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CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS Patrick Ashley Cooper reading Address to the King . Facing page z8 The Right Rev. Bishop Danson, M.A., D.D. . „ ,, 2 9 John Clarke, M.A., LL.D. . . . . . 4 51 PS 4.4 Ian Anderson Clarke, M.A., B.Sc. . . . . 0 44 • Professor Robert William Reid, M.D., LL.D., . . . F.R.C.S. . . . Between pp. 4-4 and 45 Professor Robert Scott Troup, C.M.G., C.I.E., F.R.S. . . . SP „ 44 ,. 45 Thomas II. McCrea, M.A. . . . . . Facing page 45 The Malayan Clock Presentation Ceremony . . n, 6o PP The Malayan Clock . . .. . . . . „ 6s >, • A Roll of War Service . . . . . . A Message to Former Pupils . . . . . . . The Crisis—I939. By J. B. C. . . . . . . . In Germany and Poland on the Eve. By Richard L. Sharp F.P.s on Furlough . . . . . . . • Some Impressions of South America, II. By Dr. James L. Mowat The 8th International Student Games. By A. W. C. Lobban . Notes About Old Boys . . . . . . . Obituary . . . . . . . . . . Marriages. . . . . . . • • The Malayan Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A School O.T.C. Unit ? School Section— School and Random Notes . . . . . . . . Herr Adolf Hitler (Verse). By E. K. Borthwick First A.G.S. Camp—Stray Bridge, 1939. By NI. H. Tawsc . . . . A Sea Shore. By L. M. N. Shuttc • . . . . Dusk by the Pool. By C. M. Hall . . . . A Complete Washout. By Siren . . . . . A Week in Paris. By J. S. Finnic . . . . . Seine-Netting. By J. M. Melvin . Dark (Verse). By John Arnaud . . . . . . . . . . School Games in War-Time . . . . House Notes . . . . . . . . The Rambling and Mountaineering Club . . . Scout Notes . . . . . . The Former Pupils' Club— . The Club in War Time . The Club Centres . . • The Boarding House . Hockey Section . . Rugby . . . . Cricket Section . . List of New Members . • • • •

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Aberdeen Grammar School Magazine -

111h year : No. 143

Vol. XLIII

(Nem Swiss, 46111 yeas, No. 134)

NOVEMBER I939

No. I

The " Grammar School Magazine " is issued under the auspices of The Former Pupils' Club, in March, June, and November. All communications with regard to the " Magazine " should be addressed to the Editor (the Secretary and Treasurer of the Club), THEODORE WATT, M.A., LL.D., The University Press, 6 Upper Kirkgate, Aberdeen. = .

A Roll of War Service. Like the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Editor of the Magazine finds himself in the early weeks of the present war occupying the same position as he did at the opening of the last war, the only difference being that whereas the First Lord has occupied a number of posts during the intervening twenty-five years, the Editor has continued in the same post throughout! As is the case with Mr. Churchill, the Editor has been recalling what he was doing and what was happening in the autumn of 1914, and is deeply impressed by the differences between then and now. Shortly after the outbreak of the last war the Editor set about compiling a School " Muster Roll," which was printed in the Magazine in instalments as the necessary information came to hand, and eventually it contained the names of all F.P.s who were known to have been on active service. Schools vied with one another in compiling such Rolls, and the local newspapers for weeks and months published lists of men in Aberdeen and the North who were in some branch of either the Navy or the Army. Naturally, the Editor's first impulse was to compile and publish a similar Muster Roll for the present war, but the circumstances are entirely different. Last time the country was unprepared for war, and the raising of the necessary fighting

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forces had to be done in a hurry. Inducements of every kind (the lowest form being a white feather!) were held out, and such slogans as " Your King and Country need You " were to be seen everywhere. The services of the Press were enlisted, and everything was done to encourage young men to join the colours, with the result that there was virtually a stampede to enlist. This time, however, there has been a considerable period of preparation, and most things are being done decently and in order. Above all, secrecy with regard to the Services is being strictly enforced, and the publication of such Muster Rolls as appeared a quarter of a century ago is frowned upon. We are officially informed that " it is undesirable that the ' Muster Roll ' in your School Magazine should contain any mention of the units in which former pupils are serving. . . . If your Magazine contains any mention of casualties, no mention should be made of the place where such casualties occurred." As presumably this embargo will not last for ever, and as it is very desirable from the School point of view that a record of the service of F.P.s in the present war should be compiled, the Editor invites all F.P.s, or their relatives or friends, to send him particulars of their service, whether in the Navy, the Army, the Air Force, or any other department of National Service. As a result of this invitation probably much more detailed information will be received than the Press and Censorship Bureau will allow to be published during the war. The intention is, however, to print in the next or at any rate an early issue of the Magazine a Roll of Service giving as much information as the authorities may permit. This will probably take the form of an alphabetical list, with an indication of the service in which F.P.s are engaged, but, of course, without any mention of units. Information should be sent to the Editor, and any details that it is not permissible to publish at present will be filed for use later on. To make the matter clear, the information desired is— (i) Full name. (z) Particulars of present war service. (3) Rank, if any. (4) Service in last war, if any. The foregoing information should be sent to The Editor, " Aberdeen Grammar School Magazine," 6 Upper Kirkgate, Aberdeen.

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A Message to Former Pupils. There is, of course, only one topic just now and it may be of interest to Former Pupils, especially to those who are living abroad, if I indicate briefly how the war has affected the School. When we re-assembled on Friday, 1st September, I think most of us realized that the die was cast and that it would be our last meeting in Hall for many days to come. On the succeeding Sunday war was declared and, in accordance with a prearranged plan, all schools were closed for a week in the first instance. For many schools the period of closure still continues, but the Secondary Schools in Aberdeen have been more fortunate. On the 18th September we made a start with the three highest classes. Each class met for a short period twice per week, mainly for assignments of work to be done at home. The same procedure was followed on a more limited scale with classes in the Lower and Middle Schools, regard being always had to the official injunction that, until adequate protective measures were provided, the number of pupils in the building at any given time must not exceed eighty. The provision of shelters proved a slower business than we anticipated. Labour was scarce and material even scarcer, but, by the end of the first week of October, three cycle sheds and an equal number of play sheds were sandbagged and School re-opened as a whole on Monday, 9th October. The Kindergarten Department is accommodated in the School Boarding Houses and will remain there for some time. Meantime a system of trenches, the first unit of which is almost completed, has been dug in the playing field at the back of the School. The trenches are lined with concrete; they will be electrically lit and provided with seats and they form the defence system proper. In addition, we have in the School buildings a Warden's Post and a First-Aid and Ambulance Unit, so that we are ready for any contingency. Darkening of the premises to meet the black-out regulations has entailed a complete renewal of blinds and the hanging of heavy curtains in the Hall and in the corridors. Fire appliances and first-aid outfits are other items in the bill of costs. The Central School, dispossessed of its own premises as in the last war, is housed in the Grammar School and each School meets for three full days per week—Monday, Wednesday, Friday for one month, and Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday for the following month. On the intervening days the two highest classes have additional instruction in a building in Leadside Road which normally serves as a Junior Instruction Centre. Games are being carried on much as usual so far as class practices are concerned. Rugby fixtures which involved longdistance travelling had, of course, to be abandoned, but we have

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saved enough from the wreckage to make the programme worth while. Naturally we have fewer helpers. Three of our Masters, Messrs. Stewart (Mathematics), McPherson (Classics), and Bruce (Science) are with their units as commissioned officers. During September the fields which surround the School were fully occupied with troops in training. It was interesting to see so large a proportion of F.P.s among the officers in charge. I have no doubt they cherish pleasant memories of the lovely Autumn weather which favoured those early days of preparation. Most of the School Societies are in abeyance. Neither the " Debater" nor the Dramatic will meet this winter, but the Scouts are doing their bit manfully. They and the senior boys generally did yeoman service in the earlier days of the war by filling sand bags and giving much-appreciated help with the harvest. The award of the Leaving Certificate on traditional lines has been discontinued by the Scottish Education Department, but, yielding to urgent representations, the Department has outlined a scheme for the continuance of the Certificate in a form which should meet the needs of the young people concerned. So far I have spoken of the outward and visible changes in our School life which have been brought about by the war. What of the inner changes ? How have the boys reacted to the crisis ? These are difficult questions to answer. There is no gainsaying the fact that, for the senior boys at least, it is a time of unsettlement. If the war continues for the full period envisaged by the Government, their careers will hardly have started when they have to face the obligation of National Service. Not that this prospect is necessarily unpleasant. If age were no barrier, the Royal Air Force in particular could have as many recruits from the School as it wanted. It is the uncertainty that is irksome. At the same time I have been impressed by the unruffled demeanour of the boys. Air-raid drills are positively enjoyed by even the youngest, and I should be surprised if a touch of the real thing upset their equanimity unduly. I conclude these few observations with a message of special remembrance from the School to all F.P.s who are serving at home or overseas. In due course, I hope, a record will be compiled of the School's contribution to the national effort. Meantime let me say that if any of them find it convenient to give us a call when they are on leave, these calls will be greatly appreciated. D. M. A. i8th November, 1939•

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The Crisis-1939. [From. the F.P. Club Consul lately in Warsaw. Any views he expresses are, of course, bis own.—Ed. A.G.S. Mag.] Since I wrote to the Magazine a year ago, the Crisis has become a colossal game of chess and has moved to its first climax with dramatic suddenness. Of this there is no more striking evidence than the fact that as lately as last year the King's Speech to Parliament stated that the cornerstone of our foreign policy was the League of Nations. It seems clear that Mr. Chamberlain's visits to Germany in September of last year had made him realize what we might be up against, because, although he said, " There will be no war between England and Germany," he lost no time in pushing on every precautionary measure possible and in increasing our armaments. In January of this year I found that the City of London had not recovered from its nervousness of the previous autumn, and in Brussels people said that German troops were on the Dutch frontier, which was to be the jumping-off place for an attack on Britain, and war might break out at any moment. Berlin was calm, and Warsaw entertained Herr von Ribbentrop and Count Ciano, while Herr Himmler was given a shoot in the State Forests of Poland. During two months in Warsaw the interest was in the Carnival, with balls every night, and the World's Ski-ing Championships at Zakopane, where the Germans swept the boards. I heard no mention there of the possibility of war. The end of March found me at Tangier, Germany had just marched into Prague, and at a gymkhana in honour of the officers of H.M.S. Warspite an Italian said to me, " Do you hear what that fellow has done now ? " I said, " No, what fellow ? " " Hitler—he has taken Memel." The Italians did little to hide their annoyance over these two acts, which were committed apparently without their prior knowledge. Then Poland, to her everlasting honour and with the gratitude of all decent people, said " Stop " to Germany, and Colonel Beck added that he was going to visit Mr. Chamberlain. This brought on Poland the fury of the Fuhrer, but Colonel Beck, undeterred by threats, arrived in London at the beginning of April, and one realized that a moment of danger had come when it was seen that the House of Commons was unanimous in its approval of our alliance with Poland. War propaganda then became intensive in all countries, and when I returned to the Continent in May, the Germans were saying that they would take less than a month to annihilate Polish resistance and that the remaining Poles would be much happier under German rule. The Poles said they were ready

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to resist to the end and were pleased by the alliance with England. Our reputation in Poland had somewhat improved from its low record of last year, when it was thought we should have stood by Czecho-Slovakia. But it must never be forgotten that Poland's decision to resist aggression was taken irrespective of any alliance with Britain, and that in all that Poland has since suffered no voice has been raised to say that our alliance did nothing to save her. Meantime some things had happened :—(i) Germany and Italy had made a military alliance, (1) the Fiihrer had made a speech at the end of April, and (;) Colonel Beck had made an important speech at the beginning of May. The world's Press insisted that these events changed nothing and that things were just as they were before, but, of course, they changed things a great deal. (i) Whereas in the rape of Austria, the crushing of CzechoSlovakia, and the taking of Memel, Germany had obtained the acquiescence of Italy by presenting her with a fait accompli, a military alliance meant that, if Germany wished to have Italy at her side in future military operations, she must consult her before, instead of afterwards, and must obtain her approval. The alliance appeared, therefore, to be much more in favour of Italy and of the peace of Europe than of the further aggression of Germany. Subsequent events have borne this out. Germany no longer felt so confident of help from the South and began flirting secretly with Moscow. This culminated in the Russian-German Agreement of August, which appeared to the World as a desperate move and as a sign of the weakness of Germany's position. She gets gold and material from Russia and gives Russia a large slice of what she has stolen from Poland and a free hand in the Eastern Baltic. The National-Socialist State was founded on the danger of Bolshevism in Germany, and most neutral observers thought at the time that a real danger existed ; but it must be conceded that the cynics said that was a blind, and many Germans were mystified by the spectacle of the Fiihrer pouring vitriol on Moscow in his speeches at Nuremberg while commercial negotiations were actually taking place between the two countries in the more peaceful atmosphere of the Wilhelmstrasse, and while there was a large agency of the Russian Intourist Bureau in Unter den Linden enticing German tourists to Russia. The cynics also pointed out that although the culture in Germany was immeasurably higher than in Russia, the methods of Government were very similar. Count Czernin in his book " Going, Going, Gone Europe," published in June, says that where Bolshevism and Nazi-ism clash, they are bound in the end to unite, because they are both totalitarian and their common enemy is Democracy. (z) The Fiihrer's speech in April showed he was worried about the inferiority complex towards foreigners and especially

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towards Englishmen which has always been such a strong characteristic of the German nation, and which is obvious to every foreigner who has lived in Germany for any length of time. It is an obsession which goes very deep, and the Fiihrer will be a clever man if he can eradicate it. One of the best examples of it is to be found in the first volume of the Memoirs of Prince von Billow, where he describes a visit of the Kaiser to the Czar at St. Petersburg, Prince von Billow was received in private audience and speaks of the elegance and beautiful manners of the Emperor of All the Russias. He says that if you were to meet him in Biarritz or St. Moritz, or in a drawingroom in London or Paris, you might take him for an Austrian Count or the son of an English Duke. The Fiihrer said twice in his speech with great emphasis that he hoped it was realized in England that a German did not feel in any way inferior to an Englishman. (3) Colonel Beck's speech on 5th May was a final notice to Germany that Poland would stand firm against threats and aggression. I was in Germany at the end of June and was told by everyone I met that there would be war in August. They were very gloomy about it. In countries other than Germany the work of the Gestapo was intensified. German representatives abroad were spied upon and Ambassadors and their wives were not immune. In Switzerland, in July, German tourists appeared to be so terrorized that they would not be seen reading a foreign newspaper, nor did one dare to mention the international situation to them in the public rooms of an hotel. Some of them showed distinct signs of malnutrition but soon became healthy with Swiss air and food. The fateful days, therefore, would appear to have been during the last part of March and the beginning of April. When Germany marched into Prague one wondered why that had been done. The game did not seem to be worth the candle. Now it is seen to have been necessary in order to pour troops into the most vital part of Poland, if she should resist, and in fact this defeated the strategic plan on which Poland's defence was based. Poland's real defence was in a strategic triangle whose apex was at Lublin and whose base ran along the Carpathians from Cracow to the Roumanian frontier. The lightning thrust from Slovakia to Cracow, giving access to the base of the triangle, had not been provided for nor dreamed of. After Prague came Memel. The story was current in Warsaw that when the Fiihrer was actually at Memel in March Herr von Ribbentrop came to the Polish Ambassador in Berlin and said in effect, " Now let's settle this Danzig question so that the Fiihrer may call in there on his way back and do the two jobs in one week-end." Immediately after that Colonel Beck came

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to London, and the delay on Germany's part was probably for the purpose of getting the harvest in. So Germany sweeps off the board any of the pawns that are not thoroughly protected by the knights, bishops and castles, and the stupendous game goes on. Perhaps the best chess players will be able to think out the next moves and prepare for the opponents' move. I will not tell you what many of my best friends in Poland have suffered and are suffering. Many of them left Warsaw for the East to get away from the Germans, only to meet the Russians. The Polish troops had orders not to fire on the Russians, and the Russians had orders not to fire on the Poles, so everything was very friendly and the Poles were disarmed. A good many of the officers and gentlemen seem to have been shot, however, including Mr. Skirmunt, late Polish Ambassador to the Court of St. James, than whom there was no greater gentleman. This I suppose is looked upon as a kindness, as doubtless a gentleman would, in the Russia of to-day, feel quite a fish out of water. Poland has stood for twenty years as a beacon of Christian decency and a barrier to subversive doctrines from the East. Germany now threatens us implicitly with the Bolshevization of a great part of Europe. Will their lately whipped up fury against England or their Teutonic feeling of superiority to the Slav prove the stronger ? WAR Anis.

Every decent person in Europe would like to see Federal Union or some form of United States, but it is difficult to believe that any but the very youngest of us could live to see it. Mr. George B. Shaw in his play " Geneva " makes his General Flanco say, when asked by the International Court of Justice at The Hague why he has taken up arms against a lawfully constituted Government, " Because they are cads, and where you meet cads, you must fight them." We have just had an object lesson in what happens to a little gentleman (Poland) when a huge bully can get him into a corner of the playground and thinks he can attack him with impunity. So our war aims are really quite simple : to form a Federal Union of Gentlemen, lick the cads into shape, and let them join when that process is complete. We could at the same time get rid of a great deal of what the foreigner calls our hypocrisy. We detest and despise a Government which denies to its people freedom of thought and of decent speech, and which rules by Secret Police, denunciations, terror, and torture ; yet we say and we write ad nauseam that it does not interest us and it is no concern of ours what kind of Government Germany desires to have. We not only mind very much, but we cannot have

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Federal Union until we force the Germans to have a Government which comes up to our standards. I SHALL AND I WILL.

The much-vaunted education of Aberdeen has, I think, a lesson to learn, unless it has been altered since my day. When, as a child, I said to my father, " Can I go out to the garden," he replied, " You can, but you mayn't." In the same way, every time I said, " I will," he pulled my ear until I said, " I shall." One feels that Herr Adolf Hitler, as a boy, was never corrected about this and said " I will " every time—every day and all day. In every successful leader I have seen, it is this tremendous development of will which gives him his power, and we must never forget it. We shall—no, we will require all the will power we have before we are out of the wood, and I suggest to the Rector that the word " shall " be dropped from the vocabulary of the Grammar School until we feel we can afford luxuries. J. B. C.

In Germany and Poland on the Eve. It is sad we were not blessed with second-sight. When we started our holiday, Danzig was on everyone's lips, and Germany and Poland the main items in an interesting European situation. How much more interesting it would have been had we known that within two short months Warsaw was to be in ruins and the Polish State disrupted. When we mentioned our plans for a tour of Germany, Poland, and the Near East, we were told not to be fools : the situation was far too ticklish to venture on the other side of the " axis," with no easy chance, if the worst came to the worst, of getting back. But we were determined, and insisted that war, if it came, would not begin before harvest time or the Tannenberg celebrations of z7th August : by then we would be in France. Yet we never really believed that war would come: a misguided optimism cheered us on, and only once did it seriously fail us. We entered Germany with mixed feelings: while I was prepared to find some good in the country (for despite war propaganda and everything, there is still a deal of good in Germany), the other two were frankly biased; for them German meant Nazi, and Nazi meant that poison bacillus which has been de-intellectualising the nation, toughening its mind and making its soul a compact of nationalistic fervour and unthinking prejudice. And our first impression tended to confirm this, for as we crossed the bridge at Wasserbillig (not far from the present Western Front), the German frontier

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guardsmen and S.S. men looked at our aged Armstrong, and laughed; it wasn't the laughter that annoyed us—Heaven knows we heard plenty of it before we were through with the trip—it was the hard, hostile note in it : no cheerful laugh, not a tinge of geniality ; just downright rude. But first impressions aren't always right, and there was not another hint of hostility as long as we were in Germany. One thing at that frontier post showed us that Nazi men were not all they were claimed to be : the eye-conversation piece between a girl who came in to have her passport stamped and a stalwart S.S. man reminded us forcibly of the human feelings in some decadent democracies. But what, you will ask, were the German people thinking war ? And that is just what they were always asking about of us. And the answer is, they weren't thinking about it as much as we were. There is something to be said for a controlled Press- for in the " War of Nerves," Britain had to put up with far more than Germany. Naturally rumours got around, and talk of war was in the air—but only to be pooh-poohed ; this time we met more of the older generations than previously when we had visited the Youth Hostels, and the attitude to war was necessarily different ; most of them disliked the thought of it, and I know many charming German mothers who will now be heart-sick. Yet we were astonished to find that everybody, in spite of the events of this year, wondered seriously why there were so few British visitors to Germany this summer. " Do you think we would gobble you up ? " we were asked, and they could not understand that perhaps we had some reason for thinking it. But certainly war with Britain seemed out of the question, at least to the ordinary " man-in-the-street," even if he was filled with the hackneyed propaganda of " England is rich, England has everything " tied up, of course, with Lebensraum. And it wasn't only the ordinary man who could not conceive of war ; we had the good fortune to meet an official of fairly high standing in one of the Ministries, and he told us he had it straight from Hitler's lips that there would not be another war—and quite obviously believed it. I hope that by this time disillusionment has set in. But apart from the common question, " Will there be war ? " (and they didn't seem to take their questioning seriously), the Germans carried on with their work, and seemed content in it. That was, of course, a superficial impression; we did not stay long enough, we did not dig deep enough, to get any idea of the real sub-surface conditions. There was always the question of Danzig, naturally : but somehow there didn't seem any great enthusiasm about it, and even Danzigers we met in Berlin were not keen to fight for it : perhaps we did not draw them enough, but we knew how dangerous it was to start an argument upon the subject. When we did discuss the question with Germans, it was with a couple of travellers in Budapest,

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and they confessed the subject was a thorny one, but that Germany had her rights. These two were perhaps typical of a new class in Germany, the new type of student, and were between z5 and 3o, had just finished their degree at Munich University—in Salesmanship : but they were highly intelligent, if lacking in what we would call " Culture," and extremely well informed about the Minority question in South-Eastern Europe, and easily able therefore to get into any conversation or argument in Hungary, where the whole subject is loved, especially all the grievances that Hungary has against her various neighbours (though they are all hushed up at the moment with the Balkan Unity moves). It was the complete disunion between the work that was being undertaken in Germany and the probable outcome of Herr Hitler's political moves that struck us most forcibly. When we were shown the colossal reconstruction of Berlin, the demolition of the haphazard buildings of previous generations to make way for the uniform magnificence of a true Hitlerian city, and were told that the new Berlin would be completed in possibly twenty years, we thought that this farsighted planning had strangely failed to consider the natural fruits of that other policy of aggression : Herr Hitler was too optimistic. The contrast was drawn more clearly when one heard that even this colossal building programme was delayed by a shortage of labour—too many having to serve in the army, which seemed more numerous and more ubiquitous than ever ; and when we passed the many detachments of mechanised troops (with never a sign of break-down in equipment that seemed of high quality), we found ourselves hoping that we would never be called on to face these cheerful soldiers, bronzed and fit-looking, in war. And only once was our conviction, that it would never be necessary, shaken, when on our way to the Polish frontier we were held up at a level-crossing by a long line of railway trucks filled with field-green uniforms and armed cars and motor-cycles and army lorries, moving eastwards ; but from then onwards we were never far from some troop-movement, what with Wehrluft (Air Force) laying miles of telephone wire, infantry on the march, and long lines of motorcyclists, though luckily for our peace of mind their numbers were never very great. And when we arrived at the frontier, the Polish official asked us if there were many German troops to be seen, and we said " of course." He replied, " Yes, they're massing men on the frontier ; but so are we." So we kept a close look-out, and after covering a good many miles from the frontier we at last came upon a cart, laden with hay, and on top one soldier—large concentrations of Polish troops on the border! Now we were in Poland ; and though in the land itself there was little change, for where we arrived was but a continua-

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tion of the vast plain which stretches across the North of Europe, and one could not tell where Germany left off and Poland began, we were in effect in a new and strange land, and could only look around us with wondering eyes that for the first few days could not understand what they saw. But when we grew more accustomed, we came to like what we found. Many times since the war broke out I have heard people say that they would have much preferred to have fought for Czecho-Slovakia than for Poland ; the reason must be that Poland lies farther off, and is therefore farther removed from their sympathies. After our short stay in their land we were agreed that destruction of Polish independence would be tragic. But it is curious how far off Poland seems to be to us in this country, as we indeed seem to them too—we found that very soon. In a charming small town called Puck on the Gulf, to the south of the Hela promontory, we drove down to see the little harbour, and while walking round, were stopped by a most unofficial-looking person who gave us to understand by signs (he could speak no German, we no Polish as yet) that he wanted to see our passports. After most ineffectual attempts at conversation he roped in a fisherman who could talk German, and asked us where we'd come from. " England," we said : the official looked incredulous, and the fisherman told us he (the official) couldn't believe anyone could come from England to Puck (pronounced Pootsk) in a car: it was too far. " But really," said the fisher, " it's quite easy : you landed from a boat in Gdynia." But when we told him exactly how we had come, even he looked as if we were asking too much if we expected him to believe that. Puck, incidentally, has since been bombed, for besides the 16th century church it contained, there lay alongside a military and naval station. How well prepared was Poland for the coming struggle? We unfortunately could see only the obvious preparations, and were unable to find out the real state of her defences. Spiritually the Poles were highly prepared ; they were superlatively selfconfident, and they loathed the Germans, to whom they swore they would never give in. All through Poland the answer was the same. In the Corridor they would say, " Once we were under German rule: never again." And their attitude was that they would do the attacking, with their aeroplanes (which unfortunately struck us as being very out-of-date ; but more were to come from England and France) and with their magnificent cavalry. But we wondered if they realized what modern warfare was like. If spirit could win a physical war, Poland would win ; but we thought them sadly deficient in those material props to the spirit. Men they had in quantity, fine fighters inspired by their centuries-old struggle for independence. But all the mechanized forces necessary to modern warfare were present only in small numbers ; their hopes seemed to rest on the roads, which were almost universally bad. In the centre of the country

Aberdeen Grammar School Magazine there were good asphalt roads joining the main industrial centres, but outside of these, they were torture, and the Poles hoped that these bad roads, allied with the weather, would hold up any German advance ; though the spirit of the people was such that they really expected to do the attacking rather than wait on the defensive. We were told that a German envoy at one of the Army manceuvres, on seeing the tanks and armoured cars, had remarked to Smigly-Rydz, " What do you want all these armoured vehicles for? You haven't the roads for them." " No," replied the Pole, " but you have." And, in spite of the result of the war on the Eastern Front, I still feel convinced that, had Russia not attacked, Poland would have held out till well into next year. The Soviet Fates, however, were against it. But was Poland worth fighting for ? I think yes : the people, or more especially those in South Poland, the mountaineers of the Tatras, were the finest we met anywhere. The peasants were perhaps poor, as most lands with large populations predominantly agricultural are: they worked hard, and did not seem discontented, and they had a culture of their own. We met one peasant woman who talked both French and German. And in the mountains to the South we met a peasant who had built with his own hands an organ (and all things considered it was a marvellous piece of work, and was as good as any one can find in Scots country districts) in a chapel which had been designed and built by his father, another crofter. And these are just instances such as might be found anywhere in Poland. It is a country where the desire for education is almost as high as in Scotland, where most men wish for a university career before going back to the land or in to some business. Typical was one man we met who, made head of a flourishing family business at the age of 18, had increased it, taught himself English, besides knowing French, German and Russian, taken degrees at the University in Arts and Law, just from the desire of knowledge, and was about to come to London to acquire some more. But one could continue citing instances of individual and personal culture ad nauseam. It is harder, in a visit of so short a time, to see dearly the national and popular culture, though one might try to describe it briefly as a mixture of traditionalism with an insistent endeavour to progress. Many of the modern features, in building for example, were charming, and in some of them Poland could give us points : to give a minor detail, it is forbidden to sound one's motor-horn in Warsaw, and nowhere in this country has that wise precaution been taken. But the culture of a country can often be judged by the great men and women it produces. And when Poland's list of names throughout the ages contains people like Copernicus, Chopin, Joseph Conrad, Paderewski, and Madame Curie, besides

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other Nobel Prize-winners, one must admit that her cultural level cannot be as backward as many believe. But now her advance forward has been checked, though not, we hope, for long : and her capital has been destroyed, the delightful mixture of well-preserved and beautiful old with go-ahead and pleasing new completely wiped out. And one is tempted to be sorry that, though the Germans have bombed and blown up all the reconstructions and replanning of Warsaw, which were being carried out almost as well as if not on as magnificent a scale as Berlin's, we cannot retaliate and destroy Hitler's effort for a new Berlin. But though Poles must now be feeling dispirited after Germany's lightning victory and Russia's treacherous blow, they still have an army in the field, and, as one of the most fervently patriotic nations in the world, they will still sing their national anthem, the Dlbrowsld Mazurka, even more apt now than before— Poland is not yet lost While we still live; What foreign violence seized from us We shall retake by the sword.

RICHARD L. SHARP. (I 920-17.)

F.P.s on Furlough. The following members of the Club have been home from abroad during the last few months and have signed the Visitors' Book at the Secretary's office :— John C. Taylor (1904-06), Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Tientsin, China. W. Ferrier Mayor (1923-3o), Preventive Service, Singapore, S.S. John No Dawson (19oo-o4), Messrs. Guthrie & Co., Ltd., Singapore, S.S. Arthur C. Lothian (1892-94 and 1898-1904), I .C.S., Rajputana, India. P. J. M. Walker (1914-2.0), Apartado 12 Bis, Mexico D.F. James F. Forbes (1921-27), c/o Messrs. Milne & Co., • S.A., Lima, Peru. Raymond G. Wilson (1906-12 and 1915-17), United Engineers Ltd., Singapore, S.S. Robert N. Gilchrist (1 90i-o5), I.E.S., India.

Aberdeen Grammar School Magazine Some Impressions of South America. 11 From Santos to Santiago and Valparaiso. (Continuedfrom " Magazine " of June 2939, p. 221.) As we steamed south from Santos we ran into a gale which got threatened to tear away the ship's awnings. But we hadfor a appetites our spoil didn't sea choppy the and legs, our sea Montereached we later days cheery Christmas dinner. Two of video, which looks fine from the sea and has a certain numberthe from particularly suffer to seemed fine buildings, but which driven unfinished look to which I referred earlier. We werebeach of lovely the at bathe a round by friends, and enjoyed place pleasant very is a Montevideo that imagine I Corrasco. practically in which to live. The climate is agreeable : snow isfor the city unknown, and in summer the heat is not excessive, come. breezes fresh which lies on the open sea, from I was surprised to learn that the wide estuary of the River adhere very Plate is so silted up that vessels of any size have to out-going— carefully to two channels—one in-going and one Aires, which are kept dredged. When we reached Buenos found I which I had thought of as a seaside city with beaches,was told that the river front was unpleasant grey mud, and I hours by that those who wished sea bathing had to travel nine days in train to Mar del Plata, on the open sea. We spent two Buenos Aires on the outward journey and four on our return. fierce Both times we found the heat stifling, and we had some itself thunderstorms. But if the climate displeased us, the city series regular—a very is it plan In handsome. impressed us as parallel of dead parallel streets crossed at right angles by another narrow, seem streets the avenues main few set. Apart from a The probably in order to ensure a certain amount of shade. alternate in traffic the streets, one-way great majority were We spent streets running in opposite directions, of course.breeze. We cool a get to trying taxis, in much of our time whit found most of the taxis were open six-seater Buicks, in were We essential. were cigar fat a and air I felt a prosperous Aires, Buenos of ladies greatly struck by the Parisian chic of the live in. The but decided it must be an expensive place to that the recogseemed it and articles we priced were expensive, to be was life social and recreation obtaining of nized means tennis, of choice a has one a member of a sports club, where the cricket, hockey, riding, boating, etc. We visited Tigre, innumerwith river of playground of Buenos Aires—a stretch of cricket able clubs, sailing boats and motor boats. Mentionparticularly be to seems reminds me that British influence

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marked in the Argentine, and there must be a large population of British business men. There is at least one daily paper in English (I think someone said there were two), and when I bought the Monday edition I was amazed to find a full page devoted to cricket matches played on the Sunday. I must not forget to mention that it was in Buenos Aires—and not in Rio! —that I saw a jaguar and an armadillo, but they were in the Zoo, an admirably arranged park, where we were amused to see children enjoying llama rides instead of the camel or elephant ones which would be usual at home. We left Buenos Aires at II one morning and reached Mendoza, at the foot of the Andes, at 6 the next morning. We were lucky in that there had been heavy, thundery rain the night before we set out and, therefore, we did not suffer unduly from the dust which is such an unpleasant feature of the vast plains of Argentina. As it was, fine dust penetrated through the metal gauze screens that were fitted to the windows of the train, and we woke in the morning to find a thin coating of it over ourselves and all our belongings. What we saw of the country during the day was monotonously flat, and at times almost desert. In parts it was obviously fertile, as there were fine crops of wheat, but the larger proportion of the area we saw seemed to be devoted to cattle-raising. We saw many flocks of flamingos and several ostrich farms. It was rather surprising to find ostriches, cattle, and sheep together in one huge field. The landscape was practically treeless, save where settlers had planted a few trees round their homestead to afford shade from the sun. The farms were widely scattered and villages did not appear numerous. It was 6 a.m. when our party was decanted at Mendoza, a town of over 5o,ooo inhabitants near the foot of the Andes. It is among other things the centre of a flourishing wine district, which reminds me that we found the local wines of Argentina, and still more of Chile, very pleasant. I believe most of the vines were originally introduced from France. At one time there was a railway connection across the Andes from Mendoza to Los Andes in Chile, but part of the line was swept away during a storm and has never been rebuilt ; I read recently that the decision had been taken to reconstruct it. I am told that only the poor travel by this route ; all those who can afford it use the much more rapid and comfortable air service. Goods traffic would normally go by train, unless it proved cheaper to send it by boat round Cape Horn. In place of the mountain railway there is a motor car service which takes one in six hours from Mendoza to Puenta las Vacas, whence one continues by rail. It is a hair-raising journey, and I was glad I had had experience of mountain roads in Switzerland before undertaking it. Not that there was any comparison as regards surface, but one was at least used to steeply-climbing

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roads with innumerable hair-pin bends. The first stretch from Mendoza was along a flat road inches deep in dust, and it was difficult for our fleet of seven-seater American cars to keep at a sufficient distance to let the dust subside between each one. When we began to climb we found that the road was merely a glorified mule-track, which had been made just wide enough to take a car. At intervals there were places where two cars could pass if one went half off the road. As motor cars were not contemplated when the track was made, its sudden bends, often between huge boulders, which allowed no room for a gentler curve, put a terrific strain on the steering gear and on the driver. The steering and the brakes are tested after each trip. There is at least one bend which none of the cars could take without backing when half-way round. As it was on a steep incline and the outside edge of the road was completely unprotected, with a sheer drop of hundreds of feet on to rocks, a certain anxiety was felt until it was safely negotiated. The drivers were excellent, although their speed sometimes seemed excessive on a track of loose stones, which at many points looked as if it might be washed away entirely by a heavy thunderstorm. The service runs twice a week, and on those two days the drivers have la hours at the wheel on roads which are constantly threatening to jerk it out of their hands. No wonder our one on the return journey alarmed us by declaring how sleepy he felt I Except for one oasis, we saw practically no dwellings and no vegetation the whole way across the Andes—nothing but bare rock. If the corresponding chain in North America is at all similar I can realize why the name " Rocky Mountains " was chosen. Such vegetation as there was consisted of patches of a rough, coarse grass and numerous cactuses, notably of the candelabrum variety. Often we would see no living creature for miles, save perhaps for a condor sailing majestically overhead at a great height. Twice we passed groups of roadmen, who live for several months at a time in rude huts near their work. They crowded round our car, clamouring for illustrated papers to while away the tedium of their evenings. The highest point we reached on this part of the journey was io,ooo feet— a desolate spot from which we enjoyed a fine panorama of the Andes, including our first glimpse of the highest peak, Aconcagua, which rises to some 23,ooo feet. We were all very glad to break our journey at the remarkable oasis of Uspallata. 1 have never discovered why this one spot should have, perhaps, an acre of trees in the middle of this barren mountain range. There are a few houses and a hotel with a courtyard, which 1 think would strike one as pretty anywhere but which, in that setting, seemed the last word in loveliness. It was simply a garden, not too well kept, with a few graceful, shady trees and a small fountain. On the terrace

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of the hotel overlooking this courtyard we enjoyed a muchneeded drink, for the day was hot and the road had been extremely dusty in places. When we changed to the little mountain railway we were carried slowly and with much effort over a higher range than we had yet crossed. The mountains were still bare, but we got glimpses of fine rock scenery as we emerged from some of the innumerable tunnels. One or two of the party felt a certain malaise owing to the height, and perhaps also the stuffy heat, but most of us were able to do reasonable justice to the meal served in the cramped dining car (the whole train was on a small scale, like some of the Alpine mountain railways), where we were constantly interrupted by passport and customs officials, who got in the way of the waiters and would insist on people opening the one suitcase which was furthest away from where they were seated. Towards evening we reached Los Andes, where we left the mountain train and were able to have a light meal near the station. Then we boarded an ordinary train and drowsed all the way to Santiago, which we reached at 11.3o p.m. on 31st December, having been travelling for 36 hours. Even the Scots among us (and we were at least four) were too tired to contemplate going out to celebrate Hogmanay. And it was just as well, for we should have required a bath and change first, and a bath proved to be one of the things we couldn't get. In Buenos Aires we had stayed at a most comfortable hotel, well appointed and with good service. My wife still recalls with pleasure the dainty afternoon tea served in our room when we arrive back from Santiago after a trying journey, during which she has almost collapsed with heat at Mendoza. But the hotel resources of Santiago are limited. It is a capital city with a population approaching half a million, but it is not a tourist centre. I was told there were only two hotels at which one could stay in any comfort ; ours was not one of them! Apparently many visitors from other parts of Chile spend Christmas and New Year in Santiago (it is midsummer then), and our Conference had brought an influx of delegates from the other States of America. Rooms had been allocated to us by an advance representative who doubtless did his best under difficult circumstances. Externally, our hotel was not very prepossessing, although it stood on the main avenue of the city. The proprietor greeted us pleasantly and showed us our room, which was of a good size but had an appearance of griminess and neglect. The sheets, of coarse material, had a grey look, and the blankets (which we did not require in that temperature) did not seem to have been washed since they were bought many years earlier. When we began to unpack, we found the drawers so thick with dust that we could put nothing in them. And they could not be dusted because, quite apart from the late hour, the whole hotel

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staff had departed to celebrate the New Year. For the same reason no bath was available, the heating for the water having been turned off. The proprietor assured us there would be hot water next morning, and there was, but there was the further difficulty of getting our bath washed first, for it had the same dirty appearance as the rest of the establishment. We did what we could with the help of the small wash-basin, and we were tired enough to sleep soundly. Next morning our breakfast, including bread of a grey hue to match the sheets, was brought by a servant—an Indian or half-caste girl, who was quite pleasant and willing, but always looked unwashed, untidy, and unkempt. Poverty, dirt, and dust are among my outstanding impressions of Santiago. There did not seem to be many middle-class people; one saw large numbers of beggars and of workers whose standard of living was obviously low, while at the other extreme were the wealthy folk, who lived outside and drove into the city in luxurious cars. The dust was everywhere ; it lay thick in the streets, many of which had no proper pavement ; it swirled about whenever a breeze sprang up. No wonder the inhabitants were constantly having their shoes cleaned in the streets ; I sometimes felt that they paid much more attention to that point than to other more important aspects of personal cleanliness. Coming from Buenos Aires we were particularly struck by the shabby taxis of Santiago: there were almost invariably some parts tied together with string ; the steering wheel or gear lever looked as if it would shake off at any moment ; if one looked down one could often see through holes in the floor to the road going past underneath. On the credit side for Santiago must be put its climate. It was just after midsummer, with brilliant, hot sunshine. But the city lies some z,ooo feet up, and I did not feel the heat oppressive ; in the evenings there was always a pleasant breeze. I was kept too busy to do much sight-seeing, but towards the end of our stay I was able to get some good tennis at one of the country clubs. These clubs have so much ground that they can scatter their tennis courts in such a way that each is cut off from all the others by a belt of trees. Another pleasant memory is the view of the lights of Santiago at night from San Cristobel, a hill that dominates the town. A funicular runs to the top, where there is a fashionable restaurant. I should have mentioned that after ten days we were at last able to move from our original hotel to a very clean one kept by a Swiss family. I imagine they must have found it difficult to make their staff adopt Swiss standards of cleanliness. The German head waiter in one of the leading restaurants told me that one of his chief difficulties was to train his waiters to keep their thumbs out of the inside of wine glasses when placing them on the table. I had two trips to Valparaiso. The first was organized for

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us, and a number of cars had been hired for the occasion. The distance from Santiago is not very great, but two or three ranges of foothills have to be crossed. The road is a good concrete one, and its winding course over the hills and down into the valleys is well engineered. But our Indian drivers drove on the assumption that no traffic could possibly be coming the other way. Before each bend to the left they got well over to the right (their proper side) and then proceeded to cut the corner at full speed on the extreme left-hand side. As our return was timed for after dark, several members of the party decided to return by train, although they had already paid the return fare by car. It is apparently impossible to reason with a Chilean driver ; the correct procedure is said to be to hit him over the head with an umbrella, which seems to me a risky proceeding if the car is travelling at any speed. To judge from the arid, dusty appearance of the country between Santiago and Valparaiso, irrigation must be one of the main agricultural problems of that region. The peasant dwellings of which we caught glimpses were very primitive huts, often of mud and branches of trees. The difference in temperature between Santiago and Valparaiso was very striking. In Santiago it was extremely hot, and most of us wore palm-beach suits ; in Valparaiso, on the same day, light overcoats were being worn. Only two of our party ventured into the Pacific, and they found it too cold for comfort. There is apparently a cold Antarctic current which washes that coast and keeps down the temperature. Valparaiso is noteworthy only because of its situation on the last slopes of the hills. It looks attractive from above, when a bend of the road suddenly brings it into view, and I imagine it may look even better from the sea. Close to Valparaiso is Vina del Mar, a very elegant summer resort with a fine casino. I believe the wealthy Chileans are very fond of gambling, as indeed most South Americans are said to be. Our second visit to Valparaiso and Vina del Mar was by train after the Conference was over ; we had two days to spare, because the trans-Andine train service runs only twice a week. Thus, before reluctantly starting once more for Europe, we spent our last day lying on the beach near Villa watching the Pacific and wishing that, as we had to return, we could have sailed up the west coast of South America and through the Panama Canal. But we were not free to make our own arrangements on the matter, and we can only hope that some day there will be a Conference in Peru. JAMES L. Mowar (t9r 5 - i 6), M.A., Ph.D.

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The 8th International Student Games. Impression of Monaco. On Tuesday, fifth August, twenty athletes departed from Glasgow on the first stage of their journey to the South of France. They were the chosen representatives of the Scottish Universities for the 8th International Student Games to be held in Monaco. The Games were originally intended to be held in Vienna, but with the invasion by Germany of Czecho-Slovakia and the proposal of unacceptable competition rules by the German Games officials, a new site had to be found. Amsterdam was first chosen, but could not make the necessary arrangements in time, and accordingly the offer of hospitality from the Principality of Monaco, pleasure centre of the world, was eagerly accepted. Facilities for all forms of sport existed, and accommodation was no problem in a place where hotels are much more numerous than private houses. Performances on the athletic fields of the four Scottish Universities had been carefully watched by a selection committee, and now twelve men and seven women were being sent to Monaco to test their skill against that of the students of all countries— except Germany, Italy and Japan, who stood aside sulkily and tried to organize rival Games at Vienna. Whether these were ever held I have not been able to ascertain. The small but hopeful Scottish team arrived in Monaco on 19th August after a most interesting journey, which had included two days for rest and relaxation amongst the wonders of Paris. During our 16f hours' train journey through France we were fascinated by the gradual transition in the scenery, from the typical French to the typical Mediterranean landscape, with an accompanying substantial rise in the temperature, which had by no means been low in Paris. Substantial Scottish tweed made us envy more experienced travellers in their linen suits. From Marseilles, ever since we had had our first glimpse of the Mediterranean, our excitement had been rising, whetted by glimpses of the sparkling lights of Nice and Cannes. When we finally alighted from the train half an hour after midnight, we had to convince ourselves that we were not dreaming, such a scene of beauty lay before us. The calm night air was balmy and scented, while palm trees waved in the bright moonlight, which shone silvern on the white buildings. Banners and bunting waved in honour of the Games and the warmth of our welcome left no doubt as to its sincerity. Next morning we had an opportunity of further proving the agreeability of our first impressions. A matutinal bathe in the sparkling Mediterranean was the first delight to one accustomed to Aberdeen's chilly North Sea ; and then, thoroughly refreshed after our long journey, we could appreciate the

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delights that lay before us. Exotic shrubs fronted buildings of dazzling whiteness and gay colours, rocky steeps towered above the gay towns of Monaco and Monte Carlo nestling beneath, and up above it all stood the Palace of the reigning monarch, S.A.S. le Prince Louis II. The hand of Nature and the hand of man had combined in unbelievable harmony to present a picture that never ceased to make us Scots marvel— it was in complete contrast to our Highland scenery, being pretty rather than grand. According to historians Monaco dates far back, for it claims Hercules himself as its founder—Virgil describes it as " Herculis Monaci portus," and recent excavations have unearthed relics of undoubted antiquity. Close as it is now to the Italian frontier, it has seen many wars, sieges, and vicissitudes, falling into the hands of the Saracens in the 6th century A.D., after the death of Charlemagne, and being recaptured from them in 968 by Grimaldi 1, Lord of the Antibes. Since 419 the Grimaldi family has reigned in Monaco, and 3o generations of Princes are recorded. First Spain and then France acted as overlord of this little nation, and finally in 1814 it definitely established its independence. It maintains its own army, augmented in August to the formidable strength of 9o in view of the international situation! The country all around bears the visible imprint of Roman civilization, and the little mountain village of La Turbie has the remains of a huge colonnade erected by Augustus Caesar to commemorate the subjugation of the Alpine tribes. The marvels of the Casino, sporting dub, gardens, beaches, and hotels cannot be done justice to in an article such as this. On Sunday, zoth August, the Games were opened at the Stade Louis II. This is a wonderful piece of work, with a magnificent running-track surrounding football pitches, a colossal grandstand, and palatial dressing rooms—the adjectives used are no exaggeration! It is probably the best equipped and most modern sports arena in Europe, or in the World, for that matter. The teams marched into the Stadium in alphabetical order, each with its national flag borne in front, to stirring martial music and tumultuous cheering. Scotland's little contingent, looking very small compared with the entries of countries which had not had so far to travel, received a great ovation, but nothing like that accorded to the large Polish team which had just arrived after being held up in Germany. There was no doubt on whose side the sympathies of that international crowd lay. I wonder how many of those Polish athletes are still alive ? Next day the general programme commenced with Swimming, Diving, Water Polo, Fencing, Boxing, Shooting, Tennis, Gymnastics, Football, Basket-ball and Volley Ball. Athletics were not due to start till the Thursday, and so our training had

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The heat was intense and we sweated pints of perspiration as we tore round that track or did " jerks." My events happened to be rather exhausting in any case1,5oo metres and 5,ooo metres (approximately one and three miles respectively), and so I certainly did not put on any weight during the trip! Meanwhile, when we were not training or watching the other competitions, we found time for sightseeing, including one very enjoyable day in Italy, which is only seven miles east of Monaco. There were many interesting sights even closer at hand, however, and it was when visiting the Palace and wearing a Gordon tartan kilt that I chanced to draw the attention of a complete stranger. We fell into conversation and to our amazement found that we not only came from the same city but also from the same School, although he * had been at the Grammar some ten years before my time. Later in the week, when 1 was toiling round my i zi laps race in the Stadium, he cheered me on very considerably by his homely vocal support. Political rumblings were beginning to penetrate even to this happy world of sport by the time that the Athletics commenced on Thursday, and people were already beginning to leave for home. The proximity of the Italian frontier was unpleasant, as everyone thought that Mussolini would support Hitler. Troops moved everywhere and mountain batteries rumbled away up to the hills. A ceaseless watch was maintained at all outlooks and it was evident that France was ready for action. It was chiefly heats that were decided on the first day of Athletics, and every entrant from Scotland was able to advance to the final of his or her event. England's team did well, too, and it accordingly came as a great surprise to us next day to hear that they had left for home owing to the international situation. We felt that they had acted in a rather panicky fashion, especially as the British Consul had not advised British citizens to leave. Most of the Scottish team were quite determined that, having come to compete in the Games, they would remain till these were over. That night we held an especially cheery sing-song in our hotel, having gained several successes in the day's Athletics. When we went up to Monte Carlo in the evening, however, for our customary hour or two at the open-air cafés, before early bed in the interests of complete fitness, we were astonished to see how empty it all was. Fully three-quarters of the foreign residents had left for their own countries. We felt that things really must be serious and that all the alarming news in the papers was not just sensationalism after all. This impression was confirmed next morning when we received word that the programme of finals for Sunday had been cancelled, as had been the closing ceremony and grand reception at night. The Games were to end that day, Saturday, and the entire programme * Alexander Gray (191o-22), LL.B., Advocate, Abe rdeen.—[Ed. A .G.S. Mag.l

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was to be finished then. This was a sad blow to most of us, for the list of events was so full that many of us would be unable to compete in all we had intended. Re-arrangements were decided on by our team captain, trainer, and manager, and we proceeded to the Stadium for such a day of Athletics as has seldom been seen—the starting pistols cracked from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m. and event after event was decided. Some remarkable performances were put up by the Americans, who had just completed a European tour; but the French and Scottish teams were not far behind. Each of the twenty-odd competing nations had something to be proud of in the immense two-days' programme that was crowded into one. Gradually the programme was got through, with much playing of national anthems in honour of the victor of each event, who stood on a dais saluting his flag as it was run up, while the 2nd and 3rd place winners stood at either side of him. The Prince visited the Stadium in the afternoon and saw many of the events. The heat was terrific, the day being quite the hottest we had had so far—and that was something! Running was an exhausting business, and it was a very tired band of Scottish athletes who returned to their hotel that evening, happy in the thought that they had gained third place out of so many nations—U.S.A. being first, France second, and Scotland third. Our women had done even better, beating France for ist place by i point, England being 3rd, with 23 points less —most of the women's events having been decided after they left. Thus the Games closed with the war-clouds darkening fast around us, and next day we set off for home, cursing the machinations of Hitler that took us from so pleasant surroundings two days sooner than we had intended. An unforgettable night's travelling with troop trains and dim blue lights everywhere took us to Paris. We were amazed at the change wrought in the capital since we had been there ten days before. So deserted and forlorn did it look that we were not sorry to leave twelve hours later, cross the Channel, and find ourselves once more in Britain, which certainly seemed much less on the point of war than France had done. Thus terminated prematurely but none the less successfully the 8th International Student Games, which seemed to be doomed to a stormy passage from their very inception—taken from Vienna to Amsterdam, and from Amsterdam to Monaco, there to be brought to an end hurriedly because a grimmer contest than sport was calling to the participants. The next Games are due in 1941—will common sense and fair dealing have been restored by then ? A. W. C. LO3BAN (1925-1933)•

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** * The Editor is glad at all times to receive from any quarter items of information for this section of the " Magazine." N.B.—The absence of notes about war service is explained on pp. t-z.

The dates given in parentheses after names indicate the sessions of attendance at the School. Andrew Riddel Abercromby * (19°3-13) was in November elected Mayor of the London borough of Southgate, and is by far the youngest Mayor whom that borough has elected since its charter was granted. He became a member of the London Stock Exchange in 1928, and joined the Southgate Urban District Council in 1931. Commander Jameson Boyd Adams (1893-94), C.V.O., C.B.E., D.S.O., Secretary of King George's Jubilee Trust, is at present Chief Regional Officer for the North-Eastern District of England, Ministry of Information. The Right Hon. Lord Alness * (1884-85), P.C., LL.D., is Chairman of an Advisory Committee appointed by the Home Secretary to examine the cases of persons who have been interned in Scotland, " with a view to preventing them from acting in a manner prejudicial to the public safety or the defence of the realm." Lord Alness is also President of the Scottish Societies War Work Committee, which has been formed from the London Scottish Societies (including the London Centre of the F.P. Club) with the object of promoting all desirable and necessary war work for the benefit of Scots in the different Services when they are in London. James Alexander Barclay * (192o-25), M.A., B.Sc., M.B., Ch.B., has been appointed Lecturer in the Physiology Department of the Medical School, University of Birmingham. Previously he was Demonstrator in the corresponding Department of the School of Medicine, Leeds. Ronald James Beanie * (1927-36) has been elected an Associate Member of the Chartered Insurance Institute. He is in the service of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co., Ltd., at their Aberdeen branch. Patrick Hamilton Bell * (1927-32), M.B., Ch.B., has been appointed House Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Sunderland, * Member of Former Pupils' Club.

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for six months from s st September last. He was previously on the staff of the Hospital for Sick Children, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Archibald Ernest Bennett * (191o-3o) is now an Architectural Assistant in H.M. Office of Works, London, after spending fifteen months in the office of Sir Herbert Baker, R.A., and Mr. A. T. Scott, F.R.I.B.A. In June, himself at the pianoforte, he gave with Mark FitzRoy (baritone) a Schubert Recital in the Caxton Hall, Westminster. Charles Barron Bisset * (1909-18), M.A., B.Sc., who joined the Geological Survey of Nyasaland in 1927 and was transferred to the Geological Survey of Uganda about four years ago, has recently been promoted to be Senior Geologist, Uganda. Leonard John Blackhall * (1929-39), who on leaving the School last June went out to his father's estate in Perak, F.M.S., for a two months' holiday before commencing his course in forestry at Aberdeen University, has been unable to return to this country, and will have to stay in the East "for the duration." In Malaya he has come across several F.P.s, who have all been glad to get from him some first-hand news of the School. Robert Bowman * (1907-09), M.A., LL.B., who qualified as a chartered accountant in 1923, is in the service of the Mexican Light and Power Company in Mexico D.F. He has recently become a member of the F.P. Club. George Chambers Brander * (192o-32), B.Sc.(Vet.), M.R.C.V.S., was in August appointed Research Officer in the Veterinary Laboratory, New Haw, Weybridge, Surrey. He was previously an assistant veterinary surgeon in Shrewsbury. John Alexander Brockie * (1921-31) was in August appointed Assistant Works Manager in the Oil Seal Factory of Messrs. George Angus & Co., Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne. He served his apprenticeship as an engineer with Messrs. John M. Henderson & Co., Ltd., Aberdeen. George William Bruce * (1915-24) is a pioneer in the North in the production of artificial stone. Six years ago he manufactured only precast concrete, but wanting to produce a stone of more pleasing appearance, he made many experiments and artificial granite was the result. The demand for this type of stone has developed to such an extent that the works have been expanded to occupy 44 acres, whereas they originally covered only one-eighth of an acre. Types of well-known granites imitated are Rubislaw, Peterhead, Kemnay, and Corrennie. Portland stone and sandstone can also be successfully imitated. In the making of artificial granites a quantity of the real stone is used. The granite is ground down to a very fine state, then it is mixed with cement and poured into moulds.

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Sheriff John R. Wardlaw Burnet * (1899-1901), B.A., LL.B., K.C., was in October elected Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh. He was called to the Bar in 1912, and was Clerk of the Faculty from 1925 to 1934, when he became a King's Counsel. He has held the office of Sheriff of Fife and Kinross since September, 1937. Alexander Vernon Whyte Cantlay * (1903-1o) is now in charge of the Tamiang Estate, P.O. Koeala Simpang, Noord Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies. James Younger Collie (1869-75), advocate in Aberdeen, who died on 9th May last, left personal estate valued at £S4,068. DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF FINANCE.

Patrick Ashley Cooper * (1896-1901), B.A., LL.B., was in September appointed Director-General of Finance in the Ministry of Supply. He is in control of all the finance passing through that Department, whether in the purchase of raw materials, munitions of war, etc., or the erection of factories and such like; also the provision and rationing of difficult foreign currencies. These duties involve him in a large number of far-removed subjects of extraordinary diversity and interest. His services, it was announced in Parliament, arc being given to the Government without remuneration. As was recorded in the June issue of the Magazine, Mr. Cooper, as Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, took part in a unique ceremony at Winnipeg during the visit there of the King and Queen, when on Empire Day he presented to His Majesty the tribute, laid down by the Company's charter, of two elk heads and two black beaver skins. Photographs of the proceedings have been received from Winnipeg, and one showing the past President of the F.P. Club reading the Address to the King is reproduced in this issue : it is a pictorial record of special interest to the School. During his visit to Canada Mr. Cooper took the opportunity to pay visits of inspection to the Hudson's Bay Company's stores in Calgary, Nelson, Vernon, Kamloops, and Vancouver. From Vancouver he flew to Los Angeles and, after a day there, visited the Victoria store. From Edmonton, on 18th June, the Governor sent a post card to the Editor of the Magazine : " Just leaving for the North by plane down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic," and in one week he covered 5,ooo miles. During the present year Mr. Cooper has joined the Board of Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd., and has been appointed chairman of the company. Henry Duncan Crow (1929-30 passed the Intermediate Arts Examination at University College, London, in June of this year.

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Alan Hamilton Cruickshank (1920-3 r), M.B., Ch.B., has been appointed temporary additional Assistant in the Pathology Department, University of Aberdeen. Eric Kennedy Cruickshank * (1920-32), M.B., Ch.B., has been appointed Assistant to the Professor of Medicine in the University of Aberdeen. Dugald T. Stewart Currie * (1927-34), who was for a time a member of the Aberdeen Police Force, is now an assistant with the Straits Rubber Company, Gedong Estate, Bagan Serai, Perak, F.M.S. ENTHRONED AS BISHOP OF EDINBURGH. The Right Rev. Ernest Denny Logic Danson * (1892-94),

M.A., D.D., who has been Assistant Bishop and Provost of St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, since last year, was in October unanimously elected Bishop at a meeting of the clerical and lay electors of the Episcopal Diocese of Edinburgh. Dr. Danson, who is a former President of the F.P. Club, was Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak for fourteen years, and last year declined an invitation to become Bishop of the Diocese of St. Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane. During the last war, on his way to Borneo he was on board the Mooltan when she was torpedoed in the Mediterranean. Some years later, while returning from New South Wales, the steamer on which he was travelling was badly damaged in a collision, and the passengers and crew had to make their way to land in the life-boats. After his return to this country and until his appointment in Edinburgh he was Assistant Bishop and Canon Residentiary of Carlisle. Older F.P.s in Aberdeen will remember Bishop Danson's father, the Very Rev. Dr. James Myers Danson, as Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney. Two of Bishop Danson's brothers are also members of the F.P. Club—Surgeon-Captain JA.ES GORDON DANSON (1894-1903), M.D., and JOHN RHYS DANSON (1897-1903), M.B.E. (Mil. Div.), Municipal Office, Penang, where he is the F.P. Club Consul. On zznd November, 1939, at an impressive ceremony introducing much traditional pageantry, Dr. Danson was enthroned in the Cathedral Church of St. Mary, Edinburgh. When the congregation had assembled the Bishops' procession entered at the West Door. The clergy of the Edinburgh and other Dioceses, in their white surplices, hoods, and scarves, were followed by Canons, Provosts, and Deans in their richly coloured vestments. At the end of the procession came the Bishops in their resplendent copes, and the Primus, on whose gold-embroidered vestment the altar candles glinted. For this wealth of pageantry the quiet grey walls of the Cathedral made an effective setting. Entering the Cathedral from the Cloister, the Bishop's Chaplain petitioned the Primus for the Bishop's insignia of

PATRICK ASHLEY COOPER, GOVERNOR OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY, READING THE ADDRESS TO THE KING AT FORT GARRY GATEWAY, WINNIPEG, 24th

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THE RIGHT REV. ERNEST DENNY LOGIE DANSON,

Bishop of Edinburgh.

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office, and received the pastoral staff and mitre from the Altar. Suddenly breaking the reverent silence within the Cathedral, a fanfare of trumpets announced the approach of the Bishop's procession. At the West Door, which had previously been closed and locked, the Bishop knocked with his pastoral staff, crying " Open! Open! Open! " Having been admitted, the Bishop made his petition to the Dean to be inducted, installed, and enthroned into the full episcopal rights in the Cathedral. While the congregation sang, the Bishop was conducted by the Chapter to the Chancel, where he remained standing with his Chaplains before the Dean. At the conclusion of the hymn, and at the invitation of the Dean, Bishop Danson in a clear ringing voice made his declaration, the opening words of which were, " I, Logie, by Divine Permission, Bishop of the Diocese of Edinburgh, do declare," etc. While the Bishops, clergy, and people stood, the Dean lead the Bishop to the Throne, and the ceremony of enthronement was carried through. After prayer, the Bishop was blessed by the Primus, who placed on his finger the Diocesan Episcopal ring. After receiving the homage of the Dean and others, Bishop Danson delivered his sermon, and then was led to the Altar, where he blessed the clergy, and next to the Chancel steps, where he blessed the people. The ceremony concluded with the Bishop leading the processions from the Cathedral. Alexander Bothwell Donald * (1922-28), M.D., was in April appointed Assistant Medical Officer of Health in Edinburgh. He was previously Senior Resident at the City Hospital, Edinburgh. Edward H. Marcus Doughty * (1924-31) has been appointed Junior Technical Assistant Engineer at the Electricity Generating Station of the Aberdeen Corporation. John A. Francis Doughty * (1924-30) received an appointment last year with the Coventry Gauge and Tool Co., Coventry. James Lindsay Duncan * (1911-24), LL.B., Ph.D., prepared the recently-published new edition of "The Law of Reparation in Scotland," by the late A. T. Glegg. The last edition of this book, the only work of its kind, is dated 1905, and the result of the long delay in editing " Glegg" has been that in view of the great changes that have occurred since then, the book has had to be in part re-written by the present editor. According to one reviewer, " This is decidedly one of those rare new editions which should enhance the reputation of the original, and the publishers and editor are to be warmly congratulated on it. . . . It is to be wished such an encouraging reception as will ensure another equally good edition in rather less than thirty-four years' time." Francis Millar Esson * (1918-25), who was formerly in the Royal Merchant Navy and resigned for health reasons, was

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in June appointed Organizing Secretary to the Kincardine and West Aberdeenshire Unionist Association. Robert Warrender Farquhar * (1919-22), B. Sc.(Agr.), M.B., Ch.B., who since graduating in medicine in December, 1937, has been assistant in a medical practice in Kidsgrove, Staffs, now holds a commission in the R.A.M.C. Robert David Spittal Fleming * (1925-37), after spending a year in the Faculty of Laws at University College, London, has passed the Intermediate LL.B. Examination. Douglas Christian Fraser * (1907-17), who was formerly engaged in tea-planting in Assam, has received a civil appointment under the Air Ministry. Stanley Mayer Fraser * (1908-19), after periods as Acting Manager at Kurmah Tea Estate, Sylhet, and Rampore Tea Estate, Cachar, has for about a year been Acting Manager at Orangajuli Tea Estate, Lower Assam. Major Frederick Wernham Gerrard * (1905-06), C.I.E., who in May, 1938, retired from the post of Commissioner of the Municipal Police at Shanghai, is now permanently resident at Caulfield, British Columbia. Robert Niven Gilchrist * (1901-05), C.I.E., M.A., of the Indian Educational Service, is at present on leave in this country preparatory to retirement. After being Labour Commissioner of Bengal for several years, he became Reforms Commissioner under Sir John Anderson. Before leaving India he completed the work required for the introduction of the new Constitution in Bengal. This work is described in considerable detail in a volume he wrote entitled, " Report of the Reforms Office, Bengal, 1932-37," which was published at the end of last year by the Government of Bengal John King Grant * (1914-16), M.B., Ch.B., is now on the staff of the Renfrew District Mental Hospital, Dykebar, Paisley. He was previously at the Royal Asylum, Montrose. Gilbert Frewin Hamilton (1921-30), B.Sc., M.B., Ch.B., has been appointed Lecturer in Anatomy in the University of Aberdeen. He was previously an assistant in the Anatomy Department. Very Rev. James Harvey * (1870-75), M.A., D.D., demitted office in May as Joint Senior Clerk to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. The following tribute is taken from Life and Work :— " This Tuesday morning we are all at attention, for we are to say good-bye to Dr. Harvey (as Clerk, not as minister or man), and here is something we must do from the heart and all as one. A Clerk of Assembly for twenty-three years, for ten of these Joint Principal Clerk of the reunited Church of Scotland, what a panorama of faces and memories must pass before him some-

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times. Benign, gracious, always encouraging and hopeful, full of the charity that thinketh no evil and is not easily provoked, he yet carried with it all a business-like shrewdness, knowledge of practice and procedure, and unflagging efficiency which made him a truly devoted and acceptable servant of the Church. His gowned figure as he turns, after words of thanks from the Moderator, disappears through the door, and another personal chapter is closed." ASSISTING IN THE ECONOMIC WAR.

Hubert Douglas Henderson * (1905-04), M.A.(Cantab.), was specially mentioned in the House of Commons in October by the Prime Minister when he announced the formation of an economic general staff, having the duty of initiating proposals of its own and of reviewing and co-ordinating the measures taken by the Departments concerned with economic and financial policy. Before the outbreak of war Lord Stamp was exercising a roving commission as adviser upon the Government's economic war plans, in collaboration with " two admirable assistants," as The Times subsequently described them, one of these being our F.P. Lord Stamp and his associates are now advising a Ministerial Committee which has been set up under the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Henderson, who is Senior Research Fellow in Economics at All Souls College, Oxford, was formerly Joint Secretary to the Economic Advisory Council. He was appointed a member of the Royal Commission set up last year to inquire into social and economic conditions in the West Indies. Mr. Henderson is the author of one of the recently published " Oxford Pamphlets," his subject being " Colonies and Raw Materials." The pamphlet received prominent notice in The Times. William James Hogg * (1908-25), M.D., was in July appointed Assistant Medical Officer of Health for Ross-shire. He was previously Deputy Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer to the Borough of Torquay. Arthur R. H. Kellas * (5926-32), M.A., was one of the successful candidates at the last Civil Service competition for the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service. He has had an outstanding career as a Classical scholar both at Aberdeen and Oxford Universities. He won an Open Scholarship at Balliol in 5935, and last year was placed in the First Class in the Final School of Literae Humaniores. Percival Robson Kirby (189z-9ot), M.A., D.Litt., Professor of Music in the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, has been taking a keen interest in the strange story of Lukas, a South African native boy who lived with a troop of baboons for twelve years, which is now being investigated by

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scientists. The subject was discussed at the recent Congress of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, when Professor Kirby suggested that Lukas should be interviewed and a note taken of his instinctive reactions when baboon sounds were uttered without warning. James Gray Kyd * (1891-98), Registrar-General for Scotland, had his name brought prominently before every householder in the land on the occasion of National Registration on Friday, 19th September, x939. The " Notes for Householder " issued shortly before that date were signed, "J. G. Kyd, Registrar-General." " CHINESE LEGGE."

James Legge (1829-3o), who became the foremost Chinese scholar in Britain, sailed for China on z8th July, 1839, and special note has been taken of the centenary of this event. His work had a profound influence not merely on the development of Christian missions in China, but on British-Chinese relations in general: study of the early years of the British Colony at Hong-Kong shows that the influence of the staunch Scottish missionary was far-reaching. He was born at Mundy in 1815, and at the age of fifteen from the Aberdeen Grammar School won the First Bursary at King's College, and on graduating M.A. four years later, the Hutton Prize, the highest award of merit then offered. After a year of teaching he entered the Theological College at Highbury, and while there his call to the East became clear. China being closed at this time, he began his work at Malacca, but in 1843 the Anglo-Chinese College there was moved to Hong-Kong, and for the next thirty years Legge lived a strenuous life of evangelism, teaching, and interpretation of the East to the West, with the new British Colony as his centre. His monumental work was the translating and editing of the Chinese classics, which occupied him for fifty years, and was completed shortly before his death. In this way he made the books of Confucius, Mencius, Lao Tsze, and others, available to his fellow missionaries and to all interested in the East, and so enabled them to be better equipped for the understanding of Chinese mentality. On his retirement in 1873 he intended to spend a peaceful old age in Scotland ; but such gifts as his could not be allowed to rust in idleness. A Chair of Chinese was founded at Oxford, and Dr. Legge was unanimously elected the first Professor in 1876. He held this position until his death in 1897. William Elder Levie * (1889-93), advocate in Aberdeen, and partner in the firm of Messrs. L. Mackinnon and Son, is joint author of a " Manual of Company Law and Conveyancing in Scotland," recently published by Messrs. Hodge. The book has been warmly welcomed by legal practitioners and others.

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Alexander Lightbody * (1922-33) recently received the degree of B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at Aberdeen University, with First Class Honours, having previously got the degree of B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, also with First Class Honours. While at Aberdeen University he was awarded the National Diploma of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers with a triple distinction. He has recently gone to an Air Ministry Establishment, where he is engaged in aircraft development work. AN INDIAN " RESIDENT."

Arthur Cunningham Lothian * (2892-94 and 1898-1904), C.S.I., C.I.E., M.A., B.Sc., of the Indian Civil Service, now holds the important offices of Resident for Rajputana and Chief Commissioner for Ajmer-Merwara. He was home on leave during the past summer, but was suddenly recalled. Alexander Low * (1883-86), M.A., M.D., Emeritus Professor of Anatomy in the University of Aberdeen, received the Honorary Degree of LL.D. from the University at the Summer Graduation in July. In presenting him for laureation the Professor of Law said :— It was in i886 that Professor Low began his long and honourable association with this University when he entered King's College as a student of Arts. After graduating, he proceeded to the study of Medicine, and on receiving his degree joined the staff of the University. He was successively Assistant Lecturer and Reader in Embryology, and in 1925 he was appointed to the Chair of Anatomy. He has thus been associated with the University as student and teacher for the long period of fifty-two years. Like the ancient Nestor, he has seen three generations of mortal men pass away, and among the third he held rule. In the field of study which he has made his own Professor Low is an acknowledged master. In 1912 he was awarded the degree of M.D. with highest honours. His work on the development of the lower jaw is recognized as one of the classics of the science of Embryology. Among his many notable contributions to Anthropology special mention may be made of his paper " On the Contents of Short Cysts found in Aberdeenshire and the Neighbouring Counties." His observations in these fields have proved to be of high value in the development of the modern science of Genetics. In recognition of his outstanding work he had the honour of being appointed President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. While the University is proud to acclaim the eminent distinction of Professor Low, already so widely acknowledged by the members of his own profession, I should desire in her name to give public expression to her appreciation of those personal qualities which have endeared him to all his associates—the fatherly interest in the welfare of his students, which earned him the tribute of an affectionate sobriquet, the modesty and courtesy of his bearing, which on orracion provided so exquisite a contrast with the blatancy of lesser men, the unconscious charm of manner which is the fine flower of a simple and kindly heart. In creating him Doctor of Laws we honour a great servant of the University, and at the same time pay our highest tribute to a great gentleman.

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Assistant Medical Officer. He now holds a commission in the R . A .M.C. Alastair David MacDonald * (1923-20, who graduated at the University in July with First Class Honours in History, has been awarded the Fullerton Scholarship in History of Lioo, tenable for two years. John Bennett McGregor * (1921-24 and 1926-31) is and Officer in the service of the Straits Steamship Co., Singapore, and has his home there. Norman Crighton McIver (1928-34), who graduated at the University in July with First Class Honours in Political Economy, has been awarded the Fullerton Scholarship in Political Economy of Li zo, tenable for two years. Donald Hugh James Mackay (19 i 2- i 8), B.L.(Edin.), W.S., was in July appointed Procurator Fiscal Depute at Aberdeen. He served his legal apprenticeship in Edinburgh, and after taking his B.L. degree there, became a W.S. in 1930. He entered the Fiscal's service in Glasgow in 1931, and three years later was appointed Senior Procurator Depute in Edinburgh. Alan Theodore Louis Mackenzie * (1927-29), B.Sc. (Eng.), who graduated at Aberdeen in 193), is in the service of Messrs. Jessop & Co., Ltd., Calcutta. John Mackenzie * (193o-3z), C.A., is in the service of Messrs. Grahams Rintoul Hay Bell and Co., St. Vincent Street, Glasgow. Douglas Nelson Mackinnon * (1921-34), M.A., who graduated in Arts at Aberdeen University in 1937, and thereafter held a tutorial post in London, has returned to the University and is studying Medicine. Thomas Mackintosh * (1909-14), B.Sc.(Agr.), has recently . taken over the management of the Roxburghe Hotel, Edinburgh, after being for over fifteen years in the hotel service of the London and North-Eastern Railway Company. John MacMurray (1902-04), Grote Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University of London, has recently made an addition to his lengthening list of books on Philosophy and other subjects. This is " The Boundaries of Science : A Study in the Philosophy of Psychology," published by Messrs. Faber & Faber. Douglas S. S. Marr * (1919-3z), M.A., LL.B., became an assistant with Messrs. Muir Wilson and Harvey, solicitors, Renfrew Street, Glasgow, but now holds an Infantry commission. James W. S. Marr * (1913-19), M.A., B.Sc., has recently left again for the Antarctic. Neil George Marr * (191,-21), M.B., Ch.B., joined the service of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Birmingham, a i

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year ago, and in September last was appointed Group Medical Officer of Imperial Chemical Industries (Metals) Ltd. Cornelius Mearns * (1912-17), Major, Indian Army, after being for eighteen years in the zoth Lancers, was transferred to the Royal Indian Army Service Corps when the former ceased to be an active unit. He was promoted Major in January 1938. ANOTHER SHERIFF. Charles B. Milne * (1893-96), K.C., M.A., LL.B., was in June appointed Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway. He was called to the Bar in 1904, and took silk in 1932. He represented the Western Division of Fife in Parliament from 1931 to 1935. Donald Alexander Campbell Morrison (1922-25), son of Dr. George A. Morrison, M.P., in July obtained a First Class in the Final School of Literae Humaniores. Last year he was awarded the Ireland and Craven Classical Scholarships at Oxford, and this year he was awarded the Slade Exhibition. He has been a Scholar of Christ Church. In September he took the second place in the competition for the Home. Civil Service and has been posted to the Home Office. John Norrie * (1897-1902), B.Sc., has recently become Head Master of H.M. Dockyard School, Sheerness. He entered the service of H.M. Dockyard Schools in 1913. James Charles Philip * (1 886-89), M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., was in July last elected President of the Society of Chemical Industry for 1939-40, and since the beginning of the present war has also been Chairman of the University of London Joint Recruiting Board. Louis Arnaud Reid (1904-09), M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt., Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at King's College, Newcastle-on-Tyne, has been appointed Additional Examiner in Logic and Moral Philosophy in the University of Aberdeen for a period of three years. Richard Lyall Sharp (1920-27), M.A., who graduated at Aberdeen in 1937, with First Class Honours in Classics, was awarded the Seafield Gold Medal in Latin, and shared with another the Simpson Prize and Robbie Gold Mcdal in Greek, was in June placed in Class I of the Cambridge Classical Tripos, Part II. He is now in the Army, but has found time to contribute a very welcome article to this issue of the Magazine. It is noteworthy that his brother, ALASTAIR GEORGE SHARP * (1918-24), M.A., took exactly the same place in the Classical Tripos of 1933. It must be a rather unusual occurrence for two brothers to be so equally distinguished. Both left the Grammar School for Fettes College, Edinburgh, and thence entered Clare College, Cambridge.

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Edward Theodore Shennan* (1924-3o and x933-34), M.B., Ch.B., who graduated in Medicine at Aberdeen in July, is on the staff of St. Giles' Hospital, Camberwell, London. August Henry Klie Slater * (1922-35) has recently shared with another the award of the Fullerton, Moir, and Gray Scholarship in Classics at Aberdeen University. In January he was awarded an exhibition in Classics at Merton College, Oxford. John Morrison Smith * (1924-32), who is in the service of Messrs. Steel Bros. & Co., Ltd., at Rangoon, Burma, was recently on leave, and the ship on which he returned was received with great excitement at Colombo, as it was the first passenger liner to reach Ceylon, via Suez, after the declaration of war. He is again " up country " in Burma. Leonard John Smith * (1890-1902), who since 1923 has been a commercial artist in London, was the subject of an appreciation in the Summer Number of " The Hippodrome " magazine, which deals with English, American, and Continental art interests. His works, said the critic—landscape, architectural edifices, nude studies, and etchings—are painted or etched with the feeling characteristic of an artist who is equally skilled with brush or needle. Illustrations were given of three of his best works—" Hampstead Heath" and " Westminster Abbey (the Nave)," water-colours, and " The Model," a drypoint. Of the Westminster Abbey interior the writer said that it revealed the artist's technical knowledge of architecture acquired in his native city under Dr. William Kelly, A.R.S.A. " His work has been exhibited in Toronto, New York, and Florence," the critic concluded, " and since he has been back in England we find in the painter's commercial art to-day that true touch that has helped business art to breathe and to flourish." Sydney Robertson Smith * (1928-37) is now attending Manchester Grammar School, of which Mr. Douglas Gordon Miller is High Master. Smith was too young to be at the Aberdeen Grammar School when Mr. Miller was its Rector. William Smith * (1921-30), B.Sc., M.B., Ch.B., has been in practice in Brixton and Streatham, London, since the spring of last year. He is in a partnership, the senior member of which is an F.P., GEORGE BREBNER Scorr * (1882-91), M.D. At present Dr. Smith holds a temporary commission in the R.A.M.C. Alexander Wilson Souter * (1921-32), M.B., Ch.B., who holds a George Thompson Scholarship from Aberdeen University to the value of £zoo, has made such good use of the first year of tenure that he has been permitted to continue to hold the scholarship for 1939-40, during which year he will carry

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out work in the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston, U.S.A., under Dr. G. R. Minot. James Harvey Stewart * (1926-31), M.B., Ch.B., is at present Assistant Medical Officer in the City General Hospital, Sheffield. Charles Strachan * (1919-25), M.A.(Aberd.), Ph.D.(Camb.), is Lecturer in Applied Mathematics in Liverpool University. He held a similar post for four years in Aberdeen University, and for one year in Edinburgh University. James Runcieman Sutherland (x907-17), M.A.(Aberd.), B.Litt.(Oxon.), Professor of English Literature in Birkbeck College, University of London, is the author of " Background for Queen Anne," recently published by Messrs. Methuen. The volume consists of seven essays that are intended to illuminate some of the details in the background of Queen Anne's reign, and, by focussing attention on certain forgotten incidents and personalities, to remind the reader that the coffee-houses and drawing-rooms of early eighteenth-century London had other subjects of conversations than Marlborough's victories and the state of the Whig and Tory Parties. Professor Sutherland has gone for his information to an obvious, though as yet largely untapped source—the contemporary newspaper. As one reviewer puts it, " Professor Sutherland's gift of selecting and arranging contemporary documents, and even more so his characteristically unacademic comments, give his volume its eminently readable quality." George Ewen Swinney (1918-31), M.A., who is at present studying Medicine at Aberdeen University, has been elected President of the Students' Representative Council for 1939-40, in succession to ROBERT LAWRENCE RICHARDS * (1922-34). John Gibb Strachan Thomson * (1927-33) served as an apprentice civil engineer with Messrs. Walker and Duncan, Aberdeen, and then was for eight months with Messrs. Wm. Tawse, Ltd., working on the new Aberdeen sewer scheme. Since April of this year he has been an assistant civil engineer under the Air Ministry at a northern aerodrome. He is a grand-nephew of Professor ALEXANDER THOMSON * (1872-77), M.A., formerly of the Scottish Churches College, Calcutta, who was Dux of the School in 1877. Kenneth William Towns * (1920-29) is in the service of the Forestry Commission at Clatteringshaw, New Galloway. James Trail * (5919-28), who is with Messrs. Ross, Taylor and Co., Ltd., in Java, is at present home on leave. Horace Walker * (1922-28), M.A., B.D., has been ordained minister of the West Port Church, Hawick. Previously he was senior assistant at St. Mary's Church, Dundee.

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and Secretary since 1934 of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen, was responsible for the compilation of the Supplemental History of that Society which was published a few months ago. The volume covers the period 1912-38, and contains biographies of 230 members, of whom no fewer than i i6—rather more than half—received part at least of their education at the Aberdeen Grammar School. These include two Gold Medallists of the School—CHARLES McComm ( I852-55) and LACHLAN MACKINNON (1865-70) ; and two Duxes—ALEXANDER FORBES WIGHT (1855-61) and JOHN TOWER SORLEY (1871-74). Of the sixteen Presidents of the Society since 191o nine have been F.P.s, viz.: DAVID LITTLEJOHN (1850-54), HARVEY HALL (1852-56), JAMES DUGUID (186o-63), LACHLAN MACKINNON (I 865-70), ALEXANDER MORRISON WILLIAMSON (1871-73), WILLIAM RAE (1 867-69), ROBERT MOIR WILLIAMSON* (1882-83), JAMES I1AY * (1883-87), and ALEXANDER THOMAS CRUICKSimilarly, eight out of the thirteen SHANK * (1882-87). Treasurers have also been F.P.s, viz.: JAMES DUGUID, THOMAS ROBERTSON GILLIES (1862-66), ALEXANDER DUFFUS (1871-76), WILLIAM RAE, R. M. WILLIAMSON,* A. T. CRU/CKSHANK,* GEORGE WALKER SMITH WALKER (1 876-82), and JAMES WILLIAM GARDEN * (1886-9 5 ).

The compiler of the volume is to be congratulated on a very comprehensive and accurate piece of work. Patrick John M. Walker * (1914-20), C.A., who was for a number of years in the service of the Mexican Light and Power Co., has been since November, 1935, Assistant Manager of the Confederation Life Association (a Canadian company) in Mexico City. He has accepted appointment as the F.P. Club Consul for the Republic of Mexico. George T. Robertson Watt * (1918-31), M.B., Ch.B., has recently been appointed Resident House Surgeon at the Jessop Hospital, Sheffield. George Alexander Williamson * (1904-12), who was formerly in the Indian Army and is now a member of the firm of Messrs. Paull and Williamsons, advocates, Aberdeen, was in June appointed Controller of an Observer Corps. Robert Moir Williamson * (1882-83), M.A., LL.B. (father of the foregoing), received the Honorary Degree of LL.D. from the University of Aberdeen at the Summer Graduation in July. Professor Taylor in presenting him said :— Mr. Williamson graduated M.A. in this University in 1887. Thereafter he studied Law at Edinburgh University, graduating LL.B. with honours in 1891. He joined the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen in the same year, and became a partner of the legal firm of Paull and Williamsons. Mr. Williamson while still a young man became widely known as a

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lawyer of high qualifications and promise. In the year 1908 this University established the full LL.B. curriculum, and he was then appointed lecturer in Constitutional Law and History, a post which he held with much acceptance for twenty-four years. His distinction as a University teacher led to his admission in 1925 to membership of the Senatus, of which he continued to be a member until he resigned his lectureship 'm 1933. In the practice of his own profession Mr. Williamson is recognized as one of its outstanding members. In his earlier days he published a study of the judgments of Lord Watson, and was associated with one of the editions of Stroud's Dictionary. He held the highest offices in the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen, and has bccn for some years an honorary SheriffSubstitute. Mr. Williamson has taken a prominent part in the public work of this city. He was for a time President of the Chamber of Commerce, and for many years Chairman of the Board of Management of the Royal Aberdeen Mental Hospital. As Chairman of the Aberdeen Savings Bank he has witnessed a remarkable development in the activities of that institution. In recognition of these many services to the University and the community, I ask you now to confer on him the Doctor of Laws.

Hugh Andrew Willox * (1925-35), son of ANDREW A. * (1893-1900), served for three years with Messrs. Lewis Smith & Son, wholesale stationers, Aberdeen, and is now with the well-known printing and publishing firm of Messrs. Wm. Collins, Sons and Co., Ltd., Glasgow. Charles F. Wylie * (1915-20), who was formerly a representative of the wholesale firm of Messrs. Hitchcock, Williams and Co., St. Paul's Churchyard, London, has now taken up an appointment with the H. J. Heinz Co., Ltd., Harlesden, London. James Fenton Wyness (1915-20) has recently been directing the excavation by a party of schoolboys and students of the ruins of Maud Castle, near Torphins, Aberdeenshire, on a site where once five great medieval highways met. N. E. OF SCOTLAND DIVISIONAL FOOD OFFICERS.

Lieut.-Colonel Edward William Watt * (1883-94), M.A., LL.D., formerly Lord Provost of Aberdeen, is at present Deputy Divisional Food Officer for the North-East of Scotland, and has under him six Assistant Divisional Food Officers, three of whom are F.P.s, viz..: Alexander Smith Anderson * (1905-09), M.B.E. ; Francis Sheed Anderson * (19O9-12) ; and Reginald Charles Mackie * (1903-14). ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY DEGREES AND PRIZES.

At the Summer Graduation at Aberdeen University on 6th July, 1939, degrees were conferred on the following F.P.s :— Degree of Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) :— John Duncan MacLennan * (1923-29), M.B., Ch.B. Awarded Highest Honours for Thesis—" The Biology of the Plectridial Anxrobes." James Cumming Niven * (1920-26), M.B., Ch.B. Thesis—" The Toxicology of Atebrin."

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Master of Arts (M.A.) :— August Henry Klie Slater * (1922-35), with First Class Honours in Classics. Alastair David MacDonald * (1923-25), with First Class Honours in History. Norman Crichton Maclver (1928-34), with First Class Honours in Economic Science. Charles Michael Maclntyre Begg (1933-36). George Ian Griffiths * (z 9z 5-36). George Edward Mayor * (1928-36). Thomas Dickson Spiby (1921-27). Degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (B.Sc.Agr.) :— Douglas George Dempster * (1924-33). Degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.Sc.Eng.) :— Douglas Willan Swainson (1923-z8)—Civil Engineering. Andrew Maxwell Scott (1925-26)—Mechanical Engineering. Degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) :— John Hector Gray * (1917-29), M.A., with Distinction. William Guthrie Milne * (1921-32), M.A., with Distinction. Alexander Milne * (1929-33), M.A. Norman Richard Wylie (1927-30), M.A. Degree of Bachelor of Law (B.L.) :— Murdoch McIntosh * (1928-33). James Scott Gray Munro * (1922-28). Degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B., Ch.B.) :— Robert Semple (1922-34), with First Class Honours. Robert Lawrence Richards * (1922-34), with Second Class Honours. James Eric Alexander Bartlet * (1922-34). Kenneth Mackenzie Bell (1928-34). Charles Alexander Brown * (1920-32), M.A. George Cormack * (1923-29). David Andrew Craib * (1930-34). Stewart Duff * (1924-34). Neil Geddes Clarkson Hendry (1923-25). John Kinnear Mackay * (1919-33). Ian Alexander Ross Mackenzie (1921-23). Norman Humphrey Mackworth (192 3 -3 4). Ian Durance Pennie * (1926-;;). Edward Theodore Shennan * (1924-3o and 1933-34). John Cuthill Taylor (1930-34). Diploma in Public Health (D.P.H.) :— John James Todd Morrison (1928-32), M.B., Ch.B.

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In the Faculty of Arts August Henry Elie Slater * (1922-35) was awarded the Dr. Black Prize in Latin and the Seafield Gold Medal in Latin ; Alastair David MacDonald * (1923-25) was awarded the Caithness Prize in History, the Forbes Gold Medal in History, and shared with Norman Crichton Maclver * (1928-34) the Gladstone Memorial Prize ; John Gordon Michie Birss * (1926-38) was awarded the de Gurbs Prize in Greek ; and Robert Alexander Esslemont Mennie * (1924-36) was awarded the Jenkyns Prize in Classical Philology. In the Faculty of Law John Hector Gray * (1917-29), M.A., and William Guthrie Milne * (1921-32), M.A., shared the Edmond Prize to the Most Distinguished Graduate in Law of the year 1938-39 who has attended the classes of Scots Law and Conveyancing. In the Faculty of Medicine Robert Semple (1922-34) shared with another the Anderson Gold Medal and Prize in Clinical Medicine. He was also awarded the Butterworth Prize (a set of the British Encyclopedia of Medical Practice to the student who obtained the highest total number of marks in Clinical Medicine, Clinical Surgery, and Clinical Midwifery) ; the Keith Gold Medal for Systematic and Clinical Surgery ; the MacQuibban Prize in Surgery ; the MacQuibban Prize in Medicine; the Matthews Duncan Gold Medal in Obstetrics ; and the Murray Gold Medal and Scholarship (for the Most Distinguished Graduate in Medicine (M.B., Ch.B.) of the year 1938-39). John Duncan MacLennan * (19 z 3-29), M.D., received the Thursfield Award (for the best Thesis for the degree of M.D. which has attained the standard of Highest Honours of the year 193 8-39). It is noteworthy that in seven out of the last eight years, an F.P. has been declared to be the Most Distinguished Graduate in Medicine. At the Autumn Graduation at Aberdeen University on 31st October, 1939, degrees were conferred on the following F.P.s :— Degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.Sc.Eng.) :— Alexander Lightbody * (1922-33), B.Sc.Mech.Eng. 1938, with First Class Honours in Electrical Engineering. David Monro Wilson * (1923-32)--Mechanical Engineering. Frederick Cooper Arnaud (1929-36)—Electrical Engineering.

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OBITUARY. Alexander John Argo (T887-88) died at Braeside, Tolquhon, Tarves, on 5th July, 1939, aged 62 years. He had been a farmer there all his life, succeeding his father, Mr. George Argo. James John Buyers (1878-85), eldest son of the late Mr. James Buyers, British Linen Bank, Aberdeen, died in Aberdeen on land October, 1939, aged 7o years. He was one of seven brothers who were all educated at the Grammar School. After leaving the School he engaged in banking, first in Aberdeen and then in Australia, but being more interested in travel than in banking, he became attached to a shipping concern and was at various times in Australia, British Columbia, and South Africa. For most of his life he was abroad, but he paid frequent visits to his native city, where he spent his last few months. He was always deeply interested in music, and for a time was organist in an Aberdeen church. Patrick William Leslie Clark (1879-86), son of the late Mr. Peter Clark, advocate in Aberdeen, died at New Norway, Alberta, Canada, on 28th September, 1939. He studied law at Aberdeen and at Edinburgh, and was admitted a law agent in 1893. Thereafter he practised as a solicitor in Aberdeen, but in 1907 he went to British Columbia and became an estate agent at Vancouver. In 1912 he was admitted to the Bar of Alberta, and practised in Calgary, Vulcan, and Athabasca. Latterly he had- to give up practice owing to failing health. Ian Anderson Clarke * (19oz-o8), M.A. and B.Sc.Agr. (Aberd.), B.A.(Oxon.), younger son of the late Dr. John Clarke, Old Aberdeen, died in Edinburgh on 3oth September, 1939 —the day of his father's funeral—aged 49 years. He graduated in Arts at Aberdeen University in 1911, and in Agricultural Science in 1912. In the latter year he went to Christ Church, Oxford, with a view to entering the Indian Forest Service, and took the Diploma in Forestry in 1914. Always keen on rugby and athletics, at Aberdeen University he was a full blue in each of these, and he won the hurdles at the Scottish Inter-University Sports in 1911. At Oxford he played rugby for the University, The Times declaring in 1912 that he was " the best of the Freshmen." In the winter of 1913-14 he was awarded his blue in rugby, playing for Oxford University throughout the season, and was a half-blue in athletics. When the Great War broke out he received a commission in the 4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders, and saw service in France and Flanders, being three times wounded. He attained the rank of Captain, and finally was attached to the Machine Gun Corps with the rank of Temporary Major. Although he recovered wonderfully from his wounds, it was probably as a

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result of these that his health collapsed just a month before his death. In 1919 he went back to Oxford, where he graduated B.A., and after the Forestry Commission in Scotland was set up in that year, he was appointed District Forest Officer for the Eastern Division of Scotland, being stationed at Aberdeen. When after two or three years the schemes for afforestation broke down, he had to find other employment, and in 1923 he accepted an invitation from Mr. J. F. Roxburgh to join the staff of the newly founded Stowe School at Buckingham. It was not primarily as a teacher that he went to Stowe, but rather to start the boys in rugby on sound lines, to look after the fine trees on the estate, and to teach some biology and elementary forestry. There, however, he found his true vocation, as will be seen from the tribute which follows. Eventually he became Senior Housemaster, and when in 1934 he married the youngest daughter of the Very Rev. Principal Sir George Adam Smith, the Governors of Stowe, fearful of losing his services, erected a boarding house specially for him with accommodation for his wife and himself. He is survived by Mrs. Clarke, a son of three years, and a daughter in her first year. A TRIBUTE. I first met Ian Clarke in the autumn of 1931. By that time he had already made a name for himself as a Housemaster at Stowe, and was one of the most notable of the small, select circle of masters who had, eight years before, been chosen by the Head Master to help him in the difficult and adventurous task of starting a new public school. For many reasons Ian Clarke was an ideal man for this purpose. He was essentially practical, very understanding and humane, and he had a natural gift of dealing with boys, which was helped by an impressive manner and appearance. He had the sense of balance so necessary in a new undertaking where all sorts of new plans and schemes had to be tried out. In his teaching he was quite first-class, since he was extremely lucid, and made his boys work hard while still retaining his patience and sympathy. And so, when I met him first that autumn of 1931, he was a very important member of the staff indeed. And yet, despite his eminence, he was extremely kind to me in my first term, and throughout the eight years of our friendship. There was nothing small about Ian : physically big and strong, he had a far-seeing mind, and was as sensible and logical in argument as any man I have ever known. He was no Laodicean, and he hated what he felt to be wrong as much as he approved of what he knew to be right. Now he has been taken from us at the height of his powers, and at a time when we could ill afford to lose his sanity and wisdom. He has left many sad hearts in the school for which

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he did so much, and a world of sympathy for his charming and capable wife, who also had become so much a part of Stowe. But at least we can be thankful that he was with us long enough for his influence to remain. There is none of us here who does not feel the better for having known him, and many of the problems still before us will be settled by thoughts of how Ian Clarke would have faced and conquered each successive difficulty. To me personally Ian was, and always will be, the finest type of Scottish gentleman. ALASDAIR MACDONALD. Robert Russell Clyne * (1867-73), son of the late Mr. Norval Clyne, advocate, who used to live at Mile-End House, Aberdeen, died on 7th November, 1939, aged 8z years. As a young man he went to Australia and became assistant manager of an insurance company in Melbourne. He retired in 1923 and settled in this country. He had two older brothers who were at the School—HARRY CLYNE (1859-64), who died at Vancouver in 1904, and ARTHUR CLYNE (1863-68), architect in Aberdeen, who died in 1924, James Walls Cursiter (1864-66) died in Stirling in the

middle of August 1939, aged 88 years. He started life as a banker, serving in Kirkwall and London, but on the death of his father, took over the latter's general merchant business in Kirkwall. He was well known as an archeologist of the Orkneys, and had one of the finest private collections in the country of Stone Age implements. He carried out considerable excavation work in the islands, particularly with regard to Celtic and Viking burial grounds, and he was instrumental in having the dolmen stones re-erected. His greatest treasure was a wooden box with Celtic ornaments engraved on it. It is believed to be the largest piece of Celtic woodwork in existence. He was a keen student of Orcadian literature, and formed the finest and most complete collection of Orkney books ever gathered together under one roof. Most of these have now been presented to Kirkwall Library. A PIONEER IN ORTHOP/EDY. Naughton Dunn* (1891-1902), M.A., M.B., Ch.B., LL.D., Metchley Abbey, Harborne, Birmingham, died at Dolgelly Cottage Hospital on 19th November, 1939, aged S4 years. After graduating in Arts and Medicine at Aberdeen University he held hospital appointments in Scarborough and Liverpool. In 191z he became private assistant to the late Sir Robert Jones, and following his chief, gained an international reputation for his work in orthopedic surgery, to the literature of which he contributed largely. In the Great War he served as a Major

JOHN CLARKE, M.A., LL.D.

IAN ANDERSON CLARKE, M. A., B.Sc.

Professor ROBERT WILLIAM REID, M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.S.

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Professor ROBERT SCOTT TROUP, C.M.G., C.1.E., M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.

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in the R.A.M.C., specializing for most of the time in orthopedic work. In 1926 he was appointed the first Lecturer in Orthopedic Surgery in the University of Birmingham. He was President of the Orthopedic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and Consulting Orthopedic Surgeon to the Ministry of Pensions, Midlands Region. Always maintaining a keen interest in his own University, he was largely responsible for the formation of the BirminghamMidlands Aberdeen University Club. In the spring of 1937 he received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Aberdeen. At that time it was said of him that " throughout his professional career he has shown a steady devotion to the cause of the cripple. As assistant to the late Sir Robert Jones, and later as Honorary Surgeon, he was intimately connected with the original scheme for orthopedic treatment, and he has given unsparingly of his time, energy, and skill to many hospitals concerned with this admirable purpose." Dr. Naughton Dunn was an outstanding example—the late Professor J. J. R. Macizon was another—of a man who did not specially distinguish himself as a scholar at the Grammar School but who rose to a foremost position in the branch of the profession to which he devoted himself. He is survived by Mrs. Dunn and a family of one son and two daughters. John Sinclair Gordon (1894-95), M.A., died at Blairgowrie on 3rd July, 1939, aged 63 years. A son of the late Mr. George Gordon, Dalraddie, Crathie, he graduated M.A. at Aberdeen in 1900, and became an assistant teacher in Lockerbie Academy. Four years later he was appointed Head Master of the Reform Street School, Kirriemuir, and there he continued until his retirement in 1936. THE F.P. CLUB CONSUL IN BRAZIL.

William John Jenkyns * (1894-1903) died at Sio Paulo, Brazil, after a very short illness, on 17th September, 1939, aged 52 years. On leaving the School he served as an apprentice in the Locomotive Department of the Great North of Scotland Railway, Inverurie, and thereafter in the drawing office of the company. From 1911 he was an assistant engineer with the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Co. successively in Glasgow, New York, and Sgo Paulo. In 1916 he became chief mechanical engineer with the Sio Paulo branch of Messrs. S. C. Hill Brothers, Ltd., of Manchester ; and latterly he was with a Canadian concern, The Companhia Brasileira de Cimento Portland. On the death of ALEXANDER BAIN MACKIE (189619o4), Joint Manager of the Sio Paulo branch of the Royal Bank of Canada, he succeeded to the F.P. Club Consulship for Brazil, and gathered round him a small but devoted band of Old Boys.

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Francis Kelly * (1878-85), C.B.E., M.D., died in Aberdeen on 27th July, 1939, aged 71 years. A son of the late Mr. Francis B. Kelly, clothier, Aberdeen, he graduated M.B., C.M., at Aberdeen University in 1889, and gained the M.D. degree nine years later. He became a general practitioner in Aberdeen, and was an Assistant Surgeon in the Royal Infirmary, 1905 to 1908. At the start of the Great War Dr. Kelly was mobilized as a Lieut.-Colonel in the R.A.M.C.(T.F.), and was in command of the 1 iznd Highland Field Ambulance from September 1914 to May 1916. In that year he was promoted to the rank of Colonel, and was A.D.M.S. successively with the 4th, the 72nd, the 49th, and the 62nd Divisions. He was " mentioned " twice, and in June 1919 was awarded the C.B.E. On leaving the Army in October 1919 he was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Medical Services, Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine Area, Ministry of Pensions, and retired ten years later, taking up residence at Peterculter. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1919, and in December 1924 was gazetted an Honorary Surgeon to the King. Alexander King * (1863-67) died at Boscombe, Hants, on zoth January, 1939, in his Sand year. In his early days he was a journalist, and after being on the reporting staff of the Nottingham Journal, studied for the ministry. In 188o he was appointed by the London Missionary Society to China, and took up missionary work in Tientsin and the district. During the terrible Boxer Rising of 1900 he was in Tientsin, and he continued there in faithful service until his retirement in 1917. For a time he stayed on at Hopei, Tientsin, but later he came home and lived at Boscombe. George McBain * (1877-78), C.A., died at his residence 88 Queen's Road, Aberdeen, on z7th June, 1939, aged 77 years. He and his younger brother, Jom. McBA1N * (1877-79), C.A., went into partnership in 1888 in the firm of Messrs. G. & J. McBain, chartered accountants, Aberdeen, and being early in the field of accountancy, they together built up a fine business which is now carried on by their respective sons, IAN McBAIN * (1904-14), M.C., C.A., and ALAN MCBAIN * ( 1903-14), M.A., C.A. Mr. George McBain was a Director of the North of Scotland Bank and of the Midland Bank. He left net heritable and moveable estate valued at over £73,000. Patrick James Macdonald (1871-74) died at Kirkhill, Elgin, on 5th October, 5939, in his 81st year. He was the eldest son of the late Mr. William Macdonald, solicitor and bank agent, Elgin, and two years after leaving the School he went to India and engaged in tea-planting there till 1895, when he joined the firm of Messrs. Duncan Brothers & Co., East India merchants, Calcutta. He retired from India in 1913, and for the next seven

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years was in the service of Messrs. Duncan Brothers' home firm —Messrs. Walter Duncan & Co. From 5920 he engaged in farming in Morayshire. Harry Reid Maitland (1883-85), who was for many years a farmer at Haddo, Methlick, and latterly lived in retirement at Haddo, Murtle, died in Aberdeen on and November, 1939, aged 72 years. Edward Philip (1 88 1-8 8), M.B., C.M., died at Roehampton Lane, London, S.W. 15, on 14th December, 1938, aged 67 years. He graduated in Medicine at Aberdeen in 1893, and carried on a large and varied practice in Kensington and neighbourhood for 4o years. James Raffan * (1896-1900), M.D., F.R.C.S.(Edin.), died at Huddersfield, on 28th June, 1939, aged 55 years. He graduated M.B., Ch.B., at Aberdeen in 1906, and M.D. three years later. In 1909 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, and in 1926 took the additional qualification of D.M.R.andE., Cambridge. He began his medical career as House Surgeon at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, and in 1912 settled at Huddersfield, where for nearly nineteen years he was an Honorary Surgeon of the Royal Infirmary. In 1924 he accepted an invitation to take over the radiological work of the Infirmary, and from a very small beginning the Radiological Department developed rapidly. For many years he was in general practice in Huddersfield, but gave up this in 1932 to specialize in surgery and radiology. Last December, however, he had to resign his surgical appointment owing to ill-health, but continued to devote his energies to radiology until he was confined to bed at the beginning of May of this year. At the time of his death he was President-elect of the Yorkshire Society of Aberdeen Graduates. In the Great War Dr. Raffan was a Captain in the R.A.M.C., and served in Gallipoli, Egypt, Salonika, and France. At Gallipoli he was with the hospital ship Aberdonian, and later served with a Field Ambulance Unit of the famous 29th Division on the Somme. He next became a surgical specialist at the Both General Hospital in Salonika, and was demobilized in March 1919. A PIONEER IN ANATOMY. Robert William Reid (1865-66), M.D., LL.D., F.R.C. S. (Eng.), Emeritus Professor of Anatomy in the University of Aberdeen, died at his residence 37 Albyn Place, Aberdeen, on 28th July, 1939, in his 89th year. The second son of the Rev. William Reid, minister of Auchindoir and Kearn, Aberdeenshire, he passed from the Grammar School to Marischal College, where he graduated M.B., C.M., with Honours, in 1872, and M.D. in 1875. He thereafter studied in London and Leipzig,

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and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1881. A year after taking his first degree at Aberdeen he was appointed Joint Lecturer on and Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, and there he continued until 1889, when he was appointed Regius Professor of Anatomy in his own University, succeeding Sir John Struthers. With characteristic energy he applied himself to the construction and organization of the new Anatomy Department in the University. This included the introduction of the special teaching of Embryology and the founding of the Anthropometric Laboratory, where the physical characteristics of thousands of the students of the University have been recorded. He had the satisfaction of establishing one of the most efficiently equipped schools of Anatomy in Great Britain, and when he retired in June 1925, after 36 years' tenure of the Chair, this was recognized in the very warm tributes paid to him. In addition to his record as a highly successful teacher of medical students, he has left an abiding memorial to himself in the University Anthropological Museum, the creating and developing of which he undertook voluntarily. It was to honour him that the Reid Lectureship in Anthropology was initiated. Dr. Reid at the time of his death was the oldest anatomist in Great Britain, and the last of the original founders of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. As Lecturer in Anatomy at St. Thomas's, he was one of the first whole-time anatomists in the London Hospital Medical Schools. That period of his career saw his pioneer researches upon the topography of the brain and spinal cord which gave origin to the term " Reid's Base-line." He contributed many important papers to the proceedings of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain, and latterly was particularly interested in research upon pre-historic and modern inhabitants of the North-East of Scotland. As a teacher and examiner he maintained a kindly interest in the students, many of whom recall with gratitude the ever-open and hospitable home where they were welcomed by the Professor and his sister. His elder brother was the late Major-General Sir ALEXANDER JOHN FORSYTH REID (1839-61), K.C.B., LL.D. ; and his younger brother was the late Dr. WILLIAM REID (1869-70), Medical Superintendent of the Aberdeen Royal Asylum. Their maternal grandfather was the Rev. Dr. Alexander John Forsyth, Belhelvie, the famous inventor of the percussion cap. Professor Reid left net heritable and movable estate amounting to nearly £41,000. Lindley Marcroft Scott (1877-82), M.A., M.D., died at Winchester on 2 i st November, 1939, aged 73 years. A son of the late Mr. George J. Scott of Bayview House, Aberdeen, he was born at Calcutta, and from the age of eleven spent five

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years at the Grammar School. He graduated in Arts at Aberdeen University in 1886 and in Medicine in 1889, obtaining the M.D. degree three years later. For many years he was a highly successful medical practitioner in Chelsea, London. He retired some years ago. James Harold Sim * (1901-o6) died at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, on 19th October, 1939, aged 49 years. The fourth son of Mr. D. A. B. Sim, Pressendye, Milltimber, he served as an apprentice in the British Linen Bank, Aberdeen, and in 1909 entered the service of the Canadian Bank of Commerce at Collingwood, Ontario. He became assistant accountant at the London (Lombard Street) Office, and in 1929 returned to Canada, becoming assistant manager of the Halifax Branch in the following year. In 1934 he was appointed manager of the Yarmouth Branch, N.S., which position he held until his retirement through ill-health in January 5938. PROFESSOR OF FORESTRY AT OXFORD.

Robert Scott Troup * (1888-91), C.M.G., C.I.E., M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., Professor of Forestry in the University of Oxford, died at Oxford on 1st October, 1939, aged 64 years. He was a son of the late Mr. James Troup, Hiogo, Japan, and after leaving the School spent some time at the University of Aberdeen, and then entered Cooper's Hill College, which prepared both engineers and forest conservators for the Indian Services. He joined the Forest Department in 1897 and was posted to Burma, where he had various administrative charges, including that of Director of the Burma Forest School. His studious habits and keen delight in arboriculture led to his selection in 1903 to be Forest Economist at the then recently created Forest Research Institute and College, Dehra Dun. Ten years later he was selected to be Assistant Inspector-General of Forests to the Government of India, and on the formation of the Munitions Board under Sir Thomas Holland in 1917 he was also made, for the rest of the last war, Controller of Timber Supplies. In 5920 Troup was selected for the Chair of Forestry at Oxford, and in the same year was elected a Fellow of St. John's College. Four years later he was appointed Director, and a member of the Board of Governors, of the Imperial Forestry Institute, and held this post until 1933. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1926, and received the honours of C.I.E. in 1920, and C.M.G. in 1934. As an author his greatest work was " The Silviculture of Indian Trees," published in three volumes in 1921. That work took rank with the best books on forestry and allied subjects in India, being richly stored with information on all that experienced investigation and research have accomplished in that wide field. Further works on arboriculture included "Exotic Forest Trees in the British Empire," published in 1932.

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In a tribute which appeared in The Times another Professor of Forestry wrote: " Troup's silvicultural investigations and work will remain his lasting memorial, for he laid the great foundations which have placed Indian silviculture under his successors on a plane which I venture to think has no superior in the world. . . . A truer friend and a more loyal comrade man never had. It is sad to think that that keen brain is at rest and a great life's work has reached the end." Professor Troup was one of the Honorary Vice-Presidents of the F.P. Club. Alexander Moir Walker * (1913-18) died at Nairobi, Kenya, on zoth October, 1939, aged 38 years. The second son of Mr. James Walker, formerly of Hong-Kong, and now of 464 Great Western Road, Aberdeen, on leaving the School he took the Planters' Course at Aberdeen University. He then entered the service of Messrs. Harrisons & Crosfield, Ltd., London, engaging in rubber planting in Sumatra from 1920 to 1925. In the following year he went to Kenya and purchased a piece of virgin land near Nyeri, naming it the Brux Estate. On this he grew coffee. He was a keen Freemason and one of the founders of the Mount Kenya Lodge No. 5638. He was also one of the founders and a past President of the Mount Kenya Caledonian Society. In September last he was mobilized with the Kenya Defence Force, but in little more than a month was struck down with pneumonia. He was buried with military honours in Nairobi, a piper playing a lament at his graveside. He had not been home to Scotland for thirteen years and before the war broke out was looking forward to his first leave in the autumn of this year. Alexander Watt Wishart (1884-85), M.A., Senior Minister of Aboyne South Church, died at Aboyne on 7th August, 1939, in his 7znd year. The eldest son of the late Rev. ALEXANDER WISHART (1850-5 5), Free Church, Forgue, he graduated M.A. at Aberdeen in 189o, and after studying at the Free Church College, Aberdeen, and holding various assistantships, he was called to be minister of Aboyne Free Church, afterwards the United Free Church, in 1899. This was his only charge, and he held it until his retiral in 1936. His son, ALEXANDER Oorr.viE WISHART * was at the School 1911-16. A FORMER CLASSICAL MASTER OF THE SCHOOL.

By Former Pupils both old and young the intimation of the death of Dr. John Clarke on 28th September, 1939, will have been received with regret. Older F.P.s will remember him as a Classical Master at the School, first under Dr. James Moir and then under Mr. (later Dr.) Morland Simpson, during the ten years 1888 to 1898 ; younger F.P.s and present pupils have seen him presiding at the Annual Presentation of Prizes in the

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capacity either of Convener of the Aberdeen Education Committee or of the Secondary Schools Management Committee. As recently as 3oth June last, in his 86th year, Dr. Clarke presided at the Prize-giving Ceremony, and recalled that his association with the School had extended over more than half a century. He was keenly interested in the proposal that a swimming pool should be included in the alterations and additions to be made to the School, and in his speech in June he expressed the hope that the pond would be one of the very finest, because he could not think of any better form of gymnastics than learning to swim. " I do not know," he said, " what the Education Committee have determined for the future, but I suggest that if past and present members of the School were to join in an effort to show their interest in the swimming pond, and make some contribution to it, this would ensure the provision of something better than might reasonably satisfy the Education Authority." Born at Coleraine, Co. Derry, John Clarke was the son of the late Mr. James Clarke, and a nephew of the late Lord Brycc, after whom he named his elder son, JAMES BRYCE CLARKE * (1896-99). He was educated at The Institution in his native town, and at Queen's College, Belfast, becoming M.A. (Q.U.I.) in 1875. He adopted teaching as his profession and was appointed Classical Master at the Collegiate School, Edinburgh. In 1879 he became Head Master of the once well-known Gymnasium or Chanonry House School, Old Aberdeen, and continued there till the school was closed in 1887. He was then appointed a Classical Master in the Aberdeen Grammar School, where he proved a capable and painstaking teacher, taking an unusual interest for those days in the boys' athletics, and instilling in them a love of fresh air. He resigned his post in 1898 in view of his appointment as Lecturer in Education at Aberdeen University. This position he held until 1925, when he retired, and two years later he received the degree of LL.D. " on the ground of his scholarship both Classical and English, his services to Education, and his publications." In 1926 he entered the Aberdeen Town Council, and ungrudgingly undertook the somewhat trying office of Convener of the Council's Education Committee during the difficult transition period that followed the passing of the Local Government (Scotland) Act of 1929. He retired from the Council in 1933, but did not abandon his services to education. He remained on the Education Committee as a co-opted member, and worked indefatigably, in spite of his advanced years, as Convener of the Secondary Schools Management Committee. Only when illness overtook him did he resign, within a few days of his death.

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MARRIAGES. Allan (1924-34).—At London, on tzth August, 1939, WILLIAM ALLAN, only son of the late Mr. William Allan and of Mrs. Allan, 44 Gladstone Place, Aberdeen, to Doris Craig, only daughter of Alexander Bowman, D.Sc., and Mrs. Bowman, 29 St. Swithin Street, Aberdeen. Barclay (r9zo-25).—At All Hallows Church, Leeds, on 25th October, 1939, 1 iMES ALEXANDER BARCLAY,* MA., B.Sc., M.B., Ch.B., son of Mr. and N ;s. A. W. Barclay, Woodside, Aberdeen, to Grizel R. Borthwick, B.Sc., Ph.D., daughter of Captain A. E. Borthwick, R.S.A., P.R.S.W., and Mrs. Borthwick, 8 Merchiston Crescent, Edinburgh. Barnet (191I-19).—At Aberdeen, on 26th September, 1939, AVON ALEXANDER BARNET,* eldest son of the late Capt. P. K. Barnet and Mrs. Barnet, 17 Carlton Place, to Margaret M'Kenzie MacLean, only daughter of William Hamilton and the late Mrs. Hamilton, Ivybank, Ardgay Street, Glasgow. Bell (1928-34).--At 77 Crown Street, Aberdeen, on 9th September, 1939, Lieut. KENNETH MACKENZIE BELL, R.A.M.C., son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore T. Bell, z Kepplestone Avenue, Aberdeen, to Jean Alexander Bruce, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Bruce, 4 Royfold Crescent, Aberdeen. Bothwell (1915-23).—At Causewayend Church, Aberdeen, on rah September, 1939, JAMES EDWARD BOTHWELL,* younger son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bothwell, of Berryhill, Bridge of Don, to Margaret Kinnear, eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Alexander, of 13 Mount Street, Aberdeen. Catto (1913-zo).—At the Douglas Hotel, Glasgow, on rst August, 1939, JAMES ALEXANDER CArro, B.Com. (Dundee High School), only son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Catto, Aberdeen, to Nancy Cunningham, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Hay, 25 Clifford Street, Glasgow. Catto (192o-32).—At Bon-Accord Church of Scotland, Aberdeen, on 3oth June, 1939, ROBERT WILSON CATTO,* M.B., Ch.B., Cowdenbeath, second son of Mr. Gavin J. Catto, bank manager, and the late Mrs. Catto, 101 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen, to Kathleen Mary, daughter of Mr. George W. Reid, M.B.E., Chief Public Assistance Officer, Aberdeen, and Mrs. Reid, 28 Woodburn Avenue, Aberdeen. Cowan (1924-28).—At Lenton Parish Church, Nottingham, on and September, 1939, NIGEL SMART COWAN,* Captain, Royal Engineers, elder son of the late Neil Macmillan Cowan, Glasgow, and Mrs. E. Cowan, 56 Watson Street, Aberdeen, to Joan Mary, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Woodward, Western Terrace, The Park, Nottingham. Duff (1923-29).—At St. Chad's Church, Romiley, Cheshire, on zst July, 1939, HAROLD BISSET DUFF,* son of the late David A. Duff and Mrs. Duff, to Margaret, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Rowbottom, of Romiley. Duncan (1912-19).—At Rubislaw Church, Aberdeen, on ,7th June, 1939, ALEXANDER ROBERTSON DUNCAN,* eldest son of the late Baillie A. R. Duncan and Mrs. Duncan, 66 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen, to Alexandrina, eldest daughter of the late G. A. Pine and Mrs. Pirie, 3o Belvidere Crescent, Aberdeen. Duncan (192o-23).—At Aberdeen, on 5th September, 1939, DOUGLAS DAVID TATWR DUNCAN, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. David T. Duncan, 5 Carden Place, Aberdeen, to Clare, youngest daughter of the late Mr. William Forbes and of Mrs. Forbes, Airyhill, Nigg. Fraser (I922.-30).--At Aberdeen, on '8th September, 1939, ROBERT FRASER,* M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., only son of Mr. Alexander Fraser, 104 Hammerfield Avenue, Aberdeen, to Catherine Edna, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Duthie, Pinewood Park, Mannotield, Aberdeen.

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291 Great Western Road, Aberdeen, to Elsie, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Grant, Sclattie House, S5 Bankhead Road, Buckshurn. Gordon (1914-21).—At Matuiofield Church Manse, Aberdeen, on i 2th July, 1939, JAMES FOOTE GORDON,* 133 Desswood Place, Aberdeen, to May, elder daughter of James H. Gordon and the late Mrs. Gordon, 425 Great Western Road, Aberdeen. Grant (19o8-15).—At Peter's Church, Aberdeen, on 7th September, 1939, JOHN GEORGE CRICHTON GRANT,* youngest son of the late John Grant and Mrs. Grant, 7 Hazledene Road, Aberdeen, to Isobel Kennedy, daughter of the late John Shaw and Mrs. Shaw, Blairs. Hamilton (isar-3o).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 12th September, 1939, GILBERT FREWIN HAMILTON, B.Sc., M.B., Ch.B., younger son of Mr. Brown Hamilton, M.A., H.M.I.S., and Mrs. Hamilton, Morven, Milltimber, to Margaret Webster Monro, M.A., only daughter of Mr. James W. Monro * (1885-93), to Gladstone Place, Aberdeen. Hatt (1923-3o).—At the Palace Hotel, Aberdeen, on 28th October, 1939, and Lieut. LESLLE Sam. HATr, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Hatt, 4 Northburn Avenue, Aberdeen, to Winifred Marguerite, only daughter of the late Wm. H. Rabjohn, Biding, Kent, and of Mrs. Rabjohn, 58 Broomhill Road, Aberdeen. Holmes (192o-22).—At Glasgow, on 26th August, 1939, RONALD HOLMES, son of the late Mr. Harry A. Holmes (1881-85) and of Mrs. Holmes, 79 Queen's Road, Aberdeen, to Nan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Watson, 79 Balgownie Crescent, Aberdeen. Keith (i922-23).—At the West Church of St. Nicholas, Aberdeen, on 5 th October, 19i9, Lieut. ALEXANDER MACPHERSON KEITH,* eldest son of the late Dr. Robert Donald Keith (1892-95), Singapore, and Mrs. Keith, Turriff, to Janet Margaret, daughter of Mr. and Mr. Robert Adam, Aberdeen. NV/lain (1921-26).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 28th October, 1939, ALEXANDER CRUDEN MTAIN, M.A., only son of Mr. and Mrs. Allan M`Bain, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to Muriel Mary Ross, M.A., L.R.A.M., only daughter of the late George Ross and of Mrs. Ross, St. John's Wood, London. McGregor (1921-24 and 1926-31).—At St. Bartholomew's Church, London, on z 8th December, 1938, JoHN BARNETT' MCGREGOR,* son of Mr. A. G. McGregor, 1 Donmouth Terrace, Aberdeen, to Joan Winifred, daughter of Captain R. P. Burton, of Penang and London. M'Key (1923-25).—At Westhill Congregational Church, Skenc, on and August, 1939, SINCLAIR JAMBS M`KAT, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. James M`Kay, 35 Devonshire Road, Aberdeen, to Mary, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Gordon, Bridgefoot, Skenc. Mackworth (1923-27).—At St. Michael's Church, Highgate, London, on 8th July, 1939, Dr. ELIOT D/GBT MACKWORTH, elder son of Lieut.-Colonel Norman W. Mackworth (1892-96) and Mrs. Mackworth, Greystones, Dyce, to Enid, only daughter of Mr. E. H. N. Skrimshire and the late Mrs. Skrimshire, of Highgate Village, London. MacMillan (2922-29).—At St. Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, on and September, 1939, Captain JOHN MACKENZIE MACMILLAN, M.B., Ch.B., son of Mr. John MacMillan, 239 Rosemount Place, to Margaret Ross, M.A., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. Ross, 216 Mid Stocker Road, Aberdeen. McPherson (19 to-17).—At Aberdeen, on 16th October, 2939, IAN GOWANLOCX MCPHERSON,* only son of Mr. Wm. M. McPherson * (1878-79), Mile-End House, Aberdeen, to Rosabel Davina, daughter of the late Thomas Miller, M.A., and of Mrs. Miller, Devanha House, Aberdeen.

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MacRae (1923-26).--At the Caledonian Hotel, Aberdeen, on 8th July, 1939, JOHN SMITH MACRAE,* M.A., M.B., Ch.B., Bradford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald MacRae, Aline Lodge, Stornoway, to Dorothy Jane Fiddes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Harvey, Pitgersie, Newburgh. Marshall (i9i4-25).—At Mannofield Church, Aberdeen, on 19th August. 1939, FRANCIS JOSEPH SCOTT MARSHALL, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Marshall, 65 Beaconsfield Place, Aberdeen, to Eileen Mary, younger daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr. Wm. Stuart, 12 Cranford Terrace, Aberdeen. Miller (1918-26).—At King's College, Chapel, Aberdeen, on 16th August, 1939, GEORGE NORMAN MILLER, M.B., Ch.B., son of the late Mr. C. Bruce Miller and of Mrs. Miller, Ivanhoe, Deemount Terrace, to Joan, daughter of the late Mr. John Wight Young, Assam, and of Mrs. Young, 36 Westholme Avenue, Aberdeen. Murray (1917-2;).—At Bulawayo, on 16th September, 1939, WILLIAM BROWN MURRAY, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Murray, z Cairnaquheen Gardens, Aberdeen, to El= Vera, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Munford, Bulawayo. Pollock (1919-zo).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 4th September, 1939, Dr. WILLIAM STOTT POLLOCK, younger son of Mrs. B. Pollock and the late Mr. C. R. Pollock, 32 Schoolhill, Aberdeen, to Agnes Hill, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wetherly, Cults, Aberdeenshire. Pope (r9to-24).—At the West Church, Halkirk, Caithness, on zand August, 1939, JOHN WILSON POPE,* civil engineer, son of Mr. Samuel Pope * (1876-87), 8 Albert Street, Aberdeen, and grandson of the late Mr. Samuel Pope, Art Master, Aberdeen Grammar School, to Marjorie, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Black, Scouthal, Halkirk. Robb (1925-29).—At Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, on 5th August, 1939, JAMES HAROLD Rosa,* elder son of Mr. and Mrs. James Robb, Ferryhill Place, Aberdeen, to Jean, elder daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ure, Ludgate, Alloa. Robson (1917-3o).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 22nd September, 1939, ALEXANDER ROBSON,* elder son of Mr. James F. Robson * (1883-95), 39 Bonnymuir Place, Aberdeen, to Catherine Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. M. Bain, i3o5 Clifton Road, Aberdeen. Rowton (1920-31).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 23rd September, 1939, GEOFFREY ALLEN ROWTON,* B.A., LL.B., younger son of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Rowton, 7 Devanha Gardens, Aberdeen, to Nancy, elder daughter of the late William Burns, of Rangoon, Burma, and Mrs. Burns, 47 Gray Street, Aberdeen. Simmers (I927-30).—At Huntly Church, Huntly, on 5th September, 1939, Dr. JOHN SANDISON SUMMERS,* son of Mr. Forbes Simmers and the late Mrs. Simmers, Marchbanks, Hatton, to Nan Munro, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Gordon, I Nelson Street, Huntly. Smith (192 I-30).—At St. Mary Magdalene's Church, Frinton-on-Sea, on 4th September, 1939, WILLIAM SMITH, M.B., Ch.B., B.Sc., eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. William Smith, 58 Hammcrfield Avenue, Aberdeen, to Frances Marianne May, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Emslie Kinnaird, Walton Road, Frinton-on-Sea. Strachan (1919-25).—At the Parish Church, South Queensferry, on 5th July, 1939, CHARLES STRACHAN,* M.A., Ph.D., son of Mr. Edward A. Strachan (1892-95), 213 Forest Avenue, Aberdeen, to Marion Wilson, B.Sc., younger daughter of the Rev. W. Bower Wilson, M.A., and Mrs. Wilson, The Kirklands, South Queensferry. Stroud (I914-I9).—At St. Etheldreda's Church, London, ROBERT ERSKINE WETHERLEY STROIJD, second son of Mr. Horace E. Stroud, of Craigielea, Aberdeen, to Anita, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Morris, Garryruth, Tralee, Eire.

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King's Gate, Aberdeen, to Jane Macmillan, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Henderson, 58 Great Junction Street, Leith. Thomson (,9z7-33).—At Holburn Central Parish Church, Aberdeen, on 7th October, 1939, JOHN GIBE STRACHAN THOMSON,* younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Thomson, 218 Great Western Road, Aberdeen, to Annabelle, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Skene, z8 Hartington Road, Aberdeen. Walker (1916-27).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 3oth September, 1939, RONALD POWL.ETT WALKER,* M.A., M.B., Ch.B., youngest son of the late Rev. George Walker, D.D., and of Mrs. Walker, 24 Rubislaw Terrace, Aberdeen, to Alison Thackrah Rhind, M.A., elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rhind, 96 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen. Wetherly (1919-28).—At St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Whitchurch, Cardiff, on 4th September, 1939, JAMES MARSHALL RENNIE WETHERLY,* C.S.M.M.G., younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Wetherly, Cults, Aberdeenshire, to Elizabeth Cecily, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clinch, Ranelagh, Dublin. Whitson (,9,8-30).--At East St. Clement's Church, Aberdeen, on 14th October, 1939, GORDON STUART WHITSON,* M.A., C.A., younger son of the late Mr. William Whitson and of Mrs. Whitson, 24 Ashley Road, Aberdeen, to Margaret Davidson Stevenson Bothwell, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Bothwell, 17 Urquhart Street, Aberdeen. Wilson (19,6-zo).—At St. Machar's Cathedral, Aberdeen, on 14th October, 1939, ALEXANDER CORDON WILSON, Old Crombie, Marnoch, son of the late Rev. Alexander Wilson, M.A., Ythan Wells, to Daisy, daughter of the late Walter Glennie and of Mrs. Glennie, Glenelm, Hilton Drive, Aberdeen. Wilson (1922-27).—At Bulawayo, Rhodesia, on 5th September, 1939, HAROLD GARDYNE WILSON, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. David Wilson, Aberdeen, to Ellen, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reg. H. Hart, Matopos. Wilson (,914-25).—At King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, on 23rd September, 1939, WILLIAM DONALD WILSON,* M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Wilson, z6 Carnegie Crescent, Aberdeen, to Elizabeth Margaret, elder daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel James Robertson, R.A.M.C., and Mrs. Robertson, 95 Beaconsfield Place, Aberdeen, and Muchalls, Kincardineshire. Wisely (i9t5-18).—At Rubislaw Church, Aberdeen, on 9th August, 1939, JOHN ALEXANDER KEITH WISELY,* elder son of the late Mr. John Wisely and of Mrs. Wisely, 17 Pitstruan Place, Aberdeen, to Elizabeth A. M., only daughter of the late Mr. C. G. Fraser and of Mrs. Fraser, 15 Brighton Place, Aberdeen. Wood (19x8-29).—At Crown Terrace Baptist Church, Aberdeen, on z6th August, 1939, DOUGLAS MITCHELL WOOD,* youngest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Wood, 47 Argyll Place, Aberdeen, to E. Lilian, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Gilchrist, zo Forbesfield Road, Aberdeen. Wright (19i5-i6).—At the Church of Scotland, Penang, on 27th September, 1939, DANIEL OVERBECK WRIGHT,* son of the late Lieut.-Colonel A. W. Overbeck Wright, I.M.S., and of Mrs. Overbeck Wright, to Hannah, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Appleby, of Durham. Youngson (1920-30.—At St. Mary's Church, Liscard, Wallasey, on t7th June, 1939, WILLIAM COUTTS YOUNGSON,* A.R.I.B.A., son of Mr. and Mrs. William Youngson, Kothi, Cairn Road, Bieldside, to Muriel, daughter of Captain and Mrs. Windsor, Wallasey, Cheshire.

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The Malayan Clock. The Presentation Ceremony. The ceremony of presenting the Malayan Clock, which has been erected in the School Hall above the main doorway, took place in the afternoon of St. Andrew's Day, 3oth November, 1939, before a large gathering of teachers and boys. Mr. J. Lennox Riddell, the Vice-President of the F.P. Club, was in the chair, in the absence of the President, Colonel Archer Irvine-Fortescue, who is on war service. Seated on the Chairman's right were Mr. Raymond G. Wilson, the Club Consul in Singapore; Mr. D. M. Andrew, Rector; Dr. William Kelly, who designed the Clock; and Dr. Theodore Watt, the Secretary of the Club. On the Chairman's left were Dr. George Duncan, Convener of the Education Committee of the Aberdeen Town Council ; Professor P. S. Noble, Convener of the Secondary Schools Management Committee ; Mr. H. S. Mackintosh, Director of Education ; and Mr. Henry Paterson, Senior Master of the School. Included in the audience were several members of the Executive of the F.P. Club. The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, said : " The President of the Former Pupils' Club being away on military service, it is my pleasant duty as Vice-President to take the chair at this informal gathering, which has been called to witness the handing over of yet another visible token of the regard that F.P.s have for their old School. " Without any boasting I think that Former Pupils both en maw and as individuals may claim to have done quite a lot for their School. Let me mention just one or two items. A not inconsiderable part of the original cost of Rubislaw Field was given by the Club, the Pavilion was erected mainly through F.P.s' subscriptions, as part of the Memorial to Former Pupils who had laid down their lives in the last war—pray God there may be no such huge list after the present struggle! More recently the Clock in the School Tower was presented by the enthusiastic body of F.P.s in Shanghai; and now those resident in Malaya give convincing evidence of their interest in the School. " I personally am particularly interested in this presentation, as quite a large number of the Malayan F.P.s were at School in my time. We are fortunate in having with us to-day Mr. Raymond Wilson, who I think I may say has been the moving spirit in this affair. Mr. Wilson's father, the late Mr. Louis Wilson, for many years Club Consul in Hawaii, was a very loyal F.P. and benefactor of the School, as the Museum bears witness. His son is following right worthily in his footsteps, and I now have much pleasure in calling on Mr. Raymond Wilson to make the presentation."

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Mr. Wilson, who on rising was received with loud applause, said :— " Little did I think when I left the School some zz years ago that I should return to figure in this Hall in the guise of a donor, and I must admit that the ordeal is somewhat terrifying. To stand here before you to-day in this great Hall, where many famous men have addressed you, and to act as spokesman on behalf of a large number of Former Pupils over 8,ooo miles away is indeed an event I am not likely to forget, and I appreciate tremendously the great honour bestowed on me by my fellow Malayans in being asked to represent them at this ceremony. " My own personal recollections of appearing in the Hall are of a rather varied character. Morning Prayers, Prizegivings, Empire Day addresses, etc., come readily to my mind, while there was a period during the last war when the only available space where we could perform our weekly drill and gymnastics was upon the stage of the Hall. " I shall briefly run over the history of our gift to the School, though there is not really a great deal to add to what you already know regarding its arrival in the Hall. While occasional informal gatherings of Former Pupils had been held from time to time in Malaya, it was not until January 1938 that we were able to hold the first All-Malayan Reunion Dinner in Kuala Lumpur, by which time the names of nearly 6o Former Pupils throughout the country had been secured and all had been communicated with. It is interesting to note that of this number nine are Chinese who were at the School in my own time. At this Reunion 17 F.P.s were present, and an Annual Dinner has now become an established fact. " A unanimous desire was expressed at that first Malayan Reunion to present some suitable gift to the old School as a mark of appreciation and gratitude for all it had done for us in our earlier days, and the Clock you now see before you on the wall is the outcome of that desire. Perhaps many connected with the School will be of the impression that Former Pupils in the Far East deal only in clocks, while our brethren in Shanghai will certainly think we have emulated their magnificent gift somewhat easily! But I am sure you will all agree that this beautiful piece of work before us is far more useful and ornamental and has far greater sentimental value than cups or trophies such as the School has already in abundance. In this connection I should like to express to the Rector, Mr. D. M. Andrew, our appreciation of his helpful suggestions as to what form our gift might take. " For the design of the Clock itself we are greatly indebted to Dr. Kelly, and we have only to glance at the War Memorial

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on the opposite wall of this Hall to realize how exceedingly fortunate we have been in getting a man of Dr. Kelly's genius and distinction to carry through the work for us. Dr. Kelly most unfortunately is not himself a Former Pupil, but he has always taken a very warm interest in the School, where his sons were pupils for many years, and his regard for it has been further demonstrated by his refusal to accept any professional remuneration for his share of the work, despite the fact that he has gone to an extraordinary amount of trouble in securing a correct representation in colours of Malayan Arms. The work could not have been in better hands, and the Former Pupils in Malaya wish to thank Dr. Kelly most sincerely for his great kindness and generosity. " The Malay Peninsula—a country about the area of England without Wales-is known so well to the rest of the world these days that it should be superfluous for me to describe here its whereabouts in the East, though it is still quite a common occurrence to receive communications addressed to ' Straits Settlements, China,' or ' The Malay States, India ' ! Anyhow, geography must be an atrocious subject just now ! You all know, of course, that the main products of the country are rubber and tin, but you must not forget that quite a large business is also done in exporting boys to the Aberdeen Grammar School Boarding House! It should be noted, too, that the donor of your No Dawson All-round Trophy is one of the Malayan F.P.s. "It is rather appropriate that this afternoon's function should take place on the 3oth of November—St. Andrew's Day—a day greatly looked forward to by Scots abroad ; and as Malaya's time is over eight hours ahead of Greenwich time, it is quite safe to say that most of our F.P.s in Malaya are disporting themselves in truly convivial fashion at this actual moment! Mention of St. Andrew reminds me of the schoolboy who wrote in an examination paper that St. Andrew was the patent saint of Scotland, while the patent saint of England was Union Jack! " It has given us tremendous pleasure in Malaya to have been able to do something of this nature for the old School, and we are very proud to think that you will now have a reminder of us and of our part of the world always before you. But we realize that what we have done could not possibly have been achieved had it not been for our good friend, Dr. Theodore Watt. What we have done has actually been very little compared with what he has undertaken on our behalf. We have merely sat back and allowed him to carry out all the arrangements for us, knowing full well that anything connected with the School and Former Pupils would have his unbounded enthusiasm and interest. My own personal thanks are due to him for his unfailing co-operation.

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" These remarks of mine would not be complete without reference being made to those F.P.s in Malaya who have helped to see the matter through ' over there.' I refer to the Committee, consisting of Mr. C. H. Miller, Mr. Alan Graeme Robertson, and Mr. Stanley G. Williamson, who wish to be associated with me in to-day's ceremony. " And now Dr. Duncan, I have very great pleasure in asking you, as Convener of the Aberdeen Education Committee and on behalf of the Aberdeen Town Council, to accept the custody of this Clock from the Former Pupils of the School in Malaya with their very best wishes."

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Dr. George Duncan, in accepting custody of the Clock, said that everything would be done to preserve the gift, and he asked Mr. Wilson to convey the thanks of the Town Council to the Grammar School F.P.s in Malaya. The gift, he continued, was one more proof of the loyalty of F.P.s to their old School and of their continued interest in it. This interest had been fostered by the Club, by the School Magazine, and by Dr. Theodore Watt. Scarcely a year passed without some similar token of remembrance being provided. They had only to think of the handsome organ which had been presented to the Hall through the initiative of a very loyal Old Boy, Lord Alness ; the three fine portraits of Dr. Morland Simpson, Dr. Charles McLeod, and Mr. William Keith Leask ; the Byron Statue standing in front of the entrance to the Hall ; the Shanghai Clock, and many other gifts, all deeply appreciated. Dr. Duncan concluded by again asking Mr. Wilson to convey their very sincere thanks to the donors. The Rector, in expressing the thanks of the School for the gift, explained that it was owing to war regulations that the School had not been assembled en masse. The audience, however, was thoroughly representative of the whole School. He went on to say that in addition to the material gifts to which Dr. Duncan had referred, there was something no less valuable that came from the F.P.s, namely, their constant moral support of the School. Thtre was nothing, he continued, that touched the imagination of the Grammar School boy so much as gifts from F.P.s, especially F.P.s overseas. The present gift was evidence that the thoughts of the F.P.s in Malaya reverted to their old School, that they had happy recollections of it and warm appreciation of what it had done for them in helping to shape their careers. He asked Mr. Wilson to tell the F.P.s in Malaya that the School was delighted with the form the gift had taken, and that they would cherish the Clock, which every morning would remind them of the donors. To the pleasure of the gathering Mr. Wilson sprang a surprise on both Dr. Kelly and Dr. Watt by presenting each

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of them with beautiful examples of Malayan pewter work, in appreciation of the help they had given in bringing the desires of the Malayan F.P.s to fruition. After the two recipients had expressed their thanks, Mr. Henry Paterson, on behalf of the School, proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Riddell for presiding, and this ended the proceedings, which had lasted for about half an hour. The Donors. The following is the list of 52 F.P.s in Malaya who have contributed to the fund for the Clock :— [F.M.S. = Federated Malay States. U.M.S. = Unfederated Malay States. S.S. = Straits Settlements.] G. Anderson (1914-24), F.M.S. W. F. Mayor (1923-30), S.S. R. W. I. Band (1924-26), S.S. J. G. Mearns (1913-20), F.M.S. J. R. Bell (1905-14), F.M.S. W. J. Meares (2956-20), F.M.S. G. F. Brown (1921-25), F.M.S. C. H. Miller (1900-04), F.M.S. J. L. K. Brown (1921-25), F.M.S. A. R. Murray (1903-13), F.M.S. G. R. Burns (1925-31), F.M.S. J. C. Niven (1920-26), F.M.S. R. R. Cook (1899-1908), F.M.S. D. B. Palmer (1915-24), F.M.S. J. R. Danson (1899-5903), S.S. R. A. Rainnie (1914-18), F.M.S. J. I. Dawson (5900-04), S.S. C. A. Rankine (1958-30), S.S. J. R. Donald (1913-24), U.M.S. A. G. Robertson (1907-18), F.M.S. W. J. Duncan (1901-03), F.M.S. D. G. Robertson (1904-15), U.M.S. W. A. Elmslie (5904-10), S.S. [Now E. G. Robertson (1910-19), U.M.S. in England]. I. M. Shaw (1908-56), F.M.S. J. M. Fraser (1958-20), S.S. W. G. Smith (1922-30), F.M.S. D. R. Harper (1917-26), F.M.S. E. R. Sorley (1906-18), S.S. G. Henderson (1906-12), F.M.S. A. D. Spark (5905-so), S.S. [Now J. J. Johnston, (1905-06) in Engliind.] W. C. Kemp (5924-26), U.M.S. G. G. Thomson (5950-12), S.S. Loke Ah Lan (1907-15), F.M.S. A. M. Tosh (1929-31), U.M.S. Loke Yaik Chee (1907-14), F.M.S. F. A. Tough (5920-2O, S.S. Loke Yaik Foo (1905-14), S.S. A. J. Turner (5907-s x), S.S. Loke Wan Yat, F.M.S. W. C. Warrack (1898-1909), U.M.S. Loo Yew Hoi (1907-14), F.M.S. H. T. Wee (1914-15), S.S. Loo Yu Son (1914-x5), F.M.S. S. G. Williamson (192z-25), F.M.S. J. G. Lorimer (1905-14), F.M.S. R. G. Wilson (5906-12 and 1915-17), W. McCrae (1899-1910), U.M.S. S.S. D. S. McDonald (1926-31), U.M.S. D. 0. Wright (5955-56), F.M.S. P. A. B. McKerron (5904-so), S.S. A Description of the Clock. The Clock was designed to occupy the place of the old clock immediately over the main door of the Hall. It is an eight-day clock driven by weights, with " seconds " pendulum ; the dial has a diameter of 2, feet, the outline of the face being

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THE MALAYAN CLOCK PRESENTATION CEREMONY.

Left to right: The Rector, Mr. Raymond G. Wilson, Mr. J. Lennox Riddell, Dr. George Duncan.

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Photo by .1. J. It. :-Itra,han.

THE MALAYAN CLOCK.

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octagonal, four gilded brass spandrels filling out the shape to a square, below which, placed on the door of the oak clockcase, are the Arms of the Federated Malay States, fully displayed in heraldic metals and colours. The clock-case proper stands on a bracketed shelf or sill, between which and the top of the great entrance door is a panel with the inscription in raised gilded letters— FROM FORMER PUPILS IN MALAYA ' MCMXXXIX

The Arms, " Approved by the Rulers of the Federated Malay States," are officially described as follows :— " Quarterly Argent, Gules, Sable and Or the Shield ensigned by an Eastern Crown Gold and supported by two Tigers proper on a Scroll bearing the Motto in Malay characters, Di plehera Allah,' of which ' In the care of God' is the English translation." The Clock stands six feet high and projects about eight inches in front of the wall. The movement, with the dialplate and hands, is by Messrs. Stevenson and Russell, Aberdeen ; the case was made in the workshop of Messrs. J. and A. Ogilvie, Aberdeen.

A School O.T.C. Unit? A junior member of the F.P. Club writes :— " I hope that the Grammar School will now, under the present circumstances, attempt to form some sort of O.T.C. Unit, and thus give Grammarians the opportunity of training themselves for commissioned rank. I very deeply regretted the fact that there was no O.T.C. when I was there. I was , where fortunate enough, however, to spend a year at there was a thoroughly efficient O.T.C., and I believe my year's service with that unit stood me in good stead when my name came up for promotion. It will be a great pity if Grammarians in the future find themselves in inferior positions to those held by other young men in the Services simply because they were denied the privilege of an O.T.C. training. " I should be very happy to hear that steps were being taken to remedy this disadvantage, which affects the future of every boy passing through the Grammar School."

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SCHOOL SECTION. School and Random Notes. " For us, . . .

Here bending to your clemency, We beg your hearing patiently."

So the editorial cycle starts once more. To us has been entrusted the task of writing these Notes, and it will be our endeavour during the current session to present to you a distilled account of School activities. * * * We returned to School last September under very unexpected circumstances : the threat of war was uncomfortably real, and, indeed, we had been back for only one day when our worst fears were realized. The consequent closing of School was a serious matter for those of us who were hoping for Leaving Certificates, but this prolongation of the summer holidays was (we fear!) joyfully welcomed by the younger boys. * * * An emergency time-table, however, was not long in being drawn up, and this has resulted in the lengthening of the afternoon periods to fifty minutes. These sessions seem agonisingly long—so much so that it is rumoured that one boy, overcome by the weary drag of time, actually feel asleep during the course of a certain history lesson 1 * * * In connection with the above time-table, which provided for a three-day week, it has been found necessary to augment it by an extra morning and afternoon, by holding lessons in another building outside School—at an old boot-factory! We must in all fairness, however, point out that these rooms in Leadside Road which have been allocated to us are extremely comfortable, having either a coal or gas fire when not fitted with central heating. We could wish sometimes that our own rooms in School were as comfortably furnished. * * * The following have been appointed Prefects for the Session : L. D. Davidson (Senior Prefect), H. G. J. Aitken, P. S. Boyd, J. D. Chalmers, A. W. F. Forrest, I. W. Kirton, J. S. M. Moir, F. R. Paterson, D. L. Paul, and M. H. Tawse. We offer them our hearty congratulations. * * * The Hall has always appeared to us as a rather majestic and dignified apartment, rich in its panelled walls—the pride of the School. Imagine our horror, therefore, when we noticed a messy heap of sand and cement dumped upon the floor, and to crown all, a booted workman—a hob-nailed booted workman—

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adding water to this revolting mixture with a gleam of fiendish glee in his eye. We departed, marvelling greatly at these inexplicable proceedings, the lines of Shakespeare running through our troubled minds— But, in the gross and scope of mine opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state. * * *

And we were right. Not long afterwards we learned the ghastly truth. Looming large and forbidding in front of the two entrances from the Corridor were two massive brick walls, ugly and sinister in their red rawness. These are presumably for A.R.P. purposes, as the Hall is one of our shelters, and thus are we constantly and forcefully reminded that " a black-faced cloud the world doth threat." * * * While on the subject of the Hall, we lament the fact that our morning meetings there have been stopped. Owing to A.R.P. regulations only a restricted number of boys are allowed in at a time, but we learn that the Rector intends to hold sectional meetings of the School from time to time. * * * upon the sad fall from further remark would In passing, we glory of the Hall. No longer do its rafters ring with our inimitable cheers, no longer do the notes of the organ steal out through the windows to the grassy sward in front. In their stead may be heard the busy rattle of- sewing machinesl But in case the impression is given that we are harbouring prospective candidates for the Leaving Certificate in Sewing, we would hasten to add that these machines are being used by the pupils of the Central School, who are at the moment sharing the School with us on alternate days. And even though the Head of the Classical Department considers that one or two of our number who are somewhat less endowed with those fascinating " little grey cells " ought to turn to the art of sewing in preference to continuing with Greek, we must admit that we find some difficulty in picturing any stalwart of the 1st XV handling a delicate piece of sewing with any great success. * * * This term we have lost three of our Masters, who have been called away on account of the war, and hence there was, for a time, some shortage of teachers. Mr. W. P. Stewart is now Acting Adjutant with his regiment " somewhere in North Scotland." We note with interest that he is also Games Master— a post which we well know he can fill with credit. About Mr. Bruce and Mr. MacPherson, however, we have been able to glean but scant information, in spite of the aptitude which we have already cultivated for bringing the darkest secrets to light. We learn that, at the time of writing, they have not yet left the

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country. May we take this opportunity of extending to all three the School's best wishes for their coming period of service ? Good Luck! * * * Following upon our loss of these three Masters, we welcome four new teachers and hope that they will be happy in their work at the School. Miss Sheila R. B. Cruickshank has become a member of the Staff in the Kindergarten Department, to take the place of Miss Gibb, who resigned on her marriage in June last. Previously, Miss Cruickshank had for some time been temporarily engaged in the same department. Mr. Norman G. Stewart, M.A., is at present filling the post vacated by Mr. Maclver, who left us last term. Mr. Lewis Morrison, M.A., is temporarily taking the place of Mr. Stewart in the Mathematics Department; and, finally, Mr. George A. M. Sheach, M.A., has come to fill the breach in the Classical Department caused by the departure of Mr. MacPherson. * * * It used to be a common sight during the forenoon intervals to see the 1st XV at practice on the " rugger " pitch behind the School. But nowadays the condition of the field renders this sportive little gambol a thing of extreme hazard. Mountains of earth have been thrown up with reckless abandon, yawning caverns gape at the sky, and lorry-loads of concrete slabs have been piled up at various spots. The whisper has it that these slabs originally arrived bearing the word " Fragile," but we hope, as our lives may one day depend on their strength, that this rumour is without foundation. * * * Those of us who have occasion to make use of the Library during the early part of the mornings will have no doubt witnessed a little play which is regularly enacted by the Games Master as he settles down in his corner. It appears that he has a singular affection for his own private waste-paper basket, and it would seem that the Staff of the Central School also are peculiarly drawn to this receptacle. At all events, Mr. Macgregor invariably discovers that his precious basket has disappeared and that a much inferior one has taken its place. In a state of alarm he issues forth from behind his screen, basket (inferior model) in hand, and continues to be in a most unhappy state of mind until he finds his own Rolls Royce, so to speak, when he returns, contented once more, to consider next Saturday's fixtures. * * * We note, with a relief which is not unmixed with a measure of sympathy for those concerned, that the number of cars to be

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seen in front of the School has dwindled greatly. This area used to have the appearance of a miniature car-park, but the introduction of petrol-rationing has apparently caused a few of our motoring-minded Masters to take to the bicycle. We have always had a few faithful followers of the push-bike amongst the Staff, but their number has recently been very much augmented. * * * It seems, however, that we have fallen out of the frying pan into the fire with regard to vehicular traffic, for the closing of several of the cycle sheds for another purpose has caused innumerable bicycles to find parking-places round the School. The School has, indeed, taken on an aspect very much like Copenhagen on a Saturday morning, but the new concrete shelters will no doubt help to relieve the congestion. * * * The re-appearance in School of Mr. Spiers will have awakened many pleasant memories in the minds of the older boys. He left us several years ago on his retirement, but has now returned as a temporary Science Master pending the engagement of a regular teacher. We are selfish enough to hope that this post will not readily be filled ; but, as past editors have pointed out, we are too selfish about these things. However, we welcome him to his old School, short though his stay may be, and assure him that there are still some of us left who remember the days when his tall figure used to be such a distinguishing feature of the Corridor. * * * It has been customary to mention in these notes the additions that are made to the Library each term, but this year, owing to the abnormal circumstances which have so disordered things, no new books have yet been received. Miss Henderson, however, assures us that the normal quota will soon be forthcoming. * * * On looking over the results of our quest for Howlers, we are forced to the conclusion that we are becoming quite a brainy lot. The search has not been fruitful, but we have come upon one or two remarkably fresh efforts. " Parallel lines," a promising Junior declared, " are two lines which go on and on and on, and refuse to meet on any account." And an aspiring young literary historian has asserted, in all naive sincerity, that John Bunyan was a distinguished Baptist preacher who wrote " The Pilgrim's Progress " when a prisoner in the hands of the Turks I But it is scarcely surprising that the inventive minds of the intellectual Sixth should be equal to the explanation, d propos their researches in " Hamlet" and Horatio's chase after a

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fugitive ghost, that the utility of Latin as the medieval priest's language of exorcism was entirely due to its being " dead." * * * of September many boys gave valuable During the first weeks assistance to the local authorities by filling sand-bags and helping with the harvest. At the Rubislaw Quarries a regular squad of Grammar boys could be seen daily, bare-backed and sweating in the sun. It toughened us up a lot, though for a long time afterwards our faces were rueful and our backs sore. Several boys were sent to nearby farms to lend a helping hand with the harvest. The potato-digging was a back-breaking job, but intense satisfaction was felt by one and all when, at the end of the week, quite a healthy pecuniary reward was slipped into the pocket—a pleasant reminder of a week's honest labour. * * * This year the Boarding House has been fortunate in obtaining a series of talks by several eminent personalities. Mr. Thomas Hunter, M.P. (Perth Division), a former Lord Provost of Perth, gave a most enlightening talk on " Parliament and Parliamentary Procedure." This was followed by an absorbing lecture delivered by Mr. R. Findlay Crabb, M.A., LL.B., on " Post-Marks." To such an extent did this talk stir the audience that an enthusiastic Stamp Club has now been formed. Later, Dr. Eric Cruickshank gave an account of his tour in America, which he illustrated by some excellent films. Finally, the House had the unexpected pleasure of a visit from Mr. Kurt Jooss, the creator of the Jooss Ballet, which recently visited His Majesty's Theatre. He spoke on the ballet and its ideals to the senior boys, who had visited one of the performances. Needless to say, his talk was much appreciated. Further lectures, we understand, are in prospect. * * * Gas-mask drills have been held in the School from time to time—not, we imagine, to obtain practice in orderly behaviour during a raid, but rather to act as a deterrent to those who would come to School carrying empty gas-mask boxes and to those who do not even bother to carry out this feeble attempt at subterfuge. It is an extraordinarily self-conscious feeling that envelopes one when alone without a mask in a host of hideous, burring creatures. But we should like to believe that the excellent way in which boys have responded to the appeal for gas-masks is not entirely due to this periodic examination to which we are subjected. * * * One frosty November morning the Janny was seen sneaking furtively in the direction of Leadside Road with a huge hand-bell, and knowing that the "gas-dispersed" signal is

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the ringing of a bell, we immediately concluded that he had received secret information about a pending attack. But such was not the case. It seems that there is no means of giving a general signal for the termination of the periods—hence the bell. It fell to the Head of the Mathematical Department to inaugurate the new service, and the temptation to add vocal support to the barren music of the bell proved too much even for members of the lofty Sixth. Among the sundry cries which greeted the astonished and much-embarrassed Master were cries of " All Change( " " Muffins! " and " Oyez! Oyez! " * * * We do not wish to cast any doubt on the Janny's honour, but it is significant that the bell in the Shanghai Tower which used to summon us to School has ceased to ring of late. * * * The social side of School life has been greatly—almost completely—curtailed by the war. The two most popular clubs, the Dramatic Society and the Literary and Debating Society, have been cancelled, with no hope of their re-starting this term. The meetings of the School Orchestra, the Gramophone Club, and the Arts Club have all been suspended. It is also very improbable that the School Concert will take place. * * * Miss Brown (the Rector's Secretary), we notice, has started a campaign for brighter School notices. This is supposedly a consequence of there being no announcements in Hall. The first sign of this change appeared some weeks ago :— " Found—A pen-knife with the inscription 'A Present from. . . " Closely following came another good effort (being a result of the manifold increase in the number of fountain-pens which have gone astray recently) :— " Found—Still another fountain-pen 1 " If the campaign goes on like this, we visualize in the near future notices appearing such as :— " Rugby—If the following are not otherwise engaged, they might turn up at the Field. . . ." But to return to the first notice. In an endeavour to obtain possession of the lost pen-knife we went to Miss Brown's office and applied for it. On our being asked to complete the inscription, we tentatively suggested " the Seaside." We took our exit, however, without the knife. * * * For some mysterious reason the Library has always seemed to provide Editors of the Magazine with material for notes, and this year proved no exception. We were wandering round the room, deep in thought, when with a sudden " Hal " we made a dive for one of the marble tables which, we saw, bore the

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marks of a freshly and vigorously applied lead pencil. On closer inspection we found these marks to be a (jumbled) list of names, a few of which we deciphered and have here tabulated for your perusal. The most prominent and legible were :—St. Louis Blues, Limehouse Blues, Vibraphone Blues, Floyd's Guitar Blues, and Blues in my Hat. The mysterious author of this list puts us in mind of Gainsborough's picture of " The Blue Boy," though we should like to change the title to " The Blues Boy " to be in keeping with a certain Sixth-form boy, well known for his views upon " Swing," whom we suspect to be guilty of now possessing a much-worn lead pencil. * * * The long-awaited Malayan Clock has now been installed in Hall. It is, needless to say, a magnificent time-piece, and a description of it will be found elsewhere in the Magatine. We send the School's sincere thanks to all the Former Pupils in Malaya who have provided this much appreciated addition to the Hall. * * * And so we come to the end. The December Examinations are facing us—never a very cheerful prospect—but we have always found that they are not quite so menacing as they appear at first sight, so in all confidence we advance to the fray. Cheerio, until we meet again, and A MERRY CHRISTMAS I

Herr Adolf Hitler. (With apologies to Leigh Hunt.)

Herr Adolf Hitler (may his life soon cease!) Awoke one night from a vain dream of peace, And saw, 'midst the Gestapo round his bed, Making them goose-step back in sudden dread, Der Teufel writing in a book of fire. This apparition raised the Fiihrer's ire, And in a Fiihrious tone, he loudly bawled, " What writest thou ? " The devil grimly called, In tones reverberating loud and clear, " The names of those whom nations all revere." " And mine is first ? " said Adolf. " What a hope! " Replied the devil. Hitler once more spoke, As confident as ever : " Write me down, As one that lives for peace." But with a frown, Der Teufel wrote and fled ; returned next night, Spoiling the black-out with his lurid light, And showed the names whom nations all detest, And lo! Herr Hitler's name led all the rest. E. K. BORTHWICK. (CI. IV.)

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First A.G.S. Camp—Struy Bridge, 1939. At 9 a.m. on Monday, i7th August, 1 had visions of spending a pleasant, lazy day. At so a.m. I began to doubt it, and at 10.3o I knew the worst. I had decided by way of a diversion, also an experiment, to cycle to Struy, Inverness-shire, to the first A.G.S. camp, arranged by our popular Maths. Master, Mr. W. P. Stewart. I said " experiment," and I meant it. I had constructed out of old bicycle wheels, and some wood, a trailer, which I proposed to attach to my bicycle, in order to be a complete-inevery-detail mobile unit, capable of covering successfully the hundred and thirty miles to Struy Bridge. The camp was due to start on the morrow, which necessitated my setting out that day. I had all the fun I bargained for, believe me! The first problem I encountered, after starting, was that of sound insulation. The " trailer " was fixed to my bicycle by means of a bare metal coupling, which gave a rattle at every bump. Each rattle vibrated through my machine, and was amplified to such an extent that, given a stretch of reasonably rough ground, my mobile unit sounded like an itinerant tin-merchant's stock-intrade. This was successfully eliminated, however, by means of black tape rolled round the coupling. The next problem was tail-skid ; the weight of the load, if I was not careful, caused a tendency for the trailer to swing round, thereby transforming my mobile unit into a mobile menace to the other users of the King's highway. I had started late, at s s a.m. to be precise, and my hopes of reaching Forres, eighty miles away, before night-fall were somewhat thin. It was an extremely hot day, and by lunch-time I had not gone very far. I was very tired and pouring with sweat in the broiling sun. Feeling rather disconsolate, I toiled along. However, I became used to it, and reached Forres at 9 p.m. There I successfully traded upon the hospitality of a benevolent old lady who, five years ago, had allowed me to camp on her front lawn! I introduced myself, she remembered me, and I was treated as an old friend and given the same rights of trespass as before. I started off next morning, bright and early. I was nearly driven to tears by the long, long road which stretched out straight in front of me like a ribbon, losing itself in the blue immensity, when with a roar I was overtaken by Mr. Stewart's Alvis. He stopped and we chatted. He relieved me of my rucksack, which he put in his already overflowing car, and started off again. I had about two hours to reach Inverness to meet the train on which the rest of the party were due to arrive, and I had about twelve miles to go. I thought I should easily

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manage it, but I eventually arrived in Inverness station with only two minutes to spare. I met Mr. Stewart and the rest of the boys,* and after lunch we proceeded towards Struy. It is a beautiful road from Inverness to Struy—along the main road, then up Strath Glass by the hilly road past the Crask of Aigas, and thence to Struy. We were conducted to a fine camping site beside the River Glass, which was as smooth as its name implies. It flows so slowly past our spot, yet lower down, at one of the local beauty spots, it becomes a raging, rushing torrent. Beside this millpond, which we were told was treacherous owing to icy springs in the river bed, we pitched our tents, some of which were massive erections, and dug rubbish pits, etc., in order to make our camp habitable for the next fortnight. Waking next morning, I looked out to see Mr. Stewart and some of the boys splashing around in the water, gloriously clad in their birthday suits. That morning everybody rose early, made breakfast, and lazed around in the sunshine, and among the cows on the opposite bank ; but I regret to say that on the rainy mornings some people were having breakfast when they would ordinarily be having lunch. In the middle of the morning Mr. Stewart started off with a representative of each tent-group for Beauly. We arrived there about 12.30 and proceeded to the grocer, who was kind enough to undertake to send all our requirements by post, if we ordered them by 'phone from Struy's one and only shop, the stationer-confectioner-post-office-grocer. Having finished our business with the Beauly grocer, we gathered in the Square to discuss what we should do next. Just then the town clock struck one, and we were greeted from all sides by the sound of shutting shop-doors—Beauly had gone to sleep for the lunch hour! Fortunately, a customer was still holding the fort at the grocer's, so I went in to buy some chocolate. I was the last to leave the shop, and I had hardly crossed the footpath when I heard the sound of the door being locked behind me—the grocer had gone to sleep with the rest! However, we treated this rebuff lightly, and proceeded back to Struy to enjoy a belated lunch. Next day we mounted our bicycles and set off for Sgurr Ruadh. We went up the narrow, stony road through Glen Strathfarrar and halted at the foot of our objective. We had lunch and started off. The day was hot, and we steamed like cattle as we marched, Indian fashion, up the winding path. Soon the path disappeared, and we were left to our own resources. It was easy going but wet, and we made good time to the foot of the mound which was the peak. But do not misconstrue! The mound was zoo feet high, with a gradient of 3 in 1. At * W. Anderson, R. K. Booker, R. F. David, A. M. Durward, J. D. Garden, N. Jones, J. Laird, D. L. Paul, A. Ross, and Ian Taylor.

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the top we were rewarded with a glorious view of the surrounding countryside. It was hot even up there, and we were reluctant to depart. We arrived back about 7 o'clock, and had a meal. The next three days it rained, and we were given the encouraging information that the last time it rained as hard, the river rose to a height of twelve feet above our camping ground. A cheerful prospect! The rain cleared on Sunday evening, however, and Mr. Stewart took a car-load of boys to see Miss Hay, the School Boarding House Matron, who was staying near. On Monday we went up Glen Cannich to climb Sgurr-naLapaich. The weather was fine, but a heavy mist lay over the mountains, and climbing was impossible. We did the next best thing, and had a picnic in the picturesque valley, near a linn, amongst the ferns and bracken. Tuesday was marked by the arrival of Donald Grassick (" D. Duck " for short) in a car. In the evening he took three of us for a run to Cannich. On the way back we espied a frail suspension bridge marked "Private," and, prompted by a childish desire to cross it, we stopped and went to examine it. To walk across was difficult enough, for the whole erection rattled and shook like a leaf in the gale, but to run across was quite a feat, because sections leapt up to meet your feet, while others dropped away when you were least expecting it. We were all on the wrong side when a man was seen coming along the road on a bicycle. Four minds had but one single thought —" Game Warden! " We took to our heels and ran, all together, over the bridge. How it stayed up I do not know, for it leapt up and down, and swung sideways, like a thing alive. When at last we staggered off, dashed into the car and shot away, we saw he was a harmless farm hand with some straw in his mouth. On Wednesday, the party, except Roy David and John Laird, who set off for John o' Groats, travelled by car to Glen Affric. We could go only to a bridge which was two miles from Affric Lodge and three from the foot of Mam Sodhail, one of the highest peaks in the district. We lunched at mid-day, and started our tramp. It was cold and wet on the hills and we saw nothing; but it is noteworthy that the path from the bottom to the summit was marked by what looked like gravestones, and there was a sort of crazy paving over the boggy parts. In the wind shelter at the top we discovered an impressive message left in an empty beer-bottle. It was to the effect that two men had climbed from Affric Lodge to the top in i hour 35 minutes 4o seconds. Would anyone making better time please communicate with them ? We declined to reply. The next day some of us went to Dingwall to the pictures in " Duck's " car, while the rest remained to entertain Miss Brown, who made a tour of inspection, pronouncing our tent to be the worst! (The rest had time to get out of bed and tidy

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up while we were miles away, ignorant of what was happening.) On Sunday, David and Laird returned from their run otherwise nothing of interest happened till Tuesday, when camp was struck and the boys returned home. Unfortunately, as I had to be home on Sunday, I had to start off on Saturday morning. As luck would have it, it was drizzling and blowing a gale, so my progress was very slow. I passed through Inverness at noon, but did not stop. At Nairn the weather was terrible, rain falling heavily and being blown hard into my face. I reached Elgin by five o'clock, had a light meal, emptied out the two inches of water which was splashing about in the latter half of my mobile unit, and continued homewards. I passed into Aberdeenshire at 8 o'clock, feeling by now rather tired ; and I shuddered to think of the condition of my quilted sleepingbag. I can never imagine feathers mixing successfully with water! I decided I would head for home and save myself the bother of camping the night, and perhaps the discomfort of wet bedclothes. At xi o'clock, after watching a beautiful sunset, for it cleared up for the occasion, I reached Inverurie and overtook a farm servant going to Kintore. He was greatly interested in where I had come from, where I was going, etc., etc., and accompanied me through the starless night to Kintore, where he directed me to a coffee-stall, and bade me a " guid night." At the foot of Tyrebagger Hill the nightly procession of fish lorries began to pass me. At the top, when I commenced the long run into Bucksburn, I experienced a feeling of tired contentment, for the only remaining hill I had before me was Anderson Drive, which I climbed in solitary state under the glare of the arc lamps. What a change from speeding down Tyrebagger, keeping my headlamp glued to the yellow line, for I had no idea where the sides of the road were! When I arrived home it was a a.m., and as I did not wish to rouse the household, I broke in through the drawing-room window. But as the door was locked on the other side I could not reach my bedroom. To sleep in an armchair or on a couch which is a foot too short is an achievement of which I am not capable. While I was lying so uncomfortably in the darkness, I reflected on the success of the camp and the stupid thing which I had done in coming home at that hour, with my complete-inevery-detail mobile unit. Never again! Anybody keen on a camping holiday could not find a more pleasant camp to attend. In the light of the success of the first one, I can heartily recommend any succeeding Aberdeen Grammar School Summer Camp to every Aberdeen Grammar School boy. M. H. TAWSE. (Mod. VI.)

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A Sea Shore. It is still pitch dark ; the sea is a palpitating mass of phosphorescence and the breakers resemble the seething seas of Hell. The first cold light of dawn is appearing, the phosphorescence has vanished from the sea, and suddenly the top of the tower at La Rabida assumes a ruddy glow as the first rays of the rising sun strike it. A long, low ridge of pines draws a distinct black line against the shell-pink of the sky. A few fishermen sleeping on the sand rise and shake the dew off their blankets. They light a fire with some tarry rope, and the acrid smoke from the burning cork and dung ascends straight up into the cool morning air. A pot of coffee is soon simmering, and with great hunks of bread they sop it up out of wooden bowls. Their repast finished, they hurriedly set sail, for the tide has started to ebb and they want to be at sea before the long line of sandbanks is uncovered. From the houses further up on the sand the men of the English colony are to be seen rushing to catch the boat to take them up the river to their offices. Their wives and their children, who are out on holiday, have not got up yet, and on the boat the men grumble about what the modern generation is coming to. The children get up at a much more sensible hour of the day and go down to the beach. I usually sail round in my canoe and from the sea view the people with dissatisfaction, as I do not like crowds watching me swimming, especially unctuous females who always say they wish that they could swim like me or that they had my tan. Two or three of us meet and walk along the beach till we come to some secluded spot. Slipping off our costumes we go into the sea for a short swim, and coming out, we lie in the warm voluptuous caress of the sand. their net. Huge Along the beach some men are hauling sting-rays flap with resonant thumps on the damp sand. Delicate jelly-fish are thrown out of the net. A stream-lined bonito is hauled protestingly up on to the dry sand. An exquisitelycoloured squid is thrown on to a pile of scintillating fish. A glistening heap of cuttle-fish, sapphirine gurnards, greater weevers, grey mullet, red mullet, delicately-coloured " besugo," and an octopus or two are lying protesting on the foreshore. Gradually the beach is deserted, for it is the hour of siesta, and soon the only sign of life is the white sail of a fishing boat creeping imperceptibly over the indigo blue of the sea. The breakers are creaming in towards the golden sands, and behind the dunes, dancing like so many misshapen giants in the heat haze, are rows of dark green pines. The Englishmen return from their day's work, and hiding their portly figures under voluminous bath robes, descend to the beach for their evening swim. As they puff and snort like

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a school of playful grampuses, the sea whispers to the sand all the wonderful events that have happened in her vast bosom, and tells the tale of the mermaid who played with the seal's calf amongst the milk-white glow of the phosphorescence. L. M. N. SHurrE. (Mod. VB.)

Dusk by the Pool. I learned much of moor and woodland lore from an old gamekeeper who, besides knowing the daily habits of birds, knew their periods of roosting and the exact location of their nests. One such spot he showed me near our house. Hidden from main roads flows a small stream, the banks of which are clothed in thick ground vegetation, with spruce, beech and willows shading the slow-moving water, fed at intervals by burns rippling down the hollows to join the pool. Water-hens are plentiful in this neighbourhood, but two pairs own this stretch of water. A coot may occasionally be seen, but generally they prefer the open water, especially as the water-hens drive them off on sight. This is unusual, as I have known coots and water-hens to be friendly towards each other. They are the sentinels, however, and little escapes their hawk-like eyes, as they slink through the rushes by the bank, causing only the slightest ripple. They love this stretch of water and, so far, they have never deserted it, nesting here in some of the many anchored scrubs. They are very astute in avoiding their enemies, the hawk, stoat, and pike, sometimes digging themselves into a bank or quietly making their way to land, where they at times disappear down a rabbit hole for safety. As the last rays of the sun creep over the hoar-frosted fields, pheasants make their way towards the roost, scraping the fallen beech leaves for nuts and other delicacies. As they strut across a field of stubble to the copse, the cock looks like some gaudy foreign bird as the light touches him, while the hen struts quietly behind, a perfect illustration of camouflage. They usually betray their presence to the hidden poacher as they fly to a roosting perch by the pool, for they crow their contentment till the full moon mounts high over the cloud banks. Woodcock and snipe are still feeding in a nearby ditch, choosing the daytime to rest, while in the pool the water-hen swims round quietly with her mate, as if on duty! Now a shadow on the still water, and a tawny owl glides noiselessly into the dusk, continuing his foraging campaign. Mallard often came to this pool and sometimes a pair of mergansers stopped to rest on its quiet surface, but the old

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keeper shot them both one night, for they were continually killing young salmon in the Spey pools. Overhead, n.)isy oystercatchers whistle as they wheel over the rushing Spey waters, while screeching gulls betray the presence of the home-going shepherd. Far away over the hill comes the plaintive note of a curlew, probably disturbed while feeding on a small marsh. Some say the sad note of the " whaup " is more eerie than that of the northern diver, and such a sound still sends a superstitious person hurrying home. In the trees over the pool the pheasants roost quietly, with the water-hens on the dark water below them. C. M. HAIL. (Mod. ye.)

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It was ten o'clock at night almost to a minute—an hour when Middle Its and lesser lights should have been in bed, as I was—when a long shrill sound blared out. What was that? Aberdeen's first air-raid alarm? Had we stopped to consider, there \yrs really no need for alarm, as it was the AllClear signal. What a scamper to get clothes on, half awake and in the dark—well, dark enough to pick the wrong garment first I " Put out the lights," someone cried, " and come to the Refuge Room." Goodness, what was that crash ? Perhaps the distant sound of a bomb. But no, it was only Towser, our always-introuble dog, who had got mixed up with somebody's feet. Our Refuge Room is nothing great, but is as good a place to shiver in as any other. I never knew silence could be so quiet, and only breathing made any sound, but I knew that could not last long. After a time father got restless and said that he was going outside to see what was taking place. Of course nothing was taking place except that father was talking to someone at the back door where no one else had any right to be. Soon we learned it was that dog again and father had been talking to himself. Towser is always the cause of these one-sided conversations. Suddenly a wail was heard and we thought that something had happened to Towser. However, it turned out to be another All-Clear signal, and we knew then that there must have been a false alarm. The experience will help us should another alarm come ; right away the dog must be securely tied up in the Refuge Room if father happens to be at home! SIREN.

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A Week in Paris. On the 3oth of March a party of seventeen Grammar School boys left Aberdeen for Paris. We were accompanied by Mr. Gonnella, who was in charge of us. By six o'clock the following night we had arrived safely at our destination, the Hotel Fleuras, which is just beside the Luxembourg Gardens. Each day we visited some place of historic interest, and on Saturday, 1st April, we were conducted on a motor tour of Paris. Our guide pointed out the large buildings, such as the Eiffel Tower, The Tower of the Bastille, and others which were relics of the 1938 Exhibition. On Sunday we visited the Louvre and explored some of the galleries in this building. Among the great pictures we saw were the Mona Lisa, and some of Rubens' magnificent mural decorations. There were many art students in the galleries making sketches of the great paintings. In the afternoon we went to see Notre Dame Cathedral, where Mass was being sung. There were many confessional boxes and private cubicles where people can pray to their patron saint. We visited the Eiffel Tower later in the week, and from the top obtained a good view of the city. Far distant in the North of Paris we could see the buildings of the Vincennes Zoo, and down below us stretched the Seine with its many bridges. Some painters were working on the girders of the Tower below us, and once it seemed as if one of them would go to a ghastly death three or four hundred feet below. Napoleon's Tomb in Les Invalides was the next place we visited. The tomb itself is very large, and is surrounded by battle-flags which Napoleon had captured. The floor surrounding the tomb is of marble, and on it are engraved the dates of Napoleon's great victories. After seeing Napoleon's Tomb we went into the War Museum, which adjoins the tomb. In this museum we saw a French aeroplane of the last war, and also heavy guns and machine-guns which were used between 1914 and 1918. Another thing we saw was a pre-war motor car, which stood just inside the entrance of the museum. On the same day we visited the Pantheon, and after seeing the large stately interior, which contains many marble pillars as well as different mural decorations, we descended to the crypt, where the guide showed us the tombs of famous Frenchmen like Mirabeau and Voltaire. This building was originally intended to be a church, but at the time of the Revolution it was made a receptacle for the ashes of those who were killed. We visited the boulevards on the next day, and in the afternoon we went to the Sacre Coeur Church. To reach this church nearly three hundred steps have to be climbed, but for those who are not sufficiently energetic, there is a small railway which works on the same principle as a mountain railway. A service

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was being held while we were there, and after a little time we climbed many more steps to the little round tower at the top, from which a marvellous view can be obtained on a clear day. On Wednesday morning we went boating, and spent a very pleasant morning on a large lake. A big café stood on the shores of this lake, and as it was enclosed by tall trees, it seemed like a country mansion. There were three islands in the lake, and on one of them there was a private boat-house. The Vincennes Zoo was visited on Wednesday afternoon and it really is very beautiful. The animals are not in cages as they are at the London Zoo, but are separated from the people by large moats. When we were there a lion-tamer was giving a performance, and after he finished the lions retreated to their caves, which are hollowed out of very large rocks. At last we had to leave this very attractive place and make for the hotel. On Thursday morning we went to Les Halles, the Covent Garden of Paris. There we spent quite a long time bargaining with the stallholders for a pineapple, but were unsuccessful in our attempt to bring down the price. In the afternoon we went to the Palace of Versailles, where we saw the famous Hall of Mirrors, in which conferences are held, as well as all the picturesque rooms occupied by the sovereigns of France. Then we went to Les Trianons, which Marie Antoinette had as a palace. In Les Trianons we were shown the different studios and music rooms. At last our week in Paris came to an end, and on the following morning we left for Aberdeen. As we steamed out of the Gare du Nord, many wistful looks were cast at the great city as it disappeared in the distance. However, after rather a choppy crossing, which did not meet with everyone's approval, we reached Aberdeen safely and were home, after a brief but glorious holiday. J. S. FINNIE. (Cl. IV.)

Seine-Netting. To my idea few things look better than a ship speeding over a calm sea with the spume flying from its cleaving bows. Accordingly I seized the first opportunity I got to go on a fishing trip on a Lossiemouth seine-netter. Shortly before one o'clock on the morning of Monday, z4th July, I was awakened by a horny hand shaking my shoulder, and hastily gathering my senses I remembered that this was the morning I was to start my fishing trip. The market was, in contrast to the village, a blaze of light ; at the point of each mast-head was a pin-prick of light, and the boats were straining at their moorings as though anxious to

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start the dance. I clambered down the companion-way of M.B. Tulip (Ins. 55) and watched through a connecting door " Buller," the engineer, inserting the cartridges which started the " Petters " engine. The Tulip is a small wooden boat about sixty feet long and is equipped with a heavy-oil engine, giving her a maximum speed of about seven and a half knots. She has a crew of five—skipper, 1st fisherman, znd fisherman, engineer, and cook—all strong, sober men and staunch Baptists. Suddenly the engine started with a roar, and a vibration shook the whole boat, till, after much yelling and a little scraping, the vibration ceased, and instead there came a slow swoosh, swoosh, as the screw churned the still water into foam. First, as the boat sped through the still waters of the harbour, nothing more than a sense of motion was felt ; then gradually a lift and drop from bow to stern, then a sideways swinging, till, with so pleasant a motion and so warm a bunk, I fell asleep. Shortly before seven o'clock I awakened, and, getting up on deck, observed that the sun was already high in the heavens. The first drag had just been completed, and I now watched with interest the second drag. A dan, or marking buoy, was thrown overboard with a rope attached, and after a good length of this rope had been let out, the net was thrown overboard, and the same length of rope again let out, the boat sailing in a circle all the time. When the dan was reached, the two ends of the rope were attached to the winch, and then followed a haul of over an hour, for anything up to three miles of rope may have been let out. At the end of that time, the net itself appeared and was hoisted up by means of a block and tackle. The most exciting bit of the whole process was then to come, for the " cod end " was opened and the fish poured out upon the deck, after which they were shovelled into boxes, the remains being thrown into the air to be dexterously caught by the seagulls. During the next haul the men sat on the deck gutting and grading the previous drag's fish, the gulls once more acting as scavengers. Each boat has its own following of gulls, and the prosperity of the boat can be reckoned by the size of its company of gulls. I was shown one old veteran, which, although minus one leg, stood proud as ever at the mast-head on his other leg. After three drags, in which we got about nine boxes of fish, the skipper decided to move farther north, and, after an hour's sailing, we sighted Wick, just off which we set the net. In the distance the guardian hills of Scapa Flow could be seen, and a black line of smoke across the horizon denoted trawlers bound for the Iceland fishing grounds. There we fished until after midnight, when we anchored for the night and the whole crew went below to sleep. The roar of the engine stopped : a more peaceful scene could hardly be imagined. Mars, blood-red, was low down on the southern

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horizon, and a more beautiful panorama of stars I have never seen. When I awakened in the morning a totally different scene met my eyes. We were heading from Wick across the Moray Firth to a fishing-bank off Buckie, and a wind had arisen during the night, bringing incessant rain and a rather choppy sea. The fishermen were wrapped in red flannel to protect themselves from salt water boils, and with their yellow oilskins they were not at all beautiful to look at. The fishing went on till about noon, when we turned for home, arriving in Lossie at 6 p.m. After the two days in so small a boat I was slightly dizzy when I landed, and, as one fisherman put it, I felt as though the pavement was coming up and hitting me. I was glad I went, however, for it showed me the way in which fish are brought to our tables—a thing to which one generally gives little thought. J. M. MELVIN. (Cl. IV.)

Dark. The liquid coolness of the sky at night, Star-sprayed, and swept with cloud-smoke white and swift. Smoke borne with speed on sea winds' warm uplift Sets my soul singing, singing with delight. But in my heaven-curtained room, the dark Is more intense ; no chink of light disturbs The breathing emptiness, nor firelight curbs The efforts of my soul to light a spark In blank eternity, unlit, unknown. And often, in the silent hour before Sleep sinks on me, I stand upon the shore Beside that blank, and then 1 am alone. Alone, all loves, all joys of life are dim, Drowned in the soundless waves by the light-world's rim. JOHN ARNAUD.

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School Games in War-Time. In so far as it has been possible rugby in the School has been kept on normal peace-time lines. At first there was some unimportant criticism of this from outside sources, but quickly the realization came that, if anything, the regular playing of games was more important for the boys in war-time than in peace-time. During the month of September it was not possible to do much in the way of organized games, but once a settled plan of School attendance had been established, a settled plan of School games followed immediately. On the three days of the working week when the boys are not in the School the Field is open all day and classes come up in turn for their games periods. Under this system most boys get two one-and-a-half-hour periods of games each week. The planned series of inter-School games for all boys from Middle I upwards had, of course, to be abandoned, and this lack of the competitive element is a serious handicap, which will be felt increasingly. But there has been this advantage, the greater period of time available has permitted the taking of boys in smaller groups, and so boys are getting more individual attention. If the present system can be maintained, it would be no surprise to find that when the peace routine comes to be re-established the School sides, built from the boys now in the Lower and Middle Schools, will prove to be above average in ability. The ist XV has had some games. The material is quite good, but the lack of the customary intensive coaching in September has told against the establishment of a real team. An honourable draw at Glenalmond was followed by narrow defeats first by Strathallan at Forgandenny and then by Gordon's College at Seafield, both defeats being attributable to mistakes commonly associated with lack of practice as a team. And in each case the opposition would not have grudged the losers the consolation of a draw. Actually, we have two of last season's backs and three forwards. The pack is strong and heavy, very heavy, but the team work has not been good, and there is more than a suggestion of slow-footedness. Behind the scrum there has been a lack of reliability in co.nbination, chances to win the games lost being squandered by dropped passes. When properly on the move, the backs are good and their defence is sound. In successive years we lost " Bill " Dickie and " Johnnie " Milne from what might be termed our regular rugby staff, and now this season we have lost " Bill" Stewart, who is on " Service " of another kind. But our other regulars give valuable and essential help, and a newcomer, Mr. McCrea, is proving that his rugby is as good as his cricket, which is saying

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1st XV Matches. 14th October, 1939.—v. Glenalmond, at Glenalmond. School :— Mollison ; Davidson, Paterson, Garden, Smith ; Paul and Connon ; Hall, Kirton, Duguid, J. Calder, Grant, Chalmers, A. Calder and Moir. The weather for our first inter-school game was ideal. Glenalmond kicked off and, after a spell of mid-field play, School took the lead when Paterson dribbled over to score an unconverted try. School were now handicapped by an injury to Davidson, our right wing three-quarter. Glenalmond equalised when Davie scored a blind-side try, which was not converted. Before half-time School again scored, when Hall went over for a good try, which Paul converted, Half-time scores—School, 8 points ; Glenalmond, 3 points. On the resumption, Paul ran well, to score an unconverted try for School. Glenalmond rallied, and excellent work by their pack produced a try, which Lyall did well to convert. Near the close Ogg scored a runaway try for Glenalmond, which equalized the score. A draw was a fair result to a very pleasant game. After they looked like being easy winners, lack of the usual training told against the School team in the closing stages, when the Glenalmond forwards got right on top. Final score—School, 1 goal, z tries (t 1 points) ; Glenalmond, 1 goal 2 tries (it points). 28th October.—v. Strathallan, at Forgandenny. School :—Forrest ; Smith, Boyd, Paterson, Garden ; Paul and Connon ; Hall, Kirton, Duguid, J. Calder, Grant, Chalmers, A. Calder and Moir. The weather was again ideal for rugby. Strathallan kicked off and immediately scored from a penalty. From a break-away by the School pack Connon scored an unconverted try. Strathallan then scored on the blind side at the corner, a try which was unconverted. Again Strathallan scored, when a kick by our full back was charged down and carried over the line. Half-time score—School, i try (3 points) ; Strathallan, 2 tries i penalty goal (9 points). School attacked strongly on the resumption, but we were soon driven back to our own half. From a well-placed cross-kick Strathallan further increased their lead by an unconverted try. School rallied well and further tries were scored by Hall and Smith, one of these being converted by Paul. Although School continued to press hard, Strathallan held out till the end. This game was the reverse of the previous one, for, after playing badly for most of the game, School finished in great style and were rather unfortunate to lose. Final score—School, 1 goal, 2 tries (it points) ; Strathallan— I goal, 2 tries, z penalty goal (14 points). 4th November.v. Gordon's College, at Seafield. School :—Ross ; Smith, Boyd, Paterson, Garden ; Paul and Connon ; Hall, Kirton, Duguid, J. Calder, Grant, Chalmers, A. Calder, Moir. Miserable weather conditions prevailed for the first match with Gordon's College, rain falling during most of the game. Gordon's kicked off on heavy ground. Play was very even and the touch lines were used often by both sides. Following a scrum on the School " 25," Gordon's sent the ball out quickly to their winger, Cook, who ran over to score. The try was well converted by Laing. There then followed successful rushes by the School pack, which were driven home by the backs, Paterson getting over the line, but the referee ruled that the ball had not been grounded properly. Half-time score—School, nil; Gordon's College, t goal (5 points).

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The conditions in the second half made good handling extremely difficult and play was mostly confined to the forwards. There was no further scoring in the second half, though School in several periods of intense pressure were nearly successful in getting over. A draw would not have been an unfair result, as School accounted for the bulk of the pressure. Final score—School, nil ; Gordon's College, 1 goal (5 points).

House Notes. Byron House. At the annual meeting of the House, held at the beginning of the Term, the following officials were elected :—House Captain and Rugby Captain : D. L. Paul ; Rugby Vice-Captain and Swimming Captain : C. M. Hall. It seems that Byron House is going to have another successful rugby season since there are six members of the School 1st XV in the House team. The only game played so far resulted in a good win for Byron, the score being z6 points to is points. It must be remarked that the game was much closer than the score suggests. Melvin House was unfortunate in losing the services of a forward through injury early in the game. Even without this player, however, the Melvin forwards were an exceptionally massive set, but the Byron pack eventually mastered them and gave the backs a good supply of the ball. The znd XV played a combination of Dun, Melvin, and Keith and beat them, although by a close margin. The Juniors have played two games : the first they drew, the second they won. Success is gained in House contests only through the whole-hearted support of every member and, up to now, Byron's response has been very encouraging. But we must not slacken off; each member must do his best to maintain the siircecses gained by Byron House in previous years. D. L. PAUL, House Captain.

Dun House. At the House meeting in October the following were appointed:— House Captain and Rugby Captain : P. S. Boyd ; Rugby Vice-Captain and Swimming Captain: I. S. Watt. Our first House game was against Keith, whom we defeated easily by 23 points to to. This game reflects very favourably on the young Dun team. This year we have no " stars " like Cruickshank or Cardno, but if we are beaten in other House games we shall go down fighting. Especially is credit due to the forwards, none of whom are in the tat XV and only one in the 2nd XV. Perhaps it is a good thing that Dun has so many young players, for they will gain valuable experience in these games which will enable them to acquit themselves very well both in future School and House matches. Dun was unable to field a 2nd XV and this is a point I should like to discuss. I cannot recollect Dun ever fielding less than two teams before. Do not let those " other " Houses get the idea that this is a sign of decadence. Show them that although we may be in for a hiding we can turn up to take it! Come on, Dun, show your teeth! I make no attempt to foretell the results of the games which we have yet to play against Melvin and Byron, but I do say that no brave display of 1st XV men will deter us from doing our very best to win. P. S. BOYD, Howe Captain.

Keith House. At the annual meeting of Keith House on x 8th October, the following officials were elected :—House Captain, A. W. F. Forrest ; Rugby Captain, R. F. David ; Rugby Vice-Captain, J. S. M. Moir ; Swimming Captain, L. M. Shutte.

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Keith rugby prospects this year arc not too bright, but I am sure that when the full team is able to play we shall put up a good display. Our only House game so far has been with Dun and four of our best players were absent. Their substitutes were very young, but will acquit themselves well with practice. The Keith backs could combine very well in attack and defence, but it is up to the forwards to listen to their leader's orders and obey them. Although beaten by Dun by 23 points to to points we should not be down-hearted, for, with our full team, the tables might easily have been turned. The best of the backs in this game were A. Jenkins and H. Ross ; J. Moir, the leader of the forwards, played very well. It is for all boys in Keith House to do their best for their House, in School as well as on the field, and with only three days' attendance at School in the week, a great deal has to be done at home. In spite of this, I should like to see the boys in Keith House taking more interest in sports, particularly rugby. The other Houses can get as many as fifty boys at the Field for Senior House games. Surely Keith can do the same. In closing, I would urge all boys to get their associates in Keith to turn up at the Field, because our prospects in cricket and athletics arc very bright. A. W. F. FORREST, House Captain.

Melvin House. At a meeting of the House the following officials were elected :—House Captain and Captain of Rugby, F. R. Paterson ; Vice-Captain of Rugby, W. L. Connon ; Captain of Swimming, M. H. Tawse. During the term only one Senior House game has been played. Against Byron House we were unfortunate to lose by the seemingly overwhelming score of :6 points to 12 points. Actually the game was much closer than the score would suggest. We were unfortunate to lose the services of J. C. Robertson through injury early in the first half. This proved a handicap to the forwards who, although they played a sterling game, could not hold the heavier Byron pack. This game showed that we have a strong team, which should do well in future games. The Juniors have been playing well and succeeded in holding Byron Juniors to a draw. The present situation has somewhat curtailed sports activities, but we look forward with keen anticipation to next Term, when I hope we shall enjoy a change of fortune. F. R. PATERSON, House Captain.

The Rambling and Mountaineering Club. The Annual Cairngorm Excursion was held as usual in June, and was attended by more than fifty boys. The weather was good on the Friday, but it rained on the Saturday, and an early start was impossible, However, Mr. Stewart started off with a party about mid-day for the Shelter Stone. They encountered a blizzard but reached their objective, going through the Lairig an Laoigh and returning by the same route. Mr. Milne took a party to climb Cairn Toul, but weather conditions made climbing impossible so they returned, after a rest at Corrour Bothy. Several of the surrounding hills were also climbed. Owing to present conditions, the winter's activities have not commenced, but, circumstances permitting, it is probable that a start will be made in the near future. The Club Library is open and in use. M. H. T.

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Scout Notes. " Rain, rain, and still more rain—the wettest ever! " But were we down-hearted ?—No! That in a nutshell was camp in July 5939. Besides the rain we had to put up with a few midges, hordes of spiders, wandering sheep, inquisitive cows, and superfluous officers. These, of course, we have encountered before and overcome with some success ; rumour has it, however, that the morale of one troop this year was finally broken by the approach of a Girl Guide Company, before which, as Caesar would have said, " our men, Camp having been struck, retreated to winter-quarters." Apart from these little trials, we enjoyed camp. We were transported (without loss), housed (more or less), fed (at least on parents' day) and photographed for the Press. From the limelight of publicity to the humdrum of the winter's routine, from the sunshine of September to the black-out of November, is a bitter change. But the Scouts have scored at least one hit off Hitler. Wartime conditions have temporarily put a stop to foreign travel, with the result that, through the good offices of our Rector, the School Groups have received a generous grant towards the cost of equipment. This grant they acknowledge with gratitude, all the greater because the usual sources of funds are so seriously reduced. The black-out has occasioned some anxiety, especially about the attendance of younger Scouts at meetings. The very reason of the black-out has made it impossible to find other suitable times of meeting : Scouters, and even. senior Scouts, are fully occupied with A.R.P. work, ambulance classes, evening classes, athletic clubs, and other activities. In all the Troops, however, the use of bicycles is forbidden except in one or two cases where parents' written consent has been given. Then the senior boys are doing a very good turn by escorting younger ones home. This must sometimes be a very irksome business and deserves the warm thanks of all who benefit. At the same time it has been clearly pointed out to the younger boys that, if their parents do not wish them to leave home because of the darkness, their absence will in no way count against them. Arising directly from the war, several duties have fallen naturally to the Scouts, and in the carrying out of these the Grammar School Troops are playing an excellent part. Along with Scouts from Gordon's College our own Scouts are maintaining a continuous service of messengers at the Admiralty offices in Aberdeen. This service is doing good work and has won the confidence and esteem of the Naval authorities in charge. In A.R.F. work our Scouts have repeatedly helped with the assembling and distribution of gas masks ; they have acted as " patients " for ambulance corps ; they have taken a turn as telephone operators at Woolmanhill, and a number of the older Scouts are being specially trained in First-Aid and stretcher-bearing. To the changes of personnel in the Scout Troops which would normally have occurred, the war has added others. Alan Watt has left the 9th Troop in view of military training in an officers' training unit ; Philip Dawson is taking his place in the Troop, and is proving a worthy successor. Constructional work in the north has removed A. C. Evans, S.M. of the 57th, for a month or two. A. Lightbody, a former A.S.M. of the 57th, who returned to the Troop this summer to take charge of the camp, is now in England on work with the R.A.F. K. Pimley, C.M. of the 17th Pack, has gone south with the Scottish Horse. Changes of a more normal nature are the departure from the tit Troop of J. F. Bowman to England on Civil Service work; J. Watt from the 9th to a C.A.'s office in Glasgow; and Ian Leslie, also from the 9th, owing to pressure of studies and Air Cadet training. R. Bell has found it necessary to give up his work as C.M. of the ist Pack. The Cubs regret his going, and wish him to know that they sincerely appreciate all he did for them, and offer him their best thanks. To those serving in the Forces we wish health, happiness, and a safe return : to all of them,

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our friends and pals but yesterday, we wish happiness and success in their new positions. It is with great pleasure that the Cubs welcome their new C.M.s, J. Skoyles to the ist Pack, and F. Paterson to the 17th Pack. J. Blair is to assist with the 1st Pack and K. Hunter with the 17th. The Cubs are very fortunate to get these officers. It is very good of them to undertake the task, but they can be assured that their work is deeply appreciated. We wish them great enjoyment and success in its performance. The 9th Pack is exceptionally fortunate in the continuity of its control. Despite the harassing conditions of teaching in these days of ever-changing time-table, Miss Robertson carries on the good work nobly. Such willing devotion must call forth the loyalty of Cubs and parents alike. In normal times the 9th Troop would have held its Café this winter. Instead of that, a very pleasant and successful " Bring and Buy " sale at the Troop Headquarters netted over Lao for Troop funds. Before this Magazine is published a Whist Drive will have been held, and its success is guaranteed by the efficiency and enthusiasm of both parents and Scouts. Already work for it is well on the way, and donations have been received. The Troop wishes to thank all its benefactors for never-failing support in all its ventures. The 9th Troop camp was at Dunphail, near Forres. The grounds of the estate arc beautifully situated, and proved ideal for rambles between the spells of rain. One thing the rain could not spoil—the bathing : the Divie, a tributary of the Findhom, afforded some perfect pools for swimming. The Troop's new tents were admirable : in such conditions they proved to be a necessity rather than a luxury. Patrol cooking was the order of the day, and boys who learned to cook in those conditions could cook anything anywhere any time. Just to make it a little harder, the patrols were one day set the task of conveying an egg each a distance of about four miles, through and over all kinds of obstacles including the swimming of the river, and then cooking that egg without any apparatus beyond a few matches to light a fire. Could you beat that, mothers ? One egg came to a sticky end! After safely coming through all the perils of the journey, it was lying quietly beside the kindling fire waiting to be boiled in someone's hat, when a heavy foot brought its career to a sudden dose among the sand. But the great burning question in the 9th is, " Do spiders specially like Scouts ?" The 9th say " Yes " with complete conviction. Spiders are all right in their place ; they spin lovely webs which catch flies and other insects ; they have a place in poetry and in history—witness Miss Mullet and Robert the Bruce. But spiders in your bed, spiders in your stockings, spiders down your neck, and spiders on your plate—well! Few camp fires were possible, but these few were good. It takes a stout heart to run a camp. The 9th's old friend and one-time A.S.M., R. A. S. Watt, shouldered the responsibility, and the Troop offer him their hearty thanks for carrying through his difficult job so splendidly and making a thoroughly enjoyable camp out of such appalling conditions. The following promotions in the 9th Troop fall to be recorded :— Second C. Milne to be P.L. ; Scouts G. Anderson, G. Milne, and A. H. Tawse to be Seconds. The 9th Pack has started off the season in good form, and is now thirty strong. It was a great disappointment to part with Miss Gibb, who left to get married. In her place Scouts Eric Alexander and Frank Connon arc doing good work with the Cubs. The Pack is busily engaged knitting squares for a blanket as its first piece of war work. One Cub collected all the waste paper in his street for the Scouts. Such enthusiasm merits the highest commendation and should inspire others to similar efforts. Fine work, Cubs! Any boy who wishes to join the 9th Pack will be given a hearty welcome. The Pack meets at xo o'clock on Thursday or Friday mornings, according as School attendance permits. The 1st Troop's camp was in Strathdon on the bank of the Ernan, a tributary of the Don. The weather was atrocious, with only two good days in the fortnight. Two days before the end of camp the Ernan rose about

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three feet in an hour, and where usually there was a clear splashing stream there poured down a brown angry flood. The opposite hank was flooded to an extent of some twenty yards, sods and branches went sweeping past, and the wooden footbridge was carried right away and deposited on the bank at a bend in the stream a quarter of a mile further down. Luckily the bank on which the camp was pitched was higher than the opposite one, though not so sloping : but even so, the water was running level with its top for over an hour. Then water off the hill behind the camp broke through drains and ditches and poured in a cascade down the grassy bank behind the tents. Only furious digging of trenches drained it into the river and saved the tents. As it was, the spare old tent with bicycles and odd boxes was flooded to a depth of six or seven inches of running water. Next day the boys found a number of small trout lying high and dry on the bank. The gamekeeper told us he had never seen such a spate in his nineteen years on the estate, and that the bridge had stood for at least thirty years. The high lights of the camp were the two glorious hikes on the good days. On the Saturday we walked up to the head of the Glen and climbed the Socach. From its top there was a magnificent view over hills and hills stretching westward to the Cairngorms, southward to Mount Keen, and northward to the Cabrach and beyond. One party of boys killed an adder on the hill, another came across some very young peewits which scurried silently away among the long grass at the foot of a bank and were at once invisible with their green and brownish-coloured down : while up above the parent bird hovered and wheeled around, piping shrilly in answer to the squeakings of its children in the grass. On the other fine day, a Monday of glorious sunshine, a second hike was arranged. About ix a.m. the Troop set off in small groups down to the Don, across it, and away up Glen Carvie to the cave-like rocks of the gully at the top. The views of upper Donside as you look back from the glen make a picture of hill and valley with rich fields and woods whose beauty makes you hold your breath. As you near the top the glen closes in about you and assumes a wilder aspect of heathmoor and stony track, until finally you pass among the gloomy overhanging boulders at the top. But as soon as you emerge from those imprisoning walls, there bursts into view the outstretched panorama of the wide upper valley of the Dee with its long sweep to the chain of hills beyond. We felt kin to old Cortes of the poem. Hopes ran high as back we came to camp : the day had been hot and cloudless, and a spell of sun was overdue. Alas, we scarcely saw the sun again that week, and then only for brief fitful glimpses as the evening clouds occasionally broke and old Sol looked out to mock us as he went to bed. Taking the opportunities of such brief dry spells as we had, we managed to have some wide games not too far from camp. One was a three-mile treasure hunt with varied types of clues—some even in verse (or so the S.M. said). Another was a general hunt for local information and finds of interest. Twice a party reached the Don and the more lion-hearted braved the elements for the sake of a swim. Some good honest signalling practice was done •' two tenderfoots tied the S.M. in knots day after day ; and not a few could tell a talc of cooking trials. One never-to-be-forgotten night the stillness was broken by a sound of bare feet pattering on the grass, a deafening yell, silence, and then more yells. A raid! The counter attack and melee that ensued was hotly fought with pots of icy water for ammunition and bathing suits for armour. Which side were victors and which vanquished history will never record : but 'twas a famous victory! A constant stream of visitors CO the camp helped to keep things lively. One of these was extraordinarily welcome for the loads of bakery luxuries he showered on undeserving heads. Not once or twice did that familiar car swing into view and the shout went up, " Here's Strathdee again! " In thanking all the kind parents and friends who filled our mouths with good things in such generous fashion, it cannot be invidious to mention by name one who gave so much not only of material but of time and trouble to the boys at camp. A car-load of youngsters was all in the day's fun for him, and

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I do believe he would have stayed in camp like a shot if we had asked him I Another especially welcome visitor was Mr. Walker, former District Scoutmaster of the Troops. No one is held in greater esteem and affection by the Scouts, and it is very pleasant indeed to find him drop in at camp. With the return of winter the Troop is in harness again on the regular Scout work and games of the weekly meetings. A full discussion of aims and methods has resulted in a fresh resolve to " get on with the job." This will quickly bear fruit in the greater efficiency and progress of the Troop. The S.M., with the approval of the Parents' Committee, has put work in hand to renew the plumber work at Troop I-leadquarters in Forest Avenue Lane. We wish S.M. Wilson and his Troop every happiness and success in their work. The ist Pack, as was mentioned before, has been taken over by J. Skoylcs, assisted by J. Blair and one or two Scout helpers. Their work will be followed with interest, and the admirable co-operation of these officers warrants the belief that great things are in store for the Pack. Though it is already quite a big Pack there is still room for more, and new recruits will be welcomed. The i7th Troop camp was at Castle Forbes. There, too, the weather was extremely bad. It is still a debated question whether it was the bad weather or the innate chivalry of the officers that made them give up their camp site a day earlier than had been intended. Be that as it may, the camp was a great success and the officers, A. Lighthody in charge, assisted by C. Coutts, D. Bishop, P. Boyd and F. Paterson, are to be congratulated on overcoming the conditions so successfully. The present S.M., A. C. Evans, and previous S.M., L. Richards, were able to spend only a few days at camp. If rumour be correct, one of these so skilfully judged the time of his visit as to arrive for Parents' Day, and as the orgy lasted well into the night we learn that clutching for some special dainty morsel with one hand, and a tent pole which was not there with the other, he upset the whole table and rolled its contents into the darkness of the " floor." This feed was of Homeric dimensions, lasting full two-score hours and four! On the " lighter" side of camp entertainments " Alfie's " gramophone must take pride of place and proved a never-failing source of amusement in those bleak July days. And who was the youth who fainted on learning that his Patrol had won the flag at the day's inspection 2 Another unsolved mystery is, " How did the notice board reach the top of the flag pole ? " The sleuths of the i7th maintain that the perpetrator of this vile deception was a snail trying out the old teaser—If a snail climbs up two feet during the day and slips back one at night, what colour is the snail ? " (No reward offered to amateurs—only the C.I.D. of the r7th.) Despite the weather, considerable scouting activity was maintained: signalling, first-aid, fire-lighting, estimating and so on. Then the game of raiding the robber's den (up in the branches of a tree) was a great thrill. Lucky for the raiding patrols below that it was not a cocoa-nut tree. The old stand-by, Touch Rugger, filled in most evenings in good style. Camp fires were altogether out of the question. Work has been in progress since before the present session started on the painting and decorating of the Hut. Otherwise the usual meetings are in full swing with the ordinary winter's work and games. The projected " open night " for parents and friends has been postponed till near Easter, in order to avoid the worst of the black-out, and more especially to give them an opportunity of meeting Mr. Evans after he has returned from his sojourn in the north. The 17th Pack is nearly up to its former strength again, having now over twenty Cubs in its ranks. With F. Paterson and K. Hunter in command the Cubs are assured of an enjoyable and profitable winter ; it would be no surprise if in a very short time this Pack seriously challenges comparison with any other Pack. These young Cubmasters are doing a fine piece of work, and it is hoped they will meet with an equally loyal and keen response from the Cubs themselves.

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The Club in War Time. At a meeting of the Executive of the Club held in November it was unanimously decided that, in view of the grave national emergency and of the absence on war service of a large number of F.P.s, the Annual Ball and the Annual Dinner should not be held, and that the reception to boys who left the School last session should be postponed. It was also decided to leave over in the meantime the consideration of several remits. It was felt, on the other hand, that every effort should be made to continue the publication of the Magazine, as this, more than anything else, would be appreciated by the members, especially those away from home on national service, whether at home or abroad. While it was realized that the income from advertisements would probably be diminished, it was agreed that this should not be allowed to affect the size of the Magazine and the number of illustrations.

The Centres. The Annual General Meeting of the Glasgow Centre was held on 3x st October. After adopting the Committee's report and the accounts for the year ended 3oth September, the meeting unanimously adopted the following resolution :— " That the Rules of the Centre be suspended for the duration of the war and that the present Office-bearers be continued in office with full powers." The President of the Centre, Mr. H. L. Watson, B.Sc., who occupied the chair, gave an undertaking that the Committee would arrange for the resumption of the normal activities of the Centre as soon as possible after the termination of hostilities. The activities of the London and the Edinburgh Centres are entirely in abeyance at present.

The F.P. Club Boarding House. Boys who entered the House in September, 1939. Alan S. Hall, s. of Wm. S. Hall, Indian Service of Engineers, 46a Jhelum Cant., Punjab. Elliott C. Langford, s. of C. W. Langford, Middletack, New Mac.har. John A. Home, s. of Dr. Elsie Home, 5 Florence Road, off Thomeywood Road, Nottingham. Michael P. Littlejohn, s. of Lieut.-Colonel William Milne Littlejohn (19ox-oz), " Berryhill," Pcterhead. William D. Brooker, s. of J. G. Brooker, c/o Ralli Bros., Cossipore, Calcutta. George F. Durno, s. of George F. Durno (5909-11), Jackston, Rothienorman. Ian D. Farquharson, s. of Dr. John Farquharson, The University, Rangoon. Robert W. Gregor, s. of Robert Gregor, Opata Kabawatte, Rangoon. Alan Taylor and Robin D. Taylor, ss. of John C. Taylor (5904-06), c/o Jardine Matheson & Co., Hong-kong, China. Michael L. Breeze, s. of C. A. Breeze, Slains Gardens, Cruden Bay. Frederick C. Sleigh, s. of Dr. Frederick R. Sleigh (1954-57), 36 Park Road, Hampton Hill, Middlesex.

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Ronald D. W. Jamieson, s. of Mrs. B. L. Jamieson, " Fairhill," Northinuir, Kirriemuir. Norman Taylor, s. of James D. Taylor, Cairnfechel, Udny.

Annual Meeting of the Boarding House Company. The Eleventh Annual General Meeting of the Aberdeen Grammar School F.P. Club Boarding House Co., Ltd., was held in the registered office of the Company, 7 Golden Square, Aberdeen, on i 1th October, 1939, Mr. A. G. Nicol Smith presiding in the absence of the Chairman of the Company, Dr. Edward W. Watt. The report of the Directors to the meeting stated that during the past year further improvements had been effected on the Junior House, and substantial sums had been expended on general repairs and improvements. The average number of boys in the Houses during the past year was— Senior House, 42 ; Junior House, 14. The Houses were almost fully booked for the current year. In the earlier part of the year the Directors had gone fully into the question of air raid protection in the event of war, and proposals were not only put on paper but the necessary materials arranged for, with the result that towards the end of August the Directors' proposals were given effect to and the necessary alterations and protective works carried out. The Directors considered the financial results of the past year to be satisfactory. While the number of boys in residence was slightly larger, this was offset by the rise in commodity prices during the year. The profit on the year's working, after providing for deprecia. . . . . . tion, amounted to 4370 1 5 11 . . .L1o4 19 0 . Carried forward from last year Less Directors' fees voted at last Annual General . . 35 0 0 . Meeting . . . . 69 19 0 Making a total available of

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This amount was dealt with as follows :— (i) Writing off Furniture Account . . . . . .Zioo o o (2) Paying a Dividend on t ith October, 1939, of 5 per cent., . . . . . . . . . 27I 17 6 less tax . 68 17 5 (3) Carrying forward to next year, subject to Directors' fees 2440 14 II On the motion of the Chairman the Report was unanimously adopted. Mr. A. McK. Johnston, the retiring Director, was re-elected, and Mr. Alan McBain, C.A., was re-appointed Auditor.

F.P. Hockey Section. There is not very much to say about the activities of the Hockey Section so far. The season was rather late in commencing and we have played only three games, one of which we won. Our numbers have been somewhat depleted owing to the war and other causes, and we are meantime running only one XI. Notwithstanding the lack of some of our more experienced players, the team is shaping very well. If it prove possible to keep the present XI together for some time, we think that we shall eventually have a very good team. We arc anxious to have sufficient members to raise a 2nd Xl, and anyone who cares to apply to the undersigned any Saturday afternoon at Rubislaw will be very welcome. GEORGE B. RICKART, Hon. Secy.

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F.P.s were looking forward to having a record season this year. A record in that sense they will not have, but it is possible that they have already a record of another and much greater kind. When on the outbreak of war all the F.P. officials were called to their appointed places in the Army, the present writer decided that so long as was possible he would try to keep an F.P. rugby team going. A side has been organized, but even with the help of ex-School boys, one side and one side only can be fielded. The reason is not hard to seek. In front of me as I write I have the names of an F.P. 1st XV, of which actually twelve are now in the Army, eleven officers and one " other ranks." Can any other club equal, let alone beat, this record ? And not only are sat XV players serving, but very many of the men in the junior sides are giving the greater service. It is a grand, a remarkable record, a record of which the Club has every right to be proud. The composition of the present side varies sharply according to the availability of several members who are in the Army. At what might be called full strength it is a good team, as was seen when it defeated Gordonians by 6 points to nil ; the University by 37 points to 3 ; and Wanderers by as points to 3. Subsequent defeats by the University by 6 points to 5, and by Gordonians by 15 points to is were sustained by sides weakened by several compulsory changes. At forward lies the strength of the present team. On occasion the pack has been grand to watch, but there has not been anything like the same power further back. If a regular stand-off half were available the side would be hard to beat. G. A. Rowton is again captain and he seems to be thriving on the Army life, for his individual form and his leadership have never previously been quite so potent. Here is a list of the players, many of them in the Army, who are usually in the side :— Backs—E. H. Still, G. C. Warrack, A. W. Ogston, P. Dawson, H. S. Cardno, R. F. Buthlay, A. H. Bruce, J. B. Thomson, F. J. Urquhart, and J. C. Lightbody. Forwards—G. A. Rowton, J. R. Lawrence, L. D. Dumo, A. J. M. Simpson, D. G. Covey, N. I. W. Mc ldrum, C. W. Gordon, J. A. Harrow, J. B. Bittiner, and J. Macpherson. D. McG.

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League champions for 19391 At long last the F.P. Cricket Section has pulled it off. Admittedly we scored only 59 out of the 26 points possible, but it was enough to win. This season our fortunes fluctuated in fickle fashion. As we prepared light-heartedly for a record season, with much fine talent available (defeat by School not worrying us, of course), the shadow of conscription fell upon us, and acted as a damper to our enthusiasm. Recovering at length with victories over North Church and Crescent, we promptly succumbed to Kemnay in the first round of the Aberdeenshire Cup, only to shoot suddenly into top form with colossal victories over Inverurie and Stoneywood, the second of these games being memorable for a record opening partnership of 13o by A. B. Mortimer (79) and J. A. Brock ie (5o). Our first point was dropped when the match with Gordonians was drawn. The following week St. Andrew's rattled up a total of 17 runs in less than three-quarters of an hour, but this was not sufficient to win the game. The remainder of the season was not so fortunate, one of the few bright spots being the defeat of Kemnay by six wickets, the inevitable and long-awaited sequel to the Cup Tie game. For some reason quite beyond our ken we were defeated by both Dunecht and Balmoral, on each occasion

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requiring but a moderate total to achieve victory. No doubt being top of the League weighed heavily on our minds, resulting in loss of confidence. Several new members made their appearance this year, H. J. Davidson and W. S. Gibb both leaving St. Ronald in order to join us. We also welcomed J. A. Brockie, V. W. Jaffray, J. A. Dey, R. S. France, and H. C. Reid, and later in the season, H. S. Cardno, E. A. Gauld, and H. C. McHardy, all of whom made their presence felt in one way or another. V. W. Jaffray should perhaps be mentioned first, as he has gained the distinction of having the best bowling analysis in Grade I. In our first game (against North Church) he scored 43 not out, and then took seven wickets for 18 runs. At one point his batting average stood at 103, but he found this figure rather difficult to maintain : well played, Sirl H. J. Davidson was the only bowler to do the hat-trick this season, and was consistently among the wickets, his best performance being the astonishing feat of taking eight wickets for 4 runs in the match with St. Andrew's. J. A. Brockie had two good games, against Inverurie when he scored 64, and against Stoneywood when he scored 5o. Eddie Gauld's arrival was accompanied by a drop in " extras." The ability of " Puddy " and Hamish is well known, but they had little opportunity of showing their paces. Among the " old-stagers" A. B. Mortimer must be mentioned first. Always a sound batsman, he excelled himself this season. It is interesting to compare his record with that of E. Prosser of Inverurie, who is top of the Grade I batting averages Innings. Runs. Not out. Average. . E. Prosser . 8 258 1 36.8 A. B. Mortiiner . . 12 318 2 31.8 •

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Jack Manley, who captained the team for the first time, was as consistent, and though less brilliant had his usual steadying influence on the team. Camp took him from Aberdeen on five Saturdays, and had he been present at the Cup game with Kemnay the Cup history might have been quite different. S . H. R. Still was rather unsteady, but more than once pulled the side out of a tight corner, notably in the game with Gordonians. R. P. Munro was not quite so reliable as usual : like that of a few more, his practice was limited on account of drills, etc. ' Donny" Marr had a very good season, taking the greatest number of wickets. At times a little erratic, he can work up a great pace, and some say he is the most dangerous bowler in the Grade. His best performance this year was against Kemnay in the Grade match, when he took five wickets for 18 runs in six overs. The opposing batsmen found him quite unplayable. The and XI, ably captained by Kenneth Mackintosh, had a good season, but, like the ist XI, fell away in the last two or three games, and at the end of the season found themselves occupying fourth place in the Reserve Grade. This team was composed of batsmen none of whom were brilliant, but all of whom were good, so that nearly all, at one time or another, played at least one game for the 1st XI. The bowling was shared mainly by Kenneth Mackintosh and George Anderson, who was home on holiday from F.M.S. One or two who are still at School played for the znd XI, and we are looking forward to the time when they will be joining the Section. The war has caused the cancellation of one money-raising project which we had in mind—a variety concert. All arrangements were well in hand, even to having the tickets printed, when war broke out, but it is hoped that the concert is only postponed. Expenditure this year has been enormous, as we had insufficient equipment for two teams at the beginning of the season. Despite this, however, we finished the season all square (but no more). The inevitable two or three subscriptions, of course, have still to arrive. There follows a note of the averages, and of the results of the ist XI matches, which make good reading this year.

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AVERAGES. xst XI. No. of Not Innings. out.

Batting. A. B. Mortimer • V. W. Jaffray J. S. Manley • J. A. Dcy . • • J. A. Brockie H. S. Cardno . 0. H. R. Still . R. P. Munro . H. C. Reid . . W. S. Gibb D. F. N. Crawford . G. P. Marr H. C. McHardy . H. J. Davidson .

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9 3 0 8 3 5 0 9 0 5 12 . 3 0 8 . 1 5 1 . 5 0 5 z 9 0 4 • 0 6 . * Signifies " Not out."

Bowling. V. W. Jaffray . G. P. Marr H. J. Davidson .

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0. H. R. Still H. S. Cardno A. B. Mortimer .

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Oven:. 77 121

94 and 24 19 19

H'st. 79 43* 41

Runs. Average. 31.8 318 22.66 136 21.62 173

64 27 43* 29 25

149 74 101 89 37 15 30 38 19

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11.13 9.25 6.25 6.o 5.43 4.75

Maidens. Runs. Wickets.Average. 5.656 32 181 21 39 7.341 41 3O1 28 251 30 8.366 7 4 4

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5.44 10.8 15.25

and XI. Batting. J. C. Lightbody . . P. B. Gray . K. Mackintosh . . C. A. Clark . J. A. Dey . N. H. Macdonald . E. A. Fox . . W. M. Grant . R. S. France

No. of Not Innings. out. H'st. 4 38 0 • • 4 0 51 • • 0 45 . 4 • z . . 25 * 5 o 37 4 • • o 42 . . 5 23 • • 1 4 i6 o 6 • • . 0 12 3 • * Signifies " Not out."

Bowling. P. 13. Gray . K. Mackintosh G. Anderson

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Runs. Average. 94 23.5 8z 20.5 19.0 76 17.66 53 52

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12 11.33 8.33 7.0

Overs. Maidens. Runs. Wickets. Average. 6 27 4.5 8 0 13 10 7 91 42 68 zo 7.55 9 34

Results of xst XI Matches. May 13. At Rubislaw— 20. At Rubislaw— June 3. At Rubislaw— " to. At Stoneywood p, 24. At Rubislaw—

. F.P.s, 130 ; North Church, 104 „ 155 ; Crescent, 75. . . . „ zoo for 6 ; Inveruric, 64 „ 225 for 8 ; Stoneywood, x18 . „ 157 for 7 ; Gordonians, i8x .

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