substitutes for it. Man is still the proper study of mankind, and the mental and moral geography of man was mapped by the great classical writers as accurately as the rivers of England are mapped to-day by the official cartographers. It is not for nothing that the study of Latin, in the Scottish Universities, is still called " Humanity." And as even Aberdonians, who are notoriously shrewd and perspicacious, do not go abroad without their Baedekers, so I do not think them warranted in setting out to explore life without first having studied those human Baedekers, the classics. It is difficult to persuade an Aberdonian to do anything unless you can persuade him that it is going to be useful. Mr. George Blake, in a very good book about Scotland that was published recently, modestly remarked : " The people of Aberdeen have their sense of mundane values highly developed." And so, perhaps, one cannot hope for a renaissance of classical learning in Aberdeen unless one can prove its utility. Well, one obvious way in which classical learning is useful is that it saves one from falling into a multitude of errors— politi cal errors, literary errors, errors of worldly judgment. One is fortified by a previous experience and enriched by the magnificent

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expression of that experience. You may learn psychology from plays that were written long before psychologists were ever heard of ; you may be strengthened in your attitude to contemporary history by discovering the many historical crises which the world has already survived ; you may assess the current fashions in literature and art by comparing them with older fashions that have lived and older fashions that have not lived ; you may see politicians of to-day in a very entertaining light by borrowing a light from the Greeks. A curious political epidemic has afflicted Europe for some years past, as a result of which politics have become confounded with haberdashery, and, as an indication of political opinions, the ballot-box has largely been replaced by a shirt. Now that epidemic thrives on boys who left school too young. Its recruits—or its victims—are not people who read Aristophanes and Terence in the Classical Sixth, but boys who read nothing in the Modern Third. The Classical writers knew all about demagogues and something about the Totalitarian State : to read their experience gives one no faith in the former and a great dread of the latter. It is just possible that former members of the Classical Sixth would follow a leader who prescribed for their uniform a toga : but I cannot believe they would ever succumb to the lure of a coloured shirt, even though it was starched. I do not suggest that Latin and Greek are the only subjects worthy of study : I hold a brief for all the subjects that are counted useless by the man who prides himself on common sense. I never thought much of mathematics until it began to grow fantastic. But now, when it is entirely incomprehensible, when it is usurping the functions of philosophy, and buttressing faith in immortality that the Church has hardly maintained, nowadays mathematics is a magnificent subject, and lectures on the Higher Mathematics should certainly be part of the Upper Sixth's curriculum. So, of course, and in greater degree, should be our own literature : and the man of common sense, who believes that literature is a useless study, may easily be confounded, confused, and confuted. For it is a curious thing that those ages which have prided themselves on being literary ages, have also been strikingly efficient and energetic ages. I need not refer again to Classical times. I need only mention, as a case in point, the F.li7abethan age, and the Eighteenth Century in England, when parliamentary debate was filled with the noise of literary quotation, and Britain first became a world power. I shall not say that Wolfe took the Heights of Abraham because he would rather have written Gray's Elegy : but I shall say that the Chinese maintained a vast empire for several thousand years on the foundation of a purely literary education for all their officials, and that China fell into anarchy when they began to modernize their curriculum. Think

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of that when you advise your nephews and cousins to neglect the Classical Sixth. But apart from the usefulness of a classical and literary education—the long-term usefulness, the gilt-edged-security usefulness—there is, or there was, in Scotland a tradition that education was a good thing in itself. Nor can that be doubted. And this view, altruistic as it was, earned dividends, and because of it our Scottish schools achieved a deservedly high reputation, on the strength of which we are still living. But they cannot maintain that reputation if their curriculum is going to consist of speculative investments—of investments in commercial and technical subjects that merely promise to show a quick profit. A school should be as conservative as a bank, and insist mainly on old-established gilt-edged securities. Whatever the nations do, a school should maintain the Gold Standard—the Age of Gold Standard—and so I praise, and pray for, and commend to you the class that chiefly represents that standard : the excellent and invaluable Classical Sixth.

Virgil, "Georgics," IV, 470-484. The shades from Erebus, lulled by such a song Of men long dead, comprise that woeful throng ; Innumerable they, as birds which hide In leaves when storms sweep o'er the mountain side— Mothers and men, their bodies reft of life, Great-hearted warriors stricken in the strife, Young maids who ne'er had worn a bridal crown, And youths before their fathers' eyes struck down. Cocytus these with sluggish wave restrains And Styx the river with the ninefold chains. So stand amazed the mansions of the dead And inmost Tartarus, those halls so dread ; In wonder gaze the Furies, through whose hair The sky-blue snakes entwine, and all astare Is Cerberus, his triple mouth aghast ; And in the wind Ixion's wheel stands fast. W. J. G. MELDRUM (Cl. VI).

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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. The Right Hon. Robert Munro* ,(1884-85), commonly called Lord Alness, late Lord Justice-Clerk and President of the Second Division of the Court of Session, who was created a Baron in the last King's Birthday Honours List, was reported in the London Gazette at the beginning of July to have taken the title of Baron Alness of Alness, in the County of Ross and Cromarty. Arthur James Adams* (1919-30), a son of PETER CROMBIE ADAMS (1876-78), whose death is recorded on another page, passed in July the final professional examination of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons held at the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College, Edinburgh, and obtained the diploma of M. R .C.V.S. George James Allan* (1907-20), M.A., M.B., Ch.B., has recently gone out to Congo Beige as a medical missionary. A short time ago he was awarded the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Ian Alfred Anderson* (1912- 24), who graduated B.Sc. in 1929 with First Class Honours in Physiology, and M.B., Ch.B., with First Class Honours last year, was in June awarded by the Rockefeller Foundation of New York a travelling fellowship for the year 1934- 35. He has gone to study at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. The Rockefeller medical fellowships are awarded to graduates who have had some training in research work either in the primary sciences of medicine or in clinical medicine or surgery, and who are likely to profit by a period of work abroad before taking up positions for higher teaching or research in the British Isles. While at the University Dr. Anderson won the Fife Jamieson Gold Medal, the Chanock Gold Medal and the Lizars Gold Medal in Anatomy ; the Dyce Davidson Gold Medal in Materia Medica in 1931 ; the Matthews Duncan Gold Medal in Obstetrics and the Alexander Ogston Prize in Surgery in 1932 ; and the James Anderson Gold Medal and Prize in Clinical Medicine in 1933. He was also awarded * Members of Former Pupils' Club.

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the John Murray Gold Medal and Scholarship to the most distinguished graduate of the year in medicine. Christopher Charles Barnett* (1915-21), M.A., B.D., who was ordained minister of Finzean, Aberdeenshire, in 1928, was in August elected to the vacant charge of Belie Church, Fochabers. He was inducted to the charge at the end of September. George Davidson Bisset* (1918-3i) has recently entered the service of Messrs. Redpath, Brown & Co., Ltd., structural engineers, Edinburgh. Ian Gordon Bisset (1897-1906), M.A., M.B., Ch.B., has recently settled in Cathcart, Cape Province, South Africa, where ANDREW CLARK* (1895-1901), M.A., was for a long period secretary and treasurer of the School Board. Alexander Graham Booth* (1907-14), M.B., Ch.B., is in medical practice at Bedford. His brother, Ian Farquhar Booth* (1916-28), who graduated M.A. in 1932, is to succeed to the business of hatter and hosier in Aberdeen conducted for many years by his father, Mr. Alexander Booth, who died in August last. Henry J. C. Boulton* (1882-89), who has been a civil engineer in various parts of Africa and has latterly been resident in Canada, has now returned to this country, and is living in Muswell Hill, London. Geoffrey Farquhar Brown* (1921-25) is now on Oodewella Estate, Kandy, Ceylon. He was previously in Sumatra. William Bulloch* (1877-80), M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., retired last summer from the Goldsmiths' Company's Chair of Bacteriology in the London Hospital Medical School, University of London, and has received the title of Emeritus-Professor. Some interesting tributes were paid to him in the October issue of the London Hospital Gazette. In a leading article he was described as " occupying a unique place in the world of bacteriology," reference was made to his intense interest in all that pertains to man and human affairs, to the way in which he poured forth a vast stream of personal observations and reminiscences, and to his richness as a raconteur. A note elsewhere in the paper described him as almost an institution in the College, which would not seem the same without him. Mr. Walter Elliot, in a prize-giving speech, said that Professor Bulloch had carried his vast learning lightly, placing it friendly and unreservedly at the disposal of any genuine searcher after truth. The Professor has for many years taken a great interest in the Royal Society, of which he was elected a Fellow in 1913, and has been bringing its roll up to date. John Rudolph Wardlaw Burnet* (1899-1901), B.A., LL.B., had in July the rank and dignity of King's Counsel to His Majesty in Scotland conferred on him. He was called to the Bar

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in 1912, and since 1925 has been Clerk of the Faculty of Advo-

cates. Other F.P.s who are K.C.s are ARTHUR RICHARDSON BROWN (1884-90), M.A., appointed in 1925 ; JOHN ADAM LILLIE* (1893-1903), M.A., LL.B., appointed in 1931 ; and CHARLES B. MILNE* (1893-96), M.P., M.A., LL.B., appointed in 1932• George Bettie Burns* (1925-31) has received an appointment on a rubber estate in Malaya with Messrs. Thomas Barlow and Bro. He sails for the East early in December. Joseph Robert Carry* (1918-3o) is now a partner in the firm of Jamieson & Carry, with which is incorporated the firm of Geo. Jamieson & Son, jewellers, goldsmiths, watchmakers, and opticians, whose history goes back to 1733. Alexander Chalmers* (1917-26), M.B., Ch.B., is now in general medical practice at Sittingbourne, Kent. Vernon Tee Greig Cheer* (1921-28) is now resident at Ferriby, East Yorks. He is an electrical engineer. Robert Selbie Clark* (1894-1901), M.A., D.Sc., Senior Naturalist on the staff of the Fishery Board for Scotland, was in October appointed by the Secretary of State for Scotland to be Superintendent of Scientific Investigations under the Fishery Board for Scotland, in succession to Mr. Alexander Bowman, D.Sc. After a short spell as a teacher, he was appointed in 1911 zoological assistant in " Scotia " Antarctic work to the late Dr. W. S. Bruce, Edinburgh, and in the following year, naturalist in charge of fishery investigations on the staff of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth. He was biologist to the Shackleton Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-16, and was one of the party of 22 who were marooned on Elephant Island, in the South Shetlands, from April to August, 1916. Immediately after he came home from this expedition, he was gazetted in the beginning of 1917 as a Sub-Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R., and served on trawler and paddle mine-sweepers in the North Sea. Latterly he was assistant mobilizing officer at North Shields for the supervision of the commercial fishing fleet. In 1919 he again became naturalist in charge of fishery investigations at Plymouth, and at the end of i 923 he entered the service of the Scottish Fishery Board as Senior Naturalist at the Fishery Board Laboratory at Torry, Aberdeen. Dr. Clark is one of the best all-round sportsmen that Aberdeen has produced. As a cricketer he was for a time captain of the Aberdeenshire )tl, and as an association football player he kept goal for the University. Patrick Ashley Cooper* (1896-1901), B.A., LL.B., Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, and a director of the Bank of England, returned to London towards the end of September, after a 1z,ooo miles' tour, by boat, 'plane, and rail, of the trading

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posts on the shores of Hudson Bay and the Eastern Arctic regions. He is the first Governor of the Company to pay a personal visit to these remote trading stations. He left London last June and set out on 7th July on the Nascopie, a z,ooo-ton Arctic supply vessel, down the St. Lawrence on the first stage of his journey, to the Labrador coast. Three times, making a total of fourteen days, at various stages of the journey the Nascopie was caught and held fast in ice. After arriving at the depot on Charlton Island, Mr. Cooper decided to continue part of his tour by a 'plane, a single-engined machine with room for three passengers. He undertook an exciting flight of nearly one hundred miles to the famous Moose Factory, which is one of the posts manned by the Redskins. There, as at all the other posts, he was accorded a great welcome. Returning to Charlton Island, he joined the Nascopie again, and visited Rupert's House, the first post of the Hudson's Bay Company, originally established in 1668. He was accompanied on his expedition by his own piper, a sergeant of the 42nd Black Watch, who lives in Montreal. He piped Mr. Cooper ashore at every landingplace, provided pipe concerts on board, piped in Mr. Cooper's broadcasts to Empire school children, and, most amusing of all, piped to the Eskimos, the natives dancing and singing and clapping their hands in high glee. In Hudson Straits he found to his astonishment that some of the older women could dance Scottish reels. He believes that they were taught these dances by the Dundee whalers who, more than forty years ago, went frequently to these parts. During his tour he visited no fewer than fifteen trading posts. At one of these, Ungava, the district manager is GEORGE WATSON* (1904-09), who entered the service of the H.B.Co. in 1914. Nigel Smart Cowan* (1924-28), B.Sc.(Eng.), who was recently gazetted a and Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, is at present stationed at Brompton Barracks, Chatham. Peter Crombie (1919-zo and 1922-24), who graduated M.A. at Aberdeen last year, with First Class Honours in Classics, was one of the successful candidates in the recent examination for the Indian Civil Service. He has been assigned to the Madras Presidency, and is at present studying at Caius College, Cambridge. Bishop E. D. Logie Danson* (1892-94), M.A., D.D., of Carlisle Cathedral, was the preacher at the special services held in Aberdeen on 14th November, 1934, in celebration of the 15oth anniversary of the consecration of Bishop Samuel Seabury, the founder of the Episcopal Church in America, which, as a mark of gratitude, some time ago entered into what is known as the Seabury Memorial Scheme, at first proposing to erect a new cathedral, and latterly to carry out an extensive scheme of extending and beautifying the Cathedral Church of St. Andrew

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in Aberdeen. Bishop Danson said that they had come to give humble and hearty thanks to God for His great mercy in permitting the Scottish Church, 15o years ago, (i) to give to the Church in America the priceless gift of a valid and free Episcopate, thus enabling her to form complete organized units of Church life ; and (z) to give her the most primitive form of Eucharistic liturgy, based on that of their own Church. The consecration of Samuel Seabury by the Scottish Bishops in the upper room in Longacre in Aberdeen was the first instance of an Anglican Bishop being consecrated in Britain for an overseas diocese. The upper room referred to, used as a chapel, was in the house of Bishop JOHN SKINNER, M.A., who was a pupil of the Grammar School to the year 1757. Bishop Skinner was the son of another F.P., Rev. JOHN SKINNER, Episcopal minister of Longside, the author of " Tullochgorum," which, according to Burns, is " the best Scotch song ever Scotland saw." At a great gathering in the Music Flail in the evening of the same day one of the speakers was William Douglas Simpson* (1901-13), D.Litt., who gave a graphic and amazingly comprehensive account of the history and characteristics of the Celtic Church. As one of the audience has written : " Not a word was wasted, and every syllable told. It was a scholarly performance that held a great audience of quite ordinary people spellbound, and when he sat down the hall rang with loud and long-continued applause." James Gordon Danson* (1894-1903), M.D., who entered the Royal Navy as a Surgeon in 1910, was promoted to be Surgeon Captain on 3oth June last, when serving in the R.N. Barracks at Portsmouth. He is a brother of Bishop LOOM DANS0N* (1892-94). Peter McLaren Davidson* (1908-13), B.Sc., who was in

the service of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., up to June, 1931, is now employed by Messrs. Pilkington Bros., Ltd., as departmental manager in their vitrolite factory at Kirk Sandal', near Doncaster. James Gordon Dawson* (1921-34), who was Joint Classical Dux and Gold Medallist of the School for the year 1933-34, took the second place in the Aberdeen University Science Bursary Competition this year, and the eighth place in the Arts Bursary Competition. He is the elder son of Lt.-Col. James Dawson, D.S.O., Director of Education, Aberdeen, one of the Honorary Members of the F.P. Club. William Stevenson Dickie (1863-69), senior minister of Trinity Church, Irvine, in August completed 55 years as minister of that church. John Donaldson* (1922-27) is assistant burgh factor, Kirkcaldy.

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John Wight Duff* (1877-82), M.A., D.Litt., LL.D., F.B.A., formerly Professor of Classics in Armstrong College, Newcastleupon-Tyne, has co-operated with his son in the production of a volume, " Minor Latin Poets," in the famous Loeb series of classical translations. Professor Wight Duff, who has just been elected an honorary fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, is to spend next year at Berkeley University, California. George McNaughton Rae Duffus* (1 920-2 5), M.B., Ch.B., was in October appointed senior resident medical officer in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for a period of twelve months. Sidney Wardlaw Duguid* (1922-27) has been transferred from H.M. Dockyard, Devonport, to the Superintending Civil Engineer's Department, H.M. Naval Base, Singapore. Alan Flockhart Esson* (1929-34), son of GEORGE FORBES ESSON (1894-1903) and nephew of JoHN Ross ESSON* (1893-97), has recently become a cadet in H.M.S. Conway (school ship), at Rockferry, Birkenhead. Arthur Hercules Peter Ferguson* (1905-14) has now a ranch at Macumbiri, Msonneddi, Southern Rhodesia. George Ferries (1865-67), M.A., D.D., formerly minister of Cluny, Aberdeenshire, is the author of " Christianity and Modern Life," recently published by Messrs. James Clarke and Co. Dr. Ferries is now living in retirement, but not in idleness, at Aboyne. Ian Flockhart* (1915-27) is an aerated water manufacturer in Aberdeen, his firm being Ian Flockhart & Co., Craibstone Lane. Robert Forgan* (1898-1908), M.C., M.A., M.D., owing to ill-health, resigned in October his post as second in command of the British Union of Fascists. He entered Parliament in 1929 as Labour member for West Renfrew, but in 1931 he resigned from the Parliamentary Labour Party and became associated with Sir Oswald Mosley's New Party. In the General Election later that year he again contested West Renfrew, but this time for the New Party, and came out at the bottom of the poll. He subsequently joined the B.U.F. From 1921 to 1929 he was Specialist Medical Officer to the Lanarkshire County Council, and he also served for three years on the Glasgow City Council. Frederick Henry Fraser* (1888-99), who was for many years manager of the Pitakande group of estates, Matale, Ceylon, and retired some time ago, is now resident at Millfield, East Grinstead, Sussex. Allan Cameron Frazer (1925-30), M.A., was in June awarded by the Senatus of the University of Aberdeen the Calder Prize for English or Scottish Verse, the approximate value of the prize being £3 5. He is at present serving as a law apprentice with Messrs. A. C. Morrison & Richards, advocates, Aberdeen.

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who entered the ...9... Charles Edward Garland* ‘(1898-1902), Civil Service in 1903, was in June granted acting allowance as Principal Inspector of Taxes. Harry Bethune Gilchrist (1926-33) is serving as an apprentice in the office of Mr. James M. Clapperton, advocate, Aberdeen. Arthur William Gill* (1909-13), who went to Western Australia in 1919 to take up farming, has latterly been studying at the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College, Edinburgh, and in July passed the final professional examination of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, obtaining the diploma of M.R.C.V.S. John George Crichton Grant* (1908-15), who for a good many years has been engaged in tea-planting in Assam, was recently home on furlough. Instead of taking the usual three or four weeks for the return journey, be covered the distance from London to Calcutta in eight days, flying from London to Paris, and from Brindisi to Athens, Alexandria, Cairo, Gaza, Baghdad, Basra, Sharzah, Karachi, Jodhpur, Delhi, Allahabad, and Calcutta. John Malcolm Gray* (1914-15) is in the service of the Air Ministry at Adastral House, Kingsway, London. Alexander Hill Griffith* (1869-74), M.D., had an interesting letter in a recent issue of the Sunday Times, in which he recalled that when he was a boy at the Grammar School in 1871 he and his School-fellows were all greatly interested in the announcement that Dr. W. G. Grace was to bring a strong team of the South of England XI to play eighteen of the Aberdeenshire Cricket Club. None of the boys thought of asking their parents' permission to attend the match, but some did think of " truing " the School. The future doctor met the crowd coming from the match, and asked a boy if he had seen Grace bat. " Yes," said he, " and he hit a ball—if it hadn't been for the wall it would have been running yeti " Alexander Merrie Hardie* (1918-28), M.A., B.Sc.(Eng.), son of the late ALEXANDER HARDIE (1883-86), has received an appointment with the Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company, Manchester. He is the first student in engineering at Aberdeen University to graduate with double First Class Honours—in Electrical Engineering in 1933, and in Mechanical Engineering in 1934. Norman Fordyce McKerron Henry* (1915-27), M.A., son of Mr. William M. Henry of the School staff, is at present engaged in research work at St. John's College, Cambridge. He graduated at Aberdeen in the spring of this year, with First Class Honours in Geology. David Hobbs (1878-79), M.A., senior minister of St. David's Church, Windygates, Fife, has recently celebrated his

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ministerial jubilee. He was successively minister of Congregational Churches in Coatbridge, Galston, and Glasgow, and was elected to Windygates U.F. Church in 1919. William John Sivewright Ingram* (19o5-o6), M.C., M.B., Ch.B., who is a civil surgeon in the Indian Medical Service, was in September last gazetted Lieut.-Colonel. Alexander Mitchell Kellas (1881-84), D.Sc., who died at Kampa Dzong, Tibet, on 5th June, 1921, is specially mentioned in an autobiography, entitled "Himalayan Wanderer," of Brigadier-General the Hon. C. G. Bruce, of Mount Everest fame. He says that Dr. Kellas, who made several journeys to the mountains of Northern Sikkim and Garhwal, lived harder than almost any mountaineer who has ever visited the Himalayas. His camp was hardly a camp at all. He lived entirely with his native porters, and his success, not only as a traveller and an observer, but actually as a mountaineer, was phenomenal. " Poor Dr. Kellas," he adds, " was a little too old for that very hard life, and the extreme exposure and rough feeding were his downfall. But what an explorer he was, and the most modest man that ever travelled the Himalayas." William Cruickshank Kemp* (1924-26) is on the Badenoch Estate, Kuala Ketil, Kedah, F.M.S. Alexander King* (1863-67), who was for many years in the service of the London Missionary Society in China, is now living in retirement at Boscombe, Hants. Oswald Farquhar Kirby* (1882-91), M.A., B.Sc., who is a schoolmaster in Butterworth, Transkei, South Africa, says in a recent letter that there is no financial stringency out there. The country is in an exceptionally fortunate position, and the Government does not know what to do with its surplus. Butterworth is a little " back-wash " of a place—one of the few little English villages left in South Africa, though it, too, is acquiring a large Dutch element. It is beautifully situated in the Native Reserve, but has many amenities. David Glass Larg (1905-I 1), M.A. (Aberd.), D.Litt. (Lond.), formerly lecturer in French in Sheffield University, is the author of " Giuseppe Garibaldi : a Biography," recently published by Peter Davies, Ltd., London. The book, it has been said, has qualities of style and of treatment which give it an assured place in the literature dealing with a great man and a great epoch. Alexander Smith Leith* (1922-27), who served for six years as an apprentice engineer with Messrs. A. Hall & Co., Ltd., shipbuilders, Aberdeen, is now in the service of the Burmah Oil Co., Ltd., as a driller, and left in July last for Upper Burma. George Elder Levie* (1884-88), C.A., London, has recently been elected Chairman of Directors of George Ingham & Co., Ltd., worsted spinners, Halifax.

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Eric R. R. Linklater* (1913-16), M.A., has for the time being taken up residence in Aberdeen. In view of the interest which will undoubtedly be created by the report (on pages 4 to 7 of this issue) of his speech at the recent Dinner of the London Centre of the F.P. Club, a brief summary of his career will doubtless be welcome. He was born in 1899 and received the first part of his schooling in Orkney. His time at the Grammar School covered the first two years of the War. He started the study of medicine in 1916 but " joined up " in March, 1917, becoming a private in the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, and then serving in France with The Black Watch from December, 1917, to May, 1918, when he was wounded. He was demobilized in February, 1919, and thereafter resumed the study of medicine at Aberdeen University. He turned, however, from medicine to arts, and graduated M.A. in 1925, with First Class Honours in English and gaining various medals and prizes. In that year he became assistant editor of The Times of India, a post which he held until 1927, when he returned to Aberdeen as assistant to the Professor of English Literature in the University. In 1928 he was appointed to a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Literature at Cornell University, and spent the next two years there. His first book was written in 1929. This was "White Maa's Saga," which was accorded more attention than is given usually to a first novel. " Poet's Pub," his second, was written in the same year. The following year saw the publication of " A Dragon Laughed," a witty volume of poems ; but his greatest achievement was " Juan in America," which became a best-seller. Since then he has published " Men of Ness," a delightful Viking saga ; " Magnus Merriman," a novel ; and a three-act comedy, " The Devil's in the News." In the realm of biography he has to his credit " Ben Jonson and King James," " Mary, Queen of Scots," and " Robert the Bruce." John Blake Lyon* (1900-04), who went to Brazil in 1912, has recently become a member of the F.P. Club, through the good offices of the Club Consul, A. BAIN MACKIE* (1896-1904). He is in the service of the San Paulo Gas Company, Sao Paulo. Thomas Walker Lyon* (1918-2I) is in the service of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, and is at present stationed at Preston, Yeovil, as an inspector. In a recent letter he says that he would be delighted to meet any F.P.s who may happen to be in or come to that " land of cows and cyder." Ian Anderson McDougall* (1915-26), who has been in insurance business in Canada for a number of years, has latterly been acting as trustee of the F. MacCulloch Co., Ltd., Moose Jaw, Sask. Having finished this job, he has recently come home to Aberdeen on holiday. John Clark McGregor* (1926-29), M.A., son of JoHN

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GRANT MCGREGOR* (1896-1900), M.B., Ch.B., Castletown, Caithness, was in October awarded by the Senatus of the University of Aberdeen the Fletcher Scholarship in Mathematics, of the value of £5o, tenable for two years. James Davidson Mackay (1899-1903), M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., general assistant medical officer to the City of Aberdeen Health Department, was in October appointed Depute Medical Officer of Health for Kincardine. After the War, during which he served in the R.A.M.C., he took over a practice in Sheffield, but some years ago decided to go in for public health work. He returned to Aberdeen and received the diploma of D.P.H. in 1932. Archibald McKenzie, Junr.* (1922-31), son of ARCHIBALD MCKENZIE* (1887-92), recently left to take up a tea-planting appointment with Messrs. Duncan Brothers & Co., Ltd., Calcutta. Patrick Alexander Bruce McKerron* (1904-To), who was formerly British Resident of Brunei, is at present acting as Assistant Adviser to the Government of Kedah, one of the Malay States. Alfred Scott Mackie* (1905-09), M.B., Ch.B., formerly Senior Medical Officer in Tanganyika Territory, has left Leighton Buzzard, Beds, and is now in practice at Ivybridge, South Devon. James Ferguson Mackie (1887-90), M.A., is to retire from teaching at the end of this year. He has been successively head master at Ternemny Public School, Rothiemay ; Strachan Public School, Kincardineshire; and for the long period of eighteen years at Slains, Ellon. Since August, 1925, he has been head master of the North School, Fraserburgh. William Soutar Mackie* (1895-1901), M.A., Professor of the English Language in the University of Cape Town, is the author of " The Exeter Book: Poems IX-XXXII," a very handsome volume recently published by the Early English Text Society. John Scott MacLachlan* (i922-3z) is serving as an apprentice with Messrs. Carle, Duthie and Ferries, advocates, Aberdeen. Ewen MacLean* (1902-03), M.A., Chaplain to the Forces, znd Class, recently serving at Aldershot, was in July appointed Assistant Chaplain-General, Scottish Command. He was ordained a minister of the United Free Church of Scotland at Avoch, Ross-shire, in 191o, and received a temporary commission as an Army Chaplain, 4th Class, in 1915. In 1921 he was made a regular Chaplain in the Army. Alastair MacLennan (1923-29), M.B., Ch.B., was granted last June a short service commission as Lieutenant on Probation in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Hamish Forrest MacLennan* (1908-15), who was for a time F.P. Consul at Cairo, is now district inspector in the North

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of Scotland for the Mutual Life and Citizens' Assurance Co., Ltd., of Australia. His office is at 4 Bon-Accord Crescent, Aberdeen. William Ferrier Mayor* (1923-3o), M.A., has received an appointment in the Malayan Civil Service (Customs and Excise). As an undergraduate he took a very active part in Aberdeen University life, and was successively secretary and captain of the University Golf Club. He was formerly a member of the F.P. Rugby ist XV. The Right Hon. Lord Meston* (1876-80), K.C.S.I., LL.D., Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, has been awarded the Scottish Geographical Medal for 1934-35, in recognition of his long and valuable services to the Government of India, culminating in his beneficent Governorship of the United Provinces (Agra and Oudh) ; of his unremitting efforts to promote the better understanding of Indian and international problems in relation to fundamental geographical conditions ; and of his recent services to geography in Great Britain, notably as President of Section E of the British Association in 1933, and as President of the Geographical Association in the present year. The medal was presented to Lord Meston by the Duke of York at a meeting in September of the Edinburgh Centre of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. The meeting, which formed part of the jubilee celebrations of the Society, was attended by about z,ooo people, and the main feature was an address by Lord Meston on " The Geographical Background of an Indian Constitution." He had chosen this subject, he said, not with any intention of entering into a controversial matter, but because the physical features and history of India helped to explain some of the main problems which the framers of a new constitution had inevitably to face. Lewis Middleton* (1919-32) won the Banchory Golf Tournament last summer, and reached the fifth round of the Scottish Amateur Championship. David Croll Milne* (1911-15) has recently been appointed Harbour Engineer at Greymouth, New Zealand. He served as an apprentice in the Harbour Engineer's Office, Aberdeen. Herbert John Mansfield Milne* (19oo-o 5), M.A., who has been for over twenty years in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum, and is one of the greatest living authorities on Greek palzography, has written a very important book which is to be published by the Egypt Exploration Society. In a recent issue The Observer said :— That there was a Greek shorthand has long been known. Tradition

says Xenophon invented it. For years scholars tried to decipher its characters. Nine wax-coated tablets dating from the third century and covered with the homework of a shorthand scribe, who repeated each of his grammalogues three or four times, have been in the British Museum since 1887. Several scholars had a go at them, but in vain. The key turned up ten years

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ago in the shape of two third-century papyrus volumes found in Egypt, and purchased by the British Museum. They contained the identical signs which the scribe had been practising on his wax tablets and their translation in longhand. The material has now been put into such shape that the book shortly to be published provides us with an almost complete system of Greek shorthand. . . . Greek shorthand is not just modified longhand, but shorthand in the precise sense in which we have come to use the term since nineteenth-century systems converted the world to stenography. It is as logical and symmetrical as we should expect a Greek system to be. To look into its rules with even a faint knowledge of the proud systems of our own day is to be startled, perhaps unreasonably, at another demonstration of the homogeneity of human thinking.

Royston John Milne* ( i 918-30) is serving as a law apprentice with Messrs. Brander and Cruickshank, advocates, Aberdeen. Peter Chalmers Mitchell* (5879-80), C.B.E., M.A., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., who has been Secretary to the Zoological Society of London since 1903, is to retire from this position in April of next year, and is to be succeeded by Mr. Julian S. Huxley. During his secretaryship, largely by reason of his organizing ability, the Zoo in London has been transformed almost beyond recognition, and another great development for which he has been responsible is the opening of the new gardens at Whipsnade, Dunstable, where, free from the restrictions of space in Regent Park, the animals can live and be seen under natural conditions. Sir Peter is a Spanish scholar and has translated a remarkable piece of fiction, called " The Seven Pillars," from the Spanish of Fernandez Florez. The translation was published in November. Brigadier-General Magnus Mowat* (5882-84), C.B.E., Secretary of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, attended the International Road Congress at Munich in September, and was nominated by the Minister of Transport as an honorary delegate of the British Government. Prior to his present appointment General Mowat was Director of Roads and Bridges under the Joint Roads Committee, of which the late Lord Montagu of Beaulieu was chairman. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in March of this year. David Donald Murison* (5922-29), M.A., who was Classical Dux of the School in 1929, and graduated at Aberdeen University with First Class Honours in Classics in 1933, was in October awarded by the Senatus of the University of Aberdeen the Fullerton, Moir and Gray Scholarship in Classics, of the annual value of £165, tenable for two years. He holds a major scholarship in Classics at Christ's College, Cambridge. Robert Nicol Paton* (5898-5904), M.A., B.D., has recently been appointed minister of Chapelshade Church, Dundee. He was ordained minister of the parish of New Byth, Aberdeenshire, in 5953, and since 1918 has been at Lochgelly. William Balfour Smith Pigge* 914-21), who was formerly engaged as a civil engineer in Singapore, has recently been appointed town-planning assistant by the Woking (Surrey) Urban Council.

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William Smith Rannie* (1922-27) is resident inspector in Aberdeen of the Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation, Ltd. Adam Alexander Ritchie* (1903-o8), M.A., B.Sc., who joined the Indian Educational Service in 1915, has been Acting Principal of the Mayo College, Ajmer, Rajputana, India. This college is one of the few educational institutions in India reserved entirely for the sons of ruling princes and chiefs. George Ferguson Ritchie* (1917-24) is an officer with the Lago Shipping Co., Ltd., San Nicholas, Aruba, Dutch West Indies. Robert Lindsay Graeme Ritchie* (1894-99), D.Litt., Professor of French in the University of Birmingham, has recently been appointed External Examiner in French in the University of Aberdeen. George Croom Robertson* (1921-34), who recently became a member of the F.P. Club, is the second of the same name to have passed through the School. He is a grand-nephew of the late GEORGE CROONS ROBERTSON (1853-57), M.A., who became Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic in University College, London, and first editor of Mind. This chair is now occupied by JOHN M ACM URRAY (19O2-O4), M.A. John Watson Robertson* (19o3-o5), M.A., B.Sc., head master of the Central Secondary School, Aberdeen, has been appointed External Examiner in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy (ordinary, advanced, and subsidiary) in the University of Aberdeen. Thomas Falconer Robson* (1918-31), M.A., is serving as an apprentice with Messrs. Williamson & Dunn, chartered accountants, Aberdeen. James Murray Ross* (1903-14), late of Simpang Estate, Taiping, Perak, F.M.S., is now resident in Aberdeen. William Wilson Michie Ross (1916-24), M.A., B.L., has passed the departmental examinations of the Inland Revenue Department qualifying him to hold a commission as Inspector of Taxes. He is at present Assistant Inspector of Taxes in Inverness and District, prior to which he held similar positions in Warrington and Manchester. Formerly an active member of " one of the School Scout Groups, Ross founded and was Group Scoutmaster of the Warrington Presbyterian Church Group of Scouts, and was latterly Assistant District Commissioner for Wolf Cubs for Warrington and District. He is now Assistant District Commissioner for Inverness Boy Scouts' Association. It is rather curious that a former member of the staff of Inverness and Tax District was JANIEs Ross* (191O-15), who was recently promoted to the rank of Inspector of Taxes, and is at present attached to the Carlisle District.

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Geoffrey Allen Rowton* (1920-31), B.A.(Cantab.), is serving as a law apprentice with Messrs. Henry J. Gray and Connochie, advocates, Aberdeen. Arthur Martin Scrimgeour* (1921-27), M.A., who has recently become a Life Member of the F.P. Club, has been transferred from India to Shanghai, where he has become resident representative in China for Messrs. Joseph Nathan and Co., Ltd., London. His address is c/o Imperial Chemical Industries (China) Ltd., Shanghai. He will be a very welcome addition to the Shanghai Branch of the F.P. Club. Harold Frederick Scrimgeour* (1921-29) is, in the service of Messrs. Walker & Duncan, civil engineers and architects, Aberdeen. Alastair George Sharp* (i9 i 8-24), B. A.(Cantab.), who contributed an article on " Debating in America " to the March issue of the Ma,gazine, was in June appointed resident tutor in the Bonar Law College, Ashridge, Herts. He graduated at Cambridge last year, being placed in Class I of the Classical Tripos, Part II, and gained a Harmsworth Scholarship in Law. He is at present studying law in London. George Alexander Sharp* (1922-24), M.B., Ch.B., is now in a partnership of five medical practitioners at Bishop's Stortford, Herts. One of the others is ROBERT PETRIE GAMMIE* (1912-18), M.B., Ch.B. Harold William Shirreffs* (1915-16), who was for a number of years engaged with GORDON COUPER GRANT* (1904-17) in farming at Camrose, Alberta, reported in June that he had been wandering a lot during the past year, and was then at Port Hammond, British Columbia. He is now back in this country. NEW LIGHT ON EDZELL CASTLE SCULPTURES.

William Douglas Simpson* (1901-13), M.A., D.Litt., Aberdeen University Librarian (Vice-President of the F.P. Club), has been closely associated with the Ancient Monuments (Scotland) Commissioners in the work of preserving and restoring a series of sculptures at Edzell Castle, the sixteenth-century seat of the Lindsays, and has made some remarkable discoveries with regard to them. In a recent lecture Dr. Simpson stated that the Castle had consisted of a fine tower-house, to which a large quadrangular mansion was attached about 158o, while a still later addition was the spacious pleasaunce, with bathhouse and summer house adjoining, all built by Sir David Lindsay, Lord Edzell, in 1604. The pleasaunce wall was a very remarkable structure, and quite unparalleled in Scotland. It was divided by pilasters into a series of compartments, consisting alternately of sculptured panels and of heraldic representations. The sculptured panels consisted on the east side of the Planetary Deities, on the south

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side of the Liberal Arts, and on the west side of the Cardinal Virtues. It was clear that the subjects had been copies from pictorial originals, as their whole design was that of an engraver rather than of a sculptor. It therefore became a matter of interest to trace out where Lord Edzell got the idea of these sculptured panels, and if possible to discover the original engravings which his masons had before them. Dr. Simpson said that the key to this fascinating problem was to be sought in the relations which Lord Edzell had with Germany, and in particular with Nuremberg, which at this time was the great centre of dispersion of the " Stammbiicher " or " Alba Amicorum," the autograph albums so much in vogue among students, young noblemen, and other travellers of the period. Wealthy contributors to such albums would employ skilled artists to draw elaborate designs, symbolical or mythological, for them, and various pattern books of such designs were printed. Among these pattern books series of the Deities, the Liberal Arts, and the Cardinal Virtues were favourite subjects. Of the Deities and the Virtues a series of woodcuts were executed by the famous artist Hans Burgkmair, in which the figures exhibited the same attributes as at Edzell. It was clear that some such " Stammbuch " had inspired Lord Edzell to reproduce the three series of figures on his garden wall. In the case of the Planetary Deities, Dr. Simpson has been able to carry the search right to a conclusion by discovering on the Continent the actual engravings which the Edzell sculptor of these figures had before him. They were the copperplate etchings of the Nuremberg miniaturist, known from his initialed signature as Master I. B., and now generally identified with George Pencz (lorg Bentz), the pupil of Albrecht Diirer. These engravings were executed in 1528-29, and ranked among the most beautiful products of the Nuremberg school. At the lecture a series of slides was shown, illustrating the Nuremberg etchings and the Edzell sculptures, in each case side by side, and demonstrating how closely the mason had fulfilled his task. A remarkable feature was the explanation now available of the initials I. B. on the halberd borne by Mars in the sculpture. Previous writers had taken these to be probably the initials of the mason ; but it was now seen that they were really the initials of Iorg Bentz, who had signed them thus on the halberd, where they had been faithfully copied by the Edzell sculptor. James Bruce Smith* (1918-z5) has been for some years in the service of Messrs. W. Alexander & Co., insurance brokers, Chicago, U.S.A., and has undertaken the duties of F.P. Club Consul there. Herbert Tower Sorley* (1899-1909), M.A., of the Indian Civil Service, was recently in this country• on furlough. He

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came home via East and South Africa, and met a number of F.P.s en route. In Beira, Portuguese East Africa, there was FRANK B. F. DUGUID* (1919-26); in Bulawayo, ALEXANDER THOMAS STEPHEN* (1906-13) ; in Johannesburg, Dr. ARTHUR JOHN MILNE* (1 894-96) and CHARLES LINDSAY* (1905-14) ; and in Cape Town, Professor WILLIAM SOUTAR MAC KIE* ( I 895-190 I ), M.A. Had he had longer time, he could have met a good many more. He just failed to see ROBERT GORDON MCKERRON (1907-13) in Johannesburg, and at Pretoria would have seen JOHN GILL* (1879-8o), if he had not shortly before left for home. Sorley was naturally delighted to meet these F.P.s abroad, and to find that the Magazine and the F.P. Club were a sort of passport and vade-mecum straight to the heart of things. The Club, he is convinced, is a real live organization wherever F.P.s are to be found. Archibald Douglas Spark* (1905-10), Captain, The Gordon Highlanders, is at present with the ist Battalion at Haifa, Palestine. James Souter Stephen* (1919-29), M.A., is the President of the Aberdeen University Students' Representative Council for the year 1934-35. He succeeds JAMES ALEXANDER BARCLAY* (1920-25), M.A., B.Sc. Robert Alexander Stephen* (1919-25), M.B., Ch.B., was granted last June a short service commission as Lieutenant on Probation in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Charles Strachan* (1919-25), M.A., son of EDWARD ALEXANDER STRACHAN* (1 892-95), has recently been elected a Fellow (non-resident) of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He passed from the Grammar School to the University as First Arts Bursar in 1925, and graduated with First Class Honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 1929. Proceeding to Cambridge, where he was a Foundation Scholar of Corpus Christi, he graduated B.A. in 1931, having been placed among the Wranglers in Part II of the Mathematical Tripos that year, with special credit in Schedule B subjects. After spending two more years in research work at Cambridge, and being awarded a Rayleigh Prize for an essay on " Reflection by Monomolecular Films," he was in 1933 appointed a Carnegie Teaching Fellow in Natural Philosophy at Aberdeen University. James Strachan* (1885-95), M.A., B.Sc., was appointed H.M. Inspector of Schools in the Secondary Schools Branch of the Board of Education in 1911, and since 1919 has had the rank of Divisional Inspector. In 1928 he was put in charge of all branches of education in the Northern Division of England, an appointment which was in effect promotion, though the title remained unchanged. In August last he was transferred to a similar office in the Eastern Division, and he is now resident at Bishop's Stortford, Herts.

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William Thain (1875-79), of ioz Comiston Road, Edinburgh, paid a visit to the Secretary of the F.P. Club last summer. He recalled that when a pupil at the School he lived in a cottage at Westfield, bordering on the School grounds, and known to all Grammar boys as Thain's Cottage. Later it was known as Dennis's Cottage, and eventually it was swept away about 1898 at the time when the Westfield School was erected. George Raymond Thomson* (1922-24) is at present studying at Pembroke College, Oxford. James Trail* (1919-28) has recently taken up an appointment with Messrs. Ross, Taylor & Co., Ltd., at Sourabaya, Java. Edward William Watt* (1883-94), M.A., who was for three years a magistrate of Aberdeen, was in November elected City Treasurer. Other F.P.s in the Aberdeen Town Council are the Lord Provost, Henry Alexander* (1881-91), M.A. ; John Duncan MacDiarmid* (1889-93), M.A., B.L., who has just been elected third Baillie ; James Hay* (1883-87), M.A., B.L., who is Convener of the Links and Parks Committee ; and George Alexander Williamson* (1904-12), B.L., who is Convener of the Plans and Town-Planning Committee. Mr. George Duncan, M.A., one of the Honorary Members of the F.P. Club, is Convener of the Education Committee. Francis Fowlie Andrew Wilkie* (1921-24) has recently taken up an appointment as an engineer on a tea and rubber estate with Messrs. Brown & Co., Ltd., Nawalapitiya, Ceylon. He served his time with Messrs. Allan Brothers, Kittybrewster, and in 1930 was appointed a junior engineer with the Burmah Oil Co., Ltd., in Upper Burma. Alexander George Gunn Williamson* (1914-26), who has been for six years with the Upper Assam Tea Co., Ltd., is at present home on his first furlough. Raymond Graham Wilson* (19o6-I 2 and 1915-17), son of Louis G. O. WiLsotv* (1872-75), who was for a number of years engaged in the contracting business in Malaya, is now civil engineer to Messrs. John McAdam & Sons, Ltd., public works contractors, Aberdeen. Ian Hamilton Wylie* (1915-zo) has been for a year and a half shed foreman in the Locomotive Running Department at Perth of the London and North-Eastern Railway Company. At the Review by His Majesty King George of the 4th Battalion The Gordon Highlanders (T.A.) at Holyrood in July, the two officers of the Colour Party were Lieutenant William Reid Wisely* (z 918-2 5 ), and and Lieutenant Edward William Murray Watt* (1918-31). Other F.P. officers in the Battalion are Captains Alexander Milne (1911-13) and Charles Whyte Williamson* (1910-17) ; Lieutenants Alexander Lessel Stephen Mitchell* (1911-19) and Philip Rene Mitchell (1916-22); and znd Lieutenant William Lewis Henderson* (1919-31).

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THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION IN ABERDEEN.

At the Aberdeen Meeting in September of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, F.P.s played a prominent part. Lord Provost Henry Alexander* (2881-91), M.A., was Chairman of the Local General Committee, and Edward William Watt* (1883-94), M.A., was Joint Honorary Secretary. The arrangements for the Garden Party held at King's College were in the hands of the Secretary of the University, Henry Jackson Butchart* (2890-99), B.L., who also arranged for the hospitality of the University as a whole. At the Garden Party the guests were received by the Chancellor of the University, Lord Meston* (2876-80), K.C.S.I., and the treasures of the University Library were shown by the Librarian, W. Douglas Simpson* (1902-23), D.Litt. The Lord Provost, at the great Inaugural General Meeting in the Capitol Cinema, prior to the delivery by Sir James H. Jeans of his Presidential Address, with dignity and felicity welcomed the visitors to Aberdeen. The Lord Provost also delivered a paper on " The Aberdeen Planning Scheme" to Section E (Geography). In a leading article dealing with the Aberdeen Meeting The Times said :— Lord Provost Alexander comes of a family distinguished in literature and

journalism ; his speeches were admirable, and he was able to show visitors, especially those who knew his city at the last Meeting half a century ago, what an enlightened civic authority can do in destroying the slums of the past, arranging amenities in the present, and preparing for the future.

In view of the Meeting, a very valuable " Scientific Survey of Aberdeen and District" was prepared. The authors and their subjects included Lord Provost Henry Alexander* on " Aberdeen in its Regional Setting"; W. Douglas Simpson* on " Pictish Symbolism and the Sculptured Stones of North-East Scotland" ; Emeritus-Professor Robert William Reid (1865-66), M.D., F.R.C.S., on " Prehistoric Archeology in Aberdeen District" ; John Duthie Webster* (1879-8o) on "Agriculture in Aberdeenshire in the Olden Days"; and Robert S. Clark* (1894-1901), D.Sc., on " The Fishing Industry." Among those who delivered papers or took part in discussions at the meetings of the Sections were :— Francis Sheed Anderson* (1909-2z), who delivered a paper to the Engineering Section on " Granite and Granite Quarrying." Charles Barron Bisset* (1909-18), M.A., B.Sc., who was joint author of a paper to the Geology Section " On Some Granites of Aberdeenshire." James Cooper Clark* (2894-96), who spoke to the Anthropology Section on " An Aztec Manuscript known as the Collection of Mendoza."

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Dr. George K. Fraser (1907-08), M.A., D.Sc., who spoke on " Peats •and Peaty Soils," and Edward Wyllie Fenton* (1895-1908), M.A., who spoke on " Some Aspects of the Influence of Grazing on Vegetation," to a joint meeting of the Botany and Agriculture Sections. Maitland Mackie* (1897-1902), who spoke on "The Fattening of Store Cattle " to the Agriculture Section. Professor J. J. R. Macleod* (1884-93), D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., who took part in a symposium on " Nutrition in relation to Disease," at a joint meeting of the Physiology and Agriculture Sections. Charles Strachan* (1919-25), M.A., who spoke on " Adsorption of Gaseous Isotopes " to a joint meeting of the Mathematics and Chemistry Sections. In the memorable presentation in His Majesty's Theatre of " Town and Gown : A Medley of Fact and Fiction concerning Aberdeen and its University," F.P.s took a very prominent part. Among the more outstanding were Philip R. Mitchell (1916-22), George E. Swinney* (1918-31), Charles Ross Irvine* (1922z6), M.A., B.Sc. ; Horace Walker* (1922-28), M.A. ; Douglas S. S. Marr* (1919-32), James F. Mackay* (1919-32), Albert Christie* (1919-29), M.A. ; and Thomas F. Robson* (191831), M.A. The Convener and Business Manager was James S. Stephen* (1919-29), M.A. DEGREES AT ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY.

At the Summer Graduation at Aberdeen University degrees were conferred on the following F.P.s :— Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) :— Arthur Raymond Gordon Emalie* (1919-22), M.Sc. (Agr.) (Toronto). Thesis—" The Calcium and Phosphorus Metabolism of the Adult Fowl." Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) :— Alexander Cruickshank* (1911-17), M.B., Ch.B., with Honours for the Thesis—" Onchocerca Volvulus (Leuckart), its Occurrence in the Southern AngloEgyptian Sudan and its Significance in the Etiology of Endemic Blindness." James Robertson Monro Mackie* (1920-27), M.B., Ch.B., with Honours for the Thesis—" Dystrophia Myotonica ; a Clinical, Biochemical and Genealogical Study of the Disease." Master of Arts (M.A.) :— Allan Cameron Frazer (1925-3o), with First Class Honours in English (Language and Literature).

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William Ferrier Mayor* (1923-3o), with Third Class Honours in Latin-French. Royston John Milne* (1918-3o), with Second Class Honours in English (Language and Literature). James Souter Stephen* (1919-29), with Second Class Honours in History. Thomas Falconer Robson* (1918-3i). Gordon Profeit Wallace* (1920-29 and 193o-31). Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) :— Donald James Dawson (1919-27). Edward Dunn (1919-24), with Second Class Honours in Zoology. Alexander Fraser MacBean* (192o-3o). Ellis Edward Paul Murray* (1925-3o). William Smith* (1921-30). Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (B.Sc.Agr.) :— Angus William Grant* (1926-3o). Archibald McKenzie* (1922-31). Eric Desmond Robertson* (1928-3i). Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.Sc.Eng.) :— Alexander Merrie Hardie* (1918-28), M.A.—in Mechanical Engineering. Bachelor of Medicine (NI.B.) and Bachelor of Surgery (Ch.B.) Alastair James Beddie* (1927-29). Edward Cay* (1918-25). John Taylor Grassie* (1920-28). Charles Ludwig (1917-26), with Second Class Honours. Alistair Philip Macdonald* (1913-24). John Clark MacGregor* (1926-29). John Ramage Marshall Sangster (1920-24). John Wallace Milne Sutherland* (1920-24 and 1928-29) In the Faculty of Law Maurice Cramb* (1916-26), M.A., I.L.B., was awarded the Edmond Prize (to the student who has the highest number of marks and who has attended the classes of Scots Law and Conveyancing). In the Faculty of Medicine Eric Kennedy Cruickshank* (192o-32) was awarded the Lizars Gold Medal in Anatomy ; Charles Ludwig (1917-26) was awarded the Murray Gold Medal and Scholarship (to the most distinguished graduate in medicine, M.B., Ch.B.) ; and Reginald Joseph Twort* (1916-25) was awarded the Bertie Russell Gold Medal in Pathology.

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OBITUARY. Peter Crombie Adams* (1876-78) died at his residence,

26o Broomhill Road, Aberdeen, on z7th September, 1934, aged 71 years. He was the son of the late Mr. John Adams, tea merchant, Aberdeen, After leaving the School, he served as an apprentice with the firm of Pratt & Keith, drapers, Aberdeen, and then was in London for some time. In 1885 he set up in business as a draper in Aberdeen, next door to his father's wellknown tea-merchant's shop in The Green, and in 1896 was joined by his brother, CHARLES CROMBIE ADAMS (1884-86), the name of the firm becoming Messrs. P. & C. Adams. His two sons were pupils at the School—JOHN CROMBIE ADAMS (1914-16) went to Canada in 1921, and ARTHUR JAMES ADAMS* (19193O) recently qualified as a veterinary surgeon. James Ross Campbell, M.A., who was a pupil at the School in 1886, died in Aberdeen on 14th November, 1934, aged 68 years. He was appointed head master of the Public School, Daviot, Aberdeenshire, in 1896, and retired in 1931. Alexander Doig Craig (1882-83), youngest son of the late Thomas Craig, tobacco manufacturer, Aberdeen, died at Sydney, New South Wales, on z7th July, 1934, aged 6o years. He was an architect in the New South Wales Government Service. Howard Graham Drummond* (1894-98) died in Aberdeen on z7th November, 1934, aged 5o years. He succeeded his father, the late Mr. John Drummond, as a leather merchant in Aberdeen, and was latterly managing director of Messis. H. G. Drummond & Co., Ltd. In his younger days he was a keen mountaineer, and was one of a party of five (including four F.P.s) who climbed the six highest Cairngorms in one day, zest June, 1909. The party started from Loch Builg at midnight and reached the lower bothy in Glen Einich at 7 p.m. The total distance was 28 miles, with 9,000 feet of climbing, and the time was 19 hours. The three other F.P.s in the party were H. J. BUTCHART* (1890-99), HENRY KELLAS (1881-87), and IAN M. MCLAREN (1896-1901). H. J. Butchart is now the sole survivor of the F.P.s. Drummond is survived by two sons—IAN MACKENZIE DRUMMOND (1929-34), who recently entered his father's business ; and HUGH MACKENZIE DRUMMOND, who is a pupil at the School. William Brand Duffus* (1908-16), C.A., fourth son of the late ALEXANDER DUFFUS (1871-76), advocate, died in Aberdeen after a long illness on loth August, 1934, aged 32 years. He served his apprenticeship as a chartered accountant with Messrs. G. & J. McBain, C.A., Aberdeen, and was admitted a member of the Aberdeen Society of Chartered Accountants in February, 1927. From that year he was on the staff of Messrs. Thomson, McLintock & Co., C.A., London.

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leaders of engineering education in Aberdeen, and one of the founders of the Aberdeen Mechanical Society. Mr. Nicol was created an O.B.E. in 1920 in recognition of his services in maintaining the efficiency of the port of Aberdeen during the War. He was one of the original members of the F.P. Club when it was founded in 1893, and held the Presidency in 1912-13. His only surviving son iS GEORGE GORDON NICOL* (1894-1903), D.S.O., A.M.Inst.C.E., partner in the firm of Messrs. Henderson & Nicol, chartered civil engineers, Aberdeen. Two of his daughters are married to F.P.S—DOUGLAS FALCONER* (1891-1900), and WILLIAM B. WILLIAMSON* (1900-02). Surviving brothers are JAMES B. Nicol,* (1881-83), architect, Aberdeen, and GEORGE A. Nxcot* (I88z-83), engineer surveyor, Hull. David Herbert Rennett* (I9io-11) died in a nursing home at Aberdeen on 5th November, 1934, aged 3o years. He was R 1 M.A., O -7-R--3„ the elder son of JAMES BARCLAY RENNErr* (R advocate and chartered accountant in Aberdeen, and served as an apprentice architect with Messrs. Kelly & Nicol, at the same time studying at Gray's School of Art and the School of Architecture, Aberdeen. He obtained his diploma in architecture in 1926, and in the following year went to London, where he was employed in the Architects' Department of the London County Council, under GEORGE TOPHAM FORREST* (1879-89), F.R.I.B.A. Latterly he held an appointment in the Architects' Department of the Tottenham Urban District Council. He was a keen member of the 14th London Regiment (London Scottish). Samuel Craigie Robertson (1894-96) died at Hamilton, Bermuda, on 24th August, 1934, aged 53 years. John Roy (1879-84), solicitor, died in Aberdeen on 7th July, 1934, aged 69 years. He was the elder son of the late Dr. John Roy, who was for a long period head master of Dr. Brown's Public School, now Skene Square Primary School, Aberdeen, and after leaving the Grammar School, studied law and qualified as a law agent in 1896. Thereafter he was employed for many years in the office of Mr. William M. Sellar, advocate, and later with the firm of Messrs. W. M. Sellar and Patterson, advocates, Aberdeen. James Alastair Russell* (1907-15) died in Aberdeen on 6th August, 1934, aged 35 years. He was a son of the late Rev. JAMES ALEXANDER RUSSELL (1868-71), M.A., for many years minister of Causewayend Free Church, Aberdeen. He was trained as an engineer and architect in the office of Messrs. Walker & Duncan, Aberdeen, his apprenticeship being interrupted by the War. He " joined up " at the age of eighteen, and served mainly with the R.A.S.C. in France. After being demobilized, he completed his apprenticeship, and was for a time in Forres. In 1928 he was appointed Master of Works

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for Skye and the Outer Islands under the Inverness County Education Authority. There he contracted the illness which eventually caused his death. He was an A.R.I.B.A. A. G. Angus Sangster (1918-32), only son of Mr. Alexander Sangster, died at 113 Desswood Place, Aberdeen, on 19th September, 1934, aged zi years. Henry Asheton Smith-Spark (1870-75) died at Dunstan House, Burnham, Somerset, on zoth July, 1934, aged 74 years. He was a son of the late Mr. Henry Smith of Craigie Park, Aberdeen, and after graduating in arts at Aberdeen University in 1879, qualified as a solicitor in 1883. He never practised as a lawyer, but became assistant land steward at Pawlett, Bridgwater, Somerset. He had lived in retirement for a good many years. Brothers of his at the School were CECIL GEORGE SMITH-SPARK (1870-75), M.A., who is now living in retirement at Bridgwater, Somerset, and GERALD SPARK SMITH-SPARK* (1874-79), M.A., who has been for many years a solicitor in the Temple, London. James Stewart* (1863-66) died at Park Cottage, Laurencekirk, on 15th November, 1934, aged 85 years. A son of the late Mr. Samuel Stewart, farmer, Sandhole, Fraserburgh, he served his apprenticeship as an engineer in Glasgow, and thereafter was employed as a draughtsman with the firm of John Elder and Co., latterly known as the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan. He then went to sea as an engineer in the service of the Orient Line, and was eight years with the Company as assistant superintending engineer. For thirteen years he was superintending engineer and overlooker for Messrs. Adam Bros., London and Newcastle, and then was in business on his own account in Newcastle as a consulting engineer and surveyor. He retired in 1920, and thereafter resided at Laurencekirk. Mr. Stewart was one of the members of the F.P. Club who were pupils of the School 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. Albert Edward Strachan* (I 920-29) died in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 29th September, 1934, aged 20 years. He was seriously injured in a motor accident on the South Deeside Road on the night of 24th August, when, along with three companions, he was motoring to Strachan in a two-seater car with some camping gear. Along with one of his companions he occupied the dickie seat. As the car was taking a bend in the road it skidded. The driver endeavoured to correct the skid, but the car went into another, the road being slippery after a shower of rain. It slid sideways into a ditch, which it ran along for about twenty yards, scraping the wall. Strachan's head came into violent contact with a sharp, protruding stone, and he never recovered from the severe injuries he received.

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John Stewart Watt* (1869-75), M.A., LL.B., solicitor, died in Aberdeen on z6th September, 1934, aged 76 years. He was O R 3,42„ the elder son of the late JOHN WATT, Junr. (R ) advocate, Aberdeen, and graduated at Edinburgh in arts in 1882 and in law in 1888. In the latter year he was admitted a member of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen, and became a partner in the firm of J. & J. S. Watt, advocates. He went to Alberta, Canada, in 1913, where he became partner with his S011, ARTHUR STEWART WArr (1894-?), M.A., LL.B., in the firm of Watt & Watt, barristers and solicitors, Wetaskiwin. Returning to Aberdeen in 1920, he worked for six years as an assistant to Mr. Henry J. Gray, advocate, after which he set up on his own account. THE LATE DR. A. A. MORRISON.

In the last issue of the Magazine the death was recorded of Arthur Andrew Morrison* (1870-73), C.M.G., M.A., M.D., and immediately after it appeared, copies of Egyptian newspapers reached this country, containing glowing tributes to his life of service in Alexandria for more than fifty years. During his professional career he performed over 30,000 operations, his busiest year being 19zo, when he performed 2,046, including 279 in the month of September. His patients were of all creeds and races, the majority being native fellaheen, whose qualities he appreciated, whose whims he humoured, whose different patois he imitated, and who all adored him. The following is part of a notable tribute that appeared in The Egyptian Gazette :— The outstanding feature of Morrison's career was his single-hearted devotion to duty. This was made possible by a magnificent physique which permitted him with impunity to impose upon his strength burdens which would have broken down any man of less rugged character and temperament. For eight years, from 1913 to 1921, he never took a day's holiday, not even a Sunday afternoon off from duty. At that rime he was frequently in the operating theatre from 6 a.m. to noon ; sometimes performing over twenty operations in a morning. He was none the worse, he declared, for that eight years of terrific effort. " Hard work kills nobody," he affirmed, " what does kill is hard work plus pleasure-hunting." During all those strenuous years Morrison had no recreations, never played a game of bridge, tennis, or golf. His mode of life, had it not been inspired by high ideals of service, would have seemed almost intolerably overburdened with toil. But it was a life rich in service to suffering humanity and equally rich in the moral and spiritual satisfactions it yielded the man who lived it. A FORMER MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL STAFF.

Thomas Wilfred Himsworth, M.A., died at North Berwick

on 31st July, 1934. He was a graduate of Edinburgh University and entered the service of the Aberdeen Education Authority as a teacher of French in the Grammar School in 1927. He had been in failing health for a considerable time. He was unable to resume duty at the School after the summer holidays in 1933, and his resignation was tendered near the close of last session

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Marriages. Anderson (t9t8-14).—At Queen's Cross Church, Aberdeen, on 12th July, 1934, ALEXANDER DONALD STEWART ANDERSON,* M.A., C.A., elder son of Mr. William Anderson, Little Haddo, Newburgh, to Sheila, daughter of Mr. John H. Garden, 4 Harcourt Road, Aberdeen. Brown (i9u7-24).—At Ferryhill South Church, Aberdeen, on 26th September, 19;4, DOUGLAS STEWART BROWN," younger son of Mr. A. G. Brown, 58 St. Swithin Street, Aberdeen, to Louisa Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. Ben Fletcher, 97 Forest Avenue, Aberdeen. Bruce (I915-24).—At Cults East Church, on 29th September, 1934, GEORGE WILLIAM BRUCE,* younger son of Colonel Robert Bruce* (1886-89), M.D., Thoresby, Cults, to Thelma, daughter of Mr. David J. Dewar, Cosic Brae, Cults. Clarke (19oz-o8).—In King's College Chapel, University of Aberdeen, on 7th August, 1 934, IAN ANDERSON CLARKE,* M.A., son of John Clarke, LL.D., Chanonry House, to Margaret Elphinston, youngest daughter of the Very Reverend Principal Sir George Adam Smith, D.D., LL.D., Chanonry Lodge, Old Aberdeen. Cruickshank (1918-23).—At Cheribon, Java, on 31st August, 1934, DOUGLAS Scorr CRUICKSHANK,* Batavia, to Eva, daughter of Dr. L. O. V. Kongsted Jensen, Cheribon. Duncan (1915-18).—At St. Mary's Chapel, East Church of St. Nicholas, Aberdeen, on zznd August, 1934, CECIL ALEXANDER BIRNIE DUNCAN,* elder son of Mr. A. Duncan, 287 Great Western Road, Aberdeen, to Angela Jeanne, second daughter of Mr. W. S. Loftus, Stanhope, Grove Side, Great Bookham, Surrey. Galloway (x9o5-16).—At the West Church of St. Nicholas, on ioth October, 1934, HAROLD WILLIAM GALLOWAY,* second son of Mr. John Galloway, Gordondale, Aberdeen, to Evelyn Allan, only daughter o( Mr. Joseph Johnston, advocate, 395 Great Western Road, Aberdeen. Glennie (1910-16).----At the George Hotel, Edinburgh, on 27th July, 1 934, FRANCIS MCLEOD GLENNIE to Ethel Janet Osgood, Castle Douglas. Grant (1911-17).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on znd August, 1934, BERTTE JAMEs GRANT,* M.A., son of Mr. and Mrs. James Grant, 121 Clifton Road, to Mabel Shepherd, elder daughter of Mr. John Milne, 15 Balmoral Place, Aberdeen. Gray (19t5-I6).—At All Souls', Langham Place, London, on 18th September, 1934, iOMN GEORGE BRUCE GRAY, youngest son of the late Alexander Gray,Dunalastair, Queen's Road, Aberdeen, and Mrs. Gray, Dunriach, Cults, to Helen Stevens, only daughter of Mr. W. Stevens, Durban, South Africa. Kilgour (19z9-23).—At the Parish Church, Bromley, Kent, on 18th July, 1934, GORDON KILGOUR,* younger son of Mr. W. Kilgour, 417 Great Western Road, Aberdeen, to Muriel May, younger daughter of Mr. H. J. Cutler, Bromley. Leith (1912-23).--At John Knox Church, Aberdeen, on zoth June, 1934, JOHN HENRY LEITH,* SOD of Mr. John L. Leith, 75 Argyll Place, Aberdeen, to Christina Meatus, daughter of Mr. George S. Farquhar, t 8 Merkland Road, Aberdeen. Leys (1913-21).—At Radnor Park Congregational Church, Folkestone, on 27th October, 1934, JAMES LEH, eldest son of the late Charles Leys and of Mrs. Leys, 29 Harcourt Road, Aberdeen, to Mary Forbes (Daisy), elder daughter of the late James Patrick Farquharson and of Mrs. Farquharson, 7o Stanley Street, Aberdeen.

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Macdonald (I919-22).--At St. Clement's (Steeple) Church, Dundee, on 31st July, 1934, JoHN MACDONALD,* M.A., elder son of Mr. John Macdonald, Schoolhouse, Peterculter, to Isobel Margaret Honeyman, M.A., only daughter of the late Mr. Robert R. Honeyman, Monghyr, India, and Mrs. Honeyman, 13 Muirend Avenue, Juniper Green, Edinburgh. Macmillan (1916-22).---On 23rd September, 1934, WILLIAM GEORGE MACMILLAN,* Ph.D., only son of Mr. W. T. Macmil6n, 32 Ferryhill Place, Aberdeen, to Doris Farquhar, M.A., second daughter of Mr. J. Farquhar, " Braehead," Buckie. Milne (19o7-15).—At Hodnet Church, Shropshire, on 27th Seiptember, Captain ROBERT ARTHUR MILNE,* Royal Engineers, son of Mr. Arthur P. Milne,* Little Orchard, Mayford, near Woking, to Alice Cecil Emily, daughter of Sir Robert Lynch Blosse, Bart., of Peplow Hall, Hodnet. Moneta (x922-17).—At the Imperial Hotel, Aberdeen, on 21st August, 1934, DAVID BEGG MoattEN, Aberdeen, to Charlotte Mary Robertson, Huntly. Munro (1918-27).—In London, on z6th July, 1934, NEIL MUNRO,* youngest son of the late Donald Munro and of Mrs. Munro, Ravenswood, Banchory, to Sylvia Grace, daughter of the late J. Elkin and of Mrs. Elkin, Knellsboro' House, Knaresborough, Yorks. Robertson (1907-I 8).—At Bellahouston Parish Church, Glasgow, on 22nd September, 1934, ALAN GRAEME ROBERTSON,* Kuala Lumpur, F.M.S., to Winnie, daughter of the late William Wilton and Mrs. Wilton, Pollokshields, Glasgow. Shaw (1908-tz).—At Imperial Hotel, Aberdeen, on roth July, 1934. IAN MURRAY SHAW, Malacca, S.S., son of the late James Shaw, and of Mrs, Shaw, 42 Beaconsfield Place, Aberdeen, to Alice, youngest daughter of Mr. Robert S. Jessamine, 48 Elmbank Terrace, Aberdeen. Shirran (1914-19).—At West Church, Fraserburgh, on 27th June, 1934, EDWARD HENRY SHIRRAN, elder son of Mr. A. M. Shirran, Demcleugh, Cutts, and late banker, Braemar, to Olive, second daughter of Mr. W. M. Stewart, Victoria Street, Fraserburgh. Smith (I916-22).--At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 14th July, 1934, JAMES EDWARD SMITH,* B.Sc., Ph.D., only son of Mr. A. Smith, 15o Broomhill Road, to Ethel Annie Burns, M.A., only daughter of Mr. John S. Bums, M.A., Annficld House, Great Western Road, Aberdeen. Strachan (1915-18).—In New Rcstalrig Church, Edinburgh, on 3oth July, 1934, DOUGLAS EDWARD STRACHAN,* M.I.C.E., eldest son of Mr. Andrew Strachan, Roslin, Banchory, to Hetty Ebba Paterson Cooper, B.A., daughter of the late Rev. John Cooper (1884-88), M.A., and Mrs. Cooper, L.L.A., 13 Lismore Crescent, Edinburgh. Summers (1917-27).—At Lingdale Church, on 27th October, 1934, Dr. GORDON J AMIESON SUMMERS, only son of Mr. John Summers, 14 Dee Street, Aberdeen, to Clarke Leonora, daughter of Mr. Leslie Frankland, Hillcrest, Lingdale, Yorks. Wilson (1921-26).—At St. Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, on zznd September, 1934, JOHN BRUCE WILSON, younger son of Dr. E. Bruce Wilson, 19 Larkhall Rise, Clapham, London, to Margaret Gordon, only daughter of Dr. S. D. Fairweather, 168 Bon-Accord Street, Aberdeen. Wood (1912-24).—At King's College Chapel, Old Aberdeen, on nth August, 1934, DOUGLAS Mont Woon,* M.A., LL.B., younger son of the late James M. A. Wood, advocate in Aberdeen, and of Mrs. Wood, 24 Gordondale Road, Aberdeen, to Nina Montgomery, third daughter of Mrs. A. B. Thomson, Hove, and grand-daughter of Mr. James D. Littlejohn, 13 Louisville Avenue, Aberdeen.

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Squash Rackets. The last annual handbook of the Squash Rackets Association discloses the information that, of the seventy-five clubs affiliated to the Association, only one, the Aberdeen Squash Rackets Club, is in Scotland ; but there is evidence to show that squash rackets, both locally and generally, has been rapidly increasing in popularity within recent years. It is recognized that Aberdeen has long been a stronghold of the game of badminton in the North of Scotland, but, perhaps, it is not so well known that a Squash Rackets Club has been in existence in Aberdeen for more than twenty years. A few years ago the Edinburgh Academicals Club was presented with two excellent courts, which are situated at the Club's football ground at Raeburn Place, and within recent months a new squash club has been formed in Glasgow. There are also several privately-owned courts in Scotland, but in England many new clubs are being formed, and probably the Thames House Squash Club, Millbank, S.W. t., the largest squash club in the world, which has now fifteen courts, owns as many courts as there are north of the Border. The growth of squash as a popular game is doubtless retarded by the somewhat heavy initial cost of building courts, for squash cannot be played, like badminton, in church halls and similar buildings which are used also for other purposes. Moreover, although most squash courts have a gallery from which a limited number of onlookers may watch the play, it would usually be difficult to provide suitable accommodation for a crowd of spectators. Many newspapers and magazines, however, have recently been giving much more publicity to the game, and several new books on squash have been published, including one by F. D. Amr Bey, the Open Champion, whose amazing prowess at the game has made his name familiar to many who have never seen a squash court. In 1932 there was started a monthly publication known as " Squash Rackets and Fives," which is devoted solely to the interests of squash and kindred games. The local club occupies premises at So Hardgate, Aberdeen, which contain two courts, a dressing room, spray room, and other accommodation. There are at present over sixty members, of whom more than forty are A.G.S.F.P.s, and the membership is steadily increasing both in numbers and enthusiasm. Such is the enthusiasm that last year a team of five, all F.P.s, travelled to Newcastle and Durham in order to play against teams from that district, and on the week-end of a Rugby International Match at Murray-field, an Aberdeen team played against teams from the Edinburgh Academicals S.R. Club at Edinburgh. These matches were so successful and so much enjoyed by all

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concerned that there is every prospect that they will become annual fixtures. The game has many advantages. In Aberdeen, at least, it is comparatively inexpensive, and the cost and upkeep of the equipment which a player requires is small. Squash may be played in artificially-lighted courts, at any time of the day or night, in any weather and in all seasons. A natural weightreducer, it provides a pleasant and interesting way of taking exercise, and will keep one in training at a minimum expenditure of time. This feature commends it specially to business men of sedentary occupation. The initial stages are not tedious—a beginner is fascinated as soon as he commences to play, and although the game may be strenuous enough to suit the most robust, it need not be violent. The expert prefers to rely on skill and cunning rather than on force. Squash is not difficult to learn, but, of course, practice promotes proficiency. As secretary of the local club, the writer is often asked to describe the game to the uninitiated, and, in the hope that some readers may be interested, he ventures to quote here from an article which appeared over his initials in the Aberdeen Press and journal of 27th January, 1933 :— The game, which is more easily demonstrated than described, is played between two players, with rackets and a ball, in a rectangular court enclosed on four sides. The dress usually adopted consists of singlet, shorts, socks, and rubber-soled shoes. The racket, which weighs about 7i ounces, is 27 inches long, and has a circular gut-strung head about 8 inches in diameter. A very good racket may be purchased for thirty shillings or less. The hollow ball, made of black rubber, is about ri inches in diameter. The diagram is intended to give some idea of the nature and dimensions of the court. The dotted lines represent the sides of the court, and the reader should imagine the sides as perpendicular, and at right angles to the floor, so that the duplicate points A, B, C, and D coincide. In a standard covered court the front wall is made of " composition," the side and back walls of " composition" or wood, and the floor of wood. The " board " or " tell-tale " fixed upon the front wall is a band of material which makes a resonant sound when struck by the ball. The walls are white ; the lines red, and two inches in width. The players enter the court by a door which fits flush with one of the walls. The server, known as " hand-in," standing with at least one foot in one or other of the delimited areas in each half-court

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(called " service-boxes "), serves the ball on to the front wall so that on its return its first bounce on the floor will occur in the half-court furthest from the server. After scoring an ace the server serves from the other box. A

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A service is a fault if the ball is served on to or below the " cut " line (called a " cut "), or if the ball served first touches the floor (a) on or in front of the short line (called a " short "), or (b) in the wrong half-court. A service is not a fault, however, on account of the ball, after leaving the front wall, striking the back or side walls before bouncing in the proper half-court, and the striker (known as " hand-out") may, if he chooses, return the ball before it has bounced on the floor. " Hand-out " may also (and frequently does) " take " a fault. The server " serves his hand out " and loses the stroke if the ball is served on to or below the " tell-tale " or out of court, or against any part of the court before the front wall, or if he serves two consecutive faults. When a good service has been delivered the players return the

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ball alternately until one or other fails to make a good return. A return is good if the ball, before bouncing twice on the floor, is returned by the striker on to the front wall above the " board " without touching the floor or any part of the striker's body or clothing, provided that the ball is not hit twice or out of court. After the service, when the ball is in play, it may fall anywhere on the floor of the whole court and may be struck off a side wall, or even off the back wall, on to the front wall. After making a stroke a player must do all that he can to give his opponent a fair view of the ball and to avoid interfering with his opponent when the latter is endeavouring to return it. A player seeks to retain a position near the mid-line and about half-way along it, and to keep his opponent constantly out of position by playing well-timed, well-placed strokes, varied in pace and direction. A stroke which often leads to the winning of an ace is one played along a side wall with " good length," so that the ball, on reaching one of the corners formed by the back and side walls, quickly loses velocity and cannot readily be returned before it bounces on the floor a second time, but a low and accurate " angle shot " off a side wall, if judiciously played, will often prove no less effective. As would be expected, experts emphasize the importance of correct footwork and of " keeping the eye on the ball." Aces may be scored only by " hand-in." When " hand-in " wins a stroke, he scores an ace ; when " hand-out " wins a stroke, he becomes " hand-in " and obtains the service. The player who first wins nine aces wins the game, except that if the score is " eight-all," " hand-out " may set the game to two, in which case the player who first scores two more aces wins the game. A match consists of the best of five games. The rules make provision also for the allowance of " lets " in certain circumstances, and there is an interesting system of handicapping players by the receiving or owing of points, and the receiving or owing of " hands " (which may roughly be defined as " innings " or " chances of serving "). The foregoing description of squash and its rules is far from being exhaustive, but if it succeeds in interesting any potential player in this excellent game, it will not have been written in vain. Any A.G.S.F.P. who is interested in squash in Aberdeen and is not already a member of the Aberdeen Squash Rackets Club, is invited to communicate with the Hon. Secretary of the Club at 12 Bon-Accord Crescent, Aberdeen. ALEXANDER GRAY (1910-22).

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The Tercentenary of Dr. Patrick Dun's Bequest to the School. On the east tower of our School are the initials P. D. and the date 1631. How many Grammar boys, past and present, know for what these stand ? Yet they commemorate the finest endowment that our ancient School, through the seven hundred long years of her history, has ever received. But alas! its commemoration is to-day a source not of pride but of burning shame ; for the story of how Dr. Patrick Dun's fair bequest of the lands of Ferryhill to the masters of the Grammar School was dissipated by the Town Council of Aberdeen is a tale that it is impossible even now to read without hot indignation. In our own day and in Aberdeen we have become only too painfully familiar with the sinister phrase, " diversion of endowments " : but here is a case where an endowment of great value was first diverted to wrongful uses, and then almost wholly dispersed, not by an outside body of meddlers, but by the very trustees themselves, in whose hands it ought to have been sacred— a KripAL is del held on behalf of the School. Dr. Patrick Dun was the son of Andrew Dun, a burgess of Aberdeen. In all probability he was educated at our School, and thereafter proceeded to Marischal College, from which— apparently without graduating—he proceeded to Basel, where in 1607 he took his M.D., being described as " a very famous Professor in Germanie." Aberdeen University Library. still treasures his diploma, written on vellum and initialed in gold —though, sad to say, at some time when the Library was less cared for than now, the mice have got at the once succulent sheepskin 1 The Library also contains a number of books that had belonged to him, but not, unfortunately, a copy of his own famous work, Themata Medica, published at Basel in 1607. To see that we must go to the Library of Edinburgh University. It is a curious book, and is dedicated to three Aberdonian friends of the author—Bishop Peter Blackburn, Dr. Duncan Liddell, and Dr. James Cargill (the last two also being notable benefactors of the School). Soon after taking his doctorate Dun came back to his native city, and in 1610 became Professor of Logic and a Regent at Marischal College. In 1619 he was appointed its Rector, and in the same year also obtained the chair of Medicine at King's College. In 1621 he became first lay Principal of Marischal College. This office he held, through very troublous times, until his resignation in 1649, the year of King Charles's execution. His death appears to have taken place two or three years later. In addition to being its Principal he was also Marischal College's first Librarian. So great was his reputation as a practising doctor that when he was appointed Principal a curious provision was

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made to the effect that " quhen he salbe burdenit be nobill men in the cuntrie in tyme of thair seiknes to repair to thame as phisiciane, that he may lesumlie do the same without imputatioun of offence or bruck of dewtie on his pairt." He was clearly a man of substance, and when Marischal College was burned down in 1639 he contributed handsomely towards the new buildings. Dun's face—shrewd and kindly, with a strong mouth and a quizzical suggestion lurking about the eyes—still looks down on us from the fine portrait by Jamesone in the School Hall, reproduced herewith. It is dated 1631, the year of his bequest. Highly educated, skilled in affairs, munificent, devoted to his native town—such was the distinguished man who by his will, dated 3rd August, 1631, mortified the lands of Ferryhill to the Town Council of Aberdeen " for maintenance of four maisteris to ther Grammer School " : " to the intent that with the greater alacrity and chearfulness they may attend their charge, and be the more painful and vigilant in training up the youth committed to ther education in vertue and good letters." The lands thus " mortifycd ad pion was" are described as " ALL and HAILL the TOWN [farm buildings] and LANDS of FERRIEHILL, with the milne, milne lands, multures, and sequels therof, and with the haill ailhouss and smiddie crofts, houses, biggings, yards, tenements, tenendries, and services of frie tennents, parts, pendicles, and pertinents of the forenamed lands, togidder with the tcind sheaves of the samen." Subject to the usual burdens, and reserving his own liferent, Dr. Dun bequeathed the whole of this valuable property to the Provost, Baillies, and Council of Aberdeen, for the purpose aforesaid. He further directed that the rents of these lands should be invested until enough money should have accumulated to buy another piece of land sufficient to yield, along with the original gift, a yearly revenue of 1,200 merks, which sum was to be applied to the maintenance of the stipulated staff of four masters, including the Rector, who also taught the highest class. In these days the masters augmented their meagre pittances out of class fees, and so Dr. Dun laid down that the Rector was to have a salary of boo merks and his three colleagues each zoo, plus, in their cases, a fee of not more than 13S. 4d. Scots from each scholar, " unless he be the sone of a Marquis, Earle, Viscount, Lord, or Barron." (In those days, before schools like Fettes or Glenalmond were heard of, and when Eton and Harrow lay far below the Scottish horizon, the local noblemen and county gentry regularly sent their boys to our Grammar School.) Pupils in poor circumstances, and all who bore the name .of Dun, likewise all children of tenants on the Ferryhill estate, were to be taught free. The Town Council, as patrons of the mortmain, were given the right to nominate monthly visitors to ensure that the School was well conducted and the masters of good report. The will concludes with a solemn

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injunction that the mortification shall " STAND UNALTERABLE, INVIOLABLE, and UNCHANGEABLE in all tyme hereafter for ever." But—quis custodiet ipsos eustodes? The importance of this great bequest is apparent at a glance. By providing the four masters with an assured competence sufficient to attract men of good calibre and qualifications, it promised to place the School permanently on a sound economic footing, as well as to secure the blessings of free education to boys whose parents could not afford to pay fees. Dr. J. M. Bulloch says no more than the truth in describing Dun's bequest as being practically a refounding of the School. What happened to the bequest so solemnly declared, sub poena anathema/is, to be inviolable and unalterable for ever ? In 1653, when the Town Council assumed control, the stock of the Trust amounted to £74 8s. tofd. For some time the rents, and the interest on sums lent out on various occasions from the capital, were duly added to the stock, until, in 1666, the Council considered that enough money had "accresced" to permit them, in terms of the will, to invest it in land. The total sum at that time amounted to £5 83 zs. 91'_d. In addition to this there was another mortification of 500 merks, " to the doctor of the gramer schooll ofthis brugh, as ane helpe to his provisione," which had been made to the Town Council in 1618 by " ane nighbour who obscures his name." This anonymous donor was believed to be Dr. Dun himself. But now begins the hanky-panky. Instead of buying land, as they were held bound to do, the Council proceeded to lend the money out, without adequate security, to various people, including certain of their own number. Two Provosts, one Baillie, and at least two Councillors figure in the sorry list, and all of them became insolvent, so that the Trust sustained a heavy loss. Legal expenses, in the efforts to recover, were also charged against it. Moreover, the Master of Mortifications was in the habit of retaining a large floating balance in his own hands, doubtless in order to facilitate these questionable operations, and on this balance he paid no interest. The sum he retained rose from £51 us. 8d. in 1656 to £191 4s. 34d. To add to the confusion, the Town had all ten years later. along been paying the masters the stipends provided by the Deed, before the stock had accumulated sufficiently to bear the burden. An alarming deficiency soon became apparent, which the Council sought to meet partly by not maintaining the full staff of four masters, and partly by not paying them their full salaries—or, alternatively, making these up from the Common Good and entering the moneys so applied as a debt due by the Trust. School prizes, even repairs to the buildings, were also sometimes illegally paid for out of the Trust. In 1677 the Council purchased, for the Town's behoof, the lands of Gilcomston, charging the price (Li ,444 8s. iofd.) in three

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equal proportions against the Dun Trust and two other mortifications. Of course this was an entirely illegal proceeding, for the capital of the Trust was the property of the masters of the School. The sad state of the stock at this time is revealed by a return made in 1681, from which it appears that the sum then amounted to £469 3s. zd., of which £187 os. 6id. was earning no interest, and of this latter sum £130 18s. ofd. was in the event wholly lost. It should be mentioned that the Town itself was borrowing freely from the Trust, though in these cases interest appears to have been duly paid. In 1752 the tacksman of the Ferryhill lands resigned his tack in exchange for an annuity, and so at last—just a century after the founder's death—the Council entered into full possession of the property. By this time the rental had increased to £Ioz zs. 7jd. Unfortunately the advent of the Town to full control merely prepared the way for further mischiefs, for instead of letting out the lands to rent, the Council proceeded to feu them off by public roup, to the great ultimate loss of the Trust. By this time the masters were getting restive. Their patience hitherto appears to have been phenomenal! Now at last, in 1753, they presented a petition to the Council for an increase in salary, basing their claim on the contention that, although the funds available had hitherto been inadequate to carry out the intentions of the founder, they were now " sufficient to yield a considerable increase to the petitioners." One imagines that the good men were entirely in the dark as to the real nature of the Council's intromissions with the stock. Much haggling followed, and in the end the dispute was referred to arbiters, one for each party, but, most remarkably, without an independent chairman. The Decreet Arbitral, dated iz Nov. 1754, ordained the Council to pay the masters £164 yearly (the value of the Ferryhill feu-duties), in the proportions fixed by Dr. Dun's will ; that, to recompense the Common Good for the payments towards salaries made up to date, the Town's debt to the Trust of £417 7s. 1'0. should be cancelled ; and that the balance should be applied towards building a new school and establishing an endowment fund for its maintenance, and for certain other minor purposes. It was, of course, utterly illegal for the Council to apply the money to this end, equally as it was illegal for the masters to concur. No doubt they were driven to acquiesce rather than face a legal tussle with their employers. The whole of this Decreet Arbitral was, in fact, completely ultra virtu, and it contributed disastrously to the further dissipation of the Trust. In 1739 the stock stood at £253 6s. 8d. ; in 176o at £249 2S. 8d. ; by 177o it had dropped to £Ioo. The school thus illegally built out of the Dun Trust was the predecessor of the present one, and its site has been recently marked by an inscribed stone, executed at the cost of the F.P.

Principal PATRICK DUN, M.D. (From the painting in the School Hall by Geotge Jamesone,1631.)

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Club, on the front of Gray's School of Art in Schoolhill. Its main door—the one through which Byron will have entered— is now preserved as the entrance to the pavilion on the north side of the present School. A sum of f,514 7s. 6d. was uplifted from the Dun Trust towards the new building. Not only this, but in the succeeding years up till 1775 further sums, totalling £146 4s. 4d., were applied from the Trust towards repairs of the School. By the foregoing unhappy series of transactions the masters of our School were deprived of salaries which, had the Trust been honestly managed, would by this time have amounted to sums much in excess of those usually paid to dominies at that period. Moreover, the benefit of free education was denied to those for whom the founder had intended such provision. A statement made up on behalf of the masters in 1796, and still preserved in the archives of the School, comments thus upon the situation :— " This decreet could only be good as long as it was not called in question, for it was ultra vires of the parties, as being in direct opposition to the deed of mortification—which expressly appoints the whole profits of the fund for the maintenance of the masters allenarly. Accordingly serious thoughts were entertained by the masters at the time about reducing it, but for a variety of reasons the attempt has never yet been made, and for the last 4o years and upwards their salaries have got no augmentation." In i8t 1 Walter Thom published his History of Aberdeen, and therein made what, so far as I am aware, was the first statement calling the attention of the general public to the grave scandal of the Town Council's misappropriation of the Dun Bequest. Evidently Thom had been shown a copy of the paper above referred to. His language certainly is not lacking in vigour :— " If this mortification had been managed in a proper manner, or rather, if it had not been grossly abused, the salaries of the teachers might have amounted to something so very considerable, perhaps to several hundred pounds to each, that the means of education would have been accessible to the lower classes of the town and neighbourhood of Aberdeen. . . . The mismanagement of Dr. Dun's mortification, therefore, has not only affected the interest of the four masters, but it has deeply injured that of thousands, who might have attended this seminary in virtue of the charitable intentions of the donor. . . . The injury sustained by the public, and particularly by the citizens of Aberdeen, from the mismanagement of Dr. Dun's mortification is sufficiently apparent ; and the turpitude of the crime cannot be palliated by any plea of ignorance, as, independently of the strict and explicit terms of the deed., the moral obligation to do justice, both to the masters and to the public, ought to

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have dictated better sentiments. The disgrace attachable to those who abused this valuable institution should be a beacon to warn the present and all future managers of benevolent donations from the danger that accompanies their misapplication, which will certainly be attended by the severest reprehension, the loss of character, and everything that a good man may deem valuable." It is amusing to contrast this robust language with the very guarded expressions of William Kennedy, whose Annals of Aberdeen was published seven years later. Kennedy was in close touch with the Town Council, of which he was for some time an employee, and it is probable that he thereby felt himself restrained from ventilating the matter too openly. Referring to the Decreet Arbitral of 17S4, he says :— " As that award was acquiesced in by the parties interested at the time, has ever since been acted upon, and remains unchallenged, it would be rather foreign to our purpose to make any animadversion upon it, however injurious it may have been considered to the interest of the masters. We merely state the facts and circumstances regarding this foundation as they have occurred, without commenting upon them." Despite the impassioned protest of Thom, the iniquitous Decreet Arbitral of 1754 remained in force, so far as I am aware without modification, until a new situation was created by the passing of the Education (Scotland) Act of 187z. During the interim the Council had, in 1797, as a result of a petition from the masters, given them an increase of £io each out of the Dun money, but this was withdrawn again in 18z8. In 1857 certain additions to their salaries were sanctioned out of the Common Good ; and in 1869 the Town Council appointed an Examiner, whose salary—I imagine quite illegally—was charged in part against the Dun Trust. Under the terms of the 1871 Act the control of the Grammar School, with the other schools in the city, passed from the Town Council to an ad hoc body, the School Board. To the new authority, under section 46 of the Act, fell the task of administering educational endowments in the city, and they were, therefore, necessitated to look into the whole tangled question of Dr. Dun's Mortification. The School Board appointed a special committee, the Grammar School and Endowments Committee, of which Mr. William Forsyth, editor of the Aberdeen Journal, and author of the Martyrdom of Kelavane, was Convener. In the early minutes of this committee the question of the Dun Bequest bulks large. At that time the capital amounted to £3,624 16s. 7d. The staff of the School consisted of the Rector and two classical masters who held permanent appointments, and five other masters appointed from year to year. Each teacher received the fees of his own class, and in some cases this was his whole salary. The Committee at first seem to have

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experienced considerable difficulty in obtaining permission from the Town Council to examine their records as to the Dun Bequest, and for some time relations between the two bodies were distinctly strained. At last the Board engaged a legal agent, who prepared a very full statement, which was submitted to the Board on 24th July, 1874. A considerable period of difficult negotiations followed, and in the end a compromise was reached, whereby the Council agreed to pay to the School Board at Martinmas the sum of £164 annually, being the amount agreed upon as the income of Dr. Dun's mortification —i.e. the feu duties of Ferryhill. This settlement still remains in force, but under the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929, the School, after an interval of more than half a century, again came under the control of the Town Council. It now seems likely that the pupils of the School are to be the ultimate beneficiaries of the Dun Mortification, for in the recently published draft of the Aberdeen Educational Endowments Scheme, 1934, provision is made for a payment of not less than /',13o each year to be so applied as to benefit boys attending Aberdeen Grammar School. This sum presumably takes the place of the £164 at present paid into the General Education Account. The old estate of Ferryhill, now all built over, must to-day be an extremely valuable property. Had it been retained intact and honestly administered by the Town Council, during these last three centuries, for behoof of the masters of the Grammar School, it is easy to imagine in what a favourable position the School to-day might have been. Obviously, of course, the Trust would have had to be adjusted to meet altering conditions. It would have been reasonable to admit the other masters, as the staff grew larger, to participate in the benefits alongside the original four. With the incoming of state-provided and stateaided education, an extensive reconstruction of the Trust would clearly have been necessary. But there seems no reason why a substantial increment of salary, in addition to the ordinary scales, might not have been available to teachers of the Grammar School, and the gain is obvious which this would have meant to the status and efficiency of the School. That this fair prospect has receded into the limbo of frustrated things is due solely to the dishonesty and carelessness of successive Aberdeen Town Councils in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Truly " the evil that men do lives after them! " It is just three centuries ago, on the 16th April, 1634, that the greatest of our School's endowments was intimated to the Town Council of Aberdeen, when " Mr. Patrick Dune, Doctor in Physick, and primar of the New College within the said Brugh," " compeirit in presence of the Provest, Baillies, and Councell of the Brugh of Aberdeine, " reported his intention to hand over the lands of Ferryhill on behalf of the Grammar

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School, and received the thanks of the City Fathers, who " acknowledged themselves, and the whole bodie of this commonality, greatlie obleist to the said Maister Patrick for such real expressione of his liberalitie and charitie to his native toune." In view of the tercentenary it has seemed worth while to gather together the sad story of the Dun Mortification and put it on record in our School Magazine. W. DOUGLAS SIMPSON. [Nora.—In "Bon Record: Records and Reminiscences of Aberdeen Grammar School from the Earliest Times by Many Writers," published in 1906, the Editor, the late Dr. H. F. Morland Simpson, printed numerous documents relating to the Dun Mortification. These brought the record down to the beginning of the 19th century, but apparently Dr. Simpson was unaware that the history and position of the Mortification were very fully gone into by the first School Board of Aberdeen, and that a definite settlement of the Town Council's liability was reached. It is, therefore, particularly appropriate that Dr. Simpson's son should have now brought the story down to date.—Ed. A.G.S.Magj

Four New Masters. In this issue of the Magazine are given the portraits of four new members of the School staff. Mr. Archibald Green Baxter, M.A., was in May appointed Assistant Mathematics and Science Master in succession to Mr. Alexander Speirs. He was a pupil of Inverurie Academy, and graduated M.A. at Aberdeen, with Second Class Honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, in 1931. He was awarded a Robbie Scholarship in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy for the year 1931-3 2. Mr. William Christie, M.A., was in June appointed to teach Classics and Spanish. He was a pupil of Robert Gordon's College, and graduated M.A. at Aberdeen in 1929, with Second Class Honours in Latin-Spanish. His first teaching post was in Kentish Town, London, and from 1931 he was on the staff of Fraserburgh Academy, where he taught Spanish, Latin, and English. Mr. William Cunningham, M.A., was in June appointed an Assistant French Master in succession to Mr. T. W. Himsworth (since deceased). He was a pupil of Preston Lodge Secondary School, Prestonpans, and graduated at Edinburgh in 1932, with First Class Honours in Modern Languages. He was " lecteur d'anglais " at Bordeaux University from November, 1933, to J une, 1934. Mr. John I. W. Milne, M.A., was in June appointed an Assistant Classical Master in succession to Mr. Hugh A. Murray, M.A. He was a pupil of Robert Gordon's College, and graduated at Aberdeen in 1931, with First Class Honours in Classics, being awarded at the same time the Simpson Greek Prize and the Robbie Gold Medal in Greek.

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The Boarding House on View. On Friday, 16th November, 1934, on the invitation of the Directors of the Boarding House Company, a large number of parents of pupils, shareholders, members of the School staff, and others specially interested in the School visited Grammar School House and inspected the recent alterations and improvements. To most of those present the extent of the accommodation now available and the completeness of the furnishing and equipment came as a surprise. There were very frequent expressions of admiration and appreciation, and there was general agreement that the Boarding House was probably the best of its kind, in Scotland at any rate. Mr. Edward W. Watt, Chairman of the Board of Directors, welcomed the guests at afternoon tea. He was accompanied by Lord Provost Henry Alexander, Mr. George Watson, President of the F.P. Club ; Mr. D. M. Andrew, Rector of the School ; Mr. James C. Duffus, Secretary of the Boarding House Company ; and Mr. A. G. Nicol Smith, one of the Directors. Mr. Watt said that the Boarding House was a recent venture, largely sponsored by the F.P. Club. The main idea of the Boarding House was to provide a home for boys who had not homes of their own in the city. Many of the Old Boys of the School settled down overseas, and when the time came for having their sons educated, they naturally thought of sending them to their own old School. Formerly there were practical difficulties in the way of this, but now F.P.s and others resident abroad could send their boys to the Boarding House with the full assurance that these would get an excellent education at the Grammar School, and would have every comfort and he well looked after in the House. Lord Provost Alexander and Mr. George Watson also spoke. A Visitor's Impressions. One of the ladies who was present at the inspection afterwards wrote as follows :— The new wing is a splendid addition, and you seem to have arranged for the maximum amount of light and air, both in the dormitory and the study. Boys sleeping and working in these rooms could not fail to be healthy. I was much taken with the playroom, too. There were some small boys playing with trains when I went in, and they seemed thoroughly at home. I don't know whether visitors were meant to penetrate to the kitchens, but I wanted to see the cooking arrangements and also the hot-water system. You must need great quantities of hot water with your new spray baths on the ground floor, as well as all the other baths, but that will easily be supplied by the gas boilers. The individual steel lockers for clothes and towels on the ground floor are an excellent idea. I should think you have made it impossible for the boys to catch cold after playing games, when they can bath and change immediately they come in, without even going upstairs.

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Grammar School House. At the recent official inspection of the Boarding House, Mr. George Watson, the President of the F.P. Club, remarked that he knew of no school in the country that could cater better for its boarders than does Aberdeen Grammar School at the present time. The School Boarding House now consists of the two large dwelling-houses 8 and 84 Queen's Road, with internal access from one to the other, and of a large annexe at the rear. Some idea of the capacity of the House may, perhaps, be gathered from a description of this annexe alone. On its top floor there is a very modern dormitory, divided into twelve cubicles. The floor and woodwork of this are of polished maple. Just outside it is a bathroom with seven wash-hand basins. In the dormitory on the floor below there are ten cubicles. A bathroom, with four basins, is within easy reach of the sleeping quarters, and also on this floor is the sick-room, containing two beds. Four plunge baths also adjoin the dormitory, there being nine such baths in the House altogether. On the ground floor of the annexe is a large Common Room, used by senior pupils. It is admirably suited for recreation or study, and contains twelve desks, each of which is allotted to a boy, and in the drawer of which he may keep his working requisites. The Common Room is also fitted with 38 bookshelves, and has a large brick fire-place. The ground floor of the annexe is entered from the east side of the House, and immediately inside the entrance and vestibule is the Locker Room, fitted with no fewer than 45 steel lockers, affording ample accommodation for each boy's sports equipment. Below each locker is a cage drawer or box for boots and shoes, and each locker is kept warm by means of hot air. The Locker Room opens out into yet another bathroom, fitted with six small-size basins and three w.c's. It has also alongside it a Changing Room, with built-in seats, close to the Spray-Bath Room, in which there are five shower baths. A pupil returning from Rubislaw Field does not pass further through the building in his playing kit than the Changing Room. Opposite the Locker Room is a Drying Room, where rugby kit is hung on wet days and where boots and shoes are dried and cleaned. To sum up, one can fully agree with Mr. Watson when he said that boys " are afforded every opportunity for getting dirty and for keeping clean." Those occupants of the House whose sleeping quarters are not in the annexe dormitories are accommodated in the main building. Six of the eight top-floor rooms are meantime being

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used. The youngest boys, pupils of Lower I, whose average age is seven, have a dormitory to themselves, adjoining which is the nurse's room, and a bathroom with six small-size basins. Meantime there are four boys at the Lower I stage, but there is accommodation in this dormitory for seven or more. The other two top-floor bedrooms are at present occupied by the Assistant House Master and the Head Prefect respectively. There is, too, on this floor a playroom for the younger boarders. The middle floor is taken up mainly by the Matron's and the House Master's quarters, but there is in addition another dormitory for younger boys, which at present has eight beds in it. On the ground floor are found the Junior Common Room, the Prefects Lounge, and the Dining Hall, with an up-to-date Service•Room adjoining it and communicating by lift with the kitchen, which is situated immediately underneath. The Servants' Quarters are in the basement in the front part of the main building, and behind is ample storage accommodation. There is adequate protection in the building against fire. Fire extinguishers are to hand on each floor, and there is an iron stairway serving both annexe dormitories. On the top floor are two Davey automatic fire-escapes. Life in the Boarding House. Activity in the Boarding House begins on week-days at 7.3o a.m., when the rising gong resounds through the building. At 7.55 the warning gong announces that breakfast will begin in five minutes' time, but on Saturdays and Sundays this meal is later than on other days. At 8.3o boys make their way to the School, generally in groups of two or three. Dinner is at i p.m., and the tea hour is invariably 5.3o. The tables in the Dining Hall are five in number, and are presided over by the Matron, the House Master, the Assistant House Master, and the Prefects. On sport half-days boys change into playing kit before proceeding to Rubislaw Field. After tea, boarders proceed to their Common Rooms for preparation of home lessons. In the case of Lower School pupils, " prep." occupies an hour or less, each pupil being tested orally on what he has prepared. Senior boys study by themselves in their own Common Room under supervision, and continue at work for periods varying from two to four hours. There is a ten-minutes break at 7 o'clock, and a break for supper at 8.3o p.m. Boys retire to bed according to their ages, the youngest leaving their Common Room for the Nursery immediately after " prep." " Lights Out " for them is at 7.3o p.m., and in all cases silence is insisted on half-an-hour after the time for leaving the Common Room. On Saturday morning, unless the weather renders it impossible, boys proceed either to the large playground to the rear

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of the House (formerly the property of the Aberdeen Lawn Tennis and Bowling Club), or to Rubislaw Field. In the afternoon, under the supervision of the House Master, all boys, save the youngest and those participating in School senior games, go to watch games. On Sunday, boys attend forenoon service at Church, and prior to dinner go for a walk under the care of Prefects. After dinner those who have invitations leave the House, to return for evening prayers at 7.15, and the younger boys attend Sunday School. Sunday evening, after Prayers, is devoted either to reading or to debating, but this winter a series of talks on different subjects is being arranged. The House already has its own " Parliament," at which matters pertaining to the Boarders' welfare are discussed. Annual Meeting of Boarding House Company. The Sixth Annual General Meeting of the Aberdeen Grammar School F.P. Club Boarding House Co. Ltd., was held in the registered of if ce of the Company, 7 Golden Square, Aberdeen, on nth October, 1934, Mr. Edward W. Watt, M.A., Chairman of the Company, presiding. The report of the Directors to the meeting stated that the building of the new back wing to, and the interior alterations on, the Boarding House property had continued throughout the whole year. These works were completed during the summer holidays, and the new wing was now in use. The House was, therefore, in a position to cater for a larger number of boarders, and the Directors were satisfied that the additional accommodation and other improvements made would meet the most exacting requirements. The average number of boys in residence in the House during the year was thirty-five, being the maximum capacity of the accommodation then available. During the year the Company had acquired at a very reasonable figure the tennis ground and pavilions situated on the other side of the back lane immediately behind the Boarding House. Part of this ground had been laid out as a playground, while the remainder had been maintained as hard tennis courts, three in number. The ground had been in use during the summer term, and had already proved to be a very advantageous acquisition for the Company. In view of the additional ordinary expenditure which had had to be incurred owing to the work on the alterations being in progress during the year, the Directors regarded the financial results of the year's working as eminently satisfactory. After allowing for depreciation, the profit for the year . . • • . • amounted to • £533 2 1 To this had to be added the amount carried forward in the last . . . . Report • . 116 14 41 • • Making a total available of

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Juvenile Humours and Confusions. No sun—no moon—no morn—no noon—no dawn—no dusk —no proper time of day—and, particularly in these days of burst boilers and their palzolithic but odoriferous substitutes (now happily exiled), no comfortable feel in any member . . . November! The gloomy month is the virtual nadir of the year's activities, the sour precursor of the solstitial pause, and is consequently selected, with true pedagogic perversity, as the occasion of those inquisitorial searchings of the juvenile mind which yield results that are rich and strange. November may be the month of fewest virtues, but it produces the main crop of howlers and juvenile Patio. Howlers are by Exam. out of Cram, or perhaps, so arbitrary is the sex of abstractions, viva voce; they are the bright shooting stars that illumine the dark firmament of intellectual travail, the quaint fungi brought to life by the fertilising agency of pressure operating on the hotbeds of mental chaos. It is now that a sense of the complete futility, perhaps even the fatuity, of learning sets in, and the even more complete dittos of instruction. This is referred to in one of D. H. Lawrence's reminiscences of his teaching days, " Last Lesson of the Afternoon," when he was contemplating the familiar " threescore of several insults of blotted pages and scrawl of slovenly work that they have offered me," and his exasperation bursts forth in : " What does it matter to me if they can write a description of a dog or if they can't ? What is the point ? To us both it is all my aunt! And yet I'm supposed to care with all my might." But let us not be too severe on the sport of hunting the quarry of useless knowledge. There is laughter in it. Prominent among the howler tribe is Malaprop. We learn that Solomon had 300 wives and 7oo cucumbers (a different variety of fruit could with more propriety have been suggested), that a priest wears a carburetter in church, that people sail about Venice in gorgonzolas, that Pope wrote in heroic cutlets, that the lungs are organs of execration, that the Chinese eat with pitchforks, that ruminating animals chew their cubs, that a certain knight was swallowed by an awful abbess that yawned in front of him, that Charon fried soles over the sticks, that marriage is a state of holy acrimony, that a certain ruffianly groom stood on the bride at midnight ; that Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock, that in ten years' time a young writer hoped to reach years of transgression, that an emolument is a soothing medicine, that the best thing Germany can do is to cease respirations, that food finally passes through the interestings, that paraffin is the next order of angels above seraphim, that bigotry is an obstinate attachment to more than one wife, that the posterior of an insect is its doxology. Translation, too, provides its tit-bits, the mental processes

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which produce them being usually fairly clear. Place aux dames is a ladies' waiting-room; sotto vote, in a drunken voice; they (fem.) have come, elles sont venuses; indites ad impedimenta se receperunt, the soldiers retreated to their baggages (a way they have in the Army) ; semper eadem, same again ; crematorium, a dairy; insidia, marriage (perhaps better, engagement) ; prima facie, the original complexion; homme d'esprit, a publican; cordon bleu, a teetotaler ; au bard de la mer, abroad with mother ; cum gran salis, though with a corn thou leapest ; nemo mortalis sapit omnibus horis, no mortal man is safe in public vehicles with women ; salle-d-manger, sales manager ; nota bene, penniless. Curious Biblical lore is occasionally revealed. No subject is " taught " with such assiduity, or with so distinctive, so specialized an approach as Scripture knowledge, and the teaching is often reflected in the rationalistic or fundamentalist bias shown by the answers, and in the corruptions of the majestic diction of the Authorised Version. The Tower of Babel was the place where Solomon kept his wives ; Sarah was Abraham's half-wife or midwife or Columbine ; the Pentateuch was a man who married five times (a tyeuch customer evidently) ; the widow's mite is the small child of any husbandless woman ; Joseph was so straight that Pharoah made a ruler of him ; Noah was not doing it (building the Ark) for earthly pay : it was a contract from Heaven ; " What mean ye by these stones ? " was what Goliath said to David ; Aaron was a good man who helped Moses with his conjuring tricks ; the angel told Abraham that he should bear a son, and Sarah, who was listening behind the door, laughed outright ; the first sin that came into the world was Eve ; surely to goodness mercy shall follow me all the days of my life ; he restoreth my sole and leadeth me in the paths of riches ; Jacob was a grab-all-you-can sort of man ; the prodigal son spent all his money on Charlotte and riotous loving ; Samson went to the theatre and brought down the house ; thus spake the syrup ; the sea and all that tinnamies. Misquotation and misapplication of quotation provide a fund of humours. Age cannot wither nor custom pale her definite variety (of make-up, presumably). Drink deep or taste not the aperient (Pierian) spring. Thick as autumnal thieves (leaves) that strode (strew) the brooks in Vallombrosa. They (the survivors of the " Revenge ") blest him in their pane that they were not left to Spain, to the corkscrew (thumbscrew) and the steak, for the Glory of the Lord. The red glare on Skiddaw roused the burglars of Carlisle. Tell me where is fancy bread (Fancy bred). Milton wrote a hymn " Letters from a Gladstone mind." " Get thee to a nunnery," said Henry VIII when Cromwell brought him Anne of Cleves to marry : also said by Polonius to Laertes (he was distinctly advising him not to). " Who's there in the name of Beelzebub," was what Macbeth said when he saw his wife's ghost. From Gray's " Elegy," Haply some hairy-

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headed swine (hoary-headed swain, probably Cockney). And from the " Ancient Mariner," All in a hot and copper sky the bloody sun at noon right up above the mast did stand, and (hesitating) so did the bloody moon. What angle wakes me from my floury bed ? Spoil the rod and spare the child. Your tanner will last you nine year, was said by Polonious to Laertes when giving him advice before going abroad. From Geography we have : the Doldrums are Army rations ; the fastest river in the world is the Nippissippi ; the capital of England is E ; there is a lot of squatters in Australia because of the high price of chairs ; a Red Indian's wife is called a squaw and his children squawkers ; the inhabitants of Paris are called Parasites ; the chief races of mankind are the Derby, the Oaks, and the Lincolnshire Handicap ; a spa is a place where people drink bath water ; the main feeders of the Amazon are alligators ; the Eskimos are God's frozen people ; the Mediterranean is connected with the Red Sea by the Sewage Canal ; the longest day in the Southern Hemisphere is Sunday ; the chief tributaries of the Nile are the juveniles ; New York stands on the Atlantic sideboard ; caoutchouc is what anybody says when they sneeze. The Grammar—Literature—English lesson is a thesaurus of juvenile knowledge ; an epitaph is a short sarcastic poem ; the future of he drinks is he is drunk ; a demagogue is a pot-bellied vessel for holding liquor ; an adage is a thing to keep a cat in (like the poor cat i' the adage) ; Aladdin had a ring, and every time he rang a Guinness sprang out of the ground (the influence of poster advertising is considerable) ; a passive verb is when the subject is the sufferer and the object the doer, as in, He is married to her ; after Milton lost his first wife he wrote " Paradise Regained " ; correct (a) the hen has three legs, (b) who done it ?—the hen never done it, God done it ; Poetry is a thing you make prose of ; Polonius was a mythical sausage ; the correction of, It was me who broke the window, is, It wasn't me who broke the window ; saturated is a term used for gentlemen who arc full up ; rejuvenation is the restocking of Palestine with Jews ; the dog-days are Tuesday and Thursday ; the opposite of evergreen is nevergreen ; a jointure is a set of false teeth used by both husband and wife ; a gauntlet is a little thin person ; the dog-star is Rin-Tin-Tin ; an active verb shows action as, he kissed her, but a passive verb shows passion, as, she kissed him ; Oliver Twist was born in the drab surroundings of a workhouse —his mother was present. Opening sentence of a dialogue between a horse and a motor car—Horse loquitur, What is that blasted thing up in the air ? Transport is a kind of drink— probably a reminiscence of, But, oh, what transports of delight from thy pure chalice floweth; the opposite of upright is downright, as in the sentence, A is an upright idiot, but B is a downright idiot ; he heard a horn blown and was struck in the back—a lady was evidently trying to pass ; every shepherd tells

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his tale under the hawthorn in the dale, means that the shepherds in the valley are making love to the girls ; the pipe of Hermes is another name for Mercury, because the thermometer is filled with mercury, and Hermes is also called Thermes ; a symposium is something like a symphony but not quite so bad ; the shirt of Nessus is the thing worn between the collar and the pants ; when we were out in the car on Sunday father misjudged a woman crossing the street—a delicate example of euphemistic understatement ; a pollygon is a dead parrot ; an axiom is a truth that cannot be rectified ; collective nouns, a whelp of hounds, a squirm of eels ; an abstract noun is the name of something that has no existence, as goodness ; al fresco is a famous gangster in Chicago. In Mathematics, Hygiene, and Physical Science some abstruse knowledge occasionally comes to light. The stomach is the most dilated part of the elementary canal ; the stomach, also, is a growing room, it grows with the man, and when it is very big it is called a belly ; the function of the stomach is to hold up the petticoat ; alcohol has an effect on a medical man's conclusions ; when you breathe, you inspire, when you do not, you expire ; a momentum is what you give a person on leaving ; to prevent osculation and howling pour some water on the earth ; an artery is a name for a picture-gallery ; a circle is a line running round about a dot for ever ; the two kinds of fruit are decent and indecent—the latter spit to scatter their seeds ; to germinate is to become a naturalised German ; protractors cannot be used for taking up potatoes ; induction is what they do to curates ; goitre is a kind of banjo ; a quack doctor is one who looks after ducks ; a greyhound is a dark horse used for pot-hunting. The Essay gives opportunity for the airing of youthful philosophy, sometimes unbelievably, but, of course, unconsciously, cynical, and sometimes exhibiting an out-of-the-mouthof-babes-and-sucklings order of wisdom. Christians are allowed only one wife, and this is called monotony. Faith is that quality by which we believe what we should otherwise think was false. Also, faith is believing what is sure to be untrue when you find out. What shall I do to inherit internal life ? queries one prematurely dyspeptic writer. Snoring is letting off sleep; a classic is a book you have to read at school ; chivalry is the attitude of a man towards a strange woman ; an echo is the shadow of a sound ; an insult is when somebody tells you what you ought to know but isn't pleasant ; a teetotaler is a man you never see drinking ; a monologue is a conversation between two persons, such as husband and wife ; etiquette teaches us how to be polite without remembering ; missing the mark means a woman who hasn't got a man ; seafaring men in the habit of drinking are apt to collide with other vessels ; ambiguity means telling the truth when you don't want to ; lying is a bad virtue ; self-control is what you need everywhere and every day in the

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week but twice on Sundays ; there seems good reason to hope that in the near future there will be enough unemployment for everybody ; science is material, religion is immaterial ; double dealing is when you buy something wholesale to sell retail ; liberty of conscience means being able to do wrong without bothering about it afterwards ; the best time for picking apples is when the folks is in church ; the shirt is that which comes next to man in the scale of being : ladies, on the contrary, wear cossacks ; the dome of St. Paul's is supported by eight peers all cracked ; the white man's burden is woman ; the cup that cheers is the Cup Tie. The subject richest in howlers is History, a coagulate mess of anedcotes of spurious tradition, prejudice—nationalistic and sectarian—and hero-worship based on the pernicious doctrine that " great " men are responsible for the events of historical evolution. The aims, content, and approach are pretty well fixed in other school subjects, but the teaching of History is still wildly controversial, though there are signs of improved types of textbook, due to the vast amount of research done in the last few decades in the field of Economic History, with its very proper emphasis on institutions rather than men. I can remember still the undisguised tendenciousness of the history I was subjected to at school. I believed, for instance, that Edward I was a deep-dyed scoundrel, instead of one of the few royalties it is possible to admire ; that the much-maligned John was the apotheosis of infamy, and Richard I the Douglas Fairbanks (seen from this end of time) of the Middle Ages ; that all Roman Catholics were Machiavellian rogues ; that Mary Queen of Scots was a painted Jezebel ; that John Knox was a monster of virtue ; that there were i zo,ooo English at the Battle of Bannockburn, which was one of the most stupendous noises in history ; that the Covenanters were persecuted saints instead of fanatical tyrants ; and Claverhouse the emissary of Beelzebub ; that the Disruption of the Scottish Church in 1843 was another worldshaking event instead of a paper-bag explosion, that . . . but the list is endless. " History is bunk," says Henry Ford ; " the most important subject in the curriculum," says H. G. Wells. When I recollect the scores of feeble and irrelevant anecdotes about bloated spiders, reversed horse-shoes, bell-the-cat, burnt cakes, Raleigh's cloaks, and Drake's bowls embedded in my memory, I agree with H. F.: when I think of its unique value in promoting an understanding of social structure, I agree with H. G. One of the curiosities of history is the hermaphroditic tendencies of James II, the crowning point of whose career came when he had a son : the English were furious, they thought that was really too much. Another version : finally James gave birth to a son, so the people turned him off the throne. Again : Then something happened for which James 11 could not be held

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responsible—his wife bore him a son. And, the chief illegal act was the birth of a son ; the last mistake that James made was to have a son. A case for the psychologists. The wart on Cromwell's nose is never forgotten, especially as it had deep religious feelings underneath it. In reply to the important constitutional question, Who officiates if the Premier dies ? —the undertaker. The leader of the socialists is Lloyd George, a Welsher, whose motto is, Liberty Equality, Maternity. In the reign of Elizabeth the Commons were always asking the sovereign to marry, a thing they would never have dreamt of doing in Henry VIII's time. Henry VIII's Cromwell, we are told, fell through the portrait of Anne of Cleves. And as Catherine (of Aragon) had no heir, Henry expected Wolsey to settle the matter for him. What king came after Queen Elizabeth (chronologically)? Philip of Spain, but she wouldn't have him. (This is a reversal of the usual howler-producing practice of taking a figurative expression literally.) Thus, What part did the United States play in the Great War? Answer, the Star-spangled Banner (the Tarzan stripes of a topically-minded examinee). Peel (Sir Robert) spent his life changing his point of view ; quite correctly, if we remember that History largely consists of the shifting of evidence, to say nothing of the shiftiness of the witnesses. Napoleon dispersed the rioters with a whiff of grape-fruit, anticipating apparently the practice of the authorities in Mr. Aldous Huxley's " Brave New World " in administering doses of soma (a pleasing drug) to the rebellious. The patron saint of Scotland is Satan, and the man who said when he was dying, Kiss me, Hardy, was Laurel. M.P.s, we are told, meet at Westminster to disgust the nation and its problems—occasionally, the cynical would agree, with uncommon success. Joan of Arc is, quite frequently, Noah's wife or sister, and even the Edgar Wallace of France. She was not, however, the famous maid who saved France, that was Mademoiselle from Armenteers. Trafalgar was fought at sea and is therefore called Waterloo (quite common this). Richard II's Poll Tax (a tax on parrots) put the Tin Hat on the pheasants. Robinson Crusoe was the first man to go on the Crusades. The Normans often went on a pilgrimage to replenish their sins. Ethelred the Unready got his name because he was killed when he was not ready. Lord Bacon was impeached for deceiving brides. The King's Pardon is what people apply for when they have triplets. The Pope sent a special bull to England to decompose Elizabeth. Marlborough (Mr. Churchill may not know this) was a very great tactician—he married Sarah Jennings. Charles I (such is the trough of immortality in which our great ones wallow) married nobody and had twelve children. The Government of England is a limited mockery and No. io Downing Street a speakeasy. Henry IV married his chief difficulty, Elizabeth of York, who might of claimed the

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throne, so that if she said, " I ought to be Queen," he could say, " Well, you are, aren't you." After being cautioned a young biographer wrote, Alfred (the Great) once called at a certain lady's house, but the less said about that the better. The Bill of Rights said that no man could be thrown into Parliament without a trial ; and the Five-mile-Act said that no clergyman could come within five miles of his living unless he signed the pledge. Edward VII was a fat man who loved travel and often changed his trousers (some dear readers may remember the dazzling splendour of Edwardian pants). The Party Leaders turned to and fro in their perplexity, weaving and unweaving their combinations. Luther was a good and a great man, but after a diet of worms he said, So help me God, I can take no other course. Magna Carta said that no freeman could be imprisoned or put to death without his own consent (rather Gilbertian that). James I died from argue—as he ought, being a good controversialist. Henry I died from a surfeit of lampoons, lamp-snakes, lampshades (lampreys). When the Armada was sighted Drake said, The Armada can wait but my bowels can't. One of the Jacobites' secret toasts was, The King under the table! Henry II said, Who will rid me of this corpulent priest ? and two knights rushed out and severeally massacred him. Another name for the Tories is the Preservatives. Pompeii was destroyed by an overflow of saliva from the Vatican. When Sir Walter Raleigh spread out his cloak for Queen Elizabeth to walk over, she apologised for spoiling it, and he replied, Dieu et mon droll, which means, My God, and your right. Elizabeth, you see, was very proper, and didn't let people see the good times at the Court. The South Sea Bubble was a scream for lending money to the Government to discover the secret of perpetual motion. And so on, ad inf. There are, doubtless, some whiskered specimens in the above, but it may be discovered that many new faces have toed the line. W. M. H.

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Life in Cuba. Cuba is commonly called the " Pearl of the Antilles," and a very appropriate name it is, for this beautiful tropical island is found in the centre of the West Indies, surrounded by the Caribbean Sea. To understand life in Cuba, it is first necessary to understand the Cubans themselves. To-day three classes of Cubans exist. The White Cubans, proud descendants of the nobility of Spain, constitute the really important class, holding posts in the Republican Government and in the professions. Although really white, they are very sun-tanned, and have the natural characteristics of Southern Spaniards—dark hair and dark eyes, are very proud of their descent, quick of temper, and their passions are easily roused. The pure negroes, the second class, as coal-black as their African brothers, supply the manual labour required. These negroes are of African descent, as their forefathers were brought out to Cuba by slave-traders. The third type, of which there are many, is the " mulattos," that is, the cross between white and black. They are despised, more or less, by both races. Both the negroes and " mulattos " are savage-tempered and rather brutal. Life in the city is vastly different from life in the country. Havana, the capital, is a very up-to-date city, which would do credit to a much bigger country than Cuba. It is, roughly speaking, about four times the size of Aberdeen. When Havana has once been seen, all ideas of Cuba as an island where people run about in grass skirts and beat tom-toms vanish into thin air. Havana is a city where many varied nationalities are to be found. In it are very large Negro and Chinese quarters. The shopping districts are very modern, having huge departmental stores after the American style. The business districts are also modern, and several sky-scraper hotels can be seen towering above all other buildings. Outstanding, however, is the immense Senate building, corresponding to our Houses of Parliament, which cost over two million dollars. This magnificent building has a large dome, covered with leaf-gold. Primitive life still survives in the country. The peasants are, on the whole, very ignorant, many being unable either to read or to write. They live in small huts, thatched with tobacco leaves. Some work in sugar-mills, others grow tobacco, and others cultivate the land, using teams of oxen. To the foreigner, life in Cuba can be very pleasant. A variety of sport is available, for in Havana and throughout the island are several golf courses and tennis clubs, and many beautiful beaches, where swimming is enjoyed all the year round. D. K. C. (Vs).

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House Notes. Byron House. At the House meeting the following officials were elected :—House Captain, D. A. Milne ; Rugby Captain, W. J. G. Meldrum ; Rugby ViceCaptain, D. A. Milne ; Secretary, J. Dumo ; Captain of Swimming, R. A. Spark. We heartily congratulate G. H. Henderson, last year's House Captain, on winning the House Trophy ; W. J. G. Meldrum on winning the School Championship at the Athletic Sports ; and J. V. Hay, A. W. Ogston, J. Durno, T. F. Kelly, and R. A. Spark on gaining their First Colours. Byron is very fortunate this year in having seven School tat XV players in the House Team. Melvin has already been defeated by a substantial margin, and it seems likely that other victories will be registered. The outstanding player in the Melvin game was Meldrum, who scored seven of the Byron tries. The znd XV is also progressing favourably. In conclusion, I ask the collaboration of every member of Byron House in Rugby, so that the House may retain the coveted Trophy. D. A. MILNE, House Captain.

Dun House. At the House meeting, held at the beginning of the term, J. R. W. Catto was elected House Captain and Rugby Captain ; W. Wallace, Rugby ViceCaptain ; and H. E. R. Shand, Swimming Captain. On loth October the first House match of the season was played. Dun had Keith House as their opponents. For this game two of Dun's best players were off injured, while Keith were at full strength. Dun won the toss and decided to play down with a fairly strong wind. For the first few minutes play was confined to midfield, but gradually Dun worked their way down field, and only good tackling by Keith kept Dun from scoring. Keith, by a series of good dribbles, were shortly back at mid-field, and bad tackling by Dun let a Keith player score a try, which was not converted. The only other score in the first half was another unconverted try by Keith. On the resumption, Keith came away strongly, and Dun were unable to cope with the bard-running set of Keith backs, with the result that numerous tries were scored. The final score was 27 points to nil in Keith's favour. As a whole the Dun forwards worked hard, although their tackling leaves a great deal of room for improvement. The backs did not combine as a line in attack, but their tackling was somewhat better than that of the forwards. The Second House team was rather badly beaten, but the Junior team registered a good victory. In closing, I would urge all members of the House to do their very best, for it is only by doing so that any measure of success can be attained. J. R. W. Cerro, House Captain.

Keith House. At the Annual Meeting held at the beginning of term the following officials were elected :—House and Rugby Captain, J. R. S. Inns ; ViceCaptain of Rugby, H. O. C. Cruickshank ; Rugby Secretary, R. P. Munro ; Captain of Swimming, R. R. Russell. We should like to take this opportunity of congratulating H. O. C. Cruickshank on winning his 1st XV Colours. The Rugby prospects for this session are fairly bright. We have a very well balanced and hard-working team, which has already combined excellently considering the very little practice it has had. In our match with Dun the forwards and backs both gave a good display. The former showed plenty of dash, and the three-quarters were enterprising in attack and sound in defence. When no-side came the score stood at 27 points to nil in our favour. E. Strachan was the best of the forwards, while Cruickshank was at his hest at stand-off half.

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This has been the only House match we have played, and, although we won by a satisfactory margin, there is yet room for vast improvement, and this can only be achieved through constant practice, and by developing a true team spirit. It is the duty of every member of Keith House to do his bit in upholding its traditions by winning the Rugger Cup, which has been out of its possession too long, and so I urge every boy in Keith to pull his weight in order to achieve this end. J. R. S. INNEs, Howe Captain.

Melvin House. At a meeting of the House at the beginning of the term the following officials were elected :—House Captain and Rugby Captain, T. J. T. Nicol ; Rugby Vice-Captain, A. S. Rattray ; Swimming Captain, T. J. T. Nicol. The Rugby XV this year is unfortunately not very strong. This is due mainly to the youth of most of the players. Our first game was disastrous, and resulted in a heavy defeat by Byron, who have a very strong, heavy team. The forwards, however, gave a good display, but the fast and experienced Byron backs were able to pierce our defence almost at will. Now that all the Melvin players have had more practice in the School XVs it is to be hoped that we shall put up a better show against Dun, whom we play next. Fortunately the young members of the House show plenty of talent, and it is to be hoped that these will soon come up the School and provide a first-class XV. The cricket prospects are much better, and Melvin will be able to field a strong XI, which should do well when the cricket season begins, We should do quite well both in Athletics and Swimming, and, as long as each member of the House does his bit, there is no reason why Melvin should not take a good place in the House Championship. T. J. T. Man., Howe Captain.

The Library. During the term a considerable number of new books have been added, particularly works in science and mathematics. Borrowing continues to be good, the total number of volumes borrowed in the nine weeks under review being 1,054, only slightly less than the number for the corresponding period last session. In the Upper School Classical VI (40) has borrowed most; in the Middle School, IA (r3o) and In (rzo), Its (43), Mc (0) and ILIA (39) ; and, in the Junior School, Lower IVA or ). Certain classes in the Middle School and in the Upper School should be making more use of the Library than they are at present.

The Dramatic Society. A meeting was held on izth September, when the following officebearers were elected :—President, J. C. Craigen ; Vice-President, R. A. Spark ; Secretary, D. McNaught; Stage Manager, R. A. Spark ; Joint Electricians, D. McNaught and J. C. Craigen ; Committee, G. Hay, G. Griffiths, D. Reith, D. England, P. Gray. The Society this year has been very lucky in obtaining for production the help of two new members of the staff. Mr. Cunningham is producing " Katherine Parr," and Mr. Christie is producing " The King of Barvender." The third play is being produced by Mr. Farquharson and is called " Brother Wolf." The Junior Section is rehearsing " Kings in Nomania," under the direction of Mr. MacLennan. The Society hopes to produce these plays in the Hall on Thursday, 20th December, and to have the support tt has enjoyed in the past.

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The Literary and Debating Society. This year the Society is enjoying what must constitute a record membership. The attendances at every meeting held to date have been excellent, and it is to be hoped that this happy state of affairs will continue throughout the session. ilth Oct., 1934.—On this date the Society was addressed by Mr. G. M. Fraser, who delivered a most interesting and informative lecture on " Historical Aberdeen." The talk was illustrated throughout by many beautiful lantern slides, and every member must have been impressed by the charm and antiquity of our city. Mr. Fraser told us about the ancient coats of arms on the Bridge of Dee, about the Market Cross, and discoursed at length on thc arms of the city. We were also informed how many of the old streets came to be named, and were given the history of some of the old houses and stones which are to be found in various parts of the city. 18th Oct.—There was a large attendance in the Hall to hear a lantern lecture by Mr. Percival L. Witherby on " The Production of The Times." For this meeting the Rector was in the chair. Mr. Witherby started by giving us an idea of the number of correspondents which The Times employs and the varied nature of their work. While on this point he showed us some very interesting slides of the different places in which The Times is represented, telling us that the farthest north correspondent is in Iceland, while the farthest south is in New Zealand. Mr. Witherby then showed us what happens when the material has been received from all the foreign correspondents and is assembled with great care in the office at Printing House Square. Lastly, he described the remarkably quick dispatch of the newspaper from the office to all the principal cities in the country. On the call of the President, the Society showed in the time-honoured fashion its appreciation of this very instructive and entertaining lecture. 25th Oct.—The Masters' Debate, which usually marks the beginning of the Society's session, was held on this night, as it was not found convenient to hold it earlier. The subject chosen by the Masters was, " That Blood is not thicker than Water." Mr. Park, in opening for the affirmative, treated his subject from the point of view of " a dirty piece of work." He quoted examples from the Bible, sport, and social affairs. His was a scintillating speech, illustrated throughout by humorous stories. Mr. Dickie, for the negative, in an equally successful speech, stated that Mr. Park's argument was entirely false in its basis, and to prove this, he explained thc feeling which existed with regard to our country and to our people. He quoted the story of the little boy saying he would get his big brother to help him. This paper was also illustrated by humorous stories. Mr. Eddison, seconding Mr. Park, said that it was an erroneous belief that neighbours felt the ties of blood relationship, and to prove his statement he quoted from Macbeth—" The near in blood, the nearer bloody." Mr. Christie, in support of Mr. Dickie, showed that only blood relationship induced the Colonies to fight for the Mother Country in the Great War. The after speaking was on this occasion very poor, only a few members voicing their opinions. On a vote being taken, the negative won by a small majority. 1st Nov.—The first debate of the season was held on this date. The subject, " That it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive," was supported in the affirmative by the Secretary, and in the negative by H. W. Rankine. In opening, the Secretary told how Robert Louis Stevenson had sent this famous phrase out on its journeys in the world, to encourage youth to enjoy its young days and not to yearn for the sublimity of old age. The Secretary also quoted examples to be seen in School life. He said that when you were travelling hopefully all the world was your friend, but when you had achieved your goal, few were your companions. The supporter of the negative immediately tried to confound this argument, and went on to quote from the Bible, and Scott's " Expedition to the South Pole." After an excellent paper the debate was thrown open. The after speaking was

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exceptionally good, and lasted three-quarters of an hour. On a vote being taken, the affirmative won by a small majority. 8th Nov.—The Society was honoured on this occasion by the presence of Mr. James A. Parker, who delivered a lantern lecture on the subject, " A Mystery Tour." Mr. Parker took us on a long and wonderfully interesting journey in search of a coal mine. Setting out from Aberdeen, we journeyed North via Iceland to Norway, where we discovered the mine. After spending some time there, Mr. Parker took us home by way of the North Pole, China, Japan, and the U.S.A. The whole route was illustrated by slides which the lecturer had taken himself, and depicted the scenes of his conquest of mountains, and his journeys through snow and ice, over rock and plain. He also threw on the screen views of many of the cities which he had visited. At the end, the chairman asked the Society to voice its appreciation in true Grammar School fashion by giving its kind lecturer three hearty cheers.

Scout Notes. " We want to be once more beneath that open sky! " was the wish of all good scouts during the last splendid weeks of June ; and as soon as the holidays came, unable to contain their eagerness any longer, they cast from them the slough of civilisation and became again dwellers in tents among the sunshine and the wind on the heath. If the summer, which began with the promise of equalling its predecessor, did not quite succeed in implementing its obligations, at any rate it lasted out the first fortnight of July : of the weather this year during the summer Scout Camps there is no complaint. This was fortunate, for, all told, the number of Scouts and Cubs under canvas this year was the largest for a decade. The choice of camping sites this year, also, was felicitous : the upper Dec valley at Glentanar and Loch Davan, the Don valley at Castle Forbes, and the far Orkneys, for the Scouts ; Monymusk, Dinnet Moor, and Haddo House for the Cubs. The 1st Troop's site at Glentanar was in many ways a perfect one for their purpose. Standing right between a loop of the Tanner Burn and the quasi-private road up to Glentanar House, with a fir-covered rise on the other side of the burn and another at a little distance, across the road, as if the spot were purposely shut in by nature, it was easy of access and yet secluded from the world ; there was no trouble about the fetching of supplies ; there was a spring of water and abundance of firewood close at hand ; and the burn, swinging round in a curve out of sight of the road, provided a bathing-pool, convenient and cool for hasty immersions. Bathing was naturally an occupation of supreme moment in those hot days ; and there were two other pools in the neighbourhood, deeper and with more swimming space, to choose from : an excursion was made, also, to the famous pool above Glentanar House, where the natural chute, which has been mentioned before in these Notes, provided endless amusement. The enclosing braes of the glen gave scope and space for signalling, and the woods around for rambling and all manner of games. The milk for the camp, as last year, was supplied by Lord Glentanar's prize British Frisian herd ; and Lord Glentanar himself, Chief Scout Commissioner for Scotland, visited the camp twice, once officially to inspect, and the second time unofficially to have a bathe with the boys. The camp was under the charge of S.M. Alan Cruickshank, while A.S.M. Douglas Marr saw to the catering. The general opinion of those present was that this camp was the most successful for years : the Troop hopes to go to Glentanar again. The gth Troop returned to Loch Davan, the site which they discovered last year, and which they consider the nearest to the perfect camp-site that can be found in this imperfect world. It has much to recommend it, being a fine, roomy, level field, surrounded by rows of trees, and reached only by a farm road off the Tarland-Cambus O' May side road. The shallow, sandy end of Loch Davan is within a few minutes' walk : here the Troop bathed

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twice almost every day and played many a game of amphibious rugby in the shallow waters. A new type of Troop excursion, a whole-day treasure-hunt, was introduced—round Loch Davan, over a shoulder of Culblean, down the Bum o' Vat to Rob Roy's Cave, where the treasure was cached behind the waterfall. Much solid work was done in first and second class tests in the forenoons, the afternoons being spent in scouting games and, an innovation this year, an inter-patrol games competition which included such games as " touch-rugger," cricket, and tenniquoits. The usual inter-patrol competition was run also, with the startling result of a record margin for the Seagulls, the youngest patrol ever known at a gth Troop summer camp ; not one of its members was over fourteen. This year the 17th Troop went to a new spot—new, that is, to the present generation of Scouts—Castle Forbes, and found no cause to regret their deserting Deeside for Donside. The spacious policies of the castle include a winding glen, through which the Don flows between steep banks about six feet high. Then comes the level haugh, flat and grassy ; and then steep braes, covered with trees. The river this year was unusually low, but deep enough in places for swimming. There were other camps along the riverside but there was room enough for all, and in the winding valley the different parties scarcely ever saw one another and never met except by design. This Troop also had a treasure-hunt, one which closely resembled a steeple-chase, for it tested soundness of wind and limb as well as sharpness of brain and eye—a long involved trail over all sorts of country, ending in a headlong dash down a hill-side, a frantic water-splash across the Don, and an assault on the store-tent. A Troop excursion was made to the two peaks of Bennachie, and patrol hikes to Cairn William and Kildrummy Castle. " Touch-rugger " was the favourite game in the cool of the evening, and the boys almost lived in the Don when they were not sleeping or eating. Those with the toughest carapaces started the day with a splash in the misty chill of morning before breakfast, and at lights-out some would be enjoying a moonlight dip in the water, warmed by the day's sunshine. The swiftly flowing river also provided sport in the form of model yachting, and one day some of the Scouts, including the S.M., held a regatta of boats manufactured out of whatever came handy : it was an edifying spectacle, august Scouters hoarsely cheering on their vessels while a certain very childish visitor acted as starter, umpire, and consulting boat-builder. It must not be thought, however, that serious scouring was neglected ; for tests in all stages were passed and much work was done in pioneering and signalling. The camp was visited by Lord Forbes and by another Commissioner, both of whom expressed approval of everything they saw. The closely contested patrol competition was won by the Eagles. No one can accuse the 38tb Troop of being stay-at-homes, for this year they went for their fortnight's camp as far afield as Orkney. This enterprising venture was entirely successful, and the Troop felt like explorers in an unknown land, for Orkney is not Scotland but another country of a character entirely its own. Everywhere you meet traces of the days when Orkney was part of the Kingdom of Norway, of the Viking invasions, of the remote and mysterious Picts. The camp was posted on the crest of a steep hill-side, overlooking the village of Finstown, far below on the shore of the land-locked Firth Bay. Right opposite across the valley rose Wideford Hill, beyond which was Kirkwall, seven miles away. To the left, over the bay, the south isles were seen on the horizon and two lighthouses flashed after dark. To the right the high hills of Hoy stood up, massive and grey, beyond the green hills of the mainland. Behind the camp the hill sloped up, covered with heather, giving an unlimited open space for games. The Troop was fortunate in weather, for Orkney can be arctic even in July. After a dreary first week-end of dripping rain, the rest of the fortnight was bright and sunny, perfect for an active life in the open air, never too hot to be invigorating, for in Orkney the cooling sea-breezes never fail : they are only too apt to become too robustious. Here the Troop made the most of their time, seeing much of that unique land—Kirkwall and Stromness, the

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two towns of the mainland, among the quaintest towns in Britain, with rambling, cobbled streets twelve feet wide ; St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, the finest church in Scotland ; the Earl's Palace in Kirkwall ; the famous Standing Stones of Stennis, the Stonehenge of Scotland ; and Maeshowe, an underground stone chamber of unknown antiquity, with runic inscriptions that no antiquary can decipher : everywhere in those mysterious islands the remote past seems yesterday. The people of Finstown showed the Scouts every kindness in their power: the village sports took place during the fortnight and the Scouts took part in them by invitation, and returned the hospitality by inviting the Finstown boys to camp and playing games with them. The Troop also spent an afternoon with the Orkney Scouts, who were in camp at another part of the island, and beat the Orkney Scouts at football. Everywhere the Orcadians proved most friendly and hospitable. The Troop's only regret is that they felt the people's kindness was more than they had any means of repaying or even of adequately thanking. Their host, Mr. Scarth, an F.P. of the School, especially deserved more gratitude than they could express. In future the Troop's motto will be : " Join the 38th and see the world." We have left ourselves too little space for any but a cursory and perfunctory notice of the Wolf-cubs' camps. The 9th Pack, at Monymusk, in a rich, smooth, wide, green field, with a view over the windings of the Don in the valley below ; the 17th Pack at their old grassy plot in a corner of Dinnet Moor ; the 38th in the grounds of Haddo House—all the camps provided a week's open-air life and enjoyment for the Cubs, and a week's hard labour for the Cubmasters and Assistants and those, Scouts and others, who were good enough to come to lend a hand. To all these is due the gratitude of those who arc responsible for the welfare of the Wolf-cub movement in the School. During the summer holidays six members of the 9th Troop, along with one of the 4tst, spent a week-end at Maryculter camping ground in order to make a film showing scouting in action, for the bazaar next spring : they learned, among other things, that film-acting is much harder work than it looks. The 9th held a September Holiday camp there also, and enjoyed it in spite of the deplorable weather usual on that week-end. The ist Troop had a September Holiday camp as well, at their hut at Clinterty. That closes the camping season for this year. There has been an unusually large influx of new recruits this autumn. The ist Troop has had quite a reinforcement: it has been reorganised and is looking forward to an active and energetic season. The winter programme has been arranged : it is proposed that one patrol should redecorate the headquarters and the side-rooms (the lighting has already been improved). The other patrols are to concentrate upon badges, such as the Signaller's and Camper's, and on useful crafts like basket-making. The recruits will be grounded in the tests for the second-class badge. The aim is to get the reorganized Troop up to a standard of uniform efficiency in time for next year's camping season. The other Troops are also busy with their winter activities, and a good crop of badges should result. The 38th is the busiest of all because it is to have its quadrennial money-making venture this year. It is to hold a Café Chantant and Concert on the 8th December. The 9th Troop has branched out into a new side-line, namely, a Sea Scout patrol. Since its formation in June this new branch of scouting in the School has met with distinct success in spite of the cold water poured on the idea by sceptics. Besides taking part in the ordinary work of the Troop, the Sea Scout patrol does boat work in a sailing dingy on the Dee and in a motor boat at sea. The nautical side of their work is under the care of Mr. George Macdonald, who is an experienced sailor as well as an ex-Scoutmaster. The patrol has already distinguished itself by rescuing a child from drowning in the harbour. Fortnightly Saturday night meetings for games have been recommended by the 9th ; who are now thoroughly settled in their new headquarters and are beginning to appreciate the advant-

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ages of a headquarters where the lights arc not perpetually obfuscated by fog and where it is possible to roll on the floor without the accretion of a segment of dust. " If Scouting interferes with your business, give up your business." The 1st Troop has been hard hit this autumn by the resignation of its Scoutmaster, Mr. Alan Cruickshank, and two Assistant Scoutmasters, Douglas Marr and Norman Wisely. All three had served the 1st Troop so long that they had come to be regarded as a permanent nucleus round which the Troop revolved. Others might come centripetally or go centrifugally, but Alan Cruickshank, Douglas Marr, and Norman Wisely continued, the permanent core in a world of transient ephemeralities, an enduring link between the present and a former age. Now all three have had to depart, finding increasing pressure of work as their studies approach the climax. Mr. Cruickshank took over the Scoutmastership three years ago and has conducted the Troop ever since through difficult times with quiet and regular perseverance. He was skilled in all branches of scouting and spared no pains in the training of his Troop. Whoever might be absent, Alan Cruickshank never missed a meeting, whatever else he may have had to give up. Loyalty and self-sacrifice are two things that can never possibly be wasted. P.L. Norman Nlaclver has been appointed to fill his place with P.L. Robert Semple as Assistant. The 1st Pack, also, has a new Cubmaster, Mr. Alister Grant, an F.P. of the School. Mr. Robert Rennie, who was so good as to fill the vacancy all last winter, is unable to continue. The thanks of the Scout movement in the School are especially due to Mr. Rennie, not only for the skill with which he managed the Pack, and the large amount of his leisure time that he gave up to it, but also because, not having any connection with the School, the School Scouts had no kind of claim upon his services. The 9th Troop have had to bid farewell to their senior A.S.M., George Bisset, who leaves Aberdeen for Edinburgh. He has been a member of the 9th Troop for ten years, for four of which he has been A.S.M. His enthusiasm and cheerful personality will long be missed by the Troop, who wish that he may meet with all success in his new job. The i 7th have also lost A.S.M. John Fox, another ancient light of scouting with a long record of faithful service. The following promotions have been made : ist Troop—to S.M. Norman C. Maclver; to A.S.M., Robert Semple ; to P.L.s, J. M. Scott, L. Watt, and T. G. Milner ; to Seconds, D. Reich, P. Gray, and R. Melville. 9th Troop—to A.S.M., John R. S. Innes ; to P.L.s, W. Gibb, H. Pearson, and J. Howitt ; to Seconds, A. Watt, H. Watt, B. Emslie, D. Matheson, P. Dawson, and I. Craig. 17th Troop—to A.S.M.s, Alex. Lightbody and Alfred W. C. Lobban ; to P.L.s, D. R. Macgregor, 1. Seggie, and W. L. Richards ; to Seconds, J. Lightbody, L. Blackball, and N. Mackie. 38th Troop—to P.L.s, G. Warrack and A. Aubrey-Jones ; to Seconds, A. Gair and E. Rohde.

9th Troop-25th Anniversary Dinner. This year the 9th Troop attains its semi-jubilee, and to celebrate this occasion fittingly, its has been decided to hold a Re-union Dinner for all ex-members of the Troop. This function will be held in the Douglas Hotel on 26th December and, by the time this Magaine is published, circulars will have been sent to all ex-members of the Troop whose names and addresses are known. A Troop register is now in existence, but it is very incomplete, especially as regards earlier members, and if anyone who wishes to attend this dinner has not received a circular, he should communicate as soon as possible with G. T. Robertson Watt, to Moray Place, Aberdeen.

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The Former Pupils' Club. Founded r893.

President : GEORGE WATSON. Vice-President and Chairman of Executive : WILLIAM DOUGLAS SIMPSON, M.A., D.Litt. Secretary and Treasurer : THEODORE WATT, M.A., The Rosemount Press, Aberdeen. Secretaries of Centres : London Centre—THOMAS COLLET, Royal Scottish Corporation, 16 Fleur de Lis Court, Fetter Lane, E.C.4. [The Centre comprises, without additional subscription, all Members of the Club resident in London, and within a radius of so miles.] Glasgow Centre—H. G. EDWARDS, 43 Marlborough Ave., W. I. [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. L. DUNCAN, LL.B., Ph.D., 31 Dundas

Street, Edinburgh. (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--J. S. MACLACHLAN, 39 Belgrave Terrace. Hockey Section—A. J. PETERS, 63 Forest Avenue. Rugby Section—D. P. COCHRAN, 15o Union Street. Tennis Section—IAN C. MARSHALL, Z Strawberry Bank, Hardgate. Rates of Subscription for Membership : . . . . . Life Membership • 5 Ordinary Membership— For those under at years of age at commenceo . ment of Club year (1st January) . o For those of at years of age and upwards

Visitors' Register. For a number of years a Visitors' Register has been kept at the School, under the charge of the Rector's clerk. The idea is that Former Pupils, and particularly members of the F.P. Club, who are paying a visit to Aberdeen and renewing their acquaintance with the School, should sign the Register. 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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Club Consuls. Three new names fall to be added to the List of Consuls :— Alexander George Walker (1906-20), who is in the service of The Northern Assurance Co., Ltd., has been appointed Consul at Alexandria. He is at present the only representative of the F.P. Club in Egypt. James Bruce Smith (1918-25) has been appointed Consul at Chicago, where there has been no representative of the Club since THOMAS B. G. HENDERSON (1894-1900) left for New York. Bertram John A. G. Barr (1909-13), who is in the service of the Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd., and has been for a number of years resident in Madras, is now the agent of the Bank in Delhi, and has been appointed the representative there of the F.P. Club. It is hoped that a successor to him at Madras will soon be appointed. List of the Consuls. AUSTRIA :—Captain JOHN WIT T JAM TAYLOR (1906-11), M.B.E., M.A., His Britannic Majesty's Consul, Vienna. CANADA (British Columbia) :—WILLIAM ERNEST MILNE (1881-9o), 347 Water Street, Vancouver. CANADA (Manitoba) :—JOHN CHARLES MURRAY LIGERTWOOD (1903-06), C.A., Comptroller-General, Legislative Buildings, Winnipeg. CANADA (Nova Scotia) :—GEORGE MACKENZIE WOOD (a88o1882), c/o Messrs. Joseph Wood & Co., Central Wharf, Halifax. CANADA (Ontario) :—ROBERT FLEMING (1891-98), C.E., c/o Messrs. Wood, Fleming & Co., Royal Bank Buildings, Toronto. CEYLON :—DAVID SCOTT (1886-94). At present resident at 36 Ruhislaw Den South, Aberdeen, CHINA (Hongkong) :—JOHN CAMERON TAYLOR (1904-06), c/o Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Hongkong. CHINA (Shanghai) :—GEORGE, ALSTON BUYERS (1906-08), C.A., a Canton Road, Shanghai. EGYPT (Alexandria) :—ALEXANDER GEORGE WALKER (1906-20), The Northern Assurance Co., Ltd., St. Mark's Buildings, Alexandria. 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-o4), Lenggeng Estate, Semenyih P.O. FIJI :-KENNETH JAMES ALLARDYCE (1894-95). Nabavatu. GERMANY :—JAMES GORDON DANIELSON (1896-1901), Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Monckeberg Strasse 27, Hamburg, t. INDIA (Assam) :—DOUGLAS CHRISTIAN FRASER (1907-17), Lukwah Tea Estate, Lukwah P.O., Upper Assam. INDIA (Bengal) :—DAVID INGLIS DUFF (1915-16), c/o Messrs. Barry & Co., 2 Fairlie Place, Calcutta.

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INDIA (Bombay) :—JOHN HALL RITCHIE (1903-09), M.A., B.Sc., c/o Yacht Club, Bombay. INDIA (North-West Province) :—CECIL ARTHUR GRANT SAVIDGE (1915-24), c/o Secretariat, N.W. Frontier Province Government, India. INDIA (Delhi) :—BERTRAM JOHN A. G. BARR (1909-13), Mercantile Bank of India, Delhi. INDIA (Rajputana) :—GEORGE TAYLOR SIMPSON (1910-20), Jodhpur State Railway, Jodhpur. INDIA (Sind) :—ALAN REID (19/z-z4), Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Karachi. MEXICO :—ALEXANDER and ROBERT YOUNG (5914-11), di. William Young & Co., S.A., 2a San Jeronimo, 31, Mexico, D.F., Mexico. NIGERIA (Northern Provinces) :—CAMPBELL GRANT McKENZIE (191o-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 (1919-16), c/o Messrs. Allen, Wack and Shepherd, Ltd., Beira. SOUTH AFRICA (Natal) :—DAVID STRACHAN (1893-1902), Hulston's Buildings, Durban. SOUTH AFRICA (Orange Free State) :—DOUGLAS GORDON BISSET (1890-1900), Castor Siding, Private Bag, Bloemfontein. 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 (1905-1 I), Anglo-South American Bank, Buenos Aires. SOUTH AMERICA (Brazil) :—A. BAIN MACKIE (1896-1904), Royal Bank of Canada, Caixa 2/s1, Sao Paulo. STRAITS SETTLEMENTS (Penang) :—JOHN RHYS DANSON (1897-1903), Municipal Office, Penang. STRAITS SETTLEMENTS , (Singapore):—JOHN IVO DAWSON . (19oo-o4), clo Messrs. Gut ririe & CO., Singapore. SUDAN :-JAMES LORIMER SOUPER (1898-1909), The Gordon Memorial College, P.O. Box z86, Khartoum. SUMATRA :—EDWARD PERCY BARNETT (1895-5903), 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 (California) :—EDWIN MORGAN (1906-12), The Canadian Bank of Commerce, Los Angeles, California. UNITED STATES (Chicago) :—JAMES BRUCE SMITH (1918-25), c/o W. Alexander & Co., 1;4 South La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill. Telephone—Franklin 7300. UNITED STATES (New York) :—THOMAS B. G. HENDERSON (1894-190o), Messrs. Lybrand, Ross Bros. and Montgomery, 9o Broad Street, New York. WEST INDIES (Tobago) :—KENNETH REID (1901-o4), King's Bay. WEST INDIES (Trinidad) :—ARCHIBALD YOUNG (5885-93), cfo Messrs. Alston & Co., Ltd., Port of Spain.

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The Annual Club Dinner. The Annual Dinner of the Club was held in the Palace Hotel, Aberdeen, on Saturday, 17th November, 1934. Mr. George Watson, London, President of the Club, occupied the Chair. Unfortunately the date of the Dinner clashed with that of the Convener Court of the Incorporated Trades, and among those who sent apologies for absence owing to their having to attend the latter Dinner were Lord Provost Henry Alexander (who was President of the Club last year), Mr. Edward W. Watt, the recently appointed City Treasurer ; Mr. George Duncan, Convener of the Education Committee of the Aberdeen Town Council ; and Mr. A. T. Cruickshank and Professor J. J. R. Macleod, past Presidents of the Club. In spite of the fact that the attendance was smaller than usual, the Dinner was on every hand declared to have been a most successful one. This was in large measure due to the genial atmosphere created by the Chairman. The following were at the Chairman's table: Mr. D. M. Andrew, Rector of the School ; Mr. James Dawson, Director of Education ; Mr. William Crombie, a class-fellow of the President at the School ; Very Rev. Dean Border ; Professor A. C. Morrison ; Mr. J. N. Milne, representing the Robert Gordon's College F.P. Association ; Dr. W. Douglas Simpson, Vice-President of the F.P. Club, and Mr. Theodore Watt, Secretary of the F.P. Club. The following members of the Club were also present : R. J. Anderson, W. G. Craigen, Charles Davidson, J. C. Duffus, A. J. M. Edwards, H. J. Edwards, John G. Elmslie, Harold Esslemont, Ronald Esslemont, George Forbes, Alexander Gray, A. C. Hendry, J. P. Jeffrey, A. M. Johnston, C. G. Kennaway, J. Vass Lorimer, Alan McBain, J. Ross McMillan, J. W. Monro, James Patterson, D. L. Rennet, James F. Robson, N. Keith Robson, A. MacGregor Rose, G. F. Rose, Mitchell C. Ross, W. W. M. Ross, A. G. Nicol Smith, Alfred Smith, F. Floyd Stott, A. L. Stronach, E. W. Murray Watt, G. T. Robertson Watt, G. A. Williamson, J. J. Williamson, R. B. Williamson, Raymond G. Wilson, Alex. 0. Wishart. The following Guests of Members were present : Dr. A. G. Anderson, Dr. J. S. Annandale, Messrs. John T. Boyd, C. Gordon Bruce, F.R.C.S. ; John Gould, John G. Gillespie, John Henderson, John M. Ironside, Rex Knight, Dr. H. J. A. Longmore, Dr. Wm. Mackay, Messrs. James A. Mackie, Farquhar McRitchie, Alexander Mutch, W. D. Reid, James Scott, D. A. B. Sim, Jun., Wilson H. Smith, and Dr. Douglas Yates.

" The School." After dinner had been served and the loyal toast pledged, the Chairman extended a cordial welcome not only to members of the Club, but also to the guests who had honoured them with their presence. In a short speech proposing the toast of " The School," Mr. James W. Monro delighted the company with his humorous reminiscences, based on the text, " 1 remember, I remember." Recognition of the Club's warm interest in the welfare of the School was made by the Rector in responding to the toast. One dreaded to think, he said, what the Grammar School would be without the constant backing and inspiration it received from the Club. While they all knew the general news of the School, he wanted to emphasize the pride it felt this year in the phenomenal success of the School Rugby Fifteen, which had had an unbroken series of victories.

" The Club." Mr. James Dawson, Director of Education, in submitting the toast of " The Club," said that those present were, without fulsome flattery, good representations of the product of the Grammar School, because they took

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a prominent part in the professional and business life of the city. Numerically the strength of the Club was well maintained, as well as its financial stability, for where would they find z,ooo hard-headed Aberdonians contributing a Club subscription to a moribund concern ? The Club fostered the comradeships which had been begun at School, and its success was largely due to worthy Presidents and an efficient Secretary. Commenting on the healthy state of the Centres in London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, Mr. Dawson added that one wondered how it was that southern cities required so many Grammarians to keep them going.

The President's Speech. Mr. George Watson, when rising to reply, was loudly cheered. He said : When Mr. Watt intimated that the powers that be had done me the honour of requesting me to be President for the ensuing year, I felt rather like being on a ship in stormy weather—apprehensive of what might be in store. He reassured me, however, by saying that a President living far from Aberdeen was expected only to preside at the Annual Dinner and " just say a few words." Being of a cautious nature, characteristic of our race, particularly of the Aberdeen section, I thought it well to refresh my memory regarding the proceedings at these meetings, and asked Mr. Watt to send me a few back numbers of the Magazine. He sent me ten numbers, and after reading them carefully, I felt still more like being in a storm at sea. And no wonder, considering the distinguished men who have occupied this position and expressed themselves so brilliantly. I do not know to whose brain-wave the conception of the Former Pupils' Club is due, but I think some fitting memorial should be erected to him in the School. The Club and its accomplishments have been of great interest to former pupils, not only at home, but all over the world and in the most remote corners thereof, as shown by the many letters and articles published in the Magazine. Many of these I have read with particular interest, and I have been much struck with the keen observation and adaptability of the writers : observation not only of the physical and material characteristics of the countries, but of the mentality of those with whom they come in contact ; and adaptability to the conditions and customs of peoples utterly different from their own. Reading these articles is an education to those who care to take advantage of the opportunity, and they have one great attraction lacking in books of travel, namely, the human and intimate touch of the fellow Aberdonian, We feel that " we're a' John Tamson's bairns," brocht up in the same cauld but bonny country, and having learned the same old Omnia Gallia divisa est in trey panes. Now the Club has done much more than publish a very interesting fagazine. It has produced my friend Mr. Theodore Watt, and "that's some. And he has produced his magnificent " Roll of Pupils," among many other good things, and he is still haudin' on, so lang may his lum reek. Then the Club has provided a fine playing field at Rubislaw, and has been the means of providing a life-like statue of the School's distinguished scholar, Lord Byron, the Shanghai Clock, a pavilion, and many other useful and ornamental gifts not necessary to detail. But 1 would like to mention specially what I consider the Club's greatest achievement, namely, the Boarding House Company. When that idea was brought to my notice I hailed it with enthusiasm, and it brought to my mind the all too many sad cases of boys from afar joining the School, and in their leisure hours having no comfortable homes, no one to take an interest in them and their social, physical, and moral welfare ; many of them raw, innocent, and impressionable, and an easy prey to the temptations of a large city, and alas, giving way to these temptations till they lost all sense of dignity and restraint, and sank to the depths of the down-and-out. And when one thinks of the grief and despair suffered by the parents, one is prompted to

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thank God for the hostel. Doubtless in many homes to-day that prayer is being uttered from the heart. I attended yesterday the official inspection of an addition to the Boarding House, and I urge you not to be satisfied with that. Don't stop at accommodating 35 boys. Make it 350 if there is a demand for that number. And if the Company is financially successful--as it seems to be—spend the money freely in extensions. It's a noble work, and deserves the support of all former pupils. I consider the Club indispensable, and the right hand of the School, linking the past to the present, and keeping fresh the friendships formed in youth, from generation to generation. Long may both work hand in hand for the welfare of our beloved country and town, and for the promotion and extension of all our best customs and principles in many parts of the world. Although I am supposed to be replying for the Club, I cannot help making a short reference to the School. I entered it in 1871—as injudiciously published in the Magazaine. That's a flaw in that publication, and I think Mr. Watt might leave that derail out when referring to old pupils. He might simply say " before the present reign," or some vague indication that it was earlier than last year! Well, I went through the regular initiation of being stared at and humped, fought behind the " Kits," got the tawse from Messrs. Sleigh, Winos, and Munson, pages of Caisar from Mr. Legge, and was rapped over the knuckles by Mr. Pope ; and I survived, as you see. I suppose I learned a certain amount, but I learned far more after, which goes to prove the efficiency of the Masters in teaching us how and what to learn in after life. After leaving School I was apprenticed to the City of Glasgow Bank, which failed a year after (laughter). Don't smile, as I was not responsible for the failure! The Bank's liabilities amounted to about ten millions, and as the shares were only partly paid, and liability was unlimited, many hundreds of people were ruined. My articles were adopted by a chartered accountant, and after completing my training with him, I went to India. I won't bore you with more details of my career, but since I became associated with the late Mr. Lidgerwood—of Aberdeenshire ancestry, by the way—I have had direct business connections, through branches and agencies, in many of the countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, and even the little and rather remote island of San Domingo. And I have visited from time to rime many of these countries, and have found that races black, brown, yellow, and white have at least two characteristics in common, namely, their desire to do business with the British, and their leaning towards the employment of Scotsmen. Their colour, temperament, mentality, and morality may all be different, but these two characteristics or inclinations always remain in evidence. Without casting any reflections on other nations, I think the reason is not difficult to understand. In transactions with a Britisher these people expect and usually get a square deal, and also some consideration of their point of view ; and their liking for Scotsmen is not necessarily because of any claim to greater knowledge or ability, but because of their strict and sometimes almost quixotic sense of duty to their employers May the young and modern Britisher, and particularly the modern Scotsman, never forget to deserve and uphold that great inheritance. Up to 1929 my experience in these countries was, generally speaking, satisfactory. Some people, through bad luck or other misfortune, let me down ; a few did so deliberately, but the large majority fulfilled their obligations. But after that, the Deluge! Since then, every nation seems to be trying every method of cheating every other nation, and with that example before them, many individuals are doing the same. International trade, finance, obligations, have all gone by the board during the last five years, and the result is, that problems in business have arisen in the solution of which experience has helped very little, because similar problems had never been presented in previous history, and the only thing one could do in many cases was to choose the line of least resistance and hope for the best. This country, although not altogether guiltless, has put a " stoot hairt

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.tae a stet/ brae " and we arc " warslin' " up so far, but we cannot get rich, like the Far Western family, by playing poker among ourselves ; and if our exports cannot be recovered and developed, we stand little chance of substantial further progress. I have great hopes, however, that common sense, combined with the natural desire for personal prosperity, will prevail, and nations will realise that international and individual prosperity go together. We older men may not enjoy that happy condition of affairs, but I hope you younger men may do so (loud applause). The toast of " Our Guests " was proposed by Dr. W. Douglas Simpson, and replied to very wittily by Professor A. C. Morrison. Mr. A. G. Nicol Smith, in submitting the toast of " The Chairman," referred to the subject of a swimming bath for the School. They wanted a bath, the site was there, and he was sure the time would come when the School would have a bath. He paid tribute to the great help that Mr. Watson had rendered both to the School and to the Boarding House. The evening closed with the toast of " Bon-Accord," given by the Chairman, and with the singing of " Auld Lang Syne." A very welcome feature of the programme was the singing by Mr. W. G. Craigen of clever and amusing parodies of well-known songs, in the choruses of which the company joined. A " gentlemen's agreement " that the speeches should be restricted in length undoubtedly added to the enjoyment of the evening.

The Glasgow Centre. The Annual General Meeting of the Glasgow Centre was held on Tuesday, 3oth October, Mr. J. Murray Tomory, President of the Centre, in the chair. There was a good attendance of members. The Committee's report on the past season showed that the membership stood at 37, an increase of 4 during the year. The finances of the Centre continue to be satisfactory, the season having closed with a balance in hand of £5 is. 8d. During the season the Rules of the Centre, together with a List of Members, were published in booklet form. This publication has been found interesting and it is proposed to circulate a revised booklet regularly in future. The attendance at the meetings of the Centre has shown a gratifying increase, which it is hoped will be maintained. Office-bearers were elected as follows :—President, Launcelot H. Ross ; Vice-President, Dr. John T. West ; Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, Henry G. Edwards ; Committee, George Lawrence, H. T. Nicol Sands, Douglas C. Sangster, G. A. Murray Saunders, and H. L. Watson. Social functions on the usual lines are being arranged for season 55,34-35. It is now the accepted practice of the Centre to invite the presence of ladies at its social functions other than the Annual Dinner, and these " mixed " evenings have proved most enjoyable. The first Progressive Bridge evening for the season is to be held on Friday, 3oth November. At the request of the younger members of the Centre, the Committee is considering the possibility of arranging a Dance evening early in 1935. The Annual Dinner is to be held on Friday, zist December, when Professor J. C. Philip, O.B.E., D.Sc., F.R.S., one of the Honorary VicePresidents of the Club, is to 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. 5.

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The London Centre—Annual Dinner. The Annual Dinner of the London Centre of the Club was held in the Hotel Victoria, Northumberland Avenue, on the evening of Wednesday, 21st November, 1944. Mr. G. Topham Forrest, F.R.I.B.A., the President of the Centre, occupied the Chair, and was accompanied by the Right Hon. Lord Alness, P.C., LL.D. ; Mr. George Watson, President of the F.P. Club ; Mr. and Mrs. Eric Linklater, and Mr. Alexander Turreff, one of the oldest members of the Centre. Owing to there being a dense fog, the attendance was considerably less than had been anticipated, hut nevertheless a delightful evening was spent.

Lord Alness's Speech. The Right Hon. Lord Alness, P.C., LL.D., in proposing the toast of " The School, the Former Pupils' Club, and the London Centre," said :— I was looking forward to spending a happy evening here to-night, because " for aught yet seen "—as they say in the Scottish Law Courts—I had no speech to make. That, for me, on such an occasion, means a happy evening. But, alas, for human hopes I At ten o'clock on Monday evening my telephone bell rang, and your Secretary, who was at the other end of the line, before he laid down the receiver, had cajoled or coerced me into an undertaking to propose this toast—thereby wrecking inadvertently, but inevitably, my evening's happiness, and impairing my peace of mind during the two intervening days. The truth is that to do justice to an omnibus and important toast such as this, one requires longer preparation than I, in the course of two busy days, have been able to bestow upon the matter. My difficulty was enhanced, moreover, by the fact that I have so often before proposed a similar toast— in London, in Edinburgh, in Glasgow, and in Aberdeen—that charming and comprehensive as its subject-matter may be and is, it is difficult to find anything new to say about it. In my extremity I picked up Monday's .rcotsman, and there my eye fell on a compressed report of a speech delivered at an academic function in Edinburgh last week by my friend Professor John Fraser. Now, I read Professor Fraser's too infrequent speeches with admiration and even envy, for their polish and profundity and edge are indeed rare among the speeches of to-day. Professor Fraser said, inter alio, in the course of his speech, that the University teaches its students the three great lessons of life—how to work, how to play, and how to live. And I at once thought—there, indeed, is my text : for what is true of the University is true of the School—and certainly of the Aberdeen Grammar School. But before I come to my short sermon—if I may invert the order of my toast—I wish to say first a few words about the F.P. Club and the London Centre. The F.P. Club, as we all know, is another name for Mr. Theodore Watt. He created it, and he is the life and soul of it to-day. It must be a source of satisfaction to him to reflect that the Club links up the life of Grammar School boys in the uttermost parts of the earth, and inspires them in their enterprises. It is a fine piece of work. Moreover, the Club shows none of the attrition of old age, nay rather, all the vigour of youth. We wish the Club and its creator well. Of the London Centre I will only say that it is the pivot of the life of the former pupils who dwell in this great city. It radiates goodwill ; it is the embodiment of good comradeship ; it is indeed an indispensable institution. And now to get back for a few minutes to my text. The School teaches boys how to work. If my voice could reach the pupils of the Grammar School to-night, I would say to them—and please remember that in what I am about to say I am addressing the School: I should not presume to advise you—in the first place, be ambitious in your work. There is no length to which you may not go, no height to which you may not attain. Scotland affords many examples of what I mean. If you go to a coast village in the South of England, you will find fishermen whose fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers before them were also fishermen. There is no doubt

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something fine about that. But go to Skye or Lewis, and the chances are that you will find a fisherman whose son is a doctor, or a lawyer, or a minister in Edinburgh. I was fishing in the North of Scotland last year, and my ghillie said to me—" You will no doubt know my son in Edinburgh." The ghillie told me, " Well," I said, " probably I do. What does he do ? and I found that his son was senior partner in one of the leading firms of solicitors in the city. This year I was golfing in Nairn, and I discovered that the son of my caddie was the editor of a great newspaper in the North of England. There is something even finer about that. And I have also read that the generous benefactor of the world, in Australia, who gave Li 5,ooo as the prize for the great air race, the mere recital of which has made our pulses beat more quickly, and has sent the blood coursing more swiftly through our veins, once sold newspapers in the streets of Leith. So I would say, be ambitious in your work. Again, 1 would say to you, take pride in your work. Don't regard it as mere drudgery. When the Lusitania was being launched in the Clyde many years ago, a workman was seen on the river bank in a state of considerable excitement. Said an onlooker—" You seem to be very much interested in " Well, Sir," was the apt reply, this launch, my man. May I ask why ? " " you see 1 helped to build her! " Ah! that is the right spirit in which to face the tasks of life. Once more, I would say, be self reliant. Open the doors : don't wait for them to be opened for you by an obsequious lackey. Do you remember those lines— " At the gates of success there is always a crush, And the halls within are full: Some get in by the door marked Push, But more by the door marked Pall"? Don't depend either on pushing or pulling. Despise them : disregard them, and you will get there just the same, and with much more satisfaction and self respect. Lastly, in this regard I would say, prize the golden days of youth. They are the best part of life. They will never return. For myself, the road behind me is lengthening, and the road in front is drawing in. I would have you make better use of those early years than I have done—to assess the days of youth at their true, their superlative value. Again, the School teaches us how to play—how to play the game. Take that as your motto in life, and all will be well. When I was a boy, we played games for the fun of the thing, and for the honour of the School. To-day I humbly think that sport inclines to be too much of a business—too highly specialized. Efficiency is its dominant and key note. That is good as far as it goes. But I venture to think that we should do well to eschew a certain ugly spirit which is creeping into international sport—cricket, football, tennis alike—a spirit which, if it be not checked and eradicated, will ruin international contests and render them not desirable, but deplorable. Play the game ! In School we also at least begin to learn how to live. That education never ends. We learn, or at least we should learn, all our lives, how to live. Here I venture to address the older rather than the younger people. Life to-day for most of us is very swift, very complex, very exigent. For some of us on whom the sun is westering, and who see friend after friend of our schooldays and riper years fall by the way, it is also apt to be sad. But what I want to say is this—there is here no cause for repining. Life need not, should not, be sad—always provided that we possess a true philosophy of life. To that end I am going to quote to you in closing the words of Sir William Mulock, Chief Justice of Ontario, the oldest serving judge in the British Empire, one of whose judgments came before us in the Privy Council only the other day. Speaking at a banquet given in Canada in his honour, this famous judge, who is now ninety years old, said this, and I leave his words with you to-night :— " I am still at work, with my hand to the plough and my face to the future.

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The shadows of evening lengthen about me, but morning is in my heart. I have lived from the forties of one century to the thirties of the next. I have had varied fields of labour, and full contact with men and things, and have warmed both bands before the fire of life. The testimony I bear is this : that the Castle of Enchantment is not yet behind me, it is before me still, and daily I catch glimpses of its battlements and towers. The rich spoils of memory are mine. Mine, too, are the precious things of to-day —books, flowers, pictures, nature, and sport. The first of May is still an enchanted day to me ; the best thing of all is friends. The best of life is always farther on. Its real lure is hidden from our eyes, somewhere beyond the Hills of Time." Are they not inspiring words ? Are they not fine words ? Are they not true words ? Shall we not—you and I—face the future blithely and bravely, as does that aged judge, having learned, as he has obviously done, how to work, how to play, and how to live.

The Club President's Reply. Responding to the toast on behalf of the F.P. Club, Mr. George Watson said that in Aberdeen six years ago Lord Alness, when replying to the toast of " The Club," quoted a speech he had recently heard on Robert Louis Stevenson. The speaker had said that he was the prey of three conflicting emotions, namely, gratitude for being asked to perform an important and honourable duty ; despondency, when he reflected upon the impossibility of finding anything new to say about the subject ; and apprehension, as he looked about and saw the many pundits by whom he was surrounded. Lord Alness then said that he felt like the speaker, and now he (Mr. Watson) felt like Lord Alness. He had just returned from Aberdeen, having presided at the Annual Dinner of the Mother Club, and having replied to a toast similar to the present one, he felt rather like the old clergyman who had only one sermon, but in order to introduce variety, changed the text every time he preached it. They had had a very happy evening in Aberdeen, and were entertained by interesting and witty speeches and songs ; and all good wishes for an equally successful evening in London had been freely expressed. The School, the Club, and the Boarding House were all getting on very well. There were 8oo scholars, not quite the peak number, but good enough to be going on with. The boys had been showing up well in the various examinations and competitions for scholarships, and the football team had so far won all its matches this year. "Mr. Watson then dealt with various topics on which he had spoken at the Aberdeen Dinner.

Mr. Topham Forrest's Speech. Replying on behalf of the London Centre, Mr. G. Topham Forrest said :— You will agree with me when I say that the toast of " The School, The Club, and the London Centre " has been most ably proposed by Lord Alness, whom we are all delighted to have with us this evening. You will also agree, I am sure, that Mr. George Watson has acquitted himself most excellently in his reply on behalf of The Club. I trust you will go a step further and agree that I am deserving of your sympathy in having to follow such able speakers. The Committee are to blame for this—and yet the are not to blame : you will understand that the London Centre must s for itself! We in London have had to acquire the bad habit of speaTting for ourselves, but our love of humanity, and particularly that portion of it which has its centre in London, has forced us to acquire the habit. It is all so wrong to say that pavings of gold attracted us to this great City. No, far from it. We come of a missionary stock, and it has never been our custom to keep back from humanity the benefit of our influence or the value of our presence! We of the old School who have found our way to London are but carrying on the glorious traditions of our fathers, and England should be both glad and grateful.

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There are about eight millions of people crowded together in this place called London. The number of old Grammarians in the midst of those eight millions is indeed small. You will appreciate, therefore, that we might (I say " might") be overlooked if we did not speak for ourselves! Of course, sometimes we in London are misunderstood. It is a danger to which missionaries are always open. We have been accused of being too intensely national—and that, mark you, after we had given proof of our devotion by leaving our Native City and coming to dwell here! It is extraordinary. You know differently, and you will agree with me that we would be prepared to give every support to a world international. Now, I hope you gather from all that I have just said exactly why I am compelled to reply on behalf of The London Centre. There is no need for me to tell you why a London Centre is in existence. It simply had to be. We had to find a central flame at which to revive the bright light of our ideals and renew the warmth of our enthusiasms, which are sometimes in danger of dying out or of dying down in the more placid southern climes. We do feel sometimes that we have to save ourselves from the corruption of modern modes and manners. It is an age in which people are apathetic towards almost everything that is worth while. This apathy is something of a virus which infects all of us, and it is good to get together occasionally and remind ourselves of the place from which we sprang, of its history, its traditions, and —perhaps above all—its enthusiasms. Winston Churchill the other day described himself as an old man—at 6o years of age! Evidently he wasn't born in Aberdeen. I am over 6o, but, thank Heaven, I do not consider myself old, and when 1 get together with the members of the old School, it is like renewing one's youth, for I never fail to re-catch something of the old enthusiasm which has surely always been a characteristic of Aberdeen. Let us keep our enthusiasm. In the world to-day nothing, believe me, is more valuable. I say that, as a man who has the control of a very large staff. The one thing I crave for among those who serve under me is enthusiam—real, honest-to-goodness enthusiasm in the ordinary every-day things of the business world. I think it is this characteristic which has carried so many Former Pupils to such great heights in all branches of the world's life. It is the one thing with which I hope this Centre will inspire its members. The world waits for enthusiasts, for men who believe that the impossible is possible, who are sure that the things which can't be done, can be done. I say that deliberately. It is the one supreme thing which I have learned in life, and because I know my fellow Aberdonians are, above all else, enthusiastic, I am certain that the roll of fame of the old Grammar will continue to be inscribed with the names of men who will add glory upon glory to the record of the School. I will not keep you longer, Ladies and Gentlemen, but will conclude by thanking Lord Alness most sincerely on behalf of the London Centre for coming here to-night and proposing the toast. The toast of " Our Guests " was proposed by Mr. J. Drummond Smith, and responded to by Mr. Eric Linklater in a notable speech, which is printed in full on pp. 4-7. The health of the Chairman was proposed by Mr. T. D. H. Brown. During the evening Pipe-Major MacDonald of the Scots Guards was in attendance, Mr. Frank Avery's Carlton Quartette played, and Mr. Lionel King entertained the company with a pack of cards. In addition to those already mentioned, the following were included in the company : Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Abercromby, Mr. E. G. Abercromby, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. H. Brown, Mr. J. Cooper Clark, Mr. G. E. Crombie, Dr. R. W. Cruickshank, Mr. J. S. Dunnett, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Elmslie, Mr. J. M. Gray, Mr. W. Hutcheon, Mr. and Mrs. Lessel F. Hutcheon, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. 0. Lawrence, Dr. and Mrs. Charles Reid, Mr. F. G. D. Smith, Mr. James Strachan, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Watson, Mr. J. S. Tawse, and Mr. W. Allan Laing, Acting Secretary of the London Centre, and Mrs. Laing.

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The Edinburgh Centre. The Annual General Meeting of the Centre was held on 19th October, 1934. No election fell due at this meeting to the offices of President and Vice-President, which continue to be occupied by the Hon. Lord Mackay, LL.D., and Rev. George Lawson, D.D., respectively. Mr. James L. Duncan, LL.B., Ph.D., was elected Honorary Secretary in place of Mr. J. S. Abernethy, M.A., W.S., who has now left Edinburgh. The following were elected members of the Committee : Messrs. John A. Lillie, K.C. ; E. Ros Birkett ; Rev. P. D. Lawrence, M.A. ; J. McDonald Walker ; and J. R. Wardlaw Burnet, K.C. The Annual Dinner of the Centre has been fixed for Friday, 15th February, 1 935. Informal luncheons are to be held in Messrs. Gibsons' Balmoral Restaurant, Princes Street, on the first Mondays of December, February, March, April, May, June, and July. A cordial invitation is extended to all F.P.s in Edinburgh to attend these.

The Hockey Section. For the Hockey Sect ion last season was most successful, only two matches being lost, namely, against Ruthrieston F.P.s and 'Varsity. Although the Section has lost the services of four of its regular players, we hope from the results already achieved that this season may be as successful as last. Among these players are the Captain and Vice-Captain—Messrs. C. Maclennan and W. M. Todd, who have been succeeded by Messrs. D. M. Wood and J. L. Bruce. The first match was against Cartha, a strong Glasgow team, with whom we finished on level terms, with two goals each. During the first half Cartha pressed steadily and at the interval were leading by two goals to one. Afterwards F.P. forwards showed better combination and, with some fine play by the backs, succeeded in keeping up a steady attack, which resulted in a goal close on time. This we consider a very creditable performance, especially in view of the fact that this was our first game of the season. Our local fixtures started with a game at Rubislaw in which we ran out worthy winners by five goals to nil, the forwards doing some very fine combined work. The following week our opponents were Elgin, at Rubislaw, over whom we achieved our most notable success, scoring five goals to their one, although we endured a most uncomfortable quarter of an hour until our backs settled down. Thereafter we had things all our own way. Our next encounter, against 'Varsity, at King's, was not so successful, 'Varsity beating us by six goals to four. In the first half the team was in sparkling form, and had the students thoroughly under control, leading at one time by three goals to one. Unfortunately an improvement in the students' forward line, coinciding with a lapse on the part of F.P.s, allowed 'Varsity to score five goals before we could reply. Up to date we have played two more games—against Gordon Highlanders, whom we beat by three goals to one ; and against St. Ronald, whom we beat by two goals to nil, the score in both cases being a fair reflex of the play. The znd XI have started the season with moderate success, having won two and drawn one out of the five games they have played. This performance we feel sure could have been improved upon if the team had not been handicapped occasionally through lack of players. The Club is in need of recruits, and if there is anyone desirous of starting the game, will he please send his name and address to the Secretary, 63 Forest Avenue, Aberdeen. ALAN J. PETERS, Hon. Sec.

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The Cricket Section. As far as actual results go, last season could not be counted as one of the Section's best years, but for general enthusiasm among the members it can be classed as the most successful of recent years. Two elevens were fielded regularly in Grade I and Grade III, and evening friendlies were played every week. The 1st XI had an unfortunate season. On paper the team was first-rate and capable of beating any team in the Grade, but on the field it failed time and again to rise above mediocrity. This was not the fault of the bowlers, who regularly sent back the opposition for moderate totals, but the batsmen could never be relied on to reach even too runs between them. There was one bright period in early August when F.P.s twice reached near to the zoo mark, but this was followed by an extreme contrast when St. Clement's skittled them out for 32. The XI played 13 Grade games, winning four and losing the rest, and was beaten in the second round of the Cup by Woodside in a farcical match at Stewart Park. The znd XI, on the other hand, had a very successful season. It played 13 Grade games, winning seven, losing five, and tieing with znd Inverurie. It also was beaten in the second round of the Cup competition. The evening games were all enjoyable and usually resulted in a victory for F.P.s. It was noticeable in these games that the players batted with a freedom and lack of inferiority complex that was badly needed in the Grade fixtures. The following arc the ist XI Batting and Bowling averages :- — Batting. E. M. Anderson . J. A. Innes J. S. Manley . D. T. H. Russell J. S. MacLachlan J. L. Conner . . G. PMarr. J. A. Donald . O. H. R. Still . . J. L. Bruce . J. Trail . . J. V. Flay

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G. W. Bowes, I. L. Smith, R. D. Bain ; J. I. Mortice, and J. S. MacLachlan.

" B" Team: R. E. M. Paterson, I. J. Stewart, C. W. France, J. L. Conner,

L. Middleton, W. P. Smith, and J. Trail. The " A " Team beat Engineers " B " by zz-o in the ist round ; 'Varsity " A " by 16-3 in the znd round, but in the semi-final were knocked out by Gordonians • A " by 8-6. The " B " Team were narrowly beaten by 'Varsity " A " in the 1st round by 5-3. Highland were the ultimate winners, beating Gordonians " A " by 9-5. The annual Golf Outing of the Section took place at Aboyne on Sunday, 24th June, when a most successful tournament was held. First in the Singles Handicap was L. Middleton, and in the Doubles Handicap, D. T. H. Russell and L. Middleton. Colours:—Over and above the names mentioned in the last notes, the following were granted Colours in April—Full: E. W. M. Watt ; Half : E. H. Still. The membership this season, although almost a record to begin with, has dropped, owing mainly to the fact that several players have left the city. Three teams are, however, fielded every Saturday and there is always a plentiful supply of reserves. The results for this season have been quite favourable, and it is anticipated that the three teams will continue to do as well throughout the season. F.P.s contribution to the Trials, etc., to date arc as follows :— Aberdeen Select v. Hillhead High School F.P.s, at St. Machar, on 24th September: G. W. Bowes, J. A. Imes, R. D. Bain, J. S. MacLachlan, and J. I. Mortice. North v. Midlands, at St. Machar, on 3rd November: J. A. Lines, R. D. Bain, and J. I. Morrice. Reserves—G. W. Bowes and G. A. Rowton. North v. South, at Dundee, on 17th November : J. A. Innes, R. D. Bain, and J. I. Mortice.

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ist XV Matches. 15th September, 1934.—v. Aberdeen Wanderers, at fiazlehead. F.P.s : E. H. Still ; I. L. Smith, J. A. limes, G. W. Bowes, J. B. Thomson ; C. W. France and E. K. Cruickshank ; J. S. MacLachlan, J. I. Morrice, R. D. Bain, D. G. Dempster, G. A. Rowton, D. T. H. Russell, L. Middleton, J. R. Lawrence. Wanderers pressed at the beginning, but Cruickshank relieved with a fine clearance to midfield, when Bain got possession and scored a good try. Inns failed with a difficult kick at goal. F.P.s were doing most of the pressing, and Cruickshank got away on the blind side to send Thomson off, but he over-ran the ball and lost a good scoring oppportunity. From a Wanderers' rush, Middleton made a clever mark in F.P.s' " twenty-five." His kick struck the upright. Two penalty kicks in succession took Wanderers to the F.P.s' line, but Still cleared with long kicks to touch. Halftime—F.P.s, I try (3 points) ; Aberdeen Wanderers, nil. From the kick-off Wanderers pressed, but Cruickshank relieved and, from midfield, he cut across and gave to Innes. The final pass went to Bowes, who raced through for a great score. Inns was inches short with a difficult kick. From the centre, Bain fielded magnificently and ran to the Wanderers' " twenty-five " before losing possession. From a splendid dribble all the way to the Wanderers' line, from a line-out, Morrice just failed to record a score. Soon afterwards, however, Thomson crossed over far out. Innes just failed to kick a goal. From the kick-off, Wanderers pressed and a forward dribbled over the line for a good unconverted try. From a series of good touch kicks by Innes play was kept in the opponents' half. After repeated pressure, Bain got over far out from a line-out. The kick failed. Result—F.P.s : 4 tries (tz points) ; Aberdeen Wanderers, x try (3 points). 6th October.—v. Aberdeen Universitf, at King's. F.P.s : E. H. Still ; I. L. Smith, J. A. Innes, G. W. Bowes, J. B. Thomson ; C. W. France and E. K. Cruickshank . J. I. Mortice, L. Middleton, E. W. M. Watt, A. D. D. Hutton, J. S. MacLachlan, D. G. Dempster, J. T. Riach, J. R. Lawrence. During the first quarter of an hour F.P.s were doing all the pressing, and on one occasion Bowes cut through cleverly, to send France away, but he was held up on the line. On another occasion good work by Innes and Thomson ended in Lawrence just failing to touch down. From a drop out, Middleton fielded cleverly, and when held up, passed to Smith, who got over far out. Innes failed with the kick. After a short spell of 'Varsity pressure, France sent Innes away in his own half. He cut through brilliantly and, out-pacing the defence, scored a great try. The kick at goal failed. 'Varsity made ground from the kick-off, and after a clever movement, an inside three-quarter scored a try, which was unconverted. End-to-end play saw both sides attack in turn, but the defence held out, until just on halftime, when France cut through cleverly to send Innes away on the wing for a well-taken try. The kick at goal failed. Half-time—F.P.s, 5 tries (9 points) ; Aberdeen University, I try (5 points). The second half opened with a long spell of midfield play, with the forwards in control. Play had deteriorated from the fast open game of the first half, owing to the heavy rain, which made handling difficult. From a penalty for off-side 'Varsity kicked a great goal. The Varsity back was caught in possession, and Imes secured, to score an unconverted try. From a kick ahead, a 'Varsity forward secured the ball, to score a try which remained unconverted. With only three points between the sides, the play became very keen, with 'Varsity doing most of the pressing Innes and Bowes ultimately got away, but from a good scoring positron they were both pulled up for off-side. 'Varsity again scored from a penalty kick. Result— F.P.s, 4 tries (rz points) ; Aberdeen University, a penalty goals, z tries (x2. points). 1 3 th October.—v. Panmure, at Rubislaw. F.P.s: A. R. Taylor; I. L. Smith, E. H. Still, J. A. Innes, J. B. Thomson ; C. W. France and

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E. K. Cruickshank ; J. I. Mortice, L. Middleton, I). G. Dempster, G. A. Rowton, E. W. M. Watt, J. S. MacLachlan, R. D. Bath, A. D. D. Hutton. Even play predominated in the opening stages of the game, and after a spell of midfield play, a great rush by the F.P. pack took play right to the Panmure line, where Lawrence scored at the corner. Innes failed with the kick at goal. Panmure retaliated vigorously, but the F.P. defence was very safe. From a loose scrum, Watt went over. He himself converted. Halftime—F.P.s, x goal, m try (8 points) ; Panmure, nil. F.P.s attacked at once on the resumption, but Panmure's defence was good. From a good run by their backs they were nearly in, but Thomson tackled well. A great penalty goal was kicked for Panmure. Then F.P.s had a splendid try, Smith running from his own half of the field and giving to Innes, who scored. Watt converted. F.P. backs went away main in a great run, and after some clever inter-passing, Still scored a try, which Watt failed to convert. Now definitely on top, and with their backs combining well, F.P.s went further ahead. Innes scored after a clever combined movement. Watt failed to convert. Result—F.P.s, a goals, ; tries (x9 points) ; Panmure, x penalty goal (3 points). toth October.—v. Aberdeenshire, at St. Machar. F.P.s : E. H. Still ; I. L. Smith, J. A. Innes, G. W. Bowes, J. B. Thomson ; C. W. France and E. K. Cruickshank ; J. S. MacLachlan, R. D. Bain, J. I. Morrice, E. W. M. Watt, G. A. Rowton, A. D. D. Hutton, J. T. Riach, J. R. Lawrence. After midfield play, Innes just failed to kick a goal from a mark. F.P.s were now attacking and first Innes and then Bowes were held up only on the line. F.P.s were getting the ball from the set scrums, and after long pressure, Mortice kicked ahead and raced through, to score far out. The kick at goal failed. 'Shire were now pressing hard, and after a prolonged period which produced no score, F.P.s, by good pack work, were back on 'Shire's " twenty-five." Good handling sent Smith away, but he was bundled into touch at the flag. Half-time—F.P.s, m try (3 points) ; Aberdeenshire, nil. Bain, who had been injured just on half-time, did not resume. Play remained in mid-field for some time. France broke away from a scrum, and good passing let Innes away. He made considerable ground before giving to Bowes, who scored at the flag. The kick at goal failed. This unexpected reverse spurred on 'Shire, but their effort was short-lived. Smith almost put F.P.s further ahead with a great solo effort from midfield, but he was brought down by the full back. From a penalty, 'Shire registered three

points. The best score of the game was got when F.P. backs obtained

possession following a scrum, France sending Innes away, and after much

inter-passing by backs and forwards, Innes raced through, to score at the

flag. The kick at goal failed. From the kick-off, F.P.s again attacked, Bowes and Innes carrying play to the home line, where MacLachlan, following up, got over for a try, which remained unconverted. Result—F.P.s, 4 tries (ma points) ; Aberdeenshire, x penalty goal (3 points). moth November.—v. Dundee High School F.P.s, at Rubislaw. F.P.s : E. H. Still ; J. B. Thomson, J. A. Innes, T. F. Robson, I. L. Smith ; G. W. Bowes and E. K. Cruickshank ; R. D. Bain, J. I. Mortice, J. S. MacLachlan, J. G. Bisset, G. A. Rowton, E. W. M. Watt, A. D. D. Hutton, J. R. Lawrence. Dundee kicked off with wind advantage in deplorable weather conditions, and after a spell of pressure, play settled down at midfield. Still was prominent in clever saving in front of forward rushes. Good work by the Dundee pack kept play in F.P.s' half, but good defence prevailed. From a penalty kick Dundcc just failed narrowly. Then from a kick ahead, a Dundee forward almost got over, but Bowes managed to secure the touch down. Half-time—F.P.s, nil ; Dundee High School F.P.s, nil. With wind advantage in the second half F.P.s were early aggressive, but the Dundee defence was very sound. Bowes broke away on two occasions, but the wet ball made handling almost impossible, and good dribbling rushes by the visitors relieved the danger. From a loose kick by an F.P. forward the visitors got the touch down. The kick at goal failed.

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Row ton led a great rush from the kick-off and was just beaten for the touch down after carrying play from midfield. Innes, immediately afterwards, failed narrowly to drop a goal. A clever mark by Bain from the drop out put F.P.s on the attack again, and Cruickshank was twice held up on the line. F.P.s were definitely on top now, and, despite the greasy ball, were handling well, but the resolute defence kept them out. Play remained in the visitors' half and MacLachlan, after dribbling over, was just beaten in a close race for the ball. A long spell of midfield play followed, and Thomson got away on the wing, to find touch at the flag. The visitors' forwards, however, relieved. Good work by F.P. backs took play again to the Dundee line, and though Cruickshank cut away cleverly, he was held up on the line and the ball was cleared. Result—F.P.s, nil; Dundee High School F.P.s, r try (3 points).

List of New Members of the Club. LIFE MEMBERS. Band, Robert William Ingram (1924-26), M.A., c/o Chinese Protectorate, Singapore, Straits Settlements. Collie, George Francis (1916-26), B.L., Morkeu, Cults. Hutchison, Alexander B. (1896-1904), Rubislaw Green, 84 Queen's Road, Aberdeen. Scrimgeour, Arthur Martin (1921-27), c/o Imperial Chemical Industries (China) Ltd., Shanghai, China. Stewart, Robert MacPherson (1918-25), 40 Dessw•ood Place, Aberdeen. Williamson, Alexander George Gunn (1914-26), is Forest Road, Aberdeen. ORDINARY MEMBERS. Alexander, William (1928-33), 37 Leith, Alexander Smith (1922-27), • 41 Leslie Road, Aberdeen. Ashvale Place, Aberdeen. (1900-04), c/o The Birss, Ronald (1931-34), 2 St. Peter's Lyon, John Blake San Paulo Gas Co., Ltd., Caixa Terrace, Peterculter. S, Sio Paulo, Brazil. Black, William (1922-34), Auchmuty McDougall, Duncan Herdman (1921Fife. Markinch, House, 34), 7 Carden Place, Aberdeen. Boyd, William Grigor (1924-34). McLachlan, William Mackay (187648 Polmuir Road, Aberdeen. 78), M.A., W.S., 37 Cluny Drive, Campbell, Hugh Douglas (1927-34). Edinburgh, to. 74 Devonshire Road, Aberdeen. Richards, Robert Lawrence (1922Gardens, Dalgleish, James White (1928-34), Queen's 34), ti South Manse, Culsalmond, Insch. Aberdeen. Dawson, James Gordon (1921-34), Robertson, George Croom (19y2134), 27 Rushey Green, Catford, 5o Forest Road, Aberdeen. London, S.E. 6. Esson, Alan Flockhart (1929-34), Taylor, Alexander Robertson (1927159 Broomhill Road, Aberdeen. Grant, Alexander Robertson (192434), 419 Great Western Road, Aberdeen. 33)• 54 2 Holbum Street, Aberdeen. Raymond (19 23Grant, William Mitchell (1923-34), Thomson, GeorgeCollege, Oxford. 24), Pembroke Braeside, Bridge of Dee, Aberdeen. (1922Grassick, Douglas Williamson (1931- Watson, Alan Montgomery Carden Place, Aberdeen. 55 34), BlairRosemount, Littlewood, 34), Wetherly, Robert Erskine (192 2gowric, Perthshire. Louisville Avenue, Jamieson, Herbert Douglas (1922Aberdeen. 34), 86 Osborne Place, Aberdeen.

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Wines and Spirits Ready-to-Serve Foods Fresh Fruits

Provisions Groceries Bakery Confectionery Vegetables, Etc.

Branch Shops at

CULTS, BALLATER, and BRAEMAR Telephones : Cults 28 ; Balloter 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,

WINES and SPIRITS, ALL

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 AD DRESS:

419

Union

Street,

ABERDEEN

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

H. LEITH & SON 26 and 28 NETHERKIRKGATE ABERDEEN

Phone 259

ELLON STALL NEW MARKET, ABERDEEN Famed for Aberdeenshire

Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Poultry. Honey—Clover and Heather

EGG GRADING MACHINE WORKING DAILY

Also Jams, Jellies, and Marmalade

J. B. MILNE, Propr.

(in combs or extracted)

(ALL OUR OWN MAKE)

Tel. 746

SCHOOL OUTFITS

ESTABLISHED 1844

BROGUES, HOUSE SHOES, GYM. SHOES FOOTBALL

BOOTS,

CRICKET

SHOES

JAMES LORIMER & SON BOOTMAKERS

162

UNION STREET Telephone No. 724

ABERDEEN TOWN COUNCIL -

ABERDEEN

EDUCATION COMMITTEE.

SCHOOL

GRAMMAR

(FOUNDED PREVIOUS TO 1256.)

Rector

DAVID MIDDLETON ANDREW, M.A.

, 1r 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.

ABERDEEN Head Mistress

HIGH

SCHOOL

FOR GIRLS.

(ALBYN PLACE.) 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 2,000 volumes, spacious Cookery and Laundry Rooms, and a suite of Laboratories of the most approved description for the reaching 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 arc prepared for the Day School Certificate (Higher) and the Leaving Certificate of the Scottish Education Department. The subiects of study include—Scripture, English with History and Geography, Mathematics, Classics, Modem 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 Fccs, Scholarships, Courses of Study, etc., at the Grammar School and High School for Girls is given in the School Prospectus, which may be had free on application to the Director of Education, Education Offices, 22 Union Terrace, or to the Rector or Head Mistress respectively.

Royal (Dick) Veterinary College EDINBURGH.

Principal:

0. CHARNOCK BRADLEY, M.D., D.Sc., IVI.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 are 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 BADMINTON

HOCKEY - - SQUASH

"DUNLOP " PRODUCTIONS EXCEL IN PLAYING EFFICIENCY Price List Free on Application

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

ABERDEEN

Telegrams, "Rubber."

THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ABERDEEN.

WINTER SESSION

SUMMER SESSION

OCTOBER TO MARCH. APRIL TO JUNE.

Courses for B.Sc. (Agr.) Ordinary and Honours Degrees; College Dipl0Ma in Agriculture; National Diploma in Agriculture; Special Farmer's Course; Diplomas In Dairying and Poultry-keeping; Planter's Certificate Course; Certificate Course in Horticulture, 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 Craibstone School of Rural Domestic Economy, may be bad on application to

THE SECRETARY, 41i UNION STREET, ABERDEEN.

SAVINGS

ABERDEEN BANK

(Certified under Act of Parliament.) ESTABLISHED 1815

FUNDS EXCEED-£10,500,000. 105,500 Number of Open Accounts - £10,030,000 Amount Due Depositors Number of New Accounts Opened Last Year 10,000

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THIRTY-TWO BRANCHES and THREE HUNDRED PENNY BANKS and THRIFT AGENCIES JAMES R. FIDDES, Actuary.

HEAD OFFICE: 19 UNION TERRACE, ABERDEEN.

•,, TO A NEW TERM ,-

As Illustrated

A Boy's Shoe of

GREAT COMFORT, SERVICE and WORTH The peculiar merits of this particular shoe are—a roomy toe, a broad tread, with a snug waist and narrow heel-seat that steady the ankle and fit close about and under the arch. Made in Black Box-calf and Brown Willow-calf. Prices according to size, from 9,/- to 14 G.

JOHN

A. DUNN

46 UNION STREET

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